Erin Morgenstern.  Erin Morgenstern (born July 8 1978) is an American writer and visual artist best known for writing The Night Circus.
Samta Benyahia.  Samta Benyahia (Arabic: صامته بن يحيى‎) born in Constantine Algeria in 1950 is an Algerian French artist known for her Arab Berber Andalusian geometrical patterns and rosaceae called fatima.Benyahia studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris from 1974 to 1980 and subsequently taught at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts fr:École des beaux-arts d'Alger in Algiers from 1980 to 1988.She moved to France in 1988 and received her Master of Advanced Studies in plastic arts from the University of Paris VIII.She currently works and lives in Paris.In the past twenty years Benyahia has participated in numerous group and solo art exhibitions in venues throughout the world including the Dak’Art Biennale of Dakar Senegal (2004) the Venice Biennial (2003) the Modern Art Oxford England (2003) and the Kulturhuset Stockholm Sweden (2004) the Spacex Gallery Exeter UK (2001–2002) the Residency and Exhibition Art in General New York (1996) as well as at several European and worldwide galleries.Samta is the sister of painter and sculptor Ahmed Benyahia student of César Baldaccini at l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later a co-designer of the César Award trophy French cinema's equivalent of the American Oscar.She is the aunt of Algerian infographic artist and cartoonist Racim Benyahia.
Morton Stevens.  Morton Stevens (January 30 1929 – November 11 1991) was an American film score composer. In 1965 he became director of music for CBS West Coast operations. He is probably best known for composing the theme music for Hawaii Five-O a television series for which he won two Emmy Awards (in 1970 and 1974) and was nominated seven other times for work on television programs including Gunsmoke and Police Woman.
Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh.  Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh (Persian : اسفندیار منفردزاده) is an Iranian composer and director. He was born in 1941 in Tehran His major works are Gheisar Dash Akol Tangna Gavaznha. He has 2 daughters Bibinaz Monfaredzadeh and Sanam Monfaredzadeh Woods (by marriage).
Cao Baoping.  Cao Baoping is a Chinese film director. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's midrange cinema industry. Some industry watchers like Variety have situated directors like Cao between the older fifth generation directors such as Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou who have achieved major international and box-office success and the more underground sixth generation directors like Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai.
Charles P. Gruppé.  Charles Paul Gruppé (3 September 1860 Picton Ontario – 30 September 1940 New York City) was an American painter.Between 1897 and 1913 Gruppé lived in the Netherlands where he painted with the Hague School of art and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the US. He his wife Helen and their children returned permanently to America in 1913 ahead of World War I. All their children became artists including Emile Albert Gruppé (1896–1978).
Da' T.R.U.T.H..  Emanuel Lee Lambert Jr. (born December 15 1977 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a Christian rapper who goes by his stage name Da' T.R.U.T.H..
Lorraine McIntosh.  Lorraine McIntosh (born 13 May 1964) is a singer best known as a vocalist with Scottish band Deacon Blue. She has also achieved success as an actress starring in River City and appearing in Taggart among her most notable roles in television.
Elito Circa.  Elito Villaflor Circa (born January 28 1970) better known as Amangpintor is a Filipino painter and was recognized in his hometown as a folk painter. He has been noted as first blood and hair painter of his generation of Filipino folk artists and known for his signature subject of Legend of Minggan.
Will Tanous.  William Lloyd Tanous (born 1969 in Paris France) is an American music industry executive. In 2013 he was appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Global Communications for Universal Music Group the world's largest music company. He was previously a member of the senior management team for Warner Music Group where he was EVP of Communications & Marketing. In 1996 he co-created and produced the HBO live music television series Reverb.
Gad Saad.  Gad Saad was born in 1964 in Beirut Lebanon. His family emigrated to Montreal Quebec Canada in October 1975 to escape the brutality of the Lebanese civil war. Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist and Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University Montreal Quebec Canada). He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption (2008–2013).
Wilfred Josephs.  Wilfred Josephs (24 July 1927 – 17 November 1997) was an English composer.
Hariharan (singer).  Hariharan (Tamil: ஹரிஹரன் Hindi: हरिहरन) (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer who has sung for Malayalam Tamil Hindi Kannada Marathi Bhojpuri and Telugu films an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004 he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner.Hariharan associating with Leslie Lewis formed Colonial Cousins a two-member band.
Marc Chagall.  Marc Zakharovich Chagall (/ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Belarussian-Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century (though Chagall saw his work as 'not the dream of one people but of all humanity').
Sally Nicholls.  Sally Nicholls (born 22 June 1983) is a prize-winning British children's book author.
Nikos Karvelas.  Nikos Karvelas (Greek: Νίκος Καρβέλας; born September 8 1951) is a Greek songwriter producer and singer. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his three-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi while some of his other well-known collaborations include Tolis Voskopoulos and Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple personal studio albums that have had mild to big success.
Gaston La Touche.  Gaston La Touche (October 29 1854 Saint-Cloud Hauts-de-Seine – July 12 1913) was a French post-impressionist painter draughtsman and pastellist. He was elected member of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890.
Lê Văn Hưu.  Lê Văn Hưu (1230–1322) was an historian of the Trần Dynasty. He is best known for his work the Đại Việt sử ký the first comprehensive historical record of the history of Vietnam. Although the book was lost during the Fourth Chinese domination in Vietnam its contents including Lê Văn Hưu's comments on various events in the history of Vietnam were used by other Vietnamese historians as a base for their works notably the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư by Ngô Sĩ Liên.
Michael Rogers (blogger).  Michael Rogers (born November 12 1963) is Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Raw Story Media Inc. publishers of The Raw Story an American fundraiser blogger and gay rights activist in Washington D.C.. He is best known for his activity in outing closeted gay politicians who actively oppose equality for LGBT Americans.
Brian Setzer.  Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10 1959) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group Stray Cats and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with his Swing revival band The Brian Setzer Orchestra.
Rosemary Opala.  Rosemary Opala (née Fielding) (1923–2008) was an Australian artist writer and nurse and is regarded for her work as a Queensland environmentalist historian social commentator and community activist.Opala's literary and artistic themes reflect her personal experiences and social outlook.
Christell.  Christell Jazmín Rodriguez Carrillo (Talcahuano January 2 1998) is a Chilean child singer. She became known in the popular Chilean TV Show called Rojo Fama Contrafama imitating to the young singer Maria Jose Quintanilla in a contest. She has recorded three albums since then. She was nominated for the Grammy Latino by her second record production.
Timo Ellis.  Timothy Kneeland Timo Ellis is a multi-instrumentalist and record producer from New York City currently in the bands The Netherlands and Spacehog. He also runs a commercial music company called 70% Water Music as well as his personal label Records and Tapes Records.Ellis attended Evergreen State College in Washington. It was while in school there that he first began working with local bands such as Nubbin Lemonade Hotess Freebird and Dig Yer Grave.
Leonid Rudenko.  Leonid Rudenko (Russian: Леонид Руденко born in 1985) better known by his stage name Rudenko is a record producer and DJ from Russia who was born and raised in Moscow.
Carol Baum.  Carol Baum is an American movie producer best known for her work with Sandollar Productions Dolly Parton's TV and film production company with Sandy Gallin Parton's former manager.
Echo Eggebrecht.  Echo Eggebrecht (born 1977 Bangor Maine) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn NY.
Raoul Sinier.  Raoul Sinier is a digital painter film maker and electronic musician based in Paris.
Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy.  Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy (27 December 1936 - 16 March 2014) was a Sierra Leonean writer poet actor dancer director and playwright. Known by his friends and colleagues as Pat Maddy or simply Prof he had an immense impact on theatre in Sierra Leone Nigeria and Zambia.
Bob Luman.  Robert Glynn Bob Luman (15 April 1937 – 27 December 1978) was an American country and rockabilly singer.
Lucy Orta.  Lucy Orta is a British contemporary visual artist living and working between London and Paris where she has resided since 1991. She was born in 1966 in Sutton Coldfield Great Britain.After graduating with an honours degree in fashion-knitwear design Orta began practicing as a visual artist in 1991. Her sculptural work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture exploring their common social factors such as communication and identity.
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold.  Norwegian author Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold (born 3 December 1979 in Oslo) made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel Jo fortere jeg går jo mindre er jeg (The Faster I Walk the Smaller I Am). The book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize the P2-listeners' Novel Prize and won the Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize (judged by The Literary Council of The Norwegian Authors´ Union).
Hong 10.  Hong 10 (Birth name: Kim Hong-Yeol Korean: 김홍열 born on 27 December 1984 in South Korea) is a male South Korean B-boy (also known as Breakdancer). His accomplishments include two Red Bull BC One individual titles (2006) & (2013) and a Battle of the Year crew title (2002).
Poloroid.  Poloroid is a former stage name of Essex-born singer-songwriter Danielle Dan Rowe best known for her 2003 single So Damn Beautiful. Originally referring to a trio the name Poloroid was adopted by Rowe for her solo material in 2001 following the death of her bandmate Jon Horrocks. Her song So Damn Beautiful was featured on compilation albums such as Global Underground 012: Bueno Aires and was also used in the soundtrack to an episode of American drama Nip/Tuck.
Bebi Dol.  Bebi Dol (Serbian Cyrillic: Беби Дол bêbi dôːl born Dragana Šarić Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Шарић drǎɡana ʃǎːritɕ or [ʃâritɕ]) is a Serbian female pop/rock singer and performer. Her name is a deliberate corruption of the English Baby Doll which she also uses in some countries to credit her records.
Bebo Norman.  Jeffrey Stephen Bebo Norman (born May 29 1973) is a contemporary Christian musician from Columbus Georgia USA. His most successful album to date is Myself When I Am Real which included hit songs Great Light of the World and Falling Down. Other popular songs by Norman include Disappear Nothing Without You I Will Lift My Eyes and Borrow Mine. He initially gained popularity when touring with another Christian band Caedmon's Call. Norman's fans call themselves Simpletons.
Tordis Ørjasæter.  Tordis Ørjasæter (born 1927) is a Norwegian literary critic biographer former professor of educational science and novelist. She has been particularly engaged in culture and literature for children. She has written biographical works on Sigrid Undset Selma Lagerlöf Tove Jansson and Nini Roll Anker. She was awarded the Brage Prize in 1993.
Marion Holland.  Marion Holland (July 17 1908 – April 6 1989) was an American children’s book writer and illustrator from Washington DC. Holland’s best-known books were A Big Ball of String; No Children No Pets; Billy Had a System; and The Secret Horse. A Big Ball of String (1958) which sold more than a million copies was one of the six original Beginner Books published by Random House along with The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
Paulinho Moska.  Paulo Corrêa de Araujo also known as Moska or Paulinho Moska (Rio de Janeiro 27 August 1967) is a Brazilian singer composer and actor.He started to play the classic guitar when 13 year-old with friends. Graduated in theater and cinema by CAL (Casa de Artes de Laranjeiras) in Rio. He was member of the band Garganta Profunda that sang from Beatles and Tom Jobim up to medieval operas.
Barry Windsor-Smith.  Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith in Forest Gate London on 25 May 1949) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian from 1970 to 1973.
Muslim Mulliqi.  Muslim Mulliqi (1934-13 January 1998) was an impressionist and expressionist painter of Kosovo. Born into a family of artists in town Mulliqi attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade where he also continued with the postgraduate studies.Mulliqi exposed in galleries of Kosovo ex-Yugoslavia Italy and Albania. Mulliqi was the initiator of the foundation and vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of Kosovo. He taught Painting in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prishtina.
Chris Frazier.  Christopher Ridgeway Frazier (born 7 September 1967 in Bethesda Maryland United States) is a musician who has been a world-class drummer and known in the professional ranks since he started recording and touring with guitar virtuoso Steve Vai from 1985 through 2001. Chris was the touring drummer with classic rock icon Eddie Money from 2003 through 2006 when he was approached to become the drummer of veteran rock band Whitesnake.
Dave Parsons.  Dave Parsons (born David Richard Parsons 2 July 1965 Hillingdon London UK) is a British bass guitarist.
Taku Miki.  Taku Miki (三木 卓 Miki Taku born May 13 1935) was the pen-name of a Japanese poet and novelist in Showa period Japan. His real name was Tomita Miki.
Georges Neveux.  Georges Neveux (1900-1982) was a French dramatist and poet.Neveux's first notable work was the play Juliette ou la clé des songes (Juliet or the key to dreams) written in 1927 and produced in 1930.
Porter Wagoner.  Porter Wayne Wagoner (August 12 1927 – October 28 2007) was a popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. In 1967 he introduced then-obscure singer Dolly Parton on his long-running television show and they were a well-known vocal duo throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry Wagoner charted 81 singles from 1954–1983. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
Colin Lester.  Colin Lester (born 26 May 1960 in London) is a British artist manager of R&B pop and rock music acts.Lester has managed the careers for numerous commercially successful British and international artists. He was awarded ‘The Peter Grant Award’ for outstanding achievement from the United Kingdom’s Music Manager Forum in 2002.In 2007 Lester was awarded the prestigious ‘Gold Badge Award’ by BASCA (The British Academy of Songwriters and Composers Association) for his work with UK songwriters.
Charlie Spand.  Charlie Spand was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer noted for his barrelhouse style. Spand was deemed one of the most influential piano players of the 1920s. Little is known of his life outside of music and his total recordings comprise only thirty three tracks.
Susan Kay.  Susan Kay (born 1952 in Manchester England) is a British writer the author of two award-winning novels: Legacy and Phantom.
Laudomia Bonanni.  Laudomia Bonanni (December 8 1907 – February 21 2002) was an Italian writer and journalist. Although she started publishing when she was a teenager her writing career took off in 1948 thanks to a literary contest and she went on to be a prolific and award-winning author. The Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale compared her realism to James Joyce’s Dubliners and other distinguished critics considered her one of the most important and original voices in Italy’s post World War II literature.
Kåre Thomsen.  Kåre Thomsen (born 30 December 1959 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) and graphic designer known from a number of releases and active on the Bergen jazz scene performing with musicians like Karl Seglem Vigleik Storaas and Terje Isungset. He is the younger brother of the acclaimed Bergen Guitarist Ole Thomsen.
Eugène Boch.  Eugène Boch (1 September 1855 – 3 January 1941) was a Belgian painter born in Saint-Waast Nord Hainaut and the younger brother of Anna Boch a founding member of Les XX.Born into the 5th generation of the Boch family a wealthy dynasty of manufacturers of fine china and ceramics still active today under the firm of Villeroy & Boch Eugène Boch enrolled in the private atelier of Léon Bonnat in Paris in 1879.
Giacomo Pavia.  Giacomo Pavia (1655–1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Ash Nair.  Ashvin Kumar Nair fondly known as Ash is a Malaysian alternative musician and former contestant of season 2 of Malaysian Idol where he first became widely known to the public.
Jack Daugherty (musician).  Jack Daugherty (August 13 1930 - February 2 1991) was a musician and producer who is best known for being the music producer of the band The Carpenters.
Athy (harpist).  Athy (also known as Athy the electric harper) (born 28 February 1984 Ituzaingó Buenos Aires. Argentina) is a musician and composer who plays electric harp and Celtic harp.
James Maxey.  James Maxey is an American author best known for his work in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. He has won the Phobos Award been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award and reprinted in the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. In addition to writing fiction Maxey has also reviewed novels for the online magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) and appeared on panels and taught workshops at numerous conventions on the east coast.
Dave Cousins.  Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson 7 January 1945 Hounslow Middlesex England) is an English singer and songwriter who has been the leader singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.
Liz Gorinsky.  Liz Gorinsky is an editor for Tor Books and multiple Hugo award nominee in the category of Best Editor (Long Form).
Peter Middlebrook.  Peter J. Middlebrook (D.Phil.) (born in Lincoln U.K. 15 November 1965) is the CEO of Geopolicity Inc. and Chairman of a number of other companies. He is an English political economist/Political Scientist and Emerging Markets expert specializing in the GCC and MENA region.
James Daichendt.  G. James Daichendt (1975) is an art critic and art historian. He serves as Associate Dean and Professor of Art History at Azusa Pacific University in southern California. He is also a Professor at Boston University.Dr. Daichendt founded and is the Principal Editor for the academic journal Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art. He has written four books. The most recent being a text about the artist Shepard Fairey entitled Shepard Fairey Inc. Artist/Professional/Vandal.
Bruce Hampton.  Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III April 30 1947) is a surrealist American musician. In the late 1960s he was a founding member of Atlanta Georgia's avant-garde Hampton Grease Band. Adopting the moniker Colonel Bruce Hampton Retired and sometimes playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a chazoid he later formed several other bands including The Late Bronze Age The Aquarium Rescue Unit The Fiji Mariners The Codetalkers The Quark Alliance and The Pharaoh Gummitt.
Margaret Ogola.  Margaret Atieno Ogola (12 June 1958 – 21 September 2011) was the Kenyan author of the novel The River and the Source and its sequel I Swear by Apollo. The River and the Source follows four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing country and society.
Gary Clement.  Gary Clement (born July 1959[citation needed]) is a Canadian artist illustrator and author living in Toronto Ontario.Clement has been the daily political cartoonist for Canada's National Post in Toronto since the newspaper's launch in 1998. His illustration work has appeared in magazines and newspapers as diverse as Mother Jones The Wall Street Journal The New York Times Time The Guardian and The National (Abu Dhabi).
Anatolii Ivanovich Sivkov.  Anatoly Ivanovich Sivkov (alternative spelling: Anatolii Ivanovich Sivkov)(Russian: Анатолий Иванович Сивков)(born 1952) is a contemporary Russian painter. Sivkov studied from 1966-73 at the renowned Novosibirsk State University in Akademgorodok (Russian: Академгородок) a suburb of Novosibirsk. Sivkov lives and works In St. Petersburg Russia.
Evelyn Everett-Green.  Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856 London – 23 April 1932 Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children and later wrote historical fiction for older girls and then adult romantic fiction.She wrote about 350 books: more than 200 under her own name and others using the pen-names H. F. E. Cecil Adair E. Ward or Evelyn Dare.
Tiziano Ferro.  Tiziano Ferro (born 21 February 1980 in Latina) is an Italian pop singer songwriter producer and author. He broke through in 2001 with his international hit single Perdono and has remained commercially successful since then primarily in his home country. Ferro has released a Spanish version of each of his albums and has also sung in English Portuguese and French.
DJ Kridlokk.  Kristo Laanti professionally known as DJ Kridlokk is a Finnish rapper and record producer. His career took off in 2005 when he released an album Maanalaisella saundilla with a fellow rapper Lommo. In 18 May 2011 he released a solo album UG-Solo which peaked at number 23 on the Official Finnish Album Chart.
Nexhmedin Zajmi.  Nexhmedin Zajmi (born March 4 1916 in a village close to Trebisht Peshkopi died May 19 1991 in Tirana) was an Albanian painter and sculptor.
Mads Berven.  Mads Falck Berven (born 23 May 1977 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) and law graduate from University of Bergen known from a series of albums and cooperations with the like of Øystein Moen Eirik Hegdal Magne Thormodsæter Ole Marius Sandberg Kåre Opheim Gard Nilssen Per Jørgensen Olav Dale and Helén Eriksen.
Monte Hale.  Monte Hale (June 8 1919 – March 29 2009) was an American B-Western film star and country musician. Often reported to have been born in San Angelo Texas he was actually born as Buren Ely in Ada Oklahoma; a Texas birthplace reportedly sounded better for the movies. Starting to sing and play the guitar at an early age Hale started playing in cities of Texas as well in Vaudeville and local rodeo shows.
John Francis Barnett.  John Francis Barnett (1837–1916) was an English music composer and teacher.
Aaron Solowoniuk.  Aaron Solowoniuk (pronounced Solo-von-yuk) (21 November 1974 Streetsville Ontario Canada) is the drummer for the Canadian band Billy Talent.
Gillette (singer).  Sandra Gillette (born September 16 1974) is a former American R&B-dance artist active during the 1990s.
Jean Dubuffet.  Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called low art and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.
Alex McSweeney.  Alex McSweeney is a British actor best known for playing Graham Foster in EastEnders from 2003 to 2004.He also played Eddie Peacock and David Radford in The Bill in 1998 and 2004 respectively. Amongst others programmes he has appeared in include Silent Witness and Holby City. He also appeared in Lewis in 2007.
Zhang Tielin.  Zhang Tielin (born 15 June 1957) is a Chinese-born British actor and occasional film director. He is best known for portraying the Qianlong Emperor in the first two seasons of the Chinese television series Princess Pearl.
Imran Usmanov.  Imran Hermanovich Usmanov (Chechen: Имран Херманович Усманов) (born 1953) is a renowned Chechen folk singer whose deep baritone voice and songs about love and friendship are regarded as classics in Chechen music. Born in 1953 to Chechen parents Imran Usmanov is from Nozhai-Yurt Chechnya.
Freddie Green.  Frederick William Freddie Green (March 31 1911 – March 1 1987) was an American swing jazz guitarist. He was especially noted for his sophisticated rhythm guitar in big band settings particularly for the Count Basie orchestra where he was part of the All-American Rhythm Section with Basie on piano Jo Jones on drums and Walter Page on bass.
Namie Amuro.  Namie Amuro (安室 奈美恵 Amuro Namie born September 20 1977) is a Japanese R&B singer fashion icon and former actress. She was at the height of her popularity referred to as the Teen Queen and the title Queen of Japanese Pop Music. Born in Naha Okinawa Amuro debuted at the age of 14 as an idol in the girl group Super Monkey's. Though mostly unsuccessful the group gained popularity during their final year together with the single Try Me (Watashi o Shinjite) (1995).
Lissa Vera.  María Elizabeth Vera (born January 31 1982 in Buenos Aires Argentina) professionally known as Lissa Vera is an Argentine singer-songwriter composer and actress. She is best known for being a member of Argentine all-female band Bandana. In 2007 she participated in reality show Gran Hermano.
Ben Parris.  Benjamin Jason Parris (born 1961) is an American author educator and museum planner best known as the creator of Wade of Aquitaine. As an educator and technology consultant he has won national awards. In their August 19 2005 edition Long Island Business News placed Ben Parris in the Top Ten of their Who's Who in Technology list.
Corey Taylor.  Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8 1973) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Slipknot and Stone Sour.Corey Taylor is a founding member of Stone Sour and has released five studio albums with that band. Taylor joined Slipknot in 1997 to replace their original singer. He has released four studio albums with them. He has worked with several bands including Junk Beer Kidnap Band Apocalyptica Anthrax Aaron Lewis of Staind and Soulfly.
Hank Roberts.  Hank Roberts (born March 24 1954 in Terre Haute Indiana) is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello and his style is a mixture of rock jazz avant-garde folk and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown New York jazz scene of the 1980s and is strongly associated with its post-modern tendencies.
Tyler Jacobson.  Tyler Jacobson (born 1982) is an American Science Fiction & Fantasy Artist and illustrator whose work has been featured in publications by Wizards of the Coast Simon & Schuster TOR Entertainment Weekly Rolling Stone Texas Monthly Men’s Journal Runner’s World The Weekly Standard and Scientific American.Jacobson is best known as a fantasy artist due to his significant contributions of art to Magic: The Gathering trading card game cards package art and promotional materials as well as character design and game art for Dungeons & Dragons. 
Marina Oliver.  Marina Oliver (born 1934) is a British writer of romance novels since 1974 she also wrote under the pseudonyms of Sally James Donna Hunt Bridget Thorn Vesta Hathaway Livvy West and Laura Hart. Marina also published writing books.Oliver was elected the sixteenth Chairman (1992–1993) of the Romantic Novelists' Association edited its Newsletter for 3 years and now has been elected a Vice-President and runs the R.N.A. New Writer's Scheme.
David Alan Harvey.  David Alan Harvey (born June 6 1944 in San Francisco California) is an American photographer. He has been a full member of the photographic cooperative Magnum Photos since 1997. He has photographed extensively for National Geographic magazine and in 1978 was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. Harvey is publisher and editor of Burn Magazine an online publication featuring the work of emerging photographers.
Andreas Leigh Aabel.  Morten Andreas Leigh Aabel (10 February 1830 – 9 May 1901) was a Norwegian physician and poet.He was born in Sogndal as the son of priest Peter Pavels Aabel. He was a brother of Oluf Andreas Aabel. He enrolled as a student in 1848 graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1856. Whilwe studying he was a member of the Literary Association and the Norwegian Students' Society. He started writing poems and songs and continued after graduation.
Paul O'Beirne.  Paul O'Beirne (also known by the pseudonym Apollo 9) is an American saxophonist notable as a member of Rocket from the Crypt.
Jason Karaban.  Jason Karaban is an American singer-songwriter and musician living in Los Angeles California. Karaban first began his career fronting the Philadelphia based indie rock band Dragstrip Courage in 1997 and Grand in 2000. He emerged as a solo artist with the release of Doomed to Make Choices in 2006 co-produced with Mike Napolitano (Joseph Arthur The Twilight Singers). Along with vocals Karaban plays acoustic guitar 12-string and electric guitar bass guitar keyboards piano and drums.
Yangpa.  Lee Eun-Jin (Korean: 이은진 born March 17 1979) better known by her stage name Yangpa (Korean: 양파) is a South Korean singer. Her stage name Yangpa means 'onion' in Korean. She studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts.
Chiharu Tezuka.  Chiharu Tezuka (手塚 ちはる Tezuka Chiharu born October 27 1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Arts Vision.
Jan Hanford.  Jan Hanford is a composer/musician who plays piano harpsichord and synthesizers. Her electronica has been released under the name Human Response.She was also the co-founder (with ex-husband John Buckman) of Lyris Technologies and co-developed the Lyris List Manager software and the TILE software program.She lives in New York City.Discography:As Jan Hanford— 24 Preludes for Solo Piano Vespers (re-released as Delirious by Human Response)As Human Response— Delirious Survival Immortal Dreamer
Joseph Kobzon.  Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (Russian: Иосиф Давыдович Кобзон; born September 11 1937) is a Russian singer known for his crooner style.
Hibari Misora.  Hibari Misora (美空 ひばり Misora Hibari May 29 1937 – June 24 1989) was a Japanese singer actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public and was the first woman to receive the People's Honour Award which was conferred posthumously for giving the public hope and encouragement after World War II.Misora recorded 1200 songs and sold 68 million records.
Tanya Donelly.  Tanya Donelly (born July 14 1966 in Newport Rhode Island) is an American Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh. She then went on to work in The Breeders and Belly in the 1990s. In the late 1990s she settled into a solo recording career working largely with musicians connected to the Boston music scene.
Del Staecker.  Del Staecker born November 23 1950 is an American author of suspense thrillers and non fiction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a member of the Military Writers Society of America and the International Association of Crime Writers.Staecker was born in Blue Island Illinois and graduated from The Citadel with a degree in history.
Fred Breinersdorfer.  Fred Breinersdorfer (born 6 December 1946 in Mannheim) is a prominent German screenwriter producer and film director.
Gloria Barberi.  Gloria Barberi (born 1955) is an Italian science fiction and fantasy writer based in Liguria; she started publishing in the early 1980s in various fanzines and magazines.Strong on lyrical and dream-like atmospheres her approach to fantasy shows a penchant for horror or weird tones; some of her stories are reminiscent of the works of Clark Ashton Smith in style.
Barlow (musician).  Barlow is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his 2003 hit Walk Away from his self-titled 2004 album. He has been nominated for three Juno Awards and won the Canadian Rising Star Award. Radio Music Award nomination.
Stacey Richter.  Stacey Richter is an American writer of short fiction. Richter has been the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes a National Prize for Fiction and the National Magazine Award. Her first collection of stories My Date with Satan was published in 1999. In 2008 Richter published her second collection Twin Study which includes the Pushcart Award-winning story The Land of Pain.Richter was born in Maryland in 1965 the daughter of Valerie and Herschel Richter a cardiologist.
Eddie London.  Kenneth Edward Eddie London (born July 31 1956 in Dreux France) is a country music singer. Signed to RCA Records in 1991 he released the album Do It Right that year. This album produced the single If We Can't Do It Right which peaked at number 41 on the U.S. country singles charts and is his only chart entry.
Mike Barone.  Mike Barone is an American jazz musician and big band leader. His Mike Barone Big Band became one of the best known West Coast big bands from early days playing at Donte's in North Hollywood in the late sixties.
Tim Hecker.  Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Montreal Canada. Hecker previously recorded under the moniker Jetone but has become better known internationally for his ambient recordings mainly released through Kranky Records under his own name.
Dana Protopopescu.  Dana Protopopescu is a Romanian pianist settled in Belgium.Protopopescu serves as the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition's accompanist (1989- ) and teaches at the Queen Elisabeth School of Music. She is also active as a chamber musician.
Steve Cadro.  Steve Cadro (died March 21 2000) was a Hungarian pornographic director.Steve Cadro real name Istvan Karda Istvan was working for the Hungarian national broadcast system and the State Privatization Board company. Steve dead body was find at his apartment.He was working in the adult film industry from 1998 until 2000. Steve Cardo died with violent death on January 22 2010 he was beaten and stabbed before he died.
Eva Knardahl.  Eva Knardahl Freiwald (10 May 1927 – 3 September 2006) was a Norwegian pianist with a noted career both as a child prodigy and adult performer. Her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12 in which she played three concertos (those by Johann Sebastian Bach in F minor Joseph Haydn in D major and Carl Maria von Weber in C major) was received with rave reviews. Knardahl was a student of Mary Barrat Due who was educated in Italy.
Sergei Lyapunov.  Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в Russian pronunciation: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪt͡ʃ lʲɪpʊˈnof]; November 30 [O.S. November 18]  1859 – November 8 1924) was a Russian composer and pianist.
Roger Cicero.  Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu (born July 6 1970 in Berlin) is a German jazz musician and the son of the Romanian pianist Eugen Cicero.
Warren Pleece.  Warren Pleece is a British comics artist. He is best known for his work at the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.
Akifumi Tada.  Akifumi Tada (多田 彰文 Tada Akifumi born January 10 1964) is a Japanese anime music composer and video game composer. He has composed for anime and video game soundtracks and singles.
Edward Villiers Rippingille.  Edward Villiers Rippingille (c. 1790–1859) was an English oil painter and watercolourist who was a member of the informal group of artists which has come to be known as the Bristol School. In that group he was a particularly close associate of both Edward Bird and Francis Danby.
Anya Ulinich.  Anya Ulinich is a modern Russian American novelist and short-story writer.
Shane Diesel.  Shane Diesel (born Saul Seward Armstrong) is an American pornographic actor.Diesel moved from Las Vegas Nevada to Los Angeles California at the age of 23 in pursuit of a career in bodybuilding. At the age of 28 he began posing solo for several magazines. After the events of 9/11 he received a huge paycut from his airline job and began his main venture into pornography.Diesel signed an exclusive performing contract with Digital Sin in 2005.
Donald Hamilton Fraser.  Donald Hamilton Fraser RA (30 July 1929 London – 2 September 2009) is famed for his abstract landscape paintings. Hamilton Fraser trained at Saint Martin's School of Art. He won a one year French government scholarship in Paris in 1953 and later taught at the Royal College of Art (1958–1983). He was elected a fellow there in 1970 becoming an Honorary Fellow in 1984.
Jon Tolaas.  Jon Tolaas (3 June 1939–1 September 2012) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. He was born in Vågsøy. Among his poetry collections are Gjest i ditt tjeld from 1968 and Rapport frå reservatet from 1969. He published the novel Sju in 1971. He was awarded the Sogn og Fjordane Cultural Prize in 1987.
Susan Van Camp.  Susan Van Camp is a fantasy artist best known for her work on various role playing games.
Alex Hartley.  Alex Hartley (born 1963) is a British artist whose work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward built environments and landscapes. Nowhereisland is Hartley's 2012 Cultural Olympiad project for the South West of England. In 2004 whilst participating in a Cape Farewell Arctic expedition Hartley discovered Nyskjæret an island about the size of a football field in the archipelago of Svalbard a Norwegian territory in the Arctic Ocean.
Robert Lentz.  Robert Lentz O.F.M. (born 1946) is an American Franciscan friar and religious icon painter. He is particularly known for incorporating contemporary social themes into his icon work. He belongs to the Order of Friars Minor and is currently stationed in Holy Name Province.
Harish Chandra Mitra.  Harish Chandra Mitra (1837–1872) was a Bengali playwright poet essayist journalist. His father Abhay Charan Mitra was a resident of Howrah West Bengal. He spent his childhood in dire poverty. In his teen-hood he joined a press as a compositor. Later he became teacher at a junior school in Dhaka. At the age of 21 his first poem was published in 1858 in the Sambad Probhakar.
Robert Hayden.  Robert Hayden (4 August 1913 – 25 February 1980) was an American poet essayist educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976. On April 21 2012 a U.S. Postage Stamp within a pane of 10 Twentieth Century Poets was issued featuring Hayden.
Keith Jayne.  Keith Jayne (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor known for playing the title role in the 1981 television adaptation Stig of the Dump.A slow growth rate due to a pituitary gland problem made Keith a target of bullies at grammar school.
Debasis Chakroborty.  Debasis Chakroborty (Bengali: দেবাশিস Hindi: देबाशीष born 9 June 1961) is an Indian classical slide guitar player who belongs to the Senia-Maihar Gharana. Chakroborty was born in Calcutta India and was groomed in the atmosphere of music from his childhood. He began learning guitar from his father Sh. Madhusudan Chakroborty. He then came under the tutelage of Pt. Barun Kumar Pal a renowned guitarist from Kolkata and Pt.
Howard Tayler.  Howard V. Tayler (born February 29 1968 in Florida) is the award-winning creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary. He worked as a volunteer missionary for the LDS Church then graduated from Brigham Young University. Using his degree in music composition he started an independent record label.While working at Novell Tayler began online publication of Schlock Mercenary. He quit his job at Novell several years later in order to work on the webcomic full-time.
David Foster.  David Walter Foster OC OBC (born November 1 1949) is a Canadian musician record producer composer singer songwriter and arranger.
Zeke Manners.  Leo Zeke Manners (October 10 1911 - October 14 2000) was an American country musician.
Andreas Hompland.  Andreas Hompland (born 18 September 1946 in Kvinesdal) is a Norwegian social scientist journalist magazine editor and non-fiction writer.Hompland is particularly known for his column Sideblikk published in the newspaper Dagbladet since 1980. Among his books are Sideblikk på maktmenneske frå Alta til Bergen of 1982 Dynastiet Willoch of 1983 and Trender i arbeidslivet (1999 co-written with K. A. Larsen).
Attilio Simonetti.  Attilio Simonetti (April 13 1843 – January 14 1925) was an Italian painter and Antiquarian.
Courtney Simpson.  Courtney Simpson (born May 9 1985) is an American former pornographic actress.
Chantal Goya.  Chantal Goya (born Chantal de Guerre on June 10 1946) is a French singer and actress.Chantal Goya started her career as a yé-yé girl singing a catchy mid-1960s hybrid of girl-group pop and French chanson.
Wilbert Das.  Wilbert Das is a Dutch fashion designer.
Josh Freese.  Josh Freese (born December 25 1972) is an American session drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of The Vandals and Devo having formerly played drums for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008 for A Perfect Circle from 1999 to 2012 and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 1999. Freese has appeared on close to 400 records. He is currently performing live with The Replacements Devo The Vandals and Sublime with Rome.
Alain Bashung.  Alain Bashung (French: [alɛ̃ baʃuŋ]; born Alain Baschung 1 December 1947 – 14 March 2009) was a French singer songwriter and actor. In France he is considered one of the most famous singers in French chanson and French rock. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s with hit songs such as Gaby oh Gaby and Vertige de l'amour and later had a string of hit successes from the 1990s onward such as Osez Joséphine Ma petite entreprise or La nuit je mens.
Adèle Toussaint-Samson.  Adèle Toussaint-Samson (1826–1911) is the author of A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.This account provides a firsthand view of a slavocrat society. In an effort to improve their family's fortune enterprising and high-spirited young Parisian Adele Toussaint-Samson traveled with her husband a French actor from France to Brazil in the mid-1800s.
David Weir (writer).  David Weir (11 February 1934 – 25 June 2011) was a British writer whose work was used primarily in television and film.
Club Veg.  Club Veg (formerly called The Morning After Show on Triple J) was a popular Australian radio show and comedic partnership consisting of Mal Lees and Vic Davies (1954–2009) on Triple M.
Filippo Abbiati.  Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Lombardy and Turin. Born in Milan he was a pupil of the painter Antonio Busca. Alessandro Magnasco was one of his pupils. Ticozzi claims he trained along with Federigo Bianchi with Carlo Francesco Nuvolone. Along with Bianchi he painted the cupola of Sant'Alessandro Martire in Milan. Abbiati also painted a St. John preaching in the Wilderness for a church in Saronno.
Morris Beckman (writer).  Morris Beckman (born 21 February 1921) is an English writer. To date he has had five books published.
Ben Lee (violinist).  Ben Lee (born 1980 in Eastbourne Sussex) is an electric violinist and composer/producer from United Kingdom.
Anne Wilkinson (poet).  Anne Wilkinson (September 21 1910 – May 10 1961) was a Canadian poet who was part of the modernist movement in Canadian poetry in the 1940s and 50s one of only a few prominent women poets of the time along with Dorothy Livesay and P.K. Page. Wilkinson published two books of poetry Counterpoint to Sleep (1951) and The Hangman Ties the Holly (1955). She also wrote a family history about her maternal family the Oslers and a children's story before her early death from cancer in 1961.
Joaquin Miller.  Joaquin Miller was the pen name of the colorful American poet Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (September 8 1837 – February 17 1913) nicknamed the Poet of the Sierras.
Barry Manilow.  Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such recordings as Mandy Can't Smile Without You and Copacabana (At the Copa).In 1978 five of his albums were on the best-seller charts simultaneously a feat equalled only by Herb Alpert The Beatles Frank Sinatra Michael Jackson Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis.
Urs Bühler.  Urs Toni Bühler (born 19 July 1971 in Willisau Lucerne Switzerland) is a classically-trained tenor and member of the operatic pop musical quartet Il Divo.
Kelvin Roy.  Kelvin Roy is a New Zealand based musician and composer. With a background in jazz and more recently children’s educational music he has played as part of the Nairobi Trio as well as founded composed and performed with numerous bands including The Jews Brothers Band BlueStars and Latin American-inspired Sonora.
Richard T. Notkin.  Richard T. Notkin is an American ceramic artist who was born in Chicago Illinois in 1948. He earned a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 1970 studying under Ken Ferguson. In 1973 he received his MFA from the University of California Davis where he studied under Robert Arneson.Notkin lives and works in Helena Montana and is especially known for his reinterpretations of traditional Yixing pottery.
Tony Koltz.  Tony Koltz is an American writer. He wrote two Choose Your Own Adventure books: number 31 The Vampire Express and number 59 Terror Island.He wrote The Battle for Peace with General Anthony Zinni and Battle Ready with Tom Clancy and General Zinni.
Marianne Legato.  Marianne J. Legato MD FACP is an internationally known[citation needed] academic physician author and lecturer and globally recognized expert in gender-specific medicine the science of how normal human function and the experience of the same disease vary as a function of gender/biological sex. Legato is an expert on the sex-specific aspects of men's and women's health and is the founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University.
Russell B. Farr.  Russell B. Farr is an Australian editor and writer of speculative fiction.
Nikolas Metaxas.  Nikolas Metaxas (born February 25 1988) is a Cypriot singer and songwriter who became famous after coming second in the first season of the Greek version of The X Factor. Nikolas Metaxas participated as the songwriter and composer of the Cypriot entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow Russia as his sister Christina Metaxa won the national final on 7 February 2009.
Rex Goudie.  Rex Goudie is a Canadian singer songwriter and was the runner-up of Canadian Idol 3.
Gary Lee Conner.  Gary Lee Conner (born Lee Gary Conner on August 22 1962 in Fort Irwin California USA) was the lead guitarist for rock act Screaming Trees along with his brother Van Conner who was the band's bassist. Conner began his career with Screaming Trees in 1985 which lasted until their disbanding in 2000.
Ichiro Ito.  Ichiro Ito (伊藤 一朗 Itō Ichirō born November 10 1967 in Yokosuka Kanagawa Japan) is a guitarist in the Japanese rock band Every Little Thing. He is also known as Ikkun by fans.Ichiro also works in composition and sometimes arrangement of some of ELT's songs.
Leron Thomas.  Leron Thomas (born April 8 1979) is an American jazz trumpeter composer and vocalist noted for his musical style as a masterful genre-bender. Born in Houston Texas Thomas attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He moved to New York City to study Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School university. There he studied alongside many notable contemporaries and began working professionally prior to his graduation in 2003.
Camu Tao.  Camu Tao (born Tero Smith June 26 1977 – May 25 2008) was an American rapper and producer who was signed to the Definitive Jux label. He was a member of several groups: S.A. Smash (with fellow rapper Metro) the underground hiphop supergroup Weathermen Central Services (with fellow producer El-P) and the music collective Cardboard City.He was also part of Columbus Ohio's MHz crew with Copywrite RJD2 Jakki Tha MotaMouth & Tage Proto.
Filippo Zaniberti.  Filippo Zaniberti (1585–1636) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist period. He was born in Brescia and active in Venice where he became a pupil of Santo Peranda. Zaniberti's style recalls the richeness of Paolo Veronese. He painted a Mannah in the desert for the main altarpiece of the church of Santa Maria Nuova of Venice.
Black M.  Alpha Diallo better known by his stage name Black Mesrimes or more commonly Black M (born 27 December 1984) is a French-Guinean rapper. He grew up in la Rue du Bac in 7th arrondissement of Paris and later on 13th arrondissement of Paris. He is famous for his membership of the French rap and hip hop collective Sexion d'Assaut in addition to his solo work and collaborations with various artists.
John Prendergast (activist).  John Prendergast (born March 21 1963) is an American human rights activist author and former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. He is the co-founder of the Enough Project a nonprofit human rights organization affiliated with the Center for American Progress. Prendergast is a board member and serves as Strategic Advisor to Not On Our Watch Project. He is a member of the faculty and Advisory Board of the International Peace and Security Institute (IPSI).
Béatrice Bonifassi.  Béatrice Betty Bonifassi (born c. 1971) is a French-born vocalist based in Montreal Quebec Canada. She has a deep contralto singing voice sometimes referred to as masculine which has been compared to that of Shirley Bassey. Bonifassi has performed music of many styles in both English and French—from jazz to traditional music to blues to electronica.
Katherine Parr (actress).  Katherine Parr (5 February 1921-2009) was a British actress best known for playing the recurring role of Irene Holloway commonly known as Auntie Irene in the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 1986 and 1987 when her character was killed off.
Florestan Trio.  The Florestan Trio was a piano trio. Formed in 1995 in London England its members were Anthony Marwood (violin) Richard Lester (cello) and Susan Tomes (piano). Their recording of the first two trios by Schumann won the 1999 Gramophone Award for chamber music. Also in 1999 the Trio received the Music Award for Chamber Ensemble from Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Society. The Florestan Trio recorded extensively for the Hyperion label.
Martyn Godfrey.  Martyn Godfrey (April 17 1949—2000) was an English-Canadian author of children's fantasy and science fiction books. Born in Birmingham England he moved to Toronto Ontario when he was eight. Godfrey graduated from University of Alberta in 1974 with a teacher education degree.Godfrey began writing children's stories in the 1980s.
Julian Piotrowiak.  Julian Julo Piotrowiak born April 29 1970. Former Bass guitarist of Pidżama Porno where he played with his cousin Rafal Piotrowiak. After breaking up of the band works as a bass guitar teacher in Poznań. Married.
Joey Franco.  Joe Franco is an American drummer best known for his work with the band The Good Rats in the late 1970s and later as a replacement member of Twisted Sister.
Justin Rutledge.  Justin Rutledge (born January 3 1979) is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter signed to Outside Music.Rutledge's musical style is often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. His influences both of the literary and music world include Leonard Cohen Hank Williams Richard Brautigan and E. E.
Vicki Vann.  Vicki Vann (born July 14 1980) is an American country music artist model and actress. Her father was born in Mississippi and was one of the original founding members of the Grammy Award Winning Gospel Group Mighty Clouds of Joy. Her mother whose family origin is from Oklahoma and Texas was born in California and earned money as a print model for print ads as well as television.
Gerry Alanguilan.  Doroteo Gerardo N. Gerry Alanguilan Jr. (born January 20 1968) is a Filipino comic book artist and writer from San Pablo City Laguna best known for his graphic novels Wasted and Elmer.
Mike Masnick.  Michael Mike Masnick (born December 8 1974) is an American editor and entrepreneur . He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt a weblog that focuses on technology news and tech-related issues. Masnick is also the founder and CEO of the company Floor64 and a contributor at BusinessWeek's Business Exchange.Before founding Floor64 Masnick worked in business development and marketing at Release Software an e-commerce startup and in marketing at Intel.
Barry Michael Cooper.  Barry Michael Cooper is an American writer producer and director best known for his work on the films New Jack City Above the Rim and Sugar Hill.Cooper's writing began career when he penned the 1987 Village Voice article Teddy Riley's New Jack Swing. This brought him to the attention producer Quincy Jones who hired him to rewrite a screenplay which later became the basis of New Jack City.
Margaret Murie.  Margaret Thomas Mardy Murie (August 18 1902 – October 19 2003) was a naturalist author adventurer and conservationist. Dubbed the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society she helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act and was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Emjay.  Marie Josée Riel also known as Emjay (born December 9 1974) is a Canadian eurodance musician.
Antonio Sicurezza.  Antonio Sicurezza was an Italian painter representative for the contemporary figurative art of the Lazio region Italy.
Melissa Hill.  Melissa Hill is a former pornographic actress and director. She performed in over 200 movies during her career and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2014.
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor.  Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (nom de plume Seeley Regester) (March 2 1831 – June 26 1885) is credited with authoring of one of the first detective novels in the United States.
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi.  Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.
John Derian.  John Derian is an American decoupage artist living in New York City.John Derian’s shop in the Lower East Side features artisans and collaborators such as Leanne Shapton Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli (owners of Astier de Villatte) Hugo Guinness Natalie Lété Livia Cetti and Stephanie Housley (founder of Coral & Tusk).
Zipper Spy.  Zipper Spy is a project by the American multimedia artist Maria Moran which incorporates a variety ofsound and visual sources especially zippers. She was married to Emil Beaulieau an American noise artist.
Joseph Stinson.  Joseph Stinson (also known as Joseph C. Stinson) is an American screenwriter best known for such films as City Heat Stick and Sudden Impact.
May Aufderheide.  May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman (May 21 1888 – September 1 1972) was an American composer of ragtime music. She was probably the best known among female ragtime composers. She received training in art music and visited Europe on a grand tour yet decided to compose in ragtime.May Aufderheide was a member of the Indianapolis ragtime community that included Paul Pratt Cecil Duane Crabb J. Russel Robinson Will B. Morrison Julia Lee Niebergall and Gladys Yelvington.
Orly Silbersatz Banai.  Orly Silbersatz Banai (Hebrew: אורלי זילברשץ בנאי‎; born 11 December 1957) is an Israeli actress and singer. She has won two Ophir Awards and a prize from the Israeli Academy of Cinema and Television.
Rick Fenn.  Richard 'Rick' Fenn (born 23 May 1953) is an English rock guitarist. He is best known for being a member of the band 10cc since 1976. He has also collaborated with Mike Oldfield Rick Wakeman Hollies singer Peter Howarth and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.
Camille Pleyel.  Joseph Etienne Camille Pleyel (December 18 1788 - May 4 1855) was a French virtuoso pianist publisher and owner of Signature Pleyel pianos. He also ran a concert hall the Salle Pleyel where Chopin played the first and last of his concerts in Paris.The youngest son of Ignace Joseph Pleyel he studied with Jan Dussek. He became a partner of his father in 1815 and owner of the firm after the death of him. His salons hosted the greatest talents of his day in France.
Chris Cohen (musician).  Chris Cohen is an American musician originating from Los Angeles California.
Patrice Killoffer.  Patrice Killoffer better known simply as Killoffer (born 16 June 1966) is a writer and artist of comics. He was co-founder of the independent comics publisher L'Association in 1990 and has been a part of Oubapo since its creation in 1992.
Shabir.  Shabir is an award winning singer-songwriter record producer music composer and performer who's works are predominantly in Tamil. He is the winner of the inaugural singing competition Vasantham Star 2005. The talent quest was hosted by MediaCorp Vasantham TV Channel.The artiste's finest work to date is known to be Singai Naadu the National Day Parade 2012 Tamil song that received rave reviews and a liking from the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.
Neço Muko.  Neço Muko (born October 21 1899) also known as Neço Muko Himarjoti was an Albanian singer and composer. His musical style created a new genre of Albanian polyphonic music called avaz himariot or avaz himariotçe that became identified with the music of his home region Himarë. He died in 1934.
L. Rowley Jacobs.  L. Rowley (L. R.) Jacobs was an itinerant American portrait artist who worked in the United States during the middle of the 19th century. This artist's work falls under the folk art category. His portraits are found beginning in the 1850s. He is known to have worked in Illinois and New York. It is said he died in Springfield Illinois after 1890.
Peter Allen.  Peter Allen (10 February 1944 – 18 June 1992) was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists including Elkie Brooks Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John with one Arthur's Theme winning an Academy Award in 1981. In addition to recording many albums he enjoyed a cabaret and concert career including appearing at Radio City Music Hall riding a camel.
Piet Zwart.  Piet Zwart (Zaandijk 28 May 1885 – Wassenaar 24 September 1977) was a Dutch photographer typographer and industrial designer.
Jerry Ross (composer).  Jerry Ross (born Jerold Rosenberg; March 9 1926 – November 11 1955) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the Best Musical and Best Composer and Lyricist categories.
DukeDaGod.  DukeDaGod is an American rapper and record producer. He is a member of The Diplomats and the VP of A&R for Diplomat Records. He was born George Moore in Harlem but is better known by his stage name. He released his first album More Than Music Vol. 1 in summer of 2005 under Diplomats/Koch Records. DukeDaGod also runs and maintains www.dipsetmixtapes.com the official Diplomats website as well as the official Diplomats online store.
Alexandre Bigot.  Alexandre Bigot (5 November 1862 – 27 April 1927) was a French ceramicist.
Amanda Hillwood.  Amanda Hillwood is an English American actress.
Joshua Dysart.  Joshua Dysart (born June 21 1971) is an Eisner Award-nominated New York Times Best Selling American comic book writer known for dark themes humanist horror and a fascination with the roots of violence. He has done work for DC Comics Vertigo Comics Dark Horse Comics Image Comics IDW Publishing Penny-Farthing Press Virgin Comics and Random House Books.
Billy Klippert.  Billy Klippert is a Canadian rock singer/songwriter who rose to fame via the first season of Canadian Idol in which he finished 3rd.
Jill Tracy.  Jill Tracy is a singer pianist writer composer performance artist and musical evocateur based in San Francisco.Known for her dark evocative cinematic style Jill Tracy states that some of her biggest childhood influences were film score composers such as Bernard Herrmann and classic suspense tales including Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang films Ray Bradbury stories and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone.
Peter Criss.  George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20 1945) better known as Peter Criss is an American musician and actor best known as the co-founder original drummer and occasional vocalist of hard rock band Kiss. Criss established the Catman character for his Kiss persona.
Emile Christian.  Emile Joseph Christian (New Orleans April 20 1895 – December 3 1973 in New Orleans) (sometimes spelled Emil Christian) was an early jazz trombonist; he also played cornet and string bass. He also wrote a number of tunes including Meet Me At the Green Goose Satanic Blues and Mardi Gras Parade.
Hallucinogen (musician).  Simon Posford (born October 28 1971) better known by his stage name Hallucinogen is an English electronic musician specializing in psychedelic trance music. His first studio album Twisted released in 1995 is considered one of the most influential albums in the genre; the first track LSD in particular remains the defining sound of Goa trance to this day. He has toured India several times.His second album The Lone Deranger was released in 1997.
David Montgomery (photographer).  David Montgomery (born 8 February 1937 in Brooklyn New York) is a photographer known for his portraits of the rich and famous. He studied music at the Juilliard School of Music. He was an assistant to photogrpher Lester Bookbinder in New York and accompanied him on a working visit to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s and stayed.
Angelina (singer).  Angelina Camarillo Ramos simply known as Angelina (born February 10 1976) is an American singer from Union City California. Angelina is best known for her 1996 hit song Release Me which reached # 52 on the Billboard Hot 100.After her brother Daniel was tragically killed in 2006 Angelina stopped writing songs. She still toured on the dance music circuit for a while after that eventually leaving the entertainment industry altogether to become a schoolteacher in East San Jose.
Antti Koivumäki.  Antti Koivumäki (born December 18 1976 Espoo Finland - died July 21 2002 Helsinki Finland) was a Finnish poet and musician.
Don Powell.  Donald George Powell (born on 10 September 1946) is an English musician who was the drummer for glam rock and later style heavy metal group Slade for over twenty years.
Margo Maeckelberghe.  Margo Maeckelberghe (11 August 1932 - 10 January 2014) was a Cornish artist born in Penzance.
Sukumar Ray.  Sukumar Ray (Bengali: সুকুমার রায়; About this sound Sukumār Rāẏ ) (October 30 1887 – September 10 1923) was a Bengali humorous poet story writer and playwright who mainly wrote for children.
Chet Atkins.  Chester Burton Chet Atkins (June 20 1924 – June 30 2001) was an American guitarist occasional vocalist and record producer who along with Owen Bradley created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins' signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis. Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt George Barnes Les Paul and later Jerry Reed.
Ani Takidze.  Ani Takidze (Georgian: ანი ტაკიძე) (born in 1972) is a Georgian pianist. Her exceptional music talent was recognized early. She attended a music school for gifted children in Tbilisi and later the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. She graduated from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München the master class diploma with Franz Massinger and Helmut Deutsch. She played with National Symphony Orchestra of the Tbilisi State Theater of Trier the Munich Symphony and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.
Jim O'Connolly.  Jim O'Connolly (born 1926 Birmingham - died 1986 Hythe) was an English actor and director.
Stephen Beck.  Stephen Beck is an American artist writer toy designer and inventor who pioneered video synthesis and interactive video art.Examples of his work have appeared in collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the Museum of Modern Art New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art.He holds several patents in video phosphene based display technology and energy management.His writings have appeared in Wired Magazine and the New York Times and he was artist in residence at KQED – NCET for the National Center for Experiments in Television.
Matt Singer.  Matt Singer (born December 23 1980) is a Webby Award winning writer and podcaster. He currently is the News Editor for the movie website The Dissolve and co-hosts the Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit podcast. Previously he created the Criticwire blog on Indiewire focusing on the state of movie criticism.
Ronnie Khalil.  Shaher Ronnie Khalil (born September 1977) is an American stand-up comedian and actor of Egyptian descent. He has headlined across four continents toured the United States as a guest performer with the “Axis of Evil” performed with “Arabs Gone Wild” and taped two “Friday Night Live” Showtime Comedy specials in Dubai including “Minorities Rule” and “New World Order” both were shown across 14 countries in the Middle East.
Robert William Wood.  Robert William Wood (March 4 1889 – March 14 1979) was an American landscape painter. He was born in England emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s with the sales of millions of his color reproductions. He was active in the art colonies of San Antonio Texas in the 1930s Monterey California in the 1940s and Laguna Beach in the 1950s.
Ilona Mitrecey.  Ilona Mitrecey (born 1 September 1993 in Fontenay-aux-Roses Hauts-de-Seine) more commonly known as Ilona is a French singer.
Rob Payne.  Rob Payne is a Canadian novelist.Payne is married and lives in Perth Australia with his wife and daughter.He is the author of three dramatic-comedy novels for adults and two science fiction comedy-adventure novels for young adults. He is also known for his work as a writer and/or editor for such publications as The Globe and Mail Canadian Fiction Front and Centre and Quarry.How to Be a Hero on Earth 5 was nominated for the 2007 White Pine Award.[citation needed]
Hamiet Bluiett.  Hamiet Bluiett (born September 16 1940 Brooklyn (or Lovejoy) Illinois; surname pronounced BLUE-ett) is an American jazz saxophonist clarinetist and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument. A member of the World Saxophone Quartet he also plays (and records with) the bass saxophone E-flat alto clarinet E-flat contra-alto clarinet and wooden flute.
Marc Anthony.  Marco Antonio Muñiz (born September 16 1968) better known by his stage name as Marc Anthony is an American actor record producer singer-songwriter and television producer. Anthony is also the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and four-time Latin Grammy winner has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads.
En-Tzu Chang.  En-Tzu Chang，a contemporary artist from Taiwan，Born in Kaohsiung City TAIWAN R.O.C， graduated from Department of Fine Arts National Kaohsiung Normal University。
Tabitha Suzuma.  Tabitha Suzuma (born London 1975) is a British writer.
Thomas Barnett (musician).  Thomas Barnett is an American singer-songwriter born in Richmond Virginia. He is best known for being the singer for the melodic hardcore band Strike Anywhere. Barnett has been the vocalist and lyricist for the band since its formation in 1999. He was also the vocalist and primary lyricist for the band Inquisition until its disbanding in 1996. Inquisition reformed for a three show reunion event in May 2007.
Jero.  Jerome Charles White Jr. (born September 4 1981) better known by his stage name Jero (ジェロ) is an American Enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent. He is the first black enka singer in Japanese music history.
Ian Fowles.  Ian Walton Fowles (born 1979) is an American musician actor and author best known as the current guitarist for the Orange County rock band The Aquabats in which he performs under the stage name and persona of Eagle Bones Falconhawk (alternately EagleBones Falconhawk). Prior to joining The Aquabats Fowles was also one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Death by Stereo.
Marc Culwick.  Marc Culwick (sometimes credited as Mark Culwick) is a British-born actor whose most famous role was as Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward in the 1988 adaption of the Jack the Ripper legend starring Michael Caine.He has also played parts in Agatha Christies' Poirot and played Alec in A Place in my Heart directed by Dermot Tynan.Marc Culwick is married with three children and currently works as a theatre studies teacher in Honiton Devon England.As a teacher he is considered by his students to be truly inspirational and has successfully directed several school musicals and co-directed several Shakespeare pieces.
Raymond L. Schrock.  Raymond L. Schrock (2 February 1892 – 12 December 1950) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 155 films between 1915 and 1950.He was born in Goshen Indiana and died in Hollywood California from a heart attack.
Farel Dalrymple.  Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.
Broadway Project.  Broadway Project is musician Dan Berridge from Bristol. Reviewers often describe the music as cinematic and it combines elements of ambient jazz and hip hop. The epic nature of his records has led to him being commissioned to write scores for a number of feature films and British television programs. He has released three albums to date and scored the music for five feature films.
Hampton Sides.  Hampton Sides (born 1962 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American historian and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail Ghost Soldiers Blood and Thunder and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction.Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic The New Yorker Esquire Men's Journal and The Washington Post.
Hilda Terry.  Theresa Hilda D’Alessio (June 15 1914 – October 13 2006) better known as Hilda Terry was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Teena. It ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. After marriage she usually signed her name Theresa H. D’Alessio. In 1950 she became the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society.Born Theresa Hilda Fellman in Newburyport Massachusetts she was the daughter of a man who lettered roulette wheels.
Molly Keane.  Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston CottageNewbridge County Kildare). She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray County Wicklow. She married Bobby Keane one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. She used her married name for her later novels several of which (Good Behaviour Time After Time) have been adapted for television.
Thomas Beedome.  Thomas Beedome (died c.1641) was an English poet. He appears to have died at an early age and of his life nothing is known.
Dimitri Fampas.  Dimitris Fampas (Δημήτρης Φάμπας Dimitris Fabas) (December 22 1921 – May 3 1996) was a Greek classical guitarist.
Joseph Millott Severn.  Joseph Millot Severn was an English writer historian and phrenologist born in Codnor Derbyshire.
Jacques Hardel.  Jacques Hardel (died March 1678) was a French composer and harpsichordist.He came from a family that included two noted instrument makers: his grandfather Gilles Hardel (fl. ca. 1611) and his father Guillaume Hardel (died 1676) who was a lute maker and a well-established harpsichordist—in 1673–4 he served as harpsichord teacher to the daughter of Philippe d'Orléans. Practically nothing is known about Jacques Hardel's life.
Yoo An-jin.  Yoo An-Jin (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea or Hangul: 유안진) is a South Korean poet essayist and professor.
Charles Verlat.  Michel Marie Charles Verlat (25 November 1824 – 23 October 1890) was a Belgian painter from Antwerp. He was a pupil of Nicaise de Keyser and studied at the Antwerp Academy.In 1842 appeared his first important picture Pippin the Short Killing a Lion. About 1849 he went to Paris where he worked under Ary Scheffer.
Jim Thomas (screenwriter).  James E. Jim Thomas is a screenwriter based in California. With his brother John Thomas he wrote and/or was substantially involved with the screenplays of several films - including Predator (1987) The Rescue (1988) Predator 2 (1990) Executive Decision (1996) Wild Wild West (1999) Mission to Mars (2000) Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and the short-lived TV series Hard Time on Planet Earth. He also used to be a math teacher at Metuchen High School in New Jersey.
Christopher Looby.  Christopher Looby is an American literary critic specializing in 18th and 19th century American literature. He is a Professor of English at UCLA.
Sun Tailor.  Sun Tailor is the stage name of an Israeli born singer-songwriter Arnon Naor. His debut album Like the Tide was released in 2012.
Patrick Kavanagh.  Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems On Raglan Road and The Great Hunger. He is known for accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
Joel Stein.  Joel Stein (born July 23 1971) is an American journalist who wrote for the Los Angeles Times and is a regular contributor to Time.
Gunplay (rapper).  Richard Morales Jr. (born July 18 1979) better known by his stage name Gunplay is an American hip hop recording artist from Carol City Florida. He is currently signed to Def Jam and Maybach Music Group. He is a member of Southern hip hop group Triple C's who released their debut album titled Custom Cars & Cycles in 2009. After breaking out as a solo artist he released several mixtapes such as the acclaimed 601 & Snort.
Ferlin Husky.  Ferlin Eugene Husky (December 3 1925 – March 17 2011) was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky-tonk ballads spoken recitations and rockabilly pop tunes. He had two dozen Top 20 hits in the Billboard country charts between 1953 and 1975; his versatility and matinee-idol looks propelling a seven-decade entertainment career.In the 1950s and 60s Husky's hits included Gone and Wings of a Dove each reaching No.
Cristian Alexanda.  Cristian Alexanda is an Australian R&B singer from Perth. In 2003 and 2004 he has supported a number of well-known acts on their Australian tours including 50 Cent G-Unit and Sean Paul and Justin Timberlake.
Louise Redknapp.  Louise Elizabeth Redknapp (née Nurding) (born 4 November 1974) is an English singer and media personality. She was a member of Eternal a girl group prominent in the 1990s before becoming a solo singer (known simply as Louise). She has presented several television shows and was a judge on the UK version of So You Think You Can Dance. She is married to the English footballer and television pundit Jamie Redknapp.
William Craigie.  Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer.A graduate of the University of St Andrews he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.
Wakana Yamazaki.  Wakana Yamazaki (山崎 和佳奈 Yamazaki Wakana born on March 21 1965 in Yokohama) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production.
Jizzy Pearl.  Jizzy Pearl (born James Wilkinson) is an American vocalist born on March 17 1958 in Chicago Illinois. He first fronted the rock band Data Clan which became Love/Hate and has also sung for L.A. Guns Ratt Adler's Appetite and other lesser known acts.In the late 1980s Pearl joined Love/Hate which achieved notoriety for performances as the house band at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood. The group subsequently signed to Columbia Records.Following the breakup of Love/Hate he sang on the L.A.
Ethel Stark.  Ethel Stark CM GOQ (25 August 1910 – 16 February 2012) was a Canadian violinist and conductor.Born in Montreal Quebec she studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music with Alfred De Sève and Alfred Whitehead. From 1928 to 1934 she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Lea Luboshutz Louis Bailly Artur Rodziński Fritz Reiner and Carl Flesch. In 1940 she founded the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra which she conducted until 1960.
Omer Bouchery.  Omer Bouchery (1882–1962) was a French illustrator.
Lanny Ross.  Lanny Ross (January 19 1906 - April 25 1988) was an American singer pianist and songwriter.
Nacho Galindo.  Ignacio Galindo best known by his stage name Nacho Galindo is a Christian Artist that rose to fame by being in a Non-Christian Mexican Conjunto group known as Conjunto Primavera.
Stephen Coronel.  Stephen Coronel is a guitarist and former member of the rock band Wicked Lester. He has been a friend of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons since 1963.
Defari.  Duane Johnson Jr. also known as Defari is a West Coast hip hop artist. Primarily he is a solo artist additionally he is a member of the Likwit Junkies a rap duo with DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples. He was born at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles California. He attended the University of California Berkeley. He began DJing as a young kid in 1982. He was more focused on emceeing and by 1995 released his first single Bionic on Oakland based ABB Records.
Mark Kilstofte.  Mark Kilstofte (born 1958) is an American composer and professor at Furman University Greenville South Carolina reared in Pueblo Colorado.
Chris Grayston.  Chris Grayston is a British music promoter event organizer record producer musician label owner and talent scout. He served as a music promoter in the early 1990s for acts such as Judge Jules DJ Spoony DJ Fabio and Grooverider and promoted the massive Fusion raves across the United Kingdom from Hastings Pier Bath Pavilion Milton Keynes Sanctuary and a 10000 sell-out festival at Wembley.
Valérie Sajdik.  Valérie Sajdik is an Austrian pop singer lyricist host and actress.Valerie Sajdik achieved her first chart successes with the girl band C-bra and became famous through lead singing in her band Saint Privat which was very successful in the mid-2000s. She has since released three solo albums and tours internationally. She splits her time between living in Austria and France and is tri-lingual (French German English).
Jen Stills.  Jen Stills is a singer and songwriter who was raised in Arizona and later moved to Los Angeles where she lives today. She is the daughter of the American rock musician Stephen StillsStills has appeared on Ray LaMontagne's album Trouble on the track “Narrow Escape” and on the title track of Crosby Stills and Nash's After the Storm.
Marco Betta.  Marco Betta (born July 25 1964) is an Italian composer.
B. L. Coombes.  Bert Lewis Coombes (1893 – 1974) originally Bertie Lewis Coombs Griffiths was an English-born writer who spent most of his working life in the coal mines of the South Wales coalfield which provided the subject matter for much of his writing.Born in Wolverhampton and brought up in Herefordshire Coombes moved to Resolven before World War I. Although his father's surname was Griffiths the family adopted his father's middle name Coombs as a surname spelling it Cumbes or Coombes.
Miriam Stockley.  Miriam Stockley (born 15 April 1962) is a South African-born British singer. She was born in Johannesburg South Africa and her work is influenced by the African music in her home country. Her unique vocalese style gained international acclaim when Karl Jenkins' launched the Adiemus project with Songs of Sanctuary featuring Stockley as the lead vocal.
Darryl Tonemah.  Darryl Tonemah is an American Indian health psychologist and musician of Kiowa Comanche and Tuscarora heritage. He was born on the Tuscarosa Reservation in New York the son of Indian Health Service worker and a nurse.Tonemah has three bachelor's degrees in Psychology Sociology and Gerontology a master's degree in Community Counseling and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and Cultural Studies.
Johan Hambro.  Johan Randulf Bull Hambro (24 October 1915 – 27 February 1993) was a Norwegian journalist translator and biographer. He was the fourth son of Norwegian politician C. J. Hambro whose biography he wrote in 1984. He lived in the United States from 1939 to 1982 where he studied and worked as a foreign-affairs journalist press attaché and consulate-general. He was secretary general of the Norse Federation for 27 years from 1955 to 1982.
Viktor Nekrasov.  Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (Russian: Ви́ктор Плато́нович Некра́сов Viktor Platonovič Nekrasov) (June 17 1911 – September 3 1987) was a Russian writer journalist and editor.
Valeria Kozlova.  Valeriya Sergeeva Kozlova (born January 22 1988 in Moscow) better known as Lera Kozlova is a Russian musician most famous for her work with the pop-rock band Ranetki where she provided the vocals and played the drums. After a three year stint in the band with one full album and a live album she was forced to leave the band during the recording of the second album by the band's producer Sergey Milnichenko.She then started a solo career under the name LeRa (ЛеPа).
Geoff Moore.  Geoff Moore (born February 21 1961 in Flint Michigan) is a contemporary Christian music artist and songwriter. He started recording as a solo artist in 1984. In 1987 he formed Geoff Moore and the Distance who released eight albums and broke-up in 1998 with Moore continuing as a solo artist.
Wallace Turnage.  Wallace Turnage (1846-1916) was an escaped slave who wrote a narrative that was published.
Mindi Dickstein.  Mindi Dickstein is an American lyricist and librettist. She wrote the lyrics for the 2005 musical production Little Women based on the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. Other notable work includes the book for Toy Story: The Musical. Since 1996 Dickstein has taught at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the graduate musical theatre programme.
Eugène Alcan.  Eugène Alcan was a French Jewish litterateur painter and poet who embraced Christianity. He was born in Paris in 1811 and died about 1898.
Wu Junxie.  Wu Junxie (simplified Chinese: 吴钧燮; traditional Chinese: 吳鈞燮; pinyin: Wú Jūnxiè; born 1928) is a Chinese translator.Wu is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the English novelists Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf.
Kristin Hersh.  Kristin Hersh (born August 7 1966) is an American singer/songwriter. She came to prominence in the late 1980s as the leader of the alternative rock group Throwing Muses before launching a solo career emphasizing her acoustic guitar. In 2003 she formed the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave.
Teru (singer).  Teruhiko Teru Kobashi (小橋　照彦 Kobashi Teruhiko; born June 8 1971 in Hakodate Hokkaidō) is the vocalist of Japanese rock band GLAY. He married singer Ami Onuki from pop group PUFFY in April 2002 and she gave birth to their daughter in March 2003. He has two other children a boy and a girl from a previous marriage. He also founded the side-band rally with Hisashi (Glay) Kouji Ueno (The Hiatus and ex-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant) and Motokatsu Miyagami (The Mad Capsule Markets).
Mira Aroyo.  Mira Aroyo (Bulgarian: Мира Аройо; born 1977) is a Bulgarian musician known as the secondary vocalist and one of the keyboardists and songwriters of the electronic band Ladytron as well as a DJ. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in Bulgarian as well as English. Prior to a full-time career in music Aroyo was studying for a D.Phil. in genetics at the University of Oxford.
Brahim Attaeb.  Brahim Attaeb better know by his stage name and mononym Brahim (born in Torhout Belgium on 24 February 1984) is a Belgian R&B singer and presenter of Moroccan descent.
Harry Thompson.  Harry William Thompson (6 February 1960 – 7 November 2005) was an English radio and television producer comedy writer novelist and biographer. Thompson was widely regarded as one of the most successful television producers and comedy writers of his generation.Born in London Thompson was educated at Highgate Grammar School for Boys and Brasenose College Oxford University before joining the BBC as a trainee in 1981.
Tom Marshall (singer).  Tom Marshall (born November 12 1963) is a lyricist keyboardist and singer/songwriter best known for his association with Trey Anastasio and the rock band Phish. He has been the primary external lyricist for Phish during their career (1983–2004 2009–present) with songwriting credits for more than 95 originals - more than Mike Gordon (22) Jon Fishman (18) Page McConnell (11) and Phish in the generic (41) combined. Marshall attended Princeton Day School in New Jersey with Anastasio.
Elva Nampeyo.  Elva Nampeyo (1926–1985) (also known as Elva Tewaguna) was an American studio potter. She was born in the Corn Clan house where her grandmother Nampeyo resided atop Hopi First Mesa. She was the daughter of Fannie Nampeyo and Vinton Polacca. As a child Elva would watch her grandmother make pottery and play with the clay. When she was eleven years old her mother began teaching her to make pottery.Elva became an expert at decorating and painting pottery.
Black Stalin.  Leroy Calliste (born 24 September 1941) better known as Black Stalin is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago known for his militant Rastafarian and black nationalist lyrics. He has won the Calypso Monarch competition on five occasions and the Calypso King of the World title in 1999.
Ruth Acuff.  Ruth Acuff is an American singer-songwriter and harpist. She is paternally related to country music singer Roy Acuff. Her 2013 album This is the Dream was classified as Indie-folk with echoes of Americana...as well as traces of an earthier form of chamber music.
Adam McKay.  Adam McKay (born April 17 1968) is an American screenwriter director comedian and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman Talladega Nights and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through their production company Gary Sanchez Productions.
Carrie Hope Fletcher.  Carrie Hope Fletcher (born 22 October 1992) is a musician actress and vlogger from London England. Fletcher has released three singles and has a fan base of over 480000 subscribers on her Youtube channel titled ItsWayPastMyBedTime. Additionally Fletcher has a second channel called TwentyThirtyTwo which has over 65000 subscribers. She is currently playing Éponine in the Les Miserables production at the Queen’s Theatre in London.
Mike Love.  Michael Edward Mike Love (born March 15 1941) is an American musician singer and songwriter who garnered worldwide fame as a member of the Beach Boys. He is an original member of the band and continues to write record and perform with the band to the present day.For most of the Beach Boys' career Love has been one of the band's primary lyricists contributing to each of the band's studio albums and number one Billboard singles.
D'Israeli.  Matt Brooker whose work most often appears under the pseudonym D'Israeli (sometimes D'Israeli D'Emon D'Raughtsman) is a British comic artist colorist writer and letterer. Other pseudonyms he uses include Molly Eyre (a pun on Molière) for his writing and Harry V. Derci/Digital Derci for his lettering work.
Harry Einstein.  Harry Einstein (May 6 1904 – November 23 1958) was an American comedian and writer usually known by the name Harry Einstein but was variously credited as Harry Einstein Parkyakarkus and Nick Parkyakarkus. He was famous as the character Parkyakarkus a pseudo-Greek character comic on the Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson radio programs. He appeared in eleven films as Parkyakarkas from 1936 to 1945.
Mayu Watanabe.  Mayu Watanabe (渡辺 麻友 Watanabe Mayu born March 26 1994 in Saitama Prefecture) is a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 under Team B. She debuted with AKB48's Team B and has been featured on most of the group's singles title tracks. She is a member of AKB48's subgroups Watarirouka Hashiritai Team Dragon and NO NAME. She has also released four solo singles.
Song Jia (1980).  Song Jia (宋佳; born November 13 1980 in Harbin Heilongjiang) also known as Xiao Song Jia (小宋佳; literally: young Song Jia to distinguish her from another older actress also called Song Jia) is a Chinese actress and singer. Her label is Orange Sky Entertainment Group (International) Holdings Ltd. She studied at the secondary school affiliated with the Shenyang Conservatory of Music (SYCM) and at Shanghai Theatre Academy.
Ernie Henry.  Ernie Henry (September 3 1926 – December 29 1957) was an American jazz saxophonist.Henry played in the late 1940s with Tadd Dameron (1947) Fats Navarro Charlie Ventura Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie (1948–49). From 1950 to 1952 he played in the band of Illinois Jacquet. After a few years in the shadows he returned to play with Thelonious Monk (1956) Charles Mingus Kenny Dorham Kenny Drew Wynton Kelly Wilbur Ware Art Taylor Philly Joe Jones and Gillespie again (1956–57).
Nityalila.  Nityalila Saulo or plainly Nityalila is an independent Filipino singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Steve Klink.  Steve Klink is an American composer and jazz pianist.Steve Klink's funky piano style together with his distinct songwriting and arranging abilities makes for a striking blend of jazz gospel swing blues and folk music.Steve has performed extensively for television and radio with his Steve Klink trio and in the last 6 years alone has performed over four hundred concerts.
PJ Bond.  PJ Bond is an American singer and songwriter. He released a full-length solo album You Didn't Know I Was Alphabetical in 2009. He has also released a split album - Brother Bones / Baby Bones (2012) - with his brother Brian and two extended plays (EPs) 22 April: Vienna Austria and Ten Degrees and the Floor both in 2011.
Luigi Busi.  Luigi Busi (Bologna May 7 1837 -Bologna May 31 1884) was an Italian painter.
OG Ikonen.  Joni Ikonen better known as OG Ikonen (Original Gangsta Ikonen) is a Finnish rapper. He was born in Kuopio but lives currently in Jyväskylä.Ikonen is signed to 3rd Rail Music. His first studio album Mieron tiellä was released in 2009. OG Mixtape his second solo release was released in 2012. OG Ikonen belongs to a rap duo called Vitun kova ääni with rapper Liigalaiska.
Bjarne Slapgard.  Bjarne Slapgard (1901–1997) was a Norwegian educator and author.Born in Verdal he was the headmaster of Hardanger folk high school from 1938 to 1957. He also worked in Øyestad Skaun Nordmøre folk high school in Surnadal (1931–1938) and Frosta (1957–1966).He published novels plays children's books short stories and poems. He was also the chairman of Noregs Mållag.
Jimmy Lyon.  James Douglas Jimmy Lyon (born May 22 1955) is an American rock guitarist. He is known primarily as the guitarist for Eddie Money in the late 1970s and early 1980s and as a member of The Greg Kihn Band in the early 1990s.
Edward Faragher.  Edward Faragher (1831–1908) was a Manx language poet folklorist and cultural guardian. He is considered to be the last important native writer of Manx and perhaps the most important guardian of Manx culture during a time when it was most under threat.
Jason Nevins.  Jason Nevins (born December 15 1972) is a songwriter producer and remixer who is most widely known for his pop dance productions including his multi-platinum multi-million selling production of It's Like That by US rap group Run-D.M.C..
Todd Glass.  Todd Steven Glass (born December 16 1964) is an American stand-up comedian originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Loren Pope.  Loren Brooks Pope (July 13 1910 – September 23 2008) was an American writer and independent college placement counselor. In 1965 Pope a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times founded the College Placement Bureau one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States.
Al Green.  Albert Greene (born April 13 1946) better known as Al Green or Reverend Al Green is an American singer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s including Tired of Being Alone I'm Still In Love With You Love and Happiness and his signature song Let's Stay Together. Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 Green was referred to on the museum's site as being one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music.
Bobby Ellsworth.  Robert Ellsworth (born May 5 1959)mainly known as Bobby Blitz Ellsworth is the lead vocalist of New Jersey thrash metal band Overkill. He has worked with Overkill since 1980 and has been the lead vocalist of this band since then. Although a bassist he focuses on vocals in the band.He also did the vocals for the band The Cursed featuring Dan Lorenzo (Hades and Non Fiction) in 2007.
Zhang Yousong.  Zhang Yousong (simplified Chinese: 张友松; traditional Chinese: 張友松; pinyin: Zhāng Yǒusōng) (1903 - 1995) is a Chinese translator. He is a translator in China who translated the works of Mark Twain's into Chinese language.
Genie (junyi).  Genie (君怡; born 24 June  in Singapore) is a singer-songwriter recording artist celebrity-blogger emcee model actress public speaking and life coach in Singapore.Today Genie who is also a lawyer and mediator by profession has not entirely stepped out of the limelight - always speaking and acting for charitable causes making public appearances and statements in public inspiring people around her every step of the way and as a part and parcel of her everyday life.
Mimi Johnson.  Mimi Johnson is a New York City-based arts administrator. Through her nonprofit organization Performing Artservices Inc. (founded in 1972) Johnson assists promotes and presents artists working in the fields of contemporary music theater and dance. The agency was developed so that artists could obtain services they could not afford individually.
Sufjan Stevens.  Sufjan Stevens (/ˈsuːfjɑːn/ SOOF-yahn; born July 1 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty a label co-founded with his stepfather beginning with the 1999 release A Sun Came.
Billy White Acre.  Billy White Acre also known as Bill White Acre and Bill Whiteacre is a Canadian film score composer singer-songwriter guitarist and record producer. He is the founder and creative director of Big Planet Music Inc. a Los Angeles based music house that scores music for television film and advertising. He is best known for his versatility as a composer and his use of open tunings and percussive guitar playing.
Alice Rahon.  Alice Rahon (June 8 1904 – September 1987) was a French/Mexican poet and artist whose work contributed to the beginning of abstract expression in Mexico. She began as a surrealist poet in Europe but began painting in Mexico. She was a prolific artist from the late 1940s to the 1960s exhibiting frequently in Mexico and the United States with a wide circle of friends in these two countries.
Piet Botha.  Piet Botha (born 18 July 1955) is a South African musician who is the frontman of the South African rock band Jack Hammer (in which he is known as The Hammer) which has been an opening act for bands such as ZZ Top and he also performs solo.He is the son of the former South African Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha and the uncle of Roelof Botha former CFO of PayPal.Botha went to the US in 1985 to work there but returned to South Africa the next year.In 2011 Botha appeared in the television series Wie Lê Waar (Who Lies Where) on the Afrikaans TV channel kykNET. 
Lucas Cranach the Younger.  Lucas Cranach the Younger (Lucas Cranach der Jüngere; October 4 1515 – January 25 1586) was a German Renaissance artist known for his woodcuts and paintings.He was the youngest son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Barbara Brengebier and began his career as an apprentice in his father's workshop alongside his brother Hans. Henceforth his own reputation and fame grew. After his father's death he assumed control over the workshop.
Earl Hamner Jr..  Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (born July 10 1923 in Schuyler Virginia) is an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner) best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest.
Vesna Jovanovic.  Vesna Jovanovic (born 1976 in Chicago Illinois) is a contemporary American visual artist best known for her detailed works on paper that depict human anatomy combined with plants architectural structures and geological formations.Jovanovic's artwork has been exhibited at various museums and galleries including solo exhibitions at the International Museum of Surgical Science the University of Chicago Gordon Center for Integrative Science Packer Schopf Gallery the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria the Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex Gallery at Loyola University Chicago Wisconsin Union Galleries at the University ofWisconsin-Madison among numerous other venues. 
Mickey Finn (guitarist).  Mickey Waller (3 March 1947 – 1 February 2013) also known by the stage name Mickey Finn was an English guitarist. He started out with instrumental band The Strangers in Bethnal Green East London in the Summer of 1961.
Keith Robertson (writer).  Keith Carlton Robertson (1914-1991) was an American writer of children's books and murder mysteries. He was a former captain in the United States Navy.
Graham Russell.  Cyril Graham Russell (born 11 June 1950 in Nottingham England) is a British musician and singer/guitarist of the soft rock duo Air Supply.
Lung Fong.  Jimmy Lung Fong (龍方) was a Hong Kong actor film director and action choreographer. Lung was best known to moviegoers for his frequent portrayal of villains in various Hong Kong films most notably in films made by Wong Jing. Lung retired from the film industry and died from lung cancer in 2008.
Arai Hakuseki.  Arai Hakuseki (新井 白石 March 24 1657 – June 29 1725) was a Confucianist scholar-bureaucrat academic administrator writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo Period who advised the Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi (君美). Hakuseki (白石) was his pen name. His father was a Kururi han samurai Arai Masazumi (新井 正済).
Giovanni Battista Crescenzi.  Giovanni Battista Crescenzi (1577–1635) was an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period active in Rome and Spain where he helped decorate the pantheon of the Spanish kings at El Escorial.He rose to prominence as an artist during the reign of Pope Paul V but by 1617 had moved to Madrid and from 1620 on he was active in El Escorial. Philip III of Spain awarded him the title of Marchese de la Torre Knight of Santiago. His family was a prominent Roman family.
Namgyal Lhamo.  Namgyal Lhamo is an acclaimed exponent of Tibetan traditional singing and Tibetan Opera Lhamo; She is based in Utrecht The Netherlands.Starting at the age of eight Namgyal Lhamo recognized by many as a child prodigy; trained for fourteen years under great masters of Tibetan Opera and Classical Music at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (www.tibetanarts.org) set up by H. H. the Dalai Lama. She went on to become the star performer of the TIPA.
Marc Norman.  Marc Norman (born 1941 Los Angeles California) is an American screenwriter.
Matthew Hindley.  Matthew Hindley is a South African artist born in Cape Town 1974 who lives and works in Cape Town. After graduating with the Michaelis Prize from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2002 Hindley has explored sculpture drawing video and physical computing and more recently has focussed on painting. Hindley is represented in South Africa by BRUNDYN + GONSALVES.
Rick Astley.  Richard Paul Rick Astley (/ˈrɪk ˈæstli/; born 6 February 1966) is an English singer-songwriter musician and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song Never Gonna Give You Up which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries.
Jerry Newport.  Gerald David Jerry Newport (born August 19 1948) is an author and public speaker with Asperger syndrome whose life was the basis for the 2005 feature-length movie Mozart and the Whale. He is known for his frank advice and humor when giving presentations. A graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in mathematics he is also a savant with the ability to perform difficult mathematical calculations in his head. He has two elder brothers John (born c. 1941) and James (Jim) (born c.
Miyū Tsuzurahara.  Miyū Tsuzurahara (黒葛原 未有 Tsuzurahara Miyū born October 30 1994 in Saitama) is a Japanese voice actress and child actress affiliated with Gekidan Himawari.
K. S. Nissar Ahmed.  K.S. Nissar Ahmed (Kannada: ಕೆ.ಎಸ್.ನಿಸಾರ್ ಅಹಮದ್ born February 5 1936) is a prominent Indian poet and writer in Kannada language. His full name is Kokkare Hosahalli Shekar Nissar Ahmed. His father K.S. Haider was a sanitary inspector and a teacher before joining the Revenue Department in Bangalore.
Tom of Finland.  Touko Laaksonen best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991) was a Finnish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the most influential creator of gay pornographic images by cultural historian Joseph W.
Gilles Leroy.  Gilles Leroy (born December 28 1958 in Bagneux Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the Lycée Ducasse. His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007.
Chris Kelly (jazz).  Chris Kelly (c. 1890 – August 19 1929) was an American jazz trumpeter born in Plaquemines Parish Louisiana on Deer Range Plantation perhaps best known for his early contributions on the New Orleans jazz scene. Throughout the 1920s he was a regular collaborator with clarinetist George Lewis. No photographs or recordings have survived of Kelly's.
Gigi Hamilton.  Gigi Hamilton is a Swedish singer-songwriter best known as a member of the popular Swedish pop-groups Freestyle and later Style.
Martin Turner (actor).  Martin Turner (born in Hong Kong September 1950) is an English stage and television actor.In the 1970s he was a member of the Inter-Action Community Arts Trust founded by Ed Berman before deciding to train as an actor at the Drama Centre London under Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes.His stage career has been distinguished by playing lead roles for Cheek by Jowl (including Oberon/Theseus in their world tour of A Midsummer Nights Dream) the Royal Shakespeare Company Liverpool Everyman Theatre Royal Exchange Manchester Open Air Theatre Regent's Park Shakespeare's Globe Birmingham Repertory Theatre Sheffield Crucible Chichester Festival Theatre and other companies.On the West End stage he has played Evelyn Oakleigh opposite Elaine Paige in Anything Goes and Pierre Guerre in Martin Guerre (both at the Prince Edward Theatre); Ronald Reagan in Gaddafi at the English National Opera; Father in Rabbit at Trafalgar Studios; Banquo at the Gielgud Theatre in the highly-acclaimed Macbeth directed by Rupert Goold and starring Patrick Stewart which transferred to New York’s BAM Harvey Theatre and Broadway; and as Juror 11 in Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre.His featured roles on television include John Harrison in Agatha Christie's Poirot (Wasp's Nest); Neil Spicer in Rosemary and Thyme; Charles in Prince William Cimon in Son (ABC/Fox); Wing-Commander Turner in Foyle's War (Series 2 & 3); Charles I in Charles II: The Power & the Passion; William Wilberforce in Breaking the Chains; Arthur Ernest Percival in The Somme - From Defeat to Victory; Frogton in Killer Net; Tim Pye in The Money Men; as well as guest roles in Holby City Casualty The Bill The Knock Pie in the Sky Trainer Dangerfield Bergerac Rumpole of the Bailey.
Peter Panyoczki.  Peter Panyoczki (born 30 October 1953) is a Hungarian Swiss New Zealand artist based in Kaiwaka New Zealand. Panyoczki has exhibited in Switzerland USA Germany Italy Hungary France and Japan.
Michael Scott (novelist).  Michael Scott (30 October 1789 – 7 November 1835) was a British author and autobiographer who wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cringle.
Jim B. Tucker.  Jim Tucker is the medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His main research interests are children who claim to remember previous lives and natal and prenatal memories.
Tom Hampton.  Tom Hampton is a multi-instrumentalist sideman session musician and singer/songwriter.
Catherine Cuthbertson.  Catherine Cuthbertson was an English-language novelist in the early 19th-century. Among her works were Romance of the Pyrenees (1803) Forest of Montalbano (1810) and The Hut and the Castle: a Romance (1823).
Chris New.  Chris New is an English film and stage actor.
Phyllis Seckler.  Phyllis Evalina Seckler (1917–2004) also known as Soror Meral was a ninth degree (IX°) member of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of Ordo Templi Orientis and a student of Jane Wolfe herself a student of Aleister Crowley. Sr. Meral was Master of 418 Lodge of O.T.O. from its inception in 1979 until her death.
Jaime Montestrela.  Jaime Montestrela (June 12 1925 in Lisbon Portugal — November 8 1975 Paris) is a fictional Portuguese poet and writer which appears in the books by Hervé Le Tellier.
Elizabeth Messenger.  Elizabeth Messenger (25 July 1908 – 4 January 1965) was a New Zealand journalist cookery writer and crime novelist. She was born in Thames Thames/Coromandel New Zealand on 25 July 1908.
David de Haen.  David de Haen (1585 Amsterdam – 1622 Rome) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Dominique Davray.  Dominique Davray (born Marie-Louise Gournay; 27 January 1919 in Paris - 16 August 1998 in Paris) was a French actress. She performed in more than ninety films from 1942 to 1983.
Junie Astor.  Junie Astor (1911–1967) was a French actress.
E. E. Rehmus.  E. E. Rehmus also alternatively given as Ed Rehmus Edward Rehmus or Edward E. Rehmus (June 1929 – March 2004) was an American occultist linguist Egyptologist classicist writer editor translator illustrator cartoonist and occasional graphic artist primarily known for being the author of The Magician's Dictionary.
Adolphe Beaufrère.  Adolphe Beaufrère (Quimper March 24 1876–February 16 1960 Larmor-Plage) was a French painter illustrator and engraver.Beaufrère joined in 1897 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under Gustave Moreau and Fernand Cormon. Besides painting  he also worked in printmaking. His first exhibition was in 1898 at the Salon. In 1911 a scholarship enabled him to travel to Algeria Italy and Spain. During the First World War he served in the infantry.
Rumi Neely.  Rumi Neely is a fashion blogger known for her style and photography and is of Japanese Dutch and Scottish descent.
Masanori Ito (music critic).  Masanori Ito (伊藤 政則 Itō Masanori born July 10 1953) is a Japanese music critic and radio personality better known as Seisoku Ito or Masa Ito. His work is specialized in heavy metal and hard rock and he is known as the leading music critic of Japan in this field. He has been quick to introduce new heavy metal bands to Japan through writing for magazines such as Burrn! and putting them on the air.
Mandi Perkins.  Mandi Perkins is a songwriter and lead singer of the band of Verona.
Vitomil Zupan.  Vitomil Zupan (18 January 1914 – 14 May 1987) was a post-WW II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence he was called Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller. He is best known for Menuet za kitaro (A Minuet for Guitar; 1975) describing the years he spent in Slovene Partisans.
Steve Kilbey.  Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954) is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer poet and painter.
Vera Wang.  Vera Ellen Wang (Chinese: 王薇薇; pinyin: Wáng Wēiwei Mandarin pronunciation: [u̯ɑ̌ŋ u̯éɪ̯u̯éɪ̯]; born June 27 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York City and former figure skater. She is known for her wide range of haute couture bridesmaid gowns and wedding gown collections as well as for her clientele of elite lady figure skaters designing dresses for competitions and exhibitions.
Giulio Quaglio the Elder.  Giulio Quaglio the Elder (1610-1658 or after) was an Italian painter of frescoes.He was a follower of Tintoretto. He is known to have worked in Vienna Salzburg and Ljubljana.[citation needed] His son Giulio the younger was born in Como and established himself in the Friuli about the end of the 17th century. He is best known for frescoes at the chapel of the Monte di Pietà at Udine. He died in 1720.
Hanoch Yelon.  Hanoch Yelon (Hebrew: חנוך ילון‎) (born 1886; died 18 January 1970) was an Israeli linguist and leading Talmudic researcher.
Cassie Ventura.  Casandra Elizabeth Cassie Ventura (born August 26 1986) known mononymously as Cassie is an American recording artist dancer actress and model. Born in New London Connecticut she began her career as a result of meeting record producer Ryan Leslie in late 2002 who later signed her to NextSelection Lifestyle Group.
Pete Cummins.  Pete Cummins (born 1946 Dublin Ireland) is an Irish musician. He won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album after his collaboration to the album Other Voices Other Rooms by Nanci Griffith at the 1993 ceremony. He is a member of Irish band Fleadh Cowboys. He also collaborated with two bands The Stepping Stones and The Circle.
Anna B. Sheppard.  Anna Biedrzycka Sheppard is a Polish costume designer. She graduated architecture from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and now lives in London. A sister to fellow costume designer Magdalena Biedrzycka Sheppard made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg or Roman Polański. She was nominated twice to an Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Schindler's List in 1993 and The Pianist in 2003).
Henry Scott Riddell.  Henry Scott Riddell (23 September 1798 - 1870) was a Scottish poet and songwriter. In the Scottish Orpheus a collection of songs of Scotland by Adam Hamitlon he is credited with writing Scotland Yet and The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow.
Duane M. Carter.  Duane M. Carter (born December 10 1954) is an African-American trumpet player composer arranger bandleader and writer. His family comes from the Bayou state and he is the cousin of New Orleans jazz trumpeteer composer Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dave Bartholomew.
Ellis Larkins.  Ellis Larkins (May 15 1923 – September 30 2002) was an African-American jazz pianist born in Baltimore Maryland perhaps best known for his two recordings with Ella Fitzgerald the albums Ella Sings Gershwin (1950) and Songs in a Mellow Mood (1954). He was also the leader in the first solo sides by singer Chris Connor on her album Chris (1954).Larkins was the first African American to attend the Peabody Conservatory of Music a well-known institute in Baltimore.
Patrick Kirwan.  Patrick Kirwan (1899–1984) was a British screenwriter.
Machi Tawara.  Machi Tawara (俵 万智 Tawara Machi born December 31 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer translator and poet.Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet.
Umi Tenjin.  Umi Tenjin (天神 有海 Tenjin Umi born March 25 in Tochigi) is a Japanese voice actress.
Paul Friedrich.  Paul Friedrich is an American comics artist native from Raleigh North Carolina. He is the creator of the popular characters Onion Head Monster and Hubie the Dead Cow (among many others). He is also the creator of HellCar comics DVD unconference and empire. In 2007 Friedrich was nominated for an Eisner Award for his book Onion Head Monster Attacks. The book was nominated in the Best Humor Publication category. He lost to Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot.
Mac Davis.  Morris Mac Davis (born January 21 1942) known as Mac Davis is a country music singer songwriter and actor originally from Lubbock Texas who has enjoyed much crossover success. His early work writing for Elvis Presley produced the hits Memories In the Ghetto and A Little Less Conversation. A subsequent solo career in the 1970s produced huge hits such as Baby Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me making him a well-known name in pop music.
John McLaughlin (artist).  John Dwyer McLaughlin (May 21 1898 – March 22 1976) was an American abstract painter. Based primarily in California he was a pioneer in minimalist and hard-edge painting.
Anders Björler.  Anders Björler (born 26 February 1973) is a musician from Sweden. He is the current lead guitarist for the melodic death metal band At the Gates and the former lead guitarist for heavy metal band The Haunted. He is also a film director and editor running his own production company.
Mario Trevi.  Mario Trevi stage name of Agostino Capozzi (born November 2 1941 in Melito di Napoli) is an Italian singer film actor and theater actor.
Gérard Watkins.  Gérard Watkins (born July 4 1965 in London England UK) is an English-French actor perhaps best known for his role in the 2009 film Taken as Patrice Saint Clair the sex trafficking kingpin that runs the operation that kidnapped the protagonist's 17-year old daughter.He is fluent in both English and French.
Rex Applegate.  Rex Applegate (June 21 1914 – July 14 1998) was an American military officer who worked for the Office of Strategic Services where he trained Allied special forces personnel in close-quarters combat during World War II. He held the rank of colonel.
Sheldon Jaffery.  Sheldon Jaffery (April 22 1934 – July 10 2003) was an American bibliographer. An attorney by profession he was an aficionado of Weird Tales magazine Arkham House books the weird menace pulps and related topics. Born April 22 1934 he died on July 10 2003 of septic shock contracted while being treated for lung cancer. Sheldon Jaffery married Judith Jaffery (née Friedman) in 1963. They had three children and 5 grandchildren.
Abbey Lincoln.  Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6 1930 – August 14 2010) known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln was an American jazz vocalist songwriter and actress who wrote and performed her own compositions.
Pam Mark Hall.  Pam Mark Hall (born 1951 as Pamela Ann Mark in San Bernardino California) is a Christian singer songwriter musician and producer.
Shea Hembrey.  Shea Hembrey (Born 1974 Hickory Grove Arkansas) is an American conceptual artist. He received national attention in 2011 with the release of SEEK a biennial of art showcasing the work of 100 artists—all of whom he invented and created the artwork for himself. Before entering the art world he worked as licensed breeder of migratory waterfowl with the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Sally Whitwell.  Sally Whitwell (born 1974) is an Australian classical music pianist composer arranger conductor and teacher. She has released three solo albums Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass (3 June 2011) The Good the Bad and the Awkward (18 May 2012) and All Imperfect Things: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (6 September 2013) all on the ABC Classics record label.
Shani Rhys James.  Shani Rhys James MBE (born 1953 Melbourne Australia) is a Welsh painter based in Llangadfan Powys. She has been described as arguably one of the most exciting and successful painters of her generation and one of Wales’ most significant living artists. She was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1994. In the 2006 New Years Honours she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to art.
Larry Groupé.  Lawrence Nash Groupé born April 1957 best known as Larry Groupé is an American film score composer for Immediate Music's offshoot label Imperativa Records. His most popular works include the score for Rod Lurie's movies Deterrence and The Contender. In 2004 he was nominated for the Emmy Award to the best original score for the TV series Line of Fire.
Renato Simoni.  Renato Simoni (September 5 1875 in Verona – July 5 1952 in Milan) was an Italian journalist playwright writer and theatrical critic noted for his collaboration work with Giuseppe Adami for Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Simoni's career was entirely devoted to theater. His first job was as an editor and a critic at L'Adige a local Veronese newspaper company in his hometown.
Ayaka Wada.  Ayaka Wada (和田 彩花 Wada Ayaka born 1 August 1994) is a Japanese pop singer signed to Hello! Project who joined the project in 2004 as a member of Hello! Pro Egg. She is currently a member of S/mileage and of the duo Peaberry and was a former member of Shugo Chara Egg!. She is also the leader of S/mileage.
Craig Fuller.  Craig Fuller (born July 18 1949) in is an American musician and songwriter. Co-founder of Pure Prairie League along with John David Call and George Ed Powell. Fuller departed in 1973 after their second album Bustin' Out due to draft board problems. He returned to the music business in 1976 for two LPs with American Flyer. After American Flyer dissolved Fuller returned to record one LP with former Flyer member Eric Kaz.
Ahmad Wali.  Ahmad Wali (Persian: احمد ولی‎) is a popular Ghazal singer from Afghanistan. He began his career in the 1970s becoming popular in his native country before he was forced to flee by political upheaval in Afghanistan. He continued his work after resettling in Germany performing throughout Europe and the United States.
Latife Tekin.  Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983 her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) was published. The magic realism in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions. Latife Tekin's childhood in Kayseri a multicultural city at a central point in Anatolia influenced both her first book and the others in this aspect.
Hans Braarvig.  Hans Braarvig (1905 – 1986) was a Norwegian writer.He was born in Lillesand. He is best known as a crime writer young-adult fiction writer and novelist partly under the pseudonym Haakon Bjerre. He was awarded the Bastian Prize for translation in 1966.
Sonia M'barek.  Sonia M'barek (سنية مبارك also spelled Sonia Mbarek) (1969– ) is a Tunisian singer of classical Arabic music and related genres.
Jimmy Vee.  Jimmy Vee is a British actor and stunt performer who has played a number of Doctor Who monsters and aliens.
Kimberley Locke.  Kimberley Dawn Locke (born January 3 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance pop and adult contemporary music genres.Locke gained fame with her participation in the 2003 American Idol television series in which she placed third. In 2007 she garnered media attention for her participation in Celebrity Fit Club.
Paul de Vivie.  Paul de Vivie who wrote as Vélocio (April 29 1853– February 27 1930) was publisher of Le Cycliste an early champion of derailleur gears and father of French bicycle touring and randonneuring.
Natalia Paruz.  Natalia 'Saw Lady' Paruz is a New York City-based musical saw and novelty instruments player and busker. She is the founder and director of the annual Musical Saw Festival in New York City. She also organized the musical saw festival in Israel. She is a columnist of the 'Saw Player News' and a judge at international musical saw competitions.Paruz has played the musical saw on many film soundtracks and can be seen as well as heard in the movie Dummy starring Adrien Brody.
Shaun Gladwell.  Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is an Australian contemporary artist who works in video painting photography and sculpture.
Bobby Brown.  Robert Barisford Bobby Brown (born February 5 1969) is an American R&B singer-songwriter occasional rapper and dancer.Brown started his career as one of the frontmen of the R&B/pop group New Edition from its inception as The Bricks in 1978 until his forced exit from the group in 1986 following a period of misbehavior on his part.
Glenda Millard.  Glenda Millard is an Australian writer of children's literature and young-adult fiction.
Jon Lucien.  Jon Lucien (January 8 1942 – August 18 2007) was a vocalist and musician born on the island of Tortola the main island of the British Virgin Islands. Born Lucien Harrigan and raised in Saint Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands by his musician father Lucien was best known for his song Rashida the title track of an album released in 1973 and one of two Grammy nominated songs on that album. He was also well known for his cover of Dindi by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Francine Rivers.  Francine Sandra Rivers (born 1947) is an American author of fiction with Christian themes including inspirational romance novels. Prior to becoming a born-again Christian in 1986 Rivers wrote historical romance novels. She is best known for her inspirational novel Redeeming Love while another novel The Last Sin Eater has become a feature film.
William Bloye.  William James Bloye (1890 – 6 June 1975Arezzo) was an English sculptor active in Birmingham either side of World War II.
Jonathan Bragdon.  Jonathan Bragdon is an American artist who has lived in the Netherlands since 1979. His work is represented in numerous international collections including the Stedelijk Museum.Jonathan Bradon works and lives in the Netherlands.
Larry Gray.  Larry Gray is a Chicago musician known for his compositions and skill on the Double Bass and Cello. His primary teachers were Joseph Guastafeste longtime principal bassist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and cellist Karl Fruh a highly regarded soloist and teacher.
Zazie.  Zazie (born Isabelle Marie Anne de Truchis de Varennes 18 April 1964) is a French singer songwriter and former fashion model. Zazie co-produces all her albums. She is noted for her playful use of language.
Joseph A. McPhillips III.  Joseph A. McPhillips III headmaster of the American School of Tangier died on June 11 2007 at his home on the Old Mountain Road in Tangier Morocco. He was 70 years old. McPhillips was born in 1937 in Mobile Alabama and graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and Princeton University (1958). McPhillips came to Tangier in 1962 to teach English literature at the American School established in 1950 and the oldest American school in Morocco.
Phoebus (songwriter).  Phoebus (Greek: Φοίβος pronounced [ˈfivos] born January 1 1971) sometimes spelled Phivos or Fivos (pronounced fee-vos) is a well-known songwriter in both Greece and Cyprus. Phoebus is mostly known for his music through Despina Vandi and Katy Garbi although he has composed albums for many other artists in Greece and Cyprus.
Sarah Chana Radcliffe.  Sarah Chana Radcliffe is a Canadian author counsellor and speaker. Radcliffe is a psychological associate in private practice. She practices marriage parenting and individual counselling in the greater Toronto area.
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton.  Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (March 25 1889 – July 26 1971) was an American artist author educator ethnographer and curator. She is one of the principal founders of the Museum of Northern Arizona. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten exhibiting at the group’s annual shows from 1926 to 1940. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors the American Watercolor Society and the American Federation of Arts.
Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo.  Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo (September 7 1872 – November 4 1963) was a Brazilian poet short story writer diplomat and journalist. He founded and occupied the 9th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1963 thus being the academic that occupied his chair for the longest time (66 years) and the youngest founder of the Academy (he had 25 years old at the time).
Naser Mestarihi.  Naser Mestarihi (Arabic: ناصر شاهر صالح المستريحي; born 14 October 1987) is a Qatari born Jordanian-Pakistani singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (guitars bass & vocals) who is based out of Doha Qatar and Dubai United Arab Emirates. Naser is the first rock musician to ever officially release a rock album out of Qatar the Naser Mestarihi EP. He released his second album 1987 on June 17 2013.
Clark Heinrich.  Clark Heinrich (born 1945) is an American author living in the coastal mountains of California specializing in comparative religion and ethno-botany since 1974. He has reportedly studied with masters of yoga and Western mysticism.He is known for his views on consuming the mushroom fly agaric or Amanita muscaria as a hallucinogenic to achieve religious ecstasy.
David Robbins (composer).  David Robbins is an American music composer. He is a brother of actor and director Tim Robbins. He has written many works for television and films including the films Dead Man Walking and Bob Roberts
Beth Cavener Stichter.  Beth Cavener Stichter is full-time professional studio artist residing in the U.S. state of Washington. Born in Pasadena California Stichter recently relocated to Washington where she has built a permanent studio. Stichter addresses controversial potentially embarrassing subject matter head on and in direct opposition to the reputation of her chosen medium clay.
Tom Finn.  Thomas Joseph Tom Finn is a founding member of the 1960s baroque rock group the Left Banke.After the Left Banke disbanded Finn went on to become an engineer at Bell Sound Studios as well as working with jazz drummer Buddy Rich at Rich's night club Buddy's Place as stage manager and MC. In 1982 Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell convinced Finn to try his hand as a DJ. This led to Finn working at NY clubs such as The Palladium The Red Zone and Au Bar.
Charles R. Knight.  Charles Robert Knight (October 21 1874 in Brooklyn – April 15 1953 in Manhattan) was an American artist best known for his influential paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States.
Hemi Potatau.  Hemi Potatau (1904–1994) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister soldier writer. Of Māori descent he identified with the Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Rakaipaaka iwi. He was born in Nuhaka Hawke's Bay New Zealand in 1904.
Masia One.  Maysian Lim better known as Masia One /ˈmeɪʒə ˈwʌn/ is a Singaporean/Canadian female rapper from Toronto Ontario Canada.She was born in Singapore and moved to Canada at a very young age. She grew up in Vancouver and eventually moved to Toronto. She attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a degree in Architecture. In 2003 she began her own record label known as M1 Group (later renamed The MERDEKA Group) and subsequently released her debut album Mississauga.
Allen Ruppersberg.  Born in 1944 in Cleveland Ohio. Allen Ruppersberg is one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings prints photographs sculptures installations and books.
Ben Lloyd.  Ben Lloyd is a musician and producer / recording engineer based in Oxford England. He currently plays electric guitar in Frank Turner's band The Sleeping Souls and is a member of the British rock band Dive Dive. He also recorded and produced Frank Turner's first EP Campfire Punkrock (2006) and his first two albums Sleep Is for the Week (2007) and Love Ire & Song (2008). He is endorsed by Laney Amplification and Ernie Ball Strings.
Bill Reynolds (producer).  Bill Reynolds is an American Grammy-nominated producer engineer mixer and musician and is also the bass player for the band Band of Horses.Reynolds co-founded the Sup Pop records band The Blue Rags in 1998 with whom he toured for 5 years and recorded two full-length albums. He then built a recording studio in Asheville where he made records for 7 years and continued to tour with various bands including Drugmoney and Donna the Buffalo.
Bobbie Cryner.  Phyllis Bobbie Cryner (born September 13 1961) is a country singer-songwriter. She released her debut album the bluesy Bobbie Cryner in 1993 on Epic Records. The album featured six original Cryner songs as well as four songs by outside writers including a duet with Dwight Yoakam on the Buck Owens cover I Don't Care. The album charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart including Daddy Laid the Blues On Me No. 63 on July 3 1993; He Feels Guilty No.
Uncle Jimmy Thompson.  Jesse Donald Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848 – February 17 1931) was an American old-time fiddle player. He is best remembered as the first performer to play on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry (then called the WSM Barn Dance) appearing with founder and host George D. Hay on the evening of November 28 1925. The positive response generated by Thompson's performance would be an important influence on the show's creative direction in its formative years.
Jade Ramsey.  Jade Nicole Ramsey (born 10 February 1988) is an English actress born in Bournemouth Dorset. She is best known for her role as Patricia Williamson on House of Anubis. Ramsey has an identical twin sister Nikita.
Michel Valsan.  Michel Valsan (1911–1974) was a Muslim scholar and master of the Shadhiliyya tariqah in Paris under the name of Shaykh Mustafa 'Abd al-'Aziz.
Joell Ortiz.  Joell Ortiz (born July 6 1980) is an American rapper from Brooklyn New York and a member of the group Slaughterhouse.
José Gautier Benítez.  José Gautier Benítez (April 12 1849 – January 24 1880) was a Puerto Rican poet of the Romantic Era.
Dale Ferguson (designer).  Dale Ferguson is an Australian theatrical scenic and costume designer who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for the 2009 Broadway revival of Exit the King. Ferguson graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1989.
Johnson (composer).  Johnson (26 March 1953 – 18 August 2011) was an Indian film score composer and music director who has given music to some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema including those for Koodevide Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam Vadakkunokkiyantram Perumthachan Njan Gandharvan Ponthan Mada and Bhoothakkannadi. He was noted for his lyrical and expressive melodies together with simple but rich tonal compositions of thematic music.
James Arthur O'Connor.  James Arthur O'Connor (1792 – 7 January 1841) was an Irish painter.
James McGee (author).  James McGee is an English novelist known for his Historical mystery novels about a fictional Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood. The books are set in Regency London.James McGee was born in Kent but as an army child spent his childhood in Gibraltar Germany and Northern Ireland. He has worked in various trades and professions including banking newspapers and bookselling.
Black Coffee (DJ).  Black Coffee (born Nkosinathi Maphumulo on 11 March 1976) is a South African multi award winning record producer and DJ. Black Coffee began his career back in 1994 and has released four albums and one live DVD under his Johannesburg based record label called Soulistic Music. He is arguably one of the most influential musicians in Africa. Black Coffee got his big break shortly after being chosen as a South African participant in the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy held in Cape Town.
Seaman Jacobs.  Seaman Block Jacobs (February 25 1912 – April 8 2008) was an American screenwriter. He wrote episodes for several TV shows such as The Addams Family The Lucy Show I Dream of Jeannie F-Troop The Andy Griffith Show Here's Lucy and Diff'rent Strokes.
Lynn Coulter.  Lynn B. Coulter is an author speaker and freelance writer from Georgia. She is best known for her book Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-and-True Flowers Fruits & Vegetables for a New Generation which was released through the University of North Carolina Press in 2006.Born in Atlanta Georgia she achieved a bachelor's degree in journalism from Georgia State University before continuing her graduate work there in political science.Template:Lynn Coulter 3 Feb.
John Bancks.  John Bancks (1709 – 19 April 1751) also known as John Banks was an English writer.Bancks was born in Sonning Berkshire and became apprenticed to a weaver in Reading. He suffered an accident and left the apprenticeship before completion becoming a bookseller in Spitalfields. He wrote poetry and biography including works on the lives of Jesus Oliver Cromwell and William III.
Kaho Kōda.  Kaho Kōda (幸田 夏穂 Kōda Kaho) is a Japanese voice actress who was born on July 8 1967 in Tokyo Japan. She is represented by 81 Produce.
Neil Paterson (writer).  James Edmund Neil Paterson (31 December 1915 – 19 April 1995) known as Neil Paterson was a Scottish screenwriter.
Pinturicchio.  Bernardino di Betto called Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio (Italian: [pintuˈrikkjo]; 1454–1513) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname Pintoricchio (little painter) because of his small stature and he used it to sign some of his works.
Robert Adams (photographer).  Robert Adams (born May 8 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through the book The New West (1974) and the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (1975). He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980 and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994.
Malcolm Mays.  Malcolm Michael Mays (born February 14 1990) is a film producer rapper director and musician. At the age of seventeen Mays directed and produced his own motion picture aided by producer Todd Black Gary Martin of Sony Pictures and others. Mays is the nephew of Stanley Williams the notorious founder of the Crips gang.
Al Casey (rock & roll guitarist).  Alvin W. Casey (October 26 1936 – September 17 2006) was an American guitarist. He was mainly noted for his work as a session musician but also released his own records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States. His contribution to the rockabilly genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Miles Jones (musician).  Miles Jones (born 1983) is a Canadian hip hop/soul musician. Miles founded Mojo Records and Publishing in 2004 to provide an outlet for artists producers and Dj's to produce and publish audio works. Miles career began with a solo album he released in 2006 release which was his University thesis project titled One Chance.
Gib Guilbeau.  Floyd August Gib Guilbeau (born September 26 1937) is an American Cajun country-rock musician and songwriter. As a member of Nashville West Swampwater and the Flying Burrito Brothers Guilbeau helped pioneer the fusion of rock and country music in the 1960s.Guilbeau was born in Sunset Louisiana and raised among fiddle players.
Paul Tucker (artist).  Paul Tucker (born November 4 1981 in St. John's Newfoundland) is a visual artist and illustrator of graphic novels and webcomics.
John Coulthart.  John Coulthart (born 15 March 1962) is a British graphic artist illustrator author and designer who has produced book covers and illustrations CD covers and posters.
Anna Gavalda.  Anna Gavalda (born December 9 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt Hauts-de-Seine) is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.Referred to by Voici magazine as a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris.
Lee Elias.  Lee Elias (May 21 1920 – April 8 1998) was a British-American comics artist. He was best known for his work on the Black Cat comic book published by Harvey Comics in the 1940s.
Diamond (rapper).  Brittany Nicole Carpentero (born May 20 1988) better known by her stage name Diamond is an American rapper and former member of the group Crime Mob.
Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21 1902 – July 24 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym Izaak Baszewis which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won two U.S.
Stevan Faddy.  Stevan Faddy (Стеван Фeди) born 2 September 1986 in Kotor) is a Montenegrin singer. He took part in Montevizija 2006 singing Cipele. He also participated in Sunčane Skale 2003 singing Poslednja obala. On 25 February 2007 he won a landslide victory in MontenegroSong 2007 with his song Ajde Kroči and won a ticket to represent Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 held in Helsinki Finland. Stevan was the first singer representing Montenegro after its independence.
Grégoire Müller.  Grégoire Müller (born February 27 1947) is a contemporary Swiss painter and writer who lives in La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland. His figurative paintings frequently explore current events and world news as documented on television and in print.
Otto Pfenninger.  Otto Pfenninger (5 April 1855 – 20 March 1929) was a founding member of the Swiss Photographers Association (1886) and a pioneer of colour photography. He moved to Brighton England where he developed his career as a photographer.In 1906 Pfenninger built a special camera to his own design using 3-colour separated plates from which full-colour photographic images could be created.
Shena Mackay.  Shena Mackay FRSL (born 1944) is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire.
Sei Itō.  Sei Itō (伊藤 整 Itō Sei) a.k.a. Hitoshi Itō (伊藤 整 Itō Hitoshi) (born in Hokkaidō on January 16 1905; died November 15 1969) was a Japanese poet novelist and translator.
Benjamin Woolley.  Benjamin Woolley is an author media journalist and television presenter.
Larry Mercey.  Larry Mercey (born December 12 1939 in Hanover Ontario) is a Canadian country music artist. Mercey formerly a member of the Mercey Brothers was nominated for Best Country Male Vocalist at the Juno Awards in 1991 and 1993. His 1993 single If I'm Only Good for One Thing reached the Top 20 of the RPM Country Tracks chart.
Bartolommeo Ligozzi.  Bartolommeo Ligozzi was a 17th-century Italian painter who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers and genre subjects. He was the nephew of Jacopo Ligozzi. Born in Verona Ligozzi flourished at Florence around the year 1620. He died at the age of 76.
Virginia Kidd.  Virginia Kidd (June 2 1921 – January 11 2003) was an American literary agent writer and editor particularly influential in science fiction and related fields. She represented some of science fiction's most influential authors including Ursula K. Le Guin R.A. Lafferty Anne McCaffrey Judith Merril and Gene Wolfe. Wolfe modeled Ann Schindler a character in his 1990 novel Castleview in large part on Kidd.
Ian Dennis (artist).  Ian Dennis is a British artist most famous for posting videos of him making art on YouTube under the online alias Fox Bronte.
John S. Hall.  John S. Hall (born John Charles Hall September 2) is an American poet author singer and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile an avant-garde band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various disparate incarnations.
Nicky Ladanowski.  Nicky Ladanowski is an English actress originally from Frodsham in Cheshire working in television film and theatre. She is known for various roles in an extensive film and television career including Merle Jackson in Coronation Street Mandy Cutler in Paradise Heights and Mand in Grease Monkeys.
Barbara Casini.  Barbara Casini (born 1954 in Florence) is an Italian vocalist and guitar player. Studying piano from her youth she was exposed to Bossa Nova at the age of 15 which had a marked influence on her musical life. After graduating in psychology from the University of Padova she moved on to become an important voice for Brazilian music and jazz in particular in Italy and beyond after first performing in 1979.
Tony Jarman.  Tony Jarman is a Southern Gospel artist who currently sings tenor with the Down East Boys. Prior to his joining the Down East Boys' ministry he sang with the Poet Voices Legacy Five and the Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet. Between his Legacy Five and Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet eras he was a soloist. After leaving the Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet he decided to begin a solo ministry again. After two years as a soloist Jarman joined the Down East Boys.
I. A. Richards.  Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979) was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician.He was educated at Magdalene College Cambridge where his love of English was nurtured by the scholar 'Cabby' Spence. His books especially The Meaning of Meaning Principles of Literary Criticism Practical Criticism and The Philosophy of Rhetoric proved to be founding influences for the New Criticism.
Antonio Seguí.  Antonio Seguí (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtonjo seˈɣi]; b. January 11 1934) is an Argentine painter and printmaker.
Michael Ian Black.  Michael Ian Black (born Michael Ian Schwartz; August 12 1971) is an American comedian actor writer and director. He has starred in several TV comedy series including The State Ed Viva Variety Stella and Michael & Michael Have Issues. He is also a poker player appearing on Celebrity Poker Showdown several times. He released a children's book Chicken Cheeks in 2009.
Daniel Hesidence.  Daniel Hesidence (b. 1975 Akron Ohio) is an American painter who lives and works in Long Island City New York.
Inga Brooksby.  Inga Brooksby (born October 29 1988) is an English actress from Barnsley Yorkshire.She is most famous for her role in the series Down to Earth as Becky Brewer in 2002 opposite Ian Kelsey Angela Griffin and Elizabeth Bennet.Her most recent activity was a television advertisement for the women's clothes magazine Fifty Plus in 2008.She currently lives in London.
John Decker (pornographic actor).  John Decker (born January 7 1964 in Los Angeles USA) is an American pornographic film actor.
Alexander Miljković.  Alexander Miljković (born 1975 in Belgrade) is a Serbian classical doublebassist.
Norman Friedman.  Norman Friedman Ph.D. is an American author and naval analyst. He has written over 30 books on naval matters and appeared on television programs on PBS and the Discovery Networks. His book Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War won the 2001 Westminster Prize for the best military history book of the previous year from the British Royal United Services Institute.
Conn Iggulden.  Conn Iggulden /ˈɪɡəldɛn/ (born 1971) is a British author who mainly writes historical fiction. He also co-authored The Dangerous Book for Boys.
Davida Wills Hurwin.  Davida Wills Hurwin is an American writer.
Tove Lo.  Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson better known by her stage name Tove Lo (born 29 October 1987) is a Swedish indie pop and indie rock singer songwriter and musician living in Stockholm. She released her debut EP Truth Serum in March 2014. Tove Lo has also written songs for a number of artists including notably Icona Pop.
John Stevens (singer).  John Bassat Stevens IV (born July 28 1987) is an American classic pop singer and was the sixth-place finalist on the third season of the television series American Idol.
Theresa Maria Coriolano.  Theresa Maria Coriolano (1620–1671) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period. Coriolano was born in Bologna the daughter of the engraver Bartolommeo Coriolano and was instructed in painting by Elisabetta Sirani. She etched a small plate of the Virgin half-length with the Infant Jesus.
Guillaume Chasteau.  Guillaume Chasteau a French engraver was born at Orléans in 1635. He was instructed by Greuter but afterwards studied under Cornelis Bloemaert and went for further improvement to Italy. After passing several years at Rome he returned to Paris where he was employed by Colbert. His first productions were some portraits of the Popes. He afterwards engraved several prints after N.
Jerry Dixon.  Jerry Lawrence Dixon (born September 15 1967) is an American musician and one of the original members of the 1980s rock band Warrant. He was born in Pasadena California. He has son Grady by ex wife Susan Ashley.Dixon started playing the bass guitar at 14 years of age. His first bass was a used Sears model that he had purchased from a friend for $30. Dixon joined Warrant while still in high school (11th grade). Dixon has been influenced musically by Geezer Butler and Rudy Sarzo.
Cassiopée.  Cassiopée (born 16 October 1977 Quebec Canada) is a French Canadian singer and entertainer. Since 2011 she has played the lead female character Lia in Cirque du Soleil show Zarkana. She also plays three of the four other female parts in the production.
Ray Suen.  Ray Suen (born July 5 1985) is an American multi-instrumentalist. He is currently touring as a member of the backing band for Childish Gambino playing guitar keyboards and violin. In 2013 Suen released EP1 as his solo project Savio Savio.
Palle Mikkelborg.  Palle Mikkelborg (born 6 March 1941) is a Danish jazz trumpeter composer arranger and record producer. He started playing professionally in 1960 and has since been a dominant figure on the Danish and international progressive jazz scene. He has released several solo records and recorded with various co-founded groups as well as appearing as sideman or arranger on numerous international records.
Anka Grupińska.  Anka Grupińska (born 1956) is a Polish dissident journalist and writer. She co-founded the periodical Czas Kultury.
Hugh Lofting.  Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was a British author trained as a civil engineer who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature.
Andrea Ross.  Andrea Christine Ross (born April 8 1991) is an American singer and actress. She has been an award-winning lead actress on stage in her local area of Boston Massachusetts since the age of eight years old. At age 13 she was discovered by Andrew Lloyd Webber who decided to champion her career and launch her as his protégée with a debut CD recording in 2007.
Brutus (rapper).  Thijs Frederiks better known by his stage name Brutus (born in Amsterdam on 23 April 1983) is a Dutch rapper originating from Diemen Netherlands. Alongside his older brother Lange Frans and rapper-singer better known as Baas B was a founding member of D-Men and the band's manager.
Miho Fukuhara.  Miho Fukuhara (福原 美穂 Fukuhara Miho) is a Japanese pop star who made an indies debut in 2006 releasing a single titled The Roots and mini-album titled Step Out. In early 2008 she made her major-label debuted under Sony Music Entertainment Japan . Her debut single Change was the number ninety-two yearly song on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Singles year-end charts for 2008.
Mitsuko Horie.  Mitsuko Horie (堀江 美都子 Horie Mitsuko born March 8 1957 in Yamato Kanagawa Japan) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She has voiced several characters throughout her career such as Sailor Galaxia in Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars and Remi in the Nippon Animation World Masterpiece Theater series Remi Nobody's Girl. She is also part of the judging panel at the Animax Anison Grand Prix with fellow noted anime singers Ichirou Mizuki and Yumi Matsuzawa.
Kay Kenyon.  Kay Kenyon (born July 2 1956)is an American science fiction and fantasy writer currently living in Wenatchee Washington. Her current book series is titled The Entire and the Rose.
Alex J. Robinson.  Alex J. Robinson (born May 9 1985 in Sudbury Ontario Canada) is a female country music singer/songwriter.
David Rovics.  David Rovics (born April 10 1967) is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war anti-globalization and social justice issues. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of former President George W. Bush the Republican Party John Kerry and the Democratic Party.Rovics is critical of the United States government's policies and claims that the U.S. government's foreign policy represents U.S. corporate interests and that the U.S.
Roine Stolt.  Roine Stolt (born on September 5 1956 in Uppsala) is a Swedish guitarist vocalist and composer.A major figure in Sweden's rock history guitarist/singer/composer Roine Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 1990s onward. His distinctive guitar style combined David Gilmour's debonair mid-tempo Steve Howe's sharp edges and Frank Zappa's virtuosity.
Rob Nieuwenhuys.  Rob Nieuwenhuys (Semarang Dutch East Indies 30 June 1908 – Amsterdam 8 November 1999) was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. The son of a 'Totok' Dutchman and an Indo-European mother he and his younger brother Roelof grew up in Batavia where his father was the managing director of the renowned Hotel des Indes.His Indies childhood profoundly influenced his life and work.
David Urwitz.  David Urwitz (born 1973) is a Swedish singer and musician. He grew up in Trollhättan but resides in Masthugget Gothenburg. Urwitz releases his music on his own record label Alvy Singer Records. For his albums he collaborated with producers like Andreas Dahlbäck Hans Olsson Brookes and Daniel Claesson. He also collaborated with other singers like Anna Maria Espinosa Helene Bøksle and Irma Schultz Keller.
Juno Mak.  Juno Mak is a Hong Kong singer record producer actor and director.
Bill Bryant (lyricist).  William Bryant (Born 29 July 1953 Stokenchurch Buckinghamshire England) is a British lyricist writer and speaker on spirituality. He is best known for his work on the Howard Jones number one-selling album Human's Lib; contributing to the lyrics of the tracks Conditioning What Is Love Hunt the Self Equality Natural and Humans Lib.
Billy Simons.  Billy Simons (born December 17 1983) is an American singer-songwriter originally from Ludlow Massachusetts. His music is often described as acoustic pop rock and folk. Although he sometimes plays with a trio Simons mostly plays solo acoustic shows incorporating guitar tapping beatboxing a looping effects pedal and a distorted microphone through which he sings what sound like guitar solos always playing exclusively with Taylor Guitars.
Richard Milton (author).  Richard Milton (born 1943) is a British journalist and writer who deals with often highly controversial subjects. Milton an engineer by training has published on the topics of popular history business scientific controversies and alternative science and has published a novel.
David Cain (composer).  David Cain (born 1941) was a composer and technician for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He was educated at Imperial College London where he earned a degree in mathematics. In 1963 he joined the BBC as a studio manager specialising in radio drama. He transferred to the Radiophonic Workshop in 1967 where he composed various jingles and signature tunes as well as the complete incidental music for the BBC's radio productions of The War of the Worlds in 1967 and The Hobbit in 1968.
Rick Danko.  Richard Clare Rick Danko (December 29 1942 – December 10 1999) was a Canadian musician and singer best known as a member of The Band.
Olga Zhekulina.  Olga Anatolyevna Zhekulina (Russian: О́льга Анато́льевна Жеку́лина) (4 October 1900 — 5 August 1973) was a noted Russian painter and one of the famous Soviet puppeteers.She was a member of the Moscow Union of Artists.
Jeong Jinwoon.  Jeong Jin Woon (Hangul: 정진운) is a South Korean idol singer actor and the youngest member of boy band 2AM.
Huang Shengyi.  Huang Shengyi (born February 11 1983) also known as Eva Huang is a Chinese actress and singer.
Hugh MacDiarmid.  Christopher Murray Grieve known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978) was a Scottish poet.He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist he was a communist; unusually for a communist he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote both in English and in literary Scots (often referred to as Lallans).
Kyle Higgins.  Kyle Higgins (born June 12 1985) is an American comic book writer and film director. He is best known for his work on the Batman franchise at DC Comics.
Pieter Stoop.  Pieter Stoop is a Dutch painter of large abstract paintings.Pieter Stoop acquired his artistic education at the Academy of Catholic Education Tilburg (1962–1966) and at the Jan van Eyck Academy of Maastricht (1966–1972). At the end of his studies he obtained the Prize for the Visual Arts of the city of Maastricht (1972) and later on he received financial support to do a study trip to Morocco (prins Bernhard Fonds 1974) and to New York en Mexico (travel grant CRM 1979).
Cecil Gordon Lawson.  Cecil Gordon Lawson (3 December 1851 – 10 June 1882) was an English landscape painter.
Paul Flato.  Paul Flato was a popular American jeweler based in New York City from the 1920s to the early 1940s. Considered the first celebrity jeweler he was well known for important jewelry and as an early proponent of whimsical pieces. His long list of movie star clients included Greta Garbo Mae West Rita Hayworth Joan Crawford Doris Duke Ginger Rogers Carmen Miranda Marlene Dietrich Katharine Hepburn and Gloria Vanderbilt—many of whom wore his pieces on screen.
Sarah Cain.  Sarah Cain (born February 3 1979) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles California.
Granger Smith.  Granger Smith also known as Earl Dibbles Jr. (his alter-ego) is a country music singer and songwriter from Dallas Texas. He has released seven studio albums one live album and one extended play. His seventh album Dirt Road Driveway was released in 2013 and reached number 15 on US country charts and number 11 on US indie charts.
Daisy Marie.  Daisy Marie (born February 6 1984 in Glendale California) is a Mexican-American pornographic actress and nude model.
Myriam Fares.  Myriam Fares (Arabic: ميريام فارس‎ mīryam fāris) is a Lebanese singer and entertainer. She is best known for her album Bet'oul Eh”.
Nic Potter.  Nic Potter (18 October 1951 – 16 January 2013) was a British bassist composer and painter best known for his work with the group Van der Graaf Generator in the 1970s.
Gabrielle Harbowy.  Gabrielle Harbowy (born 1972) is an American editor anthologist and writer. She is Managing Editor at Dragon Moon Press and a copyeditor for Pyr an imprint of Prometheus Books.
Greg Kulz.  Greg Kulz is a San Francisco-based tattoo artist whose work has been considered highly influential in the Modern Primitive Movement. He is also known for pioneering both fluorescent (change color under ultra-violet light; see UV tattoo) and luminescent (glow-in-the-dark) tattoos.He is featured in the RE/Search publications book Modern Primitives written by V.
Doug Boehm.  Doug Boehm (born November 4 1969) is an American record producer and sound engineer who specializes predominantly in the rock music genre and has worked in collaboration with Rob Schnapf on a number of occasions. He produced the releases of the American group French Kicks and served as the recording engineer for Dr. Dog the Australian groups Powderfinger and The Vines as well as the British rock group Switches and Las Vegas Alt. Rock band 12 Volt Sex. He recorded the Booker T.
Delma S. Arrigoitia.  Delma S. Arrigoitia PhD J.D. (February 10 1945) is a historian author educator and lawyer whose written works cover the life and works of some of Puerto Rico's most prominent politicians of the early 20th century. Arrigoitia was the first person at the University of Puerto Rico to earn a Master's Degree in the field of history.
Anna von Hausswolff.  Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff (born 6 September 1986 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish singer pianist and songwriter. She released her debut single Track of Time on 5 February 2010 followed by the debut album Singing from the Grave. The album was very well received by the Swedish press. She played the Way Out West Festival in 2009.
Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu.  Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu (born 1933) was an Indian film music composer multi instrumentalist and singer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He garnered the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for the film Megha Sandesham in 1983.He was associated primarily with directors like Dasari Narayana Rao Vijaya Nirmala and Jandhyala. His major works include Srivariki Premalekha Sivaranjani Ananda Bhairavi and Swayamkrushi.
David Newman (filmmaker).  David Newman (February 4 1937 – June 27 2003) was an American filmmaker. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman with whom he had two children until the time of his death. He died in 2003 of conditions from a stroke.Newman studied at the University of Michigan.
Charlie Thomas (musician).  Charlie Thomas (born 7 April 1937 in Lynchburg Virginia) is an American rhythm and blues singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Thomas was performing with The Five Crowns at the Apollo Theater in 1958 when George Treadwell fired his group called The Drifters. Treadwell recruited the Crowns to become the new Drifters.The new Drifters' first release was the 1959 hit There Goes My Baby.
Francesco Manno.  Francesco Manno (20 December 1754 - 18 June 1831) was an Italian painter and architect. Born at Palermo in 1754 he was originally a goldsmith but later devoted himself to painting. In 1786 he settled at Rome and became the Secretary of the Accademia di San Luca. On 13 July 1794 he became a member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi del Pantheon. Favored by Pope Pius VI Manno was appointed Painter of the Sacred Apostolic Buildings in 1800. He died in Rome in 1831.
Joseph Crawhall II.  Joseph Crawhall II (1821–1896) was born at West House Newcastle.
Gwyn Thomas (novelist).  Gwyn Thomas (6 July 1913 – 13 April 1981) was a Welsh writer who has been called 'the true voice of the English-speaking valleys'.
Jamey Jasta.  Jamey Jasta (born James Shanahan; August 7 1977)[citation needed] is an American musician from New Haven Connecticut best known as the lead vocalist of the metallic hardcore band Hatebreed and sludge metal band Kingdom of Sorrow.
Yu Youren.  Yu Yu-jen (Chinese: 于右任; pinyin: Yú Yòurèn); (April 11 1879 – November 10 1964) was an educator scholar calligrapher and politician in the Republic of China.
Andrew Weinberg.  Andrew Weinberg (born 1976) is an American television writer known for his work on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He is also a co-creator and co-writer of the television series Eagleheart. The quarter-hour series is a parody of action crime dramas like Walker Texas Ranger and originated in Conan O'Brien's Conaco Prods.
Tony Kaye (musician).  Tony Kaye (born Anthony John Selvidge 11 January 1946 Leicester England) is a British musician. Kaye was the original keyboard player for the progressive rock group Yes from 1968 to 1971 and rejoined Yes from 1983 to 1995. Between his stints with Yes he was also a founding member of the 1970s rock bands Badger and Detective and joined Badfinger for their last album in 1981.
Giles Andreae.  Giles Andreae (born 16 March 1966) is a British artist poet and greeting card writer creator of the Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton series.
Kevin Barnes.  Kevin L. Barnes (born May 30 1974) is the singer multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for the indie rock group of Montreal part of the Elephant 6 Collective. Barnes started the band on his own and although providing several stories as to the origin of the name is said to have named it after a failed romance with a woman from Montreal. The group has recorded twelve full-length albums and numerous EPs and 7 singles.
K.E. on the Track.  Kevin Erondu professionally known as K.E. on the Track or simply K.E. is an American record producer investor and businessman from Tampa Florida. He has produced for many major artists such as Nicki Minaj Rick Ross DJ Khaled Future Gucci Mane Chief Keef Ace Hood Roscoe Dash Bobby V Tamar Braxton Lecrae and Kid Ink among others. Besides music K.E. is also a businessman and investor.
Najwa Karam.  Najwa Karam (Arabic: نجوى كرم‎ Lebanese pronunciation: [ˈnaʒwa ˈkaɾam]) (born 26 February 1966) is a Lebanese multi-Platinum best-selling recording artist in the Middle East who has sold over 50 million records worldwide. Najwa widely known for her Mawwal and powerful vocals has surpassed musical limits in building her Empire as she has effectively helped change the Arabic music industry in its outreach.
Dot da Genius.  Oladipo Omishore (born 1986) professionally known as Dot Da Genius is an American record producer and mixing engineer from Brooklyn New York City. He is perhaps best known for producing Day 'n' Nite the debut single of friend frequent collaborator and American recording artist Kid Cudi.
Diana Athill.  Diana Athill OBE (born December 21 1917) is a British literary editor novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century.
Stefano Maria Legnani.  Stefano Maria Legnani (1660–1715) also known as Legnanino was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Milan. He was a pupil of his father the painter Ambrogio Legnani. He then went on to work in the studio of Carlo Cignani in Bologna and Carlo Maratta in Rome. In Novara he painted the cupola of San Gaudenzio. In Milan he painted frescoes of the life of St James at the church of Sant'Angelo. He also painted frescoes in the Cathedral of Monza.
Ateeq Hussain Khan.  Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawazi Al-Hashmi Qawwal بند ه نوازى قوال (born 1980) is a classical sufiana qawwal of Hyderabad India. He was born in Hyderabad. His started training classical music from his father from the early age of five years and participated along with him in Qawwali programs. He learned various forms of classical singing like Dhrupad Khayal Thumri Bhajan Dadra Tarana and so on from his father Ustad Iqbal Hussain Khan Bandanawazi.
Josh Todd.  Josh Todd (born Joshua Todd Gruber April 4 1971 in Los Angeles California) is an American musician and actor best known as the lead singer of the rock band Buckcherry.
Gerald Achee.  Gerald Achee (born November 15 1952) also known by his stage name Gerry Drums is a Trinidadian drummer and the leader of the Village Drums of Freedom.
Brian Klemm.  Brian Wayne Klemm (born May 21 1982) is the guitarist for the Orange County-based third-wave ska band Suburban Legends. He joined Suburban Legends in 1999 shortly before the release of Origin Edition although he did not play guitar on the album. Klemm also briefly joined Big D and the Kids Table in 2009 as their touring guitarist until 2010.
Joe Hortua.  Joe Hortua is an American playwright and television writer. He has written such plays as Burning Making It and Between Us which have been performed at The Manhattan Theatre Club South Coast Repertory Theater. Between Us was translated into Hebrew at the Be’er Theatre in Israel and performed at the Ensemble Theatre in Australia. In 2008 the play was published by Dramatists Play Service.
Dana Hammond.  Dana Hammond (born July 4 1978) is a record producer composer songwriter drummer and bass guitarist. Dana Hammond was born in Los Angeles California. Dana grew up in Inglewood California he started to play drums at age five and piano at age 16. At age nine he began to play for his local church the church music ministry allowed Dana to hone his skills and travel to places like New York and Oslo Norway.
Beverley O'Sullivan.  Beverley O'Sullivan (16 January 1981 – 2 November 2009) was an Irish singer and actress from Dublin Ireland. She was killed in a traffic collision in India in 2009.O'Sullivan was born in the Donaghmede district of Dublin. As a child she had glue ear and began to wear a hearing aid. With her fellow members of Fifth Avenue she toured with Westlife for three consecutive years before they split.
Jaared.  Jaared (pronounced exactly like Jared) (born Jaared Arosemena in Washington DC on January 20 1967) is a Washington DC-based contemporary jazz saxophonist.In 2002 he was nominated the Best New Artist of the Year for 2002 by The National Smooth Jazz Association Jaared suffered from asthma as a child and almost died on from the chronic lung disease.
Enrique Laguerre.  Enrique Arturo Laguerre Vélez (May 3 1906 – June 16 2005) was a teacher and critic from Moca Puerto Rico. His works include novels plays and a writing newspaper columns for El Vocero newspaper.
Richard Crasta.  Richard Crasta (Konkani: रीचर्ड क्रास्ता (Devanagari) ವಿಕ್ಟೊರ್ ರೋದ್ರಿಗುಎಸ್ (Kannada); born 1952) is an Indian American writer and novelist with a strong Indian identity in his writings. He is the author of the comic novel The Revised Kamasutra nonfiction and essay collections like Impressing the Whites; Beauty Queens Children and the Death of Sex and some semi-fictional works like What We All Need.
Jon Moss.  Jonathan Aubrey Moss (born 11 September 1957) is an English drummer best known as a member of the 1980s pop group Culture Club. He has also played with other bands including London The Nips The Damned and Adam and the Ants.
Jim Bakkum.  Jimmy Jim Johannes Bakkum (born 10 August 1987) is a Dutch singer actor stage actor and television personality. Rising to nationwide fame after becoming runner-up in the first season of Dutch singing competition series Idols he has released five albums and made a career in musicals and film. On television he appeared in a Dutch version of Dancing With The Stars which he won.
Milo Emil Halbheer.  Milo or Milo Emil Halbheer (1910–1978) was a German painter. He was born Emil Halbheer and raised in Koblenz Germany. In 1930 he moved to Zürich Switzerland his father's hometown. In Zurich he studied to be a graphic artist and painter at the School of Arts and Crafts. In 1949 he opened his studio in La Garde-Freinet France. Milo painted scenes inspired by the Maures a mountain range in the Côte d'Azur region.
Guy Warren.  For the Australian painter see Guy Warren (artist)Guy Warren of Ghana (or Kofi Ghanaba) (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008) was a Ghanaian musician best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz and as a member of The Tempos. His virtuosity on the African drums earned him the appellation The Divine Drummer.
Saint Vincent (musician).  Saint Vincent is a French musician who created the Industrial Black Metal band Blacklodge in 1998 in which he is the lead vocalist the guitarist and the machine programmer. He is also the lead vocalist of the Parisian Black/Death Metal band Vorkreist and plays the guitars and the bass in the French Black Metal band The Arrival Of SataN. His early influences are Megadeth and Darkthrone.
Hiroshi Fujioka.  Kunihiro Fujioka (藤岡 邦弘 Fujioka Kunihiro born February 19 1946 in Kuma (Present: Kumakōgen) Ehime) better known by his stage name Hiroshi Fujioka (藤岡 弘、 Fujioka Hiroshi) is a Japanese actor known for playing the hero Takeshi Hongo in the tokusatsu superhero series Kamen Rider and later the Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro. Fujioka is a cultural icon in Japan even having the minor planet 12408 Fujioka discovered by Akimasa Nakamura named in his honor.
Joan Stark.  Joan G. Stark also known by her pseudonym Spunk or her initials jgs is an American ASCII artist.Stark was first exposed to the art of ASCII in the summer of 1995 and by July 1996 had taken to the creation of ASCII art. From 1996-2003 she created several hundred works of art most of which were posted to the Usenet newsgroup alt.ascii.art. Between 1996 and 1998 her website which she updated at least once a month received over 250000 unique visitors.
Nathan Filer.  Nathan Filer is an award winning British novelist.He attended the Ridings High School a large secondary school located in the village of Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire on the outskirts of Bristol.Filer trained as a psychiatric nurse gaining a degree in Mental Health Nursing from the University of the West of England and has worked as a researcher at the University of Bristol. He is now a lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University.
James Gleick.  James Gleick (/ɡliːk/; born August 1 1954) is an American author journalist and biographer whose best-selling books include The Information: A History a Theory a Flood and Chaos: Making a New Science. Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists and The Information was awarded the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012. Gleick's books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Geoff Downes.  Geoffrey Downes (born 25 August 1952) is an English rock keyboard player and songwriter for the bands Yes and Asia and formerly of The Buggles during which he played multiple keyboards to achieve a new wave technopop sound. He was once entered for the Guinness Book of Records for performing with the most keyboards (28) on stage in one performance.
Mihály Dresch.  Mihály Dresch (born 1955 in Budapest) is a Hungarian saxophone player and one of the most interesting jazz and folk musicians on the current Budapest scene. Specifically his merger of the American free-jazz tradition with elements of traditional Hungarian folk has led to inspired unexpected pieces of modern music. (see also: Music of Hungary)Dresch was studying to become an engineer when he turned to jazz. He was a member of the Károly Binder Quartet.
Jérôme Btesh.  Jérôme Btesh also known as Jay Btesh (1968) is a French artist born in the sixties and living in Paris France. He uses waste material such as metal glass industrial pieces and transform them within a common point the light working.
Irene Perveen.  Irene Perveen also known as Irene Parveen is a Pakistani playback singer from the 1960s who mainly sung for Pakistani films.She belonged to a Christian family.[citation needed] Parveen started her career in 1958's film Noor-e-Islam. Parveen had famous duets with Masood Rana and Ahmed Rushdi. Her main reason of popularity was her pair with singer Ahmed Rushdi. She was later the wife of Cecil Samuel a man from a prominent Peshawari family.
Leopoldo Burlando.  Leopoldo Burlando (1841-1915) was an Italian painter mainly painting cityscapes and vedute. He was born in Milan where he trained at the Brera Academy under professor Luigi Bisi. He is known for painting vedute of Venice and Milan and also interior persepectives of buildings such as the Certosa of Pavia and the Cathedral of Milan. He painted in oil and water color. He was named honorary associate of the Brera Academy. He was also teacher of industrial design at the male orphanage in Milan.
Don Williams.  Don Williams (born May 27 1939 Floydada Texas United States) is an American country singer songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland Texas and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School.
Arno Schirokauer.  Arno Schirokauer (1899 – 24 May 1954) was a German-Jewish literary scholar best known for his biography of Ferdinand Lassalle.In 1939 Schirokauer managed to travel to Havana Cuba and on to Memphis. There he taught at Southwestern College as a Visiting Lecturer in Medieval Studies - his salary provided by other Jews in Memphis since college rules prohibited non-Christian faculty - until he moved on to the Carl Schurz Foundation of Philadelphia.
Kip Hanrahan.  Kip Hanrahan (born December 9 1954) is an American jazz music impresario record producer and percussionist.
Mirit Cohen.  Mirit Cohen (1945 Russia - May 3 1990 New York City USA) was a Russian-born Israeli artist. Cohen resided in New York City since 1975. In 1990 Cohen committed suicide by jumping from a building in New York.
Frank G. Carpenter.  Frank George Carpenter (Mansfield Ohio May 8 1855 – Nanking June 18 1924) was an author photographer lecturer collector of photographs. Carpenter was a writer of standard geography textbooks and lecturer on geography and wrote a series of books called Carpenter's World Travels which were very popular between 1915 and 1930.With his daughter Frances Carpenter photographed Alaska between 1910 and 1924.
Bap Kennedy.  Bap Kennedy (born Martin Christopher Kennedy 17 June 1962) is a singer-songwriter from Belfast Northern Ireland.
Taylor St. Claire.  Taylor St. Claire (born June 1 1969) is an American pornographic actress. St. Claire was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2014.
Etta Britt.  Etta Britt (Melissa Prewitt born Lancaster Kentucky) is a Nashville-based R&B soul and blues vocalist. Successful and sought after in the role of supporting artist in 2012 Britt was approached by songwriter Sandy Knox (Reba McEntire) and music industry executive Katie Gillon to be the first artist to sign with Wrinkled Records as a featured artist.
Bohdan Ihor Antonych.  Bohdan Ihor Antonych (5 October 1909 Novytsia – 6 July 1937 Lviv) was a 20th-century Ukrainian poet. In 1934 Antonych received third prize honours from the Ivan Franko Society of Writers and Journalists for his work Three Signet Rings.
Robbie Blunt.  Robbie Blunt (born Worcestershire England) is a rock guitarist who has worked with a variety of bands most notably Robert Plant's in the 1980s. Since leaving Plant's band in the mid-1980s Blunt has provided session work for a number of artists such as Julian Lennon Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Clannad. He was member of the band Bronco in the early 1970s.
Frederick Crouch.  Frederick Nicholls Crouch (July 30 1808 – August 18 1896) was an English composer and cellist.Crouch was born in Marylebone in London. He emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Richmond Virginia. During the Civil War Crouch took up arms and played the trumpet for the Confederacy.
Marion St John Webb.  Marion St John Webb (1888-1930) was an English writer of novels and poetry for children. She was the daughter of the poet Arthur St. John Adcock. Many of her books remain in print. The latest edition of her 1917 novel Knock Three Times! was published in 1994 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd (reprinted 2007).A memorial notice was published in The Queenslander on 2 October 1930.
Giovanni de' Vecchi.  Giovanni de' Vecchi (1536 Sansepolcro – 1614) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro He first apprenticed with the painter Raffaello del Colle then with Taddeo Zuccari whom he assisted in the interior decoration of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola a major work in the Mannerist aesthetics. He also has paintings of the Life of St.
Nicolai Ghiaurov.  Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov Nikolay Gyaurov Bulgarian: Николай Гяуров) (September 13 1929 – June 2 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful sumptuous voice and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978 and the two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena up until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack.
Giovita Brescianino.  Giovita Brescianino (also called Giovita da Brescia or simply Brescianino after his native town) was an Italian painter and a pupil of Lattanzio Gambara. He was active c. the year 1580. He should not be confused with later painters called Brescianino.
Spiridon Drozhzhin.  Spiridon Dmitryevich Drozhzhin (Russian: Спиридо́н Дми́триевич Дро́жжин IPA: [spʲɪrʲɪˈdon ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈdroʑːɪn] ; December 18 1848 – December 24 1930) was a Russian/Soviet poet.
Jessica Mauboy.  Jessica Hilda Mauboy (born 4 August 1989) is an Australian R&B and pop singer songwriter and actress. In 2006 Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol; she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs Northern Territory to pursue a recording career.
Chica Umino.  Chica Umino (羽海野 チカ Umino Chika born August 30 born in Adachi Tokyo) is the pen name of an anonymous Japanese female manga artist designer and illustrator.Umino is noted for being the author and creator of the Honey and Clover series for which she received the Kodansha Manga Award in 2003 and which has been adapted into an anime series produced by J.C.Staff.
Ellie Holcomb.  Elizabeth Ellie Holcomb (born September 12 1982 née Bannister) is an American CCM-folk singer-songwriter raised in Nashville Tennessee. Her father is noted music producer Brown Bannister and she was a member of Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors which she is married to their frontman Drew. They met while in school at the University of Tennessee together.
Ba Zaw.  Ba Zaw (1891–1942) was an early Burmese artist born in Tha Yet and raised in Mandalay who mastered Western painting. He and his student Saya Saung are largely responsible for creating the foundations and identity of a Western-style painting circle within the Mandalay School.
Barbara New.  Barbara New (9 May 1923 – 24 May 2010) was an English character actress well known for playing Mabel the scullery maid in the David Croft sitcom You Rang M'Lord?. Following this role she appeared as Vera Plumtree in Oh Doctor Beeching!.
Guido Gozzano.  Guido Gustavo Gozzano (December 19 1883 - August 9 1916) was an Italian poet and writer.
Rome (musician).  Jerome Woods (born March 5 1970 in Benton Harbor Michigan) better known by his stage name Rome is an American R&B singer.Woods sang in a cover band called Fire & Ice while a high schooler and toured regionally both as a solo artist and with the band. He attended Oakwood University but dropped out in 1989 and moved to California in hopes of making a career as a singer.
Norman Nawrocki.  Norman Nawrocki (born in Vancouver British Columbia) is a Montreal-based comedian sex educator cabaret artist musician author actor producer and composer. Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of rock 'n roll cabaret band Rhythm Activism. Nawrocki owns Les Pages Noires through which he has published twenty albums and three books.
Jean de Tinan.  Jean de Tinan a.k.a. Jean Le Barbier de Tinan (1874–1898) was a French writer.
Brian Else.  Brian Who Else is a Canadian Studio/Live Sound Engineer and record producer. He has made a name for himself as one of the best Punk and Metal Producer/Engineers in the world traveling all over bringing Exceptional sounds to a genre that can't always get it. Brian Began his career in 1989 in Vancouver working out of such great studios as Profile Studios Little Mountain Sound Studios Greenhouse Studios...etc. While doing Albums in Australia Canada.
Jana Cova.  Jana Cova (born April 13 1980) is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model. She self-identifies as bisexual.Born in Vyškov Cova grew up in the countryside in the Czech Republic where she had a great childhood. She initially started working as a bikini model then started doing nude and eventually softcore modeling. She has stated that part of her slow transition into movies was because I wasn't ready for movies for about a year.
Ellen Auerbach.  Ellen Auerbach (May 20 1906 Karlsruhe Germany – July 30 2004 New York City) was a German-born American photographer who is best remembered for her innovative artwork for the Ringl & Pit studio in Berlin during the Weimar Republic.
Kari Risvik.  Kari Risvik (born 1932) is a Norwegian translator one of the most productive translators of literature into Norwegian language.She was awarded the Brage Honorary Prize in 2006 along with her husband Kjell Risvik.
Allysin Chaynes.  Allysin Chaynes (born 11 February 1979) is a Romanian pornographic actress. She made her debut in Joey Silvera's Butt Row Swallowed and won the 2001 XRCO Award for Cream Dream.She had the title role of Heatwave's Kelly the Coed series for most of the series. Chaynes also signed with LGI in 2003 to direct and star in a monthly series Allysin on the Road.
Nikko Smith.  Osborne Earl Nikko Smith (born April 28 1982) is a singer-songwriter who was the ninth-place finalist of Season 4 on American Idol.
Steady Bongo.  lansana Sheriff (born on August 28 1966 in Daru Kailahun District Sierra Leone) popularly known by his stage name Steady Bongo is an internationally recognized Sierra Leonean musician and record producer. He is one of the most famous musicians from Sierra Leone.
Cristy Lane.  Eleanor Johnston known by her professional name as Cristy Lane (born January 9 1940) is an American country music and gospel music singer best known for a number of major country hits in the late 70s and the early 1980s including her cover version of the song One Day at a Time.Lane's career began to take shape in the mid-70s after beginning to record for her husband's record label.
Jonathan Hughes (poet).  Jonathan Hughes (17 March 1721 – 25 November 1805) was a Welsh poet.He was born at Pengwern near Llangollen. His work was mainly in the cynghanedd form and was intended to be sung. He wrote for popular periodicals and is mentioned prominently among the competitors at many 18th century eisteddfods.
Jeffrey Hyland.  Jeffrey Jonathon Hyland is an American real estate businessman president of Hilton and Hyland a real estate firm in Beverly Hills California and author. He is one the founding members of Christie's International Real Estate and serves on the Advisory Board.
Darren Coffield.  Darren Coffield (born 1969 in London) is a British painter.
MWF.  MWF is a pseudonym of Mark Flake (born 1960 in Memphis Tennessee).
Robert Moore (poet).  Robert Moore is a Canadian poet actor director playwright and professor born in Hamilton Ontario. He has written over a dozen plays that have been performed across Canada and he has published three books of poetry: Figuring Ground (2009) Museum Absconditum (2006) and So Rarely in Our Skins (2002).
Darrell Roberts.  Darrell Roberts is an American guitar player best known as a former member of the American heavy metal band W.A.S.P..
Safiye Ayla.  Safiye Ayla Targan née Safiye Ayla (14 July 1907 - 14 January 1998) was one of the most famous singers of Turkish classical music.
Didier Marouani.  Didier Marouani (born in 1953 in Monaco) is a French composer and musician.Didier started his career as a pop singer and made his first single Je Suis Ton Chevalier with Etienne Roda-Gil as lyricist in 1975. He followed this by touring with Johnny Hallyday Claude François and Joe Dassin. In 1977 he formed the band Space and composed all the songs on these albums under the pseudonym Ecama. The title track from the first album Magic Fly reached number 2 on the U.K. Singles Chart.
Björn Ulvaeus.  Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ ɵlˈveːɵs]; born 25 April 1945) often credited as Björn Ulvæus is a Swedish songwriter composer musician writer producer a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–83) and co-composer of the musicals Chess Kristina från Duvemåla and Mamma Mia!. He co-produced the film Mamma Mia! with fellow ex-ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson.
Aslı Güngör.  Aslı Güngör (Turkish pronunciation: [asˈɫɯ ɟynˈɟøɾ]) (born 27 September 1979 in İzmir Turkey) is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter.She became a professional singer when she was discovered by the TRT İzmir Gençlik Korosu talent show while studying at Dokuz Eylül University. She featured in DMC's Pop muzik project with ENBE Orchestra with the songs İzmir Bilir Ya and Kalp Kalbe Karşı and Son Opucuk and Ask Her seye Deger and Ben de Dahil.
StreetRunner.  Nicholas Warwar better known as StreetRunner is a American record producer and DJ who works and lives in Miami Florida. He first gained recognition in 2004 for producing Terror Squad's hit single Take Me Home. More recently he has gained fame for working with Lil Wayne on numerous occasions most notably on Tha Carter III. He is currently signed to EMI. A trademark of a STREETRUNNER production is a female voice saying STREETRUNNER in the beginning of most of his songs.
DJ Ricardo!.  DJ Ricardo! is an Puerto Rican-American DJ and producer. He is best known for conceptualizing compiling editing and mixing the first annual gay-themed mixed dance compilation series on Ultra Records known as the DJ Ricardo! presents: Out.Anthems.
Ali Moeen.  Ali Moeen is a Pakistani dramatist and lyricist. He has written more than a dozen drama serials with dictionary seeking titles and also is known as the Gulzar of Pakistan music industry as lyricist having written more than a hundred songs for various Pakistani artists.
Kirsty MacColl.  Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer-songwriter who wrote and recorded several pop hits between the early 1980s and the 1990s. In addition she sang on hit recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite notably on tracks by The Smiths and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. Kirsty was killed by a power boat while swimming with her children at Cozumel Mexico. Kirsty was the daughter of songwriter Ewan MacColl.
Pietro Damini.  Pietro Damini (1592–1631) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Novelli. He painted Christ giving keys to Peter for San Clemente in Padua. He painted a Crucifixion for the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. He also painted an image of Saint Prosdocimus.
Jeanette Eaton.  Jeanette Eaton (November 30 1886 – February 19 1968) was an American writer of children's literature four times one of the runners-up for the annual Newbery Medal four times. She was a suffragist and feminist/
Eddie Harris.  Eddie Harris (October 20 1934 – November 5 1996) was an American jazz musician best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are Freedom Jazz Dance recorded and popularized by Miles Davis in 1966 and Listen Here.
Giovanni Pietro Possenti.  Giovanni Pietro Possenti (1618–1659) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly as a battle painter. He was the son and pupil of Benedetto Possenti who also was known as a painter of battle scenes. He also painted altarpieces for the churches at Bologna Padua and San Lorenzo.
Hiromi Goto.  Hiromi Goto (born December 31 1966 Chiba-ken Japan) is a Japanese-Canadian editor fiction writer cultural critic arts advocate youth organizer teacher of creative writing and a mother of two children.
Mikhail Yemtsev.  Mikhail Yemtsev (Russian: Михаил Тихонович Емцев June 3 1930-August 25 2003) - Soviet and Russian science fiction writer who worked mostly in collaboration with Yeremey Parnov.
Moritz Moszkowski.  Moritz (Maurice) Moszkowski (23 August 1854 – 4 March 1925) was a German-Jewish composer pianist and teacher of Polish descent on his paternal side. His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin.Ignacy Paderewski said: After Chopin Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique. Although less known today Moszkowski was well respected and popular during the late nineteenth century.
Anne Stuart.  Anne Stuart born Anne Kristine Stuart (born May 2 1948 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a prolific and best-selling American romance novelist. She has written over 100 novels and is a recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.Her first book was published in 1974 by Ballantine Press when she was 25 years old. Since then her books have been published by numerous publishers such as Dell Doubleday St. Martin's Press and currently Harlequin.
Peter Stahl.  Peter Marc Stahl is an American vocalist known for fronting the seminal Bailey's Crossroads Virginia punk/hardcore band Scream with brother Franz Stahl. Early on Scream also featured Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on drums.Stahl later went on to form Wool with Franz in the 1990s and also has sung for Goatsnake and Earthlings?.
Richard Harris (television writer).  Richard Harris (b. London 1934) is a prolific British television writer most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. He writes primarily for the crime and detective genres having contributed episodes of series like The Avengers The Saint The Sweeney Armchair Mystery Theatre and Target. He has helped to create several standout programmes of the genre including Adam Adamant Lives! Man in a Suitcase and Shoestring.
Dilawar Figar.  Dilawar Figar (1929–1998) was a noted humorist poet and scholar of the Pakistan. He is known as Shehansha-e-Zarafat and Akbar-e-Sani for his satire and humour.
Joel Kramer (author).  Joel Kramer (born August 9 1937) is an American author. He is especially known as an author of various books and articles about yoga as well as being a co-author with Diana Alstad of two books on modern society and the individual.
James Armstrong (musician).  James Armstrong (born April 22 1957 Los Angeles California United States) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He released three albums on HighTone Records and is signed with Catfood Records. His songs have been used in the soundtracks of three films; Speechless Hear No Evil and The Florentine.
Vruir Galstian.  Vruir Galstian (Armenian: Վրույր Գալստյան March 3 1924 — July 10 1996) was an Armenian painter.
Skay Beilinson.  Eduardo Skay Beilinson (La Plata Buenos Aires Argentina January 15 1952) is an Argentine guitarist who has played in the band Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota one of the most famous rock bands of Argentina. He is considered one of the best guitarists of his country. Among his influences are Jimi Hendrix Cream Keith Richards Pink Floyd Vanilla Fudge and The Byrds.
Robert F. Dorr.  Robert F. Dorr (born September 11 1939) is an author and retired American diplomat who has authored 70 books and numerous articles on international affairs military issues and the Vietnam War. He writes the weekly Back Talk opinion column for the Air Force Times newspaper and the monthly Washington Watch feature of Aerospace America.
Gary Graff.  Gary Graff (born 1960) is an American music journalist and author.
Dany Laferrière.  Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière 13 April 1953) is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected on December 12 2013 to the Académie française.
Mario Martinez (painter).  Mario Martinez (born 1953) is a contemporary abstract painter. He is a Native American artist who is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from New Penjamo (in Scottsdale) the smallest of six Yaqui settlements in Arizona. He currently lives in New York City. Martinez received his bachelor's degree from School of Art Arizona State University in Tempe and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
R. J. Ellory.  Roger Jon Ellory (born June 20 1965) is an English thriller writer.
Benjamin Orr.  Benjamin Orr (September 8 1947 – October 3 2000) was an American rock musician best known as the bassist vocalist and co-founder of the rock band The Cars. He sang several of their best known songs including Just What I Needed Let's Go and Drive. He also scored a moderate solo hit with Stay the Night.
Fukumi Kuroda.  Fukumi Kuroda (黒田 福美 Kuroda Fukumi born July 21 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress.
Lan Wright.  Lionel Percy Wright known professionally as Lan Wright (1923–2010) was a British science fiction writer. All of his fiction has been published under the pen name Lan Wright. His first story was Operation Exodus which appeared in New Worlds in 1952. Dream World appeared in Nebula Science Fiction #21 May 1957. His novels include: Who Speaks of Conquest? (1956) Ace Books bound dos-à-dos with Donald A. Wollheim's The Earth in Peril.
David Bell (composer).  David Bell (born April 17 1954) is an American composer known for his music for television shows. From 1984 to 1991 he contributed music to 79 episodes of Murder She Wrote 5 episodes of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman followed by 66 episodes of Star Trek shows from 1994 to 2003. In 2002 he won the ASCAP Award (Top TV Series) for Enterprise shared with the series' other regular composers.
Alick Macheso.  Alick Macheso came onto the music scene in 1998 with his debut album Mugariro which carried Pakutema	munda  probably the least noticeable from that album. But the first cut never received any recognition and the following year he was to release Vakiridzo.
Sonia (singer).  Sonia (born Sonia Evans; 13 February 1971) is an English pop singer from Skelmersdale Lancashire who was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is perhaps best known for the number one hit You'll Never Stop Me Loving You and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest.
John Creamer & Stephane K.  John Creamer & Stephane K are international DJs and as a duo a New York City-based electronic music and house music production team. They are perhaps best known for creating original dance singles as well as dance remixes for artists such as iiO t.A.T.u. Moby New Order Rosko and Sinéad O'Connor.
Eric Radcliffe.  Eric Radcliffe (often credited as E.C. Radcliffe) is a recording engineer and producer who worked with new wave and synthpop bands in the early 1980s in Basildon England. He later became owner of Blackwing Studios.
Peadar O'Donnell.  Peadar O'Donnell (Irish: Peadar Ó Domhnaill; 22 February 1893 – 13 May 1986) was an Irish republican socialist activist politician and writer.
Manuel Caballero.  Manuel Antonio Caballero Agüero (5 December 1931 – 12 December 2010) was a notable Venezuelan historian journalist best-selling author and professor of contemporary Venezuelan History at the Central University of Venezuela.Caballero was born in Barquisimeto studied History at the Central University of Venezuela and obtained a PhD at University College London. With the publication of his PhD dissertation he became the first Venezuelan author to be published by Cambridge University Press.
DJ Falcon.  DJ Falcon (born Stéphane Quême) is a French DJ and record producer.Before producing on Roulé he worked in the A&R department at Virgin. In 1999 he released his first EP (on Roulé) and produced a remix of Cassius's La Mouche which became an all-time classic song. One year later he started working with Thomas Bangalter from the electronic music duo Daft Punk with whom he formed the group Together releasing just two songs So Much Love to Give and Together.
Hilde Holger.  Hilde Boman-Behram (née Sofer) (1905–2001) better known by her stage name Hilde Holger was an Austro-Hungarian-born British expressionist dancer choreographer teacher and educator who was trained by Gertrud Bodenwieser in Vienna. She was highly acclaimed well known throughout Vienna’s flourishing artistic circles during the 1920s and 1930s.
Shōgo Shimada (actor).  Shōgo Shimada (島田 正吾 Shimada Shōgo) (1905–2004) was a Japanese film actor.
Chavela Vargas.  Isabel Vargas Lizano (17 April 1919 – 5 August 2012) better known as Chavela Vargas was a Costa Rica-born Mexican singer. She was especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras but she is also recognized for her contribution to other genres of popular Latin American music.
Joan Retallack.  Joan Retallack (born October 13 1941) is an American poet critic biographer and multi-disciplinary scholar. She is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College where she teaches courses in poetics poethics and experimental traditions in the arts.
Blind Mississippi Morris.  Blind Mississippi Morris (born Morris Cummings April 6 1955 Clarksdale Mississippi United States) is an American blues artist.
Walter Gross (musician).  Walter Gross (July 14 1909 – November 27 1967) is best known for having composed the music for the popular 1946 song Tenderly. In addition to composing dozens of other titles he was also a pianist arranger orchestra leader and record industry executive.
Fyodor Stepun.  Fyodor Avgustovich Stepun (Russian: Фёдор А́вгустович Степу́н; February 18 1884 – February 23 1965) (also known as Friedrich Steppuhn) was a Russian and German writer philosopher historian and sociologist.
Cándido Antomattei.  Cándido Antomattei is a Puerto Rican music and Latin Jazz singer guitarist and guitar maker of Puerto Rican origin. He became a member of Arsenio Rodríguez's band in Havana Cuba in the early 1950s. The band itself is considered to be one of the first founding bands of musical genres such as Mambo and Salsa. It is also said that Arsenio Rodríguez himself is the true creator of mambo.
Victoria Hanley.  Victoria Hanley is an American young adult fantasy novelist. Her first three books The Seer And The SwordThe Healer's Keep and The Light Of The Oracle are companion books to one another. She visits schools and gives writing workshops to teens as well as adults writing for teens. Her newest book (released August 2009) is called Violet Wings published by Egmont USA.
Jesse Nissenbaum.  Jesse Nissenbaum is an American singer/songwriter from Long Island New York He is currently lead singer and guitarist in Long Island rock band Hazmat Bay. Jesse combines music of alternative acoustic blues ska reggae and rock. Jesse Nissenbaum played all of the instruments on all of his solo work before Hazmat Bay started in 2007.
Bob Seger.  Bob Seger is an American rock singer-songwriter guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s he had dropped the System from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with other various bands.
John Goffe Rand.  John Goffe Rand (1801–1873) lived and worked in Boston London and New York as a portrait painter and inventor. Rand invented and patented the first collapsible artist's paint tube.[1]The tin tube allowed unused oil paint to be stored and used later without drying out. In 1841 Rand patented the invention with the United States Patent Office. He went on to patent several later improvements.
Rich Karlgaard.  Rich Karlgaard is an American journalist bestselling author award-winning entrepreneur and speaker. He was named publisher of Forbes magazine in 1998 and has written two books Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness (2004) and The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success (2014).
Filip Hałucha.  Filip Heinrich Hałucha (born 14 October 1980) is a Polish metal musician. He is the current bassist for Vesania and Masachist and is a former bassist for Decapitated Rootwater and UnSun.
Chris Turner (author).  Chris Turner (born July 25 1973) is a Canadian journalist and author. He was the Green Party of Canada candidate in the November 2012 Calgary Centre federal by-election placing third behind Conservative and Liberal candidates in a close race.
Yury Krymov.  Yury Krymov (Russian: Ю́рий Кры́мов) is the pen name of Soviet novelist Yury Solomonovich Beklemishev (Ю́рий Соломо́нович Беклеми́шев; 19 January 1908 – 20 September 1941). The variants Yuri Krimov and Iurii Krymov are common transliterations.
Peter Hayes (musician).  Peter Hayes (born February 11 1976 in New York Mills Minnesota) and is an American indie rock guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of California alternative rock trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
R. Luke DuBois.  Roger Luke DuBois (born September 10 1975 Morristown New Jersey United States) is an American composer performer conceptual new media artist programmer record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.
Big Sha.  Mihail Mihaylov born on December 27 1972 better known as Big Sha or by his previous name Misho Shamara is a Bulgarian rapper from Varna Bulgaria. He is known for his socialist leanings.
Michael Vatikiotis.  Michael Vatikiotis (born July 30 1957 in Indianapolis Indiana) is a writer and journalist working in Southeast Asia since 1987. He was formerly editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and a correspondent for the Hong Kong-based news magazine for 16 years. He currently lives in Singapore and is the Asia Regional Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue a Geneva-based private foundation that facilitates dialogue to resolve armed conflicts.
Frank E. Woods.  Frank E. Woods (1860 – 1 May 1939) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 90 films between 1908 and 1925 and first became a writer with American Mutoscope and Biograph. Woods was also a pioneering film reviewer. As a writer His contributions to film criticism are discussed in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. He was also known for his screenplay collaborations with D. W.
Harriet Hosmer.  Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (October 9 1830 - February 21 1908) was an American sculptor.
Kal P. Dal.  Kal P. Dal or Karl (Carl-Göran) Ljunggren (28 January 1949 Arlöv - 18 January 1985) was a rock musician from Arlöv in Scania (in Sweden). His most famous hit was the song Blåa Sko' (Blue Shoes in the Scanian dialect). Other hits were Jonnie Bara Rock 'N' Roll (a Scanian version of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll) Raka rör and Om ja' va' en slashas/Jag vill leva fri (a version of If I Were a Carpenter).
Rie Kitahara.  Rie Kitahara (北原里英 Kitahara Rie born June 24 1991 in Ichinomiya Aichi) is a Japanese singer actor and voice actor; she is a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and former member of SKE48. She debuted in 2008 in Team A and now is in Team K. She has sung on many of the groups' main singles having been voted number 13 16 13 and 13 in the AKB48 general elections. Since 2011 Kitahara is also a member of the AKB48 subgroup Not Yet.
James Holden (producer).  James Holden (born James Alexander Goodale Holden 7 June 1979 Exeter Devon England) is a British electronic music artist and DJ.
Leslie Craven.  Leslie Craven is a British clarinettist.
Nikki Corvette.  Nikki Corvette (born Dominique Lorenz in Detroit MI) is a singer best known as a member of the band Nikki & The Corvettes from 1977 through 1981.Corvette grew up in Detroit Michigan. She was always fascinated with music and at 16 ran away from home because her mother refused to allow her to attend an MC5 concert. In late 1977 or early 1978 a friend of hers arranged for Nikki to headline a concert at a bar.
Tōichirō Araki.  Tōichirō Araki (荒木 東一郎 Araki Tōichirō January 25 1895 – May 15 1977) was a Japanese writer who won a race around the world in 1928. He wrote many books most notably Prince of the Air: Around the World in 33 Days and is sometimes called the Pioneer of Efficiency Management in Japan.
Richard Pryor.  Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1 1940 – December 10 2005) was an American stand-up comedian actor film director social critic satirist writer and MC.Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style.
Okereke Best.  Okereke Best (born 19 May 1993) is a Nigerian writer blogger filmmaker business man and entrepreneur who divides his time between the United States and Onitsha Nigeria. Raised by his parents in the eastern Nigeria Onitsha precisely.
Fowokan.  George Fowokan Kelly (born Kenness George Kelly 1 April 1943 in Kingston Jamaica) is a visual artist who lives in Britain and exhibits using the name Fowokan (a Yoruba word meaning: one who creates with the hand). Fowokan's work is full of the ambivalence he sees in the deep-rooted spiritual and mental conflict between the African and the European. His work is rooted in the traditions of pre-colonial Africa and ancient Egypt rather than the Greco-Roman art of the west.
Thomas Musgrave Joy.  Thomas Musgrave Joy (9 July 1812 – 7 April 1866) was an English painter known principally for his portraits.
C. W. McCall.  C. W. McCall is the pseudonym of William Dale Fries Jr. (born November 15 1928 Audubon Iowa United States) an American singer activist and politician known for his truck-themed outlaw country songs.
Eberhard Bosslet.  Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works such as sculpture installation light art and painting all indoors and outdoors since 1979.
Alan Baxter (author).  Alan Baxter (born 18 April 1970 Sussex United Kingdom) is an author of dark fantasy science fiction and horror. He also runs dark fiction publisher Blade Red Press and is a martial artist and Personal Trainer running the Illawarra Kung Fu Academy on the south coast of NSW Australia.Baxter was born in the UK and moved to Australia in the mid-1990s. His first novel a dark fantasy/horror thriller called RealmShift was self-published in 2006.
Ryder Ripps.  Ryder Ripps (born July 7 1986) is an American artist and entrepreneur as the Creative Director of OKFocus. He is the son of Helene Verin a designer and Rodney Ripps an artist.
Don Bowman (singer).  Don Bowman (August 26 1937 – June 5 2013) was an American country music singer songwriter comedian and radio host. He recorded for RCA Victor between 1964 and 1970 charting in the Top 40 with Chit Atkins Make Me a Star. Bowman worked at several radio stations including KRZK in Branson Missouri.Bowman was born in Lubbock Texas United States and was the original host of the radio show American Country Countdown.
Tang Pik-wan.  Tang Pik Wan (鄧碧雲 ) (September 27 1924 - March 25 1991 born as Tang Siew Foo in Sanshui Guangdong) was a talented Cantonese opera and television actress.
Benno Adam.  Benno Raffael Adam (15 July 1812 in Munich – 9 March 1892 in Kelheim) was a German painter. He specialised in animal portraits and market and hunting scenes. He was the son of painter Albrecht Adam and the father of painter Emil Adam.
Tim Brummett.  Tim Brummett (born September 1 1952) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Spokane Washington. He released His first studio album You Only Live Twice on Christander Records in 2005. Some of his musical influences include Johnny Cash Elton John Roy Orbison John Prine Steve Earle The Everly Brothers and The Beatles.
Bernie Mac.  Bernard Jeffrey Bernie McCullough (October 5 1957 – August 9 2008) better known by his stage name Bernie Mac was an African American stand-up comedian actor voice artist and comedian at the All Jokes Aside comedy club in Chicago. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined comedians Steve Harvey Cedric the Entertainer and D. L.
Jerome T. Youngman.  Jerome T. Youngman (born Thomas Cass Youngman September 15 1951 Detroit Michigan) is an American rock singer songwriter and record producer best known for his hits Creeps at my Door and Blood for Oil and TV host of the Talk show Bring it to Jerome.
Beatrice Hastings.  Beatrice Hastings was the pen name of Emily Alice Haigh (27 January 1879 – 30 October 1943) an English writer poet and literary critic. Much of her work was published in The New Age under a variety of pseudonyms and she lived with the editor A. R. Orage for a time before the outbreak of the First World War. Bisexual she was a friend and lover of Katherine Mansfield whose work was first published in The New Age.
Baba Brinkman.  Dirk Murray Baba Brinkman Jr. (born October 22 1978) is a Canadian rapper and playwright best known for recordings and performances that combine hip hop music with literature theatre and science.
Heber Bartolome.  Heber Gonzalez Bartolome (born November 4 1948) is a Filipino folk and folk rock singer songwriter composer poet guitarist bandurria player bluesman and painter. His music was influenced by the “stylistic tradition” of Philippine folk and religious melodies. He was the founder of Banyuhay a protest band that carried the trademark sound of the kubing a native musical instrument in the Philippines.
Jimmy Nelson (singer).  Jimmy T99 Nelson (April 7 1919 – July 29 2007) was an American jump blues and rhythm and blues shouter and songwriter. With a recording career that spanned over 50 years Jimmy T99 Nelson became a distinguished elder statesman of American music. His best known recordings are T-99 Blues and Meet Me With Your Black Dress On. Nelson notably worked with Duke Robillard and Otis Grand.
Jose Peña Suazo.  Jose Peña Suazo (born 1967) is a Latin singer focusing on the Latin sub-genre merengue. He formed a part of musical groups until the formation of his very own group La Banda Gorda.
Judith Godwin.  Judith Godwin (born 1930 Suffolk Virginia) is an American abstract painter associated with the Expressionist movement.
Jonas Alaska.  Jonas Aslaksen (born in Åmli Aust-Agder Norway on April 3 1988) better known by his stage name Jonas Alaska is a Norwegian musician singer-songwriter. He is the brother of Thomas Aslaksen.He studied music at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He played drums in the band Dalton for a while. He released his debut self-titled album Jonas Alaska with great reception reaching #5 on VG-lista the official Norwegian Albums Chart.
Mitsuki Tanimura.  Mitsuki Tanimura (谷村 美月 Tanimura Mitsuki born June 18 1990 in Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese actress.
Park Ju-hyun.  Park Ju Hyun (Hangul: 박주현; Hanja: 朴珠泫; born November 29 1986) commonly known by her stage name Juhyun is a South Korean idol rapper dancer actress. She is a member of the Korean girl group Spica which debuted under B2M Entertainment in 2012.
Henry Krauss.  Henry Krauss (26 April 1866 – 15 December 1935) was a French actor. He is sometimes credited as Henri Krauss.
Etta Scollo.  Etta Scollo (born 27 May 1958) is an Italian singer and songwriter.Her music combines traditional Sicilian music pop and jazz.
Calogero.  For the Italian saint of this name see Calocerus.Calogero Joseph Salvatore Maurici (born on 30 July 1971 in Échirolles near Grenoble) better known as Calogero is a French singer.
Smudo.  Michael Bernd Schmidt (born March 6 1968 in Offenbach Hesse Germany) better known as Smudo is a writer and rapper in the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier.
Joel Warner.  Joel Warner is an American author and journalist. He is the co-author of The Humor Code a former staff writer for Westword Denver's alternative newsweekly and has also written for Wired Bloomberg Businessweek The Boston Globe Slate Grantland and other publications.
Danny Hellman.  Danny Hellman (born August 2 1964) is an American freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Since 1989 his illustrations have appeared in publications including Time Fortune Sports Illustrated The Wall Street Journal and others and his comic book work has appeared in DC Comics publications.
Johnny Adams.  Laten John Adams (January 5 1932 – September 14 1998) known as Johnny Adams was an American blues jazz and gospel singer known as The Tan Canary for the multi-octave range of his singing voice his swooping vocal mannerisms and falsetto. His biggest hits were his versions of Release Me and Reconsider Me in the late 1960s.
Frederick Hammersley.  Frederick Hammersley (January 5 1919 – May 31 2009) was a critically acclaimed American abstract painter whose participation in the landmark 1959 Four Abstract Classicists exhibit secured his place in art history.
Fridolin Leiber.  Fridolin Leiber (1853 in Niedereschach – 1912 in Frankfurt) was a German painter who produced a number of popular religious prints.He worked for art publisher Edward Gustav May in Frankfurt and his first works for May were depictions of saints. Leiber signed his work either with his full name or with his initials F. L.
Ruth Price.  Ruth Price (born April 27 1938) is an American jazz singer and the owner of the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles California. Price was originally a dancer and attended ballet school in 1952. In 1954 she sang with Charlie Ventura and later worked singing and dancing in Philadelphia and New York City. She moved to Hollywood in 1957 and later toured with Harry James from 1964-1965. Price's diverse repertoire includes many obscure lesser-known gems from the Great American Songbook.
Carole Ashby.  Carole Ashby (born 24 March 1955) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the part of Louise a member of the communist resistance in 'Allo 'Allo!.She appeared alongside Roger Moore in two James Bond films Octopussy and A View To A Kill. Her appearances were brief but they assured her Bond Girl status.Carole was also a hostess on the final (1983) season of Anglia Television's Sale Of The Century.
Meena Dimian.  Meena Sameh Dimian (born December 29 1981) is an American comedian actor writer and international television personality of Egyptian descent. He is most widely known as a host on the #1 panel talk show in the Middle East; Zahret El Khalieg [زهرة الخليج] on Abu Dhabi-1. He has been featured on ABC Comedy Central CNN TLC and BBC.
Marcus Mojo.  Mascus Mojo is an American porn actor and model who does both gay and straight porn.
Ernestine Anderson.  Ernestine Anderson (born November 11 1928) is an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than five decades she has recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She has sung at Carnegie Hall the Kennedy Center the Monterey Jazz Festival (six times over a 33-year span) as well as at jazz festivals all over the world. In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records the label of fellow Garfield High School grad Quincy Jones.
Alfred Quidant.  Pierre Robert Joseph (Alfred) Quidant (1815–1893) was a French pianist composer and music teacher born 7 December 1815 in Lyon France the son of a merchant of musical instruments. He began studying music and piano in his hometown. In 1831 he went to study at the Conservatoire de Paris but interrupted his studies to work for Sébastien Érard as piano demonstrator a job that he held for more than thirty years. Quidant wrote mainly salon music which became popular during his time.
Graef Crystal.  Graef Bud S. Crystal is an expert on executive compensation often cited as a critic of excessive packages.He started work as an executive compensation consultant in 1959. He worked for twenty years at the consulting firm Towers Perrin and also taught at the Haas School of Business. He advised on pay at Coca-Cola Company and American Express.He has authored books on executive compensation as both an advisor and critic. He wrote a column on Bloomberg and now publishes on his own website.
Tony Thompson (singer).  Tony Thompson (Born Anthony Ulysses Thompson; September 2 1975 – June 1 2007) was an American R&B/soul singer and the lead vocalist of the R&B quintet Hi-Five from 1990-1994.
Cristian Castro.  Cristian Castro (born Cristian Sáez Castro or Cristian Valdez on December 8 1974 in Mexico City) referred to as Christian Castro or Cristian is a Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop singer.
Kevin Parker (musician).  Kevin Richard Parker (born January 20 1986) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and psychedelic rock musician singer songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the leader of the band Tame Impala for which he writes and records the majority of the music.
Donna Ball.  Donna Ball (b. 1951 in North Georgia US) is an American writer of over 90 novels mainly romance novels since 1982 she also signed her novels as Rebecca Flanders Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd. She also signed novels with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady.
Berta Ruck.  Amy Roberta (Berta) Ruck Mrs. Oliver Onions (b. 2 August 1878 – d. 11 August 1978) was a British writer of several short stories and over 90 romance novels from 1905 to 1972. She also wrote an autobiography and two memoir-style works.
K.I.M.  K.I.M. a.k.a King of Vikings (born November 15 1986 in Paris France) is a French beatboxer known for electronic and dubstep style beats. K.I.M. began beatboxing in 2007 making his international debut in 2009 at the French Team Beatbox Championship. With his group Nocifs Sound System K.I.M won the competition. He would also go on to win the same competition the following year. In 2011 K.I.M. won the French Beatbox Championship.
Anne Conway Viscountess Conway.  Anne Conway Viscountess Conway (née Finch) (14 December 1631 – 18 February 1679) was an English philosopher whose work in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists was an influence on Leibniz. Conway's thought is original as it is rationalist philosophy with hallmarks of gynocentric concerns and patterns and in that sense it was unique among seventeenth-century systems.
Frank Turner.  Frank Turner (born 28 December 1981) is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke Hampshire. Initially the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005.
James Purdy.  James Otis Purdy (July 17 1914 – March 13 2009) was a controversial American novelist short-story writer poet and playwright who since his debut in 1956 published over a dozen novels and many collections of poetry short stories and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy.He has been praised by writers as diverse as Edward Albee James M.
Billy Ocean.  Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles; January 21 1950) is a British recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK top 20 successes seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes including three U.S. number ones.
Stanley Peiris.  Stanley Peiris (June 12 1941 - October 13 2002) is a veteran Saxophonist and a music composer in Sri Lanka.
Dorian Electra.  Dorian Electra (born Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg June 25 1992) is a singer song-writer film-maker and visual artist known for especially unusual creative works like pop music videos espousing the principles of Austrian economics and milk. As of 2012 she is a student at Shimer College in Chicago.
Claire Fitzsimmons.  Claire Fitzsimmons better known as Ms. Fitz is an Australian fashion blogger designer stylist and performer living in New York City. She was named one of Time Out Magazine's Most Stylish New Yorkers in 2010 and MTV's Top Style Bloggers in 2011.
Amy Rivard.  Amy Rivard (born Chatham) is a Canadian singer actress and writer. She was most recently seen touring as a chorus member with the group Celtic Woman. She is working on a new Adult Contemporary/Pop album. Additionally Rivard recently created the webisode series What's Up Canuck? starring Candy Canadiana a character Rivard created and played while being on the road. She is writing and producing new episodes for YouTube and hopes to get 1 new webisode up per month.
Shane Shu.  Shane Shu (Shane Berend van Lunteren born 1976) is a Dutch/Canadian singer-songwriter producer and photographer from Kamloops British Columbia. He is best known as a solo artist though he has an independent career as a songwriter and producer for various artists and record labels.
Dieb13.  Dieb13 is the performing name of Dieter Kovačič a Viennese based avant-garde musician. He has also performed under the names Takeshi Fumimoto Echelon Dieter Bohlen and dieb14. After appearing on several compilations documenting the burgeoning Viennese avant-garde scene of the late 1990s he released his first solo album in 2000. He has gone on to perform in a number of collaborations with other notable performers including Burkhard Stangl erikm Mats Gustafsson and the John Butcher Group.
Charlotte-Catherine Patin.  Charlotte-Catherine Patin was a 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic. Granddaughter of medical doctor and letter writer Guy Patin and daughter of medical doctor and numismatist Charles Patin and moralist writer Madeleine Patin as well as sister of numismatist Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin Charlotte-Catherine Patin published the following known works in Latin and French: Oratio de liberata civitate Vienna (Padoue 1683) Tabellæ selectæ ac explicatæ (Ibid.
C-Bo.  Shawn Thomas (born January 14 1972) better known by his stage name C-Bo is an American rapper. He was born and raised in the Gardens area of Southern Sacramento California. He has sold over 3.5 million albums independently since 1993. He is currently signed to West Coast Mafia Records.
Viktor Nekipelov.  Viktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov (Russian: Виктор Александрович Некипелов; September 29 1928 Harbin China - July 1 1989 Paris) was a Russian poet writer Soviet dissident member of the Moscow Helsinki Group.Pharmacist by occupation in 1968 he participated in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.Nekipelov was arrested in 1973 sent to the Section 4 of the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry for psychiatric evaluation which lasted from 15 January to 12 March 1974 was judged sane (which he was) tried and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. 
Giuseppe Abbiati.  Giuseppe Abbiati was an Italian engraver active during the beginning of the 18th century in Milan. He etched some small prints of battles and allegorical subjects from his own design.
Gabi Novak.  Gabi Novak (pronounced [ɡâbi nôʋaːk]; born 8 July 1936) is a Croatian pop and jazz singer. She became famous in the 1960s.
Vlatko Stefanovski.  Vlatko Stefanovski (Macedonian: Влатко Стефановски) is a Macedonian ethno-rock jazz fusion guitar player.
Alan Lee Shaw.  Alan Lee Shaw is a longtime collaborator of The Damned members Rat Scabies and Brian James contributing to Nosferatu) The Lords of the New Church and James' solo work as well as a stint as a full member of The Damned. He is noted for his writing on the album Not of This Earth. He was also a member of punk groups The Rings with Twink of the Pink Fairies The Maniacs and The Physicals.
Joseph Dankowski.  Joseph Dankowski (September 2 1932 – November 5 2010) was an American fine art photographer best known for his 50 print portfolio Manholes and Gutters (1969–71).A resident of Shirley Maine he was born in Camden New Jersey on September 2 1932. He began his artistic career as a painter and sculptor.After moving to New York City in 1958 he took up photography working mostly in black and white reportage style influenced by Eugène Atget Harry Callahan Robert Frank and Bruce Davidson.
Gabriel Coss.  Gabriel Coss is a Latin Grammy Award and a Regional Emmy Award-winner music video director. Coss also has credits for directing the documentaries Aljuriya (2004) and Sonó Sonó Tité Curet!!! (2011). In 2005 Coss launched 939 Films with Israel Lugo witch they merge with Rojo Chiringa Films in 2007.Coss was awarded the Best Short Form Music Video at the 7th Latin Grammy Awards for directing Atrévete-te-te co-directed by Jorge Fish Rodríguez and performed by Calle 13.
Madeleine Riffaud.  Madeleine Riffaud born Arvillers France on 23 August 1924 is a French poet journalist war correspondent and previously a member of the French Resistance.
Jean Boht.  Jean Boht (born Jean Dance; 6 March 1932) is an English actress most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's TV sitcom series Bread.Boht was born in Bebington Wirral Merseyside and was a pupil at Wirral Grammar School for Girls.
Gheorghe Tattarescu.  Gheorghe Tattarescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe tataˈresku]; October 1818 - October 24 1894) was a Moldavian-born Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.
Steve Rowe.  Steve Rowe (born January 1965) is the founder bass guitarist and vocalist of the Australian Christian death metal band Mortification which was considered to be a major pioneer in the genre. Prior to forming Mortification he was in a traditional heavy metal styled Christian band known as LightForce. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 1997 but made a full recovery. He is currently the owner and head of the Rowe Productions record label.
Obie Bermúdez.  Obie Bermúdez (born January 10 1977) is a Puerto Rican Salsa singer and composer.
Naho Ozawa.  Naho Ozawa (小沢菜穂 Ozawa Naho) is a Japanese model singer and a former AV idol. She retired from the adult industry in 2007.
Alf Larsen.  Alf Larsen (1885 Tjøme – 1967) was a Norwegian poet essayist and magazine editor.He made his literary debut in 1912 with the poetry collection Vinterlandet. He supported Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy and edited the magazine Janus from 1933 to 1941. He co-founded the publishing house Dreyers forlag in 1942. He was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1959.Larsen himself considered his magazine Janus to be his most valuable contribution to Norwegian cultural life.
Joseph Gelineau.  Joseph Gelineau (Champ-sur-Layon Maine-et-Loire 31 October 1920 – Sallanches 8 August 2008) was a French Catholic Jesuit priest and composer mainly of modern Christian liturgical music. He was a member of the translation committee for La Bible de Jérusalem (1959)Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1941 Gelineau studied theology at a Catholic seminary in Lyon and music in Paris.Heavily influenced by Gregorian chant he developed his Gelineau psalmody which is used worldwide.
Youlou Mabiala.  Gilbert Youlou Mabiala (born in 3 March 1947) popularly known as Prince Youlou is a soukous recording artist composer and vocalist in the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). He was once a member of the seminal soukous band TPOK Jazz which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Joe Cheng.  Joseph Cheng also known as Joe Cheng (traditional Chinese: 鄭元暢; simplified Chinese: 郑元畅; pinyin: Zhèng Yuánchàng) was born on 19 June 1982. He is a Taiwanese model actor and singer. Although he started his career as a model Cheng is well known for his role as Jiang Zhishu in Taiwanese drama serial version of Japanese manga Itazura Na Kiss It Started with a Kiss.
Fahmida Nabi.  Fahmida Nabi (Bengali: ফাহমিদা নবী born January 4 1966[citation needed]) is a Bangladeshi singer. She is the daughter of late singer Mahmud Un Nabi and the elder sister of singer Samina Chowdhury.
Adrian Zagoritis.  Adrian Zagoritis (Adrian Dimitri Andrew Zagoritis) (born 27 September 1968) is a British songwriter and producer whose songs are published by Universal UK and EMI Germany. Primarily a pop dance writer working often with award-winning German electronica act York he has also had success with Pop Idol and The X Factor winners and pop artists in Germany Holland Belgium Spain France and Japan.
George Stanley (sculptor).  George Stanley (April 26 1903–1973) is an American sculptor. He designed the Academy Award of Merit or Oscar as well as sculpting the Muse Statue at the Hollywood Bowl.
Master of the Gubbio Cross.  The Master of the Gubbio Cross was the name given to an Umbrian painter active between about 1285 and about 1320. He appears to have been familiar with the artists working at the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi and some of his work bears a resemblance to that of Giunta Pisano.
Albhy Galuten.  Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer composer musician orchestrator and technology executive. He has produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100000000 copies. He has won two Grammy Awards a Dramalogue award (theatre) and a BMI award (as a songwriter).
Giovanni Picca.  Giovanni Picca (Ascoli Piceno February 14 1840-1910) was an Italian painter and scenographer.
Alexander Whisker.  Alexander Whisker (1819–1907) was a notable New Zealand soldier and diarist. He was born in Markethill County Armagh Ireland in 1819.
Henri Sattler.  Henri Sattler (born 1971) is the founder and vocalist/guitarist of God Dethroned. He uses the alias 'The Serpent King'.Due to problems with the other band members and the record company Sattler decided to split the band. He then formed Ministry of Terror a thrash metal band and released the Fall Of Life album with them in 1994. After a European tour Sattler left the band and re-formed God Dethroned.
Eli Mandel.  Eli Mandel (December 3 1922 - September 3 1992) was a Canadian poet editor of many Canadian anthologies and literary academic.
Melanie Pullen.  Melanie Pullen (born in New York City September 10 1975) is a photographer who currently lives and works in Los Angeles CaliforniaPullen's work has been exhibited internationally including solo-shows at Ace Gallery Los Angeles and Ace Gallery Beverly Hills; White Wall Gallery Seoul; MiCamera Milan. Her work has also been included in various museum exhibitions and has been broadly published
Teddy Lion.  Todor Vasilev born August 20 1960 in Vinica known professionally as Teddy Lion is a singer songwriter guitar player and music producer. In his career Teddy Lion has transitioned from the lead guitar player in the band Triangl to an established vocalist producer and composer across whole Europe.
Doughboy Beatz.  Bradley Brandon (born September 1 1988) better known by the alias Doughboy Beatz is an American record producer from Columbus Mississippi. He has produced for artists such as Young Jeezy Gucci Mane Yo Gotti Soulja Boy Waka Flocka Flame Ace Hood Juicy J Lil Boosie Cyhi Da Prynce and OJ Da Juiceman among others. He has done work with many other acclaimed producers such as Drumma Boy Shawty Redd DJ Paul & Juicy J Sonny Digital Metro Boomin Lil Lody Honorable C.N.O.T.E and more.
Paul-Marie Coûteaux.  Paul-Marie Coûteaux (born 31 July 1956 in Paris) is the son of André Couteaux and a French politician writer and former Member of the European Parliament for Ile-de-France with the Mouvement pour la France Member of the Bureau of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.He is a former collaborator of Michel Jobert from 1981 to 1983 Philippe de Saint Robert from 1984 to 1987 Jean-Pierre Chevènement from 1988 to 1991 Boutros Boutros-Ghali from 1991 to 1993 Philippe Séguin to the French National Assembly from 1993 to 1996.He joined the campaign of Marine Le Pen in 2012. 
Giacomo di Castro.  Giacomo di Castro (c. 1597-1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Sorrento. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Caracciolo but afterwards worked under Domenichino when that master visited Naples to decorate the chapel of the Tresoro. He painted a Marriage of the Virgin the Annunciation and Archangel Michael expelling Lucifer from Paradise in Sant' Aniello in Sorrento.
Aidan Baker.  Aidan Baker (born 1974/1975) is a musician from Toronto Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and with his groups Nadja ARC and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry.He has toured in both North America and Europe and has made appearances at the OM Festival MUTEK South by Southwest and the Distillery Jazz Festival. He is married to Nadja bandmate Leah Buckareff.
Japs Sergio.  Japs Sergio (born John Paul Ricafranca Sergio August 20 1979) is the former bassist/vocalist/guitarist of the Filipino band Rivermaya and the current bassist/vocalist for the band Peso Movement.
Tapper Zukie.  Tapper Zukie (or Tappa Zukie) (born David Sinclair 1955 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae deejay and producer.
Susan Daitch.  Susan Daitch (born 1954) is an American short story writer and novelist.
Nayantara Sahgal.  Nayantara Sahgal (Hindi: नयनतारा सहगल; born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indian writers in English to receive wide recognition.
Allen Gilbert Cram.  Allen Gilbert Cram (1886 – 1947) was an American painter and was born in Washington D.C. on February 1 1886. He received his fine art education in the East studying under William Merritt Chase. He later moved to San Diego working mostly with western scenes. He was also an etcher and an illustrator for the U.S. government. Three of his large-scale paintings hang in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.
Daniel Rodríguez (tenor).  Daniel Rodríguez (born May 24 1964) is a Puerto Rican-American operatic tenor from New York City. He became known as The Singing Policeman in his former work with the New York City Police Department due to his role as one of the department's designated National Anthem singers. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks he received widespread attention with his rendition of God Bless America which he sang at memorial events and on television.
Fredrick William Holiday.  Fredrick William Holiday also known as Ted Holiday (1920–1979) was a British journalist angler cryptozoologist and wildlife specialist.Motivated by the early 1930s media reports Holiday would dedicate the rest of his life to investigating the Loch Ness monster. In the 1960s Holiday became a member of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau. After several hundred hours of watching the Loch Holiday claims that he reported four unidentified sightings.
Kool Savas.  Savaş Yurderi (born 10 February 1975) also known as Kool Savas (or as well King Kool Savas) is a German rapper and hip hop artist.
Jess Mills.  Jessica Rosemary Francis Mills commonly known as Jess Mills is an English-Irish singer/songwriter and musician currently signed to Island Records who has collaborated with many UK Electronic music producers including Photek Distance and Breakage.
Alejo Carpentier.  Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26 1904 – April 24 1980) was a Cuban novelist essayist and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous boom period. Born in Lausanne Switzerland Carpentier grew up in Havana Cuba and despite his European birthplace he strongly self-identified as Cuban throughout his life.
Reina Leone.  Reina Leone (born December 2 1974 in Santa Rosa California) is an American pornographic film actress. She was born as Kelly Francisco.
Kelly Link.  Kelly Link (born 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction fantasy horror mystery and realism. Among other honors she has won a Hugo award three Nebula awards and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction.Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro.
Dave Henzerling.  David Philip Dave Henzerling (born 3 May 1961) a.k.a. David Michael-Philips is an American musician songwriter and producer. He has been a member of numerous hard rock bands including Schoolboys Keel King Kobra Lizzy Borden Geronimo! Liquid Black Big Cock Icon Tunnel Steelshine and Kelly Keeling & Friends. He is the older brother of Dan Henzerling also a musician and has two sisters (both younger).
Joshua Fisher (musician).  Joshua Fisher (born 1989) is a singer-songwriter from Lewisham in South London currently living in Norwich England.His debut EP Atlas is scheduled to be released on 25 October 2010 by independent London based label Polymorph Records. Atlas features four songs which have been co-produced by Roger Pusey - former Producer of iconic recordings on The Smiths albums Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs.Joshua cites Nick Drake Bright Eyes and The Waterboys among his influences.
Huey P. Meaux.  Huey Purvis Meaux (March 10 1929 – April 23 2011) was an American record producer and the owner of various record labels and recording studios including Crazy Cajun Records Tear Drop Records Capri Records and SugarHill Recording Studios.Meaux was born in Wright Louisiana.
Xevi Vilaró.  Xevi Vilaró is a Spanish painter born in La Cellera de Ter Girona (Catalonia) in 1975.Vilaró captured the public's attention in the year 2000 after winning the First Prize of the Gallerie Artitude in Paris France.A selection of his works is part of the permanent collection of the prestigious Vila Casas Foundation.
Howard Post.  Howard Post (November 2 1926 – May 21 2010) aka Howie Post was an American animator cartoonist and comic strip and comic book writer-artist. Post is known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip The Dropouts which had a 13-year run and for creating DC Comics' Anthro.
Anton Torello.  Anton Torello (Spanish: Antoni Torelló i Ros 30 June 1884 Sant Sadurní d'Anoia – 1960 Los Angeles) was a Catalan double bass player. He was Principal Bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1914 until 1948 and was the first bass professor at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. He taught what became the Philadelphia school of double bass playing strongly influencing American bass playing.
Linda Smith (novelist).  Linda Smith (1949-2007) was a Canadian writer.Born in Lethbridge Alberta on April 12 1949 Linda grew up in Calgary Alberta. She obtained a B.A. with Distinction from the University of Calgary in 1968 and then a Bachelor of Library Science degree from the University of Alberta in 1970. She worked as a children's librarian in Truro Nova Scotia and Saskatoon Saskatchewan where she was also manager of the Carlyle King Branch of Saskatoon Public Library.
Ben Wysocki.  Benjamin Wysocki (born November 26 1984) is the drummer for Denver-based piano rock band The Fray.
Pat Benatar.  Patricia Mae Andrzejewski (born January 10 1953) known professionally as Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy Award winner. She is a mezzo-soprano. She has had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States.
JT Bowen.  JT Bowen (born John Bowen October 12 1947 Rochester NY) is an American R&B singer in the style of Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett and is best known as the lead singer of the band Clarence Clemons & The Red Bank Rockers.
Paul Rolland.  Paul Rolland né Pali Reisman (November 21 1911 Budapest – November 9 1978 Illinois) was a violist and an influential American violin teacher who concentrated on the pedagogy of teaching fundamentals to beginning string students. He was famous for emphasizing that the physical demands of most violin techniques can be taught (in embryonic form) in the first two years of violin education.
Mari Nallos.  Marri Nallos is a ballad jazz pop singer from the Philippines. Marri who was born in Rome and raised in London. She is a graduate of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts with honors.
Steve Chandra Savale.  Steve Chandra Savale originally from London United Kingdom also known by his stage names Chandrasonic and Chandra Blunt is a British musician of Asian descent best known as the lead guitarist of the British electronica band Asian Dub Foundation. He is also part of the Birmingham-based bands Higher Intelligence Agency and the Atom Spies in which he was a collaborator as lead guitarist and a vocalist respectively.
Enzo Siciliano.  Enzo Siciliano (27 May 1934 – 9 June 2006) was an Italian writer playwright literary critic and intellectual.Siciliano was born in Rome. He was collaborator of Alberto Moravia Pier Paolo Pasolini Elsa Morante and many other famous writers in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1996 to 1998 he was President of RAI (Italian State Television). He died in 2006 aged 72 from complications of diabetes.
Takahiro Yoshimizu.  Takahiro Yoshimizu (吉水 孝宏 Yoshimizu Takahiro born July 31 1968 in Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator who is affiliated with Aoni Production. He has been active in the voice talent business since 1988.
Carolyn Meyer.  Carolyn Meyer (born June 8 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults. The typical genre for her work is historical fiction one of her more popular projects being the Young Royals series each novel of which tells the story of a different female royal person. For example one of Carolyn Meyer's recently published works is Duchessina which is the story of the life of Catherine de' Medici.
Shawn McManus.  Shawn McManus (born June 30 1958 Brookline Massachusetts) is an American artist who has worked extensively over three decades for DC Comics and other companies notably for DC's Vertigo imprint including the current Fables.
Adrian Gilbert (military writer).  Adrian Gilbert is a British author and historian who writes primarily on the subject of military history – particularly relating to wars of the 20th century. Although most of his work is published for adults he has also written several non-fiction books for children.After studying history at Lancaster University he spent several years working in book publishing.
Ori Gersht.  Ori Gersht (born 1967) is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester Kent England.
FrancEyE.  FrancEyE aka Frances Dean Smith (March 19 1922 - June 2 2009) was an American poet.
Jeff Chimenti.  Jeff Chimenti (born October 21 1968) is an American keyboardist best known for his ongoing work with RatDog. He is also a member of the post-Grateful Dead bands The Dead and Furthur.A native of the San Francisco Bay area Chimenti began playing piano when he was four and he studied formally from the age of seven to around the time he finished high school. Once he graduated from high school he began playing in bands around the Bay area.
Kate Mosse.  Katharine Louise Mosse OBE (born 20 October 1961) or Kate Mosse is an English novelist non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth which has been translated into more than 37 languages.
Jim Van Cleve.  Jim Van Cleve born October 12 1978 in Canton North Carolina is an American fiddle player songwriter session musician and producer. He is a founding member of the popular band Mountain Heart and a Grammy winning session musician and Grammy nominated solo artist.Van Cleve won many fiddle contests as a youth.
Elmer Kelton.  Elmer Stephen Kelton (April 29 1926 — August 22 2009) was an American journalist and writer known particularly for his Western novels.
Natalie Coyle.  Natalie Coyle is a London-based classically trained Soprano.Coyle has sung in aid of many charities; on television shows and has been asked to sing at a number of sporting events.
Kyousei Tsukui.  Kyōsei Tsukui (津久井 教生 Tsukui Kyōsei born Tsukui Norio on March 27 1961 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actor currently working for 81 Produce.
Yōichirō Morikawa.  Yōichirō Morikawa (森川 陽一郎 Morikawa Yōichirō born 14 August 1979 Fukui Fukui) is a Japanese Independent film director screenwriter actor and calligrapher. He gained media attention when he was arrested and charged on suspicion of paying a 17-year-old girl for sexual services in March 2006.
Bernie Kahn.  Bernie Kahn (born Bernard M. Kahn) is an American screenwriter. He wrote for the sitcomsThe Second Hundred Years (co-wrote episodes 10 and 13 with Lila Garrett)My Favorite Martianand Bewitched.He co-wrote with Joseph L. McEveety Lila Garrett and Stu Billett the 1971 Disney TV movie The Barefoot Executive.He wrote the screenplay for the comedy film Basic Training
Sonia Leong.  Sonia Leong (born May 7 1982) is a freelance comic artist illustrator and member of Sweatdrop Studios who took 2nd place in the first Rising Stars of Manga United Kingdom & Ireland Competition.
Manuel Gregorio Tavárez.  Manuel Gregorio Tavárez (November 16 1843 – July 1 1883) was Puerto Rico's first renowned classical and danza composer and the inspiration behind future generations of composers. He has been called The Chopin of America.
Jon Sarkin.  Jon Sarkin (born 1953) is a self-taught contemporary American artist.Jon Sarkin is a prolific artist who creates elaborate drawings and paintings filled with words and images among other artistic endeavors. Sarkin has been painting for over 20 years. His work has been featured in The New Yorker The New York Times ABC Primetime This American Life GQ ARTNews and galleries in New York Los Angeles and around the world. He lives and works in Cape Ann Massachusetts.
Napoleone Angiolini.  Napoleone Angiolini (Bologna 1797- Bologna June 20 1871) was an Italian painter.
Lian Ross.  Lian Ross (born Josephine Hiebel; December 8) is a German Hi-NRG/Euro disco singer. She has recorded successful covers such as Sylvester's Do You Wanna Funk and Modern Talking's You're My Heart You're My Soul. Her original hit songs include Say You'll Never Fantasy and Scratch My Name among others. A compilation of her hit singles and choice tracks The Best of and More was released in 2005.
Fujiwara no Asatada.  Fujiwara no Asatada (Japanese: 藤原 朝忠 also 中納言朝忠 Chunagon Asatada) (910 – January 19 966) was a middle Heian waka and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu.Asatada's poems are included in official poetry anthologies from the Gosen Wakashū on. A personal collection known as the Asatadashū also remains.
Reva Unterman.  Reva Unterman is a columnist and author who uses the pen name Reva Mann.Mann is the granddaughter of the former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of the State of Israel Isser Yehuda Unterman and the daughter of Morris Unterman rabbi of the West End Marble Arch synagogue in London. She was born in London but has lived in Israel since the mid-1980s. She attended a Jewish school in London until the age of ten.
Cheng Gwan-min.  Cheng Gwan Min was a Hong Kong TVB actor. He died in China at the age of 78 reportedly from lung cancer.A native of Baoan county Guangdong province Cheng was once a theatre actor and broadcaster. In 1936 he made his debut The Three-Day Massacre in Guangzhou in Guangzhou.
Peter Stuart.  Peter Stuart is an American singer-songwriter. Stuart is the founder and lead vocalist of the band Dog's Eye View who are best known for their single Everything Falls Apart. In 2002 he released his first solo album Propeller.
R3hab.  Fadil El Ghoul (born 2 April 1986) better known by his stage name R3hab is a Dutch DJ and record producer of Moroccan and Algerian origin. Alongside Afrojack and Chuckie R3hab is one of the proponents of the modern dutch house subgenre although his style and sound is usually much darker and reminiscent of early psytrance and gabber compositions. During the 2012 WMC in Miami USA R3hab won the IDMA Best Breakthrough Artist Award.
Teodulo Mabellini.  Teodulo Mabellini (2 April 1817 – 10 March 1897) was an Italian composer.
David Morrell.  David Morrell (born April 24 1943) is a Canadian-American novelist best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels and his work has been translated into 26 languages. He also wrote the 2007-2008 Captain America comic book miniseries The Chosen.
Garland Robinette.  Garland Robinette (born in Boutte Louisiana ca. 1943) is a journalist in the New Orleans area. He currently is host of The Think Tank on New Orleans radio station WWL (AM).Robinette was a news anchor and investigative reporter on New Orleans TV station WWL-TV Channel 4 for twenty years (1970 until August 8 1990). After leaving the TV station Robinette served as head of public relations for Freeport-McMoRan in New Orleans before starting his own firm.
Cristoforo Besozzi.  Cristoforo Besozzi (born 1661 in Milan – d. 22 October 1725 in Piacenza) was an Italian oboist bassoonist and founder of a large family of wind players very influential around Parma Naples and Turin for more than 200 years. In 1700 he settled in Parma taking part as oboist in the ducal hautboy band Guardia Irlandese with his son Giuseppe Besozzi in 1711. His other two sons Alessandro and Paolo Girolamo Besozzi joined him from 1714.
Dale DaBone.  Dale DaBone (born January 8 1972) is an American pornographic actor director musician stunt rider and spokesmodel. He has appeared in more than 500 adult movies.
Peter Mansson.  Peter Månsson is a Swedish music producer and songwriter who often writes his name as Peter Mansson when working with non-Swedish artists. He is based in MIR Studios Stockholm Sweden.
Claude Monet.  Oscar-Claude Monet (French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Steve Shelley.  Steven Jay Shelley (born June 23 1962 Midland Michigan) is an American drummer best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
Yukito Ayatsuji.  Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人 Ayatsuji Yukito born December 23 1960) is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror. He is one of the founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. His wife is Fuyumi Ono a Japanese fantasy and horror writer who is known for her fantasy series The Twelve Kingdoms.His first novel Jukkakukan no Satsujin (The Decagon Mansion Murders) was ranked as the No.
Nigel Pulsford.  Nigel Pulsford (born 11 April 1963) is a British guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Bush.
Hu Die.  Hu Die (Chinese: 胡蝶; pinyin: Hú Dié; 1907 - April 23 1989) also known as Butterfly Wu (蝶 dié means butterfly) was a famous Chinese actress born in Shanghai. Her name at birth was Hu Ruihua (胡瑞华). She was voted the Movie Queen in 1933 beating Chen Yumei and the legendary Ruan Lingyu.
Manju Mehta.  Manju Mehta is an Indian classical sitar player.
Josette Simon.  Josette Patricia Simon OBE (born 1960) is a British actor from Leicester of Antiguan descent. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Michael Banim.  Michael Banim (5 August 1796 – 30 August 1874) was an Irish writer brother of John Banim. He was born in Kilkenny and died in Booterstown.
Laura Minadeo.  Laura Minadeo (born February 5 1989) is an American singer and songwriter from Warwick Rhode Island. She sang as a child in talent shows and toured in Italy singing in the Vatican. She currently attends Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts.
Thomas Wydler.  Thomas Wydler (born 9 October 1959 Zurich Switzerland) is a Swiss musician best known for being a core member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds of which he has been a drummer since 1985. Prior to joining them he was a member of the experimental German band Die Haut. Wydler has been present on almost every Bad Seeds album making his first appearance on Kicking Against The Pricks.
Giancarlo Bigazzi.  Giancarlo Bigazzi (5 September 1940 – 19 January 2012) was an Italian music producer and composer. He was a former member of comedy music group Squallor.Born in Firenze he was one of the best known authors and lyricists of the Italian music. He signed some of the most successful record of Italian pop music many of which became international hits such as Gloria Self Control No Me Ames Tu Take the Heat off Me Mama.
Jimmy London (reggae singer).  Jimmy London (b. Trevor Shaw 30 November 1949 Saint Catherine Parish Jamaica) is a reggae singer who first recorded in the late 1960s and achieved chart success both in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in the early and mid-1970s.
A. A. Raiba.  A. A. Raiba (born July 20 1922) is a contemporary Indian artist. Educated at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay (1942–46) Raiba started painting professionally in the early 1950s. He won several medals from the Bombay Art Society: Bronze and silver medals 1957-50; and the Gold medal in 1956. His paintings are in collections in the Cairo Museum Egypt in the Nagpur Museum and in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi. His work has been shown in over 20 exhibitions.
Lodovico Rocca.  Lodovico Rocca (November 29 1895 Turin - June 24 1986 Turin) was an Italian composer.A pupil of Giacomo Orefice his operas written in late verismo style met with some success in Italy but have been little performed elsewhere. They include; Morte di Frine In Terra di Leggenda Il Dibuk his most successful work Monte Ivnor and L'Uragano.He was director of the Turin Conservatory from 1940 until 1966.
Jacques Labouchere.  Jacques Labouchere (born July 4 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist living in Göteborg Sweden.
Linnea Henriksson.  Ellen Linnea Petrea Henriksson (born 9 November 1986) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Henriksson participated in Idol 2010 where she placed fourth. She is also currently the lead singer of the jazz band Prylf. In 2012 she released her first music album which she had written and produced along with singer Orup. During the summer of 2013 Henriksson toured Sweden along with the band Gyllene Tider.
Maruja Fuentes.  Maruja Fuentes was a Puerto Rican architect industrial design and environmental designer.
Howard Rogers.  Howard Rogers (born 1932) is an illustrator who specialised in drawing nude figures and cowboy scenes. Rogers grew up in San Diego California where his parents encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents at a young age. After Rogers finished high school he took a job as a sign painter for three years. Rogers then served some time in the U.S.
Gul Panra.  Gul Panra (Pashto: گُل پانړه‎) (born: 15 November 1988) is a Pashto singer from Pakistan.
Method (Godhead).  Ullrich Hepperlin known as Method or the Method is the programmer bassist and keyboard player for the industrial rock band Godhead.He is also a prominent solo songwriter remixer and producer as well as a nationally recognized[citation needed] graphic designer and web designer.He lives in Los Angeles with his wife April.
Hannah Blank.  Hannah Blank (born June 13 1930 in New York City New York) is an American author.
Gabrielle Daye.  Gabrielle Daye (2 October 1911 in Manchester Lancashire - 5 January 2005 in Essex England) was an English television actress notable for her role as Mrs. Pring on Bless Me Father.
Jimmy Palao.  James Jimmy Palao also James Florestan Palao February 19 1879 - January 8 1925 was the Leader of the Original Creole Orchestra and it is believed that he was the first to coin the term Jazz. According to jazz scholar Lawrence Gushee extensive research revealed that the Original Creole Orchestra was the first African American band from New Orleans (New Orleans historically given the title The birth place of Jazz) to perform Jazz in over 75 cities in the USA and Canadian cities.
Roman Lob.  Roman Lob (born 2 July 1990) is a German recording artist. In January and February 2012 Lob was a contestant in the German TV show Unser Star für Baku produced by the German broadcasting stations Pro7 and Das Erste. He is also the lead singer of the band Rooftop Kingdom an alternative rock band with origins in Neuwied. He was also a founding member of German Metalcore band Days of Despite.
Jean-Jacques Goldman.  Jean-Jacques Goldman (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃.ʒak ɡɔldˈman]; born 11 October 1951) is a Grammy Award-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world and since 2003 has been the second-highest-grossing French living pop-rock singer after Johnny Hallyday. In the 1990s he was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones with a string of hits.
Tara Simmons.  Tara Emily Simmons (born 22 March 1984) is a musician residing in Brisbane Australia. Simmons is proficient in voice keys and sometimes cello and is known for her use of bedroom bathroom and kitchen items to sample extra sounds for her recordings.
Giacomo da Lentini.  Giacomo da Lentini also known as Jacopo (il) Notaro was an Italian poet of the 13th century. He was a senior poet of the Sicilian School and was a notary at the court of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II. Giacomo is credited with the invention of the sonnet.His poetry was originally written in literary Sicilian though it only survives in Tuscan. His poetry which was an adaptation to Italian of the Provençal poetry of the troubadours concerns courtly chivalrous love.
Eleanor Clymer.  Eleanor Clymer born Eleanor Lowenton (January 7 1906 – March 31 2001) was a writer of children's books best known for The Trolley Car Family (1947). She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1928 with a degree in English.
Sunspot Jonz.  Corey Johnson better known by his stage name Sunspot Jonz is a rapper from Los Angeles California. He is a founding member of Living Legends a conglomerate of underground hip hop artists from California. He is also one half of Mystik Journeymen along with Luckyiam.
Hudson Mohawke.  Hudson Mohawke (born Ross Birchard 11 February 1986) is a Scottish electronic music producer/DJ from Glasgow Scotland affiliated with the LuckyMe collective. He is signed to Warp Records and Kanye West's label GOOD Music. He released his debut album on Warp called Butter in October 2009.
Henry Adamson.  Henry Adamson (1581–1639) was a Scottish poet and historian.Henry son of James Adamson Dean of the Merchant Guildry and Provost of Perth set out to train as a priest after his uncle Patrick Adamson but instead became a schoolmaster in his home city.Fortunately his friend William Drummond encouraged him to publish his most famous poem: Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall (Edinburgh 1638 — see 1638 in poetry).
Chris Lawson.  Chris Lawson is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
Dean Tuftin.  Dean Tuftin (born November 28 1970 Drayton Valley Alberta) is a Canadian country music singer.
Eoin Colfer.  Eoin Colfer (/ˈoʊ.ɨn/ OH-in; born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling. In September 2008 Colfer was commissioned to write the sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series entitled And Another Thing ... which was published in October 2009.
Aliette de Bodard.  Aliette de Bodard is an award-winning speculative fiction writer. She is of French/Vietnamese descent born in the USA and grew up in Paris. French is her mother-tongue but she writes in English. She is a Software Engineer specialising in image processing and a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
Phillip W. Simpson.  Phillip W. Simpson is a New Zealand author of primary education books and novels.
Saleem Raza (Pakistani singer).  Saleem Raza (March 4 1932 – November 25 1983) was a Pakistani playback singer. He started his singing career from Lahore film industry and quickly gained popularity. Raza was a classically trained singer and was more famous for singing sad songs. Saleem Raza's career suffered due to the rise of the singer Ahmed Rushdi in the late 1950s. He left playback singing in 1966 as he lost his popularity with the composers and shifted to Canada where he died a few years later.
Bushwalla.  Billy Bushwalla Galewood is an American singer songwriter and rapper from Cleveland Ohio.At the age of nine Bushwalla entered a youth theater group called Kids on Broadway. Ten years later Billy migrated to New York City where he studied musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. There he met Jason Mraz at a party and they subsequently became roommates.
Sherry Wolf (activist).  Sherry Wolf (born in Brooklyn New York May 4 1965) is an American socialist Jewish anti-Zionist independent journalist and author. Openlylesbian she was on the Executive Committee for the LGBT National Equality March for full civil rights in October 2009 and served as Press Officer for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in October 2012. Wolf is a member of the International Socialist Organization and an editor of the International Socialist Review.
John Turnbull (actor).  John Turnbull (November 5 1880 - February 23 1956) was a British film actor.
Lee Evans (comedian).  Lee Evans (born 25 February 1964) is an English stand-up comedian writer actor and musician. Evans is a director of Little Mo Films which he had co-directed with the late Addison Cresswell who was also his agent prior to Cresswell's death in 2013.As a stand-up comic he has become one of Britain's highest selling stand-ups with his Roadrunner tour grossing £12.9m.
Paul Nabor.  Paul Santino Nabor (born January 26 1930) is a paranda musician from Punta Gorda southern Belize.Nabor is a widely respected musical talent who has brought the soulful music of the Garifuna people to the rest of the world. Nabor still resides in Punta Gorda Belize and can be seen and heard playing his guitar and singing at local events along with his band of Garifuna drummers.
Rod Jones (author).  Rod Jones (born 5 February 1953) is an Australian novelist. He was writer in residence at La Trobe University for four years and has also been the Australia Council's writer in residence in Paris. He studied English and History at the University of Melbourne.Jones told journalist Jane Sullivan that he likes short novels. His favourite novels include The Great Gatsby Heart of Darkness and The Sun Also Rises and all of them short.
Anthony Eustrel.  Anthony Eustrel (1902-1979) was a British actor. He made guest appearances on television programs such as Perry Mason Maverick Peter Gunn 77 Sunset Strip My Favorite Martian Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart. His ashes are inurned at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
H. Chalton Bradshaw.  Harold Chalton Bradshaw CBE M.Arch FRIBA (15 February 1893 – 15 October 1943) was a Liverpool-born architect recipient of the first Rome scholarship in Architecture (1913) & first Secretary of The Royal Fine Art Commission.His design work included the British School at Rome's Common Room (1924 as projected by Edwin Lutyens) and several Commonwealth War Graves Commission First World War cemeteries and memorials including the Cambrai Memorial in France and the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and its surrounding cemetery. 
Hitomi Kuroki.  Hitomi Kuroki (黒木瞳 Kuroki Hitomi; born October 5 1960 in Kurogi-Machi Yame District Fukuoka Japan) is a Japanese actress. Her real name is Shoko Ichiji (伊知地昭子 Ijichi Shoko) née Egami (江上昭子 Egami Shoko).Kuroki was a cast member of the Takarazuka Revue belonging to the Moon Troupe (Tsuki). Kuroki was the voice of Helen Parr/Elastigirl/Mrs. Incredible in the Japanese dub of The Incredibles. She won the award for best actress at the 22nd Hochi Film Award for Paradise Lost.
Gertrude Stein.  Gertrude Stein (February 3 1874 – July 27 1946) was an American writer of novels poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative linear and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature and a fervent collector of Modernist art.
Giovanni Canti.  Giovanni Canti (ca. 1650-1716) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. Born in Parma. Active in early 18th century. Among his pupils were Giuseppe Bazzani and Francesco Maria Raineri. He resided chiefly at Mantua where he painted mainly battle-pieces and landscapes.
Colton Ford.  Colton Ford is the stage name of the former gay pornographic actor Armenian-American Glenn Soukesian who returned to his original career path of singer and actor. As of May 2007 he resides in New York City.
Wolf Mail.  Wolf Mail (born March 29 1972) is a Canadian blues rock guitarist and singer. Mail has recorded 6 full length albums internationally distributed and has toured in over 26 countries. He is influenced by blues jazz soul and country.
Jacob Ralph Abarbanell.  Jacob Ralph Abarbanell (December 6 1852 – November 9 1922) was an American lawyer author and playwright from New York City.
Albert Marcœur.  Albert Marcœur (born December 12 1947 in Dijon) is a French composer singer and songwriter. He began his career in the early 1970s. His body of work mixes melodic rhythmic and sonic experimentations with fancy nursery rhymes humorous and offbeat lyrics. In France he has been called the French Frank Zappa.[citation needed]
Roz Bell.  Kevin Rosaire Bellemare known professionally as Roz Bell is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for his hit singles Yesterday Man and Papercut.
Hamish Moore.  Hamish Moore is a Scottish musician and bagpipe maker. Among Moore's contributions to Scottish music are his development of a revived form of the bellows-blown Scottish smallpipes; his 1985 recording of the Lowland or smallpipes Cauld Wind Pipes was the first contemporary complete recording of this instrument. In the 1980s and 1990s Moore was also instrumental in exploring the links between the Scottish diaspora music of Canada's Cape Breton Island and earlier Scottish traditions.
Amjad Ali Khan.  Amjad Ali Khan (Hindi: अमजद अली ख़ान; IAST: Amjad Alī Khān) (born 9 October 1945) (Urdu: امجد علی خان‎) is an Indian classical musician who plays the Sarod. Khan was born into a musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honor the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
José Echegaray.  José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19 1832 – September 14 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer mathematician statesman and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.
Rasmus Løland.  Rasmus Løland (1861 – 1907) was a Norwegian journalist novelist and children's writer. He was born in Suldal. His first literary works were published in the magazine Fedraheimen in the 1880s and his first book was the short story collection Folkeliv from 1891. He edited the children's magazine Norsk Barneblad from 1902.
Mark McClelland.  Mark Peter McClelland (born 30 March 1976 in Belfast Northern Ireland) is a musician from Northern Ireland known best as the former bass guitarist with the band Snow Patrol. McClelland is a recipient of the Ivor Novello Award for his work on the album Final Straw. He is now the bassist for alternative act Little Doses.
Linda Howard.  Linda S. Howington (born August 3 1950 in Alabama United States) is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Before she became a writer she was an avid reader and fond of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment she submitted a novel for publication which was very successful. She currently lives in Gadsden Alabama with her husband Gary F. Howington and two golden retrievers.
Jerry Salley.  Jerry Salley is an American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter. Salley won SESAC's 2003 Country Music Songwriter of the Year” award.Salley has been writing and singing in Nashville Tennessee since 1982. To date he has had 300 songs recorded in his career including by Reba McEntire (I'm Gonna Take That Mountain) Wild Rose (Breaking New Ground) John Anderson (I Fell in the Water) Wade Hayes (How Do You Sleep at Night) and ten (10) top twenty gospel songs.
Derren Litten.  Derren Litten (born 21 December 1970) is an English comedy writer and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of the award-winning The Catherine Tate Show for which he wrote and appeared as several different characters in the first two series and the 2005 Christmas Special. He has also acted in many comedy and drama series including Perfect World French and Saunders Spaced EastEnders Green Wing and Pie in The Sky with Richard Griffiths.
Rayaprolu Subba Rao.  Rayaprolu Subbarao (Telugu: రాయప్రోలు సుబ్బారావు; b: 1892 - d: 1984) is one of the pioneers of modern Telugu literature. He is known as Abhinava Nannaya. He was recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award to Telugu Writers for his poetic work Misra Manjari in 1965. He is inspired by the Western literary movement and brought romanticism into Telugu literature by breaking away from the traditional translations of Sanskrit literature.
Sammy Leung.  Sammy Leung Chi Kin is a popular DJ/MC/actor in Hong Kong's Commercial Radio.
Claudia Cassidy.  Claudia Cassidy (1899–1996) born in Shawneetown Illinois was a music dance and drama critic. She was so well known for giving caustic reviews to what she considered bad performances that she earned the nickname Acidy Cassidy. Her judgment which was regarded as extremely controversial even in her heyday has been seriously doubted by more recent critics.
Dave O'Higgins.  Dave O'Higgins is a British jazz saxophonist.Born in Birmingham O'Higgins first emerged on the British jazz scene in the 1980s. After playing in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra for three years O'Higgins joined the band of Jim Mullen before moving on to Martin Taylor's band.O'Higgins performs as a sideman as the leader of the Dave O'Higgins Quartet and as part of Most Wanted with trumpeter Graeme Flowers and trombonist Barnaby Dickinson.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.  Stephanie Anne Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. The Yarn Harlot) (born June 14 1968) is a writer knitter IBCLC or International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and doula living in Toronto Ontario Canada.
Kevin Williamson (screenwriter).  Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14 1965) is an American screenwriter producer director and actor best known as the creator of the TV series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003) The Vampire Diaries (2009–present) and The Following (2013–present).He is also widely known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream as well as the sequels Scream 2 and Scream 4. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer The Faculty Teaching Mrs.
Véronique Rivière.  Véronique Rivière (born Véronique Tartakovsky in Suresnes February 5 1959) is a French singer-songwriter and actress.
Paul Black (author).  Paul Black (born 1957 in Hinsdale Illinois) is an American graphic artist designer and writer of general and science fiction. He is best known for his near-future science fiction trilogy The Tels.
Emma Darcy.  Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband–wife writing team of Wendy Brennan (b. 28 November) and Frank Brennan (died 1995) they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993 in the Emma Darcy Pseudonym's 10th anniversary They created the Emma Darcy Award Contest to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995 Wendy now writes the books on her own.
Manimou Camara.  Manimou Camara (born July 1978 Matam Conakry Region Guinea) is a master drummer and dancer from the West African nation of Guinea. Manimou specializes in several percussive instruments namely the dynamic hand drum called djembe three bass drums called dunun sangban and kenkeni as well as the kringni. He is the founder of Dounia Djembe a Seattle based percussion and dance company.
Dave Dictor.  Dave Dictor (born 1956 Long Island New York) is the lead singer for the hardcore punk band MDC.Dictor was raised on Long Island and dropped out of Boston University in the 1970s. He taught public school in New York for five years. He spent a period of time living in Montana before moving to Austin Texas where he formed a band called the Stains that later evolved into MDC. Dictor and MDC later relocated to San Francisco California and finally to Portland Oregon.
Jack Starr.  Jack Starr is a heavy metal and blues guitarist and songwriter born of a French mother and American father. He learned to play guitar by ear copying the riffs of R&B records. His first semi-professional band was Les Variations in France with future members of Trust. Back in the U.S. he emerged on the rock and metal scene in 1981 forming together with Joey Ayvazian David DeFeis and Joe O’Rielly the first incarnation of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele.
Risa Taneda.  Risa Taneda (種田 梨沙 Taneda Risa born July 12 1988) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo affiliated with Office Osawa.
Carl-Axel Heiknert.  Carl-Axel Heiknert (10 September 1924 – 12 October 1981) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 20 films and television shows between 1970 and 1981.
K-rupt.  Carlton Williams Bongo Juma (15 November 1979 – 29 November 2003) born in Nairobi and better known by his stage name K-rupt was a Kenyan rapper who had national success in the two years leading up to his murder in 2003. He collaborated with artists such as Fizzle Dogg Bigpin and E-Sir who died earlier the same year. He also did concerts with fellow hip hop musician Nameless (real name David Mathenge and was signed to the record label Ogopa Deejays.
Stina Ekblad.  Stina Åsa Maria Ekblad (born 26 February 1954 in Solf Ostrobothnia Finland) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1987 for her performances in Amorosa and Ormens väg på hälleberget (The Serpent's Way) and was nominated again in 1996 for her performance in Pensionat Oskar.Ekblad was born in the Ostrobothnian village of Solf in 1954. The village is nowadays part of the municipality of Korsholm.
Abraham Bloemaert.  Abraham Bloemaert (1566 - 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving. He was one of the Haarlem Mannerists from about 1585 but in the new century altered his style to fit new Baroque trends. He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes.
Jim Cootes.  Jim Cootes is a research associate for the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research in Canberra Australia. For more than twenty-five yearshe has been studying Philippine orchids particularly in the wild as an amateur botanist in Mindoro Philippines. He is a frequent lecturer and has written numerous articles for major orchid journals and magazines. He resides in Australia where he works as a mail carrier.
Jena Kraus.  Jena Kraus is an American singer/songwriter and self-taught musician born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Discovered at the age of nine by vocal coach Rita Cavell and was thrust into the world of entertainment. Influenced heavily by her hippie parents vast record collection she had written her first batch of songs before the age of twelve.On a dare as a teenager Jena entered a model search contest held by Ford Models.
Stephen Jeffreys.  Stephen Jeffreys (born 1950) is a British playwright.
Johnny Dyer.  Johnny Dyer (born December 7 1938 Rolling Fork Mississippi) is an American electric blues harmonicist and singer. He has received a nomination for a Blues Music Award and been involved in a number of recordings in the last three decades both as a solo performer and with other musicians.
Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta.  Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (February 6 1929 – June 14 2011) was a Venezuelan writer essayist and literary critic specialized in the life and work of Andrés Bello. In 1978 he won the Municipal Prize of Literature for the work Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela. He served as the president of the Venezuelan Academy of Language is an honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute and was president of the National Council of Culture (CONAC) in the late 1990s.
Johnny Long (musician).  Johnny Long (September 12 1914 (disputed) – October 31 1972) was an American violinist and bandleader known as The Man Who's Long on Music. He was raised on a farm in Newell North Carolina currently a subdivision of Charlotte. He started practicing with the violin at the age of six but injured two fingers on his left hand when he was bitten by a pig. He then learned to use his right hand to play the violin and continued to do so until his death.
Young Noble.  Rufus Cooper III (born March 21 1978) also known by his stage name Young Noble is an American rapper. Best known for being part of Tupac Shakur's rap group Outlawz.Noble joined the Outlawz in the early summer of 1996 and was also the last member to be added to the group by Tupac himself before the late rapper's death in September 1996.
Rick Parfitt.  Richard John Parfitt OBE (born 12 October 1948) is an English musician best known for being a singer and rhythm guitarist in the English rock band Status Quo.
Demmette Guidry.  Demmette Guidry is an American music industry executive talent manager and label owner who helped launch the careers of many prominent recording artists including Beyoncé Lauryn Hill Maxwell Cypress Hill Mary Mary Alicia Keys and several others.He is the founder of Atlanta-based F.O.E. Entertainment LLC and its associated D-Media LLC.
Juan Morel Campos.  Juan Morel Campos (May 16 1857 – May 12 1896) sometimes erroneously spelled Juan Morell Campos was a Puerto Rican composer considered by many to be responsible for taking the genre of danza to its highest level. He composed over 550 musical works before he died unexpectedly at age 38.
Richard Demarco.  Richard Demarco CBE (born in Edinburgh 1930) is a Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts.
Justin Jones (singer-songwriter).  Justin Phillip Jones (born August 17 1979) is an American singer-songwriter. In addition to singing he plays piano guitar and harmonica. His music has been described by the Washington Post as electrified country and roots-rock that leaves plenty of space for Jones to hold court...like Dave Grohl when at full throttle and Townes Van Zandt when at ease. He has toured North America extensively and with a backing band that has sometimes been referred to as the Driving Rain.
S. M. Lockridge.  Shadrach Meshach Lockridge (March 7 1913 – April 4 2000) was the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church a prominent African-American congregation in San Diego California from 1953 to 1993. He was known for his preaching across the United States and around the world.
Alan Rubin.  Alan Rubin (February 11 1943 – June 8 2011) also known as Mr. Fabulous was an American musician. He played trumpet flugelhorn and piccolo trumpet.Rubin was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He was a member of the Saturday Night Live Band with whom he played at the Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games. As a member of The Blues Brothers he portrayed Mr.
Ged Peck.  Ged Peck (born 19 October 1947) is a musician who played in several bands - mainly backing work with Billy Fury Vince Eager Tommy Quickly when he was managed by Brian Epstein Americans Bob & Earl who had a hit single with Harlem Shuffle The Flower Pot Men the Pirates singers Marsha Hunt Billie Davis Screaming Lord Sutch and David Garrick whilst doing numerous studio sessions.He recorded for the BBC with Billy Fury Marsha Hunt Billie Davis and James Royal whilst playing on an early recording by Marc Bolan which was produced by Mike Hurst of The Springfields.He began playing semi-professional when still at school and was soon working the big London hotels with the Rudi Rome Orchestra. 
Seiichi Morimura.  Seiichi Morimura (森村 誠一 Morimura Seiichi born January 2 1933 in Kumagaya) is a Japanese novelist and author. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony (悪魔の飽食) (1981) which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).The Devil's Gluttony was serialized in the Akahata (Japanese Communist Party's newspaper) in 1980 and subsequently published by Kobunsha (光文社) in two volumes 1981 and 1982.
Zheng Jun.  Zheng Jun (born November 6 1967) is Chinese rock singer-songwriter. Originally from Xi'an he attended Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering (renamed Hangzhou Dianzi University). His first album Naked (赤裸裸) was released by Red Star Productions in 1994 achieving immediate success.
Manafest.  Chris Greenwood (born July 19 1979) better known by his stage name Manafest is a Canadian Christian rapper and rock artist from Pickering Ontario.
Dmitri Savitski.  Dmitri Petrovich Savitski (Russian: Дмитрий Петрович Савицкий (born January 25 1944) (Russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Сави́цкий) is a Russian writer and poet.
Agam Wispi.  Agam Wispi is an Indonesian poet.
Daisy Beaumont.  Daisy Beaumont is an English actress arguably most known for her work parodying celebrities such as Catherine Zeta-Jones Victoria Beckham and Katie Price on the Channel 4 comedy show Star Stories.
Greg Reeves.  Greg Reeves is an American bass guitarist. He is best known for playing bass on Crosby Stills Nash & Young's Déjà Vu album in 1969.
Jesse Fortune.  Jesse Fortune (February 28 1930 – August 31 2009) was an American Chicago blues singer and barber.
Mónica Naranjo.  Mónica Naranjo (born May 23 1974) is a Spanish singer born in Figueres Catalonia Spain of Andalusian parents. She has sold over nine million albums worldwide.
Stefano Amadei.  Stefano Amedei (January 20 1580 – January 20 1644) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period who painted still-life paintings. Born in Perugia; he trained with Giulio Cesare Angeli and developed a studio in Rome. Among his pupils was Fabio della Cornia.
Nathan Caton.  Nathan Junior Caton is an English comedian. He is one of few West Indian-English comedians to have successfully broken into the comedy circuit.
Ricardo Moyano.  Ricardo Moyano is an Argentinian musician and composer. Son of Irma Capellino and Daniel Moyano born in La Rioja Argentina in 1961. He has lived and worked in various countries which has influenced the formation of his style. Playing with his friends as musicians has been and remains the preferred and main source of inspiration. Alongside his concert career he has recorded in various countries alone and with other musicians.
Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard.  Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (born 1989 in Tranby Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass & bass guitar) known from bands like Monkey Plot Mummu Ronja and Ich Bin N!ntendo.
Johnny Clarke.  Johnny Clarke (born 12 January 1955) is a Jamaican reggae musician best known for his recordings with producer Bunny Lee in the 1970s.
Archie Rand.  Archie Rand (born 1949) is an artist from Brooklyn New York. Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world including in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the Art Institute of Chicago the Victoria and Albert Museum in London the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Al Arsenault.  Joseph Alfred Arsenault (April 6 1938 – May 15 2007) was an American blues and jazz organ player known for his playing on the Hammond B3. He was a prominent musician in the Worcester area for over 50 years. Throughout his career he has played in The Phaetons The Drifters and Lou Donaldson and had a successful solo career.Born in Mexico Maine Arsenault began playing at the age of 3 teaching himself how to play the piano.
Lizzy Dijeh.  Lizzy Dijeh is a British playwright and poet of Nigerian origin.Born in London Dijeh is a graduate of the University of York where she read English and Related Literature. She is a former member of the Royal Court Young Writer's Programme and its Invitation Group. In July 2007 she was one of six writers selected by the Royal Court Theatre to attend the 10th World Interplay Festival in Australia as the UK representative alongside the playwright and UK tutor for that year Tanika Gupta.
Linda McLean.  Linda McLean (born in 1957) is a Canadian musician singer and songwriter. McLean's debut album was released in Europe on Rounder Records her second released internationally on Bongo Beat Records and her acoustic CD on her own Mandolin Records.
Osamu Yoshioka.  Osamu Yoshioka (吉岡 治 Yoshioka Osamu February 19 1934 — May 19 2010) was a renowned Japanese lyricist. Vice-president of the Japan Lyricists' Association. Earlier he used the pen name 吉岡オサム (pronounced the same).
Andy Childs.  Andy Childs (born December 7 1962 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American country music singer-songwriter. In 1993 Childs released one studio album for RCA which produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. His highest charting single Simple Life peaked at No. 61 in 1994.Childs has been a member of the country quintet Sixwire since its foundation in 2002. Sixwire recorded one studio album for Warner Bros.
Lawrence Tenney Stevens.  Lawrence Tenney Stevens was an American sculptor active from the early 1920s to the late 1960s and is considered one of the progenitors of the Cowboy High Style movement in western American art and furniture. Stevens became most well known for his colossal allegorical figures and stylized depictions of the American west.
Cristofano Bertelli.  Cristofano Bertelli (active c. 1525) was an Italian engraver. He was born in Rimini in the Duchy of Modena. A few of his plates survive: Portrait of Ottavio Farnese Duke of Parma; Conversion of St. Paul; Holy Family with Saints Augustine Sebastian & Helena with St. Joseph sleeping. Virgin and Child with St. George and other Saints; Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian Francis and Roch after Correggio; and The different Ages of Man.
Robert L. Bidez.  Robert L.'Bedie' Bidez was the first director of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band which he founded in 1908 as a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was succeeded in that role by Mike Greenblatt.Bidez was a textile engineering graduate of 1912 vice president of the McGowan-Lyons Hardware and Supply Company in Mobile Alabama.
William Steig.  William Steig (November 14 1907 – October 3 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist sculptor and late in life an illustrator and writer of popular children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto he was also the creator of Shrek! which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S.
Thomas C. Roche.  Thomas C. Roche (1826–1895) was a photographer known for his photographs of the American Civil War.Roche's first job as a professional photographer was for Henry T. Anthony a chemist in New York and his brother Edward for whom he took photographs of the city and the harbor starting in 1859. He continued to work for the Anthonys during the war making photographs for his company's popular Instantaneous Views. He also traveled on the front lines with the Army of the James.
G. A. Kulkarni.  G. A. Kulkarni or simply GA (Marathi: जी. ए. कुलकर्णी जीए) was a legendary Sahitya Akademi Award winner Marathi writer of short stories.GA grew up in Belgaum. After earning his masters degree he taught English at JSS College in Dharwad for about 30 years. He had very strong liking for Dharwad and Belgaum. For medical treatment of his eyes he reluctantly moved to Pune in 1985.
Paul Carter (songwriter).  Paul Carter is a British songwriter and producer.
Stephen Cooper (businessman).  Stephen F. Cooper (born 1948) is the current CEO of Warner Music Group.
John McIntyre (blogger).  John E. McIntyre is an American journalist who writes for the political blog RealClearPolitics. He also publishes on the TIME blog and has also appeared on the nationally syndicated Michael Reagan Talk Show.
Gabrielle Aplin.  Gabrielle Aplin (born 10 October 1992) is a British singer-songwriter from Sutton Benger England. Aplin gained a following online after publishing acoustic covers of songs by bands such as Paramore and You Me at Six on YouTube.Since 2010 Aplin has released three EPs and toured the United Kingdom and Europe.In February 2012 Aplin announced she had signed to Parlophone and was recording her debut album.
Sam Sneed.  Sam Sneed (born Sam Anderson; February 29 1968 McKeesport Pennsylvania) is an American producer and rapper. He originally got his start working as a producer for K-Solo and the Hit Squad.
Leonard William King.  Leonard William King M.A. F.S.A. (8 December 1869 – 20 August 1919) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist educated at Rugby School and King's College in Cambridge. He collected stone inscriptions widely in the Near East taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College for a number of years and published a large number of works on these subjects. He is also known for his translations of ancient works such as the Code of Hammurabi.
Trichur V. Ramachandran.  Trichur V. Ramachandran(born 1940) is a Carnatic music vocalist.He was born in 1940 in Thrissur Kerala. He gave his first concert at the age of 14 and was a disciple of G. N. Balasubramaniam. Later he underwent training under M L Vasanthakumari as part of an Indian government Cultural Scholarship. Ramachandran married Charumathi in 1973.Ramachandran is recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2003. He also received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India in 2003.
Mike O'Neill (musician).  Mike O'Neill is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is originally from Oshawa Ontario but has been based in Halifax Nova Scotia since 1996.
Merrill Jenson.  Merrill Boyd Jenson (born January 20 1947) is an American composer and arranger who has composed film scores for over thirty films including Emma Smith: My Story Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd Legacy Harry's War and Windwalker. Many of the films Jenson composed music for were directed by Academy Award winning director Kieth Merrill.
Cosima von Bonin.  Cosima von Bonin (born 1962) is a German contemporary artist based in Cologne. von Bonin's practive features the use of sculptures textiles sound film and performances.
Marjorie Morgan.  Marjorie Morgan (1915 – July 10 2007) was a Canadian writer and author.
Mia Cox.  Mia Cox is a female singer/songwriter from Newark New Jersey. She was the featured vocalist on DJ Disciple's Caught Up (from the Queer As Folk soundtrack) which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.
Şahan Arzruni.  Şahan Arzruni // (Armenian: Շահան Արծրունի; born 8 June 1943) is an Armenian classical pianist composer ethnomusicologist lecturer writer and producer residing in New York City.
Rena Jones.  Rena Jones (born 1977) is an American musician producer and audio engineer from Portland Oregon. She composes and produces electro-acoustic downtempo and ambient music with an emphasis on live string instruments. She has released five solo albums and collaborated on over thirty albums. Her latest album titled Echoes was released in April 2013.
Brooks Wackerman.  Brooks Wackerman (born February 15 1977) is the drummer for the American punk band Bad Religion and the younger brother of John Wackerman and Chad Wackerman (formerly a member of Frank Zappa's band). He is the son of Chuck Wackerman an educator in the Los Alamitos California Unified School District. Brooks is also a former student of Murray Spivack and Chuck Flores.
George Burroughs Torrey.  George Burroughs Torrey (1863–1942) was an American painter best known for his portraits. He has been called the painter of presidents because he painted portraits of Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft and Herbert Hoover.
Cachorro López.  Gerardo López (born 1956) known professionally as Cachorro López is an Argentine record producer musician and songwriter. Born in Buenos Aires Argentina he enrolled in various musical ensembles including Zas and Los Abuelos de la Nada. López has worked with several artists producing their albums including Caifanes Stephanie Salas Andrés Calamaro Paulina Rubio Diego Torres and Miranda!. López also was the executive producer of the tribute album for the English band Queen in 1997.
Ron Finley.  Ron Finley is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer to professional athletes and a collector of original blaxploitation posters. His poster collection was featured in Miramax’s book on the era What It Is What It Was.
Terry Gregory.  Terry Gregory (born April 30 1956 in Washington D.C.) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Gregory's debut album Just Like Me was released in 1981 by Handshake Records. Its first single the title track reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Beverly Jo Scott.  Beverly Jo Scott (born 15th May 1959) also known as B. J. Scott is an American-born singer-songwriter living in Brussels Belgium.
Franz Joseph Zoll.  Franz Joseph Zoll was born at Möhringen an der Donau in Baden in 1772 and was first instructed by his father a sculptor and painter. In his fourteenth year he went to Trostenberg in Bavaria to an uncle who was a fresco painter and then spent two years at Munich studying under Johann Dorner and Joseph Hauber at the Academy. He visited Paris Vienna and Rome. In 1821 he became professor of design at Freiburg University and in 1823 director of the Mannheim Gallery. He died in 1833.
Jordan Francis.  Jordan 'J-Man' Francis (Born Jordan Francis Toronto Ontario Canada) is a Canadian singer dancer actor and choreographer.
Efraím Cardozo.  Efraím Cardozo (28 June 1877 - 14 February 1951) was a Paraguayan politician and historian.
Brad Lee.  Brad Lee (born April 29 1980) is an American musician recording engineer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Palo Alto California and currently resides in San Diego California. He is currently a touring member of The Album Leaf and Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects. He has spent time playing in other San Diego based bands (including Three Mile Pilot Comfortable for You the Hot Moon and John Meeks).
Dollie Radford.  Caroline Maitland (1858 – 1920) was an English poet and writer. She married in 1883 Ernest Radford and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children one being the doctor and writer Maitland Radford.Her friends included Eleanor Marx whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by Karl Marx and Amy Levy. Her papers are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.
Russell Payne (author).  Russell Payne is an English author of humour science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels weblogs graphic novels comics and films. His notable works include Morris Telford - A Salopian Odyssey weblog for the BBC and subsequent novel Marlowe Bidforth's Backpack Adventure and the Prism award-winning American Spoon Indigo. He collaborated with screenwriter Philip Railsback on a number of screenplays.
Ellen Benediktson.  Ellen Benediktson (born 25 April 1995) is a Swedish singer.Born in Limhamn Sweden in 2013 she was the stand in singer during the rehearsals for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 singing L'enfer et moi. Benediktson took part in Melodifestivalen 2014 with the song songbird. Benediktson made it to the final progressing from the first semifinal in Malmö Arena with her song Songbird.
Hakimakli.  Cedric Aiello better known as Hakimakli is a French DJ of mixed Italian-Algerian origin. He is a DJ record remixer producer and radio broadcaster. He is prominently featured on the Paris-based FG DJ Radio (formerly known as Radio FG) and is talent director and director of programming at the station.
Camarón de la Isla.  Camarón de la Isla (5 December 1950 – 2 July 1992) was the stage name of a Spanish flamenco singer José Monje Cruz. Considered one of the all time greatest flamenco singers he was noted for his collaborations with Paco de Lucia and Tomatito and the three of them were of major importance to the revival of flamenco in the second half of the 20th century.
Tony Szczudlo.  Tony Szczudlo is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games. He is known for his work in Dungeons & Dragons Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
Bogdan Hołownia.  Bogdan Hołownia is a Polish jazz pianist.He first played with Jan Wroblewski. Later in his career he played with Janusz Muniak Adam Kawończyk Janusz Kozłowski Marcin Jahr Krzysztof Mroz Bronki Harasiuk Kazimierz Jonkisz.
George David Coulon.  George David Coulon (November 14 1822 – February 28 1904) was a French-born artist born in Seloncourt.When he was ten years old his family moved to New Orleans Louisiana USA.
Hafdís Huld.  Hafdís Huld Þrastardóttir (born 22 May 1979) known simply as Hafdís Huld is an Icelandic singer and actress. She began her musical career as a member of the electronic band GusGus in 1995 and left the group in 1999. Hafdís made her solo debut with her 2006 album Dirty Paper Cup.
Beau Jocque.  Beau Jocque (born Andrus J. Espre November 1 1953 - September 10 1999) was a Creole American zydeco musician active in the 1990s.Beau Jocque is known for his gruff vocals his fusion of many musical styles onto zydeco and above all for the powerful energy of his rhythm and sound. Backed by the Hi-Rollers he became one of the top dance-hall acts of his musical decade.Beau Jocque was found collapsed in the shower by his wife dead of an apparent heart attack at the height of his career.
Ben Verellen.  Ben Verellen (born Benjamin James Verellen) is an American musician from Tacoma Washington. Ben Verellen is also the brother of Dave Verellen—member of Botch Roy and Narrows.
Janice Jordan Shefelman.  Janice Jordan Shefelman is an American writer best known for her children's book I Vivaldi based upon the life of Antonio Vivaldi.
William Chappell (writer).  William Chappell (20 November 1809 – 20 August 1888) was an English writer on music a partner in the London musical firms of Chappell & Co. and later Cramer & Co.
Soledad Reyes.  Soledad Sarmiento Reyes (born 5 March 1946) is a distinguished and recognized Philippine literature scholar literary and art critic author anthologist consultant professor instructor editor annotator researcher and essayist in the Philippines. Specializing in the field of popular culture and the arts in the Philippines Reyes is a professor teaching interdisciplinary studies at the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University.
Adio diBiccari.  Adio diBiccari (1914 in Revere – January 1 2009 in Arlington) was a noted American sculptor.
Högni Reistrup.  Högni Reistrup is a singer and musician from Tórshavn Faroe Islands. His influences include Radiohead Depeche Mode and The Cure.Artists such as Bob Dylan Nick Drake and Kári P. epitomises Reistrup's early work. He has a background in classical music which we find examples of in the period between 2007-2010. Songs such as Friðsæla Stund from the album Hugafar á ferð and Náttarvöka from the album Trý fet frá tilveruni have clear references to classical music.
Ambrosine Phillpotts.  Ambrosine Phillpotts was a British actress of theatre TV and film. The Times wrote She was one of the last great stage aristocrats a stylish comedienne best known for playing on stage and screen a succession of increasingly 'grandes dames' with an endearing mixture of Edwardian snobbery and eccentric absent-mindedness.
Claude Pierre Goujet.  Claude Pierre Goujet (October 19 1697 – February 1 1767) French abbé and littérateur was born in Paris.He studied at the College of the Jesuits and at the Collège Mazarin but he nevertheless became a strong Jansenist. In 1705 he assumed the ecclesiastical habit in 1719 entered the order of Oratorians and soon afterwards was named canon of St Jacques l'Hôpital.
Jamie Gillis.  Jamie Gillis (born James Ira Gurman; April 20 1943 – February 19 2010) was an American pornographic actor director and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Alessandra Rosaldo.  Alessandra Rosaldo (born Alejandra Sanchez Barraro; September 11 1971) is an actress singer and dancer from Mexico. In 2006 she was the winner of the first prize in Televisa Network's later broadcast in Univision Bailando por un Sueño.As an actress she has played main and supporting roles in Mexican TV’s soap operas. She has sold over 4 million records in the Spanish-speaking world as the lead singer of her own pop music band Sentidos Opuestos as well in her solo singer career.
Procopius.  Procopius of Caesarea (Latin: Procopius Caesarensis Greek: Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς; c. AD 500 – c. AD 565) was a prominent late antique scholar from Palaestina Prima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian he became the principal historian of the 6th century writing the Wars of Justinian the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History. He is commonly held to be the last major historian of the ancient world.
Frances Mayes.  Frances Mayes is an American university professor poet memoirist essayist and novelist.Born and raised in Fitzgerald Georgia Mayes attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg Virginia and obtained her BA from the University of Florida.
Alan Melville (writer).  Alan Melville (9 April 1910 – 23 December 1983) was an English broadcaster writer actor raconteur producer playwright and wit.
Jean-Pierre Sarrazac.  Jean-Pierre Sarrazac (born 1946) is a French playwright stage director drama trainer and university teacher. In his works he has been influenced by Bernard Dort. He has published several studies and books on drama and dramaturgy. He directed several plays by playwrights Valère Novarina Strindberg von Saaz and himself.
Elarica Gallacher.  Elarica Gallacher (born 21 August 1989) is an English model and actress. She is best known for playing the role of Kylie in EastEnders.
Stefanie Sargent.  Stefanie Ann Sargent (June 1 1968 – June 27 1992) was an American musician best known for being the lead guitarist and co-founder of grunge band 7 Year Bitch.
Alan Glen.  Alan Glen (born 1951 Wuppertal Germany) is a British blues harmonica player best known for his work with The Yardbirds Nine Below Zero Little Axe and his own bands The Barcodes and The Incredible Blues Puppies.
Bill Staines.  Bill Staines (born February 6 1947 in Medford Massachusetts) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England who writes and performs in a traditional vein. He has also written and recorded children's songs.Raised in Lexington Massachusetts Staines began his professional career in the early 1960s in the Cambridge area. He began touring nationwide a few years later. In 1975 he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
Nello Rosselli.  Nello Rosselli (Rome 29 November 1900 - Bagnoles-de-l'Orne 9 June 1937) was an Italian Socialist leader and historian.Rosselli was born in Rome to a prominent Jewish family and was the brother of Carlo Rosselli. Nello was a member of the reformist Partito Socialista Unitario of Filippo Turati Giacomo Matteotti and Claudio Treves which had split from the PSI.
Radclyffe.  This article is about the contemporary writer Radclyffe; for the author of The Well of Loneliness see Radclyffe Hall.Radclyffe (real name Dr. Lenora Ruth Barot born 1950[citation needed]) is an American author of lesbian romance. A 2003/04 recipient of the The Alice B Readers Award for her body of work as well as a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society Pink Ink and the Romance Writers of America she lives with her partner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Dr.
Tony Tulathimutte.  Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield Alaska received a who cares Award in 2008. Tulathimutte has bachelor's and master's degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Raised in South Hadley Massachusetts he is currently a times square mascot and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics.
Francis Ng.  Francis Ng Chun-yu (born 21 December 1961) is a Hong Kong actor and director. He is known for the TVB series Triumph in the Skies. He has a helicopter licence to be used in Mainland China.
Daniel Wu.  Daniel Yin-Cho Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴彦祖; traditional Chinese: 吳彥祖; pinyin: Wú Yànzǔ; jyutping: Ng Yin Jou) (born September 30 1974) is a Hong Kong American actor director and producer. Since his film debut in 1998 he has been featured in over 60 films. Wu has been called the young Andy Lau and is known as a flexible and distinctive leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry.
Justin Rice.  Justin Rice is an American musician and actor.
Frank Duval.  Frank Duval (born November 22 1940 Berlin) is a German composer conductor record producer songwriter and singer.Born into an artists' family he studied as an actor and dancer but also sang with his sister Maria. By the 1960s Duval was also composing music both orchestral and pop and his first soundtrack for an episode of the German serial Tatort was broadcast in 1977.
Nina Hartley.  Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman; March 11 1959) is an American pornographic actress pornographic film director sex educator feminist and author.
Saharat Hiranthanapuwadol.  Saharat Hiranthanapuwadol (Thai: สหรัฐต์ หิรัญญ์ธนภูวดล; RTGS: Saharat Hiranthanaphuwadon) or formerly name Wirat Chanpakdee (Thai: วิรัช จันทร์ภักดี) Singharat Chanpakdee (Thai: สิงหรัตน์ จันทร์ภักดี) Thananat Ruang-ngam (Thai: ธนณัฏฐ์ รวงงาม) Thanto Ruang-ngam (Thai: ทันโตวิ์ รวงงาม) and Thanto Hiranthanapuwadol (Thai: ทันโตวิ์ หิรัญญ์ธนภูวดล) in nickname Singto that's mean lion Saharat is the singer of Thailand as known as The Star 5He was the champion of The Star 5 contest morever he's the youngest The Star of Thailand.
John Douillard.  John Douillard D.C. is an Ayurvedic physician writer professor and chiropractor specializing in sports medicine. Douillard has been teaching Ayurvedic medicine for over 22 years has written many books on the subject and is considered a leading expert in the United States. He lives with his wife and six children in Boulder Colorado
France Balantič.  France Balantič (29 November 1921 – 24 November 1943) was a Slovene poet. His works were banned from schools and libraries during the Titoist regime in Slovenia but since the late 1980s he has been re-evaluated as one of the foremost Slovene poets of the 20th century.
Šaban Bajramović.  Šaban Bajramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабан Бајрамовић Serbian pronunciation: [ʃǎban bajrǎːmɔʋitɕ] Romani: Shaban Bayramovic; 16 April 1936 – 8 June 2008) was a Serbian-Romani musician.
Kira Willey.  Kira Willey is an award-winning American musician best known forher song Colors which is featured on a popular Dell computer laptop commercial. She is also a certified Yoga instructor and a mother.
Francesco Bernardi (painter).  Francesco Bernardi also known as Bigolaro (flourished first half of the 17th century) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. A native of Verona he was a pupil of Domenico Feti and painted historical subjects.
Barry Mann.  Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman February 9 1939 Brooklyn New York City) is an American songwriter and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife Cynthia Weil. Mann married Weil in August 1961. The couple has one daughter: Dr. Jenn Berman.
Charles Otte.  Charles Otte (born May 22 1956) is an American theatre director producer designer and educator. He is best known as a theatre and multi-media director working in New York and Los Angeles.Otte was born in Cleveland Ohio. He received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California.
Anaïs Mitchell.  Anaïs Mitchell (/ɑːˈneɪs/; born March 26 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Mitchell has released four albums including Hadestown (2010) and Young Man in America (2012). She has been described as the queen of modern folk music.
Anatoly Kasheida.  Anatoly Fedorovich Kasheida (Kosheida) (Russian: Анатолий Фёдорович Кашеида (Кошеида); August 14 1928 Talne USSR— June 19 1998 Uman Ukraine) was a Soviet writer poet journalist of Ukrainian descent.In 1947 graduated from Baku naval preparatory school then studied at the Higher Naval College named Mikhail Frunze. In 1958 was dismissed in stock. Then he studied at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and worked in the press agency Novosti.
Jermaine Fagan.  Jermaine Fagan also known as Prince (born 24 September 1978) is a reggae musician. He was born in Saint Thomas Jamaica and raised in Portmore.
Rico Love.  Richard Preston Butler Jr. (born December 3 1982) better known by his stage name Rico Love is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Love wrote and produced hit records such as Usher's There Goes My Baby and Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home) Nelly's Just a Dream and Gone as well as Beyoncé Knowles' Sweet Dreams. and has contributed to works which have gone on to win Grammys such as Beyoncé's 2009 Best Contemporary R&B album I Am...
Planet Asia.  Jason Green (born October 24 1976) better known as Planet Asia is a rapper from Fresno California. He is prominent for being one half of the now broken up hip-hop duo the Cali Agents and is currently a member of the groups Gold Chain Military and more recently Durag Dynasty. He is also well known for his vast discography of mixtapes.
Ai Ishigaki.  Ai Ishigaki (also known as 'ISHIG∀KI' born 25 December 1970) was the support guitarist for The Mad Capsule Markets from 1990 to 1996. He got the job as support guitarist after being a roadie for MCM in the Berrie days. Ishigaki debuted on their Thrash-Punk album P.O.P and later became the more well known guitarist because he could bring a softer more experimental acoustic element to their later releases.
Lynsey DuFour.  Lynsey DuFour is an American television soap opera writer.
Nachiketa Chakraborty.  Nachiketa (born Bengali: নচিকেতা চক্রবর্তী Nachiketa Chakraborty) is an Indian Bengali singer-songwriter and composer who is known for his modern Bengali lyrics and natural mode of singing. He achieved fame in the early 1990s with the release of his debut album Ei Besh Bhalo Achhi.
Taylor York.  Taylor Benjamin York (born December 17 1989) is an American rock guitarist and is currently a member of the alternative rock band Paramore. He also plays the keyboard and glockenspiel occasionally during their live set and has also recorded drums on recordings. His brother is Justin York a touring member of Relient K and Paramore.
Brad Laner.  Brad Laner (born November 6 1966 in Los Angeles California) is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with the shoegaze band Medicine which he founded and led.Prior to Medicine he was involved in avant-improv bands such as Debt of Nature (at the age of 15) Steaming Coils (at the age of 18)—which also featured members of Los Angeles Free Music Society—and most notably the experimental tribal post-punk outfit Savage Republic which according to Pitchfork Media foreshadowed many ideas later explored in the post-rock genre.He has also been active as a solo artist recording under the moniker Electric Company as well as releasing two albums under his own name.His work has been sampled by artists such as Brian Eno (Eno extensively sampled Electric Company's songs on several tracks from Another Day on Earth) and Caribou. 
Richa Sharma (singer).  Richa Sharma (born 29 August 1980) is an Indian film playback singer as well a devotional singer. In 2006 she sang Bollywood's longest track the bidaai song in film Baabul (2006).
Diplo.  Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10 1978) better known by his stage name Diplo is a Los Angeles-based American DJ music producer rapper and songwriter. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer.
Asma Gull Hasan.  Asma Gull Hasan (Urdu: أسماء گل حسن‎) (born in 1974) is a Pakistani-American award-winning writer. Her work includes the book Red White and Muslim a biographical view of growing up as an American Muslim. She is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants born in Chicago USA and raised in Pueblo Colorado.
Naka Rabemanantsoa.  Naka Rabemanantsoa is a pianist and composer of vakondrazana and ba-gasy music from the central highlands of Madagascar. He was a major composer for the Malagasy theatrical genre that reached its peak between 1920 and 1940 at the Theatre d'Isotry in Antananarivo.
Sheryl Bailey.  Sheryl Bailey (born May 20 1966) is an American jazz guitarist and educator based in New York City. She has released six albums.
Hugh Dempsey.  Hugh Aylmer Dempsey CM (born November 7 1929) is a Canadian historian an author and the Chief Curator Emeritus of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary Alberta. Dempsey has authored more than 20 books focusing primarily on the history of people of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary and was made an honorary chief of the Kainai Blackfoot in 1967.
Mark Dapin.  Mark Dapin (born 1963) is an Australian journalist columnist and author.
Doris Lessing.  Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist poet playwright librettist biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950) the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69) The Golden Notebook (1962) The Good Terrorist (1985) and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Kyra Markham.  Kyra Markham (1891–1967) was an actress figurative painter and printmaker. Markham was briefly married to the architect Lloyd Wright and five years later married David Stoner Gaither. She worked for the Federal Arts Project creating works of social realism that documented American life in the 1930s. During World War II her art was focused on the propaganda effort against the Nazis.
Mysie Monte.  Mysie Monte (1892 - 9 January 1983) was an English stage and television actress best known for her long-running portrayal of Mrs Boyle in Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap at the New Ambassadors Theatre. She played the part for twelve and a half years between 2 May 1955 and 26 November 1967 with a break between 20 November 1960 and 6 November 1961 when she was replaced by the actress Madoline Thomas.
Paul Rosenberg (music manager).  Paul D. Rosenberg (born August 1 1971) is an American music manager and esquire known for his association with hip hop artists Eminem The Knux DJ AM pop punk band Blink-182 and Action Bronson.
Andrea Stella.  Andrea Stella (fl. 1620s) was an Italian priest and composer.
Joe Evans (musician).  Joe Evans (October 7 1916 – January 17 2014) was a jazz alto saxophonist.Born in Pensacola Florida he was active between 1939 and 1965 playing in the big bands of Jay McShann (coinciding with Charlie Parker) Jimmy Forrest and Gene Ramey; Don Redman and Louis Armstrong. In 1944 he recorded with Mary Lou Williams as a member of a band including Coleman Hawkins Bill Coleman and Denzil Best. At the beginning of 1945 he recorded for J.
Hisako Matsubara.  Hisako Matsubara (松原 久子 Matsubara Hisako May 21 1935 in Kyoto) is a Japanese novelist who writes in German and English as well.Born as the daughter of prominent Shinto priest she went to high school in Kyoto. She attended Tokyo's International Christian University where she studied comparative religion and literature. After receiving a BA she moved to the United States to study theater arts at the Pennsylvania State University from which she graduated with a MA.
Vishnu Prabhakar.  Vishnu Prabhakar (June 21 1912 – April 11 2009) was a Hindi writer. He had several short stories novels plays and travelogues to his credit. Prabhakar's works have elements of patriotism nationalism and messages of social upliftment.He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award in 1995 and the Padma Bhushan (the third highest civilian honor of India) by the Government of India in 2004.
Curt Hansen (actor).  Curt Hansen is an American-born Wisconsin native actor/singer. Hansen graduated from Hartford Union High School in Hartford WI in 2005. Hansen is performing with the First National Tour of Wicked in the role of Fiyero. In 2010 Hansen was the Gabe understudy/cover in the Tony award winning Broadway musical Next to Normal and continued in the role of Gabe in the First National Tour of the show through 2010-2011.
Luiza Possi.  Luiza Possi (born June 26 1984) is a Brazilian pop singer. She is the daughter of another famous Brazilian singer Zizi Possi.
Dany Robin.  Dany Robin (French pronunciation: ​[dani ʁɔbɛ̃]) was a French actress of the 1950s and the early 1960s.
Rama Ravi.  Rama Ravi is a Carnatic vocalist and recipient of the Sangita Kala Acharya award from the Madras Music Academy.
Drew Wright.  Drew Edward Wright (born on October 5 1979) is a Canadian who is best known for being a top three finalist on the sixth season of Canadian Idol.
Judy Corbalis.  Judy Corbalis is a novelist and short-story writer from New ZealandShe graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1991.
Nathacha Appanah.  Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah (born 1973) is a Mauritian-French author. She comes from a traditional Indian family specifically Telegu.She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at Le Mauricien and Week-End Scope before emigrating to France.Since 1998 Nathacha Appanah is well-known as an active writer. Her first book Les Rochers de Poudre d'Or (published by Éditions Gallimard) received the  Prix du Livre RFO.
Fred Punahoa.  Fred Punahoa (also spelled Punahou) was a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Kalapana Hawaii. Though only two known recordings exist of Uncle Fred he remains one of the most influential slack key artists of all time.His legacy as a teacher can be attested to by such prominent students as Ledward Kaapana and Sonny Lim both now-famous slack key guitarists who credit Uncle Fred as a primary teacher and inspiration.
Anahí.  Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla better known as Anahí (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈi]) (born May 14 1983) is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress.She is best known for starring in Alondra (telenovela) (1995) Mujeres Engañadas (1999) Primer Amor (2000) Clase 406 (2003) Rebelde (2004) and Dos Hogares (2011). She was a member of RBD who were nominated for a Latin Grammy and sold over 20 million records.Before RBD Anahí released four albums.
Stacy Jefferson.  Stacy Jefferson is an actress who was the voice of Vixen and Adder in the acclaimed TV series The Animals of Farthing Wood. She was also the voice of Rosa in the Japanese cartoon Makyu Senjo (1998) and provided voices for the Moomintroll TV series.
Ludovico Mazzanti.  Ludovico Mazzanti (Orvieto 1686 – Viterbo 1775) was an Italian painter. He was a follower of the school of Giovanni Battista Gaulli known as Baciccio (died 1709)
Charles Lloyd (jazz musician).  Charles Lloyd (born March 15 1938 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute he has occasionally recorded on alto saxophone and more exotic reed instruments which include the Hungarian tárogató.Like New Orleans 400 miles to the south on the Mississippi Memphis has a rich river culture and musical heritage saturated in blues gospel and jazz.
Frederick Carl Frieseke.  Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7 1874 – August 24 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. He is especially known for painting female subjects both indoors and out.
DJ Jayceeoh.  Jacob Charles Osher (born June 6 1982) more popularly known as JayCeeOh is a American DJ record producer and remixer.
Jaime Jamgochian.  Jaime Anne Jamgochian is a Christian singer-songwriter.
Fuma Kikuchi.  Fuma Kikuchi (菊池 風磨 Kikuchi Fūma born March 7 1995) is a Japanese singer actor and dancer he was in B.I Shadow and is a member of Sexy Zone.
JJ Lawhorn.  Jonathan Wayne JJ Lawhorn (born in Hanover County Virginia) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Lawhorn was discovered online by producer Jeremy Stover in 2010. He signed with EMI Music Publishing within a year. He signed a recording contract with Average Joes Entertainment a record label owned by Colt Ford in June 2011 when he was 17 years old.Lawhorn's debut album Original Good Ol' Boy was released by Average Joes on July 16 2013. The album was produced by Stover.
Cate Le Bon.  Cate Le Bon is a singer-songwriter from Penboyr Wales now based in Los Angeles. She sings in both English and Welsh.Le Bon first gained public attention when she supported Gruff Rhys (of the Super Furry Animals) on his 2007 solo UK tour. She has since played Glastonbury Latitude and the Green Man Festival. Le Bon appeared as a guest vocalist on Neon Neon's 2008 single I Lust U from their album Stainless Style.
Sharman Macdonald.  Sharman Macdonald (born 8 February 1951) is a Scottish playwright screenwriter and former actress. She is the mother of the film actress Keira Knightley.
Klaus Meine.  Klaus Meine (born May 25 1948) is a German singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Scorpions. Besides guitarist Rudolf Schenker he is the only member of the group to appear on every album despite the fact that he did not join until 1970.
Audrey Fildes.  Audrey Fildes (24 November 1922 Liverpool Lancashire – 13 September 1997 Canada) was a British actress whose first film credit was the 1947 production While I Live. In 1949 she played the role of Louis Mazzini's mother who was ostracised by her aristocratic family in the film Kind Hearts and Coronets.Granddaughter of Victorian painter Sir Luke Fildes Audrey showed keen interest in acting while very young.
Celia S. Friedman.  Celia S. Friedman (born January 12 1957) is a writer of science fiction and fantasy.To date she has published ten novels several short stories and a sourcebook for White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game. Originally a costume designer by trade Friedman began her publishing career in 1986 and quit costuming in 1996 to write full-time.
Hugh Prather.  Hugh Prather (January 23 1938 – November 15 2010) was a writer minister and counselor most famous for his first book Notes to Myself (ISBN 0-553-27382-5) which was first published in 1970 by Real People Press and later reprinted by Bantam Books.
Grant Collins.  Grant Collins (born in Australia) is a professional drummer and general practitioner. He is one of the only drummers to have played on more albums than he's listened to. His drumming career is funded primarily by his day job at the Mater Hospital children's ward where he provides medical support for children ridden by AIDS. In addition to his medical support on weekends he performs his solo show on a 97 piece drum kit for the AIDS ward.
Randall Szott.  Randall Szott lives in Charlotte VT. He holds an MFA in art critical practices from The Ohio State University an MA in Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco State University and a BA in Liberal Arts with a philosophy minor from the University of Central Florida.
Bento Teixeira.  Bento Teixeira (1561? – 1618?) was a Portuguese poet. He is considered to be the introducer of Baroque in the Portuguese colony of Brazil and the first Brazilian poet — however this last affirmation is contested by many historians.
Rain Sultanov.  Rain Aladdin oglu Sultanov (born April 29 1965 Baku) is an Azerbaijani jazz musician saxophonist and Honorary Artist of Azerbaijan.
Masataka Azuma.  Masataka Azuma (我妻 正崇 Azuma Masataka born January 25) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo Japan.
Sagol 59.  Khen Rotem known by his stage name Sagol 59 (Hebrew: סגול 59‎) is an Israeli rapper. He is a Jerusalem-based hip-hop MC and hailed as the Israeli godfather of hip hop. He also writes about music for many Israeli publications including Haaretz and the Tel Aviv guide City Mouse.
Brander Matthews.  James Brander Matthews (February 21 1852 – March 31 1929) was an American writer and educator. He was the first full-time professor of dramatic literature at an American university and played a significant role in establishing theater as a subject worthy of formal study in the academic world. His interests ranged from Shakespeare Molière and Ibsen to French boulevard comedies folk theater and the new realism of his own day.
Tim Sult.  Tim Sult is the guitarist for hard rock band Clutch. He is also the guitarist for an instrumental side project The Bakerton Group and schedule permitting the Reggae/Rock band Lionize as well as recently formed band Deep Swell. Tim Sult has remained the guitarist for Clutch since the group started in 1990.
Wu Yonggang.  Wu Yonggang (November 1 1907 – December 18 1982) was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Today Wu is best known for his directorial debut The Goddess. Wu had a long career with the Lianhua Film Company in the 1930s in Chongqing during the war and in the mainland after the 1949 communist revolution.
Alex Scholpp.  Alex Scholpp is a German guitarist born in Stuttgart who is known above all for his activity in the band Farmer Boys. His hobbies are guitar jamming with colleagues he likes beer and testing new guitar equipment. He also likes teaching his students to play guitar. From sports he enjoyes skateboard and surfing. He loves finding new artists that he doesn't know yet and cooking with his wife.
Kazuha Oda.  Kazuha Oda is a Japanese singer/songwriter grew up in São Paulo and New York. She has worked with wide variety of performers including Grammy winner Bob James. She has released several albums in Japan including work on some Japanese Anime Songs. Much of her work has appeared on the iTunes Anime Songs top 100 around the world.Kazuha started her rock band Kazha and released the full length album Overture and the single I Still Remember -Single version-.
Tchello.  Tchello (born Eduardo Simão Lopes; January 2 1975 in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais) is the former bassist and co-founding member of the Brazilian rock band Detonautas Roque Clube.
Jouni Inkala.  Jouni Mikael Inkala was born on 15 April 1966 in Kemi Finland. Until the year 2005 he had published seven collections of poems of which the latest were Kirjoittamaton (Unwritten 2002) and Sarveisaikoja (Periods of stratum cornea 2005).
Martha Tilton.  Martha Tilton (November 14 1915 - December 8 2006) was an American popular singer during America's swing era and traditional pop period. She is best known for her 1939 recording of And the Angels Sing with Benny Goodman.Tilton and her family lived in Texas and Kansas relocating to Los Angeles when she was seven years old.
Tomáš Klus.  Tomáš Klus (born May 15 1986) is a Czech musician and songwriter from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
Fab Dupont.  Fabrice Dupont better known as 'Fabulous' Fab Dupont is a French Mixing Engineer Record Producer and Educator. He was born in Canada but his parents moved back to France when he was a toddler. Growing up in Paris he studied music theory and saxophone before moving to Boston Massachusetts where he attended Berklee college of music majoring in Songwriting and Jazz Composition.
Hasan Enami Olya.  Hasan Enami Olya (Persian: حسن انعامي عليا; Azerbaijani: Həsən Enami Təbrizi) (born 15 March 1967) is an Iranian opera singer. Since 1997 he has been a soloist of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Baku Azerbaijan. He has performed many concerts both in Azerbaijan and abroad including Russia Georgia Turkey Bolivia Ukraine France Japan Germany and Dubai.
Richard E. Jennings.  Richard E. Jennings was a comic book artist who lived and worked in the UK.
Flora Finch.  Flora Finch (17 June 1867 – 4 January 1940) was an English-born film actress who starred in over 300 silent films including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company.
Graham Joyce.  Dr Graham Joyce (born 22 October 1954) is an English writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards including the O Henry Award for both his novels and short stories. He grew up in a small mining village just outside of Coventry to a working-class family. After receiving a B.Ed. from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 and a M.A. from the University of Leicester in 1980. Joyce worked as a youth officer for the National Association of Youth Clubs until 1988.
Faolán Mac an Ghabhann na Scéal.  Faolán Mac an Ghabhann na Scéal died 1423 was an Irish writer and genealogist. He was one of the ten scribes of Leabhar Ua Maine commissioned by Archbishop of Tuam Muircertach Ó Ceallaigh (died 1407). His poem Adham ar n-athair uile is penned in the text by Ádhamh Cúisín. Nothing else seems to be known of him.
Raed Khalil.  Raed Khalil (born March 1 1973) is a Syrian cartoonist. He started publishing his drawings in 1988 and since then he has participated of many national and international competitions and has won many awards. Some of his notable awards have come from the Syrian Youth Festival (Damascus 1989) the Iranian Culture Center (Tehran 1992–2003) Teachers United (Damascus 1995) and the Golagha Contest (Tehran 2003).
Chika Anzai.  Chika Anzai (安済 知佳 Anzai Chika born December 22 1990 in Fukui Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress. She is affiliated with Avex.
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.  Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (August 19 1907 – May 19 1979) was a Hindi novelist literary historian essayist critic and scholar.
Patricia Paay.  Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij (born April 7 1949) best known as Patricia Paay is a Dutch singer radio host glamour model and television personality. In the Netherlands she is well known for her musical career which spans over four decades. She is also regularly featured on Dutch television and in Dutch tabloid media.
Brendon Small.  Brendon Small (born February 15 1975 in Springfield Illinois) is an American sitcom writer/producer actor comedian voice actor composer and musician. He is best known as the co-creator of the animated series Home Movies (along with Loren Bouchard) and Metalocalypse (along with Tommy Blacha) and as the creator of the virtual death metal band Dethklok.
Joe Ma (actor).  Joe Ma Tak-chung (simplified Chinese: 马德钟; traditional Chinese: 馬德鐘; pinyin: Mǎ Dézhōng; Jyutping: maa5 dak1 zung1; born 27 June 1968) is a Hong Kong TVB actor. He was a policeman before he joined the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1993. He was a member of the elite G4.Ma is one of a few Hong Kong actors who are former members of Hong Kong discipline or colonial services.
Lillian Nordica.  Lillian Nordica (December 12 1857 – May 10 1914) was an American opera singer who had a major stage career in Europe and her native country.Nordica established herself as one of the foremost dramatic sopranos of the late 19th century and early 20th century due to the high quality of her powerful yet flexible voice and her ability to perform an unusually wide range of roles in the German French and Italian operatic repertoires.
Benga (musician).  Benga (born Adegbenga Adejumo 28 November 1986) is a British musician from Croydon known for being one of the pioneers of dubstep record production. As a teenager he used to hang out at the Big Apple record shop in Croydon and make his own tunes at home on PlayStation. The tunes caught the attention of dubstep producer Hatcha who worked at the shop and by the age of 15 Benga had made his first record Skank released on Big Apple's own record label.
Beryl Markham.  Beryl Markham (26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a British-born Kenyan author aviator adventurer and racehorse trainer. During the pioneer days of aviation she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She is now primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night.
Jørn Lande.  Jørn Lande (born May 31 1968) is a Norwegian heavy metal singer who has sold over seven million records worldwide. He is known for being the former vocalist of bands Masterplan Ark Allen/Lande Beyond Twilight Millenium Vagabond and The Snakes as well as for his successful solo career as Jorn.
Kundurti Anjaneyulu.  Kundurti Anjaneyulu (Telugu: కుందుర్తి ఆంజనేయులు) (December 16 1922 – 1982) was a Telugu poet. He was a winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is also known as “Vachana Kavitha Pitamahudu” (Father of prose poetry).
Girolamo da Ponte.  Girolamo da Ponte also known as Gerolamo Bassano (3 June 1566 – 8 Nov 1621) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Born at Bassano del Grappa 3 June 1566 he was the youngest son of painter Jacopo da Bassano. He also copied his father's pictures and like his brother Giambattista must take his share in the prolific number of canvases attributed to Jacopo Bassano. He painted an Apparition of the Virgin to St. Barbara in Bassano.
James Otto Lewis.  James Otto Lewis (1799 – 1858) was an American artist who was noted for his portraits of Native Americans and other figures of the American frontier.
Wilhelm Genazino.  Wilhelm Genazino (born 22 January 1943 Mannheim) is a German journalist and author.In the 1960s he studied German philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time he worked inter alia for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy Abschaffel.
Ryan Alexander Bloom.  Ryan Alexander Bloom is an American drummer author and private teacher. He is known for being a former member of the Colorado based thrash metal band Havok and the author of the Double Bass Drumming Explained series.
Perry Lentz.  Perry Carlton Lentz (born 27 March 1943 in Anniston Alabama) is a teacher an author and professor of English language and literature at Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio.
Mana Ogawa.  Mana Ogawa (小川 真奈 Ogawa Mana born July 2 1993) is a Japanese singer voice actress fashion model and former child actress. Her debut album 1 Teenage Blues (①ティーネイジ ブルース Ichi Tīneija Burūzu) was released on July 21 2010. The album charted at No.100 on the Oricon album charts. She is currently a member of Canary Club CAN'S division with Ayumi Takada.
Gazza (musician).  Lazaruz Karandu Shiimi (born 10 March 1977) known by his stage name as Gazza is a Namibian kwaito musician from Oshakati. As a soccer lover he nicknamed himself Gazza after famous English soccer player Paul Gascoigne. He is one of the most commercially successful recording artists in Namibia. Gazza is one of the best selling musicians in his country. Gazza established his self-named music company Gazza Music Productions in 2003 which gained popularity in 2004.
André Bloch (composer).  André Bloch (14 January 1873 in Wissembourg – 7 August 1960 in Paris) was a French composer and music educator. He studied with André Gedalge Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier. The prize enabled him to pursue further studies at the French Academy in Rome. In 1898 he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris as a professor of harmony.
John Bruce Wallace.  John Bruce Wallace is a composer improvisational guitarist painter graphic artist philosopher and Information Technology consultant. Being recognized for developing a new approach to electric guitar the prime focus of his musical work is the expansion of the voicings of the electric guitar through improvised compositions. He has a Philosophy degree from the University of Southern Maine and a degree from the University of Maryland University College in Information Systems Management.
Bruce Ruffin.  Bruce Ruffin (born Bernardo Constantine Balderamus 17 February 1952 St Catherine Jamaica) is a rocksteady and reggae artist.
Alexis Conran.  Alexis Conran (aka Alex Conran) is a British actor writer and stage magician. He was born in South Paris France and moved to Greece when he was a child.
Angela Au.  Angela Au Man-sze (born 25 January 1983) is a Hong Kong singer and radio DJ/Web J. A former a member of the cantopop group Cookies she had previously been a student and part-time model.She entered a singing contest held by Yes!/EMI to enter Cookies then left Cookies and entered Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK radio 2) in 2003.The youth online platform Teen Power (under RTHK) was established in 2004 she has been a Web J since then.
Charles Kenyon.  Charles Kenyon (2 November 1880 – 27 June 1961) was an American screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 114 films between 1915 and 1946. He was married to actress Jane Winton from 1927 to 1930.Kenyon was born in San Francisco California and died in Hollywood California.
Patricia Verdugo.  Patricia del Cármen Verdugo Aguirre (November 30 1947 – January 13 2008) was a Chilean journalist writer and human rights activist. She focused much of her investigative reporting on the human rights abuses committed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Leonard Fein.  Leonard Fein is a writer and teacher. He founded the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy and was co-founder and for 12 years editor of Moment Magazine.He is the author of four books editor of two and has written extensively for newspapers magazines and journals. Since 1990 he has written a syndicated weekly OpEd column for the Forward newspaper. Fein is also the founder of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger a Jewish hunger-relief organization started in 1985.
Jo Chen.  Jo Chen (Chinese: 咎井淳; pinyin: Jiù Jǐngchún; born July 4 1976) is a female comic book artist and writer best known for her highly detailed painted comic book covers. She is also known by the pen name TogaQ and is known as Jun Togai (Togai Jun 咎井淳) in the Japanese comic industry.
Zhang Ye (singer).  Zhang Ye (simplified Chinese: 张也; traditional Chinese: 張也; pinyin: Zhāng Yě; born May 28 1968) is a Chinese singer.
Manishi Dey.  Manishi Dey (1909–1966) was an Indian painter of the Bengal school of art. He was born in Dhaka on 22. September 1909 and died on 31. January 1966 in Kolkata. He was the younger brother of Mukul Dey a pioneering Indian teacher and engraver.Manishi Dey was one of the most versatile students of Abanindranath Tagore’s Bengal school of art whose close students also included Nandalal Bose Asit Kumar Haldar Sarada Ukil Mukul Dey K. Venkatappa and Jamini Roy.
Bartolomeo Carducci.  Bartolomeo Carducci (1560 – 14 November 1608) was an Italian painter better known as Carducho the Spanish corruption of his Italian patronymic.
Marie Guilleray.  Marie Guilleray (born in August 1978) is a vocal performer improviser and composer currently based in The Hague Netherlands. She performs mainly in free improvisation experimental and contemporary music. Her work focuses on vocal extended techniques sound poetry and the combination of voice and electronics. Currently she is a member of Royal improvisers Orchestra and works on various experimental improvised and electronic music projects.
Sep E. Scott.  Septimus Edwin Scott (1879-1965) who signed his name Sep E. Scott was a British painter illustrator and comics artist.He was born in Sunderland Tyne and Wear England on 19 March 1879 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. By 1903 he was exhibiting his landscape and portrait paintings at the Royal Academy.
DJ Froggy.  Steven Howlett (8 November 1949 – 28 March 2008) aka DJ Froggy was an English DJ who worked as a 'beatmixer DJ' on the British Club music scene in the 1970s and 1980s.
David Downing.  David Downing is a contemporary British author of mystery novels and nonfiction. His works have been reviewed by Publishers Weekly the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is known for his convincing depiction of World War II and Berlin probably due to his studies and familiarity with the subject. He has written a series of espionage thrillers based around Anglo-American character John Russell exploring Germany in the 1940s.
Miss Lupita project.  Miss Lupita is a project based in Mexico City with the aim of reviving the traditional craft of Lupita dolls. The dolls originated in the late 18th and early 19th century as a way to cheaply copy more expensive imported dolls for poorer families. The dolls are made from a very hard form of papier-mâché called “cartonería” which is also used to create alebrijes and skeletal figures for Day of the Dead.
Paul Cadmus.  Paul Cadmus (December 17 1904 – December 12 1999) was an American artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism. He painted with egg tempera.
Yvonne Gage.  Yvonne Gage (born 1959) is a backing vocalist and a soul singer mainly active in the 1980s.Her work as a session musician includes providing vocals for far popular and prolific music artists including Celine Dion Joe Smooth Gene Chandler and R. Kelly.Her only album Virginity featuring cover showing mildly risque figures of the singer wearing a seal-fur coat was released in 1984 under the independent Chicago International Music label.
Alice Zorn.  Alice Zorn is a Canadian author. Originally from Hamilton Ontario Zorn now lives in Montreal Quebec. She is the author of various short stories published in a wide variety of Canadian magazines as well as Ruins & Relics and Arrhythmia.
Adamski.  Adamski (born Adam Paul Tinley 4 December 1967) is an English dance music producer prominent at the time of acid house for his tracks N-R-G and Killer (a collaboration with Seal).
Haruko (musician).  Haruko is the pseudonym of German singer songwriter and guitarist Susanne Stanglow.
Brendan Benson.  Brendan Benson (born November 14 1970 Royal Oak Michigan) is an American musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar bass guitar keyboard and drums. He has released five solo albums and is a member of the band The Raconteurs.
Agustin Cueva.  Agustin Cueva Davila (Ibarra September 23 1937 – Quito May 1 1992) was an Ecuadorian writer literary critic and sociologist.He had great interest in dependency theory and was at the center of many political debates both within Ecuador and throughout Latin America. He received the Essay Award from the Siglo XXI Publishing House for his book El desarrollo del capitalismo en América Latina (1977; The Development of Capitalism in Latin America).
Noah Van Sciver.  Noah Van Sciver (born July 7 1984 in New Jersey) is an independent American cartoonist. He is the younger brother of comics artist Ethan Van Sciver.
Heshmat Sanjari.  Heshmat Sanjari (1918 - January 4 1995) (Persian: حشمت سنجري‎) was a well-known Persian (Iranian) conductor and composer the son of Hossein Sanjari who was well-known player on tar in Persia.
Vinayak Torvi.  Pandit Vinayak Malharrao Torvi (born : 4 September 1948) is an Indian Classical (Hindustani) Vocalist. He belongs to the Gwalior and Kirana Gharana school of music.
Kureepuzha Sreekumar.  Kureepuzha Sreekumar (b. 10 April 1955 in Kureepuzha Kollam Kerala) is a noted Malayalam poet of the post modern era.
Jean Shepherd.  Jean Parker Shepherd (July 26 1921 – October 16 1999) was an American raconteur radio and TV personality writer and actor who was often referred to by the nickname Shep.With a career that spanned decades Shepherd is best known to modern audiences for the film A Christmas Story (1983) which he narrated and co-scripted based on his own semi-autobiographical stories.
Georg Brandes.  Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (4 February 1842 – 19 February 1927) was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the Modern Breakthrough of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30 Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy in literature.
George Hunter (author).  George Leland Hunter A.B. (1867 – 1927) was an American authority on decorative art. He was born at Bellingham Massachusetts and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard University (A.B. 1889). He taught at Chicago Illinois for a decade then moved to New York City. His writings appeared in many magazine articles and in several books. He wrote Tapestries their Origin History and Renaissance (1912) which was regarded as the finest book in English on the subject.
Sheila Chandra.  Sheila Chandra (born 14 March 1965 in London) is a former English pop singer of Indian descent. She has not been able to speak or sing due to a medical condition and retired from music in 2010.
Elmer Snowden.  Elmer Snowden (October 9 1900 – May 14 1973) was a banjo player of the jazz age. He also played guitar and in the early stages of his career all the reed instruments. He contributed greatly to jazz in its early days as both a player and a bandleader and is responsible for launching the careers of many top musicians. However Snowden himself has been largely overlooked in jazz history.
Hal Patino.  Hal Patino (born Hasso Patino in Las Vegas Nevada) is an American bass guitar player who has been a member of the King Diamond and Force of Evil metal bands. He also played in Blakk Totem Maltese Falcon Palladion and Doctor Butcher.On May 4 2010 the band Pretty Maids announced that Hal will be their new bass player replacing Kenn Jackson. He left the band in early 2011 due to musical differences.Hal Patino also has a son who is the lead singer of the band Maryann Cotton.
Mongo Santamaría.  Ramón Mongo Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7 1917 in Havana Cuba – February 1 2003 in Miami Florida) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard Afro Blue recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado Tito Puente Cal Tjader Fania All Stars etc.
Sophie Zelmani.  Sophie Zelmani (born 12 February 1972 in Stockholm as Sophie Edkvist) is a Swedish singer-songwriter who released her first single in 1995 called Always You.
Hermann Vogel (German illustrator).  Hermann Vogel (16 October 1854 – 22 February 1921) was a German illustrator.Vogel was born in Plauen Kingdom of Saxony as the son of a master builder. From 1874–75 he studied at the art academy of Dresden.Vogel worked for the publishing company Braun & Schneider and was a founding member of the DeutscheKunstgesellschaft (German art association) and contributed to Julius Lohmeyer's journal Die deutsche Jugend and the weekly periodical Fliegende Blätter.
Philitas of Cos.  Philitas of Cos (/fɪˈlaɪtəs/; Greek: Φιλίτας Philītas; c. 340 – c. 285 BC) sometimes spelled Philetas (/faɪˈliːtəs/; Φιλήτας Philētas; see Bibliography below) was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. A Greek associated with Alexandria he flourished in the second half of the 4th century BC and was appointed tutor to the heir to the throne of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Myriam Montemayor Cruz.  Myriam Montemayor Cruz (born February 8 1981 Monterrey Nuevo León Mexico) better known as Myriam is a Mexican recording artist known for winning the first season of Mexican talent show La Academia.
Valya Dudycz Lupescu.  Valya Dudycz Lupescu (also known as Valya Lupescu) is a Ukrainian American writer of magic realism and speculative fiction.
Holly Beth Vincent.  Holly Beth Vincent is an American singer songwriter multi-instrumental musician and leader of the band Holly and the Italians.
JerryC.  JerryC (simplified Chinese: 张逸帆; traditional Chinese: 張逸帆; pinyin: Zhāng Yìfán; born August 31 1981) also known by his English name Jerry Chang is a Taiwanese guitarist and composer. He is known for his song Canon Rock a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D. He began playing the guitar at the age of 17 and the piano before age 15.
Victor Jorgensen.  Victor Jorgensen is a former Navy photo journalist who probably is most notable for taking a photograph of an impromptu scene in Manhattan on August 14 1945 but from a different angle and in a less dramatic exposure than that of a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Both photographs were of the same V-J Day embrace of a woman in a white dress by a sailor. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph V–J day in Times Square was published in Life.
Seamus Heaney.  Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet playwright translator and lecturer and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the early 1960s he became a lecturer in Belfast after attending university there and began to publish poetry. He lived in Sandymount Dublin from 1972 until his death.Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997 and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006.
Alejandro Dolina.  Alejandro Ricardo Dolina (born May 20 1944) is an Argentine broadcaster who also achieved fame as a musician writer radio host and television actor. He studied Law Music Literature and History.
Dan Romer.  Dan Romer is an acclaimed music producer recording engineer mixer and film composer. Currently based in Los Angeles Dan Romer has produced artists such as Jenny Owen Youngs April Smith and the Great Picture Show Ingrid Michaelson Lelia Broussard The Woes He Is We Jukebox The Ghost and A Great Big World Dan attended Purchase College and graduated from the Conservatory of Music’s studio production program in 2004. On May 16 2011 Dan produced Jukebox The Ghost's third studio album.
Lisa Zwerling.  Lisa Zwerling is an American physician (member of the American Medical Association) television writer and producer (member of the Writers Guild of America & the Producers Guild of America). She has worked on the medical drama series Presidio Med and ER and science fiction series FlashForward.
E. C. Spykman.  Elizabeth Choate Spykman (b. Elizabeth Choate on July 17 1896 in Southboro Massachusetts - d. 1965) was an American author known primarily for her children's books.Choate married geostrategist and founder of the Department of International Studies at Yale University Nicholas J. Spykman (pronounced Speak-man) in her mid-thirties and had two daughters. In 1955 at the age of 59 she published her first children's book A Lemon and a Star. Her second The Wild Angel was published in 1957.
Elias Breeskin.  Elias Breeskin (1896 – May 9 1969) was a violinist composer and conductor.Elias was born sometime in 1896 in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk) a small village in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire now part of Ukraine which has now morphed into the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk with over a million inhabitants. The dam on the Dneiper River shown on the film Doctor Zhivago is in this city.
Geoffrey Chater.  Geoffrey Chater (born 23 March 1921) is a British actor who was born in Barnet Hertfordshire. He has starred in both film and television projects. His television credits include appearances in The Champions Dad's Army Callan Heartbeat Foyle's War One Foot in the Grave and Midsomer Murders.
Jun Azumi (voice actor).  Jun Azumi (安澄 純 Azumi Ju born October 25) is a Japanese voice actor narrator and DJ who is affiliated with OYS Planning & Produce.
Doreen Reid Nakamarra.  Doreen Reid Nakamarra (c. 1955 - 20 October 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter. Reid was considered an important artist within the Western Desert cultural bloc. She was a leading painter at the Papunya Tula artist cooperative in Central Australia.Reid was born in Mummine near Warburton Western Australia in the mid-1950s.
Maria Pia De Vito.  Maria Pia De Vito is an Italian jazz singer composer and arranger.
M. F. K. Fisher.  Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3 1908 – June 22 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book Serve it Forth was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature travel and memoir.
Chris Grabiec.  Chris Grabiec (born Krzysztof Pawel Grabiec 1975 Sarnia) is a British trance music producer songwriter and DJ based in London United Kingdom.
Mike Diana.  Michael Christopher Mike Diana (born 1969) is an underground cartoonist who became the first artist ever to receive a criminal conviction for obscenity for artwork in the United States.
Marguerite Huré.  Marguerite Huré (1895–1967) was a French stained glass artist. She is considered to be the artist who introduced abstraction into French religious glassmaking.Huré first studied with glass artist Émile Ader before founding her own atelier in 1920.
Andi Fraggs.  Andi Fraggs (born Andrew Fraggs Bennett in 1986 Merseyside England) is a British singer-songwriter producer human and animal rights campaigner and journalist. Fraggs contributed to a number of internationally successful musical projects before embarking on a solo career in 2010. His debut album Always First was released in 2012. It included his most successful single to date Beautiful Feeling.
Peter R. Holm.  Peter Røwde Holm ( born 5 April 1931) is a Norwegian poet author and translator. Holm has also worked as an observer at the United Nations' arms control and disarmament conferences. Ever since his writing debut in 1955 he has held an important position in Norwegian poetry. He has also published prose and written articles on foreign policy matters.
Dave Eggers.  Dave Eggers (born March 12 1970) is an American writer editor and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter. He is also the founder of McSweeney's the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the founder of ScholarMatch a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition.
Hera Björk.  Hera Björk Þórhallsdóttir (born 29 March 1972) is an Icelandic singer. She is best known for representing Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song Je ne sais quoi.
Torrey Carter.  Torrey Carter (nicknamed T.C.) is an American R&B singer. He gained popularity after signing to Missy Elliott's The Goldmind Inc. as the first male artist under the label. There he began recording for his debut album The Life I Live which was led by the single Take That (US #87; US R&B #14). However due to the lack of mainstream success with the lead single the album was shelved and he departed from Goldmind.
Ray Keith.  Ray Keith is a British Drum and Bass DJ and record producer. Ray Keith is one of Drum and Bass' most well known producers and DJs. He is regarded as one of the pivotal figures in the early Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass scene. He has been playing Drum 'n' Bass all over the world for the past two decades.He had a passion for jazz funk and soul music which lead him to buy some turntables.
Janice McKenzie.  Janice McKenzie is an English actress. She has appeared in Coronation Street as Mrs Paton (2000) Family Affairs as Helen Cooper (1997-1999) and most famously as Gloria Weaver/Pollard in Emmerdale (2000-2003 2004). She has since appeared in televised dramas such as Holby City (2005) The Royal (2006) and Doctors (2004; 2007). However she has been most active in theatre throughout her career.She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has worked in theatres throughout the UK.
Paja Jovanović.  Pavle Paja Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Паја Јовановић; IPA: [pâʋlɛ pǎːja jɔʋǎːnɔʋit͡ɕ]; June 16 1859 – November 30 1957) was a Serbian Realist painter. He is considered one of Serbia's greatest academic painters. His most famous and recognizable paintings are the Serbian Migrations the Crowning of Stefan Dušan the Takovo Uprising Cockfighting Decorating of the Bride and the Fencing Lesson. He also painted many famous portraits.
Gussie Russell.  Austin (Gussie) Russell (1917 Doonagore Doolin – 18 May 2004 Ennistymon Hospital) was a stone cutter and a well known Irish traditional flute and whistle player out of Doolin County Clare Ireland. He was one of the three Russell brother to earn fame as musician together with his brothers Micho and Packie.Gussie learned to play music on a very young age learning most of his skills from his neighbour Patrick Flanagan a concertina player.
Aurora Snow.  Aurora Snow (born November 26 1981) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress and director.
Nicu Țărnă.  Nicu Țărnă (born July 25 1977 in Chișinău Moldova) is an musician actor songwriter showman and TV presenter from Moldova. He is the lead vocalist for the Moldovan alternative rock band Gândul Mâței.Since 2013 summer he is one of three judges of show Moldova are talent (Got Talent – Moldovan version).
Giulio Litta.  Giulio Litta (1822 – 29 May 1891) was an Italian composer. He was trained at the Milan Conservatory where his first opera Bianca di Santafiora premiered in 1843. He composed several more operas most of which premiered at theatres in Milan. His last opera Il violino di Cremona was heard at La Scala in 1882.
Amana Melome.  Amana Melome is an American and Italian singer and songwriter.Born in Germany but raised around the world Amana Melome is singer songwriter and Italian celebrity who sings in Italian French German and English.
George Logie-Smith.  George Logie-Smith OBE (2 December 1914 – 19 April 2007) was an Australian orchestra and choral conductor music examiner and music educator.
Florin Cezar Ouatu.  Florin Cezar Ouatu (Romanian pronunciation: [floˈrin ˈt͡ʃezar oˈwatu]; born 18 February 1980) also known as Cezar The Voice or simply Cezar is a Romanian opera singer and pianist. According to the opera magazine Das Opernglas he is one of the foremost exponents of the countertenor voice of his generation. He was chosen to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song It's My Life.
Mickey Gilley.  Mickey Leroy Gilley (born March 9 1936) is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s bringing him further success on not just the country charts but the pop charts as well.Among his biggest hits are Room Full of Roses Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time and the remake of the Soul hit Stand by Me.
Frank H. Wu.  Frank H. Wu (Chinese: 吳華揚; pinyin: Wú Huáyáng) is a law professor author and public intellectual. He is the chancellor and dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco California a position he assumed in July 2010. In 2013 the National Jurist ranked Wu as the most influential dean in legal education and the third in the nation among legal educators and advocates influencing the ongoing debate about legal education.
Fiona (singer).  Fiona (born Fiona Eileen Flanagan; September 13 1961) is an American rock music singer and actress best known as the love interest in the 1987 Bob Dylan vehicle Hearts of Fire.
Kris Lawrence.  Kristofer Lawrence Cadevida (born September 1 1982) better known as simply Kris Lawrence is s singer of dual American and Filipino citizenship.
Lee Myung-jin.  Lee Myung-jin (born 1974) is a Korean manhwa artist. His work Ragnarok was adapted into the game Ragnarok Online by Gravity Corp.. This game was later turned into an anime.
Tilo Baumgartel.  Tilo Baumgartel (born 1972) is a German painter. He currently lives and works in Leipzig.Tilo Baumgartel was born in Dresden. He attended the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig from 1991 to 1994.He is part of a group of young painters based in Leipzig along with Matthias Weischer Christoph Ruckhaberle and others. The common trait of the group is their production of large figurative oil paintings.
Herman Makarenko.  Herman Makarenko (born June 29 1961 Ukraine) is the conductor of the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko the chief conductor and artistic director of the orchestra «Kyiv-Classic» Honored Artist of Ukraine PhD Doctor of Arts Professor Ambassador of the Ukrainian culture.The author of the annual exclusive projects – «Concert Premier» «New Year Strauss Concert» «Declaration of Love».He has toured all over the world - USA Canada France Italy Russia Czech Republic Croatia Slovakia Macedonia Belgium Serbia and others. 
Matt Costa.  Matthew Albert Costa (born June 16 1982) is a singer-songwriter from Huntington Beach California.He has five independent releases: two self-recorded EPs and three full-length CDs released via Brushfire Records.
B. J. Cole.  Brian John B. J. Cole (born 17 June 1946 in Enfield Middlesex England) is an English pedal steel guitarist. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise Cole has played in many styles of music ranging from mainstream pop and rock to jazz and eclectic experimental music.He played and is heavily featured with Deke Leonard's (~MAN) Help Yourself band at the legendary live concert/recording 'Christmas at the Patti (19 Dec 1972 Patti Pavilion Swansea).
Ariel Levy.  Ariel Levy (born Oct. 17 1974) is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post The New Yorker Vogue Slate and the New York Times. Levy was named one of the Forty Under 40 most influential out individuals in the June/July 2009 issue of The Advocate.
Christopher Simmons.  Christopher Simmons (born April 10 1973) is a Canadian-born San Francisco-based graphic designer writer and educator.He served on the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA from 1996 to 1999 and again as president (2004–2006). Among his enduring accomplishments in that position was the creation of San Francisco Design Week and the introduction of the first public design-oriented lectures at the Apple Store a free program which continues to this day.
DJ Hazard (comedian).  DJ Hazard (born Dennis Joseph Hanard in 1953) is an American writer actor musician and standup comedian.
Tim Reynolds.  Tim Reynolds (born 15 December 1957 in Wiesbaden Germany) is a Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist known as both a solo artist and as a lead guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. One reviewer has declared Reynolds 'an under-rated master'.Reynolds plays the guitar piano sitar drums violin bass keyboards ethnic percussive instruments solo djembe harp uses drum machines for special effects and sings although his performances are primarily instrumental rock music.
Rozz Williams.  Rozz Williams (born Roger Alan Painter on November 6 1963; died on April 1 1998) was an American vocalist and musician most known for his work with the bands Christian Death Shadow Project (with musician Eva O) and with the industrial project Premature Ejaculation. Christian Death is cited by some as a pioneer of the American gothic rock scene as well as deathrock.
Bilja Krstić.  Biljana Bilja Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Биља Крстић Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [bǐʎana bǐːʎa kř̩ːstitɕ]) is a Serbian singer. She was born on November 9 1955 in Niš and brought up on the folk traditions of central Serbia. Biljana first studied music in Niš at the music school Dr. Vojislav Vučković after graduating she continued her education by travelling to Belgrade to study music at the Belgrade University of Arts.
Michael Martchenko.  Michael Martchenko (born August 1 1942) is a Canadian illustrator best known for illustrating many of the stories of Robert Munsch.Born in France he moved to Canada when he was seven where he graduated from the Ontario College of Art. He is an award winning illustrator and graphic artist.
Gregorio Mariani.  Gregorio Mariani (Ascoli Piceno August 24 1833 – Rome January 23 1902) was an Italian painter mainly of genre and costume genre subjects in oil and watercolor in addition to portraits.He is no best known for his engravings about Roman antiquities.
Jack McDonald (musician).  Jack McDonald is a Mexican-American musician best known for his collaborations with Cyril May. He has played guitar and co-written two albums[citation needed] with May Off the Beaten Track and Travelin' On [1] and has also performed on The Great Australian Salute II.Jack McDonald was born in Mexico to a Mexican mother and a Scots father (who played 11 instruments). Jack and his brother got their start playing music at the family's McDonald Restaurant in San Blas Mexico.
Joe Parker.  Joe Parker is a South African stand-up comedian and promoter (entertainment).Joe Parker is responsible for the long running comedy show Joe Parker's Comedy Express as well as the Improv Express devoted to improvisational theatre.In 2008 Joe Parker opened Parker's Comedy and Jive a dedicated venue for stand-up comedy in Johannesburg South Africa
Kalayna Price.  Kalayna Price is a nationally bestselling American author best known for her Alex Craft novels an urban fantasy series about a witch who solves crimes by speaking to the dead. She is represented by Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency.
Christopher d'Amboise.  Christopher d'Amboise (born 1960 in New York City) is a danseur choreographer writer and theatre director. Born and raised in New York City the son of dancers Jacques d'Amboise and Carolyn George d'Amboise became a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet where he worked closely with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins dancing all the major roles as well as originating several new works.
Brikt Jensen.  Brikt Jensen (15 September 1928 – 14 November 2011) was a Norwegian publisher writer journal editor professor who also hosted a popular TV program about literature.Jensen was born in Bergen and was made a PhD in 1964 with a thesis on François Mauriac's Ormebolet. He was editor for the literary magazine Vinduet from 1964 to 1969. He was manager for the publishing house Gyldendal Norsk Forlag from 1970 to 1980 and senior consultant from 1980 to 1993.
Boody Rogers.  Gordon G. Rogers (1904–1996) better known as Boody Rogers was an American comic strip and comic book cartoonist who created the superhero parody Sparky Watts.Born in Hobart Oklahoma Rogers attended the University of Arizona the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute. His artistic influences included Walter Berndt.
Audi Y Zentimiento.  Audi Castillon Portales (born July 1 1971) known by her stage name Audi Y Zentimiento is an American singer-songwriter. Starting in the early 2000s Castillon was nominated for Tejano Music Awards for Best New Female Artist and Best New Group. She was also nominated for Tejano Globe Awards for Best New Female Artist Best Online Popularity and Best New Group. She then started her own Record Company Audi Y Audi LLC.
Eric Andersen.  Eric Andersen (born February 14 1943 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter. His best-known songs from the 1960s folk era are Violets of Dawn Come to My Bedside and Thirsty Boots (the latter recorded by Judy Collins Bob Dylan amongst others) while the Blue River album released on Columbia records in 1972 and the song Is It Really Love At All? are popular from his work from the singer-songwriter movement.
Valeria Parrella.  Valeria Parrella (born 1974) is an Italian stage actress and short story writer. She was born in Torre del Greco in the Province of Naples. In 2003 she published the volume of short stories 'Mosca più balena' for which she was awarded the Premio Campiello in 2004 for the best debut. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies 'Pensa alla salute' (2003) 'Bloody Europe' (2004) and 'La qualità dell’aria' (2004) and in numerous journals.
Phillip Walker.  Phillip Walker (February 11 1937 – July 22 2010) was an American electric blues guitarist most noted for his 1959 hit single Hello My Darling produced by J. R. Fulbright. Although Walker continued playing throughout his life he recorded more sparsely.
Audun Erlien.  Audun Erlien (born 22 February 1967 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (bass guitar guitar and electronica) known from several albums in various genres.
Alex Lambert.  Alexander Don Alex Lambert (born December 10 1990) is an American singer-songwriter from North Richland Hills Texas who was a semi-finalist on the ninth season of American Idol and starred on Simon Fuller’s “post-reality” web show If I Can Dream.
Eugene Schuyler.  Eugene Schuyler (Ithaca New York February 26 1840 – Venice Italy July 16 1890) was a nineteenth-century American scholar writer explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi.
Matthew Diffee.  Matthew (Matt) Diffee is an American cartoonist whose works appear in the New Yorker magazine.
Solomon Hart.  Solomon Alexander Hart (April 1806 – 11 June 1881) was a British painter and engraver. He was the first Jewish member of the Royal Academy in London and was probably the most important Jewish artist working in England in the 19th century.
Graham Bell (singer).  Graham Thomas Bell (17 April 1948 Blyth Northumberland — 2 May 2008 London) was an English pop and rock singer.
Yitzhak Orpaz.  Yitshak Orpaz (Hebrew: יצחק אוורבוך אורפז) (born 1923) is an Israeli writer.
Åsmund Forfang.  Åsmund Forfang (born 22 May 1952) is a Norwegian writer. He has written several novels short story collections and children's books. He has also issued two non-fiction books about the mining communities of Kopperå and Løkken Verk.
Charli Baltimore.  Tiffany Lane (born August 16 1974) better known as Charli Baltimore is a Grammy-nominated American rapper–songwriter. Her stage name is taken from Geena Davis's character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Omar Souleyman.  Omar Souleyman is a musician from Ra's al-'Ayn Syria in the northeastern region of Syria. Souleyman performs traditional Middle Eastern songs in Kurdish and Arabic.
Krayzie Bone.  Anthony Henderson (born June 17 1974) better known as Krayzie Bone is an American rapper producer and entrepreneur. He is a member of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.
Harry Gamboa Jr..  Harry Gamboa Jr. (born 1951) is a Chicano essayist photographer director and performance artist. He was a founding member of the influential Chicano performance art collective ASCO.
Đani.  Radiša Trajković known by the stage name Đani is a Serbian turbo-folk singer popular in former Yugoslavia.He is married to Slađana.
Thom Barron.  Thom Barron (born March 27 1971 in Germany) is the stage name of a gay pornographic film actor; he is considered to be Germany's best-known international gay pornographic film actor.
Buddy Arnold.  Arnold Buddy Grishaver better known as Buddy Arnold (April 30 1926 The Bronx – November 9 2003 Los Angeles) was an American jazz saxophonist.Arnold played in Joe Marsala's and Georgie Auld's bands in the 1940s before serving in the Army from 1944 to 1946. Following this he played with Herbie Fields Buddy Rich George Williams and Claude Thornhill in the late 1940s before leaving active performance to study music and economics at Columbia University.
Quinn Fawcett.  Quinn Fawcett is the pen name of a pair of authors Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett who also write separately. Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet fictional wife of one of Napoleon's generals; a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft; and a series fictionalizing the espionage experiences of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
Yoshi Sodeoka.  Yoshi Sodeoka is a Japan born artist and musician who has been producing art projects since the early 1990s. 1989 he moved to New York City to study art and design at the Pratt Institute.His digital artwork has been featured on numerous DVDs film festivals art galleries and in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art Tate Britain Deitch Projects Turbulence.org Creative Time's Holiday Light Shows at the Grand Central Terminal and OFFF Festival in Spain.
Reba White Williams.  Reba White Williams (born May 21 1936) is an American author philanthropist and expert on fine art prints. As a novelist her influences include Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. She and her husband Dave H. Williams built the world's largest private collection of American prints; they also founded the Print Research Foundation.
Jonathan Lasker.  Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City New Jersey and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia California. He lives and works in New York City.Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants in 1987 and again in 1989. In 1989 he was also awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant.
Lil iROCC Williams.  Justin Williams (born March 3 1990) is an American rapper and actor. Williams began his career using the stage name Lil iROCC Williams but eventually dropped the Lil. His name is often stylized multiple ways including Irocc iROCC irocc and iroCc.Williams is a Christian which is heavily reflected in his lyrics. His moniker which is inspired by Proverbs 3:5 stands for I Rely On Christ Completely.
Ernst Pepping.  Ernst Pepping (born 12 September 1901 in Duisburg died 1 February 1981 in Spandau) was a German composer of classical music.
Olga Souza.  Olga Souza (born Olga Maria de Souza on 16 July 1968 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is a Brazilian singer and dancer. She is best known as a member of the musical project Corona produced by Checco Lee Marrow Bontempi.
William Gace.  William Gace (fl. 1580) was an English translator.
Laura Dickinson.  Laura Elsie Dickinson is an actress and singer from California who is a vocalist for featured songs on the Disney Channel shows Phineas and Ferb Sofia the First and Jake and the Never Land Pirates.
Charles-Richard Lambert.  Charles-Richard Lambert (died 1862) was a black American musician conductor and music educator. He and his family were noted for talent in music and gained international acclaim.
Antoine Blondin.  Antoine Blondin (11 April 1922 – 7 June 1991) was a French writer.He belonged to the literary group called the Hussards. He was also a sports columnist in L'Équipe. Blondin also wrote under the name Tenorio.
State of Bengal.  Sam Zaman (born S Zaman; 1972) recording as State of Bengal is a Pakistani-born British DJ and music producer of Bangladesh descent associated with the U.K. and Asian Underground movement.
Jim Burns (poet).  Jim Burns was born in Preston Lancashire 1936 attending a secondary modern school before working in mills and then joining the army in 1954. Stationed mainly in Germany Jim developed a love of Jazz and American writers both easily accessible through US forces radio and bookshops stocking new literature for service personnel.
Keanan Duffty.  Keanan Duffty (born 28 April 1964) is a British fashion designer and musician based in New York City. Duffty studied fashion design at Saint Martin's School of Art in London and graduated with a first class degree. He is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Paul Bonin.  Paul Bonin (born 24 May 1960) is a singer and musician (electric bass guitar) and a songwriter/composer. His body of published recorded work spans from 1980 to the present day.Bonin was born in Hammersmith London and grew up in north London. He began playing bass in north London punk band The Shit the only band to play at the National Union of Students rally in Hyde Park in front of a crowd of 5000 in March 1979.
Jim Mahfood.  Jim Mahfood (born March 29 1975 in St. Louis Missouri) a.k.a.
Robert Jacks.  Robert Jacks (born 1943) is an Australian painter sculptor and printmaker.Born in Melbourne Australia. He studied sculpture from 1958 to 1960 at the Prahran Technical College Melbourne and painting in 1961 and 1962 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now RMIT University).In 1966 he had his first solo exhibition at Gallery A Melbourne from which a work was purchased for the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.
L (South Korean singer).  Kim Myung-soo (Hangul: 김명수; hanja: 金明洙; Japanese: キム･ミョンス; born March 13 1992) also known by his stage name L is a South Korean singer dancer and actor. He is a vocalist and visual of the boy group Infinite under Woollim Entertainment.
Leinender.  Leinender is a musician Record producer and DJ born in Bordeaux France. He has been active since 2004 and is mostly known for his work in Trance music. He is also rated as one of the top DJs in France on the web site The DJ List.
Mian Ghulam Nabi Shori.  Mian Ghulam Nabi Shori popularly known as Shori Mian (1742–1792) was an Indian composer of Hindustani classical music. He was a court singer of Asaf-Ud-Dowlah Nawab of Awadh. He composed tappa one of the most difficult classical forms in Punjab. The brisk and ornate tappa form romantic in nature tappa's text is always in Punjabi. It was supposed to be a song of the cameleers of Punjab and Rajasthan.
Michael Harris (guitarist).  Michael Harris born in Dayton Ohio is an American guitarist and composer. He is most noted for his work as founder and guitarist for rock band Arch Rival and for his primarily instrumental progressive guitar work. His later music is a fusion of progressive metal and a hint of classical music. He cites the influence of his father (a jazz musician) and mother (a classical musician) for his unique style.
G.T. Moore.  Gerald Thomas G.T. Moore (born May 2 1949) is an Englishsinger composer and multi-instrumentalist with a recording career that stretches back to the early seventies.Recording and performing with numerous acclaimed artists as : Jimmy Cliff Lee 'Scratch' Perry Thin Lizzy Johnny Nash and artist like Joan Baez Airto Moreira covering his songs.
Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez.  Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez (born April 28 1957) is an experimental film artist based in Miami.
Tramaine Hawkins.  Tramaine Hawkins (born Tramaine Davis) is an American gospel singer who has won Grammy Dove and Stellar Awards.
Sue Terry.  Sweet Sue Terry (born 1959) is a jazz saxophonist and composer. While a student at the Hartt School in Hartford Connecticut Terry was a protégé of saxophonist Jackie McLean. McLean encouraged her to move to New York City where she was later mentored by Clifford Jordan Junior Cook and Barry Harris who collectively gave her the nickname Sweet Sue[citation needed].
Jean Arp.  Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French or Alsatian sculptor painter poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.When Arp spoke in German he referred to himself as Hans and when he spoke in French he referred to himself as Jean. Many people believe that he was born Hans and later changed his name to Jean but this is not the case.
Rick Besoyan.  Richard Besoyan (July 2 1924 – March 13 1970) was a singer actor playwright composer and director especially of operetta and musicals. He is best remembered for writing the successful satirical musical Little Mary Sunshine.
Anna Ataeva.  Anna Ataeva (born February 3 1980) is a Moscow-born contemporary artist now living in Los Angeles. She is best known for her work in Houston Texas through the Rice Media Center and local Houston galleries.
Antonio Bueno.  Antonio Bueno (born 1 September 1922) was an Italian painter of Spanish origin who acquired Italian citizenship in 1970. He was born in Berlin while his journalist father was posted there by the newspaper ABC of Madrid.
Shobhaa De.  Shobha Rajadhyaksha also known as Shobhaa De (born 7 January 1948) is an Indian columnist and novelist. De is best known for her depiction of socialites and sex in her works of fiction for which she has come to be known as the Jackie Collins of India.
Haruo Umezaki.  Haruo Umezaki (梅崎 春生 Umezaki Haruo February 15 1915 – July 19 1965) was a twentieth century Japanese writer of short stories about Japan during and after World War II.Born in Fukuoka Kyushu Umezaki studied at the 5th High School of Kumamoto University then at the Tokyo Imperial University where he majored in Japanese literature.
Frieda Friedman.  Frieda Friedman (born 1905) was a writer of children's literature who from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s published several short illustrated novels primarily intended for preteen and adolescent girls. Her works enjoyed republication and numerous printings through the 1970s and in some cases until the late 1980s.After earning a B.S. from New York University Friedman entered into graduate study at Columbia University and New York University.
Simon Brodkin.  Simon Brodkin is an English comedian previously a medical doctor who performs on the stand-up circuit and in comedy television series. He is best known for playing a character called Lee Nelson but also performs as other comedy characters. Performing solo stand-up since 2004 (or earlier) he has also written for and appeared on the television shows Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder in 2009 Lee Nelson's Well Good Show in 2010 and Lee Nelson's Well Funny People in 2013.
Hope Edelman.  Hope Edelman (born June 17 1964) is an American non-fiction author essayist and writing instructor.
Yoav (musician).  Yoav (born Yoav Sadan on October 15 1979 in Tel Aviv Israel) is a singer-songwriter of Israeli-Romanian descent raised in South Africa.His debut album Charmed and Strange was released in early 2008. Yoav's music features his own vocals and accompaniment by an acoustic guitar which he uses to create electronica-style beats with his hands. He has also released two singles Club Thing and Beautiful Lie the former having some success and charting in countries around Europe.
Edison Chen.  Edison Koon-hei Chen (born 7 October 1980) is a Hong Kong Canadian film actor musician producer entrepreneur and fashion designer. Chen is also the founder of CLOT Inc. and the CEO of Clot Media Division Limited. His native language is English but he can speak and sing in Cantonese and in Mandarin and is conversational in Japanese which allows him to be a part of multiple entertainment industries around the world.
KZ Tandingan.  Kristine Zhenie Lobrigas Tandingan (born March 11 1992 in Digos Davao del Sur Philippines) more popularly known as KZ Tandingan is a Filipino singer who rose to fame after winning the first season of The X Factor Philippines in 2012.
Earl Klugh.  Earl Klugh (pronounced Clue born September 16 1953 Detroit Michigan) is an American smooth jazz/crossover jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. In 2006 Modern Guitar magazine wrote that Klugh is considered by many to be one of the finest acoustic guitar players today.
Maho Nonami.  Maho Nonami (野波麻帆 Nonami Maho born 13 June 1980 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress best known for her role in the critically acclaimed 2LDK.
Eric McCormack (writer).  Eric McCormack (born February 3 1938) is a Scottish-born Canadian author known for works blending absurdism existentialism crime fiction gothic horror and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as Inspecting the Vaults (1987) The Paradise Motel (1989) The Mysterium (1992) First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1997) and The Dutch Wife (2002).
Ray Charles.  Ray Charles Robinson (September 23 1930 – June 10 2004) was an American singer-songwriter musician and composer known as Ray Charles. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues gospel and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records most notably with his Modern Sounds albums.
Kim Sang-ok.  Kim Sang-ok (Hangul: 김상옥) was a self-educated South Korean poet.
Saneatsu Mushanokōji.  Saneatsu Mushanokōji (武者小路 実篤(實篤) Mushanokōji Saneatsu 12 May 1885– 9 April 1976) was a Japanese novelist playwright poet artist and philosopher active during the late Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan. He was also sometimes known as Mushakōji Saneatsu Musha and Futo-o.
Mary Turzillo.  Mary A. Turzillo (born 1940) is an American science fiction writer noted primarily for short stories.
A. J. Quinnell.  A. J. Quinnell was the pen name of the English thriller novelist Philip Nicholson. He is best known for his novel Man on Fire which has been adapted to film twice most recently in 2004 featuring Denzel Washington.
Marie Brennan.  Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander an American fantasy author. Her works include the Doppelganger duology (Doppelganger and its sequel Warrior and Witch respectively retitled Warrior and Witch on later printings); the Onyx Court series; and numerous short stories.
Raša Papeš.  Radislav Raša Papeš (Serbian Cyrillic: Радислав Раша Папеш) is a Serbian writer satirist and aphorist born in 1947 in Belgrade in the urban settlement known as Čubura (Serbian Cyrillic: Чубура).He writes short stories and aphorisms that are published in many newspapers and magazines such as Nin Literary Word (Serbian Cyrillic: Књижевна Реч) Hedgehog (Serbian Cyrillic: Јеж) Ecspress Politics Politika Danga Evening News ( Večernje novosti ) and Independent Lightness.
Giovanni Antonio Guardi.  Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699 – 23 January 1760) also known as Gianantonio Guardi was an Italian painter. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756.
Frédéric Leclercq.  Frédéric Leclercq (born June 23 1978 in France) is the bassist and backing vocalist for power metal band DragonForce and the guitarist/vocalist in his own band Maladaptive. He is a session musician for various other bands including George Lynch's Souls of We.
Erna Osland.  Erna Osland (born 1951) is a Norwegian teacher and author of children's literature. She made her literary debut in 1987 with the youth's book Natteramnen. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 1999 for Salamandarryttaren.
G-Enka.  Henry Kõrvits (born 30 December 1974 in Tallinn) better known by his stagename G-Enka is an Estonian rapper and record producer.G-Enka started rapping in 1996 along with Revo and DJ Paul Oja who was G-Enka's schoolmate. Together they started a band called Toe Tag. Their first album The Real Kuhnja Homophobes was released next year. In 1998 G-Enka and Revo joined another Estonian rap group A-Rühm and Toe Tag went on vacation. Also G-Enka started making his own solo songs.
Victoria Valentine.  Victoria Valentine born in the 1960s is an American writer poet entrepreneur and book publisher. She is a long-time resident of Dutchess County and graduated Pleasantville High School (New York) in 1972. Her work has been published in the United States the United Kingdom France India and South Africa.Victoria Valentine is the author of The Cutest Little Duckie and co-author of At the Stroke of Midnight 24 Tales of Terror.
Savannah Churchill.  Savannah Churchill (August 21 1920 Colfax Louisiana – April 19 1974 Brooklyn New York) was a successful American singer of pop jazz and blues music in the 1940s and 1950s.
David Thomas (composer).  David John Thomas (15 April 1881 – 13 May 1928) often known by his bardic name of Afan was a Welsh composer conductor and organist.Thomas is remembered mainly for his hymn tunes and songs such as Drosom ni and Cymru fach i mi. His other works include a cantata Merch y Llyn (Lady of the Lake) and a choral work He fell among thieves with words by Sir Henry Newbolt.
Giorgio Manganelli.  Giorgio Manganelli (15 November 1922 – 28 May 1990) was an Italian journalist avant-garde writer translator and literary critic. A native of Milan he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and authors like T. S. Eliot Henry James Eric Ambler O. Henry Ezra Pound Robert Louis Stevenson Byron's Manfred and others into Italian.
Ed King.  Edward C. King (born September 14 1949 in Glendale California) is an American musician. He is best known as the guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.King was one of the founding members of Strawberry Alarm Clock formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. The band's largest success was with a song that King co-wrote Incense and Peppermints (but along with keyboardist Mark Weitz did not get credit). The song reached No.
Dale Launer.  Dale Launer (born 1952) is an American comedy screenwriter. His films include Blind Date Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and My Cousin Vinny. Launer was born in Cleveland Ohio and brought up in the San Fernando valley. He attended California State University Northridge where after changing his major to Film he recognised his desire for a job writing and directing films.
William Murdoch (poet).  William Murdoch (24 February 1823 – 4 May 1887) was a Scottish-Canadian poet.Born in Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland Murdoch migrated to Canada in 1854 aged 31. The following year he was appointed manager of the gasworks on Partridge Island in Saint John New Brunswick. He contributed to the Saint John Morning News from 1865 and published Poems and Songs (1860) and Discursory Ruminations: A Fireside Drama (1876). Murdoch died in Saint. John New Brunswick Canada.
Issie Barratt.  Issie Barratt (born 29 November 1964) is a British composer known for her work in Big Band jazz and jazz education.
Bonnie Davis.  Bonnie Davis born Gertrude Melba Smith (June 10 1920 – August 1976) was an American R&B singer most popular in the 1940s. Her recording of Don't Stop Now reached no.1 on the R&B chart in 1943. She was the mother of singer Melba Moore.
Ambrogio Minoja.  Ambrogio Minoja (22 October 1752 – 3 August 1825) was a classical composer from Italy born in Ospedaletto Lodigiano in the territory of Lodi in the region of Lombardy. He was professor of composition and writer on vocal music having written Solfeggi and Lettera sopra il canto (Luigi Mussi Milan).
Jack Smack.  Jack Smack (born August 8 in Jyväskylä) is Finnish rock musician. He is the guitarist/background vocalist/composer in the Helsinki based hard-rock band called Private Line and also in the party band groups Evil Boys Thunderbombs and Trabant.
Paul Parker (singer).  Paul Parker (born in San Francisco California) is an American Hi-NRG and dance singer.
Win Lyovarin.  Win Lyovarin (Thai: วินทร์ เลียววาริณ RTGS: Win Liaowarin birth name: Somchai Lyowarin Thai: สมชัย เลี้ยววาริณ born March 23 1956 in Amphoe Hat Yai Songkhla Province Thailand) is a Thai writer. He is a two-time winner of the S.E.A. Write Award.His novels and short stories have been hailed in Thailand for being provocative and encouraging young readers to develop critical thinking skills.
Ricky Gervais.  Ricky Dene Gervais (/dʒərˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian actor voice actor director producer musician writer and former radio presenter.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.
Alexander McKenzie (artist).  Alexander McKenzie (born 1971 in Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian contemporary artist.
Hemchandra Goswami.  Hemchandra Goswami (Assamese: হেমচন্দ্ৰ গোস্বামী; 1872-1928) was an eminent writer poet historian teacher and a linguist from Assam in the early part of modern Assamese literature. He was the fourth president of the Asom Sahitya Sabha in 1920 held at Tezpur. He retired as Extra Assistant Commissioner in the British Assam.
Mayumi Yoshida.  Mayumi Yoshida (吉田 真弓 Yoshida Mayumi born August 26 1982) is a Japanese voice actress from Yokohama Japan. She is also known as Misono Moriya (森谷 実園 Moriya Misono).
Shūhō Satō.  Shūhō Satō (佐藤 秀峰 Satō Shūhō born December 8 1973 in Ikeda Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.His assistants have included his wife manga artist Tomomi Satō as well as Masasumi Kakizaki (one year before his debut) Takahisa Shiratori Itsunari Fujii Eiji Nomura Takashi Yoshida and Kōjirō Umezawa.
Samuel Laurence.  Samuel Laurence (also spelled Lawrence; 1812 – 1884) was a British portrait painter.
Reg Presley.  Reg Presley (born Reginald Maurice Ball; 12 June 1941 – 4 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter. He was best known as the lead singer with the 1960s rock and roll band The Troggs whose best known hit was Wild Thing though their only UK number one single was the follow-up With a Girl Like You. He also wrote the song Love Is All Around which featured in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Hideo Nagata.  Hideo Nagata (長田秀雄 Nagata Hideo) (13 May 1885 - 5 May 1949) was a poet and playwright in Showa period Japan. He also was a scriptwriter. Born in Tokyo Nagata was the son of a Shinto priest at the Kikuchi Jinja. Interested in literature and poetry from an early age he developed his own style of modern poetry and was ranked alongside Kitahara Hakushu and Kinoshita Mokutaro by the literary magazine Myōjō (Bright Star).
Toros Roslin.  Toros Roslin (Armenian: Թորոս Ռոսլին Armenian pronunciation: [tʰɔɹɔs rɔslin]); circa 1210–1270) was the most prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in the High Middle Ages. Roslin introduced a wider range of narrative in his iconography based on his knowledge of western European art while continuing the conventions established by his predecessors. Roslin enriched Armenian manuscript painting by introducing new artistic themes such as the Incredulity of Thomas and Passage of the Red Sea.
Andrew Vowles.  Andrew Lee Isaac Vowles (born 10 November 1967) also known as Mushroom is a founding member of the British music and art collective Massive Attack.
Derek Patmore.  Derek Coventry Patmore (1908 London - 1972) was a British writer. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore.Patmore was educated at Uppingham School. He worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans and the Middle East writing for the News Chronicle and the Daily Mail.
Christopher Minko.  Christopher Minko (born 23 September 1956 Myrtleford Victoria Australia) is an Australian composer lyricist guitarist vocalist and the founder of the Phnom Penh-based Delta blues group: Krom.
Chris Ware.  Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28 1967) known professionally as Chris Ware is an American comic book artist and cartoonist notable for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. His works explore themes of social isolation emotional torment and depression. His works tend to use a vivid colour palette and are full of realistic meticulous detail.
Paul Waggoner.  Paul Waggoner is the lead guitarist of the Progressive Metal band Between the Buried and Me from North Carolina. Being an avid fan of progressive rock he is heavily influenced by John Petrucci Pat Metheny Allan Holdsworth and Steve Vai. He formerly played guitar in the metalcore band Prayer for Cleansing. Waggoner is a vegan and straight edge.
Kiyohara Tama.  Kiyohara Tama (清原玉) (1861–1939) also known as Kiyohara Otama (清原お玉) or O'Tama Chiovara Eleonora Ragusa (エレオノーラ・ラグーザ) or Ragusa Tama (ラグーザ・玉) was a Japanese painter who spent most of her life in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Her maiden name was Kiyohara Tamayo (清原多代).
Wheeler Antabanez.  Wheeler Antabanez is the alter-ego and pen name for Montclair New Jersey-based writer Matt Kent (born January 31 1977). Antabanez is best known as the author of best selling special issue of Weird NJ Nightshade on the Passaic and gasstationthoughts and The Daily Journal Of Wheeler Antabanez published by Barricade Books.
Deio ab Ieuan Du.  Deio ab Ieuan Du (fl. 1460-1480) was a Welsh language poet from Ceredigion west Wales.Deio composed eulogies to the nobility of the area including Gruffydd Fychan a supporter of Jasper Tudor.His works were edited in 1992 by A. Eleri Davies along with those of Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen.
Petah Coyne.  Petah Coyne is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer. She is known for her large-scale sculptures composed of unconventional and often organic materials. Some of her works are in the permanent collections of museums and galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art the Whitney Museum of American Art the Brooklyn Museum of Art the High Museum of Art in Atlanta the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
Mai Hagiwara.  Mai Hagiwara (萩原 舞 Hagiwara Mai born February 7 1996 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese pop singer. She is a member of the bands Cute and also Hello! Project Kids.
Joseph L. Erb.  Joseph Erb (born 1974) is a Native American computer animator educator and artist enrolled in the Cherokee Nation.
Rachel Swirsky.  Rachel Swirsky is an American literary speculative fiction and fantasy writer poet and editor living in California. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010. She is vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.She has been published in such literary publications as PANK the Konundrum Engine Literary Review and the New Haven Review.
Armen Grigoryan.  Armen Grigoryan (Russian: Армен Григорян Armenian: Արմեն Գրիգորյան) is a singer/songwriter artist and the front man (and main songwriter) of Krematorij (Crematorium) Russian rock-band.
Matt Sherrod.  Matthew Sherrod is an American drummer musician and since 2007 a member of the band Crowded House. Sherrod first became known as a musician playing drums for rock artist Beck. In 2007 following the 2005 death of Crowded House's drummer Paul Hester Sherrod was selected as a member of the band's reunion.
Geraldine Mucha.  Geraldine Thomsen Mucha (5 July 1917 – 12 October 2012) was a Scottish composer of Orcadian descent. She was born in London and studied music first with her father. Later she studied composition with Benjamin Dale at the Royal Academy of Music. She married Czech writer Jiří Mucha (son of Alphonse Mucha) and had a son in 1948. After 1945 she lived in Prague.
Nancy Martinez.  Nancy Martinez (born Nancy Martin-Quirion on August 26 1960 in La Prairie Quebec) is a French Canadian dancepop singer and musician who is primarily known for her 1986 hits For Tonight and Move Out.
Mako Komao.  Mako Komao (駒尾 真子 Komao Mako born March 16 1982) is a Japanese writer from Tokyo Japan notable as the author of several light novel series based on previously made series. This includes a single novel adaptation of Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl originally a manga written by Satoru Akahori and illustrated by Yukimaru Katsura. Komao also wrote five light novels based on the Gift visual novel and wrote the original concept for the manga series the First Love Sisters.
Emm Gryner.  Emm Gryner (born in Sarnia Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
Ivy Duffy Doherty.  Ivy Duffy Doherty (June 22 1922 – August 24 2008) was an Australian-American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction.
Sonim (singer).  Sonim (ソニン Sonin born March 10 1983 in Shikoku Japan) is a J-pop singer and actress.
Vera Cornish.  Vera Cornish was a British stage and film actress.
Paula Gruden.  Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden (14 February 1921 – 26 January 2014) was an Australian poet translator and editor of Slovene descent.Gruden was born in Ljubljana at the time a town in the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes. During the Second World War she was transported to Germany for forced labor and then she worked in Trieste as a secretary and translator for the Allied military administration. Since 1948 she lived and worked as a writer in Sydney Australia.
Paul Mounsey.  Paul Mounsey (born 15 April 1959) is a composer arranger and producer from Scotland.He lived for over 20 years in Brazil. A graduate of Trinity College London where he studied with Richard Arnell he has written for film television theatre advertising and also for the Latin American pop market. He lectured for a short while at Goldsmiths College before moving on as creative director of Play It Again one of the biggest commercial music houses in Brazil.
Shannon Harper.  Shannon Harper was a popular United States co-writer of romance novels. During years she collaborated with Madeline Porter by mail fax machines and their computers to created the pseudonyms: Elizabeth Habersham Anna James and Madeline Harper. In addition to her partnership with Porter she also co-authored books with Donna Ball as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. She lives in Winter Haven Florida.
Keith Tippett.  Keith Tippett (originally Keith Graham Tippetts born 25 August 1947 in Bristol) is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett the son of a local police officer went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance Seven. In the late 1960s he led a sextet featuring Elton Dean on saxophone Mark Charig on trumpet and Nick Evans on trombone.
Joan Salvat-Papasseit.  Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈan səɫˈβat pəpəˈsɛjt]) (Barcelona 16 May 1894 - 7 August 1924) was a Catalan poet though he also wrote articles manifestos and other prose of a political and social nature. He wrote primarily in Catalan although he had an early period of essay-writing in Spanish.His work is notable for its nonconformity idealism and foreboding of premature death.
John Bratby.  John Randall Bratby R.A. (19 July 1928 – 20 July 1992) was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. He made portraits of his family and celebrities. His works were seen in television and film. Bratby was also a writer.
Peter Thomas Hay.  Peter Thomas Hay (31 August 1932— ) is an authority on British Steam Railways. He is author to numerous books and articles on the subject. His Steaming Through series of books is based on the archive of railway photographs taken himself in the 50's and 60's.
Kishon Khan.  Kishon Khan (born 1970) is a Bangladeshi-born British jazz pianist composer arranger and music producer.
Barry Ryan (singer).  Barry Ryan (born Barry Sapherson 24 October 1948 Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English former pop singer. He currently works as a photographer.The son of pop singer Marion Ryan with his twin brother Paul Ryan began to perform at the age of 16. In 1965 they signed a recording contract with Decca and under the name of Paul & Barry Ryan brought out singles such as Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches (1965) Have Pity on the Boy (1966) and Missy Missy (1966).
Mattias Jacobsson.  Mattias Jacobsson (born November 8 1984) is a Swedish classical guitarist.
Sandro Petraglia.  Sandro Petraglia (born 19 April 1947 in Rome Italy) is an author and screenwriter. He has over 40 writing credits to his name most famously the 400-minute epic La Meglio Gioventù.
DJ Fakts One.  Fakts One is an American hip hop DJ & producer from Boston MA. Fakts One was a member of the hip hop group The Perceptionists with long-time collaborators Akrobatik and Mr. Lif.
Karl Bitter.  Karl Theodore Francis Bitter (December 6 1867 – April 9 1915) was an Austrian-born American sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture memorials and residential work.
Quest (singer).  Jose Villanueva III (better known as Quest) is a Filipino singer and songwriter known for his song Sige Lang in 2012. Quest is a hip-hop and R&B singer wherein he won 'Best Urban Music Video for 2010' at the MYX Awards Philippines for his 1st single Back To Love.
Alice Tissot.  Alice Tissot (1 January 1890 – 5 May 1971) was a French actress.
Len Peralta.  Len Peralta is a Cleveland-area graphic artist illustrator cartoonist and podcaster who is known for zombie-themed caricatures and collaborations with nerd celebrities.His Geek a Week project which involves weekly podcast interviews over the course of a year of fifty-two influential geeks and the creation of collectible trading cards featuring original artwork depicting the interview subjects is nearing completion and the first batch of cards is available through ThinkGeek.Previous projects include illustrations of the books There's a Zombie in my Treehouse by Ken Plume and John Robinson and Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children by Trace Beaulieu. 
Jeff Young.  Jeff Young (born March 31 1962) is an American guitarist. He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985 and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth appearing on the 1988 album So Far So Good... So What!. In addition to his subsequent music projects he served as an author in Guitar for the Practicing Musician.
Shaykh Hassan Cissé.  Shaykh Hassan Cisse (1945–2008) also written Cheikh Assane Cissé or Shaykh Hasan Cisse (also Sise or Seesay) was an Islamic scholar Sufi shaykh and humanitarian activist who served as Imam of an international Muslim community in Medina Baye (or Baay) in Kaolack Senegal West Africa.He is the son of Sidi Ali Cissé and Fatima Zahra Niasse; and grandson of Ibrahim Niass also spelled Niasse (died 1975) who was a Shaykh of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order and head of the largest Muslim community in twentieth-century West Africa and initiator of the largest branch of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order. 
Lorna Simpson.  Lorna Simpson (born 1960) is an African-American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal.
Eiko Nagashima.  Eiko Nagashima (永島暎子 Nagashima Eiko) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 5th Yokohama Film Festival and the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for Ryuji.
Khalil Fong.  Khalil Fong (Chinese: 方大同) (born July 14 1983) is a Hong Kong soul Mandopop singer-songwriter signed to Gold Typhoon.
Natalie Nevins.  Natalie Nevins (May 15 1925 – August 23 2010) was an American singer who appeared on television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1965 to 1969.
Ghazi Abdel Baki.  Ghazi Abdel Baki (born 1969) is a musician composer and producer born in Lebanon.
Michael Krüger (writer).  Michael Krüger (born December 9 1943 in Wittgendorf) is a German writer publisher and translator.Michael Krüger grew up in Berlin. After the graduating he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature. From 1962 to 1965 he worked as a bookseller in London.From 1968 Krüger has worked as a reader at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag since 1986 he has been their chief reader.
Chris Nelson (photographer).  Edmund Chris Nelson (1960 – December 7 2006) was an American photographer and co-founder of Bear Magazine in the 1980s was the photographic pioneer in the gay-oriented erotic photography of mature men with hairy bodies and facial hair. His work directly led to the legitimizing of the bear community as a social group.By profession Nelson was a photomicroscopy researcher at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
Cildo Meireles.  Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works often large and dense encourage the viewer's interaction.
Philip Blommaert.  Philip Esquire Blommaert (Ghent 24 August 1809 - 14 August 1871) was a Flemish writer. He earned his living as a private scholar and was as a friend and comrade of Hendrik Conscience with whom he promoted the use of Dutch in Belgium. In 1834 he had poems written for the Flemish magazine Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen (nl) in Dutch but with little success because of their rough language.
Michael Andrews (musician).  Michael Andrews (born 17 November 1967) is an American musician and film score composer. He is best known for a cover version of the Tears for Fears song Mad World which he recorded with Gary Jules for the Donnie Darko soundtrack and which became a number one single in the UK in Christmas 2003.
Don Aslett.  Donald Andrew Aslett (born 1935) is an American entrepreneur author and public speaker who specializes in cleaning and housekeeping products services and techniques. Aslett resides in Pocatello Idaho.
Lizzy Borden (pornographic actress).  Janet Romano-Zicari better known as Lizzy Borden (born December 20 1977) is an American former pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet. Together with her husband porn producer Rob Zicari (aka Rob Black) she runs the porn company Extreme Associates; she has directed several violent porn movies and in 2003 was indicted for distributing obscenity.
Venmani Vishnu Nambudiripad.  Venmani Vishnu Nambudiripad was an early 19th-century Malayalam poet belonging to the well known Venmani family. He was the uncle of famous Venmani Achhan Nambudiripad. He was also involved in religious and philosophical pursuits. Some of his works include Ganapath Praathal Raghuvamsam and Samsariyute Paaraavasyam.
Jane Holland.  Jane Holland (b. November 1966 in Ilford Essex England) is an English poet and novelist. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for her poetry in 1996. Her sister is the novelist actress and singer Sarah Holland. She also writes fiction under the pseudonym Victoria Lamb.
Ernest Pagano.  Ernest Pagano (January 16 1901 – April 29 1953) was an American screenwriter. He began in showbusiness as a gag-man in silent films. He wrote for 66 films between 1927 and 1947.He was born in Florence Colorado and died in Los Angeles California from a heart attack. His brother was the novelist and screenwriter Jo Pagano.
Gordon Froud.  Gordon Froud (b. 1963 Johannesburg) is a South African artist and curator. Froud's work has been showcased in hundreds of exhibitions throughout South Africa and the world and he has served as a judge for several national art competitions. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Merit Award for Sculpture in the 1988 New Signatures Competition and an ABSA Gold Medal for contribution to the arts in 2005.
Dean Koontz.  Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9 1945) is an American author. His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers but also frequently incorporate elements of horror science fiction mystery and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List with 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reaching the number one position.
Leslie (singer).  Leslie Bourgoin better known by her mononym Leslie is a French pop-R&B singer born on February 4 1985 in Le Mans France. Her father is Vietnamese and Polynesian while her mother is French.In 2007 she recorded a duet single with the R&B singer Bobby Valentino Accorde-moi.The same year she covered several 1980s songs on her album Futur 80 including Boule de flipper originally sang by Corynne Charby Mise au point by Jakie Quartz and Les Bêtises by Sabine Paturel.
Ola Salo.  Ola Salo born Rolf Ola Anders Svensson on 19 February 1977 in Avesta Sweden is the Swedish rock vocalist of the Swedish glam rock band The Ark. Salo lived in Rottne Växjö Municipality in Sweden when he was a child. It was while living in Rottne in 1991 that he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Ark.
Gor Mkhitarian.  Gor Mkhitarian (Armenian: Գոռ Մխիթարյան; born in 1973 in Vanadzor Armenia) is an Armenian singer and songwriter who started his musical career in Armenia. He immigrated to the United States and now is based in Los Angeles. In Armenia he started with the rock formation Lav Eli. He developed his solo career starting in 2001 with a number of albums in various genres including pop rock and folk music. He sings in both English and Armenian.
Gentleman (musician).  Tilmann Otto (born April 19 1974 in Osnabrück Germany) better known by his stage name Gentleman is a German reggae musician.
Jon Klassen.  Jon Klassen is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won the 2013 Caldecott Medal for illustration recognizing This Is Not My Hat which he also wrote. He is also well known for his 2011 picture book I Want My Hat Back.
Riccardo Salvadori.  Riccardo Salvadori (1866–1927) was an Italian painter and illustrator.
Greg Quill.  Gregory Raymond Greg Quill (18 April 1947 – 5 May 2013) was an Australian-born musician singer-songwriter and journalist. He lived in Hamilton Ontario Canada and was an entertainment columnist at the Toronto Star newspaper from the mid-1980s until his death in May 2013. In Australia he came to popular fame as a singer-songwriter for the country rock band Country Radio (1970–73).
Reona Hirota.  Reona Hirota (広田レオナ Hirota Reona) is a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Yokohama Film Festival for Ōte and Yumeji. In 1994 she married the actor Mitsuru Fukikoshi. They divorced in 2005 after having one child.
Donald Farnsworth.  Donald Sheridan Farnsworth (born 1952 Palo Alto California) is an American artist and inventor. He is currently the director of Magnolia Editions in Oakland California.
Martin Goldsmith.  Martin Goldsmith (November 6 1913 – May 24 1994) wrote several classic B-movies including Detour (1945) Blind Spot (1947) and The Narrow Margin in 1952 for which he was Oscar-nominated.Goldsmith — at one time the brother-in-law of Anthony Quinn — also contributed some stories to The Twilight Zone TV series in the 50s and related to Anthony Goldsmith.
Zahir Howaida.  Zahir Howaida (Persian:ظاهرهویدا) (also spelled as Zahir Huwaida; February 28 1946 – 5 March 2012) was an Afghan singer. He had been active since the 1970s and his popularity peaked with the hit single Kamar Bareek-e-Man the renditions of which are sampled by Iranian and Tajik singers of Tajikistan up until today or his song  Pari Cheri sung by many new up and coming talents of Afghanistan like Obaid Juenda and Timor Jalali.
Wiyaala.  Noella Wiyaala (known under the stage name Wiyaala) is a Ghanaian singer-songwriter. Well known for her single Make Me Dance and her androgynous image.
Heinrich Werner (composer).  Heinrich Werner (2 October 1800 – 3 March 1833) was a German composer.He was born in 1800 into a musical family in Kirchohmfeld in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia. Initially trained at home he played the organ for the local church at the age of 11 and became a choral singer at Sankt Andreasberg at 15. His older brother in Braunschweig had him study music and visit the Gymnasium there.
Dorothy Straight.  Dorothy Straight (born May 25 1958 in Washington D.C.) wrote How the World Began in 1962 for her grandmother. Her parents loved it so much that they sent it to Pantheon Books which published it in 1964 making her the youngest published author.
Sinan Sakić.  Sinan Sakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Синан Сакић Romani: Sinan Sakičh; born 13 October 1956) is a Serbian folk singer of Gypsy descent. He launched his career back in 1978 with the singles Rastanak kraj reke and Sreli smo se mnogo kasno. As of 2006 he has released 27 music albums. He gained his first musical experience from his father who was a musician in the military orchestra.
Shawn Drover.  Shawn Drover (born May 5 1966) is a Canadian drummer best known for his work with the American heavy metal band Megadeth.He began playing the drums at the age of 13. In 1993 he founded the Canadian power metal band Eidolon with his brother Glen. He uses Sabian cymbals and Yamaha drums mounted on a drum rack reminiscent of the Greg Voelker Rack System.[citation needed]
Marta Kubišová.  Marta Kubišová (born 1 November 1942 in České Budějovice) is a Czech singer of iconic significance. By the time of the Prague Spring of 1968 with her song Modlitba pro Martu (A prayer for Marta) she was one of the most popular female singers in Czechoslovakia.In 1967 she won Zlatý slavík award (English: Golden Nightingale). Her song Prayer for Marta became a symbol of national resistance against the occupation of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968.
Erin Trieb.  Erin Grace Trieb is an American photographer.
Ján Kollár.  Ján Kollár (29 July 1793 in Mošovce (Mosóc) Kingdom of Hungary Habsburg Monarchy now Slovakia – 24 January 1852 in Vienna Austrian Empire) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet) archaeologist scientist politician and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.
Cali (singer).  Bruno Caliciuri better known as Cali is a French singer-songwriter.
Scott Putesky.  Scott Mitchell Putesky (born April 28 1968) more famously known as Daisy Berkowitz is an American musician and was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the heavy metal group Marilyn Manson. He left the band on May 8 1996 however halfway through the recording of Antichrist Superstar.
Tony Akins.  Tony Akins is an artist penciling and inking for DC/Vertigo who has contributed to the titles Jack of Fables FablesHellblazerHouse of Mystery and is currently drawing alternate issues of Wonder Woman for The New 52 relaunch. Jack of Fables is the spin-off title from writer Bill Willingham's multiple Eisner Award-winning series Fables. The Wonder Woman is written by Brian Azzarello of 100 Bullets.Matthew Sturges is co-writer on Jack of Fables.
Dolly Collins.  Dorothy Ann Collins known as Dolly Collins (6 March 1933 – 22 September 1995) was an English folk musician arranger and composer. She was the older sister of Shirley Collins.Born in Hastings Sussex (now East Sussex) she grew up in an artistic socialist folk singing family. She learned the piano at school and then studied with composer Alan Bush while taking odd jobs in London including working as a bus conductor.
Mitch Lewis.  Mitch Lewis is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist who has been continuously active in the music industry in a variety of genres since 1974.
Per Erik Hedman.  Per Erik Hedman (born 1959 in Bjurholm in Sweden) is a Disney comics writer. He moved to Denmark in 1982.
Arnold Eidus.  Arnold Eidus (November 28 1922 – June 3 2013) was a world renowned concert violinist and recording artist.Eidus's father (Harry Eidus 1897-1984) a Jewish immigrant from Dvinsk Latvia was a violinist; his mother (Sadie Sonia Birkenfeld 1901-1983) who was born in New York played piano. A child prodigy Eidus made his performance debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 11.
TJ McCloud.  TJ McCloud is an indie/folk singer and songwriter.
Chou Meng-tieh.  Chou Meng-tieh (Chinese: 周夢蝶; pinyin: zhōu mèngdié December 29 1921 – May 1 2014) was a Taiwanese poet and writer. He was born in Xichuan County of Henan Province Republic of China. He lived in Tamsui District New Taipei City.
Ľudovít Štúr.  Ľudovít Štúr (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʎudoviːt ˈʃtuːr] ; Hungarian: Stur Lajos; 28 October 1815 Uhrovec (Zayugróc) nearby Bánovce nad Bebravou (Bán) – 12 January 1856 Modra (Modor)) known in his era as Ludevít Velislav Štúr was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language.
Siôn Bradford.  Siôn Bradford (1706–1785) was a Welsh language poet from Betws Tir Iarll Glamorgan in south Wales.Although a minor poet himself he is important as the poetic teacher of Edward Williams (Iolo Morgannwg) and collaborated with him in his sometimes extravagant antiquarian researches.
Julie Meadows.  Julie Meadows (born Lydia Lee; February 3 1974) is an American writer web designer and former pornographic actress who became a documentarian after retiring from the profession. She was active in the industry from 1998–2004 and is sometimes said to resemble the actress Julia Stiles.
Abelardo Castillo.  Abelardo Castillo (born March 27 1935) is an Argentine writer novelist essayists born in the city of San Pedro Buenos Aires. He practised amateur boxing in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco.He's got a highly prestige in latinoamerican literature and he has abord with the same condition all genres.
Mohammed Abed Elhai.  Mohammed Abed Elhai Mahm'od (11 January 1944-23 August 1989) Arabic 'محمد عبد الحي is a well-known member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. He is regarded as a pioneer of modern poetry in Sudan.
Lucas de Wael.  Lucas de Wael (1591-1661) was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period active in Italy specifically Genoa.
Dan Cunneen.  Dan Cunneen is a drummer songwriter disc jockey and freelance graphic designer originally from Portland Oregon U.S.A.. Cunneen is best known for his drum work with the 1980s Portland Oregon bands Final Warning and The Obituaries as well as the 1990s Seattle Washington based bands Zipgun and Nightcaps.
Roderick Hietbrink.  Roderick Hietbrink (Gorssel 1975) is a contemporary Dutch visual artist living and working in Amsterdam Netherlands. His practice encompasses video art installation art performance art sculpture and photography.Roderick Hietbrink received a degree in architectural engineering followed by a study in visual arts at the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in Breda.
Carl Gustaf Hellqvist.  Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (December 15 1851 – November 19 1890) was one of Sweden's most popular historical painters in the 19th century.
Marčelo.  For a basketball player nicknamed Marčelo see Šarūnas MarčiulionisMarčelo (Serbian: Mарчело) born Marko Šelić (Марко Шелић) on January 22 1983 in Paraćin Serbia SFR Yugoslavia and is a Serbian Hip-hop artist and writer known for his socially conscious lyrics and eclectic approach to musical arrangements. From Paraćin he moved to Belgrade where he has had great success over the years and became one of the most prominent Serbian hip hop artists.
Finbarr O'Reilly.  Finbarr O’Reilly (born 1971 Swansea) is a Canadian photographer who in February 2006 won the premier award of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest. He is a 2013 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Regie Cabico.  Regie Cabico is a poet and spoken word artist. He has been featured on two seasons of Def Poetry Jam on HBO (produced by Russell Simmons).
Gerald Drucker.  Gerald Drucker (5 August 1925 – 19 March 2010) was a British classical double bass player photographer and double bass teacher. Principal Double Bass at the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra New Philharmonia Orchestra and finally the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. He formed the London Double Bass Ensemble in the 1980s.
Bertie Wright.  Albert James Matthew Bertie Wright (6 February 1871 Blackburn Lancashire England – 7 March 1960 Sydney New South Wales Australia) was a British actor of the silent era.
Ullanda McCullough.  Ullanda McCullough is an American pop music singer most noted as a background vocalist.
Morita Sōhei.  Morita Sōhei (森田 草平 19 March 1881 – 14 December 1949) was the pen name of Morita Yonematsu a Japanese novelist and translator of Western literature active during the late Meiji Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
Damon Harris.  Damon Harris (born Otis Robert Harris Jr. July 17 1950 – February 18 2013) was an African-American soul and R&B singer most notable as a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1975. Twenty years old when he joined the group Harris was the youngest member of The Temptations during his tenure in the group. As a teenager Harris had formed a Temptations tribute band named The Young Tempts (aka The Young Vandals).
Alzek Misheff.  Alzek Misheff (October 8 1940) is a popular Italian artist born in Dupnica Bulgaria. Misheff graduated in 1966 with a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In 1971 he left Bulgaria for Italy where he currently lives and works in Milan Italy.
Tito El Bambino.  Efraín David Fines Nevares (born October 5 1981) known professionally as Tito El Bambino is a Puerto Rican recording artist. He rose to fame as Tito of the duo Héctor & Tito.In 2010 his song El Amor written with Joan Ortiz Espada was awarded Latin Song of the Year by the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He was awarded Songwriter of the Year at the 2011 ASCAP.
Nick Hornby.  Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist essayist lyricist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy as well as for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music sport and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009.
Naomi Radcliffe.  Naomi Radcliffe (born 1971) is an English actress. She was born in Oldham Lancashire to Albert Radcliffe—a Canon of Manchester Cathedral—and Petrina a teacher. She was educated at Blue Coats School in Oldham and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama having not been accepted on her first attempt.Her first professional stage appearance was in Be My Baby in 1997.
Bjørn Fongaard.  Bjørn Fongaard (1919 Oslo–1980 Oslo) was a Norwegian composer guitarist and teacher. In addition to being concerned with microtonal and electronic music he was perhaps the first to use the prepared guitar. Fongaard's output is considerable...Due to the partly experimental notation these works have not become widely known.
Lester Bangs.  Leslie Conway Lester Bangs (December 14 1948 – April 30 1982) was an American music journalist author and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism.
Victoria Plucknett.  Victoria Plucknett is a Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Diane Ashurst in the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm and Mary in The Duchess of Duke Street.
Pete Escovedo.  Peter Pete Michael Escovedo (born 13 July 1935 in Pittsburg California) is a Mexican-American musician percussionist.
Taras Petrynenko.  Taras Petrynenko (Ukrainian: Тара́с Гарина́льдович Петрине́нко) was born on 10 March 1953. He is the People's Artist of Ukraine.
James Wolpert.  James Wolpert (born December 26 1990) is an American singer best known for his appearance on Season 5 of the NBC singing competition The Voice as part of Adam Levine's team.
Jørgen Hustad.  Jørgen Ludolf Pedersen Hustad (29 January 1896 – 31 May 1978) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Gildeskål as a son of laborer Petter Hustad (1856–1947) og Helene Sofie Jensen (1859–1933). He had commerce school and worked as a laborer in Narvik from 1910 to 1914. He married in 1916.In 1915 he was hired as manager of the newspaper Nordlys soon advancing to editor-in-chief. In 1917 he was hired in the Halden office of Smaalenenes Socialdemokrat.
Robert Smith (Assistant Colonial Surgeon).  Robert Smith or Bob Smith L.F.P.S. M.R.C.S. F.R.C.S.(1840-June 1885) was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor who served as Assistant Colonial Surgeon of Sierra Leone during the late nineteenth century. Smith was the first African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh after completing his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Samina Ali.  Samina Ali is an Indian-American author. Her debut novel was Madras on Rainy Days.
Jessie Andrews.  Jessie Andrews (born March 22 1992) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress jewelry designer club DJ and model. Andrews has been active in pornography since 2010. In 2012 she was honored with several awards for her performance in Portrait of a Call Girl as well as New Starlet awards.
Charles Bouillaud.  Charles Bouillaud (1904–1965) was a French actor.
Millard Haywood.  Millard C. Haywood (Saline Michigan 31 August 1853 – 1911) was an American painter. When he was about six years old his parents moved to Kansas locating near Topeka. He received a good common school education graduating at the High School of Vassar Michigan. He then studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia. He returned to Topeka in 1881 and began painting and selling portraits and landscapes.
George Joannides.  George Efythron Joannides (July 5 1922 - March 9 1990) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who in 1963 was the chief of the Psychological Warfare branch of the Agency's JM/WAVE station in Miami and in 1978 was the Agency's liaison to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations.
William Thomas (Gwilym Marles).  William Thomas (1834 – 11 December 1879) better known by his bardic name of Gwilym Marles was a Welsh minister and poet and the great-uncle of Dylan Thomas. Dylan was given his middle name Marlais in honour of William Thomas who is also believed to have inspired the character of Rev.
Gwyneth Lewis.  Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959) is a Welsh poet and was the inaugural National Poet of Wales.
Rodrigo Rodriguez.  Rodrigo Rodriguez (born 29 August 1978) is a Spanish shakuhachi player musical producer and composer.Born in the Argentina Rodrigo lived and grew up in Spain from the decade of the 80s.He has lived and studied shakuhachi in Japan under the discipline of the Master Kaoru Kakizakai in The International Shakuhachi Kenshunkan School and with Kohachiro Miyata one of Japan's leading players of the shakuhachi.In 2008 he put out the album Various Artists Music That Illuminates Your Life by the record company Gemini Sun Records which was distributed by ADA / Warner Music Group sharing multi-artist compilation with artists as David Arkenstone and Terry Oldfield.On August 28 2008 his third album Beyond the Times was chosen by John Diliberto and Echoes as one of the Top 25 Albums.Rodrigo has performed worldwide at stages like Imperial Hotel Tokyo NHK Culture events and in the Temple Kōtoku-in of the Great Buddha of Kamakura city which is one of the most famous icons of Japan.In 2012 he was invited to perform in Moscow in the Tchaikovsky Conservatory for the International Festival Nihon No Kokoro which is directed by scientific and creative “World Music Cultures Center of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.On march 1 2013 Rodriguez released his sixth album The Road of Hasekura Tsunenaga  dedicated to the first Japanese diplomatic mission to Spainwhich departed from Ishinomaki in October 1613 and arrived in Seville 1614. 
Louise Bessette.  Louise Bessette CM OQ (born June 20 1959) is a Canadian pianist.In 2001 she wad made a member of the Order of Canada in recognition for her great talent and contribution to contemporary music. In 2005 she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
Marc Broussard.  Marc Broussard (born January 14 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. His style is best described as Bayou Soul a mix of funk blues R&B rock and pop matched with distinct Southern roots. In his career he has released five studio albums and one EP and has charted twice on Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks.
Hristo Smirnenski.  Hristo Smirnenski (Bulgarian: Христо Смирненски) born as Hristo Izmirliev (September 17 1898 OS - June 18 1923) was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia Ottoman Empire (today Kilkis Greece) which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home. He was a free witty and playful child with a vivid imagination and keen sense of humour.
Herbert William Weekes.  Herbert William Weekes (fl. 1864–1904) was a well-known British genre and animal painter of the Victorian Neoclassical period who specialized in portraying animals in humorous human-like situations.
Erica Ferencik.  Erica Ferencik is a Massachusetts-based novelist screenwriter and stand-up comic.
Catherine Murray di Montezemolo.  Catherine Murray di Montezemolo (September 18 1925 – April 22 2009) was a fashion editor with a prominent position in Southampton society.Di Montezemolo was born to a wealthy family—her grandfather was the prolific inventor and engineer Thomas E. Murray who together with Thomas Edison helped to found the NY-based utility Con Edison in the early twentieth century.
Thit Jensen.  Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen (Thit Jensen) (January 19 1876 – May 14 1957) was a Danish novelist but also author of short stories plays and society critical articles.She was the daughter of a veterinarian in Farsø and sister to Danish author Johannes Vilhelm Jensen. She was married from 1912–1918 to the painter Gustav Fenger.She wrote about erotic and social themes and fought for women's rights.
Petr Brdičko.  Petr Brdičko (born 7 May 1988) is a Czech songwriter who was born and raised in Prague.
Bobby Gustafson.  Bobby Gustafson (born 15 July 1965 in Staten Island New York City) is an American guitarist best known as a member of the New York based thrash metal band Overkill.
Tyler Ward.  Tyler Ray Ward is an American independent singer writer producer and philanthropist.
Julia Pomeroy.  Julia Pomeroy is an American actress and author. She first came into the public eye after appearing alongside Matt Dillon in the 1979 cult film Over The Edge. She played Julia the head of the teenager's rec center and one of the few adult characters in that film to be liked and trusted by the rebellious youths. Pomeroy was born in Okinawa Japan. As the daughter of an American Foreign Service Officer Pomeroy grew up in such disparate locations as Libya Somalia and Italy.
Justin Bennett.  Justin Bennett is a studio and live performance session drummer and producer. He has been working professionally since 1995 and has participated on tours and albums with a number of notable bands and artists including Skinny Puppy Ohgr My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Peter Murphy and Rozz Williams as well as forming his own project American Memory.
Carmine Rojas.  Carmine Rojas (born February 14 1953 in Brooklyn NY) is an American bass guitarist musical director composer and producer. Best known for recording with David Bowie and Rod Stewart his musical styles include rock R&B/funk and jazz.Rojas toured the world with David Bowie from 1983–1987 playing bass on several multi-platinum hits such as Let’s Dance China Girl Modern Love and Blue Jean.
Dobriša Cesarić.  Dobriša Cesarić (10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator born in Požega. Despite his limited output Cesarić is considered as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.
Alessandro Cortini.  Alessandro Cortini (born May 24 1976) is an Italian musician best known for touring and recording with the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from 2004 to 2008 and he rejoined the band in spring 2013. Currently Cortini is also the frontman for the Los Angeles based electronic-alternative band SONOIO. In addition he was a touring member of The Mayfield Four from 2000 to 2002.
Eluned Morgan (author).  Eluned Morgan (20 March 1870 – 29 December 1938) was a Welsh-language author from Patagonia.Born aboard the ship Myfanwy en route from Britain to Patagonia in South America she was the daughter of Lewis Jones who gave his name to the city of Trelew in Chubut Argentina.
Olaug Løken.  Olaug Marie Løken (29 November 1854 – 11 March 1925) was a Norwegian writer and activist.
Robert Sellers.  Robert Sellers (born 4 February 1965 in Leeds) is an English writer and author best known show-business biographies and works on popular culture including Cult TV and The Battle for Bond an analysis of the Fleming plagiarism trial and its aftermath.Sellers graduated from drama school and initially pursued a career as a stand-up comedian. He then turned to film journalism and has written for such publications as Daily Mail Empire Total Film The Independent SFX and Cinema Retro.
Laura Orvieto.  Laura Orvieto born Laura Cantoni (March 7 1876 - May 9 1955) was a Jewish Italian writer.
James Szalapski.  James Szalapski (born October 4 1945 – September 6 2000) was a professional screenwriter cinematographer producer and director born in St. Paul Minnesota but who worked in New York City. His works include many documentaries most notably Heartworn Highways a 1975 documentary on several country music artists. He was the principle live-action special effects cinematographer for R/Greenberg Associates years starting in 1979.
Sidharth (artist).  Sidharth (1956) born in Bassian near Raikot town in Ludhiana district of Punjab is an Indian painter and sculptor.
Donato da Formello.  Donato da Formello (c. 1550–c. 1580) sometimes known as Donato Palmieri was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance period. He was a native of Formello in the duchy of Bracciano. He worked under Giorgio Vasari in projects in the Vatican and Florence. According to Baglione he visited Rome early in the pontificate of Gregory XIII. He greatly surpassed the style of his instructor as is evident in his fresco works on a staircase in the Vatican representing subjects from the life of St.
Chang Chen.  Chang Chen (born 14 October 1976) sometimes credited as Chen Chang according to Western name order is a Taiwanese actor. His father Chang Kuo-chu (張國柱) and his brother Chang Han (張翰) are also actors.[citation needed]
Mona Hatoum.  Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut Lebanon) is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin who lives in London.Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut Lebanon to Palestinian parents in 1952. Although born in Lebanon Hatoum does not identify as Lebanese. “Although I was born in Lebanon my family is Palestinian. And like the majority of Palestinians who became exiles in Lebanon after 1948 they were never able to obtain Lebanese identity cards.”
Verena Rehm.  Verena Carmen Rehm (born May 14 1984) born in Neuburg Bavaria is best known as the backing vocalist and pianist of the Euro-Trance dance group Groove Coverage. She has many song writing credits both within and outside the group and also sings for many other German dance acts.
Irwin Goodman.  Irwin Goodman (real name: Antti Yrjö Hammarberg 14 September 1943 Hämeenlinna – 14 January 1991 Hamina) was a popular Finnish rock and folk singer. In the late 1960s he was widely known as a protest singer. He recorded over 300 songs most of which were his own compositions with lyrics written by Vexi Salmi.
Tom Norris (musician).  Tom Norris (born 1971) is an English musician composer ensemble leader and songwriter who plays classical violin with the London Symphony Orchestra and also manages a solo pop music career.
Céline Buckens.  Céline Buckens (born 9 August 1996) is a Belgian teen actress.She played Émilie in Steven Spielberg's War Horse a role she won after only two auditions. Buckens plays Émilie a young French girl who lives on a farm with her grandfather after she lost her parents and brother in the war.
Lídia Jorge.  Lídia Jorge (born June 18 1946) is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing the so-called ‘Post Revolution Generation’. Her books have won international recognition and have been published in many countries.
Louis Finkelstein (artist).  Louis Finkelstein (1923–20 June 2000) was an American painter art critic and professor who taught for at Queens College City University of New York. Several of his works have been compared to those of French artist and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).
Khelifa Belkacem.  Khelifa Belkacem (1907 – November 4 1951) was an Algerian singer.
William Attaway.  William Alexander Attaway (November 19 1911 – June 17 1986) was an African-American novelist short story writer essayist songwriter playwright and screenwriter.
Marco d'Agrate.  Marco d'Agrate (c. 1504 – c. 1574) was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period active mainly in Lombardy.He was born to a family of sculptors and collaborated with his brother Gian Francesco in a monument to Sforzino Sforza found in Basilica of Santa Maria della Steccata in Parma.
Kenny Garrett.  Kenny Garrett (born October 9 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning American post bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. He has since pursued a successful solo career and has been described as ...The most important alto saxophonist of his generation by Washington City Paper and ...One of the most admired alto saxophonists in jazz after Charlie Parker by The New York Times.
Marie Bottrell.  Marie Bottrell (born 1961 in London Ontario) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Eighteen of Bottrell's singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts including five which reached the Top Ten.
Ron Anderson (musician).  Ron Anderson (born 1959) is a New York City-based internationally known musician and composer. He is known for collaborations with many famous musicians and has a large catalog of releases and compositions.
Finbarr Clancy.  Finbarr Clancy (born 5 March 1970) is an Irish folk singer and musician. Early in his career he performed with The Clancy Brothers. He currently is a member of the group The High Kings.
Keli Price.  Keli Price (born June 30 1990) is an American actor musician and model. Price is best known for his starring role as Chris Abeley in the comedic drama film The Clique. He is also known for his role as Bobby Love in the television movie special Battle of the Bands on the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band. In 2012 Price was seen in the film One Fall.Price is currently featured in the ensemble cast on the YouTube musical drama titled Side Effects.
Neil Diamond.  Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24 1941) is an American singer-songwriter with a career that began in the 1960s. Diamond has sold over 125 million records worldwide. He is the third most successful adult contemporary artist on the Billboard charts behind Barbra Streisand and Elton John. His songs have been covered internationally by many performers from various musical genres.Neil Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Bernard Cuzner.  Bernard Lionel Cuzner (1877 – 4 January 1956) was an English silversmith and product designer.Cuzner was born in Alcester in Warwickshire and initially trained as a watchmaker before showing talent as a silversmith while taking evening classes in Redditch. He moved to Birmingham to train at the Vittoria Street School of Jewellery and Silversmithing where he was influenced by Robert Catterson Smith and Arthur Gaskin. From 1900 he taught at the school and began designing for W. H.
Lynn & Wade LLP.  Lynn & Wade LLP are a music production duo consisting of Grammy Award winning Producer/Arranger Peter Wade Keusch (Jennifer Lopez Natasha Bedingfield Shitake Monkey) and Singer/Songwriter Michelle Bell (Britney Spears Mary J. Blige Paulina Rubio). They are currently in the studio completing their debut album The Mystery LLP. Five songs written and produced by Lynn & Wade are featured on the Jennifer Lopez album Brave.
Bob Brown (comics).  William Robert Bob Brown (August 22 1915 – January 1977) was an American comic book artist with an extensive career from the early 1940s through the 1970s. With writers Edmond Hamilton and Gardner Fox Brown co-created the DC Comics hero Space Ranger drawing the character's complete run from his debut in the try-out comic Showcase No. 15 (Aug. 1958) through Mystery in Space No.
Lee Brilleaux.  Lee Brilleaux (born Lee John Collinson 10 May 1952 – 7 April 1994) was an English rhythm-and-blues singer and musician with the British band Dr Feelgood.
Julius Hatofsky.  According to the celebrated New York art critic Hilton Kramer:’’The American artist Julius Hatofsky (1922–2006) was one of the most accomplished painters of his generation…he remained an independent spirit whose art resembled that of no other living artist. The greatest influence on the work of his maturity was that of the Old Masters—among them Tintoretto Turner Blake Goya Ryder and Delacroix.’’↑
Jason Crane.  Jason Crane (also known by the pseudonym JC2000) is an American drummer and trumpeter notable as a member of Rocket from the Crypt The Black Heart Procession and Beehive & the Barracudas.
Rachna Gilmore.  Rachna Gilmore (born 1953) is an award-winning children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.
Christian Liljegren.  Per Christian Liljegren is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist for the Swedish Christian melodic power metal band Narnia.Liljegren is also the frontman of the metal bands Audiovision Divinefire Flagship and Wisdom Call. He is also the owner of the Liljegren Records label which features bands such as Divinefire Crimson Moonlight Sanctifica Grimmark Harmony Veni Domine and Majestic Vanguard.
Brené Brown.  Brené Brown' Ph.D. LMSW (born November 18 1965) is an American scholar author and public speaker who is currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Over the last twelve years she has been involved in research on topics ranging from vulnerability courage worthiness and shame. She is the author of two #1 New York Times Bestsellers; The Gifts of Imperfection (2010) and Daring Greatly (2012).
Carl von Brühl.  Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Moritz Paul von Brühl (1772–1837) was a friend of Goethe who as intendant-general of the Prussian royal theatres was of some importance in the history of the development of the drama in Germany.
Jason Aaron.  Jason Aaron is an American comic book writer known for his work on titles such as The Other Side Scalped Ghost Rider Wolverine and PunisherMAX.
Adam Levy.  Adam Levy is an accomplished jazz guitarist/singer-songwriter and a writer/artist for Universal Music Publishing Group. Levy has recorded with Norah Jones (with a six-year stint touring as a member of her Handsome Band) Tracy Chapman Sex Mob Shelley Segal and Amos Lee and has released several solo albums as well. The Heart Collector is his latest studio album.Levy is also a freelance journalist. His work has appeared in Acoustic Guitar Guitar Player and other publications.
Peggy King.  Peggy King (born 16 February 1930 Greensburg Pennsylvania) is a jazz and pop vocalist and former TV personality. She got her start with the bands of Charlie Spivak Ralph Flanagan and Ray Anthony and was featured on an early TV series with Mel Torme.She is best remembered as pretty perky Peggy King on The George Gobel Show on which she appeared for three seasons from 1954-57.
Bill Gilonis.  Bill Gilonis (born 1958) is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty experimental rock group The Work in 1980 with Tim Hodgkinson.
L.U.C.  L.U.C is the alias of Łukasz Rostkowski (born 16 September 1981 in Zielona Góra) a Polish manager rapper and producer who works in Wrocław. He is the founder vocalist and co-producer of musical project Kanał Audytywny and currently works through his solo albums.
Amos Bar.  Amos Bar (Hebrew: עמוס בר‎) (October 15 1931 – March 15 2011) also known as Possa was an Israeli author teacher and editor. Most of his books are for children and young adults.
Roža Piščanec.  Roža Piščanec (7 July 1923 – 29 September 2006) was a Slovene painter also known for her illustrations of children's books and magazines.She won the Levstik Award for her illsutrations twice in 1954 for her illustrations for Heidi and in 1961 for František Hrubín's Medenjakova hišica (Medenjak's House). Probably her best known illustrated work is the story Kdo je napravil Vidku srajčico (Who Made Little Vid a Shirt) by Fran Levstik first published in 1955.
Jean-Luc Lahaye.  Jean-Luc Lahaye (born Jean-Luc Laheaye 23 December 1952 Paris) is a French pop singer former television host and occasional writer. He had his greatest success as a singer in the 1980s with his songs Femme que j'aime and Papa chanteur (#1 hit in France). After more than ten years of absence he resumed singing in 2004.
Fyodor Tyutchev.  Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Тю́тчев Pre-Reform orthography: Ѳеодоръ Ивановичъ Тютчевъ; December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1803 – July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1873) is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia following Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.
Kathy Goodell.  Kathy Goodell is an American contemporary artist based in New York. She works in sculptural objects installation drawing and photography. She is a professor of painting and drawing at the State University of New York at New Paltz.Goodell received the National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1979 and 1983 the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 1993 and 1997 and Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.
Andrew Cartmel.  Andrew Cartmel (born 1958) is a British author and journalist and former script editor of Doctor Who. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series as a magazine editor as a comics writer as a film studies lecturer and as a novelist.
Margarita Henríquez.  Margarita Esther Henríquez Rodríguez (born April 17 1991 Panama) is the winner of the third season of Latin American Idol which she won on October 9 2008.
Joe Abercrombie.  Joe Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy and other related works of fantasy.
Earl Palmer.  Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25 1924 – September 19 2008) was an American rock & roll and rhythm and blues drummer and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Palmer played on many recording sessions including Little Richard's first several albums and Tom Waits' 1978 album Blue Valentine. According to one obituary his list of credits read like a Who's Who of American popular music of the last 60 years.
Jon Reep.  Jon Reep (born March 26 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known as the That thing got a Hemi? guy in Dodge commercials and more recently as the winner of the fifth season of Last Comic Standing on NBC. In March 2013 his wife Genta Reep filed for divorce. Their divorce is currently ongoing in the state of California.
Narendra Singh Negi.  Narendra Singh Negi (Hindi: नरेन्द्र सिंह नेगी) is one of the most prominent folk singers of the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.In Uttarkhand it is a famous saying that if you want to know about Uttarakhnd its people society life culture traditions and politics then either refer to books of scholars or listen to the songs of Nrendra Singh Negi[citation needed]. An institution by himself Shri Negi is amongst the most popular artists of Uttarakhand.
Nic Read.  Nic Read (Aldershot August 14 1967) is a British sales effectiveness expert researcher author conference speaker and television producer.
Jim Matheos.  Jim Matheos (November 22 1962 Westfield Massachusetts United States) is an American guitarist and the primary songwriter for the progressive metal band Fates Warning in which he has been the only consistent member since the group's beginning.
Amalia Soraya.  'Amalia Soraya (also known as Lia or 'Lia AFI) is a Indonesia singer and sitcom actress.The first daughter of Djadjat S. Danawidjaya and Euis Sofia Lia had an interest in singing dance and other creative activities from childhood.
Jeff Alexander.  Jeff Alexander (July 2 1910 – December 23 1989) was an American conductor arranger and composer of film radio and television scores.
Double-O.  Michael Aguilar better known by his stage name Double O or MIC THE DRUMS is an American producer and one half of the acclaimed hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall.
Simone Martini.  Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St.
Jacques Aliamet.  Jacques Aliamet (30 November 1726 Abbeville - 29 May 1788 Paris) was a French engraver. His brother François-Germain Aliamet was also an engraver. He perfected drypoint and his several surviving works include engravings after Nicolaes Berchem Philips Wouwerman and Claude Joseph Vernet.
Royce Jones.  Royce Jones (born December 15 1954) is a Grammy-winning American musician best known for his work as a touring vocalist with the bands Steely Dan (in 1973 and 1974) and Ambrosia (joined 1978). In the studio Jones contributed vocals to David Pack's Anywhere You Go Odyssey's self-titled release Bruzer's Round 1 and Stephan Cohn's self-titled release. In the summer of 2007 Jones joined a coverband called Screamin Lehman Band.
Bernardino di Mariotto.  Bernardino Di Mariotto dello Stagno (Perugia circa 1478 - Perugia 1566) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Marc Hyman.  Marc Hyman wrote the Warner Bros. movie Osmosis Jones and developed the movie's spin-off Ozzy & Drix. His writing credits include Universal Pictures Meet the Fockers and Paramount's The Perfect Score. Marc has written TV pilots for Kelsey Grammer and Matthew McConaughey and has rewritten more than 40 produced movies including How To Train Your Dragon and Madagascar 3 and 4His most recent project is Short People a talking baby musical for 20th Century Fox.
Shaun MacGowan.  Shaun MacGowan (born 1988) is a UK-born violinist keyboardist and guitarist best known as the keyboardist and violinist of British doom metal band My Dying Bride. He replaced Katie Stone in 2009 and joined the band to tour the album For Lies I Sire.
Jane Aamund.  Jane Aamund (born November 8 1936) is a Danish author and journalist.She got her breakthrough in Denmark with the Klinkevals trilogy.
Gary Thomas (author).  Gary Thomas (born October 24 1961) is an American Christian author and speaker who specializes in marriage parenting dating and spiritual formation. In 2010 he started serving as a Writer in Residence at Second Baptist Church Houston where he currently writes preaches and pastors.
Christopher von Deylen.  Christopher von Deylen (born 15 October 1970 in Visselhövede Lower Saxony Germany) is an electronica music producer formerly one-half of a duo and now the only member of the electronic act Schiller.
Red Skelton.  Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18 1913 – September 17 1997) was an American entertainer best known for being a national radio and television comedian between 1937 and 1971 and host of the long-running television program The Red Skelton Show. Skelton who has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television began entertaining as a youngster. His show business career included a stint as a circus clown when he was in his teens.
Grazia Deledda.  Grazia Deledda (27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926. She was the first Italian woman to receive this honor.
Christianna Brand.  Christianna Brand (17 December 1907 – 11 March 1988) was a British crime writer and children's author.
Kid Thomas (musician).  Louis Thomas Watts commonly known as Kid Thomas (20 June 1934 - 5 April 1970) was an American rock and roll and blues musician.
Alenka Goljevšček.  Alenka Goljevšček (born 7 September 1933) is a Slovene writer essayist and playwright. She won the Levstik Award in 1988 for her book on Slovene mythology Med bogovi in demoni (Amongst Gods and Daemons). She is also a playwright. Her husband was the literary historian philosopher and essayist Taras Kermauner.
Imre Poniklo.  Imre Poniklo (born 16 October 1974) is a Hungarian indie musician best known as the lead singer songwriter lyricist and guitarist of the indie rock band Amber Smith. He is also a solo artist under the name Poniklo. As a singer Poniklo's voice lies in the baritone range.
Yoko Shimada.  Yōko Shimada (島田 陽子 Shimada Yōko born May 17 1953 in Kumamoto Japan) is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of Mariko in the 1980 miniseries Shōgun. She was the only female member of Shōgun's massive cast of Japanese actors shown speaking English for which she relied on a dialogue coach as she was not fluent in the language at the time.
Daniel G. Sullivan.  Daniel G. Sullivan is an American screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay for While You Were Sleeping (1995) with Frederic Lebow but while it was acclaimed by many it did not receive any awards.
František Halas.  František Halas (3 October 1901 in Brno – 27 October 1949 in Prague) was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century an essayist and a translator.
Jus Allah.  James Bostick (born June 30 1978) better known by his stage name Jus Allah is a New Jersey rapper who made his official debut on Jedi Mind Tricks second album Violent by Design in 2000. He is known for his aggressive lyrics that are commonly Afro-centric and hateful subject matter. He heavily uses the rhyming technique known as multi-syllabic rhyming which is abundant in Violent By Design and A History of Violence.
Stratis Paschalis.  Stratis Paschalis (Greek: Στρατής Πασχάλης) (b. Athens 1958) is an award winning Greek poet novelist and translator. He read Political Science at the Law School of the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1977. He has been awarded the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize of the Academy of Athens (1994) the State Prize for Translation (1998) and the Poetry Prize for Poetry of the literary journal Diavazo (1999).
Jacqueline King.  Jacqueline King is a British actress.
Yury Saulsky.  Yury Sergeevitch Saulsky (Russian: Юрий Серге́евич Саульский) is a Soviet and Russian composer author.
Angelo Ardinghi.  Angelo Ardinghi (1850 –1897) was an Italian wood engraver.He was born in Forte de' Marmi near Pietrasanta in the province of Lucca. He first trained in Siena with Giulio Tadini then in 1803 moved to the Instituto di Belle Arti working under the engraver P. Giusti. At Siena he won a number of competitions there. He obtained a stipend from the province of Lucca and moved to Bologna to work under professor Francesco Ratti and from there to Milan where he opened a studio for wood engraving.
Allain Gaussin.  Allain Gaussin (b. 1943 Saint-Sever-Calvados (Normandie)) is a noted French composer. A laureate of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris where he studied with Olivier Messiaen his works are frequently performed in France and abroad.
Bowie Lam.  Bowie Lam (Chinese: 林保怡 Lam Bo-Yee; born 4 September 1965) is a Hong Kong television actor with the TVB network. He has starred in several popular dramas including File of Justice and Healing Hands.Before working in entertainment Lam held other occupations including serving in the Hong Kong Police Force for a short time. He made his acting debut in 1986 in Kiss Me Goodbye and his singing debut in 1989.Lam's acting career took off after joining the major television network TVB in 1991.
Tobias Sammet.  Tobias Sammet (21 November 1977) is a German musician. He is best known as the vocalist and primary songwriter of the power metal band Edguy as well as the founder main singer and bassist of the metal opera Avantasia. Prior to Edguy's Theater of Salvation Tobias was also their bassist and keyboardist.
Cynthia Martin.  Cynthia Martin (aka Cindy Martin) is a comic book artist best known for her work on the Marvel Comics Star Wars title during its waning years in the mid-1980s. She was one of the few women working in mainstream American comics during that time.Martin's clean lines and strong sense of movement during action scenes set her apart from other Star Wars artists of the time. Her work displayed the influence of Japanese manga long before it became common in American comics.
Rhys Fulber.  Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He was a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium along with Bill Leeb and now records on his own under the name Conjure One.
Gëzim Nika.  Gëzim Nika is a famous Albanian folk singer.
Polibio Fumagalli.  Polibio Fumagalli (born Inzago October 26 1830 - died Milan June 21 1900) was an Italian composer organist and pianist.Fumagalli studied organ at the Milan Conservatory; beginning in 1873 he taught organ at that institution. Among his students were Marco Enrico Bossi and Pietro Yon. He also served as choirmaster of the Church of San Celso.Much of Fumagalli's compositional output was for his own instrument.
Shazza.  Shazza is the stage name of Magdalena Pańkowska born May 29 1967 in Pruszków a female Polish singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She found fame in the 1990s with her massive disco polo hits such as Baiao Bongo Bierz co chcesz Egipskie noce or Noc róży. Having been proclaimed the queen of disco polo Shazza remains one of the best-selling singers of the genre.
Richard Topping.  Richard Topping (born August 19 1967) started his career as a bar manager at the Beacon Hotel Tunbridge Wells and then went on-stage as a stand-up comedian on the London club circuit in the late 1980s. He moved into television in the 1990s co-hosting several shows including BBC's This Multimedia Business The Technophobe's Guide To The Future and ITV's The Web Review.
Harvey Fuqua.  Harvey Fuqua (July 27 1929 – July 6 2010) was an American rhythm and blues singer songwriter record producer and record label executive.Fuqua founded the seminal R&B/doo-wop group the Moonglows in the 1950s.
Ong Schan Tchow.  Ong Schan Tchow (Chinese: 翁占秋; pinyin: Wēng Zhàn Qiū) (also known as Yung Chan Tchow Ong Chan Chiew or Ang Chan Chiew in the Hokkien dialect) alias Yung Len Kwui (Chinese: 翁联桂; pinyin: Wēng Lián Guì) (also known as Ong Lien Kuei) (September 19 1900 – December 20 1945) was born in Longyan a prefecture of Fujian Province China.
Bobby Hatfield.  Robert Lee Bobby Hatfield (August 10 1940 – November 5 2003) was an American singer best known as one half of the Righteous Brothers.
Frieda Hughes.  Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born April 1 1960) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions.
Larry Norman.  Larry David Norman (April 8 1947 – February 24 2008) was an American musician singer songwriter record label owner and record producer. He was considered to be one of the pioneers of Christian rock music and released more than 100 albums.
Ray Luzier.  Raymond Lee Ray Luzier (born June 14 1970 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American drummer. He is the drummer of the band Korn becoming a full-time member of the band in April 2009.
Todd Hasak-Lowy.  Todd Hasak-Lowy is a writer and Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida that has a PHD from Berkeley. His first book The Task of this Translator (Harcourt Books) a short story collection was published in 2005. His first novel Captives appeared in fall 2008.
William Godwin.  William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism.
Steve Brookstein.  Stephen Desmond Steve Brookstein (born 10 November 1968 in Camberwell London) is an English jazz and soul singer who enjoyed fleeting success in the United Kingdom in 2004 after winning the first series of The X Factor. He is originally from Mitcham South London.
Jeff Hanson.  Jeff Hanson (March 3 1978 – June 5 2009) was a singer-songwriter guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose voice was described in a 2005 Paste review as an angelic falsetto a cross between Alison Krauss and Art Garfunkel that is often (understandably) mistaken for a female contralto.Hanson's vocal style is sometimes compared to Elliott Smith's singing manner.
Jana Jae.  Jana Jae (born August 30 1942) is an American country and bluegrass fiddler. She gained national fame by appearing on the nationally broadcast CBS/syndicated television series Hee Haw as part of Buck Owens's band in the 1970s. Prior to her work with Owens she won the Ladies' Division National Fiddling Championship.Since the late 1970s Jae has continued performing internationally both as the leader of her own band and with orchestra.
Ian McHugh.  Ian McHugh is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.
Martín Méndez.  Martín Méndez (born April 6 1978 in Montevideo Uruguay) is the bass guitar player of progressive death metal band Opeth and second most constant member of the band behind lead vocalist songwriter and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt.Méndez has been a member of several other bands including Fifth to Infinity Proxima and Vinterkrig. Méndez joined Opeth right before the recording of their third album My Arms Your Hearse began.
Milton Mallawarachchi.  Milton Mallawarachchi (1945 – 1998) was a popular Sri Lankan musician. Mallawarachchi has sung songs by Karunaratne Abeysekera K. D. K. Dharmawardena Premakirthi de Alwis Clarence Wijewardena Upali Danawalawithana Dharmasiri Gamage Ajantha Ransinghe Shelton Weeraratne Kularatne Ariyawansa Ananda Padmasiri Vernon Perera Chitrananda Abeysekera Bandara Wijetunga and Vijaya Ramanayake.
Shane Leslie.  Sir John Randolph Leslie 3rd Baronet generally known as Shane Leslie (24 September 1885 – 14 August 1971) was an Irish-born diplomat and writer. He was a first cousin ofSir Winston Churchill the British war time Prime Minister. In 1908 Leslie became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule.
Setsuji Satō.  Setsuji Satō (佐藤 せつじ Satō Setsuji born December 16 1974) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He is currently affiliated with Engeki Shūdan Yen. He graduated from the Osaka University of Arts.
Carl Frederik Stanley.  Carl Frederik Stanley (c. 1738 – 9 March 1813) was a Danish sculptor a leading proponent of early Neo-Classicism in Denmark.
John of St. Thomas.  John of St. Thomas (family name João Poinsot or Johannes Poinsot since the 1980s in American texts also John Poinsot; 9 June 1589 – 17 June 1644) was a theologian and philosopher born at Lisbon.Of noble parentage he was sent early to the University of Coimbra displayed talents of the first order completed his humanities and philosophy and obtained the degree of Master of Arts. He then entered the University of Louvain.
Haldreyn.  Haldreyn is the bardic name of William Morris (born 1937). He is a Cornish poet linguist and painter. Haldreyn was an original member of Kesva an Taves Kernewek and is a bard of the Gorseth Kernow appointed in 1966.
Pheeroan akLaff.  Pheeroan akLaff (born January 27 1955) is an American jazz drummer. Pheeroan akLaff began playing in his hometown of Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan with Travis Biggs Ars Nova The Ebony Set The Last Days and Rod Lumpkin recorded with Major Lansky. Moved to New Haven Connecticut and formed DejaVu with Dwight Andrews.
Jim Breuer.  James E. Jim Breuer (born June 21 1967) is an American stand-up comedian actor and radio host. He is most noted for his time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and starring in the 1998 cult stoner comedy Half Baked alongside Dave Chappelle.
Mpundi Decca.  Mpudi Decca is a soukous recording artist and guitarist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz led by François Luambo Makiadi which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Bob Atcher.  James Robert Owen Bob Atcher (May 11 1914 – October 31 1993) was an American country musician.
Daphne Willis.  Daphne Willis is a singer and songwriter residing in Nashville Tennessee.
E. M. Forster.  Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist short story writer essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: Only connect ... .
Markki Stroem.  'Markki Stroem' (Marcello Angelo Stroem) is a Filipino Norwegian finalist in ABS-CBN’s Pilipinas Got Talent Season 1.A music fan by nature he enjoys listening to a wide variety of artists such as John Legend Adele Robin Thicke Lauryn Hill India Arie and Up Dharma Down.He finished his studies with merit and honors in the Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland with Bachelor of Arts degree in Hospitality and Marketing ManagementTagged as today’s Sexy Jazz Artist
Yuriko Yamaguchi (voice actress).  Yuriko Yamaguchi (山口 由里子 Yamaguchi Yuriko born November 21 1965) is a Japanese voice actress who was born in Osaka. Previously affiliated with Vi-Vo she is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. She is most known for her roles in One Piece (as Nico Robin) and Pokémon (as the second voice of Nurse Joy). Her nickname is Yuruko.
Colonel Reyel.  Rémy Ranguin better known by his stage name Colonel Reyel (born in Saint-Mandé Val-de-Marne near Paris France on 5 October 1984) is a French dancehall R&B and electro music artist of Guadeloupe origin. His 2011 album Au Rapport reached the top of the French Albums Chart and two singles from the album Celui... and Toutes les nuits topped the French Singles Chart in two consecutive weeks in February–March 2011. In June 2011 Au Rapport went platinum.
Ray Foxx.  Ray Foxx (born 10 December 1985) is an English DJ and music producer who is best known for his hit single Boom Boom (Heartbeat) which has peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.
David Davis (Castellhywel).  David Davis (14 February 1745 – 3 July 1827) known as Castellhywel or Dafis Castellhywel to differentiate him from others of the same name was a Welsh minister and poet.He was born at Goetre Farm in Llangybi Cardiganshire and educated at Carmarthen Academy. He became a minister at Ciliau Aeron where he married the local squire's daughter. In about 1782 he moved to Castellhywel in the Cletwr valley where he opened a school.
Chinawut Indracusin.  Chinawut-Stéphane Indracusin (Thai: ชินวุฒ อินทรคูสิน) also known as Chin is a Thai singer born on August 13 1989 from a French mother and a Thai father. He started his career early on by signing up with the biggest record label in Thailand GMM Grammy which selected him for the G-JUNIOR young artist development program.In 2003 Chin and two other musicians in G-JUNIOR Jay and Guy came together to form a group named Big 3.
Steven Emerson.  Steven Emerson is an American journalist author and pundit on national security terrorism and Islamic extremism.Emerson is the author of six books and co-author of two more. His television documentary Jihad in America won the 1994 George Polk Award for best Television Documentary and top prize for best investigative reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Logan Pearsall Smith.  Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born essayist and critic who became a British citizen in 1913. Harvard and Oxford educated he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams and was an expert on 17th-century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography Unforgotten years for which he may be best remembered.
Adia Chan.  Adia Chan is an Indonesian-born Hong Kong actress singer model and spokesperson.
Gary Briggs (musician).  Gary Briggs is the lead singer/guitarist of English indie band The Strays and previously the UK band Haven.It was announced in February 2008 that Briggs would be providing vocals for the supergroup Freebass featuring bassists Mani Andy Rourke and Peter Hook.He is currently working for a company running courses for musicians in Manchester.
Ian Tregillis.  Ian Tregillis is an American author. He is the author of the alternate history trilogy The Milkweed Triptych and a contributor to George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards series. He is an alumnus of the Clarion Workshop and holds a Ph.D. in physics.
Sue Thomas (author).  Sue Thomas (born 1951) is an English author and independent scholar. She is also a Visiting Fellow in the Media School at Bournemouth University.Her most recent book is Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace. The non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace Hello World: travels in virtuality was published in 2004. Her first novel Correspondence was short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1993.
Ricky Van Shelton.  Ricky Van Shelton (born January 12 1952) is a retired American country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006 he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Jan Coffey.  Jan Coffey is a pen name for the United States marriage of writers formed by James A. McGoldrick and Nikoo K. Coffey McGoldrick. They also write historical-romance novels as May McGoldrick and other suspense-romance novels as Nicole Cody. As Nikoo McGoldrick & James A. McGoldrick they also wrote the book Marriage of Minds.
Robert L. Richards.  Robert L. Richards was a film screenwriter.Richards worked on a number of notable films of the 1940s and 1950s including Winchester '73 Johnny Stool Pigeon and Act of Violence. His radio work included writing for the Suspense series which aired on the CBS network from 1942 until 1962. Among Richards' numerous Suspense offerings was his critically acclaimed neogothic horror thriller entitled The House in Cypress Canyon broadcast on December 5 1946.
Etta Jones.  Etta Jones (November 25 1928 – October 16 2001) was an American jazz singer. She is not to be confused with the more popular singer Etta James nor her namesake a member of the Dandridge Sisters who recorded with Jimmy Lunceford and was Gerald Wilson's first wife. Her best-known recordings were Don't Go To Strangers and Save Your Love For Me.
Herbert Escott Inman.  Herbert Escott Inman (1860 - 1915) was a British author of fairy tales and boys' adventure and school stories. He also wrote an account of the shipwreck of the Dundonald off Disappointment Island in 1907.
Grayston Burgess.  Grayston Burgess (Cheriton Kent 7 April 1932) is an English countertenor and conductor.
Osman Đikić.  Osman Đikić (7 January 1879 – 30 March 1912) was a Bosniak romantic poet and dramatist from Mostar presently in Bosnia and Herzegovina.He is the author of several sevdalinka songs including: Đaurko mila Ašik ostah na te oči and Đela Fato đela zlato.
Nataša Kojić.  Nataša Kojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Наташа Којић born July 20 1984 in Loznica Serbia Yugoslavia) is a pop singer in Serbia.
Jacinta McDevitt.  Jacinta McDevitt is an Irish writer. She has published three best-selling novels: Sign's On (2002) Handle With Care (2003) and Excess Baggage (2004). She also has one hugely successful non-fiction book published - Write A Book In A Year Writing Workshop & Workbook (2006). She has won many awards for her short stories and wrote a series of articles called That's Life for Woman's Way magazine.
Khamakha Hyderabadi.  Khamakha Hyderabadi (born 1929) is a Urdu language poet hailing from Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh India. He is a popular for his poems and is a regular at Mazahiya Mushairas. He writes in native Dakhni dialect specializing in Humour and satire.
Beryl Booker.  Beryl Booker (June 7 1922 – September 30 1978) was an American swing pianist of the 1950s.Born in Philadelphia she played with Slam Stewart's trio in 1946 and played off and on with him until 1951. She also played accompaniment for Dinah Washington. In 1951 she became part of the newly formed Austin Powell Quintet (consisting of Doris Knighton Johnny Davis Stanley Gaines and Dottie Smith) which recorded one Decca single entitled All This Can't Be True before disbanding.
Sarah McIntyre.  Sarah McIntyre (born 1975) is a British-American illustrator and writer of children's books and comics. She graduated in 1999 from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Russian and a minor degree in History of Art and earned her Master's Degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2007.
Koko Stambuk.  Cristián Stambuk (born March 16 1977 in Osorno Chile) better known by his stage name Koko is a Chilean singer-songwriter and producer known for being the singer of the band Glup! and producing artists like Kudai Luis Fonsi Reik Denise Rosenthal and Maite Perroni among others.
Nancy Phelan.  Nancy Phelan (2 August 1913 – 11 January 2008) was an Australian writer who published over 25 books including novels biographies memoirs travel books and a cookbook. She travelled widely through Europe the Pacific Asia and the Middle east.
Sinéad Madden.  Sinéad Madden (born in Galway Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter and fiddle player best known as a member of the Moya Brennan band. She also teaches at Waltons New School of Music in Dublin.
Tony Ross.  Tony Ross (born 10 August 1938) is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books. In Britain he may be known best for illustrating the Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon. He has also illustrated the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger the Dr. Xargle series by Jeanne Willis and the Harry The Poisonous Centipede series by Lynne Reid Banks. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was U.K.
Gabino Ezeiza.  Gabino Ezeiza nicknamed Black Ezeiza (February 3 1858 – October 12 1916) was an Argentine musician. Ezeiza was invincible the most famous in the art of payar both in land and in Uruguay. His counterpoint became famous and presents the sustained Paysandú mented with oriental singer Juan de Nava who was surrounded by a halo of prestige won in many of those who knew tangles succeed.
Julien Green.  Julien Green (September 6 1900 – August 13 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (The Dark Journey The Closed Garden Moira Each Man in His Darkness the Dixie trilogy etc.) a four-volume autobiography (The Green Paradise The War at Sixteen Love in America and Restless Youth) and his famous Diary (in nineteen volumes 1919-1998). He wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française.
Don Bingle.  Donald J. Bingle (born c. 1954) is a Chicago-area attorney and author originally from Naperville Illinois.
Ann Bridgewater.  Ann Bridgewater (柏安妮 pinyin: Bó Ānní; born 12 June 1965) who is sometimes also known as Pak On Nei is a former Hong Kong actress.Bridgewater was born in Hong Kong of mixed British Chinese and Malay parentage. She attended Christ Church Kindergarten the Diocesan Girls' School and the King George V School in Hong Kong.Bridgewater displayed a strong work ethic early in life when she won an ice skating competition at the age of thirteen.
Giovanni Maria Mariani.  Giovanni Maria Mariani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Siena and Rome in the preparation of stage opera sets and scenography.
Belita.  Maria Belita Gladys Olive Lyne Jepson-Turner (25 October 1923 – 18 December 2005) known professionally as Belita was a British Olympic figure skater dancer and film actress.Born at Nether Wallop Hampshire she skated (as Belita Jepson-Turner) for the United Kingdom in the 1936 Winter Olympics where she was placed 16th in the Ladies' singles competition then her career turned towards Hollywood.
Kas Oosterhuis.  Kas Oosterhuis is professor at the Faculty of Architecture Delft University of Technology as well as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering.
Lynn Huggins-Cooper.  Lynn Huggins-Cooper is an English author. She has written more than 200 books and is best known for her book Downshift to the Good Life (a guide to simplified living) and also for her many children's books. Most recently she has published her newest children's novel Walking with Witches for Tyne Bridge Publishing which was illustrated by Nigel J Brewis.
Giacomo Albé.  Giacomo Albé (Viadana Province of Mantua July 18 1829 - Milan 1893) was an Italian painter mainly of portraits.He had studied in Rome and Bergamo under Giuseppe Diotti. He then went to work mainly in Mantua for some decades.From 1850-1859 he painted in Havana Cuba under the name of Joaquin. He was a resident in Milan. He painted a posthumous portrait of the Senator Arrivabene of Mantua; of signor Ottavio Rumi; and portraits of girls for signor Adolfo Naham and Count Carlo Borromeo.
Paul O'Neill (rock producer).  Paul O'Neill (born 1956) is an American music composer lyricist producer and songwriter.
Renato Birolli.  Renato Birolli (December 10 1905 – May 3 1959) was an Italian painter.
Curt Löwgren.  Curt Löwgren (20 December 1908 – 15 March 1967) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1943 and 1966.
Tobias Smollett.  Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. George Orwell admired Smollett very much. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr. O. M. Brack Jr. to correct variants.
Delfín Quishpe.  Delfín Quishpe (born December 1977 in Guamote Ecuador) is an Indigenous Quecha Ecuadorian singer-songwriter celebrity performing in a style he calls Andean techno-folklore. His popularity largely comes from the comical nature of his music. Quishpe's song Torres Gemelas (Twin Towers) remains the song that has received most attention.
Master of the Golden Altar.  The Master of the Golden Altar was a German painter active in the area around Lüneburg during the fifteenth century. His name is derived from an altarpiece dating most likely to 1418 formerly in St. Michael's church in Lüneburg and now held by a museum in Hanover.
James McKendry.  James Alexander McKendry (born 30 September 1935) is an Irish artist.Graduating in 1958 after 5 years study in Ireland and England he is noted for his large scale commissioned sculptures and murals for churches and public buildings in Ireland and abroad.
Betty Who.  Jessica Anne Newham known by her stage name Betty Who (born 5 October 1991) is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician based in New York City.
Friedrich Nerly.  Friedrich Nerly or Federico Nehrlich (October 26 1824 - 1919) was an Italian painter painting mostly seascapes
Svein Gjerdåker.  Svein Gjerdåker (born 1963) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He hails from Voss and took his education at the University of Bergen. He later worked for the Chr. Michelsen Institute and Universitetsforlaget. In 2001 he was hired as editor-in-chief of Dag og Tid.He is married to Ingvild Bryn. They have two adopted children.
Hans Keilson.  Hans Alex Keilson (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈhɑns ˈkɛilsɔn]; 12 December 1909 – 31 May 2011) was a Jewish German/Dutch novelist poet psychoanalyst and child psychologist. He was best known for his novels set during the Second World War during which he was an active member of the Dutch resistance.Keilson having worked with traumatized orphans mainly wrote about traumas induced by the war. His first novel was published in 1934 but most of his works were published after the war.
Nikolaj Omersa.  Nikolaj Omersa (3 December 1911 - 3 December 1981) was a Slovene painter and illustrator.Omersa was born in Idrija in 1911. He graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1937. During the Second World War he was interred in Dachau Mittelbau-Dora and Ravensbrück concentration camps. After the war he taught in Ljubljana and was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design from 1954 to 1973.
Nick Walters.  Nick Walters is a British writer. He has written many spin off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as well as cowriting one featuring Bernice Summerfield.Walters is a regular guest at the science fiction event Microcon.
Winston Tong.  Winston Tong (born 1951 in San Francisco California) is an actor/playwright visual artist puppeteer and singer/songwriter. He is best known for his vocal work in Tuxedomoon and for winning an Obie award in puppetry for Bound Feet in 1978.
Kimmo Blom.  Kimmo Blom (born January 31 1970 Orimattila Finland) is a Finnish vocalist and stage artist know for his work in several rock and metal bands such as Urban Tale Boys of the Band and Heartplay.From 2004 to the present he also performs in the Finnish Christmas Metal project Raskasta joulua.
Adolph Tidemand.  Adolph Tidemand (1814–1876) was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are Haugianerne (The Haugeans; 1852) and Brudeferd i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger;1848) painted in collaboration with Hans Gude.
Arshad Mehmood (singer).  Arshad Mehmood is a Pakistani singer. Many of his songs for the Pakistani film industry Lollywood have been popular.
Jim O'Rourke (musician).  Jim O'Rourke (born January 18 1969) is an Irish American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene. Around 2000 he relocated to New York before moving on to Tokyo Japan where he currently resides.
Alexander Zick.  Alexander Zick (1845 Koblenz – 10 November 1907 Berlin) was a German painter and illustrator.Alexander was the greatgrandson of the painter and architect Januarius Zick (1730-1797) the son of Fresco artist Johannes Zick (1702-1762).He was a student of August Wittig and Eduard Bendemann.
Yinon Yahel.  Yinon Yahel (born August 26 1978) is an Israeli DJ/music producer.
Leopold Grützmacher.  Leopold Grützmacher (born in Dessau Germany on 4 September 1835 died in Weimar Germany on 26 February 1900) was a German cellist and composer.He was the younger brother of Friedrich Grützmacher and was a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig. Later he was the principal cellist of the Schwerin Hofkapelle the Landestheater in Prague and then in the Hofkapelle in Meiningen Germany.
Julian Putkowski.  Julian Putkowski is a British university teacher historian researcher and broadcaster. He has written extensively on military executions in World War I.
Defconn.  Defconn (Hangul: 데프콘; born January 6 1977) is a South Korean hip hop singer and occasional comedic television presenter. He was relatively unknown until 2013 however he was known for his afro and comedic nature. In addition to his music career he is also a prominent television host who is well accepted by critics.
Gitta Steiner.  Gitta Steiner (1932-1990) was an American composer.Steiner attended the Juilliard School of Music and Tanglewood and was best known for her works for percussion instruments. She lived in Douglaston Queens New York.
Makvala Kasrashvili.  Makvala Kasrashvili (Georgian: მაყვალა ქასრაშვილი Russian: Маквала Филимоновна Касрашвили Makvala Filimonovna Kasrashvili) is a Georgian-Russian opera singer (soprano). Born March 13 1942 (not March 15 1948 as some sources incorrectly state) in Kutaisi Georgian SSR she graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1966. Since 1968 she has been a soloist with Bolshoi Theatre Moscow.
Pierre Gandon.  Pierre Gandon was a French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps. He was born January 20 1899 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) and died July 23 1990.
Akiko Wakabayashi.  Akiko Wakabayashi (若林 映子 Wakabayashi Akiko born 26 August 1941) is a Japanese actress best known in English-speaking countries for her role as Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice.
Xilent.  Xilent (born Eryk Kowalczyk) is a dubstep electro house and drum & bass music producer residing in the UK. He is best known for his track Choose Me II released on May 16 2011 which peaked at #1 spot on Beatport's Dubstep chart and stayed in the Top 5 for 3 months. The track was also selected as Zane Lowe’s “Next Hype” track on BBC Radio 1. Xilent was nominated as “Best Newcomer Producer” by Drum and Bass Arena Awards in 2011. He is currently signed to AudioPorn Records.
Moe Koffman.  Morris Moe Koffman OC (December 28 1928 - March 28 2001) was a Canadian jazz musician and composer. He played the flute soprano alto and tenor saxophone and clarinet. Although some jazz purists did not appreciate his sensitivity to popular tastes his ability to adapt to changing styles reflected his technical skill as a musician and diverse musical interests.Born in Toronto Koffman began his musical studies in his native city with Gordon Delamont.
Vladimir Andreyevich Komarov.  Vladimir Andreevich Komarov (born 14 September 1976 Novosibirsk) is a Russian musician singer songwriter sound producer DJ and journalist. He is the founder of Hot Zex and frontman of Punk TV.
William Oakley Burgess.  William Oakley Burgess (c.1818–1844) was an English mezzotint engraver.
David Brigati.  David Brigati (born October 29 1940) is an American singer.
Pierre Assouline.  Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca Morocco.
Anne Lovett (musician).  Anne Lovett is a French pianist and composer residing in London. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and King's College London. She released her first album Beyond (and Below) in 2012 under the record label Discovery Records which received critical acclaim in Gramophone Awards and is now being distributed worldwide.
DJ Ezasscul.  [Ricky Lascaze] (Born November 23 1992) is an American Hip-Hop DJ and producer from Brooklyn New York who records under the name DJ Ezasscul. For a brief period of time he was a member of the rap group Supreme & Eaze with Missouri rapper Supreme Sol. DJ Ezasscul is also founder of the independent label Jazzy Peace Records.
Michael Johnson (drummer).  Michael Wayne Johnson (born 30 July 1982 in Orlando Florida) is an American pop singer and drummer formerly of the boyband Natural. He performed with various projects until joining Marc Terenzi in a new band Terenzi in 2008.
Parichay Das.  Parichay Das born Ravindra Nath Srivastava is an Indian writer and editor of contemporary Bhojpuri poetry. In 2012 he received Dwi-Vaageesh Samman award by the Bhartiya Anuvad Parishad Translator's Association of India.
Albert Lee.  Albert William Lee (born 21 December 1943 in Lingen Herefordshire England) is an English guitarist known for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique. Lee has worked both in the studio and on tour with many famous musicians from a wide range of genres. He has also maintained a solo career and is a noted composer and musical director.
Park Hyo-shin.  Park Hyo-shin (Hangul: 박효신 Hanja: 朴孝信 born 1 December 1981) is a South Korean singer. Park has a deep husky voice and has been hailed by many as one of Korea's greatest singers.[citation needed]
Adriano Correia de Oliveira.  Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira GCIH ComL or just Adriano (April 9 1942 – October 16 1982) was a Portuguese musician born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His family moved to Avintes after his birth.
Carlo Balestrini.  Carlo Balestrini (Albese near Milan March 24 1868 - February 10 1922) was an Italian painter. His favorite subject were Impressionist landscapes with animals specially horses.
Bogdan Raczynski.  Bogdan Raczynski is a Polish braindance artist who is currently in his mid 30's. His work includes a song with Icelandic artist Björk. He also owns the website BasilMarket
Fiona Russell Powell.  Fiona Russell Powell (born 2 April 1962) is a British journalist. She is best known for her series of interviews throughout the 1980s in The Face magazine. For a brief period in the mid-1980s she performed with the pop group ABC in videos and onstage to support their cartoon-synth album How to Be a...Zillionaire! (1985). She performed under the stage name Eden so she could continue with her music and style journalism at the same time.[citation needed]
Maurice Féaudierre.  Maurice Féaudierre (1909–1992) was a French illustrator.
Ngọc Sơn (singer).  Ngọc Sơn (born November 26 1970) is a Vietnamese singer.
Willie Gardner.  Willie Gardner is a Scottish musician who formed part of various pop and rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s playing guitar. He was a cousin of Alex Harvey.His earliest known band was The Hot Valves formed in 1976. The band was influenced by Bill Nelson and Mick Ronson and their name was taken from a Be-Bop Deluxe EP.
Joel Savoy.  Joel Savoy (born in Eunice Louisiana USA) is a Cajun musician and music producer from Southwest Louisiana. His father Marc Savoy famous accordion builder and musician and his mother Ann Savoy author and music producer are well known ambassadors and supporters of preserving the Cajun culture.
Harry Blamires.  Harry Blamires (born 6 November 1916) is an Anglican theologian literary critic and novelist. Now retired Blamires served as head of the English department at King Alfreds College (now Winchester University) in Winchester England. He started writing in the late 1940s at the encouragement of his friend C. S. Lewis his tutor at Oxford University.
Emily M. Danforth.  Emily M. Danforth (born January 17 1980) is an American author. She is Assistant Professor of English at Rhode Island College teaching creative writing and literature. Her debut novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post was published in February 2012.Danforth was born and raised in Miles City Montana. She attended Hofstra University where she came out. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Montana and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Andy Clark (musician).  Simon Andrew Clark is an English keyboard and synthesizer player best known for working alongside guitarist Bill Nelson in art rock band Be-Bop Deluxe and their synthpop offshoot Red Noise.One of his earlier involvements in music was as member of a progressive rock band from Sheffield Yorkshire called Mother's Pride.His original involvement with Be Bop Deluxe was as keyboardist for the band's live concerts in 1975.
Solomon Joseph Solomon.  Solomon Joseph Solomon RA (London 16 September 1860 – 27 July 1927 Birchington-on-Sea) was a British painter a founding member of the New English Art Club and member of the Royal Academy Solomon's family was Jewish and his sister Lily Delissa Joseph (née Solomon) was also a painter. He made an important contribution to the development of camouflage in the First World War working in particular on tree observation posts and arguing tirelessly for camouflage netting.
Siw Hughes.  Siw Hughes (born Bangor Gwynedd) is a Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Kath Jones in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm from 1993 until 2007.Famous Welsh comedian Iwan John has a running joke in which he spoofs the Kath Jones character using such over-emphasised catch-phrases as Blincin fflip!.
Eliza Carthy.  Eliza Carthy (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson.
Doug Hall (painter).  Doug Hall is an oil painter from Neosho Missouri whose subjects include early Eastern Woodland Native Americans. He currently resides in McDonald County Missouri adjacent to the Huckleberry State Forest.
Jack Holiday.  Christian Korcan better known by his stage name Jack Holiday is a Swiss DJ songwriter and music producer and considered a renowned figure in Swiss house music well known for his collaborations with Swiss DJ Mike Candys and with Christopher S. The three have carved up a partnership in similar fashion to the Swedish House Mafia. Jack Holiday's big success came with Insomnia with Mike Candys.
Ya Suy.  Ya Suy (born January 7 1987) is a Vietnamese singer from Lâm Đồng. He won the fourth season of Vietnam Idol on February 1 2013.
Tasmina Perry.  Tasmina Perry is an internationally best-selling British novelist. Her novels to date are Daddy's Girls Gold Diggers Guilty Pleasures Original Sin Kiss Heaven Goodbye Private Lives and Perfect Strangers all of which have been Sunday Times best-sellers and have been published in 17 countries. Perry is also an award-winning journalist and magazine editor and she edits a daily blog tasminaperry.com writing about travel and style and the places that inspire her novels.
Ingo Goritzki.  Ingo Goritzki (born 22 February 1939 in Berlin Germany) is a German oboist pianist and flautist. He began his flute and piano studies in Freiburg and switched to oboe as his primary instrument at age 20.
Noriko Ogawa (pianist).  Noriko Ogawa (小川典子 Ogawa Noriko) (born 1962) is a Japanese classical pianist.Born in Kawasaki Ogawa studied at the Tokyo College of Music (1977–80) and the Juilliard School in New York (1981–5) and later with Benjamin Kaplan. After coming second in a Japanese music competition in 1984 she gained third prize in the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition which launched her international performing career.
Tacita Dean.  Tacita Charlotte Dean OBE (born 1965) is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998. She lives and works in Berlin.
Thomas Rowland Hughes.  Thomas Rowland Hughes (often referred to as T. Rowland Hughes) (17 April 1903 – 24 October 1949) was a Welsh novelist dramatist and poet He was the son of a quarryman from Llanberis Caernarvonshire (Gwynedd today) in northern Wales. He is primarily renowned in the present day for his novels about characters living and working in the slate quarries of northern Wales but in his day he was just as well known as a poet. William Jones is his most famous novel.
Macadoshis.  Macadoshis is an American rapper who was a friend of Tupac Shakur. He made his official debut in 2Pac's group Thug Life along with 2Pac Big Syke Mopreme Stretch & Rated R.[citation needed]In 2007 13 years after Thug Life Vol. 1 Macadoshis released his debut solo album Tha Come Up.
Bette Midler.  Bette Midler (born December 1 1945) also known by her informal stage name The Divine Miss M is an American singer-songwriter actress comedian film producer and entrepreneur. In a career spanning almost half a century Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Grammy Awards four Golden Globes three Emmy Awards and a special Tony Award.
Anthony Collett.  Anthony Collett (22 August 1877 – 1929) was an author and writer on natural history subjects and was nature correspondent for The Times during the 1910s and 1920s.He was born at Cromhall Gloucestershire educated at Bradfield School and Oriel College Oxford.In 1917 he was described as of 5 Stone Buildings Lincoln's Inn London W.C. which strongly suggests that he was a lawyer or at any rate involved in the legal profession in some capacity.W. H.
Chet Powers.  Chester William Chet Powers Jr. (October 7 1937 – November 16 1994) was an American singer-songwriter and a member of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. He was also known by the stage name Dino Valenti and as a songwriter as Jesse Oris Farrow. He wrote the famous 1960s song Get Together.
Muruga Booker.  Muruga Booker (born December 27 1942) is an American drummer composer recording artist and uncanonical Greek Orthodox priest.
Jens Marni Hansen.  Jens Marni Hansen (18 December 1974) is a Faroese singer songwriter composer and musician. He grew up in and lives in Kollafjørður.
Pepper Somerset.  Pepper Somerset is the alias of Traci Danielle (Tracey Danielle Williams) who is the female vocalist in the American Industrial band My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. She grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and New York City and currently resides in Los Angeles. She is also an actress who has appeared in several music videos and television shows including an uncredited appearance on the show Felicity.
Jean-Paul Nozière.  Jean-Paul Nozière (born 1943 Monay) is a French author who lives in Bourgogne France. He has written about thirty books for young adults as well as eight mysteries for adults (in particular the series Enquêtes de Slimane of which two of four have received a prix du polar.One of his books Un été Algérien (An Algerian Summer) has received many awards in France.
Andreas Bethmann.  Andreas Bethmann is a German film director producer and screenwriter. Beginning his career making horror films Bethmann moved onto to hardcore pornography in the late 1990s and then to fusions of the two genres which typically feature prolonged scenes of rape torture and gore.
Susan Hahn.  Personal:Susan Hahn is a poet playwright and novelist. She was born Susan Firestone in Chicago Illinois and attended Highland Park High School and Northwestern University (B.A. and M.A.) She was employed for many years by TriQuarterly literary magazine the last 14 of which until 2009 as the Editor.
Daniel Gordon (artist).  Daniel Gordon (born 1980 in Boston Mass.) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn New York.
Boogie (photographer).  Boogie real name Vladimir Milivojevich (born 1969) is a photographer from Serbia based in Brooklyn New York.He is known for his documentary and portrait photographs of people on the margins of society. His work has been featured by the New York Times Time magazine Huffington Post Huck magazine and HBO (for the show How To Make It In America).
Louis Tillett.  Louis Rohan Tillett (born 1959) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter keyboardist and saxophonist. Tillett was the front man in Australian bands The Wet Taxis Paris Green and The Aspersion Caste. He has also worked as a backing musician with Catfish Laughing Clowns New Christs and Tex Perkins.
Ezio Martinelli.  Ezio Martinelli (November 27 1913–1980) was an American artist who belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
Yumi Uchiyama.  Yumi Uchiyama (内山 夕実 Uchiyama Yumi born October 30 1987) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan and is affiliated with Arts Vision.
Paul Haines (fiction writer).  Paul Haines (8 June 1970 - 5 March 2012) was an award-winning New Zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer. He lived in Melbourne Australia with his wife and daughter.Raised in Auckland New Zealand Haines moved to Australia in the 1990s after completing a university degree in Otago. He attended the inaugural Clarion South writers workshop in 2004 and is a member of the SuperNOVA writers group.
Charlie Mole.  Charlie Mole is a British/French film and television score composer and songwriter. His scores include An Ideal Husband Othello The Importance of Being Earnest The Diary of Anne Frank the 2007 version of St. Trinian's the 2009 version of Dorian Gray and the 2013 ITV drama series Mr Selfridge.He was a member of the Oxford University-based band Kudos Points which provided the dance tracks for the Oxford University Film Foundation production of the Hugh Grant film Privileged.
Thomas Rickman (writer).  Thomas Rickman (sometimes credited as Tom Rickman) is an American film director and screenwriter known for such films as Coal Miner's Daughter Hooper Tuesdays with Morrie and Truman.
Nuno Resende.  This article is partially translated from the French Wikipedia.Nuno Resende is a Portuguese singer born June 25 1973 in Porto Portugal.
Anthony Chan (actor).  Anthony Chan Yau (Chinese: 陳友 born 1 October 1952) is a Hong Kong actor and the drum player for the band Wynners.[citation needed]
Zubaida Khanum.  Zubaida Khanum (1935 - 19 October 2013) was a playback singer from Pakistan who recorded almost 250 songs during Lollywood's golden era of 1950s and 1960s. She was considered Pakistani equivalent to Marni Nixon for giving voice to featured actresses in movie musicals.
Joseph Delaney (artist).  Joseph Delaney (1904 – November 21 1991) was an African-American artist who became a part of the New York art scene at the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
Sidonija Rubido.  Countess Sidonija Rubido Erdödy (1819–1884) was Croatia's first opera primadonna and an important member of the Illyrian movement.
Stanisław Przybyszewski.  Stanisław Feliks Przybyszewski (7 May 1868 – 23 November 1927) was a Polish novelist dramatist and poet of the decadent naturalistic school. His drama is associated with the Symbolism movement. He wrote both in German and in Polish.
Michael McCary.  Michael Sean McCary (born December 16 1971) is an American R&B singer best known as the former bass singer of the R&B group Boyz II Men.In 2003 Michael McCary left Boyz II Men due to chronic back problems resulting from scoliosis and personal problems. McCary plays in the film Mannsfield 12 (2007) in which he takes on the role of Herold. He has also appeared on the television game show Identity on March 24 2007.
Ben Kozel.  Ben Kozel (born 1973) is an adventurer author and film maker born in South Australia.With friends Colin Angus and Scott Borthwick of South Africa Kozel journeyed the length of the Amazon River in 1999-2000.In 2001 Kozel Colin Angus and Remy Quinter became the first team to travel the entire length of the Yenisey River.
Naohisa Inoue.  Naohisa Inoue (井上 直久 Inoue Naohisa born in 1948 in Osaka Japan) is a fantasy artist influenced by both the Surrealism and Impressionism movements. Most of his paintings are set in the fantastical land of Iblard (イバラード Ibarādo). He created reference and background art for the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart and also provided a cameo appearance as the voice of Minami.
Franz Baermann Steiner.  Franz Baermann Steiner (born 12 October 1909 in the town of Karlín (the later suburb of Karolinethal) just outside Prague Bohemia died 27 November 1952 in Oxford) was an ethnologist polymath essayist aphorist and poet.
Nicola Veronica.  Nicola Veronica a portrait artist photograph engraver for The Chicago Tribune newspaper and art instructor at Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago Illinois was born 15 August 1905 in Italy and died September 1979. His last residence was the Chicago Illinois area. He was born as Nicholas Antonio Veronico but later Americanized his name when he immigrated from Italy to America arriving at Ellis Island New York about 1920.
Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai.  Chittoor Subramanyam (22 June 1898 – 1975) was an Indian carnatic musician.
Jon Lowenstein.  Jon Lowenstein (born January 16 1970) is an American documentary photographer. He is a member and owner of NOOR photo agency a cooperative photojournalist agency located in the Netherlands.His work has been featured in The New Yorker New York Times News Week and on Channel 4 a British public-service television broadcaster. He has also been a guest several times on NPR discussing issues of poverty and violence.
Elizabeth Norman McKay.  Elizabeth Norman McKay (née Norman) is a British musicologist pianist and Lieder accompanist.McKay graduated at Lawnswood Highschool Leeds in 1947/48.She gained a degree in Physics from Bristol University and worked in London as a pianist accompanist and repetiteur. In 1962 she was awarded a D.Phil from Oxford for her thesis on Schubert's Music.
Peter Morrissey.  Peter Morrissey is a prominent Australian fashion designer based in Sydney. He grew up in the Sutherland Shire with his twin sister Elizabeth and four brothers and he attended school at Our Lady of Fatima in Caringbah and De La Salle College (Cronulla NSW).
Tim Easton.  Tim Easton is a Nashville Tennessee-based American guitarist and singer-songwriter playing rock and roll music.
Vinaypal Buttar.  Vinaypal Buttar sometimes Vinay Pal Buttar is a Punjabi singer-songwriter of East Punjab (India).He was praised for his songs Muafinaama and Suraj da tukrha
Simon Chimbetu.  Simon Chopper Chimbetu (23 September 1955 – 14 August 2005) was a Zimbabwean guitarist vocalist and composer. He was the founding member his band Orchestra Dendera Kings.
Nathan Penlington.  Nathan Penlington (born in Rhyl North Wales) is a writer poet live literature producer and magician. His work has appeared on stage in print and on the radio.
Liu Zhenyun.  Liu Zhenyun (born 1958) born in Yanjin Henan Province China is a Chinese writer.
Ken Forssi.  Kenneth Raymond Ken Forssi (March 30 1943 – January 5 1998) was an American musician best known for being the original bass player in the band Love.
Lya Barrioz.  Ligia Barrios better known as Lya Barrioz is a Nicaraguan singer and actress. Barrioz took her first artistic steps in 1989 when she won 3rd place and Most Applauded Song in the Festival de la Canción Romántica Nicaragüense Rafael Gastón Pérez.
Tachihara Masaaki.  Tachihara Masaaki (立原 正秋 6 January 1926 - 12 August 1980) was the pen-name of a Japanese novelist essayist poet and literary critic of Korean descent active during the Shōwa period.
Francis Oswald Bennett.  Francis Oswald Bennett (19 February 1898–4 August 1976) was a New Zealand doctor military medical administrator and writer. He was born in Christchurch Northern Canterbury New Zealand on 19 February 1898.
Daniel Adam z Veleslavína.  Daniel Adam z Veleslavína literally translated Daniel Adam of Veleslavín (1546–1599) was a Czech lexicographer publisher translator and writer. (Veleslavína is the genitive declension of Veleslavín a district of today's Greater Prague)Adam Veleslavín studied at the University of Prague and from 1569 to 1575 he was professor there.
Jeffrey Morgan (writer).  Jeffrey Morgan is a Canadian writer and editor who is best known for being the authorized biographer of both Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop & The Stooges.
JB (South Korean musician).  Im Jae Bum (Hangul: 임재범; Hanja:林宰範; born January 6 1994) commonly known by his stage name JB is a South Korean singer and leader of the hip-hop group Got7 under JYP Entertainment.
Freddie Linsky.  Freddie Linsky (born 16 June 2005 in London) also known as Freddie W.R. Linsky is a toddler painter the Daily Mail claimed [fooled] the art world into critically praising him and offering him inclusion in a gallery show.
Vincent Dutrait.  Vincent Dutrait (born 1976) is a French illustrator. He has been studying in École Émile Cohl from 1994 to 1997 where he later on taught between 1999 and 2003. Born in 1976 in Provence he is now living with his wife in North of Seoul South Korea.Best known for his prolific work in the role playing game industry he has also produced a huge amount of various illustrations artbooks and comics for both European and Asian clients.
Farah Mahbub.  Farah Mahbub (born April 10 1965) aka Farah Jee is a Pakistani Fine Art Photographer and a photography professor teaching at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Karachi Pakistan. Farah Mahbub was awarded second prize in category fine art for the entry titled “Lifelines & Manuscripts 25.” by PX3 - Prix de la Photographie Paris.
Charles le Gai Eaton.  Charles le Gai Eaton (also known as Hasan le Gai Eaton or Hassan Abdul Hakeem; 1 January 1921 – 26 February 2010) was a British diplomat writer and Sufist Islamic scholar.
Lori Copeland.  Lori Copeland (born June 12) is an American author of over 95 novels.
Catherine Millet.  Catherine Millet (born 1 April 1948 in Bois-Colombes Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer art critic curator and founder and editor of the magazine Art Press which focuses on modern art and contemporary art.Born in Bois-Colombes France she is best known as the author of the 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M.; the book details her sexual history from childhood masturbation to an adult fascination with group sex.
Sergio Vallín.  Sergio Vallín Loera (born May 26 1973) is the lead guitarist of the Mexican band Maná. Vallín was born in Mexico City where he lived for the first ten years of his life until he moved with his family to Aguascalientes capital of the state of the same name. Thus he has nicknamed himself Hidrocálido after one of the demonyms for his adopted city.
Kaoru Kobayashi (actor).  Kaoru Kobayashi (小林 薫 Kobayashi Kaoru born on September 4 1951) is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. He won the award for best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and the award for best supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.
Wesley Guard Lyttle.  Wesley Guard Lyttle (real name Wesley Greenhill Lyttle pseudonym Robin 15 April 1844 - 30 October 1896) was an Irish newspaper publisher writer and editor.
Donald E. Bently.  Donald E. Bently (October 18 1924 - October 1 2012) was an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the founder and former owner of Bently Nevada Corporation where he performed pioneering work in the field of instrumentation for measuring the mechanical condition of rotating machinery. He founded Bently Nevada in October 1961 and served as its CEO until February 2002 when he sold the company to GE Energy.
Gazebo (musician).  Paul Mazzolini (born 18 February 1960) known as Gazebo is an Italian musician. He has a legend status among fans of the Italo disco music style a variation of 1980s Eurodisco.
Ngo Thanh Van.  Veronica Ngô Thanh Vân is a Vietnamese dancer singer actress and model. She is also known as Veronica Ngo or her initials NTV.
Adolfas Mekas.  Adolfas Mekas (30 September 1925 – 31 May 2011) was a Lithuanian-born filmmaker writer director editor actor educator and mentor.With his brother Jonas Mekas he founded the seminal magazine Film Culture as well as the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and was associated with the Fluxus art movement.
Albert Lebourg.  Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849 Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928 Rouen) birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen). Member of the Société des Artistes Français he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style creating more than 2000 landscapes during his lifetime.
Frank Key.  Frank Key is a British writer blogger and broadcaster best known for his self-published short-story collections and his long-running radio series Hooting Yard on the Air which has been broadcast weekly on Resonance FM since April 2004. Key co-founded the Malice Aforethought Press with Max Décharné and published the fiction of Ellis Sharp.
Melvin Jackson.  Melvin Lil' Son Jackson (August 16 1915 Tyler Texas - May 30 1976 Dallas) was an American blues guitarist. He was a contemporary of Lightnin' Hopkins.
Anne Linnet.  Anne Linnet (born 30 July 1953 in Århus Denmark) is a Danish singer musician and composer. She has released a number of solo albums and has also been a member of several bands such as Shit & Chanel Anne Linnet Band and Marquis de Sade. Anne Linnet is one of a small group of Danish musicians and songwriters consistently popular now for many years.
Valentino Kanzyani.  Tine Kocjančič better known as Valentino Kanzyani is a Slovenian techno deejay and music producer. He has also released records under the name Recycled Loops which is also the name of one of the record labels that he co-runs (with DJ Umek) the other being Earresistable.He became famous in Slovenia when he started playing music in 1995 in a club called Ambasada Gavioli together with his colleague DJ Umek.
Summer Haze.  Summer Haze (born 9 July 1972 in Philadelphia United States) is a pornographic actress director of pornographic films businesswoman and professional wrestlerHaze was once married to adult film director Craig Valentine and together they owned the production company Club Summer Haze Productions. Haze and Valentine divorced in 2007 after six years of marriage. [1] They started a separate production company New Porn Order in January 2006.
Divakarla Tirupati Sastry.  Divakarla Tirupati Sastry (born 26 March 1872) was a Telugu language poet and scholar. He was one of the two poets known as Tirupati Venkata Kavulu and other being Chellapilla Venkata Sastry.
Barry Blue.  Barry Blue (born Barry Ian Green 4 December 1950 London) is an English singer producer and songwriter. He is best known for his hit songs Dancin' (on a Saturday Night) and Do You Wanna Dance (both 1973).
Cassius Henry.  Cassius Henry is a singer from London. He had two record deals; firstly with Edel in 2002 which spawned the #31 hit Broke and secondly in 2004 with MCA which spawned a #56 hit with The One which featured Freeway.Henry auditioned for The Voice UK at age thirty-two with Closer originally by Ne-Yo. appearing on the third of four audition shows. Two coaches Jessie J and Danny O'Donoghue elected for Henry to join their teams—with Henry selecting Jessie J.
Jānis Poruks.  Jānis Poruks (13 October 1871 – 25 July 1911) was a Latvian poet and writer.
Megha (singer).  Megha (Tamil: மேக்ஹா; born on March 18 1987 as Harini Ramachandran (Tamil: ஹரிணி ராமசந்திரன்)) is a Tamil playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil Telugu Malayalam and Kannada.
Kennosuke Sato.  Kennosuke (Ken) Satō (佐藤 剣之助 Satō Kennosuke 1891-1967) was a writer and overseas journalist for the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. He also wrote under the nom de plume Amanojaku.He had been educated at Washington Grammar School San Francisco also attending University of Southern California Illinoisand Chicago. He worked on a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and attended the University of Berlin in 1922/3.
Joel Carmichael.  Joel Carmichael (1915–2006) was an American historian magazine editor and translator.
Nechama Tec.  Nechama Tec (née Bawnik) (born 15 May 1931) is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell and is a Holocaust scholar. Her 1986 book When Light Pierced the Darkness and her 1984 memoir Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood both received the Merit of Distinction Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rit.
Brendan Graham.  Brendan Graham (born 1945)) is an Irish novelist and composer. Graham was born in County Tipperary. He has published three novels The Whitest Flower (London Harper Collins 1998) an Irish No. 2 best seller The Element of Fire (Harper Collins 2001) and The Brightest Day The Darkest Night (Harper Collins 2004).He also wrote the lyrics for Rolf Løvland's You Raise Me Up. Løvland was inspired to write the song after reading The Whitest Flower Graham's first novel.
Wolfgang Stresemann.  Wolfgang Stresemann (1904 – 1998) was a German jurist orchestra leader conductor and composer. He was the intendant of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1959 to 1978 and again from mid 1984 to early 1985 a time when Herbert von Karajan served as music director.He is the son of the German statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann and his wife Käthe born Kleefeld.
Kris Weston.  Kris Weston (born 1968) (aka Thrash) is a British electronic musician record producer and remixer best known for his work as a member of The Orb.Near the beginning of his career he worked with Andrew Weatherall on remixes of Meat Beat Manifesto remixed for Saint Etienne U2 and others. He was still a teen when working on the first few albums by The Orb. Thrash was with The Orb for less than 5 years from around 1990 to the end of 1995.
Dorothy Combs Morrison.  Dorothy Combs Morrison is an American gospel music singer. She was born in Longview Texas on May 8 1944. The seventh child of ten Dorothy showed early signs of her talents. She began singing at the age of 13 and released her first single I Am Free while singing with her siblings as 'The Combs Family'.
Richard Van Camp.  Richard Van Camp (born 8 September 1971) is a Canadian writer. A Tłı̨chǫ from Fort Smith Northwest Territories he is best known for his 1996 novel The Lesser Blessed which was adapted into a film by director Anita Doron in 2012.The Lesser Blessed is his only novel to date. He has also published several short story collections including Angel Wing Splash Pattern The Moon of Letting Go and Godless but Loyal to Heaven.
Daniel Paluska.  Daniel Paluska is an artist and roboticist known for his intelligent art installations and collaborations. Dan is originally from Michigan but now resides on the east coast after receiving both his BS and Master's Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. His work on walking robotics was featured in a cover article of Wired Magazine in September 2000.Dan's created the Absolut Quartet an interactive music-making machine created with Jeff Lieberman and commissioned by Absolut Vodka.
Raghunath Prasanna.  Pandit Raghunath Prasanna (1913 - June 1999) was an Indian classical shehnai and flute player. He was known for introducing the techniques of vocal and shehnai in flute playing a new style of playing the Indian bansuri different from the style of Pandit Pannalal Ghosh.
Joe Lipari.  Joe Lipari also known as J.R. Lipari (Born October 5 1979) is an American writer comedian and filmmaker.
Denis Wojcik.  Denis Wojcik is an American author from Flower Mound Texas. Denis has written four novels including CrossRoads (2005) TurnBack (2006) Linked (2009) and Evil Behind the Smile (2010).
Armand Salacrou.  Armand Camille Salacrou (9 August 1899 – 23 November 1989) was a French dramatist.He was born in Rouen but spent most of his childhood at Le Havre and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the influence of the Surrealists.He was the owner of a profitable advertising firm but sold it in order to devote his time to writing plays. Encouraged by Charles Dullin he wrote in a wide range of styles and enjoyed great success from the mid-1930s.
Adriano Palladino.  Adriano Palladino (c. 1610-1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and active in Cortona although he was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome.
Antony Price.  Antony Price is a London fashion designer best known for evening wear and suits and for being as much an image-maker as a designer. He has collaborated with a number of high-profile musicians including David Bowie Steve Strange and Duran Duran but especially Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music whose look was defined by Price's designs.
Yun Heunggil.  Yun Heunggil (born 14 December 1942) is a South Korean novelist known for his treatment of conflicts between the individual and society. He received his degree in Korean literature from Wonkwang University in 1973. In 1977 he won the Korean Literature Writers Award.
Jason Roberts (guitarist).  Jason Abraham Roberts is an American guitarist pianist and vocalist best known for his collaborations with Norah Jones Hymns Ben Kweller and The Candles.
King Kong Lee.  Not to be confused with King Kong LamKing Kong Lee birthname Lee Hsin Chiao (李信樵) is a Taiwanse actor and comedian. He hosted the popular Super Trio series and has played some notable roles in some dramas such as No Regrets as a Japanese general.
Denis Bélanger.  Denis Snake Bélanger (born August 9th 1964) is the vocalist and lyricist of the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod. He co-founded the group in 1982 and appeared on the albums War & Pain Rrröööaaarrr Killing Technology Dimension Hatröss Nothingface Angel Rat and The Outer Limits.
Gerhard Stäbler.  Gerhard Stäbler (born 1949) is a German composer born in Wilhelmsdorf near Ravensburg. He studied with Klaus Huber and came to prominence with the chamber orchestra acronym Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco (The Garbage Truck Drivers of San Francisco) in 1990. This was followed by lectures at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1992.
Erik Niedling.  Erik Niedling (born 1973 in Erfurt Thuringia) is a German artist. He is also known for his 2010 film The Future of Art a documentary on the contemporary art scene.
Ana Bárbara.  Ana Bárbara (born January 10 1971) is a Mexican Latin Grammy Award winning recording artist.
Erica James.  Erica James (née Sullivan; born 1960) is a British writer of several romance novels. In 2006 her novel Gardens of Delight won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. [1]
Leslie Graves.  Leslie Marie Graves (September 29 1959 – August 23 1995) was an American actress.
Jean Kerléo.  Jean Kerléo (born 24 February 1932) is a French perfumer who worked in-house of Jean Patou and is also the founder of the Osmothèque a scent archive in Versailles. Kerleo was born on 24 February 1932 in Brittany France. At age 22 he began making perfumes for a New York company Helena Rubenstein.
Johnny Taylor (painter).  Johnny Taylor (born September 26 1971) is an American painter known for his colorful pop culture-fueled paintings of the heroes the memories and memorabilia and the pop art/graffiti/kitsch that make up America.Taylor was born in the town of Helena Arkansas and was raised mainly in and around Memphis Tennessee. He studied Art History at the University of Memphis graduating in 1996.
Bethany Benz.  Bethany Benz (born December 1 1986) is an American pornographic actress reality show participant and model.
Luke Wright (poet).  Luke Wright is a British poet.Born in Hackney in 1982 Luke Wright was raised in North East Essex.Inspired by Martin Newell and John Cooper Clarke he began writing and performing poetry aged 17 whilst still at sixth form college in Colchester. He soon met fellow teenage poet Ross Sutherland and the two of them formed Aisle16.
Jai Paul.  Jai Paul (born 1 April 1989) is a British singer songwriter and recording artist from Rayners Lane United Kingdom. He is signed to XL Recordings.
Robert Warren Stewart.  Rev. Robert Warren Stewart (simplified Chinese: 史荦伯; traditional Chinese: 史犖伯; Pinyin: Shǐ Luòbó; Foochow Romanized: Sṳ̄ Lŏk-báik; 9 March 1850 – 1 August 1895) was an Irish missionary of the Church Missionary Society London stationed in Foochow China.
Eric Bazilian.  Eric M. Bazilian (born July 21 1953) is an American singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist arranger and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters.
Shauna Grant.  Shauna Grant (May 30 1963 – March 23 1984) was an American nude model and pornographic performer. She ran away from her small town in Minnesota and proceeded to appear in over 30 pornographic films earning up to $100000 in her brief two-year career. A drug addict Grant killed herself after the arrest of her partner in March 1984. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999. Born Colleen Marie Applegate she was sometimes credited as Callie Aimes Callie Aims or Colleen Applegate.
Kitty Wentzel.  Kitty Wentzel (nee Bætzmann; 9 August 1868 – 20 November 1961) was a Norwegian writer and journalist. She was born in Christiania and was daughter of journalist Frederik Bætzmann. She was married to painter Gustav Wentzel.
Yosl Bergner.  Yosl Bergner (Hebrew: יוסל ברגנר‎; born 13 October 1920) is an Israeli painter.
Polonca Kovač.  Polonca Kovač true name Magdalena Kovač (born 19 February 1937) is a Slovene children's writer and translator. She has published numerous children's books and is also known for her translations for young readers most notably the entire collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales and The Diary of Anne Frank.Kovač was born in Ljubljana in 1937. She studied Comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a teacher and a free-lance writer.
D-Roc the Executioner.  Dennis Miles (September 23 1959 – August 17 2004) aka D-Roc the Executioner (or more commonly just D-Roc) was an American musician who played rhythm guitar for the heavy metal band Body Count. Miles also played guitar for his own band Pitch Blaack. He referred to his style as ghetto metal.
Carlos Amorales.  Carlos Amorales (born 1970) is a Mexican artist who works and lives in Mexico City.
Polly Bradfield.  Polly Bradfield is an American violinist from the New York City free improvisation scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her closest musical associates were Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn. She also played on records by William Parker and Frank Lowe. Her music career ended when she moved to California sometime in the 1980s. Her last appearance on record was on Zorn's The Big Gundown in 1986.
Scott Krippayne.  Scott Krippayne (born July 23 1971 in Seattle Washington) is a Christian music artist singer and songwriter. He has released ten albums between 1992 and 2008. Krippayne is better known for his contributions towards other contemporary Christian artists.
Jagdish Chandra Mathur.  Jagdish Chandra Mathur (July 16 1917 – 1978) was a Hindi playwright and writer. He came into fame by his first play Konark. He was born in a village near Khurja. His other famous works includes Phela Raja Shardiya Dasrath Nandan Bhor ka Tara and Oo mere Sapne.
Natasha Gray.  Natasha Gray is a British actress. She has appeared on TV in Emmerdale The Bill Never the Twain and The New Statesman.[citation needed] She played the recurring character Anita in the British television situation comedy My Husband and I .She has played the Devonshire Park Theatre Eastbourne and was Andy in the play Stepping Out.[citation needed]She has acted in TV soaps and Shakespeare.[citation needed]
Olaf Kamfjord.  Olaf Kamfjord (born 8 December 1962 in Tønsberg Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (Double bass and guitar bass) and Composer known from cooperations within bands like «Ab und Zu» «Herrene i haven» «Out To Lunch» and «Roy Nikolaisen Quartet».
Michelle Thorne.  Michelle Thorne (2 August 1975) is a British pornographic actress and director and also a glamour model.
Konstantin Trenyov.  Konstantin Andreevich Trenyov (Константи′н Андре′евич Тренё′в May 21 (June 2) 1876 Baksheevka Kharkiv Russian Empire now Ukraine - May 19 1945 Moscow USSR) was a Russian Soviet playwright and author USSR State Prize laureate (1941) best known for his Russian Civil War history drama Lyubov Yarovaya (1926).
Robert Knapp (actor).  Robert Knapp (February 24 1924 in Los Angeles California - May 17 2001 in Glendale California) was an American actor who appeared in film and on television between 1951 and 1976.
M. G. Radhakrishnan.  Malabar Gopalan Nair Radhakrishnan (Malayalam: എം. ജി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണന്‍; 29 July 1940 – 2 July 2010) was a senior music director and Carnatic vocalist from Kerala. He is highly regarded as one of the most successful light music and film music composer in Malayalam.
Jimmy Santiago Baca.  Jimmy Santiago Baca (born January 2 1952 in Santa Fe New Mexico) is an American poet and writer of Apache and Chicano descent.
Edita Piekha.  Edita Piekha (Russian: Эди́та Станисла́вовна Пье́ха Edita Stanislavovna Pyekha Polish: Edyta Piecha French: Édith-Marie Pierha) is a French-born popular Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. She was the third popular female singer after Klavdiya Shulzhenko and Sofia Rotaru to be named a People's Artist of the USSR (1988).Edita Piekha is a well known public activist for humanitarian causes and is a supporter of orphanages in Russia.
AverySunshine.  Denise Nicole White known professionally as AverySunshine is an American singer and pianist.
Kang Cheng Xi.  Kang Cheng Xi (born 5 December 1984) also known as Jiang Chengxi is a Singaporean actor. He first entered showbiz through the competition Star Idol but has since left MediaCorp to concentrate on university studies.
Louise Barnett.  Louise Barnett is the author of several books including one on General Custer titled Touched by Fire: The Life Death and Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer (1996).
Abeer Hamza.  Abeer Hamza (Arabic: عبير حمزة‎) is a scholar and lecturer of Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles.
Fritz Haeg.  Fritz Haeg (born 1969) is an American artist whose work spans a range of disciplines and media including gardens dance performance design installation ecology and architecture most of which is commissioned and presented by art museums and institutions. His work often involves collaboration with other individuals and site specific projects that respond to particular places.
Aiko Kayō.  Aiko Kayō (嘉陽愛子 Kayō Aiko born December 11 1985) is a popular idol singer. She has released 12 singles and 2 albums on the Avex Trax label in Japan. She has also performed with the musical units Kingyo (金魚) and a☆girls.
Dru Castro.  Dru Castro (born Andrew Luis Castro on December 14 1976) is a Grammy Award Winning recording engineer producer and songwriter in Atlanta Georgia. He has produced or engineered songs for artists such as Ciara Keyshia Cole Usher R. Kelly T-Pain Trina Jamie Foxx and India.Arie. Recently Dru produced and wrote songs with the Grammy award winning singer/songwriter India.Arie on her recently released album Testimony: Vol. 2 Love & Politics. Her 2006 album Testimony: Vol.
Giuseppe Maraschini.  Giuseppe Maraschini (Posina Province of Vicenza 1839 – c. 1900) was an Italian painter mainly of genre themes.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin.  Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of California Santa Cruz and is an advisor for the Expressive Intelligence Studio. He is an alumnus of the Literary Arts MFA program and Special Graduate Study PhD program at Brown University. In addition to his research in digital media computer games and software studies he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.
Josh Ramsay.  Josh Ramsay is a Canadian singer songwriter producer recording engineer actor and the lead vocalist of the multi platinum selling band Marianas Trench.
Melvin Gibbs.  Melvin Gibbs is an American bass guitarist composer and producer who has appeared on close to 200 albums in diverse genres of music. Gibbs has been called the best bassist in the world by Time Out New York magazine.[citation needed]
Wesley Pritchard.  K. Wesley Pritchard sang with the Old Friends Quartet from 2000 through 2002. He filled in for Ernie Haase & Signature Sound in 2003 while they were seeking a new lead singer. He has traveled extensively with Bill Gaither's Homecoming Friends and can be seen on many of the Gaither Homecoming Videos/DVDs. He owns and operates Mill West Studios in Fayetteville North Carolina. He is currently the Senior Pastor of the church his Father Ken W.
Mark Strizic.  Mark Strizic was a 20th-century Croatian-Australian photographer and artist. Best known for his architectural and industrial photography he was also a portraitist of significant Australians and fine art photographer and painter known for his multimedia mural work.Strizic and other post-war immigrant photographers Wolfgang Sievers Henry Talbot Richard Woldendorp Bruno Benini Margaret Michaelis Dieter Muller David Mist and Helmut Newton brought modernism to Australian photography.
Yuri Chinen.  Yuri Chinen (知念 侑李 Chinen Yūri born November 30 1993) is a Japanese actor talent and singer as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates.
Wayne Cohen.  Wayne Cohen is a songwriter producer artist developer and music educator whose songs have been hits and releases by artists such as Curtis Stigers Jennifer Love Hewitt Martin Sexton European Pop Idol UK girl-group Eternal and UK indie bands Laura and the Tears and Thousand Hours.
Farzana Doctor.  Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist and social worker. She has published two novels to date and won the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Grant from the Writers' Trust of Canada for an emerging lesbian gay bisexual or transgender writer.
Loona Luxx.  Loona Luxx (born December 31 1979) is a French pornographic actress since around 2008 of Egyptian and Italian descent. Luxx has also both modeled and performed as a stripper including at the 2010 erotic fair Croatia Eros4U.
Marion Harris.  Marion Harris (April 4 1896 — April 23 1944) was an American popular singer most successful in the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.
Gerald Steinacher.  Gerald Steinacher is an Assistant Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was a Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow at Harvard University during 2010-2011 and in 2009 a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He lectured at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) Luzern (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany).
Gladstone (humorist).  Wayne Gladstone who writes as simply Gladstone is an American humorist and columnist. He is the creator writer and star of the Hate by Numbers Internet series and a regular contributor to Comedy Central's Indecision Forever and Cracked.com.
Aamir Zaki.  Aamir Zaki (born 8 April 1968) is a guitarist-songwriter and composer from Pakistan.He is known for his uniquely melodic phrasing feel and tone. His debut album Signature was released in 1995 and Zaki was awarded a gold disc by Soundcraft UK for it. Signature was primarily an instrumental album with two English and one Urdu song. His second CD release Rough Cut was an English album with a Tabla and six string bass Rhythm section featuring Hadiqa Kiyani on vocals.
Kim McLean.  Kim McLean (born April 1 1961; formerly known as Kim Patton or Kim Patton-Johnston) is a singer-songwriter originally from Greensboro North Carolina of Irish-Cherokee heritage. Influenced by her grandmother Sara Van McCoy McKinney McLean Redman a songwriter roadhouse pianist and program director of a Southern Gospel radio station McLean moved to Nashville to pursue a career in songwriting.
Duncan Lay.  Duncan Lay is the fantasy author of the trilogy The Dragon Sword Histories — The Wounded Guardian The Radiant Child and The Risen Queen.He is also a layout designer and headline writer at the Sunday Telegraph.He lives in Australia on the Central Coast of New South Wales with his wife and two children.Differing himself from most fantasy writers his trilogy characters are all human (without orks goblins or fairies) and his setting is gritty with his character not the traditional Black & White Good Vs. 
Sarah Siskind.  Sarah Siskind (born 1978) is a singer and songwriter based in Nashville and grounded in folk and Appalachian roots. Her music has been classified as: rock folk americana and alternative. Alison Krauss has championed Sarah and values her songs so highly that she’s recorded two of them both of which became singles and videos that received widespread airplay. Bluegrass/Folk legend Tim O'Brien calls her a rare talent.
Vasko Lipovac.  Vasko Lipovac (June 14 1931 – July 4 2006) was a Croatian painter and sculptor.
Irving Gertz.  Irving Gertz (May 19 1915 – November 14 2008) was an American composer recognized for his compositions for many fantasy and horror B-movies and TV series of the 1950s and 1960s.Gertz was born on May 19 1915 in Providence Rhode Island and played the clarinet piano string bass and tuba as a youth and attended the Providence College of Music. Gertz studied composition privately with composer and music theorist Walter Piston.
Toyah Willcox.  Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958) is an English singer and actress. In a career spanning more than thirty years Willcox has had 8 Top 40 singles released over 20 albums written two books appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films and voiced and presented numerous television shows. Between 1977 and 1983 she fronted the band Toyah before embarking on a solo career in the mid-1980s. Her biggest hits include It's a Mystery Thunder in the Mountains and I Want to Be Free.
Amy Kim Ganter.  Amy Kim Ganter (born 1980 in Binghamton New York) is an American author and illustrator of original English-language manga.
Ugo Bellagamba.  Ugo Bellagamba (born 1972) is a French science fiction writer who won the Prix Rosny-Aîné in 2005 (best short story) and 2010 (best novel : Tancrède une uchronie) as well as the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2008 (best non fiction : Solutions non satisfaisante une anatomie de Robert A. Heinlein). An associate professor at the Law school of the University of Nice he teaches the history of law.
Gopaldev.  Gopaldev (Assamese: গোপালদেৱ; 1540-1611 A.D.) was an prominent poet dramatist and chief preacher of the Vaishnava cult in eastern Assam. He was belonged from Bhabanipur Assam so people called him as Bhabanipuria Gopal Ata.
Atsuko Tsurumi.  Atsuko Tsurumi (鶴見厚子 Tsurumi Atsuko) is an artist born in 1951 in Tokyo Japan. She graduated from Tama Art University in 1975. Her favorite artist (according to her website) is Naohisa Inoue.
Bob Carlos Clarke.  Bob Carlos Clarke (24 June 1950 – 25 March 2006) was born in Cork Ireland. A prolific photographer described as “Britain’s answer to Helmut Newton” in his short life he had a strong impact upon and influenced the development of photography from the late 20th Century through to the present day.
Richard Fegley.  Leon Richard Fegley (November 29 1936 - September 15 2001) was a professional photographer who worked for Playboy magazine for 30 years.Fegley started taking photos during a stint in the United States Air Force and eventually attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California. In 1971 he joined Playboy as a freelance photographer. His first Playboy Playmate was Carol O'Neal for the July 1972 issue.
Liz Prince.  Liz Prince (born 1981) is an American comics creator noted for her sketchbook-style autobiographical comics. Her first book Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? won an Ignatz award for Outstanding Debut in 2005. In 2014 she released Alone Forever a collection of autobiographical short comics centered around dating and relationships. She has also published or contributed to several zines minicomics and anthologies.
Sophie Bould.  Sophie Bould is a British theatre and TV actress.
David Civera.  David Civera Gracia (born in Teruel Aragón Spain on 8 January 1979) is a Spanish singer.
Jack C. Mancino.  Jack C. Mancino (born 1968 in Hungary) currently living in the United Kingdom England is a contemporary abstract expressionist painter graphic artist photographer.
Salmah Ismail.  Puan Sri Datin Amar Salmah binti Ismail AMN better known as Saloma (22 January 1932 – 25 April 1983) was a Singaporean-Malaysian film actress and singer who became famous in late 50's until early 80's. She was the second of three girls in her family the other two being Mariani and Mimi Loma. Saloma was the third wife of the film actor director singer and songwriter Tan Sri P. Ramlee.
Margaret Mutu.  Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu activist leader and academic from Auckland New Zealand. Her iwi are Ngāti Kahu Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua.She obtained a BSc in Mathematics a MPhil in Māori Studies and a Ph.D. in Māori Studies specialising in linguistics. She is now Professor of Māori Studies as well as head of department at University of Auckland.
Mike Dean (record producer).  Mike Dean is an American hip hop producer and guitarist. He is known for pioneering the Dirty South sound in the 1990s particularly in work for artists from Rap-A-Lot Records. Dean has most notably worked alongside Scarface of the Geto Boys 2Pac Do or Die Tha Dogg Pound Yukmouth of the Luniz Outlawz C-Bo Nate Dogg Tech N9ne UGK Z-Ro Devin the Dude among others.
Calli Cox.  Calli Cox (born Kristy Jo Connelly February 26 1977 in Robinson Illinois) is a former pornographic actress.Cox a graduate of Eastern Illinois University was a school teacher in Effingham Illinois teaching 8th grade English and reading prior to becoming an adult film star.Cox became infamous after starring in the 2001-2002 Shane's World series of pornographic films with college students including the executive vice president of the Arizona State University student body.
Vladimir Lisunov.  Vladimir Lisunov (Russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Лисунов) (21 March 1940 — 27 July 2000) — Russian nonconformist artist member of the Leningrad unofficial art tradition of the 1960s-80s poet philosopher romantic mystic. Known as Lis among artists and close friends.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.  Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Толсто́й; 10 January 1883 [O.S. 29 December 1882] – 23 February 1945) nicknamed the Comrade Count was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.During World War II he served on an Extraordinary State Commission which ascertained without reasonable doubt the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.
Antoine Sallaert.  Antoine Sallaert (1585–1650) was a Flemish Baroque painter.According to Houbraken his work survived in Brussels where he lived and died.
Anders Fager.  Anders Fager (born in Stockholm 1964) is a Swedish horror writer. He made his debut in 2009 with the short story collection Swedish Cults (Svenska kulter). Fager writes modern urban horror in a style he has repeatedly described as ”what would happen if James Ellroy took on H.P. Lovecraft”. Set in present-day Sweden his interconnected stories form a modern part of the Cthulhu mythos with entities such as Dagon and Hastur making appearances.
Marek Jackowski.  Marek Jackowski (December 11 1946 - May 18 2013) – was a Polish rock musician best known as a member of Maanam.
Carlos Noriega Hope.  Carlos Noriega Hope (1896–1934) was a Mexican writer and journalist. Born in Tacubaya Mexico City he studied law and became a journalist. In 1919 he traveled to Hollywood to report on the new cinematographic industry.
Taryn Thomas.  Taryn Thomas (born May 27 1983) is an American pornographic actress.
Nick Holywell-Walker.  Nick Holywell-Walker performed with London-founded band Killing Joke beginning in 1994 as keyboard player and programmer. He left in 2004 to concentrate on his own projects.A singer songwriter producer and composer he resides in North London UK.He is founder member of UK band 30000 Days.
S. P. Sailaja.  Sripathi Panditaradhyula Sailaja is an Indian singer and actress. She has lent her voice to Telugu Tamil Malayalam and Kannada films. She has sung about 5000 songs to date.
Franny Griffiths.  Franny Griffiths (born Francis Griffiths 1 July 1966 Liverpool England) is a keyboardist producer and remixer who is best known for being a member of the band Space. He also plays guitar melodica and piano. His main influences are Kraftwerk hip-hop Can various electro bands and Crass.
Cuddly Dudley (singer).  Cuddly Dudley (22 May 1924 – 15 July 2011) born Dudley Heslop was an English rock & roll singer and actor who came to fame on the Oh Boy! TV series and is noted for being “Britain's first black rock & roller”.
Mary Wilson (singer).  Mary Wilson (born March 6 1944) is an American vocalist best known as a founding member of The Supremes the Motown Label flagship group which charted 33 top forty singles from 1963 to 1976. Wilson remained with the group following the departures of other original members Florence Ballard in 1967 and Diana Ross in 1970. Following Wilson's own departure in 1977 the group disbanded.
Fabri Fibra.  Fabri Fibra (born Fabrizio Tarducci; 17 October 1976) is an Italian rapper.
Izhar Ashdot.  Izhar Ashdot (born November 23 1958 Jerusalem) is an Israeli singer-songwriter guitarist and record producer. He is a co-founding member of the Israeli rock band T-Slam.
Ole Mathisen.  Ole Mathisen (born 13 February 1965) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (Saxophone and Clarinet) and Composer. He is Critically acclaimed saxophonist and active performer on the New York and the international Jazz scene and known from more than 80 recordings.
Airicka Phoenix.  Airicka Phoenix is a Canadian author. She lives in British Columbia with her husband four children and two dogs. She's an international Best Selling author. She's an indie author both self-published and published through a small indie publishing house Anchor Group. She also writes under Morgana Phoenix for her new adult and adult novels.
Edward Berdoe.  Edward Berdoe (1836 – 1916) was a physician during the Crimean and American Civil Wars educated in England and Scotland. He was also an authority on the poet Robert Browning and was on the committee of the London Browning Society from its beginning in 1881 to its dissolution in 1894. He has been credited with writing the novel St. Bernard’s. The romance of a medical student by Aesculapius Scalpel which went into a second edition in 1888.
Max Gazzè.  Max Gazzè (born 6 July 1967 in Rome Italy) is a songwriter lead vocalist and bassist. He is known for his high-pitched voice.
José Campeche.  José Campeche y Jordán (December 23 1751 – November 7 1809) is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas.
George Henry Moore (author).  George Henry Moore (April 20 1823 – May 5 1892 New York City) was an American historical writer and librarian.
Alexander Melentyevich Volkov.  Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Меле́нтьевич Во́лков [ɐlʲɪˈksandr mʲɪˈlʲenʲtʲɪvʲɪtɕ ˈvolkəf]; June 14 1891 – July 3 1977) was a Soviet novelist and mathematician.Volkov was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk. He wrote several historical novels but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L.
Mica Paris.  Mica Paris (/ˈmiːʃə/ MEE-shə; born Michelle Wallen 27 April 1969) is an English soul singer presenter on radio and television and occasional actress.
Yukio Mishima.  Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake January 14 1925 – November 25 1970) a Japanese author poet playwright actor and film director.
Mir Babar Ali Anis.  Mir Baber Ali Anees (Urdu: میر ببر علی انیس‎) was an Urdu poet. He was born in 1803 in Faizabad Oudh now in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and died in 1874 in Lucknow North-Western Provinces.
Cerys Matthews.  Cerys Elizabeth Matthews (/ˈkɛrɪs/; born 11 April 1969) is a singer/songwriter author and broadcaster a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia.Matthews programmes and hosts a music show on BBC Radio 6 Music has made documentaries for television as well as BBC Radio 2 and 4 and has been a presenter for The Culture Show and The One Show.
Eugene McNamara.  Eugene McNamara (b. 1930 Oak Park IL) is a poet author and teacher and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Windsor in Windsor Ontario. He founded and edited the University of Windsor Review from 1965 to 1987.McNamara attended Northwestern University in Illinois where he received his Ph.D. He taught American literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
Margaret Larkin.  Margaret Larkin (July 7 1899 - May 7 1967) was an American writer poet singer-songwriter researcher journalist and union activist.She wrote The Hand of Mordechai on a kibbutz in Israel Seven Shares in a Gold Mine about a murder conspiracy in Mexico and the Singing Cowboy a collection of Western folk songs. She won awards for her poem Goodbye—To My Mother and her play El Cristo.
Nikolay Kostomarov.  Nikolay Ivanovich Kostomarov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Костома́ров Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov; Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Костомаров Mykóla Ivánovych Kostomárov May 16 1817 vil. Yurasovka Voronezh Guberniya Russia – April 19 1885 Saint Petersburg Russia) of mixed Russian and Ukrainian origin is one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians a Professor of History at the Kiev University and later at the St.
Baard Slagsvold.  Baard Henrik Slagsvold (born 31 August 1963 in Elverum Norway) is a Norwegian pop and jazz musician (vocals piano double bass and drums) and are particularly known as the bassist and singer in the pop trio Tre Små Kinesere (1989-2005).
Martin Kober.  Martin Kober (also Chober Cober Coeber Khober Koeber Koebner Polish: Marcin Kober) (ca. 1550 – before 1598). Kober was born in Breslau (Polish: Wrocław) Silesia. He was a court painter to King Stefan Batory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor and to Sigismund III Vasa ruler of Poland Lithuania and Sweden. He died in Kraków or Warsaw.
Zara Nutley.  Zara Nutley (born June 12 1926) is a British television actress born in New Zealand well known for playing the role of Ms. Dolores Courtney the college principal in the comedy series Mind Your Language and Aunt Eleanor in the comedy series Never the Twain. She also played the role of Mrs. Attacliffe in the episode Black Widow of the Last of the Summer Wine series.Zara Nutley currently resides in a nursing home.
Davide Rossi.  Davide Rossi (born 7 August 1970 in Turin Italy) is a violinist string arranger composer conductor and a record producer perhaps best known for having been the violinist guitar and keytar-player for the British electronic music duo Goldfrapp from 2000 until 2013 and for his large contribution of electric violin parts and for all the string arrangements on all Coldplay's albums since Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and The Verve's album Forth.
Allie Wrubel.  Elias Paul Allie Wrubel (January 15 1905 – December 13 1973) was an American composer and songwriter.
Adam Lambert.  Adam Mitchel Lambert (born January 29 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and stage actor. Born in Indianapolis Indiana and raised in San Diego California he performed in amateur theatrical productions as a child a path he pursued into adulthood appearing in professional productions in the U.S. and abroad. In 2009 Lambert came to prominence after becoming the runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol.
Costa Pantazis.  Costa Pantazis (born Costa Michael Pantazis 20 September 1982) is a Greek Cypriot producer based in London UK. He also produces under several different aliases.
Alfred Silver.  Alfred Silver is a Canadian novelist and playwright. He grew up in the Canadian Prairies and now lives in Nova Scotia.His novel Acadia won the 1997 Thomas Head Raddall Award.Several of his radio plays have been aired by CBC Radio including Gottingen (Sunday Showcase) Rebel Angels of Song (Definitely Not the Opera) and Clean Sweep (The Mystery Project) which was nominated for the 1998 Top Ten Award of the Writers Guild of Canada.
Serge Chapleau.  Serge Chapleau (born December 5 1945 in Montreal Quebec) is a French-Canadian political cartoonist from the province of Québec.
Frank Harte.  Frank Harte (14 May 1933 Chapelizod County Dublin Ireland – 27 June 2005) was a traditional Irish singer song collector architect and lecturer. He was born and raised in Dublin. His father Peter Harte who had moved from a farming background in Sligo owned 'The Tap' pub in Chapelizod.
Nuša Derenda.  Nuša Derenda (born Anuška Žnideršič on March 30 1969 in Brežice Slovenia) is a Slovenian singer who represented Slovenia at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen Denmark where she achieved 7th place.
Nongthombam Premchand.  Nongthombam Premchand is a famous Manipuri playwright.
Steve Coleman.  Steve Coleman born (1956-09-20) September 20 1956 is an African-American saxophone player spontaneous composer composer and band leader. His music and concepts have been a heavy influence on contemporary jazz.
Premchand.  Munshi Premchand (Urdu: منشی پریم چند‎ Hindi: मुंशी प्रेमचंद pronounced [mʊnʃi preːm t͡ʃənd̪] ) (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936) was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
Steve Cox (artist).  Steve Cox (born 1958) is an Australian painter and watercolour artist known for his psychologically penetrating images of youths and young men; stream of consciousness landscapes and animal/human hybrids.
Odd-Magnus Williamson.  Odd-Magnus Williamson (born September 14 1980) is a Norwegian copywriter comedian and actor. He grew up at Nordstrand in Oslo.Williamson is known to a Norwegian television audience for his recurring appearances in commercials for the grocery chain ICA Manshow and Torsdag kveld fra Nydalen.
Charlotte Maria Tucker.  Charlotte Maria Tucker (8 May 1821 – 2 December 1893) was a prolific writer and poet for children and adults who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (a Lady of England)
Nicolas Bataille.  Nicolas Bataille (1926–2008) was a French actor.it:Nicolas Bataille
Patricia Erbelding.  Patricia Erbelding (born in Paris in 1958) is a French artist who works in a variety of media producing abstract art.
Bruce Heard.  Bruce Heard (born March 9 1957 in Nice France) is a game designer and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.
Richard Patrick.  Richard Patrick (born May 10 1968) is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails.
Khia.  Khia Shamone Finch (/ˈkaɪ.ə/ KY-ə; born Khia Shamone Chambers November 8 1977) better known just as Khia is an American rapper songwriter singer and record producer.
Mark De Binder.  Mark De Binder (born March 31 1958) is an American author who writes and publishes Thriller novels.
Tommy Singer.  Tommy Singer (born 1940) is a Navajo silversmith who specializes in chip-inlay jewelry. His inlaid turquoise coral and silver pieces incorporate traditional Navajo designs. Singer gained acclaim as the originator of the chip inlay design which he developed in the 1970s.Singer is a member of the Navajo Nation from Winslow Arizona. He perfected his craft working on the Navajo reservation in a small studio surrounded with his family and other tribal members.
Ayinde Bakare.  Ayinde Bakare (1912 – 1 October 1972) was a pioneering Yoruba jùjú and highlife musician in Nigeria.
Asad Shabbir.  Asad Shabbir (born June 22 1995 in Ankara Turkey)[1] is a Pakistani author. He is best known as the author of the Leo Solay saga which consists of the book Leo Solay. He lives in Berlin Germany where he wrote his first book and is working on the rest of the saga. He began writing his debut novel at the age of fifteen and published at the age of 16. Leo Solay his debut work is the first part in Shabbir's trilogy.
Nina Hynes.  Nina Hynes is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician from Dublin Republic of Ireland. She currently resides in Berlin Germany and releases music through her own label Transplant Records.
Tricia Brock.  Patricia Elaine Tricia Baumhardt (born July 7 1979 née Brock) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Dillsboro Indiana. In 2011 Brock released the album entitled The Road her first full length studio album and Radiate in 2013.
Myles Rudge.  Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge (8 July 1926 – 10 October 2007) was an English songwriter known for writing the lyrics for novelty songs. His songs Hole in the Ground and Right Said Fred were both British Top 10 chart hits in 1962 both recorded by Bernard Cribbins to music by Ted Dicks and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. His song A Windmill in Old Amsterdam was a hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton.
Girolamo Pastore.  Girolamo Pastore (late 19th century) was an Italian painter.He initially trained with his grandfather. He painted a Pietà at the mother chapel of the cemetery in Aversa. At the same church are two canvases attributed to him depicting Vision of Ezekiel and Christ at Gethsemane.
Thomas Cole.  Thomas Cole (February 1 1801 – February 11 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School as well as his own work was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness which feature themes of romanticism.
Susan Crowe.  Susan Crowe is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Halifax Nova Scotia. She lived for many years in Toronto and Vancouver but now has returned to her birthplace Halifax.She has received two Juno Award nominations and nominations for both the Western Canadian Music Awards and East Coast Music Awards.In 1994 after being away from music for more than a decade[citation needed] Crowe returned to writing.
David Dondero.  David Dondero (born June 24 1969 in Duluth Minnesota United States) is an American songwriter guitarist former lead singer of the band Sunbrain. In 2006 NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the best living songwriters alongside Bob Dylan Paul McCartney and Tom Waits. Dondero started his musical career on drums at the age of 10 due in part to the fact that he was always drumming on stuff with my hands.
William Lee Self.  William Lee Self (*2. July 1958 in Rocky Mount North Carolina) is an American musician and composer who emigrated to north Germany in 1982 and wo has been living in Hamburg since 1995.
M. S. Viswanathan.  Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan also known as (M.S.V.) (Tamil: எம். எஸ். விஸ்வநாதன்) is a Music Director from South India. He is considered to be one of the versatile and significant composers in Kollywoodhe is popularly known as Mellisai Mannar (Tamil: மெல்லிசை மன்னர்) (Tamil for The King of Light Music). He has composed for a total of 1200 films composing songs in Tamil Malayalam and Telugu Kannada and Hindi languages.
Kellie While.  Kellie While is a British singer-songwriter considered to have one of the outstanding voices of her generation. She has been a member of some of the most influential and innovative British folk groups of her era is a much sought-after contributor to the work of major artists and has emerged in recent years as a solo performer.
John Helvin.  John Helvin (born John Guiry; 9 December 1963) is an English artist author and magician.
Oriel Gray.  Oriel Gray (26 March 1920 – 30 June 2003) is an award winning Australian dramatist and playwright who wrote from the 1940s to 1960's. The major themes of her work were social and political issues such as the environment Aborigines assimilation and bush life.Gray was born Oriel Bennett in Sydney New South Wales.
Charlie Adams (drummer).  Charlie Adams is an American drummer percussionist drum engineer composer music producer and film producer. He formed the rock band Chameleon in the 1980s and was known for his revolving upside-down drum set. He has been drum lead for Yanni through nine major concert tours. The two have recorded 15 albums some reaching multi-platinum status; and their music has been used in soundtracks of various films television and televised sporting events.
Theodor Mügge.  Theodor Mügge (1806-1861) was a German author.
Grant Drumheller.  Grant Drumheller is an American portrait figurative and still life painter.
Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty.  Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (born 1969) is an award-winning Assiniboine Sioux bead worker and porcupine quill worker who creates traditional Northern Plains regalia.
Don Campbell (musician).  Don Campbell is a British reggae singer from north-west London best known for his lovers rock records released since the mid-1990s.
Emily Brontë.  Emily Jane Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.
Ken Christianson.  Ken Christianson is an American musician and artist living in Los Angeles California U.S and co-founder of Père Music.
Jimmy Nail.  James Bradford Jimmy Nail (born 16 March 1954) is an English singer-songwriter actor musician film producer film score composer and television writer.He has starred in numerous roles on television since 1983. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall and a Newcastle United supporter. He is most famous for his role as Leonard Oz Osborne in the hit television show Auf Wiedersehen Pet his title role in Spender and his 1992 number one single Ain't No Doubt.
Alec Dankworth.  Alexander William Tamba Dankworth (born 14 May 1960 in Marylebone London) is an English jazz bassist and composer.
Paul Erickson.  Paul Erickson (22 November 1920 - 27 October 1991) was a Welsh screenwriter most active in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tom McHale (novelist born 1941).  Tom McHale (1941 – March 30 1982) was an American novelist. His works include Principato Farragan's Retreat (nominated for the National Book Award) Alinsky's Diamond School Spirit The Lady from Boston and Dear Friends. He was born in Avoca Pennsylvania and received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He committed suicide in Florida in 1982.
Richard Piers Rayner.  Richard Piers Rayner is an English comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Road to Perdition.
Judith Appelbaum.  Judith Appelbaum (born September 26 1939) is an American editor consultant and author.
Cliff Townshend.  Clifford Blandford Cliff Townshend (28 January 1916 – 29 June 1986) was an English jazz musician noted for playing the saxophone in The Royal Air Force Dance Orchestra popularly known as The Squadronaires. He was described by acquaintances as a quiet man with a wry sense of humor. He also played clarinet in the band and was respected by his peers as a talented and accomplished musician. His eldest son Pete gained renown as guitarist and principal composer for the seminal rock band The Who.
Erle Stanley Gardner.  Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17 1889 – March 11 1970) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories. Best known for the Perry Mason series he also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair Kyle Corning Charles M. Green Carleton Kendrake Charles J. Kenny Les Tillray and Robert Parr.
Brenda Silsbe.  Brenda Silsbe (born 1953) is a Canadian children's writer.
Una Healy.  Una Theresa Imogene Foden (née Healy; born 10 October 1981) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician best known for being a member of girl group The Saturdays.
David J. Williams.  David J. Williams is an Anglo-American science fiction writer and video game writer. His debut novel The Mirrored Heavens was described as Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling by Stephen Baxter and is part of the Autumn Rain Trilogy with a sequel entitled The Burning Skies released in June 2009.Though Jack Campbell has called Williams' debut novel a 21st century Neuromancer others have questioned whether Williams' work is in fact cyberpunk.
Christian Marin.  Christian Marin (8 February 1929 – 5 September 2012) was a French film actor. Born in Lyon he is best known for his role in Le gendarme series (as Merlot) although he did not appear in the last two sequels. In 1967 he appeared in the television serial Les Chevaliers du ciel.
Johnny Parker (jazz pianist).  Johnny Parker (6 November 1929 – 11 June 2010) was a British jazz pianist.
Daryl Palumbo.  Daryl Palumbo (born February 10 1979) is an American musician originally from Elmira New York. He is the frontman of the bands Glassjaw Head Automatica and Color Film. As a youth he was a member of the Long Island straight edge band XbustedX. In 1993 he met guitarist Justin Beck who would become his good friend.
Roxanne Beck.  Roxanne Beck is a nationally known singer and voice actor. Her jazz/blues release 'Comes Love' produced by Grammy nominee Bud Harner received national radio airplay in 2008; her first album 'Garden of Love' was released in 1997. She is a well-known voice actor who worked on anime released by Central Park Media 4kids Entertainment and Right Stuf Inc.. She is alternatively credited as Ann Ulrey Andie Pondel and Annie Pondel.
Alex Winston.  Alexandra Leigh Winston is an American indie pop rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Bloomfield Hills Michigan.
Pietro Cimara.  Pietro Cimara (Rome 1887-Milan 1967) was an Italian composer conductor and pianist. He was a student of Respighi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His output included many songs. He was published by Francesco Bongiovanni of Bologna. From 1950-1957 he was conductor at the Metropolitan Opera where he had a stroke in 1957 while conducting La Forza del Destino after which he retired to Italy.
M. J. Engh.  M. J. Engh (born 1933) is a science fiction author and independent Roman scholar. In 2009 Engh was named Author emerita by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She is best known for her 1976 novel Arslan about an invasion of the United States.
Henry Whitter.  Henry Whitter (April 6 1892 - November 17 1941) was an early old-time recording artist in the United States. He first performed as a solo singer guitarist and harmonica player and later in partnership with the fiddler G. B. Grayson.
Marc Quinn.  Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British artist and one of a loose group known as the Young British Artists. He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant (a sculpture of Alison Lapper which has been installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square) Self (a sculpture of his head made with his own frozen blood) and Garden (2000).Quinn has used blood ice and faeces to make sculptures; his work sometimes refers to scientific developments.
Amy Lynn Baxter.  Amy Lynn Baxter (born 6 September 1967) is an American actress. Baxter also appeared as Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for June 1990.
ZP Theart.  Zachary Paul ZP Theart (born 27 May 1975 in Clanwilliam South Africa) is a heavy metal vocalist best known as the former singer of British power metal band DragonForce. With DragonForce ZP recorded four studio albums. In 2010 he announced his departure from the band due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion. He has since stated that he does not regret his decision to leave.After leaving DragonForce ZP founded his own band I Am I in which he sings lead vocals.
Patricia MacLachlan.  Patricia MacLachlan (born March 3 1938) is an American children's writer. She is best known for the 1986 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sarah Plain and Tall which was later adapted as a TV movie starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken.She is a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy literature and libraries.
Philip F. Deaver.  Philip F. Deaver (born August 14 1946) is an American writer and poet from Tuscola Illinois. His work has appeared in literary magazines including The New England Review the Kenyon Review Frostproof Review the Florida Review Poetry Miscellany and The Reaper.He is a professor of English and permanent writer-in-residence at Rollins College in Winter Park Florida. He also lectures at Spalding University's limited residency Master of Fine Arts program.
Keiko Yokozawa.  Keiko Nanba (難波　啓子 Nanba Keiko born September 2 1952 in Niigata Japan) better known by the stage name Keiko Yokozawa (横沢　啓子 Yokozawa Keiko) is a Japanese voice actress. She is most known for the roles of Dorami (Doraemon) Mami Sakura (Esper Mami) Benio Hanamura (Haikara-san ga Tōru) and Sheeta (Castle in the Sky)
Stephan G. Stephansson.  Stephan G. Stephansson (October 3 1853 – August 10 1927) was a Western Icelander poet and farmer. His original name was Stefán Guðmundur Guðmundsson.He was born in Skagafjörður Iceland but emigrated to Wisconsin USA in 1873 at age 19. In 1889 he moved to Markerville Red Deer County Alberta Canada. He did not see Iceland again until 1917 when he was 64 years old.Stephan was self-educated and worked hard all his life.
Pete Wylie.  Pete Wylie (born Peter James Wylie 22 March 1958) is a British singer/songwriter and guitarist best known as the leader of the band variously known as Wah! Wah! Heat Shambeko! Say Wah! JF Wah! The Mighty Wah! and Wah! the Mongrel. He was credited by Melody Maker with coining rockism a post-punk term for anything considered too old guard.
Richard Davies (Mynyddog).  Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (10 January 1833 – 14 July 1877) was a popular Welsh language poet.He was born in Llanbrynmair Montgomeryshire in a house called Y Fron.He adopted the name Mynyddog from the name Mynyddog Mwynfawr a character in an early Welsh poem. Use of an adopted Welsh-language pen name (ffugenw) is common among Welsh poets.poet singer and eisteddfod conductor ; b. at Dôl Lydan Llanbrynmair Mont. 10 January 1833 .
Catherine Walsh (poet).  Catherine Walsh (born 1964) is an Irish poet. She was born in Dublin and grew up there and in rural Wexford. She is the founder and co-editor of hardPressed Poetry with Billy Mills. She currently lives in Limerick.
Yumeji Tsukioka.  Yumeji Tsukioka (born 14 October 1922) is a Japanese film actress. She has appeared in more than 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film The Temptress and the Monk which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Umetsugu Inoue.
Minase Yashiro.  Minase Yashiro (八代みなせ Yashiro Minase) is a Japanese gravure idol actress and TV personality.
Mary Pope Osborne.  Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20 1949) is an American writer of children's books. She is best known for the award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series which has been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.[citation needed]
Arabian Prince.  Mik Lezan (born June 17 1965) better known by his stage name Arabian Prince is an American rapper and hip hop producer best known for being an original member of the rap group N.W.A.
Thanasis Papakonstantinou.  Athanasios (Thanasis) Papakonstantinou (Greek: Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου) (born April 26 1959 in Tyrnavos) is a Greek singer-songwriter.
DJ Rekha.  DJ Rekha (born Rekha Malhotra 1971) is a London-born musician DJ producer curator and activist. She has been credited with pioneering Bhangra music in North America. Her first album DJ Rekha Presents Basement Bhangra released in October 2007 on Koch Records fuses the Indian genre of bhangra music with international hip-hop and drum beats.
Donna Karan.  Donna Karan (born October 2 1948) also known under the alias DK is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux.  Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux (13 April 1823 Paris-11 July 1899 Vitry-sur-Seine) was a French literary scholar. He is best known for his La Pléiade Française a long series of editions of the poets of La Pléiade. He also edited Corneille's works (1862-68).
Matteo Pistono.  Matteo (Matthew) Pistono is a writer and a practitioner of engaged Buddhism especially in connection with Tibet.
Jon Toogood.  Jonathan Charles Toogood (born in Wellington New Zealand on 9 August 1971) is the frontman (lead vocals and guitar) of the New Zealand rock band Shihad. He formed the band in 1988 with fellow Wellingtonian Tom Larkin. Toogood and Larkin met as teenage fans of AC/DC and Metallica.
Paruyr Sevak.  Paruyr Sevak (Armenian: Պարույր Սևակ) (January 24 1924 – June 17 1971) was an Armenian poet and literary critic. He is considered one of the greatest Armenian poets of the 20th century.
Pantazi Ghica.  Pantazi Ghica (Romanian pronunciation: [panˈtazi ˈɡika]; also known under the pen names Tapazin G. Pantazi and Ghaki; March 15 1831 – July 17 1882) was a Wallachian-born Romanian politician and lawyer also known as a dramatist poet short story writer and literary critic. A prominent representative of the liberal current he was the younger brother and lifelong collaborator of Ion Ghica who served as Prime Minister of the Romanian Kingdom in 1866-1867 and again in 1870-1871.
Rynn Lim.  Rynn Lim (Chinese: 林宇中; pinyin: Lǐn Yuzhōng) is a Chinese singer from Malaysia. He acted once in a first collaboration drama of Malaysia Media Prima Berhad and Singapore MediaCorp Studios Pte Ltd.
Larry Alcala.  Lauro Zarate Alcala (August 18 1926 – June 24 2002) also known as Larry Alcala was a well-known editorial cartoonist and illustrator in the Philippines.He was born on August 18 1926 to Ernesto Alcala and Elpidia Zarate in Daraga Albay. Through a scholarship from Manila Times granted by the publisher Ramón Roces he obtained a degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of the Philippines (UP) in 1950. He became a professor at the same university from 1951 to 1981.
Tomoko Sugawara.  Tomoko Sugawara is a harpist from Tokyo Japan who grew up playing classical and Irish harp before learning to play the kugo or angular harp. With Swedish professor Bo Lawergren whom she met at a kugo museum exhibit in Nara Japan she engineered a fully working model of a kugo and hired American harp builder Bill Campbell to construct it.
John Romaniello.  John Romaniello is a strength coach angel investor model and author. He recently authored Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha: A Real World Guide to an Unreal Life which debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Regina Seiden.  Regina Seiden (4 July 1897- 11 January 1991) was a Jewish Canadian Woman painter who was an early member of the Beaver Hall Group. Born in Rigaud Quebec Seiden moved with her family to Montreal in 1905. Between 1905 and 1912 she attended the French Catholic school Académie Marie-Rose located in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal where she was encouraged to explore her talents as a painter.
Jessica Hart.  Jessica Hart (b. Accra Ghana) is a British writer of over 55 romance novels in Mills & Boon. She is winner of the US RITA Award and the British RoNA Award.
Nat M. Wills.  Nat M. Wills (born Louis McGrath Wills) (July 11 1873 - December 9 1917) was a popular stage star vaudeville entertainer and recording artist at the beginning of the 20th century. He is best known for his tramp persona and for performing humorous or satirical musical numbers including parodies of popular songs of the day.
William Miller (poet).  William Miller (August 1810 - 20 August 1872) was a Scottish poet best known for the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie.Miller known as The Laureate of the Nursery was born in Glasgow and lived in Dennistoun Scotland. He suffered from ill health and was unable to become a surgeon and instead took up woodturning and cabinet making. At the same time he began writing poetry and children's rhymes mainly in the Scots language.
Phu Quang.  Nguyễn Phú Quang (born October 13 1949) known popularly simply as Phú Quang is an influential Vietnamese songwriter primarily known for his love songs and songs about Hanoi. He also writes symphonies concertos as well as film scores and soundtracks.
Lena Bergman.  Lena Bergman (born 21 December 1943) is a Swedish social services employee and actress. She is the daughter of Ingmar Bergman and Else Fisher and was born in Stockholm Sweden. In her youth she appeared as an extra in three of her father's films.
Zvonko Pantović.  Zvonko Pantović (Serbian Cyrillic: Звонко Пантовић) also known as Čipi (Serbian Cyrillic: Чипи) is a Serbian singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock/heavy metal band Osvajači and Serbian rock/pop/folk band All Stars Osvajači.
Dave Nicholas.  Dave Nicholas is the UK's only resident cinema organist and at 20 years is the longest serving organist at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
Lucio Parrillo.  Lucio Parrillo is an artist known for comic books role-playing game covers and Magic: The Gathering cards.
Odoardo Fialetti.  Odoardo Fialetti (May 18 1573 - 1638?) was an Italian painter and printmaker who began his training during the late Renaissance and showed distinct mannerist sensibilities in his mid-career adopting a much looser and more dynamic style in his later life. Born in Bologna he initially apprenticed with Giovanni Battista Cremonini and after traveling to Rome he moved to Venice to work in the elderly Tintoretto's studio.
Lori Dennis.  Lori Dennis (born August 14 1969) is an interior designer environmentalist entrepreneur television and radio guest expert best selling author and lecturer.
Franz Xaver Eggert.  Franz Xaver Eggert (1802-1876) was a German glass painter
Chris Moriarty.  Chris Moriarty (born 1968) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.She has lived in the U.S. Europe Mexico and Southeast Asia.Before becoming a science fiction writer she worked as a horse trainer ranch hand tourism industry employee guide and environmental lawyer. As of early 2008 Chris was married with one child.Moriarty's first novel Spin State was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick John Campbell Spectrum and Prometheus Awards.
Jehst.  William G. Shields (born 1979) better known by his stage name Jehst is an English rapper and co-founder of hip hop label YNR.
Robby Steinhardt.  Robert Eugene Steinhardt (born May 25 1950) is a rock violinist and singer best known for his work with the group Kansas for which he was co-lead singer / frontman and emcee along with keyboardist Steve Walsh from 1973–1982 and 1997–2006. He and Steve Walsh are the only original members of the band who are not from Topeka.
Freddie Mercury.  Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; Gujarati: Pharōkh Balsārā‌; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British musician record producer and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen. As a performer he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range.
John Denery.  John Denery (August 8 1969) is an American rock and roll musician.He has been a member of such garage rock bands as The Hi-Fives The Bomb Bassets The Dukes of Burl Brent's T.V. and Judy and the Loadies
Jon Christopher Davis.  Jon Christopher Davis (born June 27 1968) is an American musician and singer-songwriter best known for the songs Relay For Life (American Cancer Society) The Boy I Left Behind Lone Star Attitude Baby Looks Good on You and The Bottom Line. His musical influences include The Eagles Tom Petty Bruce Springsteen Bryan Adams Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash.
Ken Stubbs.  Ken Stubbs (born in 1961) is a jazz musician alto saxophonist and composer.
Mickaël Miro.  Mickaël Miro (born in Lyon France on 8 November 1978) is a French singer-songwriter. He also uses the pseudonym Miro as a tribute to his grandfather. He is best known for his debut single L'Horloge Tourne followed by his debut album Juste comme ça in 2011.Born in Lyon Mickaël Miro studied business law in college and started writing many songs while studying.
William Corbin (author).  William Corbin (McGraw) was the author of various books [See list below] for adults and children.He started his writing career as a newspaperman and later he became married to Eloise Jarvis McGraw also an author.Corbin became more serious about writing fiction and moved into a house with a 23-acre filbert orchard so he could relax and write his books.Some of his works got awards. William Corbin had two children Lauren and Peter McGraw.
Dhirendra Mehta.  Dhirendra Mehta (Hindi: धीरेंद्र मेहता Gujarati: ધિરેન્દ્ર મેહતા born August 29 1944 in Ahmedabad) full name Dhirendra Pritamlal Mehta is a Gujarati novelist poet commentator and negotiator who won the 2010 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his novel Chhavni. Based in Bhuj he did his BA degree in Gujarati in 1966. He did his Ph.D. in 1976. His dissertation was named Gujarātī Navalakathānō Upēyalakṣī Abhyāsa.
Paul Sikes.  Paul Sikes (born in Nashville Tennessee in 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer who has released his debut album Craft: by Paul Sikes on 10 July 2012. He has also established his own production company 7-Layer Productions.
Carlo Labruzzo.  Carlo Labruzzo born in Rome was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes.
Mariska (rapper).  Mariska (real name Anna Maria Rahikainen born February 19 1979 Helsinki) is a Finnish rapper. She writes her songs by herself and the lyrics often deal with relationships male chauvinism and politics.[citation needed]
Ruby Wright (country singer).  Ruby Wright (October 27 1939 – September 27 2009) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Wright was the daughter of country singers Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright. She sang with her parents as a young girl and at age 13 was signed by RCA Records as Ruby Wells because there was also a Ruby Wright who was a pop singer.In the mid-1950s she became part of an all-girl trio Nita Rita and Ruby. The Nita of the trio was Anita Carter of the well-known Carter Family.
Joe Casely-Hayford.  Joe Casely-Hayford OBE (born in Kent England 24 May 1956) is a British fashion designer. He has established his international reputation as a British designer of men's and women’s clothing since the mid-1980s. He is the grandson and namesake of the eminent lawyer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford MBE whose 1911 novel Ethiopia Unbound greatly influenced Pan-African politics and the leading civil rights activists of its time.
Elizabeth Watkin-Jones.  Elizabeth Watkin-Jones (13 July 1887 - 9 June 1966) was a Welsh children's book author who wrote in the Welsh language.
Franz Seraph von Destouches.  Franz Seraph von Destouches (21 January 1772 – 9 December 1844) was a German composer. Taught by Joseph Haydn Destouches wrote incidental music to some plays by Friedrich Schiller. He also wrote a piano concerto a clarinet concerto operas masses marches etc.
Ed Hamilton.  Edward Norton Hamilton Jr. (born February 14 1947) is an American sculptor living in Louisville Kentucky who specializes in public art. His most famous work is The Spirit of Freedom a memorial to black Civil War veterans that stands in Washington DC in the Shaw neighborhood near Howard University. Hamilton has also created monuments dedicated to Booker T. Washington Joe Louis York (William Clark's manservant on the Lewis and Clark Expedition) and the slaves who revolted on La Amistad.
DJ Jean.  DJ Jean (born Jan Engelaar 7 May 1968) is a Dutch disc jockey most popular for his space countdown themed Hard House single The Launch. He has been an influential figure in the electronic music scene since the early 1990s.[citation needed] He is prolific and releases three or more compilation compact discs per year. DJ Jean has performed all over the world but now plays mostly in the Netherlands. His Friday night residency is at It club in Amsterdam.
Shōji Meguro.  Shōji Meguro (目黒 将司 Meguro Shōji born June 4 1971) is a Japanese video game composer and director who joined Atlus in 1995 and has composed music for many of their games mainly those in the Megami Tensei series.
Manjul.  Manjul (born in 1971) is an Indian political cartoonist. After working with major Indian publications like Dainik jagran Rashtriya Sahara Financial Express India Today and The Economic Times presently he is associated with Daily News and Analysis. He is also a winner of Maya Kamath Memorial Awards for Excellence in Cartooning 2009.Manjul currently lives in Mumbai.
Andrew Pepoy.  Andrew Pepoy (born 1969) is an American comic book writer and artist.
Uri Fineman.  Uri Fineman (Hebrew: אורי פיינמן‎ born 1959) is an Israeli singer and composer. He has released several albums and after a 12 year break began working on a new album in 2009.
Maryse Condé.  Maryse Condé (born February 11 1937) is a Guadeloupean French-language author of historical fiction best known for her novel Segu (1984–1985).
Johann Franz Ermels.  Johann Franz Ermels (1641-1693) a German painter and engraver a pupil of Holtzman was born in Reilkirch. He resided at Nuremberg and painted for the church of St. Sebald in that city a picture of the Resurrection; he was more successful however as a painter of landscapes in which he imitated the style of Jan Both. He died at Nuremberg in 1699. In the Städel Gallery at Frankfort is a Landscape by him with figures by J. H.
Jamie Borger.  Jamie Borger born May 28 1964 is a Swedish drummer who has played in the bands Talisman Treat and Last Autumn's Dream. Over the years he also has recorded with Alfonzetti Adam Thompson Baltimore Human Clay Swedish Erotica and Jeff Scott Soto.He also be involved several unreleased groups like The Three Kings with Jeff Scott Soto and Swedish guitar player Goran Elmquist.
James Kisner.  James M. Kisner Jr. (March 26 1947 – June 26 2008) was an American novelist and short story writer primarily of horror.
Jimmie Vaughan.  Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan (born March 20 1951 in Dallas County Texas) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer based in Austin Texas. He is the older brother of the late Texas blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.Several notable blues guitarists have had a significant influence on Vaughan's playing style including Freddie King Albert King BB King and Johnny Guitar Watson.
Daniel Wadsworth.  Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848) of Hartford Connecticut was an American amateur artist and architect arts patron and traveler. He is most remembered as the founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in his native city.
Nagasubramanian Chokkanathan.  Nagasubramanian Chokkanathan (born January 17) better known by his pen name N.Chokkan is a Tamil Writer who has written two novels and nearly 100 short stories. His works has been translated into other Indian languages. Apart from this he has written columns in several Tamil magazines.
Yinka Davies.  Yinka Davies (born July 16 1970) is a Nigerian vocalist entertainer and judge of reality show Nigerian Idol.
Rejjie Snow.  Alex Anyaegbunam (born June 27 1993) better known by his stage name Rejjie Snow is an Irish rapper from Dublin Ireland. His track Lost in Empathy has over 500000 views on Youtube. He is currently signed to Elton John's record label Rocket Music Entertainment.
Kate Lee (musician).  Kate Lee (born Kate Lee Gurnow in 1992) is an American singer songwriter fiddler from Webster New York known for composing the theme song When You Dream for the Granting Dreams Foundation a Nashville-based organization that was developed to help terminally ill individuals of all ages live their dreams. She also wrote Missing in the Mirror for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Ruthe Katherine Pearlman.  Ruthe Katherine Pearlman (June 30 1913 – January 30 2007) was an American painter art propagandist art educator and philanthropist.Ruthe G. Pearlman was born Ruthe Katherine Gottman in 1913 in Cincinnati Ohio in a Jewish family of Julius Gottman (jewelry store owner) and his wife Yetta. Young Ruthe found her path to art very early on in life. At the age of 16 she started taking art classes while being a student at Hughes Center High School in Cincinnati.
Sonyae Elise.  Sonyae Elise (born in New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles who won the inaugural series of Platinum Hit a Bravo American television channel show about new songwriters. Her prizes included $100000 as a cash prize an RCA/Jive Records contract and a publishing deal with The Writing Camp. According to her interview with Billboard Magazine she does not read music nor can she play any instruments.
Roger Vitrac.  Roger Vitrac (1899– 22 January 1952 aged 52) was a French surrealist playwright and poet.Born in Pinsac Roger Vitrac moved to Paris in 1910. As a young man he was influenced by symbolism and the writings of Lautréamont and Alfred Jarry and he developed a passion for theatre and poetry.
Mykola Suk.  Mykola Petrovich Suk (Ukrainian: Микола Петрович Сук; born December 21 1945) is a Ukrainian American pianist Merited Artist of Ukraine.
Artur Fonvizin.  Artur Vladimirovich Fonvizin (Russian: Артур Влади́мирович Фонви́зин from German: von Wiesen; 11 January 1883 - 19 August 1973) was a Soviet painter of watercolours.
Khalil (singer).  Khalil Amir Sharief (born November 22 1994) known by his first name Khalil is an American Contemporary R&B singer from Sacramento California.In 2008 he worked under the auspices of L.A. Reid to record some materials in Atlanta after being discovered on you-tube.
Peter Feldstein.  Peter Feldstein is an American photographer and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa from which he has a Master's degree as well. His work can be seen in such galleries as Olson-Larsen in Des Moines Roy Boyd in Chicago Lieberman & Saul in New York City Leedy-Voulkos in Kansas City and Thomas Barry Fine Arts in Minneapolis. He also has a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Iowa Arts Council grants with two more from Polaroid Collection.
Erika Rose.  Erika Rose (Born 1980) is an American musician.She co-wrote Alicia Keys's song A Woman's Worth released in 2002 which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.
Nic Cramer.  Nic Cramer is a Swedish pornographic film director. He has directed over 120 adult movies since 1992.
Chris Douglas.  Chris Douglas (born 4 August 1974) known primarily for his work as O.S.T. is an electronic musician from San Francisco California. He is noted for helping develop the style of music that came to be known as IDM.
Eric Taylor (screenwriter).  Eric Taylor (June 17 1897 - September 8 1952) was a screenwriter with over fifty titles to his credit. He was born in Chicago and died in San Francisco.
Simon Lack.  Simon Lack (19 December 1913 – 8 August 1980) was a Scottish actor working mostly in England.He was born Alexander MacAlpine in Cleland Scotland. Known locally as Alec he was the youngest child and only son of his father Alexander McAlpine (known as Sandy) and his mother Euphemia Ritchie. His sisters were Charlotte (Lottie) Mary Euphemia (Euphie) and Jenny. Another sister Jessie died in childhood.
Vivian Green.  Vivian Green (born May 22 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Citizen Cope.  Clarence Greenwood (stage name Citizen Cope) is an American songwriter producer and performer. His music is a mix of blues soul folk and rock. He has been touring professionally for ten years. Citizen Cope’s compositions have been recorded by artists as varied as Carlos Santana Dido Pharoahe Monch and Richie Havens. He currently records and produces for his own record label Rainwater Recordings which he founded in 2010 after deciding not to work with major labels any longer.
Brad Stewart.  Brad Stewart is a professional musician best known for his work with hard rock band Shinedown. However he now plays in Amaru Society Red Fuel and Burn Season
Athena Chu.  Athena Chu (born 25 October 1971) is a Hong Kong actress and singer.
Philip O'Connor.  Philip O'Connor (8 September 1916 – 29 May 1998) was a British writer and surrealist poet who also painted. He was one of the 'Wheatsheaf writers' of 1930s Fitzrovia (who took their name from a pub). He married six times and fathered at least eight children.
Sammy Watkins (musician).  Sammy Watkins was the leader of the Sammy Watkins Orchestra popular during the 1930s and 1940s. He continued to lead a band based primarily in Cleveland into the 1960s. The band's longest engagement was at Hollenden Hotel's Vogue Room in Cleveland Ohio. Musicians included drummer Fred Borgerhoff and trumpeter Scat Davis.During the early 1940s a young man going by the name of Dino Martini was the band's male vocalist.
Steve Adams (musician).  Steven Rue Adams (born January 16 1975 San Jose California) is a California-based American bassist and co-founder of San Francisco rock/pop/jamband Animal Liberation Orchestra (aka ALO) and current bassist for Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers. In addition to his work with ALO Steve has toured and recorded with many other musicians. Recording credits include Jack Johnson Tim Bluhm Nicki Bluhm Zach Gill Forest Sun John Craigie and Big Light.
Clay Dreslough.  Clay Dreslough is the creator of the Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul computer sports games and is the co-founder and President of Sports Mogul Inc. He was born in Boston Massachusetts (USA) and graduated from Wesleyan University.
Augustus Charles Pugin.  Augustus Charles Pugin born Auguste-Charles Pugin (1762–1832) was an Anglo-French artist architectural draughtsman and writer on medieval architecture. He was born in Paris then the Kingdom of France but his father was Swiss and Pugin himself was to spend most of his life in England.Pugin left France during the Revolutionary period for unclear reasons about 1798 and later entered the Royal Academy Schools in London to improve his skills.
Mikko Tarmia.  Mikko Tarmia is a Finnish video game music composer known for working with Codeblender Software Frictional Games and Wolfire Games. He also founded the independent record label The Sound of Fiction.His first work was with the Macintosh developer Codeblender Software and between 2002 and 2005 worked on four games with them. He is most well known for making the music for the Penumbra series. His record label released the soundtrack for the games in January 2010.
Timi Dakolo.  Timi Dakolo (born in Ghana on January 20 1981) is a Nigerian singer. Although he was born in Ghana Dakolo does not claim dual citizenship and holds a Nigerian passport. He is the winner of the first season of Idols West Africa. He was declared the winner on May 26 2007 at the home of Idols Planet One. The show was televised the next day. He beat out runner-up Omawumi Megbele getting 63% of the votes. With his victory he took home many prizes including a recording contract with Sony BMG.
Hirokazu Tanaka.  Hirokazu Hip Tanaka (田中 宏和 Tanaka Hirokazu born December 13 1957) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his scores for various video games produced by Nintendo. He is also the current President of Creatures Inc.
P Singaram.  P Singaram (Tamil: ப சிங்காரம்) was an important Tamil writer from Sivagangai district who lived most of his adult life is South east Asia - mainly Indonesia and Malaysia.P Singaram is considered to be one of the greatest Tamil novelist of the modern era despite having authored only two novels. His Puyalile Oru Thoni is considered by many Tamil literary giants to be one of the very important Tamil fiction of all time.
Jasmine Ann Allen.  Jasmine Marika (Jasmine Ann Allen)(ジャスミン茉莉花) (born September 1 1985 Washington U.S.) is American voice actress singer and TV personality in Japan. Her first single with Japanese comedian Gorie topped the Japanese single chart for two weeks.She has grown up in Japan since 1992 (when she was 7) and attended Japanese elementary and junior high school. Both her father and mother originate in the U.S.
Sergey Letov.  Sergey Letov (Russian: Серге́й Фё́дорович Ле́тов) born on September 24 1956 is a Russian musician known for improvisational style and the founder of Pentagram recording label. He has collaborated with numerous music artists including his younger brother Yegor Letov.
Hishida Shunsō.  Hishida Shunsō (菱田 春草 September 21 1874 - September 16 1911) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter from the Meiji period. One of Okakura Tenshin's pupils along with Yokoyama Taikan and Shimomura Kanzan he played a role in the Meiji era innovation of Nihonga. His real name was Hishida Miyoji. He was also known for his numerous paintings of cats.
Alberto Montt.  Alberto José Montt Moscoso (Quito Ecuador December 22 1972) is a Chilean graphic designer and plastic artist mainly known for his online comic-strip Dosis diarias (in English Daily Doses) where he has published since 2006 until today.He was born in Ecuador as the son of Alberto Montt (Chilean) and Consuelo Moscoso (Ecuadorian). He studied graphic design and plastic arts in Quito.
Vera Kamsha.  Vera Viktorovna Kamsha (Russian: Вера Викторовна Камша; born November 5 1962 in Lviv Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian author of high fantasy and a journalist.
Dawn-Michelle Baude.  Dawn-Michelle Baude (born January 15 1959) is an American poet journalist and educator.
Stephanie Davis (singer-songwriter).  Stephanie Davis (born in Montana) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She has written songs for Shelby Lynne Garth Brooks Waylon Jennings and Martina McBride. In addition Davis has released five studio albums: a self-titled debut on Asylum Records in 1993 followed by four self-released albums. Her self-titled debut produced a chart single in It's All in the Heart.
Vern Clevenger.  Vern Clevenger (born 1955 Oakland California) is a noted climber and landscape photographer. He made the first ascent of Cholatse in 1982. He lives in Mammoth Lakes California with his wife and two children Dylan and Sabrina. On April 13 1977 Clevenger was arrested looting the crashed wreckage of a drug-smuggling airplane in Yosemite National Park.
The Weeknd.  Abel Tesfaye (born February 16 1990) known by his stage name The Weeknd is a Canadian PBR&B recording artist and record producer. In late 2010 Tesfaye anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under the name The Weeknd. He released three nine-track mixtapes throughout 2011: House of Balloons Thursday and Echoes of Silence which were critically acclaimed.
Hild Sofie Tafjord.  Hild Sofie Tafjord (born 4 January 1974 in Langevåg Norway) is a Norwegian musician (French horn) the daughter of jazz tuba player Stein Erik Tafjord and niese to the French horn player Runar Tafjord known from several recordings and bands especially in experimental electronica genera.
Eric Lindley.  Eric Lindley (born December 10 1982) is an American artist writer and musician working primarily in Los Angeles and New York City under the name Careful. His work includes recorded and live glitch folk works of fiction poetry performance art photography and interactive installation.After getting degrees in physics and music at Dartmouth College Lindley studied composition with James Tenney at The California Institute of the Arts.
Edwin Siu.  Edwin Siu (born 23 March 1977) is a Hong Kong actor and singer.
Siddavanahalli Krishna Sarma.  Siddavanahalli Krishna Sharma (4 July 1904 - 14 October 1973) was a noted author translator freedom fighter journalist social worker and educationist. He was born in the village of Doddasiddavanahalli near Chitradurga the third child of Rangachar & Seshamma. Throughout his life he was an active participant in the freedom struggle first in Hyderabad and later in Bangalore. He identified with many activities and social movements after independence such as the Bhoodan movement.
Isidro Monés.  Isidre Monés Pons also Isidro Monés (Barcelona 1947 Mones (born 1947) is a Catalan Spanish comic book artist.
Stuart Tosh.  Stuart MacIntosh (born 26 September 1951 in Aberdeen Scotland) is a drummer songwriter and vocalist.Also known as Stuart Tosh MacIntosh recorded and toured with a succession of well-known and respected bands during the 1970s and 1980s including Pilot The Alan Parsons Project 10cc and Camel. Stuart now lives in the Bridge of Don area of Aberdeen.
Svetla Vassileva.  Svetla Vassileva (Bulgarian: Светла Василева) is a Bulgarian publicist and blogger. She was born in Pleven on 1 April 1964.After graduating from the Sofia University St.
Akilan.  Akilan (Tamil: அகிலன்) was a Tamil author noted for his realistic and creative writing style. Akilan was a freedom fighter novelist short-story writer journalist satirist travel writer playwright script-writer orator and critic.He is also a children's novelist.
Sean Rickman.  Sean Rickman (born October 16 1970) is an American drummer vocalist guitarist bassist songwriter producer and recording artist from Washington DC.He is best known for his work with Shawn Lane Garaj Mahal Dapp Theory Steve Coleman Maxwell Meshell Ndegeocello Blacksheep Phil Upchurch David Fiucynski & Screaming Headless Torsos Kai Eckhardt Anthony Tidd’s Quite Sane K’Alyn Angela Bofill and George Duke.Rickman was lead singer and drummer for Garaj Mahal from 2007-2011 and currently his DC Rock band Big Mouth featuring guitarist Leonard Stevens. 
Frederic Edwin Church.  Frederic Edwin Church (May 4 1826 – April 7 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural sciences he was always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in his works.
Mel Bay.  Mel Bay (February 25 1913 – May 14 1997) was a musician best known for his series of music education books. His Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords remains a bestseller.
Tony Hewitt.  Tony Hewitt is a British House Music DJ and producer.
Tim Yeung.  Tim Yeung is a prominent extreme metal drummer. He was born on November 27 1978 in Rochester New York and later relocated to Los Angeles California. Tim started playing drums when he was 11 years old. He plays Sabian and Zildjian cymbals.
Judith Gould.  Judith Gould is a fictional American writer of romance novels and is the pseudonym used by co-authors: Nicholas Peter Nick Bienes and Rhea Gallaher who are actually both men. Gould is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into 22 languages.In addition to being writing partners Bienes and Gallaher are also involved romantically. They currently live together in room 600 of the famous Hotel Chelsea in New York City regarded as the hotel's most luxurious suite.
Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun.  Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ batist vivjɛ̃ də ʃatobʁœ̃]; 1686 Angoulême - 16 February 1775 Angoulême) was a French dramatist and a member of the Académie française. He spent 40 years of his life polishing two plays but his maid mistook them for wrapping paper thus losing his life's work. Today his work Les Troyennes (1734) survives.
Dennis Rollins.  Dennis Rollins (born 1964) is a British jazz trombonist the founder and bandleader of BadBone and Co.Rollins was born in Birmingham of Jamaican parents and raised in Bentley Doncaster and attended Don Valley High School.
Roslyn Schwartz.  Roslyn Schwartz (born 1951) is a children's author and animator.Born in Montreal Quebec she was raised in Tunbridge Wells Kent England.[citation needed] Schwartz is the author of The Mole Sisters series The Smoker's Addictionary (1985) Rose and Dorothy (1981) and Tales from Parc la Fontaine (2006). The The Mole Sisters was made into a T.V.
Juan Andrés (convert).  Juan Andrés is the name chosen by a Moorish scholar born in Játiva Spain who converted to Catholicism in 1487 in the Cathedral of Valencia. Becoming a priest he was made an envoy by the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinando and Isabela to preach Christianity in Granada after it was reconquered.
Kevin Lyttle.  Kevin Lyttle (born Lescott Kevin Lyttle Coombs 14 September 1976) is a Vincentian soca artist who had a worldwide hit with Turn Me On in 2004 recorded with the dancehall artist Spragga Benz.
Mariee Sioux.  Mariee Sioux (born February 4 1985) is an American folk singer-songwriter. Her father Gary Sobonya is a mandolin player of Polish and Hungarian descent and her mother Felicia is of Spanish Paiute and Indigenous Mexican descent.
John Randall Nelson.  John Randall Nelson is a painter and sculptor based in Phoenix Arizona.
Paul Czege.  Paul Czege is a designer of tabletop role-playing games and with My Life With Master wrote one of only four role-playing games to win the Diana Jones award. He is also the originator of the Czege Principle that states when one person is the author of both the character's adversity and its resolution play isn't fun.
Canaletto.  Giovanni Antonio Canal (17 or 18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768) better known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto]) was an Italian painter of landscapes or vedute of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.
Bob Neuwirth.  Bob Neuwirth (born June 20 1939 Akron Ohio) is an American singer songwriter record producer and visual artist.
Jim Scancarelli.  James Scancarelli (born August 24 1941) known professionally as Jim Scancarelli is an American cartoonist and musician. Since 1986 he has been writing and drawing the syndicated comic strip Gasoline Alley for Tribune Media Services. In that role his predecessors were Frank King Bill Perry and Dick Moores. He had served as an assistant to the latter for several years before taking over. Scancarelli is also a prizewinning bluegrass fiddler.
Dave Preston (motorcycling).  David Preston (born circa 1947) is an author in the Seattle area. His published works include Motorcycle 101 and Motorcycle 201 on motorcycle rider safety and the novels Mourning Ride and The Third Marcia.
Emilio Schuberth.  Emilio Federico Schuberth (Naples 1904 - Rome 1972) was an Italian designer popular in the 1940s and 1950s.Schuberth was called the tailor of the stars. His work was loved by many international stars like Princess Soraya Rita Hayworth Ingrid Bergman Bette Davis Brigitte Bardot Sofia Loren Gina Lollobrigida and Anna Magnani.Schuberth took part in the historic parade of the Pitti Palace in Florence in 1951 becoming one of the leaders of the fledgling Italian fashion.
Chris Walker (musician).  Chris Walker is an American musician best known for his 1992 Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hit Take Time.Walker's 1992 debut album First Time. The album yielded the hit Take Time which peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100.Aside from being a singer Walker is also a bass guitarist. He was Ornette Coleman's bass guitarist for two and a half years before releasing his debut album.
Vincent Scotto.  Vincent Scotto (21 April 1874 in Marseille – 15 November 1952 in Paris) was a French composer.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.  Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist mathematician and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form written largely in Dundee in 1915. Peter Medawar the 1960 Nobel Laureate in Medicine called it the finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue.
August Conradi.  August Conradi (27 June 1821 – 26 May 1873) was a German organist and composer. Born in Berlin he was originally intended by his father to study theology. Instead he was enrolled at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. There he studied harmony and composition with Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen director of the Berlin Singakademie. In 1843 he became a church organist of Invalidenhaus Berlin also writing his first symphony plus a Zigeunerpolka for orchestra the same year.
Kim Bingham.  This is the article for the Canadian singer for the American goalkeeper see Kimberly Bingham.Kim Bingham is a Canadian singer-songwriter vocalist and guitarist. She began her career as a member of the Montreal third wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler and has released a number of solo albums.
Blind Boy Fuller.  Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) (July 10 1907 – February 13 1941) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans a group that also included Blind Blake Josh White and Buddy Moss.
Kate Walker (writer).  Kate Walter (b. spring of 1950 in Nottinghamshire England) was a popular British writer of 50 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1984.
Paris Grey.  Paris Grey (born Shanna Jackson November 5 1965 Glencoe Illinois United States) is an American singer most known for her work with the Detroit-based techno-music producer Kevin Saunderson as Inner City.
Romy Gosz.  Roman 'Romy' Louis Gosz (August 2 1910 Grimms Wisconsin - August 29 1966 Manitowoc Wisconsin) was a popular and commercially successful polka musician in the upper Midwest. Gosz's music featured the Bohemian brass style and appealed to the many ethnic groups (Dutch Bohemian Belgian German and Polish) found throughout the region.
Emma Marrone.  Emmanuela Marrone also known as Emma or Emma Marrone (born May 25 1984 in Florence Italy) is an Italian pop/rock singer.After several musical experiences with several bands in March 2010 she won the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi and signed a contract with record label Universal Music. On February 18 2012 she achieved first place at the annual televised Sanremo Music Festival 2012 with her song Non è l'inferno.
S. M. Stirling.  Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.Stirling's novels are generally conflict-driven and often describe military situations and militaristic cultures.
David Bradshaw.  David Bradshaw (born September 28 1944) is a multi-faceted American artist based out of Cecilia LA and E. Charleston Vermont. He is a painter sculptor and printmaker.
Xanthus Russell Smith.  Xanthus Russell Smith (February 26 1839 Philadelphia Pennsylvania – December 2 1929 Glenside Pennsylvania) was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War.
Karl Frankenstein.  Karl Frankenstein (Hebrew: קרל פרנקנשטיין‎; born 16 February 1905 died 1990) was an Israeli professor in special education and pedagogy.
Edward Weston.  Edward Henry Weston (March 24 1886 – January 1 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called one of the most innovative and influential American photographers… and one of the masters of 20th century photography. Over the course of his 40 year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects including landscapes still lifes nudes portraits genre scenes and even whimsical parodies.
Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.  Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín was an Irish medieval scribe from a north Connacht bardic family.
Albert Bouchard.  Albert Bouchard (born May 24 1947) is a American drummer guitarist singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult.
Rick Rock.  Rick Rock (born Ricardo Thomas) is a hip-hop music producer from Fairfield Californiathe Bay Area.
Kim Jong-seo.  Kim Jong-Seo (김종서) is a veteran South Korean rock musician. He first appeared in 1985 as part of the band Boohwal. After Boohwal Kim Jong-Seo was part of several rock bands among others: Sinawe Charisma (카리스마) and Little Sky (작은 하늘). He started going solo in 1992 with his first album titled Rethona.He has released 19 solo albums up to now and is currently active as Seoul's Ambassador for Environment.
Danny Gottlieb.  Danny Gottlieb (born April 18 1953) is a freelance drummer who has performed as part of the Pat Metheny Group and Mahavishnu Orchestra. He is also a member of the University of North Florida jazz faculty where he teaches as a full-time Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies.
Don Rich (swamp pop singer).  An ethnic Cajun Don Rich (real name Don Richard pronounced ree-shard in the Cajun French manner) is a popular south Louisiana swamp pop music singer.Although younger than the original generation of swamp pop pioneers like Johnnie Allan Rod Bernard and Warren Storm Rich has successfully worked his way into the top-tier of swamp pop musicians.
Giovanni Battista Monti.  Giovanni Battista Monti (died 1657) was an Italian painter of portraits during the Baroque period active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He emerged from a poor family and was apprenticed with Luciano Borzone. He died from the plague in 1657.
Yuki Sato (actor).  Yuki Sato (佐藤 祐基 Satō Yūki also written as Yuuki Sato) is a Japanese actor from Shinagawa Tokyo best known for portraying Arata Kagami/Kamen Rider Gatack in the Tokusatsu Television series Kamen Rider Kabuto. For a brief period he performed under the name Tomohito Sato (佐藤 智仁 Satō Tomohito).
Ippolito Costa.  Ippolito Costa (1506 – 8 November 1561) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Mantua the son of the painter Lorenzo Costa. Although not a pupil of Giulio Romano his style closely imitated that master. He mentored his brother Girolamo Costa (1525-1595) and the painter Bernardino Campi.
Leon Dai.  Leon Dai (Traditional Chinese:戴立忍 born 27 July 1966) is a Taiwanese actor and film director. His film Cannot Live Without You was Taiwan's submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.The film also won two awards at the 46th Golden Horse Film Awards.
Dounia Batma.  Dounia Batma (Arabic: دنيا بطمة‎ born April 1 1991 in Casablanca Morocco) is a Moroccan singer who rose to popularity around the world as the runner-up of the first season of Arab Idol (the Arabic version of Pop Idol) on MBC. She lost the title against Egyptian contestant Carmen Suleiman.
Niklas Kvarforth.  Niklas Kvarforth (born December 7 1983) is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the founder composer and vocalist of the black metal band Shining.
Mette Lindberg.  Mette Lindberg (born December 2 1983) is a Danish vocalist for psychedelic pop group The Asteroids Galaxy Tour paired with songwriter/producer Lars Iversen. The band has produced two studio albums to date Fruit and Out of Frequency.
Lawrence Ng.  Lawrence Ng Kai Wah (traditional Chinese: 吳啟華; simplified Chinese: 吴启华 pinyin: Wú Qǐhuá; born 19 May 1964) is a popular TV actor in Hong Kong. His more famous works include the television series Healing Hands and the films Fate Twisters and Sex and Zen.
Graham Norton.  Graham William Walker known by his stage name Graham Norton (born 4 April 1963) is an Irish comic presenter. Based in the United Kingdom he is the host of comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show. Previously shown on BBC Two it took the prestigious Friday night slot on BBC One from Jonathan Ross in 2010. He also presents on BBC Radio 2 and is the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest which led Hot Press to describe him as the 21st century's answer to Terry Wogan.
Diana Morgan (writer).  Diana Morgan (born 1913) is a British writer of romance novels. She was elected the twelfth Chairman (1981–1983) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Penelope Fletcher.  Penelope Fletcher (born 22 July 1988) is a British writer of paranormal romance and young-adult fantasy fiction. She was born in London and lives in the United Kingdom with her fiancé. Her books have been published digitally as eBooks on Amazon Kindle Barnes & Noble Nook and Apple iBooks. She writes erotic fiction under pen name Hanna Lui.In an interview with Wattpad Fletcher mentions her writing process involves typing where she just keeps going until it feels like it's the end.
Ritu Kumar.  Ritu Kumar is one of India’s foremost fashion designer and the first woman to introduce the ‘boutique’ culture in India under the brand name ‘Ritu’. She has developed a unique style of her own reflecting the ancient traditions of Indian craftsmanship in a contemporary vocabulary.
Will Kimbrough.  William Adams Will Kimbrough (born May 1 1964 in Mobile Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Nashville Tennessee.
Miklós László.  Miklos Laszlo (May 20 1903 - April 19 1973) was a playwright and naturalized American citizen born in Budapest Hungary. He is best remembered for his play Illatszertár also known as Parfumerie which was used as the storyline for three movies The Shop Around the Corner In the Good Old Summertime and most recently You've Got Mail. The play also was adapted for the Broadway stage as the musical She Loves Me.
Willem Sandberg.  Jonkheer Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg (1897–1984) known as Willem Sandberg was a Dutch typographer and museum curator.He was born in Amersfoort the Netherlands in 1897 and studied art in Amsterdam. He became a follower of the Mazdaznan movement. As a young man he travelled serving as an apprentice to a printer in Herrliberg Switzerland. In 1927 he visited Vienna where he studied Otto Neurath's Isotype system.
Tigran Hamasyan.  Tigran Hamasyan (Armenian: Տիգրան Համասյան; born July 17 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist. He plays mostly original compositions which are strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition often using its scales and modalities.
Maurice Rosy.  Maurice Rosy (17 November 1927 - 23 February 2013) is a Belgian comics writer who also worked as artistic director of Spirou magazine during its golden period.
Eric Eidel.  Eric Eidel is an American musician who has most notably played with Jeff Buckley on his final album My Sweet Heart the Drunk. He is currently the drummer of San Francisco garage rock band The Boars.
Anders Hammer.  Anders Hammer (born April 3 1980 in Gothenburg Sweden) is bass player for the melodic death metal band Nightrage. Anders also plays bass for the Swedish power metal band Dragonland.
Ania (singer).  Ania ([ˈaɲa]) sometimes referred to as Ania Dąbrowska ([ˈaɲa dɔmˈbrɔvska]; born January 7 1981 in Chełm Poland) is a Polish singer songwriter and composer who performs pop music.Ania rose to stardom in 2004 with the release of Samotność po zmierzchu which met with positive critical and commercial reception.
K.One.  Kaleb K.One Vitale is a New Zealand rapper currently signed to Illegal Musik. The most successful song of his career is featuring with J.Williams on Night of Your Life which reached number 4 on the RIANZ charts and received gold certification in 2010.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu pronunciation: [ŋɡoɣe wa ðiɔŋɔ]; born 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan writer formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu. His work includes novels plays short stories and essays ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature.
Chie Yamayoshi.  Chie Yamayoshi is a Los Angeles-based video artist and filmmaker.Yamayoshi was raised in Japan where she was a TV director and newscaster. After leaving commercial industry and starting an avant-garde art-making practice Yamayoshi moved to the US under the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists. She received an MFA in Film and Video from CalArts and a MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine.
Neil Shawcross.  Neil Shawcross MBE (born 15 March 1940) is an artist born in Kearsley Lancashire England and resident in Northern Ireland since 1962. Primarily a portrait painter his subjects have included novelist Francis Stuart (for the Ulster Museum) former Lord Mayor of Belfast David Cook (for Belfast City Council) footballer Derek Dougan and fellow artists Colin Middleton and Terry Frost.
Andy Susemihl.  Andy Susemihl (born in Ulm Germany) is a German guitarist singer songwriter and record producer. He began his career in the 1980s and gained international success since 1987 in hard rock bands such as U.D.O. and Sinner.
Lars Ekborg.  Lars Åke Rupert Ekborg born 6 June 1926 in Uppsala died 7 October 1969 was a Swedish actor.Ekborg was the father of actors Dan and Anders Ekborg. He died of liver cancer in 1969.He may be heard as the recitor in the 1956 recording of Förklädd Gud by Lars-Erik Larsson with Elisabeth Söderström and Erik Saedén conducted by Stig Westerberg.
Benyamin Sönmez.  Benyamin Sönmez (January 16 1983 – November 30 2011) was a Turkish classical cellist.
Malinda Lo.  Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including Ash Huntress and Adaptation.
Sibongiseni Shabalala.  Sibongiseni Lucas Shabalala (born 1972) is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo a South African choral group founded in 1960 (and still led) by his father Joseph.Sibongiseni was born in Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) to Joseph and his late wife Nellie just shortly after the release of the group's first album Amabutho.
Kevin Garant.  Kevin Laurent Garant (born October 1 1963 in Boston Massachusetts) is a guitarist composer and sound designer.Garant has worked with numerous people and groups including Sting to Afrika Bambaataa from Hall & Oates to Vanilla Ice world tours with Amnesty International to Weird Al Yankovic and Ben Stiller’s MTV shows.Relocating from New York City to Melbourne Australia in 1994 Garant formed the Largest Living Things with ex-Crowded House and Split Enz drummer/vocalist Paul Hester.The Largest Living Things performed throughout Australia and had their own television series on the ABC Hessie’s Shed which broadcast in Australia New Zealand the UK and on MTV in Europe.The Largest Living Things were also the house band on the short lived Mick Molloy Show on the Nine Network in Australia.Garant has worked with Paul Kelly Neil Finn Mandawuy Yunupingu (Yothu Yindi) Rob Hirst Archie Roach Ruby Hunter Stephen Cummings Colin Hay Deb Conway Mick Thomas Ross Hanaford Renne Geyer Dan Warner Kutcha Edwards Fernando Saunders Jon Langford and Ross Wilson.As a producer Garant has worked with such diverse artists as Kingston Trio founder and folk music legend David Guard to Australian Indigenous artists Kutcha Edwards and Manuel Nulupani Dhurrkay from Saltwater band and hip hop artist Meriiki Hood.Garant has composed television and film scores.As a sound designer Garant was nominated for a Monitor Award.[citation needed]
Jane Mander.  Mary Jane Mander (9 April 1877—20 December 1949) was a New Zealand novelist and journalist.
Karel Píč.  Karel Píč (Esperanto: Karolo Piĉ December 6 1920 – August 15 1995) was a leading Czech Esperantist a member of the Academy of Esperanto a poet and writer of short stories essays and novels in Esperanto.
Nick Flynn.  Nick Flynn (born January 26 1960) is an American writer playwright and poet. His most recent publication is The Reenactments which chronicles Flynn's experience during the making of Being Flynn a film based on his acclaimed 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Flynn is also the author of three collections of poetry including Some Ether which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 1999 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Ida Maria.  Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen (born 13 July 1984) is a Norwegian rock musician and songwriter known primarily by the stage name which is her given names Ida Maria (pronounced approximately 'ee-dah mah-ree-ah'). Her first album Fortress Round My Heart was released in 2008. In November 2010 she released her second album Katla in Norway; the album was released internationally on 7 June 2011. In August 2013 Maria digitally released her third album Love Conquers All in Norway.
Petr Bezruč.  Petr Bezruč (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpɛtr̩ ˈbɛzrutʃ]) was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek ([ˈvlaɟɪmiːr ˈvaʃɛk]; September 15 1867 – February 17 1958) a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia.Bezruč was born in Opava and died in Olomouc.
John Ivison.  John Ivision is a Scottish Canadian journalist. He is an Ottawa-based political columnist for the National Post.Born in Dumfries Scotland he worked as a reporter for The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh. He moved to Canada in 1996 joining the Financial Post as a journalist and eventually served as deputy editor. The Financial Post folded into the National Post in 1998. After five years at the Financial Post Ivison joined the National Post where he covered provincial politics in Ontario.
Paul Tomalin.  Paul Tomalin is a British television writer.
Manny Marc.  Manny Marc (born 1980 in Tempelhof Berlin Germany as Marc Schneider) is a German rapper and DJ. Manny Marc is the DJ of the South Berlin rap group Bass Crew which consists of Frauenarzt MC Basstard and MC Bogy. In 1997 he founded the street gang Berlin Crime with Frauenarzt and in 1998 the independent label Bassboxxx. In 2006 he founded with Frauenarzt the Ghetto Musik label.
Rob Buck.  Robert N. Rob Buck (August 1 1958 Jamestown New York – December 19 2000 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) was a founding member and guitarist of 10000 Maniacs from 1981 until his death from liver disease in 2000. Some of his compositions with Natalie Merchant are among the most popular songs recorded by 10000 Maniacs including What's the Matter Here Hey Jack Kerouac You Happy Puppet and These Are Days.
Maria (Bulgarian singer).  Maria Panayotova Kirova (Bulgarian: Мария Панайотова Кирова) (born January 13 1982) best known as Maria (Bulgarian: Мария) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer.
Joseph Szabo.  Joseph Szabo (born 1944 in Toledo Ohio) is an American photographer.
Mary Ingham.  Mary Ingham (born 13 February 1947) is an English author and freelance journalist.She was born in Chesham Buckinghamshire England and studied Social Science at the University of Liverpool.
Xanthos Hadjisoteriou.  Xanthos Hadjisoteriou was an acclaimed Cypriot painter and interior designer. Born in Famagusta in 1920 and studied business at University of Beirut (1938–1940). Later studied art at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London (1951–1953) and interior design at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1959).Xanthos Hadjisoteriou held many exhibitions in Cyprus and internationally.
Mārtiņš Freimanis.  Mārtiņš Freimanis (7 February 1977 – 27 January 2011) was a Latvian musician singer songwriter actor and TV personality.Freimanis was born in Liepāja but spent his childhood in Aizpute. He represented Latvia in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest with the group F.L.Y. He also composed The War Is Not Over for Latvia's Valters and Kaža for the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest.Mārtiņš Freimanis was the lead singer and songwriter of the popular Latvian rock band Tumsa.
Amrish Kumar.  Amrish Kumar born on 5 October 1977 is the Creative Director at Ritu Kumar and responsible for brand creation design architecture and strategic business management
Mike Long (author).  Michael (Mike) Long is an American author. In 2008 he began teaching at Georgetown University in the graduate school of professional studies teaching classes to graduate students on writing and speech writing.
Paolo Marsi.  Paolo Marsi or Paolo Marso in Latin Paulus Marsus or Paulus Marsus Piscinas (1440–1484) was an Italian humanist and poet known primarily for his commentary on the Fasti of Ovid.Marsi was born at Piscina and was the brother of the Pietro Marsi who was an acquaintance of Erasmus. He was a student of Pomponio Leto and became a professor of rhetoric.
Jorge Manuel.  Jorge Manuel (born July 19 1980) is a Cuban-American fashion designer based in Miami.
Randy Cochran.  Randy Cochran is an African-American former gay pornographic film actor whose career was active in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior to his pornographic film career he worked as a Navy medical corpsman and dancer. He was the first African American porn actor nominated for Best Actor (Gay) before the gay portion of the AVN Awards became the GayVN Awards. In 2006 he was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame and in 2012 he was presented a Lifetime Achievement award by the Blatino Erotica Awards.
Carmen Chaplin.  Carmen Chaplin is a British actor and film director. She is the daughter of Michael Chaplin and hence also granddaughter of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and the great-granddaughter of author Eugene O'Neill. Her mother is painter Patricia Betaudier daughter of Trinidadian artist Patrick Betaudier.Although born in London Chaplin grew up in France and Spain.
David Wm. Sims.  David William Sims (born September 17 1963 in Austin Texas) is an American musician best known as the bass guitarist of the bands Scratch Acid (with whom he initially played guitar) Rapeman and the Jesus Lizard. In addition he has recorded or performed with Sparklehorse Rhys Chatham Shivaree Pigface Flour and others. Sims currently performs experimental solo electric bass as unFact. Besides being a musician Sims is a Certified Public Accountant and blogs on his personal web site.
Tony Parker (author).  Tony Parker (25 June 1923 - 3 October 1996) was an oral historian whose work was dedicated to giving a voice to British and American society's most marginalised figures from single mothers to lighthouse keepers to criminals including murderers.
Dionysis Makris.  Dionysis Makris (Greek: Διονύσης Μακρής) born Dionysis Syntrivanis is a popular Greek singer of laiko music.
Alan Cheuse.  Alan Cheuse (born January 23 1940 Perth Amboy New Jersey U.S.) is an American writer and critic.
Johnny Cook.  Johnny Cook (March 22 1949 - May 14 2000) was a Southern Gospel singer. He led a group the Johnny Cook Trio in the 1980s. Cook was a tenor and also sang with The Happy Goodmans.
Matija Vuković.  Matija Vuković (Platičevo 26 July 1925 – Belgrade 21 June 1985) was a Serbian sculptor.
DM Ashura.  William Bill James Robert Shillito (b. 1986-03-26 in Brooklyn New York) more commonly known as DM Ashura is an electronic artist whose work can be found in the music games O2Jam Dance Dance Revolution StepMania beatmania IIDX Flash Flash Revolution Pump it Up Pro 2 and Pump it Up Fiesta EX.
Otfrid von Hanstein.  Otfrid von Hanstein (1869–1959) was a German actor and writer. As a novelist he was prolific in various genres; his best-known works in English-language translation are science fiction novels published in various magazines by Hugo Gernsback. John Clute describes von Hanstein's science fiction as technophilic and space-oriented crude but competent. E. F. Bleiler reports that his SF novels were suppressed by the Nazi government.
Francesco Coppola.  Francesco Coppola (born: September 27 1878 Naples Italy; died 1957 Anacapri Italy) was prominent Italian journalist and politician in the twentieth century who associated with Italian nationalism and later Italian Fascism.From 1904 to 1908 Coppola wrote for Il Giornale d'Italia a Rome newspaper in which he was known for expressing anti-democratic and anti-socialist sentiments.
Darby Crash.  Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (September 26 1958 – December 7 1980) was an American punk musician who along with long-time friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg) co-founded the Germs. He committed suicide by way of an intentional heroin overdose.
Thomas Heathcote.  Thomas Heathcote (9 September 1917 – 5 January 1986) was a British character actor.He was educated at Bradfield College in Bradfield near Reading in Berkshire England. His films included A Night to Remember (1958) Village of the Damned (1960) Billy Budd (1962) A Man for All Seasons (1966) Night of the Big Heat (1967) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). On television he had notable guest roles in Dixon of Dock Green The Prisoner Z-Cars and The Onedin Line.
Hajime Kawakami.  Hajime Kawakami (河上 肇 Kawakami Hajime October 20 1879 – January 30 1946) was a Japanese Marxist economist of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods.Born in Yamaguchi he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. After writing for Yomiuri shimbun he earned an economics professorship at Kyoto Imperial University. Increasingly inclined toward Marxism he participated in the March 15 incident of 1928 and was expelled from the university as a subversive.
K. Kalyan.  K. Kalyan (Kannada: ಕೆ. ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ್ ) (born 1 January 1975) is an Indian lyricist and music director predominantly working since last 20 years in Kannada cinema. He has won several prestigious awards and is popularly called as Premakavi (Love Poet) for his foot tapping music and inspiring lyrics on romance theme. He is considered to be one of the leading Music composer and lyricist of Kannada cinema. He is also known for his good gestures in upbringing new talents to the film industry.
Alvin Lee (comics).  Alvin Lee is a comic book artist known for his manga-styled art. Lee is the co-creator along with writer Gail Simone of the character Agent X.Lee has worked under major comic book publishers including Image Comics under the UDON label UDON studios as an independent publisher Marvel Comics DC Comics and Wildstorm Productions.
Suzanne Feingold.  Suzanne Feingold (1904–1977) was a French Resistance worker. She was an editor of Ici Paris.
Wilfrido Vargas.  Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (Spanish pronunciation: [wilˈfɾiðo ˈβaɾɣas]; born April 24 1949 in Altamira Puerto Plata Dominican Republic) is a bandleader trumpeter vocalist arranger composer and producer who was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenomena.He was surrounded by musical influences; namely his father Ramón an accordionist and guitarist and his mother Bienvenida a flute player and guitarist.
Kathy Griffin.  Kathleen Mary Kathy Griffin (born November 4 1960) is an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning American actress and comedian. Born in Oak Park Illinois she moved in 1978 to Los Angeles where she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and became a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. In the 1990s Griffin began performing as a standup comedian and also appeared as a guest star on several television shows.
Dale Bozzio.  Dale Frances Bozzio (née Consalvi; born March 2 1955) is an American progressive rock and new wave vocalist. She is best known as co-founder and lead singer of the 1980s pop/new wave band Missing Persons and also known for her work with Frank Zappa. In her solo career Bozzio released three albums and one EP.
Ram Nath Kak.  Ram Nath Kak (1917–1993) (Kashmiri: राम नाथ काक (Devanagari)) (born in Srinagar and died in Honolulu) was a Kashmiri veterinarian whose autobiography Autumn Leaves is one of the most vivid portraits of life in 20th century Kashmir and has become a sort of a classic.
M.S. Udayamurthy.  M.S. Udayamurthy (Tamil : எம். எஸ். உதயமூர்த்தி) (1927 or 1928 - 21 Jan 2013) was a Tamil writer and social activist. Author of several books on self-improvement Udayamurthy’s prominent works include Ennangal (thoughts) Unnal Mudiyum Thambi (You can brother) née than thambi mudhal amaichar (you are the chief minister).An environmental activist Udayamurthy founder of Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam (People’s Power Movement) actively pursued projects like linking of rivers.
Øystein Hauge.  Øystein Hauge (born 10 December 1956 in Vegårshei Aust-Agder) is a Norwegian writer.He hails from Vegårshei. He debuted in 1989 with the poetry collection Messe og maskespel .Outside of literature he has worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice and the Compulsory Civilian National Service Administration. He studied at Telemark and Molde University College and resides in Fræna.
Adam Granduciel.  Adam Granduciel is an American guitarist singer songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman and primary songwriter of the indie rock band The War on Drugs and as a former member of Kurt Vile & the Violators.
Aston Barrett.  Aston Barrett (born Aston Francis Barrett 22 November 1946 in Kingston Jamaica) often called Family Man or Fams for short is a Jamaican bass player and Rastafarian.
Robyn Karney.  Robyn Karney is a British film writer and critic.She was formerly a critic for the Empire film magazine. Karney is the author of books on film including the comprehensive biennial Cinema Year by Year and Chronicle of the Cinema (1997) put out by DK Publishing and biographies of Audrey Hepburn Charlie Chaplin and Burt Lancaster. With Ronald Bergan she wrote the Foreign Film Guide (London: Bloomsbury 1988 1991).
Kelda Holmes.  Kelda Holmes (born on May 1970 in England) is an English actress best known for playing Sarah Jackson in the Children's ITV television programme Press Gang.Towards the end of series 4 Holmes's character wished to leave the paper to pursue an education at university. In real life Holmes also wished to further her university education. She therefore asked to be dropped to recurring status.
Hồ Quỳnh Hương.  Hồ Quỳnh Hương (born 16 October 1980 in Hạ Long Quảng Ninh) is a Vietnamese female singer. She has appeared in Asia Song Festival 2008 Bước nhảy hoàn vũ (season 1) Vietnam Idol (season 3) Cặp đôi hoàn hảo (season 1) The Voice of Vietnam (season 1). Hương was recently crowned as Asia's Sexiest Vegetarian Woman of 2013 by PETA Asia Pacific.
Fatman Scoop.  Isaac Freeman III (born November 28 1979) better known by his stage name Fatman Scoop is an American hip hop promoter and radio personality famed for his on-stage rough raw loud voice.He is known for the track Be Faithful which went to number one in the United Kingdom and neighboring Republic of Ireland in Fall 2003 and top 5 in Australia and Denmark.
Rosa Barandiaran.  Rosa Maria (Barandiaran) Ukena (February 6 1942 – May 11 1999) was a San Francisco artist known for reviving the impressionist movement and was one of the founding members of the San Francisco Impressionist League. She was born in Ahuachapán El Salvador in 1942 from Spanish and Basque ancestry.In her early childhood her twin sister died at the age of 4 from complications related to being a Type I (juvenile) diabetes.
John Wineglass.  John Christopher Wineglass (born 1973) is an American television composer.
Manju Kapur.  Manju Kapur (born Amritsar India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel Difficult Daughters won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize best first book Europe and South Asia.She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia.She studied and received an M.A. in 1972 from Dalhousie University in Halifax Canada and an M. Phil from Delhi University.She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and three grandchildren and live in New Delhi.
Anastas Mikoyan Jr..  Anastas Mikoyan Jr. (Stas Namin). Born 1951 in Moscow was named after his grandfather Anastas Mikoyan – a major figure of the Soviet government whose younger brother was an aircraft designer and co-creator of the famous MiG plane.
Aya Matsuura.  Aya Matsuura (松浦 亜弥 born June 25 1986) also known to her fans as Ayaya is a Japanese pop singer actress and model from Himeji Hyogo Japan. Her husband is Keita Tachibana.
Jerome Cady.  Jerome Cady (1903 - 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 30s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943) a successful adaptation of Forever Amber (1947) and the police procedural Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948.
Marcel Pagnol.  Marcel Pagnol (French pronunciation: ​[maʁsɛl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist playwright and filmmaker. In 1946 he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every genre - memoir novel play and film.
Burt Wilson.  Burt Wilson (born January 24 1933) is a philosopher writer broadcaster jazz musician political activist playwright and former advertising executive.
N. Santhanam.  Santhanam is an Indian film actor who plays lead comedian roles in Tamil films. His fame started off with Lollu Sabha. He made his feature film debut with sachin in 2004 and later appeared in several successful films. Though is considered his first feature film he has acted in two films before Manmadhan. Santhanam was also in STR's debut film as a leading actor namely Kadhal Azhivathillai. He is best known for his roles in Siruthai (2011) and director M.
José Ferrer Canales.  Dr. José Ferrer Canales (September 18 1913 – July 20 2005) was an educator writer and a pro-independence political activist.
Lucia Graves.  Lucia Graves (born July 21 1943) is a writer and translator.Born in Devon England she is the daughter of Robert Graves and is herself a translator working in English and Spanish/Catalan. Her translations include the worldwide bestsellers The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and The Columbus Papers. She has also published a novel The Memory House and a memoir entitled A Woman Unknown. She has translated over 30 volumes.
Katherine Mansfield.  Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Avi Belleli.  Avi Belleli (born October 27 1963) is an Israeli singer and musician.
Mao Abe.  Mao Abe (阿部 真央 Abe Mao born 24 January 1990) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.
Gints Bude.  Gints Bude (born April 23 1971 in Riga Latvia) is a Latvian fashion designer and an expert of clothing and dress code.
Klara Lidén.  Klara Lidén (born 1979 Stockholm Sweden) is a contemporary artist. She currently lives and works in Berlin and New York City. Lidén is known for her installations and videos that respond to specific architectural environments.
Giovanni Andrea Casella.  Giovanni Andrea Casella (17th century) was a Swiss-Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Lugano. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. He was patronized by House of Savoy in frescoes for palaces in Turin and known to be active in 1658. He painted in the Veneria Reale some fables assisted by Giacomo his nephew.
Ruth Moody.  Ruth Moody is an Australian-born soprano singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys.
Marshall Rohner.  Marshall Lambert Rohner (December 20 1963 Iowa – October 18 2005 Yucca Valley California) was a guitarist whose credits include: T.S.O.L. The Cruzados Jimmy and The Mustangs Kenny Brown and Dino's Revenge. Rohner appeared in several videos in the early MTV days including Live at the Ritz with the Cruzados. Rohner was born in Iowa to Barbara Flaig and Lambert Rohner.
Albert Burdon.  Albert Burdon (1900–1981) was a British film actor.
Angela Rawlings.  Angela Rawlings (known as a.rawlings) is a Canadian poet editor and interdisciplinary artist. Her poetry has been translated into Dutch French Icelandic Korean and Spanish.In 2001 Rawlings received the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing when she graduated from York University.
Tore Ryen.  Tore Jarl Ryen (born 30 December 1946) is a Norwegian revue and television writer.He is behind several sitcoms aired on TV 2. Mot i brøstet Karl & Co and Karl III starred Nils Vogt as Karl Reverud; in addition Ryen created Holms and Radio 2. He won a Gullruten award in 2001.He is the father of Adam Ryen.
H. B. Gilmour.  H. B. Gilmour (November 24 1939 Brooklyn New York – June 21 2009 Cornwallville New York) was a bestselling author of children's books. She grew up in Williamsburg Brooklyn with her mother and the extended family and fondly remembered writing her very first poem for Arbor Day when she was just eight years old. As a teenager she moved to Florida to live with her father. She attended college there and then moved back to New York City.Gilmour’s first publishing job was at E.P. Dutton.
Nikki Grimes.  Nikki Grimes is an American author and illustrator of books written for children and young adults as well as a poet and journalist. Grimes was born in Harlem New York.In a conversation with a Reading is Fundamental interviewer Ms. Grimes stated Books were my survival tools. They were how I got by and how I coped with things.
Pierrick Lilliu.  Pierrick Lilliu born 13 July 1986 is a French rock-singer living in Brittany and was born in Mulhouse Alsace from a Sardinian father. he appeared in the French reality show Nouvelle Star and placed 2nd against Myriam Abel on 12 May 2005.After the show he recorded his first single À coeur ouvert he first sang on stage on 19 May officially released on 30 May 2005.
Rafael Edholm.  John Rafael Edholm (born 8 May 1966 in Hägersten Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish actor film director screenwriter and model. He was married to Görel Crona 1997–2006 (with one son Gabriel) and after that married Daga Lamy until the spring of 2011.
Paul Brunelle.  For the Member of Parliament see Paule Brunelle.Paul Brunelle (June 10 1923 - November 24 1994) was a singer-songwriter and country guitarist of western Quebec. He is considered the pioneer of country in Quebec and the main source of influence on the artist who would popularize the genre Willie Lamothe.
Sonny Til.  Sonny Til (the stage name of Earlington Carl Tilghman) (August 18 1928 – December 9 1981) was an American singer. He was the lead singer of The Orioles a vocal group from Baltimore Maryland inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.By 1960 Til was the only original member left. He led the Orioles from its establishment until his death in 1981 of heart failure complicated by diabetes.
Juran (painter).  Juran (Chinese: 巨然; Wade–Giles: Chü-jan) (fl. 10th century) was a Chinese landscape painter of the late Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and early Northern Song periods.Very little is known about Juran's life and not even his family name is known (Juran is his Buddhist name). He was a native of Chiang-Ning and worked at the Southern Tang court in Jinling (today Nanjing). Around 975 Li Houzhu the ruler of Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song dynasty.
Marc Johnson (musician).  Marc Alan Johnson (born 21 October 1953 in Omaha Nebraska USA) is an American jazz musician (double bass) composer and band leader married to the Brazilian jazz singer and pianist Eliane Elias. Johnson was born in Nebraska but grew up in Texas.
Jocelyn Herbert.  Jocelyn Herbert RDI (22 February 1917 – 6 May 2003) was a highly influential British stage designer.
Da Grin.  Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun also known as Dagrin (21 October 1987 – 22 April 2010) was an award winning Nigerian rapper from Ogun Nigeria. A film of his life entitled Ghetto Dreamz was released in April 2011.
Alexander von Schlippenbach.  Alexander von Schlippenbach (sometimes referred to as Alex von Schlippenbach) (born 7 April 1938 in Berlin) is a German jazz pianist and composer.
Jackie Martling.  John Coger Jackie Martling Jr. (born February 14 1948) is an American comedian comedy writer and radio personality. He is best known for being a writer on The Howard Stern Show from 1983 to 2001.
Mike Noble.  Mike Noble is a British comic artist and illustrator born in Woodford 17 September 1930. He is best known for drawing strips like Fireball XL5 for TV Century 21.
Rhea Carmi.  Rhea Carmi (Hebrew: ברוריה כרמי born 1942) (variant name: Bruria Carmi) is an Israeli American abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist.
Carla Liesching.  Carla Liesching (born 1985) is an artist from Johannesburg South Africa based in New York City. Her work investigates human relationships to structure particularly ideological shifts in geographic organization and narrative. Liesching’s practice addresses conceptions of self in relation to place movement distance and belonging.
Mayaula Mayoni.  Mayaula Mayoni (1945 - 2010) was a soukous recording artist composer and vocalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz led by François Luambo Makiadi which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Christer Sjögren.  Christer Sjögren born 6 April 1950 in Hagfors Sweden is a Swedish dansband and rock singer.
Kari Kuivalainen.  Kari Kuivalainen (born 1961) is a Finnish singer-songwriter best known for his participation in the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest.Kuivalainen was primarily a composer rather than a singer and in 1985 he submitted his song Haaveissa vainko oot mun? (Am I Only Dreaming You?) to the Finnish Eurovision selection where it was performed by Finland's 1981 Eurovision entrant Riki Sorsa and finished second.In 1986 he entered another song Päivä kahden ihmisen which was originally intended for singer Kaija Koo. 
Dominique Barbéris.  Dominique Barberis born in 1958 is a French novelist author of literary studies and university professor specialist in stylistics and writing workshops.
Celina Ree.  Celina Ree is a Danish singer and songwriter.Her first single Kortslutning (Short circuits) was released in the summer of 2008 and enjoyed frequent airplay on several Danish radio stations. Her debut album Kortslutning was released October 6 2008. She is also featured in the 2010 song Land's End by the band Star*Rats with vocals in English.
Katrina Carlson.  Katrina Carlson is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
Gauhar Jaan.  Gauhar Jaan (26 June 1873–17 January 1930) was an Indian singer and dancer (or tawaif) from Calcutta. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India and released by Gramophone Company of India.
Jeremy Russell.  Jeremy Russell (August 31 1944 – March 8 2005) also known as Jerry Russell was a co-founder with Eric Albronda of US rock band Blue Cheer. Russell and Albronda were music aficionados who organized the band and provided initial financing. After Blue Cheer Jeremy worked for several music studios in London during the 1970s. Upon returning to the United States he worked at the Double H ranch which had been built by Mr.
Daphne Phelps.  Daphne Phelps (23 June 1911 – 30 November 2005) was a British writer who spent most of her life in Taormina Sicily. She lived in Casa Cuseni an elegant villa designed and built by her uncle the industrialist Robert Kitson in 1905 and over the years she entertained numerous writer and artist friends including Bertrand Russell Henry Faulkner Roald Dahl and Tennessee Williams.
Louis Ferron.  Louis Ferron (born Karl Heinz Beckering; 4 February 1942 – 26 August 2005) was a Dutch novelist and poet.
Ann M. Martin.  Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12 1955) is an American children's author.Ann Martin grew up in Princeton New Jersey with her parents and her younger sister Jane. After graduating from Smith College Martin became a teacher and then an editor of children's books; she is now a full-time writer.Martin finds the ideas for her books from many different sources; some are based on personal experiences while others are based on childhood memories and feelings.
Stanisław Lem.  Stanisław Lem (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf ˈlɛm] ; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction philosophy and satire. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris which has been made into a feature film three times. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon said that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
Craig Harrison (writer).  Craig Harrison (born 1942 in Leeds Yorkshire) is a retired lecturer author playwright and scriptwriter probably best known for novel The Quiet Earth. Harrison's output has ranged widely from science fiction to junior fiction to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were published first in his adopted home of New Zealand. The end-of-the-world tale The Quiet Earth was shortlisted for New Zealand Book of the Year in 1982.
Justin Edwards (actor).  Justin Edwards (born 1972) is an English actor and writer. He is married to comedian Lucy Porter and they have two children.
Mayako Nigo.  Mayako Nigo (仁後真耶子 Nigo Mayako born December 2 1979 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise
Emit Snake-Beings.  Emit Snake-Beings (aka Snakebeings) (born 13 December 1967) is a New Zealand multi-media visual artist and Sound artist who works in Kinetic art Sacred art sculpture noise music and Underground film and is currently residing in Auckland New Zealand.
Theodore Jasper.  Theodore Jasper (13 July 1814 Prussia – 6 June 1897 Columbus Ohio) was a portrait painter and photographic colorist active in Columbus Ohio from circa 1866 to 1883. From the 1840s to the 1860s he worked in New York and Connecticut (Haverstock 2000). His paintings formed the basis for Studer's Popular Ornithology a late 19th-century work that had several editions with chromolithographic copies of Jasper's art.
Christine Wallace.  Christine Wallace (born 1960) is an Australian political journalist and biographer. She is married to former Chief of staff to Kim Beazley Michael Costello AO.
Cees Nooteboom.  Cees Nooteboom (born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist poet and journalist. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.
Doug Beck.  Doug Beck is an American composer producer music supervisor keyboardist and songwriter.
Eddie Hardin.  Eddie Hardin (born 19 February 1949 London) is an English rock pianist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his associations with the Spencer Davis Group Axis Point also Hardin and York. Hardin along with the drummer Pete York left the Spencer Davis Group on 26 October 1968 due to 'differences over musical policy'.
Joan McCall.  Joan McCall (born January 31 1943 in Kentucky) is an American actress screenwriter and minister. Her first film roles were in the 1974 horror/adventure hit Devil Times Five and Grizzly.
General Woo.  Srđan Ćuk (born November 17 1977) known better by his stage name General Woo is a Croatian rapper.He began his career in 1994. He is currently signed to Aquarius Records. In 1999 he was part of one of the first successful rap acts in Croatia Tram 11.General Woo was born in and lives in Vukovar where he also started organizing an open-air hip-hop festival in 2007.He hosts a Hip-Hop radio station called Blackout Radio Vukovar in his home town of Vukovar.
Battista del Moro.  Battista del Moro (1512- after 1568) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona as well as in Mantua and Venice.This artists is referred to by various names including Battista D’Agnolo Veronese by Filippo Baldinucci and Giorgio Vasari or by Battista Angolo del Moro (commonly called Angeli and occasionally Angelo and Agnolo). He was a scholar of Francesco Torbido called Il Moro whose daughter he married and whose name he added to his own.
Bryan Carrigan.  Bryan Carrigan is an American music producer engineer and electronic musician that has been involved in the production of studio albums and film scores. Carrigan is also known for serving multiple roles in the recording studio as music editor programming and sound design.
Arcabas.  Jean-Marie Pirot (Trémery1926) known as Arcabas a name given by his pupils is a French contemporary sacred artist. He studied in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris and taught in the École des Beaux-Arts of Grenoble. He became known for his works in Saint-Hugues-de-Chartreuse church. From 1969 to 1972 he was appointed guest artist by the Canadian government and was a professor of the University of Ottawa where he created «l’atelier collectif expérimental».
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan.  Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan (pseudonym Norreys Connell) (29 April 1874 - 18 June 1948) was an Irish dramatist and novelist.He was born in Dublin and educated at Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College. He had intended a military career until he suffered a spinal injury in a fall from a horse He moved to London at the age of 16 to pursue a career as an actor and dramatist. His first book was In the Green Park (1894).
George S. Bolster.  George S. Bolster (1913–1989) was an American photographer from Saratoga Springs New York. Bolster is noted as the creator of the George S. Bolster Collection of 375000 negatives chiefly from the Saratoga Springs area from the period 1855–1980 taken by himself and other photographers. The collection is now in the Saratoga Springs History Museum.Bolster was born in Saratoga Springs in 1913 and exhibited an early interest in photography. He graduated from St.
James F. Ingalls.  James F. Ingalls is a respected and prolific lighting designer who has worked extensively on Broadway in London and at many regional theaters including Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera Playwrights Horizons Goodman Theatre La Jolla Playhouse and Steppenwolf. His credits also include various ballet companies and both national and international opera.Ingalls graduated from Yale School of Drama with a degree in stage management.
Simon Scarrow.  Simon Scarrow is a UK-based author born in Nigeria and now based in Norfolk. He completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue and then went into teaching as a lecturer firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form College then at City College Norwich.
Anastasia Prikhodko.  Anastasia Konstantinovna Prikhodko (Ukrainian: Анастасия Костянтинівна Приходько; born on April 21 1987) is a Ukrainian folk rock and traditional pop singer known for her deep contralto. She won the Russian Star Factory contest in 2007. Prikhodko represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 on May 16 2009 in Moscow finishing at the 11th position.
Booker T. Laury.  Booker T. Laury (September 2 1914 – September 23 1995) was an American boogie-woogie blues gospel and jazz pianist and singer. Over his lengthy career Laury worked with various musicians including Memphis Slim and Mose Vinson. He appeared in two films but did not record his debut album until he was almost eighty years of age.
Carlo Domeniconi.  Carlo Domeniconi (born 1947) is an Italian guitarist and composer known as a concert artist in both the classical and jazz idioms. Born in Cesena Italy he received his first instruction with Carmen Lenzi Mozzani at the age of 13. By age 17 he had received his diploma from the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro.In 1966 Domeniconi left Italy for West Berlin where he studied composition at the University of Music (later The Berlin University of the Arts).
Dj Iroc.  Anthony Angelo better known as DJ Iroc is an American DJ and Producer from The Bronx New York and co-founder of the DJ groups Amerika's Most Wanted DJ's and Europe's Most Wanted DJs. DJ Iroc has performed on many world tours including touring with Alicia Keys and currently co-hosts 5 radio shows on Jamz 96.3 FM.
Bob Oschack.  Bob Oschack is a comedian from Germantown Tennessee. He currently lives in Orlando Florida and was a reporter for NBC's iVillage Live.Before the program was revamped as In the Loop with iVillage and moved to Chicago he was the only reporter on the original show that did his segment inside the park of Universal Orlando Islands of Adventure.
B. E. Taylor.  B.E. Taylor (born William Edward Taylor 1954 in Aliquippa Pennsylvania U.S.) was the lead singer of the pop rock band B.E Taylor Group and is currently a solo artist.During his solo career B.E has recorded 5 albums and developed a following in the adult contemporary market with his annual Christmas tours. He has two brothers named David A. Taylor Dan Taylor and three nieces and three nephews.
Lady Dorothy Mills.  Lady Dorothy Rachel Melissa Walpole Mills (born 11 March 1896 in London England; died 4 December 1959 in Brighton England) was an author of both novels and accounts of her many travels and explorations.
Annette Curtis Klause.  Annette Curtis Klause (born June 20 1953) is an American writer and librarian specializing in young adult fiction. She is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County Maryland. Born in Bristol England she now lives in Hyattsville Maryland with her husband Mark and their cats. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland College Park.
Ron Levy.  Ron Levy (born Reuvin Zev ben Yehoshua Ha Levi May 29 1951) is an American electric blues musician and composer.Levy was born in Cambridge Massachusetts United States. He primarily plays piano and organ. Levy grew up in Brookline MA and began playing the piano after seeing Ray Charles in concert at age 13. He later switched to playing a Hammond organ. After gaining experience playing in Boston nightclubs Levy was hired by Albert King in 1968.
Vincent Desiderio.  Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter. He is currently a senior critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. He lives in Sleepy Hollow New York and works in Sleepy Hollow.Desiderio was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Desiderio received a BA in fine art and art history from Haverford College in 1977.
Jim Chim.  Jim Chim Sui-man (Chinese: 詹瑞文; pinyin: Zhān Ruìwén; born 1965) is a Hong Kong-based stage actor and comedian.
Robert Greenberg.  Robert M. Greenberg (born April 18 1954) is an American composer pianist and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn New York. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Teaching Company.
Philippa Hanna.  Philippa Hanna (born 29 March 1984) is a British singer-songwriter from Sheffield England. She has worked in a variety of musical styles but is most associated with the contemporary Christian music genre.
John Milton Mackie.  John Milton Mackie (born in Wareham Massachusetts 19 December 1813; died in Great Barrington Massachusetts 27 July 1894) was a United States writer who specialized in topics from German history and literature.
Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns.  Canon Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns (previously Leonard Elliott Binns) (18 September 1885–1963) was an English historian and theologian whose works covered a broad range of topics in English and Western church history as well as the history of the Biblical era.Born at Manchester he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Emmanuel College Cambridge.
Errol Holt.  Errol Holt (born c.1959) also known as Errol Carter and by his nickname Flabba is a Jamaican bass guitar player who was a member of The Morwells and the Roots Radics and has played on hundreds of Jamaican albums.
Mario Sanchez (artist).  Mario Sanchez (7 October 1908 – 28 April 2005) was a Cuban-American folk artist from the Key West cigar-making neighborhood known as Gato's Village. Self-taught Sanchez began working artistically in 1930 on media like paper bags and cedar wood boards. He would come to specialize in bas relief wood carvings that he would then paint over in vibrant colors usually depicting scenes of everyday Key West life.
Edward Thomas (poet).  Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh poet and essayist. He is commonly considered a war poet although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914. In 1915 he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the First World War and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917 soon after he arrived in France.
Robert Davidson (artist).  Robert Charles Davidson CM OBC (born 4 November 1946 in Hydaburg Alaska) is a Canadian artist of Haida heritage. Davidson’s Haida name is: Guud San Glans which means Eagle of The Dawn. He is a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture.
Pietro da Pietri.  Pietro de Pietri (1663 – 1708 1716 or 1721) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active mainly in Rome.Born in Rome he was a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Ghezzi then of Angelo Massarotti then assisted in the studio of Carlo Maratta. He is also known as Pietro Antonio da Pietri Pietro dei Pietri and Pietro de' Pietri. He painted an altarpiece of the Virgin with Saints for Santa Maria in Via Lata.
Nate Novarro.  Nate Novarro is the drummer for Cobra Starship.He has been a drummer since 1996 and used to work as a drum tech for the bands Hidden In Plain View and Armor For Sleep.
Temari Matsumoto.  Temari Matsumoto (松本 テマリ Matsumoto Temari) born April 8 is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator from Nagano Prefecture.She illustrates yaoi light novels and manga. She chose Temari as her pen name since the town she is from Matsumoto Nagano Prefecture is known for making temari.
Jeph Jacques.  Jeffrey Paul Jeph Jacques (pronounced Jacks) (born June 17 1980) writes and illustrates the webcomic Questionable Content. He was born in Rockville Maryland and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music. He lives in Southampton Massachusetts with his former-wife and business manager Cristi (they announced their amicable separation on 4 Jan 2014). He also has a younger brother Justin.
Ibn al-Bawwab.  Ibn al-Bawwāb was a Persian calligrapher and illuminator who lived during the time of the Buyid dynasty. He most likely died around 1022 AD in Baghdad.
Sarabeth Tucek.  Sarabeth Tucek is an American singer and songwriter. Her self-titled first album was released in 2007 with a second album Get Well Soon in 2011.
Scott Devours.  Scott Devours (born December 15 1966) is an American drummer and songwriter based in Long Beach California. Devours has played drums for the post-grunge bands Oleander IMA Robot and Long Beach bands like Speaker and Shave worked on over thirty albums and toured with a number of well-known artists including The Who.
Russel Hobbs.  Russel Hobbs (born 3 June 1975) is a fictional musician and member of the virtual band Gorillaz. He provides the drums for the band. He like all other Gorillaz members was created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
Kara Williamson-Tualatai.  Kara Williamson-Tualatai (also known as Kara her birth name Kara Williamson or her married name Kara Tualatai) is a Christian pop singer who has performed on her own and been in two trios (Three Strand and Prelude). In her solo career she has had two albums her self-titled Kara in 2002 and Undisguised under Kara Williamson in 2005. In 2007 she released Learn To Fly with Rachel Hockett and Amanda Omartian as the trio Prelude.
Seth Walker.  Seth Walker (born 1974) is an American electric blues singer guitarist and songwriter. He has released seven albums to date. Walker's musical genres include Americana and jazz. His 2009 album Leap of Faith peaked at number 2 in the US Billboard Top Blues Album chart.Delbert McClinton remarked the first time I heard Seth Walker at a small club in Nashville I was impressed like I haven't been impressed in 30 years with performance presence and great songs.
Levi S. Peterson.  Levi Savage Peterson (born 1933) is a Mormon biographer essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks his own autobiography and his novel TheBackslider standard for the contemporary Mormon novel. He was born and reared in the Mormon community of Snowflake Arizona and is an emeritus professor of English at Weber State University.
Colleen Peterson.  Colleen Susan Peterson (November 14 1950 - October 9 1996) was a Canadian country and folk singer who performed both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Quartette.
Diesel Dahl.  Morten Diesel Dahl (born 19 June 1959 in Trondheim Norway) is the drummer and co-founder of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.He started playing the drums at the age of 15 and played in bands like Burn Edge and Hotlips before he formed TNT together with vocalist Dag Ingebrigtsen in 1982. Dahl played on the first three TNT albums and co-wrote their biggest hit 10000 Lovers (In One) before he decided to quit in October 1987.
Dany Brillant.  Daniel Cohen-Biran better known as Dany Brillant (born in Tunis Tunisia on 28 December 1965) is a Tunisian-Jewish-French vocalist.Born in Tunis his parents immigrated to France while he was a newborn infant. They settled in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois near Paris. His uncle Nathan was a famous luth player and interpreter of oriental music. At age 12 Dany Brilliant's family moved to Paris and at 14 his grandfather gave him a guitar.
Tommaso Gherardini.  Tommaso Gherardini' (Florence December 21 1715 - 1797) was an Italian painter mainly of Rococo fresco decorations.He was a pupil of Vincenzo Meucci in Florence. He painted a hall of the Gallery of the Uffizi and also in the Imperial palace of Vienna
Marius Bercea.  Marius Bercea (born 1979) is a Romanian contemporary artist.
Troy Carter (music industry).  Troy Carter is an American music manager who is the founder chairman and CEO of Coalition Media Group a talent management and full-service film and television production company. Born and raised in West Philadelphia Pennsylvania Carter began his career in the music industry working for companies such as Overbrook Entertainment and Bad Boy Records eventually co-founding his own management company Erving Wonder.
Frederick Sutermeister.  Frederick Sutermeister (29 January 1873 in Aarau – 16 July 1934) was a Swiss theologian and pastor.
Frank Petley.  Frank Petley (1872–1945) was a British actor of the silent era.
Duke Ellington.  Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (April 29 1899 – May 24 1974) was an American composer pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. His career spanned over 50 years leading his orchestra from 1923 until he died.Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz Ellington himself embraced the phrase beyond category as a liberating principle and referred his music to the more general category of American Music rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.
John Jay Chapman.  John Jay Chapman (March 2 1862 – November 4 1933) was an American author.
Ultra Naté.  Ultra Naté (born March 20 1968) is an American house music dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as Free and If You Could Read My Mind as part of Stars on 54 and Automatic.Virtually all of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Dimitry Markevitch.  Dimitry Markevitch (1923–2002) was a Russian concert cellist researcher teacher and musicologist. He studied under Gregor Piatigorsky and founded the Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales (IHEM) in Switzerland.
Brett Breeding.  Brett Breeding (June 13 1961 in Wilmington Delaware) is an American comic book artist who was active in the industry in the 1980s and 1990s primarily as an inker. He is most well known for his work on the DC Comics character Superman.A freelancer Breeding worked for both DC and Marvel Comics during his career penciling covers and stories here and there but mostly focusing on finish inking over breakdown layouts.
Ralph Moore.  Ralph Moore (born December 24 1956) is a jazz saxophonist.
Skip Battin.  Clyde Skip Battin (February 18 1934 – July 6 2003) was an American singer-songwriter performer and recording artist. He is best remembered as a member of The Byrds the New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Flying Burrito Brothers. While considered to be a great bass player songwriter and vocalist he generally joined bands after their most successful periods.Battin was born in Gallipolis Ohio.
Allah Made Me Funny.  Allah Made Me Funny are an American stand-up comedy troupe consisting of Bryant Preacher Moss Azhar Usman and Azeem Muhammad who was later replaced by Mohammed Mo Amer. They are the longest artistic collective of Muslim comic performers in the world.
Vito Picone.  Vito Picone (born March 20 1941) is the lead singer of The Elegants and along with Jimmy Mochella is a remaining original member. He has also played bit parts in Goodfellas Analyze This and The Sopranos.He was born in and has lived most of his life in South Beach Staten Island New York.During the 1990s he managed Reparata and the Delrons. For the past twenty two years he has hosted Let the Good Times Roll on Staten Island Cable a nostalgia talk/variety music show.
Celeste Woss y Gil.  Celeste Woss y Gil (1890–1985) was a painter from the Dominican Republic known primarily for her female portraits and nudes.
John Freeman (author).  John Freeman (born 1974) is a writer and a literary critic. He was the editor of Granta until 2013 the former president of the National Book Critics Circle and his writing has appeared in almost 200 English-language publications around the world including the New York Times Book Review the Los Angeles Times The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.His first book The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox was published in 2009.
Guy Gerber.  Guy Gerber (born in 1974 in Holon near Tel Aviv) is an electronic DJ/producer and musician who specializes in making music with synthesizers and live instrumentation in the techno scene and beyond.
Orlan.  Orlan (born Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) is a French artist born May 30 1947 in Saint-Étienne Loire. She adopted the name Orlan in 1971 which she always writes in capital letters : ORLAN. She lives and works in Los Angeles New York and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Luise Mühlbach.  Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814 Neubrandenburg – 1873) a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction which enjoyed a wide popularity that was short-lived. Frederick the Great and His Court (German: Friedrich der Grosse und sein Hof) and many of her other novels have been translated into English.
Maury Laws.  Maury Laws (born December 6 1923 in Burlington North Carolina) is an American television and film composer. In his teens Laws performed in local country jazz and dance bands as a singer and guitarist in his home state of North Carolina. His career was put on hold during World War II in which he served in the Army. In 1964 he was hired as music director for the television production company now known as Rankin/Bass a post which he held for roughly 20 years.
Celia Thaxter.  Celia Laighton Thaxter (June 29 1835 – August 25 1894) was an American writer of poetry and stories. She was born in Portsmouth New Hampshire.
Anuradha Sharma Pujari.  Anuradha Sharma Pujari (Assamese: অনুৰাধা শৰ্মা পূজাৰী) (born 1964) is an influential Assamese journalist and author. She is the editor of Sadin and Satsori. Her contributions to Assamese literature include fiction and essays. She lives in Panjabari Guwahati. Her first novel is Hriday Ek Bigyapan which became popular among the youth of Assam.
Riria.  Riria Baba (馬場 梨里杏 Baba Riria born (1993-12-18)December 18 1993 in Tokyo) known professionally as Riria (梨里杏) is a Japanese actress belonging to LesPros Entertainment. In 2011 she won the Playboy Grand Prix prize at the third Gravure Japan awards. In 2014 she was given the role of Mio ToQ 3 in the Super Sentai series' 38th incarnation Ressha Sentai ToQger. She also appears in the film duology/TV miniseries Zero: Black Blood as the Makai Priestess Yuna.
Scott William Carter.  Scott William Carter is an American fiction writer. He writes in multiple genres including fantasy mystery young adult and mainstream.
Annie Jack.  Annie L. Jack (1839 - 1912) (née Hayr) was the first Canadian professional woman garden writer. Born in Northamptonshire England to John Hayr on 1 Jan 1839. In 1852 Annie Linda Hayr moved to Canada from Troy New York where she had attended Miss Williard`s Academy. She married the Scottish-born fruit farmer Robert Jack and settled at his farm called Hillside in Chateauguay Quebec.
Ed Wynne (guitarist).  Edward Ed Wynne (born 3 June 1961 in Wandsworth London) is an English guitarist and keyboardist best known as a founding member principal composer and the only constant member of psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles.
Woolly Wolstenholme.  Stuart John Wolstenholme (15 April 1947 – 13 December 2010) usually known as Woolly Wolstenholme was vocalist and keyboard player with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest.
Morgan Doctor.  Morgan Doctor is an American-Canadian musician who is a solo artist session player and private drum teacher living in Toronto Ontario.
Laurika Rauch.  Laurika Rauch (born 1 November 1950 in Cape Town) is a South African singer who sings in the Afrikaans as well as English language. She had a hit single in 1979 with Kinders van die Wind (Children of the Wind) written by Koos du Plessis. The song featured prominently in the Afrikaans television series Phoenix & Kie in the late seventies.
Fred Reed.  Fred Reed (born 1945 in Crumpler West Virginia) is a writer and was formerly a technology columnist for The Washington Times. He has also written for The American Conservative and LewRockwell.com. Aditionally he has spoken at one American Renaissance conference and currently writes for Taki's Magazine. A former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Reed is a police writer and an occasional war correspondent. He currently writes weekly columns for the website Fred on Everything.
Grażyna Auguścik.  Grażyna Auguścik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist composer and arranger. In her individualistic and international in character singing repertoire she frequently utilizes Polish folk music Latin American music and Klezmer music.
Victorin de Joncières.  Félix-Ludger Rossignol known as Victorin de Joncières (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903) was a French composer and music critic.
Julie Umerle.  Julie Umerle is an abstract painter and contemporary visual artist based in the United Kingdom. She lives and works in London.
Francis Prevost.  Harry Francis Prevost Battersby (1862–1949) was a poet novelist and journalist who published under the name Francis Prevost.
Richard Elliot.  Richard Elliot (born January 16 1960 in Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish-born saxophone player.He was a member of the funk band Tower of Power playing tenor sax for 5 years during the 1980s. He also worked on Stacy Lattisaw's 1986 album Take Me All The Way. His solo career took off when he remade the Percy Sledge classic When a Man Loves a Woman (which had also been remade by Michael Bolton).
Jason Sturgeon.  Jason Sturgeon is an American country music artist born and raised in Petersburg Indiana. He has released two albums via Toolpusher Records.
Sunshine Anderson.  Sunshine Anderson (born June 7 1974) is a female American R&B and soul singer and songwriter.
Yui Yokoyama.  Yui Yokoyama (横山由依 Yokoyama Yui born December 8 1992 in Kyoto) is a singer actress and member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 in which she serves as the captain of Team A. She is a former member of AKB48 sister group NMB48. She debuted in 2010 in Team K and now is in Team A. Since 2011 Yokoyama is also a member of the group Not Yet.
Jim Holdaway.  Jim Holdaway (1927 – 1970) was a British illustrator who was famous for his illustrations of numerous comic strips. His most famous contributions was to the Modesty Blaise comics written by Peter O'Donnell.
Debi Sue Voorhees.  Debi Sue Voorhees (born July 28 1961) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Tina in the 1985 movie Friday the 13th: A New Beginning where coincidentally she has the same name as the main antagonist of the film Jason Voorhees.
Mark Simpson (journalist).  Mark Simpson is an English journalist writer and broadcaster specialising in popular culture media and masculinity. Simpson is the originator of the term and concept metrosexual. He has been described by one critic as the skinhead Oscar WildeSimpson has written for numerous publications around the world including The Times The Guardian Salon.com Arena Homme + GQ Style Vogues Hommes International The Independent on Sunday Têtu the Seattle Stranger and Dutch Playboy.
Butch Taylor.  Butch Taylor (born Clarence Francis Taylor on April 13 1961 in Shawsville Virginia) is a composer writer keyboardist and long time guest musician with Dave Matthews Band.Although not a formal member of the band he acted as a permanent sixth member of the group from 1998 until 2008 making contributions on both studio and live albums.
Kim Cascone.  Kim Cascone (December 21 1955) is an American composer of electronic music who is known for his releases in the ambient industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record company Silent Records.
Bo Caldwell.  Bo Caldwell (b. 1955) is the author of the national bestseller The Distant Land of My Father. She became popular after this book became the book of Silicon Valley Reads 2008. Her short fiction has been published in Ploughshares Story Epoch and other literary journals. A former Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University she currently lives in Northern California with her husband Ron Hansen and her two children.
Billy Graziadei.  Billy Graziadei (born July 28 1971) is the owner of Los Angeles based Firewater Studios the lead vocalist for Biohazard and the former guitarist for Suicide City. Graziadei also performed as part of the Roadrunner United project in 2005 as well as Blood for Blood in 2010.Additionally through his music Graziadei frequently speaks about the realities of inner city life in New York while promoting tolerance speaking out against racism and opposing drug abuse.
Marianne Faithfull.  Marianne Evelyn Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades.Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. During the first two-thirds of that decade she produced only two little-noticed studio albums. After a long commercial absence she returned late in 1979 with the highly acclaimed album Broken English.
Art Linson.  Art Linson (born 1942) is an American film producer director and screenwriter.Linson was born in Chicago Illinois.
Aloe Blacc.  Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born January 7 1979) better known as Aloe Blacc (/ˈæloʊ blæk/) is an American singer songwriter rapper and musician. He is best known for his singles I Need a Dollar UK number 1 single The Man and for writing and performing vocals on Avicii's Wake Me Up which charted at #1 in 22 countries.
Erik Honoré.  Erik Honoré (born 11 December 1966 in Kristiansand Norway) is a Norwegian writer musician record producer and engineer. As a musician he has collaborated with Jan Bang David Sylvian Brian Eno/Peter Schwalm Jon Hassell Nils Petter Molvær Arve Henriksen Sidsel Endresen Unni Wilhelmsen Eivind Aarset Claudia Scott Anne Grete Preus Savoy and produced all the albums from Velvet Belly.
Stevie Boi.  Stevie Boi is an American fashion designer and founder of the luxury eyewear line SB Shades. He currently resides in Baltimore. He designs and sells unisex eyewear and accessories on his website and in a few boutique stores.
Valerie Coleman.  Valerie Coleman (born Louisville Kentucky) is an American composer and flutist best known for her contributions to wind chamber music and for founding the wind quintet Imani Winds in 1997.
Yitzhak Katz.  Yitzhak Katz (May 19 1901 – 1991) was an Israeli civil servant and art critic active in all spheres of Israeli arts and culture.
Mark Harmon (musician).  Mark Harmon is an American record producer songwriter and bassist best known for his work with the rock group The 77s.Harmon and 77s lead singer Michael Roe collaborated on the instrumental releases DayDream and Orbis. Roe and Harmon also teamed up under the moniker 7&7iS to release an album titled Fun With Sound in 2004.Harmon also currently performs with Jimmy Pailer & the Prophets and is also a member of Mind(X).
Arthur Rigby (actor).  Arthur Turner (27 September 1900 – 25 April 1971) was an English actor.
Daniel Templon.  Daniel Templon is a French art contemporary and modern art dealer born in 1945. He founded in 1972 the bilingual contemporary art magazine art press with art critic and erotic biographer Catherine Millet.
Nicholas Bussmann.  Nicholas Bussmann is a composer and performer.He is a founder of the Love Song Competition which takes place every year in Berlin. Nicholas Bussmann has collaborated with Toshimaru Nakamura (Alles 3) and Martin Brandlmayr (Kapital band 1) amongst others.
Jean Thuillier.  Jean Thuillier is a French novelist and physician. He has written a number of books and has won the Prix Littré and the Prix Méditerranée among others.
David Horowitz.  David Joel Horowitz (born January 10 1939) is an American conservative writer. He is a founder and current president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center editor of FrontPage Magazine and director of Discover the Networks a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left.
Selma Burke.  Selma Hortense Burke (December 31 1900 – August 29 1995) was an American sculptor. She educated others in her passion of art she founded two art schools one in New York City and another in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Her art is on display in Washington D.C and North Carolina. Burke is best known for her bas relief of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Whitney Wolanin.  Whitney Wolanin (pronounced WHOA-Lan-in) born June 29 1990 (New York) is a singer and songwriter who also plays piano and drums. Her father Vincent is a wealthy developer (Wolanin Companies Ltd.) who also started TopNotch Entertainment in the late 1980s. Whitney records for her father's label TopNotch Records which she and her sister Victoria operate.
Guglielmo da Leoni.  Guglielmo da Leoni (1664 – c. 1740) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Parma. He was reputedly a pupil of Giulio Romano but he soon abandoned painting for engraving.
Ruslan Akhtakhanov.  Ruslan Akhtakhanov (Russian: Руслан Ахтаханов; c. 1953 – 16 November 2011) was a Chechen poet and academic.
Charles Catteau.  Charles Catteau (1880–1966) was a French Art Déco industrial designer.
Jazzy B.  Jaswinder Singh Bains more popularly known as Jazzy B is a Punjabi language Bhangra singer-songwriter. He was born on April 1 1976 in Durgapur Nawanshahr in tehsil of Jalandhar Punjab India. When he was 5 years old his family moved to Vancouver Canada. His siblings are Jujhar Singh Kandola Rimpy Bains Gaba Bains Roma and Goma. He now resides in Birmingham England. He has released 11 studio albums including two religious ones. He has collaborated on many tracks and two soundtracks.
Thomas de Zengotita.  Thomas de Zengotita (born c. 1944) is an author and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and teaches at the Dalton School and New York University. His most recent book is called Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It (2005). In 2010 he narrated a film directed by Adrian Grenier entitled Teenage Paparazzo. De Zengotita is also a contributor to the Huffington Post blog.
Léo Missir.  Léo Missir (1925–2009) was a French composer.
Dwight Pinkney.  Dwight Pinkney (born 1945) also known as Brother Dee is a Jamaican guitarist best known for his work as a session musician and as a member of Zap Pow and the Roots Radics who since 1999 has recorded as a solo artist.
Steven Claydon.  Steven Claydon (born 1969) is a sculptor and musician based in London.Claydon was born in London. He has performed and shown work internationally in exhibitions at Tate Modern in London Art Basel in Switzerland Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen in Düsseldorf and Portikus in Frankfurt.Claydon was also a member of the now defunct electronica band Add N to (X).
Bernard Chang.  Bernard Chang (born 1972 in Montreal Canada) is an Asian American artist/designer best known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins.  Jalacy Hawkins (July 18 1929 – February 12 2000) — known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins — was an American musician singer and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as I Put a Spell on You Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage making him an early pioneer of shock rock.
Jill Farren Phelps.  Jill Farren Phelps (born July 7 1950)[citation needed] is an American television producer. She is best known for her work with American soap operas having served as executive producer of Santa Barbara Another World Guiding Light One Life to Live and most notably General Hospital. She is currently serving as executive producer of The Young and the Restless.
Tejn (artist).  Tejn (born 1976) is a pseudonymous Danish artist who began his artistic work as a street artist in 2008 and now also exhibits in galleries.
R. C. Gorman.  Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26 1931 – November 3 2005) was a Native American artist of the Navajo Nation. Referred to as the Picasso of American Indian art by the New York Times his paintings are primarily of Native American women and characterized by fluid forms and vibrant colors though he also worked in sculpture ceramics and stone lithography. He was also an avid lover of cuisine authoring four cookbooks (with accompanying drawings) called Nudes and Food.
Ian Rogers (writer).  Ian Rogers (born October 17 1976) is a Canadian writer of supernatural and horror fiction. His debut collection Every House Is Haunted was the winner of the 2013 ReLit Award in the short fiction category.
Robert Lowery (musician).  Robert Lowery (born April 8 1931 Shula Arkansas United States) is an American blues singer and guitarist.
Dietrich Gruen.  Dietrich Gruen (February 22 1847 – April 10 1911) was a German born watchmaker who emigrated to the United States in the 1860s and later founded the Gruen watch Company.
Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak.  Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak (Russian: Дми́трий Нарки́сович Ма́мин-Сибиря́к) (October 25 1852 – November 2 1912) was a Russian author most famous for his novels and short stories about life in the Ural Mountains.
Lilian Josephine Pocock.  Lilian Josephine Pocock (1883–1974) was a stained glass artist who provided stained glass for a number of buildings including Ulverston Victoria High School The King's School and Ely Cathedral. She was also a theatrical costume designer book illustrator and watercolourist. In her later years failing eyesight prevented her from continuing her work in stained glass. After some years of retirement she died in 1974.
Angie Hart.  Angie Hart (born on 8 March 1972) is an Australian pop singer best known for her role as lead vocalist in the band Frente!.Hart was a founding member of Frente! in 1989. She is renowned for her delicate songcraft lyrics and her breathy vocals.
Bobby Smith (rhythm and blues singer).  Robert Bobby Smith (sometimes spelled Bobbie; April 10 1936 – March 16 2013) was an American R&B singer the principal lead singer of the classic Motown group The Spinners also known as the Detroit Spinners or the Motown Spinners throughout its history. The group was formed circa 1954 at Ferndale High School in Ferndale Michigan just north of the Detroit border.
Wassily Kandinsky.  Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (/kænˈdɪnski/; Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский Vasiliy Vasil’yevich Kandinskiy pronounced [vaˈsʲilʲɪj kɐnˈdʲinskʲɪj]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow studying law and economics.
Charlotte Johnson Wahl.  Charlotte Maria Offlow Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett first married name Johnson born 1943) is a British artist but better known as the mother of Boris Johnson Mayor of London.
Rich Burlew.  Rich Burlew (born September 1 1974) is an author game designer and graphic designer. He is best known for The Order of the Stick webcomic for which he was ranked No. 5 on ComixTalk's list of the Top 25 People in Webcomics for 2007. He has also written several works for Wizards of the Coast's game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). He owns and operates a small press publishing company Giant in the Playground which he formed in order to publish his comic work.
Ben Hanson.  Benjamin Samuel Hanson is a British actor best known for playing Bradley Bouncer Plakova in The Story of Tracy Beaker and Tony in Casualty. He has also been a presenter on the CBBC Channel with Ciaran Joyce.
Juan Tyrone Garcia.  Juan Tyrone Garcia (25 May 1950-14 May 1979) was an actor martial artist singer teacher and founder of the Mexican Judo concept. He is considered one of the most influential Mexican martial artists of the 20th century and a cultural icon.Garcia was born in Malibu California and was of Mexican heritage.
Verity Bargate.  Verity Eileen Bargate (1940 - 1981) was an English novelist and theatre director. In 1969 she co-founded the cutting-edge Soho Theatre Company later known as the Soho Theatre. She also wrote three novels including Tit for Tat.Her first husband was Soho Theatre co-founder Fred Proud. Her second husband till her death was the playwright and screenwriter Barrie Keeffe. She died of cancer at the age of 41.
Agnes Hewes.  Agnes Danforth Hewes (March 30 1874 – September 30 1963) was an American writer of children's literature three times a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal. Her early childhood overseas had a huge influence on her life and writing.
Ayumi Tsunematsu.  Ayumi Tsunematsu (恒松 あゆみ Tsunematsu Ayumi born September 26 1981 in Hyogo) is a Japanese voice actress.
Mihály Babits.  Mihály Babits (Hungarian: [mihaːj ˈbabit͡ʃ]; November 26 1883 – August 4 1941) was a Hungarian poet writer and translator.
Glen Buxton.  Glen Edward Buxton (November 10 1947 – October 19 1997) was an American musician and guitarist for the original Alice Cooper band. In 2003 Rolling Stone ranked Buxton number 90 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Bun B.  Bernard Freeman (born March 19 1973) professionally known by his stage name Bun B is an American rapper and was one half of the southern rap duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz). He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston Texas. He released his third official solo album Trill OG on August 3 2010 which received a 5 Mic Classic rating in The Source magazine - the first album in over five years to receive the honor.
Takahiro Konagawa.  Takahiro Konagawa (小名川 高弘 Konagawa Takahiro born November 30 1979) is a Japanese guitarist singer and musical composer from Kashiwa Chiba. He came out as a guitarist of Charcoal Filter in November 1999. While he is around as the leader of the band he has also performed as a solo singer since December 2003. His first solo album The first tears was released in July 2006.When Puffy AmiYumi recorded the song Tokyo I'm on My Way he played the guitar as an additional musician.
Cheon Sang-byeong.  Cheon Sang-byeong (천상병) was born (January 29 1930 - April 28 1993) in Japan and is a South Korean writer who overcame torture impotence and alcoholism.
William Stout.  William Stout (born September 18 1949) is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films doing everything from storyboard art to production design. He has designed theme parks and has worked in radio with the Firesign Theatre.
Eduardo González Viaña.  Eduardo González Viaña (born November 13 1941 in Chepén La Libertad Peru) is a writer and professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University.González Viaña earned a doctorate in Spanish language literature from the National University of Trujillo in Peru where he also earned a law degree. He moved to the United States in 1990 to become a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley.
Clive Sinclair (author).  Clive John Sinclair FRSL (born 19 February 1948) is a British author who has published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories including The Lady with the Laptop and Bedbugs.
Beto Furquim.  Beto Furquim is a Brazilian songwriter and singer born in Sao Paulo Brazil in 1964.
Đuro Tiljak.  Đuro Tiljak (1895-1965) was a Croatian artist writer and teacher. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and studied for some time in Moscow with Wassily Kandinsky. During the 1930s he was editor of the journal Culture (Kultura) and Writer (Književnik) magazine. For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Lavelle White.  Lavelle White (born July 3 1929) is an American Texas blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. After performing most of her adult lifetime White released three albums the first of which was issued in 1994 when she was aged 65.
Poornachandra Tejaswi.  Kuppali Puttappa Poornachandra Tejaswi (Kannada: ಕುಪ್ಪಳಿ ಪುಟ್ಟಪ್ಪ ಪೂರ್ಣಚಂದ್ರ ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ) (September 8 1938 – April 5 2007) was a prominent Kannada writer novelist photographer ornithologist publisher painter and environmentalist who made a great impression in the Navya period of Kannada literature and inaugurated the bandaya (protest literature) with his short-story collection Abachoorina Post Offisu.At early stages of his writing career Tejaswi wrote poems but later concentrated on short stories novels and essays. 
Jogesh Das.  Jogesh Das (Assamese: যোগেশ দাস; 1 April 1927 - 9 September 1999) is an eminent short-story writer as well as a novelist from Assam. He was born in 1927. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Prithivir Oxukh. He is also associated with many cultural organization including the Asom Sahitya Sabha.
Jean Despres.  Jean Despres (1903–1988) was a perfume industry businessman known for his work with Coty Inc. The French-born Jean Despres came to New York in 1921 working for Coty Inc. Starting as a shipping clerk he went on to become a travelling salesman covering thousands of miles on the Santa Fe Railroad across America to sell Coty perfumes and gift sets. He soon became a sales manager and in 1942 was appointed Executive Vice President of Coty Inc.
Tony Holland.  Anthony John Tony Holland (18 January 1940 – 28 November 2007) was an English television screenwriter best known as a writer and co-creator of the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Paul Hodson.  Paul Hodson is an English hard rock singer songwriter and musician.
2 Chainz.  Tauheed Epps (born September 12 1977) better known by his stage name 2 Chainz (formerly Tity Boi) is an American hip hop recording artist from College Park Georgia. He was first known for being one-half of the southern hip hop duo Playaz Circle alongside his longtime friend and fellow rapper Earl Dolla Boy Conyers.
Steven O'Donnell (actor).  Steven O'Donnell (born 19 May 1963 in Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire England) is an English actor.Before O'Donnell becoming an actor he spent five years working at Charing Cross Hospital as a Scientific Officer in a medical laboratory. He has appeared in several comedies with Rik Mayall including The Comic Strip and Bottom. and the film Guest House Paradiso.
Nicola Cornick.  Nicola Cornick (b. Yorkshire England) is a British writer of romance novels since 1998.She is a Membership Secretary for the Romantic Novelists' Association and critique manuscripts for aspiring authors via the RNA's New Writers' Scheme and also for the Romance Writers of America Beau Monde mentor scheme.
Valerio Evangelisti.  Valerio Evangelisti (born June 20 1952) is an Italian writer of science fiction fantasy historical novels and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquistor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamus trilogy all bestsellers translated into many languages. Some of his books are seen as part of the body of literary works known as the New Italian Epic.
Elsie Driggs.  Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12 1992 New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism and for her later floral and figurative watercolors pastels and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape.
Jill Carnes.  Jill Carnes is an Elephant Six-related musician and artist. She performs as Thimble Circus.
Dave Hole.  David Robert Dave Hole (born 30 March 1948 Heswall Cheshire United Kingdom) is an Australian slide guitarist known for his style of playing rock and roll and blues music. In 1990 he issued Short Fuse Blues which brought him to the attention of United States label Alligator Records. Two of his albums have appeared on Billboard Top Blues Albums Steel on Steel (1995) peaked at No. 13 and Ticket to Chicago (1997) reached No. 15.
Larry the Cable Guy.  Daniel Lawrence Dan Whitney (born February 17 1963) best known by his stage name and character Larry the Cable Guy is an American stand-up comedian actor voice actor and former radio personality.
Kenneth Walker (author).  Kenneth Macfarlane Walker (1882–1966) was a British author and urologist. Among many other books he wrote The Log of the Ark with Geoffrey Boumphrey in 1923 Life's Long Journey and A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching.
Manolo Escobar.  Manuel García Escobar (October 19 1931 – October 24 2013) better known as Manolo Escobar was a Spanish singer of Andalusian copla and other Spanish music. He was also an actor and performed in multiple musicals. Some of his most popular songs include El porompompero (1962) Mi carro (1969) La minifalda and Y viva España.
Felicitas Hoppe.  Felicitas Hoppe (born 22 December 1960 in Hamelin Lower Saxony) is a German writer.
Auguste Clésinger.  Auguste Clésinger (Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger; 22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter.
Frederic Porter Vinton.  Frederic Porter Vinton (January 29 1846 – May 19 1911) sometimes spelled Frederick was an American portrait painter.
Billie Carleton.  Billie Carleton (4 September 1896 – 28 November 1918) was an English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15 and was playing roles in the West End by age 18. She appeared in the hit musical The Boy (1917) which led to a starring role in The Freedom of the Seas in 1918. At the age of 22 she was found dead apparently of a drug overdose.
Germain Audran.  Germain Audran (1631–1710) was a French engraver.Audran who was born and died at Lyons was instructed by his uncle Charles in the art of engraving in Paris. His merit was considerable although very inferior to that of some others of his family. Germain had four sons Claude III Benoit I Jean and Louis.
Big Bill Morganfield.  William Big Bill Morganfield (born June 19 1956) is an American blues singer and guitarist who is the son of Muddy Waters.
Jon Ingold.  Jon Ingold (born 1981) is a British author of interactive fiction and co-founder of inkle a company that makes interactive stories. His interactive fiction has frequently been nominated for XYZZY Awards and has won on multiple occasions including Best Game Best Story and Best Setting awards for All Roads in 2001.
Christine Warren.  Christine Warren is an USA Today and New York Times bestselling American author of romance novels. She is the author of The Others series. Her books are published through St. Martin’s Press.
Jacqueline Carey.  Jacqueline Carey (born 1964) is an American author and novelist primarily of fantasy fiction.
Lally Bowers.  Kathleen Lally Bowers (born 21 January 1914 Oldham Lancashire – died 18 July 1984 London) was an English actress.Bowers was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Oldham and worked as a secretary before walking-on and understudying at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Johann Valentin Görner.  Johann Valentin Görner (27 February 1702 – 30 July(?) 1762) was a German composer. He was born in Penig the brother of organist Johann Gottlieb Görner. He died aged 60 in Hamburg.
Sándor Szabó (musician).  Sándor Szabó is a Yugoslavian-educated pianist organist music director and conductor. He is notable for performing as a concert artist throughout Europe and North America and he has led orchestras and choirs to perform in major concert halls and cathedrals on both continents. He won prizes in national piano competitions in Yugoslavia and has performed on radio and television. He was assistant conductor and accompanist at the Serbian National Opera Theatre in Belgrade.
Eevil Stöö.  Tommi Liikka professionally known as Eevil Stöö is a Finnish rapper. In addition to his solo work he is also one half of the rap duo Siniset Punaiset Miehet.
Bob Layton.  Bob Layton (born 1953) is an American comic book artist writer and editor notable for his work on Marvel Comics titles such as Iron Man and Hercules and for co-founding Valiant Comics with Jim Shooter.
Gabriele Caliari.  Gabriele Caliari (1568–1631) was an Italian of the late-Renaissance period. He was the eldest son of Paolo Veronese was born in 1568 and died of the plague. After training in the workshop of his father he seems to have painted few pictures of his own and devoted himself chiefly to commerce.
Dave King (musician).  Dave King (born 11 December 1961 Dublin Ireland) is an Irish vocalist primary writer and lyricist for the Irish-American band Flogging Molly. He was previously well-known as the lead singer for the 1980s hard rock band Fastway.
Harry Lucey.  Harry Lucey (November 13 1913 – August 28 1984) was an American comic artist best known for his work in MLJ and Archie Comics. He was the primary artist on Archie the company's flagship title from the late '50s through the mid-'70s.Lucey who graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1935 worked on both adventure and humor titles for MLJ including acting as the regular artist on The Hangman before being drafted into the United States Army.
Giuseppe Nicolini (writer).  Giuseppe Nicolini (28 October 1788 – 26 August 1855) was an Italian poet literary critic and politician active in the risorgimento the nineteenth century nationalist movement that led to the creation of Italy as a unified nation. Nicolini wrote for the progressive periodical Il Conciliatore composed poetry and published prose as well. He translated much of Lord Byron's poetry into Italian and wrote one of the earliest biographies of Byron.
Mark Richardson (musician).  Mark Richardson (born 18 May 1970 Leeds) is an English drummer of the UK rock band Skunk Anansie and Little Angels and formerly of Feeder.
Ben Quilty.  Ben Quilty (born 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who won the 2011 Archibald Prize.
Martin Cruz Smith.  Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3 1942) is an American mystery novelist.
Rirkrit Tiravanija.  Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai: ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช pronunciation: [rɯk-rit tira-wanit] or Tea-rah-vah-nit) is a contemporary artist residing in New York Berlin and Chiang Mai. He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals cooking reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work.
John Kirkpatrick (musician).  John Kirkpatrick (born 1947) is an English player of free reed instruments.
Chris Austin.  Chris Austin (born February 24 1964 in Boone North Carolina – March 16 1991 in San Diego California) was a male country music singer. Austin was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988 and charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His highest-charting single Blues Stay Away from Me was included on the 1989 compilation album New Tradition Sings the Old Tradition.
Resurrección María de Azkue.  Resurrección María de Azkue (5 August 1864 – 9 November 1951) was an influential Basque priest musician poet writer sailor and academic. He made several major contributions to the study of the Basque language and was the first head of the Euskaltzaindia the Academy of the Basque Language.
Joey Mellen.  Joseph Joey Mellen (born September 1939) is the British-born author of Bore Hole a book about his attempts at self-trepanation influenced by Bart Huges and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding. Mellen then filmed Amanda's own self-trepanation for a documentary entitled Heartbeat in the Brain.Mellen and Feilding lived together from late 1960s to the early 1990.
Ivy Levan.  Ivy Levan is an American pop recording artist model and actress from Bentonville Arkansas. Ivy is currently signed to Cherrytree Records part of Interscope Records. Ivy starred and made her first acting debut in the 2010 film Drop Dead Gorgeous. Ivy moved to Los Angeles at age 16 to pursue a music career. Levan was featured on MTVu's Freshman segment securing the winning spot for her video 'Hang Forever'.
Keiko Takeshita.  Keiko Takeshita (竹下景子 Takeshita Keiko; born on September 15 1953 in Higashi-ku Nagoya Japan) is a Japanese actress. She starred in the Japanese version of From Up on Poppy Hill as Hana Matsuzaki.
Sinéad Lohan.  Sinéad Lohan is an Irish singer and songwriter of folk music and folk-inspired popular music.A native of Cork Lohan first came to prominence thanks to the inclusion of her song Sailing By on the second instalment of the hugely successful A Woman's Heart collection.She has released two albums Who Do You Think I Am in 1995 which scored several radio hits in Ireland and No Mermaid in 1998 which enjoyed moderate success in Ireland the U.K. and the U.S..
J. Rawls.  Jason Rawls better known as J. Rawls is an American underground hip hop producer based in Columbus Ohio.
Abel Herzberg.  Abel Jacob Herzberg (born 17 September 1893 in Amsterdam – died 19 May 1989 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer writer and poet. He wrote many plays and novels focused mainly on Biblical characters. His works include Tweestromenland Kroniek der Jodenvervolging and Om een lepel soep. Herzberg was a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 11 January 1944 to 10 April 1945.
Friedrich Eibner.  Friedrich Eibner (1826–1877) a German painter of architectural subjects was born at Hilpoltstein. He studied after the works of Heinrich Schönfeld and travelled in Bavaria and afterwards in Germany France Upper Italy and Spain making a large number of water-colour drawings of the places he visited. The Album for the Prince Metschersky with whom he travelled in Spain in 1860–61 may be considered his best work. He died at Munich in 1877.
Jeff Hughell.  Jeff Hughell is the former bassist for Asylum Vile and Brain Drill and the current bassist for Six Feet Under and Reciprocal. He has also released a solo album I Came To Hate and is currently working on a second solo release.Hughell is currently endorsed by Warwick basses Seymour Duncan pickups and Dean Markley strings. He is a prominent user of 7 string basses.
Chris Maslanka.  Christopher M. Maslanka (born 27 October 1954) is a British writer and broadcaster specialising in puzzles and problem solving.He was born in Clapham London but was brought up by his uncle and aunt in Lowdham Nottingham.
Shane White.  Shane White (born 1970) is an American illustrator comic book writer/artist and author from Massena New York.
Margaret Hoover.  Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11 1977) is a political commentator political strategist media personality gay rights activist and author. She is the author of the book American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party published by Crown Forum in July 2011.
Andrea Martin (musician).  Andrea Monica Martin is an American R&B singer songwriter and producer.She is primarily known for writing hit songs (often with longtime partner Ivan Matias) for artists like Toni Braxton (I Love Me Some Him) Monica (Before You Walk Out of My Life) Angie Stone (Wish I Didn't Miss You) En Vogue (Don't Let Go (Love)) SWV (You're the One) and Leona Lewis (Better in Time).
Chieh Yuan.  Chieh Yuan (15 March 1945 - 16 November 1977) was an actor and martial artist. He was an actor for Shaw Brothers and in 1972 he was cast in Bruce Lee's The Game of Death. Chieh died in 1977 from cerebral edema the same cause to Bruce Lee's death and at age 32 the same age at which Bruce Lee had died.
Evelyn Waugh.  Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ˈɑːθə ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən wɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) known as Evelyn Waugh was an English writer of novels biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934) his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour (1952–61).
Aubrey O'Day.  Aubrey Morgan O'Day (born February 11 1984) known professionally as Aubrey is an American singer-songwriter actress fashion designer reality television personality and a member of the girl group Danity Kane. Following discord among the group and with her mentor at the time P. Diddy O'Day was fired from the group in 2008 though reunited with the group in 2013.
Adrian Jackson (musician).  Adrian Jackson (born 12 June 1970) is My Dying Bride's former bassist. He was a member of the band from 1991 until January 2007 when he moved to the USA. This did not go so well so he came back to England met a girl adopted her two dogs and lived happily ever after.
Zlatko Ćosić.  Zlatko Ćosić is an experimental filmmaker and video artist. He was born in Banja Luka Yugoslavia the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Michael Mitchell (singer).  Michael R. Mitchell was born in Montreal Quebec in 1954. He is commonly known as a singer and a performer for kids. With pre-recorded musical accompaniment Michael performs solo. He performs about 250 shows in different schools all throughout Canada. Michael Mitchell tours about 200 days a year. The length of the shows are about an hour long. He performs to Kindergarten to grade 6.
Luigi Da Rios.  Luigi Da Rios (Ceneda Vittorio Veneto 1843 – Venice February 1892) was an Italian painter.
Jean-François Regnard.  Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709) the most distinguished after Molière of the comic poets of the seventeenth century was a dramatist born in Paris who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.Regnard inherited a fortune from his father a successful merchant who had given him an excellent classical education; he then increased it he affirms by gambling.
Kyōko Aizome.  Kyōko Aizome (愛染 恭子 Aizome Kyōko born February 9 1958) is a Japanese erotic actress singer AV director and writer who has been called the first hard-core porn actress in Japan.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf.  Jean Antoine de Baïf (19 February 1532 – 19 September 1589) was a French poet and member of the Pléiade.
Donato Veneziano.  Donato Veneziano was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was an artist living at Venice between 1438 and 1460 was probably a pupil of Jacobello. A winged Lion between SS. Jerome and Augustine in the magazine of the Palazzo Pubblico Venice.
Shahzad Hasan.  Shahzad Hasan (Urdu: شهزاد حسن‎; also known as Shahi Hasan) is a Pakistani musician record producer occasional actor bass guitarist backing vocalist and music industry executive.
James Johnston (Scottish musician).  James Robert Johnston (born 25 April 1980) is a bassist vocalist and songwriter best known for his work with Scottish group Biffy Clyro. He is also known as Jim or Jimbo and sometimes signs his name as such.
William Westall.  William Westall (12 October 1781 – 22 January 1850) was an English landscape artist best known as one of the first artists to work in Australia.
Achille Vertunni.  Achille Vertunni (Naples March 1826 –?) was an Italian painter.
Alessandro Casolano.  Alessandro Casolano (1552–1606) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period active mainly in Siena.
Larry Weber.  Larry Weber (born July 7 1955) is an American entrepreneur and globally known expert in public relations and marketing services. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Racepoint Global an advanced marketing services agency at the intersection of influence and action. He has held this position since founding the company in 2002. In 1987 Weber started his own public relations company The Weber Group which within a decade became the world's largest public relations firm.
Chi Chi LaRue.  Larry David Paciotti (born November 8 1959) is an American gay pornographic film director. He appears as the drag-diva persona Chi Chi LaRue which is also the directorial credit name of Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson who direct bisexual gay and heterosexual porn films. He does not direct in drag.
Oli Ahad.  Oli Ahad (Bengali: অলি আহাদ Oli Ahad) (1927/28 – 20 October 2012) was a Bangladeshi politician and language activist of the Language Movement.
Olivia Lewis.  For the comic book character see Menagerie.Olivia Lewis (born 18 October 1978) is a singer from Qormi Malta. She has competed 11 consecutive times in the Malta Song For Europe festival which selects the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Edwin McCain.  Edwin McCain (born January 20 1970 in Greenville South Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His songs I'll Be (1998) and I Could Not Ask for More (1999) were radio top-40 hits in the U.S. and five of his albums have reached the Billboard 200.
José Carlos Caetano Xavier.  José Carlos Caetano Xavier is a Portuguese scientist (Marine biologist) and Polar explorer.
Christian Brøns.  Christian Brøns Petersen (born in Kagerup Helsinge Denmark on January 24 1977) is a Danish singer.In 2001 Christian took part in the first season of TV Danmark's reality television series Big Brother but withdrew in protest. Shortly after he signed with Spin Music releasing his debut album Du kan gøre hvad du vil in 2001. The title track from the album was chosen as the Best Hit on Denmarks P3 radio station. It is a cover version of a song written by Patrik Isaksson in 1999.
Phil Town.  Philip Bradley Town is an American investor motivational speaker and financial writer.
Larry Elmore.  Larry Elmore (born August 5 1948 in Louisville Kentucky) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games comics magazines and fantasy books. His list of work includes illustrations for Dungeons & Dragons Dragonlance and the comic strip series SnarfQuest. He is author of the book Reflections of Myth.
Jerry Allison.  Jerry Ivan Allison (born August 31 1939) is an American musician best known for being the drummer for The Crickets and co-writer of their Buddy Holly hits That'll Be The Day and Peggy Sue
Joey Scarbury.  Joey Scarbury (born June 7 1955 in Ontario California) is an adult contemporary singer best known for his hit song Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) in 1981.
Henri Cohen (composer).  Henri Cohen (1808 - 17 May 1880) was a French music theorist and composer of Dutch birth. Born in Amsterdam Cohen moved with his family to Paris at a young age. He studied in Paris with Anton Reicha (music theory and composition) François Lays (singing) and Felice Pellegrini (singing). In 1832-34 and 1838-1839 he was active as an opera composer in Naples with some of his works premiering under the name Carlo Coen.
Sharon Robinson (songwriter).  Sharon Robinson (born in San Francisco in 1958) is an American songwriter record producer and vocalist. She is best known as a frequent writing collaborator with Leonard Cohen although she has written songs for a number of other artists as well including Aaron Neville Diana Ross Don Henley Randy Crawford Roberta Flack The Temptations and others.
Stephan Collishaw.  Stephan Collishaw is an author from Nottinghamshire.Collishaw was born at Nottingham City Hospital. He wrote his first novel at the age of 16 an unpublished work he subsequently described as unremittingly awful. He studied at Goldsmiths University of London where he wrote several other substantial unpublished works and based on an interest in history and literature decided to become a teacher in 1991.
Hirohiko Araki.  Hirohiko Araki (荒木 飛呂彦 Araki Hirohiko born June 7 1960 Sendai Miyagi) is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut under the name Toshiyuki Araki (荒木 利之 Araki Toshiyuki) in 1980 with his one-shot Poker Under Arms and began his professional career with the short series Cool Shock B.T. Baoh and The Gorgeous Irene.
Cristoforo Terzi.  Cristoforo Terzi (1692–1743) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born and died in Bologna. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Maria Crespi. He painted a San Petronio kneeling before the Virgin for the church of San Giacomo Maggiore.
Brian Melo.  Brian Melo (born August 15 1982) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Hamilton Ontario who was the winner of the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007. His first studio album Livin' It achieved Gold Status in Canada. His second album The Truth was released October 2010.
Lauritz Falk.  Lauritz Falk (15 November 1909 – 1 February 1990) was a Swedish actor film director singer and painter. He appeared in about 60 roles in films and TV between 1923 and 1989. He is the cousin of the Swedish artist Bertram Schmiterlöw.
Richard Campbell (musician).  Richard Campbell (born December 7 1958) is an American musician best known for his work as a bass guitarist and vocalist for Natalie Cole in the 1980s and more recently with Three Dog Night Dave Mason and America.Campbell was born in Van Nuys California and moved with his family to Paradise California in 1966 where Campbell began playing piano age 7.
Edmund Thomas Clint.  Edmund Thomas Clint (1976–1983) was an Indian child prodigy. He is known for having drawn over 25000 paintings during his life.
Brandi Wells.  Brandi Wells (May 13 1955 – March 25 2003) was an American R&B singer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.Born Marguerite J. Pinder in Chester PA Wells sang with Fat Larry's Band Breeze and Slick before starting a solo career. Her debut album Watch Out appeared in 1981 on Fantasy Records and reached #37 on the US Billboard R&B chart. The title track charted at #27 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and #16 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
Joseph O'Neill (writer).  Joseph O'Neill (born 1964 in Cork Ireland) is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Benoît Maire.  Benoît Maire (born 22 October 1978 in Pessac) is a French visual artist who works in film sculpture painting photography collage and performance art. He is known for treating theory as an art form in its own right.
Mani Sharma.  Mani Sharma Yanamandra is a music director known for his works in Telugu and Tamil films. He is popularly known as Melody Brahma (God of Melody) for his contributions to music in Tollywood.
James Thomas Fields.  James Thomas Fields (December 31 1817 – April 24 1881) was an American publisher editor and poet.
Jessica Origliasso.  Jessica Louise Origliasso (/ʊərɪɡˈlɑːsoʊ/ oor-ig-LAH-soh; born 25 December 1984) is an Australian singer-songwriter actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Albany Creek Queensland she alongside twin sister Lisa Origliasso performed in show business at a young age. Origliasso rose to fame in 2000s when she and her sister formed a pop duo The Veronicas.Prior to The Veronicas Origliasso had a small career in acting.
Danny Pierce (artist).  Daniel P. Pierce (September 10 1920 – March 6 2014) was a painter printmaker and sculptor. He founded the University of Alaska’s art department in 1960 and retired as professor emeritus of art from the University of Wisconsin Millwuakee. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate of arts from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in recognition of his accomplishments as an artist and educator and for his contributions to the practice of art in Alaska.
Herbert L. Stone.  Herbert Lawrence Stone (January 18 1871 – September 27 1955) was a noted American magazine editor and publisher and a renowned sailor. He was the editor of Yachting from 1908 until 1952.
Kirk Munroe.  Kirk Munroe (September 15 1850 – June 16 1930) was an American writer and conservationist.
Riley Puckett.  George Riley Puckett (May 7 1894 – July 13 1946) was an American country music pioneer mostly known for being a member of Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers.
Ivan Hrvatska.  Ivan Hrvatska is a Croatian singer living in Canada known for his songs about making love to national holidays of Canada and the USA. He first gained attention in 2001 with the song First I Make Love to You Then I Make Love to Christmas.
Marc Cartwright.  Marc Cartwright (born January 15 1975 in Orange New Jersey) is an American celebrity portrait photographer who runs a photography studio based in Los Angeles California. He is known for portraits of film and television actors.Cartwright was raised in Riverhead New York. In 1997 Cartwright graduated from New York University where he studied semantics and the relationship between media and society.
Lela Star.  Lela Star (born June 13 1985) is a Cuban American pornographic actress who has performed in over 100 scenes.
Thomas Karaoglan.  Thomas Karaoglan (born 20 March 1993 in Duisburg) also known as Der Checker is a German singer from the label Ariola.
Constance Rosenblum.  Constance Rosenblum is an American newspaper editor biographer and author. Her books include Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce which was named an editor's choice by The New Yorker and Boulevard of Dreams a history of the Grand Concourse. She is the editor of the New York Times City section. She was previously the editor of the paper's Arts and Leisure section from 1990 to 1997.Rosenblum grew up in Middletown New York and graduated from Bryn Mawr College.
Ared Arzumanian.  Ared Arzumanian (born August 11 1970) is a producer songwriter and recording artist. He is a Canadian of Armenian descent from Toronto.
Kyōzō Nagatsuka.  Kyōzō Nagatsuka (長塚京三) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for The Laughing Frog.
Matteino da Siena.  Matteo da Siena (or Matteino) (1533 in Siena – 1588 in Rome) was an Italian painter of landscapes and buildings. He was especially noted for his frescoes in the Vatican including the Galleria Geographical and Sala Ducale and the Gregorian Tower (Tower of the Winds). His frescoes in the tower are known as the Allegories of the Seasons.
Clare Clifford.  Clare Clifford is a British actress comedian and drama lecturer who appeared in the television dramas Angels and This Life.She attended Selwyn Independent School for Girls in Matson Gloucester then studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and appeared on stage at the Oxford Playhouse and the National Theatre.
Andy Hess.  Andy Hess (born December 4 1966 in Washington D.C.) is an American bassist and former member of Gov't Mule having joined the band in 2003. Previously he was The Black Crowes' bassist from February 2001 until their hiatus early the following year. He has also played in Joan Osborne's band and has done session work for artists including David Byrne and Tina Turner. Hess is currently touring with Steve Kimock and Bernie Worrell.
Janice Man.  Janice Man (born December 29 1988) also known as JM is a fashion model and actress from Hong Kong.
Morgan Lander.  Morgan Lee Lander (born January 6 1982) is the lead singer and guitarist for the Canadian metal group Kittie. Her sister Mercedes Lander plays drums for Kittie. She is known for her use of metal growls as a vocalist though she also sings with a clean voice as well. She uses Hamer Vectors a custom GW Flying V Gibson Flying V's Peavey 6505s Marshall 4x12 cabinets Krank Krankenstein+'s and Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifiers
Yumiko Hosono.  Yumiko Hosono (細野佑美子 Hosono Yumiko born 3 June 1981 in Saitama Japan) is a Japanese voice actress actress and singer. She is also a member of the singing group COACH☆.
Marinko Rokvić.  Marinko Rokvić (Serbian Cyrillic: Маринко Роквић) is a Serbian folk singer popular in former Yugoslavia and to a lesser degree in Bulgaria. He has made over 20 albums and also won the Zlatni Melos-award in 1993.
Bhabananda Deka.  Prof Bhabananda Deka (Assamese:ভৱানন্দ ডেকা) (1929–2006) is a multi-faceted writer of one hundred twelve books textbooks on economics literature and political science and articles from Assam a state in the north-eastern part of India. He pioneered the writing of books on Economics in Assamese. His Assamese book on Assam Economics was published for the first time in 1961.
Linni Meister.  Linni Irene Meister (born December 4 1985) is a Norwegian model pop singer blogger television personality actor and designer who lives in Oslo. Meister has a German father and a Norwegian mother. Meister grew up in Slependen in Bærum. Meister first claimed fame when she became a household name when she was a Joker contestant on Robinsonekspedisjonen 2007 in Norway where she placed fourth and was much mentioned in the media.
Woyneab Miraf Wondwossen.  Wayna (Woyneab Miraf Wondwossen) (born 1980s) is an Ethiopian-American singer whose song Lovin You (music)” was nominated for a Grammy for best urban/alternative performance. She attended University of Maryland College Park and double majored in English and Speech Communications. She went on to serve as one of the first Ethiopian-American researchers at the White House under Former President Bill Clinton.
Tashbih Sayyed.  Tashbih Sayyed (1941–2007) was a Pakistani-American scholar journalist and author and was the Editor in Chief of Our Times Pakistan Today and In Review.[citation needed] Tashbih Sayyed worked from 1967-1980 for the Pakistan Television Corporation. In 1981 he emigrated to the United States.
Aruba Red.  Aruba Red is a London based Soul / Trip Hop artist of German nationality and German Scottish Indian and Polish heritage named after a female pirate legend. Aruba Red's music has been said to cross traditional boundaries she has described her sound as Rebel Soul with melancholy undertones influenced by trip hop minimalist electronica glitch soul acoustic folk and dub.
Pellegrino Ascani.  Pellegrino Ascani was an Italian painter of the 17th century. Born in Carpi and active in Lombardy as a still life painter of fruits and flowers.
Gregory Heisler.  Gregory Heisler (born 1954) is a professional photographer known for his evocative portrait work often found on the cover of magazines such as Time for which he has produced a number of Man Person and People of the Year covers.Heisler once had his White House photographer privileges revoked after taking a photograph of President George H.W. Bush for Time magazine in which Heisler used in camera techniques of double exposure to show what the cover labeled the two faces of Bush.
Jeremiah Birnbaum.  Jeremiah Birnbaum is a singer/songwriter falling mostly in the Americana vein; in press his music has also been described as a combination of folk blues country and compared to such artists as Sheryl Crow Mark Kozelek John Mayer Johnny Cash Nick Drake The Band The E Street Band Jim Croce and Van Morrison.
Alberto Barrera Tyszka.  Alberto José Barrera Tyszka (Caracas 18 February 1960) is a Venezuelan writer. Awarded in 2006 with the Herralde Prize for his novel La enfermedad (The Sickness). He graduated in Literature from the Central University of Venezuela where currently serves as professor in the department of Chronicles. In the 1980s participated in the poetry movements Tráfico and Guaire. His collaborations have appeared in diverse anthologies and publications from Spain Mexico Argentina Cuba and Venezuela.
Ric Sanders.  Richard 'Ric' Sanders (born 8 December 1952 in Birmingham Warwickshire) is an English violinist who has played in jazz-rock folk rock electric folk and folk groups including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.
Chris Burden.  Christopher Chris Burden (born April 11 1946) is an American artist working in performance sculpture and installation art.
Michiru Oshima.  Michiru Oshima (大島ミチル Ōshima Michiru born March 16 1961) is a Japanese composer who has worked on several video game movie and television titles.
Stacey Tendeter.  Stacey Tendeter (21 June 1949 – 26 October 2008) was a British actress best known for her performance as Muriel in the 1971 film Two English Girls. Her other cinematic appearances include White Bird Friend or Foe and Terminal Game.The majority of her work came in the 1970s on British television when she appeared on Elizabeth R Dead of Night The Pallisers In This House of Brede and Doctor Who in the story Underworld.
Tommy Sands (entertainer).  Thomas Adrian Tommy Sands (born August 27 1937) is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as early as 1949 Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as The Singin' Idol. The song from the show Teen Age Crush reached No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 and No. 1 on Cashbox.
Lawford Davidson.  Lawford Davidson (1890–1964) was a British film actor.
Lizzo.  Melissa Jefferson (born April 27 1988) better known by her stage name Lizzo is an American alternative hip hop artist based in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice Grrrl Prty and The Clerb. Her debut album Lizzobangers was released in 2013.
Hayley Aitken.  Hayley Michelle Aitken (born 11 April 1988) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Her debut album Watching TV was pushed back several times due to the sale of Zomba records to BMG Records currently unreleased.
Mojo Nixon.  Mojo Nixon (born Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. August 2 1957 in Danville Virginia) is an American musician known for playing psychobilly music. He has officially retired from playing live and recording though he does host several radio shows on Sirius Satellite Radio and has come out of retirement for one-time events such as an event to support fellow musician Kinky Friedman's candidacy for Texas governor.
Charlie Palmieri.  Charlie Palmieri (November 21 1927 – September 12 1988) was a renowned bandleader and musical director of salsa music. He was known as The Giant of the Keyboards.
Jack Bickham.  Jack Miles Bickham (September 2 1930 – July 25 1997) was an American author who wrote 75 published novels of which two were made into movies The Apple Dumpling Gang and Baker's Hawk.
Dan Hartman.  Daniel Earl Dan Hartman (December 8 1950—March 22 1994) was an American musician singer songwriter and record producer best known for such songs as: Free Ride I Can Dream About You Instant Replay Love Sensation and Relight My Fire all of which had world-wide success.
Christopher Meyer (author).  Christopher Meyer (born November 28 1948) is an innovator business builder author founder of Monitor Talent (part of Monitor Group) and thought leader on the future of the global economy. He is listed as one of the Top 200 Business Gurus in Thomas H. Davenport's book What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking and was on the cover of Consulting Magazine's June 2001 issue on The Truth About R&D.
Thomas Anders.  Thomas Anders (born Bernd Weidung 1 March 1963) is a German singer composer and record producer. Anders was the lead singer of Germany's popular pop-duo Modern Talking in 1984–1987 and in 1998–2003.
Israel Casado.  Israel Casado also known as Ysrael Casado is a Dominican Arranger Music Coordinator Piano Player Musical Director and producer. He is best known for working with artists Toño Rosario and Los Hermanos Rosario. Although he no longer is with Toño Rosario he worked alongside Toño Rosario for over 13 years.
Asma Lamnawar.  Asma Lamnawar (Arabic: أسماء المنور‎) born 25 July 1978 in Casablanca Morocco is a Moroccan singer. She made her singing debut in 1995 with Angham a festival produced by Moroccan Radio and TV where she won the prize for best interpretation though she delayed beginning her musical career until 2002. She has recorded music for Moroccan television serials and films.
Paul Edge.  Paul Edge (born December 25 1963) is a British DJ and record producer of electronic dance music.
Paul Kelly (Australian musician).  Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter guitarist and harmonica player. He has performed solo and has led numerous groups including the Dots the Coloured Girls and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kelly's music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae but his core output straddles folk rock and country.
Siavash Ghomayshi.  Siavash Ghomayshi (Persian: سیاوش قمیشی ‎ born 11 June 1945 in Ahvaz Khuzestan Iran) is an Iranian musician singer and song writer.Siavash studied music in London where he got his Master's degree. He left Iran after 1979 and now lives in Los Angeles.
Jack Neo.  Jack Neo (born Neo Chee Keong 24 January 1960) PBM is a Singaporean film and television actor host and director. He is best known for his cross-dressing roles as Liang Popo (literally: Granny Liang) in the 1999 film Liang Po Po: The Movie and as Liang Ximei in the late 1990s television comedy show Comedy Night.
Willie Nelson.  Willie Hugh Nelson (/wɪli nɛlsən/; born April 29 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter as well as an author poet actor and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973) combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978) made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music.
Chong Nee.  Matakite John Chong Nee better known by his stage name Chong Nee is a New Zealand Hip hop and R&B singer-songwriter and producer.He has produced songs for many New Zealand artists including Che Fu Dei Hamo PNC Dave Dobbyn AKA Brown and the Deceptikonz as well as for himself.Chong-Nee has won awards such as the 2007 APRA professional development award and best male artist and best Hip Hop artist at the 2007 Pacific Music Awards.
Katzen (performer).  Katzen the Tiger Lady is the stage name of a female performance artist and tattoo artist whose full body tattoo theme is that of a tiger. (Katzen is the German word for cats.)She received extensive tattooing on all parts of her body and wears tiger whiskers attached via piercings on her face.
Pete Murray.  Peter Pete Kenneth Murray is an Australian singer-songwriter whose first three full-length albums have all reached #1 on the Australian music charts. He has been nominated several times at the ARIAs and has had several songs reach the top forty in Australia.His first LP Feeler reached number 1 a few months after its mid-2003 release and his follow-up record See The Sun reached a similar level of success with all of the singles receiving widespread airplay.
Alec O'Leary.  Alec O'Leary (M.Mus. B.Mus. Dip. Inst. Teaching) is the Director and founder of the Guitar Festival of Ireland and is widely regarded as one of the foremost guitarists of his generation. He has spent many years studying guitar with John Feeley at Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama and has had tuition from many distinguished players such as Manuel Barreuco Roland Dyens Scott Tennant Sergio Assad Elena Papandreou and Fabio Zannon.
Pete King (British musician).  Pete King (13 August 1958 – 15 July 1987) was a British musician.The drummer Pete King played in the British punk band The Flys then in 1980 joined South London/Surrey based 'new wave' band 'The Rayders' before joining After the Fire.
Caroline Adderson.  Caroline Adderson (born September 9 1963) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published three novels two short story collections and two books for young readers.
Purvis Young.  Purvis Young (February 4 1943 – April 20 2010) was an American artist from the Overtown neighborhood of Miami Florida. Young's work often a blend of collage and painting utilizes found objects and the experience of African Americans in the south. A self-taught artist Young gained recognition as a cult contemporary self-taught artist with a collectors' following including the likes of Jane Fonda Damon Wayans Jim Belushi Dan Aykroyd among others.
Yves V.  Yves V is the artist name of the Belgian DJ Yves Van Geertsom. He is mainly known for his record CloudBreaker which he made in collaboration with the Belgian producer Basto. CloudBreaker reached number 25 on the Flemish Ultratop 50 and number 29 in the Dutch Single Top 100 in addition to charting in the Netherlands and in France.Yves V also collaborated with Paul Aiden featured on his single Sonica (Running On a Highway) that made it to the Ultratip (bubbling under) Belgian charts.
Albert Markov.  Albert Markov is a Russian American violinist whose son is violinist Alexander Markov.
David Palmer (vocalist).  David Palmer is an American vocalist and songwriter most noted for his lead vocals on the Steely Dan song Dirty Work and as lyricist of the Carole King No. 2 hit Jazzman. Palmer was born and raised in Warren Township Watchung New Jersey.Palmer's first band was the Myddle Class formed while still in high school which performed at Greenwich Village clubs such as the Night Owl.
Judith Silverthorne.  Judith Silverthorne née Judith Iles (born 11 March 1953) is a Canadian author specializing in children's literature as well as nonfiction about historical Saskatchewan woodworkers and furniture makers and an immigrant potter Peter Rupchan.Born in Regina Saskatchewan Silverthorne has written hundreds of newspaper and magazinearticles and instructs creative writing classes.
Martin Lings.  Martin Lings (January 24 1909 – May 12 2005) also known as Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din was an English Sunni Muslim writer and scholar a student of Frithjof Schuon and a Shakespearean scholar. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources first published in 1983 and still in print.
Sarit Hadad.  Sarit Hadad (Hebrew: שרית חדד‎ Hebrew pronunciation: [saˈʁit ħaˈdad]) (born on September 20 1978) is an acclaimed Israeli singer. In October 2009 the Israeli Music TV Channel (Channel 24) crowned Hadad best female singer of the 2000s.
Julia DeMato.  Julia Megan DeMato (born March 7 1979 in Brookfield Connecticut) is an American professional cosmetologist and singer who made it to tenth place on the second season on the television show American Idol.
Stephen Ratcliffe.  Stephen Ratcliffe (born July 7 1948 in Boston Massachusetts) is a contemporary U.S. poet and critic who has published numerous books of poetry and three books of criticism. He lives in Bolinas CA and is the publisher of Avenue B Press.
Young JV.  Eduardo JV Arancillo Kapunan III (born on July 23 1990 in Iloilo Philippines) known as Young JV is a Filipino rapper singer dancer actor host model and producer. He became famous for his first urban hit single in 2009 That Girl which was composed by himself. He produced his first album Ready Or Not under PolyEast Records and Doin' It Big Productions.
François-Gaspard Teuné.  François-Gaspard Teuné (1726 - after c 1788) was a Parisian ébéniste who was made master 19 March 1766. His stamped works are in the Neoclassical style sometimes as in the marquetry commode at the Walters Art Museum (illustration) reflecting vestiges of the Rococo in stiffened cabriole legs and the softened transitions between planes. He was one of a number of Parisian furniture makers of German families. He had premises in rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine and then in rue de Charonne.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee 1956) is an Indian-American author poet and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.Her short story collection Arranged Marriage won an American Book Award in 1995 and two of her novels (The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart) were adapted into films.
Guy Butler (poet).  Guy Butler (full name Frederick Guy Butler b. 21 January 1918 in Cradock Eastern Cape South Africa - 26 April 2001 Grahamstown South Africa) was a South African poet and writer.He was born and educated in the Eastern Cape town of Cradock. He attended Rhodes University and received his MA in 1938. After marrying Jean Satchwell in 1940 he left South Africa to fight in the Second World War. After the war he read English Literature at Brasenose College Oxford University graduating in 1947.
Giovanni Giacomo Semenza.  Giovanni Giacomo Semenza (18 July 1580 – 1638) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. Born in Bologna and also known as Giacomo Sementi. He was a pupil of the painter Denis Calvaert then of Guido Reni. Among his pupils were Giacinto Brandi. He painted a Christ the Redeemer for the church of St. Catherine in Bologna.
Alexandra Starlight.  Alexandra Starlight is an American rock 'n' roll and soul singer song-writer and performer. Alexandra and The Starlight Band (stylised as Alexandra & The Starlight Band) is the recording name of her current project in collaboration with Zachary James.
Tony Kofi.  Tony Kofi is a British Jazz multi-instrumentalist a player of the alto saxophone baritone saxophone soprano saxophone and flute. He currently leads his own Tony Kofi Quartet Tony Kofi Trio and is also the co-founder of the Monk Liberation Band—a group which plays the music of Thelonious Monk. His trio consists of himself drummer Winston Clifford and Hammond B3 organist Anders Olinder. John L.
Chris Hornbrook.  Christopher Aaron Hornbrook (born April 29 1981) is a drummer and a founding member of Metalcore/Post-Hardcore band Poison the Well. He is best known for his solid dynamic and groove orientated approach to drumming. He is the current live drummer for Big Black Delta.
Angela Clarke.  Angela Clarke (born 1969 in Liverpool Merseyside) is an English actress best known for playing Colette Daly in the television drama series Soldier Soldier. She has also appeared in Brookside Coronation Street Liverpool 1 The Bill and Casualty.She is the younger sister of actress Margi Clarke (Coronation Street and Family Affairs) with whom she appeared in the film Letter to Brezhnev and screenwriter Frank Clarke (Brookside and Letter to Brezhnev).
Eduardo Schlageter.  Eduardo Schlageter (November 17 1893 – August 21 1974) was a Venezuelan-German painter.
Herman van Swanevelt.  Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
Keith Forsey.  Keith Forsey (born 2 January 1948) is an English soundtrack composer drummer songwriter and record producer.
Michael Flohr.  Michael Flohr (born 1975 in Lakeside California) is a contemporary oil painter who is best known for his impressionistic urban landscapes. His scenes are known for depicting ordinary moments in extraordinary ways and his work has been called an intellectually artistic mastery of color perspective technique and vision that redefines impressionism and abstract expressionism.
Stephen Sinclair.  Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand film and television writer and emerging director.As a screenwriter Sinclair has worked with director Peter Jackson on Meet the Feebles Braindead and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Carly Simon.  Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25 1945) is an American singer-songwriter musician and children's author. She first rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include Anticipation You Belong To Me Coming Around Again and her three Gold certified singles Jesse (No. 11) the iconic You're So Vain (No. 1) and Nobody Does It Better (No.
Qazi Touqeer.  Qazi (Kashmiri: क़ाज़ी तौक़ीर) born June 2 1985 in Srinagar won in most watched show of india Fame Gurukul - along with Rex D'Souza and Ruprekha Banerjee. He is a singer in the Kashmiri and Hindi languages. On 20 October 2005 he managed to grab the top prize along with Ruprekha Banerjee.
Henno Althoff.  Henno Althoff (born September 16 1960 Lippstadt Germany) is a German record producer recording engineer and studio owner best known for his association with Australian fingerstyle guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.
Pooh (comedian).  Reynold Garcia (born on December 18 1974 in Samar Philippines) known as Pooh is a Filipino actor comedian impersonator singer and salon co-owner. He is known for currently starring in the comedy gag show Banana Split. He is also known for impersonating boxer and congressman Manny Pacquiao.He was the 2006 and 2007 awardee for Aliw Award best male stand up comedian. He was again nominated in 2008.
Frits Lugt.  Frederik Johannes Frits Lugt (Amsterdam 4 May 1884 – 15 July 1970 Paris) was a self-taught collector and connoisseur of Dutch drawings and prints and a selfless and tireless compiler of essential reference tools documenting Northern European prints and drawings collectors' stamps and sale catalogues. An authority on Rembrandt's drawings he collected all of the known etchings made by Rembrandt during his career.
Roxy Petrucci.  Roxy Petrucci (born: Roxy Dora Petrucci on March 17 1960 in Rochester Michigan) is a former drummer for Madam X and Vixen.
Sharif Imam.  Shariful Alam Imam Ahmed (Bengali: শরীফ ইমাম) (October 30 1925—December 13 1971) was a participator in Bangladesh Liberation War. He is most widely remembered as the husband of Shaheed Janani (Mother of Martyrs) Jahanara Imam and as the father of Guerrilla fighter Shafi Imam Rumi. He is a character in Jahanara Imam's famous memoir Ekattorer Dingulee (Bengali: একাত্তরের দিনগুলি English: Of Blood and Fire (translator Mustafizur Rahman))
John Walker (musician).  John Joseph Maus (November 12 1943 – May 7 2011) known professionally as John Walker was an American singer songwriter and guitarist best known as the founder of The Walker Brothers who had their greatest success in the 1960s particularly in the United Kingdom.
Claire Kuo.  Claire Kuo Ching is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer. Having been a daughter of a restaurant owner Kuo graduated from Shih Hsin University and was a competitive cheerleader. After singing in Taiwanese television programs she released her first album I Don't Want to Forget You in 2007 which gained her 12 awards including Best Newcomer.
Dora Malech.  Dora Malech (born September 4 1981 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American poet.
Amanda Blank.  Amanda Blank (born Amanda Mallory in March 1983) is an American singer and member of the performance art band Sweetheart based in Philadelphia.
Flex-Deon Blake.  Flex-Deon Blake (born April 25 1962 in Miami Florida) is the stage name of an African-American gay pornographic actor who has appeared in gay pornographic films gay pornographic magaxines and on websites. He starred in several bareback productions including the controversial film Niggas' Revenge. In 2004 he was inducted into the Grabby Awards “Wall of Fame.”
Brian Keane.  Brian Keane (born 1953) is an American composer music producer musician and guitarist. He has composed the music for hundreds of films and television shows and produced over a hundred record albums.
Clem Curtis.  Clem Curtis (born 28 November 1940 Trinidad) is a singer and former lead vocalist of sixties British soul group The Foundations.
Constance Isabel Smith.  Constance Isabel Smith (born June 1894 Battersea London) was a popular British novelist. She was the daughter of Sydney James Smith a tailor and Isabel Smith. In 1911 they were living at 7 Spencer Road New Wandsworth and Constance was a student.
Joe Gooch.  Joe Gooch (born 3 May 1977 Highbury London England) was Ten Years After's most recent lead vocalist and lead guitarist.
Louis Prima Jr..  Louis Prima Jr. (born June 16 1965) is a Las Vegas-based entertainer singer songwriter and musician mentioned as the Crown Prince of Swing in a review on the iTunes Web site Louis Prima Jr. bridges the gap between the swing and rock eras.
Chris Byrne.  Chris Byrne is an American Celtic hip hop musician from New York City of Irish descent. He co-founded the band Black 47 with Larry Kirwan in 1989. Before and for some years after forming the band Byrne was a New York City police officer. While still with the band he created a side project - the Celtic hip hop band Seanchai & the Unity Squad. Seanchai is Byrne's hip-hop stage name loosely translated from Irish as 'storyteller'.
Unorthodox Australian Poet.  Unorthodox Australian Poet is the pen name of West Australian born poet Garry.W. Gosney. He has also published works as The Perth Desperado.
Peter Whigham.  Peter George Whigham (1925 – 6 August 1987) was an English poet and translator widely known for his translation of the poems of Catullus published by Penguin Books in 1966.Whigham was born in Oxford where he was largely self-educated.
John Adams Ten Eyck III.  John Adams Ten Eyck III (October 28 1893 - October 22 1932) was a painter and etcher.
Tommy Shannon.  Tommy Shannon (born Thomas Lafitte Smedley; April 18 1946) is an American bass guitarist who is best known as a member of Double Trouble a blues rock band led by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Born in Tucson Arizona Shannon moved to Dumas Texas when he was nine where he originally started as a guitarist though he started playing bass at the age of 21. He appeared with Johnny Winter at Woodstock in 1969.
Krysta Scoggins.  Krysta Scoggins is a Canadian country singer. Scoggins was born and raised in Fort Saskatchewan Alberta and later moved to Mannville Alberta.
Tancrède Vallerey.  Tancrède Vallerey (born 1892 date of death unknown) was a French writer. He was born in Dunkirk Nord.
Cassandra O'Neal.  Cassandra O'Neal (born Cassandra Louise O'Neal on January 17 1973) is an American musician composer and producer.
Statik Selektah.  Patrick Baril (Born January 23 1982 in Lawrence Massachusetts) better known as Statik Selektah is an East Coast-based DJ producer and CEO of Showoff Records.
Teresa Scannabecchi.  Teresa Scannabecchi (1662–1708) was an Italian painter of the Baroque active in Bologna.Born in Bologna she was the wife of the painter Domenico Maria Muratori (1661–1744). She is described as learning the art of design from Giovanni Andrea Sirani and in coloring by Emilio Taruffi and Lorenzo Pasinelli. She received her last instructions from Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.
Alex Sinclair.  Alex Sinclair is an American comic-book colorist known for his work with Jim Lee and Scott Williams.
Alan Lorber.  Alan Lorber is an American arranger producer and composer.
Dioscorus of Aphrodito.  Flavius Dioscorus (Dioskoros) lived during the 6th century A.D. in the village of Aphrodito Egypt and therefore is called by modern scholars Dioscorus of Aphrodito. Although he was an Egyptian he composed poetry in Greek the cultural language of the Byzantine Era. His poems are the oldest surviving poems written by the hand of a known poet.
Murray Atkinson.  John Murray Atkinson (born May 27 1972) is a Canadian guitarist keyboardist and singer-songwriter. Atkinson grew up in Ladysmith British Columbia in a musical family and became an accomplished classical pianist while simultaneously taking up the guitar. In the mid 90's he rose to local prominence as a hard rock guitarist in his band Playground. In 2000 Atkinson moved to Vancouver and began working with various artists as a session and live guitarist.
Alice Priestley.  Alice Priestley (born 1962) is a children's writer and illustrator. She has illustrated or written twelve books published by Annick Press Key Porter Books and Second Story Press.Born in Toronto Canada she studied fine art and English at the University of Toronto. Priestley lives in Toronto with her family.
Abel Decaux.  Abel Decaux (11 February 1869 – 19 March 1943) was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Jules Massenet. For twenty five years from around 1900 he was organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur in Paris. In 1923 he went to the United States of America to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music.
Colin McWilliam.  Colin McWilliam (1928–1989) was a British architecture academic and author.
Ma Jir Bo.  Ma Jir-Bo 馬家寶 (26 August 1927 – 8 December 1985) was a Chinese realism artist and oil painter. Ma is praised for his great portraitures highly realistic texture-feeling still lifes and memory-rekindling landscapes of Hong Kong all that made him a leading oil painter of his era. Ma is regarded as 'the legacy of Classic Western Masters in the East'.
János Mattis-Teutsch.  János Mattis-Teutsch or Máttis-Teutsch Mátis-Teutsch (the most common Hungarian-language versions of his name all of which have also been spelled without the hyphen; his first name has been rendered as Hans or Johannes in German and Ioan in Romanian; August 13 1884–March 17 1960) was a Hungarian and Romanian painter sculptor graphic artist art critic and poet.
Therese von Lützow.  Therese von Lützow (born 4 July 1804 in Stuttgart; died 16 September 1852 in Tjilatjap Java) was a German author.
Giovanni Domenico Ferracuti.  Giovanni Domenico Ferracuti (mid to late17th century) was an Italian painter active in Macerata concentrating landscapes specially on wintry landscapes. He was a follower of Gaspard Dughet and collaborated with figure painter Pier Simone Fanelli in painting for San Giorgio in Macerata.
Julia F. Parker.  Julia Florence Parker (born 1928) is a Coast Miwok-Kashaya Pomo basket weaver who studied with some of the leading 20th century indigenous Californian basketweavers: Lucy Telles (Yosemite Miwok-Mono Lake Paiute); Mabel McKay (Cache Creek Pomo-Patwin) and Elsie Allen (Cloverdale Pomo). Over the last 40 years Parker has become one of the pre-eminent Native American basket makers in California.
Scott Shiflett.  Scott David Shiflett (August 22 1966) is a multi-instrumentalist American musician born in Santa Barbara CA. He plays with the band Face to Face and is also associated with the bands Viva Death Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and Jackson United (a band founded by his brother Chris who is best known as the lead guitarist for the Foo Fighters). He also played on 22 Jacks debut album Uncle Bob.In 2000 Shiftlett played in pop punk supergroup Fliptop self releasing a 5 track EP.
Mike Mearls.  Michael Mearls is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction.
Ahmet Emin Atasoy.  Ahmet Emin Atasoy (born 16 May 1944) is a Bulgarian-born Turkish poet author and interpreter.Graduated from the Department of Turkish Philology at Sofia University. He worked as a literature teacher art reporter and director of reading halls. He took refuge in Turkey in 1989. His poetry articles and translations were published in magazines such as Cumhuriyet Kitap Çağdaş Türk Dili Düşlem Kavram-Karmaşa Sincan İstasyonu Sözcükler and Yaba Edebiyat.
Hila Bronstein.  Hila Bronstein(Hebrew:הילה ברונשטיין) (born July 26 1983 in Tel Aviv Israel) is an Israeli-German singer and songwriter who rose to fame as a member of the R&B/Pop group Bro'Sis. She's currently working on a solo career.
Păstorel Teodoreanu.  Păstorel Teodoreanu or just Păstorel (born Alexandru Osvald (Al. O.) Teodoreanu; July 30 1894 – March 17 1964) was a Romanian humorist poet and gastronome the brother of novelist Ionel Teodoreanu. He worked in many genres but is best remembered for his parody texts and his epigrams and less so for his Symbolist verse.
Chōhei Kambayashi.  Chōhei Kambayashi (神林長平 Kanbayashi Chōhei) (born 1953) is a Japanese science fiction writer.Born in Niigata Kambayashi graduated Nagaoka National College of Technology. He debuted in 1979 with the short story Dance with a Fox which was an honorable mention of the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest. He quickly became fan favorite and he won the Seiun Award eight times (five for novels three for short stories) during his career.
Farley Mowat.  Farley McGill Mowat OC (born May 12 1921) is a Canadian author and environmentalist.His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian North such as People of the Deer (1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963).
Paule Marrot.  Paule Marrot (1902–1987) was a Parisian textile designer widely known for her textile prints with a flat two-dimensional upbeat style — often with a floral pattern. She experienced strong popularity in the U.S. after World War II worked with Renault to develop the company's textile and color division and redefined furnishing fabrics in her native country of France.Marrot won the Prix Blumenthal in 1928 and in 1952 the French Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) as Chevalier.
Makeda Silvera.  Makeda Silvera (born 1955 in Kingston Jamaica) is a Caribbean Canadian novelist and short story writer.Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her family and currently lives in Toronto. She published two volumes of short stories in the 1990s before releasing her first novel The Revenge of Maria in 1998 followed by The Heart Does Not Bend in 2002.
Dana Gillespie.  Dana Gillespie (born Richenda Antoinette de Winterstein Gillespie 30 March 1949) is an English actress singer and songwriter. Originally performing and recording in her teens over the years Gillespie has been involved in the recording of over 45 albums and appeared in stage productions (Jesus Christ Superstar) and several films. Her musical output has progressed from teen pop and folk in the early part of her career to rock in the 1970s and more latterly the blues.
Ole Vig.  Ole Vig (1824 – 1857) was a Norwegian teacher poet non-fiction writer magazine editor and proponent for public education. He edited the magazine Folkevennen from 1851 published the poetry collection Norske Bondeblomster in 1851 and the history book Norges historie indtil Harald Haarfagre in 1857. His poem and national hymn Nordmandssang (Blandt alle Lande) was published in Salmer og Sange til Brug ved Skolelærer-Møde from 1854.
Juan Goytisolo.  Juan Goytisolo (born 6 January 1931 in Barcelona) is a Spanish poet essayist and novelist. He lives in Marrakech.
Thomas Hager.  Thomas Hager is an American author of popular science and narrative nonfiction.
Jack Costanzo.  Jack Costanzo (born September 24 1919 Chicago Illinois) is an American percussionist.
Puranam Purushottama Sastri.  Puranam Purushottama Sastri (1925–2010) was an eminent Carnatic Musician and winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.He is son of Puranam Kanakayya Sastri. He was born in Nallapadu in Guntur district in 1925. His father Kanakayya Sastri was also famous musician and Asthana Vidwan of Gadwal Samsthanam and Yadagirigutta Devasthanam. He went to Madras to pursue advanced music. He took diploma in Music from Central College of Carnatic Music in 1952.
Oswald Brooks.  Oswald Baba Brooks (born c.1935) was a trumpet player who played jazz in the 1950s with the Eric Dean orchestra and recorded during the 1960s original Jamaican ska era for producers Duke Reid Sonia Pottinger and her husband Lindon King Edwards and Prince Buster.
Hideo Levy.  Ian Hideo Levy (リービ 英雄 Rībi Hideo born November 29 1950) is an American-born Japanese language author. He was born in California and educated in Taiwan America and Japan.He gained attention in Japan for his work Seijōki no Kikoenai Heya published in 1992 which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers. He is one of the first Americans to write modern literature in Japanese.
Myron Magnet.  Myron James Magnet (b. 1944) is an American journalist and historian. He was the editor of City Journal from 1994 to 2007 and is now the magazine's Editor-at-Large.His latest book The Founders at Home: The Building of America 1735-1817 has recently been published by W. W. Norton.
Jeff Rona.  Jeff Rona (born in Culver City California) is an American composer for film. He was a member of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures. His credits include Sharkwater Traffic God of War III and Phantom.
Bangs (hip hop artist).  Ajak Chol better known by his stage name Bangs and Ur Boy Bangs is a South Sudanese-Australian hip hop artist. He is best known for his viral song Take U to Da Movies.
Martin Gilks.  Martin Richard Gilks (2 March 1965 – 3 April 2006) was an English musician. He was a founder member and original drummer for The Wonder Stuff based in Stourbridge (West Midlands England).Gilks who was born in Stourbridge was originally the drummer with Midlands-based The Mighty Lemon Drops before leaving in 1985 (allegedly sacked for not wanting to cut his hair) and later joined Miles Hunt Malcolm Treece and Rob The Bass Thing Jones to form The Wonder Stuff in March 1986.
Ron Fuller (artist).  Ron Fuller is a British artist and toy designer. Fuller was born in 1937 and went to Art Schools in Plymouth and Falmouth before studying Art and Theatre Design at the Royal College of Art. After a career in teaching he began making wooden toys for a living in 1972.
Danny Gatton.  Danny Gatton (September 4 1945 – October 4 1994) was an American guitarist who fused rockabilly jazz and country styles to create his own distinctive style of playing. A biography Unfinished Business: The Life and Times of Danny Gatton by Ralph Heibutzki was published in 2003. It has a voluminous discography. When Rolling Stone magazine selected the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time in 2003 senior editor David Fricke ranked Gatton 63rd on his ballot.
Ian Hogg (actor).  Ian Hogg (born 1 August 1937 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British actor.
Doyle Dykes.  Doyle Dykes (born May 23 1954) is an American country acoustic guitarist from Jacksonville Florida. He is influenced by a wide variety of musical styles and musicians such as Chet Atkins the Allman Brothers to the Beatles and U2. Cited along with guitarists such as Tommy Emmanuel as one of the best finger-style guitarists in the world he is also known for his capability of playing proficiently with a wide range of different guitar tunings.
Alexander Isley.  Alexander Isley (born (1961-11-16)November 16 1961 Durham NC) is an American graphic designer and educator.
Mary Cassatt.  Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/kəˈsæt/; May 22 1844 – June 14 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Jeffrey Konvitz.  Jeffrey Konvitz (born 1944 in New York) is an American writer and film producer. He was educated at Cornell and the Columbia University School of Law. He is probably best known for writing the novel The Sentinel published in 1974. It was followed by a film adaptation in 1977 which he produced and adapted from the novel.He married Vicki Peters in 1980 but they were divorced after parenting one child Kristen Nicole (1983).
Mirza Alakbar Sabir.  Mirza Alakbar Sabir (Azerbaijani: Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir) born Alakbar Zeynalabdin oglu Tahirzadeh (30 May 1862 Shamakhy – 12 July 1911 Shamakhy). Sabir was a public figure philosopher teacher and a poet-innovator. He set up an inspiring attitude to classical traditions rejecting well-trodden ways in poetry.
M. S. Sheela.  M S Sheela is a leading Carnatic classical vocalist who has made her mark in classical light as well as devotional genres of music. She has the rare distinction of being a top rank artist of AIR and Doordarshan in both classical and light music.
Alexandra Prince.  Alexandra Prince (born 1975) is a German singer and songwriter. She was born in 1975 in Hamburg. Her mother is Brazilian and her father is German.
Fantastic Plastic Machine (musician).  Tomoyuki Tanaka (田中知之 Tanaka Tomoyuki) is an electronic music artist/DJ better known by his stage name of Fantastic Plastic Machine. Tanaka is considered to be part of the Shibuya-kei movement drawing heavily from bossa nova lounge music soft rock and French pop but he also incorporates many other types of music. Tanaka was born in Kyoto Japan.In the late 1980s Tanaka played as the bassist in a rock band called Margarine Strikes Back.
Ryuya Wakaba.  Ryūya Wakaba (竜也 若葉 Wakaba Ryūya born June 10 1989) is a Japanese actor belonging to First Place talent agency. His four brothers and he form the Wakaba Brothers.
Adalbert J. Volck.  Adalbert J. Volck (1828–1912) was a dentist political cartoonist and caricaturist born in Bavaria. He was known for supporting the Confederacy during the American Civil War doing so through his political cartoons (below) smuggling items for the Confederate army and personally assisting President Jefferson Davis by acting as a courier.
Wellman Braud.  Wellman Braud (January 25 1891 – October 29 1966) was a Creole American jazz upright bassist. His family sometimes spelled their last name Breaux pronounced Bro.Born in St. James Parish Louisiana Braud came to New Orleans in his early teens. He was playing violin and the upright bass and leading a trio in venues in the Storyville District before 1910. He moved to Chicago Illinois in 1917.
Kaja Norum.  Kaja Norum (Born 17 April 1989) is a Norwegian model and figurativist painter. A former student and protégé of painter Odd Nerdrum Norum is devoted to Nerdrums philosophy of Kitsch painting and is a part of The Kitsch Movement spawned by Nerdrum. After the latter relocated to France in 2011 Norum is the primary caretaker of his gallery and his estate.
Karen Iwata.  Karen Iwata (岩田 華怜 Iwata Karen born May 13 1998 in Sendai Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese singer. She is a member of the Japanese female idol group AKB48. Currently she is in Team A.
Metaform.  Metaform (born Justice Aaron) is an American music producer musician and songwriter with numerous LP and EP releases. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental Hip-Hop and Trance. He first gained notice in 2008 with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Standing on the Shoulders of Giants which was constructed entirely from old vinyl samples. In 2010 he released the controversial The Electric Mist which divided his audience.
Maud Forget.  Maud Forget born May 7 1982 is a French actress best known for her roles in Mauvaises fréquentations (1999 Bad Company) and La vie promise (2002 Ghost River/The Promised Life) opposite Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory.
Ali Birra.  Ali Birra (Amharic: አሊ ቢራ?</span> ; born September 29 1947) is a famous Oromo singer composer poet and nationalist. He was born in Ganda Kore village in the city of Dire Dawa Ethiopia.
Robert G. Ingersoll.  Robert Green Bob Ingersoll (August 11 1833 – July 21 1899) was a lawyer a Civil War veteran political leader and orator of United States during the Golden Age of Freethought noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed The Great Agnostic.
Mary Edith Scott.  Mary Edith Scott (1888–1979) was a notable New Zealand teacher and novelist. She was born in Waimate North Northland New Zealand in 1888.
Joan London (American writer).  Joan London (January 15 1901 - January 18 1971) was the older of two daughters born to Jack London and his first wife Bess Maddern London. Joan's sibling Bessie was born on October 20 1902. Both children were born in Piedmont California. Joan was the author of Jack London and His Times a biography of her father.
Greta Vaillant.  Greta Vaillant was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont.Vaillant made her film debut in 1968 as main actress of Balsamus l'uomo di Satana that also represents the debut film of director Pupi Avati and actor Gianni Cavina. She worked again with Avati in Bordella and Tutti defunti... tranne i morti and appeared in a number of Italian genre films mainly commedie sexy all'italiana.
Marsha Ambrosius.  Marsha Ambrosius (born 8 August 1977) is an English singer-songwriter. A former member of Floetry she released her first solo album Late Nights & Early Mornings on 1 March 2011. She currently lives in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Andrew Eldritch.  Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor 15 May 1959) is the English frontman singer songwriter and only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy a band that emerged from the British post-punk scene transformed into a gothic rock band and in later years flirted with hard rock.Eldritch also programs the tracks for The Sisters of Mercy's drum machine (known as Doktor Avalanche) and plays guitars and keyboards in its studio recordings.
Alison Krauss.  Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer-songwriter and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987.
Cecil Sheridan.  Cecil Sheridan (21 December 1910 – 5 January 1980) was an Irish comedian and actor who performed in variety shows and pantomimes in Ireland and Great Britain during a versatile career spanning over forty years.
Alvin Devane.  Alvin DeVane is a former President of the Austin Chapter of SPEBSQSA the Barbershop Harmony Society. A street in Austin Texas is named after him. He was a member of The Chordrangers barbershop chorus. He is also an Amateur Radio Operator.Alvin Earl DeVane was a member of the Austin Police Department from 1957 to 1983. A lot of his time there was spent as a street cop but he later achieved the rank of Lieutenant and served in the traffic office.
Richard X.  Richard Philips better known by his stage name Richard X is a British songwriter and music producer. Gaining attention as a pioneer of the bootleg craze Richard X has earned success as a producer and remixer. He has helmed hit singles for artists including Annie Kelis Liberty X Rachel Stevens and Sugababes.
Steve Pilgrim (musician).  Steven Michael Steve Pilgrim (born 1979 in Liverpool) is an English drummer and singer-songwriter. He was originally the drummer for The Stands (2003–2004) playing on both the band's albums however he left before the band eventually split up. Following his departure Pilgrim has established a career as a singer-songwriter releasing three solo albums Lover Love Her (2007) Sunshine (2009) and Pixels and Paper (2011). He has also drummed for several artists including John Power and Paul Weller.
Ralph Lauren.  Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifshitz October 14 1939 in New York City) is an American fashion designer and business executive best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand and a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise. He has become well known for his collection of rare automobiles some of which have been displayed in museum exhibits. In 2010 Lauren was declared Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Archibald Lamont.  Archibald Lamont FRSE FGS (1907-1985) was a Scottish geologist palaeontologist and Scottish Nationalist writer and politician. He named the trilobite genus Wallacia after William Wallace.Born on 21 October 1907 at Ardbeg Villa Rothesay Bute the son of lawyer John McNab Lamont and Barbara Mathie he was educated at Port Bannatyne School and Rothesay Academy (1918-25). Lamont studied at Glasgow University graduating MA (1928) BSc (1932) and PhD (1935).
Tift Merritt.  Catherine Tift Merritt (born January 8 1975) is an American singer-songwriter musician and North Carolina native. With her longtime band she has built what has been called a unique and critically acclaimed body of work of sonic short stories and poignant performances. She has been compared to artists like Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris.Merritt has released two studio albums for Lost Highway Records and two for Fantasy Records.
Geron Davis.  Geron Davis (1964) is a musician best known as a composer. He was first signed by Meadowgreen Music and best known for penning the song Holy Ground. Davis married partner Becky Davis and have collectively written several songs which include In the Presence of Jehovah Mercy Saw Me Send It On Down Holy Of Holies Gentle Hands Peace Speaker and Something About My Praise.
Mike Zeck.  Michael J. Zeck (born September 6 1949) known professionally as Mike Zeck is an American comic book illustrator.
Kenneth Ngwa.  Kenneth Ngwa is a Cameroonian–American humanist writer. Born on July 30 1983 in Bangui Central African Republic he is best known for his travel narrative entitled Brothers Don't Travel (2010). (A collection of stories which detail life within Israel as a foreigner. The book discusses such social ills as classism racism debauchery illegal immigration and teenage alienation.
Ági Szalóki.  Ági Szalóki (born Budapest October 17 1978) is a Hungarian folk singer. She has toured worldwide with world music and folk revival bands such as Besh o droM and Ökrös.
Joey Boy.  Joey Boy (Thai: โจอี้ บอย or Apisit Opsasaimlikit อภิสิทธิ์ โอภาสเอี่ยมลิขิต born 1975) is a Thai hip hop singer and producer.
Ed Manion.  Ed Manion (born February 28 1952) also known as Eddie Kingfish Manion is an American saxophonist who plays both tenor and baritone sax. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour later called Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band with the release of the CD/DVD Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin in 2006.
Jeff Stevens (singer).  Jeffery David Jeff Stevens (born June 15 1959 in Alum Creek West Virginia) is an American country music singer songwriter and record producer. He recorded two albums on Atlantic America Records with his brother Warren Stevens and Terry Dotson as Jeff Stevens and the Bullets and later as a solo artist on the Atlantic/Nashville label. Since the early 1990s Stevens has largely worked as a songwriter and producer for other artists.
Billy Crain.  William Sherwood Billy Crain (born August 9 1954 in Nashville Tennessee) is an American songwriter and musician. He has been a staple performer in the Southern rock scene since the early 1970s. He has performed with various artists including the The Allman Brothers Band The Rossington-Collins Band The Rolling Stones and ZZ Top. In the late 1980s he pursued songwriting and record production.
Jean-Delphin Alard.  Jean-Delphin Alard (8 March 1815 – 22 February 1888) was a French violinist and composer. He was the son-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and had Pablo de Sarasate amongst his students.
Sami Karppinen.  Sami Kristian Karppinen is a Finnish drummer. He is a former drummer of Swedish heavy metal band Therion (1998–2001) and Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska (2002-2008) sound engineer and producer in Modern Art Studio and session drummer. He has been working as drum tech for Therion after he left the band.
Chen Yi (composer).  Chen Yi (simplified Chinese: 陈怡; traditional Chinese: 陳怡; pinyin: Chén Yí) (born April 4 1953) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is also a violinist.
Frankie Trumbauer.  Orie Frank (Frankie or Tram) Trumbauer (May 30 1901 – June 11 1956) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played the C-melody saxophone which in size is between an alto and tenor saxophone. He also played alto saxophone bassoon clarinet and several other instruments.He was a composer notably of technically sophisticated sax melodies and was one of the major jazz bandleaders of the 1920s and 1930s.
Nagima Eskalieva.  Nagima Eskalieva (Kazakh: Нағима Есқалиева) (born February 3 1954 in Fabrichnyy Zhambyl Almaty) is a Kazakhstani singer and awarded national artist of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
M. R. Bhattathiripad.  Mullamangalath Raman Bhattathiripad (1908 – 2001) commonly known as M. R. Bhattathiripad or MRB was a social reformer cultural leader and a Malayalam writer.He was born into a Nambudiri family of Kerala in 1908. He joined Yogakshema Sabha and worked with V. T. Bhattathiripad and his brother Premji. When widow marriage was considered as taboo in Nambuthiri community he married one. MRB wrote 14 books which included two plays: Ente Mmana (1927) and Marakkudakkullile Maha Narakam (1927).
Richard Behar.  Richard Behar is an American investigative journalist who has written on the staffs of Forbes Time and Fortune since 1982. His work has also been featured on BBC CNN PBS FoxNews.com and Fast Company magazine. Behar coordinates Project Klebnikov a media alliance to probe the Moscow murder of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. He is the Contributing Editor (Investigations) for Forbes and is at work on a book about Bernard Madoff.
Greg Stainer.  Greg Stainer (born in London England) is a British House music & Electronic Dance Music DJ producer and remix artist who now resides in Dubai. He is the owner of Stained Music and one half of electronic music duo Hollaphonic
Oh Ha-young.  Oh Hayoung (Korean:오하영; born July 19 1996) is a South Korean idol singer and dancer. She is a vocalist rapper dancer and the youngest member of Korean girl group A Pink under A Cube Entertainment.
DJ Jazzy Joyce.  DJ Jazzy Joyce (born Joyce Spencer) is an American hip hop DJ and producer on New York City's radio station Hot 97. She is best known for her collaboration with rapper Sweet Tee on the 1986 single It's My Beat. In 1994 she was featured on 9th Wonder (Blakitolism) the first single from Blowout Comb the second album from Grammy winning rap group Digable Planets.
Winifred Evans.  Winifred Evans was a British actress. In 1921 she appeared as a Germany spy in the controversial film How Kitchener Was Betrayed which was ultimately banned.
David James Duncan.  David James Duncan (born 1952) is an American novelist and essayist best known for his two bestselling novels The River Why (1983 ISBN 1-57805-084-7) and The Brothers K (1992 ISBN 0-553-37849-X).Both received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award; The Brothers K was a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the American Library Association.
Stepan Skitalets.  Stepan Skitalets (Russian: Степа́н Скита́лец) (November 9 1869 – June 25 1941) was the pen-name of Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov a Russian/Soviet poet writer of fiction and folk musician. The name Skitalets means wanderer in Russian.
Doris Runge.  Doris Runge (born Carlow July 15 1943) is a German writer.She was the daughter of a manufacturer whose business was expropriated after World War II. Her family moved to Neukirchen in Schleswig-Holstein in 1953 and he attended schools in Oldenburg and Lubeck before following high education in Kiel where she became a teacher. She married the painter Jürgen Runge (1929–1992) and they divorced in 1981. They couple used to live partially in Ibiza during the 1970s.
Mikkel Flagstad.  Michael «Mikkel» Flagstad (23 April 1930 – 29 June 2005) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) son of the cellist Ole Flagstad and nephew of pianist Lasse Flagstad the singer Karen Marie Flagstad and opera singer Kirsten Flagstad. Paternal grandparents were violinist Michael Flagstad and pianist organist and accompanist Maja Flagstad. He was known for his cool jazz inspired style and musician who frequent the Hotel Viking in Oslo.
Peggy Simpson.  Peggy Simpson (1913–1994) was a British actress. Born: July 4 1913 in Leeds Yorkshire England UK and Died: January 1994 (age 80) in London England UK.
Bertil Norström.  Per Bertil Norström (9 September 1923 Sala Sweden – 6 September 2012 Stockholm) was a Swedish actor. He was married to the actress Margreth Weivers from 1947 until his death.
Joe Diffie.  Joe Logan Diffie Jr. (born December 28 1958) is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. After working as a demo singer in the 1980s he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990.
G. Willow Wilson.  G. Willow Wilson (born August 31 1982) is an American comics writer prose author essayist and journalist. She lived in Egypt during her early twenties; her first graphic novel Cairo (Vertigo 2007) was based there and was listed as a top graphic novel for teens by both the American Library Association and the School Library Journal.
Bernadette Caulfield.  Bernadette Caulfield is a television producer. She has worked on the supernatural drama series The X-Files and the HBO drama series Big Love. She was nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series for her work on Big Love.
Vasyl Yermylov.  Vasyl Yermylov (Yermilov) (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Єрмилов) (1894–1968) was a Ukrainian painter avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism constructivism and neo-primitivism.
Melissa Panarello.  Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985) alias Melissa P. is an Italian writer.
Tom Brislin.  Tom Brislin is an American keyboardist vocalist songwriter and producer. He performs as a solo artist and is also known for his work with Yes Meat Loaf Debbie Harry Renaissance and Spiraling. Brislin is the author of 30-Day Keyboard Workout and is a Senior Correspondent for Keyboard Magazine.Tom released his debut solo album Hurry Up and Smell the Roses in Fall 2012 . The album which Brislin describes as Cinematic Pop was written produced performed and recorded by Brislin.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini.  Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo) (Naples 7 December 1598 – Rome 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.
Martyn (musician).  Martijn Deijkers (sometimes spelled Deykers) known professionally as Martyn is a Dutch producer and DJ from Eindhoven. He started his career by DJing drum and bass in 1996 but began to include more of a dubstep influence after first hearing Kode9's Sine of the Dub. He released his first 12 singles in 2005 incorporating elements of both techno and jungle. Deijkers' first album Great Lengths was released in 2009.
J. D. King (musician).  J.D. King is an American singer-songwriter engineer photographer producer multi-instrumentalist and a founding member of the group The Olms.
Jean-Paul Laurens.  Jean-Paul Laurens (Fourquevaux 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921 Paris) was a French painter and sculptor and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican his work was often on historical and religious themes through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression.
J. L. Manning.  James L. Manning OBE (born 1914) was a 20th Century sports columnist for the Daily Mail. Born in Bristol Gloucestershire in 1914 Manning was the eldest son of Lionel Victor Manning and the elder half-brother of Brian Stuart Manning (1927–2004) a leading British Marxist historian.
Johnny Carter (singer).  Johnny Carter (June 2 1934 – August 21 2009) was an American doo-wop and R&B singer. He was a founding member of The Flamingos and a member of The Dells. Both groups have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame making Carter one of the few multiple inductees. He joined The Dells as a replacement for Johnny Funches in 1960 and remained an active member of the group until his death.Carter died of lung cancer in Harvey Illinois at the age of 75.
Dan Mishkin.  Dan Mishkin (born March 3 1953) is a comic book writer and co-creator (with Gary Cohn) of the DC Comics characters Amethyst Princess of Gemworld and Blue Devil.
Annamacharya.  Taḷḷapāka Annamācārya (or Annamayya) (Telugu: శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య)(May 9 1408 – February 23 1503) is a Hindu saint of the 15th century and the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called sankirtanas in praise of Venkateswara the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala India where unbroken worship has been offered for over 12 centuries.
Mighty Mystic.  Kevin Mark Holness (born  11 November 1980) better known as Mighty Mystic is a Jamaican born Boston Massachusetts-based reggae artist. He is the younger brother to former Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.[citation needed]Born in St Elizabeth Jamaica he moved to Boston at the age of nine with his family. He began performing as 'Mystic' and broke through with his 2005 single Riding on the Clouds which received radio airplay across the East coast of the US.
Laurent Wolf.  Laurent Wolf (born Laurent Debuire; 16 November 1971) is a French electro-house producer and DJ. He is the author of several compilations that contain his own tracks and also his remixes. He reached the top of the charts with his Saxo and Calinda compositions. Laurent Wolf was the winner of the DJ category in the 2008 World Music Awards. The single No Stress featuring vocals by Éric Carter was #1 on the French SNEP Singles Chart.
Adela Blanche Stewart.  Adela Blanche Stewart (1846–1910) was a notable New Zealand homemaker and writer. She was born in Clifton Gloucestershire (now in Bristol) England in 1846.
Estienne Grossin.  Estienne Grossin (or Grossim) (fl. 1418–1421) was a French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance active in Paris. He was one of the first composers to write a partially cyclic mass a form which was to become the predominant large-scale vehicle for musical expression later in the 15th century.
Aviva Uri.  Aviva Uri (Hebrew: אביבה אורי; March 12 1922 in Safed Israel - September 1 1989 in Tel Aviv) was an Israeli painter.
Vincent Cavanagh.  Vincent Cavanagh (born 29 August 1973 in Liverpool) is an English singer and guitarist best known as a co-founder of British art rock band Anathema. Vincent took over as Anathema's vocalist following the departure of Darren Daz White from the group after the Pentecost III EP.
Sonny James.  James Hugh Loden (born May 1 1929) known professionally as Sonny James is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit Young Love. Dubbed the Southern Gentleman James had 72 country and pop chart hits from 1953 to 1983 including a five-year streak of 16 straight among his 23 No. 1 hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Josef Fluggen.  Josef Fluggen also known as Joseph Flüggen and Joseph Eduard Flüggen was German artist born in Munich in 1842. The son of Gisbert Fluggen from Munich Josef first studied under his father and then studied his craft at the Munich Academy.
Ethel Booba.  Ethel Gabison also known by her stage name Ethel Booba is a Filipino TV personality and comedienne. She has also worked in the recording industry.She is a former talent of GMA Network and was one of the hosts of Extra Challenge. She also guest judged for Kakaibang Idol a special edition of Philippine Idol.Before becoming a star she joined in the singing contest of ABC's Sing Galing. She defended her title for four weeks and wore glamorous outfits each week.
Winter Miller.  Winter Miller (born 1973) is an American playwright and journalist. In the summer of 2007 a reading (directed by Joanna Settle) of Miller's play In Darfur was at the Delacorte Theater in New York City.Miller was formerly the assistant to Nicholas D. Kristof a columnist of The New York Times and is now a reporter on the Times 's Metropolitan news desk. She has also written for the weekly Arts and Leisure Style daily Culture and Obituary pages of the Times.
Brandon Darner.  Brandon Darner is an American record producer and musician. He has produced albums for a wide variety of artists including Imagine Dragons (Interscope) The Envy Corps (Vertigo) To My Surprise (Roadrunner) etc.Brandon Darner is a founding member of the band The Envy Corps.
Chen Aharoni.  Chen Aharoni (in Hebrew: חן אהרוני‎) (also known as CHEN and also transliterated as Hen Aharoni) (born in Holon Israel on 12 April 1990) is an Israeli singer-songwriter musician and television presenter
Fiona Joy Hawkins.  Fiona Joy Hawkins is an Australian composer vocalist and pianist who uses the stage-name Fiona Joy. She was born in Cessnock New South Wales to a creative family and trained as a classical pianist.
Walter Andreas Schwarz.  Walter Andreas Schwarz (2 June 1913 - 1 April 1992) was a German singer songwriter novelist Kabarettist author of radio dramas and translator.
Kate Klise.  Catherine Kate Klise (born 1963) is an American author of children's literature. Many of her books are illustrated by her sister M. Sarah Klise. Their popular Regarding series is presented in a scrapbook style format with letters journal entries and related ephemera telling the story. She is also known for her picture books as well as the bestselling 43 Old Cemetery Road series. Kate Klise's first adult novel In the Bag was released in 2012.
Orry-Kelly.  Orry-Kelly was the professional name of Orry George Kelly (31 December 1897 – 27 February 1964) a prolific Hollywood costume designer.He was born in Kiama New South Wales Australia and was known as Jack Kelly. His father William Kelly was born on the Isle of Man and was a gentleman tailor in Kiama. Orry was a name of an ancient King of Man. He studied art in Sydney and worked as a tailor's apprentice and window dresser.He journeyed to New York to pursue an acting career.
Marley Marl.  Marlon Williams (born September 30 1962) better known as Marley Marl is an American DJ and record producer who is considered one of the most important and influential producers in the history of hip hop.
Giles Vickers-Jones.  Giles Vickers-Jones is a TV presenter and writer.He has hosted shows such as ITV at the Movies Reading Festival for ITV and Playdate (ITV2) and presented on T4 and E! as well as producing shows.
Sīthalai Sāttanār.  Sattanar is the Tamil Buddhist poet who composed the epic called Manimekalai. He lived in the period of Ilango Adigal. He was also known as Seethalai Sattanar or Sīthalai Sāttanār.The full name of the author of Manimekalai was Madhurai Kūlavāṇikan Sīthalai Sāttanār. Madhurai refers to his native city Madurai. Kūlavāṇikan indicates his profession as that of a grain merchant.
Francis Skidmore.  Francis Alfred Skidmore (1817 – 13 November 1896) was a British metalworker best known for high profile commissions including the glass and metal roof of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (1859) the Hereford Cathedral choir screen (1862) and the Albert Memorial (1866–1873) in London.Skidmore was heavily influenced by Gothic Revival style a movement characterised by its use of medieval designs and styles.
Danny Whitten.  Daniel Ray Whitten (May 8 1943 – November 18 1972) was an American musician and songwriter best known for his work with Neil Young and Crazy Horse and for the song I Don't Want To Talk About It a hit for Rita Coolidge Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl.
Wayne Hemingway.  Wayne Andrew Hemingway MBE (born Morecambe Lancashire January 19 1961) is an English fashion designer and co-founder of Red or Dead. He is also chairman of the 'South Coast Design Forum' and chair of Building For Life (the national standard for well-designed homes and neighbourhoods forum).
Charles Mair.  Charles Mair (September 21 1838 – July 7 1927) was a Canadian poet and journalist. He was a fervent Canadian nationalist noted for his participation in the Canada First movement and his opposition to Louis Riel during the two Riel Rebellions in western Canada.
Pete Lockett.  Peter Robert Lockett is an English percussionist and recording artist. Lockett is known as a versatile and prolific percussionist collaborating with many artists. He is well-versed in percussion traditions from music cultures around the world including Arabic Japanese Indian and Western.
Linda Waterfall.  Linda Waterfall is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter. She has recorded more than 10 albums beginning with her first in 1977.
Nikki Webster.  Nikki Webster (born 30 April 1987) is a former Australian pop singer and actress. She is best known for her starring role in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics opening ceremony and her single Strawberry Kisses.
John Holmes (composer).  John Holmes (died 1629) was an English cathedral musician and Renaissance composer. His madrigal Thus Bonny-boots The Birthday Celebrated was included in The Triumphs of Oriana a collection of vocal compositions published in 1601. Over his career Holmes was employed at both the Winchester and Salisbury Cathedrals. Holmes was appointed Master of the Choristers at Salisbury in 1621 and held that position until his death.
Ramses Shaffy.  Ramses Shaffy (29 August 1933 – 1 December 2009) was a Dutch singer and actor. He became popular during the 1960s. His most famous songs include Zing Vecht Huil Bid Lach Werk en Bewonder (Sing fight cry pray laugh work and admire) We Zullen Doorgaan (We will go on) Pastorale Sammy and Laat Me (Leave me be). He frequently collaborated with Dutch singer Liesbeth List.
Bob Timberlake (artist).  Bob Timberlake is an American realist artist primarily known for his watercolor paintings as well as for designing and licensing lines of home furnishings clothing and various other products. He began his career as an artist in 1970 and began his home furnishings line in 1990. He founded Linwood Furniture LLC in 2006. In the fall of 2004 the Manor House Estate House at the Chetola Resort at Blowing Rock was renamed the Bob Timberlake Inn at Chetola Resort.
Andrew Bridge (lighting designer).  Andrew Bridge is a Broadway and West End lighting designer who has worked on many Broadway productions including The Phantom of the Opera. He has won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design three times: in 1988 for The Phantom of the Opera 1995 for Sunset Boulevard and in 1999 for Fosse. In December 2010 he became the 12th ever 'Fellow of the ALD'. This was awarded to him for his outstanding contribution to the art of lighting design.
Egil Johansen (musician).  Egil «Bop» Johansen (born 11 January 1934 – deceased 4 December 1998) was a Norwegian-Swedish jazz drummer teacher composer and arranger.
Igor Talkov.  Igor Vladimirovich Talkov (Russian: И́горь Влади́мирович Талько́в; 4 November 1956 – 6 October 1991) was a Russian rock singer-songwriter. He is often compared to another Russian singer and songwriter of that time Viktor Tsoi whom according to his diaries Talkov highly appreciated and to whom he even dedicated a song on his death. Talkov's songs also have much in common - particularly from a lyrical perspective - with Russian bard music.
Nicholas Audsley.  Nicholas 'Nick' Robert Audsley (born 6 February 1982) is an actor of English descent best known for his portrayal of Peter van Pels in Anne Frank: The Whole Story.Audsley is the oldest of three siblings. He has a younger brother Charlie and a younger sister India. He attended Eltham College where he appeared in seven plays.
Sam Smith (painter).  David Samuel Smith born Thorndale Texas on February 11 1918) is an American painter.
Tang Ti-sheng.  Tang Ti-sheng (Chinese: 唐滌生; pinyin: Táng Díshēng) (June 18 1917 - September 15 1959) born Tang Kang-nien (Chinese: 唐康年; pinyin: Táng Kāngnián) was a Cantonese opera playwright scriptwriter and film director. His contributions to Cantonese opera significantly influenced Hong Kong's reform and development of the genre beginning in the late 1930s. During his twenty-year career Tang composed over 400 operas and achieved immense popularity within the Cantonese opera scene.
Bobby Poe.  Bobby Nelson Poe (April 13 1933 – January 22 2011) also known as The Poe Kat had a long and varied career in the music business.He was born in Vinita Oklahoma. In the mid-1950s he formed Bobby Poe and The Poe Kats which featured African-American piano player Big Al Downing and lead guitar player Vernon Sandusky. Bobby Poe and The Poe Kats were also Rockabilly Queen Wanda Jackson's first Rock and Roll backing band.
Azra Jehan.  Azra Jehan is a two-time Nigar Award winning playback singer from Pakistan.
Geoff Foster.  Geoff Foster is an English recording a mix engineer best known for his work on numerous film scores.
Clayton Hamilton (critic).  Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1881–1946) was an American drama critic. Born in Brooklyn N. Y. he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1900 and from Columbia University (M. A.) in 1901. He was extension lecturer on the drama at Columbia University after 1903 and lectured in other connections. He served as dramatic critic and associate editor of the Forum in 1907-09 and as dramatic editor of the Bookman after 1910 of Everybody's Magazine after 1911 and of Vogue after 1912.
Kousuke Atari.  Kousuke Atari (中 孝介 Atari Kōsuke born July 13 1980 on Amami Ōshima Japan) is a Japanese enka artist. He is a self-trained musician and performs in the difficult shimauta (island-song) style of his hometown. While his style of music is close to mainstream pop his vocals have an undoubtedly traditional Japanese flavor and his inspiration still comes from his traditional roots.
Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer.  Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer born Mariana Alley Griswold (February 21 1851 – January 20 1934) was an American critic and writer.Van Rensselaer was born in New York to George and Lydia (Alley) Griswold a wealthy merchant family. She studied in Europe especially in Dresden where she met Schuyler Van Rensselaer whom she married in 1873.
Cecil Foster.  Cecil Foster (born September 26 1954) is a Canadian novelist essayist journalist and scholar.
Erin Bowman.  Erin Bowman (born August 11 1990) is an American pop singer songwriter from Hamilton New Jersey. She is an independent artist whose first single Problem debuted in the United States November 1 2011.
Otto Manninen.  Otto Manninen (13 August 1872 Kangasniemi – 6 April 1950 Helsinki) was a Finnish writer poet and a celebrated translator of world classics into Finnish language. Along with Eino Leino in the early 20th century he is considered as a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Manninen translated the works of Homer Sophocles Euripides Heine Ibsen Petőfi and Runeberg into Finnish.
Madeline Gins.  Madeline Helen Arakawa Gins (November 7 1941 – January 8 2014) was an American artist architect and poet. Gins met her partner and later husband artist Shusaku Arakawa in 1963. One of their earlier collaborations The Mechanism of Meaning was shown in its entirety at the 1997 Guggenheim exhibition Arakawa/Gins – Reversible Destiny/We Have Decided Not to Die.
Yiannis Ritsos.  Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.
Asad Ahmed.  Asad Ahmed (born 21 July 1971 in Karachi) is a Pakistani guitarist. His first stint was forming The Barbarians. He has been a member of the famous pop trio Awaz has played with Junoon Vital Signs and is currently a founding member of the rock band Karavan.
Barbara Lynn.  Barbara Lynn (born Barbara Lynn Ozen later Barbara Lynn Cumby January 16 1942) is an American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. She is best known for her R&B chart-topping hit You'll Lose A Good Thing (1962).
Giovanni Giacomo de Antiquis.  Giovanni Giacomo de Antiquis was an Italian composer. Born in the 16th century. Died after 1608 in Corato (Bari).He wrote above all choral music. Some of his compositions are contained in: Il primo libro a due voci de diversi autori di Bari (Venice 1585).
Isabel LeBourdais.  Isabel LeBourdais née Erichsen-Brown (15 April 1909 – 2003) was a Canadian journalist and author. She is best known as the author of the 1966 book The Trial of Steven Truscott the first major work to argue that Steven Truscott had been wrongfully convicted of murder.Educated at Havergal College and the University of Toronto she left university in 1929 to marry Stephen Dale whom she divorced four years later.
Kenjirō Tokutomi.  Kenjirō Tokutomi (徳富 健次郎 Tokuyomi Kenjirō December 8 1868 in Minamata Japan - September 18 1927 in Ikaho) was a Japanese writer and philosopher. He was the younger brother of historian Tokutomi Sohō. He wrote novels under the pseudonym of Roka Tokutomi (徳冨 蘆花) many of which were translated into a number of languages including English French and German. He corresponded with Leo Tolstoy.
Joyce Cooling.  Joyce Cooling is a San Francisco-based jazz guitarist vocalist and songwriter who has recorded seven albums - five of which charted on Billboard magazine. She has to her credit two No. 1 singles six Top-10 and 13 charting radio singles in all and has garnered multiple music awards including the Gibson Best Jazz Guitarist of the Year and Best New Talent in the Jazziz Reader’s Poll.
John Kirkbride.  John Kirkbride (born 17 February 1946 Ullapool Scotland) is a Scottish singer guitarist songwriter and entertainer currently residing in Germany.Kirkbride plays blues and jazz standards from the 1920s 1930s and 1940s as well as compositions of his own. His performances are characterized by audience participation and storytelling especially funny or critical asides and anecdotes often accompanied by authentic blues music.
G. D. Falksen.  Geoffrey D. Falksen (born July 31 1982) is an American steampunk writer.
Carlo Ignazio Monza.  Carlo Ignazio Monza (c. 1680 or 1696 - 9 May 1739) was an Italian composer. He was born in Milan and died in Vercelli. Works of his were possibly among the music that formed the basis for the Pulcinella score by Igor Stravinsky. There are recordings of Monza's harpsichord music by Terence Charlston.
Mike Ruocco.  Mike Ruocco is a Baltimore Maryland-based pop-rock artist.
Otomo Yoshihide.  Otomo Yoshihide (大友 良英 Ōtomo Yoshihide born August 1 1959) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero and has since worked in a variety of contexts ranging from free improvisation to noise jazz avant-garde and contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the EAI-scene and is featured on important records on labels like Erstwhile Records.
Boris Berezovsky (pianist).  Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky (Russian: Бори́с Вади́мович Березо́вский; born January 4 1969 in Moscow) is a Russian virtuoso pianist.
John Gast (painter).  John Gast (21 December 1842 Berlin Prussia – 1893) was a Prussian-born painter printer and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life in Brooklyn New York. He is most famous for painting American Progress an allegory of Manifest Destiny that was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints. Other than that little is known about him.
Stephen Fearing.  Stephen Fearing (born 1963) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. In addition to his solo career Fearing was one of the founding members of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings along with Colin Linden and Tom Wilson. He is also a member of the duo Fearing & White with Irish artist Andy White.
Andrew Stockdale.  Andrew James Stockdale (born 20 July 1976) is an Australian rock musician he is the lead singer lead guitarist and the only mainstay member of the rock band Wolfmother which formed in 2000. In 2007 alongside his Wolfmother band mates he won 'Songwriter of the Year' at the APRA Awards. Aside from his work with Wolfmother Stockdale was featured on the 2010 single By the Sword by United States based musician Slash.
Enrique Iglesias.  Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (English /ɛnˈriːkeɪ ɪˈɡlɛsiəs/; Spanish pronunciation: [enˈrike iˈɣlesjas] born May 8 1975) simply known as Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish singer-songwriter actor and record producer.
Yves Charnay.  Yves Charnay (born 25 January 1942 in Saint-Chamond Loire) is a French Light Artist and painter.
Lew Tabackin.  Lew Tabackin (born March 26 1940 in Philadelphia) is a jazz flautist and a tenor saxophonist. He is married to Toshiko Akiyoshi who is a jazz pianist and a composer/arranger.
Dave Sharp (bass guitarist).  Dave Sharp was the touring bass guitarist for the rock band Melvins during their 1993 tour.
Donnie Dacus.  Donnie Dacus is a guitarist singer actor writer and co-producer born in Pasadena Texas.
Yoo Young-jin.  Yoo Young-jin (Hangul: 유영진; Hanja: 劉英振) is a singer-songwriter and producer for various SM Entertainment artists. He has composed and written songs for H.O.T. S.E.S BoA Shinhwa TVXQ The Grace Super Junior Girls' Generation SHINee f(x) and EXO.
Black Ace.  Black Ace was the most frequently used stage name of the American Texas blues musician Babe Kyro Lemon Turner (December 21 1905 – November 7 1972) who was also known as B.K. Turner Black Ace Turner or Babe Turner.Born in Hughes Springs Texas United States he was raised on the family farm and taught himself to play guitar performing in east Texas from the late 1920s on.
Reginald Robinson.  Reginald R. Robinson (born 19 October 1972) is an American composer jazz pianist performer educator performing artist and studio recording artist who is widely known for his ragtime compositions. In 2004 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant.
Chris Layton.  Christopher Chris Layton (born November 16 1955) is an American drummer who rose to fame as one of the founding members of Double Trouble a blues rock band led by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Born and raised in Corpus Christi Texas Layton moved to Austin in 1975 and joined the band Greezy Wheels. He later joined Vaughan's band Double Trouble in 1978.
Helen Oakley Dance.  Helen Margaret Oakley Dance née Oakley (February 15 1913 — May 27 2001) was a jazz journalist producer historian and musician. She is perhaps best known for production and for her biography of T-Bone Walker. She was married to critic Stanley Dance for over 50 years. Born into a wealthy Canadian family in Toronto Ontario she capped-off her coming out as a debutante by attending a Duke Ellington concert .
Sean Bonniwell.  Thomas Harvey Sean Bonniwell (August 16 1940 – December 20 2011) was an American singer-songwriter/guitarist who was known as the creative force behind the 1960s garage rock band The Music Machine.Bonniwell was quoted in Richie Unterberger's 1998 book Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll as saying Rock and roll was a teenager in the '60s and I used that climate to express my confusion my anger at the injustice of the world.
Diamond D.  Diamond D (born Joseph Kirkland; January 29 1969) is a hip hop producer and MC from the Bronx New York City and one of the founding members of the legendary Diggin' in the Crates Crew.
Jessie St. James.  Jessie St. James is an American pornographic actress who was one of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of Porn.
D. L. Ashliman.  D. L. Ashliman is an American folklorist and writer. He maintains a website on folk and fairy tales through the University of Pittsburgh.
Hanako Oku.  Hanako Oku (奥 華子 Oku Hanako born March 20 1978 in Funabashi Chiba Japan) is a pop singer famous in her native Japan for her piano ballads. She rose to fame after performing the end-title track for the Madhouse film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in 2006. She was signed to a major record label the preceding year.
Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.  Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (born 1952) is a Bahraini painter the first president and the current honorary president of the Bahrain Arts Society. He has painted over a period of 40 years painting artistic genres such as Realism developed to Impressionism which gradually evolved to Individualism a notable prelude to his recent work a dual concept of Abstract and the colour field. He is often considered to be one of the kingdom's most famous artists.
Adam von Buhler.  Adam von Buhler is a producer and musician currently one half of the rock duo Anarchy Club and a former member of the band Splashdown. He plays drums bass guitar and other instruments and works the studio gear.
Charlie Byrd.  Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16 1925 – December 2 1999) was an American guitarist. His earliest and strongest musical influence was Django Reinhardt the gypsy guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music especially bossa nova. In 1962 Byrd collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.Byrd played fingerstyle on a classical guitar.
Mbah Surip.  Mbah Surip (born Urip Achmad Ariyanto) (6 May 1957 – 4 August 2009) was an Indonesian singer. He was known for his single Tak Gendong (I Will Carry You on My Back).
Cherrie Ying.  Ting Man (born 20 June 1983) better known by her stage names Cherrie Ying or Ying Choi-yi is a Taiwan-born Hong Kong actress. She moved to New York City at a young age and later to Hong Kong. Her nickname is Dingding (丁丁) and she is often credited under the name Cherrie In.After making her film debut in Fulltime Killer Ting caught the attention of Charles Heung's wife Tiffany Chen and was signed to a contract with China Star Entertainment Group.
Anatoly Kuznetsov.  Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Кузнецо́в; August 18 1929 Kiev – June 13 1979 London)was a Russian language Soviet writer who described his experiences in German-occupied Kiev during WWII in his internationally acclaimed novel Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. The book was originally published in a censored form in 1966 in the Russian language.
Andrei Mylnikov.  Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov (Russian: Мыльников Андрей Андреевич) (22 February 1919 Pokrovsk Saratov Governorate – 16 May 2012; Saint Petersburg) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator People's Artist of the Russian Federation Stalin Prize winner Lenin Prize winner who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg.
Pietro Sorri.  Pietro Sorri (1558-1622) was an Italian painter active in Siena.
Bukkcity.  Andre Knight (born June 4 1980 in Canberra Australia) better known by his stage name Bukkcity is an Australian-American rapper who is currently signed to the Unda K9 Records record label.
Tom Sewell (artist).  Tom Sewell is a multi-media artist designer photographer filmmaker sculptor. He was presented The Annual Award of Excellence by the United Nations Society of Artists and Writers for his Enigma of the Mill and for his contribution to the Anti War/Peace Movement. His photography has been featured in the New York Times Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal.
John Mortimer.  Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister dramatist screenwriter and author.
Miguelanxo Prado.  Miguelanxo Prado (Galician pronunciation: [miɣeˈlanʃo ˈpaɾðo]) is a Galician comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña Spain in 1958.
Yorke Sherwood.  Yorke Sherwood was an actor. He was born on December 14 1873 in England and died on September 27 1956 in Hollywood Los Angeles California.
Ely Guerra.  Ely Guerra (born Elizabeth Guerra Vázquez February 13 1972) is a Mexican singer-songwriter who was born in Monterrey Nuevo Leon Mexico.
Paul Jeanjean.  Paul Jeanjean (1874 – 1928) was a noted French composer. While known primarily for his clarinet compositions he also composed for other instruments such as the bassoon and cornet.
Ahmet Özhan.  Ahmet Özhan (Turkish pronunciation: [ahmet øzhan] born 26 Ağustos 1941) is a prominent Turkish classic music singer conductor and actor.
Louis Mayer (painter).  Louis Mayer (23 May 1791 Bischofsheim - 18 November 1843 Stuttgart) born Ludwig Hartmann Mayer was a German landscape painter and brother to the poet Karl Mayer.
Toni Ribas.  Toni Ribas (born June 13 1975) is a Spanish pornographic actor and director.
John Coltrane.  John William Coltrane also known as Trane (September 23 1926 – July 17 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and was later at the forefront of free jazz.
Otto Harbach.  Otto Abels Harbach born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18 1873 – January 24 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. He is most remembered for being Oscar Hammerstein II's mentor and was one of the first librettists to believe that songs should be woven into a show not just placed there. He is also considered one of the first great lyricists because most of the others were considered hacks.
Carl Moll.  Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (23 April 1861 – 13 April 1945) was a prominent art nouveau painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was also the stepfather of Alma Mahler-Werfel.
Spanky Wilson.  Spanky Wilson is an American soul funk and jazz vocalist born in Philadelphia. She lived in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA until 1967 and then moved to Los Angeles California USA.
Ryo Kase.  Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮 Kase Ryō born November 9 1974 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actor.
Staniša Stošić.  Staniša Stošić (Станиша Стошић) (1945 – April 7 2008) was a Serbian folk musician known for singing beautiful melodies from Vranje region (Southern Serbia) which earned him the nickname of Serbian Pavarotti and Father of the southern melodies. His most popular song was Lela Vranjanka.He was born 1945 in the village of Vrbovo Vladičin Han Serbia.He sang the first time in Radio Belgrade 1963 and won the Zlatiborski narcis-festival in 1966 with the song Stojanke bela Vranjanke“.
Teixeirinha.  Teixeirinha (pronounced tay-shay-REE-ñuh) given name Vitor Mateus Teixeira was a Brazilian musician. Teixeirinha is the diminutive form of the common Brazilian surname of Teixeira.Teixeirinha was born in Rolante Rio Grande do Sul on March 3 1927. Teixeirinha's father Saturnino Teixeira died when young Vitor was 6 years old. He had a brother and two sisters. His mother Ledurina Mateus Teixeira died when Teixeirinha was just 9 years old.
Calvin Simon.  Calvin Eugene Simon (born May 22 1942 in Beckley West Virginia United States) is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.Simon started out in the late 1950s as one of The Parliaments a doo wop barbershop quintet led by George Clinton.
Gerald Messadié.  Gerald Messadié (Cairo 1931) is a French scientific journalist historian essayist and novelist. His work comprises historical novels biographies essays on the history of religions and some science fiction work where esoterism takes a large place.
Steve Wariner.  Steven Noel Steve Wariner (born December 25 1954) is an American country music singer songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums including six on MCA Records and three each on RCA Records Arista Records and Capitol Records.
Juan Zelada.  Juan Zelada is a singer songwriter and musician from Madrid Spain.He is primarily a vocalist/pianist but he also accompanies himself with the acoustic guitar. His first single Breakfast in Spitalfields was released on the 4th of July 2011 by Insomnia Music Records and was made Record of the Week by BBC Radio 2.It also made the Radio station's B List and then went on to the A List for 6 weeks.
Paul Riley (musician).  Paul Riley (born 3 October 1951 Islington London) is an English bassist singer and record producer. He was a member of Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers and Roogalator in the 1970s.
Francesco De Gregori.  Francesco De Gregori Officer OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is popularly known as Il Principe dei cantautori (The Prince of the singer-songwriters) a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet although he prefers to be identified simply as artist.
Antonio Capellan.  Antonio Capellan (Venice ca. 1740– Rome 1793) was an Italian engraver active in a Neoclassical style.
Alix Ohlin.  Alix Ohlin is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Born and raised in Montreal Quebec she currently lives in the United States where she teaches English and creative writing at Lafayette College and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.Ohlin published her debut novel The Missing Person in 2006 and followed up with the short story collection Babylon and Other Stories in 2007.
Jamal Nebez.  Jamal Nebez (Kurdish Cemal Nebez) (born 1933) is a Kurdish linguist mathematician and writer. He studied Islamic law philosophy theology physics and mathematics at the University of Baghdad in the 1950s. In 1956 he prepared a stenciled script on algebra and in 1960 succeeded in publishing the first physics book in Kurdish including a rich glossary of Kurdish terms pertaining to physics and mathematics.
Kayla Kleevage.  Kayla Kleevage (born April 20 1965) is a stripper and pornographic actress in the big-bust genre. Kayla has had her website since 1996 and also runs her own video company Kleevco Productions. Kleevco has produced a three-volume series called Hot Chocolate.[citation needed] She is also a former contract performer with the studio Video Exclusives.
Frank Johnston (artist).  Frank Johnston (June 19 1888 – July 19 1949) was a Canadian artist associated with the Group of Seven.
Mieko Harada.  Mieko Harada (原田 美枝子 Harada Mieko born December 26 1958) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She has played various roles in many motion pictures television shows and television dramas since her debut in 1974.She most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran and further collaborated with him in his 1990 film Dreams. Harada also most notably provided the voice for Kaguya in the 2002 anime film InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass.
Laura Branigan.  Laura Ann Branigan (July 3 1957 – August 26 2004) was an American singer songwriter and actress. She is best remembered for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit Gloria and for the Top Ten single Self Control. Branigan is also remembered for the Top 10 Solitaire and for the number-one Adult Contemporary hit How Am I Supposed to Live Without You as well as several other US Top 40 hits.
Ours (singer).  Charles Souchon better known as Ours (born in 1978 at Boulogne-Billancourt France) is a French singer and songwriter. He is the second son of Alain Souchon and the younger brother of singer Pierre Souchon.He released his first album Mi in 2007 and in 2011 the album El. In October 2009 he sang a duet with Lily Allen to generate the French version of her song 22 which was called 22 (Vingt Deux).
Carlos Pena Jr..  Carlos Roberto Pena Jr. ( born August 15 1989) is an American actor singer-songwriter dancer and director. He is best known for starring on the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush as Carlos García in addition to being a member of the band Big Time Rush.
Axel Schock.  Axel Schock (born September 11 1965 in Neckarbischofsheim Baden-Württemberg) is a German journalist and author.Schock grew up in Sinsheim. He studied literature and theater at the Free University of Berlin.
Zomby.  Zomby (born 1980) is a British electronic musician who began releasing music in 2007. He has released music on several labels including Hyperdub Werk Discs and 4AD. Zomby's influences include jungle music and Wiley's eskibeat sound.
Demyan Bedny.  Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov (Russian: Ефи́м Алексе́евич Придво́ров IPA: [jɪˈfʲim ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ prʲɪˈdvorəf] ; April 13 [O.S. April 1] 1883 — May 25 1945) better known by the pen name Demyan Bedny (Russian: Демья́н Бе́дный IPA: [dʲɪˈmʲjan ˈbʲednɨj]  Damian the Poor) was a Soviet Russian poet Bolshevik and satirist.
Hans Hofmann.  Hans Hofmann (March 21 1880 – February 17 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.
Emilio Cueto.  Emilio Raul Cueto (born September 10 1977) is a guitarist who has played in the rock bands Rama Duke and Juliette and the Licks.
Usui Kojima.  Usui Kojima (小島 烏水 Kojima Usui December 29 1873 – December 13 1948) was a Japanese author from Yokohama Japan who authored over 20 books. He was also known for amassing a collection of over 900 ukiyo-e prints and establishing Japan's first mountaineering society.
Sydney Taylor.  Sydney Taylor (October 30 1904 – February 12 1978) was an American author.She was born Sarah Brenner in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents. Her parents and eldest sister Ella emigrated in 1900 to the United States and settled in the Lower East Side of Manhattan as many Jewish families did. Her stories based on life in her large family are chronicled in a set of five books known as the All-of-a-Kind Family series.
Abdi Kusow.  Abdi Mohamed Kusow (Somali: Cabdi Maxamed Kuusoow Arabic: عبدي محمد كوسو‎) is a Somali scholar and writer.
Dane Rumble.  Dane Aaron Rumble (born 9 February 1982) is a New Zealand recording artist. He is a former member of New Zealand hip hop group Fast Crew.
Jully Black.  Jully Black (born Jullyann Inderia Gordon; November 8 1977) is a Canadian R&B singer–songwriter and actress. She has collaborated and written for many artists including Nas Saukrates Choclair Kardinal Offishall Destiny's Child and Sean Paul.Jully has a dynamic personality inexhaustible talent and uncompromising style. She was chosen by CBC Music as one of “The 25 Greatest Canadian Singers Ever.” She has been dubbed as Canada's Queen of R&B by fans and peers.
Dina Joffe.  Dina Yoffe (born in Riga December 18 1952) is a Latvian pianist Israeli citizen.She was awarded the IX Fryderyk Chopin and the VI Robert Schumann competitions' 2nd prizes before graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1976. She remains internationally active as a pedagogue and a concert pianist. http://www.forumorihuela.es/http://musicalsummer.perso.neuf.fr/programme.htm
Russell T Davies.  Stephen Russell Davies OBE (born 27 April 1963) better known by his pen name Russell T Davies is a Welsh television producer and screenwriter whose works include Queer as Folk Bob & Rose The Second Coming Casanova and the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.Born in Swansea Davies aspired to work as a comic artist in his adult life until a careers advisor at Olchfa School suggested that he study English literature; he consequently focused on a career of play- and screen-writing. 
Jack Elliott (composer).  Jack Elliott (August 6 1927 - August 18 2001) was an American television and film composer conductor music arranger and television producer.
Robin S..  Robin Stone (born April 27 1962) known professionally as Robin S. is an American singer-songwriter who scored success in the 1990s with such hit singles as Show Me Love (which was her debut single and a number-one hit) and Love For Love. She has had three number ones on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Jesús León.  Jesús León is a Mexican operatic tenor. On January 24 2010 he received the Revelación Juvenil award from the Mexican government and sang the Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado.
Christiaan Tonnis.  Christiaan Tonnis (born June 5 1956 Saarbrücken Germany) is a German symbolist/realist painter draftsman video artist and published author. He studied at the HfG Offenbach with Dieter Lincke and Herbert Heckmann(de) and lives in Frankfurt Germany.
Milorad Popović Šapčanin.  Milorad Popović Šapčanin (Serbian: Милорад Поповић Шапчанин 7 July 1841 Šabac Principality of Serbia — 28 February 1895 Belgrade Kingdom of Serbia) was Serbian poet writer dramatist pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Realism in his approach. He was also artistic director of the National Theatre in Belgrade (1877 and 1880-1893) a member of the Serbian Learned Society and Serbian Royal Academy.
Alan Reid (artist).  Alan Reid (born 1976) is a contemporary American artist who lives in New York City. His gauzy colored-pencil representational images of heiresses bored fashionistas and aquiline beauties have been called provocatively light with coloring as delicate as his women are elegant.The work invites reasoning provocation and negotiation of absurdist scenarios involving majestic women in insipid situations.
Stuart Turner (musician).  For the British television character see Stuart Turner (The Bill).Stuart Turner (born Bournemouth Dorset England) is an English alternative blues singer. He now lives in Medway Kent. Having formed a band and signed with the independent record label Brigadier Records Stuart Turner & The Flat Earth Society released the album Gin & Bitters in July 2010.
Chris Brandt.  Chris Brandt (born February 4 1970 in Silver Spring Maryland) is an American filmmaker and cartoonist director of the documentary Independents.
Devinn Lane.  Devinn Lane (born March 28 1972) is an former adult model pornographic actress writer director and producer. She is sometimes credited as Devin Lane or Devon Lane. She was chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month October 1999.
Peter Michael Escovedo.  Peter Michael Escovedo (born July 7 1961) is an American percussionist and musical director. He is also known as Peter Michael Escovedo III.Escovedo was born in Alameda County California.
Vani (writer).  Vani (Kannada: ವಾಣಿ 1912 - 1988) was a Kannada writer. She was born in Srirangapatna near Mysore). Her father B. Narasinga Rao was an advocate in Srirangapatna. He was bestowed with “Rajaseva Saktha” title by Nalvadi Krishna Raja Wodeyer of Mysore Palace. Three of her novels — Shubhamangala Eradu Kanasu and Hosabelaku — became famous Kannada movies.
Mick Cooke.  Mick Cooke (born 15 December 1973) is the trumpet player of the Scottish indie band Belle & Sebastian. Besides trumpet Cooke plays other brass instruments including the French horn and occasionally plays electric guitar and bass live. Since the departure of Stuart David the role of bass player in Belle & Sebastian is shared between Cooke and David's direct replacement Bobby Kildea who also plays lead guitar.
Tim Watson (musician).  Timothy Tim Harcourt Watson (born 3 June 1971) is the lead singer of Australian indie electronic band Friends of Mine and was a founding lead singer and guitarist of Australian pop rock band Taxiride. Raised in Melbourne Watson was involved in several original projects before forming Taxiride with Tim Wild on vocals and guitars in 1996. With Taxiride he had a top 10 hit on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart with Get Set and a No.
Jacob Latimore.  Jacob O'Neal Latimore Jr. (born August 10 1996) is an American R&B/pop recording artist and actor.
Huang Yazhou.  Huang Yazhou (simplified Chinese: 黄亚洲; traditional Chinese: 黃亞洲; pinyin: Huáng Yàzhōu; born 1949) is a Chinese novelist poet and screenwriter. He is now a member of Chinese Communist Party and the president of Zhejiang Writers Association.
Ted Lune.  Ted Lune (born Harold Garnett August 1920 Ainsworth Lancashire - died 7 January 1968 Selsey Sussex) was a British actor best known for portraying Private Len Bone in the TV series The Army Game. He also worked in radio comedy and appeared in a couple of films.After leaving school at 15 and serving an engineering apprenticeship he began entertaining people by for example reciting Stanley Holloway monologues and he became well known in the Bolton area.
Kenny Ortiz.  Kenneth Kenny O Ortiz (born November 10) is an American record executive songwriter record producer and is currently the CEO of World Trade Entertainment. Widely known as the driving force behind SWV because he signed the group picked their hits got heavily involved in their creative process for original songs remixes mixes collaborations and last but not least established their vibe and brand.
Saurabh Kumar Chaliha.  Saurabh Kumar Chaliha (Assamese: সৌৰভ কুমাৰ চলিহা Born: 1930 Death: 25 June 2011) was a famous Assamese article writer and short story writer. His real name was Surendra Nath Medhi. His short story collection Golam won him the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 1974. But Chaliha did not go to receive the award himself and that was later sent to him by the Akademi.
Quan (rapper).  Clifford Peacock better known by his stage name Quan or Don Ferquan is an American rapper affiliated with Nas and Ill Will Records. In 2008 he signed with Just Blaze label Fort Knocks as a joint venture with Ill Will. He is currently signed to Amalgam Digital who distributed his album Walking Testimony in 2009.
Stetson Kennedy.  William Stetson Kennedy (October 5 1916 – August 27 2011) was an American author and human rights activist. One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. His actions led to the 1947 revocation by the state of Georgia of the Klan's national corporate charter. Kennedy wrote or co-wrote ten books.
Jackey Beavers.  Robert L. Jackey Beavers (June 19 1937 – October 28 2008) was an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer songwriter pastor and community activist. He recorded with Johnny Bristol as the duo Johnny and Jackey and co-wrote Someday We'll Be Together later a no.1 hit for Diana Ross and the Supremes.
Stevie Smith.  Florence Margaret Smith known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971) was an English poet and novelist.
T. V. Padma.  Padma Venkatraman also known as T. V. Padma (born 1969) is a children's author from India.
Hector Cantú.  Hector Cantú (born September 16 1961) is an American writer editor and newspaper comic strip creator best known for the Latino-American strip Baldo. As of 2008 he lives in Dallas Texas.
Alberto Masferrer.  Vicente Alberto Masferrer Mónico known as Alberto Masferrer was a Salvadoran essayist fiction writer and journalist best known for the development of the philosophy of vitalismo. He was born in Alegría (formerly Tecape) Usulután on 24 July 1868. He did not receive a formal education instead claiming to have been educated by the university of life but he did travel widely having lived in several Central American countries as well as in Chile New York and several European nations.
Ted Mann (writer).  Ted Mann is a Canadian born television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on the series NYPD Blue Deadwood and Crash. In 1995 he won the Emmy award for Best Drama Series for his work on the second season of NYPD Blue.
Billie Lawless.  Billie Lawless (born July 16 1950) is an American sculptor.
Betsy Jolas.  Betsy Jolas (born 5 August 1926) is a French composer and a foremost composer of her nation since World War II although the reach of her music is international. Her music is often intense in its lyricism and nearly always referential of poetry and feeling. It eschews both serialism in its pre-war forms but includes musical sets and tonal analogues.
Vladimir Odoyevsky.  Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky (Russian: Владимир Федорович Одоевский) (13 August [O.S. 1 August] 1803 – 11 March [O.S. 27 February] 1869) was a prominent Russian philosopher writer music critic philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as the Russian Hoffmann on account of his keen interest in phantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.
Extince.  Extince (also known as Exter-O-naldus or De Exter) is one of the first Dutch language rappers (See also Nederhop) to appear in the Dutch music charts.Extince was born as Peter Kops in Oosterhout Netherlands. One of his biggest musical influences as a child was Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Michael Angelakos.  Michael Angelakos (born May 19 1987) is an American singer-songwriter composer record producer and musician. He is best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Passion Pit. Angelakos famously started Passion Pit unknowingly after making an EP for his then-girlfriend as a belated Valentine's Day gift. Two tracks Sleepyhead and Better Things were added for the commercial release of the EP.
Joris van Son.  Joris van Son (1623–1667) was a highly popular Flemish Baroque painter of fruit and flowers in banquet style on a plank but also in garland form.
Raphaël Haroche.  Raphaël Haroche (born 7 November 1975) professionally known under his mononym Raphaël is a French singer–songwriter and actor.
Nessbeal.  Nabil Sahli better known by his stage name Nessbeal (born in Boulogne-Billancourt France on 16 August 1978) is a French rapper of Moroccan origin. He has released starting 2006 four albums and one mixtape. Nessbeal started earlier as NessBeal under which he released his debut La mélodie des briques. At times he has also used NE2S or just Ness. He is signed to 7th Magnitude founded by Skread.
William O'Rourke.  William O'Rourke (born 1945) is an American writer of both novels and volumes of nonfiction; he is the author of the novels The Meekness of Isaac (Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1974) Idle Hands (Delacorte Press 1981) Criminal Tendencies (E. P. Dutton 1987) and Notts (Marlowe & Co 1996) as well as the nonfiction books The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left (Thomas Y.
Onur Şengül.  Onur Şengül (born July 10 1979) is a Turkish bass player who is mostly known for the acts for blues and rock scene.Started his career with gigs with Yavuz Cetin in 1999He was sponsored by Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat between 2002–2005 giving more than 300 concerts around Turkey with his blues band electric blueAfter spending nearly 6 years playing in various famous local bands and instructing bass lessons in Istanbul joined band for Hayko Cepkin in 2005.
George Winter (artist).  George Winter (1810 – 1876) was an English-born American artist who was noted for his portraits of Native Americans and other figures of the American frontier.
Ian Irvine.  Ian Irvine (born 1950) is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels including fantasy eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.
Skeeter Davis.  Mary Frances Penick (December 30 1931 – September 19 2004) better known as Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late '50s she became a solo star. Her best-known hit was the pop classic The End of the World in 1963.
Al Haig.  Alan Warren Haig (July 19 1922 – November 16 1982) was an American jazz pianist best known as one of the pioneers of bebop.
Ron McMillan.  Ron McMillan born April 29 1958 is a Scottish free-lance photojournalist and author best known for his rare photo coverage of North Korea and for authoring one of the few crime/suspense novels taking place in modern-day South Korea.
Ronny Yu.  Ronny Yu Yan-Tai (Chinese: 于仁泰) is a Hong Kong director producer and movie writer. Yu was born in Hong Kong and graduated from Ohio University. He has worked on both Hong Kong and American films.
Frank Cochrane.  Frank Cochrane (28 October 1882 – 21 May 1962) was a British stage and film actor.
Karen Clark Sheard.  Karen Clark-Sheard (born Karen Valencia Clark on November 15 1960) is an American gospel four-time Grammy Award winning singer musician and songwriter. The youngest daughter of pioneering gospel choral director Mattie Moss Clark Sheard began her career as a member of the Grammy-Award winning gospel legendary female group The Clark Sisters.
Patricia Wrede.  Patricia Collins Wrede (born March 27 1953) is an American fantasy writer from Chicago Illinois.The eldest of five children she graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in biology married James Wrede in 1976 (they divorced in 1991) and obtained an MBA from University of Minnesota in 1977.She finished her first book in 1978 working as an accountant and financial analyst in the meantime.She was a founding member of The Scribblies along with Pamela Dean Emma Bull Will Shetterly Steven Brust and Nate Bucklin in January 1980 to which [she]belonged for five extremely productive years.She sold her first book to Ace in April 1980 and it was published in 1982.In the fall of 1980 she met Lillian Stewart Carl who introduced her to Lois McMaster Bujold.In 1985 shortly before her fifth book was published she became a full-time writer.She is a member of the Liavek shared-world anthology.She is a vegetarian and lives in Minneapolis Minnesota with her two cats.She has no children of her own but has four nieces and four nephews (three in Alabama three in Illinois and two in Maine).In 2009 she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Nehemiah Hunter Brown.  Nehemiah Brown (born January 27 1951 in Charlottesville Virginia) is an American gospel music singer songwriter arranger professional musician teacher vocal coach and choral director.
Fedele Fenaroli.  Fedele Fenaroli (Lanciano April 25 1730 - Naples 1 January 1818 ) was an Italian composer and teacher. Fenaroli entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto one of the Music conservatories of Naples becoming a pupil of Francesco Durante. In 1762 he was appointed Maestro di Cappella. Among his students were many celebrated Italian composers such as Domenico Cimarosa Nicola Antonio Zingarelli and Saverio Mercadante.
Michael Scarce.  Michael Scarce is a writer researcher activist and gay men's health advocate. He lives in San Francisco. He is the author of two books: Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men and Male on Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame.He was the first man to graduate with a degree in Women's Studies from Ohio State University where his activism led to the evacuation of a wing of a campus residence hall after experiencing death threats and ongoing anti-gay harassment.
Jack Boynton.  Jack Boynton (January 12 1928 – April 5 2010) was an American artist.
Samia Halaby.  Samia A. Halaby (born 1936) is a Palestinian artist and scholar who lives and works in New York. Born in Jerusalem in 1936 during the British Mandate today she is recognized as one of the Arab world's leading contemporary painters. Since beginning her artistic career in the early 1960s she has exhibited in galleries museums and art fairs throughout the US Europe Asia and South America.
Earl Harvin.  Earl Harvin is a drummer percussionist and multi-instrumentalist from the New York area who has lived in Dallas Texas and Los Angeles and is now residing in Berlin Germany.Harvin studied at the University of North Texas College of Music where he was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band for one year beginning 1989. Throughout most of the 1990s he led the jazz band Earl Harvin Trio (including Fred Hamilton and Dave Palmer) and led the rock band rubberbullet.
Cheikh El Hasnaoui.  Cheikh El Hasnaoui (1910–2002) was a Berber singer born in a small town near Tizi ouzou in Algeria. He sang Algerian chaabi music and was along with Slimane Azem responsible for laying the foundations of modern popular Kabyle music in the 1950s and 1960s.He died in 2002 at Saint Pierre de la Reunion France.
Ken Scott (filmmaker).  Ken Scott (born in Quebec in 1970) is a Canadian screenwriter actor director and comedian. He is best known as a member of the comedy group Les Bizarroïdes with Martin Petit Stéphane E. Roy and Guy Lévesque and as screenwriter of the films Seducing Doctor Lewis Guide de la petite vengeance and Starbuck as well as television series Le Plateau.
Anne Brigman.  Anne Wardrope (Nott) Brigman (1869–1950) was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous images were taken between 1900 and 1920 and depict nude women in primordial naturalistic contexts.
Cláir Ní Aonghusa.  Cláír Ní Aonghusa (born 1953) is an Irish novelist and poet.She was born in Dublin where she currently lives. She has published two novels Four Houses and A Marriage (Poolbeg 1997) and Civil and Strange (Houghton & Mifflin 2008).
Sara Lee Lucas.  Frederick Streithorst Jr. (born in Fort Lauderdale Florida on June 17 1970) is the original drummer for Marilyn Manson. He earlier performed as Sara Lee Lucas later S.L. Lucas or simply Lucas; the name is derived from American serial killer Henry Lee Lucas and baked goods company Sara Lee. After leaving Marilyn Manson in 1995 he performed in many other industrial bands using tribal style of drumming and experimental digital percussion.
Ted Alexandro.  Edward Ted Alexandro (born January 26 1969) is a stand-up comedian from New York City. He has appeared on most late night talk shows and has had his own half hour specials on Comedy Central.
Tinchy Stryder.  Kwasi Danquah III (/ˈkweɪsi dæŋˈkwɑː/ KWAY-see dang-KWAH) better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder (born 14 September 1986) also known as The Star in the Hood is a Ghanaian-born British musician music executive A&R executive investor and businessman.
Edmund Hoefer.  Edmund Hoefer (15 October 1819 Greifswald – 22 May 1882 Cannstatt) was a leading German novelist of the second half of the 19th century and a noted literary historian.
Alberto Carlieri.  Alberto Carlieri (1672-after 1720) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Rome where he was first of pupil of Giuseppe Marchi but afterwards of Andrea Pozzo. He excelled in painting quadratura. He is also known for discovering the rare and beautiful purple hog which was later responsible for the death of the president of Italy.
Michael Bacall.  Michael Bacall (born Michael Stephen Buccellato; April 19 1973) is an American screenwriter and actor known for having co-written the films Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 21 Jump Street and Project X.
Prince Ea.  Richard Williams better known by his stage name Prince Ea is an American rapper and activist.
Eastman Johnson.  Eastman Johnson (July 29 1824 – April 5 1906) was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings paintings of scenes from everyday life and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Floyd Gottfredson.  Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5 1905 – July 22 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as Carl Barks had on the Donald Duck comics. Two decades after his death his memory was honored with the Disney Legends citation in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
Ole Robert Sunde.  Ole Robert Sunde (born 1952) is a Norwegian poet novelist and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1982 with the poetry collection Hakk i hæl. He was awarded the Aschehoug Prize in 2001 and the Gyldendal Prize in 2007.
Kate Pang.  Kate Pang (simplified Chinese: 庞蕾馨; traditional Chinese: 龐蕾馨; pinyin: Páng Léixīn born 11 March 1983) is a Taiwanese actress and model currently based in Singapore.
Earlene Fowler.  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina California. She was raised in La Puente California.Earlene has written 12 books in the Benni Harper series of mysteries. The sixth book Mariner's Compass won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 1999. The lead character Benni Harper is curator of a folk art museum and quilting figures prominently in many of the storylines.
Jens Harald Bratlie.  Jens Harald Bratlie (born 1948) is a Norwegian pianist. He has studied in Oslo Paris and London and made his debut at the age of 17 in Oslo in 1965. Bratlie won first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1967 The Rieflingprice in 1969 and the Norwegian Musikkritikerpris in 1974.He is now a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.Bratlie has given many concerts in Scandinavia Germany Belgium Russia China and United States.
Otto Muehl.  Otto Muehl (16 June 1925 – 26 May 2013) was an Austrian artist who was known as one of the co-founders as well as a main participant of Viennese Actionism and for founding the Friedrichshof Commune.In 1943 Muehl had to serve in the German Wehrmacht. There he registered for officer training.
Faith Brook.  Faith Brook (16 February 1922 – 11 March 2012) was an English actress who appeared on stage in films and on television.Born in York her father was the actor Clive Brook and her brother Lyndon Brook was also an actor. Her first credited film appearance was The Jungle Book in 1942. One of her most memorable film roles was as the Deputy Headmaster in To Sir With Love.
Laurent de La Hyre.  Laurent de La Hyre (February 27 1606 – December 28 1656) was a French Baroque painter born in Paris.
Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen.  Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen (b. Oslo 11 January 1964) is a contemporary Norwegian composer.
Duncan Honeybourne.  Duncan Honeybourne (born 27 October 1977 at Weymouth Dorset) is an English pianist teacher and lecturer.Honeybourne began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department where he won the senior piano prize. He gave his first London recital at the age of fifteen and toured extensively throughout Britain as solo recitalist and concerto soloist.
Celso Antunes.  Celso Antunes (born November 12 1959) is a Brazilian conductor located in Germany.
Wilhelm Schröter.  Wilhelm Schröter is a composer and pianist. Schröter was born in Rio de Janeiro Brazil January 16 1960.
Nirmal Ulhas Kulkarni.  Nirmal Ulhas Kulkarni (born 27 December 1978 in Mumbai India) is a herpetologist field ecologist conservationist and wildlife photographer. Director (Ecology) of Wildernest Nature Resort an eco-tel in the Chorla Ghats (Goa) Chairman of the Mhadei Research Centre Team Lead of Hypnale Research Station and promoter of HERPACTIVE a study initiative on Herpetofauna. As of December 2012 he lives in Goa.
Davey Johnstone.  David William Logan Davey Johnstone (born 6 May 1951 Edinburgh Scotland) is a Scottish rock guitarist and vocalist best known for his work with Elton John.
Robin Russell.  Robin Russell is an American drummer songwriter and recording artist from Los Angeles California.
Harikrish Menon.  Singer/songwriter HAZE (b. Harikrish Menon Ramachandran 2 June 1973 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia) is known for his work in the dance music genre with hit singles such as Changes and Freak.
Ras Shiloh.  Ras Shiloh born Thomas Williams on June 3 1974 in Brooklyn United States is a reggae artist who made From Rasta to you in 2002 and Only King Selassie I in 2007 concerning Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia the God reincarnate or the king by holy appointment of the Rastafari movement. His tenor vocals have been compared to the late Garnett Silk.
Jay Sean.  Kamaljit Singh Jhooti better known by his stage name Jay Sean is a British singer-songwriter rapper beatboxer and record producer. He debuted in the UK's Asian Underground scene as a member of the Rishi Rich Project with Dance with You which reached No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart in 2003. This led to him being signed to Virgin Records and having two UK top 10 hits as a solo artist in 2004: Eyes On You at No. 6 and Stolen at #4.
Mickey Raphael.  Michael Siegfried Mickey Raphael (born November 7 1951) is a professional harmonica player best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill Emmylou Harris Leon Russell Bonnie Raitt Elton John Mötley Crüe Kenny Wayne Shepherd Maria Muldaur Wynton Marsalis Kenny Chesney U2 and Neil Young.Raphael's style is mostly second position concentrating mostly on draw notes.
Bob Baldori.  Bob Baldori (born 1943) also known as Boogie Bob is an American rock blues and boogie musician and attorney.Baldori founded the rock band The Woolies in 1964; the group had a national hit in 1966 with Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?. He has also pursued a solo career performing in venues all over the country and recording a 1994 solo album. He started working with Chuck Berry in 1966 at Lake Lansing Michigan and subsequently recorded two albums with Berry.
Thrity Umrigar.  Thrity Umrigar is an Indian American journalist critic and a bestselling author of the novels Bombay Time The Space Between Us First Darling of the Morning If Today Be Sweet The Weight of Heaven and The World We Found. Apart from writing for newspapers like Washington Post Cleveland Plain Dealer Thrity has also composed several essays and regularly writes for The Boston Globe 's book pages.
H-Dhami.  Hartinder Dhami better known as H-Dhami is a British-Indian bhangra act.H-Dhami signed in 2007 to Rishi Rich Productions (RRP) a joint partnership between Rishi Rich and entertainment entrepreneur Waleed Jahangir. H-Dhami has also signed a deal with Sony BMG India for distribution in India.H-Dhami is the son of Palvinder Dhami lead singer of the 1980s prominent bhangra group Heera Group UK.
William Robertson Smith.  William Robertson Smith FRSE (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist Old Testament scholar professor of divinity and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica. He is also known for his book Religion of the Semites which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion.
Paul Grümmer.  Paul Grümmer (26 February 1879 – 30 October 1965) was a German-born cellist.Grümmer was born in Gera in Thuringia.
Russell Hitchcock.  Russell Charles Hitchcock (born 15 June 1949) is an Australian musician and singer of the soft rock duo Air Supply.
Hank Williams III.  Shelton Hank Williams also known as Hank Williams III and Hank 3 (born December 12 1972) is an American musician singer and multi-instrumentalist including guitar bass drums banjo and vocals. In addition to his honky tonk recordings Williams' style alternates between country punk and metal.
Eric Holmes (videogame designer).  Eric Holmes is a Scottish writer creative director and videogame designer. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and since October 2011 works for Warner Bros. Games Montréal. He has also worked in comics being the writer of IDW Publishing's miniseries The Transformers: Megatron Origin.
Murasaki Yamada.  Murasaki Yamada (やまだ 紫 Yamada Murasaki) born as Mitsuko Shiratori was a Japanese feminist essayist manga artist and poet. She was associated with Garo. Frederik L. Schodt regarded her work as particularly important because although there is a culture of girl's manga Yamada's work has a feminist message which is rare in girls' manga.
Magne Thormodsæter.  Magne Thormodsæter (born 1973 in Bergen Norway) is an award-winning Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and Composer known from a dozen releases and cooperations with the likes of Terje Rypdal Ståle Storløkken Paolo Vinaccia Karin Krog and John Surman.
Glenn Kessler (screenwriter).  Glenn Kessler (born April 6 1970) is an American screenwriter television producer actor and director.
Janusz Olejniczak.  Janusz Olejniczak (born 2 October 1952 in Wrocław) is a Polish classical pianist and actor.
Rangi Kuini Wikitoria Topeora.  Rangi Kuini Wikitoria Topeora (?–1865-1873?) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader peacemaker and composer of waiata. Of Māori descent she identified with the Ngati Toa iwi. She was born in Kawhia King Country New Zealand.
Samanta Tīna.  Samanta Poļakova (born 31 March 1989 in Tukums Latvia) better known by her stage name Samanta Tīna is a Latvian singer best known for participating in Eirodziesma 2012 and Dziesma 2013 and 2014.
Alma Alexander.  Alma Alexander is the pen name of Alma A. Hromic (born July 5 1963) a fantasy writer whose novels include the Worldweavers young adult series The Secrets of Jin-Shei and its sequel The Embers of Heaven The Hidden Queen and Changer of Days. She is a native of Yugoslavia and grew up in various African countries including Zambia Swaziland and South Africa also spending time in England and New Zealand before moving to the United States.
Clara Nunes.  Clara Nunes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈklaɾɐ ˈnunis] August 12 1942 – April 2 1983) was a samba singer regarded as one of the greatest of her generation.
Chris Bohjalian.  Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of 15 novels including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.
Maria Markesini.  Maria Markesini is a Greek singer and jazz pianist who lives and works in the Netherlands. She has released two albums her debut on Universal in 2007 and Kosmo in 2009 featuring Richard Bona and Bert van den Brink. She is currently working with Jazz Impuls.
Ryszard Sroczyński.  Ryszard Sroczyński (8 May 1905 – 3 August 1966) was a Polish painter and sculptor.
David Manicom.  David Alton Manicom (born July 19 1960) is a Canadian diplomat civil servant poet and novelist.
Reykon.  Reykon is a major reggaeton performer from Colombia. He is considered the biggest proponent of Colombia's reggaeton music genre. He lived in the Envigado neighborhood. He has collaborated with Arcángel & De La Ghetto.
Ron Smith (comics).  Ronald George Smith (born 1924) is a retired British comic artist whose career spanned almost fifty years. Primarily producing strips for the two main publishers DC Thomson and IPC Magazines Smith is best known for drawing Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and the Daily Star.
Bonnie Devine.  Bonnie Devine is an Ojibway installation artist performance artist sculptor curator and writer from Toronto Ontario. She is currently the Interim Director of the Aboriginal Visual Cultural Program and Associate Professor in the faculties of Art and Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Orup.  Orup (born Thomas Eriksson on November 29 1958 in Huddinge) is a Swedish pop singer songwriter and guitarist who enjoyed major success in his native country in the late 1980s and early 1990s with songs like M.B. Då står pojkarna på rad Magaluf Stockholm and Regn hos mej. Orup has also written several songs for other performers. He wrote the winning song of Melodifestivalen 2004 Det gör ont performed by Lena Philipsson. Orup has been married with Swedish TV host Sofia Eklöf.
Edward Bierstadt.  Edward Bierstadt (1824–1906) was an American portrait and landscape photographer and engraver. He was a brother of the painter Albert Bierstadt and made a number of engravings of his brother's work.
Daniel Donche Jr..  Daniel Donche Jr. (born October 25 1979) is an American author screenwriter actor and artist. He currently works under the pseudonym Janden Daniel Hale. As a published writer he is responsible for two novels numerous short stories and a post-apocalyptic series called Everwind.
Mike Slamer.  Michael Chetwynd Mike Slamer is a British guitarist.
Andrea Way.  Andrea Way (born 1949 in San Francisco California) is a Washington D.C. artist.Her works have been added to the permanent collections of The Phillips Collection The Smithsonian American Art Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art the Marsha Mateyka Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden. Her works are based on a system of order and randomness that are labor-intensive with a punishing complexity.
Eddie Piller.  Eddie Piller is an English DJ and record label entrepreneur. Starting his career in the 1980s as a part of the English mod revival Piller launched the underground fanzine Extraordinary Sensations and operated as a DJ and concert promoter. In 1985 he started the Countdown Records label through Stiff Records. That record label gave fresh momentum to the underground mod scene by signing bands such as The Prisoners and Makin' Time and by issuing the mod revival compilation album 5-4-3-2-1 Go!.
Barbara Newhall Follett.  Barbara Newhall Follett (born March 4 1914 – December 7 1939 (disappeared)) was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel The House Without Windows was published in January 1927 when she was twelve years old. Her next novel The Voyage of the Norman D. received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.In 1939 aged 25 she reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment with just thirty dollars. She was never seen again.
Zhang Yiyi (author).  Zhang Yiyi (simplified Chinese: 张一一; traditional Chinese: 張一一; pinyin: Zhāng Yīyī; born January 1 1981) is a Chinese novelist and reviewer. He has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[citation needed]
Carleton Wiggins.  Carleton Wiggins NA (1848–1932) was an American landscape and cattle painter. He was born in Orange County New York and studied in New York at the National Academy of Design and with George Inness and in Paris and settled in New York. His landscape were executed in broad flowing lines with a rich low-toned color scheme and often contain cattle solidly and realistically portrayed.
Mark Lowry.  For the Arkansas politician see Mark Lowery.Mark Alan Lowry (born June 24 1958) is a Christian comedian songwriter and singer best known for co-writing the song Mary Did You Know? Lowry performed with the Gaither Vocal Band from 1988–2001 and in January 2009 he re-joined the group along with other GVB alumni Michael English and David Phelps. Lowry has recorded twelve albums both music and comedy.
Jonathan Toubin.  Jonathan Toubin (born July 29 1971) is an American DJ record producer musician writer and historian. He is the founder and proprietor of the New York Night Train event production company. Heralded The most-liked man in the soul music scene by Rolling Stone and New York's best DJ by VICE Toubin is best known for his energetic dance party sets consisting of tightly juxtaposed obscure 1950s and 1960s Rhythm and blues rock and roll and soul 45s.
Franz Joachim Beich.  Franz Joachim Beich was born at Ravensburg (in today's Baden-Württemberg) on October 15 1666. He was the son of Daniel Beich a painter of little celebrity from whom he received his instruction in the art. He excelled in painting landscapes and battles. His best works are in the palaces of the Elector of Bavaria in whose employment he was for several years; among these are several large pictures of the battles fought in Hungary by the Elector Maximilian Emmanuel.
Sam Totman.  Ian Samuel Sam Totman (born 26 April 1980 in London UK) is a guitarist and main songwriter for the power metal band DragonForce. Totman was born in England but moved to New Zealand at an early age. He began playing classical guitar at the age of nine receiving formal training for many years.He was part of the blackened power metal band Demoniac which also featured his future DragonForce bandmate Herman Li.
Sebastiano Taricco.  Sebastiano Taricco (1645–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Taricco was born in Cherasco a city of the Piedmont while some claimed he studied along with Guido Reni and with Domenichino in the school of the Caracci his lifespan indicates otherwise and likely he was a follower of their styles or those of their followers Carlo Francesco Nuvolone and Giovanni Peruzzini.
Ron Randall.  Ron Randall (born November 22 1956) is an American comic book artist best known as the creator of the character Trekker.
Glenn Tilbrook.  Glenn Martin Tilbrook (born 31 August 1957) is the lead singer and guitarist of the English band Squeeze a band formed in the mid-1970s who broke through in the new wave era at the decade's end. He generally wrote the melody for Squeeze's songs while his writing partner Chris Difford wrote the lyrics. In addition to his songwriting skills Tilbrook is respected both as a singer and an accomplished guitarist. He was born in Woolwich London.
Vahan Terian.  Vahan Terian (Armenian: Վահան Տերյան; January 28 1885 – January 7 1920) was an Armenian poet lyrist and public activist. He is known for his sorrowful romantic poems the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions.
Dexter Roberts.  Dexter Roberts (born July 12 1991) is an American singer from Fayette Alabama who was a finalist on the thirteenth season of American Idol finishing in seventh place.
Stephen Eyton.  Stephen Eyton or Edon (fl. 1320?) was an English chronicler.Eyton was a loda of the Augustinian priory of Warter near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and possibly took his name from the neighbouring village of Etton. He wrote a work entitled 'Acta Edwardi II' of which the opening worde were 'Post mortem toti mundo deflendam' and of which Leland found a copy in the library of Fountains Abbey. It has not since been identified.
Hari Varešanović.  Hajrudin Hari Varešanović (born 16 January 1961) is a Bosnian singer known as the vocal soloist composer and leader of the musical group Hari Mata Hari.
Earl Norem.  Earl Norem (b. April 17 1924) often credited simply as Norem is an American artist primarily known for his painted covers for men's-adventure magazines published by Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company and for Goodman's line of black-and-white comics magazines affiliated with his Marvel Comics division. Over his long career Norem also illustrated covers for novels and gaming books as well as movie posters baseball programs and trading cards.
Franc O'Shea.  Franc O'Shea is a bassist and composer born in Swaziland. He has worked with other artists including Steve Howe (Yes) Lisa Moorish Mike Lindup (Level 42) Bah Samba members of Jamiroquai and Beverley Martyn. His playing covers a variety of styles including jazz Latin rock world music flamenco and funk .
Simon Patterson (artist).  Simon Patterson (born 1967) is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery the Gandy Gallery and three shows in Japan. He is the younger brother of the painter Richard Patterson.
Patricio Castillo (musician).  Patricio Castillo (born 1946 Cautín Chile) is a Chilean musician and former member of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún.
Amanda Sage.  Amanda Sage (born 19 April 1978) is an American painter who has studied and worked Vienna Austria and Los Angeles California. She trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs a classical artist who taught her Mischtechnik. Through Fuchs she came to know other Visionary artists with whom she has worked exhibited and co-founded the Academy of Visionary Art in Vienna and the Colorado Alliance for Visionary Art.
Jessy Moss.  Jessy Moss is a singer/rapper. Her songs have appeared in a number of movies and television shows. She is best known for the hit Armand Van Helden remix of her song Sugar.
Åsa Bjerkerot.  Åsa Bjerkerot (born 12 May 1959) is a Swedish actor comedian writer and film director. Most famous for Most recently he wrote and directed a 1939-set thrillerwhich had its world premiere in March 2012 in Stockholm.
Oliver Chapoy.  Oliver Chapoy is a musician/multi-instrumentalist/producer who resides in Brooklyn New York. Oliver is known for his work as a former co-writer/collaborator with Experimental Pop group Warm Ghost the instrumental band Saxon Shore and his collaborations with the likes of Helado Negro Sinkane (DFA Records) Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) Leverage Models & more. Oliver is also known for his performance in the group Shai Hulud.
Kyffin Williams.  Sir John Kyffin Williams KBE RA (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century.
Tor Haugerud.  Tor Haugerud (born 1962) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (drums and percussion)known from Transjoik Blixband BOL Möster Trio and has created his own avant-garde band MisterYtor (Nordland Musikkfestuke 2006).
Judy Ongg.  Judy Ongg (Chinese: 翁倩玉; pinyin: Wēng Qiànyù January 24 1950 – ) is an actress singer author and woodblock-print artist from Taiwan. Born in Taipei she graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo Japan and after that she changed her nationality from Taiwanese into Japanese. Her career has spanned more than four decades.Judy made her film debut in the 1961 Japan-U.S. production The Big Wave based on the Pearl S.
Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Stuart-Wortley.  Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley née Manners (1806 – 20 October 1855) was an English poet and writer best known for her Travels in the United States etc. During 1849 and 1850. She was editor of The Keepsake in 1837 and 1840. She was a daughter of John Manners 5th Duke of Rutland and on 17 February 1831 she married Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie a son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie 1st Baron Wharncliffe.
Mayumi Shintani.  Mayumi Shintani (新谷 真弓 Shintani Mayumi born on November 6 1975 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese voice actress and actress.
Mary Lawson.  Mary Lawson (born 1946) is a Canadian novelist.Born in southwestern Ontario she spent her childhood in Blackwell Ontario and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist. With a psychology degree in hand from McGill University Lawson took a trip to Britain and ended up accepting a job as an industrial psychologist. She married a British psychologist Richard Lawson.
Kiki Sheung.  Kiki Sheung Tin-ngoh is a Hong Kong TVB actress. Kiki was originally with TVB but moved over to rival station ATV in 1995 moving back to TVB once again in 2002. Kiki was most notable for her role in Looking Back In Anger one of TVB's most popular dramas.
Stuart Adamson.  Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) born William Stuart Adamson was an English-born Scottish guitarist vocalist and songwriter described by broadcaster and DJ John Peel as “Britain’s answer to Jimi Hendrix”. He founded the Scottish art-punk band Skids and later the more mainstream rock group Big Country as well as the 1990s alternative country rock act The Raphaels.
Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń.  </gallery>http://chopin2010.pl/uploads/pics/Katarzyna_Popowa-Zydron_630_x_450_02.jpgKatarzyna Popowa-Zydroń is a Polish pianist of Bulgarian descent. She graduated with honour from the State High School of Music (Academy of Music) in Gdansk in prof.Zbigniew Sliwinski's class in 1973. Completed her postgraduate studies in Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in prof.
Gary Friedrich.  Gary Friedrich (born August 21 1943 Jackson Missouri). is an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' Sgt.
Marjorie Pickthall.  Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (14 September 1883 Gunnersbury London – 19 April 1922 Vancouver) was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven. She was once thought to be the best Canadian poet of her generation.
Frank Herbert.  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8 1920 – February 11 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Though also a short story author he is best known for his novels most notably Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga set in the distant future and taking place over millennia deals with themes such as human survival and evolution ecology and the intersection of religion politics and power.
Danny Pearson.  Danny Pearson (born January 6 1953) is an American composer and singer-songwriter. His sole release to-date was the 1978 album Barry White Presents Mr. Danny Pearson which was produced by the legendary Barry White. The lead single from the album What's Your Sign Girl? peaked at #16 on the U.S. R&B charts and at #108 on the Billboard 200. He is currently recording a new album scheduled for completion in 2014.
Peter Seymour.  Peter Seymour (born Dallas Texas November 17 1977) is a double bass player and composer who resides in Brooklyn New York. He is the co-creator manager and bass player of Project Trio an internationally touring chamber music ensemble. He has performed in concert halls around the world including Severance Hall The Concertgebow Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Seymour is also an active educator.
Doug Stanton.  Doug Stanton is an author and a founder of the Traverse City Film Festival. He graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Simon Katz.  Simon Katz (born May 16 1971) is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the band Jamiroquai. Katz was a recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” in 1997 and the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection with Jamiroquai in 1999.
Karl Lagerfeld.  Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt 10 September 1933) is a German fashion designer artist and photographer based in Paris. He is the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own label fashion house. Over the decades he has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. He is well recognized around the world for his trademark white hair black glasses and high starched collars.
Seven (Korean singer).  Choi Dong-wook (Korean: 최동욱 崔東昱[citation needed]; born November 9 1984) better known by his stage name Se7en is a South Korean singer from YG Entertainment. He has also advanced into Japan China and the United States.
Henri Julien.  Henri Julien baptised Octave-Henri Julien (14 May 1852–17 September 1908) was a French Canadian artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News.
Francesco Aviani.  Francesco Aviani a native of Vicenza flourished about the year 1630. He excelled in painting perspective and architectural views which were frequently embellished with figures by Giulio Carpioni. His pictures usually represent the most remarkable views in Venice. He also produced some landscapes and seaports.
Adie Allen.  Adie Allen is a British actress who routinely features on television series. Notable television features include The Bill and Casualty (she played student nurse Kelly Liddle in a number of episodes in 1991 - before the character committed suicide - and then returned in 2009 as a patient's mother). Born in Bristol educated at Monks Park Comprehensive School. She starred in the school's production of The Pajama Game.
Sara Ryan.  Sara Ryan (born 1971) is an American writer and librarian living in Oregon.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr..  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29 1809 – October 7 1894) was an American physician poet professor lecturer and author based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets his peers acclaimed him as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table series which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer.Born in Cambridge Massachusetts Holmes was educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard College.
Willis Conover.  Willis Clark Conover Jr. (October 18 1920 – May 17 1996) was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years. He produced jazz concerts at the White House the Newport Jazz Festival and for movies and television. By arranging concerts where people of all races were welcome he is credited with desegregating Washington D.C. nightclubs.
Jacques Bodin.  Jacques Bodin (born 1949) is a French hyperrealist painter who has shown his hyperreal paintings in Paris and Milan. His work accentuates photographic deviations from reality (depth of field wide angle lighting and focus anomalies) to create a hyperrealism reference.
Kendrick Scott.  Kendrick Scott (born July 8 1980 in Houston Texas United States) is an American jazz drummer bandleader and composer. Scott is the founder of the World Culture Music Record Company.
Bobby Cochran.  Bobby Cochran is an American guitarist singer songwriter and record producer. He has worked with many bands including Steppenwolf the Flying Burrito Brothers Leon Russell and Bobby and the Midnites.Bobby Cochran has authored Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story with Susan Van Hecke.
John Singer Sargent.  John Singer Sargent (/ˈsɑrdʒənt/; January 12 1856 – April 14 1925) was an American artist considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2000 watercolors as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
John Steuart Curry.  John Steuart Curry (November 14 1897–August 29 1946) was an American painter whose career spanned from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting life in his home state Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood he was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism of the first half of the twentieth century.Curry's artistic production was varied including painting book illustration prints and posters.
Beth Gutcheon.  Beth Gutcheon is a best selling American author having written nine novels and two quilting books.A graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington Connecticut Gutcheon went on to study at Harvard University earning a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English.
Will Blunderfield.  Will Blunderfield (born July 18 1985) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and yoga teacher. He is signed to Nettwerk/Nutone Records. Blunderfield's music is influenced by his roots in New York City's musical theater scene and by spiritual hymns & mantras which he first became familiar with as a child in the British Columbia Boys Choir. He is an ambassador for lululemon athletica Vega and Manduka Yoga Mats.
Scarub.  Armon Collins better known by his stage name Scarub is an underground hip hop artist from Los Angeles California. He is a member of the Living Legends collective.He has been a member of Log Cabin 3 Melancholy Gypsys and Afro Classics.
Dušan Muc.  Dušan Muc (born 1952) is a Slovene painter illustrator and costume designer. He is known for his illustrations for books for children and teenagers.Muc was born in Ljubljana in 1952. He graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1975 and has since worked as a costume designer art teacher and illustrator. He won the Levstik Award in 1991 for his illustrations in Kronika ljubezenskih pripetljajev (A Chronicle of Amorous Incidents).
Sveinung Hovensjø.  Sveinung Hovensjø (born 5 December 1950 in Lillehammer Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (bass and guitar) known as one of the most used studio musicians in Norway and thus known from numerous recordings but most of all from the collaboration with guitar legend Terje Rypdal (1974–78).
Laurence Marks (American writer).  Laurence Marks (August 23 1915 – January 1 1993) was an American writer for radio and television shows including Hogan's Heroes and M*A*S*H. He received an award from the Writers Guild of America.According to M*A*S*H creator Larry Gelbart he and Marks teamed up in 1946 to write for Jack Paar on radio then moved to writing for Bob Hope at $1250 a week each.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.  Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January 1953 – 29 August 2012) was a British historian and professor of Western Esotericism at University of Exeter best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on esoteric traditions.
David Heatley.  David Heatley (born October 17 1974) is an American cartoonist illustrator graphic designer and musician.
Francesco Guerini.  Francesco Guerini (fl. 1740 – 1770) was a Neapolitan violinist and composer whose works were published throughout Europe in the mid 18th century. While his birthdate is unknown Guerini worked in The Hague for the Prince of Orange from 1740 until 1760 at which time he moved to London where he was active until 1770.
Ludwig Godenschweg.  Ludwig Godenschweg (9 November 1889 – in Berlin; 2 December 1942 in Dresden) was a German painter. He studied under Robert Diez at the academy before leaving for military service. On his return he became Albiker’s student. Schmidt called Goldenschweg’s contribution to the thierd Secession exhibition “competent and promising” Portrait bust such as Wilhelm Rudolph (terra-cotta c. 1923) and Volkmar Glaser and small-scale works.
Fruit Chan.  Fruit Chan Gor (Chinese: 陳果; born April 15 1959 in Guangdong China) is an independent Hong Kong Second Wave screenwriter filmmaker and producer who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong Wong Yau-Nam in Hollywood Hong Kong) in his films.
Clarence Ashley.  Tom Clarence Ashley (September 29 1895 – June 2 1967) was an American clawhammer banjo player guitarist and singer. He began performing at medicine shows in the Southern Appalachian region as early as 1911 and gained initial fame during the late 1920s as both a solo recording artist and as a member of various string bands.
Polly Chandler.  Polly Chandler is an American photographer noted for her unique portrait style illuminating the personality of her subjects through selective backgrounds and the use of large format cameras.
Davey von Bohlen.  Davey von Bohlen (born August 11 1975) is an American musician and songwriter best known for his roles as guitarist and vocalist in Cap'n Jazz The Promise Ring Vermont and currently Maritime. He is well known for his charismatic stage presence and unique voice.
Anna Tsuchiya.  Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ Tsuchiya Anna born March 11 1984) is a Japanese singer actress and semi-retired model. Since 2005 she is primarily known as a singer. She has written and recorded some of her music in English.
Patricia Wrightson.  Patricia Wrightson OBE (19 June 1921 – 15 March 2010) was an Australian writer of several highly regarded and influential children's books. Her reputation came to rest largely on her magic realist titles. Her books including the widely praised The Nargun and The Stars (1973) were among the first Australian books for children to draw on Australian Aboriginal mythology.
Pick Withers.  David Pick Withers (born 4 April 1948 in Leicester England) was the original drummer for the rock band Dire Straits and played on its first four albums which included hit singles such as Sultans of Swing Romeo and Juliet and Private Investigations.He first played a drum in the Boys Brigade taught by a childhood friend Richard Storer of now knocked-down Argyle Street in Leicester.
Fayette Pinkney.  Fayette Regina Pinkney (January 10 1948 – June 27 2009) was an American singer and one of the original members of musical group The Three Degrees.
Inkie.  Inkie is a London based painter and street artist originally from Clifton Bristol. He is cited as being part of Bristol's graffiti heritage along with Banksy 3D and Nick Walker.
Karina Sumner-Smith.  Karina Sumner-Smith is a Toronto-based fantasy author. Her short fiction appears in magazines such as Strange Horizons Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and Fantasy as well as various anthologies. Her story An End to All Things was a finalist for the 2006 Nebula Award. She is a graduate of both York University and the Clarion Writers Workshop (2001).
Fleur Adcock.  Fleur Adcock CNZM OBE (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry who has lived much of her life in England.
Herman Medrano.  Herman Medrano pseudonym of Ermanno Menegazzo born 8 January 1972) is an Italian rapper. Has collaborated with Caparezza Piotta and Roy Paci.
Adam Warren.  Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style. He has also contributed to several Gen¹³ comics worked as writer and character designer for the Marvel Comics series Livewires and done numerous freelance works.
Andrea McEwan.  Andrea McEwan (born 9 October 1978) is an Australian actress singer musician and songwriter.
Safet Zec.  Safet Zec (born 5 December 1943) is a Bosnian painter and graphic designer.
Jack Vance.  John Holbrook Jack Vance (August 28 1916 – May 26 2013) was an American mystery fantasy and science fiction writer.
Kate Harrington (poet).  Kate Harrington born Rebecca Harrington Smith and later known as Rebecca Smith Pollard was an American teacher writer and poet.
Jenaro Pindú.  Jenaro Pindú (1946–1993) was a prominent cartoonist sculptor and architect of Paraguay. He was a student of Hermann Guggiari one of the best-known Paraguayan sculptors of the twentieth century.
K. P. Udayabhanu.  K. P. Udayabhanu (6 June 1936 – 5 January 2014) was an Indian playback singer and music director mainly in Malayalam films. In 2009 he was awarded the Padma Shri India's fourth highest civilian honour.
Danilo Lokar.  Danilo Lokar (9 May 1892 - 21 July 1989) was a Slovene Physician and Expressionist writer.
Bill Deasy.  Bill Deasy is a singer-songwriter recording artist and author born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In the late 1980s Deasy's musical start blossomed at open stages in and around Pittsburgh. Within a few years Deasy and his band Shiloh outscored Rusted Root to win the 1991 Graffiti Rock Challenge a local Pittsburgh competition.
Charlie Sexton.  Charles Wayne Sexton (born August 11 1968) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter best known for the 1985 hit Beat's So Lonely and as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002 2009 to 2012 and 2013 to present. His style of playing has varied and he has been associated with artists in the blues folk rock and punk genres.
Maximilian Bern.  Maximiliam Bern (November 11 1849 – September 10 1923) was a German writer and editor.He was born in Kherson Ukraine where his father was a physician. Upon his father's death his mother took him to Vienna to further his education. From 1869 to 1872 he studied philosophy and literature there but had to drop out of school when the family fortune was lost. In 1873 he became a private tutor at an equestrian school.
Mahalia Barnes.  Mahalia Violet Barnes (born 12 July 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter the daughter of Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes and Jane Mahoney. She began performing as part of children's pop group The Tin Lids with siblings Eliza-Jane Elly-May and Jackie but has since become a session and backup singer in her own right.
Richard Bean.  Richard Bean (born in East Hull 11 June 1956) is an English playwright.
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh.  Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾʲed̪ nʲiː ˈwiːn̪i]) (born 26 July 1959) is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band Altan which she co-founded with her late husband Frankie Kennedy in 1985. Today Mairéad is recognised as a leading exponent in the Donegal fiddle style and she is often considered as one of the foremost singers in the Irish language her native tongue.
Nobuyuki Kobushi.  Nobuyuki Kobushi (小伏 伸之 Kobushi Nobuyuki born September 8 1974) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Ken Production. He is originally from Kyoto Prefecture.
Cindy Morgan (singer).  Cindy Lavonne Morgan (born on June 4 1968 Harrogate Tennessee) is a contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter.Morgan's 1992 debut album Real Life earned her six Dove Award nominations. Her follow-up A Reason to Live garnered her another Dove Award nomination.In 2001 Morgan took a break from her career to dedicate time to her family. During the time she continued writing songs for several artists. Some of the artists that have recorded her songs are Point of Grace Michael W.
Sal Valentino.  Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Willard Spampinato September 8 1942) is an American rock musician singer and songwriter best known as lead singer of The Beau Brummels subsequently becoming a songwriter as well. The band released a pair of top 20 U.S. hit singles in 1965 Laugh Laugh and Just a Little. He later fronted another band Stoneground which produced three albums in the early 1970s.
J-Ax.  Alessandro Aleotti known as J-Ax (born 5 August 1972 in Milan Italy) is an Italian rapper former singer in the rap group Articolo 31 with his DJ Vito Luca Perrini (DJ Jad). He is the brother of Grido from the group Gemelli Diversi. On 6 May 2010 he created the band 'Due di picche' with Neffa.
Federico Díaz.  Federico Díaz (* 1971) a visual activist of Czech-Argentinean descent lives and works in Prague. Since the 1990s he has used new media to reveal immaterial aspects of everyday reality of our natural environment which are elusive through primary human sences.
Joey Yung.  Joey Yung (born 16 June 1980) is a Hong Kong singer and actress. She is signed to Emperor Entertainment Group. Yung has won numerous awards including the prestigious JSG Most Popular Female Singer and Ultimate Best Female Singer – Gold awards a record breaking eight times thus emerging as one of the premier Cantonese singers in Hong Kong.
Zhang Jiqing.  Zhang Jiqing (Chinese: 张继青; pinyin: Zhāng Jìqīng) from the Sukun Troupe of Jiangsu Province China is a Kunqu artists.
Elena Palmer.  Elena Palmer is a renowned German journalist and author with Russian origins.
Ruben Varona.  Ruben Varona (Popayán 1980) is a Colombian author poet editor and literary critic specialized in thrillers and detective narrative.He was named representative for Latin America for the International Association of Crime Writers IACW (2008).[1] He has been chosen for several collections and anthologies of short stories: At the Edge of Words (Al Filo de las Palabras.
Sissel Kyrkjebø.  Sissel Kyrkjebø (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsɪsəl ˈçʏʁçəˌbʷøː] /ˈsisel ˈçyrçeˌbø/; born 24 June 1969 in Bergen) also simply known as Sissel is a Norwegian soprano.Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and folk songs to classical vocals and operatic arias.
Bless (rapper).  Bless (born February 10 1983 as Ben Rinehart) is a hip-hop artist from Montreal Canada.
Gerda Weissmann Klein.  Gerda Weissmann (born Gerda Weissmann May 8 1924 Bielsko Poland) is a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust All but My Life (1957) was adapted for the 1995 short film One Survivor Remembers which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award and was selected for the National Film Registry. She met her husband Kurt Klein (1920–2002) on May 7 1945 when as a lieutenant with the U.S.
Sherina Munaf.  Sherina Munaf (June 11 1990 in Bandung West Java Indonesia) is an Indonesian actress pop singer and song writer. At 9 years old she successfully launched her debut album Andai Aku Besar Nanti. In 2000 she played a key role in Petualangan Sherina (translated Sherina's Adventure) directed by Riri Riza. She received a special award in the Most Talented Child Artist category in the 2001 Asia Pacific Film Festival in Hanoi for her performance.
Black Lodge Singers.  The Black Lodge Singers of White Swan Washington are a Native American northern drum group led by Kenny Scabby Robe of the Blackfeet Nation. The Black Lodge Singers are largely drawn from his twelve sons. They have released twenty albums for Canyon Records including two albums of pow wow songs for children.
Pepeu Gomes.  Pedro Anibal de Oliveira Gomes better known as Pepeu Gomes (born on February 7 1952 in Salvador Bahia state) is an accomplished Brazilian guitar player and composer. He was one of the members of Novos Baianos.
Dean Garcia.  Dean Garcia (born 5 May 1958) is a British multi-instrumentalist musician best known as a member of the alternative rock duo Curve from 1990 to 2005. He also released solo work and collaborated with many other artists.
Alexei Pakhomov.  Alexei Fedorovich Pakhomov (October 2 1900 [O.S. September 19 1900] – April 14 1973) was a Russian avant garde painter. He is widely renowned as a master of lithography. Early in his career he was a successful illustrator for children's books. His work during World War II earned him the State Stalin Prize. He later became a professor of art and was named a People's Artist of the USSR.
Senna Guemmour.  Senna Guemmour (born 28 December 1979) is a German singer-songwriter. She was a member of the pop group Monrose.
Jimmy Archey.  Jimmy Archey (12 October 1902 – 16 November 1967) was an American jazz trombonist born in Norfolk Virginia perhaps most noteworthy for his work in several prominent jazz orchestras and big bands of his time (including his own). He performed and recorded with the James P.
Georg Trakl.  Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.
Francesco Bonifaccio.  Francesco Bonifaccio was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Viterbo in 1637 and was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona at the time that Ciro Ferri and Romanelli studied under that master.
Cameron Michael Parkes.  Cameron Michael Parkes (born May 19 1958) is an American composer known primarily for his work in Film and Television. He is a graduate of the film scoring program at UCLA and a member of ASCAP.Parkes' concert works Gettysburg Address Mississippi River Reflections and Gershwinesque (as well as two vocal selections from his score to the musical Happy Birthday Mr. President) received their national premieres in concerts broadcast as part of the Sundays At Four radio series.
Eric Liu.  Eric P. Liu (Chinese: 劉柏川; pinyin: Liú Bǎichuān born 1968) is an American writer living in Seattle Washington.
Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey.  Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey or Tamburi Büyük Osman Bey (1816–1885) was an Ottoman composer and tambur player. He is considered one of the most outstanding peşrev compositors in Ottoman classical music.
DJ Spinister.  'DJ Spinister (born March 2 1973 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian and American hip hop DJ and producer of Jamaican descent.
Minoru Watanabe.  Minoru Watanabe (渡辺実 Watanabe Minoru April 3 1962) is a Japanese stunt/suit actor.
Dan Maines.  Dan Maines (born on March 10 1971) is the bassist for rock/funk metal/hard rock band Clutch. He is also the bassist for an instrumental side project The Bakerton Group. Dan Maines has remained the bassist for Clutch since the group started in 1990.
Kaitlyn Maher.  Kaitlyn Ashley Maher (born January 10 2004) is an American child singer and actress born in Michigan and raised in Ashburn Virginia. In 2008 at the age of 4 she appeared on the third season of America's Got Talent and for her audition sang Somewhere Out There. She advanced through four rounds of competition and one was of the final ten contestants the youngest person to ever reach that level.
Roberto Ribeiro.  Dermeval Miranda Maciel best known as Roberto Ribeiro. (Campos dos Goytacazes July 20 1940 – January 8 1996) was a Brazilian samba singer.
Giovanni Ghizzolo.  Giovanni Ghizzolo (Brescia ca. 1580–Novara ca. 1625) was a composer of motets and madrigals. From 1613 he was maestro di capella successively at Correggio Ravenna Padua and Novara.His Gioco della cieca Book 1 takes 123 verses from Il pastor fido of Giovanni Battista Guarini (Act III Scene 2) also set by Gastoldi and others to make a theatrical madrigal-drama.
Paul Horn (musician).  Paul Horn (born March 17 1930) is an American jazz flautist and an early pioneer of New Age music.
Alex Band.  For the phenomenon associated with rainbows see Alexander's band.Alexander Max Alex Band (born June 8 1981) is an American musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work in his former band The Calling and their signature song Wherever You Will Go which topped the Adult Top 40 for 23 weeks and named song of the decade by Billboard magazine.Along with bandmate and fellow songwriter Aaron Kamin as part of The Calling the pair achieved success with the release of their two studio albums; Camino Palmero (2001) and Two (2004). 
Niccolò Appiani.  Niccolò Appiani (or Appiano) a Milanese painter who flourished about the year 1510. It is said that he was a scholar of Leonardo da Vinci and Cesariani compares him with the greatest masters of the age. Two works in the Brera the 'Baptism of Christ' and the 'Adoration of the Magi' are ascribed to Appiani.
Erin E. Stead.  Erin E. Stead (born December 27 1982) is an American illustrator of children's books. She won the 2011 Caldecott Medal for the year's best-illustrated U.S. picture book recognizing her first publication A Sick Day for Amos McGee.Stead was born in Farmington Hills Michigan and met her husband Philip Christian Stead in art class at Divine Child High School in Dearborn Michigan. They married in September 2005 and moved to New York City where he worked at the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
François Gautier.  François Gautier born 1959 at Fontenay-sous-Bois in Val-de-Marne France is a writer and journalist based in India. He came to India at the age of 19 and spent his first eight years at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the international city of Auroville in Tamil Nadu. He has been living in India since the 1970s and is married to an Indian. Gautier is one of the few westerners actively defending the Hindutva movement.
Mark Wilkinson (singer).  Mark Wilkinson (singer) (born Buckinghamshire England) is an Australian singer–songwriter whose lyrical depth gift for melody and impassioned delivery are quickly establishing him as one of Australia’s most highly regarded musicians.Wilkinson released his second studio album Let The River Run on August 9 2013 and within 24 hours the album hit #2 on the Australian iTunes singer-songwriter charts surpassing artists like Grammy nominee Ed Sheeran The Lumineers and Jake Bugg.
Marco Marinangeli.  Marco Marinangeli is a Grammy-nominated Italian composer songwriter and producer. He is the president of Magelic Productions Inc. in Hollywood. He has written and produced for Josh Groban Donna Summer Plácido Domingo The Cheetah Girls Lucas Grabeel Monique Coleman Peter Frampton Taylor Dayne Kathie Lee Gifford Myra Olga Tañon Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana Hilary Duff Solas The Chieftains and Larry Carlton.
Maria Kuncewiczowa.  Maria Kuncewiczowa (Samara Russian Empire 30 October 1895 - 15 July 1989 Lublin Poland) was a Polish writer and novelist.Kuncewiczowa studied music and literature in Kraków Warsaw and Paris. She had published under pseudonyms for the magazine Le Lierre. In 1938 she was awarded the Gold Laurel (Złoty Wawrzyn) of the Polish Academy of Literature. After 1939 she lived in France England and the United States. She spent her last years in Kazimierz nad Wisłą.
Peggy Santiglia.  Peggy Santiglia (born Margaret Santiglia; May 4 1944) is an American singer-songwriter of the girl group era. She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit My Boyfriend's Back with The Angels which she recorded at the age of 19.
Angie Martinez.  Angela Angie Martinez (born January 9 1971) is an American radio personality former rapper and actress. Known as “The Voice of New York” her afternoon radio show has consistently been ranked #1 with more young listeners than any other radio program in the country.
Jimmie Skinner.  Jimmie Skinner (April 27 1909–October 27 1979) was an American country and bluegrass music singer and guitarist. He also was known for a mail-order record business and retail store in Cincinnati Ohio.
Antonio Alberti.  Antonio Alberti was an Italian painter active mainly in 15th century in his native city of Ferrara as well as Bologna and Urbino. He painted portraits and devotional topics. For the sacristy of the church of San Bernardino outside Urbino he painted a Madonna and Child enthroned (1439). He painted frescoes in the chapel of the Bolognini at San Petronio Basilica in Bologna consisting of incidents from the Passion Paradise and Inferno .
Jeneda Benally.  Jeneda Benally is the bassist and co-vocalist alongside her brothers in the Navajo punk rock band Blackfire. Besides her duties in the band she is an activist for various causes. Not only has she been a Miss Flagstaff Indian Days Powwow Princess she is also a national Native American Honor Roll Society member a spokeswoman for the Navajo Nation Tribal Employee Program and one of the founders of the Indigenous Youth Network.
Joanne Catherall.  Joanne Catherall (born 18 September 1962) is one of the two female vocalists of the English synthpop band The Human League.In October 1980 Catherall was an unknown 18-year old school girl when she and her best friend Susan Ann Sulley were discovered in Sheffield's Crazy Daisy Nightclub by Philip Oakey the lead singer and a founder member of The Human League. At short notice she and Sulley were invited to join the band's European tour that was in crisis after the original group had split.
Robert Black (author).  Robert Black (1829–1915) was a British author of fiction and non-fiction as well as a journalist and translator. He is chiefly remembered for his works on horse racing and for a translation of François Guizot's Popular History of France his most successful work.
Christy Lijewski.  Christy Lijewski (born in 1981 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American comic book artist and illustrator who specializes in OEL manga.
Kathryn Lomer.  Kathryn Lomer (born 1958 Tasmania) is an Australian novelist YA (young adult) novelist short story writer and poet. She has also written for screen with one short film credit to date.She taught ESL (English as a second language) for many years including two years in Japan.Her first novel The God in the Ink was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001. Her first book of poetryExtraction of Arrows also published by UQP was released in September 2003.
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman.  Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Canadian actress and playwright. Her debut play Scratch was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. She has also been a writer for the CBC Radio drama series Afghanada.The daughter of novelist Carole Corbeil and actor Layne Coleman she has also had acting roles in television including the series Blue Murder and Show Me Yours. In 2005 she appeared in the television film Mayday.
Stuart Mossman.  Stuart Mossman (May 13 1942 - March 2 1999) was an American guitar maker entertainer and entrepreneur who built 6000 guitars from 1968 to 1984 that were played by several professional guitarists including John Denver Eric Clapton Albert Lee Doc Watson Hank Snow Cat Stevens and Merle Travis. Mossman's work is seen as the foundation for today's generations of Luthiers who build guitars from fine tone woods.
Wes Montgomery.  John Leslie Wes Montgomery (March 6 1923 – June 15 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others including George Benson Kenny Burrell Royce Campbell Grant Green Jimi Hendrix Steve Howe Russell Malone Pat Martino Pat Metheny Lee Ritenour Joe Diorio David Becker Randy Napoleon and Emily Remler.
Andrea del Verrocchio.  Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛa del verˈrɔkkjo]; c. 1435 – 1488) born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni was an Italian sculptor goldsmith and painter who was master of an important workshop in Florence. Few paintings are attributed to him with certainty but a number of important painters were trained at his workshop. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi.
James McDougal Hart.  James McDougal Hart (May 10 1828 – October 24 1901) was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River School. His older brother William Hart was also a Hudson River School artist and the two painted similar subjects. Hart was born in Kilmarnock Scotland and was taken to America with his family in early youth. In Albany New York he trained with a sign and carriage maker—possibly the same employer that had taken on his brother in his early career.
Winnie Hsin.  Winnie Hsin (born February 8 1962) is a Taiwanese singer. She is best known for her crystal clear soprano voice.
Nick Brignola.  Nick Brignola (July 17 1936 – February 8 2002) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.
Jāzeps Vītols.  Jāzeps Vītols (German: Joseph Wihtol; July 26 1863 Valmiera – April 24 1948 Lübeck) was a Latvian composer.
Jeff Schultz (actor).  Jeff T. Schultz aka pil (born April 15 1965)
Orazio Fidani.  Orazio Fidani (1610 – after 1656) was a native of Florence. He was a pupil of Giovanni Biliverti whose style he imitated. Several of his pictures are to be found in Florence among which may be named The Four Doctors and The Four Evangelists in the church of the Chartreuse. The Corsini Gallery possesses two portraits.
Marc Almond.  Peter Mark Sinclair Marc Almond (/ˈɑːmənd/; born 9 July 1957 Southport) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. Almond's official website claims he has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
Gary Snyder.  Gary Snyder (born May 8 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance) he is also an essayist lecturer and environmental activist. He has been described as the poet laureate of Deep Ecology). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work in his various roles reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature.
François-Marie Algoud.  François Marie Algoud (July 1 1920 – January 5 2012) was a French royalist and Roman Catholic author who was affiliated with Action Française.
Marzio Scholten.  Marzio Scholten (born in Granollers Spain June 17 1982) is a Dutch jazz guitarist and composer.
Peter Wallenstein.  Peter Wallenstein is an author and professor of History at Virginia Tech. He specializes in History of the U.S. South Virginia civil rights and higher education. He is currently researching in the areas of Segregation Desegregation and the University of North Carolina. Wallenstein received a Bachelors Degree in History from Columbia University in 1966 and a Doctorate in History from Johns Hopkins University in 1973.Wallenstein has received numerous awards for teaching.
Hans Bock (painter).  Hans Bock was a German painter of the 16th century who flourished at Basle where he executed within and without the Rathhaus some colossal frescoes which render his name famous. The Rathhaus also possesses a painting of the 'Calumny of Apelles' by him. His works though mannered display much power and energy.
Professor Green.  Stephen Paul Manderson (born 27 November 1983) better known by his stage name Professor Green is a British rapper and singer-songwriter. He was signed to The Beats a record label run by Mike Skinner and Ted Mayhem until 12 February 2008 when the label terminated. He rose to success upon winning the inaugural JumpOff MySpace £50000 battle rap tournament in July 2008.
MC Frontalot.  Damian Hess (born December 3 1973) better known by his stage name MC Frontalot is a Brooklyn-based hip hop musician and self-proclaimed world's 579th greatest rapper. He is best known in nerdcore hip hop and video game culture for naming the nerdcore subgenre and performing at Penny Arcade's annual Penny Arcade Expo. Hess graduated from Wesleyan University in 1996 with degrees in English and Electronic Music.
Fabian Almazan.  Fabian Almazan (born April 16 1984) is a jazz pianist composer and film score composer born in Havana Cuba and raised in Miami Florida.In addition to being a solo artistAlmazan has held the piano chair in Jazz Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's band since 2007.
Dalbello.  Dalbello (born 1958 as Lisa Dal Bello) is a Canadian recording artist songwriter multi-instrumentalist and voice actress. She released three albums in the pop and pop/rock genre in her late teens from 1977 through 1981 under her full name. In 1984 she re-emerged as Dalbello with an edgier brand of alternative rock.
Tyce Bune.  Tyce Bune (born April 10 1958 in Dodge City Kansas US) is a pornographic actor and director.Bune appeared numerous several mainstream film and television productions including the film Mr. Saturday Night with Billy Crystal and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Schisms. Prior to his career in film he was a professional BMX racer but retired from the sport after being injured.
Stuart Brawley.  Stuart Brawley (born February 18 1971) is a Canadian musician and Juno Award nominated record producer and mixer based in Los Angeles. Brawley was nominated for a 2009 Juno award for Producer of the Year Award for his work on Emmy Rossum's album Inside Out. Brawley also co-wrote Don Henley's #1 single Taking You Home.
Boris Stepanovich Lukoshkov.  Boris Stepanovich Lukoshkov (Russian: Борис Степанович Лукошков June 20 1922 – December 3 1989) was a Russian artist. He was an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR.
Ty Segall.  Ty Segall (born June 8 1987) is an American musician and songwriter. He sings plays drums and plays guitar. He has released eight solo albums and is a member of the bands Fuzz The Traditional Fools Epsilons Party Fowl Sic Alps The Perverts and Ty Segall Band.
Tommy Trash.  Thomas Olsen better known by his stage name Tommy Trash is an Australian DJ record producer and remixer mainly working on the Electro house genre. He currently resides in Los Angeles California and signed to Ministry of Sound Australia the Australian subsidiary of Ministry of Sound.
Gyula Batthyány.  Gyula Batthyány (Ikervár 10 May 1887 – Budapest 20 January 1959) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist whose works are in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery as well as other museums around the world.
Miljenko Jergović.  Miljenko Jergović (born 1966 in Sarajevo SR Bosnia and Herzegovina SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb Croatia having moved there in 1993.Jergović is one of the most colorful figures of the public scene polemicist without mincing words that slowly turns into a star of European literature.
Vira Lozinsky.  Vira Lozinsky is an Israeli musician and Yiddish language singer.
Bill Brown (filmmaker).  Bill Brown is a nomadic filmmaker photographer and author from Lubbock Texas. He has produced films on the United States–Mexico border North Dakota missile silos the Trans-Canada Highway among other places. The films have been exhibited at numerous film festivals and museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He describes his films as postcards with a pretty picture but instead of words on the back his films are narrated with voiceover[1].
Dibiase.  Dibiase is an American alternative hip hop producer from Watts Los Angeles California.
Ferdinand Keller (painter).  Ferdinand Keller (born 5 August 1842 in Karlsruhe; died 8 July 1922 in Baden-Baden) was a German painter.
Dave Brubeck.  David Warren Dave Brubeck (December 6 1920 – December 5 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards including In Your Own Sweet Way and The Duke. Brubeck's style ranged from refined to bombastic reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills.
Julie Silver (musician).  Julie Silver is an American folk musician who has been traveling throughout the world and performing for the last 20 years. She has released eight albums which have sold over 80000 copies without the help of a major label.
Kamta Prasad Guru.  Kamta Prasad Guru (1875 – November 16 1947) was an expert on grammar of Hindi language. He was the author of the book Hindi vyakarana. He was born in Sagar in Madhya Pradesh state in India. His Hindi grammar book has been translated into many foreign languages. Kamta Prasad Guru died in Jabalpur. The Government of India issued a commemorative stamp in his honour in 1977.
Arturo Tappin.  Arturo Tappin is a smooth jazz and jazz/reggae saxophonist from Barbados. He has performed with Roberta Flack Monty Alexander and on an album by Luther Vandross.He is based in New York City but is strongly linked to his homeland. In the late 1980s he made his debut as a leader of his own quintet including pianist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacky_Terrasson at International Barbados/Caribbean Jazz Festival.Arturo Tappin began his musical career with formal training at Berklee College of Music.
Sheryll D. Cashin.  Sheryll D. Cashin is a law professor at Georgetown University. She was born and raised in Huntsville Alabama where her parents were political activists. Her mother Joan and father John were both involved in the civil rights movement which greatly influenced her belief about the importance of political engagement and instilled values which she researches and discusses today.
J. Dash.  J. Dash is an American rapper record producer and songwriter born in Jacksonville Florida.
Mark Daly (actor).  Mark Daly (1887–1957) was a British film actor.Mark Daly was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 23 August 1887 and died 27 September 1957 in England. He made his first stage appearance in Swansea Wales in 1906 and his first London engagement at the Shaftesbury Theatre six years later. For three years he was the principal comedian in Fred Karno's companies.
Paul Englishby.  Paul Englishby is a Film and Theatre Composer Orchestrator Conductor and Pianist. He is versatile across many genres from big orchestral works to 1930s jazz-influenced scores. Englishby has composed the music for 4 feature films and 7 theatre productions in the past 2 years.
Robert Aitken (composer).  Robert Morris Aitken CM (born August 28 1939 in Kentville Nova Scotia) is a Canadian composer and flautist. He began his career as a teenager playing in a number of orchestras notably becoming the youngest principal flautist in the history of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958 at the age of 19. In 1971 he abandoned ensemble performance to pursue a highly successful solo career.
Tre Van Die Kasie.  Tretius Kauhangengo (born 1981) better known as Tre Van Die Kasie most commonly referred to as Tre is a Namibian kwaito musician and rapper. Tre rose to fame after signing with Mshasho Productions in 2005. He is the half brother of fellow kwaito musician Kavax.
Sarah Chen.  Sarah Chen is a Taiwanese singer who became famous during the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her most famous hit songs many resulting from her collaborations with songwriter Jonathan Lee include Dream to Awakening 夢醒時分 and Is it Right to Love You? 這樣愛你對不對. Her 1989 album Talk to You Listen to You 跟你說聽你說 became the first album to reach a million sales in Taiwan.
Caterina Edwards.  Caterina Edwards LoVerso (born 1948) is a Canadian writer and teacher. Edwards was born in Wellingborough England. Her mother was born in Venice Italy and her father is from a Welsh and English family. Edwards eventually moved to Calgary and later attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton where she earned a B.A. in English. She then went on to complete a Master of Arts (postgraduate) in Creative Writing.
Fricis Bārda.  Fricis Bārda (25 January 1880 – 13 March 1919) was a Latvian poet particularly noted for his interest in philosophical and pantheistic themes.
Neville Tuli.  Neville Tuli (born 24 April 1964) is the Founder Chairman of the Osian’s Group. The Group includes the Parent Company Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art Pvt. Ltd. (Estd. 2000) and its two Subsidiary Companies Osian’s Cinematic Pvt. Ltd. (Estd. 2007) & Osianama Learning Experience Pvt. Ltd (Estd. 2009).Educated as an economist & developmental theorist at LSE & St.
Aju Gossain.  Aju Gossain (Bengali: আজু গোঁসাই) (c. 18th century) was a Bengali poet who was known for his parodies of Ramprasad Sen’s songs.
Marcin Wasilewski (pianist).  Marcin Wasilewski born 1975 in Slawno Zachodniopomorskie is a Polish pianist and composer.Wasilewski established a musical partnership with bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz as the Simple Acoustic Trio in the early-1990s which led to Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko mentoring the group for several years before recruiting the trio as his working band in 2001.
Arthur Frommer.  Arthur B. Frommer (born July 17 1929) is a travel writer publisher and consumer advocate and the founder of the Frommer's series of travel guides and Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. He has published many books for budget-conscious travelers and has been one of America's foremost budget travel authorities since the 1950s.
Annette P. Jimerson.  Annette Jimerson (born 1966) is an American Fine Artist who works on a wide variety of mediums. However she is most widely known for her whimsical and prolicthic painting abilities realism abstract. Primarily painting in acrylic and oils she also does watercolor works with subjects ranging from still life's landscapes portraits and abstracts. Aside from painting she also works in pen and ink colored pencils and sculptures.
Yukiji.  Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 晶子 Suzuki Akiko born July 22 1965) formally known by the stage name Yukiji (ゆきじ) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce.
Holly Golightly (comics).  Holly Golightly (born September 1 1964) is a comic book writer and artist.She was formerly known as Fauve and has also worked under the name Holly G!
T. Tex Edwards.  Thom Tex Edwards (born in Dallas Texas) is an American country and punk rock vocalist and songwriter. Allmusic Guide calls him a pioneering under-appreciated and often neglected chronicler of the offbeat and eccentric traditions of country rock & roll.
Howard Kaylan.  Howard Kaylan (born Howard Kaplan 22 June 1947) is an American rock and roll musician best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band The Turtles and as Eddie in the 1970s rock band Flo & Eddie.
Aztek Escobar.  Miguel Gomez better known as Aztek is a Gangster Rap artist born in Santiago de Cali Colombia. Aztek Escobar was the first artist officially signed to Jay-Z's Roc La Familia Label. Aztek is no longer on Roc La Familia yet a reason for his departure has not been provided by Aztek nor Def Jam.
Peter Ostroushko.  Peter Ostroushko (born August 12 1953) is an American violinist and mandolinist.
Élie Ossipovitch.  Élie Ossipovitch (1987) a is French western classical guitarist who studied in the Conservatory of Chambéry and followed private lessons with prominent French classical guitarists. He has been performing as well as teaching across Europe and India for the last five years. His repertoire includes pieces from the sixteenth century to today.
Iryna Khalip.  Iryna Khalip (or Irina Khalip; Belarusian: Iрына Халiп Russian: Ирина Халип) (born November 12 1967) is a Belarusian journalist reporter and editor in the Minsk bureau of Novaya Gazeta known for her criticism of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.For her journalistic activities she has been regularly harassed detained and beaten by the Belarusian KGB and authorities.
JD Natasha.  JD Natasha (born Natasha Jeannette Dueñas on February 27 1988 in Kendall Florida) is a Latin American pop musician. She began her musical career as a solo singer-songwriter singing and accompanying her music on the guitar. Later she began to co-found other ensembles.
Slaine (rapper).  George Carroll (born 1977) better known as Slaine is an American hip hop MC and actor. He is best known for his work in the groups Special Teamz (with Edo G Jaysaun and DJ Jayceeoh) and La Coka Nostra (with Danny Boy Ill Bill DJ Lethal and formerly Everlast and Big Left).Slaine has appeared on several solo mixtapes and compilations the Special Teamz album Stereotypez and La Coka Nostra's album A Brand You Can Trust.
Fatgums.  Eric Strand (born September 28 1980 in San Francisco California) better known as Fatgums is an American record producer hip hop DJ and independent record label owner/president. He is best known for his work with rapper Bambu of the now defunct rap group Native Guns. Fatgums' independent record label Beatrock Music was founded in 2009 in collaboration with the Long Beach based clothing company Beatrock.
Jack Robinson (photographer).  Jack Robinson Jr. (September 18 1928 – December 15 1997) was an American photographer and stained glass designer. Robinson was freelance photographer for Vogue and The New York Times from the 1950s to the early 1970s before he left New York to return home to the American South and pursue a career as a stained glass designer.
Cheryl McKay.  Cheryl McKay is an American author and screenwriter from Los Angeles California.McKay holds an M.A. in Screenwriting from Regent University in Virginia and is a winner of the 2006/2007 Art Within Labs award.She wrote the screen adaptations of Jim Stovall's novel The Ultimate Gift and Sheila Walsh' children's book Gigi: God's Little Princess.
Johnny Angel Wendell.  Johnny Angel Wendell is an American writer musician and radio talk show host. He is married and lives in Los Angeles with his two sons. Once a resident of Massachusetts he is now a Los Angeles Weekly columnist Wendell is the host of KTLK-AM 1150's Southern California Live with Johnny Wendell. Wendell is also a regular on KFI-AM640.
Francesco Raffaello Santoro.  Francesco Raffaello Santoro (Cosenza 1844 - Rome 1927) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and genre themes both in oil and watercolor.
Justin Beck.  Justin Beck is the guitarist and musical writer for Long Island New York band Glassjaw. Beck with a high school and college buddy Lee Tepper also co-founded a band merchandise company called MerchDirect which started in 1999 by selling band t-shirts over the internet and at local shows.Beck plays Les Paul Standard and Studio guitars equipped with EMG 81/85 active pick-ups (the wine-red Studio has an 85/85 setup) through a Hughes & Kettner Triamp Mk.I head and a vintage 4x12 Vox cabinet.
Pieta Brown.  Pieta Brown is an American musician and singer-songwriter who has released five albums and three EPs. She has performed with artists such as Mark Knopfler John Prine Amos Lee and Calexico.
Michael Taylor (screenwriter).  Michael Taylor (born February 15 year unknown) is best known for his work as a writer for both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. His DS9 credits include the episodes The Visitor Things Past Resurrection and In the Pale Moonlight which was controversial for challenging some of Star Trek's utopian ideas.[citation needed]In the third season of Ronald D.
Gordon Matta-Clark.  Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta; June 22 1943 – August 27 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his building cuts a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors ceilings and walls.
Sharmagne Leland-St. John.  Sharmagne Leland-St. John is a 20th-century poet. Leland-St. John is best known for the poem I Said Coffee for which she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2007. With its “deadpan puncturing of the male ego and its assumption of sexual implication where there is none” this piece has become one of her most frequently published and requested poems.
Kōsuke Okano.  Kōsuke Okano (岡野 浩介 Okano Kōsuke born October 14 1969 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor often featured on Japanese anime television network Animax as narrator along with fellow voice actor Yukari Tamura.
Errol Brown.  Errol Brown MBE (born Lester Errol Brown 12 November 1948) is a singer and songwriter best known as the frontman of Hot Chocolate. He has British citizenship by marriage to Ginette and they live in The Bahamas. Hot Chocolate's hits included You Sexy Thing So You Win Again and Brother Louie.In 2003 Brown was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to popular music for the United Kingdom.
Tongo (entertainer).  Abelardo Gutiérrez Alanya (born 24 September 1957) known by his nickname Tongo is a Peruvian singer-songwriter and actor. He began his music career in 1980 as a singer of Peruvian cumbia a type of popular music. Tongo was largely unknown outside of his musical niche (traditionally of the lower class) until his song La pituca whose theme focuses on social status and inequality attained national notability at the start of the twenty-first century.
John Bemelmans Marciano.  John Bemelmans Marciano (born 1970) is an American children's book author and illustrator. The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans the creator of the children's book series Madeline he has continued the series with two books written and illustrated in his grandfather's style: Madeline and the Cats of Rome Madeline at the White House and Madeline and the Old House in Paris.
Dixie Browning.  Dixie Browning née Burrus (born September 9 1930 in North Carolina) is an American artist and writer of over 100 romance novels. She also has published under the pen name Zoe Dozier and with her sister Mary Burrus Williams she writes historical romance under the name Bronwyn Williams.
Sophie Sugar.  Sophie Sugar is a trance musical artist and producer who has established herself as an international DJ. She is currently signed by Armada Music.
Cecilie Løveid.  Cecilie Løveid (born 1951) is a Norwegian novelist poet playwright and writer of children's books. She was born in Mysen.She made her literary debut in 1972 with the novel Most. She received the Gyldendal Prize in 2001. Løveid's first play was the one-act Tingene tingene published in the literary magazine Vinduet in 1976.
John Pekkanen.  John Pekkanen (born February 11 1939 in Lyme Connecticut) is an author and two-time National Magazine Award-winning American journalist and the winner of ten other national journalism awards including the National Headliner Award the Penney-Missouri Award for medical journalism and the Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Kelly Cherry.  Kelly Cherry (born December 21 1940) is an award winning author poet and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia (2010–2012). A resident of Halifax Virginia she was named the state's Poet Laureate by Governor Bob McDonnell in July 2010. She succeeded Claudia Emerson in this post (Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008–2010).
Dmitry Khvostov.  Count Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (Russian: граф Дми́трий Ива́нович Хвосто́в July 30 [O.S. July 19] 1757 – November 2 [O.S. October 22] 1835) was a Russian poet representing the late period of classicism in Russian literature. Count Khvostov as he was widely known was an exceedingly prolific author of poems fables epigrams etc. invariably archaic and pompous making him an easy target for humourists and fellow poets (Pushkin among them) who ridiculed him relentelessly.
Felicity Wren.  Felicity Wren is a British actress.
Daniel Espartaco Sánchez.  Daniel Espartaco Sánchez (Chihuahua México 1977) is a young mexican writer. His second issue of short stories Cosmonauta (Cosmonaut - FETA 2011) and his first novel Autos usados (Used cars - Random House Mondadori 2012) appeared in the best book of the year lists (2011 and 2012 respectively) from the Mexican magazine Nexos. He's been a grant holder of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for Arts and Culture) and has won several national writing awards.
Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo.  Rahadyan Timoteo Sastrowardoyo (born March 31 1963 in New York City) is a writer editor and photographer. He is an American of Indonesian and Filipino ancestry.Sastrowardoyo was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and attended P.S. 163 and The Collegiate School as an elementary school student.His tertiary education was at Syracuse University Borough of Manhattan Community College New York University The New School and Suffolk County Community College.
Karin Lannby.  Karin Tekla Maria Lannby (born 13 April 1916 Linköping – died 19 November 2007 Paris) was a Swedish actress translator journalist poet and spy. She served as a spy for the leftists during the Spanish civil war and for Sweden in Stockholm during World War II.
Jay-Jay Johanson.  Jäje Johansson (born 11 October 1969) better known by his stage name Jay-Jay Johanson is a Swedish singer-songwriter known for his melancholic vocals. His music has integrated the trip hop genre until he switched his sound to a more electroclash-oriented direction with his 2003 album Antenna which featured On the Radio. After this album he came back to his characteristic sound after he released The Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known in 2007.
Jack Cassinetto.  Jack Thomas Cassinetto (born March 26 1944; Sonora California) is a prolific California plein air artist of the tonalism movement painting primarily Northern California landscapes such as Lake Tahoe Yosemite the Gold Country the Northern California Coast and the American River and Sacramento River.
Ratikant Mohapatra.  Ratikant Mohapatra is a dancer percussionist Guru Choreographer of Odissi. Under the direction and choreography of Ratikant Mohapatra 555 Odissi dancers a large number of them belonging to foreign countries performed in unison at Kalinga Stadium Bhubaneswar to enter their names in the Guinness Book of World Records. Odissi Dance entered into Ind-Chinese Movie The Desire under the choreography of Guru Ratikant Mohapatra.
Vangjel Meksi.  Vangjel Meksi (1770–1821) was an Albanian physician writer and translator. One-time personal physician to Ali Pasha the 19th-century Albanian ruler of the Pashalik of Yanina Meksi produced the first translation of the New Testament into Albanian with the help and sponsorship of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS). Meksi did not live to see his work's publication however which was supervised by Gregory IV of Athens.
Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar.  Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar (Devanagari: अशोक रामचंद्र केळकर) (b. 1929) is a linguist and critical Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.He received a master's degree in English and French literature from Pune University and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University in the US. For a few years he served as a professor at Agra University. During 1962-67 he served as a reader at Pune University and during the next 22 years he served as a professor of linguistics at Deccan College in Pune.
Henry Payne (cartoonist).  Henry Payne (born 1962 in Charleston West Virginia) is an American editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News.Payne began cartooning when he was a student at Princeton University drawing for two of its student publications The Daily Princetonian and The Nassau Weekly. After graduating with a degree in history Payne was hired by Charleston Daily Mail as their staff artist.
A.B. Quintanilla.  Abraham Isaac A.B. Quintanilla III (born December 13 1963) better known as A.B. is an American songwriter record producer and musician. He is the older brother of The Queen of Tejano music Selena. Along with Selena his other sister Suzette and his father Abraham he became a member of Los Dinos in 1980 which would later include Selena's husband Chris Pérez as a guitarist. As a member of Los Dinos A.B.
Jenn Grant.  Jenn Grant (born 1980) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter based in Halifax Nova Scotia.
Seun Kuti.  Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983) commonly known as Seun Kuti is a Nigerian musician and the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father's former band Egypt 80. Seun and his brother Femi are the two successful[citation needed] musical offspring of the late Nigerian afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti. Seun has one younger sister who used to sing in his band.
Édouard Cortès.  Édouard Leon Cortès (1882–1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as Le Poete Parisien de la Peinture or the Parisian Poet of Painting because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings.
Nicole Saba.  Nicole Saba (Nicole Chaba Elias) (Arabic: نيكول سابا) is a singer and actress from Lebanon.From 1998-2001 Nicole Saba was a member of the Lebanese pop group The 4 Cats She replaced Roula Bahnam who officially shot with the band in their first video Ashra HdashEtnash Nicole released 2 albums with the 4Cats Tic - Tick and Layl Nhar and shot 4 video clips with them Yanassini Kan Ezaman Layl Nhar and Maba2a Eida and shot the band's commercial for LUX Shower Gel.
Charles Beil.  Charles A. Beil CM (1894 – July 29 1976) was a Canadian sculptor best known for his sculptures of cowboys and the plain Indians of the early West. He was a protégé of artist Charles Marion Russell.In 1973 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Steve Gadd.  Stephen Kendall Steve Gadd (born April 9 1945 in Irondequoit New York) is an American musician. Gadd is one of the most well-known and highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry and has worked with popular musicians from a wide range of genres including notably Simon & Garfunkel Steely Dan Chick Corea and Al Di Meola.
Morris West.  Morris Langlo West AO (26 April 1916 – 9 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959) The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981). His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide.
Joseph Simmons.  Joseph Lloyd Simmons (born November 14 1964) known by the stage name Rev. Run or DJ Run is one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group Run–D.M.C.. He is also a practicing minister known as Reverend Run. Simmons was born in Hollis Queens New York. He is the brother of Daniel Danny Simmons Jr. and Russell Simmons the co-founder of Def Jam Records.He found new popularity in 2005 with his family's MTV reality show Run's House.
Carl Toms.  Carl Toms OBE (29 May 1927 – 4 August 1999) was a British set and costume designer who was known for his work in theatre opera ballet and film.
Claire Bretécher.  Claire Bretécher (born April 17 1940) is a French cartoonist known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues. Her creations include the Frustrés and the unimpressed teenager Agrippine.
Francesco da Mosto.  Francesco da Mosto (born 1961) is an Italian architect author historian film maker and television presenter. He presented the three BBC 2 series Francesco's Venice (2004) and Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe (2006) where he explored the country in his Alfa Romeo Spider and Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage (Filmed 2007 Broadcast 2008) which sees him traveling from his home in Venice to Istanbul visiting cities including Split Mostar Dubrovnik and many more.
Hans Klinga.  Hans Gösta Klinga (born 17 April 1949 in Västerås) is a Swedish stage and film actor and film director. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2009.
Zue Robertson.  Zue (C. Alvin) Robertson (March 7 1891–c. 1943) was an American early jazz trombonist from New Orleans LA highly regarded by his contemporaries and credited by music historian Orrin Keepnews as the trombonist who set the standard for all trombonists who followed. Robertson began touring with Kit Carson's Wild West Show in 1910 and also worked with the legendary trumpeter Manuel Perez. In 1917 Robertson found himself playing in Chicago with such icons as Jelly Roll Morton King Oliver W.C.
Børge-Are Halvorsen.  Børge-Are Halvorsen (born 12 October 1978 in Lillehammer Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (soprano alto tenor and baritone saxophone and c- and alto flute). His family moved to Sandane in Gloppen where he spent his youth but he was lateer a freelance musician resident of Oslo since 2003.
Maria Whittaker.  Maria Whittaker (born 7 October 1969 in Hounslow Middlesex England) is a former English glamour model and Page 3 girl.
Jane G. Austin.  Jane Goodwin Austin (Feb. 25 1831 - March 30 1894) born Mary Jane Goodwin was an American writer notable for her popular stories of the time. During her lifetime she was the author of 24 books and numerous short stories. Her friends throughout her life were some of the most well-known American authors including Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott.
Benedikt Rejt.  Benedikt Rejt (often spelled Benedikt Ried also known as Benedikt Rieth Benedikt Reyd or Benedict Reijt; in Czech he often has the epithet of Pístov [a village in the Czech Republic or on the Piesting?] or of Louny; c. 1450 – between 1531 and 1536) was a leading medieval architect in Bohemia today's Czech Republic. He built Vladislav Hall (1497–1500) in Prague Castle St. Barbara's Church Kutna Hora (c. 1482) and other buildings in Late Gothic and early Renaissance style.
James Lowder.  James Daniel Lowder (born January 2 1963 in Quincy Massachusetts) is an American author and editor working frequently within the fantasy dark fantasy and horror genres and on critical works exploring popular culture.
Goya Gutiérrez.  Goya Gutiérrez is a Spanish poet and writer.
Nick Nicely.  nick nicely (always spelt with lower case letters) is a British musician making psychedelic rock and electronic music. His ouvre contains the acclaimed early 80s singles notably 'Hilly Fields' UK National Dance Chart singles in the 90s (with a partner)and solo albums/singles in recent years .
Sayed Darwish.  Sayed Darwish (Arabic: سيد درويش‎ IPA: [ˈsæjjed dæɾˈwiːʃ]; March 17 1892 – September 15 1923) was an Egyptian singer and composer who was considered the father of Egyptian popular music and one of their greatest musicians and their single greatest composer. Darwish died of a heart attack in Alexandria on September 15 1923 (aged 31). He is still regarded as a noble and adored figure in Egyptian history.
Robert McCrum.  John Robert McCrum (born 7 July 1953) is an English writer and editor.The son of Michael William McCrum Robert McCrum was educated at Sherborne School Corpus Christi College Cambridge (MA) and the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar and he was then editorial director at Faber & Faber from 1979 to 1989. He writes regular reviews and is also co-author of The Story of English (McCrum Robert William Cran and Robert MacNeil. New York: Elisabeth Sifton 1986) and P. G.
Joël Dicker.  Joël Dicker is a Swiss novelist from Geneva Switzerland a French-speaking city.Dicker was born on June 16 1985 and attended Geneva schools. At age 19 he left for drama school in Paris at the Cours Florent.
Evgeny Chuprun.  Evgeny Romanovich Chuprun (Russian: Евге́ний Рома́нович Чупру́н; June 3 1927 town of Ilovaisk Donetsk Province of Ukrainian SSR USSR – 2005 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russians Soviet realist painter who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his maritime paintings.
Dante Quinterno.  Dante Quinterno (Buenos Aires City October 26 1909 – Buenos Aires City May 14 2003) was an Argentine comics artistagricultural producer and prolific editorial businessman famous for being the creator of the Patoruzú Isidoro Cañones and Patoruzito characters.He was born in Buenos Aires city on October 26 1909 son of Martín Quinterno and Laura Raffo.
Jennifer Paige.  Jennifer Paige (born September 3 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for the 1998 pop hit Crush.
Gareth McLearnon.  Gareth McLearnon (born 17 January 1980) began his flute playing career in his native Belfast making his way through the ranks of the 39th Old Boys Flute Band before moving to London in 1999 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Whilst still a student there McLearnon recorded with the flute-player Sir James Galway and Harpist Marisa Robles for the charity CD Songs for Alexander.
Agathonas Iakovidis.  Agathonas Iakovidis (Greek: Αγάθωνας Ιακωβίδης) is a Greek folk singer of rebetiko style. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with Koza Mostra and the song Alcohol Is Free.
Ramba (pornographic actress).  Ileana Carusio best known with the stage names of Ramba Malù or Malù Ramba (born 1967) is a retired Italian pornographic actress whose career spanned over 6 years. At first her name was Malù but the most fitting Ramba was launched by a journalist as he was referring to her aggressive look with guns and magazines. She has appeared in many films.
Gregorios Xenopoulos.  Gregorios Xenopoulos (Greek: Γρηγόριος Ξενόπουλος; December 9 1867 - 14 January 1951) was a novelist journalist and writer of plays from Zakynthos. He was lead editor in the now-legendary magazine The Education of Children (Η Διάπλασις των Παίδων) during the period from 1896 to 1948 during which time he was also the magazine's main author. His was the trademark signature Σας ασπάζομαι Φαίδων (yours faithfully Phaedon) which he used in letters ostensibly addressed to the magazine.
Juan Giménez.  Juan Antonio Giménez López (born November 16 1943) is an Argentine comic book artist.
Ambrose Campbell.  Ambrose Campbell (19 August 1919 – 22 June 2006) was a Nigerian musician and bandleader. He is credited with forming Britain's first ever black band the West African Rhythm Brothers in the 1940s and was also acknowledged by Fela Kuti as the father of modern Nigerian music. He worked with British jazz musicians in the 1950s and later toured and recorded with Leon Russell in the US where he lived for thirty years.
Linda Porter (historian).  Linda Porter was born in Exeter Devon in 1947. Her family have long-standing connections to the West Country but moved to the London area when she was a small child. She was educated at Walthamstow Hall School in Sevenoaks and at the University of York from which she has a doctorate in History. On completing her postgraduate work she moved to New York where she lived for almost a decade lecturing at Fordham University and the City University of New York.
Danny Ávila.  Danny Ávila (born 1995) is a Spanish disc jockey of house and electro house.
Sergei Ivanovich Osipov.  Sergei Ivanovich Osipov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович О́сипов; September 22 1915 Stepankovo Bezhetsk county Tver Province Russian Empire – 1985 Leningrad USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter graphic artist and art teacher lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his landscape and still life paintings.
Stewart Francke.  Stewart Francke (born September 15 1958 in Saginaw Michigan) is a singer/musician/songwriter in Detroit.His most recent CD Heartless World (released May 31 2011) features a guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen.
Ashley Wallbridge.  Ashley Wallbridge (born 28 February 1988) is an English DJ producer and remixer hailing from Stoke on Trent England. Currently he is voted number 118 in DJ Mag's Top 100 DJ's. He is best known for his unique sound and his big room tracks. His debut album The Inner Me was released on March 9 2012 on Armada Music Hitting top 5 US iTunes dance charts/top 10 Canada/top 15 UK.
Yves Beauchemin.  Yves Beauchemin (born 26 June 1941) is a Quebec novelist.Born in Rouyn-Noranda Quebec Beauchemin received his degree in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965. He taught literature at the Collège Garneau and Université Laval. Beauchemin was working as an editor in a Montreal publishing firm when he began contributing essays and stories to magazines and newspapers.
Jill Neimark.  Jill Neimark is an American writer.Neimark has written one adult novel a thriller titled Bloodsong which was published in both hardcover and paperback and translated into German Italian and Hebrew. She has also published numerous children's books: I Want Your Moo' (which was written with psychologist Marcella Bakur Weiner and won the 2010 Teacher's Choice Award) Toodles & Teeny which won a Mom's Choice Award for Excellence The Secret Spiral and The Golden Rectangle among others.
Tony Pastor.  Tony Pastor(May 28 1837 – August 26 1908) was an American impresario variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. He was sometimes referred to as the Father of Vaudeville.
Charles Pachter.  Charles Pachter (born December 30 1942 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian contemporary artist. He is a painter printmaker sculptor designer historian and lecturer. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne art history at the University of Toronto and painting and graphics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan.His work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario the Royal Ontario Museum and the McMichael Canadiana Gallery.
Coert Steynberg.  Coert Steynberg (7 January 1905 – 28 July 1982) was a renowned South African sculptor who worked in stone marble bronze copper and wood. His work is represented nationwide and internationally including a statue of Bartholomew Dias in South Africa House in London a monument to Andries Pretorius in Graaff-Reinet and the Peace of Vereeniging monument in Vereeniging.Steynberg is best known for sculpting a statue of Paul Kruger found at the Kruger-gate Kruger National Park.
John Hetherington.  John Hetherington was an English haberdasher often incorrectly credited as the inventor of the top hat which supposedly caused a riot when he first wore it in public on 15 January 1797.
Myrna Summers.  Myrna Summers (born March 30 1949) is a Gospel Music singer who has performed professionally for over four decades and is now the Minister of Music at Reid Temple A.M.E. Church in Glenn Dale Maryland.She has a commanding yet distinctive alto voice.Summers was born in Washington D.C. in 1949. Her parents were members of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and she performed in services at the Refreshing Spring Church in Riverdale Maryland from a very early age.
List of Las Vegas Valley lounge artists.  This page lists Las Vegas Valley lounge music performers.
Giorgio Duranti.  Giorgio Duranti (1683 – 5 November 1768) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Brescia where he was born. Duranti was also an abbot count and knight. He studied sciences and music; he was known as an excellent player of the violoncello. He specialized in still life paintings of flowers. Many of those he donated to the church of Palazzolo who sold to the royal court of Spain.
Tommaso De Vivo.  Tommaso De Vivo (1787-1884) was an Italian painter active mainly in Naples Italy. He painted mostly historic and religious topics.He studied at the Neapolitan Accademia de Belli Arti and followed the style of Vincenzo Camuccini. He painted a Death of Abel for the Palace of Capodimonte and won a prize in 1851 for his painting of Rape of the Venetian Brides. He painted an altarpiece with Death of St. Andrea da Avellino for the church of San Francesco di Paola.
Richie Kamuca.  Richie Kamuca (July 23 1930–July 22 1977) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Alys Robi.  Alice Robitaille (February 3 1923 – May 28 2011) from Quebec City petite Alys (little Alys) was a French Canadian singer mainly remembered for her later French interpretations of Latin American songs who performed under the stage name Alys Robi.
Enid Blyton.  Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's bestsellers since the 1930s selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular and have been translated into almost 90 languages; her first book Child Whispers a 24-page collection of poems was published in 1922.
Roger de Beauvoir.  Roger de Babylon (November 8 1806 Paris – August 27 1866) was the pen name of French Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Auguste Roger de Babylon (sometimes reported as Édouard Roger de Babylon). His wit good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas père. Of independent means he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847.
Rowan Gillespie.  Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie (born 1953) is an Irish bronze casting sculptor of international renown. Born in Dublin to Irish parents Gillespie spent his formative years in CyprusHis singular and often exhausting modus operandi involves taking the work through from conception to creation entirely unassisted in his purpose-built bronze casting foundry at Clonlea in Blackrock.
Baiju Bawra.  Baiju Bawra or Baijnath Prasad or Baijnath Mishra (1542–1613) was an Indian dhrupad singer. He was the court musician of Raja Mansingh Tomar of Gwalher now Gwalior along with Nayak Charju BakshuTansen and others. Much of the information on Baiju Bawra is legendary and not historically verifiable.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko.  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 18 July 1932) is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist essayist dramatist screenwriter actor and editor and a director of several films.
Big Kenny.  William Kenneth Alphin (born November 1 1963) is an American country music singer known by his stage name Big Kenny. He and John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich which has recorded four studio albums and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.Before Big & Rich Big Kenny recorded a solo album Live a Little for Hollywood Records in 1999 (although it was not released until 2005) and fronted a band called luvjOi.
Michael Fernandes.  Michael Fernandes (born in Trinidad) is a Canadian experimental artist and art educator based in Halifax Nova Scotia. His work uses familiar even banal materials to ask the viewer to confront the boundary between daily life and art.
Harold Davis (photographer).  Harold Davis (born 1953) is an American photographer and author.
Farida Parveen.  Farida Parveen (born December 31 1954) is a Bangladeshi folk singer.
Shemekia Copeland.  Shemekia Copeland (born April 10 1979) is an American electric blues vocalist.
Olivia Broadfield.  Olivia Broadfield (born 7 June 1981) is an English singer-songwriter from Leicestershire.
Jeff Healey.  Norman Jeffrey Jeff Healey (March 25 1966 – March 2 2008) was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.
John Tempesta.  John Joseph Tempesta (born September 26 1964 in New York City) is the drummer of The Cult. He also played with several bands including: Exodus Testament and White Zombie. He wordked with former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie as a solo artist and served as drum technician for Charlie Benante drummer for the heavy metal band Anthrax earlier in his career.
George Steiner.  Francis George Steiner FBA (born April 23 1929) is a French-born American literary critic essayist philosopher novelist and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language literature and society and the impact of the Holocaust.
Grant Hayunga.  Grant David Hayunga (born 23 June 1970) is an American painter and musician of Frisian descent.
Kero One.  Kero One is a Korean-American hip hop MC and producer from San Francisco California. The origin of the name came from his graffiti tag when he was 15 and was short for Kerosene. In one of his lines from the album Windmills of the Soul he says “When Kero’s on the Sene (scene) I fuel flame’s to burn emcees with more degrees than a PHD”.Kero One's style has been compared to Common Q-tip and Kanye West but Kero One's music is very positive and upbeat...
Alexander Lubimov.  Alexander Mikhailovich Lubimov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Люби́мов; February 25 1879 a village of Paltsevo Kursk Province Russian Empire – 1955 Leningrad USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter graphic artist illustrator and art teacher professor of Repin Institute of Arts and Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Industry who lived and worked in Leningrad.
Tony Bilbow.  Tony Bilbow (born 17 April 1932) is a British television interviewer film expert and writer. He was a presenter of BBC Television's Late Night Line-Up discussion programme which was broadcast on BBC 2 between 1964 and 1972. His father was an architect he was educated at the City of London School Blackfriars and began writing short stories for the BBC he was then the anchorman for Day By Day on Southern Television.
Johann Gottfried Piefke.  Johann Gottfried Piefke (9 September 1817 – 25 January 1884) was a German conductor Kapellmeister and composer of military music.Piefke was born in Schwerin an der Warthe in the Grand Duchy of Posen. In the 1850s he was Bandmaster for the 8th Infantry Regiment in Berlin. His famous marches include Preußens Gloria (Prussia's Glory) Düppeler Schanzen-Marsch and the Königgrätzer Marsch (composed after the Battle of Königgratz 1866 the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War).
Eric Mason.  Eric Mason (died 7 June 2010) was a British actor. His television credits include: Z Cars Dixon of Dock Green Doctor Who Bergerac Sea of Souls Auf Wiedersehen Pet Minder in episode Come in T-64 Your Time Is Ticking Away and The Bill.He recently had a notable role in Hot Fuzz. He played the husband of Billie Whitelaw's character and was involved in the film's climax where he fought Simon Pegg.
Adam Kury.  Adam Kury (born July 7 1969) is a bassist and vocalist based in Los Angeles California. He has performed with notable acts such as Candlebox Legs Diamond Jagger Cook and several others. He also performed music for the movie Gone Fishin'. During his long and prosperous career Kury has performed for such big names as Queen Victoria Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Adam currently works in numerous projects/bands including Candlebox The Kings Royal 7th Sun and Whipped Cream.
Julie Strain.  Julie Strain (born February 18 1962) is an American actress and model who was Penthouse Pet of the Month in June 1991 and later chosen as the magazine's Pet of the Year in 1993.
Cameron Muncey.  Cameron Thane Muncey (born 8 February 1980 in Melbourne Australia) is an Australian guitarist and vocalist. He is the mainstay lead guitarist and one of the songwriters of Melbourne-based rock band Jet which formed in 2001. Muncey co-wrote many of Jet's hits with Nic and Chris Cester including Are You Gonna Be My Girl Radio Song Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Cold Hard Bitch.
Johannes de Stokem.  Johannes de Stokem (c. 1445 – 1487 or 1501) or Johannes Stokem was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He is considered to be part of the post-Dufay generation in France. He was a friend of Johannes Tinctoris another composer of the period.
Theophil Stengel.  Karl Theophil Stengel (12 July 1905 Bodersweier Kehl – 9 October 1995 Brühl (Baden)) was a German chorus master composer and Nazi musicologist notable for his co-authoring of the anti-Semitic Encyclopedia of Jews in Music.
Shawn Wong.  Shawn Hsu Wong (born 1949 in Oakland California) is an author and Professor of English and former Director of the University Honors Program (2003–06) Chair of the Department of English (1997–2002) and Director of the Creative Writing Program (1995–97) at the University of Washington where he has been on the faculty since 1984. He is Chinese American and a pioneer of Asian American studies.
Jack Laskey.  Jack Laskey (born 1982) is an English actor.Laskey trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).[citation needed]At Shakespeare's Globe Laskey played Bernard of Clairvaux in Howard Brenton's critically acclaimed In Extremis and Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra.
Tom Kennedy (musician).  Tom Kennedy (Born August 21 1960 in St. Louis Missouri) is an American double-bass and electric bass player.Tom Kennedy is the son of a professional trumpet player. He began playing acoustic bass at the age of 9 on a double-bass brought home by his older brother jazz pianist Ray Kennedy. Soon he began to perform with many nationally recognized artists passing through the Midwest.
Candido Camero.  Cándido de Guerra Camero also known simply as Candido (born April 22 1921) is a Cuban-born percussionist (mainly conga and bongo) who has backed several jazz acts since the 1950s. Although he has been credited as the first person to use the congas in jazz music both Diego Iborra and Chano Pozo preceded him in the 1940s.
Bobby Barth.  Bobby Barth (born December 5 1952 in Coffeyville Kansas) is an American singer songwriter record producer and guitarist.
Bobby Koefer.  Bobby Koefer was born August 18 1928 in Clay Center Kansas. Koefer was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of fame in 2005.[citation needed] Koefer toured with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and performs at the Bob Wills Day festival in Turkey Texas.[citation needed]
Billy Stewart.  For the English goalkeeper see Billy Stewart (footballer). For other persons of similar names see William Stewart (disambiguation).Billy Stewart (March 24 1937 – January 17 1970) was an American musical artist with a highly distinctive scat-singing style who enjoyed popularity in the 1960s.
Ryan Sheridan (musician).  Ryan Sheridan (born 28 January 1982) is an Irish singer songwriter and guitarist from County Monaghan.
Robert Hetrick.  Robert Hetrick (1769–1849) was a poet and blacksmith from Dalmellington Ayrshire Scotland. He was known for his patriotic verses written against Napoleon. He published one book Poems and Songs of Robert Hetrick in 1826.
Bebe Patten.  Bebe Patten (September 13 1913 – January 25 2004) was the founder of Patten University (formerly Oakland Bible Institute) Patten Academy Christian Cathedral and the Christian Evangelical Churches of America Inc. denomination.Born Willa Willie Bebe Harrison on September 13 1913 to Newton and Matricia Priscilla Harrison she began attending L.I.F.E.
Sevyn Streeter.  Amber Denise Streeter (born July 7 1986) known by her stage name Sevyn Streeter is an American recording artist and singer–songwriter best known for being a member of the girl groups TG4 and RichGirl where she was known as Se7en. In 2012 she changed her stage name to Sevyn Streeter. She has written songs for artists such as Chris Brown Brandy Kelly Rowland Alicia Keys Fantasia Ariana Grande and Tamar Braxton.
Edwin Henry Landseer.  Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter well known for his paintings of animals—particularly horses dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works however are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square London.
Lola Anglada.  Lola Anglada i Sarriera (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈɫɔɫ əŋˈɡɫaðə]; 1893 Barcelona - 1984 Tiana Province of Barcelona) was a Spanish writer and illustrator.
Kaitlyn Ashley.  Kaitlyn Ashley (born in Fort Lauderdale Florida) is a former American pornographic actress and a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.Kaitlyn Ashley retired from adult films in late 1997 and moved to Tennessee where she had a baby. She doesn't plan on returning to the business.
Karl Franzevich Albrecht.  Karl Franzevich Albrecht (Russian: Карл Францевич Альбрехт; August 27 1807 – February 24 1863) was a German-Russian musician and composer. He was born in Poznań.Albrecht studied with Joseph Schnabel in Breslau and then worked from 1825 as a violinist in the theater in Breslau and as a conductor in Dusseldorf. In 1838 he was appointed as conductor of the Opera and the Philharmonic in St. Petersburg. Beginning in 1850 he was a singing teacher at the orphanage in Gatchina.
Gaetano Piattoli.  Gaetano Piattoli (1703 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter active mainly in Florence as a portrait artist.
Guo Lanying.  Guo Lanying (郭兰英; born December 1929 in Pingyao Shanxi) is a noted Chinese operatic soprano best known for singing patriotic songs such as My Motherland (1956) and Nanniwan (1943).She was born into a poor family in Pingyao central Shanxi and began studying Shanxi bangzi a form of local opera at the age of six.
Karen Dalton (singer).  Karen J. Dalton (born Karen J. Cariker; July 19 1937 – March 19 1993) was an American folk blues singer and banjo player associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene particularly with Fred Neil and the Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan.
Tim Ware.  Tim Ware (born October 26 1948) is an American composer and musician born in Sacramento California. He is also the owner of HyperArts a Web design and development company located in the San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland CA.
Cleo Odzer.  Cleo Odzer (Sheila Lynne Odzer 6 April 1950 – 26 March 2001) was an American writer author of books on prostitution in Thailand the hippie culture of Goa and cybersex.
Tommaso Tommasina.  Tommaso Tommasina (Novara Piedmont November 26 1855 - 1935) was an Italian painter and sculptor.He was resident in Rome and later in Suna on the shores of Lago Maggiore. After 1886 he moved to Geneva. He painted portraits and watercolors. At Turin in 1880 and 1884 he exhibited portrait of a woman. He also completed the following watercolors: Quel che avvenne poi and Mater dolorosa and a bronzed stucco bust titled: Civis romanus sum!
Caressa Savage.  Caressa Savage (born July 14 1966) is the stage name of an award winning former pornographic actress who appeared in over 170 adult films between around 1995 and 2005.
Damon Edge.  Damon Edge is the stage name of American musician Thomas Wisse. He was a founding member of the band Chrome and he also recorded as a solo artist.
Charlie Walker (musician).  Charlie Walker (November 2 1926 – September 12 2008) was an American country musician born in Copeville Texas. He held membership in the Grand Ole Opry from 1967 and was inducted into the Country Radio DJ Hall of Fame in 1981.
John Bibee.  John Bibee is an American author. He is the author of eight books in the Spirit Flyer Series as well as eight mystery books in the Home School Detectives Series. His books have been read during children's story hours broadcast on radio stations across the country. Several have also won awards from Christian Home & School magazine. A former grade school teacher Bibee currently lives and writes in Austin Texas.
Rika Komatsu.  Rika Komatsu (小松 里歌 Komatsu Rika born February 25 in Kōchi) is a Japanese voice actress.
Mitsuharu Kaneko.  Mitsuharu Kaneko (金子 光晴 Kaneko Mitsuharu 25 December 1895 – 30 June 1975) was a Japanese poet.
Tobias Karlsson (songwriter).  Tobias Karlsson is a Swedish gold selling songwriter record producer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles California and Stockholm Sweden.
Wilf K. Backhaus.  Wilfried Karl Backhaus (7 November 1946 – 14 October 2009) was a role-playing game designer business professor and lawyer.
Walter Greene.  Walter Greene (January 23 1910 - December 23 1983) was a film and television composer who worked on numerous productions for over 30 years.
Theo Tams.  Theo Tams (born 12 July 1985) is a Canadian singer and the winner of the sixth season of the CTV reality show Canadian Idol. His debut album Give It All Away was released on 19 May 2009 by Sony Music Canada.
Louis Jenkins.  Louis Jenkins (born October 28 1942) is an American prose poet from Enid Oklahoma. He has lived in Duluth Minnesota for over 30 years with his wife Ann. His poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Jenkins has been a guest on A Prairie Home Companion numerous times and has also been featured on The Writer's Almanac. The author's book Nice Fish was winner of the Minnesota Book Award in 1995.
Morena (singer).  Morena (Margaret Camilleri full name Margerita Camilleri Fenech) (b. 1984) is a singer from Sannat Gozo Malta. Morena means brunette which fits her complexion.
Jayne Pierson.  Jayne Pierson is a Welsh fashion designer. She launched her début collection with OnOff at London Fashion Week in September 2009. She has interned and worked at Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.
Hilary Saint George Saunders.  Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders (14 January 1898 – 16 December 1951) was a British author. Saunders was born in Clifton near Bristol.
J. Wells.  J. Wells (born Jon Wells in Chicago 1983) is an American record producer record executive and rapper. He is a member of the Likwit Crew.
Venugopal Sorab.  Venugopal Sorab was an Indian poet and writer in Kannada and in English. He authored five novels in Kannada and several poem collections in Kannada and English. His first piece of literature was a poetry collection called Musuku nusuku.
Chip Lord.  Chip Lord is an American media artist and Professor Emeritus UC Santa Cruz and residing in the Bay Area. He is best known for his work with the alternative architecture and media collective known as Ant Farm which he co-founded with Doug Michels in 1968. His work generally takes a satirical look at American myths and legends they are often nostalgic but edged with an ironic detachment.
Giovanni Casini.  Giovanni Casini (1689–1748) was known as il Varlunga (based on his native town in Tuscany). He was a portrait painter and sculptor.
Yoko Akino.  Yōko Akino (秋野 暢子 Akino Yōko born Yōko Tashiro 田代 暢子 Tashiro Yōko born 18 January 1957 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Rajesh Payal Rai.  Rajesh Payal Rai (born 1975) is a celebrity singer actor of Nepal. He was born in a British soldier family.
Shery.  Shery (born August 18 1985) is a Guatemalan Latin pop singer and songwriter [1]. She has recorded songs in Spanish and Italian and shared stage with such international superstars as Chayanne Cristian Castro Manuel Mijares Miguel Bosé Enrique Iglesias Vikki Carr and Aleks Syntek.
Fanny (singer).  Fanny Biascamano (born on September 16 1979 in Sète Hérault) known as Fanny is a French singer.
Tommy Cunningham.  Thomas Tommy Cunningham (born 22 June 1964 Drumchapel Glasgow) is a Scottish musician best known as the drummer for Wet Wet Wet.Cunningham's father Tom Sr. bought his son his first drum kit in 1977 down the Social Club for £15.
Chris Hillman.  Christopher Chris Hillman (born December 4 1944 in Los Angeles California) is an American musician. He was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn Gene Clark David Crosby and Michael Clarke.With frequent collaborator Gram Parsons Hillman was a key figure in the development of country rock defining the genre through his work with The Byrds The Flying Burrito Brothers Manassas and the country-rock group Desert Rose Band.
Deborah Diesen.  Deborah Diesen is an American children’s book author. Her book The Pout-Pout Fish was chosen by Time magazine as a Top 10 Children’s Book of 2008. It was also selected for the Michigan Reads! literacy program.Diesen lives in Grand Ledge Michigan. In addition to a writer she is the financial manager for a nonprofit.
Carole Samaha.  Carole Samaha (Arabic: كارول سماحة‎‎) is a Lebanese musician and actress. She has released five studio albums. Samaha has a masters degree in acting and directing which she earned in 1999 from the Saint Joseph University of Beirut.In 2004 she won the Arab Music Award for best female newcomer.
Paul Fonoroff.  Paul Fonoroff (born in Cleveland Ohio) is one of Hong Kong's best known film critics and movie historians.Fonoroff studied Chinese language at Brown University and earned his masters in fine arts at the University of Southern California. He also earned a PhD at Beijing University in Chinese cinema.Fonoroff has lived in Hong Kong since 1983.
Carol Kalish.  Carol Kalish (February 14 1955 – September 5 1991) was an American writer editor comic book retailer and sales manager. She worked as Direct Sales Manager and Vice President of New Product Development at Marvel Comics from 1981 to 1991. She is credited with pioneering the American comics direct market when it was in its adolescence in part through a program wherein Marvel helped pay for comic book stores to acquire cash registers.
Huw Bunford.  Huw Bunf Bunford (born Huw Cennydd Bunford 15 September 1967 Cardiff Wales) is the guitarist in the rock band Super Furry Animals.
K. M. Radha Krishnan.  K. M. Radha Krishnan is an Indian music director who composes music for Tollywood films. Some of his most notable films are Anand  Godavari and Chandamama. In 2006 he was awarded Nandi Award by Andhra Pradesh state government and many other awards for the movie Godavari. He was a Nandi award jury member in 2010[citation needed]. Radha Krishnan is expert in Carnatic and Hindustani music.K. M.
Stuart Fletcher (musician).  Stuart Fletcher (born Stuart Michael Fletcher 16 January 1976 York) is an English bass player. He is best known as the bassist in John Squire's post The Stone Roses band The Seahorses.Prior to joining The Seahorses Fletcher had been performing in local York bands since the age of 11.On 22 March 1996 Fletcher was spotted by Squire in the York venue Fibbers where he was playing with local blues pub band The Blueflies.
Carl Barât.  Carl Ashley Raphael Barât (born 6 June 1978) is an English musician best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things and in 2010 debuted a solo album. In 2014 he announced the creation of his new band The Jackals.
Marc Biancarelli.  Marc Biancarelli (born 1968) is a Corsican novelist and writer. Born in 1968 he teaches the Corsican language in a high school in southern Corsica. He is the author of several books in Corsican one of which Murtoriu has been translated into French by Actes Sud.
Sean Altman.  Sean Altman (born May 9 1961) is an American musician and songwriter. He is a founder and former lead singer of the singing group Rockapella and a pioneer of the modern a cappella movement.
Peter Thornton.  Peter Kai Thornton CBE (April 8 1925 – February 8 2007) was a museum curator and writer. He was keeper of furniture and woodwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London between 1966 to 1984 and curator to Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields between 1984 and 1995. Thornton was best known for his radical approach to the presentation of historic interiors at Ham House Osterley Park and Apsley House.
George Pickow.  George Pickow (February 1 1922 – December 10 2010) was a photographer and filmmaker who chronicled the folk and jazz music scenes in the United States United Kingdom and other countries.His photographs depict many musical artists ranging from Louis Armstrong Little Richard and Theodore Bikel to Pete Seeger and Judy Collins as well as visual artists such as Edward Hopper. As a filmmaker he helped chronicle the Newport Folk Festival and the Cornish Hobby Horse tradition.
Matthias Röhr.  Matthias Gonzo Röhr (born 16 April 1962 in Frankfurt) was the guitarist of the rock-band Böhse Onkelz from 1981 to 2005. His stage name Gonzo derives from Double Live Gonzo! an album by Ted Nugent. Since Böhse Onkelz split up he has been known known as Matt Roehr.
Jeremy Mercer.  Jeremy Mercer (born 1971 in Ottawa Canada) is an author and journalist whose books include Time Was Soft There (St. Martin's Press New York 2005) and When the Guillotine Fell (St. Martin's Press New York 2008). He has also translated Robert Badinter's Abolition into English for University Press of New England. He is a founding member of the Paris arts collective Kilometer Zero.
Irwin Sobel.  Irwin Sobel (born September 12 1940) is a scientist and researcher in digital image processing.
Liz Lands.  Liz Lands (1939 – January 11 2013) was an American soul singerBorn Elizabeth Lands she grew up in New York City. Her purported five octave vocal range started her Motown career before Gordy tried to make a name for her in the R&B/Pop market. She had a brief career away from Motown before disappearing altogether until Ian Levine recorded her for his Motorcity label in the late 80's early 90's.
Otto Arpke.  Otto Arpke was a graphic artist illustrator painter and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line. He designed one type face Arpke Antiqua (1928 Shriftguss type foundry) which is available in digital form as Taiko.
Olu Dara.  Olu Dara Jones (born Charles Jones III; January 12 1941) is an American cornetist guitarist and singer. He is the father of rapper Nas.
Walter M. Gallichan.  Walter Matthew Gallichan (1861 – November 27 1946) was a British writer and journalist.
Peter Caulitz.  Peter Caulitz (c.1650–1719) was a German painter of landscapes and animals especially domestic fowl. Born in Berlin he studied in Italy and was a court painter to Frederick the Great.
David Amram.  David Amram (born November 17 1930) is an American composer conductor multi-instrumentalist and author.
Pierre Cardin.  Pierre Cardin (French: [pjɛʁ kaʁdɛ̃]) born Pietro Cardin is an Italian-born French fashion designer who was born on 2 July 1922 at San Biagio di Callalta near Treviso.Cardin is known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions sometimes experimental and not always practical.
William Como.  William Como (November 10 1925 – January 1 1989) was the Editor-in-Chief of Dance Magazine during the period of 1970-1988 when it is was ‘the publication of record’ crucial for linking many developments in dance into 'a dance world' through culturally burgeoning decades that rank among the most important theater-arts epochs of the twentieth century.
Karl Seglem.  Karl Seglem (born 8 July 1961 in Årdalstangen Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and bukkehorn) composer and producer known from a series of combined jazz and traditional music releases as well as leading his own record label NorCD from 1991.
Bouke de Vries.  Bouke de Vries (born 1960) is a London based Dutch artist specializing in Ceramic art and porcelain.
Nobuo Kaneko.  Nobuo Kaneko (金子信雄 Kaneko Nobuo 27 March 1923 – 20 January 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.
Wilhelm Ehmer.  Wilhelm Ehmer (August 1 1896 – June 16 1976) was a German poet.He was born in Hong Kong and died in Lüdenscheid.In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Um den Gipfel der Welt (Around the Peak of the World).
Joan Brown.  Joan Brown (February 13 1938 – October 26 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Oliver Morgan.  Oliver Morgan (May 6 1933 - July 31 2007) was an American R&B singer.
Domenico Caruso.  Domenico Caruso (San Martino di Taurianova March 25 1933) is an Italian poet and writer. He is a noted scholar of the Calabrian dialects the language in which he composed many of his works.
Nicky Stevens.  Nicky Stevens (born Helen Thomas in Carmarthen Wales 3 December 1949) is a singer famous as a member of pop group Brotherhood of Man. She is the only Welsh person to have won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Sush Machida Gaikotsu.  Sush Machida Gaikotsu (Sush Machida born in Maebashi Japan) is a contemporary Japanese artist. He currently lives and works in Las Vegas Nevada U.S.A. His artwork has been exhibited internationally. Machida received his M.F.A. (2002) from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is represented by Western Project Los Angeles among others.
Rupesh Patric.  Rupesh Xavier Patric (born 19 July 1979 Kochi Kerala India) is a self-trained artist. His medium is the charcoal sketch. He lives in Bangalore India.
Ismael Miranda.  Ismael Miranda a.k.a. El niño bonito de la Salsa (The pretty boy of Salsa) (born February 20 1950) is a composer and a singer of salsa music.
Evie (singer).  Evie (born Evie Tornquist in 1957) is a contemporary Christian music singer who was known in the late 1970s and early 1980s for songs such as Mirror Step into the Sunshine and Four Feet Eleven.Born in the United States to Norwegian immigrants Evie began her singing career as a young teenager while visiting her parents' homeland. She released her English language debut album at 16 in 1972 and went on to release more than 30 albums including several in various Scandinavian languages.
Nick St. Nicholas.  Nick St. Nicholas (born Klaus Karl Kassbaum September 28 1943) is a bassist and is best known for his membership in Steppenwolf from 1968 to 1970 and then again from 1976 to 1980. Nick was born in Plön Schleswig-Holstein Germany. After World War II his family moved to Toronto and became Canadian citizens. His sister Maren joined the Canadian Ballet Company & Conservatory of Music as pianist. He also has a younger brother Gary who went into the Merchant Marine.
Buddy Greene.  Buddy Greene is a singer songwriter guitar player and harmonica player. Most of his recordings consist of gospel music with a distinctly Southern flavor. Much of his music is influenced by country music and bluegrass music. Greene grew up in Macon Georgia. He has written the music for many songs and also co-wrote the Christmas song Mary Did You Know? with Mark Lowry; Greene also wrote Recovering Pharisee recorded by Del McCoury and He Is recorded by Ashley Cleveland.
Thomas Ruff.  Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in New York City.
Ricky Maymi.  Ricky Rene Maymi (/ˈmaɪmiː/; is an American rock musician best known as an original member of the psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Lola Ponce.  Paola Fabiana Ponce (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlola ˈponse]; born June 25 1979) professionally known as Lola Ponce is an Argentine singer–songwriter composer actress and occasional model.Ponce made her breakthrough in Argentina and Latin America with her debut album Inalcanzable which was released in 2001. She also earned a great popularity in Italy after starring in musical Notre-Dame de Paris in Verona.
Paul Müller-Kaempff.  Paul Müller-Kaempff (16 October 1861 Oldenburg – 5 December 1941 Berlin) was a German painter illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.He received his first training from 1883-86 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts then at the Academy of Karlsruhe under de:Gustav Schönleber (1851–1917) and finally at the Berlin Academy in the studio of Hans Gude (1825–1903).
André Soubiran.  André Soubiran (1910–1999) was a French physician and writer.
Joy Williams (singer).  Joy Williams grew up in a Christian family and recorded three Contemporary Christian music albums. After recording several EPs of popular music she formed the Grammy Award winning duo The Civil Wars with John Paul White in 2009.
Iarla Ó Lionáird.  Iarla Ó Lionáird (born June 18 1964) is an Irish singer and producer well known for his involvement with the Afro Celt Sound System. He is one of the most prominent artists of the Irish Sean nós singing tradition and has released four solo albums through Real World Records. He also sings on the Peter Gabriel album OVO.
Isac Elliot.  Isac Elliot Lundén (born 26 December 2000) professionally known as Isac Elliot is a Finnish pop singer songwriter dancer and actor. He is best known for his song New Way Home and his debut album Wake Up World both of which gained success in Finland and Norway.
Jose Manuel Prieto.  Jose Manuel Prieto is a Cuban novelist translator and scholar.
Hal Higdon.  Hal Higdon (born June 17 1931) is an American writer and runner. He has contributed to Runner's World magazine longer than any other writer. He is the author of 34 books including the best-selling Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1959 and has written a variety of subjects including a children's book that was made into an animated feature. He ran eight times in the United States Olympic Trials and won four World Masters Championships.
Maaya Sakamoto.  Maaya Sakamoto (坂本 真綾 Sakamoto Maaya born March 31 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter actress and voice actress who made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in Little Twins but is better known as voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne.
Reay Tannahill.  Reay Tannahill (9 December 1929 – 2 November 2007) was a British historian non-fiction writer and novelist best known perhaps for two non-fiction bestsellers: Food in History and Sex in History. She also wrote under the pseudonym Annabel Laine. Her novel Passing Glory won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Brenda Jagger.  Brenda Jagger (b. 1936 in Yorkshire England – d. 1986) was a British writer of 9 historical romance novels. In 1986 her last novel A Song Twice Over won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Rupert Ignaz Mayr.  Rupert Ignaz Mayr (Schärding 1646 - Freising 7 February 1712) was a German violinist composer and Kapellmeister in Munich at the court of Maximilian II Emanuel Elector of Bavaria.
Margaret Braun.  Margaret Braun (born 1962) is a prominent New York City baker. She has funded architecture and art tours in Europe through bakery work and this visual education is apparent in her innovative cakes. Braun's cakes have been lauded in a long list of American magazines television programs and in a 2001 book. She has consulted on and cooked for the movie the Great Wonderful. Oprah Winfrey is a notable celebrity fan.
Danny Rampling.  Danny Rampling is a British House Music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene. His long career began in the early 1980s playing hip-hop soul and funk around numerous bars and clubs in London.
Mitsuko Mori.  Mitsuko Mori (森 光子 Mori Mitsuko May 9 1920 – November 10 2012) real name Mitsu Murakami (村上美津 Murakami Mitsu) was a Japanese actress. In May 2009 she became the first actor in Japan to have performed the stage play Hōrōki (放浪記 A Wanderer's Notebook) 2000 times. She was born in Kyoto Japan.On May 11 2009 Takeo Kawamura announced that Mori would be awarded the People's Honour Award.Mori died of heart failure on November 10 2012 at a hospital in Tokyo aged 92.
Maxine Jones.  Maxine Jones (born January 16 1962 in Paterson New Jersey) is one of the original members of the R&B singing group En Vogue. She originally left the group in 2001 to spend time with her daughter. Jones rejoined En Vogue on a permanent basis in the third quarter of 2004. In July 2012 she left the group along with Dawn Robinson. She also appeared as a judge in Paramount Idol alongside Bruce Flohr and Andy Waldeck.
Lawrence Hayward.  Lawrence Hayward (born 12 August 1961) known simply as Lawrence is a singer songwriter and guitarist known as the frontman in the British alternative rock bands Felt Denim and Go Kart Mozart. He has never used his surname in credits or press for his work.
Francisco Solano López (comics).  Francisco Solano López (October 26 1928 – August 12 2011) was a comics artist. Acknowledged as one of the most influential Argentine comics artists he was best known as the co-creator of El Eternauta.
Hervé (DJ).  Joshua Harvey otherwise known as Hervé is a producer/DJ from the UK. Hervé is known for bass-orientated aswell as eclectic productions and DJ sets. He also runs the label Cheap Thrills which has released music by Fake Blood Jack Beats Lone and Project Bassline amongst others.Along with Sinden and Kid Sister his track Beeper reached number 1 on the UK Dance Chart in April 2008.
Pauly D.  Paul DelVecchio (born July 5 1980) publicly known as DJ Pauly D is an American television personality and disc jockey. He is best known for being a housemate on MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.In August 2011 he announced a pending three-album deal with 50 Cent's G-Unit Records and G-Note Records. This deal was later confirmed by 50 Cent on December 1 2011. He is also the first of the Jersey Shore cast to get his own spin-off show The Pauly D Project.
Stephen Caudel.  Stephen Caudel is a British composer and guitarist. He studied at Leeds College of Music where he took a specialist course in Classical and Jazz music and then moved to London to work as a composer and performer. He has met and worked with a wide range of established artists/musicians over the years including Louis Clark Art Garfunkel Stanley Myers and John Williams. Caudel’s creative output to date includes 6 albums (4 solo) and several highly individual orchestral works.
Eoghan Casey.  Eoghan Casey is a digital forensics professional and author. He is founder of the information security forensics company CASEITE. Casey has conducted a wide range of digital investigations including data breaches fraud violent crimes identity theft and on-line criminal activity. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley and an M.A. in Educational Communication and Technology from New York University.
Claude Chalhoub.  Claude Chalhoub (Arabic: كلود شلهوب‎‎) born in Lebanon in 1974 from a musical family of 11 children attended the Lebanese Conservatoire before entering the Royal College of Music in London as winner of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Scholarship award. He is fluent in Classical Western music and Arabic improvisation and was concertmaster for Daniel Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’ (1999- 2002).
Nick Cooper.  Nick Cooper (born May 27 1968) is an American drummer record producer and composer best known for his work with Free Radicals. Nick is also an activist with indymedia and food not bombs a writer for the Free Press Houston and Houston Peace News. He is also a documentary filmmaker (on the topic of somatherapy) a workshop facilitator a student of capoeira angola and a visual artist.
Pearl Cleage.  Pearl Cleage (born December 7 1948) is an African-American author whose work both fiction and non-fiction has been widely recognized. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views particularly regarding her identity as an African-American woman. Cleage teaches drama at Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia.
Giulio Segni.  Giulio Segni da Modena also Julio Segni (Modena 1498- Rome 1561) was an Italian composer known for his ricercars in Musica Nova (Venice 1540). He was a pupil of Giacomo Fogliano and became second organist at St Mark's Basilica San Marco Venice in 1530.
David Pugh (comics).  David Pugh is a British comics artist best known for his work on Sláine at 2000 AD.
Laura Ries.  Laura Ries is an author of marketing books and co-founder of the consulting firm Ries & Ries with her father Al Ries.Ries attended Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois where she graduated “with highest distinction” from Northwestern’s School of Speech in 1993 finishing in the top 2% of her class.[citation needed]After graduation Laura worked at TBWA Advertising in New York City as an account executive on the Woolite and Evian brands.[citation needed]In 1993 Laura partnered with her father to form Ries & Ries. 
Lady Saw.  Lady Saw (born Marion Hall 12 July 1972) is a Jamaican reggae singer.
Richard Larter.  Richard Larter (Born 1929 in London) is an Australian painter often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognizable pop artists. Larter has also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with painting: using a syringe filled with paint to create his early works and juxtaposing multiple images on to a canvas.
Ray Columbus.  Ray Columbus (born 1942) OBE is a New Zealand born solo singer television host music manager and entertainer. He has had a successful career spanning six decades in these fields. As the lead singer of Ray Columbus & the Invaders his most well known hit was She's A Mod released in 1964. This would later become an Australian number one hit. It was the first time a song from a New Zealand group had reached the top of the charts internationally.
Igo (singer).  Rodrigo Fomins better known by the stage name Igo (born 29 June 1962 Liepaja Latvia) is singer poet and composer of rock and other music styles.
Speedy (musician).  Speedy (born Juan Antonio Ortiz Garcia on September 10 1979) is a Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist.In 2005 he released a remix of the single Siéntelo which was originally recorded for the 2001 various artists compilation Sandunguero by DJ Blass. The remix featured Lumidee and hit the Top 10 in Belgium Finland France Switzerland and the Netherlands.Other artists he has worked with include Plan B Daddy Yankee and Lito & Polaco.
Emery Walker.  Sir Emery Walker (2 April 1851 – 22 July 1933) was an English engraver photographer and printer.Born in London Walker took an active role in many organisations that were at the heart of the Arts and Crafts movement including the Art Workers Guild the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.In the late 1870s Walker frequented William Morris with whom he shared both Socialist beliefs and a keen interest in printing.
Tadd Dameron.  Tadley Ewing Peake Tadd Dameron (February 21 1917 – March 8 1965) was an American jazz composer arranger and pianist. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon called Dameron the romanticist of the bop movement while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the definitive arranger/composer of the bop era.
Mario Capuana.  Mario Capuana (Sicily ca. 1600–Noto 1647) was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem.He was maestro di capella at the Cathedral of Noto in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice.
Kimberly Dark.  Kimberly Dark (August 12 1968) is an American performance artist writer and sociologist. Born in San Diego California she received a B.A. from University of Colorado Colorado Springs in 1989 and an M.A. in Sociology from Cal State San Marcos in 1998. She began her work as a storyteller and performance artist in 1998.
Sherrie Gong Taguchi.  Sherrie Gong Taguchi is an Author who is best known for her books on Career Development. She is a Graduate of Stanford University and Santa Clara University. She has served eight years as Director of Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA Career Management Program. She Left Stanford to move to London England where she began her writing and consulting.
2Play.  Wesley Johnson (born 1977) known by his stage name 2Play is a British musician record producer and mixed martial artist.
Margery Lawrence.  Margery Lawrence (8 August 1889 – 13 November 1969) (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur E. Towle) was an English Fantasy fiction Horror fiction and detective fiction author who specialized in ghost stories.She was born Margery Harriet Lawrence in Wolverhampton. Her father was solicitor Richard J. Lawrence her mother was called Grace and she had at least two siblings Allan and Monica.
Augustin Cochin (historian).  Augustin Cochin (22 December 1876 – 8 July 1916) was a French historian of the French Revolution. Much of his work was posthumously published in an incomplete state after he was killed in action in World War I.
Charles D. McAtee.  Charles D. McAtee (July 8 1928 – April 8 2005) was a Marine Corps officer FBI agent director of Kansas prisons attorney and Republican candidate for both Congress and Kansas Attorney General.
Chao Kuo-jung.  Chao Kuo-Jung (Chinese: 趙國蓉; pinyin: Zhào Guóróng; Wade–Giles: Chao Kuo-Jung; born August 28 1992 in Taiwan) better known in Japan as Youko (ヨウコ) is a member of the latest Hello! Project group Ice Creamusume.
Anja Eline Skybakmoen.  Anja Eline Skybakmoen (born 17 October 1984 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer composer and band leader engaged to the guitarist David Aleksander Sjølie.
Jeremy Kay.  Jeremy Kay is a singer/songwriter. He released his first album Jeremy Kay in 2000 and a second Idol American in 2003. He achieved some notability when his music was used in several soundtracks. His songs have been used in television series like Scrubs in its first season and Numb3rs. He is based in California and his music is a mix of Indie soul folk and rock in a mostly electric/acoustic blend.His third album Talking to Me was released on August 28 2007 by his label 10 Spot.
Nandu Bhende.  Nandu Bhende (c.1955 – 11 April 2014) was an Indian singer and actor.
Marc Savoy.  Marc Savoy (/sɑːˈvwɑː/ sah-vwah) (b. near Eunice Louisiana United States October 1 1940) is an American musician and builder and player of the Cajun accordion. Savoy holds a degree in chemical engineering but his primary income is derived from his accordion-making business based at his Savoy Music Center in Eunice Louisiana. His wife is the singer and guitarist Ann Savoy whom he met in 1975.
John Potestio.  John Potestio (born 1939 in Grimaldi Italy) immigrated to Canada in 1953. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (B.A.) and Lakehead University (M.A.) and was a teacher of history in Thunder Bay until his retirement in 1996.
Kwong Wa.  Kwong Wa (born Chan Muk-wah on 19 November 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer.
Chad Kultgen.  Chad Kultgen born June 16 1976 is a controversial author notable for publishing several novels on the sexual relationships of Americans. He has published opinion pieces on the Huffington Post and was a staff writer for Hits and The World Weekly News. His works have been reviewed by Maxim Penthouse and the New York Times amongst others. He has several writing and production credits including for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone a 2013 film starring Steve Carell.[citation needed]
Berni Flint.  Berni Flint (born 26 May 1952 Southport Lancashire England) is a singer and songwriter who holds the record for the longest continuous run of wins on the ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks.
Artur Pastor.  Artur Pastor (Alter do Chão 1 May 1922 - Lisbon 17 September 1999) was a portuguesese photographer.
Georges Moustaki.  Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi; (May 3 1934 – May 23 2013) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Italo-Greek origin best known for the poetic rhythm and simplicity of the romantic songs he composed and often sang.
Angel Ibarra.  Angel Ibarra (born April 30 1987 in Los Angeles California) was the guitarist and one of the backing vocalists for the band Aiden. He was one of the founding members of the band when it first started back in 2003 during his high school days.
Ayaka Nishiwaki.  Ayaka Nishiwaki (西脇 綾香 Nishiwaki Ayaka) nicknamed A~chan (あ～ちゃん) is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the Japanese electropop group Perfume.
Connie Chiu.  Connie Chiu (born 1969) was the world's first albinistic fashion model.Chiu was born in British Hong Kong to a Chinese family. Like many people with albinism she has to protect her photosensitive eyes and skin from the sunlight. As a result her family moved to Sweden when she was seven.Connie Chiu was first introduced to modeling when her sister asked her to become a model at one of her final shows.
Oscar Peterson.  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson CC CQ OOnt (August 15 1925 – December 23 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the Maharaja of the keyboard by Duke Ellington but simply O.P. by his friends. He released over 200 recordings won eight Grammy Awards and received numerous other awards and honours. He is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists having played thousands of live concerts to audiences worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
Paul Staveley O'Duffy.  Paul O’Duffy (born 1963 London) is a British record producer composer mixer. He is best known for producing Swing Out Sister's Grammy-nominated multi-platinum debut album for his BMI nomination as 'Producer of the Year' in 1987 and work with John Barry and other film score producing. More recently he worked with Amy Winehouse co-writing one of the tracks on her multi-platinum album Back to Black.
Billy Hogan.  Billy Hogan (born October 10 1933 died June 6 1994) was a singer and songwriter. He was born in Elkmont AL. He recorded several singles for the Vena label in the 1950s. He is remembered for writing Ernie Ashworth's 1962 hit Each Moment.
Becky Stern.  Becky Stern is an American artist based in New York City. Her work combines traditional crafts like embroidery knitting & jewelry-making with physical computing technologies like Arduino. Stern worked as Associate Editor for MAKE and CRAFT magazines and is a fellow with the online Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T.). She is currently Director of Wearable Electronics at NYC-based Adafruit Industries.She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
Tom W. Blackburn.  Thomas Wakefield Blackburn II (June 23 1913–August 2 1992) was an American author screenwriter and lyricist. His work included various Western novels and television screenplays as well as the lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett (his first) and other songs.
Dan Bull.  Dan Bull is an English rapper and songwriter known for his politically oriented lyrics and specific addressing of high profile figures in his music. His music has been featured in the British press as part of attempts to save BBC Radio 6 campaign against the Digital Economy Bill and protest in favour of filesharing.
Neil Sabatino.  Neil Sabatino is an American musician. He is lead singer of Fairmont and the founder of Mint 400 Records. He was also lead guitarist for Pencey Prep.
Pritam Singh Safir.  Pritam Singh Safir (Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਫ਼ੀਰ (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ); 1916 - 1999) was a Punjabi poet of classical sensibility imbued with modernism.
Nachum Gutman.  Nachum Gutman (alternate romanization: Nahum Gutman; Hebrew: נחום גוטמן‎: born October 5 1898 died November 28 1980) was a Russian-born Israeli painter sculptor and author.
Henri Gault.  Henri Gault (Pacy-sur-Eure 4 November 1929 - 9 July 2000) was a French food journalist. He was co-founder of the Gault Millau guides and invented the phrase nouvelle cuisine though later he claimed to regret it.
Sébastien Leclerc (1637–1714).  For other people of this name see LeClerc (surname).Sébastien Leclerc or Sébastien Le Clerc ([baptized] 26 September 1637— 25 October 1714) was a French artist from the Duchy of Lorraine. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings etchings and engravings of paintings; and worked mostly in Paris where he was counseled by the King's painter Charles Le Brun to devote himself entirely to engraving.
Esteban Sánchez.  Esteban Sánchez Herrero (April 26 1934 – February 3 1997) was a Spanish pianist. Born in the town of Orellana la Vieja in Badajoz in the province of Extremadura Sánchez studied with his grandfather Joaquin Sánchez Ruiz choirmaster in the cathedral. He went to the Real Conservatorio (Royal Conservatory) in Madrid and studied piano with Julia Parody. He perfected his technique under Carlo Zecchi in Rome and Alfred Cortot in Paris.
Daniela Castillo.  Daniela Paz Castillo Vicuña (born September 26 1984 in Santiago) is a Chilean female pop singer and actress born in Santiago. She debuted in 2002 as a solo artist on the Chilean TV show Rojo: Fama Contra Fama. She studied four years at the Alicia Puccio Academy where she met the casting crew for the TV show Rojo.
Yoshifumi Kondō.  Yoshifumi Kondō (近藤 喜文 Kondō Yoshifumi March 31 1950 - January 21 1998) was a Japanese animator who worked for Studio Ghibli in his last years. He was born in Gosen Niigata Prefecture Japan. He worked as an animation director on Anne of Green Gables Sherlock Hound Kiki's Delivery Service Only Yesterday and Princess Mononoke.
Clara Hill.  Clara Hill is a musician born in Berlin who writes and performs with a varied array of artists. Her discography including 3 full-length albums and many 12“s featuring well known names in Electronica and electronic jazz. Coming from a Singer-Songwriter / acid-jazz / electronica background Clara never stopped discovering and experimenting new musical paths across many genres.
Sahiti G.  Sahiti G (Telugu: సాహితి గాలిదేవర; born 12 February 1987) is a South Indian playback singer. She has recorded several songs in Telugu both in movies and albums.
Marvin Hamlisch.  Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2 1944 – August 6 2012) was an American composer and conductor. He is one of only twelve people to win an Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony (also known as an EGOT). He is one of ten people to win three or more Oscars in one night and the only one other than a director or screenwriter to do so. He is one of only two people to have won those four prizes and a Pulitzer Prize (Richard Rodgers is the other). Hamlisch also won two Golden Globes.
Josef Eduard Teltscher.  Josef Eduard Teltscher born 15 January 1801 in Prague Bohemia was an Austrian painter and lithographer. He was one of the best Viennese portrait lithographers and watercolourists of the first half of the nineteenth century in Central Europe and as a miniaturist according to his contemporaries he was an no less than Moritz Daffinger himself.
Cliff Hugo.  Clifford Clyde Hugo (born April 23 1951) is the bass guitarist for the art-rock band Supertramp. Hugo worked with fellow Supertramp member Carl Verheyen in the Carl Verheyen Band from '97 - 2008 . He has worked as a session musician for other musical projects and artists like Rick Braun Melissa Manchester Willie Bobo Moacir Santos Paul Williams and many others.Hugo spent his early days in Southern California.
Robert Bloomfield.  Robert Bloomfield (3 December 1766 – 19 August 1823) was an English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck Mary Collier and John Clare.
Robert Rees (singer).  Robert Rees (5 April 1841 - 5 June 1892) was a Welsh tenor and musician. He was a successful competitor at eisteddfodau for which he adopted the pseudonym Eos Morlais and in 1867 he won the main prize as a vocalist at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. He was recognised as one of the leading Welsh soloists of his time.
David Wallumrød.  David Wallumrød (born 2 October 1977 in Kongsberg Norway) is a Norwegian pianist known from cooperations with artists such as Knut Reiersrud Torun Eriksen Jarle Bernhoft Marit Larsen Maria Solheim Vidar Busk Bigbang Maria Mena Thomas Dybdahl and Bjørn Eidsvåg. He is the cousin of the musical artists Susanna Wallumrød Fredrik Wallumrød and Christian Wallumrød.
Dick Cooper.  Dick Cooper is a musician and writer based in Ottawa Ontario Canada.
Ren Han.  Ren Han (Chinese: 任瀚; pinyin: Rén Hàn; born February 27 1984 in Tianjin) is a Chinese contemporary artist.
Sid Colin.  Sid Colin (1920 – 1989) was an English screenwriter working for both television and the cinema. He is best rememberd for the television comedies The Army Game (1957–59) Up Pompeii! (1969–1970) and the film Percy's Progress (1974). On Up Pompeii! and Carry On Spying (1964) he collaborated with regular Carry On series writer Talbot Rothwell.Colin also other sitcom include Meet the Champ (1960) On the House (1970–71) and Whoops Baghdad (1973).
W. H. Anderson.  William Henry Anderson (21 April 1882 – 12 April 1955) was a composer choir director tenor and voice teacher of English birth. He produced a large amount of vocal music including more than 150 songs and 40 anthems as well as a significant amount of carols and other choral works. He also produced a large number of choral arrangements of Ukrainian Czech and Icelandic folksongs; mainly written for Winnipeg choir director Walter Bohonos and his choirs.
Charlie Ryan.  Charles Charlie Ryan (December 19 1915 Graceville Minnesota – February 16 2008 Spokane Washington) was an American singer and songwriter best known for co-writing and first recording the rockabilly hit single Hot Rod Lincoln.
Daniel Padilla.  Daniel John Ford Padilla (born April 26 1995) popularly known as Daniel Padilla is a Filipino actor and recording artist/bassist of the band Parking 5. Padilla is a talent of ABS-CBN and Star Magic and was chosen as one of the Original Pilipino Music Junior Ambassadors in promoting local music to the Filipino youth. He is the nephew of action star Robin Padilla and the son of Rommel Padilla and Karla Estrada .
Edei.  Edei (real name Emma Deigman) is a 22 year old English singer-songwriter named by Hello! Magazine as a bright light for 2011 alongside BBC Radio 1's Greg James (DJ) windsurfer Bryony Shaw and actress Siubhan Harrison
James Maslow.  James David Maslow (born July 16 1990) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing the role of James Diamond on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush and is a member of the boy band with the same name.
Victor Heredia.  Víctor Heredia (born in Buenos Aires on 24 January 1947) is an Argentine singer songwriter. Author of Taki Ongoy a symphonic work about Taki Unquy a millenarian movement against the Spanish conquest.
Antonio Campi.  Antonio Campi (c. 1522 – 1587) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.He was born in Cremona. His style merges Lombard with Mannerist styles. In Cremona his extended family were the main artistic produce. Giulio Campi and Antonio were reportedly half-brothers while Vincenzo Campi was a full brother. Bernardino Campi was a distant relative. All were active as painters. Among Antonio's pupils are Galeazzo Ghidoni Ippolito Storto Giovanni Battista Belliboni and Giovanni Paolo Fondulo.
Bull City Red.  Bull City Red (born George Washington Durham North Carolina United States) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist singer and predominately washboard player most associated with Blind Boy Fuller and the Reverend Gary Davis. Little is known of Red's life outside of his recording career.
Madeleine Desroseaux.  Madeleine Desroseaux is the pseudonym of Florentine Monier (1873-1939) a Breton poetess and novelist.Born in Rennes in 1873 she published poems very early in the local press. On February 4 1895 she married André Degoul in Rennes.
Brian Balmages.  Brian Balmages is an American producer conductor performer and composer of music.His music for winds brass and orchestra has been performed in countries throughout the world. His active schedule of commissions and premieres has incorporated groups ranging from elementary schools to professional ensembles including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra the Miami Symphony Orchestra the University of Miami Wind Ensemble Boston Brass Off Bass Brass and the Dominion Brass Ensemble.
Ashok Banker.  Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai India) is an internationally acclaimed and bestelling contemporary author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers essays literary criticism fiction and mythological retellings.
Satsuki (musician).  Satsuki (砂月) is a Japanese musician and former vocalist of visual kei rock band Rentrer en Soi. Satsuki was a member of Rentrer en Soi from its creation in 2001 until it disbanded in 2008. In 2009 he launched a solo career. He counts Dir En Grey Nirvana and U2 among his musical influences.
Scherrie Payne.  Scherrie Payne (born November 4 1944 in Detroit Michigan) is an American singer. The younger sister of singer/actress Freda Payne Scherrie Payne was the co-lead singer of The Supremes from 1973 to 1977 after Jean Terrell left the group in the fall of 1973. Because of her powerful voice and petite stature of only five-foot-two she is sometimes referred to as the little lady with the big voice.
Chynna Phillips.  Chynna Phillips (born February 12 1968) is an American singer and actress known for being a member of Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips and the half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips and Bijou Phillips.
Surendra Mohanty.  Surendra Mohanty born in Orissa was an award-winning author who wrote in Oriya. He was the recipient of the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award for his novel Nilashaila.
Herbort of Fritzlar.  Herbort von Fritzlar was a cleric and writer. He wrote the German-language epic Song of Troy comprising 18458 verses in Middle High German probably around 1190 to 1200.
Dorothy Stratton King.  Dorothy Stratton King (1909 in Worcester MA- June 14 2007 Arlington VA) was an American painter and printmaker. She was a founding member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Washington DC. Her work is held by several public collections in the USA.
Ryūtarō Ōtomo.  Ryūtarō Ōtomo (大友柳太朗 Ōtomo Ryūtarō ) (5 June 1912 – 27 September 1985) was a Japanese film actor. He committed suicide in 1985.
Leo Baxter.  Leo Baxter was born in northern Clay County Indiana in 1893. He lost his parents when he a small child and he was raised by an aunt and uncle. His uncle died and he and his aunt moved to Terre Haute in 1901. His first musical lessons were from a coal miner then he took lessons from a sister at St. Benedict’s Church. Later he received lessons from Hermann Liebing where he studied classical piano and pipe organ.
Bernardino Radi.  Bernardino Radi was an Italian engraver and architect born in Cortona who etched a set of plates depicting architectural ornaments and monuments published in Rome in 1618 under the title of Varie invenzoni per depositi di Bernardino Radi Cortonese. The entrance portico of San Jacopo sopr'Arno in Florence was remade in 1580 by Radi.
Qqu.  Moses Qqu Odhiambo born on 28 October 1980 Nairobi Kenya known commonly as Qqu is a Kenyan singer songwriter choreographer performer instrumentalist and digital artist.
Ken Lockie.  Ken Lockie (born 20th century) is an English keyboardist and singer-songwriter known for singing with the English new-wave band Cowboys International.
Ian Moss.  Ian Richard Moss (born 20 March 1956) is an Australian rock musician from Alice Springs. He is the founding mainstay guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel. In that group's initial eleven year phase from 1973 to 1984 Moss was recorded on all five studio albums three of which reached number one on the national Kent Music Report Albums Chart. In August 1989 he released his debut solo album Matchbook which peaked at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Jessica Brando.  Jessica Brando (born Jessica Vitelli on December 6 1994) is an Italian singer.
Vico C.  Vico C (born Luis Armando Lozada Cruz on September 8 1971) is a Puerto Rican rapper and reggaeton artist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of reggaeton and has played an influential role in the development of Latin American hip hop.
Typhoon (Korean singer).  Jay Kim (Hangul:제이김; real name Kim Young-deok; 김영덕; born April 8 1983) known under the stage name Typhoon is a Korean-American singer and lead singer of South Korean rock band TRAXand he is a former member of the South Korean group S.M. The Ballad.
Su-Elise Nash.  Su-Elise Michelle Nash (born 22 May 1981 Dulwich London England) is a British singer that rose to fame in the now-defunct girl group Mis-Teeq.
Fatih Erkoç.  Fatih Erkoç (born 7 April 1953 in Fatih Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish jazz and pop music singer and composer.
Alfonso A. Ossorio.  Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916–1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic Filipino and Chinese. Between the ages of eight and thirteen he attended school in England. At age fourteen he moved to the United States. Ossorio attended Portsmouth Priory (now Portsmouth Abbey School) in Rhode Island graduating in 1934.
Peter Smalley.  Peter Smalley is an Australian-born author screenwriter and broadcaster who lives in the United Kingdom who has written a series of naval thrillers featuring Captain William Rennie. His first Rennie adventure HMS Expedient was published by Century an imprint of Random House in 2005.
June Carter Cash.  Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23 1929 – May 15 2003) was an American singer dancer songwriter actress comedian and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. She played the guitar banjo harmonica and autoharp and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009. She was ranked No. 31 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2002.
Takashi Matsumoto (poet).  Takashi Matsumoto (松本 たかし born 松本 孝 Matsumoto Takashi 5 January 1906 – 11 May 1956) was a Japanese haiku poet active in Showa period Japan.
Sarah Skaalum Jørgensen.  Sarah Skaalum Jørgensen (born 6 July 1995) better known as Sarah is a Danish singer who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth Danish series of The X Factor. She won the title on 25 March 2011 with Annelouise as runner-up and Babou third. She competed in the 15–24 years category with Cutfather as mentor. She was 15 at the time of winning.She started singing early appearing in musicals and joined a musical band when she was 12.
Ruth Robertson.  Ruth Agnes McCall Robertson Marietta (May 24 1905 – February 17 1998) was an American photojournalist known most for photographing Angel Falls in Venezuela and surveying them to establish them as tallest waterfalls in the world published in National Geographic November 1949. She was born in Taylorville Illinois.
Fayga Ostrower.  Fayga Perla Ostrower (14 September 1920 Łódź — 13 September 2001 Rio de Janeiro) was an engraver painter designer illustrator art theorist and university professor.
Paulus Adrianus Daum.  Paulus Adrianus Daum (The Hague 3 August 1850 – Laag-Soeren 14 September 1898) more commonly known as P.A.Daum was a Dutch author of Dutch East Indies literature of the nineteenth century.The autodidact Daum was born in impoverished circumstances of a single mother in the Netherlands and did not enjoy much education.
Marjorie Rhodes.  Marjorie Rhodes (9 April 1897 – 4 July 1979) was a British actress. She was born Millicent Wise in Hull East Riding of Yorkshire.One of her best-known roles was as Lucy Fitton the mother of Bill Naughton's play All in Good Time. She played the role on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1965. She reprised the role in the 1966 film version The Family Way.
JD Allan.  David John Allan (born August 16 1972) or as he is more commonly known JD Allan is a Scottish musician singer-songwriter animator web developer and comedy writer. Allan is the older brother of musician and actor William Rogue and a former member of the rock band The Blimp.
Clotilde Coulombe.  Clotilde Coulombe (4 April 1892 – 13 May 1985) was a Canadian pianist and Roman Catholic nun. She was the sister-in-law of musician Omer Létourneau.
Giacomo Alberelli.  Giacomo Alberelli or Albarelli was an Italian painter active mainly in Venice during the years 1600-1650. He was a pupil and assistant of Jacopo Palma the Younger with whom he worked as a co-adjutor for thirty-four years. He painted historical subjects among them the Baptism of Christ for the church of the Ognissanti. Ridolfi tells us he was also a sculptor.
Adam Jensen (musician).  Adam Jensen is an American rock recording artist producer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Boston MA. Jensen first built a following with the band Mission Hill after signing a record deal with Toucan Cove/Universal Records in 2009. In 2013 he made his solo debut with the album Head On a String which peaked at #7 on the iTunes singer/songwriter album chart.Jensen has co-written with Rob Thomas Walt Aldridge and Eliot Sloan of Blessid Union of Souls.
Daniel Bonade.  Daniel Bonade (April 4 1896 – October 30 1976) was a French classical clarinetist and professor of clarinet. He was the most influential teacher of the first generation of American-born professional clarinetists.
Laurie Anderson.  Laura Phillips Laurie Anderson (born June 5 1947) is an American experimental performance artist composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities.
Malcolm Rose.  Malcolm Rose (born 1953) is a British young-adult author. Many of his books including the Traces and Lawless and Tilley series are mysteries or thrillers where the hero uses science to catch the criminal or terrorist.
Red Young.  Red Young is a keyboard piano synthesizer and organ player.
Freddie McGregor.  Freddie McGregor (born 27 June 1956 Clarendon Jamaica) has been variously a singer musician and producer. His music career began when he was seven years old.
Dorothy Mary Neal White.  Dorothy Mary Neal White (1915–1995) was a notable New Zealand librarian and writer. She was born in Christchurch Northern Canterbury New Zealand in 1915.In 1933 Dorothy became a library assistant at the Canterbury Public Library.In 1936 Dorothy became Children's Librarian at the Dunedin Public Libraries.
Boo Hewerdine.  Marcus Boo Hewerdine (born 14/2/1961) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible formed in the 1980s and reformed in 1994 as well as solo recordings and work for film. He has also produced records by several artists including a long association with Eddi Reader. He has been described as one of Britain's most consistently accomplished songwriters.
Yuri Bashmet.  Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (Russian: Юрий Абрамович Башмет Ukrainian: Юрій Башмет; born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor violinist and violist. He is a direct patrilineal descendant of Besht.
David M. Allen.  David M. Allen is a British record producer engineer and mixer. He is mostly known for his work with new wave synth pop and goth rock bands including The Cure The Sisters of Mercy The Chameleons Depeche Mode The Mission The Associates The Human League Clan of Xymox Gianna Nannini Shelleyan Orphan and others.
Anne Henderson.  Anne Henderson (born 1949) is an Australian writer Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute editor of The Sydney Papers and co-editor of The Sydney Institute Quarterly. She was born in Melbourne and now lives in Sydney. She was educated at Melbourne University. Between 1971-1989 she worked as a teacher for seventeen years in several Australian states.
Tony Hooper.  Tony Hooper (born 14 September 1943) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as a founder-member of Strawbs together with Dave Cousins. He left Strawbs in 1972 after their album Grave New World when it became obvious that the band was moving further away from its folk roots towards rock and progressive rock. He rejoined for a 10-year stint in 1983. Hooper has been the guitarist in the Ceilidh & Barn-Dance Band Pitchfork since 1984 and is also a member of Misalliance.
Chris Meledandri.  Christopher Chris Meledandri (born May 15 1959) is an American film producer and the founder (2007) and CEO of Illumination Entertainment.
Elisa Cariera.  Elisa Cariera (born Elisa Francis Cariera on June 16 1978 in Orlando Florida) nicknamed Princess is an American singer songwriter and best known as a member of the 90's English girlband Solid HarmoniE. Cariera joined Solid HarmoniE in 1997 and was the only American member of the group. The group started out as an opening act for the Backstreet Boys but eventually went on to do their own shows.
Chris Armold.  Chris Armold (aka Chris A.) is the author of A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa a recounting of the tragedy at the Alrosa Villa where Dimebag Darrell Jeff Mayhem Thompson Erin Halk and Nathan Bray were killed and John Kat Brooks and Chris Paluska were injured by Nathan Gale.He is also the author of Steel Pots The History of America's Steel Combat Helmets and Painted Steel Steel Pots Volume II.
Taylor Hollingsworth.  Taylor Hollingsworth is a singer/songwriter and guitarist from Birmingham Alabama. He first picked up the guitar at age 14 and has gone on to front his own bands as well as play guitar for others notably Maria Taylor. He is married to Maria's sister singer-songwriter Kate Taylor. They had their first child together a daughter in 2012. Hollingsworth plays guitar with Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst on his latest project Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band.
Soyo Oka.  Soyo Oka (岡 素世 Oka Soyo born April 9 1964) (also known as DJ Alice) is a Japanese composer musician and author formerly employed by Nintendo. She is best recognized for her video game soundtracks during the 1980s and 1990s.
Star Slinger.  Star Slinger (Born Darren Williams) is a producer and DJ based in Manchester UK taking influences mainly from house and hip hop. Star Slinger first came to the attention after self-releasing a beat tape in the summer of 2010 entitled Volume 1. From then on Williams picked up noteworthy press interest from Pitchfork Media SPIN Magazine Dazed & Confused Magazine and was interviewed by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1.
Blake Alphonso Higgs.  Blake Alphonso Higgs (1915 Matthew Town Inagua Bahamas – 1986) better known as Blind Blake was the best-known performer of goombay/calypso in the Bahamas from the 1930s to the 1960s.
DJ Suketu.  DJ Suketu (born Suketu Radia) is a Mumbai-based DJ.He became one of the highest selling Indian DJs with hit's like Pyar Zindagi Hai Bin Tere Sanam Woh Lamhe and Kya Khoob Lagti Ho becoming instant club classics in India.
William Cullen Bryant.  William Cullen Bryant (November 3 1794 – June 12 1878) was an American romantic poet journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
Rita Banerji.  Rita Banerji is an author photographer and gender activist from India. Her non-fiction book Sex and Power: Defining History Shaping Societies was published by Penguin Books India in 2008. She is the founder of The 50 Million Missing Campaign a grassroots advocacy campaign supported by an online communityto raise global awareness about the ongoing female gendercide in India.
Mary Louise Peebles.  Mary Louise Peebles née Parmelee (1833–1915) was an American author of children’s stories who wrote under the name Mrs. A. Lynde Palmer.
Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth.  Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth (also A.N. Lindenmuth) (1856–1950) was an American landscape and portrait painter who lived and painted in Allentown Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley region of the United States.
Judy Dyble.  Judith Aileen Dyble better known as Judy Dyble (pronounced Die-bull) (born 13 February 1949 at the Middlesex Hospital Central London) is an award-winning British singer-songwriter most notable for being one of the vocalists with and founder members of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne; in between these she along with Ian McDonald joined and recorded several tracks with Giles Giles and Fripp which after her departure evolved into King Crimson.
Christian Möller.  For the German media artist see Christian Moeller.Christian Möller (born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany in 1963) is a German artist and painter. He studied at the Academy of fine arts (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) in Karlsruhe by Horst Antes from 1986 to 1992.
Fredric Warburg.  Fredric John Warburg (27 November 1898 – 25 May 1981) was an English publisher best known for his association with the British author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th century and ending in 1971 Warburg published Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and works by other leading figures such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.
Shawna Lenee.  Shawna Lenee (born April 12 1987 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American pornographic actress dancer and model.
Hizaki.  Hizaki (stylized as HIZAKI) is a Japanese visual kei musician songwriter and record producer. He is best known as guitarist for the symphonic metal band Versailles. Before forming Versailles he was in several independent bands and had a solo career and when they disbanded he and most of the other members formed Jupiter.
Hennie Bekker.  Hennie Bekker (born 1934) is a Juno-nominated Zambian-born composer arranger producer and keyboardist based in Toronto Canada. His career has run the spectrum from jazz fusion and film scoring to New Age and techno.
Martin Rinkart.  Martin Rinkart or Rinckart (23 April 1586 – 8 December 1649) was a German clergyman and hymnist. He is best known for the text to Now thank we all our God (Nun danket alle Gott) which was written ca. 1636. It was set to music by Johann Crüger about 1647 and translated into English in the 19th century by Catherine Winkworth.Rinkart was a deacon at Eisleben and archdeacon at Eilenburg where he was born and also died.
Mavis Doering.  Mavis Doering (1929–2007) was a Cherokee Nation basketmaker from Oklahoma.
Travie McCoy.  Travis Lazarus Travie McCoy (born August 6 1981) is an American singer and rapper. He is the lead vocalist of the rap rock band Gym Class Heroes in addition to having a solo career. McCoy became involved with punk rock scenes as a teenager. He formed the group Gym Class Heroes with childhood friend Matt McGinley and after several line-up changes the group was signed to Fueled by Ramen and released their debut album.
David Wise (composer).  David Wise (often also credited as Dave Wise or D. Wise) is a British video game music composer. He was a house composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009 and was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a cult following for his work on various games particularly Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series. Wise is known for his atmospheric style of music mixing natural environmental sounds with prominent melodic and percussive accompaniment.
Tony Soulié.  Tony Soulié (born 1955) is a French artist working in painting printmaking sculpture installation art and photography.
Gregori Chad Petree.  Gregori Chad Petree (born Shawnee Oklahoma) is a musician who is also best known as guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the American new wave/indie/rock band Shiny Toy Guns.
John P. Marquand.  John Phillips Marquand (November 10 1893 – July 16 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it.
Jacques Heim.  Jacques Heim (Paris 8 May 1899 – Paris 8 January 1967) was a Parisian designer and manufacturer of women's furs and couture whose maison de couture opened in 1930 and closed in 1969.He began his career managing the fur business of his Jewish parents Isadore and Jeanne Heim founded in 1898.His most prominent clients were Sophia Loren Yvonne de Gaulle Queen Fabiola of Belgium Mamie Eisenhower and actress Gloria Swanson.His son is Philippe Heim.His daughter is Arianne Heim
DJ Cocoa Chanelle.  DJ Cocoa Chanelle is an American hip hop DJ rapper and producer best known for being a radio personality /DJ on New York City's radio station HOT 97 and Kiss FM as well as being the first DJ ever employed by BET (Black Entertainment Television) on their teen talk show Teen Summit.
Neil Olsson.  Neil Thomas Charles Olsson (born 22 April 1985 Berlin England) better known by his stage name Red Tempa is an English singer and rapper signed to Starharbour Records. His name arose due to his hot headed temper when he was pushed to the limit.Red Tempa found success with the release of his first album Both Sides which was released under Starharbour Records and available worldwide in 2009.
Roberto Jordan.  Roberto Jordán (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβerto xorˈðan]) (born February 20 1943 in Los Mochis Sinaloa Mexico) is a popular singer whose heyday occurred during Mexico's nueva ola (new wave) of music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many of his songs were covers of English-language rock and pop songs with arrangements provided by music teachers and producers Enrique Okamura and Eduardo Magallanes.
Quang Vinh.  Trần Quang Vinh (Ho Chi Minh City 18 May 1982) also known by his stage name Quang Vinh is a Vietnamese-American pop singer.
Heinz Anger.  Heinz Anger (pronounced [ˈaŋɡɐ]; *23 July 1941 in Karlstetten Lower Austria) is an Austrian painter of landscapes portraits still lifes and figurative compositions.Anger’s work is noted for its impressionistic atmosphere his use of light and bold application of colours.
Mark Kellogg (musician).  Mark Kellogg is the Principal Trombonist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra USA and Associate Professor of Trombone at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York. Kellogg holds a bachelor’s degree and performer’s certificate from the Eastman School where he studied with John Marcellus and Cherry Beauregard. He is married to Joanna Bassett and has a son Robert Kellogg.
Richard Toensing.  Richard Toensing (born March 11 1940 St. Paul Minnesota) is an American composer and music educator. He studied composition at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1967. His most notable teachers include Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett.After an initial appointment at Upsala College in East Orange New Jersey in 1966 Toensing joined the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music in 1972.
Emma Moretto.  Emma Moretto (19th-century) was a Italian painter active in Venice painting landscapes and vedute.In 1877 at Naples she exhibited: Abbey of San Gregorio at Venice; in 1880 at Turin a Canale della Giudecca and another of the Canale di San Giorgio. At the 1881 National Exhibition of Milan Tramonto e Marina; and in 1883 at Rome: Gita nella Laguna. Other works: A Gondola; At San Marco; Verso la riva; Canal grande and Mattino nel mare.
Kevin Connolly (writer).  Kevin Michael Connolly (born 20 March 1962) is a Canadian poet free-lance editor and critic who was born in Biloxi Mississippi and grew up in Maple Ontario. Connolly has served as an editor for presses such as ECW Press House of Anansi Press and Coach House Press. Connolly graduated from York University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts with honors and currently resides in Toronto with his partner Canadian writer Gil Adamson.
Stephen O'Malley.  Stephen O'Malley (sometimes referred to as SOMA) is a musician predominantly a guitarist producer and composer from Seattle Washington who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom death/doom and experimental music groups (the most notable of which is Sunn O))))).
Tias Mortigjija.  Tias Mortigjija (1913—1947) was a Croatian journalist publicist and member of the Croatian Historical Revolution best known for his activities during the existence of the Independent State of Croatia. During this period he was chief editor of the most important Croatian newspaper and magazine.
Horace.  Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC) known in the English-speaking world as Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
Geraldine Farrar.  Geraldine Farrar (February 28 1882 – March 11 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress noted for her beauty acting ability and the intimate timbre of her voice. She had a large following among young women who were nicknamed Gerry-flappers.
Alexandra Motschmann.  Alexandra Motschmann alias Motschi von Richthofen born in Munich Germany has published several poetry books and won several awards. Lifestyle and beauty are her main subjects.Alexandra demonstrated artistic talent at a young age writing poetry but from the first grade she began to grow increasingly bored with her studies. Her earliest literary efforts were romantic conscientiously modeled on German poets like Rilke Goethe and Hesse and English poets such as Burns Blake and Wilde.
Irshad Manji.  Irshad Manji; (born 1968) is a Canadian author professor and advocate of a reform and progressive interpretation of Islam. Manji is the founder and director of the Moral Courage Project at the Robert F.
Maruxa Pita.  Maruxa Pita (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾuʃa ˈpita]; born March 18 1930) is a Spanish missionary and a former teacher who help to established the Institucion Teresiana School now known as Saint Pedro Poveda College in Quezon City. In 1995 she established the Makabata School Foundation Inc. in Pasig City to help less fortunate Filipino children to studying for free.
Dugald Steer.  Dugald A. Steer B.A. (Brist) S.A.S.D. (b. 1965) is an English children's writer.
Chang Baohua.  Chang Baohua (Chinese: 常宝华; pinyin: Cháng BǎoHuá; born 1930) is a crosstalk (Xiangsheng) comedian. He was born in Tianjin and is of Manchu ethnicity. He is regarded as one of the sixth generations of well-known Chinese crosstalk actors. He is a Chinese communist as well as a first-level national actor who enjoys special government allowances.
Richard Nunns.  Richard Nunns QSM (born 1945) is a Māori traditional instrumentalist of Pākehā heritage. He is particularly known for playing the Taonga pūoro and his collaboration with fellow Māori instrumentalist Hirini Melbourne. Since Melbourne's death he is regarded as the world's foremost authority on Māori instruments.
Richard Newcomb.  Richard F. Newcomb a graduate of Rutgers College served as a wartime naval correspondent during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He is a retired news editor of the Associated Press and the author of six books including Abandon Ship! Savo and Iwo Jima. He has been called one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction.
Leila Fadel.  Leila Fadel (born 1981) is an American journalist currently serving as Cairo bureau chief for National Public Radio.
Charles Levi.  Charles Levi sometimes credited as Levi Levi is the bassist for My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and project .44. He has appeared on other artists' albums such as Chemlab Pigface and Black from the Dead as well as being in the film The Crow. Levi also recorded bass for Sister Machine Gun's The Torture Technique as well as toured with Sister Machine Gun on the 2004 Domination Tour. He currently is working on a new project The Urban Soundtrack.
Clint Black.  Clint Patrick Black (born February 4 1962) is an American country music singer-songwriter record producer multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Nashville in 1989 Black's debut album Killin' Time produced four straight number one singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Although his momentum gradually slowed throughout the 1990s Black consistently charted hit songs into the 2000s.
Mance Lipscomb.  Mance Lipscomb (April 9 1895 – January 30 1976) was an American blues singer guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota Texas United States he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (Mance being short for emancipation).
Andrew Fromm.  Andrew Fromm is a songwriter from New Jersey currently living in Nashville
Edgar Breau.  Edgar Breau is a musician in Ontario Canada. He was a member of the Hamilton-based band Simply Saucer in the 1970s and has explored a solo career in recent years. In 1974 Simply Saucer recorded a demo tape of music under the supervision of Robert Lanois which combined psychedelic Krautrock and early punk influences (Syd Barrett the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop have been cited as among the band's influences).
Erik Henningsen.  Erik Ludvig Henningsen (29 August 1855 – 28 November 1930) was a Danish painter and illustrator. He is best known for his Social Realist paintings of poor and exposed groups in the 1880s and 1890s. He was the younger brother of Frants Henningsen who was also a painter.
Dave Berg (songwriter).  Dave Berg (born in Portland Oregon) is an American country music songwriter. His credits include the Number One country hits If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows) and These Are My People by Rodney Atkins Somebody by Reba McEntire and Moments by Emerson Drive as well as Top 10 country hits Stupid Boy by Keith Urban Don't Make Me by Blake Shelton What Kinda Gone by Chris Cagle and It's Good to Be Us by Bucky Covington.
Kellee Maize.  Kellee Maize is an American rapper singer and songwriter. Her first album Age of Feminine was released in 2007. Since then she has released four more albums: Aligned Archetype (2010) Integration (2011) Owl Time (2012) and The 5th Element (2014). Maize has been involved in the music business just over a decade and has recorded and released four full albums leading to a handful of singles.
Peter Harryson.  John Peter Kaj Harryson (born April 2 1948 in Norrköping Östergötland County Sweden) is a Swedish actor singer and entertainer. He is the son of actor John Harryson (1926–2008).From 1994 until 2001 Harryson played antagonist Pehr Silver in the soap opera Rederiet. He is also known from hosting the game show Så ska det låta. In the 1980s he worked extensively dubbing cartoons into Swedish.
Jeanne Jolly.  Jeanne Jolly is a singer/songwriter from Raleigh North Carolina who first gained notoriety as a featured vocalist for Grammy Award winning jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. Jolly has performed with several symphonies at Carnegie Hall in New York City and at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California.Jolly attended Saint Mary's School in Raleigh and then Western Carolina University.
Boyd Terry.  Boyd Terry is an American musician best known as one of the founding members of the Californian band The Aquabats of which he served as trumpeter from 1994 to 2002 under the stage name Catboy.
Anurag Anand.  Anurag Anand (born 2 November 1978) is an Indian author with eight published titles in the self-help general fiction and historical fiction genres. He is a marketing professional with experience across sectors like pharmaceuticals fast-moving consumer goods and financial services.
Philip Francis Nowlan.  Philip Francis Nowlan (1888 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania – February 1 1940 in Philadelphia) was an American science fiction author best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.
Glen Goei.  Glen Goei (born 1962) is one of Singapore's leading film and theatre directors. His broad ranging body of work embraces the full gamut of performing and visual arts; film theatre musicals large scale shows World Expos dance music and architectural design.Glen Goei was the Artistic Director of Mu-Lan Arts in London from 1990 to 1998. It was the first Asian theatre company to be established in the United Kingdom.
Gerald Ames.  Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cimema appearing in more than sixty films between his debut in 1914 and his retirement from the screen in 1928 in a career entirely encompassing the silent era.
Balaram Bose.  Balaram Bose (December 1842–13 April 1890) was one of the prominent householder disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He was the son of Radhamohan Bose. He is often referred in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna often visited his house and participated in Kirtana and other devotional functions. Sri Maa Sarada Devi and a some other devotees of the Master including Swami Adbhutananda lived in the house of Balaram Bose after the Master's death.
Charlotte Agell.  Charlotte Agell (born 1959) is a Swedish-born American author for young adults and children who currently lives in Maine. Her second novel Shift was featured on the front cover of the Brunswick Times Record in October 2008. Agell has also written some picture books for young children.
Philippe Bercovici.  Philippe Bercovici is a French comics artist of Franco-Belgian comics. Having illustrated a wide range of series Bercovici is perhaps most known for Les Femmes en Blanc written by Cauvin started in 1981. Initially under the pseudonym Thélonius he drew the gag series Le Boss written by Zidrou revolving around the chief editor of Spirou magazine.Known for working at unusually high speeds in 1999 Bercovici illustrated an entire issue of Spirou on his own (No.
Ted McKenna.  Edward 'Ted' McKenna (born 10 March 1950 Lennoxtown East Dunbartonshire Scotland) is a Scottish drummer who has played with bands Tear Gas The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Rory Gallagher The Sensational Party Boys and The Michael Schenker Group. He also toured with Ian Gillan for a short period in 1975 alongside fellow former SAHB bassist Chris Glen. He lectured in Applied Arts at North Glasgow College from 1996–2011. McKenna was educated at St Patrick's High School Coatbridge.
Yahya Hassan.  Yahya Hassan (born 19 May 1995) is a Danish Palestinian poet who has attracted attention and stirred debate about Islam's place in Denmark based on poetry he wrote which was critical of Islam. The son of Muslim Palestinian immigrants he grew up in a religious environment but has abandoned religion. He dropped out of school at thirteen but developed a love of literature on his own. His poetry is popular and admired.
Charles Brackeen.  Charles Brackeen (born March 13 1940 in Oklahoma) is a jazz saxophonist who primarily plays tenor saxophone but also plays soprano saxophone. He was married to pianist Joanne Brackeen; they have since divorced and they have four children.Brackeen originally studied violin and piano before switching to saxophone.
Ogden Kraut.  Ogden Wedlund Kraut (June 21 1927 – July 17 2002) was an American author who wrote about his independent Mormon fundamentalist beliefs. He was set apart as a seventy by Joseph W. Musser a leader of the early Mormon fundamentalist movement. He also served as a missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in southern California.
Miyako Endō.  Miyako Endō (遠藤 みやこ Endō Miyako born March 21 1965) is a Japanese voice actress. She works for Aoni Production. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University.
Kozue Amano.  Kozue Amano (天野 こずえ Amano Kozue born 26 May 1974) is a female Japanese manga artist. She is widely known as the creator of Aria which proved to be a best-selling hit and was adapted into an anime television series consisting of 3 seasons and an OVA.As of autumn 2010 Amano's work releases have been shifted from a monthly schedule to a seasonal one (every 3 months) owing to pregnancy and subsequent childcare.
Cocco.  Cocco (真喜志 智子 Satoko Makishi born January 19 1977 in Naha Okinawa) is a female J-pop / folk rock singer.
Christoffer Andersen.  Christoffer Kid Andersen (born January 15 1980) is a Norwegian blues guitarist. Andersen moved to the United States as a 21 year old in 2001 and became a figure on the West Coast blues scene. He played in Charlie Musselwhites band and got a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award) for best contemporary blues album for Charlie Musselwhite's Delta Hardware.
Nettie Rosenstein.  Nettie Rosenstein (1890 - March 13 1980) was an American fashion designer based in New York between c.1913 and 1975. She was particularly renowned for her little black dresses and costume jewelry.
Jacob Guay.  Jacob Guay better known as just Jacob (born on 8 April 1999 in Quebec) is a Canadian young singer and dubbed as the French language answer to fellow Canadian Justin Bieber.
Boisnard Philippe.  Boisnard Philippe born July 18 1971 in Paris is a French writer and multimedia artist practicing performance art.
Sam Taylor (director).  Sam Taylor (August 13 1895 New York City – March 6 1958 Santa Monica) was a film director screenwriter and producer most active in silent film era. Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford.
Paul Baloff.  Paul Baloff (April 25 1960 – February 2 2002) was an American singer most notable for his time in thrash metal band Exodus.Paul was the second vocalist with Exodus replacing Keith Stewart in 1981 and singing on their 1982 Demo and their first official album Bonded by Blood in 1985. After the release they started the pre-production for their second album.
SoulJa.  SoulJa (ソルジャ Soruja birth name: Johannes Marías Reijnders Zwan) is a Japanese hip-hop musician and songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with singer Thelma Aoyama Koko ni Iru yo and Soba ni Iru ne - the latter of which was the former Guinness World Records holder for the best selling digital single of all-time in Japan (until it was superseded by Greeeen's Kiseki).
Sofi Marinova.  Sofiya Marinova Kamenova better known as Sofi Marinova (Bulgarian: Софи Маринова IPA: [soˈfi maˈrinova]) (born 5 December 1975[citation needed] in Sofia Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian pop-folk and ethno-pop singer of Romani descent. She is one of the most popular singers in Bulgaria famed for her extreme five-octave vocal range.[citation needed] She has won multiple music awards and contests.
Jay Rosen (drummer).  Jay Rosen (born November 20 1961 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American jazz drummer. Rosen is a member of Trio X with trumpeter/saxophonist Joe McPhee and double bassist Dominic Duval and performs in Cosmosomatics with saxophonist Sonny Simmons.At age 10 Rosen became interested in jazz drumming after seeing Tony Williams perform with Sonny Rollins. He took lessons from Tracy Alexander son of Mousey Alexander (with an occasional lesson from the elder Alexander).
Charles Coffey.  Charles Coffey (died 1745) was an Irish playwright and composer.His best-known opera is probably The Beggar’s Wedding (1729) which capitalizes on the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). The Beggar's Wedding opened at the Haymarket on 29 May 1729.His best music includes:The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metapmorhos’d (1731) from a play by Thomas Jevon.Ellen A Roon (1729) now sung to new words and known as Robin Adair.
Chris Curtis.  Chris Curtis (26 August 1941 – 28 February 2005) was an English drummer and singer with the 1960s pop band The Searchers. He originated the concept behind Deep Purple and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'.
Phương Vy.  Nguyễn Ngọc Phương Vy (born August 27 1987) is a Vietnamese singer who won the first season of Vietnam Idol in 2007.
Chloé Sainte-Marie.  Chloé Sainte-Marie (born Marie-Aline Joyal on May 29 1962 in Saint-Eugène-de-Grantham Québec Canada) is an actress singer activist and official spokesperson for a network of natural caregivers in Québec.
Eddie Santiago.  Eddie Santiago (birth name: Eduardo Santiago Rodríguez ) (born August 18 1961) is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico.
Leonid Denysenko.  Leonid Denysenko is an Australian artist of Ukrainian descent living in Sydney Australia. He is notable for the introduction of the graphic art technique of literography. He is the only surviving founding member of the Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia.
Slick Pulla.  Renaldo Whitman better known by the stage name Slick Pulla (born 1980) is an American rapper from the 4th Ward of Atlanta Georgia. He is signed to Young Jeezy's record label Corporate Thugz Entertainment (CTE) and is a member of the rap group United Streets Dopeboyz of America or U.S.D.A. with Young Jeezy Boo Rossini 211 and JW.
Steve Hillier.  Steve Hillier from Welling South London is a British songwriter DJ and record producer who has worked with rock bands such as Keane Landon Pigg and Mark Owen. Hillier is chiefly known for his work with the band Dubstar which he formed with Chris Wilkie and Sarah Blackwood in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1993.
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem.  Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a French-Tunisian actor philosopher and writer.
Martin Sweet.  Martin Sweet (born Martin Hosselton; May 5 1979 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist most famous for being the lead guitarist for the Swedish Glam metal band Crashdïet.
Karl Kröner.  Karl Kröner (April 7 1887 – October 3 1972) was a German painter and writer.Between 1904 and 1908 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden. He worked till 1910 as a freelancer in Chemnitz and studied again from 1910-1914 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden under Eugen Bracht and Gotthardt Kuehl. After going on a study trip to the Baltic Sea and the Netherlands he moved to Niederlößnitz in 1914 to live with Paul Wilhelm and Wilhelm Claus. There he worked as a freelance artist.
Mitch Murray.  Mitch Murray (born Lionel Michael Stitcher 30 January 1940 Hove Sussex England) is an English songwriter record producer and author. He has won two Ivor Novello Awards including the Jimmy Kennedy Award. Murray has written or co-written songs that have produced five UK and three US chart-topping records. He has also been awarded the Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors.
Nandita da Cunha.  Nandita da Cunha is a writer of Goan Catholic origin.
Antranig Dzarugian.  Antranig Dzarugian (Անդրանիկ Ծառուկեան 1913– Paris 1989) was an influential diasporan Armenian writer poet educator and journalist in the 20th century.Dzarugian was born in Gürün Sivas Vilayet Ottoman Empire in 1913. His father Chello Toros was one of the fighters of the Armenian irregular units against the Ottoman Empire.
Soji Shimada.  Soji Shimada (島田 荘司 Shimada Sōji born October 12 1948) is a Japanese logic mystery novelist. Born in the city of Fukuyama City Hiroshima Prefecture Japan.
General Johnson.  General Norman Johnson (May 23 1941 – October 13 2010) was the frontman of Chairmen of the Board and an American rhythm and blues songwriter and record producer.
Muhammad Changiz Khan Tariqui.  Muhammad Changiz Khan Tariqui (1939–2012) (Urdu: محمد چنگیز خان طریقی ) was an Urdu poet Khowar poet and educationalist from Chitral Khyber Pakhtun Khwa Pakistan. According to the Khowar researcher Rehmat Aziz Chitrali he was one of the greatest Khowar poets of this era especially in the use of ista'aaray and chhotee beher. Changiz Khan was born on 8 December 1939 at Shogram Chitral Khyber Pakhtun Khwa in Pakistan.
Nigel Hitchcock.  Nigel Hitchcock (born Nigel Hitchcock in Rustington England 4 January 1971) is an English jazz saxophonist.
Midori Tateyama.  Midori Tateyama (館山緑 Tateyama Midori born on February 14) is a female Japanese game scriptwriter and novelist from Aichi Japan.
Francis Criss.  Francis Hyman Criss (1901 - 1973) was an American painter. Criss's style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler.
Christian Braut.  Christian Braut was born on 23 September 1962 in Paris (XVe). He is a French singer songwriter a journalist a writer and a panoramist photographer.
Hannah Friedman.  Hannah Friedman (born September 29 1986) is a writer director and musician from New York.
Gussie Clarke.  Augustus Gussie Clarke (born 1953) is a reggae producer who worked with some of the top Jamaican reggae artists in the 1970s and later set up his own Music Works studio.
Seo Hajin.  Seo Hajin (Hangul: 서하진) born in 1960 is a South Korean writer.
Frederic S. Durbin.  Frederic S. Durbin is a United States writer and novelist of fantasy and horror. His first novel Dragonfly was published by Arkham House in 1999. It was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.
Olaf Hayer.  Olaf Hayer is a power metal vocalist from Gifhorn Germany.
Big Pun.  Christopher Lee Rios (November 10 1971 – February 7 2000) better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher) was an American rapper and actor of Puerto Rican background. Big Pun emerged from the underground hip hop scene in The Bronx borough of New York City in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts on the track Off the Books in 1997 and on Fat Joe's second album Jealous One's Envy in 1995 prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist.
Rolf Holmgren.  Rolf Erling Holmgren (born March 24 1946) is a Swedish actor and scriptwriter.He was born in Ystad in the southern Swedish province of Skåne. He took acting lessons in Stockholm and has been mostly active on the theater scene in Gothenburg but he has also been in some films and on TV.
Florence Gill.  Florence Gill (born 27 July 1877 - 19 February 1965) was an English voice actress. She provided the voices of Walt Disney's Clara Cluck and The Wise Little Hen. Her interment was located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles California.
Miriam Schapiro.  Not to be confused with Miriam Shapira-Luria a Talmud scholar in the Late Middle AgesMiriam Schapiro (or Shapiro) (born 1923) is a Canadian-born artist based in America. She is a painter feminist sculptor and printmaker. She is a pioneer of feminist art. She is also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement.
Edith B. Price.  Edith Ballinger Price (April 26 1897–September 29 1997) was an American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books.Starting in 1911 she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She later studied at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.Her first book Blue Magic was originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1918 and was published in book form by The Century Company in September 1919.
Pez (musician).  Pez (born Perry Chapman) is a hip hop MC from Melbourne Australia. He attended Kew High School in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. His debut album A Mind of My Own peaked at #19 on the ARIA Urban albums chart.
Kenneth Neate.  Kenneth (Ken) Neate (28 July 1914 – 27 June 1997) was a renowned Australian operatic and concert tenor opera producer and singing teacher. He was a regular artist in Wagnerian opera at Bayreuth and he was noted as a dramatic tenor in German French and Italian repertoire in opera houses in England France Italy Austria Germany and Australia. His operatic career lasted 38 years followed by ten years as Lecturer in Voice and Opera Studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatorium in Munich.
Thomas McKnight.  Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist.He was born in 1941 in Lawrence Kansas.He attended Wesleyan University a small liberal arts college in Middletown Connecticut where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris.After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years interrupted by a two year stint in the U. S.
Alexander Radishchev.  Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ради́щев; 31 August [O.S. 20 August] 1749 – 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1802) was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature to prominence with the publication in 1790 of his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. His depiction of socio-economic conditions in Russia earned him exile to Siberia until 1797.
Maruosa.  Maruosa is a Japanese producer of breakcore/cybergrind based in Tokyo Japan.He has been invited to festivals around the world including CTM in Germany Glade in the UK Sónar in Spain Roskilde in Denmark Supersonic in the UK This Is Not Art/Electrofringe in Australia SXSW in the USA GOGBOT in the Netherlands and Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland.
Jeffrey Bushell.  Jeffrey Jeff Bushell is an American screenwriter who has written for The Bernie Mac Show Drawn Together MADtv What I Like About You and Zoey 101. He created and wrote the film Beverly Hills Chihuahua which was inspired by his dog Maggie. Bushell won the Peabody Award and the Television Critics Award for his work on The Bernie Mac Show. He is a graduate of Middlebury College where he won the Stolley Ryan award for top American literature student.
Gregory Porter.  Gregory Porter (born November 1971) is a Grammy Award winning American jazz vocalist songwriter and actor. Gregory Porter won the 2014 Grammy for best jazz vocal album Liquid Spirit.
Aṣa.  Aṣa (pronounced Asha; born 1 September 1982) is a Nigerian French singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her stage name Aṣa means Hawk in Yoruba.
Paul W. Franks.  Paul Walter Franks is a scholar writer and professor of philosophy. He graduated with his PhD from Harvard University in 1993 his dissertation supervisor was Stanley Cavell. Franks' dissertation entitled Kant and Hegel on the Esotericism of Philosophy won the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize for a Dissertation in Moral Philosophy at Harvard University. He completed his B.A (First Class) and M.A in philosophy politics and economics at Balliol College Oxford.
Zolani Mahola.  Zolani Mahola (born 19 July 1981) is a South African singer and actor. Since 2002 she has been the lead singer of the South African music group Freshlyground.
Leonard Rose.  Leonard Rose (July 27 1918 – November 16 1984) was an American cellist and pedagogue.Rose was born in Washington D.C.; his parents were immigrants from Kiev Ukraine. Rose took lessons from Walter Grossman Frank Miller and Felix Salmond and after completing his studies at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at age 20 he joined Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra and almost immediately became associate principal.
David Weedon.  Dr David Weedon is a dermatopathologist in Queensland Australia who is the author of a textbook on dermatopathology widely considered to be an encyclopedic reference of skin diseases titled Skin Pathology. Published originally in 1997 and currently in its third edition Skin Pathology is an extensively referenced work that combines information on classic and rare clinical presentations with the common histopathologic findings of those same disorders.Dr Weedon is Professor of Pathology at Bond University Queensland and a member of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Committee. 
James Drummond (artist).  James Drummond RSA (1816–1877) was an artist and the curator of the National Gallery of Scotland from 1868 to 1877. He was born in 1816 in John Knox House in the Royal Mile Edinburgh.
Jean Fautrier.  Jean Fautrier (May 16 1898 – July 21 1964) was a French painter illustrator printmaker and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme.
Mary Alcock.  Mary Alcock [née Cumberland] (ca. 1742–1798) was a poet essayist and philanthropist.Mary was the youngest child of Joanna Bentley (1704/5–1775) and Bishop Denison Cumberland (1705/6–1774). Richard Bentley classicist and master of Trinity College Cambridge was her maternal grandfather and Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) playwright was her brother.She spent her childhood in Stanwick Northamptonshire and Fulham.
Lisa Moscatiello.  Lisa Moscatiello is an American singer who is part of the Washington DC area music scene. She is listed in Music Hound's Folk: Essential Album Guide and is most often categorized as a folk vocalist.
Patrick Joseph Hartigan.  Monsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan (13 October 1878 – 27 December 1952) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest educator author and poet.
Sverre Brandt.  Sverre Brandt (1880 – 1962) was a Norwegian theatre worker and playwright born in Trondheim. He is remembered for his children's play Reisen til julestjernen from 1924 which has been staged numerous times at theatres in Scandinavia and also adapted into a film. He was financial manager at Nationaltheatret from 1919 to 1948.
Steven Springer.  Steven Springer (born Steven Anthony Springer) (September 23 1951 – September 10 2012) was an American guitarist and songwriter known for his innovative smooth soft touch guitar style. Steven was best known for being a member of the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band and for playing with Sir Lancelot Pinard Arizona-based band Sanctuary and for his charitable works as well as founding the musical project Tropicooljazz.
Ann Mounsey.  Ann Sheppard Mounsey becoming Mounsey Bartholomew on marriage (1811–91) was an English pianist organist and composer. She was born in London and studied with Johann Bernhard Logier. After 1828 she became the organist at various London churches serving at St Vedast Foster Lane for nearly fifty years.
David Blackwood.  David Lloyd Blackwood CM O.Ont (born November 7 1941) is a Canadian artist.Blackwood is known chiefly for his intaglio prints often depicting dramatic historical scenes of Newfoundland outport life and industry such as shipwrecks seal hunting iceberg encounters and resettlement.
Lee Hyeri.  Lee Hyeri (born June 9 1994; Hangul: 이혜리) better known by her stage name Hyeri (Hangul: 혜리) is a South Korean idol singer. She is best known as a sub-vocalist of the girl group Girl's Day under Dream Tea Entertainment.
Jon-John Robinson.  Jon-John Robinson (born Jonathan Hillman Robinson April 22 1970) is an American record producer and song writer who specializes in R&B pop and hip-hop music.
Lynn Strait.  James Lynn Strait (August 7 1968 – December 11 1998) was the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Snot. He died in a car accident on December 11 1998 at the age of 30.
Jon King.  Jon King born 8 June 1955 London is a singer musician and founding member of the Leeds based UK rock band Gang of Four. He attended Sevenoaks School where he was a member of the 'Art Room' that produced musicians Tom Greenhalgh and Mark White of The Mekons along with Andy Gill of Gang of Four Adam Curtis the award-winning British documentarian and writer and Paul Greengrass the film director screenwriter and former journalist famous for the Bourne identity franchise.
Roger Bowling.  Roger D. Bowling (December 3 1944 Helton Leslie County Kentucky – December 26 1982 in Georgia) was a Nashville songwriter in the 1970s who specialized in Country music. His best-known songs include Lucille (co-written with Hal Bynum) and Coward of the County (co-written with Billy Ed Wheeler) both recorded by Kenny Rogers and Blanket on the Ground What I've Got In Mind and 57 Chevrolet recorded by Billie Jo Spears.
Masafumi Akikawa.  Masafumi Akikawa (秋川雅史 Akikawa Masafumi) is a Japanese tenor singer. He has released a number of CDs in which he has sung a broad range of genres from classical to pop. He appeared on the 57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen broadcast.His single Sen no Kaze ni Natte (千の風になって) (released 24 May 2006) made it to No.1 on the 22 January 2007 Oricon Singles Weekly Ranking following his appearance on Uta Gassen.
Megahertz (record producer).  Dorsey Wesley better known by his stage name Megahertz is an American record producer composer and songwriter.Vibe Magazine dubbed Megahertz one of music's 10 Most Valuable Producers while About.com ranked him on its list of the Top 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Producers.Described by Billboard Magazine as a Powerful Producer Megahertz has enjoyed commercial success producing music for television film video games mixtapes & songs that have been certified gold platinum and multiplatinum.
Maria Jane McIntosh.  Maria Jane McIntosh (1803 Sunbury Georgia - 25 February 1878 Morristown New Jersey) was a writer.
Seiji Kameda.  Seiji Kameda (亀田誠治 Kameda Seiji born June 3 1964) is a Japanese music producer arranger and bass guitarist.He has worked extensively with Ringo Shiina serving as her producer and touring bassist for many years including his tenure with their band Tokyo Jihen from 2005 to 2012.
Al Milgrom.  Allen L. Milgrom (born March 6) is an American comic book writer penciller inker and editor primarily for Marvel Comics. He is known for his 10-year run as editor of Marvel Fanfare; his long involvement as writer penciler and inker on Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man; his four-year tenure as West Coast Avengers penciller; and his long stint as the inker of X-Factor.
Patty Hou.  Patty Hou (Chinese: 侯佩岑; pinyin: Hóu Pèicén; born December 20 1977 in Taipei Taiwan Republic of China) is a former news anchor in Taiwan who resigned her position after a Hong Kong magazine revealed her relationship with Taiwanese R&B singer Jay Chou in February 2005. She subsequently hosted an entertainment program on Azio TV and has published the book Patty's About Love.
Burke Shelley.  Burke Shelley (born John Burke Shelley 10 April 1947 Tiger Bay Cardiff) is the bass guitarist and vocalist of the Welsh rock group Budgie.
Karl Kesel.  Karl Kesel (born January 7 1959 Victor New York) is an American comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics. He is a member of Periscope Studio.
Adam Fielding.  Adam Fielding is a UK-based electronic music producer and composer.
Asma Mohammed Rafi.  Asma Mohammed Rafi al-Belushi (أسماء محمد رفیع البلوشي) is a popular Hindi singer originally from Oman. She is the daughter of the well-known Balochi singer Mohammed Rafi al-Belushi . who motivated her to participate in SA RE GA MA PA Challenge 2009 .
Chuck Hogan.  Chuck Hogan is an American author. He is the author of Prince of Thieves: A Novel a work upon which Ben Affleck's Academy Award-nominated film The Town (2010) is based. The work won the 2005 Hammett Prize and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. He has co-authored a trilogy of vampire novels with Guillermo del Toro.
Rod Bernard.  Rod Bernard (born August 12 1940) is an American singer who helped to pioneer the musical genre known as swamp pop which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues country and western and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom along with such notables as Bobby Charles Johnnie Allan Tommy McLain and Warren Storm.
Carlos Libedinsky.  Carlos Libedinsky is an Argentine musician composer and producer. He is most renowned for his neo-tango project Narcotango.Before tango Libedinsky transited through different genres such as rock pop blues medieval and renaissance music. In 1992 he founded the duet Los Mareados where he was also a composer.
Banikanta Kakati.  Banikanta Kakati (Assamese: বাণীকান্ত কাকতি) was a prominent literary figure critic and scholar in Assamese language with his immense contribution to the language in terms of literature linguistics cultural anthropology and comparative religion.
Denis D'Amour.  Denis Piggy D'Amour (September 24 1959 - August 26 2005) was the guitarist for the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod from its inception in 1982 until his death from colon cancer in 2005 aged 45. His approach to music was anarchic and experimental rather than strict and theoretical. He was trained in classical violin as a child. He was influenced by progressive rock artists such as King Crimson Pink Floyd and Rush.
Pitseolak Ashoona.  Pitseolak Ashoona CM (1904 or 1907 or 1908–1983; Inuktitut syllabics:ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐊᓲᓇ) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works. She was also a member of the Royal Academy of the Arts.Pitseolak was born to Timungiak and Oootochie Nottingham Island in the Northwest Territories. She grew up with the traditional life of hunting gathering and shamans.
Jackie Washington.  Jackie Washington (November 12 1919 — June 27 2009) was a Canadian blues musician. Born and raised in Hamilton Ontario Washington became Canada's first black disk jockey in 1948 at CHML in Hamilton.Washington came from a large family of musicians including his brothers Reg (Hammond B3) and Dickie (drums). In the 1930s he was one of the Washington Brothers who played clubs and nightspots until his brother's tragic death by drowning.
Dechen Pem.  Dechen Pem started singing in 1994 and had an album produced through Norling Drayang.She won numerous awards including the award for Best Playback Singer (Female) at the 8th National Film Awards as well as the award for Best Playback Singer (Female) at the 1st Viewers Choice Awards’
Michael Rother.  Michael Rother (born 2 September 1950 in Hamburg) is a German experimental krautrock musician and composer.
Peter Combe.  Peter Combe is an Australian children's entertainer and musician.He has had 22 releases including seven gold albums two platinum three ARIA awards and one ARIA final nomination.Some of his best known songs include Toffee Apple Spaghetti Bolognaise Mr Clickety Cane Juicy Juicy Green Grass and Newspaper Mama.In 2006 he crossed over to the genre of political commentary with his song Free David Hicks.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.  Kiriko Takemura (竹村 桐子 Takemura Kiriko born January 29 1993) known by her stage name Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ Kyarī Pamyu Pamyu) is a Japanese model and singer. Her public image is associated with Japan's kawaisa and decora culture centered in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. She is also commonly known by her simplified stage name as Kyary (きゃりー Kyarī).Kyary's first single PonPonPon (2011) made Japan's top ten and became known as her signature song.
Martin Nodell.  Martin Nodell (November 15 1915 – December 9 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name Mart Dellon.
Razzle (musician).  Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle (December 2 1960 – December 8 1984) was the drummer of Finnish glam rock band Hanoi Rocks from 1982 until his death.
Pete Brown (jazz musician).  James Ostend Pete Brown (November 9 1906 Baltimore Maryland - September 20 1963 New York City New York) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader.Brown learned to play piano trumpet and saxophone while young. He played in New York with Bernie Robinson's orchestra in 1928 and played from 1928 to 1934 with Charlie Skeets. In 1937 he worked in the band of John Kirby; for several years in the 1930s he worked with Frankie Newton who was also a member of Kirby's band.
Te Iki-o-te-rangi Pouwhare.  Te Iki-o-te-rangi Pouwhare (1880–1963) was a New Zealand tribal leader historian and genealogist. Of Māori descent he identified with the Tuhoe iwi. He was born in Te Houhi Wanganui New Zealand in about 1880.
Edith Ellis.  Edith Mary Oldham Ellis (née Lees; 1861–1916) was a British writer and women's rights activist. She was married to the early sexologist Havelock Ellis.Her mother died when she was young and she was sent to a Manchester convent in 1873. She joined the Fellowship of the New Life and met Havelock Ellis in 1887 at a meeting.
David Conyers.  David Conyers (born Sydney Australia 30 May 1971) is an Australian author. Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror. Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993.
Titiyo.  Titiyo Yambalu Felicia Jah (born 23 July 1967) is a Swedish recording artist and songwriter who has won four Grammis.
Red Ingle.  Ernest Jansen Red Ingle (7 November 1906 – 7 September 1965) was an American musician singer and songwriter arranger cartoonist and caricaturist. He is best known for his comedy records with Spike Jones and his own Natural Seven sides for Capitol.
Jackie Mason.  Jackie Mason (born June 9 1931) is an American stand-up comedian and movie actor.
Brent Muscat.  Brent Muscat (born April 23 1967) is a musician who has played in various hard rock bands most notably Faster Pussycat.
Śūdraka.  Śūdraka was an Indian King. Three Sanskrit plays are ascribed to him - Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) Vinavasavadatta and a bhana (short one-act monologue) Padmaprabhritaka. He has been identified as Abhira King Indranigupta who used the pen name Sudraka.
Murat Nasyrov.  Murat Ismailovich Nasyrov (Russian: Мурат Исмаилович Насыров; Uyghur: مۇرات ناسىروۋ‎ ULY: Murat Nasirow) (13 December 1969 Alma-Ata Kazakh SSR Soviet Union – 19 January 2007 Moscow Russia) was a Russian pop singer of Uyghur ethnicity.He committed suicide by jumping from a balcony. There were reports that it was the result of ingesting LSD possibly dissolved in some alcohol he drank a few hours before his death.
Guy Forsyth.  Guy Forsyth (born December 2 1968) is an American Texas blues and blues rock singer guitarist harmonicist and songwriter. He has released nine albums to date.He regularly tours both in the United States and Europe and has opened for Ray Charles Robert Cray Dr. John B.B. King Jimmie Vaughan and Lucinda Williams. His most recent release was The Freedom To Fail (2012).Forsyth's repertoire which is primarily blues in format also incorporates traces of rock R&B folk jazz and pop.
Giorgio Tuinfort.  Giorgio Tuinfort (born in 1981) is a Suriname born Dutch music composer and producer.
Jim Camacho.  James Emanuel Jim Camacho is an American singer/songwriter and former front man for the rock group The Goods.
Simon Oliver.  Simon Oliver is the writer of the Wildstorm comic book series Gen¹³ and the Vertigo comic book series The Exterminators and Hellblazer Presents: Chas - The Knowledge.
Mary McHenry.  Mary Williamson McHenry (born 23 January 1933) is credited with bringing African-American literature to Mount Holyoke College where she is Emeritus Professor of English. McHenry also introduced her then student the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks to Five Colleges faculty member James Baldwin during the 1980s. Parks would later credit McHenry with her success.
Rocio Colette Acuña Calzada.  Rocio Colette Acuña Calzada (born June 3 1982 in Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas Mexico) was one of the 4 finalists of the 5th generation of the popular Mexican reality singing show La Academia. Colette won 2nd place behind the first place winner Samuel Castelan Marini.Colette's second place caused disagreement in her many followers.
Eugie Foster.  Eugie Foster (December 30 1971 in Urbana Illinois) is a Nebula Award winning Asian American short story writer columnist and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies including Fantasy Magazine Realms of Fantasy Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show and Interzone. Her collection of short stories Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice was published in 2009.
Han Seung-yeon.  Han Seung-yeon (born July 24 1988) is a South Korean idol singer dancer and actress. She is known for being the main vocalist of the girl group Kara formed by DSP Media in 2007.
Yoji Kondo.  Yoji Kondo (近藤 陽次 Kondō Yōji born 1933) is a Japanese astrophysicist who also writes science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992) and contributed to New Destinies Vol. VI/Winter 1988 — Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue (1988) after his friend writer Robert A.
Gary Spencer Millidge.  Gary Spencer Millidge is a British comic book creator best known for his series Strangehaven. He has also written and contributed to books about comics.
Joanne Peh.  Joanne Peh (born 25 April 1983) also known as Bai Weixiu is a Singaporean actress and contracted artiste under MediaCorp. She won her second Best Actress at the 2012 Star Awards a feat only matched by fellow MediaCorp actresses Chen Liping and Rui En.
Owain Owain.  Owain Owain (11 December 1929 – 19 December 1993) was a Welsh novelist short-story writer and poet. He also founded Tafod y Ddraig (The Dragon's Tongue) which became the Welsh Language Society's main voice from its birth in the 1960s to the present day.Having worked as a nuclear scientist in Windscale for a few years he returned home to Wales in 1956 where together with his wife Eira settled down in Bangor to raise a family of four children one of whom was Robin Llwyd ab Owain.
Lindsay Ell.  Lindsay Ell is a country music singer songwriter and guitarist from Calgary Alberta.She performed at the South by Southwest music festival held in Austin Texas in March 2009 the welcome reception of the 2009 Juno Awards held in Vancouver British Columbia and was also a featured artist at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Andrew Kahn.  Andrew Kahn (born July 23 1952 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) frequently credited as Andy Kahn is a music composer arranger and producer who was most active in the dance and disco scene in the late 1970s. In 1978 he wrote and produced Karen Young's song Hot Shot for West End Records.
Shiori Mikami.  Shiori Mikami (三上 枝織 Mikami Shiori born January 6 1989 Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with Aoni Production. She's best known for her roles as Akari Akaza on YuruYuri.
Conrad Voss Bark.  Conrad Lyddon Voss Bark (9 March 1913 - 23 November 2000) was a writer and a correspondent for the BBC and the Times.
Mateiu Caragiale.  Mateiu Ion Caragiale (Romanian: [maˈtej iˈon karaˈd͡ʒjale]; also credited as Matei or Matheiu; Mateiŭ is an antiquated version; March 25 [O.S. March 12] 1885 – January 17 1936) was a Romanian poet and prose writer best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I.
Don Weller (painter).  Don Weller is an American illustrator and painter. He did covers for Time Magazine and TV Guide and illustrated stories in Sports Illustrated Boys' Life Pro and Readers Digest. He designed posters for the NFL Hollywood Bowl and 1984 L.A. Olympics. He has taught at UCLA and The Art Center in Pasadena. As of 2006 he lives in a farm in Utah with his wife and their animals where he paints pictures of cowboys and related subjects and breeds and competes cutting horses.
David Quirk.  David Quirk is a stand-up comedian based in Melbourne Australia.
Daniel Rivera.  Héctor Alejandro Daniel Rivera (born May 17 1952 in Rosario Santa Fe) is an Argentine pianist settled in Italy.
Lee Hays.  Lee Hays (March 14 1914 – August 26 1981) was an American folk-singer and songwriter best known for singing bass with The Weavers. Throughout his life he was concerned with overcoming racism inequality and violence in society. Hays wrote or co-wrote Wasn't That a Time? If I Had a Hammer and Kisses Sweeter than Wine which became Weavers' staples. He also familiarized audiences with songs of the 1930s labor movement such as We Shall Not be Moved.
Anna Lindahl.  Anna Lindahl (24 March 1904 – 17 February 1952) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 19 films between 1925 and 1949.
Iliza Shlesinger.  Iliza Vie Shlesinger (born February 22 1983) is an American comedian. She was the winner of the sixth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing and host of the syndicated dating show Excused.
Cristoforo Agosta.  Cristoforo Agosta or Agosti or Augusta (Casalmaggiore 16-17th century) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style.
Vinnie Paz.  Vincenzo Luvineri (born October 5 1977) better known as Vinnie Paz (formerly known as Ikon the Verbal Hologram) is an Italian-American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks. He is also the frontman of the hip hop supergroup Army of the Pharaohs.Paz is known for his raw and gritty lyrical delivery. His lyrics frequently contain references to religion war politics mythology conspiracy theories and the paranormal.
David Levin (singer).  David L. Levin is an American author and singer-songwriter who has recorded with such artists as Bradley Joseph. He started his career as keyboardist for the band Patriot and later released four albums as a solo artist. His first release Heaven features Paul Peterson on bass.
Seth Gamble.  Seth Gamble (born April 29 1988) is an American adult film actor well known for his many roles in several adult movie parodies.
Dhirubhai Thaker.  Dhirubhai Thaker (27 June 1918 – 22 January 2014) was an Indian Gujarati writer who was best known for creating the Gujarati Vishwakosh a 25-volume encyclopedia of the Gujarati language.
Madhu Muttam.  Madhu Muttam is a popular script writer in Kerala India. His second film as a script writer was the critically acclaimed Malayalam blockbuster Manichitrathazhu (1993) which was huge commercial success in Kerala. The film fetched Sobhana the National Award for Best Actress. The film was remade in Kannada as Apthamitra and in Tamil as Chandramukhi and finally in Hindi as Bhool Bhulaiyaa.Madhu Muttom was born as the only child to Kunju Panicker a farmer in Harippad.
Brad Barr.  Brad Barr (born July 27 1975) is a guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for his work with the The Slip The Barr Brothers and Surprise Me Mr. Davis.In 2007 Barr collaborated with Jade McNelis on her album All the Fables. In 2008 Barr collaborated with Sonya Kitchell on her album This Storm. In 2009 he performed on the Land of Talk album Fun and Laughter.On September 16 2008 Barr released an album of solo instrumental guitar music entitled The Fall Apartment on Tompkins Square Records.
Judy Parker.  Judy Parker is a record producer. She co-wrote The Four Seasons' LP Who Loves You and December 1963 (Oh What A Night) with her husband Bob Gaudio who produced the albums.
Sheila Andrews.  Sheila Marlene Andrews (1953 – December 26 1984) was an American country music singer. Signed to the Ovation label she recorded three studio albums in her career and released several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs including It Don't Get Better Than This her highest charting single.
Biosphere (musician).  Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born May 30 1962) a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his ambient techno and arctic ambient styles his use of music loops and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track Novelty Waves was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album Substrata was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all time classic ambient album.
Enrico Mainardi.  Enrico Mainardi (19 May 1897 Milan – 10 April 1976 Munich) was an Italian cellist composer and conductor.At the age of thirteen in 1910 Mainardi had already begun his career as a cello virtuoso who toured the concert halls of Europe. He later taught at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and also held summer classes in Salzburg and Lucerne.
John Shuptrine.  John Robert Shuptrine (born 1955 in Toledo Ohio) is a self-taught black-and-white American photographer. His work encompasses a wide range of topics from portraits to landscapes with a special emphasis on abstract close-ups. He has received numerous awards from local shows including Best in Show at the 2000 Lynchburg Fine Arts Center Juried Photography Contest. Shuptrine has also had several gallery and commercial shows in Lynchburg Charlottesville and Roanoke VA.
Ney Mello.  Ney Mello is a Brazilian born guitarist composer and producer.
Judie Bamber.  Judie Bamber (born 1961) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. Her often representational paintings explore themes of gender biography and temporality. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design.
Jan Fischer (pornographic actor).  Jan Fischer (born 30 September 1981) is a German DJ fashion model and film producer who came to prominence as a television presenter and adult-film actor in gay pornography in the early 2000s.
Peter Giglio.  Peter Giglio (born March 25 1972) is an American novelist editor and screenwriter.
Jerzy Lefeld.  Jerzy Lefeld (Jerzy Albert Lefeld) born 17 January 1898 in Warsaw died on 22 February 1980 in Warsaw was a Polish composer pianist and a music teacher.From 1917 until World War II he taught piano at the Warsaw Conservatory. He became its professor in 1933. In the period 1924-1926 he also collaborated with the experimental radio studio in Warsaw and from 1926 with the Polish Radio (including as a member of the Polish Radio Little Orchestra conducted by J. Ozimiński).
Georgie Harris.  Georgie Harris (1898–1986) was a British film actor.
Fred Travalena.  Frederick Albert Fred Travalena III (October 6 1942 – June 28 2009) was an American entertainer specializing in comedy and impersonations.
Stephen Marley (musician).  Stephen Robert Nesta Raggamuffin Marley (born April 20 1972) is a Jamaican American musician. Stephen is a five-time Grammy award winner as an artist producer and member of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers. He is the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Rita Marley.His 2011 album Revelation Pt. 1 – The Root of Life won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2012. The follow-up Revelation Pt. 2 - The Fruit of Life is due for release in Summer 2014.
Daddy Kev.  Kevin Marques Moo (born 1974) better known by his stage name Daddy Kev is an underground hip hop producer and recording engineer from Los Angeles California. He is the owner of Alpha Pup Records and founder of Low End Theory. He has produced tracks for rappers such as Awol One Busdriver Sage Francis and Subtitle. He is one half of the duo Reefer along with Nicholas Thorburn of Islands.Pitchfork Media describes him as one of the Los Angeles underground's most visionary producers...
Emma Donoghue.  Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-born playwright literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction.[citation needed]
Matthew J. Kirby.  Matthew J. Kirby is an American author. His debut novel The Clockwork Three is a children's historical fiction set in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. It was inspired by a newspaper article Kirby came across in history class in college.
Blasius D'Souza.  Blasius M. D'Souza (22 February 1938 – 26 January 2008) was an Indian politician from Mangalore. A member of the Indian National Congress from Mangalore he was the first Roman Catholic minister in the Karnataka state government.
Charles Frederick Worth.  Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer whose works were produced in Paris and who is widely considered the Father of Haute couture.
Sophia Parnok.  Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok (11 August 1885 – 26 August 1933) (first name is sometimes spelled Sofia or Sofya) (Russian: Софи́я Я́ковлевна Парно́к) was a Russian poet and translator sister of poet Valentin Parnakh and children's author Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya.Sophia Parnok was born in the city of Taganrog to a pharmacist's family.
Dahmane El Harrachi.  Dahmane El Harrachi (real name Abderrahmane Amrani) (July 7 1926 – August 31 1980) was an Algerian Chaâbi singer of Chaoui Berber origin. He is mostly remembered for his song Ya Rayah which has since been made famous again by Rachid Taha.He moved to France in 1949 living in Lille then Marseille before eventually settling in Paris.
Bashka Paeff.  Bashka Paeff (1894- January 24 1979) was an American sculptor active near Boston Massachusetts.Bashka Paeff was known as the Subway sculptor for the pieces she modeled at the Park Street T station while working her way through art school at the Boston Museum School. She was especially known for realistic animal sculptures war memorials fountains and portraits which she created in the classical tradition.
Deep Fried Man.  Daniel Friedman (born 9 January 1981) known on stage as Deep Fried Man is a South African musical comedian and writer based in Johannesburg. He describes what he does as stand-up comedy with a guitar. He adopted his stage name a play on his real name because it went along with the kind of musical comedy I wanted to do which was an unhealthy kind of comedy.
Gilberto Zorio.  Gilberto Zorio (born 1944) is an Italian artist associated with the Italian Arte Povera movement. Zorio's artwork shows his fascination with natural processes alchemical transformation and the release of energy. His sculptures paintings and performances are often read as metaphors for revolutionary human action transformation and creativity.
Ray Parker (painter).  Raymond Parker was born in 1922 and he died in 1990. He was known as an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Ray Parker was an influential art teacher and an important Color Field painter and an instrumental figure in the movement coined by Clement Greenberg called Post-Painterly Abstraction.
Syd Courtenay.  Syd Courtenay was a South African-born British actor and screenwriter. He was a frequent collaborator with the comedian Leslie Fuller. Courtenay first met Fuller in 1919 in Margate and they soon struck up a partnership with routines featuring their comedic character Bill. With the arrival of sound films they were signed to British International Pictures and made their first film Not So Quiet on the Western Front in 1930.
Javed Bashir.  Javed Bashir (born August 8 1973) is a Pakistani Singer. He is Master of Classical South-Asian Music. He is a versatile playback singer. He has sung songs for Bollywood movies like Cocktail Kahaani Rush Bombay Talkies Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!.
Lida Husik.  Lida Husik (born 1963) is a Washington D.C./ New York City artist who was very prominent in the 1990s. She released three albums for New York–based label Shimmy Disc. She later signed a deal with Caroline Records/Astralwerks releasing a psychedelic record for Astralwerks and a more folky record for Caroline Records. In her later years she moved to Los Angeles and signed to Alias Records recording three records for them.
Harry Watson (artist).  Harry Watson (13 June 1871 – 17 September 1936) was an English landscape and portrait artist born in Scarborough. He briefly lived in Canada between 1881 and 1883. He studied at the Scarborough School of Art 1884–88 at Lambeth School of Art and at the Royal College of Art (R.C.A.) 1889–94 where he won numerous gold silver and bronze medals and was awarded a traveling scholarship to Italy. Watson exhibited at the Royal Academy (R.A.) from 1896; member R.W.S. 1915; R.W.A. 1927; R.O.I. 1932.
Adam Christopher.  Adam Christopher McGechan (born 2 February 1978 in Auckland New Zealand) who writes under the name Adam Christopher is a New Zealand novelist. In 2006 he moved from New Zealand to North West England where he lives with his wife.
Joseph Anton Koch.  Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
Hans Aeschbacher.  Hans Aeschbacher (January 18 1906–January 27 1980) was a Swiss abstract sculptor.
Lawrence Arnell.  Lawrence Arnell is a rapper and singer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He became known in the underground scene for his collaborations with Jedi Mind Tricks Outerspace Dave Ghetto and others. He will be featured on the fourth Army of the Pharaohs studio album In Death Reborn as a guest artist.Lawrence has partnered with Dave Ghetto and Philadelphia based producer Dame Anthony to create Ghetto Rock Star. L.
Scott Bomar.  Scott Bomar (born June 15 1974) is a Memphis-based musician Emmy Award-winning film composer Grammy-nominated music producer and recording engineer.
Julius Stettenheim.  Julius Stettenheim (b. 3 December 1831 in Hamburg d. 30 October 1916 in Lichterfelde) was a German writer author of humorous sketches farces and musical comedies who also wrote under the pseudonym Wippchen.
Ogtay Aghayev.  Ogtay Aghayev (Azerbaijani: Oqtay Ağayev)– was a Soviet Azerbaijani variety singer and People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
J. L. King.  J.L. King is a New York Times best selling author publisher and HIV/STD activist. Subjects of his work include the nature of human behavior effects of health issues on minorities and sexual orientation and its impact on schools.
Justin Parker.  Justin Parker is an English songwriter and record producer best known for his work with female singer-songwriters such as Lana Del Rey and Ellie Goulding.
Steve Parkhouse.  Steve Parkhouse is a writer artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics especially 2000 AD and Doctor Who Magazine.
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe.  Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe (March 1936 — May 11 2007) often referred to as just Osadebe was an Igbo Nigerian Highlife musician from Atani. His career spanned over 40 years and he is one of the best known Igbo highlife musicians. His most popular hit was the 1984 Osondi Owendi (Igbo: One man's meat is another man's poison.) establishing him as a leader in the highlife genre being the most popular record ever in Nigeria.
Belinda Rio.  Belinda Rio (born July 11 1971) is an emerging R&B singer song writer finalist of the 2005 World Showcase singing and talent competition held at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Las Vegas Nevada. In 2007 she relocated to Atlanta where she is currently working on new songs for her debut album.
Annie Esmond.  Annie Esmond (1873–1945) was a British film actress.Annie Esmond was born in Surrey England on 27 September 1873. She made her stage debut in pantomime in Sheffield in 1891 and later appeared on the American as well as British stage for many years before going into silent films and later talkies. She died on 4 January 1945.
Kohji Moritsugu.  Kohji Moritsugu (森次 晃嗣 Moritsugu Kōji born March 15 1943) is a Japanese actor best known for his role as Dan Moroboshi in Ultra Seven. He is widely regarded as the best actor in the Ultra Series by fans along with Susumu Kurobe and Jiro Dan.
Mama Sana.  Mama Sana (1900-1997) was a Tandroy singer and performer of traditional airs on the valiha tube zither the national instrument of Madagascar. She was a charismatic performer and dressed in traditional clothing with coins braided into her hair.
Frederica J. Turle.  Frederica Jane Turle (29 March 1880 - 19?) was a British author of juvenile fiction.
Tom Leonard (poet).  Tom Leonard (born 1944) is a Scottish poet writer and critic. He is best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently deals with the relationship between language class and culture.
Kerrianne Cox.  Kerrianne Cox is an Aboriginal singer from Beagle Bay in Western Australia. She has toured widely around Australia and toured USA and South Africa and appeared in the musical Bran Nue Dae in 1996.Cox was nominated in the Deadly Awards for Best Emerging Artist (1998) and Best Female Artist (1999 2000 2001) winning in 2001. She won a WAMi in 1997 as Best Indigenous Artist Of The Year and in 2002 she received another nomination. In 2000 she was NAIDOC's Female Artist Of The Year.
Boss (rapper).  Boss (born Lichelle Laws 1969 Detroit Michigan United States) is an American Midwest female gangsta rapper who enjoyed brief popularity in 1993 with her debut album Born Gangstaz. Her name is sometimes spelled Bo$$.Laws relocated to Los Angeles after graduating high school. Laws was spotted by DJ Quik who stuck her on a track with AMG. Russell Simmons liked the track and promptly signed her to Def Jam West.
Randy Rose (musician).  Randy Rose is a musician who has been playing professionally since 1987 when his older brother Roger formed Mad at the World for which he played drums sang and wrote songs.
James Pants.  James Pants is an American multi-instrumental recording artist. Although his music defies simple categorization he is promoted as a purveyor of the fresh beat an early-1980s sound with influences from 1980s soul electro boogie early rap new wave and post-punk disco.He was discovered by DJ and Stones Throw Records head Peanut Butter Wolf whom he approached while still in high school.
Hassei Takano.  Hassei Takano (高野 八誠 Takano Hassei January 9 1978–) born Mitsuhiro Tsuda (津田 充博 Tsuda Mitsuhiro) in Chiba Prefecture is a Japanese actor. He has portrayed various superheroes in tokusatsu dramas beginning with Ultraman Agul/Hiroya Fujimiya (ウルトラマンアグル/藤宮 博也 Urutoraman Aguru/Fujimiya Hiroya) in Ultraman Gaia in 1998 a role he reprised in the 2008 film Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers.
Mayuki Makiguchi.  Mayuki Makiguchi (牧口 真幸 born December 9) is a Japanese voice actress signed to 81 Produce.
Richard Crashaw.  Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet styled the divine and known as one of the central figures associated with the Metaphysical poets in 17th Century English literature. The son of a prominent Puritan minister Crashaw was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College Cambridge.
Felicia Skene.  Felicia Mary Frances Skene (1821–1899) was a Scottish author philanthropist and prison reformer in the Victorian era.Skene used the pseudonym Erskine Moir and was a friend of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910).
Ray Barbee.  Ray Barbee (born 5 October 1971) is an American skateboarder from San Jose California. He was one of the first skateboarders to bring freestyle/flatland tricks to street technical ollie combinations and numerous no comply variations.
Blues Boy Willie.  William Daniel McFalls better known as Blues Boy Willie (born November 28 1946) is an African-American electric blues singer and harmonica player from Memphis Texas. McFalls is attempting to revive the popularity which the blues enjoyed in his native Memphis during the 1930s 1940s and 1950s.McFalls is known for his unique urban sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues sometimes defined as the secular folk music of American blacks pertinent to modern society.
Dezső Czigány.  Dezsö Czigány (1 June 1883 – 31 December 1937) was a Hungarian painter who was born and died in Budapest. He was one of The Eight (1909-1918) who first exhibited under that name in Budapest in 1911 and were influential in introducing cubism fauvism and expressionism into Hungarian art.Many of them had studied in Munich and even more importantly Paris from which they brought back leading techniques and artistic movements.
Lee Carter (comics).  Lee Carter is a British fantasy artist whose work has appeared in 2000 AD.
Hichkas.  Soroush Lashkary (Persian: Sorūŝ Laŝkari - سروش لشکری‎; born May 10 1985) better known by his stage name Hichkas (Persian: Hiĉkas - هیچکس‎; meaning Nobody) is an Iranian rapper from Tehran. Hichkas is considered as one of pioneers of Persian Rap and Persian Urban music.
Sergio Franchi.  Sergio Franchi (born Sergio Franci Galli; April 6 1926 – May 1 1990) was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in the USA as a multimedia star and recording artist after being discovered on British television in 1962. Subsequent to a trans-Atlantic taped audition RCA Victor signed him to an exclusive seven-year contract. Sol Hurok managed Franchi's initial American concert tour with a debut performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Sarah Gratton.  Sarah-Jayne Gratton née Camden (born 1966 in Cambridge England) is an author and a former theatre performer.Gratton attended the Shrubbery school and the King Slocombe Stage school in Cambridge which led to her appearance on BBC Look East a regional television talent show in the late 1970s.
Carlo Wolff.  Carlo Wolff is a prolific freelance journalist who writes for publications including The Boston Globe Chicago Sun-Times Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Plain Dealer (Cleveland Ohio) and The Christian Science Monitor. He specializes in music criticism book reviews and feature articles about popular culture travel and business. He also specializes in reviewing graphic novels for the Globe.
Jules-Martial Regnault de Prémaray.  Jules-Martial Regnault de Prémaray (11 June 1819 in Pont-d'Armes – 11 June 1868) was a French author. He was literary editor (and then from 1848 chief editor) of la Patrie. He published several poems dramas and vaudevilles.
Charles Robert Thatcher.  Charles Robert Thatcher (1830–1878) was a notable New Zealand singer entertainer and songwriter. He was born in Bristol Gloucestershire England in 1830.
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller.  Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller (February 18 1751 — October 5 1811) was a Swedish painter whose notable works include Danaë receiving Jupiter in a Shower of Gold.Wertmüller was born in Stockholm and studied art at home before moving to Paris in 1772 to study under his cousin Alexander Roslin and French painter Joseph-Marie Vien.
Mike Mills.  Michael Mike Edward Mills (born December 17 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist backing vocalist and pianist his musical repertoire includes also keyboards guitar and percussion instruments. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions.
Tre Williams.  Tre Williams is an American singer formerly affiliated with Nas' label Ill Will Records.
Kim Jeong-hwan (poet).  Kim Jeong-hwan (born 1954) is a South Korean poet novelist and critic.
Pablo Zinger.  Pablo Zinger is a conductor pianist writer composer arranger lecturer and narrator specializing in the music of Ástor Piazzolla tango Spanish zarzuela and Latin American vocal and instrumental music.
Lana Lo.  Lana Lo (Chinese: 羅藍亞; pinyin: Luo Lan Ya) was born on 18 July in Hong Kong. She is the third daughter of the Shaw Brothers Studio 邵氏片場 Hong Kong Film Director John Law (film director) 羅馬 also known as John Lo Mar whom worked with Alan Tang 鄧光榮 Brigitte Lin 林青霞 Candice Yu 余安安 (李菁) Sylvia Chang 張艾嘉. She is also the cousin of George Hu 胡宇威.
Vela Manusaute.  Vela Manusaute is a Niuean writer and director. He is credited with the original idea for the film The Tattooist. Vela is part Niuean and part Samoan he was born in Niue and lived in his village Mutalau before his family left for New Zealand.
Martina Pippal.  Martina Pippal is an Austrian art historian and an artist.
Eric Grossman.  This article is about the musician. For the marathon runner see McNaughton Park Trail RunsEric Grossman (b. November 25 1964 New York) is an American musician best known for playing bass and recording gold and platinum albums with the European band K's Choice.
Joe Mangrum.  Joe Mangrum (born February 10 1969) is an installation and multiple-medium artist who is particularly known for his large-scale colored sand paintings. He resides in New York City.Using a wide spectrum of components his work often includes organic materials such as flowers food and sand in addition to deconstructed computer parts auto-parts and a multitude of found and collected objects.
Mimi So.  Mimi So is a New York City based jewelry designer known for a distinctive and definitive fashion vibe and a large celebrity clientele.Her company was founded as a partnership with luxury conglomerate Richemont which subsequently sold its interest to Mimi So.
Jam Hsiao.  Jam Hsiao (traditional Chinese: 蕭敬騰; simplified Chinese: 萧敬腾; pinyin: Xiāo Jìngténg; Wade–Giles: Hsiao Ching-teng born 30 March 1987 in Taipei Taiwan) is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer. At the age of 17 while still in high school he started working as a restaurant singer. In May 2007 Hsiao rose to fame after only three brief appearances in the first season of China Television (CTV)'s (中視) star search show One Million Star (超級星光大道) which was the Taiwanese equivalence of American Idol.
Oswald Hussein.  Oswald (Ossie) Hussein is a Lokono (Arawak) artist from Guyana. Though he occasionally works in other mediums he is best known for his wooden sculptures which explore various dimensions of Arawak Amerindian culture and tradition. Hussein first achieved national recognition when he won first prize in Guyana's National Exhibition of the Visual Arts in 1989 and since that time he has gone on to become one of Guyana's most celebrated artists and a leading figure in Guyanese sculpture.
Walid Haddad.  Walid Jean Haddad (born 18 March 1986 in Paris) is a French part-time music composer. His principal instrument is the guitar (electric and acoustic) but Walid is also a pianist and keyboardist.He composed with Paul Tyan for Cheers to Those Who Stay. a Lebanese short film by Cyril Aris and Mounia Akl who holds the Award of Merit at the Los Angeles Film Festival of Hollywood.
António Variações.  António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro (December 3 1944 – June 13 1984) was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine he would under the stage name of António Variações become one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent Portuguese history.
Alex Sabga.  Alex Sabga (aged 30) is an English actor from Greater London. He has starred in television series in supporting roles such as Corporal Francis Mellett in Band of Brothers and Happiness.He plays the drums for UK Indie/80s band Dega Breaks.
Angus MacKay (actor).  Angus Newton Mackay (15 July 1926 – 8 June 2013) was an English actor.He amassed numerous television credits during his career in programmes such as One Foot in the Grave Only Fools and Horses Howards' Way The Professionals Steptoe and Son (as the salesman for the water bed) The Sweeney Minder and Z-Cars. In Doctor Who he was the first actor to play the character Borusa in the story The Deadly Assassin (1976); and was the Headmaster in the story Mawdryn Undead (1983).
Phanuel Bacon.  Phanuel Bacon DD (1699–1783) was an English playwright poet and author. He was the son of the Rev. Phanuel Bacon vicar of St Laurence's church in Reading.In his youth Bacon attended Abingdon School and later entered St John's College Oxford. He became vicar of Bramber Sussex and rector of Marsh Baldon Oxfordshire. Among his works are The Kite (1722) The Moral Quack The Insignificants The Tryal of the Timekillers The Occulist and The Taxes all written in (1757).
Urmuz.  Urmuz (Romanian pronunciation: [urˈmuz] pen name of Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău also known as Hurmuz or Ciriviş born Dimitrie Dim. Ionescu-Buzeu; March 17 1883 – November 23 1923) was a Romanian writer lawyer and civil servant who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations.
Renée French.  Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and under the pen name Rainy Dohaney a children's book author.Her work includes H Day (Picturebox) The Soap Lady (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum) (Top Shelf Productions) The Ticking (Top Shelf Productions) and Micrographica (Top Shelf Productions) Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio - Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits (Sparkplug Comicbooks) and Marbles in My Underpants (Oni Press).
Enrico Gamba.  Enrico Gamba (January 3 1831 - October 19 1883) was an Italian painter.
Mark Spiro.  Mark Spiro (born March 28 1957) is an American songwriter record producer and recording artist.Represented on over 100 million records sold worldwide Spiro has delivered songs to artists such as Julian Lennon Cheap Trick John Waite Heart Laura Branigan Bad English Lita Ford and Giant. He has also released solo material sporadically.
Grace Cossington Smith.  Grace Cossington Smith AO OBE (20 April 1892 – 10 December 1984) was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia.
Enrique Hidalgo.  Enrique Hidalgo (born March 10 1942 in El Tigre Anzoátegui state Venezuela) is one of the most influential popular musicians children's poets and authors from Venezuela. Hidalgo's work includes more than 500 songs notably Barcelonesa” “Presagio” Ladron de tu amor '“La Carta” among others more than eight children's educational books and many musical productions written and arranged by himself.
Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen.  Steinbjørn Berghamar Jacobsen (September 30 1937 – April 12 2012) was a Faroese poet teacher and writer. He was known as a children's writer but his works also included short stories plays and novels. He was awarded the Faroese Literature Prize for fiction in 1981.Jacobsen was born in Sandvík on September 30 1937. He died on April 12 2012 in Torshavn Faroe Islands at the age of 74.In the month after his death two of his children worked with 11 of their father's poems.
Duffy (singer).  Amie Ann Duffy (born 23 June 1984) known as Duffy is a British singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Born in Bangor Gwynedd Wales her career began when she recorded and released her debut EP Aimée Duffy in 2004. Duffy was later introduced to Jeannette Lee of Rough Trade Records in 2007 Duffy signed a recording contract with A&M Records where she released her debut album.Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one.
White Jimmy.  White Jimmy (born James Reginald White January 11 1959 in New York City New York) is the vocalist of the American punk rock bands The Deadweights and The Gitmo Condemned owner of the Ruined Recordings label and a solo punk rock and alternative rock artist.
Patrick Vian.  Patrick Vian (born 12 April 1942 in Angoulême) is a French musician. He played progressive punk/rock music in the late 1960s with the band Red Noise which recorded one album. In the 1970s he composed music for a film and released one solo album Bruits et Temps Analogues in 1976.
Cory White.  Cory White is an American guitarist from Lawrence Kansas. He plays guitar in Reggie and the Full Effect. Also played primarily in The Esoteric and also plays guitar in a band called Theta. He is also the guitar player for Kansas City band Paper Cities and was added as a second guitarist for the newly reunited Shots Fired as well as 2 piece Stoner Metal outfit Blitzen.
Avraham Shlonsky.  Avraham Shlonsky (March 6 1900 – May 18 1973; Hebrew: אברהם שלונסקי‎; Russian: Авраам Шлёнский) was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in the Russian Empire.He was influential in the development of modern Hebrew and its literature in Israel through his many acclaimed translations of literary classics particularly from Russian as well as his own original Hebrew children's classics.
Kory Stamper.  Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries. In addition to her editorial duties she presents many of Merriam-Webster's Ask the Editor videos a series on the publisher's website and YouTube that discusses the English language especially unusual or controversial words and usages.
Ramsey Lewis.  Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (born May 27 1935) is an American jazz composer pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.
Roy Lynes.  Roy Alan Lynes (born 25 October 1943 Redhill Surrey) was the keyboardist and occasional singer with Status Quo (originally The Spectres then Traffic Jam). He joined the band in 1964/1965 two years after its foundation.He appeared on Status Quo's first three albums Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo Spare Parts and Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon and wrote To Be Free the B-side of the second Quo single Black Veils of Melancholy.
Valentin Krasnogorov.  Valentin Krasnogorov (born 20 December 1934 Leningrad now St. Petersburg) is a Russian playwright and writer.
Takuro (musician).  Takuro Kubo (久保 琢郎 Kubo Takuro; born May 26 1971 in Hakodate Hokkaidō) is one of the guitarists and leader of the popular Japanese rock band Glay. He is the main composer and lyricist of Glay's songs.As a composer and a musician Takuro has worked with different artists. He's also released solo works.Takuro and his older sister were raised by a single mother as she never re-married after his father's death when Takuro was three years old.
Pat Broderick.  Pat Broderick (born November 26 1953) is an American comic book artist known for his work on the Micronauts. Broderick also pencilled the four-part Batman: Year Three storyline written by Marv Wolfman which detailed the first meeting of Batman and Tim Drake.
John Chapman (artist).  John L. Chapman (born 1946 in Blackburn Lancashire England)[citation needed] is a painter of urban landscapes townscapes transport rural and maritime scenes amongst other subjects. He has painted mainly in acrylics but he is equally proficient with oils watercolours and gouache.Many of Chapman's paintings have been reproduced as limited edition prints and he has also completed several commissions for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons.
Mapei (musician).  Mapei is an American recording artist best known for her single Don't Wait which was released via Downtown Records in 2013. Her debut EP The Cocoa Butter Diaries was released in 2009 also via Downtown Records.
H. G. Wells.  Herbert George H. G. Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres including contemporary novels history politics and social commentary even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is sometimes called The Father of Science Fiction as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
Dmitry Selivanov.  Dmitry Alekseevich Selivanov (Russian: Дмитрий Алексеевич Селиванов [dəˈmʲiːtriː alʲɪkˈsjeʲɪvit͡ʃ sʲɪliˈvanɐf] 25 March 1964 - 22 April 1989) was a Siberian rock singer. He was best known for being the guitarist for Grazhdanskaya Oborona.
Shawn Lee (actor).  Shawn Lee (simplified Chinese: 李创锐; traditional Chinese: 李創銳; pinyin: Li Chuàngruì) (born February 11 1990) born Lee Chuang Rui is a Singaporean actor. He first came into prominence for his award-winning performance alongside his friend and co-star Joshua Ang in the box office hit I Not Stupid.
Shizuma Hodoshima.  Shizuma Hodoshima (程嶋しづマ Hodoshima Shizuma born 程島鎮磨 born March 28 1973 in Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with MT Project. He has performed in a Shakesperean theater group since 1997 in addition to anime and video game roles.
Kathleen McGuire.  Dr. Kathleen Alison McGuire (born in 1965 in Melbourne Australia) is a choral and orchestral conductor arranger composer music educator vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
David Rudder.  David Michael Rudder (born 6 May 1953 Belmont Trinidad and Tobago) is a calypsonian from Trinidad.
Mikey Manville.  Mikey Manville (born Michael Iwanyshyn 25 Dec 1980 Toronto Canada) is a Canadian musician and lyricist and the lead singer of the band The Manvils.In 2006 The Manvils appeared on the front page of the popular Canadian fashion/Music magazine ION.That same year Manville and The Manvils appeared on the national Budweiser Guitar Maker add campaign. The commercial later aired in China during the Beijing Olympics.
Suzanne Brockmann.  Suzanne Brockmann (born 1960) is an American romantic fiction writer. She lives outside of Boston Massachusetts with her husband Ed Gaffney and their two children Melanie and Jason T. Gaffney. She has also penned works under the name Anne Brock.
Terry Deglau.  Terry Deglau is the portrait photographer chosen by the United Nations to take the group photo of the world's leaders at the 2000 United Nations Millennium Project in New York. He had done a similar photograph for the UN's 50th anniversary celebration in 1995 and has done portraits of five U.S.
Gillian Maitland.  Gillian Maitland (born 26 September 1985) is a Scottish marimba soloist percussionist and composer.
Prodigy (rapper).  Albert Johnson (born November 2 1974) better known by his stage name Prodigy is an American rapper and one half of the Hip-hop duo Mobb Deep with Havoc. He is the great-great-grandson of the founder of Morehouse College.
J.K. (singer).  Marta Simlat known as J.K. (born 2 January 1970) is a Polish model and eurodance singer who enjoyed moderate success in the mid to late 1990s.
Flood (producer).  Flood is the professional pseudonym of British post-punk and alternative rock record producer and audio engineer Mark Ellis. Flood's list of work includes projects with recording acts like New Order U2 Nine Inch Nails Depeche Mode Thirty Seconds to Mars Erasure Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds PJ Harvey A-Ha Sigur Rós The Smashing Pumpkins and The Killers.
Terry Burrus.  Terrance Corley Burrus is an American keyboardist composer record producer conductor business and fashion designer executive.Born in Brooklyn New York he started touring as a teenager playing with jazz fusion violinist Michał Urbaniak and singer Jean Carne while still in high school in New York. Terry went on to replace Urbaniak's keyboardist at that time Barry Eastman (who wrote You Are My Lady years later for Freddie Jackson) in Urbaniak's band.
Bunny Rugs.  William Alexander Anthony Bunny Rugs Clarke (6 February 1948 – 2 February 2014) also known as Bunny Scott was the lead singer of Jamaican reggae band Third World as well as recording as a solo artist. He began his career in the mid-1960s and was also at one time a member of Inner Circle and half of the duo Bunny & Ricky.
Catherine Jauniaux.  Catherine Jauniaux is a Belgian avant-garde singer. She has been described as a one-woman-orchestra a human sampler and one of the best kept secrets in the world of improvised music. Her solo album Fluvial (1983) is regarded as one of her most accomplished works. She was married to the late American experimental cellist and composer Tom Cora.
Monte Dolack.  Monte A. Dolack (born May 23 1950) is an American graphic artist who lives in Missoula Montana in the United States. Frommer's called him one of the best-known artists in Montana. He works primarily in watercolor acrylic paint poster art and lithographs. Dolack's work often features whimsical animals in both a natural and artificial setting (such as a suburban living room) and has a worldwide following.
Zoraida Santiago.  Dr. Zoraida Santiago (born May 25 1952) is a composer and singer of Puerto Rican folkloric themes.
Héctor Rojas Herazo.  Héctor Rojas Herazo (August 12 1920 – April 11 2002) was a Colombian novelist poet journalist and painter.Rojas was born in Tolú as son of Juan Emiro Rojas and Blance Berta Herazo. He was baptized on October 6 1921. He started artistic works in his childhood and was taught in plastic arts by his cousin José Manuel González. Later he wrote as journalist for several papers. As painter he realized more than sixty exhibitions on the American and the European continent. He died in Bogotá.
Betty Merken.  Betty Merken is an American painter and printmaker who lives and works in Seattle Washington.
Pat Bianchi.  Pat Bianchi is an American jazz organist. In 2010 Downbeat named him among the ten best organists in jazz. He took up piano at age seven and began formal lessons at age 12. He studied classical piano at the Eastman School of Music and jazz piano at the Berklee School of Music. His second album features Terrell Stafford Ralph Peterson. Jr. and Wayne Escoffery. He is currently based in New York.
Corey Crowder (singer).  Corey Crowder is a singer songwriter and producer based in Nashville Tennessee.
Reif Larsen.  Reif Larsen (born 1980) is an American author known for The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet for which Vanity Fair claimed Larsen received just under a million dollars as an advance from Penguin Press following a bidding war between ten publishing houses.Larsen was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1998 and then went on to Brown University and Columbia University. He holds an M.F.A in fiction.
Brian Christie.  Brian Christie is an television news journalist talk show host and anchor. He is currently host and executive producer of The Boomer Show. For over a decade he was a primary news anchor and reporter for CNN CNN Headline News and CNN International when it carried CNN's US prime time nightly broadcast. During his years at CNN Christie anchored the network's The World Today The CNN Prime News and Newsnight.
Krishna Beura.  Krishna Beura is an Indian playback singer who has sung songs in commercial Hindi and Oriya cinema. Mostly known for his hit song Maula Mere from the film Chak De India Rabba (Musafir) and Soniyo from the Heart (Raaz-2). He can sing in 22 languages including his mother tongue Oriya.
Lena T. Hansson.  Lena Teresia Hansson (born May 18 1955) is a Swedish actor. She studied at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm. Hansson is since 1990 married to the actor Peter Haber. At the 24th Guldbagge Awards she won the award for Best Actress for her role in Lethal Film.
Bashy.  Ashley Thomas (born 4 February 1985) also known by his stage name Bashy is an English musician and actor.
Roberta Beach Jacobson.  Roberta Beach Jacobson (born July 21 1952) is an American journalist humorist and early ezine editor.Jacobson was born as Roberta Beach Johnson in Worcester Massachusetts. Her first publication came at age 8 in Jack and Jill. After finishing high-school in 1970 she joined the United States Army which sent her to Europe. She remains an expatriate saying I prefer Europe. I'm where I want to be.
Tolis Voskopoulos.  Apostolos (Tolis) Voskopoulos (Greek: Τόλης Βοσκόπουλος) (born 26 July 1940 Kokkinia Piraeus) is one of the legends of modern Greek music. He also starred in many films and played in the Theatre in Athens.One of Voskopoulos' greatest theatrical hits was Oi Erastes tou Oneirou (Dream Lovers) which he performed opposite Zoe Laskari.Voskopoulos is married to former minister Angela Gerekou.
Adam Brand.  Adam Brand (born 27 January 1970) is an Australian musician who sings country music. Active since 1997 he has released seven studio albums and thirteen singles. His first three albums are all certified platinum in Australia. Brand has made two chart entries including his first American release Ready for Love.
Bizniz.  Ha Won-taek (born March 16 1982) Bizniz is a South Korean rapper and singer. He debuted as a member of Korean hip hop duo Infinite Flow until the disbandment in 2007 where he pursued a solo career 2008 where he released his debut solo album titled This Is Bizniz. He also featured in Lee Seung Gi's track Will You Marry Me.
Tyler Dickerson.  Tyler Dickerson (born 1993 in Hattiesburg Mississippi) is an American country music artist signed to Lyric Street Records. He released his debut single Tell Your Sister I'm Single to radio in early 2010.
Trent Reznor.  Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17 1965) is an American singer-songwriter composer and record producer. As both a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Reznor has led the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails since 1988; he left Interscope Records in 2007 and was an independent recording artist for around five years until he signed with Columbia Records.
Marcus Siepen.  Marcus Siepen (born September 8 1968 in Krefeld Germany) is a German guitarist and backing vocalist most known for being the rhythm guitarist of power metal band Blind Guardian. For the biggest percentage of Blind Guardian's songs particularly in more recent years he has almost strictly played rhythm guitar with most lead and solo work being performed by André Olbrich.
Ellen Montalba.  Ellen Emeline Montalba (1842–1902) was a British artist. She was born in Bath England in 1842 one of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba and Emeline (née Davies). She and her three sisters all attained high repute as artists. The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens Notting Hill London with four daughters all artists.The Montalba sisters were regular contributors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition during the 1870s.
Keith Duffy.  Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy (born 1 October 1974) is an Irish singer-songwriter actor radio and television presenter and drummer who began his professional music career as part of Irish boy band Boyzone alongside Ronan Keating Mikey Graham Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately in 1993. The band decided to focus on solo projects in 2000 since which Duffy has achieved critical acclaim for his acting roles particularly in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair City.
Chan Hung-lit.  Chan Hung-Lieh (7 June 1943 – 24 November 2009) also known as Chen Hung-Lit and Golden Chan was a Shaw Brothers actor famous for portraying villains from the 1960s to 1980s. In his acting hiatus Chan was involved in the garment industry. He later resumed his acting career by joining TVB in 1995 left the following year and did not return again until 2003. He was the brother of Steve Chen Hao.
Allen Tupper True.  Allen Tupper True (1881–1955) was an American illustrator easel painter and muralist who specialized in depicting the American West.
George Lichtheim.  George Lichtheim (1912–1973) was a German-born intellectual whose works focused on the history and theory of socialism and Marxism. He defined himself as a socialist and stated in a 1964 letter to The New York Review of Books that I am not a liberal and never have been.
Thakur Dalip Singh.  Thakur Dalip Singh (born 5 August 1953) is a renowned and internationally recognised Indian photographer. He is originally specialized in natural and wildlife photography but later turned to aerial photography of subjects in many locations across the world.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.  Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is an Israeli attorney human rights activist and the founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center. She is known for her legal activism especially lawsuits and legal actions brought on behalf of terror victims against terrorist groups their leaders and financial patrons. In addition her law office has brought civil actions against numerous banks and financial institutions she accuses of aiding and abetting Islamic and Arab groups engaged in terror attacks.
Max Ward (drummer).  Max Ward occasionally playing under the moniker of Hirax Max is an influential figure in power violence and thrashcore playing for such bands as Spazz Plutocracy Capitalist Casualties What Happens Next? Bombs of Death and Scholastic Deth. He is also known for his extreme support of the D.I.Y. scene having released records and booked tours for hundreds of local national and international bands while still living in the Bay Area.Ward is the founder of 625 Thrashcore Records.
Damian O'Neill.  Damian O'Neill (born Stephen Damian O'Neill 15 January 1961 Derry Northern Ireland) is the lead guitarist in the pop-punk band The Undertones. He joined the band following the departure of his older brother Vincent in 1976 and remained with the band until their break up in 1983. O'Neill wrote several album tracks and singles during the career of The Undertones usually writing with bassist Michael Bradley.
Hilda Belcher.  Hilda Belcher (September 20 1881 - April 27 1963 ) was an American artist known for her paintings watercolors portraits and illustrations depicting individuals and landscapes both in formal portraiture and in casual scenes of daily life.
Mike Stout.  Mike Stout is an American labor supporter social activist and rock guitar player and protest singer who lives in Pittsburgh United States. He is also known as the World's Grievance Man.
Andreas Lundstedt.  Andreas Lundstedt (born Björn Helge Andreas Lundstedt 20 May 1972) is a Swedish musician who is best known as a member of the pop-dance group Alcazar.
Hitomi Kurihara.  Hitomi Kurihara (栗原 瞳 Kurihara Hitomi born September 2 1981) is a Japanese actress from Ibaraki Prefecture. She has appeared in various tokusatsu dramas. Her most prominent role has been as Smart Lady in Kamen Rider 555. She also sang her character's song on the Kamen Rider 555 soundtrack entitled My Name is Smart Lady.
William Harper (composer).  William Harper (born 1949) is a Chicago photographer and composer. His photography is concerned with natural form and line and his music is theatrical technology-based work sourcedfrom liturgical and folk traditions.
Seidenbeutel brothers.  Four important Polish Jewish Artists from one family two of whom were twins: Efraim Seidenbeutel & Menasze Seidenbeutel (twins) born on December 7- and killed in 1945 at the Flossenbürg death camp. The third was Józef the oldest (a painter) and Hirsz the youngest (a sculptor).
William Beattie-Brown.  William Beattie-Brown (1831–1909) was a Scottish landscape painter.
Danny Gaither.  Danny Gaither (November 20 1938 - April 6 2001) was a gospel music singer from Alexandria Indiana and an original member of the world-famous Bill Gaither Trio.As the founding tenor of the enormously successful trio Danny sang to audiences around the world with his brother Bill and sister Mary Ann who was later replaced by Bill's wife Gloria.
Kristofer Hill.  Kristofer Thomas Hill (born in Summit New Jersey on October 13 1979) is an American Musician Composer Singer-Songwriter Guitarist Philosopher Pianist and multi Percussionist.Raised in Maplewood New Jersey Kristofer began singing & piano lessons at the age of four. Other instruments followed such as the clarinet bassoon bass and drums and at the age of thirteen the guitar. Inspired by a diverse range of music from Mozart to Hendrix.
Aelita Andre.  Aelita Andre (born 9 January 2007) is an Australian abstract artist known for her Surrealist painting style and her young age. She began to paint when aged nine months and her work was displayed publicly in a group exhibition shortly after she turned two. Her first solo exhibition opened in New York City in June 2011 when she was four years old.
Carolyn See.  Carolyn See (born Carolyn Penelope Laws; January 13 1934) is an adjunct professor of English at the University of California Los Angeles and the author of nine books including the memoir Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America an advice book on writing Making a Literary Life and the novels There Will Never Be Another You and The Handyman.See earned her associate degree from Los Angeles City College and her M.A. from California State University Los Angeles.
Knud Agger.  Knud Agger (26 September 1895 – 2 February 1973) was a self-taught Danish painter. After a series of paintings from everyday life he became ever involved in painting his family home and garden at Helsingør in the north of the island of Zealand. With time his work took on a visionary and strongly existentialist character.
Frank Comstock.  Frank G. Comstock (September 20 1922 – May 21 2013) was an American composer arranger conductor and trombonist. For television Comstock wrote and arranged music for major situation comedies and variety shows; his theme and incidental music for Rocky and His Friends (1959–1964) are probably his best-remembered works.
Martin Fröst.  Martin Fröst (born 14 December 1970) is a Swedish clarinetist. He lives in Stockholm and works with the most prominent orchestras and conductors all over the world. As a dedicated Chamber Musician he is also the artistic leader of the Mora Vinterfest in Sweden and Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival in Norway.
Frances Yip.  Frances Yip Lai-yee is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television series produced by TVB in the 1980s and early 1990s.Born on 22 Oct 1947 Frances is of Hakka ancestry Yip hit international fame with her signature tune The Bund from the TVB drama of the same title.
Louay Kayyali.  Louay Kayyali (Arabic: لؤي كيالي‎) (1934–1978) was a Syrian modern artist.
Emppu Vuorinen.  Erno Emppu Matti Juhani Vuorinen (born 24 June 1978 in Kitee Finland) is a Finnish guitarist most famous for being a founding member and occasional songwriter of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is the oldest of five children having a twin brother and three younger sisters.
Michael Wong (actor).  Michael Fitzgerald Wong (aka Wong Man-tak) (Chinese: 王敏德; pinyin: Wáng Mǐndé; born 16 April 1965 in Troy New York) is a Chinese-American actor based in Hong Kong.He is fluent in English but not so in Chinese which is reflected in many of the characters he has portrayed. His most notable film is the 1998 film Beast Cops which won a Hong Kong Film Award with Wong in the lead role. As of 2004 he has appeared in over fifty films in twenty-one years often in very minor roles.
Dorothy Cannell.  Dorothy Cannell is an English-American mystery writer.
Merlin Mann.  Merlin Dean Mann III (born November 26 1966 in Cincinnati Ohio) wrote the blog 43 Folders (not updated since Oct 2011).
Joey Waronker.  Joseph Joey Waronker (born 20 May 1969 in Los Angeles) is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known as a regular session musician of both Beck and R.E.M. and as member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta.Waronker is the son of producer Lenny Waronker and actress and musician Donna Loren and is the brother of musician Anna Waronker. He was a student of the renowned teacher Freddie Gruber.
Andy Mineo.  Andy Mineo former stage name C-Lite is a Christian hip hop artist producer minister and TV and music video director from New York City. He is currently signed to Reach Records and in addition to his solo work is a member of that label's hip hop collective 116 Clique.Originally from Syracuse Mineo worked as a producer in high school Upstate New York and formed a hip hop group signed to Syracuse University's Marshall Street Records.
Jochy Santos.  José Jochy Santos (born 6 June 1954) is a Dominican comic actor presenter and producer. Santos is considered the pioneer in interactive radio programs mixed with humor in the Dominican Republic.Santos gained fame in his country as co-host of a nightly program called El Show de la Noche together with fellow presenter and comedian J. Eduardo Martínez in the late 1980s.
Hirohisa Horie.  Hirohisa Horie (堀江博久 Horie Hirohisa born March 24 1970 in Kanagawa Kantō region) is a Japanese musician and multi-instrumentalist. He plays primarily keyboards and guitar.Horie is one half of the Shibuya-kei duo Neil & Iraiza and is known for his work with artists such as Kahimi Karie and Cornelius (as a member of the Cornelius Group).
Gold Chains.  Gold Chains was an electro rap artist from San Francisco whose birth name is Christopher Lafata. Gold Chains has performed along with Sue Cie (real name Sue Costabile) who is a video artist also from San Francisco area.
Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer.  Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer are American screenwriters.
Mark Sultan.  Mark Sultan (born Mark Antonio Pepe) is a Canadian musician and entrepreneur from Montreal Quebec. He was a member of a number of Canadian garage bands including the Spaceshits Les Sexareenos and Mind Controls. He has also spent time performing as a one-man band under the pseudonym BBQ a moniker which has followed him beyond his solo career to his collaboration with former Spaceshits bandmate Blacksnake in the two-man band The King Khan & BBQ Show.
Yves Rodier.  Yves Rodier (born June 5 1967) is a Franco-Québécois comic strip creator known for his many pastiches of The Adventures of Tintin.
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda.  Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946) was named Poet Laureate of Virginia by the Governor Tim Kaine on June 26 2006. She succeeded Rita Dove and served in this position from June 2006 – July 2008.
Kelly Cheung.  Kelly Cheung (張曦雯) was born in Hong Kong and was raised there until she was ten years old when she moved to Chicago. She is a Hong Kong model and actress. Cheung was the winner of Miss Chinese Chicago and Friendship Ambassador 2011. She then went on to represent Chicago in the Miss Chinese International Pageant and took the title in 2012. She was 21 when she competed and is the only Chicago representative to ever hold the title.
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya.  Chittaprosad Bhattacharya is India’s most recognized political artist of the mid-20th century. He preferred watercolor and printmaking avoiding oil on canvas. Chittaprosad used prints to disseminate leftist ideas and propaganda.
Julia Ann.  Julia Ann (born October 8 1969) is the stage name of American pornographic actress feature dancer and former Penthouse Pet Julia Tavella; she is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Frank Sydney Greenop.  Frank Sydney Greenop (12 Mar 1913 - 15 June 1975) was an Australian journalist editor linguist poet and author.While Greenop was perhaps best known as editor of the then risque magazine Man (magazine) he had wide ranging literary tastes and skills. He published historical books children's books and detective novels (under the pseudonym 'Robert Dudgeon'). He married in 1937 and had four children one of which died in infancy. He died at home in 1975 aged 62.
Brent Mason.  Brent Mason (born July 13 1959) is one of the most recorded guitarists in history. He is a Grammy Award winner a 12-time winner of the Academy of Country Music Guitarist of the Year Award and a two-time winner of the CMA Award Musician of the Year. He has been named as one of the top ten session guitarists in the world joining the ranks of Jimmy Page Larry Carlton Tommy Tedesco and Steve Cropper. He is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter.
Lloyd Ahlquist.  Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist (born January 18 1977) better known as his online alias EpicLLOYD is an American internet personality best known for the YouTube video series Epic Rap Battles of History along with Peter Shukoff known as Nice Peter. Ahlquist has performed as an MC actor improviser and writer.
Dale Marshall (painter).  Dale Marshall (born 1974 Bath UK) is a contemporary fine art painter currently residing in the Welsh countryside at the foothills of Snowdonia National Park. He has studied fine art at Coventry University as well as a year study program at California State University Longbeach California in 2012.
Mizuki Fukumura.  Mizuki Fukumura (譜久村 聖 Fukumura Mizuki born October 30 1996 in Tokyo) is a Japanese pop singer. She is a ninth-generation member and sub-leader of the idol group Morning Musume. Prior to becoming part of Morning Musume Fukumura was known as a member of the second generation Shugo Chara Egg! and for her role of Amulet Heart in the live action segment of the highly acclaimed television series Shugo Chara! Party!.
Madalyn Aslan.  Madalyn Aslan (born October 5 1963) is an American writer astrologer and palmist. She is the author of Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs What's Your Sign? and CosmoGirl Astrologer. In 1999 The New York Times proclaimed her The Love Guru and stated: Ms.
Cindi Cain.  Cindi Cain is a Canadian country music artist. Cain was nominated for Best Country Female Vocalist at the Juno Awards in 1992. Her 1989 single I Think That I'll Be Needing You reached the Top 10 of the RPM Country Tracks chart.
Jay Mo.  Jay Mo (born Jason Mohan) is a songwriter singer rapper musician and filmmaker.Currently based in Los Angeles in the United States Jay Mo was born in London and educated in England West Africa and India.
MC Router.  Kristin Nicole Ritchie (born 5 May 1986) is a former Nerdcore rapper better known by the stage name MC Router. The self-proclaimed (and argued) First Lady of Nerdcore founded the group 1337 g33k b34t with friend Tanner Brown (aka T-Byte) in 2004. Although the two are still friends and occasionally collaborate musically the group disbanded in late 2006 to leave each of them to perform as solo acts.
Pitch Black Afro.  Pitch Black Afro (Thulani Ngcobo) is a South African Kwaito/Hip Hop MC from the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
Vilayat Hussain Khan.  Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan Sahib (1895–1962) was a prominent musician of the Agra Gharana who excelled both as singer and teacher. His father Natthan Khan was himself an acclaimed performing artist(singer) of his time and a noted guru. Vilayat Hussain Khan's elder brothers were also noted singers and taught him after their father's early death.
Alan Pauls.  Alan Pauls (born 22 April 1959 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer literary critic and screenwriter.
Bill Brittain.  William E. Bill Brittain (December 16 1930 in Rochester New York – December 16 2011) was an American author most famous for his writings of the fictional New England village of Coven Tree including The Wish Giver a Newbery Honor Book. Brittain decided he wanted to be a 5th-grade teacher and in addition to teaching used to read stories in mystery magazines.
Victoria Baker.  Victoria Baker is a French singer-songwriter actress composer lyricist writer producer and director.She began her career as a child actress with supporting and lead roles on British Television for the BBC and Thames Television. She subsequently began her vocal training at some of the finest institutions in London Paris and New York. She has performed various leading soprano roles in operas as well as at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Eric Singleton.  Eric XL Singleton (born Eric Newkirt Singleton November 6 1968 New York City) also known as XLarge is an American rapper who has appeared on many dance music productions significantly on Modern Talking songs such as You're My Heart You're My Soul '98 China In Her Eyes and Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Canray Fontenot.  Canray Fontenot (October 16 1922 - July 29 1995) was an American Creole fiddle player who has been described as the greatest black Louisiana French fiddler of our time.
Kåre Jostein Simonsen.  Kåre Jostein Simonsen (born March 26 1948) is a Norwegian bandoneonist. He has been a regular member of the Tango Concertino and Trio Troika in Trondheim and now plays in ensembles Quinteto Nidaros (piazzollaquintet - bandoneon violin electric guitar piano and double bass) and Cholo tango duet/trio.
Mem Shannon.  Mem Shannon (born 21 December 1959 New Orleans Louisiana) is an American blues musician. He is currently signed to Toronto's NorthernBlues Music. Shannon is a former taxi-cab driver turned bluesman.
Paul Varghese.  Paul Varghese (born 1977) is a Dallas Texas comedian of Indian descent who appeared on the hit reality show Last Comic Standing 2 where he made it to the semi-finals. He taped his first full-set for national television on March 8 2007 for Comedy Central's Live at Gotham which aired July 13 2007. He was a regular on the Pugs and Kelly radio show noon-3 p.m.
Eddie Holland.  Edward Eddie Holland Jr. (born October 30 1939) is an American singer songwriter and record producer.Holland was born in Detroit Michigan. Although he was an early Motown artist who recorded minor hit singles such as Jamie he started working behind the scenes due to stage fright.
Amalie Winter.  Amalie Winter was a pen name used by Amelie von Gross (1803-?) a poet and novelist of Weimar Germany.Her maiden name is recorded as being Leebach or Saebach.In early life she became acquainted with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and her taste and mind were formed under his influence. At the age of thirty her writing appeared as contributions to a popular annual.
Terry McLean.  Sir Terence Power McLean KNZM MBE (15 July 1913 – 11 July 2004) known as Terry McLean or T.P. was a New Zealand sports journalist and author about rugby (rugby union) in New Zealand. He commenced as a journalist on the Auckland Sun in 1930 subsequently working on the Hastings Tribune New Zealand Observer Taranaki Daily News and Evening Post (Wellington).
Aivars Kalējs.  Aivars Kalējs (April 22 1951 Riga Latvian SSR) is a Latvian organist composer and pianist.
Tone Damli.  Tone Damli Aaberge (born 12 April 1988 in Sogndal) is a Norwegian singer. She became famous for being a contestant in the Norwegian version of the Idol series.She was the runner-up in the Norwegian version of Idol in 2005 following Jorun Stiansen in the final.She has released four albums Bliss Sweet Fever I Know and Cocool.
Paul Goma.  Paul Goma (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpa.ul ˈɡoma]; born October 2 1935) is a Romanian writer also known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989. Forced into exile by the communist authorities he became a political refugee and currently resides in France as a stateless person. After 2000 Goma has expressed opinions on World War II the Holocaust in Romania and the Jews claims which have led to widespread criticism for antisemitism.
Yvonne Keeley.  Yvonne Keeley (born Yvonne Paay 6 September 1952) is a Dutch pop music singer. She is the sister of Patricia Paay. Her surname is often misspelt as Keely.She began her career as a session singer in the music industry in London. She was the girlfriend of Steve Harley of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and sang on the 1975 hit Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me).
Viviana Sofronitsky.  Viviana Sofronitsky (Russian: Вивиана Владимировна Софроницкая) is a Russian-born Canadian classical pianist. Born in Moscow her father was the noted Soviet-Russian pianist Vladimir Sofronitsky. She started her music studies at the Central Music School and went on to earn a doctorate from the Moscow Conservatory.
Clemente Bondi.  Clemente Luigi Donnino Bondi (June 27 1742 – June 20 1821) was an Italian poet and translator.
Terry Carisse.  Terrance Victor Carisse (July 11 1942–May 22 2005) known as Terry Carisse was one of Canadian Country Music's most awarded decorated and popular singer-songwriters. His awards include the Canadian Country Music Association's Male Vocalist of the Year Award which he has won six times and still holds this record. He was nominated four times for a Juno Award. In 1989 he was inducted into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame.
Robert Nelson Jacobs.  Robert Nelson Jacobs (born 1954) is an American screenwriter. In 2000 he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat.
Vittorio Rieti.  Vittorio Rieti (January 28 1898 – February 19 1994) was an Jewish-Italian composer. Born in Alexandria Egypt Rieti moved to Milan to study economics. He subsequently studied in Rome under Respighi and Casella and lived there until 1940.In 1925 he temporarily moved to Paris and composed music for George Balanchine's ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Barabau. He met his wife in Alexandria Egypt.
S.M. Zakir.  S.M. Zakir (born 4 February 1969 in Kota Bharu Kelantan Malaysia) is a Malaysian writer of prose poetry and theatrical texts.
Corin Tucker.  Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9 1972) is a singer and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.
Aletta Ocean.  Aletta Ocean (born December 14 1987) is the stage name of a Hungarian pornographic actress. She has appeared in Penthouse and Hungarian Playboy.[citation needed] and won the 2010 AVN Awards for Female Foreign Performer of the Year and Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production (Dollz House - Harmony Films). Ocean has appeared in more than 200 pornographic films
Jordi Puntí.  Jordi Puntí i Garriga (Manlleu Catalonia 1967) is a Catalan writer columnist and translator.He has a degree in Romance Philology and he has worked for various publishers (such Edicions 62 Quaderns Crema or Columna Edicions). Also he has worked in various media: El País El Periódico de Catalunya etc.He began his career as published author with two books of short stories: Pell d'Armadillo (1988) which he won the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or and Animals tristos (2002).
Cosmo D'Angeli.  Cosmo D'Angeli (29 October 1889 – 28 November 1968) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Simon Carmiggelt.  Simon Carmiggelt (7 October 1913 – 30 November 1987) was a Dutch writer who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances.
Kim Shattuck.  Kimberly Dianne Kim Shattuck (born July 17 1963) is the lead singer and guitarist of the band The Muffs and was a member of the Pixies playing bass for them in 2013. From 1985 to 1990 she was a member of The Pandoras. In 2001 she was a singer guitarist and songwriter for The Beards a superpop side project composed of Shattuck Lisa Marr and Sherri Solinger.She sang on a NOFX song Lori Meyers on the album Punk in Drublic.
Paul Hemmings.  Paul Jeremy Hemmings is a Liverpool based musician and photographer.
Louis Mhlanga.  Louis Mhlanga (born 10 November 1956) is a South African based Zimbabwean award-winning guitarist and producer. Mhlanga taught himself playing the guitar at a tender age and is considered one of the best Southern African guitarists. Mhlanga's career began in the 1970s. Fronting many bands in Zimbabwe he mixed American and Zimbabwean influences into his music.
Damien Crosse.  Damien Crosse is an American gay pornographic film actor-magazine model. He was an exclusive for Titan Media 2006-2008. Crosse is currently under contract with Raging Stallion Studios. In 2008 Crosse and gay adult performer Francesco D'Macho launched Stag Homme Studios a production label based in Madrid. The real-life partners will be prominently featured in live webcasts DVDs and other content.
Liz Green (musician).  Liz Green is a Manchester-based singer-songwriter. In 2007 Green won the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent competition. In 2011 she released her debut album O Devotion!
Zona Jones.  Zona Jones (born 1963 in Corpus Christi Texas; raised in Valentine Texas) is an American country music singer and attorney. Signed to D/Quarterback Records in 2004 he released his debut album Harleys & Horses and charted three singles from it including the No. 47 Two Hearts. In 2008 he signed to Rocky Comfort Records a label owned by Tracy Lawrence to release his next album 2009's Prove Me Right.
Muriel Martin-Harvey.  Muriel Martin-Harvey (1891-1988) was a British stage actress. She also played the leading role in two silent films. She was the daughter of the actors John Martin-Harvey and Angelita Helena Maria de Silva Ferro. Her brother was the actor Michael Martin-Harvey.
David Wong (writer).  Jason Pargin known by his pen name David Wong (born January 10 1975) is an American humor writer. He is the executive editor of humor website Cracked.com and has written two novels John Dies at the End (2007) and This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012). The former was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012.
Russell Pollard.  Russell Russ Pollard (born 1975) is an American rock musician who has been a member of Sebadoh The Folk Implosion Alaska! and Everest.
Ritzy Lee.  Ritzy Lee who was a member of The Del-Vikings from 1959 until his retirement in 2003 is now part owner of a recording company titled Rock Bottom Blues Company based in Beverly Hills CA. Along with Robert Junior Brantley and Sam McWhorter co-founders of the company Lee is recording and producing entertainers in the blues rock and pop fields in the US and Asia.
Tom Sharpe.  Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist best known for his Wilt series as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were both adapted for television.Born in 1928 in Croydon Sharpe was an alumnus of Pembroke College Cambridge before moving to South Africa for a decade then being deported for sedition for speaking out against apartheid.
Kelly Starling Lyons.  Kelly Starling Lyons born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is a writer and children's book author. She is also one of the founding members of the blog The Brown Bookshelf aimed at young African-American readers and featuring book reviews and author and illustrator interviews. Lyons makes her home in Raleigh North Carolina.
Gregory David Roberts.  Gregory David Roberts (born June 1952) (born Gregory John Peter Smith) is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India where he lived for ten years.
Don Maloney (author).  Donald J. Maloney (1928 Yonkers New York-September 3 2007) was an American author best known for his writings about his life as an American businessman in Japan during the 1970s.Maloney graduated from the Syracuse University School of Journalism in 1948. In 1970 Maloney was assigned to Tokyo by the Harris Corporation (then of Cleveland Ohio) to engineer Harris' entry into the Japanese market.
Julia Donaldson.  Julia Catherine Donaldson MBE (born 16 September 1948) is a British writer playwright and performer and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler which include The Gruffalo Room on the Broom and Stick Man.
Julien Doré.  Julien Doré (born July 7 1982) is a French singer winner of the fifth season of the television show Nouvelle Star aired on the French Television M6 channel. He is also the great-great-great-nephew of Gustave Doré a well-known illustrator of the 19th century.
Betty Faire.  Betty Faire was a British actress of the silent era.
Hugues Sambin.  Hugues Sambin (ca. 1520–1601) was a French sculptor trained as a menuisier or wood-worker; as a designer of Mannerist ornament his published designs such as La diversité des termes (The Diversity of Therm figures) Lyon 1572 inspired luxury furnishings such as dressoires armoires and cabinets. Its preface was signed Hugues Sambin Architecteur en la ville de Dijon.
G.H. Mulcaster.  G.H. Mulcaster (born 27 June 1891 London England–died 19 January 1964 England) was a British actor. He was the father of the actor Michael Mulcaster.
Kurt Brecht.  Kurt Brecht (born August 24 1961 in Houston Texas) is an American vocalist and author best known for his work as vocalist of crossover thrash band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles).He is also in a thrash band called Pasadena Napalm Division (P.N.D.)
Meic Stevens.  Meic Mortimer Stevens is a Welsh singer-songwriter often referred to as the Welsh Dylan who has been compared with Syd Barrett. Stevens's songs have a mystical faintly psychedelic flavour and are mostly sung in his native Welsh language. Still largely unknown outside Wales he was discovered by DJ Jimmy Savile who saw him performing in a Manchester folk club in 1965.
Don Reno.  Don Wesley Reno (February 21 1927 – October 16 1984) was an American bluegrass and country musician best known as a banjo player in partnership with Red Smiley and later with guitarist Bill Harrell.
Bigga Haitian.  Charles Andre Dorismond (born November 4 1964) better known by his stage name Bigga Haitian is a Haitian-American entertainer who rose to fame in the 1990s. He is known as the first Haitian singer to break into the Jamaican reggae scene tearing down national and cultural walls and paving the way for the next generation of Haitian artists. Today's most talented Haitian artists such as Wyclef Jean and Mecca aka Grimo credit Bigga as an influence.
Richard Tandy.  Richard Tandy (born 26 March 1948 Birmingham England) is an English musician best known as the keyboard player in the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). His palette of keyboards (including Mini Moog clavinet mellotron and piano) was an important ingredient in the group's sound notably on the albums A New World Record Out of the Blue Discovery and Time.
Carlos Monsiváis.  Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4 1938 – June 19 2010) was a Mexican writer critic political activist and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers and was considered to be an opinion leader within the country's progressive sectors. His generation of writers includes Elena Poniatowska José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Fuentes.
Sheep Dog & Wolf (musician).  Daniel McBride better known under the moniker Sheep Dog & Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist vocalist and composer based in Wellington New Zealand. McBride released his first EP under this name (created by himself in his bedroom) in May 2011 at 17 years old. The EP received critical acclaim internationally including a number one single on German radio and saw him signed to Lil' Chief Records for his debut album; Egospect released August 2013.
Alexandra Quinn.  Alexandra Quinn (born on March 25 1973 in Canada) is a retired Canadian pornographic film actress who has been active in the industry since the late-1980s. Quinn's first year in the industry took place prior to her 18th birthday. Eighteen is the legal minimum in which United States citizens may appear in pornography. Like the case of Traci Lords that came several years earlier it was discovered in the early-1990s that Quinn's earlier films were made before she was 18.
Linus Svenning.  Linus Martin Tommy Svenning (born 13 April 1990) is a Swedish singer and songwriter who participated in Melodifestivalen 2014 the selection process for picking the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Bröder. He sang in the first semi-final passing to the second chance round on 1 March in Lidköping and qualified after a duel round with Martin Stenmarck's song När änglarna går hem.
Gerhard Tausche.  Gerhard Tausche (born 1957) is a German archivist and author.He is head of the Stadtarchivs Landshut and chairman of the Historischen Vereins Niederbayern.
Andraé Crouch.  Andraé Crouch (born July 1 1942) is an American gospel singer songwriter arranger recording artist record producer and pastor.
Harold Harvey (artist).  Harold Harvey (1874–1941) was a Newlyn School painter who painted scenes of working class Cornish fishermen farmers and miners and Cornish landscapes. He was born in Penzance and trained at the Penzance School of Arts under Norman Garstin and the Académie Julian in Paris (1894–1896).
Wenceslaus Hollar.  Václav Hollar (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦolar]; 13 July 1607 – 25 March 1677) was a Bohemian etcher known in England as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas and in Germany as Wenzel Hollar. He was born in Prague and died in London being buried at St Margaret's Church Westminster.
Andrew White (saxophonist).  Andrew White (born September 6 1942) is an American jazz/R'n'B multi-instrumentalist (saxophone oboe and bass guitar) musicologist and publisher.
Qurram Hussain.  Qurram Hussain often called q is a Canadian musician of Pakistani descent and a member of Josh a Montreal-based South Asian fusion band.
Julian Clary.  Julian Peter McDonald Clary (born 25 May 1959) is an English comedian and novelist. Openly gay Clary began appearing on television in the mid 1980s and became known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style. Since then he has also acted in films television and stage productions and was the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 10 in 2012.
Qu Yuan.  Qu Yuan (343–278 BC) was a Chinese poet and minister who lived during the Warring States period of ancient China. He is known for his contributions to classical poetry and verses especially through the poems of the Chu Ci anthology (also known as The Songs of the South or Songs of Chu): a volume of poems attributed to or considered to be inspired by his verse writing. Together with the Shi Jing the Chu Ci is one of the two great collections of ancient Chinese verse.
Govardhanram Tripathi.  Govardhanram Tripathi (Gujarati: ગોવર્ધનરામ માધવરામ ત્રિપાઠી) was a Gujarati language novelist of 19th century from India. He is known for his four volume novel Saraswatichandra.
Jacopo della Quercia.  Jacopo della Quercia (c. 1374 – October 20 1438) was an Italian sculptor of the Italian Renaissance a contemporary of Brunelleschi Ghiberti and Donatello. He is considered a precursor of Michelangelo.
Cagnaccio di San Pietro.  Cagnaccio di San Pietro (January 14 1897 – May 29 1946) born Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa was an Italian magic realist painter.He was born in Desenzano del Garda. His artistic training was at the Academy of Fine Art in Venice where he studied under Ettore Tito. Cagnaccio's early paintings were in a Futurist idiom but by the early 1920s he had adopted a very smoothly brushed nearly photographic style.
Hilary Lloyd.  Hilary Lloyd is an English artist whose exhibition of film and video at Raven Row arts centre was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011.
N. N. Kakkad.  Narayana Nambuthiri Kakkad (Malayalam: നാരായണൻ നമ്പൂതിരി കക്കാട്; 14 July 1927 – 6 January 1987) commonly known as N.N.Kakkad was an Indian poet of the Malayalam language. He was a Sanskrit scholar and a broadcaster.
Ken Grimwood.  Kenneth Milton Grimwood (February 27 1944 – June 6 2003) was an American author sometimes known as Alan Cochran. In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts themes found in his best-known novel the highly popular Replay.
Primož Kozak.  Primož Kozak (11 September 1929 – 22 December 1981) was a Slovenian playwright and essayist. Together with Dominik Smole Dane Zajc and Taras Kermauner he was the most visible representative of the so-called Critical generation a group of Slovenian authors and intellectuals that reflected on the paradoxes of the Communist regime and the relation between power and individual existence in general.
Mike Dash.  Mike Dash (born 1963) is a Welsh writer historian and researcher. He is best known for books and articles dealing with dramatic yet little-known episodes in history.
Emily Underdown.  Emily Underdown (1863–1947) was an English writer novelist and poet. She is best known for popularising Dante (Dante Alighieri 1265–1321) and for her children’s books. Many of her works are written under the pseudonym Norley Chester. This appears to have been taken from the village of Norley Cheshire near the town of Chester (Room 2010). The use of pseudonyms was common with female writers of the time. She also illustrated the book: The Pageant of The Year A Garden Record In Verse.
Joanna Macy.  Joanna Rogers Macy (born May 2 1929) is an environmental activist author scholar of Buddhism general systems theory and deep ecology. She is the author of eight books.
Joan Elliott Pickart.  Joan Elliott Pickart is a popular United States writer of over 100 romance novels since 1984. She also writes under the pen name Robin Elliott. She is the co-founder of the Professional Writers of Prescott a member of the national Romance Writers of America the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter of Romance Writers of America (RWA) and a charter member and co-president of the Northern Arizona RWA.
James Valerio.  James Valerio (born 1938) is a U.S. artist specializing in photorealist paintings. Valerio was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago receiving a BfA in 1966 and an MfA in 1968. His work is included in the collection of the Butler Institute of American Art and other museums.
Johan Frandsen.  Johan Frandsen born September 9 1982 Stockholm Sweden is the frontman guitarist main songwriter and lead vocalist in the Swedish rock band The Knockouts. His trademark guitar] is a Gretsch White Falcon. Johan Frandsen is an endorsed artist by Gretsch Guitars TV Jones Fender and Peerless.
Chad Hugo.  Charles Edward Chad Hugo (born February 24 1974) is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as one half of the music production and writing duo The Neptunes and as a member of N.E.R.D. He is a saxophonist pianist and guitarist. Along with his production partner Pharrell Williams he has produced numerous number-one hit tracks.
Jacques François.  Jacques François (16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003) was a French actor.
Robert Barr (writer).  Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist born in Glasgow Scotland.
James Johnson (artist).  James Johnson (1803–34) was an English architectural draughtsman watercolourist and oil painter who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He contributed nearly 50 drawings of scenes from Bristol England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge. The Braikenridge Collection makes Bristol's early 19th century appearance one of the best documented of any English city.
Javier Limón.  Javier Limón (born 1973) is a record producer singer and songwriter born and raised in Madrid Spain. Limón has worked with several artists mainly from Spain since he incorporates elements of flamenco rhythm to his work. Besides his work as producer has also dabbled as an interpreter and has released three studio albums Limón Son de Limón and Mujeres de Agua. Since 2003 Limón has done recordings in Palestine Bogotá Bristol Paris Bahía Blanca Buenos Aires New York City and Morocco.
Camilo Mori.  Camilo Mori Serrano (September 24 1896 in Valparaíso Chile – December 7 1973 in Santiago Chile) was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse.The son of an Italian immigrant Camilo Mori entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes (School of Fine Arts) at the University of Chile in 1914 and studied under masters Juan Francisco González Richón Brunet and Alberto Valenzuela Llanos.
Taisia Afonina.  Taisia Kirillovna Afonina (Russian: Таи́сия Кири́лловна Афо́нина; May 13 1913 Nikolaev Russian Empire – April 19 1994 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter and watercolorist lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Krista Detor.  Krista Detor is a singer-songwriter and pianist from Indiana whose music has been featured on NPR and with Mike Harding on the BBC.
Antun Augustinčić.  Antun Augustinčić (4 May 1900 – 10 May 1979) was a prominent Croatian sculptor active in Yugoslavia. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century. His most notable sculptures include the Peace monument which stands in front of the United Nations building in New York City and the Miner statue in front of the International Labour Organization headquarters in Geneva.
Masatoshi Hamada.  Masatoshi Hamada (浜田 雅功 real name: 濵田 雅功 Hamada Masatoshi born May 11 1963) is a Japanese comedian best known as the tsukkomi half of the popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Hitoshi Matsumoto. His nickname is Hama-chan (浜ちゃん) and is married to Natsumi Ogawa (小川 菜摘). He has two children.
Don Freeman.  For the basketball player see Donnie FreemanDon Freeman (August 11 1908 – January 1 1978) was an American painter printmaker cartoonist children's book author and illustrator.
Warren Haynes.  Warren Haynes (born April 6 1960) is an American rock and blues guitarist vocalist and songwriter. Haynes is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band. Haynes also is known for his associations with the remaining members of The Grateful Dead including touring with Phil Lesh and Friends and The Dead.
William Kissick.  William Lee Bill Kissick was an American professor of medicine.
Ayano Ōmoto.  Ayano Ōmoto (大本 彩乃 Ōmoto Ayano born 20 September 1988) nicknamed Nocchi (のっち) is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the Japanese electropop group Perfume.
Nate Lowman.  Nate Lowman (born 1979) is an American artist.
Thunder (singer).  Park Sang-hyun (Korean: 박상현; born October 7 1990) better known by his stage name Thunder (Korean: 천둥; Cheondung) is a member of South Korean idol group MBLAQ and the younger brother of the 2NE1's vocalist Sandara Park.Along with his native language Korean he is fluent in Tagalog English and conversational Mandarin and Japanese.
Srinu Pandranki.  Srinu Pandranki (born 5 October 1987) is an Indian author short film maker and a screenplay writer. He is mostly famous for directing the critically acclaimed short films Pink Slip and Hour Glass.
Stan Coster.  Stan Coster OAM (27 May 1930 – 25 March 1997) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter. His songs were regularly performed by Slim Dusty and other singers. He is the father of country music singer Tracy Coster.
Paul Féval père.  Paul Henri Corentin Féval père (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857).
Alex Berenson.  Alex Berenson (born January 6 1973) is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings.
Marc Drogin.  Marc Drogin (born 1936 in New York City) is an American writer and illustrator.
Charlotte Church.  Charlotte Maria Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed; 21 February 1986) is a Welsh singer-songwriter actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007 she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States. In 2010 she was reported to be worth as much as £11m (though one 2003 report quoted her worth at £25m).
Matthew Beard (British actor).  Matthew Beard (born 25 March 1989) is an English film and television actor and model best known for his role as Blake Morrison in the 2007 film And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Robert Ames Bennet.  Robert Ames Bennet (1870–1954) was an American western and science fiction writer. Several of his novels were made into films including Finders Keepers and Out of the Depths.
Marcus Tanneberger.  Marcus Tanneberger (born 1987 in Berlin) is a German violinist.
Ai (poet).  Florence Anthony (October 21 1947 – March 20 2010) was an American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa (Japanese: 愛小川 Literally: Love Stream).She won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems.
Mickey Simmonds.  Mickey Simmonds (born 31 January 1959 Chesterfield Derbyshire England) is an English session keyboardist arranger and composer. He is best known for his work with progressive rock acts Mike Oldfield Renaissance Camel and Fish. He has also worked with Joan Armatrading Paul Young The Rutles Art Garfunkel Kiki Dee John Coghlan's Diesel Band Elkie Brooks Judie Tzuke Imagination Bucks Fizz Jennifer Rush The Mods 4 Bills & a Ben and most recently The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Percy Irausquin.  Joseph Gregory Percy Irausquin (June 26 1969 – August 14 2008) was an Aruban-born Dutch fashion designer and couturier based in Amsterdam. He was described by the Dutch media as one of the most talented young designers in the Netherlands. The Dutch national daily newspaper De Volkskrant described his clothing designs as sexy and extravagant and fashionable but not fussy.Irausquin was born in Oranjestad Aruba on June 26 1969.
Anatoly Gunitsky.  Anatoly Avgustovich Gunitsky (Russian: Анато́лий А́вгустович Гуни́цкий IPA: [ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ˈavɡʊstəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɡʲʉˈnʲit͡skʲɪj] ; born September 30 1953 Leningrad) also known as George and Old Rocker (Старый рокер) is a Russian writer journalist and poet one of the founders of Aquarium rock group.Since the foundation of Aquarium in 1972 he was the drummer of group and the author of many lyrics. In 1975 he left the group and participated in absurd theatre actions.
Tha City Paper.  Tha City Paper is a rapper signed to the Ca$hville Records record label.
Ahmad Akbarpour.  Ahmad Akbarpour (Persian: احمد اکبرپور‎) Ahmad Akbarpūr Persian pronunciation: [æhˈmæd(-e) ækbærpuːr] born (July 31 1970 in Chah Varz Lamerd Fars Province is novelist and author of short-stories and children books.
Willy Chirino.  Willy Chirino born April 5 1947 in Consolación del Sur Pinar del Río Cuba is an entertainer and singer in the salsa style.
Thomas Moore.  Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible with John Murray for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore.
Peter Gethers.  Peter Gethers (born 1955) is an American publisher screenwriter and author of television shows films newspaper and magazine articles and novelist; the author of several books including the bestseller The Cat Who Went to Paris published in the UK under the title A Cat Called Norton the first of the Norton the cat trilogy about his Scottish Fold Norton.
Harindra Dave.  Harindra Dave (September 19 1930-March 29 1995) was a Gujarati writer of the post-independence period. He was born in Khambhra village in Kachchh and was educated at Shamaldas Gandhi College Bhavnagar Gujarat and later Bombay University. He authored more than fifty works including poems essays Drama and fiction. He was a journalist by profession. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for his book of poems 'HAYATI'.
Maria Spanò.  Maria Spanò (Naples September 25 1843 - ) was an Italian woman painter.She initially trained under her father Raffaele Spanò. She was eclectic in subjects painting genre landscapes and historic paintings. She also was well respected as a portraitist and painter of still lifes with flowers. At the 1859 Exposition in Naples she displayed a half-figure painting of a Peasant woman of Sorrento garnering a silver medal of merit.
Harry Van Dyke.  Harry Van Dyke also known as Harry'O The Vandizzle (born September 29 1972) is an American actor and music producer most known for his role as Douby in the movie Split Decisions. His music credits are the album The Camp from Lay'em Down Productions and various other songs that he produced.
Francesco Giugno.  Francesco Giugno (1577 - c. 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist and early-Baroque periods mainly active in Brescia and Mantua. Born in Brescia he became a pupil of Pietro Marone and then of Palma il Giovane. He died in Mantua.
Isabella Fyvie Mayo.  Isabella Fyvie Mayo (December 10 1843 - May 13 1914) was a Scottish poet and novelist who also wrote under the pen name Edward Garrett.Born as the youngest child of Scottish parentage in London in 1843 Isabella was privately educated at a girl's school near Covent Garden. With the help of friends she published poems and stories using the pseudonym Edward Garrett. In 1870 Isabella married John Ryall Mayo a solicitor who died in 1877 leaving her with one son.
Masahiro Kawasaki.  Masahiro Kawasaki (川崎 真弘 Kawasaki Masahiro 15 September 1949 – 4 May 2006) was a Japanese musician and composer born in Kitakyushu Fukuoka. As a musician he played keyboards in a number of bands including Ryudo Uzaki's Ryūdōgumi. As a composer for film television and anime he won awards of excellence at the Japan Academy Prize for his film scores for Rampo and Kin'yu Fushoku Rettō: Jubaku.
Marcie Free.  Marcie Michelle Free (born Mark Edward Free on April 12 1954) is an American rock singer best known as the lead singer of King Kobra Signal and Unruly Child.Free started singing professionally at the age of 19 while living in Flint Michigan (1973). In 1975 Free moved to Las Vegas Nevada which eventually (in 1979) led to him relocating to Los Angeles CA where he met Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge Beck Bogert & Appice Rod Stewart) in 1983.
Arnold Skemer.  Arnold Skemer born in 1946 is an American novelist and publisher. Skemer has operated Phrygian Press since 1985. He also publishes ZYX (begun in 1990) a small xerographic magazine that publishes poetry short fictions commentary on innovative fiction and small press matters and reviews. It appears 2-3 times a year.
Angelo Lo Jacono.  Angelo Lo Jacono (Paternò 1838- Paterno December 29 1898) was an Italian writer and journalist.
OJ da Juiceman.  Otis Williams Jr. (born November 26 1981) better known as OJ da Juiceman is an American rapper. OJ Da Juiceman is founder of vanity label 32 Entertainment.
Jonas Ekdahl.  Jonas Ekdahl is a Swedish drummer. He is best known as the former drummer of the heavy metal band Evergrey. He was previously the drum tech of Evergrey's former drummer Patrick Carlsson. He was born in Gothenburg in May 1983. Ekdahl started playing drums when he was 10 years old started working for Evergrey as their drumtech at age 17 and in 2003 joined the band as a full-time member at age 19.
Walt Kelly.  Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. (August 25 1913 – October 18 1973) or Walt Kelly was an American animator and cartoonist best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios contributing to Pinocchio Fantasia and Dumbo. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics where he created Pogo which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary.
Neil Hubbard.  Neil Terrence Hubbard is a British guitarist who performed with Juicy Lucy (band) The Grease Band Bluesology Joe Cocker Roxy Music Kokomo B.B. King Kevin Rowland and Tony O'Malley; and played on the original 1970 concept album Jesus Christ Superstar.Hubbard was educated at King's School Peterborough where he was a boarder. He and another pupil were budding guitarists who built their own amplifiers using plans designed by a fellow boarder and electronics wizard named Wright.
August Rigo.  Dan August Rigo or better known professionally as August Rigo (born August 6 1986) is a recording artist songwriter producer and musician. August Rigo is signed to a publishing contract with Sony/ATV as a songwriter.
Gerard Starkie.  Gerard Starkie is an English musician and former lead singer of Witness. After Witness split up in 2004 Gerard went onto record his debut album Drawbridge with former Witness band members releasing it as a free download on his official Myspace site.Gerard is now due to release his second album Potions in July 2011 on UK indie label Lupine Records.
Mr. Brainwash.  Mr. Brainwash – often stylized as MBW – is the moniker of Paris-born Los Angeles-based self-proclaimed filmmaker and street artist Thierry Guetta. According to the Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) Guetta began as a proprietor of a clothing store and amateur videographer who filmed street artists through the 2000s and evolved into an artist in his own right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy.
Jason Gobel.  Jason Göbel is an American musician engineer and University lecturer.He is best known for being a member of the technical metal band Cynic and playing guitar on their album Focus.
Gu Gan.  Gu Gan (Chinese: 古干 b.1942)the family name is Gu also whose original name is Zhang Shiqiang is a calligraphist from Changsha Hunan Province. He graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Art Academy in 1962. In 1975 he was assigned to work in the People's Literature Publishing House.In 1998 he was invited by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild to design the wine label for the Mouton Rothschild 1996 vintage. Gu Gan is the first Chinese artist to ever have been thus honored.
Mărgărita Miller-Verghy.  Mărgărita Miller-Verghy (Romanian pronunciation: [mərɡəˈrita ˈmiler ˈverɡi]; first name also Margareta surname also Miller-Verghi Miller-Vergy; full name also Marg. M-V.; January 1 1865 – December 31 1953) was a Romanian socialite and author also known as a schoolteacher journalist critic and translator.
Seth Fisher.  Seth Fisher (July 22 1972 - January 30 2006) was an American comic book artist and penciller.
Charles-Louis Balzac.  Charles-Louis Balzac (1752 – 1820) was a French architect and architectural draughtsman.
Paul Morris (musician).  Paul Morris (born 2 November 1959 Santa Monica California) is a musician best known as a keyboardist in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. He played keyboards on the Stranger in Us All album and co-wrote the song Black Masquerade.Paul Morris studied piano as a child in New York City. He studied under prominent jazz pianists Lennie Tristano Hal Galper and Sal Mosca.
Joel C. Rosenberg.  Joel C. Rosenberg (born 1967) is an American communications strategist author of the Last Jihad series and founder of The Joshua Fund. An Evangelical Christian he has written five novels about terrorism and how he says it relates to Bible Prophecy including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Ezekiel Option along with two nonfiction books Epicenter and Inside the Revolution on the alleged resemblance of biblical prophecies and current events.
Greg Costikyan.  Greg Costikyan sometimes known under the pseudonym Designer X is an American game designer and science fiction writer.Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming including hex-based wargames role-playing games boardgames card games computer games online games and mobile games. Several of his games have won Origins Awards.
Tom Wessels.  Tom Wessels (born 1951) is a terrestrial ecologist and a professor at Antioch University New England in the Department of Environmental Studies where he founded a master's program in conservation biology. He is the author of three books and is an active environmentalist.
Won Soo-yeon.  Won Soo-yeon (born January 12 1961) is a South Korean female manhwa artist who writes in the shoujo (romance) genre. She debuted in 1987 and has published several titles; among her best known serials are Full House (2002) and its sequel Full House 2 (2005). Two of her comics have been adapted into television dramas: Full House (2004) and Mary Stayed Out All Night (2010).She is married to fellow manhwa artist Doha Kang with whom she has two children.
Prem Shankar Jha.  Prem Shankar Jha born 22 December 1938 is the Managing Editor of Financial World the soon to be launched business daily from Tehelka. He is also a columnist with Tehelka magazine.
John Graas.  John Graas (March 14 1917 – April 13 1962) was an American jazz French horn player composer and arranger. Born in Dubuque Iowa Graas had a short but busy career on the West Coast known primarily as one of the first and best French horn players in jazz.Graas had classical training including attendance at the Tanglewood Music Center where he performed under the tutelage of Serge Koussevitsky.
Steven Keillor.  Steven James Keillor (born April 25 1948) is a Minnesota historian and author. He received his B.A. M.A. and Ph.D in American History from the University of Minnesota; currently he is an adjunct professor at Bethel University. He lives in Askov Minnesota and is the brother of Garrison Keillor .
Hillel Slovak.  Hillel Slovak ‏(Hebrew: הלל סלובק‎; April 13 1962 – June 25 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988 Slovak recorded two albums with the band Freaky Styley (1985) and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987).
Doug Brammer.  Doug Brammer (born May 13 1963) is an American comic book writer best known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and Bog Swamp Demon series from Mirage Studios.
Gareth Phillips.  Gareth Phillips is a Welsh former actor best known for playing Nick Williams in the long-running BBC school drama Grange Hill. He appeared from 1991-1993.Gareth currently lives in Brecon Powys Wales running a pub called The Gremlin. He also teaches drama and occasionally appears on stage locally.He entered the Mr Wales competition in 1998 and achieved 3rd position.
Anne George (writer).  Anne Carroll George was an American author and poet. A collection of her poetry Some of it is True (1993 Curbow Publications) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 and her Southern Sisters mystery series was honored with the coveted Agatha Award. She graduated from Samford Universityand was Alabama's 1994 state poet and cofounder of Druid Press. George died in 2001 of complications during heart surgery.
John Kirby (artist).  John Kirby (born 1949 Liverpool England) is a British artist known for his paintings exploring issues of gender religion sexuality and race. His work has been compared to that of René Magritte Balthus and Edward Hopper. Kirby has exhibited internationally and his work is held in several collections including the Tate Gallery the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art.
Annette Lapointe.  Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer whose debut novel Stolen was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. Born in 1978 in Saskatoon Saskatchewan she was educated at the University of Saskatchewan Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Manitoba.Stolen also won two awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards for best first novel and the Saskatoon Book Award and was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Horace Silver.  Horace Silver (born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva September 2 1928 Norwalk Connecticut United States) is an American jazz pianist and composer.Silver is known for his distinctive humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering compositional contributions to hard bop. He was influenced by a wide range of musical styles notably gospel music African music and Latin American music and sometimes ventured into the soul jazz genre.
Bess Lomax Hawes.  Bess Lomax Hawes (January 21 1921 – November 27 2009) was an American folk musician folklorist and researcher. She was the daughter of John Avery Lomax and Bess Bauman-Brown Lomax and the sister of Alan Lomax.
Ferry Gouw.  Ferry Gouw is an Indonesian musician illustrator and video director working in the United Kingdom. He is the frontman of the indie band Semifinalists and has directed and produced music videos for several bands in the UK indie music scene including Lightspeed Champion. As well as being the creative vision and illustrator for Major Lazer his video for Major Lazer's track 'Hold the Line' received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Breakthrough Video award in the MTV Video Awards.
Andrew Lang.  Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet novelist literary critic and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
David Allen Hulse.  David Allen Hulse (born on 11 December 1948) is an American author of books on occult doctrine of interest mostly to the high magic set. He is probably most notable for his 1993 book The Key of it All.
Bamboo Mañalac.  Francisco Gaudencio Lope Belardo Mañalac (born 21 March 1976) popularly known as Bamboo Mañalac or simply by the mononym Bamboo is a Filipino musician and singer-songwriter. He began his career as a vocalist of Rivermaya and later fronted his own band Bamboo.
George Walker (printmaker).  George Alexander Walker is a writer artist and printmaker from Ontario.
Mike Clark (jazz musician).  Mike Clark (born October 3 1946) is an American jazz and funk drummer who is most noted for playing in the Headhunters band headed up by Herbie Hancock in the mid-1970s. Clark's performance on Hancock's album Thrust (1974) and particularly the song Actual Proof is often cited as one of the finest examples of the linear funk style of drumming[citation needed]. He was also a member of the UK jazz-fusion outfit Brand X alternating behind the kit with Phil Collins between 1978-80.
Jeremy Fish.  Jeremy Fish is an illustrator and artist currently living in San Francisco. He was born in 1975 in Albany New York. He lived in upstate New York until he moved to San Francisco in 1994 to attend art school. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.In 2006 Nike Skateboarding released a version of the Air Classic shoe with artwork designed by Fish.Fish has collaborated with Aesop Rock since the latter's move to San Francisco in 2005.
Eladia Blázquez.  Eladia Blázquez (February 24 1931 Avellaneda Buenos Aires Province - August 31 2005) was an Argentine tango singer and composer. El corazón al sur is considered her most popular tango.
Dmitry Gorchakov.  Prince Dmitry Petrovich Gorchakov (Russian: князь Дми́трий Петро́вич Горчако́в IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj pʲɪˈtrovʲɪt͡ɕ ɡərt͡ɕɐˈkof] ; January 12 [O.S. January 1] 1758 – December 11 1824 [O.S. November 19]) was a Russian writer dramatist and poet best known for his satirical verses and three comical operas staged at the end of the 18th century.
Paul Downes.  Paul Downes is an English folk guitarist singer and composer. He has appeared on eight albums with bands three highly acclaimed solo albums and has over 150 session credits. He has toured every concert venue theatre and festival in Britain[citation needed] plus many tours in the USA and Europe as well as appearing in cabaret in the West Indies and newsreading on US radio.Born in Devon Downes played classical guitar in his youth.
Porta (rapper).  Cristian Jiménez Bundo (born 2 July 1988 in Barcelona) known as El Porta or simply Porta is a Spanish rapper It became popular in 2006 through its huge success in social networks with their maqueta No es cuestión de edades (2006) and No hay truco ( 2007) which were widely disseminated on the Internet where he broke the record of downloads . Porta won greater popularity by releasing his first album En boca de tantos (2008) and so he has to know his world RAP COMANDO group.
Víctor Jara.  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbiktor ˈliðjo ˈxaɾa marˈtines]; September 28 1932 – September 15 1973) was a Chilean teacher theatre director poet singer-songwriter political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile. A distinguished theatre director he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays to the classics of the world stage to the experimental work of Ann Jellicoe.
Jeff Gutt.  Jeffrey Adam Jeff Gutt (born May 2 1976) is a musician and vocalist originating from the Metro Detroit area.Gutt has appeared in two seasons of the American reality television series The X Factor. He first appeared in Season 2 (2012) when he drew international acclaim for his heartfelt rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah before being eliminated in the following Boot Camp episode. Gutt competed in Season 3 (2013) of The X Factor USA finishing in second place.
Isabel Allende.  Isabel Allende (Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magic realist tradition is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias 2002) which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called the world's most widely read Spanish-language author.
Michael Thompson (guitarist).  Michael Thompson (born Michael Wood Thompson February 11 1954 in Brooklyn New York United States) is an American guitarist and songwriter.Thompson achieved enduring modest success with his 1989 melodic rock/AOR group Michael Thompson Band but is most noted for his work as a popular session guitarist on the recordings of some of the most popular musical artists of the 1980s 1990s and 2000s spanning the genres of pop rock R&B Country music and Latin music.
Pieter de Jode I.  Petrus or Pieter de Jode I (1570 Antwerp – 9 August 1634 Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver.
Captain Rapp.  Captain Rapp is the stage name of Larry Earl Glenn an American hip hop/post-disco musician producer and West Coast Rap pioneer.He is best known for his politically conscious song Bad Times (I Can't Stand It) which was a West Coast response to Grandmaster Flash's the Message.
Jonathan Davis.  Jonathan Howsmon Davis (born January 18 1971) also known as JD and JDevil (or J Devil) is an American musician best known as the leading vocalist and frontman of the nu metal band Korn. Hit Parader ranked Davis at number 16 on a list of Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists in 2006.
Dhananjay Bhattacharya.  Dhananjay Bhattacharya was one of the finest modern Bengali singers. He was a great versatile Shyama Sangeet singer. He was eight years elder than his younger brother Pannalal. He studied in Rivers Thompson School Bally Howrah.
Aya Sugimoto.  Aya Sugimoto (杉本 彩 Sugimoto Aya July 19 1968) is a Japanese TV personality actress dancer and author born in Kyoto. She also had a J-pop career in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Leroy Hutson.  Leroy Hutson (born on June 4 1945 in Newark New Jersey) is an American soul and R&B singer songwriter arranger producer and instrumentalist best known as former lead singer of famed R&B vocal group The Impressions.He has been characterized as the best-kept secret of '70s soul most recently noted in the June 29 2006 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. He is the father of producer JR Hutson.
Yuji Terajima.  Yūji Terajima (寺嶋 裕二 Terajima Yūji born 10 May 1974) is a Japanese manga artist born in Mannō Kagawa. He is the writer and illustrator of the baseball manga Daiya no Ace which won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shōnen category.Previously he worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine on the manga serial Get Backers along with fellow assistant Atsushi Okubo who later authored Soul Eater.
Samm Bennett.  Samm Bennett (b. Birmingham Alabama 1957) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Samm Bennett is a singer and songwriter a drummer and percussionist and a player of string instruments such as the stick dulcimer (sometimes called a dulcitar) and the diddley bow. He also works occasionally in electronic music using synthesizers WaveDrum effects and various toys and gadgets. He is also a player of the Đàn môi (Vietnamese jaw harp) as well as the mouth bow.
Diriye Osman.  Diriye Osman (Somali: Diriyeh Cusmaan Arabic: ديري عثمان‎) (born in 1983) is a Somali-British writer and visual artist. He is the author of the short story collection Fairytales For Lost Children and his fiction has appeared in a number of publications. His visual art is also noted for its surrealism.
Katherine Roberts.  Katherine Roberts is an English author best known for her fantasy trilogy The Echorium Sequence. She spent most of her childhood in Devon and Cornwall England. She is the daughter of Derek Robert (an electrical engineer) and Dorothy Margaret (a teacher).
East India Youth.  William Doyle better known by his stage name East India Youth is an electronic musician from Bournemouth England. His first album Total Strife Forever was released by Stolen Recordings on 13 January 2014.
Cork Graham.  Frederick Graham (born 29 November 1964) who writes under the name Cork Graham is an American author of political thriller novels and true adventure memoirs. He is a former combat photographer who was imprisoned in Vietnam for illegally entering the country while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
Chris Connelly (musician).  Chris Connelly (born 11 November 1964) is a Scottish musician who became famous for his industrial music work of the late 1980s and early 1990s particularly his involvement with the Revolting Cocks and Ministry. He has since established himself as an alternative singer-songwriter.
Antonio Escobar.  Antonio Escobar Núñez (born 1976) is a Spanish musical artist who has won awards during his career as a music producer sound designer and composer for advertising film TV and recording artists. Núñez's music features rock electronica pop dance Latin and orchestral influences.
Priam Painter.  The Priam Painter was a vase painter in the black-figure technique active in Athens during the late 6th century BC.He is considered one of the more skilled and more productive painters of his time. Some scholars have such a high opinion of him that they draw a connection with the Antimenes Painter of the Leagros Group. His range of subjects is rather limited but his execution is highly detailed imaginative and indicates great compository skill.
Fernando Garibay.  Fernando Garibay (pronounced: [feɾˈnando ɣaɾiˈβaj]) is a Mexican music producer DJ and songwriter who has worked with artists including Lady Gaga Enrique Iglesias U2 and Britney Spears. He was the official musical director for musician Lady Gaga during the making of her third album Born This Way.
Ken Chan.  Ken Steven Chan or simply known as Ken Chan is a Filipino-Chinese actor who is currently seen in GMA Network's shows.
Rinaldo Botti.  Rinaldo Botti (Florence 1658 – Florence March 31 1740) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Jacopo Chiavistelli and specialized in quadratura. He collaborated with Andrea Landini in frescoing some salons of Villas belonging to the Corsini family. He painted the ceiling of Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite.In other projects he collaborated with Alessandro Gherardini Filippo Maria Galleti Giovanni Andrea Brunori and Giovanni Sacconi.
Catharine Sedgwick.  Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28 1789 – July 31 1867) was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as domestic fiction. She promoted Republican motherhood.
Maximum Bob (singer).  Robert Barnum better known under his stage name Maximum Bob is an American musician known for his work as the lead singer and founding member of rock band Deli Creeps and for his singing on various releases related to avant-garde guitarist Buckethead.
Leon Golub.  Leon Golub (January 23 1922 – August 8 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago Illinois where he also studied receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942 his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950 respectively.He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero (1926 – October 18 2009). Their son Stephen Golub is an economics professor at Swarthmore College.
Karma Kid.  Sam Knowles (born 1 August 1994) known professionally as Karma Kid is an English electronic dance music record producer and DJ from Matlock Derbyshire. He was educated at Highfields School and obtained a place at the University of Huddersfield which he deferred a year to concentrate on his music.
Magne Flem.  Magne Flem ( 1908 – 1995) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. He was born in Ålesund and was a brother of Dagfinn Flem. He edited the newspaper Sunnmørsposten from 1946 to 1983 the first period together with his brother. During the German occupation of Norway he was a member of the clandestine intelligence organization XU.
Otto Neitzel.  Otto Neitzel (6 July 1852 – 10 March 1920) was a German composer pianist writer on music and lecturer. Neitzel was born in the town of Falkenburg in Farther Pomerania (modern Złocieniec Poland).From 1873 to 1875 he was a student of Franz Liszt. He composed several operas.Neitzel died in Cologne)
Saviour Pirotta.  Saviour Pirotta (born 1958 Naxxar Malta) is a best-selling children's book author based in England.
Brian Thomsen.  Brian Michael Thomsen (April 13 1959 – September 21 2008) was an American science fiction editor author and anthologist.
Toro y Moi.  Chazwick Bradley Bundick (born November 7 1986) better known by his stage name Toro y Moi is an American recording artist and producer. His music has taken on many forms since he began recording but he is often identified with the rise of the chillwave movement in 2010 and 2011. His stage name is a multilingual expression consisting of the Spanish words toro and y (meaning bull and and respectively) and the French word moi (which means me).
Jonn Serrie.  Jonn Serrie is an American composer of space music a genre of ambient electronic music and New Age music. He has recorded at least 18 albums and worked on projects for Lucasfilm IMAX Corporation NASA the United States Navy Hayden Planetarium Expo Seville and CNN.
Shubhada Gogate.  Shubhada Gogate (Shubhada Sharad Gogate Marathi: शुभदा शरद गोगटे) (born 2 September 1943) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.
Julian Waterfall Pollack.  Julian Waterfall Pollack (born June 28 1988) is an American pianist composer and singer-songwriter associated with jazz post-bop and pop music. He has performed at jazz festivals in the US and abroad including the Umbria Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival and appeared on the prestigious Marian McPartland Piano Jazz radio show aired on NPR.
Simple Kid.  Simple Kid real-name Ciarán McFeely is an Irish-born solo musical artist. In early 2011 it was announced on the official website that there will be no further music nor tours by Simple Kid. Despite this announcement a new Simple Kid single The Road appeared for sale in Spring 2012.
Gwen Sebastian.  Gwen Sebastian is primarily a country music singer-songwriter. Sebastian was signed to Lofton Creek Records in 2009 and released two singles for the label. In 2012 she was a contestant on the second season of The Voice.
Sofia Shinas.  Sofia Shinas is a Greek-Canadian television and film actress and recording artist. She is best known for her hit single The Message and her role as Brandon Lee's murdered fiancée Shelly in The Crow.
Perch Zeytuntsyan.  Perch Zeytuntsyan (born July 18 1938) is an Armenian playwright and screenwriter who served as Minister of Culture of Armenia from 1990 to 1991.
AeTopus.  AeTopus is a progressive Electronic music project performed and produced by composer Bryan Tewell Hughes. The music has received critical acclaim within the New Age and Electronic music genres and the album Between Empires won the award of Best Electronic album in the 2012 Zone Music Reporter Awards. The album Tempula was nominated in the Best Electronic category in the 2006 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards.
Elvir Laković Laka.  Elvir Laković also known as Laka (born 15 March 1969) is a Bosnian rock singer-songwriter born in Goražde Bosnia and Herzegovina.He attended music school there studying guitar but he disliked the school's teaching methods and views towards music and then subsequently quit the school. He also studied two years of the occupational health university course in Niš Serbia but did not graduate. During the Bosnian war he was mobilized in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Shauna Macdonald.  Shauna Macdonald (born 21 February 1981) is a Scottish television and film actress.
Nik Daum.  Nik Daum (born December 22 1979 in Indianapolis Indiana) is a visual artist/designer/art director currently working in San Francisco California. Daum graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2001 with a BFA in Illustration. He has become established as an artist through doodling and for his art direction on advertising campaigns for Target [1] Old Spice [2] [3] [4] and Careerbuilder.com [5] [6]. Daum spent most of his early life studying and creating art.
Faylan.  Faylan (飛蘭 Feiran born May 8) is a female Japanese singer from Saitama Japan. She is affiliated with management agency S run by veteran singer Hiromi Satō. Many of her songs appeared in video games and anime. Her stage name was given by composer Noriyasu Agematsu. She is affectionately called Feinyan by her fans.She released one single Gekka no Rasen (月華の螺旋) in 2007 under Hobirecords label before she was recruited by Lantis. Her debut single with Lantis was mind as Judgment in 2009.
Anders Stilloff.  Anders Stilloff (1866–1941) was a Norwegian journalilst playwright newspaper editor and theatre critic. His theatre debut was the play Sagfører Hellmanns from 1902. He was the first editor of the Bergen newspaper Morgenavisen which he edited from 1902 to 1915.
Amel Brahim-Djelloul.  Amel Brahim-Djelloul is a soprano opera singer and concert recitalist. She is Algerian and French.
Serge Reggiani.  Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. For many years he struggled with alcoholism caused in part by the 1980 suicide of his son Stephan.After acting school (Conservatoire des arts cinématographiques) he was discovered by Jean Cocteau and appeared in a wartime production of Les Parents terribles (The Terrible Parents).
Ron Keel.  Ron Keel (born March 251961) is a Heavy metal vocalist and guitarist for a number of bands from the 1980s to the modern day including the glam metal band Keel.
André Alerme.  André Alerme (9 September 1877 – 2 February 1960) was a French actor.Alerme was born in Dieppe Seine-Maritime France and died at the age of 82 in Montrichard Loir-et-Cher France.
Eivind Lønning.  Eivind Nordset Lønning (born 20 January 1983 in Kolbotn Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (trumpet) known from playing with Christian Wallumrød Joshua Redman Dave Holland and Chick Corea and performed commissioned works by Eirik Hegdal Per Zanussi Ståle Storløkken Motorpsycho and Erlend Skomsvoll.
Satoru Akahori.  Satoru Akahori (あかほり さとる Akahori Satoru Born 赤堀 悟 March 8 1965 in Handa Aichi Japan) is a Japanese scriptwriter novelist and manga author. He is best known for the Saber Marionette Sakura Wars and Sorcerer Hunters series which comes in anime novel and manga forms.
Andries van Eertvelt.  Andries van Eertvelt (1590 Antwerp – 1652 Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter.He became a master in the Guild of St. Luke in 1609. He is registered in Genoa from 1628–1630 where he lived with Cornelis de Wael. In 1630 he returned to Antwerp.According to Houbraken he was famous for his stormy seas and he is remembered as a son of the seas by Cornelis de Bie. His portrait was painted by Anthony van Dyck.
Shaun Morgan.  Shaun Morgan Welgemoed (born 21 December 1978) known publicly as Shaun Morgan is a South African musician and singer for post-grunge alternative metal band Seether.
Jens Galaaen.  Jens Galaaen (25 April 1893 – 13 May 1963) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.He was born in Røros as a son of farmers. He contributed to the local Labour newspaper Arbeidets Rett from a young age and edited the newspaper from 1919 to 1923. He was also imprisoned from 1918 to 1919 for being a conscientious objector.In 1923 he broke away from the Labour Party joining the Communist Party.
Bryan Bergeron.  Bryan P. Bergeron MD is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine computers biotechnology and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies Inc.
Isaac Daniel Hooson.  Isaac Daniel Hooson (2 September 1880 – 18 October 1948) or I. D. Hooson as he was commonly known solicitor and poet was born in Victoria House Market St. in the village of Rhosllannerchrugog Denbighshire Wales.His grandfather was one of a group of lead miners who left Cornwall for Wales and settled in Flintshire.
Ernst Anschütz.  Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz (28 October 1780 Goldlauter near Suhl – 18 December 1861 Leipzig) was a German teacher organist poet and composer. He is also known for his account of the death of Johann Christian Woyzeck (de) in 1824 (see: Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck). Anschütz worked as a teacher in Leipzig for 50 years.
Steve Pickton.  Steve Pickton a.k.a. Stasis is a UK based electronic-techno musician producer and sound engineer. He started with a release on B12 Records under his Stasis moniker. After that he released quite a number of 12”es and albums on several labels as Stasis Paul W. Teebrooke Phenomyna and The Otherworld Collective.
Jim Kale.  Michael James Jim Kale (born August 11 1943 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) is a Canadian musician best known as the bassist for The Guess Who. Kale left the band in 1973 after the Live at the Paramount album. He was replaced by Bill Wallace formerly of Winnipeg band Brother. Kale was initially part of the Guess Who reunion that started in 1999 but was temporarily replaced by Wallace once again until his return in 2001. As of November 2004 Kale has been back touring with The Guess Who.
Gene Pitney.  Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17 1940 – April 5 2006) was an American singer-songwriter musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the British Invasion.Pitney charted 16 Top-40 hits in the U.S. four in the Top 10. In the UK he had 22 Top-40 hits and 11 singles in the Top Ten.
Sumana Sinha.  Sumana Sinha (Bengali: সুমনা সিনহা '; Calcutta 1973) is a French writer from India.Sumana SINHA or Shumona SINHA studied a master in modern literature at the Sorbonne. She lives in France. She has published two novels in French. With her ex-husband the writer Lionel Ray she has published several poetry anthologies : French and Bengali.
Miloud Hmida.  Miloud Hmida (Arabic: ميلود حميدة‎) (born in 1961) at Djelfahe was an Algerian poet critic and translator.
Paul Thompson (playwright).  Paul Thompson (born May 4 1940 in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian playwright and theatre director. Best known for his term as artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto Ontario from 1970 to 1982 Thompson was known for pioneering techniques of collective creation in which actors playwrights and directors would collaborate on the creation of a play through field research and acting improvisations.
Bartolomeo Giangolini.  Bartolomeo Giangolini (circa 1560 - 1640) was an Italian painter active in Fano.
Bendix Ebbell.  Bendix Ebbell (1865 – 1941) was a Norwegian theologian and physician.He was born in Christiania. He took the cand.theol. degree in 1888 and the cand.med. degree in 1892. From 1893 to 1912 he worked as a physician for the Norwegian missionaries in Madagascar and from 1917 to 1935 he was the county physician in Rogaland. He was also an amateur Egyptologist working with the Ebers Papyrus and the Edwin Smith Papyrus and published a book of psalms.
Roger Whittaker.  Roger Whittaker B.Sc. (Bangor) (born 22 March 1936) is a British singer-songwriter and musician who was born in Kenya. His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs in addition to radio airplay hits. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.
Sergio George.  Sergio George (born May 23 1961) is an American pianist arranger and record producer known for working with many famous performers of salsa music although he has worked in other genres of the music industry as well.
Del the Funky Homosapien.  Teren Delvon Jones (born August 12 1972) better known as Del the Funky Homosapien or Del tha Funkee Homosapien or Sir Dzl is an American underground hip hop MC.
Elizabeth Barraclough.  Elizabeth Barraclough is an American musician whose songs span the genres of folk country rock and pop. She was managed by Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and is perhaps best known for having played both live and on record with Paul Butterfield Charlie McCoy Kenny Buttrey and Todd Rundgren.
Carwyn Ellis.  Carwyn Ellis is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter composer arranger and music producer. He is also known as the frontman of British psychedelic pop band Colorama as well as the bandleader of Edwyn Collins’ all-star band.
Vangelis Raptopoulos.  Vangelis Raptopoulos (Greek: Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος) (born 1959 Athens Greece) is a Greek novelist. His first work In Pieces was published in 1979 at the age of 20. From 1980 to 1981 he lived in Sweden and in 1984 spent a half-year in the United States on an International Writing Program scholarship.His first two books have been adapted for the television while The Bachelor was brought to the screen and became a major box-office hit (more than 150.000 viewers).
Arnulfo Trejo.  Arnulfo Duenes Trejo (August 15 1922 – July 5 2002) was a writer and Professor of Library Science at the University of Arizona. He was a leader in the movement to increase library collections of Latino literature and Spanish-language materials in the United States. He was also instrumental in efforts to train more Latino and Spanish-speaking people as professional librarians.
Jerry B. Jenkins.  Jerry Bruce Jenkins (born September 23 1949 in Kalamazoo Michigan) is an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as co-author of the Left Behind series of books with Tim LaHaye. Jenkins has written over 150 books including romance novels mysteries and children's adventures as well as non-fiction.
Nahoko Kinoshita.  Nahoko Kinoshita (木下 菜穂子 Kinoshita Nahoko born 13 November 1980 in Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is a member of the Haiyuza Troupe.
Tim Rushlow.  Timothy Ray Tim Rushlow (born October 6 1966) is an American country music artist. Between 1991 and 1997 Rushlow was co-lead vocalist of the country music band Little Texas which recorded four albums and a Greatest Hits package in addition to charting more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country singles charts during Rushlow's tenure as lead vocalist.After Little Texas disbanded in 1997 Rushlow began a solo career.
Luca Leoni.  Luca Leoni (born in Bari 1973) is an Italian singer.
Marcel Schirmer.  Marcel Schirmer born on December 22 1966 is a German heavy metal musician. Commonly known as Schmier he is a founding member of the thrash metal band Destruction where he is the lead vocalist and bass player. He left Destruction in 1989 to form Headhunter and reunited with them in 1999. Schmier owned a pizzeria named Barracuda in Istein but sold it in 2006. He lives in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Thomas Budzynski.  Thomas H. Budzynski was an American psychologist and a pioneer in the field of biofeedback inventing one of the first electromyographic biofeedback training systems in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s he developed the Twilight Learner in collaboration with John Picchiottino. The Twilight Learner was one of the first neurotherapy systems. Budzynski earned a BSEE at the University of Detroit and served as an aerospace inertial systems engineer on the SR-71 Blackbird project at Area 51.
Vigdis Stokkelien.  Vigdis Stokkelien (1934–2005) was a Norwegian journalist and writer. Her writing includes novels short stories and children's literature. She made her literary debut in 1967 with the short story collection Dragsug. Among her novels is the trilogy Lille Gibraltar (1972) Båten under storseilet (1982) and Stjerneleden (1984). She was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1970.
Yinling.  Yan Yinling (simplified Chinese: 颜垠凌; traditional Chinese: 顔垠凌; pinyin: Yán Yínlíng or in Japanese Inrin (インリン); born February 15 1978) is a Japan-based Taiwanese swimsuit model race queen singer and former professional wrestler. She is called also Yinling of Joytoy (インリン・オブ・ジョイトイ) when she appears on television.
Susan Goyette.  Susan (Sue) Goyette (born 4 April 1964 in Sherbrooke Quebec) is a Canadian poet and novelist.Born in Sherbrooke Quebec Goyette grew up in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville on Montreal's south shore.Her first poetry book The True Names of Birds (1998) was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award the Pat Lowther Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Goyette's first novel Lures (2002) was nominated for the 2003 Thomas Head Raddall Award.
Mike Moya.  Mike Moya is a Canadian rock musician. He is one of the founding members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. He left the band in 1998 to concentrate on his other bands Molasses Set Fire to Flames and HṚṢṬA.He was part of the live band of labelmate Elizabeth Anka Vajagic.
Bob Greenberg (record executive).  Bob Greenberg (May 8 1934 – September 11 2009) was an American record executive. During his 50 year career as a record executive Greenberg worked with several companies including Warner Brothers Atlantic Records Mirage Records and United Artists Records. He worked with several successful artists including The Rolling Stones AC/DC and Whitesnake. Later in his career he became the President of Hitmaker’s magazine.
Sheri Nowrozi.  Sheri Nowrozi (born September 13 1987) is a Swedish pop singer. Sheri's single U Got Me Good reached nr 2 on the Swedish single chart. It is produced by Jörgen Elofsson and is the lead theme in the screen adaptation of Snabba Cash.
Scud (film producer/writer).  Scud is the working name of Hong Kong Chinese film producer screenwriter and now film director Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung (云翔). He says that he chose the name 'Scud' to match his Chinese name which translates in English as 'Scudding Clouds'. He was born in Guangzhou (Canton) on March 20 1967 during the country's Great Cultural Revolution.
Lyn Ott.  Lyn Ott (April 25 1926 – April 22 1998) born Lynfield George Ott was an American painter and a follower of Meher Baba.
Poul Lange.  Poul Lange also known as Poul Hans Lange (born 1956 Copenhagen) is a Danish illustrator graphic designer photographer fine artist and children's book creator who has won numerous awards for his design work. Since the early 1990s he has lived and worked in the USA first in New York City and then after 2012 in Los Angeles. In 2011 Lange founded Chocolate Factory Publishing with his wife Kayoko Suzuki-Lange.
Chae Man-sik.  Ch'ae Man-Sik (June 17 1902 – June 11 1950) was a Korean novelist known for his satirical bent.
Lesego Rampolokeng.  Lesego Rampolokeng (born 7 July 1965) is a South African writer playwright and performance poet.
Karnail Singh Somal.  Karnail Singh Somal (Punjabi ਕਰਨੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੋਮਲ ) is a well known Punjabi prose-writer.
Joe Willie Wilkins.  Joe Willie Wilkins (January 7 1923 – March 28 1979) was an American Memphis blues guitarist singer and songwriter. Whilst he influenced contemporaries such as Houston Stackhouse Robert Nighthawk David Honeyboy Edwards and Jimmy Rogers Wilkins' bigger impact was on up and coming guitarists including Little Milton B.B. King and Albert King. Wilkins' songs included Hard Headed Woman and It's Too Bad.
Pravin Mani.  Pravin Mani is an Indian musician who has been credited as singer and as music composer in Tamil and Telugu films in India. He has been a long term associate with noted music director A. R. Rahman with recent collaborations in Enthiran. He has also played a key role in the background scores for several Rahman films including Mudhalvan and Alaipayuthey. He resides in Toronto Canada.
Maja Nikolić.  Maja Nikolić (Serbian: Маја Николић born April 11 1975 in Niš Serbia Yugoslavia) is a famous contemporary pop star in Serbia.
José Moreno Carbonero.  José Moreno Carbonero (28 March 1860 – 15 April 1942) was a Spanish painter.
Gayleen Froese.  Gayleen Froese (born 1972 in Saskatoon Saskatchewan) is a mystery novelist and singer/songwriter from Western Canada. Her first novel Touch was published by Edmonton's NeWest Press in 2005. The sequel Grayling Cross was published by NeWest Press in 2011.Froese was educated at Ryerson University in Toronto and currently lives in Edmonton Alberta. Her first CD Obituary won an Undiscovered Artist Award from CBC Radio.
Chu Ishikawa.  Chu Ishikawa (石川忠 Ishikawa Chū born 1966) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike. He also founded industrial music groups Der Eisenrost and Zeitlich Vergelter.
Joe DeRosa (comedian).  Joe DeRosa (born August 6 1977) is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He is a regular on the The Opie & Anthony Show show and Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld. DeRosa has also appeared on the comedy series Louie and Bored to Death. DeRosa got his start in the business at an open mic at the Laff House in Philadelphia. In 2010 DeRosa released his first album The Depression Auction which was released on Comedy Central records.
Rou Shi.  Rou Shi (Chinese: 柔石; 28 September 1902－7 February 1931) formerly romanized as Jou Shih was a prominent left-wing Chinese writer and member of the May Fourth Movement. Executed in February 1931 by the Kuomintang government in Shanghai for his pro-Communist activities he is considered one of the Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers.
Jeremy Lane (writer).  Jeremy Lane (April 29 1893 - September 19 1963(1963-09-19)) was a writer of mystery and lost world short stories and novels. His stories appeared in pulp magazines including The All-Story Weekly Top-Notch Magazine The Smart Set and People's Favorite Magazine. His books usually starring his detective hero Whitney Wheat included Death To Drumbeat Murder Menageries Murder Spoils Everything Kill Him Tonight The Left Hand of God and Murder Has Bright Eyes.
Georgie Auld.  Georgie Auld (May 19 1919 – January 8 1990) was a jazz tenor saxophonist clarinetist and bandleader.
Umarji Anuradha.  Umarji Anuradha (Telugu: ఉమర్జీ అనూరాధ) (born 8 September 1970) is an Indian writer known for her works in Telugu Cinema and journalism. She wrote continuously on The Legends of Indian Cinema ( Vendi Tera Nirdeshakulu వెండి తెర నిర్దేశకులు) for Sitara Film Weekly Magazine The Largest Circulated Telugu Film weekly in India.
William Ebsworth Hill.  William Ebsworth Hill (1817–1895) was a noted London violin maker and founder of the firm W. E. Hill & Sons. Son of the violin maker Henry Lockey Hill he came from a long tradition of violin makers going back to his great grandfather Joseph Hill. He started making at the age of 14 in the workshop of his father alongside his brother Joseph Hill II and was soon entrusted the important job of cutting bridges and setting up instruments for the family workshop.
Pete Stewart.  Pete Stewart is a singer guitarist songwriter and producer from Washington state. He is the lead singer and guitarist of Grammatrain was the lead singer for The Accident Experiment and is the former guitarist of Tait.Stewart released solo albums in 1999 and 2007. He served as producer songwriter and guitarist for the debut albums of Tait (the solo project of Michael Tait) and TobyMac the latter of which sold over 500000 copies.
Jimmy Cross.  Jimmy Cross (17 November 1938 - 8 October 1978) was an American radio producer and singer who attained a minor Billboard Hot 100 hit with the novelty song I Want My Baby Back in 1965. He was born in Dothan Alabama[citation needed] and became the producer of the syndicated radio series Country Concert.I Want My Baby Back was originally issued on the Tollie label and reached #92 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1965.
Siti Rukiah.  S. Rukiah (also known as Siti Rukiah Kertapati) was an Indonesian poet and novelist.
Martin Kellerman.  Martin Kellerman (born 1973 Växjö) is a Swedish cartoonist known for the comic strip Rocky.
Billy Sheehan.  William Billy Sheehan (born on March 19 1953 in Buffalo New York) is an American bassist known for his work with Talas Steve Vai David Lee Roth Mr. Big and Niacin. Sheehan has won the Best Rock Bass Player readers' poll from Guitar Player Magazine five times for his lead bass playing style. Sheehan's repertoire includes the use of chording two-handed tapping right-hand three-finger picking technique and controlled feedback.
Baby Dee.  Baby Dee (born 1953) is an American performance artist multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Cleveland Ohio.
Al Gallodoro.  Alfred J. Gallodoro (June 20 1913 – October 4 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who performed from the 1920s up until his death. He is notable for having played lead alto sax with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and bass clarinet for 12 years with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey praised him as the best sax player who ever lived.
Vladislav Lalicki.  Vladislav Lalicki (1 June 1935 – 29 December 2008) also known as Wladyslaw Lalitzky was a production designer and costume designer from the former Yugoslavia. He was born Šabac Serbia (former Yugoslavia. Lalicki was also a painter whose work is well known all over the world.
Catherine Jinks.  Catherine Jinks (born 1963) is an Australian writer of fiction books for all age groups. She has won many awards including the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award three times the Victorian Premier's Literary Award the Aurealis Award for science fiction the IBBY Australia Ena Noel Encouragement Award and the Davitt Award for crime fiction.
Martin Walkyier.  Martin Walkyier (born 20 November 1967) is an English singer known for his bands Sabbat and Skyclad and for his lyrics. Metal Hammer journalist Detlef Dengler called Walkyier a great lyricist known for his multitude of words and brilliant puns; yet Walkyier was never asked to write lyrics for other bands unfortunately as he says.
William Ackerman.  William Ackerman (born 1949) is an American guitarist and composer of acoustic-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records.
Harold Mabern.  Harold Mabern (born March 20 1936 in Memphis Tennessee) is a hard bop post-bop and soul jazz pianist and composer. He is described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as one of the great post-bop pianists.
Hampton Hawes.  Hampton Barnett Hawes Jr. (November 13 1928 – May 22 1977) was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s. He was also the author of what is now a classic jazz memoir Raise Up Off Me which won the Deems-Taylor Award for music writing in 1975 and continues to be read by jazz enthusiasts. A passageway at the new San Francisco Jazz Center is named Raise Up Off Me Alleyafter the book.
Paul Zacharia.  Paul Zacharia (born 1945) is a Malayalam short story writer novelist and essayist. Born in Urulikkunnam in Kottayam district in Kerala India Zacharia lives in Trivandrum.
Pedro Guilherme-Moreira.  Pedro Guilherme-Moreira (Porto 1969) is a Portuguese lawyer and novelist.He was the one of first lawyers to win the João Lopes Cardoso Award and as a writer he debuted in 2011 with the novel A Manhã do Mundo (literally The Morning of the World).Pedro Guilherme-Moreira was born in Porto in the summer of 1969 and graduated from the University of Coimbra.In 1999 after turnig 30 his article As novas tecnologias ao serviço do advogado (The new technologies serving the lawyer) was published in the Revista da Ordem dos Advogados the Portuguese Bar Association's Magazine. 
Isabella Grinevskaya.  Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) was the pen name of Berta Friedberg daughter of the author Abraham Shalom Friedberg and the first wife of Mordechai Spector.She was born in Grodno in 1864 which at various times was part of Lithuania Poland and Belarus though at the time was within the Russian Empire. In the 1880s she lived in St.
Stretch (rapper).  Randy Walker (August 21 1968 – November 30 1995) better known by his stage name Stretch was an American rapper and producer.
Sushmita Banerjee.  Sushmita Banerjee also known as Sushmita Bandhopadhyay and Sayeda Kamala (1963/1964 – 4/5 September 2013) was a writer and activist from India. Her works include the memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife; 1997) based on her experience of marrying an Afghan and her time in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. The story was used as the basis for the Bollywood film Escape from Taliban.
Joan Larkin.  Joan Larkin (born in 1939) is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now in her fourth decade of teaching writing. Her brother is the science fiction writer Donald Moffitt.
Pierre-Olivier Lapie.  Pierre-Olivier Lapie (1901 Rennes – 1994) was a French essayist and novelist.
Uee.  Kim Yu-Jin (born April 9 1988) better known by her stage name Uee sometimes romanized as U-ie is a South Korean idol best known for being a Vocalist Visual and Rapper of the group After School. Uee's first appearance with the group was in 2009 after which she acted in various dramas including Queen Seondeok Ojakgyo Brothers and has since established herself as an actress.
Klumben.  Christian Andersen (born 27 November 1987) better known as Klumben is a Copenhagen-based Danish dancehall / hip hop / reggae act. Christian grow up in a little town called Vemmelev.
Michael Himes.  Father Michael Himes a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn New York. Fr. Himes is a theologian currently teaching theology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts. He served as professor and academic dean of the Seminary of Immaculate Conception on Long Island New York and as associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Gloria Escomel.  Gloria Escomel (born October 15 1941 in Montevideo Uruguay) is a Canadian writer.
Jeffrey Bell.  Jeffrey Jackson Bell is a writer/producer best known for his work on television. He began his career writing for The X-Files where he stayed for three seasons then became a writer/director/producer on Angel becoming its showrunner for the final two seasons.He served as executive producer on the pilot episode for the V remake his first project in a 2009-10 deal with Warner Bros. Television.
Kawan Prather.  Kawan KP Prather is an American record executive songwriter record producer and member of first generation Dungeon Family group P.A.. He started his career at LaFace Records and has worked with TLC OutKast Goodie Mob Usher John Legend Pink and Toni Braxton. At LaFace he also started his own label called Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment. Under Ghet-O-Vision he signed The YoungBloodZ and a solo M.C. named T.I. and released the albums Against Da Grain and I'm Serious.
Lori Cullen.  Lori Cullen is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her style draws on a diverse blend of pop folk and jazz influences.Cullen's most recent album That Certain Chartreuse is an album of covers featuring songwriters such as Bee Gees Gordon Lightfoot Suzanne Vega King Crimson Kurt Swinghammer and Jory Nash along with one original track of her own.Her album Calling for Rain is an album of covers featuring songwriters such as Joni Mitchell Gordon Lightfoot Richard Thompson and Randy Newman.
Anna Sui.  Anna Sui (born August 4 1964) is an American fashion designer. Sui is one of the most celebrated names in fashion history known for her timeless designs and ability to transcend eras with historical and culturally inspired collections. She was named one of the Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade and earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent Giorgio Armani Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg.
Jimmy Stevens (musician).  Jimmy Stevens (born 5 August 1942) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead vocalist of the Beathovens. He worked with Maurice Gibb between 1971 and 1973
Laco Déczi.  Laco Déczi (29 March 1938 Bernolákovo Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak-American jazz trumpeter and composer leader of Jazz Celula New York.He currently lives in East Haven Connecticut and has 3 children. His oldest son Vaico Deczi is the drummer of Jazz Celula New York. His two other children are Stepan Krista and Peter Deczi.
Giovanni Agostino Cassana.  Abate or Giovanni Agostino Cassana (c.1658 – 6 May 1720) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a son of Giovanni Francesco Cassana and an elder brother of Niccolò and Giovanni Battista. He was born at Venice and was initially instructed by his father.
John Mitchell (musician).  John Mitchell (born 21 June 1973) is guitarist vocalist and songwriter for the UK band It Bites. He also plays guitar for a number of other progressive rock bands including Arena The Urbane Kino Frost* and John Wetton.In 2008 Mitchell joined A playing bass in place of original bass player Daniel P.
Eran James.  Eran James (born 27 March 1989) is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne Australia.
Mel Wesson.  Mel Wesson (born 12 February 1958) is a British film TV and video game composer and ambient music designer. He is one of the most influential 'musical sound designers' in Hollywood yet his sound is often hard to describe or even identify. He is probably best known for his tight collaboration and work with Hans Zimmer and has contributed with both ambient music design and music to some of last decades biggest Hollywood blockbusters.
Kevin Figueiredo.  Kevin 'kFigg' Figueiredo is an American drummer.Kevin began playing drums at the age of ten when his grandfather bought him a drum kit. He has studied with jazz drummer Bob Gullotti The Fringe and Mike Mangini who collectively exposed him to many different approaches to drumming.He has performed with artists/bands such as: Satellite Party Dramagods Population 1 The Doors Slash Nuno Bettencourt Chester Bennington Perry Farrell Lucia Moniz and Tantric.
Bill Perkins (saxophonist).  William Reese Bill Perkins ((1924-07-22)July 22 1924 – August 10 2003(2003-08-10)) was a cool jazz saxophonist and flutist popular on the West Coast jazz scene known primarily as a tenor saxophonist. Born in San Francisco California Perkins started out performing in the big bands of Woody Herman and Jerry Wald. He also worked for the Stan Kenton orchestra which subsequently led to his entry into the cool jazz idiom.
Poppy Morgan.  Poppy Morgan (born February 17 1983) is the stage name of an award winning English pornographic actress model and director.
Edvin Biuković.  Edvin Biuković (June 22 1969 – December 5 1999) was a Croatian comics artist. He made his debut in 1987 with the strip Dokaz published in Croatian magazine Patak. He spent several more years working on comic projects in Croatia.Biuković collaborated with fellow Croatian Darko Macan on the pages of German magazine Gespenster Geschichten.
Patricia Polacco.  Patricia Barber Polacco (born July 11 1944 Lansing Michigan) is the author and illustrator of numerous picture books for children.She struggled in school because she was unable to read until age 14 due to dyslexia; she found relief by expressing herself through art. Polacco endured teasing and hid her disability until a schoolteacher recognized that she could not read and began to help her. Her book Thank You Mr. Falker is Polacco's retelling of this encounter and its outcome.
Thomas Otten.  Thomas Otten is a French countertenor singer in the Classical Crossover style.Otten was classically trained as a child learning piano and singing in chamber choirs. His voice did not break as thoroughly as usual upon reaching adolescence retaining a high contralto range. Abandoning a career as a biologist Otten studied for a diploma in lyrical song at the Conservatoire National de Région (CNR) in Lille followed by further studies in early music at the CNR in Paris.
Michaela Paetsch.  Michaela Paetsch Neftel (born November 12 1961) is an American violinist who was born in Colorado Springs. She is known for being the first female in the world to have recorded all 24 Paganini Caprices for solo violin.
Börje Nyberg.  Börje Nyberg (26 March 1920 – 2 May 2005) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1947 and 1996.
Maria Zhukova.  Maria Semyonovna Zhukova (Russian: Мари́я Семёновна Жу́кова 1805 – April 26 1855) was a Russian writer.
Alphonso Johnson.  Alphonso Johnson (born February 2 1951) is an American jazz bassist who has been influential since the early 1970s.
Herbert Thomas Mandl.  Herbert Thomas Mandl (August 18 1926 - February 22 2007) was a Czechoslovak-German-Jewish author concert violinist professor of music philosopher inventor and lecturer. He authored novels stories and dramas that are inspired by the extraordinary events of his life.
Robina Williams.  Robina Williams (born in a small village in Cheshire) is an English author.
Lloyd Maines.  Lloyd Wayne Maines (born June 28 1951) is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer musician and songwriter. He was born and raised in Lubbock Texas and is now based in Bulverde Texas. Arguably best known as a pedal steel player Maines is a multi-instrumentalist who has also performed and/or recorded playing dobro electric and acoustic guitar mandolin lap steel guitar banjo and bell tree.
Mykola Mozghovy.  Mykola Mozghovy (Ukrainian: Мико́ла Петро́вич Мозгови́й; September 1 1947 – July 30 2010) was a Ukrainian and Soviet composer producer and songwriter. He was born in Sarniv Volochysk Raion Khmelnytskyi Oblast Ukraine.Mozhovy's major success was the song Kray miy ridniy kray written for Sofia Rotaru and produced by Melodiya.He was a manager of Palace Ukraine in 2000s.
Midi Onodera.  Midi Onodera (born in Toronto Ontario) is an award-winning Japanese-Canadian filmmaker. Her work is short and feature-length films and videos and is exhibited internationally.Onodera's works feature a collage of formats from 16mm to Hi8 video and digital video to 'low end' digital toy formats and address individual collective national and transnational identities.
Kélétigui Diabaté.  Kélétigui Diabaté (1931 – 30 November 2012) was a Malian musician described as an undisputed master of the balafon and as one of the greatest figures in Malian contemporary music.
Waawaate Fobister.  Waawaate Fobister is a Canadian playwright and actor whose debut work Agokwe won six Dora Mavor Moore Awards including Outstanding New Play in 2009. The play which premiered at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times theatre in 2008 is a gay-themed play which explores the burgeoning attraction between two aboriginal teenagers one a traditional Ojibwe dancer and the other a hockey player.
Roger Kahn.  Roger Kahn (born October 31 1927) is an American author best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
Lee Strobel.  Lee Patrick Strobel (born January 25 1952) is an American Christian author journalist apologist and pastor. He has written several books including four which received ECPA Christian Book Awards (1994 1999 2001 2005) and a series which addresses challenges to a Biblically inerrant view of Christianity. Strobel also hosted a television program called Faith Under Fire on PAX TV and runs a video apologetics web site.
Lebo M..  Lebohang “Lebo M.” Morake (born 20 May 1964) is a South African singer and composer most famous for arranging and performing music for The Lion King movies and stage productions. He was recommended to Disney by Hans Zimmer the score composer of The Lion King and was later hired to form and conduct the African choir that sang for the movies.
Winifred Horan.  Winifred Horan is an American fiddler of Irish descent. After classical training she played with the all-female Celtic music ensemble Cherish the Ladies before becoming an original memberof the Irish traditional music group Solas.
George Nooks.  George Nooks aka Prince Mohamed Prince Mohammed or George Knooks (born c.1958 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer who initially found fame as a deejay.
Henry Thia.  Henry Thia (Chinese: 程旭辉; pinyin: Chéng Xùhuī born 25 February 1952) is a Singaporean actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Hui in the 1998 film Money No Enough.
Allan MacKinnon.  Allan MacKinnon (1912-1955) was a British screenwriter.
Kyle Stone.  Kyle Stone (born on October 18 1963) is a pornographic actor (porn star). In 2007 he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame after 14 years in the porn industry. He often plays as the funny guy or as the older male in porn films.Stone worked at a Los Angeles law firm prior to entering the adult film business. He had met up with a porn star by the name of Natasha after a wrong phone number call became a session of phone sex.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler.  Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (9 April 1860 - 22 June 1929) was an English author.
Jessica Andersson.  Jessica Elisabeth Andersson (born Jessica Arvidsson in Spånga Stockholm on 27 October 1973) is a Swedish singer. She was part of the Swedish duo Fame with Magnus Bäcklund between 2002 and 2006 after they met at the reality television show Fame Factory. After the break up of the band she developed a solo singing career releasing two albums Wake Up in 2009 and 40.14.4 in 2013.
Tommy Murphy (Australian playwright).  Tommy Murphy (born 1979) is an Australian playwright and screen writer. His plays are known for their humour and buoyant theatricality.He was born in Queanbeyan New South Wales Australia the seventh of eight children in a Catholic family. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director's course). He was a resident writer at Griffin Theatre Company 2004-06 for which he wrote Strangers in Between and Holding the Man.
Chris Claremont.  Christopher S.
Gisle Saga.  Gisle Saga is a Norwegian music producer and songwriter.
Viktor Muyzhel.  Viktor Vasilyevich Muyzhel (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Муйжель; July 30 1880 - February 3 1924) was a Russian writer and painter.
Heidi Marie Kriznik.  Heidi Marie Kriznik (born 1970) is a Norwegian novelist. She made her literary début in 2002 with the novel Applaus for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. In 2007 she published the novel Borte en vinter.
Monica Hughes.  Monica Hughes OC (November 3 1925 – March 7 2003) was an English-Canadian author of books for children and young adults especially science fiction. She also wrote adventure and historical novels set in Canada and the text for some children's picture books. She may be known best for the Isis trilogy of young-adult science fiction novels (1980–1982).
Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer).  Roger Andrew Taylor (born 26 April 1960) is an English musician best known as the drummer of rock band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985 and again from 2001 onwards the band selling in excess of 70 million records in the process.
Nigel Levings.  Nigel Levings is an Australian stage lighting designer. He has designed lights for over 400 productions. He works extensively on operas and has designed a large portion of Opera Australia's repertoire.
Rebecca Housel.  Rebecca Housel is an American author and editor who has written about various pop culture entertainment franchises including X-Men Twilight True Blood and Downton Abbey. Housel is on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and Journal of American Culture for which she has written books such as the 2012 Duke University Press volume Sex and Disability.[citation needed]
Ludwig Abel.  Ludwig Abel (14 January 1835 – 13 August 1895) was a German violinist composer and conductor.Born in Eckartsberga Province of Saxony he was a pupil of Ferdinand David. He became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in 1853 moved to the court orchestra of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar. In 1867 he became the concertmaster at the Bavarian royal court in Munich.
Jaq D. Hawkins.  Jaq D. Hawkins is an English occultist author filmmaker and lecturer who first became known for her books on chaos magic and nature spirits. She spent much of her early life in the U.S.A. particularly in California.Hawkins also founded Goblin Films in order to produce her fantasy novel Dance of the Goblins as a film.
Cune Gojković.  Predrag Cune Gojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Гојковић Цуне) (born 6 November 1932) is a renowned Serbian singer with a career spanning over five decades.He performed in the late 1950s with Silvana Armenulić and an orchestra and even recorded an extended play with her which was released on 6 July 1973. The album featured two songs: Gdje si da si moj golube and Kad u jesen lišće žuti.By early 2010s Gojković began scaling back his performing schedule.
Charles Belden.  Charles Josiah Belden (November 16 1887 – 1966) was a photographer and rancher who was famous for his visceral photographs of the area around Meetseetse Wyoming.Belden was born into a wealthy California family. His grandfather Josiah Belden was an early California pioneer who made millions in San Francisco real estate. Charles Belden bought his first camera to record a European tour with his school friend Eugene Phelps.
Tyler Hilton.  Tyler James Hilton (born November 22 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Hilton began his professional career in music in 2000. Rolling Stone magazine compared him to his contemporary Howie Day while others have compared Hilton to Elton John both vocally and instrumentally.
Jim Reese (musician).  James Gordon Reese Jr. simply known as Jim Reese (7 December 1941 - 26 October 1991) was a longtime member of the famed rock and roll band The Bobby Fuller Four. Being virtuosic at a variety of instruments he is perhaps best known for his guitar work (both lead and rhythm). He provided backing vocals and rhythm guitar to the Bobby Fuller Four's greatest hit I Fought the Law.
Pompeo Cesura.  Pompeo Cesura (born c.1500–1571) also known as Pompeo Dall'Aquila or Pompeo Aquilano was an Italian painter and engraver. It is stated in the 'Abecedario Pittorico' by Orlandi to have been a painter of history specializing both in oil and fresco. He flourished in the latter part of the 16th century. There is a painting by him in the church of Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome representing the Deposition which was engraved by Orazio de Santis in 1572.
Marco Mengoni.  Marco Mengoni (born 25 December 1988) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to fame in 2009 after winning the third series of Italian talent show X Factor. His debut extended play Dove si vola was preceded by the single with the same title which reached the top spot of the Italian Top Digital Downloads chart and also served as his coronation song.In February 2010 Mengoni competed in the 60th Sanremo Music Festival with the song Credimi ancora placing third in a field of fifteen.
Alexander Voytovych.  Alexander (Oleksandr) Voytovych (Ukrainian: Олександр Войтович Russian: Александр Войтович) (1971 Lviv) is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. Figurative painting characterizes the majority of his work and portrait and naked model painting are two main themes of his art.
Borgore.  Asaf Borger (Hebrew: אסף בורגר‎; born October 20 1987) known professionally as Borgore is an Israeli electronic dance music producer singer and disc jockey. He is the founder of Buygore Records and former drummer of Israeli deathcore band Shabira. He is also part of the dubstep duo Alphamale Primates which consists of him and Tomba. Self-described as Gorestep his music incorporates triplet drum patterns with heavy metal influences.
Giusto di Alemagna.  Giusto di Alemagna (or Justus d'Alemanno) a German painter who practised at Genoa in the 15th century. He painted in fresco an Annunciation in a cloister of Santa Maria di Castello in 1451; Lanzi considers it a precious picture of its sort finished in the manner of the miniaturists and apparently the precursor of the style of Albrecht Dürer. Justus d'Alemanno is not the same as Justus of Ghent as some writers have supposed.
Rick Brookes.  Rick Brookes is a satirical cartoonist born in Bangor Wales on June 16 1948. Having studied art at Salford Art School Manchester he worked first as an assistant art editor for Mirabelle magazine and then as a graphic artist and designer for IPC magazines such as Woman's Own Woman's Realm and Ideal Home.Brookes was an illustrator and staff cartoonist at the Evening Standard from 1977 signing his strips first Rick Brookes then Brookes.
Ben Jorgensen.  Ben Slork[citation needed] Jorgensen (born July 4 1983) is a musician who is best known as the former lead singer and guitarist of the New Jersey band Armor for Sleep.
Terry Cafolla.  Terry Cafolla is an award-winning Northern Irish screenwriter.
A. S. T. Fisher.  Arthur Stanley Theodore Fisher (1906 - 1989) was a mid-20th-century Church of England priest and writer. He wrote a number of poems religious works and local histories as A. S. T. Fisher and one novel under the pseudonym Michael Scarrott.
David Reed (comedian).  David Reed (born 26 May 1982) is a British actor writer and comedian and one third of comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls.
Bjarte Breiteig.  Bjarte Breiteig (born March 17 1974) is a Norwegian short story writer.
Rodolphe Menudier.  Rodolphe Menudier is a French shoe designer.He started his shoe line in 1994. The first boutique opened in Paris in 2000.
Alice De Winton.  Alice De Winton (born Alice Catherine Wilson1870 LondonEngland UK -died 1941 in London England UK) was an English actress.She was the daughter of Henry Wilson a retired army surgeon major and Louisa Ducrow (daughter of famous equestrian and circus manager Andrew Ducrow)
Azlan McLennan.  Azlan McLennan (born 1975 in the United States) is a visual artist and socialist activist based in Melbourne Australia. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. His art is known for its political content and has been the subject of considerable debate and media attention in Australia.
Missy (pornographic actress).  Missy (September 24 1967 – August 13 2008) was an American pornographic actress.Missy who was born in Burbank California began her career in the adult business in 1994 when appearing in amateur videos with her then-husband Mickey G.. She quickly achieved success becoming a contract girl with Wicked Pictures.
Jasmina Novokmet.  Jasmina Novokmet (born 8 September 1969 in Pristina Yugoslavia - in present day Kosovo) is a Serbian conductor Professor of Conducting and former Associate Dean at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts. She is a former student of Jovan Šajnović.
Edwin Blum.  Edwin Harvey Blum (2 August 1906 - 2 May 1995) was an American screenwriter.He was born in Atlantic City New Jersey and died in Santa Monica California. Films written by Blum include Stalag 17 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Gung Ho.
Bob McQuillen.  Bob Mr. Mac McQuillen (1923 – February 6 2014) was a teacher musician and prolific composer of contra dance tunes. His work in the traditional arts was honored when he was recognized as a National Heritage Fellow.
Kuba Wojewódzki.  Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki known as Kuba Wojewódzki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkuba vɔjɛˈvut͡skʲi]; born 2 August 1963 in Koszalin Poland) is a Polish journalist TV personality drummer and comedian.
Brajanath Ratha.  Brajanath Ratha (born January 12 1936; Sunhat Balasore Odisha) is an Indian poet who writes in Oriya.
T.R. Dallas.  T.R. Dallas is an Irish country singer. Dallas appeared on the Irish music scene in 1970 and has since become known across the British isles. The singer's real name is Tom Allen and he is the brother of Foster and Allen's Tony Allen. He was born in Moate Co. Westmeath Ireland and first came to prominence in 1970 when he joined the Finnavons Showband which had previously been fronted by Gerry Black.
Sebastian Hämer.  Sebastian Hämer (born March 17 1979 in Prerow) is a German singer and songwriter.
Marshall Lawrence.  Marshall Lawrence (born 1956) is a Canadian musician. Lawrence is often referred to as the Doctor of the Blues as he also works as a psychologist.
Mike Myers.  Michael John Mike Myers (born May 25 1963) is a Canadian actor comedian singer screenwriter and film producer. He has played the title characters of the films Wayne's World Austin Powers and Shrek. He originally rose to fame as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995.
Lois Johnson.  Lois Johnson is an American country music singer from Maynardville Tennessee. She recorded for different labels between 1969 and 1978 and charted twenty singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. Her highest chart peak was Loving You Will Never Grow Old which reached number six in 1975. Johnson toured with Hank Williams Jr. between 1970 and 1973.
Karyna McGlynn.  Karyna McGlynn (born 1977) is an American poet. She is a poet and critic associated with spoken-word New Sincerity and New Confessionalism. Karyna first became popular as a performance poet in the poetry slam scene in the late 1990s regularly performing at the Electric Lounge and South by Southwest. She was a member of the 1998 and 1999 National Poetry Slam teams representing the Austin Poetry Slam.
Riyu Kosaka.  Riyu Kosaka (小坂 りゆ（小坂 梨由） Kosaka Riyu born January 17 1985) is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She is best known as a member of the Konami-produced Japanese teen pop girls group BeForU.
Gergana (Bulgarian singer).  Gergana Georgieva Katsarska (born November 30 1984 in Dimitrovgrad Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer often referred to as the Barbie doll of pop-folk. Her early career (2003-2004) was marked by the runaway success of her debut single Gubya te bavno followed by a best-selling first album. In recent years Gergana has seen a significant decline in popularity.
Jayme Dee.  Jayme Dee (born December 10 1991) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Los Angeles. Her recording of the song Rules written by Megan and Brandon Keely charted in the United States after it was featured on the movie The Hunger Games. She has stated that her musical influences are Amy Winehouse John Mayer Frank Sinatra and Etta James.
Jennie Fields.  Jennie Fields (born July 25 1953) is an American novelist. Her fourth novel is The Age of Desire based on the life of American writer Edith Wharton.
John Blumenthal.  John Blumenthal (born 1949 Middletown New York) is an American humorist best known for penning the screenplays for the action comedy films Short Time (1990) and Blue Streak (1999) the latter of which grossed $120 million at the worldwide box office. After an editorial stint at Esquire and a six-year term as an editor and writer for Playboy in the 1970s he penned a number of satirical and comedic novels notably What's Wrong with Dorfman and Millard Fillmore Mon Amour.
Harry Warren.  Harry Warren (December 24 1893 – September 22 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing Lullaby of Broadway You'll Never Know and On the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe.
Sabrina Johnston.  Sabrina Johnston (born December 31 1969 Germany) is an American singer most noted for her 1991 club anthem Peace.
Gopi Chand Narang.  Gopi Chand Narang (born on 11 February 1931 in Dukki Baluchistan) is an India-based theorist literary critic and scholar writing in Urdu and English. His work in Urdu literary criticism has incorporated a range of modern theoretical frameworks including stylistics structuralism post-structuralism and Eastern poetics.
Leigh Redhead.  Leigh Redhead born 18 November 1971 in Adelaide South Australia is an Australian mystery writer.She is best known as the creator of the character Simone Kirsch a stripper who leaves the sex industry to become a private investigator. Redhead drew upon her own experiences as a stripper in creating the character.
Draztik.  David Balsher (born January 6th) better known by his stage name Draztik is a record producer composer & rapper. Draztik was born in Botswana and was raised up in Sacramento California. He now is based in Johannesburg South Africa. Draztik is CEO and Label Manager for independent hip hop record label Unreleased Records. Draztik has produced for various South African Botswana and US hip hop artists. Draztik won the best producer award at the Botswana hip hop awards in 2005.
Wada Ei.  Wada Ei (和田 英 1857 - 1929) was a textile worker and memoirist during the Meiji Era in Japan daughter of samurai from Matsushiro Shinano Province.
Monika Bohge.  Monika Bohge (Lüdenscheid 1947) is a German writer.
Manfred Römbell.  Manfred Römbell (3 December 1941 Bildstock – 22 June 2010 Saarbrücken) was a German author.
M Trill (rapper).  Teria Yarhere (born May 18 1979) is a Nigerian rapper from Delta State who performs under the name M Trill (stylized as M-Trill or M.Trill). He released his debut studio album Number One in 2008 along with a follow-up mixtape entitled Ladies and Gentlemen (2010). That same year he won the “Best West African Act” at the Channel O Music Video Awards for his single Bounce.
James Schevill.  James Erwin Schevill (June 10 1920 – January 30 2009) was an American poet critic playwright and professor at San Francisco State University and Brown University and the recipient of Guggenheim and Ford Foundation fellowships.
Sacha Alexander.  Sacha Alexander (born Sacha Alexander Tarter 8 May 1972) is a British actor scriptwriter and producer.Alexander most recently starred in Freddi with Rob Brydon. Freddi is a pilot comedy drama commissioned by BBC Four in 2008 about Freddi a wealthy bored Russian oligarch living in London. Alexander devised the show and wrote it with scriptwriter Mark Staheli and produced with Brydon's production company Arbie. Freddi was scheduled for TV broadcast in 2009.
Jude Johnstone.  Jude Johnstone is an American singer-songwriter. Her songs have been covered by Laura Branigan Trisha Yearwood Emmylou Harris Bonnie Raitt Bette Midler Johnny Cash Stevie Nicks and others. Johnstone wrote the #1 song The Woman Before Me on Yearwood's debut CD which also won an award from Broadcast Music Incorporated.
Masafumi Gotoh.  Masafumi Gotō (後藤 正文 Gotō Masafumi) (December 2 1976) is the lead vocalist main songwriter and rhythm guitarist of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. Masafumi met fellow band members Kensuke Kita and Takahiro Yamada while attending a music club of Kanto Gakuin University. The three formed Asian Kung-Fu Generation in 1996 with drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi joining the band shortly after.
Ray Mailman.  Ray Mailman is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in Sydney Nova Scotia but currently resides in Edmonton Alberta.Mailman is an eclectic artist with many stylistic influences including funk jazz and neo-soul.
Philippe Dupasquier.  Philippe Dupasquier (born 1955) is an author and illustrator of children’s books. He was born in Neuchâtel Switzerland but he went to art school in Lyon France 1976-79 after which he became a freelance illustrator in London England.
Mildred D. Taylor.  Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13 1943) is an African-American writer known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South.Taylor was born in Jackson Mississippi but lived there only a short time then moved to Toledo Ohio where she spent most of her childhood. She now lives in Colorado with her daughter.
Roger Greenaway.  Roger John Reginald Greenaway (OBE) (born 23 August 1938 Fishponds Bristol Gloucestershire) is an English songwriter and record producer best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook. His compositions have included You've Got Your Troubles and the transatlantic million selling songs I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony) and Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.
M. Scott Peck.  Morgan Scott Peck (May 22 1936 – September 25 2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author best known for his first book The Road Less Traveled published in 1978.
Justus Peterson.  Justus Peterson (1860–1889) was a Swedish artist.He was born on August 8 1860 in Malmbäck. He worked mostly with palette and made reproductions in this manner for several Swedish artists such as Carl Larsson Höckert and Oscar Björck.He died on October 10 1889 in Stockholm.
William Adam (trumpeter).  William A. Bill Adam (October 21 1917 – November 25 2013) was an American trumpeter respected pedagogue and Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He was highly analytical as a teacher but always avoided discussing the mechanical aspects of trumpet playing with a student. Instead he taught by demonstration and by explanation in terms of sound.
Amy Grant.  Amy Lee Grant (born November 25 1960) is an American singer-songwriter musician author media personality and actress best known for performing Christian music. She has been referred to as The Queen of Christian Pop.
Marion Maddox.  Marion Maddox is an Australian author academic and political commentator. She is Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University. Maddox is a regular commentator on issues of religion and politics in the Australian media and is a member of the Uniting Church.
Jasmin Bašić.  Jasmin Bašić (born 7 December 1971) is a Bosnian tenor.He graduated in 2003 and obtained his Master of Music Degree (Vocal performance and pedagogy) from University of Sarajevo in 2006 under famous and world's recognized soprano Radmila Bakočević Belgrade (Serbia).Up to 2009 he specialized with the Wiener Staatsoper Kammersängerin Olivera Miljaković in Vienna (Austria).He is employed at the National Theatre Sarajevo as opera soloist and is recognized as vocal pedagogue.Apart from that he also held solo concerts and has collaborated with Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchester Pons Artis from Vienna.Currently living in Vienna Austria.
Cecilia Tan.  Cecilia Tan (born April 8 1967) is a writer editor sexuality activist and founder of Circlet Press the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. She also writes about baseball but is not to be confused with a writer of the same name who specializes in Asian cookbooks.
Jason White (musician).  Jason White (born November 11 1973) is an American musician best known as a guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day. He was a touring member of Green Day since 1999 until 2012 and played lead guitar in the majority of their live shows. During late 2012 he became an official member of the band with Green Day becoming a four member band.
Janny Wurts.  Janny Wurts (born December 10 1953) is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator. She has written several series including the Wars of Light and Shadow The Cycle of Fire trilogy several stand-alone novels a short story collection and the internationally best selling Empire Trilogy that she co-authored with Raymond E. Feist. She often illustrates her own work.
Joel Beck.  Joel Beck (May 7 1943 – September 14 1999) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist and cartoonist. His comic book Lenny of Laredo one of the earliest underground comic books of the 1960s was the first underground comic book published on the West Coast.
David Dewey.  David Dewey is an American painter usually known for his landscapes in watercolor. Dewey graduated in 1968 from Philadelphia College of Art and then received his MFA from Washington State University in 1974. He is represented by Bernaducci Meisel Gallery in New York City NY.Dewey is the author of The Watercolor Book published by Watson-Guptil in 1995. He currently teaches at Lyme Academy College of Fine Art and New York Academy of Art.
Henri Nathansen.  Henri Nathansen (17 July 1868 – 16 February 1944) was a Danish writer and stage director today best known for the play Inside the Walls (Danish: Indenfor Murene).Nathansen grew up in a merchant family in Copenhagen. Abandoning a legal career he turned to writing and later directing. His best known work Inside the Walls premiered in 1912 at the Royal Danish Theatre directed by the author.
Namio Harukawa.  Namio Harukawa (春川 ナミオ Harukawa Namio born in 1947 in Osaka Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese artist known for his realistic femdom erotica drawings. Harukawa's drawings feature voluptuous women with large breasts wide hips round buttocks and thick legs dominating overpowering and humiliating smaller men. Harukawa's women are both Asian and European in appearance and a few times African.Harukawa's women usually have an aloof look on their faces as they dominate hopeless men.
Stevie Nicholson.  Stevie Nicholson (born 30 December 1983 in Melbourne Australia) is an Australian singer and actor. He attended St Kevin's College in Melbourne as a student and is currently a member of the Australian children's entertainment group Hi-5.
Bessie Jones.  Bessie Jones (February 8 1902 - July 17 1984) gospel singer from Smithville GA. She learned her songs from her grandfather a former slave born in Africa. She was a founding member of the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Alan Lomax first encountered Bessie Jones on a southern trip in 1959.
Bertrand Visage.  Bertrand Visage is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina 1984 for Tous les soleils.
Girolamo Brusaferro.  Girolamo Brusaferro was an Italian painter of the 18th century active in his native Venice. He was a pupil of Niccolo Bambini and Sebastiano Ricci. He has paintings in various churches in Venice including the Carmini.
Dupuy and Berberian.  Philippe Dupuy (born December 12 1960 Sainte-Adresse) and Charles Berbérian (born May 28 1959 Baghdad) are French cartoonists most famous for their series of Franco-Belgian comics albums featuring the character Monsieur Jean.Their collaboration is notable as they share every aspect of creating their stories from plot through layouts pencils and inks to the extent that it is impossible to detect who is responsible for what.
T. S. Sullivant.  Thomas Starling Sullivant (1854–1926) was an American cartoonist who signed his work T. S. Sullivant. His work appeared most frequently in the pages of the humorous Life magazine. Best known for his animal and ethnic caricatures he also drew political cartoons and comic strip toppers and illustrated children's books.
Douglas Baulch.  (Ernest) Douglas Baulch (24 May 1917 – 23 February 1996) was one of Australia's talented and naturally gifted artists from the Prahran Technical College but less known as he was very reserved.Baulch was born at Malvern Victoria Australia being the only son and youngest of three children of Ernest Stanley Baulch. He is commonly known as Douglas Baulch the same name used on all his works.
Jane Vieu.  Jane Vieu (1871 – 8 April 1955) was a French composer who also published works under the pseudonym Pierre Valette. Vieu published orchestral chamber piano and operatic works and forty-five songs. She died in Paris in 1955.Selected works include:Puisque c'est l'été (text: Robert de la Villehervé)La belle au bois dormant (song)Sérénade japonaise (song)↑ ↑
Miho Takagi.  Miho Takagi (高木美保 Takagi Miho born July 29 1962 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress and essayist. She dropped out of Wayo Women's University.
Julia Solis.  Julia Solis is a writer and photographer who investigates ruined urban spaces. She is the founder of two arts organizations: Dark Passage [1] and Ars Subterranea [2] (both of which are dedicated to exploring and exposing New York's ruins and underground spaces). She has written a book entitled New York Underground and received fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the executive producer of the film American Ruins.
Fyfe Dangerfield.  Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins (born 7 July 1980) is an English musician and songwriter best known as the founding member of the indie rock band Guillemots.
Simon Phillips.  Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is an English jazz pop and rock drummer and producer best known as the former drummer for Toto.He is also a prolific session drummer and has played for The Who Judas Priest Tears for Fears Mike Oldfield and Gary Moore among others.
Charlotte Turgeon.  Charlotte Snyder Turgeon (21 June 1912 – 22 September 2009) was an American chef and author.
Janet E. Courtney.  Janet Elizabeth Courtney (born Barton-on-Humber 27 November 1865; died London 24 September 1954) was a scholar writer and feminist.
Stephen McNally (musician).  Stephen McNally (born Stephen Patrick McNally 4 July 1978 Liverpool) is an English singer and songwriter.
Roberto Blades.  Roberto Blades is a Panamanian Salsa singer. His most popular songs are Ya No Regreso Contigo Lagrimas Poquita Fe Casco Detalles El Artista Famoso Victima de Afecto Flor Dormida and Si Estuvieras Conmigo among many more. He is the younger brother of singer Ruben Blades.In 2002 Roberto Blades won the Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. He has not released a new album since preferring to work as a songwriter and producer.
Michael Prestwich.  Michael Charles Prestwich OBE (born 30 January 1943) is an English historian specialising on the history of medieval England in particular the reign of Edward I. He is retired having been Professor of History at Durham University and Head of the Department of History until 2007.
Robert Aickman.  Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a conservationist he is notable for co-founding the Inland Waterways Association a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer he is best known for his supernatural fiction which he described as strange stories.
Sean Crummey.  Sean Crummey (born 1957 – died 13 November 2011) was a Belfast playwright actor and comic impressionist who is most notable as both the writer and the male voice-over star of The Folks on the Hill a hugely successful popular programme that started in 2001 and ran for over 10 years with a total of seventeen radio and animated television series.He graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1980 with a BA in French and Classical Greek. He taught French language for seventeen years at school.
Shelby Robertson.  Shelby Robertson is an American comic book illustrator known for his pinup-style renditions of attractive female characters. His detailed rendering of heavily muscled figures has been compared to that of Frank Frazetta and Michael Turner. He describes his style as part Marvel part DC and part old school Image.
Mike Zwerin.  Mike Zwerin (May 18 1930 – April 2 2010) was an American cool jazz musician and author. Zwerin as a musician played the trombone and bass trumpet within various jazz ensembles. He was active within the jazz and prog. jazz musical community as a session musician.
Aram Asatryan.  Aram Asatryan (3 March 1953 – 7 November 2006) (Armenian: Արամ Ասատրյան) was an Armenian pop singer and songwriter known for his energetic concerts and music.
Yoriko Douguchi.  Yoriko Douguchi (洞口 依子 Dōguchi Yoriko born 18 March 1965 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress.
Shiro Izumi.  Shiro Izumi (和泉 史郎 Izumi Shirō) (born May 6 1961) is a Japanese actor well known for his roles in the Super Sentai franchise. He played two different central characters there: Yuuma Oozora/Change Pegasus in Dengeki Sentai Changeman and the role for which he gained the most attention Burai/Dragon Ranger in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
James Wood (composer).  James Wood is a British composer percussionist and conductor (born 27 May 1953 in Barton)
Armando Salas.  Armando Salas born January 30 1946 in Ortigueira is a Galician cartoonist.Armando Salas is one of the first cartoonists to bring eroticism to Spanish publications in the form of semi-nude girls tempered with irony and sarcasm during the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
Michael Allen Harrison.  Michael Allen Harrison is an American New Age musician songwriter and pianist from Portland Oregon.
Joseph Graetz.  Joseph Graetz (2 December 1760 - 17 July 1826) was a German composer organist and music educator. In 1790 two of his stage works premiered: the operetta Das Gespenst mit der Trommel and the opera Adelheid von Veltheim. His notable students included Kaspar Ett Peter Josef von Lindpaintner and Eduard Rottmanner.
Loptimist.  Loptimist (Hangul: 랍티미스트) born as Lee Hyuk Ki (Hangul: 이혁기) is a South Korean hip hop singer and rapper. He is currently under the legendary Korean hip hop label Jungle Entertainment which has artists such as Tasha Reid Drunken Tiger Tiger JK Leessang and Jung In. Loptimist was formerly under contract with Soul Company and signed with Jungle Entertainment only after Soul Company disbanded. Loptimist has been praised for broadening the spectrum of the hip hop genre.
Jenna Mammina.  Jenna Mammina is a jazz/pop singer originally from St. Joseph Michigan but based in the San Francisco bay area since 1986.
Arnaldo Mecozzi.  Arnaldo Mecozzi (1876 in Frascati Italy - Santos Brazil 1932) was an Italian decorator and painter. Along with son Vincenzo Mecozzi he was noted for his work in Brazil. They worked on buildings such as the Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria of São Paulo.
SiLyA.  Silya Nymoen is a songwriter also known as a solo performer by her stage name SiLyA. She is from Oslo Norway and is now based in New York City.
Assala Nasri.  Assala Mostafa Hatem Nasri (Arabic: أصالة مصطفى حاتم نصري‎ aka Asala Asalah and Assalah; born 15 May 1969) is a Syrian musical artist.
Wintley Phipps.  Wintley Augustus Phipps Sr. (born January 7 1955) is a vocal artist and founder of the US Dream Academy Songs of Freedom Publishing Company and Coral Records Recording Company. He features a booming baritone voice usually singing inspirational gospel music. He is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister.
Jack Pepper.  Jack Pepper (born Edward Jackson Culpepper June 14 1902 – April 1 1979) was an American vaudeville dancer singer comedian musician and later in life a Dallas Texas nightclub manager. Pepper began entertaining on Vaudeville in his youth with his sisters Helen and Winnie Mae. Jack Pepper first came to national prominence in the 1920s as part of the duo Salt and Pepper with Frank Salt.
Tommaso Redi (painter).  Tommaso Redi (22 December 1665 – 10 October 1726) was an Italian painter who was active during the late-Baroque in his native Florence.He initially apprenticed with the Florentine painter Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1652–1726) and then moved to Rome to work in the Medici Academy in that city which employed Carlo Maratti and Ciro Ferri as teachers.
Janey Robbins.  Janey Robbins is an American former pornographic actress (born 21st May 1962) who was active during the 1980s. In 1988 a scene in Bruce Seven's Loose Ends which featured Robbins having oral and anal sex while tied up led to several obscenity prosecutions. The conventional wisdom afterwards among pornographic producers was that mixing bondage with hardcore penetration was inviting an obscenity prosecution.
Tjalie Robinson.  Tjalie Robinson is the main alias of the Indo (Eurasian) intellectual and writer Jan Boon (born Nijmegen 10 January 1911; died The Hague 22 April 1974) also known as Vincent Mahieu. His father Cornelis Boon a Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) sergeant was Dutch and his Indo-European mother Fela Robinson was part Scottish and Javanese.He is considered to be the author of unique Indo literature.
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach.  Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (June 20 1910 – October 29 2003) was an American science fiction fan publisher and writer secular and religious publisher and minister.
Andy Goldsworthy.  Andy Goldsworthy OBE (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.
Christian Brod.  Christian Brod (Oranienburg 1917 – Berlin 2012) was a German painter whose work was discovered by his cousin Otto Brod in 2012. In Christian Brod's Berlin apartment a number of documents were found which state that the artist was associated with several members of the Nazi Party including Adolf Hitler.
Édouard-Henri Avril.  Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928) was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril he was an illustrator of erotic literature.Born in Algiers Avril studied art in various Paris salons. From 1874 to 1878 he was at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Having been commissioned to illustrate Théophile Gautier's novel Fortunio he adopted the pseudonym Paul Avril.
Marie Arana.  Marie Arana (born Lima Peru) is an author editor journalist and member of the Scholars Council at the Library of Congress.
Jules de Corte.  Julius Jules de Corte (29 March 1924–16 February 1996) was a blind singer-songwriter from the Netherlands.
Billy Constable.  Billy Constable is an Appalachian musician from Spruce Pine North Carolina best known for his three-finger-picking banjo technique and his vigorous acoustic guitar leads. He comes from a rich musical background and from a young age started performing with bluegrass greats including Charlie Moore Josh Graves the Doug Dillard Band Kenny Baker and Vassar Clements.
Ann Chamberlin.  Ann Chamberlin is an American writer of historical novels. Her website states that the purpose of storytelling . . . is to support positions in exact opposition to the views prevailing in a culture's powerhouses whatever those views happen to be. This belief has led her to provide a feminist perspective on Middle Eastern affairs.
Sarah Whatmore.  Sarah Louise Whatmore (born 5 July 1981) is an English singer-songwriter best known from the British TV series Pop Idol.
Zé Ramalho.  Zé Ramalho (born José Ramalho Neto on October 3 1949 - Brejo do Cruz - Paraíba Brazil) is a Brazilian composer and performer. Zé Ramalho has collaborated with various major Brazilian musicians including Vanusa Geraldo Azevedo and Alceu Valença to name a few.
Joe Cuba.  Joe Cuba a.k.a Sonny (April 22 1931 – February 15 2009) was a musician of Puerto Rican descent who was known as the Father of Latin Boogaloo.
Chhannulal Mishra.  Pandit Chhannulal Mishra (Hindi: पंडित छन्नूलाल मिश्रा) (born 3 August 1936) is a Hindustani classical singer from Banaras a noted exponent of the Kirana gharana (school) of the Hindustani classical music and especially the Khayal and the 'Purab Ang' - Thumri.He has been awarded the 'Shiromani Award' of Sur Singar Sansad Bombay; Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi Award; Naushad Award of U.P. Govt; Yash Bharti Award of U.P Government and the Bihar Sangeet Shiromani Award.
Nina Zilli.  Maria Chiara Fraschetta (born 2 February 1980) better known by her stage name Nina Zilli is an Italian singer-songwriter. After releasing her debut single 50mila she achieved commercial success with the album Sempre lontano released after participating in the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2010. During the Sanremo Music Festival 2012 Zilli was chosen to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan.
Adrienne Kennedy.  Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Kerem Kabadayı.  Kerem Kabadayı is a Turkish writer and musician (drummer). He is a founding member and party Turkish rock-band Mor ve Ötesi.
Donald Hough.  Donald Hough was an American humorist and author of several books and film scripts. He was born in St. Paul Minnesota June 29 1895 and died around 1965. He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Sherwood Hough. His wife's name was Berry; they had one son named Sherwood. According to the dust jacket notes on a first-edition copy of Snow Above Town (W.W. Norton 1943) Hough's career included: Working as a reporter for various St.
El Fary.  José Luis Cantero Rada (August 20 1937 – June 19 2007) known professionally as El Fary was a Spanish singer and actor.The youngest of six children José Luis Cantero was born in Madrid close to a famous bullring. As a boy he would play truant from school preferring to spend time partying with Gypsies imitating his idol the traditional copla singer Rafael Farina. It was from Farina that Cantero adopted his stage name of El Fary.
Alun Davies (guitarist).  Alun Davies is a Welsh guitarist studio musician recording artist and composer who rose to fame primarily with his supporting guitar work and backing vocals as accompanist for English musician Cat Stevens from early 1970 to 1977.Prior to his association with Stevens Davies co-wrote sang and performed on two albums: in 1963 with Jon Mark (known then as John Michael Burchell) and in 1968 as a part of a band with Mark and three others called Sweet Thursday when folk-rock music was still in its infancy. 
Richard J. Maybury.  Richard J. Maybury is the publisher of U.S. & World Early Warning Report for Investors. He has written several entry level books on United States economics law and history from a libertarian perspective. He has written these things in epistolatory form usually as an uncle writing to his nephew answering questions. Maybury was a high school economics teacher. After failing to find a book which would give a clear explanation on his view of economics he wrote one himself.
Little Arthur Duncan.  Little Arthur Duncan (February 5 1934 – August 20 2008) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues harmonica player singer and songwriter. He was a member of the Backscratchers and over his working lifetime associated with Earl Hooker Twist Turner Illinois Slim and Rick Kreher.
Salman Ahmad.  Salman Ahmad (Urdu: سلمان احمد‎;b. December 12 1963) is a Pakistani guitarist occasional actor science activist and professor at the City University of New York.He earned nation wide popularity in 1986 for his unique style of neoclassical playing in metal. An early guitarist of the Vital Signs he formed Junoon (lit. Obsession) in 1990 with American Bassist Brian O'Connell and pioneered the Sufi influenced metal-rock music in Pakistan.
Charles Burns (cartoonist).  Charles Burns (born September 27 1955) is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
Giuseppe Ferlendis.  Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1810) was an Italian oboist and composer. In 1777 he was appointed oboist at the Court Chapel of Salzburg with a yearly stipend of 540 florins (higher than that of Mozarts by 40 florins). He died in Lisbon. His brother Pietro and his nephews Gerardo Faustino and Antonio were all professional oboists.
Winifred MacBride.  Winifred MacBride was a Scottish-born concert pianist who achieved international acclaim in the first half of the twentieth century particularly for her interpretations of the works of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Her 1924 concert at Queen's Hall London conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood garnered critical raves for her technical virtuosity as well as the intelligence of her interpretive skills.
Victor Baravalle.  Victor Baravalle (1885–1939) was an Italian born composer and conductor. He conducted the orchestra for the Broadway premiere production of Show Boat in 1927 as well as for the original stage productions of nine other Jerome Kern shows among them The Cat and the Fiddle Music in the Air and Roberta.
Nathan Shaham.  Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: נתן שחם) (born 1925) is an Israeli writer.
Edward William Thomson (writer).  Edward William Thomson (February 12 1849 – 1924) was a Canadian journalist and writer.He was born in Peel County Ontario the grandson of Edward William Thomson a member of the York militia who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada.When Thompson was 14 he was sent to Philadelphia to work in a mercantile office; he enlisted in the Union Army in October 1864 (at 15) and saw action during the American Civil Waras a trooper in the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry.Thomson returned to Canada when discharged in August 1865. 
Pedro Nel Gómez.  Pedro Nel Gómez Agudelo (4 July 1889 — 6 June 1984) was a Colombian engineer painter and sculptor best known for his work as a muralist and for starting along with Santiago Martinez Delgado the Colombian Muralist Movement inspired by the Mexican movement that drew on nationalistic social and political messages as subjects.One of Colombia's most prolific and prominent artists of his time Gómez created 2200 square meters of fresco murals in public buildings.
James Allan (musician).  James Allan (born 21 September 1979) is the lead singer and guitarist of the Scottish rock band Glasvegas and a former footballer.
Jody Naranjo.  Jody Naranjo is a contemporary Tewa pottery maker from the Santa Clara Pueblo New Mexico in the United States. She comes from a family of traditional Tewa potters. She learned the craft of pottery from her mother and other female relatives. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts. Naranjo was selling her artwork at age fifteen at the New Mexico History Museum. She uses traditional methods to make her pottery including digging the clay from pueblo lands and processing the raw clay.
Hippolyte Bis.  Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855) was a French playwright and librettist. He is most known for the libretto to Giachino Rossini's opera William Tell (premiered in 1829) which he wrote with Étienne de Jouy.
Maa Naa Chowdappa.  Journalist broadcaster and author Maa.Naa. Chowdappa (Maa. Naa. Chowdappa) was born in July 1909.Chowdappa completed his intermeidate in Mysore. During his Student days he developed an interest in Literature Radio Broadcasting and theater under influence of his Guru Naa. Kasturi.Chowdappa started his career at Akashavani (All India Radio) Mysore and Madras. Later Chowdappa was associated with B.N. Gupta in launching and editing Prajamatha (An illustrated weekly magazine in Kannada Language).
Giuseppe Cesari.  Giuseppe Cesari (February 1568 – 3 July 1640) was an Italian Mannerist painter also named Il Giuseppino and called Cavaliere d'Arpino because he was created Cavaliere di Cristo by his patron Pope Clement VIII. He was much patronized in Rome by both Clement and Sixtus V. He was the chief of the studio in which Caravaggio trained upon the younger painter's arrival in Rome.
Masahiko Nomi.  Masahiko Nomi (能見 正比古 Nomi Masahiko July 18 1925 – October 30 1981) was a Japanese journalist who advocated Takeji Furukawa's idea of an influence of blood type on personality. He was also known as a sumo essayist. Nomi was born in Kanazawa Ishikawa in 1925. He graduated from the engineering faculty of University of Tokyo and after the graduation he enrolled to the law faculty of the same university.
Razan Moughrabi.  Razan Moughrabi (in Arabic رزان مغربي also known as Razan in Arabic رزان) is a famous Lebanese singer actress and TV presenter on Arabic television. She holds British Citizenship.
Paula Seling.  Paula Seling (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpa.ula ˈseliŋɡ] born 25 December 1978 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian musician TV celebrity Radio DJ and a coach from television music competition franchise X Factor Season 1.She has released more than thirteen albums (including three Christmas albums) and over twenty singles including two top-ten hits in the Romanian Top 100 a minor European hit which entered the charts in Finland and Norway as well as the UK Singles Chart and a good position on the worldwide chart of popularity by the name of Starcount that analysed fans concern about the artists from all over the world.Paula is trilingual and speaks writes and performs in French English and Romanian; in addition she performs in Italian. 
Derek Minor.  Derek Johnson Jr. better known by his stage name Derek Minor and former stage name PRo is an American Christian hip hop artist record producer entrepreneur actor and screenwriter. He co-founded the hip-hop record label Reflection Music Group (RMG) with Doc Watson and in 2011 he signed to Reach Records in a joint venture between the two labels. In 2012 Johnson announced that he had changed his stage name from Pro to Derek Minor. He is a founding member of the hip-hop group R.M.G.
Harry Haenigsen.  Harry William Haenigsen (July 14 1900–1990) was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for Penny his comic strip about a teenage girl. He also illustrated for books magazines and advertising.
Naomi Kawashima.  Naomi Kawashima (川島 なお美 Kawashima Naomi born November 10 1960) is a Japanese actress singer and radio entertainer. She was born on November 10 1960 in the city of Moriyama Aichi (now Moriyama-ku Nagoya Aichi Prefecture Japan and graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. She made her singing debut in 1979; in 1982 she got an early break on the television show Owarai Manga Dōjō.
John Hartman.  John Hartman (born March 18 1950) is an American drummer who was a co-founder and original drummer of the Doobie Brothers. At the band's inception Hartman was the sole drummer. However in late 1971 the group added second drummer Michael Hossack and the dual-drummers formation has persisted ever since. (Hossack was replaced in 1973 by Keith Knudsen.)Hartman played on all of the Doobie Brothers' major hits of the 1970s with both Tom Johnston and Michael McDonald.
Carmella Bing.  Carmella Bing (born October 21 1981 in Salem Oregon U.S.A.) is a retired American pornographic actress and adult model. She has appeared in over 150 films and has been reported to work under various other stage names.
Jamie Curtis.  Not to be confused with Jamie Lee Curtis.Jamie Curtis is a British screenwriter. His credits include Spice World (1997 with Kim Fuller) and Lost for Words (2009). He also produced the TV series The Good Sex Guide (1993).
Giuseppe Amisani.  Giuseppe Amisani (Mede Sartirana Lomellina near Pavia 1881 – Portofino 1941) was an Italian painter.He studied under Cesare Tallone at the Brera Academy in Milan. He was awarded th Mylius prize of the Acacemy. In 1912 he was awarded the Fumagalli prize for his Portrait of Lyda Borelli. He painted historical canvases portraits and landscapes.
Reggie Workman.  Reginald Reggie Workman (born June 26 1937 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey.
Paul Kolker.  Paul Kolker is an American artist. He was born in Brooklyn New York and he currently resides on Long Island while working from his Chelsea studio in New York City.Paul Kolker’s work is oriented in substantive detail and successive procedural steps. Through a multi-stepped technical process of fractionation painting and silk-screening the artist brings to his studio and into his art experience in the disciplines of science philosophy and fine arts.
Mike Chapman.  Michael Donald Mike Chapman (born 13 April 1947 Nambour Queensland Australia) is an Australian record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including Sweet Suzi Quatro Smokie Mud and Racey with co-writer and co-producer Nicky Chinn creating a formularised sound that became identified with the Chinnichap brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and The Knack.
Guy Gilchrist.  Guy Gilchrist (born January 30 1957) is an American cartoonist. He has worked on Nancy Your Angels Speak Night Lights & Pillow Fights Screams The Poetry Guy The Muppets and The Rock Channel. As of 2013 he writes and draws Nancy and Today's Dogg.Gilchrist started his comics career in the late 1970s with Superkernel Comics a monthly comic book published by Weekly Reader Books in Middletown Connecticut. He also created the comic strip Mudpie [1].
Christine Balfa.  Christine Balfa is a Cajun musician. She is the daughter of Dewey Balfa. She was born June 28 1968.She founded the groups Balfa Toujours in 1992 and BonSoir Catin.
Durante Alberti.  Durante Alberti (1538–1613) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Borgo San Sepolcro. He was active mainly in his native town and Rome where he arrived during the papacy of Gregory XIII. He was also called Durante del Nero. His father was Romano Alberti. His son Pierfrancesco was also a painter and engraver. His brother Cosimo was a sculptor engraver and painter who died in Rome in 1580. His daughter Chiara was a painter.
Eliza Lee.  Eliza (Buckminster) Lee (1792-1864) was an American author the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born in Portsmouth New Hampshire; was well educated by her father and brother Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer; and was unusually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote notably: Sketches of New England Life (1837); Naomi or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (1848); and memoirs of her father and brother (1849).
Tom Gray.  Tom Gray (born February 1 1941 in Chicago Illinois) is a bluegrass musician widely considered one of the best bass players in the genre. He is probably best known for his bass playing with The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. In 1996 as a member of The Country Gentlemen he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.
Jean Carignan.  Jean Carignan CM (December 7 1916 – February 16 1988) was a Canadian fiddler from Quebec.Carignan was born in Lévis Quebec on December 7 1916 later moving to Sherbrooke and then Trois-Rivières with his family; the family moved to Montreal when Carignan was ten years old. As a child Carignan studied with noted Quebec fiddler Joseph Allard as well as learning the music of the great Irish fiddlers Michael Coleman and James Morrison and the Scottish fiddler James Scott Skinner.
Majandra Delfino.  Maria Alejandra Majandra Delfino (born February 20 1981) is an Alma Award-nominated Venezuelan-American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on Roswell and as Jo Pye on the State of Georgia. She is the younger sister of actress Marieh Delfino.
Gerald Clayton.  Gerald William Clayton is a jazz pianist and composer born in Utrecht Netherlands and raised in Southern California. He is the son of bassist/bandleader John Clayton and the nephew of multi-instrumentalist wind player Jeff Clayton.
Leila Schneps.  Leila Schneps (born December 22 1961) is an American mathematician living in France employed by Centre national de la recherche scientifique and based at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu of Pierre and Marie Curie University France where she specializes in number theory.
Stuart Holroyd.  Stuart Holroyd (born 10 August 1933 in Bradford Yorkshire) is a British writer.He first came to prominence for the philosophical and critical works produced during his close association with the writers Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins but has since written prolifically on parapsychology contacts with extraterrestrial life sexual love and other topics.
Hot Rod (rapper).  Rodney Toole (born June 25 1981) better known by his stage name Hot Rod or Young Hot Rod is an American rapper and singer who is signed to G-Note Records which is a subsidiary label of 50 Cent's G-Unit Records.
Mark Mussler.  Mark Mussler (September 10 1954 – December 9 1987) was a singer make-up artist and original member of the disco group Village People. His persona was the Construction Worker.Mark Mussler was born and raised in Muncie Indiana. He moved to New York in the fall of 1976 to attend Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. After attending Pratt for only one semester he dropped out to become a make-up artist.
Johnny Rioux.  Johnny Rioux is a Boston-based musician. He is known for playing in and working with many punk rock bands from the Boston area. He currently plays bass guitar with the Street Dogs as well as Texas based Celtic Rock band Murder the Stout (along with Street Dogs guitarist Marcus Hollar) and has previously played with Roger Miret and the Disasters The Bruisers and The Kickovers.
Terry Griggs.  Terry Griggs (born on Manitoulin Island Ontario) is a Canadian author. Her book of short stories Quickening was a finalist at the 1991 Governor General's Awards and she won the Marian Engel Award in 2002. She presently lives in Stratford Ontario but has occasionally lived on Manitoulin Island since her youth. Her Cat's Eye Corner Trilogy ( Cat's Eye Corner; The Silver Door; Invisible Ink) for Young Adults were bestsellers.
Michael Davidson (singer).  Michael Davidson (born 1963 as Michael Jay Davidson in New Jersey) is a singer and songwriter.
Todd Sharpville.  Todd Sharpville (born 9 April 1970 as The Hon. Roland Augusto Jestyn Estanislao Philipps) is the younger son of the 3rd Viscount St Davids and younger brother of 4th Viscount St Davids. Sharpville is a British musician singer-songwriter and lead guitarist mainly in the blues field. It is claimed that he is the world’s first blue-blooded bluesman being a titled member ofone of the UK’s oldest aristocratic families descending from royal lineage.
Alan Dawa Dolma.  Alan Dawa Dolma (Tibetan: ཨ་ལན་ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ ZYPY: Alain Dawazhoima; simplified Chinese: 阿兰·达瓦卓玛; traditional Chinese: 阿蘭·達瓦卓瑪; pinyin: Ālán Dáwǎzhuómǎ; born on July 25 1987) professionally known as Alan (stylized as alan) (Japanese: アラン simplified Chinese: 阿兰; traditional Chinese: 阿蘭) is a female Tibetan singer active in the Japanese music industry.Discovered by Avex Trax at an audition in China in 2006 she made her debut in Japan the following year.
Gia Ciambotti.  Gia Ciambotti (born September 13 1962 in Hollywood California) is an American singer. She first came to prominence in the late 1980s as a member of the band The Graces with Charlotte Caffey and Meredith Brooks. The group released the album Perfect View in 1989 and had a Billboard Hot 100 hit with the single Lay Down Your Arms. The group disbanded in the early 1990s.In 1992 Gia Ciambotti joined Bruce Springsteen as a backing vocalist for his Bruce Springsteen and the Other Band Tour.
Cai Shangjun.  Cai Shangjun (Chinese: 蔡尚君; pinyin: Cài Shàngjūn) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team along with Zhang Yang Diao Yi'nan and Liu Fendou that co-wrote the screenplays for two of Zhang's films: Spicy Love Soup (1997) and Shower (1999).
Peter Mathers.  Peter Mathers (1931 in England – 8 November 2004 in Melbourne) was an English-born Australian author and playwright.Mathers' family emigrated to Australia while he was a child. He attended state school in Sydney and later Sydney Technical College where he studied agriculture. He farmed clerked woolled gardened landscaped chemicalled and did other things before settling into his writing career.In 1961 he married and went to France to live in a cork oak forest.
Mat Rappaport.  Mat Rappaport (born 1971) is an internationally exhibited new media and installation artist curator and educator. He is currently an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago a board member of the New Media Caucus and a founding member of v1b3 (Video in the Built Environment). He currently lives and works in Chicago.
Joe Dolce.  Joseph Joe Dolce (/ˈdoʊltʃeɪ/ originally /ˈdoʊlts/; born 1947 in Painesville Ohio) is an American-born Australian singer/songwriter poet and essayist who achieved international recognition with his multi-million-selling song Shaddap You Face released under the name of his one-man show Joe Dolce Music Theatre worldwide in 1980–1981.
Ziggi Recado.  Ricardo Blijden (born 1981) better known by his stage name Ziggi Recado is a reggae singer of Antillean descent (St.Eustatius).With outstanding performances on major European and world festivals and venues like Roskilde (Denmark) Lowlands (Netherlands) Festineuch (Switzerland) Coleur Café (Belgium) Cabaret Sauvage (France) and Super Bock Fest (Portugal) Ziggi Recado proves once again that he is amongst the top reggae acts.Growing up on the Caribbean island of St.
Hermann Nonnenmacher.  Hermann Nonnenmacher (1892-1988) was a sculptor painter and teacher born in Coburg Germany who later lived in London.
Johann Nepomuk von Poißl.  Johann Nepomuk von Poißl was a Bavarian composer and Intendant.
Baldev Mishra.  Jyotishacharya Pandit Baldev Mishra was a prolific writer of Maithili literature in the 20th century who wrote extensively on several topics in his mother language Maithili. Besides Maithili he also wrote few books in Hindi and Sanskrit covering a range of subjects related to mathematics astrology philosophy and history.
Gouri Choudhury.  Gouri Choudhury (born 1964) is a Bangladeshi-born British singer and music teacher.
Charizma.  Charles Hicks (July 6 1973 – December 16 1993) also known by his stage name Charizma was an MC from Milpitas California United States. He is most known for his work with Peanut Butter Wolf; the two of them formed a duo together but their music was cut short when Charizma was murdered in late 1993.
Arthur Fogel.  Arthur Fogel is a Canadian music promoter currently serving at Live Nation Entertainment as CEO of its Global Touring division and as Chairman of its Global Music group.
Justin Allen.  Justin Allen (born April 25 1974) is an American writer of speculative fiction.
Elsa Peretti.  Elsa Peretti (born May 1 1940) is an Italian jewelry designer.
Peter Lindgren (musician).  Peter Lindgren (born March 6 1973) is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. In 1991 he joined Opeth to play bass for a show but ended up staying and switching to guitars.Lindgren played approximately half of Opeth's lead guitar sections.
Linda Gray Sexton.  Linda Gray Sexton (born July 21 1953) is an American writer. She was born in Newton Massachusetts the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller Kayo Sexton. In 1994 she wrote her memoirs of growing up with her mother Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother Anne Sexton. She has also written several novels and edited posthumous editions of her mother's works.
Marty Raybon.  Marty Raybon (born December 8 1959) is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of the band Shenandoah a role which he held from 1985 to 1997. He recorded his first solo album Marty Raybon in 1995 on Sparrow Records.
Kyla La Grange.  Kyla La Grange (born 25 July 1986) is a singer-songwriter from Watford England.
Chaim Grade.  Chaim Grade (April 4 1910 in Vilnius Lithuania (at the time occupied by the Russian Empire) – April 26 1982 Los Angeles California buried in Riverside Cemetery Saddle Brook NJ [1]) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.Grade was raised Orthodox-leaning and he studied in yeshiva as a teenager but ended up secular in part from his poetic ambitions.
Jonathan Del Mar.  Jonathan Del Mar (born 7 January 1951) is a British music editor and conductor.
Gavan Naden.  Gavan Naden is an award winning journalist and co-author of Frances: The Remarkable Story Of Princess Diana's Mother and The Lilac Days. Both books were written in collaboration with Maxine Riddington. Naden designed and wrote the words for Bad Hair Day on behalf of Childline. He has also written several travel books.In 2012 Naden authored The Starr Child published by Hebsatham.
Leigh Nash.  Leigh Bingham Nash (born June 27 1976) is a US singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist for the pop band Sixpence None the Richer and is also a member of Fauxliage and Movement Nashville.Her debut solo album Blue on Blue was released on August 15 2006 by One Son/ Nettwerk record labels.
Lance Dossor.  Lance Dossor (14 May 1916 – 3 December 2005) was a British-born concert pianist and teacher who emigrated to Australia. He was born Harry Lancelot Dossor in Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom the third child of a jeweller who was also a distinguished amateur tenor. He was educated at Seaford College and matriculated at the University of London. In 1932 he obtained an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied piano with Herbert Fryer and composition with Herbert Howells.
Emanuel Ford.  Emanuel Ford (fl. 1607) was an Elizabethan romancer. He was the author of Parismus in two parts (1598–99) long exceedingly popular and of the similar romances Ornatus and Artesia (1607) and Montelion (1633 but probably published earlier). This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
Naheed Akhtar.  Naheed Akhtar (or Nahid Akhtar) is a Pakistani playback singer. She was discovered by veteran musician M. Ashraf in the mid-1970s.[citation needed] Naheed Akhtar was a replacement of Runa Laila who had left Pakistan the same year. Her debut film was Nanha Farishta in 1974 and that year she sang songs in the film Shama.
Bilge Özgen.  Bilge Özgen (born in Viranşehir Turkey in 1935) is a Turkish composer and lyricist. Özgen graduated from Ankara Boys’ Senior Technical School of Teaching in 1959. He received his first music instruction from his father Sabri Özgen an amateur musician. Özgen met Vedia Tunççekiç and Erol Sayan while he was a student in Ankara a period which he calls his second period in music.
Tine Asmundsen.  Tine Asmundsen (born 8 April 1963 in Kongsberg Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (Double bass) known from her own band «Lonely Woman» playing with David Murray at Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2010.
Russ Irwin.  Russ Irwin is an American singer-songwriter pianist producer and multi-instrumentalist from New York. He Studied Music Business and Classical piano for two years at New York University. Then attended the New School to study Jazz Piano. His Teachers included Kenny Werner and Hal Galper.He was signed to SBK Records while at the New School. In 1991 and a self-titled album produced by Phil Ramone followed later that year.
Samantha Holland.  Samantha Holland (born 17 September 1969) is an English actress.
Dave Liebman.  David Liebman (born 4 September 1946) is an American saxophonist and flautist.In June 2010 he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Carl Blaze.  DJ Carl Blaze (born Carlos Rivera; November 15 1976 - December 23 2006) was a well-known American DJ of Dominican descent on New York City's popular Hip-Hop and R&B radio station Power 105.1 for over three years. He hosted many parties and was a DJ for several clubs throughout New York City. Rivera was born in the Washington Heights section of New York.
Kyosen Ōhashi.  Kyosen Ōhashi (大橋 巨泉 Ōhashi Kyosen born March 22 1934) is a TV host and writer. He also served briefly as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. His real name is Ōhashi Katsumi (大橋 克巳).Born in Sumida Tokyo he grew up in Chiba prefecture and dropped out of the Waseda University.
Clara Sherman.  Clara Nezbah Sherman (February 18 1914 – July 31 2010) was a Navajo artist particularly known for her Navajo rugs. Born Nezbah Gould her mother was of the Hashtłʼishnii clan and her father was of the Naashashí Dineʼé. She was the last surviving member of ten siblings including an adopted sister. Sherman and her siblings learned to weave as children from her family who specialized in the craft. Clara had several children with her husband John Sherman.
Richard Percival Lister.  Richard Percival Lister (R. P. Lister) an Englishman born in 1914 in Nottingham is best known as a writer poet and artist though he began his career as a professional metallurgist.
Shujaat Khan.  Shujaat Husain Khan (born 19 May 1960) is an Indian musician and sitar player of the Imdadkhani gharana (school of music). He has recorded over 60 albums and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for his work with the band Ghazal with Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor. He also sings frequently. His style of sitar playing known as gayaki ang aims to imitate the human voice.
Jacques Cartier (jeweler).  Jacques-Théodule Cartier (1885–1942) was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier and the brother of Pierre Cartier and Louis Cartier. Pierre's grandfather Louis-François Cartier (1819–1904) had taken over the jewellery workshop of his teacher Adolphe Picard in 1847 thereby founding the famous Cartier jewellery company.Jacques worked with his two older brothers to create the world famous name and business ‘Cartier’ in jewellery and watches.
Hwayobi.  Park Hwayobi (February 11 1982) more commonly known as Hwayobi is a female South Korean R&B singer.
Jojo Moyes.  Jojo Moyes (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been translated into eleven different languages.
Donald Adamson.  Donald Adamson (born 30 March 1939) is a biographer historian and literary critic. Books he has written include Blaise Pascal: Mathematician Physicist and Thinker about God and The Curriers' Company: A Modern History.
Jeff Pescetto.  Jeff Pescetto is a musical artist who is most notable for collaborating with David Foster on the 1990 recreation of John Farnham's Australian single You're the Voice. Pescetto lent the vocals to Foster's pianism on the latter's River of Love album.He has also written and sung songs for various movie soundtracks. His credits include Licence to Kill Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Breakdown. He has also contributed to the video game Tekken 5 as a sound designer.
Shahin Badar.  Shahin Badar (born 30 June 1974) is an English singer and songwriter who is best known in Europe and North America for her vocals on The Prodigy’s single Smack My Bitch Up. It earned her a Double Platinum award.
Jimmy Lyons.  Jimmy Lyons (December 1 1931 – May 19 1986) was an alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit being the only constant member of the pianist's group from the mid-1960s to his death after which Taylor never worked with another musician as frequently. Lyons's playing which usually retained a strong influence from bebop pioneer Charlie Parker helped keep Tayor's often wildly avant garde music tethered to the jazz tradition.
Thomas Brussig.  Thomas Brussig (born 1964) is a German writer best known for his satirical novels that deal with the German Democratic Republic.
American Yard.  American Yard aka AY is a global pop/reggae/hip hop trio that is signed to Konvict Ent/SRC/Universal Motown. The trio consists of Stacy-Ann from Kingston Jamaica Stevie English from London England and Blewz from Long Island New York. The name American Yard comes from each member's background being closely tied to American and Jamaican roots. Stevie English sold 2 platinum and 3 gold albums in Japan and Europe during the time he was known as C.J.
Texas Ruby.  Texas Ruby (June 4 1908 – March 29 1963) born Ruby Agnes Owens was a pioneering country music female vocalist of the 1930s through the early 1960s.
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli.  Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610–1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. Romanelli was an Italian painter of the seventeenth century and trained in Rome in the studio of Pietro da Cortona the leading painter of the time.He was born in Viterbo to Laura de Angelis and Bartolomeo Romanelli. At the age of 14 he went to Rome to learn to become an artist and within a few years became part of the household of Cardinal Francesco Barberini.
Leslie Seth-Smith.  Leslie James Seth-Smith (12 January 1923 – 5 November 2007) known as James Brabazon was a screenwriter and the author of two well-received biographies of Albert Schweitzer and Dorothy L. Sayers. He also compiled and translated some of Albert Schweitzer's writings in Albert Schweitzer:Essential Writings.He died on 5 November 2007 after a short illness due to lung cancer.
Trevor Morris (musician).  Trevor Morris (born 25 May 1970) is a Canadian orchestral composer music producer and creator of electronic music. He is probably best known for the creating the soundtracks for the television shows The Tudors The Pillars of the Earth The Borgias Vikings and the film Olympus Has Fallen.
Abradab.  Marcin Abradab Marten (born on 12 November 1978 in Katowice) is a Polish rapper and music producer. Marten is a founding member of Polish hip-hop group Kaliber 44 and since 2002 a solo artist. He is a member of Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio Video ZPAV). Marten is a winner of two Fryderyk awards. In 2011 Machina magazine placed Marten at No.17 on the list of 30 best Polish rappers.
Gaz Coombes.  Gareth Michael Gaz Coombes (born 8 March 1976 in Oxford) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band Supergrass. He first entered the music scene aged sixteen as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers which featured Supergrass band mate Danny Goffey. Coombes was noticeable for his large sideburns during the 1990s.
Andrew Hewitt.  Andrew Hewitt is a British composer for film and television.
Jesse Santana.  Jesse Santana born May 8 1986) is an American pornographic actor who has appeared in gay pornography; both in pornographic films and online at commercial amateur porn websites. Born in Texas he lived in Mayfield Kentucky from the age of 7 and graduated from Graves County High School in 2004. He attended Murray State University then transferred to University of North Texas in 2006. As of 2011 he also goes under the alias Kyle Santana.
Dallas Angguish.  Dallas Angguish (born Dallas John Angguish Baker on 19 February 1968) is an Australian writer and academic noted for poetry short stories and travel writing whose work deals with themes of alienation otherness and sexuality. He has been repeatedly compared to Truman Capote and to David Sedaris. Angguish who is openly gay has also written plays and screenplays some of which have been produced.
Randy Rhoads.  Randall William Randy Rhoads (December 6 1956 – March 19 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. He died in a plane accident while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. A devoted student of classical guitar Rhoads combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style.
Shpat Deda.  Shpat Deda (born 7 June 1985) is an Albanian-Kosovar singer.
Jeremy Healy.  Jeremy Healy (born Jeremiah Healy 18 January 1962) is an English DJ and singer. He is a former member of the 1980s pop group Haysi Fantayzee.
Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud.  Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (29 Jan 1858 – 5 Feb 1923) was a French sculptor. He created several notable works in France and in England where he lived for 15 years.Chavalliaud (sometimes spelt Chavaillaud) was born in Reims at No. 47 Chativesle St. and died at Boissy-sans-Avoir Yvelines. He is buried in the North Cemetery in Rheims. He married Juliana Marie Rousseau.He was an apprentice modeller in the workshop of a Mr Bulteau in Rheims in Buirette St. very close to his place of birth.
Leah Kunkel.  Leah Kunkel (born June 15 1948) is an American singer and songwriter.
Terry Kavanagh.  Terrence Terry Kavanagh (born July 9) is an American comic book editor and writer.
Fukuda Chiyo-ni.  Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 - 2 October 1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period widely regarded as one of the greatest female haiku poets.
Africanus Horton.  Africanus Horton (1835–1883) also known as James Beale was a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown Sierra Leone.Africanus Horton was a surgeon scientist soldier and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred.Born as James Beale Horton the son of an Igbo recaptive slave he was educated at the CMS Grammar School and at the Fourah Bay Institution (later Fourah Bay College).In 1853 he received a War Office scholarship to study medicine in Great Britain. 
Gary Pinto.  Gary Pinto (born in Melbourne Australia) is an Australian singer songwriter and musician.
Daan Jippes.  Daan Jippes (born Daniel Jan Jippes on 14 October 1945 in Amsterdam) is a cartoonist who has worked with Disney and other comics. He is admired by his fans for his lively emulation of Carl Barks' drawing style and was therefore chosen by Egmont to redraw some old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey Kay Wright and Tony Strobl for a new audience in the 1990s.
August von Kotzebue.  August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (German: [ˈaʊɡʊst fɔn ˈkɔtsəbu]; 3 May [O.S. 22 April] 1761 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1819) was a German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand a militant member of the Burschenschaften.
Cynthia Connolly.  Cynthia Connolly (born 1964) is an American photographer graphic designer and artist. She graduated from Corcoran College of Art and Design and worked for Dischord Records and d.c. space. In 1988 she published Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–85) through her small press Sun Dog Propaganda.
Norman Ollestad.  Norman Ollestad (born May 30 1967) is an American author. At the age of eleven he was the only survivor of a plane crash that claimed the life of his father. He wrote about it in his 2009 bestseller Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival. He has also written a novel Driftwood which was released in 2006.
Lynn Freed.  Lynn Freed (born 18 July 1945 Durban South Africa) is an author and academic known for her work as a novelist essayist and writer of short stories.
Maro Douka.  Maro Douka (Greek: Μάρω Δούκα) (b. 1947 Chania Crete Greece) is an acclaimed Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens.
Fernando Perdomo.  Fernando Jose Perdomo (born August 17 1980) is an American singer-songwriter musician multi-instrumentalist record producer . Originally from Miami Beach Florida . He has toured performed and recorded with various artists in many different genre's.
Matthieu Boujenah.  Matthieu Boujenah born 23 in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) is a comedian nephew of Michel Boujenah and Paul Boujenah.
Ataru Nakamura.  Ataru Nakamura (中村 中 Nakamura Ataru born 28 June 1985) is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter.
M. John Harrison.  Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945) known primarily by his pen name M. John Harrison is an English author and critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories (1982) Climbers (1989) and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy which consists of Light (2002) Nova Swing (2006) and Empty Space (2012). He is widely considered one of the leading stylists in modern fantasy and science fiction and a 'genre contrarian' He lives in London.
Nisar Ahmed Faruqi.  Nisar Ahmed Faruqi (Arabic: نثاراحمد فاروقي‎) (June 1934 – 2004) was a well-known scholar and authority on Sufism in the South Asia with over 50 works and 700 articles to his credit.
Steve Augeri.  Steve Augeri (born January 30 1959 in Brooklyn New York) is an American rock singer best known for his work with Tall Stories Tyketto and Journey.
Eduardo Galeano.  Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born 3 September 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist writer and novelist. His best known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy 1986) which have both been translated into 20 languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining journalism political analysis and history.
Dacre Stoker.  Dacre Calder Stoker (born 23 August 1958) is a Canadian-American author sportsman and filmmaker and the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker who authored the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
Mav Stevens.  Maverick Mav Stevens (born Steve Mavridis 29 November 1982 Wollongong Australia) is a guitarist who played as a guest with the Australian heavy metal band Dungeon and was a member of the related band Lord. He is the cousin of Tim Yatras who played drums in Lord.On 23 December 2006 at a local metal festival Hail and Kill Stevens announced that he would be leaving Lord and moving to the United Kingdom due to personal reasons he departed Australia on 4 May 2007.
Esmonde and Larbey.  John Esmonde (21 March 1937 – 10 August 2008) and Bob Larbey (24 June 1934 – 31 March 2014) better known as Esmonde and Larbey were a British television comedy script writing duo from the 1960s to the 1990s creating popular situation comedies such as Please Sir! and The Good Life.
Gatemouth Moore.  Arnold Dwight Moore (November 8 1913 Topeka Kansas – May 19 2004 Yazoo City Mississippi) better known as Gatemouth Moore and later Reverend Gatemouth Moore was an American blues and gospel singer songwriter and pastor. A graduate of Booker T.
Claudio Magris.  Claudio Magris (born April 10 1939 Trieste) is an Italian scholar translator and writer.
John Galsworthy.  John Galsworthy OM (/ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Jason Healey.  Jason Healey is a director at the Atlantic Council in charge of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative. He has published several academic articles essays and books on the topic of cyber security and has advised on security measures for corporate government and military institutions. He has been identified as the first historian of cyber conflict.
George Skillan.  George Skillan (1893–1975) was a British stage television and film actor.
Catherine Amy Dawson Scott.  Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (August 1865 – 4 November 1934) was an English writer playwright and poet. She is best known as a co-founder (in 1921) of International PEN a worldwide association of writers.
Dig Richards.  Digby George Dig Richards (12 September 1940 – 17 February 1983) was an Australian rock and roll singer from Dunedoo a rural New South Wales town. He was active during the late 1950s and early 1960s as lead singer with the R'Jays. Richards was the first Australian rock and roll artist to record a 12 LP album in Australia with Dig Richards released in November 1959. By 1964 he was a television presenter and a musical theatre actor. From 1971 he performed as a solo country music artist.
Timir Biswas.  Timir Biswas (Bengali: তিমির বিশ্বাস; born 20 November 1982) is a playback singer song writer composer and the lead singer of the band Fakira. He originates from Sreepally Asansol West Bengal and belongs to a Bengali family.
King Chip.  Charles Jawanzaa Worth (born October 20 1986) better known by his stage name King Chip (formerly known as Chip tha Ripper) is an American hip hop recording artist from Cleveland Ohio. He is best known for his collaboration with longtime friend and fellow rapper Kid Cudi who signed him to his record label Wicked Awesome Records.
Paul Pesco.  Paul Pesco (born May 13 1959 in Long Island) is an Eurasian American session guitarist singer-songwriter film score composer and record producer.
Marziano Perosi.  Marziano Perosi (Tortona October 20 1875 – Rome February 21 1959) brother of Don Lorenzo Perosi and of Cardinal Carlo Perosi. Italian composer choirmaster and organist. He was an organist and choirmaster at the Santuario della Madonna del Rosario in Pompei assistant to his brother Lorenzo at the Sistine Chapel and organist and choirmaster of the Duomo of Milan. His most significant composition was the opera Pompei.
Vaï.  Adil Takhssait better known by his stage name Vaï as a solo act and earlier as Mélo (or Mélopsy) during his membership in Les Messagers du Son (LMDS) is a Canadian (Montreal Quebec) rap and hip hop musician of Moroccan origin. Adil Takhssait was born 24 April 1979 in Paris France in a Moroccan family and immigrated to Canada in 1993 and established himself in Montreal. He is an author composer and performer.He is signed to K.Pone.Inc record label.
P. Buckley Moss.  Patricia Buckley Moss also known as P. Buckley Moss (born May 20 1933) is an American artist. Reared in Staten Island New York she is known for her portrayals of rural landscapes and life in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Dalvin DeGrate.  Dalvin DeGrate (born Dalvin Ertimus DeGrate on July 23 1971 in Hampton Virginia) is an American R&B/soul musician singer and rapper one-quarter of the R&B group Jodeci. He is the younger brother of Jodeci's founder DeVante Swing.[citation needed]
Henriette Manigk.  Henriette Manigk (also called Jette) (born 30 April 1968 at Usedom) is a German painter.
Emilie Benes Brzezinski.  Emilie Benes Brzezinski born Emilie Anna Benes in 1932 in Geneva Switzerland is an American sculptor.
Erich Hartstein.  Erich P. Hartstein short E.H. (born 7 July 1925) is a German journalist and contributing editor. From 1959 to 1989 he was head of the editorial department of the Münchner Stadtanzeiger.
Toshinori Yonekura.  Toshinori Yonekura (米倉 利紀 Yokenura Toshinori) born October 21 1972 is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer originally from Toyonaka Osaka. Known as Yone to fans Toshinori made his major label debut with the single Mikan no Android in 1992 on Geneon Entertainment. Aside from his own music career Yonekura has crafted songs for some of Japan's best known acts such as KinKi Kids Hiromi Go Akiko Wada and SMAP.
Henry Tanworth Wells.  Henry Tanworth Wells RA (London 14 December 1828 – 16 January 1903 London) was an English miniature and portrait painter. He was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle though he painted in the academic style.His most popular painting was Victoria Regina showing the young princess Victoria hearing the news that she was to accede to the throne.
Giacinto Campana.  Giacinto Campana ( born c. 1600 Bologna) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He trained first with Francesco Brizio then with Francesco Albani. He moved to Poland to paint for King Władysław IV Vasa and died in Poland.
Dave Koz.  Dave Koz (born March 27 1963) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.
Bridget Powers.  Bridget Powers (born October 11 1980 in Boise Idaho) is the pseudonym of an American hardcore pornographic actress with dwarfism. She is often credited as Bridget the Midget or with the alternate spelling Bridget Powerz.
Cynthia Khan.  Yang Li-Tsing better known by her stage name Cynthia Khan is a Taiwanese actress and martial artist born on December 13 1968 in Chiayi County Taiwan.
Lorenzo Antonio.  Lorenzo Antonio (born Lorenzo Antonio Sánchez Pohl in Albuquerque New Mexico United States on October 3 1969) is a singer and songwriter of Latin (Mexican) origin who is known and recognized in Mexico and Latin America where he has sold millions of records. He was raised in both Mexico and in the United States and Lorenzo is fluent in both Spanish and in English. Most of his songs are in Spanish but he has released songs in English as well.
Greg Gossel.  Greg Gossel is an American artist. His work has been described as a mix between that of Shepard Fairy and Roy Lichtenstein.
Nahoko Uehashi.  Nahoko Uehashi (上橋 菜穂子 Uehashi Nahoko) (born July 15 1962 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese writer primarily of juvenile fantasy books for which she has won many awards.Uehashi is also a professor teaching ethnology (especially the Australian Aborigines) at a Japanese University Kawamura Gakuen Women's University and having completed a PhD focusing on Yamatji an indigenous Australian people.
Joe Staton.  Joe Staton (born January 19 1948) is an American illustrator and writer of comic books.
Horatio McCulloch.  Horatio McCulloch (R.S.A.) sometimes written M'Culloch (1806 in Glasgow Scotland – June 24 1867 in Edinburgh Scotland) was a Scottish landscape painter.
Malcolm Toft.  Malcolm Toft is an audio engineer and businessman who worked at Trident Studios first as an audio engineer then as the studio's manager and eventually as co-founder of recording console maker Trident Audio Developments. Toft went on to form another console company Malcolm Toft Associates which eventually led to the founding of Toft Audio Designs and now to Ocean Audio. Toft is also co-owner of The Music Mill Studio.
Gary D. Robson.  Gary D. Robson (May 11 1958) is an American author from Red Lodge Montana. He is best known for his children's picture book series entitled Who Pooped in the Park? which teaches children about animal scat and tracks. The series currently comprises 18 books mostly set in United States National Parks. He is also an expert in closed captioning and subtitling technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people.
A-Trak.  A-Trak (born Alain Macklovitch; March 30 1982) is a Canadian DJ turntablist record producer and music label executive. He is the owner of the record label Fool's Gold.
Hugh the Chanter.  Hugh Sottovagina (died c. 1140) often referred to as Hugh the Chanter or Hugh the Chantor was a historian for York Minster during the 12th century and was probably an archdeacon during the time of his writing. He was author of the Latin text known as the History of the Church of York.
Cho Tat-wah.  Cho Tat-wah (or Tso Tat-wah) (15 September 1915 – 10 January 2007) was a film actor of Hong Kong most famous for the roles he played in a number of Wuxia films in the 1950s and 1960s.The names Cho Tat-wah and Shih Kien were synonymous to good and evil in the colloquial language of Hong Kong because of the roles the two actors played in those movies. Yu So-chow co-starred many of Cho's movies. The two names Cho Tat-wah and Yu So-chow symbolized a perfect couple.
Vesna Zmijanac.  Vesna Zmijanac (Serbian: Весна Змијанац; Serbian pronunciation: [ʋêsna zmijǎːnats]; born 4 January 1957) is a Montenegrin Serb folk singer.She released 13 albums multiple singles and several compilation albums. Her singing career started back in 1979 with the single Hvala ti za sve (English: Thank You For Everything) and after that came a few popular singles and her first studio album in 1981.
Guido Ricci.  Guido Ricci (1837–1897) was an Italian painter mainly painting landscapes and rural genre scenes.
Gerry O'Connor (banjo player).  Gerry O'Connor (born in Nenagh County Tipperary Ireland) is a traditional tenor banjo player. As Earl Hitchener (music critic for the Wall Street Journal) said Gerry O'Connor can be considered at the moment the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music. He also plays mandolin fiddle guitar and tenor guitar.O'Connor released four solo albums and his 3rd one titled No Place Like Home was named by Irish Times as Number 1 Traditional/Folk album of the year in 2004.
Graeme Strachan.  Graeme Strachan (2 January 1952 – 29 August 2001) better known as Shirley Strachan was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern he was an avid surfer and his nickname Shirley was given to him by his surfer friends because of his long sunbleached and very curly hair referring to Shirley Temple. Educated at Mount Waverley Secondary College.
Douglas September.  Douglas September (born September 25 1972 in Cape Breton Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician. He is known for his poetic lyrics as well as his innovative musical style that blends folk and blues with a caustic modern commentary. As a composer musician producer and engineer September's passion for arranging music from the ordinary every day into a unique auditory experience has evolved into a singular style. His music has been likened to Bob Dylan Tim Buckley and Tom Waits.
Angelo Moore.  Angelo Christoper Moore (born November 5 1965) is an American musician best known for his work as a founding member lead singer and saxophonist for the Los Angeles alternative rock band Fishbone. Moore also performs and records spoken word poetry under the stage name of Dr. Madd Vibe.
Alice Low.  Alice Low (born 1926) is an author and editor of children's books. She is most notable for having written adaptations of mythology for children.
Wendy Saddington.  Wendy June Saddington also known as Gandharvika Dasi (26 September 1949 – 21 June 2013) was an Australian blues soul and jazz singer and was in the bands Chain Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen pop newspaper Go-Set from September 1969 to September 1970 as an agony aunt in her weekly Takes Care of Business column and as a feature writer.
Arthur Fiedler.  Not to be confused with Arthur Fielder a Kent fast bowler of the 1900s.Arthur Fiedler (December 17 1894 – July 10 1979) was a long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra a symphony orchestra that specializes in popular and light classical music. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship he made the Boston Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the country.
Jay Tee.  James Trujillo better known by his stage name Jay Tee is a rapper songwriter and producer from Vallejo CA. He has been a part of the city's scene since the early 1990s as the lead member of N2Deep and Latino Velvet along with Baby Beesh. Even though N2Deep's 2000 album Slightly Pimpish/Mostly Doggish was a solo album it wasn't until 2001 that Jay Tee released a solo album under his own name.
Lyn Collins.  Gloria Lavern Collins better known as Lyn Collins (12 June 1948 – 13 March 2005) was an African-American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the 1970s and for the influential 1972 funk single Think (About It). Contrary to some reports she is not related to Bootsy and Catfish Collins.
James B. Stewart.  James Bennett Stewart (born c. 1952) is an American lawyer journalist and author.
Mary Hayden Pike.  Mary Hayden Pike (née Green) (30 November 1824 – 15 January 1908) American author born in Eastport Maine to Elijah Dix Green and Hannah Caflin Hayden. She was educated in Calais Maine and acquired religious convictions at the early age of twelve when she went through baptism in an icy stream. She graduated from the Charlestown Female Seminary (Massachusetts) in 1843. In 1846 she married Frederick A. Pike who later was elected to the 37th United States Congress.
Alice Leslie Carter.  Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer. She was active as a recording artist in the early 1920s and her best known tracks were Decatur Street Blues and Aunt Hagar's Children Blues.
Morgan Kibby.  Morgan Grace Kibby (b. May 3 1984) is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles California. She has had various musical projects throughout the years including fronting the LA based indie band The Romanovs collaborating and touring with the French electronic/ambient group M83 to her most current solo project titled White Sea. Morgan's voice can also been heard on various movie trailers such as M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Norman Hampson.  Norman Hampson (8 April 1922 in Manchester England – 8 July 2011 in York) was the Professor of History at the University of York from 1974 to 1989. He was born in 1922 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and University College. His service in the Navy from 1941 to 1945 included two years as liaison officer with the Free French Navy. From 1948 until 1967 he was on the staff of Manchester University.
Jason Reischel.  Jason Reischel (born April 19 1976) is an American singer-songwriter from Brooklyn New York who sometimes goes by the stage name My Cousin The Emperor. He is known for his Paul Simon-like vocals and dexterous acoustic guitar work. Reischel began playing guitar when he was ten years old and wrote his first song when he was in seventh grade.
Mark Zubek.  Mark Zubek (born June 19 1974) is a Toronto-based record producer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and jazz musician. His songwriting and production styles are influenced by pop rock r&b hip-hop and jazz.
Tamara Barnett-Herrin.  Tamara Barnett-Herrin is a London-based singer-songwriter who has sung with the group Freeform Five on the album Strangest Things which was released in 2005. Her latest project is the Calendar Songs album an internet-based collaborative Creative Commons-licensed project released in early 2008.Barnett-Herrin contributed vocals to State of Permission an album track on Shinichi Osawa's 2007 album The One.
Wayne Boring.  Wayne Boring (June 5 1905–February 20 1987) was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym Jack Harmon.
Joe Gilman.  Joseph Alan (Joe) Gilman (born June 27 1962) is an American pianist composer and music educator currently residing in Sacramento California. Gilman who teaches at American River College and Sacramento State University in Sacramento and the Brubeck Institute in Stockton California works in a variety of genres but is primarily known for his work as a jazz pianist arranger composer and educator.
Steve Williamson.  Steve Williamson (born 28 June 1964 in London) is an English saxophonist and composer.(tenor saxophone soprano saxophone alto saxophone keyboard and composition). Steve Williamson began playing saxophone at the age of 16 and started his career playing in Reggae bands (Misty in Roots). In 1984 and 1985 he studied at London's Guildhall School of Music.
Michel Lacombe.  Michel Lacombe (born 1973 in Montréal Québec) is a Canadian comic book artist.
Elias Mallin.  Elias Mallin from Phoenix Arizona played drums for metal/post-hardcore band Opiate for the Masses from 1999 until 2005 a band which he had formed with fellow students of the New School for the Arts and Academics.
Drew Shirley.  Andrew (Drew) Philip Shirley (born April 3 1974 in Puerto Rico) is an American rock guitarist formerly of All Together Separate and since 2005 of the Grammy-winning alternative rock band Switchfoot.
Arthur Bowie Chrisman.  Arthur Bowie Chrisman (July 16 1889–February 1953) was an American author. He was born in Clarke County Virginia. Chrisman was educated in a one-room school and attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1906 to 1908 but left at the end of his sophomore year. His collection of sixteen short stories Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children (1925) received the Newbery Medal in 1926.
Barbara Albright.  Barbara Albright (1955 in Nebraska - July 5 2006 in Branford Connecticut) was an American author of about 25 food and knitting books. She was also former editor-in-chief of The Chocolatier magazine a food editor as Redbook and Woman's World and a freelance writer for the Associated Press.Albright graduated from Fremont High School in Fremont Nebraska and from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a bachelor's degree in food and nutrition.
Khuraman Gasimova.  Khuraman Gasimova (Azerbaijani: Xuraman Qasımova) is an opera singer and actress from Azerbaijan.
Takuma Kanaiwa.  Takuma Kanaiwa is a New York City based musician and electrical engineer. His music is known for transcending genres such as free jazz and Japanese folk. He also manufactures guitar effects pedals.
Harry Kurnitz.  Harry Kurnitz (January 5 1908 – March 18 1968) was an American playwright novelist and prolific screenwriter who wrote swashbucklers for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye. He also wrote some mystery fiction under the name Marco Page.
Ken Field.  Ken Field (born January 26 1953) is a saxophonist flautist percussionist and composer. Since 1988 he has been a member of the electrified modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with whom he has recorded eight CDs.
Marco Pillini.  Marco Pillini (late nineteenth century) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects.
Bonnie Rotten.  Bonnie Rotten (born May 9 1993) is an American pornographic actress and model. She is the first alt porn star to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award.
Chris Thompson (Canadian musician).  Chris Thompson (born July 4 1971 Ottawa Ontario Canada) is a Canadian musician who has performed in a variety of Maritime bands including Eric's Trip The Memories Attack Orange Glass and his solo project Moon Socket. Although Thompson was born in Ottawa his family moved to Moncton New Brunswick when he was five years old. Thompson began Moon Socket before Eric's Trip had broken up.Thompson contributed to former Eric's Trip bandmate Julie Doiron's 2007 album Woke Myself Up.
Eri Kitamura.  Eri Kitamura (喜多村 英梨 Kitamura Eri born August 16 1987) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is known for voicing prominent roles in anime such as Blood+ Toradora! Highschool of the Dead and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In addition she provided the voice for Vocaloid CUL-REBIRTH. She is known to be an amateur manga artist in Japan in her spare time.
Ferdinand Kulmer.  Ferdinand Kulmer (1925–1998) was a Croatian abstract painter and teacher.He studied at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and took special classes with Đuro Tiljak. Kulmer worked in the studio of Krsto Hegedušić and for many years was a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts.Kulmer's paintings tend towards abstract or semi-abstract scenes with his early compositions based on still life or interiors featuring calligraphic brushwork.
Magic Sam.  Samuel Magic Sam Gene Maghett (February 14 1937 – December 1 1969) was an American Chicago blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. After moving to Chicago at the age of nineteen he was signed by Cobra Records and became well known as a bluesman after his first record All Your Love in 1957. He was known for his distinctive tremolo-guitar playing.
Alma Routsong.  Alma Routsong (November 26 1924 – October 4 1996) was an American novelist best known for her lesbian fiction published under the pen name Isabel Miller.
Italo Montemezzi.  Italo Montemezzi (August 4 1875 – May 15 1952) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his opera L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings) once part of the standard repertoire. It is now seldom performed.Montemezzi was born in Vigasio near Verona. He studied music at the Milan Conservatory and subsequently taught harmony there for one year.His opera L’amore dei tre re written in 1913 launched his career and enabled him to devote himself to composition.
Ceara Grehan.  Ceara Grehan (born in Belfast Northern Ireland) and is one of Ireland's leading theatrical and opera singers.[citation needed] She was first trained at the Belfast School of Music and trained with Laura Sarti plue one of London's top west end vocal coaches Mary Hammond.Her prolific career has included many production throughout Ireland and the UK a regular performer for the Fortwilliam Musical society Lyric Opera Productions and St Agnes Choral Society.In June 2003 Ceara won the AIMS Award for the Best Female Singer for her part as Anna Leonowens in St. 
Matthew Davidson.  Matthew Davidson guitarist and vocalist is from Shreveport Louisiana. He was the winner of the 2011 Robert Johnson Blues Foundation/Gibson Guitar New Generation Award. Matthew's debut EP Step Up was released in 2012 and produced by bassist Joe Osborn. Matthew was nominated for 2012 Best Emerging Artist by OffBeat (music magazine) in New Orleans in their annual Best of the Beat Awards.Photographer Robert M. Knight invited Matthew to join “The Brotherhood of the Guitar” (BOTG).
Muriel Barbery.  Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969 in Casablanca Morocco) is a French novelist and professor of philosophy.
Ya Boy.  William Joseph Crawford (born January 28 1984) better known by his stage name Ya Boy or Rich Rocka is an American rapper from the Fillmore District San Francisco. He is a younger cousin of San Francisco rapper San Quinn and also the cousin of Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson. Crawford graduated from El Camino High School in South San Francisco California in 2002. He was formerly signed to both of Akon's labels Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution.
John Harryson.  John Harryson (April 17 1926 in Katrineholm - November 28 2008 in Stockholm) was a Swedish actor. He was the father of famous Swedish actor and television host Peter Harryson.For a younger generation John Harrysson was known as the Swedish voice of Scrooge McDuck Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh Doctor Snuggles and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood.
Mel Kishida.  Mel Kishida (岸田 メル Kishida Meru born September 3 1983) is a male Japanese illustrator. His works include both light novel illustration and anime character design. He is best known as the character designer of the Hanasaku Iroha anime series and illustrator of the Heaven's Memo Pad light novel series.
Narcís Oller.  Narcís Oller i Moragas (Catalan pronunciation: [narˈsiz uˈʎe]) (Valls 10 August 1846; Barcelona 26 July 1930) was a Catalan author most noted for the novels La papallona (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); and La febre d'or (Gold Fever) which is set in Barcelona during the period of promoterism.He also translated the works of Tolstoy and Dumas.
Hugo Degenhardt.  Hugo Degenhardt is a British drummer who has toured and recorded with a wide variety of artists that include Robbie Williams Bryan Ferry Steve Hackett Todd Sharpville Kylie Minogue Rod Stewart and Jack Bruce.He was in the short-lived band Honeycrack and is currently working with The Bootleg Beatles as Ringo Starr.
Ghian Wright.  Ghian Ronald Wright (born February 27th 1980) is a producer engineer mixer and songwriter currently located in Los Angeles California.Ghian Wright was born in San Diego California and grew up in the North County city of Carlsbad. After attending two years of community college following high school he moved in 2000 to Los Angeles and began working at the world-renowned Village Studios.
Ashli Orion.  Ashli Orion (born June 19 1987) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Tom Reynolds (actor).  Tom Reynolds (born 9 August 1866 in London England – died 25 July 1942) was a British actor.
Ruth Ojadi.  Ruth O. Ojadi is a British singer-songwriter who appeared in BBC's documentary Tourettes: I Swear I Can Sing. She attended Middlesex University in 2006 but dropped out after two years due to her Tourette syndrome.
Neal Thompson.  Neal Thompson is an American non-fiction writer who resides in Asheville North Carolina with his family. He has authored three full length books Driving With The Devil Light This Candle and Hurricane Season.
Ralph René.  Ralph René (August 24 1933 – December 10 2008) was an American conspiracy theorist small press publisher and inventor. René was a vocal proponent of the Apollo Moon landing hoax theory. René's last self-published work a pamphlet he distributed called WTC Lies and Fairy Tales details his beliefs that the U.S. government was responsible for the September 11 attacks.René appeared frequently in shows produced by The History Channel National Geographic Channel Fox television and Showtime.
Nat Sakdatorn.  Nat Sakdatorn (Thai: ณัฐ ศักดาทร) (born January 24 1983) is a Thai singer-songwriter actor writer and the winner of the 4th season of reality talent show True Visions' Academy Fantasia.
August Joseph Pechwell.  August Joseph Pechwell (1757–1811) was a German painter.
Richard Teideman.  Richard Martin Teideman is a professional voice over and director of London Creative Ltd.Richard's voice over career started in 1996 when working at London's ITN owned radio station News Direct.In 1997 Richard was asked to join voice agent The Excellent Voice Company where he went on to voice for the BBC Discovery and a number of other projects.
Helen Marnie.  Helen Marnie (born in 1978) is a Scottish musician known as the lead vocalist and one of the keyboardists and songwriters of the electronic band Ladytron. In 2012 she started a solo career as Marnie and released her debut solo album Crystal World on 11 June 2013.
Friedrich Spielhagen.  Friedrich Spielhagen (February 24 1829 – February 25 1911) was a German novelist literary theorist and translator. He tried a number of careers in his early 20s but at 25 began writing and translating. His best known novel is Sturmflut and his novel In Reih' und Glied was quite successful in Russia.
Tru Life.  Roberto Guzmán Rosado Jr. (born March 19 1976) better known by his stage name Tru Life is an American rapper of Puerto Rican descent from New York City. He was signed to Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. His latest release is a mixtape called Tru York hosted by J-Love. He is part of a loose collective of rappers from New York known as Ghetto Inmates. His career ended (or came to a stop) when he was arrested for stabbings in June 2009.
Dick Twardzik.  Richard Twardzik (April 30 1931 in Danvers Massachusetts – October 21 1955 in Paris) was a jazz pianist known for bebop who worked in Boston for the bulk of his career.He trained in classical piano as a child and made his professional debut at 14. He was taught by prominent Boston piano teacher Margaret Chaloff mother of baritone saxophone player Serge Chaloff in whose group Twardzik recorded in addition to one led by Charlie Mariano.
Rosanne Kohake.  Rosanne Kohake (b. July 20 in Cincinnati Ohio U.S.A.) was an American writer who has written three historical romance novels published from 1984 to 1985 by Avon Books. Her novels have been translated into other languages and her debut novel For Honor's Lady has been selected as one of the All-Time Favorites & Classics by the Romantic Times Magazine.
Atsuko Yuya.  Atsuko Yuya (湯屋 敦子 Yuya Atsuko born September 1 1970) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Gekidan Subaru. Atsuko Yuya is originally from Nagasaki. She is the official Japanese voice dub-over artist for actresses: Angelina Jolie and Natasha Henstridge.
Marika Siewert.  Marika (also spelled MARIKA) is a Canadian singer/songwriter born in San Fernando Trinidad raised in England and Medicine Hat Alberta. She currently resides in Langley British Columbia. MARIKA has had two top 40 radio singles in Canada as well as songs placed with Elise Estrada Elin Universal Music Group Germany and Korea's Lee Hyori with My Life M-NET and Kim Bo Kyung.
Rockwell (musician).  Kennedy William Gordy (born March 15 1964) better known by his stage name Rockwell is an R&B artist who was signed to the Motown label.
Gordon Downie.  Gordon Edgar Downie (born 6 February 1964) is a Canadian rock musician writer and occasional actor. He is the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He has released three solo albums: Coke Machine Glow in 2001 Battle of the Nudes in 2003 and The Grand Bounce in 2010. On each of these he was backed by The Country of Miracles; The Grand Bounce is credited to Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles.
Julian Hawthorne.  Julian Hawthorne (June 22 1846 – July 21 1934) was an American writer and journalist the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems novels short stories mystery/detective fiction essays travel books biographies and histories. As a journalist he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine and the Spanish-American War for the New York Journal.
Ti Lung.  Tommy Tam Fu-Wing also known as Ti Lung (simplified Chinese: 狄龙; traditional Chinese: 狄龍; Mandarin Pinyin: Dí Lóng; Jyutping: Dik6 Lung4) or Dik Lung is a Hong Kong actor known for his numerous starring roles in a string of Shaw Brothers Studio's films particularly The Sentimental Swordsman and its sequel and in the classic A Better Tomorrow.
Danny Wheeler.  Danny Wheeler is an international DJ and drum & bass producer from west London. Danny Wheeler’s debut; Ghost & Lost Highway launched him and co-producer Sub Focus into the Top 5 of the UK Dance Charts and Top 20 of the Indie Charts. He was featured in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the DJs who broke the world record for the most DJs to consecutively mix one record live on BBC Radio. Wheeler is also the owner of W10 Records.
Wim Delvoye.  Wim Delvoye (born 1965 in Wervik West Flanders) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. He repeatedly links the attractive with the repulsive creating work that holds within it inherent contradictions- one does not know whether to stare be seduced or to look away.
Sri Kommineni.  Sri Kommineni born as Kommineni Srinivasa Chakravarthi is an Indian Film composer and playback singer in Telugu cinema. He is the son of veteran Music composer K. Chakravarthy (Kommineni Apparao). He did his BE in industrial engineering from Manipal University.He is the lead anchor for the show Anthyakshari in Gemini TV which was telecasted during 1995. Singer Sunitha is the co-anchor for that show.
İsmet Güney.  İsmet Vehit Güney (1932 - 23 June 2009) was a Turkish Cypriot artist cartoonist teacher and painter. He is best known as the designer of the modern flag of the Republic of Cyprus the country's coat of arms and the original Cyprus lira in 1960. Güney's design was unique as the Republic of Cyprus is the first country in the world to display a map on its flag. Kosovo whose status is disputed adopted a flag in 2008 which also displays a map.
Tintoretto.  Tintoretto (Italian pronunciation: [tintoˈretto]; late September or early October 1518 – May 31 1594) real name Jacopo Comin was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso.
Marika Shaw.  Marika Anthony-Shaw is a Canadian violist/violinist who was a touring member of the band Arcade Fire and played viola on their albums Neon Bible and The Suburbs. Prior to her current role she was an Orchestra (Strings) teacher at Lindsay Place High School. She has also played viola on the albums Set Yourself on Fire by Stars and Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light by Bell Orchestre.
Nitty (musician).  Frank Ross (born December 23 1977) better known by stage name Nitty is a American hip hop recording artist from The Bronx New York. He is perhaps best known for his debut single Nasty Girl and his pop rap style of hip hop which he calls playboy rap.
Karin Fossum.  Karin Fossum (b. 1954) is a Norwegian author of crime fiction often referred to as the Norwegian queen of crime.
Victor Balaguer (singer).  Victor Balaguer (1921 – 17 April 1984) was a Spanish singer of the 1950s and 1960s best known for his participation in the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest. Balaguer was known as a versatile singer who moved between popular music and zarzuela singing in both Spanish and Catalan. Balaguer was born and died in Barcelona. In 1961 he took part in the selection for Spain's debut Eurovision Song Contest entry but lost out by one point to Conchita Bautista.
John Lowrie Morrison.  John Lowrie Morrison OBE (born 1948 Maryhill Glasgow) known as Jolomo is a Scottish contemporary artist producing expressionist oil paintings of Scottish landscapes.
Neha Bhasin.  Neha Bhasin is an Indian professional singer.
Louis Legrand.  Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist known especially for his aquatint engravings which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Adrienne Roy.  Adrienne Roy (June 28 1953 – December 14 2010) was a comic book color artist who worked mostly for DC Comics. She was largely responsible for coloring the Batman line - (Batman and Detective Comics) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
Genesis P-Orridge.  Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950) later known as Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter musician poet writer and performance artist. In the latter capacity P-Orridge was the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective which operated from 1969 to 1975. As a musician P-Orridge fronted the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle between 1975 and 1981 and then the experimental band Psychic TV from 1981 to 1999.
André Andersen.  André Andersen (born December 16 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian-born multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the keyboardist and founder of the Denmark-based progressive metal band Royal Hunt. He claims to be of mixed Danish and Georgian royal blood.
Peetie Wheatstraw.  Peetie Wheatstraw (December 21 1902 – December 21 1941) was the name adopted by the singer William Bunch an influential figure among 1930s blues singers. Although the only known photograph of Bunch shows him holding a National brand tricone resonator guitar he played the piano on most of his recordings.
Dan Brereton.  Dan Brereton (born November 22 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area) is an American professional writer and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field.
NoClue.  Ricky Raphel Brown (born January 28 1985) known by the stage name NoClue is an American rapper from Seattle. He is best known for obtaining the title of the world's official “Fastest Rap MC” by Guinness World Records for rapping 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds (14.1 syllables per second) on his track New West in January 2005.
James White (writer and translator).  James White (1759–1799) historical novelist was born in Dublin. He became a scholar of Trinity College Dublin in 1778 and graduated BA in 1780. Nothing is known about his family or the reasons that brought him to England where he spent the rest of his life.
John Dickson Carr.  John Dickson Carr (November 30 1906 – February 27 1977) was an American author of detective stories who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.Carr is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called Golden Age mysteries complex plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is paramount. He was influenced in this regard by the works of Gaston Leroux and by the Father Brown stories of G. K. Chesterton.
Clay Fulks.  Clay Fulks (1880-1964) was a writer on Arkansas lore.In his articles Fulks was one of those who shared H. L. Mencken's dichotomy between a backward and an enlightened South. This dichotomy Fulks blamed on an infestation of parsons.In 1918 Fulks was the unsuccessful Socialist Party of America candidate for governor of Arkansas against Charles Hillman Brough.
Lane Brody.  Lane Brody is an American female singer-songwriter active since the early 1980s best known for her 1984 Billboard-topping country hit The Yellow Rose (a duet with country music singer Johnny Lee) and for the Oscar nominated song Over You from the film Tender Mercies. She is the first female in country music to have an Oscar-nominated hit from a soundtrack album. Besides The Yellow Rose Brody has eleven other chart singles on the country charts.
LTJ Bukem.  LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician producer and DJ Danny Williamson (born 1967). He and his record labels Good Looking and Looking Good Records are most associated with the jazzy atmospheric side of drum and bass music.
Kevin Eastman.  Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30 1962) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eastman is also the editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal.
Stephan Fimmers.  Stephan Fimmers is a proficient German bassist who plays for the German technical death metal band Necrophagist. He joined Necrophagist in 2003 and followed the work of Heiko Linzert who left the band shortly before the album Epitaph was recorded and released in 2004. He is also a former bassist of the Dutch death/thrash metal band Pestilence.
Walter de Milemete.  Walter de Milemete was an English scholar who wrote a treatise on Kingship for the young prince Edward later king Edward III of England called De nobilitatibus sapientiis et prudentiis regum in 1326. The Treatise includes images of siege weapons and what is probably the first illustration of a firearm: a pot-de-fer.
Niilo Sevänen.  Niilo Sevänen (born August 19 1979) is a metal musician from Joensuu Finland. He is best known as the current vocalist/bassist for the melodic death metal band Insomnium.
Kathinka Pasveer.  Kathinka Pasveer (born 11 June 1959) is a Dutch flautist.
Roar Engelberg.  Roar Engelberg (born 26 July 1964 in Hamar Norway) is the first international Norwegian artist on Panpipes known for his long lasting and fertile cooperation with Stein-Erik Olsen.
Ross McLennan (drummer).  Ross McLennan is an Australian drummer best known as a member of Australian rock band The Predators. Prior to performing for The Predators McLennan also drummed for Far Out Corporation a rock band led by Grant McLennan (no relation). He also drummed for Brisbane four piece group Turtlebox from 1995 until 1996.McLennan's first release was an EP entitled UFO Jesus Returns recorded with the band Turtlebox in 1996.
Terry MacAlmon.  Terry MacAlmon (born May 12 1955) is an American Christian songwriter recording artist and worship leader. He heads a worship music ministry based in Dallas Texas and leads worship in conferences retreats worship seminars and churches throughout the United States and internationally.He is known for writing the song I Sing Praises that has been a Top 40 Christian song around the world and is still regularly sung in many churches.
Irma Kliauzaitė.  Irma Kliauzaitė is a Lithuanian pianist settled in Austria. She has performed internationally. Kliauzaite graduated in the Salzburg's Mozarteum in 1996 and was decorated the Mozarteum Foundation's Bernhard Paumgartner-Medal. She has also been awarded the Bösendorfer Prize.
Carl Blum.  Carl Wilhelm August Blum (Berlin 1786 - Berlin 2 July 1844) was a German singer librettist stage actor director guitarist and opera and song composer. Among his successful songs were compositions for the Austrian soprano Pauline Anna Milder-Hauptmann.
Nigel Mooney.  Nigel Mooney (born 12 August 1965) is a blues and jazz singer guitarist and songwriter from Ireland. Mooney came to prominence on the Irish blues scene in the 1980s with his Gripewater Blues Band which opened for BB King and backed Dr John in Dublin. In the 1990s Mooney and his band switched to an acoustic jazz sound. His debut album All My Love's In Vain was Ireland's top selling jazz album in 2005.
Melinda Camber Porter.  Melinda Camber Porter (18 September 1953 – 9 October 2008) was an artist author poet journalist and filmmaker. Porter was a modernist who worked in oils watercolor and ink. She was known for combining the mediums of film painting and writing.Her works have been shown at The School of Visual Arts in New York Oxford University the Embassy of France La Maison Francaise and Lincoln Center’s Clark Theatre. Her paintings poetry and films have been critically well received.
Giovanni Maria Bononcini.  Giovanni Maria Bononcini (September 23 1642 – November 18 1678) was an Italian violinist and composer the father of a musical dynasty.In 1671 Bononcini the elder became a court musician at Modena. His treatise Musico prattico was published in 1673.The composers Giovanni Bononcini and Antonio Maria Bononcini were his sons.
Henry Morgan (comedian).  Henry Morgan (born Henry Lerner Van Ost Jr. March 31 1915 – May 19 1994) was an American humorist. He is remembered best in two modern media: radio on which he first became familiar as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist and on television where he was a regular and cantankerous panelist for the game show I've Got a Secret. Morgan was a second cousin of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner.
Ned Balbo.  Ned Balbo (born November 19 1959 Mineola New York) is an American poet translator and essayist.
Thomas Lawrence.  Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten having moved to Bath he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
Farah Mohamed Jama Awl.  Farah Mohamed Jama Awl (Somali: Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl Arabic: فارح محمد جامع عول‎; b. 1937 - 1991) usually credited as Faarax M.J. Cawl was a Somali writer. His surname Cawl (Somali pronunciation: [ʕaul]) means gazelle which was the nickname of his great-grandfather who was the Sultan of the Warsangali clan. The Awl family also includes the Warsangali Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shire.
Henri Gervex.  Henri Gervex (Paris 10 December 1852 – 7 June 1929) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel Pierre-Nicolas Brisset and Eugène Fromentin.
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Christina Milian.  Christine Flores (born September 26 1981) better known by her stage name Christina Milian (/mɪliˈɑːn/) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.At the age of 19 Milian signed a contract with Def Jam. In 2001 Milian released her self-titled debut album which featured the singles AM to PM and When You Look at Me; AM to PM charted with in the Top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and both peaked in the top three on the UK Singles Chart.
Michael Morpurgo.  Michael Morpurgo OBE FRSL FKC (born 5 October 1943) is an English author poet playwright and librettist who is known best for children's novels.Morpurgo became the third British Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005.Born in 1943 he attended schools in London Sussex and Canterbury.
Jim Palosaari.  James Jim Michael Palosaari (1939–2011) was an evangelist and performer one of the leaders in the Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Spooner Oldham.  Dewey Lindon Spooner Oldham (born June 14 1943) is an American songwriter and session musician.
Sara Davidson.  Sara Davidson (born 1943) is a journalist novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of the best-selling Loose Change.
Martha Reben.  Martha Reben (born Rebentisch 1906-1964) was an author who wrote The Healing Woods (1952) The Way of the Wilderness (1954) and A Sharing of Joy (1963) memoirs of her experiences camping on the shore of Weller Pond eight miles from Saranac Lake New York in the Adirondacks in 1931 in an attempt to cure herself of tuberculosis.Reben grew up in New York City; when she was six her mother died of tuberculosis.
AbdolReza Razmjoo.  Abdolreza Razmjoo (persian:عبدالرضا رزمجو ) is a composer arranger and singer Tenor of Iran kurdish ancestry from kermansha. Razmjoo was born in February 1975 in Kermanshah. At the age of 14 he began playing Tanbur. after a few months to learn the basic persian music pay Tar and Setar. he is Orchestration principles he learned from expert instructors. In Fajer's Festival he was selected as the best soloist of Tar in 1993.
Hortense Calisher.  Hortense Calisher (December 20 1911 – January 13 2009) was an American writer of fiction.
Tanja Savić.  Tanja Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Тања Савић; born 20 March 1985) is a Serbian pop-folk singer. She became famous after competing on a first season of the Zvezde Granda television singing contest and making it into the final six.Despite not winning the grand finale her public profile was raised sufficiently for Grand Production record label to sign her to a contract. This led to debut album Tako mlada that turned into a major success paving the way for a career that followed.
Dion Boucicault.  Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December c. 1820 – 18 September 1890) commonly known as Dion Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times heralded him in his obituary as the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century.
Andy Zaltzman.  Andrew Andy Zaltzman (born 1974) is a British comedian and author who largely focuses on political material. He has worked extensively with John Oliver; their work together includes Political Animal The Department and The Bugle.
Dmitry Bashkirov.  Dmitri Bashkirov (Russian: Дми́трий Александро́вич Башки́ров; born November 1 1931) is a Russian pianist and educator.Bashkirov was born in Tbilisi Georgia. He became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1968 and a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1990.
Yuko Ito.  Yuko Ito (伊藤 裕子 Itō Yūko born April 18 1974) is a Japanese fashion model and actress. She was born in Tokyo.
Louis Nowra.  Louis Nowra (born 12 December 1950) is an Australian writer playwright screenwriter and librettist.He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights. His works have been performed by all of Australia's major theatre companies including Sydney Theatre Company Melbourne Theatre Company Queensland Theatre Company State Theatre Company of South Australia Belvoir and many others and have also had many international productions.
Toshiyuki Hosokawa.  Toshiyuki Hosokawa (細川 俊之 Hosokawa Toshiyuki) (1940 – January 14 2011) was a Japanese actor and disc jockey whose credits included roles in television film stage and musical theater. He reached prominence in Japan for his starring role in the 1970 film Eros Plus Massacre which was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.Hosokawa was a raised in Fukuoka Prefecture. He launched his acting career as a member of the theater company Bungakuza in 1964. He joined Bungakuza after leaving his university.
Hiroyuki Miyasako.  Hiroyuki Miyasako (宮迫博之 Miyasako Hiroyuki) is a Japanese actor and comedian and plays the boke in Ameagari Kesshitai. He won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 28th Hochi Film Awards for Thirteen Steps and Wild Berries.
Carol Arnauld.  Carole Arnauld is a French singer and songwriter. She sang in the late 1980s and can be deemed as a one-hit wonder in France with her hit single C'est pas facile... released in September 1986. The song reached number 10 on the SNEP chart stayed in the top 50 for 16 weeks and was certified Silver disc for about 230000 copies sold. Very moving the song deals with her brother's death killed by a driver and evokes her suffering and that of her mother.
Frl. Menke.  Frl. Menke (born November 4 1960 as Franziska Menke in Germany) was one of the stars of the Neue Deutsche Welle a genre of German music originally derived from punk rock and new wave music which also brought the German band Nena (99 Luftballons) into the international spotlight. Menke is best known for her hit single Hohe Berge (High Mountains) which was a Top 10 hit on the German single charts in 1982 and sold more than 2.5 million copies to date.
Eric Rücker Eddison.  Eric Rücker Eddison CB CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author writing under the name E.R. Eddison.
Augustyn Suski.  Augustyn Suski (November 8 1907 – May 26 1942) was a Polish poet pedagogue in the interwar period and underground activist during World War II. Under the German occupation Suski (nom-de-guerre Stefan Borusa) became a founder of the Polish resistance organization called Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzańska) a.k.a. Confederation of the Tatra Mountains operating in the Nowy Targ area of Podhale. He died at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
François Nourissier.  François Nourissier (Paris 18 May 1927–Paris 15 February 2011) was a French journalist and writer.Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël (1952–1955) editor of the review La Parisienne (1955–1958) and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house (1958–1996).In 1970 he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève.
Soan (singer).  Julien Decroix better known as Soan (born on 4 May 1981) is a French singer-songwriter who won in 2009 the seventh series of the French music competition Nouvelle Star.
Nicholas de Jongh.  Nicholas de Jongh (born 2 March 1944) is a British theatre critic and playwright. He was born into a secular Jewish household. De Jongh served as the senior drama critic of the Evening Standard from 1991 to 2009. Prior to that he worked for the Guardian newspaper for almost 20 years. At the Evening Standard de Jongh established a reputation for his acerbic reviews; nonetheless he is regarded as a fixture of the London theatrical establishment.
Doug Oldham.  Doug Oldham (November 30 1930 – July 21 2010) was an American Southern Gospel singer and a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Maiya Williams.  Maiya Williams (born December 18 1962 in Corvallis Oregon) is an American author television producer and screenwriter.
Margaret Leiteritz.  Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976) was a German painter.In the 1960s and early 1970s Leiteritz produced her 'painted diagrams' which drew heavily from the scientific articles and books in her care (she was a professional librarian before becoming a painter). Many of her works were strongly influenced by chemical engineering and especially the field's graphs which depicted physical properties of substances.
M. Ward.  M. Ward (born Matthew Stephen Ward) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland Oregon music scene. In addition to his solo work he is known as a member of She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
Lorraine Hilton.  Lorraine Hilton is a British actress.Her television credits include: Doctors The Bill Casualty Holby City Little Britain Strange My Hero and Jonathan Creek.She also appeared in notable films such as Ladybird Ladybird Jude and most recently Hot Fuzz. In the latter she appears as school headmaster Amanda Paver and is involved in the film's action-packed climax.
Joe Zabel.  Joe Zabel (born 1953) is a comic book artist living in Cleveland Heights. He is best known for his work illustrating American Splendor by fellow Clevelander Harvey Pekar. Under the company names Known Associates Press and Amazing Montage Press Zabel has also published his own series of mystery comics The Trespassers.Zabel broke into comics in 1977 helping to draw a promo ad in an issue of Power Comics' Cobalt Blue.
Ron Lauback.  Ron Lauback is a guitarist/bassist/songwriter from Syracuse New York. Ron is currently performing with Dan Elliott and The Monterays and celebrated his fiftieth year in the music business in 2008.
Tommy Cannon.  Thomas Derbyshire known as Tommy Cannon (born 27 June 1938) is a comedian and the feed member of comedy double act Cannon and Ball along with Bobby Ball. He most well known for the show The Cannon and Ball Show.Cannon was chairman of Rochdale F.C. until 1988.
Bruno Kovačić.  Bruno Kovačić is a Croatian musician and composer.
Kuranosuke Sasaki.  Kuranosuke Sasaki (佐々木蔵之介 Sasaki Kuranosuke born February 4 1968) (real name Hideaki Sasaki (佐々木秀明 Sasaki Hideaki)) is a Japanese actor known primary for his roles in Japanese television drama.
Don Ellis.  Don Ellis (July 25 1934 – December 17 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter drummer composer and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation particularly in the area of unusual time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer among other works contributing a score to 1971's The French Connection and 1973's The Seven-Ups.
Kim Jong-wook.  Kim Jong-Wook (Korean: 김종욱 born February 1 1982) is a South Korean singer. He is best known for Only You the theme song of the popular Korean reality show We Got Married. Before leaving for the army Kim Jong-wook released a song “Goodbye for Now” (Army Entrance Day) which was released on December 4 2009. He has a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Konkuk University and graduated from the Kyung Hee University Graduate School of Communication.
Kasumi Nakane.  Kasumi Nakane (仲根かすみ Nakane Kasumi) (About this sound listen ) is a Japanese model gravure idol and actress born on 1982-04-03 in Higashiōsaka Osaka and raised in Tokyo Japan. Her birth name was Kasumi Nakasone (仲宗根かすみ Nakasone Kasumi) and she formerly worked under the name Kasumi Ue (植可澄美 Ue Kasumi). She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School the same school attended by talent such as Yoko Minamino Yōko Oginome Ai Katō and Masumi Miyazaki.
Steve Brown (composer).  Steve Brown is a British composer.He wrote the book and lyrics (with Justin Greene) and composed the score for the West End Musical Spend Spend Spend which chronicled Viv Nicholson's rise and fall after winning a fortune in the football pools in the early 1960s.
Mari Nishio.  Mari Nishio (西尾 まり; born April 2 1974) is a Japanese actress.
Daniel Gardner.  Daniel Gardner (1750 – 8 July 1805) was a British painter best known for his work as a portraitist. He established a fashionable studio in Bond Street in London specializing in small scale portraits in pastel crayons or gouache often borrowing Reynolds' poses.By some critics Gardner is regarded as a notable artist who however was not an accurate draughtsman if it came to figure work especially to facial construction in some of his pastels.
Shuggie Otis.  Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr.; November 30 1953) is an American singer-songwriter recording artist and multi-instrumentalist.Otis' composition Strawberry Letter 23 (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached #5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977. He also achieved commercial success with his 1974 single Inspiration Information (from the album of the same name) reaching #56 on the R&B chart.
Tim Fish.  Tim Fish is a comic book author and artist.Fish was born in 1970 and attended the University of New Hampshire where he had a twice-weekly comic strip running in the college newspaper The New Hampshire and started a 100-issue superhero comic called Arche-Lady. Fish has lived in St. Louis San Diego and (currently) Boston.Fish who is openly gay is probably best known for his slice-of-life/romance print comic Cavalcade of Boys. Cavalcade has been released in trade paperback format.
Michael Simon (DJ).  Michael Simon (born 1972) is a German DJ and musician from Hamburg and a member of the band Scooter. His work with Scooter includes The Ultimate Aural Orgasm Jumping All Over The World Under The Radar Over The Top The Big Mash Up and Music for a Big Night Out. He previously worked as a technician for Scooter while Jay Frog had Michael's place. In 2006 Simon officially joined Scooter after about 10 years of working as a technician. He performs as a resident DJ of The Room Club Hamburg.
Gordon Cyrus.  Gordon Cyrus is an Afro-American Cherokee Scandinavian-born Swedish performer record producer sound engineer and designer. Cyrus is best known as a member of the rock/pop group Whale along with Cia Berg and Henrik Schyffert and for having discovered The Latin Kings.
Iain Gale.  Iain Gale is a journalist and author born in 1959 who writes military novels. His book Four Days in June about the Battle of Waterloo was well received and acclaimed by Bernard Cornwell. He is also the writer of eleven non-fiction books.
William Malone Baskervill.  William Malone Baskervill (1850–1899) was a writer and professor of the English language and literature at Vanderbilt University.Together with George Washington Cable he ran an organization known as the Open Letter Club. Essie Samuels notes this was a loosely organized attempt to disseminate liberal propaganda concerning civil rights and education for the Negro in the South between 1887 and 1890.
Mattias Alkberg.  Mattias Alkberg (born January 8 1969) sometimes known as Matti Alkberg is a Swedish poet songwriter and musician. He has released four poetry books and more than a dozen records with his two bands The Bear Quartet and Mattias Alkberg BD.
Master of the Imhoff Altar.  The Master of the Imhoff Altar (fl. c. 1410-1420) was a German painter. His name comes from an altarpiece dating to between 1418 and 1422 commissioned by Konrad Imhoff for the Lorenzkirche in Nuremberg. Only the central panel depicting the Coronation of the Virgin and the wings depicting several apostles are still preserved in the church albeit partially disassembled. On the inner wings flanking the Coronation may be found a donor portrait of the donor with three of his four wives.
David Johnson (American artist).  David Johnson (May 10 1827 – January 30 1908) was a member of the second generation of Hudson River School painters.
Patricia Bernard.  Patricia Bernard is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
Luis Dubuc.  Luis Alberto Dubuc Jr. (born January 28 1985) is an American musician from Dallas Texas. He was a member of The Secret Handshake and Of Legends. He is currently the man behind Mystery Skulls.
Friedrich Carl Gröger.  Friedrich Carl Gröger (14 October 1766 Plön - 9 November 1838 Hamburg) was a north-German portrait painter and lithographer. One of the most respected portraitists of his time in northern Germany his works are to be found in several museums including the Hamburger Kunsthalle as well as in north German Holstein and Danish private collections.
Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz.  Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz born in Phoenix Arizona is a writer of science fiction fantasy and mystery novels.She writes under the names Emily Drake Anne Knight Elizabeth Forrest Charles Ingrid Rhondi Vilott Salsitz R.A.V.
Tōsha Meishō.  Tōsha Meishō (藤舎名生)(born 1941) is a Japanese hayashi musician one of a long line of Tōsha school musicians specializing in providing musical accompaniment in the kabuki theatre.Born in 1941 he began studying under his father Tōsha Shūhō from around the age of six.
Axel Hirsoux.  Axel Hirsoux (born 28 September 1982) is a Belgian singer. He is representing Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark with the song Mother. In the final of Eurosong he received more than 50 percent of the televotes and 4 times the maximum of 12 points from the international jury.
Hari Kunzru.  Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British Indian novelist and journalist of Kashmiri Pandit origin author of the novels The Impressionist Transmission My Revolutions and Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
Pietro Vinci.  Pietro Vinci (c. 1525 – after 14 June 1584) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music.Vinci was probably born in Nicosia Sicily. He was active in Bergamo and then in various Sicilian cities as Maestro di cappella. He published several books of madrigals and church music from 1561 to 1584.
Class Action (band).  Class Action and Phreek were disco and post-disco musical projects. The original Phreek comprised Christine Wiltshire Leroy Burgess Patrick Adams Stan Lucas and others. Class Action was directed by Larry Levan and featured Christine Wiltshire as vocalist. Both groups are best known for their club hit Weekend written by James Calloway and Leroy Burgess. The 1983 version was remixed by Morales and Munzibai and Larry Levan and produced by Bob Blank and Lola Blank.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.  Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (born Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom 7 March 1986) is a British electronic music producer DJ and singer based in London.
Douwe Blumberg.  Douwe Blumberg (pronounced Dow a Dutch name) is a bronze sculptor who is most well known for his statue of a special forces soldier on horseback commemorating Special Forces operations in Afghanistan during the opening days of Operation Enduring Freedom. He has received more than 200 commissions and a number of awards since he established since becoming a sculptor in 2000. He attended the University of Southern California and studied at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.
Jeffrey Rubinoff.  Jeffrey Rubinoff (born October 23 1945) is a Canadian sculptor and founder of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park where he has lived and worked since 1973. He has produced over 100 sculptures in the last four decades.
Sunday Wilshin.  Sunday Wilshin (1905-1991) was a British actress and radio producer. She was born in London as Mary Aline Wilshin.
Julien Le Blant.  Julien Le Blant (born in Paris March 30 1851 died in Paris February 28 1936) was a French painter of military subjects who specialized in the scenes of the Vendee Wars of 1793–1799 that occurred during the French Revolution.
Rachel Brown (musician).  Rachel Brown is an American musician singer and songwriter. She is best known for her song Bumblebee.Rachel attended Harvard University and was named one of “15 Most Interesting Seniors” in 2010. She has shared the stage with Wyclef Jean Mary J. Blige and Robin Thicke. Her song Bumblebee is featured in a Robbins Brothers commercial and has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Jef Labes.  Jef Labes is an American keyboardist best known from his work with Van Morrison and Bonnie Raitt. He has also arranged for string and woodwind instruments on numerous albums.
Charles B. Lawlor.  Charles B. Lawlor (June 2 1852 – May 31 1925) was an American vaudeville performer and composer of popular songs. He was born in Ireland and emigrated to the United States in 1869.Lawlor is primarily remembered today as the composer of the 1894 song The Sidewalks of New York a song for which he wrote the melody. The lyrics are by James W. Blake (23 September 1862–24 May 1935).
Ede Staal.  Ede Ulfert Staal (2 August 1941 – 22 July 1986) was a Dutch singer-songwriter from the Northern province of Groningen who sang mainly in Gronings dialect.
Joseph Stella.  Joseph Stella (June 13 1877 – November 5 1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s-1940s.
Natsumi Itsuki.  Natsumi Itsuki (樹なつみ Itsuki Natsumi born 5 February 1960 in Kobe Hyogo Japan) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist best known for writing science fiction manga. She debuted in 1979 with Megumi-chan ni Sasageru Comedy in LaLa. She won the 1993 Seiun Award for best science fiction manga for Oz and the 1997 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga for Eight Clouds Rising. Several of her works have been adapted as anime including Jyu Oh Sei Oz Eight Clouds Rising and Hanasakeru Seishōnen.
Lynsay Sands.  Lynsay Sands (born Leamington Ontario) is an award winning Canadian author of over 30 books. She is noted for the humor she injects into her stories. While she writes both historical and paranormal novels she is best known for her Argeneau series about a modern family of vampires.
Yang Mi.  Yang Mi (born 12 September 1986) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is noted for her roles as Guo Xiang and Tang Xuejian in the television series The Return of the Condor Heroes (2006) and Chinese Paladin 3 (2009) respectively. She has now gained even greater popularity from her breakthrough role as Luo Qingchuan in Palace (2011). Yang is also a student in Beijing Film Academy's Performance Institute.
James Philp.  James Philp (born ca. 1860) was Scottish-born Australian journalist and author the one who drafted the rules of the Dawn and Dusk Club of which Australian writer Henry Lawson was a prominent member. After writing for New Zealand newspapers in Sydney in 1888 he founded Australia's first Chinese newspaper later moving to Brisbane where he wrote for the Courier. His son Sir Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp was a prominent Queensland judge.
Jack Waldman.  Jack Waldman (September 6 1952 - May 17 1986) was a jazz and rock musician composer producer vocalist and multi-instrumentalist born in Perth Amboy New Jersey. Waldman was best known for his studio work and performances with singer Robert Palmer and also worked with artists such as Billy Idol Madonna Rob Hegel Joe Jackson Foreigner and Whitney Houston. He was classically trained from childhood and played keyboards synthesizer bassoon saxophone and flute.
Ken Pontac.  Ken Pontac (born May 22 1957) is an American writer who has written for children's shows like ToddWorld and LazyTown. He also writes for the dark humor cartoon Happy Tree Friends and helped create its spin-off Ka-Pow!.
Chava Alberstein.  Chava Alberstein (Hebrew: חוה אלברשטיין‎ born December 8 1947 in Szczecin Poland) is an Israeli singer lyricist composer and musical arranger.
Liz Tuccillo.  Liz Tuccillo is an American writer and actress best known for her work on the HBO comedy series Sex and the City and for co-authoring (with Greg Behrendt) the self-help book He's Just Not That Into You. Her first novel How to Be Single was published in June 2008.[citation needed]As an actress she was seen in the film Welcome to New York in which she had one line.[citation needed]Tuccillo is also the creator of the 2005 television series Related which aired on the WB network.
Antonio Tognone.  Antonio Tognone was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was a fresco painter of Vicenza who was instructed by Giovanni Battista Zelotti during his stay in that city (c. 1580) where certain frescoes by Tognone still remain. He died young in Vicenza.
Odd Riisnæs.  Odd Riisnæs (born 12 May 1953 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone) and composer son of pianist Eline Nygaard Riisnæs and the younger brother of jazz saxophonist Knut Riisnæs. He is known from a series of releases and cooperations with the like of Dag Arnesen Arve Henriksen Kjell Karlsen Geir Lysne Iver Kleive Nils Petter Molvær Jon Eberson Terje Gewelt Jon Balke Audun Kleive and Oslo 13
Majella O'Donnell.  Majella O'Donnell (née Roche) is a businesswoman singer reality television star and the wife of entertainer Daniel O'Donnell. She is a native of Thurles County Tipperary.Herself and Daniel appeared together on The Late Late Show in the edition presented by Gerry Ryan in the absence of Pat Kenny on 24 October 2008. She has described him as a practical joker who hides in the closet if they have an argument.
Takayoshi Tanimoto.  Takayoshi Tanimoto (谷本 貴義; born on April 14 1975) is a Japanese vocalist known for his talents as an anison.
Zizi Adel.  ZeeZe Adel (also transliterated as Zizi and Zeze Arabic: زيزي عادل‎ pronounced [ˈziːzi ˈʕæːdel]; born 1987 Kuwait) is an Egyptian singer.Adel first came to attention when she entered the second series of Star Academy in 2005 coming third to Hisham Abdulrahman and Amani Swissi after reaching the semi-final.
Myriam Cyr.  Myriam Cyr (born 1960) is a Canadian actress and writer. As an actor she is best known for her roles as Claire Clairmont in the 1986 horror film Gothic and Ultra Violet in the 1996 biopic I Shot Andy Warhol. In 2006 she published the non-fiction work Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love.
James Gelfand.  James Gelfand (born April 3 1959) is a Canadian jazz pianist arranger and composer. He is best known for his film and television scores.
Darlene Koldenhoven.  Darlene Koldenhoven (born October 9 in Chicago) is an American soprano pianist songwriter arranger composer keyboardist record producer author actor educational speaker music industry consultant and music therapist.
Byron Luiters.  Byron Luiters is an Australian born musician best known as the bass guitarist for John Butler Trio.
Miki Berenyi.  Miki Berenyi (born 18 March 1967) is an English musician singer songwriter and guitarist of mixed Japanese and Hungarian parentage. Her mother Yasuko Nagazumi was a Japanese actress who played minor roles in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and in TV-series Space: 1999. Berenyi is best known for her role in the alternative rock band Lush.
Helen Nearing.  Helen Knothe Nearing (February 23 1904 – September 17 1995) was an American author and advocate of simple living.Nearing grew up in an economically comfortable family of Theosophists and as a young woman had a romantic relationship with Jiddu Krishnamurti.She and Scott Nearing started their relationship together in 1928. They married nearly twenty years later on December 12 1947.
Fiddlin' Joe Martin.  Fiddlin’ Joe Martin (born 8 January 1900 Edwards Mississippi; died 2 November 1975 Walls Mississippi) was an American blues musician who played mandolin on Son House's recording sessions inspired by Alan Lomax in 1941.Martin was a versatile musician who could play guitar fiddle mandolin washboard and drums. Paul Oliver wrote that he worked the Delta joints for over fifty years after leaving Edwards in 1918 when he was fourteen.
Sho Baraka.  Amisho Baraka Lewis better known by his stage name Sho Baraka is an American Christian hip-hop artist and writer who has recorded both independently and as a founding member of the 116 Clique. He was originally signed to Reach Records until leaving in March 2011. He then co-founded a record label and group known as High Society with fellow Christian rappers JR Swoope and Suzy Rock. His debut album Turn My Life Up was released in November 2007.
Kostandin Kristoforidhi.  Kostandin Kristoforidhi (born Kostandin Nelko') (1826–1895) was an Albanian translator and scholar. He is mostly known for having translated into Albanian the New Testament for the first time in the gheg Albanian dialect in 1872. He also provided a translation in tosk Albanian in 1879 thereby improving the 1823 tosk version of Vangjel Meksi. By providing translation in both dialects he has the merit of founding the basis of the unification of both dialects into a national language.
James Blight.  James Blight is a Canadian voice actor based in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.James Blight was born in 1976 in Richmond British Columbia and started voice acting in 2003 after attending Vancouver Film School. A natural bass/baritone his vocal repertoire includes impressions and accents in addition to the character voices he creates for his various voice over roles.
K. J. Yesudas.  Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.Yesudas sings Indian classical devotional and popular music. He has recorded more than 50000 songs in many languages including Malayalam Tamil Hindi Kannada Telugu Bengali Gujarati Oriya Marathi Punjabi Sanskrit Tulu Malay Russian Arabic Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese Konkani and Kashmiri.
Hartvig Kiran.  Hartvig Kiran (3 November 1911 – 15 August 1978) was a Norwegian author lyricist and composer from Ålesund.Kiran was brought up to introduce culture to the people. He was central in Visens Venner and became involved in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation where he long presented Ønskediktet where people were introduced to Kiran's nynorsk version of Auld Lang Syne. He was the chairman of Noregs Mållag from 1957 to 1958.
Magnus Karlsson (guitarist).  Magnus Karlsson (born November 26 1973) is a Swedish heavy metal songwriter guitarist multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is currently one of the guitarists of the band Primal Fear.
Hal Blaine.  Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky February 5 1929 Holyoke Massachusetts) is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups including Nancy Sinatra Elvis Presley John Denver the Ronettes Simon & Garfunkel the Carpenters the Beach Boys the 5th Dimension The Monkees and Steely Dan.
Judith Paige Mitchell.  Judith Paige Mitchell (1932–2010) was a television writer executive producer and novelist.
Sadia Azmat.  Sadia Azmat (born 1987) is an English stand-up comedian of Pakistani descent.
Clay Ketter.  Clay Ketter (born 1961 in Brunswick) is an American painter and photographer. Since the 1980s he lives and works in Sweden.
John Ulrich Giesy.  John Ulrich Giesy (J.U. Giesy) born August 6 1877 near Chillicothe Ross County Ohio USA died September 8 1947 in Salt Lake City Utah USA was an American physician novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories.
Gillian Baverstock.  Gillian Baverstock née Gillian Mary Pollock (15 July 1931 Bourne End Buckinghamshire England – 24 June 2007 Ilkley West Yorkshire England) was a British author and elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband Hugh Pollock. She wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life.
Prežihov Voranc.  Prežihov Voranc (10 August 1893 – 18 February 1950) was the pen name of Lovro Kuhar a Slovene writer and Communist political activist. Voranc's literary reputation was established during the 1930s with a series of Slovene novels and short stories in the social realist style notable for their depictions of poverty in rural and industrial areas of Slovenia. His most important novels are Požganica (1939) and Doberdob (1940).
Bill Black.  William Patton Bill Black Jr. (September 17 1926 – October 21 1965) was an American musician who is noted as one of the pioneers of rockabilly music. Black was the bassist in Elvis Presley's early trio and the leader of Bill Black's Combo.
Ted Benoit.  Thierry Benoit known as Ted Benoit (born 25 July 1947 in Niort Deux-Sèvres) is a French comics artist and prominent figure in the stylish Franco-Belgian ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s.Among his works from the 1980s are Bingo Bongo et son Combo Congolais a series about aspiring novelist Bingo B. Bongo and his travails; and Ray Banana a film noir pastiche.
Ceschi.  Julio Francisco Ramos (born July 24 1981) better known as Ceschi Ramos or mononymously as Ceschi (pronounced chess-key) is a rapper singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer associated with numerous alternative hip hop and hardcore punk/metal acts. He is based in New Haven Connecticut. He co-founded the record label Fake Four Inc. with his brother David in 2008 as an outlet to release music by members of Anonymous Inc. and associated musicians.
Darryl Cotton.  Darryl Grant Cotton (4 September 1949 – 27 July 2012) was an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter television presenter and actor. He was a founding member of Australian rock group Zoot in 1965 with Beeb Birtles and were later joined by Rick Brewer and Rick Springfield. As a solo artist Cotton released the albums Best Seat in the House (1980) It's Rock 'n' Good Fun (1984) and Let the Children Sing (1994).
Johannes Bach.  Johann or Johannes Bach (26 November 1604 Erfurt – buried 13 May 1673 Erfurt) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque. He was the father of the so-called Erfurt line of Bach family musicians.Johannes was the eldest son of Johannes Hans Bach and the brother of Christoph Bach and Heinrich Bach. All three were composers. He spent seven years studying under Johann Christoph Hoffmann a stadtpfeifer in Suhl. From 1634 he served as organist at St.
James Cooke Brown.  Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21 1921 – February 13 2000) was a sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers.Brown's novel The Troika Incident (Doubleday 1970) describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet.
Stevie Blacke.  Stevie Blacke (born in London England) is an American musician arranger and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for having composed string arrangements on many hit records.Born in London and raised in Ohio Blacke grew up with the music of Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd before he attended the Berklee College of Music to study guitar mandolin and violin.
Terreon Gully.  Terreon Gully is an American drummer from East St. Louis Illinois.
Michael Freund (writer).  Michael Freund was a Nazi Party writer.Freund's view was that Louis Napoleon was the only real revolutionist in 1848. Freund wrote After the solemn republican respectablity of 1848 it seemed that only with the Napoleonic experiment did a great revolutionary élan appear on the stage of history. The state created by Napoleon was anti-socialist but it was not the laissez-faire state of capitalism.
Judy Street.  Judy Street (born c.1949) is an American singer best known for her popular northern soul single What.Born in Indiana her father was a concert pianist her mother a flute player in a marching band. After being discovered singing in a bar in Phoenix Arizona Street was given a recording opportunity. In 1968 in Hollywood California she recorded What written by H B Barnum and a cover of a 1965 recording by Melinda Marx as a B-side You Turn Me On.
Tarrant Anderson.  Tarrant Anderson is the bass player for Frank Turner's live and studio band The Sleeping Souls and is a member of the British rock band Dive Dive. He was previously a member of the British punk band Dustball and is based in Oxford England. Anderson is a Laney endorsed artist. He is also a director of the tour bus hire company Vans For Bands Ltd.
Rajendra Shah.  Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (January 28 1913 – January 2 2010) was a lyrical poet who wrote in Gujarati. Born in Kapadvanaj he authored more than 20 collections of poems and songs mainly on the themes of the beauty of nature and about the everyday lives of indigenous peoples and fisherfolk communities. In his poems using Sanskrit metrics he was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore.
Fabiola Rodas.  Jackeline Fabiola Rodas Valladares (born September 6 1992 in Guatemala City Guatemala) is a Guatemalan singer who gained international fame by coming in 2nd place on the reality show La Academia--Última Generación in 2008; and most recently crowned the winner of El Gran Desafío de Estrellas defeating the original La Academia winner Myriam. Since very little she has displayed an interest in singing dancing and music.
Marie Lu.  Marie Lu (born Xiwei Lu) is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Legend series novels set in a dystopian and militarized future. The novels form the basis of a movie to be produced by CBS Films and directed by Jonathan Levine.
Bill Yoshida.  William Saburo Yoshida (Japanese: 吉田三郎 December 1921- February 17 2005) better known as Bill Yoshida was a long time letterer for Archie Comics. He was sometimes credited as Bill Yosh or Saburo Yoshida.Born in the United States in 1921 Bill and his family were placed in an internment camp for the Japanese during World War II.
Bernard André.  Bernard André O.E.S.A. (1450–1522) also known as Andreas was a French Augustinian friar and poet who was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England and poet laureate.A native of Toulouse André was tutor to Prince Arthur of England and probably had a share in the education of the future King Henry VIII. He was also a tutor at Oxford and seems to have been blind. His writings are mostly in Latin and are typical of the contemporary Renaissance in thought and diction.
Thomas Bezanson.  Brother Thomas Bezanson (August 5 1929 – August 16 2007) was a Canadian born artist primarily known for his porcelain pottery and mastery of complex glazes. Strongly influenced by Asian pottery often adapting traditional Chinese and Japanese methods and materials to his work.
Brandon Lee.  Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1 1965 – March 31 1993) was an American actor and martial artist. He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee and the grandson of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-Chuen.Starting his career with a supporting role in Kung Fu: The Movie in 1986 he appeared in a handful of action films before he died in an accident while filming The Crow. The film was released posthumously after a stunt double and special effects were used to complete the film.
Txirrita.  Jose Manuel Lujanbio Retegi (also known as Txirrita) born on Hernani in 1860 and died in Altza in 1936 was a Basque composer of verse known as bertsolaris.
B. M. Idinabba.  B. M. Idinabba (September 17 1920 – April 11 2009) was a prominent Kannada poet journalist freedom fighter politician and a Kannada activist from Karnataka. He was a member of Congress party and was elected as a MLA for three times in the Karnataka state assembly from Ullal constituency. He was one of the activists who fought for the unification of the Kasaragod district of Kerala into the Karnataka state.
Verbs (rapper).  Michael Boyer II better known by his stage names Knowdaverbs and later Verbs is a Christian hip hop artist. He has recorded for the Gotee Records.
Joi Srivastava.  Pt Joi Srivastava was a well-known North Indian violinist of the Senia Gharana.
Hoang Hai.  Nguyễn Hoàng Hải (born April 30 1982) is a Vietnamese Pop/R&B singer. He won the contest Sao Mai Điểm Hẹn in 2006 and since then has risen to his current fame.
Robert Bowlin.  Robert Bowlin (born September 22 1956 in Pocahontas Arkansas) is an award-winning American bluegrass and country musician.
Judith Church (author).  Judith Church (b. 25 May 1944 in Beeston Nottinghamshire England d. 2008 Nottingham) was the author of two books on local history.
Jay Kay.  Jay Kay (born Jason Luís Cheetham; 30 December 1969) is a Grammy Award-winning English musician best known as the lead singer of the British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai.
Timothy Wilson.  Timothy D. Wilson is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a cognitive psychologist who researches the influence of the unconscious mind on decision-making preferences and behavior.
Roy Spence.  Roy Spence (born October 10 1948) is the chairman CEO and co-founder of the advertising agency GSD&M and author of the books The Amazing Faith of Texas and It’s Not What You Sell It’s What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven By Purpose.
Sander Hicks.  Sander Hicks (born February 1 1971) is the founder of Soft Skull Press and Vox Pop Inc. Raised in the DC area he is the son of Norman Hicks a former World Bank economist who was an initial investor in his publishing business and his cafe. Sander attended Bishop Ireton High School where he graduated with honors.
Uncle Dave Macon.  Uncle Dave Macon (October 7 1870 – March 22 1952) born David Harrison Macon—also known as The Dixie Dewdrop—was an American old-time banjo player singer songwriter and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers plug hat gold teeth and gates-ajar collar he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.
Véronique Sanson.  Véronique Sanson (full name Véronique Marie Line Sanson born 24 April 1949 in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris France) is a three-time Victoires de la Musique Award-winning French singer-songwriter musician and producer with an avid following in her native country.[citation needed]She brings a very personal vocal style to the singing of French pop songs: Her voice has a very strong tremolo.[citation needed]Unlike most previous French artists of the Sixties and early Seventies who mostly released EPs usually consisting of a collection of singles B-sides and covers Sanson was one of the first female artists to release actual albums with a full-length artistic statement and comprising songs flowing together thematically. 
Don Share.  Don Share is an American poet. He is the chief Editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. He grew up in Memphis Tennessee.
Anne Hébert.  Anne Hébert CC OQ (pronounced [an eˈbɛʁ] in French) (August 1 1916 – January 22 2000) was a Canadian author and poet. She is a descendant of famed French-Canadian historian Francois-Xavier Garneau and has carried on the family literary tradition spectacularly.She won Canada's top literary honor the Governor General's Award three times twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Kenny Cox.  Kenny Cox (November 8 1940 – December 19 2008) was a jazz pianist performing in the post bop hard bop and bebop mediums. Cox was pianist for singer Etta Jones during the 1960s and was also a member of a quintet led by trombonist George Bohannon. By the end of the late 1960s he had formed his own Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet which recorded two albums for Blue Note Records before the end of the decade.
Corey Rozzoni.  Corey Rozzoni (born February 1) also known as Rizzo is an American rock and roll guitarist. He currently plays guitar for Nashville TN based Adalene.
Samad Vurgun.  Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: Səməd Vurğun born Samad Vakilov March 21 1906 – May 27 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet dramatist public figure first People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943) academician of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945) laureate of two USSR State Prizes of second degree (1941 1942) and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1940.The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow and formerly the city of Hovk in Armenia are named after him.
Gail Carson Levine.  Gail Carson Levine (born September 17 1947) is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel Ella Enchanted received a Newbery Honor in 1998.
Gary Nichols.  Gary Nichols (born 1978 in Muscle Shoals Alabama) is an American country music singer. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2006 Nichols made his debut that year with the release of his single Unbroken Ground which reached No. 39 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Tom Forsythe.  Tom Forsythe is an artist who lives and works in Utah. He is known for his photographic work of Barbie dolls which caused some controversy resulting from a lawsuit brought against him by Mattel. The company lost the case when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the images were original artwork in 2004.
Tina Root.  Tina Root (born Bettina Root) also now known as Tina Minero is an American classically trained female vocalist and songwriter from Los Angeles California perhaps most famous for her work performing as the lead singer of Switchblade Symphony during the mid- to late 1990s. Her current work includes a solo performance and recording project Tre Lux and a partnership project called Small Halo with guitarist and fellow songwriter George Earth.
Shayan Italia.  Shayan Italia also known by his stage name Shayan (pronounced ‘shy-yan’) is an Indian-born British singer-songwriter. He gained publicity by selling portions of his future earnings on eBay and with his song Reflection. Feel his album is a collection of 10 songs honoring his Mother who died from Multiple Myeloma. The ambitious production features a production crew of 135 musicians vocalists engineers arrangers and multi-Grammy Emmy and Brit award winning producers.
Blanche Nevin.  Blanche Nevin (1841–1925) was an American artist and poet. She is considered America's first noteworthy woman sculptor and is best known for her sculpture of Revolutionary War General Peter Muhlenberg in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.She was born at Mercersburg Franklin County Pennsylvania the daughter of Dr. John Williamson Nevin (1803–1886) a theologian teacher and minister and Martha Jenkins.
Alton Ellis.  Alton Nehemiah Ellis OD (1 September 1938 – 10 October 2008) was a Jamaican vocalist. One of the innovators of rocksteady who was given the informal title Godfather of Rocksteady. In 2006 he was inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame.
Sarah Higgins.  Sarah Higgins (30 January 1830–23 September 1923) was a New Zealand homemaker midwife community leader and writer. She was born in Lydden Kent England on 30 January 1830.
Glen Cook.  Glen Cook (born July 9 1944) is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his fantasy series The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis Missouri.
William Opdyke.  William F. (Bill) Opdyke is a computer scientist. His Ph.D. thesis Refactoring Object-Oriented Frameworks was the first in-depth study of code refactoring as a software engineering technique.After had received a B.S. from Drexel University and an M.S. from University of Wisconsin at Madison Opdyke got his Ph.D.
Cynthia Knott.  Cynthia Knott (born March 20 1952 Newark NJ) is a painter known for her horiztonally-oriented seascapes which recall the multiforms of Mark Rothko and the later work of J.M.W. Turner.
Brian Faloon.  Brian Faloon is a musician born in Belfast Northern Ireland. He played drums for Highway Star who were to become Stiff Little Fingers having met two of the other band members at Belfast Boys' Model School. Faloon stayed with SLF long enough to record their first album Inflammable Material but decided the rock 'n' roll lifestyle wasn't for him so left the band inspiring the words to SLF's single Wait and See.
Mika Luttinen.  Mika Luttinen is a Finnish-born vocalist and lyricist who in 1990 formed the Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene. After numerous line-up changes he remains the only original member. Besides his main project Mika has been involved in various other bands around the globe such as the Canadian metal band Obscene Eulogy and the French black punk band The Rocking Dildos which was formed by owner of the French label Osmose Productions Hervé and himself.
Lisa Yee.  Lisa Yee is a Chinese American writer and the author of Millicent Min Girl Genius (2003) Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (2005) and So Totally Emily Ebers (2007). The three books are a part of a trilogy summarizing the three pre-teens' experiences in Rancho Rossetta in the summer. An additional book Warp Speed (2011) was written. She has also written Good Luck Ivy! and a number of books for American Girl.
Raoul Millais.  Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (1901–1999) usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter equestrian artist and sportsman. He was the grandson of Sir John Everett Millais and the son of John Guille Millais and from them he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting.His father John Guille Millais was an artist soldier naturalist hunter writer and explorer. Raoul followed his father in each of these roles.
Albert Herter.  Albert Herter (1871–1950) was an artist and painter. He was born in New York City studied in Paris and then in New York's Art Students League.
Marie-Anne Horthemels.  Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels (1682 - 24 March 1727) was a French engraver wife of the King's engraver Nicolas-Henri Tardieu.
Josepha Petrick Kemarre.  Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born ca. 1945 or ca. 1953 date uncertain) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian from Central Australia. Since first taking up painting around 1990 her works of contemporary Indigenous Australian art have been acquired by several major collections including Artbank and the National Gallery of Victoria. Her paintings portray bush plum dreaming and women’s ceremonies (known as Awelye). One of her paintings sold at a charity auction for A$22800.
Michel Dobry.  Michel Dobry is a French political scientist. He has taught at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne since September 2001.
Lloyd Kropp.  Lloyd Edward Kropp (born July 16 1937) is an American novelist composer and educator. Kropp achieved popular acclaim after the publication of his third and fourth novels One Hundred Times to China and Greencastle. Greencastle was nominated for a Penn/Faulkner Award and was named to one of the American Library Association's Best Books of the Year lists in 1985.
Luis Bermejo.  Luis Bermejo (born 1931 in Madrid full name Luis Bermejo Rojo frequently credited as Bermejo) is a Spanish illustrator and comics artist known for his work published in Spain Italy Great Britain and the United States. He has illustrated a number of novels and worked for a while with DC Comics.
Rachel Vincent.  Rachel Vincent is an American author best known for her Shifters series a present-day urban fantasy series about a female werecat.
Josh Krajcik.  Joshua Andrew Josh Krajcik (/krætʃkɪk/) is an American singer-songwriter who currently resides in Columbus Ohio. He began his career as a solo artist and later went on to form the Josh Krajcik Band with Corey Gillen and Mitch Pinkston. He was the runner-up in the first season of The X Factor USA in 2011.
Phyllis Hyman.  Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6 1949 – June 30 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and actress.
Ivan Vdović.  Ivan Ivica Vdović also known as VD (23 February 1961 - 25 September 1992) was Serbian musician drummer of Yugoslav rock bands such as Suncokret Šarlo Akrobata and Katarina II.In the third grade of gymnasium Vdović became a member of the band Limunovo drvo led by Milan Mladenović. He later played drums in Bora Đorđević's band Suncokret but became famous as the drummer of Šarlo Akrobata whose other two members were Mladenović and Dušan Kojić.
Walter Rosenblum.  Walter A. Rosenblum (1919–2006) was an American photographer. He photographed the World War II D-Day landing at Normandy in 1944. He was the first Allied photographer to enter the liberated Dachau concentration camp. He received several military decorations including a Purple Heart. His photography is on display in museums around the world.
Neely Jenkins.  Neely Jo Jenkins (born June 21 1974) is a musician from Omaha Nebraska best known for being a singer in the band Tilly and the Wall. She was also a member of the band Park Ave. with Tilly and the Wall bandmate Jamie Pressnall (then Jamie Williams). Previously Jenkins sang Contrast and Compare and Pull My Hair with Bright Eyes on the album Letting Off the Happiness and Feb. 15th on A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997.
KatieJane Garside.  KatieJane Garside (born Katrina Jane Garside; 8 July 1968) is an English singer-songwriter visual artist and writer. Garside was originally known as the lead vocalist of indie noise rock band Daisy Chainsaw which she formed in 1989 with guitarist Crispin Gray. After quitting the band in 1993 and going into seclusion Garside re-emerged in 1999 forming Queen Adreena with Gray.
Marjorie Sherlock.  Marjorie Sherlock (1897-1973) was a British painter and etcher. Three books of her etchings were published between 1925 and 1932.
Ann Pasternak Slater.  Ann Pasternak Slater is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College Oxford. She has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations into Russian of Shakespeare plays. She has translated A Vanished Present the memoirs of her uncle Alexandr Pasternak (1893–1982) an architect as well as Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man.
William Austin (caricaturist).  William Austin (1721 – 11 May 1820) was an English artist drawing-master engraver and caricaturist. A rival of Matthew Darly he used a distinctive grainy woodblock-like style.
Sotis Volanis.  Sotis Volanis (Greek: Σώτης Βολάνης born in 1971) a Romani pop folk singer who scored a significant success in 2002.Sotis Volanis was born in Akrolimni Central Macedonia to Romani parents. After his major debut his fame slowly declined.
Shi Xinning.  Shi Xinning (石心宁; born 1969 Liaoning Province China) is a painter based in Beijing.Influenced by both social realism and European styles he specialises in historical paintings that insert Mao Zedong into iconic social and political photos of the 20th century - such as the Yalta Conference the HUAC hearings and a state procession of the British Queen Mother.He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including Mahjong at the Kunstmuseum in Bern China Art Now at the Marella Gallery in Milan China Contemporary Painting at Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna and Landscapes at the Shanghai Gallery of Art.He is represented by the Marella Gallery in Beijing and Milan Shine Art Space in Shanghai and by ARNDT in Berlin.
Chuck Suchy.  Chuck Suchy is a folk musician songwriter and working farmer from Mandan North Dakota. Among his albums are Much to Share (1986) Dancing Dakota (1989) Dakota Breezes (1993) Same Road Home (1996) Different Line of Time (1999) Evening in Paris (2004) and Unraveling Heart (2008).One of his folk ballads featured on his Much to Share Dancing Dakota and Dakota Breezes CDs is The Story of Hazel Miner.
Brandon Choi.  Brandon Choi is an American comic book writer best known as one of the co-creators of the series Gen¹³ which enjoyed high popularity in the middle and late 1990s. He also wrote several other titles for Wildstorm Comics.
Nicholas Altobelli.  Nicholas Altobelli (born February 11 1985) is an American indie folk singer and songwriter based in Dallas Texas.
André Malraux.  André Malraux DSO (French: [ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945–1946) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).
Aaron Bernstein.  Aaron David Bernstein (6 April 1812 Danzig – 12 February 1884 Berlin) was a German Jewish author reformer and scientist.
Kyprios.  Kyprios is the stage name of David Coles a Canadian hip hop musician.
Walt Woodward III.  Walt Woodward III (February 10 1959 – June 8 2010) was an American rock drummer who played in several bands including Shark Island and Saints Or Sinners/The Scream.He replaced original Saints Or Sinners/The Scream drummer Scott Travis who left the band to replace drummer Dave Holland in Judas Priest in 1989.Walt started his career in the New York/New Jersey area playing in Rachel featuring Riot vocalist Rhett Forrester and Americade as well as several other bands.
Abby Williams Hill.  Abbey Williams Hill (1861-1943) was an American plein-air painter most known for her landscapes of the American West. Hill also advocated for children's rights attended the 1905 Congress of Mothers in Washington D.C. and founded the Washington State Parent-Teacher Association.
Melanie Marnich.  Melanie Marnich is an American playwright and television writer best known for her work on the HBO drama Big Love which earned her a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award nomination in 2010. Marnich also frequently writes plays for American regional theatres and is married to the American playwright Lee Blessing.
Lodovico Fumicelli.  Lodovico Fumicelli (active c. 1536) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was a native of Treviso. It is not known with certainty whether he was a pupil of Titian or not but he was clearly influenced. In 1536 he painted the main altarpiece of the church of the Padri Eremitani at Padua representing the Virgin and Infant seated in glory with St. Augustine St. James and St. Marina below. In the church of the Padri Serviti at Trevigi he painted a picture of St. Liberale and St.
Al Gamble.  John Allen Al Gamble (born March 11 1969 in Columbus Georgia United States) is a Memphis Tennessee studio and touring musician playing Hammond B-3 organ and keyboards.
Anna Whelan Betts.  Anna Whelan Betts (1875–1952) was an American illustrator and art teacher who was noted for her paintings of Victorian women in romantic settings. Betts is considered one of the primary artists of the golden age of American illustration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Fred Marchant.  Fred Marchant is an American poet and Professor of English and Literature at Suffolk University. He is the director of both the Creative Writing program and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University.
Elizabeth Matheson.  Elizabeth Matheson (born 1942) is a prominent photographer in North Carolina.
Billy Mann.  William “Billy” H. Mann (born December 20 1968) is an American songwriter record producer creative executive music publisher and founder/CEO of independent music publishing company Green & Bloom/Topline as well as chairman of management firm Manncom.Over a 20-year period Mann has built his career from street musician to recording artist to entrepreneur and music industry executive.
Clémentine Célarié.  Clémentine Célarié (born 1957) is a French actress and singer.
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.  Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (c.1612 – February 10 1667) was a Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter the most distinguished of the followers of Velázquez whose style he imitated more closely than did any other artist. A fine painter himself Mazo was a master of landscape as proven by his most celebrated work View of Saragossa.
Mayu Gamō.  Mayu Gamō (蒲生 麻由 Gamō Mayu born March 16 1982) is a Japanese actress born in Saitama Prefecture Japan. She has starred in many films most notably in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger as Succubus Hells/ Human Fatale Camille. She reprised her role in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger vs. Abaranger for a brief appearance. She also starred in Kamen Rider Hibiki as Kasumi Tachibana.
Lisa Ann Sandell.  Lisa Ann Sandell is an American author of young adult novels. She has written and published three books A Map of the Known World Song of the Sparrow The Weight of the Sky and 21 Proms.
Dylan Carlson.  Dylan Carlson (born March 12 1968) is the lead guitarist lead singer and only constant member of the Drone doom group Earth.Carlson was born in Seattle Washington United States. His father worked for the Department of Defense and as a result as a child he moved quite frequently living in Philadelphia Texas New Mexico and New Jersey before coming back to live in Washington state.
Giuseppe Landriani.  Giuseppe Landriani (1824-1894) was an Italian painter. He was a resident of Milan. He specialized in painting landscapes and genre paintings. Among his works: Cascinale displayed at the 1883 Exhibition of Milan. At the 1884 Exhibition of Turin he had sent: a mandria and a Rustic home. At Milan in 1886 he exhibited Sorpreso dalla bufera and Pecore recalcitranti ricondotte all'orile.
Theodor Körner (author).  Carl Theodor Körner (* September 23 1791 – August 26 1813) was a German poet and soldier. After some time in Vienna where he wrote some light comedies and other works for the Burgtheater he became a soldier and joined the Lützow Free Corps in the German uprising against Napoleon.
Marie Cosindas.  Marie Cosindas (born 1925 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American photographer. She is best known for her evocative still life and color portraits.
Manuel Galbán.  Manuel Galbán (January 14 1931 – July 7 2011) was a Grammy-winning Cuban guitarist pianist and arranger most notable for his work with Los Zafiros Ry Cooder and the Buena Vista Social Club. One of two surviving members of Los Zafiros he died on July 7 2011 of cardiac arrest at his home in Havana Cuba.
Austin Pitre.  Austin Pitre (February 23 1918 - April 8 1981) was born in Ville Platte Louisiana. A Cajun music pioneer Pitre claimed to be the first musician to play the accordion standing up rather than sitting down. Along with his band the Evangeline Playboys Pitre recorded Cajun dancehall hits such as the Opelousas Waltz.
Kathie Sarachild.  Kathie Sarachild born Kathie Amatniek in 1943 is an American feminist writer and campaigner.
Diablo Dimes.  Juan Giovanni Manuel Aguirre (born in Holguín Oriente Province Cuba on December 19 1973) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter. He has six studio releases to date and has contributed his songs to numerous television shows independent films plays and musicals. Regularly tours extensively as a band leader and solo artist. Currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley USA.
Theo Croker.  Theo Croker or Theodore Lee Croker (born July 18 1985) is a jazz trumpeter singer and bandleader from Leesburg Florida. He attended Oberlin College and is the grandson of Grammy Award winning trumpeter Doc Cheatham.His talent is innate; he inherited a unique gift from his grandfather the legendary trumpet player Doc Cheatham.
Bebel Gilberto.  Bebel Gilberto (born Isabel Gilberto de Oliveira; May 12 1966) is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Gilberto has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro.
Marc Jacobs.  Marc Jacobs (born April 9 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs a diffusion line with over 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013. Jacobs was on Time magazine's 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world and ranked number 14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of 50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America.
Aynur Doğan.  Aynur Doğan (born 1975 in Çemişgezek) is a contemporary Kurdish singer and musician of Kurdish ancestry from Turkey. She was born in Çemişgezek a small mountain town in Tunceli Province in Turkey. Her family fled to İstanbul in 1992 during the conflict between the Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Kazumi Watanabe.  Kazumi Watanabe (渡辺香津美) is a jazz and jazz fusion guitarist from Tokyo Japan. He was born on October 14 1953 Kazumi learned to play guitar from Sadanori Nakamure one of Japan's grandmaster guitarists. Kazumi released his first recording in 1971 and quickly became a promising guitarist in his own right.
Sun Araw.  Cameron Stallones is an American musician who works under the name Sun Araw. Previously a member of the band Magic Lantern he has released several albums of experimental music including a collaboration with Jamaican reggae group The Congos. He has also worked as part of the Not Not Fun label 'supergroup' Vibes.
Carole Bache.  Caroline Bache McMahon known by her pen name Carol Bache (February 17 1889 – 1950) was an American writer. Carol worked for United States Military Intelligence Division in Japan and wrote a book about her experiences Paradox Isle (Alfred A. Knopf New York 1943). She also published stories in the Atlantic Monthly.
Jennifer Sowle.  Jennifer Sowle (born September 11 1977) is a classically trained coloratura soprano. Sowle currently resides in Dallas Texas USA. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from Auburn University and a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas. In 2008 she was the featured vocalist in a rock opera by Timo Tolkki Saana – Warrior of Light Pt 1 which was released on March 14 2008.
Mohsin Hamid.  Mohsin Hamid (Urdu: محسن حامد‎; born 1971) is a Pakistani writer. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000) The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013).
Justina Robson.  Justina Robson is a science fiction author from Leeds England.
Kate Dickinson Sweetser.  Kate Dickinson Sweetser (died 1939) was an American author known in her time for writing juvenile fiction and compilations. She was born in New York City to Charles H. and Mary N. Sweetser. Her great-grandfather Samuel Dickinson was one of the founders of Amherst College in Massachusetts; she was also the cousin of poet Emily Dickinson.
Yehuda Amichai.  Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: יהודה עמיחי‎; ‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many both in Israel and internationally as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.Yehuda Amichai [was] for generations the most prominent poet in Israel and one of the leading figures in world poetry since the mid-1960s.(The Times London Oct.
Georg Trexler.  Georg Max Trexler (1903 Pirna – 1979 Leipzig) was a German composer.Originally a student of economics at the University of Leipzig he switched to music under the influence of Karl Straube and became a choirmaster and organist at the St.
Gary Myers (actor).  Gary Myers is a British actor best known as the original Milk Tray man in the long-running television advertising campaign for the Cadbury-Schweppes chocolates that lasted 20 years he is also credited with doing his own stunts which included high diving from cliffs into shark infested water and down hill skiing. His other notable role was that of Captain Lew Waterman on Gerry Anderson's cult TV series UFO.Gary Myers at the Internet Movie Database</div >
Frode Kjekstad.  Frode Kjekstad (born 23 November 1974 in Lier Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) married to jazz singer Aina Fridén and known from cooperations and recordings with jazz musicians like Lonnie Smith Eric Alexander Frank Foster Johnny Griffin Don Menza Jim Morrison Mark Nightingale Claire Martin Deborah Brown and Wendell Brunious.
Chris Jesty.  Chris Jesty (born 1942) is a British author and cartographer who revised Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells to produce the second edition (2005-2009) of the books which were originally published in 1955-1966.
Jem Finer.  Jem Finer (born 20 July 1955) is an English musician artist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues.
Nils Johan Ringdal.  Nils Johan Ringdal (6 March 1952 – 11 September 2008) was a Norwegian author and historian known mostly for his works on Norwegian occupation history and Norwegian cultural history and for his controversial book Nationaltheaterets Historie 1899-1999 (The History of the National Theater 1899-1999). Ringdal had been living in various countries in Southeast Asia since 1988 along with his domestic partner Georg Petersen. Ringdal was found dead on 11 September 2008 in Denpasar Indonesia.
Francesco Antonio Calegari.  Father Francesco Antonio Calegari (died 1742) was an Italian baroque music theorist composer and priest. Calegari was maestro di cappella at Basilica of Santa Maria dei Frari Venice in 1705 and at the Basilica del Santo Padua in the 1720s.
Amol Redij.  Amol Redij (Marathi: अमोल रेडीज) (born 18 September 1977) is an English poet writer and creative content designer from Maharashtra India. He also writes scripts for short films and theatre.
Reeves Gabrels.  Reeves Gabrels (born June 4 1956) is an American guitarist one of the most daring rock-guitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix - an opinion some players formed during his dozen years collaborating with British singer David Bowie. Best known for his long partnership with Bowie with whom he worked regularly from 1987 to 1999 Gabrels also built an active performing and recording career before during and since working both independently and in collaboration with musicians worldwide.
Lygia Clark.  Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte October 23 1920 – Rio de Janeiro April 25 1988) was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. Even with the changes in how she approached her artwork she did not stray far from her Constructivist roots.
Nick Webb (musician).  Nicholas Nick Webb was an English acoustic guitarist composer and co-founder of contemporary jazz group Acoustic Alchemy. Webb was the brother of Alex Webb (musician) the nephew of actress Sylvia Syms and appeared as a child in The Punch and Judy Man British comedian Tony Hancock's second starring vehicle in which Syms played his wife.
Billy Crawford.  Billy Joe Crawford (born May 16 1982) is a Filipino-American recording artist singer-songwriter actor and TV host.Crawford has lived in New York City USA and in Paris for five years and for one year in London. He also lived in Los Angeles in 2007. In 2008 he went to Manila to host Pinoy Dream Academy Überture. He was also the host of Miss Earth 2008.
Javiera Mena.  Javiera Alejandra Mena Carrasco (born June 3 1983 in Santiago) is a Chilean Indie electronic pop musician. She started her musical career in the Chilean indie music scene in 2001 and achieved wider success after the release of her first studio album in 2006. Her musical style tends to be synthesized electronic sound although prior to her official debut she made acoustic-oriented songs accompanied solely by guitar.
Johann Eyfells.  Johann Eyfells is a sculptor architect and art professor. He was born in 1923 in Reykjavík Iceland. In 1949 he married Kristin Halldorsdottir a former Icelandic model and dress designer who made her own career as an artist alongside of his.
Montano d'Arezzo.  Montano d'Arezzo flourished about the end of the 13th and the commencement of the 14th centuries. In 1305 he painted two chapels of the Castel Nuovo and in 1306 two chapels of the Castel del Uovo at Naples. He was a favourite of King Robert who knighted him in 1310. The chapel of the Monastery of Monte Vergine near Avellino has a picture of the Madonna said to be by him. The Dormitory dei Giovannetti of the Seminario Urhano at Naples has a half-length picture of a Bishop by him.
Irina Vysheslavska.  Irina Vysheslavska is a Ukrainian artist painter graphic artist and set designer. She is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine the International Association Art of the peoples of the world the Independent Art Association TERRA in Kiev and is a member of the Maison des Artistes in Paris France. Her art has been shown in museums in Ukraine France Russia and Azerbaijan among other places.
M. D. Bright.  Mark D. Bright (born 1955) is an American comic book and storyboard artist. Often credited as M.D.
Paige Haley.  Paige Haley (born May 10 1966) is a musician and producer.Born in Oakland California in the United States as Brad Armstrong. He grew up in Alameda. He is close friends with Jay Gordon another member of their band Orgy. He used to paint houses for a living and play gigs for local bands until eventually joining Orgy. He went on to achieve a Diploma in Sound Engineering and founded a company called Splizaz Music.
Naomi Nagasawa.  Naomi Nagasawa (長沢 直美 Nagasawa Naomi born May 12 1971) now known as Nao Nagasawa (永澤 菜教 Nagasawa Nao) is a Japanese voice actress from Toyonaka Osaka who used to be represented by Aoni Production and Ken Production and is now represented by Kekke Corporation. She was married to Ryōtarō Okiayu with whom she had a daughter. They are now divorced. She is often confused with Nao Nagasawa (the pop star) because their names are the same when written in romaji.
DJ Amadeus.  DJ Amadeus (born Dennis Ivanoff) is a Ukrainian-born DJ and music producer in New York.
Lars Eric Si.  Lars Eikind also known as Lars Eric Si has been a part of the Scandinavian rock/metal scene for many years both as musician and producer. He has been involved in a numerous bands either as a full-time or session member.The first band he ever recorded with was the heavy metal/grunge group Jack in the Box where he had the role of lead singer. He recorded one EP and one full length album with them before he left the band in 1995.
Glenn B. Hamm.  Glenn Bruce Hamm Jr. (May 30 1936 in Dayton Ohio – August 1980) was a noted artist who worked and lived in Richmond Virginia.Hamm taught art at Carlow College from 1963 to 1964 West Virginia University from 1965 to 1969 and Virginia Commonwealth University until his death from Lou Gehrig's Disease in 1980.He is the author of the art instruction book Painting the nude. He had a BFA and MFA from Carnegie Mellon and a Ph.D.
Siddhartha Sarma.  Siddhartha Sarma (Assamese: সিদ্ধাৰ্থ শৰ্মা) is an Indian English novelist and journalist from Assam.Sarma is the author of the young adult novel The Grasshopper's Run (Scholastic 2009) It has been set against the Second World War and is set in Assam and Nagaland and follows the friendship between a Naga and Assamese boy. It won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in Children's Literature category.
Mason Shefa.  Mason Chadwick Shefa (/ˈʃɛfə/ SHE-fə) (born May 28 1993 in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an avant-garde filmmaker based in Studio City California. He currently attends Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. Shefa utilizes film formats such as Super-8 and 16mm.In May 2011 Shefa received the National Gold Medal at the 2011 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards held in Carnegie Hall for his portfolio of eight experimental films.
Sorley MacLean.  Sorley MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Somhairle MacGill-Eain sometimes MacGilleathain in earlier publications) (26 October 1911 – 24 November 1996) was one of the most significant Scottish poets of the 20th century.
Tony Croatto.  Hermes Davide Fastino Croatto Martinis better known as Tony Croatto (March 2 1940 some sources state his year of birth as 1939 – April 3 2005) was an Italian singer and composer best known for his interpretations of Puerto Rican folk music. He was also a television presenter.
Serrano Bou.  Serrano Bou born in 1952 in Blanes (Costa Brava Spain) is a professional painter and visual artist.
Sara Schaefer.  Sara Schaefer (born July 10 1978) is an American stand-up comedian writer and producer.
Bankie Banx.  Bankie Banx (born Clement Ashley Banks 1953 Anguilla) is a reggae singer known as the Anguillan Bob Dylan.
Gina Thompson.  Gina Thompson (born Lugenia Thompson in Vineland New Jersey USA) is an American R&B singer. Born to Edward L. Thompson Sr. and Eugenia Thompson Gina Thomson began singing at an early age and was signed to her first recording contract with Mercury Records shortly after graduating high school.
Anneliese van der Pol.  Anneliese Louise van der Pol (born September 23 1984) is a Dutch-American actress and singer. After an early career in musical theatre she was cast as Chelsea Daniels in the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven a role that gained her renown among young audiences. Van der Pol also has a career as a singer and has recorded several songs for The Walt Disney Company. She made her Broadway debut in 2007 and appeared Off-Broadway in 2009.
Victor-Jean Nicolle.  Victor-Jean Nicolle (1754–1826) was born in the city of Paris. He revealed his talent for landscape compositions at an early age when in 1771 as a pupil of the Royal School of Drawing he won the Perspective Prize.
Herb Geller.  Herbert Arnold Geller (November 2 1928 – December 19 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist composer and arranger. He was born in Los Angeles California.
Neal Morgan.  Neal Morgan (born March 7 1979) is an American drummer arranger of drums and percussion and singer-songwriter. Morgan is best known as the drummer for Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan.Morgan began drumming for Joanna Newsom in 2006 for the touring cycle in support of her second album Ys.
Gwen Moffat.  Gwen Moffat (née Goddard; born 1924) is a British climber and writer.Moffat was a free spirit who loved and lived the Bohemian lifestyle through the 1940s 1950s and 1960s making a living from climbing and becoming the first female British guide.
Satyasheel Deshpande.  Pandit Satyasheel Deshpande (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian musician who specializes in singing khyal. He is a disciple (pattashishya) of Pt. Kumar Gandharva and the son of musicologist Vamanrao Deshpande.
Abdulfattah Owainat.  Abdulfattah Owainat (عبد الفتاح عوينات; born in Kuwait City Kuwait as Abdul Fattah Abdullah Mohammad Owainat in March 1972) is a Palestinian singer and songwriter best known for his songs on Palestinian Human Rights and their Right of Return as well as various recent uprisings in the Arab World.
Helon Habila.  Helon Habila (born 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving to England to become the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. In 2002 he published his first novel Waiting for an Angel. His writing has won many prizes including the Caine Prize in 2001. In 2005/2006 he became the Chinua Achebe Fellow at Bard College NY. In 2006 he co-edited the British Council's anthology New Writing 14.
Taylor MH.  Mike Taylor (born 1964) also known by the alias Taylor MH is an English athlete public speaker and author from Stourbridge England. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 26 he became the first person with MS to successfully swim a relay of the English Channel in 1997.
Jody Worth.  Jody Worth is an American television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on Deadwood and has been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the series. He is the son of producer and screenwriter Marvin Worth.
Brent McAthey.  Brent McAthey (born August 4 1967 in Calgary Alberta) is a Canadian country music artist. McAthey has released six studio albums. He reached the Top 20 of the RPM Country Tracks chart in 1998 with Chevy Blue Eyes.
Janaki Ram.  Janaki Ram is an Indian-American author who has written biographies and collections of short stories as well as a prominent figure in Asian art auctions. She is a relative of Krishna Menon and Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer and a member of the powerful South Indian Vengalil family. She was a founder and convenor of INTACH previous to her writing career.
Ronald Leonard.  Ronald Leonard is an American cellist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist chamber musician principal cellist and teacher. He is currently on the faculties of the USC Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School. He was a winner of the Walter Naumburg Competition while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole.His first professional position was as a cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra where he sat on the second stand.
Coco Lee.  Coco Lee (Chinese: 李玟; pinyin: Lǐ Wén; born Ferren Lee 17 January 1975 Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born American singer-songwriter record producer dancer and actress. Lee's career began in Hong Kong and then expanded to Taiwan. Her single Do You Want My Love also entered the US music charts. Her first full-length English language album was Just No Other Way.
Amanda Hennessy.  Amanda Hennessy is an English actress who appeared in ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Lilith Dingle in 2004 and 2006. She also appeared in one episode of ITV medical drama The Royal on 2 April 2006 as Maureen Salter.
Philippe Beck.  Philippe Beck born in Strasbourg on April 21 1963 is a French poet writer and professor for Philosophy at University of Nantes in France and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland.
Łukasz Orbitowski.  Łukasz Orbitowski (born 1977) is a Polish essayist and fantasy and horror writer. As of April 2012 he has published six novels and numerous short stories collected in four anthologies.
Shijaku Katsura II.  Katsura Shijaku II (2代目 桂 枝雀 Nidaime Katsura Shijaku August 13 1939-April 19 1999) was a Japanese rakugo performer of the late 20th century who often performed in English. He was born Tōru Maeda (前田 達 Maeda Tōru) in Kobe the son of a brick-maker. In 1960 he entered the tutelage of the rakugo performer Katsura Beichō III (桂米朝) and upon completion of his study was given the stage name Katsura Koyone X (桂小米). He changed his stage name to Shijaku Katsura (Shijaku Katsura II) in 1974.
Emmanuel Carrère.  Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author screenwriter and director.
Mahjoor.  Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (Kashmiri: ग़ुलाम अहमद (Devanagari) غلام احمد (Nastaleeq)); 3 September 1885 − 9 April 1952) better known by the pen name Mahjoor (Kashmiri: महजूर (Devanagari) مہجور (Nastaleeq)) was a renowned poet of the J&K Kashmir Valley along with contemporaries Zinda Kaul Abdul Ahad Azad Dinanath Nadim. He is especially noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry and for expanding Kashmiri poetry into previously unexplored thematic realms.
James Conroyd Martin.  James Conroyd Martin is an American historical fiction author and teacher.
Mazhar Kamran.  Mazhar Kamran is an Indian film and documentary film director and cinematographer. Kamran graduated with a B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras but because of his love for films he chose film making as a profession. He started his career as a cinematographer in the 1998 Ram Gopal Varma film Satya. Kamran studied cinematography from Film and Television Institute of India. Kamran's directorial debut Mohandas dealt with stolen identity.
Friedrich Hohe.  Friedrich Hohe (1802 – 7 June 1870) was a German lithographer and painter. Born in Bayreuth Bavaria in 1802 his first painting teacher was his father who was himself a painter. In 1820 he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Munich (also known as the Munich Academy). Thereafter from 1823 till near the end of his life he devoted himself to lithography.In 1826 Hohe visited Italy with landscape painter Carl Rottmann.
Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti.  Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti (1814–1882) was an Italian composer music educator and college administrator. Born in Asti he joined the faculty of the Milan Conservatory in 1850 as a professor of counterpoint. He was appointed the school's director in 1878 a post he held until illness forced him to resign in November 1881. He died the following year in Casale Monferrato. His notable pupils included Franco Faccio Giacomo Puccini and Ivan Zajc.
Christopher Marlowe.  Christopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death.
Cecil Otter.  Kyle Smith better known by his stage name Cecil Otter is a rapper and producer based in Minneapolis Minnesota. He is a founding member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
Lil Bibby.  Brandon Dickerson (born 1994) known by his stage name Lil Bibby is an American hip hop recording artist from Chicago Illinois. He released his debut mixtape in 2013 which was titled Free Crack. Bibby said he is working on an EP which is expected to be dropped later this year.
Richard A. Whiting.  Richard Armstrong Whiting (November 12 1891 – February 10 1938) was an American composer of popular songs including the standards Hooray for Hollywood Ain't We Got Fun? and On the Good Ship Lollipop. He was nominated for an Academy Award for best original song in 1936 for the song When Did You Leave Heaven from the movie Sing Baby Sing.
Shin Yong-mok.  Shin Yong-Mok (Hangul: 신용목) is an award-winning South Korean poet.
Bat for Lashes.  Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979) better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released three studio albums Fur and Gold (2006) Two Suns (2009) and The Haunted Man (2012) and received Mercury Prize nominations for Fur and Gold and Two Suns.
Rita Clay Estrada.  Rita Clay Estrada (b. July 31 1941 in Michigan US) is an US writer of romance novels as Rita Clay Tira Lacy and Rita Clay Estrada she also wrote non-fiction books about writing romance novels. She was the first president of the Romance Writers of America and founding member with her mother Rita Gallagher.
Nokuthula Ngwenyama.  Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16 1976) is an American solo violist of Ndbele and Japanese descent. She is a recording artist under EDI Records and has taught at the Jacob's School of Music at Indiana University.
Giovanni Bernardo Lama.  Giovanni Bernardo Lama (1508–1579) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Naples. He was the son of a generally unknown artist Matteo Lama. He was the apprentice of Giovanni Antonio D’Amato then Polidoro da Caravaggio who had fled Rome after the Sack of 1527. He worked in the style of his friend and contemporary Andrea di Salerno. A Madonna and child with saints is in the sacristy of San Luca Evangelista in Praiano.
Danny Jones.  Daniel Alan David Danny Jones (born 12 March 1986) is an English musician who is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists for pop-rock band McFly. Jones' fellow band members are Tom Fletcher (guitar and vocals) Dougie Poynter (bass and vocals) and Harry Judd (drums).
Joseph Hoo Kim.  Joseph 'Jo Jo' Hoo Kim (born 1942) is a Jamaican reggae record producer.
Gawain Erland Cooper.  Gawain Erland Cooper is a Scottish folk guitarist and singer. He is the front man of cult band Erland and the Carnival and The Magnetic North with whom he has released a number of well-received albums and singles.
Kristel Verbeke.  Kristel Philemon Charlotte Verbeke (born 10 December 1975 in Belgium) is a Flemish singer actress host and one of the two longest-serving current members of the girl group K3.
Tom Angelripper.  Thomas Such (born 19 February 1963) better known by his stage name Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of German thrash metal band Sodom.
Andrew Brown (writer).  Andrew Brown (born 1955 in London) is a British journalist writer and editor. He has worked as the editor for the Belief section of the Guardian's Comment is Free and also works as the press columnist of the Church Times. Brown has also written four books and has contributed to various sources which include the New Statesman and the New York Review of Books.
Mary Kay (landscape photographer).  Mary Kay (born Maria Kaimaki) is a Greek landscape photographer. She was the 2011 Digital Camera World Photographer of the Year for the Gardens and Plants category with her work Autumn Interlude.
Glen Wexler.  Glen Wexler (born September 15 1955) is an American photographer who is best known for his elaborately staged digital photocompositions of improbable situations.
Heinrich Böll.  Heinrich Theodor Böll (German: [bœl]; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
Monty Norman.  Monty Norman (born 4 April 1928) is a singer and film composer best known for composing The James Bond Theme.
Blackie (rapper).  Michael LaCour (born 1987 in La Porte Texas) known by his stage name B L A C K I E... In All Caps With Spaces (styled B L A C K I E) is an American noise musician and record producer. His music is an array of folk jazz noise hardcore punk and rap.
August Friedrich Oelenhainz.  August Friedrich Oelenhainz (June 28 1745 - November 5 1804) was a German painter.Oelenhainz's father was a preacher. He studied under his uncle Wolfgang Dietrich Mayr in Tübingen and then later at the art school in Stuttgart with the Württemberg court painter Johann Wilhelm Beyer. In 1766 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Oelenhainz to Vienna where in the imperial court he rapidly became a popular painter. He primarily painted portraits.
David Lyttle.  David Lyttle (born 21 June 1984) is a musician songwriter producer composer and record label owner from Northern Ireland.
Erwin Blumenfeld.  Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was a photographer and artist born in Germany. He was best known for his fashion photography published in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to fashion photography he produced an extensive body of celebrity portraiture fine-art photography (including black and white nudes) drawings and Dada collages.
Allison Strong.  Allison Trujillo Strong is an American actress singer writer and competition poetry reciter known for her Broadway work in the musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Mamma Mia!. Strong who began acting at age 7 won a national jingle-singing competition for Oscar Mayer at age 11 and appeared in local productions in and around her home of Union City New Jersey since childhood in venues such as the Park Performing Arts Center and Montclair State College where she majored in musical theater.
Nicole Cohen.  Nicole Cohen is an American video artist installation and performance based artist living in New York City. Cohen's video works often includeinteriors such as: vintage magazines period rooms that reveal an intervention with technology of surveillance use or video projection overlay. Hampshire College University of Southern CaliforniaBorn: 1970 United States of AmericaPeriod: Contemporary ArtEducation: Hampshire College University of Southern California
Bonnie Clearwater.  Bonnie Clearwater (born 1957) is an American writer and art historian. She is the director and chief curator of Nova Southeastern University's Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. Previously Clearwater was the director and chief curator of Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.
Dusty Redmon.  Dustin Wesley Redmon (Better known as Dusty Redmon) is an American guitarist primarily known for playing in Alternative rock band The Almost and former guitarist and songwriter for Beloved and Dead Poetic. Dusty was born on May 23 1982 in Winston-Salem North Carolina.
Marie McCray.  Marie McCray (born May 21 1985) is an American pornographic actress and nude model.
Four Tet.  Kieran Hebden (born 1978) best known by the stage name Four Tet is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist.Hebden's music originally eschewed the traditional pop song format in favour of a more abstract approach—his sound and melodies incorporate elements of hip hop electronica techno jazz grime and folk music with live instrumentation.
Tamir Hendelman.  Tamir Hendelman is an award-winning American jazz pianist.Hendelman has performed with the Jeff Hamilton Trio the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Harry Allen Teddy Edwards Warren Vache Houston Person Jeff Clayton Nick Brignola Phil Upchurch Rickey Woodard John Clayton and Barbara Morrison. He also leads his own trio and his debut CD Playground features him in this trio setting. His album Destinations features Lewis Nash and Marco Panascia.
Shohreh Solati.  Shohreh Solati (Persian: شهره صولتی‎) (born Fatemeh Solati in Tehran Iran) is a well-known and popular Iranian singer. She has vast artistic skills in singing and performing. Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran she has continued her music career in exile and achieved acclaim for her contribution to Iranian music.
Katharine Gordon.  Katharine Gordon (born 1916) was a British writer of eight romance novels from 1978 to 2001. By her debut novel The Emerald Peacock she won in 1978 the Authors' Club First Novel Award and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Sam Viviano.  Sam Viviano (born March 13 1953 in Detroit Michigan) is an American caricature artist and art director. Viviano’s caricatures are known for their wide jaws which Viviano has explained is a result of his incorporation of side views as well as front views into his distortions of the human face. He has also developed a reputation for his ability to do crowd scenes.
Johntá Austin.  Johntá Austin (born June 28 1980) is an American singer-songwriter who is signed to Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. He is commonly known for collaborating with producers Bryan-Michael Cox Jermaine Dupri & The Production Team StarGate. Austin was awarded two Grammy Awards for his work on the songs We Belong Together by Mariah Carey and Be Without You by Mary J. Blige.
Randy Katana.  Randy Katana (born Randy Joubert on March 14 1965 in Saint Martin (Netherlands Antilles)) is a popular Tribal-Tech-Trance DJ. He is also known as Phantom Noski Katana and DJ Randy.He is a prominent producer and a pioneer of the Tribal-Tech-Trance genre hitting hard on the trance club scene with a track called Play it Loud. It was followed up with many remixes including the appropriately named Play it Louder.
Ciril Bergles.  Ciril Bergles (18 July 1934 – 25 August 2013) was a Slovene poet essayist and translator. He published numerous collections of poetry and was also known for his translations of poetry mostly by Spanish and South American authors into Slovene.Bergles was born in Repče just outside Ljubljana in 1934. He studied Slovene and English at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a secondary school teacher after graduation.
Robh Ruppel.  Robh Ruppel (born c. 1963) is an artist best known for his work on role-playing game products. Critic Joseph Szadkowski of The Washington Times has referred to him as a horror genius.
Sam Cooke.  Sam Cooke (January 22 1931 – December 11 1964) born Samuel Cook was an American recording artist singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. He is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocal abilities and influence on the modern world of music. His pioneering contributions to soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin Bobby Womack Al Green Curtis Mayfield Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye Billy Preston and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.Cooke had 30 U.S.
Albert Sánchez Piñol.  Albert Sánchez Piñol (Catalan pronunciation: [əɫˈβɛrt ˈsaɲtʃeθ piˈɲɔɫ]) (born 1965 in Barcelona Catalonia Spain) is a Catalan anthropologist non-fiction writer and novelist writing in the Catalan language.He has been described as a significant European writer.
Hal France.  Hal France was the first musical director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and was formerly the principal director of the Omaha Opera. He lives in Orlando Florida. He was formerly married to noted soprano Sylvia McNair.
Tomohiro Kaku.  Tomohiro Kaku (郭智博 Kaku Tomohiro born September 5 1984) is a Japanese actor.
Alexander Levitov.  Alexander Ivanovich Levitov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Леви́тов) born August 1 1835 – died January 16 1877 was a Russian writer.
Bruce Woodley.  Bruce William Woodley (born 25 July 1942) is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was a founding member of the successful pop-folk group the Seekers and co-composer of the anthemic song I Am Australian. Woodley attended Melbourne High School with fellow Seekers Athol Guy and Keith Potger.
Lluís Solà i Sala.  Lluís Solà i Sala (Vic Catalonia 1940) is a Catalan poet playwright and translater.As a playwright Lluís Solà staged works of Strinberg Aeschylus or Brossa among others authors and he has also released his own works. He has released five plays own stage director and he has directed for more than fifty classic and contemporary works including the play nô Semimaru with scenery by Antoni Tàpies and music by Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny.
Maithili Sharan Gupt.  Maithilisharan Gupt (मैथिलीशरण गुप्त) (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of Braj Bhasha dialect.
Cris Barber.  Cris Barber is an American jazz singer on the 37 Records label. Cris won the Orange County Music Award for Best Jazz in 2004 and received nominations in 2005 2006 and 2008. She was nominated for a Southern California Music Award in 2006 in the same category.On November 22 2010 Cris released her first Christmas album entitled A Taste of Christmas featuring arrangements by Lindsey Hundley.
Yitzhak Arieli.  Yitzhak Arieli (Hebrew: יצחק אריאלי‎; born 1896 died 5 April 1974) was a leading Israeli rabbi.
Kurdt Vanderhoof.  Kurdt Vanderhoof (born Jun 28th 1961) is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and founding member of the American heavy metal band Metal Church. In 1978 Vanderhoof joined Seattle hardcore punk band The Lewd adopting the stage name Blobbo on bass guitar switching instruments to guitar the following year. The Lewd relocated from Seattle to San Francisco in 1980.
Walter M. Miller Jr..  Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23 1923 – January 9 1996) was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.
L. A. Ring.  Laurits Andersen Ring (Danish: [ˈlɑu̯ʁ̞its ˈɑnɐsn̩ ʁ̞æŋ]) (1854–1933) was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century who pioneered both symbolism and social realism in Denmark. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture his painting Summer Day by Roskilde Fjord was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.
Mary J. Blige.  Mary Jane Blige (/ˈblaɪʒ/; born January 11 1971) known professionally as Mary J. Blige is an American singer songwriter record producer and actress.
Ted Poley.  Ted Harris Poley (born January 5 1964 in Englewood New Jersey) is a rock singer and drummer most famous for being in the band Danger Danger.
Jane Comerford.  Jane Comerford (born 1 January 1959 in Newcastle Australia) is a singer songwriter lecturer and vocal coach working in Germany.
Sigrid Undset.  Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg Denmark but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924 she converted to Roman Catholicism.
K. Haran.  K.Haran is a composer of film scores and sound tracks in Malaysian Tamil cinema. His film debut was Vetrivel a Malaysian Tamil film.
Vera Frenkel.  Vera Frenkel is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist. Her installations videotapes performances and new media projects address the forces at work in human migration the learning and unlearning of cultural memory and the ever-increasing bureaucratization of experience.She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and internationally since the early 1970s.
Simone Cecchetti.  Simone Cecchetti (born September 14 1973) is an Italian portrait photographer.In his career Cecchetti has been photographing music and entertainment performers in Europe and Japan. His portfolio contains pictures taken in more than 1000 concerts for over 600 artists. His portrait of Mick Jagger has been chosen for the exhibition Mick Jagger.
John Donoghue (writer).  John Donoghue (born 1964) is a British humourist and travel writer from Wales. He is best known for his 2004 book Shakespeare My Butt! a humorous travelogue of unusual and oddly-named destinations in Great Britain.
Svein Finnerud.  Svein Finnerud (born 2 September 1945 in Oslo Norway - died 22 June 2000) was a Norwegian Jazz pianist painter and graphic artist.
Marcia Levin.  Marcia Lauter Obrasky Levin (1918–2006) was a popular children's book author using the pen name of Marcia Martin creator of the Donna Parker series as well as 22 books for beginning readers and some of the first enrichment text books in the New Mathematics she was born and raised in Philadelphia and lived in Rye New York for 56 years.
Gabriel Casseus.  Gabriel Casseus (born April 28 1972) is an American actor and screenwriter from Roosevelt New York.
Robert Tinnell.  Robert Tinnell (born April 27 1961 in Fairmont West Virginia) is a film screenwriter director and producer. He is also the author of several comic books and graphic novels notably with a horror slant.
Julie Doiron.  Julie Doiron (born June 28 1972 in Moncton New Brunswick) is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.
Ian Paice.  Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002 he is the only continuous member of the band and as such is the only member to appear on every album the band has released.
Michael Musto.  Michael Musto (born December 3 1955) is an American journalist and a former columnist for the The Village Voice where he wrote La Dolce Musto. He is the author of Downtown and Manhattan on the Rocks as well as a compilation of selected columns published as La Dolce Musto. His subsequent collection Fork on the Left Knife in the Back was published on September 1 2011 by Vantage Point Books. He was laid off from the The Village Voice on May 17 2013.
Jake Mathews.  Jake Mathews (born Jacques Lagrandeur born March 14 1971 in Sudbury Ontario Canada) is a country music singer songwriter and performer.
Jim Hitchmough.  Jim Hitchmough (1 September 1934 - May 1997) was a TV comedy writer teacher and academic. He was best known for the long-running television sitcom Watching but also wrote for Coronation Street and Brookside; and a feature-length TV film The Bullion Boys.
Jing Tian.  Jing Tian (born July 21 1989) in Xi'an Shaanxi China is a Chinese actress. She graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy and Beijing Film Academy. She is known for her roles in The Warring States Special ID and Police Story 2013.
Sandra Scoppettone.  Sandra Scoppettone (born June 1 1936 Morristown New Jersey) is an American author whose career spans the 1960s through the 2000s. She is known for her mystery and young adult books.She also wrote Suzuki Beane (1961 with illustrator Louise Fitzhugh.)She came out as a lesbian in the 1970s.
Tim Butler.  Timothy George Tim Butler (born 7 December 1958 Teddington Middlesex England) is an English songwriter and musician. He is the bass player and co-founder of the Psychedelic Furs. He is also the youngest of three brothers.Richard the eldest is the lead singer of the Psychedelic Furs. Both brothers were also founding members of the alternative rock band Love Spit Love.Tim currently resides in Kentucky with his wife Robyn Wesley Butler and their children.
Cleo (singer).  Joanna Klepko (born 25 June 1983 in Warsaw) known by her stage name Cleo is a Polish singer. She will represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark along with Donatan with the song My Słowianie.
Abe Aaron.  Alvin Abe Aaron (January 27 1910 – January 31 1970) was a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who was born in Canada but spent most of his life performing in the United States.Aaron's father was bandleader with a theater band in Milwaukee Wisconsin and had him play reeds in the band for more than ten years. Early in the 1940s he left this group to play alto saxophone in the big band of Jack Teagarden. He moved to Hollywood in 1943 and played with Horace Heidt on radio.
Carlinhos Brown.  Carlinhos Brown (born Antonio Carlos Santos de Freitas November 23 1962) is a Brazilian musician songwriter and record producer from Salvador Bahia. His musical style blends Tropicália reggae and traditional Brazilian percussion. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award for his musical contributions in Rio. He founded Timbalada and Tribalistas and is also a solo artist.Since 2012 he is one of the coaches of the program The Voice Brasil of Rede Globo.
Canardo (rapper).  Hakim Mouhid better known by his stage name Canardo (born in Trappes Yvelines France on 22 September 1984) is a French rapper singer songwriter and music producer. After working with label Banlieue Sale Music since 2007 in 2011 he founded his own label Henijai Music.
Arthur Goodrich.  Arthur Goodrich (February 18 1878 – June 26 1941) was an American playwright who was prominent on Broadway during the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote a mixture of crime and comedy plays. One of his greatest hits was the 1922 Anglo-American culture clash comedy So This Is London which was turned into films twice. He wrote the libretto for an opera version of Caponsacchi. He is often known as Arthur F. Goodrich.
Thomas J. Farnham.  Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1804–1848) was an explorer and author of the American West in the first half of the 19th century. His travels included interaction with missionary Jason Lee and he later led a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. While in Oregon Country he wrote a petition to federal authorities that requested federal protection of the region from the United States government which was signed by many of the local settlers who had come from the United States.
Hrishikesh Ranade.  Hrishikesh Ranade (Marathi:हृषीकेश रानडे) is an Indian playback singer in Marathi film industry. He has sung songs in Hindi Marathi and in some other Indian languages. He won Idea Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Maharashtracha Ajacha Awaaj.
Robert Juniper.  Robert Litchfield Juniper AM (7 January 1929 – 20 December 2012) was an Australian artist art teacher illustrator painter printmaker and sculptor.
Shani Haider.  Shani (Zeeshan) Haider (aka) Shani Arshad is a Pakistani music producer. The Famous Pakistani Tabla Maestro Ustad Arshad Ali's son Shani started his career as a keyboard player at an early age 15. He joined Eagle Record Company as a remix producer in 1998 where he was asked to make Vital Signs remix album and that album was Shani's introduction to the pop industry.
Curme Gray.  Curme Gray (1910–1980) was an American novelist. His science fiction novel Murder in Millennium VI (1951) was the subject of a detailed analysis in Damon Knight's In Search of Wonder.
Frank Delgado (American musician).  Frank Delgado (born November 29 1970) is an American musician. He samples and plays turntables and keyboards for Deftones.
Trisha Crowe.  Trisha Alexandra Crowe is an Australian Classical Pop soprano. She has achieved success as a solo guest artist in concerts with Australian symphony orchestras and in musical theatre.
Martin Bulloch.  Martin Bulloch (born 14 August 1974) is a Scottish musician best known for being a member of Mogwai.
Derek Lam.  Derek Lam is an American fashion designer. He was born in San Francisco California and is of Chinese American parentage. Lam is the youngest of three children in his fourth-generation family. His parents had a business that imported clothes from Asia and his grandparents ran a successful garment factory in San Francisco that specialized in bridal and wedding dresses. As a child he would sit with the seamstresses adoring the wedding gowns.Lam graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1990.
Sawa (singer).  Sawa Kouchi (河内 沙和 Kouchi Sawa born November 6 1983) stylized SAWA is a Japanese techno-pop singer and songwriter who debuted in 2008 on the indies label Cyclops. In 2009 she signed onto Sony Music Entertainment Japan and joined its sublabel Epic Records. In 2012 she switched to Bellwood Records and released her 6th mini-album ソプラノレイン (Soprano Rain).
Walter Trout.  Walter Trout (born March 6 1951 Ocean City New Jersey United States) is an American blues guitarist singer and songwriter.
Scott Kahn.  Scott Kahn (born 1946 Springfield Massachusetts) is an American painter and draughtsman.Kahn received his BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from the Rutgers University. He studied at the Art Students League under Theodoros Stamos and met many of the first generation Abstract Expressionist artists including Mark Rothko.Scott Kahn was under representation for 25 years by the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City where he had numerous solo exhibitions.
Jaime Sabines.  Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25 1926 - March 19 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature”[citation needed] as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality he wrote ten volumes of poetry and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages. His writings chronicle the experience of everyday people in places such as the street hospital and playground. Sabines was also a politician.
Asumiko Nakamura.  Asumiko Nakamura (中村明日美子 Nakamura Asumiko January 5 1979) is a Japanese manga artist. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture she is best known for her Yaoi or boys' love manga.
Bernardino Ferrari.  Bernardino Ferrari (1495–1574) was an Italian painter of the 16th century. Born in Milan he flourished in Vigevano Italy from 1514 to 1524 where many of his more well known works were produced the best of which are located in the Vigevano Cathedral.
Elena Bacaloglu.  Elena A. Bacaloglu also known as Bacaloglu-Densusianu Bacaloglu-Densușeanu etc. (Francized Hélène Bacaloglu; 1878–1947) was a Romanian journalist literary critic novelist and fascist militant. Her career in letters produced an introduction to the work of Maurice Maeterlinck (1903) several other critical essays and two novels. She married and divorced poet Radu D.
José Luis Perales.  José Luis Perales (born January 18 1945 in Castejón Cuenca Province) is a Spanish singer-songwriter and composer who is very popular in Spain and Latin America. He has performed some of his extensive work at Carnegie Hall New York.
Amy Dalley.  Amy Dalley (born 1970) is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 2003 and she left the label in 2008. Dalley has released seven singles of which five have entered the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts despite never releasing an album. Her highest-peaking single is Men Don't Change which reached a peak of No. 23 in 2004. In addition to her own music Dalley co-wrote Reba McEntire's single My Sister.
James Brown Craven.  Archdeacon James Brown Craven (1850 – 17 April 1924) was author of the History of the Church in Orkney and several other works on ecclesiastical history.
David Carroll (musician).  David Carroll (October 15 1913 – March 22 2008) was a studio arranger conductor and musical director.
B-complex.  Matúš Lenický otherwise known as B-complex is a drum and bass producer from Bratislava Slovakia.
Terry Chambers.  Terry Chambers (born 18 July 1955 Swindon Wiltshire) is an English drummer and was a founding member of XTC appearing on all studio and live recordings until his departure from the band during the 1982 sessions for Mummer on which he played on Beating of Hearts Wonderland and a B-side Toys.Chambers originally wanted to learn to play the piano but his parents could not afford to buy one.
Felton Pilate.  Felton C. Pilate II (born November 5 1952 in Jackson Mississippi) is an American singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and record producer known as a member of the 1970s and 1980s funk/R&B band Con Funk Shun and as a collaborator with rapper MC Hammer. Pilate's joint effort with Hammer sold over 30 million albums from 1989 to 1992 including the album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990).
Ferus Mustafov.  Ferus Mustafov also known as King Ferus Mustafov is a Macedonian saxophonist of Romani descent. He is a multi-instrumentalist and is highly popular in his home country for his repertoire of Balkan folk and gypsy or Rom wedding music. He is also credited as one of the artists from the Balkan region to have made this type of music internationally popular.
Ludwik Konarzewski-junior.  Ludwik Konarzewski – junior (April 20 1918 Buzuluk – January 23 1989 Cieszyn) was a Polish painter sculptor and teacher of fine arts who worked in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia. A square in Rydułtowy is named after him.Konarzewski owed his primary artistic education to his father Ludwik Konarzewski – senior. He started his studies (in painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1938 and finished in 1948 being interrupted by the Second World War.
Raful Neal.  Raful Neal (June 6 1936 – September 1 2004) was an American Louisiana blues singer harmonicist and songwriter.Born in Baton Rouge Louisiana and reared by his aunt and uncle on a tenant farm in Chamberlin West Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana United States Neal began playing the harmonica at age 14. He played with Buddy Guy in a band called the Clouds.
SZA (singer).  Solana Rowe (born November 8 1990) better known by her stage name SZA is an American singer-songwriter from Maplewood New Jersey. In October 2012 and October 2013 Rowe self-released two extended plays entitled See.SZA.Run (2012) and S (2013). It was revealed in July 2013 that she had signed to the independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment through which she released her debut EP Z on April 8 2014.
Luigi Quaini.  Luigi Quaini (1643–1717) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He first learned the art of architectural perspective painting from his father Francesco Quaini a pupil of Agostino Mitelli. After some training with his father he became a pupil of Guercino then of Carlo Cignani (his cousin). There he met a fellow pupil Marcantonio Franceschini.
Eriks Ādamsons.  Eriks Ādamsons (June 22 1907 – February 28 1946) was a Latvian writer poet and novelist.
Jim Lynch (writer).  Jim Lynch (born 1961) is an American author of three novels the first two of which have been performed on stage. His work has been compared to a variety of authors including John SteinbeckKen Kesey Tom Robbins and Richard Russo.Lynch's first novel The Highest Tide became a bestseller in the United Kingdom after the coming-of-age story was featured on the Richard & Judy book club television show in England. It went on to receive the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 2006.
William Couper (sculptor).  William L Couper (1853–1942) was an American sculptor.
Josephine Leavell Allensworth.  Josephine Leavell Allensworth (1855-1938) was an African-American musician music teacher and activist. She co-founded Allensworth California and the Women's Improvement League.
Reggie Scanlan.  Reggie Scanlan is a bass guitar player and photographer from New Orleans Louisiana and a founding member of swamp rock band The Radiators.According to Matthew Haggman of radio station WWOZ in New Orleans In the early seventies Scanlan made enough of a name for himself as a bassist to record with James Booker at Sea Saint studios under the auspices of Allen Toussaint ... Booker however was both eccentric and unproductive.
Benedikt Beckenkamp.  Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp who was born in 1747 in the valley of Ehrenbreitstein near Coblence studied under his father Lorenz Beckenkamp and Jan Zick at Coblence. At first he devoted himself to painting landscapes after C. G. Schütz; but afterwards changed to portraiture. He settled at Cologne and imitated with success the style of painting of the old German masters. He died in that town in 1828. Several portraits by him are in the Wallraf Museum Cologne.
Efren Abueg.  Efren Reyes Abueg (born on 3 March 1937 in Tanza Cavite) is a well-known and recognized Filipino-language creative writer editor author novelist short story writer essayist fictionist professor textbook writer and anthologist in the Philippines. His works appeared on magazines such as Liwayway Bulaklak Tagumpay Mod and Homelife.
Brent Liles.  Brent Harrold Liles (September 7 1963 – January 18 2007) was the bassist for Social Distortion from 1981–1984 and later was the bassist for Agent Orange from 1988 - 1992.
Juan Manuel Abras.  Juan Manuel Abras Contel (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxwan maˈnwel ˈaβɾas]; February 1 1975) is a Swedish-born Argentine classical music composer conductor and researcher of European descent (Catalan and Galician on his father's side and Basque Italian and French on his mother's side).
Caroline Cadette Howard.  Caroline Cadette Howard (born 3 August 1821) was a New Zealand businesswoman immigration officer lecturer and journalist. She was born in London London England on 3 August 1821.
Itshak Holtz.  Itshak Jack Holtz (Hebrew: יצחק הולץ‎ also known as Itzhak Holtz and Issac Holtz) (born 1925) is an Israeli and American Orthodox Jewish artist whose paintings and drawings depict traditional scenes of Jewish life.
Daniele Barioni.  Daniele Barioni (born September 6 1930 in Copparo Ferrara Italy) is an Italian opera singer who had a prolific career during the 1950s through the 1970s. Early on in his career he rose to fame as a leading tenor at the Metropolitan Opera between 1956 and 1962. Afterwards he worked primarily in opera houses and concerts throughout the United States although he did make numerous appearances in both Europe and South America as well.
Mike Hurst (producer).  Mike Hurst (born Michael John Longhurst Pickworth 19 September 1941) is an English musician and record producer.
Jay Aston.  Jay Hilda Aston (born 4 May 1961 in Purley Surrey) is a singer dancer and occasional songwriter who was formerly with the British pop group Bucks Fizz. She was the youngest member of the group's original line-up being just 19 at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Ayako Uehara.  Ayako Uehara (上原彩子) (born 1980 in Takamatsu Kagawa Prefecture Japan) is a classical pianist. She won 2nd prize in the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition. In 2002 she became the first woman (and first Japanese citizen) to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.
Jan Balabán.  Jan Balabán (29 January 1961 – 23 April 2010) was a Czech writer journalist and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition.
Sam Samore.  Sam Samore is an American artist. His work is concerned with an exploration of privacy and myth in contemporary society. He has made numerous works which appropriate photo-techniques typically used by private detectives.
Gordie Tapp.  Gordon Robert Gordie Tapp CM O.Ont (born June 4 1922 in London Ontario) is a Canadian entertainer.Tapp studied at the Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts. He was the host for Main Street Jamboree a radio program broadcast from Hamilton during the 1950s. Tapp later hosted the CBC television show Country Hoedown. He went on to perform and write for the CBS television show Hee Haw. His famous roles were Cousin Clem Samuel B. Sternwheeler Mr.
Bob Chinn.  Bob Chinn is an American pornographic film director and actor. He is a member the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.Chinn started his career circa 1970 after graduating from UCLA film school in 1966. He directed Candy Stripers which is listed in the XRCO Hall of Fame.He also created and directed the Johnny Wadd series of films featuring actor John C. Holmes. He made a total of 9 films with John Holmes in this series.
Adam Dutkiewicz.  Adam Jonathan Dutkiewicz (born April 4 1977) is an American musician recording engineer songwriter and music producer best known as a guitarist and backup vocalist from Massachusetts metalcore bands Killswitch Engage Aftershock and Times of Grace.
Laura Izibor.  Laura Elizabeth Arabosa Izibor (born 13 May 1987) is an Irish recording artist musician and producer. She won the RTÉ 2fm song contest while still in secondary school. She went on to win an award at the 2006 Meteor Music Awards. She also performed at that year's Electric Picnic music festival and Music Ireland 2007. Izibor has opened for Aretha Franklin India.Arie Estelle Maxwell and John Legend on tour.Her debut album Let the Truth Be Told was released in Ireland on 8 May 2009.
Kazimierz Brodziński.  Kazimierz Brodziński (8 March 1791 in Królówka – 10 October 1835 in Dresden) was an important Polish Romantic poet.
Ranj Dhaliwal.  Ranj Dhaliwal (born July 14 1976) is a Canadian author.
Robert O'Riordan.  Robert O'Riordan (born 1943) is a Canadian author best known for his Cadre trilogy. He is an English teacher at Sir Robert Borden High School in the Ottawa west end suburb of Nepean Canada.
E. Kidd Bogart.  Evan Bogart (born January 23 1978) better known as E. Kidd Bogart is an American music executive television producer music publisher and songwriter. He is the son of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart and music manager Joyce Bogart-Trabulus. Bogart has been nominated for three Grammy Awards winning one.
Charly Coombes.  Charly Coombes (born John Charles Coombes on 27 December 1980 in Mountain View California USA) is an American-born Englsh multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. He is the youngest sibling of the former Supergrass members Gaz and Rob CoombesCoombes grew up in the Oxfordshire village of Wheatley but lived with his family in San Francisco CA until the age of four.
Masahiro Nakai.  Masahiro Nakai (中居 正広 Nakai Masahiro born August 18 1972) is a Japanese singer actor and host for music events and variety shows such as the long-running music show Utaban. He is the leader of the Japanese idol group SMAP.
Fran Sheehan.  Fran Sheehan is an American rock musician best known for being the bass player in the early incarnation of the rock band Boston.Sheehan was perhaps the most experienced musician in the original lineup of Boston. He had been gigging with his dad since he was 5 years old and majored in vocals at the New England Conservatory Of Music.
Stefano Gervasoni.  Stefano Gervasoni (26 July 1962 Bergamo) is an Italian composer.A protégé of Luigi Nono Gervasoni studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In 1995 he became composer in residence at the Villa Médicis in Rome. He has won many prizes for composition and several of his works were commissioned by cultural institutions in France where he spent three years.He is currently professor of composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (Paris Conservatoire).
Dan Hall.  Daniel James Dan Hall is an Australian musician from Melbourne who has been in two rock bands Taxiride and Airway Lanes. With Taxiride as guitarist pianist and vocalist he had a top 10 hit on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart with Get Set and a No. 1 album with Imaginate in 1999 on the related Albums Chart.
John Pook.  John Barrie Pook (born 2 February 1942) is a British poet.John Pook was born at Neath in South Wales but grew up in Gowerton near Swansea and attended Gowerton Boys Grammar School. He afterwards took Master's degrees in English at Queens' College Cambridge University (1964) and in Linguistics at Bangor University.He has worked as an editor for an airline reservation company and lives in the South of France.
Kim Dong-wan.  Kim Dong-wan (Hangul: 김동완; hanja: 金烔完) was born on 21 November 1979. He is a South Korean entertainer known as a member of six-member boy band Shinhwa. He has been acting since 2002 with roles in television dramas such as A Farewell to Sorrow and Children of Heaven. He has said that given the opportunity he would prefer a career in acting rather than as a singer although since the release of his debut album he says that now he prefers singing more.
Lisle Ellis.  Lisle Ellis (born November 17 1951) is a Canadian composer and bassist who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics.
Paavo Siljamäki.  Paavo Olavi Siljamäki (born April 25 1977) is a Finnish dance music artist is one-third of the UK based trance group Above & Beyond. Paavo Olavi Siljamäki (or P.O.S for short) is also a solo project for Paavo. Apart from that Paavo has also been member of Aalto Dirt Devils Free State Rollerball Tranquility Base Zed-X and OceanLab.
Linlin.  Qian Lin (simplified Chinese: 钱琳; traditional Chinese: 銭琳; pinyin: Qián Lín; born March 11 1991 in Hangzhou Zhejiang China) better known in Japan as Linlin (リンリン) is a former Morning Musume member and leader of the Hello! Project sub-group Shin Minimoni. She was announced to be joining as the eighth generation of Morning Musume on March 15 2007. Along with Li Chun she is one of the only two members in the history of Morning Musume that are of non-Japanese origin.
Alexis Korner.  Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as a founding father of British Blues. A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.
Richard Nunez (artist).  Richard Nunez (born March 23 1961) is an Native American painter and artist based out of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas of Mescalero Apache descent. Nunez paints primarily acrylic on canvas. He is influenced by Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and has painted anything of interest but finds the icons the most stimulating.His work has been interpreted as both heavily textured abstract art with a touch of realism and heavily textured realism with a touch of abstract.
Jared Slingerland.  Jared Slingerland (born January 16 1984) is a Canadian guitarist and electronic musician based in Vancouver British Columbia. He is best known as a member of the production team Knifed and electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly (FLA).
William Glynne-Jones.  William Glynne-Jones (1907–1977) was a Welsh author.
Peter Heather.  Peter Heather is a historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages currently Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He has held appointments at University College London and Yale University and was Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at Worcester College Oxford until December 2007. He joined the History Department of King's College London in January 2008. Heather was born in Northern Ireland in 1960.
Hermann Eris Busse.  Hermann Eris Busse (9 March 1891 Freiburg im Breisgau – 15 august 1947) was a German novelist and literary critic. He is best known for his Black Forest novels and his biography of the 17th-century German writer Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen.
Steve Sidwell (musician).  Renowned arranger and composer Steve Sidwell has featured on numerous albums television shows advertising campaigns and films with his distinctive and innovative orchestrations and compositions.Television commissions include the composition of Elements & Motion for the 79th Academy Awards with the Hollywood SFX Chorale which received an Emmy nomination.
Kentaro Yabuki.  Kentaro Yabuki (矢吹 健太朗 Yabuki Kentarō born February 4 1980 in Kōchi) is a Japanese manga artist best known for his series Black Cat. His mentor was Takeshi Obata the illustrator of Death Note Hikaru no Go and Bakuman.
William Makepeace Thackeray.  William Makepeace Thackeray (/ˈθækəri/; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works particularly Vanity Fair a panoramic portrait of English society.
Hadley Castille.  Hadley J. Castille (March 3 1933 – October 25 2012) was a prominent Cajun fiddler.
K.Bhta.  K.Bhta (abbreviated from the Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βήτα Konstantínos Vī́ta; also known as Konstantinos Beta and Κ.Β.) is a Greek artist. He was born in Melbourne Australia where he studied painting and art history before moving to Athens where he studied graphic design. In 1992 he formed the electronic band Stereo Nova with which he recorded five official albums. In 1996 Stereo Nova disbanded and he began to pursue a solo career.
Basia Bulat.  Basia Bulat (born April 13 1984) /ˈbɒʃə buːˈlɒt/ is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp.
Kirk Wong.  Kirk Wong (黃志強) (born March 28 1949) is a Hong Kong film director and actor. Wong is perhaps best known for directing the 1998 action comedy film The Big Hit.
Max Matsuura.  Masato Matsuura (松浦 勝人 Matsuura Masato born October 1 1964 in Yokohama Japan) better known as Max Matsuura (松浦マックス Matsuura Makkusu) is a Japanese record producer and president of one of the largest music labels Avex Group. He is known mainly for discovering and developing new artists and converting them into big stars. Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous example of Matsuura's work as well as he is known for reviving Ami Suzuki's career after she was let go by her previous record label.
Laurence Stallings.  Laurence Tucker Stallings (November 25 1894 - February 28 1968) was an American playwright screenwriter lyricist literary critic journalist novelist and photographer. Best known for his collaboration with Maxwell Anderson on the 1924 play What Price Glory Stallings also produced a groundbreaking autobiographical novel Plumes about his service in World War I and published an award-winning book of photographs The First World War: A Photographic History.
Nicky Byrne.  Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne Jr. (born 9 October 1978) is an Irish singer-songwriter radio and TV presenter dancer and former footballer best known for being a member of Irish music band Westlife; he was the band's oldest member. Before his music career he played professional football representing Republic of Ireland at several junior levels. Since then he has had a successful TV presenting career.
Mike Aamodt.  Michael G. Aamodt (born September 1 1957) is an American industrial and organizational psychology professor at Radford University who has published more than 50 professional journal articles and presented more than 100 papers at professional conferences. Aamodt is actively involved in SHRM and is the 2009 president of the New River Valley chapter of SHRM as well as the advisor for the Radford University Chapter. He received his B.A.
Paul Jacobs (Flemish writer).  Paul Jacobs (born Mortsel near Antwerp 24 January 1949) is a Flemish radio and television producer and writer.Jacobs started his career when he was 22 as a writer and reporter with the BRT 1 radio programme Dagboek produced by Jan Geysen. The programme was highy controversial and ran for only a year but Geysen's name opened many doors. For the next ten years Jacobs was able to freelance as a writing journalist and reporter for several radio programmes with BRT 2 Omroep Antwerpen.
Mark Sandman.  Mark Sandman (September 24 1952 – July 3 1999) was an American singer songwriter musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist. He was an indie rock icon and longtime fixture in the Boston/Cambridge music scene best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine.
Georges Bordonove.  Georges Bordonove (25 May 1920 Enghien-les-Bains Seine-et-Oise – 16 March 2007 Antony Hauts-de-Seine) was a French historian and author.
Russ Nicholson.  Russ Nicholson is a British illustrator.
Arthur Crudup.  Arthur Big Boy Crudup (August 24 1905 – March 28 1974) was an American Delta blues singer songwriter and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs such as That's All Right (1946) My Baby Left Me and So Glad You're Mine later covered by Elvis Presley and dozens of other artists.
Giovanni Antonio Giay.  Giovanni Antonio Giay (sometimes spelled Giaj; 11 June 1690 – 10 September 1764) was an Italian composer. His compositional output includes 15 operas 5 symphonies and a significant amount of sacred music.
Blas Cantó.  Blas Cantó was born on October 26 1991 in Ricote Murcia Spain. He is a Spanish singer who took part in the Spanish preselection for the Junior Eurovision 2004. He wrote and sang two songs; 'Sentir' and 'Cantare'.
Mickey Factz.  Mark Williams (born July 13 1982) better known by his stage name Mickey Factz is an American hip hop recording artist from the Bronx borough of New York City New York.
Sandy Denny.  Alexandra Elene MacLean Sandy Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer and songwriter perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as the pre-eminent British folk rock singer.After briefly working with British folk band the Strawbs Denny joined Fairport Convention in 1968 remaining with that band until the end of 1969.
Ramsey Nasr.  Ramsey Nasr (born 28 January 1974 Rotterdam) is a Dutch author and actor of mixed descent (half Palestinian half Dutch).He was Dichter des Vaderlands (Poet Laureate) between January 2009 and January 2013.
Annette Hanshaw.  Catherine Annette Hanshaw (October 18 1901 – March 13 1985) was an American Jazz Age singer.
Pierre de Ronsard.  Pierre de Ronsard (11 September 1524 – 27 December 1585) was a French poet and prince of poets (as his own generation in France called him).
Vesna Lemaić.  Vesna Lemaić (born 1981) is a Slovene writer. Her debut publication was a collection of short stories Popularne zgodbe (Popular Stories). Since she has also published a novel called Odlagališce (The Dumping Ground) and written a radio play for Radio Slovenija.
Howie Schneider.  Howard Adolph Schneider (April 24 1930 - June 28 2007) better known as Howie Schneider was an award-winning cartoonist sculptor and children's book author who lived and worked in Massachusetts.
Marques Houston.  Marques Barrett Houston (born August 4 1981) is an American R&B singer songwriter rapper and actor. A member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx from 1992 until 2001 he went solo in 2003. As an actor he is best known for his role as Roger Evans in the television comedy Sister Sister.
Frank Gambale.  Frank Gambale (born 22 December 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released eleven studio albums over a period of more than two decades and is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.
Bryan Lee O'Malley.  Bryan Lee O'Malley (born 21 February 1979) is a Canadian cartoonist best known for the Scott Pilgrim series. He is also a musician using the alias Kupek.
Jerrilyn Farmer.  Jerrilyn Farmer is an American mystery fiction writer author of a series of humorous 'cozy' mysteries featuring Hollywood caterer 'Madeline Bean'.Originally from Illinois Jerrilyn Farmer majored in Acting and English at Northern Illinois University and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. However she found a career writing for television mainly for game shows and sketch comedy.
Walter Hawkins.  Walter Hawkins (May 18 1949 – July 11 2010) was an American gospel music singer and a pastor. He was consecrated to the bishopic in 1992.
Prince Buster.  Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD (born 24 May 1938 Kingston Jamaica) better known by the stage name Prince Buster is a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. He also has the Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that later reggae and ska artists would draw upon.
Yael Naim.  Yael Naïm (Hebrew: יעל נעים‎ born 6 February 1978 in Paris France) is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single New Soul was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Zaim Imamović (musician).  Zaim Imamović (26 August 1920 – 2 February 1994) was a popular Bosnian sevdalinka performer.
Michael A. Levine.  Michael A. Levine born 20 February 1964 in Tokyo Japan is an American composer and currently based in Los Angeles.
Keely Smith.  Keely Smith (born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely March 9 1932) is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with among others Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra.
Costantini de' Servi.  Costantini de' Servi (1554–1622) was an Italian painter sculptor and architect. Costantini de' Servi was primarily a sculptor and architect who also painted. He primarily did religious-themed works for some of the European courts. His only known surviving work was shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Zuzana Navarová.  Zuzana Navarová de Tejada (18 June 1959 Hradec Králové – 7 December 2004 Prague) was a Czech singer and songwriter. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of Nerez and gradually become one of the most significant personalities of the Czech folk and world music scene. Her style was partially inspired by Latin American music.
Howard McGhee.  Howard McGhee (March 6 1918 Tulsa Oklahoma – July 17 1987 New York City) was one of the first bebop jazz trumpeters together with Dizzy Gillespie Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingers and very high notes. What is generally not known is the influence that he had on younger hard bop trumpeters together with Fats Navarro.
Janelle Arthur.  Janelle Oredith Arthur (born December 12 1989) is an American singer who came in fifth place on the twelfth season of American Idol as the first girl to be eliminated since the Top 10.
Rakby.  Ramón Beňo (born 5 March 1989 in Nitra) better known by his stage name Rakby is a Slovak rapper currently cooperating mainly with fellow Slovak rapper Bacil.
Cyrine Abdelnour.  Cyrine Abdelnour (Arabic: سيرين عبدالنور‎ also spelled Cyrine Abd Al-Nour) (born February 21 1977) is a Lebanese singer actress and model.Her first album Leila Min Layali was released in 2004. She released her second album Aleik Ayouni in 2006 with debut single Law Bas Fe Aini (If he looks in my eyes) becoming one of the most popular Lebanese songs of 2006. Abdelnour has also starred in Arabic TV serials and films since the late 1990s.
Jinsop.  Jinsop Ho Odirling known as Jinsop (Seoul South Korea 1959 – Santa Elena Ecuador June 24 2012) was an Ecuadorian singer of Korean and American heritage who sang Spanish ballads pop and rock music. He reached fame in the 1970s and 1980s in Latin America. The name Jinsop means Fire Star in Korean.
Toots Hibbert.  Frederick Nathaniel Toots Hibbert (born 8 December 1942) is a Jamaican singer and songwriter known as the leader for the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals.
Archie Musick.  Archie Leroy Musick (1902–1978) was an American painter. He studied under Thomas Hart Benton Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Boardman Robinson.
Anthony Ellison.  Anthony Ellison (born 1966) is a New Zealand cartoonist and animator. He has been the political cartoonist for the Sunday Star Times since 1988 and was at one stage the youngest political cartoonist in New Zealand.
Miyu Nagase.  Miyu Nagase (長瀬 実夕 Nagase Miyu born May 20 1988 in Hokkaido) is a Japanese singer guitarist and a former member of all-girl pop band Zone which disbanded in 2005.
Rafael Nieves.  Rafael Nieves (born January 24 1960) is an American comic book writer with over twenty years experience in the field.
Paul Day (musician).  Paul Mario Day (born 19 April 1956 Whitechapel East London) was the original lead vocalist of Iron Maiden from 1975 to 1976.
Mike Butterworth.  Mike Butterworth (John Michael Butterworth) (January 10 1924 – October 4 1986) was a British comic book writer best known for his comic strip The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn. He is not related to the novelist Michael Butterworth author of the Hawklords series and the Space: 1999 novelizations.
Euronymous.  Øystein Aarseth (22 March 1968 – 10 August 1993) who went by the pseudonym Euronymous was a Norwegian guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete.Euronymous was the founder of and central figure in the early Norwegian black metal scene until his murder by fellow musician Varg Vikernes in August 1993.
KC See.  KC See was born in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 16 December. He is a master trainer professional business coach entrepreneur international speaker and an author. He is a Chartered Accountant Chartered Secretary and he also holds a professional marketing qualification from Australia. KC See had his initial training as an auditor in Ernst & Young before embarking on a career in accounting in various organizations. He conducted various seminars trainings and workshops worldwide.
Mikhail Trufanov.  Mikhail Pavlovich Trufanov (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович Труфа́нов; November 22 1921 Nyzhnie Peny Kursk Province Soviet Russia – April 24 1988 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russian painter Honored Artist of the Russian Federation lived and worked in Leningrad regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his portrait paintings..
DJ Spooky.  Paul D. Miller (born 1970) known by his stage name DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as illbient or trip hop. He is a turntablist a producer a philosopher and an author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs.
Seta Hagopian.  Seta Hagopian (Arabic: سيتا هاكوبيان‎; born July 28 1950 in Basra Iraq) is an Iraqi singer of Armenian origin. Her singing career began in 1968 which led to much success for she is known to be the Warm voice of Iraq and has been dubbed as Iraq's Fairouz.
William Alexander Baron Alexander of Potterhill.  William Picken Alexander Baron Alexander of Potterhill (13 December 1905 – 8 September 1993) was a British educator and educational administrator who served as general secretary of the Association of Education Committees from 1945 to 1977. Alexander was born in Paisley Scotland and educated at the University of Glasgow. He married Joan Mary Williamson.
Mehmed Uzun.  Mehmed Uzun (1953 – October 10 2007) was a contemporary Zaza-Kurdish writer and novelist. He was born in Siverek Şanlıurfa Province Turkey.Although the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990 he started to write in his mother tongue. As a writer he achieved a great deal towards shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. From 1977 to 2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee.
Kate Grenville.  Kate Grenville (born 14 October 1950) is one of Australia's best-known authors. She has published nine novels a collection of short stories and four books about the writing process.Her books have been awarded many prizes in Australia as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Britain's Orange Prize. The Secret River was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Her novels have been published all over the world and been translated into many languages. Two have been made into feature films.
Kristoffer Rygg.  Kristoffer Rygg (9 September 1976) also known as Garm Trickster G. and recently God Head is a double Spellemannprisen-nominated and double Oslo-prize winning vocalist musician and producer known as the frontman of Ulver as well as being former producer lyricist and singer of Arcturus.
Albert Looking Elk.  Albert Looking Elk (c. 1888 – 1940) also known as Albert Martinez was a Taos Pueblo painter. Looking Elk is one of the three Taos Pueblo Painters.
Chris Rice.  Chris Rice is an American singer-songwriter who works in the contemporary Christian music contemporary folk and adult contemporary genres. He became a recording artist as well in 1996 after signing a contract with Rocketown Records and releasing his debut album Deep Enough to Dream.
Chick Webb.  William Henry Webb usually known as Chick Webb (February 10 1905 – June 16 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
Miguel Coimbra.  Miguel Coimbra (born December 9 1977) is a French freelance illustrator and graphic artist of Portuguese origin.
Franz van Stampart.  Franz van Stampart (Born in Antwerp 12 June 1675 – died 3 April 1750 in Vienna) was a painter of Flemish origin whose career was spanned throughout Europe working for the Courts of Emperor Charles VI and Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor and then working in the studio of Godfrey Kneller in England.
Philippe Lavil.  Philippe Lavil (born on 26 September 1947 in Fort-de-France Martinique) pseudonym of Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay is a French singer. He remained particularly famous for his hits singles Il tape sur des bambous Elle préfère l'amour en mer (number 8 in France) and Kolé séré a duet with Jocelyne Béroard (number 4 in France). He was also member of Les Enfoirés in 1996 1997 and 1998.
Sumitranandan Pant.  Sumitranandan Pant born on May 20 1900 at Kausani village Almora District Uttarakhand was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. He is considered one of the major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature. Pant mostly wrote in Sanskritized Hindi.
Michal Pavlíček.  Michal Pavlíček (born February 14 1956) is Czech guitarist musical composer singer and lyricist.
Sinikka Laine.  Sinikka Laine-Törmänen (born 17 October 1945 in Riihimäki Finland) is a Finnish author primarily of Young-adult fiction. Her first novel Ohari was published in 1982.Laine has won many literary awards and her novel Tyttö tuulesta poika pimeästä (1986) won the Finnish state literature award (Finnish: Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto).Laine lives and works in Oulu. She is married to artist Veikko Törmänen.
Lauris Reiniks.  Lauris Reiniks (born on July 11 1979 in Dobele Latvia) is a Latvian pop music singer songwriter television host and actor. Lauris has graduated from Jelgava Music college studied and the University of Latvia and honed his acting skills in Los Angeles California. He has released eight solo albums and singles in 11 languages.
Yisa Yu.  Yisa Yu also known as Yu Kewei (Chinese: 郁可唯; pinyin: Yù Kěwéi) and by her birth name Yu Yingxia (Chinese: 郁英霞) (born 23 October 1983) is a Chinese singer. She started out singing in bars and participated in several singing competitions. Her career took off after she achieved fourth place nationally in the 2009 season of Hunan TV's Super Girl. Her fans are called Yu jin xiang (郁金香) which means tulip; personally named by Yisa.
Marc Hansen.  Marc Hansen (born 1963) is a cartoonist and creator of Ralph Snart Weird Melvin and Doctor Gorpon. He has been published by comic book companies such as NOW Comics Marvel/Epic Disney Malibu Graphics and Kitchen Sink Press. Ralph Snart is his most successful creation that began in 1986 which had newsstand and direct market distribution. It peaked at 50000 copies per month with over one million comics in print.
Pierre Alféri.  Pierre Alféri (born 1963) is a French novelist poet and essayist. Alferi is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.After his dissertation on William of Ockham Alferi began to primarily write poetry. Alferi is also a literary translator who has translated works by John Donne Giorgio Agamben and Meyer Schapiro from English and Russian into French. He has also written songs for several performing artists including Jeanne Balibar.
Boris Yoffe.  Boris Yoffe (born 21 December 1968 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian-born Israeli composer resident of Karlsruhe Germany.
Sarah Burgess (singer).  Sarah Burgess (born July 14 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and was a contestant on the sixth season of the television series American Idol (cut in Hollywood week). She signed with indie label PME Records in 2007 and released her album One in 2008 to stores in the US. In 2009 her album was released in Japan stores. In July 2009 Burgess announced she had parted ways with PME Records. Burgess went on a world tour in Switzerland for the entire month of September 2009.
John McCracken.  John Harvey McCracken (December 9 1934 – April 8 2011) was a contemporary artist who lived and worked in Los Angeles Santa Fe New Mexico and New York.
Andy Scott (guitarist).  Andy Scott (born Andrew David Scott 30 June 1949 Wrexham Wales) is a British musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead guitarist and a vocalist in the band Sweet.
Olof Thunberg.  Olof Thunberg (born May 21 1925) is a Swedish actor and director.
Fredric Brown.  Fredric Brown (October 29 1906 – March 11 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the short short form—stories of 1 to 3 pages often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well.
Sam Spence.  Samuel Lloyd Spence (born March 29 1927) is an American soundtrack composer best known for his work with NFL Films. His work has also been on the EA Sports Madden NFL football videogames and countless football-related commercials.
Paul Piché.  Paul Piché (born September 5 1953 in Montreal Quebec) is a singer-songwriter environmentalist political activist and Quebec sovereigntist.He mostly composes on acoustic guitar although some of his recent work has had some electronica sound input.
Shaun Huberts.  Shaun Huberts (born 14 January 1981) is a musician songwriter and producer and was the bassist for the Christian contemporary band Starfield until 2006. He was bassist for indie rock band Tegan and Sara up until 2010. He is also a member of the band Rococode
Billy Powell.  William Norris Billy Powell (June 3 1952 – January 28 2009) was an American musician. He was the longtime keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1970 until his death in 2009.
Harry Womack.  Harris Harry Womack (June 25 1945 – March 9 1974) was an American singer and musician most notable for his tenure as a member of the family R&B quintet The Valentinos.
Hidefumi Kimura.  Hidefumi Kimura (きむら ひでふみ Kimura Hidefumi born March 12 1965) is a Japanese artist writer and animator. He is a member of gímik along with Keiji Gotoh and Megumi Kadonosono and is responsible for composing the scenarios and writing most of the episodic screenplays for their anime and for writing some of the related manga and light novels.
Nils Eklund.  Nils Eklund (born 17 January 1927) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1952.
Carol Starks.  Carol Starks is a British actress.She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and landed her first role with the National Theatre in 'Sweeney Todd'. She later found wider audiences through her ongoing role in soap opera Family Affairs playing nurse Tanya Woods from 2003 to 2005. Other appearances include the BBC film Dustbin Baby the 1992 TV serial The Guilty in which she co-starred with Michael Kitchen the Masterpiece Theatre movie Reckless The Seque' and TV movie Red Cap.
Richard Matheson.  Richard Burton Matheson (February 20 1926 – June 23 2013) was an American author and screenwriter primarily in the fantasy horror and science fiction genres.
Orhan Veli Kanık.  Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (13 April 1914 Beykoz İstanbul – 14 November 1950 İstanbul) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form in Turkish poetry he introduced colloquialisms into the poetic language.
John Van Tongeren.  John Warrington Van Tongeren is a music composer mainly for films and television series.
Peter Arno.  Peter Arno (January 8 1904 – February 22 1968) was a U.S. cartoonist. He contributed cartoons and 99 covers to The New Yorker from 1925 the magazine's first year until 1968 the year of his death.
Yahel Chirinian.  Yahel Chirinian is a French contemporary artist born in Avignon France in 1970. She grew up in Avignon and Rome. She later relocated to India where she works and lives since 2000. Yahel’s formative years were spent exposed to the worlds of theatre contemporary dance literature and the arts where travels served as her backdrop of intellectual milieu. She studied architecture and art in Paris Rome and Tokyo. Yahel opened the Monsoon Heritage design studio in Goa India in 2000.
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain.  Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bengali: খোন্দকার আশরাফ হোসেন; 4 January 1950 – 16 June 2013) was a leading poet essayist translator and editor from Bangladesh. He wrote more than eighteen titles.
Lois Dodd.  Lois Dodd (born in Montclair New Jersey in 1927) is an American painter.
Judith Rodriguez.  Judith Catherine Rodriguez AM (born 13 February 1936) is a contemporary Australian poet.
Ryu Hyoyoung.  Ryu Hyoyoung (Hangul: 류효영; (born April 22 1993) better known as simply Hyoyoung is a South Korean model actress idol singer & rapper and member of the group Coed School and its sub-unit F-ve Dolls. She's the winner of Miss Chunhyang Pageant 2010.
Edward Sheldon.  Edward Brewster Sheldon (Chicago Illinois February 4 1886 – April 1 1946 New York City) was an American dramatist.
Dharanidhar Sahu.  Dr Dharanidhar Sahu (born 1948) is an English writer from India. He is a professor in English and currently teaches at Berhampur University Orissa India.[citation needed]
J. L. Langley.  J. L. Langley is the pen name of an American writer of over a dozen gay romance novels some of which have been translated into Spanish Japanese and German.
Gelu Vlaşin.  Gelu Vlașin (born 30 August 1966) is a Romanian poet and essayist.Born in Telciu Bistriţa-Năsăud County Romania on 30 August 1966 he is married to Cristina Maria Vlasin (music teacher and jazz singer) and has a son Darius Andrei Vlasin (born in Madrid in 4 December 2009).
Man Arenas.  Man Arenas (born Jacinto Manuel Arenas on 25 April 1966) is a motion picture production designer art director and a comic book creator. He worked as a production designer on the animated films Help! I'm a Fish and The Gruffalo as well as Laura's Star among other films. He was born in Brussels Belgium and lives in Llanes Spain.
Jont.  Jont (Full name Jonathan Mark Smith Whittington) is a British Singer-songwriter. First achieving prominence as a slow left-arm spinner for Middlesex County Cricket Club he then shifted focus to poetry then to music. He is perhaps best known for his song Sweetheart which appears on the soundtrack to the 2005 US comedy film Wedding Crashers. Two tracks from his 2008 album Supernatural were featured in Season Five of US medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
Gina Schock.  Regina Ann Gina Schock (born August 31 1959 Baltimore Maryland) is best known as the drummer in the all-girl rock band The Go-Go's.Schock's career began as drummer for Edie and the Eggs a band assembled to feature the John Waters star Edith Massey. After her stint in Edie and the Eggs Schock relocated to Los Angeles California and soon joined The Go-Go's. Schock recorded and toured steadily with The Go-Go's until the group disbanded in 1985 and reformed a few years later.
Ian Broudie.  Ian Zachary Broudie (born 4 August 1958) is an English singer-songwriter musician and record producer from Liverpool England.
Julius Chambers.  Julius Chambers F.R.G.S. (November 21 1850 - February 12 1920) was an American author editor journalist travel writer and activist against psychiatric abuse.
Carl Hudson.  For the Canadian ice hockey player see Carl Hudson (ice hockey).Carl Hudson (born 22 October 1983 Boston Lincolnshire) is a British pianist and keyboardist who has performed with numerous acts including Professor Green Emeli Sande Beth Rowley and Jocelyn Brown.As of June 2011 Hudson has been playing keyboards for Professor Green both on tour and in the studio.Since 2010 he has also played keyboards for soul artists Omar Lye-Fook Leon Ware The Jones Girls and Jean Carne at venues around London and the UK.Hudson works closely in the studio with producer SoulPersona recording and playing alongside veteran Jamiroquai drummer Nick Van Gelder.Carl released his first album entitled 'Zoology For Martians' in May 2013. 
Zélia Duncan.  Zélia Duncan (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈzɛliɐ ˈdũkɐ̃] 28 October 1964) born Zélia Cristina Gonçalves Moreira is a Brazilian singer and composer.
Alesso.  Alessandro Lindblad (born July 7 1991) commonly known by his stage name Alesso is a Swedish DJ and electronic dance music producer.
Nobuaki Sekine.  Nobuaki Sekine (関根 信昭 Sekine Nobuaki born January 1 1934 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor.
Nicky Holloway.  Nicky Holloway (born 12 June 1963) is an English DJ and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s and has been called a prototype of the superstar DJ.
Øivind Bolstad.  Øivind Bolstad (1905–1979) was a Norwegian playwright and novelist. He made his literary breakthrough with the novel Den røde begonia from 1947. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1973.
Brian Thies.  Brian Thies (born 1979 in Washington) is an American comic book creator best known for his work on Star Wars: Legacy Spider-Man and Winter Soldier (comics).
Taïro.  Ismaël Jolé-Ménébhi better known by the stage name Taïro (born in Paris on 5 February 1978) is a French singer songwriter of dancehall reggae. He has released two albums Chœurs et âme in 2009 and Ainsi soit-il in 2013 in addition to three street tapes.He was born of in Paris of a Moroccan father and a French mother originating from Alsace region and a sociology teacher. After his parents divorced he went on to live with his mother in a small studio in Xe arrondissement.
Rudolf Otto.  Rudolf Otto (September 25 1869 – March 6 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion.
Herbert Coleridge.  Herbert Herbie Coleridge (7 October 1830 – 23 April 1861) was a British philologist technically the first editor of what ultimately became the Oxford English Dictionary. He was the grandson of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Mark Gersmehl.  Mark “Gersh” Gersmehl (born July 29 1954) is a Christian musician who is best known as one of the founding members of the Christian rock group White Heart. He and guitarist Billy Smiley were the only two original members of the band to stay with White Heart from its conception in 1982 through its disbandment in 1998. Gersmehl played keyboards in the band as well as occasionally singing lead vocals. He also contributed his songwriting skills penning 15 of White Heart's 16 No. 1 hits.
Wendy Guerra.  Wendy Guerra (born December 1970 in Cienfuegos Cuba) is a Cuban poet and novelist. Guerra contributes to different magazines such as Encuentro La gaceta de Cuba and Nexos as well as visual arts magazines.
James Alan McPherson.  James Alan McPherson (born September 16 1943) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American short story writer and essayist. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. McPherson is a member of the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Frank Collins (musician).  Frank Collins (born 25 October 1947 Liverpool) is an English composer singer and arranger who was a prominent member of the bands The Excels Arrival and Kokomo.
J. Howard Miller.  J. Howard Miller (1918–2004) was an American graphic artist. He painted posters during World War II in support of the war effort among them the famous We Can Do It! poster frequently misidentified as Rosie the Riveter.
Anne Carson.  Anne Carson (born June 21 1950) is a Canadian poet essayist translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University the University of Michigan and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
Countess Dash.  Gabrielle Anne Cisterne de Courtiras vicomtesse de Saint-Mars (2 August 1804 – 11 September 1872) nom de plume Countess Dash was a prolific French writer.
Vivek (actor).  Vivek (born 19 November 1961) is an Indian film actor comedian and television personality working in the Tamil film industry. Introduced in films by director K. Balachander he has won five Filmfare Best Comedian Awards for his performances in Khushi (2000) Minnale (2001) Run (2002) Saamy (2003) and Perazhagan (2004). In 2009 Vivek received the Padma Shri award by the Government of India for his contribution to the arts.
Eddy Raven.  Edward Garvin Futch (born August 19 1944 in Lafayette Louisiana) is an American country music artist known professionally as Eddy Raven. Known for his Cajun-influenced country music Raven has been a recording artist since 1962.
Tony Martin (comedian).  Anthony Tony Francis Martin (born 10 June 1964) is a comedian and writer from Te Kuiti New Zealand who has had a successful TV radio stand-up and film career in Australia.
Aki Shimazaki.  Aki Shimazaki (born 1954 in Gifu Japan) is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981 living in Vancouver and Toronto. She has lived in Montreal where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French since 1991.Her second novel Hamaguri won the Prix Ringuet in 2000. Her fourth Wasurenagusa won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2002. Her fifth Hotaru won the 2005 Governor General's Award for French fiction.
Rudy Zamora.  Rudy Zamora (March 26 1910-July 29 1989) was a Mexican American animator and a prolific animation director who was a veteran actor in George of the Jungle.
Jimmy O.  Jean Jimmy Alexandre (March 9 1974(1974-03-09) – January 12 2010(2010-01-12)) better known by his stage name Jimmy O was a Haitian hip hop artist who was born in Port-au-Prince and lived in New York City. He was involved with Wyclef Jean's Yéle Haiti Foundation. Jimmy O performed his music in Haitian Creole.In 2006 he and Jean held a hip-hop performance in the Bel Air suburb of Port-au-Prince that was part of the USAID-funded Clean Streets project.
Kim Min-kyo.  Kim Min-kyo (Korean: 김민교 born April 15 1974) is a South Korean actor and director. He is well known for a cast member ('crew') on the tvN entertainment show Saturday Night Live Korea.
Mark Cooke.  Mark Cooke (born January 11) is an American country music singer from East Texas. His debut single Can't Cheat In A Small Town was released in early 2011. It was followed by the release of his debut EP Living For The Weekend on September 28 2011.
Richard Alf.  Richard Alf (January 26 1952 – January 4 2012) was an American businessman and former comic book store owner who co-founded the San Diego Comic-Con International and served as its chairman beginning in 1970.
Claire Burch.  Claire Burch (b. 1925 in Brooklyn New York - d. May 21 2009) was an American author filmmaker and poet.
Brendan Gall.  Brendan Gall is a Canadian actor and writer.
David Grellier.  David Grellier (born July 2 1979 Nantes France)is a French electronica musician and founder of the musical projects College (2005) and Valerie (2007). Under the stage name Mitch Silver he is also a member of the electroclash band Sexy Sushi active since 2004.
Dick LaPalm.  Dick LaPalm (June 23 1927 or 1928 – October 7 2013) born Ricardo LaPalombara was a renowned music publicist and promoter. Working primarily with jazz artists LaPalm was known as The Jazz Lobbyist for his tireless promotion of artists he felt deserved to be stars. His most famous project was Nat King Cole being primarily responsible for Cole's ascent to stardom. Some of his other clients included Count Basie Woody Herman Peggy Lee Sonny Rollins Mel Torme and Sarah Vaughan.
Pee Wee Erwin.  Pee Wee Erwin (May 30 1913 Falls City Nebraska - June 20 1981 Teaneck New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter.
William Kroll.  For the metallurgist see William Justin Kroll. For the philologist see Wilhelm Kroll.William Kroll (30 January 1901 – 10 March 1980) was an American violinist and composer. His most famous composition is Banjo and Fiddle for violin and piano.
Joseph Desler Costa.  Joseph Desler Costa is a photographer and musician born(1978) in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Costa is a member of the indie group L'Altra and has released music under the names Young Boy and Costa Music*. Costa has released records with Saint Marie Records Acuarela Aesthetics Hefty Is Collage Collective and Stilll Records.Costa's photographic work has been exhibited in various art spaces magazines and web publications.Costa currently resides in Brooklyn NY.
Philippe Leduc (composer).  Philippe Leduc born in Montréal Québec Canada is a Québécois composer conductor author and arranger.
Carter Stevens.  Carter Stevens (born October 17 1944 in Newark New Jersey United States) is a former pornographic film actor grip gaffer and lab technician (film processing) and director.
Achy Obejas.  Achy Obejas (born June 28 1956) is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues living in Chicago Illinois. She frequently writes on her sexuality and nationality and has received numerous awards for her creative work. She has worked as a journalist in Chicago for two decades.
Christopher La Farge (author).  Christopher Grant La Farge was a novelist and poet known for writing verse novels that chronicled life in Rhode Island.
Dav Pilkey.  David Dav Pilkey Jr. (born March 4 1966) is a popular American author and illustrator of children's literature. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He also uses the pen names George Beard and Harold Hutchins which are the names of two of the main characters in the aforementioned series. He lives near Seattle Washington with his wife Sayuri.
Arlene Perly Rae.  Arlene Perly Rae is a Canadian journalist author and arts patron. She is married to Canadian politician Bob Rae.
Don Miguelo.  Don Miguelo is a Dominican rapper in the Reggaeton genre. He became famous with his smash hit La Cola De Motora and he has twice been awarded with the Casandra Awards.
Arleta (musician).  Arleta (Greek: Αρλέτα; born May 3 1945) is a Greek musician author and book illustrator.
Trey Azagthoth.  Trey Azagthoth (born George Michel Emmanuel III March 26 1965 in Bellingham Washington United States) is an American musician best known as founder and guitarist of the Florida death metal band Morbid Angel.
David Gooderson.  David Gooderson (born 24 February 1941) is an English actor who has appeared in several television roles. As well as portraying Davros creator of the Daleks in the Doctor Who serial Destiny of the Daleks he has appeared in Lovejoy Mapp & Lucia and A Touch of Frost amongst other roles.
Rodrigo (musician).  Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno (/rɵdrɪɡɵ ɑːlɛxɑːndrɵ bʊɛnɵ /; May 24 1973 – June 24 2000) known by his stage name Rodrigo or his nickname El Potro (the Colt) was an Argentine singer of cuarteto music. Bueno's style was marked by his on-stage energy and charisma. His short dyed hair and casual clothes differed from typical cuarteto singers with strident colors and long curly hair.
Panky Trinidad.  Mariangela Soleil Frias Trinidad (born January 21 1986) also known as Panky Trinidad is a Filipina singer. She was one of the scholars of the first season of Pinoy Dream Academy in 2006. In 2008 she was chosen to be one of the representatives to the World Championship of the Performing Arts.
Morrie Turner.  Morris Morrie Turner (December 11 1923 – January 25 2014) was a black-American cartoonist creator of the strip Wee Pals the first American syndicated strip with a integrated cast of characters.
José Wendell Capili.  José Wendell Capili (カピリ・ホセ José Wendell Capili) is a writer and academic from the Philippines. He earned degrees from the University of Santo Tomas University of the Philippines Diliman University of Tokyo (東京大学) University of Cambridge and Australian National University. He is a Professor of creative writing and comparative literature at the College of Arts and Letters University of the Philippines where he was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Stewart McKenny.  Stewart McKenny is an Australian comic book artist who has been described as one of Australia's most prolifically published comic book artists.
Nicolás Leoz.  Nicolás Leoz Almirón (born September 10 1928 in Pirizal Chaco Paraguayo Paraguay) was President of CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol South American Football Confederation) between 1986 and 2013. Leoz assumed the presidency in 1986 (succeeding Teófilo Salinas Fuller) and in February 2006 he was reelected as President for a sixth term. He is Paraguayan and he received Colombian citizenship in 2008.
Howard Allison Sturtzel.  Howard Allison Sturtzel (1894–1985) was an American author of children's books. He wrote books with his wife under the name Jane and Paul Annixter.
Midam.  Midam (born 16 May 1963) is the pseudonym of Michel Ledent the Belgian comics author best known for Kid Paddle.
John Parish.  John Parish (born 11 April 1959) is an English musician songwriter composer and record producer.Parish is best known for his work with singer and songwriter PJ Harvey. He has also worked with many other bands including Eels Tracy Chapman Giant Sand and Sparklehorse. His sister is the actress Sarah Parish. Parish was born in Yeovil Somerset and lives in Bristol.
Ruth Sacks.  Ruth Sacks (b. 1977) is a South African artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. She is currently based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) where she is a doctoral fellow. She is one of the facilitators of the artist-run project space the Parking Gallery hosted by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) in Johannesburg.
1987 (artist).  1987 is the solo project of producer songwriter and musician Victor Holmberg also a member of the Swedish electronic music duo Montauk.
Dariush Pirniakan.  0 ..Dariush Pirniakan (Persian: داریوش پیرنیاکان) (b. 1955 in East Azerbaijan) is a renowned Iranian musician tar and setar player and music researcher.
Juan Tizol.  Juan Tizol (22 January 1900 – 23 April 1984) was a Puerto Rican trombonist and composer. He is best known as a member of Duke Ellington's band and as the co-writer of the jazz standards Caravan Pyramid and Perdido.
Gabriella Cilmi.  Gabriella Lucia Cilmi (/ˈtʃɪlmi/ CHIL-mee; born 10 October 1991) is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2008 Cilmi was awarded six ARIA Music Awards including Single of the Year and Best Female Artist. Her debut album Lessons to Be Learned was released in March 2008 becoming a moderate international success. Her second studio album Ten was released in March 2010. Her third studio album The Sting was released in November 2013.
Ellory Elkayem.  Ellory Elkayem (born 12 August 1970) is a New Zealand film director.Born in Christchurch Ellory Elkayem began making films at a young age. He later attended a film school designed to give students practical experience and preparation for a career in the film business.
Édika.  Édika is the nom de plume of Édouard Karali a French comics artist born December 17 1940 in Heliopolis Egypt who is renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into English (published by Knockabout Comics) Spanish Italian (in the magazine Totem comic) German (published by Alpha Comics) Swedish (published by Epix) and Greek (in the magazines Babel and Para Pente).
Tranda.  Costin Alexandru Trandafir (born in Constanţa Romania) better known by his stage name Tranda is a hip-hop artist and producer from Constanţa Romania mainly known for his collaborations with fellow Constanţa rapper Criss Blaziny and reggae artist Skizzo Skillz. In 2010 he started working with Okapi Sound a Romanian collective of hip hop musicians with members such as Grasu XXL Guess Who and Agresiv.
Ken Fleming (musician).  Ken Fleming (born October 23 1962 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian punk rock musician. He has played in the early Canadian hardcore punk band The Unwanted the skate punk band SNFU and the industrial alternative rock band Econoline Crush.
Jean-Christophe Grangé.  Jean-Christophe Grangé (born 15 July 1961) is a French mystery writer journalist and screenwriter. Grangé was born in Paris. He was a journalist before setting up his own press agency L & G.
Master of the Bamberg Altar.  The Master of the Bamberg Altar (fl. ca. 1420-1440) was a German painter active in the Nuremberg area. His name is derived from an altarpiece depicting scenes from the Passion painted in 1429 for the Franciscan church in Bamberg; this may be seen today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.
Yamabe no Akahito.  Yamabe no Akahito (山部 赤人 or 山邊 赤人) (fl. 724–736) was a poet of the Nara period in Japan. The Man'yōshū an ancient anthology contains 13 chōka (long poems) and 37 tanka (short poems) of his. Many of his poems were composed during journeys with Emperor Shōmu between 724 and 736. Yamabe is regarded as one of the kami of poetry and is called Waka Nisei along with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro.
Sonia Levitin.  Sonia Levitin (b. Berlin August 18 1934) is a novelist and author of over forty novels and picture books for young adults and children as well as published essays on various topics for adults. Her books include: The Journey to America and Silver Days a series about a family of German Jewish refugees who flee the horrors of the Holocaust and The Cure a story about a boy in the future sent back in time.Her book Strange Relations (2007) won a Sydney Taylor Book Award.
Diamondog.  Diamantino Edgar Capacassa Feijó (born August 23 1980) better known as Diamondog is an Angolan rapper currently living in Berlin. He is known for making political and Conscious Hip Hop. Diamondog is a journalist documentary filmmaker and has a master´s degree in Visual Media and Anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Ángela Gurría.  Ángela Gurría Davó (born Mexico City March 24 1929) is a Mexican sculptor. In 1974 she became the first female member of the Academia de Artes. She is best known for her monumental sculptures such as Señal an eighteen meter tall work created for the 1968 Summer Olympics. She lives and works in Mexico City.
Nandita Behera.  Nandita Behera (née Pattnaik) is an Odissi dance instructor and founder of Odissi Dance Circle in Cerritos California. A student of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and Guru Gangadhar Pradhan Nandita Behera has been teaching Odissi in California for the past twenty years. She was awarded Sringaramanai by Sur Singar Samsad Bombay and is also a recipient of the National Scholarship for Dance in India.
J.O.E..  Alty George Nunes III (14 July 1986 – 7 February 2011) better known by his stage name J.O.E. and previously as Lil Joe was a Jamaican reggae singer.
Alcione Nazareth.  Alcione Dias Nazareth (born November 21 1947) (better known as simply Alcione also nicknamed as A Marrom (the brown one)) is one of the most successful female sambists in Brazil who first claimed international recognition in the late 1970s and has had 19 gold records and five platinum and a double platinum records.In 1987 she dedicated to pope John Paul II and 500.000 people the song João de Deus (John of God) during the second visit of the pope unto Brazil.
Ivo de Figueiredo.  Ivo de Figueiredo (born 30 April 1966) is a Norwegian historian biographer and literary critic.He was awarded the Brage Prize in 2002 for a biography of Johan Bernhard Hjort. He has written several books on Henrik Ibsen and his works.
Niccolò Grillo.  Niccolò Grillo (fl. 1720s) was an Italian composer. He was a teacher at the Conservatory of San Onofrio Naples until 1723.
Maureen Wartski.  Maureen Crane Wartski (born Maureen Ann Crane January 25 1940 – January 14 2014) was a naturalized American author She wrote many novels for children and young adults. Wartski's Eurasian heritage and her deep connection to the natural world inspired many of her novels which address such issues as racism (The Face in My Mirror Candle in the Wind A Boat to Nowhere) identity (My Brother Is Special The Lake Is on Fire The Promise) and bullying (Yuri's Brush with Magic).
Sonja Nuttall.  Sonja Nuttall is a British fashion designer.
Clara Mairs.  Clara Gardner Mairs (/ˈmɑːrz/; 1878–1963) was an American painter and printmaker. Her prints were included in the publication Fine Prints of the Year during the 1930s.Clara Gardner Mairs was born on January 5 1878 in Hastings Minnesota to Abigail and Samuel Mairs. Her grandfather built the first grain mill in Dakota County on the Vermillion River. Samuel Mairs died in 1891 and Abigail moved a 13-year-old Clara and her three younger siblings Sam Helen and Agnes to St. Paul Minnesota.
Steve Winter.  Steve Winter is a game designer who has worked on numerous products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR and later Wizards of the Coast.
Lady Pink.  Lady Pink (born Sandra Fabara Ambato Ecuador 1964) is a graffiti artist.
Gandalf (musician).  Gandalf (born Heinz Strobl born 1952) is the name used by a New Age composer from Austria. He plays a wide variety of instruments including guitars keyboards synthesizers and sitars. He includes electronic sounds into his music. His music includes influences from music around the world. He released his first album Journey to an Imaginary Land on March 17 1981 and his second Visions almost one year later on March 16 1982.
Hossein Tehrani.  Hossein Tehrāni (1912 – February 25 1974) (Persian: حسین تهرانی‎) was an Iranian musician and tonbak player. He is regarded as the father of the modern tonbak.
Deodato Guinaccia.  Deodato Guinaccia or Diodato (Naples c. 1510 – 1585?) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Messina Sicily.
Albert Thibaudet.  Albert Thibaudet (1874 Tournus Saône-et-Loire - 1936 Geneva) was a French essayist and literary critic. A former student of Henri Bergson he was a professor of Jean Rousset. He taught at the University of Geneva and was succeeded in his post by Marcel Raymond.
Max Collins (musician).  James Maxwell Stuart Max Collins III (born August 28 1978) is an American musician best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of Eve 6. He authored most of the band's songs and has also launched a solo career in 2013.
Rosario Scalero.  Natale Rosario Scalero (24 December 1870 in Moncalieri - 25 December 1954 in Ivrea) was an Italian violinist music teacher and composer.
Viththal Dattatreya Ghate.  Viththal Dattatreya Ghate (Devanagari: विठ्ठल दत्तात्रेय घाटे) (1894–1978) was an educationist and a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India. He was born in Ghospuri in Ahmednagar district. After spending childhood in Ahmednagar he went to Gujarat. Later he lived in Malwa Indore Gwalher and came back to Maharashtra. He spent one year in London and later revisited there after 30 years.
Al Shux.  Al Shuckburgh - a.k.a.
Roderick David Finlayson.  Roderick David Finlayson (26 April 1904–2 August 1992) was a New Zealand architectural draughtsman writer farm labourer and printing-room assistant. He was born in Devonport Auckland New Zealand on 26 April 1904.
Gary Allan.  Gary Allan Herzberg (born December 5 1967) is an American country music artist known professionally as Gary Allan.Signed to Decca Records in 1996 Allan made his debut on the United States country music scene with the release of his single Her Man the lead-off to his gold-certified debut album Used Heart for Sale which was released in 1996 on Decca Records. A second album It Would Be You followed in 1998 on Decca.
Daniel Maggs.  Daniel Maggs (born 1968) is a South African architect and artist living and working in Cape Town. His latest project ShackRise exhibited at the Spier Contemporary 2010 depicts a scenario in which an abandoned high-rise development is taken over by squatters.
Karen Ascoe.  Karen Ascoe is an English actress who has appeared in French Fields EastEnders Doctors The Bill and Casualty amongst others.
Nilo Alcala.  Nilo Alcala is a Filipino composer arranger and singer.
Ivan Dmitri.  Ivan Dmitri (or Dmitre) (1900 – 1968) born Levon West was an artist from the U.S. State of North Dakota. Born in Centerville South Dakota his father was a Congregational minister who immigrated from Armenia.[citation needed] The family changed their name to West after arriving in the United States. Dmitri later adopted the pen name Ivan Dmitri.
Alexia (Italian singer).  Alexia (born Alessia Aquilani 19 May 1967) is an Italian singer. Before recording in Italian in the 2000s she made records in English in the 1990s. Many of those were international hits. Before her solo career she was the vocalist of Ice Mc.In her career she has sold over 6 million records with 10 top-ten single of which 4 number-one hits and numerous international sales certifications.
Suchitra Bhattacharya.  Suchitra Bhattacharya (born 10 January 1950 in Bhagalpur Bihar) is an Indian novelist.
Leland Bardwell.  Leland Bardwell (born 1922) is an Irish poet novelist and playwright. She was born in India to Irish parents and moved to Ireland at the age of two.
Gulrukhsor Safieva.  Golrokhsar Safi (born 1947) is a prominent Iranologist Persian literary figure and Tajikistan's national poet. In the late 1970s Golrokhsar Safi was an editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pioneer of Tajikistan.Golrokhsar is known for her contribution to Iranistics modern Persian poetry and Persian folk songs. She is highly regarded throughout Iranian cultural continent.
Vadim Kozhevnikov.  Vadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Вадим Михайлович Кожевников; 22 April 1909 [O.S. 9 April] Narym – 20 October 1984 Moscow) was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.
Viola Smith.  Viola Smith (born November 29 1912) is an American drummer best known for her work in orchestras swing bands and popular music in the 1930s and 1940s. She was one of the first professional female drummers.
Charlotte Führer.  Charlotte Führer (1834-November 5 1907) was a German author and midwife/doctress.She was born in Hanover Germany in 1834 as Johanne Louise Charlotte Heise to Evangelical Lutheran parents; her father was a general in the Hanoverian army.At the age of 17 she married Ferdinand Adolph Fuhrer who she refers to by the pseudonym Gustav Schroeder in her book. Shortly afterwards she and Ferdinand moved to New York in the United States. They had two daughters there named Otillia and Maria.
Ryszard Wasko.  Ryszard Wasko (Waśko) (born February 21 1947 in Nysa) is a Polish artist who has worked in multimedia including photography film video installation painting and drawing. He is also known as a curator and organizer of art events. He lives and works in Berlin.
Linda Aksomitis.  Linda Aksomitis née Linda Demyen (born 7 August 1954) is a Canadian author specialising in children's and travel literature as well as nonfiction about the history of the snowmobile. She is a former president of the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild.After a career that spanned more than 35+ paying jobs Aksomitis now works as a full-time writer and writing instructor.
Tatiana Kopnina.  Tatiana Vladimirovna Kopnina (Russian: Татья́на Влади́мировна Копнина́; November 11 1921 Krasnoyarsk East Siberia Soviet Russia – March 6 2009 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter and art teacher lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for her portrait paintings.
Akhtar Sheerani.  Akhtar Shirani (Urdu: اخترشِيرانى‎) (also spelled 'Sheerani' 'Sherani' 'Shirani' 'Shairani') (Born 4 May 1905 – 9 September 1948) is considered one of the leading romantic poets of Urdu.Early LifeAkhtar Shairani was born as Muhammad Dawood Khan to the Aghani tribe Shirani tribe which had come to India with Sultan Mahmood Ghaznawi and had stayed back in Tonk.
Pingali Nagendrarao.  Pingali Nagendrarao (Telugu: పింగళి నాగేంద్రరావు) (29 December 1901– 6 May 1971) was a Telugu movie script writer playwright and lyricist. Famous for his witty and romantic lyrics he also wrote dialogues for many movies. Patala Bhairavi Mayabazar and Missamma are some of his best known works.Pingali is famous for his coining of new and funny words and phrases in Telugu such as Dhimbaka Dingari Gimbali.
Serchmaa.  Serchmaa (Mongolian: Самбуугийн Сэрчмаа) is a Mongolian singer. She was born in 1982 and graduated from the National University of Mongolia. When Serchmaa was 6 years old she started playing the violin then she started a career in singing. Serchmaa performed in many countries such as Japan Korea Poland Russia United States Ireland UK. One of the albums she recorded is called Tsagaan Suunii Domog.
Gary Kaleda.  Gary Kaleda (born July 4 1966) is a contemporary digital artist based in New York City. Exploring the complex relationship between humanity and technology Kaleda’s work centers on the underlying fear uncertainty and beauty of the digital age. He is also known for pioneering the use of QR codes within his paintings.
Mark Henry (novelist).  Mark Henry (born 1968) is an American urban fantasy author who spent twelve years working as a psychotherapist before receiving a contract for his first novel Happy Hour of the Damned. Then titled The Undead Socialite's Guide to Nightlife the novel starring celebrity zombie Amanda Feral the book won Henry not only a single book contract but the promise of two sequels. The second Road Trip of the Living Dead released in 2009.
Heinrich Lichner.  Heinrich Lichner (6 March 1829 – 7 January 1898) was a prolific German composer best known today for his teaching pieces - simple piano works written for students. He was born in Harpersdorf Silesia. His sonatinas including Opp. 4 49 and 66 (among others) are in a light fluent classical style although the harmony occasionally betrays the influence of romanticism.
Albert Ayler.  Albert Ayler (July 13 1936 – November 25 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist singer and composer.Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s but some critics claim that although his style is undeniably original and unorthodox it does not adhere to the generally accepted critical understanding of free jazz.
Niccolò Musso.  Niccolò Musso (active 1618) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was mostly active in his natal city of Casale Monferrato. He is said to have trained or worked under either Caravaggio for ten years in Rome (Orlandi) or by local tradition under the Carracci in Bologna (Lanzi). He painted for the church of St. Francis in Casale Monferato representing that saint at the feet of Christ crucified and angels partaking his lamentations and devotions.
Staffan Kihlbom.  Staffan Kihlbom (born 23 January 1964) is a Swedish actor who appeared in the 2000 film The Beach.
Wellman Morrison.  Wellman Morrison (1815-1857) was an artist in Boston Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. He painted landscapes and portraits; subjects included Charles Sumner. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1846 1847 and 1856. Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.
Falak Shabir.  Falak Shabir is a Pakistani pop singer who earned fame with his debut single in 2008 called Rog. He has since then become a popular artist in the country.Falak's latest album is Judah which was released on 27th of December on the birthday of Falak.
Dan Jacobs (trumpeter).  Dan Jacobs (born 1942) is a jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He has performed in concert with public touring acts such as Bob James John Pizzarelli (musician) Maria Schneider Woody Herman Mel Tormé Wayne Newton Linda Ronstadt Aaron Neville Gladys Knight Frank Sinatra Jr. The Four Tops Johnny Mathis Bobby Vinton Al Green The Lawrence Welk Orchestra The Gene Krupa Orchestra Kenny Rogers Billy Dean The Lettermen Allen Vizzutti the U.S. Navy Band and others.
Hy Hazell.  Hy Hazell (born London 4 October 1919 – died London 10 May 1970) born as Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins was a British actress of theatre musicals and revue as well as a singer and film actress .
Aurora Levins Morales.  Aurora Levins Morales (b. February 24 1954) is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.
Steve Harley.  Steve Harley (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice 27 February 1951 Deptford London England) is an English singer and songwriter best known for his work with the 1970s rock group Cockney Rebel with whom he still occasionally tours (albeit with many personnel changes through the years).
Norma Farber.  Norma Holzmann Farber (6 August 1909 - 21 March 1984) was an American children's book writer and poet. The Poetry Society of America presents the Norma Farber First Book Award; it is presented for a first book of original poetry written by an American.
Theresa Tomlinson.  Theresa Tomlinson (or Thomlinson) (1946-) is a children's author.
Richie McDonald.  Richard Vance Richie McDonald (born February 6 1962 in Lubbock Texas) is an American country music artist. From 1992 until his departure in 2007 he was the lead singer of the group Lonestar which recorded seven studio albums on BNA Records during his tenure as lead vocalist. McDonald co-wrote several of the band's singles and sang lead on all but one of them.
Adam Karrillon.  Adam Karrillon (1853–1938) was a German writer and physician. In 1923 he won the Georg Büchner Prize.
Rachel Wallace.  Rachel Wallace (born 1971 in Hoxton Shoreditch England) is a Rave/House vocalist and songwriter.
Zac Baird.  Zachary Baird born February 16 1971 in Orange County California is a keyboardist and pianist currently collaborating with the band Korn. He is also noted for using the Moog synthesizer. as well as the Ondes Martenot.
Ed Cherry.  Ed Cherry (12 October 1954 New Haven Connecticut –) is an American jazz guitarist and studio musician. Cherry is perhaps best known for his long association with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with whom he performed from 1978 until shortly before Gillespie's death in 1993. Since that time he has worked with several well-known jazz performers including Paquito D'Rivera Jon Faddis John Patton Hamiet Bluiett Henry Threadgill and Paula West.
Brian Casser.  Brian Casser (born 21 March 1936 Newcastle-upon-Tyne England) is a British singer and guitarist. He led the first notable beat group in Liverpool Cass & The Cassanovas who were early rivals of The Beatles in the city. He later led another group Casey Jones & the Engineers which was one of Eric Clapton's first bands and then as leader of Casey Jones & The Governors became successful in Germany in the mid-1960s.
José Fioravanti.  José Fioravanti (August 4 1896 — October 10 1977) was a prolific Argentine sculptor known for the many civic monuments he created.
Robert Svoboda.  Robert Edwin Svoboda (born 1953) is an American author and ayurvedic doctor who gives lectures and courses around the world related to the subjects of ayurveda jyotish tantra and Eastern religion.
Tommy West (producer).  Tommy West (born Thomas Picardo on August 17 1942 in Jersey City New Jersey) is an American record producer and singer-songwriter.
Roger Shimomura.  Roger Shimomura (born 1939 in Seattle Washington) is an American artist and a retired professor at the University of Kansas having taught there from 1969-2004. His artistic endeavors showcased across the United States address Asian American sociopolitical and ethnic issues through the juxtaposition of common everyday images and racially charged imagery.
Jamie Lewis (musician entrepreneur).  Jamie Lewis (born February 26 1977) a.ka. Nebula is an American musician filmmaker comedian and entrepreneur. His career spans two decades in the entertainment and recording industry.
Jay Lynch.  Jay Lynch (born January 7 1945) is an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. His work is sometimes signed Jayzey Lynch. He has contributed to Mad and in 2008 he expanded into the children's book field.
Louise Goodman (artist).  Louise Goodman (b. December 25 1937 – ) is a Navajo folk artist and ceramicist.
Alex Milne (artist).  Alex Milne is a Canadian comic book artist best known for his work on various Transformers comic books.
D. Omer Seamon.  D. Omer Salty Seamon (1911–1997) was an American painter known for his folksy watercolors and landscapes of Indiana and the Midwest. His work can be found in galleries and homes across the United States.
David Anthony Kraft.  David Anthony Kraft (born 1952) also credited simply as David Kraft is an American comic book writer publisher and critic. He is primarily known for his long-running journal of interviews and criticism Comics Interview.
Anita Perez Ferguson.  Anita Perez Ferguson born in 1949 in Santa Barbara California is a speaker author and international consultant.She has a BA in Communications from Westmont College (1971) an MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of Santa Clara and an MA in Management from the University of Redlands.
S. V. Venkatraman.  Sozhavanthan Varadharajan (S.V.) Venkatraman (Tamil: சோழவந்தான் வரதராஜன் வெங்கட்ராமன்) (25 April 1911 – 7 April 1998) also known as SVV was an actor singer and music director who was active in the Indian film industry from to the 1970s.Venkatraman composed the music for Meera starring M. S. Subbulakshmi. He also composed music for more than 200 Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and Hindi films.
Brian Deck.  Brian Deck is an American music producer and member of band Red Red Meat. He co-founded Idful Studios in 1988. Since becoming a full time producer Deck has worked with bands and artists including Modest Mouse Iron & Wine Califone All Smiles Fruit Bats (band) Gomez The Grates Holopaw Baby & Hide David Singer and David Berkeley. Brian currently works at Engine Studios in Chicago Illinois.
Brian Garvey (comics).  Brian Garvey (born September 18 1961) is a comic book artist known primarily for inking. Along with his inking partner Ian Akin Garvey worked on many superhero comics (mostly for Marvel Comics) from 1982–1988.
Norman Kamaru.  Norman Kamaru (born Gorontalo 27 November 1985; also known as Briptu Norman) is a resigned Indonesian police officer from the Mobile Brigade (Indonesia) Indonesian Police Force that is present to be a singer he's rank before resignation from the Police was First Police Brigadier which is known as 'Briptu' in Bahasa Indonesia which is an abbreviation from Brigadir Polisi Satu.
Scott Phillips (musician).  Thomas Scott Flip Phillips (born February 22 1973) is an American musician and songwriter. He is the drummer and co-founder of the bands Creed Alter Bridge and Projected.
Frans Pourbus the Younger.  Frans Pourbus the younger (1569–1622) was a Flemish painter son of Frans Pourbus the Elder and grandson of Pieter Pourbus. He was born in Antwerp and died in Paris. He is also referred to as Frans II.Pourbus worked for many of the highly influential people of his day including the Brussels-based Spanish Regents of the Netherlands the Duke of Mantua and Marie de' Medici Queen of France.
Ivica Đikić.  Ivica Đikić is Bosnian Croat writer and journalist. He is one of the most notable writers from the Balkans and one of the most notable writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is critic of Croatian Democratic Union politics towards Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their relation to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Carol Barton.  Carol Barton (born 3 June 1954) is a book artist paper engineer curator and educator. She is the proprietor of Popular Kinetics Press and has published several editions of artist books. She may be best known for her series of interactive workbooks The Pocket Paper Engineer.I try to find ways to push a book’s pages beyond their flat surfaces and to integrate a message into the book’s form weaving visual and verbal narrative into the magic of a third dimension.”
Tomaž Pengov.  Tomaž Pengov (1949 – 10 February 2014) was a Slovenian singer-songwriter guitarist lutist and poet.
Laura Marney.  Laura Marney is a Scottish novelist and short-story writer.
Ángel Custodio Loyola.  Ángel Custodio Loyola (September 4 1926 – September 24 1985) was a Venezuelan singer and composer known as a pioneer in the joropo genre. He wrote many popular songs including El Gavilán Tierra Negra Guayabo Negro Carnaval Sentimiento Llanero Catira Marmolereña Faenas Llaneras and Puerto Miranda.
Ayuri Konno.  Ayuri Konno (今野 鮎莉 Konno Ayuri born January 10 1997) is a Japanese actress known for her role as Amy Yuuzuki/Kyoryu Pink in the 2013 Super Sentai series Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. She is affiliated with Toyota Office.
Ibn-e-Insha.  Ibn-e-Insha (Punjabi Urdu: ابن انشاء‎ born Sher Muhammad Khan ) on 15 June 1927 died 11 January 1978 was a Pakistani Leftist Urdu poet humorist travelogue writer and columnist. Along with his poetry he was regarded one of the best humorists of Urdu.
Ranjitram Mehta.  Ranjitram Mehta (Gujarati: રણજિતરામ વાવાભાઇ મહેતા) (October 25 1881 - June 4 1917) is a very famous Gujarati author.Gujarati literature's highest award Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak is given in honour of him.
Benito Cereno (writer).  Benito Cereno is an American comic book writer. He is best known as the writer and co-creator of 2004's Tales From the Bully Pulpit and Hector Plasm. His work first appeared as strips in early issues of Robert Kirkman's comic book Invincible.
Frank Socolow.  Frank Socolow (September 18 1923 – April 30 1981) born in New York City was a jazz saxophonist and oboist noted for his tenor playing.Socolow began his career in the early 40s playing in swing bands led by Georgie Auld Ted Fio Rito Roy Stevens Van Alexander and Shep Fields. In 1944 he landed the first of three stints (the others being in 1948 and 1956–57) with Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra recording a number of records.
Steve Bingham (guitarist).  Steve Bingham is a bass guitarist who joined The Foundations in 1969 replacing their former bass player and stayed with them until their break-up 1970.He played on the 1972 Ennismore album by Colin Blunstone on the 1974 Anymore for Anymore album by Ronnie Lane and the 1976 album In Hotel Rooms Kevin Westlake.In 1999 because of the popularity of the film There's Something About Mary the renewed interest in 'Build Me Up Buttercup and The Foundations a version of the band reformed with Colin Young on vocals Alan Warner on guitar Bingham on bass and Gary Moberley on keyboards etc. 
Mark Schlichting.  Mark Schlichting was the Creative Director for Living Books for Broderbund Software in Novato California where he conceived the Living Books line of interactive animated CD-ROM products. Mr. Schlichting was the Design and Art Director for CD-ROM titles such as Just Grandma and Me with Mercer Mayer Arthur's Teacher Trouble with Marc Brown and The New Kid on the Block with Jack Prelutsky. He is the writer of Harry D.
Nadine Coyle.  Nadine Elizabeth Louise Coyle (born 15 June 1985) is an Irish singer songwriter actress and model from Derry Northern Ireland who rose to fame in the early 2000s as a member of the girl group Girls Aloud. The group amassed a joint fortune of £30 million by May 2010.
Doug Richardson.  Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter known for his ability to write action movies.He first made an impression with his so-far unproduced spec script Hell Bent... and Back which sold for one million dollars. He wrote an adaptation of Walter Wager's novel 58 Minutes which became the basis for the sequel Die Hard 2: Die Harder.Other screenplays include Bad Boys and Hostage.His novels include Dark Horse and True Believers.He is the son of California Republican politician H. L. Richardson.
Alexis (comics).  Alexis (September 18 1946 – September 7 1977) was the pseudonym of Dominique Vallet a French comics artist best known for his work on the series Al Crane and Superdupont.
Ricardo Confessori.  Ricardo Confessori (born January 25 1969 in São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian drummer and member of the Brazilian power metal band Angra.After leaving the Brazilian thrash metal band Korzus Confessori was invited for assume the post of drummer of Angra after the recording of the album Angels Cry whose drums was recorded by Alex Holzwarth Rhapsody of Fire's drummer.In 2000 Confessori left Angra with singer Andre Matos and bassist Luis Mariutti.
Juan José Cuadros Pérez.  Juan José Cuadros Perez (Palencia October 9 1926 - Madrid May 27 1990) was a Spanish writer who cultivated poetry and prose.
Omar Ben Salem.  Amor Ben Salem (Arabic: عمر بن سالم‎) is a Tunisian Arabic writer.
Louis Aragon.  Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] born Louis Andrieux (October 3 1897 – December 24 1982) was a French poet novelist and editor a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Master of the Schöppingen Altarpiece.  The Master of the Schöppingen Altarpiece was a German artist active in the area around Münster between 1445 and 1470. It appears likely that he studied in the Netherlands and was influenced by the work of Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden. His name is derived from an altarpiece dated to about 1470 that hangs in the parish church of Schöppingen.
Kumiko Takizawa.  Kumiko Takizawa (滝沢 久美子 Takizawa Kumiko born August 21 1954 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for 81 Produce.
Pieter Nuyts (writer).  Pieter Nuyts (1640 – buried 30 March 1709) was a Dutch poet and dramatist. The youngest son of the third Governor of Formosa (also called Pieter Nuyts) the younger Pieter was born into a comfortable situation probably in Middelburg before his family moved to the city of Hulst where his father became mayor.He authored several books of poetry and plays including Admetus en Alcestis a tragedy and satire of Juvenalis.
Larry Fast.  Lawrence Roger 'Larry' Fast (born 10 December 1951 in Newark New Jersey) is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts including Peter Gabriel Foreigner and Hall and Oates.
K. J. Yesudas discography.  K. J. Yesudas is a multilingual singer singing Indian classical music devotional light music and Film songs. His commercially published recordings span multiple genres.
Martins Pena.  Luís Carlos Martins Pena (November 5 1815 – December 7 1848) was a Brazilian playwright famous for introducing to Brazil the comedy of customs winning the epithet of the Brazilian Molière.He is patron of the 29th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Biagio Antonacci.  Biagio Antonacci (born 9 November 1963) is an Italian singer-songwriter from Milan.
Yuki Amemiya.  Yuki Amemiya (雨宮 由樹 Amemiya Yuki born March 25) is a Japanese manga artist. She was born in Miyagi Prefecture Japan.She writes 07-Ghost together with Yukino Ichihara which is published in Monthly Comic Zero Sum.[citation needed]
Richard K. Morgan.  Richard Morgan (born 1965 and known as Richard K. Morgan in the USA) is an English science fiction and fantasy author.Born in London and brought up in the village of Hethersett near Norwich Morgan studied history at Queens' College Cambridge. After graduating he started teaching English in order to travel the world. After 14 years and a post at the University of Strathclyde his first novel was published and he became a full-time writer.Morgan's books are generally set in a dystopian world.
Tony Bianco.  Tony Bianco is an American jazz drummer and composer from New York City who moved to Europe in the early nineties.He is described as a a true master of the drums (Ayler Records). He has played and recorded with many prominent jazz musicians including Elton Dean Alex Von Schlippenbach Dave Liebman Paul Dunmall and Evan Parker.
Brian Despain.  Brian Despain is an artist whose work has appeared in galleries in video games on book covers and in role-playing games.
Katashi Ishizuka.  Ishizuka Katashi (石塚堅 born September 22 1970 in Osaka) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Aksent.
Del Barber.  Del Barber is an independent folk folk rock Americana and alt-country singer-songwriter musician and record producer. Barber was nominated for a 2011 Juno Award for Love Songs of the Last Twenty in the category of Roots & Traditional Album of the Year. Later in 2011 he won two Western Canadian Music Awards for Independent Album of the Year and Roots Solo Recording of the Year.
Sascha Gerstner.  Sascha Gerstner (born 2 April 1977) is a German musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist of power metal band Helloween since 2002.He is also a former member of Freedom Call.
Tea Hiilloste.  Tea Hiilloste (born October 31 1982 in Hollola) is a Finnish singer and television presenter. She was a member of girl group Jane and she has started a solo career after the group disbanded. Her 2007 single Tytöt tykkää peaked at number one in Finnish Singles Chart.
Chris Harman (composer).  Chris Paul Harman (born 19 November 1970 Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music.He grew up in Toronto attending Maurice Cody Public School then North Toronto Collegiate Institute. He is currently a Professor of music composition at McGill University.
Odell Borg.  Odell Borg of Native American (Ojibwe) and German heritage currently living in Patagonia Arizona is a Native American flutist and flute maker. Odell also teaches the Native American Flute and has been a producer on several Native American flutists albums including Travis Terry Bill Miller and Jan Michael Looking Wolf.Odell in the past twenty years has become an internationally known master flute maker.
Eddie Richards.  Eddie Richards also known as Evil Eddie Jolly Roger and Kode is a British DJ sometimes known as Britain's godfather of house. He was one of the first DJs to champion house music back in the mid 1980s and one of the UK's original mix DJs residing at London's Camden Palace voted best club in the world in Record Mirror.
John Wellwood.  John Wellwood (1853–1919) was a poet writer biographer and Minister of the Church of Scotland. He was born at George Street Glasgow on 18 December 1853. His father was John Wellwood a commission agent and his mother was Margaret Thomson. He was educated at Annfield School Bridgeton Glasgow and at the University of Glasgow.
Augusta Stevenson.  Augusta Stevenson (1869–1976) was a writer of children's literature and a teacher. She was born in Indianapolis Indiana. She wrote over 400 children's books her most famous being Childhood of Famous Americans and Children's Classics in Dramatic Form.
Willy Stöwer.  Willy Stöwer (22 May 1864 – 31 May 1931) was a German artist illustrator and author during the Imperial Period. He is best known for nautical paintings and lithographs. Many of his works depict historical maritime events such as the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Phil Driscoll.  Phil Driscoll (born November 9 1947) is a virtuosic trumpeter singer composer and producer. He performs in widely varying music genres and styles which include rock and roll rhythm and blues and patriotic music and is best known for his work in Christian music and his longterm Christian ministry.
Linda Sole.  Linda Sole (b. in Swindon Wiltshire England) is an awarded and prolific British writer of romance and suspense novels since 1980 she also writes under the pseudonyms of Lynn Granville Anne Herries Emma Quincey and Juliana Linden. In 2004 her novel A Damnable Rogue won the Love Story of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Charles-Édouard Lefebvre.  Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (19 June 1843 – 8 September 1917) was a French composer.Lefebvre was born in Paris and studied with Charles Gounod and Ambroise Thomas. In 1870 he was awarded the Prix de Rome together with Henri Maréchal (1842–1924) for Le Jugement de Dieu. He was the son of painter Charles Lefebvre. After completing his studies at the Paris Conservatoire he would become director of the conservatory's chamber music class in 1895. He died in Aix-les-Bains Savoie aged 74.
Jacky Cullum Chisholm.  Jacky Clark-Chisholm (born Jacqueline Clark) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer. She is the oldest member of the world-renowned gospel singing group The Clark Sisters.
Euros Childs.  Euros Childs (/ˈtʃaɪldz/; Welsh: [ˈəirɔs]; born 16 April 1975) is a Welsh musician and songwriter perhaps best known as the frontman for the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. His sister is the violinist Megan Childs. He was born in Freshwater East Pembrokeshire in Wales and was educated at the Welsh-medium school Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin in Carmarthenshire.
Francis X. King.  Francis X. King (10 January 1934 – 8 November 1994) was a British occult writer and editor who wrote about tarot divination witchcraft magic sex magic tantra and holistic medicine. He was a member of the Society of the Inner Light an offshoot of the Alpha et Omega which in turn was an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Jack Binder (comics).  John Jack Binder (August 11 1902 – March 6 1986) was a Golden Age comics creator and art packager. A fine artist by education Binder had a prolific comics career that lasted primarily from 1937 to 1953 through his most concentrated work was through 1946. He was the creator of the original comic book Daredevil for Lev Gleason Publications. One of Binder's younger brothers was comic book writer Otto Binder.
Paul Brandt.  Paul Rennée Belobersycky (born July 21 1972) is a Canadian country music artist known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Calgary he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break.
Oh Taeseok.  Oh Taeseok (Hangul: 오태석) is a South Korean playwright and director.
Ezekiel Ox.  Ezekiel Ox (born Alan James Davies Colac Victoria) is an Australian entertainer singer/songwriter film maker actor and political activist. He is currently the singer for The Nerve as well as Full Scale Deflection Smash Nova (with Forrester Savell and Eddie Perfect) and Over-Reactor. He was previously the singer of Mammal. He was a founding member of the committee for Musicians Against Police Violence (MAPV) in Melbourne.
Ray Aghayan.  Gorgen Ray Aghayan (July 28 1928 – October 10 2011) was a costume designer in the United States film industry. He won an Emmy Award in 1967 with his partner Bob Mackie for his work in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Aghayan was also nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design three times for his work in Gaily Gaily in 1970 Lady Sings the Blues in 1973 and Funny Lady in 1976.
Kelly George (actor).  Kelly George is a British actor best known for his long association with the BBC school drama series Grange Hill.George first became associated with Grange Hill in 1986 when he appeared on the BBC programme Drugwatch Special: It's Not Just Zammo.
Antonio Rodríguez Salvador.  Antonio Rodríguez Salvador (born December 22 1960) is a poet fiction writer dramatist and essayist. Salvador was born Taguasco Cuba. He graduated in Economics but teaches Composition and Style at José Martí University and Drama at Silverio Blanco Pedagogical College in Sancti Spiritus.
Václav Turek.  Václav Turek (1924– 1988) was a professional Czechoslovak painter graphic artist and sculptor. In his practice he alternated between figurative themes as well as landscape paintings with a polarization of opinion between abstraction and modern Realism (arts).
Bad Boy Joe.  Bad Boy Joe (born Joe Marcano in Brooklyn New York) is an Italian-American DJ producer and remixer. He's best known for his megamixes which appeared on Louie DeVito's NYC Underground Party Dance Factory and Dance Divas mix series. He can be heard on WKTU from 5-6 and also on had a mixshow The Megamix every Saturday night from 11-midnight on Sirius Satellite Radio The Beat channel 36. After November 12 2008 The Beat was replaced with BPM and is no longer on the channel.
Monique Parent.  Monique Parent (born November 4 1965) is an American actress who has appeared primarily in erotic thrillers and other softcore material.
June Brigman.  June Brigman (born October 25 1960 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American comic book artist and illustrator. She is best known for creating the pre-teen superhero characters Power Pack with writer Louise Simonson in 1984. Brigman was the artist of the syndicated newspaper strip Brenda Starr from 1995 to 2011.
Fancy Ray.  Ray Fancy Ray McCloney is a comedian and television personality who has built a comedy and advertising career partly by becoming famous for being famous especially in and near his home town of Minneapolis Minnesota USA. Fancy Ray is the self-proclaimed Best Looking Man in Comedy known for his androgynous and heavily made-up style as well as a loud sometimes bizarre comic persona.
William G. Tapply.  William G. Tapply (July 16 1940 – July 28 2009) was an American writer who published over 40 works. He is best known for his legal mystery series featuring lawyer and detective Brady Coyne and he also wrote about one of his favorite pastimes fishing. Tapply was born raised and lived in New England. He was a high school teacher and a college professor. At his death he left behind his wife mystery writer Vicki Stiefel and five children.
Shayning.  Shay Hugi (born April 7 1981) known professionally as Shayning is an Israeli dubstep producer and disc jockey (DJ). He is the founder of ElectroZilla Records and former drummer of Israeli death metal band Uranium. His music incorporates triplet drum patterns with heavy metal influences and he is commonly regarded as pioneering Psystep music sub-genre his music is best known as a mixture between classic traditional Psychedelic trance and Dubstep.
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal.  Yashwant Vithoba Chittal (3 August 1928 - 22 March 2014) was one of the leading Kannada fiction writers and an Academy award recipient for his work Purusottama.He was born in Hanehalli Uttar Kannada District. He completed his primary school education from his village school and his high school from the Gibbs High School Kumta (1944).
Lloyd Rees.  Lloyd Frederic Rees AC CMG (17 March 1895 – 2 December 1988) was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings. Most of Rees's works are preoccupied with depicting the effects of light and emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and nature. Rees's oeuvre is dominated by sketches and paintings in which the most frequent subject is the built environment in the landscape.
John Addison.  John Mervyn Addison (16 March 1920 – 7 December 1998) was a British composer best known for his film scores.Addison was born in Chobham Surrey to a father who was a colonel in the British Army and this influenced the decision to send him to school at Wellington College Berkshire. At the age of sixteen he entered the Royal College of Music where he studied composition with Gordon Jacob oboe with Léon Goossens and clarinet with Frederick Thurston.
Enzo Mari.  Enzo Mari (born 1932) is a noted Italian modernist artist and furniture designer.He draws inspiration from the idealism of the arts and crafts movement and his political views as a communist.Mari was born in Novara Italy and he studied at the Brera Academy in Milan Italy from 1952 to 1956.
Jack Common.  Jack Common (1903 - 20 January 1968) was a British novelist.He was born in Heaton Newcastle upon Tyne close to the rail-sheds where his father worked as an engine-driver. After attending Chillingham Road School where he developed a lifelong love of Shelley and Skerry's College Newcastle where he gained some secretarial skills Common found it difficult to extend his education or get a rewarding job.
Brooke McClymont.  Brooke Maree McClymont (born 16 May 1981 in Grafton New South Wales) is an Australian singer and songwriter. She has written songs for Kate DeAraugo and Olivia Newton-John and been a support act for Troy Cassar-Daley and Ronan Keating. Her influences include Sheryl Crow ABBA Faith Hill and Alanis Morissette.McClymont is married to singer/songwriter and Australian Idol 2009 semi-finalist Adam Eckersley.
Wheesung.  Choi Hwee-Sung (born February 5 1982) better known by his first name Wheesung (Korean: 휘성) is a South Korean R&B singer. He initially attended the Sun Moon University under the journalism major but dropped out. Wheesung subsequently attended the Gukje Digital University and Kyung Hee University's Graduate School of Communication.
Kanyeria.  Kanyeria (born 23 May 1985) is a Kenyan music producer composer sound engineer and song writer based in Nairobi Kenya but has worked with artists and record labels in Kenya and Tanzania.Kanyeria was born Kennedy Kanyeria in Nairobi Kenya and lived in Ruaraka. He attended GSU Primary School and Aquinas High School and later joined the Kenya School of Monetary Studies where he attained an associate degree in Banking.
Cordell Crockett.  Cordell Crockett (born January 21 1965) is an American rock bass guitarist who played for Ugly Kid Joe from 1991 to their first breakup in 1997 and again since their reunion in 2010. He also played bass on some of the songs on Atomship's The Crash of '47.
Dave Barry.  David McAlister Dave Barry (born July 3 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody as well as comedic novels.
Lorraine Schwartz.  Lorraine Schwartz is an American jeweller.
Rosalind Shanks.  Rosalind Rosalie Shanks is a British actress. Shanks starred as Margaret Hale in North and South in 1975 with Patrick Stewart as John Thornton. In 1964 she won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for radio drama.
Nancy (musician).  Nazmun Munir Nancy is a Bangladeshi singer. In 2006 Nancy has got married with a businessman and has a three-year old baby girl named Rodela.
Venancio Shinki.  Venancio Shinki is considered one of the most outstanding Peruvian painters. He was born on April 1 1932 in Supe Lima Peru. His father (Kitsuke Shinki of Hiroshima Prefecture) was Japanese and had arrived to Peru in 1915. His mother was Peruvian (Filomena Huamán of Huari Peru). He was born and raised on the Hacienda San Nicolás in Supe north of Lima. At that time Supe attracted a large concentration of Japanese immigrants.
Randy Castillo.  Randolpho Francisco Castillo (December 18 1950 – March 26 2002) was best known as Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s and later as drummer for Mötley Crüe from 1999 to his death from cancer in 2002.
Squeak Carnwath.  Squeak Carnwath (born 1947 in Abington Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter. She received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. She is a Professor of Art at the University of California Berkeley where she has taught since 1982 having previously taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and Ohlone College. She currently has a studio in Oakland California where she has lived and worked since 1970.
Frank Springer.  Frank Springer (December 6 1929 – April 2 2009) was an American comic book and comic strip artist best known for Marvel Comics' Dazzler and Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. As well in collaboration with writer Michael O'Donoghue Springer created one of the first adult-oriented comics features on American newsstands—The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist in the magazine Evergreen Review.
W. H. Pugmire.  Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (born May 3 1951) is a writer of horror fiction based in Seattle Washington. His works typically are published as W. H. Pugmire (his adopted middle name derives from the story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe) and his fiction often pays homage to Lovecraftian lore. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T.
J. B. Priestley.  John Boynton Priestley OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) known as J. B. Priestley was an English novelist playwright and broadcaster.His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction notably in The Good Companions (1929) which first brought him to wide public notice.
Lucy Corin.  Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize Corin's stories have appeared in The Mid-American Review Conjunctions Tin House Ploughshares PEN America and the Iowa Review. She is anthologized in the 1994 Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction and both the 1997 and 2003 editions of New Stories From the South.
Bell hooks.  Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25 1952) better known by her pen name bell hooks is an American author feminist and social activist. She took her nom de plume from her maternal great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race capitalism and gender and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination.
Kiva (musician).  Kiva Simova is a Canadian harmonic overtone singer keyboard player and songwriter based in Prague Czech Republic. She is internationally recognized as a western pioneer in world beat/jazz music particularly the art of harmonic overtone singing (singing two pitches simultaneously) which she both performs and teaches. She composes for overtone choir and has directed her own such choir AURALIA in Prague.
Emilíana Torrini.  Emilíana Torrini (born 16 May 1977) is an Icelandic singer best known for her 2009 single Jungle Drum of the 2009 record Me and Armini 1999 album Love in the Time of Science and for performing Gollum's Song for Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Wem (musician).  Wemerson Olivera known by the stage name Wem is a New Jersey-based hip hop artist and music video director. Wem has been featured in XXL Magazine and is known for establishing himself in the American rap industry after being a first-generation immigrant from Brazil.
Robert Rauschenberg.  Robert Rauschenberg (October 22 1925 – May 12 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines of the 1950s in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both but he also worked with photography printmaking papermaking and performance.
Kyo (musician).  Kyo (京 Kyō born February 16 1976) is a Japanese musician poet and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the vocalist of the metal band Dir en grey. He has been with the band since its inception in 1997 and was formerly in La:Sadie's.
Eddie Levert.  Edward Eddie Levert (born June 16 1942) is an American singer and is the lead vocalist of the soul/funk/R&B vocal group The O'Jays.Levert was born in Bessemer Alabama but was raised in Canton Ohio. While attending high school he met buddies Walter Williams Bill Isles Bobby Massey and William Powell. They were motivated to sing after seeing a performance from Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. They formed in 1958.
Daniel Reed (screenwriter).  Daniel Reed (1892–1978) was an American director screenwriter and actor.
Fanny Howe.  Fanny Howe (born October 15 1940 in Buffalo New York) is an American poet novelist and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.
María Argelia Vizcaíno.  María Argelia Vizcaino is a freelance writer of articles and reports that have been published in several languages. As well as the books publishing the books Guanabacoa la Bella and Son y sazón (Son and flavor) (Cuban).His works are mostly research and try to cultural issues which are recommended bygreat professionals due to the seriousness that is evident in their reports.
Etsushi Toyokawa.  Etsushi Toyokawa (Japanese: 豊川 悦司 Hepburn: Toyokawa Etsushi born 18 March 1962) is a Japanese actor.
Kathryn Harrison.  Kathryn Harrison (born March 20 1961 in Los Angeles California) is an American author.
Lorraine Bowen.  Lorraine Bowen (born 31 October 1961 Cheltenham Gloucestershire England) is an English singer songwriter and musician. Born in Cheltenham Bowen was brought up in Chelmsford Essex.She studied music at the University of Surrey and then busked around London. She was a member of two bands in the 1980s: See You in Vegas and The Dinner Ladies as well as performing regularly with Billy Bragg on stage and on record.
Terence Trent D'Arby.  Sananda Francesco Maitreya (born Terence Trent Howard in Manhattan New York New York on March 15 1962) better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby is an American singer-songwriter who came to fame with his album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby released in July 1987 which included the singles Wishing Well and Sign Your Name.
Jens Braage Halvorsen.  Jens Braage Halvorsen (1845 – 1900) was a Norwegian librarian magazine editor and literary historian. He edited the magazine Ny Illustreret Tidende from 1880 to 1883. He is particularly known for his principal work the encyclopedia of Norwegian writers Norsk forfatterlexikon which was issued from 1881 until his death. The encyclopedia was finished in 1908 by Halvdan Koht. Halvorsen was Norwegian editor for the first edition of the encyclopedia Salmonsens Konversations-Lexikon.
Yong Jun-hyung.  Yong Jun-hyung (Hangul: 용준형; Hanja: 龍俊亨; born December 19 1989) also known as Poppin' Dragon or Joker is a South Korean idol rapper actor singer songwriter and dancer. He is a member and the main rapper of the Korean boy group Beast.
Conway Twitty.  Conway Twitty (September 1 1933 – June 5 1993) born Harold Lloyd Jenkins was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll R&B and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 40 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006. From 1971 to 1976 Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn.
James Ingram.  James Edward Ingram (born February 16 1952) is an American singer–songwriter record producer and instrumentalist. He is a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. Since beginning his career in 1973 Ingram has charted eight Top 40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the early 1990s as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Campino (singer).  Campino (born Andreas Frege 22 June 1962 in Düsseldorf Germany) is a singer songwriter and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Die Toten Hosen a German punk rock band.
Big John Greer.  Big John Greer (November 21 1923 – May 12 1972) was an American blues tenor saxophonist and vocalist best known for his recordings from 1948 to 1956 which included Got You On My Mind and Bottle It Up And Go.Born John Marshall Greer in Hot Springs Arkansas United States he was a friend of Henry Glover from childhood and both attended college at Alabama A&M together.
T. M. Wright.  Terrance Michael Wright (AKA T. M. Wright) is best known as a writer of horror fiction speculative fiction and poetry. He has written over 25 novels novellas and short stories over the last 40 years. His first novel 1978's Strange Seed was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and his 2003 novel Cold House was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. His novels have been translated into many different languages around the world.
Andy Montañez.  Andrés Montañez (born May 7 1942) better known as Andy Montañez is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico.
Chris Fehn.  Christopher Michael Chris Fehn (born February 24 1973) or known by his number #3 is an American musician known as one of the two custom percussionists of the Grammy Award winning heavy metal band Slipknot and is the current bassist for the band Will Haven.
Roger de La Fresnaye.  Roger de La Fresnaye (/rɔːˈʒeɪ də læ frɛˈneɪ/; 11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French cubist painter.
Rosemary Aubert.  Rosemary Aubert is a Canadian-American author poet and critic most known for her Ellis Portal series of crime novels. She won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel in 1999 for her book The Feast of Stephen.Aubert was born in Niagara Falls New York but has lived in Canada for over 40 years. She currently resides in Toronto where she teaches novel writing.
Yolandita Monge.  Yolandita Monge (born September 16 1955) is an international singer and actress from Puerto Rico and the first Puerto Rican female singer to be nominated for the Grammy Music Awards.[citation needed] She has been in the music business since adolescence and has recorded over thirty albums through her career. She is widely recognized as one of Puerto Rico's Divas.
Kshitij Wagh.  Kshitij Wagh is an Indian playback singer and a music composer. He was contestant at the second season of Indian Idol in 2005 and 2006. His early education in music came from his father Ramesh Wagh. Later he also learnt music from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya New Delhi.
Frank McMahon (poet).  Frank McMahon was an Australian poet born in Loxton South Australia in 1926 who died on 4 October 2010. He published two books of poetry: Tide Pools and The Asphalt and the Stars. He won several Australian awards for poetry including The Bronze Swagman.
Ramzan Paskayev.  Ramzan Paskayev (Chechen: Рамзан Паскаев) (born March 16 1947 in Taraz Kazakhstan) is a Chechen accordionist and folk musician. He is regarded by many as the contemporary successor to late Chechen accordionist Umar Dimayev.
Jerico Stone.  Jerico Stone is a screenwriter.
Anne Barton.  Anne Barton (previously Righter born BarbaraAnn Roesen; 9 May 1933 − 11 November 2013) was a renowned American-English scholar and Shakespearean critic.Anne Barton died on 11 November 2013 aged 80 in Cambridge England United Kingdom. She was survived by her husband of nearly 45 years theatre director John Barton.
Clint Langley.  Clint Langley is a British comic book artist best known for his work on series with Pat Mills at 2000 AD and as the cover artist for Marvel Comics' Guardians of the Galaxy.He is an artist who combines painting photography and digital art[citation needed] and as well as his work in comics h has provided the art for role-playing games and collectible cards.
Stephen Mason (musician).  Steve Mason (born Stephen Daniel Mason in Joliet Illinois U.S. on July 8 1975) is an American musician most known for being the lead guitarist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay.
Vladimir Gilyarovsky.  Vladimir Alekseyevich Gilyarovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Гиляро́вский 26 November 1853 – 1 October 1935) was a Russian writer and newspaper journalist best known for his reminiscences of life in pre-Revolutionary Moscow (Moscow and Muscovites) which he first published in a book form in 1926.
Lucie Silvas.  Lucie Silvas (born Lucie Joanne Silverman 4 September 1977 Kingston upon Thames England) is a British singer-songwriter.
Hiroyuki Morioka.  Hiroyuki Morioka (森岡 浩之 Morioka Hiroyuki) (born March 2 1962 Hyōgo Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese science fiction novelist.
Dennis Cooper.  Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist poet critic editor and performance artist.
Doug Ostgard.  Doug Ostgard is a professional musician specializing in woodwinds. He has backed up an impressive list of showbiz greats from Frank Sinatra Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis to Rosemary Clooney Lena Horne and Ann-Margret.Doug Ostgard is currently a woodwinds player located in Western Washington. He plays a dazzling array of instruments including saxophone bassoon oboe flute and clarinet.
Larry Cunningham.  Larry Cunningham (13 February 1938 - 28 September 2012) was an Irish country music singer who was one of the leading figures of the showband scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Regarded as a trailblazer and legend in the music industry he accomplished a series of firsts during his career. In 1964 Cunningham broke into the British charts with Tribute to Jim Reeves the first time an Irish artist had done such a thing.
Jacopo Baccarini.  Jacopo Baccarini (c. 1605–1682) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period born in Reggio where he lived and painted. He trained with Orazio Talami (1624–1708). He painted Repose during flight to Egypt and Death of St Alessio for the church of San Filippo in Reggio. He is also known as Jacopo da Reggio or Giacomo Baccarini.
Ursula Rucker.  Ursula Rucker is an American spoken word recording artist. Rucker is known for a diverse repertoire and for utilizing techniques that catch her listeners' attention.
Miyoko Asada.  Miyoko Asada (浅田 美代子 Asada Miyoko born February 15 1956) is a Japanese actress. She is a former pop idol. She is a high school dropout.
Beatrice Egli.  Beatrice Egli (born 21 June 1988 in Pfäffikon Switzerland) is a Swiss female singer and the winner of season 10 of the German music competition Deutschland sucht den Superstar. She is a singer of German Schlager music. Egli became the second contestant from Switzerland to win the title after another Swiss Luca Hänni had won the previous season 9 of the series. As the winner she received a recording contract with Universal Music Group and €500000 (after tax €260000).
Roger Greenawalt.  Roger McEvoy Greenawalt is a Multi-Media performance artist. He is the creator of 366 Visions the daily broadcast on all social platforms of poetry visual art and music launching in May 2014.
Abhrokanti Saha.  Abhrokanti Saha (Devanāgarī: ओभ्रोकन्ति साह) is an Indian singer and a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs who advanced to fourth place with public votes.
Piero Vergara.  Piero Miguel Sainz Vergara (born June 25 1993) is a Filipino actor and singer-songwriter. He made his debut in the fifth season of StarStruck an over-all talent competition on GMA Network in which he was early eliminated in the show.Piero is now part of Star Magic ABS-CBN's talent management arm.
Jimmy Spicer.  James Bromley Spicer better known by his stage name Jimmy Spicer is an American hip hop recording artist who released a number of old school rap singles during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Spicer was managed by Russell Simmons' Rush Management. His single The Bubble Bunch featured Jellybean Benitez's first remix.
Harmony James.  Harmony James is an Australian singer-songwriter. Although James is often classified as a country artist her music draws on many genres including folk pop rock and blues. In 2006 Harmony first came to the attention of the music industry when she became the only Australian songwriter to have won the country category of the International Songwriting Competition with her song Tailwind.
Bootsy Collins.  William Earl Bootsy Collins (born October 26 1951 in Cincinnati Ohio United States) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s and later with Parliament-Funkadelic Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. Collins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Blitz the Ambassador.  Samuel Bazawule (born in 1982) known by the stage name Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian-American hip-hop artist and visual artist based in Brooklyn USA.
Randy Jones (singer).  Randy Jones (born on 13 September 1952 in Raleigh North Carolina United States) is an American disco and pop singer and best known as the cowboy from Village People. He attended Enloe High School in Raleigh North Carolina and graduated in 1970. While there he was a founder of Enloe's Drama Club which was then called Amicus Scaena; Latin for friend of scene or friend of theatre.
Bob Leach.  Robert Warnes Leach (December 16 1914 – March 30 2008) was an American journalist and Hollywood screenwriter who became a leading figure in California's victims' rights movement after the death of his stepdaughter Marsalee (Marsy) Nicholas in 1983. He was the husband of victims’ rights advocate Marcella Nicholas Leach and the stepfather of technology entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Nicholas co-founder and former co-chairman president and chief executive officer of Broadcom Corp.
Traian Demetrescu.  Traian Rafael Radu Demetrescu (also known under his pen name Tradem or occasionally as Traian Demetrescu-Tradem; December 5 1866 – April 17 1896) was a Romanian poet novelist and literary critic considered one of the first symbolist authors in local literature. Influenced by French writers such as François Coppée and the Decadent Maurice Rollinat as well as by the local poet Mihai Eminescu he was made popular by his poems many of which served as the basis of popular romanzas.
Katsuyuki Murai.  Katsuyuki Murai (村井 克行 Murai Katsuyuki) (born December 17 1969) is a Japanese actor known for playing the Rose Orphnoch in Kamen Rider 555.
Sheriff Ghale.  Mohammed Sheriff Yamusah (born March 26 1978) known in showbiz as Sheriff Ghale is a Ghanaian Reggae musician. He was winner of Reggae Song of the year at the 2005 Ghana Music Awards.
Francisco Arriví.  Francisco Arriví (June 24 1915 – February 8 2007) a.k.a. Paco was a writer poet and playwright known as The Father of the Puerto Rican Theater.
Clarence Streit.  Clarence Kirschmann Streit (German pronunciation: [ʃtʀaɪ̯t]; January 21 1896 – July 6 1986) was a journalist and Atlanticist who played a prominent role in the Atlantic Movement.
Jake Morley.  Jake Morley (born 1 August 1983) is a British singer-songwriter based in north London.
Mahla Zamani.  Mahla Zamani is an Iranian fashion designer journalist and expert on Iranian traditional clothing.She established the first fashion exhibition after the Iranian revolution (1979) and put significant effort in popularizing Iranian stylish clothing. In her view Iranians need to revive their past and dress in elegant colorful and traditional styles (instead of black and Arabian dresses).
Valya Balkanska.  Valya Mladenova Balkanska (Bulgarian: Валя Младенова Балканска) (born 8 January 1942) is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong but in the West mainly for singing the song Izlel e Delyu Haydutin part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.Born in a hamlet near the village of Arda Smolyan Province Balkanska has been singing Rhodopean folk songs since her early childhood. 
Max Shertz.  Max Shertz (March 25 1933 – October 15 2009) was an American artist painter sculptor writer poet and teacher. Shertz is known for his Art of the Unconscious style of abstract expressionism. His works are displayed and collected by museums public institutions and collectors. In protest against the commercialization of the art world Shertz was reclusive for the last 25 years of his life and the work Shertz produced during those years has not been released to the public.
Hsie Zhen-wu.  Hsie Zhen-wu (謝震武 born October 21 1963) is a Taiwanese lawyer and TV presenter. He worked for many television stations such as TTV CTS FTV PTV SET STAR Chinese Channel CTi Variety Much TV and Momo TV. He is most famous for hosting the Chao ji da fu weng game show.
Teri Diver.  Teri Diver (September 6 1971 – January 2 2001) was an American pornstar and director. She died of an accidental drug overdose.
Joe Stillman.  Joseph Stillman is an American television and movie writer producer and director.Before becoming a screenwriter he worked for several TV shows like Beavis and Butt-Head King of the Hill Doug and The Adventures of Pete & Pete.Stillman first screen credits were on Joseph: King of Dreams and his second on Shrek both for DreamWorks.
Amalia Catharina.  Amalia Catharina (8 August 1640 – 4 January 1697) Countess of Erbach was a German poet and composer. She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck and the Countess of Nassau. In 1664 she married Count Georg Ludwig von Erbach. She published a number of Pietist poems and songs in Hildburghausen in 1692. They were meant for private household devotion. There were 67 poems some of which had simple melodies and a figured bass.
Karen Hitchcock (author).  Karen Hitchcock is an Australian author and medical doctor who published her first book of short stories in 2009.
Mani Prasad.  Pandit Mani Prasad is an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. An exponent of the Kirana Gharana (school) of Hindustani Classical Music he is renowned for his purity in the khayal form of singing as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs). He is known to have made many new Ragas and given new dimensions to existing ones under his collection Dhyan Rang Piya.
Richard Arnest.  Richard Arnest (born 1950) is an American composer and performer.
DJ Kane.  Jason Cano (born June 8 1975 in Houston Texas) better known as DJ Kane is a Mexican American singer who was the lead vocalist for the Latin Grammy award winning A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia Kings from 1997 to 2003 and A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia All Starz from 2008 to 2010 and went on to become a successful solo artist.
Alice Au.  Alice Au Yin-ching is a Hong Kong actress.
Vet Stone.  Vet Stewart (born Vaetta Stewart on May 2 1950 in Vallejo California) is an African-American soul singer the lead singer in Sly and the Family Stone's background group Little Sister (the group name derives from the fact that she is the little sister of frontman Sly Stone.
Kaare Andrews.  Kaare Andrews is a Canadian comic book writer and artist and filmmaker known for his cover work on Incredible Hulk and many other comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was the first recipient of The Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist in 2005 for his work on Spider-Man: Doctor Octopus.
Atongo Zimba.  Atongo Zimba is a musician and griot from Ghana. His tours in Europe South America and Africa include a benefit for the 2010 Haiti earthquake at the Alliance Française in Accra. His album Allah Mongode was recorded in Switzerland. His album Barefoot in the Sand was nominated African CD of the Year in 2007 by Amsterdam television. His recording of No Beer in Heaven was a major hit in Ghana in 2004.
Judith Feldman.  Judith Feldman is an American television producer and writer. She worked as an executive story editor and writer for L.A. Law and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the episode Lie Harder. She went on to work as a producer and writer for Family Law and The Division. She often collaborates with Sarah Woodside Gallagher.
Alexandre Jacovleff.  Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Яковлев; 25 June [O.S. 13 June] 1887 - 12 May 1938) was a Russian neoclassicist painter draughtsman designer and etcher.
Ann Hould-Ward.  Ann Hould-Ward (born April 8 1954 Glasgow Montana) is an American costume designer primarily for the theatre and dance. She has designed the costumes for 19 Broadway productions (as of February 2011). She won the 1994 Tony Award for Beauty and the Beast.
Joey Fatone.  Joseph Anthony Joey Fatone Jr. (born January 28 1977) is an American singer dancer actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the boyband 'N Sync in which he sang baritone. In 2007 he came in second place on the ABC reality show Dancing with the Stars. He was also the host of the U.S. and Australian versions of The Singing Bee which aired on NBC in the U.S..
David Wellington (author).  David Wellington (born 1971) is a contemporary American horror author best known for his Zombie trilogy.
Billy Chow.  Billy Chow (born Chow Bei-lei August 24 1958 in Calgary Alberta Canada) (also credited as Billy Chau and Billy Chow Bei-lei) is a Canadian-born Hong Kong film actor kickboxing martial artist and entrepreneur. Chow is the former WKA world kickboxing champion. Chow is perhaps best known for his roles as General Fujita in the 1994 film Fist of Legend and Wong Great Kick of the North in the 1996 film Tai Chi Boxer.
Marios Tofi.  Marios Tofi (Greek: Μάριος Τοφή) was born on 24 February in 1990 in Athens Greece to Cypriot parents. Marios Tofi has been living in Famagusta Cyprus since five years old. From the age of eight Marios has demonstrated an interest and passion for music singing and dance. He has got the proper musical education from the beginning. He has been studying piano guitar tenor saxophone theory of music and taking vocal courses. He also studied Classical Ballet Latin and Flamenco for seven years.
DJ Vame.  DJ Vame is one of Sydney's leading hip hop producers contributing over 20 years of production to the local hip hop scene. From releasing his first mixtape in 1988 he then hooked up and became founding member of Def Wish Cast Vame contributed to their most prolific early releases including the Mad as a Hatter EP in 1992 and Knights of the Underground Table in 1993. After splitting from the goup he began production with many groups from all over Australia.
Baldassare Peruzzi.  Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536) was an Italian architect and painter born in a small town near Siena and died in Rome. He worked for many years with Bramante Raphael and later Sangallo during the erection of the new St. Peter's. He returned to his native Siena after the Sack of Rome (1527) where he was employed as architect to the Republic.
Vittorio Monti.  Vittorio Monti (6 January 1868 – 20 June 1922) was an Italian composer violinist mandolinist and conductor. His most famous work is his Csárdás written around 1904 and played by almost every gypsy orchestra.Monti was born in Naples where he studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella. Around 1900 he received an assignment as the conductor for the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris where he wrote several ballets and operettas for example Noël de Pierrot.
Paul Venables.  Paul Venables is a British actor who has appeared in film television and theatre.Venables grew up in Devon and then trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His break through role was as Jamie Callender in the BBC TV series May to December. Additionally he has had television roles in Wycliffe Midsomer Murders Blue Murder Revelations Silent Witness Lewis and Holby City as board member Toby Carr.
Peter Morén.  Peter Andreas Morén (born May 5 1976 in Mora Sweden) is a Swedish musician. He is the guitarist and vocalist of the indie rock trio Peter Bjorn and John. He is also a founding member of the Stockholm-based artist collective 'Ingrid'.He was born and raised in Mora and started his musical career playing the violin which he soon changed to the guitar.
Vicatan.  Vicatan (Vicente Doria Catan Jr. 1948 – 13 May 2004) was a Filipino comic book artist and Novelist.
Tommy Fleming (musician).  Tommy Fleming (born 1 January 1971) is an Irish singer and philanthropist. He rose to fame in the early 1990s after he was asked to tour the US with Phil Coulter. He soon established himself as a solo artist he found his greatest success singing traditional Irish music (both old and contemporary) with his forceful and dynamic bel canto tenor. Fleming has toured extensively throughout Ireland UK United States Netherlands and Australia.
David Vostell.  David Vostell (born 10 October 1960 in Cologne) is a German-Spanish composer and film director.
BB Gunns.  B.B. Gunns (born February 20 1970) is an American stripper and adult model of the big-bust genre.
Frédéric Godefroy.  Frédéric-Eugène Godefroy (born February 13 1826 in Paris; died September 30 1897 in Lestelle-Bétharram) was a French author notable for his works on the history of the French language notably compiling a 10-volume Old French dictionary of over 20000 pages.
Jordin Sparks.  Jordin Brianna Sparks (born December 22 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. In 2007 she came to prominence after winning the sixth season of American Idol; at age 17 she became the youngest winner in the series' history. Her self-titled debut album was released later that year; it was certified platinum by the RIAA and has sold over two million copies worldwide.
Abeer Nehme.  Abeer Nehme (in Arabic عبير نعمة) (born 19 May 1980) is a Lebanese singer and a musicologist. She performs traditional Tarab music Lebanese traditional music Rahbani music and sacred music from the Syriac-Maronite Syriac-Orthodox and Byzantine traditions. In 2009 she joined Jean-Marie Riachi for the album Belaaks. The song Belaaks (on the Contrary) is a duet with Ramy Ayach and is an oriental jazz arrangement of Quizás quizás quizás in the Lebanese dialect.
Destructhor.  Thor Anders Myhren (born 8 March 1978) better known as Destructhor is a Norwegian musician who has played guitar with metal bands Morbid Angel Myrkskog and Zyklon. Along with being a guitarist he has been the vocalist with Myrkskog. He joined Morbid Angel in 2008.
Tomi Ungerer.  Jean-Thomas Tomi Ungerer (born 28 November 1931) is a French illustrator and a writer in three languages. He has published over 140 books ranging from much loved children's books to controversial adult work and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He is known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms.Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator.
Julian Harries.  Julian Harries is a British actor and playwright who works mostly in Suffolk England.He played Callum McCulloch in EastEnders as well as appearing in the short film Undercover Heart.
Felicita Casella.  Felicita Casella née Lacombe (c. 1820–after 1865) was an Italian singer and composer of French birth. She was born at Bourges the sister of Louis Lacombe. Before 1849 she married Italian cellist and composer Cesare Casella and moved with him to Oporto.Her opera Haydée was performed in Oporto in 1849 and again at the Teatro Dona Maria in Lisbon in 1853 where Casella sang in the principal role. Her next opera Cristoforo Colombo was performed in 1865 at the Théâtre Impérial in Nice.
Big Gipp.  Big Gipp (born Cameron Gipp; April 28 1973) is an American rapper from Atlanta Georgia. He is best known as a member of Goodie Mob and has also released one solo album and been part of several collaborations most recently with Ali as Ali & Gipp.
Melanie Sisneros.  Melanie Sisneros is an American bassist and a member of four bands: Crescent Shield Whole Lotta Rosies (an all-female AC/DC tribute band) Hangar 18 (a Megadeth tribute band) and Mz Led (an all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band). She is also a former member of the bands Sinergy The Iron Maidens and New Eden.
Ricus Nel.  Ricus Nel is an Afrikaans musician singer and songwriter. His debut album Sak en Pak was released on 15 Augustus 2011 by Select-musiek. He is famous for the ability to have mastered 13 instruments. His second album Sout van die Aarde was released on 28 June 2013 at inniBOS.
Dan Fogelberg.  Daniel Grayling Dan Fogelberg (August 13 1951 – December 16 2007) was an American musician songwriter composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk pop rock classical jazz and bluegrass. He is best known for his early 1980 hit Longer and his late 1981 hit Leader of the Band.
Seth (cartoonist).  Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant (born September 16 1962 in Clinton Ontario Canada) a Canadian cartoonist best known for his series Palookaville and his mock-autobiographical graphic novel It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken.His drawing style is noted for being strongly influenced by the classic cartoonists of The New Yorker. His work is highly nostalgic especially for the early-to-mid-20th Century period and of Southern Ontario.
Natalka Karpa.  Natalka Karpa (Ukrainian: Наталка Карпа; 14 August 1981) born Nataliya Semenivna Karpa (Ukrainian: Наталія Семенівна Карпа) is a Ukrainian singer anchor lady and the Distinguished Artist of Ukraine (2009). She is closely associated with the city of Lviv.
Frankie Carle.  Frankie Carle (March 25 1903 – March 7 2001) born Francis Nunzio Carlone was an American pianist and bandleader. As a very popular bandleader in the 1940s and 1950s Carle was nicknamed The Wizard of the Keyboard. Sunrise Serenade was Carle's best-known composition rising to No. 1 in the US in 1938 and selling more than one million copies.
Pedro Adolfo de Castro.  Pedro Adolfo de Castro was a twentieth-century architect from San Juan Puerto Rico.
Domenico Marchiori.  Domenico Marchiori (Lendinara Province of Rovigo) 1828 – 1905) was an Italian painter. He was attracted to Neo-Pompeian subject matter.
Chauncey Black (singer).  Chauncey Black (born Chauncey Hannibal November 24 1968) is an American R&B singer songwriter music producer and member of the R&B group Blackstreet. The group’s name is a portmanteau of Hannibal’s nickname (Black) and Joseph Stonestreet’s last name (Street) which birthed the name Blackstreet. The original members of the group were Teddy Riley Chauncey Black Levi Little and Joseph Stonestreet.
David Ferry (poet).  David Ferry (born 1924) is an American poet translator and educator. He has published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism.
Mark Hall (musician).  Mark Hall Jr. (born September 14 1969) is the lead vocalist for the Georgia-based contemporary Christian music group Casting Crowns a seven-member group composed entirely of youth pastors.
Paul McGuigan (musician).  Paul Francis McGuigan (born 9 May 1971) better known by his nickname Guigsy (pronounced Gwigzee) is an English musician and one of the four founder members of the English rock band Oasis. He was the group's bassist from 1991 to 1999.
Marianne Peretti.  Marianne Peretti (born in 1927 in Paris) is a Franco-Brazilian artist.
Mandy Kane.  Mandy Kane is a respected Australian singer songwriter producer and remixer. Mandy has been on the Australian music scene for over 10 years.
Rindert Kromhout.  Rindert Kromhout (born 9 August 1958) is a Dutch author of children's books and young-adult fiction. He is the author of the 2002 kinderboekenweekgeschenk a commissioned book given away to book buyers during the annual Boekenweek.
Dion Lam.  Dion Lam (林迪安; Lam Dik-On) is a Hong Kong action choreographer and actor.
David Sale.  David Sale Born in Manchester England is an Australian-based author and television screenwriter. He has contributed to many TV drama series provided special material for Australia's leading entertainers and has worked as producer director actor and journalist.
Robert Egerton Swartwout.  Robert Egerton Swartwout (July 2 1905 – June 2 1951) was an American born author poet cartoonist and coxswain. The only son of American architect Egerton Swartwout and British born Geraldine Davenport Swartwout. He drew from his rowing experience to produce a locked room mystery about The Boat Race and many poems.
Ivete Sangalo.  Ivete María Dias de Sangalo Cady (Brazilian Portuguese: [iˈvɛtʃi sɐ̃ˈɡaɫu]) (born May 27 1972 in Juazeiro Bahia) is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and Pop singer songwriter and occasional actress and television show host. She is one of the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singers of the present with six albums released with Banda Eva and seven more albums in a solo career. Sangalo is most often recognized by her powerful voice charisma and live performances.
Joel Cohen (writer).  Joel Cohen is an American film writer who has worked on such projects as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen Toy Story Money Talks and Garfield: The Movie.
Pete Mayes.  Pete Mayes (March 21 1938 – December 16 2008) was an American Texas blues singer guitarist and songwriter. He was variously known as Texas Pete Mayes and T-Bone Man; the latter a reference to his guitar playing resembling his hero T-Bone Walker.Mayes' made few recordings but For Pete's Sake was released in 1998 nearly fifty years after Mayes first appeared on stage. It was his most widely distributed recording and won the Blues Foundation's W.C.
Mat Osman.  Mathew David Osman (born 9 October 1967 Welwyn Garden City) is an English musician who is known for being the bassist of the rock band Suede. He studied at the London School of Economics where in 1989 he was awarded a BSc in Economics.
Shin Dongho.  Shin Dongho (born June 29 1994) is a former South Korean singer and actor.
Mort Weiss.  Mort Weiss is a bebop oriented clarinet player with five albums as leader to date. On his first album as leader he performed with Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond B3 organ featured also on his second album B3 and Me (recorded in 2003 but not released until 2006). According to Scott Yanow Clarinet-organ groups are far from common. In fact prior to Mort Weiss' debut CD with organist Joey DeFrancesco it is possible that combination had never been utilized before.
James Burr.  James Burr is an English writer of dark although often humorous paranoiac fiction. His first collection of short stories Ugly Stories For Beautiful People was published in 2007 and was favourably compared to the work of Russell Hoban early Kurt Vonnegut. and Philip K. Dick.
Ebi.  Ebrahim Hamedi (born 19 June 1949) known better by his stage name Ebi is one of the most famous and influential Iranian singers of his time. He is widely known for his expressive voice and is considered one of the best singers of his generation. He lives in exile in Marbella Spain although he also spends time in Los Angeles.
Mary Kelly (artist).  Mary Kelly (born 1941) is an American conceptual artist feminist educator and writer.Mary Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Kelly’s work mediates between conceptual art and the more intimate interests of artists of the 1980s. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is considered among the most influential contemporary artists working today.
Steven Dorian.  Steven Dorian (born November 15 1977) is an American singer best known as a tenor in the a cappella group Rockapella since January 2010.
Disco D.  David Aaron Shayman (September 21 1980 – January 22 2007) better known by his stage name Disco D was an American record producer and composer. He started as a teenage DJ in Ann Arbor Michigan where he helped DJ Godfather popularize the Detroit electronic music called Ghettotech. Disco D produced the track Ski Mask Way on American hip-hop artist 50 Cent's The Massacre album. He committed suicide in Washington D.C. on January 23 2007.
Scott Thunes.  Scott Thunes (pronounced too-nis) (born January 20 1960) is bass player formerly with Frank Zappa Wayne Kramer Steve Vai Andy Prieboy Mike Keneally Fear The Waterboys Big Bang Beat and others.
Gossling.  Helen Croome known by her stage-name Gossling is a folk/pop singer-songwriter from Melbourne Australia. ‘Gossling’ formed after Croome put Psychology/Sociology studies on hold to concentrate on a Bachelor of Music (Composition). In 2009 Croome met the musicians now joining her as Gossling being Joshua Jones – bass Peter Marin – drums and Ryan Meeking- guitar. Releasing three EP’s and a debut album Gossling is an important part of the Australian Music scene.
Luther Dickinson.  Luther Andrews Dickinson (born January 18 1973 Memphis Tennessee) is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars and former lead guitarist for The Black Crowes. He hosts Guitar Xpress on the Video On Demand network Lifeskool.
Wade Guyton.  Wade Guyton (born 1972 in Hammond Indiana) is a post-conceptual American artist who among other things makes digital paintings on canvas using scanners and digital inkjet technology.
DJ Antoine.  Antoine Konrad (born June 23 1975) better known as DJ Antoine is a Swiss house and electro DJ and producer from Sissach Basel Switzerland. He had a number of successful single and album releases in Western Europe in particular Switzerland and France.
Frank Ifield.  Francis Edward Ifield (born 30 November 1937) is an English born easy listening and country music singer. He achieved considerable success in the early 1960s especially in the UK Singles Chart where he had four number-one hits between 1962 and 1963.
Oh Jung-hee.  Oh Jung-Hee (born November 9 1947) (Hangul: 오정희) is a South Korean writer.
Edmund Cake.  Edmund Cake is the musical solo project of Edmund McWilliams an alternative rock musician singer-songwriter and producer. Formerly of Bressa Creeting Cake in the 1990s after the dissolution of the band in 1997 he released the 2004 solo album Downtown Puff on Lil' Chief Records. In 2009 he released another album with the band Pie Warmer.
Fidelio Ponce de León.  Fidelio Ponce de León (24 January 1895 - 19 February 1949) was the pseudonym of Alfredo Fuentes Pons a Cuban painter. A native of Camagüey he studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana from 1913 until 1918. Along with Antonio Gattorno Victor Manuel Amelia Peláez and Wifredo Lam he is considered part of the Vanguardia movement in Cuban art; however unlike many of his contemporaries he never studied in Europe and so had comparatively little contact with European modernism.
O. K. Sato.  O. K. Sato (real name Frederick L. Steinbrucker) was an American vaudeville performer who flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His act was notable for its juggling of the comedic style and may be described as helping define the so-called tramp juggling style epitomized by W. C. Fields.
Jenny Eakin Delony.  Jenny Eakin Delony also known as Jenny Eakin Delony Rice and Jenny Meyrowitz (1866–1949) was an American painter and educator. She specialized in portraits of notable and historic figures in the United States but also made miniature landscape wildlife still life and genre paintings. She was the founder of collegiate art education in Arkansas.
Jeff Kanipe.  Jeff Kanipe (born September 8 1953 in Corpus Christi Texas) is a science writer and author of astronomy books.
Declan O'Rourke.  Declan O'Rourke is a singer-songwriter from Dublin Ireland.
Peter Sollett.  Peter Sollett (born February 9 1976) is an American film director and screenwriter known for his feature films Raising Victor Vargas (2002) and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008).
Eustache Picot.  Eustache Picot (died 1651) was a French musician and composer. He was sous-maître of the chapelle royale of Louis XIII following Nicolas Formé from 1609 till his death. He was succeeded by Thomas Gobert. Despite his reputation in his own lifetime only fragments of his works survive. The king gave him the abbaye de Chaulmoy and a canonry at the Sainte Chapelle.
Graham Spiers.  Graham Spiers is a Scottish sports journalist who wrote for the Scottish edition of The Times newspaper between 2007 and 2011. He has won Scotland's Sports Journalist of the Year award four times.Spiers attended the University of St Andrews. He previously worked as chief sportswriter at The Herald from 2001 to 2007. He was a regular pundit on the Scottish television football highlights show Scotsport shown on STV before the show ended in November 2007.
Mike Wagner (musician).  Michael Mike Wagner (born May 13 1975) sometimes credited as Menashe Yaakov and Don Bonus is an American musician and producer based in Long Beach New York. He played on many early Daptone Records releases and with his bands The Daktaris and Antibalas helped inspire new interest in Nigerian funk and afrobeat music in America during the late nineties.
Amy Sterling Casil.  Amy Sterling Casil (born 1962 in Los Angeles California) is a Southern California science fiction writer. Her writing has often included Southern California themes. Her mother Sterling Sturtevant was an Academy Award-winning art director for animated films who worked for Playhouse Pictures UPA and Charles Schulz.A four-year National Merit Scholar she graduated from Scripps College in Claremont CA in 1983 with bachelor's degrees in British/American Literature and Studio Art.
Chris Vallillo.  Chris Vallillo is a nationally acclaimed singer/songwriter and folk musician who strives to make the people and places of unmetropolitan America come to life in song. Having spent the last 30 years in the rural Midwest he developed an affinity for American roots music.
Sara Wood (novelist).  Sara Wood (b. England) was a popular British writer of 49 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004.
Barry Cox.  Barry Cox (born 1977 15 January) is a British pop star in China. He is currently resident performer in Macau's biggest casino The Venetian. He achieved this by learning Chinese from immigrants in Merseyside where he lived until moving to Hong Kong in 1999.
Adam Carse.  Adam (von Ahn) Carse (19 May 1878 – 2 November 1958) was born in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Layne Staley.  Layne Thomas Staley (August 22 1967 – April 5 2002) was an American musician who served as the lead singer and co-songwriter of the rock band Alice in Chains which he co-founded along with guitarist Jerry Cantrell in Seattle Washington in 1987. Alice in Chains rose to international fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s. The band became known for his distinct vocal style as well as the harmonized vocals between him and Cantrell.
Carlo Cornara.  Carlo Cornara (1605–1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Milan where he became a pupil of Camillo Procaccini. He did not produce many works. He painted a St. Benedict for the Certosa of Pavia. One of his pupils was the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione who was active in China.
Adam Infanticide.  Adam Infanticide is a street artist whose work consists mainly of simple handwritten phrases (generally caustic observations or suggestions) on stickers often accompanied by a heart symbol.
Augusto dos Anjos.  Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos (April 20 1884 — November 12 1914) was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death and are considered the forerunners of Modernism in Brazil.He is the patron of the first chair of the Paraiban Academy of Letters.
Nathaniel Gow.  Nathaniel Gow (1763–1831) was the fourth son of Niel Gow and a celebrated performer composer and arranger of tunes songs and other pieces on his own right. He wrote about 200 compositions including the popular Caller Herrin.
La Banda de SEN.  SEN (born Anthony Sandoval) is a Venezuelan singer born in Caracas in Caracas in 1984 but was raised in Spain.His father was a Venezuelan actor and his mother a sponsor of the arts. He began his musical career at age 16.
Shi Jin-Hua.  Shi Jin-Hua (Chinese: 石晉華; born 1964) is a Taiwanese contemporary artist known predominantly for conceptual arts and performance; notably for his work《Pen Walking》 shown at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2008). He currently lives and works in Kaohsiung Taiwan.
Medard Gabel.  Medard Gabel is a noted author and speaker who co-founded World Game Institute with Buckminster Fuller. Medard also founded BigPictureSmallWorld Inc..In conjunction with Global Education Motivators Medard created the Design Science Lab which is a workshop for developing strategies to address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The results of the Lab have been published in Designing a World That Works for All.
Don Omar.  Don Omar (born William Omar Landrón Rivera; February 10 1978) is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer-songwriter recording artist and actor. He is sometimes referred to by his nickname El Rey (Spanish: The King).
Kiyoshi Ijichi.  Kiyoshi Ijichi (伊地 知潔 Ijichi Kiyoshi) (born September 25 1977) is the drummer of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. Ijichi credits the origin of his drumming ability to playing in marching bands in junior high. He met fellow band members Masafumi Gotō Kensuke Kita and Takahiro Yamada while attending Kanto Gakuin University in 1996. Unlike the others Ijichi had prior band experience and was a member of another college band when approached by the three.
Craig Seymour.  Craig Seymour (born November 25 1968) is an American writer photographer celebrity interviewer music critic and former stripper. He was born in Washington D.C.. He has written for The Washington Post Entertainment Weekly Vibe and Spin among other publications and has served as pop music critic for The Buffalo News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland College Park in College Park.
Samuel Willenberg.  Samuel Willenberg nom de guerre Igo (born 16 February 1923) is an Israeli sculptor and painter originally from Poland former prisoner of Treblinka extermination camp and the last surviving member of its perilous prisoner revolt; a participant of the Warsaw Uprising and recipient of the highest of Poland's orders including Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit awarded by President Lech Kaczyński.
Niccolò Roselli.  Niccolò Roselli (Ferrara active 1556 died 1580) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Hans-Joachim Koellreutter.  Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 Freiburg Germany – 13 September 2005 São Paulo Brazil) was a composer teacher and musicologist. He lived in Brazil from 1937 and became one of the country's most influential musicians.In Brazil Koellreuter taught many prominent composers including Heitor Villa-Lobos Gilberto Mendes Claudio Santoro Camargo Guarnieri Antonio Carlos Jobim Denis Mandarino and many others.
Michael Lepond.  Michael Anthony LePond III (born February 17 1966 in Newark New Jersey) is the bass guitar player of the North American progressive metal band Symphony X and also is the bassist for Dead on Arrival a heavy metal band from New York. The group issued an album - Alive and Kickin’ - on the independent Polo label in 1996. He can be heard on all Symphony X releases since and including V: The New Mythology Suite.
George A. Whiting.  This article is on the American vaudeville performer and popular lyricist. For the classical composer and organist see George Whiting.George A. Whiting was a vaudeville song and dance man and also a writer of lyrics for popular songs during the vaudeville era. He toured with singer Sadie Burt whom he later married and had 3 daughters with. His best-known work is My Blue Heaven with music by Walter Donaldson.
Rasa Kaušiūtė.  Rasa Kaušiūtė (born on March 29 1977) is a Lithuanian singer composer and vocal teacher (works at Lithuanian Youth Center and prepares children for various song contests).In 2000 she released her first album “Apie ką tu galvoji” (“What are you thinking of”) with an experimental dance band “Enter-TOP”.Rasa became famous in 2004 when she successfully appeared in the national selection to the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with her song He forgot that I'm his baby.Rasa Kaušiūtė participated in many Lithuanian TV shows. 
Jerry Wallace.  Jerry Wallace (December 15 1927 – May 5 2008) was an American country and pop singer. Between 1958 and 1964 Wallace charted nine hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including the No. 8 Primrose Lane. He made his debut on the country music charts in 1965 entering it thirty-five times between then and 1980. In that timespan Wallace charted within the country Top Ten four times.
Justin Sullivan.  Justin Sullivan (born 8 April 1956 Jordans Buckinghamshire) is an English singer and songwriter born to Quaker parents. He is also the frontman and lyricist of the British rock band New Model Army which he formed in 1980 together with drummer Robert Heaton and bassist Stuart Morrow in their hometown of Bradford Yorkshire. In the early 1980s he performed under the stage name of Slade the Leveller.
A. M. Dellamonica.  Alyxandra Margaret (A. M.) Dellamonica (born 1968) is a Canadian science fiction writer who has published over thirty short stories in the field since the 1980s. Dellamonica writes in a number of sub-genres including science fiction fantasy and alternate history. Her stories have been selected for Year's Best science fiction anthologies in 2002 and 2007.She attended Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1995.Dellamonica teaches creative writing online at the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.
Droop-E.  Droop-E (born Earl Stevens Jr.; February 18 1988 in Vallejo California) is a member of the production team The Pharmaceuticals and the son of Bay Area rapper E-40. He often works with his cousin B-Slimm.
Josef Ackermann (journalist).  Josef Ackermann (born Munich January 31 1896 – died Zürich August 22 1959) was a German journalist.
Niobia Bryant.  Niobia Bryant (born November 24 in Newark New Jersey) is an African-American novelist of both romance and mainstream fiction. She also writes Urban fiction as Meesha Mink and Young Adult fiction as Simone Bryant.
Tadaoto Kainosho.  Tadaoto Kainosho (December 23 1894 – June 16 1978) is a Japanese actor and costume designer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for his work in the film Ugetsu (1953).
John Sellekaers.  John Sellekaers is a Canadian-born musician and audio mastering engineer. Born in 1973 in Montreal (Quebec) he later moved to Brussels (Belgium). John has released over 40 records under various aliases on famous labels such as Ant-Zen Hymen Records Nova Zembla and Disques Hushush. His style range from experimental music to electronica. Around 1988 under the influence of electronic music pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire and Tangerine Dream he began experimenting with synthesizers.
Mat Brooke.  Mathew Etter Mat Brooke is the lead singer of American rock band Grand Archives and a former member of the bands Band of Horses and Carissa's Wierd.
Saleel Kulkarni.  Dr. Saleel Kulkarni (Marathi: सलील कुलकर्णी) (born 6 October in Pune Maharashtra) is a renowned Marathi music composer singer and author from Maharashtra India. His musical journey started at the age of three years when he performed on All India Radio Pune. Thereafter he took his musical lessons from Pt. Gangadharbuva Pimpalkhare Jaymalabai Shiledar and Pramod Marathe. He is a graduate in medicine; but his passion about music overridden his career in medicine.
Anthony de Sa.  Anthony De Sa is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He graduated from University of Toronto and did his post-graduate work at Queen’s University. In 2004 De Sa took a one-year sabbatical and attended the Humber School for Writers. He subsequently submitted Barnacle Love a volume of linked stories about a Portuguese immigrant family to publishers and Random House of Canada published the collection in March 2008.
Tripper Getem.  Tripper Getem (born October 2 1991) is an American rapper from Louisiana. He is most notable for his 2010 singles Meat Cleaver and Activate My Swag. His third album Moments was released on October 2 2012. He is currently working on his new album Darkness Falls: Death Around The Corner which will be released in 2014.
Tom Byron.  Tom Byron (born Thomas Bryan Taliaferro Jr. April 4 1961 in Houston Texas) is an American pornographic actor director and producer. He is of Italian descent and is an alumnus of the University of Houston. A member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame Byron was also voted #20 in AVN's top 50 pornstars of all time. Byron is also co-founder and co-owner of the Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) independent professional wrestling promotion.
Chris Agee.  Christopher Robert Agee (born 18 January 1956 in San Francisco) is a poet essayist and editor living in Ireland. He holds dual American and Irish citizenship and has spent most of his adult life in Ireland. He also spends part of each year at his house on the Dalmatian island of Korčula near Dubrovnik in Croatia.
Ernie Zerenner.  Ernest Ernie Zerenner (born September 8 1941) is an American entrepreneur and financial writer.
Steve Skeates.  Steve Skeates (born 1943) is an American comic book creator known for his work on books such as Spectre Hawk and Dove T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Aquaman and Namor the Sub-Mariner. He has also written under the pseudonym Chester P. Hazel.
Eduard von Gebhardt.  Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt (1838–1925) was a Baltic German historical painter. He was born in Järva-Jaani Estonia the son of a Protestant clergyman and studied first at the Academy of St. Petersburg (1855–58). In 1860 he became the pupil of Wilhelm Sohn at Düsseldorf where he permanently settled and became professor at the academy in 1873.
Narciso Rodriguez.  Narciso Rodriguez (born January 27 1961) is a New York City fashion designer.One of the foremost American designers during the last two decades Narciso Rodriguez plays a singular role in global fashion.
Matt Fishel.  Matt Fishel is a British singer songwriter music producer and record label owner. He plays guitar piano bass and keyboards. He grew up in Nottingham in the East Midlands in the late 1990s after which he lived and studied in Liverpool before moving to London UK where he currently lives.
Stereo Mike.  Mihalis Exarhos (Greek: Μιχάλης Έξαρχος) (born 1978 in Piraeus Greece) known professionally by his stage name Stereo Mike is a Greek hip hop artist. He is the first MTV EMA Award winner in the Best Greek Act category. Stereo Mike represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 alongside the singer Loucas Yiorkas with the song Watch My Dance placing seventh with 120 points.
Ayman Lotfy.  Ayman Lotfy (born August 30 1968 Cairo Egypt) is an Egyptian fine art photographer.
Nataša Đorđević.  Nataša Đorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Наташа Ђорђевић) is a famous Serbian pop-folk singer. Her first album was released by PGP-RTS in 1994. Today she is one of the most successful artists of the Grand Production. She has released many duets with famous Serbian singers and together with Suzana Jovanović provided a backing vocal for Stoja another popular Serbian pop-folk singer .
France Bevk.  France Bevk (About this sound pronunciation ) (17 September 1890 – 17 September 1970) was a Slovene writer poet and translator. He also wrote under the pseudonym Pavle Sedmak.
Zhu Xu.  Zhu Xu (Chinese: 朱旭) is a Chinese actor. He is well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Sass Jordan.  Sarah Sass Jordan (born December 23 1962) is a British-born Canadian rock artist.
Georges Bernanos.  Georges Bernanos (French: [bɛʁnanɔs]; 20 February 1888 – 5 July 1948) was a French author and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings he was critical of bourgeois thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's eventual occupation by Germany in 1940.
Ludmilla Radchenko.  Ludmilla Radchenko (Russian: Людмила Радченко born November 11 1978 in Omsk Soviet Union) is a Russian model artist and actress best known in Italy and Anglo-Saxon countries.
Scott F. Crago.  Scott Francis Crago (born July 26 1963) twin brother to Jeff Crago is an American session drummer most notably recognized for his work with The Eagles (as their backup drummer as well as touring with them) since 1994. He has played for other artists such as Venice Sheryl Crow Bonnie Raitt Bryan Adams Stevie Nicks Jackson Browne Paul Simon Stevie Wonder Bob Seger and Chris Isaak. He also writes songs as well as drumming.
Valérie Bonnier.  Valérie Bonnier is a French actress and novel writer who played Fabienne in the 1977 film The Man Who Loved Women.
Paul Wong (artist).  Paul Wong (born November 20 1954 in Prince Rupert British Columbia) is a Canadian multimedia artist. An award-winning artist curator and organizer of public interventions since the mid-1970s Wong is known for his engagement with issues of race sex and death. His work varies from conceptual performances to narratives meshing video photography installation and performance with Chinese-Canadian cultural perspectives.
Taime Downe.  Taime Downe (/ˈteɪmiː ˈdaʊn/; born Gustave Molvik on September 29 1964) is an American musician who first became notable as the lead singer of 1980s sleaze rock band Faster Pussycat.
Augustin Hamon.  Augustin Frédéric Hamon (1862–1945) was a French socialist-anarchist writer and editor.Hamon founded the anarchist magazine L'Humanité nouvelle in 1897 and edited it until 1903.Hamon met George Bernard Shaw for the first time at a Fabian Congress in London in 1894. From 1904 onwards he and his wife Henriette (née Rynenbroeck) translated Shaw's work into French.His papers are held at the International Institute of Social History.
Luca Bati.  Luca Bati (1546 – 17 October 1608) was an Italian Baroque composer and music teacher. One of his pupils was Marco da Gagliano.Bati was born and died in Florence. He was maestro di cappella of Pisa Cathedral (1596) and then of the Medici Court and Florence Cathedral (from 1598-1599). His dramatic music for Medici weddings and Florentine carnivals is lost but his surviving madrigals (1594 1598) and sacred works are of high quality though not notably progressive.
Paolo Di Falco.  Paolo Di Falco or Paolo Antonio Onofrio Di Falco (Naples 1674 - ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period depicting mainly religious subjects. He also became a cleric.
Erling Kittelsen.  Erling Kittelsen (born 1946) is a Norwegian poet novelist children's writer playwright and translator. He made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection Ville fugler.He was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment in 1982 the Aschehoug Prize in 1990 and the Dobloug Prize in 2002.
Asuka Yūki.  Asuka Yūki (結城明日香 Yūki Asuka) is a prolific Japanese AV idol whose arrest for indecent exposure made international news in 2006.
Eva Turnová.  Eva Turnová (born 1966) is a Czech singer songwriter bass guitarist teacher translator and actress. Since 2001 she is member of The Plastic People of the Universe. Between 1995-2001 she was member of DG 307. Her first husband was Czech actor David Matásek (divorced five years after the wedding). In 2008 she released first solo album called Eturnity.
Masoud Nine.  Masoud Nine (مسعود ناین) is an Iranian hip hop artist.
Louise von Gall.  Louise von Gall (19 September 1815 Darmstadt – 16 March 1855 Augsburg) was a nineteenth-century German novelist and social critic.
Dominic Scott.  Dominic Scott (born 15 May 1979) is an Irish guitarist and the founder of the English rock band Roundstone and a founding member of rock band Keane.
Keith Albarn.  Keith Albarn (born 1939) is a British artist.
Stacy Dittrich.  Stacy Dittrich (born 2 March 1973) a former police detective from Ohio is an American mystery novelist and true crime author.
Catie Curtis.  Catie Curtis (born 22 May 1965) is an American singer-songwriter working primarily in the folk rock idiom. Her most recent recording A Catie Curtis Christmas was released in 2012.
Raymond Scott.  Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow September 10 1908 – February 8 1994) was an American composer band leader pianist engineer recording studio maverick and electronic instrument inventor.Although Scott never scored cartoon soundtracks his music is familiar to millions because of its adaptation by Carl Stalling in over 120 classic Bugs Bunny Porky Pig Daffy Duck and other Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts.
Irene Higginbotham.  Irene Higginbotham (June 11 1918 Worcester Massachusetts – August 27 1988 New York City New York) was an American songwriter and concert pianist. She is best known for co-writing the Billie Holiday song Good Morning Heartache (1946).
Jared Lee Gosselin.  Jared Lee Gosselin (born June 23 1981) is an Grammy Award Winning producer from Detroit Michigan.
Duncan Campbell Scott.  Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2 1862 – December 19 1947) was a Canadian bureaucrat Canadian poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts Bliss Carman and Archibald Lampman he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.Scott was a Canadian lifetime civil servant who served as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932 and is better known today for advocating the assimilation of Canada’s First Nations peoples in that capacity.
Scott Sundquist.  Scott Sundquist was a drummer for the grunge band Soundgarden during the mid-1980s.
Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo.  Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo (May 14 1907-May 5 1982) was the main reference of the so called “golden generation” of the Paraguayan popular music and a strict studious of the Paraguayan folk music.
Cedella Marley.  Cedella Marley (born on August 23 1967) is a singer dancer fashion designer actress and entrepreneur. She is the first-born daughter of reggae singers Bob Marley and Rita Marley.
René Maran.  René Maran (Fort-de-France Martinique 8 November 1887 - 9 May 1960) was a French Guyanese poet and novelist and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt (in 1921).
Teru Shimada.  Teru Shimada (November 17 1905 Japan - June 19 1988) was an acclaimed Japanese-American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film Tokyo Joe.
Kosuke Saito.  Kosuke Saito (斉藤広祐 Saitō Kōsuke) (born December 17 1983) is a DJ and music game composer. He is best known for his work in the Konami Bemani series. He has produced music under a number of different aliases such as kors k StripE and teranoid.
Jimmy Bancks.  James Charles Jimmy Bancks (10 May 1889 – 1 July 1952) was an Australian cartoonist best known for his comic strip Ginger Meggs.
Jessica Stockholder.  Jessica Stockholder (born 1959) is a sculptor and installation artist who has had exhibitions in Europe and USA her works challenge boundaries blurring the distinction among painting sculpture and environment and even breaching gallery walls by extending beyond windows and doors.
Kate Ceberano.  Catherine Kate Ceberano (/səˈbrɑːnoʊ/ born 17 November 1966) is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals—with Jesus Christ Superstar—and film. She has also achieved success as a songwriter with the hit Pash garnering a gold sales certification in 1998.Ceberano was the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2012 and 2013.
Farnell Newton.  Farnell Newton (born March 21 1977) is a composer and trumpeter. He was born in Miami Florida. He moved to Philadelphia in 1992 where he attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts.
Kate Tempest.  Kate Esther Tempest (born 22 December 1986) is an English poet and spoken word artist. In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients.
Max Brimmell.  Max Brimmell (1917-??th February 1997) was a British actor.
Leo Baxendale.  Leo Baxendale (born 27 October 1930 in Whittle-le-Woods Lancashire) is a British cartoonist who was the creator of the classic Beano strips Little Plum (1953) Minnie the Minx (1953) The Bash Street Kids (created October 1953 began publication February 1954) and The Three Bears (1959).
Débora Arango.  Débora Arango (November 11 1907 – December 4 2005) was a Colombian artist born in Medellín Colombia as the daughter of Castor María Arango Díaz and Elvira Pérez. Though she was primarily a painter Arango also worked in other media such as ceramics and graphic art. Throughout her career Arango used her artwork to explore many politically charged and controversial issues her subjects ranging from nude women to the role of the Roman Catholic Church to dictatorships.
Risa Wataya.  Risa Wataya (綿矢 りさ Wataya Risa born February 1 1984) is a female Japanese novelist from Kyoto.
Riria Yoshikawa.  Riria Yoshikawa (吉川 りりあ Yoshikawa Riria) is a Japanese actress and former AV Idol.
Smiley Bates.  Smiley Bates (October 16 1937 - January 8 1997) was a Canadian country singer songwriter and musician. He recorded over forty albums in his career and sold over three million records worldwide.[citation needed] Bates also performed on radio stations CJKL-FM and CKJB. He died of cancer on January 8 1997 at Bent River in the Muskoka municipality of Canada.
Juan José Carbó.  Juan José Carbó Gatignol (March 19 1927 – May 15 2010) was a Spanish cartoonist and one of the great masters of Spanish comics who won the 2005 Universidad de Alicante premio Notario del Humor (Notary of Humor Award) and signed all his Illustrations with his pseudonym Carbó. Carbó drew in the mediums of newspapers journals children's magazines and even an adult magazine called Reseo (Cattle Magazine).
Rosanna Tavarez.  Rosanna Tavarez (born February 10 1977 in New York NY) is a Dominican American entertainment reporter television presenter singer and actress. Tavarez stars on TV Guide Channel alongside former American Idol contestants Kimberly Caldwell and Justin Guarini. She started off on Mun2 a Telemundo cable channel hosting a show. She co-hosted On Air with Ryan Seacrest and was a member of the pop group Eden's Crush. She was in a Spanish language program titled Fuzion.
Atle Pettersen.  Atle Pettersen (born in Skien on September 5 1989) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter from Skien and lead singer of the band Above Symmetry.
Oneya.  Oneya (born August 17 1979 in Belgrade Serbia SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian hip hop producer and the founder of the Bassivity label in partnership with Soul Flower production.Born Vanja Ulepić (Serbian: Вања Улепић) he grew up in Belgrade and later lived in several European countries. He graduated from Highschool of Design in 1993 and later Fine Art Academy in 1999.
Chen Hao (actress).  Chen Hao (born December 9 1979) is a Chinese actress singer and model.
Cinzia Sasso.  Cinzia Sasso (born 25 August 1956 in Venice) is an Italian journalist and writer.
The Diminisher.  The Diminisher is the alter-ego of Chicago musician David McDonnell (born 1976) who was a founding member of the trio Bablicon bass player Griffin Rodriguez informally assigned the moniker in reference to McDonnell's liberal use of the so-called diminished chord in Bablicon songs.
Roger Raupp.  Roger Raupp (born October 1 1963 in Elkhorn Wisconsin) is an artist whose work has appeared in games such as the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR and the collectible card game Magic: the Gathering from Wizards of the Coast.
Tweedy Bird Loc.  Richard Johnson (Born August 4 1967) better known by his stage name Tweedy Bird Loc is an American rapper from Compton California. Tweedy and producer Ronnie Phillips organized hip hop project Bloods & Crips collaboration between Bloods and Crips members. He is a Crip himself in the same gang as gangsta rapper pioneer Eazy-E associated with the Kelly Park Compton Crip set. Tweedy had beef with Eazy E because Eazy wouldn't sign him to Ruthless Records.
Chris Urbanowicz.  Christopher Dominic Urbanowicz (born 22 June 1981) is a British producer and musician best known as the former lead guitarist and synth player of the indie rock band Editors. He is influenced by such bands as The Walkmen The Strokes LCD Soundsystem Kraftwerk and Elbow.[citation needed]
Chris Walla.  Christopher Ryan Walla (born November 2 1975) is an American musician and music producer most notable for being the guitarist for the band Death Cab for Cutie. He is also a former DJ of KCWU 88.1 The Burg. Walla has also been a prolific producer in the Indie rock community earning production credits on dozens of albums in addition to Death Cab for Cutie's discography.
Carolynne Poole.  Carolynne Poole (née Good; born 5 August 1980 in Leeds England) is an English singer-songwriter actress and former model. She is a founding member of the Carolynne Good Band based in Leeds and London. She is best known for finishing in third place on the second series of the BBC singing competition Fame Academy in 2003. In 2011 Poole was a contestant on The X Factor and made it to the judges' houses' stage of the competition.
Leo the Lion (British singer).  Leo Ihenacho (born 28 May 1977) also known as Leo the Lion is a British singer songwriter and actor who was a member of The Streets.
Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari.  Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari aka LEF is a vocalist and composer from Bologna Italy. Over the last decade he has had notable collaborations with Bill Laswell Hamid Drake Nils Petter Molvær Eivind Aarset Jamie Saft Pat Mastelotto Eraldo Bernocchi Markus Stockhausen Tony Wakeford Trevor Dunn Giovanni Lindo Ferretti Raiz Quintorigo Cristina Donà Gianni Maroccolo Ambrogio Sparagna Faraualla Simone Zanchini Enrico Gabrielli Mariposa Sigillum S Ephel Duath and Fabrizio Puglisi.
Luigi Scorrano.  Luigi Scorrano (Lecce Puglia June 1849 - Urbino June 15 1924) was an Italian painter. He studied at the Academy of Naples where he won many awards. After a year he won a stipend from the government.He was prolific and often exhibited at the National Expositions and Promotrici. For example at the Promotrice of Naples he exhibits: How Many Sad Memories!; Teliclio.
Rudolf Fischer (writer).  Rudolf Fischer (6 March 1901 – 4 June 1957) was a German author.
Vassy (singer).  Vasiliki Karagiorgos (born in Darwin Northern Territory) known mononymously as Vassy is an Australian singer-songwriter. Vassy whose parents are both Greek immigrants (from Florina) was discovered in 2003 after winning Australian radio station Triple J's Unearthed talent contest.
Andreas Ramos.  Andreas Ramos is an American writer and internet business consultant. He is currently Digital Marketing Practice Leader at the CMO Council.Ramos' firsthand account of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been widely published in numerous history textbooks. As co-chair of the business and technical writers' division of the National Writers Union Ramos was cited as an expert on the regional labor market during the Dot-com bubble bust and recovery.
Steve Foley (drummer).  Steven Foley (1959 – 23 August 2008) was an American drummer who played for Curtiss A Things That Fall Down The Replacements Bash & Pop Wheelo and several other bands in Minneapolis Minnesota. He played live for the most part but he recorded with songwriter Peter Lack and he appears in a Replacements video When It Began nominated twice in the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards.
Boudewijn Büch.  Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch (14 December 1948 – 23 November 2002) was a Dutch writer poet and television presenter.
Benjamin Curtis Porter.  Benjamin Curtis Porter (August 27 1843 - April 2 1908) American artist was born at Melrose Massachusetts. He was a pupil of Albion Harris Bicknell and of the Paris schools and was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design New York in 1878 and a full academician in 1880. He died in New York City.Porter and his wife are included in Ward McAllister's list of Mrs. Astor's 400. He is best known as a painter of portraits.
Warren Smith (jazz musician).  Warren Smith (born May 14 1934) is an American jazz percussionist known as contributor to Max Roach's M'boom ensemble and leader of the Composer's Workshop Ensemble (Strata-East).
Lori Carson.  Lori Carson (born 1958) is a singer/songwriter whose albums include: Shelter (DGC-Geffen 1990) Where it Goes Everything I Touch Runs Wild (Restless Records 1995 1997) and Another Year (Blue Kitchen/United for Opportunity 2012).
Olav Midttun.  Olav Midttun (8 April 1883 – 5 January 1972) was a Norwegian philologist biographer magazine editor and the first national program director of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).He was born in Mauranger as a son of teacher Jørgen Midttun (1855–1938) and Marta Øvrehus (1847–1920). He was a brother of Gisle Midttun.
Leila Pinheiro.  Leila Pinheiro (born October 16 1960 in Belém) is a Brazilian Bossa Nova singer pianist and composer. Her self-titled debut album had the guest performances of Tom Jobim João Donato Ivan Lins Francis Hime and Toninho Horta and she later went on to perform with great names such as Zimbo Trio Pat Metheny Baden Powell Toquinho and others.
Fred Durst.  William Frederick Fred Durst (born August 20 1970) is an American musician and film director from Jacksonville Florida. He spent his formative years playing in a number of local bands in Jacksonville Florida while mowing lawns being a record exec and working as a tattoo artist for financial support.
Jason Yates.  Jason Yates (born 1972 Detroit MI) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles Caliifornia.
Jack Epps Jr..  Jack Epps Jr. (born 1949) is an American screenwriter known chiefly for such popular 80's films as Top Gun Legal Eagles and The Secret of My Success which he wrote with longtime partner Jim Cash. Cash graduated from the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University.
Wang Huo.  Wang Huo (Chinese: 王火; pinyin: Wāng Huǒ; born July 1924) is a Chinese novelist and screen writer.Wang is a member of Chinese Communist Party he was a member of the 5th 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
David D'Or.  David D'Or (Hebrew: דוד ד'אור‎; born David Nehaisi on October 2 1965) is an Israeli singer composer and songwriter. A countertenor with a vocal range of more than four octaves he is a three-time winner of the Israeli Singer of the Year and Best Vocal Performer awards. He was also chosen to represent Israel in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest at which he placed 11th in the semifinal.
Lida Persili.  Lida Persili (Lombardy 19th century) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes.
Negash Ali.  Negash Ali (born 27 November 1990) is a London-based Eritrean-Danish Artist & Songwriter signed to Warner Chappell Music. Negash have since 2006 released 3 Albums ( Majors Asmarino GettoPOP) and have worked with/written for names as Chris Brown Bob Sinclar Manu Dibango and many more.
Michèle Girardon.  Michèle Girardon (August 9 1938 – March 25 1975) sometimes credited as Michele Girardon was a French actress.Born in Lyon France Girardon began acting as early as 1956 and had a small but noticeable role as a deaf-mute beauty in director Luis Buñuel's La mort en ce jardin (Death In The Garden) (1956). She soon became prominent in a host of films including those of notable directors of the French New Wave.
François-Xavier Poizat.  François-Xavier Poizat (born August 1989) is a French pianist. He was born in Grenoble. Poizat begun to study the piano at the age of 4 and by 2001 he had given his first recital at the CERN in Geneva at the age of elevenPoizat has been guided and instructed primerily by the pianist and teacher Alexis Golovin at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. Poizat has performed regularly in Geneva Paris Moscow and a number of other locations.
Queena Stovall.  Queena Stovall (20 December 1887 – 27 June 1980) was an American folk artist sometimes called The Grandma Moses of Virginia.Born Emma Serena Dillard in Amherst County Virginia she married at age nineteen and began painting at age sixty-two. She completed forty-seven paintings before her death. The Fenimore Art Museum holds her work in its permanent collection.
Stuart Moore.  Stuart Moore is a writer and editor of comic books and novels.
Lisa Zane.  Lisa Zane (born April 5 1961) is an American actress and singer.
Rolf Kühn.  Rolf Kühn (born September 29 1929 in Köln Germany) is a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.He lived in the United States from 1956 to 1959 and drew favourable reviews for example a comparison with Benny Goodman by John H. Hammond.He is the older brother of the pianist Joachim Kühn. In 2008 he founded the Band Rolf Kühn & TriO with Christian Lillinger Ronny Graupe and Johannes Fink.
Marie-Françoise Guédon.  Marie-Françoise Guédon Ph.D. is a Canadian anthropologist and professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa Canada.
Andy Leek.  Andy Leek(born 1958) is a singer/songwriter known for the George Martin quote he has what Lennon/McCartney and Elton has The hit song Say Something the writer of Frida from Abba's single 'Twist in the Dark' His work with Dexys Midnight Runners. And for leading the best party band in the world 'Andy Leek and the Blue Angels'.
Kate O'Hearn.  Kate O'Hearn is an Canadian children's fantasy writer best known for the Pegasus series. O'Hearn published her first book Shadow of the Dragon: Kira in 2008 which led to a series of books.
Paulo Bitencourt.  Paulo Roberto de Paula Bitencourt (Castro Paraná Brazil December 20 1966) better known as Paulo Bitencourt is a Brazilian singer photographer and narrator.
Kresley Cole.  Kresley Cole is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of paranormal romance and young adult novels. She has received three Romance Writers of America RITA Awards and was inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame as only its 14th member.
Michael Kaeshammer.  Michael Kaeshammer (born January 7 1977 Offenburg Germany) is a Canadian boogie-woogie pianist vocalist composer and arranger.
Alektra Blue.  Alektra Blue (born June 9 1983) is an American pornographic actress.
Andreas Gursky.  Andreas Gursky (born January 15 1955) is a German visual artist known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs often employing a high point of view. Rhein II an image by Gursky fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) (€3.3m) at Christie's New York on November 8 2011 becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold.
Ben Bridwell.  Benjamin Ben Bridwell is the lead singer of American rock band Band of Horses and a former member of the band Carissa's Wierd.
Anita West.  Anita West is a British actress and former television presenter.
The-Dream.  Terius Youngdell Nash (born September 20 1977) better known by his stage name The-Dream is an American R&B and pop record producer and singer-songwriter. He is known for co-writing many successful songs including Me Against the Music (2003) for Britney Spears Umbrella (2007) for Rihanna Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (2008) for Beyoncé and Baby (2010) for Justin Bieber as well as for his acclaimed releases as a solo artist.
Janine Lindemulder.  Janine Marie Lindemulder (born November 14 1968) also known as Janine Marie James is an American exotic dancer and adult film actress best known for her work in American pornographic films (typically credited as just Janine) during the mid-1990s and a 2004–2005 comeback. Lindemulder has appeared in several music videos for bands including Blink-182 as well as appearing on the band's Enema of the State album cover.
Zach Hill.  Zach Hill (born December 28 1979) is an American drummer and visual artist.
Aby Tom Cyriac.  Aby Tom Cyriac (Malayalam: എബി ടോം സിറിയാക് ; born 23 June 1989) is an Indian Composer Arranger and Programmer. He debuted as a composer through 2013 Malayalam release Second Innings
Narushima Ryūhoku.  Narushima Ryūhoku (成島柳北) was a Japanese author and scholar who lived from 1837-1884. He was born in Asakusa and his given name was Korehiro (惟弘). The Narushima family were okujusha (奥儒者) or Confucian tutors to the Tokugawa shoguns who were also involved in editing the Tokugawa jikki (德川實紀）and other historical annals including the Nochikagami (後鑑）. Ryuhoku participated in these editing projects as a young man.
William E. Wing.  William E. Wing (4 July 1869 – 10 March 1947) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 94 films between 1912 and 1927.He was born in Maine and died in Los Angeles California.
Harald Blüchel.  Harald Blüchel (born February 19 1963) is a German electronic artist who is mostly known under his alias Cosmic Baby. Blüchel is also well known for his participation in dance acts such as Energy 52 with Paul Schmitz-Moormann and The Visions of Shiva with Paul van Dyk.
Herbert Guðmundsson.  Herbert Hebbi Guðmundsson (born December 15 1953) is an Icelandic pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his songs Svaradu Time Hollywood and Can‘t Walk Away which reached No. 1 on the Icelandic listings chart in 1985.
Earl Shorris.  Earl Shorris (Chicago June 25 1936 – New York City May 27 2012) was an American writer and social critic. He is best known for establishing the Clemente Course in the Humanities an educational institution founded in 1995 to teach the humanities at the college level to people living in economic distress. He was critical of Western culture as sliding towards plutocracy and materialism.
Akhteruzzaman Elias.  Akhteruzzaman Elias (Bengali: আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস; February 16 1943 - January 4 1997) born in Gaibandha District was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer. Though he wrote only two novels critics place Elias in the pantheon of great Bengali novelists. In the context of the novels of Bangladesh he is possibly the second person highest acclaimed after Syed Waliullah.
Lucien Chevaillier.  Lucien Chevaillier (sometimes spelled Chevallier) (1883–1932) was a French composer and pianist. He is best known for his music for piano particularly his Berceuse pour piano op. 65. His one act opera Le poème du soir premiered successfully at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 13 May 1925. He taught for many years at the Strasbourg Conservatory.
Gene Greene.  Eugene Delbert Greene (June 9 1857 – April 5 1930) better known as Gene Greene was an American entertainer singer and composer nicknamed The Ragtime King. He was a vaudeville star and made some of the earliest sound recordings of scat singing in 1911 for Columbia Records and Victor Records and was a popular ragtime performer.
Frank Schätzing.  Frank Schätzing (About this sound listen ; born May 28 1957) is a German writer mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).
Ian Antono.  Jusuf Antono Djojo or Ian Antono (born October 29 1950 Malang Indonesia) is an Indonesian guitarist and songwriter. He has collaborated with many other musicians including Anggun Iwan Fals Nicky Astria Doel Sumbang Gito Rollies Ebiet G Ade and Ikang Fawzi he is best known as God Bless' lead guitarist since 1974. Other notable collaboration was Gong 2000 which was established in 1991 until 1996. Ian Antono was also recognized as one of the very first rock guitarists in Indonesia.
Eva Hesse.  Eva Hesse (January 11 1936 – May 29 1970) was a Jewish German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex fiberglass and plastics.
Nestor Kotlyarevsky.  Nestor Alexandrovich Kotlyarevsky (Не′стор Алекса′ндрович Котляре′вский February 2 1863 Moscow Russian Empire - May 12 1925 Leningrad USSR) was a Russian/Soviet author publicist literary critic and historian. A high profile scholar and a Russian academy honorary member (since 1906) Kotlyarevsky taught the history of literature in the Moscow University a series of his lectures served later as a foundation for one of his best known works The Nineteenth Century (1921).
John Moyer.  John Moyer (born November 30 1973) is an American musician mainly known as the current bassist and back-up vocalist for the heavy metal band Disturbed. Taking over in 2004 after Steve Fuzz Kmak was fired Moyer has played bass with the group since their third studio album Ten Thousand Fists. In February 2012 Moyer joined Adrenaline Mob as the group's new bassist.
Tristan Taormino.  Tristan Taormino (born May 9 1971) is an American feminist author columnist sex educator activist editor speaker radio host and pornographic film director (she also appeared in three films two of which she directed 1999–2000).
Dennis Clifton.  Dennis Clifton (1953 – January 1 2008) was an American musician and studio engineer.Clifton was born and raised in Decatur AL. He began playing guitar as a child encouraged by his parents. He helped form his first rock/pop band at age 12. In his teen years he played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals for The Surprise Package and Shawnee in Decatur. One of his formative influences was The Allman Brothers Band whose engineer Johnny Sandlin was also from the Decatur area.
Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen.  Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (Göttingen 12 October 1882 - Munich 14 June 1954) was a German composer conductor teacher and writer.He was the son of the economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852–1938) and his wife Charlotte Freiin von Kapherr a descendant of the historian Georg Friedrich Sartorius. He studied composition with Ludwig Thuille in Munich.
Ylla.  Ylla (/ˈiːlæ/ born Camilla Koffler; 16 August 1911 – 30 March 1955) was a Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography. At the time of her death she was generally considered the most proficient animal photographer in the world.
Kemble Walters.  Kemble Walters (born November 23 1982) is an American rock musician multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist guitarist and primary songwriter for the Kemble Walters & The Blank Faces and ÆGES and the former guitarist for Juliette & The Licks (2006-2007). He was previously the drummer for the The Impossibles and The Rise.
Herta Huber.  Herta Huber (January 1926 in Schönbach today Luby (Cheb District) Karlovy Vary Region Czech Republic) is a German writer and poet. She is well known for writing in the Egerland dialect originating from what is now part of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. She was awarded several commendations of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft for her literary contributions.She now lives in Immenstadt in Bavaria.
Ginn Hale.  Ginn Hale is an American writer of speculative fiction.
Philippa Gregory.  Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is a British historical novelist who has been writing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Gorilla Tek.  Tony Castillo better known as Gorilla Tek or G-Tek is an award-winning American record producer and composer. He is well known throughout South Florida as the brainchild of the production company known as Drummajorz. His success dates back to Iconz from their international smash hit entitled Get Fucked Up. He has been managed by longtime business partner JC Fentz Louis CEO of Iconz Worldwide a music and film company in South Florida also co-founder of Drum Majorz Inc.
Liz Rosenberg.  Liz Rosenberg (born Lizbeth Meg Rosenberg February 3 1955) is an American poet novelist children's book author and book reviewer. She is currently a professor of English at Binghamton University and in previous years has taught at Colgate University Sarah Lawrence College Hamilton College Bennington College and Hollins College. Her children's book reviews appear monthly in The Boston Globe.
Barun Roy.  Barun Roy (born November 4 1977) is an Indian author journalist and blogger. He was educated at Darjeeling and Chennai. The first book authored by Roy was Portraits of Life a collection of short stories. 'Nafisha' the first story in this book later inspired a Bollywood blockbuster Yahaan. Other books authored by Roy include Beginners Guide to Journalism Slim and Smart Body Vedas Revisited and Fallen Cicada - Unwritten History of Darjeeling Hills.
Raisa Akhmatova.  Raisa Soltamuradovna Akhmatova (Chechen: Раиса Солтамурадовна Ахматова) (December 13 1928–1992) is an internationally-recognized Chechen poet. Raisa's poems have been especially popular among ethnic Chechens and Ingush worldwide although her entire archive (containing over 600 files) was destroyed when Russian forces burned the Chechen National Archives during the First Chechen War.
Emily Saliers.  Emily Saliers (born July 22 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo piano mandolin ukulele bouzouki and many other instruments.
Annette Broadrick.  Annette Broadrick (born November 26 1938) is an United States writer of over 55 romance novels since 1984.
John Reynders.  John Reynders (1888–1953) was a British musician and composer who worked on the film scores of a number of films.
Zohreh Jooya.  Zohreh Jooya (Persian: زهره جویا‎) is a singer born in Mashhad Iran.
Timothy Eddy.  Timothy Eddy is an American cellist from Exeter New Hampshire who is a founder of Orion String Quartet and a resident of the Mannes College The New School for Music. Since 1978 he is a member of Bach Aria Group and is a former member of Galimir String Quartet of New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble. He is also a winner of numerous competitions such as the 1975 Cassado International Violoncello Competition Dealy Competition and Denver Symphony Guild.
Donald Judd.  Donald Clarence Judd (June 3 1928 – February 12 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed). In his work Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. It created an outpouring of seemingly effervescent works that defied the term minimalism.
Rohit Gore.  Rohit Gore is an Indian IT specialist and author who writes novels on various genres.
Danza Voluminosa.  Danza Voluminosa is a professional dance troupe founded by choreographer and dancer Juan Miguel Mas in 1996. The company is composed of dancers who gained weight retired dancers – all kinds of artists said to be ‘good for nothing’. Mailín Daza the company’s prima ballerina weighs in at 130 kilos.Today Danza Voluminosa consists of seven dancers (six women and one man) and director Juan Miguel Mas.
Jared Anderson (Christian musician).  Jared Anderson is a Christian worship leader from Colorado Springs Colorado. He grew up in the New Life Church where he served for many years as part of New Life Worship and the Desperation Band. Anderson has released four solo albums with Integrity Music titled Where to Begin (2006) Where Faith Comes From (2008) LIVE From My Church (2009) and The Narrow Road (2012).
Nevil Shute.  Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.Vintage Books reprinted all 23 of his books in 2009.
Brian Doerksen.  Brian Robert Doerksen (pronounced durkson) is a Canadian Christian singer-songwriter and worship leader.
Ryan Lawrie.  Ryan Lawrie (born 28 May 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. Born in Bellshill and raised in Coatbridge Lawrie started his musical career posting covers on Youtube before being signed to Tutrax Records. Ryans first single You're Free was released in 2013 and rose into the UK iTunes charts. He is currently on tour and expects to release an album in 2014.
Jennell Jaquays.  Jennell Jaquays (born Paul Jaquays October 14 1956) is an American game designer and artist of table-top role-playing games (RPGs) and video games. Some of her notable works include the Dungeons & Dragons modules Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia for Judges Guild; development and design of conversions on games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for Coleco's home arcade video game system; and more recent design work including the Age of Empires series Quake 2 and Quake III Arena.
Francis Holman.  Francis Holman (1729–1784) was a British maritime painter little recognised during his own lifetime but whose paintings are now sought after. He is also notable as the teacher of Thomas Luny.
Tim Buckley.  Timothy Charles Tim Buckley III (February 14 1947 – June 29 1975) was an American singer and musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years; his first album (1966) was mostly folk but his subsequent albums incorporated jazz psychedelia funk soul avant-garde and an evolving voice as instrument sound. Though he did not find commercial success during his lifetime Buckley is admired by later generations for his innovation as a musician and vocal ability.
Rachel Carson.  Rachel Louise Carson (May 27 1907 – April 14 1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award recognition as a gifted writer and financial security.
Cornelia Sollfrank.  Cornelia Sollfrank (born 1960 in Feilershammer Germany) is an artist who pioneered into the digital realm and Cyberfeminism in the 1990s.
José Cardoso Pires.  José Cardoso Pires ComL GCM was a Portuguese author of short stories novels plays and political satire.José Cardoso Pires teve uma vida cheia. Por entre as malhas da ditadura teceu a sua própria escolha de vida em volta da escrita não deixando fugir oportunidades como a publicidade ou sonhos efémeros como o jornalismo.
Abolqasem Lahouti.  Abolqāsem Lahūtī (1887 - 16 March 1957) (Tajik: Абулқосим Лоҳутӣ Persian: ابوالقاسم لاهوتی‎) also transliterated as Abulqasim Lahuti and Abulqosim Lohuti was a Persian poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.Born in Kermanshah to a persian poet by the name Mirza Ahmad Elhami and a kurdish mother his first poem was printed in the newspaper Habl al-Mateen in Calcutta at the age of 18.He soon entered politics and even received a medal from Sattar Khan for his efforts.Initially he went to clerical school but then went to Bulgaria and wrote many poems on Islam. 
Giovanni Nepomuceno Della Croce.  Giovanni Nepomuceno Della Croce (Pressano di Lavis 1736 - 1819) was an Italian painter active in both Germany and Trentino in a late-Baroque style depicting portraits and religious subjects.
Boyan Vodenitcharov.  Boyan Vodenitcharov (born 1960) is a Bulgarian pianist and composer.While a student in Sofia's State Conservatory (where he was later a teacher) he won the 1982 National Composition Competition and was awarded 3rd prizes in the XXXIII Concorso Busoni and the X Queen Elisabeth competition. After finishing his studies he began an international concert career. In 1991 Vodenitcharov settled in Belgium. He is a teacher at Brussels' Koninklijk Conservatorium.
Sarojini Babar.  Sarojini Babar (Devanagari: सरोजिनी बाबर) (January 7 1920 – April 19 2008) was a Marathi writer and a politician from Maharashtra India.Babar was born on January 7 1920 in the town of Vangani in Sangli District of Maharashtra. After finishing her high school studies in Islampur she joined S. P. College in Pune and secured her bachelor's degree from Mumbai University in 1944.
Kenneth H. Ashley.  Kenneth Herbert Ashley (1887--?) was an English poet novelist journalist and farmer; published Up Hill and Down Dales (poetry) Creighton the Admirable (novel) and Death of a Curate (detective novel); wrote articles for The London Mercury The Spectator and The Athenaeum. His poem Rudkin was one who cattle sold was selected by Leonard Strong as one of the best poems of 1923.
Giovanni Baratta.  Giovanni Baratta (1670–1747) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. Born in Carrara but active in Florence and Livorno. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini. He has sculptures in Church of S. Ferdinando in Livorno. He is the nephew of Francisco Baratta the elder who worked in the studio of Bernini in Rome. Giovanni had two brothers who were also sculptors: Francesco Baratta the Younger and Pietro.
Jon Courtney.  Jon Courtney is a British singer guitarist and keyboard player formerly in the rock band Pure Reason Revolution. He was also the sole songwriter (except The Bright Ambassadors of Morning credited to Courtney/Jong) on their first two albums. Outside of Pure Reason Revolution Courtney is involved in the DJ set All Bangers No Mash under the pseudonym Cedo Simplex and is one member of the duo KC Blitz.
Michiel van Bokhorst.  Michiel van Bokhorst (aka DJ Shrek) (born 1965) is a Dutch music producer remixer DJ and record label owner; currently residing on the Dutch Antilles Island of Bonaire. He is best known for starting the independent Dutch record label Nukove Records and producing British synthpop band The Human League's most recent original single release: Love Me Madly? in 2003.
Hartley Coleridge.  David Hartley Coleridge (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849) was an English poet biographer essayist and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet and translator and his brother Derwent Coleridge was a distinguished scholar and author. Hartley was named after the philosopher David Hartley.
Pete Friesen.  Pete Friesen (born as Peter Menno Friesen in 1965) is a guitarist who has toured the world and recorded with such acts as Alice Cooper The Almighty and Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.
Jin Jifa.  Jin Jifa (Chinese: 金紀發; born 1943) also known as Jin Ji(金己) is a Chinese painter and contemporary artist known predominantly for his colorful abstract works with rich texture geometrically transposed vividly depicting still objects mostly flowers in vase or country side landscape in China;Jin is a member of Chinese Association of Artists since 1997 and he retired from the lectureship at Department of Arts Shanghai University in 2005.
Matty Amendola (musician).  Matty Amendola is an American musician best known for his founding of 825 Records. He is a former member of the band The Classic Futures and released two solo albums: =Ecstasy and Life Commercials.
Philadelpho Menezes.  Philadelpho Menezes (born in 1960 in São Paulo Brazil dead in 2000 Brazil in a car accident). Brazilian poet visual poet pioneer of new media poetry professor in the Communication and Semiology post-graduation program at the Pontifical University of São Paulo. He performed research for his post-graduate degree at the University of Bologna in Italy (1990).With Brazilian artist Wilton Azevedo Philadepho Menezes created a pioneer intermedia-poetry CD-ROM: InterPoesia.
Paul Samwell-Smith.  Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith 8 May 1943 in Richmond Surrey) is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band The Yardbirds a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
Ed Blackwell.  Edward Joseph Blackwell (October 10 1929 – October 7 1992) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans Louisiana known for his extensive influential work with Ornette Coleman.
Zebra Katz.  Zebra Katz is the stage name of Ojay Morgan an American rapper best known for his 2012 single Ima Read.
Dora Zaslavsky.  Dora Zaslavsky Koch (1905-1987) was an American pianist who was one of the first graduates and later a teacher of the Manhattan School of Music. Zaslavsky was born in Ukraine and was married to John Koch by 1933. She died on September 9 1987.
John Cipollina.  John Cipollina (August 24 1943 – May 29 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead and then later played with numerous other bands.
Jack Cooper (musician).  Jack Cooper (born John Thomas Cooper Jr. May 14 1963 Whittier Ca.) is an American composer arranger orchestrator multireedist and music educator. Most notably he has written music for well-known and Grammy winning pop jazz and classical artists to include Aaron Neville Joyce Cobb Donald Brown Alexis Cole Tony Campise Bobby Shew Christian McBride the Westchester Jazz Orchestra the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors the Dallas Wind Symphony and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
Neely Bruce.  Neely Bruce (born January 21 1944) Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University is a composer conductor pianist and scholar of American music.[1][2]Bruce's undergraduate degree is from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. His DMA is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bruce also received an MAA from Wesleyan University and an MMU from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] His principal teachers were Ben Johnston Hubert Kessler J. F.
Nadix.  Nadix (born Nadir Hajro on March 26 1989 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian trance musician.He produces Psy Trance Tribal Progressive Tech House and Hard Techno. He is intercessor of Tech Trance sound. He has a unique style which makes him one of most talented producers in country.He was promoted on BH Radio 1 in „Tram Ride“ show and on eFM Radio in „Fast Forward Radio Show“ with „Road to heven“ and „Bleeding heart“.
William John Wainwright.  William John Wainwright PRBSA (1855–1931) was a painter who spent most of his life in Birmingham England.
Ransome Gillett Holdridge.  Ransome Gillett Holdridge (1836 - 1899) was an early San Francisco school painter specializing in Northern California landscapes.
James Clavell.  James Clavell (10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994) born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) novelist screenwriter director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir with Love.
Tuğba Ekinci.  Tuğba Ekinci (born June 1976 in Kars Turkey) is a Turkish pop singer.
Don DiNicola.  Don DiNicola is a composer record producer and music supervisor who is known for his work in film and television. Originally from Boston he has been in the industry for over 15 years writing music for PBS A&E HBO TLC Discovery Channel and Sundance. He has received Emmy Award nominations for his work on the gay-rights documentary After Stonewall which aired on PBS and the series We Are NY.
Jung Yong-hwa.  Jung Yong-hwa (정용화; pronounced [tɕəːŋ joŋ hwa]; born on June 22 1989) is a South Korean musician singer songwriter producer and actor. His first name is also written as Yonghwa Yong-Hwa or Yong Hwa. Jung made his show business debut as “Kang Shin-woo” in the Korean drama You're Beautiful on 7 October 2009 and played the male lead as “Lee Shin” in the 2011 drama Heartstrings. Jung is the leader lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band CNBLUE.
Brad Falchuk.  Brad Falchuk (born c. 1971) is a television writer director and producer. He is best known for his work on the television series Nip/Tuck Glee and American Horror Story.
David F. Gordon.  David F. Gordon is Head of Research at Eurasia Group the political risk consultancy. He was previously the U.S. State Department's Director of Policy Planning where he held a rank equivalent to a United States Assistant Secretary of State.
Pu Cunxin.  Pu Cunxin also transliterated as Pu Quanxin (Chinese: 濮存昕) is a Chinese actor. He is or was a member of the Beijing Experimental Theater Troupe.
Rosie Shuster.  Rosie Shuster (born June 19 1950) is a Canadian-born comedy writer. She was a writer for Saturday Night Live during the 1970s and 1980s.
Zameer Naqvi.  Allama Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi (b. 1944) is a noted Pakistani Scholar religious leader public speaker and Urdu poet.Allama Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi was born in Lucknow India in 1944. He is son of Syed Zahir Hasan Naqvi and Syeda Mohsina Zahir Naqvi. His real name is Zameer Hasan but he is famous as Zameer Akhtar. In 1967 He migrated to Pakistan and permanently settled in Karachi.He studied at the Hussainabad School (matric) and Government Jubilee College Lucknow (inter).
John Hicklenton.  John Hicklenton (8 May 1967 – 19 March 2010) aka John Deadstock was a British comics artist best known for his brutal visceral work on flagship 2000 AD characters like Judge Dredd (in particular Heavy Metal Dredd) and Nemesis the Warlock during the eighties and nineties.He suffered from multiple sclerosis and recorded an award-winning documentary about living with the condition. On 19 March 2010 Hicklenton chose to end his life at Dignitas in Switzerland.
Anna Lea Merritt.  Anna Lea Merritt (1844–1930) was an American painter. She painted portraits landscapes and religious scenes. She was born in Philadelphia but lived and worked in England for most of her life. Merritt worked as a professional artist for most of her adult life 'living by her brush' before her brief marriage to Henry Merritt and after his death.
Wang Guangli.  Wang Guangli (Chinese: 王光利) (born November 1966) nicknamed King Death is a film director. A native of Sichuan—and a psychology professor by education—Wang eventually turned to film making underground independent features that were often censored due to their political content.
Max Andersson.  Max Andersson (born November 28 1962) is a Swedish comic creator and film maker mostly doing underground style and artistic comics. His comics have mainly been published in Swedish albums and in the Swedish art magazine Galago. With the publication of his graphic novel Pixy by Fantagraphics Books in 1993 Andersson became the first modern Swedish artist to have a comic album published in the United States. In the '90s he was a frequent contributor to the comics anthology Zero Zero.
Elizabeth Shippen Green.  Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1 1871 – 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper's Magazine.
Stephen Leigh.  Stephen W. Leigh (born February 27 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer artist and musician. He also works as a lecturer at Northern Kentucky University teaching creative writing. He has published speculative fiction as Stephen Leigh as S. L. Farrell and once as Matthew Farrell.Steve Leigh was born in Cincinnati Ohio and lives there.
Jack Sparling.  John Edmond Sparling (June 21 1916 – 1997) better known as Jack Sparling was an American comics artist.
Ray Noble.  Ray Noble (17 December 1903 – 3 April 1978) was an English bandleader composer arranger radio comedian and actor. Noble wrote both lyrics and music for many popular songs during the British dance band era known as the Golden Age of British music notably for his longtime friend and associate Al Bowlly including Love Is The Sweetest Thing Cherokee The Touch of Your Lips I Hadn't Anyone Till You Isle of Capri and his signature tune The Very Thought of You.
Carl Locher.  Carl Locher (21 November 1851 - 20 December 1915) was a Danish realist painter who from an early age became a member of the Skagen group of painters.
Arthur Doyle.  Arthur Doyle (June 26 1944 – January 25 2014) was an American jazz saxophonist flutist zanzithophonist and vocalist.
Diabolic (rapper).  Sean George better known by his stage name Diabolic is an American rapper from Huntington Station Long Island New York. He started receiving fame on the hidden track after Immortal Technique's song 'Dance with the Devil' on Immortal Technique's debut album Revolutionary Vol. 1. Diabolic is also a well-known battle rapper who has battled with rappers such as Immortal Technique Mecca Iron Solomon Rhymefest among others. Diabolic released The Foul Play Mixtape in October 2006.
Takayuki Miyauchi.  Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki February 4 1955 —) is a Japanese vocalist best known for his work on theme songs for tokusatsu and anime.
Anne Karin Elstad.  Anne Karin Elstad (19 January 1938 – 4 April 2012) was a Norwegian author known for her book series featuring the character Julie.
Edna White.  Flora Edna White (October 23 1892 – June 25 1992) known professionally as Edna White and privately for much of her life as Edna White Chandler was an American classical and vaudeville trumpet player bandleader and composer. A child prodigy she led one of the first successful all-female bands and was the first trumpet player to give a recital at Carnegie Hall.
Summer (singer).  Summer XO (born Summer Rose Virshup on August 12 1985) is a Los Angeles-based American singer-songwriter who plays guitar and piano. She is also a visual artist who creates poster-size pastel drawings of abstract emotive female faces.
Carl Almenräder.  Carl Almenräder (3 October 1786 in Ronsdorf (Wuppertal) – 14 September 1846 in Biebrich) was a German performer teacher and composer.The design of the modern bassoon owes a great deal to Almenräder who assisted by the German acoustics researcher Gottfried Weber developed the 17-key bassoon whose range spanned four octaves.
Mandy Rain.  Amanda Moseley (born December 20 1993) better known by her stage name Mandy Rain is an American Recording artist dancer and actress. Rain started her acting career at a young age. In 2007 Rain auditioned for Star Camp a Nickelodeon television show that focuses on the making of a super star musical group. Rain was chosen along with seven other kids to join the show and The Giggle Club. The band disbanded shortly after the series' finale.
Abrie Fourie.  Abrie Fourie (born 1969 in Pretoria) is a South African born artist. He currently lives and works in Berlin Germany.While specialising in photography and digital media Fourie prefers not to be bound by a specific genre. His photographs have been described as capturing mundane moments and transforming them into static abstractions.
Juliana Donald.  Juliana Donald (b. January 1 1964 in Washington D.C.) is an American film and television actress. She played Jenny in the 1984 Jim Henson movie The Muppets Take Manhattan her feature film debut. She later appeared in such films as The Purple Rose of Cairo and Dragnet. Her most recent film was in the 2005 movie One More Round.
Filadelfo Simi.  'Filadelfo Simi (Versilia February 11 1849 – Florence January 5 1923) was an Italian painter and sculptor.He was born in Versilia in Tuscany and resident in Florence. He first attended the School of Fine Arts at Seravezza but then from 1869 to 1873 attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. One patron during these years was the engineer Angiolo Vegni.At the 1873 Promotrice he exhibited a La giovinezza dell’Alfieri.
Brent Simon.  Brent Simon (born June 6 1978) is a keyboard player best known for his videos The Bittorrent Song and Space Camp. He achieved popularity due to his unique melodies and lyrics. There is a documentary titled Brentumentary that explores an average day in Brent's life. Brentumentary features the him playing Space Camp and The Bittorrent song. Brent has been featured on G4 several times the Thisisaknife web show and on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Bill Phillips (author).  William Nathaniel Bill Phillips is an American entrepreneur and author. He is the author of the fitness book Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength. He is the author Eating for Life founder and former editor in chief of Muscle Media magazine and the former CEO of EAS a performance nutritional supplement company.
Moses Soyer.  Moses Soyer (December 25 1899 – September 3 1974) was an American social realist painter. He died in the Chelsea Hotel in New York while painting Phoebe Neville.
Gary Kellgren.  Gary Kellgren (April 7 1939 - July 20 1977) was an American audio engineer and co-founder of The Record Plant recording studios along with businessman Chris Stone.
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.  Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille.Meissonier enjoyed great success in his lifetime and was acclaimed both for his mastery of fine detail and assiduous craftsmanship.
Catherine Webb.  Catherine Webb (born 1986) is a British author educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School London and the London School of Economics.
June Valli.  June Valli (June 30 1928–March 12 1993) the stage name of June Foglia was an American singer and television personality.Born in the Bronx Valli was one of the stars of the 1950s television shows Stop the Music and Your Hit Parade. She sang on the show during the show's 1952–1953 season. At the start of the 1953–1954 season she was replaced by singer Gisele MacKenzie.
Steve Felton.  Steve Skinny Felton (born December 6 1969) is an American drummer most notable for being one of the founding members of Mushroomhead. He is also the drummer of the bands Tenafly Viper and (216).
Mika Todd.  Mika Taressa Todd (ミカ・タレッサ・トッド born May 28 1984 in Honolulu Hawaii) is a Japanese American singer and former member of the Hello! Project groups Coconuts Musume and Minimoni. She joined Hello! Project in 1999 along with Ayaka Kimura Danielle Delaunay April Barbaran and Chelsea Ching after being discovered by Sharam Q member Makoto.
John Leland (journalist).  John Leland (born 1959) is an author and has been a New York Times journalist since 2000. Leland began covering retirement and religion in January 2004. During a stint in 1994 he was editor in chief of Details magazine. Leland was also a senior editor at Newsweek an editor and columnist at Spin magazine and a reviewer for Trouser Press.Leland wrote Hip: The History and Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think).
Toshiki Masuda.  Toshiki Masuda (増田 俊樹 Masuda Toshiki born March 8 1990) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Space Craft Group.
Theodor Döhler.  Theodor Döhler (April 20 1814 – February 21 1856) was a German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period. He studied under Julius Benedict Carl Czerny and Simon Sechter.
Valerio Berruti.  Valerio Berruti was born in Alba (CN) Italy in 1977. He received a degree in Art Criticism from DAMS in Turin. He currently lives and works in Verduno Italy in a deconsecrated 17th-century church which he bought and restored in 1995.His drawings paintings and sculptures reproduce images essentially of everyday life and family affections.
Phil Nicol.  Philip Nicol (born 1953 Caerphilly Wales) is a Welsh painter. Nicol graduated from Cardiff College of Art. He has been a lecturer at the Cardiff School and at Limerick Art College Éire.His paintings often portray twilight inner city landscapes.He was winner of the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2001.Nicol was a member of the 56 Group Wales from 1984 to 1991.
Morland Graham.  Morland Graham (8 August 1891 – 8 April 1949) was a British film actor.Married to Elsie Cole (née Press) in 1926.
Barrington Levy.  Barrington Ainsworth Levy (born 30 April 1964) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.
Jerry Vandiver.  Jerry Vandiver (born August 12 1948) is an American songwriter and musician. He has had two top ten singles and 5 charted singles on the Billboard Country charts. Vandiver's songs have been recorded by Tim McGraw Gene Watson Phil Vassar Lonestar The Oak Ridge Boys Lee Greenwood Barbara Mandrell Dusty Drake and many others. Vandiver has RIAA Certified song credits on more than 15 million records.
Peter Hartmann.  Peter Hartmann (born 19 June 1921 Hamburg Germany; died 14 November 2007 Geneva Switzerland) was a Swiss sculptor known for his bronze sculptures installed in public spaces in Geneva.
Giovanni Boccaccio.  Giovanni Boccaccio (/boʊˈkɑːtʃiˌoʊ -tʃoʊ bə-/; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author poet correspondent of Petrarch and important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works including the Decameron and On Famous Women.
Iha Fuyū.  Iha Fuyū (伊波普猷 March 15 1876 – August 13 1947) was the father of Okinawaology and a Japanese scholar who studied various aspects of Japanese and Okinawan culture customs linguistics and lore. His signature was Ifa Fuyu in English because of the Okinawan pronunciation. Ifa studied linguistics in the University of Tokyo and was devoted to the study of Okinawan linguistics folklore and history.
Johnny Staats.  Johnny Staats is a bluegrass mandolin guitar and violin player born and raised in West Virginia. He has been featured on NBC's Today Show in People Magazine on the CBS Evening News and CNN and has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry. He won Charleston's Vandalia Gathering-Mandolin championships in 1996 1997 and 1999. In 1997 he also won the guitar title and placed third in the fiddle competition.He is an avid raccoon hunter.
Tim Green.  Tim Green (born December 16 1963) is a former American football player as well as a radio and television personality. He was a linebacker and defensive end with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League a commentator for National Public Radio the former host of the 2005 revival of A Current Affair on Fox and a best-selling author.
Pukazhenthi.  Velappan Nair (September 27 1929 – February 27 2005) popularly known as Pukazhenthi was an Indian music director of Malayalam Tamil and Telegu films.
Tom McRae.  Tom McRae (born Jeremy Thomas McRae Blackall 19 March 1969 Chelmsford Essex England) is an English singer-songwriter.
Kelly Moore (writer).  Kelly Moore is an American author and former civil litigator. Her 1988 book Deadly Medicine which focused on the crimes and trial of serial killer Genene Jones was a New York Times bestseller for seven weeks. Amber House the first installment in her young adult fiction series co-written with her daughters Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed was published by Scholastic's Arthur A. Levine Books imprint on October 1 2012.
Harrison Fontenot.  Harrison Fontenot (August 1 1934 - January 21 2011) is a Cajun accordion player and builder best known for his recording of The Cajun Twist in 1962.Born in Point Blue Louisiana in 1934 Fontenot got his first taste of music at the age of 16 when he regularly practiced on the accordion while his father was at work. He listening to the Grand Ole Opry as well as Aldus Roger and Austin Pitre.
Niccolò Tucci.  Niccolò Tucci (May 1 1908 - December 10 1999) was a short story writer and novelist who wrote in English and Italian.
Gull Natorp.  Gull Natorp (10 January 1880 – 30 April 1962) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 76 films between 1913 and 1956.
Jeremy Oxley.  Jeremy Saxon Oxley (born 1961 in Kingscliff New South Wales) is an Australian song-writer singer and guitarist. He fronted the 1980s pop-rock band The Sunnyboys.
Miloš Ivanović.  Miloš Ivanović was a Serbian pianist and professor at the Faculty of Music at Belgrade.
Jo Eun-byul.  Jo Eun-byul (Korean: 조은별 Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰoɯnbjl]; born on June 23 1982) is a South Korean singer and stage actress known as Eun-byul (Hangul: 은별) or Leebie (Hangul: 이비). She was the leader and lead singer of the now disbanded K-pop group LUV.
Mattias Andréasson.  Mattias Andréasson (born 29 March 1981 in Västerås) Swedish singer and Swedish Idol 2007 contestant (in which he came 5th place). He is also known as dmaSOUL. He was part of the Swedish band E.M.D. which was active between 2007–2010.
P. Bhaskaran.  Pulloottupadathu Bhaskara Menon (21 April 1924 – 25 February 2007) better known as P. Bhaskaran was a famous Malayalam poet and lyricist of Malayalam film songs. He penned more than 3000 songs for about 250 films. He also directed 44 Malayalam feature films and 3 documentaries produced 6 feature films and acted in several movies.
James Brighouse (musician).  James Brighouse (born 25 November 1980) is a British musician. Brighouse is a founding member of the UK rock band Blame. Brighouse plays guitar and is one of the group’s main songwriters. Brighouse received a graduate degree from University of Derby & University of Utah. He attended Thomas Alleyne’s High School Uttoxeter Staffordshire.
Tommy Edwards.  Tommy Edwards (February 17 1922 — October 22 1969) was a singer and songwriter. His biggest-selling record was with the multi-million-selling song It's All in the Game.
Anne Killigrew.  Anne Killigrew (1660—1685) was an English poet. Born in London Killigrew is perhaps best known as the subject of a famous elegy by the poet John Dryden entitled To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (1686). She was however a skilful poet in her own right and her Poems were published posthumously in 1686. Dryden compared her poetic abilities to the famous Greek poet of antiquity Sappho. Killigrew died of smallpox aged 25.
Stamatis Spanoudakis.  Stamatis Spanoudakis - Σταμάτης Σπανουδάκης (born December 11 1948 in Athens Greece) is a modern Greek classical composer. Early on he studied classical guitar. He went through a rock music phase but then continued classical studies at the Würzburg State Conservatory with Bertold Hummel and later in Athens with Konstantinos Kydoniatis. Later on he studied Byzantine music.
Dean Rosenthal.  Dean Rosenthal is an American composer of instrumental and electronic music sound installations and field recordings. He also serves as co-editor of The Open Space Web Magazine and is a contributing editor to The Open Space Magazine. He works with mathematical formulas and found objects as his central practice.
Peter Paul Rubens.  Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement colour and sensuality.
Harry Ahlin.  Harry Ahlin (14 April 1900 – 31 July 1969) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1919 and 1969.
Monotrona.  Monotrona was a one-woman musical/performance group active from 1996 to 2003 founded by Jodie Baltazar also known as Jodie Mechanic.
David Wrench (singer).  David Wrench is a singer musician and studio producer/ sound engineer from Anglesey Wales. His music has ranged from camp synth pop to Doom inspired Folk.He first came to public attention while still at school in 1989 with his first group Nid Madagascar who recorded the first Welsh language acid house record Lledrith Lliw as a 12 single in 1990.Reappearing some years later as a solo artist he was signed first to Ankst Records of Cardiff and later to Manchester-based Storm Music.
Tudor Mușatescu.  Tudor Muşatescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈtudor muʃaˈtesku]; February 22 1903 – November 4 1970) was a Romanian playwright and short story writer best known for his humorous prose.
Brian Coogan.  Brian Coogan is a keyboardist and vocalist from New Orleans Louisiana. A versatile musician Coogan plays in many different contexts and projects ranging from funk to jazz to rock including many sub-genres within. He is often found as a sideman on gigs with other New Orleanians such as Johnny Vidocavich Khris Royal Mike Dillon and Alex McMurray.
Al Cisneros.  Al Cisneros /sɪsˈnɛroʊs/ (born 1973) is an American musician from San Jose California. He is the singer and bassist for the legendary stoner metal band Sleep. He is also the singer and bassist in the rhythm heavy drone band OM. He was a member of Shrinebuilder and Asbestosdeath and has released four records as a solo artist.
Irving A. Fradkin.  Irving A.
Helge Lilletvedt.  Helge Lilletvedt (born 1960 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (keyboards) composer and music arranger known from collaboration with musicisns like Terje Rypdal Vigleik Storaas Arve Henriksen Per Jørgensen Olav Dale Ole Amund Gjersvik and Herborg Kråkevik.
Richard Smith (American guitarist).  Richard Smith (Detroit) is an American jazz guitarist. Smith teaches at University of Southern California's Thorton School of Music.
Niko Grafenauer.  Niko Grafenauer (born 5 December 1940) is a Slovenian poet essayist literary historian editor and translator. He is particularly known as author of popular children literature and for his active participation in the Slovenian public life especially in conservative and liberal conservative platforms.He was born in Ljubljana Slovenia (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) to a poor working-class family. Both his parents died in the first year of his life.
Witchdoctor (rapper).  Erin Johnson better known as Witchdoctor is an established member of Atlanta’s Dungeon Family collective which includes members such as Goodie Mob OutKast Cee-Lo (originally of Goodie Mob) Big Rube & many others. Witchdoctor owns and operates his own independent record label Dezonly1 Records and has released six solo albums and a book of poetry The Diary of The American Witchdoctor.
Rolando Marchelli.  Rolando Marchelli (born 1664 date of death unknown) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in his natal city of Genoa.
Mattia Cadorin.  Mattia Cadorin (mid 17th century) (also known as Bolnetta) was an Italian engraver and publisher who flourished at Padua about 1648. He engraved after Titian and others. His plates are generally marked Cadorin.
Joe Quesada.  Joseph Joe Quesada (born January 12 1962) is an American comic book editor writer and artist. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books such as Ninjak and Solar Man of the Atom. He later worked on numerous books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics such as Batman: Sword of Azrael and X-Factor before forming his own company Event Comics where he published his creator-owned character Ash.
Jorge Luis Borges.  Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE (Spanish: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈβorxes] About this sound audio ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer essayist poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the character of unreality in all literature.
Richard Foster (painter).  Richard Foster (born 1945) is a British painter principally of portraits.Foster has been a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters since 1976 and was its vice-president 1991 - 1993 and honorary treasurer 2003 - 2006.
Mimi Page.  Mimi Page (born February 2 1987) is an American singer-songwriter music producer and composer.
Rebecca Belmore.  Rebecca Belmore (born 1960) is an Anishinaabe-Canadian artist based in Winnipeg. Her work addresses history voice and voicelessness place and identity through the media of sculpture installation video and performance. To address the politics of representation Belmore's art strives to invert or subvert official narratives while demonstrating a preference for the use of repetitive gesture and natural materials.
Edward Ka-Spel.  Edward Ka-Spel (born Edward Francis Sharp 23 January 1954 in London) is an English singer/songwriter and musician residing in the Netherlands.
Woldemar Bargiel.  Woldemar Bargiel (3 October 1828 – 23 February 1897) was a German composer.
Frankie Rose.  Frankie Rose is an American vocalist songwriter and musician living in Brooklyn New York United States. She was an original member of the garage rock acts Crystal Stilts Dum Dum Girls and the Vivian Girls.Rose released her first single Thee Only One on Slumberland Records in 2009 under Frankie Rose and the Outs and followed up in 2010 with a full-length album under the same moniker. She is now performing as Frankie Rose.
Muhammad Juman.  Ustad Muhammad Juman (10 October 1935 - 24 January 1990) was a Sindhi musician and classical singer whose impact on Sindhi music is still pervasive .He was born in the village of Sorra Lasbela District Balochistan Pakistan to a musicians family of Sakhirani clan.His father Haji Ahmed Sakhirani was also a Singer.Thus he became fond of music from his childhood.He learnt the music formally from great Pakistani musician Ustad Nazar hussain who was also music teacher of clebrated singer Noor Jehan.1980 he was awarded Pride of Performance by the Government of Pakistan in recognician of his services in the music of Pakistan
June Tabor.  June Tabor (born 31 December 1947 in Warwick England) is an English folk singer.
Matthys Cock.  Matthys Cock or Matthijs Wellens de Cock (c. 1505—1548) was a Flemish landscape painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance.
George Harrison.  George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
Daler Nazarov.  Daler Nazarov (Tajik: Далер Назаров) (born on September 8 1959) is a Tajik songwriter singer and actor.Nazarov was born in the Former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan. He has lived in Dushanbe the capital of Tajikistan for most of his life but had to leave the country in the early 90's due to a civil war that ended around 1997. For the next few years he lived in Almaty Kazakhstan and then returned to Dushanbe. Among his recent work is music for feature movies.
Julius Cheeks.  Rev. Julius June Cheeks (August 7 1929 – January 27 1981) was an American gospel singer who enjoyed the majority of his success with The Sensational Nightingales.
David Bagsby.  David Bagsby (born September 4 1960) is an American musician film maker photographer and composer born in Tulsa Oklahoma. His original take on contemporary progressive music lead his work to appear on feature films including Steve Balderson's Watch Out (2009) based on the novel by Joseph Suglia and starring Matt Riddlehoover. Bagsby has studied under Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan in St. Louis Missouri.
Jeon Ji-yoon.  Jeon Ji Yoon (born October 15 1990) is a South Korean idol singer dancer rapper and songwriter. She is a member of the popular girl group 4Minute formed by Cube Entertainment in 2009.
Ainhoa Cantalapiedra.  Ainhoa Cantalapiedra (born 25 September 1980 in Galdakao Basque Country Spain) is a popular Spanish singer and songwriter most commonly known as Ainhoa.She is the winner of the second series of Operación Triunfo (Spanish version of Star Academy).
Amarapu Satyanarayana.  Amarapu Satyanarayana (12 April 1937 – 21 October 2011) was an Indian singer and actor.
Mark Sable.  Mark Sable (born on June 22 1975 in New York) is an American writer for stage screen and comic books.
Sandra Ng.  Sandra Ng Kwan-yu (born 2 August 1965) is a Hong Kong film and television actress.
Daniel Garber.  Daniel Garber (1880–1958) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career Garber taught art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over forty years.
Gwladys Evan Morris.  Gwladys Evan Morris wrote Tales from Bernard Shaw which was first published in 1929 by George G. Harrap and Co. of London and was printed by H & J Pillans & Wilson of Edinburgh. A U.S. edition was published in 1929 by Frederick A.
Giancarlo Erra.  Giancarlo Erra is a contemporary Art Rock artist.Primarily known as the founder and frontman for the Italian Art Rock band Nosound he also has produced one album under the band name of Memories of Machines with Tim Bowness (notably of the band No-Man). Giancarlo moved from Italy to the UK in 2010 to work for KScope Records as a producer and engineer. Under Nosound he has produced four studio albums three ep's and several promotional/demo recordings.
Yaroslav Krestovsky.  Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky (Russian: Яросла́в И́горевич Кресто́вский February 9 1925 Leningrad USSR – 2003 Saint Petersburg Russia) - a Soviet Russian painter lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Jerome Fontamillas.  Jerome Earl Fontamillas (born June 20 1967 in Pasay City Philippines) is a Filipino American musician. Jerome has played in several bands notably with industrial rock band Mortal and Fold Zandura with long time musical partner Jyro Xhan. He currently plays with alternative rock band Switchfoot as a guitar and keyboard player.
James Duff (writer).  James Duff (born September 3 1955) is an American television writer producer and director. He was born in New Orleans Louisiana and has written plays and television screenplays. He is credited as the creator of the TV series The Closer and Major Crimes.He is married to Phillip P. Keene who plays Buzz Watson on The Closer and Major Crimes.
Melissa J. Morgan.  Melissa J. Morgan is the pseudonym for an American writer of children's books. She lives in New York city.[citation needed] Her main work is Camp Confidential a book series for pre teens. She has written a total of 25 Camp Confidential books. They all include girls who go to summer camp and their experiences. The camp is named in the books Camp Lakeview. She is going to start a new series called CIT's.
Christopher Reid (entertainer).  Christopher Reid (born April 5 1964) formerly known as Kid (shortened from his original MC name Kid Coolout) is an American actor comedian and former rapper.
Proyecto Oniric.  Proyecto Oniric is the musical project of a Spanish singer called Invierno who composes neoclassical and gothic piano songs inspired by his own dreams and ethereal feelings.This project was started in 2006 and nowadays it has one CD (Among The Dreams) and one EP (Emotiophobia).
J-Boog.  Jarell Damonte Houston (born August 11 1985) known as J-Boog is an American R&B singer rapper and actor. His stage name came from his grandmother calling him Boogie because of his love of dancing[citation needed] and the J is simply the initial of his first name. He is a former member of R&B group B2K. He is also the cousin of Marques Houston.
David Isaacs (singer).  David Isaacs (9 June 1946 – c. 21 December 2009) (aka Bruce Bennett) was a Jamaican reggae singer who worked with Lee Scratch Perry in the late 1960s and early 1970s and went on to release several albums between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
John W. Aldridge.  John W. Aldridge (September 26 1922 – February 7 2007) was an American writer literary critic teacher and scholar. He was a professor of English at the University of Michigan director of the Hopwood Program USIA Special Ambassador to Germany and an esteemed literary critic.
Hannah Starkey.  Hannah Starkey (born 1971) is a British photographer who specializes in staged settings of women in city environments.
Amos Garrett.  Amos Garrett (born November 26 1941 Detroit Michigan USA) is an American-Canadian musician performer and author. He holds dual citizenship and was raised in Toronto and Montreal. He is best known for his guitar solo on Maria Muldaur's recording Midnight at the Oasis.Over the course of his career Garrett has recorded with more than 150 artists ranging from Stevie Wonder Todd Rundgren and Pearls Before Swine to Emmylou Harris Bonnie Raitt and Martin Mull.
Matt Bachand.  Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born on April 29 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also a backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre.
Alain Romans.  Alain Romans (1905 Poland – 1988) was a French jazz composer. He studied in Leipzig Berlin and Paris. His teachers included Vincent d'Indy. He later worked with Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt.Romans wrote music for 12 films. The most famous of them are the films of comedian Jacques Tati including Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953) with the theme song Quel Temps Fait-Il A Paris? and Mon Oncle (1959).
Steve Amerson.  Stephen Steve Amerson (born March 28 1954) is a singer songwriter and recording artist with 17 albums.During his 20-plus-year career Amerson has been heard on over 160 films countless commercials and television shows. Additionally Amerson has had approximately 100 compositions published by WORD Music and other publishing companies. In 1988 Amerson established Amerson Music Ministries (AMM) as a non-profit organization.
Andrés Useche.  Andrés Useche is an award-winning Colombian American writer film director graphic artist singer-songwriter and activist.
Maria Parr.  Maria Parr (born 1981) is a Norwegian children's writer.Her children's books include Vaffelhjarte (2005) (published in English as Waffle Hearts in 2013) and Tonje Glimmerdal (2009). For the latter book she won the 2009 Brage Prize.
Bobby Solo.  Bobby Solo (born Roberto Satti 18 March 1945) is an Italian singer and musician.Solo was born in Rome to an Istrian mother and Friulan father.In 1964 he participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song Una lacrima sul viso (A Tear on your Face written by Lunero) but he was disqualified for singing with playback which was contrary to the festival regulations. The song however became a global hit.
Zal Cleminson.  Alistair Macdonald Zal Cleminson (born 4 May 1949 Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish guitarist best known for his prominent role in The Sensational Alex Harvey Band during 1972-78.
Andrea Solari.  Andrea Solari (also Solario) (1460–1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school. He was initially named Andre del Gobbo but more confusingly as Andrea del Bartoloa name shared with two other Italian painters the 14th Century Siennese Andrea di Bartolo and the 15th Century Florentine Andrea di Bartolo.His paintings can be seen in Venice Milan The Louvre and the Château de Gaillon (Normandie France). One of his better-known paintings is the Virgin of the Green Cushion (c.
Simon Dutton.  Simon Dutton is a British actor best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar (alias The Saint) in a series of internationally produced television films in 1989. In 2007 he joined the cast of British sitcom Not Going Out as recurring character Guy but was written out at the end of season two.Dutton was married to actress Betsy Brantley but later divorced her. He is now married to actress Tamsin Olivier the daughter of Laurence Olivier.
Paul de Musset.  Paul Edme de Musset born in Paris 7 November 1804 died in the same city 17 May 1880 was a French writer.Brother of Alfred de Musset he was well known for his family who were very famous at the time as well as for his own writings including biographies.In 1859 two years after the death of his brother Paul de Musset published Lui et Elle a parody of the autobiography of George Sand Elle et Lui published six months previously and dealing with his relationship with Alfred de Musset.
Radha Jayalakshmi.  Radha and Jayalakshmi popularly known as Radha Jayalakshmi (Tamil: ராதா ஜெயலட்சுமி) were Indian Carnatic music vocalist duo as well as playback singers in films in 1940s and 1950s before they became music teachers. The person who does the playback singing is Jayalakshmi but was named as Radha Jayalakshmi in the cine field. Actually Radha was her cousin sister and singing partner on the stage performances.
Tim Eschliman.  Tim Eschliman is a musician producer record company administrator (for Globe Records) and web developer from Yellow Springs Ohio currently located in Northern California.As a singer and bass-player he recorded and toured with Etta James Jesse Colin Young Commander Cody The Moonlighters The Christmas Jug Band and Rhytmtown-Jive.
Jason Pearson.  Jason Pearson is an American comic book writer/artist known for his work on books such as Legion of Super-Heroes The Dragon: Blood & Guts Global Frequency and his own creator-owned series Body Bags.Pearson is also one of the original members of the Atlanta Georgia-based Gaijin Studios and has participated in several Gaijin Studios-related projects.
Steven Hall.  Steven Hall (born 1975 in Derbyshire) is a British author. He has written one novel produced a number of plays music videos concrete prose/conceptual art pieces and short stories.[citation needed].
Krste Misirkov.  Krste Petkov Misirkov (Bulgarian: Кръстьо Петков Мисирков; Macedonian: Крсте Петков Мисирков) (18 November 1874 Postol Ottoman Empire – 26 July 1926 Sofia Kingdom of Bulgaria) was a philologist slavist historian ethnographer and publicist. He published a book and a scientific magazine in which he affirmed the existence of a Macedonian national identity separate from other Balkan nations and attempted to codify a standard Macedonian language based on the Central Macedonian dialects.
John Henry Patterson (author).  Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson DSO (10 November 1867 – 18 June 1947) known as J.H. Patterson was a British soldier hunter author and Zionist best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) which details his experiences while building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya in 1898–99. In the 1996 Paramount Pictures film The Ghost and the Darkness he was portrayed by actor Val Kilmer.
Jeff Miller (writer).  Jeff Miller 31 is one a zine publisher and writer. He began writing in 1996 with an Ottawa zine called Otaku which later changed its name to Ghost Pine following his move to Montreal in 1999. It has sold nearly 10000 copies which is relatively high for underground publishing in Canada. He writes largely about punk and other sub-cultures. The best of his works were compiled into a book Ghost Pine: All Stories True by Invisible Publishing in 2010.
Mary Robinette Kowal.  Mary Robinette Kowal (born February 8 1969 in Raleigh N.C. as Mary Robinette Harrison) is an American author and puppeteer. She also served as art director for Shimmer Magazine and in 2010 was named art director for Weird Tales. She served as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for two years and was elected to the position of SFWA vice-president in 2010. In 2008 her second year of eligibility she won the John W.
Pierre Yergeau.  Pierre Yergeau (born 4 October 1957) is a Canadian novelist.Born in Abitibi Quebec Yergeau was educated at Concordia University and the Université de Montréal. He has twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award in French language fiction. He is considered one of the most important Canadian novelists with a dry sense of humour tendency towards ironic reflections on the American dream and a brilliant use of rhetoric.
He Zhuoyan.  Note: In this article to differentiate between He (reference to males) and the Chinese surname Hé (何) the latter will be used when referring to He Zhuoyan.He Zhuoyan (born 26 November 1988) is a Chinese actress and singer. She was one of the top ten finalists of the 2005 Hangzhou Super Girl singing contest. In 2006 Hé emerged as champion of the Zhang Jizhong category of the Chinese Yahoo Three Directors Star Search programme.
Cho Se-hui.  Cho Se-hui is a Korean author.
Donald Whitton.  Donald Richard Don Whitton (born July 29 1923 Toronto Canada) is a Canadian concert cellist recording musician and teacher with a professional career in music spanning over 50 years.
Napoleon (rapper).  Mutah Wassin Shabazz Beale (born October 11 1977) better known as Napoleon is a former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group Outlawz. Beale has since converted to Islam and is now a Motivational speaker.
Allan Browne.  Allan Browne (born 28 July 1944) is an Australia jazz drummer and composer first known for his work in the Red Onion Jazz band in the 1960s.
Carlo Cane.  Carlo Cane (1618–1688) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Nick Moore (musician).  Nick Moore (born July 17 1983) is an American Christian musician from Findlay Ohio. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the Billboard charting band Before Their Eyes on Rise Records.On April 18 2010 Moore announced that he would be leaving Before Their Eyes and asked for support for his new project later revealed to be Planet AD.
Jack Prelutsky.  Jack Prelutsky (born September 8 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry. He lives in Seattle Washington with his wife Carolynn.
Antony Preston.  Antony Preston (26 February 1938 – 25 December 2004) was an English naval historian and editor specialising in the area of 19th and 20th-century naval history and warship design.
Parvathy Soman.  Parvathy Soman (born April 22 1997) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a playback singer in Malayalam films. She also sings in other Malayalam devotional album songs. Parvathy's career began when she won the Munch Star Singer Junior contest.
Wiktor Andersson.  Wiktor Herman Kulörten Andersson (19 June 1887 – 13 September 1966) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 160 films between 1923 and 1958.
Margreth Olin.  Margreth Olin Mykløen (born April 16 1970 in Stranda Western Norway) is a Norwegian film director film producer and screen writer. She has won several awards for her documentary films.
Mel Draisey.  Mel Draisey (born June 8 1983) is a multi-instrumentalist from London. She is best known for being a member of The Clientele and for being in the 2008 touring line-up of Le Volume Courbe. Before recording and touring full-time with The Clientele Draisey worked as a Creative Assistant at Wieden + Kennedy in London.
Brandon Flowers.  Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21 1981) is an American musician singer songwriter and lyricist. He is best known as the frontman of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers. In 2010 Flowers released a solo album titled Flamingo.
Johann Kirnberger.  Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721 Saalfeld – 27 July 1783 Berlin) was a musician composer (primarily of fugues) and music theorist. Possibly though not verified he was a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach visiting Leipzig in 1741. He became a violinist at the court of Frederick II of Prussia in 1751. He was the music director to the Prussian Princess Anna Amalia from 1758 until his death. Kirnberger greatly admired J.S.
Yim Ho.  Yim Ho (嚴浩) is one of the most famous Hong Kong directors of the 1980s and a leader of Hong Kong New Wave.He began his career in television production making television programs for RTHK then became a film director in 1980.His most famous and critically acclaimed work was Homecoming (1984).
Richard Reeves (British author).  Richard V. Reeves (born 4 July 1969) is a British writer and philosopher. Formerly an influential thinker in the Liberal Democrats he is now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and associate director of CentreForum.
Ysabella Brave.  Ysabella Brave (born MaryAnne Ysabella; 4 December 1979) is an American vocalist signed by Cordless Recordings a division of the Warner Music Group. She was discovered through the popularity of her YouTube channels Ysabella Brave and ysabellabravetalk.
Tony Harn.  Tony Harn is an English musician. A multi-instrumentalist (predominantly guitar but also bass guitar synthesizers organ percussion programming and loops) he is based in Warrington Cheshire and is active within the north-west English progressive rock and avant-garde music scenes.Harn's music features elements of rock jazz post-punk and experimental noise but is generally highly melodic and noted for a precisely orchestrated multi-layered style of playing.
Robert Warren (artist).  Robert Warren (born 1949) professional artist and art instructor. Student of William Alexander. Helped further develop and adapt Alexander's wet-on-wet style of painting and teaching. Robert Warren has produced more than 200 instructional programs in oil painting including The Art of Bill Alexander & Robert Warren on PBS and Robert Warren's Art Loft on the Nostalgia Network and on other networks worldwide.
Alphonsus de Guimaraens.  Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães known as Alphonsus de Guimaraens (Ouro Preto July 24 1870—Mariana July 15 1921) was a Brazilian poet.The poetry of Alphonsus de Guimaraes is substantially mystical and involved with Catholicism. His sonets display a classical structure and are profoundly religious. They become increasingly sensitive as he explores the meaning of death of the impossible love of solitude and of his inadequacy regarding the world.
Richard Stilgoe.  Sir Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe OBE DL (born 28 March 1943) is a British songwriter lyricist and musician.
Julia Quinn.  Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger (born Julie Cotler in 1970) a best-selling American historical romance author who says she chose her pseudonym so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writer Amanda Quick. Her novels have been translated into 26 foreign languages and she has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List 18 times.
Ahmed Soultan.  Ahmed Soultan (أحمد سلطان; born June 17 1978) is a Moroccan singer artistconsidered as one of the leaders of the Nayda.(new urban Moroccan scene).Often called the OSNI (Objet Sonore Non Identifié)which could be translated USOfor Unknown Sounding Objectfor his very particular style. Afro-Arabian soul music of which head titles are to represent this universality the artist stands for : Achkide blends Berber and French;and Ya Salam is sung in Arabic and English.
Manuel Ferrara.  Manuel Ferrara (born November 1 1975 in Le Raincy France) is a French pornographic actor and adult film director. He has the distinction of winning the AVN Male Performer of the Year award five times more than any other male performer.
Lloyd Parks.  Lloyd Parks (born 26 May 1948 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae vocalist and bass player.
Smiley Lewis.  Smiley Lewis (July 5 1913 – October 7 1966) was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues musician. The journalist Tony Russell in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray stated Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking small-band numbers like 'The Bells Are Ringing' and 'I Hear You Knocking' only to have Fats Domino come up behind him with similar music more ingratiatingly delivered.
Charles Rinker.  Charles Rinker was an American lyricist who worked frequently with Gene de Paul and Bob Rothberg among others. His older brother Al Rinker formed the Rhythm Boys with Bing Crosby in 1925. His sister Mildred Bailey was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s.He wrote twenty-seven songs with Gene de Paul including Your Name is Love which has been recorded by George Shearing Nancy Wilson and others.
Jack Owen.  Jack Owen is an American guitarist best known for his work in the death metal genre. He was one of the founding members of Cannibal Corpse. He stayed with the band from their formation in 1988 until 2004 when he left because he wanted to move on as stated in the Centuries of Torment DVD.
Hernán Cattáneo.  Hernán Cattáneo is an Argentinean progressive house DJ.
Pauline Boty.  Pauline Boty (6 March 1938 – 1 July 1966) was a founder of the British Pop art movement and the only female painter in the British wing of the movement. Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the man's world in which she lived. Her rebellious art combined with her free-spirited lifestyle has made Boty a herald of 1970s feminism.
Collin Chou.  Collin Chou (born 11 August 1967) sometimes credited as Ngai Sing is a Hong Kong-based Taiwanese actor and martial artist. Chou is best known in the United States for his portrayal of Seraph in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and in the video game Enter the Matrix. In Asian cinema Chou has co-starred with Jet Li Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung in martial arts films such as SPL: Sha Po Lang (2005) Fearless (2006) and Flash Point (2007).
Shorty Mack.  Derrelle Owens (born June 9 1981) better known by his stage name Shorty Mack is a rapper and actor. He has put an album out under jvc/vertex 96 [hard 2 tame me] appeared on numerous recordings by Ray J including the Knockout remix of Formal Invite and the Smokin' Trees version of What I Need. He also played the role of Nyce on the sitcom Moesha. He also co-created Knockout Entertainment. A full-length album tentively titled shorty mack is expected to be released in 2012.
Mike Auldridge.  Mike Auldridge (December 30 1938 – December 29 2012) was widely acknowledged as a premier resophonic guitar (the instrument formerly referred to as a Dobro) player. He played with The Seldom Scene for many years creating a fusion of bluegrass with jazz folk and rock.Born in Washington D.C. Auldridge started playing guitar at the age of 13. His main influence through his early years was Josh Graves who also sold him his first Dobro.
Suzana Jovanović.  Suzana Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Сузана Јовановић) (born in Belgrade Serbia Yugoslavia) is a popular Serbian pop-folk singer. Jovanovic started singing in 1994 when she released her first album for PGP RTS. The title of this album was Poslaću ti ljubav (I'll send you love).However her first hits such as Plakala bih i bez suza Dzabe care Didarla and Sokole were released during the end of 1990s and the beginning of 2000s.
Richard Lloyd (guitarist).  Richard Lloyd (born October 25 1951 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.
Johann Nauwach.  Johann Nauwach (1595–1630) was the only significant German composer of solo songs before 1630.Nauwach was born in Brandenburg and was a pupil of Heinrich Schütz. Schütz dedicated a motet Glück zu dem Helikon (1627) to Nauwach's graduation. Nauwach died in Dresden.
Kim Tae-yeon.  Kim Tae-yeon (born March 9 1989) is a South Korean singer TV presenter dancer actress and promotional model. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation and she is a member of the South Korean group S.M. The Ballad.
Tova Magnusson.  Tova Magnusson (née Towa Dorothea Magnusson born 18 June 1968) is a Swedish film and television actress; comedian; and film director. She is best known outside Sweden for her role in the Danish-Swedish series The Bridge (2013).
Glenn Lewis.  Glenn Lewis (born Glenn Ricketts on March 13 1975) is a Canadian R&B and neo soul singer–songwriter best known for his singles Don't You Forget It and It's Not Fair. His father was a member of the Columbia recording group Crack of Dawn. Lewis has cited Stevie Wonder as his biggest inspiration and Lewis has often been compared to him because of the similarities in their tones.
Massimo Altomare (m:A Fog).  m:A Fog (born November 27 1979 in Turin Italy as Massimo Altomare) is a heavy metal musician.
Lotte Salling.  Lotte Salling is a Danish writer born on February 9 1964 in Århus Denmark. She writes short stories for young children.
Junior Samples.  Junior Samples born Alvin Samples Jr. (April 10 1926 – November 13 1983) in Cumming Georgia was an American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the TV show Hee Haw.
Buck Trent.  Charles Wilburn Buck Trent (born February 17 1938) is an American country music instrumentalist currently performing in Branson Missouri. He invented the electric banjo and also plays the five-string banjo dobro steel guitar mandolin electric bass and guitar.
Keath Fraser.  Keath Fraser (born 25 December 1944 in Vancouver British Columbia) is a Canadian fiction author. He lived in London from 1970 to 1973 where he studied at the University of London and earned his Ph.D. He later taught English in Calgary Alberta Canada for five years as a tenured professor. He then stopped teaching to become a full-time author.Fraser has travelled widely in Asia Europe Australia India and Cambodia and these experiences have contributed to his work.
Sterling Ruby.  Sterling Ruby (born 1972) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles California.
Tracy Grammer.  Tracy Grammer is an American folk singer known for her work as half of the folk duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer and for the solo career that she has continued since Carter's death. She released three albums with Dave Carter during his lifetime at first doing instrumental work and providing backing vocals and then by their last album together singing lead vocals on half of the tracks. Four albums by the duo have been released following Carter's death.
Austin Wintory.  Austin Wintory is an American composer who has composed scores for films and video games. He is particularly known for composing the scores to the acclaimed video game titles flOw and Journey the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (the first ever for a video game). His film efforts include the scores to the 2009 Sundance hit Grace as well as the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winner Captain Abu Raed.
Guglielmo Della Porta.  Guglielmo Della Porta (Porlezza 1515 - Rome 1577) was an Italian sculptor.
Henri Antoine Jules-Bois.  Henri Antoine Jules-Bois (or simply Jules Bois; 29 September 1868 Marseille – 2 July 1943 New York) was a French writer with an interest in the occult. He wrote Le Satanisme et la magie (Satanism and Magic).
Tiffany Page.  Tiffany Page (born 16 April 1986) is an English singer-songwriter based in London and currently signed to no record company. Her debut single Walk Away Slow was released on 15 March 2010. Her second single On Your Head started to receive airplay on radio stations across the UK.In 2010 she toured with Hole as their supporting artist.
Steven Pippin.  Steven Pippin (born 1960 at Redhill Surrey) is an English artist. Pippin works with converted or improvised photographic equipment and kinetic sculptures.Pippin's work shows a strong interest in the mechanical which he has said stems from an early childhood memory of seeing his father surrounded by the wires and tubes of a television set he was repairing.
Albert Gilles.  Albert Gilles (1895-1979) was a French coppersmith.
Matthew Thomas (musician).  Matt Thomas (born 15 June 1973) is a former member of New Zealand rock band The Feelers.Thomas started play the violin at school in Standard 2 (Year 4) the piano in Standard 3 (Year 5) and bass guitar in Form 2 (Year 8). At high school he won national awards for jazz classical and public speaking. Thomas was the founding member of The Feelers when he advertised for a bass player. He left the band in April 2008 due to personal and artistic differences.
Moses Billings.  Moses Billings (January 15 1809 – August 14 1884) was an American painter and photographer known mainly for his portraits. He was born in Amherst New Hampshire but spent most of his career working in Erie Pennsylvania.
Danny Schmidt.  Danny Schmidt is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin Texas where he was born and raised and now lives with fellow musician and singer-songwriter Carrie Elkin.
Nicholas Tse.  Nicholas Tse a.k.a Tse Ting-fung Chinese: 謝霆鋒 (born 29 August 1980) is a Hong Kong singer songwriter musician actor and entrepreneur. Tse is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group.Tse initially entered the entertainment industry in 1996 as a singer. He originally learned martial arts for the screen and television which Tse continues to practice.
Johann von Soest (painter).  Johann von Soest was a German painter active in Westphalia during the fifteenth century. He is sometimes associated with the Master of the Lippborg Passion.
Carl Breitbach.  Carl Breitbach (1833–1904) was a German painter.
Soner Sarıkabadayı.  Soner Sarıkabadayı (8 December 1978 Kahramanmaraş Turkey) is a Turkish pop music singer and songwriter.
Robert Paul Weston.  Robert Paul Weston (born October 21 1975) is a British-born Canadian children's author. His debut was the award-winning novel-in-verse Zorgamazoo. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals in Canada the UK and the United States.His second novel a dark fantasy for young adults entitled Dust City was published in October 2010. The story is narrated by the son of the wolf who killed Little Red Riding Hood.
James C. Field.  James Cooley Field was a commercial photographer in Tampa Florida. He is buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in downtown Tampa. Field came to Tampa in hopes that the climate would help cure his wife Nannie's tuberculosis. She died of the disease and daughter Alice Maud died not long afterwards. The name of Field's company Field & Morast appears on many of the early photographs of Tampa. Field sold out to his partner in 1897 and moved to Six Mile Creek where he became a saloon operator.
Paul Watkins (novelist).  Paul Watkins (born January 1 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife Cathy and two children Emma and Oliver in Hightstown New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School Oxford Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University New York.
George Tickner.  George Tyndall Tickner (born September 8 1946 Syracuse New York) is an American rock musician who played rhythm guitar and co-wrote songs as a founding member of Journey. Prior to joining Journey Tickner was a member of the San Francisco psychedelic rock band Frumious Bandersnatch along with fellow Journey founder Ross Valory. After the release of the band's debut album he left Journey to attend Stanford Medical School.
Daniel Schmidt.  Daniel Schmidt is a composer and builder of American Gamelan. He currently teaches Gamelan and instrument building at Mills College. He is also a long-time collaborator with Paul Dresher.Daniel has helped build many American gamelans including Si Darius/Si Madeleine with Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig and the aluminum gamelan that is used by Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle WA.
Mark Mallman.  Mark Mallman (born July 20 1973) is a Minnesota musician and composer for film.
Plume Latraverse.  Plume Latraverse (born Michel Latraverse 11 May 1946) is a prolific singer musician songwriter and author from Quebec.At the end of the 60's he formed a band named La Sainte Trinité with Pierrot le fou (Pierre Léger) and Pierre Landry. Then he formed a duo with Steve Faulkner (1972-1975). They performed for the last time at the Chant'Août in Quebec City. In 1976 Plume started a solo career and became one of the most influential names in Quebec counterculture.
Menios Sakellaropoulos.  Menios Sakellaropoulos is a Greek journalist and novelist.
Mindy Smith.  Mindy Smith (born June 1 1972 on Long Island New York) is an American singer-songwriter. Her music can be classified as folk country Americana bluegrass pop rock and even alternative. Her voice and musical sound have been compared to that of Shawn Colvin Patty Griffin Norah Jones and Alison Krauss.
Jada Fire.  Jada Fire (born September 1 1976) is an American retired pornographic actress. On February 2 2012 she announced that she was retiring from pornography.In 2008 she played the role of Condi (a parody of then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) in the Hustler production Who's Nailin' Paylin?.
Bob Humid.  Bob Humid (also known as Robert Feuchtl) is a producer DJ sound-designer and mastering-engineer in the Cologne electronic music and studio-scene. His musical work expands from electronic breakbeats to experimental electronica while occasionally touching the area of club music and pop. He describes his own music as Eclectica.He was born on the 13th of January 1970 in Montevideo Uruguay but grew up in Germany for most of the time.
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Sathyan (singer).  Sathyan Mahalingam simply known and credited as Sathyan is an Indian playback singer and composer. He is best known for performing the hit numbers Kalakkapovathu Yaaru (Vasool Raja MBBS) Sil Sil (Arinthum Ariyamalum) and the title track from Boss Engira Bhaskaran.
Nicolas Felizola.  Nicolas Felizola reminds you of a Renaissance artist like amodern-day Leonardo da Vinci. He is a cultured lover of knowledge; a well roundedman who is in touch with all of his senses both spiritually as wellas intellectually. His art has surpassed limitations being exhibited in galleriesmuseums and bi-annuals throughout the world. A Photographer FashionDesigner and Attorney at law Nicolas Felizola has immortalized jet settersand celebrities internationally.
Christopher Priest (novelist).  Christopher Priest (born 14 July 1943 in Cheadle Greater Manchester) is a British novelist and science fiction writer. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island Inverted World The Affirmation The Glamour The Prestige and The Separation. Priest has been strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed Vice-President of the international H. G. Wells Society.
Langdon Auger.  Scott Langejan better known by his stage name Langdon Auger is a Canadian rapper and producer from Victoria British Columbia. He has recorded six albums and a mixtape so far.
Shark (musician).  Shark is a Los Angeles-based musician film composer radio host and is a founding member and guitarist for American alternative band Wild Colonials. He also records under the name Shark and Co..
John Rubens Smith.  John Rubens Smith (January 23 1775 – August 21 1849) was a London-born painter printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States.
George Winston.  George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan and grew up mainly in Miles City Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in DeLand Florida and lives in Santa Cruz California.
Tong Dawei.  Tong Dawei (born 3 February 1979) is a Chinese actor and singer. Tong is best known for starring in the TV series Jade Guan-yin and Struggle and the film Lost in Beijing.In 2004 Tong won the Favorite Actor award of Golden Eagle Awards by playing Yang Rui in Jade Guan-yin. In 2007 he was nominated for Best New Actor in the Pusan Film Critics Awards for the film Lost in Beijing.In 2008 Tong starred in the film Red Cliff: Part II directed by John Woo.
Madeline Bell.  Madeline Bell (born July 23 1942 Newark New Jersey) is an American soul singer who became famous as a performer in the United Kingdom during the 1960s having arrived from the US in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962 with vocal group the Bradford Singers.
Michael Stewart (playwright).  Michael Stewart (August 1 1924 – September 20 1987) was an American playwright and librettist for the stage.
Bill Finger.  Milton Bill Finger (February 8 1914 – January 18 1974) was an American comic strip and comic book writer best known as the uncredited co-creator with Bob Kane of the DC Comics character Batman as well as the co-architect of the series' development.
Freddie Keppard.  Freddie Keppard (sometimes rendered as Freddy Keppard) (February 27 1889 – July 15 1933) was an early jazz cornetist who once held the title of King in the New Orleans jazz scene. This title was previously held by Buddy Bolden and succeeded by Joe Oliver.
Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick.  Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick (born 19 February 1957 Mauritius) is a British guitarist bandleader composer and record producer. He has led the British acid jazz band Incognito since its formation in 1979. With Incognito he has released fourteen studio albums as well as a number of live albums remix albums and compilation albums.
Olaus Murie.  Olaus Johan Murie (March 1 1889 – October 21 1963) called the father of modern elk management was a naturalist author and wildlife biologist who did groundbreaking field research on a variety of large northern mammals. Rather than conducting empirical experiments Murie practiced a more observational based science.Murie focused his research on the North American continent by conducting vast studies throughout Canada Alaska and Wyoming.
Vic Fleming.  Victor Anson Vic Fleming (born December 26 1951) is an American judge teacher and author residing in Little Rock Arkansas. He was born in Jackson Mississippi and educated at Davidson College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law where he has taught Law and Literature as an adjunct faulty member since 2003. He was elected as a district judge for the City of Little Rock in 1996 and then reelected in 2000 2004 and 2008.
Neno Belan.  Neno Belan is a Croatian rock musician known as the frontman of Đavoli as well as for his solo work.
Kimberly Metz.  Kimberly Metz is an American film director fashion beauty celebrity and advertising photographer based in Los Angeles syndicated by Corbis Outline and Corbis Beauty.Metz grew up in Pismo Beach and North Hollywood California.
Jimmy Knepper.  James Minter (Jimmy) Knepper (November 22 1927 – June 14 2003) was an American jazz trombonist.
Dominique Leurquin.  Dominique Leurquin is a French guitarist best known as the member of Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and the former session member of Rhapsody of Fire.He is a friend of Luca Turilli and in addition to his involvement in both Rhapsody bands along him was the guitarist of his other band Luca Turilli's Dreamquest.
Miguel Algarín.  Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941) is a Puerto Rican poet writer co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café and retired Rutgers University professor of English.
HD Schrader.  HD Schrader (1945 Bad Klosterlausnitz) born Hans-Dieter Schrader is a German sculptor. He is known in particular for his series of works titled Cubecracks which may be attributed to Concrete Art.
Paul Vincent Carroll.  Paul Vincent Carroll (10 July 1900 – 20 October 1968) was an Irish dramatist and writer of movie scenarios and television scripts. Carroll was born in Blackrock County Louth Ireland and trained as a teacher at St Patrick's College Dublin and settled in Glasgow in 1921as a teacher. Several of his plays were produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He co-founded with Grace Ballantine and Molly Urquhart the Curtain Theatre Company in Glasgow.
Dave Grohl.  David Eric Dave Grohl (born January 14 1969) is an American rock musician multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film director who is the lead vocalist guitarist main songwriter and founder of the band Foo Fighters. Prior to Foo Fighters Grohl was the drummer for the grunge band Nirvana.He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.
Kenny Lattimore.  Kenny Lattimore (born April 10 1970) is an American R&B singer. Among his most popular hits were Never Too Busy and For You.
Edward Hopper.  Edward Hopper (July 22 1882 – May 15 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.
Mithileshwar.  Mithileswar (Hindi: मिथिलैश्वर) born December 31 1950 in Baisadeeh village of 'Bhojpur district in 'Bihar' India is a Hindi writer noted for his insight into the rural heartland of India. He started writing during his student period and has accumulated many awards in his career. His stories are mostly based on the state of the common man in our society.
Chen Zeyu.  Chen Zeyu (born July 24 1983) is a Chinese actor model singer and a member of the Chinese boyband Go Go Club.
Sharon Redd.  Sharon Redd (October 19 1945 – May 1 1992) was an American singer from New York. She was the half sister of R&B singer Pennye Ford.
Joseph DeCamp.  Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5 1858 - February 11 1923) was an American painter.
Philip Caveney.  Philip Caveney (born 1951) is a British children's author best known for the Sebastian Darke Alec Devlin and Movie Maniacs novels. He previously wrote a number of thrillers for adults.
Ron Emory.  Ron Emory (born 1962 Lynwood California) is an American rock musician and guitarist for the punk rock band T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty). An original member of the band founded in Southern California in 1979 Emory left in 1987 prior to the release of the album Hit and Run. In 1996 he joined the other original members of T.S.O.L. to reform the band which remains active.
John Melville.  John Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealist painter. He is described by Michel Remy in his book Surrealism in Britain as one of the harbingers of surrealism in Great Britain.He was along with his art critic brother Robert Melville and the artist Conroy Maddox a key member of the Birmingham Surrealists from the 1930s to the 1950s. His choice of subjects as a painter was wide; he painted figures portraits still-life and landscapes.
Monty Powell.  Monty Powell (born in Resaca Georgia) is an American country music songwriter best known for collaborating with Keith Urban and for producing albums by Diamond Rio.Powell's first songwriting credit was a jingle for an Allstate commercial. After moving to Nashville Tennessee in the early 1990s Powell wrote several songs for Diamond Rio whose lead singer Marty Roe was a roommate of his in college.
Divya S. Menon.  Divya S. Menon is an Indian playback singer and television anchor from Kerala. She was born on 14 March 1992. She anchored the musical shows Ganamela Sing 'N' Win and Rain drops in Kairali Channels. She started her film career with Ee Pattanathil Bhootham. She was noticed by Shaan while she was anchoring music shows and picked her for Vineeth Sreenivasan - Shaan Rahman debut album Coffee @ MGRoad. She is associated with Blogswara and have sung in multiple albums in the series.
Andrew Kaslow.  Andrew Jonathan Kaslow (born March 5 1950 in New York NY) is an author record producer saxophonist and entertainment executive. He currently resides in New York City.
Mika Tauriainen.  Mika Tauriainen (born 5 January 1975 Sweden) is a Finnish vocalist. He is currently a member of gothic metal band Entwine Frostlit and ex-vocalist of atmospheric rock band ShamRain.
Keiko Toda.  Keiko Toda (戸田 恵子 Toda Keiko born September 12 1957 in Nagoya Aichi Japan) is a Japanese actress and voice actress. Her most famous role is being the voice of the children's hero Anpanman on the long running anime Soreike! Anpanman.
Julie Mayaya.  Julie Mayaya Nzal A Nka (born 17 February 1986 in Iași) is a Romanian singer. She took part in the second season of Pro TV's The Voice and was crowned the winner on December 26 2012 becoming the youngest and the first female contestant to win. Julie is of Congolese descent through her father.
Nathalie Doucet.  Nathalie Doucet a French-born US citizen is the founder of Arts of Fashion Foundation a non-profit organization based in San Francisco California. and of InvestFashion an online platform created to finance entrepreneurial fashion designers by way of crowdsourcing/crowdfunding. It is geared towards finding and uniting investors with awarded fashion designers.
Enrico Salfi.  Enrico Salfi (Cosenza Calabria 1857 – January 14 1935) was an Italian painter mainly of biblical or Ancient Roman (Pompeian) subjects. He also excelled in oil portraits.
Robert Kyr.  Robert Kyr (born 1952) is an American composer writer filmmaker and professor of music composition and theory.Kyr is one of the most prolific composers of his generation having written 12 symphonies three chamber symphonies three violin concerti numerous large works for orchestra oratorios and other large-scale choral works and a wide variety of chamber music.Luminous and sometimes ecstatic in effect Kyr's work is basically tonal and often harmonically and rhythmically complex its sophistication deriving from its synthesis of both modern and ancient modes as well as Western and Asian musical traditions. 
Håkon Storm-Mathisen.  Håkon Storm (born Håkon Storm-Mathisen 13 March 1967 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) the son of professor of medicine Jon Storm-Mathisen (b. 1941) and known from his own band projects in addition playing within the «Prime Time Orchestra» and collaborations with Tore Brunborg Finn Guttormsen Jarle Vespestad Jacob Young and Beate S. Lech.
USO (rapper).  Ausamah Saed better known as U$O (alternatively USO Uso) also known as U-Dollartegn (meaning U-Dollar Signs) (born 1981) is a rapper from Aarhus Denmark who released his debut album Mr. Mista in 2000. U$O he was a member of the now defunct rap group B.A.N.G.E.R.S. together with L.O.C. (real name Liam O'Conner) and N.I.S. (Niggeren i Slæden) and later Johnson. They released the EP VIPU$O is also a member of the group F.I.P. (Full Impact Productions) together with L.O.C.
Mia Rose.  Mia Rose (born Maria Antónia Teixeira Rosa; 26 January 1988 Wimbledon Village London) is an English singer-songwriter of Portuguese descent notable for her popularity on the video sharing website YouTube.
Stylah.  Kareem Written better known as Stylah is a South London rapper from Greenwich SE7. He has described himself as a black Arab half Omani half Moroccan. After being interested in music for some time he decided to pursue music seriously. His first offering 2004's Prince of Thieves which he single handedly sold 9000 copies of on the streets of London and other cities sprung one single called Warfare Part II featuring Serious.Prince of Thieves caused a huge buzz for Stylah.
Rick Derringer.  Rick Derringer (born Ricky Dean Zehringer August 5 1947) is an American guitarist vocalist Grammy Award winning producer and entertainer.Derringer came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of The McCoys who had a number one hit single with Hang on Sloopy. Derringer then turned to blues rock scoring a 1974 hit with Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo. He has also worked extensively with brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter and with the group Steely Dan.
Omnia (musician).  Evgeny Smirnov (born May 18 1987) known primarily by his stage name Omnia is a trance and progressive music DJ and producer. His DJ schedule has included festivals and clubs such as Global Gathering UK & Ukraine Ultra Argentina A State Of Trance 600 Holland Trancefusion Czech Republic Summadayze Zouk Papaya Privilege Eden Ageha and Ellui.
Janet Hudson Schroeder.  Janet Hudson Schroeder is a national and international award winning photojournalist. Schroeder lives near Tulsa Oklahoma and is known for her black and white rock concert photography featuring artists such as Metallica AC/DC The Eagles Mastodon Stone Temple Pilots and Nickelback. She is the feature photographer for Rockville Magazine and the still photographer for the documentary film Bleed Into One.
Amine (singer).  Amine Mounder (Ar:أمين منذر) is a French-Moroccan R&B singer. He was born in Casablanca Morocco. He is known for his singular music style Raï'n'B which is a mix of R&B and Raï.His biggest hits is Sobri (notre Destin) a duet with French singer Leslie and J'voulais. Both reached the #1 spot on the French singles chart.
Nicholas Humphrey (author).  Nicholas Humphrey (born 1971) is an Australian author and lawyer.He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of New South Wales.He is married and has three children and lives in Sydney.
Paul Fry (professor).  Paul Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University a specialist in British Romantic poetry.He received his BA from the University of California Berkeley and his Ph. D. from Harvard University.
Keisuke Ogihara.  Keisuke Ilmari Ogihara (荻原イルマリ恵介 Ogihara Irumari Keisuke) is one of the founding members of the hip hop group Rip Slyme. He was born on June 17 1975 in Helsinki Finland to a Japanese father and a Finnish mother. He is best known by his stage name Ilmari (イルマリ) which is considered to be his middle name in Finland.
King L.  Louis Johnson (born 1987) better known by his stage name King L or King Louie is an American rapper from Chicago Illinois. He is signed to the record label Epic Records. Spin Magazine attributed King L as being one of the Chicago rappers who made Chicago the hottest hip-hop scene in 2012.
Karl Stern.  Karl Stern (April 8 1906 - November 11 1975) was a German-Canadian neurologist and psychiatrist and Jewish convert to the Catholic Church. Stern is best known for his account of his conversion in Pillar of Fire (1951).
Richard Moore (comics).  Richard Moore (born Fredrick William Morehead in French Camp CA July 17 1966) is an American writer and artist of comic books. His published titles include Far West Boneyard and Deja Vu.
Caroline Loeb.  Caroline Loeb (5 October 1955 Neuilly-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine) is an actress radio host singer director and French writer. She remains particularly known for her 1980s hit C'est la ouate.
Brad Cleveland.  Brad Cleveland is an author public speaker and consultant who focuses on customer service call centers technical support centers social media and other customer-facing environments. He was one of two initial partners in ICMI (International Customer Management Institute) joining founder Gordon F. MacPherson Jr. in 1991. Cleveland was majority shareholder and served as President and CEO of ICMI from 1996 through June 2008 when ICMI became part of London-based United Business Media.
Jermain Jackman.  Jermain Jackman (born 1994 or 1995) is an English singer from Hackney London who is most notable for winning the third series of the BBC talent search The Voice UK beating the favourite voice to win Christina Marie.Jackman was the winner of series 3 of British television talent show The Voice UK in April 2014 and the first male to win the competition.Jackman was given a £100000 record contract.
Joyce Carol Thomas.  Joyce Carol Thomas (born May 25 1938) is an African-American poet playwright motivational speaker and author of more than 30 children's books. Thomas was born in Ponca City Oklahoma the fifth of nine children in a family of cotton pickers. In 1948 they moved to Tracy California to pick vegetables. She learned Spanish from Mexican migrant workers and earned a B.A. in Spanish from San Jose State University.
Marion Worth.  Marion Worth (b. Mary Ann Ward July 4 1930 - December 19 1999) was an American Country Music Singer. She was a popular performer on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee. She also had several hits in the early 1960s.
Curtis Fields.  Curtis Fields is an American singer and songwriter. He is an artist with Epic Records and performed at the 2013 BET Awards using an iPhone as a guitar.
Ted Grouya.  Ted Grouya (31 July 1910 - 14 April 2000) born Theodor Grouya in Bucharest Romania was a composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger. He wrote the jazz standard Flamingo (1940) first recorded by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington and later recorded by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass for their album S.R.O. (1966). Grouya also wrote the music for the film version of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944) and other films.
Ralph Hoffmann.  Ralph Hoffmann (November 30 1870 – July 21 1932) was an American natural history teacher and amateur ornithologist and botanist. He was the author of the first true bird field guide.
Fawad Afzal Khan.  Fawad Afzal Khan (Punjabi Urdu: فواد افضل خان‎ Fawād Afẓal Ḵẖān IPA: [fəʋɑːd̪ əfzəl xɑːn]; born 29 November 1981) is a Pakistani singer model and actor. Khan rose to prominence playing the role of Hassan in 2010 serial Dastaan for which he won Pakistan Media Award for Best Actor.
Michelle Paver.  Michelle Paver (born 1960) is a British novelist and children's writer probably best known for the fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe. For the concluding book Ghost Hunter (2009) she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
Pellegrino Piola.  Pellegrino Piola (1617 – 25 November 1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa. He was born in Genoa and at the age of twelve apprenticed with Domenico and Giovanni Battista Capellino. He was the elder brother of the painter Domenico Piola. He was murdered during an altercation in Genoa some claim by either his master or an elder painter envious of his skill. His brother was Domenico Piola. Also called Pellegro Piola or il Pellegro.
Sheherazade Goldsmith.  Sheherazade Goldsmith is an English environmentalist author columnist and a jeweller with her company Loquet LondonDuring the 1990s Goldsmith worked in the fashion industry. In the 21st century she has been an environmental activist who has undertaken a variety of green initiatives starting with an Organic food business that she ran in London from 2000 to 2002.
Deluxe (musician).  Deluxe (Xoel López) is a Spanish alternative rock musician from A Coruña Galicia (Spain).
Jae Chong.  Jae Chong (born January 8 1972) is a musician and producer known for his works in the Asian music scene. He has written and produced for many artists such as LA BOYZ Stanley Huang and more recently Aziatix.
Michiko Hamamura.  Michiko Hamamura (浜村 美智子 Hamamura Michiko born October 3 1938 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese singer and actress. She was known as the Banana Boat Girl after she recorded a bi-lingual cover of the Banana Boat Song
Pál Kalmár.  Pál Kalmár (September 5 1900 – November 21 1988) was a Hungarian pop singer who is noted as being the first singer to perform Gloomy Sunday. He was at the height of his fame in the 1930s and 1940s but continued singing into the '60s.
Shoba Narayan.  Shoba Narayan is an award winning author of Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes (2003).She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Women's Christian College studied fine arts as a Foreign Fellow at Mount Holyoke College and received a Master of Arts from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She contributes to a regular column on Good Life Mint newspaper Condé Nast's Traveler.
August Kühnel.  August Kühnel (3 August 1645 – ca. 1700) was a German composer and accomplished viola da gamba performer. He was born at Delmenhorst.Kühnel was the son of the Mecklenburg chamber musician Samuel Kühnel. Already in 1661 (at age 16) after receiving education in Güstrow and France he was appointed Violdigambist in the court orchestra of Maurice Duke of Saxe-Zeitz a position he held until 1681. After the duke's death in 1682 Kühnel went to England to study.
Wade Ward.  Wade Ward (1892–1971) was an American old-time music banjo player and fiddler from Independence Virginia. He was especially renowned for his clawhammer banjo playing. He was a frequent winner at the Galax Virginia Old Time Fiddler's Convention. His instrument a Gibson RB-11 5-string banjo is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution. Along with Kyle Creed Wade Ward is thought by many to embody the 'Galax' style of clawhammer banjo playing.
Yoshie Taira.  Yoshie Taira (平 淑恵 Taira Yoshie) (born October 10 1954 in Obihiro Hokkaido) is a Japanese actress. She graduated from St. Margaret's Junior College in Suginami Tokyo.From 1985 to 1999 she was a costar in the TBS prime-time television series Ōoka Echizen in the role of Yukie the wife of Ōoka Tadasuke. She has also appeared in many other jidaigeki including Gokenin Zankurō Mito Kōmon and Abarenbo Shogun.
Adam Pendleton.  Adam Pendleton (born 1984 Richmond Virginia) is an American conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice involving painting silkscreen collage video and performance. His work often involves the investigation of language and the recontextualization of history through appropriated imagery. His art has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art the Whitney the New Museum and other shows internationally including La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Calum Waddell.  Calum Waddell is a British writer documentary producer/ director and film critic.
Fey (singer).  Fey (born María Fernanda Blázquez Gil in Mexico City July 21 1973) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop artist that became a pop teen idol for Latin America in the mid-1990s.
Soopafly.  Priest Joseph Brooks (born December 8 1972) better known by his stage name Soopafly is a hip hop producer and rapper from Long Beach California. He is a member of the DPGC.
Caroline Corr.  Caroline Georgina Corr (born 17 March 1973) affectionately called the Chick with Stick is an Irish singer and drummer for the Celtic folk rock band The Corrs. In addition to the drums Caroline also plays the bodhrán percussions and piano. The Corr siblings were appointed honorary MBEs in 2005 in recognition of their music and charitable work which has raised money for the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle victims of the Omagh Bombing and other charities.
Blaize Clement.  Blaize Clement (August 18 1932 – July 20 2011) was an American writer. She is best known for her series of Dixie Hemingway mystery novels published by St. Martin's Press a division of Macmillan. The series has been carried on by her son John Clement.
Onaje Allan Gumbs.  Onaje Allan Gumbs (born September 3 1949 New York City) is a New York-based pianist composer and bandleader.
Robert Alwyn Hughes.  Robert Alwyn Hughes is a Welsh artist born 1935 in Dowlais.
Raffaëla Anderson.  Template:Category relevant?Raffaëla Anderson (born 8 January 1976 in Montfermeil France) is a French former adult film performer. She is now a non-fiction writer and occasionally acts in mainstream productions.
Alessandro Varotari.  Alessandro Varotari (4 April 1588 – 20 July 1649) also commonly known as il Padovanino was an Italian painter of the late-mannerist and early-baroque Venetian school best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi Giulio Carpioni and Bartolommeo Scaligero.He was theson of Dario Varotari the Elder and the brother of Chiara Varotari who accompanied him on his travels and assisted with his work.
Kavyan.  The word Kavyan refers to a group of Malaysian writers of Indian descent who write in Bahasa Malaysia the national language of Malaysia. Kavyan Writers (or Sasterawan Kavyan) contribute novels short stories and poems to the Malaysian literary scene occasionally in English and Tamil as well. The Kumpulan Sasterawan Kavyan (Kavyan Writers' Group) is an association of Kavyan Writers.
Alexander Neverov.  Alexander Sergeyevich Neverov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Неверов) (December 20 1886 – December 24 1923) was a Russian/Soviet writer and teacher. Neverov was his pseudonym; his real last name was Skobelev.
György Szabados.  György Szabados (13 July 1939 – 10 June 2011) was a Hungarian jazz pianist and is sometimes referred to as the father or unofficial king of the Hungarian free jazz movement since the 1960s.
Juan Jose Chuquisengo.  Juan José Chuquisengo is a Peruvian concert pianist and soloist specializing in classical and world music. Chuquisengo's Trascendent Journey was considered one of the best 100 classic CDs ever by Die Besten 100 and Chuquisengo received a fellowship award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Richard Adler.  Richard Adler (August 3 1921 – June 21 2012) was an American lyricist writer composer and producer of several Broadway shows.
Skin (musician).  Deborah Anne Dyer known by the stage name Skin (born 3 August 1967) is an English singer and occasional model. As Deborah Dyer Skin studied Interior Design at Teesside University in Middlesbrough and they later honoured her with an honorary degree. She is currently the lead vocalist of English band Skunk Anansie.
Christopher Green (author).  Christopher Green is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.
Cheyenne Kimball.  Cheyenne Nichole Kimball (born July 27 1990) is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and mandolinist. Her debut album The Day Has Come was released in July 2006 coinciding with an MTV reality series following her entry into the music industry. This album produced a chart single on the Billboard Hot 100 in Hanging On. From 2008 to 2011 she was a member of the country music band Gloriana which made its chart debut in 2009.
Roger Nimier.  Roger Nimier (31 October 1925 – 28 September 1962) was a French novelist.
Augusto Boal.  Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 - 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre director writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997 where he developed legislative theatre.
Selina Bunbury.  Selina Bunbury (1802–1882) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and traveler.Born at Kilsaran County Louth Bunbury was a prolific author writing nearly 100 volumes between 1821 and 1869. She lived for a while at Beaulieu near Drogheda. She died at Cheltenham.
Christian XXX.  Christian XXX or Christian (born on May 8 1974) is a pornographic actor. He was known as Maxx Diesel at the beginning of his career when he performed in gay porn. Since his short stint in gay porn (he performed in a total of 12 scenes) he has appeared in over 1000 scenes in straight porn and won three AVN Awards. He was the main producer/director for the company Naughty America from 2009-2011 as well.
Nick Verreos.  Nick Verreos (born February 13 1967 in St. Louis Missouri) is an American fashion designer fashion commentator and former Project Runway contestant.
Lilis Suryani.  Lilis Surjani (Perfected Spelling: Lilis Suryani; 22 August 1948 – 7 October 2007) was an Indonesian singer known especially for her 1965 album Gang Kelinci and the song of the same name a song highly critical of Indonesian president Sukarno's Guided Democracy program which it criticizes (allegorically) for ending a period of liberal democracy and replacing it with a totalitarian system of censorship and economic exploitation.
Sadequain.  Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi (Urdu: سید صادقین احمد نقوی‎) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz Pride of Performance Sitara-e-Imtiaz also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash was a world-renowned Pakistani artist best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced.
Steven Whyte.  Steven Whyte (born 17 March 1969) is a sculptor classically trained in the traditional methodology of figurative bronze sculpture living in Carmel California who has produced many public memorials and installations in both England and throughout the United States with subjects ranging from miners to soldiers and fire fighters. He is credited with nine major monuments including The Silverdale Mining Memorial The Lance Sergeant Jack Baskeyfield VC Tribute The Spirit of 1948 and The Dr.
Marcel Diallo.  Marcel Diallo is an American musician poet artist and community builder known for his founding of the Black Dot Artists Collective (later Black Dot Artists Inc.) The Black New World and his revitalization efforts in West Oakland's historic predominantly African-American Prescott neighborhood aka the Lower Bottoms.
Richard Lintern.  Richard Lintern (born Taunton Somerset) is an English stage voice and screen actor.
José Ladrönn.  José Ladrönn (born 1967) is a comic book penciller and inker born in Veracruz Mexico.
Greg Kramer.  Greg Kramer (1961 – April 8 2013) was a British-born Canadian author actor director and magician. Born and raised in Hertfordshire England he emigrated to Canada in 1981 and spent the remainder of his life living in Vancouver Toronto and Montreal.His first novel The Pursemonger of fugu published by Riverbank Press in 1995 was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. His other novels included Couchwarmer (1997) and Wally (2004).
Craig Thompson.  Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21 1975) is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye Chunky Rice (1999) Blankets (2003) Carnet de Voyage (2004) and Habibi (2011). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards three Eisner Awards and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007 his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.
Bill Kaulitz.  Bill Kaulitz (born 1 September 1989) is a German singer songwriter voice actor designer and model. He is best known for his work from 2001 to the present as the lead singer of the band Tokio Hotel.
Garrett Uhlenbrock.  Garrett Uhlenbrock (born Garrett James Uhlenbrock 21 August 1964) aka Skinny Bones is a punk rock musician and songwriter best known for co-writing songs for the New York based band the Ramones.Record producer Bill Laswell introduced Uhlenbrock to Dee Dee Ramone in 1989. In 1990 Uhlenbrock and Dee Dee Ramone co-wrote the first version of Poison Heart which was later recorded by the Ramones on their Mondo Bizarro album.
Larry Lee.  Lawrence H. Larry Lee Jr. (March 7 1943 – October 30 2007) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter from Memphis Tennessee best known for his work with Al Green and Jimi Hendrix.
Wynton Marsalis.  Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18 1961) is a trumpeter composer teacher music educator and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Sarah Anne Curzon.  Sarah Anne Curzon née Vincent (1833 – November 6 1898) was a Canadian poet journalist editor and playwright who was one of the first women's rights activists and supporters of liberal feminism in Canada.During her lifetime she was best known for her closet drama Laura Secord: The Heroine of 1812 one of the works that made Laura Secord a household name.
Nick Patrick (actor).  Nick Patrick is a British actor most famous for playing the part of SRO Julian 'JT' Tavell in the ITV Soap opera The Bill.He also played a character in Prime Suspect Season 4: Inner Circles.
Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance.  Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (December 1 1890 – March 20 1932) born Sylvester Clark Long was an American journalist writer and actor from Winston-Salem North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He became famous following publication of his bestselling autobiography purportedly based on his experience as the son of a Blackfoot chief. He was the first American Indian admitted to the Explorers Club in New York City.
Max Hermann Maxy.  Max Hermann Maxy (also known as M. H. Maxy born Max Herman; October 26 1895–July 19 1971) was a Romanian painter art professor scenographer and professor of German-Jewish descent.
Herman Foster.  Herman Foster (April 26 1928 – April 3 1999) was an American bebop jazz pianist.He was blinded during childbirth through the carelessness of a doctor. He began his musical career early playing the violin clarinet saxophone and piano. He became a self-taught pianist. His family moved to New York City in 1947 where he began to attend jam sessions and then played with Eric Dixon Dick Carter and the big band of Herb Jones. Then he met Lou Donaldson and they played together from 1953 to 1966.
Marco Katz.  Marco Katz (born March 16 1957 in New York City USA) plays trombone and arranges and composes music for band brass quintet and other musical ensembles. The reviewer Adam Gaines in a review of the Bundee Brothers Bone Band album wrote that Katz's compositions are a real highlight of the disc. His trombone writing is expertly idiomatic and his music is harmonically interesting without being obtuse.
Eric Joyner.  Eric Joyner is a contemporary American artist with a body of work has focused on robots and donuts.Several of his paintings are used as set pieces in the TV Show The Big Bang Theory.An adaptation of his 2007 work The Collator Submerged is featured on the album cover for the Ben Folds Five album The Sound of the Life of the Mind.Earlier in his career he was a commercial illustrator and is responsible for creating the cover art for several video games such as Tales of the Unknown Volume I: The Bard's Tale Realm of Impossibility and Archon II: Adept.
Willy DeVille.  Willy DeVille (August 25 1950 – August 6 2009) was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five-year career first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own Deville created original songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. He worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary music including Jack Nitzsche Doc Pomus Dr. John Mark Knopfler Allen Toussaint and Eddie Bo.
Zeynab Khanlarova.  Zeynab Yahya qizi Khanlarova (Azerbaijani: Zeynəb Xanlarova) (28 December 1936 Baku) - is a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer (soprano) People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1980).
Rick Berry (artist).  Rick Berry (born June 2 1953) is a contemporary American expressionistic figure artist based in the Boston area. Berry creates art for galleries illustration and paintings for theatrical performances.Berry's work has appeared in many science fiction fantasy and comic books including Neil Gaiman's Sandman Magic:The Gathering cards and Stephen King novels. In 1985 Berry created the first digitally painted book cover worldwide for William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Mary Lambert (singer).  Mary Lambert (born May 3 1989) is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter and spoken word artist. She worked with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on a track on their album The Heist. Lambert is the featured singer and songwriter of their gay rights single Same Love. Lambert wrote the chorus's hook in two hours. The Same Love chorus draws on Lambert's experiences as a lesbian growing up in a tumultuous Christian upbringing.
Lisa Miskovsky.  Lisa Miskovsky (born 9 March 1975 in Vännfors currently living in Umeå) is a Swedish musician.
David Arnold (conductor).  David Arnold (born 1951) is an English composer conductor and record producer.He began to play percussion at the age of 12 and went on to study at the Royal College of Music in London.
Stanley Plumly.  Stanley Plumly (born May 23 1939 Barnesville Ohio) is an American poet who is professor of English and director of University of Maryland College Park's creative writing program.This poet hymns unlikely things finding beauty and grace where they were overlooked so that a frightful contraption like an iron lung can become a miraculous vehicle for 'out-of-the-body travel' the major metaphor as well as the tile ot Plumly's finest collection (1977).
Billy Ficca.  William Joseph Billy Ficca (born February 15 1950 Delaware) is a punk rock drummer who has played with the legendary CBGB's band Television plus Nona Hendryx & Zero Cool 40 Familys The Washington Squares The Waitresses and The Neon Boys.
Mark Shulman (author).  Mark Shulman was born April 1 1962 in Rochester New York. He is an American children's author of over 100 books. He is the founder of Oomf Inc.His debut novel Scrawl edited by Neal Porter is included in the list of Best Fiction for Young Adults by the American Library AssociationMark Shulman has two children – Hannah and Solomon. He lives in New York City.
Matt McKenna.  Matt McKenna (born August 19 1975) is an American touring rock bassist known for his work with Jude Cole Swirl 360 Ultrapull Jetliner and House Of Lords. An American of Scottish descent he spends much of his off-time in the UK.
François-Réal Angers.  François-Réal Angers ( 20 November 1812 – 27 March 1860) was a lawyer and writer from Quebec Canada. He was born in Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville Quebec) into a family of farmers. He collaborated to the foundation of the short lived Société littéraire in 1830. In 1836 while studying law he published the booklet Système de sténographie applicable au français et à l'anglais.
Kuniko Asagi.  Kuniko Asagi (麻木 久仁子 Asagi Kuniko born on November 12 1962) is a Japanese actress and television presenter. Her real name is Kuniko Tanaka (田中 久仁子 Tanaka Kuniko).
Konstantin Simun.  Konstantin Simun (born 1934) is a Russian sculptor living and working in Boston United States. He was born in Saint Petersburg Russia in 1934. He is most well known for his large-scale monuments including Broken Ring a monument to the Road of Life on Lake Ladoga near Saint Petersburg and Totem America exhibited for a decade at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.
Ciarán Brennan (journalist).  Not to be confused with the Clannad band member.Ciarán Brennan is an Irish computer games journalist who was editor of the British computer games magazines Zzap!64 The One and PC Leisure in the late '80s and early '90s. He contributed to Computer and Video Games.
Carol Connors (pornographic actress).  Carol Connors (born November 13 1952 in New Jersey) is an American former pornographic actress. She was sometimes credited as Caroline May and Carol Kaiser and starred in about 20 adult movies between 1971 and 1981. Connors is the mother of actress Thora Birch.
John Gallo.  John Gallo (born 1978) is a guitarist and artist from Rochester New York. Originally the webmaster/creater of the doom metal website/festival/fanzine Born Too Late.
Shaun Groves.  Shaun Groves (born 1973) is an American Christian singer-songwriter and musician from Tyler Texas.
Bob Tostes.  Bob Tostes is a singer composer and producer of Rádio Guarani FM Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brazil. In 1969 he was the leader of a local group of the Musicanossa movement which was set up in Rio de Janeiro by composer Roberto Menescal.
Gerald Brom.  Gerald Brom (born March 9 1965 in Albany Georgia) known professionally as Brom is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator known for his work in role-playing games novels and comics.
Mihai Trăistariu.  Mihai Trăistariu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj trəjstaˈri.u]; b. December 16 1976 in Piatra Neamț) is a Romanian singer and musician. He represented Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 held in Athens Greece with the song Tornerò. Since that competition the song has been broadcast in over 30 countries in Europe.
Katharina Franck.  Katharina Franck (born July 28 1963) is German singer-songwriter who became famous with her band Rainbirds and has produced several solo albums.
William West (artist).  William West (1801–61) was an English oil painter and watercolourist who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He was also the builder of the Clifton Observatory at Clifton Down Bristol.West arrived in Bristol around 1823. He started exhibiting there in 1823 and from 1824 as well as participating in the sketching activities of the Bristol School he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution.
Greg Hetson.  Greg Hetson (born June 29 1961) is an American guitarist. He was born in Brooklyn New York and has lived in Los Angeles California since he was 2 years old. Active since 1979 Hetson is best known as the guitarist for the influential hardcore punk bands Redd Kross Circle Jerks and Bad Religion.While Hetson declares Bad Religion as his main occupation he has alternated between both Bad Religion and The Circle Jerks since 1994.
William Banting.  William Banting (c. December 1796 – 16 March 1878) was notable English undertaker. Formerly suffering from obesity he is also known for being the first to popularise a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He undertook his dietary changes at the suggestion of Soho Square physician Dr. William Harvey who in turn had learnt of this type of diet but in the context of diabetes management from attending lectures in Paris by Claude Bernard.
Ma Sanli.  Ma Sanli (simplified Chinese: 马三立; traditional Chinese: 馬三立; pinyin: Mǎ Sānlì; 1914 – February 11 2003) was a Chinese comedian in the traditional Xiangsheng or crosstalk style.
Irving Kriesberg.  Irving Kriesberg (1919–2009) was an American painter whose work combined elements of Abstract Expressionism with figurative elements of human and animal forms. Kriesberg made his debut with Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko at the 1952 exhibition Fifteen Artists at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Lovecraft eZine.  The Lovecraft eZine is a monthly online magazine (also known as an ezine) devoted to Lovecraftian horror. In addition to the monthly magazine Mike Davis the editor of the Lovecraft eZine blogs about all things Lovecraft several times a week.A video chat is being held (and hosted by the Lovecraft eZine) on Google Hangout every Sunday at 6:00pm EST (3pm PST 5pm CST 11pm London).
Edward O'Neill (actor).  Edward O'Neill was a British actor.
Peter Michael.  Peter Michael (born 1972) is an English contemporary figurative painter. Michael's work is firmly set in the British painting tradition of Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville but references his classical Italian fresco training with hints of artists such as Mantegna.Michael studied at the University of East London where he obtained a degree in Fine Art.
Doug Adkins.  Douglas Martin Adkins (born October 3 1963) is a country music singer and songwriter. He recorded eight studio albums between 1990 and 2010 and received a number one hit on the European Hot Disc Country Charts with the song Whiskey Salesman (23 February and 2 March 2006).[citation needed] The song Whiskey Salesman was nominated for Best Country Song of the Year in 2008 by the Independent Music Awards.[citation needed]
Alain Elkann.  Alain Elkann (born March 23 1950) is an Italian novelist intellectual and journalist. Currently Elkann is the conductor of cultural programs on Italian television. A recurring theme in his books is the history of the Jews in Italy their centrality to Italian history and the relation between the Jewish faith and other religions. He is a writer for La Règle du Jeu Nuovi Argomenti A and Shalom magazines.
Robert Beauchamp.  Robert Beauchamp (1923 – March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being both frightening and amusing. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann.
Andrea Jutson.  Andrea Jutson is a writer who was born and raised in Auckland New Zealand. She has published two crime novels featuring reticent medium James Paxton Senseless (Random House 2005) and The Darkness Looking Back (Random House 2008). She was also short-listed for the 2011 Tessa Duder Award for New Zealand young adult literature for her unpublished manuscript 'Cursed'.
Novika.  Novika (1974– born Katarzyna Nowicka) is a Polish vocalist DJ and producer. She plays a blend of electro music deep house deep techno and dubtronica.She is known for her numerous collaborations with Futro Smolik Fisz Vienio & Pele Adamus and others all of whom appeared on her album Feat. Novika (Sissy 2004). In Radiostacja she hosted her show Radio Lazy Sunday for 5 years. Then she moved to Jazz Radio for a while and ended up in national radio for young people - BIS.
Jules Breton.  Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
Séverine Ferrer.  Séverine Ferrer (born 31 October 1977) is a French singer.
Garnet Rogers.  Garnet Rogers (born May 1955) is a Canadian folk musician singer songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother folk musician Stan Rogers and arranging Stan's music.
Frankie DeCarlos.  Frankie DeCarlos Patrick (born July 14 1976) better known by his stage name Frankie DeCarlos is an American singer-songwriter record producer musician and entrepreneur. His latest and most popular album 9 was released April 9 2013.
Glenn Fabry.  Glenn Fabry is an Eisner Award-winning British comics artist known for his detailed realistic work in both ink and painted colour.
Hermann Finsterlin.  Hermann Finsterlin (18 August 1887 – 16 September 1973) was a visionary architect painter poet essayist toymaker and composer. He played an influential role in the German expressionist architecture movement of the early 20th century but due to the harsh economic climate realised none of his projects. By 1922 Finsterlin had withdrawn from the circle of expressionist architects as they moved towards the New Objectivity movement he moved to Stuttgart to concentrate on painting and writing.
Thierry Pécou.  Thierry Pécou (born Boulogne-Billancourt 1965) is a modern French composer.The composer's own Ensemble Zellig was named after the eponymous hero of Woody Allen's Zelig.
Mack Gordon.  Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler June 21 1904 – March 1 1959) was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times in eleven years including five consecutive years between 1940 and 1944 and won the award once for You'll Never Know. That song has proved among his most enduring and remains popular in films and television commercials to this day. At Last is another of his best-known songs.
A-mei.  A-Mei (Chinese: 阿妹; pinyin: Ā Mèi) also known by her Chinese name Zhang Hui-mei (traditional Chinese: 張惠妹; simplified Chinese: 张惠妹; pinyin: Zhāng Huìmèi) is an aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer and occasional songwriter. She is also known by her birth name Gulilai Amit (traditional Chinese: 古歷來·阿蜜特; simplified Chinese: 古历来·阿蜜特). She was born in the rugged mountains of eastern Taiwan and is the third youngest of nine siblings.
Mark Bautista.  Mark Bautista (born August 10 1983) is a Filipino singer actor and commercial model. Born into a large impoverished family in Cagayan de Oro City Philippines. Bautista received his career break when he was a Grand finalist on Philippine reality TV talent search Star for a Night and eventually placed second behind Sarah Geronimo. He is now with the GMA Network.
Jarboe.  Jarboe (/ˈdʒɑrboʊ/; also known as Jane Jarboe and the Living Jarboe; born Jarboe La Salle Devereaux) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist who came to prominence when she joined the New York City band Swans 1985. Having played the organ since childhood and had years of professional vocal training she with founder Michael Gira were the two constant members of Swans until the group broke up in 1998.
Bertram Goodman.  Bertram A. Goodman (1904–1988) was an American artist.He studied at the School of American Sculpture and at the Art Students League of New York in 1925.He was a member of the Federal Art Project whose murals included Evolution of the Book at Theodore Roosevelt High School and murals at Washington Avenue and Fordham Road in the Bronx.He was Director of the Artists Equity Association from 1955 to 1956.His work is in the Brooklyn Museum and Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Jimmy Yancey.  James Edwards Jimmy Yancey (February 20 1894 – September 17 1951) was an African American boogie-woogie pianist composer and lyricist. One reviewer noted him as one of the pioneers of this raucous rapid-fire eight-to-the-bar piano style.
Rocky Frisco.  Born Don Roscoe Joseph III in Saint Louis Missouri on July 26 1937 Rocky Frisco is the pianist with the J. J. Cale Band.Frisco and Cale both attended Tulsa Central High School in the 1950s with Frisco graduating in 1955 and Cale in 1956. They played together in Gene Crose's band starting in 1957. In the Fall of 1958 Rocky moved to Pennsylvania to form a band for Clyde Stacy.
Nick Saglimbeni.  Nick Saglimbeni (born Baltimore Maryland) is an American visual artist primarily known for his work in photography and motion picture. Saglimbeni is a pioneer in the field of 3D photography and is the creator of WMB 3D: World's Most Beautiful. In 2012 he was awarded the inaugural Grand Prize in 3D from Sony's World Photography Organisation.
Jan Kåre Hystad.  Jan Kåre «Hysen» Hystad (born 9 July 1955 in Stord Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone clarinet flute) and the older brother of Jazz saxophonist Ole Jacob Hystad. He is known as leader of his own Quartet an as part of the Bergen Big Band with cooperations with Teje Rypdal John Surman and Karin Krogh.
Michal Wisniowski.  Michał Wojciech Wiśniowski (born September 30 1980 in Wrocław Poland) known as Michal Wisniowski is a contemporary artist who works in both fine arts media such as painting as well as digital and commercial media.
Tony Mills (musician).  Tony Mills (born 7 July 1962 in Solihull England) is an English rock singer best known for his work with Shy and TNT.Hailing from Birmingham when he was 14 years old he sang in his first band the punk band The Rip-Offs before joining fellow Birmingham punk band Cracked Actors as bass guitarist. Turning to rock in 1980 he sang in rock bands with guitarist Nik Lloyd such as Overdrive Orion and Enigma and in 1983 he joined the band Shy.
Cam Pipes.  Cam Pipes is the lead vocalist in the Canadian heavy metal band 3 Inches of Blood. He performs a falsetto vocal style reminiscent of King Diamond. Pipes is the only member of 3 Inches of Blood to have featured on all of their albums to date although he is not a founding member of the band. Pipes's influences include Iron Maiden Twisted Sister Led Zeppelin Deep Purple and classical music.Pipes formerly played bass for black metal band Allfather.
Dismantled.  Dismantled (born Gary Zon) is an electronic music artist from the United States.
Edward Rose.  Edward Rose (August 7 1849 - 31 December 1904) was an English dramatist and playwright best known for his adaptations of novels for the stage mainly The Prisoner of Zenda. He was also the theatre critic for The Sunday Times.
Edward Savage (artist).  Edward Savage (November 26 1761 – July 6 1817) was an American portrait painter and engraver. He was born in Princeton Mass. and at first worked as a goldsmith also practicing engraving. Although seemingly untrained in painting he came into prominence in 1790 through his portrait of George Washington intended as a gift to Harvard University. In 1791 he visited London where he studied for a time under Benjamin West and then went to Italy.
Toko Yasuda.  Toko Yasuda is a Japanese singer songwriter keyboardist and bass guitarist.
Benito Canónico.  Benito Canónico (January 3 1894 – October 13 1971) was a Venezuelan composer musician orchestrator and teacher.Born in Guarenas Miranda Canónico spent much of his life teaching and writing music in a wide variety of genres and styles including hymns marchs and popular music.
Rebecca Fjelland Davis.  Rebecca Fjelland Davis is an American novelist and children's book author who lives in Minnesota. She is currently an instructor at South Central College in Mankato where she teaches Composition studies Literature and Film and Critical Thinking in Humanities.
Thorsten Laewe.  Thor Laewe is a composer music producer and also known for his work as a mixing engineer.
Amsale Aberra.  Amsale Aberra (born 1954) is an Ethiopian-born American designer and entrepreneur. Her main field of design is in couture wedding gowns and her flagship store is located on Madison Avenue in New York City. In addition to her flagship location her gowns are also sold at fine bridal boutiques such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
Jack Kirby.  Jack Kirby (August 28 1917 – February 6 1994) born Jacob Kurtzberg was an American comic book artist writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.Kirby grew up poor in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons.
Eric Wan.  Eric Wan Tin-chiu (born 28 October 1964) is a Hong Kong television actor best known for his role as Fong Tin-yau in the My Date with a Vampire television series trilogy produced by the Hong Kong television network ATV. Wan began his acting career after graduating from the ATV Training Course in 1983. He started as a host in television programmes for children before entering the drama department.
Ion Miu.  Ion Miu (born 21 January 1955) is a virtuoso cimbalom player performing both Romanian folk music and pieces from the classical repertoire.
Jerry Craft.  Jerry Craft (born January 22 1963 in New York City) is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama's Boyz. Craft is one of only a handful of syndicated African American cartoonists in the US.
Ozzie Ahlers.  David Ozzie Ahlers (born June 3 1946 Summit New Jersey) is an American songwriter and music producer who plays the keyboard guitar and bass. In addition to a solo career he has played with Van Morrison and Jerry Garcia (having worked with him since 1979) The Edge and with Craig Chaquico (since 1993).
Eliot Hodgkin.  Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905–30 May 1987) was an English painter born in Purley Lodge Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne Berkshire.Although he began with oil painting most of his finest works were in tempera specializing in highly detailed still lifes.
Martin Chappell.  Martin Richard Chappell (Chinese: 卓保怡) born 1970 in Nottingham England is a musician-turned-Hong Kong sound editor. He is most notable for serving as a sound editor on Hong Kong films made by Johnnie To and his production company Milkyway Image.
Neil Zaza.  Neil Zaza is a melodic instrumental guitarist who has become well known for his technical accuracy and adaptation of classical works by Bach and Mozart into his own blend of neo-classical melodic guitar instrumentals.
Hyacinthe Rigaud.  Hyacinthe Rigaud (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743) was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris.
Kevin Crossley-Holland.  Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator children's author and poet. His best known work may now be the Arthur trilogy published around age sixty (2000–2003) for which he won the Guardian Prize and other recognition. Crossley-Holland and his 1985 novella Storm won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author.
Nikos Xydakis.  Nikos Xydakis in Greek Νίκος Ξυδάκης) (born on 17 March 1952) is a Greek composer pianist and singer. Born in Cairo Egypt he immigrated with his family to Greece in 1963. Much of his music has its root in theatrical music. Xydakis has collaborated with many of the most influential Greek musicians actors and directors including Eleftheria Arvanitaki and Sokratis Malamas. His work includes the music for Theater of Thessaly's historic production of Electra.
Herb Ellis.  Mitchell Herbert Herb Ellis (August 4 1921 – March 28 2010) was an American jazz guitarist. Perhaps best known for his 1950s membership in the trio of pianist Oscar Peterson Ellis was also a staple of west-coast studio recording sessions and was described by critic Scott Yanow as an excellent bop-based guitarist with a slight country twang to his sound.
Elsa Tee.  Elsa Tee (1917-2006) was a British actress.
Marga Spiegel.  Marga Spiegel (21 June 1912 – 11 March 2014) was a German writer. She was Jewish and survived the Holocaust of World War II. Her story was published into a book in 1969 and a movie Unter Bauern – Retter in der Nacht released in 2009. She was born in Oberaula Hesse.
Martin Garrix.  Martijn Garritsen (born 14 May 1996) commonly known by his stage name Martin Garrix is a Dutch DJ/producer signed to Spinnin' Records. He is best known for the track Animals which was a Top 10 hit in more than 10 countries; the song has also peaked to number 1 in Belgium Ireland and the United Kingdom. His single Wizard produced with Jay Hardway was also successful in numerous countries in 2014.
Jamie Crompton.  Jamie Crompton is a British musician who has played as a guitarist with Suzi Quatro and Wishbone Ash amongst others.Jamie began his musical career in the late 1970s playing drums with various New Wave bands before moving onto the guitar. In 1983 he played in a band called the Blue Meanies which also featured future Wishbone Ash drummer Ray Weston in its line-up.
Hasan Seyidbeyli.  Hasan Seyidbeyli (Azerbaijani: Həsən Mehdi oğlu Seyidbəyli) – the Soviet and Azerbaijani writer dramatist screenwriter film director People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1976).
Shinsadong Tiger.  Lee Ho Yang (Korean: 이호양) better known by his stage name Shinsadong Tiger (Korean: 신사동호랭이 Shinsadong Horaengi) is a South Korean music producer and songwriter. Even after debuting in 2001 at the age of 18 (19 in Korean age) he has worked many odd jobs to fund his music career. He has become a prominent figure in the Korean pop music industry and is responsible for a number of popular songs.
Gary Moore.  Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician most widely recognised as a singer and virtuoso guitarist.In a career dating back to the 1960s Moore played with artists including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teens leading him to memberships with the Irish bands Skid Row and Thin Lizzy. Moore shared the stage with such blues and rock musicians as B.B.
Toni Janke.  Toni Janke is an Australian soul singer. She is a mother of two a lawyer and was Australia's youngest indigenous university graduate. She won a Deadly in 2002 for Female Artist of The Year Janke has Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Malay Islander and Filipino heritage.
Penni Russon.  Penni Russon is an Australian writer of children's literature and young-adult fiction.
Matokie Slaughter.  Matokie Worrell Slaughter (sometimes known as Tokie Slaughter) (December 21 1919 – December 31 1999) was an American clawhammer banjo player.Born in Pulaski VA to a large musical family she performed regularly with her family on local radio in the 1940s. She and her sister Virgie (later Virgie Worrel Richardson) also appeared regularly at local fiddler's conventions.
Master of 1302.  The so-called Master of 1302 was an Italian painter active in Emilia in the first half of the 14th century. His works were basically Gothic in style with modernized touches; his name comes from a set of votive frescos painted for bishop Gerardo de' Bianchi who died in 1302; among these is a Madonna and Child Enthroned with an Angel and John the Baptist including a portrait of the donor located in the Baptistry of Parma.
JJ Heller.  Jennifer Judy JJ Heller (born October 19 1980 née Kellner in San Jose California) is an American Christian folk singer. After releasing multiple albums she had two songs that charted. Your Hands from her 2008 album Painted Red and What Love Really Means from the album When I'm with You both peaked at number 13.
Chris Hager.  Chris Hager (born January 18 1958) is a guitar player who played in the band Mickey Ratt. He also played in Rough Cutt and currently tours as part of Stephen Pearcy's solo band; and with reunion members of Rough Cutt.
Kaori Ekuni.  Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織 Ekuni Kaori born 21 March 1964) is a Japanese author. She was born in Setagaya Tokyo. Her father is Japanese haiku poet and essayist Shigeru Ekuni.
Rik Emmett.  Richard Gordon (Rik) Emmett (born July 10 1953 in Toronto Ontario) is a vocalist guitarist and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Emmett left Triumph in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album Absolutely was released in 1990 and became a moderate hit across North America thanks to the hits When a Heart Breaks and Saved by Love.
Memnock.  Memnock (born February 2 1974 real name Håkon Didriksen) is a bassist best known for playing in the Norwegian Extreme Metal band Susperia. He has been playing bass since early 1990 and started with a cheap Cort. He then bought a Rickenbacker 4001 ATM(L) and had this for many years as his favorite instrument. He lives in the small town of Kviteseid in Seljord.
Ai Tokunaga.  Ai Tokunaga (徳永愛 Tokunaga Ai born March 12 1981 in Fukuoka Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Her talent agency is Arts Vision.
Tatsuya Nakamura.  Tatsuya Nakamura (中村 達也 Nakamura Tatsuya born January 4 1965 in Toyama Japan) is a Japanese musician drummer actor and founder of Japanese band LOSALIOS.
José do Patrocínio.  José Carlos do Patrocínio (October 9 1854 — January 29 1905) was a Brazilian writer journalist activist orator and pharmacist. He founded and occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1905.
Peter Hurd.  Peter Hurd (February 22 1904 - July 9 1984) was an American artist born Harold Hurd Jr. in Roswell New Mexico. Nicknamed Pete by his parents he later legally changed his name to Peter.
Matt Briggs.  Matt Briggs (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Roger Miret.  Roger Miret (born June 30 1964) is the vocalist for New York Hardcore band Agnostic Front as well as the street punk group Roger Miret and the Disasters and the hardcore band The Alligators. He was born in Cuba.Agnostic Front is considered to be one of the bands that created New York hardcore. Miret was incarcerated on a drug charge in the late 1980s. He is also the older half-brother of Madball spearhead Freddy Cricien.
Laird Hunt.  Laird Hunt (April 3 1968) is an American writer translator and academic.
Waka Inoue.  Waka Inoue (井上 和香 Inoue Waka born May 13 1980) is a Japanese idol tarento and actress. She was born in Meguro Tokyo as Naoko Niimura (新村 直子). Her mother is former actress Kyoko Saga. Waka's main claim to fame in the tarento circles is her bustline. Although she moved away from bikini modeling as her primary work in 2006 she has continued to pose for annual calendars through 2010.She also worked as a female guest announcer/interviewer for K-1 in 2006 after replacing Norika Fujiwara.
Eddy Howard.  Eddy Howard (September 12 1914 – May 23 1963) was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s.
Freddy Marshall.  Freddy Marshall born in Caracas Venezuela (November 7 1959) is a musician and songwriter specializing in the genre known as Heavy Metal. He is a founding member of Power Age and Arkangel two of the most legendary and successful bands in the Latin American rock scene.
Kieran Leonard.  Kieran Leonard is a British singer-songwriter and musician of Irish descent who performs as a solo artist and with his four piece band he refers to as 'The Horses'.He is particularly known for his poetical songwriting and compelling live performances. There is a clear social and political awareness in his writing and an abundance of literary and cultural references as exemplified by his singles 'Jerusalem' and 'Harold Pinter is Dead'.
Chiyoko Shimakura.  Chiyoko Shimakura (島倉 千代子 Shimakura Chiyoko) (30 March 1938 – 8 November 2013) was a female enka singer and TV presenter in Japan. She was considered the Goddess of Enka.
Sergey Ivanovich Smirnov.  Sergey Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Смирно́в) 12 April 1953 – 8 November 2006 was a Russian artist.In looking at his art one can easily appreciate that Smirnov ranks Gustav Klimt the Austrian painter whose images were a cornerstone of the art nouveau movement as an important influence. He also cites Modigliani and Rembrandt as major influences as well as Andrei Rublev and Pheophan Grek who were celebrated masters of Slavic icon painting.
David Murray (saxophonist).  David Murray (born February 19 1955) is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.
Murray Waas.  Murray S. Waas (born 20 December 1971) is an American freelance investigative journalist known most recently for his coverage of the White House planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensuing controversies and American political scandals such as the Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak grand jury investigation the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate).
Terry Setch.  Terry Setch (born 1 March 1936) is a painter and Royal Academy (RA) member who lives in Penarth Wales.
IU (singer).  Lee Ji-eun (Korean: 이지은; born May 16 1993) better known by her stage name IU (Korean: 아이유) is a South Korean singer songwriter actress guitarist dancer and television presenter. Her stage name is derived from the phrase I and You symbolizing that we can become one through music. Her fan club name is U-ana (Uaena) where each syllable has a different meaning: you is from English ae is Sino-Korean for love and na is Korean for me.
Georgy Demidov.  Georgy Demidov (Russian: Гео́ргий Гео́ргиевич Деми́дов) (November 29 1908- February 19 1987) was a Russian political prisoner and writer.Born in Saint Petersburg to a working-class family Demidov showed technical and engineering gifts at an early age and was thought to be a future physicist. From 1929 to 1931 he was imprisoned for political crimes.
Graffiti Research Lab.  Graffiti Research Lab founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly during their fellowships at the Eyebeam OpenLab is an art group dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication. The members of the group experiment in a lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies. They document those efforts with video documentation and DIY instructions for each project and make it available for everybody.
Anatol E. Baconsky.  Anatol E. Baconsky (June 16 1925 – March 4 1977) also known as A. E. Bakonsky Baconschi or Baconski was a Romanian modernist poet essayist translator novelist publisher literary and art critic. Praised for his late approach to poetry and prose which transgresses the genres and introduces an aestheticized original and progressively dark perspective to Romanian literature he was also criticized for his early commitment to Socialist Realism and communism.
Kyle Eastwood.  Kyle Eastwood (born May 19 1968) is the son of filmmaker and actor Clint Eastwood. He is an American jazz bass musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet he released his first solo album From There to Here in 1998. His most recent album The View From Here was released 2013 by Jazz Village.
Alan Noel Latimer Munby.  Alan Noel Latimer ('Tim') Munby (1913–1974) was an English author writer and librarian. Born in Hampstead Munby was educated at Clifton College and King's College Cambridge. He is best known for his slim volume of ghost stories The Alabaster Hand which includes three tales written in Oflag VII B a German prisoner-of-war camp near Eichstadt during World War Two.
Kees Bol.  Kees Bol (b. Cornelis Bol September 21 1916 – September 16 2009) was a Dutch painter and art educator. His work was exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the Netherlands as well as in Paris. In 1950 he was awarded the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze Prize and in 1982 he was made Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Francisco Otaviano.  Francisco Otaviano de Almeida Rosa (June 26 1825 — June 28 1889) was a Brazilian poet lawyer diplomat journalist and politician. He is famous for translating into Portuguese works by famous writers such as Horace Catullus Lord Byron William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Victor Hugo and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mostly of them for the first time.He is the patron of the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
William Scorpion.  Thanakorn /ˈθɑːnɪərkɒrn/ Scorpion (born 14 November 1961) better known by his stage name William Scorpion is a Singaporean Cantopop and Mandopop singer and equestrianism coach. He is widely viewed as a homegrown veteran of Singapore's Mandopop night-scene often labelled as a local icon. The press continue to credit him as Singapore's Mandopop King who brought this genre of music to prominence.
James Westfall.  James Westfall is a jazz vibraphonist and keytarist born in Houston Texas.He began on violin at age 6 before moving to piano and then percussion. He became interested in vibraphone due in part to his grandfather. (Who learned the instrument during the great depression.) He later moved to New Orleans where he attended the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans he studied under Terence Blanchard Ed Petersen Steve Masakowski and Brian Seeger.
Mike Scott (English musician).  Mike Scott (born Michael Waldner-Scott) is vocalist from Melodic Hardcore/Hardcore Punk band Lay It On The Line. He is also a folk punk acoustic artist and was bassist for skate punk/hardcore band Phinius Gage from 2003-2007. He actively promotes animal rights and is vegan.Scott played his first solo show in 2007 and has since toured with Mike Park Kevin Seconds Kepi Ghoulie Itch Fox from The King Blues Bomb The Music Industry Sundowner Sam Russo and Kelly Kemp.
Vincent Pontare.  Vincent Pontare mostly known as Vincent (born 13 May 1980 in Solna Stockholm County) is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
Robert Standish (artist).  Robert Standish (born September 18 1964 Los Angeles California) is an American artist. Standish received a BA in psychology from Antioch University in 1996. Standish's debut painting exhibition took place in Los Angeles in 2002 and received a highly favorable review in FlashArt magazine. More recently Standish was positively profiled in Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
Alex Maleev.  Alex Maleev is a Bulgarian comic book illustrator best known for the Marvel Comics' series Daredevil (vol. 2) collaborating with writer Brian Michael Bendis.
Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi.  Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi (1653–1725) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bologna. He was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Maria Viani but followed the style of Carlo Cignani. He painted a St. Francis of Sales kneeling before the Virgin for the church of San Marino; a St. Thomas of Villanova giving Alms to the Poor for the church of San Biagio; and a Virgin and Infant Christ with Mary Magdalene and St. Hugo for the Certosa in Bologna.
Helen Chamberlain.  Helen Marie Chamberlain (born 2 April 1967 in Street Somerset) is an English television presenter.She previously worked as a holiday-camp entertainer and DJ before working on a variety of radio and television programmes.
Marcelle de Manziarly.  Marcelle de Manziarly (born 1/13 October 1899 died 12 May 1989) was a French pianist music educator conductor and composer. She was born in Kharkiv studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the age of 23 had already composed two mature works. She later studied conducting with Felix Weingartner in Basle and piano with Isabelle Vengerova in New York and taught and performed in Europe and the United States. Aaron Copland dedicated his song Heart We Will Forget Him to her.
Charmaine Sheh.  Charmaine Sheh Sze-man (born 28 May 1975) is a Hong Kong actress and a contracted artiste under TVB best known for acting in many television series produced by TVB since 1998.
Paul Levitz.  Paul Levitz (born October 21 1956) is an American comic book writer editor and executive. The president of DC Comics from 2002–2009 he has worked for the company for over 35 years in a wide variety of roles.
Carlos Rehermann.  Carlos Rehermann (born in Montevideo 1961) is a Uruguayan novelist and playwright active since 1990. He has published four novels and staged five plays. He writes weekly columns on the arts. He won the Florencio Prize in 2002 for his play A la guerra en taxi (To the front by cab an Amedeo Modigliani stage biography). Florencio-Nominated 2006 winner Solos en el escenario-Prize—Centro Cultural de España—for Basura (Filth).
Kike G Caamaño.  Kike G. Caamaño is the guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of the Metal Progressive Spanish band Asha formed in 1987. He has won several awards including the award for Best Musical Project by RNE Radio Nacional de España in 1989 Best Rock Guitarist in 2008 in Carlos Pina Spanish Music Awards - Radio 3 from Radio Nacional de España and Best Guitar Album 2010 with his album Euphoria Project again in the Carlos Pina Awards 2010.
Mark Laff.  Mark Laff (Born Mark Red Laffoley 19 May 1958) is an English drummer and former member of punk rock bands Generation X and Subway Sect.
Sarah Bakewell.  Sarah Bakewell is an author of non-fiction. She currently lives in London.
Ernest Delahaye.  Ernest Delahaye (1853–1930) was a French writer and essayist. He maintained a long and close friendship with Arthur Rimbaud with whom he first met in April 1865 when they attended school together in Charleville in the Ardennes region of France. He and Rimbaud had a shared interest in poetry and he would help Rimbaud by making fair copies of his drafts for distribution to Rimbaud's literary friends.
Ernst Fries.  Ernst Fries (22 June 1801 – 11 October 1833) was a German painter.
Adam Wade (singer).  Adam Wade (born Patrick Henry Wade March 17 1935) is an American singer drummer and television actor. He is noted for his stint as the host of the 1975 CBS game show Musical Chairs which made him the first African-American game show host.
Darrell James.  Darrell James (James Darrell Coligado Laxamana) born in Manila Philippines on April 8 1973 is a Filipino Record Producer Composer Indie Artist Actor Model Creative Director Voice Talent and a Sales and Marketing Entrepreneur.
Gil Reavill.  Gil Reavill (born 1953) is an American author journalist and screenwriter whose work has appeared in a variety of media.
Johnny Thunder (singer).  Johnny Thunder is the professional stage name of Gil Hamilton (born August 15 1932). He is an American R&B and pop singer whose biggest hit was Loop De Loop in 1963.
Andrea Detwiler.  Andrea Detwiler is an accomplished costume designer. On April 28 2006 Detwiler won an Emmy Award in the category of outstanding achievement in costume design/styling for her work on PBS' Sesame Street.[1][2]
Ricardo Miró.  Ricardo Miró (Panama City Panama November 5 1883 - March 2 1940) was a Panamanian writer and is considered to be the most noteworthy poet of this country.He traveled to Bogotá at the age of fifteen to study painting but was forced to return to Panama in 1899 due to the Thousand Days' War. The magazine Isthmus Herald where he worked for 10 years published his first verses.Miró traveled to Spain between 1908 and 1911 where he had the position of consul in Barcelona.
Nick Jonas.  Nicholas Jerry Nick Jonas (born September 16 1992) is an American singer-songwriter musician actor and multi-instrumentalist best known as one of the Jonas Brothers a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Kevin and Joe. The Jonas Brothers originally started as an attempted solo singing career for Nick but the record producer liked the sound when his brothers sang backup for him. Nick previously starred in the Disney Channel original series JONAS L.A.
William Patrick Ryan.  William Patrick Ryan (1867 – 1942) was an Irish author and journalist.
Horatio Alger Jr..  Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13 1832 – July 18 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work determination courage and honesty. His writings were characterized by the rags-to-riches narrative which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.
Jan de Hartog.  Jan de Hartog (April 22 1914 – September 22 2002) was a Dutch playwright novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.
Anne Clark.  Anne Clark (born 14 May 1960 Croydon London England) is an English poet and songwriter. Her first album The Sitting Room was released in 1982 and she has released over a dozen albums since then.Her experimental music occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant-garde genres with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles.Clark is mainly a spoken word artist.
An Youqi.  Angela An Youqi (Chinese: 安又琪; pinyin: Ān Yòuqí; born October 14 1982 in Harbin Heilongjiang)In 2004 Youqi won the first season of Super Girl a national singing contest. Subsequently she signed a recording contract and released an album which recorded sales of over one million.
Danielle Brisebois.  Danielle Brisebois (born June 28 1969) is an American producer and singer-songwriter. She was an actress from 1976 to 1998. In the 1990s she recorded two solo albums Arrive All Over You and Portable Life and was a member of the New Radicals. She is most recognized for her role as Stephanie Mills on the sitcoms All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place as well as playing Molly in the original Broadway production of the musical Annie.
Jeannie Hilton.  Jeannie Hilton (born 1983) is a Canadian author from Montreal Quebec. Daughter of former boxer Dave Hilton Jr. she co-authored with her sister Anne Marie a book about the sexual abuse they both suffered from their father. The book titled Le Coeur au beurre noir (The Heart with a black eye) ISBN 2-89549-143-7 required a publication ban to be lifted in order to be published in 2004. It is currently available in French only.
Jeff Burlingame.  Jeff Burlingame (born June 14 1971 in Aberdeen Washington) is an NAACP Image Award winning American author of several books including biographies of musicians John Lennon and Kurt Cobain and critical looks at the historic and tragic plights of the Lost Boys of Sudan and the crew and passengers of the Titanic.
Sharon Carter Rogers.  Sharon Carter Rogers is the pseudonym for an award-winning thriller novelist active in the Christian suspense genre of books. She is author of the critically acclaimed thrillers Sinner Unpretty and Drift.
Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım.  Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım (1857 – 1924) was one of the leading Turkish Cypriot poets of the nineteenth century.
Teiyū Ichiryūsai.  Mie Suzuki (鈴木 三枝 Suzuki Mie born June 20 1958) better known by the stage names Teiyū Ichiryūsai (一龍斎 貞友 Ichiryūsai Teiyū) and Mie Suzuki (鈴木 みえ Suzuki Mie) is a Japanese voice actress and kōdan-shi.
Inturi Venkateswara Rao.  Inturi Venkateswara Rao (Telugu: ఇంటూరి వెంకటేశ్వరరావు) known as Inturi (July 1 1909 - 2002) was an Indian freedom fighter Trade unionist writer and film journalist.
Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir.  Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir (1796–1854) (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد القادر) also known as Munshi Abdullah was a Malayan writer of Indian origin. He was a famous Malacca-born Indian munshi of Singapore and died in Jeddah then part of the Ottoman Empire (it is now in Saudi Arabia).Munshi Abdullah is regarded as the most cultured Malay who ever wrote one of the greatest innovators in Malay letters and the father of modern Malay literature.The term Munshi means teacher or educator.
Leon Jay Williams.  Leon Jay Williams (Chinese: 立威廉; pinyin: Li Wei Lian born July 30 1976) is Eurasian Singaporean singer and actor who frequently lives and works in Taiwan and mainland China. In addition to Mandarin Chinese he speaks English; he sometimes displays this ability in his work on television shows. He was a former model. Williams is of mixed English German Japanese and Chinese descent - his paternal grandfather is English his paternal grandmother is of mixed German and Japanese ancestry.
Dave Astels.  Dave Astels is a software consultant and advocate of agile software development.Astels has written on extreme programming and test-driven development. Astels is a contributor to the RSpec behaviour-driven development framework.Astels has an M.S. in computer science from the University of Calgary.
E. Nelson Bridwell.  Edward Nelson Bridwell (1931–1987) was a writer for Mad magazine and various comic books published by DC Comics. One of the writers for the Batman comic strip and Super Friends he also wrote The Inferior Five among other comics.
Kay Sage.  Katherine Linn Sage (June 25 1898 – January 8 1963) usually known as Kay Sage was an American Surrealist artist and poet. She was active between the years of 1936 and 1963 the year she committed suicide. She married the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy in 1940 and was deeply affected by his sudden death by stroke in 1955.
Tony Meehan.  Daniel Joseph Anthony Tony Meehan (2 March 1943 – 28 November 2005) was a founder member of the British group The Shadows with Jet Harris Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. He played drums on early Cliff Richard and The Shadows hits and on early Shadows instrumentals.Meehan was professionally nicknamed The Baron by his many admirers and friends within the British pop/rock music industry.
Alana Bridgewater.  Alana Bridgewater (born Newmarket Ontario) was raised in Scarborough Ontario and discovered her love for performing at an early age. She was a member of The Canadian Children's Opera Chorus The Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir and founding member of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale. She attended The University of Windsor studying with Steven Henrickson and Richard Householder. Alana was the voice of the 2008 Olympic Bid.
Jonny Greenwood.  Jonathan Richard Guy Jonny Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician and composer best known as a member of the rock band Radiohead. Beyond his primary roles as Radiohead's lead guitarist and keyboardist Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and also plays viola harmonica glockenspiel ondes Martenot banjo and drums and works with computer-generated sounds and sampling; he is also a computer programmer and writes music software used by Radiohead.
Cleon Skousen.  Willard Cleon Skousen (January 20 1913 – January 9 2006) was an American author conservative American constitutionalist and faith-based political theorist. He was also a prolific popularizer among Latter-day Saints (Mormons) (LDS) of their theology. A notable anti-communist and supporter of the John Birch Society Skousen's works involved a wide range of subjects including the Six-Day War Mormon eschatology New World Order conspiracies and parenting.
Kenneth Bager.  Kenneth Bager (born March 6 1962) is a Danish musician and record producer.
Coco Star.  Sue Brice better known by her stage name Coco Star (or simply Coco) is an English singer-songwriter. She is currently signed to Universal Music and EMI. Coco Star has collaborated with artists such as Craig David Artful Dodger and Fragma for the number 1 hit Toca's Miracle.
Ben Okri.  Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
Michel Polnareff.  Michel Polnareff (born 3 July 1944 Nérac (Lot-et-Garonne France) is a French singer-songwriter who was popular in France from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s with his last original album Kama-Sutra. Since then without any proper new original album he is still critically acclaimed and occasionally tours in France.Michel was born into an artistic family: his mother Simone Lane was a dancer and his father Leib Polnareff or Léo Poll worked with Édith Piaf.
Greg Guidry.  For the Louisiana state judge see Greg G. GuidryGregory M. Guidry (January 23 1950 – July 28 2003) better known as Greg Guidry was an American singer-songwriter. Born in St. Louis Missouri he played piano and sang gospel as a child and sang in a band with future Doobie Brother Michael McDonald as a teenager. He signed a publishing contract with CBS Records in 1977 and wrote songs for Climax Blues Band Robbie Dupree Exile Johnny Taylor Sawyer Brown and Reba McEntire.
Rozonda Thomas.  Rozonda Ocelean Thomas (born February 27 1971) best known by her stage name Chilli is an American recording artist actress and television personality who rose to fame as one-third of group TLC.
Gábor Szakácsi.  Gábor Szakácsi (Gabi Hun) is a Hungarian-born American rock guitarist and music producer. Best known as the frontman of Seattle punk group Sledgeback. He fronted one of the most influential Hungarian punk bands of the 1990s C.A.F.B. and released 5 full length albums with the band from 1993 to 2004. After leaving Hungary Hun started Sledgeback in 2004 and released several albums with the group.His distinct voice became the trademark of Sledgeback.
Ijahman Levi.  Ijahman Levi (born Trevor Sutherland in Christiana Manchester Jamaica) on June 21 1946 is a reggae musician. His first album Haile I Hymn was released on Island Records in 1978. He became Ijahman Levi after a religious conversion to the Rastafari movement when he was in prison between 1972 and 1974. It and the following records preach Rastafari movement as well as Twelve Tribes of Israel doctrine.
Michelangelo Cinganelli.  Michelangelo Cinganelli also known as Michele Cinganelli (Florence circa 1558 - Florence September 26 1635) is a Italian painter.
Fuyue Anzai.  Fuyue Anzai (安西 冬衛 Anzai Fuyue March 9 1898 – August 24 1965) was a Japanese poet from Nara Prefecture Japan. In 1920 he began work in Dalian China where he developed gangrene and subsequently lost his arm. Anzai was one of the founding fathers of the magazine Shi To Shiron (or Poetry and Poetics). He published several anthologies including Gunkan Mari (The Battleship Mari) and Ajia no Kanko (The Asian Salt Lake).
John Wesley Hales.  John Wesley Hales (Ashby de la Zouch Leicestershire Oct. 5 1836-London May 19 1914) was a British scholar and man of letters.
Sam Taylor (blues musician).  Sam Taylor (October 25 1934 – January 5 2009) was an American jump blues musician and songwriter.Taylor's more popular recordings included Funny Drinking Straight Tequila and Voice of the Blues. He variously worked with Joey Dee and the Starliters Otis Redding B.T. Express The Drifters Big Joe Turner T-Bone Walker Sam & Dave Tracy Nelson Mother Earth and The Isley Brothers. Taylor was inducted to the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
Howard Sergeant.  Herbert (Howard) Sergeant MBE (1914-1987) was a poet and editor from Hull and the publisher of Britain's oldest independent poetry magazine Outposts. He was appointed MBE in 1978 for services to literature. He edited nearly 60 anthologies of contemporary poetry and was himself a poet of considerable talent. The Sergeant archive was purchased by Hull University from his widow Jean Sergeant in 1998 and provides extensive coverage of the full range of his literary work.
David Kim (violinist).  David Kim (born 24 May 1963) is a violinist born in Carbondale Illinois and was the only American to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986 where he got sixth prize. Since 1999 he has been the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Kim is an active musician performing with orchestras in Dallas Pittsburgh Sacramento Korea and Moscow.Kim resides in a Philadelphia suburb with his wife and two daughters.
Aldo Tagliapietra.  Aldo Tagliapietra (born February 20 1945) is an Italian singer songwriter and musician best known for his work with the progressive rock band Le Orme.
Ngaio Marsh.  Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ˈnaɪ.oʊ/; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) born Edith Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.Internationally Marsh is known primarily for her creation Inspector Roderick Alleyn a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London). Thus she is one of the Queens of Crime alongside Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham.
Phil Perry.  Phil Perry (born in Springfield IL on January 12 1952) is an American R&B singer songwriter musician and a former member of the soul group The Montclairs from 1971 to 1975.
Ben Kyle.  Ben Kyle (born May 21 1981) is an Irish American musician singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the americana band Romantica. Kyle has also been a part of several collaborative musical projects and released a self-titled solo album in 2012.
Gerard Presencer.  Gerard Presencer (born 12 September 1972) is an English jazz trumpeter. He currently lives in Copenhagen Denmark.
James Thomson (weaver poet).  James Thomson (10 September 1763 – 1832) was a Scottish weaver poet of Currie near Edinburgh whose poetry in the Scottish vernacular was published in Leith in the early 19th century. He is remembered by the Poet's Glen in Currie a wooded dell with a scenic riverside path which is a right of way.
Teron Beal.  Teron Beal is an American singer/songwriter born in Tyler Texas. He has also written songs for Michael Jackson Jennifer Lopez P!nk Kelly Rowland Mýa Chrisette Michele Robyn Jaheim and others.
Ozaki Kōyō.  Ozaki Kōyō (尾崎 紅葉 January 10 1868 - October 30 1903) was a Japanese author. His real name was Ozaki Tokutarō (尾崎 徳太郎).
Masaccio.  Masaccio (Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21 1401 – autumn 1428) born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.
Jason Pierce.  Jason Pierce (born 19 November 1965 Rugby Warwickshire England) also known as J. Spaceman or Spaceman is an English musician.
Erik Sanko.  Erik Sanko (born 27 September 1963) is a bass player from New York who has played in The Lounge Lizards and currently active in Skeleton Key.
Diego Jourdan.  Diego Jourdan Pereira (usually credited as Diego Jourdan sometimes as Diego J. Pereira) is a Uruguayan comic book artist and illustrator residing in Santiago de Chile Chile and specializing in licensed properties.
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis.  Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis (March 2 1925 – December 28 1995) was an American electric blues singer guitarist and songwriter. He played with John Lee Hooker recorded an album for Elektra Records in the mid-1960s and remained a regular street musician on Maxwell Street Chicago for over 40 years.He was also known as Jewtown Jimmy and is best remembered for his songs Cold Hands and 4th And Broad.
Manuel Fernández Juncos.  Manuel Fernández Juncos (December 11 1846 – August 18 1928) was a Spanish journalist poet author and humanitarian who wrote the official lyrics to La Borinqueña Puerto Rico's official anthem.
Jacquelyn Mitchard.  Jacquelyn Mitchard (born December 10 1956) is an American journalist and author. She is the author of the best-selling novel The Deep End of the Ocean which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club on September 17 1996. Other books by Mitchard include The Breakdown Lane Twelve Times Blessed Christmas Present A Theory of Relativity The Most Wanted Cage of Stars No Time to Wave Goodbye Second Nature - A Love Story and Still Summer.
Labi Siffre.  Labi Siffre (born 25 June 1945) is a British poet songwriter musician and singer.
Hasmik Harutyunyan.  Hasmik Harutyunyan (Armenian: Հասմիկ Հարությունյան; born December 26 1960 in Yerevan) is an Armenian folk singer. She is the leading member of the Shoghaken Folk Ensemble and directs the Hayrik Mouradian Traditional Song and Dance Children's Ensemble.The music of the Shoghaken Ensemble is featured on the soundtrack of the film Ararat.
Moisés Fragela.  Moisés Fragela Zayas (born 1976) is a Puerto Rican artist. He started to paint at the age of 20. He attended Florida International University in Miami and at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in San Juan Puerto Rico. In 2003 he was honored with the Best Critic and Best of Show for his paintings in the Master Critics.
Andrea Zittel.  Andrea Zittel (born 1965) is an American sculptor installation artist and Social Practice artist.
Helen Terry.  Helen Terry (born 25 May 1956) is a British singer known for her backing vocal work with Culture Club. As a solo performer she scored a Top 40 hit single in 1984 with Love Lies Lost and released one album in 1986 Blue Notes.She then pursued a career in film and television production most prominently behind the scenes as a producer and executive producer for the TV broadcast of the BRIT Awards since 2001.
Harlow Wilcox (musician).  Harlow Wilcox (January 28 1943 – August 26 2002) was an American session musician from Norman Oklahoma. In 1969 he released the instrumental single Groovy Grubworm on Plantation Records (as Harlow Wilcox & the Oakies) which hit No. 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart late that year. Two albums followed. Groovy Grubworm has sold over a million copies and was nominated for a Grammy in 1969. On August 26 2002 Wilcox died from a heart attack at his home in Oklahoma City.
Ms. Jade.  Ms. Jade (born Chevon Young) is an American rapper from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.In 2002 she released her only album to date Girl Interrupted which featured the singles Big Head Feel The Girl and Ching Ching.In 2008 she released new music on her Myspace page including Cha Cha 2008 and A Millie Freestyle.
Manjari Chaturvedi.  Manjari Chaturvedi (born December 9 1974) is a popular Sufi Kathak dancer of India. She belongs to the Lucknow Gharana.She is known for creating a new art form of Indian classical dance called Sufi Kathak.
Denis Fahey.  Father Denis Fahey C.S.Sp. (3 July 1883 – 21 January 1954) was an Irish Catholic priest. Fahey promoted the Catholic social doctrine of Christ the King and was involved in Irish politics through his organisation Maria Duce. Fahey firmly believed that the world must conform to Our Divine Lord not He to it defending the Mystical Body of Christ without compromise.
Helen Andelin.  Helen Berry Andelin (May 22 1920 – June 7 2009) was the founder of the Fascinating Womanhood Movement beginning with the women's marriage classes she taught in the early 1960s. Controversial among feminists for its advice toward women's fulfilling traditional marriage roles her writings are still supported and re-discovered as recently as 2012 with classes still being taught on-line and in seminars.
Aida Cuevas.  Aida Cuevas (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈiða ˈkweβas]; born September 24 1963) is a Mexican singer and actress also known as The Queen of Ranchera. She has released 35 albums selling more than 7 million copies and has won numerous awards including a Latin Grammy Award.Her unique voice and style have allowed her to cultivate a successful and long lasting career leaving a remarkable imprint in the history of Mexican Music. She is the sister of Carlos Cuevas a well-known crooner in Mexico.
Luis López Álvarez.  Luis López Álvarez (born May 7 1930) is a renowned Spanish poet and former professor.
Malcolm Andrew.  Malcolm Andrew is an author teacher and scholar who was previously Professor of English Language and Literature at Queen's University Belfast. He began teaching at Queen's in 1985 and retired in 2007. He also served as Head of School (1986–92) Dean of Humanities (1992–98) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1998–2002).He was convener of the English language board of the British national Arts and Humanities Research Board for several years.
Mitch Albom.  Mitchell David Mitch Albom (born May 23 1958) is an American best-selling author journalist screenwriter dramatist radio television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books plays and films.
Paullina Simons.  Paullina Simons (born 1963 in Leningrad Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) is a Russian-born American writer and the international best-selling author of the novels Tully Red Leaves Eleven Hours The Bronze Horseman Tatiana and Alexander Lily and The Summer Garden.
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema.  Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (née Epps; 1852 – 15 August 1909 Hindhead) was from 1871 the second wife of the painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema and a painter in her own right.
Ashley Jackson (artist).  Ashley Jackson is a landscape watercolourist. Raised in Barnsley South Yorkshire he opened his first gallery in 1963. His gallery is located in the heart of the Pennines Holmfirth. He currently lives in the village of Holmfirth near Huddersfield. His art has been exhibited worldwide and adorns the walls of many people. Jackson was honoured when one of his original watercolours was presented to Bill Clinton an avid art collector.
P. C. Cast.  Phyllis Christine Cast (born 1960) is an American romance/fantasy author known for the House of Night series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series.
Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi.  Dr. Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (Marathi: वासुदेव विष्णु मिराशी) (1893–1985) was a Sanskrit scholar and a prominent Indologist of the 20th century hailed from Maharashtra India. He was supposed to be an expert of his times on stone and copper inscription and coinage of ancient India. For his vital contribution to the Indian history he was honored with the title Mahamahopadhyaya (महामहोपाध्याय) by the British Indian Government in 1941.
Lee Morse.  Lee Morse (November 30 1897 — December 16 1954) was an US jazz and blues singer and songwriter whose greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954. Morse was known for her strong deep singing voice and vocal range which often belied the fact that she was merely five feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. Among her best known trademarks was her yodeling.
David Jude Jolicoeur.  David Jude Jolicoeur (born 21 September 1968 in Brooklyn New York) also known under the stage name Trugoy the Dove and more recently Dave is an American rapper producer and one third of groundbreaking hip hop trio De La Soul.Jolicoeur Vincent Mason and Kelvin Mercer were friends who attended the same high school in the Amityville area of Long Island during the 1980s.
Colin Moulding.  Colin Ivor Moulding (born 17 August 1955 Swindon Wiltshire England) is a bassist songwriter and vocalist. He is a founding member of the band XTC. Though less prolific than bandmate Andy Partridge Moulding wrote many of the group's most popular songs including their first three UK hit singles: Life Begins At The Hop Making Plans For Nigel and Generals and Majors. Making Plans For Nigel was also a Top 20 hit in Canada and Generals and Majors was the band's first U.S.
Patrick Andy.  Patrick Andy (born c. 1960 Clarendon Parish Jamaica) is a reggae singer whose stage name is a reference to his similarity to the older reggae singer Horace Andy.
Paul Wall.  Paul Michael Slayton (born March 11 1981) better known by his stage name Paul Wall is an American rapper. He is currently affiliated with Swishahouse Records having released several albums under the label as well ascollaborating with other rappers signed to the label. He was formerly musical partners with rapper Chamillionaire releasing several collaborative albums including the independently released Get Ya Mind Correct.
Christo Coetzee.  Christo Coetzee (24 March 1929 – 12 November 2000) was a South African assemblage and Neo-Baroque artist closely associated with the avant-garde art movements of Europe and Japan during the 1950s and 1960s.
Om Prakash Valmiki.  Om Prakash Valmiki (ओमप्रकाश वाल्मीकि) (30 June 1950 – 17 November 2013) was an Indian Dalit writer and poet. well known for his autobiography Joothan considered a milestone in Dalit literature. He was born at the village of Barla in the Muzzafarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
Ross Miller (artist).  Ross Miller is an American visual artist. His work integrates art into the public landscape. Through site-based projects his work reinforces community identity in outdoor spaces and creates places for private reflection within public environments.
L. Athira Krishna.  Aathira Krishna -Hailed as the New Queen of Indian Classical Violin and Violin Princess AATHIRA is an Internationally acclaimed Prodigy Violinist of the present generation from India .Hailing from a renowned family of musicians in Kerala she has an enviable musical lineage as the grand daughter of the illustrious Vidwan Shri.GopalaPillai fabulous musician of yesteryears who belonged to the renowned Tanjore Tradition of Carnatic Music.Aathira is the proud recipient of many coveted recognitions including the prestigious Guinness World Record for her unique 32 hour-long Non-Stop Carnatic Violin Solo Concert. 
Boris Spremo.  Boris Spremo CM (Serbian Cyrillic: Борис Спремо; born on October 25 1935) is a renowned Canadian photojournalist. After graduating from the Belgrade Cinematographic Institute he left for Canada in 1957. He eventually found work with the Globe and Mail and finished his career with the Toronto Star. The Toronto Star has called him a legend in the business. Some of his photographs appeared in both Canadian and American magazines.
Brian Byrne.  Brian Byrne (born January 13 1975 in Steady Brook Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician best recognized as the current vocalist for I Mother Earth.
Don Falcone.  Don Falcone (born November 5 1958) is an American musician and producer. Originally a poet-performer in Pennsylvania he relocated to San Francisco at the beginning of the 1980s. He was a member of Thessalonians and the original Melting Euphoria had a solo project called Spaceship Eyes and since 1996 has led the Spirits Burning space rock collective.
Charles Bray.  Charles Bray (31 January 1811 – 5 October 1884) was a prosperous British ribbon manufacturer social reformer philanthropist philosopher and phrenologist.
Alexis Smith (artist).  Alexis Smith (born Patti Anne Smith in Los Angeles 1949) is an American artist best known for collages and installations that comment on the moral lapses and flimsy psychology of American culture.
Armand J. Piron.  Armand John A.J. Piron (August 16 1888 – February 17 1943) was an American jazz violinist band leader and composer.In 1915 Piron and Williams together started the Piron and Williams Publishing Company and in their first year of business published Piron's composition “I Wish That I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate” which became his biggest hit. After touring briefly with W.C.
James Cranke.  James Cranke (June 23 1707 – October 28 1780) was born at Little Urswick near Barrow and lived there for most of his life. He was trained as a plasterer but became a self-taught portrait painter and attempted to make his name in London c. 1737–52. He attended St. Martin's Lane Academy and in 1744 he married a well-known heiress and opened his own studio in Bloomsbury Square.
Ray Collins (rock musician).  Ray Collins (November 19 1936 - December 24 2012) was an American musician.Collins grew up in Pomona California singing in his school choir the son of a local police officer.
Remo Rossi.  Remo Rossi (27 September 1909 – 30 December 1982) has been a renowned Swiss sculptor living and operating in Locarno (Ticino Switzerland).
Espen Rud.  Espen Rud (born 29 January 1948 in Asker Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) composer and music arranger and the son of the famous Norwegian author Nils Johan Rud (1908-93). He is known from numerous recordings and in collaboration with the likes of Karin Krog and Dexter Gordon within Terje Rypdal's hard hitting trio Min Bul or the strangely absurd musical theater of Svein Finnerud Trio.
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh.  Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh (Punjabi: میاں محمد بخش ) was a Sufi saint and a Punjabi/Pahari poet. He belonged to the Qadri tariqah. He is especially renowned as the author of a book of poetry called Saif-ul-Malūk. He was born in a village called Khari Sharif situated near Mirpur Azad Kashmir.
Loren Chasse.  Loren Chasse is an American musician sound artist field recordist and teacher most notable for his association with Jewelled Antler and his work with Thuja The Blithe Sons The Child Readers Of and many others. He has been called one of the most important international artists working in the areas of environment and sound. With Glenn Donaldson he operates the Jewelled Antler record label releasing works by themselves and others.
Kimberly Goss.  Kimberly Goss (born February 15 1978 Los Angeles California) is a Korean-American singer and keyboardist best known as frontwoman and co-founder of the Finnish metal band Sinergy.
Bonnie Grove.  Bonnie Grove is a Canadian novelist best known for her novel Talking to the Dead. Many of her stories and novels have a Christian background. She is the recipient of the Instruction Award of Merit.
Nump.  Nump Trump is a Filipino American hip hop artist best known for his single I Gott Grapes featuring E-40 and The Federation produced by D1 of the Knockaholicks. The single was released in 2005 on Nump's own label Bay Luv Records on the album The NUMP Yard. In 2006 the album was re-released by E-40's label 3030/Sick Wid It Records under a distribution agreement with Navarre Distribution.
Gregorio Marzán.  Gregorio Marzán (1906-1997) was a Puerto Rican self-taught artist in New York City. After retiring from toy-making at the age of sixty-five he created a large variety of sculptures from everyday common objects. His objects often portray either animals or American patriotic figures such as many diverse renditions of the Statue of Liberty.
Fred Bridgland.  Fred Bridgland is a British writer and biographer. During the Angolan Civil War he revealed South Africa's secret invasion of Angola and in the 1990s he revealed human rights abuses committed by UNITA rebels under the command of Jonas Savimbi. Critics have derided his biography of Savimbi Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa as the work of an apologist. Bridgland has denied this claim in interviews saying rather he was just a biographer.
Mattias Lindblom.  Mattias Lindblom (born 19 February 1971) is a Swedish singer songwriter film/TV score/soundtrack composer and music producer. He is the lead singer of electronica band Vacuum and part of songwriting team Vacuum (with longtime collaborator Anders Wollbeck).He is classically trained baritone.
Slavi Trifonov.  Stanislav Todorov Trifonov (Bulgarian: Станислав Тодоров Трифонов) (born 18 October 1966) known as Slavi Trifonov (Bulgarian: Слави Трифонов) is a Bulgarian showman actor singer viola and tambourine player born in Pleven (Bulgarian: Плевен). Trifonov is mainly active in the folk music and chalga genres but he has experimented with other genres such as pop-rock and punk as a part of Ku-ku Band (Bulgarian: Ку-Ку Бенд).He is the host of Slavi's Show bTV's late-night talk show.
Shelbee Myne.  Shelbee Myne (born January 6 1974 in California USA) is a pornographic actress.
Emmy (Albanian singer).  Elsina Hidersha (15 March 1989 – 28 February 2011) better known by her stage name Emmy was an Albanian singer. Her most notable hits were Pse të dua ty A ma jep Rastësisht u pamë and Let It Play.
David Park (painter).  David Park (March 17 1911 – September 20 1960) was a painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.
Buddy Liles.  Buddy Liles was the bass singer for the Florida Boys a Southern Gospel quartet from 1972 through the late 1990s.
Bronwyn Donaghy.  Bronwyn Donaghy (21 December 1948 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian author from Newcastle Australia. She has written various novels for young adults and teenagers dealing with topical issues relating to adolescent health such as drug abuse sexuality suicide and depression.Donaghy's novel Anna's Story chronicling the life and ecstasy-related death of 15-year-old Sydney schoolgirl Anna Wood became a best-seller in Australia and was translated into German and French languages.
The Chain Gang of 1974.  The Chain Gang of 1974 is the indietronica project of American musician and DJ Kamtin Mohager. The Chain Gang of 1974 can also be in reference to Kamtin Mohager himself. Mohager is currently based in Los Angeles California.
Violetta (singer).  Violetta Zironi (born April 5 1995) is an Italian country singer-songwriter. She was first introduced to music at age 3 when she joined a local children's choir soon she started taking piano lessons and she also learned how to play acoustic guitar during her youth. To date she has released an EP titled Dimmi che non passa containing her first single which was praised as a fresh country-style song being the first song of this genre entirely produced by Italians.
Arthur Mills (MP).  Arthur Mills (20 February 1816 – 12 October 1898) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP). In his career he was also a barrister magistrate and author in Cornwall and London. His travels to the 19th century British colonies and his studies of their finances and systems of governance made him an expert in the field.
Maurice Nadeau.  Maurice Nadeau (21 May 1911 – 16 June 2013) was a French writer and editor. He was born in Paris. One of his well-known works translated into several languages is the Histoire du surréalisme (The History of Surrealism) published in French in 1944 and in an English translation by Richard Howard in the United States in 1965 and in the United Kingdom in 1968.
George Glasse.  Dr. George Henry Glasse (1761–1809) was a notable Oxford Greek and Latin scholar domestic chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Katie Arnoldi.  Katie Arnoldi (February 24 1959) is an American mainstream fiction writer and former bodybuilder. She has published three novels Chemical Pink (Bloomsbury 2001) The Wentworths (Overlook 2008) and Point Dume (Overlook 2010). Arnoldi lives in Southern California with her husband the painter Charles Arnoldi and their two children.
Rostam Mirlashari.  Rostam Mirlashari (born 22 January 1961 in Zahedan) is a Balochi singer based in Sweden.
Walter Mercado.  Walter Mercado Salinas (born 9 March 1932) also known by his stage name Shanti Ananda is a Puerto Rican dancer actor and writer but best known as a television personality for his shows as an astrologer. His long-time astrology predictions shows aired for decades in Puerto Rico Latin America and the United States and were seen by millions in Univision.
Durgabar Kayastha.  Durgabar Kayastha (1515-1560) was litterateur from Kamakhya Kamrup. He was well known Manasa poet as well as an expert oja of 16th century.He major works include Behula Upakhyana narrating story of Behula and Chand Sadagar. The ballads connected with this story been current in western Kamarupa and the rest of northern Bengal long before the verses were reduced to writing by Sukavi Naravan in the thirteenth century and by Durgabar in the early part of the sixteenth century.
Siku (comics).  Siku is the pseudonym of British/Nigerian artist and writer Ajibayo Akinsiku best known for his work in 2000 AD.
Elf Tranzporter.  Elf Tranzporter is a hip hop artist. Hailing from Los Angeles he is now based in Melbourne Australia. He was a founding member of Metabass'n'Breath and is now a part of Combat Wombat and San Francisco based Heavyweight Dub Champion. He released his debut solo album Ethereal Lotus Fleet in 2007. Elf Tranzporter has worked as an actor appearing in the a hip-hop morality play DiaTribe playing Death.
Eve Libertine.  Eve Libertine (real name Bronwyn Lloyd Jones) is a British singer. She was one of the two female vocalists (along with Joy De Vivre) who worked with the influential British anarcho-punk band Crass.
Othello Radou.  Othello Radou (1910–2006) was a French artist of the 20th century.
Raj-Koti.  Saluri Koteswara Rao and Thotakura Somaraju popularly known as Raj-Koti was an Indian film music composers singer-song writers record producers musicians and multi-instrumentalists duo in Telugu Cinema In a notable career spanning a decade the duo has garnered particular acclaim for redefining contemporary Telugu film music.Composer A. R.
Kim Byeol-ah.  Kim Byeol-ah is a Korean writer.
Richard Millington.  Richard Millington is a British birder and bird artist. He lives in Cley-next-the-Sea Norfolk with his wife Hazel.He is assistant editor of Birding World magazine. His contributions to that journal include many articles on bird identification. He also runs Birdline a telephone information service containing news of rare birds.Richard Millington is also a twitcher.
Kelli Connell.  Kelli Connell is a contemporary American photographer. Connell is known for creating portraits which may appear as self-portraits similar to the portrait work by Cindy Sherman. Her work is held in the collections of Microsoft the Columbus Museum of Art the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Museum of Fine Arts Houston the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Paula Clamp.  Paula Clamp (born 1967 Nottinghamshire England) is a novelist playwright and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ulster.Her first two novels described as Northern Irish chick-lit were best-sellers in Ireland. She has previously held the post of Arts Officer for North Down Borough Council and has Masters Degrees in Cultural Management and Anglo-Irish Literature.
Michael Legat.  Michael Legat (24 March 1923 in London England – 15 August 2011 in Sussex England) was a British writer of writers' guides and romance novels. He was an associate vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association. He worked as Editorial Director of Corgi Books and later of Cassell during 35 years in 1978 he decided to turn to writing full-time.
Joshua Cohen (writer).  Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6 1980 in New Jersey) is an American novelist and writer of stories.
Al Avison.  Alfred Avison (July 7 1920 – December 1984) is an American comic book artist known for his work on the Marvel Comics characters the Whizzer which he co-created and Captain America during the 1930-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of comic books.
Gerald Alston.  Gerald Alston (born 8 November 1951) is an American R&B singer and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995 he left the group to record five albums (later recording his tribute to Sam Cooke in 2008) and ten solo singles including Take Me Where You Want To Slow Motion a remake of Atlantic Starr's Send For Me and Activated most of which was for Motown Records.
Jenna Jameson.  Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli; April 9 1974) is an American entrepreneur webcam model and former pornographic film actress who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and The Queen of Porn.She started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamor model. By 1996 she had won the top newcomer award from each of the three major adult-movie organizations.
Mohammed Assaf.  Mohammad Assaf (Arabic: محمد عساف‎; borm 1 September 1989) is a Palestinian singer well known for being the winner of the second season of Arab Idol broadcast by the MBC network. He was given the nickname Asaroukh (The Rocket) by Lebanese singer and Arab Idol judge Ragheb Alama. In 2013 Assaf was named a goodwill ambassador for peace by The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Billy Sawilchik.  William Craig Sawilchik better known as Billy Sawilchik is the lead guitarist co-songwriter and back up vocalist for the band The Lovehammers.He was born in Oak Lawn Illinois on July 28 1971. In 1994 Billy joined the band (then known under the name Swinging Lovehammers) and recorded their first full-length album Ultrasound in 1997.Sawilchik's playing style has been described as very experimental.
P T Bopanna.  Palanganda T. Bopanna is from Kodagu (Coorg) in the state of Karnataka. In his three decade-long career as a journalist Bopanna has worked for some of the leading Indian English dailies including The Times of India Bangalore for 12 years (Principal Correspondent) and The Pioneer (New Delhi) as their Special Correspondent (Bangalore) for 13 years. He has written five books.
Raúl Zurita.  Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000.
Aristodemo Landi.  Aristodemo Landi (Tuscany active after 1880) was an Italian painter mainly depicting flowers and genre scenes.
Molly Caldwell Crosby.  Molly Caldwell Crosby (born in 1972 in Dallas Texas) is a journalist and author of three literary nonfiction books: The American Plague Asleep and The Great Pearl Heist. Crosby received her BA from Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee and her MFA from Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She has worked for National Geographic magazine as well as a freelance journalist. She lives in Memphis with her husband Andrew Crosby and their two daughters.
Carla Thomas.  Carla Venita Thomas (born December 21 1942 Memphis Tennessee United States) is an American singer who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. She is the daughter of Rufus Thomas.
Ivan Vahylevych.  Ivan Vahylevych b 2 September 1811 in the village of Yasen (today in Rozhniativ Raion) Stanislawow powiat Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria d 10 May 1866 in Lemberg. Romantic poet philologist and ethnographer of the Galician revival.While studying at University of Lviv and at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv he associated with Markiyan Shashkevych and Yakiv Holovatsky and the three of them formed the Ruthenian Triad.
Kerry McGregor.  Kerry McGregor (30 October 1974 – 4 January 2012) was a Scottish singer-songwriter and actress from West Lothian. McGregor climbed to national fame after appearing on the third UK series of The X Factor where she was mentored by Sharon Osbourne. McGregor died on 4 January 2012 of complications from bladder cancer a disease she had suffered from for years.
André Cymone.  André Cymone (born Andre Simon Anderson) is an American bassist songwriter and record producer. Cymone was a bass guitarist for recording artist Prince's touring band pre-Revolution. Cymone began a solo career in 1981. His song The Dance Electric (written by Prince) reached number ten on the R&B charts. Cymone later co-wrote and produced songs for other acts including Jody Watley's Looking for a New Love Still A Thrill and Real Love.
Ahmed Benchemsi.  Ahmed Benchemsi (Arabic: أحمد بن شمسي‎) is a Moroccan journalist. He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of TelQuel magazine.
Clotilde Rullaud.  Clotilde Rullaud is a French singer songwriter and composer.
Eri Kikuchi.  Eri Kikuchi (菊池えり / 菊池エリ Kikuchi Eri) is a pink film actress and an early Japanese AV idol of the 1980s. She has been described as one of the first Japanese AV actresses to be known primarily for her large breasts.
Tony Bongiovi.  Tony Bongiovi is a record producer and recording engineer. He has produced records by Gloria Gaynor[citation needed] Talking Heads[citation needed] Aerosmith (Classics Live)[citation needed] Ramones (Rocket to Russia and Leave Home)[citation needed] Chic[citation needed] among others.
Hülya Vurnal İkizgül.   Turkey Hülya Vurnal İkizgül (born 1966 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish mosaicist sculptor and ceramic artist.Following her graduation from the Faculty of Arts at the Marmara University in 1990 she made her Master's degree in the same faculty. She worked in the Workshop of Mural under the direction of renowned painter Mustafa Pilevneli.
Sylvester Weaver.  Sylvester Weaver (July 25 1897 – April 4 1960) was an American blues guitar player and pioneer of country blues.
Joos de Momper.  Joos de Momper the Younger (1564–1635) also known as Josse de Momper is one of the most important Flemish landscape painters between Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in this many of de Momper's paintings.
Fernand Charpin.  Fernand Charpin (1 June 1887 – 6 November 1944) was a French actor.
Erich Segal.  Erich Wolf Segal (June 16 1937 – January 17 2010) was an American author screenwriter and educator. He was best known for writing the novel Love Story (1970) a best-seller and writing the motion picture of the same name which was a major hit.
Kathryne Kennedy.  Kathryne Kennedy is an award-winning American paranormal romance and historical fiction writer.
Erlend Jentoft.  Erlend Jentoft (born 16 Mars 1976 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer known from his performances at the Trondheim Jazz Scene and cooperations with musicians like the guitarist Håvard Stubø.
Simon Jeffes.  Simon Jeffes (Crawley UK 19 February 1949 – 11 December 1997) was an English classically trained guitarist composer and arranger. He formed and was the core performer of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He composed the ballet Still Life at the Penguin Cafe.
Thomas Rentmeister.  Thomas Rentmeister (born March 4 1964 in Reken North Rhine-Westphalia Germany) is a German artist. He currently lives in Berlin and teaches at the Braunschweig University of Art (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig).
Tracey Ullman.  Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is an English stage and television actress comedian singer dancer director author and screenwriter of dual British and American citizenship.Her early appearances were on British TV sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall and Miriam Margolyes) and Three of a Kind (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield).
Jennifer Cihi.  Jennifer Cihi (born April 2 1966) is an American singer/actress who performed on Broadway television commercial jingles and provided several songs for animated series and films.Jennifer grew up in San Jose California where she performed on stage at the Children's Musical Theatre of San Jose. In 1978 at the age of 12 she was cast in the Second National Tour of Broadway's Annie. She played the role of Pepper the older orphan who bullies Annie alongside a then unknown Molly Ringwald.
Soko Richardson.  Soko Richardson (December 8 1939 – January 29 2004) was an American rhythm and blues drummer. His career spanned almost fifty years during which he performed and recorded with seminal groups including John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and the The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. He is perhaps best known for his innovative arrangement of the Ike and Tina version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song Proud Mary.
Frank Dane.  Frank Dane was a British actor of the silent era.
Grantland Rice.  Grantland Rice (November 1 1880 – July 13 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.
Paul Abrahams (musician).  Paul Abrahams (born 21 October 1958) is an Australian musician and bass player for The Reels
Noriko Rikimaru.  Noriko Rikimaru (力丸　乃りこ Rikimaru Noriko) is a Japanese voice actress and narrator.
Rebecca Shaw (author).  Rebecca Shaw is the author of 22 novels published by UK publishing giant Orion. Her books come in two series Barleybridge and Turnham Malpas and revolve around the loves and lives of countryside dwellers.
Graham Townsend.  Graham Townsend (June 16 1942 – December 3 1998) was a Canadian fiddler mandolin player pianist and composer active from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Henry Rice (writer).  Henry Rice (1585 or 1586 – 1651) was a Welsh writer and gentleman at the court of King Charles I.
Jackie Leven.  Jackie Leven (18 June 1950 – 14 November 2011) was a Scottish songwriter and folk musician. After starting his career as a folk musician in the late 1960s he first found success with new wave band Doll by Doll. He later recorded as a solo artist releasing more than twenty albums under his own name or under the pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone.
Allan Carpenter.  John Allan Carpenter (born May 11 1917 in Waterloo Iowa – May 11 2002 in Chicago Illinois) “is one of the most respected non-fiction authors in American publishing history”. He was a prolific writer with more than 225 books to his credit. By 1990 his four “enchantment series” were approaching 10 million copies printed.Among his accomplishments is the founding of the national magazine The Teachers Digest.
Charlotte Bingham.  The Hon. Charlotte Bingham (born 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath Sussex England) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including Upstairs Downstairs Play for Today and Robin's Nest. In her television work she often worked with her husband Terence Brady.
Timmy Thomas.  Timmy Thomas (born November 13 1944) is an American R&B singer keyboardist songwriter and record producer best known for the hit song Why Can't We Live Together.
Ian Browne (musician).  Not to be confused with the English musician Ian Brown.Ian Browne (born November 12 1973[citation needed]) is a Canadian-born musician and composer known currently as being a member of Vancouver-based psych-blues band No Sinner and formerly as a member of the Matthew Good Band.
Kuba Ka.  Jakub Stępniak (born Gdańsk 1986) known as Kuba Stępniak and Kuba Ka (sometimes stylized as KUBA Ka) is a Polish singer. Kuba is a short form of Jakub. KUBA Ka is managed by Michael Jackson’s former manager Frank DiLeo.
Shannon Powell.  ”The King of Treme” Shannon Powell (born April 8 1962) is an American jazz and New Orleans jazz virtuoso drummer. He has toured internationally and played with Ellis Marsalis Harry Connick Jr. Danny Barker Willie Metcalf Jr. Branford Marsalis Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Diana Krall Earl King Dr.
Gonzalo Amancha.  Gonzalo Amancha (Ambato 1948) is an Ecuadorian master watercolor painter.
Hawick Lau.  Hawick Lau (劉愷威; born October 13 1974) is a Hong Kong actor and singer most famous for his performances in the TVB series A Kindred Spirit Virtues of Harmony and its sequel Virtues of Harmony II and My Family.He is the son of Hong Kong actor Lau Dan with whom he co-starred in A Kindred Spirit Virtues of Harmony and Virtues of Harmony II.
Samuel Hoffenstein.  Samuel Sam Hoffenstein (October 8 1890 - October 6 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia he immigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles where he lived for the rest of his life where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Brent Olson.  Brent Olson is a writer living near Clinton Minnesota. His first four books are The Lay of the Land A View from the Prairie Letters from a Peasant Still Whistling the only sane response to a complicated world and Papa Figuring Out What Matters.. The Midwest Independent Publishers Association awarded Brent Olson the award for Best Regional Book for Letters from a Peasant.The Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl selected him as their Tributary Artist of 2010.
Traphik.  Tim Chantarangsu (born March 6 1986) better known as Traphik and Timothy DeLaGhetto is an American rapper comedian and videographer. Aside from rapping he produces and acts in many comedy videos which are uploaded to his YouTube channel. He is now one of the new cast members on MTV2's Wild 'N Out.
Anita O'Day.  Anita O'Day (October 18 1919 – November 23 2006) was an American jazz singer.Born Anita Belle Colton O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the girl singer. Refusing to pander to any female stereotype O'Day presented herself as a hip jazz musician wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day pig Latin for dough slang for money.
Simen Fougner.  Simen Fougner (1701 – 1783) was a Norwegian farmer poet and non-fiction writer. He was born in Gausdal; the son of farmer Amund Olsen Fougner. He is known as one of the earliest Norwegian authors with a rural background. A selection of his poetry was published posthumously in 1920 and his topographical description of Gausdal was published in 1921.
Eimar O'Duffy.  Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (29 September 1893 – 21 March 1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin.He was an influential person in the 1916 Easter Rising when he prevented Bulmer Hobson from stopping the Rising from happening by incarcerating him.
Makoto Okunaka.  Makoto Okunaka (奥仲 麻琴 Okunaka Makoto born November 18 1993 in Saitama) is a member of the Japanese idol group Passpo. Her official color is pink.
Jeffrey Kollman.  Jeffrey Jeff Kollman is an American guitar player from Toledo Ohio best known for his work with Glenn Hughes Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats UFO off-shoot Mogg/Way and progressive rock trio Cosmosquad. He has worked extensively with contemporary jazz keyboardist Lao Tizer played live with bassist/vocalist Marco Mendoza and is currently a member of Asia feat. John Payne and blues rockers Bleeding Harp.Kollman has worked as a session guitarist producer songwriter and actor.
Sugar Ray Norcia.  Sugar Ray Norcia (born Raymond Alan Norcia June 6 1954 Stonington Connecticut United States) is an American electric and soul blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known for his work with his backing band The Bluetones with whom he has released seven albums since 1980.
Ernest Wilson (singer).  Ernest Wilson (born Fitzroy Wilson Clarendon Parish Jamaica) is a reggae singer who found fame as a member of The Clarendonians before working as a solo artist.
Danny Chan.  Danny Chan Bak-keung (7 September 1958 – 25 October 1993) was a Hong Kong 1980s cantopop musician singer songwriter and actor in Hong Kong. Chan was of the first generation of pop idols in Hong Kong. He was already an electronic organ player a songwriter an actor and a promising singer at the beginning of his career. He made a name for himself with his debut release Tears For You which established him as a teen idol.
Tony Daniel (science fiction writer).  Tony Daniel (born 1963) is an American science fiction writer.
Sunny Lane.  Sunny Lane (born March 2 1980) is an American pornographic actress and nude model.
Anne Queffélec.  Anne Queffélec (born 17 January 1948) is a French classical pianist born in Paris.
Vincent King.  Rex Thomas Vinson (October 22 1935 - May 2000) was an Art teacher artist and science fiction author active in writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s who wrote under the pen name of Vincent King.
Marty Ehrlich.  Marty Ehrlich (born May 31 1955) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones clarinets flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in experimental or avant-garde jazz.
Catherine Archer.  Catherine J. Archibald (b. 17 August) is a US writer of 13 historical romance novels as Catherine Archer and Catherine Archibald since 1992 to 2003 mainly located in the medieval age.
Russell Harrison.  Russell Harrison is a New Zealand television presenter vocalist and musician best known as presenter for the televised weekly Lotto draw.
Nolok Babu.  Nolok babu (Bangla: নোলক বাবু) is a Bangladeshi Singer. He won the first CloseUp1 Competition an adaptation of Pop Idol a TV show to decide the best new young singer based on voting and participation.
Julien Leclercq (poet).  Julien Leclercq (1865 - October 31 1901) was a French poet and art critic devoted to Symbolism. Like his close friend Albert Aurier he contributed regularly to the Mercure de France for example in September 1890 an obituary of Vincent van Gogh. In the 1890s while engaged to the Finnish pianist Fanny Flodin (1868–1954) Leclercq helped to organize exhibitions of contemporary art the most important touring in 1898 in Scandinavia.
Werd (S.O.S).  Werd (S.O.S) (born June 1987) also known as Drew Devine Edinburgh based hip-hop artist. He has worked with and continues to work with new and old artists in Scotland and abroad creating music with some of Scotland’s top producers and artists in the genre.31 July 2012 came the release of his debut album Untitled Scot.
Edith L. Sharp.  Edith Lambert Sharp (March 7 1911 – July 2 1974) was a Canadian writer.She was born near Carroll Manitoba daughter of Charles Lambert and Edna Louise (Malon) Sharp. She dropped out of high school in Penticton British Columbia after one year.
Jim Russell (cartoonist).  James Newton Jim Russell AM MBE (26 March 1909 – 15 August 2001) was an Australian cartoonist who drew The Potts for 62 years. Jim's brother Dan Russell was also a cartoonist.
Jiří Wolker.  Jiří Wolker (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈvolkr̩]) (29 March 1900 – 3 January 1924) was a Czech poet journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of KSČ - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1921.
Aram Bartholl.  Aram Bartholl (born 1972 in Germany) is a conceptual artist. He has been working in Berlin since 1995 and is known for his examination of the relationship between the digital and physical world. In his play on video game adaptations he is connecting the virtual and real world in a new way.
Dizzy Reed.  Dizzy Reed (born Darren Arthur Reed; June 18 1963) is a contemporary rock musician and occasional actor. He is best known for his tenure as the keyboardist pianist and percussionist for the rock band Guns N' Roses with whom he has played toured and recorded since 1990. Aside from frontman Axl Rose Reed is the longest-standing and only member of Guns N' Roses to remain from the band's Use Your Illusion era.
Soolamangalam Sisters.  Soolamangalam Jayalakshmi (Tamil: சூலமங்கலம் ஜெயலட்சுமி) and Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi (Tamil: சூலமங்கலம் ராஜலட்சுமி) popularly known as Soolamangalam Sisters (Tamil: சூலமங்கலம் சகோதரிகள்) are Carnatic music sister-pair vocalists and musicians known for their devotional songs in Tamil. They were early singers in the trend of duo singing in Carnatic music which started in the 1950s with performers like Radha Jayalakshmi and later continued by Bombay Sisters Ranjani-Gayatri and Priya Sisters
Sam Baker (writer).  Sam Baker (born July 1966) was the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan in the UK until December 2006. She is now editor of Red owned by Hachette and a sister magazine to Elle. Baker was born in Hampshire and studied politics at Birmingham University. She went on to work as a writer and editor for numerous British women's magazines including Red New Woman Chat and Take a Break.
Veronica Maggio.  Veronica Sandra Karin Maggio (born March 15 1981 Uppsala Sweden) is a Swedish singer of Swedish and Italian origin. She won the category Årets nykomling (Newcomer of the Year) in the Grammisgalan 2007.
James Robison (author).  James Robison (born October 11 1946) is an American novelist short story writer poet and screenwriter. The author of The Illustrator (1988) and Rumor and Other Stories (1985) his work has frequently appeared in The New Yorker and numerous other journals. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award for his short fiction and a Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Buster Smith.  Henry Buster Smith (August 24 1904 – August 10 1991) also known as Professor Smith was an American jazz alto saxophonist and mentor to Charlie Parker. Smith was instrumental in instituting the Texas Sax Sound with Count Basie and Lester Young in the 1930s. Smith played saxophone for a range of musicians including Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald and Earl Hines though in his career only recorded one solo album in 1959.
Gavin Spielman.  Gavin Spielman (born July 24 1972) is an American landscape painter and guitarist working in New York City New York. He has been mentioned in the Bold Face Names section of The New York Times alongside Annie Leibovitz Newsday the Daily News and many other publications. The Baltimore Sun quoted Gavin saying 'I paint the silent thoughts other people cannot express'.
Brian Godawa.  Brian Godawa is an American screenwriter and author. He wrote the screenplay for To End All Wars and The Visitation and co-wrote Change Your Life! with Adam Christing.Godawa's book Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment (ISBN 0830837132) is in its ninth printing. He is also a contributor to the BioLogos Forum.
Eddy Herrera.  Eddy Jose Herrera de los Rios (born April 30 1964 in Santiago de los Caballeros) also known as Eddy Herrera is a merengue singer and winner of more than seven Casandra Awards.
Dorothy Love Coates.  Dorothy Love Coates (January 30 1928 – April 9 2002) was an American gospel singer.
Joe Montana (musician).  Joe Montana (born Eduardo Fatovich September 1964) is an Italian deejay and music producer.He started his musical career as a bass guitar player in a band which he left in 1983 and started to deejay music at the local discothèques. He produced his first single in 1992.Joe has released several records. His discography consists of : 1996 – Black Flava theme – Disco 12 Records 1997 – Doctor Disco – Dream beat 1999 – Disco People E.P. – Deep touch records 1999 – The Classic E.P.
Kashif Abbasi.  Kashif Abasi is a Pakistani journalist television talk show host and anchorperson based in Islamabad. He hosts the current affairs talk show Off the Record on ARY News. He is a graduate of the Barani Institute of Information Technology in Rawalpindi. Known for his bold questioning[citation needed] Abbasi has conducted interviews of numerous politicians and notable government officials. In November 2011 Abbasi announced his marriage with Dunya News journalist Meher Bukhari.
Alex van Heerden.  Alex van Heerden (c. 23 November 1974 — 7 January 2009) was a musician and artist of Cape Town South Africa. He worked with Robbie Jansen in Jansen's jazz group Sons of Table Mountain. According to himself he was a South African trumpeter vocalist accordionist producer composer historian and explorer.
Russell Leetch.  Russell Jonathan Leetch (born 5 March 1982) is the bass guitarist for Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors. He studied music technology at Staffordshire University where he met his fellow Editors band members. He went to secondary school at Arden School Knowle.He used to work with bandmate Tom Smith in a call centre before the band got a record deal.
Robin Furth.  Robin Furth is the personal research assistant to Stephen King and the author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Complete Concordance which was published by Scribner on December 5 2006.
Aida Corbadžić.  Aida Corbadžić (born 8 March 1976) is a Bosnian opera singer. She was born in Zavidovići and lives in Sarajevo. She primarily sings soprano. She received a special award at the secondary competition of music schools in Bugojno.
Eriko Nakamura.  Eriko Nakamura (中村 繪里子 Nakamura Eriko born November 19 1981) is a Japanese voice actress from Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture affiliated with Arts Vision.
Danny Lamagna.  Danny Lamagna is the drummer for rock bands Suicide City and Sworn Enemy.
David Oliver (singer).  David Oliver (January 8 1942 – June 6 1982) was a soul singer best known for the quiet storm single Ms as well as his composition Friends & Strangers which was covered by Ronnie Laws in 1977. He also recorded the first version of the Cecil Womack song Love TKO releasing it as an album track on Here's To You in 1980.
Paris Nogari.  Paris Nogari (c. 1536–1601) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period a minor pupil of Cesare Nebbia active mainly in Rome. He painted in the library of the Vatican in a style resembling Raffaellino da Reggio and was among the painters who frescoed Santa Susanna and San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
Alison Gordon.  Alison Gordon is a Canadian journalist and mystery novelist.
Mikiyo Ohno.  Mikiyo Ohno (大野幹代 born 17 June 1974) is a J-pop singer and was the youngest member of the group Coco. She was born in Chiba Prefecture Japan.
Joseph O'Connor.  Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. He is known for his 2002 historical novel Star of the Sea. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the Sunday Tribune newspaper and Esquire magazine. He is a regular contributor to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He is a member of Aosdána.
David Allan Coe.  David Allan Coe (born September 5 1939) is an American songwriter outlaw country music singer and guitarist who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. As a singer his biggest hits were Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile The Ride You Never Even Called Me by My Name She Used to Love Me a Lot and Longhaired Redneck. His best-known compositions are the No.
Jesselyn.  Jesselyn is a Dutch DJ who began to play in 2001. Impressed by the techniques of other trance and hard-trance DJs she started to learn and improve her own abilities. She was able to play at the Frequency Festival in 2002. The feedback of the set was amazing and she began to play in clubs like Lexion Atmoz Zino and Danssalon.
Erfan (rapper).  Erfan Hajrasuliha (Persian: عرفان حاج رسولی ها) better known as Erfan Paydar (Persian: عرفان) is an Iranian rapper and producer. His views are a result of his personal experiences and that is reflected in his poems. His songs provide a mixture of commentary on daily life as well politics poetry and social issues.
Naghma.  Naghma (Pashto: نغمه‎ born April 23 1954[citation needed]) is a prominent Afghan singer who started in the early 1970s. She and her ex-husband Mangal were a popular musical duo who dominated Afghan music scene during the 1970s and early 1990s. Naghma sings in Pashto and Dari (Persian). Her music is popular in Afghanistan Pakistan and Tajikistan.
Karin Kavli.  Karin Kavli (21 June 1906 – 8 March 1990) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 20 films between 1933 and 1983.
Costi Ioniță.  Costi Ioniţă (born January 14 1978) is a Romanian singer songwriter and record producer regarded as one of the most celebrated ethnic Romanian vocalist of muzică orientală (manele). Born in Constanţa he began his musical career by singing Romanian traditional music. He however achieved fame as a member of the pop boy band Valahia launching several hits.
Begziin Yavuukhulan.  Begziin Yavuukhulan (Mongolian: Бэгзийн Явуухулан 1929-1982) was a Mongolian poet of the communist era that wrote in Mongolian and Russian.
Nicholas Phipps.  Nicholas Phipps was a British actor and screenwriter who appeared in more than thirty films during a career that lasted between 1938 and 1970. He was born in London in 1913. He made his screen debut in the 1938 television film Hands Across the Sea. He appeared mainly in British comedy films often specialising in playing military figures. He was also a regular screenwriter. sometimes working on the script for films in which he acted.
Emyli.  Emyli (エミリ Emiri born April 23 1988) is a Japanese pop singer. Her debut album Flower of Life was released from BMG Japan label in 2003. Since the release of her first album she has performed with popular acts such as M-Flo and Shinhwa. She is currently attending Sophia University in Tokyo Japan along with Crystal Kay and Beni Arashiro.She went to an American school and began to learn ballet from 3 years old hip-hop dance from 7 years old and singing from 11 years old in earnest.
Anna Eriksson.  Anna Sofia Eriksson (in Ihode (Pyhäranta[citation needed]) Finland on 22 April 1977) is a Finnish pop and rock singer. She is signed to Universal Music Finland. With combined certified sales of over 440000 records Eriksson is currently the 31st-best-selling music artist 17th-best-selling soloist and fourth-best-selling female soloist of all time in Finland.
Kid Ink.  Brian Todd Collins (born April 1 1986 in Los Angeles California) best known by his stage name Kid Ink is an American rapper from Los Angeles signed to RCA Records. In his career Kid Ink released the independent album Up & Away an EP titled Almost Home and his second studio album My Own Lane. My Own Lane spawned the successful singles Show Me Iz U Down and Main Chick.
St. John Emile Clavering Hankin.  St. John Emile Clavering Hankin (25 September 1869 - 15 June 1909) was a British Edwardian essayist and playwright. Along with George Bernard Shaw John Galsworthy and Harley Granville-Barker he was a major exponent of Edwardian New Drama. Despite success as a playwright he died by his own hand and his work was largely neglected until the 1990s.
Lloyd (singer).  Lloyd Polite Jr. (born January 3 1986) simply known as Lloyd is an American R&B recording artist from Atlanta Georgia. Lloyd entered the music industry as a member of the preteen-boy band N-Toon. The group disbanded in 2001 and Lloyd embarked on a solo career in 2003. He subsequently signed a recording contract with The Inc. Records (formerly Murder Inc.) and Def Jam Recordings.In 2004 Lloyd released his solo debut single Southside the title-track of his debut album Southside.
Pete Wilhoit.  Pete Wilhoit is an American percussionist and session musician best known as drummer and backing vocalist for UK rock band Fiction Plane. Although the band is based in London Wilhoit resides in New York.
Maryam Sullivan.  Maryam “Umm Juwayriyah” Sullivan is an American Muslim poet novelist playwright journalist and performance artist. Sullivan’s novel The Size of a Mustard Seed is the first published Islamic Urban fiction title.[citation needed]
Jakucho Setouchi.  Jakucho Setouchi (瀬戸内 寂聴 Setouchi Jakuchō born May 15 1922) formerly Harumi Setouchi (瀬戸内 晴美 Setouchi Harumi) is a Buddhist nun writer and activist. Setouchi is noted for her biographical novels written as first-person narratives.
Chichay.  Chichay (born Amparo R. Custodio; January 21 1918 – March 31 1993) was a Filipino comedienne. Her short and stocky stature scratchy voice and prematurely aged appearance allowed her to portray grandmothers while only in her thirties.
Simona Levi.  Simona Levi is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and activist based in Barcelona Spain since 1990. She is a prominent activist in European social movements that support the free circulation of knowledge and has actively participated in movements in defense of the right to housing and the use of public space. In the past few years she has focused on the issues of free culture e-democracy and the strategic use of digital tools for collective organisation communication and action.
Ahmed Chawki.  Ahmed Chawki (Arabic: أحمد شوقي‎) (born in Tétouan Morocco on 31 May 1982) is a Moroccan recording artist and songwriter. He rose to fame in 2013 after his collaboration with Moroccan-Swedish producer RedOne in the international hit Habibi I Love You (meaning My lover I love you) featuring accompanying rap by the Cuban-American rapper Pitbull. The song became a big summer hit on the Middle Eastern charts and all over European Asian and international markets.
Bethan Ellis Owen.  Bethan Ellis Owen (born Bangor Gwynedd) is a Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Ffion Llewelyn in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.She was a pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari after moving to South Wales as a child.
Angela McCluskey.  Angela McCluskey is a Scottish singer-songwriter based in California. She performs as a solo artist and as a member of the folk rock group Wild Colonials. McCluskey has also provided vocals for Curio and recorded the European dance hit and US Mitsubishi commercial hit Breathe among other songs with Télépopmusik (on albums Genetic World and Angel Milk).
Keri Sable.  Keri Sable is an American former pornographic actress.
Tsai Yi-chen.  Tsai Yi-chen (Chinese: 蔡頤臻) born August 23 1987 stage named Wu Xiong (五熊). She is a young Taiwanese actress who is best known for her minor performance in Taiwanese series KO One as Tsai Wu Xiong and for her lead performance in Summer x Summer as Xia Ya.Her older sister Tsai Han-tsen (蔡芷紜) also known as Han (寒) is also an actress.
Misako Uno.  Misako Uno (宇野実彩子 Uno Misako born July 16 1986) is a Japanese singer dancer actress essayist fashion designer Presenter and impresario. She also works with the Japanese pop group AAA as the group's main dancer and main vocalist while also doing logistics and public relations. She is also a member of the YMCA. Her father Kenichi Uno is the chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical.
Miquette Giraudy.  Miquette Giraudy (born 9 February 1953 Nice France) is a keyboard player and vocalist best known for her work in Gong and with her partner Steve Hillage. She and Hillage currently form the core of the ambient band System 7. In addition to her performances in music she has also worked as an actress film editor and writer. In each role she has used different stage names.
Médéric Collignon.  Médéric Collignon (born 6 July 1970 in Villers-Semeuse Ardennes) is a French jazz vocalist cornettist and saxhorn player.He learnt to play the trumpet at the age of five became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Charleville-Mézières in 1984 and gained his diploma at the Conservatoire de Nancy in 1989. In 2009 he was awarded the Django Reinhardt prize by the Académie du Jazz.He has been influenced by various genres including funk hard rock jazz-rock and the music of Olivier Messiaen.
Phil Brucato.  Satyros Phil Brucato is an American writer journalist editor and game designer. Based in Seattle WA he is best known for his work with White Wolf Inc. - including role-playing games such as Mage: The Ascension Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade - and BBI Media for which he has written articles and columns for newWitch and Witches & Pagans magazines.
Mathew Brady.  Mathew B. Brady (May 18 1822 – January 15 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.
Gareth Gates.  Gareth Paul Gates (born 12 July 1984 Bradford England) is an English singer-songwriter. He was the runner-up in the first series of the ITV talent show Pop Idol. Gates has sold over 3.5 million records in the UK. He is also known for having a stutter and has talked about his speech impediment publicly.
Maria Ayar.  Maria Ayar (Persian:ماريا اعیار) is an Afghan singer . She is a resident of the United States based in Fremont California from where she continues her music career in exile.Maria never thought of becoming a singer: as she said at an interview it happened when she was working in a 24-hour Afghan radio station in San Francisco with Farida Anwari. She used to sing just to entertain herself sometimes and Ms.
Cynthia Heimel.  Cynthia Heimel is a playwright television writer and the author of several satirical books which are aimed primarily at a female readership. To those who have heard of her but have not read her books her works are probably best known for their unusual titles.Heimel's first book Sex Tips for Girls was a semi-satirical take on Cosmopolitan (and other women's magazines) and their how to please your man approach to feminism.
Paolo Uccello.  Paolo Uccello (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːolo utˈtʃɛllo]; 1397 – 10 December 1475) born Paolo di Dono was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.
Richard Andersson.  Richard Andersson (born 28 March 1972 in Ystad Sweden) is the founding father of several neoclassical metalbands in Sweden. Amongst his favourite artists are Deep Purple Rainbow Jimi Hendrix Yngwie Malmsteen Symphony X Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Niccolò Paganini.
Tom Denney.  Tom Denney (born November 23 1982) is an American musician from Ocala Florida. Denney is a founding member and the ex-lead guitarist of A Day to Remember.
Mary Hood.  Mary Hood (born September 16 1946 in Brunswick Georgia) is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines.
Nissanka Wimalasuriya.  Beddeliyanage Don Nissanka Dayaseela Wimalasuriya (September 23 1937) is a Sinhalese musician and musical director. Although he was an electronics engineer (Biomedical Technologist) by profession however he is more popular as a versatile musician with the ability to play several musical instruments both western and oriental. Nissanka Wimalasuriya is said to have started the first Dance Band to play strict tempo Ballroom Dance Music with string instruments.
Kongar-ol Ondar.  Kongar-ol Ondar (Tuvan: Ондар Коңгар-оол March 29 1962 – July 25 2013) was a master Tuvan throat singer and a member of the Great Khural of Tuva. Ondar was born near the Khemchik River in western Tuva. Considered a living treasure by the Republic of Tuva Ondar was granted a stipend and an apartment for the musical skills he possessed.
Robert Dowd.  Robert Dowd (Grand Rapids Michigan 1936–1996) was an American artist who also painted under the name Robert O'Dowd.After his discharge from the U.S. Marines in 1957 he entered the Society of Arts and Crafts/Center for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan where he studied painting with Sarkis Sarkisian. In 1958-9 he began drawing common objects including 'Stop' signs. His work first appeared in an Art In America article by Robert Broner on the Young Artists Group in Detroit.
Shivaji Dutta.  Shivaji Dutta is an Indian fashion designer based in Kolkata. He is the creative head of the label ‘Blank Spot’ which works primarily on sustainable design for apparel and accessories.
El Chojin.  Domingo Edjang Moreno (born on 28 April 1977) better known by his stage name El Chojin (pronounced as in Japanese Chōjin not with a Spanish J) is a Spanish rapper. He is the current Guinness World Record holder for most syllables rapped in one minute.
Paul van Buren.  Paul Matthews van Buren (1924–1998) was a Christian theologian and author. An ordained Episcopalian priest he was a Professor of religion at Temple University Philadelphia for 22 years. He was a Director [NYT obituary says Associate ] of the Center of Ethics and Religious Pluralism at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He died of cancer on June 18 1998 at age 74.
Suzanne Mizzi.  Suzanne Mizzi (1 December 1967 – 22 May 2011) was a glamour model singer interior designer and artist. She made regular appearances as a Page 3 girl in the British newspaper The Sun during the 1980s and 1990s before going on to have a career as a catwalk model as well as being involved in film and music. In her later years she developed a career as an interior designer and abstract artist.
Pedro Flores (composer).  Pedro Flores born (March 9 1894 – July 14 1979) was one Puerto Rico's best known composers of ballads and boleros.
Andrew Roachford.  Andrew Roachford (born 22 January 1965) is a British singer-songwriter. Andrew Roachford was born in London. He was the main force behind the band Roachford who scored their first success in 1989 with the hits Cuddly Toy and Family Man. Formed in 1987 the line-up was Andrew Roachford (vocals keyboards percussion) Chris Taylor (drums) Hawi Gondwe (guitars) and Derrick Taylor (bass guitar). By 1988 the band were touring supporting acts such as Terence Trent D'Arby and The Christians.
Freddie Boath.  Freddie Boath (born 6 May 1991) is an English actor best known for his role as Alex O'Connell in The Mummy Returns.Boath was born in London. His father is a banker and his mother is a producer. He has an older brother Jack and a younger sister Millie. Boath attended the Catholic prep school St Phillip's. He has attended drama classes with his siblings for several years.
Kurtis Scaletta.  Kurtis Scaletta is a popular young adult and children's book author known for his contemporary writing intermingled with light fantasy and humor. His first novel Mudville (2009) is based on the poem Casey at the Bat. He is also the author of Mamba Point (2010) and The Tanglewood Terror (2011). All three are published by Knopf.
Shawn Tok.  Shawn Tok (Chinese: 卓轩正; born 8 January 1994) is a Singaporean singer. He studied in Loyang Secondary School and is the overall champion of the 2007 Campus SuperStar competition. He also released his debut album Travel With Time 和时间一起旅行 in Year 2011.
Bok Bok.  Alex Sushon known by his stage name Bok Bok is an English music producer and artist.
Cassie Taylor.  Cassie Taylor (born 1986 Boulder Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter and blues musician. She started her career in the early 2000s touring as a bassist for her father Otis Taylor a blues-trance musician. She released a positively received solo album Out Of My Mind in 2013 which infused traditional Delta blues with genres as diverse as electronica indie rock and psychedelia. Based in Kansas City Missouri as of 2013 she is also a model and fashion designer.
Edith Diehl.  Edith Diehl ((1876-05-21)May 21 1876–May 12 1953(1953-05-12)) is an American bookbinder and author of Bookbinding its Background and Technique (Rinehart and Co. 1946) a classic text and manual on the history and craft of bookbinding in two volumes (republished in editions by Kennicat Press 1965; Hacker Art Books 1979; Dover 1980). In 1947 in recognition of her accomplishments Diehl was made an Honorary Life Member of the Guild of Book Workers.
Paolo Damiani.  Paolo Damiani (born 1952) is an Italian jazz cellist and double-bassist. Performing primarily in the avant-garde jazz and post bop mediums Damiani was born in Rome Italy. He has performed over his career with a vast array of professional jazz musicians including Gianluigi Trovesi Kenny Wheeler Tony Oxley Paolo Fresu and John Taylor. Damiani has also recorded on the albums of Deep Forest and Bauhas.
Ara Babajian.  Ara Babajian (born July 9 1972) is an American drummer who has been a member of such bands as Leftöver Crack and The Slackers. Ara is of Armenian descent and is named after Ara an Armenian king.Together with Dunia Best Jay Nugent and Alec Baillie he started the third wave ska band Agent 99 in the early nineties.
Jamie Lynn (pornographic actress).  Jamie Lynn (born February 25 1981) is an American pornographic actress who was chosen as Penthouse Pet of the Month in 2005 and later as Pet of the Year in 2006.
Lim Kim.  Lim Kim (Korean name: Kim Ye-rim; Hangul: 김예림; Hanja: 金藝琳 born January 21 1994) is a South Korean singer under Mystic89 and a member of the band Togeworl with Do Dae-yoon. She competed in the Superstar K3 singing competition as a member of Togeworl placing third. In 2013 Kim debuted as a solo singer and is known for the song All Right.
Huey Lewis.  Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III; July 5 1950) is an American musician songwriter and actor.Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is perhaps best known for their third album Sports and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.
Statik Link.  Joshua Andres and Dan Dwyer better known by their stage name Statik Link are American DJs music producers and songwriters. Statik Link writes songs in the EDM sub-genre of Bass Music (Moombahton Trap Dubstep and Twerk).
Steve Pyke.  Steve Pyke MBE (born 1957) is a British photographer living in New York City. From 1981 to 1984 he worked for diverse publications including The Face and NME. Pyke has been a staff photographer at The New Yorker since 2004.
Józef Hecht.  Józef Hecht (December 14 1891 – June 19 1951) also known as Joseph Hecht was a printmaker painter and engraver. Born and educated in Poland he made Paris his base from 1920. Trained in classical engraving techniques Hecht was a founder of Atelier 17 and had a profound influence on 20th-century printmakers.
Rachel Manley.  Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose born in Cornwall raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse.
Michael Fish (fashion designer).  Michael Fish is a British fashion designer famous for designing many of the notable British looks of the 1960s and 1970s such as the kipper tie.
Lyuben Dilov.  Lyuben Dilov (1927 Cherven Bryag - 10 June 2008 Sofia) also known as Luben Dilov and Ljuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.He graduated from Sofia University specializing Bulgarian language and literature.
Desireless.  Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop known by her stage name Desireless (French pronunciation: ​[deziʁˈlɛs] (born 25 December 1952 Paris France) is a French singer. Between 1986 and 1988 her hit single Voyage voyage made it to number one in many European and Asian single charts and sold over five million copies. She still writes new songs with many collaborators. Presently she works with a young French electro-producer Antoine Aureche (Operation of the sun).
İpek Yaylacıoğlu.  Ipek Yaylacıoğlu (born 31 July 1984) is a Turkish actress from Istanbul.She starred in the TV series Senden başka and appeared in the movie Başka Semtin Çocukları.
Catherine Ferry (singer).  Catherine Ferry (born 1 July 1953) is a French singer. In 1976 at the Eurovision Song Contest Catherine Ferry represented France with the song 123  (Tony Rallo/ Jean Paul Cara). She ranked second in the contest. Among the backing vocalists was Daniel Balavoine who wrote the B side Petit Jean. She worked and was produced mainly by Daniel Balavoine a famous French singer who wrote nearly 30 songs for her.In 1977 she took part in the Yamaha Festival in Japan.
Antonio García Vega.  Antonio García Vega (born 1954 Mexico City) is a Mexican artist and member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. He began exhibiting his work while still in school in the early 1970s and continues to do so often working with his brother Mauricio García Vega. He works in mixed media to paint various forms of expression. His early work was mostly fantastic with elements of eroticism but his later work has been darker as a means of expressing his own feelings and moods.
Lawrence Beitler.  Lawrence Henry Beitler (1885 - 1960 74 years) was a studio photographer who on August 7 1930 took a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith which has become an iconic representation of the history of the period.
Chad Knight.  Chad Knight (born October 24 1970 Sacramento California USA) is an American actor in gay pornography. He was a popular and prolific porn actor throughout the 1990s. Between 1991 and 2004 he starred in 85 original films. About half of these films were produced in the first two years of his career. Though predominately starring in gay films he performed in several bisexual productions.
Angel Lai Wei Li.  Angel Lai(Chinese: 黎玮妮; pinyin: Lí wěi nī born 28 January 2001) is a Malaysian child star singer entertainer，8-year-old has been involved in debut My Astro Tiger Woohoo (大日子) Cameo in the 9-year-old Out a debut album Dear Baby（亲爱的宝贝）.
Vince Guaraldi.  Vincent Anthony Vince Guaraldi (born Vincent Anthony Dellaglio; July 17 1928 – February 6 1976) was an American jazz musician and pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco California's North Beach area a place that became very important to his blossoming musical career.
Kanako Fukaura.  Kanako Fukaura (深浦 加奈子 Fukaura Kanako 4 April 1960 – 25 August 2008) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo she developed fame largely through many performances as a supporting actress.
Raina Telgemeier.  Raina Telgemeier (born May 26 1977) is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic Smile (A Dental Drama) which was published by Scholastic Press's Graphix imprint as a full-color graphic novel in February 2010.
Dandi Daley Mackall.  Dandi Daley Mackall is an American Christian author with around 400 of her works published for adults and children. Some of her works are the Winnie the Horse Gentler series and the Blog On series as well as many others. She collaborated with Sigmund Brouwer and Melody Carlson to take part in creating the Degrees of Guilt series and then with Jeff Nesbit and Melody Carlson in the Degrees of Betrayal series.
Saburo Ishikura.  Saburo Ishikura (石倉 三郎 Ishikura Saburō born December 16 1946 in Kagawa Japan) is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi (2003) as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid (2002). He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu Newspaper Agency as a man in a golf bag.
Lloyd Green.  Lloyd Green (born October 4 1937 in Leaf Mississippi) is an American steel guitarist. Green is most notable for his session work having played on records with artists such as Johnny Cash Alan Jackson Lynn Anderson Don Williams Paul McCartney Charley Pride Johnny Paycheck George Hamilton IV and many others.
Zelda Wynn Valdes.  Zelda Wynn Valdes (June 28 1905 – September 26 2001) was an African-American fashion designer and costumer. In 1948 she opened her own shop on Broadway in New York City which was the first in the area to be owned by an African American. Some of her clients included other notable black women of her era including Dorothy Dandridge and Marian Anderson.
Frank Wright (jazz musician).  Frank Wright (9 July 1935 – 17 May 1990) was a free jazz musician known for his frantic style of tenor saxophone. Wright was born in Grenada Mississippi but grew up in Cleveland Ohio. There he met Bobby Few and Albert Ayler both of whom became friends and musical influences on Wright who was originally a bass player: before taking up the saxophone he played in numerous local R&B bands and also toured with B. B. King and Bobby Blue Bland.
John Flanagan (sculptor).  John Flanagan (1865–1952) was a sculptor who designed the Washington U.S. quarter dollar coin which was issued in 1932. Flanagan's initials can be found at the base of Washington's neck. Flanagan designed both sides of the quarter.Flanagan designed a medallion commemorating the World War I Battle of Verdun.
Joe Small (entertainer).  Joe Small (born 1830) was a notable New Zealand goldminer entertainer and songwriter. He was born in London England in about 1830. He toured with Charles Robert Thatcher.
Karomatullo Qurbonov.  Karomatullo Qurbonov (Tajik: Кароматулло Қурбонов) (November 29 1961- October 17 1992) was a popular pop singer and composer from Tajikistan. On October 17 1992 Qurbonov and a number of his band members were murdered by gunmen from the Popular Front militia. Qurbonov was one of a number of intellectual and cultural figures murdered during the Tajik Civil War.
Harold Jaffe.  Harold Jaffe (born July 8 1944) is an American writer of novels short fiction drama and essays. He is the author of 20 books including 14 collections of fiction four novels and two volumes of essays. He is also the editor of the literary-cultural journal Fiction International. His works have been translated into 15 languages including German Japanese Spanish Italian French Turkish Dutch Czech and Serbo-Croatian.
Sheila Heti.  Sheila Heti (/ˈʃiːlə ˈheɪtiː/; born 25 December 1976) is a Canadian writer and editor.
Eric Curry (photographer).  Eric Curry (born 1956) is an American photographer based in Los Angeles specializing in stock and industrial photography. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design Curry's photographs have appeared on the cover of Air & Space magazine and have been showcased in the University of California Riverside's California Museum of Photography and the Ordover Gallery at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Wardell Milan.  Wardell Milan is a New York City based visual artist known for works on paper: drawings and collage often blended together. He is also known for photographs of dense semi-autobiographical tabletop dioramas. His drawings generally incorporate figures and are said to occupy a space between beauty and ugliness.Born in Knoxville Tennessee in 1978 from an early age he exhibited an artistic talent and by the age of four drew regularly in a home studio provided by his parents Wardell Sr.
Sándor Petőfi.  Sándor Petőfi (born Petrovics; Hungarian: Petőfi Sándor pronounced [ˈpɛtøːfi ˈʃaːndor ] Slovak: Alexander Petrovič; Serbian: Александар Петровић; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Camilo Sesto.  Camilo Sesto (n. Alcoy September 16 1946) is the stage name of Camilo Blanes Cortés a singer songwriter music producer and composer of romantic ballads pop and rock.He has released albums in English and some of his classic songs have been interpreted by Italian Portuguese and German singers. With a frenetic activity level in the 1970s and 1980s he remains one of the artists with the most number 1 hits totaling 52 his number of top 40 list-songs being 18.
Toby Goodshank.  Toby Goodshank is a musician and visual artist based out of New York City. In addition to his solo work he performs regularly with New York City-based bands Double Deuce the Tri-Lambs and the Christian Pirate Puppets.
Anders Wendin.  Anders Wendin is a Swedish pop musician best known for his solo project Moneybrother.
Bill Courtney (football coach).  Bill Courtney is an American football coach and the CEO of Classic American Hardwoods a lumber company headquartered in Memphis Tennessee. He is the subject of the 2011 Oscar winning documentary Undefeated which chronicles his career as a high school football coach in the economically pressured area of Shelby County Tennessee.
Howard Adams.  Howard Adams (September 8 1921 – September 8 2001) was an influential twentieth century Metis academic and activist.
Choi In-ho.  Choi In-ho (17 October 1945 – 25 September 2013) was a South Korean writer.
Heather Nuhfer.  Heather Nuhfer is an American comic book writer who frequently specializes in all-ages material.
Ron Tarrant.  Ron Tarrant (born 11 October 1988 Calgary Alberta) is a Canadian radio Imaging Producer/Sound Designer as well as Singer/Guitarist/Producer in the Canadian band Lost In Film. Tarrant received his diploma from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in the RTBN program (Radio Television & Broadcast News) majoring in radio.
Umera Ahmad.  Umera Ahmad (Urdu: عمیرہ احمد‎) (born December 10 1976) is a Pakistani author and screenwriter. She is known for authoring books like Pir-e-Kamil and Lahasil. She has received various awards including 'Best Writer Award' in Lux Style Award for the drama serial Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishan.
Ruhama Raz.  Ruhama Raz (Hebrew: רוחמה רז born 1955 in Jerusalem Israel) is an Israeli singer.
Edith Hodgetts.  Edith M. S. Hodgetts (died 1902) was a writer of children's stories folk tales and fairy tales. She is best known for her book Tales and Legends from the Land of the Tzar a book of fairy tales from Russia.
Graham Lee (Australian musician).  Graham Lee (born 11 December 1953) is an Australian rock musician and record producer best known as the steel guitar player of the 1980s band The Triffids where he was nicknamed 'Evil Graham Lee'.He was born and grew up in Kenilworth Queensland and graduated as a Primary School Teacher in Brisbane. Lee left Brisbane in 1980 and went travelling around Asia and Europe for three years. He moved back to Australia in 1983 and settled in Sydney where he met The Triffids.
Colin MacDonald.  Colin MacDonald was born in 1956 in Inverness Scotland. He is a prolific writer for television and radio. Television credits include The Dunroamin Rising (BBC1) The Gift (BBC1) The Wreck On The Highway (BBC1) Sharpe's Honour (ITV) and episodes in the series Blue Murder (ITV) Heartbeat (ITV) Casualty (BBC1) and Para Handy (BBC1).
Nancy Kozikowski.  Nancy Kozikowski (born March 31 1943 in Albuquerque New Mexico) is a contemporary American artist specializing in tapestry and painting known for creating large woven art displayed in public places.
Gerald Fried.  Gerald Fried (born February 13 1928) is an American musician composer and world class oboist well known for his compositions in film and television.Born and raised in the Bronx New York City Fried attended The Juilliard School of Music.
Chris Wood (rock musician).  Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (24 June 1944—12 July 1983) was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic along with Steve Winwood Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason.
Chris Minh Doky.  Chris Minh Doky (born 7 February 1969) is a Vietnamese-Danish bassist living in Copenhagen and New York City. Though Doky has worked in many genres his main area of music is jazz.
Truman Lowe.  Truman Tennis Lowe is a Ho-Chunk sculptor and installation artist living in Wisconsin. A professor of fine art at the University of Wisconsin Lowe is the former curator of contemporary art at the National Museum of the American Indian. He is known for large site-specific installation pieces utilizing natural materials.
Mai Fukui.  Mai Fukui (福井舞 Fukui Mai born 17 December 1984) is a Japanese singer-songwriter signed on Avex Group's J-More label.She is known for singing the theme song for the video game Final Fantasy XIII-2 Yakusoku no Basho. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 50th Japan Record Awards.
Alexis Peyrotte.  Alexis Peyrotte (1699 - 1769) was a French decorator painter.Peyrotte was born in Avignon and was the son of a sculptor. Early in his career he painted in the region of Carpentras parishes and congregations. He participated with Joseph Duplessis to produce art decorations in the pharmacy of the Hôtel-Dieu of Carpentras.In 1736 he moved to Paris.
Joni T. Johnson.  Joni T. Johnson (1934–1988) was an American painter from Swayzee Indiana.
Gary Clark (musician).  Gary Clark (born 10 March 1962 Dundee Scotland) is a Scottish musician who formed a band with his brother Kit Clark and long-time friend Ged Grimes in 1984 initially under the name of Spencer Tracy. After objections from the estate of Spencer Tracy they changed their name to Danny Wilson as taken from the 1952 Frank Sinatra film Meet Danny Wilson.Initially spotted busking around Dundee they signed to Virgin Records in 1986.
Giuseppe Sacchi.  Giuseppe Sacchi (17th Century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.The son of the famous Andrea Sacchi Giuseppe painted both historical canvases and portraits. He became a friar minor and died young.
Saraswati Rane.  Saraswati Rane (October 4 1913 - October 10 2006) was an Indian classical singer in the Hindustani Classical genre. She was a daughter of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (1872–1937) the founder of Kirana Gharana. Her family had a long and great music tradition. She got her initial training of vocal music of the Kirana Gharana style from her elder brother Sureshbabu Mane and elder sister Hirabai Barodekar who themselves were the doyen of Indian classical music of their times.
Frank Ronan.  Frank Ronan (born in May 1963 in New Ross County Wexford) is a novelist. He also writes a monthly column for Gardens Illustrated magazine. His novels have won numerous prizes including the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus prize.
Phil Mogg.  Phillip John 'Phil' Mogg (born 15 April 1948 in Wood Green North London) is a vocalist for the band UFO which he formed with longtime friends Pete Way and Andy Parker. Mogg wrote the majority of the band's lyrics with the music being written by Way Michael Schenker and later Paul Raymond but Schenker left to launch his solo career in 1979. Beginning in 1997 Mogg and Way under the moniker Mogg/Way released a couple of albums- Edge of the World and Chocolate Box.
Anne Marie Forrest.  Anne Marie Forrest is an author who grew up Blarney County Cork Ireland. After graduating from University College Cork she completed her Masters degree in Urban and Rural Planning at the University College Dublin. Having lived in various parts of Ireland including Dublin and Wicklow as well as several years in Australia she is now based in Cork.After working as a town planner for several years Anne Marie turned her attention to fiction writing.
Andy Andrist.  Andrew J. Andrist (born August 19 1965 in Coquille Oregon) is an American stand-up comedian and former writer for Comedy Central's The Man Show.
Julie Garwood.  Julie Garwood (born in Kansas City Missouri) is an American writer of over twenty-seven romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres. Over thirty-five million copies of her books are in print and she has had at least 24 New York Times Bestsellers. She has also written a novel for young adults called A Girl Named Summer.Garwood's novel For the Roses was adapted for the television feature Rose Hill.
Deric Washburn.  Deric Washburn (b. June 2 1937) is an American screenwriter.Washburn was born in Buffalo NY and grew up in Providence RI. He graduated from Harvard College A.B. English Literature in 1959. His early career was that of a playwright penning the off-Broadway plays Ginger Anne and The Love Nest. He is best known for co-writing the original screenplay of The Deer Hunter with Michael Cimino.
Erland Kiøsterud.  Erland Kiøsterud (born 10 November 1953) is a Norwegian novelist.He made his literary debut in 1973 with the novel Sår som aldri gror. His next novel Jord! (1977) was made into a film in 1988.He received the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1986 and was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 2005.
Jean-Claude Borelly.  Jean-Claude Borelly (born 2 July 1953) is a French trumpeter and composer.
Max Almy.  Max Almy (born 1948) is an American video digital media and installation artist.Almy was born in 1948 in Omaha Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska in 1970. She studied at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul Minnesota and received her Master of Fine Arts from California College of Arts and CraftsOakland California in 1978.In the 1980s Almy used video advertising techniques to comment on television and society.
Jenny Wingfield.  Jenny Wingfield is an American screenwriter and novelist.Born in Fountain Hill Arkansas Wingfield spent much of her childhood in Louisiana where her father was a preacher.
PBK (composer).  PBK (real name: Phillip B. Klingler) is a composer that works in the genres of Noise and/or Ambient music.
John Lissauer.  John Lissauer is an American music producer instrumentalist and composer. In the 1970s he became known for producing and arranging New Skin for the Old Ceremony by Leonard Cohen and has since arranged produced or conducted for artists such as Whitney Houston Bette Midler Luther Vandross and Loudon Wainwright III.He has won a number of Clio Awards for commercial soundtracks and his 1975 score for La Tete de Normande St.
Caroline Shawk Brooks.  Caroline Shawk Brooks (April 28 1840 – 1913) was an American sculptor. Most famous for her work sculpting in the medium of butter she also worked with more traditional materials such as marble.
Nelson Gonçalves.  Nelson Gonçalves (June 21 1919 - April 18 1998) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Born Antônio Gonçalves Sobral in Santana do Livramento Rio Grande do Sul he was raised in São Paulo. As a young man he worked at a variety of menial jobs including boxing before embarking on a career in music that saw him become one of the most popular Brazilian radio singers of the 1950s.
La Grande Sophie.  Sophie Huriaux better known by her stage name La Grande Sophie (born July 18 1969 in Thionville France) is a French singer-songwriter who got her start in the mid-1990s in the Paris alternative scene.
Suzanne McClelland.  Suzanne McClelland (born 1959) is a New York based artist best known for abstract work based in language speech and sound.
Andrew Durant (musician).  Andrew MacLeish Durant (1955 – 6 May 1980) was an Australian musician-songwriter. He was a member of country rock group Stars (1976–79) providing guitar harmonica and backing vocals. He was also a session and backing musician for a range of artists. He died of cancer aged 25. On 19 August 1980 a tribute performance was held in his honour with a live double-album recorded by various artists Andrew Durant Memorial Concert which was released on 9 March 1981.
Denis Guedj.  Denis Guedj (1940 – April 24 2010) was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math. He is the author of Numbers: The Universal Language and of the novel The Parrot's Theorem. He died in Paris.
MioSoty.  MioSoty is an award-winning American Latin singer dancer songwriter actress choreographer television personality producer and model. Her career began as a teenager singing merengue for nearly two years with popular Dominican singer Wilfrido Vargas and five years with The New York Band. She branched off as a solo salsa singer in 1997 during the resurgence of the genre and other forms of Latin music.
Manny Charlton.  Manuel Charlton (born 25 July 1941) is notable for being a founding member of and the lead guitarist for the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth from 1968 to 1990.
Ellen Oléria.  Ellen Gomes de Oléria known as Ellen Oléria (Brasília DF 12 November 1982) is a singer musician songwriter and actress from Brasília.
Ferrari Sheppard.  Ferrari Sheppard (born March 3 1983) is an American journalist and cultural critic based in Chicago. His notable work includes an exposé for Huffington Post in he which states there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict; there is only oppression. Sheppard's article went viral on the internet and sparked controversy.
David Nail.  David Brent Nail (born May 18 1979) is an American country music artist. In 2002 he debuted the single Memphis from an unreleased album for Mercury Records Nashville. Five years later he signed with MCA Nashville - which like Mercury is under the ownership of Universal Music Group Nashville - and in August 2009 released the album I'm About to Come Alive. It produced three singles: the title track Red Light and Turning Home; the latter two reached Top 20.
Terry Cottam.  Terry Cottam is a guitar player composer and teacher who has played with several various bands in his career. Some of these bands were The Jess Upton Soul Band Is Jumpback Terra Cotta Edgar Broughton Band Dreamcloud Chameleon Maya The Jokers and 5 Square 4.Chris and Terry first played in the band named 5 Square 4. Terry is married to Sue Cottam. His son Buster Cottam is also in the music scene and has earned his music degree.
Charles Bukowski.  Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16 1920 – March 9 1994) was a German-born American poet novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans the act of writing alcohol relationships with women and the drudgery of work.
Czesław Śpiewa.  Czesław Śpiewa (Translation: Czesław Sings born Czesław Mozil on April 12 1979 in Zabrze) is a Polish singer composer and musician (mostly using the accordion) and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Erann DD.  Erann David Drori (born in Copenhagen Denmark on 7 September 1967) better known as Erann DD is a Danish singer and songwriter of Yemeni-Jewish origin.As a 12-year-old Erann was sent to a religious school in Israel for three years. After dropping out of high school he started singing in a funk band Zapp Zapp in the early 1990s.
Anggun.  Anggun Cipta Sasmi (Indonesian pronunciation: [aŋˈɡun ˈt͡ʃipta ˈsasmi]; born 29 April 1974) is an Indonesian and French-naturalised singer-songwriter. Born in Jakarta she began performing at the age of seven and recorded a children's album two years later. With the help of famed Indonesian producer Ian Antono in 1986 Anggun released her first rock-influenced studio album Dunia Aku Punya (The World is Mine).
Carl Ashmore.  Carl Ashmore (born 17 August 1968) is an English children's author. He is best known for his book The Time Hunters.
Sandeep Chowta.  Sandeep Chowta is an Indian music director who primarily works in Bollywood Kannada films and Tollywood. He is also the head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs.In 2003 he produced an anti substance abuse documentary titled Dead End that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed.
Billy Fury.  Billy Fury (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983) born Ronald Wycherley was an internationally successful English singer from the late-1950s to the mid-1960s and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever which he first contracted as a child damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death.
Ingrid Olava.  Ingrid Olava Brænd Eriksen (known as Ingrid Olava born 18 March 1981) is a Norwegian singer and musician best known for her debut single Only Just Begun from 2007 and as a backup singer for Madrugada. After hearing her live performance EMI Music Norway invited her to play in a studio and later signed her.
Marie Corelli.  Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries including Arthur Conan Doyle H. G. Wells and Rudyard Kipling although critics often derided her work as the favourite of the common multitude.
Robert Lockwood Jr..  Robert Lockwood Jr. also known as Robert Junior Lockwood (March 27 1915 – November 21 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime collaborator with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.
Orri Páll Dýrason.  Orri Páll Dýrason (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈɔrːɪ ˈpautl ˈtiːrasɔn]; born in 4 July 1977) is the drummer for Sigur Rós. He joined the band in 1999 shortly after the recording of the studio album Ágætis byrjun when the previous drummer Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson left the band. He married Lukka Sigurðardóttir in Hawaii in 2005. They have a son together born in January 2010 his name is Dýri Angantýr and another son born in November 2012 and his name is Jón Stormur .
David Whyte (poet).  David Whyte (born November 2 1955) is an English poet. His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the bestseller charts in the US.
Joan Thomas.  Joan Thomas is a Canadian novelist and book reviewer whose debut novel Reading By Lightning won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) as well as the Amazon.ca First Book Award. Her second novel Curiosity was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.
Walter Hasenclever.  Walter Hasenclever (8 July 1890 – 22 June 1940) was a German Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power and he went into exile in France; however there he was imprisoned as a foreign enemy. He died in Les Milles (Camp des Milles) near Aix-en-Provence.
Herbert Eulenberg.  Herbert Eulenberg 1876-1949 was a German poet and author born in Cologne-Mülheim Germany. He was married from 1904 to Hedda Eulenberg.
Park Hyomin.  Park Sun-Young (Hangul: 박선영; Hanja: 朴宣映; born May 30 1989) better known by her stage name Hyomin is a South Korean idol singer dancer rapper actress model designer and a member of K-Pop girl group T-ara.
David Henry Sterry.  David Henry Sterry is an American author actor/comic activist and former sex worker.
Daniel Licht.  Daniel James Licht is an American film composer and musician best known for composing the score for Showtime TV drama series Dexter and themesong of the videogame Dishonored Honor for All.
Bogdan Lascăr.  Bogdan Lascăr (born July 30 1974) is a Romanian sculptor graphic designer and film maker. He is the founder of the concept of “Neurophysiologic shapings”.
Noa Bursie.  Donna 'Noa' Bursie (August 27 1956 - October 11 2013) was an American singer-songwriter from Buffalo New York.
Paul Kempeneers.  Paul Kempeneers (born in Tienen on December 9 1935) is a Belgian philologist and linguist.As a teacher he published mostly didactic works such as guides to correct Dutch books about Dutch spelling and Dutch grammar. In 1970 he wrote a science fiction novel for children named Phantoms from space.In 1982 he was promoted to doctor in the philology of Germanic languages with an essay on the hydronymy of the rivers Dijle and Nete.
Yin Haiguang.  Yin Haiguang (Chinese: 殷海光; pinyin: Yīn Haǐguāng; 5 December 1919 - 16 September 1969) is a Chinese author educator and philosopher from Taiwan.
Girolamo Colleoni.  Girolamo Colleoni (c. 1500 – after 1555) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Bergamo and was active there till 1555 but they left for Spain to work for the Spanish King. He is known for a Marriage of Saint Catherine painted in the style of Titian.
Buddy Tate.  George Holmes Buddy Tate (February 22 1913 – February 10 2001) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He has been counted as one of the great tenor saxophonists of his generation and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.
Dennis Sanchez.  Dennis R. Sanchez was born in 1956 in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University he is a critically acclaimed author. In addition he is a professor of English at East Los Angeles College and founded the organization East Side Spirit and Pride and serves as its current advisor.He was born and raised in East Los Angeles and now resides in Woodland Hills CA.
Legros de Rumigny.  Legros de Rumigny was the hairdresser for the French court of the 18th century including Madame de Pompadour. In 1763 he wrote L'Art de la coeffure des dames françaises and in 1767 he established the Académie pour la coëffures des Dames which helped establish hairdressing as a profession.
Viper (pornographic actress).  Viper (September 12 1959 – December 24 2010) was the stage name of Stephanie Patricia Green an American pornographic actress known for a prominent full body snake tattoo for co-founding Fans of X-Rated Entertainment with Bill Margold and for her disappearance in 1991.
Natasha Dupeyrón.  Natasha Elizabeth Dupeyron Estrada (born June 3 1991 in Mexico City Mexico) known professionally as Natasha Dupeyron is a Mexican actress and singer. Natasha has acted in various Mexican telenovelas since childhood. She is best known for her lead role in the Mexican children's telenovela Peregrina and for her role as Natalia in the 2012 Mexican television series Miss XV.
Junya Ikeda.  Junya Ikeda (池田 純矢 Ikeda Jun'ya born October 27 1992) also known as Jun Ikeda (池田 純 Ikeda Jun) is a Japanese actor and voice actor who is best known for his performance role as Gai Ikari/Gokai Silver in the 2011 Super Sentai series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Ikeda is currently affiliated with J-Rock Management.
Fabolous.  John David Jackson (born November 18 1977) better known by his stage name Fabolous is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn New York.His first release was the 2001 Ghetto Fabolous which spawned the hit singles Can't Deny It and Young'n (Holla Back).
Paolo Gismondi.  Paolo Gismondi (known also as Paolo Perugino) (Perugia 1612 - 1685) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was a pupil of Antonio Scaramuccia in Perugia then of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. Under commission by Cardinal Barberini he frescoed the church of Santa Agata ai Monti in Rome. He also painted for the sacristy of Sant'Agnese in Agone. He was admitted to the Academy of St Luke in 1668. Late in life he traveled to Perugia and then Naples but died in Rome.
Stacey Donovan.  Stacey Donovan (born October 9 1964) is a well-known former porn star and a model who reached her career peak in the 1980s. She was a favorite of porn producers and directors alike because of her blonde hair blue eyes lithe body girl-next-door appearance and the seeming eagerness and enthusiasm she injected into her sex scenes. I don't enjoy [working in pornography] she told The Baltimore Sun in October 1985 in an article reprinted in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Robert Irwin (writer).  For other people with the same name see Robert Irwin (disambiguation).Robert Graham Irwin (born 23 August 1946) is a British historian novelist and writer on Arabic literature.
Katerina Stikoudi.  Katerina Stikoudi (Greek: Κατερίνα Στικούδη) (born 1985) is a Greek former model singer and occasional television presenter who won the 2005 title Miss Hellas (Miss Ελλάς) at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and had the chance to represent Greece at the Miss World pageant. Aside from beauty pageants and modeling Katerina was a children's swimming instructor and a student at the TEI of Larissa in Larissa. She has also been a television presenter on numerous Greek shows.
John Fergus.  Dr. John Fergus Irish physician and man of letters c.1700 – c.1761.
Yoshiko Tanaka.  Yoshiko Tanaka (田中 好子 Tanaka Yoshiko April 8 1956 – April 21 2011) was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies Tanaka was known by the nickname Sue (スーちゃん Sū-chan) Still at the height of its popularity the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume.Tanaka was born in Adachi Tokyo. She had a role in Godzilla vs. Biollante portraying Asuka Okouchi.
Abbot Giovanni Felice Ramelli.  Giovanni Felice Ramelli (1666–1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome. He was also became an abbot of the Augustinian order of Canons Regular of the Lateran.He was born in Asti in the Piedmont. He became a monk in the abbey of S. Andrea in Vercelli then in San Pietro di Gattinara and finally was named abbott of Santa Maria Nova of Asti in 1707. He initially trained in Vercelli with the manuscript illuminator the monk Dionision Rho.
Arnold Drake.  Arnold Drake (March 1 1924 – March 12 2007) was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy among others.Drake was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.
Ginuwine.  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15 1970) better known by his stage name Ginuwine is an American singer-songwriter dancer and actor. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s Ginuwine had released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles becoming one of R&B's top artists during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Kevin Groob.  Kevin Michael Groob (born December 9 1981) is an American singer/songwriter originally from Fort Mitchell Kentucky.After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University where he studied both Drama and Music Industry Groob worked as an actor filming television spots for ESPN Sprint Microsoft and MTV. Print ads featuring Groob also appeared in Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly.
William Powhida.  William Powhida is a visual artist and former art critic born in 1976 in New York. Powhida's work addresses the contemporary art field.Topics have included creating an enemies list as well as letters addressed to contemporary curators (such as Zach Feuer Gallery) collectors and critics requesting recognition. His 2009 piece Relational Wall includes portraits sourced from Artforum's Scene & Herd.
Marmaduke Matthews.  Marmaduke Matthews (29 August 1837–24 September 1913) was an English painter born in Barcheston Warwickshire England.He studied watercolour painting at Oxford University before moving to Toronto Canada in 1860 to embark on a career as an esteemed painter of western landscapes. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and rocky mountains.
H. L. Davis.  Harold Lenoir Davis (October 18 1894–October 31 1960) also known as H. L. Davis was an American novelist and poet. A native of Oregon he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Honey in the Horn the only Pulitzer given to a native Oregonian. Later living in California and Texas he also wrote short stories for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post.
Michael Perkins (poet).  Michael Perkins is an American poet.
Sammy Berk.  Sammy Berk (1894 - August 5 1983) was a vaudeville entertainer at the beginning of the 20th century. He is best known for being part of a dancing duo Berk & Saun with his wife Juanita Saun.
Andy Skib.  Andy Skib (born November 9 1985 San Diego California) is the lead singer of the rock band Midwest Kings (MWK). He spent most of 2009 on the Declaration Tour with American Idol season seven winner David Cook. Skib has previously co-written songs with former David Cook bandmate Neal Tiemann who also served as lead guitarist for their band Midwest Kings (MWK).
Henry Butler Clarke.  Henry Butler Clarke (9 November 1863 — 10 September 1904) was a lecturer on Spanish at the University of Oxford's Taylor Institution from 1890 to 1894 and an author of books about Spanish literature and history. His best-known work is Modern Spain 1815-1898 published posthumously in 1906.
Taw Phayar Galay.  Taw Phaya Galay Aung Zay (Burmese: တော်ဘုရားကလေး အောင်ဇေ [tɔ̀pʰəjá ɡəlé àʊɴ zè]; 30 July 1926 – 18 June 2006) was a Burmese novelist and politician. He was grandson of King Thibaw.
Patricia Plunkett.  Patricia Ruth Plunkett (17 December 1926 – 13 October 1974) was an English actress.Born in Streatham London she trained at RADA and had an early stage hit in Pick-Up Girl (1946) by the American dramatist Elsa Shelley.Plunkett appeared in 12 films in supporting roles. The best known of these is probably It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) in which her character Doris Sandigate is the step-daughter of Rose (Googie Withers) the leading role. Her husband was the actor Tim Turner (died 1987).
Edward Woore.  Edward Woore or Davie Woore (1880–1960) was a British stained glass artist and member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. He was a student apprentice and collaborator with Christopher Whall a stained glass artist and leader in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Anna Akhmatova.  Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (June 23 [O.S. June 11] 1889 – March 5 1966) better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (Russian: Анна Ахматова IPA: [ɐxˈmatəvə]) was a Russian modernist poet one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles such as Requiem (1935–40) her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror.
Keavy Lynch.  Keavy-Jane Elizabeth Annie Lynch (born 15 December 1979 in Dublin Ireland) is an Irish singer. She is best known for being a member of the girl group B*Witched of which her twin sister Edele is also a member. Her brother Shane is also a member of boy band Boyzone.Keavy remained somewhat active in the music industry forming Ziiiing! a production and songwriting company with musical partner Alex Toms.
Paul Foot (comedian).  Paul Foot (born 24 December 1973) is an English comedian. He commands a significant cult following called The Guild of Connoisseurs. Foot is known for his musings rants 'disturbances' and apparent aversion to pop culture. The Daily Express likened Foot to a rare exotic bird whilst six national newspapers including the The Independent and The Age have declared Paul to be a comedy genius.
Terry Pindell.  Terry Pindell is an American travel writer known primarily for three North American 'rail odysseys' through the USA Canada and Mexico each of which became the subject of a travel book. He has also written a book on migration within the United States.
K.d. lang.  Kathryn Dawn Lang OC (born November 2 1961) known by her stage name k.d. lang is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include Constant Craving and Miss Chatelaine. She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has teamed with musicians such as Roy Orbison Tony Bennett Elton John Anne Murray and Jane Siberry.
Edward Tufte.  Edward Rolf Tufte (/ˈtʌfti/; born 1942) is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science statistics and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.
Jennifer Pike.  Jennifer Pike (born 9 November 1989) is a British violinist. In 2002 she became well known for winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and for six years she held the record of being the youngest winner at twelve years of age.
Yuria Haga.  Yuria Haga (芳賀 優里亜 Haga Yuria born November 27 1987 in Tokyo) is a Japanese model and actress.
Clement Harris.  Clement Hugh Gilbert Harris (8 July 1871 – 23 April 1897) was an English pianist and composer who studied in Germany and died fighting in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.He was born in London and educated at Harrow School. He subsequently studied music in Frankfurt where he was a piano pupil of Clara Schumann. He became intimate friends with Siegfried Wagner and 1892 undertook a trip to the far East in Wagner's company.
Yuki Ito (actor).  Yuki Ito (伊藤 友樹 Itō Yūki January 24 1985–) is a Japanese actor and musician from Tokyo Prefecture. The role he is most known for is as Makito Ozu/MagiGreen (小津蒔人／マジグリーン Ozu Makito/MajiGurīn) in Mahou Sentai Magiranger.
Joseph Anglade.  Joseph Anglade (1868–1930) was a French philologist. He specialized in Romance languages particularly Occitan and studied the lyrics of the troubadours. He was instrumental in formalizing the term Occitan for the language of Provence.He founded the Societat d'Estudis Occitans (SEO) in Toulouse a predecessor of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans.
Narinder Singh Kapoor.  Narinder Singh Kapoor (born 1944) is an award-winning writer from Punjab India. His writings are about social cultural and psychological issues. He lives in Patiala Punjab.
Giovane scuola.  The giovane scuola (young school) refers to a group of Italian composers (mostly operatic) who succeeded Verdi and flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. The group all had close connections with the Milan Conservatory and included Puccini Mascagni Leoncavallo Giordano Cilea Catalani and Franchetti as well as non-operatic composers such as Don Lorenzo Perosi who wrote almost exclusively sacred music.
Gavin Extence.  Gavin Extence (born 1982) is a contemporary English writer. Extence won the Waterstones 11 literary prize for his first book The Universe Versus Alex Woods (2013). He has a PhD in Film studies is married has a daughter and is also a keen chess player.The Universe Versus Alex Woods is Extence's début novel and is the everyday tale of a teenage science nerd hit by a meteorite who strikes up a friendship with a pot-smoking Vietnam veteran.
Kaho Minami.  Kaho Minami (南 果歩 Minami Kaho born January 20 1964) is a Japanese actress of Korean descent active in film television and commercials.
Lange (musician).  Stuart Langelaan stage name Lange (born 4 June 1974) is a British DJ and record producer.
Klaus H. Carl.  Klaus H. Carl (born 1935) is a German author and photographer based in North-Rhine-Westphalia.
12 Gauge (rapper).  12 Gauge (born 1968) is a rapper from Augusta Georgia. Born Isiah Pinkney he started out as a DJ moving to rapping in the early 1990s releasing three full-length albums. He is best known for his only top 40 single Dunkie Butt which peaked at 28 on Billboard Hot 100 and earned a gold certification.
Eric Roche.  Eric Roche (December 4 1967 in New York City – September 6 2005) was an Irish fingerstyle guitarist.
Ross Copperman.  Ross Copperman (born 1982) is an American singer-songwriter most well known for his song All She Wrote which was released in the UK in the beginning of 2007 and Holding On and Letting Go which featured in The Vampire Diaries in 2011 and Drop Dead Diva in 2013. His first #1 songwriting credit came in 2013 with Point at You by Big Machine recording artist Justin Moore.
Neal Barrett Jr..  Neal Barrett Jr. (November 3 1929 – January 12 2014) was an American writer of fantasy science fiction mystery/suspense and historical fiction. He also worked under the pseudonyms Victor Appleton Chad Calhoun Franklin W. Dixon (Stratemeyer Syndicate house names) Rebecca Drury and J. D. Hardin.
Yūichi Suzumoto.  Yūichi Suzumoto (涼元 悠一 Suzumoto Yūichi born January 13 1969) is a male Japanese novelist originally from Shimizu-ku Shizuoka Japan though he now lives in Osaka Japan. As of 2006 he works for Aquaplus known for being the publishing company of Leaf. Before going to Leaf Suzumoto worked at the publishing company Visual Art's as a scenario writer for brands under the company.
Stephen Street.  Stephen Street (born 29 March 1960) is an English music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s as well as Blur and The Cranberries in the 1990s. Street also collaborated with Morrissey on some of his most popular work after The Smiths broke up playing instruments and co-writing songs. As a producer Street has served more as a musician than as an engineer thereby significantly influencing the sound of the groups he has worked with.
Pattathuvila Karunakaran.  Pattathuvila Karunakaran (1925–1988) was a famous Malayalamshort story writer.He was born on 31 July 1925 in Quilon district in Kerala. 'Pattahthuvila' is his family name. His father was Kochukunju and mother Kochukunjali. He had his schooling at Craven School Quilon and after graduation from Presidency College Madras he joined Law College Trivandrum but did not complete the course. After a brief stint as journalist in the Kerala Kaumudi he went to USA to study business administration.
Pam Cook.  Pam Cook (born 6 January 1943 Farnborough Hampshire UK) is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. She was educated at Sir William Perkins's School Chertsey Surrey and Birmingham University where she was taught by Stuart Hall Richard Hoggart Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge. Along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American feminist film theory.
Dave Katz.  Dave Katz (Sluggo) is an American songwriter and record producer. He has written and/or produced hits for the likes of Train Boys Like Girls Gym Class Heroes Good Charlotte Mandy Moore Neon Trees Cobra Starship 3OH!3 Coheed and Cambria All Time Low Metro Station We The Kings Uncle Kracker Sugar Ray Matisyahu Blues Traveler Tom Jones Hot Chelle Rae David Cook Big Time Rush Chiddy Bang Kelly Rowland Arrested Development and Hollywood Undead among others.
Jun Maeda.  Jun Maeda (麻枝 准 Maeda Jun born January 3 1975) is a Japanese writer working for the software company Key; he has mainly contributed as a scenario writer lyricist and musical composer for the visual novels the company produces. His birth name in kanji was written as Maeda Jun (前田 純) though there is no change in pronunciation. Originally from Mie Japan he graduated from Mie high school and later went on to graduate from Chukyo University with a major in psychology.
Lukas Furtenagel.  Lukas Furtenagel (1505–1546) was a German painter.Lukas Furtenagel had the impression of art on him at a very early age being a member of a family of artists. He was born and grew up in Augsburg where he was a protege of Hans Burgkmair.Furtenagel began a painting apprenticeship at age 10. He worked after he left Augsburg in the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder. He won a competition award in 1546 right after his return to Augsburg. In the same year he recorded Martin Luther's deathbed.
H. P. Lovecraft.  Howard Phillips H. P. Lovecraft (August 20 1890 – March 15 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.Lovecraft was born in Providence Rhode Island where he spent most of his life. His father was confined to a mental institution when Lovecraft was 3 years old.
Ashlyne Huff.  Ashlyne Anderson Huff (born August 28 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and dancer. She is the daughter of Nashville producer and session-guitarist Dann Huff.
Elephant Micah.  Elephant Micah is a musical band or stage name of southern Indiana songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joseph O'Connell. Recording mostly at home O’Connell has produced an eclectic body of work since beginning the project in 2000. Elephant Micah’s inconsistently available music has become a cult favorite among some lo-fi/indie and folk rock audiences.O'Connell has released recordings with BlueSanct Records the experimental-leaning Time-Lag Records and a number of other very small labels.
Luigi Tenco.  Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer songwriter. After his suicide he became an icon of love and despair.
The Truth (British rapper).  The Truth Best Urban Act Award winning UK based Asian Rapper featured on BBC Radio 1 BBC Asian Network Wembley Stadium BBC Maida Vale Glastonbury 2011 won the Brit Asia Award for Best Urban Act 2011.
Alex Acuña.  Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña (born December 12 1944) is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist in the Afro-Cuban jazz style.Born in Pativilca Peru Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado and in 1967 he moved to Puerto Rico.
Jason Hartless.  Jason Hartless (born November 5 1994) is a Detroit born American drummer who has toured and worked with bands such as Mötley Crüe Godsmack Theory of a Deadman Drowning Pool Rev Theory Three Days Grace Seether Mountain (band) Warrior Soul and Cavo.
Yanka Dyagileva.  Yana Yanka Stanislavovna Dyagileva (Russian: Янка Станиславовна Дягилева; 4 September 1966 – c. 9 May 1991) was a Russian poet and singer-songwriter and one of the most popular figures of her time in Russia's underground punk scene. She both played solo and performed with others including Egor Letov and rock bands Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense a name shortened by fans to Gr.Ob. meaning coffin) and Velikiye Oktyabri (Great Octobers).
Tony Cowards.  Tony Cowards (born 27 May 1973) is a British stand-up comedian and writer currently living in the Cotswolds.
Ayala Ingedashet.  Ayala Ingedashet (Hebrew: איילה אינגדשט‎; born August 21 1978) is an Ethiopian singer. She was born in Ethiopia and lived in Israel from the age of two. At the age of 14 she joined a youth band in Ashdod and in the military she was part of a Navy band. Her musical influences included Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill. She was signed by Israeli record label Hed Arzi becoming the first Ethiopian-born Israeli singer with a major-label deal.
Yasuko Onuki.  Yasuko Onuki (often known simply as Yako Yasuko or Yasuko O.) is the singer from Japanese band Melt-Banana which she founded in 1991. She has a frantic chirping and yelping vocal style which is an important part of Melt-Banana's unique sound. She writes all of Melt-Banana's lyrics which she sings in English stating that:
Pompeo Massani.  Pompeo Massani (Florence December 1850 – 1920) was an Italian painter mainly depicting costume genre subjects often in often satirical poses.
Peck Kelley.  John Dickson Peck Kelley (22 October 1898 – 26 December 1980) was an American jazz pianist born in Houston Texas. Kelley was best known for his 1920s band Peck's Bad Boys which included Jack Teagarden Pee Wee Russell and Glen Boyd among others.
Anton Tausche.  Anton Tausche (July 27 1838 – November 20 1898) was a Bohemian teacher author and politician. Much of his teaching and writing concerned improvement in farming methods. The town of Výsluní gave him honorary citizenship for his work in improving crop yields.
Ana Johnsson.  Anna Lovisa Johnsson (Jonsson) better known by her stage name Ana Johnsson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈana ˈjoːnsɔn]) (born October 4 1977 in Gothenburg Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Her first longplay disc titled Cuz I Can was released in April 2004 in Sweden. The international version was retitled The Way I Am and was released some months later. Her second album Little Angel was released in October 2006.
Teresa González de Fanning.  Teresa González de Fanning (Nepeña District Ancash Region Peru 12 August 1836 - Miraflores District Lima 7 April 1918) was a Peruvian writer and journalist notable for her activism in the education of women. She founded the Liceo Fanning (1881) a women's college where she implemented her educational approaches.A collection of her articles which had been published in El Comercio were compiled in a booklet entitled Female Education (1898).
Božin Pavlovski.  Bozin Pavlovski (Macedonian: Божин Павловски) is a Macedonian writer and a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was born in Žvan Demir Hisar Macedonia on January 7 1942. He has lived in former Yugoslavia and United States and has been based in Melbourne Australia since 1990. Pavlovski studied literature at the University of Skopje and graduated in 1971. For over thirty years he was a publisher of world literature in former Yugoslavia.
Robert Adair (actor).  Robert Adair (3 January 1900 – 10 August 1954) was an American-born British actor.
Dave Rowntree.  David Alexander De Horne Rowntree (born 8 May 1964) is an English musician as well as a solicitor animator and political activist. He is best known as the drummer for the rock band Blur.
Elli Kokkinou.  Elli Kokkinou (Greek pronunciation: [ˈeli koˈki'nou]; Greek: Έλλη Κοκκίνου) (Born July 24 1970) is a Greek singer who was born in Athens Greece. Kokkinou is among the most popular singers in Greece today. She has performed together with Greek music stars such as Anna Vissi Glykeria Paschalis Terzis Sakis Rouvas Tolis Voskopoulos Thanos Petrelis Natassa Theodoridou Despina Vandi Giorgos Tsalikis and Kalomoira.
Tish Hinojosa.  Leticia (Tish) Hinojosa (born December 6 1955 San Antonio Texas) is a folksinger recording in both Spanish and English. Hinojosa was the youngest of 13 children. Hinojosa's parents were Mexican immigrants. Known for singing both traditional Mexican folksongs and her own original songs both in Spanish and English Hinojosa accompanies herself on guitar which she plays right-handed although she is naturally lefthanded.
Peter Hope.  Peter Hope (born 2 November 1930) is a British composer and arranger. He is particularly noted for his light music compositions such as the Ring of Kerry Suite which won an Ivor Novello award and for his arrangements such as Mexican Hat Dance. He has also written a Recorder Concerto and arranged music for the 2003 Spanish royal wedding as well as Jessye Norman and José Carreras. He is sometimes credited as William Gardner.
Jeon Min-hee.  Jeon Min-hee (Korean: 전민희) is a South Korean fantasy writer. She was born in 1975 on October 22 and graduated Konkuk University. She has received a bachelor's degree in Politics and Diplomacy. Her debut novel The Stone of Days part of the Arund Chronicles was written in 1999. It appeared in a series on Nownuri and was published by Consonants and Vowels then republished by Zeu Media. She has also worked on Talesweaver and Children of the Rune.
Albert Chartier.  Albert Chartier (16 June 1912 – 25 February 2004) was a French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator best known for having created the comic strip Onésime.
Ann Valentine.  Ann Valentine (11 January 1762 – 13 October 1842) was an English organist and composer part of a talented family of Leicester musicians.
Jason Wisdom.  Jason Wisdom is the former lead vocalist and bass guitarist for the Christian Progressive death metal band Becoming the Archetype signed to Solid State Records and Century Media Records (Europe) formed in 1999 in Dacula Georgia. Though he was born and raised in a Christian home he states that he was never committed to Christianity until high school. He considers his music as a form of ministry but wishes to avoid a preachy stereotype.
Rachel Traets.  Rachel Traets (born 16 August 1998) is a singer from the Netherlands. Traets lives in Wouw a small village in the south-west of the Netherlands.In October 2011 she won Junior Songfestival 2011 with the song Ik ben een Teenager (English: I'm a Teenager). She has been selected to represent her country in the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest held on 3 December 2011 in Yerevan Armenia.
Haruka Yamazaki.  Haruka Yamazaki (山崎 はるか born June 27 1991 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress. She is affiliated with Arts Vision.
Angela Gregory.  Angela Gregory (October 18 1903 – February 13 1990) was an American sculptor and professor of art. Born in New Orleans Louisiana Gregory has been called the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture. Her mother Selina Bres Gregory was an artist who studied at Newcomb College in New Orleans with William Woodward and Ellsworth Woodward. Her father William B. Gregory was an engineering professor at Tulane University.
Pandolfo Reschi.  Pandolfo Reschi (1643–1699) was a painter born at Danzig (now Gdansk) and active in italy.He went to Italy when he was young and became one of the ablest pupils of Giacomo Borgognone. He painted battle-pieces and imitated the landscapes of Salvator Rosa. H also excelled in painting perspective and architectural views (quadratura).
Michaël Borremans.  Michaël Borremans (born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen East Flanders) is a Belgian painter and filmmaker who lives and works in Ghent. His painting technique draws on 18th-century art as well as the works of Édouard Manet and Degas. The artist also cites the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez as an important influence. His earlier drawings many of which belong to the collection of fellow painter Jan Van Imschoot are often used as a basis for his later paintings.
Ricky Ball.  Ricky Ball is a musician from New Zealand. He played drums in the following bands: the Beatboys the Courtiers Challenge Ticket Jimmy Sloggett Band Tommy Ferguson's Goodtime Band Rainbow Hello Sailor Woody the Pink Flamingos (briefly at the beginning) and Beaver.
Marjorie Liu.  Marjorie M. Liu is a New York Times best-selling author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic books. Her novels include the 2005 paranormal romance Tiger Eye. Her comics work includes a number Marvel Comics series related to the X-Men and Wolverine including NYX X-23 Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men.
Pauline Chan Bo-Lin.  Pauline Chan Bo-Lin (simplified Chinese: 陈宝莲; traditional Chinese: 陳寶蓮; pinyin: Chén Bǎolián; May 23 1973 – July 31 2002) was a Chinese actress who aroused significant attraction and controversies in the Greater China Area during her active years in the 1990s.
Edward Tegla Davies.  Edward Tegla Davies (1880 – 1967) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl Denbighshire north Wales.His works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes surreal humour the novel Gŵr Pen y Bryn (1923) short stories and a series of essays.
SwinDoe.  SwinDoe is an American rapper. His debut self-titled album reached #123 on the Billboard 200 in 2010.Houston area rapper SwinDoe – originally from Tucson AZ—makes music industry history by running a global billboard charting campaign from his Blackberry smart phone.
José Luis Rodríguez (singer).  José Luis Rodríguez González nicknamed El Puma (Cougar) (Spanish pronunciation: [xoseˈlwiz roˈðɾiɣes]; born January 14 1943) is a Venezuelan singer and actor who has recorded many international super hits and participated in a handful of telenovelas. He also serves as a coach and mentor on the Peruvian and Argentine version of The Voice.
Gary Marx.  Gary Marx (born Mark Frederick Pearman) is a founding member of British rock band The Sisters of Mercy and its lead-guitarist and songwriter from 1979 to 1985.He left the band in 1985 to form Ghost Dance which included ex-Skeletal Family vocalist Anne-Marie Hurst. They released two albums and embarked on a number of extensive tours enjoying relative success.
Robert Graham (musician).  Robert Graham is a Canadian singer pianist and music director who has performed both solo and with groups including Tanglefoot with whom he toured the UK. In 2009 he released his debut album Storm in a Teacup under the production of Chris Brown. The album features Teddy Kumpel Anton Fier Rob Jost and Tony Scherr with cameo appearances by such musicians as Eric Schenkman and Ford Pier.
Qaysin Quli.  Kaisyn Shuvayevich Kuliev or Qaysin Quli (Russian: Кайсын Шуваевич Кулиев tr. Kaisyn Shuvayevich Kuliyev; Karachay-Balkar: Къулийланы Шууаны жашы Къайсын tr. Quliylanı Şuwanı caşı Qaysın; 1 November 1917 – 4 June 1985) was a Balkar poet. He wrote in the Karachay-Balkar language and his poems are widely translated mostly to Soviet Union languages such as Russian Ossetian and to many others languages.
Gavin Dunne.  Gavin Dunne is an independent Irish singer and songwriter known for his video game-based songs he is the son of the Irish poet Seán DunneHe created the musical project called MiracleOfSound on September 2010 with the creation of the first song Gordon Freeman Saved My Life ( September 8) which was a tribute to the game Half-Life 2January 6 2014 Gavin (Miracle Of Sound) released an instrumental album Vistas.
Nazir Tanbouli.  Nazir Tanbouli (born 1971) is an Egyptian born artist. He was born and raised in Alexandria Egypt and studied at the University of Alexandria Faculty of Fine Arts. His uncle is the painter Ibrahim El-Tanbouli (b. 1954) and his great uncle was the painter and Egyptologist Lotfy El-Tanbouli (1919–1982). He works in drawing and painting especially mural painting.
Amir El-Falaki.  Amir El-Falaki (born August 12 1973 Copenhagen) is a Danish vocalist. He was a member of the band Toy-Box.Amir is of Moroccan descent and speaks Danish English Arabic and French.Amir wanted to be a doctor but became a dance teacher instead. He met Anila Mirza at a New Year's Eve party and they decided to form Toy-Box. He is famous for the songs Best Friend and Tarzan & Jane.
Osamu Hosoi.  Osamu Hosoi (細井 治 Hosoi Osamu born September 22 1964 in Saitama) is a Japanese voice actor.
Capri Anderson.  Christina Walsh commonly known by her stage name Capri Anderson (born March 30 1988 in New York New York) is an American pornographic actress.
Vicky D.  Vicky “D” was a short-lived New York-based post-disco/garage house group best known for their club hit This Beat Is Mine. As of January 23 1982 This Beat Is Mine was at #30 on Billboard Club Play Singles chart. The highest position on the same chart was #11.This Beat Is Mine was distributed by Sam Records in the US and Virgin Records in the UK.
Paul Taylor (Winger).  Paul Taylor (born June 4 1960 San Francisco California) formerly credited as Paul Horowitz is an American musician who is best known as the guitarist/keyboardist with the 1980s and early 90s glam metal band Winger (1987–92 2001–03). Although he is perhaps most frequently associated with Winger Taylor has also played with numerous other prominent musicians including future Sammy Hagar and Boston guitarist Gary Pihl (in his early days) Eric Martin (solo artist and future Mr.
Patricia Partin.  Patricia Lee Partin also known as Nury Alexander was born on September 4 1957. She was a member of the inner circle that formed the core of the group to which Carlos Castaneda was the leader. She was said to be the Blue Scout who is featured in Castaneda’s book The Art of Dreaming published by HarperCollins.She was last seen alive in late April 1998 having disappeared shortly after Castaneda's death on April 27 1998.
Gary Brunotte.  Gary Brunotte (born 1948) is an American post-bop jazz musician noted as a pianist organist music arranger and composer. He is from St. Paul Minnesota.Brunotte began on accordion at age 9 but switched to organ and then piano in his 20s while attending college. He was an instructor at the Berklee College of Music in [Boston from 1977-1980.
Marjan Strojan.  Marjan Strojan (born 16 August 1949) is a Slovene poet journalist and translator. He has published a number of collections of his own poetry and also translates English and American poets into Slovene.Strojan was born in 1949.
Allen Kurzweil.  Allen Kurzweil (born December 16 1960) is an American novelist children's writer editor essayist and journalist. He graduated from Yale University in 1982 and has received Fulbright Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. He is now a Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and sits on the board of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. He is a cousin of Ray Kurzweil.
Douglas Trevor.  Douglas Trevor (born 1969) is an American author and academic. He received the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his first book a collection of stories entitled The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (2005). His other books include The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004) and the novel Girls I Know (2013). He teaches in the English Department and Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan.
Keith Murray (rapper).  Keith Murray (born September 13 1974) is an American rapper and a member of the hip hop trio Def Squad which includes fellow rappers Redman and Erick Sermon.
Mishka.  Mishka (born Alexander Mishka Frith 1974) is an internationally known reggae artist from Bermuda. He released his first self-titled album Mishka in 1999 and had a hit single in the UK with Give You All The Love. He is currently signed to Jimmy Buffetts record label Mailboat records and is touring in support of his latest album 'Ocean is my Potion'. He is also the face of ECO-Neill surf-clothing company O'Neill's new eco-friendly apparel line.
Marco Fantini.  Marco Fantini (born 1965) is an Italian artist.
James A. Matthewson.  Since 1995 James A. Matthewson has been a British Internet entrepreneur published author educator speaker and widely published commentator on digital marketing and digital industry issues. In 1997 Matthewson founded Shrinking Earth.net a web design and digital communications agency. In 2003 Shrinking Earth.net became part of below the line agency The Yellow Submarine (since dissolved).
Erika Hoffman.  Erika Hoffman (born c. 1965) is an American/British[citation needed]actress who starred as Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC comedy Brush Strokes from series 2 onwards when she took over the role from Kim Thomson.
Jim Hougan.  James Richard Hougan (born October 14 1942) is an American author investigative reporter and documentary film producer. A best-selling novelist in both the United States and Europe his books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Hyakken Uchida.  Hyakken Uchida (内田 百間 Uchida Hyakken May 29 1889—April 20 1971) was a Japanese author and academic. He was born in Okayama to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. His real name is Eizo Uchida (内田 榮造 Uchida Eizō). He became a pupil of Natsume Sōseki in 1911. He graduated from Tokyo University (Tokyo Imperial University) in 1914. He became professor of German at Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1916. He later taught at Hosei University (Tokyo).
Beki Bondage.  Beki Bondage (born Rebecca Louise Bond) is a musician in the punk band Vice Squad and was one of its founder members in 1978.She featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker NME Smash Hits and Sounds.In 1983 she left Vice Squad to form the band Ligotage with Steve Roberts of UK Subs.
August Kleinzahler.  August Kleinzahler (born December 10 1949 in Jersey City New Jersey) is an American poet.
Regina Holliday.  Regina Holliday (née Regina McCanless) is a Washington D.C. art teacher artist muralist patient rights arts advocate founder of the Walking Gallery and the Medical Advocacy Mural Project.
Lee E-jun.  Lee E-jun (born 1969) is a Taiwanese singer who has released over thirty albums in Mandarin and Hokkien. She is best known for singing the theme songs for many television dramas adapted from Chiung Yao's novels such as Princess Pearl (1998).
Monsieur Minimal.  Christos Tsitroudis (Greek: Χρήστος Τσιτρούδης) stage name Monsieur Minimal is a Greek indie pop music composer and interpreter as well as a guitar player. He first became known with his singles “Silk” and “Love is a circle” which he performed in 2007 during the Coca-Cola Sound Wave Festival. He has since edited three albums.
Saki Shimizu.  Saki Shimizu (清水 佐紀 Shimizu Saki born November 22 1991 in Tokyo Japan) is a J-pop singer. Her career began in 2002 when she passed the audition for Hello! Project Kids an all-female teen pop group within Hello! Project. Since then she has continued to sing in that group and has become a part of two smaller groups composed of Hello! Project Kids members Berryz Kobo and ZYX. Currently she is Captain of Berryz Kobo.
Cakra Khan.  Cakra Konta Paryaman or better known as his stage name Cakra Khan (born 27 February 1992) is a singer from Indonesia.
Cecil Dick.  Cecil Dick (Degadoga 1915–1992) was a well-known Cherokee artist often referred to as the Father of Cherokee Traditional Art. Cecil born near Rose Prairie Oklahoma was one of the pioneers of 20th century flat-style painting among Eastern Woodland tribes in Oklahoma.In 1983 Cecil was honored for his intellectual and artistic achievements with the Sequoyah Medal by the Cherokee Nation.
Daniel Erlandsson.  Daniel John Erlandsson (born 22 May 1976 in Malmö Sweden) is the drummer in the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy and Brujeria.His early work includes drumming on the In Flames album Subterranean.
Emmanuel Taylor Gordon.  Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (April 29 1893 – May 5 1971) was a singer and vaudeville performer associated with the Harlem Renaissance in the mid-1920s. He was born in White Sulphur Springs Montana and moved to New York City at the age of 17. His career faded after the 1920s and in 1959 he retired to White Sulphur Springs where he died in 1971.
Tani Soyo.  Tani Sōyō (谷宗養) (1526–1563) was the son of Tani Sobuko. Sōyō was known as one of the most talented renga composers of his era. Being mainly known at being a rival of the famed composer Satomura Joha who was the leading master of the linked verse after Sōyō's death.
Hanne Kalleberg.  Hanne Kalleberg (born 1987 in Flekkefjord Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz singer and composer.
Lucas Samaras.  Lucas Samaras (born September 14 1936) is an artist who was born in Kastoria Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. He participated in Kaprow's Happenings and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures.
Fabio Volo.  Fabio Volo pseudonym of Fabio Bonetti (born 23 June 1972) is an Italian writer actor voice acting and radio and television presenter.
Jimmy Dawkins.  James Henry Jimmy Dawkins (October 24 1936 – April 10 2013) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He was generally considered a part of the West Side Sound of Chicago blues. He was born in Tchula Mississippi in 1936.
Tsunku.  Mitsuo Terada (寺田 光男 Terada Mitsuo born October 29 1968) better known professionally as Tsunku (つんく often written as つんく♂) is a prolific Japanese record producer songwriter and vocalist.He is best known for having two major roles in the Japanese music landscape: first as the lead singer of the popular rock group Sharam Q and now as the producer primary composer lyricist and main studio backing vocalist for idol supergroup Morning Musume in addition to Aya Matsuura and other associated artists under the Hello! Project banner for whom he has written and produced vast majority of their chart-topping hits. 
David Toop.  David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician and author and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication. He was notably a member of The Flying Lizards. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire the U.K. based music magazine.
Wan Thanakrit.  Thanakrit Wan Panichwid (Thai: ธนกฤต พานิชวิทย์ RTGS: Thanakrit Phanitchawit; commonly referred to by nickname and first name as Wan Thanakrit) is a Thai singer and actor. Born on August 12 1985 in Nonthaburi Thailand he is best known as one of the 12 contestants of Academy Fantasia Season 2 and sung the official soundtrack of the Asian sleeper hit movie First Love (A Little Thing Called Love). Wan is currently a DJ at two radio stations.
Stephanie McMichael.  Stephanie Jo Steph McMichael (born 1989) is an English student from Calderstones Liverpool who is known for appearing in British reality television shows.
Gipi.  Gianni Pacinotti better known by the pseudonym of Gipi is an Italian cartoonist filmmaker and author.
Jean Jacques Surian.  Jean Jacques Surian is a French painter born in 1942 in Marseille. He studied in Marseille and Paris and lives in Marseille. He carried out a lot of exhibitions since its first exposure in Marseille in 1965.
Dogbowl.  Stephen Tunney also known as Dogbowl is an American artist musician and novelist. He was a founding member of the avant-garde band King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) and has recorded many albums as a solo act.He is also the author of two novels One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy published in 2010 by MacAdam/Cage and Flan published in 1992 by Four Walls Eight Windows.
Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak.  Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak (born on 1 May 1983 in Warsaw Poland) is a polish composer of film classical and TV music sound designer and musicologist.
Spot (rapper).  Spot is an American artist and producer.
Jonne Valtonen.  Jonne Valtonen (born March 23 1976) is an award-winning Finnish composer arranger and orchestrator. He is renowned for his contributions in the field of demoscene and tracker music.
Andrea Ferro.  Andrea Andy Ferro (born 19 August 1973 in Arona Province of Novara) is the male vocalist and one of the founding members of Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil.Ferro founded Lacuna Coil with Marco Zelati in 1994 under the name Sleep of Right (they would also use Ethereal as their band name before Lacuna Coil).
Joe DeRenzo.  Joseph Peter DeRenzo (born November 1 1958 in Orange County California) is an American jazz drummer composer and producer currently living and working in New York City. DeRenzo is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild.DeRenzo has worked with Nile's Project to help stop MRSA through public awareness concerts featuring his Beatles tribute band Joe DeRenzo & Friends a jazzy tribute to The Beatles.
Tabu Taid.  Tabu Ram Taid (Assamese: টাবু ৰাম টাইড Hindi: टाबु राम टाइड) known as 'Tabu Taid' is a Linguist Author Educator and Administrator. He was born in Ghunasuti Ayengia a small village of Mishing community in present-day Lakhimpur district in Assam India in 1 August 1942 father (late) Ubang Taid.
David Rakoff.  David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27 1964 – August 9 2012) was a Canadian-born American writer based in New York City who was noted for his humorous sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist journalist and actor and a regular contributor to WBEZ's This American Life.
Aaron Albert Carr.  Aaron Albert Carr (born 1963) is a Laguna Pueblo/Navajo documentary film maker and author. His first novel published in 1995 Eye Killers was described as Dracula-meets-Geronimo and combines elements of European vampire legend with Monster Slayer of Native American Myth.
Kam Lee.  Kam Lee (born Barney Kamalani Lee) is an American singer. He is best known for his vocal contributions to an early incarnation of Death (called Mantas) in 1983–84 and later joined Massacre in 1985 founded and formed by Bill Andrews and Allen West.Lee early on employed the vocal style called the death grunt or death growl taking influence from the then Celtic Frost vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer (a.k.a. Tom G Warrior).
Johan Lennarts.  Johan Lennarts (1932–1991-10-06) was a Dutch artist.Johan Lennarts was born on 18 December 1932 in Strijp Eindhoven the youngest one of a family with five children. He used to paint as a child and even won the consolation prize in a contest for the school but later on he gave up the art creation. Lennarts survived the Second World War and in 1945 he attended the Beekvliet seminary in Sint Michielsgestel to become a monk.
C. J. Sansom.  Christopher John C.J. Sansom is a British writer of crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh Scotland and was educated at the University of Birmingham where he took a BA and then a Ph.D in history. After working in a variety of jobs he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged before quitting in order to work full-time as a writer. He currently lives in Sussex.
Naoko Watanabe (voice actress).  Naoko Watanabe (渡辺菜生子 Watanabe Naoko) is a Japanese voice actress born on November 21 1959 in Suginami Tokyo. She is represented by Aoni Production.
Guess Who (rapper).  Laurenţiu Mocanu (born June 2 1986) better known by his stage name Guess Who is a Romanian rapper. He began his career as a member of the rap group Anonim along with group members Zekko and Griffo and later launched a successful solo career in music.
Conrad Fyoll.  Conrad Fyoll who flourished at Frankfort-on-the-Main from the year 1464 to 1476 — the only space of time of which record concerning him has been handed down to us — is a painter whose works display graceful drawing and subdued colouring. The chief picture ascribed to him is an altar-piece in the Städel Institute at Frankfort. It represents in the centre Christ on the Cross with the donor and his sons on the right wing and his wife and daughters on the left wing.
Jean Rhys.  Jean Rhys /riːs/ CBE (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams was a mid-20th-century novelist from Dominica. Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain she is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Shy'm.  Tamara Marthe (born on 28 November 1985 in Trappes) better known as Shy'm /ˈʃaɪm/ is a French singer. She released her first album Mes fantaisies in 2006 and has since released three more albums. She is one of the most successful French singers of the 21st century with three Platinum albums including her number-one 2012 album Caméléon. Both in 2012 and 2013 she received the NRJ Music Award for Francophone Female Artist of the Year.
Michael Campbell (musician).  For other people named Mike Campbell (including other musicians) see Michael Campbell (disambiguation)Michael Mike Campbell (born August 7 1985) is an American guitarist and bassist from Huntington Station New York best known for his work with Laura Stevenson and Latterman.
Debby Bishop.  Debby Bishop (also credited as Debbie Bishop) is a British actress. She is probably best known to television viewers for her appearance in the second series of the crime drama Widows having taken over the part of Bella O'Reilly from Eva Mottley She started her professional acting career at the original Albany Empire Theatre in Deptford South London in 1978 where she first appeared on stage in a number of show produced by The Combination which was the resident theatre company there.
Gino Parks.  Gino or Geno Parks (born Gene Purifoy 26 July 1933) is an American R&B singer who recorded for several labels including Tamla in the 1950s and 1960s.
Vanessa Briscoe Hay.  Vanessa Briscoe Hay (born October 18 1955 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American singer for the Athens Georgia bands Pylon and Supercluster.
Shona (singer).  Shona is a French writer composer and singer who peaked in popularity in the late 1980s.
Warren Farrell.  Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26 1943) is an American educator activist and author of seven books on men's and women's issues.He came to prominence in the 1970s as one of the leading male thinkers championing the cause of second wave feminism and serving on the New York City Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Paolo Zoppo.  Paolo Zoppo (early 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period mainly active in Brescia. He died suddenly in the town of Desenzano. He is known to have depicted in paint the sack of Brescia in 1512 by Gaston of Foix Duke of Nemours.
Zbigniew Żupnik.  Zbigniew Żupnik (26 May 1951 – 27 July 2000) was a Polish painter. He studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków where his master was prof. Adam Marczyński. He created numerous paintings drawings and graphics.
Stephanie McKay.  Stephanie McKay is an American soul singer and songwriter from the Bronx in New York whose music encompasses styles include elements of classic rock funk pop and hip hop. McKay's career has spanned over 20 years during which time she has collaborated with artists including Toshi Reagon and Big lovely Roy Hargrove Dj Katalyst Mos Def Talib Kweli Tricky Carl Hancock Rux and Amp Fiddler and numerous others.
Augustin Barruel.  Abbé Augustin Barruel (October 2 1741 – October 5 1820) was a French publicist and Jesuit priest. He is now mostly known for setting forth the conspiracy theory involving the Bavarian Illuminati and the Jacobins in his book Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (original title Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire du Jacobinisme) published in 1797. In short Barruel wrote that the French Revolution was planned and executed by the secret societies.
Sharon Kane.  Sharon Kane (born in Ohio) is an American bondage model and pornographic actress. She has appeared in many adult magazines and pornographic movies in both dominant and submissive roles.She is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.Recently Kane works behind the camera as a director production manager art director and film composer.
Carol Bishop-Gwyn.  Carol Bishop-Gwyn is a Canadian writer and dance academic best known as the author of The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca a biography of Celia Franca published in 2011.
Phoebe Kreutz.  Phoebe Kreutz is a singer-songwriter primarily associated with the anti-folk scene of New York City but also known for her theater and television work.Kreutz has been performing live since the early 2000s and has released five independent albums Pretty.
Leslie Waller.  Leslie Elson Waller (April 1 1923 — March 29 2007) is an American writer.
Birago Diop.  Birago Diop (11 December 1906 - 10 November 1989) was a Senegalese poet and story-teller whose work restored the general interest in African folktales and promoted him into one of the most outstanding African francophone writers. A renowned veterinarian diplomat and leading voice of the Négritude literary movement Diop exemplified the African renaissance man.
Anita Augspurg.  Anita Augspurg (September 22 1857 – December 20 1943) was a German lawyer actor writer and feminist.
Leo Rey.  Cecil Leonardo Leiva Reyes (Viña del Mar November 30 1979) also known as Leo Rey (derived from his second name and maternal surname) is a Chilean singer and former vocalist of the group La Noche.
Hiroya Ishimaru.  Hiroya Ishimaru (石丸 博也 Ishimaru Hiroya born Shinji Ishide (石出 伸二 Ishide Shinji) February 12 1941 in Sendai Miyagi) is a Japanese voice actor most famous for performing the role of Koji Kabuto in the 1972 series Mazinger Z and its sequels. He also gave voice to Tutty from Bosco Adventure and recently voiced Ultraman Taro in Ultraman Story Ultraman Mebius and Ultraman Mebius and Ultra Brothers. He is also the official Japanese dub-over voice artist for Jackie Chan.
Joanna Baillie.  Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and though a woman intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition she hosted a literary society in her cottage at Hampstead.[citation needed] Baillie died at the age of 88 her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.
Mary Helen McPhillips.  Mary Helen McPhillips (1931–1998) was a noted television personality.
Madlen Namro.  Madlen Namro (born August 29 1973) is a Polish science-fiction author who writes in Polish. She received an award for her first science-fiction book which is translated in English the second one is also a bestseller in Poland... As journalist she also writes articles published in various magazines and websites allover the world...
Mia Naruse.  Mia Naruse (成瀬未亜 Naruse Mia born February 11 1978) also known as Mio Nonose (野々瀬 ミオ Nonose Mio) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan. On April 30 2010 she announced that she will not be voice acting anymore. However on April 16 2013 she announced that she resumed her voice acting career on her blog.[citation needed]
Muriel Stuart.  Muriel Stuart (1885 Norbury South London — 18 December 1967) She was born Muriel Stuart Irwin the daughter of a Scottish barrister. She was a poet particularly concerned with the topic of sexual politics though she first wrote poems about World War I. She later gave up poetry writing; her last work was published in the 1930s.She was hailed by Hugh MacDiarmid as the best woman poet of the Scottish Renaissance although she was not Scottish but English.
Robbie Guertin.  Robbie Guertin was a keyboardist/guitarist/backup vocalist for the indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.He grew up in Belmont Massachusetts and went to Belmont High School. He attended college at Connecticut College along with the other members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah prior to the group's formation where he studied art and was in a band called Robots in Disguise.
Brian Locking.  Brian Licorice Locking (born 22 December 1938 in Bedworth Warwickshire England) was the bass guitarist with The Shadows between 1962 and 1963.
Sonny Lim.  Elmer Sonny Lim is a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Waimea (Kamuela) on the Big Island of Hawaii. Sonny is part of the musical Lim Family which is also famous in the 50th State.Sonny's father Elmer Lim Sr. who was a Paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy) on the famed Parker ranch and later worked for the ranch himself. In this respect Sonny carries on the slack key tradition born amongst Waimea Cowboys over a hundred years earlier.
List of awards received by Yolanda Adams.  Yolanda Adams is American gospel music singer and radio show host. In total Adams has won four Grammy Awards four of the Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards one American Music Award seven NAACP Image Awards one Soul Train Music Award and four BET Awards.
Mark Klem.  Mark Klem is a video game musician who composed the music for the computer game Wacky Wheels.Mark Klem has done Music Sound Effects Voice Acting and Level Design for the 'Quake 3' total conversion entitled 'Urban Terror' and also for various Doom 2 projects including Cringe MKBIGWAD Gothic I & II Strain Memento Mori I & II Requiem Icarus Biowar and Mordeth. Perhaps the greatest musician of our time.
David Kahne.  David Kahne is an American record producer musician composer and former record company executive.
Chitrita Banerji.  Chitrita Banerji (born 1947) is an Indian English author and translator particularly noted for her work on Bengali food. She was the recipient of the Stephen Coe award for writings on Food history (1998/1999).
Amédé Ardoin.  Amédé Ardoin (March 11 1898 – November 3 1942) was a Louisiana Creole musician known for his high singing voice and virtuosity on the Creole/Cajun Accordion. He is credited by Louisiana music scholars with laying the groundwork for Cajun music in the early 20th century.Ardoin with fiddle player Dennis McGee was one of the first artists to record the music of the Acadiana region of Louisiana. On December 9 1929 he and McGee recorded six songs for Columbia Records in New Orleans.
Agboola Shadare.  Agboola Shadare is an international songwriter composer and producer. He started as a church musician then moved into club and studio production in Nigeria. He produced for popular Nigerian artistes such as Gbenga Owoeye-Wise and Mike Aremu and released two solo albums - Dream Dawn and Glory. Realizing he has much so much to offer Shadare moved to America to enlarge his territory and rub shoulders with the best.The master guitarist is operates as a Christian smooth jazz artiste.
Hong Yun-suk.  Hong Yun-Suk (born in Chongju North Pyongan Province Korea in 1925) is considered one of the leading Korean woman poets of her generation. She is also known by her pen name YeoSa (Beautiful Story).
Adolph Gottlieb.  Adolph Gottlieb (March 14 1903 – March 4 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter sculptor and printmaker.
Stephen Marche.  Stephen Marche (born 1976) is a Canadian writer. In 2005 he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto. He writes a monthly column for Esquire A Thousand Words about Our Culture. In 2011 this column was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for columns and commentary. His articles also appear in the New York Times and the Atlantic.Marche's novel Raymond and Hannah was published in 2005.
Michael Choi (comics).  Michael Choi is a comic book artist and video game concept artist known for his work on books by DC Comics Marvel Comics and Top Cow Comics such as Witchblade X-23 and X-Force.
Kuldeep Manak.  Kuldeep Manak (Punjabi: ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਮਾਣਕ‌) ( 15 November 1951 - 30 November 2011) was a noted Punjabi singer of Indian Punjab. He was best known for singing a rare genre of Punjabi music Kali also known by its plural form kalian or kaliyan.In the late 1970's and early 1980's Manak was generally regarded as the best Punjabi singer in the world. His high pitched strong voice was unique and instantly
Yaeko Nogami.  Yaeko Nogami (野上 弥生子 Nogami Yaeko 6 May 1885 - 30 March 1985) was the pen-name of a novelist in Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Kotegawa Yae.
Darian Sahanaja.  Darian Sahanaja is a singer and songwriter who plays in the Brian Wilson band with Wondermints. He has also collaborated with numerous other artists in the genre of orchestral/underground pop including Baby Lemonade Wonderboy Aimee Mann Now People Lisa Mychols and Donna Summer.
Johnny Frigo.  Johnny Frigo (December 27 1916 – July 4 2007) was an American jazz violinist and bassist.His son Derek John Frigo was the lead guitarist for the rock band Enuff Z'nuff. Derek Frigo died of a drug overdose on May 28 2004.Johnny Frigo died at age 90 of complications from a fall. He had been battling cancer according to some reports of his death.
Spencer Albee.  Spencer Albee (born May 31 1976) is an American musician singer and songwriter from Portland Maine. Albee has been a major figure in the Portland music scene for over two decades and is locally renowned for his songwriting and musical abilities.[citation needed] He is known for his distinctive voice as well as the depth and diversity of his work. Previously Albee fronted As Fast As and was the keyboardist and backup singer for the band Rustic Overtones.
Antonio Travi.  Antonio Travi (1613–1668) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Sestri near Genoa was generally known as Il Sordo di Sestri on account of his deafness. He was originally a color-grinder to Bernardo Strozzi who instructed him in design and he afterwards studied landscape painting under Godfrey de Weals. His son Antonio was also a landscape painter.
Tommaso Gaffi.  Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi (4 December 1667 - Rome 11 February 1744) was an Italian baroque composer. He was a pupil of Bernardo Pasquini organist of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore where Gaffi succeeded him in 1704. As Pasquini he enjoyed the patronage of cardinals Benedetto Pamphili and Pietro Ottoboni as well as Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli. His own students included Girolamo Chiti and Andrea Basili.
Ned Collette.  Ned Collette is a Melbourne-born musician and songwriter now based in Berlin. He was a member of Melbourne instrumental band City City City and has since then recorded five albums either as solo productions or with his band Wirewalker.
Karleen Koen.  Karleen Koen (née Smith) is an American novelist perhaps best known for her 1986 debut historical fiction novel Through a Glass Darkly.
Ivie Anderson.  Ivie Anderson (sometimes Ivy) (July 10 1905 – December 27 1949) was an American jazz singer born in Gilroy California. Though her mother's name is unknown her father was Jobe Smith. Anderson lived at 724 E. 42nd Place Los Angeles from 1930 to 1945 now part of the 52nd Place Historic District.
Ami Koshimizu.  Ami Koshimizu (小清水 亜美 Koshimizu Ami born February 15 1986) is an award winning Japanese voice actress affiliated with Axl One management. She was born in the city of Kokubunji in Tokyo Prefecture. She was previously represented by Production Baobab.
Sofie Aubert Lindbæk.  Sofie Aubert Lindbæk (1875–1953) was a Norwegian author teacher and film critic. She was born in Christiania to the professor jurist and politician Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert (1838–1896) and the author Elise Aubert (1837–1909). She was the mother of journalist and war correspondent Lise Lindbæk. She was teacher at Nissen Girls' School from 1920 to 1936 before becoming a film critic from 1935 to 1940.
Esem.  Esem is the stage name of Georgi Hristov Marinov a Bulgarian electronic music artist (born 10 February 1979). Esem is formerly known as the tracker musician StereoMan a member of the demoscene group NOiSE.
Garry Sandhu.  Garry Sandhu (born Gurmukh Singh Sandhu) is an award-winning Punjabi singer currently active in the Bhangra scene.
Marvin Hayes.  Marvin Hayes is an American painter and illustrator working primarily in egg tempera and copperplate etchings.
Candee Jay.  Candee Jay (born Ilze Lankhaar on 1 September 1981 in Rotterdam Netherlands) is a Dutch electronica artist. She is produced by Pronti and Kalmani the production duo who worked with fellow Dutch artist Alice Deejay.
Charles Lynch (journalist).  Charles Burchill Lynch OC (3 December 1919 – 21 July 1994) was a Canadian journalist and author.
Tony Butler (musician).  Anthony Earle Peter Tony Butler (born 13 February 1957) is an English musician and rock bassist best known for his work with the Scottish rock band Big Country. He has also worked with On the Air The Pretenders Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend among others.
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt.  Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (born 1948) is an American artist who is also a veteran of the Stonewall riots.Lanigan-Schmidt's artwork incorporates materials such as tinsel foil cellophane saran wrap and glitter embracing kitsch and intentionally tacky.
George Li.  George Li (Chinese: 黎卓宇; pinyin: Lí zhuōyǔ) (born August 24 1995) is an American pianist.
Sonja Kristina Linwood.  Sonja Kristina (born 14 April 1949 Brentwood Essex England) is an English musician best known for being the vocalist of Curved Air.
Antoine Sfeir.  Antoine Sfeir (born 25 November 1948 in Beirut Lebanon) is a Franco-Lebanese journalist and a professor.He is the editor of the French magazine Les Cahiers de l'Orient (Notebooks from the East a magazine devoted to the Near East) is the president of the Centre d'études et de réflexions sur le Proche-Orient and a professor of International relations at the school Celsa (Sorbonne university).In his book Tunisie terre de paradoxes published in 2006 he supported the regime of Ben Ali in particular by denying its police and authoritarian character.
Felicia Fox.  Felicia Fox (born May 25 1974 in Enon Ohio) is an American pornographic actress.Fox grew up in Enon and attended Greenon High School there where she was a member of Future Farmers of America. She graduated from Greenon in 1992.
Emily Poynton Weaver.  Emily Poynton Weaver (1865–1943) was a Canadian author. She was born near Manchester England went to Canada with her parents in 1880 and lived in Oxford County Ontario Halifax and Toronto. She contributed short stories and historical essays to the leading British and American periodicals and published several full length novels.
The Moniker.  Daniel Karlsson (born 31 August 1981 Norrahammar Jönköping Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He later on took the name The Moniker as his stage name.
Brent Cash.  Brent Cash is a singer–songwriter from Athens Georgia.
Victor Zâmbrea.  Victor Zâmbrea (1924 Reni Ismail county Romania – 2000 Chişinău Moldova) was a Bessarabian painter.
Ibrahim Ghannam.  Ibrahim Hassan Kheite (1930–1984) better known by the artistic name Ibrahim Ghannam was an artist considered to be one of the founders of the Palestinian plastic art movement. His paintings focused on describing the daily life of the Palestinian people in his country before the Nakba. He painted scenes of village life in a naïve style using bright colours.Ghannam contracted Gout as a child and used a wheelchair throughout his life.
Thomas Moss (minister).  Thomas Moss (1740–1808) was minister of Brierley Hill and of Trentham in Staffordshire. In 1769 he anonymously published a collection of miscellaneous poems forming a thin quarto which hehad printed at Wolverhampton. One piece was copied by Robert Dodsley into his Annual Register and from thence was transferred (different persons being assigned as the author) into almost every periodical and collection of fugitive verses of the day.
Balthasar Augustin Albrecht.  Balthasar Augustin Albrecht (1687– 1765 ) was a German painter.
Gouru Tirupati Reddy.  Gouru Tirupati Reddy is a Vastu Shastra exponent from Proddatur Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh.
Tha Realest.  Jevon Jones (born October 11 1973 in Dallas Texas) is an American rapper better known by his stage name Tha Realest and formerly Tenkamenin The Vigilante (or simply Tenkamenin). His debut album Witness Tha Realest was released on July 14 2009 following numerous delays. Tha Realest is also known often in a negative light for his strikingly similar voice of a deceased rapper and former label-mate Tupac Shakur. Tha Realest is also a member of The Regime.
Aaron Burckhard.  Aaron Burckhard (born November 14 1963) is an American musician who was the first drummer recruited for Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic's rock group that soon came to be known as Nirvana. Burckhard played drums for the band until December 1987. Burckhard was no longer a part of Nirvana by the time band recorded their first demo at Reciprocal Recordings in Seattle on January 23 1988 (Dale Crover of The Melvins served as his replacement).
Jess Collins.  Jess Collins (August 6 1923 – January 2 2004) simply known today as Jess was an American visual artist.
Gary Fjellgaard.  Gary Fjellgaard (born August 14 1937) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. He has released fifteen albums and charted thirty-five songs on the RPM Country Tracks chart between 1977 and 1996 including the Top 10 singles Walk in the Rain Tonight (#10 1987) The Moon Is Out to Get Me (with Linda Kidder No. 10 1989) Cowboy in Your Heart (#7 1989) Somewhere on the Island (#7 1990) In My Heart (with Kidder No. 10 1990) and Train of Dreams (#10 1994).
Pamela Dean.  Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet (born 1953) better known as Pamela Dean is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin based on the Child Ballad of the same name in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater Carleton College in Minnesota.She was a member of the writing group The Scribblies along with Emma Bull Will Shetterly Kara Dalkey Nate Bucklin Patricia Wrede and Steven Brust and was a contributor to the Liavek shared-world anthologies. 
Luigi Furini.  Luigi Furini (Lungavilla Italy January 29 1954) is an Italian journalist and poet.
Mihailo Živanović.  Mihailo Živanović (Belgrade 17 February 1928 — Belgrade 18 July 1989) known as Mika-Žuti (Yellow) was a prominent and one of the most inventive and best Serbian and Yugoslav clarinetist saxophonist a very prolific composer conductor of RTB Light Music Orchestras and arranger.
Rob Pearlstein.  Rob Pearlstein is a writer and director. He is best known as the writer and director of Our Time is Up the film for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.Pearlstein has worked as a copywriter at agencies including TBWA Chiat/Day Fallon McElligott BBDO Deutsch Saatchi & Saatchi and MTV.
Samira Fazal.  Samira Fazal (Urdu: سمیرا فضل‎) (born December 10 1976) is a Pakistani Author and Screenwriter. She is best known for scripting Dastaan Vasl Khamoshiyan Bari Aapa and Mera Naseeb for which she earned an Lux Style Award for best TV Writer 2012.
Johnny Bush.  Johnny Bush (born February 17 1935 as John Bush Shinn III in Houston Texas) is a country music singer songwriter and drummer. Bush nicknamed the Country Caruso is best known for his distinctive voice and as the writer of Whiskey River a top-ten hit for himself and Willie Nelson's signature song. He is still popular in his native Texas.
Danylo Shumuk.  Danylo Lavrentiyovych Shumuk (Ukrainian: Данило Лаврентійович Шумук last name pronounced shoo-mook b. December 30 1914 in village Boremschyna Russian Empire now in Volyn Oblast Ukraine - d. 21 May 2004 in Krasnoarmiisk Ukraine) was a Ukrainian political activist who served a total of 42 years imprisoned by three different states Second Polish Republic Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.
Andy Pratt (singer-songwriter).  Andy Pratt (born January 25 1947) is an American rock music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In the 1970s he made a number of experimental records and scored a commercial hit with Avenging Annie.After words of praise from Rolling Stone magazine (By reviving the dream of rock as an art and then re-inventing it Pratt has forever changed the face of rock) he tried a more commercial approach.
Emily Jane White.  Emily Jane White is a songwriter pianist and guitarist from California who released her debut album in 2007.
Federico Faruffini.  Federico Faruffini (Sesto San Giovanni 1831- Perugia 1869) was an Italian painter and engraver of historical subjects in a style that combines the styles and themes of Realism with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of Scapigliatura painters.
Jack Lucien.  Lucien Jack (born 19 July 1988) is a British born Andorran singer music producer and songwriter who has had success in Continental Europe under the names Hun Lucien and Jack Lucien. He is best known for his 2009 single I'm Not Afraid.
DJ Woody.  DJ Woody is a prolific DJ and turntablist born in Burnley Lancashire UK.Started DJing in 1992 but made his name through the dj competition circuit when in 2001 when he was the first European DJ to win the ITF (International Turntablist Federation) World championship title in San Francisco a year later he won the Vestax World title.He is known for his innovative and musical approach to turntablism and is responsible for the invention of various scratches and techniques including his famous signature Woodpecker Scratch.He helped Vestax (turntable and mixer manufacturer) in the design of their Controller One turntable the first ever turntable to play full musical scales.In 2002 Woody toured the United States with Stones Throw Records' artists Lootpack (Madlib Wildchild & DJ Romes) Declaime J Sands (Lone Catalist) and P Trix (US DMC Champion) and DJ Dopey (World Disco Mix Club Champion)The following year he joined the 'Russian Percussian' touring outfit alongside producer DJ Vadim and vocalists Blu Rum 13 and Yarah Bravo. 
Andy Dick.  Andrew Roane Andy Dick (born December 21 1965) is an American comedian actor musician and television/film producer. He is best known as a comic but is also known for his eccentric and controversial behavior. His first regular television role was on the short-lived but influential Ben Stiller Show. In the mid-1990s he had a long-running stint on NBC's NewsRadio and was a supporting character on Less than Perfect.
Yen-j.  Yen-j also known as Yan Jue is a Taiwanese jazz-pop singer-Songwriter. He has achieved rising success as a newcomer on the Mandopop scene due to testimonials from popular artists such as Wang Leehom Mayday’s Ashin Dee Hsu Blackie Chen and DJ Xiao Shu. His fresh combinations of jazz and pop has made him a noticeable star on the rise. His debut album Thanks to Your Greatness (谢谢你的美好) contains 11 songs all written and produced by him or with his input.
Jacopo da Camerino.  Jacopo da Camerino was an Italian mosaicist and a Franciscan monk. He was born in Camerino in the Marca of Ancona and is known to have worked in Rome and Orvieto from 1288 to 1321. He assisted Iacopo Torriti with the apse mosaics for the church of San Giovanni in Laterano where he is also portrayed. His compositions are in a style similar to that of Cimabue.
Jeff Keith.  Jeffrey Lynn Jeff Keith (born October 12 1958 in Texarkana Arkansas) is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the band Tesla. He was also the lead singer for the band Bar 7.Before he became part of Tesla Keith lived in Idabel Oklahoma with his mother Anita and sister Joey. He attended Idabel High School and eventually moved to Sacramento California to live with his father.
Herman Frank.  Herman Frank is a heavy metal guitarist from Germany best known for his work with Accept and Victory. In 2009 he released his first solo album called Loyal to None. Frank has also recorded with Hazzard Sinner Moon'Doc Saeko Thomsen and Poison Sun. As a record producer and engineer he has worked for Saxon Rose Tattoo Crown of Creation Molly Hatchet and several others.
Ben Tankard.  Ben Tankard (born January 24 1964) is a former professional basketball player and an American gospel jazz keyboardist producer songwriter and author. Tankard and his wife Jewel donate their time as non-salary senior pastors of Destiny Center Church of Murfreesboro. Tankard Is a Reality TV co-star with the show Bravo - Thicker Than Water:The Tankards which premiered November 10 2013.On August 21 2013 Tankard was nominated for three Gospel Music Dove Awards.
McLean (singer).  McLean (born Anthony McLean 23 April 1980) is an English singer from Dagenham east London. He is currently signed to Asylum Records in the UK and Atlantic Records in the US. His debut single Broken was released on 26 October 2009. The song was co-written/produced by The Schizofreniks and first released independently on 26 March 2007 on Schizofreniks Records and has since then accrued over 20 million hits across major social networking sites including YouTube and MySpace.
Manuel Gomez (clarinettist).  Manual Gomez (1859–1922) was a Spanish clarinettist and founding member of the London Symphony Orchestra. Gomez is believed to have been responsible for introducing the Boehm system to the United Kingdom.
Joannes Rualdus.  Joannes Rualdus was a French scholar who compiled a Life of Plutarchus which was prefixed to the Paris Edition of 1624 in two volumes folio of Plutarch's works.
Savina Yannatou.  Savina Yannatou (Greek: Σαβίνα Γιαννάτου / Savína Yannátou) is a renowned Greek singer.After taking classical guitar lessons and participating in the children's choir of Yannis Nousias for some years she studied singing with Gogo Georgilopoulou and Spiros Sakkas in Athens and later attended postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Scott A. Jones.  Scott A. Jones (born in 1960) is an American inventor. Scott graduated with honors from Indiana University in 1984 receiving a bachelor of science degree in computer science.
Shelly Lares.  Michell Yvette Lares (born November 13 1971) best known as Shelly Lares is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and percussionist. Starting in 1984 Lares was nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year for thirteen consecutive years and won several other awards at the Tejano Music Awards throughout her career. She signed a recording contract with Manny Records in 1986. She left the label in 1996 and signed with Sony Music Latin until she was dropped in the late 90s.
Martin Davorin-Jagodić.  Martin Davorin-Jagodić is a Croatian contemporary music composer and educator born in Zagreb in 1935. His work includes theatre music graphic scores instructions for performances multimedia installation art radio art electroacoustic music on tape as well as experimental film soundtracks.
Lola Beltrán.  María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz (March 7 1932 – March 24 1996) more commonly known as Lola Beltrán was a Mexican recording artist actress and television presenter.Internationally renowned for her interpretation of the songs Cucurrucucú paloma and Paloma negra Beltrán sang before many world leaders and therefore is considered today as one of Mexico's most acclaimed ranchera singers. She was often nicknamed Lola la Grande (Lola the Great).
Al Rio.  Álvaro Araújo Lourenço do Rio (19 May 1962 – 31 January 2012) – known professionally as Al Rio – was a Brazilian comic book artist best known for his good girl illustration work particularly on the American comic book series Gen¹³ and DV8 published by Wildstorm Comics.
Macire sylla.  Maciré Sylla is a singer and dancer. Born in Conakry the capital of Guinea but raised in Tayiré a village in the north of Conakry.Author and composer Maciré sings mainly in Soussou and her style is inspired by Mandingo Afropop Funk music. She has released five albums yet.
Henry Banyer.  Henry Banyer (fl. 1739) was a medical writer.Banyer studied at St. Thomas's Hospital and practised as a physician at Wisbeach. He was admitted extraordinary licentiate of the College of Surgeons on 30 July 1736. His works are Methodical Introduction to the Art of Surgery 1717 and Pharmacopœia Pauperum or the Hospital Dispensary containing the chief Medicines now used in the Hospitals of London 1721 4th ed. 1739.
Jerry Fielding.  Jerry Fielding (June 17 1922 – February 17 1980) was an American radio record film and television composer conductor bandleader and musical director.
Matthew Jones (classical musician).  Matthew Jones (born in 1974 in Swansea Wales) is a British violist violinist and composer primarily known for his international performance work as a soloist recitalist and chamber musician. He also holds two music Professorships and runs an in-demand performance health consultancy practice. He is fluent in Italian.
Beth Diane Armstrong.  Beth Diane Armstrong (born 1985) is a South African sculptor. Armstrong is represented in Cape Town by BRUNDYN + GONSALVES
Saskia Holmkvist.  Saskia Holmkvist (born 1971) is a conceptual artist from Sweden working mainly with video. She is best known for the short films System (2001) and Interview With Saskia Holmkvist (2005).
Sono Osato (artist).  Sono Osato (born 1960 in Baden Baden) is an American artist based in New York City. Osato's work includes sculptures and paintings. Both often include found objects such as machine parts and animal bones. Her work attempts to blend the boundaries between artistic disciplines. Her most recent works the Silent Language and Buried Language series deal primarily with the intersection of language and topography.
Jim Denevan.  Jim Denevan (born 1961) is an American chef and artist who creates temporary land art. He works with natural materials to create massive scale drawings in sand ice and soil. His sculptures are not placed in the landscape rather the landscape is the means of their creation. Often aerial photography or video is needed to comprehend the final work.
Billy Morrison.  Billy Morrison is an English guitarist singer and actor who performs with the Los Angeles-based cover band Camp Freddy. Morrison is also a member of Billy Idol's current touring band and has previously fronted the hard rock act Circus Diablo. Morrison has also been a member of The Cult Stimulator Doheny and Into a Circle.Morrison co-hosted Indie 103.1's Camp Freddy Radio with Dave Navarro until its retirement in 2008.
John Roy.  John Roy (September 13 1930–June 13 2001) was a noted professor in the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1964 until his retirement in 1994. He continued to paint until his death in 2001.
Barbara Zitwer.  Barbara J Zitwer is an American film producer playwright and literary agent.She started her career as a still photographer and location co-ordinator on Larry Cohen's 1984 horror movie Special Effects. In 1985 she worked as a location scout on The Stuff and was the associate producer of 1987's It's Alive III: Island of the Alive. She produced the 1988 Nicolas Cage film Vampire's Kiss. and was the associate producer of the 1990 movie The Ambulance.
SpaceGhostPurrp.  Markese Rolle (born April 1 1991) better known by his stage name SpaceGhostPurrp and more recently simply Purrp is an American rapper and producer from Miami Florida and is the founder of the hip hop group Raider Klan (stylized RVIDXR KLVN). SpaceGhostPurrp currently records for 4AD Records. He gathered a following in the underground hip hop scene through mixtapes producing and his work with ASAP Mob. He has produced tracks for Wiz Khalifa ASAP Rocky Juicy J and Project Pat.
Salvatore Toma.  Salvatore Toma (11 May 1951–17 March 1987) was an Italian poet born in the Southern Italian region of Puglia. A visionary and passionate poet he delved deeply into the meaning of love and death while searching within man and nature the connection with universal consciousness.
Mary Francis Shura.  Mary Francis Shura Craig née Young (23 February 1923 in Pratt Kansas - 12 January 1991 in Maywood Illinois) was an American writer of over 50 novels from 1960 to 1990. She wrote children's adventures and young adult romances as Mary Francis Shura M. F. Craig and Meredith Hill; gothic novels as Mary Craig; romance novels as Alexis Hill Mary Shura Craig and Mary S. Craig; and suspense novels as M. S.
Bliss Blood.  Bliss Blood is a musician and songwriter born in Omaha Nebraska. She lived and worked in Houston Texas before moving to New York City New York in 1996. She has written and recorded two albums with virtuoso guitarist Al Street five albums with New York jazz band The Moonlighters from 2000-2009 and six albums from 1988-1995 with Houston noise rock band Pain Teens. She has also appeared on recordings with The Melvins and many other groups.
Bunt Stephens.  John L. Bunt Stephens (February 2 1879 — May 25 1951) known as Uncle Bunt was an American Old-time fiddle player. After rising from relative obscurity in 1926 to win a nationwide fiddle contest hosted by automobile magnate Henry Ford Stephens went on to record several tracks for Columbia Records and made several guest appearances on what would later become the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville before retiring to his farm near Lynchburg Tennessee.
Rafał Blechacz.  Rafał Blechacz (pronounced [ˈrafaw ˈblɛxat͡ʂ] ; born June 30 1985 Nakło n. Notecią Poland) is a Polish classical pianist.Blechacz began piano lessons at the age of five and enrolled in the National Arthur Rubinstein Music School in Bydgoszcz three years later. In May 2007 he graduated from the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz with professor Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń.
Olivia Ward Bush.  Olivia Ward Bush Banks (May 23 1869 – 1944) was an American author poet and journalist of African-American and Montaukett Native American descent. Ward celebrated both of her heritages in her poetry and writing. She was a regular contributor to the Colored American magazine and wrote a column for the New Rochelle New York publication the Westchester Record-Courier.
Lee Minhyuk.  Lee Minhyuk more commonly known as Minhyuk is a South Korean idol singer actor rapper and dancer in the South Korean boy group BtoB.
Gakuto Coda.  Gakuto Coda (甲田 学人 Kōda Gakuto born 1977) is a Japanese light novelist. His series Missing has been adapted into a manga and Tokyopop will be releasing both in Fall 2007. He is known for basing his horror novels on research into psychology and folklore.
Willie Humphrey.  Willie James Humphrey (December 29 1900 – June 7 1994) was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist.
Jean-Paul Fung.  Jean-Paul Fung (born 6 November 1988) is an Australian producer engineer mixer musician and songwriter who has worked on multiple award-winning records.Fung learned how to play the piano guitar bass guitar and drums at a young age. Throughout his teenage years he played in punk rock hardcore and folk music bands.In November 2009 at the now-defunct BJB Studios Fung was hired as in-house assistant by Australian producer Scott Horscroft.
Eddie Fisher (musician).  Edward Eddie Fisher (born December 17 1973) is an American musician. He is best known as drummer and percussionist in Grammy Nominated band OneRepublic. Eddie grew up in Mission Viejo California and currently resides in Denver Colorado where OneRepublic is based. Eddie Fisher is the third drummer of OneRepublic. He joined the band in 2005.[citation needed]
Ao Takahashi.  Ao Takahashi (高梁 碧 Takahashi Ao born August 8 1979) formally known as Hiroko Takahashi (高橋 裕子 Takahashi Hiroko) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Aksent.
Mahbod Seraji.  Mahbod Seraji Ph.D. (Persian:مهبد سراجی) is an Iranian - American author whose critically acclaimed novel Rooftops of Tehran was published by NAL an imprint of Penguin in May of 2009. Mahbod's short stories and articles can be found on Truthout.org; Bookreporter; Velvet Illusions; Iranian.com.
Med Reventberg.  Med Reventberg full name Inga Margaretha Ida Reventberg (born June 7 1948) is a Swedish actress short film director and theatre manager.She was born in Nyköping. In the 1970s she was a member of the leftist theater and music group Nationalteatern. After being active in several other Swedish theatres she heads the Västerbotten theatre since 2005.Med Reventberg has appeared in many Swedish films and television productions mostly in minor roles.
Carlos Wiggen.  Carlos Wiggen (born 15 March 1950) is a Norwegian novelist and historian of ideas.He was born in Fredrikstad. He first made his mark as a novelist; his books include Slagskipet Scharnhorst (1978) Nordsjøfakkelen (1979) Så fast en borg (1993) and Arkadia (1997) and draw upon the history of ideas.Wiggen took the mag.art. degree in philosophy at the University of Oslo in 1975. In 1998 he took delivered the doctor's thesis Kants ultimatum at the University of Bergen.
DJ Cash Money.  DJ Cash Money (born Jerome Hewlett) is a Philadelphia-based American turntablist hip-hop artist and record producer. He was the first inductee into the DJ Hall of Fame.
Casey Barnes.  Casey Barnes is an Australian singer-songwriter from Gold Coast Queensland who rose to fame as a contestant on the 2009 season of Australian Idol.
Mark Curtis (broadcaster).  Mark Corrigan Curtis is an American broadcast journalist author and political analyst. He is a news anchor and Chief Political Reporter at WLNE-TV ABC6 the ABC affiliate in Providence Rhode Island.
R. N. D. Wilson.  Robert (or Robin) Noble Denison Wilson known as R. N. D. Wilson (1899–1953) was an Irish poet. From 1934–44 he was a teacher at Rendcomb College. His published work includes the collection The Holy Wells of Orris and other poems (London John Lane The Bodley Head 1927) the style of which has been described as early Yeatsian romanticism.
Francisco Leonardoni.  Francisco Leonardoni (1654–1711) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Spain. He was born in Venice where he studied but was forced to leave the republic and travelled through various parts of Europe till he settled at Madrid in 1680. There he distinguished himself by his portrait miniatures although he also painted several pictures for the churches. For the church of the Convent of Atocha at Madrid he painted a Marriage and Death of St.
Frank Ferrer.  Frank Ferrer (born March 25 1966) is an American rock drummer and session musician. In October 2006 Ferrer became an official member of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses after serving as the band's emergency substitute drummer for Bryan Mantia on several occasions during the band's summer 2006 European tour. Ferrer is also a member of The Psychedelic Furs as well as a former member of Love Spit Love.
K. V. Subbanna.  Kuntagodu Vibhuthi Subbanna (20 February 1932-16 July 2005) was an acclaimed dramatist and writer in Kannada. He was the founder of the world famous NINASAM (Neelanakantheshwara Natya Sangha) drama institute. Founded in 1949 in Heggodu Sagara. Ninasam under the guidance of K.V. Subbanna made significant contribution to Kannada theatre and other performing arts.
Erich Kahn.  Erich Kahn (1904–1979) was a German Expressionist and a survivor of the Nazi persecution of Jews and Gypsies during the events that led to World War II.
Douglas Romayne.  Douglas Romayne (born on June 21 1974) is a composer writing music for moving pictures (television film new media). He is Irish Scottish and Croatian and works out of his home production studio in Venice California.Romayne studied music and advanced orchestration at the University of Chicago and DePaul University with Cliff Colnot Chicago Symphony Orchestra new music conductor and took private composition studies with composer Hans Wurman father of Alex Wurman.
Everett Robbins (musician).  Everett Happy Robbins was a Chicago-based pianist bandleader and composer.Born in Muskogee Oklahoma he moved to Chicago in 1916 and studied at the American Conservatory of Music.
Pierre Tabart.  Pierre Tabart (Chinon 1645 – Meaux 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle.
Heinrich Henkel (composer).  Heinrich Henkel (16 February 1822 – 10 April 1899) was a German composer who studied with Johann Anton André at Offenbach am Main and became a figure of some importance for Mozart research.Born in Fulda he helped found the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Henkel died in Frankfurt am Main.His brother Georg Andreas Henkel (1805–1871) was also a composer.
Elliphant.  Ellinor Olovsdotter known by her stage name Elliphant is a Swedish pop artist. Her unique sound has been likened to a cross between M.I.A. and Diplo. The artist name Elliphant was said to be a play on words between her name and the saying Elephant in the room.She has featured in the media for her unique sound including The Guardian and NME. Her debut single Tekkno Scene featured on the award winning video game FIFA 13. In 2013 she released her first EP which was self-titled.
Charles Ansell (painter).  Charles Ansell (born 1752) flourished towards the close of the 18th century was an English painter.
Dee Dee Phelps.  Dee Dee Phelps (born Mary Sperling) is a singer-songwriter and author from Santa Monica California best known as half the popular 1960s musical duo Dick and Dee Dee. She became a professional writer in 2007 publishing her award-winning memoir Vinyl Highway. In 2008 Dee Dee joined with singer/actor Michael Dunn to revive the Dick and Dee Dee act live. More recently in 2013 Dee Dee is now teamed with Deke Detanna lead singer of Deke and The Blazers.
Elpida (singer).  Elpida Karayiannopoulou (Greek: Ελπίδα Καραγιαννοπούλου born October 1 1950) is a Greek singer who was one of the most successful singers in Greece and the Greek diaspora in the 1970s and 1980s.Known professionally as just Elpida she released 17 original albums in her 25-year recording history and regularly topped fever charts run by the Greek state broadcaster Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (ERT).
Rusty Day.  Russell Edward Rusty Day Davidson also known as Panchuco by his closest friends (born in Garden City MI USA) was a rock vocalist and frontman best known for his work with Steve Gaines Cactus & Ted Nugent's American Amboy Dukes. Rusty was also known for his powerful vocals and out-of-control lifestyle.Every musician has his own story to tell said Rusty in K.J. Knight's book Knight Moves Go up there & tell yours.
Ryann Donnelly.  Ryann Donnelly (born September 11 1986) is a horror punk shock rock and dance/pop songwriter and vocalist.Ryann was born in Olympia Washington and moved to Seattle Washington after attending Charles Wright Academy. With fellow class members Jonah Bergman and Steve Bonnell Ryann formed the band Schoolyard Heroes which won acclaim after winning second place at the Experience Music Project's Sound Off! Competition.
Planetary (rapper).  Mario Collazo (better known by his stage name Planetary) is an underground rapper from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Collazo is one half of the rap duo OuterSpace and is a member of Army of the Pharaohs.
José Ortega Torres.  José Ortega Torres (b. 1943) is a poet born in Granada Spain; he is a known author in the Andalusian poetic scene. A contemporary of the Novísimos poetic movement his work follows more traditional forms (rhyme sonnet) with a marked rhythm and deliberate word choice that bring to mind the classical Mediterranean traditionHis biography sheds light on the local history of poetry in the city of Granada.
Thom Tuck.  Thom Tuck (born 28 March 1982) is a British actor and comedian known for being one third of comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls and as a Stand-up comedian nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Melissa Coleman.  Melissa Coleman (born 1969) is an American author columnist and writer best known as the author of This Life Is in Your Hands a childhood memoir exploring her iconic family's search for a sustainable lifestyle.Coleman was born in Brooksville Maine to parents Sue and Eliot Coleman of the Back-to-the-land movement of the 60s and 70s and her parents have been referred to as disciples of Scott and Helen Nearing.
Cesare Maccari.  Cesare Maccari (9 May 1840 – 7 August 1919) was an Italian painter and sculptor most famous for his 1888 painting Cicerone denuncia Catalina (usually translated as Cicero Accuses Catiline or Cicero Denounces Catiline).
Sean Hedges-Quinn.  Sean Hedges-Quinn is a British sculptor animator and film model and prop-maker.After graduating from the University of Hertfordshire Hedges-Quinn worked in the film industry as a model-maker prop-master and sculptor. His first role was as a prop-maker on The Borrowers in 1996 before he was taken on by Jim Henson's creature shop in London.
Scott Warren.  Scott Warren (3 November 1962 Chicago) was the latest keyboardist for heavy metal band Dio and Heaven & Hell. Scott is a self taught keysman he begin playing at age 6. Later he trained professionally at Dick Grove School of Music.Scott Warren was a member of the groups Warrant Keel and Berlin. Today Scott Warren is part of Dio Disciples which includes all the surviving members of the final line-up of Dio along with former Judas Priest vocalist Tim Ripper Owens.
Elisabeth von Adlerflycht.  Susanna Maria Rebecca Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (born von Riese September 23 1775 - March 15 1846) was a German painter and inventor of the Rhine panorama.
Piotr Litvinsky.  Piotr Petrovich Litvinsky (Russian: Пё́тр Петро́вич Литви́нский; November 7 1927 Leningrad USSR – July 8 2009 Moscow Russian Federation) - a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher Honored Artist of the Russian Federation who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad) and Moscow.
Riana Nel.  Riana Nel is a Namibian singer-songwriter. After growing up in Windhoek she moved to South Africa to start her career.
Tally Koren.  Tally Koren is an Israeli-born singer-songwriter. Her first single Beauty of the Duty (2011) was placed on the BBC Radio 2 playlist and subsequently played on over 100 radio stations around the globe. In 2011 she received the Best Singer/Songwriter award at the London Fringe Awards [1] Koren has recorded vocals for songs over range of genres. She is influenced by Middle Eastern music Western electronic and Classical music.
Marc Lambron.  Marc Lambron is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina 1993 for L'Oeil du silence.
Kirk Powers.  Kirk Powers is a rock music bassist. In 1976 he joined American Tears one of the first keyboard-oriented Heavy Ivory bands. He also made pre-production demos and masters with Touch. He found work in the 1980s touring with various artists including Debbie Gibson's band 1986 through 1990 Out Of The Blue and Electric Youth tours.
Caleb Quaye.  Caleb Quaye (born October 9 1948) is an English Afro-European rock guitarist and studio musician best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with Elton John Mick Jagger Pete Townshend Paul McCartney and Hall & Oates. He is the son of Cab Kaye younger brother of Terri Quaye and older half-brother of Finley Quaye.
Kalyanji Anandji.  Kalyanji Anandji is a name used by an Indian composer duo known for its work on Hindi film soundtracks particularly action potboilers in the 1970s. The name comes from first names of the Gujarati brothers that formed the duo Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah. Some of their best-known works are Don Bairaag Saraswatichandra Qurbani Tridev and Safar. They won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Kora Kagaz.
Marc Houle.  Marc Houle (born 1972 in Windsor Ontario) is a Canadian live act and producer of electronic music. He is considered a live act and not a DJ since he uses elements of his own productions to create his sets as well as tracks that he has remixed. Houle came to fame under his first album Bay of Figs which was released on Minus.
Dany Verissimo.  Dany Verissimo (born June 27 1982 in France) is an actress and model.The child of a Malagasy mother and a French father a financial director at Air France Verissimo spent her childhood in France the United States and Nigeria. She began performing in pornography at 18 and a half years old performing in films by John B. Root the adult film director who she worked with exclusively through her entire 16-month adult film career.
Gaby Casadesus.  Gaby Casadesus (August 9 1901 - November 12 1999) was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseilles France. She was married to the famous French pianist Robert Casadesus and their son Jean Casadesus was also a notable pianist.
C. D. Payne.  C. D. Payne (born C. Douglas Payne; July 5 1949) is an American writer of absurdist fiction who is best known for his series of novels about fictional teenager Nick Twisp.
Arihiro Fujimura.  Arihiro Fujimura (藤村 有弘 Fujimura Arihiro March 6 1934 – March 16 1982) was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He was born in Chiyoda Tokyo. He died in 1982 of diabetes mellitus. In later life his hometown was Kanda Tokyo.
Brigitte Aubert.  Brigitte Aubert (born in Cannes on March 1956) is a French writer of detective fiction. She has done some screenwriting and had works adapted for film.
Sherman Robertson.  Sherman Robertson (born October 27 1948 Breaux Bridge Louisiana United States) is an American blues guitarist songwriter and singer who has been described as one part zydeco one part swamp blues one part electric blues and one part classic rhythm and blues.
Kim Ki-taek.  Kim Ki-taek is a modern Korean poet.
Paolo Meneguzzi.  Paolo Meneguzzi (born December 6 1976 as Pablo Meneguzzo) is a Swiss Italian singer. He is the son of Loredana Pacchiani and Gomez Meneguzzi.
Eduard Vilde.  Eduard Vilde (4 March 1865 in Pudivere Väike-Maarja Parish Lääne-Viru County – 26 December 1933 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer a pioneer of critical realism in Estonian literature and a diplomat. Author of classics such as The War in Mahtra and The Milkman from Mäeküla. He was one of the most revered figures in Estonian literature and is generally credited as being the country's first professional writer.
Adam Bomb (musician).  Adam Bomb (born Adam Brenner 1963) is an American guitarist and singer who has worked with several bands.
Dutch Tilders.  Dutch Tilders (29 August 1941 – 23 April 2011) born Mattheus Frederikus Wilhelmus Tilders anglicised as Matthew Tilders was a Netherlands-born Australian blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. He performed and released material as a solo artist and also issued a blues-rock album with Kevin Borich The Blues Had a Baby and They Called It Rock'n'Roll (November 1980). He has toured with John Mayall (1974) Brownie McGhee (1976 1980s) and Taj Mahal (1986 1990s).
Guy Mardel.  Guy Mardel (born Mardochée Elkoubi 30 June 1944 Oran then in French Algeria) is a French-Algerian singer best known for his participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest.Mardel lived his first 15 years in Algeria before moving to France in 1959. He later enrolled in law school while singing recreationally with a jazz band.
Régine Chassagne.  Régine Chassagne (French pronunciation: ​[ʁeˈʒin ʃaˈsaːɲ]; born 18 August 1977) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer and a founding member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.
Chris Field (UK musician).  Chris Field is a United Kingdom based rock and roll singer/songwriter and recording artist who was discovered by music producer Bob Rose while on tour with Julian Lennon.
Greg Whitby.  Gregory Byrne Whitby is an Australian educator. He is the Executive Director of Schools in the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta NSW.
Wayne Coyne.  Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13 1961) is the lead singer guitarist and songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips.
Patrick Stump.  Patrick Martin Stumph (born April 27 1984) known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump is an American singer-songwriter musician record producer actor and music critic best known as the lead singer/guitarist/composer of Fall Out Boy an American rock band from Wilmette Illinois.
Vito Carrera.  Vito Carrera (active 1603 - died Palermo 1631) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Palermo. Also known as il Trapanese since he was born in Trapani. One of his pupils was Pietro Novelli. In Trapani he painted for the church of the Dominicani and the organ doors for the church of Santa Maria di Gesu.
Ayaka Ōhashi.  Ayaka Ōhashi (大橋 彩香 Ōhashi Ayaka born September 13 1994 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress. She is affiliated with the talent agency Horipro.
Jonas Olsson (music producer).  Jonas Olsson is a Finnish music producer audio engineer and songwriter.He has worked and collaborated with many international acts producers and songwriters such as Andreas Carlsson (SWE) Kristinia DeBarge (US) Radical Something (US) Rasmus Thude (DK) and The Ocean (GER).He has also worked on many Finnish acts including Robin Jannika B Poisonblack Sami Saari Absoluuttinen Nollapiste Superscar Annika Eklund Deep Insight and Callisto.Olsson is currently managed by Los Angeles based management Perfection Shows and collaborates frequently with the production team Goodwill & MGI.
Oh No (musician).  Michael Jackson (born November 6 1979) better known by his stage name Oh No is a rapper and producer from Oxnard California who has released several albums on Stones Throw Records. He is also the half part of the hip hop duo Gangrene along with The Alchemist.
Gus Dahlström.  Gus Dahlström (6 November 1906 – 25 December 1989) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1942 and 1984.
Gabriella De Ferrari.  Gabriella De Ferrari is an American art historian curator and writer who has worked with and led major arts institutions throughout the United States.
William Christian Sellé.  William Christian Sellé (also known as Wilhelm Kristian Sellé) was a Victorian doctor of music composer and for forty years Musician in Ordinary to her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Dan Spitz.  Daniel Alan Spitz (born January 28 1963) is an American musician best known for his work as the lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band Anthrax from 1983–1995 and from 2005 to 2007. More recently Spitz has performed with Megadeth guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine in the heavy metal group Red Lamb.
Glen Vella.  Glen Vella (born 14 May 1983) is a Maltese singer. He started his singing career at the age of 13. He studied both practical and theory in voice and piano. He is certificated in voice coaching from the Victoria Music and Arts College London. Glen is a residential singer on various TV-shows on the island including 'Kalamita' 'Showtime' 'Sa 6' and currently on the biggest afternoon Maltese show 'Sibtijiet Flimkien'.
Stove King.  Steven William Stove King (born 8 January 1974 in Ellesmere Port Cheshire) is an English musician. He was the bassist of the rock band Mansun.King formed Mansun with Paul Draper with whom he shared an interest in graphic design. His first bass was an Aria Pro Bass which he bought to rehearse with Draper – the pair would play along to drum loops in their bedrooms.
Lew Schwartz.  Lewis Sayre Schwartz (July 24 1926 – June 18 2011) was an American comic book artist advertising creator and filmmaker credited as a ghost artist for Bob Kane on DC Comics Batman from 1946-47 through to 1953 and with writer David Vern Reed as co-creator of the villain Deadshot. Alongside Pablo Ferro and Fred Mogubgub he was cofounder of Ferro Mogubgub and Schwartz in 1961 a film company whose work includes the credits to Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
Clay George.  Clay George is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Albums include Clay George (2002) Cherry Bank Hotel (2006) and Clay George (2009).
Switch (hip-hop DJ).  DJ Switch is a British DJ and turntablist based in Birmingham. Notable for having made remarkable achievements in his early teens he has been crowned world champion three times and has many appearances on television radio magazines and at major festivals.
Otis Redding.  Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9 1941 – December 10 1967) was an American singer songwriter record producer arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the greatest singers in popular music and a major artist in soul and rhythm and blues. His singing style was powerfully influential among soul artists of 1960s and helped exemplify the Stax Sound.
Steve Adey.  Steve Adey (born in Great Barr Birmingham England) is a musician and singer-songwriter. His music is characterised by slow tempos minimalist arrangements underpinned by piano and a rich baritone vocal. To date Adey has released two albums and various EPs and singles.Adey released his critically well received debut album All Things Real in 2006 through independent record label Grand Harmonium Records.
W. S. Pakenham-Walsh.  William Sandford Pakenham-Walsh (simplified Chinese: 万拔文; traditional Chinese: 萬拔文; Pinyin: Wàn Báwén; Foochow Romanized: Uâng Bĕk-ùng; 1868 – April 26 1960) was a Christian clergyman educationalist and writer most famous for his work Tudor Story.
Nakamura Utaemon I.  Nakamura Utaemon I (中村歌右衛門 (初代) 1714–1791) was a Japanese kabuki performer. He was the progenitor of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region. He was the son of a provincial doctor.
Franz Gehring.  Franz Gehring (1838 – January 4 1884) was a German writer on music.Gehring was a lecturer on mathematics at Vienna University but became known for his music writing particularly his biographies. Among the most notable are his biography of Mozart published in Francis Hueffer's The Great Musicians series of books and several articles contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Barbara Cook.  Barbara Cook (born October 25 1927) is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955) Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s when she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer.
Tim Bricheno.  Tim Bricheno (born Timothy John Bricheno 6 July 1963 Huddersfield Yorkshire) has been the guitarist and writer with several notable English indie bands including All About Eve The Sisters of Mercy XC-NN (originally CNN) and Tin Star. He has also played as a tour guest and recorded artist with The Mission.Bricheno has written music under several pseudonyms for recording artists including Dusty Springfield Gene Pitney and Wade Snowman.
Oluf Braren.  Oluf Braren (25 February 1787 – 22 March 1839) was a painter of naïve art from the north Frisian island of Föhr. Some of his works show a strong affinity to his Frisian homeland.His paintings include portraits and depictions of public life as well as religious and mythological motives. Later works are influenced by Wilhelm Tischbein's art. Unknown and little appreciated during his lifetime Braren's paintings became greatly valued during the 20th century.
Nariko Enomoto.  Nariko Enomoto 榎本ナリコ (born 1967) is a manga author and manga critic who uses this name for children's and women's magazines. She writes under the name Nobi Nobita (野火ノビタ) for Boys Love and doujinshi and for critical works. She made her professional debut in 1997 with Season of Sentiment (センチメントの季節) published by Shogakukan. She won a special award in the Sense of Gender Awards in 2003 with her work The Four Hundred Blows (大人は判ってくれない―野火ノビタ批評集成).
Jesse Quin.  Jesse Joseph Quin (born 3 September 1981 Bedford) is an English multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter and producer best known as the bass player of the British rock band Keane. He is the newest and youngest member of the band.
Luan Santana.  Luan Domingos Rafael Santana (born 13 March 1991; Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈɐ̃ sɐ̃ˈtɐ̃nɐ]) is a Brazilian singer and composer of sertanejo universitário music.Currently Santana has one of the most expensive concert fees in the country charging about R$300000 per performance.[citation needed] His first live album was a bestseller throughout 2010 selling over 500000 copies.[citation needed] It remains among the best-selling albums in Brazil.
Sabzi (artist).  Mahmood Sabzi professionally known as Sabzi is an Iranian artist known for his abstract impressionist paintings.Sabzi was born in Ahvaz Iran. He began painting when he was twelve years old but eventually earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering at the University of Jundi Shapur.Initially Sabzi made realistic paintings inspired by his country's history and culture. He went to exile during the regime of Ruhollah Khomeini settling in Germany and the United States.
Billy Kyle.  William Osborne Billy Kyle (July 14 1914 - February 23 1966) was an American jazz pianist.
Robert Solé.  Robert Solé (born 1946) is a French journalist and novelist of Egyptian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946 Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche (winner of the Prix Mediterranée in 1992) and La Mamelouka.
Ed McBain.  Ed McBain (October 15 1926 – July 6 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter he was even better known as Ed McBain a name he used for most of his crime fiction beginning in 1956.
Amy Rosenthal.  Amy Rosenthal is a British playwright from Muswell Hill London. She is the daughter of Jack Rosenthal and Maureen Lipman. Rosenthal is Jewish.
Jerome Froese.  Jerome Froese (born 24 November 1970 Berlin Germany) is a German musician who in 1990 officially joined his father Edgar Froese in the band Tangerine Dream. He remained a member until 2006; currently he is working on several other projects. Prior to his direct involvement Froese often appeared on the covers of the band's albums as a child beginning with the 1973 release of Atem when he was two years four months old at the time the album was released.
Orazio Bianchi.  Orazio Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Rome. He painted Marriage of St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary for the church of San Gioseffo at Rome.
Jena Friedman.  Jena Friedman is an American stand up comedian writer and director. She is a field producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has written for Late Show with David Letterman.In 2010 she received a cease and desist letter from The New York Times for parodying their wedding videos. The parody entitled Ted and Gracie has since become a popular web series. In 2007 she wrote The Refugee Girls Revue a satire inspired by American Girl dolls.
Tata Young.  Amita Marie Young (Thai: อมิตา มารี ยัง December 14 1980) better known under her stage name Tata Young is a Thai singer model actress and dancer.She gained prominence when she placed first in a national singing contest at age 11 subsequently signing a record deal and releasing her first album Amita Tata Young in 1996. Within five months the album had sold over one million copies. Since then Young has released eight studio albums three in English and five in Thai.
Shelby Gaines.  Shelby Shook Gaines is an American artist and musician son of the novelist Charles Gaines.
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst.  Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (b. June 8 1812? (erroneously May 6 1814) Brünn; d. October 8 1865 Nice) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist violist and composer. He was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Paganini's greatest successors.Although he was a highly esteemed artist in his days he is not well known today. Many saw him as the superior violinist of his time and Paganini's greatest successor.
Sharankumar Limbale.  Sharankumar Limbale (Marathi: शरणकुमार लिंबाळे) (born - June 1 1956) is a Marathi language author poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books but is best known for his autobiographical novel Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste.
Jeff Marx.  Jeff Marx (born September 10 1970) is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.
Tim Mooney.  Tim Mooney (October 6 1958 - June 13 2012) was an American drummer producer and sound engineer. He drummed in the The Sleepers Sun Kil Moon and American Music Club.
Frenkie.  Adnan Hamidović (born 31 May 1982) better known by his stage name Frenkie is a Bosnian rapper from Bijeljina. The themes present in his music are often concerned with the political situation in Bosnia as well as traditional hip-hop subject matter such as battle rapping and pop culture. As of 2013 he has recorded four successful full-length albums to date: Odličan CD (2005) Povratak Cigana (2007) Protuotrov' (2009) and Troyanac (2012).
Torquato Tasso.  Torquato Tasso (Italian pronunciation: [torˈkwato ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered 1580) in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade during the siege of Jerusalem. He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope.
David Rigsbee.  David Rigsbee (April 1 1949) is an American poet contributing editor and regular book reviewer for The Cortland Review and literary critic.
Goncourt brothers.  The Goncourt brothers (French: [ɡɔ̃kuːʁ]) were Edmond de Goncourt ([ɛdmɔ̃] 1822–96) and Jules de Goncourt ([ʒyl] 1830–70) both French naturalism writers who as collaborative sibling authors were inseparable in life.
Giovanni Vincenzo Zerbi.  Giovanni Vincenzo Zerbi was a 17th-century Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Genoa as a portrait artist. He was a disciple of the Genoese painter Domenico Fiasella. Also called Vincenzio Zerbi.
Paul Butterfield.  Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17 1942 – May 4 1987) was an American blues singer and harmonica player. After early training as a classical flautist Butterfield developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his native Chicago where he was able to meet Muddy Waters and other blues greats who provided encouragement and a chance to join in the jam sessions.
Şebnem Paker.  Şebnem Paker (Istanbul June 1977) is a Turkish guitarist singer and music teacher.
Yves Saint Laurent (designer).  Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent known as Yves Saint Laurent (French pronunciation: ​[iv sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃] August 1 1936 – June 1 2008) was a French fashion designer and is regarded as one of the greatest names in fashion history.
Bobo (singer).  Christiane Bobo(lina) Herbold is a German singer of Bobo in White Wooden Houses. She also contributed backing vocals to selected Rammstein songs.
Ariwara no Yukihira.  Ariwara no Yukihira (在原 行平 818 – September 6 893) was a Japanese Heian period courtier and bureaucrat who held a number of positions over the course of his life. At one time or another he was governor of the provinces of Harima Bizen Shinano and Bitchū.
Peabo Bryson.  Peabo Bryson (born Robert Peapo Bryson April 13 1951 given name changed from Peapo to Peabo c. 1965) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter born in Greenville South Carolina. He is well known for singing soft-rock ballads (often as a duo with female singers) and his contribution to several Disney animated feature soundtracks.
Michael Zavros.  Michael Zavros (born Brisbane Australia 1974) is an Australian artist. Zavros studied printmaking at Queensland College of Art in the 1990s. Zavros has won three Australian drawing prizes: The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award in 2002 The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize in 2005 and the Kedumba Prize in 2007. In 2004 Zavros won the Primavera Collex award through the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney.
Ben Grossman.  Ben Grossman is a Canadian hurdy gurdy player percussionist composer and improviser. He performs both as a soloist and as part of various ensembles. Ben's work is featured on over 80 CDs. He has also been recorded for film soundtracks radio dramas as well as for television shows and commercials.Grossman was part of the music team awarded the 2005 Golden Sheaf Award in the Best Original Music Non-Fiction category for the Ali Kazimi film Continuous Journey.
David Macaulay.  David Macaulay (born December 2 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His most famous works have been graphic nonfiction children's books about architecture and engineering some of which have been adapted as public broadcasting hybrid documentaries and animated film dramatizations in the 1980s. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984 and 2002.
Marie Miyake.  Marie Miyake (三宅 麻理恵 Miyake Marie born June 7 1985) is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka Prefecture Japan. She is affiliated with Pro-Fit.
Matthew Puckett.  Matthew Puckett is an American film composer songwriter and music producer. Born and raised in New York City he attended the High School of the Performing Arts and received his BFA from NYU. Puckett lives in Los Angeles California.
Gaëtan Picon.  Gaëtan Picon (1915–1976) was a French essayist and art crtitic. He was director of the Mercure de France and Director-General of Arts and Letters under André Malraux.
Caitlin Sweet.  Caitlin Sweet is a Canadian fantasy author. Her first published novel A Telling of Stars was a finalist at the 2004 Prix Aurora Awards and nominated for the 2004 Locus Awards. Her second novel The Silences of Home was a finalist at the 2006 Prix Aurora Awards. She is married to science fiction author Peter Watts.
Frank A. Jenssen.  Frank A. Jenssen (born 1952) is a Norwegian journalist photographer novelist and musician. He made his literary début in 1981 with the novel Saltbingen for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He published the novel Lengselens år in 2004.
Maria Ozawa.  Maria Ozawa (小澤 マリア Ozawa Maria born January 8 1986) who used the name Miyabi (みやび) early in her career is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress known in Japan as an AV idol.
Vladimir Olshansky.  Vladimir Olshansky (9 August 1947 in St. Petersburg Russia) is an actor-clown director composer graduate of the Moscow State Circus School (Russian: Государственное училище циркового и эстрадного искусства им. М. Н. Румянцева (Карандаша) (ГУЦЭИ)) together with internationally renowned clown Slava Polunin he is the founder of the famous clown theatre company Licedei.
Cita Potokar.  Cita Potokar (28 November 1915 - 28 November 1993) was a Slovene painter also known for her illustrations of children's books. Many of her best known works draw from her experience as an internee during the Second World War as a result of her activities in the Slovene Liberation Front.She won the Levstik Award for her illsutrations of Branka Jurca's book Lizike za vse (Lollipops for All).
Ji Chaozhu.  Ji Chaozhu (冀朝铸) (born July 30 1929) is a retired diplomat who held a number of important positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (PRC) most notably as English interpreter for Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai; later as ambassador to the Court of St. James's (United Kingdom); and lastly as an undersecretary general of the United Nations a post from which he retired in 1996.
Wolfgang Meuslin.  Wolfgang Meuslin (also known as Musculus; 1497–1563) was a 16th-century German monk and hymn writer. He was born in Dieuze in Lorraine now France and became a monk and a Catholic priest and later an Evangelical pastor in Dorlisheim in Alsace. He became active in the Reformation movement in Augsburg in the 1530s and was pastor of the Church of the Holy Cross in Augsburg and later became pastor at the Strasbourg Cathedral in 1539.
Mangesh Padgaonkar.  Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar (Devanagari: मंगेश केशव पाडगांवकर) is a Marathi poet from Maharashtra India. He was born on March 10 1929 in Vengurla Sindhudurg District in Maharashtra. He is married to Yashoda Padgaonkar and has three children Dr. Ajit Padgaonkar Abhay Padgaonkar and Anjali Kulkarni.
Indu Sonali.  Indu Sonali is an Indian films playback singer known for singing in item songs of Bhojpuri. She has the distinction of singing for 300 Bhojpuri Films 50 Music Video Albums and is consider as one of the top playback singers of Bhojpuri film industry. Her music genre is about primitive-acoustic folk with some trace of Indian classical music ambient electronic and new age jazz - fusion.
Sami Yli-Sirniö.  Sami Yli-Sirniö (born April 10 1972) is a Finnish guitarist who plays rock and metal. He spent part of his life in Germany and thus has strong ties with the German metal scene. German Rock Hard magazine featured him in 2007 as forgotten guitar hero.
Sally Hobart Alexander.  Sally Hobart Alexander is an American writer of children's literature. She is best known for her books about her experiences as a blind person. Born in 1943 in Owensboro Kentucky she was educated at Bucknell University. After her undergraduate degree Alexander taught third-grade students in Southern California when a rare disease caused her to lose her eyesight. She told Contemporary Authors I was unhappy to leave that last year [of my teaching] when my visual difficulties began.
Ross Childress.  Ross Childress (born September 8 1971) is an American musician. He was the original lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the rock band Collective Soul.
Possessed by Paul James.  Konrad Wert (born July 26 1976 in Immokalee Florida) known as Possessed by Paul James since 2005 is a one-man band from south Austin Texas. The music is composed of string instruments including banjo guitar and fiddle with written roots within folk blues and punk. He was raised within a small Mennonite Community among pacifists service workers and transplants. He is currently living in Boerne Texas with his wife and son meeting the music demand by touring sales on line etc.
Don McLean.  Donald Don McLean (born October 2 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie containing the songs American Pie and Vincent.
Ambrose (bandleader).  Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (15 September 1896 – 11 June 1971) known professionally as Ambrose or Bert Ambrose was an English bandleader and violinist. Ambrose became the leader of a highly acclaimed British dance band Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra in the 1930s.
Richard E. Miller.  Richard E. Miller (March 22 1875 – January 23 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller grew up in St. Louis studied in Paris and then settled in Giverny.
William Zeitler.  William Zeitler (born 1954 St. Louis Missouri) is one of the world's leading performers on the armonica or glass harmonica an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin. Also composer.
Hamada Helal.  Mohamed 'Hamada helel Abdel Fatah Helal is an Egyptian singer who was born in Sharqia Egypt. He now resides in Cairo. Hamada started his interest singing when he was 5 years old. He used to record his voice whilst singing on cassette tapes. Many great artists influenced Hamada such as Abdel Halim Hafez Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Um Kulthum.At school Hamada sung during the school breaks and entertainment periods.
Pat Donohue.  Patrick Donohue (born April 28 1953) is an American fingerstyle guitarist born in St. Paul Minnesota. He is a Grammy nominated National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion and a songwriter. Donohue has several albums to his credit and his songs have been recorded by Chet Atkins Suzy Bogguss and Kenny Rogers. He has performed on A Prairie Home Companion for several years both as a member of the house band and as a featured artist.
Claude Pelieu.  Claude Pélieu was a French poet and artist born in Beauchamp (near Pontoise  Val d'Oise ) on December 20 1934 and died December 24 2002 in Norwich New York USA
Jim Alcivar.  Jim Alcivar is an American keyboard and synthesizer player and sound engineer. He is most noted for his connection to guitarist Ronnie Montrose and appearing in his bands Montrose and Gamma and on his first solo album Open Fire. His father is composer arranger and producer Bob Alcivar.
James S. Ditty.  James Sanderson Ditty (1880–1962) was a photo-engraver in the Seattle area for 30 years and an adventurous entrepreneur and hard-nosed businessman who was involved in the developing of Bellevue Washington. He is best known today as a businessman whose ideas contributed to the development of a city across the lake from Seattle.He was involved in the Beaux Arts Village building a house there.
Michele Pillar.  Michele Diane Pillar (born July 26 1955 in Long Beach California) is a three-time Grammy-nominated Christian singer songwriter and occasional actress. Despite recording only a handful of studio albums her music has made a lasting influence in contemporary Christian music (CCM).
Hayko.  Hayk Hayko Hakobyan (Armenian: Հայկ Հակոբյան) (born 1977) is an Armenian singer who won Armenia's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. He represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest in the final with the song Anytime You Need. The song won the eighth place in the contest.
Paul Brodeur.  Paul Brodeur (born May 16 1931 in Boston Massachusetts) is an investigative science writer and author whose writings have appeared in The New Yorker where he began as a staff writer in 1958. He lives in Cape Cod. For nearly two decades he researched and wrote about the health hazards of asbestos. He has also written about the dangers of household detergents the depletion of the ozone layer microwave radiation and electromagnetic fields from power lines.
Esther Kreitman.  Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (31 March 1891 – 13 June 1954) known in English as Esther Kreitman was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. She was born in Biłgoraj Congress Poland to a rabbinic Jewish family. Her younger brothers Israel Joshua Singer and Isaac Bashevis Singer also became writers.Kreitman had an unhappy childhood.
Masato Hagiwara.  Masato Hagiwara (萩原 聖人 Hagiwara Masato born August 21 1971) is a Japanese actor.
Emmanuelle Arsan.  Emmanuelle Arsan the pen name of Marayat Rollet-Andriane born Marayat Bibidh also known as Marayat Marajat Kramsaseddinsh Krasaesundh Krassaesibor Virajjakkam Virajjakam Virajjakari 1932-2007 was a French novelist of Eurasian origin best known for creating the fictional character Emmanuelle a woman who sets out on a voyage of sexual self-discovery under varying circumstances.
Ryan Dallas Cook.  Ryan Dallas Cook (June 5 1982 – October 19 2005) known professionally simply as Dallas Cook was one of two trombone players in third-wave ska band Suburban Legends.
Kate Nicholson.  Kate Nicholson is the daughter of artist Ben Nicholson and his first wife artist Winifred Nicholson.Born at Bankshead Brampton in 1929 Kate Nicholson studied at the Bath College of Art from 1949 to 1954 where she was a pupil of Peter Lanyon a St Ives artist and friend of her father and stepmother Barbara Hepworth. Kate moved to St Ives herself in 1957 and became an associate member of the Penwith Society of Arts. She painted alongside her mother in the 1960s and 1970s.
Darren Porter.  Darren Porter is an English DJ and Trance music producer.
Philip Kwok.  Philip Kwok (Chinese: 郭追; also known as Kuo Chui Kwok Chui Kwok Chun-Fung or # 4 Lizard after one of his famous roles; born 21 October 1951) is a Hong Kong based actor and stuntman.
Shanti Snyder.  Shanti Snyder (born 4 June 1981) better known as Shanti is a Japanese lyricist singer songwriter and music TV host of mixed descent based in Japan and hailing from Kanagawa Prefecture. She performs with a few different formations at clubs in the Tokyo area and has also appeared with various other musical artists. Shanti's voice is well known through her collaborations with Yoko Kanno notably in Escaflowne the Movie where she was the vocalist on the theme song Sora.
David Tukhmanov.  David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (Russian: Дави́д Фёдорович Тухма́нов was born on July 20 1940 in Moscow USSR) is a Soviet and Russian composer. State Prize of Russian Federation (2003).
Matt Grindley.  Matt Grindley (born 1 July 1976) is an English magician comedian and actor. He was born in Worsley Salford Greater Manchester. He resides in Didsbury near Manchester.
Joshua Hayward.  Joshua Hayward (formerly known as Joshua Von Grimm and Joshua Third) (December 15 1984) is a British musician known for playing guitar in The Horrors.Hayward is best known as guitarist for The Horrors a Garage Rock/Indie band formed in Southend-on-Sea.
Waldo (musician).  Waldo (born Marko Reijonen 1967) is a Finnish Eurodance musician. His solo hits sang in Jamaican accent are It's About Time and Feel So Good in 1995. The number of sales of the album It’s About Time was certified as gold record in Finland in 1996. Waldo has also written songs for different artists such as Christian Forss.After 1998 Waldo has been a lead singer and songwriter of his band Waldo's People.
Lester Square.  For the London landmark see Leicester Square.Lester Square (born Thomas Woodburne Bruce Hardy April 17 1954 Canada) is the Canadian lead guitarist for The Monochrome Set. He also sings backing vocals designed some of the band's record sleeves and co-wrote some of their music. He had previously been in the original Adam and the Ants (and its earlier incarnation known as The B-Sides) writing Fall In and Fat Fun during this period.
Lise Mayer.  Lise Mayer (born November 29 1959)[citation needed] is an American-born British television and film writer.
Kaya (Mauritian musician).  Kaya (10 August 1960 – 21 February 1999) was a Mauritian musician and the creator of seggae a fusion of sega and reggae two of the most popular music genres in Mauritius.Kaya Joseph Reginald Topize was born in Roche-Bois on August 10 1960 from a family of five children. His father fisherman not able to support his education left him under the supervision of an uncle. Joseph did not have a very happy childhood.
Erika Van Pelt.  Erika Lynn Van Pelt (born December 12 1985) is an American singer from South Kingstown Rhode Island who placed in tenth place on the eleventh season of American Idol.
Billy Cobham.  William Emanuel Billy Cobham (born May 16 1944 in Panama) is a Panamanian American jazz drummer composer and bandleader who permanently relocated to Switzerland during the late 1970s.Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra Cobham according to Allmusic's reviewer is generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer with an influential style that combines explosive power and exacting precision.
Silkski.  Jerome Albert Evans Jr. well known as Silkski is an American rapper song writer and music producer who is widely known from his affiliation with Ol' Dirty Bastard and the Wu-Tang Clan whose affiliates are well known as the Wu-Tang Killa Beez. Silkski is a PYN Wu-Tang Management Da Gutta Ent. Bungalo Street Scholar Universal Music Group artist and was a member of Brooklyn Zu before ODB’s untimely passing.
Carlo Orsi.  Carlo Orsi (Pavia – London 1894) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Susan Wittig Albert.  Susan Wittig Albert (born January 2 1940) also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County Illinois United States.
Tim Schlattmann.  Tim Schlattmann is a three-time Emmy award nominee. Nebraska born and raised this former disc jockey and college professor's writing credits include ABC's number one hit Roseanne Fox's Get Real the WB's Smallville the feature XCU: Extreme Close-Up and most recently critically acclaimed Dexter for Showtime. In 2007 he garnered two Writers Guild of America award nominations: one for best dramatic series and an individual nod for his episode of Dexter entitled The Dark Defender.
Miki Matsuhashi.  Miki Matsuhashi (松橋 未樹 Matsuhashi Miki) (born August 10 1983) is a former Japanese singer and song writer signed to the Giza Studio label who achieved some popularity in the early 2000s.Matsuhashi had a fairly brief career as a discovered artist with Giza Studio. Her first single was released when she was 17 and her first mini-album released less than a year later.
Jackie McKeown.  Jackie McKeown (born John McKeown 17 February 1971 Bellshill Scotland) is the Scottish former lead singer and guitarist for the Glasgow indie rock band The Yummy Fur and plays currently in 1990s.McKeown grew up in Blantyre near Glasgow. His early teenage years were coloured by obsessions with David Bowie and European art cinema.
Sean Phillips.  Sean Phillips (born 27 January 1965) is a British comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics' Sleeper WildC.A.T.s Batman and Hellblazer.
Amy Toensing.  Amy Toensing an American photojournalist committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth is known for her intimate essays about the lives of ordinary people.Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over a decade and recently completed her thirteenth feature story for them. She has covered cultures around the world including the last cave dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea the Maori of New Zealand and the Kingdom of Tonga.
Mary Rose Young.  Mary Rose Young is a ceramic artist who lives and works in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire in the UK.
Diego Romero (artist).  Diego Romero (born 1964) is a Cochiti Pueblo artist living in New Mexico.
Laura Furman.  Laura J. Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the O. Henry Awards prize story collection. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker Mirabella Ploughshares Southwest Review.Furman was born in New York City and attended Hunter College High School and Bennington College in Bennington Vermont. In 1978 she moved to Texas.
David Squire.  David Squire is an English actor who appeared in several series of Rumpole of the Bailey as a South London villain Peanuts Molloy. David Squier lived in Adak Alaska for over a year. He has also appeared in many other roles.
Joanna Troikowicz.  Joanna (Balladyna) Troikowicz born 1952 i Kraków Poland Polish-Swedish sculptor designer and painter. Since 1977 she lives ad works in Sweden.
Naia Kete.  Naia Kete is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose music spans numerous influences ranging from pop reggae and soul. Born in Shutesbury Massachusetts to a Senegalese father and a White American mother Naia currently lives in Southern California where she has built a street following singing at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.
Dick Webb.  Dick Webb was a British stage and film actor of the Silent era.
Christine Collister.  Christine Collister (born 28 December 1961) is a Manx folk blues and jazz singer-songwriter.
Roger Ballard.  Roger Ballard (born in Kentwood Louisiana) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Ballard was signed to Atlantic Records who released his debut album A Little Piece of Heaven on September 21 1993. His single Two Steps in the Right Direction peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Larry Flick of Billboard called the song a western swing therapy session.
Boris Dežulović.  Boris Dežulović (born 1964) is a Croatian journalist and writer best known as one of the founders of the now defunct satirical magazine Feral Tribune.Dežulović studied art history at the University of Split.Along with Viktor Ivančić and Predrag Lucić he was one of the three original members of the VIVA LUDEŽ trio of Split-based humorists who first began writing in 1984 and who founded the magazine in 1993.
Giuseppe Agujari.  Giuseppe Agujari (Adria 1843 - Buenos Aires Argentina September 16 1885) was an Italian-Argentine painter known mainly for his watercolor canvases.
Wyndham Lewis.  Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English painter and author (he dropped the name 'Percy' which he disliked). He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists BLAST. His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr (set in Paris) and The Human Age a trilogy comprising The Childermass (1928) Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta (both 1955) set in the afterworld.
Margaret Fraser.  Template:Raaz mahsud on 5 may 1991Margaret Fraser (11 December 1866–31 August 1951) was a New Zealand domestic servant and letter-writer . She was born in Ordhead Banffshire Scotland on 11 December 1866.
Yao Wenlong.  Yao Wenlong (Chinese: 姚玟隆; pinyin: Yáo Wénlóng born 14 November 1970) is a Singapore-based Malaysian actor.
John Armatage.  John Armatage (born 5 August 1929 Newcastle upon Tyne England) is an English jazz swing drummer and arranger perhaps most notable for his collaborative work with Pee Wee Russell. Armatage began professional work in 1957 when he gigged with John Chilton and then recorded toured and made a film with Bruce Turner the film called Living Jazz (1962). He has played with artists such as Pete Allen and Terry Lightfoot.
Walt Levinsky.  Walt Levinsky (April 18 1929 - December 14 1999) was an American big band and orchestral player composer arranger and band leader. While many of his big band assignments were as lead alto sax player his favorite instrument was the clarinet. Walt was known for his fine instrumental technique and his rich round tone both on clarinet and sax.
Tadeusz Peiper.  Tadeusz Peiper (Kraków May 3 1891 – November 10 1969 Warsaw) was a Polish poet art critic theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry. Born to a Jewish family Peiper converted to Catholicism as a young man and spent several years in Spain. He is notable as the co-founder of the Awangarda krakowska group of writes.Peiper was born 3 May 1891 in Kraków under Partitions.
Chris While.  Chris While (born 1956) is a British songwriter singer and musician known particularly for her vocals and live performances. She has worked as a solo artist a songwriter and as a member of a number of duos and groups. Her music is often classified as English folk but contains strong American influences.
T. N. Srikantaiah.  Aacharya Tirthapura Nanjundaiah Shrikantaiah (Kannada: ತೀರ್ಥಪುರ ನಂಜುಂಡಯ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಕಂಠಯ್ಯ) (November 26 1906 – September 7 1966) also known as ThiNamShree was a Kannada literary poet linguist and teacher. Shrikantaiah was instrumental in preparing and publishing Kannada version of Constitution of India in 1952. He is also credited for suggesting the term Rashtrapathi a Sanskrit equivalent for President of India.
Sara Hickman.  Sara Hickman (born March 1 1963) is an American rock/folk/pop/children's music singer songwriter and artist.
James K. Van Brunt.  James K. Van Brunt was a model used extensively by illustrator Norman Rockwell during the 1920sAccording to Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post: The Early Years by Starkey Flythe Jr. Van Brunt entered Rockwell's studio and proclaimed James K. Van Brunt sir. Five feet two inches tall sir. The exact height of Napoleon Bonaparte. He claimed to be a veteran of the battles of Sharpsburg Fredericksburg and the Battle of the Wilderness.
Maria Francesca Rossetti.  Maria Francesca Rossetti (17 February 1827 – 24 November 1876) was an English author. She was the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti who dedicated her 1862 poem Goblin Market to Maria. She was born in London.
Jaymes Young.  Jaymes McFarland better known by his stage name Jaymes Young is an American recording artist whose debut album Dark Star - EP was released September 9 2013. In 2013 he was signed to a recording contract with Atlantic Records and toured with the indie rock group London Grammar.
Charles Shattuck Hill.  Charles Shattuck Hill C.E. (1868–??) was an American editor born at Fairfield Vermont. He received his degree in civil engineering in 1888. He served on the editorial staff of the Engineering News until 1906; then he became editor of Engineering and Contracting. He was the author of: The Chicago Main Drainage Canal (1896)Reinforced Concrete (1904)Concrete Construction (1908)Concrete Inspection (1909)
Mari Wilson.  Mari MacMillan Ramsey Wilson (born 29 September 1954 Neasden London) is an English singer. She is best known for her 1982 UK top-10 hit single Just What I Always Wanted and her 1960s image complete with beehive hairstyle.
Michael Ende.  Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is best known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver).
Will B. Johnstone.  Will B. Johnstone (1883–1944) was an American writer cartoonist and lyricist. His writing credits include one Broadway musical and two films for the Marx Brothers and several popular songs including a version of How Dry I Am.He created the cartoon character of The Tax Payer wearing only a barrel held up by suspenders. It was a regular feature in the New York World-Telegram.
Jason Shiga.  Jason Shiga is an Asian American cartoonist who incorporates puzzles mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work.
Golchin Gilani.  Majd-al-Din Mir-faḵrāʾi better known by his pen name Golchin Gilani was an Iranian poet.Golchin Gilani was born in Rasht on 1 January 1910 (11 Dey 1288 in the Solar Hijri calendar) and died in London on 20 December 1972 (29 Azar 1351).His father Sayyed Mahdi Mir-faḵrāʾi was an Iranian Governor. Majd-al-Din went to primary school in his birthplace and went to high school in Tehran.
Eun Heekyung.  Eun Heekyung (born in 1959) is a South Korean writer.
Mark Morgan (composer).  Mark Morgan (22 October 1961) is an American score composer for video games television and films. He is well known for his work in Fallout Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment.
Jalal Zolfonun.  Jalal Zolfonun (sometimes spelt or pronounced Jalal Zoufonoun Persian: جلال ذوالفنون ‎‎; 1937 – March 18 2012(2012-03-18)) was a master of the setar as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.
Jeremy Lloyd.  John Jeremy Lloyd OBE (born 22 July 1930) is an English writer screenwriter author poet and actor best known as co-author and writer of several successful British sitcoms.
Zehra Çırak.  Zehra Çırak (Istanbul 1960) is a Turkish-German writer. She moved to Germany with her family when she was three years old and she has lived in Berlin since 1982. She started publishing in the magazine Flugfänger.
Linda Montano.  Linda Mary Montano (born January 18 1942 Saugerties New York) is an American performance artist.
William Crooke (photographer).  William Crooke (1849–1928) was a professional photographer with a studio in Edinburgh.Two of the best-known portrait photographers in England [sic Britain] William Crooke of Edinburgh and Walter Barnett of London sailed on December 17 for a six weeks' tour of the United States during which they plan to visit some of the leading professionals of New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittsburg St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Niagara Falls Buffalo Rochester Boston and other places.These gentlemen were asked by some of their American friends to bring collections of their portrait work.Accordingly Mr Crooke will have with him about sixty of his large pictures made within the last few years many of which have been shown at the exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society and the Salon.One of his subjects Maude Hellman commented He worked quickly and seemed interested in getting simple results in a striking way however. 
Isaac J Pardo.  Isaac José Pardo Soublette (Caracas 14 October 1905 - 3 March 2000) was a Venezuelan intellectual of German-Jewish extraction known for his essays: Esta tierra de gracia (1955) and Fuegos bajo el agua.
Manolo Blahnik.  Manuel Manolo Blahnik Rodríguez CBE (/məˈnoʊloʊ ˈblɑːnɪk/; born 27 November 1942 Santa Cruz de La Palma Spain) is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named high-end shoe brand.
Louise Cox.  Louise Howland King Cox (June 23 1865—1945) was an American painter known for her portraits of children. She won a number of prizes throughout her career notably a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and a silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
JaMiss.  Janelle Daríce Dudley better known by her stage name JaMiss (pronounced juh-miss/) is an American rapper song-writer actress and dancer. JaMiss is from the South Side of Chicago Illinois.
Andrew Smith (composer).  Andrew Smith is a composer whose works include settings of Ave Maria Regina caeli Ave Maris stella Veni redemptor gentium Flos regalis virginalis (based on one of the Worcester Fragments) and Magnificat à 4. He has written works for Trio Mediaeval and New York Polyphony. He is published by OUP as well as by Norsk Musikforlag and Musikk-Husets Forlag.Born in Liverpool in 1970 Andrew Smith settled in Norway in 1984.
Reiko Shimizu.  Reiko Shimizu (清水玲子 Shimizu Reiko born March 26 1963 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese shōjo manga writer and illustrator. She made her professional debut in 1983 with Sansaro Monogatari in LaLa and has written primarily for the publisher Hakusensha. She is noted for her works of science fiction and her art style and is also known for her illustrations of tarot cards called the Miracle Tarot deck.She received the 2002 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Kaguyahime.
Russ Rankin.  Russ Rankin (born May 25 1968) is an American singer from Santa Cruz California. He has recorded and played in such notable bands as Good Riddance and Only Crime.
Chris Spencer (musician).  Chris Spencer is the vocalist and guitarist of the band Unsane based in New York City. He also was vocalist and guitarist of the band The Cutthroats 9 when he moved to California after Unsane went on hiatus in 2000. He recently formed the sludge metal band celan along with composer/keyboardist Ari Benjamin Meyers.
Marguerite de Angeli.  Marguerite de Angeli (March 14 1889 – June 16 1987) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall. She wrote and illustrated twenty-eight of her own books and illustrated more than three dozen books and numerous magazine stories and articles for other authors.
Scott Berkun.  Scott Berkun is an American author and speaker.Scott Berkun studied computer science philosophy and design at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003 on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0 Windows MSN and in roles including usability engineer lead program manager and UI design evangelist. He left Microsoft in 2003 with the goal of filling his bookshelf with books he has written.
Q Lazzarus.  Q Lazzarus (born 1965) is an American singer best known as a one-hit wonder for the 1988 song Goodbye Horses which was featured in Married to the Mob The Silence of the Lambs (the Buffalo Bill song) Clerks II (imitating Silence of the Lambs) Lakai Footwear's Fully Flared Unhinged: The Jesse Hicks Story (also imitating Silence of the Lambs) Maniac (2012_film) Rockstar's video game Grand Theft Auto IV EA's video game Skate 3 and TV shows Family Guy (also imitating Silence of the Lambs) and Nip Tuck. 
Stephen Tall.  Stephen Tall was the most common pseudonym of American science fiction writer Compton Newby Crook (June 14 1908 – January 15 1981). Born in Rossville Tennessee Crook studied biology at Peabody College and did graduate work at Arizona State University and Johns Hopkins University. He began teaching biology at Towson University in 1939 where he remained until his retirement in 1973.
Lü Jihong.  Lü Jihong (simplified Chinese: 吕继宏; traditional Chinese: 呂繼宏; pinyin: Lŭ Jìhóng; born June 27 1960) is a Chinese singer.
Brother Love (musician).  Larry Florman known as Brother Love is an American musician.He is perhaps the first artist to receive truly large-scale recognition through his involvement in podsafe music[citation needed].
Andrew Osenga.  Andrew Osenga is an American singer/songwriter and progressive rock musician. He also writes produces engineers and plays guitar for other artists. Formerly the lead singer of The Normals which broke up in 2003 for financial and family reasons Osenga currently pursues a solo career in which he has released four albums. He is also a member of the band Caedmon's Call; he had taken over as vocalist/guitarist while Derek Webb was gone from the band.
William Goldsmith.  William Goldsmith (born July 4 1972) is an American drummer best known for being the drummer of the popular Seattle alternative band Sunny Day Real Estate and for his tenure as the drummer of the alternative rock band Foo Fighters. Currently drumming for Brawley Banks and a reunited Sunny Day Real Estate he has toured with Mike Watt IQU and has recorded and played live with many other bands and artists.
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech.  Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591/1592 – September 23 1624) was a Dutch Golden Age painter draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the merry company type of subject in Dutch genre painting. His contemporaries named him “Gheestige Willem” (Jolly or spirited William).
Michael Hussar.  Michael Hussar is an American painter from Southern California. He was trained at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA.
Shoichi Aoki.  Shoichi Aoki (青木 正一 Aoki Shōichi born 1955) is a Japanese photographer and the creator of STREET Magazine TUNE Magazine and FRUiTS magazine. He also subsequently created the Fruits and Fresh Fruits (collections of Japanese street fashion) photo-books as a way of offering his photos to the foreign market.Shoichi Aoki was born in Tokyo began documenting street fashion in Tokyo's fashionable Harajuku area in the mid 1990s when he noticed a marked change in the way young people were dressing.
Philadelphus Bain Fraser.  Philadelphus Bain Fraser (13 January 1862–30 October 1940) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister controversialist and editor. He was born in Lerwick Shetland Scotland on 13 January 1862.
Arto Tunçboyacıyan.  Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian: Արտո Թունչբոյաջյան) (b. 4 August 1957 in Istanbul) is an Armenian musician. A famous avant-garde folk artist (singer multi-instrumentalist) he appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States where he went to work with numerous jazz legends including Chet Baker Marc Johnson Al Di Meola and Joe Zawinul as well as a semi-regular stint with Paul Winter and the Earth Band. Arto fronts his own group called the Armenian Navy Band.
Marlon Asher.  Marlon Asher is a Trinidadian reggae singer from Enterprise Chaguanas. His first hit was Ganja Farmer and he later went on to release three more popular reggae songs his latest being Fit and Strong. Marlon Asher grew up in Enterprise Street Chaguanas. He was a member of the Mount Ararat Spiritual Baptist Church Choir and later converted to Rastafari.
Fabiana Cantilo.  Fabiana Cantilo (b. Buenos Aires; March 3 1959) is a singer and songwriter from Argentina. She has sold more than 5 million records in her career.
Josep Carles Laínez.  Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) is a Spanish writer who lives between Valencia Spain and Encamp Andorra. A graduate of the University of Valencia in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication his main interest is in European minority languages and he has published original books and/or articles in Catalan English Spanish Occitan Aragonese and Asturian. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the literary-philosophical quarterly journal Debats.
Paul Fort.  Paul Fort (1 February 1872—20 April 1960) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. At the age of 18 reacting against the Naturalistic theatre Fort founded the Théâtre d’Art (1890–93). He also founded and edited the literary reviews Livre d'Art with Alfred Jarry and Vers et Prose (1905–14) with poet Guillaume Apollinaire which published the work of Paul Valéry and other important Symbolist writers.
Chocolat (singer).  Chocolat (ショコラ shokora) (born February 15 1978) is a Japanese singer from the greater Tokyo area in Japan. Her first single Chocolat a la mode was released in 1997 on Epic Records (Japan). Chocolat is a twin her younger sister Heaco is also singer. In 1998 Chocolat married the musician Akito Katayose from the band GREAT3 in Maui Hawaii which subsequently became her favorite place. In 2000 she moved from Epic Records to Warner Bros.
V. Selvaganesh.  V. Selvaganesh is an Indian percussionist working in the Carnatic tradition and one of the leading kanjira (south Indian frame drum) player of his generation. He is also known as Chella S. Ganesh.
Garry L. Hagberg.  Garry L. Hagberg is an author professor philosopher and jazz musician. He currently holds the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics. Previously he held a chair in philosophy at the University of East Anglia.Hagberg became a professor of philosophy at Bard College in 1990. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants from Dartmouth College; Cambridge University Library; Institute for the Theory and Criticism of the Visual Arts; British Library London; St.
Vittorio Emanuele Bressanin.  Vittorio Emanuele Bressanin (Musile di Piave November 22 1860 – Venice August 16 1941) was an Italian painter.
Steve Rushin.  Steve Rushin is an American journalist sportswriter and novelist. He was named the 2005 National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and is a four-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.
John D'Emilio.  John D'Emilio (born 1948) is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982 where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997.
Thomas Nicoll Hepburn.  Thomas Nicoll Hepburn (1861–1930) was a Scottish poet and author who wrote under the pseudonym of 'Gabriel Setoun'. He wrote poems such as 'Jack Frost' 'Romance' and 'The World's Music.' He also wrote novels in the 'Kailyard school' style such as Barncraig and Robert Urquhart (1896). He was born on 21 April 1861 in West Wemyss Fife. His father Alexander Hepburn was a tailor. He died in London around September 1930.
Gordon Neil Stewart.  Gordon Neil Stewart (25 June 1912 - 15 February 1999) was an Australian writer.Stewart was born in Melbourne into a wealthy Australian family with pastoral interests in the Bathurst district of New South Wales. He was a great grandson of Major General William Stewart (1769–1854) Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1827.
Isaac Slade.  Isaac Edward Slade (born May 26 1981) is an American musician and the lead vocalist main songwriter pianist and co-founder of Denver-based piano rock band The Fray.
Adil Mansuri.  Adil Mansuri (18 May 1936 – 6 November 2008) was a well known poet playwright and calligrapher. He wrote in several languages namely Gujarati Hindi and Urdu. He received the Vali Gujarati Award in 2008.
Eduardo Blasco Ferrer.  Eduardo Blasco Ferrer (born 1956) is a Spanish-Italian linguist currently a professor at the University of Cagliari Sardinia. He is best known as the author of several studies about the Sardinian language.
Pat LaBarbera.  Pat (Pascel Emmanuel) LaBarbera (Born 7 April 1944) is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor alto and soprano saxophonist clarinetist and flautist born in Mt. Morris New York most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands from 1967–1973.He moved to Toronto Ontario in 1974 and is a member of the faculty at Humber College. La Barbera began working with Elvin Jones in 1975 touring Europe with him in 1979.
Jeff Rovin.  Jeff Rovin is an American magazine editor freelance writer columnist and author who has appeared on the The New York Times Best Seller list.
Leonard Sharp.  Leonard Sharp (1890 – 1958) was a British actor. He was married to the actress Nora Gordon. Their daughter is the actress Dorothy Gordon. He was sometimes credited as Len Sharp.
Alfred Vallette.  Alfred Vallette (1858 Paris – 1935) was a French man of letters.He founded (in 1890) and edited the Le Mercure de France a Symbolist review publication. His wife Rachilde helped him to edit it.
Guido Ruggeri.  Guido Ruggeri (active 1550s) was an Italian engraver. He was active in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of Francesco Francia but went with Primaticcio to work with the School of Fontainebleau.
Daniel Adair.  Daniel Patrick Adair (born February 19 1975 Vancouver) is a Canadian drummer percussionist and producer. He is best known for his work with Nickelback and his previous work with 3 Doors Down. He also works with the Canadian band Suspect and the instrumental fusion band Martone.Adair often uses the quote The harder you work the luckier you get. coined by Gary Player to describe his career.
TrustoCorp.  TrustoCorp is an artist or a group of artists based in New York City. They are known for their humorous street signs and product labels which can be found in New York City San Francisco San Diego and Miami.
Tomo Miličević.  Tomislav Tomo Miličević ([ˈtoːmo miˈlit͡ʃevit͡ɕ]; born September 3 1979) is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Douglass Lubahn.  Douglass Lubahn (born December 20 1946) is a psychedelic-rock/jazz-rock bassist who has played with some internationally famous bands. His work is featured on several albums recorded by The Doors.
Andrew Dold.  Andrew Dold(born 1969) is a contemporary artist and school teacher living in Ontario Canada.
Gladys Bentley.  Gladys Bentley (August 12 1907 – January 18 1960) was an American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance.
Glenn Schwartz.  Glenn Schwartz (born 1941) first came to the attention of rock music audiences as the guitarist for The James Gang based in Cleveland.He left the James Gang in late December 1967 when he moved to California.
Lola Lonli.  Lola Vyacheslavovna Lonli is a Russian painter working in the style of Russian cosmism member of Russian union of artists and International federation of artists. Her works are in permanent collections of Museum by name of Nicholas Roerich of International Centre of Roerichs (Moscow) The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum Simferopol Art Museum Art museum of Gorlovka.
Chubby Parker.  Frederick R. Chubby Parker (1876–1940) was an American old-time and folk musician and early radio entertainer.
Dean Alston.  Dean John Douglas Alston (born 1950) is an Australian cartoonist who joined The West Australian newspaper in 1986.Dean Alston was born in South Perth Western Australia. He grew up in Mount Pleasant and attended Applecross Senior High School. In 1967 he started a cadetship in cartography with Western Australia's Lands and Surveys Department. In 1980 he bought into the Carine Glades Tavern running it until 1984. In 1985 Alston was employed by The West Australian.
Thomas Lauderdale.  Thomas Mack Lauderdale (Born July 14 1970 in Oakland California) is a musician largely known for his work with the Portland-based band Pink Martini.
Rachel Proctor.  Rachel Christine Proctor (born August 11 1974) is an American country music artist. Before signing to a record deal she co-wrote Martina McBride's 2002 single Where Would You Be. By 2003 Proctor had signed to BNA Records releasing her debut single Days Like This that year. This song which peaked at number 24 on the country charts was the first of four singles from her 2004 debut album Where I Belong.
Bengt Nordenberg.  Bengt Nordenberg (April 22 1822 – December 18 1902) was a Swedish artist who belonged to the Düsseldorf school of painting. He is best known for his genre paintings with everyday life scenes from the Dalarna Skåne and Blekinge areas of Sweden. However he moved to Düsseldorf Germany in the 1850s working with other painters.
Hossam Habib.  Hossam Habib (Arabic: حسام حبيب‎) is an Egyptian singer. He was born on May 31st 1980 in Cairo Egypt.
Paul Stookey.  Noel Paul Stookey (born December 30 1937 in Baltimore MD) is a singer-songwriter best known as Paul in the folk trio Peter Paul and Mary. He took the stage name Paul as part of the trio Peter Paul and Mary but he has been known as Noel (his first name) otherwise throughout his life. Since the death of Mary Travers he has continued to work as a solo singer and activist.
Nicholas Mukomberanwa.  Nicholas Mukomberanwa (1940 - 12 November 2002) was a Zimbabwean sculptor and art teacher. He was among the most famous products of the Workshop School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and an art mentor and teacher to the Mukomberanwa Family of sculptors. His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world and he remains one of Zimbabwe's most famous artists.
Bronisław Chromy.  Bronisław Chromy (born 3 June 1925) is a Polish sculptor medallist painter and draughtsman and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.Chromy is a Member of the Polish Academy of Learning. He was born at Leńcze near Lanckorona in 1925 he was educated at the Secondary School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow graduating in 1956. He was a student of Xawery Dunikowski.Works: Wawel Dragon statue↑ 1.0 1.1 ↑ ↑ 3.0 3.1
René Moore.  René Moore (born Jimmy Rene Moore March 19 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and producer and is more memorable musically for hits he produced with his soul co-singer Angela Winbush as part of René & Angela including I'll Be Good Save Your Love (For #1) Your Smile and You Don't Have to Cry.
Florian Zeller.  Florian Zeller (born 28 June 1979 in Paris) is a French novelist and playwright. His work has been translated into a dozen languages including English. He won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2004 for his novel Fascination of Evil (La Fascination du Pire). He is according to The Independent one of the hottest literary talents in France.
Big Jim Sullivan.  Big Jim Sullivan (14 February 1941 – 2 October 2012) was an English musician whose career started in 1958.He was best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the most in-demand studio musicians in the UK and performed on around 800 charting singles over his career including 54 UK Number One hits.
George W. Ackerman.  George W. Ackerman (1884 – 1962) was an American government photographer. During a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture it is estimated that he took over 50000 photographs.
Wanz.  Michael Wansley better known by his stage names TeeWanz and Wanz (born October 9 1961) is an American singer in various genres including R&B soul hip hop and pop. He achieved wide acclaim after he was featured on fellow Seattle-based duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' international hit single Thrift Shop.
Finbar Wright.  Edward Finbar Wright (born September 26 1957) known popularly as Finbar Wright is a popular music singer songwriter and poet from County Cork Ireland.Finbar Wright is a classically trained tenor who emerged during the 1990s in Ireland and has become one of that country's most popular singers concentrating on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience.
Peter Hook.  Peter Hook (born 13 February 1956) is an English bass player musician singer DJ nightclub owner and author. He is currently lead vocalist and bassist for Peter Hook and The Light.Hook was a co-founder of the seminal post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s. Following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis the band reformed as the modern rock band New Order and Hook played bass with them until his departure in 2007. The band has since reformed without Hook.
Rick Marotta.  Rick Marotta is a US-based drummer and percussionist who appears on many recordings by leading artists such as Aretha Franklin Carly Simon Steely Dan James Taylor Paul Simon John Lennon Hall & Oates Stevie Nicks Wynonna Roy Orbison Todd Rundgren Roberta Flack Peter Frampton Quincy Jones Jackson Browne Waylon Jennings Randy Newman Peter Gabriel Kenny G. The Jacksons Crosby Stills & Nash Warren Zevon Linda Ronstadt and many others.
Zhang Liyin.  Zhang Liyin (born February 28 1989) better known in South Korea as Jang Ri-in is a Chinese solo singer active in China and South Korea She is a member of the South Korean group S.M. The Ballad. Subject to much publicity Zhang has been nicknamed the Chinese BoA and the next leader of the Korean wave. She speaks both Mandarin which is her first language and moderate Korean and has released singles in both China and South Korea singing in both languages.
Wojciech Wojda.  Wojciech Wojda (December 28 1966) is a Polish singer from Płock Poland. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Farben Lehre. Since 2004 he has been the promoter of Punky Reggae Live.
Phil Ramone.  Philip Phil Ramone (January 5 1934 – March 30 2013) was a South African-born American recording engineer record producer violinist and composer who in 1958 co-founded A & R Recording Inc. a recording studio with business partner Jack Arnold at 112 West 48th Street New York above what was then Manny's Music. The success of that studio caused it to grow into several studios and a record producing company. He was described by Billboard as legendary and the BBC as a CD pioneer.
Marisa Monte.  Marisa de Azevedo Monte (born July 1 1967 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011 she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.
Simo Aalto.  Simo Aalto (born March 19 1960) is a stage magician from Karjaa Finland. His awards include the FISM World Championship of Magic in close-up magic in Lisbon 2000 and the Solmu Mäkelä Silver Medal to the most distinguished conjurer of all times in Finland by the Finnish Magic Circle also in 2000. He was elected Magician of the Year in 1997 by the FMC and Entertainer of the Year by the Finnish Performing Artists Association in 2001.
Anthony Suau.  Anthony Suau (born 1956 Peoria Illinois) is an American award-winning photojournalist.
Spencer Lavan.  Spencer Lavan is an American Unitarian Universalist minister and writer on religion. He was Dean and Chief Executive of Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago. He studied at Harvard Divinity School.
Momoko Kōchi.  Momoko Kōchi (河内桃子 Kōchi Momoko) (7 March 1932 – 5 November 1998) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Japan. She is best known for her roles in the original Godzilla playing the character of Emiko Yamane (and later reprised the role in Godzilla vs Destoroyah in 1995 for the last time) and in The Mysterians playing as Hiroko Iwamoto.
Anna-Lynne Williams.  Anna-Lynne Williams (born 8 February 1978) is an American musician best known as the lead singer songwriter and guitarist of Trespassers William an indie rock band based in Seattle Washington.
Lovely Hoffman.  Lovely Hoffman is an American recording artist music theatre performer record producer musician and actress. She received notable recognition in 2007 when her debut single “Can’t Wait” peaked #10 on the urban college radio charts.
Kater Gordon.  Kater Gordon is an American television writer. She has worked on the AMC drama Mad Men and has won a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award and an Emmy Award.
Ollamh Clanricarde.  Ollamh Clanricarde was a hereditary post held almost exclusively by members of the McEgan family. An ollamh was the highest rank in the learned orders of law poetry or history. These educated professionals today grouped together in the popular consciousness as bards maintained an oral tradition that pre-dated Christianization of Ireland. Clanricarde was a territory located in south Connacht.
David Braid.  David Braid (born 1975) is a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Toronto in 1998 he devoted himself to jazz. He formed the David Braid Sextet the following year. His album Vivid: The David Braid Sextet Live won the Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2005. His albums Mnemosyne's March Zhen: The David Braid Sextet Live and Brubeck Braid: twotet/deuxtet have also been nominated for Juno Awards.
Toni Morrison.  Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18 1931) is an American novelist editor and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes vivid dialogue and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye Sula Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera Margaret Garner first performed in 2005. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved and the Nobel Prize in 1993.
William Least Heat-Moon.  William Least Heat-Moon also named William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27 1939) is an American travel writer of English Irish and Osage ancestry. He is the author of various bestselling books of topographical U.S. travel writing.
Frances Adaskin.  Frances Marr Adaskin CM (August 23 1900 – March 8 2001) was a Canadian pianist.
Dick Briefer.  Richard Dick Briefer (January 9 1915 – December 1980) was an American comic-book artist best known for his various adaptations including humorous ones of the Frankenstein monster. Under the pseudonym Dick Hamilton he also created the superhero team the Target and the Targeteers for Novelty Press.
Martin Swope.  Martin Swope (b. June 1 1955 Ann Arbor Michigan US) was the tape manipulator and sound engineer for the Boston-based postpunk band Mission of Burma from 1979–1983 when they split up due to lead vocalist/guitarist Roger Miller's problem with the hearing disorder tinnitus. He joined the mostly instrumental classical rock group Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on electric guitar in 1981 and left in 1993.
Joe Matt.  Joe Matt (born September 3 1963) is an American cartoonist. Matt was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work Peepshow. In addition to his cartooning career he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. Matt lived (illegally) in Canada from 1988 to 2002. He currently lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles California.
Matthew Gerrard.  Matthew Gerrard is a Canadian record producer and songwriter.
Jacob Cooper.  Jacob Cooper also known as Jacob Safari is an American musician remixer record producer songwriter and DJ. Cooper has been a member of the bands The Mae Shi and Wavves as a drummer and he has a solo project Bark Bark Bark.
Nelson Bragg.  Nelson Bragg (born August 14 1961) is an American percussionist vocalist and songwriter based in Los Angeles California.
Daniela Luján.  Daniela Luján (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈnjela luˈxan]; born Daniela Barrios Rodriguez April 5 1988) is a Mexican pop singer and actress.
John Leonard (critic).  John Leonard (February 25 1939 – November 5 2008) was an American literary television film and cultural critic.
Ralph Moody (author).  Ralph Owen Moody (December 16 1898 – June 28 1982) was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about the American West (though a few are set in New England). He was born in East Rochester New Hampshire in 1898 but moved to Colorado with his family when he was eight in the hopes that a dry climate would improve his father Charles's tuberculosis.
Riona Hazuki.  Riona Hazuki (葉月里緒奈 Hazuki Riona) born Mai Yamada (山田麻衣 Yamada Mai born on July 11 1975 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress. In 1999 she played the main role in Owls' Castle.
Jeremy Spencer (drummer).  Jeremy Spencer is an American musician songwriter and record producer... He is co-founder and drummer for the groove metal band Five Finger Death Punch. In 2012 he was named Golden God’s “Best Drummer” by Revolver Magazine. He is the creator ofExtreme Metal Loops CDs.
Allauddin Khan.  Allauddin Khan (Urdu: علا الدین خان Bengali: ওস্তাদ আলাউদ্দীন খ়ান also known as Baba Allauddin Khan) (ca. 1862 – 6 September 1972) was a Bengali sarodiya and multi-instrumentalist composer and one of the most renowned music teachers of the 20th century in Indian classical music.In 1935 he toured Europe along with Uday Shankar's ballet troupe and later also worked at his institute 'Uday Shankar India Culture Centre' at Almora for a while.
Richard McNamara.  Richard McNamara (born 23 October 1972 in Todmorden West Yorkshire) is the guitarist for the English band Embrace. He and his older brother Danny grew up in the village of Bailiff Bridge Brighouse near Halifax.
Turner Browne.  Turner G. Browne is an American photographer.
Nell Galvin.  Ellen (Nell) Galvin (1887 - 5 September 1961) was a fiddle and concertina player from County Clare Ireland. She lived in Ballydineen Knockalough near Kilmihil.Nell Galvin learned to play when she was young. She was taught by Garret Barry a blind uilleann pipes player from Inagh. Because Galvin could not decide what was her favourite instrument he taught her to play on both the fiddle and the concertina.In 1901 she entered the Thomond Feis in Ennis and won the fiddle competition.
John Siomos.  John Siomos (1947–2004) was an American rock drummer who performed with Todd Rundgren Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels Rick Derringer Carly Simon Mark Moogy Klingman Buzzy Linhart Frampton's Camel and played on Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive once the biggest selling album of all time currently the fourth best-selling live album in the U.S. at 6 times platinum. He co-wrote and performed on the songs Doobie Wah and the hit single Do You Feel Like We Do from that album.
Kamil Sönmez.  Kamil Sönmez (4 March 1947 – 20 December 2012) was a Turkish folk singer and actor. He is best known for his folk songs from the Black Sea Region of Turkey.In 1998 he received the title of state artist.He suffered an cerebral hemorrhage on 4 December 2012 and died on 20 December 2012 in Başkent University Istanbul Medical Practice and Research Center.
Warwick Saint.  Warwick Saint (* January 9 1972 in South Africa) is a New York-based photographer who specializes in fashion celebrity and advertising images.
Kartar Singh Duggal.  Kartar Singh Duggal (1 March 1917 – 26 January 2012) was an Indian writer who wrote in Punjabi Urdu Hindi and English. His works include short stories novels dramas and plays. His works have been translated into Indian and foreign languages. He has served as Director All India Radio.He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by Government of India in 1988. In 2007 he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship the highest honour given by Sahitya Akademi India's National Academy of Letters.
Sarah Jarosz.  Sarah Jarosz (/dʒəˈroʊz/ jə-ROHZ) (born May 23 1991) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Texas. Her first CD Song Up in Her Head was released in 2009 and the tune Mansinneedof was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Country Instrumental Performance. Her second album Follow Me Down was released in 2011. Her third album Build Me Up from Bones was released on September 24 2013 through Sugar Hill Records.
Del Parson.  Delwin Oliver Del Parson (born 1948) is an American painter who is well known for his Latter-day Saint (LDS) themed paintings. His painting of Jesus Christ in Red Robe is recognizable from its wide use by the LDS Church.
Mary Hannah Krout.  Mary Hannah Krout (November 3 1851 – May 27 1927) was an American journalist and author.
Jack Syperek.  Jack Syperek (born September 25 in Antigonish Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician who is best known as the bassist for the rock group The Trews. He is a long-time friend to brothers Colin and John-Angus MacDonald and formed the group with them in 1998.Syperek's father Victor Syperek owns several bars in Halifax and formerly owned Halifax's Marquee Club in which the Trews played frequently. They often referred to the club as their home stage.
Berta Golob.  Berta Golob (born 9 August 1932) is a Slovene writer and poet a retired teacher and librarian.Golob was born in Struževo which is now part of Kranj in 1932. She studied Slavistics at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a teacher and librarian. She is a prolific writer of children's books in recent years mostly on religious subjects and has also published four poetry collections that also have a religious theme.In 1982 she won the Levstik Award for her book Žive besede (Living Words).
James Ash.  James Ash (born Jamie Graham Appleby 10 June 1973) is an English-born musician songwriter and record producer. He is the co-founder and keyboardist of Australian electro-rock group the Rogue Traders. He can play the keyboard and bash out a few chords on the guitar.Ash was born in Windsor England and his early schooling was at Wessex Gardens Golders Green in North London. and then Ashfold School in Buckinghamshire. He and his brother Gary then moved to Langwarrin Australia in 1982.
Jon Drew.  Jon Drew is a Canadian record producer and recording engineer based in Toronto. He has produced the albums of Polaris Music Prize winning band Fucked Up and Juno Award nominated Tokyo Police Club. He has also worked on the albums of Canadian bands the Stars Attack in Black and the Arkells. Fucked Up dedicated a set to him at a concert in El Mocambo Toronto in 2006.He is also the drummer for the band Uncut as well as All Eyes West featuring Jeff Dean on guitar.
Joanna Smith.  Joanna Smith is an American country music singer. After dropping out of Auburn University to pursue her music career she joined Mustang Sally at age eighteen. After leaving the band she began songwriting and recording demos. After signing to a publishing contract with Big Borrassa Music she wrote two songs for other artists including Flying By which was recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus on his 2007 album Home at Last.
Henry Ames Blood.  Henry Ames Blood (June 7 1836 – December 30 1900) was an American civil servant poet playwright and historian. He is chiefly remembered for The History of Temple N. H.
Nils Kreuger.  Nils Edvard Kreuger (11 October 1858 - 11 May 1930) was a Swedish painter.After studying at the Perséus school of painting Nils Kreuger came to Paris in 1881. Under the influence of the French plein air style of painting he produced landscapes and cityscapes of Paris and its region often at dawn or dusk in the mist rain or snow. In 1887 he returned home to Sweden and settled in Varberg where he from 1893 painted together with Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström.
Hugh Banton.  Hugh Robert Banton (born April 1949 Yeovil Somerset) is a British organist and organ builder most widely known for his work with the group Van der Graaf Generator.
Michael Koryta.  Michael Koryta (pronounced ko-ree-ta) has written nine novels praised by such authors as Stephen King Dean Koontz Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane and his novel The Ridge was called A freshly imagined and elegantly constructed variation on the dead-of-night ghost story by the New York Times and a chilling supernatural thriller by a rising literary star by the Wall Street Journal.
Teresa Cheung (actress).  Teresa Cheung Siu-wai (Chinese: 章小蕙) (June 10 1963) is a Los Angeles-based actress and producer.
Richard Butler (author).  Richard William Butler (21 May 1844 – 21 December 1928) was a British dramatist and editor of The Referee magazine in the late Victorian period.He shared a joint pen name Richard Henry with Henry Chance Newton.
Page the Village Idiot.  Page the Village Idiot (born 1966) is a Phoenix Arizona singer-songwriter and satirist. He has released three studio albums and one live compilation. His music industry-critical pop music parody “This Song Sucks” was nominated by Red Peters for Song of the Year 2007. PTVI’s “Dead Rockstars” has been featured on the Dr.
Tempo Giusto (composer).  Tempo Giusto is a Finnish trance music DJ producer and composer currently residing in Turku Finland. He debuted in 2008 with the single Agent Orange and in the following years has released music with known electronic dance music labels Black Hole Recordings Armada Music Ultra Records and Spinnin Records. He also owns the Finland based Echelon Records with his older brother Ima'gin. Their collaboration on Gemini resulted in #1 trance release on Beatport in June 2012.
Rolf Cahn.  Rolf Cahn (1924 — August 1 1994) was a folk musician martial arts teacher author and social activist. Born in Germany he and his family who were Jewish fled from Adolf Hitler's oppression and arrived in the United States in 1937. They settled in Detroit Michigan. Cahn later moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and thence to Berkeley California and on to Santa Fe New Mexico.
Judy Blume.  Judith Judy Blume (née Sussman; February 12 1938) is an American writer. Her novels for children and young adults have exceeded sales of 80 million and have been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle racism (Iggie's House) menstruation (Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.) divorce (It's Not the End of the World Just As Long As We're Together) bullying (Blubber) masturbation (Deenie; Then Again Maybe I Won't) and teen sex (Forever).
Azalia Snail.  Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde singer-songwriter and musician. She is a multi-instrumentalist active in psych folk and indie rock and played a prominent role in the 1990s lo-fi music scene She was later dubbed the Queen of lo-fi.Snail made eleven solo albums between 1990 and 2006 and won the Los Angeles LA Weekly Music Award for Best New-Genre/Uncategorizable Artist in 2000. She has also written film scores for several indie features and short films.
Leon Lazarus.  Leon Lazarus (August 22 1919 – November 28 2008) was an American writer-editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company as well as for Goodman's Timely and Atlas comic book companies the two predecessors of Marvel Comics.
Casey James.  Casey Everett James (born May 31 1982) is an American singer and guitarist from Fort Worth Texas who was the third-place finalist on the ninth season of American Idol and is signed to Columbia Nashville/19 Recordings. He released his eponymous album in March 2012 from which three singles Let's Don't Call It a Night Crying on a Suitcase and The Good Life were released.
Natalie MacMaster.  Natalie MacMaster CM (born June 13 1972) is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County Nova Scotia Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music.MacMaster has toured with the Chieftains Faith Hill Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss and has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma. She has appeared at the Celtic Colours festival in Cape Breton Celtic Connections in Scotland and MerleFest in the United States.
Dan Friel (musician).  Dan Friel is an American electronic musician based in Brooklyn. Friel was a founding member of Parts & Labor and played with the group until its dissolution in 2012. He began self releasing solo recordings in 2001 and has since released music on Thrill Jockey Records Important Records and Night People. In 2005 Friel co-founded Cardboard Records an independent record label that has released albums by Gowns Ecstatic Sunshine Pterodactyl and others.
Anatoli Levitin.  Anatoli Pavlovich Levitin (Russian: Анатолий Павлович Левитин; July 16 1922 Moscow Soviet Russia) is a Soviet Russian painter and art educator People's Artist of the Russian Federation a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists) who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his genre and portrait paintings.
Béla Iványi-Grünwald.  Béla Iványi-Grünwald (6 May 1867 – 24 September 1940) was a Hungarian painter a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony.
Phil Seymour.  Phil Seymour (born May 15 1952 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma died Aug 17 1993 in Sherman Oaks California) was an American power pop drummer singer guitarist and songwriter best known for the singles I'm On Fire (with the Dwight Twilley Band) and Precious to Me. He had a major role in the seminal pop group Dwight Twilley Band. His solo work is also highly revered among fans of the power pop musical genre.
Attilio Stefanori.  Attilio Stefanori (1860-1911) was an Italian painter mainly working in watercolors and acquaforte etchings. He painted both landscapes and historic and religious paintings.
Giovanni Battista Recchi.  Giovanni Battista Recchi was an Italian painter of the 17th century a pupil of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli and brother of Giovanni Paolo Recchi. Ho became well-known at Turin where he was working about 1660. He painted historical subjects and was assisted in his studio by his nephew Giovanni Antonio Recchi.
Henry Hardy Heins.  Henry Hardy Heins ((1923-12-07)December 7 1923 - October 1 2003(2003-10-01)) was an American Lutheran minister historian and bibliographer. He was born in Hollis Queens on Long Island and received degrees from Hartwick College and Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1948 and served at parishes in the upstate New York towns of Central Bridge Liberty and Albany.
L. T. Meade.  L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914) a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon County Cork Ireland daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade of Nohoval County Cork. She later moved to London where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879.She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime being so prolific that not less than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death.
Stompin' Tom Connors.  Charles Thomas Stompin' Tom Connors OC (February 9 1936 – March 6 2013) was one of Canada's most prolific and well-known country and folk singer-songwriters. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada Connors is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums with total sales of nearly 4 million copies.
Hidekazu Yoshida.  Hidekazu Yoshida (吉田 秀和 Yoshida Hidekazu 23 September 1913 – 22 May 2012) was a Japanese music critic and literary critic active in Shōwa and Heisei Japan.
EliZe.  Elise van der Horst (born 22 July 1982) better known as EliZe is a Dutch songstress. Born in Utrecht and grown up in Bussum EliZe shared her mother's passion for singing. As an eight-year-old she was selected to sing in a children's television show Kinderen voor Kinderen (Children for Children) in which she performed for six years.
Kui Lee.  Kuiokalani Lee (July 31 1932 – December 3 1966) was a singer-songwriter and the 1960s golden boy artist of Hawaii. Lee achieved international fame when Don Ho began performing and recording Lee's compositions with Ho promoting Lee as the songwriter for a new generation of Hawaiian music.
Kemal Tahir.  Kemal Tahir (March 13 1910 - April 21 1973) was a prominent Turkish novelist and intellectual. Tahir spent 13 years of his life imprisoned due to political reasons and wrote some of his most important novels during this time.His most important novels include Esir Şehrin İnsanları (1956) Devlet Ana (1967) and Yorgun Savaşçı (1965) all in which Tahir uses historical background to support his characters and settings. Some of his novels were adapted into popular films.
Solveig Slettahjell.  Solveig Slettahjell (born 2 April 1971 in Bærum Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz singer known for her soulful seductive voice.
David Sirlin.  David Sirlin is a game designer from California. He balanced the popular video games Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. His self-granted nickname is Low Strong but he is known primarily by his surname in the gaming community at large.He has obtained degrees in mathematics and business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MIT Sloan School of Management. Early in his career Sirlin was an assistant game designer at 3D0.
Mario Righetti.  Mario Righetti (born c. 1590) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Bologna He became a pupil of Lucio Massari. In Bologna he painted an Archangel Michael for the church of S. Guglielmo; a Christ appearing to the Magdalen for San Giacomo Maggiore; an Adoration of the Magi for S. Agnese; and a Nativity for the church of Santa Lucia.
Roseanna Vitro.  Roseanna Vitro is a jazz singer and educator.
Dave Frishberg.  Dave Frishberg (born March 23 1933) is an American jazz pianist vocalist and composer born in Saint Paul Minnesota.
Arie Aroch.  Arie Aroch (in Hebrew אריה ארוך; born 1908 - October 15 1974) was an Israeli painter recipient of The Israel Prize for Painting.
Seven Antonopoulos.  Chris Antonopoulos (born on 25 May 1974 in Dallas Texas) is Greek-American rock drummer most notably for his tenure inOpiate for the Masses.
Bahgat Osman.  Bahgat Muhammad Osman (1931–2001) (Arabic: بهجت محمد عثمان) was an Egyptian cartoonist and illustrator most widely known as for his political cartoons and children's book illustrations throughout most of the Arab world.
Naho Toda.  Naho Toda (戸田 菜穂 Toda Naho born March 13 1974) is a Japanese actress.
Rob Redding.  Robert Rob Redding Jr. (born January 13 1976) is an American award-winning radio talk show host political commentator independent journalist a best-selling American author a best-selling American music artist and songwriter visual artist and social entrepreneur. Redding is known as the publisher of Redding News Review and host of a talk radio show and podcast.
Eoghan Corry.  Eoghan Corry (Irish: Eoghan Ó Cómhraí; born 19 January 1961) is an Irish journalist and author regarded as the most extensively journeyed travel writer in Ireland averaging over 30 countries a year. Since 2002 he has edited Ireland's biggest circulation travel publication Travel Extra. A former sportswriter and sports editor he has written books on sports history and founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park Dublin Ireland.
Bruce Fitzhugh.  Bruce Fitzhugh is the second and best known lead vocalist rhythm guitarist and founding member of Arkansas's Christian metal band Living Sacrifice. The lead vocalist role was left to Bruce shortly after the departure of former lead Darren Johnson and prior to the recording of Living Sacrifice's 1997 album Reborn.He has been involved in many other music endeavors such as producing The Showdown's debut album A Chorus Of Obliteration.
Teddy Blass.  Teddy Blass (born April 16 1984 in Dallas) is an Award-winning American film composer and record producer.
Unkle Nancy.  Joseph Allen Joey Stewart (born October 26 1981) is an American singer songwriter producer author and podcaster. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Unkle Nancy and the Family Jewels. He has also played with UN and the Horrible Heathens the Antidope and the Clowns of Class. Over the span of his career Unkle Nancy has released over thirty albums.
Amaya Salazar.  Amaya Salazar (born 1951 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic) is a Dominican artist known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present.
Ibolya Oláh.  Ibolya Oláh (born 31 January 1978 in Nyíregyháza Hungary) is a Hungarian pop singer. She was the runner-up of the first series of Hungarian Pop Idol Megasztár.Oláh is of Romani ancestry. She was born in Nyíregyháza and grew up in an orphanage in Tiszadob where she studied vegetable gardening. She briefly attended a music school in Budapest but did not finish it. She learned to sing and to play the guitar mostly by herself.
Michelle Bauer.  Michelle Bauer (born October 1 1958 in Montebello California) is an American B-movie actress scream queen pornographic actress and bondage model.
Robert Green Brooks.  Robert Green Brooks Bobby Brooks (born August 19 1957 in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an American record producer and audio engineer. He is given credit for his signature R&B sound as well as shaping Motown's hits.
Jean-Joseph Sanfourche.  Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (June 25 1929 Bordeaux – March 13 2010 Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat) was a French artist and sculptor.
Steve Allee.  Steve Allee is an American jazz musician and composer.Allee attended Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis Indiana. Allee was in a band during the early 1970s called the Baron Von Ohlen Quartet which self-released an album of the same name. By age 19 Allee was touring with the Buddy Rich Orchestra. Allee's big band CD Downtown Blues was nominated for a Grammy and featured bassist John Clayton and drummer Joh Von Ohlen.
Russ Abbot.  Russ Abbot (born Russell Allan Roberts on 18 September 1947) is an English musician comedian and actor. Abbot first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.Continuing his musical career as a solo artist Abbot released several charting singles and albums.
Marilyn Sellars.  Marilyn Sellars is an American country music and gospel singer who had several hits during the mid-1970s on Mega Records most notably the original version of One Day At A Time in 1974.
Richard Connolly (composer).  Richard Connolly (born 1927) is an Australian musician composer and former broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). His published and performed works allow him to be counted as among Australia's most prolific composers of Roman Catholic church music particularly with regard to the hymns he composed for the Catholic Church in Australia and which are now published and used inter-denominationally. He is noted for his collaborations with Australian poet James McAuley.
Tim Benjamin.  Tim Benjamin (born 14 September 1975) is an Anglo-French composer.He won the Stephen Oliver Trust's Prize for Contemporary Opera for his first opera The Bridge (to a libretto by David Edgar). His second opera The Corley Conspiracy was performed in September 2007 at the Southbank Centre London.
Michael Todd (musician).  Michael Todd or Mic Todd (pronounced as Mike) (born August 19 1980) is the former bassist for progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. Todd left the band in August 2006 because of personal issues but officially rejoined the group on April 25 2007. Upon the time of his initial departure he had been with the band for ten years. He officially parted ways with the band on August 4 2011. He was born in Kingston New York.
Turino Vanni.  Turino Vanni (late 14th century) was an Italian painter. He was born at Rigoli a small village near Pisa. The records show that he worked for the Duomo of Pisa between 1390 and 1395. He was an imitator of Taddeo Bartoli. In the church of San Paolo Ripo d'Arno Pisa is an enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and adored by four kneeling figures signed TORINUS VANNIS DE REGULI DEPINXIT A.D. MCCCXCVII. He has also left in a Convent of Palermo a S.
Sonny Cohn.  George T. Sonny Cohn (March 14 1925 – November 7 2006) was an American jazz trumpeter.After working for fifteen years with Red Saunders (1945–1960) he went on to spend another 24 years in Count Basie's trumpet section (1960–1984).
Leonid Utyosov.  Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Russian: Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1895 Odessa – 9 March 1982 Moscow) was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
Didier Malherbe.  Didier Antonin Malherbe (born January 22 1943 in Paris France) is a saxophonist flautist and duduk player.
Yasmin (musician).  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir (born 21 December 1988) who performs under the mononym Yasmin is a British DJ and singer-songwriter. She is signed to record label Levels Entertainment an imprint of Ministry of Sound and began her singing career in October 2010 when she appeared on rapper Devlin's single Runaway. Her debut single On My Own was released on 30 January 2011.
Fred Weber.  Fred Weber (born Charles Frederick Weber III) is a former vocalist for the New Wave band Devo in its earliest incarnation. Weber was a long-time prominent vocalist in Northeast Ohio cover bands The Chancellors The Measles and Lace Wing performing occasionally with Joe Walsh and the James Gang.Weber played high-school football at Stow Ohio with NFL Hall of Famer and Miami Dolphins fullback Larry Csonka.
Pete Parada.  Peter Pete Parada (born July 9 1974) is an American drummer who has been a member of several notable musical acts. Parada's drumming career began in 1996 when he joined Steel Prophet and recorded one album with them a year later. Subsequently he joined Face to Face and Saves the Day and in 2007 became the new drummer for The Offspring. Parada was also associated with the metal band Engine and Rob Halford's solo project Halford and briefly played drums in the punk band Alkaline Trio.
Roberto Saviano.  Roberto Saviano (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto saˈvjano]; born September 22 1979) is an Italian writer and journalist.In his writings articles television programs and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra (a powerful Neapolitan mafia-like organization) exposing its territory and business connections.Since 2006 following the publication of his bestselling book Gomorrah (Gomorra in Italian) where he describes the clandestine particulars of the Camorra business Saviano has been threatened by several Neapolitan godfathers. 
Denise Pearson.  Denise Lisa Maria Pearson (born 13 June 1968 Romford Essex) sometimes credited as Deniece Pearson is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for being the lead vocalist with the British pop/R&B group Five Star which comprised herself and her four siblings. The group was created and managed by their father Buster Pearson in 1983. The group officially disbanded in 2001 though partial reunions have occurred since.
Ronald Lockley.  Ronald Mathias Lockley (8 November 1903 – 12 April 2000) was a Welsh ornithologist naturalist. He wrote over fifty books on natural history. His son is paleontologist Martin Lockley.
Håkon Paulsberg.  Håkon Paulsberg (born 26 July 1952 in Hunndalen Norway) is a Norwegian musician and singer-songwriter the father of the jazz saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg now living in Rygge Østfold. He is known for cooperations with musical profiles like Jan Erik Vold Arne Domnerus and Clifford Jordan and composing music to lyrics by poets like Georg Johannesen.
Viviane Brunieri.  Viviane Brunieri (born April 9 1976 in Peruíbe São Paulo) is a Brazilian former model and porn star.
Jessica Liedberg.  Jessica Martina Liedberg (born October 7 1969 in Lindome Gothenburg Sweden) is a Swedish actress. She is in a relationship with Gustaf Hammarsten. She studied at the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting 1989–92.
Sean Roldan.  Sean Roldan is the stage name for Indian musician Raghavendra who has worked on carnatic independent and film soundtracks for the Tamil film industry. He rose to fame after gaining critical acclaim for his work in Balaji Mohan's Vaayai Moodi Pesavum (2014).
Laramie Dean.  Laramie Dean (born January 12 1981 Troy New York) is an American guitarist.
Felix Chong.  Felix Chong Man-Keung (simplified Chinese: 庄文强; traditional Chinese: 莊文強; pinyin: Zhuāng Wénqiáng) (born January 1 1968 in Hong Kong China) is a Hong Kong screenwriter film director and actor.He is one of the most celebrated screenwriters in Hong Kong and has won several prestigious awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Steve Swallow.  Steve Swallow (born October 4 1940 Fair Lawn New Jersey) is a jazz bass guitarist and composer noted for his numerous collaborations.One of the leading bassists in jazz Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre Gary Burton and Carla Bley. He was also one of the first double bassists in jazz to switch entirely to electric bass guitar on which he has a distinctively nimble sound.
Black Francis.  Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6 1965) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993 he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with 4AD he left the label and formed a new band Frank Black and the Catholics.
Paul Shull.  Paul James Shull (born May 25 1973) is a Canadian talent manager and the owner and president of Shull Management Inc. / Artist Management.Shull has dedicated his career to the promotion and management of musical talent and has had a hand in guiding the professional careers of bands since he was 18 years old.
Jacques Levy.  Jacques Levy (29 July 1935 – 30 September 2004) was an American songwriter theatre director and clinical psychologist.Levy was born in New York City in 1935 and attended City College. He received a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University. Levy was a trained psychoanalyst certified by the Menninger Institute for Psychoanalysis in Topeka Kansas. He later returned to New York and became a clinical psychologist.In 1965 Levy directed Sam Shepard's play Red Cross.
Pietro Lombardi (singer).  Pietro Lombardi (born 9 June 1992 in Karlsruhe Baden-Württemberg) is an Italian-German singer and the winner of season 8 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar. He is best known for his R&B songs and ballads.
Jimmy Bain.  James Stewart 'Jimmy' Bain (born 19 December 1947) is a Scottish bassist most famous for playing in the bands Rainbow and Dio with Ronnie James Dio. He has worked with Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott co-writing on his solo albums.Bain was born in Newtonmore Highland in Scotland.Jimmy Bain played in several provincial amateur bands as a young teen. Bain's parents and younger brothers relocated to Vancouver Canada. By this point Bain was playing professionally in Street Noise.
Igor Štiks.  Igor Štiks (born 17 September 1977 in Sarajevo) is a writer and scholar presently living in Edinburgh UK. He has published two novels (Dvorac u Romagni (A Castle in Romagna) in 2000 and Elijahova stolica (Elijah's Chair) in 2006). A Castla in Romanie has been translated into English (Autumn Hill Books 2005) German and Spanish and won the award for best first novel in Croatia in 2000.
Christian Bobin.  Christian Bobin (born 24 April 1951 in Le Creusot Saône-et-Loire) is a French author and poet.He received the 1993 Prix des Deux Magots for the book Le Très-Bas (translated into English in 1997 by Michael H. Kohn and published under two titles: The Secret of Francis of Assisi: A Meditation and The Very Lowly).
Herbert Denman.  Herbert Denman (born in Brooklyn N. Y. June 20 1855 - died 1903 in Idyllwild California) was a figure-painter. Pupil of Art Students League of New York and Carolus Duran Paris; honorable mention Paris Salon 1886 and Paris Exposition 1889 ; member Society of American Artists 1887. His work which is somewhat decorative in character was described by contemporaries as marked by good qualities of color and drawing.
Lucy Coats.  Lucy Coats is an author who writes picture books poetry stories and novels for children of all ages. Her specialty is retelling myths and legend from many cultures.
Charley Toorop.  Charley Toorop (March 24 1891 – November 5 1955) was a Dutch painter and lithographer. Her full name was Annie Caroline Pontifex Fernhout-Toorop.
Paul Szep.  Paul Michael Szep (born July 29 1941 in Hamilton Ontario Canada) is a political cartoonist. He was the chief editorial cartoonist at the Boston Globe from 1967–2001 and has been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for Editorial Cartooning in 1974 and 1977. Szep also won the prestigious international Thomas Nast Prize (1983).
Angelo Pizzo.  Angelo Pizzo is an American screenwriter and film producer usually working on films based on a true story and usually about athletics. He is best known for Hoosiers and Rudy.
Joyce Brabner.  Joyce Brabner (born March 1 1952) is a writer of political comics and a sometime collaborator with her late husband Harvey Pekar. Brabner is also a liberal social activist who raised funds via a Kickstarter campaign for a Harvey Pekar Comics as Art and Literature memorial statue and desk installed October 2012 at the Cleveland Heights Public Library where the couple often worked.
Dami Im.  Dami Im (Korean: 임다미 born 17 October 1988) is a South Korean-born Australian singer best known as the winner of the fifth series of The X Factor Australia in 2013. She subsequently signed with Sony Music Australia and released her winner's single Alive which debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart. Im's self-titled album Dami Im was released in November 2013 and debuted at number one the ARIA Albums Chart.
Russell DeGrazier.  Russell DeGrazier is an American writer director producer and actor. His works include the comedy-drama Sunset Strip the award-winning short film 'Mad' Boy I'll Blow Your Blues Away. Be Mine and a role in the series Friday Night Lights.
Alexander Field (actor).  Alexander Field (1892-1971) was an English film and television actor.
Robert Miles.  Roberto Concina (born 3 November 1969) better known by his stage name Robert Miles is an Italian record producer composer musician and DJ.
Andy Mackay.  Andrew Andy Mackay (born 23 July 1946) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member (playing oboe and saxophone) of the art-rock group Roxy Music.In addition he has taught music and provided scores for television while his CV as a session musician encompasses some of the most noteworthy and recognisable names in the music business.
Mike Stud.  Michael Francis Seander Jr. known by his stage name Mike Stud is an American hip hop artist and former college baseball player. His first musical recognition came with the release of viral single “College Humor” which was originally recorded on GarageBand as a joke by Seander while he was a relief pitcher at Duke University.
Shuji Kashiwabara.  Shuji Kashiwabara (柏原 収史 Kashiwabara Shūji born December 23 1978) is a Japanese actor.
Charles Pinot Duclos.  Charles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French author and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers.
Colin Heywood.  Colin Heywood is a singer actor and television presenter. He represented the United Kingdom with No Easy Way to Love in the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest appeared in the horror film Bloody New Year hosted But First This and was under the alias of Daniel James one half of Yell!.
Dave Soldier.  Dave Soldier (born David Sulzer; November 6 1956) is an American composer and performer residing in New York. When not composing performing recording or collaborating on music projects he is known as David Sulzer Ph.D. neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University.
Michele Rapisardi.  Michele Rapisardi (Catania Sicily December 27 1822 - Florence 1886) was an Italian painter.
Erino Hazuki.  Erino Hazuki (葉月　絵理乃 Hazuki Erino born August 3 1975) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aksent.
Tomohito Nishiura.  Tomohito Nishiura (西浦 智仁; Nishiura Tomohito) is a Japanese video game music composer. He works primarily on games developed by Level-5.
Keith Stegall.  Robert Keith Stegall (born November 1 1955) is an American country music recording artist and record producer. Active since 1980 Stegall has recorded two-major label studio albums: 1985's Keith Stegall and 1996's Passages although he is mainly known for his production work.
Marc Jameson.  Marc Jameson is a producer producer programmer writer and remixer. His credits include Christina Aguilera Madonna Kelly Osbourne Matt & Kim Static-X Bon Jovi and more. He began his career as an artist in bands such as Diatribe and Kikiwest.
Nigel Harrison.  Nigel Harrison (born 24 April 1951 Stockport Cheshire England) is an English musician and best known as the bass player of the rock band Blondie.In the early 1970s Harrison lived in Princes Risborough near Aylesbury Buckinghamshire. He was the bassist for the local band Farm and later recorded and toured with Silverhead (fronted by Michael Des Barres) from 1972 to 1974.
Frank Thorne.  Frank Thorne (born June 16 1930) is an American comic book artist-writer best known for popularizing the Marvel Comics character Red Sonja.
Marie Wexelsen.  Marie Wexelsen (1832 – 1911) was a Norwegian poet children's writer and novelist born in Østre Toten Oppland. She published her first novel in 1858 Vesle-Kari eller de Forældreløse under the signature I. L.. She is particularly remembered for the Christmas carol Jeg er saa glad hver Julekveld first published in the collection Ketil en Julegave for Smaa from 1860.
Mandawuy Yunupingu.  Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu (formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu skin name Gudjuk) AC (17 September 1956 – 2 June 2013) was an Aboriginal Australian musician and educator. From 1986 he was the front man of the Aboriginal rock group Yothu Yindi as a singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 1989 he became assistant principal of the Yirrkala Community School – his former school – and was principal for the following two years.
Fatma Aliye Topuz.  Fatma Aliye Topuz (9 October 1862 - 13 July 1936) aka simply Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanım was a Turkish novelist columnist essayist women's rights activist and humanitarian. Although there is an earlier published novel by the Turkish female author Zafer Hanım in 1877 since that one remained her only novel Fatma Aliye Hanım with her five novels is credited by literary circles as the first female novelist in Turkish literature and the Islamic world.
Joseph Allworthy.  Joseph Allworthy (September 19 1892 – August 17 1991) was a prominent mid-twentieth-century American representational tonal-realist painter based in Chicago known for his still life compositions and portraits. He also did notable work in the field of commercial art and advertisements.
Tao-liang Tan.  Tao-liang Tan (Chinese: 譚道良; Tan Dao-liang; born 22 December 1947) is a Hong Kong martial arts instructor and former film actor. He has been credited under numerous names throughout his career most frequently Dorian Tan Tao-liang Tan Tao-liang Dorian Tan and Delon Tanners. Noted for his leg holding and hopping skills Tan was nicknamed Flash Legs.Later in life Tan dedicated his time to teaching martial arts.
Edoardo Bennato.  Edoardo Bennato (born July 23 1946 Naples Campania Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is the brother of the singer-songwriter Eugenio Bennato.
Mikel Herzog.  Mikel Herzog Herzog (born 16 April 1960 Bergara Guipúzcoa Basque Country Spain) is a Basque singer-songwriter known for his participation in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.Herzog was a member of various groups in the 1980s including his own band Ébano. For a short time he was the drummer for the band Cadillac and later became a member of La Década Prodigiosa. He also wrote songs for other artists including Tractor amarillo which was a hit for the group Zapato Veloz in 1991.
Seja Vogel.  Seja Vogel is an Australian musician who was a member of Brisbane bands Sekiden and Regurgitator.
Roaring Lion.  Roaring Lion (22 February 1908 – 11 July 1999) was a calypsonian (calypso singer/composer). His 65-year career began in the early 1930s and he is best known for his compositions Ugly Woman (1933) Mary Ann and Netty Netty which are still performed today. The song If You Wanna Be Happy which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 18 May 1963 as well as the R&B singles chart is based on Roaring Lion's Ugly Woman.
Elizabeth Craven.  Elizabeth Craven (née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley) (17 December 1750 – 13 January 1828) Princess Berkeley (though often styled Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach) previously Lady Craven of Hamstead Marshall was an author playwright traveller and socialite perhaps best known for her travelogues. She was the third child of the 4th Earl of Berkeley born near Trafalgar Square in the English City of Westminster
Leslie Stewart (writer).  Leslie Stewart (born 23 May 1949 Benghazi Libya) is a British-based writer and director.
Moana (singer).  Moana Maree Maniapoto MNZM (born 22 June 1961) is a New Zealand singer songwriter and documentary maker. Widely considered as one of New Zealand's most successful indigenous acts her music is described as a fusion of traditional Māori haka chants and taonga puoro with contemporary soul reggae and classical styles.
Roland White.  Roland White (b. April 23 1938 Madawaska Maine) is an American bluegrass music artist performing principally on the mandolin.
George Lane (mental calculator).  George Lane (born 1964[citation needed]) is a British 'mental calculator' and author. He is a three-times world champion and one of only three Grandmasters of Mental Calculation as recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation. He was narrowly beaten at the mental calculations world championship by Gert Mittring in 2004. His system of mental calculation is described in his best-selling book Mind Games: Amazing Mental Arithmetic Made Easy.
Larry Taylor (actor).  Larry Taylor (1918-2003) was a British actor.
Benedetto Bandiera.  Benedetto Bandiera (1557 or 1560–1634) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period. Born in Perugia where he painted in the style of Federico Barocci. He painted frescoes in the convent adjacent to the Church of San Pietro of Perugia. There are paintings of his in the church and museum of San Francesco in Corciano.
Jason Bulmahn.  Jason Bulmahn is a game designer who has written or contributed to several works.
Avihu Medina.  Avihu Medina (Hebrew: אביהו מדינה born August 19 1948 Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer arranger songwriter and singer of Mediterranean Israeli music.
Ozaki Kihachi.  Ozaki Kihachi (尾崎 喜八 31 January 1892 – 4 February 1974) was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Jorge Dalto.  Jorge Dalto (July 7 1948 – October 27 1987) was a pop jazz and Afro-Cuban music pianist from Argentina and the former musical director for George Benson. He also performed with Tito Puente Grover Washington Fuse One Gato Barbieri Willie Colon and others. He died of cancer at the age of 39.
Espen Beranek Holm.  Espen Beranek Holm (born 23 March 1960) is a Norwegian pop artist and comedian.
Alan O'Day.  Alan Earle O'Day (October 3 1940 – May 17 2013) was an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and singing Undercover Angel a million-selling Gold-certified American #1 hit in 1977. He also wrote songs for several other notable performers such as 1974's Helen Reddy #1 hit Angie Baby and the Righteous Brothers' #3 Gold hit Rock And Roll Heaven.
Luke Fair.  Luke Fair is an electronic music DJ/producer. He has released singles on Bedrock Records as well as his mix album OS 0.3 and recorded the 11th installment of the Balance series on EQ (Grey). He also goes by Luke Wan.
Dula Bhaya Kag.  Dula Bhaya Kag (November 25 1902 - February 2 1977) was renowned poet social reformer and freedom fighter. He was born in Majadar village near Mahuva in Gujarat. He hailed from Charan caste. The subject of his poems was mainly spiritual and devotional he also wrote eulogical poems for Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave. His poems are published in eight volumes known as Kagvani. In year 1962 he was awarded Padma Shri.
Annisteen Allen.  Annisteen Allen (born Ernestine Letitia Allen) (November 11 1920 Champaign Illinois - August 10 1992 Harlem New York City) was an American blues singer.Allen's first recordings were made in 1945 and included Miss Annie's Blues and Love for Sale. She sang with Big John Greer Wynonie Harris and Lucky Millinder and in 1951 Federal Records signed her to sing with Millinder's orchestra.
Jackson Burke.  Jackson Burke (San Francisco California 1908 - 1975) was an American type and book designer. After studying at the University of California Berkeley he succeeded C.H.
Pras.  Praskazrel Samuel Michel known as Pras (/ˈprɑːz/; born October 19 1972) is a two-time Grammy-winning American rapper best known as one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed hip hop group the Fugees which included his cousin Wyclef Jean and recording artist Lauryn Hill.
Chris Young (musician).  Christopher Alan Chris Young (born June 12 1985) is an American country music artist. In 2006 he was declared the winner of the television program Nashville Star a singing competition which aired on the USA Network. After winning he was signed to RCA Records Nashville releasing his self-titled debut album that same year. It produced two singles on Hot Country Songs: Drinkin' Me Lonely and You're Gonna Love Me. A second album The Man I Want to Be was released September 1 2009.
Shoxrux.  Shodmonov Shoxrux O'ktamovich better known by his stage name Shoxrux is a rapper entertainer and producer in Uzbekistan. He came to fame in 2004 with his song Hayr bevafo (Farewell Unfaithful).
Jim McCarthy (comics).  Jim McCarthy is a British comics creator. He became well known for working on Bad Company in 2000 AD before going on to write a number of graphic novels based on musicians as well as becoming a music journalist.He is the brother of Brendan McCarthy.
Paul Curtis (musician).  Paul Michael Curtis (born 1950) is an English singer songwriter record producer from London who holds the record for the most number of songs to make the finals of the A Song for Europe contest the BBC's annual competition to choose the UK's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest competing with 22 separate songs from 1975 to 1992.[citation needed]
Zach Filkins.  Zachary Douglas Zach Filkins (born September 15 1978) is an American musician and model but as of 2007 he is best known as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band OneRepublic.
Giovanni Battista Casali.  Giovanni Battista Casali (1715–1792) was an Italian musician.Casali was born in Rome in 1715. From 1759 until his death he held the position of choir-master in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Casali was one of the last of his period to write for voices a cappella.
A. J. B. Johnston.  Andrew John Bayly Johnston is a Canadian historian and writer. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books and over 100 articles on different aspects of the history of Atlantic Canada. Johnston is originally from Truro Nova Scotia and currently lives in Halifax.
Christopher Hills.  Christopher Hills (April 9 1926 – January 31 1997) was a well-known author philosopher and scientist popularly described as the Father of Spirulina for popularizing spirulina cyanobacteria as a food supplement.
Dave Simons.  Dave Simons (December 20 1954 - June 9 2009) was an American comic book artist known for his work on Conan Ghost Rider Red Sonja and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and Forgotten Realms for DC Comics. He is also known for commercial storyboard and games artwork work on The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs and Greyhawk Ruins.
Tish Ambrose.  Tish Ambrose is a former American pornographic actress who performed from 1981 until 1993.
Raymond Normand.  Raymond Normand (14 November 1919 Auby (Nord) – 12 March 2000 Aix-en-Provence; buried in Ventabren) was a French painter.
Catherine Lara.  Catherine Lara (born Catherine Bodet 29 May 1945 in Poissy Yvelines) is a French violinist composer and singer.
Alexei Maximov.  Alexei Maximov (born 1952) is a Soviet-born enamellist portrait painter of European royals and oil painter who currently resides in Saint Petersburg Russia. He is known for using traditional methods of enamel art production without the aid of contemporary digital set ovens and is considered a modern master of the artform.
Ihab Hassan.  Ihab Habib Hassan (born 1925) is an American literary theorist and writer born in Egypt.
Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna.  Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna also known as Mestre Suassuna (pronounced [ˈmɛstɾi swaˈsunɐ]; born 1938 in Ilhéus Bahia Brazil) is the founder and head of the international capoeira organization Cordão de Ouro.
David Sánchez (musician).  David Sánchez (born 9 September 1968 in Guaynabo Puerto Rico) is a Grammy-winning jazz tenor saxophonist from Puerto Rico.
Joanne Shaw Taylor.  Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986 England) is a British blues guitarist and singer who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums and one live album to date; the live album being the most recent entitled Songs from the Road released in 2013.The British music publication Blues Matters! called Taylor the new face of the blues.
Curtis Knight.  Curtis Knight (May 9 1929 – November 29 1999) born Mont Curtis McNear was an American musician who is known for his connection to Jimi Hendrix.Knight was an artist in the 1960s Harlem music scene usually fronting his own band The Squires. This band gigged in clubs in New York City and other surrounding areas.
Gerard McLarnon.  Gerard McLarnon (April 16 1915—August 16 1997) was an Irish playwright and actor. His plays have been performed throughout the world and he collaborated with amongst others John Tavener Laurence Olivier and Tyrone Guthrie.He is survived by his wife Eileen Essell who has a successful film career. She has appeared in Duplex Finding Neverland Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) The Producers and other films and TV programs.
Carol Jiani.  Carol Jiani (born Uchenna Ikejiani) is a Nigerian singer based in England best known for her early 1980s hit Hit N Run Lover.
Simon Gregorčič.  Simon Gregorčič (15 October 1844 – 24 November 1906) was a Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest.
Lee On the Beats.  Anthony Lee Norris (born February 11 1990) is an American hip hop record producer and songwriter professionally known as Lee On the Beats. Lee has produced for artists such as Lil Wayne DJ Khaled Kid Ink Ace Hood French Montana Rick Ross Meek Mill and Freeway among others. In 2013 Lee was signed to DJ Khaled's We the Best Music Group. He is best known for producing French Montana's Pop That and Khaled's I Wanna Be with You.
Sophie von La Roche.  Maria Sophie von La Roche (née Gutermann von Gutershofen) (6 December 1730 – 18 February 1807) was a German novelist. She was born in Kaufbeuren and died in Offenbach am Main.
Suratha.  Suratha (Tamil: சுரதா) (November 23 1921 – June 19 2006) was a Tamil poet Known for similes he was also called as Uvamai Kavignar (poet of similes). Suratha is a pseudonym of T. Rajagopal. He derived his pen name from Subburathinathasan (Bharathidasan a renowned poet of yesteryear) as Suratha. Saavin Mutham (kiss of death) and Thenmazhai (rain of honey) were among his notable works. He also ran a weekly Kaavyam entirely dedicated to poetry.
Levon Louis.  Levon Louis (born in Houston Texas) is an electronic musician sound designer record producer and video game Audio Director of brands including Silent Hill and Assassin's Creed. Louis has published music independently under various project names including Absynthesis DJ Bottles and Mushroom Lounge. He was the primary producer-DJ behind regioinally popular Texas electronica band Lunatex during the late 1990s and also a contributing member to Dead P.A..
Mark Merlis.  Mark Merlis (born March 9 1950) is an American writer and health policy analyst.Born in Framingham Massachusetts and raised in Baltimore Maryland Merlis attended Wesleyan University and Brown University. He subsequently took a job with the Maryland Department of Health to support himself while writing.
Faith Hill.  Faith Hill (born Audrey Faith Perry; September 21 1967) is an American country pop singer and occasional actress. She is married to country singer Tim McGraw with whom she has recorded several successful duets. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide.Hill's first two albums Take Me as I Am (1993) and It Matters to Me (1995) established her as a popular country singer. The pair placed a combined three No.
Yoichi Okamoto.  Yoichi R. Okamoto (1915-1985) was the first official U.S. presidential photographer serving Lyndon B. Johnson. He was fondly known as Oke and was given unprecedented access to the Oval Office. He captured images of the President of the United States more candid than had been previously acceptable.Because of his ability to be present at almost any event more photos of the Johnson presidency are available than from any earlier term of office.
Matthew Drutt.  Matthew Drutt (born December 8 1962) is an American editor writer and independent curator who specializes in modern and contemporary art. Based in New York he currently works with the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland the State Hermitage Museum in Russia and the M.T. Abraham Foundation consulting on exhibitions publications and collections.
Cesare Fracanzano.  Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651) a Neapolitan painter who flourished in the 17th century was a pupil of Spagnoletto. There is in the Madrid Gallery a picture by him representing Two Wrestlers. His son Michelangelo Fracanzano who was also a painter died in France about 1685. His brother Francesco was also a painter.
Joe Morgenstern.  Joe Morgenstern (born October 3 1932) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Wall Street Journal.
Cole M. Greif-Neill.  Cole M. Greif-Neill is an Los Angeles-based producer engineer and electronic musician.He was a student at New York University. In January 2006 he married Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel with whom he continues to write material.He was a member of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti before becoming Beck's engineer and his current work with Stones Throw.
Prudence Heward.  Prudence Heward (July 2 1896 – March 19 1947) was a Canadian painter principally known for her figure painting with brilliant acid colours sculptural treatment and an intense brooding quality. She was a member of the Beaver Hall Group and a co-founder of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Contemporary Arts Society.
Yukichi Amano.  Yukichi Amano (天野 祐吉) (born 27 April 1933 in Adachi Tokyo died 20 October 2013 in Tokyo) was a Japanese columnist founder and chief editor of monthly magazine Kokoku Hihyo. Amano attended Meiji Gakuin University but did not graduate.In 1970 he established Madra Publishing Ltd.In 1979 he established Kokoku Hihyo a magazine that was discontinued in 2009.In 2002 he became Director (later Honorary Director) of the Shiki Memorial Museum.
Tex Ritter.  Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12 1905 – January 2 1974) better known as Tex Ritter was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting (son John and grandson Jason). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Aaron Barrett.  Aaron Asher Barrett (born August 30 1974) is the lead singer lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the band Reel Big Fish. Prior to forming with Reel Big Fish Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act The Scholars along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott Klopfenstein and Grant Barry. More recently he formed The Forces of Evil with former members of Jeffries Fan Club The Scholars and Lone Raspberry.
Salvatore Simoncini.  Salvatore Simoncini (Late 19th century) was an Italian painter mainly of genre themes.He was born and resided in Palermo. Among his works were:Minaccia temporale (1877 Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts in Naples oil on canvas.)After Fishing (1882 Florence)Mount Aetna from near Catania(1882 Florence)Church San Salvatore in Catania (1884 Expositions of Fine Arts Turin)The mountains of the Guadagna at midday from Palermo (1884 Expositions of Fine Arts Turin)↑
Dick Locher.  Richard Earl Dick Locher (born June 4 1929) is an American syndicated cartoonist.
David Nevins (television producer).  David Nevins is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is president of entertainment at Showtime.
Dolphin Taylor.  Brian Dolphin Taylor (born 10 November 1958) is a British drummer.
Ian McNabb.  Robert Ian McNabb (born 3 November 1960) is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Liverpool England. He is known both for his work as leader and songwriter-in-chief of The Icicle Works in the 1980s and his critically acclaimed solo career throughout from the early 1990s to date.
Jeremy Fernandez (singer).  Jeremy Fernandez is an actor and musical artist based in New York City. He is primarily known for his recent singles Point Em' Out (featuring Juelz Santana) and Miss America (featuring New Boyz).
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born 1968) is a Kenyan writer who was named Woman of the Year by Eve Magazine in Kenya in 2004 for her contribution to the country's literature and arts. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story Weight of Whispers which considers an aristocratic Rwandan refugee in Kenya. The story was originally published in Kwani? the Kenyan literary magazine set up by Binyavanga Wainaina after he won the Caine Prize the previous year.
Winnie Waldron.  Winnie Waldron is an American music producer for video games a producer for radio a radio script editor / adapter and a radio host.
Scott Kenemore.  Scott Kenemore (born 1977) is an American novelist and satirist.He is the author of the horror novels Zombie Illinois(2012) [1] and Zombie Ohio (2011)[2] and several zombie-themed satires including: The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead (2007)Z.E.O (2009) The Art of Zombie Warfare (2010)The Code of the Zombie Pirate (2010)[3].Zombies vs. Nazis (2011)He also writes about drums and drumming.
Shawn Dailey.  Shawn Dailey (born December 7 1981) is an American bassist music manager and music educator from Santa Barbara California.
Darin Gray.  Darin Gray (born 1967) is an American musician and composer based in Edwardsville Illinois. He is best known for playing bass in St. Louis' Dazzling Killmen and with Jim O'Rourke in Brise-Glace and on O'Rourke's solo albums.A prolific musician since the 1980s Darin has appeared on albums ranging from noise to math rock. Besides Dazzling Killmen and Brise-Glace he has played in bands such as Yona-Kit You Fantastic! Sad Lewis Grand Ulena and On Fillmore.
Mads Eriksen.  Mads Eriksen (born 15 July 1977) is a Norwegian cartoonist best known for the comic strips M and Gnom.
Jürgen Reil.  Jürgen Ventor Reil (born 26 June 1966) is the long-time drummer for German thrash metal band Kreator. He is one of the only two original members left in the band although he has left it at least twice due to personal differences but has come back.Reil plays the double bass drum style prevalent in thrash and death metal.
Don Gardner.  Don Gardner (born May 9 1931) is an American rhythm and blues drummer and vocalist.Born in Philadelphia Gardner started out as a professional musician in 1947 while still at school. By 1953 Gardner had formed his own group the Sonotones but teamed up with Dee Dee Ford in the early 1960s to have his biggest successes. Their biggest hit was I Need Your Lovin' a Top 20 hit in 1962.
Ryan Hadlock.  Ryan Hadlock is an American record producer best known for his production work on platinum-selling album The Lumineers by The Lumineers.
Davey Payne.  David 'Davey' Payne (born 11 August 1944 Willesden North West London) is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads and his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK #1 single Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick.He also appeared on the first version of Nico's 1981 album Drama of Exile.According to Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees Payne grew up in Clacton-on-Sea Essex and started playing the clarinet because of his enjoyment of Dixieland jazz.
Mormarevi Brothers.  Mormarevi Brothers (Bulgarian: Братя Мормареви / Bratya Mormarevi) is the joint pen name of Moritz Yomtov (Bulgarian: Мориц Йомтов) and Marko Stoychev (Bulgarian: Марко Стойчев) - two Bulgarian authors of humorous prose and screenplays. They worked from the 1960s until the end of 1980s. The two were longtime friends but not actually brothers. The first part of their pen name was created from the first three letters of their given names.
Juan Aguirre.  Juan Vicente García Aguirre (born February 11 1970 in San Sebastián Basque Country Spain) is a Basque musician and songwriter. He is best known for being one-half of the Spanish group Amaral with its namesake Eva Amaral.Aguirre was born in San Sebastián living there during part of his childhood then he moved to Zaragoza and founded a band named Días De Vino Y Rosas (Days Of Wine And Roses) there that released an album in 1991.
Craig G.  Craig G (born Craig Curry in Queensbridge New York) is an American rapper from Queensbridge New York. He is perhaps best known as one of the members of hip hop producer Marley Marl's Cold Chillin' Records group the Juice Crew.He recorded the single Shout Rap with Marley Marl in 1985 at 12 years old and in 1988 recorded The Symphony (song) with the Juice Crew described by Allmusic as a landmark moment in the evolution of hardcore rap.
Anat Cohen.  Anat Cohen is an Israeli jazz clarinetist saxophonist and bandleader.
Murphy Karges.  Murphy Karges (born Matthew Murphy Karges; June 20 1967) is an American bassist best known for his tenure with Sugar Ray.
Zhu Dake.  Zhu Dake (Chinese: 朱大可; pinyin: Zhū Dàkě; born in 1957) is a Chinese scholar cultural critic and essayist. He was born in Shanghai and his family was originally from Wuping Fujian Province. He was educated in the department of Chinese language of East China Normal University and then was awarded a PhD in University of Technology Sydney in Australia.
Alexander Pope.  Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
Richard Hambleton.  Richard Hambleton (born June 1954) is an artist-painter currently living and working in the Lower East Side of New York City. Richard Hambleton has been called the godfather of street art. He is the surviving member of a group who together with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat had great success coming out of the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s.
Kenny Sabir.  Kenneth Spencer Sabir (born ca. 1975) who performs as Traksewt is an Australian musician computer programmer record label founder and event organiser. In 1998 Sabir co-founded an independent record label Elefant Traks. In 2001 with his fellow label owners he was an original member of hip-hop band The Herd and is their producer. As of August 2011 The Herd have released five studio albums including Summerland (2008) which peaked at No.
Chuck Girard.  Chuck Girard is a pioneer of Contemporary Christian music. He was born August 27 1943 in Los Angeles California and moved to Santa Rosa California in his young teens.
Frank Arnau.  Frank Arnau (March 9 1894 - February 11 1976) was the pseudonym of a German crime fiction writer born as Heinrich Schmitt.
Rajeev Janardan.  Rajeev Janardan (born 1967) is a Hindustani classical sitar player of the Imdadkhani gharana (school) taught by Bimalendu Mukherjee. He lives in New Delhi.Jaranadan comes from Kerala and started to learn the guitar at the age of 12 when living in Benares. He trained as a singer before switching to the sitar studying with Mukherjee.At the age of 15 Janardan won the All India Music Competition.
Vince Hill.  Vince Hill (born Vincent Hill 16 April 1937 Holbrooks Coventry England) is an English traditional pop music singer songwriter and record producer.
Thomas Andrews Drake.  Thomas Andrews Drake (born 1957) is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake mishandled documents one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project.
Johann Schop.  Johann Schop (ca. 1590 – 1667) was a German violinist and composer much admired as a musician and a technician who was a virtuoso and whose compositions for the violin set impressive technical demands for that area at that time. In 1756 Leopold Mozart commented on the difficulty of a trill in a work by Schop probably composed before 1646.He worked in Hamburg. He published books of violin music in 4 to 6 parts; some of his music was performed at the Peace of Westphalia celebrations.
Naomi Klein.  Naomi Klein (born May 8 1970) is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. She is best known for No Logo a book that went on to become an international bestseller and The Shock Doctrine a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics.
Tacitus.  Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (/ˈtæsɨtəs/; Classical Latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. AD 56 – after 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius Claudius Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish–Roman War in AD 70.
Manu Katché.  Manu Katché (born 27 October 1958 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) is a French musician of Ivorian origin. He is a drummer and songwriter.
Alison Moyet.  Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet (born 18 June 1961 Billericay Essex) is an English singer songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy contralto voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million with over a million singles sold. All seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 30 UK Album Chart with two of the albums reaching number one.
Eduard Bagritsky.  Eduard Bagritsky (Russian: Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Багри́цкий IPA: [ɪdʊˈart ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ bɐˈɡrʲit͡skʲɪj] ; November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1895 – February 16 1934) was an important Russian and Soviet poet of the Constructivist School. He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers (which also included Isaak Babel Yuri Olesha Valentin Katayev Vera Inber Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov among others).
Jay Della Valle.  Jay Della Valle (born August 19 1979) best known for his documentary The Glorious Mustache Challenge is an American filmmaker recording artist singer and songwriter.
Teddy Petersen.  Teddy Petersen (21 November 1892 - 15 April 1991) was a Danish bandleader and violinist. Formally trained at the conservatory in Copenhagen Petersen worked with many orchestras directed the music for many films and recorded approximately 1000 records.He married Jenny Koefoed on 17 May 1919.
Anri Kumaki.  Anri Kumaki (熊木 杏里 Kumaki Anri born January 27 1982 in Chikuma Nagano) is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter currently signed on unBORDE Records a division of Warner Music Group Japan.
Fujiwara no Kiyotada.  Fujiwara no Kiyotada (藤原 清正 died July 958) was a Japanese poet in particular one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. He is the second son of Fujiwara no Kanesuke also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. Though his mother is unknown Gosen Wakashū an anthology of Japanese poems contains the name the mother of Kiyotada (清正母). His elder brother is Masatada.
Sakutarō Hagiwara.  Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎 Hagiwara Sakutarō 1 November 1886 - 11 May 1942) was a Japanese writer of free-style verse active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He liberated Japanese free verse from the grip of traditional rules and he is considered the “father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan”. He published many volumes of essays literary and cultural criticism and aphorisms over his long career.
Emerson (Sierra Leonean musician).  Emmerson Amidu Bockarie (born on December 23 1977 in Kenema Sierra Leone) better known by his first name Emmerson is an internationally recognised Sierra Leonean afropop musician and the biggest and most famous musician from Sierra Leone at present. He uses his music against political corruption in Sierra Leone while addressing the struggle of poor Sierra Leoneans. He sings mostly in Krio and English.
Robert Wright (writer).  For the television writer see Rob Wright (writer).Robert (Bob) Craig Wright (September 25 1914 – July 27 2005) was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics.
Robert Salmon.  Robert Salmon (1775–c. 1845) was a maritime artist active in both England and America. Salmon completed nearly 1000 paintings all save one of maritime scenes or seascapes. He is widely considered the Father of American Luminism.
Rob Benvie.  Rob Benvie (born Halifax Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician and writer who has performed with alternative rock acts Thrush Hermit Camouflage Nights The Tennis Injury and The Dears. He also records and occasionally performs live as Tigre Benvie.Benvie first gained notoriety as the guitarist singer and songwriter in Halifax rock band Thrush Hermit. Thrush Hermit also included Joel Plaskett Ian McGettigan and Cliff Gibb.
Lord Pretender.  Lord Pretender (8 September 1917 – 22 January 2002) was the stage name of Aldric Farrell M.O.M. H.B.M. a calypsonian vocalist born on the island of Tobago widely acknowledged to be a master of extempo a lyrically improvised form of calypso music considered a forerunner of rap.
Innocenzio Taccone.  Innocenzio Taccone was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil and relative of Annibale Carracci. In 1600 he accompanied that artist to Rome where he assisted him in many of his works. In the vault of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo he painted three large frescoes from the designs of Annibale representing the Coronation of the Virgin Christ appearing to St. Peter and Assumption of St. Paul. He painted scenes from the Life of St.
Alexander Rybak.  Alexander Igoryevich Rybak (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Рыба́к tr. Aleksandr Igorevich Rybak) or in Belarusian Alyaxandr Igaravich Rybak (Belarusian: Алякса́ндр І́гаравіч Рыба́к tr. Alyaksandr Iharavich Rybak; born 13 May 1986 in Byelorussian SSR Soviet Union) is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer-composer violinist pianist writer and actor.
Pierre de La Primaudaye.  Pierre de La Primaudaye (1546–1619) was a French writer. He is known particularly for L'Academie Française which was influential in English translations from 1584 onwards particularly The French Academie of 1618. La Primaudaye came from a large Protestant family in Anjou. There is little evidence about his childhood but it is known that one of his brothers was executed for killing a member of the gentry since La Primaudaye refers to his sadness over this event.
Ádám György.  Ádám György (born in 1982 in Pomáz Hungary) is a professional pianist and his music career started at age four. While he was studying under Katalin Halmagyi he was accepted to the Bela Bartok Conservatory of Budapest in 1994. György won the National Youth Piano Competition in 1998 and also won the Hungary’s Pianist 2000 award two years later. From 2000 to 2006 György attended in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and studied under professors György Nador and Balázs Reti.
Galina Rumiantseva.  Galina Alexeevna Rumiantseva (Russian: Гали́на Алексе́евна Румя́нцева; 23 June 1927 Sestroretsk Leningrad Oblast Russian SFSR Soviet Union – 17 September 2004 Saint Petersburg Russia) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Terry Clark (Christian musician).  Terry Clark is an American Christian music singer-songwriter. He is a pioneer of the Jesus music genre later to be called Contemporary Christian music.
Iain Morris.  Iain Morris (born 6 August 1973) is an English writer. Morris is best known for creating The Inbetweeners with his writing partner Damon Beesley and co-hosting a show on London radio station XFM with stand-up Jimmy Carr. He featured in the Iron and Music episodes of cult spoof TV show Look Around You as well as on Jimmy Carr's second live DVD as a panelist on a feature named Comedy Idol.
Martha Shelley.  Martha Shelley (born 1943- ) is a lesbian activist feminist writer and poet.
Miguel de la Bastide.  Miguel de la Bastide is a Trinidad-born Flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist who first appeared on the scene in 1996 on the CD compilation Flamenco: Fire and Grace under the record label Narada Productions that placed him alongside some of Spain's most prominent guitarists including Paco de Lucía Tomatito and Rafael Riqueni to name a few. Since then he has appeared on numerous other Flamenco and Nuevo Flamenco compilations.
Jean Paul Kürsteiner.  Jean Paul Kürsteiner (Catskill New York July 8 1864 – Los Angeles California March 19 1943) was an American pianist pedagogue music publisher and composer of piano pieces and art songs.
Tanveer Ghani.  Tanveer Ghani is a British Asian actor. He has appeared in various British television programmes and British films.One of his first roles was in the BBC hospital drama Angels (1982).
Liane Merciel.  Liane Merciel is the pseudonym of an American fantasy author. Her best known work is the ongoing Ithelas series. She lives and practices law in Pennsylvania.
Sikkil Gurucharan.  Sikkil C. Gurucharan (born on June 21 1982) is among the foremost young performing musicians of Carnatic music in India today. He is the grandson of Sikkil Kunjumani elder of the internationally acclaimed flautists the Sikkil Sisters. Gurucharan has been under the tutelage Vaigal Shri S. Gnanaskandan and is currently being mentored by Shri B. Krishnamurthy. He is an 'A' grade All India Radio artist.
Buddy Alan.  Alan Edgar Buddy Owens (born May 22 1948 in Mesa Arizona) known professionally as Buddy Alan is an American country music artist. The son of Buck Owens and Bonnie Owens and stepson of Merle Haggard Alan recorded four albums for Capitol Records in the 1970s. He also charted eight singles in the Top 40 on the Billboard country charts including his No. 7 debut single Let the World Keep On A-Turnin' a duet with Buck.
Haris Antoniou.  Harry Antoniou (in Greek Χάρης Αντωνίου) (born in Limassol Cyprus on 9 March 1989) is a Greek-Cypriot singer and musician. On 11 February 2011 he won the third season of the Greek version of the television singing competition The X Factor after singing Joe Cocker’s You Are So Beautiful to Me.
Geri Doran.  Geri Doran was born in Kalispell Montana in 1966. Doran has attended Vassar College the University of Cambridge the University of Florida (MFA 1995) and Stanford University where she held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry.
Arthur Baysting.  Arthur Baysting is a songwriter screenwriter (Sleeping Dogs Neville Purvis Family Show) and comedian from New Zealand. He was a songwriting member of The Crocodiles co-writing their biggest hit Tears with Fane Flaws.His comedy alter-ego Neville Purvis had his own television show in 1979. Baysting (as Neville Purvis) has a dubiously notable first in New Zealand.
Sam Phillips (model).  Samantha Phillips (born 25 February 1966) is an American actress talk-show host reality TV host radio DJ producer high-fashion model pin-up girl and spokesmodel. The name Sam Phillips became a registered service mark in 2008.
Bob Hallett.  Robert Bruce Bob Hallett (born May 23 1968) is a founding member of Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea.Hallett was born in St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador on May 23 1968 making him the only native St. Johnsman in Great Big Sea. Born to a musical family Hallett learned to play the saxophone while in school and taught himself guitar and tin whistle while a teenager.
Alexander Cordell.  Alexander Cordell (9 September 1914 – 13 November 1997) was the pen-name of George Alexander Graber a prolific Welsh novelist and author of thirty acclaimed works including Rape of the Fair Country The Hosts of Rebecca and Song of the Earth.
Cecelia Ager.  Cecelia Ager (1902–1981) was an American film critic and star reporter for Variety and the New York Post Magazine. Married for 57 years to songwriter Milton Ager she was mother to two daughters Laurel Bentley and journalist Shana Alexander.
Siqin Gaowa.  Цэцэнгуа (ᠰᠡᠴᠡᠩᠭ᠋ᠣᠣ᠎ᠠ; born 20 January 1949) better known by her Mandarin name Siqin Gaowa is a Chinese actress of Mongol ancestry. She is married to musician Chen Liangsheng (陈亮声) since 1986 and currently holds Swiss citizenship together with her husband.Siqin made her debut in the 1982 film Rickshaw Boy an adaptation of Lao She's novel of the same title where she played Tigress the love interest of Zhang Fengyi's character Xiangzi.
Paul LaRosa.  Paul LaRosa is a CBS News producer and author.
Bunga Citra Lestari.  Bunga Citra Lestari (born March 22 1983) also known as BCL is an Indonesian pop singer and actress. She is known for her powerful singing voice.
Jack Blades.  Jack Martin Blades (born April 24 1954) is an American musician. He has worked in several bands: Rubicon Night Ranger (as bassist and one of the lead vocalists) and Damn Yankees (as one of the founding members). He also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw/Blades and has done work alongside TMG the Tak Matsumoto Group. His most recent efforts include a second solo CD and Shaw/Blades is in the process of recording ‘’Influence II’’.
Nick Hodge.  Nick Hodge is an American financial author publisher and commentator. He is the author of Energy Investing for Dummies along with Keith Kohl and co-author of the bestselling Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip StocksHodge is also the founder of the Outsider Club an alternative lifestyle and investment community with hundreds of thousands of members.
Aliona Moon.  Aliona Munteanu (born 25 May 1989) known better as Aliona Moon is a Moldovan singer. In 2012 she was a backing vocalist for Pasha Parfeny who represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Aliona was selected to represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song O Mie composed by Pasha Parfeny.Aliona finished in fourth place in the first semi-final and 11th place in the Eurovision 2013 final.
Eddie Floyd.  Eddie Lee Floyd (born June 25 1937) is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song Knock on Wood.
Albert Patin de La Fizelière.  Albert de La Fizelière (in full Albert-André Patin de La Fizelière; pen-name Ludovic de Marsay see box to the right) (b. 7 August 1819 in Marly; d. 11 February 1878 in Paris) was a French littérateur writer on electoral and constitutional law art critic and historian known for his friendship with Champfleury and for his ties to the Café Guerbois circle.
Isabelle Breitman.  Zabou Breitman (30 October 1959 in Paris) born Isabelle Breitman is a French actress and director of Jewish origin known as Zabou or Zabou Breitman. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and Céline Léger. At age four she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981 Zabou has acted in dozens of roles in films TV movies and theaters.
Edward Kloczko.  Edward J. Kloczko (born in Lviv in 1963) is a French linguist. He has worked with and published on the constructed languages of J. R. R. Tolkien.In 1985 he founded the Faculté des études elfiques (School of Elvish Studies whose acronym Fée is French for 'fairy') which was the first French non-profit literary and educational organization dedicated to the study discussion and enjoyment of the works of J.R.R.
Gary Beals.  Gary Beals (born October 22 1982 in Cherry Brook Nova Scotia Canada) is a Canadian singer who is best known for being the second-place finisher in the first season of the reality television series Canadian Idol. He is a resident of North Preston Nova Scotia
Anders Iwers.  Anders Iwers is a Swedish Heavy metal bassist of the band Tiamat. He was formally the guitarist of the bands Ceremonial Oath (also being the founder) In Flames (also being the original member - Iwers' younger brother Peter Iwers joined after) Cemetary and Lacuna Coil. He was also the bassist of Mercury Tide and Avatarium. Iwers also did photography on the albums A Moonclad Reflection and Yesterworlds by Dark Tranquillity.
Lito Camo.  Lito Camo (born March 12 1972) is a Filipino singer and songwriter. He established his reputation more solidly as a composer instead of being a singer which was his initial dream. He is known for songs such as Bakit Papa? Tawag mo ako? Spaghetti Song Bulaklak Wowowee and Otso-Otso. In the roster of artists and musician Lito found inspiration in Ely Buendia of the Eraserheads. Lito Camo was a native of Bongabong Oriental Mindoro.
Kate Maki.  Kate Maki is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Tony Rice.  This article is for the guitarist. For the former football player see Tony Rice (American football).Tony Rice (born David Anthony Rice June 8 1951 Danville Virginia) is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass progressive bluegrass newgrass and acoustic jazz.
Constance Aston Fowler.  Constance Aston Fowler was a seventeenth-century English manuscript author and anthologist. Born Constance Aston about 1621 she was the youngest child of Sir Walter Aston. Her home was The Priory at St.
George Bellows.  George Wesley Bellows (August 12 or August 19 1882 – January 8 1925) was an American realist painter known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City becoming according to the Columbus Museum of Art the most acclaimed American artist of his generation.
Paul Gustavson.  Paul Gustavson (née Karl Paul Gustafson August 16 1916 – April 1977) was an American-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics and the Angel who debuted in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939) the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics. The Angel would star in more than 100 stories in the 1940s.
Paul Schneider (author).  Paul Schneider (born 1962 and raised in Amherst Massachusetts) is an American author of non-fiction books and magazine articles. The son of Peter and Pat Schneider he graduated from Brown University in 1984. He has contributed to periodicals including the New York Times O the Oprah Magazine Audubon ELLE Esquire The New Yorker and Mirabella. He lives in West Tisbury Massachusetts.
Annette Haven.  Annette Haven (born 1 December 1954) is a former American pornographic actress popular during the 1970s and 1980s.
Jon Jonsson (singer).  Jon Jonsson (Jón Ragnar Jónsson) is a singer and songwriter originally from Hafnarfjordur Iceland. He began his career after graduating from college. He was signed by Epic Records after he was said to impress record producer L.A. Reid. Jonsson’s first four singles were in the top 30 on Iceland music charts and he was also received a People's Choice Award as the Best New Artist from Iceland’s FM 957.
Helmut Sturm.  Helmut Sturm (21 February 1932 – 20 February 2008) was a German painter. He was born in Furth im Wald. From 1952 to 1958 he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich. After this he joined Heimrad Prem Lothar Fischer and Hans-Peter Zimmer in founding Gruppe SPUR which in 1959 entered the Situationist International. He had a six month scholarship in Paris before returning to Munich for the SPUR exhibition in Galerie van de Loo.
Aliaksei Karpiuk.  Aliaksei Karpiuk (Belarusian: Аляксей Карпюк Russian: Алексей Карпюк; 14 April 1920 in Straszewo a village close to Gródek Białystok County Poland – 14 August 1992 in Hrodna Belarus) was a Belarusian writer and public figure. Between 1960 until 1960 he was a leader of the intelligentsia in Hrodna and supported dissident writers in the USSR.
Wanya Morris.  Wanyá Jermaine Morris (born July 29 1973) is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the R&B group Boyz II Men.
Fred Schneider.  Frederick William Fred Schneider III (born July 1 1951) is an American vocalist best known as the frontman of the rock band The B-52's of which he is a founding member. Schneider is well known for his sprechgesang which he developed from reciting poetry over guitars.
Chris Robinson (singer).  Christopher Mark Chris Robinson (born December 20 1966) is the singer of the rock and roll band The Black Crowes and brother of its guitarist Rich Robinson.
Hugh McCracken.  Hugh C. McCracken (March 31 1942 – March 28 2013) was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally an arranger and producer.
Joanie Pallatto.  Joanie Pallatto is a Chicago based singer born in Xenia Ohio. She moved to Chicago in 1979 after a stint with the Glenn Miller band. A singer composer record producer and recording engineer she has worked with Bob Dorough Von Freeman Don Moye Tatsu Aoki and Willie Pickens.
Sydney Youngblood.  Sydney Youngblood (born Sydney Ford 2 December 1960 San Antonio Texas) is an American singer who had several successful dance/funk hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Paul Lieberstein.  Paul Bevan Lieberstein (born February 22 1967) is an American screenwriter actor and television producer. A Primetime Emmy Award winner he is known as a writer producer and as supporting cast member Toby Flenderson on the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office. He served as the series' showrunner from seasons five to eight.
Caitlín R. Kiernan.  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26 1964) is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works including ten novels; many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories novellas and vignettes. She is also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology.
Sammy Timberg.  Sammy Timberg (May 21 1903 – August 26 1992) was an American musician and composer who was perhaps most famous for the music he wrote for the cartoons of the Fleischer Studios such as Popeye Betty Boop and Superman. He also composed early shorts for Famous Studios serving as the studio's musical director until Winston Sharples officially succeeded him in 1946.He was the brother of vaudevillian Herman Timberg.
Alikhan Bokeikhanov.  Alikhan Nurmukhameduli Bokeikhanov (Kazakh: Әлихан Нұрмұхамедұлы Бөкейханов; Russian: Алихан Нурмухамедович Букейханов) (March 5 1866 — September 27 1937) was a Kazakh writer political activist and environmental scientist. He is famous for advocating the idea that Kazakhs should learn Russian culture and simultaneously preserve Kazakh customs and law.Bokeikhanov's early education took place in a Russian-Kazakh school and at Omsk Technical School (1890 graduate).
Linda Lee Alter.  Linda Lee Alter is an American artist and art collector whose collection of art by women was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from November 2012 to April 2013. Alter began collecting art by women artists in the 1980s when she noticed that much of the art shown by museums were predominantly created by men. In 1993 she started the Leeway Foundation to support women artists particularly artists in the Philadelphia area.
Brinsley Schwarz (musician).  Brinsley Ernst Pieter Schwarz (born 25 March 1947 Woodbridge Suffolk) is an English guitarist and rock musician. He formed a band named Kippington Lodge in 1965 which evolved into the eponymous band Brinsley Schwarz. After the band's demise in 1974 Schwarz briefly joined Ducks Deluxe before forming The Rumour and going on to achieve success with Graham Parker as Graham Parker and the Rumour.
Rossy Evelin Lima.  Rossy Evelin Lima-Padilla (born August 18 1986 in Tuxpan Veracruz Mexico) is a linguist and poet. She has been published in numerous literary articles journals magazines and anthologies in Canada United States Mexico Spain Venezuela and Argentina and is a strong advocate for college education and reading development in the public school system.
Braille (rapper).  Bryan Braille Winchester (born 1981 in Portland Oregon) is an American hip hop recording artist. He has been writing and recording hip-hop music since he was 13 years old. For a short time Bryan and his family relocated to Marlton New Jersey where he attended Eastern High School in Voorhees Township. Fully focused on music Bryan Winchester adopted the stage name Braille Brizzy and headed back to experience the Portland music scene.
Gennesio Liberale.  Gennesio Liberale (or Gensio) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school. He was born at Udine and flourished in the second half of the 16th century. He was a pupil of San Danielo da Pellegrino and painted still lifes cabinet pieces of animals and fish.
Jacques Le Chevallier.  Jacques Le Chevallier (July 26 1896 – 1987) was a French glassmaker decorative artist illustrator and engraver. He was mobilized during World War I; after the war he became a master artisan in the studio of Louis Barillet with whom he remained until 1945.
Cliff McReynolds.  Cliff McReynolds is an American visionary painter from California. Active since the 1950s and popularly known from the 1970s on McReynolds' works are often on canvas measuring several square feet. Some of his paintings including The Arrival or those from his La Jolla Pentych are composed of complicated interlocking scenes with dozens of distinct elements seen from a distance.
Jatin–Lalit.  Jatin-Lalit are a Bollywood film composer duo consisting of Jatin Pandit and his younger brother Lalit. They have written the scores for films such as Khiladi Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar Khamoshi: The Musical Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Yes Boss Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Mohabbatein and Fanaa.Jatin-Lalit is their professional name and appears on the covers of their music CDs and DVDs. In 2006 the brothers ended their professional relationship citing personal problems.
Lucy Virginia French.  Lucy Virginia French (March 16 1825 – March 31 1881) was an American author born Lucy Virginia Smith in Accomack County Virginia to Mease W. Smith and Elizabeth Parker. She wrote for the Louisville Journal under the name of L'Inconnue. In 1852 she became the editor of Southern Ladies Book. On January 12 1853 she married Colonel John Hopkins French.
Park Je-chun.  Park Je-Chun (Hangul: 박제천) is an award-winning South Korean poet.
Amina Figarova.  Amina Figarova (born in Baku Azerbaijan) is a jazz composer and jazz pianist. She currently lives and teaches in New York.
Martin Rotsey.  Martin Rotsey is an Australian guitarist and was a member of the rock band Midnight Oil from 1977 until the band's dissolution in 2002.In 2006 he joined fellow Midnight Oil member Rob Hirst's projects Ghostwriters and The Angry Tradesmen.
Gina Glocksen.  Gina Glocksen (born July 4 1984) is an American singer who was the ninth-place finisher on the sixth season of American Idol. She was eliminated on April 4 2007. She previously appeared in season 5. Glocksen is the first among the few contestants to have been eliminated in Hollywood round in an earlier season and then place in a later one.
Ha Geun-chan.  Ha Geun-chan is (Hangul: 오정희) an early modern South Korean writer.
Francisco Toledo.  Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (b. July 17 1940 Juchitán Oaxaca) is a Mexican painter sculptor and graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Mexico where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria.
Andrew White Tuer.  Andrew White Tuer (1838–1900) was a British publisher writer and printer.
Tall Paul.  Tall Paul is a song by Annette Funicello and written by the Sherman Brothers. It marked the first time that a female singer reached a top ten slot for a rock and roll single. It also spotlighted Annette from amongst the other Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club and paved the way for the movie career which followed.
Alek Rapoport.  Alek Rapoport (November 24 1933 Kharkiv Ukraine SSR – February 4 1997 San Francisco California) was a Russian Nonconformist artist art theorist and teacher.
David Fisher (writer).  David Fisher is a British professional writer for television. He was born in 1929.He wrote the scripts for four serials of Doctor Who. He first contributed The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara during that show's sixteenth season and The Creature from the Pit for the seventeenth season. He was also working on a story called A Gamble with Time also for the seventeenth season but was unable to finish the scripts due to his divorce proceedings from his first wife.
Steven Wayne Horton.  Steven Wayne Horton (born in Memphis Tennessee) was an American country music singer. Horton's eponymous debut album was released by Capitol Nashville in 1989. Its first single Roll Over was his only song to enter the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart peaking at No. 68 in 1989. A second single Tennessee Plates peaked at No. 80 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Daniel Salomon (musician).  Daniel Salomon is an Israeli pop rock singer and musician.
Eric Marienthal.  Eric Marienthal (born December 19 1957 in Sacramento CA) is a Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz jazz fusion smooth jazz and pop genres.He has been described by AllMusic as having limitless potential.
East Bay Ray.  Raymond John Pepperell (born November 17 1958 in Oakland California) better known by his stage name East Bay Ray is a guitarist best known for his membership in the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys.
Bill Rice.  Wilbur Steven Bill Rice (born April 19 1939 in Datto Arkansas) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Rice charted six singles between 1971 and 1978 including the Top 40 hit Travelin' Minstrel Man but is better known for his songwriting. Rice has written songs for artists such as Johnny Paycheck Reba McEntire Charley Pride and Jerry Lee Lewis and he has more awards from the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers than any other songwriter.
Riri Fitri Sari.  Riri Fitri Sari is the CIO / Head of Information System Development and Services of the University of Indonesia UI. She was the eldest child of the couple Drs Mursyd AM MBA and Dra. Azizah Etek MA who was born on 7 July 1970 in Bukit Tinggi Indonesia.In 1997 she received her MSc in Software Systems and Parallel Processing of Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield UK and subsequently a PhD from Leads University UK.
Doug Aldrich.  Doug Aldrich (born February 19 1964 in Raleigh North Carolina) is a Los Angeles-based hard rock guitarist since 2002 a member of Whitesnake. He founded the band Burning Rain with Keith St. John in 1998 and has played previously with the bands Dio Lion Hurricane House of Lords and Bad Moon Rising. He has also released several solo albums.Doug was first introduced to the guitar at age 11 when his sister Jennifer introduced him to the playing of Jeff Beck.
Leslie Cheung.  Leslie Cheung (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer-songwriter actor film director record producer and screenwriter. Cheung is considered as one of the founding fathers of Cantopop by combining a hugely successful film and music career. He rose to prominence as a teen heartthrob and pop icon of Hong Kong in the 1980s receiving numerous music awards including both Most Popular Male Artist Awards at the 1988 and 1989 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards.
Saki.  Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916) better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro was a British writer whose witty mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde Lewis Carroll and Kipling he himself influenced A. A. Milne Noël Coward and P. G.
Matthew Crawford.  Matthew B. Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.He is a contributing editor at The New Atlantis.He is also a motorcycle mechanic.
Smartzee.  Smartzee is a French rapper born in Benin.
Michael Brecker.  Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29 1949 – January 13 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as a quiet gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane he was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2004 and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007.
Mariska Veres.  Mariska Veres (About this sound pronunciation ) (1 October 1947 – 2 December 2006) was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. Her appearance was striking featuring kohl cosmetic-lined eyes high cheekbones and long jet black hair.
Upamanyu Chatterjee.  Upamanyu Chatterjee (Bengali: উপমন্যু চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (born 1959) is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Defence. He is a 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Maharashtra Cadre.He is a published author and best known for his novel English August also adapted into an acclaimed film of the same title.
William Tempest.  William Tempest (born 19 December 1987) is a British fashion designer from Cheshire UK. He studied a National Diploma in Fashion Design at Mid Cheshire College and afterwards moved to London at the age of 18 to study at The London College of Fashion where he gained a first class honours degree in womenswear design. He has worked for designers Giles Deacon in Londonand Jean-Charles de Castelbajac in Paris.
Adetokunbo Lucas.  Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas OFR MD DSc FRCP FFPH FRCOG (1931- ) of Ibadan in the Nigeria Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston is a global health leader for Africa and a recipient of both the annual Prince Mahidol Award in 1999 for his support of strategic research on the tropical diseases such as malaria schistosomiasis the filariases leishmaniasis Chagas disease African trypanosomiasis and leprosy and the 2013 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). 
William Manchester.  William Raymond Manchester (April 1 1922 – June 1 2004) was an American author biographer and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award.
Eve Kirk.  Eve Kirk was a British landscape and decorative painter.
Michael Pinnella.  Michael Pinnella (born August 29 1969) is a keyboard player most notably for the band Symphony X. He has also released a solo album a mixture of classical and progressive-styled music titled Enter By the Twelfth Gate on the InsideOut Music label in 2004. Michael is one of two Symphony X members to appear on all eight of the band's albums (the other being Michael Romeo).
Louis Mitchell.  Louis A. Mitchell (December 17 1885 – September 2 1957) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.Mitchell began performing in vaudeville revues and minstrel shows from around the turn of the century playing drums and bandoline. After moving to New York City in 1912 he founded his own group the Southern Symphonists' Quartet. Mitchell sang and drummed for James Reese Europe in 1918 and the following year founded a new group which he called Louis Mitchell's Jazz Kings.
Patrick Kong.  Patrick Kong (simplified Chinese: 叶念琛; traditional Chinese: 葉念琛; pinyin: Yè Niànchēn; born 1975) is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter.
Maya Nasri.  Maya Asmar (Arabic: مايا أسمر‎) better known by her stage name Maya Nasri is a Lebanese singer recording artist and actress. She participated in Kas El Nojoum in 1998 on the Lebanese Broadcasting Channel where she won all three gold medals. Her debut single Khalleeni Bel Jaw topped several charts and launched her music career.
Seraphima Blonskaya.  Seraphima Ioasonovna Blonskaya (Leontovskaya) (Russian: Блонская Серафима Иасоновна 1870–1947) was a Russian artist and art teacher. Seraphima Blonskaya was born on October 3 1870 in Verkhnodniprovsk of Yekaterinovslav Government. In 1875 her family moved to Taganrog. In 1887 Blonskaya graduated with a golden medal from the Mariinskaya Gymnasium (Таганрогская мариинская гимназия) and entered the Art School of Mykola Burachek in Kiev that she finished in 1891.
Hans Aimar Mow Grønvold.  Hans Aimar Mow Grønvold (1846 – 1926) was a Norwegian civil servant and music writer.He was born in Saude as a son of vicar Bernt Olaus Grønvold (1819–1900). He was a third cousin of painters Bernt and Marcus Grønvold and educator Didrik Grønvold and a granduncle of Odd Grønvold.He graduated with the cand.jur. degree and from 1885 to 1906 he was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Labour.
Chris Raschka.  Chris Raschka (born March 6 1959) is an American illustrator writer and violist. He contributed to children's literature as a children's illustrator. He was U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1994 but Raschka may be most famous for his Hello Goodbye Window winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal. Also his book A Ball for Daisy won the 2012 Caldecott Medal.Rashka was born in Huntingdon Pennsylvania.
Nic Jones.  Nicolas Paul Nic Jones (born 9 January 1947) is an English folk singer fingerstyle guitarist and fiddle player whose professional career spanned the years 1964-1982. He recorded five solo albums and was a frequent guest performer.
Michael Radulescu.  Michael Radulescu (born 1943) is a Romanian-German composer organist and professor.He was born to a Romanian father and a German mother. He studied with Anton Heiller and Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna Austria.
Faudel.  Faudel (فضيل) born Faudel Belloua (فضيل بيلوى) on June 6 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie is a French singer of Algerian descent.
Leeroy Stagger.  Leeroy Stagger is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter.Raised in rural British Columbia Stagger worked in several local bands until gaining attention from acts such as Hot Hot Heat and Carolyn Mark. Reinventing himself as a singer-songwriter he released his debut independent EP Six Tales of Danger in 2002.Stagger has gone on tour as a supporting act for The Pixies Modest Mouse and Evan Dando and has collaborated with Danny Michel.
David L. Cook.  David L. Cook (born November 11 1968) is an American Christian country music singer-songwriter comedian and a multiple Emmy and Telly Awards winner.Born to Donnell and June (née Mercer) Cook David is the oldest of six children.
Krissel Valdez.  Krissel Joy Valdez (born October 10 1990) is a Filipina-Davaoena singer and the first runner-up of Star Power: Sharon Search For the Next Female Superstar. Better known as Krissel Valdez and dubbed as The Soulful Diva of Davao.
Reinier van Persijn.  Reinier van Persijn (1615 – 23 November 1668) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver of portraits and bookplates.
Moyse Alcan.  Moyse Alcan was a French Jewish publisher and litterateur born in 1817; died in Metz May 14 1869; father of the Parisian publisher Félix Alcan. He was a member of the Israelite consistory of Metz and one of the judges of the Tribunal of Commerce.
Ruslan Sirota.  Ruslan Sirota (born November 4 1980) is a Grammy Award-winning pianist keyboardist composer and producer.
Mary Abbott.  Mary Abbott (born July 27 1921) is an American artist who belonged to the New York School of abstract expressionists.
Richard Calder (writer).  This article is about Richard Calder the science fiction writer. For the CIA official see Richard Calder.Richard Calder (born 1956 London) is a notable British science fiction writer who lives and works in the East End of London but who spent over a decade in Thailand (1990–1997) and the Philippines (1999–2002).He began publishing stories in 1989 and first came to wider notice with the postcyberpunk novel Dead Girls (1992).
Sooyoung Park.  Sooyoung Park (born 1967) is an American singer-songwriter best known for fronting the bands Bitch Magnet and Seam. In 1995 he co-founded Foundation of Asian American Independent Media an art festival dedicated to showcasing Asian American culture.
Joan Jeanrenaud.  Joan Jeanrenaud née Dutcher (born January 25 1956) is an American cello player. A native of Memphis Tennessee she played with the Kronos Quartet from 1978 until 1999 when after a sabbatical she left to pursue a solo career and collaborations with other artists in part due to being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.She has staged and recorded solo performance pieces playing the cello in tandem with electronic instruments.
Adelina Thaçi.  Adelina Thaçi (born May 31 1980) is an Albanian Kosovar singer and vocal teacher.
Kōji Takahashi.  Kōji Takahashi (高橋幸治) (born 10 June 1935 in Tōkamachi Niigata) is a Japanese actor who attended Niigata Prefectural Tōkamachi High School and later Toyo University.
Sam Concepcion.  Samuel Lawrence Lopez Concepcion (born October 17 1992 in Manila Philippines) is a Filipino singer dancer actor and host.Concepcion emerged as the winner for the Big Division of Little Big Star`s Season 1 in April 2006. Concepcion currently has a contract under STAGES and ABS-CBN's Star Magic.
Carlos Cañedo.  Carlos Cañedo (born 1975) is a Mexican-American (chicano) rock musician and professional Argentine Tango dancer and choreographer. As a musician Cañedo performed in American punk rock and hardcore bands The PeeChees Rice and Beehive and the Barracudas releasing albums on seminal indie labels Kill Rock Stars Lookout! Records and Subpop. He is currently performing in Carlos Cañedo Is Filling Gaps with Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys.
Gunhild Nygaard.  Gunhild Nygaard (born February 22 1965) is a Norwegian fashion designer. She has her education from the Esmod fashion school in Paris France.Since 1990 she has lived in Paris and has previously worked as designer at both Givenchy og Christian Dior. In 2007 she presented her first solo collection gunhild and received the award Créateur de l'Année from the Mayor of Paris in 2009.
Jonathan Peters.  Jonathan Peters (born January 25 1969) is an American DJ remixer and producer.
Florence Foster Jenkins.  Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19 1868 – November 26 1944) was an American amateur operatic soprano who was known—and ridiculed—for her lack of rhythm pitch and tone; her aberrant pronunciation; and her generally poor singing ability.
Pop Mhan.  Pop Mhan (October 5 1973) is a comic book penciller and inker.
Janice LaMarre.  Janice LaMarre is a Canadian concert violist.
Antonio Ciseri.  Antonio Ciseri (25 October 1821 – 8 March 1891) was an Italian painter of religious subjects.He was born in Ronco sopra Ascona Switzerland. He went to Florence in 1833 to study drawing with Ernesto Bonaiuti and from 1834 he was a pupil of Niccola and Pietro Benvenuti at the Accademia di Belle Arti; he was later taught by Giuseppe Bezzuoli who greatly influenced the early part of his career. In 1849 he began offering instruction to young painters and eventually ran a private art school.
Frank Chacksfield.  Frank Chacksfield (9 May 1914 – 9 June 1995) was an English pianist organist composer and conductor of popular light orchestral easy listening music who had great success in Britain and internationally in the 1950s and early 1960s.
David Wadelton.  David Wadelton (born 1955) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. He is best known for his cyber-pop paintings almost photorealist in style.
Arlette Poirier.  Arlette Poirier is a French actress.
Claes Gill.  Claes Gill (13 October 1910 - 11 June 1973) was a Norwegian author poet and actor.Born in Odda but spent his childhood years in Bergen before moving to Oslo permanently.His most famous works were the poetry book Fragment av et magisk liv (Fragment of a magic life) in 1939 followed by Ord i jærn (Words in iron) in 1942.
Ivar Aasen.  Ivar Andreas Aasen (5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist lexicographer playwright and poet. He is best known for having created one of Norway's official languages Nynorsk.
Isabelle Boulay.  Isabelle Boulay CQ (born 6 July 1972 in Sainte-Félicité Quebec) is a francophone Canadian singer.
James Bonamy.  James Michael Bonamy (born April 29 1972) is an American country music artist. He released two studio albums (1996's What I Live to Do and 1997's Roots and Wings both on the Epic Records Nashville label. These albums produced seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts of which the highest-peaking was I Don't Think I Will at number 2.
E. V. Gordon.  Eric Valentine Gordon (1896–1938) was a philologist known as an editor of medieval Germanic texts and a teacher of medieval Germanic languages.
Petro Franko.  Petro Ivanovych Franko (Ukrainian: Петро Іванович Франко) (1890–1941) son of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. Petro was a Ukrainian educator pedagogue writer ethnographer scientist military leader and politician. Franko is a co-founder of the Plast a Ukrainian Scouting Organization and a former member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
Linda Schreiber.  Linda Schreiber is an American television soap opera writer. Her writing partner was her father Eric Freiwald who died on January 29 2010.
Vicente Amigo.  Vicente Amigo Girol (born 25 March 1967) is a Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist born in Guadalcanal near Seville. He has played as backing guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers El Pele Camarón de la Isla Vicente Soto Luis de Córdoba and the rociero band Salmarina and he has acted as a producer for Remedios Amaya and José Mercé. His album Ciudad de las Ideas won the 2001 Latin Grammy for the Best Flamenco Album and the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.
Bridget Riley.  For the boxer see Bridgett Riley.Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931 in Norwood London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art. She currently lives and works in London Cornwall and France.
Lee Thomas Miller.  Lee Thomas Miller (born in Nicholasville Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter and occasional record producer. His credits include the number one country hits The World and I'm Still a Guy for Brad Paisley and You're Gonna Miss This for Trace AdkinsI Just Wanna Be Mad for Terri Clark The Impossible for Joe Nichols and Southern Girl for Tim McGraw as well as chart topping hits for Casey James  Thomas Rhett and other artists.
Mari Ozawa.  Mari Ozawa (小沢真理 Ozawa Mari) is a Japanese josei manga artist who writes primarily for Kiss and Young You. She won the 1995 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku.
Freddie Aguilar.  Ferdinand Pascual Aguilar (born February 5 1953) better known as Freddie Aguilar or Ka Freddie Aguilar is a folk musician from the Philippines. He is best known for his rendition of Bayan Ko which became the anthem for the opposition to the Marcos regime during the 1986 People Power Revolution and for his song Anak the best-selling Philippine music record of all time.
Darren Hayman.  Darren Russell Hayman (born 30 November 1970 Brentwood Essex) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist in Hefner. Since Hefner disbanded in 2002 Hayman has embarked on a solo career and has released six albums three of which were with his band Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern.
Svein Olav Herstad.  Svein Olav Herstad (born 7 July 1969 in Odda Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician known from his own bands and several recordings with musicians like Sonny Simmons Jan Erik Kongshaug Nils-Olav Johansen Harald Johnsen and Per Oddvar Johansen.
Roberto Iniesta.  Roberto Robe Iniesta Ojea (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto iˈnjesta oˈxe.a]; May 16 1962) is a Spanish songwriter singer and guitarist. He is the frontman of the hard rock band Extremoduro.
Huang Jianxin.  Huang Jianxin (simplified Chinese: 黄建新; traditional Chinese: 黃建新; born 1954) is a Chinese film director. He is normally considered part of the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers (a group that includes Chen Kaige Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang) due to shared traits in his works although he was not a strictly a member of the inaugural 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy.
Shubhangi Rathod.  Shubhangi Rathod (Gujarati: શુભાંગી રાઠોડ) (born June 7 1996) is an Indian writer and a poet. She is best known for her work in the bollywood movie Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 as a script writer.
Margherita Galeotti.  Margherita Galeotti (b. 1867 d. after 1912) was an Italian pianist and composer. She was born in Mauern Bavaria and studied piano and composition with Giuseppe Buonamici in Florence and Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna. After completing her studies she performed as a concert pianist in Europe.
Preston Keat.  Preston Keat (born September 22 1966) is an American political scientist specializing on global political risk. He is a the Head of Political and Country Risk and a Managing Director at UBS. Prior to joining UBS he was a director or research and head of the Europe Practice at Eurasia Group the global political risk consultancy.
Sixtoo.  Sixtoo was the main project of a Canadian underground hip hop DJ producer and rapper Vaughn Robert Squire between 1996 and 2007. He has since retired the Sixtoo name pursuing other directions in electronic music with a large genre shift from experimental hip hop to deeper club sounds of various tempos. He is also known as C.L. S.C.A.R.R. Speakerbruiser Rob and Prison Garde.
P. Adinarayana Rao.  Penupatruni Adinarayana Rao (1915–1991) also known as P. Adinarayana Rao was a Telugu music director film producer lyricist and play writer.He co-founded Aswini Pictures with Akkineni Nageswara Rao and produced some movies in Telugu and Tamil. Later he produced several blockbuster Telugu movies under his own production house Anjali Pictures named after his actress wife Anjali Devi. He also composed and produced music for several Tamil and Hindi movies.According to the music critic V.
Yulia MacLean.  Yulia (full name Yulia MacLean) is a Russian-born New Zealand classical crossover singer. Her first solo album Into The West went platinum in its first week of sales in New Zealand. She won two NZ Music Awards; 'Best Female Solo Artist' and 42 Below 'Best Selling Album in New Zealand'. She has supported Amici Forever and Russell Watson with two sold-out tours in Tokyo.
Damon Minchella.  Damon Minchella (born 1 June 1969 in Ince-in-Makerfield Lancashire) is an English bass guitarist formerly with Ocean Colour Scene which he left in 2003.
Bedriye Hoşgör.  Bedriye Hoşgör (1889 Ottoman Empire – 1968 Turkey) was a Turkish composer.Hoşgör was influenced by the tekke music tradition as a child growing up in Konya. After she and her family moved to Istanbul Hoşgör took oud lessons from Enderunlu İsmet Efendi and Udi Afet and usul lessons from Halit Bey a muezzin at the palace. Hoşgör also worked with Tanburi Cemil Bey whom she had met at a social gathering.
Tico Santa Cruz.  Tico Santa Cruz (born Luis Guilherme Brunetta Fontenelle de Araújo; September 30 1977 in Rio de Janeiro) is the frontman of Detonautas Roque Clube.
Afsar Maudoodi.  Syed Mahmood Hussain Afsar Maudoodi (1874-1948)was an accomplished Urdu Poet and Physician of Unani Medicine. He was the son of the acclaimed classical Urdu Poet' Syed Ahmad Hussain Fida'.
Merle Tottenham.  Merle Tottenham (1901–1958) was an Indian-born British film actress.
Peter Wells (filmmaker).  Peter Northe Wells MNZM (born 1950) is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from New Zealand.Although today he is mainly known for his fiction Peter Wells has explored his interest in gay and historical themes in a number of expressive drama and documentary films since the 1980s.The first and (up to 2008) last feature film made by Peter Wells is Desperate Remedies (1993) co-directed with Stewart Main.
Nancy Elizabeth.  Nancy Elizabeth Cunliffe (born 1983) is a folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who releases music with the The Leaf Label. She is an active member of Sōka Gakkai.
Gerwin van der Werf.  Gerwin van der Werf (born June 13 1969 in De Meern Utrecht Province) is an author of novels songwriter and instrumentalist. In April 2010 his first novel 'de Gewapende Man' was published by Uitgeverij Contact. In January 2010 his poem 'Misbruik' won the first prize in the Dutch Turing National Poetry Contest a prestigious Dutch poetry contest.
Peter Schilperoort.  Peter Schilperoort (November 4 1919 – November 17 1990) was a Dutch musician famous for his work with the Dutch Swing College Band and projects with other well-known musicians. He is most recognised as a saxophone and clarinet player but also played the guitar and the banjo. Leading the Dutch Swing College Band from 1946 to 1955 then from 1960 to 1990 his style was Dixieland a style popular at the start of the 20th century.
Peter Gregson (cellist).  Peter Gregson (born 1987) is a cellist composer and pioneer of contemporary music.
Éric Vigner.  Éric Vigner (born October 27 1960 in Rennes France) is a French stage director scenic designer and theater director of the CDDB - Théâtre de Lorient Centre Dramatique National France
Quorthon.  Thomas Ace Börje Forsberg known by the stage name Quorthon (February 17 1966 – c. June 7 2004) was a Swedish musician. He was a multi-instrumentalist and the founder and songwriter of the pioneering Swedish black metal band Bathory. He is also credited with creating the Viking metal genre. He composed the music and wrote the lyrics on all of Bathory's albums.
Gary Groth.  Gary Groth (born 1954) is an American comic book editor publisher and critic. He is editor-in-chief of The Comics Journal and a co-founder of Fantagraphics Books.
John Gunn (writer).  John Gunn (c1765-c1824) was a Scottish cellist writer on music and professor.
Bill DeSmedt.  William H. DeSmedt is an American author of science fiction. His debut novel Singularity (2004) explores the 1908 Tunguska event and the speculative hypothesis that it was caused by a submicroscopic primordial black hole.
Parry Aftab.  Parry Aftab is a US lawyer specializing in Internet privacy and security law and is considered one of the founders of the field of cyberlaw. She is the Executive Director of WiredSafety.org a volunteer organization dedicated to online safety. She was featured in Chris Hansen's book To Catch a Predator. She created the StopCyberbullying Coalition to help address cyberbullying and digital abuse issues.
Luke Ross.  Luke Ross (born Luciano Queiroz 18 July 1972) is a comic artist known for his work on books such as Gen13 Spider-Man Green Lantern Indiana Jones and Captain America.
Andrea Kushi.  Andrea Kushi (1884–1959) was an Albanian painter. He was one of the most important representatives of the elder generation of Albanian painters.
Mei Ting.  Mei Ting (born 30 April 1975) is an award-winning Chinese actress.
Shinji Higuchi.  Shinji Higuchi (樋口真嗣 Higuchi Shinji born September 22 1965 in Tokyo Japan) is a storyboard artist particularly in anime and one of the top special effects supervisors in Japan best known for his work on Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy in the 1990s. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.
Gregory Maguire.  Gregory Maguire (born June 9 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and many other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are revisionist retellings of classic children's stories: for example in Wicked he transformed the Wicked Witch of the West from L.
Bedri Baykam.  Bedri Baykam (born 26 April 1957) is a Turkish artist.
Omar Fadel.  Omar Fadel is an Egyptian-American music composer. Raised in Dubai Egypt and the United States he was educated at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently lives in Los Angeles California.
Jane Farrow.  Jane Farrow is a Canadian author and broadcaster. Her written works include Wanted Words Wanted Words 2 and (with David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace) the Canadian Book of Lists. She has worked for CBC Radio since 1998 producing and hosting programs such as Sunday Morning Wanted Words (from which the books of the same name were derived) Workology and the etymological program And Sometimes Y. Jane Farrow was the executive director of Jane's Walk.
Elizabeth Inchbald.  Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was an English novelist actress and dramatist.
John Pelan.  John C. Pelan (born 1957) is an American author editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction weird and horror fiction genres.He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as Tim Powers Charles de Lint Michael Shea and James P. Blaylock. Following this he founded Darkside Press Silver Salamander Press and co-founded Midnight House.
Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge.  Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (July 1 1969 – October 9 2007) was the chosen name of Jacqueline Mary Breyer an American nurse keyboard player and singer with PTV3 (a revamped version of Psychic TV) and Thee Majesty. She married Genesis P-Orridge in 1993 and took the name Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge as part of their Pandrogyne project to evolve into a new gender as a single being they called Breyer P-Orridge.
Chico Hamilton.  Chico Hamilton (born Foreststorn Hamilton September 20 1921 – November 25 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Louis Schanker.  Louis Schanker (1903–1981) was an American abstract artist born in 1903. He grew up in an orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx New York. His parents were of Romanian descent. At an early age he had an interest in both art and music He took art courses at Cooper Union The Educational Alliance and The Art Students League with Barnett Newman Mark Rothko and Milton Avery amongst others. During this time he shared a coldwater studio with the Soyer brothers Chaim Gross and Adolph Gottlieb.
Eamon McGrath.  Eamon McGrath is a folk music and punk rock musician from Edmonton Alberta and currently based in Toronto.
Dory Previn.  Dory Previn (born Dorothy Veronica Langan; October 22 1925 – February 14 2012) was an American lyricist singer-songwriter and poet.During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist on songs intended for motion pictures and with her then husband André Previn received several Academy Award nominations. In the 1970s after their divorce she released six albums of original songs and an acclaimed live album.
Melissa Lauren.  Melissa Lauren (born October 16 1984 in La Rochelle Charente-Maritime France) is a French pornographic actress and director.Lauren started off studying as a cook for three years and worked in Paris as a pastry chef. After reading an ad in a newspaper from French porn director John B. Root Lauren began filming six days later in June 2003.Her directorial debut was for the gonzo pornography company Combat Zone with the film Plucked Then Fucked.
Wolfgang Manz.  Wolfgang Manz (born in Düsseldorf 1960) is a German pianist.He won Berlin's 1980 Mendelssohn competition and was awarded 2nd prizes at Leeds' (1981) and Brussels' (1983) competitions. An international concert career ensued. A professor at Nürnberg's Musikhochschule he remains active in his homeland.
Maheen Kardar Ali.  Maheen Kardar Ali is a Pakistani fashion designer and fashion designer for the Karma fashion label.
Gienek Loska.  Henadzi Loska (Belarusian: Генадзь Лоска born 8 January 1975) better known as Gienek Loska is a Polish singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Belaazyorsk in Belarus who rose to fame after winning the first series of X Factor in 2011. Since his arrival to Poland in early 1990s he has lived in Bialystok Kraków and from 2004 in Wrocław in Poland.Loska was the co-founder and longtime member of the blues-rock band Seven B. Currently he is a leading singer and guitarist of Gienek Loska Band.
Tommy Crook.  Tommy Crook is an American guitarist who lives in Tulsa Oklahoma. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Black Benny.  Black Benny Williams (c. 1890 – 1924) was a New Orleans-based bass drummer of legendary status who played in brass bands in the early decades of the 20th century. Black Benny was recalled by many New Orleans musicians of the era but left no recordings.Black Benny was born and died in New Orleans. He grew up in a rough poor African-American neighborhood of the Third Ward of New Orleans known as The Battleground.
Damian McGinty.  Damian Joseph McGinty Jr. (born 9 September 1992) is an Irish actor and singer from Derry Northern Ireland. McGinty has been performing for over a decade and was a member of the group Celtic Thunder for four years starting when he was fourteen. On 21 August 2011 McGinty won the Oxygen reality show The Glee Project earning him a seven-episode guest-starring role on the hit Fox television show Glee which was later extended to 17 episodes.
Nicolai Dunger.  Nicolai Dunger is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released twelve EPs and albums singing primarily in English and collaborated notably with Will Oldham the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg. He also records under the alias A Taste of Ra. He uses his full real name of Claus Wilhelm Nicolai Dunger for composing credits but this has caused confusion with some tracks being credited to two separate composers Claus Wilhelm and Nicolai Dunger.
Jon Rubin.  Jon Rubin is an American artist living and working in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He's also professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His work feeds people with waffles.
Sean Forbes.  Sean Forbes (born February 5 1982 in Detroit) is a deaf American hip-hop artist. Sean became deaf from spinal meningitis when he was a few months old. The cause was never officially diagnosed but Sean has said that they (the doctors) had suspected spinal meningitis. Sean's parents bought him a drum set when he was 5 years old and he started writing songs and playing guitar when he was 10. Sean grew up playing music with his siblings.
Jim Northrup (writer).  Jim Northrup (born 1943) is an Anishinaabe (Native American) newspaper columnist poet performer and political commentator from the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation in Minnesota. His Anishinaabe name is Chibenashi (from Chi-bineshiinh Big little-bird).
Joe Young (lyricist).  Joe Young (July 4 1889 – April 21 1939) was a lyricist. He was born in New York. Young was most active from 1911 through the late-1930s beginning his career working as a singer and songplugger for various music publishers. During World War I he entertained the U.S. Troops touring Europe as a singer.
Steve Swindells.  Steve Swindells (born 21 November 1952) is an English singer-songwriter keyboardist party organiser club promoter and journalist.Swindells grew up in the Bath and Bristol area dropping out of art college to play keyboards with the rock band Squidd. Relocating to London in 1973 and living in squats he recorded his debut solo album Messages for RCA in 1974.
Valeriu Sterian.  Valeriu (Vali) Sterian (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈlerju steriˈan]; 21 September 1952 Ştiubei Buzău County – 16 September 2000 Bucharest) was a Romanian folk and rock musician.
Sachiko Kobayashi.  Sachiko Kobayashi (小林 幸子 Kobayashi Sachiko) born on December 5 1953 in Niigata Japan is a female Japanese enka singer and occasional voice actor. She previously worked alongside the Pokémon Company under the alias Garura Kobayashi.
Markus Johansson.  Markus Johansson (born December 22 1984) is an American heavy metal guitarist and vocalist from Chicago Illinois. He is currently the lead guitarist for the Australian thrash metal band 4ARM and the lead vocalist and guitarist for Sylencer.
Alysha Brillinger.  Alysha Sarah Brilla (b. November 3) is a Tanzanian-Canadian musician. Born in Mississauga Ontario and raised in Kitchener Ontario Brilla started singing in her early teens in local bands and at various festivals including the Coalflats and Kitchener Blues Festival where she was the 2008 winner of the Grande River Youth Legacy contest. Brilla briefly attended Humber College's Jazz program in Toronto while playing local gigs and building a fanbase.
Dick Morrissey.  Richard Edwin Dick Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax soprano sax and flute.
Suleyman Sani Akhundov.  Suleyman Sani Akhundov (Azeri: Süleyman Sani Axundov) (3 October 1875 Shusha – 29 March 1939 Baku) was an Azerbaijani playwright journalist children's author and teacher. He chose the name Sani (Arabic for the second) to avoid confusion with his namesake Mirza Fatali Akhundov.
Chung An-chi.  Chung An-Chi (Chinese: 鍾安琪; pinyin: Zhōng Anqí; Wade–Giles: Chung An-ch'i; born July 23 1989 in Taiwan) better known in Japan as Anchii (アンチー) is the sub-leader of the latest Hello! Project group Ice Creamusume.
SM Sultan.  Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (Bengali: শেখ মোহাম্মাদ সুলতান) (1923–1994) better known as SM Sultan(এস এম সুলতান) was a painter from Bangladesh. Sultan was born on 10 August 1923 in Masimdia Narail district Bangladesh. He was declared the Man of Asia in 1982 by University of Cambridge.
Peter Benoit.  Peter Benoit (17 August 1834 – 8 March 1901) was a Flemish composer of Belgian nationality.
Paulo Schroeber.  Paulo Schroeber (August 18 1973 – March 24 2014) was a Brazilian guitarist most known for his work with Almah. He was a member of Astafix Hammer 67 Burning in Hell and Fear Ritual by the time of his death.
Jodie Sands.  Jodie Sands (born Eleanor DiSipio) was an American popular singer who hailed from Philadelphia. She had only one major hit With All My Heart which reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1957. One other recording of hers Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) barely made the Top 100 chart the following year reaching #95 but did better in the United Kingdom where it reached #14.She also appeared in the 1957 film Jamboree.
Don Backy.  Don Backy real name — Aldo Caponi (born in Santa Croce sull'Arno 21 August 1939) is an Italian singer and author. He collaborated with Sofia Rotaru for Grey Bird - Ukrainian version of Italian song L'immensità.[citation needed]
Antonio Morelli.  Antonio Morelli was a producer arranger bandleader movie producer and conductor most well known for serving as orchestra leader for the infamous Sands Hotel Copa Room in its Rat Pack heyday from 1954 through 1971. He was music director band leader and friend to some of the biggest names in show business for twenty years and is credited with bringing classical music to Las Vegas.
Eagle-Eye Cherry.  Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry (born 7 May 1968) is a Swedish musician best known for the single Save Tonight.
Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca.  Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca (August 10 1894 – August 16 1946) was an American labor activist who particularly represented women workers in the garment industry. She was an early organizer for Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) after its split from the more conservative United Garment Workers of America in 1914. She became a board member in 1916 and in 1917 became its first full-time female organizer.She was born in Zemel Latvia to Harry Jacobs a tailor and Bernice Edith Levinson.
Rafi Pitts.  Rafi Pitts (born 1967) is an Iranian film director.
Ron Kleemann.  Ron Kleemann (born 1937 in Bay City Michigan) is an American Photorealist. Kleemann has been recognized as one of the original artists of the Photorealism movement. His work is usually that of shiny brightly painted vehicles sometimes focusing on just certain parts. Kleemann began to use photographs as aides for his paintings in 1968. These early paintings had subjects such as trucks and cars. Some of the paintings were superimposed with parts of the male and female body.
Kenny Mellman.  Kenneth Kenny Mellman is an American musician and cabaret artist. He is a member of The Julie Ruin.Mellman is co-creator of Kiki and Herb with Justin Bond and plays the role of 'Herb'. He created his solo show 'Kenny Mellman is Grace Jones' and co-wrote the show 'At Least It’s Pink' with Bridget Everett and Michael Patrick King Mellman performed with The Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute).
Ford Madox Ford.  Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) born Ford Hermann Hueffer (/ˈhɛfər/ HEF-ər) was an English novelist poet critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications The Good Soldier (1915) the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08).
Paul Nicholas Mason.  Paul Nicholas Mason (born 1958) is a Canadian novelist playwright and occasional journalist.Born in London England he was raised in Rhodesia British Columbia and Ontario. He is a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough and Queen's University in Kingston.Mason has published two plays The Discipline Committee and Circles of Grace (1995) which have been produced in Canada Ireland and the United States.
Sanae Takagi.  Sanae Takagi (高木 早苗 Takagi Sanae born May 21 1955 in Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production. She is married to voice actor Naoki Tatsuta.
Moïse Schwab.  Moïse Schwab (Paris September 18 1839–1918) was a French librarian and author.
Matt Epp.  Matt Epp (born November 25 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Winnipeg Manitoba. He has released several albums and collaborated with artists like Eliza Gilkyson Rose Cousins Serena Ryder and Amelia Curran among others.
Kendra Ross.  Kendra Ross (born Kendra Janelle Ross on December 4 1975) is an American singer-songwriter record producer music business executive and social activist. from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (though born in Youngstown Ohio) who currently resides in Brooklyn New York City.
Francis Martin.  Francis Martin (1652–1722) was an Irish Augustinian.
Laura Mikkola.  Laura Imola Mikkola (born in Helsinki 1974) is a Finnish pianist.Laura Mikkola having previously won Pretoria's UNISA TRANSNET and Helsinki's Maj Lind competitions and been awarded the XII Paloma O'Shea Competition's contemporary music prize and a grant-prize was second to Markus Groh at the XIII Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
Sandy Jimenez.  Sandy Jimenez (born March 8 1968) is an American comic book artist writer and director most commonly associated with the New York city independent comic book scene of the 1990s with work appearing in magazines such as Inner City Press and World War 3 Illustrated.
Khan Amirzadah Khan.  Khan Amirzadah Khan was a Khudai Khidmatgar and a leader of the National Awami Party in Pakistan. He was born on 15 November 1918 in the house of Khan Khoidad Khan at Bakhshali village Mardan District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formerly known as North West Frontier Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Victor Margueritte.  Victor Margueritte (1866 – 1942) and his brother Paul Margueritte (1860 – 1918) French novelists both born in Algeria were the sons of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823 – 1870) who after an honorable career in Algeria was mortally wounded in the great cavalry charge at Sedan and died in Belgium on September 6 1870. An account of his life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884; enlarged ed. 1897).
Scotty Granger.  Scotty Granger (born July 19 1987 in New Orleans Louisiana) also known as Scotty G is an American pop R&B and dance music singer/producer/songwriter residing in Los Angeles California.
R. J. Yeatman.  Robert Julian Yeatman (15 July 1897 – 13 July 1968) was a British humorist who wrote for Punch. He is best known for the book 1066 and All That 1930 ISBN 0-413-77270-5) a tongue-in-cheek guide to all the history you can remember which he wrote with W. C. Sellar.He was born in Oporto the principal city and port of northern Portugal where his father was a wine merchant a family business connected with Taylor's Port.
Ricky Skaggs.  Ricky Lee Skaggs (born July 18 1954) is an American country and bluegrass singer musician producer and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however he also plays fiddle guitar mandocaster and banjo.
Simon Fowler.  Simon Geoffrey Fowler (born 25 May 1965 in Meriden Warwickshire) is an English singer and acoustic guitarist best known as the frontman of Ocean Colour Scene.
Phil Price (sculptor).  Phil Price (born 1965) is a New Zealand sculptor. He is best known for his large scale wind-activated kinetic sculpture. Price was educated in Christchurch and specialised in sculpture at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.Examples of Price's work include Zephyrometer and Protoplasm in Wellington and Cytoplasm in Auckland.
Anne Eyre Worboys.  Anne Eyre Worboys (born 1920 in Auckland New Zealand – d. June 2007 in Leigh Kent England) was a New Zealander-British writer of 40 romance and suspense novels. She also signed her novels as Annette Eyre and Anne Worboys and under the pseudonym of Vicky Maxwell. In 1977 her novel Every Man A King (aka Rendezvous with Fear) won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Shinobu Kaitani.  Shinobu Kaitani (甲斐谷忍 Kaitani Shinobu born September 24 1967) is a manga artist from Kagoshima Japan and a recipient of the 1991 Tezuka Award. His most notable works are One Outs and Liar Game. He has mentioned in an interview that he was inspired to write Liar Game after visiting a local bar in Kagoshima.[citation needed]
Ransom Riggs.  Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.Riggs was born in Maryland on a 200 year old farm and grew up in Florida where he attended the Pine View School for the Gifted. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and studied film at the University of Southern California.
Stephen Vincent Benét.  Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22 1898 – March 13 1943) was an American author poet short story writer and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War John Brown's Body (1928) for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929 and for two short stories The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937).
Rune Nergaard.  Rune Nergård (born 26 May 1983 in Bodø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musivian (upright bass) known from bands like Bushman's Revenge Marvel Machine Scent Of Soil and Team Hegdal.
Mark Farrell (comedian).  Mark Farrell (born 1966) is a Canadian comedian and writer who honed his talent in the Yuk Yuk's comedy club in Halifax Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto in 1989. In 1992 Farrell helped lead an exodus from the Yuk Yuk's chain along with other prominent comics such as Brent Butt.
Stephen Matthews (writer).  Stephen Matthews (born 1946) is an Australian author and publisher.He was born in Chichester England and after completing studies at Cambridge University travelled to Australia in 1979. He taught until 1987 and then established a publishing company in Canberra called Ginninderra Press.In 2007 he won the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for best children's book Secrets which he edited.
Black Milk.  Curtis Cross (born August 14 1983) better known by his stage name Black Milk is a hip hop producer and MC from Detroit Michigan.
Zak Spears.  Zak Spears is a gay pornographic film actor. Spears appeared in the feature film The Doom Generation (1995) using his real name Khristofor Rossianov. He also appeared in the black comedy feature film Forgiving the Franklins (2006) under the name Khris Scaramanga.
Hugh Pool.  Hugh Pool (born Hugh Eustis Potts Pool March 17 1964 Mars Pennsylvania) is an American musician songwriter and producer who plays guitar in a unique style that melds traditional Delta blues country music and classic and psychedelic rock and roll. His instrument of choice is a National Steel Triolian a resonator guitar somewhat like a Dobro played with a spark plug wrench through an Ibanez TS-9 overdrive pedal and a Dunlop Dyna comp compressor.
Alejandro Christophersen.  Alejandro Christophersen (1866 –1946) was an Argentine architect and artist of Norwegian descent who designed many important buildings in the city of Buenos Aires including the renowned Anchorena Palace.
Joan Lockton.  Joan Lockton was a British actress.
Henry Alford (writer).  Henry Alford is an American humorist and journalist who has contributed to Vanity Fair and The New York Times for over a decade. He has also written for The New Yorker. The author of four books he won a Thurber Prize for his second Big Kiss an account of his attempt to become a working actor.
Sarkis Diranian.  Sarkis Diranian (Born Istanbul Ottoman Turkey 1854 - died Paris France 1918) was an Armenian orientalist painter. Originally from the Ottoman Empire he was established for many years in Paris.
Paul Lorck Eidem.  Paul Lorck Eidem (22 October 1909–24 September 1992) was a Norwegian writer and illustrator.He was born in Horten in Vestfold county Norway. He grew up on the island Bastøy where his stepfather was the warden of the special school for boys.Eidem was known in his time for books such as En herre på byen (1941) En herre på nye veier (1942) and Eva – den store suksex (1958).
Einar Olsen (editor).  Einar Olsen (born 25 April 1936) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Kragerø. He was a journalist in the Norwegian News Agency from 1957 to 1960 and in the Labour Movement Press Office from 1960 to 1965. He then became editor-in-chief in Rogalands Avis from 1965 to 1970 Vestfold Arbeiderblad from 1971 to 1973 and Arbeiderbladet from 1974 to 1975. In 1989 he became the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian News Agency.
Kaare Bratung.  Kaare Bratung (1906 – 1985) was a Norwegian illustrator and comic artist.He was born in Bodø and graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in 1929. He was one of the primary names of early Norwegian comics alongside Ivar Mauritz-Hansen Sigurd Winsnes and Jens R. Nilssen. He became known for his comics Dagros and Baldrian printed in Nationen and Professoren printed in Morgenbladet. His own publication Se og les had a lifespan of two years. He died in 1985.
Menachem Mendel Kasher.  Menachem Mendel Kasher (Hebrew: מנחם מנדל כשר‎; born 7 March 1895 died 3 November 1983) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and prolific author who authored an encyclopedic work on the Torah entitled Torah Sheleimah.
Claire Trentain.  Claire Trentain is an Australian pop singer and songwriter from Queensland Australia. Her debut album Loving the Blue and Green was produced by Murlyn Music Group and had two charting singles Warmth and What Would You Say?
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano.  Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (18 October 1824 – 18 April 1905) was a Spanish realist author diplomat and politician.He was born at Cabra in the province of Córdoba and was educated at Málaga and at the University of Granada where he took his degree in law and then entered upon a diplomatic career (1847). Over the next five decades Valera filled a number of positions in a variety of places. He accompanied the Spanish Ambassador to Naples.
Arkatech Beatz.  Arkatech Beatz (formerly known as The Infinite Arkatechz and often nicknamed The Arkatechz for short) are a Grammy nominated music production team from New York now based in Atlanta. They were affiliated with Loud Records/ Sony Music Entertainment as A&R executives in the late '90s and has composed written and produced music for gold and multi platinum selling artists such as Big Pun Nas Raekwon Prodigy (rapper) of Mobb Deep Mýa Waka Flocka Flame and others.
Mohi Turei.  Mohi Turei (?–1914) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader minister of religion carver and composer of haka. Of Māori descent he identified with the Ngati Porou iwi.
Negativ.  Maurits Robert Delchot better known by his stage name Negativ (born 8 September 1982) is a Dutch rapper actor and radio broadcaster of Surinamese origin from Amsterdam-Oost. Negativ became part of the rap formation D-Men. He has also acted films like Bolletjes Blues and Complexx. He also has his own weekly radio show where he DJs for Juize FM on Fridays.
Charles Fracé.  Charles Fracé a wildlife artist whose work was featured in more than 450 exhibitions was born in 1926 in the small town of Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in eastern Pennsylvania. He began drawing at five and taught himself to paint when he was fifteen. His self-instructed talent earned him a scholarship to Philadelphia Museum School of Art where he graduated with honors.In 1955 Fracé began a professional career as a freelance illustrator in New York City.
Nanase Aikawa.  Nanase Aikawa (相川 七瀬 Aikawa Nanase born February 16 1975) is a Japanese rock and pop singer. She publishes her music under the Motorod label a division of Avex Group.
Tengger (singer).  Tengger (Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠢᠨᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷ ᠤᠨ ᠲᠡᠩᠭᠡᠷᠢ or ᠲᠡᠩᠭᠡᠷᠢ lit. sky; simplified Chinese: 腾格尔; traditional Chinese: 騰格爾; pinyin: Ténggé'ěr; Wade–Giles: Teng Ko Erh; born January 1 1960) also known as Tenger is a Chinese singer a songwriter and a composer of Mongol heritage. He was born in Otog Banner Inner Mongolia China in Sainbayar family.He composed and sang the song The Mongol (蒙古人 měng gǔ rén) in 1986 which made him become famous.
Ray Benson.  Ray Benson (born March 16 1951) is the front man of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.In 1970 Benson a Jewish native of Philadelphia formed Asleep at the Wheel with friends Lucky Oceans and Leroy Preston. The group relocated to Austin in 1973 after a suggestion from Willie Nelson .Since then the group has released more than 20 albums and earned 9 Grammy awards.
Pelham Humfrey.  Pelham Humfrey (Humphrey Humphrys) (London 1647 – Windsor 14 July 1674) was the first of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration to rise to prominence.He died at the age of 27 but along with Matthew Locke exerted a strong influence on his peers even at his young age including William Turner Henry Purcell and John Blow.
Kent Riley.  Kentigan Peter Kent Riley (born 9 April 1988) is an English actor born in Fazakerley Liverpool & brought up in Lydiate where he attended St Gregory's Junior School where he caught the bug for acting starring in many of the schools performing arts projects. He went on to attend Maricourt Catholic High School in nearby Maghull.He began his acting career in a number of musical theatre productions.
Alexandre Beljame.  Alexandre Beljame (November 26 1842 – September 19 1906) was a French writer.He was born at Villiers-le-Bel Val-d'Oise. He spent part of his childhood in England and was a frequent visitor in London. His lectures on English literature at the Sorbonne where a chair was created expressly for him did much to promote the study of English in France. In 1905–1906 he was Clark lecturer on English literature at Trinity College Cambridge.
John Moore (British author).  John Moore (10 November 1907–1967) was a best-selling British author and pioneer conservationist.He was born in Tewkesbury Gloucestershire in 1907 and died in Bristol in 1967. During the latter part of his life he lived in the village of Kemerton on the slopes of Bredon Hill which he popularised as 'Brensham Hill' in a number of his writings.His most famous work was Portrait of Elmbury published in 1945 about life in Tewkesbury in the early 20th century.
Elsa Triolet.  Elsa Yur'evna Triolet (12 September (or 24 September) 1896 - 16 June 1970) born Ella Kagan (Russian: Элла Каган) was a French writer.
Maarten Krabbé.  Maarten Krabbé (22 February 1908 – 18 February 2005) was a Dutch painter and art educator.
Pepe Martínez.  Pepe Martínez (José Martínez León 8 September 1922 - 1984) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist born into a musical family in the Seville quarter of Macarena. His mother Isabel was famous for her singing of religiously inspired Saetas a vocal style which has since been incorporated into the flamenco palo.
Akiva Schaffer.  Akiva D. Kiv Schaffer (born December 1 1977) is an American writer for Saturday Night Live film director songwriter member of The Lonely Island and actor.
Sally Oldfield.  Sally Patricia Oldfield (born 8 March 1947) is a singer-songwriter sister of composers Mike Oldfield and Terry Oldfield.
Anders Zorn.  Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter sculptor and printmaker in etching.
Birgitta Haukdal.  Birgitta Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir (born 28 July 1979) also known by her mononym Birgitta is an Icelandic singer. She rose to domestic media prominence as the lead singer of pop band Írafár. She represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song Open Your Heart finishing eighth with 81 points.
Jean-Michel Soupraya.  Jean-Michel Soupraya (born April 25 1973) is a French record producer music conductor musical arranger film composer and musician. Often referred to as The Next Quincy Jones. Soupraya is noted for his talent at piano and keyboard and unique eclectic musical abilities. He has been heavily influenced by his time spent in the West Indies where he was surrounded by percussions marimbas singers dancers carnivals etc.
Ronnie McDowell.  Ronald Dean Ronnie McDowell (born March 25 1950) is an American country music artist. He is best known for his 1977 song The King Is Gone a tribute to Elvis Presley who had recently died. From that single onward McDowell charted more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts. Two of his singles – Older Women and You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation — reached Number One on the country charts while eleven more reached Top Ten.
Ingeborg Bachmann.  Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
Katsumi Suzuki.  Katsumi Suzuki (鈴木 勝美 Suzuki Katsumi born August 5 1956) is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Kagome's grandfather in InuYasha after Ginzo Matsuo's death and as the voice of Diddy Kong in many of Nintendo's video games since 2003. He currently works at Arts Vision.
Christopher Martin (entertainer).  Christopher Play Martin (born July 10 1962) is an American rapper and actor formerly the latter half of the late 1980s/early 1990s hip-hop/comedy duo Kid 'n Play.
Josh Azzarella.  Josh Azzarella (born 1978 Ohio) is an artist based in New York New York. He is represented by Mark Moore Gallery in Culver City.
Willem van de Velde the Elder.  Willem van de Velde the Elder (c. 1611 – 13 December 1693) was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter.
Clora Bryant.  Clora Bryant (born May 30 1927 in Denison Texas) is an American jazz trumpeter.
Kirsten Imrie.  Kirsten Fiona Imrie (born 26 October 1967 at St Mary Abbots Hospital Kensington London) is a former Page 3 girl glamour model and television presenter.
Mick Thomas.  Michael James Thomas (born 7 February 1960 Yallourn) is an Australian singer-songwriter producer and guitarist. Thomas was the founding mainstay of a folk rock group Weddings Parties Anything (1984–1998) and leader of Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing. He has also released material as a solo artist.
Matt Walker (drummer).  Matt Walker is a Chicago based musician and former drummer for Filter The Smashing Pumpkins and Morrissey.Matt Walker began his career in Chicago in the mid-1980s when he began playing drums for the Chicago bands Scott Bennett & The Obvious The Clinic Brad Peterson and Peat Moss and Tribal Opera until joining the band Filter in 1994. Matt toured with Filter in support of the album Short Bus until 1996.
Hagigat Rzayeva.  Hagigat Ali qizi Rzayeva (Azerbaijani: Həqiqət Rzayeva) (20 May 1907 Lankaran – 2 August 1969 Baku) was an Azerbaijani actress and singer (folk opera and pop).
Louise Rutkowski.  Louise Rutkowski (born 1964) is a Scottish singer who rose to prominence as part of the 4AD music project This Mortal Coil.
Stranger Cole.  Stranger Cole also known as StrangeJah Cole (born Wilburn Theodore Cole 1945) is a Jamaican singer whose long recording career dates from the early days of ska in 1962 through to the 2000s.
Aldo Nova.  Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13 1956 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian guitarist keyboardist vocalist and producer. Nova initially gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1982 and its accompanying single Fantasy which climbed to Number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller.  Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller generally known as Friedrich Burgmüller (4 December 1806 – 13 February 1874) was a German pianist and composer.
Kim Douglas Wiggins.  Kim Douglas Wiggins (born April 8 1959) is an American painter and sculptor best known for his expressionist landscapes and historical imagery of the American West. His work was recently seen in November 2007 in a solo exhibition at Altermann Galleries in New York City as well as numerous exhibitions at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.
Daize Shayne.  Daize Shayne (born in California) is a surfer recording artist and model.The two time world champion longboard surfer was featured in Maxim and two issues of ReadyGo Magazine Japan in which she had 16 full-page color photos of her modelling alongside Britney Spears and others. She has also been featured in numerous other international magazines.Daize said she was born April 25 1978 in Ukiah CA.
Khairi Al-Hindawi.  Khairuddin (Khairi) bin Saleh bin Abdul Qadir bin Khader Al-Husseini Al-Alawi (1303-1376 AH / 1885-1957 AD) an Iraqi poet and a governor of several provinces.
Ginny Clee.  Ginny Clee is an English blues rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Jerome K. Jerome.  Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.
DMX (rapper).  Earl Simmons (born December 18 1970) better known by his stage names DMX and Dark Man X is an American rapper and actor. In 1999 DMX released his best-selling album ...And Then There Was X which featured the hit single Party Up (Up in Here). He has acted in films such as Belly Romeo Must Die Exit Wounds Cradle 2 The Grave and Last Hour. In 2006 he starred in the reality television series DMX: Soul of a Man which was primarily aired on the BET cable television network.
Zack Hemsey.  Zack Hemsey (born 1983) is an American recording artist and composer whose work has been largely popularized through its use in film trailers. A notable example was Trailer 3 of the 2010 movie Inception which included his composed piece Mind Heist; it is a common misconception that the piece for this trailer was composed by Hans Zimmer because Zimmer composed the official score for the movie itself.
Edsilia Rombley.  Edsilia Francisca Rombley (born 13 February 1978) is a Dutch singer. She participated in the Soundmixshow in 1996. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest twice in 1998 and 2007.
Paul Di Filippo.  Paul Di Filippo (born October 29 1954 in Providence Rhode Island) is an American science fiction writer. He has been published in Postscripts. He is also a regular reviewer for print magazines Asimov's Science Fiction The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Science Fiction Eye The New York Review of Science Fiction Interzone and Nova Express as well as online at Science Fiction Weekly. He is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.
Stephanie Grace Whitson.  A native of southern Illinois Stephanie Grace Whitson has lived in Nebraska USA since 1975.
Camille Bob.  Camille Bob also known as Lil' Bob (Arnaudville 7 November 1937) is an American blues musician. As a singing drummer Lil' Bob's dance band The Lollipops played Louisiana's dance halls and clubs in the 1960s. Lil' Bob and the Lollipops were best known for a 1966 album Nobody But You.
Chris Bostock.  Chris Bostock (born 23 November 1962 Bristol) is an English musician songwriter and music producer. He is best known for his work with JoBoxers but was also a member of Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys and Subway Sect.Bostock has also guested on albums by The Style Council Sandie Shaw Spear of Destiny Shakespears Sister and The Rhythm Sisters.
Victor Vazquez (musician).  Victor Vazquez (born November 16 1983) also known by his stage name Kool A.D. is an American musician author and artist from the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Vazquez is best known for being a member of the New York-based rap group Das Racist though he has also been a member of the bands Boy Crisis and Party Animal. Vazquez has also released his own solo material including numerous mixtapes.
Shea Rose.  Shea Rose is an American singer-songwriter soul rock and hip-hop artist from Boston Massachusetts.
Adrian Minune.  Adrian Minune (real name Adrian Simionescu born September 24 1974) is a Romani-Romanian manele singer.
Phillip Officer.  Phillip Officer (born January 16 1956 [?]) is an American musician from Missouri whom Rex Reed has hailed as the real deal.
40 Glocc.  Lawrence White (born December 16 1974) is an American rapper and actor better known as 40 Glocc or Big Bad 4-0. He was formally signed to Infamous Records and G-Unit Records. He is also an artist of G-Unit West closely associated with the acts on the roster.
Joseph Anton Fischer.  Joseph Anton Fischer born at Oberstorf Algäu in 1814 was at first a cow-herd but being assisted by Ch. Schraudolf he studied at the Academy at Munich under Schlotthauer and visited Italy in 1832 and 1843. During this time he executed cartoons under H.
Nestan Kvinikadze.  Nestan-Nene Kvinikadze (Georgian: ნესტან-ნენე კვინიკაძე) (born June 5 1980 Tbilisi) Georgian writer scriptwriter and journalist. She is an author of numerous movie-scripts and plays. She has published numerous collections of prose fiction and one novel - Ispahan Nightingales. Since 2006 she is the editor-in-chief of monthly bilingual (Georgian/English] free magazine - Focus. Her articles and essays are regularly being published in Anabechdi magazine.
Concordia Selander.  Concordia Cornelia Johanna Selander née Hård (Arboga 2 June 1861 – 31 March 1935) was a Swedish actress and theatre manager.She first trained at the school of the Royal Swedish Ballet (1874–80) and later at the Royal Theatre's acting school Dramatens elevskola (1878–83).
Franz Wohlfahrt (composer).  Franz Wohlfahrt (7 March 1833 – 14 February 1884) was a violin teacher in Leipzig Germany.Wohlfahrt was born and died in Leipzig where his father Heinrich Wohlfahrt was a piano teacher. He wrote a series of etudes 60 Studies for Violin Op. 45 which are often among the first ones studied by beginning violinists and violists. He was a student of Ferdinand David.
Cameron Tuttle.  Cameron Tuttle is an American author. Tuttle attended Acalanes High School in Lafayette California and Brown University. She then began her career as a writer for an advertising agency before writing her first book The Paranoid's Pocket Guide which landed her on Oprah. Inspired by the movie Thelma and Louise Tuttle went on the lam in 1996 doing research for what would become the Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road.She is also the author of the Paisley Hanover series (Penguin Books).
Neil Citron.  Neil Citron is a guitarist who played briefly with heavy metal band Quiet Riot in 2006. Although he contributes guitar to the album Rehab he left shortly after the release and was replaced by Alex Grossi.He is also a sound engineer and mixer. In 2002 he received a Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category for engineering No Substitutions: Live in Osaka by Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather.Has been training in the martial arts for over 35 years.
May J..  May Hashimoto (橋本芽生 Hashimoto Mei)،مِى هاشيموتو، better known by her stage name May J. is a R&B and pop singer from Yokohama Japan. Born of Iranian Japanese Turkish Spanish British and Russian descent May J. made her major label debut under Sony Music Japan on July 12 2006 with her first mini-album All My Girls.
Rymzo.  Rymzo (real name Churchill Sosa De Gusto) born in the early 70's in Lagos State is one of Nigeria's top and highly celebrated reggae artistes/music producer His music is influenced by many artistes including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Jimmy Hendrix U-Roy I-Roy Bob Marley Naughty by Nature Kool Moe Dee Shabba Ranks Tiger Cocoa Tea Capleton Joe Higgs.
Asami Kai.  Asami Kai (甲斐 麻美/かい あさみ) is a Japanese actress & gravure idol born on January 9 1987 in Kumamoto.
Rahul Sharma (musician).  Rahul Sharma (born 25 September 1972) is an Indian classical musician of Hindustani classical music. He plays santoor and is also a vocalist.
Ben Ellis (playwright).  Ben Ellis is a playwright from Gippsland in Australia now based in London. His significant works include Post Felicity (2001) Falling Petals (2002) a stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis (2005) and more recently Poet No. 7 (2006) and The Final Shot (Theatre503 2007) both premiering in London. The Final Shot about the television broadcast of a man's death featured Susannah York.
Nikki Leonti.  Nikki Leonti (born August 20 1981) is an American R&B singer songwriter and half of the group Nikki & Rich. Prior to her work in urban R&B and electronic dance music Leonti recorded contemporary Christian music albums.
Yasus Afari.  Yasus Afari (born John Sinclair 1962 Saint Elizabeth Parish Jamaica) is a Jamaican dub poet.
Bennett Cerf.  Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25 1898 – August 27 1971) was an American publisher one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?
Jerry Augustyniak.  Jerome Stanley Jerry Augustyniak (born September 2 1958 in Sloan New York) is the drummer for the American band 10000 Maniacs. Augustyniak joined the band in March 1983 two years after the group formed. Augustyniak continues to perform with the band who tour extensively. Their most recent album Music From The Motion Picture released in 2013 has garnered rave reviews.
Paul Ryan (comics).  Paul Ryan (born September 23 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American comic book and comic strip cartoonist. Ryan has worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on a number of super-hero comics. As of 2013 he pencils and inks the daily comic strip The Phantom for King Features Syndicate.
Curt Leviant.  Curt Leviant (born 1932 Vienna) is a retired Jewish Studies professor as well as a novelist and translator.He came to the United States in 1938. His 1957 master's thesis was on Lamed Shapiro. 1966 doctoral thesis [1] was a translation with commentary published in 1969 as King Artur: A Hebrew Authurian Romance of 1279.Leviant was also a book reviewer usually of Jewish authors with reviews appearing in The New York Times The Nation and other publications especially Jewish media.
Jayson Sherlock.  Jayson Sherlock (born 1970) was the drummer for the Australian death metal band Mortification which was considered to be a major pioneer in the genre. As of 2012 he is the drummer for Deliverance.Sherlock was the founder of the one-man project Unblack metal band Horde in which he played every instrument. He has also been in other bands such as Paramaecium InExordium Altera Enigma Soundscape and Where Shadows Lie.
John Jarrard.  John Jarrard (born May 7 1953 in Gainesville Georgia; died February 1 2001 in Nashville Tennessee) was an American country music songwriter. He wrote songs for Alabama George Strait Don Williams and others.
Jon Gordon.  Jon Gordon is an American business consultant and author on the topics of leadership culture sales and teamwork.Gordon's books have been used by the University of Georgia's Bulldogs and the Atlanta Falcons.His work has been featured in The Washington Post and U.S. News and World Report. He has also been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal and New York Post.He holds degrees from Cornell University and Emory University.
Leonhard Frank.  Leonhard Frank (September 4 1882 in Würzburg - August 18 1961 in Munich) was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich and gained acclaim with his first novel The Robber Band (1914 tr. 1928). When a Berlin journalist celebrated in a famous café about news of the loss of the ship RMS Lusitania torpedoed by a German submarine Frank was upset - and slapped the man in his face.
Lorenzo Franchi.  Lorenzo Franchi (Bologna c. 1563 - c. 1630) was an Italian painter active in a late-Mannerist or early-Baroque style mainly in Reggio Emilia.
Ken Swift.  Ken Swift (born Kenneth James Gabbert) is a second generation B-boy or breakdancer and former Vice President of the Rock Steady Crew of which he was a longtime member and key figure. He is now President of the Breaklife and VII Gems Hip Hop movement in NYC. Widely known in the B-Boy world as the Epitome of a B-Boy Ken Swift is credited with the creation of many dance moves.
Mr. Del.  Mr. Del born Delmar Lawrence is an American Christian hip hop artist and music producer. He is president of the independent record label Dedicated Music Group (DMG)/Universal Records. According to an article published by blackchristiannews.com Del was formerly a member of the Oscar winning platinum-selling rap group Three 6 Mafia. However he was only featured on one song 'Azz & Tittiez'.
Edwin Black.  Edwin Black is an American syndicated columnist and journalist. He specializes in human rights the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East petroleum policy the abuses practiced by corporations and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany.
Samuel A. Peeples.  Samuel Anthony Peeples (September 22 1917 – August 27 1997) was an American writer. He published several novels in the Western genre often under the pen name Brad Ward before moving into series television after being given a script assignment by Frank Gruber. He is known to Star Trek fans for his script for the second pilot episode Where No Man Has Gone Before as well as Beyond the Farthest Star the first episode of the animated series Star Trek.
Barbara Cartland.  Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English author one of the most prolific and commercially successful authors of the 20th century.
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo.  Benito Pastoriza Iyodo is a Puerto Rican author of poetry fiction and literary articles. He is known for the daring topics of his literary creations which are both lyrical and thought provoking. He writes primarily in Spanish.
Zack de la Rocha.  Zacharías Manuel Zack de la Rocha (born January 12 1970) is an American musician poet rapper and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Against the Machine from 1991–2000 and since the band's reunion in 2007. He left Rage Against the Machine in October 2000 and embarked on a low-key solo career. With Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore de la Rocha co-founded One Day as a Lion in 2007.
Zoran Janjetov.  Zoran Janjetov (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Јањетов; born June 23 1961) is a Serbian comics artist. He lives in Novi Sad.Janjetov is among most prominent comics creators of former Yugoslavia published worldwide. He is best known as the illustrator of Avant l'Incal and The Technopriests written by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In 1986 Janjetov was chosen by Moebius to continue his work The Incal.
Vladimir Strelnikov.  Vladimir Strelnikov (born 1939) is a Ukrainian artist and former Soviet dissident.Strelnikov was born in 1939in Odessa Ukrainian SSR and made his studies at the local art academy. He is a member of the Odessa Group of exiled and dissident artists. In 1960 he debuted in Odessa at the autumn exhibition of the Fine Art Federation and took part in several officially-approved exhibitions in the Soviet Union and abroad until 1971.
Deborah Butterfield.  Deborah Kay Butterfield (born May 7 1949) is an American sculptor. Along with her artist-husband John Buck she divides her time between a ranch in Bozeman Montana and studio space in Hawaii. She is known for her sculptures of horses made from found objects like metal and especially pieces of wood.
Joe Raposo.  Joseph Guilherme Raposo OIH (February 8 1937 – February 5 1989) was a Portuguese American composer songwriter pianist television writer and lyricist best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street for which he wrote the theme song as well as classic songs such as Bein' Green and C is for Cookie.
Lucia Giannecchini.  Lucia Giannecchini is an English actress (born 9 June 1980) best known for her role as Urszula Rosen in the fifth season of Footballers' Wives.
Charles Harold Davis.  Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter.
Anthony Acid.  Anthony Acid (born Anthony Caputo; April 2 1965) is an Italian-American DJ producer and remixer. He has worked with the likes of Nast Nova DJ Skribble Brutal Bill and Richie Santana.
Brian Cowan.  Brian Cowan is a British actor known for his role as Robert Davenport in long running continuous narrative drama Family Affairs.
Giandomenico Martoretta.  Giandomenico Martoretta (Mileto 1515–1560s?) was an Italian Baroque composer. Little is known of his life but the style of the dedication of the master of theology Giovanfrancesco di Chara in the second book indicates that Martoretta may have been minor gentry or member of an academy. But the preface to the third book of madrigals reveals that he had made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and stayed in Cyprus as guest of a certain noble cavaliere Piero Singlitico.
Joseph G. Williams.  Joseph Joe George Williams (born July 1 1920 in Warsaw Missouri) is best known for his songwriting work in country music from the mid-1950s until the early-1980s.
Jorge Carrera Andrade.  Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet historian author and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978. During his life and after his death he has been recognized with Jorge Luis Borges Pablo Neruda Octavio Paz and Cesar Vallejo as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century.
Noon Meem Rashid.  Not to be confused with Noon Meem Danish.Nazri Muhammad Rashed (Urdu: نذرِ مُحَمَّد راشِد‎) (August 1 1910 – October 9 1975) commonly known as Noon Meem Rashed (Urdu: ن۔ م۔ راشد) or N.M. Rashid was born as Nazri Muhammad Janjua at Alipur Chatha District Gujranwala formerly Akalgarh Punjab Pakistan. He was an influential Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry.
Mina (voice actress).  Mina (美名 Mina born February 13 1984) is a Japanese voice actress from Gifu Gifu Prefecture Japan. She is affiliated with Production Ace.
Vicki Goldberg.  Vicki Goldberg is an American photography critic author and photo historian.
Omar Mouallem.  Omar Mouallem also known by his stage name A.O.K. (Assault Of Knowledge) is a rapper and award-winning writer.
Claude VonStroke.  Barclay Crenshaw who is known by the stage name Claude VonStroke is an American house and techno producer based in San Francisco. He owns the Dirtybird and Mothership labels. In July 2006 he released his debut album Beware of the Bird. He has produced a 'Fabric' mix which was released in May 2009 and has also appeared on Pete Tong's Essential Mix Radio show. In 2009 he released his second studio album Bird Brain.
Olga Samaroff.  Olga Samaroff (August 8 1880 – May 17 1948) was a pianist music critic and teacher. Her second husband was conductor Leopold Stokowski.
George Onakkoor.  George Onakkoor is a famous malayalam novelist born on 16 November 1941 at Moovattupuzha in northern Travancore present day Kerala state South India. Malayalam professor for over three decades at Mar Ivanios College Trivandrum Kerala. Dr. George Onakkoor is well acknowledged in various capacities as novelist short-storywriter critic script and travel writer.
Tania Tarannam.  Tania Tarannam (born 3 August 1993) is an Indian singer/songwriter/musician hailing from the Indian north-eastern state of Assam. Her latest album Ore Piya was released in November 2012 under the record label Times Music. She is the youngest singer from Assam to have recorded a music album with Times Music. Tania has sung in numerous Assamese albums including Rangdhali Suwalir Mon Local Piriti and Tumi Hoba Mur Koina which were received with huge acclamation by the listeners.
Joan Danziger.  Joan Danziger (born 1934 New York City) is an American sculptor.
Vinod Rams.  Vinod Rams is an American artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Cat Hellisen.  Cat Hellisen (born 31 May 1977) is the South African author of fantasy novel When the Sea is Rising Red.
Roy Milton.  Roy Milton (July 31 1907 – September 18 1983) was an American R&B and jump blues singer drummer and bandleader.
Alphaeus Philemon Cole.  Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Jersey City New Jersey July 12 1876 – New York City November 25 1988) was an American artist engraver and etcher. He was born in Jersey City New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole. At the time of his death at age 112 years and 136 days Alphaeus was the world's oldest verified living man.
Tanya Anne Crosby.  Tanya Anne Crosby (b. June 5 1962 in Rota in Cadiz Andalusia Spain) is an American writer of romance novels. A New York Times bestselling author she is a five-time nominee for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her novels have been translated into Spanish Italian French Russian and Chinese.
Angelo Marconi.  Angelo Marconi is an Venezuelan pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films and gay pornographic magazines. He is a bottom in mostly all of his porn films.
Etgar Keret.  Etgar Keret (Hebrew: אתגר קרת‎ born August 20 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories graphic novels and scriptwriting for film and television.
Bedwyr Lewis Jones.  Bedwyr Lewis Jones (1 September 1933 – 28 August 1992) was a Welsh scholar literary critic and linguist.Jones was born in Wrexham Denbighshire but brought up in Llaneilian on Ynys Môn north Wales. He was educated at Jesus College Oxford matriculating in 1956. He taught at Dolgellau for a year before becoming a lecturer at University College Bangor In 1974 he became Bangor's head of the Department of Welsh Language and Literature and a professor.
Yuki Maeda.  Yuki Maeda (前田 有紀 Maeda Yuki born August 28 1979 in Kōchi Kōchi Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese enka singer within Hello! Project. She started her career under the renowned enka record label Teichiku in 2000 with her debut single Naki Usagi but did not have any charting singles in Japan until she signed with Up-Front Works and their label Zetima in 2003. In mid-2004 she was transferred to another Up-Front Works' label Rice Music.
Bette Greene.  Bette Greene (born on June 28 1934 in Memphis Tennessee U.S.) is the author of several books for children and young adults including Summer of My German Soldier The Drowning of Stephan Jones and the Newbery Honor book Philip Hall Likes Me I Reckon Maybe. She currently resides in Boston Massachusetts.Greene was raised in Parkin Arkansas where she stuck out as a Jewish girl in the American South during the Great Depression and World War II.
Mark Steiner (musician).  Mark Steiner & His Problems (born Mark Steiner 26 January 1970) is a Norwegian-American rock musician guitarist and songwriter best known for his solo work and as vocalist in his native New York City band in the post-punk Gothic rock group Piker Ryan's Folly. He has been accompanied by various artists including Spencer P. Jones (of The Beasts of Bourbon) in Australia Phil Shoenfelt in Prague and Bruno Adams in Berlin.
Kenny Baker (trumpeter).  Kenny Baker was born on 1 March 1921 in Withernsea East Riding of Yorkshire and died 7 December 1999. He was an accomplished player of jazz trumpet cornet and flugelhorn and a composer.
Len Cabral.  Len Cabral is an American storyteller who has been awarded the Circle of Excellence in 2001 by the National Storytelling Network after being recognized by his peers as a master storyteller. He is best known for his enthusiastic hand gestures and character voices. Among his favorite stories are Fable of the Animals and the Story of Pat Divers. He performs at storytelling festivals across the country and is a regular performer at the National Storytelling Festival.
Lili Rocha.  Lindinalva de Souza Rocha (born December 23) better known by her stage name Lili Rocha is a pop/rock singer from Bahia Brazil.
John D. Stevens.  John D. Stevens (born 1951) is an American composer/arranger tubist and brass pedagogue. He performs with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet the brass chamber ensemble in residence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Stevens' compositions include several major works for the tuba including Journey Power Moondance City Suite Dances Manhattan Suite Triumph of the Demon Gods Suite for Two and a Euphonium Concerto and Sonata.
Gary Low.  Luis Romano Peris Belmonte (born 7 June 1954 in Rome Lazio) better known as Gary Low is an Italian-born Spanish recording artist who was most active during the 1980s era of Italo disco. He recorded several musical works in both English and Spanish.
Henry Hadaway.  Henry Hadaway MBE is a record producer television producer show promoter and entrepreneur. His version of The Chicken Dance was a number 2 hit in the UK where it was credited to The Tweets.He is also noted for his work with such acts as Kenny Lynch Marvin Gaye the Rockin' BerriesNeil Christian Connie Francis Frankie Vaughan and Mike Winters.
Rajkumari Dubey.  Rajkumari Dubey (1924–2000) better known by her first name was an Indian playback singer.
Ivan Zagni.  Ivan Zagni (born 16 October 1942) is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind Big Sideways and Avant Garage and has recorded albums with Aynsley Dunbar Elton Dean Don McGlashan and Peter Scholes.
Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke.  Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke (1874-1962) was an American art critic writer publisher instructor landscape architect and the proprietor of the Sunwise Turn bookshop a hotbed of artistic activity and anarchist political thought in New York City during the nineteen-teens and twenties. She was also the wife of John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke a sculptor who helped organize of the influential 1913 Armory Show exhibition of modern art.
Alfredo Jaar.  Alfredo Jaar (born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist architect and filmmaker who lives in New York. He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. From age 5 to 16 he lived in Martinique before moving back to Chile. He is mostly known as an installation artist often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war - the best known perhaps being the 6-year long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Krista K.  Krista Eileen Arrieta Kleiner (born June 12 1989 in Orange County California) better known as Krista K is an American singer songwriter and actress.
Takafumi Iwasaki.  Takafumi Iwasaki (岩崎 貴文 Iwasaki Takafumi) is a Japanese guitarist lyricist music arranger and musical artist from Kumamoto Prefecture. He is signed to Columbia Music Entertainment for which he is known for writing and performing various anime and tokusatsu theme songs. He is known for his solo performance of the theme song of Mahou Sentai Magiranger and for performing guitar for the Dragon Ball Kai theme songs Dragon Soul and Yeah! Break! Care! Break! which he also composed.
Robin Williamson.  Robin Duncan Harry Williamson (born 24 November 1943 Edinburgh) is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician singer songwriter and storyteller who first made his name as a founding member of The Incredible String Band.
Justin Van Der Volgen.  Justin Van Der Volgen is an American musician mixer with Out Hud from 1996 to 2005 and !!! from 1996 to 2007.Van der Volgen remixed Maserati's Inventions for their 2008 Inventions Remixed 12 on Temporary Residence.
Polly Duniam.  Polly Duniam (born 15 March 1987 in London England) is a British actress dancer and model. Along with her twin sister Sophie Duniam she gained fame in the BBC series Home Farm Twins portraying Hannah Moore one of the twins in the title.She grew up in Cromer Norfolk with a love of dancing and singing that stems from her dance instructor mother. This helped both sisters gain a yearlong contract with We Will Rock You. Both twins have been touring with the Pet Shop Boys on an 18 month contract.
James Patrick Broderick.  Rev. James Patrick Broderick (26 July 1891 Kingsland Athenry - 26 August 1973) was an Irish Jesuit and writer.Broderick was educated in Dublin and Stonyhurst. He joined the Jesuits in February 1910 at Manresa London and was ordained in 1923. Most of his working life was spent at Farm Street in London. He graduated MA from the University of London and was a contributor to periodicals such as The Tablet and The Month.
Sally Schoch.  Sally Schoch MFA is an American artist and abstract painter living in Wilmette Illinois. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Schoch has worked in fiber arts and painted in oils and watercolor and is most known for her abstract paintings of flowers. Schoch has received commissions for works by Marshall Field's Bank of America and other organizations. She is a member of the Wilmette Art Guild and the Chicago Artists' Coalition.
Jane Tunstall Lingo.  Jane Tunstall Lingo born September 7 1924 in the District of Columbia died February 23 2007 in Alexandria Virginia was a pioneering journalist long-time employee of George Washington University and active socialite who counted U.S. President Harry S. Truman's daughter Margaret Truman among her close friends.
Giannis Aggelakas.  Giannis Aggelakas (Greek: Γιάννης Αγγελάκας) is a Greek singer songwriter and poet. Best known as the former lead singer of the Greek rock band Trypes he maintains a productive solo career since 2000 having experimented with Greek folk music and collaborated with artists like Thanassis Papakonstantinou and Psarantonis. From 2004 onwards he maintains his own record label All together Now releasing his personal albums from there.
Kamijo (musician).  Kamijo is a Japanese singer-songwriter musician and music producer. He is best known as lead singer of the visual kei bands Lareine and Versailles. He has also been the head of two independent record labels; the first being Applause Records (formed in 2000) and currently Sherow Artist Society since 2006. His music covers many genres Lareine having mainly a pop rock style and Versailles a clear symphonic metal and power metal sound.
Silvestro Chiesa.  Silvestro Chiesa (died 1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was a pupil of Luciano Borzone. Died as a young man during the plague in 1657.
Jarkko Martikainen.  Jarkko Martikainen (born October 24 1970 in Greifswald GDR) is a Finnish singer songwriter and member of the rock band YUP. In addition to his musical career Martikainen has worked as a columnist a record producer and a documentary filmmaker. Martikainen has also illustrated his first solo-album Mierolainen (2004) and YUP's third album Toppatakkeja ja Toledon terästä (1994).Martikainen has a very versatile and distinct voice.
Cash McCall (musician).  Cash McCall (born Maurice Dollison Jr. January 28 1941 New Madrid Missouri) is an American electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1966 R&B hit When You Wake Up. McCall's long career has seen him evolve in musical styles from gospel to soul to the blues. He is not to be confused with the 1960 film of the same name.
Paul Cresey.  Paul Cresey (born December 20 1989) is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in Edmonton Alberta. Cresey has received national attention on the Canadian folk music scene and was nominated for Young Performer of the Year at the 2008 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Julia Lezhneva.  Julia Lezhneva (Russian: Юлия Михайловна Лежнева) (born December 5 1989) is an award-winning Russian soprano and coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She studied with Tamara Cherkasova Irina Zhurina Elena Obraztsova Dennis O'Neill and Yvonne Kenny.
Grandmaster Caz.  Curtis Brown (born April 17 1961) better known by his stage name Grandmaster Caz or Casanova Fly is an American Old Skool rapper MC and DJ. He currently works as a celebrity tour guide for Hush Hip Hop Tours a hip-hop cultural sightseeing tour company in New York City and is a Board member of The Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture.
Trisha Uptown.  Trisha Uptown (born August 7 1979; Kentucky United States) is a pornographic actress model and feature dancer. She entered the adult entertainment industry in 1998.After leaving high school she became an erotic dancer at a club in Ohio. She then progressed to modelling for various Internet companies and eventually formed her own sologirl site TrishaUptown.com which she continues to run.
Thomas Bangalter.  Thomas Bangalter (French pronunciation: ​[tɔma bɑ̃ɡaltɛʁ]; born 3 January 1975) is a French electronic musician best known for being one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk alongside Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. He has also recorded and released music as a member of the trio Stardust the duo Together and as a solo artist including compositions for the film Irréversible.Thomas Bangalter owns a music label called Roulé.
John Hollis.  John Hollis (24 January 1931 – 18 October 2005) was an English actor. He played the role of Lobot in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the German porter at the chateau in The Dirty Dozen.
Merlin D'Souza.  Merlin D'Souza (Merlyn) is an Indian woman composer and pianist from Bombay. dubbed by many as the female-Rehman of the country.She is a musician whose work includes composing for film albums theater and advertising. She is based at Bandra a Mumbai suburb. Formerly the Asian jazz ambassador for Hennessy X.O. - she has toured extensively from Australia to China from Europe to the United States (including a stint at the Blue Note New York).
Alberto dos Santos Franco.  Alberto dos Santos Franco the Admiral Franco (Rio de Janeiro December 5 1913 - São Paulo May 4 2011) was an officer of the Navy of Brazil. In his career reached the rank of Vice Admiral
Kwon Jin-ah.  Kwon Jin-ah (Hangul: 권진아; born July 18 1997) is a South Korean singer and guitarist. She is known for the third place of SBS's K-pop Star Season 3.
Alma Denny.  Alma Denenholz Kaplan (1906–1 March 2003) was an American poet and syndicated columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Alma Denny.Denny was born Alma Denenholz in Far Rockaway in New York City the eldest of ten children. She received degrees from Hunter College and Teachers College Columbia University and married a doctor Theodore Kaplan with whom she had two children.Though her husband was adamant that she not work Denny pursued a career as a freelance writer.
Chris Cleave.  Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist.
Brandon Jones (singer).  Brandon Jones (born June 17 1989) is a Canadian singer/song writer from Quispamsis New Brunswick. He was a competitor on season 4 of Canadian Idol and was eliminated on August 1 2006 placing him 8th.
Deepu.  Deepu is a South Indian playback singer. He has recorded several songs in Telugu.His hits include Satyam Emito – Athidi Nachore – Yamadonga Love U Raa – Chirutha Nakosam Nuvvu – Magadheera Hatthiri Entha – Gamyam and Ga Eega Eega Eega - Eega.
John Kadlecik.  John Kadlecik (born June 28 1969 in Council Bluffs Iowa) is an American guitarist. He was a founding member as the lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra in 1997 and currently performs with original Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh in Furthur. John lives in Takoma Park Maryland with his wife Katy Gaughan who is a percussionist in the jazz trio Djesben.
Nelly Ciobanu.  Nelly Ciobanu (born October 28 1974) is a Moldovan singer. Ciobanu graduated from music college of the city of Tiraspol. Nelly made her debut on stage in 1993 with her brother as part of duo Master Dinamit. She represented Moldova in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
M Ashraf.  M Ashraf (February 1 1942 - February 4 2007) was a Pakistani film composer. He was one of the most famous music directors of Pakistan film industry. He had the highest number of film songs compared to any other music director in Pakistan. He composed approximately 2800 songs in more than 400 films in his 45 year long film career.
David DeFeis.  David DeFeis (born January 4 1961) is an American singer keyboard player songwriter and producer. He is the main composer and leader of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele.
Nat Thewphaingam.  Nat Thewphaingam (Thai: ณัฏฐ์ ทิวไผ่งาม RTGS: Nat Thio-phai-ngam; (1989-06-05)June 5 1989) nicknamed Natthew (Thai: นัททิว Korean: 나튜) is a Thai singer actor model presenter and the winner of the 5th season of reality talent show True Visions's Academy Fantasia in Thailand.
Howard Tate.  Howard Tate (August 13 1939 – December 2 2011) was an American soul singer and songwriter.His greatest success came with a string of hit singles in the late 1960s including Ain't Nobody Home and Get It While You Can the latter of which became a hit for singer Janis Joplin. After struggling with drug addiction and falling out of the music business Tate mounted a warmly-received comeback in 2001.
Åsa Larsson.  Åsa Larsson (born 28 June 1966 in Uppsala) is a Swedish crime-writer. Although born in Uppsala she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer Larsson was a tax lawyer a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels Rebecka Martinsson. Her first novel published in the UK (under the title The Savage Altar) was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. Her second novel Det blod som spillts won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award.
Heather Trost.  Heather Trost (born July 18th 1982) is an American violinist and singer.
Eucharides Painter.  Eucharides Painter is the common nickname of an ancient Greek artist who decorated but did not sign attic vases. Neither his real name nor the dates of his birth and death are known. Presumably this artist was a pupil of the Nikoxenos painter. The name was introduced in 1911 by John Beazley a classical historian at the University of Oxford who had a special interest in attic vases.
Rosendo Mercado.  Rosendo Mercado Ruiz (born 23 February 1954 in Madrid) is a Spanish rock singer and songwriter. He was a member of bands Ñu and Leño and is a prominent exponent of the so-called urban rock in Spain.
Hannah Tompkins (artist).  Hannah Tompkins (January 17 1920 - October 25 1995) was an American artist primarily known for her large body of artwork based on the writings of William Shakespeare. A catalog listing of her Shakespeare themed oil paintings appears in Shakespeare in American Painting : A Catalogue from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present by Richard Studing.She began painting in earnest in the mid-1960s while teaching art at Ramapo Community College Rockland County New York.
High Contrast.  Lincoln Barrett better known by the stage name High Contrast (born 18 September 1979 Penarth Cardiff) is a Welsh drum and bass DJ and producer.
Emily Friendship.  Emily Friendship (born 15 January 1979) is an English singer songwriter and composer.Friendship was born in London the daughter of John and Wendy Friendship. At the age of nineteen she was offered a place in the cast of Cameron Mackintosh's The Phantom of the Opera.Friendship's career as a songwriter and composer began with the release of You're the Kinda Man on Sarah Connor's album Naughty but Nice.
Rob Roberge.  Rob Roberge is an American writer guitarist singer and writing and narrative theory professor researcher and developer.
Cecil Castellucci.  Cecil Castellucci(born October 25 1969 in New York City) also known as Cecil Seaskull is an American-born Canadian young adult novelist indie rocker and director. She currently lives in Los Angeles CaliforniaShe grew up in New York City where she attended the Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts. She later studied theatre in Paris at the École Florent. She attended Concordia University in Montreal and received a B.F.A.
Giacomo Adolfi.  Giacomo Adolfi (1682–1741) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in and around Bergamo. He was born in Bergamo the older brother of the painter Ciro Adolfi and was initially taught by his father Benedetto Adolfi. He completed a number of fresco paintings in the churches and public buildings of Bergamo including a Crowning of the Virgin for the church of Monastery del Paradiso and an Adoration of the Magi for Sant' Alessandro della Croce.
Danny Osborne.  Danny Osborne is an artist born in Dorset England in 1949. He is a resident of Iqaluit Nunavut Canada and Cork Ireland. Osborne studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art.
Frank Gabrielson.  Frank Gabrielson (March 13 1910-January 24 1980) was an American stage film and television writer. His stage work includes The Wizard of Oz as adapted in 1942 for The Muny Days of Our Youth also performed as The Bo Tree and Most Likely to Succeed (1939) and The Great Whitewash also known as The More the Merrier co-written with Irvin Pincus (1941).
Zac Poor.  Zac Poor is an American singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles California who first appeared on the music scene in early 2010 with his EP Let's Just Call it Heartbreak a collaboration with Glee producer Adam Anders. Universal Motown executive Sylvia Rhone took notice of Poor's talent and signed him to his first major label deal in early 2011. Rhone stepped down as President of Motown within months of signing Poor amidst a shakeup at the label.
O. Henry.  William Sydney Porter (September 11 1862 – June 5 1910) known by his pen name O. Henry was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit wordplay warm characterization and clever twist endings.
Roger Schlaifer.  Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23 1945) is an American graphic designer writer inventor and licensing agent. He is best known for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol.
Skúli Sverrisson.  Skúli Sverrisson (born 23 October 1966) is an Icelandic composer and bassist residing in New York City.Over the past two decades bass guitarist-composer Skuli Sverrisson has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world from free jazz legends (Wadada Leo Smith Derek Bailey) to music icons (Lou Reed Jon Hassel David Sylvian Arto Lindsey) and composers (Ryuichi Sakamoto Johann Johannsson and Hildur Gudnadottir).
Richard Gibson (painter).  Richard Gibson (1615-1690) known as Dwarf Gibson was a painter of portrait miniatures and a court dwarf in England during the reigns of Charles I Oliver Cromwell Charles II and William and Mary. Both Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller wrote poems addressed to him.
William Leighton.  Sir William Leighton (/ˈleɪtən/; c. 1565–1622) was an Elizabethan composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentatacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614) which comprised 55 pieces by 21 composers (among them John Bull William Byrd John Dowland and Martin Peerson) including eight by himself. There is a modern edition published by Stainer and Bell and a modern facsimile.
Michael Smith (performance artist).  Michael Smith is an American artist born in Chicago in 1951. He is an influential figure in performance art video art and installation art. In the 1980s he was perceived as the quirky Ed Sullivan of the time.
Pip Proud.  Pip Proud (Philip Proud 1947–2010) was an Australian singer/songwriter poet novelist and dramatist whose idiosyncratic song-poems gained a cult following in Australia in the 1960s and around the world in the 1990s-2000s. He was born in Adelaide South Australia in 1947 and is the brother of the well-known artist Geoffrey Proud.
Kamil Jalilov.  Kamil Jalilov (Azerbaijani: Kamil Cəlilov) (born in 1938 in Buzovna Baku) is a musician known for his master expertise playing wind instruments and Azerbaijani folk instruments.He is widely regarded as one of the greatest folk musicians of all time as he is the master player of wind instruments such as balaban clarinet duduk zurna oboe and Azerbaijani regional folk instruments.
Lisa Daniels (pornographic actress).  Lisa A. Daniels (born September 2 1977 in Bogotá) is a Colombian model and pornographic actress. She began appearing in adult films in 2005 at the age of around 28.A character in the South Park episode Major Boobage was modelled on her likeness using a rotoscoping animation technique.
Rikako Sasaki.  Rikako Sasaki (佐々木 莉佳子 Sasaki Rikako born May 28 2001 in Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese idol singer. She is best known as being a member of the Japanese idol girl group Hello Pro Kenshūsei.
Menna Richards.  Menna Richards OBE was the Controller of BBC Cymru Wales from February 2000 to February 2011.Her start in broadcasting was as a reporter and producer for HTV Wales in the current affairs department.
Joe Williams (jazz singer).  Joe Williams (born Joseph Goreed; December 12 1918 – March 29 1999) was a well-known jazz vocalist a baritone singing a mixture of blues ballads popular songs and jazz standards.
Lisa Yuskavage.  Lisa Yuskavage (YUS cav ITCH; born May 16 1962) is a contemporary American painter who lives and works in New York City. Her figurative oil painting is known for its engagement with the female form.Yuskavage was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the Tyler School of Art Temple University Philadelphia where she received her BFA in 1984. She was awarded her MFA in 1986 from Yale University’s School of Art New Haven Connecticut.
Addison Wiggin.  Addison Wiggin is an American financial writer publisher and filmmaker. He is executive publisher of Agora Financial LLC and is a New York Times bestselling author.
Shauna O'Brien.  Shauna O'Brien (born October 17 1970) is a model actress in B-movies and an erotic actress.She is sometimes credited as Steve Jean Shana O'Brien or Shawna O'Brien.As Stevie Jean she was chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month January 1992.
Thomas Lorenzo.  Thomas Lorenzo (born 11 January 1964 in Wollongong New South Wales Australia) is a musician: guitarist composer producer and music theorist
Neo Rauch.  Neo Rauch (born 18 April 1960 in Leipzig East Germany) is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism.
Samantha James.  Samantha James (born June 13 1979)[citation needed] is an American dance-pop singer from Los Angeles known for her style of blending downtempo to uptempo dance music with soulful vocal styles. She released her debut album Rise in 2007 on Om Records which features production work by Sebastian Arocha Morton (aka ROCAsound). The title track from the album was released as a single and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
Heather Horton.  Heather Margaret Horton (born April 27 1974) is a Canadian artist.
Tania de Jong.  Tania de Jong AM is an Australian soprano social entrepreneur creative and innovation catalyst business woman and motivational speaker. She is the co-founder and artistic director of entertainment and event company Music Theatre Australia. She is also the founder and a performer in the musical group Pot-Pourri and has released 7 albums with Pot-Pourri as well as an improvised relaxation and meditation CD titled Soundstations with ex-Buddhist monk Dorje.
Daagh Dehlvi.  Daagh Dehlvi (Urdu: داغ دہلوی‎ Hindi: दाग़ देहलवी) born Nawab Mirza Khan (Urdu: نواب مرزا خان‎ Hindi: नवाब मिर्ज़ा ख़ान) (25 May 1831 – 17 March 1905) was an outstanding Mughal poet famous for his Urdu ghazals and belonged to the old Delhi school of Urdu poetry. He wrote romantic and sensuous poems and ghazals in simple and chaste Urdu minimizing usage of Persian words. He laid great emphasis on the Urdu idiom and its usage.
Max Cavalera.  Massimiliano Antonio Max Cavalera (Portuguese pronunciation: [masimiliˈɐnu ɐ̃ˈtonju kɐvɐˈleɾɐ] born August 4 1969) is a Brazilian singer guitarist and songwriter who currently plays in heavy metal bands Soulfly Cavalera Conspiracy and Killer Be Killed. In 1984 he co-founded the acclaimed heavy metal band Sepultura with his brother Igor Cavalera and played as the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist until he left in 1996.
Ismail Marahimin.  Ismail Marahimin (23 April 1934 – 26 December 2008) was an Indonesian writer. He was born in Medan North Sumatra. After graduating with a degree in English from the national teachers' college (IKIP) in Medan in 1964 Marahimin began his career as a teacher of English.
Big Walter Price.  Big Walter Price (2 August 1914 − 7 March 2012) was an American blues singer songwriter and pianist. He moved to San Antonio where he released his first song called Calling Margie in 1955. In 1955 he moved to Houston where he lived until his death. In 1960s he singned with Peacock Records and released several of his singles. His song Pack Fair and Square was covered by the J. Geils Band on the J. Geils Band album.
Wayne Newton.  Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3 1942) is an American singer and entertainer. One of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas Nevada he is known by the nicknames The Midnight Idol Mr. Las Vegas and Mr. Entertainment. His well known songs include 1972's Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast (his biggest hit peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard chart) Years (1980) and his vocal version of Red Roses for a Blue Lady (1965).
Rich Halley.  Rich Halley (born November 25 1947 in Portland Oregon) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. He has released 16 recordings as a leader. As Down Beat described him: “Oregon-based saxophonist Rich Halley has been turning out smart brawny music for a couple of decades”. All About Jazz called his music “a sublime balance of the cerebral and visceral”.
Nick Martinelli.  For the Sylvester Stallone character named Nick Martinelli see the 1984 film RhinestoneNick Martinelli (born 1950s) is an American R&B and pop record producer. He worked with many R&B and pop music artists during the 1980s many of which were based in the UK. The acts he worked with include Loose Ends Five Star Stephanie Mills and Regina Belle.
Vic Mensa.  Victor Mensah (born June 6 1993) better known by his stage name Vic Mensa is an American hip hop recording artist from Chicago Illinois. He was a member of the group Kids These Days which broke up in May 2013. Following their breakup he released his first major mixtape INNANETAPE. Vic Mensa is also a member of the hip-hop collective SAVE MONEY with frequent collaborator Chance The Rapper.
James Keene (writer).  James Keene was the pseudonym used by the authors Ida Cook and William Everett Cook to write western novels.
Victor Hugo.  Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: ​[viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo]; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem.
Luigi Sacchi.  Luigi Sacchi (August 5 1805- Milan January 15 1861) was an Italian painter mainly of portraits wood engraver and as well as an early photographer. He was active mostly around Milan.He painted the portrait of King Umberto displayed at the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan. In 1883 again in Milan he exhibits Young Milanese Girl. In Rome in 1883 he exhibits two paintings: Fra gli alberi and Beautiful Morning. He published a journal titled Artista and documented travels through Italy.
Howard Mackie.  Howard Mackie (born January 22 1958) is an American comic book editor and writer. He has worked almost exclusively for Marvel Comics.
El Greco.  El Greco born Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 7 April 1614) was a painter sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
Kav Sandhu.  KAV (Kav Sandhu) is a British musician from Leicester. He launched his solo project in 2008 with long-time friend and drummer Jim (James) Portas. KAV plays live backed by his full live band which also features guest musicians from various bands. In the past KAV played guitar with British band Happy Mondays for 4 years after helping reform the band with frontman Shaun Ryder in 2004.
Keko.  Keko (born Jocelyne Tracey Keko) is a Ugandan rapper who has taken over the music scene in Africa during 2011. Her rise to fame began in 2010 with the release of 'fallen heroes' which she appeared alongside other established Ugandan artists like Don MCSPDAVIS and also the mwanba children choir. After spitting arguably the best verse on the track Keko began to turn heads with her lyrics delivery and presence on tracks.
Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky.  Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky was born in 1853 in the city of Taganrog friend of Anton Chekhov studied at Taganrog's Boys Gymnasium was an activist at the Taganrog revolutionary circle and was arrested and tried at the so-called Trial of the 193. Became political immigrant in 1878. Made his debut as journalist in Le Temps in 1880 with the story about his imprisonment En Cellule.
Johan Langell.  Johan Langell (born 16 May 1975) is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the former drummer of the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation.
Trombone Shorty.  Troy Andrews (born January 2 1986) also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty is a trombone and trumpet player from New Orleans Louisiana United States. He has worked in jazz funk and rap music. Andrews is the younger brother of trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews as well as the grandson of singer and songwriter Jessie Hill. Andrews began playing trombone at age six and since 2009 has toured with his own band Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue.
Amber (performer).  Marie-Claire Amber Cremers (born May 9 1970) is a Dutch-born German singer songwriter label owner and executive producer. She is best known for her hits This Is Your Night If You Could Read My Mind and Sexual (Li Da Di).
Darryl McDaniels.  Darryl D.M.C. Matthews McDaniels (born May 31 1964) is an American musician. He is one of the pioneers of hip hop culture and founding members of the hip hop group Run–D.M.C.
Jeff Stevenson (comedian).  Jeff Stevenson (born March 3 1961. Shepherd's Bush London) is an English comedian and actor.
Adel Karasholi.  Adel Karasholi (Arabic: عادل قرشولي. born October 15 1936 in Damascus) is a German and Arabic writer of Syrian origin.
Jacobo Borges.  Jacobo Borges (b. 28 Nov. 1931 in Caracas Venezuela) is a contemporary neo-figurative Latin- American artist. His curiosity for exploring different mediums made him a painter drawer film director stage designer and plastic artist.
E.L (rapper).  Elorm Adablah (born 28 June 1983) better known by his stage name EL is an award-winning Ghanaian record producer rapper and sound engineer.
Catte Adams.  Catte Adams is an American singer who has toured or recorded with artists such as Bill Medley Neil Young Natalie Cole and appears on Yanni's live concert video Tribute.
Catherine Wilmot.  Catherine (or Katharine) Wilmot (1773 – 1824) was an Irish traveller and diarist.
Rudyard Kipling.  Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd ˈkɪplɪŋ/ RUD-yəd KIP-ling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer poet and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency of British India and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.
Judy Astley.  Judy Astley is an English illustrator and author of 15 novels all published by Black Swan. Her first novel was published in 1994 since when she has published one novel a year. She has also written articles for The Times. as well as short stories for My Weekly and Woman magazines.
Zhang Liangying.  Zhang Liangying (simplified Chinese: 张靓颖; traditional Chinese: 張靚穎; pinyin: Zhāng Liàngyǐng; born October 11 1984 in Chengdu Sichuan) also known as Jane Zhang is a Chinese pop singer. She rose to prominence after her third-place performance in the 2005 season of the Super Girl contest a national all-female singing competition in the People's Republic of China. Throughout the competition she sang in English Spanish and Cantonese in addition to Mandarin Chinese.
DJ Homicide.  Craig Anthony Bullock also known as DJ Homicide (December 17 1970) is the former DJ for rock band Sugar Ray.
Mika Waltari.  Mika Toimi Waltari (About this sound pronunciation ) (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen).
Luciano Foti.  Luciano Foti (Messina 1694 – 1779) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era.
Vera Veljkov-Medaković.  Vera Veljkov-Medaković (Serbian Cyrillic: Вера Вељков-Медаковић) (July 18 1923 – September 29 2011) was a pianist and piano teacher. She was the wife of Dejan Medaković.
Gunabhiram Barua.  Gunabhiram Barua (Assamese: গুণাভিৰাম বৰুৱা; 1837-1894) was an enlightened Assamese intellectual who ushered in new ideas about social reform in the early years of colonial rule in Assam. He was deeply influenced by the intellectual opinions of the Bengal Renaissance. He was among the first few Assamese who formally entered the Brahmo Samaj and propagated the liberal ideas of Brahmoism through his writing.
Herbert James Gunn.  Sir Herbert James Gunn RA (1893-1964) was a landscape and portrait painter.
Jo Beverley.  Jo Beverley née Mary Josephine Dunn (born 22 September 1947 in Lancashire England) is a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels since 1988.Her works are regarded as well researched filled with historical details and peopled by communities of interlinked characters stretching the boundaries of the historical romantic fiction genre. They have been translated into several languages and she has been given several awards.
Brian Sidney Bembridge.  Brian Sidney Bembridge (born in 1973) is an American scenic lighting and costume designer for theater and film. His work has been seen on stages and screens throughout the country and Internationally in Australia Germany Prague Ireland and Great Britain. Mr. Bembridge has also taught and lectured at many universities across the country. He holds a BFA from University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Alyssa Mendonsa.  Alyssa Mendonsa (born c. 1990 in Delhi) is an Indian playback singer who has made her debut in the film Karthik Calling Karthik with the song Uff Teri Adaa.She is the daughter of composer Loy Mendonsa of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio who compose music for Bollywood films. She also sang Oh Girl and Papa Jag Jayega along with Neeraj Shridhar and Ritu Pathak for the Sajid Khan's movie Housefull. Her vocal for the song Adhoore of Break Ke Baad was well received by the audiences.
Gyuri Sarossy.  Gyuri Sarossy (b. 1974) is an actor. He was born in England to Anglo-Hungarian parents. He has appeared in many British television shows including Doctors Casualty Holby City Kavanagh QC and EastEnders as Danny Fuller.He has also appeared in 2011 film Mercenaries alongside Billy Zane and numerous theatre productions.
Sigmund Ringeck.  Sigmund Schining ein Ringeck (Sigmund ain Ringeck Sigmund Amring Sigmund Einring Sigmund Schining) was a 14th- or 15th-century German fencing master. While the meaning of the surname Schining is uncertain the suffix ain Ringeck may indicate that he came from the Rhineland region of south-western Germany. He is named in the text of his treatise as Schirmaister to one Duke Albrecht Count Palatine of Rhine and Duke of Bavaria.
Gopal Krishan.  Gopal Krishan was an exponent of vichitra veena an ancient instrument.He was taught initially by his father Nand Kishore who was himself a noted surbahar player and vocalist. After his father's death he continued his training in music under the guidance of Khubchand Bramchari of the Gwalior school of music. Krishan was a versatile musician. His musical expertise was not restricted to the vichitra veena.
Larry Brody.  Larry Brody (born 1944 in Nashville Tennessee) is an American television writer.
George K. Ilsley.  George K. Ilsley was born in Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia Canada in 1958. He is the author of a collection of short stories Random Acts of Hatred which focuses on the lives of gay and bisexual men from childhood to early adulthood and a novel ManBug.Ilsley was awarded an Honour of Distinction citation by the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Grant in 2010. ManBug was also a shortlisted finalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2007.
Morley Bartnoff.  Morley Bartnoff born in 1959 is a Los Angeles California-born keyboardist guitarist songwriter and composer who has been performing and recording for the past 30 years. Formerly with the Los Angeles rock band Burning Sensations Morley now leads alternative rock band Cosmo Topper and whenever possible serves as the “secret weapon” on keyboards for Dramarama an enduring power pop band best known for its hits Anything Anything (I’ll Give You) and Last Cigarette.
Cindy Margolis.  Cynthia Dawn Cindy Margolis (born October 1 1965) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.
Nekro G.  Gerald Lee Smith (born September 20 1983) better known by his stage-name Nekro G is an American rapper promoter & record label owner from Riverside California. He is currently signed to Grim Reality Entertainment and is the owner of Wikid Funk Records founded June 2003.
Chris Tucker.  Christopher Chris Tucker (born August 31 1971) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing the role of Smokey in Friday and as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour film series. Tucker became a frequent stand up performer on Def Comedy Jam in the 1990s. He has also appeared in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element before beginning work on the highly successful Rush Hour films.
Nihal De Silva.  Nihal De Silva (19?? – 28 May 2006) was a Sri Lankan novelist. He won the Gratiaen Prize for his novel The Road From Elephant Pass which was later made into a film. He also published The Far Spent Day and The Ginirella Conspiracy.
Kaija Koo.  Kaija Kokkola (born 10 September 1962 in Helsinki Finland) better known by her stage name Kaija Koo is a Finnish singer.Kaija began her career when she was 17 years old as a member of a band Steel City later known as Kaija Koo Band until it broke up and Kaija Koo became a soloist. Her debut solo album Kun savukkeet on loppuneet was released in 1986. The next album Tuulten viemää created with her then-husband Markku Impiö released in 1993 was Kaija Koo's major breakthrough.
Liu Xiao Ling Tong.  Zhang Jinlai (simplified Chinese: 章金莱; traditional Chinese: 章金萊; pinyin: Zhāng Jīnlái; born 12 April 1959) better known by his stage name Liu Xiao Ling Tong (literally: Little Six Year Old Child) is a Chinese actor best known for his role as the Monkey King (Sun Wukong) in the 1986 television series Journey to the West.
Rufus Waller.  Scola (born Rufus Waller on March 2 1978) is an African-American singer and musician. Scola is best known as the fifth member of multi-platinum R&B act Dru Hill a group he has written and sung lead on songs such as I Love You Old Love and I Should Be. He has also recorded his own solo R&B album From EA To Cali on his own label Victory Records. He is also known as Ruscola. Where he has singles like Let's Get Personal & Mood For Love from the album One Love...One Struggle.
Valentine Chin.  Albert Valentine Tony Chin is a Jamaican guitarist who has collaborated with many reggae artists including Burning Spear and Johnny Clarke. Chin is an original member of The Soul Syndicate a backing band on countless reggae tracks which evolved from The Rhythm Raiders. They recorded for Keith Hudson Niney the Observer and Bunny Lee and other Jamaican record producers.
Hugo Leichtentritt.  Hugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874 Pleschen Polish: Pleszew nearby Posen Province of Posen – 13 November 1951 Cambridge Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. Composer Erich Walter Sternberg was one of his pupils.
Hotaru Hazuki.  Hotaru Hazuki (葉月螢 or 葉月蛍 Hazuki Hotaru) is a Japanese actress known for her work on the stage and in pink films. She has appeared in award-winning pink films and was herself given Best Actress awards at the Pink Grand Prix for her work in this genre two years in a row: in 1995 and 1996. Including second-place awards Hazuki has won five awards in the Best Actress category and one Best New Actress award a record at the Pink Grand Prix.
Antonio Filocamo.  Antonio Filocamo (Messina 1669–1743) and his brother Paolo were Italian painters of the Baroque period.
Chris de Burgh.  Chris de Burgh (born Christopher John Davison 15 October 1948) is a British-Irish singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1986 love song The Lady in Red which reached number one in Belgium Canada Ireland Norway the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Russ Lorenson.  Russ Lorenson (born July 5 1963 birth name Russ Gangloff) is an American singer and actor. Though a stage actor since childhood Lorenson has more recently established a reputation as an interpreter of jazz standards. With a retro crooner style Lorenson's sound and approach are an amalgam of Broadway jazz and pop.
Marguerite Yourcenar.  Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize she was the first woman elected to the Académie française in 1980 and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.
Mary Hon.  Mary Hon is an actress from TVB in Hong Kong. She has appeared in many television series such as Beyond the Realm of Conscience.
Lucia Quinciani.  Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566 fl. 1611) was an Italian composer. She is the earliest known published female composer of monody. She is known only by one composition a setting of Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno udite from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi (1611) in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or Verona.
Patrick F. McManus.  Patrick Francis McManus (born August 25 1933) is an American humor writer who primarily writes about the outdoors. A humor columnist for Outdoor Life Field & Stream and other magazines his columns have been collected in several books beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) up through The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012).
Bernard Garfield.  Bernard Garfield (May 27 1924 - ) is an American bassoonist composer teacher and recording artist. Born in Brooklyn New York he is best known for his long tenure as the principal bassoonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1957 to 2000.
Minna Antrim.  Minna Thomas Antrim (October 13 1861 Philadelphia - 1950) was an American writer. She is famous for the quote Experience is a great teacher but she sends in terrific bills.Born in Philadelphia the daughter of William Preston Thomas and Lauretta Robbins Minna Thomas was educated at St. Mary's Hall in Burlington New Jersey and in 1878 was married to Mr. W. H. Antrim in Philadelphia.
Gustave Verbeek.  Gustave Verbeek (born Gustave Verbeck; 1867 – 1937) was an illustrator and cartoonist best known for his newspaper cartoons in the early 1900s featuring an inventive use of word play and visual storytelling tricks.Verbeek was of Dutch ancestry but was born in Nagasaki Japan the son of Reformed Church in America missionary Guido Verbeck. He grew up in Japan but went to Paris to study art and worked for several European newspapers creating illustrations and cartoons.
Reb Beach.  Reb Beach (born Richard Earl Beach Jr. on August 31 1963 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake. He is the younger brother of John Beach Voiceguy.
François Villon.  François Villon (in modern French pronounced [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃]; in fifteenth-century French [frɑnswɛ viˈlɔn]) born in Paris in 1431 and disappeared from view in 1463 is the best known French poet of the late Middle Ages. A ne'er-do-well who was involved in criminal behavior and got into numerous scrapes with authorities Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.
Andy Partridge.  Andrew John Andy Partridge (born 11 November 1953 in Mtarfa Malta) is an English singer songwriter and guitarist. He rose to fame as a founding member guitarist and chief songwriter of the pop/new wave band XTC. He lives in Swindon Wiltshire where he was raised.
Katt Williams.  Micah S. Katt Williams (born September 2 1973) better known as Katt Williams is an American comedian rapper and actor. He is best known for his role as Money Mike in Friday After Next. He is also known for his stint on Nick Cannon’s MTV improv show Wild 'n Out for playing the fictional character Bobby Shaw on the program My Wife and Kids and for providing the voice for the character A Pimp Named Slickback in The Boondocks.
Gioseffo Maria Bartolini.  Bartolini Gioseffo Maria (1657–1725) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.He was born at Imola. He painted a Miracle of St. Biagio and other works for the church of San Domenico and in other churches. He opened a school at Imola and painted throughout Emilia-Romagna. He painted in the style of his first teacher Lorenzo Pasinelli.
Kathy Sanborn.  Kathy Sanborn (born January 16) is an American jazz vocalist pianist composer and producer based in California. Sanborn's notable recordings include the albums Sultry Night Six Degrees of Cool Blues for Breakfast Small Galaxy and Peaceful Sounds. Stylistically Sanborn has been compared with 1950s cool jazz singers Anita O’Day Chris Connor and June Christy due to her smooth velvet vocals and clear diction.
V/Vm.  V/Vm is the experimental music and sound collage project of James Leyland Kirby from Stockport England. Although starting out mainly in the style of noise music Kirby is also a composer of original electronic music and remixes. His vast output is released primarily on his own V/Vm Test Records label. Alongside the work of the V/Vm project James Kirby also records most often as The Caretaker. He currently resides in Krakow.
Draco Rosa.  Draco Cornelius Rosa Suárez (born Robert Edward Rosa Suárez; June 27 1969 in Long Island) also known as Robi Draco Rosa Draco Rosa or simply Draco is a multiple-time Grammy and Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican musician singer-songwriter composer multi-instrumentalist record producer poet and entrepreneur.Rosa originally garnered fame as a member of boy band Menudo in the 1980s singing lead on the band's biggest stateside hit Hold Me and featuring prominently in the accompanying music video. 
Susanne Alt.  Susanne Alt (born 1978) is a jazz saxophone player and composer based in Amsterdam Netherlands.
J. Neil Schulman.  Joseph Neil Schulman (born April 16 1953 in Forest Hills Queens U.S.) is a novelist who wrote Alongside Night (published 1979) and The Rainbow Cadenza (published 1983) which both received the Prometheus Award a libertarian science fiction award. His third novel Escape from Heaven was also a finalist for the 2002 Prometheus Award.
Herb Trimpe.  Herbert W. Herb Trimpe (born May 26 1939) is an American comic book artist and occasional writer best known the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine who later became a breakout star of the X-Men.
Halo Meadows.  Halo Meadows (May 1 1905 – May 12 1985) was an American actress writer and burlesque dancer. She also used Louise Howard as a pseudonym.
Kim Seung-hee (poet).  Kim Seung-hee is a Korean poet essayist and novelist.
John Shannon (novelist).  John Shannon (born 1943) is a contemporary American author lately of detective fiction. He began his career with four well-reviewed novels in the 1970s and 1980s then in 1996 launched the Jack Liffey mystery series. He cites as his literary influences Raymond Chandler Ross Macdonald Graham Greene Robert Stone and Jim Harrison.
Benjamin Martin (author).  Benjamin Martin (born November 12 1984) author of young-adult/urban fantasy novels. He currently lives in Okinawa.
Ben Ames Williams.  Ben Ames Williams (7 March 1889 – 4 February 1953) was an accomplished American novelist and short story writer; he wrote hundreds of short stories and over thirty novels during the course of his life. Among his novels are Come Spring (1940) Leave Her to Heaven (1944) House Divided (1947) and The Unconquered (1953). He was published in many magazines but the majority of his stories appeared in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post.
José Bonifácio the Younger.  José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (November 8 1827 – October 26 1886) was a French-born Brazilian poet teacher and senator.
Parker Bailey.  Parker Bailey (1902 - 1980) was an American composer pianist and lawyer. He was a nephew of Horatio Parker with whom he had hoped to study at Yale University but Parker died before taking him on. Bailey served for a time as a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission but remained active as a composer for much of his life.
King Coleman.  Carlton King Coleman (January 20 1932 – September 11 2010) was an American rhythm and blues singer and musician known for providing the vocals for the 1959 hit single (Do The) Mashed Potatoes recorded with James Brown's band. Over the course of his singing career Coleman released numerous singles that have been re-released on compilation albums as well as the 2003 retrospective It's Dance Time released by Norton Records.
Angie Stone.  Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown December 19 1961) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter record producer and actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. She has been most successful on the R&B charts with four Top 10 albums including a number one album and ten singles including a Top 10. She has sold over 1.4 millions albums in the U.S. and over 5 millions albums worldwide.
Catherine Story.  Catherine Story is an artist living and working in London. Story studied at Royal Academy Schools.She is represented by Carl Freedman Gallery London. In October 2009 Story had her first solo exhibition Pylon in London at the Carl Freedman Gallery followed by a second solo show Angeles in November 2011 of new paintings and sculpture.
Roshan Abbas.  Roshan Abbas is an Indian Radio jockey theater actor TV anchor emcee impresario event manager writer and director. He is an alumnus of La Martiniere College Lucknow. He is a radio and television game show host and head of an events management company Encompass.
Ray Anthony.  Ray Anthony (born January 20 1922) is an American bandleader trumpeter songwriter and actor.
Ray Brown Jr..  Ray Brown Jr. (born October 13 1949) is an American jazz and blues pianist and singer.
Kylie Foster.  Kylie Foster (born 3 March 1961) is an Australian actress.
Eugene McGuinness.  Eugene Michael McGuinness (born August 1985 in Leytonstone London) is a British singer-songwriter and frontman of Eugene + the Lizards. He is currently living in London and is of Irish heritage.
Paulette Noizeux.  Paulette Noizeux (30 May 1887 – 9 April 1971) was a French stage and film actress who began her career on the stages of France and New York in the 1910s. Her career spanned sixty years.Born Marie-Paule Coeuré in Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais France Paulette Noizeux made her film debut in the 1911 Abel Gance-directed film short La Digue opposite actors Jean Renoir and Jean Toulout. The film is notable for being Gance's directoral debut.
L.T. Hutton.  L.T. Hutton born Lenton Terrell Hutton Was born on January 6 1974 in Chicago Illinois to Patrica and LT Hutton. He is an American record producer Entrepreneur and currently owns his own movie company Program Pictures in conjunction with Morgan Creek Pictures. He has worked on several projects with Death Row Records became the head of A&R at Ruthless Records Interscope Records. He has worked on several projects.
Rolf Harris.  Rolf Harris AO CBE (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian-born British-based entertainer. He is a musician singer-songwriter composer painter and television personality. He has lived in the UK for more than five decades residing in Bray Berkshire.Harris who was born and grew up in Perth Western Australia was a champion swimmer before studying art. In 1952 he moved to the United Kingdom where he started to draw animations for television programmes.
Rupert Farley.  Rupert Farley is an actor from the UK. He has had various roles in Movies such as From Hell and Mrs. Brown. He is probably best known for his voice acting work which includes voice over work for TV advertisements and animation. His name is well known amongst the fans of Tube Mice The Animals of Farthing Wood TV series; he voiced several characters including Fox Plucky Trey and Mr. Pheasant.
David Hodges.  David Hall Hodges (born December 5 1978) is a songwriter producer composer keyboardist and vocalist from Little Rock Arkansas who has sold over 50 million records. He is well known for being a member of the band Evanescence which he left in 2002. He has also been part of the bands Trading Yesterday The Age of Information AVOX Arrows To Athens and Passengers.
Alan Ayckbourn.  Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced more than seventy full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was between 1972 and 2009 the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.
Tony Grant (singer).  Tony Grant a native of North Carolina is an American R&B singer writer producer and stage play actor. Grant replaced Marc Nelson as lead singer for R&B group Az Yet following Marc's departure in 1997 to pursue his solo career. Included in Grant's brief tenure with Az Yet is the popular remake of You're The Inspiration with Chicago's Peter Cetera.Grant had star billing in the stage play and DVDs Tell Hell I Ain't Comin' Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married and Love Ain't Supposed To Hurt.
Nathan Watts.  Nathan Lamar Watts born 1954 in Detroit Michigan is an American session bass guitar player best known for his work with Stevie Wonder from the 1970s to the present. He has served as Stevie Wonder’s musical director for the last twelve years.
Bree Sharp.  Bree Sharp (born December 17 1975) is an American singer and songwriter influenced by rock pop and folk. As of the 2010s she is the lead vocalist of the electropop band Beautiful Small Machines.
Matthew Ward (writer).  Matthew Ward (1950/1951 – June 23 1990) was an American English/French translator noted for his 1989 rendition of Albert Camus' The Stranger. He made several important alterations from the more British-toned translation (and previously only English edition) by Stuart Gilbert. Most notably he altered the quite well known opening line Mother died today to Maman died today.
Kostas Hatzis.  Kostas Hatzis (Greek: Κώστας Χατζής) (born August 13 1936) is a Romani singer-songwriter and musician.Kostas Hatzis born in Livadeia a city in central Greece. He is one of the most significant composers in the Greek social song. He is the one who has substantially imposed the voice-guitar style and for the first time he made ballads with social messages heard.His grandfather was a great popular clarinettist and his father also played very well the dulcimer.
Helen Shingler.  Helen Shingler (born 19 August 1919) is a British film actress and the mother of actor Anthony Stewart Head and singer/musician Murray Head.
Shinpachi Tsuji.  Shinpachi Tsuji (辻 親八 Tsuji Shinpachi born October 20 1956 in Chiba prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor.
Vince Martell.  Vince Martell (born Vincent James Martellucci on November 11 1945) is best known as the lead guitarist for Vanilla Fudge.Martell was born in the Bronx to parents who played the guitar and encouraged him to play as well. While in his teens Martell joined the Navy where he discovered his skills as a guitarist.In 1963 Martell moved with his family to Florida and soon joined a band called Ricky T & The Satans Three that played in Miami blues clubs and shrimp bars in Key West.
Chandramathi.  Chandrika Balan (born 17 January 1954) is an Indian bilingual writer who has published books in both English and under the pen name Chandramathiചന്ദ്രമതി in Malayalam. She is an award-winning writer of fiction and translator and a critic in both English and Malayalam.
Joseph Mount.  Joseph Patrick Kennith Mount (born September 11 1982 Totnes in Devon) is the founder of British band Metronomy.
Suso de Toro.  Xesús Miguel Suso de Toro Santos (born January 10 1956) is a Spanish writer. A modern and contemporary arts graduate he has published more than twenty novels and plays in Galician. He is a television scriptwriter and regular contributor to the press and radio. Suso de Toro writes in Galician and sometimes translates his own work into Spanish.His works have been translated into several languages and have been taught in European universities.
Fuyumi Sakamoto.  Fuyumi Sakamoto (坂本 冬美 Sakamoto Fuyumi born March 30 1967 in Kamitonda Nishimuro District Wakayama Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese female enka singer under EMI Music Japan.
Bill Hammond.  William (Bill) Hammond (born Christchurch 1947) is a New Zealand artist.Hammond attended the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury from 1966 to 1969 and has worked as a full-time painter since 1981 (in between times working as a toymaker).
Laura Watton.  Laura Watton (born August 2 1979) is a semi-professional UK manga artist and founding member of Sweatdrop Studios. Watton was a member since its inception until 2010 announcing the decision to create works under 'Pinkapplejam.com'. She self-publishes her series Biomecha. Currently residing in Cambridge Cambridgeshire England Laura creates freelance illustrations.
G. M. Ford.  Gerald M. Ford (born 1945) is an American crime and thriller novelist writing as G. M. Ford.
Engelina.  Engelina Andrina Larsen (born 1978 on Bornholm Denmark) is a Danish singer and songwriter who is best known for writing and providing the vocals for DJ Encore's I See Right Through to You which was a #1 hit in her native Denmark.Engelina the daughter of Ann-Cathrin and songwriter Henning Larsen grew up on Bornholm with her two older sisters.
José María Vargas Vila.  José María Vargas Vila. (Piedras Tolima- Colombia) June 23 1860 – May 23 1933). Colombian writer.He was one of the most controversial writers in the beginning of 20th century in the American continent Jose Maria Vargas Vila characterized by its radical liberal ideals and the consequent critic against the clergy the conservative ideas and the imperialistic policy of the United States.
Roger Morris (English writer).  Roger N Morris (born 1960 in Manchester) is an English writer and advertising copywriter. His short fiction has been published in a number of mainstream genre and literary publications. One of his short stories The Devil's Drum appeared in the horror anthology Darkness Rising and was subsequently made into an opera performed by the Solaris Musical Theatre Company in the Purcell Room on London's South Bank.
Atiye.  Atiye Deniz (Turkish pronunciation: [atiˈje deˈniz]) (born November 22 1988 in Bremen) is a German-born Turkish-German singer. She was born in Bremen West Germany.
Guillermo Dávila.  Guillermo Dávila (born 18 March 1955 in Bailadores) is a Venezuelan actor and singer who has acted in many telenovelas.After starting his career in theatre in the 1970s Dávila first gained national fame in a telenovela called Ligia Elena becoming famous internationally in 1983 when he starred in its sequel Nacho for Venevisión. He played the eponymous main character. He then went to Puerto Rico where he starred alongside Ivonne Goderich in the 1984 soap opera Diana Carolina for WAPA-TV.
Karl Erik Harr.  Karl Erik Harr (born 8 May 1940) is a Norwegian painter illustrator graphic artist and author best known for his representations of Northern-Norwegian scenery and coastal history.
Martyn Jones (painter).  Martyn Jones (born 1955 Aberdare Wales) is a British contemporary painter who works from his studio in Cardiff Wales. Jones who was born in Aberaman near Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf graduated with an M.A. in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art London and was awarded Junior Fellowship at Bath Academy of Art. Among his tutors were the British artists Adrian Heath and Patrick Heron. His work is represented in the UK by the Ffin-y-Parc Gallery and Kooywood Gallery Wales and the No.
Shane Gibson (musician).  Shane Paul Gibson (February 21 1979 – April 15 2014) was an American musician best known for being the touring guitarist for the American metal group Korn after the departure of Brian Head Welch in February 2005. He also played the lead guitar for the solo tour of Jonathan Davis from Korn.Gibson spent most of his teenage years in Florida and graduated in 2002 with a degree in music therapy from the Berklee College of Music where he attended on a scholarship basis.
Françoise Mouly.  Françoise Mouly (born October 24[citation needed] 1955) is a Paris-born New York-based artist designer and editor. She is best known as co-founder –editor and –publisher of the comics and graphics magazine Raw (1980–1991) and since 1993 as the art director of The New Yorker. She is the copublisher of Raw Books and Toon Books.
Rutka Laskier.  Rutka (Ruth) Laskier (1929–1943) was a Jewish teenager from Poland who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling three months of her life during the Holocaust.
Dvora Omer.  Dvora Omer (Hebrew: דְבֹורַה עֹומֶר; October 9 1932 – May 2 2013) was an Israeli author.
Øivind Elgenes.  Øivind Elgenes alias Elg (born 13 February 1958 in Kristiansund Norway) is a Norwegian vocalist guitarist and composer known from a series of recordings and as front figure of the Norwegian band Dance with a Stranger.
Parmigianino.  Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino (the little one from Parma); 11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence Rome Bologna and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by elongation of form and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the Madonna with the Long Neck (1534).
Stu Phillips (composer).  Stu Phillips (born September 9 1929) is an American composer of film scores and television-series theme music conductor and record producer. He is perhaps best known for composing the themes to the 1980s television series Knight Rider and Battlestar Galactica.
Stephanie Moulton Sarkis.  Stephanie Moulton Sarkis is a specialist in the treatment of ADD/ADHD and the author of four books on adult ADHD. She is a practicing Licensed Mental Health Counselor and National Certified Counselor based in Boca Raton FL. She specializes in ADHD and its impact on college performance and personal finance. Sarkis' experience with having ADHD is profiled in the book The Gift of Adult ADD by Lara Honos-Webb.
Heinz (singer).  Heinz Burt (24 July 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a German-born bassist and singer who performed under the stage name Heinz.
Greg Ladanyi.  Greg Ladanyi (July 6 1952 – September 29 2009) was an American record producer and recording engineer of Hungarian descent known for his work with many musicians including Jackson Browne Warren Zevon Type O Negative The Church Anna Vissi Toto Fleetwood Mac Hollywood Undead Don Henley and Jeff Healey.
Steve Strongman.  Steve Strongman is a Canadian blues guitarist singer and songwriter originally from Kitchener Ontario. He has released two full length blues albums Honey and Blues in Colour.
Dennis Rowland.  Dennis Rowland is a jazz vocalist born and raised in Detroit MI. Having grown up in a household of jazz enthusiasts Rowland developed an appreciation for Jazz music at an early age. At the age of five or six Rowland heard the vocals of Joe Williams of the Count Basie Orchestra which has influenced his approach to singing ever since. Rowland's voice is rich and deep and throughout the early 1970s Rowland worked Detroit's local jazz and acting scene.
Richard Bannatyne.  Richard Bannatyne (died 1605) was a Scottish clergyman and scribe who served as secretary to John Knox. His place in history is substantiated in his role as the compiler of the historical record Memorials of Transactions in Scotland from 1569 to 1573.
Bert Weedon.  Herbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon OBE (10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s.
Imany.  Nadia Mladjao (born 1979) better known by her stage name Imany is an French Afro-soul singer. Her stage name Imany (Imani) means faith in Swahili. Her debut album The Shape of a Broken Heart which was released in 2011 reached Platinum status in France Greece and triple Platinum in Poland.She was born in Martigues in a family from the Comoros Islands in 1979.As a youth she was an athlete doing high jump. She became a model for the Ford Models Europe.
Shanon Shah.  Shanon Shah (born 14 August 1978 in Alor Star Kedah) is a singer-songwriter playwright and journalist from Malaysia. He released two albums Dilanda Cinta (2005) and Suara Yang Ku Dengar (2010) on the InterGlobal Music Malaysia independent label. He is noted for his emotive voice and cabaret-style piano playing.Trained as a chemical engineer Shanon has previously worked as a credit risk analyst human rights advocate and journalist.
Eric Hales.  Eric Hales (1901-1993) was a British actor.
Alex Feather Akimov.  Alex Feather Akimov (born May 28 1986) is a Russian-American guitarist and composer who has been active in the music industry for nearly ten years as a touring musician a session guitarist and a solo artist in his own right. Akimov has appeared on eleven studio albums has played hundreds of live performances across the United States and has collaborated with a wide variety of notable artists including Steve Vai Britney Spears and Rihanna.
Yvette Bova.  Yvette Bova (born April 6 1962) is an American female bodybuilder and pornographic actress.
Thomas Wolfe.  Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3 1900 – September 15 1938) was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels plus many short stories dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original poetic rhapsodic and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing.
David Koloane.  The artist David Nthubu Koloane was born on 5 June 1938 in the township of Alexandra a suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa. In his drawings paintings and collages he explores actual questions about political injustice and human rights. Koloane is considered an influential artist and writer of the apartheid years in South Africa.
Obelit Yadgar.  Obelit Yadgar (born 1945) aka Obie Yadgar is an Assyrian-American radio personality from Glendale Wisconsin. Yadgar was born in Baghdad Iraq. Raised in Tehran he moved to the United States in 1957. He was drafted into the US Army's 4th Infantry Division serving as a combat correspondent in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968.Yadgar spent eight years at radio station WFMR in Milwaukee during the 1970s and another 10 years at the station during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Alphonse Hasselmans.  Alphonse Hasselmans (5 March 1845 – 19 May 1912) was a Belgian-born French harpist composer and pedagogue.
Vicente Carattini.  Vicente Carattini (November 11 1939-November 7 2005) was a renowned singer and composer of Puerto Rican Christmas related songs.
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz.  Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (September 24 1878 – May 23 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and was educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby Aubonne and then in Weimar Germany. In 1903 he left for Paris and remained there until World War I with frequent trips home to Switzerland.
Bashful Brother Oswald.  Beecher Ray Kirby (December 26 1911–October 17 2002) better known as Bashful Brother Oswald was an American country musician who popularized the use of the resonator guitar and Dobro. He played with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and was a member of the Grand Ole Opry.Though he released only a few recordings as a solo artist he played as a session musician on numerous records including the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 triple album Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
John Bodwin.  John Bodwin (born 1934) is a British-born musician and multi-instrumentalist most notable for his work as a jazz tuba player.
Bianca Soares.  Bianca Soares (born February 12 1983 in Curitiba) is Brazilian model and transsexual pornographic actress.
T. E. Breitenbach.  Thomas E. Breitenbach (born July 29 1951 in Queens New York) is a self-taught American artist best known for his painting Proverbidioms a raucous and comical depiction of over 300 common proverbs and clichés. He also collaborated with Jim Morrison of The Doors shortly before Morrison's death on a painting intended for use on his An American Prayer album.
Leo Moran.  Leo Moran (born 9 November 1964 in Tuam Galway) is best known as lead guitarist and sometimes vocalist in the Irish folk rock band The Saw Doctors.Born in Tuam in Galway Moran studied French and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway. He later trained as a secondary teacher and earned a higher diploma in education. At Galway he met several prominent figures in the area's music scene including Padraig Boran and Ollie Jennings who would become the Saw Doctors' manager.
Afrizal Malna.  Afrizal Malna (born 7 June 1957 in Jakarta Indonesia) is an Indonesian activist writer of prose poetry and theatrical texts.
Felipe Pigna.  Felipe Pigna born in Mercedes Buenos Aires in 1959 is an Argentine historian and writer. He is among the best selling book authors from Argentina.
Dave O'Toole.  Dave O'Toole was an actor who appeared in seven films from 1924 to 1942. He is best known for his appearance as The Postman in the 1937 Will Hay comedy film Oh Mr Porter!. He also made an uncredited appearance in the 1939 film Ask a Policeman as well as Where's That Fire? both starring Hay.
Brenton Brown.  Brenton Brown born in South Africa is a Christian songwriter and worship leader. He left South Africa for Oxford England in his early twenties on a Rhodes Scholarship. While studying politics philosophy and theology he joined the Vineyard music (UK) serving as worship pastor at the Oxford Vineyard UK and eventually as coordinator of the Vineyard (UK) Worship Development Team.
Kim Bum-soo.  Kim Bum Soo (김범수 金範修‎ born January 26 1979) is a South Korean R&B and soul singer (see also K-pop) famous for his smooth vocals and emotive ballads.Particularly he is noted for the song 보고싶다 (bo go ship da) the title of which means 'I miss you' in English.
Lee Jooyeon.  Lee Joo-Yeon (Hangul: 이주연; Hanja: 李周姸; born March 19 1987) is a South Korean idol singer and actress. She is the Vocalist Lead Dancer and Visual of the group After School (band). She made her acting debut in the drama Smile Again and has made several cameos.
Takeshi Furukawa.  Takeshi Furukawa is a composer and producer of music for films television video games and advertising campaigns.
Ivan Iusco.  Ivan Iusco (born September 4 1970) is an Italian composer producer and founder of the music label Minus Habens Records.Since 1999 he has written ten film scores. Iusco has received the Mejor Banda Sonora award at Mostra de València (Spain) in 2000 and the Nastro d'Argento nomination in 2004.[citation needed]
Lil Hardin Armstrong.  Lil Hardin Armstrong (February 3 1898 – August 27 1971) was a jazz pianist composer arranger singer and bandleader and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s.Hardin's compositions include Struttin' With Some Barbecue Don't Jive Me Two Deuces Knee Drops Doin' the Suzie-Q Just For a Thrill (which became a major hit when revived by Ray Charles in 1959) Clip Joint and Bad Boy (a minor hit for Ringo Starr in 1978) her composition Oriental Swing was sampled heavily to create Parov Stelar's 2012 retro-song Booty Swing which in turn gained notoriety when it was used in a 2013 Chevrolet commercial.
James Bramston.  James Bramston (circa 1694 - 1744) satirist educated at Westminster School and Oxford took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics (1729) in imitation of Horace and The Man of Taste (1733) in imitation of Alexander Pope. He also parodied Phillips's Splendid Shilling in The Crooked Sixpence. His verses have some liveliness. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
Bruce Palmer.  Bruce Palmer (September 9 1946 – October 1 2004) was a Canadian musician notable for playing bass guitar in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield.
Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi.  Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi (水内 清光 Mizuuchi Kiyomitsu born November 17 1960) is a Japanese voice actor.
Phyllis Rose.  Phyllis Rose (born October 26 1942) is an American literary critic essayist biographer and educator.
Hannah Cohoon.  Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864) was an American painter born in Williamstown Massachusetts. She became a member of the Hancock Shaker Village and made gift drawings that recounted spiritual visitations received during the Era of Manifestations encountered by Shakers in the mid 19th-century. Uncommonly for Shaker gift drawings she signed her drawings so that the works have been attributed to her. Cohoon had a unique style that was more abstract simple and personal.
Luna-C.  Luna-C (born Christopher Howell on May 1 1973) is a British DJ and record producer known for his work in breakbeat hardcore music. He made up a third of the rave group Smart E's in 1992 which had a number 2 hit in the UK with a remix of the Sesame Street theme song (Sesame's Treet).Luna-C founded the Kniteforce Records label in 1992 which has continued to have a cult following throughout hardcore music's changes in popularity.
Emcee Lynx.  Lynx T'chass or Emcee Lynx was an anarchist hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area who achieved significant popularity and name-recognition in the West Coast hip hop and underground hip hop scenes and among anarchists and other radicals around the world.
Anna Langfus.  Anna Langfus (born Anna-Regina Szternfinkiel in Lublin on January 2 1920; died May 12 1966 in Paris) was an award-winning Polish/French author. She was also a concentration camp survivor. She won the Prix Goncourt in 1962 for Les bagages de sable (translated as THE LOST SHORE) which concerns a concentration camp survivor.
Mariotto Albertinelli.  Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli (October 13 1474 – November 5 1515) was a High Renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine school closely involved with Fra Bartolomeo and influenced by Raphael.
Tobi Vail.  Tobi Celeste Vail (born July 20 1969) is an independent musician music critic and feminist from Olympia Washington. She was a central figure in the riot grrl scene—she coined the spelling of grrl—and she started the zine Jigsaw. A drummer guitarist and singer she was a founding member of the band Bikini Kill. Vail has collaborated in several other bands figuring in the Olympia music scene. Vail writes for eMusic.
Eric Von Schmidt.  Eric Von Schmidt (May 28 1931 – February 2 2007) was an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
Per Øystein Sørensen.  Per Øystein Sørensen is a Norwegian singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the new wave/synthpop band Fra Lippo Lippi.
Henry A. Bamman.  Henry A. Bamman (June 13 1918-February 14 2000) was an American author professor and teacher. His titles focuses were adventure and science fiction. He had co-authored many books with Helen Huus and Robert J Whitehead.
Albertus Parisiensis.  Albertus Parisiensis (fl. 1146 – 1177) also known as Albert of Paris was a French cantor and composer. He is credited with creating the first known piece of European music for three voices.He probably originally came from Estampes in the Arrondissement of Mirande. Albertus served as canon at Notre Dame de Paris from 1127 and as cantor by 1146 a position he held until his death in 1177 the only period of his life which has been documented.
Franciszek Duszeńko.  Franciszek Duszeńko (6 April 1925 – 11 April 2008) was a Polish sculptor professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and its Rector in the years 1981–87. He was a former prisoner of Nazi concentration camps in World War II.During the occupation of Poland Duszeńko was the soldier of Armia Krajowa (the Home Army) in the service of Gródek Jagielloński Inspectorate of Communication in the Lwów district (now Lviv Ukraine).
Benedetto Caliari.  Benedetto Caliari (1538–1598) was an Italian painter who was born into a family of artists. Benedetto’s father Gabriele Caliari was a stonecutter. Benedetto’s brother Paolo Caliari is better known as Veronese. Veronese’s principal assistants were his younger brother Benedetto Caliari and his two sons Carlo or Carletto Caliari (1570–1596) and Gabriele Caliari (1568–1631).
Mussarat Abbas.  Mussarat Abbas (Urdu: مسرت عبّاس‎ Hindi: मुसरत अब्बास) (born in 1982) is a Pakistani-Indian singer and was a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 in which he attained 6th place with public votes.
Louisa Alice Baker.  Louisa Alice Baker (13 January 1856 – 22 March 1926) was a New Zealand journalist and novelist. She was born in Aston Warwickshire England on 13 January 1856. She became known as 'Dot' writing for the Otago Witness addressing children and women. She continued to write for the Witness after she moved to England in 1894.
Stella Farentino.  Stella Farentino (born February 16 1962) is the fourth wife of actor James Farentino and she went on to become an actress herself.
Iqbal Kuttippuram.  Mohamed Iqbal Kompathayill commonly credited as Iqbal Kuttipuram is an Indian screenwriter and homeopathy physician. He has written screenplays for popular films such as Niram Swapnakoodu and 4 the people.
Henri René.  Henri René ( born Harold M. Kirchstein; December 29 1906-April 25 1993) was an American musician who had an international career in the recording industry as a producer composer conductor and arranger. Born in New York City of a German father and French mother young Harold traveled to Germany with his family where he studied at the Royal Berlin Academy of Music. Returning to the U.S. in the mid-1920s he began appearing with several orchestras.
Susan Fenimore Cooper.  Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (April 17 1813 – December 31 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist.
Mary Kerridge.  Mary Kerridge (April 3 1914 – July 22 1999) was an English actress married to John Counsell the managing director of the Theatre Royal Windsor with whom she worked at the theatre for many years. Their daughter is actress Elizabeth Counsell.She was known for her work in television and in theatre as both a performer and director. For Alexander Korda in 1955 she appeared in Laurence Olivier's Richard III.
Brian Ahern (producer).  Brian Ahern born in Halifax Nova Scotia is a Canadian record producer and guitarist. He has produced albums for a wide variety of artists including 12 albums for Anne Murray; 11 albums for Emmylou Harris; he also produced discs for Johnny Cash George Jones Roy Orbison Glen Campbell Don Williams Jesse Winchester and Linda Ronstadt. Ahern was entered into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006 in Saint John New Brunswick.
Judy Tenuta.  Judy Tenuta (born November 7 1956) is an American entertainer actress comedian author producer and accordionist.
George McCullagh Reed.  George McCullagh Reed (1831–1898) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister journalist and newspaper proprietor. He was born in County Monaghan Ireland in about 1831.
Anton Cosmo.  Anton Cosmo is a rock guitarist singer and songwriter who is best known as a former member of the rock band Boston.
Arnaud Collery.  Arnaud Collery (born January 1976) is a French comedian actor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Married.
Lefty Frizzell.  William Orville Lefty Frizzell (March 31 1928 – July 19 1975) was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard Willie Nelson Roy Orbison George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
List of songs recorded by 911.  The following is a list of songs recorded by British boyband 911. The band have released three studio albums: The Journey Moving On and There It Is as well as two greatest hits compilations.
Mitsuru Igarashi.  Mitsuru Igarashi (五十嵐 充 Igarashi Mitsuru born May 17 1969 in Tokyo) is the former keyboarder and songwriter of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing. He founded the band in early 1996 with his old friend Ichirō Itō and then 18-year-old singer Kaori Mochida. He left Every Little Thing in April 2000 after releasing the third album Eternity. Since leaving the band he started producing music for the band Day After Tomorrow which disbanded in 2005.
Derek Kirk Kim.  Derek Kirk Kim (born 1974) is an award-winning Korean-American writer cartoonist character designer and filmmaker. He is the writer of TUNE and the writer and director of the spin-off webseries Mythomania. He won both major comics industry awards in 2004 the Eisner and the Harvey for his debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories which was originally serialized on his website Lowbright(formerly known as Small Stories).
Diana Doll.  Diana Doll (born July 22 1976 in Liptovský Mikuláš) is a Slovak pornographic actress and model.Doll was previously known as Sue Diamond but changed her name due to being confused with fellow Slovak porn actress Suzie Diamond.Aside from her activity on adult industry Doll is also a graphic designer.
John Downton.  John Downton (1906–1991) was an English artist philosopher musician and poet. Born at Erith. Kent Downton drew well from an early age. At age fifteen he won the youth silver medal of the Royal Drawing Society. He was educated at Queens' College Cambridge (1925–1928) first in English and then in Art History and then trained as a painter at the Slade.
Ahmad Dhani.  Dhani Ahmad Prasetyo (born May 26 1972) better known as Ahmad Dhani or Dhani Manaf is an Indonesian rock musician songwriter arranger and producer. Described as a rock star Dhani is the frontman of Dewa 19 and Ahmad Band and also a member of the inter-continental band The Rock.
Yuki Masuda.  Yuki Masuda (増田ゆき Masuda Yuki born February 9 1973 in Atami Shizuoka) is a Japanese voice actress and occasional singer.
Joseph Rael.  Joseph Rael (Tiwa:Tslew-teh-koyeh: Beautiful Painted Arrow) (b. 1935) is a Native American ceremonial dancer shaman writer and artist. He is also known as the founder of a global network of Sound Peace Chambers. Rael has spoken before the United Nations and at the Pentagon on the role of the warrior in the modern world.
Greg Rucka.  Gregory Greg Rucka is an American comic book writer and novelist known for his work on such comics as Action Comics Batwoman Detective Comics and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics and for novels such as his Atticus Kodiak series.
Joan Fuster Bonnin.  Joan Fuster Bonnin Palma (Majorca) from 1870 to 1943 was a Spanish painter.
Francis Ryck.  Francis Ryck pseudonym Delville Yves (1920–2007) was a French writer.
Henri Joseph Du Laurens.  Henri Joseph Du Laurens (sometimes Dulaurens) (1719 1793 or 97) was a French novelist author of such works as Le compère Matthieu Imirce ou la fille de la nature and L'Arrétin moderne. He may also have written Candide Part II.
Nay Sleiman.  Nay Sleiman is a Lebanese pop singer with diverse vocal ability and style that attracted following from different countries from the Arab world. Nay name in Arabic means flute; an instrument that Nay adores. Nay was named by her father who was a flute player and a musician himself.
Pete Burns.  Pete Burns (born 5 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter author and television personality who founded the band Dead or Alive in 1980 in which he was vocalist and songwriter and which rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single You Spin Me Round. He later rose to further celebrity status in the British media following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother 2006 in which he finished in fifth place receiving 13.6% of the final vote.
Arcangelo Resani.  Arcangelo Resani (1670–1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Rome and was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Boncuore. He chiefly excelled in painting animals and hunted game. His simple realistic works were highly esteemed at Siena Bologna and Venice. His portrait with dead game in the background is in the Uffizi collection.
Lesley Scott.  Lesley Scott is the first woman to receive a writing credit in the history of the British science-fiction program Doctor Who. She received a full co-writing credit for the 1966 serial The Ark despite having contributed nothing to the script. The credit came at the request of writer Paul Erickson's agent on Erickson's behalf. He wanted for reasons still obscure to share the writing credit with his then-wife.
Coralie Colmez.  Coralie Colmez is a French mathematician tutor and author.
Terry Bain.  Terry Bain is an author from Spokane Washington; as of 2006 he had two books on pets published from Random House. He has also contributed to Bateman 365 and writes on a number of blogs.He attended the University of Puget Sound.
Maria Cole.  Maria Hawkins Cole (formerly Ellington during her first marriage to Spurgeon Ellington a Tuskegee Airman) (August 1 1922 – July 10 2012) was the widow of singer Nat King Cole and mother of singer Natalie Cole. She was also a jazz singer who worked most notably with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. She met Nat King Cole while they were both singing at the Zanzibar club.Cole was born in Boston and was the niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Her father Mingo Hawkins was a letter carrier.
Sean Moore (musician).  Sean Anthony Moore (born 30 July 1968) is a Welsh musician who is the drummer and percussionist and occasional trumpet player of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
Margie Alexander.  Marjorie Lucille Margie Alexander (11 October 1948 – 26 March 2013) was an American gospel and soul singer mainly noted for her recordings in the 1970s.
Atle Kittang.  Atle Kittang (20 March 1941 – 1 June 2013) was a Norwegian literary researcher and literary critic.His doctorate thesis from 1973 was a study on the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. He was professor at the University of Bergen since 1974. His research included studies on works by Knut Hamsun and Henrik Ibsen. Among his books are Litteraturkritiske problem (1975) and Moderne litteraturteori – en innføring (1993). He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Gary Primich.  Gary Primich (April 20 1958 – September 23 2007) was an American blues harmonica player singer guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for his 1995 album Mr. Freeze.
Mack David.  Mack David (July 5 1912 – December 30 1993) was an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his work in film and television with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs.
Ryōko Nagata.  Ryōko Nagata (永田 亮子 Nagata Ryōko born February 23 1975 in Gifu) is a Japanese voice actress who is freelance.
Keith Strickland.  Keith Strickland (born October 26 1953) is an American multi-instrumentalist composer and one of the founding members of the The B-52s.He was born in Athens Georgia.Originally the band's drummer Strickland switched to guitar after the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985. Strickland also plays keyboards and bass guitar on many of The B-52s recordings and has occasionally provided backing vocals.Strickland composes the music for The B-52s.
Brad Martin.  Brad Martin (born May 3 1973 in Greenfield Ohio) is an American country music artist. He made his debut on the American country music scene in 2002 with the release of his debut album Wings of a Honky-Tonk Angel which produced the number 15 single Before I Knew Better.
Barbara Damrosch.  Barbara Damrosch (born in 1942) is a professional in the field of horticulture a writer and co-owner of the Four Season Farm. From 1979 to 1992 she was the owner of a company by the name of Barbara Damrosch Landscape Design. She operated this company in Washington Connecticut. Her book The Garden Primer is a classic manual of horticulture. She and her husband Eliot Coleman operate an experimental market garden in the state of Maine.
Mark Van Doren.  Mark Van Doren (June 13 1894 – December 10 1972) was an American poet writer and a critic apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton Robert Lax John Berryman and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
Gus G.  Kostas Karamitroudis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Κώστας Καραμητρούδης) also known as Gus G born September 12 1980 in Thessaloniki Greece is a heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne. He has also played in Mystic Prophecy Nightrage Arch Enemy and Dream Evil. As of 2012 he is working on a solo record.
Gunnar Olsson (actor).  Gunnar Olsson (10 July 1904 – 16 September 1983) was a Swedish film actor and director. He was born in Oxelösund Sweden.
Simon Webb (composer).  Simon Webb is a composer musical director conductor arranger and performer. He was born in Bridgnorth Shropshire in the UK into an artistic family and began his musical life at a very early age. At the age of 8 he won a choral scholarship to St. Michael's College Tenbury and at 13 an organ scholarship to Worcester Royal Grammar School. He went on to read music at the University of York under music-guru Wilfrid Mellers specialising in composition and conducting.
Paul Humphrey (Canadian musician).  Paul Humphrey is a Canadian singer/songwriter and musician who plays keyboards and guitar and is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Canadian new wave band Blue Peter. Humphrey has also been the leader of The Paul Humphrey Band The Monkey Tree and Broken Arrow.
Robin Ince.  Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English stand-up comedian actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox.
Maureen May.  Maureen May (née Getting; born September 22 1962) is an American cellist and conductor. She resides in the Orlando Florida area and is a noted cellist in the region and co-founder and artistic director of the Metropolitan Area Youth Symphony.
Rosana Ubanell.  Rosana Ubanell born in Pamplona Spain (1958) is a news journalist and the first Spanish language novelist to ever be published by Penguin Books.
Marty Robbins.  Martin David Robinson (September 26 1925 – December 8 1982) known professionally as Marty Robbins was an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. One of the most popular and successful country and Western singers of all time for most of his nearly four-decade career Robbins often topped the country music charts and several of his songs also became pop hits.
Paul Grano.  Paul Langton Grano (22 October 1894 – 11 January 1975) was an Australian poet and journalist.
Erik Davis.  Erik Davis (born 1967 in Redwood City California) is a North American writer scholar journalist and public speaker whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is perhaps best known for his book Techgnosis: Myth Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information as well as his work on California counterculture including Burning Man the human potential movement and the writings of Philip K. Dick.
Tom Drummond (musician).  Tom Melville Drummond (born June 30 1969 Shreveport Louisiana) is an American musician. He is currently the bassist and background vocalist for the band Better Than Ezra.Drummond is one of the four original founding members who formed Better Than Ezra in 1988. He was attending Louisiana State University at the time.
Laleh Pourkarim.  Laleh Pourkarim (Persian: لاله پورکریم‎ pronounced [lɒːle-je puːɾkæɾiːm]; born 10 June 1982) is an Iranian-born Swedish singer-songwriter and former actress. Following a short acting career she entered the music industry in 2005 with her self-titled debut album which peaked at number one in Sweden and went on to become the highest selling album of the year.She has since released three further albums all of which have been produced written recorded engineered and performed by herself.
Mela Koteluk.  Malwina Koteluk (born 7 July 1985) known by her stage name Mela Koteluk is a Polish singer. At the beginning of her career she cooperated with such artists as Scorpions and Gabriela Kulka. In 2003 she was 2nd in a polish song contest named Pamiętamy o Osieckiej. Koteluk's debut album Spadochron was released in May 2012. In April 2013 she was the winner of polish contest Fryderyk in categories New Face of Fonography and Author of the Year.
Molly McGrann.  Molly McGrann is an American literary critic poet and novelist. She is an alumna of Skidmore College and New York University. She lives in England.
Heteronym (literature).  The literary concept of heteronym invented by Portuguese writer and poet Fernando Pessoa refers to one or more imaginary character(s) created by a writer to write in different styles. Heteronyms differ from noms de plume (or pseudonyms from the Greek False Name) in that the latter are just false names while the former are characters having their own supposed physiques biographies and writing styles.
Aco Šopov.  Aleksandar Aco Šopov (Macedonian: Ацо Шопов [at͡sɔ ˈʃɔpɔf] Štip 1923 - Skopje 1982) is a Macedonian poet. He is considered one of the most important poets of Southeastern Europe.[citation needed] He served in the National Liberation War[citation needed] of 1941–45 in Yugoslavia and his poems written during World War II were published as Pesni (Poems) in Belgrade and Kumanovo in 1944 and in Štip the following year.
John G. Hemry.  John G. Hemry (LCDR USN ret.) is an American author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer he has written the Stark's War and Paul Sinclair series. Under the name Jack Campbell he has written six volumes of the Lost Fleet series.
Ilka Stitz.  Ilka Stitz (born 22 October 1960) is a German writer of historical thrillers.
Sonny King (singer).  Sonny King (April 1 1922 – February 3 2006) was an American lounge singer of Italian descent.He was born as Luigi Antonio Schiavone on April 1 1922 in Brooklyn New York. He was the sidekick of Jimmy Durante for 28 years until Durante's death in 1980. They appeared together on The Ed Sullivan Show five times in the 1960s.
Vladimir Bartol.  Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the community of Slovene minority in Italy. He is notable for writing his 1938 novel Alamut the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world translated into numerous languages.
Alex González (musician).  Alejandro González Trujillo (born February 24 1969 in Miami Florida United States) better known as Alex González is an American musician of Cuban and Colombian origin. He is a member drummer and songwriter for the Mexican band Maná. He is nicknamed El Animal and also sings lead vocals for many songs including the single Me Vale. Alex discovered his passion for playing drums when he was only five years old.
Sonja Yelich.  Sonja Yelich (born February 26[citation needed] 1965) is a prize-winning New Zealand poet.
Ketil Bjørnstad.  Ketil Bjørnstad (born 25 April 1952 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian pianist composer and author.
Cristóbal Orellana.  Cristóbal Orellana Sierra is an actor and singer born on July 11 1983 in Mexico City.
David Salle.  David Salle (born 1952) is an American painter printmaker and stage designer who helped define postmodern sensibility. Salle was born in Norman Oklahoma. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts Valencia California where he studied with John Baldessari.
Xavier Dupré.  Xavier Dupré is a typeface designer born in Aubenas (Ardèche) France in 1977. Dupré is notable for the recognition he has received for his typeface designs in the 2000s.According to several similar online biographies Dupré studied graphic design and applied arts in Paris. He also studied calligraphy and typography at the Scriptorium de Toulouse fr:Scriptorium de Toulouse. Dupré lived in Cambodia from 2001 to 2004 where he designed Latin typefaces (i.e.
Dale Van Atta.  Dale Van Atta (born 1952) is a speaker novelist and journalist. He was a personal friend of and co-author with fellow journalist Jack Anderson and borrowed money to help him when he was in financial trouble. In 2008 his book With Honor was released about Melvin Robert Laird Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973.
Freddi Poole.  Freddi Poole is an African-American singer known best for her work with the Former Ladies of the Supremes and The Three Degrees.
Espen Wensaas.  Espen Wensaas (born November 14 1986) is a Norwegian musician and multi-instrumentalist (most notably mandolin and guitar) residing in Oslo Norway. He is widely used in the Norwegian music scene for his abilities to play different music styles in addition to being able to improvise. This has led him to work with television theater and miscellaneous collaborations with musicians from folk pop classical jazz and other genres.
Leons Briedis.  Leons Briedis (born December 16 1949 in Madona District Latvia) is a Latvian poet a novelist an essayist a literary critic and publisher translator of prose and poetry from Latin Russian English Romance languages (Romanian Spanish French Portuguese Italia Catalan Rhaeto-Romanic) Swahili (of Bantu peoples) Albanian a. o. languages.
Dino Ignacio.  Dino Ignacio a Filipino American artist and designer is known for his defunct Bert is Evil website.Dino Ignacio is currently working at Electronic Arts as the User Experience Director of Visceral Games. He designed the user interface of the critically acclaimed Dead Space. He also worked on Dante's Inferno Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3.In 2002 he worked with Filipino–American stand–up comic Rex Navarrete in producing the Maritess vs.
John Mayhew (musician).  John Mayhew (27 March 1947 – 26 March 2009) was the third drummer for the progressive rock band Genesis. He replaced previous drummer John Silver in August 1969. He appears on the album Trespass as well as the Genesis Archive 1967-75 box set. He was replaced in August 1970 by Phil Collins.
Kelly Willard.  Kelly Willard (born on August 18 1956) is a contemporary Christian musician best known for her praise and worship recordings. She was featured as a soloist on projects from Integrity Vineyard Music and Maranatha! Music. In addition she sang duets and background vocals with such artists as Dion DiMucci Lenny LeBlanc Amy Grant Ricky Skaggs Paul Overstreet Bob Fitts Twila Paris Steve Green Fernando Ortega Keith Green Buddy Greene Jim Cole and many others.
Paul Cuvelier.  Paul Cuvelier (22 November 1923 - 5 July 1978) was a Belgian comics artist best known for the comic series Corentin published by Le Lombard which first appeared in the first issue of Tintin magazine.
Julia Morris.  Julia Morris (born 20 April 1968) is an Australian comedian actress writer television presenter and television producer who has worked extensively in Australian television and radio touring the country with her solo comedy shows. She relocated to the United Kingdom in 2000 appearing on British television then returned to Australia in 2007.
Howard Nostrand.  Howard Nostrand (May 13 1929–1984) was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for his 1950s comic book stories and his 1959-60 syndicated comic strip Bat Masterson based on the television series.
Tich (singer).  Tich (born Rachel Furner 1 July 1993) is a British singer originally performed under her own name 'Rachel Furner' and was signed to Mercury records in the UK having had huge success as a YouTube artist after performing at events such as iTunes festival and releasing a few singles it was decided that the current incarnation wasn't working out. 'Tich' emerged two years later and under her new guise released an EP titled Candelight which was released on 20 December 2012 via Gravity Digital.
Justine Frischmann.  Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and musician best known for being the lead singer of the Britpop band Elastica. Later she pursued a career as an abstract painter.
Elli Erl.  Elli Erl (born Elisabeth Maria Erl on 25 May 1979 in Straubing Bavaria) is a German musician who came to fame as the winner of the second season of the television show Deutschland sucht den SuperStar the German version of Pop Idol.
Anis Nagi.  Dr. Anis Nagi (Urdu: was a Pakistani poet novelist and critic(born 1939-died 2010). He retired from government service.
Bill Putnam.  Milton Tasker Bill Putnam (February 20 1920 – April 13 1989) was a renowned American audio engineer songwriter producer studio designer and businessman who has been described as the father of modern recording. He was the inventor of the modern recording console and is recognised as a key figure in the development of the postwar commercial recording industry.Former colleague Bruce Swedien described Putnam's achievements thus:Bill Putnam was the father of recording as we know it today.
Jack Bruce.  John Symon Asher Jack Bruce (born 14 May 1943) is a Scottish musician and composer known as a founder member of the British psychedelic rock power trio Cream in the late 1960s.He has maintained a solo career to date that spans several decades and also has participated in several critically acclaimed musical ensembles.
Dag Stokke.  Dag Stokke (April 1 1967 – April 27 2011) was a Norwegian keyboardist church organist and mastering engineer best known for his work with the Norwegian rock bands TNT and Vagabond. He owned an online mastering service called OnlineMastering.
Subaru Kimura.  Subaru Kimura (木村昴 Kimura Subaru born June 29 1990 in Leipzig Germany) is a Japanese voice actor.
Chris Murphy (Canadian musician).  Chris Murphy (born November 7 1968 in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Canada) is a member of the Canadian rock band Sloan.Although born in Prince Edward Island Murphy is commonly associated with Nova Scotia; like his bandmates he currently resides in Toronto. He helped form the band with Jay Ferguson and is currently the band's bassist and lead singer occasionally switching to drums or guitar.In December 2005 Chris began hosting a show on CBC Radio 3 with Sloan bandmate Jay Ferguson.
Gary Jules.  Gary Jules (born March 19 1969 as Gary Jules Aguirre Jr.) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his cover version of the Tears For Fears song Mad World which Gary recorded with friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003. Since then Jules' version has been used on many American TV shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and House as well as in a commercial for the video game Gears of War.
Fumi Dan.  Fumi Dan (檀ふみ Dan Fumi) (born June 5 1954) is a Japanese actress. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 17th Japan Academy Prize for her role in Bloom in the Moonlight. Her father is the novelist Kazuo Dan and she herself has won awards for her essays.
Thomas Erak.  Thomas Erak is an American musician from Mukilteo Washington best known as a founding member of the Seattle-based progressive rock band The Fall of Troy and as a member of the band Chiodos.
Helen McCarthy.  Helen McCarthy (born February 27 1951) is the British author of such anime reference books as 500 Manga Heroes and Villains Anime! The Anime Movie Guide and Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation. She is the co-author of The Erotic Anime Movie Guide and the exhaustive The Anime Encyclopedia with Jonathan Clements. She also designs needlework and textile art and makes poetry.
Jett Craze.  Jett Craze (born March 23 1974) is a New York-based indie rock musician singer-songwriter recording artist and music composer. Born in London England and raised in Amherst Massachusetts he attended the University of Oregon in Eugene Oregon and Hunter College in New York NY. He moved back east to New York City in 1994 where he immersed himself in songwriting and learning to play the guitar. He formed several rock bands beginning in 1996 playing gigs throughout New York City.
Edward Eicker.  Edward Eicker (born May 22 1975) composes music for piano organ voice chorus and orchestra. His work for strings received its premiere by the Knox-Galesburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Bruce Polay.
Miriam Yeung.  Miriam Yeung RN (born 3 February 1974) is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. Before entering the entertainment business she was a registered nurse at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong. She studied at the Holy Family Canossian College Kowloon. She entered the entertainment industry after coming third in the TVB 14th annual New Talent Singing Awards competition in 1995 and has steadily gained popularity ever since.
John D. Sheridan.  John Desmond Sheridan (1903–1980) was an Irish novelist short story writer and humourist. He was a frequent contributor to the Irish Independent newspaper. In addition to his novels and essays he also published several books of poetry and authored a biography of poet James Clarence Mangan in 1937. Sheridan released several short stories. Most of his stories are of a humorous nature and are often about his phobias or pet hates.
Adam Lazzara.  Adam Burbank Lazzara (born September 22 1981 in Sheffield Alabama) is the lead singer of the American rock band Taking Back Sunday. Along with singing lead vocals Lazzara occasionally plays guitar and harmonica.
Andrew J McKiernan.  Andrew J McKiernan (born 1970 Sydney Australia) is an Australian speculative fiction writer and Illustrator. He currently lives on the Central Coast (New South Wales) with his wife and two children.Andrew J McKiernan is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association and is the current Art Director for Aurealis Magazine. He was listed as a featured Illustrator in the 2005 release Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview.
Per Bratland.  Per Bratland (1907–1988) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.Born in Oslo he started out as a photo reporter for the Drammen newspaper Fremtiden in 1927. He became the editor-in-chief of Tiden in 1934 and a journalist in Arbeiderbladet in 1936.
Stephen Chbosky.  Stephen Chbosky (/ʃəˈbɒski/; born January 25 1970) is an American novelist screenwriter and film director best known for writing the New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) as well as for screenwriting and directing the film version of the same book starring Logan Lerman Emma Watson and Ezra Miller.
Miroslav Krleža.  Miroslav Krleža (pronounced [mǐrɔ̝slav̞ kř̩le̞ʒa]; 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a leading Croatian writer and a prominent figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states the Kingdom (1918–1941) and the Socialist Republic (1945 until his death in 1981). A one time Vice President and General Secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU) he has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century and beyond.
Krant M. L. Verma.  Krant M. L. Verma (born Madan Lal Verma 1947) is an Indian poet writer and verse translator who writes in Hindi Sanskrit Urdu and English under the pen name of Krant. Among his publications is Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna.He was awarded a senior fellowship for postdoctoral research in the field of Hindi literature by the government of India on the topic Krantikari Hindi Sahitya Mein Rashtriya Chetna in 2004.
Alfred Bloom (Buddhist).  Alfred Bloom is a pioneer of Jodo Shinshu studies in the English-speaking world.
Love (Ai Otsuka).  Love (ラブ) (stylized as LOVE) is a fictional female bunny character and singer created by Japanese singer Ai Otsuka. Love was to star in an album originally titled I canChu♥ and a promotional music video from I canChu♥ but the release was changed to a single and titled Love no Theme before it was released on April 11 2007. Otsuka released a second single under Love titled White Choco on November 21 2007. On November 18 2009 the debut mini-album of Love was released titled Love It.
Louise Katz.  Louise Katz is an Australian writer of fantasy and young-adult fiction.
Martiros Kavoukjian.  Martiros Kavoukjian (Մարտիրոս Գավուգչյան Gavowgčyan August 8 1908 - August 8 1988) was an Armenian architect researcher Armenologist and historian-archaeologist who has written various books on ancient Armenian history. He is best known for his account of Armenian prehistory in Armenia Subartu And Sumer published in 1987 in both English and Armenian.
Tom Palmer (writer).  Tom Palmer is an American television writer and producer. He served as a co-executive producer on the first season of Mad Men and wrote two episodes of the season. Alongside his colleagues on the writing staff he won a WGA award for best new series and was nominated for the award for best dramatic series for his work on the season.
Bill Doerrfeld.  William Bill Doerrfeld (born April 3 1964 in Chicago Illinois) is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.Doerrfeld performs composes and records music in a classical and jazz hybrid idiom he refers to as jassical.In April 2012 Doerrfeld released his third album Flurious.
Jason Englishman.  Jason Daniyel Englishman (born December 22 1971 in Kingston Ontario) is a Canadian rock music singer and guitarist.
Michael Rowe (journalist).  Michael Rowe (born September 9 1962) is an award-winning Canadian writer journalist novelist and anthologist. He has written for among other publications the National Post The Globe and Mail The United Church Observer The Huffington Post and The Advocate.As an author Rowe has published a variety of non-fiction books. His first Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors was an exploration of censorship pornography and popular culture.
Helge Rykkja.  Helge Rykkja (born 27 August 1943) is a Norwegian author poet teacher and politician.He was born in Mysen started working at a lower secondary school in Kragerø in 1974 and took the cand.philol. degree in 1979. From 1966 to 1970 he was an editorial board member of the radical periodical Profil and from 1968 he was a chief editor. He represented the Red Electoral Alliance in Kragerø city council from 1987 to 2003; some times as a deputy representative.
Rory Lee Feek.  Rory Lee Feek (born in Atchison Kansas) is an American country music singer and songwriter. In his career he has written singles for Clay Walker Blake Shelton Tracy Byrd and other artists. He and his wife Joey Martin Feek comprise the duo Joey + Rory who placed third on the first season of the CMT talent show Can You Duet. He also established Giantslayer Records for launching of new independent artists.
Durrty Goodz.  Durrty Goodz (born Dwayne Mahorn May 11 1981) is an English Rap and Grime MC sometimes known as Durrty Doogz from London. Mahorn was signed to Polydor Records in 2005 but left due to a lack of creative control.
Hugh Latimer (actor).  Hugh Alexander Forbes Latimer (born Haslemere Surrey 12 May 1913 - died London 12 June 2006) was an English actor and toy maker.He was educated at Oundle and Caius College Cambridge where he joined Footlights.
Buffy Lawson.  Buffy Lawson is an American country music singer formerly part of the music duo Bomshel. Bomshel was started in 2004 by lead singer Buffy Buf Lawson and fiddle player Kristy Osmunson and together they signed with Curb Records. Bomshel's original lineup charted four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded an unreleased album called Bomshel Stomp. One of their songs The Power of One was included in the soundtrack to the film Evan Almighty.
Thomas Derrick (artist).  Thomas Derrick (1885–1954) was an English artist particularly known for his work as an illustrator and cartoonist. He also designed murals and stained glass.
Lee Wardlaw.  Lee Wardlaw (born 20 November 1955) is the author of several children's books such as 101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents and See You In September.
Fannius III.  Allison Lurie aka Fannius 3 or fan_3 (born December 4 1987 Sherman Oaks California) is an American musician and rapper.In 2002 she appeared on the soundtrack to Lizzie McGuire with the song What They Gonna Think. She later contributed to other soundtracks for Shark Tale and Confessions a Teenage Drama Queen.
Leif Sundin.  Leif Arne Sundin (born 22 March 1971) is a Swedish rock vocalist and songwriter who has performed and recorded with Michael Schenker John Norum and Brian Robertson among others.
Niccolò di Pietro Gerini.  Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (c. 1340 – 1414) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic period active mainly in his native Florence. Niccolo di Pietro Gerini's works can be found in major art galleries in Rome the Vatican Florence London Milan New York Los Angeles Amsterdam Berlin Paris St Petersburg Boston Cambridge Budapest Birmingham Pelago Prato Pisa Altenburg Avignon Denver and several other museums.
Henry Badowski.  Henry Badowski (born October 1958) is a British multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer who was a member of several punk rock bands in the 1970s before embarking on a solo career.
Matthew Reilly.  Matthew John Reilly (2 July 1974) is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are noted for their fast pace twisting plots and intense action.
Kat Kinkade.  Kathleen Kat Kinkade (December 6 1930 – July 3 2008) was one of the eight co-founders of Twin Oaks an intentional community in Virginia originally inspired by the behaviorist utopia depicted in B.F. Skinner's book Walden Two. Kinkade was the only one of the original founders to remain a community member for most of the community's history. Her daughter Josie was also a member of Twin Oaks Community as a young adult.
Yannis Spathas.  Yannis Spathas is a Greek rock blues and folk guitarist and composer who was best known for his lead guitar work with the Greek rock band Socrates Drank The Conium in the early 1970s. Born at Paxoi (Ionian Islands) in 1950 Spathas made his first musical debuts playing accordion classical guitar and drums with his uncles in his father's band during his childhood. At the age of 15 he began studying Jimi Hendrix and blues-rock as well as folk anthems with clarinetist Tasos Chalkias.
Ernest Fiene.  Ernest Fiene (1894–1965) was a 20th-century American graphic artist who primarily worked in New York City and Woodstock New York. Fiene was known primarily for his varied printed works including lithographs and etchings. His notable work includes cityscapes views of New York City in particular landscapes and other figural art.Born in Germany in 1894 Fiene fled his native land in 1912 to avoid military service in what would become World War I.
Elisha Winfield Green.  Elisha Winfield Green (c. 1815 - 1893) was a former slave who became a Baptist leader in Kentucky USA. For five years he was moderator of the Consolidated Baptist Educational Association and he promoted the establishment of what is now the Simmons College of Kentucky. Green suffered from racial intolerance all his life. In 1883 when he was an elderly and respected minister he was assaulted and beaten for failing to comply with a demand to give up his seat on a train.
Adrianne Gonzalez.  Adrianne E. Gonzalez (born 1977) is an American musician composer music video director writer and painter. She formerly used Adrianne as her stage name; she now uses AG.
Paul Hill (musician).  Paul Hill (1934 – September 27 1999) was founder and music director of the Master Chorale of Washington formerly the Paul Hill Chorale.Paul Hill was also involved in television and his 1978 production of Menotti's The Unicorn the Gorgon and the Manticore won an Emmy Award.
Pavao Pavličić.  Pavao Pavličić (born August 16 1946 in Vukovar) is a Croatian writer literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels. He writes for both adults and children.Since 1997 Pavličić is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Richard Robbins (composer).  Richard Stephen Robbins (December 4 1940 – November 7 2012) was an American film score composer best known for his work on Merchant Ivory films.Robbins was born in South Weymouth Massachusetts. In November 2012 he lost his battle with Parkinson's disease at the age of 71. He died at his home in New York.
Hayedeh.  Hayedeh or Haydeh (Persian: Hāyede/Hāyde‎) born Ma'soumeh Dadehbala (Persian: Masume Dadebālā‎) (April 10 1942 – January 20 1990) was a Persian classical and pop singer. She was one of the few Persian female vocalists with a contralto voice.
August von Othegraven.  August von Othegraven (2 June 1864 in Cologne – 11 March 1946 in Wermelskirchen) was a German composer and music pedagogue.He worked as a professor of choral singing at the Cologne Musikhochschule. Amongst his pupils were Theodor Schwake and Herbert Eimert. The August von Othegraven Plakette named after him is bestowed as a medal and badge in bronze silver and gold for services to the cultural care and promotion of choral singing.This article was translated from the German Wikipedia
Mark McConnell.  Mark Bam-Bam McConnell (August 27 1961 – May 24 2012) was an American rock and heavy metal musician best known for his role from 1997–2005 as drummer with Sebastian Bach and later with Blackfoot and Southern Rock Allstars. Though almost exclusively a touring drummer he was well known in the late 80s and early 90s metal scene.
Charbel Rouhana.  Charbel Rouhana (Arabic: شربل روحانا‎) is a Lebanese oud player in Lebanon. Born in 1965 in Amsheet (a town north of Beirut) Charbel pursued his music education at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik and obtained his diploma in oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A. in Musicology in 1987.
Lauren Bennett.  Lauren Bennett (born 23 June 1989) is a British singer dancer and model. She is best known for her involvement with girl group G.R.L. and the Paradiso Girls her work with Cee Lo Green LMFAO and the Pussycat Dolls.
Jen Chapin.  Jen Chapin is an American singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Harry Chapin and his wife Sandra Chapin. She serves on the Board of Directors of WhyHunger a grassroots support organization founded by Harry Chapin and current Executive Director Bill Ayres. She has been compared at times with Laura Nyro Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette.
Michael Harris (trumpeter).  Michael Harris (born 1953) is a trumpet player in the Phenix Horns which played for Earth Wind & Fire and Phil Collins.
Sunny Viswanath.  Sunny Viswanath (സണ്ണി വിശ്വനാഥ് malayāḷam ?) (born 13 March 1971) is an Indian composer music producer musician multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist. Described as a prominent and prolific film composer by his works notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds world music genres and traditional orchestral arrangements.
Keith Barney.  Keith Barney is best known as the original singer of Throwdown and the guitarist of Eighteen Visions. Hailing from Laguna Niguel CA he began his career as a musician by playing guitar in Adamantium. While a member of Adamantium he formed Throwdown and played guitar for Death By Stereo recording one album with them - If Looks Could Kill I'd Watch You Die. Upon his departure from Adamantium and Death By Stereo he joined Eighteen Visions and switched from vocals to guitar in Throwdown.
Musashi Kanbe.  Musashi Kanbe (born January 16 1948 in Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Seiun Award winning author for the novel Saikoro Tokkōtai. Musashi Kanbe was also chair of honor at Daicon III in 1981.
Fura.  Ajmal Abdul Rahiman known by his stage name Fura is a Dubai-Based Indian rapper music producer singer. Born in [Kasargod Kerala India] Fura moved to Dubai when he was 2 years old.
Zahara (South African musician).  Zahara (born 9 November 1988) is a South African singer-songwriter poet and brand ambassador for the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital. She started singing in her school’s choir at the age of 6 and at age 9 she was told to join the senior choir because of her strong voice.Zahara released her debut album Loliwe in 2011 which proved to be a big success as it went Platinum in 13 days and went double platinum after just 17 days selling over 100000 copies in South Africa.
Alfonso Simonetti.  Alfonso Simonetti (Naples December 29 1840 – 1892) was an Italian painter mainly of Romantic-style nocturnal landscapes illuminated by moonlight.
Varun Unni.  Varun Unni is an Indian film composer and singer. He made his debut as a Music Director for the Malayalam film Annum Innum Ennum directed by Rajesh Nair.
Nick Arvin.  Nick Arvin is an American engineer and writer.
Phil Ford (writer).  Phil Ford is a British television writer. He was head writer for the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures broadcast in 2008 wrote The Waters of Mars one of the 2009 special episodes of Doctor Who with Russell T Davies. and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. In 2012 with Davies he created Wizards vs Aliens which is currently in its second Series.
Don Drummond.  Don Drummond (12 March 1932 – 6 May 1969) was a Jamaican ska trombonist and composer. He was one of the original members of The Skatalites and composed many of their tunes.Drummond was born at the Jubilee Hospital in Kingston Jamaica to Doris Monroe and Uriah Drummond.
Gringe.  Guillaume Tranchant (French pronunciation: ​[ɡiˈjɔm tʁɑ̃ˈʃɑ̃]) better known by his stage name Gringe ([ˈɡʁɛ̃ʒ]) is a French rapper and songwriter. He is one half of the French hip hop duo Casseurs Flowters along with Orelsan with whom he has released one studio album Orelsan et Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters.
John W. Jones (artist).  John W. Jones is an American artist who first gained acclaim for his series Confederate Currency: The Color of Money. Self-taught and drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970 he served in Vietnam eventually becoming an Army illustrator. Examining Confederate banknotes he became interested in the depiction of the slave economy in the American South before and during the Civil War. Banknotes of the era often depicted slaves as happy workers on the cotton plantations.
Tony Ortega (journalist).  Tony Ortega (born 1963) is an American journalist and blogger who is best known for his daily blog about the Church of Scientology. He is currently executive editor of The Raw Story. Previously he had been the editor-in-chief of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times from 2005 to 2007 and the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice from 2007 to 2012.
Carolyn Crane.  Carolyn Crane is the American author of the Disillusionists urban fantasy trilogy.
Maurice Geraghty.  Maurice Geraghty (September 29 1908 – June 30 1987) was an American screenwriter film director and producer.
George Alec Effinger.  George Alec Effinger (January 10 1947 – April 27 2002) was an American science fiction author born in 1947 in Cleveland Ohio.
Sharron Kraus.  Sharron Kraus is an English singer songwriter and musician with strong ties to the US. Kraus was born in New York but grew up in Leicester England.
Kyaw Hlaing.  Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing (Burmese: ဘိုကလေး ကျော်လှိုင် pronounced: [bòɡəlé tɕɔ̀ l̥àiɴ]; 28 September 1914 – 13 April 1996) was a Burmese artist. Due to his mastery of the technique of painting clouds he was sometimes called Cloudy Kyaw Hlaing.
Alan Yang.  Alan Yang is an American screenwriter for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.
Paul Badura-Skoda.  Paul Badura-Skoda (born 6 October 1927 Vienna) is an Austrian pianist.He won first prize in the Austrian Music Competition in 1947. In 1949 he performed with distinguished conductors like Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan. He has specialized in works of Mozart Beethoven and Schubert but has an extensive repertoire and has made numerous recordings including more than 200 LPs. Together with his wife Eva Badura-Skoda he has also produced musical scholarship of impressive quality.
Max Herre.  Maximilian Herre (born April 22 1973 in Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg) better known by his stage- and nickname Max Herre is a German musician who rose to fame as a member of the group Freundeskreis.
Pete Nischt.  Pete Nischt (born Peter W. Nischt on October 15 1986 in Ohio) is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist currently residing in Akron Ohio. His music ranges from folk rock and pop rock to baroque pop and alt-country. He cites his biggest influences as Ryan Adams and the Red House Painters.
Boris Zaytsev (writer).  Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович За́йцев; 10 February 1881 – 22 January 1972) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
Chris Bell (musician).  Christopher Branford Chris Bell (January 12 1951 – December 27 1978) was an American singer songwriter and guitarist born in Memphis Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton he led the power pop band Big Star which recorded albums during the early 1970s. Bell left the group after Big Star's first album #1 Record (1972) failed to find commercial success.
Jamie Scallion.  Jamie Scallion is a British songwriter and author who wrote The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries.Jamie Scallion grew up in South East London. He started a rock band at school and as lead singer of the cult London band Officer Kicks he played and recorded for over ten years playing with some of the biggest names in the music industry. He wrote the first installment of The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries whilst on tour.
Wynn Bullock.  Wynn Bullock (April 18 1902 – November 16 1975) is a recognized American master photographer of the 20th century whose work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world. He received substantial critical acclaim during his lifetime published numerous books and is mentioned in all the standard histories.
Jane Juska.  Jane Juska (born 1933) is an American author and retired English schoolteacher whose first book A Round-Heeled Woman : My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance (ISBN 1-4000-6011-7) documented her search for sex at 67 years of age.Sharon Gless starred in Jane Prowse's stage adaptation A Round-Heeled Woman : the play which had its first production in San Francisco USA in January 2010.
Haimanti Sukla.  Haimanti Sukla or Haimanti Shukla (born 2 February 1949) is a Bengali singer. The tradition of Hindustani classical music was in her family and this helped her to become a classically trained singer. She recorded her fist song E to kanna noy aamar in 1972.
Marcelle Auclair.  Marcelle Auclair (11 November 1899 – 6 June 1983) was a French writer. She published biographies of several important historical figures translated major historical/literary documents into French from Spanish and wrote a novel. She also published an autobiographical work two books on popular psychology a religious book for children a book on artistic images of Jesus. Several of her books were translated into English.
Heinrich von Kleist.  Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet dramatist novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize a prestigious prize for German literature is named after him.
Tim Wendel.  Tim Wendel is a Philadelphia-born American writer who's works have appeared in many newspapers and magazines such as the National Geographic Traveler The New York Times both Huffington and Washington Posts among others. In 2004 he was awarded with the Professional Achievement Award and five years later received an Award for Teaching Excellence from Johns Hopkins University. He grew up in New York and is currently lives in Washington D.C. with a wife and two kids.
Šeki Turković.  Šućro Šeki Turković (Serbian Cyrillic: Шеки Турковић) was born on November 27 1953 in Krnja Jela a small village in Sjenica in south western Serbia known as the Sandžak region. Šeki's real name is Šućro; he uses Šeki for ease of pronouciation and practicality. Šeki and his family moved to Novi Pazar in 1973 but later on in 1976 Šeki and his cousin Munid moved to Belgrade. A short time after Šeki moved to Belgrade he and his cousin went around to bars ands clubs and started to sing.
Andrew J. Offutt.  Andrew Jefferson Offutt (August 16 1934 – April 30 2013) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as John Cleve Andrew J. Offutt A. J. Offutt and Andy Offutt. His normal byline andrew j. offutt has all his name in lower-case letters. He wrote dozens of erotic novels under pen-names and house-names such as John Cleve Jeff Douglas Farrah Fawkes Baxter Giles J. X. Williams and Turk Winter.
Dan Black.  Dan Black (born 16 November 1976) is a British wonky pop recording artist and record producer from London. He was also a member of alternative rock band The Servant before their 2007 split. He has also been a guest vocalist for the Italian group Planet Funk.After releasing his breakthrough song HYPNTZ he signed to The:Hours releasing his first two singles – Alone and Yours – in 2008. The next year he released his most commercially successful single to date Symphonies.
Eric Kupper.  Eric Kupper is an American keyboardist arranger songwriter remix artist DJ and record producer of French descent. Playing in bands in his formative years he got his real start in the mid-1980s working as a keyboardist guitarist and songwriter for such producer/remixers as David Morales Frankie Knuckles Arthur Baker Mark Kamins Justin Strauss Peter Rauhofer and Richie Jones to name a few.
Yoo Ara.  Yoo Ah Ra	(ko:유아라; born on September 26 1992) known credited by her stage name Yoo Ara is a South Korean singer and dancer. She is best known as the leader of the girl group Hello Venus and one of its main vocalists. Ara debuted on May 9 2012 together with Hello Venus members.
Yasuhiro Kobayashi.  Yasuhiro Coba Kobayashi (小林 靖宏 Kobayashi Yasuhiro born April 29 1959) is a Japanese musician accordionist composer and arranger. His music has sold over 1000000 CDs. Yasuhiro started playing accordion when he was nine.
Narayan (writer).  Narayan (born 26 September 1940) is an Indian author best known for his debut novel Kocharethi (1998). Most of Narayan's novels deal with the lives of the tribal communities of Kerala. He belongs to the Malayarayar tribe and is considered Kerala's first tribal novelist.
Wendy Starland.  Wendy Starland (born February 9 1981) is an American singer songwriter music producer and musician.Starland was discovered at a concert held by Maceo Parker who noticed her singing along with many of his numbers.
Gilles Aillaud.  Gilles Aillaud (1928 in Paris - 24 March 2005 in Paris) was an internationally known French painter set decorator and playwright; as well he was one of the main proponents of the Nouvelle Figuration and Figuration Narrative schools of art.
Ishizuka Tomoji.  Tomoji Ishizuka (石塚 友二 20 September 1906 – 8 February 1984) was the pen-name of Ishizuka Tomoji (written in different kanji (石塚友次)) a Japanese haiku poet and novelist active during the Showa period of Japan.
Kate Wolf.  Kate Wolf (born Kathryn Louise Allen January 27 1942 – December 10 1986) was an American folk singer and songwriter. Though her career was relatively short she had a significant impact on the folk music scene and many musicians continue to cover her songs.
H. R. Jothipala.  Hettiarachchige Reginald Jothipala (Sinhala: එච්.අර්.ජොතිපාල; 12 February 1936 – 7 July 1987) was a prolific playback singer in the Sinhala cinema. He also worked as an opera singer. He died in July 1987 at the age of 51 years and 5 months. Jothipala lent his voice to all classes of actors ranging from Eddie Jayamanne Ananda Jayaratne Gamini Fonseka Vijaya Kumaratunga Sanath Gunathilaka Tony Ranasinghe Ravindra Randeniya and even several of the young generation of actors in Sri Lanka.
Ohad Meromi.  Ohad Meromi is an Israeli sculptor.
Theophil Mitchell Prudden.  Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849-1924) was an American pathologist born at Middlebury Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School Yale in 1872 and received his M. D. from Yale School of Medicine in 1875. He became an assistant (1879) and was professor of pathology (1892-1909) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University. In 1901 he was made a director of the Rockefeller Institute for medical research.
Nathan Retro.  Nathan Retro (born November 18 1987) professionally known under the mononym Retro is an English electronic dance music futurepop grime hip-hop R&B and rock producer and DJ from Bradford. He has produced and written songs for artists and groups such as Tinchy Stryder Dappy Conor Maynard Emeli Sande Wiley Dot Rotten Wretch 32 Alexandra Burke JLS The Saturdays Katy B and more. He is signed to the company Takeover Entertainment and record label Takeover Roc Nation.
Giacomo Balla.  Giacomo Balla (July 18 1871 – March 1 1958) was an Italian composer and painter.
Wycliffe Gordon.  Wycliffe A. Gordon (born May 29 1967 in Waynesboro Georgia) is an American jazz trombonist arranger composer band leader and music educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. Gordon also plays didgeridoo trumpet tuba piano and sings.
Mouloud Mammeri.  Mouloud Mammeri is an Algerian Kabyle writer poet anthropologist and linguist. Born on December 28 1917 in Taourirt Mimoune Ait Yenni in Tizi Ouzou Province Algeria; died in February 1989 near Aïn Defla in a car accident while returning from a conference in Oujda Morocco.
Jay Williams (musician).  Jay Williams (born in September 1973 in London) is a British song writer and performer. He is most recognised for his work on the Eurovision song Love City Groove.Jay signed to his first label Warner Music at the age of sixteen and was responsible for various 'one hit wonders' with a variety of bands/artists as diverse as RPM and The Runaways on Mo Wax DarkMan All Saints Ant and Dec and the Mr Blobby charity single.
Richard Aitson.  Richard Aitson (born 1953) is a Kiowa-Kiowa Apache bead artist curator and poet from Oklahoma.
Jie Ma.  Jie Ma (Chinese characters: 马捷) is a traditional Chinese musician a pipa player.
Root Boy Slim.  Root Boy Slim (July 9 1945 – June 8 1993) was the stage name assumed by American musician Foster MacKenzie III. Born in Asheville North Carolina he was raised in suburban Maryland a few minutes from D.C. after his family relocated there. An exceptionally bright child with parents able to afford a series of costly prep schools upon graduation MacKenzie attended Yale University on a scholarship but returned to Maryland upon receiving his Bachelor's degree.
Ramon Saizarbitoria.  Ramon Saizarbitoria (San Sebastián 21 April 1944 ) is a contemporary Basque writer and Sociologist.
Slava Raškaj.  Slava Raškaj (2 January 1877 – 29 March 1906) was a painter considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Deaf since birth Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb where her mentor was the Croatian painter Bela Čikoš Sesija. In the 1890s her works were exhibited around Europe including at the 1900 Expo in Paris.
Yoji (DJ).  Yoji often styled as YOJI according to official publications (formerly known as Yoji Biomehanika with aliases such as Mutant DJ Ozaka Oz Bionico Biomehanika and The Arcade Nation) is a Japanese trance/hard trance DJ. He is characterised by his striking clothing style manner of entertaining behind and in front of the turntables and style which he calls Tech Dance. His residency at GIGA in Japan has also given him a big following in his home country.
Stefan Olsdal.  Stefan Alexander Bo Olsdal (born 31 March 1974) is the bassist/guitarist of the alternative rock band Placebo and is part of the electronic dance/DJ and remix act Hotel Persona.
Sumati Kshetramade.  Sumati Kshetramade (Devanagari: सुमती क्षेत्रमाडे) (born 1915) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India. A major theme of her novels is exploitation of women.Kshetramade is a physician by profession.Her novels include: Shrāvaṇadhārā (1983) Pratipadā (1982) Makhamalī Baṭavā (1979) Āshāḍh Megh (1976) Sharvari Sharvari Yugandharā Ābhās Mahāshwetā Anuhār Wrundā YādnyaseniSāmbarāchi Shinge Jiwan-Swapna↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
Ted Godwin.  Edward W. (Ted) Godwin OC (August 13 1933 – January 3 2013) was a Canadian artist who was part of the Regina Five a group of five artists (Ken Lochhead Art McKay Ron Bloore and Douglas Morton) all based in Regina Saskatchewan. He is also known for his large tartan paintings.Born in Calgary Alberta he attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art from 1951 to 1955.
Matt White (musician).  Matt White (born September 23 1980) is an American singer-songwriter based in New York City. His full-length debut album Best Days released by Geffen Records reached No. 4 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.
Adelaide Crapsey.  Adelaide Crapsey (September 9 1878 – October 8 1914) was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn New York she was raised in Rochester New York daughter of Adelaide T. Crapsey and Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey who had been transferred from New York City to Rochester.
William DeVaughn.  William Edward DeVaughn Jr. (born 28 November 1947 Washington D.C.) is an American R&B singer songwriter and guitarist best known for the million-selling hit song Be Thankful for What You Got in 1974.
Roger Nilsson.  Roger Nilsson (born April 19 1973) a Swedish bass-player best known for his work with The Quill Spiritual Beggars Arch Enemy and Firebird.
Laurence Leamer.  Laurence Leamer (born October 30 1941) is a best-selling author and journalist. Leamer is a former Ford Fellow in International Development at the University of Oregon and a former International Fellow at Columbia University. He is regarded as an expert on the Kennedy family and has appeared in numerous media outlets discussing American politics. Leamer has also written best-selling biographies of other American icons including Johnny Carson the Reagan family and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yasmin Lee.  Yasmin Lee (born June 3 1983) is an American transsexual pornographic film actress and model.Lee is of Thai Cambodian Chinese and Brazilian heritage. Her family moved from Thailand to the Philippines before finally settling down in Orange County California. She joined the U.S. Navy at age 18 but left soon after due to sexuality-based harassment and pursued a career as a drag entertainer and make-up artist. she worked as a make-up artist for Hollywood actresses and music video sets.
Ranjith (singer).  Ranjith is an Indian playback singer working in the Tamil Telugu and Malayalam film industries.
Paul Pelletier.  Paul Pelletier is an American comic book penciller.
Øyvind Rimbereid.  Øyvind Rimbereid (born 2 May 1966 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian author and composer of lyric poetry. He has worked as an instructor at Skrivekunstakademiet in Bergen. Rimbereid holds a cand. philol. degree from the University of Bergen with high marks in Nordic languages and literature. He won the Brage Prize 2008 for his poetry collection Herbarium.
Wendell Thompson Perkins.  Wendell Thompson Perkins (February 11 1928 - March 2 1997) was an American painter born in Boston who died in St. Augustine FL. His lifelong business partner was Hartley Staley. The subject matter of his paintings included: Maritime scenes Landscapes southern African American scenes. The style of his work was primitivist and his primary medium was oil. The primary area where he was active was Florida although he spent a good deal of time in Maine early in his career.
Red Jerry.  Jerry Dickens stage name Red Jerry (born 17th of August 1967) at various times label owner DJ music producer remixer record shop owner digital retailer journalist digital marketing manager .Hooj sub labels:Airtight ( Highlights : Marshall Jefferson vs Noosa Heads - Mushrooms ( Salt City / Justin Martin / Timewriter )Solaris Heights : MidnightProlekult : Sourmash Pilgrimage to Paradise  Trope Amphetamine Jones and Stephenson First Rebirth.Compilations: ( concept / mix : Red jerry/Jerry Dickens)Some of these Were Hooj 1 : Hooj 1993Some of these Were Hooj 2 : Hooj 1995Some of these Were Hooj 3 : Hooj 1996Deeper Shades of Hooj 1 : Hooj 1997Deeper Shades of Hooj 2 : Hooj 1998Deeper Shades of Hooj 3 : Hooj 2000Nu Progressive Era : Hooj 2001Hooj Pres..Further : Hooj 2002Future le Funk : Hooj 2001Form and Function: Airtight 2001Destroy Minimal : 2006 ResistZen and the Art of Disco : Tirk 2010Beach Disco Sessions : Nang : 2010Fuck Dance  Lets Art : !K7 2010
Yu Lik-wai.  Yu Lik-wai (simplified Chinese: 余力为; traditional Chinese: 余力爲; Mandarin Pinyin: Yú Lìwéi; Jyutping: Yu4 Lik6 Wai4; born August 12 1966 in Hong Kong) (sometimes credited as Nelson Yu Lik-wai or simply Nelson Yu) is a Hong Kong cinematographer film director and occasional film producer. Born in Hong Kong Yu was educated at Belgium's INSAS (Institut National Superieur des Arts de Spectacle) where he graduated with a degree in cinematography in 1994.
Rick White (musician).  Rick White (born 5 December 1970 Moncton New Brunswick) is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. He was a member of indie bands Eric's Trip Elevator Perplexus and The Unintended. Known for lo-fi recording he has also recorded and produced music for The Sadies Orange Glass Joel Plaskett One Hundred Dollars Dog Day HotKid and his former Eric's Trip bandmate Julie Doiron.White released his first solo album The Rick White Album in late 2005.
Danny Vaughn.  Danny Vaughn (born Daniel T. Himler) is an American singer. Vaughn has performed with Waysted Tyketto and Vaughn and now performs and releases under his own name. He is also a lead singer in the Ultimate Eagles. The line up of Vaughn's backing band consists of guitarist Tony Marshall (ex-Contagious) Pat Heath (ex-Brave New World) Steve McKenna (ex-Ten) and Lee Morris (ex-Paradise Lost). This line up recorded and released the The Traveller album in February 2007.
Sarah Dunant.  Sarah Dunant (born 1950) is a writer broadcaster and critic. She was a founding vice patron of the Orange Prize for women's fiction sits on the editorial board of the Royal Academy magazine and reviews for The Times The Guardian and The Independent on Sunday. She teaches creative writing at The Faber Academy in London and biennially at Washington University in St. Louis in its Renaissance studies course. She is also a creative writing fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
Kip Fulbeck.  Kip Fulbeck is an American artist spoken word performer filmmaker and author. Fulbeck's work explores identity politics.His mixed race ethnic background is Cantonese English Irish and Welsh. He is best known for his work addressing Hapa and multiracial identity and as the creator of The Hapa Project.Fulbeck attended UCLA Dartmouth College and the University of California San Diego where he was a four-year NCAA All-American Swimmer and 1988 Athlete of the Year.
Scott Miller (pop musician).  Scott Miller (April 4 1960 – April 15 2013) was a singer songwriter and guitarist best known for his work as leader of the 1980s band Game Theory and 1990s band the Loud Family and as the author of a 2010 book of music criticism. He was described by the New York Times as a hyperintellectual singer and songwriter who liked to tinker with pop the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers having a shimmery-sweet pop sensibility in the tradition of Brian Wilson and Alex Chilton.
Tomás Bacach Ó Dúgáin.  Tomás Bacach Ó Dúgáin Irish scribe fl. 1848-1858. William Mahon devotes pages 636-37 of his article (cited below) on this scribe. He was a descendant of the same family as Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372 and was one of three related scribes living in Claregalway in the first half of the 19th century. The others were Liam Ó Dúgáin and Maolsheachlainn Ó Dúgáin. Their ancestors were hereditary historians poets and scribes. The surname is now rendered as Duggan or Dugan.
Kamila Shamsie.  Kamila Naheed Shamsie (born 1973) is a Pakistani novelist who writes in the English language.
Elisa Kreisinger.  Elisa Kreisinger (known interchangeably as Pop Culture Pirate) is a Brooklyn-based video artist and educator. She was a former moderator of the Political Remix Website. Her work has been featured in galleries and festivals throughout the US and Europe including Museum of Film and TV (Berlin) MIP Cube (France) and SxSW. She was a former resident at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.
Johann Melchior Molter.  Johann Melchior Molter (10 February 1696 – 12 January 1765) was a German baroque composer and violinist.He was born at Tiefenort near Eisenach and was educated at the Gymnasium in Eisenach. By autumn 1717 he had left Eisenach and was working as a violinist in Karlsruhe. Here he married Maria Salome Rollwagen with whom he had eight children. From 1719 to 1721 he studied composition in Italy. From 1722 to 1733 he was court Kapellmeister at Karlsruhe.
Herb Wiedoeft.  Herbert Authur Wiedoeft (22 November 1886 – 12 May 1928) was a band leader in California in the 1920s.
Per Husby.  Per Husby (born 2 April 1949 in Oslo) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano) composer teacher civil engineer and orchestra leader known for a number of recordings.
Aghakhan Abdullayev.  Aghakhan Abdullayev (Azerbaijani: Ağaxan Abdullayev) born 1950 in Baku is an Azerbaijani khananda folk singer. She is often called Guardian of the Mugham.
Camilla Thulin.  Camilla Thulin (born April 4 1961) is a Swedish fashion designer. She is particularly known for having designed all of Army of Lovers' outfits and for having given Swedish politician Lars Leijonborg his new man of the people image in the lead-up to the 2002 Swedish elections. Thulin designed Malena Ernman's gown worn during her Eurovision Song Contest 2009 performance reported to have cost 400000 kronor (€37471).
Alexander Dyukov (historian).  Aleksandr Reshideovich Dyukov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Решиде́ович Дю́ков) (born October 17 1978) is a Russian historian writer journalist and blogger. Dyukov lacks an academic degree and is considered a revisionist historian by Estonian press and is persona non grata in Latvia and other Schengen memberstates.He is General Director of the Moscow-based Historical Memory Foundation (Russian: Фонд Историческая память).
Dale Griffin.  Terence Dale Buffin Griffin (born 24 October 1948) is an English drummer and founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople.Born in Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire Griffin attended Ross-on-Wye Grammar School. He played in local bands with future fellow Mott the Hoople member Overend Watts and it was during this time he gained the nickname Buffin. Griffin's bands during this time included the Silence and the Charles Kingsley Creation.
Genine Graham.  Genine Graham (1926-1997) was a British actress.
Wolter Kroes.  Wolter Kroes (born in Wormerveer Netherlands on 24 December 1968) is a Dutch singer with many hits. He is best known for his big hit single Viva Hollandia that reached #1 on Dutch Top 40 in 2008.
Ray Phillips (musician).  Ray Phillips (born Raymond Anthony Phillips 1 March 1949 Ely Cardiff South Glamorgan South Wales)[citation needed] was the original drummer for the Welsh rock band Budgie. He left the band in 1974.Phillips formed his own band in the mid 1970s known as Ray Phillips Woman. They pursued a touring schedule and when the former Budgie guitarist Tony Bourge joined the band in the early 1980s they became known as simply Woman.
Joe Russo (musician).  Joe Russo (born December 18 1976) is an American drummer and half of the Benevento/Russo Duo. He plays with a number of other bands including A Big Yes and a Small No Fat Mama Robert Walter's 20th Congress Cass McCombs Danjaboots Bustle In Your Hedgerow Electron (a Disco Biscuits side-project) Younger Brother Shpongle Tom Hamilton's American Babies the Trey Anastasio/ Mike Gordon duo the Gene Ween Band and Furthur (featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead).
Pete Fidler.  Peter 'Pete' David Fidler is a dobro player from Melbourne Australia. He also plays mandolin lap steel guitar and guitar. Before playing the dobro Fidler was guitarist/songwriter in Melbourne-based psychedelic rock band Tyrnaround. Tyrnaround were formed in 1985 and active until the death of their singer Michael Philips in 1999.
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh.  Aoife Ní Fhearraigh or simply Aoife (Irish pronunciation: [ˈiːfʲə nʲiː ˈaɾˠiː]) is an Irish singer. A well-known interpreter of Irish Gaelic songs she released her first recording in 1991 and worked with Moya Brennan to produce her much acclaimed 1996 album Aoife. She reached international recognition in 1998 when her song The Best is Yet to Come was used for the Metal Gear Solid soundtrack.
Ginny Holder.  Ginny Holder is an actress best known for playing Thandie Abebe-Griffin on the BBC medical drama series Holby City.
Carl Wayne.  Carl Wayne (born Colin David Tooley 18 August 1943 – 31 August 2004) was a British singer and actor. He is best remembered as the lead vocalist of Birmingham rock group The Move during the 1960s.
S. R. D. Vaidyanathan.  S. R. D. Vaidyanathan (Tamil: S.R.D. வைத்தியநாதன்; 15 March 1929 − 18 November 2013) was an Indian musician who played the Nadhaswara.
Carlos Oroza.  Carlos Oroza is a Spanish poet who was born in Viveiro – Spain May 13 1933.
Jørgen Peter Müller.  Jørgen Peter Müller (7 October 1866 - 17 November 1938) was a Danish gymnastics educator and author. He is also known as J. P. Muller.His book Mit System (My System) published in 1904 was a bestseller and has been translated to English and many other languages. My System explains Müller's philosophy of health and provides guidelines for the 18 exercises that comprise the system.
Nick Mulvey.  Nick Mulvey is an English musician singer and songwriter who studied music in Havana Cuba. He played the Hang as a founder member of 2008 Mercury Prize nominated band Portico Quartet until 2011 when he left to pursue his career as a singer-songwriter. As a solo artist Mulvey released his first EP The Trellis in November 2012 and his second Fever to the Form in July 2013.
Vincent Skoglund.  Vincent Skoglund (born 1974 Falun Sweden) is a Swedish photographer who lives and works in Stockholm Sweden.
Muhammad Aladdin.  Muhammad Aladdin also known as Alaa Eddin (Arabic:محمـد علاء الديـن) is an Egyptian novelist short story writer and script writer.His first collection of short stories was published in 2003 and he is the author of five novels—The Gospel According to Adam The Twenty-Second Day The Idol (Novel) The Foot (Novel) and A Well-trained Stray—and three short story collections—The Other Shore (Short-stories collection) The Secret Life of Citizen M and Young Lover New LoverAs one of his generation’s noted young writers in both Egypt and the Arab countries Aladdin has gained acclamation for his first novel published ‘’The Gospel According to Adam’’ (Arabic:’’’إنجيل آدم’’’) in January 2006. 
Lorenzo Bergonzoni.  Lorenzo Bergonzoni (1646-after 1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and active in Bologna. He was first a pupil of Giovanni Battista Bolognini but afterwards studied under Guercino in Cento. He is also called Lorenzo Bergunzi. He became known mostly as a portrait painter at Bologna.
Rashid Askari.  Rashid Askari (Bengali: রাশিদ আসকারী born: June 1 1965) is a Bengali-English writer fictionist columnist and an academic in Bangladesh.Among the Bangladeshi writers after mid nineties he is easily on a par with the major ones who gained identical and impressive mastery over both Bangla and English[1].He stands second on the list of the Top 10 Rising Authors of Bangladesh[2].
T2ya.  T2ya born Tetsuya Hashinaga (橋長 哲也 Hashinaga Tetsuya) on May 14 is a Japanese songwriter and keyboardist from Gunma Prefecture. In 1990s he supported the agency Rising Production which later renamed to Vision Factory. He wrote both the music and the lyrics of Olivia Lufkin's I.L.Y. (Yokubō) and Re-act. He also composed Mika Nakashima's One Survive.In addition T2ya wrote Aya Ueto's Pureness Kizuna Hello and Personal.
Aleš Šteger.  Aleš Šteger (born 31 May 1973) is a Slovene poet writer editor and literary critic. His poetry has been translated into numerous languages and published in over two hundred literary journals and magazines internationally.Šteger was born in Ptuj in the Lower Styria region in eastern Slovenia in 1973 then part of Yugoslavia. He studied Comparative literature and German at University of Ljubljana.
Graham Pountney.  Graham Michael Pountney (born 6 February 1953) is a British actor.His television credits include: Angels Maybury The Cleopatras Howards' Way Peak Practice Doctors Sea of Souls Hustle and New Tricks.
Luigi Masi.  Luigi Masi (born 29 May 1990) is a British singer who lives in London but was born in São Paulo Brazil.His first club single Strobelight (produced and written by Jim Beanz) was released on 20 October 2008 and was a top 10 UK club hit peaking at number 6 with lead remixes by The Wideboys. His second track Armed With Love was released on 25 May 2009 and again reached top 10 on the club chart at number 7.
Vinod Bhatt.  Vinod Bhatt is an Indian humor author of Gujarati language.
Gérard Klein.  Gérard Klein (born 1937) known also as Gilles d'Argyre is a French science fiction writer with sociological training.He is the editor of the prestigious science fiction series Ailleurs et Demain published by Robert Laffont and of the Le Livre de poche science-fiction imprint.In his novella Les virus ne parlent pas (The viruses do not speak) he imagines that viruses have created all living beings in the same fashion that human beings have created computers and for the same reason: to improve their efficiency.Gérard Klein used the pseudonym Gilles d'Argyre for his novels published by Editions Fleuve Noir for their series Anticipation.Several of his novels were published in translation by DAW Books in the United States.
Chad Ackerman.  Chad Ackerman (born November 30 1983 in San Diego California) is a rock singer-songwriter musician vegan writer director actor and producer. Ackerman's debut as a singer/songwriter was on November 30 2012 under the name A Veil with the album entitled The In Between. Chad is also the vocalist for the bands Chapter 14 and Count Your Curses. He is the voice parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger for the band Austrian Death Machine.
Matthew Kelly (musician).  Matthew Kelly also known as Matt Kelly is an American musician singer and songwriter. He plays guitar and harmonica. Kelly is best known for being the leader of the rock band Kingfish and for his association with Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead.
Adam Green (musician).  Adam Green (born May 28 1981 in Mount Kisco New York) is an American singer-songwriter artist and filmmaker.Green is well known for his involvement in the Anti-folk music movement and as one half of the band The Moldy Peaches. Green has found success as a solo artist enjoying increasing popularity in the United States as well as a number of European countries particularly Germany.
Lilla Cabot Perry.  Lilla Cabot Perry (January 13 1848 – February 28 1933) was an American artist who worked in the Impressionist style rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States. Perry's early work was shaped by her exposure to the Boston school of artists and her travels in Europe and Japan.
Bertrand Duchaufour.  Bertrand Duchaufour is a French perfumer.
Peride Celal.  Peride Celal Yönsel (June 10 1916 – June 15 2013) commonly known as Peride Celal or Peride Celâl was a Turkish novelist and story writer.Born in İstanbul she completed her high school education in Samsun and at the French curriculum Lycée Sainte-Pulchérie in İstanbul. She spent most of her childhood in Anatolia.After returning to İstanbul Celal worked at Elektrik Şirketi and Neşriyat Bürosu.
John O'Hara.  John Henry O'Hara (January 31 1905 – April 11 1970) was an American writer. He earned a reputation first for short stories and became a best-selling novelist by the age of thirty with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue.
Phyllis A. Balch.  Phyllis A Henning Balch (September 18 1930 - December 31 2004) was the author of Prescription for Nutritional Healing. She was one of the biggest selling dietary and supplement authors. Her books have sold over eight million copies.
Kim Gyeong-uk.  Kim Kyung-uk (the author's preferred name according the Korean Government) is a Korean author.
Kirby Dominant.  Kirby Dominick better known by his stage name Kirby Dominant is an American rapper from Oakland California. Allmusic described him as an upcoming force in the San Francisco Bay Area's brightening hip-hop scene. He is one half of the duo Paranoid Castle alongside the producer Factor.
Dave Gara.  Dave Gara is a drummer who played for the American band Skid Row from 2004 to 2010. In April 2010 it was announced that Gara had parted ways with Skid Row. He was replaced by Rob Hammersmith. Prior to his tenure in Skid Row Dave Gara played on the final Betty Blowtorch tour in 2001 which ended tragically with the death of singer/bassist Bianca (Butthole) Halstead in a car accident post show in New Orleans LA. In January 2013 Dave played with the BulletBoys on a 3 week North American tour.
Caroline Adams Miller.  Caroline Miller (born September 15 1961) is an American life coach and author of nonfiction books including My Name is Caroline which chronicled her struggle with bulimia nervosa.
Lloyd Klein.  Lloyd Klein (born February 15 1967) is a French couturier born in Canada and currently based in Los Angeles.
Raffaele Postiglione.  Raffaele Postiglione (Naples 1818 - Naples 1897) was an Italian painter.
Anjana Sowmya.  Anjana Sowmya (born September 29 1985) is a Tollywood playback singer.
Anne Frasier.  Anne Frasier (born c. 1950s) is a pseudonym for Theresa Weir.
Mick Jackson (author).  Mick Jackson (born 1960) is a British writer from England best known for his novel The Underground Man (1997). The book based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 5th Duke of Portland was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.
Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo.  Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo is a writer born in Brazzaville Republic of the Congo in 1976. He lived between Imola and Bologna since he was four years old. He recently moved to London where he now lives.
Mike VanPortfleet.  Mike VanPortfleet is an American singer-songwriter and keyboard player most recognized for founding the darkwave group Lycia in 1988. During the 2000s his focus shifted from Lycia to several other musical projects which included his debut solo work Beyond the Horizon Line.
Chris Christian.  Chris Christian (born on February 7 1951) born Lon Christian Smith to JE and June Smith in Abilene Texas is a songwriter record producer and a record label executive. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley Olivia Newton-John Natalie Cole Sheena Easton The Pointer Sisters Al Jarreau The Carpenters Amy Grant Patti Austin Dionne Warwick America The Imperials B.J.
Saburō Kitajima.  Saburō Kitajima (北島 三郎 Kitajima Saburō born October 4 1936) is a well-known Japanese enka singer lyricist and composer.He was born Minoru Ōno (大野 穣) in a little town in Hokkaidō to a fisherman. He was very poor because of the effects of World War II and he was forced to work while he studied.When he was about to graduate from high school he decided to become a singer.
María Grever.  María Grever (14 September 1885 – 15 December 1951) was the first Mexican female musician to become a successful composer.
DJ Muggs.  Lawrence Muggerud (born January 28 1968) better known by his stage name DJ Muggs is Cypress Hill's DJ and producer. He also produced tracks for Funkdoobiest House of Pain Dizzee Rascal U2 Depeche Mode and more. He is the leader of LA art collective Soul Assassins.
Šako Polumenta.  Šakib Šako Polumenta (born 27 March 1968) is a Montenegrin pop singer popular throughout the former Yugoslav republics.
Évariste Carpentier.  Évariste Carpentier (1845 in Kuurne - 1922 in Liège) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes and animated landscapes. Over the years his painting evolved from the academic art to impressionism. He is alongside Emile Claus one of the earliest representatives of luminism in Belgium.Evariste Carpentier was a pupil at the Antwerp Academy. He lived in Paris from 1879 till 1886. The talent and personality of the artist never ceased to develop.
Anthony Powell.  Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (/ˈpoʊəl/; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time published between 1951 and 1975.Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of TV and radio dramatisations. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Gerald Danovitch.  Gerald Danovitch (February 24 1932 – December 1 1997) was a renowned classical saxophone player and educator McGill University professor founder of Gerald Danovitch Saxophone Quartet and jazz studies department at McGill.
Vanesa Gabriela Leiro.  Vanesa Gabriela Leiro (Buenos Aires May 6 1992) is an Argentine actress and singer.She took part in the children's contest Super Pop Kids in 2001 and she won the contest La Banda de Cantaniño in 2002 and 2003 with her band KtrasK.She has later taken part in several television programs.
Adam Wiltzie.  Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie (born September 17 1969 New York City) is a composer and sound engineer.
Kierin Meehan.  Kierin Meehan (born in Brisbane Queensland) is an Australian children's book author teacher and choreographer.
Vittorio Avondo.  Vittorio Avondo (Turin August 10 1836 - Turin December 14 1910) was an Italian antiquarian member of the city council and painter. In his painting he depicted mainly landscapes from his native Piedmont. He is considered one of the painters of the School of Rivara which included Carlo Pittara.
Andrew Hollander.  Andrew Hollander named one the Hollywood Reporter's Composers on the Verge of the A List is an American film composer songwriter record producer and co-founder of Goodpenny a New York-based creative boutique. Hollander has composed scores and written songs for many acclaimed feature films including 2012's Sundance Audience Award-winning and box office record-breaking Mike Birbiglia film Sleepwalk with Me.
William Lodge.  William Lodge (July 4 1649 – 1689) was an English engraver and printmaker of the Baroque period.
Jess Margera.  Jesse Phillip Margera (born August 28 1978 best known as Jess Margera) is the drummer in the band CKY its predecessor Oil and Foreign Objects Viking Skull The Company Band and FuckFace Unstoppable.
Aoi Teshima.  Aoi Teshima (手嶌葵 Teshima Aoi born June 21 1987 in Hakata Fukuoka) is a Japanese singer and voice actor.
Joseph Pearce.  Joseph Pearce (born 1961) is an English-born writer and as of 2012 Writer-in-Residence and Professor of Humanities at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack NH; previously he had a comparable position from 2001-2004 at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti Michigan and from 2004-2012 at Ave Maria College in Ave Maria FL. He is known for a number of literary biographies many of Catholic figures.
Austin Brown.  Austin Brown (born November 22 1985 in Tarzana California) is an American singer-songwriter. He is a member of the Jackson family and only son to singer Rebbie Jackson and her late husband Nathaniel Brown.
Robert Hirsch (actor).  Robert Paul Hirsch (26 July 1925 L'Isle Adam Val-d'Oise Île-de-France) is a French actor. He has been a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1952. In 1990 he won César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Hiver 54 l'abbé Pierre.
Benedikt Stojković.  Benedikt Beno Stojković also Benedetto Stay (Dubrovnik in 1714 – Rome 1801) was a Roman Catholic churchman. Educated by Jesuits he attended the academic assemblies of Marin Sorgo beginning the composition of a poem on Alexander Farnese. Later on he published “Saggio sull'uomo” based on the system of Descartes.
Jacopo da Sellaio.  Jacopo da Sellaio (c. 1441–1493) sometimes known as Jacopo di Arcangel was an eclectic Italian painter from the early Renaissance who painted in the style of the Florentine School. He was a pupil of Fra' Filippo Lippi with his contemporary Sandro Botticelli who became a lasting influence on him.
Aluísio Azevedo.  Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈlwizju tɐ̃ˈkɾedu ɡõˈsaɫviʒ dʒ ɐze̞ˈvedu] 14 April 1857 — 21 January 1913) was a Brazilian novelist caricaturist diplomat playwright and short story writer. Initially a Romantic writer he would later adhere to the Naturalist movement. He introduced the Naturalist movement in Brazil with the novel O Mulato in 1881.He founded and occupied the 4th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1913.
Turgut Özakman.  Turgut Özakman (1930-2013) was a lawyer a civil servant a dramaturge and a writer in Turkey
Emanuele Tesauro.  Emanuele Tesauro (1592–1675) was a rhetorician dramatist Marinist poet and historian from Turin.His Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico originally published in 1654 is a work on tropes literally the oxymoronic Aristotelian telescope. Its main concern is the invention and wit of ingenious metaphors. It has been called one of the most important statements of poetics in seventeenth-century Europe. Metaphor he calls the Great Mother of All Witticisms.
Mohamud Siad Togane.  Mohamud Siad Togane (Somali: Maxamed Siyaad Toogane Arabic: محمد سياد توغن‎) born July 1 1947 is a Somali-Canadian poet and peace activist.
Brian Keene.  Brian Keene is an American author primarily of horror crime fiction and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards. His 2003 novel The Rising is often credited (along with Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic and Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later film) with inspiring pop culture’s current interest in zombies. In addition to his own original work Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who Hellboy Masters of the Universe and Superman.
Lester Williams (musician).  Lester Williams (June 24 1920 – November 13 1990) was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He is best known for his songs Winter Time Blues and I Can't Lose with the Stuff I Use. His main influence was T-Bone Walker.Williams released several singles in the 1950s but remained a stalwart of the Houston blues circuit for decades. His recording career lasted from 1949 to 1956.
R. D. Burman.  Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) was an Indian film score composer who is considered one of the seminal music directors of the Indian film industry. Nicknamed Pancham da he was the only son of the illustrious composer Sachin Dev Burman.From the 1960s to the 1990s RD Burman composed musical scores for 331 movies. He was mainly active in the Hindi film industry as a composer and also provided vocals for a few of compositions.
Howard Alden.  Howard Alden (born October 17 1958) is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach California. Alden has recorded many albums for Concord Records including four with seven-string guitar innovator George Van Eps.
Kinnie Starr.  Alida Kinnie Starr (born 1970) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary Alberta. Her music which blends hip hop and alternative rock has been described as hip hop aggro groove. Her songs have been included on the soundtracks for the TV series The L Word and the movie Thirteen. She was nominated for the Juno Award for New Artist of the Year in 2004.
Chuck Loeb.  Chuck Loeb (born July 12 1955 in Nyack New York) is a guitarist who performs numerous styles of music most notably jazz. His own solo projects have generally been commercially successful crossover jazz such as contemporary or smooth jazz.
Louis Black.  Louis Black is a co-founder of The Austin Chronicle an alternative weekly newspaper published in Austin Texas and has been the newspaper's editor since its inception. He has written over 600 articles in his column in that newspaper. Black is also one of the co-founders of the South by Southwest Festival also located in Austin although the festival operates separately from the Chronicle.
Barry Norman.  Barry Leslie Norman CBE (born 21 August 1933 in London) is a British film critic writer and media personality. He presented BBC Television's Film 72 (and successive years) until 1998.
Jodi Proznick.  Jodi Proznick is a Canadian jazz bassist born in Vancouver.In 1993 Proznick won the General Motors Award of Excellence as one of the top young musicians in Canada. McGill University awarded Proznick a performance scholarship in 1997 as a member of the prestigious McGill Big Band I. In 1998 she won the IAJE Sisters in Jazz competition which brought her to New York to perform with Ingrid Jensen and to Detroit to open for Geri Allen.
Félix Morisseau-Leroy.  Félix Morisseau-Leroy (Haitian Creole: Feliks Moriso-Lewa; 13 March 1912 – 5 September 1998) was a Haitian writer who wrote in Haitian Créole for poetry and plays the first significant writer to do so. By 1961 he succeeded in having Créole recognized as an official language of Haiti after expanding its teaching in schools and use in creative literature. Morisseau also published works on French Haitian Créole and Haitian French literature.
Deezle.  Darius Harrison better known as Deezle is an American record producer who was born and raised in New Orleans Louisiana. He is most known for co-producing Lil Wayne's single Lollipop alongside Jim Jonsin. Harrison is currently launching his own production company Drum Major Music.
Joseph Zornado.  Joseph Zornado is an American college professor author of a well-received book in the field of children's literature (Inventing the Child Garland 2000/Routledge 2006) as well as a science fiction novel 2050: Gods of Little Earth originally published by Speculative Fiction Review in 2007.Inventing the Child is an account of childhood at the start of a new millennium.
Joe Goode.  Joe Goode was born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma in 1937.
Mark Wallington (writer).  Mark Wallington (born 1953 Swanage) is a writer perhaps most famous for his humorous Boogie travelogues both memorably serialised on BBC Radio Four.Mark Wallington was working as a gardener in North London in 1979 when he began his writing career working with Dick Fiddy submitting sketches to Not the Nine O'clock News and The Dave Allen Show. They later scripted the BBC sitcom All Night Long. In 1982 Wallington walked the South West coastal path with his urban dog Boogie.
Sam Coulson.  Sam Coulson (born 1987 in Bromsgrove Worcestershire) is an English guitarist. After becoming noticed on the video hosting website YouTube Coulson went on to replace Steve Howe on guitars in Asia in January 2013 after the latter decided to pursue other projects.
Myzery.  Myzery is a Puerto Rican rapper based in New York. He was one of the earliest artists to appear with Psychopathic Records and released one album titled Para La Isla in 1998. Afterwards he released various albums through other outlets via guerrilla tactics and dismisses some songs because he had no heart. After a period of obscurity he reappeared in late 2011 to announce his return and upcoming new album titled Demon/Angel.
Jerome Myers.  Jerome Myers (March 20 1867 - June 19 1940) was a U.S. artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School best known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape. He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show which introduced European modernism to America.Born in Petersburg Virginia and raised in Philadelphia Trenton and Baltimore he spent his adult life in New York City.
Shigeru Shibuya.  Shigeru Shibuya (渋谷 茂 Shibuya Shigeru born 11 July 1960 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor.
Maria Yi.  Maria Yi (also known as Yi Yi and Maria Yi Dut born 29 July 1953) is a retired Chinese actress from Shanghai. She appeared in films by Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Productions in the 1970s most notably in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury both starring Bruce Lee.
Johanna Drucker.  Johanna Drucker (b. May 30 1952) is an author book artist visual theorist and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms typography visual poetry art and lately digital aesthetics. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.Drucker earned her B.F.A.
Roger W. Stoller.  Roger White Stoller (born January 21 1954) is an American sculptor who specializes in large works integrating bronze and granite. He currently works out of studios in Portola Valley & San Jose California.
Giorgio Moroder.  Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈdʒordʒo ˈmɔːroder] born Hansjörg Moroder Urtijëi 26 April 1940) is an influential Italian record producer songwriter performer and DJ.Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering synth disco and electronic dance music.When in Munich in the 1970s he started his own record label called Oasis Records which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records.
Wu Nien-jen.  Wu Nien-jen (simplified Chinese: 吴念真; traditional Chinese: 吳念真; pinyin: Wú Niànzhēn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Liām-chin; born August 5 1952 in Ruifang Taipei County (now New Taipei City) Taiwan) is a scriptwriter director and author from Taiwan. He is one of the most prolific and highly regarded scriptwriters in the country and a leading member of the New Taiwanese Cinema although he has also acted in a number of films. He starred in Edward Yang's 2000 film Yi Yi.
John Higton.  John Higton (2 April 1776 – 23 December 1827) was an English Animal painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was a friend of Edward Dayes and Thomas Campbell and his patrons included Lord Sedley (Henry Venables-Vernon 3rd Baron Vernon) and George Greville 2nd Earl of Warwick
George Wade Robinson.  George Wade Robinson (1838 – 18 January 1877) was a poet and hymnist from Cork Ireland.
Myles Goodwyn.  Myles Francis Goodwyn (born (1948-06-23)June 23 1948 in Woodstock New Brunswick) is a record producer guitarist lead vocalist main songwriter founding member of the veteran Canadian hard rock band April Wine and father of the electronic artist Aaron Goodwyn.
Savan Kotecha.  Savan Kotecha (born Savan Harish Kotecha) is an American songwriter and record producer of Indian descent from Austin Texas. Kotecha has co-written such hits as Britney Spears' If U Seek Amy and I Wanna Go Usher’s DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love Ariana Grande's Problem One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful and Live While We're Young and Maroon 5's One More Night.
John Macaluso.  John Macaluso (born January 21 1968) is an American drummer who has played for Ark TNT Yngwie J. Malmsteen among others. Born in Commack New York John started playing drums at age 11. Now having recorded on more than 200 records and playing on multiple world tours John continues to write and record music perform live do clinics and teach.
Hermione Hammond.  Hermione Hammond (11 August 1910 – 29 July 2005) was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II.Born in Hexham Northumberland to an artist mother and an invalid father Hermione Hammond had one brother and one sister.
Juice Leskinen.  Juhani Juice Leskinen (former Pauli Matti Juhani Juice Leskinen) better known as Juice Leskinen (pronounced [ˈjuisɛ]  not like the English word juice; born 19 February 1950 in Juankoski – died 24 November 2006 in Tampere) was one of the most prominent Finnish singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. From the early 1970s onward he released nearly 30 full-length albums as well as writing song lyrics for dozens of Finnish artists.
Zanobi Poggino.  Zanobi Poggino (16th century) was an Italian painter active as a portrait and historical painter in Florence. He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Sogliani.
Shay Haley.  Sheldon Haley (born December 18 1972) better known as Shae or Shade is an American musician. He is a member of the funk rock band N*E*R*D who often contributes backup vocals while Pharrell carries lead duties and Chad Hugo supplies the production. His role in the band is often questioned but in a recent interview Pharrell stated that Shay is the root of the band. Pharrell also stated that Shay keeps everyone grounded and together.
Bahruz Kangarli.  Bahruz Shirali bey oglu Kangarli (Azerbaijani: Bəhruz Şirəlibəy oğlu Kəngərli; January 22 1892 Nakhchivan – February 7 1922 Nakhchivan) was an Azerbaijani painter and graphic artist. He was one of the first professional representatives of Azerbaijani visual arts and was the founder of realistic easel painting of Azerbaijan.
Richard Symonds (academic).  Richard Symonds (2 October 1918 – 15 July 2006) was an English academic and civil servant.He was born in Oxford the son of neurologist Sir Charles Symonds and Janet Poulton. He was educated at Cothill House and Rugby School and gained a scholarship to Corpus Christi College Oxford. When an undergraduate he went to Spain with Edward Heath and a few other undergraduates during their Civil War and experienced air raids there.
Don Brown (author).  Don Brown (Donald Mitchell Brown Jr.) was born June 3 1960 in Plymouth North Carolina USA. Brown is an author of eight published novels and is perhaps best known for his bestselling novel Treason released by Zondervan Publishing Company in 2005.
Tsubaki Nekoi.  Tsubaki Nekoi (猫井 椿 Nekoi Tsubaki January 21 1969 -) is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She is the co-director and her duties in the team include applying screentones and correcting manga illustrations. She was also the lead artist (a role that normally falls to Mokona) on Legal Drug The One I Love Wish Suki and xxxHolic.
Nathalie Handal.  Nathalie Handal (Arabic: نتالي حنظل‎) (born 29 July 1969) is an American award-winning poet writer and playwright.
Zoran Kostić (musician).  Zoran Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Костић; born August 17 1964 in Belgrade) widely known by his nickname Cane (Serbian pronunciation: [tsanɛ]) is Serbian rock musician known primarily as the leader and vocalist for Serbian punk rock group Partibrejkers.
Angela Slatter.  Angela Slatter is an award-winning writer based in Brisbane Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005 when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing. Since then she has created an extensive portfolio of short stories many of which were included in her two compilations Sourdough and Other Stories (2010) and The Girl With No Hands and other tales (2010).
Chris Bachelder.  Chris Bachelder (born 1971) is an American writer e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer. Born in Minneapolis Minnesota he grew up in Christiansburg Virginia.
Arthur Miller.  Arthur Asher Miller (October 17 1915 – February 10 2005) was an American playwright and essayist.
Daniel Keys Moran.  Not to be confused with Daniel Keyes.Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30 1962) also known by his initials DKM is an American computer programmer and a science fiction writer.
Yolanda Pérez.  Yolanda Pérez (born May 20 1983) is an American singer who specializes in banda music. She is sometimes known by the stage name La Potranquita (Spanish: little filly) a name taken by her father from his home city of Zacatecas Mexico.Perez was born in Los Angeles California. Her family later moved to Montclair California. She graduated from Montclair High School in 2001. When she was 11 years old Perez won a music contest held in the Los Angeles-area Lynwood.
Giovanni Migliara.  Giovanni Migliara (Alessandria October 15 1785 – Milan April 18 1837) was a nobleman and Italian painter active at the beginning of the 19th century painting vedute and history paintings.
Ricky Fanté.  Ricky Fanté is an American R&B singer.
George S. Stuart.  George Stuart (born 1929) is an American sculptor raconteur and historian. He has traveled the United States presenting historical monologues about the last four centuries in the Americas Europe Russia and China. To help audiences visualize the personalities in his monologues Stuart created over 400 historically accurate quarter life-size sculptures of personages with political influence from the 16th to the 19th century.
Paul Wong (musician).  Paul Wong Koon-Chung (born 31 March 1964) is a Hong Kong musician singer and songwriter who was the lead guitarist of the Hong Kong rock band Beyond.Wong started off doing artwork for Beyond before joining in 1985.
Joshua Sridhar.  Joshua Sridhar is an Indian film composer and music director.
Kjetil Saunes.  Kjetil Saunes (born 22 Oktober 1962 in Ulsteinvik Norway) is a Norwegian musician (bass) composer and songwriter raised in and still residing in Oslo. He is known from a series of album releases and collaborations with musicians like like Bjørn Eidsvåg Ketil Bjørnstad Kjetil Bjerkestrand Eivind Aarset Morten Harket and Unni Wilhelmsen.
Tobacco (musician).  Thomas Fec better known by his stage name Tobacco is an American electronic musician. He is the frontman of the band Black Moth Super Rainbow in addition to working as a solo artist; in both settings he works most conspicuously with pre-digital electronic instruments such as analog synthesizers and tape machines.
Bernard Matemera.  Bernard Matemera was a Zimbabwean sculptor. The sculptural movement of which he was part is usually referred to as Shona sculpture (see Shona art and Art of Zimbabwe) although some of its recognised members are not ethnically Shona. His whole professional career was spent at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community 150 km north of Harare near Guruve.Bernard Matemera died in March 2006.
Reeve Carney.  Reeve Carney (born April 18 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He appeared in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as the character of Peter Parker/Spider-Man.His brother-in-law is Greg Garbowsky bass player for the Jonas Brothers to whom his sister Paris Carney is married.
Ann James.  Ann James is an Australian author and illustrator of over 60 books for children. Born in Melbourne Victoria Ann James has been illustrating books since the 1980s and has become a significant contributor towards the development and appreciation of children's literature in Australia. In 2000 she was awarded the Pixie O'Harris Award as a formal acknowledgment of this contribution and was also the 2002 recipient of the national Dromkeen Medal for services towards children's literature.
Buky Schwartz.  Buky Schwartz (pronounced BOO-kie) (Hebrew: בוקי שוורץ‎; June 16 1932 – September 1 2009) was an Israeli sculptor and video artist.
Frank Cho.  Frank Cho born Duk Hyun Cho is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator known for his series Liberty Meadows as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment. The artist is noted for his figure drawing precise lines and depiction of well-endowed women.
Sakthibhadran.  Sakthibhadran (शक्तिभद्रः) was a Classical Sanskrit writer who lived in ancient Kerala. He wrote Ascharyachoodamani (Devanāgarī: आश्चर्य चूठामणि ) the first Sanskrit drama from South India. He may have been born in Kodumon a village in Adoor Pathanamthitta Kerala between the 7th and 11th centuries.
Davy Carton.  Davy Carton (born 10 April 1959) is a singer songwriter and rhythm guitarist from Tuam County Galway in the Republic of Ireland. He is best known as a core member of the Saw Doctors the folk-rock band he co-founded with Leo Moran and others in 1987.
Sean Williams (author).  Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 23 May 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide Australia. He was born in Whyalla Australia. He is the author of over eighty published short stories and thirty-nine novels including Twinmaker and (with Garth Nix) the Troubletwister series. He has co-written three books in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series and is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards.
Kuntowijoyo.  Kuntowijoyo (Bantul Yogyakarta 18 September 1943 – 22 February 2005) was an Indonesian writer and academic.
Alexander Skabichevsky.  Alexander Mikhailovich Skabichevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Скабиче́вский September 27 (o.s. 15) 1838 Saint Petersburg Russian Empire – January 11 1911 o.s. December 29 1910) was a Russian novelist playwright literary critic and historian part of the Narodnik movement best known for his series of biographies of 19th century Russian writers.
Shakin' Stevens.  Shakin' Stevens also known as Shaky is the stage name of Michael Barratt born 4 March 1948 in Cardiff Wales a platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who holds the distinction of being the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s. His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s although it was not until 1980 that he saw commercial success in his native land. In the UK alone Stevens has charted 33 Top 40 hit singles.
Ray Brown (musician).  Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13 1926 – July 2 2002) was an influential American jazz double bassist and cellist known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald among many others.
Ms. Triniti.  Jeanette-Triniti Marilyn Bhaguandas better known by her stage name Ms. Triniti is a reggae fusion singer-songwriter who mixes the dancehall reggae and pop genres.She is an independent artist though has had two Top 20 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop sales singles two Top 5 singles in Jamaica two of which reached # 1 as well as 4 studio albums on EMI/Japan to date.
Noriko Awaya.  Noriko Awaya (淡谷 のり子 Awaya Noriko August 12 1907 – September 22 1999) was a Japanese female Soprano chanson and popular music (ryūkōka) singer. She was dubbed the Queen of Blues in Japan.
Duncan Chisholm.  Duncan Chisholm (born 31 October 1968) is a Scottish fiddler and a founder member of the folk rock group Wolfstone. As well as Wolfstone Duncan tours with the Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis' band. Chisholm has a strong solo career having recorded five solo albums the latest Affric released in 2012 was longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award.
Monster Bobby.  Monster Bobby (born Robert William Barry 16 May 1981) is an English singer-songwriter and actor best known as the creator of and guitarist for the indie pop girl group The Pipettes.
Aida al Manhali.  Aida Al-Manhali (Arabic: عيضه المنهالي‎) (born 1977) is a popular Khaleeji music artist from the United Arab Emirates. He is known throughout the Arab World for his singles Mahma Jara (2002) Sood al Ayon and Ya Galb.
Georg Caspar Schürmann.  Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 (or early 1673) Idensen bei Neustadt am Rübenberge – 25 February 1751 Wolfenbüttel) was a German Baroque composer. His name also appears as Schurmann and in Hochdeutsch as Scheuermann.
Michel Block.  Michel Block (1937–2003) was a renowned Belgian pianist and winner of the 1962 Leventritt Competition.Block was born in Antwerp and studied at the Juilliard School. He later taught at the Indiana University School of Music.
Delicate Steve.  Delicate Steve is the moniker of Steve Marion a multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from Fredon New Jersey. Delicate Steve's sound as been described as both hand-crafted and blatantly artificial with elements of progressive-rock folksy twang African rhythm and 1970s pop or surf-rock.
Wild Man Fischer.  Larry Wayne Fischer (November 6 1944 – June 16 2011) better known as Wild Man Fischer was an American songwriter in the outsider genre. He was notable for being responsible for Rhino Records' first release Go to Rhino Records (1975). Fischer's highly unusual style had developed a cult following.
Naïm Kattan.  Naïm Kattan OC CQ FRSC (born August 26 1928) is a Canadian novelist essayist and critic of Iraqi Jewish origin.Born in Baghdad Iraq he studied at the University of Baghdad from 1945 until 1947 and at the Sorbonne from 1947 until 1951. He emigrated to Montreal in 1954. He is the author of more than 30 books translated into several languages.
Bobby Valentino (British musician).  Bobby Valentino (born Robert James Beckingham June 22 1954) is a British violinist singer songwriter and actor.
Leena Dhingra.  Leena Dhingra is a British Asian actress.She has appeared in soap operas Doctors as Nina Parmar Coronation Street as Mina Parekh and EastEnders as Manju Patel.
Matthew Lien.  Matthew Carl Lien (/liːˈɛn/ lee-EN; born 10 May 1965 in San Diego California) is a Yukon Canada based world music singer-songwriter and producer. His primary lyrical and musical focus is on environmental and cultural themes.
Tracy Nelson (singer).  Tracy Nelson (born December 27 1944) is an American singer.
Elvin Polanco.  Elvin Polanco (born 14 July 1969) is a music promoter from the Dominican Republic. He is best known for working with Los Teenagers de La Bachata known today as Aventura.
Danny Peyronel.  Danny Peyronel (born Daniel Augusto Peyronel 17 March 1953 Buenos Aires) is a singer songwriter keyboard player and producer of Northern Italian and Southern French origin best known for his work in rock groups such as the Heavy Metal Kids and UFO. He studied in the Manuel Belgrano school in the Belgrano neighborhood (barrio) within Buenos Aires proper. He grew up all over the world but mostly in London England.
Turk Murphy.  Melvin Edward Alton “Turk” Murphy (born Palermo California December 16 1915; died of bone cancer in San Francisco California May 30 1987) was renowned as a trombonist who played traditional and dixieland jazz in San Francisco.Murphy served in the Navy during World War II during which time he played and recorded when he could with the likes of Lu Watters and Bunk Johnson.
Nobuko Takagi.  Nobuko Takagi (高樹 のぶ子 Takagi Nobuko born April 9 1946) is the pen-name of Nobuko Tsuruta a Japanese author.Takagi was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Woman's Christian University (now Tokyo Woman's Christian University) and first published in 1980 with Sono hosoki michi (That Narrow Road).
Ochre (musician).  Ochre is the stage name of English electronic musician Christopher Leary. The name Ochre was originally adopted as the title for Leary's academic work while studying audio production at Newcastle College as a variation of Oaker being the name of a street in Manchester where Leary spent his early childhood. Leary also holds a Master's degree in music.
Ntone Edjabe.  Ntone Edjabe is a writer journalist DJ and founding editor of Chimurenga magazine.
Swamp Dogg.  Jerry Williams Jr. (born 12 July 1942) is an American soul music artist who is better known by his pseudonym Swamp Dogg.
Gurf Morlix.  Gurf Morlix is an American multi-instrumentalist vocalist songwriter and record producer residing for many years in Austin Texas. He has worked with many of the best known performers of Americana roots rock and alternative country music. His most notable works include albums by Lucinda Williams Robert Earl Keen Mary Gauthier Ian McLagan Ray Wylie Hubbard and Slaid Cleaves.
Mimi Chu.  Mimi Chu (Chinese: 朱咪咪 born Choo Yit Mei Chinese: 朱月美) is a Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress and singer. She moved to Singapore when she was a teenager and later moved to Hong Kong. She is a famous singer appearing at many events. As an actress she is a recognised face in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia having appeared in both Hong Kong and Singaporean productions.Mimi still own a HDB flat in Singapore and her children are educated in Singapore.
Federal Moguls.  The Federal Moguls are an eclectic hip-hop duo from the suburban Philadelphia area consisting of Q-Ball (DJ/producer and vocalist for Universal Records artists The Bloodhound Gang) and Troy Walsh (Burblife Records Sunset Records The Weekend Warriors). Federal Moguls is also the name of a hypothetical investment agency administered by the duo.
Edith Pfau.  Sister Edith Pfau S.P. (1915–2001) was an American painter sculptor and art educator known for her religious works and commissions.Born Alberta Henrietta Pfau in Jasper Indiana she began drawing at a very early age. Later in her life she recalled I always was attracted to faces. I find faces everywhere even in scribbles on the wall. Pfau entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1933 at the age of 18 taking the religious name Sister Edith.
Roderick Hunt.  Roderick Hunt MBE is a British children's author.His most famous series of stories is The Magic Key which was first written as a part of the Oxford Reading Tree in 1985 illustrated by Alex Brychta MBE. There were originally 30 stories and there are now over 400. They are used by over 80% of British primary schools to help children learn to read in addition to schools in more than 120 other countries.
Aranka Siegal.  Aranka Siegal (born Aranka Davidowitz on June 10 1930)is a writer Holocaust survivor and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award both awarded to her in 1982. She is the author of three books the best known of which is Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1930-1944 a memoir of her childhood in Hungary before her 12-month imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz – Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen.
Melinda Schneider.  Melinda Schneider (born 7 October 1971) is an Australian country music performer and the daughter of yodeler Mary Schneider. Schneider performed with her mother on the album The Magic of Yodeling at the age of eight. She studied dance as a child and made her acting debut on the popular Australian drama A Country Practice when aged thirteen. Schneider also sang the theme music for the TV series Something in the Air.
Soraida Martinez.  Soraida Martinez is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist who creates hard-edge paintings which she calls Verdadism. She was born in Harlem New York City USA on July 30 1956 to parents born in San Germán Puerto Rico one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the Americas founded in 1511. Since 1992 Soraida Martinez has been known as the creator of Verdadism a form of hard-edge abstraction where each painting is accompanied by a written social commentary.
Abbas Hasan.  Abbas Hasan is a Canadian-French pop music artist and actor who has been named the next big thing in the Asian music/film scene by MTV India and HELLO! Magazine and has recently won the Artist of the Year 2014 Award at Anokhi Media awards in Canada. He is also the brand ambassador for the New York based luxury watch and lifestyle company Nooka. (Sometimes mistakenly credited as Abbas Hassan).
Rusty Willoughby.  Rusty Willoughby (born June 30 1966) is an active American musician born in Staten Island and currently living in Vashon Washington a suburb of Seattle. As of 2011 he has been vocalist songwriter and guitarist or bass guitarist for several Seattle based bands: Pure Joy (1984–1989 1997–2004) Flop (1990–1995) Llama (2005–2008) and Cobirds Unite (2010–). He also briefly played drums for the Fastbacks.
Francis Bennon Ducrue.  Francis Bennon Ducrue was a missionary in Mexico b. in Munich Bavaria of French parents 10 June 1721; d. there 30 March 1779. He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1738 and ten years later was sent to California where he laboured zealously until the expulsion of the order in 1767. When that untoward event took place Ducrue was the superior of all the California missions.
William Burton Walbert.  William Burton Walbert was a gospel music singer composer and editor. He was born in Barren County Kentucky USA on May 18 1886. He was long associated with the James D. Vaughan Music Company and was son-in-law to James David Vaughan. His son was a noted pianist James D. Walbert. After James D. Vaughan's death Walbert took charge of the Vaughan School of Gospel Music. He was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1959 the year of his death.
John Davies (translator).  John Davies (25 May 1625 – 1693) was a Welsh translator and writer.
Ned Bouhalassa.  Ned Bouhalassa (born Le Mans France 25 August 1962) is a composer of film scores television scores and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen and has been residing in Montreal since 1967.In 1993 he began composing television soundtracks and has been writing music for image full-time since 1997.
Lee Kang-baek.  Kang Baek Lee (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea or Hangul: 이강백) is a South Korean playwright.
Zoot Horn Rollo.  Bill Harkleroad known professionally as Zoot Horn Rollo (born December 12 1948) is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. In 2003 he was ranked #62 in a Rolling Stone Magazine list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Michael Martin Murphey.  Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14 1945) is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music country music and popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee Murphey has six gold albums including Cowboy Songs the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959.
Adrian (costume designer).  Adrian Adolph Greenberg (March 3 1903 — September 13 1959) widely known as Adrian was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as Gowns by Adrian. On occasion he was credited as Gilbert Adrian a combination of his father's forename and his own.
Rahzel.  Rahzel M. Brown also known as simply Rahzel is an American musician and beatboxer formerly a member of The Roots.Rahzel is known for an ability to sing or rap while simultaneously beatboxing as evidenced in his performances of Iron Man and his signature song If Your Mother Only Knew a hidden track on Make the Music 2000.
Mojca Kumerdej.  Mojca Kumerdej (born 1964) is a Slovene writer philosopher and critic. She works as the cultural chronicler for the daily newspaper Delo.Kumerdej graduated in philosophy and sociology of culture from the University of Ljubljana. Her debut novel Krst nad Triglavom (The Baptism Over Mount Triglav) is a parody and a witty and ironical revision of one of Slovene literary history's most important works the epic poem Krst pri Savici (The Baptism at the Savica) by France Prešeren.
Jim Hendricks (musician).  James Jim Hendricks (born February 10 1940) is an American guitarist and folk musician.Born in Atkinson Nebraska Hendricks began playing guitar and lap steel guitar in his youth and began performing publicly while working as a teacher in Omaha Nebraska in the early 1960s. One of his shows was attended by Cass Elliot who invited Hendricks to join her and Tim Rose in the New York folk group The Big 3.
Anna Abreu.  Anna Abreu (Anna Eira Margarida Heiskari née Mourão de Melo e Abreu born on 7 February 1990) is a Finnish-Portuguese singer who rose to fame as the runner-up of the third series of the Finnish singing talent show Idols in 2007. Her music is primarily pop though her songs also have R&B dance and Latin rhythms to them.
Hugh Harris (singer).  Hugh Harris (born 1964) is an English musician most known for his song Rhythm Of Life. The song was on the soundtrack for Uncle Buck and is taken from Harris' 1989 album Words for Our Years. His first album garnered critical acclaim and Harris' style was compared to both Prince Terence Trent D'arby and female vocalist Tracy Chapman.In the late 1980s and early 1990s Harris was in a low-key relationship with Sinéad O'Connor.
Robert Hogg (socialist).  Robert Hogg (28 January 1864–9 May 1941) was a New Zealand socialist journalist newspaper editor and poet. He was born in Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland on 28 January 1864.
Robert Casadesus.  Robert Casadesus (April 7 1899 – September 19 1972) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus husband of Gaby Casadesus and father of Jean Casadesus.
Will Ahern.  Will Ahern (October 9 1896 - May 16 1983) was a vaudeville entertainer at the beginning of the 20th century. He is best known for being part of a comedy duo with his wife Gladys Reese Ahern. Ahern told jokes and performed rope tricks while his wife using a Mexican accent sang and danced.
Shane Dunlap.  Shane Dunlap was the original lead singer for Ernie Haase & Signature Sound a Southern Gospel quartet. Prior to that he was a founding member of N'Harmony. After leaving Signature Sound he started a solo career. In 2008 he formed a new group and brought the N'Harmony name back. The new N'Harmony's original lineup was tenor Brent Mitchell lead Shane Dunlap baritone Chris Whitaker and bass Will Van Wygarden.
Fabian Nicieza.  Fabian Nicieza (born 31 December 1961 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is an American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men X-Force New Warriors Cable and Deadpool and Thunderbolts for all of which he helped create numerous characters.
Herlinatiens.  Herlinatiens (born Herlina Tien Suhesti; Ngawi Indonesia April 26 1982) is an author from Indonesia.
André Brugiroux.  André Antoine Brugiroux (born 11 November 1937) is a French traveller and author who between 1955 and 2005 visited every country and territory in the world the last being Mustang. He was named greatest living traveller on earth in 2007 in Jorge Sánchez's list of Viajeros notables contemporaneous (Notable Contemporary Travellers). He has made a documentary film of his first 18-year trip and has devoted his life to spreading the message of the Bahá’í Faith worldwide.
Johann Christoph Frisch.  Johann Christoph Frisch an historical painter was the son of the designer and engraver Ferdinand Helfreich Frisch and was born at Berlin in 1737. He was a pupil of B. Rode but afterwards studied further at Rome. He died at Berlin in 1815 while holding the posts of court painter and director of the Academy. He painted numerous ceilings in the palaces at Berlin Potsdam and Sans Souci with portraits mythological representations and scenes from the life of Frederick the Great.
Michael McLean (composer).  Michael McLean (born 1952) is an American composer singer author and filmmaker based in Heber City Utah.
Lorrie Morgan.  Loretta Lynn Lorrie Morgan (born June 27 1959 in Nashville Tennessee) is an American country music singer. She is the daughter of George Morgan a country music singer who charted several hit singles between 1949 and his death in 1975. Lorrie Morgan charted her first single in 1978 although she did not break into the top of the U.S.
Jason Eppink.  Jason Eppink (born 1985)[citation needed] is an American curator designer and prankster. His projects emphasize participation mischief surprise wonder generosity transgression free culture and anti-consumerism and they are staged in public spaces and online as street art urban interventions and playful online services and hoaxes frequently for non-consenting audiences.
Kristina Jämtmark.  Kristina Jämtmark real name Maria Christina Jämtmark (born May 19 1957) is a Swedish former child actress. She played the part of Stina a little girl with a gap-toothed smile in the 1964 TV series Vi på Saltkråkan which is still being re-run regularly in Swedish television as well as in the subsequent Saltkråkan movies.
Laure Prouvost.  Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in London. She won the 2013 Turner Prize.
Todd May (guitarist).  Todd Brian May (born April 2 1965 born in Lakewood California and raised in Brea California) is an American guitarist and composer. He was a founding member of the Orange County thrash metal band Attaxe from 1985 until 1992. Prior to forming Attaxe he was a member of the L.A. metal band Knightmare II in 1984-1985.After leaving Attaxe in the summer of 1992 he composed a 4 movement symphonic work in 1995 titled Orchestral Suite #1: Alaska.
Adel Abdessemed.  Adel Abdessemed (born 2 March 1971 Constantine Algeria) is a french conceptual artist. He works and lives in Paris. He's represented by David Zwirner (New York/London) and Dvir Gallery (Tel Aviv).
Frankie Lee (musician).  Frankie Lee (born Frankie Lee Jones April 29 1941) is an American soul blues and electric blues singer and songwriter who released six albums to date. His style has been compared to Otis Redding. The Daily News wrote that Lee's was one of the most energetic blues voices of any time or place.
Vince Taylor.  Vince Taylor (14 July 1939 — 28 August 1991) born Brian Maurice Holden was a British rock and roll singer. As the frontman for The Playboys Taylor was successful primarily in France and the Continent during the late 1950s and early 1960s afterwards falling into obscurity amidst personal problems and drug abuse.
Beth Hart.  Beth Hart (born January 24 1972) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles California. She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single LA Song (Out of This Town) from her second album Screamin' for My Supper. The single was a number one hit in New Zealand and was a US Adult Contemporary top 5 hit having aired during Episode 17 of the 10th and final season of Beverly Hills 90210.
Harry Webb Farrington.  Harry Webb Farrington was an American author poet hymn writer preacher soldier and educator. He was an orphan who lived in Baltimore Maryland Bel Air Maryland and Darlington Maryland. He is famous still as being a member of the Darlington United Methodist Church and witnessing the great revivals of the late 1890s. The story of his life comes from one of his books Kilts to Togs: Orphan Adventures (1930).
Mario Vazquez.  Mario Adrián Vázquez (born June 15 1977) is a Puerto Rican-American singer from The Bronx New York City. He competed on American Idol's fourth season which aired on the FOX network in early 2005.
Charlotte Caffey.  Charlotte Irene Caffey (born October 21 1953 Santa Monica California) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter best known for her work in the Go-Go's in the 1980s including writing We Got the Beat.Caffey began her musical career as a bass guitar player in the early Los Angeles punk band The Eyes before joining the Go-Go's in 1978 and switching to guitar. She remained friends with fellow band member Belinda Carlisle.
Julian Perretta.  Julian Remo Perretta (born 13 January 1991) is an English singer-songwriter producer guitarist best known for his song Wonder Why which was the first single released from his 2011 debut Stitch Me Up. The single topped charts across Europe and sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
Vince White.  Gregory Stuart Lee White (born 31 March 1960 Marylebone London England) better known as Vince White was one of the guitarists recruited by The Clash to replace Mick Jones after he was fired from the band in 1983.
Sant Ram Udasi.  Sant Ram Udasi (Punjabi:ਸੰਤ ਰਾਮ ਉਦਾਸੀ) ((20 April 1939 – 11 August 1986) was one of the major Punjabi poets emerging out of the Naxalite Movement in the Indian Punjab towards the late sixties of the 20th century having revolutionary as well as dalit consciousness. Lok Kavi Sant Ram Udasi Memorial Trust (International) was established to do research on the life and works of Sant Ram Udasi.Sant Ram Udasi was born on April 20 1939 in a dalit Mazhbi Sikh landless labour family.
Isaac Grünewald.  Isaac Grünewald (2 September 1889 - 22 May 1946) was a Swedish-Jewish expressionist painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until his death in 1946 in other words during almost his entire career spanning four decades. He was a highly productive painter as well as a writer and public speaker.
Brian McMahan.  Brian McMahan is a guitarist from Louisville Kentucky. He was member of the band Squirrel Bait and went on to create the seminal band Slint. He was both vocalist and guitarist for this band. After their breakup circa 1991 he went on to play with Will Oldham on his project Palace Brothers. In 1994 Brian formed The For Carnation which acted as a creative outlet; he remains the only permanent member of the band. He was also part of King Kong.
Mike LeDonne.  Michael LeDonne (born 1956 in Bridgeport Connecticut) is a jazz pianist and organist known for post-bop and hard bop.His parents ran a music store and his father was a jazz guitarist. He played with his father at gigs from the age of ten. At 21 he graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and moved to New York City playing with the Widespread Depression Jazz Orchestra. In 1988 he had his recording debut and joined Milt Jackson's Quartet.
Cristiano Araújo.  Cristiano Araújo Melo (born in Goiânia state of Goiás Brazil on 24 January 1986) is a Brazilian singer songwriter and musician of Música sertaneja. The singer became famous for singles like Mente pra mim (2011) Você mudou (2012) Caso indefinido (2013) and Maus bocados (2013). After his EP Efeitos in 2011 and live album and DVD Ao Vivo em Goiânia in 2012 he released his solo studio album Continua in 2013. He is signed to the well-known Brazilian Som Livre record label.
Gabrielle Wortman.  Gabrielle Wortman (born March 25 1989) is an alternative rock musician from the United States and lead singer of the electronic band TEMP3ST. In 2013 Gabrielle Wortman and Jason Rosen former keyboardist of Honor Society (band) formed the alt-folk project Smoke Season.
Jovan Sterija Popović.  Jovan Sterija Popović (pronounced [jɔ̌v̞an stɛ̂ːrija pɔ̌pɔv̞it͡ɕ]; Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Стерија Поповић; 13 January 1806 – 10 March 1856) was a Serbian playwright poet and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School. Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals. He was one of the most famous dramatists to emerge from the Balkans in the 19th century.
Lisa Lindgren.  Elisabet Lisa Lindgren (born June 3 1968 in Råsunda Solna Stockholm County) is a Swedish actress.
Phoebe Brown.  Phoebe Jo Brown (born 20 January 1991) is an English singer.
Jeanne Black.  Jeanne Black Strange best known as Jeanne Black is an American country music singer.
Winifred Barnum.  Winifred Barnum (also known as Winifred Barnum-Newman) is a children's author and illustrator.
Louis-Henri Brévière.  Louis-Henri Brévière born at Forges-les-Eaux in 1797 was a French wood-engraver to whom is due the honour of having revived the art of wood-engraving which had been neglected in France since the 17th century.
Neil Cooper (ROIR).  Neil Cooper (1930–2001) was the founder and head of independent US cassette and record label ROIR.
Cymphonique Miller.  Cymphonique Miller (born August 1 1996) known professionally as Cymphonique is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of Percy Robert Miller (Master P) and the sister of Romeo Miller (Lil' Romeo). She is best known in the acting world for her leading role as Kacey Simon on the Nickelodeon sitcom How to Rock.
Jia Nailiang.  Jia Nailiang Chinese: 贾乃亮 born April 12 1984 in Harbin is a Chinese actor. Nailiang starred in Da Tang Ge Fei大唐歌飞(TV series) as a child giving him wide exposure at a young age. Nailiang graduated from Beijing Film Academy and in 2005 he starred in the TV series Super Girl which established him as a actor. He has starred in more than 30 TV series in the past 10 years.On July 6 2012 Nailiang married Li Xiaolu.
Sofia Talvik.  Sofia Talvik (born 24 November 1978 in Gothenburg Västra Götaland County) is a Swedish musician and singer/songwriter. Her music often blends elements of folk and pop; she also uses a lot of acoustic instruments in her songs including violins cellos trombones and acoustic guitar.
Tom Lowe (performer).  Thomas Peter Tom Lowe (born 23 April 1978 Stockport England) is an English-born singer and actor.
Betty Ren Wright.  Betty Ren Wright is an author of children's fiction including Christina's Ghost The Dollhouse Murders The Ghosts Of Mercy Manor and A Ghost in The House.
Roger Maxwell (actor).  Roger Maxwell (1 January 1900–24 November 1971) was an English actor.In 1959 he was a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival.Maxwell was born in London England and died in London also.
Warren E. Preece.  Warren Eversleigh Preece (April 17 1921 – April 11 2007) was editor of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1964 to 1975 during the development of Britannica 3 (the 15th edition). This 28-volume edition separated the content into three parts the Propædia (Outline of Knowledge) Micropædia (Ready Reference) and Macropædia (Knowledge in Depth).Preece was born in Norwalk Connecticut and educated at Dartmouth College. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in 1943. After serving with the U.S.
Duke Montana.  Duccio Barker (Rome 7 February 1975) better known as Duke Montana is an Italian-American underground rapper actor and businessman member of Italian hip hop crews Black Barz and ODEI Roma Clan and CEO of Golden Age Label. His style is a mix of Italian language with American language and slang. He collaborated with several Italian and American rappers such as Club Dogo Fabri Fibra Emis Killa Wu-Tang Clan Ice-T Onyx.
Robert Olmstead.  Robert Olmstead (born January 3 1954) is an award-winning American novelist and educator.
Joseph von Auffenberg.  Joseph von Auffenberg (25 August 1798 Freiburg – 25 December 1857 Freiburg) was a German dramatist.
Atsushi Hachisu.  Atsushi Hachisu (蜂巣 敦 Hachisu Atsushi) (born 1963 in Tochigi Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese non-fiction writer for murders and a critic for manga. He dropped out of Waseda University. He writes books about Japanese serial or spree killers such as Tsutomu Miyazaki Sataro Fukiage and Mutsuo Toi.In March 1993 Hachisu released Devilman Ron (デビルマン論 Debiruman Ron Dissertation of Devilman) with the support of Go Nagai the author of the manga Devilman.
Amity Dry.  Amity Renae Dry is an Australian singer/songwriter and a reality show contestant.
Brian Floca.  Brian Floca is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for illustrating books written by Avi and for nonfiction picture books. In 2014 he won the Caldecott Medal for his book Locomotive as well as the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor.
Kasia Cerekwicka.  Kasia Cerekwicka (born Katarzyna Cerekwicka March 17 1980 in Koszalin Poland) is a Polish pop singer. She has been singing since she was a little girl. In 1997 at the age of 17 she won the popular Polish show Szansa na sukces (Chance for Success).
Inbar Bakal.  Inbar Bakal (Hebrew: עינבר באקל‎) (born in Tel Aviv Israel) is an Israeli singer and songwriter. Her debut album Song of Songs produced by Carmen Rizzo is a mix of Western classical Arabic and Israeli music.Bakal now resides in Los Angeles.
Christine Rimmer.  Christine Rimmer (born January 28 in California U.S.A.) is a USA Today and Waldenbooks bestselling U.S. writer of over 60 romance novels since 1987. She also published poems and short stories in a number of small literary journals.
Slava Mogutin.  Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin b. April 12 1974 Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and author who works across different media including photography video text installation sculpture and painting.
Har Mar Superstar.  Sean Matthew Tillmann (born February 6 1978) better known by his stage names of Har Mar Superstar and Sean Na Na is an American singer.
Louis Cazeneuve.  Luis Louis Cazeneuve (August 18 1908 – August 1977) was an Argentine-born American comic-book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Red Raven and for his prolific work on the DC Comics characters Aquaman Shining Knight the Boy Commandos and others during the 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.His brother Arturo Arthur Cazeneuve (1919–1992) was also a Golden Age comic-book artist and became an illustrator and assistant art director for the overseas edition of Time magazine in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Mike Scalzi.  Mike Scalzi is an American musician and a philosophy professor.Scalzi was born in a small college town in Central Pennsylvania. With a grandfather who was a trumpet player in the Italian Military Marching Band and a father who was a choir singer it seemed there was no escape from the music world.
Craig Russell (British author).  Craig Russell is a British-born novelist and short story writer. His Hamburg-set thriller series featuring detective Jan Fabel has been translated into 23 languages. Russell speaks fluent German and has a special interest in post-war German history. His books particularly the Fabel series tend to include historical or mythological themes.In February 2007 Russell was awarded the Polizeistern (Police Star) by the Hamburg Police the only non-German ever to have received this accolade.
Tamara Gee.  Tamara Gee (born Tamara Diane Wimer on October 11 1972 Seattle) is an American vocalist songwriter producer programmer arranger dancer and model. She grew up singing and performing from the age of 5 and was a professional vocalist by the time she was 12 years old winning various singing competitions throughout her adolescence and adulthood as well as a beauty pageant.
Joe Lewis (artist).  Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III) (born 1953 New York City) is a visual artist photographer musician art critic and dean of University of California Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts. His visual art often focusing on digital manipulations of the image.
Fanny Cornforth.  Fanny Cornforth (1835 – c. 1906) was an English woman who became the artist's model and mistress of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Lewis Pulsipher.  Lewis Errol (Lew) Pulsipher (born January 22 1951) is a teacher game designer and author whose subject is role playing games board games card games and video games. He was the first person in the North Carolina community college system to teach game design classes (fall 2004). He has designed half a dozen published boardgames written more than 150 articles about games contributed to several books about games and presented at game conventions and conferences.
!PAUS3.  !PAUS3 or THEE PAUSE (born outside Odessa Ukraine) now located in the New York City area is an international platinum selling musician and artist beginning his career in his early teens within the former Soviet Bloc nations of Ukraine Romania & Bulgaria.
Watson T. Browne.  Watson T. Browne is an English singer who was once the lead singer of the 1960s group The Explosive and he released some recordings as Watson T. Browne & The Explosive. He had a hit in the 1980s with Searching For A Star. He also had a hit in Scandinavia with I'm On the Road Again.
Jaroba.  James Robert Barnes (born October 17 1964) is an American Musician and composer of Experimental music and Soundscapes. Besides the woodwinds he also plays the keyboard guitar and has a penchant for collage.
Mike Pender.  Mike Pender (born on 3 March 1942 in Kirkdale Liverpool Lancashire) is an original founding member of Merseybeat group the Searchers. He is best known as the lead vocalist on many hit singles by the Searchers including the song Needles and Pins.
Vespasiano Strada.  Vespasiano Strada (1582–1622) was an Italian painter and engraver of the early-Baroque period mainly active in Rome. His biography is summarized by Giovanni Baglione.He was born of Spanish parentage in Rome. He worked chiefly in fresco and had embellished the churches and public edifices at Rome with several of his historical paintings.
Karyu.  Karyu (カリュウ born in Yamaguchi Japan) is a Japanese visual kei rock musician best known as the guitarist and main composer for the now disbanded D'espairsRay. He is now in Angelo which he joined in 2011.
Gail Tredwell.  Gail Tredwell (Born 1958) is an Australian writer. Born in Queensland Australia Tredwell served Mata Amritanandamayi for 20 years (from 1978 to 1999) as a female disciple and closest personal attendant. Her autobiography titled 'Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith Devotion and Pure Madness' was published in November 2013 by Wattletree Press Hawai.
Kazuki Kato.  Kazuki Kato (加藤 和樹 Katō Kazuki October 7 1984) is a Japanese actor and singer from Nagoya Aichi Prefecture. He is best known for his role as Daisuke Kazama aka Kamen Rider Drake in Kamen Rider Kabuto and Keigo Atobe in The Prince of Tennis musicals. In 2011 he had formed a new Japanese band called Joker and debuted their first single on 7 December 2011.
Philippa Gail.  Philippa Gail (1942–1999) was a British film and television actor.
Pari Zanganeh.  Pari Zanganeh (Persian: پری زنگنه‎) (b. 1939 Kashan Iran —) is an Iranian opera and folklore singer (Spinto soprano). She was taught by Evelyn Baghtcheban. She lost her eyesight during a car accident.
Peter Forakis.  Peter Forakis (born September 22 1927 in Hanna Wyoming died November 26 2009 in Petaluma California) was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor. The son of a Greek immigrant he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland California. Eventually they settled in Modesto California. Forakis was in the Merchant Marines from 1945-50. He served in the US. Military in Korea and Japan from 1951-53. He earned his B.F.A.
Runa Akiyama.  Runa Akiyama (あきやまるな Akiyama Runa April 17 1954 - March 8 2014) was a Japanese voice actress. Her real name was Teruko Akiyama (秋山照子 Akiyama Teruko). She was born in the Metropolitan area of Tokyo Japan. She was affiliated with 81 Produce at the time of her death.
Scott Fields.  Scott Fields (born September 30 1956 in Chicago Illinois) is a guitarist composer and band leader. He is best known for his attempts to blend music that is composed and music that is written and for his modular pieces (see 48 Motives 96 Gestures and OZZO). He works primarily in avant-garde jazz experimental music and New Music.
Rod MacDonald.  Rod MacDonald (born August 17 1948) is an American singer-songwriter. He was a big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs performing at the Speakeasy Bottom Line Folk City and the Songwriter's Exchange at the Cornelia Street Cafe for many years. He co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival.
Andrea Reinkemeyer.  Andrea Reinkemeyer (b. 1976) is an American composer. She was born in Portland Oregon and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon. She continued her studies in composition at the University of Michigan graduating with a doctorate degree. As an undergraduate she won the Outstanding Creativity in Composition Award.
Lin Meijiao.  Lin Meijiao (Chinese: 林梅娇 born 24 December 1963) is a Singaporean television actress.
Marcella Bella.  Giuseppa Marcella Bella (born in Catania 18 June 1952) is an Italian singer. Her brothers Antonio and Salvatore Bella are famous musicians and her brother Gianni Bella is another popular singer-songwriter who has composed several songs for her.In 1972 she took part in Festival di Sanremo with the song Montagne verdi and performed in more musical events later. She has covered her songs in German English and Spanish.
Ion Marin.  Ion Marin (born July 8 1960) is a Romanian-born Austrian conductor.Born in Bucharest his father was conductor and composer Constantin Marin. He took courses in composition directing and piano at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in his native city leaving Communist Romania in 1986. Abroad he pursued further studies at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Herbert von Karajan was among his teachers.
Earl Falconer.  Earl Falconer (born 23 January 1957 Birmingham England) is a British bass player and singer currently working with the British reggae band UB40. Falconer also co-founded the bass music label Circus Records alongside Flux Pavilion Doctor P and DJ Swan-E.
Master Venu.  Madduri Venugopal better known as Master Venu (1916–1981) was a music composer of the Telugu and Tamil cinemas and the father of the actor Bhanu Chander. He was born 1916 in Machilipatnam Andhra Pradesh India and died 1981 in Chennai Tamil Nadu.
Anthony Gomes.  Anthony Gomes (born May 14 1970 Toronto Ontario Canada) is a Canadian blues and blues rock guitarist and singer. He was born to a Portuguese father and a French-Canadian mother. After his 1998 debut album release Blues in Technicolor he began touring the United States and Canada and he has since recorded eight more albums.Gomes resides in St. Louis Missouri United States playing a fusion of blues with rock and soul and with the Anthony Gomes Band has toured North America and Europe.
Pop Levi.  Pop Levi (born Jonathan James Mark Levi 22 September 1977 in Surrey) is an English singer multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
Mike Ploog.  Michael G. Ploog (born 1942 Mankato Minnesota United States) is an American storyboard and comic book artist and a visual designer for movies.In comics Ploog is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' 1970s Man-Thing and The Monster of Frankenstein series and as the initial artist on the features Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night. His style at the time was heavily influenced by the art of Will Eisner under whom he apprenticed.
Chad Franscoviak.  Chad Franscoviak is a sound engineer and producer based out of Los Angeles California. He is most well known for his work on John Mayer albums.
Ciara Considine.  Ciara Considine is a musician known for her Celtic and folk music. She has toured throughout the world playing flute and piano as well as other instruments and singing.Ciara Considine started singing with her older siblings when she was a young child. Her parents were Irish immigrants living in the UK. She learned to play the flute and piano. Eventually she joined the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. Later She studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Jøden (rapper).  Michael Mühlebach Christiansen better known by his stage name Jøden (born in Skanderborg Denmark on 7 August 1974) is a Danish rapper signed to the ArtPeople label.Mühlebach Christiansen was born in Skanderbor but grew up in Aarhus. Born in a Catholic family but was dubbed Jøden (literally The Jew). He released his debut album Monkeyjuice that was produced by DJ Static and charted in Denmark reaching number 12.
François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz.  François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (1623 – 1668/1669?) was a French aristocrat and extensive traveller.He published a French-language travelogue enriched with firsthand accounts of India Persia Greece the Middle East Denmark Germany Netherlands England Ireland and Italy. It is considered one of the very first true travel books in that it contains useful information for actual travellers.In 1647 he visited Viterbo and met with Italian nobleman Federico Capponi.
Todd Jensen.  Todd Jensen is a bassist who has played for various artists including the bands Sequel Hardline and Harlow as well as David Lee Roth Ozzy Osbourne Steve Perry Alice Cooper and Paul Rodgers.Todd Jensen played with Ozzy Osbourne only very briefly and was replaced by bassist Geezer Butler.
Franklin Kiermyer.  Franklin Kiermyer (born July 21 1956 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian drummer composer and bandleader who came to prominence in the 1990s during his residency in New York City. Kiermyer's work is inspired by a variety of spiritual musics including the late period of John Coltrane. Kiermyer’s album Solomon’s Daughter' featuring saxophonist and Coltrane band member Pharaoh Sanders received a great deal of media attention and helped establish his reputation as a drummer and band leader.
Clarisse Albrecht.  Clarisse Albrecht (born June 28 1978) is a French and Cameroonian recording artist singer-songwriter actress and former model. Clarisse is an independent artist financing her music herself. She's a multi-lingual singer-songwriter performing and writing in English Portuguese French and Spanish. She currently lives between France and Dominican Republic.
Fernando Muylaert.  Fernando Muylaert (July 6 1976-) is a Brazilian comedian journalist and television personality.
Salim-Sulaiman.  Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant (Persian: ٮڅںںڢګڶ-ڥڛګں‎) are a pair of musician brothers born and brought up in Bhuj Kutch Gujarat India. They belong to an Ismaili Muslim family and are inspired by their father Sadruddin Merchant who used to lead Ismaili Scouts Orchestra in India.
Matt Cardle.  Matthew Sheridan Matt Cardle (born 15 April 1983) is an English pop rock recording artist and songwriter. Cardle was born in Southampton England although he and his family moved to Halstead Essex England. Cardle has been involved in music for a long time he has been a member of two different bands; Darwyn and Seven Summers with whom he experienced limited success.
Dash Shaw.  Dash Shaw is a U.S. comic book writer/artist and animator. He is the author of the graphic novels Love Eats Brains published by Odd God Press GardenHead published by Meathaus The Mother's Mouth published by Alternative Comics Bottomless Belly Button published by Fantagraphics and BodyWorld published by Pantheon Books.Shaw's comic short stories have appeared in many different anthologies newspapers and magazines.
Lee Kaeun.  Lee Kaeun (Hangul : 이가은 born August 20 1994) better known as Kaeun. She is Vocalist Dancer Lead Rapper and Maknae of her group After School (band). She made her debut with the group on their fifth single Flashback.
George Benson.  George Benson (born March 22 1943) is a ten-time Grammy Award-winning American musician and singer-songwriter. He began his professional career at twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.A former child prodigy Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others.
Rebecca Fortnum.  Rebecca Fortnum is a British artist writer and a scholar.
Besiki.  Besarion Zakarias dze Gabashvili (Georgian: ბესარიონ ზაქარიას ძე გაბაშვილი) commonly known by his penname Besiki (Georgian: ბესიკი) (1750 – January 25 1791) was a Georgian poet politician and diplomat known as an author of exquisite love songs and heroic odes as well as for his political and amorous adventures.
Kenji Tokitsu.  Kenji Tokitsu (時津 賢児 Tokitsu Kenji born 1 August 1947) is a Japanese author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Dr. Tokitsu has also written a scholarly work about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. He holds doctorates in sociology and in Japanese language and civilization.
Feloni.  Trish Best known by her stage name Feloni is an African-American rapper from Detroit Michigan. Her coming out as lesbian was featured on MTV's LOGO documentary show Coming Out Stories.
Sandra Crouch.  Sandra Crouch is an American Gospel music performer drummer and songwriter.
Greg Sage.  Greg Sage (born 1952) is an American songwriter guitarist and vocalist regarded as an important influence on many punk rock and post-punk artists. Between 1977 and 1988 Sage was the principal songwriter of the influential Portland Oregon-based band Wipers. The mood of Sage's lyrics is frequently dark and rife with references to confusion and severe alienation.
Albert Gottschalk.  Albert Gottschalk (3 July 1866 - 13 February 1906) was a Danish painter. He had a close connection personally and artisticly to the poets Johannes Jørgensen Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.
Julia Bond.  Julia Bond (born Noel Purdy February 26 1987 in Long Beach California United States) is an American model singer/rapper and former pornographic actress.
Vātsyāyana.  Vātsyāyana is the name of a Hindu philosopher in the Vedic tradition who is believed to have lived around 3rd century CE in India. His name appears as the author of the Kama Sutra and of Nyāya Sutra Bhāshya the first commentary on Gotama's Nyāya Sutras.His name is sometimes confused with Mallanaga the prophet of the Asuras to whom the origin of erotic science is attributed.
Shigeto (electronic musician).  Shigeto is the stage name of Zachary Shigeto Saginaw an American electronic musician originally from Ann Arbor Michigan. His music has a diverse sound influenced by jazz his fellow Ghostly artists and other sources. His melodic beat oriented songs are a unique blend of instrumental hip hop and electronic music.
Lieutenant Stitchie.  Cleveland Laing (born c.1965) better known as Lieutenant Stitchie is a Jamaican deejay who originally worked in the dancehall style but switched to gospel reggae in 1997 after surviving a car crash thereafter working under the shorter name Stitchie.
Christopher Schmitt.  Christopher Schmitt' is a web designer author trainer and speaker living in Austin TX.
May (singer).  May (also known as: Mei メイ 메이 born May 6 1982) is a Korean singer well known in South Korea for singing the song Miracle. She speaks Korean Japanese and English[citation needed].May was born on May 6 1982 in Seoul South Korea. She started her music career in South Korea in late 2005 singing Miracle a well known song in South Korea. Within a month she was chosen by Avex's Show Case Live because she was able to speak Japanese.
James Hilton (novelist).  James Hilton (9 September 1900 – 20 December 1954) was an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers including Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips.
Rory Scovel.  Rory Scovel is an American comedian and writer from Greenville South Carolina. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Georg Mühlberg.  Georg Mühlberg(5 February 1863 – 1 January 1925) was a German painter draftsman and illustrator.Mühlberg illustrated especially children's literature including fables (Hey Paul 100 Fables for Children) fairy tales and magazines. Several images depict scenes of student life. He produced a popular postcard series on fairy tales such as Wishing-Table and The Seven Swabians the historical novel by Wilhelm Hauff The Piper of Hardt and novels by E.
Garry Glenn.  Garry Glenn (May 12 1955 – September 27 1991) was an American singer and songwriter perhaps best known for writing the song “Caught Up In The Rapture” recorded by Anita Baker. He also wrote “Intimate Friends” that was recorded by Eddie Kendricks and later sampled by Alicia Keys for the Grammy Award-nominated recording “Unbreakable.”
Nélie Jacquemart.  Cornélia Barbe Hyacinthe Jacquemart after marriage Nélie Jacquemart-André (Paris 25 July 1841 Paris 14 May 1912) was a French painter.A student of Léon Cogniet Jacquemart was best known for her portraits of famous personalities. In 1872 she met banker Édouard André at a portrait session whom she eventually married in 1881.
Ian McGlynn.  Ian McGlynn is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist composer and producer.
Gabriel Talphir.  Gabriel (Joseph) Talphir (1901-1990) was an Israeli poet art critic publisher editor and translator. He died in 1990.
Anna-Lisa Baude.  Anna-Lisa Baude (25 September 1897 – 7 June 1968) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1921 and 1968.
Amanda McKittrick Ros.  Anna Margaret Ross (née McKittrick; 8 December 1860 – 2 February 1939) known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros was an Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely and her eccentric over-written purple circumlocutory writing is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written.
Rhode Montijo.  Rhode Montijo is an American independent comic-book artist best known as the creator of Pablo's Inferno and co-creator of the Flash cartoon Happy Tree Friends.
Lucky Diamond Rich.  Lucky Diamond Rich (born Gregory Paul Mclaren in 1971) is the world's most tattooed person (a title formerly held by Tom Leppard) and has tattoos covering his entire body including the inside of his eyelids mouth ears and foreskin. He holds the Guinness World Record as of 2006 being 100 percent tattooed.He is also a performance artist street performer and international arts festival performer whose act includes sword swallowing and juggling a variety of items while on a unicycle.
Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo.  Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo (1616–1644) was a seventeenth-century German adventurer who wrote about his travels through Persia and India. Born at Schönberg in Mecklenburg Germany. After traveling to Isfahan with a diplomatic mission he separated from the party and made his way to India where he made interesting observations on the Mughal Empire then ruled by Shah Jahan.
Dan Mancini.  Daniel Mancini (born 7 December 1974) AKA Dan Mancini 500 is a New Zealand born Los Angeles based music and culture director audio producer and internationally touring DJ who has played extensive residencies in Los Angeles clubs: The Bar (at Chateau Marmont Hotel) Palihouse and the Avalon.
William Vaughn Moody.  William Vaughn Moody (July 8 1869 – October 17 1910) was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900) The Fire Bringer (1904) and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death).
Colleen Doran.  Colleen Doran (born July 24 1964) is an American writer/artist and cartoonist. She illustrated hundreds of comics graphic novels books and magazines and works written by Neil Gaiman Clive Barker Joe R. Lansdale Anne Rice J. Michael Straczynski Peter David and Tori Amos. Her notable credits include: The Sandman Wonder Woman Legion of Superheroes Teen Titans Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast and her space opera series A Distant Soil.
Abdallah Al Rowaished.  Abdallah Al Rowaished(Arabic: عبدالله الرويشد‎ born July 18 1961) is a popular Arab singer from Kuwait. To date he has released over 30 albums. He is popular in his country Kuwait KSA UAE Bahrain Lebanon Iraq Jordan Egypt and all the Arabian countries.
Kirstyn McDermott.  Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
Johnny Donaldson.  Johnny Donaldson is an American guitarist who most notably worked with the 1980s Minnesota rock band Chameleon with members: Charlie Adams Yanni Mark Anthony and Dugan McNeill. Johnny Donaldson also worked on the Dugan McNeill CD In The Velvet Night and the Dugan McNeill CD Love and Darkness Project sometimes referred to as The Black Album It has yet to be released.
Luis Leante.  Luis Ramón Leante Chacón (born June 6 1963 Caravaca de la Cruz) commonly known as Luis Leante is a Spanish novelist and 	Latin professor.Leante graduated in Classical Philology from the University of Murcia. He has lived in Alicante since 1992 where he worked as a high school teacher until 2009.
Yuan Hong (actor).  Yuan Hong (Chinese: 袁弘 born 23 August 1982) is a Chinese actor.
Aika Mitsui.  Aika Mitsui (光井 愛佳 Mitsui Aika born January 12 1993 in Ōtsu Shiga Japan) is a member of Hello! Project and a former member of the J-pop group Morning Musume joining as a member of the eighth generation from the audition in Japan during December 2006. Mitsui's audition process was documented during the late 2006 episodes of Hello! Morning. She performed Ayumi Hamasaki's Blue Bird in round one of her audition and Morning Musume's Furusato and Osaka Koi no Uta in rounds two and three.
Mahasti.  Mahasti (Persian: Mahasti‎) born Eftekhar Dadehbala (Persian: Eftexār Dadebālā‎) (November 16 1946 - June 25 2007) was a legendary Persian Pop and classical singer and diva and the younger sister of singer Hayedeh.
Clayton Henry.  Clayton Henry is a comic book artist known mostly for his work for Marvel Comics. His first known works were providing the art on Nine Rings Of Wu-Tang and Area 52 and has since worked on such series as Exiles Alpha Flight New X-Men: Hellions X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula and currently Uncanny X-Men.
Greg MacPherson.  Greg MacPherson (born 1973 in Sydney Nova Scotia) is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Winnipeg Manitoba. MacPherson performs both solo and with a backing band. MacPherson's sixth album Mr. Invitation was released on March 30 2010 and was long listed for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.In addition to his musical career MacPherson co-owns Canadian indie label Disintegration Records and works as a community organizer in Winnipeg's inner city.
Ann Lady Fanshawe.  Ann (or Anne) Fanshawe (née Harrison) (25 March 1625 – 20 January 1680) was an English memoirist.In 1644 she married her second cousin Richard (later Sir Richard) Fanshawe (1608–1666) Secretary of War to Prince Charles.
Anna Murià.  Anna Murià i Romaní (pseudonym Romaní; 21 May 1904 – 27 September 2002) was a Spanish narrator translator literary critic and journalist of Catalan descent who wrote short stories novels children's literature and essays.
Dimitri Mihalas.  Dimitri Manuel Mihalas (March 20 1939 – November 21 2013) was a laboratory fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the field of astronomy astrophysics and stellar atmosphere. He was born in Los Angeles California and is of Greek origin.
Yulia Drunina.  Yulia Vladimirovna Drunina (Russian: Ю́лия Влади́мировна Дру́нина IPA: [ˈjʉlʲɪjə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə ˈdrunʲɪnə]  May 10 1924 - November 21 1991) was a Soviet poet who wrote in the Russian-language. She was a nurse during World War II and known for writing lyrics and poetry about women at war. Her works are characterized by moral clarity sincere intonation and based on her real life experience including participation in the war as a source of inspiration for her writings.
Stefano Gobatti.  Stefano Gobatti (Bergantino 5 July 1852 – Bologna 17 December 1913) was an Italian opera composer. Bergantino was born in 1852 in the Province of Rovigo in a poor and humble peasant family. He passionately studied music and immediately had results and was taught under Giuseppe Busi and Lauro Rossi. At just eighteen he composed the opera I Goti which was staged on 30 November 1873 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The work was an unprecedented success.
Katherine Ramsland.  Katherine Ramsland (born in 1953 from Michigan) is a non-fiction author and associate professor of forensics psychology. She lived in Michigan until 1971 when she moved to Oregon. Ramland has written 47 books and more than 1000 articles mostly in the genres of crime forensic science and the supernatural.
Patricia Aakhus.  Patricia Patty Aakhus (May 17 1952 – May 16 2012) also known by her maiden name and pseudonym Patricia McDowell was an American novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. She specialized in Irish themes and won Readercon's Best Imaginative Literature Award in 1990 and the Cahill Award for The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh. She earned a BA from the University of California Santa Cruz and an MFA from Norwich University.
Ann-Louise Hanson.  Ann-Louise Hanson (born in Kristianstad in 1944) is a Swedish singer and has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years.Many of her solo recordings from the 1960s feature Bruno Glenmarks Orkester and following their marriage Ann-Louise and Bruno Glenmark formed the group Glenmarks with Bruno's niece Karin and nephew Anders.
Milan Dekleva.  Milan Dekleva (born 17 October 1946) is a Slovene poet writer playwright composer and journalist.Dekleva was born in Ljubljana in 1946. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana andworks as a journalist. He is best known for his poetry and has published over twenty peorty collections a number of novels and collections of short stories. He was the first poet to publish haiku in Slovene (Mushi mushi 1971).
Phakin Khamwilaisak.  Phakin Khamwilaisak (Thai: ภาคิน คำวิลัยศักดิ์) (born August 29 1986) is a Thai television actor. His hometown is Khonkaen Thailand. He is also known as The Star 6. His nickname comes from an alias used by his father in the boxing circle.
George Whalley.  George Whalley (25 July 1915 - 27 May 1983) was a scholar poet naval officer and secret intelligence agent during World War II CBC broadcaster musician biographer and translator. He taught English at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario (1950–80) and was twice the head of the department. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1959. He married Elizabeth Watts on July 25 1944. They had three children: Katharine Christopher and Emily.
Tomasz Stańko.  Tomasz Stańko (born July 11 1942) is a Polish trumpeter composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. Coming to prominence in the early 1960s alongside pianist Adam Makowicz in the Jazz Darings Stańko later collaborated with pianist Krzysztof Komeda notably on Komeda's pivotal 1966 album Astigmatic.
Roy Hoffman.  Roy Hoffman (born June 23 1953) is an American writer and journalist. He has published several books including his Lillian Smith Book Award-winning novel Almost Family. He has written articles for the New York Times and the Mobile Press-Register. He has also received awards for his literary work.
June Yamagishi.  June Yamagishi (山岸 潤史 born Junshi Yamagishi June 6 1953 Ise City Mie Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese guitarist based in New Orleans Louisiana. He is the guitarist for bands Papa Grows Funk and the Wild Magnolias.
Baauer.  Harry Bauer Rodrigues (born April 30 1989) better known by his stage name Baauer is an American producer of trap and bass music best known for his hit song Harlem Shake. He has been producing dance music from the age of 13 mostly making house music and electro. He previously produced a track under the name Captain Harry which was played by Kissy Sell Out on BBC Radio 1. His influences include hip-hop and dance music.
Harold Winston Rhodes.  Harold Winston Rhodes (1905–1987) was a New Zealand university professor of English writer and editor. He was born in Melbourne Victoria Australia in 1905.
Qian Zhijun.  Qian Zhijun (born July 15 1987) nicknamed Little Fatty (小胖 Xiǎo Pàng) is a Chinese actor and entertainer. His fame began during the Little Fatty internet meme and since then he has appeared in a film and a cooking show hosted a festival for people with alternative body types and also appeared in advertising.
Christopher Ries.  Christopher Ries (born 1952) is an American glass sculptor.
John Lustig.  John Lustig (born January 25 1953) is an American comics writer (former journalist) principally known for his comic book scripts featuring Donald Duck and other members of Disney's Duck family. Lustig's scripts have been illustrated by William Van Horn and other artists. In addition Lustig has written Mickey Mouse scripts that have been drawn by Noel Van Horn (William's son) and others. His first script was for Gold Key Comics (Flatfood Duck Daffy Duck #112 [Dec.
Mr. V.  Mr. V (born Victor Font 1974 Manhattan New York) is an American house and Latin music DJ producer and rapper.
Thomas Beach (poet).  Thomas Beach (died 1737) was a Welsh poet and wine merchant in Wrexham Denbighshire.Besides other poems he published in 1737 Eugenio or the Virtuous and Happy Life. It was inscribed to Alexander Pope. Beach had submitted the poem to Jonathan Swift in 1735 partly to receive his criticisms and partly to be recommended to Sir William Fownes to whom the poem specially referred.
Nina Bouraoui.  Yasmina Nina Bouraoui (Ar:نينا بو راوي born 1967) is a French novelist and song-writer born in Rennes Ille-et-Vilaine of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers then Zürich and Abu Dhabi. She now lives in Paris.Her novels are mostly written in the first person and with the exception of Avant les hommes (Before the Men) have been said by the author to be works of auto-fiction.
Kyle Gass.  Kyle Richard Gass (born July 14 1960) also known as KG or Kage is an American rock musician singer-songwriter and actor. He is a member of the band Tenacious D and was a member of the band Trainwreck before it split up in 2011. In Tenacious D (which also features Jack Black) Gass plays lead guitar and sings backup vocals and also plays the role of Black's comic foil in most of their comedy routines. He is the godfather of Jack Black's son.
Koji Date.  Koji Date (伊達 幸志 Date Kōji born November 23 1987) is a Japanese actor and singer. He played Ootori Chotarou in The Prince of Tennis movie and The Prince of Tennis musicals.His first CD named 逆光 was released on 7 November 2007 and contained 9 songs all written and produced by Koji. Recently he partnered Kazuki Kato for a new band called Joker. The first single 'No.1' was released on 7 December 2011.
Caroline Kennedy-McCracken.  Caroline Frances Kennedy-McCracken (born Caroline Frances Kennedy in 1967) is an Australian musician and visual artist. Kennedy-McCracken has been a singer-songwriter and guitarist in several bands including The Plums (1992–1995) Deadstar (1995–2001) and The Tulips (2002–2006). In 2013 she appeared as a vocalist on Don’t Tell The Driver a solo album by the Dirty Three’s Mick Turner. Kennedy-McCracken is also a visual artist working primarily as a painter and sculptor.
Balázs Havasi.  Balázs Havasi (born 18 September 1975) is a Hungarian pianist and composer. He studied the tricks of the trade with the greatest masters of classical music for nearly 25 years and then did experiments for another 10 years to create his peculiar and unique musical world. As a contemporary composer he has launched four completely different musical projects including compositions for a symphony orchestra the rock drum and the piano.
Laura Esquivel.  Laura Esquivel (born September 30 1950) is an award-winning Mexican novelist essayist and screenwriter who has made noted contributions to Latin-American literature.
Ignazio Agliaudo.  Ignazio Agliaudo (active 1737) was an Italian architect and veduta painter. His dates of birth and death are not known.Very little is known of Agliaudo's life. He was a Spaniard by birth and was living in Turin in 1737. He is primarily known from surviving works documenting that he collaborated with other architects to produce decorations in celebration of the marriage between Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine.
Mathias Blad.  Mathias Blad (born 1973) is a Swedish actor and singer mainly known for being the lead singer of the power metal band Falconer.
Peter Case.  Peter Case (born April 5 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His career is wide-ranging including new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.
Francesco Vaccaro.  Francesco Vaccaro or Vicaro (24 September 1636 – 13 December 1675) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period who trained in his native Bologna under Francesco Albani. He was chiefly known as a painter from his landscape and architectural views. He published a treatise on perspective embellished with plates designed and engraved by himself. His prints consist of twelve perspective views of ruins fountains and other edifices in Italy.
David Leviathan.  David Leviathan (born 6 August 1950) is a Israeli painter sculptor and poet.
Enrico Rossi (painter).  Enrico Rossi (Naples September 8 1856 – 1916) was an Italian painter. He studied painting at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts under the direction of professors Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi. He won a series of awards for figure paintings at Milan and at the Promotrice of Naples. At Milan he had two genre subjects. Giulia Masucci was one of his pupils. He also illustrated books including a Collection of Neapolitan Songs by Salvatore Di Giacomo
Henry Grimes.  Henry Grimes (born November 3 1935 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a jazz double bassist violinist and poet.After more than a decade of activity and performance notably as a leading bassist in free jazz Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed dead but he was rediscovered in 2002 and returned to performing.
Giovanni Battista Caccioli.  Giovanni Battista Caccioli (November 28 1623 – November 25 1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Caccioli was born in Budrio and trained in Bologna under Domenico Maria Canuti and influenced by Carlo Cignani where he was a figure painter for the collaborative effort in quadratura of Giovanni Giacomo Monti and Baldassare Bianchi. He was active in Budrio Parma Piacenza Modena and Mantova (Palazzo Canossa).
Friedrich Wilhelm Carové.  Friedrich Wilhelm Carové (June 20 1789 – March 18 1852) was a German philosopher and publicist.
Matt Hoopes.  Matthew (Matt) Ryan Hoopes is the lead guitarist of Relient K a Christian rock band that was formed in 1998. Hoopes has played guitar and performed backing vocals for Relient K for fifteen years. Hoopes has slowly developed into the band's lead guitarist over the years despite Matt Thiessen playing lead a lot in the band's early days. Thiessen is playing more piano for the band now whereas Hoopes' primary duty for the band is guitar.
Lorenzo Palacios Quispe.  Lorenzo Palacios Quispe (April 26 1950 in Lima Peru – June 24 1994) was a Peruvian singer and musician. He arose under the artist name Chacalón (Big Jackal). He was called by his fans El Faraón de la Chicha (The Pharaoh of Chicha music-('Peruvian Cumbia')).
Don Lawrence.  Donald Southam Lawrence (17 November 1928 – 29 December 2003) was a British comic book artist and author.Lawrence is best known for his comic strips The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn and the Storm series first published in the Dutch weekly Eppo (later relaunched as Sjors & Sjimmie) and subsequently in album form.
Joseph Dougherty.  Joseph Dougherty is an American television producer writer and director. He won an Emmy Award and a Humanitas Prize for his writing on Thirtysomething. He has also worked on Judging Amy Saving Grace and Pretty Little Liars.
Paulinho da Costa.  Paulinho da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [pawˈliɲu da ˈkɔʃtɐ] born Paulo Roberto da Costa on May 31 1948) is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times.
Allan Gwynne-Jones.  Allan Gwynne-Jones CBE DSO RA (27 March 1892 – 5 August 1982) was an English painter.Gwynne-Jones was born in Richmond Surrey. He was educated at Bedales School and then qualified as a solicitor but never practised. He instead developed a love of art and began painting watercolours. In 1914 he began a course at the Slade School of Fine Art but three months later was commissioned into the Welsh Guards Cheshire Regiment.
Dennis Miller Bunker.  Dennis Miller Bunker (November 6 1861 – December 28 1890) was an American painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both brightly colored landscape paintings and dark finely drawn portraits and figures. One of the major American painters of the late 19th century and a friend of many prominent artists of the era Bunker died from meningitis at the age of 29.
DJ Cheapshot.  DJ Cheapshot (born Colton Fisher March 5 1977) is the DJ of the hip hop ensemble Styles of Beyond Get Busy Committee and Fort Minor. He is also associated with the Demigodz and the Get Busy Committee as well as being the founder of SpyTech Records which is located in Reseda Los Angeles and the Cheapshot's bar which is located in Long Beach California. Cheapshot currently resides in Burbank California.
Vestal Goodman.  Vestal Goodman (December 13 1929 – December 27 2003) was a singer who performed in the Southern Gospel genre for more than half a century. She is known both as a solo performer and as a founding member of official The Happy Goodman Family the first was actually her husband and his brothers and sisters one of the pioneering groups in southern Gospel.Vestal Goodman was the fourth of six children. She began singing in her home church.
Dondi Ledesma.  Rizal Dondi Ledesma (d. Feb.
Margaret Malcolm.  Margaret Malcolm was the pseudonym of Edith Lyman Kuether (born 1915) a British writer of over 100 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1940 to 1981.
Stephen Goldin.  Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
Alfred Elwes.  Alfred Elwes (1819–1888) was a nineteenth-century British author of children's literature academic philologist and occasional translator of French Italian and Portuguese literature into English. He is perhaps best remembered for his translation of the medieval Arthurian romance Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende; a Tale of the Times of King Arthur.
Katya Chilly.  Katya Chilly (Ukrainian: Катя Chilly) birth name: Kateryna Kondratenko (Ukrainian: Катерина Кондратенко) is a Ukrainian pop-jazz singer. Her style is a fusion of World and New Age Music.
Norman Whitfield.  Norman Jesse Whitfield (May 12 1940 – September 16 2008) was an American songwriter and producer best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s.
Verka Serduchka.  Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Миха́йлович Дани́лко) (born 2 October 1973 in Poltava Ukrainian SSR) better known as his drag character Verka Serduchka (Ukrainian: Вєрка Сердючка) is a Ukrainian comedian and pop and dance singer. In the role of Serduchka he represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and finished in second place. In his career Serduchka has sold over 600000 records in Ukraine.
David Hirschfelder.  David Hirschfelder (born 18 November 1960) is an Australian musician film score composer and performer. As a musician he has been a member of Little River Band and John Farnham Band. He has composed film scores for Strictly Ballroom (1992) Shine (1996) Sliding Doors (1998) Elizabeth (1998) Hanging Up (2000) Australia (2008) and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010).
Deavan ebersole.  Deavan Ryan Ebersole (born August 19 1992) is an American internet personality and celebrity gossip blogger. Ebersole is known for his continued online correspondence with American Singer Jordin Sparks. In 2011 Ebersole took part in an online contest hosted by VH1 Save The Music in hopes to win an all exclusive trip to meet Sparks.
Stanley McCandless.  Stanley Russell McCandless (May 9 1897 – August 4 1967) is considered to be the father of modern lighting design. He paved the way for future lighting designers by playing a role in all aspects of theatrical lighting from the engineering of lighting instruments to consultant work and of course designing realized theatrical productions.
John Duffey.  John H. Duffey (March 4 1934 - December 10 1996) was a Washington D.C. based bluegrass musician.Duffey was born John Humbird Duffey Jr. in Washington D.C. and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in suburban Maryland. Duffy learned to play the mandolin dobro and guitar in addition to his tenor singing voice. He founded two of the most influential groups in bluegrass The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene.
William Hampton (poet).  William Hampton (b. 1959 Salford Lancashire) is a British poet.
Óscar Avilés.  Óscar Guillermo Avilés Arcos (March 24 1924 - April 5 2014) was a Peruvian guitarist singer and composer. He was known by the honorary nickname La Primera Guitarra del Perú (The First Guitarist of Peru). He began his music career in 1939 at the age of 15. He died on April 5 2014 in Lima at the age of 90.
Philip Paul (drummer).  Philip Paul (born August 11 1925) is a studio drummer from Cincinnati Ohio. In 2009 he was honored at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland as part of their From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits. In 2009 he was honored with the Ohio Heritage Fellowship Ohio's highest honor for traditional artists. In 2002 he was honored by the Cincinnati Enquirer with a Lifetime CAMMY Award for his contributions to the music and culture of the city.
Paul Smith (comics).  Paul Smith (born September 4 1953) is an American comic book artist.
Richard Z. Kruspe.  Richard Zven Kruspe (born in Wittenberge 24 June 1967) is a German musician and the lead guitarist of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein as well as the frontman of the band Emigrate.
John B. Heywood.  John B. Heywood was a photographer in 19th-century United States. He worked in Boston Massachusetts c. 1856-1861. Examples of his photographs reside in the New York Public Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Palagummi Padmaraju.  Palagummi Padmaraju shortly P. Padmaraju (Telugu: పాలగుమ్మి పద్మరాజు) (b: June 24 1915 - d: 1983) is a Telugu writer and winner of Sahitya Akademi Award. He is known forhis works in Telugu literature and Telugu cinema.
Aaron Williams (cartoonist).  Aaron Williams is a cartoonist.
Bill Taft.  Bill Taft is an American rock musician living in Atlanta Georgia.
Dave Moody.  David B. Moody is an artist producer songwriter and filmmaker from North Carolina. His instrumental proficiency has earned him two Grammy Award Nominations and three International CMA Awards as a member of The Moody Brothers.
John Tasker Howard.  John Tasker Howard (November 30 1890 in Brooklyn New York – November 20 1964 in West Orange New Jersey) was an early American music historian radio host writer lecturer and composer. His Our American Music published in 1931 was an early general history of music in the United States.Howard was the curator of the New York Public Library from 1940 to 1956.
Per Kolstad.  Per Atle Kolstad (born 25 April 1953 in Norway) is a Norwegian musician (piano & keyboards) known from the band Lava Jonas Fjeld Band and Prima Vera and has numerous recordings as a studio musician.
Nicole Luiken.  Nicole Luiken (born May 25 1971 in Manning Alberta) is a Canadian science fiction and speculative fiction author of novels for teens and adults. She worked as a librarian for several years before giving it up to write full-time. She currently lives in Edmonton Alberta with her husband Aaron and sons Simon and Luke. She had published her first two novels by the time she was in grade 11. Nicole's novel Unlocking the Doors won her a YTV Achievement Award for writing in 1989.
Uyama Hiroto.  Uyama Hiroto is a Japanese hip-hop producer and DJ and close collaborator of the late Japanese DJ and producer Nujabes. His style of music is a heavy downtempo/ambient jazz influenced hip-hop. For the album Chill SQ he created a remix of the song Theme of Love from the video game Final Fantasy IV.
Ole Jacob Hansen.  Ole Jacob Hansen (born 16 April 1940 in Oslo Norway - deceased 6 March 2000) was a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) known from a number recordings and international cooperation.
Geva Alon.  Geva Alon (Hebrew: גבע אלון‎ born 30 May 1979) is an Israeli blues/folk/rock musician and singer-songwriter.
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope.  John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908) is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter Stanhope worked in oil watercolor fresco and mixed media. His subject matter was mythological allegorical biblical and contemporary.
Jan-Olof Ekholm.  Jan-Olof Ekholm (born 20 October 1931 in Grytnäs Dalarna) is a Swedish detective fiction writer born in Grytnäs Dalarna Sweden also known for some children's literature works. He is one of the members of the presidium of Svenska Deckarakademin (Swedish Detective Academy). Ekholm's books have been translated to Norwegian Danish German Russian Ukrainian and Czech.
Kamila Volčanšek.  Kamila Volčanšek (born 19 March 1950) is a Slovene painter and illustrator of children's books.Volčanšek was born in Brežice in 1950. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1978. She has illustrated numerous children's books and won the Levstik Award in 1981 for her illsutrations for the book Kralj Drozgobrad (King Thrushbeard) by the Brothers Grimm.
Guy Mitchell.  Guy Mitchell born Albert George Cernik (February 22 1927 – July 1 1999) was an American pop singer successful in his homeland the U.K. and Australia. As an international recording star of the 1950s he achieved record sales in excess of 44 million units and this included six million-selling singles.In the fall of 1957 Mitchell starred in his own ABC variety show The Guy Mitchell Show.
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander.  Tamara Eugenia Awerbuch-Friedlander PhD is a biomathematician and public health scientist at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston Massachusetts. Her primary research and publications focus on biosocial interactions that cause or contribute to disease. She also is believed to be the first female Harvard Faculty member to file a lawsuit against Harvard University for sex discrimination.
Michele Zarrillo.  Michele Zarrillo (born 13 June 1957) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is mainly known for hits such as Una rosa blu Cinque giorni and La notte dei pensieri. In 1987 he won the Sanremo Music Festival competing in the newcomers' section. Zarrillo took part in the competition several other times the last time in 2008 with the song L'ultimo film insieme.As a songwriter he penned songs for several artists including Ornella Vanoni and Renato Zero.
Ali-Shir Nava'i.  Mīr ‘Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501) also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAlī-Shīr Herawī (Chagatai-Turkic/Persian: نظام الدین على شير هروی‎) was a Central Asian Turkic politician mystic linguist painter and poet. He was the greatest representative of Chagatai language literature.Nava'i believed that the Turkic language was superior to Persian for literary purposes and defended this belief in his work.
Joseph Jarman.  Joseph Jarman (b. September 14 1937 in Pine Bluff Arkansas) is a jazz musician composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Arthur Bradford.  Arthur Houston Bradford (born November 19 1969 in Boothbay Harbor Maine) is an American writer and filmmaker. He has published a book of short stories Dogwalker (Knopf ISBN 0-375-72669-1). and a children's book Benny's Brigade (McSweeney's 2012). He has directed several films most notably the How's Your News? documentary series and the emmy-nominated film 6 Days to Air (Comedy Central 2011).
Russ Castella.  Russ Castella (born November 15 1983) is an American record producer. He has found success in many genres of music particularly dance pop and R&B. He has his own record label Bliss Entertainment.He has produced and remixed for a variety of artists including Lil Wayne Irene Nelson Ciara Mariah Carey The-Dream Britney Spears O'so Krispie Rihanna Keri Hilson The Black Eyed Peas Rockell Danielle Bollinger Mike Rizzo Allie Elissa (Canadian singer) and many more.
Max Frisch.  Max Rudolf Frisch (May 15 1911 – April 4 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity individuality responsibility morality and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
KJ Denhert.  Karen Jeannne Denhert is a Grenadan-American urban folk-jazz artist who has won four Independent Music Award nominations and was named as one of the best female vocalists of 2009 by Jazz.com. Denhert was a winner in the Kerrville New Folk Song contest in June 2006 for Private Angel and won the Mountain Stage New Song contest in August 2005 with Little Mary. Another Year Gone By Live won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Best Live Performance.
Heidi Cortez.  Heidi Cortez (born March 11 1981) is an American entrepreneur (actress model producer and writer). In November 2005 Cortez was hired by Howard Stern to be the radio host and co-writer on his Sirius XM satellite channel. On the show Cortez would read comical saucy bedtime stories to the listeners at the end of the day. As of August 2006 the show was canceled.She released her first book Heidi’s Bedtime Stories on November 7 2006 through Simon & Schuster.
Mixmaster Spade.  Mix Master Spade (November 1 1961 - March 14 2005 in Los Angeles California) was a Compton-based hip hop artist best known for his work in the late 1980s. He died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He recorded with artists such as Dazzie Dee Toddy Tee King T and Snoop Dogg.
Stuart Rome.  Stuart Rome (b. 1953 Bridgeport Connecticut) is an American artist photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He studied under John Pfahl while receiving his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Stuart Rome also received an MFA from Arizona State University.Rome's early work was color photography and focused substantially on third-world cultures and anthropology.
Ted Ansani.  Ted Ansani the bassist/vocalist for the seminal 1990s power pop group Material Issue. The Chicago-based band released four major label albums while touring extensively before its collapse with frontman Jim Ellison's suicide. Ted Ansani continues to work in the music business in Chicago and had performed and recorded for several post-Material Issue projects and released his own solo EP in 2000 called Throttle and Pistons - The Ted Ansani Project.
Big L.  Lamont Coleman (May 30 1974 – February 15 1999) better known by his stage name Big L was an American rapper. Coleman was born and raised in Harlem New York City New York where he started his rapping career with Three the Hard Way. His first professional appearance came on Lord Finesse's Yes You May (Remix). He released his debut album Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous in 1995 and significantly contributed to the underground hip hop scene.
Ian McDonald (musician).  Ian McDonald (born 25 June 1946) is an English multi-instrumental musician best known as a founding member of progressive rock group King Crimson formed in 1969 and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976. He is well known as a rock session musician predominantly as a saxophonist. He also plays keyboards flute vibraphone and guitar.
Paul Graham (photographer).  Paul Graham (born 1956) is an English fine-art photographer whose work has been exhibited published and collected internationally. In 2009 he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. He is also a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow (1983) and a Guggenheim Fellow (2010). In 2012 he received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography and the Paris Photo/Aperture prize for the best photographic book of the past 15 years.
Dagon Khin Khin Lay.  Dagon Khin Khin Lay (Burmese: ဒဂုံ ခင်ခင်လေး [dəɡòʊɴ kʰɪ̀ɴ kʰɪ̀ɴ lé]; 20 February 1904 – 23 June 1981) was a Burmese novelist screenwriter and cinematographer. Founder of Dagon Publishing Company Khin Khin Lay along with Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay and Ludu Daw Amar was one of the few female publishers in Burma.
Caroline Redman Lusher.  Caroline Redman Lusher (born Caroline Anne Lusher 17 April 1974) is an English singer and musician best known for being the founder and director of Rock Choir the world's largest amateur contemporary choir. She is considered to be responsible for the contemporary choir movement in the UK and the businesswoman behind one of Britain's biggest brands.
Akiko Kōmoto.  Akiko Kōmoto (河本明子 Kōmoto Akiko born February 4 ????) is a Japanese voice actress from Tōkyō Metropolis attached to Arts Vision.
Roz Chast.  Rosalind Roz Chast (born November 26 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800.
Minami Minegishi.  Minami Minegishi (峯岸 みなみ Minegishi Minami born November 15 1992 in Tokyo) is a Japanese idol singer and actress. She is a member of the girl group AKB48.
James Thornton (songwriter).  James Thornton (December 5 1861 – July 27 1938) was an American songwriter and vaudeville performer. He is primarily remembered today as the composer of the 1898 song When You Were Sweet Sixteen.
Brett Findlay.  Brett Findlay (born 30 May 1972) is a British film and stage actor.Findlay trained at the Drama Studio London. He is married to Jemilah Findlay (née Litvinoff granddaughter of Cherry Marshall and Emanuel Litvinoff). They have one daughter Akiko.He had a cameo part in Beyond the Fire the award-winning Best Film (UK Feature) London Independent Film Festival and was principal actor in the 2008 thriller Dark Rage.
Haroon Mirza.  Haroon Mirza (born 1977 London) is an artist best known for sculptural installations that generate audio compositions.
Ruth Dolores Weiss.  Ruth Dolores Weiss (Hebrew: רות דולורס וייס) (born February 23 1978 in Ashkelon Israel) is an Israeli musician. She released her second studio album Be'Ivrit (literally In Hebrew) to critical acclaim in Israel in August 2008. Ben Shalev Israel's top music critic writing about the album in Haaretz said Amazing.
Simina Grigoriu.  Ana Simina Grigoriu married Kalkbrenner (born 8 May 1981 in Bucharest Romania) is a Romanian-born DJ and music producer from Toronto specializing in electronic techno music. She has lived and worked in Berlin Germany since 2008.
Carole Pope.  Carole Ann Pope (born August 6 1950 in Manchester England) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter whose provocative blend of hard-edged new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian entertainers in the world to achieve mainstream fame. She is the sister of Emmy Award-winning television producer and screenwriter Elaine Pope.
Kazuyuki Sogabe.  Kazuyuki Sogabe (曽我部 和恭 (formerly 曽我部 和行) Sogabe Kazuyuki April 16 1948 – September 17 2006) was a Japanese voice actor born in Chiba Prefecture. Sogabe retired from voice acting on December 31 2000 when he felt a weakness in his own voice. After his retirement many of his current roles went to voice actors Tetsu Inada and Ryotaro Okiayu.
Jonah Koslen.  Jonah Koslen is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work with the Michael Stanley Band and Breathless in the 1970s and 1980s.
Tom Hambridge.  Thomas Jay Hambridge (born December 20 1960) is an American rock country and blues producer songwriter musician and vocalist. Hambridge has received a Grammy Award an ASCAP award four Grammy nominations seven Boston Music Awards and has been inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. Hambridge's songs have been recorded by several notable artists and have been featured in movie productions commercials and television programs.
Manolis Rasoulis.  Emmanouil (Manolis) Rasoulis (Greek: Μανώλης Ρασούλης September 28 1945 – March 5 2011) best known as the lyricist of famous songs was a Greek music composer singer writer and journalist.Rasoulis was born in 1945 in Heraklion Crete.
Arnim Tölke.  Arnim Tölke a contemporary German painter was born in Göttingen in 1963.Arnim Tölke is a former masters student of Markus Lüpertz.He is a member of the painter group D.A.R.M..As a painter he often deals with masculine issues for instance work that incorporates macho and military imagery.He has traveled extensively to warzones for inspiration the most notable of which being Uganda where he had first-hand experiences with the Civil War against the Lord's Resistance Army.
Brian A. Dixon.  Brian A. Dixon (born April 19 1980) is an American author primarily of short fiction. He was born in Connecticut. His first published short story The McMillen Golf Penalty was awarded the Shannon Searles Fiction Prize by Connecticut Review in 2002. He has since published short fiction in a number of outlets in addition to work on plays and novels. Dixon currently serves as the editor of Revelation magazine. Columbia & Britannia (2009) an alternate history anthology edited by Brian A.
Sam Lay.  Sam Lay (born March 20 1935 Birmingham Alabama United States) is an American drummer and vocalist who has been performing since the late 1950s.
Sebastian Lotzer.  Sebastian Lotzer (born 1490) was a Memmingen journeyman furrier and scribe to the Baltringer Haufen a peasant army during the German Peasants' War. It is believed that he wrote The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed with Christoph Schappeler in 1525.
Randall Jarrell.  Randall Jarrell (May 6 1914 – October 14 1965) was an American poet literary critic children's author essayist novelist and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.
Darol Anger.  Darol Anger is an American violinist born in 1953.
Ronny Jordan.  Ronald Laurence Albert Simpson known as Ronny Jordan (29 November 1962 – 13 January 2014) was a British guitarist at the forefront of the acid jazz movement at the end of the twentieth century. Jordan described his music as urban jazz a blend of jazz hip-hop and R&B.
Thomas Bass.  Thomas Alden Bass (born March 9 1951) is an American writer and professor in literature and history.
Achuta Manasa.  Achuta Manasa is an Indian kuchipudi dancer.
Chanel Capra.  Chanel Capra (born on June 25 1978 in New York City New York) is an American screenwriter actor and film producer. Capra interned at The Shooting Gallery a production company before branching out into screenwriting and independent production.Chanel Capra is of Italian and Dominican heritage. She currently lives in Los Angeles California with her mother Ann Marie Capra and siblings Asa Capra actor Francis Capra and Ava Capra.
Anil Johnson.  Anil Johnson (Malayalam: അനില്‍ ജോണ്‍സണ്‍) is an Indian music composer song writer keyboard programmer who works in Malayalam cinema. He has composed music for ad jingles programmed music for many major composers and composed the music for films.
Sandra Seaton.  Sandra Cecelia Seaton is an American playwright and librettist. She received the Mark Twain Award from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature in 2012. Seaton taught creative writing and African American literature at Central Michigan University for fifteen years as a professor of English.
Jack Harte (Irish writer).  Jack Harte is an Irish short story writer and novelist. He founded the Irish Writers' Union and the Irish Writers' Centre. He is the author of the novel Reflections in a Tar-Barrel.
Jennifer Bolande.  Jennifer Bolande (born 1957 Cleveland Ohio) is an American artist known for work that spans a variety of different media from photography to sculpture and includes filmic elements. The wide range of her work shares a conceptually based methodology.Bolande earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1979.
Mike Pougounas.  Mike Pougounas is a vocalist songwriter keyboardist record label owner and independent filmmaker who is most notable for his contributions to Greek rock during his time as the frontman for Greek punk and gothic rock pioneers The Flowers Of Romance from 1981 to 1998. Following the breakup of The Flowers Of Romance in 1998 Mike Pougounas would both found a new band Nexus and in 2000 the Cyberdelia Record Label.
Richard Burton (comics).  Richard Burton is a British comic editor who worked on 2000 AD.
Leonardo Cárdenas.  Leonardo Cárdenas Palacios (born April 28 1968 in Guayaquil Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian composer pianist and orchestra director. He studied at the Conservatorio de Música Salvador Bustamante Celi (Salvador Bustamante Celi Music Conservatory) in Loja with many famous musicians both Ecuadorian and from abroad.He was member of bands like Juvenil from Pichincha and Quito Metropolitan Symphonic Band as a keyboardist composer and arranger.
Mai Yamani.  Dr. Mai Yamani (Arabic: مي يماني‎; born 1956) is a Saudi Arabian independent scholar author and anthropologist.
Ulf Lundell.  Ulf Lundell (born 20 November 1949 in Södermalm Stockholm Sweden full name Ulf Gerhard Lundell) is a Swedish writer poet songwriter composer musician and artist.He made his debut in 1975 with the LP Vargmåne and was immediately hailed as Sweden's Bob Dylan. In 1976 his first novel the partly autobiographical Jack was published by Wahlström & Widstrand.
Bobby Lord.  Robert L. Lord (January 6 1934 – February 16 2008) better known as Bobby Lord was an American country music artist popular in the 1950s and 60s.
Tracy Hickman.  Tracy Raye Hickman (born November 26 1955) is a best-selling fantasy author best known for his work as a writer on Dragonlance novels and role-playing game products with co-author Margaret Weis while working for TSR.
Chris Dale.  Chris Dale is a Welsh heavy metal Bassist currently playing in the bands Sack Trick and Tank.
Peter McCormick.  Peter David Godfrey McCormick OBE (born 27 June 1952) is an English lawyer. He is the Senior Partner of McCormicks Solicitors of Harrogate North Yorkshire England. He is one of the leading Sports and Media lawyers in Europe. He is the Chairman of the Legal Advisory Group of the Premier League.
Bart Howard.  Bart Howard (June 1 1915 – February 21 2004) born Howard Joseph Gustafson was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard Fly Me To The Moon which has been performed by singers (among others) Bobby Womack Frank Sinatra Tony Bennett Ella Fitzgerald Nancy Wilson Della Reese Diana Krall June Christy and Astrud Gilberto. It is also played frequently by jazz and popular musicians around the world.Howard was born in Burlington Iowa.
Halvdan Wexelsen Freihow.  Halvdan Wexelsen Freihow (22 November 1883 – 1965) was a Norwegian priest and culturist.He was born in Tana and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1909. In 1937 he earned the dr.philos. degree for a thesis on the psychological aspect of Henrik Ibsen's Brand. He was an avid proponent of the written language form Nynorsk and chaired Noregs Ungdomslag from 1926 to 1936. He was later a vicar in Skien.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested by the occupiers.
Vittorio Gelmetti.  Vittorio Gelmetti (Milan April 26 1926 – Florence February 4 1992) was an Italian composer.
Dave Malone.  Dave Malone born August 29 1952 in New Orleans Louisiana is best known as the guitarist/vocalist and sometimes songwriter of The Radiators. He has also worked with a wide variety of other musicians in and out of New Orleans. He has recorded more than a dozen albums with the Radiators including their latest release Dreaming Out Loud (SCI Fidelity 2006).
David Davies (musician).  David Davies (born 1954) is a British flautist conductor and composer. He was born in Dunfermline Scotland.
Birgitta Pettersson.  Birgitta Pettersson (born 7 January 1939) is a Swedish film actress. She was born in Uppsala Sweden.
Aaron Neville.  Aaron Neville (born January 24 1941 New Orleans Louisiana United States) is an American R&B and soul singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States (including three that went to number one on Billboard's adult contemporary chart and one that went to number one on the R&B chart) along with four platinum-certified albums. He has also recorded with his brothers Art Charles and Cyril as The Neville Brothers and is the father of singer/keyboards player Ivan Neville.
Jasimuddin.  Jasimuddin (Bengali: জসীমউদ্দীন; full name Jasimuddin Mollah) (1 January 1903 – 13 March 1976) was a Bengali poet songwriter prose writer folklore collector and radio personality. He is commonly known in Bangladesh as Polli Kobi (The Rural Poet) for his faithful rendition of Bengali folklore in his works.
Jemeel Moondoc.  Jemeel Moondoc (born August 5 1951 in Chicago Illinois) is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He is a proponent of a highly improvisational style.He studied clarinet and piano before settling on saxophone at sixteen. He became interested in jazz largely due to Cecil Taylor and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison he was a student of Taylor's. After that he moved to New York City where he founded Ensemble Muntu with William Parker Roy Campbell Jr. and Rashid Bakr.
Chris Pedersen (musician).  Chris Pedersen is an American-born musician best known as the drummer of the groups Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom. He currently resides in Australia.
Henry Chance Newton.  Henry Chance Newton (13 March 1854 - 2 January 1931) was a British author and theatre critic for The Referee magazine.Newton in conjunction with Richard Butler wrote libretti for musical comedy under the joint collaborative name of Richard Henry.
Con Houlihan.  Con Houlihan (6 December 1925 – 4 August 2012) was an Irish sportswriter. Despite only progressing to national journalism at the age of 46 he became the greatest and the best-loved Irish sports journalist of all.
Magos Herrera.  Magos Herrera (born 1970s) is a Mexican jazz singer who sings in English Spanish and Portuguese and has an international following especially in Latin America the USA Japan and beyond. She has recorded 7 solo albums. She is a singer songwriter musician actress vocal teacher and recording artist who performs with her groups in concert halls jazz clubs TV shows and at music festivals around the world and has host and produced TV and radio shows to promote jazz.
Veronica Avluv.  Veronica Avluv (born November 23 1972) is the stage name of an American fetish model and award winning pornographic actress.
Anne W. Armstrong.  Anne Wetzell Armstrong (September 20 1872 – March 17 1958) was an American novelist and businesswoman active primarily in the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her novel This Day and Time an account of life in a rural Appalachian community. She was also a pioneering woman in business management and was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business in the early 1920s.
Chris Bender (singer).  Christopher Lamont Bender known as Chris Bender (August 2 1972 – November 3 1991) was an American R&B singer who reached the national music charts in 1991 with the album entitled Draped.
František Čelakovský.  František Ladislav Čelakovský (7 March 1799 in Strakonice – 5 August 1852 in Prague) was a Czech writer and translator.
Andria Busic.  Andria Busic (born on October 9 1965 in São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian bassist/vocalist who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin Ultraje a Rigor Taffo Supla and Eduardo Araújo.
Tina Harris.  Tina Harris is a Maryland-born singer best known for being a member of Sweetbox.
Kyle Bobby Dunn.  Kyle Bobby Dunn (born February 27 1986 in Ontario) is a composer arranger and live performer of modern and neo-classical based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings including Banff National Park since 2000 and has released music on various international recording labels.His work has been described as compositions that are patience incarnate and encourage an emotional response even as its seemingly infinite creeping swirl and hum threatens to numb.
Kimmie Weeks.  Kimmie Weeks (born December 6 1981 in Monrovia Liberia) is a human rights activist.
Muddy (bassist).  Muddy (born Mark Dutton) is a bassist who has played on the L.A. Guns album Man in the Moon and on former L.A. Guns singer Jizzy Pearl's solo album Just A Boy. In the late 1980s he was the bassist in Burning Tree.Reportedly he occasionally sang lead vocals with L.A. Guns in concert.He is currently the bassist for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood.
Giulio Tonduzzi.  Giulio Tonduzzi was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Faenza which flourished in the first half of the 16th century. He was a pupil of Giulio Romano. He painted a Stoning of S. Stephen for the church in Faenza.
Nicolas Roeg.  Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSC (/ˈroʊɡ/; born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and cinematographer. Early in his career Roeg was a second-unit cinematographer on Lawrence of Arabia then cinematographer on Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death and Fahrenheit 451. He co-directed and photographed Performance in 1970. He later directed such films as Walkabout Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Mona Dol.  Mona Dol (28 May 1901 – 29 December 1990) was a French actress.Born Amélie Alice Gabrielle Delbart in Lille she died in Paris in 1990.
Sara Ayers.  Sara Ayers is an ambient music artist who uses her voice as a sound source. The Chemical Brothers used samples of Ayers' Everyday We Die a Little on their song Come Inside from their album Push the Button. VH1 used samples of Angel #3 for the soundtrack of Behind the Music: Britney Spears. The Russian electronic trio Figura constructed an entire album The Sara Ayers Remixes around her vocals.
Eliza Rennie.  Eliza Rennie or Mrs. Eliza Walker was probably born 17 May 1813 although her exact birth date is uncertain and her death date was sometime after 30 Mar 1869 when she was awarded £25 by the Royal Literary Fund was a minor Scottish romantic/gothic short story author and published an autobiographical two-volume work of literary gossip Traits of Character: being Twenty-Five Years' Literary and Personal Recollections by a Contemporary.
Najat El Hachmi.  Najat El Hachmi (born in Morocco on July 2 1979) is a Moroccan-Catalan writer.
Mollie King.  Mollie Elizabeth King (born 4 June 1987) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for being a member of girl group The Saturdays. In the Saturdays King has successfully enjoyed twelve top-ten and seven top-five singles on the UK Singles Chart and three top-ten albums on the UK Albums Chart. Before The Saturdays King was a member of another girl group Fallen Angelz with whom she appeared on The X Factor; she gained positive comments from the judges.
Henry Petzal.  Henry Petzal (1907 – March 15 2002) was an American silversmith. He did not begin silversmithing until 1957 at the age of 50.Henry Petzal came to the United States as a German refugee in 1936. Starting around 1950 he began working in brass and then in silver. His greatest inspiration in his designs was Chinese ceramics. He designed and hand-raised every piece.
Danny Heifetz.  Danny Heifetz (born 1964 in New York City) is an American drummer. He teaches and plays the drums in Sydney Australia. His teaching studio 'ThePractice' is located in Sydney's Central Business District (CBD). He is primarily a drummer and percussionist but also plays trumpet as well as the guitanjo and mediocre piano (with the sustain pedal down most of the time.
Kristin Garner.  Kristin Garner (born in Owego New York) is an American country music singer. Garner was signed to Atlantic Records in 2001. Her first single for the label Let's Burn It Down peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 2001. Garner performed at Fan Fair in downtown Nashville in June 2001.
Maria Yamamoto.  Maria Yamamoto (山本 麻里安 Yamamoto Maria born September 11 1981 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actress and singer.
Martín Irigoyen.  Martín Daniel Irigoyen (born January 14 1977) is an Argentine musician best known as a composer and guitarist of Vernian Process. He has participated in many solo and group projects outside of Vernian Process as well as being an active producer.
Samuel Johnson (New Zealand editor).  Samuel Johnson (16 March 1827–6 August 1905) was a New Zealand printer newspaper proprietor and editor. He was born in Manchester Lancashire England on 16 March 1827.After a career in journalism and printing in Castleford Yorkshire Johnson emigrated to New Zealand in the company of William Rawson Brame's Albertland settlers. The Albertlanders intended to set up a model community in New Zealand; Johnson had been appointed the group's editor and printer.
Louis Untermeyer.  Louis Untermeyer (October 1 1885 – December 18 1977) was an American poet anthologist critic and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.
Riccardo Tisci.  Riccardo Tisci (born in 1974 in Taranto Italy) is an Italian fashion designer. He studied in Italy and then graduated from London's Central Saint Martins Academy in 1999 and in 2005 was named Creative Director for Givenchy womenswear and haute couture.
Igor Butman.  Igor Butman PAR is a jazz saxophonist born in St. Petersburg Russia in 1961. He is considered to be a virtuoso saxophonist and a skilled bandleader. American saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. was instrumental in introducing Igor Butman to American audiences by featuring the Russian saxophonist on his 1988 album Then and Now.
Mostafa Sid Ahmed.  Mustafa Sid Ahmad Almagbul (1953 - 17 January 1996; Arabic: مصطفى سيد احمد‎) was a Sudanese singer. He was born in Wad Sulfabb village which is located in Al Jazirah state in central Sudan close to the town of Al-Hasa Hisa.
Jean Goldkette.  John Jean Goldkette (18 March 1893–March 24 1962) was a jazz pianist and bandleader born in France.
Bill Wells.  Bill Wells (born c. 1963) is a Scottish bassist pianist guitarist and composer.He is best known for his group the Bill Wells Octet since the early 1990s but he has performed and recorded in a wide range of settings including collaborations with The Pastels Maher Shalal Hash Baz Future Pilot A.K.A. Lol Coxhill Isobel Campbell Barbara Morgenstern and recently Aidan Moffat. He has also played on tracks by Kevin Ayers V Twin and Duglas T. Stewart.
Bernardo Sassetti.  Bernardo da Costa Sassetti Pais (24 June 1970 – 10 May 2012) was a Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer.Sassetti was born in Lisbon. He was a great-grandson of Sidónio Pais President of the First Republic. He initially played guitar then began studying piano and music theory at age nine. He became interested in jazz after hearing Bill Evans. By the late 1980s he was backing visiting musicians and teaching jazz piano in Lisbon (and later taught throughout other lusophonic areas).
Axel (singer).  Axel Patricio Fernando Witteveen Pardo (born 1 January 1977) commonly known as Axel Fernando or simply Axel is an Argentine singer and song-writer.
Bert Geer Phillips.  Bert Geer Phillips (15 July 1868 – 16 June 1956) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He was the first artist to permanently settle in Taos New Mexico (1898) and is considered to be the founder of the Taos art colony. He is known for his paintings of Native Americans New Mexico and the American Southwest.
Carlos Rodríguez (musician).  Carlos Damián Rodríguez (13 January 1972) is an Argentinean musician artist and songwriter famous as part of the alternative rock band Fun People and who is currently in the band Boom Boom Kid. Also known by various aliases as: Nekro Boom Boom Kid and Il Carlo. He has released several CDs DVDs records and books.
Robin Jones (musician).  Robin Douglas Jones (born 26 February 1973) is a Scottish musician known as the drummer of The Beta Band and The Aliens.
Bruce Marks (ballet).  Bruce Marks is a world renowned dancer performing both in ballet and modern dance. He continues to work as a choreographer coach and teacher and is a tireless advocate for the art form.
Ram Raj Pant.  Prof. Ram Raj Pant (or Ramraj Pant Nepali: राम राज पन्त or रामराज पन्त) (1920–1993 Bikram Sambat 1976–2049) was a pioneering linguist of the Nepali language literary writer and promoter of legal education in Nepal. In addition to publishing multiple volumes on Nepali linguistics Ram Raj Pant led the establishment of Nepal Law College and was its founding Principal. Nepal Law College later became Nepal Law Campus under the Tribhuvan University.
Gary Mark Smith.  Gary Mark Smith (born April 27 1956) is an American street photographer. Smith is noted for his global range and his empathetic and literal style of photography sometimes captured in extremely hazardous environments.
Jesse Dangerously.  Jesse McDonald better known by his stage name Jesse Dangerously is an alternative hip hop artist from Halifax Nova Scotia. He is an active member of the Canadian East Coast music scene through the release of his own albums appearing as guest vocalist on a large number of recordings by other artists hosting a weekly radio show writing a weekly column and producing beats for other musicians. He is a member of the Backburner crew.
Constantine Goulimis.  Constantine Goulimis (also appears as Constantine N. Goulimy; Kōnstantinos N Goulimēs Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γουλιμής) (1886–1963) was a lawyer and successful amateur botanist. He discovered several species of Greek plants.
Kōda Rohan.  Kōda Shigeyuki (幸田 成行 23 July 1867 – 30 July 1947) who used the pen name Kōda Rohan (幸田 露伴) was a Japanese author in the Meiji period. His daughter Aya Kōda was also a noted author who often wrote about him.Kōda wrote The Icon of Liberty also known as The Buddha of Art or The Elegant Buddha in 1889. A house (Kagyu-an or snail cottage) in which Kōda lived was rebuilt in 1972 by the Meiji Mura museum.
Lisa Batiashvili.  Lisa Batiashvili (Georgian: ლიზა ბათიაშვილი) (born Elisabed Batiashvili in 1979) is a Georgian violinist the daughter of a violinist father and a pianist mother. Her father was her first teacher from age 4. She later studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule. In 1995 she was a prize winner in the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition.She was one of the first of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists from 1999 to 2001.
Edith L. King.  Edith Lawrence King (1884 - 1975) American painter born in Chelsea Massachusetts.
Rob Lazzaretti.  Rob Lazzaretti is an artist whose work has appeared largely as a cartographer for roleplaying games particularly the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.
Patrick Boyle (writer).  Patrick Boyle (1905–1982) was an Irish novelist.Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney Co. Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in Donegal and Wexford. He began writing when he was in his forties. His first collection of short stories At Night All Cats are Grey was published in 1966. He also wrote a novel Like Any Other Man published in the same year.
Jim Whiting.  Jim Whiting (born 1951) is a British artist and inventor. He was born in Paris and spent his early childhood in Salisbury (now Harare) Zimbabwe before returning to the UK with his family in 1959.
Sebastijan Pregelj.  Sebastijan Pregelj (born 29 July 1970) is a Slovenian writer.
Morgan Russell.  Morgan Russell (January 25 1886 - May 29 1953) was a modern American artist. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright he was the founder of Synchromism a provocative style of abstract painting that dates from 1912 to the 1920s. Russell's synchromies which analogized color to music were an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism.
Warren Adler.  Warren Adler (born 16 December 1927) is an American novelist short story writer and playwright. Adler has published 32 novels and short story collections. His work has been translated into various languages. Two of his novels The War of the Roses and Random Hearts have been made into motion pictures. Three short stories from his collection The Sunset Gang have been filmed as a trilogy and broadcast on public television stations.
Gershon Kingsley.  Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28 1922; Bochum Germany) a contemporary German American composer is a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer and founder of the First Moog Quartet as a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies.Kingsley conducted and arranged many Broadway musicals and composes for film and for television shows and commercials.
Shaun Chen.  Shaun Chen (Chinese: 陳泓宇; pinyin: Chén Hóngyǔ born 3 November 1978) is a Malaysian actor currently based in Singapore. Chen is most notable for starring in the long-running drama series Holland V and for playing villains in several drama series.
Andru Branch.  Andru Branch is a Canadian reggae musician. He is the lead singer-songwriter of the reggae band Andru Branch & Halfway Tree. He was nominated for a Juno Award for his debut 1998 album What If I Told You.
Francesca Rognoni-Gratognini.  Francesca Rognoni-Gratognini (Milan October 1 1850- ?) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes.
Rick DellaRatta.  Rick DellaRatta is an American jazz pianist composer and vocalist.
Wendy James.  Wendy James (born 21 January 1966 London) is an English singer-songwriter most notable for her work with the pop band Transvision Vamp.
Wally Bishop.  Wallace Bond Bishop (August 17 1905 - January 15 1982) better known as Wally Bishop was an American cartoonist who drew his syndicated Muggs and Skeeter comic strip for 49 years.
Leigh Michaels.  Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 1954 in Iowa United States) a popular United States writer of over 80 romance novels. She published her novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1984 to 2006. She also teaches romance writing for Gothan Writers' Workshop among other places.
Mike Castonguay.  Mike Castonguay is a music producer musician and songwriter based in Los Angeles CA.From 2001 to 2004 Mike worked as a producer songwriter and musical director for Natural (Sony/BMG) an Orlando FL based band led by the boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. Mike produced numerous songs for the bands two albums Keep It Natural and It's Only Natural. He also produced and co-wrote two singles for the band Paradise and Let Me Just Fly.
Jorge Martín.  Jorge Martín (born 1959) is a Cuban-American composer. He earned both a Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in composition from Columbia University. His opera Before Night Falls based on the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas was given its world premiere at the Fort Worth Opera in June 2010. The Fort Worth Opera released a recording of the opera on Albany Records. Albany also released another recording of Martin's compositions entitled Cello Music in 2012.
Ronald White.  Ronald Ronnie White (April 5 1939 – August 26 1995) was an American musician best known as the co-founder of The Miracles and its only consistent original member. White was also known for bringing Stevie Wonder to the attention of Motown Records and songwriting several hit singles for the Miracles and other artists including The Temptations Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells.
John H. Reese.  John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author of Western and Crime Fiction. He won the prestigious 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book Big Mutt. He produced more than 40 Western novels and well over three hundred short stories.
Dan Walsh.  Dan Walsh (born 1960 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a painter based in New York.He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania and Hunter College in New York City.A veteran of nearly thirty solo exhibitions Walsh’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums including PS1 Contemporary Art Center [1] Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain [2] in Geneva the Indianapolis Museum of Art [3] and the Royal Academy [4] in London.
Alina Eremia.  Alina Eremia (born 15 December 1993 in Buftea) is a Romanian singer actress and member of the LaLa band who represented Romania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song Ţurai.
Helena Vondráčková.  Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947 Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades.
Adrian White (musician).  Adrian White is a Canadian drummer.In 1994 White played drums on the first album from Devin Townsend's newly founded Strapping Young Lad. Shortly after he toured with Front Line Assembly (FLA) on the Hard Wired Tour in 1995–96. Soon after that he moved to Montreal to join punk rock band Reset writing and recording No Limits and touring Canada as well as shooting videos for the singles from No Limits.In 2000 White quit Reset to rejoin FLA for more touring in Europe and the WGT Festival.
Robert M. Parker Jr..  Robert M. Parker Jr. (born July 23 1947) is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary have become influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines.
Holly Randall.  Holly Randall (born September 5 1978) is an American erotic photographer. She is the daughter of erotic photographer Suze Randall and author Humphry Knipe.
Glenn Kenny.  Glenn Kenny (born August 8 1959) is an American film critic and journalist who serves as chief film critic for MSN. Kenny served as a critic and editor at the film magazine Premiere from 1996 until it ceased publication in 2007. Along with his duties at MSN Kenny also contributes to a variety of publications and websites.
Newburgh Hamilton.  Newburgh Hamilton (1691–1761) was born in County Tyrone Ireland and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1708 aged sixteen but (as was common in those days) he left without obtaining a degree. He is known to have been Handel’s librettist for three works: Alexander’s Feast (1736) Samson (1743) and the Occasional Oratorio (1746). In writing the libretto for Handel’s Samson (1743) he followed John Milton's Samson Agonistes rather than creating it from the story found in the Book of Judges.
Barrie Gosney.  Barrie Gosney (1926 Surrey – 24 January 2008) was a British television film and theatrical actor.In a career spanning five decades Gosney played roles in Up Pompeii Last of the Summer Wine Believe Nothing Time Gentlemen Please and Harry Hill.He is perhaps best remembered for his performances in Harry Hill's show in which he filled the role of an absurd type of continuity announcer and the character Ken Ford (the man from 'The Joy Of Sex' books...).He would often send himself up and perform surreal impressions of various celebrities including Barbra Streisand Joan Collins & Cliff Richard.He died on 24 January 2008 after complications resulting from a fall. 
Jeanne C. Stein.  Jeanne C. Stein is an American Urban Fantasy author living in Colorado. She now lives in Colorado but was raised and educated in San Diego which is the setting for her contemporary vampire fantasy.Stein's series about vampire bounty hunter Anna Strong are published by Ace Books.She also contributes to a group blog - Biting Edge.
Parviz Meshkatian.  Parviz Meshkatian (May 15 1955 – September 21 2009; Persian: پرويز مشكاتيان) was an Iranian musician composer researcher and university lecturer.
Nicky Wu.  Nicholas Nicky Wu (born October 31 1970) is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He found fame in 1988 when he became a member of the boy band Little Tigers Team (小虎隊) performing alongside Alec Su and Julian Chen. The trio were extremely popular and successful in Taiwan selling many records in the process.
Dave Armstrong (producer).  Dave Armstrong is a Canadian record producer who had a number one on the UK Dance Chart with the track Love Has Gone in January 2008. The track was a collaboration with Redroche and H-Boogie and was released on the Hed Kandi label. The single made #43 on the official UK singles chart.
Phil Solomon (filmmaker).  Phil Solomon is an American experimental filmmaker noted for his work with both film and video. Recently Solomon has earned acclaim for a series of films that incorporate machinima made using games from the Grand Theft Auto series. His films are often described as haunting and lyrical.Solomon was an associate of the influential American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage with whom he taught film at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Solomon and Brakhage collaborated on three films.
Ivan Stojanović.  Ivan Stojanović (1829–1900) was a Catholic priest who wrote the book Dubrovačka Književnost published in 1900 arguing that the people of Dubrovnik were Roman Catholic by religion but by language Serbs. He was involved with the literary journal Slovinac.
Leonard Barnes.  Leonard John Barnes MC and Bar (1895 – 1977) was a British anti-colonialist writer journalist and educationalist.
Jacob Riis.  Jacob August Riis (May 3 1849 – May 26 1914) was a Danish American social reformer muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of model tenements in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller.
Elizabeth George Speare.  Elizabeth George Speare (November 21 1908 – November 15 1994) was an American writer of children's books best known for historical novels including two Newbery Medal winners. She has been called one of America's 100 most popular writers for children and some of her work has become mandatory reading in many schools throughout the nation.
Benjamín Rojas.  Benjamín Rojas Pessi (born April 16 1985 in La Plata) is an Argentinian actor singer musician and former occasional model. He is perhaps the best known for his roles in Chiquititas Rebelde Way Floricienta Alma Pirata Casi Ángeles and Jake & Blake. Rojas also appeared in several films most notably Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz and Erreway: 4 Caminos.
Ferdinand de Craywinckel.  Ferdinand Manuel Martin Louis Barthélemy de Craywinckel (24 August 1820 – fl. 1888) was a conductor and composer. He studied at Bordeaux with Bellon. He was maitre de chapelle at St. Bruno where he lived after 1825. He wrote many masses and other church works which are of high calibre.
Cath Carroll.  Cath Carroll (born 25 August 1960) is a British musician and music journalist.
Kari Bøge.  Kari Bøge (born 1950) is a Norwegian novelist. She was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1988.Her tetralogy Viviann hvit (1974) Lyset er så hvitt om sommeren (1975) Viviann og Lin (1980) and Søster Viviann (1988) tells the story of an introvert and depressive woman (Viviann) and her way towards joy of life.
Roman Stewart.  Roman Stewart also known as Romeo Stewart and 'Mr. Special' (born 11 May 1957 Kingston Jamaica died 25 January 2004 New York) was a reggae singer. Stewart won the Festival Song Contest in 1975.
Jules Girardin.  Jules Girardin (1832-1888) was a French writer.
Arthur Baker (musician).  Arthur Baker (born April 22 1955) is an American record producer and DJ best known for his work with hip hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa Planet Patrol and the British group New Order.
S. D. Burman.  Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music composer. He was one of the most well-renowned Bollywood music directors. S D Burman composed music for 100 movies including Hindi and Bengali films.[citation needed] Apart from being a versatile composer he also sang songs in the folk style of Tripura. His Son Rahul Dev Burman was also a music director.S.D.
David Quilter.  David Quilter (born 11 June 1942) is an English actor who has made numerous appearances in British television plays and series since the mid-1960s.He was born in Northwood London and attended Bryanston School Dorset.
Ken Chinn.  Kendall Stephen Ken Chinn (born on October 19 1962 Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian punk rock lead vocalist and artist. He is best known under the pseudonym Mr. Chi Pig as the lead singer of the band SNFU. He currently resides in Vancouver British Columbia.
Kris Martinez.  Kris Martinez (born September 1 1980) is an American entertainer musician songwriter and previously a stand up comedian.Martinez's comedic stage name was Kristory; he performed in and hosted shows at the Laugh Factory and The Improv Comedy Club Hollywood California[citation needed] He has appeared on cable television shows MUN2's Loco Comedy Jam and Si TV's Latino Laugh Festival and has been the subject of articles at Latina Magazine Chicano Rap Magazine and the Los Angeles Times's calendarlive.[citation needed]Martinez has presented on KIIS-FM radio in L.A. with two minute celebrity gossip clips on his Kristory's K-Spot.[citation needed]
Michael Beinhorn.  Michael Beinhorn is an American musician and record producer.
Ekaterina Ryabova.  Ekaterina Dmitrievna Katya Ryabova (Russian: Екатерина Дмитриевна Катя Рябова born 4 August 1997) is a Russian singer. She is from Shchyolkovo but now resides in Yubileyny.
Carol Shields.  Carol Ann Shields CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2 1935 – July 16 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
Adam Krieger.  For Nuremberg-born composers of the late 17th century see Johann Krieger and Johann Philipp Krieger.Adam Krieger (7 January 1634 – 30 June 1666) was a German composer. Born in Driesen Neumark he studied organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche (1655–57) and founded the city's Collegium Musicum before settling for the rest of his career in Dresden. Krieger composed and versified numerous songs.
Jennifer J. Stewart.  Jennifer J. Stewart is an American children's book author. She writes humorous books for middle grade (upper elementary school) readers.She was born in East Patchogue New York to a librarian mother and a physicist father. When she was four years old her family moved to Tucson Arizona where she grew up and attended Whitmore Elementary Townsend Junior High and Catalina High. She received an honors degree in English from Wellesley College followed by an M.B.A. from the University of Utah.
Peter van der Linden.  Peter van der Linden is a technologist and author. He has worked for companies such as Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer and has written books on Java C Linux and practical jokes. He is currently (2010) an Android Technology Evangelist for Motorola Mobility.
Henry Thomas (blues musician).  Henry Thomas (born 1874 Big Sandy Texas – died 1930) was an American country blues singer songster and musician who enjoyed a brief but notable recording career in the late 1920s. Often billed as Ragtime Texas Thomas' style was the basis for what later became known as Texas blues guitar.
Swizz Beatz.  Kasseem Dean (born September 13 1978) better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz is an American hip hop recording artist record producer and composer from New York City New York. Born and raised in The Bronx he began his music career as a disc jockey (DJ) and has since added rapper record executive creative director fashion designer and painter to his repertoire.
Andrew Montgomery.  Andrew Montgomery is a Scottish singer who is best known as a member of late '90s Aberdeen indie rock band Geneva.
Lee Benoit.  Lee Benoit is a Cajun musician from Rayne Louisiana.
Mark Coakley.  Mark Coakley is a Canadian writer of non-fiction and a blogger at http://wordpress.markcoakley.com. Mark was a lawyer in Hamilton Ontario from 1998 to 2008 before becoming a full-time author. His first published book Tip and Trade appeared in 2011. He has published true-crime pieces in Canada's Sharp (magazine).
Tim Bradstreet.  Timothy Tim Bradstreet (born February 16 1967 in Cheverly Maryland) is an artist and illustrator best known for his work on comic books book covers movie posters roleplaying games and trading cards.
Ernie Mendillo.  Ernie Mendillo (born October 23 1959) co-founded the New York band The Brandos with Dave Kincaid in 1985. Besides playing with The Brandos Mendillo is also a member of the Sarajevo rock band Bombaj Štampa.As a musician he has worked with Dion DiMucci Scott Kempner Dennis Diken Simon Kirke Branko Đurić and Pero Lovšin.
Paul C. Doherty.  Paul C. Doherty OBE (born 21 September 1946) is an award-winning English author educator lecturer and historian. He is also the Headmaster of Trinity Catholic High School Woodford Green Essex in the United Kingdom. He is a prolific writer having produced dozens of historical novels as well as a number of nonfiction history books.
Calvin Russell (musician).  Calvin Russell (born Calvert Russell Kosler 1 November 1948 – 3 April 2011) was an American blues rock/roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Bennie Maupin.  Bennie Maupin (born 29 August 1940) is a Detroit Michigan jazz multireedist. He performs on various saxophones flute and bass clarinet.He is probably best known for his participation in Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi sextet and Headhunters band and for performing on Miles Davis's seminal fusion record Bitches Brew. Maupin has collaborated with Horace Silver Roy Haynes Woody Shaw Lee Morgan and many others. He has also performed on several Meat Beat Manifesto albums.
Giorgos Papadopoulos.  Giorgos Papadopoulos is a Greek Cypriot singer who began its career in Cyprus. After three successful EPs he released his first album in both Greek and Cypriot market and started getting popularity also in Greece. He worked with Anna Vissi Christos Dantis Nama Constantinos Christoforou Christos Thiveos Helena Paparizou and others.
Robert W. Brown.  Robert W. Brown (July 12 1917 – October 17 2009) was an American serigrapher arts educator glassmaker and ceramicist.
Liam Hayes.  Liam Hayes professionally known as Plush since 1992 is a songwriter and performer from Chicago.His discography includes three critically acclaimed records: More You Becomes You (1998) Fed (2002) and Bright Penny (2009). In 2000 Hayes appeared as himself performing Soaring and Boring in the film High Fidelity.
Figaro Ceng.  Figaro Ceng (Chinese: 曾少宗; pinyin: Céng Shăo Zōng) was born 18 November 1981. He is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He was part of Taiwanese six-man boy band Comic Boyz(可米小子) from 2002 to 2005. They released three albums: Hey Hah!! Comic Boyz (2002); Youth Memoir (2003); Goodbye (New + Best Selection) (2005); acted Taiwanese dramas and hosted television shows.
Kamil Bednarek.  Kamil Bednarek (born 10 May 1991 in Brzeg) is a Polish reggae and dancehall vocalist songwriter composer and musician. He is best known as the runner-up in the third series of Mam talent!.From 2008 to 2012 Bednarek was the lead singer of Star Guard Muffin and with the band he released a studio album Szanuj (2010) which peaked at no. 1 in Poland as well as two EPs. Since 2012 he's been the lead vocalist of a band named Bednarek which released a number-one album Jestem... in November 2012.
Salim Ghazi Saeedi.  Salim Ghazi Saeedi (About this sound pronunciation) (born 1981 Tehran Iran) is an Iranian composer and guitarist in variety of genres ranging from progressive metal and jazz fusion to avant-garde classical chamber progressive surf progressive rock RIO (Rock in Opposition) and art rock with minimalist approach.
Fern Michaels.  Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir) is an American author of romance and thriller novels including nearly 50 best selling books with more than 70 million copies in print. Her USA Today and New York Times best selling books include Family Blessings Pretty Woman and Crown Jewel as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series.
Gajendra Thakur.  Gajendra Thakur (born 1971) (गजेन्द्र ठाकुर; গজেন্দ্র ঠাকুর; ગજેન્દ્ર ઠાકુર; ଗଜେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଠାକୁର; ਗਜੇਨ੍ਦ੍ਰ ਠਾਕੁਰ; గజేన్ద్ర ఠాకుర; கஜேந்த்ர டாகுர; ಗಜೇನ್ದ್ರ ಠಾಕುರ; ഗജേന്ദ്ര ഠാകുര) is an Indian author. He writes in the Maithili language a language spoken in Northern Bihar (of India) and South-Eastern Nepal.
Satsuki Igarashi.  Satsuki Igarashi (いがらし 寒月 Igarashi Satsuki February 8 1969 -) is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp.
Richard Brightfield.  Richard Brightfield (born 1927) is an American writer of children's gamebooks.He wrote a number of Choose Your Own Adventure books and was the first author to establish himself within that series after its founders Edward Packard and R.A. Montgomery.
K-os.  Kevin Brereton (born February 20 1972) better known by his stage name k-os (/ˈkeɪ.ɒs/; chaos) is a Canadian rapper singer songwriter and record producer. His given name may also be cited as Kheaven a spelling he later adopted.The alias k-os spelled with a lower case k was intended to be less aggressive than the pseudonyms of other rappers whose names were all upper case such as KRS-One.
Atanas Dalchev.  Atanas Hristov Dalchev (also written Dalčev or Dalçev Bulgarian: Атанас Далчев) (June 12 1904 - January 17 1978) was a Bulgarian poet critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translated poetry and fiction from French Spanish English German and Russian authors.
David Summers Rodríguez.  David Summers Rodríguez (born 26 February 1964) is a Spanish musician singer-songwriter and bassist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the Spanish pop rock band Hombres G.
Alireza Ghorbani.  Alireza Ghorbani was born in 1972 in Tehran Iran. He began his career by reciting the Holy book of Quran. Since he was very interested in old Iranian traditional music he started learning it eagerly. In 1984 he was fascinated by compilation of poetry and music and the insight of Iranian Music under the supervision of his first honorable mentors: Mr. Khosro Soltani Mr. Behrooz Abedini Mr. Mahdi Fallah Dr. Hossein Omoumi Ahmad Ebrahimi and also Razavi Sarvestani.
Mary Skrenes.  Mary Skrenes is a comic book writer and screenwriter. She may be best known as co-creator (with Steve Gerber) of Omega the Unknown for Marvel Comics although she worked on other Marvel characters such as the Defenders and Guardians of the Galaxy. She was the creator of and inspiration for Beverly Switzler the companion of Howard the Duck. For Omega the Unknown Skrenes created the supporting characters Amber Grant and Dian Wilkins.
Paul Thorn.  Paul Wayne Thorn (born July 13 1964 Kenosha Wisconsin) is an Americana singer-songwriter whose style is a mix of blues and rock music.
Nick Monteleone.  Nick Monteleone (born February 13 1978) is a film producer and composer and a founding partner of Train Bridge Films an independent production company and foreign sales agency.
Guy Colwell.  Guy Colwell (born March 28 1945 in Oakland California) is an American full-time Figurative Social Surrealist painter and occasional underground cartoonist. Although not African-American himself Colwell's comics often portray blacks in strong roles in stories of life on the streets. His paintings reflect on the human condition economic inequality injustice and alienation from the natural world.Colwell studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
Jae Millz.  Jarvis Mills (born September 11 1983) better known by his stage name Jae Millz is an American rapper from Harlem New York who is signed to Lil Wayne's record label Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records. His debut major label studio album titled Nothing Is Promised is scheduled for a 2013 release. Millz is known for participating in and winning a number of rap battles with Harlem rappers such as Larsiny 40 Cal. and JR Writer among others.
Mark Womack (British actor).  Mark Edward Womack (born 9 January 1961) is an English actor best known for starring in Liverpool 1 Sorted and Willy Russell's Dancin thru' The Dark.Womack was born in Liverpool in 1961 eldest son of Frances (née Dean)[citation needed] and Tom Womack.
Phineas Newborn Jr..  Phineas Newborn Jr. (December 14 1931 – May 26 1989) was an American jazz pianist whose principal influences were Art Tatum Oscar Peterson and Bud Powell.
Eric Ambler.  Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.
Samo Sound Boy.  Sam Griesemer (born December 2 1984) better known by his stage name Samo Sound Boy is an American DJ and producer of House music and co-founder/existing label head of the Los Angeles record label Body High.
Jesse Cornplanter.  Jesse J. Cornplanter (September 16 1889–1957) was a Seneca artist and author. His Seneca name was Hayonhwonhish. As an author he wrote Legends of the Longhouse which records many Iroquois traditional stories.
Slobodan Novak.  Slobodan Novak (born November 3 1924) is a Croatian prose writer novelist.
Gerald Wilson.  Gerald Stanley Wilson (born September 4 1918) is an American jazz trumpeter big band bandleader composer/arranger and educator. He has been based in Los Angeles since the early 1940s.Wilson was born in Shelby Mississippi and went on to graduate from Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Wilson joined the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra in 1939 replacing its star trumpeter and arranger Sy Oliver.
Christine Cole Catley.  Dame Christine McKelvie Cole Catley DNZM QSM (née Bull 19 December 1922 – 21 August 2011) was a New Zealand journalist publisher and author.
Carrie Jones.  Carrie Jones is an American author known for her work in young-adult fiction. She has written both fantasy and non-fantasy novels including the paranormal series Need. Jones has received multiple awards and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Raghavendra Rathore.  Raghavendra Rathore alternatively Raghuvendra Rathore is a noted fashion designer costume designer and entrepreneur from India. He is popular for his Brand India image which copyrighted his designs for Bandgala Jackets and Jodhpurs. He is also known for diversifying his business into interior design jewelry and multimedia.
Rekha Bhardwaj.  Rekha Bhardwaj (also spelled 'Bharadwaj') is an Indian playback singer. She is known in the industry for her distinctive singing style. She is the recipient of a National Film Award for the Best Female Playback Singer for the film Ishqiya in 2011. In 2012 she won the Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer (Female) along with Usha Uthup for the song Darling from 7 Khoon Maaf. She is married to the famous director producer and music composer Vishal Bharadwaj.
Carolyn Reeder.  Carolyn Reeder (born November 16 1937 Washington D.C.) is the author of several children's historical fiction and three non-fiction books for adults. She graduated from American University in 1959.She is a winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.She lives in Glen Echo Maryland.
Wang Baoqiang.  Wang Baoqiang (simplified Chinese: 王宝强; traditional Chinese: 王寶強; pinyin: Wáng Bǎoqiáng; born May 29 1984) is a Chinese actor. His debut role was that of Yuan Fengming in the movie Blind Shaft for which he shared the Best New Performer prize at the 2003 Golden Horse Awards with Megan Zheng. The same role also won him the Best Actor prize at the 2003 Deauville Asian Film Festival and 2004 Golden Kinnaree Award (Bangkok International Film Festival).
Richard Yarborough.  Richard Yarborough (born 1951) is Professor of English and African American literature and a Faculty Research Associate with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. He is also an editor of The Heath Anthology Of American Literature.
Frank Proffitt.  Frank Proffitt (June 1 1913 – November 24 1965) was an Appalachian old time banjoist and performer at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. He was a key figure in inspiring musicians of the 1960s and 1970s to play the banjo. He recorded the ballad Tom Dooley learned from his aunt Nancy Prather. Prather learned the song from her mother Edy Adeline (Pardue) Proffitt who had known both Dula (locally pronounced Dooley) and Laura Foster.
Ramesh Parekh.  Ramesh Parekh was a Gujarati poet and lyricist from Gujarat India.
Tina Knowles.  Celestine Ann Tina Beyincé; born January 4 1954) is known for her House of Deréon and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles fashion brands. She is perhaps best known however as the mother of singers Beyoncé Knowles and Solange Knowles and is the ex-wife of Mathew Knowles who managed Destiny's Child and then Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland until 2011.
Ken Munshaw.  Ken Munshaw (born in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian singer/songwriter. Munshaw has released three studio albums Human Condition (1995) Time Tells All (2006) and Short Stories (2008). He has charted four chart singles on the Canadian country music charts of which the highest was the No. 17-peaking Let's Kiss and Make Up a duet with Beverley Mahood.
Dani Stevenson.  Dani Stevenson (born 1980) is an American contemporary R&B singer–songwriter. She is best known for her background vocals on Nelly's single Hot in Herre and her own singles Honk Your Horn (featuring Missy Elliott) and Yo Yo Yo which was featured in the film xXx starring Vin Diesel.
Dennis Bryon.  Dennis Bryon is a rock drummer best known for his work with the Bee Gees from 1974 to 1979. He also worked with Amen Corner and co-produced Robin Gibb's 1983 album How Old Are You?.
Geoffrey Atherden.  Geoffrey John Atherden AM is an Australian television writer especially of comedy. He wrote the sitcoms Mother and Son and Grass Roots and the mockumentary BabaKiueria and was a contributor to The Aunty Jack Show.He attended the University of Sydney in the 1960s.
George Michael.  George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou 25 June 1963) is an English musician singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to superstardom during the 1980s and 1990s with his style of post-disco dance-pop.
Alan Paul.  Alan Paul (born November 23 1949 Newark New Jersey) is a Grammy Award- winning singer and composer best known as one of the founding members of the current incarnation of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer. He played Teen Angel and Johnny Casino in the original Broadway cast of Grease where he introduced the songs Beauty School Dropout and Born to Hand Jive. As a child he appeared in the original Broadway cast of Oliver!. He released a solo CD Another Place and Time in 2003.
Abbott Handerson Thayer.  Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12 1849 – May 29 1921) was an American artist naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits figures animals and landscapes he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime and his paintings are represented in the major American art collections.
Substantial (rapper).  Stanley Robinson (born January 7 1979) known as Substantial is a hip-hop artist from Prince George's County Maryland. He now operates out of Virginia.[citation needed]His videos have appeared on MTV BET and VH1 while his music has made it to the second round of Grammy voting in three categories. The renowned car company Bentley reached out to have Substantial’s supergroup FANOMM (with Chew Fu & J-Cast) to create a song for them and perform in China at their car show.[citation needed]
Oscar Benton.  Oscar Benton (born Ferdinand van Eif 3 February 1949 The Hague) is a Dutch vocalist. He is also the founder of the Oscar Benton Blues Band in 1967. The band rose to fame in 1968 by being a runner up in the Jazz Festival Loosdrecht the Netherlands.
Shelby Chong.  Shelby Chong née Fiddis (born February 1 1948) is a comedian American motion picture producer and actress. She was the executive producer of 2003's Best Buds (2003). She was the associate producer of four Cheech and Chong films.
Austin Wright.  Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 Yonkers New York – April 23 2003 Cincinnati) was a novelist literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.
Theodoor Galle.  Dirck or Theodoor Galle (1571–1633) was a Flemish Baroque engraver.
Mildred Grosberg Bellin.  Mildred Grosberg Bellin (September 7 1908 – February 15 2008) was an American cookbook author. She is most noted for her influential cookbooks Modern Jewish Meals and The Jewish Cookbook which brought modern nutritional ideas into Jewish cooking.
Alan Weiss (comics).  Alan Weiss (born March 7 1948 Chicago Illinois) is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
Jörg Michael.  Jörg Michael (born March 27 1963) is a German drummer. He is well known for his time in the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius the German thrash metal band Headhunter and several other bands.Most of the bands Michael has played with are in the power metal genre. The first album he recorded was Prayers of Steel with Avenger (the band would later change their name to Rage).
Antonio Zoppi.  Antonio Zoppi (1860-1926) was an Italian painter mostly of genre and costume scenes as well as landscapes.. He was born and resident in Novara. In 1881 at Milan he exhibited: Paggio del secolo XVI. In 1881 at Rome he exhibited: Fate la carità e In vino laetitia. To other exhibitions he sent: Winter Sun; Dolci ricordi; Il nonno; Adele; Study of a head; A landscaper of Tobacco; and Savoy and Winter Morning. Vendemmia was exhibited at the Brera Academy in 1822.
Keith Baker (game designer).  Keith Baker (born July 7 1969) is a game designer and fantasy novel author.
Jacopo Sarno.  Jacopo Furio Sarno (born September 1 1989; [jaˈkoːpo ˈfuːrjo ˈsarno]) is an Italian actor dubber and singer. Since 2013 Jacopo Sarno becomes Jake Sarno. Active in the world of acting as a child he began starring in several sitcoms most produced by Mediaset. In the early 2000s he continued to work as an actor in theater and film as well as on television where he became one of the familiar faces of the sitcom produced by Disney Channel.
Marion Chesney.  Marion Gibbons née McChesney (born 1936 in Glasgow Scotland) is a British popular and prolific writer of romance and mystery novels since 1979. She has written numerous successful historical romance novels under (a form of) her maiden name Marion Chesney including the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling series. Using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton she has also written many popular mystery novels most notably the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series.
Benjamin Hart.  Benjamin Hart (born 17 October 1977) is an English actor best known for his roles as Foz in British soap Hollyoaks and as Adam Rhodes (Pepper Steiger's love interest) in Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Ingrid Lukas.  Ingrid Lukas (born 20 August 1984 in Tallinn Estonia) is an Estonian singer-songwriter pianist and composer residing in Switzerland. She featured as part of the Swiss Government's official House of Switzerland entertainment series for athletes and the public at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Cantinero.  Chris Hicken (born in West Bromwich England) is a British singer songwriter/Composer and producer who records under the name Cantinero. Currently based in Inwood Manhattan New York Hicken writes keenly observed carefully crafted pop that blends acoustic and Spanish guitars piano and strings with subtle electronic textures. His debut album Championship Boxing was released by indie label Artemis Records in 2004.
Houston Branch.  Houston Branch (5 March 1899 – January 1968) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 50 films between 1927 and 1958.He was born in St. Paul Minnesota.
Saukrates.  Karl Amani Wailoo (born March 6 1978) better known by his stage name Saukrates (/ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Socrates) is a Canadian rapper singer and record producer of Guyanese descent. He is the co-founder of Capitol Hill Music and lead singer of the hip-hop/R&B group Big Black Lincoln. He is also a member of Redman's Gilla House collective.
Don Addis.  Donald G. Addis (September 13 1935 – November 29 2009) was a comic strip artist. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Florida where he was in charge of the production lab for the student newspaper The Alligator (later The Independent Florida Alligator). His work includes a self-published collection of his work at the U of F and the comic strips: Briny Deep (1980) The Great John L.
Fanny J.  Fanny Jacques-André-Coquin better known as Fanny J (born in Cayenne in French Guiana on 6 October 1987) is a French singer of zouk and contemporary R&B.
Jonathan Batiste.  Jonathan Batiste (born November 11 1986) is a musician entertainer educator and bandleader from Kenner Louisiana United States. Jonathan is a member of a long lineage of musicians from the Batiste family of Louisiana and began playing music at an early age. In 2012 he was listed among the 30 under 30 most influential people in the art world.
Arthur Ranson.  Arthur James Ranson (born 1939) is an English comic book illustrator known for his work on Look-in Anderson: Psi Division Button Man and Mazeworld. His work on Cassandra Anderson has been called photo-realistic.
Terence O'Brien (actor).  Terence O'Brien (1887–1970) was an Irish-born British stage actor. He also appeared in several films.
Nicolae Breban.  Nicolae Breban (born on February 1 1934 Baia Mare Romania) is a Romanian novelist and essayist.
Rob Collins (musician).  Rob Collins (23 February 1963 – 22 July 1996) was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of The Charlatans.
Rachael Bell (music).  Rachael Bell is a singer/songwriter/pianist and guitarist from London who formerly appeared professionally as RachaelRachael.
Johan Johansson (KSMB).  Johan Georg Johansson (born April 23 1961 in Stockholm) is a writer and musician (drums guitar bass vocal). He is most famous for his time as songwriter and drummer for the Swedish punk-rock band KSMB.
King Floyd.  King Floyd (February 13 1945 – March 6 2006) was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970 Groove Me.
Michael Jerome.  Michael Jerome Moore born in Wichita Kansas is an American rock musician and drummer. Jerome is a former member of the Toadies (1990–91) Course of Empire (1994–1998) and James Hall's band Pleasure Club which was formed in 2002. He was also a member of the Saginaw Texas band Pop Poppins. Jerome played on Charlie Musselwhite's 2004 release Sanctuary and has also toured and/or recorded with Blind Boys of Alabama John Cale Anna Egge Tom Freund and many others.
Shaun L. Gabbidon.  Shaun L. Gabbidon is a criminologist and the author of many articles and books that typically focus on the areas of racial and ethnic issues in criminology.
Arthur Quartley.  Arthur Quartley (May 24 1839 – May 19 1886) was an American painter known for his marine seascapes.Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve when his family moved to Baltimore Maryland. He studied drawing with his father Frederick William Quartley who was an English engraver. His father was reputed to have demanded two drawings per week from the young lad.
Anita Lane.  Anita Lane is an Australian singer-songwriter who has collaborated with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey in addition to the production of solo work.
Samuel A. Ramirez Sr..  Samuel A. Ramirez Sr. (born 1941) made Wall Street history by becoming the first Hispanic to launch a successful investment banking firm.
Aimé Clariond.  Aimé Clariond (10 April 1894 – 1 January 1960) was a French stage and film actor.Clariond was born in Périgueux Dordogne France and died in Paris.
Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy.  Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy (1929–1997 India) was a Carnatic classical percussionist. A recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi and Kalaimamani awards Narayanaswamy accompanied renowned musicians like M. S. Subbulakshmi S. Rajam and Guruvayur Dorai. He established his mark playing the ghatam with such dexterity and beauty in phrasing.
Paul Durham.  Paul Durham (born September 9 1968) is an American musician and the lead singer of rock bands Black Lab Stray Palace and Cake or Death.
Marta Traba.  Marta Traba (25 January 1930 – 27 November 1983) was an art critic and writer known for her contributions to Latin American art and literature.
Stephen A. Love.  Stephen A. Love (born on May 19 1950 in Crawfordsville Indiana) is a professional musician lead singer songwriter producer entertainment business promoter CEO of the James Allen Promotions and Blue Jeans Music BMI. He lives in Puerto Vallarta Jalisco Mexico.Stephen A. Love has multiple references in the old and new Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll The Great Rock Discography by Martin C.
A. B. Crentsil.  A. B. Crentsil is a Ghanaian musician. He is one of the big three of contemporary Ghanaian vocalists. Crentsil has won numerous Ghanaian Music Awards including the Fontomfrom Evergreen Award which is a special honor bestowed upon a musician with 15–20 years of continuous music experience.
R. K. Bijapure.  R. K. Bijapure (born January 7 1917; died November 19 2010) was an Indian harmonium player in the Hindustani classical tradition.
Leon Conrad.  Leon Conrad UK embroidery designer known particularly for historically styled blackwork embroidery designs. In 1997 he founded the New Elizabethans embroidery arts group. He has participated in over 20 exhibitions and has taught at embroidery seminars in the UK and the United States. Married to Tanya Conrad.Leon's designs have been published in several UK embroidery magazines including New Stitches Magazine The Needleworker Classic Stitches Needlecraft Cross-Stitch Gold and FineLines.
Marc Belke.  Marc Belke (born February 1 1965 in Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian musician and radio personality. He played guitar in the punk and alternative rock bands SNFU and The Wheat Chiefs and also sang lead vocals in the latter. He is currently an on-air personality with Rogers based in Victoria British Columbia.
Rita (Israeli singer).  Rita Yahan-Farouz (English: Jahanforuz; Hebrew: ריטה יהאן-פרוז‎; Known Simply as Rita b. March 24 1962) is an Iranian-born Israeli pop singer and actress notable for being one of Israel's most famous female singers.
Paul Tobias.  Paul Tobias (born in August 1963 Indianapolis Indiana) is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with hard rock band Guns N' Roses with whom he has collaborated since 1994.
Manohar Shankar Oak.  Manohar Shankar Oak (Devanagari: मनोहर शंकर ओक) (May 27 1933 – May 11 1993) was a Marathi poet novelist and translator from Maharashtra India.Oak led a Bohemian life style. An influence of English poets like Allen Ginsberg can be discerned in his poetry. The background of Mumbai metropolis often appears in his poems.An Anthology of Marathi Poetry 1945-65 by Dilip Chitre contains translations of some of Oak's poems.
Adam Harvey.  Adam Harvey is an Australian country music singer. Harvey has been nominated three times for an ARIA Music Award and is a multiple CMAA Award winner.
KO (musician).  Ko Kapches (born c. 1986) better known by the stage name KO (/ˈkoʊ/ KOH) is a Canadian musician whose music is a mix of folk hip hop reggae rock and R&B —a sound which KO refers to as urban-funk and urban-folk.
Jason M. Burns.  Jason M. Burns (born March 17 1978 in Massachusetts) is an American comic book writer and assistant publisher at Viper Comics. He is best known for creating the comic book titles The Expendable One and A Dummy’s Guide to Danger.
Pharoah Sanders.  Pharoah Sanders (born October 13 1940) is a Grammy Award-winning American jazz saxophonist.Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as probably the best tenor player in the world. Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s Sanders is known for his overblowing harmonic and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone as well as his use of sheets of sound. Sanders is an important figure in the development of free jazz; Albert Ayler famously said: Trane was the Father Pharoah was the Son I am the Holy Ghost.
Otto Kirchner (artist).  Otto Kirchner (1887 Eckartshausen – 1960) was a well known German painter of portraits and genre scenes.
Stamatis Kraounakis.  Stamatis Kraounakis (Greek: Σταμάτης Κραουνάκης) is a Greek music composer music producer lyricist writer and director. He was born and lives in Athens and has studied Political Science in Panteion University. He has composed music for more than 40 albums and 50 theatre plays.
Sagarika.  Sagarika (born Sagarika Mukherjee on 4 September 1970) was born in a Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family and she is an Indian singer and actress. Before going solo she was half of a popular Indian duet with her younger brother Shaan with whom she released albums such as Q-Funk Roop Inka Mastana and Naujawan.She released the album Maa after going solo. Her album It’s All About Love was released in 2006 by Universal Distribution.She collaborated with Pakistani band Strings on the song Pal.
Ray Dalton.  Ray Dalton (born March 15 1991) is an American singer and songwriter based in Seattle Washington. He began his career as a gospel and R&B singer. Dalton gained prominence as the featured singer on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 2013 song Can't Hold Us which gained popularity when it was released as a single in 2013. The song was certified platinum in the U.S. in April 2013. He has won two MTV Video Music Awards.
Ewart Abner.  Ewart Abner (born Edward Gladstone Abner Jr. May 11 1923 – December 27 1997) was an American record company executive.
Niels Christian Geelmuyden.  Niels Christian Geelmuyden (born 18 December 1960) is a Norwegian journalist and writer mostly known for his interviews and essays.Geelmuyden grew up in Lysaker and attended local schools before getting a degree in political science at the University of Oslo. Geelmuyden's writing is characterized by a conservative outlook both in terms of politics and language. Among other things he is vociferously pro-life and has written the biography of Børre Knudsen.
Pieter Soutman.  Pieter Claesz Soutman (1593–1601 – 16 August 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker from Haarlem.
Deric Longden.  Deric Longden (29 November 1936 – 22 June 2013) was an English writer and autobiographer.He married Diana Hill in 1957 and had two children Sally and Nick. After various jobs he took over a small women's lingerie factory but began writing and broadcasting in the 1970s for programmes like Does He Take Sugar? and Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Most of his work was based on his own experience. His wife Diana's illness subsequently believed to be a form of ME forced him to sell the factory.
Walter Crane.  Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential and among the most prolific children’s book creator of his generation and along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century.
John Bunch.  John Bunch (December 1 1921 – March 30 2010) was an American jazz pianist.
Ava Leigh.  Hayley Carline (born 22 November 1985) better known as Ava Leigh is a British reggae singer from Chester England.
Ehsaan Noorani.  Ehsaan Noorani is the Ehsaan of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio which consist of Shankar Mahadevan Loy Mendonsa and himself. He is a famous music composer and a guitarist. He was the guitarist for many music directors before he started composing music. Ehsaan has also studied music with Mr. Bismarck Rodrigues an experienced guitar teacher from Mumbai (Bombay).
Timothy Daly (playwright).  Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright whose body of work includes the play that launched the career of Cate Blanchett when she was awarded the Rosemount Newcomer Award and the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for Kafka Dances in 1993.Other plays written by Daly include BEACH (2006) a quintessential Australian play the story of a beach from sunrise to sunset a smorgasbord of beach events in Australia's cultural memory ranging from Captain Arthur Phillip through Gallipoli to Harold Holt and beyond as far as Asylum seekers. 
Wolfgang Lettl.  Wolfgang Lettl (1919 – 10 February 2008) was a surrealist painter who was born in Augsburg Germany.In 1939 at the age of 20 Wolfgang joined the German army and served as a communications officer in occupied Paris from 1940 to 1943 during which time he worked on his watercolours and first became exposed to surrealism.
Elizabeth Post.  Elizabeth L. Post (May 7 1920 – April 24 2010) was an etiquette writer and the granddaughter-in-law of the etiquette writer Emily Post.Post (née Elizabeth Lindley) was born in Englewood New Jersey on May 7 1920 the third child of Allen Ledyard Lindley and Elizabeth Ellsworth Lindley. She was the great-granddaughter of Cyrus Field.Elizabeth Lindley's first husband was Lt. George Eustis Cookman USN who was killed in action in 1943.
Zachary Lipton.  Zachary Lipton (born 1985) is a jazz saxophonist composer and bandleader from New Rochelle New York. He attended Columbia University and is the grandson of composer Issachar Miron. As of August. 2011 the Zack Lipton Band served as the house band at the Moldy Fig jazz club in New York City's Lower East Side performing every Friday and Saturday at midnight.
Yeedle Werdyger.  Yehudah Yeedle Werdyger (born 1971) is an American Hasidic Jewish singer. He is the son of the Orthodox Jewish super star Mordechai Werdyger (stage name Ben David) and grandson of renowned cantor David Werdyger . Yeedle (Yiddish; יידל ) is a Yiddish nickname for the Hebrew name Yehudah (Heb. יהודה / יהודא )
Steve Isaacs.  Steven Wendell Isaacs (born June 19 1969) is an American actor creative director and musician perhaps best known as the lead vocalist for the bands The Panic Channel featuring former members of Jane's Addiction and Skycycle as well as being a VJ for MTV from 1991 to 1993.
Cuci Amador.  Cristina Elena Garcia known as Cuci Amador is an Electro funk singer.
Marco Beltrami.  Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7 1966) is an American film composer best known for his work scoring horror films such as Mimic (1997) The Faculty (1998) Resident Evil (2002) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) The Woman in Black (2012). A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven Beltrami has scored seven of the director's films including all four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011).
Alison Croggon.  Alison Croggon (born 1962 ) is a contemporary Australian poet playwright fantasy novelist and librettist.
Joey Wong.  Joey Wong Cho-Yee (AKA Joey Wang Wang Tsu Hsien or Joey Ong Jyo Han/Hen) (Chinese: 王祖賢; pinyin: Wáng Zǔxián born January 31 1967) is a Hong Kong based Taiwanese-born actress.
Amy Ray.  Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name and founded a record company Daemon Records.
Brynjulf Blix.  Brynjulf Blix (born December 20 1951 in Oslo Norway) is a noted pianist from Norway. First known from his collaboration with Terje Rypdal Blix received broader notoriety as a member of the group Alex supporting the singer Alex Naumik.His unique style combining jazz and blues has been heard on countless of recordings.
Sean Costello.  Sean Costello (April 16 1979 – April 15 2008) was an American blues musician renowned for his fiery guitar playing and soulful singing. He released five critically acclaimed albums before his career was cut short by his sudden death at the age of 28. Tinsley Ellis called him ‘the most gifted young blues guitarist on the scene... he was a triple threat on guitar vocals and as a songwriter’.
Victor Prevost.  French-born Victor Prevost (1820–1881) is one of the earliest photographers to work in New York City.Prevost studied in France under Paul Delaroche and learned complicated photographic printing techniques from fellow student Gustave Le Gray. However after setting up his own studio on Broadway and Bleecker Street (he emigrated in 1850) Prevost failed to become a commercial success. His landscapes are a subtle and rather idiosyncratic mix of the documentary and aesthetic traditions.
Minka (pornographic actress).  Minka is the stage name of a former pornographic actress and high level amateur tennis player. She has been billed by some in the adult entertainment industry as The World's Most Enhanced Asian Woman as she was when she was interviewed by Mark Dolan with her manager and partner 'Woody' on the British TV channel Channel 4 program (also titled The World's Most Enhanced Woman and Me) in 2009.
Yan Yan Chan.  Yan Yan Chan (Burmese: ရန်ရန်ချမ်း pronounced: [jàɴ jàɴ tɕʰáɴ]; born 5 December 1979) is a pioneer of Burmese hip hop and pro-democracy activist. Along with Zayar Thaw he founded the group Acid.
Andy Warhol.  Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔrhɒl/; August 6 1928 – February 22 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist.
Arthur Baker (calligrapher).  Arthur Baker was the creator of a distinctive and dramatic style of brush and pen calligraphy.Arthur Baker was born on the West coast of the United States.He studied letter forms and historical calligraphic styles about which he wrote many books. Baker designed his own pens and brushes.Baker lives in Andover Massachusetts. His hobbies include designing making and flying paper airplanes.
Eva Ibbotson.  Eva Ibbotson born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (21 January 1925 – 20 October 2010) was an Austrian-born British novelist known for her children's books.
Burleigh Drummond.  Burleigh Drummond is an American drummer percussionist producer songwriter and singer. He is a founding member and the only drummer/percussionist for the five-time Grammy Award nominated band Ambrosia.
Frances Hodgson Burnett.  Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6) A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911).Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham near Manchester England.
Arthur Tofte.  Arthur R Tofte (1902–1980) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has an award named after him which is given to the category of children's literature by the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
Otto Greiner.  Otto Greiner (16 December 1869 Leipzig – 24 September 1916 Munich) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Walter Parazaider.  Walter Parazaider (born March 14 1945) is best known for being a founding member and saxophone player for the rock band Chicago. He also plays the flute and other woodwind instruments in the band including clarinet.Parazaider was born in Chicago Illinois and began playing the clarinet at the age of 9.
Mai Lin.  Mai Lin (born June 22 1953) is a former pornographic actress of Asian American heritage who performed in various adult films from the 1970s to around the mid 1990s.In 2005 Mai Lin was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame She was also inducted into the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in 2007.In 2011 Complex magazine ranked her at #11 on their list of The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time.
Sergey Bashkirov.  Sergey Gennadievich Bashkirov (December 17 1971 Siberia) known as Sergey Bashkirov is a contemporary Russian painter.
Warner Mack.  Warner MacPherson (born April 2 1938) known professionally as Warner Mack is an American country music singer-songwriter. Mack had many hits on the country charts from the late 1950s to the early 1970s some of which crossed over to the pop charts.He was born in Nashville Tennessee and had a No. 1 hit in 1965 with The Bridge Washed Out.
Ethel Pedley.  Ethel Charlotte Pedley (19 June 1859 – 6 August 1898) was an Australian author and musician.Pedley's most well-known book is Dot and the Kangaroo which featured a little girl named Dot who becomes lost in the Australian outback and is helped to find her way back home by a friendly kangaroo. The illustrations were drawn by Frank P.
Nicolae Labiș.  Nicolae Labiș (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e laˈbiʃ]) (December 2 1935 Poiana Mărului Suceava County Romania – December 22 1956 Bucharest) was a Romanian poet.
Diran Adebayo.  Diran Adebayo (born 30 August 1968) is a British novelist cultural critic and broadcaster best known for his vivid portrayals of modern London life and his distinctive use of language.
He Yong (rock musician).  He Yong (何勇) (born February 15 1969 in Beijing) is a Chinese rock musician who has been particularly active in the 1980s and 1990s. A self-styled punk He Yong's lyrics and outspoken nature have made him controversial in mainland China and Hong Kong. His only album Garbage Dump exemplified his negative though often nostalgic perspective toward life. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Chinese rock.
Charles Thomson (artist).  Charles Thomson (born 6 February 1953) is an English artist poet and photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets. In 1999 he named and co-founded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize run an art gallery stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. He is frequently quoted in the media as an opponent of conceptual art. He was briefly married to artist Stella Vine.
Cephas Thompson.  Cephas Thompson (July 1 1775 – November 6 1856) was a successful self-taught early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States who was born died and lived most of his life in Middleborough Massachusetts.Thompson's father fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Thompson married Olive Leonard on March 18 1802. Their son Cephas Giovanni Thompson became a painter of portraits and landscape in his own right and a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Leonard G. G. Ramsey.  Leonard Gerald Gwynne Ramsey (1913 in Rochford Essex – died 1990) was a British antiquarian writer encyclopaedist and editor from 1951 of The Connoisseur magazine.
Liberty DeVitto.  Liberty DeVitto (born August 8 1950) is an American rock drummer. He is best known as the drummer for Billy Joel but has also played with the NYC Hit Squad and has been a session drummer on recordings of other artists.
Watkin Tudor Jones.  Watkin Tudor Jones (born 26 September 1974) currently known by his stage name Ninja is a South African rapper record producer performance artist and satirist. Previously he has recorded under several different names Max Normal and MC Totally Rad being some of the most prominent.Watkin Tudor Jones was a part of South African hip-hop scene for many years fronting such acts as The Original Evergreens MaxNormal.TV and The Constructus Corporation.
Mark Farner.  Mark Fredrick Farner (born September 29 1948) is an American singer guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad and later as a contemporary Christian musician.
Robert Prince.  Robert C. Prince III also known as Bobby Prince is an American composer and sound designer. He has worked as an independent contractor for several gaming companies most notably id Software and Apogee/3D Realms. He has created music and sound effects for Commander Keen 4-6 Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Pickle Wars Catacomb 3D Wolfenstein 3D Spear of Destiny Blake Stone Doom Rise of the Triad Doom II Duke Nukem II Duke Nukem 3D Abuse Demonstar as well as other games.
Lưu Quang Minh.  Lưu Quang Minh (born 18 May 1988) is a writer and singer from Vietnam. He became famous when his very first book 'Gia tai tuoi 20' was published in Vietnam and became popular. He also composed and sang his debut song 'Gia tai tuoi 20' based on the stories from his book. Since then he has begun working as a writer and singer. His music always based on his stories he called that: ‘The Interference Of Music And Literature’.
Mariama Goodman.  Mariama Goodman is an English dancer and singer who has been a member of the bands Solid HarmoniE and the Honeyz.
Geoff Berner.  Geoff Berner (born in Vancouver 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player from Vancouver British Columbia.Due to his insightful humour politically inflammatory compositions and showmanship Berner has gained a cult following over the years especially in Canada and Norway where he recorded his first live album Live in Oslo (2004).
Zheng Zhengqiu.  Zheng Zhengqiu (Chinese: 鄭正秋; January 25 1889 – July 16 1935) was a Chinese filmmaker often considered a founding father of Chinese cinema.
François Kevorkian.  François Kevorkian alias François K (born 10 January 1954) is a French DJ of Armenian origin remixer producer and record label owner. Having started his career in renowned clubs such as the Paradise Garage and Studio 54 the New York City resident is widely considered as one of the forefathers of house music.
Cem Yılmaz.  Cem Yılmaz (pronounced [ˈd͡ʒem jɯɫˈmaz] born 23 April 1973 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish stand-up comedian actor and filmmaker and cartoonist best known for his films G.O.R.A. (2004) A.R.O.G (2008) and Yahşi Batı (2010) who has won two Sadri Alışık awards for his roles in Organize İşler (2005) and The Magician (2006).
Attia Hosain.  Attia Hosain (1913–1998) is a writer feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar background. She moved to Britain in 1947.
O. P. Vyas.  O. P. Vyas is an Indian lyricist musician singer and poet from Rajasthan. His songs written and sung mainly in the rajasthani language. His songs based on the themes of rajasthani culture have become popular among the people of rajasthan besides malva region (madhya pradesh state) and many other town ship of rajasthanis in india.He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of rajasthan.
Sergei Vorzhev.  Sergei Vorzhev (Russian: Сергей Дмитриевич Воржев; born February 21 1950) is a Russian artist based in Krasnodar.
Russell Allen.  Russell Allen (born July 19 1971 in Long Beach California) is a singer best known as the vocalist of American progressive metal band Symphony X.He is also a member of supergroups Star One (in which he is credited as Sir Russell Allen) Allen-Lande and most recently formed the band Adrenaline Mob.
David Schnitter.  David Schnitter (b. March 19 1948 Newark New Jersey) is an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979. He played with Freddie Hubbard from 1979 to 1981 and also worked with Frank Foster Charles Earland and Groove Holmes. He recorded for Muse Records from 1976 to 1981.
Kim Walker-Smith.  Kim Walker-Smith is an American singer songwriter worship leader and recording artist. She produced her first solo album titled Here Is My Song which was released in February 2008 through the Jesus Culture record label. Walker-Smith is best known as the worship leader for the Jesus Culture Band and Jesus Culture events and a worship pastor for Bethel Church in Redding.Her rendition of the John Mark McMillan song How He Loves has been viewed over9.5 million timeson YouTube.
Melissa Graham.  Melissa Ashley Graham (born in Coventry England) is an English singer and songwriter who is most famous as a lead singer and a member of the 90s English girlband Solid HarmoniE.
Nando Boom.  Nando Boom is a Reggaeton and Reggae en Español singer from Panamá led by Fernando Brown.Brown began singing in 1977 and Nando Boom started in 1985. Nando Boom's new and speedy music style has influenced heavily the evolution of Latin music over the past few years as one of the fathers of reggaeton. His vm grinding dance moves have also changed the way people dance since the middle 1990s.
Nicoletta (singer).  Nicoletta Grisoni longer name Nicole Fernande Grisoni-Chappuis better known by her mononym Nicoletta (born 11 April 1944 in Vongy now known as Thonon-les-Bains Haute-Savoie France) is a French pop singer. Becoming very popular on French radio and television where she had a number of hits in the 1960s and the 1970s she was considered as part of what is known as the French yé-yé generation heavily influenced by American music particularly R&B Rock and roll and Beat music.
Jesus Merino.  Jesús Merino is a Spanish comic book artist best known in the American comic industry for his collaborations with penciller Carlos Pacheco.Merino himself raised from the Línea Laberinto of Planeta-DeAgostini Spanish publisher where he drew three mini-series: Aníbal Gris (1996) Jaque Mate (1997) and Triada Vértice (1998).
Phil Porter.  Phil Porter (born 1977) is an English playwright librettist and television writer particularly known for his plays for young people. He is a graduate of the University of Birmingham.
Katsuhiko Nakagawa.  Katsuhiko Nakagawa (中川 勝彦 Nakagawa Katsuhiko July 20 1962 – September 17 1994) was a Japanese actor and musician from Tokyo. He is the grandson of Kazutaka Itō and the father of the multi-tarento Shoko Nakagawa.
Dolores Veintimilla.  Dolores Veintimilla de Galindo (Quito 1829 – Cuenca May 23 1857) was an Ecuadorian poet.Veintemilla's most well-known poem is Quejas (Complaints).Veintemilla left few works which were published posthumously in a collection by Celiano Monge in Quito.
Jared Gomes.  Paulo Sergio Jared Gomes also known as Jahred and M.C.U.D. (MC Underdog) is a Brazilian American rapper and singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Hed PE.
Tom Waits.  Thomas Alan Tom Waits (born December 7 1949) is an American singer-songwriter composer and actor.
Neşe Yaşın.  Neşe Yaşın (born Feb 12 1959) is a well known Turkish Cypriot poet and author.
Gene Hardy.  Gene Hardy is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. He performs on saxophone violin musical saw and theremin.
Paavo Lötjönen.  Paavo Lötjönen (born 29 July 1968) is a cello player for Finnish band Apocalyptica.Paavo comes from a family where both of his parents were professional musicians.At the age of 6 he took a cello and decided that would be the instrument he would play all his life.
Pardis Parker.  Pardis Parker is an award-winning director writer actor and comedian.His work has screened at over 150 film festivals worldwide and received over 80 awards and nominations he's appeared on TV and in films in the United States and Canada and he's a regular performer at the Hollywood Improv Hollywood Laugh Factory and World Famous Comedy Store.
Cvijeta Zuzorić.  Cvijeta Zuzorić (pronounced [tsʋijěta zûzoritɕ]; also Fiora Zuzori or Flora Zuzzeri) (Ragusa 1552 - Ancona 1648) was a lyric poet from the Republic of Ragusa. She wrote in Italian Latin and Croatian.
Aleksandër Stavre Drenova.  Aleksandër Stavre Drenova best known under his pen name Asdreni (11 April 1872 – 1947) was one of the most well-known Albanian poets. One of his most recognizable poems is the Albanian National Anthem Hymni i Flamurit.
Shawn Desman.  Shawn Bosco Fernandes (born January 12 1982) better known by his stage name Shawn Desman is a Canadian pop/R&B singer songwriter dancer and actor of Portuguese descent. He is signed to Universal Music Canada.
Kirk Windstein.  Kirk Windstein (born 14 April 1965 Middlesex England) is an English-American sludge metal singer and guitarist for the New Orleans bands Crowbar Down and Kingdom of Sorrow.He currently plays guitar for Crowbar. He formerly played guitar in Down resigning in 2013 and he also played bass for Valume Nob but resigned in 2006 citing he was unable to commit the time needed to give it full justice[citation needed].
Son Dam-bi.  Son Dam Bi (born September 25 1983 in Seoul South Korea) is a South Korean singer and actress.
Wrethov.  Anderz Wrethov (born 11 April 1979) is a Swedish songwriter producer and artist.
Michael Houser.  Michael Houser (January 6 1962 – August 10 2002) was a founding member and lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic. He appeared on 7 studio albums with Panic during his 16-year tenure with the band from 1986-2002. He is also featured on 4 live albums by Widespread Panic (2 released posthumously) as well as several archive releases live video concerts and compilations.
Maciej Maleńczuk.  Maciej Maleńczuk or Maciek Maleńczuk (born August 14 1961 in Wojcieszów Lower Silesian Voivodeship) is a Polish singer guitarist poet former leader of music groups Püdelsi and Homo Twist. He performed as a guest with Behemoth and was a judge in the 3rd Season of the Polish edition of the Idol series.
Rob Tweedie.  Rob Tweedie was the vocalist and founder of the St. Louis-based post-hardcore band Adair. He also founded and performed as a vocalist in Disturbing the Peace.Rob is now the Creative Director at Synergy Global Entertainment.[citation needed]
Harry M. Caudill.  Harry M. Caudill (May 3 1922 - November 29 1990) was an American author historian lawyer legislator and environmentalist from Letcher County in the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky.
Lajos Deák Ébner.  Lajos Deák Ébner (1850 Pest - 1934 Budapest) was a Hungarian painter of the Szolnok art school.
Edmé Bouchardon.  Edmé Bouchardon (29 May 1698 – 27 July 1762) was a French sculptor who was esteemed as the greatest sculptor of his time and valued as a painter and draughtsman as well.
Syed Hasan Imam (actor).  Syed Hasan Imam (Bengali: সৈয়দ হাসান ইমাম) is a veteran actor and cultural personality in Bangladesh. Hasan Imam is also well respected for his contribution to the clandestine Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra the Radio Station run by the Bangladesh government in exile in India during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
Gasparo Martellini.  Gasparo Martellini (Florence February 15 1785 -October 20 1857) was an Italian painter.
Tommy Victor.  Tommy Victor (born September 19 1966) is the lead singer and guitarist for the post-thrash/industrial metal band Prong that he founded in New York in 1986. In the late 1980s Victor worked as a sound engineer at the trendy venue CBGB in New York City. After the release of Rude Awakening in 1996 Prong disbanded and Victor moved to Los Angeles. Since then he has sporadically toured and released new Prong material.
J. Bone.  J. Bone is an Eisner Award nominated Canadian comic book artist and writer who has worked on such titles as DC Comics' Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Super Friends. He was the inker on the Eisner Award-winning one-shot Batman/The Spirit.
Aba Shanti-I.  Aba Shanti-I (real name Joseph Smith) is a sound system operator and dub producer from the UK. Aba and his sound system have been playing through UK and Europe for over 30 years. He has been a resident sound system at Notting Hill Carnival since 1993.
Ivo Pauwels.  Ivo Pauwels (1950) is a Flemish author.
Charles Keating (actor).  Charles Keating is a British actor of stage screen and television and narrator of audiobooks.Of Irish Catholic extraction Keating was born on 22 October 1941 in London England the son of Charles James Keating and Margaret Shevlin [1].
Richard Holcomb.  Richard Holcomb (born September 21 1976) is a commercial sex worker specialist street outreach worker and HIV prevention counselor in Providence Rhode Island. Holcomb is best known for his groundbreaking work in HIV Prevention when he founded 'Project Weber' a program for male sex-workers in Rhode Island The program is named after Roy Weber a 22 year old male sex worker who was murdered on Christmas Day 2003. Mr.
O'so Krispie.  O'so Krispie (born December 3 1984) is an American singer rapper and choreographer. She won the UPN reality show R U the Girl and was featured on the TLC's single I Bet released by LaFace Records. She also appeared on TLC's album Now and Forever: The Hits. She was born Tiffany Nicole Baker.
Sara Lilly.  Sara Lilly (born 20 January 1980) is a Welsh singer songwriter and actor. She was born in Cardiff and currently resides in London.
L. Brent Bozell Jr..  Leo Brent Bozell Jr. (January 15 1926 – April 15 1997) was an American conservative activist and Catholic writer.
Liu Xinglong.  Liu Xinglong (simplified Chinese: 刘醒龙; traditional Chinese: 劉醒龍; pinyin: Liú Xǐnglóng; born 10 January 1956) is a Chinese novelist who is the vice president of Hubei Writers Association and vice president of the Wuhan Literature and Art Association.
Jacob Praetorius the Elder.  Jacob Praetorius (I) or Jacob Praetorius the Elder (c. 1520 Magdeburg - 1586 Hamburg) was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Hieronymus Praetorius and the grandfather of Jacob Praetorius the Younger both also composers.
Sheila Elias.  Sheila Elias (born 1945 in Chicago Illinois) is an American artist.
Kenn Nesbitt.  Kenn Nesbitt is an American children's poet. On June 11 2013 he was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.He is a writer of humorous poetry for children including the books My Hippo Has the Hiccups and Revenge of the Lunch Ladies. Kenn Nesbitt has collaborated with poet Linda Knaus on one collection of Christmas poems entitled Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney and with children's musician Eric Herman on several CDs.
Sarah Charlesworth.  Sarah Charlesworth (March 29 1947 – June 25 2013) was an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is considered part of The Pictures Generation a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s all of whom were concerned with how images shape our everyday lives and society as a whole.
Robert Mark Kamen.  Robert Mark Kamen is an American screenwriter who has been writing major motion pictures for over twenty-five years. He is best known as creator and co-creator of the Karate Kid and Transporter franchises as well as the 2008 action thriller Taken.
Clifton Hyde.  Clifton Hyde (born November 27 1976) is an American multi-instrumentalist composer and producer currently working from and residing in New York City.A member of the Blue Man Group he has recorded and performed alongside such notable acts as Lou Reed Sigur Rós Lady Gaga Idan Reichel David Amram Amanda Palmer John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) Trevor Dunn (John Zorn/Mr.
Dave Cloud.  Dave Cloud (born August 3 1956) is an American musician singer songwriter storyteller and occasional actor. Cloud is known primarily for his amusing earthy concert performances and garage rock recordings with his band The Gospel of Power.
Eugene O'Neill.  Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16 1888 – November 27 1953) was an Irish American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
Rudy Wurlitzer.  Rudolph Rudy Wurlitzer (born January 3 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter.Wurlitzer's fiction includes Nog Flats Quake Slow Fade and Drop Edge of Yonder. He is also the author of the travel memoir Hard Travel to Sacred Places an account of his spiritual journey through Asia after the death of his wife Lynn Davis' 21-year-old son.
Peter Chrisp.  Peter Chrisp (born 20 May 1958) is a British children's author of books on history. With over sixty books published his various works include Blitzkrieg! Dorling Kindersly's Ancient Egypt Revealed and Ancient Rome Revealed The Spanish Conquests of the New World and many more.He first began writing history after working on the Mass-Observation archive at the University of Sussex.
Robbie Tronco.  Robbie Tronco is a DJ from the Philadelphia Pennsylvania area. Robbie has produced several hits such as Walk4Me and Runway as a house but broke through with his 1997 smash Fright Train which was also a big hit in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1998. In July 2007 he also founded the TroncoDelphia record label. Robbie has performed on the local and international club circuit for 35 years. He is legendary in the DJ world for his house music and is regarded as the GOD Father of House .
Tommy Makem.  Thomas Tommy Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an internationally celebrated Irish folk musician artist poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo guitar tin whistle and bagpipes and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as The Bard of Armagh (taken from a traditional song of the same name) and The Godfather of Irish Music.
Neilson Hubbard.  Neilson Hubbard is an American singer-songwriter musician and producer. His first band was called This Living Hand formed with Clay Jones (now known as a producer/engineer). They signed to Adam Duritz's label E Pluribus Unum. After the band split up Hubbard went on to record three solo albums The Slide Project Why Men Fail and Sing Into Me. He also collaborated with Matthew Ryan to form the band Strays Don't Sleep.
Syren (pornographic actress).  Syren (born May 21 1971) is a Filipino pornographic actress who started in the business around 1997.
Colin Petersen.  Frederick Colin Petersen (born 24 March 1946) is an Australian drummer record producer and former child actor. He played as a member of the bands Steve and the Board Bee Gees and Humpy Bong. In August 1969 he left the Bee Gees and he was replaced by Pentangle drummer Terry Cox to record the songs for their 1970 album Cucumber Castle.
Kevin Kelley (musician).  Kevin Daniel Kelley (March 25 1943 – April 6 2002) was an American drummer best known for his work with the rock bands The Byrds and the Rising Sons. Kelley also played drums for Fever Tree although it is unknown whether he was an official member of the group or not. In addition he worked as a session musician between 1969 and 1973 playing drums on albums by artists including John Fahey and Phil Ochs.
Mel Tormé.  Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13 1925 – June 5 1999) nicknamed The Velvet Fog was an American musician best known as a singer of jazz standards. He was also a jazz composer and arranger drummer and actor in radio film and television and the author of five books. He composed the music for the classic holiday song The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.
Heather Baker.  Heather Baker (born October 9 1984) is a female American singer songwriter and guitarist and founder of the band The Afterlife. She is currently touring with the all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens (billed as the World's Only Female Tribute to Iron Maiden).
Aphex Twin.  Richard David James (born 18 August 1971) best known by his stage name Aphex Twin is an English electronic musician and composer. He founded the record label Rephlex Records in 1991 with Grant Wilson-Claridge. He has been described by The Guardian as the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music.
Mark Bowden.  Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17 1951) is an American writer and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis Missouri he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland. While at Loyola he was inspired to embark on a journalistic career by reading Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Susan (Japanese singer).  Susan was a pop singer who recorded in Japan in the early 1980s. She is half-French and half-Japanese. Her music is technopop in style mainly featuring synthesisers and drum machines. Her records were released by CBS in the UK though no single ever reached the top 40. In Japan Epic Sony released her music.
Heloise (columnist).  Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans (born April 15 1951 in Waco Texas) best known by her pen name Heloise is an American writer author and speaker specializing in lifestyle hints including consumer issues pets travel food home improvement and health.
Sinan Alimanović.  Sinan Alimanović (born February 11 1954) is a Bosnian pianist organist composer conductor and arranger.
Michael F. Williams.  Michael F. Williams (born 1962 New Zealand) is a composer of contemporary classical music. He has received commissions from many of New Zealand's major musical institutions such as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra NBR New Zealand Opera and Chamber Music New Zealand and his work is regularly broadcast on Radio New Zealand Concert.
Antonio Salvetti.  Antonio Salvetti (1854 – August 17 1931) was an Italian architect and painter. He was born in Colle di Val d'Elsa in Tuscany. He studied Architecture at the Royal Florentine Academy of Fine Arts specializing in portraits. he stays for long Paris and Munich. In Florence he befriended many of the Macchiaioli painters including Vittorio Meoni Niccolò Cannicci and Telemaco Signorini. He painted many portraits including in pastel and many studies of painting.
Charlie Hall (actor).  Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was a film actor.Charlie Hall was born in Birmingham Warwickshire England. He learned carpentry as a trade but as a teenager he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens he visited his sister in New York and stayed there finding employment as a stagehand.
Bang Jeong-hwan.  Bang Jeong-Hwan (November 9 1899 – July 23 1931) was a pioneer of Korean juvenile literature and a children's rights activist who led the establishment of Children's Day in Korea.
Brad Stine.  Brad Stine (born 1960) is an American stand-up comedian actor and author. Relatively unknown until 2003 Stine first gained exposure when he was identified as a conservative Christian on his debut album Put a Helmet On!
Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín.  Archbishop Emeritus Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín (August 10 1927 Buenos Aires - August 27 2006 Quito) was archbishop of Guayaquil for ten years and the first member of the prelature of Opus Dei in Ecuador. He was also a distinguished lawyer frequently consulted about Ecuadorian Civil law and the author of more than 60 books about jurisprudence.
Frank Gaylord.  Frank Chalfant Gaylord II (born March 9 1925) is an American sculptor best known for The Column a group of sculptures of United States soldiers and sailors which is part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
Mathematics (producer).  Mathematics also known as Allah Mathematics (born: Ronald Maurice Bean) is a hip hop producer and DJ for the Wu-Tang Clan and its solo and affiliate projects.
Eduardo Pitta.  Eduardo Pitta (born August 9 1949) is a Portuguese poet fiction writer and essayist.
Bhawani Prasad Mishra.  Bhawani Prasad Mishra (March 29 1913 - February 20 1985) was a Hindi poet and author. He was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972 for his book Buni Hui Rassi.Born on 29 March 1913 in the village Tigaria of Hoshangabad district in erstwhile Central Province of British India Bhawani Bhai lived for a long time in Delhi but died on 20 February 1985 amidst his family members at Narsinghpur town of Madhya Pradesh where he had gone to attend a marriage function.
Mike W. Barr.  Mike W. Barr (born May 30 1952) is an American writer of comic books mystery novels and science fiction novels.
Mark W. Ryan.  Mark W. Ryan is an award-winning music editor for film and television currently living in Los Angeles California. A two-time winner of the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award he has worked on films such as Liar Liar as well as many primetime television and animation shows. Also a singer and songwriter and an accomplished guitarist Ryan began his entertainment career as a drummer in his hometown of Cleveland Ohio. He earned a B.A.
Saori Yamamoto.  Saori Yamamoto (山本早織 Saori Yamamoto born November 16 1985) is a Japanese gravure idol from Tokyo Japan.Although not well known outside of Japan she's one of the most famous Japanese idols in Japan. She is well known for her prodigious breasts although their reported size is greatly disputed particularly for a woman her size.
Patrick Phelan (composer).  Patrick Pat Phelan (born 1970) is a respected veteran video game audio composer manager and producer.
Stephen Tompkins.  Stephen Tompkins (born October 4 1971 Cleveland Ohio) is an American artist animator and composer based in Southern California. He grew up in Avon Lake Ohio near Cleveland. His work is associated with the 'Hardcore' Pop Surrealism movementTompkins' work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe since 1997.
Caleb Southern.  Caleb Southern is an American musician and record producer. He has worked with Ben Folds Five Fear of Pop and Archers of Loaf. He currently lives in Downtown Durham North Carolina and is a member of Partners Against Crime District 5.
Celso Duarte.  Celso Duarte (born June 1974 in Villarrica Paraguay) is a virtuoso of Paraguayan harp and Mexican jarocho harp arranger singer and multi-talented instrumentalist. Duarte has performed and recorded with Lila Downs since 1998 and has also accompanied and collaborated with other artists including Susana Baca Celso Piña Plácido Domingo Mariza Ramón Vargas Julieta Venegas Wynton Marsalis The Chieftains and Ry Cooder.
Samuel Blumenfeld.  Samuel L. Blumenfeld is an American author and educator.
Jackson Li.  Jackson Li (simplified Chinese: 李见深; traditional Chinese: 李見深) is aceramics artist from Jingdezhen China. He received MFA degreesfrom Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute and Alfred University.He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) and the founder ofChina Sanbao Ceramic Working Village.
Sarah Ellis (author).  This article is about the contemporary Canadian children's author. For the 19th Century English author of books about women see Sarah Stickney Ellis.Sarah Ellis (born in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a Canadian children's author and librarian. She attended the University of British Columbia where she received her Bachelors of Arts honours in 1973 and a Masters in Library Science in 1975.
Ott (record producer).  Ott is a British record producer and musician who has worked with Sinéad O'Connor Embrace The Orb and Brian Eno and has achieved recognition since 2002 for his own psychedelic dub tracks and his collaborations with Simon Posford (Hallucinogen / Shpongle). He has released two albums on Twisted Records: Blumenkraft (2003) Skylon (2008) and one album on Ottsonic: Mir (2011).
Kerry Gordy.  Kerry Ashby Gordy (born June 25 1959) is a career music executive who is now the CEO of Kerry Gordy Enterprises LLC and Nu Vintage LLC. (intellectual property and branding companies focused in entertainment).
Nebojša Todorović.  Nebojša Todorović (Serbian Cyrilic: Небојша Тодоровић ; born on 2 September 1957 in Leskovac Yugoslavia - now Serbia) is a Serbian musicologist and university professor.
Rafael Kayanan.  Rafael Kayanan is a Filipino-born naturalised American comic book artist and Filipino Martial Arts master in the Sayoc Kali system.
Mike Harrison (musician).  Mike Harrison (born 3 September 1945 in Carlisle Cumberland England) is an English musician most notable as a principal lead singer of Spooky Tooth and as a solo artist. He has also been the lead singer in The V.I.P.'s Art and the Hamburg Blues Band among others.
Nicholas Van Slyck.  Nicholas Van Slyck (October 25 1922 - July 3 1983) was an American composer of classical music. He founded the New School of Music in 1976.
Banzumana Sissoko.  Banzumana Sissoko (1890 – 1987) was a noted Jeli and N'goni player.
Kelli Lidell.  Kelli Lidell is an American country singer actress and charity fundraiser based in Los Angeles CA.
Mert Yücel.  Mert Yücel is an electronic music producer and definitely one of the key players defining the underground house sound emerging from Istanbul. Yücel produced the first house music album ever released in his own country Turkey [1]. He also has several world wide chart-topping singles such as Dreamer[2] released on US and UK labels including Baroque Records Subversive Records and Choo Choo Records[3] .
Ron Wasserman.  Ron Wasserman also known as Aaron Waters and The Mighty RAW is an American music artist best known for composing the original theme song for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and for the large volume of original songs he also recorded for the series. He is also a member of the band Fisher.Although wrongly referred to as a band The Mighty RAW is just an alias for the singer himself.
Fernando Amorsolo.  Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (May 30 1892 – April 24 1972) is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Born in Paco Manila he earned a degree from the Liceo de Manila Art School in 1909.
Felipe Delgado (record producer).  Felipe Wax Delgado a.k.a. DJ Wax Dawg (born Felipe Trio Delgado on April 6 1969) is an American DJ songwriter and record producer based in Phoenix Arizona. He is primarily known for his discovery of CeCe Peniston and collaborative works with his hometown friend and a music producer/keyboardist Rodney K. Jackson.
Keir Graff.  Keir Graff (born 1969) is an American novelist and literary editor.
Siobhan Fahey.  Máire Siobhan Deirdre Fahey is an Irish musician and a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama. She later formed the BRIT Award and Ivor Novello award winning musical act Shakespears Sister. Her vocal range is a light contralto.
Sands Hall.  Sands Hall (April 17 1952) is an American writer theatre director actor and musician. The daughter of novelist Oakley Hall she was born in La Jolla California and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California Irvine. She earned two Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Iowa one in Theatre Arts and the second in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Roberta Gambarini.  Roberta Gambarini is an Italian jazz singer. She was born in Turin Italy and started taking clarinet lessons at age twelve. She made her singing debut at age seventeen in jazz clubs around Northern Italy then moved to Milan where she worked in radio and television and began recording under her own name in 1986.
Arne Groh.  Arne Groh (1962 in Seghorn Germany) is a German sculptor living in Kassel Germany. Founder of Interferencia Galerie für Wärmeskulpturen und Heizobjekte
Jean-Jacques Perrey.  Jean-Jacques Perrey (born January 20 1929) is a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.
Bart Maris.  Bart Maris is a Belgian trumpet player. He has performed in a very large number of bands either as a group member or a guest musician on records or in concert. He was one of the original members of Fukkeduk with Niek Roseeuw Kristof Roseeuw Tom Dewulf Jan Kuijken Rik Verstrepen Frank Gijsels and also the Gerard Van Dongen Kwintet with Joe Williamson Tom Wouters Henk Bakker.
Dirk Verdoorn.  Dirk Verdoorn born in 1957 in Dordrecht is a French peintre de la marine from the Netherlands.He spent his childhood on a barge at the confluence of the Waal the Meuse and the Merwede before settling in France. He worked as an art teacher and stage designer before beginning to sell his paintings in 1997.In 2001 he received the bronze medal at the Salon de la Marine then the gold medal two years later.
Potti Veeraiah.  Potti Veeraiah is an Indian actor and comedian. Hailing from Phanigiri in Andhra Pradesh he mostly acts in Telugu films.
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.  Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (August 18 1872 – August 21 1931) was a Hindustani musician. He sang the original version of the bhajan Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram and founded the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in 1901. His original surname was Gadgil but as they hailed from the village Palus (near Sangli) they came to be known as the Paluskar family.
Suzy (singer).  Susana Guerra (24 January 1980) better known by her stage name Suzy is a Portuguese singer. She will represent Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark with the song Quero ser tua.
Chuck Tatham.  Charles Chuck Tatham (born 1963 in Guelph Ontario) is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on Arrested Development.
William Faulkner.  William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/; born Falkner September 25 1897 – July 6 1962) also known as Will Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media including novels short stories a play poetry essays and screenplays.
Howard Wyeth.  Howard Pyle Wyeth (April 22 1944 – March 27 1996) also known as Howie Wyeth was an American drummer and pianist. Wyeth is remembered for work with the saxophonist James Moody the rockabilly singer Robert Gordon the electric guitarist Link Wray the rhythm and blues singer Don Covay and the folk singer Christine Lavin. Most well known as a drummer for Bob Dylan he was a member of the Wyeth family of American artists.
Carlos Malcolm.  Carlos Malcolm (born c. 1935) is a Jamaican trombonist percussionist and bandleader who was most popular in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Michelangelo Cerruti.  Michelangelo Cerruti (1663 – 24 December 1749) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome.At a young age he was a pupil of Giuseppe Passeri in Rome and afterwards lived for a decade in northern Italy especially in Turin. After returning to Rome he worked with Andrea Pozzo and became an expert fresco artist. His painterly decorations cover vaults in many Roman churches including Santa Anastasia and San Macuto. His name is sometimes spelled Cerrutti.
Sofia Källgren.  Anna Sofia Helena Källgren known as Sofia Källgren (born 17 August 1970 Högsbo Sweden) is a Swedish singer. She sings in two other languages English and Mandarin Chinese in addition to in Swedish.In 1982 she debuted on the TV-program Gomorron Sverige on Sveriges Television. In 1986 she performed the song I Know Him So Well from Chess in De okändas revy leading to participation in a televised talent show Folkparkernas talangjakt.
Lisa Scott-Lee.  Lisa Michelle Scott-Lee (born 5 November 1975)[citation needed] is a Welsh singer-songwriter dancer and an ice skater. She is a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school. Scott-Lee is best known as being one of the three female co-lead singers of pop group Steps who formed in 1997 before splitting in 2001 the band reformed in 2011 and have been touring since 2012.
Drew32.  Andrew Michael Parks (born December 3 1991) better known by his stage name Drew32 is a Greek-American rapper record producer and songwriter. Widely reported as an emerging influence in Hip hop Drew32 began producing rapping writing and recording music at age 13 and first gained national notoriety when his music video Beyond Me was added to FuseTV and Comcast OnDemand in early 2010.
Rosie Gaines.  Rosie Gaines is an American vocalist musician singer-songwriter and record producer from Pittsburg California. She released a number of dance hits the most notable being Closer Than Close.
Lee So-ra.  Lee So-ra (born 29 December 1969) is a South Korean singer. She released her first album in 1995. Her sixth album Nunsseopdal (눈썹달) won her the Korean Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist in 2005. [1] (in Korean) [2]Lee hosted a long-running music talk show Lee Sora's Propose Show which showcased live performances of artists (similar to the current music program Love Letter). The show started airing in 1995 and the last shows were aired in 2002.
Martti Saarinen.  Martti Saarinen (born 20 October 1980 in Tuusula Finland) is a Finnish singer and the winner of the fifth series of the Idols in 2011.In the last final Saarinen got 56% of the votes. Ali Elkharam was second. The winners song was Se alkaa taas. His debut album will be released in the 2011.
Robin del Castillo.  Robin del Castillo is a Colombian musician who is becoming internationally famous for his salsa music. Since 2001 Robin Del Castillo has been based in London (UK). His most famous song is perhaps Aquella Mujer which he recorded in 2006 in Colombia.
Guy Boyd (sculptor).  Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (12 June 1923 – 26 April 1988) was an Australian potter and figurative sculptor noted for his ability to capture the fluidity and sensuality of the female form.
William Golding.  Sir William Gerald Golding Kt. CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was an English novelist playwright and poet who won a Nobel Prize in Literature and is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage the first book in what became his sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.Golding was knighted by Elizabeth II in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Dan Braun.  Dan Braun is a musician composer writer editor art director and film producer.
Austin Roberts (singer).  Austin Roberts (born George Austin Robertson Jr. September 19 1945) is an American singer and songwriter. His most successful recording was 1975's Rocky; a transatlantic Top 40 hit single.
Karen Lancaume.  Karen Lancaume (born Karine Bach 19 January 1973 – 28 January 2005) was a French pornographic film actress. She appeared in over 40 pornographic films between 1996 and 2002 all but one being on video. She is best known internationally for her role as Nadine in the controversial 2000 film Baise-moi a mainstream film in which she performed unsimulated penetration and fellatio.She was a nominee for the Best French Actress Hot d'Or in 2000. Her screen name is a pun on Lancôme.[citation needed]
Ryan Singer.  Ryan Singer is a Navajo contemporary painter living in Albuquerque New Mexico. He is of the Tódich’íinii clan born for Kinyaa’áani. Singer is known for his vibrant pop art look on contemporary and historical Native American and popular culture.As far back as I can remember I have always loved art—drawing painting making music. What I like most about it is the freedom to create something—anything—from nothing. - Ryan Singer 2009
Donald J. Sobol.  Donald J. Sobol (October 4 1924 – July 11 2012) was an American award-winning writer best known for his children's books especially the Encyclopedia Brown mystery series.
Felicia Brandström.  Felicia Flay Brandström (/ˈflaɪ/; born January 23 1987) is a Swedish singer and competed as one of the finalists in Idol 2006 — the Swedish version of Idol.
G. A. Henty.  George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886) For The Temple (1888) Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885).
Guido Rodríguez Alcalá.  Guido Rodriguez Alcalá (born Asunción Paraguay 1946) is a poet narrator historian journalist essayist and literary critic. He is an assiduous collaborator in different local and international newspapers.
William Davenport Adams.  William Davenport Adams (28 December 1851 in Brixton London - 1904 in Wandsworth London) was an English journalist and author.Born in Brixton London he was the son of William Henry Davenport Adams also a journalist and author. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Edinburgh University he began newspaper work in 1870. He became literary editor of the London Globe in 1885 and was also well known as a dramatic critic.
Delfín Chamorro.  Delfin Chamorro (December 24 1863 – August 15 1931) was a special educator. He was the creator of a method of teaching the Spanish language.
Zhang Zhen Huan.  Zhang Zhen Huan (Chinese: 张振寰; pinyin: Zhāng Zhènhuán) is a Chinese-born Singaporean actor.
Waajeed.  Waajeed (born Robert O'Bryant) is a Detroit-born music producer and one half of the hip hop and R&B group Platinum Pied Pipers and a founding member of Tiny Hearts. He formed the Bling47 record label in 2002 which has released projects by J Dilla Waajeed himself and others. Since 2013 he has preferred the name Jeedo.The name Waajeed means finder or seeker in Arabic.
Jonno Zilber.  Jonno Zilber is a Canberra based blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He began performing at the age of 12 years old after becoming interested in blues music after hearing the Muddy Waters song 'Mannish Boy'.Zilber has developed a good following especially around Canberra Tasmania and Adelaide as an energetic acoustic guitar player and performer.
Kate McMahon.  Kate McMahon Irish-American author.McMahon was born in Boston moving to Ireland in 1980. She is a tutor specializing in dyslexia. She is also an author of phonetic workbooks designed especially for adolescent and adult dyslexics. In addition she has written a number of children's books based on her own family.
Tana Hoban.  Tana Hoban (February 20 1917 – January 27 2006) was an American photographer and creator of children's books including many picture books without any words.Tana Hoban was born in Philadelphia to immigrants from Russia. Her father an advertising manager for Jewish Daily World encourage a career and enrolled her in art classes when she was very young. In 1938 she earned afellowship to travel and study painting in Europe. Back in the U.S. she married photographer Edward E.
Emil Zegadłowicz.  Emil Zegadłowicz (1888–1941) was a Polish poet prose writer novelist playwright translator expert of art; co-originator of Polish expressionism member of expressionists' group Zdrój co-founder of group Czartak.
Mark Maclaine (director).  Mark Maclaine (aka The Silence) is a film director music producer founder of Tutorfair and writer. He is best known for his work as bassist/producer for the Post Trip-Hop band Second Person. He was a co-founder of the UK hip-hop record label Dented Records and co-owner of a film company the Silence Corporation.
Rahim Shahriari.  Rahim Shahriari ( Azerbaijani: Rəhim Şəhriyari South Azerbaijani: رحیم شهریاری Persian: رحیم شهریاری‎ ) is the garmon player and singer that born in Shamqazan[1] district of Tabriz Iran at 1970.
Nell Ní Chróinín.  Nell Ní Chróinín (born 1990) is an Irish sean-nós singer from the Muskerry Gaeltacht in County Cork.
Pavel Mikšík.  Pavel Mikšík (born July 27 1943) is a Slovak architect and designer working in the field of fountain design.
Robert Shea.  Robert Joseph Shea (February 14 1933 - March 10 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings.
Dane Cook.  Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; Vicious Circle; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden; and Isolated Incident. In 2006 Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in 28 years and went platinum.
Nektaria Karantzi.  Nektaria Karantzi (born 5 August 1978 in Greece) is a Byzantine and traditional singer from Greece.
Michael Paul Mason.  Michael Paul Mason (born May 29 1971 Tulsa Oklahoma) sometimes credited as Michael Mason is an American writer author editor and journalist.
Robert Arthur Jr..  Robert A. Arthur Jr. (November 10 1909 Corregidor Philippines - May 2 1969 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) was a mystery and speculative fiction writer known for The Mysterious Traveler radio series and his Three Investigators series of novels. He is frequently confused with the film producer Robert Arthur who was nine days older than the mystery writer Robert Arthur Jr.[citation needed]Arthur was a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Tahir Bilgiç.  Tahir Bilgiç (born 12 December 1970) is an Australian comedian film and television actor of Turkish descent. He is best known for his role as Habib in the sitcoms Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers.He is often credited along with Sleek the Elite as the person who came up with the catch phrase 'Fully sick'.The phrase 'fully sick' is used throughout each of the Pizza episodes and throughout the ongoing Paul Fenech sitcoms by the main characters.
Lu Xun.  Lu Xun or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25 1881 – October 19 1936) a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese Lu Xun was a novelist editor translator literary critic essayist and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.Lu Xun's works exerted a substantial influence after the May Fourth Movement that began around 1916.
Julie Maroh.  Julie Maroh is a French graphic novel writer who originates from Northern France. She wrote Blue Is the Warmest Color (Le bleu est une couleur chaude) about the life and love of two young lesbians which has been adapted in the award winning film Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Abdelatif Kechiche.
Freddie McKay.  Freddie McKay (sometimes Freddy McKay) (1947 – 19 November 1986) was a Jamaican singer whose career spanned the rocksteady and reggae eras.
Gary Moon.  Gary Moon is a bassist who has played for several bands including Night Ranger and Three Dog Night. He has also recorded as a solo artist. Before joining Night Ranger he played for a band called The Pack with Steve Isham of Autograph. Matt Sorum later of Guns N' Roses The Cult and Velvet Revolver was also a member of the band.
Katy Garbi.  Katerina 'Katy' Garbi (Greek: Κατερίνα Καίτη Γαρμπή pronounced [kateˈrina ˈketi ɡarˈbi]; born June 8 1961[citation needed] in Egaleo Athens) is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus with some popularity in Turkey. Her career has spanned over 20 years and is marked by several multi-platinum releases. Garbi participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 for Greece with the song Ellada Hora Tou Fotos taking ninth place.
Villem Grünthal-Ridala.  Villem Grünthal-Ridala born Grünthal-Wilhelm (30 May 1885 in Kuivastu Muhu Estonia - 16 January 1942 in Helsinki Finland) was an Estonian poet translator linguist and folklorist.
Mel Powell.  Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein) (February 12 1923 – April 24 1998) was an American jazz pianist composer of classical music and music educator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1990. Powell was the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts.
Sabrina Blond.  Sabrina Blond (born on 16 February 1987) is a Czech pornographic film actress. She often works with Little Caprice[citation needed] who is also from the Czech Republic. In 2008 she started her career in adult films at around the age of 21.
Elia Abu Madi.  Elia Abu Madi (also known as Elia D. Madey; Arabic: إيليا أبو ماضي‎ Īlyā Abū Māḍī ) (1889 or 1890 – 23 November 1957) was a Lebanese-American poet.
Friedrich Christian Weber.  Friedrich Christian Weber was an 18th-century German diplomat and writer.He was born in Hanover and after the succession of fellow Hanoverian George I of Great Britain to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1714 represented English interests at the Russian court of Peter the Great. He did not excel as a diplomat but published one of the most important accounts of the period during and immediately after Peter's reign.
Barbara Morgenstern.  Barbara Morgenstern (born March 19 1971) is a German electronic music artist who has released seven full-length albums and seven EPs.
Michio Miyagi.  Michio Miyagi (宮城 道雄 Miyagi Michio April 7 1894 – June 25 1956) was a Japanese musician famous for his koto playing.He was born in Kobe. He lost his sight in 1902 when he was 8 years old and started his study in koto under the guidance of Nakajima Kengyo II dedicating the rest of his life to the instrument. In 1907 he moved with his family to Incheon in southern Korea. When he was 14 years old in 1909 he finished his first composition Mizu no Hentai.
ELDee.  Lanre Dabiri (born May 23 1977) better known by his stage name Eldee stylized as eLDee is a Nigerian American rapper record producer and architect. Lanre is a diminutive for the Yoruba name Olanrewaju (which translates to Wealth is moving forward). eLDee studied Architecture at the University of Lagos Nigeria. He is an original member of the band Trybesmen which was started in 1998 with rappers KB and Freestyle. He hails from Lagos Island in Lagos State of Nigeria
Matthias Barr.  Mathias Fritschler Barr (December 6 1831 Edinburgh - ?) was a Scottish poet. Barr's father Fidelie Barr was a native of Germany who had married the Edinburgh native Margaret Mcdonald and carried on the business of a watchmaker in that city.
Luigi Vespoli.  Luigi Vespoli (12 January 1834 – 1861) was an Italian composer. His opera La cantante premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples on 22 October 1858.
Kosaraju Raghavaiah.  Kosaraju or Kosaraju Raghavaiah or Kosaraju Raghavaiah Chowdary (Telugu: కొసరాజు రాఘవయ్య చౌదరి) was a Telugu poet and writer. His lyrics are stepped in Telugu folklore and rural idiom. Born in 1905 in an agricultural family in Appikatla village Guntur district Andhra Pradesh. Raghavaih studied Telugu literature epics and puranas. His familiarity with all aspects of Telugu rural culture and traditions empowered him to write immemorable songs for Telugu films.
Liu Tianhua.  Liu Tianhua (simplified Chinese: 刘 天 华; traditional Chinese: 劉 天 華; pinyin: Liú Tiānhuá; or Liu T'ien-hua) (1895–1932) was a Chinese musician and composer best known for his innovative work for the erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle).Liu's students such as Jiang Fengzhi and Chen Zhenduo continued to contribute to the development of the erhu.He is the younger brother of the poet Liu Bannong.
Paul Smith (Irish writer).  Paul Smith (4 October 1920 Dublin Ireland – 11 January 1997 Dublin) was an Irish writer and playwright.
Neil Fitzwiliam.  Neil Fitzwiliam is an English actor who has made several appearances in theatre film and television productions.Credits include the first stage production of the musical Cats and a part as a dancer in the film The Slipper and the Rose. His most notable role was as Frank Weisel in the BBC situation comedy Yes Minister.
Valter Skarsgård.  Valter Skarsgård (born 25 October 1995) is a Swedish actor. He is the son of actor Stellan Skarsgård and brother to Alexander Gustaf and Bill Skarsgård.
Panda (musician).  Pieter Hooghoudt (born April 14 1986) known by his stage name Panda a Dutch electronic music artist living in Amsterdam specializing in Drum and Bass. He gained an interest in electronic music in his teenage years. He was inspired to write electronic music after seeing a live performance by an electronic music act in his birthplace Nijmegen.
Jan Asselijn.  Jan Asselijn (c.1610 – October 1 1652) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Greg Dawes.  Gregory (Greg) Dawes (born 1957) is a professor of Latin American Studies at North Carolina State University. He has written on Latin American studies and literary theory and is the editor of A Contracorriente an online academic journal dedicated to approaching social history and Latin American literature from a left-wing perspective.Dawes' journal A Contracorriente was created to according to him provide a forum for debates among left-wing points of view in Latin American studies.
Arthur A. Denny.  Arthur Armstrong Denny (June 20 1822 – January 9 1899) was one of the founders of Seattle Washington the acknowledged leader of the pioneer Denny Party and later the city's wealthiest citizen and a 9-term member of the territorial legislature. Seattle's former Denny Hill was named after him; it was flattened in a series of regrading projects and its former site is now known as the Denny Regrade.
Macedonio Alcalá.  Macedonio Alcalá Prieto (September 12 1831 in Oaxaca Oaxaca – August 24 1869 in Oaxaca Oaxaca) was a Mexican violinist pianist and songwriter remembered today especially for his waltz Dios nunca muere (God Never Dies).Alcalá was born in the City of Oaxaca in 1831. He showed an early interest in music and began attending a school established by Professor José Domingo Martinez. His musical talent was soon evident and he learned to play the piano cello viola flute and ophicleide.
Pikachunes.  Pikachunes is the indie pop musical project of Miles McDougall (i.e. Miles G. Loveless) a songwriter musician and producer based in Wellington New Zealand. Trained in jazz for McDougall a typical track features one or two synths a 70's analog bass line and a series of reverberated vocal harmonies all driven by an atypical disco beat. Since 2011 he's released a full album and an EP on Lil' Chief Records.
Chiaki J. Konaka.  Chiaki J. Konaka (小中 千昭 Konaka Chiaki) born April 4 1961) is a Japanese writer and scenarist best known for Serial Experiments Lain and later for the Digimon season Digimon Tamers. He is also known to be the creator of Ultraman Gaia as cited by Tsuburaya Productions.Konaka's serious works generally have a dark psychological tone. As a Cthulhu Mythos writer he tends to add Lovecraftian elements to his works.Chiaki J.
Gunavarma I.  Gunavarma I was an early Kannada language writer who authored two classics the Sudraka and the Harivamsa around 900 CE.His works are considered extinct but are found referenced in later years. According to historians Kamath and Narasimhacharya (also a Kannada language expert) he was patronised by Western Ganga Dynasty King Ereganga Neetimarga II in the late 9th century and early 10th century period.
William Samuel Furneaux.  William Samuel Furneaux (2 June 1855 Devonport – 1940) was a British science teacher and nature writer. He gained considerable fame in the 1890s and early twentieth century for his popular books dealing with butterflies moths pond animals and plants found in the English countryside.
Rokia Traoré.  Rokia Traoré (born January 26 1974) is a Victoires de la Musique award-winning Malian singer songwriter and guitarist born in Mali as a member of the Bambara ethnic group. Her father was a diplomat and she travelled widely in her youth. She visited such countries as Algeria Saudi Arabia France and Belgium and was exposed to a wide variety of influences.
Bernard Benstock.  Bernard Benstock (1930—July 14 1994) was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami. He was an authority on British mystery writers and Irish writers Sean O'Casey and James Joyce. He was editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement and a co-founder of the International James Joyce Foundation of which he was president for eight years. He died on July 14 1994 at the age of 64 in Egremont Massachusetts.
Ethan Gilsdorf.  Ethan Gilsdorf is an American writer poet editor critic teacher and journalist. He was born in Dover New Hampshire and raised in the nearby town of Lee. He has lived in Northampton and Amherst Massachusetts; Brattleboro Vermont; Baton Rouge Louisiana; Paris France; and currently lives in Somerville Massachusetts. He attended Oyster River High School in Durham New Hampshire and received his B.A.
Manke Nelis.  Manke Nelis born Cornelis Pieters was a Dutch singer in the levenslied genre.
Ludvig Oskar.  Ludvig Oskar (January 5 1874 in Kuusalu Estonia — June 1 1951 in Oldenburg Germany) was an Estonian painter.He started his art studies in 1903 while artist Ants Laikmaa opened his studio school. In addition to studio classes Oskar took watercolor classes with Karl Winkler.After studies abroad he taught at Tallinna Reaalkool (Science High School of Tallinn).
Dale Chihuly.  Dale Chihuly (born September 20 1941) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. His works are considered unique to the field of blown glass moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture (Museum of Fine Arts Boston). The technical difficulties of working with glass forms are considerable yet Chihuly uses it as the primary medium for installations and environmental artwork.
Charles d'Helfer.  Charles d'Helfer (1598–1661) was a French baroque composer and maître de musique at Soissons Cathedral. His masses follow a strict one syllable per note style.He is best remembered for his requiem for four voices of 1656 which was used for the funeral of composer Michel Richard Delalande in 1726 and was the basis of Julien-Aimable Mathieu (1734-1811) and François Giroust's requiem mass for Louis XV in 1775.
Felix Galimir.  Felix Galimir (May 12 1910 Vienna – November 10 1999 New York) was an Austrian-born American-Jewish violinist and music teacher.He studied with Adolf Bak and Simon Pullman at the Vienna Conservatory from the age of twelve and graduated in 1928. With his three sisters he founded the Galimir Quartet in 1927 to commemorate the centenary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Dan Stevens (musician).  Daniel Keith Dandrew Stevens (born October 19 1978 in New Jersey) is an American musician and songwriter.Stevens is the current bassist in the punk rock group The Dead Milkmen replacing the deceased Dave Schulthise for Dead Milkmen reunion performances in 2004 and officially joining the band during their 2008 reformation.
Vincenzo Meucci.  Vincenzo Meucci (1694 in Florence–1766 in Florence) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Born in Florence. He was a pupil first of the painter Sebastiano Galeotti then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna.He was patronized by the Marchese Giovan Battista Salimbeni of Siena as well as the cardinals Alessandro Chigi Zondadari and Neri Corsini.
Agnaldo Rayol.  Agnaldo Rayol (born Agnaldo Coniglio Rayol on May 5 1938 in Niterói) is a Brazilian singer and actor. He sings love ballads and romantic music in general with an emphasis on Italian songs.
Laura Wilson (writer).  Laura Wilson (born 1964) is an English crime-writer based in London where she was born and raised. She has degrees in English Literature form Somerville College Oxford and University College London and has worked as a teacher and editor of non-fiction.
Audrey Wurdemann.  Audrey Wurdemann (January 1 1911 – May 20 1960 Coral Gables Florida) was an American poet. She was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at the age of 24 for her collection Bright Ambush.Wurdemann was born in Seattle Washington. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She never attended grammar school and entered high school at the age of 11.
Marco Sassone.  Marco Sassone OMRI (born 1942 in Campi Bisenzio) is an Italian painter. He moved to Florence in 1954 where his interest in painting began. He studied architectural drafting at the Istituto Galileo Galilei and sold his first works watercolor sketches to tourists.Sassone studied with painter Silvio Loffredo who had been a pupil of the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka.
Nicolas Cordier.  Nicolas Cordier (1567–1612) was a French sculptor painter and printmaker working in Rome and also known as il Franciosino (the little Frenchman) Nicholas Cordier or Niccolò da Lorena.Cordier was born in Saint-Mihiel. As a sculptor he primary produced religious-themed works which were executed for church commissions. Some of his surviving works can be found at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore and in The Louvre. He died in Rome in 1612.
Quinn Walker.  Quinn Malachi Walker (born October 3 1979 Oakland California) also known as Mighty Quinn Walker is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his song My Road which aired on ABC television network's Scrubs on February 3 2009. Season 8 Episode 7 My New Role.The online magazine Digizine ran a story on Walker in the summer 2007 issue page 41 as a featured graduate of the Future Rhythm program in Santa Clara California.
Terje Stigen.  Terje Stigen (28 June 1922 – 14 August 2010) was a Norwegian author.
Brent Cobb.  Brent Cobb is an American country music singer-songwriter from Ellaville Georgia. He currently writes for Carnival Music and released his self-titled EP Brent Cobb in 2012 (Carnival Recording Company) . His songs have been recorded by Luke Bryan Little Big Town Eli Young Band Kellie Pickler David Nail and Frankie Ballard.
George Lewis (clarinetist).  George Lewis (July 13 1900 – December 31 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.
Paul Simon.  Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Simon's fame influence and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote nearly all of the pair's songs including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: The Sound of Silence Mrs. Robinson and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Sandi Thom.  Alexandria Sandi Thom (born 11 August 1981 Banff Aberdeenshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was one of the first artists along with Arctic Monkeys a few months before to come to the mainstream thanks to the Internet. She became widely known in 2006 after a series of webcasts and the success of the UK number one single I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair). Thom has released five studio albums: Smile...
Fenton Williams.  Fenton Williams is a production designer and video director. He has worked with Dave Matthews Band since 1991. He began as their road manager and has served as Dave Matthews Band's lighting designer and video director for the last 20 years.
Declan Galbraith.  Declan John Galbraith (born 19 December 1991 Hoo St Werburgh Kent) is an English singer. He is best known for his 2002 hit single Tell Me Why which peaked at #29 in the UK Singles Chart.
Tony Levin (drummer).  Not to be confused with bass player Tony LevinTony Levin (30 January 1940 – 3 February 2011) was an English jazz drummer.Levin played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the 1960s with artists including Joe Harriott Al Cohn Harry Sweets Edison Zoot Sims and Toots Thielemanns.Levin was born in Much Wenlock Shropshire where his family had been evacuated in the Second World War; they subsequently returned to Birmingham where as a teenager Levin taught himself to play the drums and began an involvement with the jazz scene.His first major position came when he joined Tubby Hayes' Quartet (1965-9). 
Chi Cheng (musician).  Chi Cheng (July 15 1970 – April 13 2013) was an American musician best known as the bassist for the American alternative metal band Deftones. His career came to an abrupt halt in 2008 when he was involved in a serious automobile accident in Santa Clara California. After the accident he remained in a semi-comatose state for four years before dying of a cardiac arrest in April 2013.
Billy Griffin.  William L. Billy Griffin (born in Baltimore Maryland) is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known for replacing Smokey Robinson as lead singer of The Miracles in 1972.
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay.  Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: হেমন্ত কুমার মুখোপাধ্যায়; also Hemanta Mukherjee; 16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989) was a prolific and legendary Bengali singer composer and producer. He sang in Hindi films under the name Hemant Kumar.
Jim Clifton.  Jim Clifton is Chairman and CEO of Gallup.Clifton has served as CEO of Gallup a leader in organizational consulting and public opinion research since 1988. His most recent innovation the Gallup World Poll is designed to give the world's 7 billion citizens a voice in virtually all key global issues.
Jeff Dean.  Jeff Dean is a punk rock musician and recording engineer based out of Chicago Illinois. He is best known for playing guitar in the The Bomb with Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun and Noise By Numbers with Dan Vapid of The Methadones.In addition to these bands he is lead guitarist for All Eyes West Explode and Make Up and Dead Ending. Dean has also played in Tomorrows Gone Cleons Down Yesterday's Heroes Zero in Trust The Story So Far Four Star Alarm and Certain People I Know.
Ivor Darreg.  Ivor Darreg (May 5 1917 – February 12 1994) was a leading proponent of and composer of microtonal or xenharmonic music. He also created a series of experimental musical instruments.Darreg a contemporary of Harry Partch and a close colleague of John H. Chalmers Erv Wilson and Joel Mandelbaum was one of America's leading theorists and practitioners of experimental intonation and experimental instrument building.
Isaías D'Oleo Ochoa.  Isaías D'Oleo Ochoa (alternatively spelled Isaias Doleo Ochoa) (born December 23 1980) is a Costa Rican philologist poet and editor.
Antoinette (rapper).  Antoinette is an American rapper from Queens New York who released two albums during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She made her first appearance on the producer Hurby Azor's 1987 compilation album Hurby's Machine with her song I Got An Attitude. She has been mentioned in the Vibe Hip-Hop Divas publication.
Toc Tien.  Nguyễn Khoa Tóc Tiên (born 13 May 1989) who uses the stage name Tóc Tiên is a Vietnamese pop singer who currently lives in the United States. She is both an international student and a regular performer on Paris By Night a Vietnamese-language variety show. She has released four solo albums two of them before she was 19. Her two best-known songs are Gió (wind) and Đã yêu (love).
Joseph Campbell.  Joseph John Campbell (March 26 1904 – October 30 1987) was an American mythologist writer and lecturer best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: Follow your bliss.
Agostino Agostini.  Agostino Agostini (died 1569) was a Renaissance era singer composer and priest of Ferrara mostly active in the 1540s. He was a mansionary chaplain at the San Giorgio Cathedral in Ferrera and his illegitimate son (sometimes listed as his nephew) was composer Lodovico Agostini noted for publications of enigmatic canons.
John Head.  John Head is an English musician from Kensington Liverpool. He is the younger brother of Mick Head and has performed with Shack and The Pale Fountains as lead guitarist. He has also performed with Love.
Bobbio Scholiast.  The Bobbio Scholiast (commonly abbreviated schol. Bob.) was an anonymous scholiast working in the 7th century at the monastery of Bobbio and known for his annotations of texts from classical antiquity.
Loren Coleman.  Loren Coleman (born July 12 1947 in Norfolk Virginia) is an author of books on a number of topics including cryptozoology.
Eddie Shu.  Eddie Shu (né Edward Shulman; 18 March 1918 New York City — 4 July 1986 St. Petersburg Florida though he lived in Tampa) was an American swing and jazz multi-instrumentalist with high proficiency on tenor and alto saxophone clarinet trumpet harmonica and accordion. He also was a popular comedic ventriloquist. He is more known for his tenor playing but he maintained performed and recorded using his other talents throughout his jazz career.
Fernand Khnopff.  Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (12 September 1858 – 12 November 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter.
Martin Knight (author).  Martin Knight is a British author born in Epsom in Surrey in 1957 mainly associated with working class culture and football literature. In 1999 Hoolifan and The Naughty Nineties were released; both books dealing with the subject culture and history of football hooliganism. Knight was co-author with Martin King whose hooligan memoirs form the core of the books. Irvine Welsh provided the introduction to the latter book.
Wolfgang Borchert.  Wolfgang Borchert (German: [ˈbɔɐ̯çɐt]; 20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947) was a German author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside) which he wrote in the first days after World War II.
Dan Elkan.  Dan Elkan (born September 7 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and producer who is best known as the singer and guitarist for the rock band Them Hills. Elkan has performed live with Broken Bells Hella and Kim Deal and has appeared on recordings by Hella Team Sleep Norah Jones and Zach Hill. Elkan produced Aaron Ross' 2007 album Shapeshifter and tracks for Golden Shoulders' Get Reasonable 2009.
Dan Nainan.  Dan Nainan is an American comedian. He performs stand up comedy usually centered around his experiences as a half Indian half Japanese man.
Flora Annie Steel.  Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was an English writer. She was the daughter of George Webster. In 1867 she married Henry William Steel a member of the Indian civil service and for the next twenty-two years lived in India chiefly in the Punjab with which most of her books are connected.When her husband's health was weak Flora Annie Steel looked after some of his responsibilities.
Richard Heffer.  Richard Heffer (born 28 July 1946) is a British actor best known for his roles on television in the 1970s and 1980s when he became a very familiar face.He played supporting roles in a variety of series in his early career including Department S The Pathfinders and Jason King before landing the role of British Army Captain Tim Downing in the hit BBC 1970s television series Colditz (1972–74) in which Heffer was a regular throughout. He went on to play Det. Sgt.
Abby Travis.  Abby Travis (born November 10 1969 in Los Angeles California) is an American musician songwriter and performer. She is the daughter of Alice Travis Germond the current Secretary of the Democratic National Committee and Emmy award winning cameraman Larry Travis.Abby Travis began her performance career in 1986 as the bassist in Los Angeles band The Lovedolls who were spawned from the cult films Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and Lovedolls Superstar directed by Dave Markey.
S. Rajeswara Rao.  Salur Rajeswara Rao (Telugu: సాలూరు రాజేశ్వరరావు) (11 October 1922 – 25 October 1999) was a composer of musical scores for South Indian films for over half a century. He also sang and played the harmonium.He was born in the village of Sivaramapuram near Salur in Vizianagaram district (formerly Srikakulam district) Andhra Pradesh India. His father Sanyasi Raju was a famous mridangam player at concerts performed by Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu and also a lyricist.
Marta Minujín.  Marta Minujín (born January 30 1943) is an Argentine conceptual and performance artist.
Hal Bevan-Petman.  Henry Charles 'Hal' Bevan-Petman a British painter born in Barton Regis Rural District Gloucestershire England on 28 October 1894 to Bertram Amor Bevan-Petman (1870-1931) and Maria Minnie Bevan Petman (1869-1942).His family was of Anglo-Indian ancestry and included prominent lawyers and judges who served at various eminent positions during the British Raj.He was educated at Clifton College Bristol from 1908 to 1910 and resided through this period at North Town Boys House.Hal played Cricket for the Clifton College XI at Lord's against Tonbridge in 1914.Hal subsequently applied to and was accepted by Slade School of Fine Art in 1914 and received a two year scholarship amounting to 35 Pound Sterling.This scholarship was then renewed in 1916.During this scholastic period he received the First Prize for Figure Painting and Figure Drawing. 
John Robison (inventor).  Sir John Robison KH FRSE FRSSA (11 June 1778 Edinburgh - 1843) was a Scottish inventor and writer on scientific subjects. He was the son of Professor John Robison.Robison was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh.He entered the service of Nizam of Hyderabad as contractor for the establishment and maintenance of military service.
Mick Brown (musician).  Mick Brown a.k.a. Wild Mick Brown (born ca. September 8 1956) is a drummer who has played in the bands Dokken Ted Nugent Lynch Mob and Xciter. He is a co-founder of Dokken and is known by many Dokken fans as Wild Mick Brown.
Bryan Sutton.  Bryan Sutton is an American musician. Primarily known as a flatpicked acoustic guitar player Sutton also plays many other instruments including mandolin banjo and electric guitar.Sutton first came to prominence as part of Ricky Skaggs' bluegrass band Kentucky Thunder. Sutton eventually left the band to focus on session work.
Vladimir Krantz.  Vladimir Pavlovich Krantz (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Кра́нц; February 17 1913 Mozdok North Caucasus Russian Empire – July 20 2003 Saint Petersburg Russia) - a Soviet Russian painter lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his lirical landscape paintings.
Marco Moré.  Marco Antonio Moreno García (born 1 September 1984) better known as Marco Moré is a Mexican singer songwriter and actor. Second place winner of the Mexican reality show La Academia in 2003.
Antonio Bruno.  Antonio Bruno was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Modena or Correggio and painted at Parma in the manner of Correggio of whom if not a pupil he was a great imitator and contemporary as one of his works is dated 1530. Antonio Bruni refers to both a poet (1593–1635) from Apulia; and also a painter (1767–1825).
Neil Christian.  Neil Christian born Christopher Tidmarsh (4 February 1943 – 4 January 2010) had a solo hit single in 1966 when That's Nice (written by Miki Dallon) reached Number 16 in the UK Singles Chart. He remains however a one-hit wonder. Follow-up singles Oops and Two at a Time never reached the charts. He was born Hoxton East London.
Bunny Wailer.  Bunny Wailer (born Neville O'Riley Livingston 10 April 1947 Jamaica) also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately as Jah B is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. A three-time Grammy award winner he is considered one of the longtime standard bearers of reggae music. He has been named by Newsweek as one of the three most important musicians in world music.
John Harris (author).  John Harris (born 1949) is an American author best known for Numerican Nation: A Self Portrait in which he chronicles the first thirty years of his life and his views on United States politics from the perspective of the descendants of slavery. Harris was born in Camden South Carolina. He moved to Mount Vernon New York in 1958. He graduated from Mount Vernon High School then continued on to Central Connecticut State University where he earned a bachelors degree in Political Science.
Leo Kennedy.  John Leo Kennedy (August 22 1907 – 2000) was a Canadian poet and critic who in the 1920s and 1930s was a member of the Montreal Group of modernist poets. The Canadian Encyclopedia says of him that Kennedy helped change the direction of Canadian poetry in the 1920s.
Hong Kyung-min.  Hong Kyung-Min (Hangul: 홍경민; born February 9 1976) is a South Korean pop rock singer known for his versatility. He is one of a few singers in Korea that excels at many different styles of music from rock to dance to ballad. He has also proven himself a talented musician and a well rounded entertainer.
Gustav Paul Closs.  Gustav Paul Closs a landscape painter was born at Stuttgart in 1840 and received his first instructions in the School of Arts there under Funk but afterwards studied in Rome Naples Munich Paris and other places. He also made a number of student-tours especially to the Chiem-See in Bavaria on the borders of which he died in 1870 at Prien.
Robert Lepper.  Robert Lepper (1906-1991) was an American artist and art professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology now Carnegie Mellon University who developed the country's first industrial design degree program.
Brice Marden.  Brice Marden (born October 15 1938) is an American artist generally described as Minimalist although it is difficult to categorize his work. He lives and works in New York City; Tivoli New York; Hydra Greece; and Eagles Mere Pennsylvania.
Karl Knabl.  Karl Knabl (1850-1904) was a German landscape and genre painter.
Euge Groove.  Steven Eugene Grove (born November 27 1962) better known as Euge Groove is an American smooth jazz saxophonist with a strong Top-40 background.Born in Hagerstown Maryland he graduated from the University of Miami School of Music in 1984. Grove did not record his first solo album until 2000.
Antony C. Sutton.  Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14 1925 – June 17 2002) was a British and American economist historian and writer.
Myra Molloy.  Myra Molloy (มณีภัสสร ไมร่า มอลลอย born 18 September 1997) is a American-Thai soprano classical crossover and pop artist. Her father is American and her mother is Thai. In 2011 Myra won the premier season of Thailand’s Got Talent with her performances of a combination of cross-over classical and Broadway songs. (Time to Say Goodbye and Think of me)
Connie Eaton.  Connie Eaton (March 1 1950 - September 30 1999) was a country music singer. Eaton was a native of Nashville Tennessee and began her recording career as a teenager in the late 1960s recording for Chart Records. Chart was the label that established Lynn Anderson as a major country singer and Eaton was considered by the country music press as the label's next Anderson. Prior to beginning her recording career Eaton had been a runnerup in a Miss Nashville beauty contest.
Dominika Mirgová.  Dominika Mirgová (born 23 December 1991) is a Slovak singer and actress from Trnava. She first appeared at age 15 in the third season of Slovensko hľadá SuperStar which is based on the British TV-show Pop Idol where she came in second. One year later in 2008 she debuted with her first solo album.
Bushwick Bill.  Richard Stephen Shaw (born December 8 1966) better known by the stage names Bushwick Bill and Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin the Barbarian Mother Funky Stay High Dollar Billstir is a Jamaican-born American rapper. He is a member of the hip hop group Geto Boys.
Ulrik Munther.  Jens Ulrik Munther (born in Kungsbacka Sweden on 18 February 1994) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist signed to Universal Music Sweden.
Jon Astley.  Jon Astley is a British record producer who also recorded and released two albums as a singer-songwriter in the late 1980s.
Ciarán Farrell.  Ciarán Farrell (born 1969 Dublin Ireland) is an Irish composer who has been active in his field since graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. He has composed works for orchestra ensemble choir and solo instruments as well as for TV and film productions.
Sheva Ausubel.  Sheva Ausubel (1896-1957) was an American painter and textile artist.
Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar.  Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar (1861 - 14 November 1914) was a Malayali barrister landlord journalist essay writer critic and short story writer.
Gwynne Williams.  Gwynne Williams (born 1937) is a Welsh writer of poetry and prose as well as a translator of numerous literary works from English into Welsh. A strong proponent of Cymraeg the native language of Wales Williams has been writing since the 1950s with several volumes in print including Rhwng gewyn ac asgwrn (1969) Gwreichion (three editions between 1973 and 1991) and Pysg (two editions in English and Welsh 1986).
Kaïssa.  Kaïssa is a Cameroon born world musician. She moved to Paris with her family at thirteen and to New York City in 1996. Kaissa worked on stage and/or in studio with Salif Keita Manu Dibango Kofi Olomide Papa Wemba Cesária Évora Martha Wash Diana Ross Paul Simon and others. Her first solo album was Looking There.In 2008 she joined David Byrne on the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour.
Rebecca Saire.  Rebecca Saire (born 16 April 1963) is a British actress and writer who gained early attention when at the age of fourteen she played Juliet for the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
Adrian Dawson.  Adrian Dawson (born 26 January 1971) is a British author of thriller and horror fiction currently best known for his 2010 debut novel Codex.Codex was written in 1999 and Dawson was signed to the Christopher Little Literary Agency on the strength of the novel but they failed to find a publisher. Codex deals with cryptology religion and high-end technology with one publisher stating that most readers would turn to non-fiction rather than fiction for such subject matter.
John Murphy (composer).  John Murphy (born 4 March 1965) is an English film composer. He is a self-taught multi-instrumental musician who began his career in the 1980s working notably with The Lotus Eaters Thomas Lang Gary Wall and Claudia Brücken. Since the beginning of his career he has collaborated numerous times with several directors mainly Vadim Jean and Danny Boyle.
Gautam Chattopadhyay.  Gautam Chattopadhyay (born 1 Jun 1948 - 20 Jun 1999) was an Indian musician singer who rose to worldwide fame as a founder and inspirational leader of the band Moheener Ghoraguli which was formed in the 1975 arguably Bengal's first band.
John James Williams (poet).  John James Williams (8 October 1869 – 6 May 1954) commonly known by his bardic name of J.J. was a Welsh poet and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1936 to 1939.He was born in Taigwynion
Sammy Lawhorn.  Sammy David Lawhorn (July 12 1935 – April 29 1990) was an American Chicago blues guitarist best known as a member of Muddy Waters' band although he also accompanied many other blues musicians including Otis Spann Willie Cobbs Eddie Boyd Roy Brown Big Mama Thornton John Lee Hooker James Cotton and Junior Wells.
Olympe Bradna.  Olympe Bradna (August 12 1920 – November 5 2012) was a French dancer and actress later based in the United States for many years until her death.
Jessica Wahls.  Jessica Martina Wahls (born February 2 1977 in Bad Nauheim Hesse) also known under her nickname Jess is a German pop singer songwriter and television host who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels the biggest-selling German girlband to date according to the German media.
Merric Boyd.  William Merric Boyd his birth name (24 June 1888 – 9 September 1959) was an Australian artist active as a ceramicist painter and sculptor. It was as Merric Boyd that he was given the fine distinction of being the father of Studio pottery in Australia. The Boyd family of many generations includes painters sculptors architects and other arts professionals commencing with Boyd's father Arthur Merric Boyd. Boyd's brothers were Penleigh a landscape artist and Martin a writer.
Lee Dorsey.  Irving Lee Dorsey (December 24 1924 – December 1 1986) was an African American pop and R&B singer during the 1960s. His biggest hits were Ya Ya (1961) and Working in the Coal Mine (1966). Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.
Yohio.  Kevin Johio Lucas Rehn Eires (born 12 July 1995) better known by his stage name Yohio (stylized in upper-case as YOHIO) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his performances as Yohio and usually wears a lolita dress and has an androgynous appearance on stage. He is a former member of the Swedish rock band Seremedy which disbanded in April 2013. Yohio has participated in Melodifestivalen both in 2013 and 2014 making it to the final on both occasions.
Volodymyr Ivasyuk.  Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к) (March 4 1949 – May 18 1979) was a very popular Ukrainian songwriter composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song Chervona Ruta popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971 and later covered by other singers.
Larry Platt.  General Larry Platt (born August 27 1947) is an American civil and political rights activist and rapper who gained fame with his performance of Pants on the Ground on the ninth season of American Idol. His hit release song Pants on the Ground was released on iTunes and received over 150000 hits. As of May 2013 the video has received over 9 million views on YouTube.
Jacob Levecq.  Jacob Levecq (1634–1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter trained by Rembrandt.
John Trenchard (writer).  John Trenchard (1662 – 17 December 1723) was an English writer and Commonwealthman.
George Porter Jr..  George Joseph Porter Jr. (born December 26 1947) is a musician best known as the bassist and singer of The Meters. Along with Art Neville Porter formed the group in the mid 1960s and came to be recognized as one of the progenitors of funk. The Meters disbanded in 1977 but reformed in 1989.
Jennifer Milan.  Jennifer Milan (born 22 September 1987 in Milan Italy) is an Italian R&B and Pop singer.
Belén Arjona.  Belén Arjona (Madrid May 10 1985) is a Spanish singer.
Thomas Carew.  Thomas Carew (pronounced as Carey) (1595 – 22 March 1640) was an English poet among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets.
Capistrano de Abreu.  João Capistrano de Abreu (Maranguape 1853 — Rio de Janeiro 1927) was a Brazilian historian. His works are characterized by a rigorous investigation of the sources and a critical view of the historical process. João Capistrano de Abreu was born in Maranguape Ceará. He dedicated himself to the study of colonial Brazil. His book Capítulos de História Colonial (Chapters of Colonial History) is a major reference for all who study Brazilian history.
John Brewster (musician).  John Brewster (John Carrington Brewster-Jones) is an Australian guitarist who has played in a number of Australian rock bands including The Angels and The Party Boys.
Steven Curtis Chapman.  Steven Curtis Chapman (born November 21 1962) is an American Christian music singer-songwriter record producer actor author and social activist.After starting his career in the late 1980s as a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music Chapman has since been recognized as one of the most prolific singers in the genre releasing over 20 albums. Chapman has also won five Grammy awards and 58 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards more than any other artist in history.
Joel Graham.  Joel Graham is the bassist of English thrash metal group Evile. He was formerly the bassist of metal band Rise to Addiction.
Glenn Lyse.  Glenn Roger Lyse (born in Stavanger Norway on 4 April 1974) is a Norwegian singer songwriter and musician who won season 4 of the reality television show Idol on 21 December 2007. with other finalist Bjørn Johan Muri becoming runner-up. Prior to Idol Lyse had followed a musical career for many years playing solo and in various bands most notably in the trio Nash and in partnership with Christer Knutsen the 1990s band Jam Pack.
Maggie Jones (blues musician).  Maggie Jones (c. 1900—unknown) was an American blues singer and pianist who recorded thirty-eight songs between 1923 and 1926. She was billed as The Texas Nightingale. Jones is best remembered for her songs Single Woman's Blues Undertaker's Blues and Northbound Blues.
Peter Bieri (author).  Peter Bieri (born 23 June 1944) better known by his pseudonym Pascal Mercier is a Swiss writer and philosopher.
Charlotte Eskildsen.  Charlotte Eskildsen is a Danish fashion designer.
Jikki.  Pillavalu Gajapathi Krishnaveni more famously known as Jikki was a popular film playback singer from Andhra Pradesh. She sang over nearly 10000 songs in Telugu Tamil Kannada Malayalam Hindi and Sinhala languages. Her mother tongue was Telugu. She speaks Tamil fluently.
Jia Ruhan.  Jia Ruhan (贾茹涵) is a Chinese soprano who performs in plays as well as in opera musicals films and solo recitals.
Dim Zupan.  Dim Zupan (born 19 February 1946) is a Slovene children's writer. He has also publushed three novels for adult readers.Zupan was born in Ljubljana in 1946. He studied Law at the University of Ljubljana. He published his first children's book in 1991 introducing the characters of Drekec Pekec and Pukec Smukec (Super Pooper and Farty Party) which became very popular with young readers and feature in a further four of his books.
Carl Douglas.  Carl Douglas (born 10 May 1942) is a Jamaican singer best known for his song Kung Fu Fighting.Born in Kingston Jamaica Douglas was based in the United Kingdom and his song Kung Fu Fighting hit number one in both the U.K. Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. It was awarded gold status by the RIAA on 27 November 1974.
Colm de Bhailís.  Colm de Bhailís (2 May 1796 – 27 February 1906) was an Irish poet and songwriter from Lettermullen Connemara Ireland. He was quite possibly the last living person from the 18th century.De Bhailís was a stonemason who travelled extensively throughout Ireland and is believed to have lived for some time in Kilrush County Clare and Westport County Mayo.
Lojze Kovačič.  Lojze Kovačič (9 November 1928 – 1 May 2004) was a Slovene writer. His novel The Newcomers (Slovene: Prišleki) is often considered one of the most important Slovene novels of the 20th century and has been translated into German French Spanish and Dutch.Kovačič was born to a Slovene father and a German mother in Basel Switzerland in 1928.
Eun Ji-won.  Eun Ji-won (born June 8 1978) is a Korean rapper host dancer composer and former leader of the first generation idol group Sechs Kies (젝스키스). Eun was the oldest member of the group and pursued a solo career in 2001 with his first single (A-Ha). He returned to the K-pop scene in 2007 with the Latin-hip-hop single Adios. The following year Eun released an album (G Code) and a single (Dangerous).
Patrick Maher (writer).  Patrick Maher (born in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1965) is an American writer. He has written two books Candid Confessions and Pleng's Song. A third Memories of Gaslight has not yet been published.
Thelma Carpenter.  Thelma Carpenter (January 15 1922 – May 14 1997) was a jazz singer and actress best known as Miss One the Good Witch of the North in the movie The Wiz.
Gramophonedzie.  Marko Milićević (Serbian: Марко Милићевић) most known as Gramophonedzie (Грамофонџије Gramofondžije) is a Serbian DJ from Belgrade. He is best known for his 2010 single Why Don't You which has peaked to number 12 on the UK Singles Chart and was on Now 75.
Marija Naumova.  Marija Naumova (born 23 June 1973 in Latvia) is a Latvian singer. Under the stage name Marie N she sings a broad range of music ranging from pop to musical theatre and jazz and has recorded several albums with songs in Latvian French English Russian and Portuguese. In 2002 she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Latvia with her song I Wanna.
Jill Armitage.  Jill Armitage is an English journalist and paranormal writer. She is the author of many books related to haunted places in Derbyshire. Her works include Haunted Pubs Inns & Hotels of Derbyshire Haunted Peak District Haunted Places of Derbyshire Haunted Derbyshire Paranormal Derbyshire Romantic Haunts of Derbyshire The Haunts of Robin Hood and Traditional Derbyshire Fare.
Tom Keifer.  Carl Thomas Keifer (born January 26 1961 in Springfield Pennsylvania) is an American vocalist for the band Cinderella.
Sturgill Simpson.  Sturgill Simpson is an American bluegrass and country music singer. He has released two albums independently.
Kim Deitch.  Kim Deitch (born 1944 in Los Angeles)[citation needed] is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means.The son of illustrator and animator Gene Deitch much of Kim Deitch's work deals with the animation industry and characters from the world of cartoons.
Manny Nieto.  Manny Nieto (born Manuel Felix Nieto) is a music producer and musician residing in Los Angeles California. He has worked with bands such as Health Female Demand and Tobacco.
Ossie Hibbert.  Oswald Ossie Hibbert (16 January 1951 – 1 July 2012) was a Jamaican organist keyboard player and record producer.
Jean-Yves Thériault.  Jean-Yves Thériault (Blacky) is the bassist for Canadian thrash/progressive metal band Voivod. He co-founded the band and appeared on the first six albums – War and Pain Rrröööaaarrr Killing Technology Dimension Hatross Nothingface and Angel Rat. He departed the group in 1991 for personal reasons and went on to co-found The Holy Body Tattoo Dance Society from 1992 to 1999.
Eliza Allen Starr.  Eliza Allen Starr (August 29 1824—September 8 1901) was an American artist art critic teacher and lecturer. She was known throughout the United States and Europe for her books about Catholic art. Born in Massachusetts Starr moved to Chicago in 1856 where she taught art and began to lecture throughout the city and around the United States.
Dan Murphy (musician).  Daniel David Dan Murphy (born July 12 1962 in Duluth Minnesota) is an American musician best known as a co-founder and now a former lead guitarist for the alternative rock band Soul Asylum. He is also a member of Golden Smog.
Stuart Berg Flexner.  Stuart Berg Flexner (1928–1990) was a lexicographer editor and author noted for his books on the origins of American words and expressions including I Hear America Talking and Listening to America; as co-editor of the Dictionary of American Slang and as chief editor of the Random House Dictionary Second Edition.
Junior Marvin.  Junior Marvin (born 1949 as Donald Hanson Marvin Kerr Richards Jr) (also known as Junior Marvin-Hanson Junior Hanson and Junior Kerr) is a Jamaican-born guitarist and singer best known for his association with Bob Marley and The Wailers. He started his career as Junior Marvin with the band Hanson in 1973. Marvin has also been associated with Gass Keef Hartley Band Toots & the Maytals and Steve Winwood. In 2007 Marvin recorded a solo album entitled Wailin' For Love.
Damien Zygote.  Damien Zygote (born November 1 1978 in New York City NY) is an American celebrity who's multiple talents include singer - songwriter actor screenwriter director and producer. As a recording artist and music producer Damien Zygote has contributed songs scoring and ambient soundtracks to such independent horror movies as The Wrong House and She Feast as well as several of his own movie productions and web only releases.
Hugo Pratt.  Hugo Eugenio Pratt (June 15 1927 – August 20 1995) was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005.
Coventry Patmore.  Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (23 July 1823 – 26 November 1896) was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.
Wendy Fonarow.  Wendy Fonarow has been an anthropology instructor at Glendale Community College writer and music industry professional. She is best known for the book Empire of Dirt and for her column Ask the Indie Professor in The Guardian.
Sean McMullen.  Sean Christopher McMullen (born midnight 21 December 1948 in Sale Victoria) is an award-winning Australian science fiction and fantasy author.
Kyle Hotz.  Kyle Hotz is an American comic book writer and artist. Hotz's work has appeared in series published by Marvel Comics DC Comics Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics.
Albert Chavannes.  Albert Chavannes (February 23 1836 – May 3 1903) was a Swiss-born American author philosopher and sociologist active primarily in the late 19th century. He is best known for his two utopian novels The Future Commonwealth and In Brighter Climes which discuss a fictional futuristic society Socioland where the economy is governed by socialist ideals rather than capitalism and where morality is based on social scientific experimentation rather than traditional religion.
Ritwik Sanyal.  Ritwik Sanyal (born 12 April 1953) is an Indian classical singer performing the Dhrupad style and a professor of vocal music and Dean at the faculty of performing arts at Banaras Hindu University.
Simon Nicholson.  Simon Hepworth Nicholson (3 October 1934 - 17 January 1990) was the son of artist Ben Nicholson and his second wife sculptor Barbara Hepworth who later became an artist himself.Four years after Simon and his twin sisters Sarah and Rachel were born their parents married. Nicholson attended Dartington Hall School before studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art from 1953 to 1954 and then archaeology and anthropology at Trinity College Cambridge from 1954 to 1957.
Rebecca Gilman.  Rebecca Gilman (born 1965 in Birmingham Alabama) is an American playwright. She attended Middlebury College graduated from Birmingham-Southern College and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. She lives in Chicago and serves on the board of the Dramatists Guild of America.Gilman was the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award. She serves on the advisory board for Chicago Dramatists.
James Fortune.  James Fortune (born November 29 1978) is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated gospel music recording artist songwriter and producer. He is also a radio personality on 1190 AM WLIB.
David Gald.  David Gald (born 10 July 1968 in Stryn Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (tuba) known for collaborations with such musicians as Bjørn Alterhaug Arve Henriksen and Trygve Seim and on a series of album releases.
Sylvia Tyson.  Sylvia Tyson CM (born Sylvia Fricker 19 September 1940 Chatham Ontario Canada) is a musician performer singer-songwriter and broadcaster. From 1959 to 1974 she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson.From the late 1960s to the early 1970s she and Ian also fronted the country-rock band Great Speckled Bird.
Félix Mas.  Félix Mas (Barcelona 1935) is a Spanish comic book artist and fine artist.
Andreas Amundsen.  Andreas Amundsen (born 1980 in Senja Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).
Jonathan Watson.  Jonathan Watson is a Scottish comedian and impressionist best known for his comedy sketch show Only an Excuse? which parodies people and events from the world of Scottish football and the BBC comedy Bob Servant Independent in which he appears with Brian Cox. Watson also regularly appeared on Tam Cowan's Offside television programme on BBC One Scotland where he performed a scaled-down version of Only an Excuse? called Only a Wee Excuse.
Pandelis Karayorgis.  Pandelis Karayorgis (born 1962 in Athens) is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist composer and educator.
Alex Hope (songwriter).  Alexandra Hope Robotham (born 29 November 1993) professionally known as Alex Hope is an Australian songwriter and producer.Currently living in Sydney Australia she has worked with a variety of artists including Tina Arena Taylor Henderson 5 Seconds Of Summer Timomatic Nathaniel Jai Waetford Karise Eden Shannon Noll Brian McFadden Titanium and Bluejuice.
Julie Gilbert (author).  Julie Gilbert (born July 21 1946 in New York City) is a writer. Her father Henry Goldsmith was a publisher and her mother Janet was an actress. She attended Boston University and worked as a professional actress writer and teacher. She has written biographies novels and plays including Umbrella Steps (adapted into film) and Ferber: The Biography of Edna Ferber and Her Circle which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
D. Woods.  Wanita Denise Woodgett (born July 6 1983) better known by her nickname D. Woods is an American R&B singer dancer and actress. She is a former member of the girl group Danity Kane. Woods is the founder and CEO of Woodgrane Entertainment.
Kellow Chesney.  Kellow Chesney (3 March 1914 – July 2004) is a journalist publisher's reader editor and writer. His most notable book is Victorian Underworld first published in 1970. The writer William Gibson has stated that his depiction of the criminal society in Neuromancer (1984) was strongly influenced by this popular work. I literally had The Victorian Underworld on my desk constantly throughout the writing of Neuromancer and for years after.-William Gibson
Paw Oo Thet.  Paw Oo Thet (Burmese: ပေါ်ဦးသက် pronounced: [pɔ̀ ʔù θɛʔ]; 1936 – 13 April 1993) was a Burmese painter prominent in the Mandalay art scene who became one of the initiators of a modernistic art movement in Burma in the early 1960s.
Constance Song.  Constance Song (Chinese: 宋怡霏; pinyin: Sòng Yífēi) is a Singaporean actress and model.
Martin Slavin.  Martin Slavin (19 February 1922 – 25 May 1988) was a British composer and music director.Slavin was born in London. He served in the army as a Band Sergeant and after demobilization formed his own seven piece band working with musicians such as Eddie Calvert and Kenny Baker.
Dong-Min Lim.  Dong-Min Lim (born April 14 1980 in Seoul) is a South Korean classical pianist. He and his brother Dong-Hyek Lim won third prize at the 2005 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Dong Min Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory at the Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien Hannover and at Mannes College The New School for Music. Starting in September 2009 he is a professor at Keimyung University Korea.
Watty Burnett.  Watty Burnett also known as King Burnett (born Derrick Burnett in Port Antonio Jamaica early 1950s) is a reggae artist who had a long association with Lee Perry.
Adelheid Maria Eichner.  Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787) was a German composer singer and pianist who was noted during her brief lifetime for her fine three-octave singing voice and vocal technique. She was the only child of bassoonist and composer Ernst Eichner and his wife Maria Magdalena Ritter. Her compositions are more effective instrumentally than vocally; Adelheid Eichner had difficulty combining words and music as a composer.
Pierre Carmouche.  Pierre-François-Adolphe Carmouche (9 April 1797 Lyon - December 1868) was a French playwright. He wrote more than 200 successful plays comedies vaudevilles and texts for opéras comiques in collaboration with diverse collaborators - Brazier Dumersan Mélesville de Courcy etc.In 1824 he married the actress Jenny Vertpré.He also collected a rich library bequeathed in part to marshal Canrobert.
Claude Binyon.  Claude Binyon (October 17 1905 - February 14 1978) was a screenwriter and director. His genres were comedy musicals and romances.As a Chicago-based journalist he became city editor of the show business trade magazine Variety in the late 1920s.
Park Jaesam.  Park Jaesam(Hangul: 박재삼) was a Korean Poet.
Robert Blackwell.  Robert Alexander Bumps Blackwell (May 23 1918 – March 9 1985) was an American bandleader songwriter arranger and record producer best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard as well as grooming Ray Charles Quincy Jones Lloyd Price Sam Cooke Herb Alpert Larry Williams and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers.
Michael Salter.  Michael Salter (born 1967) is an American contemporary artist and educator. Salter works in a variety of media including drawing painting digital art animation kinetic sculpture and sculptural assemblage.
Guy Fletcher.  Guy Edward Fletcher (born 24 May 1950 Maidstone Kent England) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known for his position as the keyboardist in the British rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution and his involvement in many parts of Mark Knopfler's solo work to date.
Vyasaraya Ballal.  Vyasaraya Ballal (kannada:ವ್ಯಾಸರಾಯ ಬಲ್ಲಾಳ) (December 11923-January 302008) was a writer in the kannada language and sahitya academy award winner for his novel Bandaya.
Kurt Dahle.  Kurt Colin Dahle is a Canadian musician best known for his work as a drummer and vocalist with the rock bands Age of Electric Limblifter and The New Pornographers.Born in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Dahle first became known in Canadian music circles as a member of the band Age of Electric along with his brother Ryan Dahle and another set of brothers Todd Kerns and John Kerns.
Ralph Zurmühle.  Ralph Zurmühle (or Zurmuhle) Swiss composer and pianist discovered his natural talent for the piano at the early age of five. He fostered it over decades with jazz and classical music studies.Ralph's 4 CDs composed mostly for piano have been met with international critical acclaim. His first CD Between was released in 2000 Communion followed in 2003 and Our Mother in 2007. His most recent CD eQuinox released in 2011 is produced and distributed by Valley Entertainment New York.
Charlene Soraia.  Charlene Soraia is a London-based singer-songwriter. She first rose to prominence with a cover of The Calling's Wherever You Will Go which peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. She released her debut studio album Moonchild in November 2011 which features Wherever You Will Go as a bonus track.
Volodymyr Antonovych.  Volodymyr Antonovych (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Боніфа́тійович Антоно́вич; Polish: Włodzimierz Antonowicz; Russian: Влади́мир Бонифа́тьевич Антоно́вич; January 30 1834 - March 21 1908 Kiev) was a prominent Ukrainian historian and one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national awakening in the Russian Empire.
Ty Templeton.  Ty Templeton is a popular Canadian comic book artist and writer who has drawn a number of popular mainstream titles TV-associated titles and his own series.
Denise Grey.  Denise Grey real name Édouardine Verthuy was a French actress.
Christopher Kubasik.  Christopher Kubasik also known as Chris Kubasik (1963–present) is an American author of several role-playing games sourcebooks adventures and fiction novels set in them as well as a TV series.
Mariam Nazarian.  Mariam Nazarian (a.k.a. Marie Nazar) is a concert pianist and producer; she is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music and Harvard University. Nazarian has performed at Carnegie Hall (New York) Symphony Hall (Boston) and the Grand Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg Russia). She has recorded a commercially released CD of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Ina Clare.  Ina Clare (1932/1933 — 30 October 2010) was a British television actress best known for her role as the background character Ina Foot in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Clare also had roles in French and Saunders Blake's 7 and In Sickness and in Health. She was born in Windsor Berkshire and got her first job as a dancer in a pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Windsor at the age of sixteen.
Sarah Louise Mathew.  Sarah Louise Mathew (c.1805–14 December 1890) was a New Zealand diarist. She was born in London London England in c.1805.
Anton Gill.  Anton Gill (born 1948) has been a full-time professional writer since 1984 and since then he has published over 35 books.Gill was born in Ilford Essex the son of a German father and an English mother and grew up in London.
Walter Newman (screenwriter).  Walter Newman (11 February 1916 – 14 October 1993) was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
Kristinia DeBarge.  Kristinia Jamie DeBarge (/krɪˈstɪniə/; born March 8 1990) is an American singer songwriter dancer and actress. She first appeared on national television in 2003 as a contestant on the American Idol spin-off American Juniors. In 2009 DeBarge signed a contract with the Island Records department Sodapop releasing her debut album Exposed in July of the same year.
Henry Wack.  Henry Wellington Wack (1875-1955) was a prominent American attorney and writer noted for being an apologist for Leopold II's regime of the Congo Free State.Wack was an attorney for a pharmaceutical company who became a paid advocate of the Congo Free State who however endeavoured to ensure he appeared as an impartial observer.
Masha Ma.  Masha Ma is a Chinese fashion designer. Her collections have been featured in leading publications such as Vogue Elle Harper's Bazaar Pop French Playboy Cosmopolitan and L'Officiel.
Thomas M. Hatfield.  Thomas M. Hatfield is an American academic lecturer writer and historian. He is a senior research fellow at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin; and director of the Center's Military History Institute. He received his B.S. in Social Science from Trinity University and his M.A. in history and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Michael Sadler (educationist).  Sir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI (3 July 1861 – 14 October 1943) was a British historian educationalist and university administrator. He worked at the universities of Manchester and Leeds. He was a champion of the public school system.
Eugène Pirou.  Eugène Pirou (1841–1909) was an early French filmmaker and photographer who made one of the first pornographic films Le Coucher de la Mariee in which Louise Willy performed a striptease only a year after the first public screening of motion pictures though he made his name filming the Tsar's visit to Paris a year later in 1897.
Dania Khatib.  Dania Khatib (Arabic: دانية الخطيب‎) (born February 13 1973)is a Lebanese singer. She began her career as a TV presenter for a local station in Lebanon. She joined Channel V in 1995 becoming the first Arabic VJ on an international TV channel. In 1998 she left Channel V to join Abu Dhabi TV where she presented the Arabic entertainment program Zoom for which she received the silver award for “Most Entertaining Arabic Program” at the Cairo TV & Radio Festival 1998.
William Craig (author).  William Craig (1929 - 1997) was an American author and historian.Born in Concord Massachusetts USA he was educated at Columbia University. His first book The Fall of Japan was a documentary account of the last weeks of the Second World War in the Pacific. In a front-page review in The New York Times Book Review eminent military historian S.L.A.
Antun Knežević.  Fra Antun Knežević (9 January 1834 - 22 September 1889) was a Franciscan friar historian and writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Francisco Goitia.  Francisco Bollaín y Goitia García (4 October 1882 - 26 March 1960) was a Mexican artist. Goitia was a reclusive and complicated man whose life and work was heavily influenced by the Mexican Revolution. He was of the Mexican muralism generation but did not share its politics. Goitia worked with the Francisco Villa army creating works depicting the violence of that time and afterwards worked with anthropologist Manuel Gamio depicting indigenous history and culture.
Alison Wheeler.  Alison Wheeler (born 4 March 1972) is a British singer best known as the female vocalist for The Beautiful South from 2003 until they disbanded in 2007.Wheeler's career in music began at university in a cover band called Melt City alongside Hal Ritson now of The Young Punx Kev Dowd now of Lowbrow James Woods now of Jam Sandwich and Dom Wilhelm (of 1990s UK pop punk act Satellite Beach).
Neyyattinkara Vasudevan.  Neyyattinkara Vasudevan (1940–2008) was an acclaimed Carnatic music vocalist from Kerala in south India. The Padmasree-winning Carnatic vocalist and disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Ramnad Krishnan he combined tradition and innovation in his widely acclaimed career.
Francesco Sabino.  Francesco Sabino (born Naples 1620) was an Italian composer. He was a nephew of brothers Giovan Maria Sabino and Antonio Sabino.
Andrew Weiner.  Andrew Weiner (born 17 June 1949) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in London England and later emigrated to Canada. To date he has written three novels and over forty short stories. The third of his novels has so far been published only in France.
Katie Kox.  Katie Kox (born December 17 1985 in Hawaii) is an American pornographic actress.
Matsuko Mawatari.  Matsuko Mawatari (馬渡 松子 Mawatari Matsuko born December 17 1967) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is known for having written Hohoemi no Bakudan (Smile Bomb) which is the opening theme for the YuYu Hakusho anime series. She also sang a few other songs from the same anime such as Sayonara Bye Bye Homework ga Owaranai and Daydream Generation.In the early 1990s Mawatari Matsuko opened for the band Dreams Come True for their tour.
Richard Lewis (comedian).  Richard Philip Lewis (born June 29 1947) is an American comedian and actor.
Cathy Dennis.  Catherine Roseanne Cathy Dennis (born 25 March 1969) is a British singer-songwriter record producer and actress. After a moderately successful international solo career Dennis later received great success as a writer of pop songs scoring eight UK number ones and winning five Ivor Novello Awards.In 2004 Dennis was listed 66th in the Q Magazine list of the top 100 most influential people in music and in 2006 she won the UK music industry's Woman of the Year Award.
Pat Lee (comics).  Patrick Pat C.K. Lee (born June 28 1975) is a Canadian comic book artist publisher former President and co-founder of the now defunct Dreamwave Productions.
Julee Cruise.  Julee Cruise (born December 1 1956 Creston Iowa) is an American singer songwriter actress and musician.With a distinctive airy voice Cruise has recorded four albums but is probably best known for Falling the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks. During the late 1980s and early 1990s she collaborated with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch who produced and wrote the lyrics for many of her released songs.
Joseph B. MacInnis.  Dr. Joseph Beverly MacInnis CM (born in Barrie Ontario Canada on 2 March 1937) is a Canadian physician author poet underwater diver and aquanaut. In 1974 MacInnis was the first scientist to dive beneath the North Pole. In 1976 he became a member of the Order of Canada.
Joanne Hogg.  Joanne Hogg is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter best known for her work as the lead singer and songwriter with the Christian progressive Celtic/pop/rock band Iona (named after the island Iona).
Jon Phillip.  Jon Phillip (born May 18 1979 in Kenosha Wisconsin) is an American musician and record man. He is currently the drummer for Trapper Schoepp & The Shades and Tommy Stinson. He spent much of the mid-2000s playing drums for the now-defunct California-based twangy rock band Limbeck.
Surya Kumar Bhuyan.  Surya Kumar Bhuyan (Assamese: সূৰ্যকুমাৰ ভূঞা; 1894-1964) was a notable writer historian short story writer and poet from Assam. Bhuyan's contributions to the history of Assam Assamese literature and language is impeccable. He was the president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1953 held at Shillong. Moreover he was also elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha during 1952-53. He was honored with most notably the Padma Shri title awarded by the Government of India in 1956.
Daniel Bélanger.  Daniel Bélanger (born December 26 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is considered one of the best Quebec songwriters and singers to emerge in the past 15 years. His music is eclectic inspired by alternative rock folk and electronic music sometimes humorous sometimes wistful.
Kelly Pratt (musician).  Kelly Pratt is a multi-instrumentalist best known for his brass work in the bands Beirut and Arcade Fire.
Torgny Lindgren.  Gustav Torgny Lindgren (born 16 June 1938) is a Swedish writer.Lindgren is the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. He was for several years active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
Farhad Mazhar.  Farhad Mazhar (Bengali: ফরহাদ মজহার; born 1947) is a Bangladeshi writer columnist poet social and human rights activist and environmentalist.
Lokua Kanza.  Lokua Kanza (born April 1958) is a singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is known for his soulful folksy sound.
Gavin Nolan.  Gavin Nolan (born 1977) is a contemporary Welsh artist. Born in Cardiff he was educated at Loughborough University and The Royal Academy of Arts London. He has had solo exhibitions in London and Los Angeles. His 2010 show at Charlie Smith gallery featured portraits of celebrity suicides. He was one of the founding members of Rockwell Gallery in Dalston London which was from 2002-2007 an influential artists' run space.Nolan is a visiting lecturer at City & Guilds of London Art School.
Cliff Sterrett.  Clifford Sterrett (/stəˈrɛt/;[citation needed] December 12 1883 - December 28 1964) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals. Born in Fergus Falls Minnesota where his father was a druggist Cliff Sterrett was of Scandinavian ancestry.
Muhsin al-Ramli.  Muhsin Al-Ramli (Arabic: محسن الرملي‎; born 7 March 1967) is an expatriate Iraqi writer living in Madrid Spain since 1995. Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters Spanish Philology. Universidad Autónoma of Madrid 2003 thesis topic: The Imprint of Islamic Culture in Don Quixote. Translator of several Spanish classics to Arabic. He is the current editor of Alwah a journal of Arabic literature and thought which he co-founded.
Jai McDowall.  Jai McDowall (born 24 July 1986) is a Scottish singer who won the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent in June 2011. As the winner he received £100000 and performed at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance. McDowall was signed to Syco Music a subdivision of record label giant Sony Music.Before Britain's Got Talent he appeared as a contestant on The X Factor and The American Idol Experience. His debut album Believe was released on 9 December 2011.
Bohdan Pawłowicz.  Bohdan Pawłowicz (February 2 1899 - May 28 1967) was a Polish writer journalist radio broadcaster and a Polonia activist. He was also a scout an emigration officer a military man a professor of Polish literary history and a globe-trotter.
Diwon.  Diwon (pronounced dee-wan) is a Brooklyn-based American DJ producer and songwriter. Under his legal name Erez Safar he serves as CEO of Bancs Media an American production company specializing in music and video production and Shemspeed a record label and promotional agency operating in conjunction with its sister label Modular Moods.
K-Hito.  K-Hito was the pseudonym of Ricardo García López (1890–1984) Spanish humorist caricaturist bullfighting critic film producer and magazine publisher. Considered part of the Generation of '27 he was the founder and director of four magazines in the pages of which he created several characters such as Gutiérrez Macaco Currinche and Don Turulato.He was born in Villanueva del Arzobispo Jaén Province in 1890 and grew up in Alicante. He began drawing at the age of four.
Tom Stoppard.  Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV radio film and stage finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia The Coast of Utopia Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Professional Foul The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Talvin Singh.  Talvin Singh Matharoo (Punjabi: ਤਲਵੀਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਠਾਰੂ) (born 1970 in London England) is a producer and composer and tabla player known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass.
Kat Edmonson.  Katherine Kat Edmonson (born August 3 1983 in Houston Texas) is an American singer-songwriter who moved first to Austin Texas then Brooklyn New York.
Youmi Kimura.  Youmi Kimura (木村 弓 Kimura Yumi) is a Japanese singer and lyre performer. She was born in Osaka Japan and became famous in 2001 for her song Always With Me (いつも何度でも Itsumo Nando Demo) which served as the closing theme to the popular 2001 anime film Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki.Kimura and Miyazaki had great admiration for each other's works[citation needed].
Stan Barker.  Stan Barker (24 May 1926 – 2 July 1997) was an English jazz pianist born in Clitheroe Lancashire. He has taught in a variety of educational institutions including the Royal Northern College of Music the Belfast School of Music Merseyside Arts South Wales Art Association and the Southport Arts Centre. In addition to teaching jazz Barker has done recordings and gigs with such artists as Digby Fairweather Al Grey Buddy Tate Al Wood and Billy Butterfield.
Christy Dignam.  Christy Dignam is the lead singer of the popular Irish rock band Aslan. His career of over twenty-five years has been characterised by numerous successes on the Irish charts as well as recurring problems with drug addiction and recovery.
Mort Castle.  Mort Castle (born 1946) is an American horror author and writing teacher with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit including Cursed Be the Child (Leisure Books 1994) and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional literary magazines to more off-the-wall or risqué markets. He has been nominated four times for the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction.
Shokufeh Kavani.  Shokufeh Kavani (Persian: شکوفه کاوانی‎ born 1970 in Tehran) is an Iranian contemporary painter translator and artist currently living in Sydney Australia. She is primarily known as a translator and as an abstract painter of the post–Islamic society of Iran.
John Medeski.  Anthony John Medeski (born June 28 1965) is an American jazz keyboards player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood.
Yakup Kulmiy.  Yakup Kulmiy (Russian: Якуб Кулмый; Bashkir: Яҡуп Ҡолмой; 7 September 1918 village of Kanakbaevo Bashkortostan – 11 October 1994 village of Kanakaevo) was a Bashkir poet working under the pen name of Yakup Khairullovich Kulmukhametov.
Brad Steiger.  Brad Steiger (born February 19 1936) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction works on the paranormal spirituality UFOs true crime and biographies.
Shota Shimizu.  Shota Shimizu (清水 翔太 Shimizu Shōta born 27 February 1989) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician from Yao Osaka Japan who debuted in 2008. On June 1 2008 Shimizu performed at Central Park in New York City USA during the annual Japan Day Festival. Shota Shimizu went to a local Christian school in Osaka where he learned how to sing gospel music. He became captivated with soul music which is how his music career started.
Jin Akanishi.  Jin Akanishi (赤西 仁 Akanishi Jin born July 4 1984) is a Japanese musician singer-songwriter actor voice actor and former radio host. Akanishi used to be a member of the J-pop boy band KAT-TUN and was one of the two lead vocalists.
Paul Bigley.  Paul Bigley is an English actor.His works include appearances in Just a Gigolo alongside Tony Slattery and Rowena King and Grange Hill.
Paolo Bacigalupi.  Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He has won the Hugo Nebula Compton Crook Theodore Sturgeon and Michael L. Printz awards and was nominated for the National Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Asimov's Science Fiction and the environmental journal High Country News.
Fiona McLean.  Fiona McLean also known as Fiona Mogridge or Fiona Lee-Fraser is a former actress and TV presenter turned photographer.She was known to millions of viewers as schoolgirl Laura Reagan in the BBC school drama Grange Hill a role she played from 1986-1988.
Bob Culbertson.  Bob Culbertson is an influential Chapman Stick player. An early adopter of the instrument he is notable for his many recorded albums and extensive touring.Bob Culbertson has opened and performed with many popular musicians including Robben Ford Steve Morse Allan Holdsworth and members of Santana amongst others.
Kyle Muntz.  Kyle Muntz (born 1990) is an American novelist.He is the author of three novels: Voices [2010 Enigmatic Ink] Sunshine in the Valley [2011 Civil Coping Mechanisms] VII (or) The Life Times and Tragedy of Sir Edward William Locke the Third: Gentleman [2012 Enigmatic Ink] Green Lights [2014 CCM]Excerpts and other pieces of his have also been published in Gone Lawn Step Chamber The Journal of Experimental Fiction and Fiction International.His work incorporates elements of science fiction and fantasy along with elements of the avant-garde. 
Henry Charles Lahee.  Henry Charles Lahee (1856–1953) was an American author on music. He wrote several comprehensive biographical reference works on musicians.
Štefan Planinc.  Štefan Planinc (born 8 September 1925) is a Slovene surrealist painter also known for his illustrations for newspapers magazines and books.Planinc was born in Ljubljana in 1925. He studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and has received numerous awards for his works. He won the Levstik Award in 1959 and 1965.
Terry Beatty.  Terry Beatty (born January 11 1958) is an artist who has worked as a penciler and inker in the comic book industry.
Clodagh Rodgers.  Clodagh Rodgers (English pronunciation: Clo-da) (born 5 March 1947) is a singer and actress from Northern Ireland best known for her hit singles including Come Back and Shake Me and Jack in the Box.
Louisa Mark.  Louisa Lynthia Mark also known as Markswoman (11 January 1960 – 17 October 2009) was a British lovers rock singer best known for her work between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Her 1975 single Caught You in a Lie is regarded as the first lovers rock single.
Alexandra Lamy.  Alexandra Lamy (born October 14 1971 in Villecresnes Val-de-Marne France) is a French actress.
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard.  Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (26 October 1780 Grasse – 10 November 1850 Paris) son of Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility perfecting them under David.
Justin Mauriello.  Justin Mauriello is the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative rock band Darling Thieves.
Sammy Herman.  Samuel Herbert Herman (Bronxwood Park New York 7 May 1903 - Fishkill New York 23 April 1995) was an American xylophonist at NBC Television.
Henry Farrer.  Henry Farrer (March 23 1844 – February 24 1903) was an English-born American artist known for his tonalist watercolor landscapes and etchings.
Carlos Alazraqui.  Carlos Jaime Alazraqui (born July 20 1962) is an American stand-up comedian actor singer impressionist voice artist and comedian possibly best known as Deputy James Garcia on Reno 911!. His extensive voice-over work includes the role of Bobbi Fabulous on Phineas and Ferb the Taco Bell chihuahua in the Taco Bell commercials Denzel Q. Crocker and Juandissimo Magnifico on The Fairly OddParents! Rocko and Spunky on Rocko's Modern Life Lazlo and Clam in Camp Lazlo and as Mr.
Jan Baptist Weenix.  Jan Baptist Weenix (1621–1660?) a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Despite his relatively brief career he was a very productive and versatile painter. His favourite subjects were Italian landscapes with large figures among ruins seaside views and later in life large still life pictures of dead game or dogs. He was mainly responsible for introducing the Italian harbour scene into Dutch art in mid-size paintings with a group of figures in the foreground.
David Sheffield.  David Sheffield (born 1948) is an American comedy writer best known for his writing on Saturday Night Live and the screenplays for Coming to America and The Nutty Professor all written in collaboration with Barry W. Blaustein.
Henri Bourtayre.  Henri Bourtayre (1915–2009) was a French composer.
Steve Kmak.  Steve Fuzz Kmak (born September 5 1970) is an American bass guitar player best known for his work with the heavy metal band Disturbed.
Bhubanmohan Baruah.  Bhubanmohan Baruah (Assamese: ভূবনমোহন বৰুৱা; 1914 - 1998) was a novelist short story writer from Assam. He wrote many novels under the pen-name of Kanchan Baruah (কাঞ্চন বৰুৱা).
Gianluca Grignani.  Gianluca Grignani (born 7 April 1972) is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
George A. Wotherspoon.  George A. Wotherspoon is famous for his optical illusion art prints. He is a contemporary of Charles Allan Gilbert and many of Wotherspoon's works are falsely attributed to him.His works include:Gossip: And Satan Came AlsoSocial Donkey
Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay.  Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932) was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Hugli West Bengal.
Pasqual Ferry.  Pasqual Ferry (sometimes credited as Paschalis Pascual or Pascal Ferry) is a Spanish comic book artist and penciller
Ken Lack.  Ken Lack (born Blondel Keith Calnek 1934 died June 6 2001 Miami) was a Jamaican ska rocksteady and reggae record producer active in the latter half of the 1960s who also ran the Caltone and JonTom record labels.
Kainikkara Kumara Pillai.  Kainikkara Kumara Pillai (1900–1988) younger brother of Kainikkara Padmanabha Pillai was a Malayalam teacher actor and playwright who wrote classics such as Harichandra.Kainikkara Kumara Pillai was born in 1900 to an educated middle-class family. His father Perunayil N. Kumara Pillai was a successful lawyer and an Ayurvedic pundit. Kainikkara obtained a B.A in Philosophy from Kumbakonam College in Trivandrum.
Caroline Mytinger.  Caroline Mytinger (March 6 1897 - November 3 1980) was an American portrait painter born in Sacramento California and raised in Cleveland Ohio. She is best known for her paintings of indigenous people in the South Seas during the late 1920s.
Aleksandre Korsantia.  Alexander Korsantia (born 1965 Tbilisi) is a Georgian international award-winning pianist.Alexander immigrated to Canada in 1992 settling in Vancouver British Columbia. After living in Vancouver for a number of years he currently resides in Boston Massachusetts.
Thomas Powell (priest).  Thomas Powell (c.1608 – 31 December 1660) was a Welsh cleric and writer.
Anna Turner (producer).  Anna Turner (1944? – August 27 1996) was an American producer and administrator. Turner is best known as the original partner of Stephen Hill for launching the space music radio show Hearts of Space: she was its original radio co-producer (1973–1987) and early co-host (1974–1986) as well as co-founder and record co-producer (1984–1990s) of the associated label Hearts of Space Records.
Leonard Bahr.  Leonard Marion Bahr (May 12 1905 – July 25 1990) was a portrait painter muralist illustrator and painting professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Emanuel Ayvas.  Emanuel Ayvas (born 19 June 1983) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of orchestral rock band Emanuel and the Fear. Emanuel currently resides in Brooklyn New York.
John Machnik.  John F. Machnik (born February 14 1968) is an American record producer / recording engineer & Electrical Engineer from Madison Wisconsin. He was the owner of Sleepless Nights Recording Studios from 1989 to 2001. In 2008 John received a Grammy award for his work on the Lewis Black album “Anticipation”. and was nomited in 2006 for work on Lewis Black's album Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues.
Phillip Frazer.  Phillip Frazer (born 1 May 1946 in Melbourne Australia) is a writer editor and publisher. He was a founder of the teen pop newspaper Go-Set in 1966 which was published weekly until 1974 introducing Australia's first national pop record charts and featuring many notable contributors. Frazer also published more explicitly counter-culture magazines namely Revolution High Times and The Digger.
Lucas Malet.  Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 - 1931) a Victorian novelist.She was born in Eversley Hampshire the daughter of Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies). In 1876 she married William Harrison Minor Canon of Westminster and Priest-in-Ordinary to the Queen.
Clive Algar.  South African writer Clive Algar is the author of three novels Journeys to the End of the World (2007)and Flowers in the Sand (2011) and Comets (2013).Algar is a retired mining engineer who returned to South Africa from London when he retired and now lives on his farm in the Western Cape province.
Danny Flynn (printer).  Danny Flynn (born August 4 1964) is a D&AD award-winning designer and printer specialising in limited edition book design and illustration and letterpress and screen-printing. His work in design typography and printing led to him working in post-production design for the opening title sequence of the Hollywood film Gladiator.Born and educated in Bradford Flynn received a diploma in graphic design and advertising from Bradford College Art School.
Josetxu Obregón.  Josetxu Obregón is a Spanish cellist specializing in early music performance.
Justin Warfield.  Justin Warfield (born 20 April 1973) is a musician and hip hop emcee of African-American and Jewish Russian-Romanian maternal parentage who is currently half of the darkwave duo She Wants Revenge. In 1993 he released a hip-hop album titled My Field Trip to Planet 9 which featured production from Prince Paul and QDIII. His latest album the self-released Black Hesh Cult Mixtape was released in July 2013.
Philipp Stolle.  Philipp Stolle (1614 – 4 October 1675) was a German composer tenor and theorbo player of the Baroque era.Stolle was born in 1614 at Radeburg. He was a pupil of Caspar Kittel. He worked for many years at the Dresden court of Johann Georg I Elector of Saxony while Heinrich Schütz was Kapellmeister there.
Keith Harling.  Keith Harling (born May 8 1963 in Greenwood South Carolina) is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1998 with the album Write It in Stone issued on the MCA Nashville label. It produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. A second album Bring It On was issued a year later on the Giant Records label.
Davide Cali.  Davide Cali (born 1972) is a Swiss-born Italian writer of picture books and graphic novels primarily for children and young adults. He lives in Italy. His work has been published in 25 countries and translated into many languages. He also writes under the pseudonyms Taro Miyazawa and Daikon.
Sharon Doorson.  Sharon Doorson (born April 24 1987 Netherlands) is a Dutch singer-songwriter having ancestors that lived in Suriname. She released her debut album in 2013 which reached top 20 with 3 Top 30 singles released so far in Netherlands. She competed in The Voice of Holland having all four judges turn for her in the Blind-Audition. She was eliminated in Week 6 (the semi-finals).When Doorson was six years old she won a playback show. In 2004 she was in a girl band called Raffish (with Eva Simons).
Daniel Bashta.  Daniel John Bashta (born January 1 1982 in New Orleans Louisiana) is an American Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Reserve Louisiana. On September 6 2011 Bashta released the album entitled The Sounds of Daniel Bashta his first full length studio album with Integrity Music record label. The album charted at No. 39 on the Billboard Magazine Christian Albums and Heatseekers for the week of September 24 2011.
Gary Reed (comics).  Gary Reed is an American comic book writer who was also the publisher of Caliber Comics an independent comic book company that released 1300 titles in the 1990s and gave a chance to many of today’s top comics talents. Reed has written over 200 comics and graphic novels sometimes under assumed names (including Kyle Garrett Brent Truax and Randall Thayer). He was also Vice President of McFarlane Toys when the company launched in 1993.
Astrid Williamson.  Astrid Williamson (born in 1971) is a Shetland born musician and songwriter.In the 1990s Williamson founded indie band Goya Dress which consisted of Williamson Terry de Castro and Simon Pearson. Goya Dress made only one album 'Rooms' which was produced by John Cale.
Per Sjöstrand.  Per Sjöstrand (June 29 1930 – October 25 2008) was a Swedish actor script writer and director.
Donald Horne.  Professor Donald Richmond Horne AO (26 December 1921 – 8 September 2005) was an Australian journalist writer social critic and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals from the 1960s until his death.Horne was a prolific author who published three novels and more than twenty volumes of history memoir and political and cultural analysis. He also edited The Bulletin The Observer and Quadrant.
Robert Twigger.  Robert Twigger (born 1 January 1965) is a British author. He lives in Cairo Egypt.
Gilah Yelin Hirsch.  Gilah Yelin Hirsch (born 1944 Montreal Quebec Canada); is a multi-disciplinary artist who works as a painter writer theorist photographer filmmaker and lecturer. Hirsch earned a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley 1967 and an MFA in Pictorial Arts from UCLA in 1970 and has held the position of Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles) since 1973.
Shorty Rogers.  Milton “Shorty” Rogers (April 14 1924 – November 7 1994) was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played both the trumpet and flugelhorn and was in demand for his skills as an arranger.
John Spillane.  John Spillane (born 1961) is a singer-songwriter from Cork Ireland. He graduated from University College Cork with a degree in Irish and in English.
Black Point (artist).  Jonás Joaquín Ortiz Alberto (born January 24 1989) is better known by his stage name Black Point (credited as Black Jonas Point) is a Dominican rapper songwriter and producer.
George Hitchcock (artist).  George Hitchcock (1850–1913) was an American painter born in Providence Rhode Island but mostly active in Europe most notably the Netherlands.Hitchcock graduated from Brown University and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris.He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his Tulip Growing of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands.
Espen Aalberg.  Espen Aalberg (born 12 October 1975 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) known for his contributions in several orchestras like The Core Shagma Kwaz Håvard Lund Quartet and musicians like Jonas Kullhammar Håvard Wiik and Torbjörn Zetterberg. He also contributes on a series of recordings.
Fujiko Takimoto.  Fujiko Takimoto (瀧本 富士子 Takimoto Fujiko born 6 November 1967) is a Japanese voice actress born in Osaka Japan who voiced child Link from The Legend of Zelda series. She is currently affiliated with Arts Vision. On February 2 2014 she married fellow voice actor and her Mahoromatic co-star Hideki Ogihara.
Don Bryant (songwriter).  Don Bryant (born April 4 1942 Memphis Tennessee United States) is an American singer and songwriter.Bryant was staff songwriter for Hi Records. He married soul singer Ann Peebles in 1974.
Derick Martini.  Derick Patrick Martini (born December 2 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is of Italian Jewish and Irish heritage.
Hermes Carleial.  Hermes Carleial (30 March 1904 – 6 July 1954) was a Brazilian poet lawyer accountant and writer.
William Jardine Smith.  William Jardine Smith (1834 – 13 January 1884) also known as Jardine Smith was an Australian writer and editor.Smith was born at Stockwell near London. In 1852 he emigrated from Liverpool to Melbourne on the iconic steamer SS Great Britain where he initially pursued commercial activities. Subsequently he became a contributor to the Melbourne Punch and ultimately editor.
Sunday Sharpe.  Sunday Sharpe is an American country music singer. She charted seven times on the Hot Country Songs chart in the 1970s reaching the Top 20 with I'm Having Your Baby (a female version of Paul Anka's (You're) Having My Baby) and A Little at a Time. She released one album I'm Having Your Baby for United Artists Records.
Paul Rodgers.  Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949) is an English rock singer-songwriter best known for his success in the 1970s as vocalist of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s The Firm and The Law he became a solo artist. He has more recently toured and recorded with another 1970s band Queen. Rodgers has been dubbed The Voice by his fans.
Frank Schirrmacher.  Frank Schirrmacher (born September 5 1959) is a German journalist doctored literature expert and essayist writer and since 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Melvin Seals.  Melvin Seals (born 1953 in San Francisco California) is an American musician best known as a longtime member of the Jerry Garcia Band.
Sharon Tandy.  Sharon Tandy (born Sharon Finkelstein; 18 September 1943) is a South African singer who achieved some success in the United Kingdom in the 1960s as part of the blue-eyed soul and freakbeat movements. In 1966 she recorded some songs at Stax studios a rarity for a white singer. She also had several chart hits in South Africa in the 1970s.
Ernest G. Eberhard.  Ernest G. Eberhard (May 30 1839 - January 16 1910) was a German immigrant who founded the Grand Conservatory of New York City of which he was president for about 40 years. He was also an organist conductor of choral societies and orchestras author of musical instruction books and a publisherEberhard founded the Grand Conservatory in 1874 with some help from the New York State Legislature.
Ken Yamaguchi.  Ken Yamaguchi (山口 健 Yamaguchi Ken March 24 1956 - October 24 2011) was a Japanese voice actor. He was represented by OYS Produce.He was most known for the roles of Ashuraman The Omegaman Prisman (Kinnikuman: Scramble for the Throne) Genji Togashi (Sakigake!! Otokojuku) Flazzard (Dragon Quest: Dai's Great Adventure) Tarantula Arachne (Saint Seiya) and Ein (Fist of the North Star).Yamaguchi died on October 24 2011 due to illness.
Gottfried Keller.  Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich) he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.
Thomas Shaw (blues musician).  Thomas Edgar Shaw (March 4 1908 Brenham Texas – February 24 1977) aka Tom Shaw was an American blues singer and guitarist.
Julie Campbell Tatham.  Julie Campbell Tatham (June 1 1908 – July 7 1999) was a US writer of children's novels who also wrote for adults especially on Christian Science. As Julie Campbell she was the creator of the Trixie Belden series (she wrote the first six) and the Ginny Gordon series. As Julie Tatham she also took over the Cherry Ames series and Vicki Barr series from Helen Wells.
Mary Tappan Wright.  Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life. She was the wife of classical scholar John Henry Wright and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.
Miller Williams.  Miller Williams (born April 8 1930) is an American contemporary poet as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments have been chronicled in Arkansas Biography. He is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. One of his best-known poems is The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina.
Maeve Ingoldsby.  Maeve Ingoldsby (born 1947) is a former writer of the Raidió Teilifís Éireann radio show Only Slaggin' and former writer on RTÉ soap operas Glenroe and Fair City. She is a well-known playwright and satirist. She has also written numerous children's plays including Earwigs which was awarded Best Young Peoples' Production at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1995.
Mark Pauline.  Mark Pauline (born December 14 1953) is an American performance artist and inventor best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs. He is a 1977 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg Florida.Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of industrial performing arts and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth.
Aharon Razel.  Aharon Razel (Hebrew: אהרן רזאל‎) born in New York in 1974 is an Israeli musician and his music explores topics such as Torah Orthodox Judaism and living in Israel.
Doug Sampson.  Douglas Gary Sampson (born 30 June 1957 Hackney London) is a British former musician best known as the drummer for Iron Maiden from 1977 to 1979.
Petros Klampanis.  Petros Klampanis (born on July 15 1981 in Zakynthos Greece) is a bassist composer arranger and educator. He currently leads a group that makes regular appearances in New York venues including the Cornelia Street Cafe DROM Barbes BAM Rockwood Music Hall in addition to performing worldwide.
Sokół (rapper).  Sokół (Polish pronunciation: [ˈsɔkuw]) real name Wojciech Sosnowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx sɔsˈnɔfskʲi]) is an MC born in Warsaw Poland 11 March 1977. Founder of ZIP Skład (Ziomki I Przyjaciele) and WWO (W Witrynach Odbicia W Wyjątkowych Okolicznościach) together with DJ Deszczu Strugi and Jędker. He recorded four albums with WWO (in the years 2000 - 2005 two of them sold gold) three albums with Pono as Sokol feat.
Taeko Nakanishi.  Taeko Nakanishi (中西 妙子 Nakanishi Taeko born February 11 1931) is a Japanese voice actor who previously works for Aoni Production. She is best known as the voices of the various Panther Claw villiains in Cutie Honey and Makaiju (Doom Tree) in the first arc of the Sailor Moon R series. She also voiced Chris MacNeil in the original Japanese dub of The Exorcist.
Marcus Clarke (doctor).  Marcus Carlyle Clarke (9 June 1912 – 20 November 2000) was an Australian medical doctor who at the age of 23 was appointed District Surgeon North Borneo based at Kudat after answering an advertisement in the Medical Journal of Australia in 1938. After an eventful year in Kudat he was transferred to Sandakan as Port Health Officer then to Keningau as District Surgeon Beaufort and the Interior.It was here that Clarke was stationed as tensions rose in Southeast Asia in 1940-1941.
Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe.  Bacler d'Albe (October 21 1761 – September 12 1824) was a French artist as well as the map-maker and the closest strategic advisor of Napoléon from 1796 (they knew each other from 1793) until 1814.
Amanda Perez.  Amanda Nicole Perez is a female R&B singer-songwriter and record producer of Mexican descent. Amanda Perez was raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. She grew up in the Waynedale community of Fort Wayne where she attended North Side High School.She spent her teenage years selling drugs in order to raise money for her family. She also grew up boxing with boys helping to mold her tough street persona.Amanda was discovered in Ft.
Christian Lasegue.  Christian Lasegue is an American guitarist and keyboardist.. He was formerly with Jag Panzer until they disbanded in 2011.
Conny Bloom.  Conny Bloom is the stage name for Ulf Conny Blomqvist (born 23 November 1964 in Stockholm) who is a Swedish guitarist and songwriter. He was originally the frontman for the late-1980s/1990s funk metal band Electric Boys. Currently Bloom is best known as a guitarist of the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks. He became acquainted with Hanoi Rocks in Stockholm in the 1980s and joined their ranks in late 2004.
Henry Saxon.  Henry Saxon (16 August 1918 – 3 October 2005) was an artist specialising in miniatures. His paintings typically comprised verse or biblical text set in fine borders with one or more inset illustrative pictures.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson.  Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author.
Angela and Luciana Giussani.  Angela (June 10 1922 - February 12 1987) and Luciana Giussani (April 19 1928 - March 31 2001) were two Italian sisters very famous for their comic book anti-hero series Diabolik. The character created in 1962 has sold more than 150 million copies since he made his first appearance. The comic book also inspired a movie a radio show and a TV series not to mention countless parodies and pastiches. Both sisters were born in Milan.
Chris Kringel.  Chris Kringel is an American bass player. He is the author of several instructional books for the bass guitar. He was born in Appleton Wisconsin and still resides there. In 1995 recorded Demos with the post-breakup Cynic band Portal. After a while he was also involved in another Cynic-linked project Æon Spoke recording Demos2000 and playing live with the group.
Albert Edward Jones.  Albert Edward Jones (1878 - 1954) was an English silversmith and designer.Jones trained at the Birmingham School of Art under Edward R. Taylor and was for a period a Guildsman of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. He founded A. E. Jones & Co. in 1902. Although best known for hallmarked silver the firm also produced notable work in bronze copper and brass.
Rich McCready.  Rich McCready (born February 9 1970 in Seneca Missouri) is an American country music singer-songwriter. McCready signed to Magnatone Records in 1995 and recorded two albums for the label. His highest charting single Thinkin' Strait peaked at number 53 in 1996.
Sheila Walsh (novelist).  Sheila Walsh née Sheila Frances O'Nions (10 October 1928 – 20 January 2009) was a British writer of romance novels from 1975 to 2001; she also wrote as Sophie Leyton.In 1971 Sheila joined the Southport Writers' Circle and was elected life president in 1986. In 1980 she became the vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association and later was the thirteenth elected Chairman (1985–1987).
Nikolaus von Jeroschin.  Nikolaus von Jeroschin (ca. 1290-1341) was a 14th-century German chronicler of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia.Nikolaus joined the Teutonic Order as a chaplain of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights during the time of Grand Master Gottfried von Heimberg (r. 1326-29). In 1328 he translated the Vita Sancti Adalberti of Johannes Canaparius into Middle High German.
Ana Tena.  Ana Tena Puy (born 1966) is an Aragonese writer in Ribagorçan Aragonese.
Daniel Barnz.  Daniel Barnz (born 1970 Gladwyne Pennsylvania) is an American screenwriter and director.
Pelin Karahan.  Vildan Pelin Karahan (born October 6 1984 in Ankara Turkey) is a Turkish actress. She was credited for a number of years by her married name Pelin Bekiroğlu but after divorcing she went back to her birth name.
Rick Allen (organist).  Rick Allen is a blues rock and R&B Hammond organist and pianist. In the 1960s he played organ trio gigs in L.A..and did session work with singers and guitarists such as Jerry McGee and Rick Vito. In the 1970s he toured with Don Preston and recorded with Delaney & Bonnie. Allen moved to New Orleans in the 1980s where he played and recorded with a number of blues and cajun performers including Ernie K-Doe King Floyd Freddy Fender Marcia Ball.
Sesyle Joslin.  Sesyle Joslin is a children's literature author. Joslin's book What Do You Say Dear? was illustrated by Maurice Sendak and it was a Caldecott Medal Honor book in 1959.Joslin was born in Providence RI on August 30 1929. During the late 1940s and early 1950s she worked as an editorial assistant and assistant editor in Philadelphia and was the book columnist at Country Gentleman magazine from 1949 through 1951. In 1950 she married writer Al Hine. The couple had three children.
Avi (author).  Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23 1937) better known by the pen name Avi is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor).
Gerry Day.  Gerald Gerry Lallande Day (January 27 1922–February 13 2013) was an American movie and television writer. She was also a newspaper reporter for the Hollywood Citizen News in the mid-1940s.
Alex To.  Alex To (born Alejandro Delfino on 10 February 1962) is a Hong Kong and Taiwan based singer and actor. He is the winner of the 4th annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1985. He has released numerous albums throughout his career and mainly has R&B influenced songs.
John Thomas (author).  This article concerns the railway author John Thomas see John Thomas for other people of the same or similar names.John Thomas (died 1982) was a Scottish railway author based in Springburn Glasgow.Most of his books were published by the Newton Abbot based publisher David & Charles.
Paolo Veneziano.  Paolo Veneziano also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia (born before 1333 died after 1358) was a medieval painter from Venice. He has been called the most important Venetian painter of the 14th century.He was born to a family of artists and worked together with his sons Marco Luca and Giovanni.
Michael McCann (sports law).  Michael McCann (born March 28 1976) is an American attorney professor and sports journalist. McCann is the director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He is also a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated on sports-related legal issues.
Claude François.  Claude Antoine Marie François (1 February 1939 – 11 March 1978) also known by the nickname Cloclo was a French pop singer songwriter and dancer. François wrote and composed Comme d'habitude the original version of My Way and Parce que je t'aime mon enfant the original version of My Boy. Some of his most famous songs are Le lundi au soleil Magnolias for Ever and Alexandrie Alexandra.
Monica Mayhem.  Monica Mayhem (born Caroline Pickering; 14 March 1978) is an Australian pornographic actress exotic dancer and singer.Mayhem attended Kenmore State High School but was expelled; she has said about her teenage years: I was very rebellious I had a rough upbringing with an abusive alcoholic mother... I had no self-esteem was shy around new people and basically thought the whole world was against me.
Valgeir Sigurðsson.  Valgeir Sigurðsson (born 1971) is an Icelandic record producer mixer composer engineer and musician.
Martha Bass.  Martha Bass (March 7 1921 – September 21 1998) was an American gospel singer.After migrating to St. Louis as a young girl she joined the Pleasant Green Baptist Church where she was a promising gospel vocalist. She came under the authoritative and watchful tutelage of Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith the head of the Soloists Beareau in gospel composer Thomas A. Dorsey's National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses and the founder of the St.
Joseph Torchia.  Joseph Torchia (1948 – April 22 1996) was an American Author and Photographer. In the late 1970s he also worked as a reporter for 'The Palm Beach' 'The San Francisco Chronicle' and 'The San Francisco Examiner'.Torchia was born in Johnsonburg Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1964 (Johnsonburg High School). After his studies at the University of Florida (1968) he spent two years in the Peace Corps (1968–1970).
Margaret Fane (novelist).  Margaret Fane (born Beatrice Florence Osborn January 10 1887 – 1962) was an Australian novelist and poet. Her short stories were published in the Sydney Mail and the Sydney Morning Herald and she co-wrote The Happy Vagabond with Hilary Lofting (1928).
Brandi Disterheft.  Brandi Disterheft is a Canadian bassist and composer.
Vic Schoen.  Victor Vic Schoen (March 26 1916 – January 5 2000) was an American bandleader arranger and composer whose career spanned from the 1930s until his death in 2000.
Yusef Komunyakaa.  Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29 1947) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Jeffrey Frederick.  Jeffrey Sutton Frederick (1950–1997) was a songwriter guitarist and performer specializing in good-time Americana music—an idiosyncratic blend of folk country and rock and roll. He was a largely uncredited predecessor of today's alternative country music genre. Also notorious for his pranks he was a prodigious songwriter specializing in sly hilarious and soulful pieces.
Kaku Takashina.  Kaku Takashina (高品格 Takashina Kaku) was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 9th Hochi Film Award and at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for Mahjong hōrōki.
Amund Maarud.  Amund Maarud (born 7 April 1981 in Nes Akershus Norway) is a Norwegian blues/rock musician (guitar vocals) and composer known as a solo artist and as frontman of rock bands The Grand (2005-2010) and the duo «Morudes» (2010 -) with his brother the drummer Henrik Maarud.
S. Hanumantha Rao.  Saluri Hanumantha Rao (1917–1980) (Telugu: సాలూరు హనుమంతరావు) was a Music composer of South Indian films. He is son of Sri.Saluri Sanyasi Raju who was a mridangam player for the concerts of Sri. Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu and also a lyricist. Rao was born in 1917 at Sivaramapuram near Salur (Vijayanagaram district). He is elder brother of Saluri Rajeswara Rao. He started his early life as a student of Sri. Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu.
Horia Gârbea.  Horia-Răzvan Gârbea or Gîrbea (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈhori.a rəzˈvan ˈɡɨrbe̯a]; born August 10 1962) is a Romanian playwright poet essayist novelist and critic also known as an academic engineer and journalist. Known for his work in experimental theater and his Postmodernist contributions to Romanian literature he is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania (USR) its public relations executive and the head of its Bucharest chapter.
Hidehiko Hoshino.  Hidehiko Hoshino (星野 英彦 Hoshino Hidehiko born June 16 1966 in Fujioka Gunma) nicknamed Hide is a Japanese musician and songwriter. Known as the rhythm guitarist for the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983.
John Fred.  John Fred Gourrier (May 8 1941 – April 14 2005) known by the stage name John Fred was a blue-eyed soul swamp pop R&R and R&B performer from Baton Rouge Louisiana best known for the song Judy in Disguise (With Glasses).
Annette Lareau.  Annette Lareau is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz and earned her PhD in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley. She started her career at South Illinois University at Carbondale and also previously worked as a Professor of Sociology at Temple University Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2005.
Bob Mosher.  Robert Bob Mosher (January 18 1915 - December 15 1972) was a television and radio scriptwriter born in Auburn New York. He was best known for his work on Amos and Andy Meet Mr. McNutley Leave It To Beaver Ichabod and Me Bringing Up Buddy and The Munsters along with his co-writer Joe Connelly who is buried in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery. Mosher was a 1937 Susquehanna University graduate. He died in Encino California.
Tony Warren.  Anthony McVay Simpson MBE (born 8 July 1936) better known by his stage name Tony Warren is an award-winning British television scriptwriter best known for creating the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. He has also been an actor has created other television dramas and written critically acclaimed novels.
Nick Pigott.  Nicholas Hugh Nick Pigott (born 1951) has been editor of The Railway Magazine Britain's best-selling rail title since 1994. He previously worked in Fleet Street as a journalist for the Daily Express.
Oton Postružnik.  Oton Postružnik (1900-1978) was a Croatian artist painter graphic artist and ceramist. He was one of the founding members of the Earth Group artist collective in Zagreb from 1929-1933. He studied in Zagreb Prague and Paris and was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb from 1950-1970. He is best known for his abstract paintings of natural subjects such as his Leaf series.Oton Postružnik received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in 1964.
George Sakier.  George Sakier (1897–1988) was an American artist. A man of multiple talents he originally studied at the engineering school of Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. Having composed the text Machine Design and Descriptive Geometry at age 19 he went onto work as a camouflage technician during World War I. After the war he continued to work as an artist combining technology with classicism.
Harry C. Bradley.  Harry C. Bradley was an American painter of pin-up art.Not much is known about Bradley. He was a Philadelphia Pennsylvania based artist working in the 1940s and 1950s. He painted one of the most successful and enduring pin-up images of all time Sitting Pretty for Joseph C. Hoover and Sons of Philadelphia.
Steven Bernstein (musician).  This article is about the trumpeter. It should not be confused with Steven Jesse Bernstein the poet.Steven Bernstein (born October 8 1961) is a trumpeter slide trumpeter arranger/composer and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards Sex Mob Spanish Fly and the Millennial Territory Orchestra.
Capital Steez.  Jamal Dewar (July 7 1993 – December 24 2012) better known by his stage name Capital Steez (stylized as Capital STEEZ) was an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn New York City New York. He was the founder of the Brooklyn-based hip hop collective Pro Era along with longtime friend and fellow rapper Joey Badass. He committed suicide at the young age of 19 by jumping from a building in Manhattan's Flatiron District.
Brad Wilk.  Bradley J. Brad Wilk (born September 5 1968) is an American musician actor and activist best known as the drummer of the American rock band Rage Against the Machine (1991–2000; 2007–present). Wilk started his career as a drummer for Greta in 1990 and helped co-found Rage with Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha in August 1991. Following that band's breakup in October 2000 Wilk joined Morello and Rage bassist Tim Commerford in forming the now-defunct Audioslave (2001–2007).
Massimo Bontempelli.  Massimo Bontempelli (May 12 1878 – July 21 1960) was an Italian poet playwright novelist and composer. He was influential in developing and promoting the literary style known as magical realism.
Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys.  Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys (c. 1836–1909) was a French composer and librettist. She was the daughter of the opera comique composer Alphonse Thys and composed operettas opéra comiques and opera. Selected works include:Le Marriage de Tabarin ou La congiura di Chevreuse opera 1876Nedgeya operetta 1880↑ ↑
Robin Koontz.  Robin Koontz (born 1954) is an American author and illustrator of picture books and early readers for children as well as non-fiction for middle school readers. Her books are published in English Spanish and Indonesian. Many of her titles have been reviewed in School Library Journal Kirkus Reviews and the CLCD (Children's Literature Comprehension Database).
Nada Inada.  Nada Inada (なだ いなだ 8 June 1929 – June 2013) was the pen-name of a Japanese psychiatrist writer and literary critic active in late Shōwa period and early Heisei period Japan. His pen name is from the Spanish language phrase nada y nada.
Elias Martin.  Elias Martin (8 March 1739 – 25 January 1818) was a Swedish genre history and landscape painter from Stockholm. He is known for his watercolour paintings of Stockholm and his landscape oil paintings that feature romantic lighting effects. Nationalencyklopedin describes him as Sweden's first great landscape painter.
Frederick William Bourne.  Frederick William Bourne (1830–1905) was an English preacher and author. He was born at Woodchurch Kent and joined the Bible Christian Movement as a preacher. In 1866 he became the editor of the Bible Christian Magazine and led the Bible Christian movement for many years.He wrote several books under the title F. W. Bourne. One; The King's Son a memoir of Billy Bray was reprinted over fifty times. He married Mary Horswell in 1859 and had five children before her death in 1873.
D. Imman.  D. Imman (டீ. இமான்) is an Indian film composer and singer of film music predominantly working in the Tamil film industry. He did his schooling in Don Bosco Egmore Chennai and college in Pachaiyappa's College. His first film as music director was Thamizhan in 2001. Since then he has composed music for more than 25 films.
Paula Gunn Allen.  Paula Gunn Allen (October 24 1939 – May 29 2008) was a Native American poet literary critic lesbian activist and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American and Native American descent she identified with the Laguna Pueblo of her childhood years the culture in which she'd grown up. She drew from its oral traditions for her fiction and poetry and also wrote numerous essays on its themes.
Lottie Kimbrough.  Lottie Kimbrough (1900 – unknown) was an American country blues singer who was also billed as Lottie Kimborough Lottie Beaman and Lena Kimbrough (amongst several others). Kimbrough was a large woman and was nicknamed the Kansas City Butterball.
Motoi Sakuraba.  Motoi Sakuraba (桜庭 統 Sakuraba Motoi born August 5 1965) is a prolific Japanese composer of video games anime series and television dramas as well as independent progressive rock albums.
Ian Craig Marsh.  Ian Craig Marsh (born 11 November 1956) is an English musician. He was a founding member of the electronic band The Human League writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles until leaving in 1980 to form B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) and later Heaven 17.
Raymond S. Persi.  Raymond S. Persi is a director for episodes of The Simpsons. His directing credits include season sixteen's Mobile Homer several episodes from season seventeen including The Girl Who Slept Too Little the Emmy-award winning The Seemingly Never-Ending Story and The Monkey Suit the season eighteen episodes Little Big Girl and 24 Minutes and the season nineteen episode Love Springfieldian Style. Raymond was also a sequence director for The Simpsons Movie.Raymond S.
John Bishop (comedian).  John Joseph Bishop (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian and actor. He is also known for his charity work having raised £3.4m for Sport Relief 2012.A keen footballer he played for non-league teams Hyde and Southport and worked as a salesman in the pharmaceutical industry prior to becoming a stand-up comedian. His television debut came on The Panel.
Gus Cannon.  Gus Cannon (September 12 1883 – October 15 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is doubt about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874.
Dai Roberts.  Dai Roberts (born 1974 Andover Hampshire) is a contemporary British Sculptor print and installation artist. He taught at Coventry University and as of 2011 taught at Richmond University.
Gediminas Gelgotas.  Gediminas Gelgotas (born 12 June 1986 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian composer conductor and self-performing artist.
Johann Ender.  Johann Nepomuk Ender (4 November 1793 Vienna – 16 March 1854 Vienna) was an Austrian painter.
Eugenio Morel.  Eugenio Morel (born on 1 January 1950 in Asunción Paraguay) is a retired professional footballer.He has been characterized as a very fast talented left-footed player who scored a lot of goals playing the left forward position.
Sloan Nibley.  Alexander Sloan Nibley (June 23 1908 - April 3 1990) was an American screenwriter. He is the older brother of famed Latter Day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley.
Maarten van Heemskerck.  Maerten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen (1 June 1498 – 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–6 in Italy. He produced many designs for engravers and is especially known for his depictions of the Wonders of the World.
Étienne Lécroart.  Étienne Lécroart (born 1960) is a French cartoonist. He is a founder and key member of Oubapo association Ouvroir de BAnde dessinée POtentielle. He has composed cartoons that could be read either horizontally vertically or in diagonal et vice-versa. He plays also the sousaphone and participates in several musical bands.
Marina Ōno.  Marina Ōno (大野まりな Ōno Marina; born April 5 1972 in Hiroshima Japan) is a Japanese voice actress. She was born under the name Hiromi Katayama (片山裕美). She has also been known as Hiromi Matsumoto (松本裕美) and Hiromi Asō (麻生ひろみ)[1]. Her hobbies are the Internet and making clothes.[citation needed]
Thomas Chatterton.  Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He committed suicide dying of arsenic poisoning.
Tanja Mihhailova.  Tatjana Mihhailova (Russian: Татьяна Михайлова)[citation needed] (known as Tanja) is a Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress. She was born June 19 1983 in Kaliningrad Russian SFSR but has lived in Estonia from a very young age. Tanja has been a member of several bands in her professional career and has performed in several stage musicals. She will represent Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song Amazing.
Miki Furukawa.  Miki Furukawa (古川 美季 Furukawa Miki professionally written as フルカワミキ) (born February 19 1979) is a Japanese musician. From 1995 to 2005 she was the bass player and vocalist of the indie rock band Supercar. She released her first solo record in 2006.
Denis Preston.  Sydney Denis Preston (1916 – 1979) was a British record producer and music critic. He has been described as Europe's first independent record producer.
Anthony Horowitz.  Anthony Horowitz OBE (born 5 April 1955) is a prolific English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for children and teenagers includes The Diamond Brothers series the Alex Rider series and The Power of Five series (aka The Gatekeepers). His work for adults includes the novel and play Mindgame (2001) and the Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk (2011).
Carmel Moore.  Carmel Moore (born 19 June 1985) is a British former pornographic actress. of mixed English and Iranian origin.
Sol Brodsky.  Soloman Brodsky (April 22 1923 Brooklyn New York City New York – June 4 1984) was an American comic book artist who as Marvel Comics' Silver Age production manager was one of the key architects of the small company's expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate. He later rose to vice president operations and vice president special projects.
M. Shadows.  Matthew Charles Sanders (born July 31 1981 in Huntington Beach) better known by his stage name M. Shadows is the lead vocalist songwriter and founding member of the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold.
Bobby Collins (comedian).  Bobby Collins is an American stand-up comedian and film actor and has released six comedy albums: I'm on the Boat Women and Children First On the Inside I Wanna Go Home You’re Not Coming With Us Mr.
Aditya Kalyanpur.  Aditya Kalyanpur (born 21 July 1978) is an Indian Tabla player. He belongs to the Punjab gharana.
René Aubry.  René Aubry is a French composer born in 1956. He is a multi-instrumentalist known for blending classical harmonies with modern instrumentation. Aubry has composed for choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson Pina Bausch and Philippe Genty. He has also scored for films and released many of his own albums.He composed the music for the 2009 animated film The Gruffalo.
Hugh Dennis.  Peter Hugh Dennis (born 13 February 1962) is an English comedian actor writer impressionist and voice-over artist best known for being one half of Punt and Dennis with comedy partner Steve Punt and playing Pete Brockman the father in the BBC One sitcom Outnumbered. He is a panellist on the BBC Two satirical comedy show Mock the Week a role which he took up in 2005.
Charlotte Hatherley.  Charlotte Franklin Hatherley (born 20 June 1979) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. She initially came to prominence as guitarist and backing vocalist for alternative rock band Ash. Since leaving Ash in 2006 she has pursued a solo career and also acted as a touring instrumentalist for Client KT Tunstall and Bat for Lashes. Hatherley is now performing under the moniker of Sylver Tongue.
Marek Krajewski.  Marek Krajewski (born 4 September 1966 in Wrocław) is an award-winning Polish crime writer and linguist.He is best known for his series of five Chandleresque novels set in pre-war Wrocław (which was at the time Breslau) with the policeman Eberhard Mock as the protagonist. These novels have been translated into 14 languages: English Spanish French German among others.
Fernando Castro Pacheco.  Fernando Castro Pacheco (January 26 1918 – August 8 2013) was a Mexican painter engraver illustrator print maker and teacher. As well as being known for traditional artistic forms Castro Pacheco illustrated several children’s books and produced works in sculpture. He is more popularly known for his murals that invoke the spirit and history of the Mexican people. His works evoke a unique use of color and form.
Jayge Carr.  Jayge Carr is the pen name of American science fiction and fantasy author Margery Ruth Morgenstern Krueger (1940–2006) also known as Margery Krueger and Marj Krueger a former nuclear physicist for NASA. She is best known for her Rabelais series.
Ross LaManna.  Ross LaManna is an American screenwriter and author. He is best known for creating the Rush Hour series starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.His first novel Acid Test was published in the U.S. and Canada by Ballantine Books. The geopolitical thriller was chosen as an Amazon.com Penzler Pick and as The Mysterious Bookshop's selection for “Best First Fiction”. It was published in several foreign territories and as an audiobook.
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock.  Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (17 April 1919 - 16 March 1978) was an Argentine writer poet critic and translator. He was the son of Charles Leonard Wilcock and Ida Romegialli. He adopted a son Livio Bacchi Wilcock who translated Jorge Luis Borges' work into Italian.
Uday Prakash.  Uday Prakash (born January 1 1952) is a Hindi poetscholar journalist translator and short story writer from India.He has worked as administrator editor researcher and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a free-lance writer. He has also received several awards including 2010 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his collection of short stories Mohan Das.
Jordan Corey.  Jordan Corey (born September 28 1990) is a California-based independent singer-songwriter.
Robie Porter.  Robie Porter (born Robert George Porter 4 June 1942) is an Australian country pop-rock musician producer and record label owner.Beginning in 1959 he performed under the stage name Rob E.G. and recorded lap steel guitar instrumentals or covers of country-style vocals. On the local Sydney music charts he provided four top ten hits including two No. 1 hits with Si Senor and 55 Days at Peking. From 1970 Porter ran an independent record label Sparmac and produced three LPs for Daddy Cool.
Jan Degenhardt.  Jan Degenhardt (July 9 1962) is a German Lawyer and folk-singer. His father is the political poetry and singer Franz Josef Degenhardt.
Winnie Davin.  Winifred Kathleen Joan Davin (27 July 1909 – 26 March 1995) was a New Zealand teacher community worker and editor. She was born in Otautau Southland New Zealand on 27 July 1909. A writer herself in her early years she was primarily known for her encouragement and promotion of New Zealand writers. She was the wife of the writer and publisher Dan Davin and a close friend and later literary executor of Joyce Cary. She died in 1995 in Oxford England.
John Brown (actor).  John Brown (April 4 1904 - May 16 1957) was an English radio and film actor.He had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was John Doe in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma Digby Digger O'Dell in The Life of Riley (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show) Broadway in The Damon Runyon Theatre and Thorny the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. 
Cilla Black.  Cilla Black OBE (born Priscilla Maria Veronica White 27 May 1943) is an English singer actress entertainer and media personality. She began her career as a singer in 1963 and is most famous in the UK for her singles Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964) and You're My World (1964) both of which reached number one. Black had eleven Top Ten hits on the British charts between 1964 and 1971.
Andrei Voznesensky.  Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Вознесе́нский May 12 1933 – June 1 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as one of the greatest living poets in any language. He was one of the Children of the '60s a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.Voznesensky was considered one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era but his style often led to regular criticism from his contemporaries and he was once threatened with expulsion by Nikita Khrushchev. 
Marie Severin.  Marie Severin (born August 21 1929) is an American comic book artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics.She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2001. Her brother John Severin is also an artist who worked for EC and Marvel.
Čedomir Mirković.  Čedomir Mirković (Serbian Cyrillic: Чедомир Мирковић; January 18 1944 – April 25 2005) was a Serbian writer.He was the vice-president of the Association of Writers of Serbia the editor-in-chief of the Prosveta publishing house from 1994 to 2000 and won numerous awards including the Isidora Sekulić award and the Milan Bogdanović award for the best written critique.
Bruno Kramm.  Bruno Kramm (born in Munich – October 13 1967) is a German musician known for programming playing synthesizers and keyboards co-fronting and performing backup vocals for the electro-industrial duo Das Ich alongside Stefan Ackermann. Kramm is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and founder of the German goth club Generation Gothic.
Amy London.  Amy London (born 1957) is a jazz singer from Teaneck New Jersey United States.London grew up in Cincinnati Ohio. She moved to Manhattan in 1980 and moved to Teaneck with her husband guitarist Roni Ben-Hur and daughters Sofia and Anna in 1998.London released her first album as leader of a quintet When I Look in Your Eyes in December 2007 which was recorded at Bennett Studios in Englewood New Jersey.
Carl Haber.  Carl Haber born in 1856 is an American.Carl Haber had a career in independent film. An American who has spent a good part of his life out of America and married to a European.
E. L. James.  Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963) better known by the pen name E L James is the British author of the bestselling erotic romance novels trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. The combined novels have sold over 35 million copies in the United States and over 70 million copies worldwide setting the record as the fastest selling paperback of all time. In 2012 Time magazine named her one of The World's 100 Most Influential People.
Anders Ek.  Anders Ek (7 April 1916 – 17 November 1979) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Gothenburg Sweden and died in Stockholm. He was married to Birgit Cullberg and is the father of dancer Mats Ek and actress Malin Ek.
Cheikha Rabia.  Cheikha Rabia is an Algerian singer born in Relizane near (Oran) in Algeria (North Africa).
Fred Mascherino.  Frederick Paul Mascherino (born July 27 1975) is an American musician best known for his work as lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday. He is currently in the band Terrible Things.
Flesh-n-Bone.  Stanley Howse better known as Flesh-n-Bone (born June 10 1973) is an American rapper from Cleveland Ohio and is known as a member of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. He is the older brother of Layzie Bone and cousin of Wish Bone.
Rose Falcon.  Rose Falcon (born May 2 1986 in New York City New York and raised in Nashville) is an American singer/songwriter.
Charlie Allen (singer).  Charles E. Charlie Allen (May 1 1942 – May 7 1990) was one of the founding members of blues and rock outfit Pacific Gas & Electric and the vocalist for the group. By 1968 the group consisted of Charlie Allen Frank Cook Tom Marshall Brent Block and guitarist Glenn Schwartz.
Alison Chesley.  Alison Chesley (born January 4 1960) known also by her stage name as Helen Money is a Los Angeles based cellist and composer.Chesley was born and raised in Los Angeles California. She moved to Chicago to attend Northwestern University where she received a Master's degree in Cello Performance in 1994. While at Northwestern Chesley met Jason Narducy.
Adrian Gaxha.  Adrian Gaxha (Macedonian Cyrillic: Адриан Гаџа; born 13 February 1984) is an Albanian singer-songwriter and producer from Macedonia.
Kye Palmer.  Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who is a Los Angeles studio musician most notable as a former member of The Tonight Show Band from 2006 to 2009. On April 10 2006 Kye Palmer replaced Lee Thornburg in The Tonight Show Band and was there for the last part of Kevin Eubanks tenure with The Tonight Show. He has recorded on several Grammy Award nominated/winning projects over the past 20 years.
Birger Åsander.  Birger Åsander (13 July 1909 – 17 January 1984) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1938 and 1980.
Nopsajalka.  Antti Ilmari Hakala (born 1978) professionally known as Nopsajalka is a Finnish musician and producer. Aside from his solo career he has been a member of the bands Elokuu Soul Captain Band and Kapteeni Ä-ni. To date Nopsajalka has released four solo studio albums with the fifth one planned for late 2014 release.
Matthew Saunoa.  Matthew Saunoa (born 1986) is a New Zealand pop singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the third season of New Zealand Idol in 2006.After winning the third season his winner's single Hold Out topped the New Zealand Singles Chart however it did not secure Saunoa an album contract with Sony Music. Saunoa did not release any further music independently and in result experienced disappointment and periods of depression.
Chris Gerolmo.  Chris Gerolmo is an American writer director and singer best known for writing the screenplay for the film Mississippi Burning and co-creating the FX Networks military drama series Over There. He also wrote and directed the acclaimed made-for-TV movie Citizen X about the Ukrainian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Gerolmo's screenplay for Citizen X—based on the book The Killer Department by Robert Cullen—earned him an Emmy nomination a Writers Guild of America Award and an Edgar Award.
Adam Gontier.  Adam Wade Gontier (born May 25 1978) is a Canadian musician singer and songwriter. He is the former lead singer rhythm guitarist and main songwriter of the Canadian active rock band Three Days Grace. Gontier left the group on January 9 2013. In addition to his work with Three Days Grace he has been involved in collaborations with other bands including Art of Dying and Apocalyptica.
Bajka (musician).  Bajka Pluwatsch (born December 25 1978) also known by her mononym and stage name Bajka (pronounced Bai-Kah) is a female artist born in India and raised in Portugal and South Africa. She is a poet singer producer and songwriter. Bajka in some Slavic languages means fairy tale.
Carlo Siliotto.  Carlo Siliotto (born 10 January 1950) is an Italian composer best known for his soundtrack scores.Carlo Siliotto was born in Rome.He started by studying guitar and violin and accomplished his studies on composition at the Conservatory of Frosinone under the guidance of Maestro Daniele Paris.
Dragan Kojić Keba.  Dragan Kojić (known professionally as Dragan Kojić Keba and Keba) is a Serbian folk-singer. He released his first album in 1976 and has since then released many more albums. His daughter Nataša Kojić Taša is also a popular singer. His son Igor Kojic is a soccer player who goal tends for the team Doxa Katokopias F.C..
Alphonse Rabbe.  Alphonse Rabbe (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 1784 (?) – Paris 31 December 1829) was a French writer historian critic and journalist.
Damnagoras.  Davide Damna Moras (born August 18 1981 in Pordenone Italy) is the lead vocalist of the Italian folk/power metal band Elvenking and rock n' roll band Hell in the Club.
Kevin Naquin.  Kevin Naquin is a Cajun accordion player in south Louisiana from Ossun Louisiana. Naquin is the lead singer and accordion player in the Cajun band Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys. In 2000 he won the CFMA - 2000 Album of the Year with his album Pour La Premiere Fois and CFMA - 2000 Song of the Year. He has recorded with Swallow Records and Bayou Groove Productions.
Jehangir Sabavala.  Jehangir Sabavala (23 August 1922 – 2 September 2011) was an Indian painter.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  Pieter Bruegel (Brueghel) the Elder (/ˈbrɔɪɡəl/; Dutch: [ˈpitəɾ ˈbɾøːɣəl]; c. 1525 – 9 September 1569) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting). He is sometimes referred to as the Peasant Bruegel. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and signed his paintings as Bruegel.
Rich Batsford.  Richard William Batsford (born 25 October 1969) is an English pianist composer and singer-songwriter. He is a recording artist and a frequent performer initially in and around his home in Birmingham UK and more recently in Adelaide Australia presenting shows featuring a mix of meditative solo piano instrumentals and reflective songs.Batsford is also a co-creator of creative network Project X Presents and Musituality a platform for musicians of various faiths to perform together.
Vina Panduwinata.  Dewi Sastaviyana Panduwinata better known by her stage name Vina Panduwinata is an Indonesian singer and songwriter. The song Kumpul Bocah is cited as her signature song. Her song Burung Camar was listed by Rolling Stone Indonesia as the 28th-best Indonesian song of all time.
Audrey McMahon.  Audrey McMahon (1898 – August 20 1981) was the Director of the New York region of the Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943; the region she oversaw included New York New Jersey and Philadelphia. Born in New York City in 1898 she attended the Sorbonne and she was the director of the College Art Association. She died August 20 1981 at the age of 87.
Jani Virk.  Jani Virk (born 4 March 1962) is a Slovene writer poet translator and editor. He writes poetry short stories essays novels and scripts and translates from German into Slovene.Virk was born in Ljubljana in 1962. He studied at the German and Comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana.
Mirella Cesa.  Mirella Cesa (Guayaquil December 18 1984) is an Ecuadorian singer who has won several awards and been called the mother of Andipop (Andean pop music).
Theodor Jung.  Born in Austria-Hungary. Theodor Jung (May 29 1906 - February 19 1996) was an American photographer best known for his work with the Farm Security Administration one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. Hired for the agency in 1935 when it was still called the Resettlement Administration he photographed life in the Great Depression. He left the agency the following year and served as photographer for the Consumers Council another government agency and the Consumers' Guide.
Nouri Iskandar.  Nuri Iskandar (Syriac: ܢܘܪܝ ܐܣܟܢܕܪ Arabic: نوري إسكندر‎) (born 1938 in Deir al-Zur Syria) is a Syrian musicologist and composer he is known for his work in Syriac sacral and folk music.
Lefty (rapper).  Lefty also known as the L.E.F.T. is an American rapper born Paulski DeL. He has released three studio albums & moved more than 15000 units as one half of the San Francisco Bay Area California crew Bash Bros. Lefty has also released four volumes of his street album series Gangland. He was featured in URB magazine's Next 1000.
Jason Shrout.  Jason Shrout (born October 31 1980) is an American drummer from Kansas City Missouri. Jason has played drums for Orange County California's Eighteen Visions (2003–2004) as well as Kansas City metallic hardcore band Saved by Grace (2000–2003) and Kansas City hardcore punk bands Nervous Wreck (2005–2007) and Black Mark (2008). He also did some time filling in on tour with Love Is Red in 2002 when they did not have a drummer.
Giovanni Antonio Lappoli.  Giovanni Antonio Lappoli (1492–1552) was a Tuscan painter from Arezzo who painted in a Mannerist style. He was the son of the painter Matteo Lappoli. Originally trained with Domenico Pecori but later assisted Pontormo in 1514. In 1524-7 he worked with Perin del Vaga in Rome. He became acquainted with both Parmigianino and Rosso Fiorentino.
Tito Auger.  Alfonso Tito Auger Vega (born March 3 1968 in Vega Alta Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican musician best known for being the lead singer of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega. Auger is also the band's main songwriter together with Ricky Laureano.
Yu Wo.  Yu Wo (御我) (born Chen Wenxuan (陳玟瑄)) is a Taiwanese light novelist best known for creating ½ Prince.
Eleanor Vere Boyle.  Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle (1 May 1825 – 29 July 1916) was an English artist and author of the Victorian era. She has been considered the most important female illustrator of the 1860s.She was born in Scotland the youngest daughter of Alexander Gordon of Ellon Castle Aberdeenshire. In 1845 she married Richard Cavendish Boyle (1812–86) a younger son of the 8th Earl of Cork; R. C. Boyle served as the rector of Marston Bigot in Somerset (1836–75) and later as Queen Victoria's chaplain.
Pitambara Sidhanta Vagisa.  Pitambara Sidhanta Vagisa (1530-1620) was 16th century litterateur from Kamrup and contemporary of likes of Damodara Mishra.
Clarence Avant.  Clarence Avant (born February 25 1931) is an American music executive entrepreneur and film producer. He was also known as the Godfather of Black Music.Avant's 75th birthday was celebrated by Billboard magazine on its February 2006 issue.
Eiko Ando.  Eiko Ando (born May 8 1934; first name pronounced Ay - eeko) was a Japanese actress best known for appearing opposite John Wayne in The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1958.Ando was born in Harbin in the Heilongjiang Province of Northeast China to a Japanese industrialist. When the Communists took over the family fled back to Japan. After her father died in 1953 she went to work as a singer and then as a burlesque dancer.
Artie Shaw.  Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23 1910 – December 30 2004) was an American clarinetist composer and bandleader. Also an author Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction.Widely regarded as one of jazz's finest clarinetists Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Their signature song a 1938 version of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine was a wildly successful single and one of the era's defining recordings.
Konrad Kaspersen.  Konrad Kaspersen (born 1 March 1948 in Tromsø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass).
Valentín Elizalde.  Valentín Elizalde Valencia (1 February 1979 – 25 November 2006) was a Mexican banda music singer gunned down in an ambush. Known by the nickname El Gallo de Oro (The Golden Rooster) his biggest Banda hits included Vete Ya Ebrio de Amor  Vete Con Él Vuelve Cariñito Como Me Duele Vencedor  Mi Virgencita and Soy Así. Some of his songs were narcocorridos eulogizing Mexican drug lords like Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.
Jaidev Kumar.  Jaidev Kumar (Hindi: जयदेव कुमार) is an Indian musician and producer who was born in Delhi but who moved to Mumbai in 2000. Kumar is the music king for the Punjabi industry[citation needed]. He has been working for Punjabi music industry since 1999. His first album was Dil Lai Gayi. He is the son of music director K Panna Lal.
Dan Jurgens.  Dan Jurgens (born June 27 1959 in Ortonville Minnesota) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the superhero Booster Gold and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles The Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2) particularly during The Death of Superman storyline.
Frederick Burr Opper.  Frederick Burr Opper (January 2 1857 – August 28 1937) is regarded as one of the pioneers of American newspaper comic strips best known for his comic strip Happy Hooligan. His comic characters were featured in magazine gag cartoons covers political cartoons and comic strips for six decades. Born to Austrian-American immigrants Lewis and Aurelia Burr Oppers in Madison Ohio Frederick was the eldest of three children.
Soraya Arnelas.  Soraya Arnelas Rubiales (born 13 September 1982) better known by her stage name Soraya is a Spanish singer. Soraya represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow Russia with the song La Noche Es Para Mí (The night is for me literally Night is made for me or Night is for me) finishing 23rd with 23 points.
Ba Thet.  Ba Thet (1903–1972; Burmese: ဘသက် [ba̰ θɛʔ]) was a Burmese painter who worked in Mandalay Myanmar and who was known as an advocate of experimentation in the arts. He was an associate of Kin Maungwho is known commonly known in Burma as Kin Maung (Bank) to differentiate him from another painter of some renown Kin Maung (Yangon). Kin Maung (Bank) is generally regarded as the Father of Modernist Painting in Burma.
Michael Gurian.  Michael Gurian is an American author and social philosopher. He was trained as a family therapist and went on to become a corporate consultant. He has published over twenty-one books several of which were New York Times bestsellers.Gurian taught at Gonzaga University Eastern Washington University and Ankara University. He was the founder of the Gurian Institute which trains professionals who deal with the developmental aspects of childhood. His work tends to focus on gender differences.
Jona Lewie.  Jona Lewie (born John Lewis 14 March 1947 in Southampton England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his 1980 UK hits You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties and Stop the Cavalry.
Harald Parigger.  Harald Parigger born 1953 in Flensburg is a German writer. He studied history and German in Würzburg. He became a secondary school teacher and later worked at the House of Bavarian History in Munich. He has written a number of academic essays poems plays short stories and historical novels mainly for children and young people. His novels include Im Schatten des schwarzen Todes Der schwarze Mönch and Der Rubin des Königs.
Jason Engle.  Jason A. Engle is an American artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games and collectible card games.
David Monette.  David G. Monette is an American craftsman who designs and builds custom-built brass instruments and mouthpieces for musicians.Monette's experience as a trumpeter and the influence of acoustician Arthur Benade lead Monette to redesign the trumpet mouthpiece with the goal of improving playability and sound quality.
Nick O'Malley.  Nicholas O'Malley (born 5 July 1985) is the bass guitarist of Sheffield-based band Arctic Monkeys.
Chris Morris (author).  Christopher Crosby Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction as well as a lyricist musical composer and singer-songwriter. He is married to author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris a shortened form of his name but occasionally uses pseudonyms.
Saint-John Perse.  Saint-John Perse (also Saint-Leger Leger; pseudonyms of Alexis Leger) (31 May 1887–20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry. He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940 after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967.
Irina Zabiyaka.  Irina Alekseevna Zabiyaka (Russian: Ирина Алексеевна Забияка) (born 20 December 1982) is a Russian / Ukrainian singer and lead vocalist songwriter in the popular Russian group Chi-li (Russian: Чи-ли). She is known for her deep contralto voice.
John Drummond 15th Baron Strange.  John Drummond 10th of Megginch 15th Baron Strange (born 1900 Scotland – d.1982 Isle of Man) Chief of the Baronial House and Branch of Drummond of Concraig and Lennoch within the clan Drummond and Baron of Megginch.Educated at Eton College he became Lieutenant Grenadier Guards and Hon. Attaché H.M. Legation Warsaw in 1920. Later he was elected county councillor for West Perth in Scotland aged 21.
Daishi Dance.  Daishi Dance (ダイシ・ダンス) is a male Japanese DJ born in 1976.
William Ivey Long.  William Ivey Long (born August 30 1947) is an American costume designer for stage and film. His most notable work includes the Broadway shows The Producers Hairspray Nine Crazy for You Grey Gardens Young Frankenstein Cinderella and Bullets Over Broadway.
Walt Kuhn.  Walt Kuhn (October 27 1877 – July 13 1949) was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913 which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.
Cho Hae-il.  Cho Hae-il (born 1941 as Cho Hae-ryong) is a South Korean writer.
Judith Skelton Grant.  Judith Skelton Grant (born 1947) is a Canadian writer editor and biographer.Grant is best known for her editing of collections by novelist playwright critic journalist and professor Robertson Davies as well as her biography of Davies Robertson Davies: Man of Myth.
Andy Chapin.  Andy Chapin (February 7 1951 – December 31 1985) was an American keyboardist best known for his short stint with the Ricky Nelson Band which ended in 1985 when he and his bandmates died after their plane crashed on New Year's Eve in De Kalb Texas while en route to a performance in Dallas Texas.
Johnny Duncan (country singer).  Johnny Richard Duncan (October 5 1938 – August 14 2006) was an American country singer. In his career he released fourteen studio albums including thirteen on Columbia Records. These albums produced more than thirty chart singles with three of those reaching Number One: Thinkin' of a Rendezvous and It Couldn't Have Been Any Better and She Can Put Her Shoes Under my Bed (Anytime) from 1976 1977 and 1978 respectively. Seven more of his singles were Top Ten hits.
Bob Mayer.  Robert Bob Mayer (born 1959) is an author writing instructor and former Green Beret. He has written over 50 titles. Mayer has applied the principles from his training in the special forces to his career as a writer and as a writing instructor.
Toshio Shimao.  Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄 Shimao Toshio April 18 1917–November 12 1986) was a Japanese novelist.
Robin Juhkental.  Robin Juhkental (born 20 May 1988 in Tallinn Estonia) is an Estonian singer. He is the frontman of Malcolm Lincoln.Juhkental has studied in Kivimäe põhikool Tallinna Nõmme Gümnaasium and is currently studying road engineering in Tallinn University of Applied Sciences.Juhkental has never taken any singing lessons. He has participated in the Kaks takti ette (2007) and Eesti otsib superstaari (2009) television shows as a contestant.
Ike Cole.  Isaac Ike Cole (July 13 1927 – April 22 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer.Born in Chicago Illinois Cole was the younger brother of Nat King Cole and the older brother of Freddy Cole and played drums as a youth. He played bass drum in a U.S. Army band during the Korean War and moved back to Chicago after his discharge where he formed his own jazz trio. He appeared on television in the 1950s and held a residency in Las Vegas later touring internationally.
Pyhimys.  Mikko Kuoppala (born 28 October 1981) professionally known as Pyhimys is a Finnish rapper and founder of the record company Yellowmic Records.
Elvin Jones.  Elvin Ray Jones (September 9 1927 – May 18 2004) was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed an interest in drums at a young age watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and subsequently played in a Detroit houseband led by Billy Mitchell.
Aubrey Haynie.  Aubrey Haynie (born on March 27 1974) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label all three of which contained mostly songs that he wrote himself. He also holds several credits as a session fiddler and mandolinist.
Craig Campbell (singer).  Craig Campbell (born February 10 1979) is an American country music singer. He is signed to Bigger Picture Music Group for whom he has released two albums: Craig Campbell in 2011 and Never Regret in 2013. These two albums have produced five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Frank C. Moore (painter).  Frank C. Moore II (June 22 1953 – April 21 2002) was a New York-based painter winner of the Logan Medal of the arts and a member of the Visual AIDS Artist Caucus—the organization responsible for the (Red) Ribbon Project A Day Without Art and A Night Without Light.Born in Manhattan in 1953 Moore moved with his family to Long Island N.Y. first to Great Neck and then to Roslyn where he first attended Roslyn Junior High School.
Nicky Wire.  Nicholas Allen Jones known as Nicky Wire is the lyricist bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
Thea Garrett.  Thea Garrett (born 15 March 1992) is a Maltese singer who represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo.
Rob Hoeke.  Rob Hoeke (9 January 1939 — 6 November 1999) was a Dutch singer pianist composer and songwriter most famous for his renditions in the field of Boogie-woogie releasing over 20 albums. Besides that he played and recorded in a musical variety of styles ranging from Blues Soul Rock and Rhythm & Blues.Rob Hoeke's most successful period was in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s with his Rob Hoeke's Rhythm & Blues Group.
Warren Foster.  Warren Foster (October 24 1904 – December 13 1971) was a writer cartoonist and composer for the animation division of Warner Brothers and later with Hanna-Barbera.He was born in Brooklyn New York to Marion B. Foster and Charles C.
Richard Rappaport.  Richard Rappaport born 1944 in Pittsburgh is a classically trained painter of portraits and large-scale figurative works whose pictorial evolution has spiraled towards and away from the Renaissance ideal for half a century. In his work even when taking the image to abstraction Rappaport keeps the iconic figure as primal source.
Nina Roberts.  Nina Roberts is a French porn star actress author and contemporary artist (video and photo).Her first book J'assume was published in 2004 by éditions Scali. It told her story in the adult industry and Virginie Despentes wrote the book's preface.In 2007 Roberts published Grosse Vache (Scali) a brutal portrait of a young woman fighting bulimia anorexia drugs (cocaine and speed) and finding love which was a novel in the form of a diary.
Alan Reid (musician).  Alan Reid (born 2 May 1950 Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Battlefield Band which combined traditional Celtic melodies and new material.
Tom Lovatt-Williams.  Tom Lovatt-Williams often known as T. Lovatt Williams (28 May 1897 – 22 September 1986) was an English poet and writer about railways and nature topics.His best-known poem Oxford was broadcast several times on the BBC programme Poetry Please and is included in the published anthology of favourite poems from that programme. His novel The Gentle Years was read on the BBC's Book at Bedtime by Richard Harris.
Thomas Stumpf.  Thomas Stumpf is a classical pianist in the Boston area. He is also a conductor composer author and teacher.
Adam Müller.  Adam Heinrich Müller (30 June 1779 – 17 January 1829; after 1827 Ritter von Nitterdorf) was a German publicist literary critic political economist theorist of the state and forerunner of economic romanticism.
Booth Tarkington.  Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29 1869 – May 19 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is with William Faulkner and John Updike one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.
Sharon Daniel.  Sharon Daniel is a professor in the Film and Digital Media department and serves as chair for the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California Santa Cruz. Along with teaching classes about digital media Daniel does field research for new media projects. Her essays have been published in analytical and research journals such as Sarai and Leonardo.
Jamie Masada.  Jamie Masada born in Iran is the founder of the Laugh Factory a popular chain of comedy clubs with locations on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Long Beach California Chicago and inside the Tropicana Las Vegas.
Ginevra Cantofoli.  Ginevra Cantofoli (1618–1672) was an Italian painter. She was active in the Baroque period.
Frank O'Hara.  Francis Russell Frank O'Hara (March 27 1926 – July 25 1966) was an American writer poet and art critic. Because of his employment as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world.
Jackson do Pandeiro.  José Gomes Filho (August 31 1919 – July 10 1982) more commonly known as Jackson do Pandeiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒaksõ ˈdu pɐ̃ˈdejɾu]) was a Brazilian percussionist and singer.Jackson was born in Paraíba Brazil a region in the northeast of the country. His mother Flora Mourão was a musician and singer who played several percussion instruments.
Mathias Rüegg.  Mathias Rüegg (born 1952) is a European musician composer and bandleader best known as founder and director of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 1977 to 2010. Born in Zurich Switzerland Mathias Rüegg began playing jazz in secondary school. Trained as a schoolteacher he taught for a while in special-needs schools. From 1973 to 1975 he attended the Musikhochschule in Graz Austria studying classical composition and jazz piano.
Constantin Göttfert.  Constantin Göttfert (born 1979) is an Austrian writer.
Vincenzo Fontana (composer).  Vincenzo Fontana (fl. 1550) was an Italian composer. He was mainly known for his canzoni villanesche.
Stafford Gordon.  Stafford Gordon is a British actor.Gordon has played various character roles in British television series such as Crown Court Minder Prime Suspect and The Bill. His longest running role was as Company Sergeant Major Gilby in all three series of Spearhead (1979–1981).
Anna Gustafsson Chen.  Anna Gustafsson Chen (simplified Chinese: 陈安娜; traditional Chinese: 陳安娜; pinyin: Cheén ānnà; born 18 January 1965) is a Swedish translator and sinologist. She is notable for translating the work of Mo Yan (the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature winner) into Swedish. Her translations are directly tied to Mo Yan becoming the first Chinese person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She has translated over 20 other notable works including the writing of Yu Hua and Su Tong.
Tim Federle.  Tim Federle is an American writer and former Broadway dancer.Federle's debut novel for children Better Nate Than Ever which was about a small-town child who crashes an audition for E.T.: The Musical won the 2014 Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the 2014 Stonewall Book Award Honor by the American Library Association named a New York Times Notable Book of 2013 a Slate Favorite Book of 2013 an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013. 
Al Columbia.  Al Columbia (born 1970) is an American cartoonist.
Marie Robertson.  Marie Charlotte Robertson (born 14 April 1977) is a Swedish actress. She was born in Sunne Sweden.
John Greaves (musician).  John Greaves (born 23 February 1950) is a British bass guitarist and composer best known as a member of Henry Cow and his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad. He was also a member of National Health and Soft Heap and has recorded several solo albums including Accident (1982) Parrot Fashions (1984) The Caretaker (2001) and Greaves Verlaine (2008).
Hawksley Workman.  Hawksley Workman is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full length albums throughout his career. He is a multi-instrumentalist playing guitar drums bass keyboards and singing on his records and often switching between those instruments when playing live.Workman is a prolific artist usually writing recording mastering and releasing entire albums in the span of a few weeks.
Hugh Haynie.  Hugh Smith Haynie (February 6 1927 – November 30 1999) was an American political cartoonist.Haynie was born in Reedville Virginia. He studied at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He also served in the United States Coast Guard during the end of World War II and the Korean War.In 1958 Barry Bingham Sr.
Phil Chang.  Phil Chang (Chinese: 張宇; pinyin: Zhāng Yǔ) (born 30 April 1967 in Taipei) is a male Taiwanese singer-songwriter.By the time he graduated from Feng Chia University in Financial Services he was already known as an accomplished folk singer pianist and guitar-player. He issued his first album Walking the Wind in 1992 and achieved success with his second Well-intentioned in 1993. In 1997 he married long-term partner lyricist Xiāo Huìwèn (蕭慧文 who uses the pen name 十一郎 Shí Yīláng).
Scott Siman.  Scott Foster Siman (born July 22 1954) is a leading American country music entertainment executive based in Nashville Tennessee. He is president of RPM Entertainment which comprises RPME Records RPM Music Group and RPM Management. He oversaw the rise of country music superstar Tim McGraw and the launch of Dancing With the Stars celebrity Julianne Hough among others.
Mz. Bratt.  Cleopatra Humphrey better known by her stage name Mz. Bratt is an English grime musician.
Mary Meade.  Mary Meade (November 24 1923 - December 10 2003) was an American film actress who rose to fame in the latter 1940s.Born in Louisiana her first role was in Wonder Man (1945) as a Goldwyn Girl. In 1949 she married Ted Grouya in Paris and embarked on a European career that included stints in the lavish production Gay Paris at the Casino de Paris and at the Pigalle Club in London.
Bobby Kim.  Bobby Kim (Kim Do Kyun) was born on 12 January 1973 in Seoul Korea. His family moved to the United States when he was two years old. He is a well established hip-hop and R&B artist in Korea.
Margot Bennett.  Margot Bennett (1912 – 6 December 1980) was a writer of crime and thriller novels. She was educated in Scotland and Australia. Bennett was born in Lenzie Scotland. She worked as a copywriter in Sydney and London and as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War. She also wrote science fiction including The Long Way Back about African colonization of Britain following a nuclear holocaust.
Svetlana Surganova.  Svetlana Yakovlevna Surganova (Russian: Светлана Яковлевна Сурганова) (born November 14 1968) is a Russian rock musician singer and poet.
Ken Barnes (writer).  Ken Barnes is a writer producer broadcaster musicologist film historian film maker songwriter and music publisher who in the 1970s worked with Bing Crosby Peter Sellers and Fred Astaire. In 1974 he convinced Johnny Mercer to record a two-disk collection of Mercer singing Mercer - with Johnny selecting his own favorites. These were the last recordings made by Mercer before his death in 1976.
CooRie.  CooRie is a self-produced Japanese music unit by singer-songwriter Rino that performs songs for anime and games. CooRie used to be a two-persons unit when it debuted in 2003 with Rino doing the lyrics and vocals and Naoyuki Osada (長田直之 Osada Naoyuki) doing the music compositions and arrangements. After Osada left by the end of 2003 Rino maintained the name CooRie and composed the music by herself although she sometimes sings under her own name especially if the song is for adult games.
Micky Modelle.  Micky Modelle (born 1972 Northern Ireland) is a British disc jockey and record producer.
Teddy Pendergrass.  Theodore DeReese Teddy Pendergrass (March 26 1950 – January 13 2010) was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982 he was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia resulting in his being paralyzed from the chest down.
Thomas van Aalten.  Thomas van Aalten (born September 26 1978 in Huissen Gelderland) is a Dutch writer. He made his debut with a story in the literary magazine Zoetermeer at the age of 19. Van Aalten has written the novels Sneeuwbeeld (2000) Tupelo (2001) Sluit Deuren en Ramen (2003) Coyote (2006) and De Onderbreking (2009) and several articles for magazines such as 3VOOR12 Passionate VARA TV Magazine Revu and Vrij Nederland.
Hine Arthur Brown.  Hine Arthur Brown better known as H. Arthur Brown (c. 1906 – May 27 1992) was an American orchestral conductor. He was born c. 1906 and studied music at Juilliard and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. He was conductor at the El Paso Symphony Orchestra Louisville Symphony Orchestra Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra and Austrian Symphony Orchestra. With the latter orchestra he made numerous recordings.
Roxee B.  Anne Roxanne Roxie Jordan Barcelo (born January 20 1985 in Fairfax Virginia United States) is a Filipino-American actress model and singer popularly known by the names Roxanne Barcelo Roxie and Roxee B.In 2006 she became one of the 14 housemates of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition. Before entering the Big Brother House she was a finalist on ABC's Hollywood Dream.
Diana Wynne Jones.  Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was an English writer principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series the Dalemark series; the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm; and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Ivana Švarc-Grenda.  Ivana Švarc-Grenda (born in Zagreb 1970) is a Croatian pianist. Švarc-Grenda was trained at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and Salzburg's Mozarteum settling in Germany. In the 90s she centered on Frédéric Chopin's music; she won prizes at the Chopin competitions in Baltimore and New York and took part at the XIII Chopin Competition in Warszaw where she reached the 2nd round. She has performed internationally.
Richard Pleasance.  Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer. He was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar bass guitar vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992. Their hit Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles Great Wall (No. 5 1986) and Onion Skin (No. 11 1989) were co-written by Pleasance who also co-produced their second album These Here Are Crazy Times (No. 10 1989).
Mutsuko Sakura.  Mutsuko Sakura (桜 むつ子 Sakura Mutsuko 15 February 1921 – 23 January 2005) was a Japanese actress.Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950 and played supporting roles in some of Yasujirō Ozu's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half of the 20th century.
Flynn Gower.  Flynn Gower (born. 1972) is an Australian vocalist composer and guitarist best known as frontman of the rock band Cog. He was also a guitarist in now-defunct funk metal band The Hanging Tree.
Rosi Golan.  Rosi Golan is an indie singer-songwriter originally from Israel now residing in Brooklyn New York. Since 2008 she’s released 2 LP’s (Lead Balloon and The Drifter & the Gypsy) and an EP (Fortuna). Her songs have been featured in feature films such as Dear John and Tiger Eyes various TV shows such as Vampire Diaries Grey's Anatomy Private Practice Brothers & Sisters One Tree Hill Ghost Whisperer and numerous ads for such companies as Chicco Pantene JCPenney and Walmart.
J. B. Lenoir.  J. B. Lenoir /ləˈnɔːr/ (March 5 1929 – April 29 1967) was an African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter active in the 1950s and 1960s Chicago blues scene.Although his name is sometimes pronounced as French Len WAH Lenoir himself pronounced it La NOR. The initials J.B. had no specific meaning his given name was simply JB
Kitten Natividad.  Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad; February 14 1948) is a Mexican American film actress exotic dancer and porn star noted for her 44-inch chest and appearances in cult films by her ex-partner director Russ Meyer.
Bryan Fuller.  Bryan Fuller (born July 27 1969) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Fuller has worked exclusively as a writer/producer in television creating a number of critically acclaimed television series including Dead Like Me Wonderfalls Pushing Daisies and Hannibal.
Trisha Romance.  Trisha Romance OOnt is an American-born Canadian painter and illustrator of popular realistic and idyllic subjects.
Robert Thomas (director).  Robert Thomas (28 September 1927 Gap Hautes-Alpes –3 January 1989) was a French writer actor and film director.He is something of a forgotten man in French theatre and cinema. By the time he was 18 he claimed he had read every play published in French since 1900. As a writer almost from the beginning he was fascinated by a curious genre that he helped invent: the comédie policière or comedy thriller of which Eight Women is a classic example.
Fela Kuti.  Fela Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) also known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti or simply Fela ([feˈlæ]) was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician composer pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre human rights activist and political maverick.
Martin Johnson Heade.  Martin Johnson Heade (August 11 1819 – September 4 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes seascapes and depictions of tropical birds (such as hummingbirds) as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes. His painting style and subject matter while derived from the romanticism of the time are regarded by art historians as a significant departure from those of his peers.Heade was born in Lumberville Pennsylvania the son of a storekeeper.
Agnès b..  agnès b. (born Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé 1941 in Versailles) is a French fashion designer. She is known for her self-named brand which includes fashion and film interests.
Jonathan Sprout.  Jonathan Sprout (born April 12 1952) is a songwriter performer and recording artist from Pennsylvania USA. He has released nine albums the last seven of which feature children's music. His three most recent albums feature original songs about specific American heroes. His recordings have garnered awards from organizations including The Parents' Choice Awards NAPPA and the Film Advisory Board.
Per Wiberg.  Per Jonas Wiberg (born June 8 1968) is the former keyboardist of Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth and a member of Michael Amott's stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars. Wiberg toured with Opeth from the 2003 Deliverance/Damnation tour onward and joined Opeth officially in 2005. Wiberg provided backing vocals for Opeth in addition to his keyboard duties. Before joining Spiritual Beggars he was a member of Death Organ a band based in Borlänge.
Louise Burns.  Louise Burns is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly a member of the band Lillix she released her debut album as a solo artist Mellow Drama on April 5 2011 on Light Organ Records. She began a national tour to support the album in June 2011; in the same month the album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.Mellow Drama was produced by Dave Ogilvie and Kevin James Maher.Her second album The Midnight Mass was released July 9 2013.
Kim Wonu.  Kim Wonu (Hangul: 김원우) is a modern South Korean novelist.
Louis D. Fancher.  Louis D. Fancher (December 25 1884–March 2 1944) was an American artist and illustrator notable for his drawings that appeared in books in magazines and on propaganda posters during World War I.
Hans Henrik Holm.  Hans Henrik Holm (1896 – 1980) was a Norwegian poet and folklorist. He made his literary début in 1933 with the epic poem Jonsoknatt the first in a series of seven volumes. His published the trilogy Bygdir i solrøyk between 1949 and 1951. He was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1950.
Placido Mossello.  Placido Mossello (Montà d'Alba 1835-1894) was an Italian painter.
Wallace Chung.  Wallace Chung (born 30 November 1974) also known as Chung Hon-leung (鍾漢良) is a Hong Kong actor and recording artist. Chung's debut was in the 1993 Hong Kong TVB biographical television drama The Chord to Victory portraying Kenny Bee a member of The Wynners.
Carlos Maturana.  Carlos Eduardo Maturana Piña better known by his artistic pseudonym Bororo is Chilean artist born in Santiago Chile on November 10 1953. Along with Samy Benmayor Omar Gatica Matías Pinto D'Aguiar and Ismael Frigerio among others he formed part of Chilean art’s 80s Generation. Bororo was his childhood nickname.
Mel Villena.  Mel Villena a Filipino musician composer and musical director who has worked with various artists such as Sharon Cuneta Pops Fernandez Martin Nievera Lea Salonga The CompanY and Mitch Valdez. He was also the musical director of Associated Broadcasting Company's (ABC) Philippine Idol.Aside from Philippine Idol he appeared in numerous reality talent shows such as ABS-CBN's Star In A Million and guested on children's television series Batibot in which he arranged the show's theme song.
Connie Smith.  Connie Smith (born Constance June Meador; August 14 1941) is an American country music artist. Active since 1964 Smith is widely considered to be one of the genre's best female vocalists. She has earned 11 Grammy award nominations 20 top ten Billboard country singles and 31 charting albums three of which have hit number one.
Robin Ghosh.  Robin Ghosh (born 1939 in Baghdad Iraq) is a Bangladeshi musician and music composer. Famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi has a notable contribution to Ghosh's success. Ghosh gained fame in the mid-1960s when Rushdi sang his compositions in films like Chakori Jahan tum wahan hum Paisa etc.
Greg Eklund.  Greg Eklund (born April 18 1970 Jacksonville Florida United States) is an American drummer. He was the drummer for the rock band Everclear until 2003.Eklund attended high school at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke Virginia graduating in 1988.
Stephen Brathwaite.  Stephen Brathwaite (born c. 1949) is a Canadian actor and puppeteer best known for his puppet work in the children's series Under the Umbrella Tree and Groundling Marsh in the 1980s and 1990s.He his also an artist having designed the ornate play structure in Strathcona Park. He has also become a developer with his partners of heritage buildings in Almonte Ontario.
Alexander Bashlachev.  Alexander Nickolaevich Bashlachev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Башлачёв IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪt͡ɕ bəʂlɐˈt͡ɕɵf] ; May 27 1960 – February 17 1988) was a Russian poet singer-songwriter and guitarist one of the most influential performers in Russian rock music included in the 27 Club.
Derek Hess.  Derek Hess is an American artist based in Cleveland Ohio. His creative career grew largely out of his ability to express the emotion in the indie hardcore and hard rock scenes of the mid-1990s. His posters are known for humor and irony with the subject matter frequently using the name of the band as inspiration.His work is well known to devotees of album cover art and concert flyer art.
Rodney Caston.  Rodney Caston (born 13 May 1977) is an American systems engineer and writer currently living in Dallas Texas. He is a co-creator and the original writer of the popular comic book series Megatokyo and an active member of the Libertarian Party.
William Hunter (Asiatic Society).  William Hunter (Montrose Angus 1755-1812) was an official and minister in India then secretary to the Asiatic Society in Calcutta Bengal. He made one of the first Bible translations into Hindi.He studied at the University of Aberdeen and went to India in 1781. He succeeded Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist as secretary of the Asiatic Society in 1804 and in 1805 was made the Secretary of the College.
Maximilian Voloshin.  Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (Russian: Максимилиа́н Алекса́ндрович Кирие́нко-Воло́шин) commonly known as Max Voloshin (May 28 1877 - November 8 1932) was a Ukrainian-born Russian poet. He was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature.
Juha Kylmänen.  Juha Kylmänen (born 1981) is a Finnish vocalist of gothic metal bands For My Pain... and Reflexion.
Isabel Paterson.  Isabel Paterson (January 22 1886 – January 10 1961) was a Canadian-American journalist novelist political philosopher and a leading literary critic of her day. Along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson she is one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism.
Hassan Sheheryar Yasin.  Hassan Sheheryar Yasin simply known as H S Y is a Pakistani fashion designer.A salutatorian graduate of the Pakistan School of Fashion Design (class of 2000) Yasin is affiliated with the La Chambre Syndicale De La Couture Parisienne in France.
Rina Ikoma.  Rina Ikoma (生駒 里奈 Ikoma Rina born December 29 1995 in Akita Prefecture) is a Japanese idol a member of the girl group Nogizaka46 as a 1st generation member and also holds a concurrent posistion in AKB48's Team B. She was the center member for Nogizaka46 first 5 singles and still countinues to be a frontgirl today.
Sandra Trattnigg.  Sandra Trattnigg (born 14 November 1976 Klagenfurt) is an Austrian opera and concert soprano.
Adriaen van der Werff.  Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was an accomplished Dutch painter of portraits and erotic devotional and mythological scenes. His brother Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722) was his principal pupil and assistant.
Yumi Shimura.  Yumi Shimura (志村 由美 Shimura Yumi born November 30 Yamanashi as Toyoko Shimura (志村 豊子; Shimura Toyoko)) is a Japanese voice actress. She is employed by the talent management firm I'm Enterprise.
John DeServio.  John JD DeServio is the current bass guitarist in Black Label Society joining after the departure of James Lomenzo in 2005.JD was also a member of Pride & Glory Wylde's southern rock trio for a short time in December 1994 (again as a replacement for Lomenzo) and was also Black Label Society's original bass guitarist playing on the tour supporting their debut album Sonic Brew.
Daniel E. Kelley.  Daniel E. Kelley (Rhode Island Feb. 1845 – Iowa 1905) was a musician and entertainer who after moving to Kansas in 1872 wrote the music for Home on the Range which became the state song. Kelley played violin with his brothers-in-law in the Harlan Brothers Band but was primarily a carpenter by trade. He married Mary E. Harlan in Kansas and they had four children. He moved to Iowa in 1889 and committed suicide there in 1905. He was buried in Fairview Cemetery Waterloo Iowa.
Jay Allen Sanford.  Jay Allen Sanford (born February 18 1960 Middleborough Massachusetts) is an American author and cartoonist best known for his work with Revolutionary Comics Carnal Comics and Pacific Comics. He began writing the comic book Rock ‘N’ Roll Comics (created by Todd Loren) in 1989 as of the title's second issue and still oversees the rock comic reprints published by Bluewater Productions and others.
Peter Murray-Hill.  Peter Murray-Hill (April 20 1908 – November 25 1957) was a British actor. He was married to the actress Phyllis Calvert from 1941 until his death.
Samuel Crowther (journalist).  Samuel Crowther (1880–1947) was a prominent American journalist and writer who is best known for his collaborative writings with Henry Ford and other industrialists.
Conrad von Soest.  Conrad von Soest also Konrad in modern texts or in Middle High German Conrad van Sost or von Soyst (born around 1370 in Dortmund; died soon after 1422. He was the most significant Westphalian artist and painted in the so-called soft style of International Gothic. He played a leading role in the introduction of this International Courtly Style to Northern Germany around 1390 and influenced German and Northern European painting into the late 15th century.
Emmanuèle Bernheim.  Emmanuèle Bernheim (born in 1955) is a French writer who won the Prix Médicis in 1993 with her book Sa femme. She wrote the screenplay of the movie Swimming Pool with François Ozon. She lives in Paris and also works for the television.
Amelie Fried.  Amelie Fried (Ulm September 6 1958) is a German writer and television presenter. Her father Kurt Fried is the creator-publisher of Schwäbischen Donauzeitung nowadays a part of Südwest Presse. Her 2008 book Schuhhaus Pallas. Wie meine Familie sich gegen die Nazis wehrte deals with her family persecutions during the Third Reich.
Junko Kusayanagi.  Junko Kusayanagi (草柳 順子 Kusayanagi Junko) is a Japanese voice actress from Kanagawa Japan.
Shane Fontayne.  Shane Fontayne (born May 10 1954 London) is the professional name of English rock guitarist Mick Barakan. Active since the 1970s he was the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen during the 1992-1993 Other Band Tour as Springsteen had disbanded his own E Street Band three years earlier. During his career he has worked with Ian Hunter Van Zant John Waite Chris Botti Joe Cocker Johnny Hallyday Marc Cohn Randy VanWarmer and others.
Melih Kibar.  Melih Kibar (6 September 1951 – 7 April 2005) was a Turkish composer.
Jorge Pérez Concha.  Jorge Pérez Concha (Guayaquil June 5 1908 - Guayaquil April 1 1995) was an Ecuadorian historian biographer writer and diplomat.He wrote biographies of Eloy Alfaro Luis Vargas Torres and his uncle Carlos Concha Torres among others.He was awarded Ecuador's top National Prize the Premio Eugenio Espejo in 1989 in the Culture category.
Lou Perez (musician).  Lou Pérez (June 21 1928 – May 27 2005) was an American flautist bandleader composer and arranger. He was one of the most influential and popular charanga musicians in the 1960s and 1970s and his music was used in the film Dirty Dancing.
Dawn Langley Simmons.  Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (15 October 1937 or unknown date in 1922 depending on source – 18 September 2000) was a prolific English author and biographer. Born Gordon Langley Hall Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult she became close to British actress Margaret Rutherford whom she considered an adoptive mother and who was the subject of a biography Simmons wrote in later years.
Mikael Wiehe.  Mikael Christian Wiehe (born 10 April 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was also one of the most important people in the proggmovement.
B. A. Chidambaranath.  Bhoothapandi Annavi Chidambaranathan was an Nagercoil born Indian film score composer and musician who worked mainly in Malayalam films.
Kitabatake Chikafusa.  Kitabatake Chikafusa (北畠 親房 March 8 1293 – June 1 1354) was a Japanese court noble and writer of the 14th century who supported the Southern Court in the Nanboku-cho period serving as advisor to five Emperors. Some of his greatest and most famous work was performed during the reign of Emperor Go-Daigo under whom he proposed a series of reforms amounting to a revival or restoration of political and economic systems of several centuries earlier.
Robert Farnon.  Robert Joseph Farnon (July 24 1917 – April 23 2005) was a Canadian-born composer conductor musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a famous composer of original works (often in the light music genre but also for film and television) he was recognised as one of the finest arrangers of his generation. In later life he composed a number of more serious orchestral works including three symphonies and was recognised with four Ivor Novello awards and the Order of Canada.
Nikolai Bartossik.  Nikolai Bartossik (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Бартосік Russian: Николай Григорьевич Бартосик) (born April 5 1951) is a Ukrainian-American contemporary painter and monumental artist.
Mark Gardiner (video gamer).  Mark Gardiner (born 2 September 1983) is a Scottish semi-professional video gamer. On 15 March 2008 Gardiner won the largest single prize in United Kingdom video gaming history. Playing Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) he won £50000 inside Wembley Stadium in the Play.com-sponsored PES Rankings tournament. He also finished second at the European Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Championships in Seville on 11 October 2007 and won the UK Championships held in London on 2 September 2007.
Jan Widströmer.  Jan Widströmer (born 31 December 1944) is a Swedish artist now living in Falkenberg Sweden.His father was a primary school teacher and a founder of a school for adults of which he was the headmaster; his mother was a piano teacher.
Harriet Mann Miller.  Harriet Mann Miller (1831–1918) was a naturalist ornithologist and children's writer.Harriet was the eldest of four children born to Seth Mann and Mary (Holbrook) in Auburn New York. She became an author who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Olive Thorne Miller. In addition to writing on birds and their behavior she contributed to the journal of the Audubon Society. In 1854 she married Watts Todd Miller and the couple would have four children.
Miguelito Valdés.  Miguelito Valdés (born Miguel Ángel Eugenio Lázaro Zacarias Izquierdo Valdés Hernández or Eugenio Lazaro Miguel Izquierdo Valdes y Hernandez; September 6 1912 – 9 November 9 1978) also called Mr. Babalú was a Cuban popular singer of high quality. His performances were characterized by a strong voice and a particular sense of cubanismo.
Claude Bertrand (actor).  Claude Bertrand (24 March 1919—14 December 1986) was a French film television and voiceover actor.In a career that has spanned four decades Bertrand was best known in French film and television as a voice over actor. He was the French dub for Roger Moore Charles Bronson John Wayne Bud Spencer and Burt Lancaster. He also shared his voice in animation he provided the voice of Baloo in the French version of The Jungle Book O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood.
Anna Rosina de Gasc.  Anna Rosina de Gasc (born: Anna Rosina Lisiewska (10 July 1713 in Berlin – 26 March 1783 in Dresden) was a German Portrait painter.
Mux Mool.  Mux Mool (born Brian Lindgren) is an American electronic musician DJ and producer affiliated with the labels Moodgadget and Ghostly International.
Garth Hudson.  Eric Garth Hudson (b. August 2 1937) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist keyboardist and saxophonist for Canadian-American rock group The Band he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound.
Chris Torrance.  Chris Torrance (born 1941) is a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Yo Gotti.  Mario Mims (born May 19 1981) better known by his stage name Yo Gotti is an American rapper. He hails from the northern side of Memphis Tennessee. In 2000 Gotti released his debut album From Da Dope Game 2 Da Rap Game. He went on to release Self-Explanatory (2001) Life (2003) Back 2 da Basics (2006) Live from the Kitchen (2012) and I Am (2013).
AmberRose Marie.  amberRose Marie (born in Long Island New York) is a female American dance and pop singer-songwriter. She is known for her high energy stage shows big vocals and always changing hair-color. She came on the club music scene with her 2008 debut single Destiny and her 2009 follow-up single Wanna Be A DJ. In 2009 it was announced that she would be appearing in her own stage show.
Prairie Prince.  Prairie Prince (born Charles Lempriere Prince May 7 1950 in Charlotte North Carolina U.S.) is an American rock drummer and an accomplished painter muralist and a graphic artist . He is a member of The Tubes and a founding member of Journey.
Britt Daniel.  John Britt Daniel (born April 14 1971) is the co-founder lead singer and guitarist of the Austin Texas rock band Spoon and the co-founder bassist and singer of the band Divine Fits.
Michael McGinnis.  James Michael McGinnis (12 July 1944 – ) is a physician epidemiologist and long-time contributor to national and international health programs and policy including continuous policy responsibilities for leadership in disease prevention and health promotion through four Administrations (Carter Reagan Bush Clinton).
Carson Ellis.  Carson Friedman Ellis (born October 5 1975) is an artist living in Portland Oregon. She is best known for her children's book illustrations and her album art.
Dustie Waring.  Dustie Dustball Waring is the rhythm guitarist for the American heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me. He joined in early 2005 after replacing former guitarist Nick Fletcher. He contributes the lead parts in select songs off studio albums Alaska The Anatomy Of and Colors.
Carter Brey.  Carter Brey (born 1954) is an American cello virtuoso. He had a prolific solo career from 1981 until 1996 when he became the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic a position he still holds today.
Fresh I.E..  Rob Wilson (born 1973) better known by his stage name Fresh I.E. is a Christian rap artist from Winnipeg Manitoba. His albums Red Letterz and Truth is Fallin' in tha Streetz were both nominated for Grammy Awards. Wilson is the first Canadian Christian artist to have been nominated for a Grammy Award. He has won several GMA Canada Covenant Awards including Rap/Hip Hop Song of the Year for World Vision (2006). Wilson founded the recording label Kingdom Music Inc. in 2006.Fresh I.E.
Lynn Davis (photographer).  Lynn Davis is an American photographer known for her large-scale black-and-white photographs which are widely collected publicly and privately and are internationally exhibited.
Izumi Aso.  Izumi Aso (麻生 いずみ Asō Izumi born November 14 1960 in Saitama Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese manga artist known for her Hikari no Densetsu series.
Doseone.  Adam Drucker (born April 21 1977) better known by his stage name Doseone is an American rapper producer poet and artist. He is a co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon. He has also been a member of numerous groups including Deep Puddle Dynamics Greenthink Clouddead Themselves Subtle and 13 & God.
Cristina Ali Farah.  Cristina Ali Farah (born 1973 in Verona Italy) is an Italian writer of Somali and Italian origin.
Michael B. Gallagher.  Michael B. Gallagher (a.k.a. Mike Gallagher; born 1945) is an American painter whose work is associated with Abstract Illusionism.
Roger von Oech.  Roger von Oech (born Feb. 16 1948) is an American speaker conference organizer author and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity.
Hilda Carline.  Hilda Carline (1889–1950) was a British painter daughter of artist George Francis Carline and first wife of artist Stanley Spencer. She was a talented artist who studied art under Post-Impressionist Percyval Tudor-Hart with her brothers Sydney and Richard and then studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks.
Shimit Amin.  Shimit Amin is an Indian film director and editor. He is best known for the award winning film Chak De! India (2007).
Chris Knox.  Chris Knox (born 2 September 1952) is a New Zealand rock and roll musician cartoonist and DVD reviewer who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s he formed the group Tall Dwarfs with guitarist Alec Bathgate. The Tall Dwarfs were noted for their unpolished sound and intense live shows.
Donna Baier Stein.  Donna Baier Stein (born January 5 1951 in Kansas City Missouri) is an American author poet publisher editor and copywriter. Baier Stein's writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review Kansas Quarterly New York Stories Prairie Schooner Washingtonian as well as many other journals and anthologies from Simon & Schuster and The Spirit That Moves Us Press.
Debbie Jacobs.  Debbie Jacobs is a female Black American singer born in Baltimore Maryland who had several Disco hits. Her biggest chart hit was High on Your Love which climbed to #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980. The song along with Hot Hot (Give It All You Got) went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Other '70s hits included Don't You Want My Love and Undercover Lover which are her best-known hit singles.
Naomi Hosokawa.  Naomi Hosokawa (細川直美 Hosokawa Naomi; real name: Chiho Katsurayama (葛山知保 Katsurayama Chiho) b. on 18 June 1974 in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Jon Stratton.  Jonathon or Jonathan (Jon) Stratton is an Australian academic currently serving as Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia.Stratton has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980 arriving at Curtin in 1990 after teaching at universities in Brisbane (Griffith University Queensland University of Technology University of Queensland) Armidale (University of New England) and Darwin (Northern Territory University). 
Martin 101.  Martin 101 is an avant-garde pop singer and artist. Born as Martin Wolfgang Herbert Meister in Vienna Austria on May 24 1971. With a distinctive look attitude and charisma Martin Meister became a well sought-after character for the media advertising and music circuit. Growing up in Vienna he moved and lived in London between 1992–2002. Kate Moss discoverer Corinne Day pictured Martin.
John Phillips (musician).  John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30 1935 – March 18 2001) was an American singer guitarist songwriter and promoter most notably of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival a landmark event of the counterculture era. Known as Papa John Phillips was a member and leader of the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas.
Tim Maia.  Tim Maia (Portuguese pronunciation: [tʃĩ majɐ]; September 28 1942 – March 15 1998) born Sebastião Rodrigues Maia in Rio de Janeiro was a Brazilian musician known for his iconoclastic ironic outspoken and humorous musical style. Maia contributed to Brazilian music within a wide variety of musical genres including soul funk bossa nova disco romantic ballads pop rock jazz baião and MPB.Maia recorded numerous albums and toured extensively in a long career.
Mauro Pawlowski.  Mauro Antonio Pawlowski (born 24 April 1971) is one of the key figures in the Belgian contemporary music scene. He was born in Koersel and is of Italian and Polish descent.He started his career as frontman of Evil Superstars in 1992. This group was along with dEUS part of the first wave of the Belgian music boom in the 90's. He split the band in 1998 and has since then played in numerous bands including Mitsoobishy Jacson Kiss my Jazz Monguito and Shadowgraphic City.
Joseph Young Jr..  Joseph Young Jr. (commonly known as Joe Young) is a nationally recognized African-American cartoonist and animator who runs the Hartford Animation & Film Institute (HAFI). Young is the creator of the Scruples comic strip in the 1990s and the strip's characters now star in the animated film that the institute completed in December [2006].
Michael Winslow.  Michael Winslow (born September 6 1958) is an American actor beatboxer and comedian billed as the Man of 10000 Sound Effects for his ability to make realistic sound effects using only his voice. He is best known for his roles in all seven Police Academy films as Larvelle Jones. He has also appeared in Spaceballs and a Cadbury commercial.
Nicki (singer).  Nicki (born Doris Andrea Hrda on November 2 1966 in the town of Plattling (in the Deggendorf district of Bavaria Germany) is a German pop singer and composer. She currently lives with her life partner and their two daughters in Plattling.
Arthur Quiller-Couch.  Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (/ˌkwɪlərˈkuːtʃ/; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism.
Ratthasart Korrasud.  Ratthasart Korrasud (Thai: รัฐศาสตร์ กรสูต born in January 1 1976) is a Thai pop singer actor and model from GMM Grammy who released his debut in 1994 with the boysband U.H.T. (ยูเอชที). He is also sometimes known as Pepper UHT. Apart from show business he is IT/ digital media expert he works on this field for many years and teachs IT for many universities. Currently he oversees sanook.com Thailand's No.1 web portal as the Vice President.
Jessi Colter.  Jessi Colter (born Miriam Johnson May 25 1943) is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaboration with her husband country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit I'm Not Lisa.Jessi Colter was one of the few female artists to emerge from the mid-1970s “outlaw” movement.After meeting her future husband Colter pursued a career in country music releasing her first studio LP in 1970 A Country Star Is Born.
Haley Gibby.  Haley Gibby also known as Haley is an electronic music singer. She is better known for her frequent collaborations with Ryan Raddon also known as Kaskade and Finn Bjarnson. Her most notable vocal contributions were on both deadmau5 and Kaskade collaborations I Remember and Move for Me. Haley was also the vocalist for Kaskade's lead single and his first number one Billboard Hot Dance Play chart hit Dynasty off of his album of the same name.
Greg Ham.  Gregory Norman Greg Ham (27 September 1953 – 19 April 2012) was an Australian songwriter actor and saxophone player known for playing multiple instruments in the 1980s band Men at Work. In addition to the saxophone he played flute organ piano and the synthesizer.
Oliver Holt.  Oliver Holt (born 1966 in Stockport) is an award-winning sports journalist who writes for the Daily Mirror newspaper in the United Kingdom. He is the son of Thomas Holt and actress Eileen Derbyshire and is an avid Stockport County supporter.He attended The King's School in Macclesfield from 1977 - 1984. He then read history at Christ Church Oxford. He started his journalistic career at the Liverpool Echo and after three years moved to The Times as Motor Racing Correspondent in 1993.
Lajon Witherspoon.  Lajon Jermaine Witherspoon (born October 3 1972) is an American musician best known as the vocalist for the Atlanta-based alternative metal band Sevendust.
Kerry Minnear.  Kerry Churchill Minnear (born 2 January 1948 in Shaftesbury Dorset England) is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist who played in the progressive rock band Gentle Giant during the 1970s.Minnear received a classical music education at the Royal Academy of Music with a degree in composition.Contributing to the band's success as one of the composers and arrangers Kerry unlike most of the keyboardists of his time chose to create natural sounds from his keyboards.[citation needed] Like the other members of Gentle Giant he is quite adept on a number of instruments including the cello drums guitar bass idiophones recorder theremin and tympani.Minnear also composed the soundtrack to the 1996 video game Azrael's Tear along with bandmate Ray Shulman.[citation needed]He now lives in Solihull (West Midlands) with his wife Lesley and has three children Sally Sam and Susie. 
Charlie Landsborough.  Charlie Landsborough (born Charles Alexander Landsborough 26 October 1941) is a British country and folk musician and singer-songwriter. He started singing professionally in the 1970s although his major success didn't come until 1994 with his song What Colour is the Wind and since the hit in 1994 he is now one of the UK's top country acts. He is also popular in Ireland Australia and New Zealand.
Shaka Loveless.  Shaka Loveless (born in Aarhus Denmark in March 5 1984) is a Danish rapper and singer with reggae roots.
Luis Cabrera Lobato.  Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (July 17 1876 – April 12 1954) was a Mexican lawyer politician and writer. His pen name for his political essays was Lic. Blas Urrea; the more literary works he wrote as Lucas Rivera.
Anita Auglend.  Anita Auglend (born 24 January 1979) is a Norwegian singer and is the lead vocalist of the gothic-doom metal band The Sins of Thy Beloved. She has a soprano vocal range.
Heidi Talbot.  Heidi Talbot (born 1980) is an Irish folk singer from Kill County Kildare Ireland. Talbot is the former singer of Irish-American musical group Cherish the Ladies.
Brian Tse.  Brian Tse (謝立文) is the author of the Hong Kong children comic McMug and McDull series. He is one of the two creators (another is Alice Mak his colleague-turned-wife) of the cartoon characters McMug and McDull. His wife is responsible for the illustration. His other works include The Excreman (a serious parody of the famous English cartoon The Snowman) The Beautiful Loser Pig Has Come and Over the Rainbow.
Tadeusz Nalepa.  Tadeusz Nalepa (26 August 1943 in Zgłobień Poland – 4 March 2007 Warsaw) – was a Polish composer guitar player vocalist and lyricist.
LeRoi Moore.  LeRoi Holloway Moore (September 7 1961 – August 19 2008) was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band. Moore often arranged music for the songs written by frontman Dave Matthews. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's songs notably Too Much and Stay (Wasting Time).
Jason Webley.  Jason Webley is an American musician known for his fusion of folk experimental and alternative music. He began as a street performer playing accordion in the streets of Seattle Washington but has since moved in-doors and on stage playing various venues.
5Zic.  Kim Han Gil (Hangul: 김한길; born July 26 1988) better known by his stage name 5Zic is a South Korean rapper and beatboxer. He is best known as a member of a South Korean K-pop hip-hop group M.I.B (band) as a rapper and the leader of the group. He made his recording debut with the single Beautiful Day just before his debut as a member of M.I.B (band). He is currently signed under Jungle Entertainment.
Reed Mullin.  Reed Douglas Mullin (born February 12 1966) is the American drummer for metal band Corrosion of Conformity (COC). He was the founding member with Mike Dean and Woody Weatherman. Mullin along with Weatherman also played in the Raleigh NC hardcore band No Labels. No Labels disbanded in 1984 while Corrosion of Conformity continued to evolve and gain popularity. He left COC on February 1 2001 due to back injury.
Arturo Borja.  Arturo Borja Pérez (1892 – November 13 1912) was an Ecuadorian poet who was part of a group known as the Generación decapitada (Decapitated Generation). He was the first in the group to excel as a modernist poet. He did not produce a lot of poetry but the small amount of poetry he produced showed great quality. He published 20 poems in a book titled La flauta de ónix and 6 other poems were published posthumously.
Katie Moore.  Katie Moore is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Montreal Quebec.She released her debut album Only Thing Worse in 2007 and followed up with Montebello in 2011.In addition to her own career as a solo performer she is also known for her collaborations with Patrick Watson Socalled and Plants and Animals.In 2011 Moore won the ECHO Songwriting Prize for Wake Up Like This.
Qasim Shah.  Qasim Shah (or Kasim Shah) son of Amanullah was born in 1731 AD he carried forward the literary tradition of Sufi-atic poetry. He has given a very interesting account in Hans-Jawahir(1736) the love story of Hans the son of Sultan Budhaan Shah of Balkh-Bukhara and Jawahir the daughter of Alamshah of China.
Shloime Dachs.  Shloime Dachs is an American Orthodox Jewish singer with several best-selling albums in the Orthodox Jewish community. He is also the founder of the self-entitled Shloime Dachs Orchestra which plays weddings concerts and benefits.
Clancy Carlile.  Clancy Carlile (January 18 1930 – June 4 1998) was an American novelist and screenwriter of Cherokee descent. He is perhaps best known for his 1980 novel Honkytonk Man made into a film by Clint Eastwood.
Linda (singer).  Linda (Russian: Линда) is a stage name for Svetlana Lvovna Geiman (Russian: Светлана Львовна Гейман; born 29 April 1977 Kentau Kazakh SSR USSR) a Russian singer. Her style incorporates trip hop electronic and ethnic music. Since January 2012 she has been married to Greek composer Stefanos Korkolis.
Gregory Berns.  Gregory S. Berns is a distinguished[citation needed] American neuroeconomist neuroscientist professor of psychiatry psychologist and writer. He lives with his family in Atlanta Georgia USA.Berns holds the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta where he is a professor of both psychiatry and economics.
Cameron Stracher.  Cameron Stracher is a writer law professor and media lawyer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and teaches at New York Law School. After graduating from Harvard he worked for one year at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. and then moved to Iowa City Iowa where he received an M.F.A. in creative writing and taught legal writing at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Cory Allen (musician).  Cory Allen (born February 22 1982) is a musician composer mastering engineer and record label owner. Music released under his own name is usually categorized as minimal and/or ambient electronic music and has been described as 'clever and intricate structures that will repay the careful ear'. Additionally he co-owns and operates the record label Quiet Design.
Ursula von Rydingsvard.  Ursula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen Lower Saxony then Nazi Germany is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn New York for the past 30 years. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975 after which time she started to work with cedar a material through which she has explored a wide range of images.
Petty Joy.  Joana Plankl (born 14 August 1988) better known by her stage name Petty Joy is an international house music DJ (progressive and electronic house music).
Paolo Zacchia the Elder.  Paolo Zacchia il Vecchio Zacchia the elder or Zacchia di Antonio da Vezzano (1490-1561) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Vezzano Ligure and active in Lucca. He probably trained Florence his works show influences of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Fra Bartolomeo. His son Lorenzo di Ferro Zacchia or Zacchia il Giovane was also a painter and engraver active in Lucca.
Adam Gardner.  Adam Seth Gardner (born 31 May 1973) is an American guitarist and vocalist of the band Guster and a member of the Tufts University Beelzebubs. Adam does a weekly radio show in Portland Maine where he discusses everything from music to environmental issues.Gardner grew up outside of Morristown New Jersey and played for a band called Royal Flush while a student at the Pingry School from which he graduated in 1991. He also attended Harding Township School in New Vernon New Jersey.
Rich Vos.  Richard Ira Rich Vos (born June 30 1957) is an American comedian. Vos has been a working stand-up for decades.
Keisha (pornographic actress).  Keisha (born October 25 1966) is the stage name of an American erotic dancer and pornographic actress. She is an AVN XRCO and Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame inductee.
Clinton H. Stagg.  Clinton H. Stagg (November 1888 – 3 May 1916) was an American screenwriter journalist and author.
Nikita Bogoslovsky.  Nikita Bogoslovsky (Russian: Ники́та Влади́мирович Богосло́вский; May 22 1913 Saint-Petersburg Russian Empire – April 4 2004 Moscow Russia) was a prominent Soviet/Russian composer author of more than 200 songs 8 symphonies (1940–1991) 17 operettas and musical comedies 58 soundtracks and 52 scores for theater productions. Bogoslovsky is probably best known for two Mark Bernes's trademark songs from the WWII film Two Fighters (1943).
Paul Citroen.  Roelof Paul Citroen (December 15 1896 – March 13 1983) was a German-born Dutch artist art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps.
Henriette-Julie de Murat.  Henriette-Julie de Murat (Brest 1670 – Château de la Buzardière 24-09-1716) was an aristocratic French writer of the late 17th century.She published fairy tales and slightly scandalous faux memoirs one of which got her exiled to the provincial town of Loches for several years. She was one of the leaders of the fairy-tale vogue along with Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier and Charles Perrault.
Ambrose Akinmusire.  Ambrose Akinmusire (ah-kin-MOO-sir-ee; born May 1 1982 in Oakland California) is an American jazz trumpeter. In 2007 Akinmusire was the winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition two of the most prestigious jazz competitions in the world.
Black Riot.  Black Riot was the name of an American band created by Todd Terry. The single Warlock/A Day in the Life was released on the Champion Records label and entered the UK Singles Chart on 3 December 1988 (although A Day in the Life was not listed until 17 December). It reached a high of number 68 and remained in the chart for 5 weeks.
Åge Aleksandersen.  Åge Aleksandersen (born March 21 1949 in Namsos Norway) is a Norwegian singer songwriter and guitarist. He is one of his country's most famous singer/songwriters and musicians.Some of his most well known songs are Lys og Varme (Light and Warmth) Fire Pils og en Pizza (Four Pilseners and a Pizza) and Rosalita.
Lucio Battisti.  Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter (cantautore). He is considered to be one of the best-known and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history.Battisti started his career in 1966 and from 1969 to 1994 he released 18 albums in his home country. A significant part of his production was translated into Spanish (various albums) and English (one album).
Jemima Abey.  Jemima Abey is a British actress who is best known for her work in the second series of the Sky One television series drama Hex. Abey has also appeared as Katie alongside fellow Hex cast member Jemima Rooper in Channel 4's As If as well as playing the role of Susan in EastEnders. Also appeared in BBC 1 soap Doctors.
DJ U-Neek.  Tim Middleton (born June 15 1969) is an American record producer based in Los Angeles. He produced albums for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony earning a Grammy Award for his work on the group's hit song Tha Crossroads. He also released a solo album Ghetto Street Pharmacist in the fall of 1999.He was originally signed to Ruthless Records along with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. He is also founder of Kingpin Ent.
Dudu Geva.  Dudu Geva (Hebrew: דודו גבע‎ born 14 March 1950 died 15 February 2005) was an Israeli artist writer cartoonist illustrator and comic book creator.
Mattia Bonetti.  Mattia Bonetti (born 1952) is a Paris based artist and designer. Bonetti was born in Lugano Switzerland and studied textile design at the Centro Scolastico per l’Industria Artistica. Bonetti moved from Switzerland to Paris where he now lives and work. Prior to designing furniture Bonetti worked as a stylist and photographer. In 1979 he began designing furniture. All of his work begins as a freehand sketch which is then fabricated.
Olla Ramlan.  Febiolla Ramlan (born 15 February 1980) or better known as Olla Ramlan is a Indonesian model.
Chris Kirkpatrick.  Christopher Alan Chris Kirkpatrick (born October 17 1971) is an American singer dancer entertainer and voice actor who is best known for his work as a founding member of the pop group 'N Sync in which he sang countertenor. He has provided voices for many kids shows including the voice of Chip Skylark on The Fairly OddParents. He also guest starred on The Simpsons as himself along with his fellow 'N Sync bandmates in the episode New Kids on the Blecch.
Bernard Hailstone.  Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987) was an English painter best known for his Second World War portraits of transport and civil defence workers painted in Britain his portraits of members of the Armed Forces painted overseas and his post-war portraits of the royal family musicians stage and film actors.
Mike Williams (singer).  Mike IX Williams (born April 14 1968) is the singer for Eyehategod and former associate editor for Metal Maniacs. He has also worked on other projects.
Josh Simpson (glass artist).  Josh Simpson (born August 17 1949 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American glass artist. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries around the world and is held in the collections of museums such as the Corning Museum of Glass; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; and the Renwick Gallery.
Laurie Berkner.  Laurie Berkner (born Laurissa Berkner March 15 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine France to American parents) is an American musician best known for her work as a children's musical artist. Berkner plays guitar and sings in the Laurie Berkner Band along with pianist Susie Lampert bassist Brady Rymer and drummer Bob Golden. She is a popular artist in the Kindie rock genre.
Andrea Ashworth.  Andrea Ashworth (born 1969) is a British writer and academic best known for her memoir Once in a House on Fire which won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999.
Azim Khamisa.  Azim Khamisa is a speaker and author of three books the latest one being The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life's Hardest Hits published by Random House and coauthored with Jillian Quinn.Khamisa was born in Kenya Africa and had early training in mathematics economics and international finance and is the Chairman CEO and Founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF) and Founder and National Director of the Constant And Never Ending Improvement (CANEI) program.
Ahmad Morid.  Ahmad Morid (Persian: احمد مريد‎) popular as Morbid (October 14 1956) is an Afghan veteran singer of Afghanistan's music golden era of late 1970s and early 1980s. He is credited to be the only singer to have rivaled at the zenith of his career the popularity of Ahmad Zahir.He lives in Hamburg Germany.Ahmad Morid comes from a prominent family in Kabul and grew up among eight siblings three sisters and five brothers. He is the youngest of five brothers.
Freddie Jackson.  Frederick Anthony Freddie Jackson (born October 2 1956) is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s.[citation needed] Among his well-known hits are Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) Jam Tonight Do Me Again and You Are My Lady.
Maureen Evans.  Maureen Evans (born 23 March 1940 Cardiff Wales) is a Welsh pop singer who achieved fame briefly in the 1960s.
Inka Bach.  Inka Bach (East Berlin April 27 1956) is a German writer.She moved with her family to West Berlin in 1972 and after her Abitur in 1974 she studied philosophy and literature at the Free University of Berlin where she also received an M.S. and a Ph.D.She has worked as a scriptwriter and she currently lives with her two children in Berlin.
Chris Lowe.  Chris Lowe (born Christopher Sean Lowe 4 October 1959) is an English musician who with colleague Neil Tennant makes up the pop duo Pet Shop Boys.
James R. Kirk.  James R. (Jim) Kirk serves as President and Chief Creative Officer of Corporate Magic a production company based in Dallas Texas.
Hiromi Tsunakake.  Hiromi Tsunakake (綱掛裕美 Tsunakake Hiromi born on November 5 1975 in Kyoto) is a Japanese voice actress currently working for I'm Enterprise.
Nick 13.  Nick 13 is the lead guitarist vocalist and main songwriter of psychobilly band Tiger Army as well as a solo artist in the Americana/Country genre.
Nicolae Guţă.  Nicolae Guţă (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e ˈɡʊtsə] born Nicolae Linguraru on December 3 1967 in Aninoasa Romania) is a Romani manele singer. He is the father of manele and ethno-pop singer Nicoleta Guţa
Mike Ness.  Michael James Mike Ness (born April 3 1962) is an American guitarist vocalist and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion which was formed in 1978.
Göthe Grefbo.  Göthe Grefbo (30 October 1921 – 17 May 1991) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows between 1948 and 1989.
Ulla Jacobsson.  Ulla Jacobsson (23 May 1929 Mölndal – 20 August 1982 Vienna buried at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof) was a Swedish actress who is perhaps best known for playing the only female speaking role in the film Zulu.Jacobsson was born in Gothenburg Sweden. Originally a stage actress she started appearing in English language films in the early 1960s and tended to play serious and anxious looking characters. She first become known internationally for her nude scenes in One Summer of Happiness.
Newbury Abbot Trent.  Newbury Abbot Trent (14 October 1885 – 2 August 1953) was an English sculptor and medallist. Trent studied at the Royal College of Art and Royal Academy Schools where he became an associate. His works include reliefs statues and other forms of sculpture. Many of his most notable works are war memorials in England Scotland and Wales.
Crosby Loggins.  Crosby Loggins (born December 15 1980) is an American singer/songwriter. He is the oldest son of Grammy winning soundtrack legend Kenny Loggins and his first wife Eva Ein. Crosby Loggins is also the winner of MTV's Rock the Cradle.
Laurence James Ludovici.  Laurence James Ludovici is an American non-fiction author.
Kian Egan.  Kian John Francis Egan (born 29 April 1980) is an Irish musician best known as a former member of the boy band Westlife. He is currently a coach on The Voice of Ireland and won the thirteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2013.
Peggy O'Keefe.  Peggy O'Keefe (born 7 April 1928) is a former pianist bandleader and television & radio presenter.
Abbas Vasi.  Vasi Abbas Abdul Ali (Gujarati: વાસી અબ્બાસ અબ્દુલ અલી) (February 22 1917 – October 19 1983) popularly known as Mareez was a Gujarati poet mainly famous for his Ghazals. He is popularly known as Ghalib of Gujarati Ghazals.
Rohit Bal.  Rohit Bal is a fashion designer from New Delhi India. He designs for both men and women.Rohit Bal was born in Kashmir. He graduated from Burn Hall School Srinagar and then received a Bachelors degree in history from St. Stephens College . He also studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Dorian Cooke.  Dorian Cooke (25 December 1916 - 18 September 2005) was a poet MI6 operative and head of the Yugoslav section at the BBC.
Kim Hill (soul musician).  Kim Hill (born August 7 1972) is an American soul singer-songwriter best known for her work with the hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas. She left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Fergie in 2002. Hill has since begun performing as a solo artist.
Declan Burke.  Declan Dec Burke (born May 22 1972) is a guitarist keyboardist and vocalist.
J. K. Woodward.  James Kenneth Woodward known professionally as J.K. Woodward is a comic book artist known for illustrating the monthly series Fallen Angel published by IDW Publishing. Woodward has employed painting digital assistance as well as the more traditional pencil-and-ink and CMYK color method in his work.
Johann Heinrich Meyer.  Johann Heinrich Meyer (16 March 1760 Stäfa Zürich - 14 October 1832 Jena) was a Swiss painter and art writer active in Weimar. A pupil of Henry Fuseli he went to Rome in 1784 and befriended Goethe in 1787 becoming his right-hand-man in artistic matters (with the nicknames Kunschtmeyer and Goethemeyer). From 1791 he lived in Weimar working from 1806 as director of its Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule.Template:Portal:Switzerland/Stub
Takashi Aoyagi.  Takashi Aoyagi (青柳 隆志 Aoyagi Takashi) (August 17 1961 - ) in Chiba is a Japanese scholar of Japanese literature and college professor from Chiba Chiba. He is the Japanese voice actor for the Disney character Mickey Mouse.
Carlo Lucarelli.  Carlo Lucarelli (born 26 October 1960) is an Italian crime-writer TV presenter and magazine editor. He was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger in 2003 for the novel Almost Blue.
Clyde Lucas.  Clyde Lucas (c. 1901 – after 1945) was an American big-band leader who was popular in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the leader of Clyde Lucas and His California Dons.
Nils Lofgren.  Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21 1951) is an American rock musician recording artist songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984 a former member of Crazy Horse and founder/frontman of the band Grin. Lofgren was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014.
Yua Aida.  Yua Aida (あいだゆあ Aida Yua) is an award-winning former Japanese model and AV idol.
Shelly Peiken.  Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits What a Girl Wants and Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You).Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song Bitch.Shelly's songs have appeared in films such as The Blind Side Step Up 3D Music Of The Heart Won't Back Down Center Stage What Women Want Saving Grace The Good Girl Dear God Practical Magic The Rebound Blue Streak Bring It On I Still Know What You Did Last Summer EDtv The Next Best Thing The Princess Diaries The Hot Chick See Spot Run A Walk To Remember What A Girl Wants Bourne Identity The Lizzie McGuire Movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Raising Helen The Bratz Movie and Girl Vs Monster. 
Lascelles Abercrombie.  Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate linking him with the Georgian poets) (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic one of the Dymock poets. He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at Malvern College and at Owens College.Before the First World War he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited.
Yolanda Blanco.  Yolanda Blanco (born in 1954) is a Nicaraguan poet. Nicaragua is well known for its world class poets. Before 1970 all of Nicaragua’s major poets had been men. Then an outstanding group of women started writing poetry. These poets “are currently writing the best new poetry in their country and would rank among the best new poets in Latin America.” Blanco belongs to this group of poets.
Andrés Sardá Sacristán.  Andrés Sardá Sacristán (Barcelona Catalonia Spain) is a textile engineer fashion designer and creator of the lingerie brand Andrés Sardá.He was born into a family that had been dedicated to the Catalonian textile industry since the nineteenth century. After finishing his engineering studies Sardá joined the family business. One of his first tasks was to introduce its products onto the U.S.
Little Archie (singer).  Archie Patrick Himons also known as Little Archie and latterly Aashid Himons (September 22 1942—March 19 2011) was an American singer and musician born in West Virginia. He was a musical innovator that fused traditional country blues with reggae and world music during the late 1970s and is best known for his blu-reggae band Afrikan Dreamland.
Barbara Cooney.  Barbara Cooney (August 6 1917 – March 10 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 200 children's books published over sixty years. She won two Caldecott Medals which are awarded to the year's best-illustrated U.S. picture book and a National Book Award. Her books have been translated into 10 languages.For her contribution as a children's illustrator Cooney was the U.S.
José Enrique Rodó.  José Enrique Camilo Rodó Piñeyro (15 July 1871 – 1 May 1917) was a Uruguayan essayist.
Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood.  Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood are British playwrights. To date they have had eight plays professionally produced in the UK Ireland New Zealand and Australia. Their radio play Son of Samurai was performed at the 2009 Latitude Festival alongside the RSC and Bush Theatre Company.Ed Waugh (born January 18 1959) and Trevor Wood (born September 17 1958) writing together in January 2002 and have premiered their plays at the Customs House in South Shields and the Gala theatre in Durham.
MOMO (artist).  MOMO is the pseudonym for an American outsider and street artist originally from San Francisco. Currently living in New York Momo is known for A Tag the Width of Manhattan The MOMO Maker 100 street Collages A Totem Pole in the East River and spoofed New Yorker Cover. He has collaborated with Zosen Marie Lorenz Melissa Brown Milton Carter Eltono and Yohji Yamamoto. In June 2009 his first book 3AM-6AM was published with Rojo Magazine.
Avery (singer).  Anna Marie Iannitelli better known as Avery (born November 22 1994) is an American singer-songwriter from Phoenix Arizona. Her debut single and video Love Me or Let Me Go was released on her YouTube Account and reached over 1 million views in less than 3 months of its release. She is now signed by Island Def Jam and is one of the youngest artists to be signed by Universal Motown.
Sean Botkin.  Sean Botkin is an American pianist.
Licorice McKechnie.  Christina 'Licorice' McKechnie (born 2 October 1945 in Edinburgh Scotland) is a Scottish musician. She was a singer and songwriter in the Incredible String Band between 1968 and 1972.After reading her poetry at folk clubs in Edinburgh she met musician Robin Williamson but left home in her teens with the intention of marrying Bert Jansch. The banns were published but the wedding never took place.
Werner Eisbrenner.  Werner Friedrich Emil Eisbrenner (2 December 1908 Berlin – 7 November 1981 Berlin) was a German composer and conductor best known for his film music.Eisbrenner studied church music and musical education from 1927 to 1929 at the Berlin Staatlichen Musikademie. He then worked as a pianist arranger Kapellmeister and conductor as well as composing violin concertos orchestral music the musical comedy Von Hand zu Hand and the music for film radio and television for which he is best known.
Catherine Whitney.  Catherine Jane Whitney (born in Chicago Illinois) is an American jazz singer who is Chicago-based and is not only a vocalist but composer and lyricist as well. She sings in the vo-cool style similar to that of Anita O'Day and Peggy Lee. She is published by Second Floor Music in New York.
Stephen Missal.  Stephen Missal (born 1948) is an artist from Albuquerque New Mexico who is an expert in figure drawing painting and fantasy themed art. Missal lives in Scottsdale Arizona with his wife and their two children. He teaches at the Art Institute of Phoenix.Missal has co-authored books on illustration and character designwith Kevin Hedgpeth also from the Art Institute.
Justin Robertson.  Justin Robertson (born 11 June 1968 in Walton-on-Thames Surrey) is a DJ and re-mixer.
Scott Healy.  Scott Healy is a Grammy nominated Los Angeles-based pianist multi-keyboardist and composer best known as the keyboardist for the Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band on Conan on TBS. His long association with O'Brien dates back to the original Late Night with Conan O'Brien show in 1993 and the subsequent The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Van Damage.  Van Damage (born Van Brunt September 28 1966 in Rome New York U.S.) is a former United States Army Special Forces a retired porn star and also an acclaimed director cameraman and producer in the pornography industry.[citation needed]
Don Byron.  Don Byron (born November 8 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones.Though rooted in jazz Byron's music is stylistically eclectic. He has worked in many different musical genres ranging from klezmer music and German lieder to Raymond Scott's cartoon-jazz hard rock/metal and rap. Most of Byron's albums have been conceptual devoted to works of a particular musician and/or style of music.
Jakob Eklund.  Jakob Eklund (born 1962) is a Swedish film television and stage actor.His wife Marie Richardson played his on-screen girlfriend in the trilogy of films The Third Wave Executive Protection and Zero Tolerance.
Samuel Isham.  Samuel Isham (1855–1914) was an American portrait and figure painter born in New York. He studied at Yale where he was a member of the third editorial board of The Yale Record. After graduating in 1875 he studied law and was admitted to the bar. Opting out of a career in law Isham turned to art studying in Paris at the Académie Julian. He exhibited at both Paris salons and at the larger American exhibitions and became a member of the National Academy in 1906.
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi.  Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi (Gujarati: નાનાલાલ દલપતરામ કવિ) was a noted author and poet of Gujarati literature and was given a title of Kavishwar (God of Poets) by people of Gujarat. His name is sometimes spelt Nhanalal.
Joseph Koo.  Joseph Koo Kar-Fai MBE SBS (born January 1 1933 in Guangzhou China) is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs. He has two siblings: an older sister the famous Chinese singer Koo Mei (顧媚) and a younger brother Koo Kar-Tseung (顧嘉鏘).
Camilla Sparv.  Camilla Sparv (born 3 June 1943) is a Swedish actress. She was briefly married to American film producer Robert Evans in 1965.Sparv was born in Stockholm Sweden on 3 June 1943. She was awarded a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer (female) in 1967 for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
Fuminori Ujihara.  Fuminori Ujihara (宇治原 史規 Ujihara Fuminori born April 20 1976) is a Japanese comedian best known as the tsukkomi half of a popular owarai duo Rozan　(ロザン) alongside Hirofumi Suga (菅 広文). Given his 146 IQ score bachelor degree in law from Kyoto University (one of the top-tier universities in the country) and championship titles from a number of TV quiz shows he is also widely known as one of the most intelligent comedians in Japan. He is 177 cm tall and weighs 59 kg.
Benjamin Fondane.  Benjamin Fondane (French pronunciation: ​[bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ fɔ̃dan]) or Benjamin Fundoianu (Romanian pronunciation: [benʒaˈmin fundoˈjanu]; born Benjamin Wechsler Wexler or Vecsler first name also Beniamin or Barbu usually abridged to B.; November 14 1898 – October 2 1944) was a Romanian and French poet critic and existentialist philosopher also noted for his work in film and theater.
Pete Dominick.  Peter J. Dominick (born October 31 1975) is an American comedian and talk radio personality. Dominick grew up in Marcellus New York and now lives in Rockland County New York a suburb of New York City where he has lived for about 10 years.
Scott Williams (comics).  Scott Williams is an American comic book artist and inker.
Ernst Eklund (actor).  Ernst Eklund (6 August 1882 – 3 August 1971) was a Swedish film and theatre actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1914 and 1962. He was also the director of six different theatres.
Carlos Ginzburg.  Carlos Ginzburg is a conceptual artist and theoretician born in 1946 in La Plata Argentina. He studied philosophy and social theory.
Eythor Thorlaksson.  Eythor Thorlaksson (Eyþór Þorláksson) guitarist was born 22 March in the year 1930 in his parents house at Krosseyrarvegur in Hafnarfjörður Iceland. His parents where María Jakobsdóttir from Aðalvík and Þorlákur Guðlaugsson from Biskupstungur.In the years 1950 - 1952 he studied guitar in England Denmark and Sweden and in 1953 in Madrid with Daniel Fortea and Quintin Esquembre. In the years 1954 - 1957 he studied harmony and counterpoint with Dr.
Katie McKy.  Katie McKy is an educator and writer of mainstream material children's literature fishing articles for sporting magazines and professional academic material in the field of education. She was born in 1956 and received a master's degree in education from Harvard University. Prior to her debut as an author Ms.
Kristen O'Connor.  Kristen Danielle O'Connor is an American singer from Sebastian Florida who placed number thirteen (13) on the thirteenth season of American Idol.
Jacob Hoggard.  Jacob William Hoggard (born July 9 1984) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He finished in third place on the second season of Canadian Idol in 2004. He is the lead singer of the rock band Hedley.
Piotr Kozieradzki.  Piotr Kozieradzki (born 23 May 1970 Warsaw Poland) also knowns as Mitloff is a Polish musician and drummer. He has contributed to bands such as Riverside Hate Thunderbolt Kataxu Swastyka Goetia Dark Prophecies and Domain.Piotr Kozieradzki is endorsed by Czarcie Kopyto and Paiste. He also uses DW drums Remo drumheads and Pearl hardware.Since 2010 owns and runs ProgTeam Management.
Vert (music).  Vert (born Adam Butler 1972 Portsmouth UK) is an electronic music producer who has been active since 1996. His music incorporates elements from various electronic genres (earlier drum and bass subsequently glitch and idm) as well as other genres such as jazz and hip hop.
Petula Clark.  Petula Sally Olwen Clark CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer actress and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English with such songs as The Little Shoemaker Baby Lover With All My Heart and Prends Mon Cœur.
Hogan McLaughlin.  Hogan McLaughlin (born February 25 1989) is an American fashion designer artist dancer and musician. He garnered acclaim after meeting and collaborating with heiress Daphne Guinness who became a champion and muse for his collections. McLaughlin has also produced a number of pieces for Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball sparking interest and recognition within the fashion community. He has since been profiled by The New York Times Women's Wear Daily and Vogue among others.
Michael Shrieve.  Michael Shrieve (born July 6 1949 in San Francisco) is an American drummer percussionist and later an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Santana playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974. His performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival when he was just 19 years old made him one of the youngest musicians to perform at the festival.
Wayne Mills (singer).  Jerald Wayne Mills (August 17 1969 – November 23 2013) was an American country musician known for touring with the Wayne Mills Band for over 15 years and playing alongside Blake Shelton Jamey Johnson and 2006 American Idol winner Taylor Hicks.During his career Mills released six CDs and had seven top 20 songs in Europe from 2008 to 2010 including a chart topper in Belgium in 2009.During his education at Wallace State Junior College in Hanceville Mills played baseball and later at The University of Alabama football. 
Keiko Yamada.  Keiko Komuro (小室 桂子 Komuro Keiko née Yamada (山田) born August 18 1972) is the lead vocalist of the pop group Globe. Since 2001 she has had a solo career starting with the single A Song Is Born in collaboration with Ayumi Hamasaki. In late 2003 she released her first solo EP called KCO. Keiko under the name KCO released her first solo album O-Crazy Luv on Universal in 2008.
Will Weaver.  Will Weaver (born William Weller in Park Rapids Minnesota in 1950) is an American author.
Tony Klinger.  Tony Klinger (born 29 January 1950) is a British film-maker author and media executive. He started as Assistant Director on The Avengers in the 1960s directed several rockumentaries and headed media companies both in the UK and the USA.Klinger is the son of film producer Michael Klinger (producer) with whom he worked on the film 'Get Carter' starring Michael Caine. He is currently writing novels running his business interests and making films.
Vahur Afanasjev.  Vahur Afanasjev (born: 24 August 1979) is an Estonian writer filmmaker and musician.Afanasjev graduated from the University of Tartu in 2002 majoring in economic policy. He has been a member of a literary group Noorte Autorite Koondis (NAK) (English: Young Authors' League) since 1998 and a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 2006. He has worked as journalist media analyst copywriter creative director and PR officer. 2005-2010 Afanasjev lived in Brussels Belgium.
Ari Herstand.  Ari Seth Herstand (born June 1 1985) is an American singer-songwriter actor and blogger based in Los Angeles California (previously Minneapolis Minnesota) who specializes in live-looping of the guitar piano trumpet vocals and percussion.Herstand is popular in the United States where he has played at Summerfest in Milwaukee WI and the South by Southwest music festival in Austin TX as well as Carnegie Hall.
Yvonne Lim.  Yvonne Lim (Chinese: 林湘萍; pinyin: Lín Xiāngpíng born 28 September) is a Singaporean actress who has starred in many Chinese-language television dramas on MediaCorp Channel 8 since 1997.She also recorded and released a solo Mandarin album in the year 2000. In 2002 she also teamed up with Hong Kong television station ATV in a 30-part courtroom drama Innocently Guilty also starring Anita Yuen Kent Cheng and Felix Wong.
Roland Gutierrez.  Rolando Gutierrez (born April 29 1975 in Corpus Christi Texas) is best known as a keyboardist and music producer with credits from DJ Kane Jennifer Peña Chris Pérez Band Thalía and Verónica Castro just to name a few with two of his productions earning Latin Grammy nominations.
Arwa (singer).  Arwa (Arabic: أروى‎) born Iman Salem Ba'amiran (Arabic: إيمان سالم باعميران‎) on July 27 1976 in Kuwait is a female Yemeni singer and television host.At the age of ten her family moved to Cairo where she later received her education at Cairo University studying engineering. She began her singing career in 1999 and has released four albums.In 2009 Arwa became host for an entertainment television show called Akher Man Ya'lam (The Last To Know).
Christy Chung.  Christy Chung (born 19 September 1970) is a Canadian actress and restaurateur. She was born in Montreal to a Chinese-Vietnamese father and a Vietnamese mother.Chung grew up in Brossard Quebec a suburb of Montreal with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English Mandarin and Cantonese.While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) she entered and won the Miss Chinese Montreal contest in 1992.
Franco Mondini-Ruiz.  Franco Mondini-Ruiz (born 1961) is an American artist who lives and works in New York New York and San Antonio Texas. He is of Mexican and Italian descent. According to art critic Roberta Smith his work questions notions of preciousness and art-market exclusivity while delivering a fizzy visual pleasure. Mondini-Ruiz takes a variety of approaches to creating art working in installation performance painting sculpture and short stories.
David Gessner.  David Gessner is an American essayist memoirist nature writer editor and cartoonist.Gessner was born in Boston Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College where he worked at the Harvard Crimson drawing political cartoons most notably a drawing of Ronald Reagan urinating on an unemployed man in the gutter called The Trickle Down Theory. He graduated in 1983.He returned to Harvard as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Environmental Writing in Fall 2003.
Francine Prose.  Francine Prose (born April 1 1947) is an American writer. She is a Visiting Professor of Literature at Bard College.Prose graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. Prose's novel The Glorious Ones has been adapted into a musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. It ran at the Mitzi E.
Leiva (singer).  José Miguel Conejo Torres better known by his artistic name Leiva (born in Madrid April 28 1980) is a Spanish singer musician and songwriter. Between 2001 and 2010 he led with Ruben Pozo the Spanish pop rock band Pereza with which he recorded 6 albums. After the dissolution of the band he started a solo career with two charting solo albums: Diciembre in 2012 and Pólvora in 2014.
Tim Halperin.  Tim Halperin (born May 27 1987 in Omaha Nebraska) is an American singer-songwriter. A piano player and vocalist in 2007 he began performing and recording and in 2010 his track We Fight Back became the theme song for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. He was a Top 24 American Idol contestant for season 10 and afterwards released his 2011 debut album Rise and Fall which peaked at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart and #14 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.
Tanju Okan.  Tanju Okan was a Turkish singer (1938-1996).
C. N. Sreekantan Nair.  C. N. Sreekantan Nair (1928–1976) was a Malayalam writer and playwright.He is probably best known for his Ramayana trilogy - Kanchana Sita Saketham and Lankalakshmi - based on the epic Ramayana. Poet and scholar Ayyappa Panicker had observed that Lankalakshmi brought out the playwright in Sreekantan Nair while Saketham and Kanchana Sita highlighted the poet and the philosopher in the playwright. He received the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award in 1962 for Kanchana Sita.
Tilahun Gessesse.  Tilahun Gessesse (Amharic: ጥላሁን ገሠሠ) (also spelled Telahun Gesesse or Tlahoun Gèssèssè) (September 29 1940 – April 19 2009) was an Ethiopian singer regarded as one of the most popular of his country's Golden Age in the 1960s. During the 1960s he became famous throughout the country nicknamed The Voice.
Ilya Glazunov.  Ilya Glazunov (Russian: Илья Глазунов) contemporary Russian artist from Saint Petersburg born June 10 in 1930. He holds the title of People's Artist of Russia and serves as a rector at the Fine Arts Academy in Moscow (Russian: Российская академия живописи ваяния и зодчества)Ilya Glazunov’s paintings have mostly historic or religious themes.
Ong Ai Leng.  Ong Ai Leng (Chinese: 王爱玲; pinyin: Wáng Àilíng) is a Malaysian actress based in Singapore.
Danni Leigh.  Danni Leigh (born February 9 1970 in Strasburg Virginia U.S.) is an American honky tonk-style country music singer. At age 19 she relocated to Orlando Florida intending to audition as a singer at Disney World but ended up moving to Nashville in 1994.She was signed with Audium Records after changing labels several times following Decca's closure and release by Sony's Monument label. In addition to performing as a solo artist she also plays with a number of small groups.
Don Raunikar.  Dr. Don Raunikar is an American psychoanalyst from Houston Texas. He is a Baptist and is married to Kim Raunikar with whom he adopted their son Jonathan Valentin from Romania through Buckner International. He is the director of New Life Clinics where he practices psychotherapy and he is in charge of Lifehouse a crisis pregnancy center.
Alex Parsons (composer).  Alexander Parsons (born 1982) is a British composer sound designer record producer and teacher from South East London.He is known for scoring television documentaries and film as well as producing and remixing both Commercial and Underground House music.
Boo Boo Davis.  James Boo Boo Davis (born November 4 1943) is an American electric blues musician. Davis is one of the few remaining blues musicians that got experience singing the blues based on first-hand experience in the Mississippi Delta having sung to help pass the time while picking the cotton fields.
Felix Lok.  Felix Lok Ying-kwan is a Hong Kong actor. His television appearances include roles in Looking Back in Anger The Drive of Life and The Academy.
Antonio Rossi (painter).  Antonio Rossi (1700–1773) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter Marcantonio Franceschini. He painted for the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.
Stu G.  Stuart David Garrard b. (1963-07-06) July 6 1963 better known by the stage name Stu G is an English vocalist guitarist and songwriter. He is one third of US-based Christian contemporary music band One Sonic Society and is writing and recording as a solo artist. He served as the lead guitarist backing vocalist and secondary songwriter for the rock band Delirious? from 1994 until 2009.
John Reuben.  John Reuben (born John Reuben Zappin January 14 1979 Columbus Ohio) is an American hip hop artist signed to Gotee Records until late 2010. Reuben has sold over 200000 copies of his first four albums. He released his sixth album Sex Drugs and Self-Control on December 22 2009.
Anthony Rossomando.  Anthony Rossomando is an American writer-producer composer and guitarist. He along with Carl Barât was a founding member of Dirty Pretty Things. He previously stood in for Pete Doherty in The Libertines. He has also been a live member of British New Rave band Klaxons. He was also a member of Boston-based band The Damn Personals. After dropping out of university in his first year he relocated to Boston where The Damn Personals were born.
Kyle Dunnigan.  Kyle Dunnigan is an American comedian.He has appeared in stand-up comedy shows on Comedy Central like Comedy Central Presents and has made appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He had a recurring role as Trudy Weigel's serial killer boyfriend Craig Pullin on Comedy Central's Reno 911! and appeared in the Reno 911 movie. He also was a cast member on Fox's Cedric the Entertainer Presents.
Dragoș Bucur.  Dragoş Bucur (born June 13 1977) is a Romanian actor.Dragoş Bucur received the Shooting Stars Award the annual acting award for up-and-coming actors by European Film Promotion at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010.He currently resides in Bucharest Romania together with his wife Romanian singer Dana Nălbaru and their daughter Sofia who was born in 2007.
Hadj Menouar.  Hadj Menouar (1913 – November 4 1951) was an Algerian singer.
Sayaka Kamiya.  Sayaka Kamiya (神谷涼 Kamiya Sayaka born April 20 1982) is a Japanese actress and model.Kamiya is best known for her role as Satomi Noda in Battle Royale. She also played Sena in Man Next Natural Girl: 100 Nights In Yokohama.
Gidon Kremer.  Gidon Kremer (Latvian: Gidons Krēmers; born 27 February 1947) is a Latvian classical violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.
Durval Lélys.  Durval Lélys (born December 6 1957) is an Brazilian musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and lyricist. He is best known as the frontman of the Salvador (Brazil)-based axé band Asa de Águia. Durval is well known as being one of the main personas from the Brazilian carninval. Before starting his professional music career he got a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Durval is married and has two children.
Altiyan Childs.  Altijan Juric (born 10 June 1975) best known by his stage name Altiyan Childs is an Australian singer-songwriter. He was the winner of the second series of The X Factor (Australia) in 2010 and subsequently signed with Sony Music Australia. His debut single Somewhere in the World reached the top-ten in Australia and New Zealand. Childs' self-titled debut album peaked at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified platinum.
Anksa Kara.  Anksa Kara (born March 24 1985 at Nkongsamba Cameroon) is a French pornographic actress.
Rainer Riehn.  Rainer Riehn (born 12 November 1941 in Gdańsk Poland) is a German music composer and conductor and co-editor of music theory magazines.Riehn studied music theory in Mainz Zürich and Berlin and composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig in Utrecht.
Daniel Quinn.  For other people with this name see Daniel Quinn.Daniel Quinn (born October 11 1935) is an American novelist and former publisher of educational texts best known for his novel Ishmael which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism though he criticizes this term claiming that it portrays the environment as somehow separate from human life and thus creates a false dichotomy.
Futura 2000.  Futura formerly known as Futura 2000 is an American graffiti artist. He started to paint illegally on New York's subway in the early seventies working with other artists such as ALI. In the early eighties he showed with Patti Astor at the Fun Gallery along with Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat Richard Hambleton and Kenny Scharf. Futura painted backdrops live on-stage for British punk rock band The Clash's 1981 European tour.
Albert Maignan.  Albert Pierre René Maignan (Beaumont-sur-Sarthe 14 October 1845 – 29 September 1908 Saint-Prix) was a French painter and historical illustrator. Most of his work was devoted to historical subjects but he also painted portraits.In 1864 at the age of 19 Maignan left his home to study law in Paris where he graduated in 1866. During his studies he devoted himself to his first love painting.
Hitoshi Okamoto.  Hitoshi Okamoto (岡本仁志) is the guitarist of the Japanese pop band Garnet Crow formed in 1999 as well as some of his own solo releases. Since the release of Okamoto's 2010 solo album Now Printing... he has used the stage name Super Light for his solo projects. As a solo artist Okamoto writes the majority of his songs by himself However fellow Garnet Crow member Nana Azuki has written lyrics for some of his songs. Okamoto is sometimes referred to with the nickname Okamocchi (おかもっち).
Scipione (Gino Bonichi).  Gino Bonichi (February 15 1904 – November 9 1933) known as Scipione was an Italian painter and writer. He was born in Macerata. In 1909 he moved to Rome where he later enrolled at the Scuola Libera di Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He founded with Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphael the Scuola romana a group of artists active in Rome who were influenced by Expressionism and opposed the officially approved art of the Fascist period.
Tony Harris (comics).  Tony Harris (born 1969) is an American comic book artist known for his work on series such as Starman Iron Man and Ex Machina. He has been nominated for five Eisner Awards.
Tommie Connor.  (Thomas) Tommie Connor (1904–1993) (also known as Tommy Connor) was a British songwriter credited with several hit songs over his long career. Most notable among these was I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus which has been recorded by many artists and is among the 25 most-played ASCAP Christmas-related pop songs played on American radio.
Walter Fraser Oakeshott.  Sir Walter Fraser Oakeshott FBA (11 November 1903 – 13 October 1987) was a schoolmaster and academic who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is best known for discovering the Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in 1934.
Silvi Vrait.  Silvi Vrait (28 April 1951 – 28 June 2013) was an Estonian singer and music teacher.
Allan Théo.  Allan Théo (born Alain Rouget on 11 April 1972 Saint-Amand-Montrond) is a French singer. He is particularly known for his 1998 single Emmène-moi which peaked at number six.
ChouCho.  ChouCho (ちょうちょ Chōcho lit. Butterfly born June 21) is a Japanese female singer from Osaka Osaka and is signed to Lantis.
James P. Johnson.  James P. Johnson (born James Price Johnson also known as Jimmy Johnson; February 1 1894 – November 17 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of the stride style of jazz piano he was one of the most important pianists who bridged the ragtime and jazz eras and with Jelly Roll Morton one of the two most important catalysts in the evolution of ragtime piano into jazz.
Dennis González.  Dennis González (often credited as Dennis Gonzalez; b. 1954 Abilene Texas) is a jazz musician poet visual artist and music educator based in Dallas Texas.
Baby Ranks.  David Luciano Acosta known professionally as Baby Ranks is a Puerto Rican reggaeton artist.He has co-billing on the Luny Tunes album Mas Flow 2 and sings on multiple tracks including the single Mayor Que Yo (Older than Me). The album ranked #5 on the Billboard year-end Latin Album Chart #7 on the year-end Tropical Album Chart and #9 on the Reggae Album Chart for the year 2005.
Lily Dougall.  Lily Dougall (1858–1923) was a Canadian author and feminist.Born into an evangelical Presbyterian newspaper family Dougall’s liberal views often conflicted with her religious upbringing. Although born in Montreal Quebec she was educated in New York City and at both the University of Edinburgh and St. Andrew’s University in Scotland. While in Edinburgh she lived with her aunt. She lived in Montreal from 1897 to 1903 until she finally settled down in Cumnor near Oxford in 1911.
Jim Corr.  James Steven Ignatius Jim Corr (born July 31 1964) is an Irish musician singer and songwriter. He is a member of the Irish folk/rock band The Corrs the other members being his three younger sisters Andrea Sharon and Caroline. He is also a DJ.
Frode Thingnæs.  Frode Thingnæs (March 20 1940 - November 15 2012) was a Norwegian jazz composer arranger conductor trombone player married June 2 1979 to actor and drama teacher Marianne Mørk (b. May 16 1953) and they gave birth to the pianist Magnus Alexander Mørk Thingnæs (b. 1984). He formed the quintet Frode Thingnæs Quintet.
Per Haddal.  Per Haddal (born 1942) is a Norwegian film critic.Born in Levanger he has an M.A. in English. He started working for the newspaper Vårt Land where he remained from 1969 to 1978. He also worked freelance for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in the period 1975 to 1987. In 1978 he became the main film critic for the newspaper Aftenposten where he has worked since. In 2008 he led the film critics' jury at the Berlin Film Festival.
Henry Lee Summer.  Henry Lee Summer (born Henry Lee Swartz; July 5 1955) is an American rock singer songwriter musician and record producer from Brazil Indiana best known for his hit singles I Wish I Had A Girl and Hey Baby.
Kathryn Sarah Scott.  Kathryn Sarah Scott (born 29 September 1974) is a Christian songwriter and worship leader from Northern Ireland. She has written songs such as Hungry At the Foot of the Cross and Search Me for the worshipping church. She released her first album Satisfy in 2004 and followed it up with I Belong in 2007 and We Still Believe in 2010.Scott was born in Eastbourne England and was brought up in Northern Ireland in a Christian environment.
Harry Roy.  Harry Roy (12 January 1900 – 1 February 1971) was a British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s until the 1960s.
Brooke Haven.  Brooke Haven (born November 25 1979) is an American pornographic actress.
Sammy Sum.  Sammy Sum Chun-hin (born 4 May 1983) is a Hong Kong actor. In 2006 Sum auditioned for TVbeople a talent casting system hosted by TVB and was selected to sign a two-year artiste contract with the company along with six other winners. Before acting in dramas Sum joined TVB's acting classes and graduated from TVB's 22nd Artiste Training Class of 2007.
Aulikki Rautawaara.  Aulikki Rautawaara (May 2 1906 - December 29 1990) was a Finnish soprano. She was famous for her interpretation of works by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius including some of the first recordings of Sibelius made outside Scandinavia. She played the part of Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in the first ever opera performed at the Glyndebourne festival (1934) and continued to play a number of parts in operas staged in Glyndebourne in the 1930s.
Alfio.  Alfio (born Alfio Bonanno October 24 1978) is an Australian-Italian tenor songwriter musician and composer. He began singing at a very early age and started singing professionally at the age of 17 concentrating on recorded music and concerts so far. Alfio has performed in Australia the United States Europe and Asia.
Mr. Scruff.  Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy (born 10 February 1972) a British electronic music producer and DJ. He lives in Stretford Greater Manchester and studied fine art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University. Before he could make a living from his music alone he worked as a shelf-stacker in the Hazel Grove branch of Kwik Save.His stage name was inspired by his scruffy facial hair as well as his trademark loose-lined drawing style.
Anette Olzon.  Anette Ingegerd Olsson (born 21 June 1971) known by the stage name Anette Olzon is a Swedish singer best known as the second lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. She is also the former vocalist of Swedish classic rock band Alyson Avenue.
Diamond Rings (musician).  John O'Regan (born July 6 1985) is a Canadian artist and musician. He is best known by his stage name Diamond Rings.
Pierre Fageolle.  Pierre Fageolle is a French journalist and songwriter. Internationally he is perhaps most well known for writing the book Cosmos 1999: L'épopée de la blancheur (DLM Editions Paris: 1996) a highly-acclaimed socio-cultural analysis of Gerry Anderson's TV-series Space: 1999.He also co-wrote biographies of French singers Marie Laforêt (...car rien n'a d'importance Editions 1994) and Etienne Daho (Hors Collection Editions 1999).
Anne-Karine Strøm.  Anne-Karine Strøm (born 15 October 1951 Oslo) is a Norwegian singer best known for having taken part in the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection Melodi Grand Prix in six consecutive years between 1971 and 1976 winning on three occasions (twice as a soloist and once as a member of an ensemble) and representing Norway in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1973 1974 and 1976.
Pablo Motos.  Pablo Motos (born August 31 1965) is the host of El Hormiguero a popular Spanish television show.
Bryan Todd (record producer).  Bryan Todd (born March 1 1973) is an American multi-platinum record producer and songwriter.Todd recently signed to Universal Music Publishing through David Foster.Todd began his career as a recording artist and scoring with a Billboard TOP 20 Radio hit.
Bendik Brænne.  Bendik Brænne (born 17 August 1987) is an Norwegian rock'n roll saxophone player and singer/songwriter.He has performed with several well-known music groups and artists all over the world and appeares on albums by Los Plantronics No Torso Noora Noor Amund Maarud Dumdum Boys and many more.Together with his father Trond Brænne and sister Kaia Brænne he was nominated for the 2010 Brage Prize in the category children's literature.His debut album How To Fake It In America was released in March 2013.
Bob Malone.  Bob Malone (born Robert Maurice Meloon on December 2 1965) is a Los Angeles-based keyboardist singer-songwriter composer and arranger. He was born and raised in New Jersey and has lived in New York City New Orleans and Boston.
Johnny Seay.  Johnny Sea Johnny Seay (born John Allan Seay Jr. July 15 1940 in Gulfport Mississippi) is an American country singer. His first hits came in the late 1950s and his career saw a resurgence in the mid-1960s particularly with the release of his spoken word single Day For Decision.
Zoe Strauss.  Zoe Strauss (born 1970) is an American photographer.
Vlado Kreslin.  Vlado Kreslin (born 29 November 1953) is a Slovenian folk rock musician.
Slow (DJ).  Slow or DJ Slow (born Vellu Maurola 1975 in Vantaa Finland) is a Finnish DJ and music producer. His first encounters with hip hop acts such as Run-DMC Public Enemy and Eric B & Rakim led him to pursue career in DJing later making music and remixing others tracks. Slow is known for his nu-jazz style and for his production of commercial music for high-profile projects for advertising TV and cinema.[citation needed]
Keith Lazelle.  Keith Lazelle is a photographer based in Quilcene Washington United States. The Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles owns the largest collection of his work.
Felice Ludovisi.  Felice Ludovisi (27 August 1917 – 2 April 2012) was an Italian painter.
Amar Singh Shaunki.  Amar Singh Shaunki (Punjabi: ਅਮਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ੌਂਕੀ) also spelled as Amar Singh Shonki was a very well known Dhadi singer of East Punjab (India). People travelled miles to listen to him.[citation needed]
George Grie.  George Grie (born May 14 1962) is a Russian-Canadian artist.One of the first digital surrealism artists Grie is known for numerous 3D 2D and matte painting images. Born in the USSR during the Soviet regime (aka Russian: Джордж Грие or Юрий Грибановский) he did not adopt the conventional and politically correct socialist realism art style.
Caroline Legrand.  Caroline Legrand (born 1970) is a 1980s French singer primarily known for her 1989 hit J'aurais voulu te dire.
Sleeping States.  Sleeping States is a musical solo project of British musician Markland Starkie (born 1981).Started in 2004 in London Sleeping States falls predominantly in the songwriter genre. Sleeping States has also been associated with Lo-Fi DIY and Queercore having released a number of 7s cassette-only EPs and a CD-R album on several small DIY labels in Britain including the Queercore label/collective Homocrime.
Wayne Mitchell (singer).  Wayne Mitchell was a Southern Gospel singer for The King's Servants and a founding member of The Kingdom Heirs (1981–1987). He is now the pilot of a Bonanza G-35 and is involved in the development of an airpark in Blaine Tennessee called Landing at River’s Edge. Landing at River’s Edge is a 177-acre (0.72 km2) gated residential airpark community featuring a 3000' runway golf course and river frontage.
Steven Grant.  Steven Grant (born October 22 1953) is an American comic-book writer best known for his 1985-1986 Marvel Comics mini-series Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper.
Louie Ocampo.  Louie Ocampo is a Filipino composer and arranger best known for his association with Martin Nievera.
Grazio Cossali.  Grazio Cossali sometimes called Orazio Cossali (1563 – December 4 1629) was an Italian painter who worked in Brescia Cremona and Venice active during the Mannerist or early Baroque periods.
Jon Hume.  Jon Cobbe Hume (born 6 November 1983) is the eldest of the three brothers who make up the New Zealand band Evermore.
Tina Ivanović.  Tina Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тина Ивановић) (born September 28 1974 in Kosovska Kamenica Yugoslavia) is a Serbian pop-folk singer and model.
Amp Fiddler.  Joseph Amp Fiddler is an American keyboardist singer songwriter and record producer from Detroit Michigan U.S.. His musical styles include funk soul dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the band Enchantment and as part of George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic groups from 1985 until 1996. His first solo album Waltz of a Ghetto Fly was released in March 2004. His most recent album Afro Strut was released in 2006.
Lecrae.  Lecrae Moore mononymously known as Lecrae is an American Christian hip hop artist celebrity entrepreneur and record producer. He is the president co-owner and co-founder of the independent record label Reach Records and the co-founder and president of the non-profit organization ReachLife Ministries.
Joan Trimble.  Joan Trimble (18 June 1915 - 6 August 2000) was an Irish composer and pianist.
Boris Mozhayev.  Boris Andreevich Mozhayev (Борис Андреевич Можаев June 1 1923 Pitelino village Ryazanskaya Oblast USSR - March 2 1996 Moscow Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet author dramatist script-writer and editor the USSR State Prize (1989) laureate best known for his novel Zhivoy (Alive 1966) and the two-part epic Peasant Men and Women (Muzhiki i babyi 1972-1980).
Lin Van Hek.  Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.
Angel Boi.  Ángel Schaffer better known by stage name Angel Boi is an American rapper and poet. His first released project Blessed Child (2004) was a romantic poetry book. Then his first recorded single Toe Lover' in 2005 which was historic by being the first song ever about sucking women toes.[citation needed] He feels that it's important for an artist to write about the truth. As he puts it It's a true-life story.
Elam Jay.  Elam Jay (born October 31 1974 in Casablanca Morocco) is a Moroccan pop singer-songwriter composer record producer dancer choreographer performer music video director and entrepreneur. His business interest include Jam Productions and the franchise of Quintessentially for Morocco.
David Carreira.  David Araújo Antunes (born in Dourdan Essonne France on 30 July 1991) and better known by his artistic name David Carreira is a Portuguese pop singer actor and model. His debut album N.1 (2011) reached number 1 in the Portuguese charts and was certified two times platinum.During his youth he joined in the junior formative team of Sporting Clube de Portugal but suffering an injury he quit a possible professional sports career.
Shigeru Mogi.  Shigeru Mogi (茂木 滋 Mogi Shigeru born 19 August 1973 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce.
John Tatham.  John Tatham (fl. 1632–1664) was an English dramatist of the mid-seventeenth century.Little is known of him. He was a Cavalier who hated the Puritans — and the Scots;he invented a dialect which he claimed was their vernacular tongue. Fancy's Theatre a collected of his poems was published in 1640.He produced eight pageants for the Lord Mayor's show in the years 1657–64 (seven of them titled London's Triumph) and several dramas.
Evan Rees (Dyfed).  Evan Rees (1 January 1850 – 19 March 1923) known by the bardic name Dyfed was a Calvinistic Methodist minister poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Sreevalsan J Menon.  Sreevalsan J. Menon is an Indian Carnatic vocalist and a music composer from Kerala.
Haruna Yabuki.  Haruna Yabuki (矢吹 春奈 Yabuki Haruna born 18 December 1984) is a Japanese actress gravure idol and TV personality from Tokyo. Since 2009 she has used the stage name Mari Abe (阿部 真里 Abe Mari).[citation needed]
Guo Xi.  Guo Xi (Chinese: 郭熙; pinyin: Guō Xī; Wade–Giles: Kuo Hsi) (c. 1020 – c. 1090) Chinese landscape painter from Henan Province who lived during the Northern Song dynasty. One text entitled The Lofty Message of Forest and Streams (Linquan Gaozhi 林泉高致) is attributed to him. The work covers a variety of themes centered around the appropriate way of painting a landscape.
Dina Feitelson.  Dina Feitelson (Hebrew: דינה פייטלסון‎) also known as Dina Feitelson-Schur (Hebrew: דינה פייטלסון-שור‎) (born 1926; died 1992) was an Israeli educator and scholar in the field of reading acquisition.
Erdem Helvacıoğlu.  Erdem Helvacioglu (born May 22 1975 in Bursa Turkey) is an electronic musician from Turkey. He has collaborated with artists Mick Karn Kevin Moore John Wilson Kazuya Ishigami and Saadet Turkoz. In addition to his work as an electronic musician Erdem also composes music for theatre film and multimedia productions and produces for popular and rock music bands in Turkey.
Mø (singer).  Karen Marie Ørsted (born 13 August 1988 in Odense Denmark) better known as Mø is a Danish singer-songwriter signed to Sony Music Entertainment. Mø whose name means maiden or virgin in Danish has been compared to electropop artists such as Grimes and Twin Shadow.
Sharon Jones (singer).  Sharon Lafaye Jones (born May 4 1956) is an American soul/funk singer. She is the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings a band at the forefront of a revivalist movement that aims to recapture the feeling of soul and funk music as it was at its height in the late 1960s to mid-1970s. Despite trying to forge a career as a professional singer since an early age it has only been in her middle age that Jones has experienced breakthrough success.
Robb White.  Robb White III (June 20 1909 – November 24 1990) was a writer of screenplays television scripts and adventure novels. Most of the latter had a maritime setting often the Pacific Navy during World War II. White was best known for juvenile fiction though he has proven popular with adults as well.
Marika Hackman.  Marika Hackman is an English vocalist multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
Frederick Noad.  Frederick McNeill Noad (August 8 1929 – September 13 2001) was a classical guitar performer educator and an original founder of the Guitar Foundation of America.Noad was famed for his popular instructional television show Guitar with Frederick Noad which was originally televised on PBS in the mid-1960s resyndicated in color in the early 1980s and continues to be broadcast today.
Ayumi Hamasaki.  Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ Hamasaki Ayumi also 濱崎歩; born October 2 1978) is a Japanese recording artist lyricist model and actress. Also called Ayu by her fans Hamasaki has been dubbed the Empress of J-pop because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to pursue a career in entertainment.
Charles McLean Andrews.  Charles McLean Andrews (February 22 1863 – September 9 1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time as a leading authority on American colonial history. He wrote 102 major books and scholarly articles as well as over 360 book reviews newspaper articles and short items. He is especially known as a leader of the Imperial school of historians who studied and generally admired the efficiency of the British Empire in the 18th century.
Andrew Murray (minister).  Andrew Murray (9 May 1828 – 18 January 1917) was a South African writer teacher and Christian pastor. Murray considered missions to be the chief end of the church.
Chad Wackerman.  Chad Wackerman (born March 25 1960 in Long Beach California) is a jazz jazz fusion and rock drummer arguably best known as a drummer and percussionist in Frank Zappa's band but also known for his work with Allan Holdsworth and others. In addition he has worked with others as a band member session musician sideman and bandleader of his own jazz trio as well as his solo career. He is the older brother of Brooks Wackerman the current drummer of Bad Religion.
John Rolfe (actor).  John Rolfe is a British actor.His television credits include: Z-Cars Dixon of Dock Green Adam Adamant Lives! The First Lady Softly Softly Doctor Who (in the serials The War Machines The Moonbase and The Green Death) Paul Temple The Troubleshooters Out of the Unknown The Regiment Spy Trap Warship Oil Strike North Survivors Blake's 7 Minder Secret Army The Enigma Files Yes Minister One by One Howards' Way and The House of Eliott.
Martin Hoberg Hedegaard.  Martin Hoberg Hedegaard (born October 9 1992) also known simply as Martin is a Danish singer who rose to fame as the winner of the first Danish series of the The X Factor. To date he is the youngest winner of the competition anywhere in the world taking the title at the age of fifteen. He is known for singing in a distinctive nasal tone.
Ventsislav Yankov.  Ventsislav Yankov (born in Sofia 24 March 1926) is a Bulgarian pianist and pedagogue. Trained in Berlin he settled in France in 1946; three years later he won ex-aequo with Aldo Ciccolini the III Concours Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud's Grand Prize. An intercontinental concert career ensued. Yankov is a professor emeritus at the Conservatoire of Paris where he held a professorship (1977–1991). He is still active as a concert pianist in France.
Morgan Grace.  Morgan Grace is a songwriter from Portland Oregon. Mostly a solo acoustic performer she released her first album The Rules of Dating in 2003 on Lady Lush Records. In 2004 she joined up with former Wipers and Napalm Beach drummer Sam Henry.
Evan Brewer.  Evan Brewer (born September 23 1981) is an American bass player from Nashville Tennessee. He is the current bassist of the technical death metal band The Faceless and has been involved in other bands such as Reflux and the last bassist to be a part of Animosity. He also released two solo albums under just his name. In 2011 he released his debut solo album titled Alone and his second solo album Your Itinerary was released on July 16 2013.
Hasib Ashrafi.  Hasib Ashrafi (Persian: حسيب اشرفي) is a popular Tajik singer. He resides in San Francisco CA U.S. continuing his music in exile from that state. He recently returned to Afghanistan where he gave a round of concert with Rahim Shah. In 2005 he got married and moved to California where he is doing many concerts overseas in Europe. His album hit stores in 2002 his main single being Labe Tu A song that was written by him and directed by him.
Odysseus Yakoumakis.  Odysseus Yakoumakis (born 1956) is a Stuckist artist painter and illustrator based in Athens Greece. He is the founder of the first Greek Stuckist group The Romantic Anonymous Fellowship and organiser of the first international Stuckist group show in Greece Under the Cover of Romantic Anonymity. He was a scheduled speaker at the first Stuckist international symposium The Triumph of Stuckism in England. He practises martial arts and he is currently studying traditional engraving.
Michel Bernholc.  Michel Bernholc (1941–2002) was a French composer arranger and producer. Using the pseudonym Mike Steiphenson he wrote and produced the 1971 hit Burundi Black which made #31 on the UK Singles Chart.He also wrote the Victoire Scott song La Licorne D’or which was covered by the Swedish symphonic metal band Therion on their fifteenth full-length musical album Les Fleurs du Mal.On 5 June 2002 Bernholc committed suicide.
Paolo Massimo Antici.  Paolo Massimo Antici (February 10 1924 – August 17 2003) was an Italian Diplomat founder of the Antici Group group of officials responsible for preparing the weekly talks between EU Ambassadors.
Li Zhun.  Li Zhun (Chinese: 李准; pinyin: Lǐ Zhún; 4 July 1928 - 2 February 2000) was a Chinese novelist who was the vice president of China Writers Association and the librarian of Chinese Modern Literature Museum.
Zoltán Téglás.  Zoltán Zoli Téglás (born November 10 1969) is an American singer songwriter and producer with Hungarian roots. He is the frontman of Ignite and formerly enjoyed a spell as lead singer of Pennywise appearing on their tenth album All or Nothing. He has collaborated with other bands including The Misfits Motörhead and Blind Myself. Téglás has another side project called Zoli Band which plays acoustic music.
Lore Berger.  Lore Berger (* 17 December 1921 in Basel; † 14 August 1943) was a Swiss writer who committed suicide at the age of 21.
Suzannah Dunn.  Suzannah Dunn is an author and graduate of the MA creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia. She teaches MA creative writing at the University of Manchester and is the author of eleven novels. Her most recent novel is entitled The Confession of Katherine Howard published through HarperCollins.
Alfred Wellesley.  Alfred Wellesley was a British film actor.
Hans Hoffmann (painter).  Hans Hoffmann (c. 1530 in Nuremberg – 1591/92 in Prague) was a German painter and draftsman who is best known for his copies after works by Albrecht Dürer. He is considered the best of the numerous artists who worked in Dürer's style.
Joey Slutman.  Joey Slutman also known as Joe Annaruma was GWAR's second vocalist while Oderus Urungus - Dave Brockie - was the 2nd guitarist. Joey Slutman is the vocalist on the first four songs on Let There Be GWAR. Before joining Gwar in 1985 he was guitarist for the Norfolk Va. Hardcore punk band JUDICIAL FEAR from 1980-1984. As opposed to the early style of Oderus which featured Brockie singing in his regular (non-Oderus) voice Joey Slutman had a deep growling voice.
Fausto Veranzio.  Fausto Veranzio or Faust Vrančić (Latin: Faustus Verantius; Hungarian and Vernacular Latin: Verancsics Faustus) (circa 1551 – January 17 1617) was a polymath and bishop from the Venetian Republic.
Cindy Alexander.  Cindy Alexander (born Cynthia Alexander in California) is an American indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She currently resides in greater Los Angeles California.In 1998 Alexander was named Songwriter of the Year and nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Music Awards while her debut album See Red was nominated for Independent Pop Album of the Year.
Monique Buzzarté.  Monique Buzzarté (born in San Pedro California United States on August 26 1960) is a composer trombonist and activist who coordinated a worldwide effort on behalf of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) leading to the admission of women as members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1997. Buzzarté studied with Stuart Dempster and Ned Meredith and is certified to teach Pauline Oliveros's deep listening practices.
Young Seph.  Joseph Holmes better known as Young Seph is an American Music Producer (born September 26 1986) in Sierra Vista Arizona. Young Seph has produced for artists such as 50 Cent Jim Jones JRand Lloyd Banks & Havoc (Mobb Deep) among others.
Big Pooh.  Rapper Big Pooh (born Thomas Jones) is the stage name of an American rapper who along with fellow rap artist Phonte was a member of the acclaimed North Carolina hip hop group Little Brother. In addition to numerous records and EP's by Little Brother Pooh released a solo album in 2005 entitled Sleepers to positive critical review. Furthermore he has been guest featured on numerous tracks by other artists.
Ed Hill.  Ed Hill (born in Hanford California) is an American country music songwriter. Hill has been active since the early 1970s. Hill plays piano and keyboard and has backed Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson. Hill joined the Palomino Club's house band the Palomino Riders in the late 1970s and backed artists like Marty Robbins and Willie Nelson.
Ammouri Mbarek.  Ammouri M'barek considered (sublime and brilliant) as the renovator of the Moroccan Amazigh (Berber) Music was born in 1951 in Irguiten a small village located at the bottom of the High Atlas near Taroudant Town in Taroudant Province Morocco
Jim Price (musician).  James 'Jim' Price (born 1945 Fort Worth Texas United States) was together with Bobby Keys and Jim Horn one of the most in demand horn session players of the 1970s. He toured extensively with The Rolling Stones from 1970 until 1973 including their 1972 American Tour and appears on the albums Sticky Fingers Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup. From September 1968 to February 1969 Price played with New Buffalo Springfield.
Johnny Pearson.  John Valmore Pearson (18 June 1925 – 20 March 2011) known as Johnny Pearson was a British composer orchestra leader and pianist. He led the Top of the Pops orchestra for sixteen years wrote a catalogue of library music and had many of his pieces used as the theme music to television series.
Johann Zoffany.  Johann Zoffany Zoffani or Zauffelij RA (13 March 1733 – 11 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter active mainly in England. His works appear in many prominent British national galleries such as the National Gallery London the Tate Gallery and in the Royal Collection.
Jennie Goodwin.  Jennie Goodwin is a New Zealand journalist television newsreader and continuity announcer. In June 1975 she became a news presenter on the newly launched TV-2 making her New Zealand's first female television newsreader and the first woman within the Commonwealth of Nations to present a prime time news programme. Prior to her work at TV-2 Goodwin worked in radio before moving into television in the 1960s where she initially worked as a continuity announcer.
John Neil Munro.  John Neil Munro Scottish journalist and author of biographies.
Jorge Lucas.  Jorge Lucas is an Uruguayan/Argentinan comic book artist and penciller. He was born in Salto Uruguay where he lived till the age of 10 then moved to Argentina and acquired the Argentinan nationality.
Robert Dhéry.  Robert Dhéry (27 April 1921 – 5 December 2004) was a French actor director and screenwriter.
Eylem Kızıl.  Eylem Kızıl (born 5 September 1984 in London United Kingdom) is a British-Cypriot singer. She is popular in Turkey and North Cyprus
Juelz Santana.  LaRon Louis James (born February 18 1982) better known by his stage name Juelz Santana is an American rapper and actor. He hails from Harlem New York City and is member of East Coast hip hop group The Diplomats. He appeared on Cam'ron's 2002 singles Oh Boy and Hey Ma. In 2003 his debut album From Me to U was released by Roc-A-Fella Records; his next album What the Game's Been Missing! contained the top-ten single There It Go (The Whistle Song).
Dimitrija Čupovski.  Dimitrija Čupovski (Macedonian: Димитрија Чуповски) (November 8 1878 – October 29 1940) was a Macedonian textbook writer and lexicographer.
Ahmet Yektâ Madran.  Ahmet Yektâ Madran was a composer of Turkish music pieces school songs and marches.
Bernard Fleetwood-Walker.  Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (22 March 1893 – 30 January 1965) was an English artist and teacher of painting.Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (invariably known as B. Fleetwood-Walker) was born on 22 March 1893 in Birmingham United Kingdom a twin and one of five children.
David Aizman.  David Yakovlevich Aizman (Russian: Дави́д Я́ковлевич А́йзман; March 26 1869 – September 26 1922) was a Russian-Jewish novelist and playwright.
Kelvin Kwan.  Kelvin Kwan (born 24 March 1983) is a cantopop singer from Go East a subdivision of Universal Music.
Sayumi Michishige.  Sayumi Michishige (道重 さゆみ Michishige Sayumi (named after Sayumi Horie) born July 13 1989 in Ube Yamaguchi Prefecture Japan) is a sixth generation member and current leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume.
Frank McLaughlin (comics).  Frank McLaughlin (born on March 18 1935) is an American comics artist who co-created the comic book character Judomaster; drew the comic strip Gil Thorp and assisted on such strips as Brenda Starr and The Heart of Juliet Jones; and wrote and illustrated books about cartooning and comic art.
Jim Reid.  Jim Reid (born 29 December 1961) is the lead singer for the alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain which he formed with his elder brother and guitarist William Reid.
Eduard Bornhöhe.  Eduard Bornhöhe (pen name) born Eduard Brunberg (17 February 1862 [O.S. 5 February 1862] in Kullaaru Rakvere Parish Lääne-Viru County — 17 November 1923 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer.Bornhöhe is generally considered a pioneer of the genre of Estonian historical novel as the majority of his creations consist of romanticism-influenced historical adventure stories.
Sylvia Edwards.  Sylvia Edwards (born 30 January 1937) is an American abstract artist. Her work has achieved huge commercial success and is known and respected around the world. She has had over thirty solo exhibitions in America Europe the Far and Middle East since her first commercial exhibition in 1975. Nearly 50 group exhibitions have included her work. Her reproductions on UNICEF greeting cards are amongst the most popular and sell in the millions.
Ah Niu.  Tan Kheng Seong (Simplified Chinese: 陈庆祥) better known by his stage name Ah Niu (Chinese: 阿牛) is a Malaysian Chinese singer in Malaysia and Singapore.
King Ernest Baker.  King Ernest Baker (May 30 1939 – March 5 2000) was an American blues and soul singer. He recorded I Feel Alright and That's When I Woke Up. Baker was born in Natchez Mississippi and died in a car crash in 2000 just after finishing recording an album.
Raymond Khoury.  Raymond Khoury (b. 1960 in Beirut Lebanon) is a screenwriter and novelist best known as the author of the 2006 New York Times Bestseller The Last Templar.
Emilie Richards.  Emilie Richards is an American author of over 50 contemporary romance and mystery novels.
Ish Ledesma.  Ismael Angel Ledesma (born October 2 1952) professionally known as Ish Ledesma is a Miami-based singer songwriter musician and producer. Ledesma has fronted written for or produced hits for the bands Foxy Oxo and Company B. Both Oxo and Company B were one-hit wonders in the US with respective hits Whirly Girl and Fascinated; Foxy released several albums and singles including the number one R&B hit Get Off.
Adrien Sauvage.  Adrien Victor Sauvage (born 30 May 1983) is a British fashion designer director and photographer of Ghanaian descent.
Mae Bacon.  Mae Bacon (1897–1981) was a British actress.
Rachel Carns.  Rachel Carns (born August 13 1969) is a musician composer artist and performer living in Olympia Washington U.S.. Raised in small-town Wisconsin she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City where she completed her B.F.A. in 1991. Carns is perhaps best known for her distinctive stand-up drumming style; she began as drummer for Kicking Giant later collaborating with several influential bands including The Need.
Glykeria.  Glykeria (born Glykeria Kotsoula Greek: Γλυκερία; born 1953 in Agio Pnevma Serres) is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus while also gaining fame in Israel France Turkey Spain and England. Her career has spanned over 30 years and is marked by several multi-platinum releases. On 14 March 2010 Alpha TV ranked Glykeria the third top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960).
Clive Coates.  Clive Coates is a British wine writer and Master of Wine best known for his books about the wines of Burgundy.
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande.  Dr. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (born on October 7 1960) is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
Zhou Xun.  Zhou Xun (born October 18 1974) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan actresses (四大花旦) in the early 2000s along with Zhang Ziyi Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei.
John Button (artist).  John Button (1929–1982) was an American artist well known for his city-scapes. Educated at the University of California Berkeley then moved to New York City in the early 1950s.
John Frusciante.  John Anthony Frusciante (/fruːˈʃɑːntɛ/; born March 5 1970) is an American guitarist singer songwriter and producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers with whom he recorded five studio albums and of whom he was a member from 1988 until 1992 and again from 1998 until 2009.
Andreas Vollenweider.  Andreas Vollenweider (born October 4th 1953) is a Swiss musician. His music has been categorized as World Music Jazz New Age and even Classical; two of his albums were No.1 on the Billboard charts simultaneously in the categories Classical Jazz Pop and Crossover for more than 11 weeks.
Theodore Maynard.  Theodore Maynard (1890–1956) was an English poet literary critic and historian. He grew up in England until 1920 and afterwards he moved to America and lived there until his death. Although he considered himself primarily a poet during his lifetime he was best known and most influential as a historian of Roman Catholicism especially in the United States.
Mark Cawthra.  Mark Cawthra (born 28 April 1961) is a musician and music producer working in the UK. He was born in Bishop Stortford Hertfordshire.
Fujiwara no Ietaka.  Fujiwara no Ietaka (藤原 家隆 1158 – May 5 1237) was an early Kamakura period Japanese waka poet. Several of his poems are included in the Shin Kokin Wakashū. He was related by marriage to Jakuren which made him strongly connected to the network of poets of the time. He was a pupil to Fujiwara no Shunzei.Ietaka was involved in a number of poetic matches and has a personal collection Collection of Jeweled Songs (玉吟集 gyokuginshū).
Drake Bell.  Jared Drake Bell (born June 27 1986) better known as Drake Bell is an American actor musician singer-songwriter comedian television personality voice actor record producer and occasional television director. He began his career as an actor in the early 1990s with an appearance on Home Improvement. Bell also appeared in several commercials. He appeared on The Amanda Show and became well-known among young audiences for his role on the series Drake & Josh while playing Drake Parker.
Ras Dumisani.  Ras Dumisani is a South African reggae musician originally from Durban who has been living and performing in France since 1992.
Matt Schofield.  Matt Schofield (born 21 August 1977 Manchester England) is an English blues guitarist and singer. His band The Matt Schofield Trio play their own material a blend of blues funk and jazz as well as covers of blues classics such as Albert Collins' Lights Are On But Nobody's Home.
Nakaaya Sumari.  Nakaaya Sumari (born September 3 1982 in Arusha Tanzania) is Tanzanian R&B-hip hop singer.She is the oldest of five children. Her younger sister Nancy Sumari was Miss Tanzania 2005 and Miss World Africa.Nakaaya was a featured star of the African Great Lakes region's first reality TV show called Tusker Project Fame that aired from October 1 to December 17 2006. The show had aspiring singers from Kenya Uganda and Tanzania all living together and receiving training in the music business.
Cortney Lance Bledsoe.  Cortney Lance Bledsoe (born May 14 1976) is an American writer poet and book reviewer. He has published eight books and hundreds of short stories poems essays short plays and reviews in many literary journals and anthologies. Bledsoe has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ten times Best of the Net twice and won the Blue Collar Review’s Working People’s Poetry Contest in 2004. He currently lives outside Baltimore with his wife and daughter.
David Elitch.  David Elitch (aka Dave Elitch) is an American musician best known for his work with the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta. David Elitch moved from Sebastopol California to Los Angeles and later joined hard rock band Daughters of Mara. In 2007 Daughters of Mara recorded their debut album I Am Destroyer with GGGarth Richardson on Virgin/Capitol Records. In Oct.
Arthur Black (humorist).  Arthur Black (born 30 August 1943 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian humorist and radio personality best known as the longtime host of Basic Black on CBC Radio. He also publishes a regular humour column syndicated to 50 Canadian newspapers.Black is a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.Black now lives on Salt Spring Island British Columbia.[citation needed]
Robert Duncan (writer).  Robert Duncan (born November 5 1952) is an American music critic author and entrepreneur.
Elmer Chambers.  Dallas Elmer Chambers also called Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers (1897 Bayonne New Jersey - ca. 1952 Jersey City New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter.Chambers played in marching bands while serving in World War I where he met bandleader Sam Wooding. He played with Wooding in Atlantic City Detroit and New York City but left his service before Wooding's tours abroad.
Philip Orbanes.  Philip E. Orbanes is a board game designer author and founding partner and president of Winning Moves Games in Danvers Massachusetts. Orbanes is a graduate of the Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University). He was a Senior Vice President for Research and Development at Parker Brothers until the 1990s. Orbanes has also served as Chief Judge at U.S.
Vanessa Marquez (singer).  Vanessa Marquez is an American R&B singer. She is best known being featured on singer Justin Timberlake's song Rock Your Body and background vocals on his song I'm Lovin' It.
Xavier Moyano.  Xavier Moyano (born December 2 1981) is an Argentine musician producer performer composer recording and editing audio & video and teacher.
John Levee.  John Levee (born 1924 in Los Angeles) is an American abstract expressionist painter who has worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C. Levee.
Finn Iunker.  Finn Iunker (born 1969) is a Norwegian playwright born in Arendal. He lives in Oslo.Finn Iunker made his debut as a dramatist in 1994 with The Answering Machine. He is amongst the Norwegian dramatists whose plays are most frequently staged but mostly abroad. He was awarded the Ibsen-award in company with Liv Heløe this year and was up for nomination in 2003’s Nordisk Dramatikerpris. He has just published a collection of short prose; Fortellinger to rave reviews.
Temistocle Popa.  Themistocles Popa (June 27 1921 - November 26 2013) was a Romanian composer musician and film actor.
Rudolph de Harak.  Ram shree Ram Rudolph de Harak also Rudy de Harak (April 10 1924 – April 24 2002) was an American graphic designer. De Harak was notable as a designer who covered a broad spectrum of applications with a distinctly modernist aesthetic. He was also influential as a professor of design.
Marie Anne Doublet.  Marie Anne Doublet (23 August 1677 – May 1771) known as Doublet de Persan Legendre was a French scholar writer and salonnière. She was born and died in Paris.
Kou Fumizuki.  Kou Fumizuki (文月 晃 Fumizuki Kō born 8 March in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. Fumizuki's most famous work to date is Ai Yori Aoshi a 17-volume work which has been turned into an anime series. His most recent work is Umi no Misaki serialized in Young Animal Magazine starting in the fifth issue of 2007 and concluding with its 127th and final chapter in the fifth issue of 2014.
Christian Ernst Graf.  Christian Ernst Friedrich Graf (Rudolstadt 30 June 1723 – The Hague 17 July 1804) was a German Kapellmeister and composer. He was Kapellmeister to William V Prince of Orange and resident in the Netherlands from 1762 where he changed the spelling of his name to Graaf.He was the son of Kapellmeister de:Johann Graf (1684–1750) and brother of the flautist Friedrich Hartmann Graf.
Ian Astbury.  Ian Robert Astbury (born 14 May 1962 Heswall Merseyside) is an English rock musician and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist for the rock band The Cult.
Mark Aarons.  Mark Aarons (born 25 December 1951) is an Australian journalist and author. He was a political adviser to NSW Premier Bob Carr.Aarons was born in Newcastle New South Wales but was brought up in Sydney. He was educated at Fairfield Boys High School and North Sydney Boys High School.He is the son of the late Laurie Aarons former secretary of the Communist Party of Australia.
Danielle Ward.  Danielle Ward (born 9 October 1978) is a British stand-up comedian and writer.
Yehonathan Gatro.  Yehonathan Gatro (Hebrew: יהונתן גטרו; born 25 October 1977 Tel Aviv) is an Israeli singer and actor. He has performed under the stage names Gatro and (currently as of 2009) Yehonathan. He has had a long collaboration with Israeli music producer Lyrik.
System Tazvida.  Funuel Tazvida best known as System Tazvida was a Zimbabwean musician very popular in his home country mainly in the 1990s though not as well known internationally. Tazvida wrote and performed songs mainly in his native Shona tongue. Tazvida was best known for his hits Anodyiwa Haataure and Mushandi Ndimambo.
Gladys Knight.  Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28 1944) known as the Empress of Soul is an American recording artist songwriter businesswoman humanitarian and author. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner she is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald Bubba Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.
David Blink.  David Blink is the Yakima Valley Community College director of instrumental music and jazz studies. He is a trumpet player and he directs the Yakima Valley Community College Salsa Band. Blink is also a composer. Under his direction the YVCC Salsa Band has successfully released a CD of original music. Blink is the organizer of the Yakima Valley Community College Latin Music Festival a yearly celebration that began in 2007. The Latin Music Festival has a community-outreach portion.
Ryan Cabrera.  Ryan Frank Cabrera (born July 18 1982) is an American pop rock singer and musician. In 2004 Cabrera debuted with his single On the Way Down a top ten hit in the U.S. and album Take It All Away. He continued his career with two more albums You Stand Watching in 2005 and The Moon Under Water in 2008.
Patsy Cline.  Virginia Patterson Hensley (September 8 1932 – March 5 1963) known professionally as Patsy Cline was an American country music singer. Part of the early 1960s Nashville sound Cline successfully crossed over to pop music. She died in a multiple fatality crash of her private plane at the age of 30.
Pablo Moses.  Pablo Moses (born Pablo Henry c.1948 Jamaica) is a roots reggae vocalist.Pablo Moses has released a number of records over several decades but he is best known for his debut 1975's Revolutionary Dream produced by Geoffrey Chung which included I Man A Grasshopper engineered at The Black Ark by Lee Scratch Perry. His 1980 follow up A Song was well received by his fans and music critics. Also the single Ready Aim Fire off In The Future album.
Paweł Jaroszewicz.  Paweł Jaroszewicz (born 20 September 1985 in Świdnik) is a Polish heavy metal drummer. Jaroszewicz has played with such bands as Interior Rootwater Sinful Vader Thy Disease Crionics Christ Agony No Emotions Hell-Born Lost Soul FS Projekt and Decapitated. He currently plays in Hate Soul Snatcher and Antigama.He is endorsed by Czarcie Kopyto Pedals Meinl Cymbals Tama Drums Lime Ears In Ear Systems Balbex Drumsticks Red Case Drum Cases and Hesu Cables.
Sherry Bryce.  Sherry Bryce (born in Duncanville Alabama) is an American country music artist. Between 1971 and 1977 she charted fifteen times on the Billboard country singles charts including seven duets with Mel Tillis. Their highest-charting duet was 1971's Take My Hand at No. 8. They were also nominated in 1974 at the Country Music Association awards for Duo of the Year. At the time both she and Tillis were signed to MGM/Curb Records and she recorded two duet albums with him.
Gabriel Ferry.  Gabriel Ferry is the nom de plume of two French writers father and son.
Martha Frick Symington Sanger.  Martha Frick Symington Sanger (born 1941) is an American writer and the great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick.
Stan Douglas.  Stan Douglas (born October 11 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver British Columbia. He has exhibited internationally including Documenta IX 1992 Documenta X 1997 Documenta XI 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990 2001 and 2005. Douglas' film and video installations photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature cinema and music while examining the failed utopia of modernism and obsolete technologies.
Juris Fernandez.  Julie Iris Fernandez-Lim (born March 18 1978) also known by her stage name Juris is a Filipina singer and songwriter. She was the former lead singer of acoustic group MYMP from 2003 to 2009.
Chuckle Brothers.  Barry Elliott (born 24 December 1944) and Paul Elliott (born 18 October 1947) better known as the Chuckle Brothers are English comedians. They are best known for their work on their BBC show ChuckleVision which celebrated its 21st series in 2010 with a stage tour titled An Audience with the Chuckle Brothers which started in January and ended in May.
Pedro García Cabrera.  Pedro García Cabrera (19 August 1905-20 March 1981) was a Spanish writer and poet. A member of the Generation of '27 he is considered one of the greatest poets of the Canary Islands.
Carlos Casares (writer).  Carlos Casares Mouriño was born in Ourense on 24 August 1941 and died in Nigrán on 9 March 2002. He was a Galician language writer.
Teacha Dee.  Damion Darrel Warren (born September 21 1980 Westmoreland Jamaica) better known by his stage name Teacha Dee is a Jamaican reggae singer and classroom teacher. He is perhaps known for his 2006 single Smoke and fly and 2007 single Smuggling Weed. He has been a classroom teacher at the secondary level in Jamaica for ten years as of September 2010 and has also recorded his most popular songs whilst in service to the Ministry of Education Youth and Culture Jamaican.
Miller Anderson (musician).  Miller Anderson (born 12 April 1945 Houston Renfrewshire Scotland) is a UK-based blues guitarist and singer. Apart from pursuing his own solo career he was a member of the Keef Hartley Band. Other groups Anderson has been associated with are; the Spencer Davis Group Broken Glass The Dukes Savoy Brown T.Rex and Chicken Shack. In early 2006 he joined The British Blues Quintet with Maggie Bell Zoot Money Colin Hodgkinson and Colin Allen.
Bernardo Guimarães.  Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (Portuguese pronunciation: [beʁˈnaʁdu ɡimaˈɾɐ̃jʃ]; August 15 1825 — March 10 1884) was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista.
Benedict Nightingale.  William Benedict Herbert Nightingale (born 14 May 1939) is a British journalist formerly a regular theatre critic for The Times newspaper. He was born in 1939 and educated at Charterhouse and Magdalene College Cambridge.
Les Emmerson.  Robert Leslie Les Emmerson (born 17 September 1944 in Ottawa Ontario Canada) is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Five Man Electrical Band and their predecessor band The Staccatos. He also recorded as a solo artist charting three top 40 hits in Canada including the #5 hit Control Of Me.He is best known for writing the song Signs which was a hit for Emmerson's Five Man Electrical Band in 1970 and also a hit for the band Tesla in 1990.
Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf.  Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf (also known as Ernst Gotthelf von Gersdorf or Karl Gotthelf) (2 November 1804 – 5 January 1874) was a German librarian most notable for his work at the Leipzig University Library. He wrote under the pseudonym Woldemar Egg.
Stephen J. Martin.  Stephen J Martin (born 3 March 1971 in Dublin) is an Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction.Martin grew up in Raheny Dublin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from Dublin City University. Having spent several years working in IT in the Far East he became a full-time writer in 2002.Having graduated from college with a degree in Electronic Engineering Stephen J Martin worked in Japan for eight years [1].
Rais Khan.  Ustad Rais Khan (born 25 November 1939) is a Pakistani sitarist born in Indore India.
Daniel van Heil.  Daniel van Heil (1604–1664) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Big Jack Johnson.  Big Jack Johnson (July 30 1940 – March 14 2011) was an American electric blues musician.One commentator noted that Johnson along with R. L. Burnside Paul Wine Jones Roosevelt Booba Barnes and James Super Chikan Johnson were present-day exponents of an edgier electrified version of the raw uncut Delta blues sound.
Rhys Chatham.  Rhys Chatham (born September 19 1952) is an American composer guitarist trumpet player multi-instrumentalist (flutes in C alto and bass keyboard) primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his guitar orchestra compositions. He has lived in France since 1987.
Fujiwara no Atsutada.  Fujiwara no Atsutada (藤原 敦忠 also 権中納言敦忠 Gonchūnagon Atsutada 906—April 18 943) was a middle Heian waka and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu. He is also known as 本院中納言 Hon'in Chūnagon and 琵琶中納言Biwa Chūnagon.Many of Atsutada's poems written in correspondence with court women remain and some are included in official poetry anthologies such as Gosen Wakashū.
Di Xiao.  Di Xiao，肖荻 is a classical piano soloist originally from China named in the top 10 up and coming Chinese pianists by International Piano Magazine in 2009. Di Xiao is currently based in the UK.
Alessandro Safina.  Alessandro Safina (born October 14 1963) is an Italian operatic tenor. Born in Siena Italy Safina's love of opera was encouraged early in life by his mother encouraged his eagerness. His father was also a singer.The early 21st century saw the rise of this Italian singer who has combined his opera roots with modern-day pop music. Late in his teens Safina began to appreciate pop and rock music drawing inspiration from such bands as Genesis The Clash Simple Minds and U2.
Scott McQuaig.  Scott McQuaig (born January 27 1959 in Meridian Mississippi) is an American country music singer-songwriter. In 1989 McQuaig charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. A third single charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in 1990.
Pete Rock.  Peter Phillips (born June 21 1970) better known by his stage name Pete Rock is an American record producer DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the duo went their separate ways Rock continued with a solo career that has garnered him worldwide respect though little in the way of mainstream success.
Marc Sabat.  Marc Sabat (born 22 September 1965 in Kitchener Canada) is a Canadian composer based in Berlin since 1999.
J. Ralph.  J. Ralph (American born; 1975) is an Academy Award nominated composer singer/songwriter and producer from New York City. His professional career began with the signing to Atlantic Records at age 22 as a recording artist. He is the founder of the award winning music production company The Rumor Mill and has written and produced the music for numerous Oscar winning films Grammy Award winning artists and The President of The United States Barack Obama.
Sally Knyvette.  Sally Knyvette (born 9 February 1951) is a British actress director and drama teacher.Born Sally James in Horsham West Sussex the daughter of a doctor Knyvette took acting lessons while running a French restaurant in the Kings Road London then was in rep for seven years acting mostly on stage including playing Shakespeare roles.On screen Knyvette is best known for her roles as Jenna Stannis in the first two seasons of the British science fiction series Blake's 7 and as Kate Sugden in the soap opera Emmerdale. 
Dorothy Edwards (Welsh novelist).  Dorothy Edwards (18 August 1903 – 6 January 1934) was a Welsh novelist of the early 20th century.Edwards was from Ogmore Vale in South Wales. She was educated at Howell's School for girls in Llandaff and at Cardiff University. She was politically active working for socialist and Welsh nationalist causes but wrote in English. She was also a talented amateur singer. On 6 January 1934 she threw herself in front of a train near Caerphilly railway station.
John Thomas Griffith.  John Thomas Griffith (born April 3 1960) is an American singer-songwriter best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the band Cowboy Mouth. John Thomas Griffith first established himself on the American music scene in the early 1980s as lead singer and guitarist for the Red Rockers co-writing their 1983 MTV hit China.Griffith was born in Lubbock Texas and raised in Houston but it was in Louisiana while attending LSU in Baton Rouge that he began his professional musical career.
Ben Yeo.  Ben Yeo (simplified Chinese: 杨志龙; traditional Chinese: 楊志龍; pinyin: Yáng Zhìlóng) is a Singaporean actor and television host with MediaCorp.
Busi Mhlongo.  Busi Mhlongo (28 October 1947 – 15 June 2010 ) born as Victoria Busisiwe Mhlongo was a virtuoso singer dancer and composer originally from Inanda in Natal South Africa.
Hai Sheng Wang.  Hai Sheng Wang (王海胜) is a Canadian painter born in Canton China.
Mark Olson (musician).  Mark Olson (born September 18 1961 in Minneapolis) is an American musician. He is one of the founding members of acclaimed alternative country bands The Jayhawks and The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers and a respected singer/songwriter in his own right.
Takuzo Kawatani.  Takuzo Kawatani (21 July 1941 – 22 December 1995) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1967 and 1995.
Marvin Winans Jr.  Marvin Winans Jr is an American singer and producer from Detroit Michigan.
Norbert Blei.  Norbert Blei (August 23 1935 – April 23 2013) was an American writer. He wrote 17 books of non-fiction fiction poetry and essays. In 1994 he established Cross+Roads Press dedicated to the publication of first chapbooks by poets short story writers novelists and artists.
Raphael Soyer.  Raphael Soyer (December 25 1899 – November 4 1987) was a Russian-born American painter draftsman and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets subways salons and artists' studios of New York City. He also wrote several books on his life and art.His brothers Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer were also painters.
Sattar Bahlulzade.  Sattar Bahlulzade (Azerbaijani: Səttar Bəhlulzadə; Russian: Саттар Бахлул оглы Бахлулзаде 15 December [O.S. 2 December] 1909 – 14 October 1974) is the founder of contemporary Azerbaijani landscape painting. He began his professional education at the National Art Institute in Baku (1927–1931). In 1933 he went to Moscow to continue his education in the Drawing Department at the Moscow Fine Arts Institute. There he studied in the studio of V.A. Favorsky.
Kunwar Narayan.  Kunwar Narain (कुँवर नारायण) (born 19 September 1927) is a poet and a presence in Indian literature often regarded as the leading living poet in Hindi. He has read and traveled widely written over the last six decades and is among the few intellectuals who combine an international modern sensibility with a grounding in their country’s cultural and imaginative history. Linked to the New Poetry movement he publishes selectively and is characteristically polite.
Minna Keal.  Minna Keal née Mina Nerenstein (1909-1999) was a British composer. After early compositions as a student she only returned to composing at the end of her life. Aged 80 when her music was first performed at the Proms in 1989 she experienced her return to composition as a new life:I felt I was coming to the end of my life but now I feel as if I'm just beginning. I feel as if I'm living my life in reverse.
William Rothenstein.  Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter printmaker draughtsman and writer on art. He is best known for his work as a war artist in both World Wars and as a portrait artist. More than 200 of his portraits of famous people are in the National Portrait Gallery collection. He co-founded the Carfax Gallery that held exhibitions of works of the Camden Town Group.
Chris Clavin.  Chris Clavin (born Christopher Johnston Aug 23rd 1979) is a musician anarchist and record label owner from Indiana USA with a strict DIY (do-it-yourself) punk ethic. He has been involved in numerous punk bands and runs Plan-It-X Records a label founded in 1994.
Lee Shih-chiao.  Lee Shih-chiao (Li Shiqiao Traditional Chinese: 李石樵; July 13 1908 - July 7 1995) was a Taiwanese painter. Lee Shih-chiao was one of important Taiwanese artists early in the Japanese Colonial Period (from 1895 to 1945). Most of his paintings were realistic but he also created some cubist works in his mid-life. He contributed significantly to art in Taiwan as well as educating and inspiring quite a few followers who later became excellent artist.
Hiroshi Itsuki.  Hiroshi Itsuki (五木ひろし Itsuki Hiroshi born March 14 1948) is a Japanese male singer and composer. He sold 20 million records of singles and 4 million copies of LP albums by 1987.Itsuki is usually regarded as an enka singer but he even covered Southern All Stars' J-pop song Tsunami.
Sky Blu (rapper).  Skyler Austen Gordy (born August 23 1986) better known by his stage name Sky Blu is an American singer rapper producer DJ and dancer best known as one half of the musical duo LMFAO along with his paternal uncle Redfoo. They have two albums together 2009's Party Rock and 2011's Sorry for Party Rocking. Sky Blu is the grandson of Motown founder Berry Gordy. His parents are Berry Gordy IV and Valerie Robeson. Sky Blu is the brother of Mahogany Cheyenne Gordy (born October 4 1994).
Virgil Suárez.  Virgil Suárez (b. 1962 Havana Cuba) is a poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community known for his novels including Latin Jazz and Going Under. He has also reviewed books for The Los Angeles Times The Miami Herald The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Tallahassee Democrat.
Mark Malkoff.  Mark Malkoff is an American comedian writer and filmmaker who formerly worked for Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. He is a graduate of New York University and currently lives in New York City.
Mark Rivera.  Mark Rivera is an American musician musical director and corporate entertainment provider. In addition to playing soprano alto tenor and baritone saxophones Rivera's musical talents encompass vocals guitar flute percussion and keyboards.
Keith Forde.  Keith Forde is a singer-songwriter and musician from Limerick Ireland.
Dylan Ryan.  Dylan Ryan (born April 6 1981 in San Francisco California) is an American pornographic actress.
Katherine Binney Shippen.  Katherine Binney Shippen (April 1 1892 – February 20 1980) was an American history teacher museum curator and children's writer.
Frank Hardy.  Francis Joseph Hardy or Frank (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994) was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel Power Without Glory. He also was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book The Unlucky Australians in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully for the Australian parliament twice.
Najoua Belyzel.  Najoua Belyzel (born Najoua Mazouri 15 December 1981 in Nancy France) is a French pop rock/electronic singer of Moroccan-Egyptian descent.
Lorena (singer).  Lorena Gómez Pérez (born 12 April 1986 in Lleida) is a Spanish pop singer known artistically as Lorena.She was the winner of TV's Spanish language's talent-search program fifth series of Operación Triunfo. In 2007 her debut album Lorena was released under the Sony BMG label.
Alphonse Daudet.  Alphonse Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.
Rosalbino Santoro.  Rosalbino Santoro (Fuscaldo Calabria May 15 1858 - Brazil circa 1920) was an Italian painter mainly vedute with figures in native dress.His parents wished him to become a priest but he preferred to study painting and by 1878 he was recommended for awards by Raffaele Postiglione professor of Institute of Fine Arts of Naples. The next year the new president of the Institute Filippo Palizzi awarded him the first prize in medal for design.
Paul Dickey.  Paul Dickey (12 May 1882 – 7 January 1933) was an American playwright and silent screen writer. He wrote 17 films between years 1914 and 1953.He was born in Chicago Illinois and died in New York New York aged 50.
Brandy Talore.  Brandy Talore (born February 2 1982 in Toledo Ohio) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Young Fyre.  Young Fyre born Tramaine Winfrey (March 9 1986) is an American record producer signed to T-Pain's record label Nappy Boy Entertainment. He has worked extensively with T-Pain and produced most of the album Revolver T-Pain's fourth studio album.Young Fyre has also worked with Tech N9ne Krizz Kaliko Lil Wayne Ace Hood Chris Brown Mario Busta Rhymes Big Time Rush Nicholas RAS Furlong Rico Love The Writing Camp and many others.
Kurd Lasswitz.  Kurd Lasswitz (German: Kurd Laßwitz IPA: [ˈkʊʁt ˈlasvɪt͡s]; 20 April 1848 – 17 October 1910) was a German author scientist and philosopher. He has been called the father of German science fiction. He sometimes used the pseudonym Velatus.
Åke Ohberg.  Åke Ohberg (20 July 1905 – 18 July 1975) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in about 30 roles in films between 1932 and 1961.Ohberg was born to Johan and Hulda Ohberg in Västerås Sweden.
Aung Khin.  Aung Khin (Burmese: အောင်ခင် [ʔàʊɴ kʰɪ̀ɴ] 13 February 1921 – 14 May 1996) was a Burmese painter who became prominent in the Mandalay art world. He is well known as one of the foremost and earliest of modernistic painters in Burma.
William Blake.  William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language.
Domingo Marrero Navarro.  Domingo Marrero Navarro (1909–1960) was a Puerto Rican educator writer and speaker.
Tomás Garbizu.  Tomás Garbizu Salaberria (12 September 1901 – 27 November 1989) was a Basque composer. He was the youngest and last of the Basque nationalist music movement composers.
Ralph Carney.  Ralph Carney (born January 23 1956 Akron Ohio) is an American musician. While his primary instruments are various saxophones and clarinets Carney collects and plays many instruments often unusual or obscure ones. He was a founding member of Tin Huey and is perhaps best known for his long association with singer Tom Waits.
Antonio Prohías.  Antonio Prohías (January 17 1921 – February 24 1998) born in Cienfuegos Cuba was a cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine.In 1946 Prohías was given the Juan Gualberto Gómez award recognizing him as the foremost cartoonist in Cuba. By the late 1940s Prohías had begun working at El Mundo the most important newspaper in Cuba at the time.
Tammy Wynette.  Virginia Wynette Pugh known professionally by her stage name Tammy Wynette (May 5 1942 – April 6 1998) was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers. She was a country music icon.Wynette was called the First Lady of Country Music and her best-known song Stand by Your Man was one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music.
Hamilton Lee.  Hamilton Lee (born 7 September 1958 in London) also known by variations on Hamid Mantu is an English musician and composer.Lee is best known as the drummer percussionist and co-leader of Transglobal Underground under his Hamid Mantu alias. He was also a core member of Furniture and has played with Natacha Atlas The Transmitters Lunar Dunes Solus 3 Ghost Shirt Xangbetos and the Flavel Bambi Septet as well as various session appearances.
Al Bell.  Al Bell (born Alvertis Isbell March 15 1940 Brinkley Arkansas United States) is an American record producer songwriter and record executive.
Barry Kay.  Barry Kay (born in Melbourne 1932 – died in London 1985) was a stage and costume designer of international renown. After having studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris and theatre design in Melbourne he settled in London in 1956.
Susan Birkenhead.  Susan Birkenhead is an American lyricist.Birkenhead made her Broadway debut as one of a team of songwriters contributing to Working (1978) for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Her second was earned for Jelly's Last Jam (1992) which won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and a Grammy Award nomination.
Elvira Kurt.  Elvira Kurt (Hungarian: Kürt Elvíra) (born December 9 1961) is a Canadian comedian and the host of the game show Spin Off. She hosted the entertainment satire/talk show PopCultured with Elvira Kurt which began on The Comedy Network in Canada in 2005. That show's style was similar to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It was cancelled due to poor ratings in early 2006.
Alex Day.  Alex Richard George Day(born 8 April 1989) is a musician vlogger and writer from Essex England. Day has released three studio albums two EPs and had three UK Top 40 hits—Forever Yours at No. 4 Lady Godiva at No. 15 and Stupid Stupid at No. 25. Alex's song Forever Yours is currently top in Guinness World Records for highest-charting single by an unsigned artist. He appears in the 2014 Edition Guinness World Records.
Samantha Bentley.  Samantha Bentley (born 8 October 1987) is an English pornographic actress.
Lorne Resnick.  Lorne Resnick (born May 16 1961) is a Los Angeles based photographer who was born and raised in Toronto Canada.An overland journey to Africa inspired Resnick to pursue photography in many countries eventually leading him to Papua New Guinea Vietnam Greenland Cuba China across Europe and to 22 countries in Africa.
Yukiko Takaguchi.  Yukiko Takaguchi (高口幸子 Takaguchi Yukiko born November 3 1974 in Okayama) is a Japanese voice actress. She has appeared in numerous anime series including appearing in Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge as Sunako Nakahara and in Fantastic Children as Soreto. Her most recent role is as the female protagonist of Super Robot Wars Z Setsuko Ohara.
Desmond Devlin.  Desmond Devlin is an American comedy writer. His work has appeared in the pages of Mad magazine for a quarter-century and he ranks as one of the magazine's four most frequent non-illustrating writers.
Sandra Nurmsalu.  Sandra Nurmsalu (born 6 December 1988) is an Estonian singer violinist and lead singer of the band Urban Symphony. Urban Symphony represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 on 16 May. Nurmsalu sang the lead for the Eurovision entry song Rändajad. The song qualified from the second semi-final from 3rd place and finished 6th in the grand final.
Alan Sorrell.  Alan Ernest Sorrell (11 February 1904 – 21 December 1974) was an English artist and writer best remembered for his archaeological illustrations particularly his detailed reconstructions of Roman Britain. He was a Senior Assistant Instructor of Drawing at The Royal College of Art between 1931–39 and 1946–48. In 1937 he was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Puttaraj Gawai.  Pandit Puttaraj Gawai (Kannada: ಪುಟ್ಟರಾಜ ಗವಾಯಿ) (3 March 1914 – 17 September 2010) was an Indian musician in the Hindustani classical tradition a scholar who authored more than 80 books in Kannada Sanskrit and Hindi a music teacher and a social servant.
Deformer.  Deformer is a music project led by Dutch music producer Mike Redman since the early nineties. They were amongst the first generation of Jungle producers in the Netherlands and are known for merging different music genres that would later be described as Breakcore.They pioneered with using Sranan Tongo in their Jungle productions as well as primarily using Gabber sounds. Their experimental electronic (dance) music is often Horror influenced.
Nigel Briggs.  Nigel Briggs (born 14 September 1966 in Nottingham UK) is a Christian songwriter and worship leader who has written songs such as 'For Me' 'What a Love' 'Hold On' 'Unfailing Love' and 'Perfect Sacrifice' for use in Christian worship which have been published through the Vineyard Music label.In the summer of 1996 John and Debby Wright moved from SW London Vineyard to start a new Vineyard church (Trent Vineyard) in Nottingham.
San'yūtei Enraku V.  5th Sanyutei Enraku (5代目 三遊亭 圓楽 Godaime San'yūtei Enraku December 29 1932 - October 29 2009) was a Japanese rakugo comedian best known for hosting the Shōten comedy show on Nippon TV. His comedic career spanned several decades.He was born Hiroumi Yoshikawa (吉河 寛海 Yoshikawa Hiroumi) and used Enraku as his stage name. He was known using the Japanese comedic style of rakugo in which a single performer or storyteller appears on stage and tells comedic stories to the audience.
Les Holroyd.  Les Holroyd (born Richard Leslie Holroyd 12 March 1948 Oldham Lancashire England) is an English bass guitarist vocalist and songwriter formerly with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest.
Maurice Journeau.  Maurice Journeau (17 November 1898 – 9 June 1999) was a French composer born in Biarritz. He composed from 1921 to 1984. He died in Versailles.
Georgia Elwiss.  Georgia Elwiss is an international cricketer. She was born on 31 May 1991 and raised in Wolverhampton with her brother Luke and is a right arm medium fast bowler and right handed batsman. She has played for the Diamonds in the UK and gained experience with ACT Women in Australia in the 2010/11 season. She was picked for the England one day tour of South Africa in October 2011 and made her one day international debut for England against South Africa at Potchefstroom on 23 October 2011.
Exekias.  Exekias (Ancient Greek: Ἐξηκίας Exēkías) was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC. Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black with details created through incision.
Atsuko Takahata.  Atsuko Takahata (高畑 淳子 Takahata Atsuko born on October 11 1954 in Kagawa) is a Japanese actress and voice actress.
Deron Johnson (musician).  Deron Johnson is an American jazz musician. Beginning at the age of sixteen Johnson became hooked on jazz music and attended California State University Long Beach where he continued his pursuit with private lessons from Billy Childs. In 1991 after touring with Pop Idol Paula Abdul Johnson was discovered by trumpet legend Miles Davis.
Liu Kang (artist).  Liu Kang (Chinese: 刘抗; pinyin: Liú Kàng) was a Singaporean artist famous for his Balinese-themed figurative paintings. He was a founding member of the Singapore Art Society and was credited with developing the Nanyang Style.He was born in Fujian Province and he spent his early years in Malaysia studied art in Shanghai and Paris and taught art in Shanghai during the 1930s.
Alastair Reynolds.  Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards he earned a PhD from St Andrews Scotland. In 1991 he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France).
Leonard Zhakata.  Leonard Karikoga Zhakata (born 10 February 1968) is a Zimbabwean musician and singer. He writes and performs songs mainly in his native Shona tongue.Zhakata who adorns trademark glittering outfits is best known for his hits Hupenyu Mutoro Batai Mazwi and Gomba Remarara.
Andréa Ferréol.  Andréa Ferréol (born Andrée Louise Ferréol on January 6 1947 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French actress officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2009).Her debut is in the 1973 film La Grande bouffe which made a big scandal at the Cannes Film Festival.
Hiroshi Kitadani.  Hiroshi Kitadani (きただに ひろし Kitadani Hiroshi Kanji 北谷 洋 born August 24 1968) is a Japanese anison vocalist who primarily performs theme songs and other songs in anime. He also works behind the scenes of many songs. He currently works with JAM Project. He is most famous for singing the first and fifteenth opening themes of the popular anime series One Piece.
Maarja-Liis Ilus.  Maarja-Liis Ilus sometimes better known by her performing name Maarja (born 24 December 1980 in Tallinn Estonia) is a pop musician. She has represented her native Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest twice.
Judith Hand.  Judith L. Hand is an evolutionary biologist animal behaviorist (ethologist) novelist and pioneer in the emerging field of peace ethology. She writes on a variety of topics related to ethology including the biological and evolutionary roots of war gender differences in conflict resolution empowering women and abolishing war. Her lectures include recent developments in peace research which may help us prevent war.
Pam Scheunemann.  Pamela Jean Scheunemann (born October 25 1955 in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an American children's writer best known for her Cool Crafts picture books and as the founding member of the Minnesota Book Builders.
Neal Calvin Peterson.  Neal Calvin Peterson (born May 13 1980) is a musician and artist residing in Minneapolis Minnesota USA.
Andy Malecek.  Andy Malecek is a German guitarist who has played in the bands Fair Warning and Last Autumn's Dream.
Wan Kwong.  Wan Kwong (Chinese: 尹光) born Lui Minkwong (呂明光 and also known as Jackson Wan Kwong) is a singer from Hong Kong known as the The Temple Street Prince.Wan was born in Cholon Ho Chi Minh City in 1949 and was an ethnic Chinese from Vietnam and was trained as a Cantonese opera singer. Wan left with his family from Vietnam as the war broke out for Hong Kong.
Candace Camp.  Candace Pauline Hopcus née Camp (May 23 1949 in Amarillo Texas) is a best-selling American writer of romance novels. She has also published under the pen names Lisa Gregory Sharon Stephens Kristin James and under her maiden name Candace Camp. She is mother of the also writer Anastasia Hopcus.
Torgrim Eggen.  Torgrim Eggen (born 1958) is a Norwegian musician journalist magazine editor novelist and non-fiction writer. Among his books are Gjeld from 1992 and the novel Pynt from 2000. Duften av Havana from 2002 is a cultural history of the cigar and Manhattan from 2007 is about New York City. Eggen was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1995 (shared with Terje Holtet Larsen).
Satinder Satti.  Satinder Satti is a popular TV anchor actress poet dancer and singer. She has won accolades for her performances as a popular television host.
Erlend Bratland.  Erlend Bratland (born 27 October 1991 in Husnes Kvinnherad Norway) is a Norwegian singer best known for winning Norske Talenter 2008 a Norwegian television talent series.
Leah Daniels.  Leah Daniels (born December 25 1987) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter. She is an independent recording artist set to release her debut single in February 2012. Her self-titled debut was released in November 2011. She released her first music video titled Suspicious Minds on November 2 2011 on CMT Canada.
Herb Jeffries.  Herbert Herb Jeffries born Umberto Alexander Valentino (born September 24 1913) is a retired American jazz and popular singer and actor.
Jody Mussoff.  Jody Mussoff (born 1952 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American ceramist and artist living in Virginia. Mussoff's brightly colored drawings represent people and animals from her imagination. She uses a cross-hatching technique and leaves much of the background blank. Her ceramics are earthenware also brightly colored decorated with people and animals.
Derek Kerswill.  Derek Kerswill (born April 5 in Wilmington DE) is an American musician best known for his drumming in the bands Unearth Seemless Kingdom of Sorrow and multiple fill-ins/studio projects.
Lawrence Wright (composer).  Lawrence Wright (15 February 1888 – 19 May 1964) was a British popular music composer and publisher. He was born in Leicester and opened a music shop in the city in 1906.
Antony le Fleming.  Antony le Fleming (born 1941 Wiltshire England) is an English composer of classical music.He is a former student of Raymond Leppard Herbert Howells and Malcolm Arnold. The bulk of his composition is choral.Fleming served as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and later studied Music at the University of Cambridge. He became a music teacher and started composing his most significant works in the 1980s.
Darryl Andrews.  Darryl Andrews is a South African jazz guitarist composer arranger and conductor. He has a BMus (Hon) degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He worked as a musical director/conductor at the South African Broadcasting Corporation for four years and has composed a body of jazz works that were later performed by the acclaimed concert group MJ9.
DJ Black.  Ricardo Alexander O’Neil Weeks (born July 2 1972) better known by his stage name DJ Black or DJ Negro is a Panamanian recording artist songwriter producer and music executive. In 2008 DJ Black wrote the smash hit Chucha Su Madre which was the number one record in Panama for several months. Since 2008 DJ Black's song Chucha Su Madre has been the subject of both controversy and praise. It went straight to number 1 in the Panama radio and video charts and was featured in Carnival 2008.
Kris Bergstrom.  Kristofer Bergstrom is a leading North American taiko player. He is a member of Los Angeles-based taiko quartet On Ensemble and the North American taiko group TAIKOPROJECT. In addition to taiko Bergstrom plays the shamisen koto and turntable as a member of On Ensemble.
Lily Koppel.  Lily Koppel is a writer living in New York. She is known for her book The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal which is about her discovery of a young woman’s diary kept in New York in the 1930s and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt its owner at age 90. The diary was recovered from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of Koppel's apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Robert Sands (artist).  Robert Sands (September 15 1943 –) is an accomplished designer painter and director from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He studied painting and design at the Ivy School of Professional Art under Abe Weiner Marie Kelly Roy Hunter and Everett Sturgeon.Robert is the owner and founder of Terminal Graphics; a Pittsburgh-based design firm recognized both locally and internationally.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky.  Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Жване́цкий; Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Жванецький transliterated: Mykhailo Mykhailovych Zhvanetsky) (born 6 March 1934 Odessa Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union) is an author and comedian best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.
Nigel Gavin.  Nigel Gavin is a New Zealand based musician and composer best known as a guitar player.
Gerard Smith (musician).  Gerard Smith (September 20 1974 – April 20 2011) was an American visual artist musician and member of the celebrated Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio. He recorded an album of original music as A Rose Parade with Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum and also produced music with Midnight Masses and The Stationary Set. He died at age 36 from lung cancer.
Joy Allen.  Joy Allen (born in Werrington Cambridgeshire) is an English actress.
Zed Bias.  Zed Bias (born Dave Jones on 4 January) is an English electronic musician who operates within the UK garage and broken beat genres both as a producer and a DJ. Jones has also released material under the pseudonym Maddslinky and is half of the Phuturistix duo as well as other side projects.Zed Bias is best known for his single Neighbourhood which reached #25 in the UK charts in July 2000. He has remixed songs by artists such as Gabrielle Kosheen Maxim Pharoahe Monch and The Streets.
Guggi.  Guggi (born Derek Rowen) is an avant-garde Irish artist once a member of the goth/post-punk band The Virgin Prunes alongside his close friend Gavin Friday. Guggi was born in Dublin in 1959. He grew up with and remains best friends with U2's Bono. In 1984 he left the Virgin Prunes to pursue his passion for art.
Ron Wallace (singer).  Ron Wallace (born in Independence Missouri) is an American country music singer. Wallace was signed to Columbia Records and charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Gomi Kosuke.  Gomi Kōsuke (五味 康祐 20 December 1921 – 1 April 1980) was the pen-name of Gomi Yasusuke a Japanese novelist active during the Showa period of Japan. He is primarily known for his popular fiction on historical themes.
Brandy Moss-Scott.  Brandy Moss-Scott is an American R&B singer from Los Angeles California.She is best known for her 2002 single I Don't Really Know which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Saleschart. for 2 months and stayed on the Top 50 for forty-seven weeks.
Eric Arjes.  Eric Christian Arjes (born September 1 1987) is an American singer-songwriter record producer and multi-instrumentalist based out of Nashville TN. He was discovered by and is currently managed by the Grammy Award-winning record producer Stephen Short. He is best known as frontman and guitarist of the bands Camera Can't Lie and Vinyl Hearts.
Emma's Imagination.  Emma Gillespie (born in Edinburgh Scotland) better known by her stage name Emma's Imagination is a Scottish singer. She first came to prominence after winning the Sky1 TV talent contest Must Be the Music. She has since been signed to Gary Barlow's music label Future Records. She has since released her debut solo album Stand Still in January 2011.
Gary Chaloner.  Gary Chaloner is an Australian comic book artist and writer. Born in Sydney in 1963 he began self publishing in 1985 with David de Vries Glenn Lumsden and Tad Pietrzykowski under the Cyclone Comics imprint. He has collaborated with Ashley Wood Ben Templesmith Kurt Busiek Stephen Jewell and Tim Byrd.
Travis Wyrick.  Travis Wyrick is a music producer and owner of Lakeside Studios in Knoxville Tennessee. He is particularly known for his work with bands such as P.O.D. Pillar 10 Years Nine Lashes and Disciple and artists such as TobyMac and Dolly Parton. Throughout his career he has produced over 20 No. 1 radio singles. Prior to becoming a producer Wyrick was lead guitarist with the band Sage.
John Sheridan (jazz).  John Sheridan (born January 20 1946) is an American jazz pianist and arranger born in Columbus Ohio perhaps best known for his work with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band.
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier.  Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon (November 1664 – February 24 1734) was an aristocratic French writer and salonnière of the late 17th century and a niece of Charles Perrault.She published three fairy tales early in her career. Although she wrote few thereafter she marked the beginning of the fairy tale vogue among the Précieuses publishing her first tale a year before her uncle the famed author of Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye (Tales of Mother Goose) in 1696.
Charles Frazier.  Charles Frazier (born November 4 1950) is an American historical novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain.
Craig Shoemaker.  Craig Shoemaker (born November 15 1958) is an American comedian writer and voice actor. He is best known for his baritone voiced character The Lovemaster which he routinely portrays in his comedy act. In 1997 he was named Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic at the American Comedy Awards.
Theo Glinz.  Theo Glinz (1890–1962) was a Swiss painter.Glinz was born on September 6 1890 in Lenzburg Switzerland. His father was an art teacher in the local school district. He moved to eastern Switzerland in 1915; in 1927 he relocated to Horn.
Max Lohde.  Max Lohde (February 13 1845 – December 18 1868) was a German painter known for his sgraffito work.Born in Berlin to Ludwig Lohde an architect Lohde studied under Julius Schnorr in Dresden and Peter von Cornelius in Berlin then at the Akademie der Künste where he won a prize in 1866.
Melvin Sia.  Melvin Sia (born June 17 1979) is a Malaysian Chinese actor model and singer. He won the Best Actor Award at the inaugural Golden Awards for his role in Romantic Delicacies. He also won Most Popular Actor in Viewers' Choice category in the same award.
Eugene Jolas.  John George Eugène Jolas (October 26 1894 – May 26 1952) was a writer translator and literary critic.
Faith Page.  Faith Page is an American singer songwriter and musician who is best known for her 1992 song Morning In Seattle.
Gustav Hollaender.  Gustav Hollaender (15 February 1855 in Leobschütz – 4 December 1915 in Berlin) was a German violinist conductor and composer. He composer many violin works including violin concerti. He was uncle of the more famous film composer Friedrich Hollaender.(See Great Jews in Music by Darryl Lyman).
Bradley Quinn.  Bradley Quinn (born 1976) is a commercial photographer based in Holywood Northern Ireland. He is the principal photographer of Northern Irish bands Snow Patrol and Cashier No. 9. He is younger brother to Jonny Quinn the drummer for Snow Patrol. He worked under photographer Ashley Morrison before starting his own business Bradley Quinn Photography in 2005. He does commercial wedding and music photography and uses Nikon D3 and D700 cameras for his work.
Daniel Peixoto.  Daniel Peixoto (/peɪˈʃoʊtoʊ/ pay-SHOH-toh born in January 5 1986) is a Brazilian singer and performer of pop electronica and Brazilian popular music.
Daisy Cakes.  Daisy Cakes is a Chinese actress model and presenter. She is best known for portraying Mei-Xue in the Chinese 2014 adventure film Balala the Fairies: The Magic Trial. On TV she is known for presenting a regular feature on the Hunan Broadcasting System show Playing Tricks (玩名堂) broadcast nationally on the Aniworld Satellite TV channel. Daisy has also modeled for large brands such as ANTA Sports.
Arthur Evans (author).  For other persons named Arthur Evans see Arthur Evans (disambiguation).Arthur Scott Evans (October 12 1942 York Pennsylvania – September 11 2011 San Francisco California) was an early gay rights advocate and author most well known for his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture.
Janez Ramoveš.  Janez Ramoveš (born 21 September 1965) is a Slovene poet and musician. In 2012 he received the Jenko Award for his collection of poetry written in the Poljane dialect Skuz okn strejlam kurente (I Shoot at Kurents Through the Window).
Pino Daniele.  Pino Daniele (born 19 March 1955) is an Italian singer composer and musician whose influences cover a wide number of genres fusing pop blues jazz Italian and Middle eastern music into his own unique brand of world music.
Merle Haggard.  Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6 1937) is an American country and Western song writer singer guitarist fiddler and instrumentalist.
Jeff Chance.  Jeffrey Barosh Sr. (born December 13 1954 in El Campo Texas; died December 12 2008) was an American country music singer known professionally as Jeff Chance. He was initially a member of the five-piece band Chance which recorded one album for Curb(?). As a solo artist he recorded two albums Picture on the Wall 1991 and Walk Softly on Bridges 1992 for Mercury Records Nashville and charted five country singles in the mid-1980s. The second album included backing vocals from Shania Twain.
Ross Hannaford.  Ross Andrew Hannaford (born 1 December 1950) is an Australian musician. He is often referred to by his nickname Hanna. Widely regarded as one of the country's finest rock guitarists he is best known for his long collaboration with singer-songwriter Ross Wilson which began as teenagers and with whom he formed the seminal early '70s Australian rock band Daddy Cool.
Tang Yuemei.  Tang Yuemei (Chinese: 唐月梅; pinyin: Táng Yuèmeí; born 1931) is a Chinese translator of Chinese Vietnamese ethnicity. Tang was a visiting professor at Yokohama City University.She is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Japanese novelists Yukio Mishima and Takiji Kobayashi.
Guitar Shorty.  Guitar Shorty (born David William Kearney September 8 1939 Houston Texas United States) is an American blues guitarist. He is well known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Billboard magazine said “his galvanizing guitar work defines modern top-of-the-line blues-rock. His vocals remain as forceful as ever. Righteous shuffles...blistering sinuous guitar solos.”
Jean Blewett.  Jean McKishnie Blewett (4 November 1862 – 19 August 1934) was a Canadian journalist author and poet.Blewett was born Janet McKinshie in Scotia Kent County Ontario in 1862 to Scottish immigrants (some sources say 1872). She attended St. Thomas Collegiate and in 1879 married Bassett Blewett and published her first novel Out of the Depths.
Cory Lerios.  Cory Lerios is an American pianist and vocalist noted for his fast and flowing style of playing. He is one of the founding members of the platinum-record selling rock and roll band Pablo Cruise and for the past 30 years has scored music for film and television.
Connor Fogel.  Connor Henrýk Fogel (born 25 June 1994) is a British pianist singer and composer. Fogel is the founder and former conductor of Redfields Community Choir which he formed in 2010. He has raised money for various charities through his music concerts and for his fundraising work Fogel won a Princess Diana Award in 2011 and the High Sheriff of Mid Glamorgan award in 2012.Fogel wrote and featured in the rock opera Triptych which was performed in July 2012.
Janet Panic.  Janet Panic (/ˈpænɨk/ PAN-ik; born June 17 1970 in Brockville Ontario) is a Métis singer guitarist and songwriter. She has released a number of albums of original music as a member of the band Phew (1994-1995) 10 Ft. Henry (1996-1997) and under her own name. Panic is best known for the 10 Ft.
Chris Ballew.  Christopher Chris Ballew (born May 28 1965) is a member of the alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America and performs as a children's artist under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants.Ballew grew up in Seattle and attended middle and high school at The Bush School where he met David Dederer with whom he would form The Presidents of the United States of America many years later.
A. S. Baylinson.  Abraham Solomon Baylinson (6 January 1882 – May 1950) was a Russian-American painter who was active in the early modernist movement.
Randy Stonehill.  Randall Evan Randy Stonehill (born March 12 1952) is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton California best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music. His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor but some of his albums have focused on new wave pop rock roots rock and children's music.
Vlasta Průchová.  Vlasta Průchová (12 July 1926 Ružomberok – 16 June 2006 Prague) was a Czech jazz singer. Since the second half of 1940s she gradually built up her leading role on the Czech jazz scene. Průchová is the mother of renowned Czech-American pianist and composer Jan Hammer.
Eartha (musician).  Eartha born Eartha Moore in Los Angeles California is an American female eclectic alternative soul singer songwriter and musician. The 5’11” sultry raspy-voice contralto who sports a honey-blonde buzz cut has garnered much attention in the underground club urban and indie circles.
Martyn Joseph.  Martyn Joseph (born July 15 1960 in Penarth Wales) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose music exhibits primarily a brand of Celtic and folk while his songwriting is often focused on social lament or protest. From independently releasing his first studio release I'm Only Beginning in 1983 to his latest 2012 album Songs For The Coming Home Joseph's career has spanned twenty-nine years and three different labels – Sony Grapevine and his own Pipe Records.
Erik Tandberg (space educator).  Erik Tandberg born October 19 1932 is a Norwegian engineer author television personality and space educator. He was born in Oslo Norway. He was a master of science from Stanford University 1959.
Mark Cross (musician).  Mark Cross (born 2 August 1965 London) is a hard rock and heavy metal drummer. He was born to an English father and German mother raised in Germany the UK and Greece. Cross has played in many bands in his career and is based in London England. He grew up in three countries and speaks fluent English German Greek and some French.
Anne Shelton (singer).  Anne Shelton OBE (10 November 1923 – 31 July 1994) was a popular English vocalist who is remembered for providing inspirational songs for soldiers both on radio broadcasts and in person at British military bases during the Second World War. Shelton was also the original singer in the United Kingdom of the song Lili Marlene.
Lynval Golding.  Lynval Golding (born 24 July 1951 in Saint Catherine Jamaica) is a British musician. His family moved from Jamaica to Gloucester before moving to Coventry when he was eighteen. He is best known as a rhythm guitarist and vocalist with the British 2 Tone Records band The Specials.He went on to co-found the Fun Boy Three with Terry Hall and Neville Staple.
The Scumfrog.  The Scumfrog (Jesse Houk) (born October 3 1971) is a Dutch-American DJ/remixer/producer/artist mostly known for his underground flavored remixes of artists like Kylie Minogue Missy Elliott New Order and Annie Lennox and his collaborations writing/producing techno oriented works with David Bowie Cyndi Lauper and Sting (musician).
Henri Thomas.  Henri Thomas (December 7 1912 Anglemont Vosges – November 3 1993 Paris) was a French writer and poet.
Khaled Mattawa.  Khaled Mattawa (born 1964)is a Libyan poet and a renowned Arab-American writer he is also a leading literary translator focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA where he currently lives and writes.
Nikolai Kinski.  Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski (born July 30 1976) is a French-American film actor who has also done work in television and on stage. He was born in Paris France and grew up in California. Currently residing in Berlin Germany he has acted primarily in American and German films and speaks English German and French. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and France.He is the son of the German actor Klaus Kinski and his third wife Minhoi Geneviève Loanic.
Doug Davis (businessman).  Doug Davis (born March 6 1974) is an American music industry executive Entertainment Lawyer Sports Agent Philanthropist and Entrepreneur.Davis is the son of legendary record mogul Clive Davis.
Laetitia Sonami.  Laetitia Sonami (born 1957 France) is a sound artist performer and composer of interactive electronic music who has been based in the San Francisco Bay area since 1978. She is known for her electronic compositions and performances with the ‘’Lady’s Glove’’ an instrument she developed for triggering and manipulating sound in live performance. Many of her compositions include live or sampled text.
Scott Von Doviak.  Scott Von Doviak (born 1967) is the film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Piero Manzoni.  Piero Manzoni (July 13 1933 – February 6 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein his own work anticipated and directly influenced the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa 1967.
Gabbie Nolen.  Gabbie Nolen (born July 7 1982 in La Grange Texas) is an American country music singer/songwriter. Nolen was signed by Republic/Universal Records in November 2001 after successfully recording and releasing several independent singles including Wait a Minute written by songwriting icons Rodney Crowell and Hank Devito. Her first single for the label Almost There was released in March 2002.
Alexander Turgenev.  Alexander Ivanovich Turgenev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Турге́нев; (27 March [7 April] 1784 Simbirsk - 3 [15] December 1846 Moscow) was a Russian statesman and historian.
Alexey Titarenko.  Alexey Viktorovich Titarenko (Russian: Алексей Викторович Титаренко; born 1962 in Leningrad USSR now Saint Petersburg Russia) is a Russian photographer and artist.
Lorn (musician).  Marcos Ortega better known by his stage name Lorn is an American electronic musician.Lorn is from either Milwaukee Wisconsin or central Illinois. He received early exposure as a DJ due to his remix of grime musician Jammer's track Better Than. Lorn signed with Flying Lotus's label Brainfeeder in 2009 and released his debut album Nothing Else in June 2010. He released his second album Ask The Dust on Ninja Tune in 2012.
Emilia Pardo Bazán.  Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Galician (Spanish) author and scholar from Galicia.
No Game.  No Game is a popular band from Curaçao. The group exist of several vocalists including Reinier Lijfrock who has been crowned to Tumba-king and drummers.
Bob Guccione.  Bob Guccione (pronounced goo-chee-OAN-eh December 17 1930 – October 20 2010) was the founder and publisher of the adult magazine Penthouse until his resignation in November 2003.
István Cserháti.  István Cserháti (August 29 1954-August 21 2005) was a Hungarian hard rock keyboardist who played for two bands: P. Mobil (1977–1980) and P. Box (1980–1986; 2001–2005).In 1977 he was discovered by the P. Mobil members on a Napsugár-concert and was brought to play in the band. In 1978 they recorded a live album which should have been the first P. Mobil release but it was released only in the spring of 1999. In 1980 he departed alongside with Sándor Bencsik and formed P.
Esperanza Spalding.  Esperanza Spalding (born October 18 1984) is an American jazz bassist cellist and singer who draws upon many genres in her own compositions.She has won four Grammy Awards including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards making her the first jazz artist to win the award.
Ukigumo (musician).  Ryosuke Nagaoka (長岡 亮介 Nagaoka Ryosuke born October 7 1978) better known by his stage name Ukigumo (浮雲 The Drifting Cloud) is a Japanese guitarist and songwriter best known for his work in Ringo Shiina's band Tokyo Jihen. He is also the singer and guitar player for Petrolz.
Nanami Sano.  Nanami Sano (佐野 奈波 Sano Nanami born 22 August 1979 in Chiba Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Gretchen Phillips.  Gretchen Phillips (born 1963) is an American singer-songwriter known for her humorous and topical songs. Phillips has been openly gay throughout her life and her lesbianism has inspired much of her material.
Mick Anglo.  Michael Mick Anglo (born Maurice Anglowitz 19 June 1916 – 31 October 2011) was a British comic book writer editor and artist as well as an author. He is best known for creating the superhero Marvelman later known as Miracleman.
Glen Angus.  Glen Michael Angus was a Canadian artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games and video games.
Beverly Buchanan.  Beverly Buchanan (b. October 8 1940 Fuquay North Carolina) is an African American artist. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art. Buchanan was born in Fuquay North Carolina but grew up in Orangeburg South Carolina where her father was dean of the School of Agriculture at South Carolina State College which was then the only state school for African Americans in South Carolina.
Werner Heldt.  Werner Heldt (1904–54) was a German painter.
Satyam Sankaramanchi.  Satyam Sankaramanchi (3 March 1937 – 1987) is a storyteller who was born in the tiny village of Amaravati near Guntur City in Andhra Pradesh India. He started telling all of his stories by weaving a whole new world around this tiny village Amaravati.
Harry Martinson.  Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish author poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson.
Paul Murray (author).  Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Skippy Dies.
Iwan Griffiths.  Iwan Griffiths is drummer for Welsh rock band The Automatic Iwan originates from Cowbridge in Wales and currently lives in Cardiff where he is studying Law.
Ron François.  Ron François was initially a member of the English R&B band The Strutters before joining the Lene Lovich band to record her top 3 UK hit Lucky Number and her debut album Stateless. After the Be Stiff Route 78 Tour of 1978 he left to become a founder member of The Sinceros (1978–1981). They made two albums for Epic Records The Sound of Sunbathing and Pet Rock before their demise in 1981.
Mani Martin.  Mani Martin born Maniraruta Martin is a Rwandan actor and Afrobeat gospel pop music and R&B singer and songwriter. He was described by a reviewer for The Rwanda Spectrum Magazine as one of Rwanda’s strongest live performing acts. His music reflects a blend of Afro-soul and traditional Rwandan music and features lyrics in Kinyarwanda Kiswahili English and French.
Miguel Betancourt.  Miguel Betancourt (born January 5 1958) is an Ecuadorian contemporary artist living in Quito Ecuador. He was formed as an artist in Ecuador the United States and the United Kingdom. His paintings are a fusion of local cultural motives and colors and Western artistic influence.
Allegra Huston.  Allegra Huston (born 26 August 1964) is an English-American writer and editor.
Takuya Eguchi.  Takuya Eguchi (江口 拓也 Eguchi Takuya born May 22 1987) is a Japanese voice actor from Ibaraki Prefecture Japan and affiliated with 81 Produce.
Giovanni Carlo Aliberti.  Gian Carlo Aliberti (also Giancarlo and Giovanni Carlo; 1 March 1662–1740) was born in Canelli near Asti in north-west Italy studied in Rome and became a prolific Piedmontese painter of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Many of his frescos painted in the rococo manner have been lost along with the churches for which they were made. Two from Sant’Anastasio Asti (demolished in 1907) are conserved in the town’s art gallery in Palazzo Bellino: Tobia e l’Angelo and Il Paralitico.
Ali Liebegott.  Ali Liebegott (born August 8 1971) is an award-winning American author poet and teacher. She has taught creative writing at University of California San Diego and Mills College. She currently lives in San Francisco. Liebegott is a recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. As of 2013 she has written three books: The Beautifully Worthless; The IHOP Papers; and Cha-Ching.
David Emanuel (fashion designer).  David Emanuel (born 17 November 1952) is a Welsh fashion designer who is best known for having designed (along with his then wife Elizabeth Emanuel) the wedding dress worn by Diana Princess of Wales in 1981.He recently participated in the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and came runner-up to singer Kian Egan.
Frank N. Wilcox.  Frank Nelson Wilcox (1887–1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the Dean of Cleveland School painters though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald.
Mike Jones (rapper).  Michael Mike Jones (born January 6 1981) is an American rapper. He initially was affiliated with the record label Swishahouse then left to be the owner of his own label Ice Age Entertainment. Before he was on Swishahouse he was in a group called Souf Folk and his alias was Sache. He has released one album with Souf Folk called Country Thuggin in 2003.
Basil Wells.  Basil Eugene Wells (1912–2003) was an American writer. His first published story Rebirth of Man appeared in the magazine Super Science Stories in 1940. He wrote science fiction fantasy western and detective stories for various magazines sometimes under the name Gene Ellerman. Two collections of his stories Planets of Adventure and Doorways to Space were published by Fantasy Publishing Company Inc.
Arnold Alfred Schmidt.  Arnold Alfred Schmidt born in 1930 in Plainfield New Jersey lived most of his life in New York City. He graduated with an MA from New York's Cooper Union and worked for years as an Art Director at the Gusso-Hyman Advertising agency on such accounts as Jonathan Logan and Misty Harbor fashions. He later became a Commercial Art teacher at New Jersey's Kearny High School.
Samuel A. Schreiner Jr..  Samuel Agnew Schreiner Jr. is an American writer.Born June 6 1921 in Mt. Lebanon a suburb of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania he graduated from Princeton University in 1942. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services as a cryptographer from 1942–5.
Jeff Foust.  Dr Jeff Foust is an aerospace analyst journalist and publisher. A senior aerospace analyst with the Futron Corporation in Bethesda Maryland he is the editor and publisher of The Space Review and has written for Astronomy Now and The New Atlantis. In addition he is the writer of the blog Space Politics.He has a bachelor's degree in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John Gosling.  John Gosling (born 6 February 1948 Paignton Devon England) is an English classically trained organist and pianist.Gosling joined The Kinks in 1970. He later formed a production company with Dave Davies at Konk Records for which they produced three albums. Gosling left with replacement bassist Andy Pyle in 1978 to form his own band Network who recorded an (unreleased) album for Phonogram.
Vincent Michael Brown.  Vincent Michael Brown (3 December 1971) is an English artist and portrait painter.
Adrian von Ziegler.  Adrian von Ziegler is a composer who lives in Zürich Switzerland. He gained popularity on the video-sharing website YouTube. In January 2014 his YouTube channel acquired over 200000 subscribers. Adrian composes various vocal and non-vocal melodies.
Samuel Jackson (artist).  Samuel Jackson (31 December 1794 – 8 December 1869) was an English watercolourist and oil painter who has been called the father of the Bristol School of artists. He also contributed a number of drawings of scenes from Bristol England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge. The Braikenridge Collection makes Bristol's early 19th century appearance one of the best documented of any English city.Jackson was born on 31 December 1794 in Bristol.
Gregg Fienberg.  Gregg Fienberg is an American television producer and director. He worked on the Western drama Deadwood in both capacities and received a Directors Guild of America Award and two Emmy Award nominations for the series. He was an Emmy nominated producer for the mystery series Twin Peaks. He is currently the executive producer and unit production manager for the HBO series True Blood.
Bente Engesland.  Bente Engesland (born 5 April 1962) is a Norwegian magazine editor.She was the editor-in-chief of Kvinner og Klær from 2005 to 2008. She started her career working part-time in the Norwegian News Agency in 1983 and was a journalist in Aftenposten from 1985 to 1997. She graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.polit. in 1989. She worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1997 to 2004 and as a consultant in Burston-Marsteller from 2004 to 2005.
James Merrill.  James Ingram Merrill (March 3 1926 – February 6 1995) was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for Divine Comedies (1976). His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels titled The Changing Light at Sandover (published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980) which dominated his later career.
Martin Kuuskmann.  Martin Kuuskmann is an Estonian bassoon player.
Dave Weiner.  Dave Weiner (full name David Jason Weiner born on September 24 1976) is an American guitarist most widely known for being one of Steve Vai's touring guitarists. He also posts instructional videos called the Riff of the Week every Wednesday on YouTube iTunes and his own website. He also gives online lessons.
Bill Priddle.  Bill Priddle is a Canadian indie rock musician currently working as co-lead vocalist and guitarist in the band Treble Charger. He has also been a member of Broken Social Scene Don Vail and The Priddle Concern.Priddle released an album 6 May 2008 under the name The Priddle Concern.
Charlie Parr.  Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician born in Austin Minnesota United States. He started his music career in Duluth Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton Bukka White Reverend Gary Davis Dave Van Ronk and Mississippi John Hurt. He plays a National resonator guitar a fretless open-back banjo and a 12-string guitar often in the Piedmont blues style.
Cyril McLaglen.  Cyril McLaglen (1899–1987) was a British actor who appeared in a variety of films between 1920 and 1951. He was born in London in 1899 and made his film debut in the 1920 film The Call of the Road. He was the younger brother of the actor Victor McLaglen.
Bonaventura Cerronio.  Bonaventura Cerronio (fl. 1639) was an Italian composer. Little is known of his life.
Sarah Balabagan.  Sarah Balabagan (born August 16 1979) (her family name is phonetically pronounced as Ba-la-BAH-gan) was a Filipina prisoner in the United Arab Emirates during 1994–1996 whose case caused a good deal of controversy. Her story was made into a controversial film in 1997.
François Clouet.  François Clouet (c. 1510 – 22 December 1572) son of Jean Clouet was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family.
Mark T. Williams.  Mark Thomas Williams (born August 19 1963) is an educator author and risk management analyst. He is a faculty member in the Finance and Economics Department at Boston University where he teaches finance.
Eleanor Catton.  Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel The Luminaries won the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
Henry Kreisel.  Henry Kreisel OC (June 5 1922 – April 22 1991) was a Canadian writer. Born in Vienna Austria he relocated to Britain with his family just before the Second World War and was declared an enemy alien like many other German-speaking refugees. He was relocated by British officials to Canada on a farm in New Brunswick where he lived from 1940 to 1941[1]. It was there he began a career in writing deciding to write in English and modelling himself after bilingual author Joseph Conrad.
Brittani Senser.  Brittani Senser (born April 11 1984) is an American Pop and R&B artist. She is from Minneapolis Minnesota. She released her debut album After Love in July 2009.
Vadim Delaunay.  Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay (Russian: Вади́м Никола́евич Делоне́ IPA: [vɐˈdʲim nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪt͡ɕ dʲɪlɐˈnʲe] ; 1947–1983) was a Russian poet and dissident who participated in the 1968 Red Square demonstration of protest against military suppression of the Prague Spring.
Constance Villiers-Stuart.  C.M. Villiers-Stuart (1877-1966) was an English author and water-colour painter. She married Patrick Villiers-Stuart in 1908 and moved to India allowing her to collect material for her pioneering book Gardens of the Great Mughals which launched the historical study of Mughal Gardens. Chapter XII on 'Some garden contrasts and a dream' urges respect for Indian design traditions. The 'dream' in the chapter title concerns the design of New Delhi.
Philip Steele.  Philip Nicholas Steele (born 17 May 1948) is an author chiefly of children's non-fiction. Steele was born in Dorking Surrey England. He attended Felsted School and University College Durham graduating in Modern Languages in 1971. In the 1970s he worked as an editor for various book publishers in London including Hodder and Hamlyn. In 1980 he moved to the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales where he now lives.
Anthony Cronin.  Anthony Cronin (born 1928 in Enniscorthy County Wexford) is an Irish poet novelist biographer critic commentator and arts activist. He received the Marten Toonder Award (1983) for his contribution to Irish literature.He is a founding member of Aosdána was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2003 and is a member of its governing body the Toscaireacht. From 1966-68 he was a visiting lecturer University of Montana and from 1968–70 Poet in Residence at Drake University.
Avraam Russo.  Avraam Russo (Russian: Авраам Руссо; born as Apraham Ipjian on July 21 1969 in Aleppo Syria) is a Syrian-born Russian pop singer of Armenian origin. In 2006 he suffered an assassination attempt in Russia and was severely injured. He recovered and is living in New York City.Russo is an international artist who has recorded songs in a number of languages.
Bobby Clark (tenor).  Bobby Clark was the tenor vocalist with the Cathedral Quartet from 1963 through 1967.He was also a member of the Dixie Echoes Deep South Quartet The Weatherfords The Oak Ridge Quartet The Rangers & The Men of Music. He appeared with the Rex Humbard National Television Ministry for 8 years from the Cathedral of Tomorrow Church in Akron Ohio. Bobby Clark recorded many long-play albums and CD's of Gospel Music.
Vishwas Mudagal.  Vishwas Mudagal (born 1981) is an Indian author and entrepreneur. Losing My Religion is his debut novel.
Lisa Origliasso.  Lisa Marie Origliasso (/ʊərɪɡˈlɑːsoʊ/ oor-ig-LAH-soh;) (born 25 December 1984) is an Australian singer-songwriter actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Albany Creek Queensland she alongside twin sister Jessica Origliasso performed in show business at a young age. Origliasso rose to fame in the 2000s when she and her sister formed the rock duo The Veronicas.Prior to The Veronicas Origliasso had a small career in acting.
Pedro Azabache Bustamante.  Pedro Azabache Bustamante (Moche (Peru) January 31 1918 - February 27 2012) was a Peruvian painter pupil of Julia Codesido and Jose Sabogal and was one of the few direct followers of indigenismo. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima where he joined in 1937. In June 1944 he presented his first solo show in the exclusive exposition rooms of the cultural institution Insula at the invitation of the poet José Gálvez Barrenechea.
Emil Forselius.  Emil Forselius (23 November 1974 – 1 March 2010) was a Swedish actor. He graduated from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 2002. He was awarded a Guldbagge Award for his role as Lasse in the film Tic Tac.
Jerry Lee Lewis.  Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. He is known by the nickname The Killer and is often viewed as rock & roll's first great wild man. An early pioneer of rock and roll music in 1956 Lewis made his first recordings at Sun Records. Crazy Arms sold 300000 copies in the South but it was his 1957 hit Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On that shot Lewis to fame worldwide.
Jon Snodgrass (musician).  Jon Snodgrass is the guy with the glasses from Drag the River.He is also a member of the groups Armchair Martian and Scorpios as well as performing solo.He has also collaborated with many other musicians.
West Digges.  West Digges (1720–1786) was an English actor who made his first stage appearance in Dublin in 1749 as Jaffier in Venice Preserv'd; and both there and in Edinburgh until 1764 he acted in many tragic roles with success. He was the original young Norval in John Home's Douglas (1756). His first London appearance was as Cato at the Haymarket Theatre in 1777 and he afterwards played King Lear Macbeth Shylock and Wolsey.
Arlington Valles.  Born as Fred Valles this Hollywood costume designer took the more grandiose name Arlington Valles (1886 - 1970) as his professional handle eventually jettisoning the Arlington part completely. He first provided costumes for the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. He did noticeably good work on National Velvet (1944) Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) The Yearling (1946) and That Forsyte Woman (1949 for which he received an Academy Award nomination).
Davy Henderson.  David Henderson (born c.1962) better known as Davy Henderson is a Scottish singer and guitarist whose career began in the 1970s. He is best known for his work with The Fire Engines Win The Nectarine No. 9 and more recently The Sexual Objects.
Akinyele (rapper).  Akinyele Adams better known by the mononym Akinyele (pronounced /ah-kin-yea-LAY/) is an American MC who recorded in the 1990s and early 2000s known for his sexually explicit lyrics including his 1996 underground radio hit Put it in Your Mouth. He also made an appearance on Live at the Barbeque off Main Source's 1991 album Breaking Atoms alongside Nas Joe Fatal and Large Professor.
Alio Die.  Alio Die (Stefano Musso) is an Italian organic ambient composer and producer. Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in Milan Italy and began performing music in 1989.
Rita (Japanese singer).  Rita (理多 born March 25) is a Japanese voice actress singer and lyricist from Osaka Japan. The majority of her work is dealt with adult visual novels. She was also the singer for all the vocal music in Key's visual novel Little Busters![citation needed] as well as Liar-soft's Steampunk series.
James Burton.  James Burton (born August 21 1939 in Dubberly Louisiana) is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 (his induction speech was given by longtime fan Keith Richards) Burton has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. Critic Mark Demming writes that Burton has a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest guitar pickers in either country or rock ...
Te Uruhina McGarvey-Tiakiwai.  Te Uruhina McGarvey-Tiakiwai (born 27 September 1927) is a prominent Māori kuia.
Paul McCobb.  Paul McCobb (June 5 1917 – March 10 1969) was a modern furniture and industrial designer. McCobb was born in Medford Massachusetts to Raymond and Winifred McCobb. Both his father and mother were born in Massachusetts although neither family originated there. His father's family being from Maine and his mother's family from Ireland.
Brad Robinson.  Bradford Leigh Brad Robinson (1958 – 13 October 1996) was a rock musician best known as lead and rhythm guitarist with the 1980s band Australian Crawl. Robinson had a later career as a manager for musicians and sports personalities. In 1993 Robinson was diagnosed with lymphoma and in October 1996 when Australian Crawl were inducted into the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame he was hospitalised with the disease and unable to attend.
Wilson Coleman.  Wilson Coleman was a British actor born in 1875. Years active: 1891 to 1940.He started his stage career in 1891 playing juvenile and heavy parts. He worked with Barry Jackson for five years. He toured both North and South America as well as South Africa. His hobbies were anything mechanical electrical and optical giving him the knowledge to invent his own camera for taking moving pictures. This led to him being in the photographic section of the RFC in World War I.
Jose Molina (writer).  Jose Molina born in 1971 in San Juan Puerto Rico is a screenwriter. He wrote the episodes Trash and Ariel for the American cult TV show Firefly and multiple episodes for Dark Angel. Molina attended Yale University where he successfully applied for a student internship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by submitting a spec script for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Byrd Baylor.  Byrd Baylor Schweitzer (born 1924) is an American author of picture books for children. Four of her books have achieved Caldecott Honor status.
Sean Anthony (rapper).  Sean Anthony Shepard known as MC Sean Anthony (Detroit 10 February 1982) is an American rapper songwriter producer and screenwriter.MC Sean Anthony taught himself audio production at a young age and operated his church sound room when he was brought to fellow church member and gospel recording artist Fred Hammond to refine his engineering skills. MC Sean Anthony started producing music and writing songs while attending college and in 2006 his demo work was presented to Mike Winans Jr.
Frances Moffett.  Frances Moffett Irish teacher and writer 1900-after 1984.Moffett was born on Dunlo Street Ballinasloe one of five children born to a Ms. Dodd and Doctor Moffett a Veterinarian. Her autobiography I Also Am of Ireland was an account of the first twenty-four years of her life which were spent almost entirely in County Galway. It contains vivid accounts of the effects of World War One the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War on her family friends and neighbours.
Dennis Danell.  Dennis Eric Danell (June 24 1961 – February 29 2000) was the founding guitarist for the Southern California punk rock band Social Distortion.Danell formed Social Distortion in 1979 with frontman Mike Ness while attending high school together.
Keb' Mo'.  Keb' Mo' (born Kevin Moore October 3 1951) is a three-time American Grammy Award-winning blues musician. He is a singer guitarist and songwriter currently living in Nashville Tennessee with his wife Robbie Brooks Moore. He has been described as a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America. His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres including folk rock jazz and pop.
Dave Roman.  Dave Roman is a writer and artist of webcomics and comics.
Jeremy Jordan (singer).  Jeremy Jordan is an American actor and singer.
Henry Lejeune.  Henry Le Jeune A.R.A. (12 December 1819 – 5 October 1904) was an English painter of landscapes genre literary and biblical scenes. He became well known for his genre paintings of children.
Stan Cornyn.  Stan Cornyn (born July 8 1933) is an American record label executive and the author of Exploding: The Highs Hits Hype Heroes and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group (ISBN 978-0380978526). He also has written three privately published family genealogy books (all in the Library of Congress).
Gilbert Banester.  Gilbert Banester (c. 1445 – 1487) was an English composer. Possibly a native of London he was Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal beginning in 1478. His works are found in a number of Tudor manuscript collections of church music including the Pepys Manuscript; there is also an antiphon by his hand in the Eton Choirbook. Stylistically the work is similar to those of William Horwood in the same book but is unusual in that it is written to a prose text.
Daniel Defoe.  Daniel Defoe (/ˌdænjəl dɨˈfoʊ/; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731)born Daniel Foe was an English trader writer journalist pamphleteer and spy now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Samuel Richardson is among the founders of the English novel.
Fred Sandback.  Fred Sandback (August 29 1943 – June 23 2003) was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures drawings and prints. His estate is represented by David Zwirner New York.
Jan van Beers (artist).  Jean Marie Constantin Joseph Jan van Beers (27 March 1852 – 17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator the son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger. In 1884 Van Beers produced the pen-and-ink sketches for the edition de luxe of his father's poetry.
Harbhajan Mann.  Harbhajan Mann is a noted Punjabi singer actor and film producer who is known for his acting in Punjabi cinema. His movies include Jee Aayan Nu Asa Nu Mann Watna Da Heer Ranjha and Jag Jeondeyan De Mele.He was born on 30 December 1965 in village- ‘Khemuana’ (Bathinda).
Charles Soule.  Charles Soule is a comic book author musician and attorney known for his series 27 published by Image Comics.Soule attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his undergraduate degree in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies with a concentration in Chinese language and history.
Terry Mosher.  Christopher Terry Mosher OC (born 11 November 1942) is a Canadian political cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette. He draws under the name Aislin a rendition of the name of his eldest daughter Aislinn (without the second 'n').
Don O'Neill (fashion designer).  Don O'Neill (born 1966) is an Irish fashion designer. He was born in the seaside village of Ballyheigue County Kerry Ireland. Initially training as a chef O’Neill was able to study to be a fashion designer his true passion after winning a full tuition scholarship to the Barbara Bourke College of Fashion Design.
Frank Vickery.  Frank Vickery (born 1951) is a Welsh playwright.He was born at Blaencwm village near Treorchy in the Rhondda South Wales.He has written plays for both stage and radio including Family planning All's fair and Errogenous Zones.
Cristo Barrios.  Cristo Barrios (born 30 May 1976 in Tenerife Spain) is a Spanish clarinetist soloist and chamber musician.
Mickey He.  Mickey He Shengming (born He Min on July 9 1976) is a Chinese actor and singer. Born in Xiantao Hubei He moved to Guangzhou Guangdong in the early 1990s to pursue a music career. Along with Peng Liang and Yang Guang they formed the boy band China Power in 1996 with He as their main vocalist.
Michael Angelo Batio.  Michael Angelo Batio (/ˈbeɪti.oʊ/; born February 23 1956) also known as Mike Batio or MAB is an American instrumental rock guitarist and columnist from Chicago Illinois. He was the lead guitarist for the Los Angeles-based glam metal band Nitro in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Batio's work has encompassed many genres but he is best known for playing heavy metal and its subgenres such as neo-classical metal and hard rock.
Félix Pérez Cardozo.  Félix Pérez Cardozo (20 November 1908 – 8 April 1973) was a Paraguayan musician.Cardozo was born to Teodoro Pérez and Cándida Rosa Cardozo in the small town of Hyaty in the state of Guairá. This town currently carries his name. Pérez Cardozo died on April 8 1973 in Buenos Aires Argentina.
Alex Campos.  Édgar Alexánder Campos Mora (born September 10 1976) better known as Alex Campos is a Colombian Ecumenical singer that is popular in Latin America and in Spanish speaking countries. Campos was born in Bogota where he founded his musical company Misión Vida to promote his ministry in 2001. He has been nominated for a Latin Grammy Premios Shock GMA Dove Awards and Premios ARPA.
Robert Brian.  Robert Brian (born July 1 1970) from Corsham Wiltshire UK is a professional jazz and rock drummer and session musician most notably for Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Yana Toboso.  Yana Toboso (枢 やな Toboso Yana born January 24 1984) is a female Japanese manga artist born in Warabi Saitama Prefecture Japan and currently resides in Yokohama.
Lillian Faderman.  Lillian Faderman (born July 18 1940) is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards.
Ben Varon.  Ben Varon (born 18 November 1983) is a Finnish guitarist and music maker. He is known as a guitarist of the Finnish metal band Amoral and he is one of its founders.
Bharat Vyas.  Bharat Vyas (1918–1982) was a noted Indian lyricist who wrote the songs for Hindi films in 1950s and 1960s.
Don Irving.  Don Irving (born Donald Jay Irving in 1946 in Pasadena California) is an American musician best known as a guitarist for rock band The Beau Brummels. He was a member of the band for their Beau Brummels '66 album and joined a revamped lineup for a 2002 concert tour.
Billy Parker (singer).  Billy Parker (born July 19 1939 in Okemah Oklahoma) is an American country music disc jockey and singer. Parker was named Disc Jockey of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1974 and by the Academy of Country Music in 1975 1977 1978 and 1984.
John Newman (singer).  John William Peter Newman (born 16 June 1990) is an English singer and musician. He is best known for the track Love Me Again which peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart in July 2013 as well as being a featured artist on Rudimental's 2012 singles Feel the Love and Not Giving In which peaked at number one and number fourteen on the chart respectively. He was one of the most successful and praised British singers in 2013.
Russell Potter.  Russell A. Potter is an American writer and college professor. His work encompasses hip hop culture popular music and the history of British exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. His books include Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (1995) and Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture 1818-1875 (2007) as well as a novel Pyg: The Memoirs of a Learned Pig (2011).
Gordon Korman.  Gordon Korman (born October 23 1963) is a Canadian American author who has written more than a dozen children's and young-adult fiction book series. He lives in Great Neck New York with his wife and three children.Korman wrote his first book unexpectedly when he was twelve years old. While attending German Mills Public School his 7th grade English teacher was Mr. Hamilton a track and field coach who found himself teaching English for the first time.
Andrew Robson.  Andrew Michael Robson OBE (born 1964) is an English professional bridge player writer and teacher. He is a British and English international. Robson is the bridge columnist for The Times and Country Life. Robson was a member of the Great Britain Juniors team which won the World Youth Team Championship in 1989 and of the Great Britain Open team which won the European Open Teams Championship in 1991.
Geoff Stephens.  Geoffrey 'Geoff' Stephens (born 1 October 1934 in New Southgate North London) is an English songwriter and record producer most prolific in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s.
Matt Joe Gow.  Matt Joe Gow (born in Auckland New Zealand) is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative band The Dead Leaves.
Lydia Kwa.  Lydia Kwa (born 1959 in Singapore) is a Canadian writer and psychologist.First coming to Canada in 1980 Kwa studied psychology at the University of Toronto and Queen's University. She published one short story and a volume of poetry in the 1990s but has concentrated primarily on novels since. In addition to her writing she continues to practice as a clinical therapist in Vancouver.
Chinami Nishimura.  Chinami Nishimura (西村 ちなみ Nishimura Chinami born November 18 1970) is a Japanese voice actress who has voiced characters in both the Japanese and English-dubbed versions of Pokémon. Nishimura was born in Chiba Prefecture. She is employed by 81 Produce.
Vassilis Steriadis.  Vassilis Steriadis (Greek: Βασίλης Στεριάδης) (b. Volos 1947 - d. Athens 2003) was a Greek poet and critic. He read Law at the University of Athens and Italian at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia Italy. He worked as a lawyer until 2002.From 1969 on he collaborated with many literary periodicals (Lotos Hroniko etc.) and from 1976 to 1984 he was writing critical articles and book reviews for the newspaper Kathimerini.
Chris Rest.  Chris Rest is an American guitarist best known for his work with the bands Rich Kids on LSD and Lagwagon. He was Rich Kids on LSD's only constant member having participated in every album and tour.
Daniel Davison.  Daniel Travis Davison (born January 28 1983) is an American drummer musician artist and filmmaker. He is best known for being a co-founder and former drummer of the band Norma Jean. Davison was the last active drummer of the Florida-based metalcore act Underoath before the band's breakup in 2013. He is also the founder of Isthmus Studios a filming company. Davison was born in Douglasville Georgia and currently resides in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Rıfat Ilgaz.  Rıfat Ilgaz (24 April 1911 – 7 July 1993) was a poet who was born in Cide Kastamonu Turkey. He was a teacher poet and writer. Ilgaz was one of Turkey’s best-known and most prolific poets and writers having authored over sixty works.
Sandro Magister.  Sandro Magister (1943-) is an Italian journalist who writes for the magazine L'espresso. He specializes in religious news in particular on the Catholic Church and the Vatican. He has written two books and has taught courses about political history of the Italian episcopate : “Italian Church: Vatican “Politics and Italy 1943-1978” and “Extraparliamentary Church: The Triumph of the Pulpit”. He also manages the website Chiesa on the topic of modern ecclesiastical affairs.
Bonnie Loo.  Bonnie Loo Mee Yee (Chinese: 罗美仪; pinyin: Luó Měiyí; born July 12 1994) is a Singapore-based Malaysian singer and MediaCorp artiste. She emerged from the foruth season of Campus SuperStar one of the Chinese singing competitions held in Singapore. She hails from Riverside Secondary School Singapore.
Gregory Colbert.  Gregory Colbert (born 1960 in Toronto) is a Canadian film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum. Colbert sees himself as an apprentice to nature. His works are collaborations between humans and other species that express the poetic sensibilities and imaginations of human and animals.
Jacob Bannon.  Jacob Bannon (born October 15 1976) is the vocalist lyricist and graphic artist for the American hardcore punk band Converge. He is also the founder and owner of the label Deathwish Inc. Additionally Bannon is a visual artist and has created many visual works for the independent music community.Bannon was also the founding member of Supermachiner who released one album entitled Rise of the Great Machine. He has also released solo recordings under the names J.
Daniel Keyes.  Daniel Keyes (born August 9 1927) is an American author who is well known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
Brian Eno.  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno RDI (/ˈiːnoʊ/; born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno) professionally known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno is an English musician composer record producer singer and visual artist known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College.
Imran Yusuf.  Imran Yusuf (born 26 November 1979) is a Kenyan-born British stand-up comedian of Indian descent. Yusuf came to notice following rave reviews and a Best Newcomer nomination for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010 and appearing on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow both in the summer of 2010.
Webb Pierce.  Webb Michael Pierce (August 8 1921 – February 24 1991) was one of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade.His biggest hit was In the Jailhouse Now which charted for 37 weeks in 1955 21 of them at number one.
Des Dillon.  Des Dillon is an internationally acclaimed award-winning writer. He was born in Coatbridge and studied English Literature at Strathclyde University before becoming a teacher. He was Writer-in-Residence at Castlemilk from 1998-2000. He is a poet short story writer novelist dramatist broadcaster screen writer and scriptwriter for TV stage and radio. His books have been published in the USA India Russia Sweden in Catalan French and Spanish.
Buddy Knox.  Buddy Wayne Knox (July 20 1933 - February 14 1999) was an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 rock hit song Party Doll.
Lorenzo Ghiberti.  Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]) (1378 – 1 December 1455) born Lorenzo di Bartolo was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.
Johann Karl Wezel.  Johann Karl Wezel (born October 31 1747 in Sondershausen Germany d. January 28 1819 in Sondershausen) also Johann Carl Wezel was a German poet novelist and philosopher of the Enlightenment.
Casey Hess.  Casey Hess (formerly of Doosu and Jump Rope Girls) is currently one of the guitarists for the American Rock band Burden Brothers based out of Dallas Texas.
Choy Weng Yang.  Choy Weng Yang (Chinese: 蔡荣恩; pinyin: Cài Róngēn) is a Singaporean artist curator and arts writer and a proponent of the art fraternity in post-independent Singapore.
Lau Wai Ming.  Lau Wai Ming is an accomplished Cantonese opera artist from Hong Kong specializing in the portrayal of romantic literary scholars and heroic warriors (文武生)
Anupam Amod.  Anupam Amod (Hindi: अनुपम अमोद) is an Indian playback singer.He is a pass out from SPA(School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi).
Gregg Russell.  Gregg Russell is a regionally known singer song writer and actor who regularly performs on Hilton Head Island South Carolina. He has shared the stage with such famous acts as Steve Martin The Beach Boys George Burns and Stephen Curtis Chapman. He has appeared at hundreds of college campuses thousands of major corporate conventions family festivals and events across the nation and is Carnival Cruise Lines' Premier Headline Entertainer.[citation needed]
Jordan Murphy (English actor).  Jordan Murphy is a British actor. He made his first appearance in 2004 when he played Liam Fisher in the episode A Life Lost of the TV series Casualty.Jordan made appearances on television in 2005. He played Josh Giggs in The Bill (episodes #296 and #297) and the long-running TV series Doctor Who when he played Ernie in the episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor dances.In 2012 he played in Mat Whitecross's film Spike Island about The Stone Roses.
Craig David.  Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 1999 featuring on the single Re-Rewind by Artful Dodger.
Iris Woolcock.  Iris Woolcock was an artist photographer realtor and adventurer. Born in Wisconsin in the late 19th century; she died in 1980. Iris lived in Putney (Vermont) New York City and in later years in Warm Mineral Springs Florida.
Walter Marsden.  Walter Marsden MC (1882–1969) was an English sculptor born in Lancashire. He saw active service in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war like many other sculptors who were also ex-servicemen he carried out sculptural work on war memorials. Most of these were erected in Lancashire. Marsden also spoke at speaking engagements about a wide variety of art-related topics.
David Sherry.  David Sherry (born 1974) is an artist.Sherry was born in Northern Ireland before studying at the Glasgow School of Art. He is best known for his performance art. Stitching is a video of him stitching pieces of wood to his feet while he offers verbal instructions on how to do this. Other works include Carrying a bucket of water about for a week and Avoiding eye contact for one seven-day period both of which consist of the activities in their titles.
Savo Sovre.  Savo Sovre (7 July 1928 – 2008) was a Slovene painter also known for his illustrations of children's books.He won the Levstik Award in 1964 for his illustrations for a Primary School German Exercise Book but also illsutrated many picture books and children's magazines.He founded the Sovre Art School in Ljubljana.
Habib Meftah Bouchehri.  Habib Meftah Boushehri (born in Bouchehr Iran) is an Iranian percussionist.
Carla Bozulich.  Carla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles known for her work as the lead singer lyricist and founder of both The Geraldine Fibbers and Evangelista and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow and Scarnella. Her 2006 album Evangelista was released by Constellation Records that label's first release by a non-Canadian artist.
Julien Rassam.  Julien Rassam was a French actor.
Charles Steggall.  Charles H. Steggall (3 June 1826 – 7 June 1905) was an English hymn writer and composer.
Théophile Hamel.  Théophile-Abraham Hamel (8 November 1817 – 23 December 1870) was a Canadian artist who painted mainly portraits and religious images in 19th-century Quebec.
Carol Sobieski.  Carol Sobieski (March 16 1939 – November 4 1990) was an American screenwriter whose work included the scripts for Annie (1982) and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991).
Jean Le Pautre.  Jean le Pautre (June 28 1618 – February 2 1682) was a French designer and engraver. Le Pautre was an apprentice to a carpenter and builder. In addition to learning mechanical and constructive work he developed considerable skill with the pencil. His designs innumerable in quantity and exuberant in content consisted mainly of ceilings friezes chimney-pieces doorways and mural decorations.
Tomoka Kurotani.  Kurotani Tomoka (黒谷友香; born 11 December 1975 in Sakai Osaka Japan) is a Japanese actress. She starred as the femme fatale female ninja Kagero in Shinobi Heart Under Blade.
North End (band).  North End was an American boogie- and club music-influenced garage house music group consisted of Arthur Baker Russell Presto and Tony Carbone. North End debuted in 1979 with an uptempo disco track titled Kind of Life (Kind of Love) which was released by West End Records. Two years later Happy Days was released on Emergency Records and peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Club Play Singles chart.
Irena Santor.  Irena Santor (born 9 December 1934 Papowo Biskupie Poland) is a retired Polish singer. She was very popular and prolific in her youth. She spent the first years of her life in Solec Kujawski. She graduated a Glazier Technical and Vocational school in Polanica Zdrój. She pursued her vocal career afterwards. She was promoted by Zdzisław Górzyński who recommended her to Tadeusz Sygietyński director and founder of the Mazowsze - Polish State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble in 1951.
Iain Sharp.  Iain Sharp born in 1953 is a New Zealand poet and critic.
John Armstrong (comics).  John Armstrong is a British comics artist best known for his work in Misty and Tammy for which he drew the long-running strip Bella. Other strips he has drawn include The Secret Gymnast in Bunty.
Cordelia Bugeja.  Cordelia Bugeja (born 5 March 1976 in Chichester West Sussex) is a British actress best known for her roles as Melanie Hart in the soap opera Family Affairs and the prostitute Kate in Respectable on Five.In 2006 she appeared briefly in an episode of sitcom Not Going Out as waitress Julie.
Billy Hughes (musician).  Everette Ishmael Billy Hughes (September 14 1908-May 6 1995) was a Western Swing musician and songwriter. Born in Sallisaw Oklahoma he left for California during the Okie exodus of the 1930s. Billy Hughes and His Buccaroos performed during the 1940s and early 50s. He also owned an independent recording company Fargo Records. As a writer he is best known for Tennessee Saturday Night which was recorded by Red Foley in 1949 and became a No. 1 hit. He died in Horatio Arkansas.
Greg Centauro.  Greg Centauro (January 10 1977 – March 26 2011) was a French pornographic actor and director. He has directed over 200 films.[citation needed]
Tore Bruvoll.  Tore Bruvoll (born 30 October 1978 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian musician (guitar and multi instrumentalist) composer and music arranger.
Rachael Price.  Rachael Price (born 1985) is a jazz vocalist from Hendersonville Tennessee. She is a graduate in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory in Massachusetts. Price is the great-granddaughter of creationist and Seventh-day Adventist leader George McCready Price and the daughter of musician Tom Price.
George J. Gruen.  George J. Gruen (1877 — 1911) was an Anerican watchmaker who managed the Gruen Watch Co. He was the second son of the founder Dietrich Gruen.
Mark Etheredge.  Mark Etheredge is a Los Angeles California based singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Etheredge writes and performs a style of adult contemporary music with elements of pop soft rock and smooth jazz.
Bev Vincent.  Bev Vincent is best known as the author of The Road to the Dark Tower the Bram Stoker Award nominated authorised companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award. He has been writing News From the Dead Zone for Cemetery Dance magazine since March 2001. He has a Ph.D.
Brian Koppelman.  Brian Koppelman is an American screenwriter novelist director and producer. Best known as the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen and Rounders Koppelman has also produced films such as The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones as well as directed films such as Solitary Man.His writing partner is David Levien.
Chinga Chavin.  Chinga Chavin is the stage name of American musician and advertising executive Nathan Allen Nick Chavin. Chavin released the album Country Porn in 1976 on Attic Records.
Bo Diddley.  Ellas Otha Bates (December 30 1928 – June 2 2008) known by his stage name Bo Diddley was an American R&B vocalist guitarist and songwriter (usually as Ellas McDaniel).
Wang Huiqin.  Wang Huiqin (born 21 October 1955) is a Chinese Slovenian painter illustrator and calligrapher.Wang Huiqin was born in Nantong China in 1955. She graduated from Art School in 1982 and continued her art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She lives and works in Ljubljana.
Curt Masreliez.  Curt Masreliez (19 July 1919 – 21 June 1979) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in over 50 films and television shows between 1939 and 1973.
Blue Balliett.  Blue Balliett was born in 1955 in New York. On her birth certificate it says Elizabeth.[citation needed] Blue is an American author best known for her award-winning novel for children Chasing Vermeer. Chasing Vermeer released by Scholastic Press in 2004 is her best-known and most highly praised book. Illustrated by Brett Helquist it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
Peter Blake (artist).  Sir Peter Thomas Blake Kt CBE RDI RA (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick London.
Jamie Stewart (musician).  Jamie Stewart (born March 2nd 1978) is a musician best known as the frontman of Xiu Xiu. He was previously known as the frontman for IBOPA (The Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto) and Ten in the Swear Jar.
Lambert Mascarenhas.  Lambert Mascarenhas (born c. 1915) is a nonagenarian journalist and writer from Goa. His family hails from the Goan Catholic community a Christian community in Goa.
Steve Negus.  Stephen William Steve Negus (born February 19 1952) is a Canadian drummer and songwriter who was a member of the progressive rock band Saga for twenty-six years. In the late 80's he and keyboardist Jim Gilmour left Saga and formed the GNP (Gilmour Negus Project).
Scott Mackay.  Scott Mackay is a Canadian science fiction author from Toronto where he still lives with his wife and two children. He is the award-winning author of eleven novels and over forty short stories. His short story Last Inning won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction. Another story Reasons Unknown won the Okanagan Award for best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999.
Patrícia Araújo.  Patrícia Araújo (also known as Patrícia Oliveira) born Felipe Silva de Araújo (Rio de Janeiro 11 March 1982) is a Brazilian transsexual actress and model. Patricia is also a former pornographic actress.
Dave Pegg.  Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull. He has appeared on some of the most significant albums of his era as well as undertaking solo projects.
Anjali Kulkarni.  Anjali Kulkarni née Marathe (born 1980) is an Indian playback singer and Hindustani vocalist. She learned classical music from her mother Anuradha Marathe who is herself a renowned classical and light vocalist and conducts stage shows of Marathi as well as Hindi songs. Anjali a psychology graduate wanted to pursue medicine but it was in Std XI when she realised that her calling was music.
Adrian Lambert.  Adrian Lambert (born 26 April 1972 in Brighton) is an English bassist and songwriter who currently plays for thrash metal band Biomechanical and progressive rock band Son of Science. Lambert also played bass in power metal band DragonForce from 2002 - 2006. Lambert is currently touring with Biomechanical to promote the band's new album Cannibalised. Lambert has also joined a new as yet unnamed band led by former Testament/Nevermore guitarist Steve Smyth.
Lyman Kipp.  Lyman Kipp (b 1929 Dobbs Ferry New York - d 2014 Bonita Springs Florida) is a sculptor and painter who creates pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and are often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Stijl Constructivists. Kipp is an important figure in the development of the Primary Structure style which came to prominence in the mid-1960s.Kipp's early work in the 1950s focused on geometric plaster reliefs and cast bronzes (see No.
Suzanne Fisher Staples.  Suzanne Fisher Staples is an American writer of children's books. Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania she grew up in a small community around Northeastern Pennsylvania. She had three siblings a sister and two brothers. Suzanne went to Lakeland High School in Jermyn Pennsylvania. Later she graduated from Cedar Crest College in Allentown Pennsylvania. She was at one time employed as a news reporter and editor for the United Press International.
Johnny Powers (musician).  Johnny Powers (born John Leon Joseph Pavlik on May 26 1938 in East Detroit Michigan) is an American guitar player singer writer and producer specializing in rockabilly. Powers is best known for his 1957 recording on the now-defunct Fox Records label entitled “Long Blond Hair”.Powers (as Pavlik) began his professional career in 1953 at age 15 when he joined a local Detroit country band known as Jimmy Williams and the Drifters.
Antonio (singer).  Maurice Silvera (born 10 October 1973) better known as Antonio is a United Kingdom-based Jamaican reggae singer primarily recording in the lovers rock style.Born in Port Antonio he began performing at the age of twelve and went on to perform regularly on sound systems such as Mafia Five Prince Ajax and Missile initially working under the name Singing Morris. His first recording was Woman a You Mi Want for the Black Lion label in 1995.
Oliver Ackermann.  Oliver Edward Ackermann is the founder of the Brooklyn-based effects pedal company Death By Audio and is the guitarist/vocalist of A Place to Bury Strangers which has been hailed as the loudest band in New York.
Alasdair Roberts (musician).  Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out and following the 2001 album The Night is Advancing under his own name.Roberts was born in Swabia Germany the son of former folk guitarist (and partner of Dougie MacLean) Alan Roberts and his German wife Annegret. He was raised in Kilmahog a hamlet close to the small town of Callander near Stirling in central Scotland where he started playing the guitar and writing music.
Bart Claessen.  Bart Claessen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɑrt ˈklaː.sə(n)]) (born January 22 1980 Asten Netherlands) is a Dutch trance music DJ. He is best known for his dance tracks On the Move (2001) and Infected (2002) (both as Barthezz) which reached Number 18 and 25 in the UK Singles Chart respectively. He has released a number of tracks under his own name most notably First Light (2007) and Madness (2008). Other productions include Playmo and When Morning Comes.
Ben Webster.  Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27 1909 – September 20 1973) a.k.a. The Brute or Frog was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster born in Kansas City Missouri is considered one of the three most important swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as The Brute he had a tough raspy and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls) yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment.
Antal Berkes.  Antal Berkes (1874–1938) was a Hungarian painter born in Budapest Hungary. He lived in Paris for some time and produced cityscapes there as well as similar street scenes of Budapest and Vienna.
Serge Wolkonsky.  Prince Serge Wolkonsky (also referred to as Sergei Mikhailovitch Volkonsky; Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Волко́нский) (4 May 1860 - 25 October 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics pupil and friend of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and creator of an original system of actor's training that included both expressive gesture and expressive speech.
Pushead.  Brian Schroeder (a.k.a. Pushead) is an artist record label owner and writer within the hardcore punk and heavy metal field. He has created artwork for many bands artists and athletes including Metallica The Misfits Dr. Dre Travis Barker Craig Johnson and Kool Keith. He has designed many record covers T-shirts skateboards and a pair of Nike SB Dunks. His record label Pusmort Records has released albums by Negative Gain Poison Idea and Final Conflict.
Ted Vasin.  Ted Vasin (born April 11 1966 in Moscow Russia) is a painter and sound artist based in San Francisco.Born the only child of an artist and a geologist in Moscow Russia Ted Vasin often attended the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard where his grandfather Alexander Falkovsky was a costume and stage designer who created costumes for Oleg Popov Yuri Nikulin and Karandash. His grandmother Alexandra was a chapel soloist at the Yelokhovo Cathedral in Moscow.
Roya (singer).  Röya also known as Röya Ayxan (born Royala Yagub qizi Najafova; 14 June 1982) is an Azerbaijani pop singer and celebrity in Azerbaijan. She is known for her liberal artistic style.
Daniel Carter (LDS composer).  Daniel Lyman Carter (aka Dan Carter) (born 1955) is a composer/songwriter. Much of his work reflects his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church). He was born in 1955 in Caldwell Idaho.His compositions include As Now We Take the Sacrament (Hymns 1985 no. 169) as well as A Young Man Prepared and The Shepherd's Carol (Children's Songbook pp. 166 40 respectively).
June Page.  June Page is a British actress best known for her role as Sally in the 1970s television drama Survivors.Her other TV credits include: Doctor Who (in the serial Full Circle) Brideshead Revisited Casualty The Bill and Bad Girls.
Barnett Newman.  Barnett Newman (January 29 1905 – July 4 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality presence and contingency.
Leonardo Boldrini.  Leonardo Boldrini (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He painted an altarpiece whose panels are now hanging apart in the church of San Gallo near Zogno.
Clemente Pugliese Levi.  Clemente Pugliese Levi (Vercelli 1855-1936) was an Italian painter mainly of luminous alpine landscapes in his native PiedmontHe was a resident of Turin. He was strongly influenced by Impressionism. He also painted numerous vedute including Il Mercato del Pesce.
Michelle Ye.  Michelle Ye (born February 14 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and producer. In 1999 she won the Miss Chinese International competition. Ye then signed a contract with TVB from 1999 to 2005. After she left TVB She signed with Rich & Famous Talent Management Group Limited to pursue a movie career.Ye is fluent in Cantonese English and Mandarin. She immigrated to the United States at age 10.
Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior).  Luther Johnson (born April 11 1939 Itta Bena Mississippi United States) is an American Chicago blues singer and guitarist who performs under the name Luther Guitar Junior Johnson.Johnson moved to Chicago with his family in 1955. During the 1960s he performed with Magic Sam. He also performed in Muddy Waters's band from 1972 to 1980.
Mitsuo Senda.  Mitsuo Senda (千田 光男 Senda Mitsuo born March 1 1940) is a Japanese voice actor. He is originally from Hokkaidō. Senda is affiliated with 81 Produce.
Rex M. Best.  Rex M. Best is an award winning American soap opera writer. He was a staff script writer on The Young and the Restless for fifteen years (1987-2002). He currently writes scripts for Y&R's sister soap The Bold and the Beautiful. He has won fIve Emmys and a Writers Guild Award. He currently lives in Greensboro North Carolina. Prior to his daytime writing career he taught students with autism in the Greensboro school system.
Damodar K. Mavalankar.  Damodar K. Mavalankar (born September 1857 in Ahmedabad - departed for the Himalayas 1885) was an Indian Theosophist.
Reynaldo Hahn.  Reynaldo Hahn (French pronunciation: ​[ʁɛ.nal.do an]; August 9 1874 – January 28 1947) was a Venezuelan naturalised French composer conductor music critic diarist theatre director and salon singer. Best known as a composer of songs he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie.
Tor Edvin Dahl.  Tor Edvin Dahl (born 10 September 1943) is a Norwegian novelist crime writer playwright children's writer non-fiction writer translator literary critic and journalist. He made his literary debut in 1968 with the short story collection En sommer tung av regn. His first novel was Den andre from 1972 and his literary breakthrough was the novel Guds tjener from 1973.He has written crime fiction using the pseudonym David Torjussen.
Daniel Davis Jr..  Daniel Davis Jr. (1813–1887) was an American photographer daguerreotypist and ambrotypist.In 1842 Daniel Davis Jr. patented a method for colouring daguerreotypes through electroplating and his work was refined by Warren Thompson the following year.
Robin Auld (musician).  Robin Morton Auld is a South African singer-songwriter guitarist poet and writer. He has released twenty albums to date along with a novel and poetry collection.
Steve Harris (writer).  Steve Harris (born 29 September 1954 in Basingstoke) is a retired English novelist who was known for his work in the horror genre.
John Tomlinson (comics).  John Tomlinson is a British comic book writer known for his work on various 2000 AD strips.
Mujeeb Aalam.  Mujeeb Aalam (February 4 1948 – June 2 2004) was a Indian playback singer who had a short film career. His singing style was a mixture of Mehdi Hassan and Ahmad Rushdi's style. He sang dozen of hit songs in late 1960s and remained popular with cinema viewers. However he lost his popularity in mid-1970s as more versatile singers like Akhlaq Ahmed and A Nayyar entered Pakistan film industry.
Zheng Yonghui.  Zheng Yonghui (simplified Chinese: 郑永慧; traditional Chinese: 鄭永慧; pinyin: Zhèng Yǒnghuì; 1918 - 9 September 2012) was a Chinese writer (of Chinese Vietnamese ethnicity) translator who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize a prestigious literature award in China.Zheng rendered a great number of French literary works into Chinese for almost five decades including 40 novels.Zheng is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the French novelists Honoré de Balzac Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo.
Edmund Greacen.  Edmund William Greacen (1877–1949) was an American Impressionist painter. His active career extended from 1905 and 1935 during which he created many colorful works in oil on canvas and board. One of his works a reproduction of which is at the Smithsonian Institution was awarded the Salmagundi Club's Samuel T. Shaw Prize in 1922. In addition to his work as an artist Greacen also directed New York City's Grand Central School of Art for more than 20 years.
Gary Young (screenwriter).  Gary Young is a British screenwriter who is perhaps best known for writing the film Harry Brown starring Michael Caine.He has also written Madam Samurai a graphic novel series with Eagle Award-winning artist David Hitchcock.
Lead Belly.  Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20 1888 – December 6 1949) was an American folk and blues musician and multi-instrumentalist notable for his strong vocals virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar and the songbook of folk standards he introduced.He is best known as Lead Belly. Though many releases list him as Leadbelly he spelled it Lead Belly. This is also the usage on his tombstone as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation.
Charles L. Grant.  Charles Lewis Grant (September 12 1942 – September 15 2006) was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called dark fantasy and quiet horror. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh Lionel Fenn Simon Lake Felicia Andrews and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection Nightmare Seasons a Nebula Award in 1976 for his short story A Crowd of Shadows and another Nebula Award in 1978 for his novella A Glow of Candles a Unicorn's Eye the latter telling of an actor's dilemma in a post-literate future. 
Koko Taylor.  Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor (September 28 1928 – June 3 2009) was an American Chicago blues singer popularly known as the Queen of the Blues. She was known primarily for her rough powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings.
Christopher Williams (singer).  Christopher Williams (born Troy Christopher Williams on August 22 1967 in The Bronx New York U.S. is an American R&B singer and actor.
Anthony Torrone.  Anthony Torrone (born circa 1955) is an American Christian author who is developmentally disabled. A savant Torrone's 2011 book Anthony's Prayers was inspired by his time and the abuse that he experienced as a resident of the former Willowbrook State School a New York State mental hospital for children. Torrone has been a resident of Grand Rapids Michigan since the 1970s.
Gustavo Pallicca.  Gustavo Pallicca (Turin 4 January 1936) is an Italian writer and former athtletics starter.
Roz Joseph.  Roz Joseph is a photographer born in the Bronx New York in 1926. She later studied photography in New York City. During the 1960s Joseph photographed sublime and transcendent little moments” while traveling in Europe North Africa and elsewhere. She is stylistically comparable to Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Marco Ambrosini.  Marco Ambrosini (born 1964 in Forlì Italy) is an Italian musician composer and arranger living in Germany.
Spike Cassidy.  Peter Spike Cassidy (born October 7 1961) is an American guitarist. He is a member of crossover thrash band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles).
Andy Wallace (keyboard).  Andy Wallace (born (1970-12-22)December 22 1970 in United Kingdom) best known for his association with Pink Floyd's former member Roger Waters.
Miki Sawaguchi.  Miki Sawaguchi (沢口みき Sawaguchi Miki) born September 1 1975 in Yokohama Japan) is one of Japan's best known adult video performers. On television she has appeared as a regular cast member on two shows and made several guest appearances on other shows. She has also appeared on radio and made two music CDs.
Bruce Marshall.  Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Cunningham Bruce Marshall known as Bruce Marshall (24 June 1899 – 18 June 1987) was a prolific Scottish writer who wrote fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of topics and genres. His first book A Thief in the Night came out in 1918 possibly self-published. His last An Account of Capers was published posthumously in 1988 a span of 70 years.
Diane Samuels.  Diane Samuels is a British author and playwright.
Tom Adair.  Thomas Montgomery Tom Adair (June 15 1913 – May 24 1988) was an American songwriter composer and screenwriter.
Patrizio Buanne.  Patrizio Franco Buanne (born 20 September 1978 in Vienna Austria) is an Italian-Austrian baritone singer songwriter and producer. He was from 2005 till 2008 with Universal Music UK worldwide from 2008 till 2011 signed to Warner Musicwordwide and Concord Records USA. Since 2012 with Universal Music.
Andrea Šušnjara.  Andrea Šušnjara (born 26 February 1987) is a Croatian singer who was the Croatian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. She alongside Igor Cukrov were the winners of Dora 2009 performing the song Lijepa Tena (Beautiful Tena). At Eurovision they performed in the second semi-final as the opening act and qualified for the final as the jury's selected qualifier.
George Victor Du Noyer.  George Victor Du Noyer (1817 – 3 January 1869) was an Irish painter geologist and antiquary of Huguenot descent. As an artist his favourite medium was watercolour but a large number of sketches by him in pencil and other mediums also survive. He was a gifted and extremely prolific artist.Most of his work relates exclusively to Ireland.
Don Cannon.  Don Cannon (born in August 2 1979) better known as DJ Don Cannon is an American Grammy Award Nominated Hip-Hop R&B Platinum-level Music Producer Record Producer and DJ. Cannon is a DJ who can be heard spinning to elite entertainment industry crowds from Atlanta to Tokyo.Cannon received “Atlanta’s Best DJ” from the prominent TV program Good Day Atlanta (FOX 5).
Birger Malmsten.  Birger Malmsten (23 December 1920 – 15 February 1991) was a Swedish actor. He had many roles in Ingmar Bergman's films.
Jeremy Kittel.  Jeremy Kittel (Jeremy David Kittel born 26 April 1984) is a contemporary American musician and composer. His primary instruments are the violin and viola and his styles include Celtic bluegrass jazz and folk music. He leads his namesake group the Jeremy Kittel Band. He has worked with many prominent musicians including Mark O'Connor Béla Fleck Edgar Meyer Chris Thile Paquito D’Rivera the Assad Brothers Stefon Harris My Morning Jacket and Darol Anger.
Tanya Lacey.  Tanya Lacey is a British recording artist songwriter and composer. She signed to the record label Sony Music. She is best known for writing and featuring on Loick Essien's single How We Roll which peaked to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. She also co-wrote Will.i.am's single T.H.E (The Hardest Ever) featuring Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger. She also supported Bruno Mars on his UK Arena Tour as his sole support.
Karl Lucas.  Karl Lucas is an English comedian actor and writer who has written for and appeared in a number of television music videos and radio comedy programmes as well as various theatre productions.Lucas worked on Galaxy 102's Breakfast show which collectively won three Sony Awards (1999/2000) - Gold in 1999 and Silver in 2000 for Best Breakfast Show.
Thavius Beck.  Thavius Beck (born 1979) is an electronic musician producer and rapper based in Los Angeles California. He was a member of the Global Phlowtations collective. He has also put out solo releases under the moniker Adlib. He is a certified trainer of Ableton Live.He has collaborated with a number of artists such as Saul Williams Nine Inch Nails Nas Subtitle K-the-I??? Busdriver and Nocando.
Katherena Vermette.  Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. A Métis of Cree and Mennonite descent from Winnipeg Manitoba she is an MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.She works as a literacy educator and has a work of children's literature slated for publication in 2014.
Renata Bernal.  Renata Bernal (born February 3 1937 in Munich Germany) is a contemporary American artist. Her work spans a broad range of media including oil paintings acrylic paintings pastel paintings lithograph woodcuts and ink drawings.
Robert Ingpen.  Robert Roger Ingpen (AM) (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer illustrator and author. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986.
André Obey.  André Obey (French: [ɔbɛ]; 8 May 1892 at Douai France – 11 April 1975 at Montsoreau near the Loire River) was a prominent French playwright during the inter-war years and into the 1950s.He began as a novelist and produced an autobiographical novel about his adolescence le Joueur de triangle (The Triangle Player). After his meeting with Jacques Copeau he devoted himself completely to dramatic works. In 1945 Obey became provisional general administrator of the Comédie-Française.
Randy California.  Randy California (born Randy Craig Wolfe; February 20 1951 – January 2 1997) was a guitarist singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit formed in 1967.
Constantin von Wurzbach.  Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (born 11 April 1818 in Laibach; died 17 August 1893 in Berchtesgaden) was an Austrian biographer.
Eldon Garnet.  Eldon Garnet (born 1946) is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Toronto and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. From 1975–1990 he was the editor of Impulse a Canadian magazine of art and culture. Surveys of his sculptures and photographic work have been held at the National Gallery of Canada the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the Amsterdam Center of Photography.
Christine Charbonneau.  Christine Charbonneau is a Canadian singer and songwriter born in Montreal Quebec in 1943.
Esin Engin.  Esin Engin (May 17 1945 – May 4 1997) was a Turkish musician composer arranger and film actor.
Felicia Bond.  Felicia Bond (b. July 18 1954 Yokohama Japan) is an American writer and illustrator of numerous books for children. She is well known as the illustrator of all of the books in the If You Give... Book™series which are written by Laura Numeroff and published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
Allen Fong.  Allen Fong Yuk-ping (方育平) (born July 10 1947) is a film director and one of the leaders of the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His cinematic style is highly influenced by Italian neorealism. He also usually uses personal or real-life stories as the basis for his films.Despite his limited number of productions he is one of the directors to have won Best Director three times at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Others who share this achievement are Ann Hui and Johnnie To.
Romain Virgo.  Romain Virgo (born c. 1990) is a singer from Jamaica specializing in the lovers rock style of reggae music.
C. R. Subburaman.  C. R. Subburaman also known as C. S. Ram (Telugu: సి.ఆర్.సుబ్బరామన్ Tamil:சி. ஆர். சுப்புராமன்) (1911–1952) was a famous South Indian film music composer and producer. He was born to Ramasamy Iyer at Chintamani village in Thirunelveli in present-day Tamil Nadu. Music director Shankar of Shankar Ganesh duo is his younger brother.
Dado Polumenta.  Damir Dado Polumenta (born 29 August 1982) is a popular Montenegrin singer/songwriter. His uncle Šako Polumenta also a singer has helped Dado's music career.
Merl Saunders.  Merl Saunders (February 14 1934 – October 24 2008) was an American multi-genre musician who played piano and keyboards favoring the Hammond B-3 console organ.
David Gordon (novelist).  David Gordon is an American novelist. His debut novel The Serialist won the 2011 First Novelist Award and was a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America's 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Its translation into Japanese by Aoki Chizuru as Niryū Shōsetsuka (二流小説家) lit. Second-Rate Novelist became a major hit winning three literary contests and being turned into a full-length motion film by Toei directed by Izaki Nobuaki and starring Kamikawa Takaya.
Edward Lee (writer).  Edward Lee (born May 25 1957) is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror who has written 40 books more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester Berkley and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story “Mr. Torso” and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies including the award-winning 999.
Link Wray.  §Frederick Lincoln Link Wray Jr (May 2 1929 – November 5 2005) was an American rock and roll guitarist songwriter and vocalist who first came to popularity in the late 1950s.Building on the overdriven distorted electric guitar sound of early electric blues records his 1958 instrumental hit Rumble by Link Wray and his Ray Men invented the power chord the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists making possible punk and heavy rock. Rolling Stone placed Wray at number 45 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. 
Elvis Herselvis.  Elvis Herselvis is the stage name of the American actor and singer Leigh Crow whose rise to international exposure was performing as a female Elvis Presley impersonator.
Zack Whedon.  Zachary Adam Zack Whedon (born August 14 1979) is an American screenwriter and comic book writer.
Frank Marocco.  Frank L. Marocco (January 2 1931 – March 3 2012) was an American piano-accordionist arranger and composer. He was recognized as one of the most recorded accordionists in the world.
Josh McDowell.  Joslin Josh McDowell (born 17 August 1939) is a Christian apologist evangelist and writer. He is within the Evangelical tradition of Protestant Christianity and is the author or co-author of some 115 books. His best-known book is Evidence That Demands a Verdict which was ranked 13th in Christianity Todays list of most influential evangelical books published after World War II. Other well-known titles are More Than a Carpenter A Ready Defense and Right from Wrong.
Eraclio Minozzi.  Eraclio Minozzi (Vicenza December 1847 – after 1909) was an Italian painter painting landscapes genre and portraits.
Lee Henderson.  Lee Henderson is a Canadian writer the author of The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada 2002) and The Man Game (Penguin Canada August 2008). The Broken Record Technique won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award which recognizes a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English.
Pietro Antonio Fiocco.  Pietro Antonio Fiocco (or Pier Antonio or Pierre-Antoine) (February 3 1654 – September 3 1714) was an Italian Baroque composer.
Andrew Loomis.  William Andrew Loomis (1892–1959) better known simply as Andrew Loomis was an American illustrator author and art instructor. His commercial work was featured prominently in advertising and magazines; however Loomis is best known as author of a series of instructional art books printed throughout the 20th century. Long after his death Loomis' realistic style has continued to influence popular artists.
Eric Remschneider.  Eric Remschneider (born September 7 1967) is a cellist. He is perhaps best known for contributing to The Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 release Siamese Dream and appearing in the subsequent tour and Disarm music video. Eric also plays cello on the song The Bells which appears on The Aeroplane Flies High box set. Eric plays the cello on the Smashing Pumpkins VHS/DVD Vieuphoria on The Lost '94 Tapes section of the film on Soma and on Hummer/Porceline.
Robert W. Russell.  Robert Wallace Russell (January 19 1912 – February 11 1992) was an American writer for movies plays and documentaries. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Writing Original Story and Best Writing Screenplay on the 1943 film The More the Merrier.He died in 1992 in New York City shortly after his 80th birthday.
Brandon Patton.  Brandon Patton is a songwriter and bass player from the United States of America. He has recorded four solo albums plays bass for MC Frontalot under the name BL4k Lotus and performs with Prince Gomolvilas in the show Jukebox Stories. He has also played bass for Futureboy and Jonathan Coulton. From 1997–2000 he played in the band three against four with Anand Nayak and Jay Skowronek.He graduated from Wesleyan University and currently lives in New Haven Connecticut.
Olympia Vernon.  Olympia Vernon (born May 22 1973) is an African-American author who has published three novels: Eden (2002) Logic (2004) and A Killing In This Town (2006). Eden won the 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Vernon was born in Bogalusa Louisiana and grew up in Mount Hermon Louisiana and Osyka Mississippi. The family had seven children. Her father Fletcher Williams Jr. graduated from the University of Mississippi.
Bertrand Andrieu.  Bertrand Andrieu (November 4 1761 – December 10 1822) was a French engraver of medals from Bordeaux. In France he was considered as the restorer of the art which had declined after the time of Louis XIV and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works. Many of his medals are figured in the Medallic History of Napoleon.
W. Walter Gill.  William Walter Gill (1876–1963) was a Manx scholar folklorist and poet. He is best remembered for his three volumes of A Manx Scrapbook.
Rune Gustafsson.  Rune Urban Gustafsson (August 25 1933 - June 15 2012) was a Swedish jazz guitarist and composer known in particular for the soundtrack of Swedish films The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972 ) Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975) and Sunday's Children (1992).
Attila György.  Attila György (born 15 August 1971 Miercurea Ciuc Harghita County Romania) is a Székely writer journalist and literary editor winner of the Attila József Prize for excellence in Hungarian literature.
Richard Caton Woodville Jr..  Richard Caton Woodville (7 January 1856 – 17 August 1927) was an English artist and illustrator who is best known for being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sanki King.  Abdullah Ahmed Khan professionally known as Sanki or Sanki King is a Pakistani graffiti and street artist Pakistan's first Sneaker Artist Bboy and a Parkour expert. Sanki is the pioneer of graffiti art in Pakistan pioneer of sticker art and he is also the first and the only super hip hopper in Pakistan.
Mark Cohen (journalist).  Mark Cohen (26 November 1849 – 3 March 1928) was a New Zealand journalist newspaper editor educationalist and social reformer. He was born in London England on 26 November 1849.He was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 25 June 1920 to 24 June 1927; and 25 June 1927 to 3 March 1928 when he died. He was appointed by the Reform Government.He was from Dunedin and Otago. He died at Auckland where he was staying with his youngest daughter after his wife died.
George Christy.  George N. Christy (born George Harrington) (November 6 1827 – May 12 1868) was one of the leading blackface performers during the early years of the blackface minstrel show in the 1840s.Born in Palmyra New York his career began as a star performer with his stepfather E. P. Christy's troupe Christy's Minstrels; in two and a half years with them he earned $19680 a fortune for those times.
Bill Pottle.  Bill Pottle is an author of books on Fantasy Martial Arts and Christianity. He has been writing for over twenty years. His most recent work is published by Ellechor Publishing House and is promoted by Maria Connor at My Author Concierge.
Filip De Pillecyn.  Filip De Pillecyn (25 March 1891 - 7 August 1962) was a Belgian writer and a member of the Flemish movement. He was born at Hamme and died in Ghent.
Mark Finn.  Mark Finn (born October 1969) is the pseudonym of Mark Farr-Nash a science fiction and fantasy writer essayist and playwright. In 2007 he was nominated for World Fantasy Special Award: Professional.
Željko Ivanković.  Željko Ivanković (born August 29 1954 in Vareš Bosnia and Herzegovina SFR Yugoslavia).
James Herring.  James Herring (born in London 12 January 1794; died in Paris October 1867) was a United States portrait painter.
DJ Colette.  Colette Joy Marino (born May 27 1975 in Chicago Illinois) known as DJ Colette or just Colette is a house music DJ and vocalist from Chicago Illinois. She is a resident DJ at the SmartBar in Chicago Illinois (along with Kaskade and others). She first gained attention when she started singing over her mixes as DJ.She started DJing in the early 90's.
Hanna Hilton.  Hanna Hilton (born October 31 1984) is an American former (2007–10) pornographic actress.
Rafael Díaz Ycaza.  Rafael Díaz Ycaza (October 24 1925 - August 28 2013) was an Ecuadorian poet novelist short story writer and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.He is the author of many books of poetry and also wrote novels. His first published work was Statues at Sea (1946) and the last was Pure Beast Alba a poem anthology published in September 2007.Rafael Díaz Ycaza rose to prominence with his poems at a young age earning a reputation as a poet of great talent.
Agostino Apollonio.  Agostino Apollonio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado and painted around mid-1530s. He assisted his uncle Luzio Dolci. He lived in Castel Durante.
Josh Rand.  Josh Rand (born August 19 1974) is a American musician best known as one of two guitarists from the band Stone Sour.Josh Rand started out playing Bass guitar when he was 15 years old. Inspired by Billy Sheehan Cliff Burton & Jason Newsted just to name a few. He has known Corey Taylor since he was 15. The two have played in several bands together before Josh switch to guitar at age 17.
Joe Sacco.  Joe Sacco (born October 2 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his comics journalism in particular in the books Palestine (1996) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009) on Israeli–Palestinian relations; and Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War.
Johnny Vincent.  Johnny Vincent (October 3 1927 – February 4 2000) was an American record producer for Art Rupe at Specialty Records founded Ace Records in 1955 in Jackson Mississippi 165 miles away from New Orleans. Although Vincent started out recording local blues musicians in 1956 he branched out into New Orleans rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
Bob Heathcote.  Bob Heathcote is best known for his bass playing in the crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies.
V. Dakshinamoorthy.  Venkateswaran Dakshinamoorthy (9 December 1919 – 2 August 2013) was a veteran carnatic musician and music director of Malayalam Tamil and Hindi films predominantly in Malayalam films. He has set scores for the songs in over 125 films. He has to his credit as many as 859 songs composed over a period of 50 years.
Alex Katz.  Alex Katz (born July 24 1927) is an American figurative artist. In particular he is known for his paintings sculptures and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.
Aisa Senda.  Aisa Senda (千田愛紗 Senda Aisa) born November 8 1982 in Okinawa Prefecture Japan is a Japanese singer actress and television presenter. She made her debut in 2000 in Taiwan as part of the girls group Sunday Girls and has concentrated her activities in Taiwan since then. She is capable of speaking both Japanese and Mandarin and had appeared in a number of commercials programs and television dramas.
Simon Roberts (actor).  Simon Roberts is a British actor. His television appearances have included the role of Alfred in the Agatha Christie's Poirot television film Hercule Poirot's Christmas.
Derek Bell (musician).  George Derek Fleetwood Bell MBE (21 October 1935 – 17 October 2002) was a Irish harpist pianist oboist musicologist and composer best known for his accompaniment work on various instruments with The Chieftains.
Laurie Bird.  Laurie Bird (September 26 1953 – June 15 1979) was an American actress and photographer.
Jan Axel Blomberg.  Jan Axel Hellhammer Blomberg (born August 2 1969 in Trysil Norway) is a Norwegian heavy metal drummer. He is best known as the drummer of Mayhem which he joined in 1988. In 1987 Blomberg formed the avant-garde black metal band Arcturus (under the name Mortem) with Steinar Sverd Johnsen which broke up in April 2007 and reunited in 2011. He named himself for the Swiss extreme metal band Hellhammer.
Joanna Chmielewska.  Joanna Chmielewska was the pen name of Irena Kühn née Becker (2 April 1932 – 7 October 2013) a Polish novelist and screenwriter. Her work is often described as ironic detective stories. Her novels which have been translated into at least nine languages have sold more than 6 million copies in Poland and over 10 million copies in Russia.
Philip Child.  Philip Albert Child (January 19 1898 – February 6 1978) was a Canadian novelist poet and academic.Born in Hamilton Ontario the son of William Addison Child and Elizabeth Helen (Harvey) Child Child studied at Trinity College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree after serving during World War I. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christ's College Cambridge in 1921 and received a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Michiko Naruke.  Michiko Naruke (なるけ みちこ Naruke Michiko) (born 1967) is a Japanese video game music composer well known for her work in the Wild Arms series.
David Usher.  David Usher (born April 24 1967) is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. Usher is the frontman for the alternative rock band Moist which originally formed in 1992 and broke up in 2000 and then reunited again in 2013. In 1997 Usher embarked on a solo career and has released seven solo albums to date.
Solomon Skuza.  Solomon Skuza (born 1956) also known as Jah Solo was a Zimbabwean musician one of the most popular to come out of Plumtree. In addition to his native Kalanga he wrote lyrics in Ndebele Shona and English as well. Other popular Kalanga musicians include Nduna Malaba(Ndux Malax) Ndolwane Super Sounds Mokis Connection and Solomons brother Chase Skuza.
Darren Watson.  Darren Watson is a New Zealand singer songwriter and guitarist in a wide range of blues styles.Darren Watson was born in Wanganui. His first musical experience was playing drums and trumpet but he soon moved on to guitar and was playing in bars and clubs throughout his years at Hutt Valley High School (1980–83).In 1985 he formed Chicago Smoke Shop with harmonica player Terry Casey and although Casey left the band in 1987 the band went on to record two charting LPs and several radio hits.
Andrew Browne (artist).  Andrew Browne (born 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist. Andrew was born in Melbourne. Browne's paintings are realist in style and are influenced by photography.
Nikifor Mran'ka.  Nikifor Mran'ka (Chuvash & Russian: Никифор Мранька) – Chuvash writer and playwright. Born 1901 (July 9) in village Pileshkasy of Kozlovsky District Chuvash Republic. Died in 1973 (February 20). USSR Union of Writers's member (1939).
Richard Bronson.  Not to be confused with Richard Branson.Richard Bronson (born August 5 1941) is the American Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Acting Dean of the College of Science and Engineering Interim Provost of the Metropolitan Campus Director of Government Affairs and Senior Executive Assistant to the President.
Charles Dye.  Charles Dye is a Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy-winning record producer engineer and mixer from Hollywood Florida USA.
Hitomi Takahashi (actress).  Hitomi Takahashi (高橋 ひとみ Takahashi Hitomi born August 23 1961 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Bedar Mnagrio.  Muhammad Paryal Mangrio (Sindhi: محمد پريل مڱريو) literally known as Bedar (Sindhi: بيدار) or Muhammad Paryal Bedar (Sindhi: محمد پريل بيدار مڱريو) (born 8 January 1937 in Sukkur Pakistan) is a Sindhi writer poet translator religious scholar and well known teacher. He is mostly written and called Usatad (teacher) by fellows. He was born at Sangrar a Union council of Taluka Rohri District Sukkur Sindh Pakistan.
Barun Sengupta.  Barun Sengupta (Bengali: বরুণ সেনগুপ্ত) (23 January 1934 – 19 June 2008) the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper was a Bengali journalist and popular political critic. He is remembered for his bold and simple diction of political analyzing that made him extremely well liked among the common readers in West Bengal.
Jane Greenwood.  Jane Greenwood (born 30 April 1934) is a costume designer for the stage television film opera and dance. Born in Liverpool England she works both in England and the United States. She has been nominated for the Tony Award for costume design sixteen times.
Bernard McConville.  Bernard McConville (October 16 1887 – December 27 1961) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 92 films between 1915 and 1946.He was born in Denver Colorado and died in Los Angeles County California.
Stefano Balassone.  Stefano Balassone (born in 1943 in Sequals Province of Pordenone) is an Italian television producer and writer.
Charles O'Conor (historian).  Charles O'Conor O'Conor Don (1 January 1710 – 1 July 1791) also known as Charles O'Conor of Belanagare was an Irish writer and antiquarian who was enormously influential as a protagonist for the preservation of Irish culture and history in the eighteenth century.
Mike Parobeck.  Michael J. Parobeck (7 July 1965 - 2 July 1996) was an American comics artist best known for his work on the Batman Adventures comic book. His artwork featured a fluid animation-inspired drawing style coupled with clear clean layouts well-suited to the book.
Jesse Winchester.  James Ridout Jesse Winchester (May 17 1944 – April 11 2014) was an American musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967 where he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes Yankee Lady in 1970 and Say What in 1981. He became a Canadian citizen in 1973 gained amnesty in the U.S.
Asher Brown Durand.  Asher Brown Durand (August 21 1796 – September 17 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School.
George Hendrik Breitner.  George Hendrik Breitner (September 12 1857 – June 5 1923) wasa Dutch painter and photographer.
Carl Phillips.  Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Charles Burleigh Galbreath.  Charles Burleigh (C. B.) Galbreath (February 25 1858 - February 23 1934) was a writer historian educator and librarian in Ohio. He was appointed as State Librarian at the State Library of Ohio from 1896–1911 and 1915-1918. He was the Secretary and Librarian at the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society [now known as Ohio Historical Society from 1920-1934.
Wang Feifei.  Wang Feifei (real name: Chinese: 王霏霏; pinyin: Wáng Fēifēi Korean :왕페이페이) (born April 27 1987) known professionally as Fei is a member of the South Korean girl group miss A. Fei is considered one of the four best well-known and recognized Chinese female celebrities active in the South Korean entertainment scene along with fellow miss A member Jia.
Carl Andre.  Carl Andre (born September 16 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture 1977 in Hartford CT and Lament for the Children 1976 in Long Island City NY) to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space (such as 144 Lead Square 1969 or Twenty-fifth Steel Cardinal 1974).
Claire Etcherelli.  Claire Etcherelli (born 1934 in Bordeaux) is a French novelist who has won Femina Prize * for her novel Elise or the real life (1967)*
Plinio Plini.  Plinio Plini (Perugia Umbria late 19th century) was an Italian painter mainly painting interior vedute of churches in oil and watercolor.He was a resident and active in Perugia. In 1872 he exhibited at the Exposition of Milan The Choir of the church of San Pietro in Perugia and La cappella del Cambio of the same city.
Bob Grumman.  Bob Grumman (born 1941) is a mathematical poet and critic of what he calls otherstream poetry. He was a columnist for Factsheet Five from 1987 to 1992 and has written a regular column for Small Press Review since 1993. He has been a participant in international mail art since 1985. His work is represented in a number of museums and archives devoted to concrete and visual poetry. Considerations of his work have appeared in Meat Epoch Factsheet Five Taproot Reviews and elsewhere.
Ashley Leitão.  Ashley Leitão (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛʃli lejˈtɐ̃w] born December 6 1986) Is a Canadian recording artist. She was the ninth-place finisher on the third season of the reality show Canadian Idol in 2005. Her heritage is Portuguese. As of 2005 she resided in Burnaby British Columbia.After Idol she and two other contestants formed the group Braided releasing an album in 2006 on which Leitão duetted with figure skating champion Elvis Stojko.
Max Hardberger.  Florian Max Hardberger (born November 19 1948) is an American adventurer ship captain aviator ship recovery specialist admiralty lawyer and author of maritime fiction and non-fiction adventures.
Rikard Wolff.  Rikard Wolff (born 8 April 1958 in Farsta outside Stockholm) is a Swedish stage and screen actor and singer.He voiced Scar in the Swedish dub of The Lion King. He also starred in the movie Änglagård and its sequel among other films.
Soulshock.  Carsten Schack (born in Aalborg Denmark in 1968) and better known by his stage name Soulshock is a Danish record producer and songwriter.
Andy Quan.  Andy Quan (born 7 July 1969 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a Chinese-Canadian author who now lives in Sydney Australia. In his writing he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact. Quan is openly gay.In addition to his writing Quan is a musician and community activist and has worked as a policy writer and project manager on issues related to the global HIV epidemic.
Mark Abramson.  Mark Abramson was an American record producer and artist. He produced recordings of Judy Collins The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Bob Gibson Love Phil Ochs Tom Rush Josh White The Wackers and many other artists. Starting out as one of Elektra Records's earliest producers in 1958 he learned audio engineering working closely with label founder Jac Holzman.
Emmanuel Espinosa.  Emmanuel Espinoza: One of the most important influential (exponentially and directly) and biggest contributors to the Christian music in the latin community. Emmanuel Espinosa is a Christian musician multi-instrumentalist singer producer composer and songwriter from Hermosillo Sonora México. He is the founder and bassist of Christian rock band Rojo along with his wife Linda (lead vocals).
Michael Andrew Law.  Michael Andrew Law (Chinese: 羅卓睿;born November 13 1982 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong Contemporary Artist painter Hong Kong film producer.
Stanislav Baretsky.  Stas Baretsky (born 8 March 1972 Lomonosov USSR) is a Russian musician. He has worked with the groups Leningrad and EU.
Adam Barry.  Adam Barry is the Hammond/Piano/Accordion/Harmonica/Backing Vocalistist for the Folk group Merrymouth (band) Led by Barry Simon Fowler & Dan Sealey from Ocean Colour Scene. Before joining Merrymouth Barry was a co-founder member of the band The Misers.
Asbjørn Øksendal.  Asbjørn Øksendal (born August 4 1922) is a Norwegian novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Mosjøen Helgeland. He has written several books on the subject of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany including Lurøy-affæren from 1966 Operasjon Oleander from 1968 Når nøden er størst (on POW camps in Trøndelag) from 1969 Sluttspill i Rinnans bandekloster (on Sonderabteilung Lola) from 1971 and Gulltransporten (on the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury) from 1974.
Elaine Thornburgh.  Elaine Thornburgh is an American keyboardist; she teaches harpsichord at Stanford University. As a soloist she was semi-finalist in the Sixth International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges Belgium in 1980 and she also received a National Endowment of the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant in 1984 .
Astronautalis.  Charles Andrew Bothwell (born December 13 1981) better known by his stage name Astronautalis is an American alternative hip hop artist currently based in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Kim Hartman.  Kim Lesley Hartman (born 11 January 1952) is an English actress best known for her role as Private Helga Geerhart in the British television series 'Allo 'Allo!.She was educated at the The King's High School for Girls Warwick.[citation needed] and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art London.In addition to 'Allo 'Allo! Hartman's television acting credits also include Casualty and The Brittas Empire The Kelly Montieth Show Fifteen Storeys High Miss Jones and Son and Grange Hill (3 series). 
Dudley Leavitt (publisher).  Dudley Leavitt (1772 – September 20 1851) was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter New Hampshire and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school. Within a few years Leavitt relocated to Meredith where in addition to teaching school and farming he began publishing in 1797 Leavitt's Farmers Almanack one of the nation's earliest farmers almanacs.
Carl Macek.  Carl F. Macek (September 21 1951 – April 17 2010) was an American screenwriter script editor director and producer on numerous English language adaptations of anime during the 1980s and 1990s. His work is considered by many to have been invaluable in creating mainstream awareness of Japanese animation in the US.
Willie Dixon.  William James Willie Dixon (July 1 1915 – January 29 1992) was an American blues musician vocalist songwriter arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the upright bass and the guitar and as a vocalist Dixon is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time.
Gene Veno.  Gene G. Veno is the Chief Recovery Officer for Harrisburg School District President and CEO of the American Association of Public Adjusters (AAPIA) and founder of Veno & Associates.
Baburaj.  Mohammad Sabir Baburaj (Malayalam: എം.എസ്‌. ബാബുരാജ്) also known as M. S. Baburaj was a Malayalam music composer. He is often credited for the renaissance of Malayalam film music. Baburaj has rendered music to many evergreen Malayalam film songs.
George Ault.  George Copeland Ault (October 11 1891 – December 30 1948) was an American painter. He was loosely grouped with the Precisionist movement and though influenced by Cubism and Surrealism his most lasting work is of a realist nature.Ault was born in Cleveland Ohio USA into a wealthy family and spent his youth in London England where he studied at the Slade School of Art and St John's Wood School of Art.
S. F. Said.  S. F. Said is a British author. He was born in Beirut in 1967 and spent his first years in Jordan. He grew up in the Iraqi diasporic community in London moving there with his mother at the age of two. After graduating from the University of Cambridge he worked as a press attaché and speech writer for the Crown Prince of Jordan’s office in London. He began a Ph.D.
Les Kurbas.  Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas (Ukrainian: Олександр-Зенон Степанович Курбас 1887–1937) a Ukrainian movie and theater director is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed together with Vsevolod Meyerhold Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors the Soviet theater avantgarde in the 1920s and 30s.
Thomas Noel (poet).  Thomas Noel (11 May 1799 – 22 May 1861) was an English poet.The son of a clergyman Noel graduated from Oxford in 1824. He married Emily Anne Halliday in 1831. He was a friend of the House of Commons librarian Thomas Vardon and Anne Isabella Byron Baroness Byron.
Paatje Phefferkorn.  Verdi Phefferkorn von Offenbach (Bandung 1922) better known as ‘Paatje Phefferkorn’ is an iconic Indo (Eurasian) practitioner of the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat in the Netherlands. As one of its best known teachers he has played an important role in increasing the popularity of this Martial Art in the Netherlands and Europe.Paatje Phefferkorn is also the creator of the informal Indo flag and emblem.
TABU Ultra Lounge.  TABU Ultra Lounge opened in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand in 2004 and closed in April 2013.
Antye Greie.  Antye Greie aka AGF or poemproducer is a vocalist musician composer producer and new media artist. She was born and raised in East Germany and developed an early interest for music and poetry and philosophy.
Éric Thériault.  Éric Thériault (born 1967 in Trois-Rivières Quebec) is a Canadian comics artist and writer illustrator and blogger living in Montreal Quebec Canada.
Cosmo Baker.  Cosmo Baker is a New York based DJ music producer and turntablist.Baker was born in Reno Nevada and at two years of age he moved back to his family's hometown Philadelphia with his mother and older sister photographer Zoe Strauss. A lifelong music enthusiast at the age of 16 he was DJing at many of the city's biggest nightclubs including Revival Sugarcube and Silk City holding one of the original resident spots alongside King Britt at the legendary Back 2 Basics party.
Manish Arora.  Manish Arora (Hindi:मनीष अरोरा) (Punjabi: ਮਨੀਸ਼ ਅਰੋੜਾ) is an Indian fashion designer based in New Delhi. In early 2011 he was appointed creative director of the womenswear collection of the French fashion house Paco Rabanne although he left the company in May 2012.
Edwin (musician).  Edwin is a Canadian alternative rock singer and solo artist from Toronto and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush. He went solo in late 1997 and released three albums from 1999 to 2006. He is currently the lead singer for the newly formed Canadian super group Crash Karma as well as a bartender at Tattoo Rock Parlour in Toronto Canada.
Barbara Casasola.  Barbara Casasola (born 16 June 1984) is a London-based Brazil-born fashion designer. She presents two womenswear collections a year for her eponymous label during London Fashion Week.
Sha Stimuli.  Sha Stimuli born Sherod Khaalis (August 9 1978) is an American rapper from Brooklyn New York. He is known for his mixtape releases beginning with Let Me Show You The Way in 2002 which earned him a spot in Source Magazine's Unsigned Hype section. Sha Stimuli is cousin of Dre Knight and is the younger brother of producer and rapper Lord Digga through whom he was introduced to known Brooklyn rappers such as Notorious B.I.G and Masta Ace.
Polly Morgan.  Polly Morgan (born 1980) is a London-based British artist who uses taxidermy to create works of art.
Al King.  for the 1930s singer see Henry BurrAlvin K. Smith stage name Al King (d. Oakland California January 21 1999) was an American blues singer of the 1960s. He also wrote songs under his real name Smith as in On My Way the B-side of his first single covering Reconsider Baby in 1964.
Keri Hilson.  Keri Lynn Hilson (born December 5 1982) is an American singer songwriter and actress. She was born and raised in Decatur Georgia and spent most of her youth working with producer Anthony Dent as a songwriter and background vocalist for several R&B and hip hop artists. By the age of 14 Hilson had secured a record deal with the girl group D'Signe who later disbanded.
Willem Frederik Hermans.  Willem Frederik Hermans (September 1 1921 – April 27 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry novels short stories plays as well as booklength studies essays and literary criticism. His most famous works are The House of Refuge (novella 1952) The Darkroom of Damocles (novel 1958) and Beyond Sleep (novel 1966).
Diego Torres.  Diego Antonio Caccia Torres (born March 9 1971 on Buenos Aires) also known as Diego Torres is an Argentine two Grammy Award-nominated pop singer songwriter composer musician and actor (of films theater and television). He is the son of the legendary Argentine artist Lolita Torres (1930-2002).
Yuma Asami.  Yuma Asami (麻美 ゆま Asami Yuma) is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress who has also appeared in soft-core gravure videos V-Cinema pink films and TV dramas.
Mayte Macanás.  Mayte Gómez Macanás (March 7 1984 Murcia Spain) who performs under the name Mayte is a Spanish singer and was 11th placed finalist on the fifth series of reality television show Operación Triunfo.
Andy Duguid.  Andy Duguid (born November 16 1982) is a Scottish DJ and producer. Although born in Germany he moved to England before relocating to Scotland around 1990 where he has lived since. His best known singles Don't Belong and Wasted both featuring Gita Bakradze as Leah were included on Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise-series in 2007 and 2008.
Johnny Burke (lyricist).  John Johnny Francis Burke (October 3 1908 - February 25 1964) was a lyricist widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s. His song Swinging on a Star from the Bing Crosby film 'Going My Way' won an Academy Award for Best Song in 1944.
Jessica Jung.  Jessica Sooyeon Jung (Korean name: Jung Soo-yeon; born April 18 1989) is an an American-born Korean singer dancer songwriter actress and model best known as a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. Born and raised in San Francisco California she is fluent in both of her native languages English and Korean after moving to South Korea at age 11.
István Péter Németh.  István Péter Németh (Hungarian: Németh István Péter) is a Hungarian poet and literary historian.
Ben Hammersley.  Ben Hammersley FRSA FRGS (born 3 April 1976 in Leicester England) is a British internet technologist journalist author and broadcaster currently based in London England. As of 2013 he is a fellow of the Robert Schuman School for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute Innovator-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative and Social Technologies at Goldsmiths University of London.
Toshiyuki Nagashima.  Toshiyuki Nagashima (永島敏行 Nagashima Toshiyuki) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for Best Newcomer at the 3rd Hochi Film Awards for Kaerazaru hibi and for Best Actor at the 6th Hochi Film Awards for Enrai.
Robyn Loau.  Robyn Loau (born c. 1972) is an Australian singer songwriter and actress. From 1991 to 1994 she was lead singer of pop group Girlfriend before leaving the group to become the face and voice of world music project Siva Pacifica. Loau launched her solo career in 1997 with the Adamski produced single Sick With Love.
Georges Simenon.  Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Ian Blurton.  Ian Blurton is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was born in Champaign IL in 1965 and moved to Toronto in 1973He has been a part of Toronto's indie music scene since the early 1980s playing drums in the original line-ups for Cowboy Junkies and A Neon Rome before becoming the lead vocalist guitarist and songwriter for Change of Heart.
Robert Chafe.  Robert Chafe (born 1971) is a Canadian playwright whose play Afterimage won the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
Midori (pornographic actress).  Midori (born July 19 1968 in Durham North Carolina U.S.) is an American pornographic actress who was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2009.
Frances Day.  Frances Day (real name Frances Victoria Schenck December 16 1908 – April 29 1984) was an American actress and singer who achieved great popularity in the UK in the 1930s.Day's career began as a nightclub cabaret singer in New York City and London. She toured the provinces in 1930 and made her London stage debut at the Hippodrome in 1932. In the 1950s she was a regular panellist on the British version of the popular TV series What's My Line?
George E. Ohr.  George Edgar Ohr (July 12 1857 – April 7 1918) was an American ceramic artist and the self-proclaimed Mad Potter of Biloxi. In recognition of his innovative experimentation with modern clay forms from 1880–1910 someconsider him the father of the American Abstract-Expressionism movement.[citation needed]
Phillip Mitchell.  Leroy Phillip Mitchell (born June 27 1944) often credited as Prince Phillip Mitchell is an American R&B singer songwriter and record producer. He wrote Starting All Over Again for Mel and Tim and It Hurts So Good and Leftovers which were both hits for Millie Jackson as well as having some success in the 1970s and 1980s as a solo singer.
Richie Furay.  Paul Richard Richie Furay (born May 9 1944 Yellow Springs Ohio) is an American singer songwriter and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills Neil Young Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin and Poco with Jim Messina Rusty Young George Grantham and Randy Meisner.
Takayoshi Ohmura.  Takayoshi Ohmura (大村孝佳 Ōmura Takayoshi) is a Japanese musician popular as a rock guitarist. He was born on December 26 1983 in Osaka. He started learning piano at the age of three. By the age of 11 he had started to play acoustic guitar moving to electric guitar at the age of 14. By the age of 17 he was heavily into hard rock/heavy rock of the western-style music and devoted himself into it.He decided to attend Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in 2002 in the MI Japan Osaka school.
Domenico Parodi.  Domenico Parodi (1672 – Genoa December 19 1742) was an Italian painter as well as a sculptor and architect of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi.
Balcomb Greene.  Balcomb Greene (1904–1990) and his wife artist Gertrude Glass Greene were heavily involved in political activism to promote mainstream acceptance of abstract art. They were founding members of the American Abstract Artists organization. His early style was completely non-objective. Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian as well as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse influenced his early style. From the 1940s his work opened out to the light and space of natural form. He painted landscapes and figure.
Larry Hama.  Larry Hama (born June 7 1949) is an American comic book writer artist actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.During the 1970s he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. 
Munier Choudhury.  Munier Chowdhury (Bengali: মুনীর চৌধুরী; 27 November 1925 – 14 December 1971) born in 1925 at Manikganj Dhaka hailed from Noakhali was a Bangladeshi educationist playwright literary critic and political dissident.
Mike D.  Michael Diamond better known as Mike D (born November 20 1965) is a founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Mike D raps sings and plays drums.
Joey Sturgis.  Joey Sturgis (born 1985) is an American record producer and owner of The Foundation Recording Studio in Connersville Indiana. Joey Sturgis started recording in 2004.Foundation Recording Studio is managed by Rise Records founder Craig Ericson.
Will Turpin.  William Ross Turpin (born February 8 1971) is an American musician. He is best known for being the bassist of the rock band Collective Soul. He is also a solo artist and tours with his backing band The Way. His debut EP The Lighthouse was released in 2011.
Nancy Werlin.  Nancy Werlin (born October 29 1961) is an American writer of young-adult novels. She was born in Peabody Massachusetts raised in that state and graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale College. She was a National Book Award nominee for The Rules of Survival a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel for The Killer's Cousin in 1999 and an Edgar award finalist for Locked Inside.
Dice Raw.  Karl Jenkins better known as Dice Raw is an American hip hop artist from Philadelphia. He is associated with The Roots and one of the founding members of the now defunct musical group Nouveau Riche.He hooked up with the band while still in high school after Kelo a member of the group's production team spotted him in a local talent show. The group quickly took the young rapper under their collective wings and decided to bring his talent along slowly. He made his debut in The Lesson Pt.
Bernard Waber.  Bernard Waber (September 27 1921-May 16 2013) was an American children's author most famous for the books The House on East 88th Street (1962) Lyle Lyle Crocodile (1965) and the subsequent books in the Lyle series.
Llywarch Llaety.  Llywarch Llaety (fl. c. 1140 – 1160) was a Welsh language court poet.A single poem by Llywarch survives the earliest text of which is found in the Hendregadredd manuscript in praise of Llywelyn ap Madog son and heir of prince Madog ap Maredudd of Powys.It is possible that Llywarch Llaety is the same person as the poet Llywarch y Nam who also composed a poem in honour of Llywelyn ap Madog.
Lew Dockstader.  Lew Dockstader (born George Alfred Clapp August 7 1856 Hartford Connecticut - died October 26 1924 New York City) was a United States singer comedian and Vaudeville star best known as a blackface minstrel show performer in the late 19th century and early years of the 20th century.Dockstader performed both as a solo act and leading a popular Minstrel troupe.
A. M. W. Stirling.  A.M.W. Stirling (26 August 1865 London – 11 August 1965) was the author of several books dealing mostly with the lives and reminiscences of the British landed gentry of Yorkshire. She was also the founder of the De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society.
Jeffree Star.  Jeffree Star (born Jeffrey Lynn Steininger) is an American model fashion designer makeup artist DJ and singer-songwriter residing in Beverly Hills California. He started his music career on MySpace with over 25 million plays on his self-released music. He is known for his fashion line and his transgressive gender-bending appearance and persona.
Bertil H. van Boer.  Bertil H. van Boer jr. is an American musicologist.
Geoff Reading.  Geoff Reading (born February 23 1968 in Rochester New York) is an American musician.
Cavin Soh.  Cavin Soh (Chinese: 苏智诚; pinyin: Sū Zhīchéng) is a Singaporean actor host singer and radio DJ.
Billy Butler (singer).  Billy Butler (born June 7 1945 Chicago Illinois) is an American soul singer and songwriter active principally in the 1960s and early 1970s.Butler is Jerry Butler's younger brother. He formed the vocal group The Enchanters while at high school. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1963 and was produced initially by Curtis Mayfield and later by Carl Davis.
Asa Taccone.  Asa Taccone is the son of Sue Ellen and Tony Taccone and was born in Berkeley California. He is the lead singer of the indie rock band band Electric Guest together with Matthew Cornbread Compton. When they are on tour brothers Tory Dahlhoff and Todd Dahlhoff join them on scene. His older brother Jorma Taccone is part of the trio The Lonely Island together with Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg.
Eva Pilarová.  Eva Pilarová (born 9 August 1939 in Brno) is a Czech singer and actress. Four times winner of the Golden Nightingale in category singers in accordance to the reader's poll Golden Nightingale.[citation needed] In 1967 she won the International Intervision Song Contest in Bavaria and was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque for her interpretation of Requiem.She was singing since childhood including classical music.
Roy Haynes.  Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13 1925 in the Roxbury section of Boston Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz and in a career lasting more than 60 years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz.
Raef al Hasan Rafa.  Raef Al Hasan Rafa (born in October 27 1986) is a Bangladeshi musician drummer singer songwriter guitarist bassist keyboardist mouth organist sound engineer and a music producer. He is known for his work as a drummer and vocalist of Aurthohin Severe Dementia and Kral and also the founding member of ‘The Joint Family]. Known by the nickname ‘Rafa’ he is a young and versatile musician of Bangladesh.
Solomon Cleaver.  Solomon Cleaver (1855–1939) was a Winnipeg minister and storyteller best known for his adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables published in 1935 as Jean Val Jean. Cleaver was a well-known orator; and actor Raymond Massey is said to have practiced Cleaver's sermons as a child.Solomon Cleaver's remaining relatives are his great grandsons John Cleaver Barnes and Douglas James Edgar Barnes.
Stefania Barr.  Stefania Noelle Barr (born December 4 1994) is an American actress singer songwriter composer photographer and lead vocalist of indie-alternative rock band Shrink the Giant.
Jaruwat Cheawaram.  Jaruwat Cheawaram (Thai: จารุวัฒน์ เชี่ยวอร่าม; RTGS: Charuwat Chiao-a-ram) also known as Dome (born on 29 September 1991 in Pathum Thani Thailand) is a Thai singer. The champion of The Star Season 8 Thailand's famous singing contest he is known for his songs Kham Athitthan Duai Nam Ta (คำอธิษฐานด้วยน้ำตา) and Alai Rak (อาลัยรัก).
Hannah Stone.  Hannah Stone (born April 1987) is a Welsh harpist from Swansea Wales.
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.  Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (January 4 1890 – 1965) was an American pulp magazine writer and entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic book publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips.
Larry Kirwan.  Larry Kirwan (born in Wexford Ireland) is an expatriate Irish writer and musician most noted as the lead singer for the New York-based Irish rock band Black 47.Prior to Black 47 Kirwan and fellow Wexfordian Pierce Turner were the house band in Malachy McCourt's Bells of Hell in Greenwich Village. Their music was a blend of folk trad progressive rock Celtic rock and punk.
Ryan Murphey.  Ryan Murphey is a Grammy-nominated music producer songwriter guitarist and vocalist. Since 1988 Ryan has toured with his father Michael Martin Murphey as lead guitarist and vocalist in the Rio Grande Band. Ryan is Michael's oldest son and has worked with his father extensively throughout most of his career.
Maja Ivarsson.  Maja Ivarsson (born 2 October 1979) is a Swedish singer and lead vocalist of the Swedish indie rock band The Sounds.
King Mellow Yellow.  King Mellow Yellow (born in Kingston Jamaica) was a Jamaican Dancehall DJ. Being one of three popular albino DJs in the 1980s (Yellowman Purpleman and King Mellow Yellow) in song he often referred to himself as The Yellow Hands.
Agallah.  Agallah (also known as 8-Off the Assassin or Don Bishop) born Angel Aguilar February 17 1974 is an American rapper of Puerto Rican and Fillipino descent who was a member of the The Diplomats-affiliated group Purple City and the group Propain campaign. He was formerly known as 8-Off Agallah but changed the name because it was controversial; 8-Off is a variation of the name Adolf.[citation needed]He has ghostwritten songs for many well-known artists.
Geneviève Castrée.  Geneviève Castrée (born 1981) is a Canadian comics artist illustrator and musician from Quebec. She once recorded under the name Woelv and has recently switched to Ô PAON. She was born in Loretteville Quebec and now lives in the Pacific Northwestern United States. She has performed and exhibited her art-work and music extensively at international venues and galleries.
Anthony Hulme.  Anthony Hulme (1910–2007) was a British film actor.
Mercedes Gallego.  Mercedes Gallego (Born July 4 1970) is a Spanish journalist and author who specializes in foreign policy and the coverage of conflicts wars and natural disasters. She has served as a foreign correspondent for various Spanish newspapers since 1994. In 2003 she was the only Spanish female journalist who covered the invasion of Iraq as an embedded journalist among the US troops.
Lincoln Jean-Marie.  Lincoln Jean-Marie is a British singer born in London EnglandJean-Marie has over fifteen years working experience as a singer songwriter and arranger of both lead and backing vocals. He was also a member of the four-piece a cappella group Peace by Piece who were signed to Warner Bros. Records released two UK singles and won Best Newcomers at the MOBO award.Jean-Marie is the father of songwriter Tre Jean-Marie.
Moka Only.  Daniel Denton (born November 14 1973) better known by his stage name Moka Only is a Canadian underground hip hop artist.Originally from Langford British Columbia near Victoria he is now based in Vancouver. He was previously part of the hip hop group Swollen Members and briefly a part of Len. His albums are released by Feelin' Music Legendary Entertainment Battleaxe Records Domination Recordings and URBNET Records.
Julian Samuel.  Julian Samuel (born May 7 1952) is a Pakistani-born Canadian documentary filmmaker writer and painter. He has produced and directed a number of films that examine the historical and contemporary relationship between the Western world the Middle East and Asia set against larger subjects in contemporary society. Palestine's struggle for self-determination is a recurring theme in his work. Notable films include Atheism (2006) Save and Burn (2004) and The Library in Crisis (2002).
David Fitzgerald (author).  David Fitzgerald is an American author public speaker historical researcher and atheist activist.
Mattos Nascimento.  Mattos Nascimento is a Brazilian musician singer composer and trombonist. In the 1980s he used to perform with the famous Brazilian band Os Paralamas do Sucesso. Since he became a follower of Jesus Christ on November 19 1989 he's been dedicating himself exclusively to a solo career recording dozens of albums. He has his own music label called Mattos Nascimento Discos and was the pioneer in his family to get into the gospel music scene.
Rob G..  Rob G (born December 4 1973) is an American comics artist who has done work for DC Comics Image Comics and AiT/Planet Lar and is best known for Teenagers from Mars and The Couriers.
Luca Turilli.  Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian musician (primarily a guitarist) and songwriter. He is one of the founders of the symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He also worked on a trilogy of solo albums as Luca Turilli and released one album under the name of Luca Turilli's Dreamquest a project he worked on alongside Dominique Leurquin. In 2008 Luca began an online guitar course titled Luca Turilli's Neoclassical Revelation.
Massad (musician).  Massad Barakat-Devine (born 27 September 1993) known mononymously as Massad is a New Zealand pop musician. He co-hosts TV2 show The 4.30 Show along with Eve Palmer and ex-The Erin Simposon Show presenter Michael Lee.
Catherine MacLellan.  Catherine MacLellan is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter currently based in Prince Edward Island. The daughter of Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan she was born and raised in Summerside Prince Edward Island.Before beginning her solo recording career she sang with The New Drifts a four piece band featuring Island musicians James Phillips (guitar mandolin) Stéphane Bouchard (bass) and Dave Gould (drums & percussion).
Michael Edwards (British composer).  Michael Edwards (born Cheshire 1968) is a British composer.Edwards studied oboe and composition with Adrian Beaumont at the University of Bristol followed by further study at Stanford University.
Cavan Scott.  Cavan Scott (born 17 April 1973) is a freelance author journalist and editor best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He was script editor on the first series of Highlander talking books and co-produced Iris Wildthyme for Big Finish Productions.
Robert Muchamore.  Robert Muchamore (born 26 December 1972) is an English author most notable for writing the CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novels.
Korla Awgust Kocor.  Korla Awgust Kocor (3 December 1822 – 19 May 1904; German: Karl August Katzer) was a Sorbian composer and conductor.Kocor was born in Großpostwitz. He was the composer of the music of the Lusatian national anthem Rjana Łužica. He has been called the founding father of secular Sorbian music.
Agnès Jaoui.  Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is an award-winning French screenwriter film director actress and singer.She frequently works in collaboration with her former partner Jean-Pierre Bacri.
Nikita Lalwani.  Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota Rajasthan in 1973 and raised in Cardiff Wales. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She studied English at Bristol University and her first book Gifted was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. She was also nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. In June 2008 she won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction.
Will Clarke (novelist).  Will Clarke (born August 13 1970) is an American novelist who is the author of Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (sort of) and The Worthy: A Ghost's Story.A native of Shreveport Louisiana Clarke originally self-published both books via the Internet and independent books stores like Book Soup in Los Angeles BookPeople in Austin and Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. Clarke's books eventually became underground hits in the early part of the 2000s.
Antonio Gandini.  Antonio Gandini (1565 – 17 July 1630) was a Spanish painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was a pupil of the painter Paolo Veronese. In Brescia his pupils were Ottavio Amigoni Francesco Barbieri (il Legnano) and Ambrogio Besozzi.His son Bernardino (died 1651) was also a painter.
Toto Cutugno.  Salvatore Toto Cutugno (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtɔto kuˈtuɲɲo]; born 7 July 1943) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. Cutugno may be best known for his worldwide hit song L'Italiano which was on his hit CD I Grandi Successi.
Thomas Dalziel.  Thomas Bolton Dalziel (1823–1906) was an engraver known chiefly for his illustrations of the work of Charles Dickens.Thomas Dalziel produced many illustrations for books published by the family firm the Brothers Dalziel.
Tess Mallos.  Tess Mallos (née Anastasia Calopades) (25 January 1933 – 31 July 2012) was an Australian food and cooking writer journalist author and commentator. She wrote a number of books on Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine.
Cherry Adair.  Cherry Adair (born in Cape Town) is an award-winning and best-selling South African American romantic fiction writer. She lives near Seattle Washington with her husband and their two standard schnauzers Max and Chase who compete nationally in agility trials.
Michael Varhol.  Michael Varhol is a screenwriter and film producer. He is most notable for his work on Pee-wee's Big Adventure and The Big Picture.He is currently working as an Acting Performance teacher at The East Los Angeles skills center for Woodrow Wilson High School (Los Angeles)
Nina Morato.  Nina Morato (born Stéphanie Morato 2 March 1966 Paris) is a French singer-songwriter best known for her participation in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
Silva Hakobyan.  Silva Hakobyan (Armenian: Սիլվա Հակոբյան) is an Armenian singer. She won the competition for the Next Big Thing presented by BBC.
Kenny Starr.  Kenneth Trebbe (b. September 21 1952 Topeka Kansas) is an American country singer known professionally as Kenny Starr. He recorded for MCA Records between 1973 and 1978 charting thirteen singles and releasing one studio album. For much of the 1970s he was a member of Loretta Lynn's touring band the Coal Miners. Lynn is frequently credited with discovering him. Starr's biggest hit was a cover of David Geddes's single The Blind Man in the Bleachers.
Peter Lanyon.  (George) Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a Cornish painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the age of forty-six he achieved a body of work that is amongst the most original and important reappraisals of modernism in painting to be found anywhere.
Lewis Watson (musician).  Lewis Watson (born 19 October 1992) is an English singer-songwriter. Lewis was raised in Bicester Oxfordshire Watson is currently playing in venues around the UK and other locations. 2012 saw the release of his first EPs 'It's got four sad songs on it BTW' and 'Another four sad songs' which ultimately lead to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records. 'The Wild' was his third EP which was released in March 2013.
Junqueira Freire.  Luís José Junqueira Freire (December 31 1832 – June 24 1855) was a Brazilian poet and Benedictine monk adept of the Ultra-Romanticism movement and author of Inspirações do Claustro. He is the patron of the 25th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Kelly Harrell.  Kelly Harrell (September 13 1889 - July 9 1942) was a country music singer in the 1920s. He recorded more than a dozen songs for OKeh and Victor Records and wrote songs which were recorded by other artists including Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Stoneman in his own lifetime.
Sarah McEvoy.  Sarah McEvoy is a Canadian author and artist.
Eugène Ogé.  Eugène Ogé (1861–1936) was a French poster artist who in 1902 produced one of the best-known anticlerical images of its period La Lanterne.He also made a large number of commercial posters for products.
Keli Carender.  Keli Carender (born c. 1981) is an American blogger credited with being the first Tea Party protest activist when she was the principal organizer of a protest of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 16 2009. Carender started her blog Redistributing Knowledge on January 25 2009 writing under the nom de plume Liberty Belle.
Michael Grant (crime writer).  Michael Grant is an American author. He is a 23-year veteran of the NYPD and a former security director.[citation needed]
Antje Rávic Strubel.  Antje Rávic Strubel is a German writer. She was born in 1974 in Potsdam.
Terje Rypdal.  Terje Rypdal (born 23 August 1947 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling. Over the years he has been an important member in the Norwegian jazz community and has also given show concerts with guitarists Ronni Le Tekrø and Mads Eriksen as N3.
Katherine Marsh.  Katherine Marsh (born November 11 1974) is a writer of children's fantasy literature most notobably The Night Tourist and an editor of nonfiction articles.She was a high school teacher before moving to New York City where she began writing for magazines such as Rolling Stone and Good Housekeeping. Some of her nonfiction stories about her home state of New York have appeared in the New York Times.
Mike Doughty.  Mike Doughty (/ˈdoʊtiː/ DOH-tee; born June 10 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s.
Zebedee Armstrong.  Zebedee B. Armstrong (October 11 1911–1993) aka Z.B. Armstrong was an outsider artist best known for his doomsday calendars.Armstrong was born in Thomson Georgia. He went to school until eighth grade. He married in 1929 and had two daughters. For much of his life he worked picking cotton on the local Mack McCormick farm. After his wife died in 1969 he began to work at the Thomson Box Factory staying there until 1982.
Rico (Scottish singer).  Rico Capuano better known simply as Rico is a musician from Glasgow Scotland.
Marvano.  Mark van Oppen better known as Marvano is a Belgian comic artist.
Kentarō Kobayashi.  Kentarō Kobayashi (小林 賢太郎 Kobayashi Kentarō born 17 April 1973) is a Japanese comedian actor dramaturge theatre director and manga artist. Outside of Japan he is most well known for directing and acting in The Japanese Tradition (日本の形) videos (e.g. Sushi (鮨)) and for playing the Mac (opposite Jin Katagiri who plays the PC) in the Get A Mac advertising campaign in Japan. He is a member of the Rahmens owarai comedy duo.
Hayley Taylor.  Hayley Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and actress whose songs have been featured on many popular television shows including How I Met Your Mother Royal Pains and Pretty Little Liars.
Nature (rapper).  Jermain Baxter (born December 5 1972) better known as Nature is an American rapper best known for his association with fellow Queensbridge-born rapper Nas and having replaced Cormega in the original Firm QB group.
Tawiah.  Beverly Tawiah also known as Tawiah is a female soul/R&B singer from South London England. She has been a backup singer for Corinne Bailey Rae The Guillemots and Mark Ronson's touring band The Version Players with whom she toured internationally.After graduating from the BRIT School Tawiah self-released her debut EP In Jodi's Bedroom (the title referring to the location of the recording) on her own record label Bush Girl.
Dave Amato.  David Paul Dave Amato (born March 3 1953) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band REO Speedwagon since May 1989.
Willie Murphy (musician).  Willie Murphy (born in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an American pianist singer producer and songwriter. He is best known as a singer and pianist for the blues band Willie and the Bees and his work with Bonnie Raitt and John Koerner.
Nienke van Hichtum.  Sjoukje Maria Diderika Troelstra-Bokma de Boer (13 February 1860 – 9 January 1939) better known under her pseudonym Nienke van Hichtum was a well-known Frisian Dutch children's author. From 1888 to 1904 she was married to famous politician Pieter Jelles Troelstra.Van Hichtum wrote books and stories in both West Frisian her native language and Dutch. She has an award named after her the Nienke van Hichtum Award.
Richard Cray.  Richard Cray (born September 10 1958) is an American actor and singer.Richard began singing when he was nine years old.
Jillian Mayer.  Jillian Mayer is a visual performance artist and filmmaker based in Florida.Mayer's video works and performances have been displayed at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. She was recently featured in Art Papers and in ArtNews discussing identity Internet and her artistic practices and influences.
Martin Shapiro.  Martin Shapiro is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. He created the horror comic book series Chopper published by Asylum Press and wrote the screenplay for the movie version of it.
Andrew Westoll.  Andrew Westoll is an award winning Canadian non-fiction writer who won the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for his book The Chimps of Fauna Foundation: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery.A primatologist Westoll previously published the travel memoir The Riverbones about a year he spent studying capuchin monkeys in Suriname in 2008. He is also a contributor to The Walrus Explore Outpost and The Globe and Mail.
Tracy Cox.  Tracy Cox (born October 10 1985 in Texas) is an American operatic soprano. Tracy Cox has performed lead roles and as a featured soloist at Los Angeles Opera the Colburn SchoolRoyce Hall The Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and the Fox Theater under the batons of such maestros as Plácido Domingo James Conlin and Stephen Lord.Tracy is currently a young artist in residence at the LA Opera Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program.
Getatchew Mekurya.  Getatchew Mekurya (Amharic: ጌታቸው መኩሪያ) (born 1935) is an Ethiopian jazz saxophonist.
Rob Halford.  Robert John Arthur Rob Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English singer-songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is considered one of the most consistently powerful singers in rock possessing a wide vocal range and is particularly known for his trademark high-pitched operatic soaring screams. In addition to his work with Judas Priest he has been involved with several side projects including Fight 2wo and Halford.
Svenne Hedlund.  Sven Ove Svenne Hedlund (born 1 March 1945 in Solna Sweden) is Swedish pop singer. He is member of the music group Idolerna.He sang in the Swedish bands Clifftones and Hep Stars in the 1960s. In 1968 the singer Charlotte Walker (born 1944) became a member of the band and the upcoming year they formed the duo Svenne & Lotta (called Sven & Charlotte in several countries).Hedlund is still making records in Sweden the latest charting one being Svenne Hedlund Sings Elvis in Memphis in 2010.
Dave DMello.  Dave D'Mello (born as David Fisher on 13 June 1970 in Sidcup Kent England) is a British dance music DJ and record producer from Maidstone United Kingdom whom started life as a professional / semi professional footballer and was infamously banned for life. As a DJ he is known for his signature dirty funky house driven' style and often blends elements of funk rock and old school.
Henning Haslund-Christensen.  Henning Haslund-Christensen (1896–1948) was a Danish travel writer and anthropologist.
Audrey Niffenegger.  Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13 1963) is an American writer artist and academic.
Oswald Hoepfner.  K. M. Oswald Hoepfner (January 7 1872 – June 18 1957) was an American sculptor noted for his work as an architectural sculptor.
Ivan Shamiakin.  Ivan Shamiakin (Belarusian: Іван Шамякін) (January 30 1921 – October 14 2004) — a Soviet Belarusian writer he was perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the Soviet BSSR writing in a socialist realist style.He was born in 1921 the village of Karma Homiel Voblast Belarus studied construction engineering in a vocational school (1940) then fought in World War II taking part in battles near Murmansk and in Poland.
Tom Lord-Alge.  Tom Lord-Alge is a three-time Grammy Award winning American music producer engineer and mixer. Having begun as an engineer and producer he now works almost exclusively as a mix engineer. Lord-Alge received two Grammy Awards for his work on Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life (1986) and Roll With It (1988) - both winning in the Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical category. Lord-Alge's third Grammy was for Santana's Supernatural (1999) which won Album of the Year.
Alexander Bek.  Alexander Alfredovich Bek (Russian: Алекса́ндр Альфре́дович Бек; 3 January 1903 [O.S. 21 December 1902] – 2 November 1972) sometimes transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic as Aleksandr Bek or Anglicized to Alexander Beck was a Soviet novelist and writer.
Carman Lee.  Carman Lee Yeuk-tung (Chinese: 李若彤; born August 16 1973) is a Hong Kong actress who has appeared in films such as The Wicked City (1992) Loving You (1995) The Odd One Lives (1997) and the North American Knock Off (1998) with Jean-Claude Van Damme. She is best known for her role as Xiaolongnü in the 1995 TV series adaptation of Louis Cha's Wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes.
Anne Giardini.  Anne Giardini is a lawyer author and the eldest daughter of late Canadian novelist Carol Shields. Giardini is licensed to practice law in both Ontario and British Columbia. As a journalist Giardini has contributed to the National Post as a columnist. She lives in Vancouver British Columbia with her husband of more than 25 years and their three children.
Rudy Trouvé.  Rudy Trouvé (born 28 January 1967 in Wilrijk) is a Belgian musician from Antwerp.In the early nineties he founded the Heavenhotel record label and released dozens of records since.
Cristina Córdova.  Cristina Córdova (Born in 1976) is an American-born Puerto Rican sculptor who works and lives in Penland North Carolina.
Eamon Grennan.  Eamon Grennan (born 1941) is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States except for brief periods since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004.Though his Irish roots are clear in his poetry Grennan has an international sense of literary tradition. He has cited as influences American poets including Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop (herself an international poet with ties to the U.S. Canada and Brazil).
Ikuya Sawaki.  Yoshinobu Mikami (三上 芳信 Mikami Yoshinobu born August 25 1951 in Chiba Prefecture) better know by his stage name Ikuya Sawaki (沢木 郁也 Sawaki Ikuya) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Arts Vision.
Melina Aslanidou.  Melina Aslanidou (born 28 August 1970 in Stuttgart Germany) is a Greek singer.
Kambi (rapper).  Kambi (born September 14 1961) better known by his stage name Killa Kambi is an African rapper and producer well known for his singles Running from tha Pahlice Hipped Hop Sahved My Fahce and Shook Cuuves Vol 2.Born in Swaziland's capital Mbabane Kambi left for Montreal in 1976 to pursue his aspirations as a rapper.His work has influenced and been admired by many including Kanye West Eminem Lupe Fiasco 50 Cent Talib Kweli and KRS-One.
Dennis Kavanagh.  Dennis Kavanagh (born 27 March 1941) is a British political analyst and since 1996 has been Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool and now Emeritus Professor. He has written extensively on post-war British politics. With David Butler he wrote the series of books on British general elections most recently The British General Election of 2010.
Vera Inber.  Vera Mikhailovna Inber born Shpenzer Russian: Ве́ра Миха́йловна И́нбер (July 10 1890 Odessa Russian Empire — November 11 1972 Moscow Soviet Union) was a Russian-Soviet poet and writer.
Tsvetelina.  Tzvetelina Dobreva (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Цветелина Добрева) (born July 31 1976) best known by her stage name Tzvetelina (Цветелина) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer. She was born in Petrich Bulgaria but her family subsequently moved to Varna where she spent most of her childhood. After grade seven Tzvetelina attended and graduated from a music high school in Razgrad.
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam.  Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (Telugu: ధర్మవరపు సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం; 20 September 1954 – 7 December 2013) was an Indian comic actor and film director in Telugu language films. He acted in over 870 Telugu movies. He was known for his comedy roles as well as being successful in TV shows.His roles usually are to provide comic relief to the audiences
Piko (singer).  Piko (ピコ Piko born March 11 1988) is a male Japanese pop singer signed to the Sony Music Entertainment sub-label Ki/oon Music. He became popular on the Internet through the video sharing network Nico Nico Douga. His fans call him Ryouseirui (両声類 lit. both voice types) a fan-made word to describe his wide vocal range that includes notes typical of both male and female voice types.His kaomoji is ﾋﾟωﾟｺ.
Misaki Iwasa.  Misaki Iwasa (岩佐 美咲 Iwasa Misaki born January 30 1995 in Chiba Prefecture) is a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and enka singer. Her nickname is Wasamin. Her talent agency is Nagara Productions. She is also a member of the sub-unit Watarirouka Hashiritai 7.
Mike Walker (singer).  Mike Walker is an American country music artist. Signed to DreamWorks Nashville in 2001 he released his self-titled debut album that year. This album produced his only chart single in Honey Do which peaked at number 42 on the Billboard country charts. He also toured with Brooks & Dunn after the release of his album although its second through fifth singles all failed to chart.
Jackie Huggins.  Jacqueline Gail Jackie Huggins AM FAHA (born 19 August 1956) is an Indigenous Australian author historian and Aboriginal rights activist of the Bidjara Central Queensland and Birri-Gubba Juru North Queensland peoples.
Yvonne Elliman.  Yvonne Marianne Elliman (born December 29 1951) is an American singer who performed for four years in the first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. She scored a number of hits in the 1970s and achieved a US #1 hit with If I Can't Have You. After a long hiatus in the 1980s and 1990s during which time she dedicated herself to her family she made a comeback album as a singer-songwriter in 2004.
John J Moses.  John J. Moses is a New York City-based clarinetist who has played with the American Composers Orchestra The New York Pops and The Westchester Philharmonic. He has held a soloist or orchestral role in over 200 films and Broadway productions. Moses is a five time Grammy winner.
David Gale (actor).  David Quentin Gale (2 October 1936 – 18 August 1991) was a British actor.He is primarily known for his role as the evil autocratic (and re-animated) Dr. Carl Hill in the 1985 cult classic film Re-Animator and its 1990 sequel Bride of Re-Animator. After Re-Animator's success he was cast as a villain in a number of other science fiction and horror films such as The Guyver The First Power Syngenor and The Brain before his death during open heart surgery in 1991.
Jim Bishop.  James Alonzo Jim Bishop (November 21 1907 – July 26 1987) was an American journalist and author.Born in Jersey City New Jersey he dropped out of school after eighth grade. In 1923 he studied typing shorthand and bookkeeping and in 1929 began work as a copy boy at the New York Daily News. In 1930 he got a job as a cub reporter at New York Daily Mirror where he worked until 1943 when he joined Collier's Magazine.
King Krule.  Archy Marshall (born 24 August 1994) more commonly known by his stage name King Krule is an English singer-songwriter and musician. After a hectic and troubled childhood he began recording music in 2010. He has released several EPs and his debut full-length album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon came out in 2013 to positive reviews. His music is difficult to classify with elements of various genres like punk jazz hip hop darkwave and trip hop.
Elisabeth Beresford.  Elisabeth Liza Beresford MBE (6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010) was a British author of children's books best known for creating the Wombles. Born into a family with many literary connections she worked as a journalist but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. The strong theme of recycling was particularly notable and the Wombles became very popular with children across the world.
Ángel Recasens.  Ángel Recasens (Cambrils 4 March 1938 - 2 August 2007) was a Spanish organist teacher composer and musicologist best known as a choral conductor.From 1975-1986 he was director of the Coro de Sant Esteve of Vila-seca with whom he performed music from the romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn to the contemporary music of Ligeti and Schnittke.
David Frankham.  David Frankham (born 16 February 1926) is an English film and television actor. After serving in India and Malaya in World War II Frankham worked first as a news reader and then a writer interviewer and producer for the BBC from 1948 through 1955.In 1955 Frankham moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. He soon found work appearing on five episodes of the live television programme Matinee Theatre.
Corey Clark.  Corey Delaney Clark (born July 13 1980) is an American singer. He is known for his highly publicized disqualification from the second season of American Idol and later allegations of a sexual relationship between him and then-Idol judge Paula Abdul.
Paul Pena.  Paul Pena (January 26 1950 – October 1 2005) was an American singer songwriter and guitarist of Cape Verdean descent. His music from the first half of his career touched on Delta blues jazz morna flamenco folk and rock and roll.
Martin Taylor (guitarist).  Dr Martin Taylor MBE (born 20 October 1956) is a British jazz guitarist who has performed in groups guitar ensembles and as an accompanist. He is best known for his solo fingerstyle performances in which he provides bass and chordal accompaniment in addition to a melody.
Arthur Pinajian.  Arthur A. (Art) Pinajian (March 28 1914 – August 18 1999) was an Armenian American artist and comic book creator He was active as a comic book creator from the late 1930s throughout the 1950s during the Golden Age of Comic Books and as an artist from the 1950s until his death in 1999. He was a member of the Eisner-Iger Studio in 1938-39 and of Funnies Inc. in 1939-42.
Ryūtarō Nakamura.  Ryūtarō Nakamura (中村 隆太郎 Nakamura Ryūtarō April 15 1955 – June 29 2013) was a Japanese director and animator best known for directing the landmark anime series Serial Experiments Lain and for his collaboration with Masamune Shirow and Chiaki J. Konaka on Ghost Hound. He was last noted as currently working on his latest project Despera but production was postponed due to Nakamura suffering an illness.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (/soʊlʒəˈniːtsɨn/; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪt͡ɕ səlʐɨˈnʲit͡sɨn]; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist historian and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system.
Woody Evans.  Woody Evans is an American librarian and author of short stories and nonfiction works who is known for critical commentary on technology technoculture and transhumanism. He has written for Rain Taxi Boing Boing Juked was a Library Journal columnist in 2007 and is a frequent contributor to Information Today publications. His books and articles are referenced in Library and Information Science courses.
Rena Koumioti.  Irene Rena Koumioti (Greek: Ειρήνη (Ρένα) Κουμιώτη) is a Greek musician. She has also appeared briefly on cinema and television.
Ben Washam.  Benjamin Alfred Washam (March 15 1915- March 28 1984) was an American animator who is best known for working under director Chuck Jones for nearly 30 years. Washam worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1941 until 1962 mainly under the direction of Chuck Jones. He also worked on made-for-television cartoons in the early 1960s. After Jones was fired from Warner Bros Washam with other animators working under Jones at Warner Bros.
Liliane Tiger.  Liliane Tiger (born March 13 1985) is a Czech pornographic actress.
Heather Elizabeth Apple.  Heather Elizabeth Apple (born 1948) is a Canadian writer artist and educator with an interest in organic horticulture. She was awarded a 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992.
Tryggve Andersen.  Tryggve Andersen (1866 – 1920) was a Norwegian novelist poet and story writer. He was born in Ringsaker; the son of bailiff Christen Andersen and Antonette Krogvig. He was married three times; one of his wives was novelist Regine Normann from 1906 to 1913. He made his literary debut in 1897 with the historical novel/story collection I Cancelliraadens dage a collection of tales from the early 1800s. This book was received with great enthusiasm and earned him an endowment.
John Eachard.  John Eachard (1636? – 7 July 1697) was an English divine and satirist noted for his humorous descriptions of the contemporary clergy.A native of Suffolk he was educated at St Catharine's College Cambridge of which he became master in 1675 in succession to John Lightfoot. He was created D.D.
Betty Banafe.  Betty Ibtisam Abu Bakar Banafe born 14 November 1979 better known as Betty Banafe is a singer and actor from Johor Bahru Johor Malaysia.Banafe's family is of Malay Arab and Javanese descent.
Marc Abrahams.  Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research and originator and emcee of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results.Abrahams is married to Robin Abrahams also known as Miss Conduct a columnist for the Boston Globe.
Victoria Alexander.  Victoria Alexander (born 1965) is an American author of historical romance novels. She has been nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award four times winning once for A Visit From Sir Nicholas which Romantic Times described as overflowing with heart-tugging scenes simmering sexual tension marvelous characters and meaningful lessons about life and love.
Jandi Lin.  Jandi Lin (born March 19 1985 in Hawaii United States) is an American pornographic actress of Chinese descent. She began her porn career in 2007 at about the age of 22.She entered the adult industry after answering a Craigslist ad she saw just before graduating from art college.
Fats Navarro.  Theodore Fats Navarro (September 24 1923 – July 7 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. He had a strong stylistic influence on many other players most notably Clifford Brown.
Wendy MacNaughton.  Wendy MacNaughton is an artist and illustrator based in San Francisco. Her art has appeared in The New York Times NPR Juxtapoz GOOD Time Out NY 7x7 and Gizmodo. She has created magazine cover images for 7x7 and Edible SF. She is a staff illustrator for Longshot Magazine and her monthly illustrated documentary project Meanwhile is published in The Rumpus.
Robert Whitlow.  Robert Whitlow is a film-maker and a best-selling author of twelve legal thrillers[citation needed]. He is also a contributor to a short story The Rescuers a story included in the book What The Wind Picked Up by The ChiLibris Ring. In 2001 he won the Christy Award for Contemporary Fiction for his novel The Trial.
Eric Stewart.  Eric Stewart (born Eric Michael Stewart 20 January 1945 Droylsden Greater Manchester England) is an English musician songwriter and record producer most known for his tenure with The Mindbenders in the 1960s and 10cc from 1972 to 1995.In 1968 he became a co-owner of Strawberry Studios in Stockport England where he developed skills as a recording engineer and record producer.
Terry Plumeri.  Terry Plumeri (born November 28 1945) is an American classical composer film composer conductor double bassist lecturer and producer.
Origa.  Ol'ga Vital'evna Yakovleva (Russian: Ольга Витальевна Яковлева born October 12 1970 in Kochenёvo Novosibirsk oblast Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Union) better known as Origa is a Russian singer who works mostly in Japan.After graduating from music school in 1990 she took an opportunity to visit Japan in 1991 and finally contracted with the ROAD&SKY Organization [1] in 1993.
Katja Lange-Müller.  Katja Lange-Müller (born 13 February 1951) is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas radio dramas and dramatic works.The daughter of Inge Lange an East German party functionary Katja Lange-Müller was born in Berlin-Lichtenberg. She was expelled from school at the age of 17 for unsocialist behavior. From an early age she and her circle of friends were carefully watched by the Stasi.
Pierre Reymond.  Pierre Reymond (1513-1584) was a French enamelist.Reymond managed a large workshop in Limoges where one of his disciples was Pierre Courteys. As was the practice of the time pieces produced in his workshop bore his initials even though they were not necessarily his work.
Scott Westerfeld.  Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5 1963) is an American science fiction writer.
Michael Jagmin.  Michael Jag Jagmin is an American vocalist notable for being the former lead vocalist of metal band Odd Project and current vocalist of post-hardcore band A Skylit Drive. Jagmin is well known for the idiosyncratic quality of his voice and possesses a wide vocal range spanning over three octaves.
James McNally (musician).  James McNally is a musician composer and Grammy nominated producer of the band Afro Celt Sound System. He was previously a member of the The Pogues Storm (a duo with Tom McManamon) and Dingle Spike.James was born in London to Irish Parents. Trained as a classical musician since the age of seven he later engaged in playing Irish music and by the age of twelve had already performed at London's Royal Albert Hall. He went on to become an All-Ireland Champion on several Instruments.
Wilhelm Grimm.  Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author the younger of the Brothers Grimm.
Willy Porter.  Willy Porter is a contemporary American rock musician and singer-songwriter from Mequon Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Arabella Pollen.  Arabella Pollen is an English fashion designer and as Bella Pollen journalist and author of five novels published between 1997 and 2011.
P. Kunhiraman Nair.  P.
Margaret Caroline Anderson.  Margaret Caroline Anderson (November 24 1886 – October 19 1973) was the American founder editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review which published a collection of modern American English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century such as Ezra Pound and T. S.
Laurie Z.  Laurie Zeluck Carter (1957–2006) was an American pianist and electronic musician who recorded under the name Laurie Z. Her music is described as a blend of classical jazz and contemporary instrumental.
Howard Barker.  Howard E. Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright.
Bobby V.  Robert Bobby Wilson (born on February 27 1980) better known by his stage name Bobby V (previously known as Bobby Valentino) is an American recording artist (his nickname being Valentino because he was due to be born on Valentine's Day). He is now known as Bobby V due to a lawsuit involving a British singer song writer and musician who records and performs under the name Bobby Valentino.
Manabu Namiki.  Manabu Namiki (並木 学 Namiki Manabu born September 13 1971) is a Japanese video game composer who works mainly on shooter games. He has worked with game companies such as Allumer NMK Raizing (Battle Garegga Armed Police Batrider) and Cave (DoDonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou Ketsui).
Jason Rullo.  Jason Rullo (born July 17 1972) is an American drummer who is one of the founding members of progressive metal band Symphony X.In 2003 he was featured in a readers' poll for Modern Drummer magazine where he achieved two awards: second place in the up-and-coming drummer poll and third place for best recorded performance on Symphony X's The Odyssey (2002). In the same year he performed on the self-titled debut album by Redemption.
Tony Dawsey.  Tony Dawsey is mastering engineer at Masterdisk in New York City. His credits include artists such as Jay-Z Akon Whitney Houston DMX Kid Rock Gang Starr Redman Ghostface Killah Moby Nine Inch Nails Ronny Jordan and King's X.Tony grew up in Spanish Harlem in New York City. He got a job at Masterdisk in the mail room and making cassettes in 1980.
A. E. van Vogt.  Alfred Elton van Vogt (/vænvoʊt/; April 26 1912 – January 26 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the Golden Age of the genre.
Tim Follin.  Timothy John Follin (born 19 December 1970) is a former video game music composer who has written tracks for a variety of titles and home gaming systems including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Commodore 64 Commodore Amiga Atari ST NES Super Nintendo Game Boy Dreamcast and PlayStation.Follin's early 8- and 16-bit pieces were notable for their ambitious and imaginative use of samples or clever manipulation of limited sound hardware - particularly with his work on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum on which he managed to play up to six channels of audio from one simple tiny clickable piezoelectric speaker.Among Follin's works are the soundtracks to Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (Dreamcast) Silver Surfer (NES) and Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (Super Nintendo).
Eduardo Falú.  Eduardo Falú (July 7 1923 – August 9 2013) was a well-known Argentine folk music guitarist and composer.
Mac Barnett.  Mac Barnett is an American author of children's books living in Oakland California.
Jason Van Hollander.  Jason Van Hollander (born September 9 1949) is an award-winning illustrator book designer and occasional author. His stories and collaborations with Darrell Schweitzer earned a World Fantasy Award nomination.
Marc Déry.  Marc Déry (born 4 November 1963) in Mascouche Quebec. He is a French Canadian singer and guitarist who was part of the band Zébulon. In 1998 Déry began a solo career and has released four albums as of 2012. His solo debut won him a Félix Award for arranger of the year.
Madoka Ozawa.  Madoka Ozawa (小沢 まどか Ozawa Madoka) is a Japanese AV idol and V-Cinema actress who has been described as a very popular … AV actress in the late 1990s and the number one AV idol of 1997.
Laura Bernasconi.  Laura Bernasconi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period known to be active in 1674. Born and died in Rome she trained with Mario Nuzzi and like him painted still life paintings of flowers. This same thematic had been favored by Giovanna Garzoni another woman painter in Rome who died in 1670.
Richard Band.  Richard Howard Band is a composer of film music. He has scored more than 70 films including From Beyond which won the award for Best Original Soundtrack at the Catalonian International Film Festival in Sitges Spain. His score for Re-Animator was lauded by the magazine Music From the Movies which said Band’s music is dark and direct creating an intense and eerie atmosphere but always with a humorous touch....
John Simon (critic).  John Ivan Simon (born May 12 1925) is an American author and literary theater and film critic.
Misa Uehara (actress born 1983).  Misa Uehara (上原美佐 Uehara Misa) is a Japanese actress born 21 December 1983 in Maibara Shiga Prefecture Japan.She appeared in the movie Ju-on: The Grudge (呪怨) and live action TV series Nodame Cantabile (のだめカンタービレ).
Kate Bush.  Catherine Kate Bush CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 35 years.In 1978 at the age of 19 Bush topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single Wuthering Heights becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song.
Dan Bryk.  Dan Waldemar Bryk (born September 23 1970) is a Canadian-born singer-songwriter and recording artist. Originally from Toronto Bryk is currently based in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania. A critically acclaimed songwriter and keyboard player Bryk has released three full-length albums and a handful of singles EPs and tracks on compilations.
Maggie Cheung Ho-yee.  Maggie Cheung Ho-yee (Chinese: 張可頤; pinyin: Zhāng Kěyí; born 20 March 1969 in Hong Kong); not to be confused with Maggie Cheung Man-yuk is a Hong Kong actress under contract to the television channel CTI.
James Wesley.  James Wesley Prosser (born in Mound Valley Kansas) is an American country music singer. In 1999 Prosser released the album Life Goes On through Warner Bros. Records. Ten years later he signed to Broken Bow Records under the name James Wesley. Wesley has released five singles for this label: Jackson Hole the top 40 hits Real and Didn't I Walking Contradiction and Thank a Farmer all of which will be included on his second studio album Real.
Thomas Birch (artist).  Thomas Birch (1779 – January 3 1851) was an English-born American portrait and marine painter.Birch was born in London England. He came to the U. S. in 1794 and assisted his artist father William Birch in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings:Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800). Subscribers to the series included President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.
Nina Radojčić.  Danica Radojčić (Serbian pronunciation: [dǎnitsa nîna rǎdoːjtʃitɕ]; Serbian: Даница Радојчић; born 5 August 1989) professionally known by her nickname Nina (Нина) is a Serbian singer. She represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song Čaroban composed by Kristina Kovač and placed the fourteenth in the final.
Jocelyn Enriquez.  Jocelyn Enriquez (born December 28 1974) is a Dance-pop singer from San Francisco. She is of Filipino descent: her parents are from the province of Pangasinan. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School in 1993.
Genevieve Springston Lynch.  Genevieve Springston Lynch (1891–1960) also known as Gene Lynch was an American painter and art teacher who taught and worked in Hawaii.Genevieve Springston was born in Forest Grove Oregon on September 20 1891. She studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York and at an art school in Chicago. She taught art at Punahou School a private school in Honolulu both before and following her marriage to L. L.
Lauren Mayberry.  Lauren Mayberry (born 1987) is an Scottish musician singer-songwriter and journalist. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the electronic music band Chvrches. In March 2013 they released Recover EP. Their debut studio album The Bones of What You Believe was released on 20 September 2013.
Phil Gould (musician).  Philip Gabriel Gould also known as Phil Gould (born 28 February 1957) is a British drummer song writer and singer from the Isle of Wight in southern England. With singer Mark King he founded the band Level 42.
Måns Zelmerlöw.  Måns Petter Albert Sahlén Zelmerlöw (born Zelmerlöw 13 June 1986) is a Swedish pop singer. He is probably best known for taking part in Idol 2005 finishing fifth for winning the first season of Let's Dance and for his 2007 song Cara Mia which was his entry in that year's Melodifestivalen. Since 2011 he hosts Allsång på Skansen.
Edward Ullendorff.  Edward Ullendorff FBA (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar and historian. He was a prominent figure in Ethiopian Studies and also contributed work on the Semitic languages.
Stephen Murphy (comics).  Stephen Murphy is an American comic book writer best known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
John Neal.  John Neal (August 25 1793 – June 20 1876) was an author and art/literary critic. He was a man of diverse talents and objectives many of which were pioneering in his day. For example he is credited as being the first American author to employ colloquialism in his writing breaking with more formal traditions in literature. However he was also undisciplined and often rambling so despite its period significance his literary work has drifted into obscurity.
Maiha Ishimura.  Maiha Ishimura (石村 舞波 Ishimura Maiha born November 20 1992 in Chiba Prefecture Japan) is a former member of Hello! Project Kids and Berryz Kobo. In 2002 Maiha successfully passed the Hello! Project Kids Audition. On October 2 2005 Ishimura graduated from Berryz Kobo and Hello! Project at the Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan to finish her education full-time. She is to date the youngest Hello! Project member to graduate.
Berman Brothers (producers).  The Berman Brothers real-life-siblings Frank and Christian Berman are award-winning record producers and songwriters. In 2006 they created and co-produced the album Rhythms del Mundo which fused an all-star cast of Cuban musicians including Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club with US and UK artists such as U2 Coldplay Sting Jack Johnson Maroon 5 Arctic Monkeys Franz Ferdinand Kaiser Chiefs and others.
Robinson Jeffers.  John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887 – January 20 1962) was an American poet known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form but today he is also known for his short verse and considered an icon of the environmental movement. Once influential and highly regarded despite his stated 'inhumanism' Jeffers thought transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole.
Phyllis Sheffield.  Phyllis Sheffield (born December 29 1916) is a painter with a history as a documentary photographer of Miccosukee Indians in Florida. As a teenager she helped photograph the natives living in the Everglades during trips with her aunt Florence (Stiles) Randle. She was born in Miami in 1916. Jeff Klinkenberg wrote about their work and it has been displayed at the Smithsonian. Randle was a WPA photographer. Her work is also in the P.K.
Guy Seymour Warre Malet.  Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900–1973) was an English landscape and figure engraver printmaker watercolourist and oil painter. He spent a large portion of his life on the island of Sark and many of his images are of the Channel Islands.Malet studied at the London and New Art School under Eastman and John Hassall and at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under Iain MacNab.
Francesco Albergati Capacelli.  Francesco Albergati Capacelli (Bologna 1728 - Zola Predosa 1804) was an Italian writer and playwright.A marquess and senator in Bologna and an important administrator in the city he led a stormy personal life and was married three times. He was accused of murdering his second wife Anna Grassi a countess of Morcone in a fit of jealousy and he had to flee from Zola Predosa. He returned after several years during which lived in different cities.
Rıza Nur.  Riza Nur (August 30 1879 in Sinop–September 8 1942 in Istanbul) was a Turkish surgeon politician and writer.
Polad Bülbüloğlu.  Polad Bülbüloğlu (Russian: Полад Бюль-Бюль Оглы; born February 4 1945) is a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer actor politician and diplomat. Bülbüloğlu became famous in whole Soviet Union with composing jazz-influenced pop songs which has heavy Azeri folk feelings in Russian and Azerbaijani languages. He also sang his own songs. Three of his songs became Songs of the Year and he received numerous prestigious awards in the Soviet Union.
Pierre Clerk.  Pierre Clerk (born 1928) is a contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and sculpture.
John McVey.  John McVey (born John McVey Criscitiello; November 18 1959) is an American folk rock singer songwriter from Princeton New Jersey. His style of music is part of the new folk acoustic movement bringing elements of pop rock and folk music to modern audiences. Now living in Colorado local magazine 5280 describes McVey by saying McVey’s smooth yet lightly smoky voice create a soft rock adult contemporary sound that draws worthy comparisons to Marc Cohen Shawn Colvin and Daryl Hall.
Lord Tim.  Lord Tim (born 1970) is the professional name of Australian musician Tim Ian Grose. Based in Wollongong New South Wales he is best known as the founder of the heavy metal band Dungeon. The band started in 1989 released several albums and was considered one of the leading metal bands in Australia.
Luis Alberti.  Luis Alberti (April 6 1906 – January 26 1976) was a Dominican Merengue musician arranger conductor and author of significant popular songs such as Compadre Pedro Juan and many others performed and recorded by noted interpreters with diverse backgrounds.
José María Napoleón.  José María Napoleón (August 18 1948) is a Mexican singer and composer. He arrived from Aguascalientes to Mexico City in 1966. He sang at the OTI Festival in 1977. Singers like Vicente Fernández Pepe Aguilar Pedro Fernández Yuri Franck Pourcel Plácido Domingo and José José Rosario De Alba sang his compositions.
Jean Barrett (novelist).  Robert Bob Rogers is a US writer of over 24 romance novels under the female pennames Lee Rogers Jean Barrett and Jean Thomas since 1979.
Angie Chiu.  Angie Chiu (Traditional Chinese: 趙雅芝; Pinyin: Zhào Yǎzhī) born 15 November 1954 in Hong Kong is an actress and was the third runner up in the 1973 Miss Hong Kong pageant. She is most noted for her leading role in The Bund opposite Chow Yun-fat and Lui Leung-Wai.She is a well known actress in both Hong Kong and Mainland China.Chiu married engineer Wong Hon-wai (黃漢偉) in 1975 and the couple had two children together: Gary Wong (黃光宏) and Ronnie Wong (黃光宜). The couple divorced in 1983.
Inga Gill.  Inga Gill (2 May 1925 – 18 October 2000) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Stockholm and died there in 2000 aged 75 following a thrombosis.
Jimmy Barnes.  James Dixon Swan (born 28 April 1956) better known as Jimmy Barnes is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at the time.
Alan Ranta.  Alan Ranta (born January 01 1981) is a Canadian music journalist and critic. He is a longtime contributor to Tiny Mix Tapes PopMatters and Exclaim!. His work has also appeared in CBC Music the Nerve and ION Magazine.
Sant Singh Sekhon.  Sant Singh Sekhon (1908–1997) was a Punjabi playwright and fiction writer. He is part of the generation of Indian authors who mark the transition of India into an independent nation scarred by the tragedies of partition.
Huang Ai.  Huang Ai (simplified Chinese: 黄爱; traditional Chinese: 黃愛; pinyin: Huáng Aì; born 1919) better known by his pen name Huang Yushi (simplified Chinese: 黄雨石; traditional Chinese: 黃雨石; pinyin: Huáng Yǔshí). Huang is a Chinese translator.He is among the first few in China who translated the works of Charles Dickens's into Chinese language.
Burne Hogarth.  Burne Hogarth (December 25 1911 – January 28 1996) was an American cartoonist illustrator educator author and theoretician best known for his pioneering work on the Tarzan newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books for artists.
Arthur Marshall (composer).  Arthur Owen Marshall (November 20 1881 – August 18 1968) was an African-American composer and performer of ragtime music.
Sara Pichelli.  Sara Pichelli (born 1983 in Amatrice) is an Italian comic book artist best known for first illustrating the Miles Morales version of Ultimate Spider-Man. After starting her career in animation Pichelli entered the comic book industry working for IDW Publishing before joining Marvel Comics in 2008 after getting discovered in an international talent search.
Maurice Delage.  Maurice Delage (13 November 1879 – 21 September 1961) was a French composer and pianist.Delage was born and died in Paris. A student of Ravel and member of Les Apaches he was influenced by travels to India and the East. Ravel's La vallée des cloches from Miroirs was dedicated to Delage.Delage's best known piece is Quatre poèmes hindous (1912–1913).
Marjorie Harris.  Marjorie Harris BA (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening. In 1959 she graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario with Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first marriage was to television producer and musician Barry Harris. Currently she lives in Toronto Ontario Canada with her second husband writer Jack Batten.
Maarten Maartens.  Maarten Maartens pen name of Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz (Amsterdam 15 August 1858 - Doorn 3 August 1915) was a Dutch writer who wrote in English. He was quite well known at the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century in both the UK and the US but he was soon forgotten after his death.
Stan Hugill.  Stan (Stanley James) Hugill (November 19 1906 – May 13 1992) was a folk music performer artist and sea music historian known as the Last Working Shantyman and described as the 20th Century guardian of the tradition.
Jesse Harris.  Jesse Harris (born 1969) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter. He has collaborated with several musical artists including Norah Jones Melody Gardot Madeleine Peyroux Nikki Yanofsky and Lizz Wright.
Steve James Sherlock.  Steve James Sherlock (born 1953 in London United Kingdom) is a British composer musician saxophone player who was a founder member of Neu Electrikk joined Matt Johnson in the Post punk band The The and notably Marc Almond in Marc and the Mambas.
Denise Stiff.  Denise Stiff is a manager of contemporary musicians. She is the long-time manager of Alison Krauss and was Gillian Welch's manager. She also served as Executive Music Producer for the 2000 film O Brother Where Art Thou.
Manija Dawlat.  Manizha Davlat (Tajik: Манижа Давлат/Persian: منیژه دولت‎ born in December 31 1982) (also spelled as Manizha Davlatova and Manija Davlat and Manizha Dawlat and Manija Dawlat) is a Tajik pop singer and one of Tajikistan's and Central Asia's best known also known in Iran and Afghanistan and other neighbouring countries. She is associated with Persian pop music. Manizha sings in Tajiki a dialect of Modern Persian native to her country.
Ariel Rivas.  Ariel Rivas is a Dominican music producer artist manager recording engineer and producer of shows events and international tours.
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford.  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3 1835–August 14 1921) was a notable American writer remembered for her novels poems and detective stories.
Louise Kennedy.  Louise Kennedy is an Irish fashion designer and businesswoman who in 2013 was called the 'uncrowned queen of Irish fashion'.
Todd Slavkin.  Todd Slavkin is an American screenwriter and producer most famous for working on the American television program Smallville. As of October 6 2006 he has written or co-written 18 episodes of Smallville.
Charles Garvice.  Charles Garvice (b. 24 August 1850 - d. 1 March 1920) was a prolific British writer of over 150 romance novels since 1850 who also used the female pseudonym Caroline Hart. He was a popular author in Britain the United States and translated around the world. He was ‘the most successful novelist in England’ according to Arnold Bennett in 1910.
Florin Pavlovici.  Florin Constantin Pavlovici (born 14 March 1936) is a Romanian writer and memoirist. Pavlovici was born at Concești Botoșani County to school teachers Hareta and Dionisie Pavlovici. He studies journalism at the University of Bucharest Philosophy department which he graduates in 1958. He is arrested on 2 February 1959 accused of conspiracy against the communist social order and sentenced by the Bucharest Military Court to five years of incarceration.
Emmanuel Bove.  Emmanuel Bove (April 20 1898 - July 19 1945) was a French writer of Jewish descent.
Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann.  Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann (14 June 1761 Weimar – 4 October 1835 Jena) was a German public servant and writer.He studied in Leipzig and Jena between 1779 and 1782 and was a childhood friend of August von Kotzebue. In the following years he worked as judiciary auditor under his father in Ilmenau and later as private lecturer. In 1790 he became adjunct and when his father died in 1792 Ernst Ackermann took his place as judiciary bailiff.
Warja Honegger-Lavater.  Warja Honegger-Lavater (28 September 1913 – 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words (or even pictures).
Tracey Elvik.  Tracey Elvik (also Tracey Rice) a former Page 3 girl of the '80s and '90s appearing in publications like the Sun and Daily Star.Elvik was born in Manchester and brought up in Warrington. She started her modelling career at 17 when she appeared in the Daily Mirror on Grand National Day 1986.
W H McLeod.  William Hewat Hew McLeod (2 August 1932 – 20 July 2009) was a New Zealand scholar who wrote about Sikh history and culture. He produced many books and essays on Sikh identity Sikh history and Sikh theology. His work frequently was a source of controversy.
Elizabeth Younger.  Elizabeth Younger whose married name was Elizabeth Finch (2 September 1699 – 24 November 1762) was an actress and dancer.Her sister was the singer and actress Margaret Bicknell. Elizabeth married John Finch the son of Daniel Finch 6th Earl of Winchilsea.
Abel-Dominique Boyé.  Abel-Dominique Boyé(1864–1934) was a French painter.
Lala (painter).  Lala from Cyzicus was a painter and sculptor of antiquity. She excelled in painting portraits of women.
Charles Leighton.  Charles Leighton (24 June 1921 – 26 June 2009) was an American virtuoso classical and jazz harmonica player who flourished from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s then — after a hiatus while managing a recording studio that he co-founded — reemerged in the mid-1980s and continued to play publicly until his death.
Shōko Kikuchi.  Shouko Kikuchi (菊地祥子 Kikuchi Shoko born July 24 1970 in Iwate Japan) is a Japanese voice actress. She is represented by the talent management firm 81 Produce. Kikuchi's hobbies are fishing and fortune-telling and she can play the ocarina. Her name is sometimes romanized as Syoko Kikuchi.Kikuchi is famous for voicing Michelle Cheung in R.O.D the TV.
Mercedes (singer).  Raquel Miller (born 1978) better known by her stage name Mercedes is a former American R&B singer from Louisiana.
Charles William Russell.  Charles William Russell (14 May 1812 – 26 February 1880) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar.
Gerry Owens.  Gerry Owens is the vocalist songwriter arranger and producer of Irish Industrial rock band Lluther. Owens was born in Dublin Ireland. As his father was a musician Owens was always surrounded by music particularly film soundtracks and classical/orchestral music. After spending some time in London and playing in a series of bands he returned to Dublin to form Skindive who were quickly signed by Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records) to his Palm Pictures label.
Tancredi Pasero.  Tancredi Pasero (January 11 1893 Turin - February 17 1983 Milan) was an Italian bass who enjoyed a long and distinguished singing career in his native country and abroad.
Dzeny.  Dzenita 'Dzeny' Zekic (/dʒɨˈniː/ dje-NEE) (born January 31 1987 in Trebinje SR Bosnia and Herzegovina SFR Yugoslavia) is an R&B/Pop inspired singer/songwriter who has been seen on both the Bosnian as the Scandinavian stages and media.
Zain Abdul Hady.  Zain al-Din Muhammad Abdul Hady (Arabic: زين الدين محمد عبد الهادي) (born 1 December 1956) is an Egyptian researcher novelist and writer.
Amor Vittone.  Amor Vittone (born 16 March 1972 as Amor Ines Vittone) is a well-known South African singer. She got married on 20 October 2002 to the former Springbok rugby star Joost van der Westhuizen but has since separated. They have a son and a daughter together.
Tom MacInnes.  Thomas Robert Edward MacInnes (né McInnes) (October 29 1867 – February 11 1951) was a Canadian poet and writer whose writings ranged from vigorous slangy recollections of the Yukon gold rush (Lonesome Bar 1909) to a translation of and commentary on Lao-tzu’s philosophy (The Teaching of the Old Boy 1927). His narrative verse was highly popular in his lifetime.
Skender Kulenović.  Skender Kulenović (2 September 1910 – 25 January 1978) was a Bosnian poet novelist and dramatist.
Jim Mundy.  James White (born February 8 1934) known professionally as Jim Mundy is an American country music singer. Between 1973 and 1976 he recorded for ABC Records and charted within the Top 40 of the Hot Country Songs charts.Mundy also recorded commercial jingles for Pillsbury Union 76 Coca-Cola and Miller Brewing Company.Two of his songs The River's Too Wide and Come Home received awards from the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers in 1974.
Shilfee and Tulipcorobockles.  Shilfee and Tulipcorobockles is the solo project of Tomo Furukawa otherwise known as Full (ex-Guniw Tools & Nookicky). Full's newest project combines rock pop new wave electronica opera and more with his hauntingly unique vocals. In December 2004 Shilfee and Tulipcorobockles' first album Chichiro was released.
Guan Zhe.  Guan Zhe (Chinese: 关喆; pinyin: Guān Zhé; born 23 April 1981) is a Chinese pop singer and songwriter. He was a contestant on the The Voice of China which featured Liu Huan Na Ying Yang Kun and Harlem Yu as the judges.
Mangal (singer).  Mangal (Pashto: منگل‎) born in Laghman is a prominent Afghan singer who started in the early 1970s. He and his ex-wife Naghma were a popular musical duo who dominated Afghan music scene during the 1970s and early 1990s. Mangal sings in Pashto and Dari (Persian). His music is popular in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Antonio Muñoz Molina.  Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer and since 8 June 1995 a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City United States. In 2004-2005 he served as the director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York.Muñoz Molina was born in the town of Úbeda in Jaén province. He studied art history at the University of Granada and journalism in Madrid.
Kim Stringfellow.  Kim Stringfellow is an American artist educator and photographer based out of Joshua Tree California. She is an associate professor at the San Diego State School of Art Design and Art History and received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been featured on KPBS-FM and in the New York Times.
Julia Burness.  Julia Burness is a London-based jewellery designer and founder of Julia Burness Jewellery. She is the granddaughter of hotelier Lord Charles Forte. The brand has two main jewellery lines sold online and in boutiques. The brand is known for their jewellery which is made from recycled brass silver and Fair Trade artisanal gold.
Karen Russell.  Karen Russell (born July 10 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel Swamplandia! was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. No prize for fiction was awarded that year. She was also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 2013.
Jan Leyers.  Jan Leyers (born 6 May 1958 in Wilrijk Belgium) is a singer songwriter and television personality. He was a member of the group Soulsister and later became a solo musician and host of various television series.
Space Cowboy (musician).  Nicolas Jean-Pierre Dresti (born 5 March 1975) better known by his stage name Space Cowboy is a French-born English singer-songwriter DJ and producer. Born in France and raised in England Dresti first recorded in 1992 under the name of Vibes (2) and recorded two tracks. He then changed his stage name to Nicky Fabulous and produced a four track extended play Pussy Galore in 1995. He has recorded under various pseudonyms including: DJ Supreme Kings of Rhythm Loop Da Loop and DJ Chrome.
Boris Korolev.  Borís Danílovich Korolyóv (or Korolev) (1884/85–1963) was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist teacher and public figure.
DJ Tintin.  DJ Tintin (born Marc Brian Smith 13 August 1970) is a British disc jockey musician and journalist from Manchester England United Kingdom.
Benjamin Bellas.  Benjamin Bellas (born March 29 1976) is an American artist and an Assistant Professor of Art at Washington College. He was formerly a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Through poetic narratives Bellas unexpectedly relocates autobiographical moments of enmity longing and uncomfortable honesty in banal visual forms.
Brenda K. Starr.  Brenda K. Starr (born Brenda Kaplan; October 15 1966) is an American singer-songwriter. She is well known originally in dance-pop but now mostly in salsa-based music. She is also well known for her 1980s work with freestyle music.
Tessa Farmer.  Tessa Farmer (born 1978 Birmingham UK) is an artist based in London. Her work made from insect carcasses plant roots and other found natural materials comprises hanging installations depicting Boschian battles between insects and tiny winged skeletal humanoids.She received her BA in 2000 and her MA in 2003 from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art Oxford.
J.D. Short.  J.D. Short (February 26 1902 – October 21 1962) was an American Delta blues singer guitarist and harmonicist. He was a multi-instrumentalist and possessed a distinctive vibrato laden singing voice. Early in his career Short recorded under a number of pseudonyms including Jelly Jaw Short. His more noteworthy works included Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake and You're Tempting Me.
Elizabeth Bishop.  Elizabeth Bishop (February 8 1911 – October 6 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950 the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956 the National Book Award winner in 1970 and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976.
Paul Morand.  Paul Morand (March 13 1888 – July 24 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the inter-war period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was much admired by the upper echelons of society and the artistic avant-garde who made him a cult favorite.
Alenka Puhar.  Alenka Puhar (born 4 February 1945) is a Slovenian journalist author translator and historian. She is most notable for her 1982 groundbreaking psychohistory-inspired book The Primal Text of Life (in Slovene: Prvotno besedilo življenja) about 19th century social history of early childhood in Slovene Lands then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. The book was in 2010 the subject of a television documentary that was in 2010 televised on the national RTV Slovenija.
Leo Yankevich.  Leo Yankevich (born 30 October 1961) is an American poet and the editor of The New Formalist. Born into a Roman Catholic family of Irish and Polish descent he grew up and attended high school in Farrell Pennsylvania a small steel town in western Pennsylvania. He then studied History and Polish Studies at Alliance College Cambridge Springs Pennsylvania receiving a BA in 1984.
Scott Adams.  Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8 1957) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire commentary business and general speculation.His Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide. A former worker in various roles at big businesses he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995.
Ginger (musician).  Ginger Wildheart (born David Walls; 17 December 1964 in South Shields in the North East of England) is a rock guitarist singer and songwriter best known for his band The Wildhearts.
Saori Ono.  Saori Ono (小野 砂織 Ono Saori) (born 1975) is a Japanese actress.
Ike Quebec.  Ike Quebec (August 17 1918 – January 16 1963) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Critic Alex Henderson wrote Though he was never an innovator Quebec had a big breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable and he was quite consistent when it came to down-home blues sexy ballads and up-tempo aggression.
Ivan Milat-Luketa.  Ivan Milat-Luketa (January 7 1922 – August 3 2009) was a Croatian painter and sculptor. He is a painter of the modern era in Croatian art history.
Miguel Ituarte.  Miguel Ituarte is a Spanish pianist born in Getxo.Ituarte was trained at the Madrid Conservatory and Amsterdam's Sweelinck Conservatorium. In 1995 he won the XXXVII Premio de Jaén and the IV Fundación Guerrero Competition and was a finalist at Santander's XIII Paloma O'Shea Competition. He has performed internationally.
William Lloyd Webber.  William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English organist and composer.
Judith Newman.  Judith B. Newman (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She writes about entertainment relationships parenthood business beauty books science and popular culture. Her work has run in more than fifty publications including The New York Times Vanity Fair Harper's The Wall Street Journal Allure (where she served as Contributing Editor) and Vogue. Newman's books include the 2004 memoir You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New (Older) Mother.
Maurice Gibb.  Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (/ˈmɔrɪs/ (22 December 1949 – 12 January 2003) was a musician singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the bassist guitarist and keyboardist of the Bee Gees. Although his brothers Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb were the band's primary lead vocalists most of the groups albums included at least one or two Maurice Gibb compositions including Lay It on Me Country Woman and On Time.
Jaydee Bixby.  Jaydee Bixby (born August 14 1990 in Drumheller AB) is a Canadian country musician who was the runner-up on the fifth season of Canadian Idol. In 2008 he signed with Her Royal Majesty's Records and went on to release his debut album Cowboys and Cadillacs. Moving on to On Ramp Records in 2010 he released his second album Easy to Love.
Nile (singer).  Nile (born Jenée Grevious) is an American singer. In 2002 she released her debut album Born. She listed family spirituality and nature as influences in her music. Her music has been described as Bristolian and may be thought of as Trip Hop.
Craig Elliott.  Craig Elliott (born July 13 1971) is an illustrator visual development artist and layout artist who works in the animation industry.
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz.  Reverend Billy C. Wirtz (born 1954 Aiken South Carolina United States) is an American blues musician comedian and writer. His material consists of irreverent comedy routines set to music. His humor is somewhat raunchy and thus is not normally considered suitable for children. His material often mocks conservative politics and religion described by essayist Hal Crowther as the Bertolt Brecht of the Bible Belt.
Dionysis Boukouvalas.  Dionysis Boukouvalas is a Greek composer. He is active mainly in concert music but recently in popular music too having set to music poetry by Constantine P. Cavafy and others.He holds the diplomas of Harmony Counterpoint and Fugue (all with mention A) and a diploma from the Department of Musical Studies of the University of Athens (witn mention A).
David Archuleta.  David James Archuleta (born December 28 1990) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. At ten years old he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2. In 2007 at sixteen years old he became one of the youngest contestants on the seventh season of American Idol.
MC Zwieback.  André Fuchs better known as Onkel Zwieback (born May 19 1981 in Bonn) is a German rapper songwriter and Record producer.
Logistics (musician).  Logistics is the stage name of Matt Gresham a drum and bass music producer and DJ from Cambridge England. He is signed to Hospital Records He creates his music using the Ableton sequencer.
Samuel Larsen.  Samuel Peter Acosta Larsen born August 28 1991 is an American actor and singer. On August 21 2011 Larsen won the reality competition program The Glee Project on the Oxygen network (along with fellow contestant Damian McGinty) which led him to have a recurring role as Joe Hart on the FOX television show Glee during seasons 3 & 4. Larsen is also a member of the band Bridges I Burn.
Brian Trueman.  Brian Trueman (born 16 May 1932) is an English writer and broadcaster known mainly for his work with the animation studio Cosgrove Hall. He wrote and/or narrated many fondly remembered children's cartoon series mostly during the 1970s and 1980s.
David Garibaldi (artist).  David Garibaldi (born 1982) is an American performance painter. His specialty is his Rhythm and Hue stage act in which he rapidly creates paintings of notable rock musicians.Garibaldi was born in Los Angeles California. In July 2006 he was invited to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland Ohio where he painted a portrait of Mick Jagger. In September 2008 he was the opening act for Blue Man Group's tour in Canada and the United States. He has also opened for Snoop Dogg.
Taleides Painter.  The Taleides Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style active in the second half of thr 6th century BC. His conventional name is derived from the fact that he cooperated closely with the potter Taleides many of whose vases he painted. He also worked for the potter Timagoras.
Elena Velevska.  Elena Velevska (Macedonian: Елена Велевска; born October 26 1980 in Prilep) is a Macedonian turbo folk and popular music singer. Due to her dress and musical style which resembles that of Svetlana Ražnatović as well as her strong presence in the yellow press of the successor states of Yugoslavia she is at times called the Macedonian Ceca.
Alexei Savrasov.  Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (Russian: Алексе́й Кондра́тьевич Савра́сов) (May 24 1830 – October 8 1897) was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.
Don Letts.  Don Letts (born (1956-01-10)10 January 1956) is a British film director and musician. He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs such as The Roxy brought together punk and reggae music.
Allison Crowe.  Allison Louise Crowe (born November 16 1981) is a Canadian singer songwriter guitarist and pianist from Nanaimo British Columbia who lives in Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador communities spanning the breadth of Canada.Crowe records on her own record label Rubenesque Records and releases her original music under Creative Commons licensing to enable non-commercial sharing and creative uses of her songs.
Yasuko Sawaguchi.  Yasuko Sawaguchi (沢口 靖子 Sawaguchi Yasuko born June 11 1965 in Sakai Osaka Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Jóhann Jóhannsson.  Jóhann Jóhannsson (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjouːhatn̥ ˈjouːhatnsɔn]; born 19 September 1969) is an Icelandic composer and producer. The BBC has called him an intrepid musical enigma and his work has been called elegant haunting and melancholic. His music is frequently informed by minimalism film music baroque music and drone music and combines classical orchestration with electronic music. He was born in Reykjavík Iceland.
Joe Morello.  Joseph Albert Joe Morello (July 17 1928 – March 12 2011) was a jazz drummer best known for his 12½-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk. Popular for its work on college campuses during the 1950s Brubeck’s group reached new heights with Morello.
Wayne Kramer (guitarist).  Wayne Kramer (born April 30 1948) is an American guitarist singer songwriter producer and film and television composer.Kramer came to prominence as a teenager in 1967 as a co-founder of the Detroit rock group MC5 (Motor City 5) a group known for their powerful live performances and radical left-wing political stance.
Jūkichi Yagi.  Jūkichi Yagi (八木 重吉 Yagi Jūkichi February 9 1898 - October 26 1927) was a Japanese poet on modern religious themes active in late Taishō and for the first few years of Shōwa period Japan.
Miss Amy.  Amy Otey (born September 8 1962) known as Miss Amy® is an American musical fitness entertainer singer/songwriter and author. She focuses on the themes of health and activity for children though her genres also range to country folk-rock and pop. She has released 5 albums the fifth of which Fitness Rock & Roll was nominated in the 54th Grammy Awards.
Amanda Ooms.  Amanda Ooms (born 5 September 1964) is a Swedish actress and writer. She has acted in both film and TV in Sweden and internationally. She was born in Kalmar Sweden.
Hal Goldman.  Harold Hal Goldman (born 5 December 1919 St. Paul Minnesota; died 27 June 2001 Los Angeles California) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter television director.
Karl Bodmer.  Johann Carl Bodmer (11 February 1809 – 30 October 1893) was a printmaker etcher lithographer zinc engraver draftsman painter illustrator and hunter. Known as Karl Bodmer in literature and paintings as a Swiss and French citizen his name has been listed as Johann Karl Bodmer and Jean-Charles Bodmer respectively.
Gustav zu Putlitz.  Gustav Heinrich Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz (20 March 1821 – 5 September 1890) was a German author.
Takao Suzuki (sociolinguist).  Takao Suzuki (鈴木 孝夫 Suzuki Takao born 1926) is a Japanese sociolinguist He is the author of ことばと文化 translated into English as Words in Context.Suzuki argues that: Sociolinguists do not pay enough attention to the subtle differences between word usage in different cultures. Japanese linguists have traditionally been too occupied with Western linguistic categories which are less than effective in studying Japanese.
Kiyoko Arai.  Kiyoko Haku (朴 清子 Haku Kiyoko born June 1 in Tokyo Japan) known by the pen name Kiyoko Arai (あらい きよこ Arai Kiyoko) is a Japanese manga artist. She made her manga debut in the January 1984 issue of Ciao with her story Chotto dake Biyaku. Since then Arai has contributed many stories to Ciao its sister magazine ChuChu and fellow Shogakukan shojo magazine Cheese!.
Raghunandan Panshikar.  Pandit Raghunandan Panshikar (born 1963) is a Hindustani classical vocalist. He has received training in the Jaipur gharana
Hermeto Pascoal.  Hermeto Pascoal (born June 22 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa Alagoas Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation as well as being a record producer and contributor to many other Brazilian and international albums.
Duncan Coutts.  Robert Duncan Coutts (born February 4 1969) is a Canadian musician best known for being the bassist for Our Lady Peace since 1995.
Pavel Nilin.  Pavel Filippovich Nilin (Павел Филиппович Нилин January 16 [o.s. January 3) 1908 Irkutsk Russian Empire – October 2 1981 Moscow USSR) was a Soviet writer journalist and playwright best known for a novel called A Man Goes Uphill (1936 adapted to the big screen under the title A Great Life for which he as a scriptwriter received the Stalin Prize in 1941) and also a novel Cruelty (1956).
Harry Barris.  Harry Barris (November 24 1905 – December 13 1962) was an American popular singer and songwriter.Born in New York City he was a member of the Rhythm Boys a late 1920s singing trio that included Al Rinker and Bing Crosby and was Crosby's entry into show business. The group sang several songs in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra film King of Jazz (1930) and recorded both with Whiteman and on their own with Barris on piano.
Melina Almodovar.  Melina Almodovar (born Ilsa Melina Almodovar Sanchez in Santurce Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican salsa singer/songwriter dancer and entertainer. Known for her high energy performances and advanced salsa dancing skills she combines old school salsa dancing moves with contemporary styles of dancing and singing. She is also credited for initiating the first successful salsa music band to come out of the South of the United States Orquesta Caliente.
Alan Lomax.  Alan Lomax (January 31 1915 – July 19 2002) was one of the great American field collectors of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist ethnomusicologist archivist writer scholar political activist oral historian and film-maker. Lomax also produced recordings concerts and radio shows in the US and in England which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s '50s and early '60s.
Reginald Allender Smith.  Reginald A. (Allender) Smith (1873–1940) was an archaeologist Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum in the 1920s and the author of several books.He was on the side of the skeptics during the inquiry into the authenticity of the Piltdown man known for having offered a single line of testimony concerning a bone implement purported to be a tool. He remarked simply it was reported on the possibility of the bone having been found and whittled in recent times.
Lady Miss Kier.  Kierin Magenta Kirby (born August 15 1963) better known as Lady Miss Kier is an American singer and DJ.
Ignaty Potapenko.  Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko (Russian: Игна́тий Никола́евич Пота́пенко) born December 30 1856 – died May 17 1929 was a Russian writer and playwright.
Heitor Pereira.  Heitor Teixeira Pereira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ejˈtoɾ tejˈʃejɾɐ peˈɾejɾɐ]) (born November 29 1960) or Heitor TP is a Brazilian musician who played with Simply Red and several famous musicians like Elton John Rod Stewart k.d. lang and Jack Johnson; and is currently working as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio.
Robert Wells (composer).  Robert Henry Arthur Wells (born April 7 1962 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish pianist composer and singer best known for his highly successful musical extravaganza Rhapsody in Rock which has achieved great prominence in Scandinavia. The musical contains elements of rock classical and boogie-woogie mixed together.
B. V. K. Sastry.  B.V.K. Shastry was an Indian writer and music critic.Bangalore Venkatasubbiah Krishna Sastry was born in Nanjangud in the State of Karnataka on 30 July 1916. He got his diploma in painting in Chamarajendra Technical Institute in 1938. He died on 22 September 2003.
Johnny O.  Juan Ortiz better known as Johnny O is an international artist singer born and raised in (Brooklyn New York 27 August). According to an interview his father who he never knew was of Cuban descent and his mother was of Puerto Rican descent. He has released eight albums most of which were top 40 pop hits.
Hugh Dillon.  Hugh Dillon (born May 31 1963 in Kingston Ontario) is a Canadian musician and actor.
Matt Maher.  Matthew Matt Guion Maher (born November 10 1974) is a contemporary Christian music (CCM) artist songwriter and worship leader originally from Newfoundland Canada who later relocated to Tempe Arizona. He has written and produced seven solo albums to date. Three of his albums have reached the Top 25 Christian Albums Billboard chart and four of his singles have reached the Top 25 Christian Songs chart. He is a practicing Catholic.
Bonobo (musician).  Simon Green (born 30 March 1976) known by his stage name Bonobo is a British musician producer and DJ.Green has recorded and performed solo DJ sets under the name Barakas and together with Robert Luis from Tru Thoughts as Nirobi and Barakas.Green's first release under the moniker Bonobo was in October 1999 with the song Terrapin on the Tru Thoughts compilation When Shapes Join Together. He released his debut album Animal Magic on Tru Thoughts in 2001.
Alex Carapetis.  Alex Carapetis (born 1982 in Adelaide Australia) is a professional drummer. After studying jazz at the Adelaide Conservatorium in 2000 he moved to Sydney to further his music career. In 2004 and 2005 Carapetis toured full-time with Jimmy Barnes in Australia and New Zealand. In July 2005 Carapetis toured with Delta Goodrem on her Visualise Tour.
Peter Calandra.  Peter Calandra is a New York City based composer and pianist. He is most well-known for his work composing music for film and television as well as conducting and playing piano in Broadway and Off Broadway productions. He holds a Master's Degree in Music Composition from Queens College City University of New York.
Frank C. Stanley.  Frank C. Stanley (29 December 1868 – 12 December 1910) was a bass-baritone singer stage performer and banjoist who made many early gramophone recordings on disc and cylinder during the 1890s and the 1900s. His real name was William Stanley Grinsted. He was born on 29 December 1868 in Orange New Jersey. From 1891 onwards he made banjo recordings for the Edison Phonograph Company under his own name. When he started to make vocal recordings he did that under the Frank Stanley pseudonym.
Clinton Gregory.  Clinton Gregory (born March 1 1964 in Martinsville Virginia) is an American country and bluegrass singer songwriter and fiddler. He has recorded primarily on independent labels and has charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now known as Hot Country Songs) charts. His highest charting single is Play Ruby Play which reached No. 25.
Kitoko.  Kitoko born Patrick Bibarwa was a Rwandan Afrobeat and hip-hop artist. He released his debut album Ifaranga in January 2010. The album enjoyed immediate and wide success in Rwanda and Uganda. In 2012 a reviewer for Ugandan newspaper The East African called him the biggest Rwandan artiste at the moment.
Keith Hoerig.  Keith Hoerig (b. August 4 1972) is best known as former the bass guitarist for Five Iron Frenzy and Brave Saint Saturn. Following Five Iron Frenzy's break-up in 2003 he later assisted former band-mate Reese Roper with booking his new band Roper.He lives in Denver Colorado. He and his wife Eryn are now in a band called The Hollyfelds which plays country and folk music.
Oscar González Loyo.  Oscar González Loyo (born April 11 1959 in Mexico City) is a comic book artist author of Karmatrón y Los Transformables. He is also founder and main partner of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio. He lives with his life partner Susana Romero Medina.
Selina Davenport.  Selina Davenport (27 June 1779 – 14 July 1859) was an English author of the Romantic period. She wrote 11 novels and was married to Richard Alfred Davenport.
Bernard Jackson (singer).  Bernard Jackson (born July 11 1959 in Stamford Connecticut) is an American singer/bassist. He was the frontman for the 1980s/early 1990s R&B band Surface from 1984 to 1994. He sang on hits like the #5 US/#1 US R&B Shower Me With Your Love and the #1 R&B and pop hit The First Time. He released his self-titled debut album in 2000.
Harry Connick Jr..  Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. (born September 11 1967) is an American singer musician and actor. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America with 16 million in certified sales.
Fernanda Marlowe.  Fernanda Marlowe (born 1942) is a British actress best known for her role as Corporal Bell in the Doctor Who stories The Claws of Axos (1971) and The Mind of Evil (1971). She also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green.
Jamie Principle.  Jamie Principle is an American house music artist and producer born in Chicago Illinois. He is one of the early pioneers of house music when the genre first began in Chicago during the early 1980s.
Gabriel Casaccia.  Gabriel Casaccia Bibolini (April 20 1907 – November 24 1980) was a Paraguayan novelist. He is widely considered by critics to be the founder of modern literature in Paraguay. Augusto Roa Bastos Paraguay's most famous novelist says “Gabriel Casaccia is the founder of modern Paraguayan narrative which gives in good measure a fundamental character to all of his work and to its author the unusual merit of having launched the genre in a country which was fictionally unknown.”
Leandro Fernández (artist).  Leandro Fernández is an Argentine comic book artist known for his work on various Marvel comic book titles.
Mike Parr.  Mike Parr (born 1945) is an Australian performance artist and printmaker. Parr's works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally including in Brazil Cuba France Germany Hungary Japan Korea Taiwan and the United States.
Victoria Morrow.  Victoria Morrow is an American television writer and producer. She has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for her work on Deadwood and Weeds.
Moxiie.  Moxiie is an Haitian/American recording artist singer and songwriter.
Felicia Tang.  Felicia Tang Lee (October 22 1977 Singapore — September 11 2009 Monrovia California) was an American model known for her work with Playboy TV calendars internet site and import car shows.
Wojciech Rybicki.  Wojciech Rybicki (born 1942) – Polish composer pianist engineer chemist performed in jazz band in Sanok (late 1950s) since 1971 acts in Włocławek (member of Pomorsko-Kujawski Związek Literatów writes articles for Kwartalnik Literacki) performer of self poetic-musical Author evenings (compositions poetry presentations); composed 170+ pieces for piano.
Ray Osrin.  Raymond Harold Osrin (October 5 1928 – April 3 2001) was an American cartoonist. He was most notable for his position as the editorial cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer where his political cartoons appeared daily for more than 30 years.
Bongo Herman.  Herman Davis (born 1940s) better known as Bongo Herman is a Jamaican hand-drummer percussionist and singer who has had a successful career stretching back to the early 1960s.
Heather Small.  Heather Small (born 20 January 1965) is an English soul singer best known for being the lead singer in the band M People. Her debut solo album was Proud in 2000. She was also a contestant in the British television show Strictly Come Dancing in 2008.
Lynn Verlayne.  Lynn Verlayne (born Verleyen) is a Belgian singer/songwriter/producer living in New York City United States. She is the daughter of Belgian writer-journalist Frans Verleyen. Verlayne began her music career at the age of 19 when she moved from Belgium to New York City. She wrote her first album Drifter almost entirely on Columbia University's Medical School concert piano which had been donated by Rachmaninoff because she could not afford her own. Drifter was released on Belgium's Sony.
Hayat Saif.  Hayat Saif (Hāẏāt̲ Sāipha : Bengali: হায়াৎ সাইফ) is a twentieth century modern Bengali poet and literary critic from Bangladesh. A career bureaucrat he retired in 2000 and since then is engaged in the corporate private sector and divides his time in World Scouting and literary and artistic pursuits. He has been translated in English and Spanish and in Bangladesh is generally acclaimed as an intellectual interpreter of contemporary life and culture.
Gerald Walker.  Gerald Joshua Walker Jr. (born July 14 1987) better known by his stage name Gerald Walker is an American rapper songwriter and record producer.
Joan Morrissey.  Joan Morrissey is widely considered to be Newfoundland's First Lady Of Song. Born in St. John's Newfoundland on January 23 1933 she was one of ten children. Entering the workforce at only thirteen years of age she quickly moved up in the music industry of her home province of Newfoundland. Starting in the early 1960s she began her career as a singer hosting and singing on local radio programs on CJON VOCM and CBC Radio.
Bartolomeo degli Erri.  Bartolomeo degli Erri (1447–1482) was an Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance.Bartolomeo degli Erri and his brothers Bartolomeo Bonascia and Agnolo are considered key figures of the Quattrocento movement in Modena. Bartolomeo probably contributed to the large triptych of the Coronation of the Virgin at the Galleria Estense (1462 and 1466) mainly attributed to his brother.
José de Rico.  José de Rico (full name José Manuel León Hierro born in Barcelona Spain in 1982) is a Spanish DJ producer and songwriter.He worked in the Spanish electronic and dance music station Loca FM for 5 years gaining media coverage and a big following. He started producing for his own with a distinctive unique style starting 2009. Affiliated with Roster Music he has collaborated with a number of artists in Spain and internationally and considered one of the major Spanish DJs and producers.
Abdón Ubidia.  Abdón Ubidia (1944) is an Ecuadorian writer who is considered one of the most representative and relevant voices of modern Ecuadorian literature.
Aleksandra Popovska.  Aleksandra Popovska is a vocalist multimedia artis educator and composer currently resident in The Netherlands. Raised in the Former Yugoslavia she was exposed to a wide variety of cultural influences. In the Balkans she is known as one of the pioneers in so called “extended vocal techniques”. She uses her voice as an instrument and her interests in music are various from folk and pop to jazz and experimental live electronics.
Evelyn Thomas.  Evelyn Thomas (born Ellen Lucille Thomas August 1953) is an American singer from Chicago Illinois best known for the dance hits High Energy Masquerade Standing At The Crossroads Reflections and WeakSpot.Thomas has an entertainment incorporated company called Eljopan Entertainment Incorporated.
William Alexander (artist).  William Bill Alexander (April 2 1915 – January 24 1997) was a German painter art instructor and television host. He is best known as the creator and host of The Magic of Oil Painting and the The Art of Bill Alexander television programs that ran on PBS in the United States.
George Khevenhüller.  Juraj Khevenhiller (Croatian pronunciation: [juraj kevenxiler]) was an Austrian nobleman from the Duchy of Carinthia. His name is also spelled as Gjuro or George whilst his surname is also spelled as Khevenhüller. He is famous because he was responsible for building Karlovac and because leading Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža wrote a song named after him.Khevenhiller is remembered in Croatia as a very cruel man. He built the City of Karlovac in honour of Charles II Archduke of Austria.
Tori Welles.  Tori Welles (born in San Fernando Valley California) is an American former pornographic actress.She performed in adult films between around 1988 and 1999 and also directed several movies in the early 1990s. In 1997 Norman (who is Norman?) released a private home video of himself and Welles filmed after their divorce called The Private Diary of Tori Welles.
Richard Horie.  Richard Horie is an artist who has worked on many comics mostly as a penciller and colorist but also as writer and inker.
Palizzolo Gravina.  Palizzolo Gravina baron of Ramione was an Italian heraldic writer. His work Il Blasone in Sicilia edited In Palermo in 1871-1875 contains over 2000 coats of arms of Sicilian families and is important for the study of Sicilian aristocracy.
Choc7.  Choc7 (Traditional Chinese: 超克7 pinyin: Chao Ke Qi) is a Taiwanese boyband group led by Ah Ben and is the second spin-off group of the Taiwanese variety show Mo Fan Bang Bang Tang (模范棒棒堂).
Kay Tse.  Kay Tse On-kei (born 13 March 1977) is a Hong Kong Cantopop songwriter recording-artist entertainer and one of the premier Cantonese singers.Raised In Hong Kong. Tse made her debut to the music industry and was signed with Ban Ban Music in 2005 and released her debut album. She became a prominent figure in the Cantopop culture.
William Carpenter (writer).  William Carpenter is the author of three books of poetry The Hours of Morning Poems 1976-1979 (University Press of Virginia 1981) Rain (Northeastern University Press 1985) Speaking Fire at Stones (Tilbury House 1992) and (to date) two novels A Keeper of Sheep (Milkweed Editions 1996) and The Wooden Nickel (Little Brown & Co. 2002).
Hayashi Gahō.  Hayashi Gahō (林 鵞峰 July 21 1618 – June 1 1688) also known as Hayashi Shunsai was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period. He was a member of the Hayashi clan of Confucian scholars.Following in the footsteps of his father Hayashi Razan Gahō (formerly Harukatsu) would devote a lifetime to expressing and disseminating the official neo-Confucian doctrine of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Jessy Greene.  Jessy Greene is a violinist cellist and vocalist from St. Paul Minnesota. She was a former member of Geraldine Fibbers and The Jayhawks.
Eddie Freeman (musician).  Eddie Freeman (November 10 1909 – November 23 1987) was a noted English jazz musician of the first half of the 20th century and a transcriber and teacher of flamenco guitar music in the latter half. Born Edward F. Freeman in London England the jazz guitarist and flamenco enthusiast spent time pursuing his music career in England Spain and the United States eventually moving to Dallas Texas where he lived with his family until his death in 1987.
Jeremiah Palecek.  Jeremiah Palecek (1978) is an American artist. He grew up in Bismarck North Dakota. He attended the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts The Glasgow School of Art and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently resides in Prague Czech Republic.Jeremiah's work as a painter is primarily known for rendering the digital world in oil paint. His subject matter includes but isn't limited to paintings of video games television shows and film stills.
Arliss Ryan.  Arliss Ryan (born July 24 1950 in Detroit Michigan) is an American novelist and short story writer and essayist.Ryan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English in 1971. For a time Ryan worked at the United Nations as an administrative assistant before pursuing writing full-time. Ryan's first novel The Kingsley House weaves stories around her ancestral home and was published by St. Martin's Press in 2000.
Rob De Luca.  Rob De Luca is an American bassist best known for playing in UFO the Sebastian Bach band and as a founding member of Spread Eagle.
Toril Moi.  Toril Moi (born 1953 in Norway) is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen Norway.
David Longoria.  David Longoria is an American trumpeter singer songwriter and record producer.He was classically trained before discovering jazz and continued to explore various styles such as gospel R&B and Latin. As an artist his Dance/Pop song Deeper Love a duet with CeCe Peniston peaked at No. 14 under Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play category in 2005.
Matt Freeman.  Matthew McCall Freeman (born Roger Matthew Freeman[citation needed] on April 23 1966) is an American musician. He is best known for his bass guitar work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy Rancid and as the frontman of Devil's Brigade.
Cathi Unsworth.  Cathi Unsworth is an English writer and journalist. After working for Melody Maker and Bizarre she began writing novels with The Not Knowing in 2005 and The Singer in 2007 on Serpent's Tail. She also edited its London Noir anthology in 2006.Her writing is heavily influenced by the late Derek Raymond [1].She lives in London where she still works as a journalist including for Dazed & Confused.
Hippolyte Castille.  Hippolyte Castille (November 8 1820 Montreuil-sur-Mer – September 26 1886 Luc-sur-Mer) was a French writer and polemicist.He wrote in collaboration with Frédéric Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari.Among his works are the Portraits historiques du dix-neuvième siècle with portraits of the likes of Chateaubriand Baroche and Lamartine among many others. He also wrote about Napoleon III.
Jerry Holland.  Jerry Holland (February 23 1955 - July 16 2009) was a musician and fiddler who lived on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia Canada.He was born in Brockton Massachusetts United States to Canadian parents - his father was from New Brunswick and his mother was from Quebec. During his childhood Holland was exposed to the music of the large Cape Breton expatriate community in Boston.
Feadz.  Feadz (born Fabien Pianta) is a French music producer DJ and songwriter currently signed by French music label Ed Banger Records. He combines the genres of hip hop electronic techno and French house in his music and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with label-mate and former girlfriend Uffie.
Hasegawa Tōhaku.  Hasegawa Tōhaku (長谷川 等伯 1539 - March 19 1610) was a Japanese painter and founder of the Hasegawa school of Japanese painting during the Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japanese history.
Rob McVeigh.  Robert Rob McVeigh born 28 April 1983 is a singer from Rotherham United Kingdom. A builder by trade McVeigh also has a National Diploma in Performing Arts from Rotherham College of Arts and Technology. In 2007 he found fame as a contestant in the BBC TV series Any Dream Will Do in which he was popularly known as Rob The Builder (a pun on the children's TV character Bob The Builder.) Rob is currently performing in the UK tour of Annie as Bundles Burt Healey & Howe.
He Tianjian.  He Tianjian (Chinese: 贺天健; 1891 – 2 April 1977) formerly romanized as Ho T'ien-chien was a Chinese guohua painter and a leading member of the Shanghai School of art.
Ed West (journalist).  Ed West is an author journalist and blogger who is the deputy editor of the The Catholic Herald. Previously he wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph.
Sandhya Sanjana.  Sandhya Sanjana (Hindi: संध्या) is a singer born in Mumbai India. She is one of the first Indian singers to have experimented with fusing Indian classical vocals with various other western contemporary styles. Her career began at a young age and she has appeared on over 30 albums covering various genres. She is a performing artist who combines her experience as a jazz/funk/rock vocalist with an understanding of Indian music – classical and contemporary – to bridge cultures.
Cândida Branca Flor.  Cândida Branca Flor (November 12 1949 – July 11 2001) was a famous Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer whose career spanned for decades.
Corina (singer).  Corina Katt Ayala best known only as Corina is an American dance pop singer. She is from Manhattan New York. She released a self-titled album on Atco Records in 1991 and charted string of dance hits in the US between 1989 and 1997. The highest charting of these was the summer 1991 top ten hit Tempation which peaked at #6 on the U.S. charts.Corina portrayed Frida Kahlo in the 1999 film Cradle Will Rock.
Jae.  Jae is a South African pop singer. Her debut solo single Missing You (2002) achieved several number-one placings over a range of radio categories.In Jae's home province of KwaZulu-Natal the region's premier radio station East Coast Radio placed Missing You at No. 4 on its list of Top 100 Songs for 2002.
Sita Ram Goel.  Sita Ram Goel (Sītā Rām Goyal) (1921–2003) writer and publisher in late twentieth century. He had Marxist leanings during the 1940s but later became an outspoken anti-communist and also wrote extensively on the damage to Indian culture and heritage wrought by expansionist Islam and missionary activities of Christianity. In his later career he emerged as a commentator on Indian politics and adhered to Hindu nationalism.
Christian Giesler.  Christian Speesy Giesler (born 4 July 1970) is the current bass guitar player for Kreator. He first appeared on Cause for Conflict replacing original bassist Roberto Fioretti and has been with the band since. Unlike Fioretti who used a pick on Kreator's recordings Gielser is a fingerstyle bassist.He originally used a Jackson Randy Rhoads custom bass but is currently endorsed by Mensinger with his own signature model.
Larry Williams.  Lawrence Eugene Larry Williams (May 10 1935 – January 7 1980) was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer songwriter producer and pianist from New Orleans Louisiana. Williams is best known for writing and recording some rock and roll classics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records including Bony Moronie Short Fat Fannie High School Dance (1957) Slow Down Dizzy Miss Lizzy (1958) Bad Boy and She Said Yeah (1959).
Sandor Zicherman.  Sandor Zicherman (Russian: Шандор Зихерман) (born 1935 Ungvar Czechoslovakia (now Uzhhorod Ukraine)) is a Soviet and Hungarian artist.Zicherman has been a member of the Union of Russian Artists since 1965 and is a member of the MAOE (Association of Hungarian Creators) the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists the Hungarian Sculptor's Society the World Artists Association the AIAP (Association International des Arts Plastiques) and FIDEM (International Art Medal Federation). 
Kazu Kibuishi.  Kazu Kibuishi is an American graphic novel author and illustrator. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology Flight and for creating the webcomic Copper. He is also the author and illustrator of the ongoing Amulet series.
Gerry Murphy (poet).  Gerry Murphy is an Irish poet.
Ratsy.  Ratsy (real name Patty Kemp; born in Jackson Michigan) is a folk singer/songwriter who was part of the Boston folk scene. She is known for her quirky and humorous lyrics.
Renee Grant-Williams.  Renee Grant-Williams is a vocal coach living in Nashville TN. She is also an active classical singer conductor communication skills expert and published author. Grant-Williams is considered one of the most effective voice coaches in the business and has been a consultant to nearly every major record label.
B.V.S.Ravi.  B.V.S.Ravi (machha ravi) (born Bachimanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam Ravi on 22 June 1974) is an Indian dialogue and story writer who works in the Telugu film industry.His birth name is Bachimanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam (Telugu: బాచిమంచి వెంకట సుబ్రహ్మణ్యమ్).He is a close associate of Ram Gopal VarmaPuri JagannathKrishna VamsiRana DaggubatiAllu ArjunRavi TejaDil RajuMohan BabuManchu Vishnu and Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna.
Giulio Clovio.  Giorgio Giulio Clovio or Juraj Julije Klović (1498 – January 5 1578) was an illuminator miniaturist and painter born in the Kingdom of Croatia who was mostly active in Renaissance Italy. He is considered the greatest illuminator of the Italian High Renaissance and arguably the last very notable artist in the long tradition of the illuminated manuscript before some modern revivals.
Natalia Starr.  Natalia Starr (born March 22 1993) is a Polish born American pornographic actress.
William Phiston.  William Phiston or Fiston (fl. 1571-1609) was an English translator and author.
Jibbs.  Jovan Campbell better known by his stage name Jibbs (born November 13 1990) is an American rapper. He had one top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 which was his debut single Chain Hang Low. Jibbs' only other song that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 is King Kong (featuring Chamillionaire).
Ray Henderson.  Ray Henderson born Raymond Brost (December 1 1896 - December 31 1970) was an American songwriter.
Alex Mitchell (musician).  Alex Mitchell is a singer songwriter poet and writer best known for being the frontman for Circus of Power (COP).
Murphy Martines.  Murphy Martines (born April 26 1978) is a men's fashion designer based out of Los Angeles. He has been designing apparel accessories and graphics for more than a decade in the street and action sports industry. After moving his way up from intern to creative director at Perry Ellis action sports division he decided to pursue his passion in the contemporary market and created his own label called COPY in 2006.
Mark Moore.  Mark Moore (born 12 January 1965) is a British dance music record producer and DJ. He was founder of the dance/sampling pioneers S'Express and runs the London nightclubs 'Electrogogo' and 'Can Can'.
Gerry Talaoc.  Gerry Talaoc is a Filipino comic-book artist best known for his 1970s work for DC Comics' war and horror anthology titles. Talaoc was among the vanguard of Filipino comics artists — including Alfredo Alcala Nestor Redondo and Alex Niño — recruited in 1971 for American comic books by DC editor Joe Orlando and editor-in-chief Carmine Infantino following the success of the pioneering Tony DeZuniga.
Richard Adams.  Richard George Adams (born 9 May 1920) is an English novelist who is best known as the author of Watership Down. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterward he completed his studies and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974 two years after Watership Down was published Adams became a full-time author. He is now semi-retired.
Michael Christie (writer).  Michael Christie is a Canadian writer whose debut story collection The Beggar's Garden was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Born and raised in Thunder Bay Ontario Christie later moved to Vancouver British Columbia to pursue professional skateboarding and studied psychology at Simon Fraser University.
Carla Lucero.  Carla Lucero is a Composer/Librettist. A native of Los Angeles she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman Morton Subotnik Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. She developed a highly melodic compositional style drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music.
Kathleen Meyer.  Kathleen Meyer (born 7 December 1942) is a contemporary American nature writer whose first work How To Shit in the Woods was published in 1989 and is frequently cited in other books especially those aimed at long-range hikers and primitive campers. Her writing is characterized by the use of humor and irreverence. She has only two published works in print: How to Shit in the Woods and Barefoot Hearted.
Jimmy Arnold (musician).  James Jimmy Frances Arnold (January 4 1932 in Toronto Canada – June 15 2004 in Sacramento California) was a Canadian singer most notable for his stint in the quartet The Four Lads. He appeared on hits such as Standing on the Corner (1956) No Not Much (1955) and Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (1953).After 30 years of being with the group Arnold retired and began teaching music through the James Arnold School of Voice in the 1980s.Arnold died of lung cancer on June 15 2004.
H. R. Giger.  Hans Rudolf Ruedi Giger (/ˈɡiːɡər/; born 5 February 1940) is a Swiss surrealist painter sculptor and set designer. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien. He was named to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013.
Ivy Queen.  Martha Ivelisse Pesante Rodríguez (born March 4 1972) known as Ivy Queen is a Puerto Rican-American singer songwriter record producer and actress. She was born in Añasco Puerto Rico but later moved with her parents to New York City where she lived until she finished her public education before returning to Añasco.
José Liard.  José Luis Liard (born 10 September 1945 Montevideo Uruguay) is an artist mural-painter illustrator designer and musician who works particularly in Sweden.
Quan Yi Fong.  Quan Yi Fong (Chinese: 权怡凤; born 1 March 1974) is a Taiwanese host and actress based in Singapore.
Beth Gibbons.  Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the English band Portishead.
Kim Poor.  Elizabeth Kimball de Albuquerque Poor is a Brazilian artist working in Rio and London.
Daichi Miura.  Daichi Miura (三浦 大知 Miura Daichi) (born 24 August 1987) is a Japanese singer songwriter dancer and choreographer.He belongs to Vision Factory and signed a record contract with Avex. (The label is SONIC GROOVE.)
Jon Winokur.  Jon Winokur (b. Aug. 5 1947) is an American writer and editor.Born in Detroit the son of Martin M. and Elinor Winokur he attended Temple University (BA 1970) and the University of West Los Angeles (JD 1980).
Aquiles Priester.  Aquiles Priester (born June 25 1971) is the drummer of the Brazilian power metal band Hangar and the prog metal band Midas Fate. He plays Paiste cymbals and Evans drum heads. In 2006 Aquiles participated in Fábio Laguna's Freakeys project. He is a former member of Angra.
B. R. Deodhar.  Professor B. R. Deodhar (September 11 1901 - 10 March 1990) was an Indian classical singer musicologist and music educator. He was a vocalist of Khayal-genre of Hindustani classical music.He was awarded the 1964 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy for Music Dance and Drama. Thereafter in 1976 he was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India.
Alexander Ostrovsky.  Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1823 Moscow Russian Empire – 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1886 Shchelykovo Kostroma Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period.
Hayami Kishimoto.  Hayami Kishimoto (岸本早未 Kishimoto Hayami born June 25 1987 in Kyoto Japan) is a retired female Japanese popular music singer. She was affiliated with the Giza Studio recording label for her four-year career.
Buster Harding.  Lavere Buster Harding (March 19 1912 – November 14 1965) was a Canadian-born American jazz pianist composer and arranger.
Kevin Keller (composer).  Kevin Keller (born April 27 1967) is an American pianist and composer known primarily for ambient chamber music a style that combines live instruments with electronic effects.
Carla Medina.  Carla Rubí Medina Villarreal (born October 29 1984 in Monterrey Mexico) better known as Carla Medina or Carla is a TV host and singer. She hosted the Disney Channel show Zapping Zone.Medina provided the voice of Trixie in the Spanish soundtrack for Toy Story 3.
Charles McCallon Alexander.  Charles McCallon Alexander (1867–1920) a native of East Tennessee was a popular nineteenth-century gospel singer who worked the evangelistic circuit for many years. Over the course of his ministry he toured with R. A. Torrey and John Wilbur Chapman most notably. In 1904 Alexander married Helen Cadbury daughter of the Cadbury Chocolate Company president. She toured with him on the evangelistic circuit as a women's worker.
Joachim Meyer.  Joachim Meÿer (ca. 1537–1571) was a self described Freifechter (literally Free Fencer) living in the then Free Imperial City of Strasbourg in the 16th century and the author of a fechtbuch Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens (in English Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing) first published in 1570.
Mahvash Waqar.  Mahvash Waqar is a Pakistani artist and a backup vocalist for the band Laal. She has also been famous for a stint on the radio network as a RJ.
Phil Romeril.  Phil Romeril is an Australian musician photographer and business person born in northern NSW and now residing in Melbourne. Phil is best known for his time as a musician playing in producing and recording bands such as 2 Litre Dolby The Small Knives Sir Richard Easton Band & Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates since the mid 90’s. In 2007 Phil's band The Small Knives performed at All Tomorrow's Parties (curated by The Dirty Three) in Minehead UK.
Marzieh (singer).  Ashraf o-Sadat Mortezaie (1924 – 13 October 2010) known professionally as Marzieh was a Tehran-born singer of Persian traditional music.
Frederic Remington.  Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4 1861 – December 26 1909) was an American painter illustrator sculptor and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys American Indians and the U. S. Cavalry.
Rob Heinsoo.  Rob Heinsoo (born 1964[citation needed]) is an American tabletop game designer. He has been designing and contributing to professional role-playing games card games and board games since 1994. Heinsoo was the lead designer on 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons (2008) and is co-designer of the 13th Age roleplaying game along with Jonathan Tweet. He has also designed and contributed to roleplaying miniatures and card games and a computer game.
Alice Perrers.  Alice Perrers (1348 – 1400) was a royal mistress whose lover and patron was King Edward III of England. She met him originally in her capacity as a lady-in-waiting to Edward's consort Philippa of Hainault. As a result of her liaison she acquired significant land holdings.
Erik van Lieshout.  Erik Gerardus Franciscus van Lieshout is a Dutch contemporary artist most widely known for his installations.
Michael Guy Chislett.  Michael Guy Chislett (born 6 April 1982) is an Australian born musician.
Wajid Khan (artist).  Wajid Khan (Hindi: वाजिद खान; born on 10 March 1981) is an artist and a patent holder.He is a painter and an inventor of 140 items and 200 other inventions which are awaiting patent procedure.
Jake Hook.  Jake Patrick Robert Hook is a British million-seller songwriter producer and arranger. Hook signed with EMI in December 2009 on the strength of the single Coming Home by The Soldiers.
Wichie Torres.  Wichie Torres born in Ponce Puerto Rico on 29 March 1952 is a Puerto Rican oil canvas painter. He is an exposer of the costumbrismo movement. He is also the first person in the Central America and Caribbean region to have ever undergone two independent heart transplant operations and have survived both.
El-P.  Jaime Meline (born March 2 1975) better known by his stage name El-P (originally El Producto) is an American hip hop recording artist record producer and entrepreneur from Brooklyn New York City. Originally a member of Company Flow El-P has been a major driving force in alternative hip hop for over a decade producing for several notable underground rappers. He is the co-founder owner and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Definitive Jux record label.
Alison Pace.  Alison Pace (born 1971) is an American novelist and essayist. She lives in New York City.
Keith Cullen (author).  Keith Cullen (born 1968 in Dun Laoghaire south of Dublin in Ireland) is the founder of Setanta Records an artist manager and the author of the novel God Save The Village Green.
John Irving.  John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany have been bestsellers. Five of his novels have been adapted to film.
Antonio Agrote.  Antonio Agrote was an Italian architectural or quadratura painter flourished about 1750. He painted one of the chapels of the Carmelite church at Milan and the decorations of the church of Santa Maria at Brescia for which Carloni (Carlo Innocenzo Carlone?) painted the figures.
Dot Allison.  Dot Allison (born Dorothy Elliot Allison 17 August 1969 Edinburgh Scotland) is a Scottish singer and songwriter who has made significant inroads in electronic music circles most notably as a result of her tenure fronting the band One Dove in the early 1990s. She is married to the film composer Christian Henson and they live in London.
Les Minski.  Les Minski is an American singer and stage actor.Minski has been cast as the Marquis St. Evremonde in the Broadway musical adaptation of 'A Tale of Two Cities' opening for preview on August 19 2008 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York.
Crystal Knight.  Crystal Knight (born December 31 1973) is an American erotic actress and exotic dancer of Cuban and Dominican heritage. She is sometimes credited as Crystal K. She self-identifies as bisexual.
Lars Andreas Haug.  Lars Andreas Haug (born 12 April 1975 in Frogner Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (tuba) known from a variety of jazz groups and recordings.
Anselm Feuerbach.  Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school.
Lea Vivot.  Lea Vivot is a Czech-born Canadian sculptor. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto Ontario as well as Prague Czechoslovakia Milan Italy and New York United States. Although her main focus is sculpture Vivot is also active in drawing and printmaking. Vivot’s over life-sized bronze sculptures are figurative and often depict families couples mothers children and other subjects of humanity. Most of her sculptures include benches which have become her trademark.
Dean Jeffries.  Edward Dean Jeffries (February 25 1933 – May 5 2013) was an American custom vehicle designer fabricator stuntman and stunt coordinator for motion pictures and television programs based in Los Angeles California.
Reki Kawahara.  Reki Kawahara (川原 礫 Kawahara Reki born in Gunma Prefecture) is the Japanese author of the light novels and manga Accel World and Sword Art Online. Both series have been adapted into anime.The Sword Art Online series was first published online in 2002 under the pen name Fumio Kunori (九里史生 Kunori Fumio). Kawahara entered the first Accel World novel into ASCII Media Works' 15th Dengeki Novel Prize in 2008 and the novel won the Grand Prize.
LeSean Thomas.  LeSean Thomas a South Bronx native is an American television animation producer director animator comic book artist writer character designer in Los Angeles.He is currently producer and director of the Black Dynamite TV series.His recent notable projects include: Legend of Korra animated TV series for Nickelodeon Animation & Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks animated TV series for Sony Pictures Television.
Justin Boller.  Justin Boller (born December 6 1983) also known as Sky is an American Grammy nominated record producer singer and GMA Dove Award-winning songwriter.
Harry Lee Poe.  Harry Lee Poe is the Charles Colson Chair of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson Tennessee and author of a number of books.He is an indirect descendant of the family of Edgar Allan Poe and president of the Poe Foundation. He was the director of the Poe writers conference in 2007.
Toru Miura (musician).  Toru Miura (三浦 徹 Miura Tōru born 1948 Osaka Japan) is a euphonium player and professor at Kunitachi College of Music. He is a founding member of the International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) formerly named Tubist Universal Brotherhood Association (TUBA).
Pius Fidelis Pinto.  Pius Fidelis Pinto (born 24 April 1960) is an Indian priest and research scholar of Christianity in Canara India. He is noted for his research work and publications on the history of Konkani Christians of Canara. He has written eight books and presented 36 research papers at various events across the world.
Syl Johnson.  Syl Johnson (born July 1 1936) is an American blues and soul singer and record producer.
Kate Steinitz.  Kate Steinitz (2 August 1889 - 7 April 1975) was a German-American artist and art historian affiliated with the European Bauhaus and Dadaist movements in the early 20th century. She is best known for her collaborative work with the artist Kurt Schwitters and in later life her scholarship on Leonardo da Vinci.
Charice Pempengco.  Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco (born May 10 1992) popularly known by the mononym Charice is a Filipina singer who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as the most talented girl in the world she released her first international studio album Charice in 2010.
Rumi Ochiai.  Rumi Ochiai (落合 るみ Ochiai Rumi born March 6 1973) is a Japanese voice actress.
Rex Chandler.  Rex Chandler is an American actor and former gay pornographic film actor.Chandler was born in Mount Clemens Michigan on August 14 1966. A former Mr. Michigan he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1990 to seek out a career in the entertainment field. He modeled for several adult magazines before his agent suggested he try adult films. A heterosexual he put in his contract that he would perform strictly as a gay-for-pay sexual top and performed under the name Rex Chandler.
Eirik Newth.  Eirik Newth (born 1964) is a Norwegian astrophysicist writer of popular science for children and media personality.He received the Brage Prize in 1996 for the children's book Jakten på sannheten.He is the son of author and illustrator couple Philip and Mette Newth and a maternal grandson of writer couple Fridtjof and Lalli Knutsen.
George Paul Wielgus.  George Paul Wielgus (b. Frome UK 1983) is a performance poet community arts worker and writer from the UK. Self-described refugee from suburban England since October 2007 he has been resident in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.Between December 2007 and today he has appeared many times across Malaysia Singapore and the UK performing at organising and hosting spoken word events poetry slams and punk gigs.
Mike Rutherford.  Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis initially as a bassist and backing vocalist. Rutherford often played rhythm guitar and Twelve-string guitar for the band in the early years. Following the departure of Steve Hackett from Genesis in 1977 he assumed the role of lead guitarist on the band's studio albums beginning with ...And Then There Were Three... in 1978.
Steve Lee (singer).  Steve Lee (born Stefan Alois in Horgen Switzerland August 5 1963 – October 5 2010) was a Swiss musician and vocalist best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.He also sung in Ayreon album 01011001.
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek.  Koekkoek Barend Cornelis (October 11 1803 Middelburg – April 5 1862 Kleve) was a Dutch landscape artist and father of Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek.
Rafiuddin Raz.  Mirza Rafiuddin 'Raz' Baig (Urdu: مرزا رفیوددیں بیگ‎; born 21 April 1938) is a Pakistani poet. Raz published his first volume of poetry Deeda-e-Khush Khwab in 1988 and followed it with Beenai (Sight) Pairahan-e-Fikr (The Dress of Thought) Roshni Kay Khad-o-Khaal (Features of Light) and Abhi Darya Main Pani Hai (There is Water in the River Yet) all of which won him renown in Urdu literary circles.Since 2000 Raz has released a book roughly every two years.
Michael Tong.  Michael Tong Man-lung (Chinese: 唐文龍 (唐文龙); Cantonese Romanization: Tong Man Lung (Tang Wen Long); born 17 November 1969) is a Hong Kong actor.
Shaolin (humorist).  Francisco Jozenilton Veloso (born May 8 1971) better known by his pseudonym and stage name Shaolin is a Brazilian cartoonist caricaturist humorist comedian and media presenter.
Keith Robinson (actor).  Keith Robinson (born January 17 1976) is an American actor and R&B singer.
Shirley Purdie.  Shirley Purdie is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist notable for winning the 2007 Blake Prize for religious art. Purdie was born at Gilburn or Mabel Downs Station in Western Australia's Kimberley region in 1948 and is a painter at Warmun community.
Daniel Brel.  Daniel Brel (born Égleny 1950) is a French composer accordionist and bandoneón player. In 1979 at Pau Pyrénées-Atlantiques he formed the Contratiempo quartet. He performs on the accordion in recital with singer Arnaud Marzorati.
James O'Barr.  James O'Barr (born January 1 1960) is an American graphic artist best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow.
Gordon Purcell.  Gordon Purcell (born February 14 1959) is an American comic book artist perhaps best known for his Star Trek work in particular his photorealistic renditions of the actors who play that franchise’s characters as well as those of similarly licensed books such as X-Files Xena Lost in Space Godzilla The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Barb Wire and The Terminator.
Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas.  Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas (born October 3 1934) also known as Michel Cardena is a Colombian-Dutch New Realism and Pop Art painter and a pioneer of video art in the Netherlands. His works cover a variety of artistic media including painting drawing video photography object assemblages and digital art.
Richard Starkings.  Richard Starkings is a British font designer and comic book letterer editor and writer. He was one of the early pioneers of computer based comic book lettering and as a result is one of the most prolific creators in that industry.
John Reppion.  John Mark Reppion (born 1978) is a British writer. He is married to Leah Moore the daughter of Alan Moore and he has worked with both on the comic Albion.
Léo Campion.  Léo Campion (born Léon Louis Octave Campion; March 24 1905 Paris–March 6 1992 Paris) was a French actor.
Titi DJ.  Titi Dwijayati (born May 27 1966) known as Titi DJ is an Indonesian pop singer. She was also one of the judges on Indonesian Idol from season 1 to 5.
Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu.  Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu (1853–1912) was a renowned Telugu dramatist and playwright from Bellary. He was known as Andhra Nataka Pithamaha[citation needed] and wrote more than 30 original plays.
Kij Johnson.  Kij Johnson (born Katherine Irenae Johnson January 20 1960 in Harlan Iowa) is an American writer of fantasy. She has worked extensively in publishing: managing editor for Tor Books and TSR (later Wizards of the Coast) collections editor for Dark Horse Comics and content manager working on the Microsoft Reader.
Richard Carlson (author).  Richard Carlson (May 16 1961 – December 13 2006) was an American author psychotherapist and motivational speaker who rose to fame with the success of his book Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997) which became one of the fastest-selling books of all time and made publishing history as USA Todays bestselling book for two consecutive years. It also spent over 101 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Eugène Mouton.  Pierre Martin Désiré Eugène Mouton (12 April 1823 Marseille - 8 June 1902 Paris) was a French writer of comic adventure and fantastical literature and is considered an early writer of science fiction. He wrote under the name Mérinos. The son of a military officer father and a Creole mother he lived in Guadeloupe until the age of ten. In 1848 he became a magistrate; his career progressed upward for the next 20 years and he rose to the rank of prosecutor.
Roddy Radalj.  Rodney John Roddy Radalj is a rock musician and singer-songwriter who grew up in Perth Western Australia. He has provided guitar bass guitar and vocals in several influential Australian bands starting with Perth punk bands in the late 1970s before relocating to Sydney to become a founder of Le Hoodoo Gurus in 1981 and of Dubrovniks in 1988. Since 1989 as Roddy Ray'Da he has released a number of solo albums including Guns Girls & Guitars in 2005.
Charles Dickens.  Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life his works enjoyed unprecedented fame and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars.
Filippo da Verona.  Filippo da Verona (16th century) was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period.He painted in a style recalling Giambattista Cima and is the author of a Virgin and Child in the Academy of Arts in Turin a replica of which is in the Locchis Carrara Gallery at Bergamo. He was employed at the Church of the Eremitani in Padua where he painted the Glory of the Virgin with Angels and Saints in 1511; having previously in 1509 produced a Virgin and Child with SS.
Mafalda Arnauth.  Mafalda Arnauth is a fado singer. She was born in Lisbon Portugal in October 1974 and started her career in 1995 when invited by João Braga to participate in a concert at S. Luis's Theater.Arnauth released a debut album in 1999.
Peter Smith (painter).  Peter Smith (born in Mansfield 1967) is a British artist. The subject for which he is most well known is a striped rotund creature with the form of a hippopotamus but the stripes of a zebra which are known as 'Zeppos' or 'Impossimals'.Smith is a self-taught artist who in 2005 contributed an artwork to the BBC's Children in Need.
Playa Fly.  Playa Fly (born Ibn Young on September 2 1977[citation needed]) is a rapper from Memphis Tennessee. Fly was a member of the Triple 6 Mafia (now known as Three 6 Mafia then known as Lil' Fly) but he stopped collaborating in 1995 due to monetary disputes and philosophical differences after recording one album under the group's guidance. Pursuing a solo career as Playa Fly he released one independent album before signing a three album contract with Super Sigg Records.
Jamie Graves.  Jamie Graves was the pianist for many gospel groups during the late 80's and throughout the 90's. The Telestials 1987-1989 The Perrys 1989 The Greenes 1989 The Sharps 1990-1991 and Kingdom Heirs from 1992-1999. During this time he was nominated several times for instrumentalist of the year by the Singing News Magazine Fan Awards. Jamie was also music director for the award winning show Country Tonite 1999-2005. Jamie Graves also has hundreds of albums to his credit.
Marcia Ball.  Marcia Ball (born March 20 1949 Orange Texas United States) is an American blues singer and pianist born in Orange Texas who was raised in Vinton Louisiana. She was described in USA Today as a sensation saucy singer and superb pianist...
Nino Nakashidze.  Nino Nakashidze (also spelled as Nakachidze Georgian: ნინო ნაკაშიძე)(born 1872; died 1963) was a Georgian writer. She was primarily known for her writings involving children and their treatment in what she viewed as a flawed system. She was also a political activist and took part in the Revolution of 1905 and subsequent upheavals which earned her a brief exile in 1908 to the Vyatka Governorate.
E-Tribe.  E-Tribe (Hangul: 이트라이브) is a South Korean record production duo consisting of Ahn Myung-won and Kim Young-deuk. They are most known for producing smash hit singles “Gee” by Girls' Generation “U-Go-Girl” by Lee Hyo-ri “Yayaya” by T-ara “It's You” by Super Junior and “I Know” by Se7en. Due to the consistent success of these singles the duo has become well accepted and known in the South Korean music scene.
Patton Oswalt.  Patton Oswalt (born January 27 1969) is an American stand-up comedian writer actor and voice actor known for roles such as Spencer Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens and for voicing Remy in the film Ratatouille.
Graciela Iturbide.  Graciela Iturbide (born 1942 in Mexico City) is a Mexican photographer.
Emelie Norenberg.  Emelie Catharina Leontine Norenberg (born 21 February 1985) is a Swedish singer and designer. She is most famous for her music.
Albert Almoznino.  Albert Almoznino (born 1923) is an Israeli hand shadow artist. He gained international recognition in the years 1958-1975 when he performed his hand shadow skills in front of thousands of people at Radio City Music Hall New York Paris Olympia Reno Nevada The Ed Sullivan Show and other places.
Fabo.  Lefabian Williams (born November 30 1983) better known by his stage name Fabo is an American rapper producer song-writer and former frontman of the snap music group D4L. He is currently signed to Atlantic Records and has gone solo.After a brief hiatus from the music scene Fabo who now goes by the stage name 2$ Fabo is back in 2013 with a new single called Catch Me on That Molly which is produced by King Dominus.
Fiona Sampson.  Fiona Sampson is an award-winning British poet.
Gaston Orellana.  Gaston Orellana (born 18 July 1933) is a Spanish painter. Orellana was born in Valparaiso Chile in 1933 son of Spanish parents Armando de Orellana an engineer and Spanish diplomat and Ernestina del Transito née Morgadon. Although born abroad Orellana was born into the ancient aristocratic house of Orellana la Vieja from Extremadura Spain. He has since lived in Spain Italy the United States the UK and France.
Clelia Duel Mosher.  Clelia Duel Mosher (KLEEL-ya DUE-el MOE-sher) (December 16 1863 – December 21 1940) was a physician hygienist and women's health advocate who disapproved of Victorian stereotypes about the physical incapacities of women. Her Master's degree thesis disproved the then widely held belief that women were physically inferior to men because they could only breathe costally showing instead it was only women’s fashionable corset clothing of the time that prevented diaphragmatic breathing.
Michael Beck (singer).  Michael Michi Beck (born 11 December 1967 in Stuttgart Germany) also known by his pseudonym as the disc jockey Dee Jot Hausmarke is a member of the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier where he acts as DJ and MC. He also forms the duo Turntablerocker with Thomas Thomilla Burchia.
Ron Haselden.  Ron Haselden (born 1944) is a British artist who splits his time between London and the French coastal town of Plouër-sur-Rance in Brittany France. He works with light sound film and video often as part of architectural projects.He was born in Gravesend Kent and attended the Gravesend School of Art. After teaching for a number of years at Reading University he moved to France. Frère Jacques (made in collaboration with Peter Cusack) combined a wall of light with children singing.
Robert Powell (composer).  Robert Powell (born Benoit Mississippi 1932) is an American composer organist and choir director.Powell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University with a focus on organ and composition. He studied with Alec Wyton at Union Theological Seminary in New York and he was also Wyton's assistant at The Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. For three years (1965–1968) he served St. Paul's School (Concord New Hampshire) as Director of Music.
George A. Grant.  George Alexander Grant an American photographer was the first Chief Photographer for the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). He was hired by Horace M. Albright in 1929 to create a documentary file of images for use by the Park Service in reports interpretive projects education and public information. Grant until his retirement in 1954 created approximately 30000-40000 images of NPS areas.
Roger Dawson.  Roger Dawson (born March 19 1940) is a jazz percussionist conga drummer bandleader and jazz composer. He was a leading jazz and salsa disc jockey in the USA and acknowledged as at the forefront of New York's Salsa music explosion of the seventies and early eighties. He was the creator of the long running Salsa Meets Jazz concert series at New York's Village Gate club.
Georg Mengel.  Georg Mengel (Bamberg 1612-1667) was a German composer. After service in the army from 1640 he was Kapellmeister to Fürstbischof Melchior Otto Voit von Salzburg at the court of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg.
George Bemis (lawyer).  George Bemis (October 13 1816 – January 5 1878) was an American lawyer and legal scholar. He was involved with many unique cases and was an advocate of international law and the reform of the treatment of criminals.
Sam Carter (musician).  Sam Carter is a British guitarist singer and songwriter originally from the English Midlands but more recently based in East London. He has released two albums of mainly original material which fall loosely into the folk/roots category. Carter is the winner of the Horizon award for best newcomer at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2010.
Ray Thomas.  Raymond Ray Thomas (born 29 December 1941 Stourport-on-Severn England) is an English musician best known as the flautist and as a singer and composer in the rock band The Moody Blues.
Tetsumi Kudo.  Tetsumi Kudo (February 23 1935 – November 12 1990)
Julio Pazos Barrera.  Julio Pazos Barrera (Baños 1944) is a poet writer teacher and cook.He is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Letras del Ecuador (Letters from Ecuador) published by the Ecuadorian House of Culture and editor-in-chief of the magazine América.He is a professor of Spanish and Literature at the Catholic Pontifical University of Ecuador (PUCE).He is a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language.He was awarded Ecuador's National Prize in Literature Premio Eugenio Espejo in 2010 by the President of Ecuador.
Karl Agricola.  Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola was a German artist noted for his portrait miniatures.
Kana Yazumi.  Kana Yazumi (矢住 夏菜 Yazumi Kana born August 13 1985 in Kawasaki Kanagawa Prefecture) is a popular Japanese female singer-songwriter. Her second single Be Strong was used as the first opening theme of anime series Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple.
Torquato Neto.  Torquato Pereira de Araújo Neto (November 9 1944 – November 10 1972) was a Brazilian journalist poet and songwriter. He is perhaps best known as a lyricist for the Tropicália counterculture movement which later expanded its influence to Música Popular Brasileira. He worked with Gal Costa Gilberto Gil Edu Lobo and Waly Salomão.
Tetsushi Suwa.  Tetsushi Suwa (諏訪哲史 Suwa Tetsuhi born 1969) is a Japanese writer from Nagoya Aichi. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 2007 for Asatte no Hito (アサッテの人 The person of the day after tomorrow). The novel was first published in the literary magazine Gunzo winning the magazine's award for new writers.[citation needed]
Pino Calvi.  Pino Calvi (Voghera Pavia 12 January 1930 – Palazzina di Castana Pavia 4 January 1989) was an Italian pianist arranger conductor and soundtrack composer for films and TV series.His song Accarezzame was performed by famous Italian artists such as among others Roberto Murolo Ornella Vanoni Peppino Di Capri Achille Togliani Teddy Reno Fred Bongusto Gigliola Cinquetti Paolo Fresu.He became popular in the 1970s for his participation in some RAI TV programs such as Senza Rete in Naples when he was a polite Maestro.
Mickey Avalon.  Mickey Avalon (born Yeshe Perl; December 3 1975) is an American rapper from Hollywood California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records. Frequent topics of Avalon's songs are his experiences with substance abuse and prostitution.
Peter Sprague.  Peter Sprague (Peter Tripp Sprague born October 11 1955) is a critically acclaimed American jazz guitarist composer musical arranger and musical transcriber sound recording engineer and music producer.
Romanthony.  Romanthony (born Anthony Wayne Moore) (1966 – 7 May 2013) was an American disc jockey producer and singer. He was best known for his work with French duo Daft Punk (he provided the vocals for One More Time and Too Long on their Discovery album).On November 7th 2012 he released his final musical contribution in the song 2Nite4U with Kris Menace on his vocal collaboration album Features.Romanthony's work crossed several genres including house R&B and hip hop.
Han Geng.  This is a Chinese name. The family name is Hán.Han Geng (Chinese: 韩庚; Pinyin: Hán Gēng; Wade-Giles: Han Keng; Hangul: 한경) (born February 9 1984) is a Chinese Mandopop singer and actor.Han studied dance and martial arts at a young age and is skilled in all of China's 56 ethnic traditional dances as well as ballet and hip-hop. He started his career in 2001 when he was chosen by SM Entertainment (SME) to become a member of South Korean boy band Super Junior which debuted in 2005.
Sally Carrighar.  Sally Carrighar (1898–1985) was an American naturalist and writer. She is especially known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals. Humans are often absent from these tales.Carrighar's work is based on years of observation. For example she spent ten years in the Arctic and seven observing at Beetle Rock in California before writing her famous books.
Kevin Shields.  Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an Irish musician singer-songwriter composer and producer best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. As a teenager Shields performed in a number of small unsuccessful bands in Dublin Ireland before forming My Bloody Valentine with drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig in 1983.
Steven Lee Olsen.  Steven Lee Olsen (born November 25 1985 in Newmarket Ontario) is a Canadian country music artist. He released his debut single Now in 2009 on RGK Records taken from his 2009 debut album Introducing Steven Lee Olsen. He followed his debut single with release of another single Make Hay While the Sun Shines.Olsen has also written songs for American singers Craig Morgan The Judds and Melissa Lawson as well as the single Street Lights for Swedish Idol winner Kevin Borg.
Virginia Maestro.  This is about artist also known as Virginia Labuat. For the musical project with The Pinker Tones Risto Mejide and Virginia Maestro see Labuat Virginia Maestro Díaz (born 29 September 1982) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. She is the winner of Operación Triunfo 2008 a Spanish version of Star Academy.In 2009 she associated herself with Labuat a musical project with Risto Mejide one of the judges of OT and The Pinker Tones. Many of her recordings are thus credited to Virginia Labuat.
Zane Radcliffe.  Zane Radcliffe (born 1969 in Bangor Northern Ireland) is an author from Northern Ireland.
Matthew Nelson.  Matthew Gray Nelson (born September 20 1967) is an American singer-songwriter musician and international multi-platinum recording artist. He is the son of actress Kristin Harmon and the late teen idol Ricky Nelson. Along with his twin brother Gunnar he has been a member of Nelson since 1990. Their single (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection was a #1 hit in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1990.
Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro 2nd Baron of Itamaracá.  Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro 2nd Baron of Itamaracá (April 30 1804 — January 5 1868) was a Brazilian poet orator diplomat politician medician and journalist. He is the patron of the 27th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters patron of the 7th chair of the Pernambucan Academy of Letters and of the 23rd chair of the National Academy of Medicine.
Charles Tilson-Chowne.  Charles Tilson-Chowne was a British stage and film actor.
Yevgeny Baratynsky.  Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (Russian: Евге́ний Абра́мович Бараты́нский IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈbraməvʲɪt͡ɕ bərɐˈtɨnskʲɪj] ; 2 March [O.S. 19 February] 1800 – July 11 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane Baratynsky was rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought.
Jerry Goldsmith.  Jerrald King Jerry Goldsmith (February 10 1929 – July 21 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring.He composed scores for such noteworthy films as The Sand Pebbles Logan's Run Planet of the Apes Patton Chinatown The Wind and the Lion The Omen The Boys from Brazil Night Crossing Alien Poltergeist The Secret of NIMH Gremlins Hoosiers Total Recall Basic Instinct Rudy Air Force One L.A.
Eltjo Haselhoff.  Eltjo Haselhoff (1962) is a Dutch 'fingerstyle' guitarist and composer. He has played guitar since he was 8 years old but has never had one single guitar lesson. He does not read or write music. He also plays several other musical instruments besides the guitar.
Frederic Whiting.  Frederic Whiting RP RSW (1874 - 1 August 1962) was an English painter who had studied at the Académie Julian and taught at Heatherley School of Fine Art with Iain McNab and Bernard Adams. He also worked for The Graphic as war correspondent covering the Chinese and Russo-Japanese War
Carlos López Estrada.  Carlos Lopez Estrada is a music video director and a Latin Grammy Award recipient. At the 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards Lopez Estrada's music video for Me Voy by Mexican pop band Jesse & Joy earned the title of Best Short Form Music Video. The video made in 2011 uses stop motion technique and the production team trimmed 2900 photographs in order to create the sequences included.Also for Jesse & Joy Lopez Estrada directed Chocolate the lead single from their album Electricidad.
Richard James Gelles.  Richard J. Gelles is an American writer. He is a dean at the University of Pennsylvania and holds the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Policy & Practice. He is the Director for the Center for Research on Youth & Social Policy and Co-Director of the Field Center for Children's Policy Practice & Research.Gelles is an internationally known expert in domestic violence and child welfare.
Robyn E. Kenealy.  Robyn E. Kenealy (born 1983) is a comic book artist and organiser in the New Zealand art communities. She is basedin Wellington and had a role in establishing the 91 Aro St Gallery organising the New Zealand Comics Weekend and the Eric Awards. Kenealy's early works Influenza in Wellington and Love Ain't Easy were predominantly autobiographical comics. Her later work Roddy's Film Companion (a biography of the film actor Roddy McDowall) marks a distinct shift from this style.
Bryan Rice.  Brian Risberg Clausen better known as Bryan Rice (born 29 May 1978 in Roskilde Denmark) is a Danish pop singer and songwriter.His debut single No Promises was a huge hit in Denmark in the Autumn of 2005/spring of 2006. The song was covered and released by British The X Factor winner Shayne Ward reaching number two in the United Kingdom.In 2006 he released Homeless Heart a cover of the Amanda Stott song which was the second single from his debut album Confessional.
Peter Schwartz (writer).  Peter Schwartz is a writer and journalist who follows the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. He was the original editor and publisher for The Intellectual Activist and has contributed to books that reprint articles by Rand and other Objectivist writers such as The Voice of Reason and Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (an expanded version of The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand).
Robert J. Haiman.  Robert J. Haiman was a nationally recognized reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. He served in this capacity for 25 years and eventually he was promoted to executive editor. Later Haiman served as the President of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and was in this position until 1996.[1]
Bret McKenzie.  Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie ONZM (born 29 June 1976) is a New Zealand comedian actor musician and producer best known for being one half of the Grammy Award winning musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement.
Marijan Brkić Brk.  Marijan Brkić Brk is a Croatian guitarist best known for his work with Croatian bands such as Parni Valjak Prljavo Kazalište and currently Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni. He is one of the most popular Croatian guitarists and session musicians and is also known as a songwriter arranger composer producer and sound engineer.His first popular band was Prljavo Kazalište with whom he played from 1979 to 1989. In 1991 he joined Parni Valjak as their lead guitarist.
Morgan King.  Morgan King is a Singer Producer and Photographer.
Kate Augestad.  Kate Elisabeth Augestad (born 1956 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian vocalist known from bands like Johnny Banan Band and Program 81/82 and the mother of singer and actor Tora Augestad (b. 1979). She was later Assistant Professor at University of Bergen Department of Information Science and Media Studies and Handelshøyskolen BI in Bergen. She has also appeared as an actor at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen.
Enea Salmeggia.  Enea Salmeggia (c. 1556 – 23 February 1626) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period active mainly in his native city of Bergamo. He was also known as Il Talpino. He trained with members of the Campi family and later with members of the Procaccini family in Milan. For the church of the Passion in Milan he painted a Christ’s Agony in the Garden and a Flagellation. His Virgin and child with saints Roch and others is found in the Brera Gallery.
Carl Morgan.  Carl Morgan born 1981 is a former producer of the rap group So Solid Crew. In October 2005 he was sentenced to 30 years for murdering a love rival. He was tried before a jury for the murder of 24-year-old Colin Leyon Scarlett in Tooting South London in November 2004.Colin Scarlett the partner of Morgan's ex-girlfriend (who has two children by Morgan) had beaten Morgan up earlier on the day of the murder.
Gil Sharone.  Gil Sharone is an American drummer and member of the band Stolen Babies and formerly The Dillinger Escape Plan. He was also a fill in for punk rock band +44. His twin brother is Rani Sharone also of Stolen Babies.Gil supported Mark Hoppus's band +44 when Travis Barker broke his arm. Gil toured around Europe and Australia with +44 in early 2007 it is believed he learned all of +44's setlist on the flight from America to Europe.
Antonio Calza.  Antonio Calza (1658–1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Verona to a jeweler. He was the pupil of the Bolognese painter Carlo Cignani then moved to Rome to work under Jacques Courtois. Guglielmo Capodoro (Paganini) and Giovanni Batista Canziani were his pupils. Calza who worked mostly in Bologna is known for painting historical and battle paintings. In 1675 he reconciled with his father and married an 88-year-old widow.
Eleanor Barooshian.  Eleanor Barooshian (April 2 1950) also known as Eleanor Baruchian and as Chelsea Lee was a member of the band The Cake (formed in New York in 1966). In 1967 Barooshian appeared in You Are What You Eat a documentary film produced by Peter Yarrow of folk group Peter Paul & Mary. In the film Barooshian performed the Sonny & Cher hit I Got You Babe with Tiny Tim. She sang the male part while Tiny sang the female.
Cheong Soo Pieng.  Cheong Soo Pieng (Chinese: 钟泗宾; pinyin: Zhōng Sìbīn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tsing Sì-pin) was a Singaporean artist who was a pioneer of the Nanyang art style and a driving force to the development of Modernism in visual art in the early 20th-century Singapore. He was also known for his signature depiction of Southeast Asian indigenous tribal people with elongated limbs and torso almond-shaped faces and eyes in his paintings.
Guillaume de Saint-André.  Guillaume de Saint-André (fl. 15th/16th centuries) was the secretary and biographer of John IV of Brittany.
Richard Genovese.  Richard Misiano-Genovese (born 1947) is a collagist photographer painter and theorist.Misiano-Genovese is the intitiator of the Altered Lithograph Excavation Collage and Novel.
Eric van Aro.  Eric van Aro (born August 8 1958) is a European jazz and pop singer. He is the son of the Italian singer Caterina Valente and the German Juggler/Producer Erik van Aro Sr.
Adelaïde Alsop Robineau.  Adelaïde Alsop Robineau (1865–1929) was an American painter potter and ceramist.As a young woman Adelaïde became interested in the popular pursuit of china painting. She married Samuel E. Robineau of France in 1899 and in that year the couple launched Keramic Studio a pioneering periodical for ceramic artists and potters.
Long John Baldry.  John William Long John Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No. 1 in 1967 and in Australia where his duet with Kathi McDonald You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' reached number two in 1980.
Igor Saavedra.  Igor Saavedra (Santiago de Chile May 31 1966 ) is a player and pioneer of the extended-range bass (ERB) guitar. As of 1999 he has dedicated his musical career to the study and performing of the eight string extended-range bass guitar. As collected from many interviews worldwide Mr.
Rauf Atakishiyev.  Rauf Israfil oglu Atakishiyev (Azerbaijani: Rauf Atakişiyev) was a Soviet Azerbaijani singer pianist singer-soloist People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1967) professor (1972).
Eryue He.  Ling Jiefang (Chinese: 凌解放; born November 3 1945) better known by his pen name Eryue He (Chinese: 二月河; literally February River) is a Chinese historical fiction writer. Ling is best known for writing biographical novels of three Qing Dynasty emperors (Kangxi Emperor Yongzheng Emperor and Qianlong Emperor) all of which have been adapted into award-winning television series.
Suzanne Vega.  Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: Luka and Tom's Diner.
Ivy Duke.  Ivy Duke (born 9 June 1896 in Kensington London–died 8 November 1937 in London) was a British actress. She was married to the actor and director Guy Newall with whom she co-starred in several films.
Fred Perry (comics).  Fred Perry (born September 16 1969) is an American comic book artist and writer currently working at Antarctic Press.Fred Perry is well known as author and artist of manga style comics. The series he is best known for is Gold Digger a long-running manga style comic. He has also worked on several other titles produced by the publishing company Antarctic Press collaborating with other writers and artists on many of them.
Tomoyuki Dan.  Tomoyuki Dan (檀 臣幸 Dan Tomoyuki August 6 1963 – October 10 2013) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Osaka Prefecture. He was affiliated with Seinenza Theater Company at the time of his death.With his unique voice Dan was best known as the voice of Cronicle Asher in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. In 2010 he portrayed Shinkuro Isaka in Kamen Rider W. He was a fan of the works of Akira Senjū. He was also the dubbing voice actor for Christian Bale and Ben Stiller.
Rick Nowels.  Rick Nowels is an American Grammy/Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter and record producer.
J. Valentine.  Johnnie Newt (born July 9 1979) better known by his stage name J. Valentine  is an American R&B singer and songwriter. He has written songs for likes of artist such as Tyrese “I Like Them Girls” the title track to N’Sync’s 9x platinum Celebrity album which sold 1.8 million in the first week Mario’s “How Could You” and Omarion’s I'm Tryna can be credited to his resume along with displaying vocals on two posthumous 2Pac albums Still I Rise and Until The End Of Time.
Zella Lehr.  Zella Lehr (born March 14 1951) is an American singer and entertainer. She had hit records on RCA Records and Columbia Records most notably her cover of Dolly Parton's Two Doors Down (which charted for Lehr in late 1977 before Parton herself had released the song as a single).
Bert-Åke Varg.  Bert-Åke Varg (born Lundström April 27 1932) is a Swedish actor and singer.
Hinako Ashihara.  Hinako Ashihara (芦原 妃名子 Ashihara Hinako born January 15 in Hyogo Japan) is a female Japanese manga artist. She wrote the manga Sand Chronicles Forbidden Dance SOS Ten-nen Bitter Chocolate Homemade Home and Chouchou Kumo (Butterfly Cloud). Ashihara won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for her manga Sand Chronicles as well as the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award for Piece – Kanojo no Kioku.
David Leavitt.  David Leavitt (born June 23 1961) is an American writer of novels short stories and non-fiction.
Nina Toussaint-White.  Nina Toussaint-White (born 1985) is an English actress best known for playing Syd Chambers in 2009 in the BBC One soap EastEnders. Raised in Plumstead South East London Toussaint-White trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Clapham on their 3 year BA Acting Course.
Don Bachardy.  Donald Jess Don Bachardy (born May 18 1934) is an American portrait artist. He resides in Santa Monica California. Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood.
Harrell Fletcher.  Harrell Fletcher (*1967) is an American artist in Portland Oregon who creates interdisciplinary projects.Fletcher is on the faculty of the Portland State University Department of Art.
Carl Malcolm.  Carl Malcolm (born July 1952 Black River St. Elizabeth Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer and percussionist.
Bartholomäus Hopfer.  Bartholomäus Hopfer (1628 – 1699) was a German painter.
Eddie Halliwell.  Eddie Halliwell (born in Wigan Greater Manchester) is an international House and Trance DJ. Halliwell has held residencies at Goodgreef Gatecrasher and Cream in Ibiza was named DJ of the year by leading dance music magazine Mixmag in 2003 and 2005.
Antonio Smareglia.  Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 – 15 April 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian opera composer of Croatian and Italian ethnicity.
Babbar (French rapper).  Babbar is a French rapper working under the Double H Productions label alongside Double Bass. Released Bande Déstinée in mid-2004 to critical acclaim.
Silvia Saint.  Silvia Saint (born Silvie Tomčalová; February 12 1976) is a Czech former pornographic actress. In 1996 she was Penthouse Pet of the Year in the Czech edition of the magazine and between 1997 and 2001 she appeared in over 300 pornographic movies.
Igor Presnyakov.  Igor Presnyakov (Russian: Игорь Пресняков) is a Russian guitarist who became a YouTube sensation in 2007 for his unique song covers and virtuoso playing style.
Lorde.  Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996) known by her stage name Lorde (/ˈlɔrd/) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Born in Takapuna and raised in Devonport Auckland she performed in various singing and drama classes as a child and at the age of thirteen signed with Universal.
Mizuho Ōta.  Mizuho Ōta (太田 水穂 Ōta Mizuho 9 December 1876 – 1 January 1955) was the pen-name of Teiichi Ōta (太田 貞一 Ōta Teiichi) a Japanese poet and scholar of Japanese literature active in Shōwa period Japan. He also occasionally used another pen name Mizuhonoya.
Jasmine Sinclair.  Jasmine Sinclair is a glamour and bondage model based in London England.She has been featured in a large number of publications including The Sun News of the World and The Daily Sport newspapers Playboy magazine Toni and Guy Magazine Loaded Magazine Nuts Magazine Zoo Magazine Ann Summers Catalogue REVS Magazine and Maxpower Magazine.
Pierre Delanoë.  Pierre Delanoë (16 December 1918 - 27 December 2006) born Pierre Charles Marcel Napoleon Leroyer in Paris France was a French songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf Charles Aznavour Petula Clark Johnny Hallyday and Mireille Mathieu. Delanoë was his grandmothers maiden name.After studying and receiving a law degree Delanoë began worked as a tax collector and then a tax inspector. After World War II he met Gilbert Bécaud and started a career as a lyricist.
Bob Stanley (musician).  Bob Stanley (born 25 December 1964 Horsham Sussex) is a British musician journalist and film producer. He is best known as a member of the indie pop/dance group Saint Etienne. He has had a long parallel career as a music journalist writing for amongst others NME Melody Maker Mojo The Guardian and The Times as well as writing two books on music and football. He also has a career as a DJ and as a producer of record labels and has collaborated on a series of films about London.
Kate Collins (author).  Kate Collins is the author of the best-selling Flower Shop Mysteries.
Neil Carlill.  Neil Carlill born in Ripon England March 20 1967 is an English singer lyricist poet composer and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger and more recently with bands and collaborations including Vedette Shoosh 5 Little Elephants Me Me the Moth Chicanery and Three On A Match.
Reginald Campbell.  Reginald Campbell (1894–1950) was a British writer. His novel Poo Lorn of the Elephants was filmed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1980 under the name Tusk. Another novel Tiger Valley was filmed in 1936 by Howard Bretherton as The Girl from Mandalay. He described his personal experiences from Thailand in the book Teak-Wallah: The Adventures of a Young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s.
Cara Lockwood.  Cara Lockwood is an American novelist and the bestselling author of nine novels from Mesquite Texas.
Peter Mennin.  Peter Mennin (born Mennini) (May 17 1923 Erie Pennsylvania – June 17 1983 New York City) was an American composer and teacher of Italian descent. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore then for many years ran the Juilliard School succeeding William Schuman in this role. He began composing at an early age and wrote nine symphonies several concertos and numerous works for wind band chorus and other ensembles.
Kozue Yoshizumi.  Kozue Yoshizumi (吉住 梢 Yoshizumi Kozue born September 7 1979 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Arts Vision. She's one half of the voice acting duo UYAMUYA alongside Kiyomi Asai her co-star in the web anime Ayumayu Gekijou where the duo voiced Mayu Tamano and Ayu Daikuuji respectively. When voicing adult anime/games she has used a number of aliases including Kyouko Yoshida (吉田 恭子 Yoshida Kyouko) and Yui Katase (片瀬唯 Katase Yui).
Gerry Beckley.  Gerald Linford Gerry Beckley (born September 12 1952 in Fort Worth Texas) is a founding member of the band America.Beckley was born to an American father and an English mother. He began playing the piano at the age of three and the guitar a few years later. By 1962 Beckley was playing guitar in The Vanguards an instrumental surf music band in Virginia. He spent every summer in England and soon discovered 'British invasion' music.
Clement Greenberg.  Clement Greenberg occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh (January 16 1909 – May 7 1994) was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century. In particular he is best remembered for his promotion of the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first published critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.
S. Fowler Wright.  Sydney Fowler Wright (6 January 1874 – 25 February 1965) was a prolific British editor poet science fiction author writer of screenplays mystery fiction and works in other genres as well as being an accountant and a conservative political activist. He also wrote as Sydney Fowler and Anthony Wingrave. He was born in the Kings Norton district. Wright left school at eleven and spent his adolescence studying literature when notworking.Wright married in the Birmingham district in 1895.
Ran Danker.  Ran Danker (Hebrew: רן דנקר‎; born Khalil Danker on January 7 1984) is an Israeli actor singer and model. He is the son of Israeli actor Eli Danker. He has sung such songs as אני אש (I am Fire). He has also starred in the hit Israeli series HaShir Shelanu. Ran Danker also starred in the 2009 Israeli film Eyes Wide Open as the Yeshiva student Ezri who has feelings for a married orthodox Jewish father Aaron (Zohar Strauss).
Chicane (musician).  Chicane (born Nicholas Bracegirdle; 28 February 1971) is a British composer songwriter and record producer.
Giovanni Lucantoni.  Giovanni Lucantoni (Rieti 18 January 1825 – Paris 30 May 1902) was an Italian composer active as a music teacher in Paris. He had an opera performed in Milan at the age of 25 but later and in Paris turned to composing salon songs.
Andrzej Sawa.  Andrzej Sawa (born 1941) is a Polish-South African photographer.
Chris Estes.  Christopher Douglas Estes (born June 8 1971) is a former King Diamond bass player (1994-1999). Originally from Dodge City Kansas Chris moved to Denton Texas in 1991 to attend the University of North Texas as a Jazz Studies major. During his time at UNT he met Darrin Anthony Stull and joined his unsigned Dallas band Mindstorm.
Whitney Cummings.  Whitney Cummings (born September 4 1982) is an American comedienne and actress. She was formerly a cast member of the MTV television show Punk'd and was the creator and star of the NBC sitcom Whitney as well as the co-creator of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls.
Humphrey Foulkes.  Humphrey Foulkes (1673–1737) was a Welsh priest and antiquarian.
Ryan Thomas.  Ryan James Thomas (born 10 June 1984 in Manchester) is an English actor best known for playing the character Jason Grimshaw on ITV's Coronation Street.
Ambrose Reynolds.  Ambrose Reynolds (born June 12 1960) (credited also as Ambrose) is an English musician and artist who formed part of the 1970s and 1980s musical scene in Liverpool playing bass in different bands.
Germain Nouveau.  Germain Marie Bernard Nouveau (1851-1920) was a French poet associated with the symbolist movement.
Brian Brushwood.  Brian Brushwood (born January 17 1975) is an American magician podcaster author and comedian. Performing on college campuses he is known for his display of bizarre magic and fire-eating performances. He is the author of The Professional's Guide To Fire Eating and is the host of Revision3's Scam School a web series that features ten-minute tricks.
Michael Cinco.  Michael Cinco (born August 27 1971) is a Filipino fashion designer based in Dubai. He has worked with Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell. His creations have been worn by celebrities like Sofia Vergara Britney Spears Lady Gaga Chris Brown Fergie Paris Hilton Dita Von Teese Mischa Barton among others. His eco-couture collection was featured in the America's Next Top Model.
Shamika Bhide.  Shamika Bhide (born February 15 1994) was a participant of the first season of the reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs aired on Zee Marathi channel. She is from Ratnagiri a district in Maharashtra. She was one of the twelve finalists of this show. During this show she was most appreciated for 'lavanis' a type of Maharashtrian folk music. She has also recorded recently for an Album named Aathva Swar.
Glenn Barber.  Martin Glenn Barber (born February 2 1935 in Hollis Oklahoma) – died March 28 2008 in Gallatin Tennessee) was an American country and rockabilly performer. He recorded for Hickory Records in the 1970s releasing three albums and charting 21 singles on Hot Country Songs. His highest chart entry was Unexpected Goodbye which reached number 23.
Phil Campbell (musician).  Philip Anthony Wizzö Campbell (born 7 May 1961) is a Welsh musician who has been the lead guitarist of the British heavy metal band Motörhead since 1983. He is also the former guitarist of Persian Risk.
Alethea Kontis.  Alethea Kontis (born January 11 1976) is an American writer of picture books and speculative fiction primarily for children. She lives in Ashburn Virginia.Kontis read from her first two Woodcutter novels Enchanted and Hero at Burke Centre Library in Burke Centre Virginia on September 26 2013 as part of the annual Fall for the Book festival.The third Woodcutter sisters novel Dearest is reported forthcoming February 2015.
Wolfgang Niedecken.  Wolfgang Niedecken (born 30 March 1951 Cologne) is a German singer musician and visual artist. He founded the Kölsch speaking rock group BAP at the end of the 1970s. He soon became famous with BAP all over Germany. He is the lead singer and only remaining founding member of BAP.
Jan Mehlum.  Jan Mehlum (born 1945) is a Norwegian crime writer and sociologist. He made his literary debut in 1996 with Gylne tider. He was awarded the Riverton Prize in 1998 for Kalde hender.
Fran Matera.  Francis A. Fran Matera (December 9 1924 - March 15 2012) was an American comic strip artist best known for his King Features Syndicate adventure strip Steve Roper and Mike Nomad from 1984 to 2004. In addition to his extensive experience in newspaper strips Matera also spent many years in the comic book industry particularly for Charlton Comics. His influences include Hal Foster Alex Raymond Milton Caniff Al Capp and Bud Fisher.
Peter Eugene Ball.  Peter Eugene Ball (19 March 1943) is an English sculptor. He is best known for his religious work which can be seen in churches and cathedrals throughout Britain. He also produces secular sculpture using predominantly driftwood and found objects.
Hayden Chisholm.  Hayden Chisholm (born 27 May 1975 in Otahuhu New Zealand) is a New Zealand saxophonist composer and multi-instrumentalist. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres but he is best known for his jazz improvised and contemporary classical music his work with the artist Rebecca Horn and his micro-tonal saxophone technique developed in 1995.
Rob Nicholson (musician).  Rob Blasko Nicholson is a Heavy metal bassist who was born on November 24 1969. His influences include the metal bands Iron Maiden Motörhead and Corrosion of Conformity. Rob is perhaps best known for his performances on Rob Zombie's solo albums and is currently part of Ozzy Osbourne's band. Nicholson is also noted for his contribution as bassist to metal band Cryptic Slaughter within underground metal circles.
Neil Murray (British musician).  Philip Neil Murray (born 27 August 1950) is a Scottish bass player best known for his work in Whitesnake The Brian May Band and Black Sabbath.
Spencer Nilsen.  Spencer Nilsen (born 1961) is a video game music composer. He is best known for his soundtracks to the Sega Mega-CD versions of Batman Returns Ecco the Dolphin Ecco: The Tides of Time Jurassic Park The Adventures of Batman and Robin and The Amazing Spider-Man vs.
Luis Alberto Spinetta.  Luis Alberto El Flaco Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012) was an Argentine musician. One of the most influential rock musicians of South America together with Charly García he is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Bajo Belgrano. During his early childhood he was already listening to all kinds of music: folklore tango and a little bit later rock.
Tristane Banon.  Tristane Banon (born 13 June 1979) is a French journalist and writer. She is the daughter of Anne Mansouret and Gabriel Banon. She is a regular contributor on youth affairs at the French news website Atlantico.
Shin Kyung-sook.  Kyung-sook Shin (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) born 12 January 1963 is a South Korean writer. She is the first Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom.
Rainer Langhans.  Rainer Langhans (June 19 1940 Oschersleben) is a German writer and filmmaker who is primarily known for his membership of Kommune 1.
Lesley Brook.  Lesley Brook (1917–2009) was a British film actress.
Margaret Kilgallen.  Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28 1967 – June 26 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist. Though a contemporary artist her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art movement.
Matteo Pacelli.  Matteo Pacelli (Born in Basilicata - 1731) was an Italian historical painter.
Domingo de Andrade.  Domingo Antonio de Andrade (Cee 1639 – Santiago de Compostela 1712 was a spanish baroque architect a leading figure in the emergence of galician Baroque architecture.
Flo Rida.  Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16 1979) better known by his stage name Flo Rida (pronounced /floʊ ˈraɪdə/) is an American rapper. He is known for hit songs such as Low featuring T-Pain which was a number 1 hit for 10 weeks in the United States in 2008 and Right Round featuring Kesha which was a number 1 hit for six weeks; both songs broke the record for digital download sales when they were released.
Cyril Posthumus.  Cyril Posthumus was a British writer on the history of motor cars. Born 1918 August 28 died 1992 October?
Lauren Child.  Lauren Child MBE (born 1965) is an English writer and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture books and the Clarice Bean series of picture books and novels. Influences: E. H. Shepard Quentin Blake Carl Larsson Ludwig Bemelmans.Child introduced Charlie and Lola in 2000 with I will not ever Never eat a tomato and won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's most distinguished illustration in a book for children.
Earl Conrad.  Earl Conrad (17 December 1912 - 17 January 1986) birth name Cohen was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography history and criticism including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the biography of actor Errol Flynn titled My Wicked Wicked Ways. Conrad was born to Eli and Minnie Cohen in Auburn New York into a Jewish family with nine siblings.
Prashant Tamang.  Prashant Tamang (Nepali: प्रशान्त तामाङ) is a Darjeeling-based Nepali singer and actor. He was the winner of Indian Idol Season 3 in 2007. He is also the first person from the Indian police force to enter the final rounds of Indian Idol.
Amar Singh Chamkila.  Dhanni Ram (July 21 1960 – March 8 1988) commonly known by his stage name Amar Singh Chamkila was a popular Punjabi singer songwriter musician and composer. Chamkila and his wife and singing partner Amarjot were killed along with two members of their band on March 8 1988 allegedly by Khalistani militants.Chamkila is regarded as one of the best stage performers Punjab has ever produced. His music was heavily influenced by the Punjabi village life he was surrounded by growing up.
Arik Marshall.  Arik Marshall (pronounced Ah'Reek; born February 13 1967) is an American guitarist singer songwriter poet and author best known as a one-time member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He divides his time between London England; Rio Rancho New Mexico and Los Angeles.
Thomas Dinger.  Thomas Dinger (28 October 1952 — 9 April 2002) was a German drummer singer and songwriter who was active in solo pursuits in addition to having been a member of Neu! and La Düsseldorf both with his brother Klaus Dinger.
Tommy Ridgley.  Tommy Ridgley (October 30 1925 – August 11 1999) was an American R&B singer and bandleader in New Orleans Louisiana.
Bang Bang (Dubliner).  Bang Bang (real name Thomas Dudley) was an eccentric elderly gentleman in Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s who achieved fame as a character in the city. A fan of cowboy films Bang Bang used to travel the buses and trams of the city staging mock shoot-outs with passing people (hence his nickname). He carried a large church key in his pocket which he used as a 'gun'.
Parvati Prasad Baruva.  Parvati Prasad Baruva (1904–1964) was a noted poet lyricist dramatist: an icon of Assamese literature and the Culture of Assam. Known for his simple and sensitive use of the Assamese language he is popularly known as the Geetikavi; the lyrical poet of Assam. He was also one of the early pioneering filmmakers of Assamese cinema.
Dennis Worden.  Dennis Worden's alternative comics caught the public's attention in the early '80s via Robert Crumb's Weirdo anthology. He created the comic book Stickboy detailing the existential adventures of a stick figure. There were eight issues. Other comic books by Worden were Slur Bongo Dick Pedestrian Vulgarity Suburban Teens On Acid and Acidboy.
Nancy Grossman.  Nancy Grossman (born April 28 1940) is an American feminist artist. Grossman is best known for her wood and leather sculptures of heads.
Sudirman Arshad.  Dato' Sudirman bin Haji Arshad DIMP (Posthumous) JMN AMN AMP (25 May 1954 – 22 February 1992) was a Malaysian famous singer and songwriter. He had started his career after winning the Bintang RTM on 11 August 1976. Besides he is the title holder of Asia's No. 1 Performer on 19 March 1989 as he won the ‘‘Asian Popular Music Awards’’ competition in Royal Albert Hall in London.
Gilbert R. Lavoie.  Gilbert R. Lavoie is a medical doctor and non-fiction writer.Lavoie studied medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He is board certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine.Lavoie has studied the Shroud of Turin the reputed burial cloth of Jesus Christ for more than twenty years and has written two books on his findings as well as other original studies.
Zach Gill.  Zach Gill (born May 18 1975) is a multi instrumentalist/singer/songwriter/member of the rock band ALO and a member of Jack Johnson's band. He also performs regularly as a solo artist.
William Nicholson Jennings.  William Nicholson Jennings (1860–1946) was a photographer active in Philadelphia from the 1890s. Jennings was the first photographer to photograph lightning. He also conducted experiments with color photography and artificial lightning helping in the development of photographic flash.
Henry Bond.  Henry Bond FHEA (born 13 June 1966) is an English writer photographer and visual artist.
Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon.  Lucy Christiana Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland) (13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a leading fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries best known as Lucile her professional name. Lucile was a widely acknowledged innovator in couture styles as well as in fashion industry public relations.
Tom Stevenson.  Tom Stevenson (born 1951) is a British author who has been writing about wine for more than 30 years. Described by his colleagues as one of today’s most prolific wine authors Stevenson is regarded as the world’s leading authority on Champagne. He has written 23 books the most important of which have been published internationally by more than 50 publishers and translated into over 25 languages.
Excision (musician).  Jeff Abel better known by his stage name Excision is a dubstep producer and DJ from Kelowna British Columbia Canada.Excision frequently works with fellow Canadian dubstep producers Datsik and Downlink. Along with Downlink he is the founder of Rottun Recordings. Active since 2004 his first release was in 2007. He had released an annual Shambhala mix album in the third quarter of each year.
John D'earth.  John D'earth (born March 30 1950) is an American post bop/hard bop jazz trumpeter born in Holliston Massachusetts who has appeared on recordings by Dave Matthews and Bruce Hornsby as well as recording a number of CDs on his own. He currently resides in Charlottesville Virginia.
Saluri Koteswara Rao.  Saluri Koteswara Rao (Telugu: సాలూరి కోటేశ్వర రావు) (also known as Koti) is an Indian composer notable for his work in the South Indian film industry. He has composed music for more than 475 movies in Telugu Tamil and Kannada. The son of music director Saluri Rajeswara Rao in early 1980s Koti teamed with Somaraju son of T. V. Raju and the resulting duo was known as Raj-Koti.
Merlin Bronques.  Merlin Bronques is an American musician artist and photographer originally from Brooklyn NY United States who grew up partly in Montreal but primarily Aylmer Quebec Canada. He is best known as the controversial nightlife personality behind the website lastnightsparty.com.
Joseph Whiting Stock.  Joseph Whiting Stock (January 30 1815–1855) was an American painter known for his portraits miniatures and landscape paintings many of which he did on commission. He was born on January 30 1815 in Springfield Massachusetts. When Joseph Whiting Stock was eleven years old an oxcart fell on him and he was paraplegic for the rest of his life.
Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli.  Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli (1678–1713) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period who painted still-life paintings. He was born and active in Florence.
Donald Gilbert.  Donald Gilbert (1900–1961) named Hubert Donald Macgeoch Gilbert at birth was an English sculptor and modeller. He studied at prestigious art schools in England Rome and Florence before beginning his career. He did works under his own name such as commissions for the Adelphi building in London. He also collaborated with his father Walter Gilbert a sculptor at H.H. Martyn.
Arve Tellefsen.  Arve Tellefsen (born 14 December 1936 in Trondheim Norway) is an awardwinning Norwegian violinist known from collaborations with conductors such as Mariss Jansons Arvid Jansons Herbert Blomstedt Gary Bertini Evgeny Svetlanov Bryden Thomson Neeme Järvi Esa-Pekka Salonen Paavo Berglund Vladimir Ashkenazy Walter Weller and Zubin Mehta.
Nicola Emmanuelle.  Nicola Emmanuielle is an English jazz singer from London England.
Helén Eriksen.  Helén Eriksen (born 19 October 1971 in Dale Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and vocals) songwriter and music arranger.
Raffaello Tancredi.  Raffaello Tancredi (Naples 1837–1890) was an Italian painter mainly of historical subjects.
Tommy Potter.  Charles Thomas Potter (September 21 1918 - March 1 1988) was a jazz double bass player best known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's classic quintet with Miles Davis between 1947 and 1950.Born in Philadelphia Potter had first played with Parker in 1944 in Billy Eckstine's band with Dizzy Gillespie Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey.Potter also performed and recorded with many other notable jazz musicians including Earl Hines Artie Shaw Bud Powell Count Basie Sonny Rollins Stan Getz Max Roach Eddie Heywood Tyree Glenn Harry Sweets Edison Buck Clayton and Charles Lloyd.
Alain Absire.  Alain Absire (born 1950 in Rouen) is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina 1984 for L'Égal de Dieu.
Michael Zulli.  Michael Zulli is an American artist known for his work as an animal and wildlife illustrator and as a comic book illustrator.
Valor Kand.  Valor Kand is the current vocalist/guitarist/songwriter of Christian Death an American deathrock/gothic rock band formed founded and named by Rozz Williams. He is an ex-lover of Gitane Demone with whom he had two children Sevan Kand and Zara Kand.
Keith Green.  Keith Gordon Green (October 21 1953 – July 28 1982) was an American contemporary Christian music pianist singer and songwriter originally from Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn New York. Beyond his music Green is best known for his strong devotion to Christian evangelism and challenging others to the same.
Lina Makhul.  Leena Makhoul (Hebrew: לינה מחול‎) (Arabic: لينا مخول‎) is a female singer of Arabic/Israeli origins who is best known as the winner of the television reality show The Voice Israel 2013.Makhoul was born to Christian parents Radha (electronics engineer and teacher) and Rizaq (Deputy City Engineer Acre) in Ohio in the United States and grew up in Acre Israel She danced ballet for ten years (from age 9). She was a volunteer in Magen David Adom for five years.
Nahum Tevet.  Nahum Tevet (Hebrew: נחום טבת‎) is an Israeli sculptor. Tevet's conceptual work uses minimalism and other references (such as Bauhaus) creating sculptural/architectural installations based on geometrical modules.
Lina (singer).  Shelina Wade (born in Denver Colorado) commonly known as Lina is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter.
Matthew Fraser (journalist).  Matthew William Fraser (born July 3 1958) is a British-Canadian academic author and former journalist known for his writing about the media industries. His latest work has focused on the impact of social media and online social networks.
Edith Carter.  Edith Carter was an English stage actor and playwright who was active in the 1920s-30s.She was the sister of the novelist John L.
Lowell Fulson.  Lowell Fulson (March 31 1921 – March 7 1999) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker Fulson was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.
Alan Wakeman.  Alan Wakeman (born 13 October 1947 Hammersmith West London) is an English saxophonist known for his work in Soft Machine during 1976 appearing on the album Softs. He is a cousin of the keyboard player Rick Wakeman.Wakeman started on the clarinet at age 14 and while at school played in a band with cousin Rick on piano.
Haruko Momoi.  Haruko Momoi (桃井 はるこ Momoi Haruko born December 14 1977) is a Japanese voice actress and singer/songwriter. She also produces an all-female pop group called Afilia Saga. She was born in Tokyo Japan and is affectionately referred to as 'Halko' by her fans a nickname she gave herself which is inspired by HAL 9000 the onboard computer of the Discovery in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Atul Chandra Hazarika.  Atul Chandra Hazarika (Assamese: অতুল চন্দ্ৰ হাজৰিকা) (1903–1986) was a prominent Assamese litterateur from Assam. He excelled as a poet dramatist children story writer and translator. He was bestowed the epithet Sahitycharjya by Oxom Xahitya Xabha the premier literary organization of Assam..
Robert J. Groden.  Robert J. Groden (born November 22 1945) is an American author who has written extensively about conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. His books include The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination the Conspiracy and the Cover-up; The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record; and JFK: The Case for Conspiracy (shorter version than his 1975 co-authored book).
Frank Noon.  Frank Noon is a drummer who played in the bands Def Leppard and Roadhouse with guitarist Pete Willis.He was preceded in Def Leppard by original drummer Tony Kenning and succeeded by current drummer Rick Allen.He was succeeded in Roadhouse by drummer Trevor Brewis.
Onzy Matthews.  Onzy Durrett Matthews Jr. (January 15 1930 – November 13 1997) was an American jazz pianist singer arranger and composer as well as a television and movie actor. He is best known for the big band arrangements done for the Lou Rawls albums Black and Blue and Tobacco Road as well as arrangements for several of Ray Charles' 1960s releases. He had his own big band for many years and recorded numerous tracks for Capitol Records including two albums released under his own name.
Lavie Tidhar.  Lavie Tidhar (Hebrew: לביא תדהר‎) (born November 16 1976) is an Israeli born writer. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time. He has also lived in Vanuatu and Laos. As of 2013 Tidhar lives in London.
Andrew Davies (writer).  Andrew Wynford Davies (born 20 September 1936) is a British writer of screenplays and novels best known for Marmalade Atkins and A Very Peculiar Practice and his adaptations of Vanity Fair and Sense and Sensibility. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.
Rubin Lacey.  Rubin Rube Lacey (January 2 1902 – 1969) was an American country blues musician who played guitar and was a singer and songwriter. Lacey was born in Pelahatchie Mississippi United States and learned guitar in his teens from an older performer George Hendrix. Working out of the Jackson area in the Mississippi Delta he became one of the state's most popular blues singers. His bottleneck style inspired that of the better known performer Son House.
Dick Higgins.  Dick Higgins (March 15 1938 – October 25 1998) was a composer poet printer and early Fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge England but raised in the United States in various parts of New England including Worcester Massachusetts Putney Vermont and Concord New Hampshire.Like other Fluxus artists Higgins studied composition with John Cage at the New School of Social Research in New York. He married fellow artist Alison Knowles in 1960.
Boris Belkin.  Boris Belkin (January 26 1948) is a Soviet-born violin virtuoso.
Jonathan Meese.  Jonathan Meese (born January 23 1970) is a German painter sculptor performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include collages drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater.
David Quinn (bird artist).  David Quinn (born 1959) is a British bird artist. He won the 1987 Bird Illustrator of the Year Award of the British Birds magazine.
Loretta Yang.  Loretta H. Yang (July 16 1952 - ) born in Taipei Taiwan has her ancestry from Xiangtan in Hunan Province China. Celebrated actor and founder of Liuli Gongfang for which she now serves the position of Creative Director.
Brian Rutenberg.  Brian Christopher Rutenberg (born September 18 1965 in Myrtle Beach South Carolina) is an American abstract painter.Rutenberg received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989. He currently lives and works in New York City with his wife Kathryn and two children.
Sung Si-kyung.  Sung Si-kyung (born April 17 1979) is a K-pop ballad singer.
Jules Mouquet.  Jules Mouquet (July 10 1867 - October 25 1946) was a French composer.
Markus Kajo.  Markus Aarni Erämies Kajo (born 7 December 1957 in Isojoki) is a Finnish reporter screenwriter and TV show host.
Pertti Jalava.  Pertti Jalava (born 1960 in Turku Finland) composed numerous works for various chamber ensembles choral groups and orchestra including three symphonies and a piano concerto. He wrote music for jazz and big band line-ups. Stylistically he keeps these genres separate he does allow influences to travel between the two.
G-Dragon.  Kwon Ji Yong (Korean: 권지용; born August 18 1988) better known by his stage name G-Dragon (Korean: 지드래곤) is a South Korean rapper singer songwriter dancer lyricist producer model endorser and fashion icon.At the age of eight he was under contract at SM Entertainment but he decided to change record labels. After 6 years as a trainee under the record label YG Entertainment G-Dragon officially debuted as the leader and one of two rappers for the Korean group Big Bang.
Johnny Gimble.  John Paul Gimble (born May 30 1926) better known as Johnny Gimble is an American country musician associated with Western swing. He is an award-winning fiddle player and considered one of the most impressive fiddlers in the genre's history.
Torombolo.  Carlos Callejas (born September 17 1985 in Granada Nicaragua) better known as Torombolo is a reggaeton and hip hop singer with Camillion Entertainment Latino.
Jose Dalisay Jr..  Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (born January 15 1954) is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction poetry drama nonfiction and screenplay including 16 Palanca Awards.
Cathy Wilcox.  Cathy Wilcox (born 1963) is an Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for her work as a cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. She has also twice won the Australian Children's Book Council's 'Picture Book of the Year' award. In 2007 she won the Walkley Award in Cartooning for a cartoon about Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly's infamous 'uncovered meat' remarks on Australian women.[1]
Bernie Marsden.  Bernard John Bernie Marsden (born 7 May 1951) is an English rock and blues guitarist.
John Bramblitt.  John Bramblitt (born 1971) is a blind painter of American origin. He began painting after losing his sight in 2001 after a series of severe seizures. His art has been displayed in more than twenty collections and he has been the subject of numerous media stories including a documentary that won several short film awards and a video that was voted Most Inspirational Video of 2008 for YouTube. He was awarded U.S.
Descemer Bueno.  Descemer Bueno (born 1971 Habana Vieja) is a Cuban singer composer and producer. His first professional gigs were playing bass with Santiago Feliú one of Cuba’s greatest troubadours.
Tommy Johnagin.  Tommy Johnagin (born March 25 1983) is an American stand-up comedian.Johnagin is from Benton Illinois. He began performing stand-up comedy at age 18 and dropped out of college at age 21 to become a full-time comedian.
Alex Lifeson.  Aleksandar Živojinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Aлександар Живојиновић OC born August 27 1953) better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson is a Canadian musician best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968 Lifeson co-founded the band that would become Rush. Other co-founders are friend and drummer John Rutsey bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones and Jones's successor current front man Geddy Lee a month later.
Mark Stuart (musician).  Mark Allen Stuart (born April 14 1968 in Owensboro Kentucky) is a Christian rock musician and is best known for having been the vocalist for Audio Adrenaline.
Olivia Byington.  Olívia Byington is a Brazilian singer.Olívia started her career as a vocalist with the rock band Antena Coletiva with Jacques Morelembaum at the end of the 1970s. She was immediately considered by the critic Sérgio Cabral as the best singer of her generation.
Peter Kay.  Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is a British comedian. His last stand-up comedy tour was officially inaugurated into the Guinness World Records as the most successful of all time playing to over 1.2 million people. He has written produced and acted in several award winning television and film projects. In addition he has authored three books the first of which—The Sound of Laughter—still remains the biggest selling British autobiography to date.
Wajahat Khan.  Wajahat Khan is an Indian sarod player who has earned international acclaim since 1977. He is the third son of Imrat Khan nephew of Vilayat Khan and a member of the multi-generational musical Khan family which founded the Imdadkhani Gharana . He was born in Calcutta India and now divides his time between London and India.Wajahat started his professional career in music as a child prodigy singer touring the world at the age of 8 including a performance on BBC Television.
Richard Wolstencroft.  Richard Wolstencroft (born 23 April 1969 aka Richard Masters) is an Australian filmmaker film festival director former nightclub promoter writer cinema critic cultural and political commentator. As of August 2013 he is the founder and director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) and the 14th edition will be presented in September 2013.
Albert Morrow.  Albert George Morrow (b. Comber County Down 26 April 1863; d. West Hoathly West Sussex England 26 October 1927) was an illustrator poster designer and cartoonist. He was the son of a painter and decorator from Clifton Street west Belfast.
Jonathan Kvanvig.  Jonathan Lee Kvanvig (born December 7 1954) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University.Kvanvig is also an author best known for his book The Problem of Hell (published 1993) which debates Hell in a modern theological and philosophical way.He is the owner and administrator of the blog Certain Doubts which covers topics related to epistemology.
Kairat Nurtas.  Kairat Nurtas (Кайрат Нуртас) (real name Kairat Nurtasuly Aidarbekov; born 25 February 1989 Turkestan) is a Kazakhstan singer. He has topped the rating of the most popular local Kazakh musicians based on CD sales
Nick Raskulinecz.  Nick Raskulinecz (/ˌræsk.ɑː.ˈlɛn.ɨks/ RASK-ah-LEN-iks) is a Grammy-winning American record producer. He resides in Nashville Tennessee.
Grand Mixer DXT.  Grand Mixer DXT (born Derek Showard) is an American turntablist. He was formerly known as Grand Mixer D.ST. D.ST is a reference to Manhattan New York City's Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. He was featured in the influential hip hop film Wild Style.Widely recognized as a pioneer Grand Mixer DXT is credited for being the first to establish the turntable as a fully performable and improvisational musical instrument (Alberts 2002).
Colin O'Malley.  Colin O'Malley (born on December 9 1973) is a composer who has worked with CNN the Walt Disney Company the United States Air Force Universal Studios DC Comics and Electronic Arts.In addition to his own composition projects he worked as an orchestrator for the recording artist Yanni.He was the main composer of the Tomb Raider: Underworld video game and he collaborated with Troels Folmann in making the score.
Ricardo Bernal.  Ricardo Bernal (Mexico City March 30 1970) is a Mexican lyric tenor.
Michael Winn.  Michael Winn is an author and teacher most notable for his work with Mantak Chia. He is also known for his occult writings focused on the integration of Taoist qigong and neidan Tao inner alchemy.
Harry Shannon.  Harry Shannon (born December 4 1948) is an American novelist songwriter and entertainer. He was born Harry Rivard Siebert in Reno Nevada to Dr. William L. Siebert and Belle Elizabeth (née) Cazier. He has a brother Dwight Siebert and a sister Marsha Desiderio. Shannon was married from 1978 to 1988 to Swiss singer Suzanne Klee. In 1994 he married songwriter Wendy Kramer.
Yui Ogura.  Yui Ogura (小倉 唯 Ogura Yui born August 15 1995 in Midori Gunma) is a Japanese voice actress pop idol singer and actress. She is a member of the idol duo YuiKaori with Kaori Ishihara and the idol unit StylipS (also with Kaori along with Arisa Noto and Maho Matsunaga). She was also part of the Japanese pop group Happy! Style Rookies. As a solo artist her single Raise which was the ending theme for the anime Campione! reached number 8 on the Oricon chart in 2012.
Ben Wilson (artist).  Ben Wilson (born 1963) is an English wood carver and outsider artist. The son of an artist Wilson grew up in a creative environment and attended art school. His distaste for industrial waste cars and rubbish eventually turned into an art form. He creates tiny works of art by painting chewing gum stuck to the pavement.
Terri Gibbs.  Teresa Fay Terri Gibbs (born June 15 1954) is an American country music artist who was born blind. Between 1980 and 1990 she recorded seven studio albums including four for MCA Records and one for Warner Bros. Records. She also charted thirteen singles on the Billboard country singles charts in that timespan including her debut single Somebody's Knockin' which reached No. 8 on the country charts No. 13 on the pop charts and No. 3 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
Clarence Paul.  Clarence Otto Pauling (March 19 1928 – May 6 1995) better known as Clarence Paul was a songwriter and record producer for Detroit's Motown Records.He was born in Winston-Salem North Carolina United States and was the brother of the 5 Royales guitarist/songwriter Lowman Pauling Jr. Their father was a coal miner in Bluefield West Virginia where the brothers listened to country music on the town's only radio station.
David Greenberger.  David Greenberger is an American artist writer and radio commentator best known for his Duplex Planet series of zines comic books CDs and spoken word performances and radio plays. He is a frequent contributor of essays and music reviews for National Public Radio.In 1979 having just completed a degree in fine arts as a painter Greenberger took a job as activities director at a nursing home in Boston.
Kirk Hammett.  Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18 1962) is the lead guitarist and a songwriter in the heavy metal band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003 Hammett was ranked 11th on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2009 Hammett was ranked number 5 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists.
Muztar Khairabadi.  Muztar Khairabadi (Urdu: مضطر خیرآبادی‎) (born 1862–died 1927) was an Indian Urdu poet.
Harold Lee Tichenor.  Harold Tichenor (born January 17 1946 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a Canadian multi-award winning film producer and writer and an adherent of the Baha'i Faith.
Heimrad Prem.  Heimrad Prem (27 May 1934 – 19 February 1978) was a German painter born in Roding Oberpfalz. From 1949 - 1952 he studied decorative painting at Schwandorf and then studied painting with Josef Oberberger and sculpture with Toni Stadler at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich until 1956. While studying painting with Ernst Schumacher at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin he formed Gruppe SPUR with Lothar Fischer Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer.
Simon Isogai.  Simon Isogai (磯貝 サイモン Isogai Saimon born September 20 1983) is a Japanese singer and musician from Kanagawa Prefecture Japan. Formerly signed with Victor Entertainment he has his own independent label Hit-o-ride Records.
Li Cheng (painter).  Li Cheng (Chinese: 李成; pinyin: Lǐ Chéng; Wade–Giles: Li Ch'eng) (919–967) style name 咸熙 (Pinyin: Xián Xī) was a Chinese painter from Qingzhou (now part of Weifang County Shandong) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and early Song Dynasty. His ancestral lineage was with the Tang Dynasty imperial family the Li (李) family which had fallen out of power in 907 with the collapse of the Tang Empire.
Ilanit.  Hanna Drezner-Tzakh (Hebrew: חנה דרזנר‎; born September 17 1947) better known by her stage name Ilanit is a female Israeli singer becoming one of the most popular singers in Israel during the late 60s to the 80s. Ilanit is also known from the duo Ilan & Ilanit. Ilanit also represented Israel twice in the Eurovision Song Contest. In a career spanning over 4 decades Ilanit recorded and produced over 600 songs and more than 30 best-selling albums.
Giovanni Paolo Capriolo.  Giovanni Paolo Caprioli (c.1580 - c.1627) was an Italian priest abbate in Candiana and composer.His Vulnerasti cor meum has been performed and recorded by Philippe Jaroussky. Two other solo motets - In lectulo per noctesand Congratulamini mihi omnes - appear in Ghirlanda sacra 1625.
Louis W. Ballard.  Louis W. Ballard (July 8 1931 – February 9 2007) was a Native American composer educator author artist and journalist.
Arthur Hutchings.  Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings (1906–1989) was an English musicologist composer and professor of music at the University of Durham England. He wrote extensively on topics as varied as nineteenth-century English liturgical composition Schubert Purcell Edmund Rubbra and baroque concertos; but his most famous book was the Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos published in 1948 and often reissued since.
Walter Ostanek.  Walter Ostanek CM(born Ladislav Walter Ostanek 20 April 1935 Duparquet Quebec Canada) is known as Canada's Polka King. He has received thirteen nominations for Grammy Awards and won three.
Dorris Bowdon.  Dorris Estelle Bowdon (December 27 1914 – August 9 2005) was an American actress best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda. Bowdon was born in Coldwater Mississippi one of 7 children. She was married to Nunnally Johnson from 1939 until his death in 1977 and they had three children together the first of whom was born in 1943 which prematurely ended Bowden's acting career.
Fujisawa Shu.  Fujisawa Shū (藤沢 周 born June 29 1959) is a Japanese writer active during the late Shōwa and early Heisei period periods of Japan.
Lal Waterson.  Lal Waterson (15 February 1943 - 4 September 1998) was an English folksinger and songwriter. She sang with among others The Watersons The Waterdaughters and Blue Murder. She was born in Hull East Riding of Yorkshire and died suddenly in Robin Hood's Bay of cancer diagnosed only ten days before.
Lenny Gault.  Chester Leonard Lenny Gault (August 16 1942 - April 21 2012) is a retired American country music singer. He released at least five singles three of which charted. In 1993 he was reported to be serving as a pastor in Blandburg Pennsylvania. He died of cancer on April 21 2012.
Ted Morgan (writer).  Ted Morgan (born March 30 1932) is a French-American biographer journalist and historian.
Meredith Shaw.  Meredith Shaw is a singer songwriter and radio personality based in Toronto Ontario.
Ron Rozelle.  Ron Rozelle is an American author of seven books including Description & Setting: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Believable World of People Places and Events (Writer's Digest Books).
Yoshio Kawai.  Yoshio Kawai (河合 義雄 Kawai Yoshio born March 27 1954 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor.
Novogradska.  Igor Vasilev credited as Novogradska (Macedonian Cyrillic: Игор Василев; born June 22 1978 in Skopje SR Macedonia SFRY) is a Macedonian composer/musician. He is most famous for his work with Milčo Mančevski on the soundtrack to the film Mothers. He collaborated with Macedonian singer Karolina Gočeva on the hit song Ajde da letame which topped the national charts in 2000 and 2001.
Letta Mbulu.  Letta Mbulu (born 23 August 1942 in Soweto South Africa) is a South African jazz singer born and raised in Soweto. She has been active since the 1960s but left for the United States in 1965 due to Apartheid. In the U.S. she worked with Cannonball Adderley David Axelrod and Harry Belafonte. Her singing can also be heard in Roots The Color Purple (1985) and the 1973 film A Warm December and she was a guest on a Season 6 episode of Soul Train.
Nigel Hamilton (author).  Nigel Hamilton (born 16 February 1944) is an award-winning British-born biographer academic and broadcaster whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. In the United States he is known primarily for his best-selling work on the young John F. Kennedy JFK: Reckless Youth which was made into an ABC miniseries.
Filipe Galvão.  Filipe Kartalian Ayrosa Galvão (born October 25 1990) better known by his stage name Fiuk is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor. He is better known for his role as Bernardo Oliveira in the seventeenth season of the telenovela Malhação. He is also the lead singer of the band Hori and a former member of the band Sem Nome. Fiuk was born in São Paulo Brazil and he is a son of Fábio Júnior and Cristina Kartalian.
Andrew Winton.  Andrew Winton (born February 1972 Perth) is an independent and solo Australian musician who combines acoustic guitar lap slide dobro and seven-string lap guitar/bass (the Wintonbeast) with hollers and stomp.Winton's sound has been likened to a cross between Ben Harper Sting Kelly-Joe Phelps and Harry Manx.Winton currently lives in Perth with Karen (his wife manager and percusionist/vocalist) and their three children.Winton is a brother of the author Tim Winton and has a sister Sharyn O'Neill who is the current Director General of the West Australian Department of Education and Training.Winton also works part-time as a high school chaplain in Perth.
David Zink Yi.  David Zink Yi (born 1973 Lima Peru) is a contemporary artist working primarily in video photography and sculpture. He has studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin Germany from 1998–2002 and at the Meisterschüler Lothar Baumgarten from 2002-2003. He currently lives and works in Berlin. His work often deals with the idea of the body and stems from his Peruvian Chinese and German cultural heritage.
Jay Grdina.  John G. Jay Grdina (born October 11 1967) is an American businessman and pornographic actor. His family originates from Croatia. He is often credited under the stage name Justin Sterling.
Steve Bailey.  Steve Bailey (born February 10 1960) is an American bassist who is famous for his pioneering work with the six string fretless bass. He was voted runner up for Bass Player Of The Year in 1994 and 1996.
Ayanda Mabulu.  Ayanda Mabulu (born in 1981) is a South African artist mostly known for his paintings.
Dave Dresden.  Dave Dresden is an electronic dance music DJ and producer co-founder of the collaborative acts Gabriel & Dresden with Josh Gabriel and Dresden and Johnston with Mikael Johnston of Mephisto Odyssey fame.
Vicenzo Caccianemici.  Vicenzo Caccianemici (active 1530) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Bologna and trained under Parmigianino. Vasari mentions a picture by this artist in the chapel of the family of Elefantuzzi in San Petronio at Bologna representing The Decollation of St. John and another picture of the same subject differently treated in the Cappella Macchiavelli in San Stefano.
Kevin Quain.  Kevin Quain is a Canadian cabaret artist who plays weekly shows the Cameron Public House a major live music venue in Toronto Ontario.He is a self-taught musician singer/songwriter and award-winning playwright. He has written music for film TV and the stage and has performed with scores of artists including The Mahones Carnival Diablo and Mary Margaret O'Hara. He describes his unique music genre with the Mad Bastards as garage jazz cabaret noir
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler.  Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (b. 29 March 1934 in Berlin) is a German composer of mostly chamber choral piano and organ works ([1]). His work has three principal concerns: sonority rhythm and duration leading to a large and varied body of work ([2]).Stiebler studied composition and piano at the Musikhochschule Hamburg but had more important lessons at Darmstadt between 1958 and 1961 including studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1959 (ibid).
Sigmund Groven.  Sigmund Groven (born 16 March 1946 in Heddal Telemark) is a Norwegian classical harmonica player today considered one of the world's leading classical harmonica players. He plays with a large number of the world's leading musicians and orchestras and he has made about 26 recordings yet in his own name. His repertoire ranges from popular and folk music to his own compositions from Bach to contemporary music.
Savannah (pornographic actress).  Shannon Michelle Wilsey (October 9 1970 – July 11 1994) better known by her stage name of Savannah was an American pornographic film actress starring in more than one hundred videos during her career. One of the most prominent adult-industry models of her time she achieved notoriety within her short (1990–1994) career due to her on-screen presence and personal life.
Sam Littlemore.  Sam Littlemore also known as Sam La More is an Australian record producer and recording artist working in Hollywood Sydney and London. Littlemore is best known for his work with Tonite Only and his production work with Nellee Hooper and Gwen Stefani including Gwen's debut solo hit What You Waiting For? from Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004). His production work with Rick Nowels can be heard on Nelly Furtado's album Loose (2006).
Latanza Waters.  Latanza Waters is a female house music singer who has been featured on several big club hits by various producers and remixers. Her first record Love Struck was produced by Dewey B and released in 1995. This union led to the creation of The House Music group Love Tribe which included vocalist Latanza Waters producer Dewey Bullock and musician Victor Mitchell.
Giovanni Battista Bronzini.  Giovanni Battista Bronzini (1925 in Matera – 2002 in Bari) was an Italian anthropologist and historian of Italian folk traditions.He was a student of the University of Rome then Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bari and director from 1974 to his death in anthropological studies.A literary scholar Bronzini explained magical and superstitious peasant culture of the thirties and forties and the traditions of rural Italy.
Njål Ølnes.  Njål Ølnes (born 24 September 1965 in Sogndal Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (tenor saxophone) composer and jazz educator currently residing in Nesodden.
Big Lurch.  Antron Singleton (born September 15 1976) better known by his stage name Big Lurch is an American rapper.
Ellen Day Hale.  Ellen Day Hale (February 11 1855 in Worcester Massachusetts – February 11 1940 in Brookline Massachusetts) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Barney Simon.  Barney Simon (13 April 1932 – 30 June 1995 Johannesburg) was a South African writer playwright and director.
Anibal Lovera.  Aníbal Lovera (January 26 1926 – January 23 1994) was a Paraguayan composer singer and folklorist. He was also a singer of the Chaco War epics. Anibal was born in Paraguay in the Paraguari department in the city of Quyquyho on January 26 1926 and died completely blind in Asuncion January 23 1994.
James Mackay Drummond.  James Mackay Drummond (17 October 1869–6 September 1940) was a New Zealand journalist naturalist and writer. He was born in Thames Thames/Coromandel New Zealand on 17 October 1869.
Yuko Kobayashi.  Yuko Kobayashi (小林 優子 Kobayashi Yūko born February 6 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress currently affiliated with 81 Produce and married to voice actor Mitsuaki Hoshino.
Carolina Herrera (singer).  Carolina Herrera is a Colombian songwriter singer and guitarist.Herrera is a doctor in Colombia and currently holds a surgical post in London where she resides.
Mikko Herranen.  Mikko Herranen is a Finnish multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter and producer in rock music. His band RUST has released three albums and several singles between 2003-2010. Herranen competed in Michael Monroe's team in the reality singing competition The Voice of Finland in 2012. His debut solo album Kylmä maailma was released through Johanna Kustannus on June 20 2012.
Daniel James (record producer).  Daniel James is an Australian record producer and songwriter. His genres include pop dance rhythmic as well as alternative rock.
George Burdi.  George Burdi also known as George Eric Hawthorne (born 1970) is a Canadian musician who initially became known for his role in white nationalist organizations. He led the Canadian branch of the World Church of the Creator which formed an allegiance with the now-defunct White nationalist organization Heritage Front. In addition Burdi was involved directly in the white power music scene performing with the band RaHoWa.
Jonathan Jeremiah.  Jonathan Jeremiah is a British singer signed to Island Records part of Universal Music Group. Jeremiah was raised in North London. His debut album A Solitary Man was released on 21 March 2011 followed by Gold Dust on 22 October 2012. The title song Gold Dust recorded with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest charted in France. He also engaged on a European tour to promote his album.
Yar Taraky.  Yar Mohammad Taraky (born February 25 1964) is an Artist political and economics consultant.
Thomas Hardy.  Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence.
Sharon Morris.  Sharon Morris is a Welsh poet and a senior lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art (Film and Video) University College London.In 2000 she completed a Ph.D. on the writer Hilda Doolittle and the artist Claude Cahun and in 2003 received a Leverhulme research fellowship for her writings on poetics visual theory and semiotics.
Roy St. John.  American-born singer-songwriter Roy St. John released albums on the Virgin and Chiswick labels in England after singing in the Pub Rock Phoenix which featured Charlie Sinclair (Kilburn and the High Roads) Les Morgan and Adrian Pietryga (John Dummer's Blues Band.) His first album Immigration Declaration included Roger Rettig on pedal steel and Malcolm Morley and Bob Andrews on keyboards. Roy’s single for Virgin was the label’s first release to make it on the BBC playlists.
Francis Rimbert.  Francis Rimbert (born October 3 1952 in Val d'Oise France) is a French musician and composer.
Rebecca Saunders.  Rebecca Saunders (born 19 December 1967) is an English composer. She lives and works as a freelance composer in Berlin.
Sem Benelli.  Sem Benelli (August 10 1877 – December 18 1949) was an Italian playwright essayist and librettist. He provided the texts for several noted Italian operas including Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and L'incantesimo and Umberto Giordano's La cena delle beffe based on Benelli's own play of the same title. He was a native of Prato.The play The Jester's Supper was a great New York theatre success in 1919 under the tile The Jest starring Lionel and John Barrymore.
Mado Maurin.  Madeleine Jeanne Louise Mado Maurin (24 September 1915 − 8 December 2013) was a French actress whose career spanned over 55 years.Born in Paris Maurin began her acting career in 1955.
Rochus van Veen.  Rochus van Veen (1630–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Louisa Hall.  Louisa Warren Hall (born June 24 1982 in Philadelphia) is an American novelist poet and former squash player. She is currently completing her Ph.D in literature at University of Texas at Austin.
Dennis Walks.  Dennis Vassell better known as Dennis Walks is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his work with Harry Mudie in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Ludovico Balbi.  Ludovico Balbi (c. 1545 – 1604) was a Venetian singer and composer.
Steven Hill (author).  Steven John Hill (born June 6 1958 in New London Connecticut) is an American writer columnist and political reformer. He has authored several books on American politics and political reform as well as a book on the European political economy (Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age).
Von Freeman.  Earle Lavon Von Freeman Sr. (October 3 1923 – August 11 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.
Dorothy Ashby.  Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6 1930 — April 13 1986) better known as Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist and composer.Along with Alice Coltrane Ashby extended the popularization of jazz harp past a novelty showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a bebop instrument as the saxophone.
Ylipe.  Philippe Labarthe pseudonym Ylipe (9 January 1936 – 8 March 2003) was a French humorist artist and writer. He was born in Bordeaux and studied Fine Arts there before moving to Paris to work as a cartoonist painter and aphorist. He signed his cartoons φlipe using the Greek letter phi (φ) in place of the first three letters of his forename. Maurice Nadeau misread the Greek φ as a Latin y and the name Ylipe stuck.
Robert Stoddard (musician).  Robert Stoddard played in the L.A. rock scene starting in the late 70's and early 80's with The Robert Stoddard Band and released two singles. The band signed to Elektra Records and released the L.A.P.D. single in 1980 which blasted the Los Angeles Police Department for being out of control. The second single was a cover of the Lou Reed song Sweet Jane and was released by Blitzen Records in 1982. The band played many L.A.
Goran Filipec.  Goran Filipec (born 1981 in Rijeka) is a Croatian concert pianist. Throughout his formation he was a threefold winner of the Croatian National Competition (1995 1997 1999) and top prize winner of international piano competitions (Jose Iturbi International Music Competition LA 2009; Concurso de Parnassos Monterrey 2010; Gabala International Piano Competition Azerbaijan 2009;)Filipec has performed internationally having performed twice at the Carnegie Hall.
Oni Logan.  Oni Logan is a hard rock vocalist. He was born Leonardo Onito Agustus Jimenez in Argentina and raised in the United States (New York Connecticut and Florida). He is perhaps best recognized as the original (and once again current) lead singer of the band Lynch Mob.He first played in the band Diamond Rose in South Florida from 1985 to 1987. That band consisted of Dave Rhodes (guitar) Mike D'Amico (drums) Marc Wolpert (bass) and Mark Smitty Smith (guitar).
Thomas Jefferson Kaye.  Thomas Jefferson Tommy Kaye (born Thomas Jefferson Kontos 1940? – 16 September 1994) was an American record producer singer-songwriter and musician. Described as a legendary hipster[citation needed] he worked as a songwriter and producer with a wide variety of musicians including The Shirelles Loudon Wainwright III and Gene Clark and also recorded solo albums.
Giovanni Gaddi (painter).  For the priest of this name see Giovanni Gaddi (priest).Giovanni Gaddi (after 1333–1383) was an Italian painter. The son of Taddeo Gaddi and a brother of Agnolo Gaddi Vasari writes that Giovanni was a painter in his own right.
Washington Phillips.  Washington Phillips (January 11 1880 – September 20 1954) was a Texan gospel singer and musician. Phillips died in 1954 in Teague Texas.
Jimmy Swinnerton.  James Guilford Swinnerton (November 13 1875 – September 8 1974) was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts. He was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others. He signed some of his early cartoons Swin and on one ephemeral comic strip he used Guilford as his signature. Experimenting with narrative continuity he played a key role in the development of the comic strip at the end of the 19th century.
Debi Diamond.  Debi Diamond (born May 1 1965 in San Fernando Valley California) is an American adult actress and nude model.
Ryan Shore.  Ryan Shore is a 2013 Emmy Award and 2012 Grammy Award nominated composer for film television records games and theater. He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and is the nephew of composer Howard Shore.
Daniel Sherman.  Daniel Thomas Nestor Sherman is a British songwriter record producer and publisher who is based in London. He was a member of Neve who had a #70 hit with a version of Y-Traxx's Mystery Land and co-wrote the Lisa Scott-Lee songs Lately and Too Far Gone which made #6 and #11 on the UK Singles Chart respectively.He is the owner of the company Aerostorm Music Group which he runs as a writing and production company and Aerostorm also functions as an MCPS/PRS registered publishing company.
Buzz Dixon.  Buzz Dixon (December 7 1953) is an American writer of comic books film and cartoons. He has written comics for multiple companies including Eclipse Comics (where he wrote Destroyer Duck alongside Steve Gerber) Marvel Comics and a Buck Rogers adaptation for TSR Inc..His cartoon work includes both writing and editing credits.
Tyley Ross.  Tyley Ross is a Grammy nominated recording artist the co-founder of the Universal Records recording act The East Village Opera Company and a Dora Award winning musical theater actor. He is based in New York City.
Gilles-Louis Chrétien.  Gilles-Louis Chrétien a French musician was born at Versailles in 1754. In 1787 he invented a machine called a 'physionotrace' with which he took portraits in profile from life which were reduced to silhouettes usually by Fouquet and then engraved in aquatint by himself. Many of them are of great interest on account of the celebrity of the persons represented 'L'Incorruptible Robespierre' Mirabeau and Marat being among the hundreds which he produced.
Lautaro Bellucca.  Lautaro LuKa Bellucca born in Jan 4 1986 in La Plata Argentina is a bass and double bassist composer and arranger best known as the key bassist in jazz group MUSA's.
Yūichi Iguchi.  Yūichi Iguchi (井口 祐一 Iguchi Yuuichi born February 22) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo Japan. He is affiliated with Haikyo.
Zakhar Prilepin.  Yevgenii Nikolaevich Prilepin (Russian: Евгений Николаевич Прилепин) (born 7 July 1975 in Ryazan Oblast) writing as Zahar Prilepin (Russian: Захар Прилепин) and sometimes using another pseudonym Evgeny Lavlinsky (Russian: Евгений Лавлинский) this one mostly for journalistic publications is a Russian writer and a member of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party since 1996.
Jim Marshall (photographer).  James Joseph Marshall (February 3 1936 Chicago Illinois – March 24 2010 New York City New York) was a photographer often of rock stars. He had extended access to numerous musicians through the 1960s and 1970s including being the only photographer allowed backstage at The Beatles last concert and chief photographer at Woodstock.
Melissa Bank.  Melissa Bank (born in 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author. She has published two novels The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
Lee Seung-u.  Lee Seung-U (Hangul: 이승우 born 1959) is a South Korean writer.
Linda Mertens.  Linda Mertens (born 20 July 1978) is a Belgian female singer. She is the female singer for the group Milk Inc..Mertens was born in Wilrijk in Antwerp. She studied Art and after high school she went to hairdresser school for two years. Her mother is Flemish and her father Tunisian. In 2013 she appeared on VTM in Lang Leve... as herself in an episode about Regi Penxten a member of Milk Inc..
Jazzfeezy.  Jazz Singh better known as Jazzfeezy is a Canadian hip-hop & r&b producer from Barrie Ontario. Jazz Feezy is one of the very few Canadian producers to release a producer compilation album. He follows in the footsteps of his mentors T-Minus and Boi-1da.
Andrew Pleavin.  Andrew Pleavin (born 13 April 1968) is an English actor known for his appearances in the TV film Attila Unstoppable Batman Begins Attack of the Gryphon Return to House on Haunted Hill and his roles in the British police dramas Messiah III: the Promise and The Bill. In February 2006 he was cast in 300 by Frank Miller a film in which he played a character called Daxos.Andrew was born in England but spent his early years in Transvaal South Africa.
Eduard Rhein.  Prof. Eduard Rudolph Rhein (August 23 1900 Königswinter – April 15 1993 Cannes) was an inventor publisher and author.He was the founder of the German magazine Hörzu which he directed as its editor-in-chief until 1964. He also founded the largest European foundation for information technology the Eduard Rhein Foundation (1976).In 1940 he published his book Du und die ElektrizitätIn 1990 he received the freedom of the city Königswinter.
James Pankow.  James Carter Jimmy Pankow (born August 20 1947) is an American trombone player songwriter and brass instrument arranger best known as a founding member of the rock band Chicago.
Toby Rand.  Toby William Lloyd Rand (born 21 December 1977 in Melbourne) is an Australian singer best known for being lead singer of rock band London Cries formerly Juke Kartel and his appearance on Rock Star: Supernova.
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet.  Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (French: [bɔsɥɛ]; September 27 1627 – April 12 1704) was a French bishop and theologian renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a masterly French stylist.Court preacher to Louis XIV of France Bossuet was a strong advocate of political absolutism and the divine right of kings. He argued that government was divine and that kings received their power from God.
Zlata Ognevich.  Zlata Ognevich (born Inna Leonidivna Bordyuh; Ukrainian: Злата Огнєвіч and Інна Леонідівна Бордюґ born 12 January 1986) is a Ukrainian singer. She represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song Gravity. Ognevich previously attempted to represent Ukraine at the Contest in 2010 and 2011.
Augusto Cury.  Augusto Jorge Cury (Colina October 2 1958) is a Brazilian physician psychiatrist psychotherapist and writer. He developed the Multifocal Theory about the functioning of the mind and the construction process of thought. His books have sold over 15 million copies in Brazil.He is a researcher in the area of quality of life and development of intelligence addressing the nature construction and dynamics of emotion and thoughts.
Herb Hake.  Herb Hake (1903–80) was an American author cartoonist radio and television personality; associated with the University of Northern Iowa. He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree.
Phideaux Xavier.  Phideaux Xavier is an American TV director and composer of modern technological music that he describes as psychedelic progressive gothic rock who grew up in New York City but now lives in Los Angeles.
Einar Niemi.  Einar Niemi (born 1943) is a Norwegian historian born in Nord-Varanger Finnmark. He was married to Else Berit Roth from 1971 to 2000 and to Bjørg Evjen from 2004. He is known for his study of the history of ethnical minorities and for his contributions to administration of cultural heritage of Northern Norway. Among his publications is the book Den finske fare from 1981 (co-authored with Knut Einar Eriksen).
Egil Toreng.  Ottar Egil Toreng (born 5 December 1922) is a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.He was born in Kristiania and grew up in Flisa. He became a journalist in Glåmdalen during the second world war and was promoted to sub-editor in 1954. From 1961 to 1962 he worked with information in the Norwegian Labour Party. He was a member of Kongsvinger municipal council from 1952 to 1963.
Tom DeLonge.  Thomas Matthew Tom DeLonge Jr. (born December 13 1975) is an American musician author and entrepreneur. He is the guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists for the American alternative band Blink-182 as well as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the alternative band Angels & Airwaves. He was also the guitarist and lead vocalist for the alternative band Box Car Racer. Raised in Poway California DeLonge developed an interest in punk rock during his teens.
Giovanni Marracci.  Giovanni Marracci (1637 in Lucca–1704 in Lucca) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Richard F. Outcault.  Richard Felton Outcault (January 14 1863 – September 25 1928) was an American comic strip writer-artist. He was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown and he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip.
Emil Ruder.  Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer and graphic designer who with Armin Hofmann joined the faculty of the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design).He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that comprised philosophy theory and a systematic practical methodology.
Stano (singer).  Stano (born Stanislav Stavicky on 25 November 1981 in Sochi Russia) is a pop singer in Lithuania and the leader of music group Delfinai. He also wrote two novels autobiographical Kiek kainuoja ilgesys (How Much Does Longing Cost 2004) and Neįtikėtinos istorijos (Unbelievable Stories 2008).Stano was born to a Russian mother and a Lithuanian father.
Lil Ru.  Sylvester Samuels better known by his stage name Lil Ru is an American rapper from Columbia South Carolina currently signed to Def Jam Recordings. His debut album 21 & Up was released on August 25 2009. The Ridgeway native was 16 when he made his professional foray into the music business. Inspired by New Orleans’ innovative Cash Money Crew Ru began making a name for himself on his local music scene doing live shows and pressing up his own CDs.
Derek B. Miller.  Derek B. Miller is an American novelist and academic.In January 2013 The Times newspaper featured his debut novel Norwegian by Night as the novel to look out for in the forthcoming year. Although he lives in Oslo with his wife and family Miller was raised in Boston Massachusetts. He has lived in Israel England Hungary Switzerland as well.
Nancy Honeytree.  Nancy Honeytree Henigbaum (born April 11 1952) is an American Christian musician and one of the leaders in what was known as Jesus music.
Samuel Adler (artist).  Samuel Marcus Adler (1898 New York City - 1979 New York City) was an American artist.
BlainSouthern.  BlainSouthern is a contemporary art gallery established in September 2010. The gallery was originally located at 21 Dering Street but moved to 4 Hanover Square London W1 in October 2012.Until August 2010 the founders Harry Blain and Graham Southern were respectively CEO and director of Haunch of Venison gallery which they founded in 2002. Blain and Southern sold Haunch of Venison to Christie's International plc in 2007.
Odd Selmer.  Odd Selmer (born 1930) is a Norwegian journalist novelist and playwright. In 1977 he wrote a historical novel about the eccentric Lady Barbara Arbuthnott. His audio plays have been translated into fifteen languages. He was awarded the Ibsen Prize in 1988 for the audio play series På egne ben.
Carl Perkins.  Carl Lee Perkins (April 9 1932 – January 19 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis Tennessee beginning in 1954.
Evgeny Margulis.  Evgeny Margulis (Russian: Евге́ний Шу́лимович Маргу́лис; born 25 December 1955 Moscow Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian rock and blues musician. He was a member of renowned bands Mashina Vremeni (1975-1979 1990-2012) and Voskreseniye (1979-1980 1994-2003) and currently performs with his solo project. He is considered a “guru” of the Moscow rock ‘n’ roll and one of the best Blues guitarists bass guitarists and bluesmen in Russia.
Amy LaVere.  Amy LaVere born Amy Fant is an American singer songwriter upright bass player and actress based in Memphis Tennessee. Her music is classified as Americana combining a blend of classic country gypsy jazz and southern soul. She has released three albums on Memphis label Archer Records and has acting credits in motion pictures.
Caroline Anderson (writer).  Caroline Anderson is a popular British writer of over 80 contemporary romance novels to Mills & Boon (or Harlequin Enterprises Ltd) since 1991. She specializes in medical romances. She has lived in Suffolk England.
David Ball (country singer).  David Ball (born July 9 1953 in Rock Hill South Carolina) is an American country music artist. Active since 1988 he has recorded a total of seven studio albums on several different labels including his platinum certified debut Thinkin' Problem. Fourteen of Ball's singles have entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-peaking chart entries are 1994's Thinkin' Problem and 2001's Riding With Private Malone both of which peaked at No. 2.
Edmund Spenser.  Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsə/; c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy and is considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
Svein Magnus Furu.  Svein Magnus Furu (born 10 November 1983 Asker Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone) composer and music journalist known from several bands and album releases.
France Forstnerič.  France Forstnerič (29 January 1933 – 22 May 2007) was a Slovene poet writer and journalist.Forstnerič was born in Pobrežje near Ptuj in 1933. He trained as a teacher and taught for a number of years before becoming a journalist in 1958. He worked for the newspapers Večer and Delo and also obtained a degree in sociology from the University of Ljubljana in 1979. He wrote for adults and children. He is best known for his poetry that he started publishing in the early 1960s.
Avto Varazi.  Avto Varazi (Georgian: ავთო ვარაზი) was a Georgian artist and painter.Avto Varazi occupies special place in Georgian painting of the 20th century. He applied various painting systems and techniques with equal success.
Zhang Yang (director).  Zhang Yang (simplified Chinese: 张扬; traditional Chinese: 張揚; pinyin: Zhāng Yáng; born 1967) is a Chinese film director screenwriter and occasional actor. He is the son of Zhang Huaxun who is also a Chinese film director.Zhang grew up in Beijing studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature and then went to the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院) graduating in 1992.
Jan Matejko.  Jan Matejko (About this sound Polish pronunciation ) (also known as Jan Mateyko; June 24 1838 – November 1 1893) was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of Grunwald paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes and a gallery of Polish kings. He is counted among the most famous Polish painters.
Carol Cassella.  Carol Cassella is a bestselling novelist and practicing anesthesiologist at the Surgery Center of Silverdale and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. Born in Dallas Texas she lives on Bainbridge Island Washington with her husband and two sets of twins.
Mika Newton.  Mika Newton (Мiка Ньютон; real name Oksana Stefanivna Grytsay Ukrainian: Оксана Стефанівна Грицай) born on 5 March 1986 is a Ukrainian singer and actress from the city of Burshtyn. Born and raised in Ukraine the singer currently resides in Los Angeles California.
Paula Poundstone.  Paula Poundstone (born December 29 1959) is an award-winning American stand-up comedian author actress interviewer and commentator known for her distinctive brand of spontaneous observational comedy. She rose to fame with a series of one hour HBO comedy specials and her backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and is now heard on National Public Radio's (NPR) weekly news quiz show Wait Wait...
Hiroshi Ōtake.  Hiroshi Ōtake (大竹 宏 Ōtake Hiroshi born March 14 1932 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor currently represented by Gin Production. He is best known for his roles as Nyarome in Mōretsu Atarō Daisho in Himitsu no Akko-chan Boss in Mazinger Z Pāman 2 (Booby) in Pāman King Nikochan in Dr. Slump and Buta Gorilla in Kiteretsu Daihyakka.
Lou Pride.  Lou Pride (May 24 1944 - June 5 2012) was an American blues and soul singer and songwriter. Some sources state his year of birth was 1950. He is best known for his compositions Long Arm Of The Blues and Love From A Stone. Pride had a cult following amongst British Northern soul aficionados.Before his death Allmusic noted that Pride had a smooth uptown southern voice and was more known for performances in blues clubs and festivals than his artistry in the studio.
Hideshi Hino.  Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi born April 19 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby Hino Horrors and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote and directed two of the Guinea Pig horror movies which were based on his manga: Flower of Flesh and Blood which he also starred in and Mermaid in a Manhole.
Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo.  Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (born in Shirley Massachusetts 17 March 1819; died in Gloucester Massachusetts 9 July 1848) was a United States author and editor.
Raymond Souster.  Raymond Holmes Souster OC (born January 15 1921 died October 19 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of poetry by others.
Nic Offer.  Nic Offer (born 1972) is a New York City-based musician. He is best known as the vocalist of the dance/punk band !!! which he helped form in Sacramento California in 1996. Offer also played bass and keyboards for the electronic band Out Hud from 1996 until 2005.
Pat McIntosh.  Pat McIntosh is a Scottish writer of historical mystery fiction and fantasy.
Kelvin Mercer.  Kelvin Mercer (born August 17 1969 The Bronx New York) is a rapper producer and one-third of the hip hop trio De La Soul. He is known more famously by his alias Posdnuos or simply Pos. He was born in the Bronx New York and grew up in East Massapequa New York.Mercer and David Jude Jolicoeur were childhood friends. They met Vincent Mason in the early 1980s while attending Amityville High School in Long Island New York.
James Blood Ulmer.  James Blood Ulmer (born February 2 or 8 1940) is an American jazz free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a semi-acoustic guitar. His distinctive guitar sound has been described as jagged and stinging. Ulmer's singing has been called raggedly soulful.
Sia Furler.  Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) better known mononymously as Sia (/sɪə/or /ˈsiːə/) is an Australian downtempo pop and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000 her single Taken for Granted was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the low 50 on the Billboard 200.
Alain Daniélou.  Alain Daniélou (4 October 1907 – 27 January 1994) was a French historian intellectual musicologist Indologist and a noted Western convert to and expert on Shaivite Hinduism.In 1991 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy for Music Dance and Drama.
Don Moen (singer).  Donald James Don Moen (born June 29 1950) is an American singer-songwriter pastor and producer of Christian worship music.Before Moen was hired to work for Integrity Music he attended Oral Roberts University and became a Living Sound musician for Terry Law Ministries and traveled with Terry Law for ten years. He produced 11 volumes for the Hosanna! Music series of worship albums. His first album under his own name Worship with Don Moen was released in 1992.
Hisashi Imai.  Hisashi Imai (今井 寿 Imai Hisashi born October 21 1965 in Fujioka Gunma Japan) is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is known as lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. He has also performed in musical side-projects such as Schaft (1991–1994) Schwein (2001) and more recently Lucy (2004).
Carolyn Mark.  Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case as well as with the bands the Vinaigrettes Jr. Gone Wild Showbusiness Giants the Fixin's and the Metronome Cowboys.
Kari Amirian.  Kari Amirian (born in Świnoujście) is a Polish pop and alternative singer and music producer. In 2013 she was nominated for the Polish music award Fryderyk in the category Debut of the Year.
Namdeo Dhasal.  Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (Marathi: नामदेव लक्ष्मण ढसाळ; 15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet writer and Human Rights activist from Maharashtra India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999. In 2004 the Sahitya Akademi honoured him with a Lifetime Achievement Award which was the only one it gave during its golden jubilee celebrations. The American Library of Congress has eight of his titles.
Cindy Cashdollar.  Cindy Cashdollar (born May 25 1956) is a steel guitar and Dobro artist. She grew up in Woodstock New York where she perfected her skills by playing with bluegrass musician John Herald blues musician Paul Butterfield and Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band.Cashdollar received five Grammy awards while playing for eight years with Asleep at the Wheel and has also backed such noted performers as Bob Dylan Leon Redbone Redd Volkaert and Ryan Adams as a member of his band The Cardinals.
Chris Van Dahl.  Chris Van Dahl (born Chris Korstjens; also known as Roxy Dahl) is a rock musician notable for singing on the L.A. Guns album American Hardcore. Van Dahl grew up in Detroit Michigan but moved to Los Angeles California to try to make it in the music business.In the early 1990s prior to joining L.A. Guns Van Dahl was the singer in another Los Angeles band – the glam metal band Cherry St.. At this time Van Dahl went by the stage name Roxy Dahl. He left Cherry St.
Grachan Moncur III.  Grachan Moncur III (born June 3 1937) is an American jazz trombonist who has mostly played free jazz as well as being a prolific composer. He is the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II and the nephew of jazz saxophonist Al Cooper.
Kenji Ohba.  Kenji Takahashi (高橋 健二 Takahashi Kenji born February 5 1955) known professionally as Kenji Ohba (大葉 健二 Ōba Kenji) is a Japanese actor and former stuntman best known for his roles in the Super Sentai and Metal Heroes series especially as Retsu Ichijouji/Gavan in the 1982 TV series Space Sheriff Gavan. He is the president of his own action/stunt troupe called Luck JET (JET being an acronym for Jaunty Eventful Troupe).
Gerald N. Rosenberg.  Gerald N. Rosenberg (born 1954) is a University of Chicago political science and law professor and the author of the 1991 controversial book The Hollow Hope (ISBN 0-226-72703-3) revised 2nd edition 2008 (ISBN-13: 978-0226726717). The Hollow Hope challenges the widely held belief that the U.S. Supreme Court is an effective agent of social change.
Charles R. Johnson.  Charles Richard Johnson (born April 23 1948) is a black American scholar and the author of novels short stories screen-and-teleplays and essays most often with a philosophical orientation. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Dreamer and Middle Passage.Middle Passage won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990 making him the second black American male writer to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953.
Buddy Miller.  Steven P. Buddy Miller (born September 6 1952 in Fairborn Ohio) is a country singer songwriter musician recording artist and producer currently living in Nashville Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller.
Jenni Muldaur.  Jenni Muldaur (born March 29 1965 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American blues and folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of recording artists Geoff and Maria Muldaur sister of Clare Muldaur and niece of actress Diana Muldaur. She grew up in NY Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Úna MacLochlainn.  Úna MacLochlainn (born 1987) is an Irish singer-songwriter.
Jonas Snäckmark.  Jonas Snäckan Snäckmark (born January 27 1986 in Halmstad Halland County Sweden) is a Swedish metal-singer who stood out as one of the eleven finalists in Idol 2006 - the Swedish version of Idol.
Dewiq.  Cynthia Dewi Bayu Wardani (born in Ujung Pandang on 15 June 1975) better known by her stage name Dewiq is an Indonesian singer and songwriter. Known for her ear-catching and easy-to-listen-to songs she has been described as being one of Indonesia's most sought-after songwriters and composers.
Nathan Moore (English musician).  Nathan Marcellus Moore (born 10 January 1965 Stamford Hill London England) is an English singer and manager.
Tim Finn.  Brian Finn redirects here. For the fictional New Zealand police officer see Shark in the Park.Brian Timothy Tim Finn OBE (born 25 June 1952) is a New Zealand singer and musician. His musical career includes forming 1970s and 1980s New Zealand rock group Split Enz a number of solo albums temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn Brothers.
Peggy Novak.  Peggy Novak is a British actress.
Stuart Davis (painter).  Stuart Davis (December 7 1892 – June 24 1964) was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s bold brash and colorful as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.
Joseph-Benoît Suvée.  Joseph-Benoît Suvée (3 January 1743 – 9 February 1807) was a Flemish painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.Suvée was born in Bruges. Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier. In 1771 he won the Prix de Rome. In Rome from 1772 to 1778 he prolonged the usual duration allowed to pensionaries of the French Academy in Rome.
Frances Itani.  Frances Susan Itani (born 25 August 1942) (née Hill) is a Canadian fiction writer poet and essayist. She is a Member of the Order of Canada.Itani was born in Belleville Ontario and grew up in Quebec. She studied nursing in Montreal and North Carolina a profession which she taught and practised for eight years. However after enrolling in a writing class taught by W. O.
Julia Fordham.  Julia Fordham (born 10 August 1962) is a British singer-songwriter. Her professional career started in the early 1980s under the name Jules Fordham as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde before signing a recording contract of her own later that decade. Fordham is now based in California.
Ellen Winther.  Ellen Winther Lembourn (11 August 1933 Århus - 13 August 2011) was a Danish opera singer and actress best known internationally for her participation in the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest. Winther trained as an opera singer and made her professional debut in 1957 at the Royal Danish Theatre where she would be employed for 30 years both as a singer and a dramatic actress.
Wisława Szymborska.  Wisława Szymborska-Włodek [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska] (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet essayist translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent which has since become part of Kórnik she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life. She was described as a Mozart of Poetry.
Ollie Mitchell.  Ollie Mitchell (April 8 1927 – May 11 2013) was an American musician and bandleader. Born Oliver Edward Mitchell in Los Angeles on April 8 1927 he was the son of Harold Mitchell lead trumpeter for MGM Studios who also taught Ollie to play the trumpet.
Karl Bartos.  Karl Bartos (born 31 May 1952) is a German musician and composer. He was between 1975 and 1990 along with Wolfgang Flür an electronic percussionist in the electronic-music group Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on its US Autobahn tour.
Mike Lindup.  Mike Lindup (born Michael Lindup 17 March 1959 in London England) is best known as the keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer who joined with Mark King and brothers Phil and Boon Gould to form the 1980s–1990s British jazz-funk/pop rock band Level 42.Since July 2000 he has been part of the live line-up of UK/Brazilian outfit Da Lata playing keyboards percussion and providing backing vocals who have been performing from clubs to festivals in the UK and Europe U.S. Canada Japan South Africa and China.In 2006 he rejoined Level 42 replacing Lyndon Connah for touring appearances and the recording of the album Retroglide.In 2009 he appeared on Phil Gould's first solo album Watertight.In 2012 he dueted with Leee John on a version of Something About You at the Leicester Square Theatre London.His mother is the actress singer and songwriter Nadia Cattouse and his father is David Lindup.
Zhang Jie (singer).  Zhang Jie also known as Jason Zhang is a Chinese pop singer and actor who rose to fame through televised singing competitions.
Lupita D'Alessio.  Lupita D'Alessio (Spanish pronunciation: [luˈpita ðaˈlesjo] born Guadalupe Contreras Ramos on March 10 1954 in Tijuana Baja California) is a Mexican singer and actress.
Z. G. Muhammad.  Z. G. Muhammad is a columnist born in Nowhatta Srinagar Kashmir India. After studying at Islamia School he obtained a Bachelor degree in Science and a Masters in English literature from Kashmir University followed by a course in Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication New Delhi. Currently he is editor of Peace Watch Kashmir a journal dedicated to peace in South Asia and a regular 'Columnist and Writer for Greater Kashmir Srinagar.
Sarah McLellan.  Sarah Elizabeth McLellan (born 22 November 1982 in Bundaberg Queensland) is an Australian dancer singer and actress.She moved to New York City at age 17 and made her Broadway debut in the musical 42nd Street[1] at age 20.
Lewis Grizzard.  Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. (October 20 1946 – March 20 1994) was an American writer and humorist known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor becoming the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal at age 23 he is much better known for his humorous newspaper columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Theodore Goodridge Roberts.  Theodore Goodridge Roberts (July 7 1877 – February 24 1953) was a Canadian novelist and poet. He was the author of thirty-four novels and over one hundred published stories and poems.He was the brother of poet Charles G.D. Roberts and the father of painter Goodridge Roberts.
Marcus Blake.  Marcus Blake is an American Los Angeles based musician and songwriter. He is primarily a bass guitarist but also sings lead and backing vocals and plays guitar. Blake has written played recorded and toured with numerous bands and artists and musical luminaries since 1993 including: Mother Superior Rollins Band Daniel Lanois Sparks Pearl Meat Loaf Alice Cooper Tony Visconti Emmylou Harris Wayne Kramer and George Clinton.
Wonny Song.  Wonny Song (born 1978) is a South Korean pianist.
Zoran Vanev.  Zoran Vanev (Serbian/Macedonian: Зоран Ванев) is a Macedonian pop-folk singer.He was born in Štip Macedonia Yugoslavia and began his career in 1993 with the release of his song Angela. He enjoyed moderate success in the Macedonian music industry in the 1990s however his popularity in Macedonia declined by the turn of the century.In 2003 he released his first Serbian album and is enjoying a successful career in Serbia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Asher Swissa.  Asher Swissa is a member of the band Skazi. Based in Israel Asher Swissa along with band member Assaf B-Bass has been producing psytrance since 1998. Their first CD Animal was released in September 2000. He is the owner of the Chemical Crew label and has worked with many artists including Infected Mushroom Astrix GMS Talamasca Eskimo Void Exaile Psychotic Micro.
Gerald Carr (cartoonist).  Gerald Carr is an Australian comic book writer artist and illustrator best known for his creations Vampire! and Vixen.
Steve Aylett.  Steve Aylett (b. 1967 in Bromley United Kingdom) is a satirical science fiction and slipstream author (most recently adopted by the bizarro movement). He is renowned for his colorful satire attacking the manipulations of authority for creating many epigrams and for his non-neurotypical characters who do not react as expected.
David Pinski.  David Pinski (April 5 1872 – August 11 1959) was a Yiddish language writer probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution Pinski was the first to introduce to its stage a drama about urban Jewish workers; a dramatist of ideas he was notable also for writing about human sexuality with a frankness previously unknown to Yiddish literature.
Shounak Abhisheki.  Shounak Abhisheki (Devanagari: शौनक अभिषेकी is an Indian vocalist composer of classical semi-classical and devotional music.
Richard Galliano.  Richard Galliano (born December 12 1950 Cannes Alpes-Maritimes) is a French accordionist.
Juniel.  Choi Jun-hee (Korean: 최준희; born September 3 1993) known by her stage name Juniel (Hangul: 주니엘 often stylized as JUNIEL) is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She began her career in Japan before eventually debuting in South Korea. She was first known as 'Junie' but eventually changed her name to 'Juniel' which was derived from combining her name Junie and L for 'love'.
Bob Livingston (musician).  Robert Lynn Bob Livingston (born November 26 1948) is an American singer-songwriter bass player and a founding member of The Lost Gonzo Band. Livingston was a key figure instigating the cosmic cowboy progressive country and outlaw country music movements that distinguished the Austin Texas music scene in the 1970s. Over the years Bob Livingston has gained a reputation as a band leader solo artist session musician and sideman in country music.
James Rannie Swinton.  James Rannie Swinton was a nineteenth-century Scottish portrait artist.
Javier Hernandez (comics).  Javier Hernandez (born April 23 1966) is an American artist comic book creator and radio host from Whittier California. Perhaps best known for creating the popular series El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie the majority of his works are published through his privately owned imprint Los Comex.
Kurt Sonnenfeld.  Kurt Sonnenfeld (born 1969) is a videographer for FEMA prior to 2002 and was one of four FEMA photographers who were given exclusive access to Ground Zero following the September 11 Attacks in New York in 2001. In addition to the photographs and video he took on behalf of FEMA he is reputed and claims to have taken additional video footage as well as numerous photographs some of them since published. He claims that these recorded images will provide evidence that the U.S.
Linus Lau.  Linus Lau is a composer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles California. In 2000 he penned the music to a one-act opera titled The Release with writer Daniel G. Lee. The opera was picked up for distribution by The Franchesa Group.In 2004 he directed a musical film titled Art Thief Musical! starring Autumn Reeser.
Hwang Ji-u.  Hwang Ji-u is a Korean poet.
Chuck Palahniuk.  Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk (/ˈpɔːlənɪk/; born February 21 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is best known as the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club which also was made into a feature film. He maintains homes in the states of Oregon and Washington.
Yoku Shioya.  Yoku Shioya (塩屋 翼 Shioya Yoku born June 24 1958 in Kagoshima Japan) is a Japanese voice actor debuting in Umi no Triton (1972). He has done some voice directing in such anime as Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. His real name is Tsubasa Shioya (written with the same kanji). His older brother is voice actor Kōzō Shioya.
Morgan Page.  Morgan Page (born May 31 1981) is an American progressive house and electro house DJ from Los Angeles California. His tracks include The Longest Road Fight for You and In the Air. Page has received two Grammy Award nominations; a personal nomination for best remix with Nadia Ali and in 2009 his song was nominated for best remix (The Longest Road – Deadmau5 Remix). Page is signed to Nettwerk Records worldwide.
Volker Zotz.  Volker Helmut Manfred Zotz (born October 28 1956) is an eminent Austrian philosopher religious studies scholar Buddhologist and a prolific author.
Gary Glitter.  Gary Glitter (born Paul Francis Gadd 8 May 1944) is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Elizabeth Bonhôte.  Elizabeth Bonhôte née Mapes (1744-1818) was an English novelist and essayist.
Holly Johnson.  Holly Johnson (born William Johnson; 9 February 1960; legal name William Holly Johnson) is an English artist musician and writer best known as the lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood who achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s. Prior to that in the late 1970s he was a bassist for the band Big in Japan. In 1989 Johnson's debut solo album Blast reached number one in the UK albums chart.
Chuck Ranberg.  Chuck Ranberg is an American television producer and screenwriter. He has written and produced episodes of the popular television shows Desperate Housewives and Frasier.
Henry Hiles.  Henry Hiles (31 December 1826 – 20 October 1904) was an English composer organist writer and music educator. Born in Shrewsbury Hiles was the youngest of six sons. His eldest brother John Hiles was known as an arranger of organ music and for authoring several catechisms. He began studying the piano at the age of 4 and began studying the organ just a few years later. He studied at the University of Oxford where he earned Bachelor of Music and Doctor of Music degrees.
John Carter Cash.  John Carter Cash (born March 3 1970) is an American country singer-songwriter author and producer. He is mostly known for being the only child of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. His half siblings include Rosanne Cash Carlene Carter and Rosie Nix Adams.
Iracema Trevisan.  Iracema Trevisan Carneiro (born September 28 1981 in Poços de Caldas Minas Gerais) also known as Ira was the bassist for Brazilian indie-electro band CSS.She studied fashion design at college and worked as style assistant for designer Alexandre Herchcovitch in São Paulo.She left the band in April 2008. Now living in Paris Iracema continues her career as a fashion designer as part of the IFM fashion design program.
Dustin Hunter.  Dustin Hunter (born Dustin Alexander Hunter aka dustyohunter) is an American artist singer-songwriter make-up artist blogger and entrepreneur.
Anton von Werner.  Anton Alexander von Werner (May 9 1843 – January 4 1915) was a German painter in the Kingdom of Prussia.Werner was born in Frankfurt (Oder) in the Province of Brandenburg. He began painting in 1857 as a student painter then studied painting at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. He pursued his studies at Karlsruhe where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer Ludwig Des Coudres and Adolf Schroedter.
Steve Kirk (composer).  Steve Kirk is a composer arranger guitarist and singer.
Kyle Vincent.  Kyle Vincent is an American singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and entertainer labeled as the crown prince of soft pop by Goldmine. Barry Manilow has called Vincent One of the best singer-songwriters to come along since the heyday of Tin Pan Alley. Along with being a classically-trained vocalist Vincent plays saxophone piano and guitar.He was born and raised in Berkeley California U.S.A..
Dave Pearce.  Dave Pearce (born 14 June 1963) is a British dance DJ record producer and broadcaster who has performed across the UK and the world. He previously presented Dance Anthems on BBC Radio 1 for ten years. He is renowned for playing a key role both as a performer and behind the scenes in the development of UK dance and club culture.
Trife Diesel.  Trife Diesel or Trife Da God (born Theo Bailey in Stapleton Staten Island New York) is an affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan. He is a protégé and close associate of Ghostface Killah and is part of both of his protégé groups T.M.F. and Theodore Unit.He started his career on Shyheim's 1999 Manchild and was featured in The Pretty Toney Album on the album's opener Biscuits. A Theodore Unit album and mixtape followed.
Matthew Kandegas.  Postminimalist Artist Matthew Kingston Kandegas was born December 29 1960 in a poor section of south Seattle called White Center. Kandegas is a native speaker of Suomi. He formally trained with Seattle art instructors Norman Lundin and Sharon Munger.
Tom Fletcher.  Thomas Michael Tom Fletcher (born 17 July 1985) is an English singer-songwriter guitarist children's author and Youtube vlogger. Among his accomplishments he is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists of English pop rock band McFly in addition to being the group's founder and principal songwriter. In his ten-year career as a professional songwriter Fletcher has penned ten UK number one singles and twenty-one top ten singles.
Emma Dean (musician).  Emma Kate Dean is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Brisbane Queensland. Emma's distinctive singing voice and violin keyboards and piano playing has featured in Bittersuite (2002–2005 with Georgia Weber) Kate Miller-Heidke Band (2003–2006) her own Emma Dean Band and her many solo shows.
Mattie Delaney.  Mattie Delaney (ca. 1905 – unknown) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist. She was active in the 1930s with only two known recordings: Down the Big Road Blues and Tallahatchie River Blues.
Lakyn Heperi.  Lakyn Heperi (born 28 April 1992) is an Australian-based New Zealand singer songwriter and musician most well known for appearing on The Voice (Australia); he was eliminated at the quarter-final stage. His debut EP 'Better Than That' was released on 16 November 2012 through Universal Music Australia.
Aaron Bushkowsky.  Aaron Bushkowsky (born 1957 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is an award-winning Canadian writer based in Vancouver British Columbia. He writes in five different genres: poetry drama film TV and prose. Nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for outstanding book of poetry for ed and mabel go to the moon in 1995 Bushkowsky followed with a second book of poetry Mars is for Poems in 2002.
George Dickerson.  George Dickerson (born July 25 1933) is an American actor writer and poet.
Alex Tizon.  Alex Tizon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist a former[citation needed] national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and long-time staff writer for The Seattle Times.
Joe Borri.  Joe Borri (born June 11 1962 in Detroit Michigan) is an artist and writer. Born and raised in Detroit Borri graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1984. He is married and has four children.His 2007 anthology Eight Dogs Named Jack was published by Momentum Books.
Dale Warren.  Dale Ossman Warren (1940 - February 3 1994) was an American musician who was best known for his work as an arranger for Motown Records in the early 1960s and later for the Stax label where he worked with Isaac Hayes among many others. He was also primarily responsible for writing arranging and producing the influential 1973 funk concept album Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth by 24-Carat Black.
Zane (author).  Zane is the pseudonym of Kristina Laferne Roberts author of erotic fiction novels. She is best known for her novel Addicted. In 1997 Zane began writing erotic stories to pass the time after her children went to bed. She was living in North Carolina and working as a sales representative. The stories developed a following on the Internet and she self-published The Sex Chronicles before landing a deal with Simon & Schuster.Her work was the basis for the Cinemax program Zane's Sex Chronicles.
Adam Horowitz.  Adam Horowitz (born December 4 1971) is an American screenwriter and producer.He is known for his work on Felicity Black Sash One Tree Hill Popular Fantasy Island Birds of Prey Life As We Know It and Lost.He currently works on the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time which he and collaborator Edward Kitsis co-created.
Pedro Altamiranda.  Pedro Altamiranda is a Panamanian singer and composer known for his Carnival songs. Altamiranda sings about the culture and politics of Panama using humorous Panamanian slang. This attracts the attention of crowds not only of adults but also young people who identify with his songs. Gilberto Santa Rosa in his song Navidad En Panama mentions Altamiranda as part of Panamanian culture. Altamiranda started writing songs in 1979.
Ladislav Vodička.  Ladislav Vodička (10 January 1931 Prague - 7 March 1999) was a Czech country music singer and songwriter who performed for the group Jiri Brabec and then with his own group Hydrophilidae. Vodička graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU. Singing began in 1961 with an amateur band Tempest. In 1966 he Brabec offered involvement in the group of Country Beat and in the same year together with him went to the theater semaphore.
Garrett Hammond.  Garret Hammond was the drummer of the Chicago-based alternative rock bands Kill Hannah and Prick.
Olivier Cadiot.  Olivier Cadiot (born 1956) is a French writer poet dramatist and translator.Cadiot was born in Paris. His first book of poems L'Art poetic in which he used the cut-up technique was published in 1988. In 1993 Cadiot published Futur ancient fugitive and in 1997 he published Le Colonel des zouaves. In these books he proposed novels as poems. In 1995 and 1996 he coedited the Revue de Littérature générale with Pierre Alféri.
Rocco Siffredi.  Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano 4 May 1964 in Ortona Abruzzo) is the stage name of an Italian pornographic actor director and producer of pornographic movies who is known for his rough sex scenes. As of October 2011 he has starred in more than 450 pornographic films.Rocco took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino (1970). He is also known as the Italian Stallion.
Frida Hallgren.  Frida Sophia Hallgren (born December 16 1974 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress internationally known from As It Is in Heaven.After finishing her degree Frida attended the theater university in Malmö. This training was connected to a practical course at the city theater of Gothenburg. Thereafter Frida received several theater roles in Gothenburg Stockholm and Uppsala. She attained international fame with the leading role of Lena in Kay Pollak's Oscar nominated film As It Is in Heaven.
Wikluh Sky.  Đorđe Miljenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Миљеновић; born December 10 1980) better known by his stage name Wikluh Sky (Serbian: Виклер Скаj Vikler Skaj) is a Serbian musician rapper and producer.Best known for being a member of Bad Copy hip-hop trio he is also a part of Marčelo's accompanying Filter Crew and raggamuffin group/project Shappa.
Amy Tan.  Amy Tan (born February 19 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993 the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.Tan has written several other bestselling novels including The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish from Drowning.
Neil Burke.  Neil Burke is an American musician and artist. He is known as a former member of several hardcore punk and noise rock bands most notably Born Against and Men's Recovery Project. Burke is currently a poster artist graphic designer and screen printer working out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.Burke also runs Lungcast Records a sporadically active independent record label.
Il Sodoma.  Il Sodoma (1477 – February 14 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena with two periods in Rome.
Naty Botero.  Naty Botero (born Natalia Hernández Botero February 10 in Medellín Colombia) is a Colombian model and singer. Born in Medellín she moved to Bogotá at a young age and stayed there through high school. Botero studied in both Paris and New York City. She has released one full-length album with Sony/BMG Naty Botero which contained the hit Te Quiero Mucho. Three of Botero's other songs Fuego Dinosaurio and Mío have appeared in the Colombian Top 40.
Franco Bolognese.  Franco Bolognese (14th century) was an Italian painter active as a miniature painter (illuminator). He is said to have trained under Oderisi of Gubbio. In conjunction with that master and Giotto he was employed by Pope Boniface VIII to illustrate several books now in the library of the Vatican. Though inferior to Giotto Dante gives him a higher rank in the Purgatorio (xi. 83).
Barrett Long.  Barrett Long (born November 10 1982) also known as Steve Turbo is a pornographic actor who has appeared in several films.He made his name with Falcon but was discovered by veteran director Dirk Yates in 2002.
Curt DiCamillo.  Curt DiCamillo is an American architectural historian. He works full time on lecturing writing and leading tours about British architectural and artistic heritage of Britain and its influence around the world.
Ignjat Job.  Ignjat Job (28 March 1895 – 28 April 1936) was a Croatian painter from Dubrovnik.He was an important representative of colour expressionism in the art scene of Yugoslavia during the 1930s. His landscapes of Dalmatia are reminiscent of the style of Van Gogh. He is best known for his series of paintings inspired by life on the island of Brač.
J. A. Deane.  J.A. Deane is a musician performing sometimes on trombone but more often on synthesizers and live real-time sampler.Deane appeared on the pioneering 1985 live recording of Cobra by John Zorn. He has recorded with Jon Hassell and has performed extensively with Butch Morris. Since 1997 he has led the Out of Context ensemble which further explores the language of conduction developed by Butch Morris.
Eugenio Cecconi.  Eugenio Cecconi (Livorno September 8 1842 - Florence December 19 1903) was an Italian painter.
Eirug Wyn.  Eirug Wyn (11 December 1950 – 25 April 2004) was a Welsh satirical novelist who wrote in the Welsh language. He was born Eirug Price Wynne in Llanbrynmair in Mid Wales and educated at Brynrefail School and Trinity College Carmarthen.
John Chaffey.  John Chaffey is a former child actor who was featured in many television adverts and the Peter Sellers movie The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973). He went on to be one of the leaders of the UK Osteopathy profession being appointed as a Member of Council of UK Regulator the General Osteopathic Council in 2012.
Vita Sackville-West.  The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West Lady Nicolson CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962) best known as Vita Sackville-West was an English author poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf and Sissinghurst Castle Garden which she and her husband Sir Harold Nicolson created at their estate.
Leif Liljeroth.  Leif Liljeroth (born October 18 1924) is a Swedish film actor.
Yateesh M. Acharya.  Yateesh Acharya is a Ghazal and Bhajan singer. Classically trained with over three decades in the field of music Yateesh’s repertoire also includes the traditional Thumari Dadra and Sufi songs and the earthly Mand and Folk songs.
Mark Leibovich.  Mark Leibovich (born May 9 1965) is an American journalist and author. He is the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine based in Washington D.C. He is known for his profiles on political and media figures.
Gotō Chūgai.  Gotō Chūgai (後藤 宙外 23 December 1866 – 12 June 1938) was the pen-name of Gotō Toranosuke a Japanese essayist novelist and literary critic active from the late Meiji through the early Showa periods of Japan.
Maggie MacInnes.  Maggie MacInnes (born 29 August 1963 in Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish folk singer and clàrsach player who performs primarily in Scottish Gaelic. She is the daughter of folk singer Flora MacNeil.
Grace Kelly (musician).  Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15 1992) is an Asian-American jazz saxophonist vocalist songwriter arranger and bandleader. Kelly became the youngest ever musician voted to the Down Beat Magazine's Critics Poll at age 16. At 18 she released her sixth album Man with the Hat a collaboration with jazz legend Phil Woods.
Peter Altenberg.  Peter Altenberg (9 March 1859 Vienna – 8 January 1919 Vienna) was a writer and poet from Vienna Austria. He was key to the genesis of early modernism in the city.
Runa Akasaka.  Runa Akasaka (赤坂 ルナ Akasaka Runa born April 7 1967) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in adult videos (AV). Akasaka's career in AV lasted about four years with 70 to 100 videos listed for her at two major retailers at the end of 2008. Asasaka has also starred in titles in the pink film and V-Cinema genres.
Tatsuo Kamon.  Tatsuo Kamon (嘉門 達夫 Kamon Tatsuo) real name Tatsuo Torikai (鳥飼 達夫 Torikai Tatsuo) is a Japanese singer-songwriter born 25 March 1959 in Ibaraki Osaka Prefecture Japan.
Fernando Goncalves Namora.  Fernando Namora (April 15 1919 – January 31 1989) with the full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora was a Portuguese writer and medical doctor. Namora was born in Condeixa-a-Nova Coimbra District and died in Lisbon Portugal.He received his medical degree at 1942 by the University of Coimbra.
Janis Owens.  Janis Owens (born 1960 in Marianna Florida) is an American author. She has written three novels and one cookbook. Her fourth novel is due in October 2012 American Ghost.
Giulio Cesare Croce.  Giulio Cesare Croce (1550–1609) was an Italian writer actor/producer of cantastoria and enigma writer.The son of a blacksmith and a blacksmith himself after the death of his father his uncle continued his cultural education. He never had any particular patron but was still able to gradually leave the family business to pursue his passion: story telling. He had an enormous success and was able to travel to fairs markets patrician houses and the Italian courts.
Günter Schulz.  Günter Schulz (or Guenter Schulz) is a German-born guitarist formerly of the band KMFDM. His first credited appearance (as Svetlana Ambrosius or Svet Am) was on the band's Naïve album (1990). He continued using that stage name until 1995's Nihil. Schulz displayed an impressive mastery of speed metal guitar skills and co-wrote many of KMFDM's songs from the 1990s.
Amjad Hyderabadi.  Amjad Hussain (Urdu: سيد امجد حسين‎‎; 1878–1961) better known by the pen-name Amjad Hyderabadi (امجد حيدرابادى) was an Urdu and Persian Ruba'i poet from Hyderabad India. In Urdu poetic circle he is also known as Hakim-al-Shuara.During the rule of Nizam of Hyderabad a flood occurred on 28 September 1908) on the River Musi. Hyderabadi was one of the 150 people who saved their lives by hanging on to the branches of a tamarind tree.
Valery Vatenin.  Valery Vladimirovich Vatenin (Russian: Вале́рий Влади́мирович Вате́нин; January 27 1933 Leningrad USSR – June 16 1977 Leningrad USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter graphic artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the left wing of the Leningrad school of painting.
Ernst Hardt.  Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Hardt (May 9 1876 – January 3 1947) born Ernst Stöckhardt was a German playwright poet and novelist.Hardt was born in Graudenz West Prussia (now Grudziądz Poland).He is the author of Priester des Todes (1898) Bunt ist das Leben (1902) An den Toren des Lebens (1904) and the plays Der Kampf ums Rosenrote (1903) Nipon von Lenclos (1905) Tantris der Narr (1907) Gudrun (1911) and Konig Salomo (1915).
Vicci Martinez.  Vicci Martinez (born September 21 1984) is an American singer/songwriter from Tacoma Washington who is now signed with Republic Records (Universal Music Group). She came in joint third on NBC's singing competition series The Voice in 2011.
Louisa Lander.  Louisa Lander (1826–1923) was an American artist.
F. F. Bosworth.  Fred Francis Bosworth (January 17 1877 – January 23 1958) was an American evangelist an early religious broadcaster and a 1920s and Depression-era Pentecostal faith healer who was later a bridge to the mid-20th century healing revival. He was born on a farm near Utica Nebraska and was raised in a Methodist home. His Methodist experiences also included salvation at the age of 16 or 17 and a spontaneous healing from major lung problems a couple years later.
Paul Jaeg.  Paul Jaeg (born Paul Gamsjäger 1949 in Gosau Austria) is an Austrian artist and writer.
Victor Teterin.  Victor Kuzmich Teterin (Russian: Ви́ктор Кузьми́ч Тете́рин; October 25 1922 Bakharevo Tver Province Soviet Russia – 1991 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russian painter watercolorist and art teacher lived and worked in Leningrad regarded by one art historian as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Candan Erçetin.  Candan Erçetin (born 10 February 1963 in Kırklareli) is a Turkish singer songwriter and Vice-President of Galatasaray.
Louis-Sébastien Mercier.  Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer.
Enrique Anderson Imbert.  Enrique Anderson-Imbert (February 12 1910– December 6 2000) was an Argentine novelist short-story writer and literary critic.Born in Córdoba Argentina Anderson-Imbert graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. From 1940 until 1947 he taught at the University of Tucumán. In 1947 he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954. He became the first Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic Literature at Harvard University in 1965.
Meredith Brooks.  Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12 1958) is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song Bitch for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Lindy Morrison.  Belinda Lindy Morrison (born 2 November 1951) is an Australian musician originally from Queensland. She was the drummer in indie rock group The Go-Betweens from 1980 to 1989 appearing on all the band's releases from their first LP in 1981 until the band's first break up on 26 December 1989. Their song Cattle and Cane from 1983's Before Hollywood was selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.
Susanne McCarthy.  Susanne McCarthy (b. 1949 in London England) is an author most renowned as a popular fiction writer with 25 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 1999. Susanne has travelled widely and lived in various parts of the UK. She currently lives in Devon with her husband and two dogs. She has retired but still does some work as a teacher in adult education. She is skilled seamstress and sings in a local choir.
James Beresford.  James Beresford (28 May 1764 – 29 September 1840) was a writer and clergyman. He made translations and wrote religious books but was chiefly known as the author of a satirical work The Miseries of Human Life considered to be a minor classic in the genre.
Eva Rivas.  Eva Rivas (Armenian: Եվա Ռիվաս Russian: Ева Ривас; born Valeria Alexandrovna Reshetnikova-Satouryan Russian: Валерия Александровна Решетникова-Цатурян 13 July 1987) is a Russian-Armenian singer.
William Messner-Loebs.  William Messner-Loebs (born William Francis Loebs Jr. February 19 1949) is an American comic book writer and artist from Michigan also known as Bill Loebs and Bill Messner-Loebs.
Arne Ranslet.  Arne Mathias Ranslet (born 15 August 1931 Løgstør Denmark) is a famous Danish sculptor and ceramist.His works have been purchased by museums and communities in Europe and have gained worldwide recognition through international exhibitions. He has been acclaimed among the best known ceramists of Bornholm
Yoseph Gebre.  Yoseph Gebre (Amharic: ዮሴፍ ገብሬ/ጆሲ ገብሬ?</span>) (born June 16 1981 in Dilla Ethiopia) also spelled Yosef Gebre is an Ethiopian singer. He is popularly known as Jossy.
Wolfgang Gartner.  Wolfgang Gartner (born Joseph Thomas Youngman; March 17 1982) is an American house music producer and DJ. Much of his music prior to 2010 was released through his own record label Kindergarten but he signed with Ultra Records in 2010 and Ministry of Sound in the UK in 2011.
Yuriko Yamamoto.  Yuriko Yamamoto (山本 百合子 Yamamoto Yuriko born February 13 1960 in Hino Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress currently employed by Aoni Production.
Tim Blake.  Timothy 'Tim' Blake (born 6 February 1952 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Shepherd's Bush west London) is a keyboardist synthesist vocalist and composer with both Gong and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener.
Amy Steinberg.  Amy Steinberg is an American singer songwriter musician and actress. She is an independent artist and has produced 9 records with producer Justin Beckler. Best known for her live performances she blends together a mixture of music comedy and poetry.
Doselle Young.  Doselle Young is an American science fiction author graphic novelist and contributor to both prose and comics anthologies.
Canela Cox.  Canela (pronounced Kuh-NAY-luh) is an American R&B singer and songwriter. She is best known in the mixtape circuit for her DJ Clue-remixed song Sponsor and for co-writing Anastacia's worldwide top 20 hit Why'd You Lie to Me. She once recorded an album in 2001 however it was shelved after her label folded.
Françoise Pascal.  Françoise Pascal (born 14 October 1949) is an actress/model who was born to French Mauritian parents; Mauritius was then a colony of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her comedy role in the British sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–79).
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya.  [citation needed]Dr. Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924 – 6 August 1997) was a famous Indian writer and one of the pioneers of modern Assamese Literature. He was first ever recipient of the Jnanpith Award given to an Bengali/Assamese writer in the year 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay (Immortal). He was also a recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese in 1961 for his Assamese novel Iyaruingom(Iyaruingam) which is considered a masterpiece of Indian literature.
Roy MacGregor-Hastie.  Roy MacGregor-Hastie is an author. journalist political commentator poet and translator from and into Romanian. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was a regular contributor to the Sunday Express and his columns were syndicated worldwide by London Express­­ features. He speaks seven languages including Russian was one of the most widely read commentators on Communist affairs and has reported from Moscow Warsaw Prague Budapest and Bucharest.
Carson Allen.  Carson Allen is an American Singer/Song-writer known for his blend of Blue Eyed Soul and Rock n Roll. He is also known for his roles in former bands: lead vocalist for On the Last Day and Me vs. Myself and for being the keyboardist and founding member of Escape the Fate.
Daphne Rye.  Daphne Rye (1916 – 10 November 1992) was a director actress and casting director.Rye was casting agent for the company H. M. Tennent. She discovered a number of talents who became big names including Richard Burton later one of Rye's lodgers. She also helped Kenneth More and Honor Blackman.
Frances Bagley.  Frances Bagley is an American sculptor who was born in Fayetteville Tennessee on April 7 1946. In 1969 she received a BFA in painting from Arizona State University (Tempe Arizona) in 1971 an MA from Arizona State University and in 1980 an MFA in sculpture from the University of North Texas (Denton Texas).
Jessie Malakouti.  Jessica Jessie Eden Malakouti is an American singer-songwriter actress and dancer. In 2011 Jessie toured North America as a support act with Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj on the Femme Fatale Tour and as a main stage act alongside Kaskade Rusko Steve Aoki and Avicii on the Identity Festival.
Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1 1875 – March 19 1950) was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter although he produced works in many genres.
Keith Christmas.  Keith Christmas (born Keith Peter Christmas 13 October 1946 Wivenhoe near Colchester Essex) is an English singer and songwriter. In 1969 his first album Stimulus was released.
Sandy Fussell.  Sandy Fussell (born 1960) is an award-winning Australian author for children. In 2009 her second novel Polar Boy was selected as the National Reading Day book for primary school students.
Hana Pestle.  Hana Gabrielle Pestle (born July 11 1989) is an American singer/songwriter from Billings Montana.
Kjetil Bjerkestrand.  Kjetil Bjerkestrand (born 18 May 1955 in Kristiansund Norway) is a Norwegian musician (keyboards) composer arranger and record producer known as music arranger for artists like Ray Charles Dee Dee Bridgewater Keith Emerson Ian Hunter Jon Lord Ute Lemper and a-ha.
Sei Shōnagon.  Sei Shōnagon (清少納言 lesser councilor of state Sei) (c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 makura no sōshi).
Alex Staropoli.  Alessandro Alex Staropoli (born 9 January 1970 in Trieste Italy) is a keyboard player and composer co-founder with Luca Turilli of the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He does the orchestral arrangements in all the band's songs.
Nick Raphael.  Nick Raphael was born 4 October 1971 in London United Kingdom. Raphael is a music industry executive. He is currently President of London Records. He has worked in the music industry since 1987 when he promoted a night at Dingwalls in Camden Lock London.In the early 1990s Raphael moved to Leeds UK and organized managed and promoted several night club venues such as Hi Flyers The Gallery and The Warehouse.
Randy Hansen.  Randy Hansen (born December 8 1954 in Seattle Washington) is a U.S. guitarist best known for his Rock Tribute Act honoring Jimi Hendrix. Hansen performs such signatures of Hendrix's style as playing a guitar with his teeth or behind his back. He composed 17 minutes of the soundtrack for the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now(1980 Academy Award Winner for Best Sound). His debut album was released in 1980 on Capitol Records and was recorded at the Automatt Studios in San Francisco CA.
Alex Torres.  This article is about the musician. For the baseball pitcher see Alex Torres (baseball).Alex Torres (born September 15 1987) is an American musician best known for being the guitarist of metalcore bands Eyes Set to Kill Greeley Estates Alesana and being the current guitarist for The Dead Rabbitts.
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri.  Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (also referred to as Susie Bootja Bootja Napangardi Napangarti or Napangati) (c. 1935 – 16 January 2003) was an Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.
David Pomeranz.  David Pomeranz (born February 9 1951) is an American singer composer lyricist and writer for musical theatre. He is also ambassador for Operation Smile.
Rajko Kojić.  Radislav Rajko Kojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радислав-Рајко Којић) (April 12 1956 – April 11 1997) was a Serbian and former Yugoslav guitarist best known for his work with band Riblja Čorba.
Jacob Scheier.  Jacob Scheier is a Canadian poet. His debut poetry collection More to Keep Us Warm was published by ECW Press in 2007 and was named the winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for English poetry.A former resident of New York City Jacob has recently moved back to his hometown of Toronto. Scheier published work in a number of Canadian literary magazines and was co-editor of the York University literary magazine Existere prior to publishing More to Keep Us Warm.
Daniel Mongrain.  Dan Mongrain (also known as Daniel Mongrain and Chewy) is a co-founder of the Quebec technical metal band Martyr. He composes sings and plays lead and rhythm guitar.
Iry LeJeune.  Iry LeJeune (October 28 1928 – October 8 1955) was one of the best selling and most popular Cajun musicians in the mid to late 1940s into the early 1950s.His recordings and repertoire remain influential to the present day. He was among a handful of recording artists who returned the accordion to prominence in commercially recorded Cajun music and dance hall performances.
Anthony Pryor.  Anthony Pryor is the author and co-author of several roleplaying game products.
Maurice Frawley.  Maurice Gerard Frawley (5 May 1954 – 16 May 2009) was an Australian rock and country blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Alela Diane.  Alela Diane Menig (born April 20 1983) known as Alela Diane is an American singer-songwriter from Portland Oregon.
Sigalit Landau.  Sigalit Landau (born 1969) is an Israeli sculptor video and installation artist.
Robert Dodd (artist).  Robert Dodd (1748–1815) was a British marine painter and aquatint engraver. He is known for his works on the French Revolutionary Wars.
Hindi Zahra.  Hindi Zahra (born 1979 in Khouribga Morocco) is a Franco-Moroccan singer. When coming up with a stage name she simply inverted her birth name. Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song Imik Si Mik are in the Berber languages.
Brett Epstein.  Brett Epstein (born January 5 1978) is a musician songwriter and record producer.He studied at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston.Epstein is a writer on the Kimberly Caldwell (American Idol) debut album Without Regret co-writing Taking Back My Life. The album was released by Capitol Records.
Diana Gabaldon.  Diana J. Gabaldon (born January 11 1952) is an American author known for the Outlander series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres featuring elements of historical fiction romance mystery adventure and science fiction/fantasy.
Shin Jung-hyeon.  Shin Jung-hyeon (born January 4 1938 in Seoul) is a South Korean rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Known as Korea's Godfather of Rock he led Korean psychedelic pop/rock culture during the 1960s and 1970s. His sons Shin Dae-cheol (Sinawe) and Shin Yun-cheol are also respected guitarists in Korean rock.
Kieran Scott.  Kieran Sue Scott (born March 11 1974; also known by her pen name Kate Brian) is an American author of such chick lit books as The Princess and the Pauper Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys The Virginity Club Sweet 16Fake Boyfriend and the Private series. Books published under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader which was nominated for YALSA's Teens Top Ten Brunettes Strike Back A Non-Blonde Cheerleader in Love and Geek Magnet.
John Paul Jones (musician).  John Baldwin (born 3 January 1946) known by the stage name John Paul Jones is an English multi-instrumentalist songwriter composer arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist keyboardist and co-songwriter for English rock band Led Zeppelin Jones has since developed a solo career.
Dian Parkinson.  Dian Parkinson (born Dianna Lynn Batts on November 30 1944 in Jacksonville North Carolina) is a former American model and hostess on The Price Is Right.
Chang Cheh.  Chang Cheh (simplified Chinese: 张彻; traditional Chinese: 張徹; pinyin: Zhāng Chè) (February 10 1923 – June 22 2002) was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director with such films as the Five Venoms the Brave Archer (based on the works of Jin Yong) the The One-Armed Swordsman and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.
Wanessa.  Wanessa Godói Camargo Buaiz (née Wanessa Godói Camargo) (born on December 28 1982 Goiânia Goiás Brazil) also known simply as Wanessa is a Brazilian pop singer-songwriter.
Nicolas Hodges.  Nicolas Hodges (born 1970 in London) is a British pianist and composer. He specializes in avant garde music.
JRDN.  Ralph Jordon Croucher better known by his stage name JRDN (born November 14 1978) is a Canadian R&B recording artist. He also currently serves as a Youth Ambassador for D250 and was a delegate in the Citizen Voices program.
Steve Byrne.  Steve Byrne (born July 21 1974) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Tony Tedeschi.  Tony Tedeschi is an American pornographic film actor and AVN Hall of Fame inductee.
Adam Nevill.  Adam Nevill (also known as Adam LG Nevill) is an English writer of supernatural horror known for his book The Ritual.
Jeff Antoniuk.  Jeff Antoniuk (born October 6 1965) is a Canadian composer musician recording artist and music educator. Best known as a modern jazz and hard bop aficionado he is conversant in many styles of jazz and funk. Antoniuk directs several important adult jazz education outlets in the Mid-Atlantic including Jazz Band Masterclass inDepth Jazz and Capital City Voices which serve instrumentalists and vocalists from surrounding states.
María Luisa Garza.  María Luisa Garza Garza (August 25 1887 Cadereyta Jiménez – 1980) was a Mexican journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen name Loreley.
Johann Burger.  Johann Burger (born 31 May 1829 in Burg Aargau; died 2 May 1912 in Munich) was a Swiss engraver.
Anne Devlin (writer).  Anne Devlin (born 1951) is a short story writer playwright and screenwriter born in Belfast Northern Ireland. She was a teacher from 1974–1978 and started writing fiction in 1976 in Germany. Having lived in London for a decade she returned to Belfast in 2007.She is the daughter of Paddy Devlin a Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and later a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). She was raised in Belfast.
Richard Laymon.  Richard Carl Laymon (January 14 1947 – February 14 2001) was an American author of suspense and horror fiction particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. Richard Laymon died in 2001 of a massive heart attack and is survived by his wife Ann and daughter Kelly.
Cy Twombly.  Edwin Parker Cy Twombly Jr. (/saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/; April 25 1928 – July 5 2011) was an American painter of large-scale freely scribbled calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray tan or off-white colors.
Jon Gordon (musician).  Jon Gordon (born 1966 in New York City) is an American jazz musician who is leader of the Jon Gordon Quartet and plays alto saxophone. Gordon took first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1996
Leonard Nathan.  Dr. Leonard E. Nathan (November 8 1924 - June 3 2007) was an American poet critic and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley where he retired in 1991.Born in El Monte California Nathan earned a bachelor's degree in English at UC Berkeley in 1950 a master's degree in English in 1952 and a Ph.D. in 1961.
Kathy Troccoli.  Kathleen Colleen Kathy Troccoli (born June 24 1958) is a contemporary Christian music singer author and speaker.
Marion Deuchars.  Marion Deuchars (born 1964 in Falkirk Stirlingshire) is a British Illustrator and Author.
Leo Sayer.  Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer on 21 May 1948) is a British singer-songwriter musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the United Kingdom all reached the Top 10 – a feat first registered by his one-time manager Adam Faith.
Johann Sachs.  Johann Melchior Ernst Sachs (28 February 1843 – c.
Kelly Jones.  Kelly Jones (born 3 June 1974) is a Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist and the lead singer of the band Stereophonics. Influenced by classic rock bands such as Pink Floyd The Who Led Zeppelin AC/DC and the Sex Pistols Jones is noted for his raspy voice which has been described as whiskey and has drawn criticism as well as acclaim. As a lyricist Jones is influenced by Neil Young Bob Catley Steve Perry Bob Dylan and Otis Redding.
Lawrence Elion.  Lawrence Elion (November 5 1917 – March 27 2011) was a Canadian / British actor who was best known for his role as the hapless first victim Stanley in David Winning's debut feature film Storm.Lawrence was born in Brentford Chiswick England. He served in the Signal Corps of the British Army during World War II. Lawrence had a passion for music (piano) and the theatre was a member of ACTRA and won numerous awards for 'Best Actor'.His wife Isabel lives in Calgary Alberta.
Alix Combelle.  Alix Combelle (15 June 1912–26 February 1978) was a French swing jazz tenor saxophonist clarinetist and bandleader born in and performing in Paris for most of his life. He was well known on the Continental Jazz scene of Europe active mostly in the 1930s and 1940s. He performed or featured in his bands such musicians as Arthur Briggs Ray Ventura Michel Warlop and Gregor et ses Gregoriens among others.
Justin Moyer.  Justin Moyer (born 1977) is an American musician and journalist. He has been a member of many Washington D.C.-based bands on Dischord Records including El Guapo Supersystem Antelope and E.D. Sedgwick. He writes for The Washington Post and The Washington City Paper.
Ed Burns.  Ed Burns is a producer screenwriter and novelist. He has worked closely with writing partner David Simon. They have collaborated on The Corner and The Wire (HBO). Burns is a former Baltimore police detective for the Homicide and Narcotics divisions and a public school teacher. He often draws upon these experiences for his writing.
U-ram Choe.  U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is an artist based in Seoul South Korea.
Juno Roxas.  Juno Roxas (born 4 May 1972) is an Australian musician and actor.
Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi.  Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (1864–1938) was a noted Indian Hindi writer. Adhunikkaal or the Modern period of the Hindi literature is divided into four phases and he represents the second phase known as the Dwivedi Yug (1893–1918) after him which was preceded by the Bharatendu Yug (1868–1893) followed by the Chhayavad Yug (1918–1937) and the Contemporary Period (1937–present).
Adam Kowalczyk.  Adam Kowalczyk is an American musician. He is the brother of Ed Kowalczyk the former lead singer of the band Live.
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.  Prince Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Georgian: სულხან-საბა ორბელიანი) (1658-1725) was a Georgian writer.
Giovanni Andrea Bontempi.  Giovanni Andrea Bontempi (Perugia ca. 1624–1 July 1705) was an Italian castrato singer later composer historian music theorist and assistant kapellmeister to Heinrich Schütz at Dresden from 1657. Born G. A. Angelini he took the name of his patron.
Dierks Bentley.  Dierks Bentley (born November 20 1975) is an American country music artist who has been signed to Capitol Records Nashville since 2003. That year he released his self-titled debut album. Both it and its follow-up 2005's Modern Day Drifter are certified platinum in the United States. A third album 2006's Long Trip Alone is certified gold. It was followed in mid-2008 by a greatest hits package. His fourth album Feel That Fire was released in February 2009.
Ashlee Simpson.  Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. The younger sister of Jessica Simpson she rose to prominence as a participant in her sister's reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and starred in the spin-off program The Ashlee Simpson Show which portrayed her creating her debut album Autobiography (2004). The album was released after the show's first season and went to the top of the album chart.
Brendan Shine.  Brendan Shine (born 1947) is an Irish folk and country singer television presenter and accordion player from Athlone with 5 Irish number 1 singles and best known for his songs about everyday Irish life such as Do you Want your Old Lobby Washed Down and Spuds.
Enzo Nini.  Enzo Nini (born 29 August 1954) is a jazz saxophonist and flautist. He was born in San Giorgio a Cremano (Province of Naples Italy) and currently lives and teaches in Naples and Foggia Italy.
Vittorio Miele.  Vittorio Miele (November 24 1926 Cassino - November 18 1999 Cassino) was an Italian painter.
Alex Riley (comedian).  Alex Riley (born in Sheffield Yorkshire England) is a TV and radio presenter.
Pete Wareham.  Pete Wareham is a British saxophonist known for his group Acoustic Ladyland and Seb Rochford's Polar Bear. He is a member of the London based jazz collective F-IRE.
Jay Smith (singer).  Jay Jon Christopher Smith (born in Helsingborg Sweden on April 29 1981) is a Swedish singer and guitarist. He won the Swedish Idol 2010 title beating Minnah Karlsson in the December 10 2010 final in the Ericsson Globe theater. Jay Smith also plays in the band Von Benzo that has two albums released.During Idol 2010 he created controversy announcing that he had smoked marijuana at one point during the program series.
Thomas Nashe.  Thomas Nashe (November 1567 – c. 1601) is considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers He was also a playwright poet and satirist. He was the son of the parson William Nashe and Margaret (née Witchingham).
Stephen Rowe (poet).  Stephen Rowe (born April 7 1980 in Heart's Content Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian poet.
Begum Akhtar.  Akhtari Bai Faizabadi also known as Begum Akhtar (October 7 1914 – October 30 1974) was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal Dadra and Thumri. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan (posthumously) by Govt. of India. She was given the title of Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazals).
G. S. Shivarudrappa.  G.S. Shivarudrappa ((Guggari Shanthaveerappa Shivarudrappa)Kannada: ಜಿ.ಎಸ್. ಶಿವರುದ್ರಪ್ಪ) (7 February 1926 – 23 December 2013) was a Kannada poet writer and researcher who was awarded the title of Rashtrakavi by the Government of Karnataka on November 1 2006.
Hiro Yamamoto.  Hiro Yamamoto (born April 13 1961 in Seattle Washington) is an American bassist who was a founding member of grunge band Soundgarden along with Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell in 1984. He left the band in 1990 and one year later he started the independent rock band Truly together with Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel and Robert Roth from The Storybook Krooks.
Greg Patent.  Greg Patent is an American award-winning cookbook author and baker. He also co-hosts a weekly radio show about food on Montana Public Radio The Food Guys with Jon Jackson and has made guest appearances on television and radio programs throughout the United States.
Abdulla Oripov.  Abdulla Oripov (Uzbek: Abdulla Oripov Абдулла Орипов) (born March 21 1941) is an Uzbek poet politician and literary translator. He was a member of the Supreme Assembly of Uzbekistan. Oripov became a National Poet of the Uzbek SSR in 1989. He is currently the head of the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan. Oripov wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Jack Marshall (composer).  Jack Marshall (November 23 1921 – September 20 1973) was an American guitarist conductor and composer. He is the father of producer-director Frank Marshall and composer Phil Marshall.
Fabrizio Cassol.  Fabrizio Cassol (born June 8 1964) is a Belgian saxophonist and the first user of the aulochrome (a double soprano saxophone).He was born in Ougrée Belgium. Between 1982 and 1985 he studied at the Liège conservatory and obtained a first prize for saxophone while majoring in chamber music. He graduated in improvisation and composition. Cassol began to tour with his first band (Trio Bravo with Michel Massot and Michel Debrulle).
Ernie Hart.  Ernest Huntley Hart (October 2 1910 – May 2 1985 or July 1985; sources differ) also known as H.E. Huntley is an American comic-book writer and artist best known for creating Marvel Comics' funny animal character Super Rabbit. In addition he variously wrote edited and illustrated numerous books on dog breeding and ownership.
Joy Dawson.  Joy Dawson is a New Zealand missionary and intercessor who has been teaching the Bible internationally since 1970. Her missionary work has taken her to over 55 nations. She has taught extensively on television and radio and her books audio and video tapes have been translated and distributed worldwide.
J-Wess.  James Wesley Essex better known by his stage name J-Wess is an American-Australian hip hop and R&B musician. He is based in Melbourne Australia. His sole album J-Wess Presents Tha LP reached the top twenty in Australia in 2005 and included three hit singles.
Ola Englund.  Ola Englund is a Swedish musician songwriter and record producer and guitarist. He is currently in his band Feared and notable the metal act The Haunted and formerly Six Feet Under. He also has been a part of Scarpoint Facing Death Subcyde and Sorcerer.
Abdurrahim Buza.  Abdurrahim Buza (1905–1987) was an Albanian painter.
Paul Colin (artist).  Paul Colin (27 June 1892 in Nancy France - 18 June 1985 in Nogent-sur-Marne) was one of France’s greatest poster artists.Made famous in 1925 by his poster for the Revue Nègre which helped to launch the career of Josephine Baker (who became his mistress) he worked for over forty years in the theatre creating not only posters but also numerous sets and costumes.Very Art déco at the outset (his Le Tumulte noir is a masterpiece of the genre) his style quickly became highly personal and impossible to categorize: the synthetic accuracy of his portraits the evocative force of his posters for grand causes so marked him as a master of visual communication that his work today remains relevant and fresh.A student of Eugène Vallin and of Victor Prouvé he is considered a master of the modern school of poster art. 
Eric Deschamps.  Eric Deschamps is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Giuseppe Marsigli.  Giuseppe Marsigli (Naples 1795 - circa 1835) was an Italian painter and engraver.
Shabba Ranks.  Shabba Ranks (born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon; January 17 1966) is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content when ridin' di riddim. His gravel toned rough-sounding voice made him instantly recognized worldwide.
Fernando Pacheco.  Fernando Pacheco (a.k.a. Fernando The Love Machine) current lead singer and trombonist for the ska/rock/reggae band Pimpbot and improv/sketch comic artist with Chocolate Squirrel is a native of Hawaii. The band's founding member he has toured the Western U.S. and Canada with Pimpbot and appeared on each of their full length albums in addition to several singles since their formation in 2001.
James Shaw (musician).  James Shaw (sometimes credited as Jimmy Shaw) is a founder and lead guitarist of Canadian indie rock band Metric. He is also founder of the band Broken Social Scene and an award winning producer.
Dave Kushner.  Gibson ES-335 with BigsbyDavid Dave Kushner (born November 16 1966) is an American musician perhaps best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver.
Shannon Lucas.  Shannon Lucas (born September 27 1983) is an American death metal drummer from Staunton Virginia. He is the former drummer for the Detroit-based melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder and metalcore band All That Remains.
John John Jesse.  John John Jesse is an illustrative painter from New York City's Lower East Side in the Juxtapoz gonzo-pop vein. He often shows with artists like Esao Andrews. Jesse has cited Gustav Klimpt Carravagio Béla Iványi-Grünwald and Mark Ryden as influencesHe painted the girls he grew up with citing the punk lifestyle of girls and drugs. Most of the people featured in his work are friends of his. They are generally nude or partially disrobed in situations that are both fantastical and gritty.
Gaspare Serenario.  Gaspare Serenario (Palermo Sicily 1707-1759) was an Italian painter active mainly in a grand late Baroque style.
Shōgo Hamada.  Shōgo Hamada (浜田 省吾 Hamada Shōgo born December 29 1952) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former member of the group Aido. He is a part of Sony Music Japan's SME Records division. He was born in Takehara City in Hiroshima Prefecture and graduated from Kuremitsuta High School (where he was a member of the baseball team). He attended Kanagawa University where he studied law but left the school before graduating.In 1975 he made his professional debut as the drummer of the band Aido.
Junior Campbell.  Junior Campbell (born William Campbell Jnr 31 May 1947) is a Scottish composer songwriter and musician. He was a founding member lead guitarist piano player and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes including Reflections of My Life I See The Rain and Rainbow.He also wrote and produced his own solo hits Hallelujah Freedom and Sweet Illusion.
P. Reign.  Raynford Humphrey (born January 8 1986) better known by his stage name P. Reign is a Canadian hip-hop artist and songwriter of Guyanese descent. He is signed to Reps-Up Records and RCA Records.
Jem Poster.  Jem Poster (born 1949) is a noted contemporary British poet and novelist.Poster has worked variously as an archaeologist for English Heritage an administrator for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education and as Lecturer in English Literature with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He is a former fellow of Kellogg College Oxford.
Zakk Wylde.  Zakk Wylde (born Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt January 14 1967) is an American musician songwriter multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor who is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society. His signature bulls-eye design appears on many of his guitars and is widely recognized. He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding.
Alicia Alonso.  Alicia Alonso Martínez (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad Martínez Hoya; December 21 1921) is the Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer. Her company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955.She is most famous for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of Carmen. From the age of nineteen Alicia was afflicted with an eye defect and was partially blind.
Jeanette Lindström.  Jeanette Lindström is a Swedish singer composer and lyricist. She grew up in Östersund and Ås in the Jämtland region of Sweden.Jeanette Lindström made her recording debut on Caprice Records with Another Country in 1995 the year she was awarded the Jazz in Sweden prize. Two more albums followed on the same label. In 2003 she began a collaboration with the Amigo Musik/Bonnier Amigo Music Group with the album Walk.
Fares Fares.  Fares Fares (born 29 April 1973) is a Lebanese-Swedish actor.Fares was born in Beirut Lebanon and is of Assyrian origin. Fares and his family first moved to Sweden in 1987 residing in Örebro. He is the brother of director Josef Fares and has several times played major parts in his films including Jalla! Jalla! (2000) and Kopps (2003) and son of father Jan Fares also an actor. He has also starred in Bang Bang Orangutang (2005) and Kill Your Darlings (2006).
Vincent Peirani.  Vincent Peirani (born 24 April 1980 in Nice France) is a French accordionist vocalist and composer.
Frank Butler (writer).  Frank Butler (December 28 1890 — June 10 1967) was an American film and theatre actor; he was also a screenwriter.
Takurō Kitagawa.  Takurō Kitagawa (喜多川 拓郎 Kitagawa Takurō born December 12 1949 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Sigma Seven.
Robert Sikoryak.  Robert Sikoryak (born 1964) is an American artist whose work is usually signed R. Sikoryak. He specializes in making comic adaptations of literature classics producing a mashup of high and low cultures.
Stephen Hartke.  Stephen Paul Hartke (born 6 July 1952 in Orange New Jersey) is an American composer. He grew up in Manhattan where his first piano teacher was Mary Miley and has lived in California since the 1980s. He is Distinguished Professor of Composition at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California.
Margaret Johnson.  Margaret Johnson was an American blues and early jazz vocalist and pianist.Johnson's primary era of recording activity as a vocalist was 1925-1927. Prior to this she had worked in vaudeville. She recorded with harmonica player Bobby Leecan and guitarist Robert Cooksey playing country blues; she also did several recordings with New Orleans jazz ensembles which included Sidney Bechet Clarence Williams Louis Armstrong Bubber Miley and Tom Morris.
Kirk Alyn.  Kirk Alyn (October 8 1910 – March 14 1999) was an American actor best known for being the first actor to play the DC Comics character Superman on screen in the 1948 film serial Superman and its 1950 sequel Atom Man Vs. Superman.
Alexandru Darida.  Alexandru Darida born May 15 1955 is an artist known for his pioneering social activist art. His work includes oil paintings drawings and acrylic sculpture that speak to such diverse subjects as the promotion of stem cell research and the politically charged relationship of man with nature.
George Wildman.  George Wildman (born July 31 1927) is an American cartoonist most noted for his work in the comic books industry. From 1971 until 1985 he was a top editor at Charlton Comics where he also became the long-time regular artist on Popeye comic books.
Linda Strawberry.  Linda Strawberry is the nom de plume of a Los Angeles artist and musician best known as Billy Corgan's collaborator and touring member for the TheFutureEmbrace tour.
Rob Dawber.  Robert Rob Dawber (8 January 1956 – 20 February 2001) was a British railwayman turned writer whose script for the film The Navigators was commissioned by director Ken Loach and shot in Sheffield where Dawber lived. He was a long-standing member of the Trotskyist group the Alliance for Workers' Liberty.
Aries Keck.  Aries Keck is social media team lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md the first-ever time NASA Goddard had someone in that position full-time. Her previous position at NASA Goddard was as a science writer for Earth science missions.
David Morier.  David Morier (1705? – Jan. 1770) was an Anglo-Swiss painter of portraits military subjects and historical scenes around and after the time of the War of the Austrian Succession and the related Jacobite rising of 1745. His most recognizable work is entitled An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 but is more commonly known as The Battle of Culloden.Morier thrived during the 1750s under the patronage of the Duke of Cumberland the effective commander-in-chief of the British Army.
Arvind Parikh.  Arvind Parikh is a Hindustani classical musician and sitar player.
Hormoz Farhat.  Hormoz Farhat (Persian: هرمز فرهت) Born 1929 Tehran is a significant Iranian composer ethnomusicologist and University lecturer.
Pete Alvarado.  Peter J. Alvarado Jr. (February 22 1920 – December 27 2003) was an American animation and comic book artist. Alvarado's animation career spanned almost 60 years. He was also a prolific contributor to Western Publishing's line of comic books.
Frederick J. Jackson.  Frederick J. Jackson (21 September 1886 – 22 May 1953) was an American playwright screenwriter. He wrote for over 50 films between 1912 and 1946. A number of his plays were turned into films including The Bishop Misbehaves. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and died in Hollywood California.
Steve Harvey.  Broderick Steven Steve Harvey (born January 17 1957) is an American actor comedian entertainer television/radio personality and author. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show Steve Harvey and Family Feud. He is the author of Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man which was published in March 2009 and the book Straight Talk No Chaser: How to Find and Keep a Man.Harvey starred in The Steve Harvey Show and he was featured in The Original Kings of Comedy.
Kjersti Stubø.  Kjersti Aasan Stubø (born 25 April 1970 in Narvik Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician vocalist daughter and musical successor of Jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943-1986) mother of elektronica musician Mathias Stubø (b. 1992) and sister of Jazz guitarist Håvard and theatre director Eirik Stubø.
Marcu Beza.  Marcu Beza (June 30 1882 Kleisoura Ottoman Empire – May 6 1949 in Bucharest Romania) was a Romanian poet writer essayist literary critique publicist folklorist and diplomat of Aromanian origin.
Jan van Wavere.  Jan Van Wavere ( ? -1521/22) was an influential Flemish polychromer of late gothic Brabantine altarpieces (also called retables) mainly produced in the Brabantine towns of Antwerp Brussels and Mechelen. During the15th–16th century over 1000 altarpieces were traded and exported to many European countries. More than 300 complete examples of Brabantine altarpieces can still be found in museums and churches all over Europe from the Baltic countries (e.g. St.
Blake Palmer.  Blake Palmer (born March 9 1960) is a pornographic actor. He has performed in over 700 movies since 1980 and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2006.
Patrick Duff.  Patrick Duff (born 30 June 1966 Bristol) is an English singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of the alternative rock band Strangelove.
Diran Kelekian.  Diran Kelekian (Dikran Kelegian Armenian: Տիրան Քէլէկեան 1862 Kayseri - 1915 Çankırı) was an Ottoman Armenian journalist writer and professor of Ottoman University (Istanbul) editor of Cihan (since 1883) and Sabah (since 1908) newspapers. Armenian Genocide victim.He studied at Constantinople and Marseille (French Academy of Sciences) then become a lecturer at Ottoman University of Istanbul.
Mick Mercer.  Mick Mercer (born 1958) is a journalist and author best known for his photos and reviews of the goth punk and indie music scenes.
Billy Lawrence.  Billy Lawrence (born May 3 1972 in Boca Raton FL) is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter record producer and arranger.
John Brailsford the elder.  John Brailsford the elder (fl. 1712-1739) was an English poet. He was the son of John Brailsford a pewterer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College Cambridge (B.A. 1712 M.A. 1717) and after acting as curate at Blaston in Leicestershire became rector of Kirkby in Nottinghamshire. He wrote Derby Silk-Mill attempted in Miltonick Verse Nottingham 1739 fol.
Karen Lord.  Karen Lord (born 1968) is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel Redemption in Indigo (2010) retells the story Ansige Karamba the Glutton from Senegalese folklore and her second novel The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013) is an example of social science fiction. Lord also writes in the sociology of religion.
Virgil.  Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15 70 BC – September 21 19 BC) usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜrdʒəl/ in English was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature the Eclogues (or Bucolics) the Georgics and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems collected in the Appendix Vergiliana are sometimes attributed to him.Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets.
D-Shot.  Dannell Stevens better known as D-Shot is an American rapper from Vallejo California. D-Shot got his start as a member of the rap group The Click which also included his siblings E-40 and Suga T as well as his cousin B-Legit. After E-40 formed his record label Sick Wid It Records The Click released their debut album Down and Dirty after which each member released solo projects. D-Shot's debut album The Shot Calla was released in 1993 through Sick Wid It Records.
Mimmi Sandén.  Mimmi Sandén (born 25 December 1995) is a Swedish singer and actress who came to fame by becoming 1st runner up in the television show Talang 2007 (Sweden's Got Talent).
Jimmy Sturr.  James W. Jimmy Sturr Jr. is an American polka musician trumpeter/clarinetist/saxophonist and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album. Sturr's orchestra is on the Top Ten List of the All-Time Grammy Awards and has acquired more Grammy nominations than anyone in the history of musical polka awards.
Gulabdas Broker.  Gulabdas Broker was a Gujarati language author from India.
Herluf Bidstrup.  Herluf Bidstrup (September 10 1912 - December 26 1988) is a Danish cartoonist. He is the author of over 5000 cartoons.A sworn Communist Bidstrup drew lots of cartoons on foreign policy and social themes as well as subject matter related to the effects of World War II. Some of his work captures and presents the humor in everyday life.He travelled to the former DDR and the Soviet Union. He is still very popular in Russia.In 1964 he was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize.
John David Morley.  John David Morley (born 21 January 1948) is an English writer and novelist.
Franky Gee.  Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez (February 19 1962 – October 22 2005) more familiarly known as Franky Gee was a Cuban American soldier rapper and singer who became the frontman for the German Europop group Captain Jack.
Yi Zhongtian.  Yi Zhongtian (born 8 February 1947) is a Chinese writer scholar and historian. He is also a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature in the School of Humanities in Xiamen University.
Glen Daly.  Glen Daly (born Bartholomew Francis McCann McGovern Dick c.1930 – 1987) was a Scottish singer and entertainer.
Harvey Korman.  Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15 1927 – May 29 2008) was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions beginning in 1960. His big break was being a featured performer on CBS's The Danny Kaye Show but he is best remembered for his performances on the sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show and in several films by Mel Brooks most notably as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles.
Barbara Roy.  Barbara Roy was born in Kinston North Carolina and is a dance music singer. She scored several big hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the 1970s as the lead vocalist for Ecstasy Passion & Pain then went on to have more success as a solo artist.In 1986 Roy hit number one on the dance chart with Gotta See You Tonight.
Heather Anne Campbell.  Heather Anne Campbell is an American comedian and writer.
Leonard C. Lewin.  Leonard C. Lewin (2 October 1916 – 28 January 1999) was an American writer best known as the author of the bestseller The Report from Iron Mountain (1967). He also wrote Triage (1972) a novel about a covert group dedicated to killing people it considers to be not worth having around.
Ralph Hardimon.  Ralph Hardimon is a renowned percussionist teacher composer and clinician. He is best known for his work in the areas of marching percussion rudimental drumming drum & bugle corps and marching band.
Robert McGregor (1847–1922).  Robert McGregor RSA (1847–1922) was a Scottish landscape painter genre painter portrait painter and marine painter. His genre was particularly painting working men such as fishermen shepherds crofters pedlars and farm labourers. However he also painted Scottish French and Dutch country and coastal scenery. He usually signed his work in the right hand bottom corner.
Michael Sweet.  Michael Sweet (born 4 July 1963) is a singer from Whittier California United States. Sweet is best known as co-founder writer lead guitarist lead vocalist and front man of the Christian rock band Stryper. He was also co-lead vocalist and guitarist for Boston from 2007-2011.
Cecilia Alvarez.  Cecilia Alvarez (born April 15 1950) is American Chicana artist known for her oil paintings and murals depicting themes of feminism poverty and environmental degradation in the United States and Latin America. Alvarez's painting Las Cuatas Diego has been featured in books and exhibitions around the world. Alvarez has also illustrated the bilingual children's book Antonio's Card authored by Rigoberto González. She was born in San Diego California to a Cuban father and a Mexican mother.
Roberto Raviola.  Magnus pseudonym of Roberto Raviola (May 30 1939 – February 5 1996) was an Italian comic book artist regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.
Charles Smith (songwriter).  Charles Smith also known as D'Vinci or Davinci is an American record producer and songwriter. He has written and produced music for such artists as Ginuwine Christina Milian Fabulous and Grammy award winning artist Jill Scott. D'Vinci has production credits on the multi-platinum selling Save The Last Dance Soundtrack. He has also worked with international artists co-writing the double platinum single One Last for Singapore Idol star Taufik.
Cha Cha (rapper).  Parris Lynell Fluellen better known as Cha Cha is an American rapper formally signed to Epic Records.Discovered by DUQ entertainment/Quincy Sims Cha Cha signed a deal with Epic Records after making guest appearances on the Hav Plenty soundtrack Tash's Rap Life and Shae Jones' Talk Show in 1998 and 1999. While with Epic Cha Cha recorded and released her debut album Dear Diary.
Albert Chevalier.  Albert Onesime Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis Chevalier (21 March 1861 – 10 July 1923) was an English comedian and actor.
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta.  Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (June 16 1932 – November 4 2010) was a poet editor author and teacher. One of the country's most respected writers Dimalanta published several books of poetry criticism drama and prose and edited various literary anthologies. In 1999 she received Southeast Asia's highest literary honor the S.E.A. Write Award.
Đorđe Andrejević-Kun.  Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Андрејевић-Кун; March 31 1904 – January 17 1964) was a Yugoslav painter who designed the Coat of Arms of the City of Belgrade and reputedly designed the Coat of arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav orders and medals (along with Antun Augustinčić). He is frequently cited as one of known Yugoslav painters and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Bridget Bedard.  Bridget Bedard is an American television writer. She served as a writer on the first season of Mad Men and wrote two episodes of the season. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff she won a WGA award for best new series and was nominated for the award for best dramatic series for her work on the season. She wrote for the critically acclaimed comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age on TNT. The show was cancelled after two seasons.
Eva Aeppli.  Eva Aeppli (born 2 May 1925) is a Swiss artist.
Vasily Shumov.  Vasily Shumov (Russian: Василий Герардович Шумов birth date: March 23 1960) is a Russian/American artist musician multimedia and experimental artist short film director. He is probably best known for his music band Center which was formed in Soviet Union (late 1970s - late 1980s) and is based in Los Angeles USA since 1990. Shumov created music in such genres as new wave electronic music avantgarde. His art of singing is often sprechgesang especially on later albums.
Mats Eilertsen.  Mats Eilertsen (born 4 March 1975 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer. He is known for recording with numerous bands including the Maria Kannegaard Trio Ola Kvernberg Nils Økland Eldbjørg Raknes Anders Aarum Trio Eirik Hegdal Sverre Gjørvad Nymark Collective SKRUK «Jazzmob» «Dingobats» Håkon Kornstad Trio Food with Iain Ballamy Jacob Young Band Solveig Slettahjell's Slow Motion Orchestra Håvard Wiik Trio and «JazzCode».
Danny Sanderson.  Danny Sanderson (born November 30 1950) is an Israeli musician singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Bastian Sick.  Bastian Sick (German pronunciation: [ˈbastjaːn ˈzik]) (born 17 July 1965) is a German journalist translator and author.
Shea Seger.  Shea Seger (born 1979 ) is an American singer-songwriter born in Fort Worth Texas. Her sound has been likened to a combination of Janis Joplin Sheryl Crow Ani DiFranco and Tori Amos. Seger describes her music as mutt dog... bluesy pop with beats.[citation needed]Seger studied musical theatre in Virginia before moving to London to record her first album. She has toured with Toploader James David Gray and John Mayer.
Charles Bird King.  Charles Bird King (1785–1862) was an American portrait artist best known for his portrayals of significant Native American leaders and tribesmen.
Kliph Scurlock.  Kliph Scurlock (born June 16 1973) is an American musician. He was the drummer for the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips from 2002 to 2014. He was born Clifton Thomas Scurlock in Topeka Kansas the son of Roger W. Scurlock (born ca. 1946) and Linda Louise Rokey (September 6 1944-July 17 1981). His love of music was inspired by his mother. Linda Scurlock was in the first all-female mariachi band Mariachi Estrella.
Sky Saxon.  Sky Sunlight Saxon (August 20 1937 – June 25 2009) was an American rock and roll musician who was best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic garage rock band The Seeds.
Roshan Taqui.  Roshan Taqui is a multi-published Indian writer on Lucknow and its culture.Rashan Taqui was born in 1958 at Lucknow. He has been published 40 research papers out of which 32 were exclusively on the history of Avadh. He has helped three research scholars complete their Ph.Ds. He wrote about cultural heritage of Avadh and the last Integrated Cultural of the world. His book Lucknow Ki Bhand Parampara (The Traditions of the clown of Lucknow) is the only book on the subject.
Mike Stone (musician).  Mike Stone (born November 30 1969) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his previous involvement in the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. He joined Queensrÿche for their 2003 Tribe tour and made his first appearance on the 2003 album Tribe with writing credits for the song Losing Myself. Stone was the guitarist for the rock band Speed-X and currently the guitarist and backup vocalist of the alternative punk rock band The Stick People.
Arthur Sellings.  Arthur Sellings was the pseudonym of Robert Arthur Gordon Ley (31 May 1911 Tunbridge Wells Kent England – 24 September 1968 Worthing Sussex England) an English scientist book and art dealer and science fiction author. In addition to Sellings he also wrote under the pen names Ray Luther and Martin Luther. He is best known for his well-crafted portraits of adaptability under stress in stories noted for their humor suspense and attention to plot and character.
Ángel Ganivet.  Ángel Ganivet García (13 December 1865 in Granada Spain – 29 November 1898 in Riga) Spanish writer and diplomat. He was considered a precursor to the Generation of '98.On 29 November 1898 disillusioned in love Ganivet drowned himself in the Daugava River. Nearly failing in his attempt he was first rescued but managed to throw himself into the river again. Ganivet had contemplated suicide for several years and he had suffered from progressive syphilitic paralysis.
Park Jung-min.  Park Jung-Min (Hangul: 박정민; hanja: 朴政珉; born: April 3 1987) is a South Korean entertainer actor and a member of boyband SS501.In 2009 Park made his musical debut in Grease as Danny Park where he received the award Best New Musical Talent by the Golden Ticket Awards. He also had his acting debut as a main lead in Human Theater 2010 in 2010.In 2010 Park opened his own online shopping mall called Royal Avenue with him as the CEO.
Mark Barrowcliffe.  Mark Barrowcliffe (born 1 January 1964) also known as M.D. Lachlan is an English writer. He was born in Coventry and studied at the University of Sussex. After graduating Barrowcliffe worked as a journalist before penning his first novel Girlfriend 44. He then made a name for himself writing lad lit. He currently lives and writes in Brighton East Sussex and South Cambridgeshire.Barrowcliffe wrote under the pseudonym M.D.
Nil Burak.  Pembe Nihal Munsif (born 1948) better known as Nil Burak is a Turkish Cypriot pop singer and actress who is famous in Turkey and Cyprus.
Eddie DeLange.  Eddie DeLange (15 January 1904 - 15 July 1949) was an American bandleader and lyricist. Famous artists who recorded some of DeLange's songs include Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong Nat King Cole Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.
Bïa Krieger.  Bïa Krieger is a Brazilian-born singer and recording artist who lives in France and Quebec. She sings in French Portuguese and Spanish. Her recording career began in 1996 and currently she has four albums.
Paula McMath.  Paula McMath is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Kingsville Ontario currently based in Los Angeles. McMath was named one of Music Connection's Hot 100 Unsigned Artists in 2006. Her album Because We Bleed was released in 2005. Her second CD Trust the Sky was reviewed by Paul Zollo Senior Editor of American Songwriter who said it resounds like the work of a mature experienced singer-songwriter someone who's been doing this for decades.
Khleo.  Khaleed Leon Khleo Thomas (born January 30 1989) or simply Khleo is an American actor rapper singer and entertainer best known for his role as Zero in Holes and Mixed Mike in Roll Bounce. Khleo also starred in other films like Walking Tall (2004) and Remember the Daze (2007). Currently Khleo is working on his debut album Juzt A Sample.
Yannis Kondos.  Yannis Kondos (Greek: Γιάννης Κοντός) (b. Aigio 1943) is an award winning Greek poet. He read Economics at the University of Piraeus (then Higher School for Industrial Studies). He founded the bookshop Ηνίοχος in 1971 along with Thanassis Niarchos. Since 1975 he has been working for Kedros publishers.
Jim Jones (rapper).  Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born July 15 1976) better known by his stage name Jim Jones is an American hip hop recording artist from Harlem New York City New York. Jones an original member of hip hop collective The Diplomats (also known as Dipset) is also the co-CEO of Diplomat Records alongside childhood friend and fellow Harlem-based rapper Cam'ron.
Cliff Martinez.  Cliff Martinez (born February 5 1954) is an American film score composer and former drummer known for his work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Martinez's film scores include Drive Only God Forgives Contagion Solaris and Traffic.On April 14 2012 Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Aidan Girt.  Aidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust. He is also a solo electronic artist under the moniker 1-Speed Bike and occasionally Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike.Girt has played drums as a guest musician on the debut album of A Silver Mt. Zion.He was also the original singer for 1980s Ottawa punk band The Trapt and drummer for Anal Chinook with Gavin McInnes.[citation needed]
Orazio Orazi.  Orazio Orazi (Camerino September 21 1848 - Camerino September 22 1912) was an Italian priest and painter. He is best known for his depictions of sacred subjects for churches in the Province of Macerata.
Sho Sakurai.  Sho Sakurai (櫻井 翔 Sakurai Shō) (born January 25 1982) is a Japanese idol singer songwriter actor newscaster host and former radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi.Sakurai began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1995 at the age of 13. About seven years after his debut as a singer with Arashi in 1999 he became a newscaster in 2006 appearing in the news program News Zero every Monday.
Haruna Kojima.  Haruna Kojima (小嶋陽菜 Kojima Haruna born April 19 1988 in Saitama Prefecture Japan) is a singer actress and a member of idol group AKB48 under Team B.
Rolf Gerhardsen.  Rolf Eilert Gerhardsen (3 February 1902 – 21 November 1971) was a Norwegian journalist and leader of the Oslo branch of the Norwegian Labour Party.He was born in Kristiania as a son of Gerhard Olsen (1867–1949) and Emma Hansen (1872–1949).
Tommy Lee Edwards.  Tommy Lee Edwards is an American illustrator. Edwards' varied portfolio includes works created in the realm of comics video-games books advertising film and animation.
Loretta Lynn.  Loretta Lynn (née Webb; born April 14 1932) is a chart-topping multiple-gold-album-selling American country music singer-songwriter whose work has spanned more than 50 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music and her documentation of and contributions to American culture. She has also authored at least six books most of them autobiographies.
Israel Tsvaygenbaum.  Israel Tsvaygenbaum (Russian: Исраил Иосифович Цвайгенбаум; Hebrew: ;ישראל צווייגנבאום‎ born February 1 1961) is a Russian-American artist. Israel Tsvaygenbaum is an artist who has exhibited in Russia and the United States. A number of his works are in the Museum of Imitative Arts Derbent. Other works can be seen in private collections in nine countries including Austria Bulgaria England France Netherlands Israel Russia and the US.
N. N. Rimzon.  N. N. Rimzon (born 1957) is an Indian artist known primarily for his symbolic and enigmatic sculptures.His metal fiberglass and stone sculptures have won him international acclaim though in recent years his drawings have gained recognition.
Jackie Matisse.  Jackie Matisse is a French artist (from Fontainebleau Forest) who is ever the kiteflying [creating] pioneer renowned for her kites. She also works in stereoscopy supercomputing and virtual reality.One example of her work is her collaboration with David Tudor and Molly Davies Sea Tails.
Márcia Goldschmidt.  Márcia Goldschmidt-Rothschild is a Brazilian TV Presenter.
Ann Nocenti.  Ann Annie Nocenti (born January 17 1957) is an American journalist writer teacher editor and filmmaker. She is best known for her work in comic books. As an editor for Marvel Comics she edited New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men. With artist collaborators she created such Marvel characters as Typhoid Mary Blackheart Longshot Mojo and Spiral.Nocenti is particularly noted for her outspoken political views.
Riton (musician).  Riton (/ˈriːtɒn/ REE-ton) (born September 1978) is an English electronica DJ and musician.
Kathleen Vaughan.  Kathleen Vaughan was a British actress.
Jua Cali.  Paul Julius Nunda better known by his stage name Jua Cali (born 12 September 1979) is a Kenyan hip hop rapper. In 2000 together with producer Clemo they founded Calif Records where Jua Cali has stayed since. Jua Cali performs in Kiswahili and Sheng in a popular Kenyan style of rapping called genge.
Johnny Nash.  John Lester Johnny Nash Jr. (born August 19 1940) is an American pop singer-songwriter best known in the US for his 1972 comeback hit I Can See Clearly Now. He was also the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Kingston Jamaica.[citation needed]
Lolita (Austrian singer).  Edith `Ditta' Einzinger (born Edith Zuser)(January 17 1931 St Pölten Austria — June 30 2010 Salzburg Austria) was an Austrian pop singer who recorded under the stage name Lolita.She began singing in local clubs while working as a kindergarten teacher. Discovered in 1956 she began her recording career in 1957. Early recordings typically were songs with a Latin American South Sea Island or similar 'exotic' theme.
Celeste (pornographic actress).  Celeste (born May 3 1972) is an American former pornographic actress who appeared in approximately 175 films from 1992-2003. According to pornographic director John Stagliano she initially worked a scene for him before undergoing rhinoplasty and breast augmentation surgery and becoming a Vivid Girl from 1992-1995.Celeste was married to a fellow actor Woody Long and later had a child with pornographic director Paul Norman.
Lonelady.  Julie Ann Campbell otherwise known as LoneLady is a musician from Manchester England. Her debut album Nerve Up appeared on Warp Records in 2010 and drew praise from Paul Morley.
Masatoshi Mashima.  Masatoshi Mashima (真島 昌利 Mashima Masatoshi b. February 20 1962) is a guitarist who has performed with Japanese rock bands such as The Blue Hearts The High-Lows and The Cro-Magnons. He was born in Hino and raised in Kodaira in Tokyo Japan.His nickname while playing was Marcy.
Karl Zinsman Jr..  Karl Zinsman Jr. is an Hawaiian/ Reggae multi-instrumentalist (primarily guitar) singer-songwriter music producer graphic designer and manager. He is an award winning artist/ producer and founder of the island music groups Three Plus Hi-Town and The Brown Boys. He is also owner of CK Music Co.
Alexander Phimister Proctor.  Alexander Phimister Proctor (September 27 1860 – September 4 1950) was an American sculptor with the contemporary reputation as one of the nation's foremost animaliers.
Dom Pachino.  Dom Pachino (born Domingo J. Del Valle in Manhattan New York City) is a rapper of Puerto Rican descent. He is a member of the rap group Killarmy and also has a solo career. He is also known as P.R. Terrorist but he has rarely used this name since the September 11 2001 attacks afraid that it may be taken the wrong way and affect sales.
Tie Ning.  Tie Ning (simplified Chinese: 铁凝; traditional Chinese: 鐵凝; pinyin: Tiě Níng; Wade–Giles: T'ieh Ning born 1957) is a Chinese author who was born in 1957 in Beijing China. Her ancestral hometown is in Hebei province.
Robert Bruce (composer).  Robert James Bruce (born October 7 1962 in Hamilton Ontario) is a Canadian composer/pianist. He published his first book of piano music in 1991 under his own company Celestial Music Publications and his first CD in 1995.Bruce's earliest compositions were exclusively for the piano but he has since branched into writing for other instruments including vocals as well as into other forms of media including performances with dancers and visual art.
Guglielmo Micheli.  Guglielmo Micheli (Livorno October 12 1866 - Livorno September 7 1926) was an Italian painter. Micheli's work consisted mainly of landscapes and seascapes using oils and watercolors.
Jules de Balincourt.  Jules de Balincourt (born 1972) is a French painter. He was educated at the California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco receiving a BFA in ceramics (1998) and went on to study at the Hunter College New York graduating in 2005 with an MFA. He lives and works in Brooklyn New York. He uses stencils tape knives and spray paint in the style of Outsider art.Balincourt was born in Paris.
James Plunkett.  James Plunkett Kelly or James Plunkett (21 May 1920 - 28 May 2003) was an Irish writer. He was educated at Synge Street CBS.Plunkett grew up among the Dublin working class and they along with the petty bourgeoisie and lower intelligentsia make up the bulk of the dramatis personae of his oeuvre.
Reginald D. Hunter.  Reginald Darnell Hunter (born March 26 1969) is an American stand-up comedian based in the United Kingdom. He is an African-American from the state of Georgia.
Nozomi Masu.  Nozomi Masu (升 望 Masu Nozomi born July 26 1980 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress.
Léon Riesener.  Louis Antoine Léon Riesener (21 January 1808 in Paris – 25 May 1878 in Paris) was a French Romantic painter. Enchanted by the play of light and reflections which transformed the appearance of matter Riesener began a new aesthetic that made him one of the precursors of impressionism. A passionate colourist he researched all the nuances of colour and studied the techniques of ancient Greece and the Renaissance including Titian Veronese and Corregio.
Shivmangal Singh Suman.  Shivmangal Singh 'Suman' (Hindi: शिवमंगल सिंह सुमन; 1915–2002) was a noted Hindi poet and academician.Upon his death the then Prime Minister of India said Dr Shiv Mangal Singh ‘Suman’ was not only a powerful signature in the field of Hindi poetry but he was also the custodian of the collective consciousness of his time. His creations not only expressed the pain of his own feelings but were also fearless constructive commentary on the issues of the era..
Jeffrey J. Byrd.  Jeffrey J. Byrd is one of the contributing writers for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology. He was a commissioner for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education formerly called Microbiology Education and published by the American Society for Microbiology. He is a professor of Biology at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Vicky Leandros.  Vassiliki Baroness von Ruffin (born Vassiliki Papathanasiou Greek: Βασιλική Παπαθανασίου 23 August 1949 (disputed year of birth) known by her stage name Vicky Leandros is a Greek singer with a long international career. She is the daughter of singer musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou (also known as Leo Leandros as well as Mario Panas).
Kate Smurthwaite.  Kate Smurthwaite (born 9 December 1975) is a British stand-up comedian and political activist. She regularly appears on British television and radio as a pundit offering opinion and comment on subjects ranging from politics religion and feminism. A clip of Smurthwaite appearing on BBC One's The Big Questions in 2010 went viral when it was shared on YouTube and other video sharing websites under the title Atheist Bitchslap attracting over two million views.
Uri Caine.  Uri Caine (born June 8 1956 in Philadelphia) is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.
Olivier Libaux.  Olivier Libaux (born May 5 1964 in Boulogne-sur-Mer France) is a French record producer songwriter and guitarist. A founding member of the band Les Objets he is also the founder of the musical projects Nouvelle Vague and Uncovered Queens Of The Stone Age.
Ross McLaren (filmmaker).  Ross McLaren is a Canadian artist and filmmaker based in New York City.
Susan Skipper.  Susan Skipper (born 27 January 1951 as Susan Cook) is a British television and stage actress.After attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London she went to the British television. She gave her debut in the Carry On Laughing sitcom series in 1975. In the following years she appeared in series like West End Tales Don't Wait Up (besides Nigel Havers) The Sweeney and Doctor Who.
Kristy Starling.  Kristy Starling is a Contemporary Christian Music singer born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. After marrying husband Adam in the fall of 2002 she came second in a national singing competition Today's Superstar NBC News' morning show. She signed to Warner Bros. Records working with successful producer David Foster and released her eponymous debut album on 22 April 2003 the album features a cover of LeAnn Rimes' I Need You.
Jared Blake.  Jared Blake is an American country music singer who resides in Nashville Tennessee. He became known to a wider audience as a contestant on the first season of The Voice reaching Top16 on Blake Shelton's team. In June of 2012 Blake signed a recording contract with Skiddco Music/Grammy-winning producer Skidd Mills. The first single Countryfied from the upcoming debut album written by Blake Mills and Carl Bell (Fuel) was released to radio and iTunes on June 24 2013. It debuted at No.
Noel Coleman.  Noel Coleman (26 November 1919 – 12 October 2007) was an English actor who appeared in many television roles. He appeared in the 1969 Doctor Who serial The War Games as General Smythe and he appeared in Red Dwarf as the Cat Priest in the episode Waiting for God.Coleman played General Webb in the British Broadcasting Corporation's eight episode series The Last of the Mohicans in 1971.
DJ Snake.  William Grigahcine better known by his stage name DJ Snake is a French DJ and producer mixing hip hop and electronic music.He is a Grammy-nominated producer and artist who debuted into the international scene with singles Bird Machine and Turn Down For What in 2013. Bird Machine is a collaboration with fellow French act Alesia. The single was picked up by Mad Decent a Los Angeles based record label run by Diplo and released in February 2013.
Nithin Raj.  Nithin Raj (Malayalam: നിതിൻ രാജ് Tamil: நிதின் ராஜ் born 17 June 1987) is an Indian playback singer. Born and raised in Thiruvananthapuram Kerala he has sung in various albums and films. Currently Nithin is working as a radio jockey with Radio Mirchi Thiruvananthapuram where he hosts a four-hour evening drive show called Mirchi Fuse Out.
Vivian Lai.  Vivian Lai Yi-ling (born 18 December 1976) is a Taiwan-born Singaporean television actress and host. She is a contracted artiste under MediaCorp and works on the Chinese-language Channel 8.
Lyudmila Zykina.  Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina (Russian: Людми́ла Гео́ргиевна Зы́кина) (10 June 1929 – 1 July 2009) was a national folk singer of Russia.She was born in Moscow and joined the Pyatnitsky Choir in 1947. Her surname is derived from the Russian word for loud (зычный). Beginning in 1960 she performed solo. She befriended Ekaterina Furtseva the powerful Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union and was reputed to be a favourite singer of Leonid Brezhnev.
Mark D. Herber.  Mark D. Herber is a British author of genealogy London legal history and family history books. His first book 'Ancestral Trails' won the 1997 CILIP McColvin prize for an outstanding work of reference.Herber is also a professional solicitor.
John Mooney (musician).  John Mooney (born April 3 1955) is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans Louisiana. He has developed a unique music style by combining Delta blues with the funky second line beat of New Orleans. As a guitarist he is especially known for his slide guitar work.
Kamala Sankrityayan.  Dr. Kamala Sankrityayan (Hindi: कमला सांकृत्यायन) was one of the popular Hindi writer editor and Nepali scholar of the 20th century and the wife of historian Rahul Sankrityayan.
Nao Saejima.  Nao Saejima (冴島奈緒 Saejima Nao) (March 23 1968 – September 29 2012) was a Japanese AV idol and model of the 1980s and 1990s who also starred in photobooks V-Cinema and feature films including Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series. She died in September 2012 of cancer at the age of 44.
Shay Jordan.  Shay Jordan also known more recently as Jasmine Jinn (born November 17 1985) is a Filipino American former pornographic actress.
Wilfred Rowland Childe.  Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890 - 1952) was a British poet and critic. He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College Oxford. He edited Oxford Poetry in 1916 and 1917. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1916. He is chiefly remembered for 'Dream English. A Fantastical Romance' (1917) which was and still is something of a minor cult book. He was admired by Arthur Machen and later by the poet Robin Skelton.His Selected Poems was published in 1936.
E. Ethelbert Miller.  Eugene Ethelbert Miller best known as E. Ethelbert Miller (born 20 November 1950 Bronx New York) is an African-American poet and teacher.
Kerin O'Keefe.  Kerin O'Keefe is an American wine critic and author. In April 2013 she was named Italian Editor for Wine Enthusiast. From 2002 to 2013 she wrote regularly on Italian wine for Decanter. Her articles have also appeared in The World of Fine Wine and more recently in Wine-Searcher. She was also Contributing Editor for The Wine News magazine from 2003 to 2009.
Allegra Goodman.  Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge Massachusetts. Her most recent novel The Cookbook Collector was published in 2010. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.
William O. Steele.  William O. Steele (1917–1979) was an American author. He was married to another author Mary Quintard Govan.Steele was born in Franklin Tennessee the son of Core and Sue and spent a large amount of his youth exploring the woods around his home.
Dan Beehler.  Dan Beehler is the original drummer and lead vocalist for Canadian metal band Exciter from its inception in 1978 as Hell Razor to 1993. However he did not do vocals on the Exciter O.T.T. album but he did continue to play drums until the band split after the release of Better Live Than Dead in 1993. After Exciter Beehler formed his own band Beehler and has been dedicated to it ever since.
Petru Dumitriu.  Petru Dumitriu (8 May 1924 – 6 April 2002) was a Romanian novelist.
Pollyanna Pickering.  Pollyanna Pickering is an internationally renowned wildlife artist and environmentalist.Born in Yorkshire a celebrated English wildlife artist who has gone on many expeditions around the world to study animals in their natural habitats.She studied at Rotherham Art school and later at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
Michael William Gilbert.  Michael William Gilbert (born 1954) is an American music composer working in the genres of electronic music and world music.
Ivo Andrić.  Ivan Ivo Andrić (pronounced [ǐʋan ǐːʋɔ ǎːndritɕ]) (9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist short story writer and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire.
Donna De Lory.  Donna De Lory (born September 10 1964) is an American singer dancer and songwriter. Part of a musical family De Lory has been performing since a young age. Her voice can be heard on albums by Carly Simon Ray Parker Jr. Kim Carnes Santana Martika Laura Branigan Belinda Carlisle Selena Bette Midler Barry Manilow Mylène Farmer Alisha and Madonna.
Barbara McCauley.  Barbara McCauley is a popular romance writer. She has written over 35 romance novels for Harlequin Enterprises since 1991.
Hai Zi.  Hai Zi (Chinese:海子 March 1964 – 26 March 1989) is the pen name of the Chinese poet Zha Haisheng (Chinese:查海生). He was one of the most famous poets in Mainland China after the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide by lying on the path of a train in Shanhaiguan at the age of 25.
David Fernández Rivera.  David Fernández Rivera (born in Vigo in 1986) is a Spanish poet playwright musician and theatre director. He has published the poetry books Caminando entre brumas (Walking among Mists 2004) Canciones de mi ausencia (Songs of my Absence 2005) Corceles (Steeds 2006) Entre la sombra y el grito (Between Shadow and Shout 2008) Alambradas (Wire Fences 2010) Sahara (2011) besides the play Hipnosis/La Colonia (Hypnosis/The Colony 2012).
Bryant Baker.  Percy Bryant Baker (July 8 1881 – March 29 1970) better known as Bryant Baker was a British-born American sculptor. He sculpted a number of busts of famous Americans (including five presidents). In 1910 Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom commissioned him to create a bust of King Edward VII.
Factor (producer).  Graham Murawsky better known by his stage name Factor is an underground hip hop producer from Saskatoon Saskatchewan. He is a founder of Side Road Records.
Simon de Vos.  Simon de Vos (Antwerp 20 October 1603–15 October 1676 Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures.
Yves Duval.  Yves Duval (21 March 1934 - 22 May 2009) was a Belgian comics author who mainly worked for Tintin magazine but also wrote comics stories and articles for other magazines.
Dee Palmer.  Dee Palmer (formerly David Palmer) is an English composer arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock group Jethro Tull.
George Caragonne.  George Caragonne (1965 – July 20 1995) was an American comic book writer and editor most notable for being co-founder of Penthouse Comix magazine. He committed suicide in 1995 at age 30.
Donald Lees Reid.  Donald Lees Reid BA (Hons) FSA Scot is a Scottish author. He specialises in local and social history and has written books on the history of the Garnock Valley and Doon Valley including the towns of Beith Barrmill Dalmellington Gateside Kilbirnie Patna and Waterside. He has resided in Beith North Ayrshire since 1986.
Filippo Buonaccorsi.  Filippo Buonaccorsi called Callimachus (Latin: Philippus Callimachus Experiens Bonacursius; Polish: Filip Kallimach; 2 May 1437 – 1 November 1496) was an Italian humanist and writer.
JJ Brine.  JJ Brine is a visual artist gallerist and electronic musician. He is also the forerunner of the posthuman art movement. His art has been called the most interesting phenomenon in New York.
James Whitworth.  James Whitworth is a cartoonist. He is the news cartoonist for the Jewish Chronicle and the Sheffield Star as well as The Author. He has contributed cartoons to a wide range of publications including Private Eye (for whom he has also written gags) Prospect and The Independent.Born in Sheffield United Kingdom in 1970 Whitworth was educated at Tapton School and Sheffield Hallam University where he graduated with a degree in English language and literature.
Yang Jingyuan.  Yang Jingyuan (simplified Chinese: 杨静远; traditional Chinese: 楊靜遠; pinyin: Yáng Jìngyuǎn; born February 1923) also known by his pen name Yuan Qing (Chinese: 苑青; pinyin: Yuàn Qīng). Yang is a Chinese translator.Yang is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the English novelists Charlotte Bronte and Emily Brontë.
Kevin Danczak.  Kevin Danczak is an American rock guitarist and perhaps best known for being the guitarist in 1990s pop punk band Size 14.
Zozimus.  Michael J. Moran (b. ca. 1794; d. 3 April 1846) popularly known as Zozimus was an Irish street rhymer. He was a resident of Dublin and also known as the Blind Bard of the Liberties and the Last of the Gleemen.
Jeremy Guns.  Jeremy Carson Guns is an American bassist.He is a member of L.A. Guns (formerly the Tracii Guns Group) featuring guitarist Tracii Guns.Jeremy Guns was also the touring bassist in Brides of Destruction.
Adam James Dalton.  A J Dalton (born 30 September 1970) is a British fantasy writer and teacher of English. He is the author of the Flesh & Bone Trilogy (Necromancer’s Gambit Necromancer’s Betrayal and Necromancer’s Fall) and Chronicles of a Cosmic Warlord (Empire of the Saviours Gateway of the Saviours and Tithe of the Saviours).
Dave Weckl.  Dave Weckl (born January 8 1960) is an American jazz fusion drummer. Weckl attended Francis Howell High School in St. Charles MO and graduated in 1978. He majored in jazz studies at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Starting out on the New York fusion scene in the early 1980s Weckl soon began working with artists such as Paul Simon Madonna George Benson Michel Camilo Robert Plant and Anthony Jackson.
Maxime Simoëns.  Maxime Simoens (born November 15 1984 in Nord-Pas-de-Calais France) is a French designer. He is an invited member of the Chamber of Parisian Couture union.
Banksy.  Banksy is a pseudonymous United Kingdom-based graffiti artist political activist film director and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets walls and bridges of cities throughout the world.Banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.
Kenny Thomas (singer).  Kenny Thomas (born 12 September 1968 Islington London) is an English soul singer.
Grant Green.  Grant Green (June 6 1935 – January 31 1979; some sources erroneously give his year of birth as 1931) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.Recording prolifically and mainly for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed in the hard bop soul jazz bebop and Latin-tinged idioms throughout his career. Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn write A severely underrated player during his lifetime Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ...
Devin the Dude.  Devin Copeland (born June 4 1970) better known by his stage name Devin the Dude is a American hip hop recording artist from Houston Texas. He is perhaps best known for his unique rapping style his long career signed to Rap-A-Lot Records as well as his 2002 songs Lacville '79 and Doobie Ashtray.
Trisha Ward.  Trisha Ward (born 29 December 1972 Cleveland England) is an English composer and lyricist best known for writing stage musicals. She was born in the North East of England and started performing in a band and writing songs when she was fourteen years old. This led to her career in the theatre.At the age of 23 Ward moved to London and was signed by Warner-Chappell music publishing.
Henry B. Wheatley.  Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA (1838-1917) was a British author editor and indexer.
Makai.  Makai (born 27 August 1979 stylized as MAKAI) is a Japanese house DJ. It is well known for his collaborations with Japanese vocalists such as Garden of Love with Thelma Aoyama which topped the iTunes Japan internal charts.
Uffie.  Anna-Catherine Hartley (born December 9 1987) better known by her stage name Uffie /ˈʌfiː/ is an American underground electronic musician songwriter rapper and fashion designer formerly signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs and is known for working with her labelmates and friends such as Feadz Mr. Oizo and SebastiAn as well as producer Mirwais.
Buddy Montgomery.  Charles Buddy Montgomery (January 30 1930 Indianapolis Indiana - May 14 2009) was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the younger brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery. He and brother Monk formed the Mastersounds in the late 1950s and produced ten recordings. When the Mastersounds disbanded Monk and Buddy joined their brother Wes on a number of Montgomery Brothers recordings which were arranged by Buddy.
Joseph Ellis.  Joseph John Ellis (born July 18 1943) is an American historian and professor whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won a Pulitzer Prize. Both these books were bestsellers.
Semyon Lipkin.  Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (Липкин Семён Израилевич) (6 September (19th New Style) 1911 – 31 March 2003) was a writer and poet. He is considered a literary treasure in Russia.[citation needed]Lipkin is renowned as a literary translator and often worked from the regional languages which Stalin tried to obliterate. Lipkin hid a typescript of his friend Vasily Grossman's magnum opus Life and Fate from the KGB and initiated the process that brought it to the West.
James Ward (artist).  James Ward (23 October 1769 – 17 November 1859) R.A. was a painter particularly of animals and an engraver.
Karl-Ludvig Bugge.  Karl Ludvig Erlingsøn Bugge (1 September 1915 – 1987) was a Norwegian actor screenwriter and journalist.He attended Frogner School and was russ president here in 1934. In 1941 he wrote a play for Centralteatret Fortunas sønn Peter in which he also played a small part. After the Second World War he combined a journalist job in Morgenbladet with jobs as an actor and stagewriter at Centralteatret. His last play Det kunne ha vært deg was staged at over 150 locations in the Nordic countries.
Iosif Hodoşiu.  Iosif Hodoș (alternatively spelled Hodoșiu; 20 October 1829 – 28 November/9 December 1880) was a Romanian historian politician lawyer and publisher. He was a founding member of the Romanian Academy.He married Ana Balint the daughter of Simion Balint (1810 – 1880) a descendant of one of the noble priest families of Vima Mică prefect of the Arieș Legion and Romanian revolutionary alongside Avram Iancu. He had three children: Enea Alexandru and Nerva.
Ellen Hinsey.  Ellen Hinsey (born 1960 in Boston) is an American writer.
Lady Katharine Tait.  Lady Katharine Jane Tait (née Russell; born December 29 1923) is a British author and essayist. The only daughter of Bertrand Russell and the eldest daughter of Dora (Black) Russell she is a co-founder and Honorary Member of the Bertrand Russell Society. She has authored several essays about her father; as well as a book My Father Bertrand Russell which was published in 1975.Russell married Charles William Stuart Tait a Christian minister in 1948; they had five children.
XV (rapper).  Donavan LaMond Johnson (born July 9 1985)[citation needed] better known by his stage name XV is an American rapper singer and songwriter from Wichita Kansas. He first gained major attention after the release of his twelfth mixtape Everybody's Nobody for which he received two awards from DJBooth.net.His name XV refers to the age (15) at which he began his musical career. On Monday July 26 2010 XV announced that he had signed a recording contract with Warner Bros.
Erik Brødreskift.  Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim) (December 23 1969–October 4 1999) was a Norwegian drummer who played in several black metal bands during his career. He committed suicide by taking an overdose of drugs.
David Hines.  David Hines (born 1945) is an English writer author and screenwriter. He is the author of the screenplay of the film Whore directed by Ken Russel.
Bice Lazzari.  Bice Lazzari (15 November 1900 - 13 November 1981) was an Italian painter.
Frank Bender.  Francis Augustus Frank Bender (June 16 1941 – July 28 2011) was a world-renowned autodidact forensic artist and fine artist. He made facial reconstructions of the dead based on their skeletons and of fugitives based on out of date photographs with his reconstructions showing how they might look in the present day. This facilitated their capture despite the changes of age and their own disguises.
Yōko Ogawa.  Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子 Ogawa Yōko born March 30 1962) is a Japanese writer.
Kenny Howes.  Kenny Howes (born February 10 1970) is an American musician primarily in the power pop genre.
Michael Lobo.  Michael Lobo (born 12 September 1953) is an Indian scientist writer and genealogist. He is the author of three self-published books on the Catholic community in Mangalore India.
Ray Kluun.  Raijmondus Raymond Godefriedus Norbert van de Klundert (also known as Ray Kluun or simply Kluun born 17 April 1964) is a Dutch author. He is well known for his novel Love Life (Dutch: Komt een vrouw bij de dokter) in which he documents a fictionalized version of his own life story; a husband committing adultery while his wife is dying of cancer.
Isabel Preysler.  María Isabel Preysler Arrastía (born 18 February 1951 in Manila) better known as Isabel Preysler is a Filipina socialite and television host.
Kelly Bailey (composer).  Kelly Bailey is a composer musician game designer conceptual artist and programmer. He was the senior game designer of sound and music at Valve Corporation until he left in 2011 with Mike Dussault to concentrate on their project Sunspark Labs LLC.Bailey is notable for being behind the Half-Life series' music and sound effects. He is married to Christina Bailey.
Alex Wong (producer musician).  Alex Wong (b. November 25 1974 Palo Alto California) is a record producer multi-instrumentalist (including guitar piano drums waterphone) and singer-songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee.Wong released his first solo studio album: A City on a Lake (2012). He wrote co-wrote produced and performed on numerous other albums a partial list appears below in the Discography section.
T. G. Sheppard.  T. G. Sheppard (born Billy Neal Browder 20 July 1944 in Humboldt Tennessee) is an American country music singer who had 21 number one hits during the 1970s and 1980s.
Walter Scott.  Sir Walter Scott 1st Baronet FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist playwright and poet.Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime with many contemporary readers in Europe Australia and North America. His novels and poetry are still read and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature.
Richard Shindell.  Richard Shindell (born 1960 Lakehurst New Jersey) is an American folk songwriter. Shindell grew up in Port Washington New York. He lives in Buenos Aires Argentina with his wife a university professor and their children.
Max Kidruk.  Maksym Ivanovych Kidruk (Ukrainian: Максим Іванович Кідрук; born 1 April 1984) is a Ukrainian travelogue and fiction writer. His professional career began in 2009 with an autobiographical novel The Mexican Chronicles describing the journey across Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. Since then Max traveled in 29 countries and wrote eight fiction books including travelogues adventure stories and thrillers. He is the author of the very first Ukrainian techno-thriller Bot.
Pery Burge.  Pery Burge (1955 – 10 February 2013) was an English artist who during the 2000s worked with abstract images using ink in water or ink on paper invoking natural processes such as surface tension driven flow gravity turbulence rotation and erosion.
Mohammad Hoqouqi.  Mohammad Hoqouqi (May 3 1937 – June 29 2009) was an Iranian poet and critic. Of the more than 30 books he has published one of them Modern Poetry from Beginning until Today is considered one of the leading encyclopedic sources on modern Iranian poetry.Hoqouqi suffered from cardiac and renal issues for several years prior to his death. His hepatitis was in remission but it relapsed and caused cirrhosis. He died on June 29 2009 in Isfahan his hometown.
Jolina Magdangal.  Maria Jolina Perez Magdangal (born November 6 1978) is a Filipina actress singer TV host and entrepreneur.
Mameve Medwed.  Mameve Medwed (named for two grandmothers Mamie and Eva) is an American novelist. Born in Bangor Maine she now lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. She is the author of Mail Host Family The End of an Error How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (for which she received a 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honor) and Of Men and Their Mothers.At Bangor's Garland Street Junior High she wrote a gossip column for the school newspaper.
Patrick McCabe (novelist).  Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Both have been turned into films.
Ayub Ogada.  Ayub Ogada (born 1952) is a musician from Kenya. Ogada was born in Mombasa and is one of the Luo people of Western Kenya.He received his first exposure to Western culture early on. When he was six his parents (also musicians) toured the college circuit in the U.S.
Charles Gatewood.  Charles Gatewood (born 1942) is a photographer writer videographer artist and educator living and working in San Francisco California.
Paula Gosling.  Paula Gosling (born 1939) is a US-born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer. She published her first novel A Running Duck in 1974. It won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year. She has also received the Gold Dagger for a subsequent book Monkey Puzzle in 1985.
Neal X.  Neal X (born Neal Whitmore 11 September 1960) in Market Drayton Shropshire was the guitarist with the British band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. They had a #3 UK hit single with Love Missile F1-11 in 1986. He has also worked as a sideman for Adam Ant and Marc Almond.[citation needed]
Chris Le.  Christopher Howard Le (born November 24 1988) is a graphic designer and independent music video director of Vietnamese and Italian descent. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City Utah. He is the owner and founder of C-Le GFX design studios located in Salt Lake City Utah.
William Snape.  William Snape is an English actor perhaps most notable for playing Nathan Schofield in the British comedy The Full Monty.
Maggie Napaljarri Ross.  Maggie Napaljarri Ross (born c. 1940) is an Indigenous Australian artist. Her work has been collected by Artbank and the Kluge-Ruhe Museum in the United States.
Faye Kellerman.  Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31 1952) is an American author. She is a writer of mystery novels in particular the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series as well as three non-series books The Quality of Mercy Moon Music and Straight into Darkness.
Gregg Bissonette.  Gregg Bissonette (born June 9 1959 Detroit Michigan) is an American drummer. He has been a touring session recording and full-time drum set player in many jazz and rock bands. He is well known for his instructional videos drum clinics and for having been a member of the David Lee Roth band.
Remo Bosia.  Remo Bosia was an American soldier and author of the memoir The General and I (New York: Phaedra 1971) [1]. He spent the years of World War II in court-martial proceedings after attempting to enlist in the United States Army. His book talks about how he felt personally singled out by General John L. DeWittAn Italian-American Remo Bosia was born in Madera California and moved to Europe at age six with his parents.
Maki Tomoda.  Maki Tomoda (友田真希 Tomoda Maki born August 20 1972) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in adult videos. She announced her retirement from adult work in 2010.
Doug Ingle.  Douglas Lloyd Doug Ingle (born September 9 1945 in Omaha Nebraska U.S.) is a founding member and former organist vocalist and primary composer for the band Iron Butterfly. He also had a short stint with the pop group Stark Naked and the Car Thieves in the early 1970s after he left Iron Butterfly.
Dan Adkins.  Danny L. Adkins (March 15 1937 – May 3 2013) was an American illustrator who worked mainly for comic books and science-fiction magazines.
Tulsi Diwasa.  Tulsi Prasad Joshi (popular Tulasi Diwasa) Nepali:तुलसी दिवस is a Nepalese literary figure and folklore expert.He was honoured with Bisista Sahitya Siromani title at the International Poetry Festival in India in April 2013.Professor Diwas had served as Cultural Secretary at the Nepalese Embassy in the USA and had also taught as a visiting professor at various universities abroad.
Haim Moshe.  Haim Moshe (Hebrew: חיים משה‎ sometimes Chaim Moshe on recordings) born 20 September 1955 is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean ethnic music to include mainstream Israeli and western pop elements. He has helped Mizrahi music achieve wide popularityboth in Israeland in Arab countries.
Jason Greeley.  Jason Greeley (March 11 1977) is a singer/songwriter from Upper Island Cove Newfoundland and Labrador best known as a contestant on the 2nd season of Canadian Idol. He released his solo album Live...Love...Sing... for which he's won multiple awards and in late 2009 released his follow up album to which it has gained much attention. Jason is more involved in writing and is signed to Royalty Records out of Alberta.
Murray McLauchlan.  Murray Edward McLauchlan CM (born June 30 1948) is a Canadian singer songwriter guitarist pianist and harmonica player.
Kode9.  Steve Goodman known as Kode9 (born 1973) is a Glasgow-born London-based electronic music artist DJ and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC The Spaceape is a frequent collaborator. Initially inspired by what he calls the hardcore continuum he also draws on dub reggae and was one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene (which he views as a continuation of developments originally stemming from UK Hardcore).
Vanessa Peters.  Vanessa Peters (born September 16 1980) is an unsigned Texas-based singer/songwriter who often performs accompanied by the Italian instrumental trio known as Ice Cream on Mondays.
Hughie Cannon.  Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 or 1878 and died in 1912 in Toledo Ohio.
José Antonio Sánchez Baíllo.  José Antonio Sánchez Baillo (Cartagena October 24 1953) is a Spanish painter and engraver. He is one of the main figures of the intimist trend in new andalusian realism. He is one of the main experts in engraving and stamp techniques uniting an absolute mastery of technical procedures with an excellent painting and engraving ability.For several decades now he has been hired as specialist advisor for engraving projects.
Geoffrey Raymond.  Geoffrey Raymond (born 1953)[citation needed] is an American painter. He is best known for painting best known for painting embattled Wall Street CEOs then exhibiting them in a public place and inviting pedestrians who pass by to annotate his work with Sharpies. His painting style is described as a Jackson Pollock/Chuck Close fusion.
Ann Rule.  Ann Rule (born Ann Stackhouse on October 22 1935) is an American true crime writer of such works as The Stranger Beside Me about serial killer and former Samaritans co-worker Ted Bundy and Small Sacrifices about child murderer Diane Downs.
Marc Hunter.  Marc Alexander Hunter (7 September 1953 – 17 July 1998) was a New Zealand rock and pop singer best known as the lead vocalist with Dragon a band formed by his older brother Todd Hunter in Auckland in 1973. He was also with the band The Party Boys.
Rick McGinnis.  Rick McGinnis is a writer and was previously a columnist for Metro newspapers across Canada. He wrote a sardonic daily TV column called Idiot Box along with DVD reviews restaurant reviews entertainment features and even recaps of reality shows. His daily television column was cancelled in early 2009 when Metro laid off all of its writers.
Léon Printemps.  Léon Printemps (26 May 1871 – 9 July 1945) was a French artist known best for his work as a portrait and landscape painter.
Agustín Barboza.  Agustín Pío Barboza (5 May 1913 – 18 December 1998) was a Paraguayan singer and composer.
Jeff Jahn.  Jeff Jahn (born 1970) is a curator art critic artist historian blogger and composer based in Portland Oregon United States.
Chantal Kreviazuk.  Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk(/ʃɑːnˈtɑːl ˌkrɛviˈæzək/; born May 18 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist and can play the guitar.
Chanel Preston.  Chanel Preston (born December 1 1985) is an award winning American pornographic actress and the Penthouse magazine Penthouse Pet for March 2012. She entered the adult film industry in 2010 at the age of 24.
Kabir Khan (director).  Kabir Khan ( born 1971) is an Indian film director screenwriter and cinematographer of documentary and Bollywood films. He is known for his blockbuster action film Ek Tha Tiger.
Teo (singer).  Yuriy Vaschuk (Russian: Юрий Ващук; Belarusian: Юрый Вашчук; born 24 January 1983) better known as Teo (stylised as TEO) is a Belarusian singer that will represent Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen with the song Cheesecake. Teo also participated in the Belarusian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 as Yuriy Vaschuk in a duet with singer Anna Blagova.
Clara Sereni.  Clara Sereni (born in 1946) is an Italian writer of Jewish descent. She was born and married in Rome where she remained until 1991. Then she moved to Perugia where she still lives. She became known to critics and the public with her first book Sigma Epsilon (1974) an autobiographical revisiting of the frenzied political times marking her generation.
Tian Dawei.  Tian Dawei (Chinese: 田大畏; pinyin: Tián Dàweì; August 1931 - 12 June 2013) is a Chinese translator and officer who was vice president of the National Library of China. Tian was an officer in the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.Tian was among the first few in China who translated the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's into Chinese language.
Stanley Sheldon.  Stanley Sheldon is a bass guitar player best known for his work with Peter Frampton. He is notable as an early adopter of the fretless bass for rock music.Sheldon was born in 1950 in Ottawa Kansas where he joined his first band The Lost Souls. His first recorded work with Frampton was the wildly successful live album Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976. He played on subsequent Frampton albums I'm in You and Where I Should Be.
MisSiss.  MisSiss (born Sissy Handler May 6 1976)[citation needed] is an Austrian singer-songwriter vocal coach and producer. Born into a musical family she started to sing at early age and her grandmother’s piano became her first instrument. At the age of eight MisSiss started classical ballet training.Although she studied classical singing and musical theatre her first stage role was as “Sister Robert Anne” in the show “Nunsense”.
Nao Ōmori.  Nao Ōmori (大森 南朋 Ōmori Nao born February 19 1972) sometimes credited as Nao Ohmori or Nao Omori is a Japanese actor. He was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival.
The Desert Sessions.  The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series founded by Josh Homme in 1997. Artists such as Brant Bjork PJ Harvey Jeordie White (a.k.a. Twiggy Ramirez) Dave Catching Nick Oliveri Mark Lanegan John McBain Ben Shepherd Josh Freese Chris Goss Alain Johannes Troy Van Leeuwen Karl Doyle Dean Ween and many others from the Palm Desert Scene have contributed as songwriters and musicians.
Teófilo Torres.  Teófilo Torres (b. Ponce Puerto Rico 6 March 1954) is a Puerto Rican actor director and professor of theatre. He has acted for both television as well the big screen and has performed in Puerto Rico and internationally.
Anita Cochran.  Anita Renee Cockerham (born February 6 1967 in South Lyon Michigan) known professionally as Anita Cochran is an American country music singer songwriter guitarist and record producer. Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1997 she made her debut on the U.S. country charts that year with the release of her first album Back to You.
Emile Ford.  Emile Ford (born 16 October 1937) is a musician and singer who was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates.
Rachael Lampa.  Rachael Maureen Lampa (born January 8 1985) is an American Christian singer-songwriter record producer and occasional actress. She rose to fame in 2000 with her debut album Live For You winning a Dove Award as well as achieving four number one singles including Blessed Shaken God Loves You and Live for You. She was also named the No. 1 Young New Female Artist by CCM Magazine and made appearances on The Tonight Show and The View.
Marc Silvestri.  Marc Silvestri (born March 29 1959) is an American comic book artist creator and publisher. He currently acts as the CEO for Top Cow Productions.
Gudrun Pausewang.  Gudrun Pausewang (died 3 March 1928 in Mladkov) is a German writer for children and teens. She is also noted in science fiction for Young-Adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn. Gudrun Pausewang was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry. After World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has won several awards including the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Joe Mande.  Joe Mande (born March 16 1983) is an American stand-up comedian writer and Twitter rascal based in Los Angeles.
Vanusa.  Vanusa (Portuguese pronunciation: [vaˈnuzɐ]) is a Brazilian singer linked to the Jovem Guarda movement. She has released many solo albums most of them self-titled. She gained national attention in March 2009 when she sang the Brazilian National Anthem at the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo. Accompanied by a couple of musicians she committed many lyrical mistakes during her performance and ended up singing out of rhythm.
Devulapalli Krishnasastri.  Devulapalli Venkata Krishnasastri (Telugu: దేవులపల్లి వేoకట కృష్ణశాస్త్రి; November 1 1897 – February 24 1980) was a Telugu poet playwright and translator. He is famously known as Andhra Shelley.
Hiroshi Naka.  Hiroshi Naka (中 博史 Naka Hiroshi born November 19 1960) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Production Baobab. He is originally from Ōita Prefecture.
Benjamin Zhang Bin.  Zhang Bin (Chinese: 本杰明 born March 16 1974) is a mainland Chinese Manhua artist and illustrator who works under the pen name Benjamin. Zhang has done variant covers for Marvel comics and illustrations for the music video to J'aimerais tellement with French popstar Jena Lee and its album cover Vous remercier.Zhang generally works in digital painting using a pen with a graphics tablet and image editing software (e.g. Corel Painter).
Ralph Sharon.  Ralph Sharon (born September 17 1923) is a jazz pianist.
Michel Constantin.  Michel Constantin (born Constantin Hokloff July 13 1924–August 29 2003) was a French film actor.
Ed Cassidy.  Edward Claude Cass Cassidy (May 4 1923 – December 6 2012) was an American jazz and rock drummer who was one of the founders of the rock group Spirit in 1967.
Francis Tsai.  Francis Tsai is an American comic book artist illustrator author and conceptual artist. He is of Taiwanese and Japanese ancestry.
Heather Graham Pozzessere.  Heather Graham Pozzessere (born March 15 1953) is a best-selling US writer who writes primarily romance novels. She also writes under her maiden name Heather Graham as well as the pen name Shannon Drake.She has written over 150 novels and novellas has been published in approximately twenty-five languages and has had over seventy-five million books in print.
Phil Redmond.  Phil Redmond CBE (born 10 June 1949) is an English television producer and screenwriter from Huyton Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley.He is well known for creating several popular television series such as Grange Hill (BBC One 1978–2008) Brookside (Channel 4 1982–2003) and Hollyoaks (Channel 4 1995—). For over twenty years he also ran his own independent production company Mersey Television before selling the company off in 2005.
Mark Khaisman.  Mark Khaisman (Ukrainian: Марк Хайсман born 1958 Kyiv Ukraine) is a Ukrainian visual artist. He creats his works by applying layers of translucent packing tape on clear Plexiglas panels because he views tape as the most direct way of manipulating light.
Andrea Berg.  Andrea Berg (born 28 January 1966) is a German singer in the schlager genre. She sold over 10 million records in her career.
Thomas Ankersmit.  Thomas Ankersmit (born 1979 Leiden Netherlands) is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. His main instrument both live and in the studio is the Serge analogue modular synthesizer.
Tek (rapper).  El-Amin after converting to Islam (born Tekomin B. Williams) better known by his stage name Tek is an American rapper famous as a member of the duo Smif-N-Wessun and the Hip Hop collective Boot Camp Clik. Tek debuted on Black Moon's 1993 album Enta Da Stage with his rhyming partner Steele. In 1994 Smif-N-Wessun released their debut single Bucktown which became a Billboard Hot 100 hit and gave Brooklyn the nickname Bucktown home of the original gun clappers.
Augie Meyers.  August Augie Meyers (born 31 May 1940; San Antonio Texas) is an American musician singer songwriter performer studio musician producer and record label owner. He is perhaps best known as a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados.
Ricardo Pinto.  Ricardo Pinto (born 1961 in Lisbon Portugal) is a computer game programmer and fantasy author. His family moved to London when he was six and then to Dundee in Scotland. In 1979 he commenced a degree in Mathematics at the University of Dundee. In 1983 he moved to London to work as a programmer writing computer games. He moved back to Edinburgh and then to Bristol working on game design.
Ron Perry (music).  Ron Perry is an American music executive. On October 2 2012 Perry was named President and Head of A&R for Songs Music Publishing. He was raised in Northern New Jersey.Perry has been with SONGS since its founding in 2004. Since then he has signed and overseen the careers of many songwriters and artists including Lorde Diplo The Weeknd DJ Mustard Q-Tip Nelly Sleigh Bells Dev & Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst.
Keith Jebb.  Keith Jebb is a contemporary English poet and critic. He attended St Catharine's College Cambridge and is the current Head Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire Luton. He is also the author of A. E. Housman (Seren Press) a work commended by Harold Bloom in the introduction to his A. E. Housman.
Malvin Wald.  Malvin Daniel Wald (August 8 1917 – March 6 2008) was an American screenwriter most famous for writing the 1948 police drama The Naked City for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. He wrote over 150 scripts for motion pictures and TV shows including Peter Gunn Daktari and Perry Mason. He also served with the Army Air Forces and taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California.
Mohsin Zaidi.  Mohsin Zaidi (1935 – 2003) was an Urdu poet ('Shayar') who used to write by the pen name 'Mohsin'. Saiyed Mohsin Raza Zaidi (Urdu: سید محسن رضا زیدی ‎) was born in Bahraich a town in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India on 10 July 1935 to parents Saiyed Ali Raza Zaidi and Sughra Begum. He died in Lucknow on 3 September 2003.
Reek da Villian.  Tariek Williams (Roosevelt Long Island New York United States) better known as Reek da Villian is an American rapper protégé of rap veteran Busta Rhymes and former member of the rap group Flipmode Squad. Reek is currently signed to Busta Rhymes' new label Conglomerate Records.
Zeny & Zory.  Zeny y Zory (Zenaida Beveraggi & Zoraida Beveraggi) Las gemelas Beveraggi (The Beveraggi twins) (born May 12 1957) are identical twins and have performed as a pop-music duet since the age of 15. Zeny is currently managing her daughter Sol Carbone create her first music album.
Ashley Bickerton.  Ashley Bickerton (born 1959 in Barbados) is a contemporary artist presently living in Bali. A mixed-media artist Bickerton often combines photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. He is associated with the early 1980s art movement Neo-Geo which includes artists such as Jeff Koons and Peter Halley.
Malcolm Brenner (writer).  Malcolm J. Brenner (born 9 May 1951 in Perth Amboy New Jersey) is an American author journalist and zoophile. He is best known for his controversial novel Wet Goddess (2009) about a love affair between a college student and a bottlenose dolphin in the 1970s. As a journalist he has covered local news in New Mexico and Florida since the early 1990s.
Keba Jeremiah.  Keba Jeremiah is primarily an Indian guitarist working for musical soundtracks of Bollywood as well as for regional cinema of India. His guitar playing styles are influenced by genres like jazz rock Contemporary R&B and acoustic styles of music.
Portia White.  Portia White (June 24 1911 – February 13 1968) was a Canadian operatic contralto.
A. R. Penck.  Ralf Winkler alias A.R. Penck (born 5 October 1939) is a German painter printmaker and sculptor.He was born in Dresden Germany and studied together with a group of other neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz. Under the East German communist regime they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents.
Camillo Berlinghieri.  Camillo Berlinghieri (1590 or 1605 – 1635) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Ferrara. He trained with Carlo Bononi. Among his paintings was a Gathering of the Manna in San Niccolo; and an Annunciation for Sant Antonio Abbate in Ferrara. His works are chiefly at Ferrara and at Venice where he was called Il Ferraresino. He died at Ferrara.
Susan Raye.  Susan Raye (born October 8 1944 in Eugene Oregon United States) is an American country music singer. She enjoyed great popularity during the early and mid 1970's and chalked up seven top 10 and nineteen top 40 country hits Susan Raye discography most notably the song L.A.
Adrian Ward (artist).  Adrian Ward (born 1976 in Bishop Auckland England) is a software artist and musician. He is known for his generative art software products released through his company Signwave and as one third of the techno gabba ambient group Slub.
Buddy Zabala.  Hector Buddy Avanceña Zabala (born November 13 1971) is the bassist of Filipino new wave band The Dawn indie band Cambio and widely known as the bassist of the now disbanded alternative rock band The Eraserheads.
María Inés.  María Inés Guerra Núñez (born July 1 1983 in Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico) commonly known as María Inés is a Mexican TV-hostess and singer.In 2002 gained fame after receiving the news to be accepted in the musical TV Academy while in the city of Paris France on tour with the theater ensemble ITESM.
Martin Page (author).  Martin Page (born 1975) is a French writer.He is the author of the bestselling novel How I Became Stupid which won the Euroregional schools’ literature prize an award given by Belgian Dutch and German students.
Julie Landsman.  Julie Landsman (born April 3 1953) is an American-born French horn player and teacher. Formerly Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera from 1985-2010 Landsman now primarily performs chamber music. Prior to her appointment with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Landsman served as co-principal horn with the Houston Symphony and has toured internationally with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Katarzyna Krenz.  Katarzyna Krenz (born 24 January 1953 Gdansk Poland) is a Polish writer poet and painter.
Douglas Adams.  Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer humorist and dramatist.Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a trilogy of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series several stage plays comics a computer game and in 2005 a feature film.
Aimee Echo.  Aimee Echo is an American vocalist. She is the ex-frontwoman of Human Waste Project and now the vocalist of TheStart and Normandie.
Nat Adderley.  Nathaniel 'Nat' Adderley (November 25 1931 – January 2 2000) was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley whom he remained very close to in his career but whose shadow Nat followed in for most of his life.
Jocelyn Playfair.  Jocelyn Malan Playfair (born Lucknow India 1904 – died 1996) was a British novelist. Her father was Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Malan. Both of her parents were of French Huguenot descent. The year she was born (1904) her father accompanied Francis Younghusband on the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet. She married Ian Playfair in 1930 who was in the Royal Engineers and later was appointed the rank of Major-General.
Gustav Kadelburg.  Gustav Kadelburg (January 26 1851 Pest – September 11 1925 Berlin) was a Hungarian-German Jewish actor dramatist writer.He made his first appearance at Leipzig in 1869 and two years later played at the Wallnertheater in Berlin. He was very successful in comedy parts but abandoned the stage to write comedies and farces.In 1908 The Manchester Guardian reviewed Der Weg zur Holle (The Road to Hell) his farce over three acts then playing at the Midland Theatre.
Tama Morita.  Tama Morita (森田 たま Morita Tama 19 December 1894 - 31 October 1970) was a Japanese essayist whose books were quite popular in Japan around World War II. She later served as a member of the House of Councillors in 1962.
TEGI.  Jonathan Nieves (born 20 June 1990) known by his stage name TEGI is a is an American DJ and record producer.Born and raised in Miami Florida he was influenced by a variety of different styles of music. He was classically trained growing up but it wasn't until about 3 years ago that he decided to start producing electronic music. After much practice perseverance and trial and error he finally decided to show the world what he was capable of and started to display his music publicly.
Sady Courville.  Sady D. Courville (1905 Chataignier Louisiana – January 3 1988) was a Cajun fiddler noted for his extensive collaboration with Dennis McGee.
Roberto Melli.  Roberto Melli (1885–1958) was an Italian painter and sculptor belonging to the Scuola Romana and active in Ferrara and Rome.
Xuso Jones.  Jesus Chuso Segovia Pérez better known by his stage name Xuso Jones is a Spanish singer and composer.
Antonio Veneziano (painter).  Antonio Veneziano (Antonio the Venetian) was an Italian painter who was active mainly in Siena Florence and Pisa documented between 1369 and 1419. He or she was born apparently in Venice and was a student of Taddeo Gaddi. In 1384-87 Antonio completed the three Saint Ranieri frescoes begun by Andrea da Firenze in the Campo Santo in Pisa. Already deteriorated by time they were severely damaged during a bombing raid in World War II.
John Renbourn.  John Renbourn (born 8 August 1944 Marylebone London UK) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle although he maintained a solo career before during and after that band's existence (1967–1973).While most commonly labelled a folk musician Renbourn's musical tastes and interests take in early music classical music jazz blues and world music.
Ritchie Valens.  Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13 1941 – February 3 1959) known as Ritchie Valens was an American singer songwriter and guitarist. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement Valens' recording career lasted only eight months. During this time he had several hits most notably La Bamba which was originally a Mexican folk song.
Bill Morrison (comics).  Bill Morrison (born 1959) is an American comic book artist and writer and co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance). He was the creative director of Bongo Comics to 1993 to 2012.Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park Michigan a Downriver suburb of Detroit .
Stefan Tsanev.  Stefan Nedelchev Tsanev (Bulgarian: Стефан Неделчев Цанев) (b.
Isao Yamagata.  Isao Yamagata (山形 勲 Yamagata Isao 25 July 1915 – 28 June 1996) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1951 and 1984.
Paul Perry (author).  Paul Perry is the co-author of several New York Times bestsellers including Evidence of the Afterlife Closer to the Light Transformed by the Light and Saved by the Light which was made into a popular movie by Fox. His books have been published in more than 30 languages around the world and cover a wide variety of subjects from near-death experiences to biographies of authors Ken Kesey and Hunter S. Thompson.
Jeff van Dyck.  Jeff van Dyck (known as Jeff Dyck in his early years) is a Canadian/Australian video game music composer.
Henri Garat.  Henri Garat (born Henri Garascu) was a French actor and singer of Romanian origin. He was born in Paris on April 3 1902 and died on August 13 1959.
Dương Triệu Vũ.  Dương Triệu Vũ About this sound pronunciation (born January 1 1984 in Cam Ranh Vietnam) is the stage name of Tuấn Linh a singer on the popular Vietnamese diaspora music show Paris By Night.Born into a family of six children as the youngest Tuấn Linh showed an early interest in reading and music especially an ability to remember lyrics and music of songs.
William Pierpont Black.  William Pierpont Black (born Wilhelm Peter Negrescu; c.1877–29 April 1942) was a New Zealand wood carver journal editor and publisher journalist. He was born in Bucharest Romania on c.1877.
Bertie Higgins.  Elbert Joseph Bertie Higgins (born December 8 1944 Tarpon Springs Florida) is an American singer-songwriter. In 1982 he had his only Top 40 album with Just Another Day in Paradise. It spawned the Top 10 romantic ballad Key Largo which referenced the Humphrey Bogart movie of the same name and reached #8 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 record chart number one in the adult contemporary charts and a country hit as well.
Arnimal.  Arnimal (Kashmiri: अर्णिमाल) (18th century) was a leading Kashmiri poet. According to some scholars many of the verses attributed to poet Habba Khatun actually belong to her.
Keith Frank.  Keith Frank is a zydeco musician from Louisiana. Frank started his band The Soileau Zydeco Band in 1990 and was active as of 2010. Frank is a 1998 graduate of McNeese State University.Frank records on Soulwood Records.
Winifred Phillips.  Winifred Phillips is an award-winning American music composer. Music Connection Magazine described her as being a Superstar of video game music. She has been nominated for numerous awards and has won sixteen amongst which are two Hollywood Music in Media Awards and five Game Audio Network Guild Awards including Music of the Year. Her latest project is the music for the video game Assassin's Creed III: Liberation which was released as a soundtrack album on October 30 2012.
Josef Otto Entres.  Josef also Joseph Otto Entres (13 March 1804 – 14 May 1870) was a German sculptor and painter.Entres was born in Fürth and studied sculpture in Munich after July 1822 where he was a student of Konrad Eberhard. He died in Munich where he lived at Herbststraße and at Salzstraße around 1850.
Ellen Hollond.  Ellen Julia Hollond née Teed (1822–1884) was an English writer and philanthropist.
Emma Griffiths Malin.  Emma Griffiths Malin (born London 1980) is an English-born actress and film director. She was brought up by her parents in west London.
Don Raffell.  Don Raffell (née Donald Howard Raffell; Apr 26 1919 Washington D.C. - d. Mar 24 2003 Sherman Oaks California) was an American saxophonist woodwind doubler (Multireedist) studio musician and educator. Raffell recorded on hundreds of records movies and T.V shows dating from the 1940s all the way through the 1990s.
Allan Weisbecker.  Allan C. Weisbecker is a novelist screenwriter memoirist and surfer. He is the author of the cheerfully immoral novel Cosmic Banditos the memoir In Search of Captain Zero and Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise.Allan has also written for several surfing magazines including Surfer Surfing and The Surfer's Journal as well as scripting episodes of the television series Crime Story and Miami Vice.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright.  Isaac Hempstead-Wright is an English actor. Beginning his professional acting career at the age of eleven Hempstead-Wright is best known for his role as Bran Stark on the HBO series Game of Thrones which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Young Supporting Actor in a TV Series.
Shaun Tan.  Shaun Tan (born 1974) is an Australian illustrator and author of children's books and speculative fiction cover artist. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated.
Girish Panchwadkar.  Girish Panchwadkar (Marathi: गिरीश पंचवाडकर born 1 July 1960) is an accomplished Marathi singer and music director from India. He is a well known singer in Marathi Light music.
Francisco Costa (designer).  Francisco Costa (born 10 May 1964) is the Women's Creative Director of Calvin Klein Collection. Costa won the Council of Fashion Designers America (CFDA) award for Womenswear Designer of the Year in June 2006 as well as in June 2008. Costa also won the National Design Award in 2009 in the category of Fashion Design.
Sugar Blue.  Sugar Blue (born James Whiting December 16 1949 Harlem New York United States) is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician who plays the harmonica. He is probably best known for playing on The Rolling Stones' single Miss You. An article in the Chicago Tribune stated: The sound of Sugar Blue's harmonica could pierce any night... it's the sound of a musician who transcends the supposed limitations of his instrument.
Renata Morales.  Renata Morales is a textile and visual artist born in Mexico City and now living in Montreal Canada. She has worked with Arcade Fire and directors Denis Villeneuve Pedro Pires and Jérémie Saindon. Her dresses have also been seen on Grimes and Zola Jesus.
Georges Jeanty.  Georges Jeanty is an American comic book penciler best known for his work on The American Way an eight-issue American comic book limited series produced under DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics.
Al B. Sure!.  Albert Joseph Brown III (born June 4 1968) is a two-time Grammy-nominated American R&B recording artist and record producer. He grew up in Leonia New Jersey and Mount Vernon New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B. Sure! he enjoyed a brief run as one of new jack swing's most popular romantic singers and producers.
Eugenio Bennato.  Eugenio Bennato (born March 16 1948) is an Italian folk musician and songwriter. He is the brother of the musician Edoardo Bennato.
Dorismar.  Dora Noemí Kerchen known by her stage name Dorismar (also spelled Doris Mar) born March 14 1975 is an Argentine model actress television host and singer.
Olivia Olson.  Olivia Olson (born Olivia Rose Olson; May 21 1992) is an American actress and singer-songwriter known for her role as Joanna singing All I Want For Christmas Is You in Love Actually (2003) and for her voice roles as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time.
Gu Long.  Xiong Yaohua (7 June 1938 – 21 September 1985) better known by his pen name Gu Long was a Chinese novelist screenwriter film producer and director. Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials which include Juedai Shuangjiao Xiaoli Feidao Series Chu Liuxiang Series Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang. Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times.
Doug Supernaw.  Douglas Anderson Doug Supernuaw (born September 26 1960 in Bryan Texas) is an American country music artist. After several years performing as a local musician throughout the state of Texas he signed with BNA Records in 1993 releasing his debut album that year.Supernaw has released four studio albums: Red and Rio Grande (1993) Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind (1994) You Still Got Me (1995) and Fadin' Renegade (1999) as well as a compilation album 1997's The Encore Collection.
J. Chalmers Doane.  J. Chalmers Doane (born 1938) is a Canadian educator who spearheaded the use of the ukulele for music instruction in the Canadian school systems.
Christine Norrie.  Christine Norrie a comic book artist known for her work on the graphic novel Cheat. Norrie has also worked extensively as an artist and inker on various comic books including the comic book adaptation of Disney's Spy Kids and various Oni Press publications including art for Hopeless Savages and inks for Queen & Country.
Gui Yufang.  Gui Yufang (Chinese: 桂裕芳; pinyin: Guì Yùfāng; born 1930) is a Chinese translator.She is one of the foremost translators into Chinese of the works of the French novelist Guy de Maupassant.
Frédéric Bérat.  Frédéric Bérat (11 March 1801 – 2 December 1855) was a French composer and songwriter. He is the writer of Ma Normandie which is used as the National Anthem of Jersey and sometimes as the unofficial Norman anthem.
Markus Fagervall.  Markus Fagervall (born 5 October 1982 in Kiruna Norrbotten County) won Idol 2006 the third season of the Swedish version of Pop Idol. Markus beat Erik Segerstedt on 1 December 2006 to take the title. His first single Everything Changes peaked at number one on the Swedish singles chart. His debut album Echo Heart was released on 18 December the same year and has to date been certified double platinum.
Phil Young (writer).  Phil Young is a native of Dunmanway in west Cork and now lives in Dublin. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an MPhil in Anglo-Irish literature has had a number of short stories and articles published in various magazines and has featured on the RTÉ radio programme 'Sunday Miscellany'.
Vidya Dehejia.  Vidya Dehejia is a Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art atColumbia University. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government.
Alan Winstanley.  Alan Kenneth Winstanley (born 2 November 1952) is an English record producer and songwriter active from the mid-1970s onwards. He usually works with Clive Langer.His early career during the mid-1970s was as an audio engineer working on albums by The Stranglers in addition to releases by Joe Jackson and Generation X.
Ingrid Jonach.  Ingrid Jonach (born May 6 1983) is a children's and young adult author who lives in Canberra the national capital of Australia. She graduated from the University of Canberra with a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing (Hon). She has worked as a journalist and in public relations.
Ward Brackett.  Ward Brackett (April 2 1914–December 14 2006) was an American artist who created for paperback books and magazines including the Reader's Digest and Cosmopolitan. He lived in Westport Connecticut for 59 years and was a member of the Society of Illustrators the Silvermine Arts Guild and the Westport Arts Center.
Francesco de Mura.  Francesco de Mura (21 April 1696 – 19 August 1782) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active mainly in Naples and Turin. His late work reflects the style of neoclassicism.He was a pupil of Francesco Solimena then later with Domenico Viola where he met his contemporary Mattia Preti.While still in his teens he painted frescoes (1715) in San Nicola alla Carità in Naples.
Anatoli Vasiliev.  Anatoli Ilych Vasiliev (Russian: Анато́лий Ильи́ч Васи́льев; 18 March 1917 Petrograd (former Saint Petersburg) Russian Empire – June 4 1994 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian and Soviet realist painter who lived and worked in Leningrad.
Sharon Riis.  Sharon Riis (born 1947 in Longview Alberta) is a Canadian novelist short story writer and screenwriter.She was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1976 for her debut novel The True Story of Ida Johnson published by Women's Press. Her second novel Midnight Twilight Tourist Zone was published in 1989 by Douglas & McIntyre.
Sebastian Klonowic.  Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (1545 Sulmierzyce – August 29 1602 Lublin) was a Polish poet and composer.
Leopold Ross.  Leopold Ross is an English musician record producer recording engineer and music programmer.Leopold is a guitarist in LA based band Io Echo.
Ludwig Renn.  Ludwig Renn (April 22 1889 – July 21 1979) was a German writer.Born Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golßenau in Dresden into a Saxon noble family he fought in World War I on the Western Front. He wrote the book Krieg on his experiences. He was also a member of the KPD the Communist Party of Germany joining in 1928.
Harmonica Frank.  Harmonica Frank (October 11 1908 Toccopola Mississippi - August 7 1984 Blanchester Ohio) was an American blues singer guitarist and harmonicist.
Kim Kashkashian.  Kim Kashkashian (born August 31 1952 in Detroit Michigan) is a Grammy-award winning Armenian-American violist.
Arnold Doren.  Arnold Doren (1935–2003) was an American photographer.
Giovanni Battista Amigazzi.  Giovanni Battista Amigazzi (mid-17th century) was an Italian painter born and died in Verona. He was a pupil of Carlo Ridolfi. He is mainly known as a copyist and portraitist. He frescoed some lunettes in the Chapel of the Madonna of the Church of San Francesco di Paola in Verona and some lunettes in the choir in the Church of the Misericodia.
Ole Bull.  Ole Bornemann Bull (5 February 1810 – 17 August 1880) was a Norwegian violinist and composer.
Donae'o.  Ian Greenidge better known by his stage name Donae'o (/ˈdoʊneɪ.oʊ/ DOH-nay-oh; meaning Gift From God) is an English singer and rapper of Ghanaian and Guyanese descent from North-West London.[citation needed] He is well known for his single Party Hard.
Oakley Hall.  Oakley Maxwell Hall (July 1 1920 – May 12 2008) was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego California graduated from the University of California Berkeley and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names O.M. Hall and Jason Manor. Hall received his Master of Fine Arts in English from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Holly Sampson.  Holly Joy Sampson also known as Nicolette Foster Andrea Michaels or Zoe (born September 4 1973) is an American pornographic film actress and model. She is noted for playing the title role in the Emmanuelle 2000 series of films.
Walter Terence Stace.  Walter Terence Stace (November 17 1886 – August 2 1967) was a British civil servant educator public philosopher and epistemologist who wrote on Hegel mysticism and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 and 1932 thereafter he worked at Princeton University till his retirement in 1955 as professor of philosophy and subsequently remained professor emeritus of philosophy.
Jacky Heung.  Jacky Heung Cho (Chinese: 向佐) is a Hong Kong actor. He is the son of film producer/presenter Charles Heung and the nephew of Jimmy Heung.
Walter Bruno.  'Walter Bruno was born in Montreal Canada.His career as a writer of plays includes three productions Shouting for Joy; Hand-to-Hand; and in collaboration Ubu the King all staged in Toronto. He was briefly playwright in residence at Toronto Free Theatre.In 2004 Bruno authored Two English Girls and the Continent (Cambridge Book Review Press) the first translation into English of Deux Anglaises et le Continent by Henri-Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim).
John Anderson (musician).  John David Anderson (born December 13 1954 in Apopka Florida) is an American country musician with a successful career that has lasted more than 30 years. Starting in 1977 with the release of his first single I've Got a Feelin' (Somebody's Been Stealin') Anderson has charted more than 40 singles on the Billboard country music charts including five Number Ones: Wild and Blue Swingin' Black Sheep Straight Tequila Night and Money in the Bank.
Josh Thomas (comedian).  Joshua Michael Josh Thomas (born 26 May 1987) is an Australian comedian. In 2005 at the age of 17 he became the youngest ever winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy Competition. He currently appears as a regular and Generation Y team captain on Network Ten's Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation.He has also written and stars in a Pivot and ABC2 television series Please Like Me.
Seán Ó Conghaile.  Seán Ó Conghaile (born 1903; date of death unknown) was an Irish writer.A native of An Cnoc Cois Fharraige County Galway Ó Conghaile was a celebrated essayist and short-story writer who wrote in the Irish language. Several of his essays won Oireachtas prizes and were collectively published in 1974.
Michelle van Eimeren.  Michelle van Eimeren (born 15 March 1972) is a beauty queen from Brisbane Australia.Van Eimeren represented Australia for the 1994 Miss Universe pageant which was held in Manila. She placed 11th overall.After her Miss Universe stint she starred in numerous Filipino movies. She married Filipino actor/singer Ogie Alcasid in 1996 and had two children with him.
Timmy Trumpet.  Tim Smith (a.k.a. Timmy Trumpet) is a musician main room house DJ and producer based in Sydney Australia. Smith made his big break in Ibiza; playing live trumpet solos over electronic dance music tracks during DJs shows. He has supported and played alongside acts like Armin Van Buuren Carl Cox Fedde le Grand Dizzee Rascal Fatboy Slim and the Stafford Brothers.
Donald Corley.  James Donald Corley (1886–1955) was an American author of short stories illustrator and architect. He is chiefly remembered for his three self-illustrated books which included a number of classic fantasy short stories.
Pete Francis Heimbold.  Pete Francis Heimbold (January 8 1975) is a member of the band Dispatch and is former member of Woodriver Bandits and Hermit Thrush. He plays guitar bass and is a singer/song-writer. He draws his inspiration from his studies of poetry art and music from around the world. The style of his music takes on aspects of folk pop soul and rock.
Bryan White.  Bryan White (born February 17 1974) is an American country music artist. Signed to Asylum Records in 1994 at age 20 White released his self-titled debut album that year. Both it and its follow-up 1996's Between Now and Forever were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and 1997's The Right Place was certified gold.
Priscilla Wong.  Priscilla Wong (born 23 October 1981) is a Hong Kong television actress and host.
Adam Chodzko.  Adam Chodzko (born 1965) is a contemporary British artist exhibiting internationally. His practice uses a wide range of media including video installation photography drawing and performance.
David Anthony Durham.  David Durham was also a pseudonym of mystery writer William Edward Vickers.'David Anthony Durham (born 1969) is an American novelist author of historical fiction and fantasy.Durham's first novel Gabriel's Story centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. Pride of Carthage focused on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic.
Heike Brandt.  Heike Brandt (born 1947) is a German writer and translator of books for children who has translated over 70 books from English to German.
Leo Madigan.  Leo Madigan (born 28 September 1939 Nelson New Zealand) is an author. As of 2013 he is living in Fátima Portugal.
Harry Harvey Wood.  Harvey Wood (1903–1977) was a Scottish literary and artistic figure best known as a founder of the Edinburgh International Festival. He also published critical editions of works by Robert Henryson and John Marston as well as a book on Scottish literature. Wood established a branch of the British Council in Edinburgh in 1940. He persuaded Rudolf Bing to meet with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir John Falconer which led to the staging of the Festival in 1947.
Bobby Vee.  Robert Thomas Velline (born April 30 1943) known as Bobby Vee is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits 10 of which hit the Top 20.
Marco Roberto Capelli.  Marco Roberto Capelli (born 1971 in Concordia sulla Secchia – Modena) is an Italian poet translator and writer. As lyrics writer he published six CDs with Martiria and Power Project working with artists as Vinny Appice Carl Sentance and Warlord (band) singer Rick Anderson. He is also the founder and chief editor of Progetto Babele a literary magazine founded in 2002 in Cork Ireland.
John Gerrard Keulemans.  Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans) (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912) was a Dutch bird illustrator. For most of his life he lived and worked in England illustrating a large number of the best-known ornithology books of the nineteenth century.
Akiho Yoshizawa.  Akiho Yoshizawa (吉沢明歩 Yoshizawa Akiho) often known simply as Acky (あっきー) is a Japanese adult video (AV) pink film and mainstream film and TV actress.
Niall Harrison.  Niall Harrison is a British science fiction editor and critic whose work has appeared in Interzone Foundation The New York Review of Science Fiction and Vector. He was a judge of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2006 and 2007.
Juan Gris.  José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23 1887 – May 11 1927) better known as Juan Gris (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxwaŋ ˈɡɾis]) was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism his works are among the movement's most distinctive.
Suvi Suresh.  Suvi Suresh (Malayalam: സുവി സുരേഷ്) born as Swetha Suresh on 26 September is an Indian singer. She was a member of the band S5 launched by the channel SS Music. She shot to fame with the song Kodana Kodi from Saroja composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. She is now member of a second band called Soulsonic.
Samuel Johnson.  Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) often referred to as Dr Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer.
Noburu Katagami.  Noburu Katagami (片上 伸 Katagami Noburu February 20 1884 - March 5 1928) was a Japanese literary critic and a professor of Russian literature at Waseda University. He is also known as Tengen Katagami (片上天絃; later 片上天弦).
Jorge Gallardo.  Jorge Gallardo (December 12 1924 - April 4 2002) was a Costa Rican painter and poet.Gallardo's works are among the most important art collections of the Government of Costa Rica as well as many individuals both domestic and foreign. His art is an irreverent mix in which he uses an impeccable use of color which many have considered flat and without complexities.
Adolfo Domínguez.  Adolfo Domínguez (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo ðoˈmiŋɡeθ]) born Adolfo Domínguez Fernández is a Spanish fashion designer.
Jacob de Gheyn III.  Jacob de Gheyn III also known as Jacob III de Gheyn (1596–1641) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver son of Jacob de Gheyn II canon of Utrecht (city) and the subject of a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt. The portrait is half of a pair of pendent portraits. The other piece is a portrait of de Gheyn's friend Maurits Huygens wearing similar clothing (ruffs and black doublets) and facing the opposite direction.
Elizabeth Jones.  Elizabeth Jones (born May 31 1935) was the eleventh Chief Engraver of the United States Mint holding this position from 1981 until her resignation in 1991. After her resignation the post of Chief Engraver was left vacant for 15 years until John Mercanti was appointed to the post.
Sadie Peterson Delaney.  Sadie Peterson Delaney (1889–1958) was the chief librarian of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuskegee Alabama for 34 years. She is well known as a pioneer for her work with bibliotherapy.
Mikhail Stasyulevich.  Mikhail Matveevich Stasyulevich (Михаи′л Матве′евич Стасюле′вич August 28 1826 Saint Petersburg Russia – January 23 1911 Saint Petersburg Russia) was a Russian writer scholar historian journalist editor and publisher.
Francis Reyes.  Francis Florentino Saludo Reyes (born June 20 1967 in Lipa City Batangas Philippines) is a Filipino musician. He was the chief radio announcer and musical director for the rock station NU107.5 FM who uses the on-air stage name Francis Brew.
Karl Blau.  Karl Blau is an indie rock and folk musician based in Anacortes Washington USA and a member of the Knw-Yr-Own/K Records collective. His music is eclectic incorporating elements of folk dub R&B bossa nova grunge hip hop drone and worldbeat.Blau is a singer-songwriter who releases his music through a subscription service called the Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society retitled from Kelp Monthly as new releases were not produced and sent out on time.
Hugh Stollmeyer.  Hugh Stollmeyer (13 January 1912 – 12 June 1982) was an artist from Trinidad.
Enrico Ruggeri.  Enrico Ruggeri (born June 5 1957) is an Italian rock singer-songwriter.
Mandy Ventrice.  Amanda Nicole Ventrice (born September 12 1985) better known by her stage name Mandy Ventrice is an American recording artist songwriter and vocal producer.Born in the Bay Area Mandy Ventrice began her music career at a very early age; writing her first song at the age of seven and completing her first CD independently by the age of thirteen. Soon after Ventrice joined a female pop group based out of Boston called Poetry In Motion.
Marge (cartoonist).  Marjorie Henderson Buell (December 11 1904–May 30 1993) was an American cartoonist who worked under the pen name Marge. She was best known as the creator of Little Lulu.Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Buell was 16 when her first cartoon was published. In 1925 she created her first syndicated comic strip The Boy Friend which ran through 1926. Marge was friends with Oz author Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated her fantasy novel King Kojo (1933).
Silvia Urbina.  Silvia Urbina is a Chilean singer and researcher in folkloric music of Chile. She started her career as a musician in 1955 as one of the founders of the successful group Cuncumén and after leaving the group in 1961 she founded another group Cuncumenitos dedicated to teach Chilean children about folkloric music.
Gert Bettens.  Gert Bettens (born 19 March 1970) is the lead guitarist of the Belgian band K's Choice. He with his sister Sarah Bettens is the face of the band.The band is popular in Europe and had toured in the U.S. with The Verve Pipe Tonic Alanis Morissette and the Indigo Girls as well as on their own. In 2003 K's Choice decided to split ways but then reformed in 2009.Bettens was born in Merksem.
Ian Adams.  Ian Adams (born 1937) is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction novels. Originally a journalist he is now best known for his writing: his most successful novel to date is Agent of Influence which has also been made into a film. He currently lives in Toronto Ontario.
Frank Marcus.  Frank Ulrich Marcus (30 June 1928 – 5 August 1996) was a British playwright best known for The Killing of Sister George.
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban.  Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is an anthropologist and archaeologist Egyptologist and Sudanist human rights activist mentor mother and beekeeper. She is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Rhode Island College Providence Rhode Island; also a lecturer at the Naval War College. She is an expert in Ancient Sudan and Ancient Egypt with a particular focus on Nubia. She is married to Richard Lobban.
Gevorg Bashinjaghian.  Gevorg Bashinjaghian (Armenian: Գևորգ Բաշինջաղյան) September 16 [O.S. September 28] 1857 – October 4 1925) was an Armenian painter who had significant influence on Armenian landscape painting.
Angelica Bella.  Angelica Bella is a Hungarian pornographic actress. Angelica has worked primarily and enjoyed her greatest popularity in Italy.Angelica Bella began her career in the adult film industry under the pseudonym Gabriella Dari. She worked with various German producers in the early 1990s.Bella has only appeared in a handful of hardcore videos in the United States. She first turned up in two American adult films in 1992: The Anal-Europe Series 1 and 2.
Kristi Myst.  Kristi Myst (born on December 25 1973) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress.
Vinni.  Øyvind Sauvik (born 3 February 1976) better known by his stage name Vinni is a Norwegian musician and hip hop artist.
Denman Fink.  Denman Fink was an American artist. He worked with Phineas P. Paist and Walter De Garmo on the Douglas Entrance (1924) in Coral Gables Florida a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He also worked with Paist on the Venetian Pool (1925) in Coral Gables. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.At the David W. Dyer Federal Building and United States Courthouse he completed the mural Law Guides Florida Progress (1941).
Aoife O'Donovan.  Aoife O’Donovan (/ˈiːfə/ EE-fə; Irish: [ˈiːfʲə];) born November 18 1982 in Newton Massachusetts is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer for the progressive bluegrass/string band Crooked Still and a member of the female folk-noir trio Sometymes Why. Her first professional engagement was singing lead for the folk group The Wayfaring Strangers.
Manjari Joshi.  Manjari Joshi (मंजरी जोशी) is a TV newsreader/Anchor of the Indian PSB Doordarshan.
Sandy West.  Sandy West (July 10 1959 – October 21 2006) was an American musician singer songwriter and drummer. She was one of the founding members of The Runaways the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 1970s.
Richard Pousette-Dart.  Richard Pousette-Dart (June 8 1916 – October 25 1992) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.
M. P. Shiel.  Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947) — known as M. P. Shiel — was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained Shiell though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name.He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials novels and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel.
Ott Lepland.  Ott Lepland (born 17 May 1987) is an Estonian singer who is best known as the winner of the third season of Eesti otsib superstaari. Lepland represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan with the song Kuula placing 6th in the final.Lepland has been singing since he was a child. He released four albums with children songs in 1995 and 1996. At the moment Lepland is studying at Georg Ots' Tallinn Music School pop and jazz singing.
Inés Medina-Fernández.  Inés Medina-Fernández (born February 8 1974 in Madrid Spain) is a pianist and composerof contemporary classical music. She has played piano from the age of 8 completing examinationsat the Madrid Royal Conservatory. An experienced pianist and self-taught composer she draws on many influences - from Baroque to John Cage for example in her compositions.
Chyi Chin.  Chyi Chin (simplified Chinese: 齐秦; traditional Chinese: 齊秦; pinyin: Qí Qín; born January 12 1960 in Taichung Taiwan) is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter.
Sergio Járlaz.  Sergio Járlaz (born in Santiago de Chile on 1 May 1985) is a Chilean singer. On 9 May 2011 he won the first ever series of Chilean edition of The X Factor broadcast on Chile's Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN). He competed in Over 25s category and was mentored by judge Tito Beltrán. Stanley Weissohn became runner-up. As a reward he will be signed to Sony Music and release an album.
Jang Na-ra.  Jang Na-ra (Korean: 장나라 born March 18 1981) is a South Korean singer and actress. She also sings in Chinese and is known in China by her transliterated Chinese name (simplified Chinese: 张娜拉; traditional Chinese: 張娜拉; pinyin: Zhāng Nàlā).
Charles Matton.  Charles Matton also known as Gabriel Pasqualini (13 September 1931 - 19 November 2008) was a multitalented French artist : painter sculptor illustrator writer photographer screenwriter and a movie director.
Rika Ishikawa.  Rika Ishikawa (石川 梨華 Ishikawa Rika born January 19 1985 in Yokosuka Kanagawa Japan) is a Japanese pop singer and TV/radio hostess associated with the Hello! Project banner and best known as a former member of the pop group Morning Musume. She was the leader of the Japanese pop idol trio v-u-den until June 2008. She is working as a soloist a member of the Japanese pop idol group Ongaku Gatas in the pop duo Hangry & Angry as Angry and as a current member of Dream Morning Musume.
André Ricard Sala.  André Ricard (Barcelona 1929) is a Catalan industrial designer. He designed the torch for the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1993 he won the Creu de Sant Jordi award.
Tommy Benford.  Thomas Tommy Benford (April 19 1905 – March 24 1994) was an African-American jazz drummer.
Radu Malfatti.  Radu Malfatti is an Austrian trombone player and composer. He was born in Innsbruck in the province of Tyrol on December 16 1943. He has been described as among the leaders in redefining the avant-garde as truly on-the-edge art. His work since the early nineties... has been investigating the edges of ultraminimalism in both his composed and improvised work. He also operates B-Boim a CD-R only record label focusing on improvised and composed music much of it his own.
Admiral Freebee.  Admiral Freebee is a Belgian singer-songwriter born in 1975. Tom Van Laere is his legal name. He took his name from On The Road the novel by Jack Kerouac. Admiral Freebee is also the name of a ship that sank in San Francisco Bay and was subsequently used as a buoy.
Brent Weeks.  Brent Weeks is an American New York Times Bestselling author living and writing in Oregon. Weeks was born in Montana on (1977-03-01)March 1 1977 and graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English. He briefly worked as a teacher and bartender before moving to writing full-time.
Brush Shiels.  Brendan Ian Brush Shiels (born in 1952 in Dublin) is an Irish musician from County Dublin best known for being the frontman of Gary Moore's first band Skid Row. Brush Shiels had a TV show on RTÉ called Off yer Brush and was at one point managed by Louis Walsh.
Mia Kihl.  Maria Kihl or Mia Kihl (Born on December 3 1979 in Stockholm) is a Swedish voice actress.
Allan Bérubé.  Allan Ronald Bérubé (December 3 1946 – December 11 2007) was an American historian activist independent scholar self-described community-based researcher and college drop-out and award-winning author best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II.
Peter Green (musician).  Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum 29 October 1946) is a British blues rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work with the group Green's songs have been recorded by artists such as Santana Aerosmith Midge Ure Tom Petty Gary Moore and Judas Priest.A major figure and bandleader in the second great epoch of the British blues movement Green inspired B. B.
Rodolfo Walsh.  Rodolfo Jorge Walsh (born on January 9 1927 in Lamarque*) was an Argentine writer considered the founder of investigative journalism. He is most famous for his Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta which he wrote the day before his murder protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on ordinary Argentines than their human rights abuses. He was murdered on March 25 1977.
Patrick Smith (artist).  Patrick Smith (born 1972 in San Juan Puerto Rico) is an installation artist animator and filmmaker now based in Tribeca New York City.Smith studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst and has since then been working as an independent animator in New York City. The beginning of his animation career has been told by himself like this:In 1994 I was in college and one night decided to animate something strange. I didn't know how to draw let alone animate so I just did something abstract.
Cho Chi-hun.  Cho Chi-hun was a Korean poet critic and activist.
Rajendra Yadav.  Rajendra Yadav (Hindi: राजेन्द्र यादव‎; 28 August 1929 – 28 October 2013) was a Hindi fiction writer and a pioneer of the Hindi literary movement known as Nayi Kahani. He edited the literary magazine HANS which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but ceased publication in 1953 – Yadav relaunched it on 31 July 1986 (Premchand's Birthday).His wife Mannu Bhandari is also a famous Hindi fiction writer.
Paul Chesterton.  Paul Chesterton is an English actor based in Surrey.
Elvidin Krilić.  Elvidin Krilic is a Bosnian musician accordion player composer and educator more commonly known as Edo Krila was born in Sarajevo in a family that cherished the Bosnian traditional folk song. His father Mustafa Krilić who himself was a well-known accordionist and who worked with all the vocalists of the traditional folk music who meant something to the ex-Yugoslav music scene from World War II to the present gave the initial impetus to the young talented boy.
Barry Howard.  Barry Howard (born 9 July 1937 in Nottingham) is an English actor who is best known for his role as Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in the first seven series of the long-running BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. His deadpan comedy style and classic facial expressions made him a very popular character.
Robert Rendel.  Robert Rendel (1885–1944) was a British film actor.
Daddy Freddy.  S. Frederick Small (born 1965) better known as Daddy Freddy is a Jamaican ragga vocalist.
Jonah Sachs.  Jonah Sachs (born May 19 1975) is an American storyteller author designer and entrepreneur. He is the author of Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell—and Live—the Best Stories Will Rule the Future (2012). As the co-founder and CEO of Free Range Studios Sachs helps social brands and causes with campaigns built on storytelling strategies.
Yan Ni.  Yan Ni (simplified Chinese: 闫妮; traditional Chinese: 閆妮; pinyin: Yán Ní; born March 10 1971) born Yan Kaiyan (simplified Chinese: 闫凯艳; traditional Chinese: 閆凱艷) is a Chinese film and television actress. She works for the Television Art center of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
Alex York.  Alex York is an American singer-songwriter. He sings in English and Japanese.
Taffy (singer).  Taffy (born Katherine Quaye 1963 New York) was an American 1980s Hi-NRG and Italo disco singer known for her hit I Love My Radio.The song produced by Claudio Cecchetto who was also behind all her previous hits in Italy was released in the United Kingdom by Rhythm King's Transglobal Records (both part of Mute Records in those days) and was originally a hit in Italy in 1985. The song's sentiments were about a disc jockey broadcasting in the early hours.
James Swain.  James Swain (born June 7 1956) is an American crime fiction author and magician.Swain has written at least fifteen fiction and non-fiction books. Many of these have been translated into twelve different foreign languages. He has used two main character in most of his crime related and mystery books. These are Tony Valentine a private eye and Jack Carpenter an ex-cop turned child rescuer. Swain is lesser known for his Magic non-fiction books which are self-published.
Johnny McDaid.  John Johnny McDaid (born 24 July 1976) is a writer musician producer engineer and recording artist from Derry Northern Ireland. He plays piano guitar and backing vocals in alternative rock band Snow Patrol. McDaid was formerly the singer and songwriter of the band Vega4 whose second album You and Others was produced by Jacknife Lee.
Mark Davis (pornographic actor).  Mark Davis (born on 6 August 1965 in Essex England United Kingdom) is an English pornographic actor a pornographic film director and an exotic dancer. Davis was born in Essex and in 1981 Mark and his family moved to Toronto Canada. After graduating from high school he moved to Los Angeles to shoot a Playgirl pictorial. From 1984 to 1988 Davis was employed as a stripper for the Chippendale dancers. In January 1993 Mark began his career in adult films.
Wei Wu Wei.  Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986) better known by the pen name Wei Wu Wei was a 20th-century Taoist philosopher and writer.
Hector Costita.  Hector Costita (born October 27 1934) is a musician and composer. He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. However he is one of the most famous flutist and saxophonist in Brazilian music. Along his career he performed and recorded with many artists such as Lalo Schifrin Manfredo Fest Sérgio Mendes Zimbo Trio Hermeto Pascoal and Elis Regina.
Alfred Bartles.  Alfred Howell Bartles (10 November 1930 - 28 December 2006) was an American composer and musician. He played the cello and piano and he is best known for Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble a work that has been described as pioneering of the crossover between jazz and classical music.Bartles grew up in Nashville Tennessee and studied piano under Lennie Tristano.
Scarlett Montanaro.  Scarlett Montanaro (born in Leigh-on-Sea United Kingdom) known professionally as Baybe! is a British-based singer / actress. She is best known for her hit records in the 1990s including Sexy Sugar Hut me New Age fun with a Vintage Feel All that she wants is another Baby and S'Mo from Essex. She is more recently known as one of Amy Childs best friends in 'The Only Way is Essex.'
Jack Russell (musician).  Jack Russell (born December 5 1960) is an American rock vocalist. He is a founding member of the American hard rock band Great White.
Mavis Gallant.  Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant CC née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014) was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer she also published novels plays and essays.
Michael Cavendish.  Michael Cavendish (c. 1565 – 1628) was an English composer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.A grandson of Bess of Hardwick and first cousin to Arabella Stuart [It is unlikely he was the grandson of Bess of Hardwick. If he was born about 1565 that was long before any of her children had children] he spent much time at court and was for a time composer to the future King Charles I of England. In 1598 he published a set of songs with lute accompaniment called Ayres in Tabletorie.
Artúr Lajos Halmi.  Artúr Lajos Halmi (1866–December 3 1939) was a Hungarian painter who has several works on display in the Hungarian National Gallery. A student of Mihály Munkácsy he internationally famed for his portraits. His portraits of opera singers led a 1979 history of the Metropolitan Opera House to note that What Van Dyck was to the Stuart kings Artur Halmi was to the sopranos of the first third of this century. He was the prima donna's best friend.
William Stanley Haseltine.  William Stanley Haseltine (June 11 1835–February 3 1900) was an American painter and draftsman who was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting the Hudson River School and Luminism.
Babbie Mason.  Babbie Yvett Robie Wade Mason (born February 1 1955 in Jackson Michigan) is an American gospel singer songwriter writer and adjunct professor of songwriting at Atlanta Christian College and Lee University and also a television talk-show host. In 1995 she was featured in the Warren Chaney docudrama America: A Call to Greatness.
Dorothy Hood.  Dorothy Hood (1919-2000) was an American painter. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students League of New York. In 1988 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art. She was married to José María Velasco Maidana. Pablo Neruda wrote a poem about her.
Louis Banks.  Louis Banks (born 11 February 1941 as Dambar Bahadur Budaprithi) is a Grammy Award-nominated film composer record producer jazz musician-keyboardist and singer. Proficient in genres like Indipop modern progressive and contemporary jazz and Indo jazz fusion he has often been referred to as the Godfather of Indian Jazz.
Olisa Odele.  Olisa Odele (born 14 November 1994) is a British child actor who attended Salcombe Preparatory School. He appeared for two series in My Parents are Aliens where he played C.J. C.J. is a small quiet boy who was rescued from being run over by 'SuperBrian' a.k.a. Brian Johnson wearing a cape. He turns out to be an orphan from the children's home and is adopted into the family because he finds out about Brian and Sophie being aliens and threatens to report them. C.J.
Stuart Smith (musician).  Stuart Barry Smith (born 30 May 1956) is a British rock-blues guitarist and songwriter who is best known for playing guitar in Sweet and Heaven & Earth.
Høgni Lisberg.  Høgni Lisberg (June 7 1982 in Tórshavn Faroe Islands) is a musician from Leirvík Eysturoy and is one of the most famous musicians of the Faroe Islands.
S. Ballesh.  Pandit S. Ballesh (born Ballappa Sanna Bharamappa Bhajantri on April 1 1958) is an Indian shehnai player. He is also a Patiala gharana Hindustani vocalist and ghazal singer. Ballesh trained under the shehnai virtuoso Ustad Bismillah Khan. He is a member of the Panchakshara Gavai brotherhood. He has performed in classical concerts in jugalbandis (duets) and in film music.
Gianfranco Reverberi.  Gian Franco Reverberi (born in 1934 in Genoa Italy) is an Italian composer and musician. He worked mainly on the soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns.He was one of the first Italian rock music artists. He also worked with his brother Gian Piero Reverberi on the song Last Man Standing (or Nel Cimitero di Tucson) from the soundtrack of Django Prepare a Coffin (Preparati la bara!) (one of many unofficial sequels to Django) which forms the basis of Gnarls Barkley's hit Crazy.
Jan Lauwereyns.  Jan Lauwereyns (born 13 May 1969) full name Johan Marc José Lauwereyns is a writer and scientist. As a cognitive neuroscientist he specializes in the voluntary control of attention and decision making. He has published articles in journals such as Nature Neuron and Trends in Cognitive Sciences and the monographs The Anatomy of Bias and Brain and the Gaze with The MIT Press. As a multilingual poet he gained an international reputation for innovative work.
Joe Budden.  Joe Budden (born August 31 1980) is an American hip hop recording artist from Jersey City New Jersey who in addition to being a solo artist is a member of the American hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse alongside fellow rappers Royce da 5'9 Joell Ortiz and Crooked I.His most commercially successful single is the 2003 hit song Pump It Up from his self-titled album which contains production from Just Blaze.
Jason Anick.  Jason Anick (born October 3 1985 Framingham Massachusetts) is an American jazz violinist mandolin player and composer. He currently resides in Boston Massachusetts and teaches at the Berklee College of Music.
Yak Ballz.  Yak Ballz born Yashar Zadeh is an American independent hip hop artist who was brought up in Flushing Queens New York. He is one of the original members of The Weathermen. He is also a member of Cardboard City.
H. M. Nayak.  Harogadde Manappa Nayak (Kannada: ಹಾ.ಮಾ.ನಾಯಕ್ Ha Ma Nayak) (1931 - 10 November 2000) was an academician writer and folklorist. He was born in the village Harogadde Shimoga district in Karnataka.
Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger.  Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (11 January 1805 – 29 October 1880) was a Viennese artist. Born in Vienna Geiger wanted originally to follow the family tradition and become a sculptor but drawing and painting were his natural element. He illustrated Anton Ziegler's Vaterländischen Immortellen (Immortals of the Native Land) of 1839-40. Until 1848 he carried out numerous illustrations of historical works and poetry but also made oil paintings for the Austrian Royal Family.
Benjamin Wynn.  Benjamin Wynn is an American composer sound designer and music producer mostly known for creating the sound design for the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. He has collaborated with composers such as Joby Talbot. He is the co-owner of The Track Team a music and sound production company based in Los Angeles and also produces hip-hop electronic music under the name Deru. He is the grandson of renowned neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff.
Stephan Lill.  Stephan Lill is a German guitarist best known for his work with the Progressive metal band Vanden Plas.
Richard Stone (painter).  Richard Stone (born 5 June 1951) is a British painter specializing in portraits. In 1973 at the age of 22 he became the youngest commissioned royal portrait painter in almost 200 years. Stone claims to have secured the commission by cold-calling Clarence House and saying I could be a latter-day Rembrandt. He has completed commissioned portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother Princess Margaret Princes Philip Charles and Andrew.
Felipe Andreoli.  Felipe Andreoli (born March 7 1980 in São Paulo Brazil) is a heavy metal bassist known for playing in bands like Angra Karma and Almah.In 2006 along with Angra and Hangar's members he participated in Fábio Laguna's Freakeys project.Andreoli is known for having played Brazilian D'Alegria basses specifically his signature models Dart FA and A-Dart FA as well as the electric upright Discovery and the Defender JB Deluxe. He is currently using Condor basses.
Désiré-Alexandre Batton.  Désiré-Alexandre Batton (born Paris January 2 1798 - died Versailles October 15 1855) was a French composer. A student of Luigi Cherubini at the Conservatoire de Paris he composed operas and cantatas; a number of his operas were seen at the Théâtre Feydeau and the Opéra-Comique.
Anne Chislett.  Anne Chislett (born December 22 1942 in St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian playwright.
Max Schubel.  Max Schubel (born April 11 1932 - died February 10 2010) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is best known for being the founder and owner of Opus One records a company dedicated to the recording of new music.Schubel maintained homes in Napanoch Town of Wawarsing Ulster County New York (living there from November through April) and Piscataquis County Maine (living there from May 1 through October).
Don Mancini.  Don Mancini (born January 25 1963) is an American screenwriter producer and film director. Mancini is best known for creating the character of Chucky and writing all of the films in the Child's Play series. Mancini was also the executive producer of Bride of Chucky and he directed Seed of Chucky as well as the latest installment in Child's Play franchise Curse of Chucky. Along with Michael McDowell and Clive Barker Mancini is one of the few openly gay writers in the slasher film genre.
Bernard Anderson.  Bernard Hartwell Step-Buddy Anderson (1919–1997) was an American jazz trumpeter from Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Having studied music at school under Zelia Breaux Anderson was a professional musician by 1934 playing with the Ted Armstrong band in Clinton Oklahoma. In the late 1930s he was a member of the Xavier University jazz band in New Orleans.In 1939 Anderson returned to Oklahoma City and joined the Leslie Sheffield band that included Charlie Christian another Zelia Breaux pupil.
Janette Oke.  Janette Oke (born 18 February 1935) is a Canadian author and pioneer of inspirational fiction. Her books are often set in a pioneer time period and centered around female protagonists. She is a committed Evangelical Christian.Janette Steeves was born in the Depression years in Champion Alberta to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife Fred Steeves and Amy (née: Ruggles) Steeves.She graduated from Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury Alberta.
Ann Wilson.  Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19 1950) is an American musician best known as the lead singer flute player songwriter and occasional guitar player of the hard rock band Heart. Regarded as one of the best female vocalists in rock music history Wilson was listed as one of the Top Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time by Hit Parader magazine in 2006.Wilson has a powerful voice with a vocal range that spans contralto to high soprano.
Philip Oakey.  Philip Phil Oakey (born 2 October 1955) is an English composer singer songwriter and producer.He is best known as the lead singer lead songwriter frontman and co-founder of the English synthpop band The Human League. Aside from the Human League he has had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers. He is also an occasional DJ.Oakey was one of the most visually distinctive music artists of the early 1980s.
Tian Yuan (singer).  Tian Yuan (Chinese: 田原; pinyin: Tián Yuán; born 30 March 1985) is a Chinese singer-songwriter actress novelist and photographer. Born in Wuhan China she majored in English at Beijing Language and Culture University and graduated in 2007.
Ray Hammond.  Ray Hammond is a British author and futurist.
Morio Kita.  Morio Kita (北 杜夫 Kita Morio) was the pen name of Sokichi Saitō (斎藤 宗吉 Saitō Sōkichi May 1 1927 – October 24 2011) a Japanese novelist essayist and psychiatrist.Kita attended Azabu High School Matsumoto Higher School (now part of Shinshu University) and graduated from Tohoku University's School of Medicine. He initially worked as a doctor at Keio University Hospital.
Riccardo Pasquini.  Riccardo Pasquini (Turin 1849- Belbey France 1937) was an Italian painter. He attended the Accademia Albertina and alongside Carlo Stratta became a pupil of Antonio Fontanesi. He is described as an excellent painter of animals. He often painted small canvases. Along with Stratta and Carlo Pollonera he traveled to Paris where he worked under Thomas Couture. At the 1870 Promotrice in Turin he exhibited La Sera un cantuccio della Stalla and Il primo solco.
Mike Christie (singer).  Mike Christie (born Michael Phillip Christie 21 April 1981) is an English singer and composer formerly the baritone with British classical boyband G4.
Zach Nelson (screenwriter).  Zachery Mathew Nelson (born August 5 1975) is an American film producer and screenwriter.Nelson won Best Sci-fi/Horror Screenplay at the 2009 London Independent Film Festival for his screenplay The Void. It was also a Finalist at the 2009 Paranoia Film Festival in Los Angeles.He resides in Chester Springs Pennsylvania a suburb of Philadelphia.
Milan Mladenović.  Milan Mladenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Младеновић; September 21 1958 – November 5 1994) was a Serbian musician best known as the frontman of the Yugoslav art rock band Ekatarina Velika.
Kim Soo-young.  Kim Soo-young is a Korean poet.
Sezen Aksu.  Sezen Aksu (Turkish pronunciation: [seˈzen ˈaksu]; born: Fatma Sezen Yıldırım; July 13 1954 in Sarayköy Denizli Turkey) is a Turkish pop music singer song-writer and producer who has sold over 40 million albums worldwide.
Robin Moulder.  Robin Moulder (born April 2 1966) is an American musician best known as being one of the founders of the goth-girl group Jack Off Jill and her subsequent project TCR. She is a bassist pianist and programmer.
Francis Buchholz.  Francis Buchholz (born 19 February 1954 in Hannover Germany) is a German bassist best known as a member of the rock/hard rock band the Scorpions.Buchholz discovered rock music at the age of 11. His first public appearance as a bass player was at age 15 while in a high school. From then on he played in different rock blues and jazz bands in his hometown of Hannover.
Lee Seung-hwan.  Lee Seung-Hwan (Hangul: 이승환; born December 13 1965 in Busan South Korea) is a South Korean pop singer and rocker songwriter and producer.
Noel Van Horn.  Noel Van Horn (born July 6 1968) is a comics artist and writer born in the United States and living in Canada. He does mainly Disney comics starring Mickey Mouse. He is the son of William Van Horn a comics artist as well.
Park So-yeon (singer).  Park So Yeon (Hangul: 박소연; hanja: 朴昭姸; born October 5 1987) is a South Korean idol singer dancer and actress. She is the main vocalist and spokesperson of K-pop girl group T-ara.
Joseph Jasgur.  Joseph Jasgur (March 23 1919 – March 21 2009) was a photographer who photographed celebrities during the golden age of Hollywood. He was noted for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe.Monroe stepped into Jasgur's studio in 1946 with no money but the ambition to become a model. Jasgur shot numerous photographs of her over the following weeks including glamour shots that she used in her 20th Century Fox interview.
Bryan Beller.  Bryan Beller (born May 6 1971) is an American bass guitarist known for his work with Dethklok Mike Keneally Steve Vai James LaBrie of Dream Theater Dweezil Zappa and The Aristocrats. He is an active member of the bands Dethklok and The Aristocrats at the moment.
Angelo Agostini.  Angelo Agostini (1843–1910) was an illustrator journalist and founder of several publications and although born in Italy is considered the first Brazilian cartoonist.
Michiel van den Bos.  Michiel M.C.A. van den Bos (born 19 December 1975) is a Dutch musician who composed primarily for Epic Games and Triumph Studios. He began composing on the Commodore 64 and Amiga before making the transition to composing professional soundtracks for critically acclaimed video games such as Unreal Unreal Tournament Deus Ex and Overlord series.
Vonda Shepard.  Vonda Shepard (born July 7 1963) is an American pop/rock singer. She appeared as a regular in the television show Ally McBeal in seasons 1 through 5 in which she played a resident performer at the bar where the show's characters drank after work. Her version of Kay Starr’s Christmas classic (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag was featured on a season 4 episode of Ally McBeal and has become a popular holiday song. She plays piano guitar and bass.
Boris Maluev.  Boris Yakovlevich Maluev (Russian: Борис Яковлевич Малуев; February 6 1929 Stalingrad USSR; October 24 1987 Leningrad USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists Honored Artist of the RSFSR lived and worked in Leningrad regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his historical and genre paintings.
Odd Rikard Olsen.  Odd Rikard Olsen (18. June 1947 – 10 April 2012) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Tromsø and grew up in Kvænangen. After the examen artium he started working as an office clerk in Hammerfest in 1968. He was later hired as a journalist in Finnmarksposten Bladet Tromsø Aftenposten and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Beto Cuevas.  Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo (born in Santiago Chile on September 12 1967) better known as Beto Cuevas is a Chilean singer plastic artist painter and actor. He is the lead singer for Chilean band La Ley. In 2008 he launched his solo career with the release of his album “Miedo Escenico”. In 2012 he released his second album called “Transformación”.
Park Chong-hwa.  Park Chong-hwa (Hangul: 박종화) is an early-modern Korean novelist.
Guy Ben-Ner.  Guy Ben Ner (born in 1969) is an Israeli video artist. He lives and works in Tel Aviv Berlin and New York.
Don Fury.  Don Fury is an American recording engineer and producer who owned three rehearsal and recording studios in New York City. He has recorded and produced music for a variety of punk and hardcore bands including Agnostic Front Sick of It All Youth of Today Gorilla Biscuits Madball Warzone Helmet Into Another and Quicksand. In 2008 Fury moved his studio to Troy New York.
Nitanju Bolade Casel.  Nitanju Bolade Casel has been a member of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock since 1985. Prior to joining Casel spent four years studying performance and cultural organization in Dakar Senegal.
Christopher New.  Christopher New is an English author and philosopher who beginning in 1969 spent many years as head of the philosophy department at The University of Hong Kong. He is the author of a historical novel series The China Coast Trilogy which spans most of the twentieth century and deals with the British presence in China. He has also written novels set in India Egypt and Europe. His novels have been widely translated. He currently divides his time between Asia and Europe.
Jean-Yves Bosseur.  Jean-Yves Bosseur (born in Paris 5 February 1947) is a French composer and writer.Bosseur studied composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Third Fourth and Fifth Cologne Courses for New Music from 1965 to 1968 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Stockhausen 1970 199–209) and received a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy from the University of Paris.
Pegz.  Tirren Staaf otherwise known as Pegz (or MC Pegasus) is an Australian hip hop artist and producer hailing from Melbourne Victoria. He is the CEO of Obese Records — the record label responsible for artists such as Hilltop Hoods Downsyde and Bias B.
Carole Corbeil.  Carole Corbeil (1952–2000) was a Canadian arts critic and novelist. Born in Montreal to Québécois parents her writing was often informed by the cultural displacement and the subsequent sense of dual belonging that she experienced when her parents divorced and her mother remarried to an anglophone man.Originally known as an arts writer for The Globe and Mail in the 1980s she published her debut novel Voice-Over in 1992.
Tina Yuzuki.  Tina Yuzuki (柚木ティナ Yuzuki Tina) also known as Rio is a Japanese actress singer and AV idol who debuted as an AV actress in 2005 appearing in videos produced by the Max-A and S1 studios. After starring in AVs in various genres during her first year in the industry she won an industry award as Best New Actress for 2006. Since late 2007 she has used the stage name of Rio.
Miguel Reveriego.  Miguel Reveriego is a Spanish fashion photographer
Richard Warren (musician).  Richard Daniel Warren (born 3 June 1973) is a British musician songwriter and producer.He signed his first record deal with Heavenly Records at the height of Britpop in 1996 as one third of The Hybirds.In 1999 when the band split he branched out on his own and away from guitar-led pop signing to Mute Records as Echoboy after Daniel Miller heard his releases on Earworm Records following his self-released 12 Flashlegs (Suite).He went on to release several self-produced solo albums on Mute as well as Giraffe which was produced by Flood and having put together a band he toured extensively with amongst others Elastica Add N to (X) and Broadcast .Both Echoboy and The Hybirds performed several sessions for John Peel's radio show.He is also known for producing and remixing other artists (see below). 
Suman Ghosh.  Pandit Suman Ghosh is an Indian classical vocalist.
Zoe Băicoianu.  Zoe Băicoianu (August 15 1910 - March 8 1987) was a Romanian sculptor and ceramist.
Dave Chavarri.  Dave Chavarri is the founder producer manager and drummer for the band Ill Niño.Chavarri was born in Lima Peru and moved to New Jersey at age 11. With a 25 year career in the music business Dave is the former drummer for many bands such as Soulfly Pro-Pain M.O.D. Merauder and Gothic Slam.
Babou (singer).  Babou Nicolai Nelson Lowe (born 7 December 1994) better known by his mononym Babou is a Danish singer of mixed Danish-Gambian origin. He came third in Danish X Factor in 2011. He has released one album and his single Supernova has charted in Denmark becoming the theme song for season 10 of the Danish version of the reality television series Paradise Hotel.
Andy Williams (Doves).  Andrew Sebastian Andy Williams (born 18 February 1970) is the drummer and vocalist of Doves. He was born in Manchester England and he is also the twin brother of bandmate Jez. Before their incarnation as Doves the three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub.
Keegan DeWitt.  Keegan DeWitt (born April 8 1982) is an American film composer singer-songwriter and actor raised in Oregon now residing in Brooklyn and Nashville.
Mary Jerrold.  Mary Jerrold (1877–1955) was a British actress. She was married to actor Hubert Harben and mother of celebrity chef Philip Harben.
Joey Calderazzo.  Joey Calderazzo (born February 27 1965 in New Rochelle New York) is a jazz pianist.Inspired by a friend who lived next door Calderazzo began his piano studies at age seven. He progressed rapidly in a house where other family members were also playing drums and singing and at 14 became the youngest member of brother Gene Calderazzo's rock band.
Xie Jingxian.  Xie Jingxian (Chinese: 解静娴; pinyin: Xiè Jìngxián) (born October 31 1983) is a Han Chinese pianist from Shanghai. She is also known by her English name Jane Xie.
Mark Ethridge.  Mark Ethridge is a novelist screenwriter and the president of Carolina Parenting Inc. which publishes Charlotte Parent magazine and the parenting magazines in Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point and Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. His novel Grievances was released in 2006 and adapted into the 2012 film Deadline.
Paul Burling.  Paul Burling is a British impressionist. A veteran of show business for 25 years having worked in voiceover radio and pantomime he rose to national attention as a finalist of the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent. His debut television show in 2010 It's Paul Burling! attracted a television audience of 3.7 million.
Ken Bald.  Kenneth Bruce Bald (born August 1 1920) is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for the Dr. Kildare and Dark Shadows newspaper comic strips. Due to contractual obligations he is credited as K. Bruce on the Dark Shadows strip.
Kokomi Sakura.  Kokomi Sakura (桜ここみ Sakura Kokomi) is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress who is also known under the name Cocomi Sakura.
Dolores Gordon-Smith.  Dolores Gordon-Smith is a British author. She is best known for writing The Jack Haldean murder mysteries the first of which A fête worse than death was released on 28 June 2007. The second installment Mad about the boy was released on 29 May 2008.
Geoffrey Nutter.  Geoffrey Nutter is an American poet born in Sacramento and based in New York. He is the author of four collections of poetry: A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize) Water's Leaves & Other Poems (winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) Christopher Sunset (Wave Books 2010) and The Rose of January (Wave Books 2013). He earned degrees from both San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
Shane Valdez.  Shane Valdez (born July 25 1972) is an American drummer producer vocalist and songwriter.Shane Valdez started his music career in 1991 in the hardcore band Hold True which recorded a demo in 1992 which was later remixed remastered and released as an E.P. CD on Lost & Found Records in 1995.
Gayla Earlene.  Gayla Earlene born January 31 1954 in Inola Oklahoma is a multi award winning Christian country music recording artist and musician.
Toshio Kakei.  Toshio Kakei (筧 利夫) (born 10 August 1962 in Hamamatsu Shizuoka) is a Japanese actor. He had major roles in several TV drama series such as Bayside Shakedown.Kakei graduated from Osaka University of Arts.
Barry Westhead.  Barry Westhead (born 13 May 1977 Wigan Greater Manchester England) is a musician pianist of the British group Starsailor.Westhead was working as pianist in a church before meeting the other members of Starsailor James Stelfox Ben Byrne and James Walsh in March 2000. He was the last member to join the band then named Waterface. The band had tried a number of guitarists before asking Westhead to join them as keyboardist.
Jerry Iger.  Samuel Maxwell Jerry Iger (August 22 1903 – September 5 1990) was an American cartoonist. With business partner Will Eisner he co-founded Eisner & Iger a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.Iger is not related to comic book publisher Fred Iger. Iger was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.
Victoria Justice.  Victoria Justice (born February 19 1993) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She debuted as an actress at the age of 10 and has since appeared in several films and television series including the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and Victorious. She has made appearances in several theatrical releases including Unknown as well as the 2006 thriller The Garden.
Eve Boswell.  Eve Boswell (Eva Keleti 11 May 1922 Budapest Hungary - 14 August 1998 Durban South Africa) was a successful pop singer in Britain in the 1950s.
Paul King (musician VJ).  Paul King (born 20 November 1960) is an Irish-born English singer musician VJ and TV presenter.
Mayo Okamoto.  Mayo Okamoto (岡本 真夜 Okamoto Mayo born January 9 1974 in Nakamura Kōchi) is a Japanese female pop singer-songwriter. Her 1995 debut single Tomorrow peaked at number 1 on the Oricon weekly single charts. She released her greatest hits album Rise 1 in 2000. The album topped the Oricon weekly album charts.
Lea Ivanova.  Lea Ivanova (August 13 1923 — May 28 1986) was a Bulgarian jazz singer.
Rachid Mimouni.  Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (November 20 1945 – February 12 1995) was an Algerian writer teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style. He was threatened by Islamic militants for his courageous stance against a movement which he described as based on archaic ideas irrelevant in the present times.
Brad Posey.  Brad Posey is an American artist and video director. While studying at University of California Berkeley his focus shifted away from painting to photography and video and Posey became a professional photographer in 1990. He is one of the world's most published photographers of male models and has produced and directed videos for various independent studios.Brad Posey has produced and directed over 80 feature length films.
Mikhail Koulakov.  Mikhail Koulakov (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Кулаков; born January 8 1933 in Moscow Russia) is a Russian abstract painter.
Travis Richter.  Travis Brandon Richter (born November 3 1981 in Albany Georgia) is an American musician music producer dubstep producer and vocalist. He is known for being the original rough vocalist and guitarist of From First to Last and the current guitarist and lead vocalist of The Color of Violence and the lead vocalist for The Human Abstract. He is also a music producer and produces electronic music currently with Modified Drugs.
Catherynne M. Valente.  Catherynne M. Valente (born Bethany Thomas; May 5 1979 in Seattle Washington) is a Tiptree– Andre Norton– and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist poet and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities along with numerous Year's Best volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities under the name Bethany L.
Grover Mitchell.  Grover Curry Mitchell (March 17 1930 in Whatley Alabama – August 6 2003 in New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader.
Karin Ström.  Karin Ström born 1977 is a Swedish singer and writer.
MC-VA.  Mohammad Vakaas Akhtar (born 6 October 1986) - better known by his stage name MC-VA (sometimes styled mcva) is a Scottish rapper record producer songwriter and entrepreneur originating from Glasgow Scotland.
Enki Bilal.  Enki Bilal (born October 7 1951) is a French comic book creator comics artist and film director.
Felipe Colombo.  Felipe Colombo Eguía (born January 8 1983 in Mexico City); is a Mexican-Argentine actor (of theater films and television) singer songwriter musician and former occasionally model. His nickname is Feli Felu or Pipe. He is best known for portraying Felipe Mejía in Chiquititas Manuel Aguirre in teenage television series Rebelde Way Lucho Fierro in Son de Fierro and Bernardo Berlanga in Herederos de una venganza and as a member of Argentine band Erreway.
Pan Lingling.  Pan Lingling (Chinese: 潘玲玲; pinyin: Pān Línglíng; born 25 June 1970) is a Singaporean actress.
Vicky Vette.  Vicky Vette (born 12 June 1965 in Stavanger Norway) is a pornographic actress webcam model and webmaster. She has been named the most Followed Norwegian on Twitter by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. She also shot a mainstream movie for Indonesia called Pacar Hantu Perawan.Vette moved from Norway to Canada as a child. According to Vette she was an accountant and a housing contractor with her husband prior to her career in adult.
Sinik.  Thomas Idir a.k.a. Sinik (French pronunciation: ​[siˈnik]; born June 26 1980) is a French-language rap artist. He is also known as Malsain L'assassin and S.I.N.I.K.. His father is Algerian while his mother is French. In 2001 he founded his label Six o Nine (6-0-9).
Joon Wolfsberg.  Joon Wolfsberg (March 8 1992 in Cologne) is an Erfurt-based Singer-Songwriter from Germany.
Lacey Duvalle.  Lacey Duvalle (born April 5 1982) is an American pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2000 at the age of around 18 and has appeared in over 150 movies.Her scene with Mario Cassinni in the film Tunnel Vision 3 won the 2009 Urban X Award for Best POV Sex Scene. Duvalle is a former contract performer with the production company Video Team. Rapper Charles Hamilton's 2008 song Lacey Duvalle is an ode to her.
Ariella Vaccarino.  Ariella Vaccarino Los Angeles California is an American singer songwriter and singing teacher best known as for her roles on stage: La Boheme The Wiz and Once Upon a Mattress and on film: Nightmare on Elm Street VII Highlander 3 and Jackson.
Jaël.  Jaël (aka Jaël Malli; born Rahel Krebs; 19 August 1979 in Bern Switzerland) is a Swiss singer-songwriter from the band Lunik. She worked several times with Delerium co-writing and singing After All on their album Chimera Lost and Found on their album Nuages du Monde and Light Your Light on their 2012 album Music Box Opera. She is both internationally famous in the Trance music community as well as domestically famous from her work in Lunik.
Michiro Endo.  Michiro Endo (遠藤 ミチロウ Endō Michirō born November 15 1950) is a Japanese musician author and socialist activist. Known as frontman of the influential punk band The Stalin.Endo was born in Nihonmatsu and graduated from Yamagata University. After college he wandered through Vietnam and Southeast Asia. He formed The Stalin in 1980 they went on to be one of the dominant acts of the 80s Japanese punk rock scene.Endo released his first solo material in 1984. In 2002 he formed the trio Notalin's.
Millard Powers.  Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24 1965 in Greensboro North Carolina) is an American musician songwriter record producer and Grammy-nominated recording engineer.
Ahmed Alaidy.  Ahmed Alaidy أحمد العايدي (Arabic) is an Egyptian novelist born on December 24 1974. He is the author of the novel Being Abbas El Abd (2006) (An Takoun Abbas El Abd) (2003) أن تكون عباس العبد (Arabic). He studied marketing at Cairo University and has worked as a scriptwriter on quiz shows and for the cinema and as a writer of satirical stories for young people and a book designer.
Qader Eshpari.  Qader Eshpari (Persian: قادر اشپاري) is an Afghan singer. He is of the new generation of exiled artists who have achieved fame outside of Afghanistan. He is noted for the depth and flow of his voice that has allowed him command over a wide range of singing styles. He currently lives in Fremont California United States from where he continues his music career through his own recording studio.
James Fei.  James Cheng Ting Fei (Chinese name: 費正廷; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngtíng; b. Taipei Taiwan 1974) is a composer and performer working in the fields of contemporary classical music and electronic music. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Bertram Brooker.  Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31 1888 – March 22 1955) was a Canadian writer painter musician and advertising agency executive.Born in Croydon England to Richard Brooker and Mary Ann (Skinner) Brooker he moved to Portage la Prairie Manitoba in 1905 with his family. In 1913 he rented a movie theatre in Neepawa Manitoba. That same year he married Mary Aurilla (“Rill”) Porter. In 1914 he became editor of the Portage Review a local newspaper.
Henry Santos.  Henry Santos Jeter (born December 15 1979) or simply known as Henry Santos is a Dominican singer and composer best known for his time in bachata group Aventura. He is also the record holder for successfully completing and winning undefeated and never nominated for elimination Mira Quien Baila a spanish dancing competition broadcast on Univision. He was crowned Rey De La Pista on November 18th 2012.
Charles Quentin Fernie Pope.  Charles Quentin Fernie Pope (1900–1961) known as Quentin was a New Zealand writer journalist poet and poetry anthologist foreign correspondent and war correspondent. He was born in Wanganui New Zealand and died in Hong Kong.Kowhai Gold the 1930 anthology of New Zealand poetry edited by Quentin Pope and published in London and New York included some poets still read: Eileen Duggan A. R. D. Fairburn Robin Hyde Katherine Mansfield and R. A. K. Mason.
Stewart Macpherson.  (Charles) Stewart Macpherson (29 March 1865 - 27 March 1941) was an English musician of Scottish descent. He was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1887 he joined the RAM staff and taught harmony and composition. He founded the Music Teachers' Association in 1908 and was its chairman until 1923. From 1925 to 1927 he was dean of the Faculty of Music in the University of London.
Israel Horovitz.  Israel Horovitz (born March 31 1939) is a playwright director and actor.
Hallvard Rieber-Mohn.  Hallvard Rieber-Mohn (1922 Molde - 4 August 1982) was a Norwegian writer and Dominican priest. He won the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1967.In 1982 he was awarded the Fritt Ord Award.
Paradox (musician).  Paradox is the pseudonym of Dev Pandya a British producer.
Gregory Benford.  Gregory Benford (born January 30 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.As a science fiction author Benford is perhaps best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977).
Fraser T Smith.  Fraser Lance Thorneycroft-Smith (born 8 February 1971) known professionally as Fraser T Smith is an English record producer songwriter mix engineer and guitarist.
Nichole Nordeman.  Nichole Ellyse Nordeman (born January 3 1972) is an American contemporary Christian singer–songwriter.
Theodore Earl Butler.  Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus Ohio and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny and married his stepdaughter Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he married her sister Marthe Hoschedé. Butler was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists.Butler's chosen subjects were domestic scenes of family and friends and the French landscape.
Najwa Nimri.  Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea (born 14 February 1972 in Pamplona Navarre Spain) is a Spanish actress and singer of Jordanian descent.
Joe Forte.  Joe Forte is an American painter and filmmaker. Born in New Jersey he is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As a screenwriter Forte is best known for Firewall the 2006 thriller starring Harrison Ford and the 2005 film Say I Do. As a painter he is known for Wonder a solo exhibition of his baseball card (paintings) which was shown at Bergamot Station's James Gray Gallery Santa Monica CA in Oct-Nov of 2008.
Jonas Bergström (actor).  Jonas Bergström (born 11 May 1946) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1968.
Apostolis Anthimos.  Apostolis Anthimos (born 25 September 1954 in Siemianowice Śląskie) is a jazz / rock oriented guitarist drummer and keyboard player of Greek origin. He is a member of the Polish progressive rock band SBB.He has also co-operated with Czesław Niemen Tomasz Stańko George Dalaras Vangelis Katsoulis and also a number of bands including Krzak Dżem and Osjan.
Michelle Leclaire O'Neill.  Michelle Leclaire O'Neill PhD R.N. is an expert on hypnobirthing and mindful pregnancy.[citation needed]She is a pioneer in the study of mind-body integration for treating infertility pregnancy pre-term labor and postpartum depression.[citation needed] O'Neill is the director of the Mind Body Center in Pacific Palisades California.She has published five books and audio CDs on the subject and holds weekend workshops for couples individuals and professionals — and also offers private sessions.Hypnobabymoon a one day childbirth preparation class created by O'Neill uses mind/body techniques for prenatal bonding and a calm joyous pregnancy and centered labor and birth.
Chanda Dancy.  Chanda Dancy (born Chanda Yvette Dancy; November 14 1978) is a United States Film Composer violinist keyboardist and singer.Founder and President of CYD Music Chanda is an artist in the world of composing for films and various other multimedia as well as a member of the rock band Modern Time Machines.
Bernard Campan.  Bernard Campan (born 4 April 1958) is a French actor film director and writer. He is a member of Les Inconnus trio of humorists. He won a César Award for Best Debut for Les Trois Frères and was nominated for best actor for his role in Se souvenir des belles choses.
Grace Knight.  Grace Ethel Knight (born 23 December 1955 Manchester) is an English-born Australian vocalist saxophone player and songwriter. She was a mainstay of Indie pop group Eurogliders during the 1980s which formed in Perth. Knight later became a solo jazz singer and musician based in Sydney. In 1984 Eurogliders released an Australian top ten album This Island which spawned their #2 hit single Heaven (Must Be There).
Paal-Helge Haugen.  Paal-Helge Haugen (born 26 April 1945) is an award-winning Norwegian lyricist novelist dramatist and children's writer. Haugen was born in Valle Setesdal and studied medicine at the University of Oslo. During the period 1965-67 Haugen was a member of the editorial team of literary magazine Profile. He made his literary debut with Blad frå ein austleg hage in 1965 a translation of Japanese haiku.
Bart Millard.  Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1 1972 in Greenville Texas) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter. Millard released the album Hymned No. 1 in 2005 which was his first solo album apart from MercyMe but he is still a member of that band. His second studio album release came in 2008 called Hymned Again and this garnered him a solo Grammy nomination in the category of Best Southern Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.
Noel Cox.  The Reverend Professor Noel Cox is a New Zealand-born lawyer priest and a professor at Aberystwyth University United Kingdom. He is a specialist in constitutional law and a prominent advocate of the Monarchy in New Zealand having being a long-term Chairman of the Monarchist League of New Zealand now Monarchy New Zealand. He was also Convener of the Auckland District Law Society Public Issues Committee.
Kyrie Kristmanson.  Kyrie Kristmanson (born 1989 or 1990) is a Canadian singer/songwriter guitarist and trumpeter. Born in Ottawa Ontario she has lived in Ontario Quebec New Brunswick Saskatchewan and in France. Since appearing at the 2006 Winnipeg Folk Festival at the age of fifteen Kristmanson has performed widely in Canada and Europe. Her performances have been broadcast nationally in Canada by CBC Radio 2 and in France by Radio France and by France Inter (White Sessions).She received an B.Hum.
Rich Dodson.  Rich Dodson (born 1947 in Sudbury Ontario Canada) is a Canadian singer song-writer and producer. He is the guitarist and a founding member of Canadian Rock trio The Stampeders. He is most well known for penning the groups' biggest hit Sweet City Woman which hit Number 1 in Canada and Number 8 on Billboard in 1971.
Doug Parmenter.  Doug Parmenter is a British musician and friend of Kelly Jones of Stereophonics. They met whilst Jones was writing the third Stereophonics album when Parmenter was beginning to play bass guitar whilst still at school. Parmenter learned to play piano at a young age. Before reaching his twelfth birthday he had already become an accomplished pianist violinist and clarinettist however he lacked any drive to pursue music as a career.
Style MiSia.  Juan Ojeda Jr. (born July 14 1978 in Torrance California) better known as Style MiSia is an American record producer and MC. He spent most of his childhood in Long Beach California until his family relocated to The Bay Area in 1991.During his time in San Jose he built his reputation as an MC by performing in local clubs aided by a strong underground hip-hop scene. Later he turned to music production working with artists including 50 Cent Rasco and Peedi Crakk.
Bobby Graham.  Bobby Graham (11 March 1940 – 14 September 2009) was an English session drummer composer arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy who produced The Kinks David Bowie and The Who described Graham as the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced.
Percy Addleshaw.  Percy Addleshaw (b. 1866 Bowdon Cheshire; d. 1916) was an English barrister and writer.A graduate of Christchurch Oxford Addleshaw was called to the bar in 1893. He was an admirer and friend of Roden Noel. He wrote articles poems and reviews for various publications and under the pseudonym of Percy Hemingway published Out of Egypt a volume of short stories (1894) and The Happy Wanderer and other Poems (1895).
Elton Britt.  Elton Britt (June 27 1913–June 22 1972) born James Elton Baker was a country music guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Sebastian Pigott.  Sebastian Pigott (born February 14 1983) is a Canadian singer actor and contestant on the sixth season of Canadian Idol.
Jason Finn (musician).  Jason Finn (born October 27 1967) is a drummer and singer for The Presidents of the United States of America. He was previously the drummer of Love Battery until 1995 (and also played drums for the Seattle-based band Skin Yard as well as The Fastbacks) when he joined Chris Ballew and Dave Dederer to form The Presidents of the United States of America. He plays with an open-handed technique on a right-handed drum kit.
Yuan Muzhi.  Yuan Muzhi (Chinese: 袁牧之; pinyin: Yuán Mùzhī) (March 3 1909 – January 30 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.
Andrea Dunbar.  Andrea Dunbar (22 May 1961 - 20 December 1990) was a British playwright best known for Rita Sue and Bob Too an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford West Yorkshire. Shelagh Delaney described Dunbar as a genius straight from the slums.
Augusto Roa Bastos.  Augusto Roa Bastos (June 13 1917 – April 26 2005) was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia and he later worked as a journalist screenwriter and professor. He is best known for his complex novel Yo el Supremo (I the Supreme) and for winning the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1989 Spanish literature's most prestigious prize. Yo el Supremo explores the dictations and inner thoughts of Dr.
Fernanda Brandao.  Fernanda Brandao (born May 3 1983 in Belo Horizonte Brazil) is a Brazilian singer dancer recording artist and celebrity based in Munich Germany. She became famous under her stage name Laava then with Latin pop trio Hot Banditoz.
Navin Kundra.  Navin Kundra is a British singer/songwriter who writes composes and performs songs in Hindi Punjabi and English. With a strong fan based reach of over 3 million people and growing Navin has achieved six number one singles in the Asian Charts and won the 2013 'Entertainer of the Year' Award in the Houses Of Parliament.
Salvador Elizondo.  Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (Mexico City December 19 1932 - March 29 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature.Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè experimental intelligent style literature in Latin America he wrote as a novelist poet critic playwright and journalist. His most famous novels are Farabeuf (1965) and El hipogeo Secreto (1968).
Hans Morten Hansen.  Hans Morten Hansen (born 28 February 1964 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian stand-up comedian and actor notable for holding the world record for longest stand-up performance since August 20 2010. He also portrayed the character of Finn in the 2010 film Trollhunter.
Martin Mayer.  Martin Prager Mayer (born January 14 1928 New York City) is the writer of 35 non-fiction books including Madison Avenue U.S.A. (1958) The Schools (1961) The Lawyers (1967) About Television (1972) The Bankers (1975) The Builders (1978) Risky Business: The Collapse of Lloyd's of London (1995) The Bankers: The Next Generation (1997) The Fed (2001) and The Judges (2005). Mayer's books describe and criticize American industries or professional groups.
Howard Hewett.  Howard Hewett (born October 1 1955 in Akron Ohio) is an American R&B and gospel singer and former lead vocalist of the R&B group Shalamar.
Danny Rapp.  Daniel Joseph Danny Rapp (May 10 1941 – April 5 1983) was an American musician and the frontman for the group Danny & the Juniors. The group is best known for their 1957 hit At the Hop.He was born in Philadelphia Pa the youngest of seven siblings. Although his birth certificate states his date of birth was May 10 he was in fact born at home on May 9 and registered the following day.
Vladimir Varlaj.  Vladimir Varlaj (1895–1962) was a Croatian artist a member of the Group of Four during the Zagreb Spring Salon of the 1920s and a founder of the Independent Group of Artists. He was influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s best known for his landscape paintings and his contribution in bringing wider European influences to Croatian art.
Joseph Wenglein.  Joseph Wenglein (1845 – 1919) was a German painter.
Buddy Jones (Bluegrass musician).  Shelby Nathan Buddy Jones (born February 2 1937) was a bluegrass musician and songwriter and music recorder and distributor. He is best known for his performance work with the bluegrass band Rainbow Valley Boys. He is also the founder of former record distribution companies B.J. Promotions Tapes Unlimited and Northern Music Distribution.
Mick Avory.  Michael Charles Mick Avory (born 15 February 1944) is an English musician best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the British rock band The Kinks joining them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remaining with them until 1984 when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies. He is the longest-serving member of the band beside the Davies brothers.
Chen Baoguo.  Chen Baoguo (born 9 March 1956) is an award winning Chinese actor. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1977 and has since acted in many films and television series including The Emperor Han Wu Da Zhai Men and Rob-B-Hood. He is married to actress Zhao Kui'e (赵奎娥).
Ellis Avery.  Ellis Avery is an American writer. She has won two Stonewall Book Awards in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude. The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007.An out lesbian she teaches creative writing at Columbia University. She previously taught creative writing at the University of California at Berkeley.
Kraddy.  Matthew Kratz better known by his stage name Kraddy is an American electronic musician based in Los Angeles. He started mixing drum and bass in San Francisco in the mid-1990s where he co-founded The Stress Collective. He released his first solo album Truth Has No Path in 2004 and in 2006 co-founded The Glitch Mob.He had his first breakthrough solo hit Android Porn in 2008 and left The Glitch Mob in 2009 to go solo.
Gurbaksh Shonki.  Gurbaksh Shonki (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਖ਼ਸ਼ ਸ਼ੋਂਕੀ; born June 10 1971) is an Indian singer from Chamkaur Sahib (Ropar Punjab India). He is best known for the famous hit song Sada Rab Janda (ਸਾਡਾ ਰੱਬ ਜਾਣਦਾ) from the album Lal Parande Wali (2000).
Anita Pollitzer.  Anita Lily Pollitzer (October 31 1894 Charleston South Carolina - 1975) was an American photographer.
Baron von Luxxury.  Baron von Luxxury (birth name Blake Robin) is an American producer songwriter DJ and artist (sometimes known simply as Luxxury). Some of his best-known songs are Drunk which was used in commercials for Pontiac; Sweet and Vicious which was used on The Hills; and I Know There's Something Going On a cover of a song by Frida from ABBA.
Paul Ryder.  Paul Ryder is the bass player and a founding member of the Manchester band Happy Mondays.
Cem Köksal.  Cem Köksal (born July 3 1976) is a Turkish musician and guitar virtuoso.
Doug Ardito.  Douglas John Ardito (born 10 March 1971) plays guitar and bass guitar for the band Puddle of Mudd. He is a Fender Musical Instruments endorsed artist.Ardito co-wrote Puddle of Mudd's biggest single Blurry. Guitar One Magazine voted Ardito's harmonic guitar part in Blurry as one of the Top Ten Riffs of the Decade. The song reached the #1 spot on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts for ten and nine weeks.
Anza (singer).  Anza Ohyama (大山 アンザ Ōyama Anza born May 4 1976) or simply Anza is a Japanese singer and actress. She is best known as vocalist of the metal group Head Phones President and for playing Sailor Moon in thirteen separate musical productions. She was born to a Japanese father and a White South African mother.
Tomoe Shinohara.  Tomoe Shinohara (篠原ともえ Shinohara Tomoe born March 29 1979 in Higashimurayama Tokyo) is a Japanese singer actress fashion designer producer and artist. She is notable for her flamboyant fashion sense and bubbly (sometimes goofballish) personality as well her distinctive squealing speaking voice. She is also a close friend of singer Eiko Matsumoto.
Constance Fenimore Woolson.  Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5 1840 – January 24 1894) was an American novelist poet and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region the American South and American expatriates in Europe.
Fillie Lyckow.  Fillie Lyckow (born October 31 1934 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. She has acted in the films about Maggie (Madicken) and the Swedish TV series Varuhuset (The Department Store). In 2007/2008 she was the von Trapp maid Frau Schmidt in The Sound of Music at Göta Lejon.
Tran Bich San (US writer).  Trần Gia Thái pen name Trần Bích San (born October 10 1940 in Nam Dinh Vietnam) is a Vietnamese writer.
Ephraim Lewis.  Ephraim Lewis (1968 – 18 March 1994) was an English soul/neo-soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was one of many highly anticipated performers that emerged in the early 1990s. However he died with only one album to his name.
Ali Merdan.  Ali Merdan (1904–1981) (Kurdish: عه‌لی مه‌ردان) is a Kurdish musician who was born in Kirkuk widely regarded as the man who revolutionized the maqam. He launched the Kurdish Radio Station in 1939 in Baghdad. His love for his homeland is all over his art.
Mark Spiegler.  Mark Spiegler is a talent agent for pornographic actresses and founder of Spiegler Girls which is often regarded as being among the adult film industry's top agencies. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2012.
Henjo Richter.  Henjo Oliver Richter (born 24 November 1963 in Hamburg West Germany) is a guitarist and keyboardist in Gamma Ray the German power metal band formed by Kai Hansen.
Thomas Nixon.  Thomas Nixon (born September 27 1961) is an author and online writer. His writings include Complete Guide to Online High Schools (Degree Press 2012) Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning (Ten Speed Press 2006) Bears' Guide to Earning High School Diplomas Nontraditionally (2003) and Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning (2001). He has written extensively on distance learning online high schools and financial aid for print and online publications.
Kim Clifford.  Kim Clifford (born 27 January 1961) is a British actress.She starred in the BAFTA TV Award winning[citation needed] television play Bar Mitzvah Boy.She also made appearances in other television dramas including London's Burning Juliet Bravo and the sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart.She is currently married to the artist Lee Galpin and has a daughter Michelle and a son Jack.
Eloy Azorin.  Eloy Azorín (Madrid 1977) is a Spanish film theatre and television actor.
Ninet Tayeb.  Ninet Tayeb (Hebrew: נינט טייב‎ also known as Ninette or Nina) (born October 21 1983 in Kiryat Gat Israel) is an Israeli-pop rock singer and actress who became widely known as the first winner of Kochav Nolad (the Israeli version of Pop Idol).She is currently performing after the release of her third album and stars in the Israeli version of Spring Awakening.
Carlo De Notaris.  Carlo De Notaris (Milan 1812 - Milan 1888) was an Italian painter active in a Neoclassic style.
Helen Lilian Shaw.  Helen Lilian Shaw (1913–1985) was a notable New Zealand short-story writer poet and editor. She was born in Timaru Southern Canterbury New Zealand in 1913.
Kenny Washington (musician).  Kenny Washington (born May 29 1958) is a jazz drummer born in Staten Island New York.He grew up in the Stapleton Projects and attended P.S. 14. He studied at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Tom Uttech.  Tom Uttech (born Merrill Wisconsin 1942) is an American landscape painter known for his moody depictions of North American woodlands and animals that inhabit them.
Selda Bağcan.  Selda Bağcan (IPA: [ˈselda ˈbaːdʒan]; born 1948) is a Turkish singer guitarist and music producer.
Pat Carrabré.  Pat Carrabré is a Canadian composer teacher and radio personality. He is composer-in-residence at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and a professor of music at Brandon University. In March 2007 Carrabré became the weekend host of The Signal a new program on CBC Radio 2 devoted to contemporary music. The program was cancelled as part of a raft of English radio cuts in March 2009
Maki Sakai.  Maki Sakai (坂井 真紀) (born 17 May 1970 in Taito Tokyo) is a Japanese actress. The fourth rehouse girl of Mitsui she has starred a number of TV drama series such as Daburu kitchin (1993) and Watashi no unmei (1994).She is a graduate of Jumonji Junior College.
Derrick Edmondson.  Derrick Edmondson is an American saxophonist composer producer and multi-instrumentalist.Along with Zac Harmon he contributed the song Can You Come Out And Play to the soundtrack of the motion picture White Men Can't Jump (1992) as part of The O'Jays.
Donald W. Linebaugh.  Donald W. Linebaugh is an American archaeologist and author.Linebaugh was director of the University of Kentucky Program for Archaeological Research in the College of Arts and Sciences and was assistant professor of anthropology.
Julia Keller.  Julia Keller is an American writer. She won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 2005. She was cultural critic for the Chicago Tribune when her first novel was published in 2012.Her novels include Bitter River (2013) the second in a mystery series featuring prosecutor Belfa Bell Elkins a crusader against the illegal prescription drug trade thriving in rural America.
Garth Stein.  Garth Stein is an American author and film producer from Seattle Washington. Although best known for his New York Times bestselling novel The Art of Racing in the Rain Stein has also spent time as a documentary film maker playwright teacher and amateur racer.
Chieko Kawabe.  Chieko Kawabe (河辺 千恵子 Kawabe Chieko) is a Japanese pop singer model radio host and actress. She was born on February 24 1987 in Tokyo. She married producer Masato Ochi on August 8 2008.
Donna Edwards (actress).  Donna Edwards is a Bafta award winning Welsh actress born in Merthyr Tydfil Wales and lives in Cardiff. She is most famous for playing Britt Monk in Pobol y Cwm (BBC Cymru for S4C). She has starred in a number of Welsh-based TV drama including Dinas Tair Chwaer and Belonging. She has also appeared in the BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey.
Diamond Platnumz.  Naseeb Abdul (also known as Diamond Platnumz) is a Tanzanian Bongo Flava artist.
Joost van den Vondel.  Joost van den Vondel (Dutch: [ˈjoːst vɑn dɛn ˈvɔndəɫ]; 17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant (1662) on the life of John the Baptist has been called the greatest Dutch epic.Performances of his theatre pieces occur regularly.
Vincy Chan.  Vincy Chan (born 16 October 1982) is a Hong Kong cantopop singer. Before the handover of 1997 when Hong Kong was returned from Great Britain to China her family left Hong Kong and went to Singapore when she was a child. She was signed by Emperor Entertainment Group and debuted with the album Vincy on 27 July 2006.She attended the Dunman High School in Singapore.
Edward Vesala.  Edward Vesala (15 February 1945 – 4 December 1999) born Martti Vesala was a Finnish avant-garde jazz composer bandleader and drummer.Born in Mäntyharju he began as a drummer playing jazz and rock in the 1960s among all in such bands as the early line-up of Blues Section and Apollo. In the 1970s he led his own jazz groups led a quartet with Polish trumpet player Tomasz Stańko played with Toto Blanke's Electric Circus and recorded with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
Friedrich Schiller.  Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ]; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet philosopher historian and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805) Schiller struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches.
Long Dong Silver.  Daniel Arthur Mead (born April 20 1960) known under the pseudonym Long Dong Silver is a retired porn star. Famed for the apparent size of his penis (reputedly 18 inches / 45 centimeters) he appeared in several pornographic movies in the UK and US during the late 1970s and early 1980s. However photographer Jay Myrdal has revealed that although Mead “was immensely endowed… a good nine or ten inches” the penis featured in his porn shoots was faked.
Wobbly (musician).  Wobbly is the moniker of Jon Leidecker a San Francisco based musician/composer of experimental electronic music. He has released works on Tigerbeat6 Illegal Art Alku Phthalo and others. He has been producing music since 1987 and ongoing studio and live projects involve collaborations with People Like Us Thomas Dimuzio Kevin Blechdom Tim Perkis Matmos and The Weatherman of Negativland.
Giovanni Angelo Criscuolo.  Giovanni Angelo Criscuolo (Cosenza 1500-1573) was an Italian painter active mainly in Naples.
Karl Richter (conductor).  Karl Richter (15 October 1926 – 15 February 1981) was a German conductor choirmaster organist and harpsichordist. He was born in Plauen and studied first in Dresden where he was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and later in Leipzig where he received his degree in 1949. He studied with Günther Ramin Carl Straube and Rudolf Mauersberger. In the same year he became organist at St. Thomas Church Leipzig where Johann Sebastian Bach was once Musical Director.
Lisa Lipps.  Lisa Lipps (born October 22 1966 in Chicago Illinois U.S.) is a pornographic actress and erotic dancer.She is known for her large breast implants and has appeared in numerous big-bust videos and magazines. She received her first breast enhancement surgery at age 19.Lipps made appearances on The Jerry Springer Show in 1997 and on the Howard Stern television show in 1998.As of 2006 Lipps resided in Las Vegas Nevada and as of 2008 she was represented by the agency LA Direct Models.
Lou Breslow.  Louis Breslow (née Lewis Breslow; July 18 1900 – November 10 1987) was an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 70 films between 1928 and 1955. He also directed seven films between 1932 and 1951 and wrote scripts for both Laurel and Hardy in their first two films at 20th Century Fox and Abbott and Costello.Lou Breslow married film actress and comedienne Marion Byron in 1932 and remained married until her death in 1985.
Isaiah Aram Minasian.  Isaiah Aram Minasian ( Isaiah/aɪˈzaɪ.ə/(Hebrew name) in Armenian Եսայիա Մինասյան  in Persian اشعیا میناسیان  born 28 February 1986) is a British violinist and cellist.
Sarah Smith (writer).  Sarah Smith (born 1947) is an American authorliving in Brookline Massachusetts.
Vikas Kohli.  Vikas Kohli is an Indian musician sought-after music producer Kohli is well versed in music across a variety of genres from punk jazz and hip-hop to country metal and Bollywood pop. He is known internationally for his extensive repertoire his expertise with song arrangements A-list session musicians and his one-on-one artist development and producer best known for founding Fatlabs.
Mark Bence-Jones.  Mark Adayre Bence-Jones (29 May 1930 – 12 April 2010) was a British writer noted mainly for his books on Irish architecture the British aristocracy and the British Raj. He regarded himself as being both Irish and English seeing no contradiction in these statements of nationality.
Ng Woon Lam.  Ng Woon Lam ( 黄运南 ) is a full member of National Watercolor Society NWS and American Watercolor Society.He showed in National Watercolor Society eightieth and eighty-second international exhibition American Watercolor Society 139th 140th and 142nd international annual show 2003 Florence Biennale and 2006 Oil Painters of America 15th Annual National Show.He learnt from Singapore Master Watercolour Artist Mr.
Mason Neely.  Mason Neely (born April 20 1979) is an American-born UK-based record producer drummer orchestral arranger and multi-instrumentalist who has produced and arranged for and toured with artists including; Lambchop Cerys Matthews Sufjan Stevens Diane Birch The Revival Hour Leigh Nash DM Stith Gulp Martyn Joseph Luke JacksonNatalie Duncan Colorama Paper Aeroplanes The Quiet Ones The Gregory Brothers Dawn Kinnard Alun Tan Lan Isaac Wardell and Thad Cockrell.He is a member of sacred music collective Bifrost Arts and has served as a composer arranger and musical director for the BBC RTÉ and S4C networks and scored advertisements for Best Buy Cisco Systems Domino's Pizza and Crispin Porter and Bogusky. 
Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson.  Anders Jacobsson (born 1964) and Sören Olsson (born 1964) are two Swedish-born cousins who are writers of children's literature and young-adult fiction. They are best known for their books about Sune and Bert. They have also written the scripts of several television series.Their inspiration comes from their own youth and talking to young adults (when visiting schools) and their own imagination.
Janice Erlbaum.  Janice Erlbaum is an American slam poet from New York City who is the author of GirlBomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir and Have You Found Her: A Memoir. Her poetry and prose have been featured in anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order The Best American Erotic Poems From 1800 to the Present and Verses that Hurt.She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner Bill Scurry.
Frank Day (artist).  Frank Day (Ly-dam-lilly) (February 24 1902 – August 13 1976) was a Native American artist from California.
Tahir Mamedov.  Tahir Mamedov (Azerbaijani: Tahir Məmmədov Russian: Таир Намикович Мамедов) (born October 2 1981 in Baku Azerbaijan) is a TV host entertainer actor comedian and singer. He's the ex-resident of Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel ТНТ.
Sandra Romain.  Sandra Romain (born March 26 1978 in Timişoara Romania) is a Romani pornographic actress.Sandra Romain was married. On January 13 2007 she won four awards at the 24th AVN Awards in Las Vegas.
Annie Leonard.  Annie Leonard (born 1964) is an American proponent of sustainability and critic of excessive consumerism. She is most known for her animated film The Story of Stuff about the life-cycle of material goods.
Elaine Ng Yi-Lei.  Elaine Ng born on 23 September 1972 (sometimes credited as Elaine Wu) is an actress and was the winner of Miss Asia 1990.She announced that she was pregnant in 1999 and disclosed the affair with Jackie Chan after public speculation. Soon afterwards Jackie Chan admitted he had only committed a fault that every single man in the world commits She gave birth to a daughter Etta Ng Chok Lam on 19 November 1999. However Elaine decided she would take care of her daughter without Jackie Chan.
Brian Asawa.  Brian Asawa (born 1966 Los Angeles) is a Japanese-American countertenor.
Connie Talbot.  Connie Talbot (born 20 November 2000) is an English child singer from Streetly West Midlands. She rose to fame in 2007 when she reached the final of the first series of Britain's Got Talent where she was runner-up to Paul Potts. Connie Talbot was expected to sign with Sony BMG but the label pulled out of the deal due to her age at the time.Talbot signed with Rainbow Recording Company and released her debut album Over the Rainbow in the UK on 26 November 2007.
Mircea Badea.  Mircea Badea (born Mircea Radu Badea February 24 1974 in Bucharest) is a Romanian political satirist television host media critic radio personality and occasional actor. He is widely known as host of În gaura presei (The Talk of The Press) a show based on the daily news that airs on Antena 3.Badea started as a radio host but later branched into television as a co-host of the Tele 7 abc Bună dimineața România (Good Morning Romania) morning show.
Sarah Banet-Weiser.  Sarah Banet-Weiser is an academic and author. She is a professor at the University of Southern California.
Stephen Kellogg.  Stephen Kellogg (born November 28 1976) is an American singer-songwriter. For more on his musical career see Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers.
Ithamara Koorax.  Ithamara Koorax (born 23 May 1965 in Rio de Janeiro) is a popular Brazilian pop-jazz singer.
Gordie Sampson.  Gordie Sampson (born July 30 1971) is a Grammy award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond Nova Scotia.Beginning his career as a performer on his hometown island of Cape Breton both in bands and on his own Sampson has gone on to achieve international success as a songwriter based in Nashville. He has written songs for Carrie Underwood Keith Urban Faith Hill LeAnn Rimes Blake Shelton Miranda Lambert and Rascal Flatts among many other country performers.
Al Purdy.  Alfred Wellington Purdy OC OOnt (December 30 1918 – April 21 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called the nation's unofficial poet laureate and a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture.
Money-B.  Ron Brooks better known by his stage name Money-B is an American rapper best known for being a member of the funk and rap group Digital Underground. He is a member of Raw Fusion with DJ Fuze whom they had two albums Live From the Styleetron and Hoochified Funk.He had a solo album named Talkin' Dirty which features Digital Underground released in 1999.
Young MC.  Marvin Young (born May 10 1967) better known by his stage name Young M.C. is an English-born American singer rapper and actor. He is best known for his 1989 hit Bust a Move. His debut album Stone Cold Rhymin' found international acclaim; however subsequent albums have not reached the same level of success. Young has also appeared in film in acting roles and cameo appearances and has appeared in several television programs.
Joshua Sternin.  Joshua Sternin is an American television producer and writer. He is the oldest son of Alan Sternin and Esther Sternin and married to actress/performer Paige Scurti Sternin.
Josefa Berens-Totenohl.  Josefa Berens-Totenohl (March 30 1891 in Grevenstein Sauerland - June 6 1969) was a German writer and painter.She was the daughter of a blacksmith. First she became a teacher but later worked as a writer and painter and made elaborate tapestries. Her romantic peasant novels were very popular in Nazi Germany; although she never joined the Nazi Party and the novels had no ideological overtones their praise of peasant virtue rootedness and strength were acceptable to the party.
Thor Harris.  Thor Harris (born February 7 1965) is a musician painter and carpenter. He is the percussionist for Shearwater (2001–present) a band from Austin Texas. He has performed with Bill Callahan The Angels of Light Lisa Germano Gretchen Phillips Devendra Banhart Rebecca Cannon and Swans. He has recorded 6 instrumental albums with the Austin producer Rob Halverson.
Nana Kitade.  Nana Kitade (北出菜奈 Kitade Nana) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to being the lead singer of the Rock band The Teenage Kissers she has had success as a solo artist model actress and fashion designer. Kitade is particularly known for her songs appearing in various anime TV shows doramas and movie opening and endings. Kitade was featured on the cover of the Gothic & Lolita Bible as well as featured in NEO and Kera magazines.
Stella Chung.  Stella Chung (Chinese: 钟晓玉; pinyin: Zhōng Xiǎoyù born 9 July 1981) is a Malaysian actress and singer.
Jenny Omnichord.  Jenny Mitchell better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord is a Canadian indie rock musician. She has released three solo albums and an EP as a solo artist and also records and performs with the bands The Barmitzvah Brothers and The Burning Hell.On Cities of Gifts and Ghosts Mitchell worked with a variety of influential Canadian record producers including Don Kerr Evan Gordon Jim Guthrie Bob Wiseman Scott Merritt and Dave Clark.
Luis Lloréns Torres.  Luis Lloréns Torres (May 14 1876 – June 16 1944) was a Puerto Rican poet playwright and politician. He was an advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico.
DJ Kool.  DJ Kool (real name John Bowman) is an American DJ and rapper born in 1958 who in the late 1980s produced several popular rap singles. Born in 1958 in Washington D.C. his influence from his years of working the go-go and rap circuits became apparent in his music.
Kenneth Leslie.  Kenneth Leslie (October 31 1892 – October 6 1974) was a Canadian poet and songwriter and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of The Protestant Digest (later The Protestant) which had a peak circulation of over 50000 subscribers. A Christian socialist he was given the nickname God's Red Poet.
Jon Boden.  Jon Boden (born 1977) is a multi-instrumental musician and English folk singer.
Robyn Troup.  Robyn Troup (born February 11 1988 in Houston Texas) is an American singer who was the winner of the My Grammy Moment contest organized by NARAS and Yahoo! Music and announced at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on February 11 2007. Through online and text message voting she was placed in the top three along with 30-year-old Africa Miranda and 22-year-old Brenda Radney and attended the Grammy ceremony.
Per-Olov Kindgren.  Per-Olov Kindgren (born June 10 1956 in Bogotá Colombia) is a Swedish classical guitarist composer and music teacher known for his classical guitar playing ranging from Bach to The Beatles.
Harry Julian Fink.  Harry Julian Fink is an American television and film writer known for Have Gun – Will Travel and as one of the writers who created Dirty Harry.Fink wrote for various television shows in the 1950s and 1960s and also created several including NBC's T.H.E. Cat starring Robert Loggia and Tate starring David McLean.His first film work was the 1965 Sam Peckinpah film Major Dundee. He also worked on Ice Station Zebra and with R.M. Fink Big Jake Dirty Harry and Cahill U.S. Marshal.
Roger Duchêne.  Roger Duchêne (3 February 1930 – 25 April 2006) was a French biographer specializing in the letters of Madame de Sévigné.
Thomas Hill (author).  Thomas Hill (born ca. 1528) was an English astrologer author and translator who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain.
George Perkins (singer).  George Perkins (Denham Springs Louisiana 25 September 1942 - Hammond Louisiana 17 April 2013) was an American soul singer best known for his 1970 hit Crying In The Streets which was based on observation of the Martin Luther King funeral. The song was covered by Buckwheat Zydeco with Ry Cooder on slide guitar. After dropping out of view 1974-1979 he made a comeback in 1980.
Karina Pasian.  Karina Pasian (born July 18 1991) is a Grammy-nominated recording artist and pianist.
Godfrey Gao.  Godfrey Gao (Chinese: 高以翔; born September 22 1984) is a Taiwanese-born Canadian model and actor.
Christopher C. Bell.  Christopher C. Bell Jr. (born May 7 1933) is an American writer African American author poet and lecturer. Bell is best known for his controversial writings on racial issues in the Black church that cause the White Superiority Syndrome which is a term he coined. He's a founder of the Muslim American Veterans Association (MAVA).
Jonathan Maberry.  Jonathan Maberry (born May 18 1958) is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues the first of the Pine Deep Trilogy a series of supernatural horror novels. Maberry has been active as a professional writer and writing teacher since 1978.
Laura Bravo.  Laura Bravo more commonly known as Lori Bravo (born May 16 1966) is an avant garde musician painter and photographer from Glendale Arizona. She was formerly the singer and bassist with death metal pioneers Nuclear Death but is currently performing with her side project Raped.
Douglas Muir (actor).  Douglas Muir (1914-1966) was a British film and television actor.
Beverley Kelso.  Beverley Kelso (born April 1948) is a Jamaican singer best known as an early member of The Wailers. Born in Kingston Jamaica she attended Miss Nembhard Preparatory School and Denham Town Primary School in Kingston.She was a backing vocalist and one of the founding members of The Wailers (between 1963 and 1965).
Lincoln Chase.  Lincoln R. Chase (29 June 1926 – 6 October 1980) was an African-American songwriter and occasional recording artist. As a writer his most notable songs were Such a Night Jim Dandy and several of Shirley Ellis' hits in the early 1960s including The Name Game and The Clapping Song.
David Foster Pratt.  David Foster Pratt (1918–2010) was an American artist art instructor and designer. He was best known for his watercolor and oil landscapes. Pratt served as the director of the Art Institute of Buffalo in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During his tenure at the Institute he worked closely with Charles Burchfield. He lived and worked most of his life in western New York. His works have been exhibited in many northeastern and mid-west states.
John Doheny.  John Steven Pip Doheny (born December 17 1953) is a jazz tenor saxophonist and band leader who also plays flute clarinet and alto saxophone.Born in Seattle Washington Doheny studied with prominent Canadian saxophonist and bandleader Fraser MacPherson whom he credits as a major influence.
Zoot Sims.  John Haley Zoot Sims (October 29 1925 - March 23 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist playing mainly tenor and soprano.
Christofer Johnsson.  Christofer Johnsson (born 10 August 1972 in Upplands Väsby Stockholm County) is a Swedish composer. He is a founding member and the guitar player for Therion and used to be in Carbonized Liers in Wait Messiah and Demonoid. He is a member of the order Dragon Rouge. On 21 March 2006 he announced he will no longer sing for Therion though he will continue playing guitar for the group.
Nataša Veljković.  Nataša Veljković (born in Belgrade 2.4.1968) is a Serbian pianist.She was trained under Arbo Valdma Paul Badura-Skoda (University of Music in Vienna -1987) Rudolf Firkusny (Juilliard School 1988–89) and Harry Datyner (Geneva Conservatory 1990–92). She then settled in Vienna where she is teaching at the University of Music since 1993.At 17 Veljković won the XI Concours Clara Haskil which was followed by the World Music Masters competition in Montecarlo five years later.
Tsubasa Otomiya.  Tsubasa Otomiya (音宮 つばさ Otomiya Tsubasa born June 20 1978 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress.
Hilaire Belloc.  Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (/hɨˈlɛər ˈbɛlək/; French: [ilɛʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer orator poet sailor satirist man of letters soldier and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith which had a strong impact on his works and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton.
Stephen Day (musician).  Stephen Day is an American composer producer instrumentalist vocalist and teacher. His credits range from scoring portions of the film Formula 51 starring Samuel L. Jackson to founding a nonprofit organization Ombience dedicated to spreading spirituality through art.
Chynna Clugston.  Chynna Clugston (born August 19 1975) is an American comic book creator known for her manga-influenced teen comedy series Blue Monday.
Pierre Angelo.  Pierre Angelo Antonioli Flores (born September 24 1972) is a Mexican-Italian actor director and humorist. He was first known for his role in the kids 80’s show Chiquilladas which launched his career into the comedy world within Mexican television theater movies amongst other.His TV career includes several acclaimed TV shows such as:Libre para amarte (2013) Pierre Notas (2008-2010) Parodiando (2012) La familia P.
Oliver Huntemann.  Oliver Huntemann (born June 19 1968 Hanover Germany) is a German electronic music producer and internationally-touring DJ.
Robert Arnold.  Robert Allan Arnold (13 August 1982) commonly known as Rob Arnold is a singer from Wellington New Zealand who achieved fame in a New Zealand boy band Boyband as the gay boy.
Shi Hui (actor).  Shi Hui (1915–1957) born Shi Yutao (Chinese: 石毓涛) was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Despite his fame Shi became a victim of the Anti-Rightist Movement in the mid-1950s and committed suicide soon thereafter.
Sakurako Kaoru.  Sakurako Kaoru (薫桜子/薰櫻子 Kaoru Sakurako) is a Japanese gravure model AV idol and pink film actress. First coming to prominence as an award-winning AV actress Kaoru successfully made the transition to the theatrically released softcore pink film genre. She has appeared in award-winning pink films and was herself given a Best Actress award for her work in this genre in 2007.
Suede (singer).  Suede is an American pop cabaret and jazz singer. She was born in Nyack New York and went to high school in Severna Park Maryland. She began playing music in high school getting bar gigs before she even graduated. She lived in Baltimore for the majority of the 80's and became a fixture at many local clubs. Suede's popularity in the adult contemporary circles steadily increased and she began playing sold-out shows in some of the US's most respected concert halls.
Wilma De Angelis.  Wilma De Angelis (born in Milano on April 8 1931) is a popular Italian singer and presenter. She is very famous for her talk-show in the kitchen and her cooking abilities.
Erika Okuda.  Erika Okuda (奥田恵梨華 Erika Okuda born February 24 1981) is a Japanese actresswho has had the following roles
Jay Orpin.  Jay Orpin (born April 29 1976 in Stockholm Sweden ) is a Swedish and Finnish songwriter and producer.
Scott Reeder (drummer).  Scott Reeder is a drummer who joined southern Californian stoner rockers Fu Manchu in 2002. Previously he was a co-founder of the Orange County California alternative-rock band Smile.Reeder is known for his heavy drumming style and refers to John Bonham of Led Zeppelin as one of his great influences.Scott Reeder plays Ludwig Drums (often sporting psychedelic colors) Sabian Cymbals Evans drumheads and uses Vic Firth drumsticks as stated on his MySpace page.
Raymond Smullyan.  Raymond Merrill Smullyan (born May 25 1919) is an American mathematician concert pianist logician Taoist philosopher and magician.Born in Far Rockaway New York his first career was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied under Alonzo Church.
Moon Deoksu.  Moon Deoksu (Hangul: 문덕수) is an early-modern Korean poet.
Neil Lawson Baker.  Neil Lawson Baker (born 1938) is a British artist sculptor and photographer.
Future Man.  Roy Wilfred Wooten (born October 13 1957) also known as RoyEl best known by his stage name Future Man (also written Futureman) is an inventor musician and composer. He is also known as Futche to his fans. He is a percussionist and member of the jazz quartet Béla Fleck and the Flecktones along with banjoist Béla Fleck harmonicist Howard Levy and Roy's brother electric bass virtuoso Victor Wooten.
Ruby Day.  Ruby Day is an American artist model adult performer director and producer.Ruby Day was born in Kansas City Missouri and lived there in her early years. She studied at Baker University Baldwin City Kansas 1996–2000 and received a BA in International Business Economics/Finance Marketing Mass Communications/PR minors in Art and French in 2000.
Frank Gohlke.  Frank Gohlke born in 1942 is an American landscape photographer. He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.[citation needed] Known for his large format landscape photographs Gohlke's work has been shown at museums all over the world and included in various museum collections.Although he was born in Texas Gohlke’s geographical range includes central France the American South and Midwest New England and Mount St.
Stephen Webster.  Stephen Webster MBE is a British jewellery designer best known as founder of his eponymous jewellery brand.
Dik Mik.  Michael Davies (born Richard Michael Davis 1943 in Richmond Surrey England) better known as Dik Mik was the electronics operator and keyboardist with Hawkwind. On album credits he was credited as playing keyboards audio generator synthesiser or electronics.He knew Dave Brock before the formation of Hawkwind in November 1969 and was an original member of the band. He was injured in a major traffic accident in May 1971 and had to step down his place being taken by Del Dettmar.
Motohiro Hata.  Motohiro Hata (秦基博 Hata Motohiro born 11 October 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He debuted under the major label BMG Japan in 2006 with the single Synchro (シンクロ Shinkuro).
Koji Yamamoto (actor).  Koji Yamamoto (山本耕史 Yamamoto Koji born October 31 1976) is a Japanese actor and singer who was born in Tokyo Japan.
Lela B. Njatin.  Lela B. Njatin (born January 5 1963) is a Slovene writer and visual artist. She is best known for her novel Nestrpnost (Intolerance) and her conceptual art installations.Njatin was born in Ljubljana in 1963. She studied Comparative literature and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. She worked as an editor and a public relations consultant. She mostly writes short stories that have been published in several anthologies at home and abroad.
Don Chezina.  Don Chezina (born Ricardo Garcia Ortiz in 1976) is a singer producer and talent scout of reggaeton music. He is known for his high nasal voice and fast rapping style (known as Puerto Rico's Machine Gun Rapper) along with his most famous song Tra Tra Tra which in 1998 became one of the first reggaeton songs to become popular in the US. Chezina was considered one of the biggest names in the early days of the reggaeton genre.
Dvorska Luda.  Dvorska Luda (born Andrija Krivokapić; 25 December 1985) is a Montenegrin rapper record producer and beatmaker based in Bar. He is a member of the larger hip-hop group Barska Stoka.
Bret Wood.  Bret Wood is an Atlanta-based film director and author.His credits include The Little Death (2010) 'Psychopathia Sexualis (2006) and Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2002) released by Kino International. His award-winning shorts include Judgement (2005) Rapture (2006) Security (2007) and The Other Half (2009).He also co-authored the book Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film with his wife Felicia Feaster.
Robyn Donald.  Robyn Donald (born 1940 in Northland New Zealand) is a prolific writer of romance novels from New Zealand.She writes for the English Mills and Boon romance series and all her books have also been reedited under Harlequin Enterprises Limited series.Her first romance titled 'Bride at Whangatapu' was published under the exegesis of Mills and Boon in 1977. Her books are printed 500000 at a time.
Fei Mu.  Fei Mu (simplified Chinese: 费穆; traditional Chinese: 費穆; pinyin: Fèi Mù) (1906–1951) was a major Chinese film director from the pre-Communist era.
Ira Losco.  Ira Losco (born 31 July 1981) is a Maltese singer. With a string Number 1 singles and albums Ira Losco is one of the best selling artists in Malta. She competed for Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song 7th Wonder and finished second. Losco released several commercially-successful albums and singles and received wide recognition across Europe.
Jun Jin.  Jun Jin (Hangul: 전진; hanja: 前進 literally: move forward) (born Park Choong-jae Hangul: 박충재; hanja: 朴忠裁; 19 August 1980) is a South Korean singer actor and entertainer known as a member and rapper of six-member boy band Shinhwa. He debuted as a dancer and rapper in Shinhwa in 1998 but started singing small parts in 2002; the release of Shinhwa's 5th album. He debut as a solo artist in November 2006 with single Love Doesn't Come.
Damian Kulash.  Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. (born October 7 1975) is the lead singer and guitarist for Chicago-based rock band OK Go.
Ernst Günther.  Ernst Harry Ingemar Günther (3 June 1933 – 8 December 1999) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 66 films and television shows between 1962 and 1999. He starred in the 1974 film Gangsterfilmen which was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards he won the Creative Achievement award.
Robert Nicoll.  Robert Nicoll (7 January 1814 – 7 December 1837) was a Scottish poet.He was born at the farm of Little Tullybeltane in the parish of Auchtergaven Perthshire. When Robert was five years old his father was reduced to poverty. He became a day-labourer and was able to give his son only a very slight education. At 16 the boy was apprenticed to a grocer and wine-merchant at Perth.
Ju-ken.  Ju-ken (born June 27 1971 in Funabashi Chiba Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese session bassist. He is a member of GacktJob The Wanderers and Anna Tsuchiya. He is one of the most in-demand bassists in Japan.
Syd Barrett.  Roger Keith Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English musician composer singer songwriter and painter best remembered as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd. He was lead vocalist guitarist and principal songwriter during the band's psychedelic years providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early compositions. He is credited with naming the band.
DJ Format.  Matt Ford better known as DJ Format (a near-inversion of his birth name) is a hip hop DJ born in Southampton England who lives in Brighton. He collaborates frequently with Abdominal on the album Music For the Mature B-Boy and with Abdominal and fellow Canadian rapper D-Sisive on the second full album If You Can't Join 'Em… Beat 'Em as well as with Akil and Chali 2na from Jurassic 5.
Iain McGilchrist.  Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist doctor writer and former Oxford literary scholar.
John Axel Eriksson.  John Axel Eriksson (born 5 January 1978; Falkenberg Sweden) is a Swedish actor.
Lu Yao.  Lu Yao (Chinese: 路遥; 1949–1992) born Wang Weiguo (Chinese: 王卫国) was a Chinese writer. He was born on 3 December 1949 in Qingjian County Shaanxi Province and died on 17 November 1992. He had six siblings and grew up in a very poor family. He began writing novels when he was a college student and graduated from Chinese Department of Yan'an University in 1973. After graduation he became an editor of Yanhe magazine.
Nagendra Narayan Choudhury.  Nagendra Narayan Choudhury (Assamese: নগেন্দ্ৰ নাৰায়ণ চৌধুৰী; 1881-1947) was a short story writer and essayists from Assam. He was noted for his contribution to the field of Short stories and essays in the Assamese literature during the years of Awahon. He was elected as a president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1931 held at Sivasagar district.
DJs from Mars.  Djs from Mars is an Italian DJ and production team composed of Max Aqualuce (born August 3 1979 in Turin) and Luca Ventafunk (born February 29 1976 in Turin). They are known for their mash-ups of popular songs turned into electro dance music.
Arthur Hoeber.  Arthur Hoeber (23 July 1854 New York City – 29 April 1915 Nutley New Jersey) was a United States painter best known for his writing on art-related subjects.
Cha. Fra. D'Costa.  Cha. Fra. D'Costa was a Konkani Poet Dramatist and Konkani Journalist.
Christopher Chronis.  Christopher Chronis (born September 29 1961 in Melbourne Australia) is an Australian fashion designer. Chronis has designed men's and women's fashions under the Christopher Chronis Designs Gas Station and Christos fashion labels. He is now the head designer of Global Designer Brands.
Julian Lennon.  John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is a British musician. He is the only child of John Lennon and Cynthia Powell (his father's first wife). The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein was his godfather. He has a younger half-brother Sean Lennon. Lennon was named after his paternal grandmother Julia Lennon.Lennon was the direct inspiration for three Beatles' songs: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Hey Jude and Good Night.
Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov.  Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov (Russian: Никола́й Арно́льдович Петро́в 14 April 1943 – 3 August 2011) was a Russian pianist. Petrov was born in Moscow the son of the cellist Arnold Ferkelman and the grandson of the operatic bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov and began learning the piano at the age of three. At the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory his teacher was Tatyana Kestner and in 1961 Petrov entered the class of Yakov Zak at the Conservatory itself.
Iben Sandemose.  Iben Sandemose (born 1950) is a Norwegian illustrator children's writer playwright and biographer. She was born in Oslo and is the granddaughter of Aksel Sandemose. Among her children's books is Vingemus og kattejammer from 1987 and Ringeren & Notre Madame from 1994 which was adapted for theatre and staged at Centralteatret in 1994. She was awarded Teskjekjerringprisen in 2011. She is represented with her art works at Riksgalleriet and at the National Gallery of Norway.
Gregory Douglass.  Gregory Douglass (born December 19 1980) is an American singer-songwriter. Douglass plays lead guitar and piano.
Alex Finlayson.  Alex Finlayson is an American playwright whose sly irreverent plays have found more success on the English stage than in the United States. After winning Finlayson a Mobil Oil International Playwriting Prize Winding the Ball — a dark comedy about a sniper shooting up the small town where he is also the popular high school football coach—was produced by The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester which also commissioned and produced Finlayson's Misfits (1996) and Tobaccoland (1999).
Graham Streeter.  Graham Streeter (born January 22 1964) is an American film director screenwriter and cinematographer.Streeter was raised in northern California until high school. He lived in Osaka Japan for 10 years while working in film and television then returned to the United States and attended California State University Sacramento.
Jemal Karchkhadze.  Jemal Karchkhadze (Georgian: ჯემალ ქარჩხაძე; 1936 – 1998) was a Georgian writer. He is the author of six novels some short stories and essays. His works are conceptual and gained popularity after his death. His novel Antonio and David (ანტონიო და დავითი 1987) was published in Swedish in 2013. Jemal Karchkhadze was born in 1936 in the village of Ukhuti in Vani in western Georgia. He graduated in 1960 with a degree in Georgian language and literature at Tbilisi State University.
Camile Baudoin.  Camile Baudoin (born June 27 1948) is a guitar player from New Orleans Louisiana and a founding member of The Radiators.Baudoin shares lead guitar duties in The Radiators with Dave Malone and plays with or without a slide.
Tony O'Malley.  Tony O'Malley (25 September 1913 – 20 January 2003) was an Irish artist. He was born in Callan County Kilkenny Ireland. O'Malley was a self-taught artist having drawn and painted for pleasure from childhood. He worked as a bank officìal until contracting tuberculosis in the 1940s.
Jim Eanes.  Jim Eanes (December 6 1923 - November 21 1995) was an American bluegrass and country music singer and guitarist of Sephardic Jewish heritage.
Émile Desportes.  Émile Desportes (born Pont l'Evêque 1878 - ) was a French composer conductor painter inventor and explorer. His daughter was the composer Yvonne Desportes (1907).Desportes was originally a lawyer at Caen then professor of music and conductor. He studied composition with Paul Dukas but soon became more interested in other activities.
Kenya Bell.  Kenya Howard-Bell (born April 2 1977) is an American R&B singer beauty pageant title holder engineer model and reality television personality who is a cast member on the VH1 reality show Basketball Wives. She made her debut on the fourth season.
Osbert Sitwell.  Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature.
Martha Copeland.  Martha Copeland was an American classic female blues singer who recorded 34 songs between 1923 and 1928. Her best known offerings are Everybody Does It Now Good Time Mama Blues and Sorrow Valley Blues. Promoted by Columbia Records as 'Everybody's Mammy' her recordings did not sell in the quantities enjoyed by her label mates Bessie and Clara Smith. Outside of her recording career little is known of her life.
Issey Miyake.  Issey Miyake (三宅 一生 Miyake Issei born 22 April 1938) is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs exhibitions and fragrances.
Stephen H. Sholes.  Stephen Henry Sholes (February 12 1911 – April 22 1968) was a prominent recording executive with RCA Victor.
Carolyn Jourdan.  Carolyn Jourdan is an American author who has twice made The Wall Street Journal list of top ten bestselling books.
Torun Lian.  Torun Lian (born 1956) is a Norwegian playwright film director and novelist. She made her literary début in 1988 with the collection Tre skuespill for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. In 1995 she was awarded with the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Among her films are Bare skyer beveger stjernene from 1998 and Ikke naken ikke kledt (engl. The Color of Milk) from 2000.
Stephen Laughton.  Stephen Laughton is a British Cypriot playwright. He was raised in Stourbridge Worcestershire. He attended the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama before completing a master's degree at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Based in London he started his career as an associate producer and worked with Rupert Murray and Beadi Finzi on the Academy Award shortlisted Unknown White Male. He was part of the 2011/2012 Royal Court Theatre Invitational Writer's Group.
Vidadi Babanli.  Vidadi Yusif oglu Babanli (Azerbaijani: Babanlı Yusif oğlu Vidadi) (born in 1927 Qazakh) is an Azerbaijani writer dramatist translator and Merited Artist of Azerbaijan.
Earl R. Dean.  Earl R.
Bad News Brown (musician).  Paul Frappier (May 8 1977 – February 11 2011) better known by his stage name Bad News Brown (at times also as BNB and Briz Brown) was a Montreal-based Canadian entertainer musician and hip hop MC of Haitian origin. He was well known for pairing the sound of his chief instrument the harmonica with hip-hop beats and rhymes. Frappier started busking in Montreal taking his signature sound as a teenager to the streets and subway stations of Montreal.
Courtney Fortune.  Courtney Fortune is an American singer/songwriter from Seattle Washington. Her musical style is categorized as crossover jazz and pop drawing upon a long list of vintage and modern influences.[citation needed] Her voice is often compared to singers like Peggy Lee Eva Cassidy and Norah Jones.
Mirwais Ahmadzaï.  Mirwais Ahmadzaï (born 1960) more commonly known as Mirwais is a Paris based record producer and songwriter. He was born in Switzerland to an Afghan father and an Italian mother. He is a leader in the French style of progressive electronic dance music and progressive electronica. A former member of the defunct 1980s group Taxi Girl he was re-discovered by Madonna in the late 1990s when he submitted a demo to her then record label Maverick Records.
Sean Newhouse.  Sean Newhouse is an American orchestral conductor. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2007 he studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. In 2010 he was appointed assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. On February 24 2011 Newhouse stepped in on two hours' notice to conduct Mahler's 9th symphony replacing an ailing James Levine in a surprise debut.
Drew Magary.  Drew Magary is an American columnist interviewer and book author. He wrote novel The PostMortal (End Specialist in the UK) about a cure for aging and Someone Could Get Hurt about parenting in the 21st century. He is a regular contributor for GQ magazine. Magary interviewed Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson for GQ and the article became widely covered for Robertson's comments. Magary has written for Deadspin NBC Maxim magazine and the NFL humor site Kissing Suzy Kolber.
Patti Russo.  Patricia Patti Russo (May 20 1964 New Jersey) is an American singer/songwriter/actress. She is perhaps best known as Meat Loaf's former female lead vocalist as she toured the world with his Neverland Express band between 1993 and 2013. Since then she has embarked on a solo career.
Chin Siu-ho.  Chin Siu Ho (born January 26 1963) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist notable for acting with Jet Li in The Tai-Chi Master and Fist of Legend. He is the older brother of actor Chin Kar-lok.
Garry Disher.  Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949 in Burra South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.
Charles Shadwell (playwright).  Charles Shadwell was an English playwright of the 18th century date of birth unknown dead in 1726.The son of Thomas Shadwell Charles Shadwell was the author of The Fair Quaker of Deal Irish Hospitality or Virtue Rewarded and other plays collected and published in 1720.
Five for Fighting.  Vladimir John Ondrasik III (born January 7 1965) known by his stage name Five for Fighting is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his piano-based rock such as the Top 40 hits Superman (It's Not Easy) (2001) 100 Years (2003) and The Riddle (2006).
George Fant.  George Fant (11 July 1916 – 21 February 1998) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1995. He was father of actor Christer Fant.
Coreen Simpson.  Coreen Simpson (born February 18 1942) is a noted African-American photographer and jewelry designer whose work has an African-American theme. She was born and resides in New York City.Simpson's photographic career began as a fashion photographer for the Village Voice and the Amsterdam News in the early 1980s and covered many African-American cultural and political events in the mid-1980s. She is also noted for her studies of Harlem nightlife.
Susana Medina.  Susana Medina (January 31 1966) is an English-Spanish writer. Born in Hampshire England of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin she grew up in Valencia Spain and has lived in London since 1989. Susana Medina has written and published poetry a novel stories essays and a cinematographic script.
Ghulam Muhammad Qasir.  Ghulam Muhammad Qasir (Urdu: غلام محمد قاص‎ September 4 1944 - February 20 1999) was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He is considered to be one of the finest modern poets of Urdu gazal. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was the one who 1st introduced him in his famous literary journal called Fanoon back in year 1977. Ghulam Muhammad Qasir came up with is 1st collection of poetry called Tasalsul in the same year and received warm acceptance across the country.
Larry Levine.  Larry Levine (May 8 1928 – May 8 2008) was an American audio engineer known for his cooperation with Phil Spector on the Wall of Sound recording technique.
Gottlieb Bodmer.  Gottlieb Bodmer (1804–1837) was a German painter designer and lithographer.
Dan Russell (cartoonist).  Dan Russell (1906 – 1999) was an Australian cartoonist. Dan's younger brother Jim Russell was also a cartoonist.
Johnny Butt.  Johnny Butt (born 1870 in Bradford West Riding of Yorkshire died 1930 in London) was a British film actor of the silent era.
Heather Holley.  Heather Holley (born in Austin Texas) is an accomplished music producer songwriter vocalist vocal producer composer pianist and pro tools engineer whose credits have yielded combined sales of over 29 million albums. She specializes in artist development and is known for her role in launching Christina Aguilera's career.
Lindsay Armstrong.  Lindsay Armstrong (b.) is a popular South African-Australian writer of over 65 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1981.Armstrong was born and raised in South Africa and married a New Zealand-born man who worked in West Africa.
Charles-Rémy-Jules François.  Charles-Rémy-Jules François (December 24 1809 Paris - 1861) was a French engraver.His early productions were engravings of pictures by Anthony van Dyck and Raphael in the manner of his master Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont. Later he was exclusively employed in reproducing the paintings of Paul Delaroche. He resided in Brussels beginning 1858.His brother Alphonse François was also a distinguished engraver.
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi.  Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American artist.
David Aldous (actor and broadcaster).  David Aldous is an English actor and broadcaster. He has appeared in TV series such as The Bill and Casualty and in the film Loved Up. He has also presented the programmes In Depth for GOD TV and Passages of Life for Premier Christian Radio. Since 27 July 2009 he has presented Hope in the Night from 1am to 4am on Premier Christian Radio.
Ken Shakin.  Ken Shakin (born 1959 in New York City) is a writer of underground transgressive fiction.Love Sucks was first published in 1997 by Gay Men's Press a pioneer in LGBT fiction and The Cure For Sodomy in 2006 by Haworth Press. Grandma Gets Laid (The Permanent Press 2008) was translated into Russian (Centrepolygraf 2009).
Pierre-Francisque Caroubel.  Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (1556 – summer 1611 or 1615) was a French violinist and composer.Caroubel was born in Cremona. He lived in Paris from 1576 and collaborated with Michael Praetorius at the court of the Duke of Brunswick at Wolfenbüttel. He is known for his dance music bransles and galliards some of which were published after his death in the anthology Secret des muses (Amsterdam 1615). Some of the music arranged by Praetorius in Terpsichore Musarum (1612) was also by Caroubel.
S. V. Ranganna.  S. V. Ranganna (kannada:ಎಸ್.ವಿ.ರಂಗಣ್ಣ) (December 24 1898 – 1987) was writer in the Kannada language. He was an English professor in Mysore University. He was also recipient of sahitya academy award for his philosophical reflections Ranga Binnapa
Piero da Rimini.  Piero da Rimini lived in the early part of the 14th century and is the author of a Crucifixion at Urbuni near Urbino. Paintings in S. Maria Portofuori in Ravenna are attributed to him.
Joe Marsala.  Joe Marsala (January 4 1907 – March 4 1978) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist and songwriter born and initially based in Chicago Marsala moved to New York City in 1933 at the request of Wingy Manone. It was in NYC that Joe found his greatest success as the leader of the 1936 band that entered the Hickory House on 52nd Street. He remained there as leader for ten years.
Carl Crossin.  Carl Crossin OAM (born 24 April 1953) is an Australian choral conductor educator and composer. He is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the University of Adelaide. He is director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music in the University of Adelaide.
Phillip Wilcher.  Phillip Leslie Wilcher (born 16 March 1958) is an Australian pianist and classical music composer and was a founding member of the children's music group The Wiggles. When Wilcher published his first work Daybreak at the age of 14 he was one of the youngest classical composers in Australia. Early in 1991 Wilcher had joined The Wiggles after he met Anthony Field who suggested they could record the group's self-titled debut album. Wilcher was a major contributor for the music of the album.
Delta Goodrem.  Delta Lea Goodrem (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer-songwriter pianist and television actress. Born and raised in Sydney Australia she enrolled in dancing acting singing and piano classes at a young age.
Bob Tyrrell (tattoo artist).  Bob Tyrrell (born November 4th 1962) is an American tattoo artist currently based in Warren Michigan.
Jaida Dreyer.  Jaida Dreyer is an American-Canadian country music singer-songwriter and a world champion equestrian who is signed to Streamsound Records a label founded in 2012 by Byron Gallimore. She debuted in 2012 with the singles Guy's Girl and Confessions both of which charted on Hot Country Songs. Recent songwriting credits include Fall for Me which was recorded by Sunny Sweeney on her 2011 album Concrete and At the Time which was recorded by Carolyn Dawn Johnson in 2010.
Carla Accardi.  Carla Accardi (October 9 1924 – February 23 2014) was an Italian painter who contributed significantly to the acceptance of abstract art in Italy. In 1947 she co-founded the Forma 1 Marxist-inspired art movement with Ugo Attardi Pietro Consagra Piero Dorazio Mino Guerrini Achille Perilli Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato. She first exhibited in the United States in 2001 at MoMA PS1.
DJ Sneak.  DJ Sneak (born Carlos Sosa; 1969) is a Puerto Rican born American house music DJ and producer raised in Chicago Illinois. He is noted as being one of the second wave of Chicago house producers (alongside Derrick Carter Cajmere/Green Velvet Gemini James Curd and Paul Johnson) as well as a member of the vanguard of late-1990s United States house producers.
John Frederick Coots.  John Frederick Coots (May 2 1897 – April 8 1985) was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song Santa Claus Is Coming to Town a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history.Among his songs are: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town You Go To My Head Louisiana Fairy Tale For All We Know I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You)He wrote the first three songs with the lyricist Haven Gillespie.
Zora Cross.  Zora Bernice May Cross (18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964) was an Australian poet novelist and journalist.She was born in Brisbane and was educated at Ipswich Girls' Grammar School and then Sydney Teachers' College. She taught for three years and then worked as a journalist for the Boomerang and then as a freelance writer.She was known not only for her poems including sonnet sequences but for a private life scandalous by the standards of her time.
Gen Hoshino.  Gen Hoshino (星野 源 Hoshino Gen born 28 January 1981 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese singer songwriter lyricist actor and voice actor.
Dalek (artist).  James Marshall (born May 22 1968) better known as Dalek is an American artist and designer based in Raleigh North Carolina. Dalek has published two books featuring his artwork as well as being included in many other books and magazines. His artwork has appeared on a wide variety of mediums including sneakers sculptures and a Scion car.
Christian Leberecht Vogel.  Christian Leberecht Vogel (4 April 1759 Dresden - 6 April 1816 Dresden) was a German painter draughtsman and writer on art theory. His pupils included Louise Seidler and he was the father of the court painter and art professor Carl Christian Vogel.
Jacek Malczewski.  Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) is one of the most revered painters of Poland associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions. He is regarded as father of Polish Symbolism.
Dora Stratou.  Dora Stratou (Greek: Δόρα Στράτου; 1903–1988) was a significant contributor to Greek Folk Dancing and Greek Folk Music.
Steve Riley (drummer).  Steve Riley (born January 22 1956 in Revere Massachusetts) is a rock drummer who has played in various bands including W.A.S.P. Roadmaster The B'zz Steppenwolf and since 1987 he's been the drummer for L.A. Guns. Selling over ten million records over three decades Steve has been regarded as one of the best rock drummers of his generation. Steve is endorsed by Ludwig Zildjian Pro-mark and DW.
Shanna McCullough.  Shanna McCullough (born April 1 1960) is an American pornographic actress who has been called one of the adult industry's all-time great stars.She grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. At school she was involved with the theatre group and acted in drama and musicals. She went to college and received a degree in accounting. Then she worked as an electrician for two years and also as a veterinary technician.
J. D. Cronise.  John D. J. D. Cronise is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist guitarist songwriter and record producer of heavy metal band The Sword which he co-founded in Austin Texas in 2003.
Micah Williams.  Micah Williams (1782–1837) was a New Jersey folk art painter.
Anakana Schofield.  Anakana Schofield is an Irish-Canadian writer who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky.
Rebstar.  Rebin Shah (born 4 October 1988) better known by his stage name Rebstar is a Swedish recording artist and entrepreneur. He is also the co-founder and serves as the CEO of record label Today Is Vintage.
Troy Sanders.  For other uses see Troy Sanders (composer).Troy Sanders (born September 8 1973) is an American bassist/singer best known as a member of the Atlanta Georgia metal band Mastodon in which he shares vocal duties with guitarist Brent Hinds and drummer Brann Dailor.
Joe McElderry.  Joseph Joe McElderry (/məˈkɛldəri/; born 16 June 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. He won the sixth series of the ITV show The X Factor in 2009. His first single The Climb reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Charts. He was also crowned the winner of the second series of Popstar to Operastar in 2011 and the first series of The Jump in 2014. To date he has released four top 20 albums - two of them reaching the UK top three.
Kristine Woods.  Kristine Woods is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her work in sculpture and textiles.
John Cheever.  John William Cheever (May 27 1912 – June 18 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called the Chekhov of the suburbs. His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan the Westchester suburbs old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy Massachusetts where he was born and Italy especially Rome.
John Jesurun.  John Jesurun is writer director and multi-media artist based in a New York USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983 originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek Michigan.
Abdal Bela.  Abdaal Bela (born 14 December 1956) is an Urdu-language fiction writer from Pakistan.
Maud Sulter.  Maud Sulter (19 September 1960–27 February 2008) was a contemporary fine artist and writer of Ghanaian and Scottish heritage who lived and worked in Britain.
Lord Alfred Douglas.  Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) nicknamed Bosie was a British author poet and translator better known as the friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme though he tended later in life to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet.
Jackie Landry Jackson.  Jackie Landry Jackson (May 22 1941 – December 23 1997) was a member of The Chantels the first nationally-successful black female pop music group. She died in 1997 of breast cancer.After her initial singing career ended she became a Grand Jury Stenographer for the Bronx District Attorney. She rarely spoke about her experiences with the Chantels while employed in the District Attorney's Office. When Oldies and Rock and Roll revivals came into vogue she revisited her singing career.
Andrés Calamaro.  Andrés Calamaro (born Andrés Calamaro Masel August 22 1961) is an Argentine musician composer and Latin Grammy winner. His former band Los Rodríguez was a major success in Spain in the 1990s. He became one of the main icons of the Argentine rock in the last two decadesTemplate:When? and has sold over 1.3 million copies.
Harper Allen.  Harper Allen is a Canadian writer of contemporary and fantasy romance novels since 1998.
Jay Baumgardner.  Jay Baumgardner is an American record producer engineer and mixer. He has worked on albums by Ugly Kid Joe Helmet Sevendust Papa Roach Endwell Coal Chamber Godsmack Three Days Grace P.O.D. New Found Glory Spineshank Alien Ant Farm and Orgy.His most recent work is producing the upcoming Death by Stereo album Death Is My Only Friend.He is currently working with Rui Watanabe (dr) of the rock group Fade (http://fadeonline.com/) on their upcoming album.
Gabriel Köerner.  Gabriel Köerner (born June 14 1982 in Waterbury Connecticut) is a visual effects artist and well-known Star Trek fan (Trekkie). Köerner appeared as a profilee in the 1997 documentary Trekkies and its 2003 sequel Trekkies 2 and went on to make guest appearances on The Drew Carey Show and as the Star Trek Geek on Beat the Geeks. As a VFX artist he fulfilled his lifelong Star Trek dream by working on the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Ravisankar.  Ravisankar is an Indian playback singer. He has about 100 recorded songs to his credit in Malayalam. With his sweet and romantic voice he has been creating memorable music for several years.
Ben Watt.  Benjamin Brian Watt (born 6 December 1962) is an English musician DJ record producer and radio presenter best known as one half of the duo Everything but the Girl.
Gustave Flaubert.  Gustave Flaubert (French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel Madame Bovary (1857) for his Correspondence and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Aki Takase.  Aki Takase (高瀬 アキ) (born January 26 1948 in Osaka) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.
Rachel Davis (musician).  Rachel Davis is a fiddler from Baddeck on Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia.
Julio Castellanos.  Julio Castellanos González (b. Mexico City October 3 1905 – d. Mexico City July 16 1947) was a Mexican painter and engraver.
Greg Kihn.  Gregory Stanley Greg Kihn (born July 10 1949) is an American rock musician radio personality and novelist.
Mari Hamada.  Mari Hamada (浜田麻里 Hamada Mari born July 18 1962 in Tokyo Japan height 158cm) is a Japanese female rock singer songwriter and producer.
Alison Mosshart.  Alison Nicole Mosshart (born November 23 1978) is an American singer songwriter and occasional model best known as the lead vocalist for the indie rock band The Kills and blues rock band The Dead Weather. She started her musical career in 1995 with the Florida punk rock band Discount which disbanded in 2000.
Ella Eyre.  Ella McMahon (born 1 April 1994) better known by her stage name Ella Eyre is a British singer and songwriter signed to Virgin EMI Records. She's known for her collaborations with Rudimental on their UK number one single Waiting All Night and Naughty Boy and Wiz Khalifa on his single Think About It. Her debut EP Deeper was released on 15 December 2013. Her debut single is set to be released in June 2014 and her album in the Autumn.
Walter Davis Jr..  Walter Davis Jr. (September 2 1932 Richmond Virginia; – June 2 1990 New York City) was an American hard bop pianist.
George Washington Moon.  George Washington Moon (1823-1909) was an English writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He published several poems contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography and wrote a number of books on the grammar of the English language. Several of these books were lengthy compilations of the purported grammatical errors of specific writers which led to vigorous counterattacks and controversies.
Emma Trevayne.  Emma Trevayne is an american speculative fiction author.
Mudboy.  mudboy (aka. Raphael Lyon) is an experimental musician and artist from Providence Rhode Island.mudboy began recording experimental noise and electronic organ music in 2000 while a resident of Fort Thunder and continues to do so today. Over twenty albums have been released on a variety of labels since then.
Željko Joksimović.  Željko Joksimović or often credited Zeljko Joksimovic (Serbian: Жељко Јоксимовић pronounced pronounced [ʒěːʎko jôksimoʋitɕ] ; born 20 April 1972 in Belgrade SR Serbia SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer composer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is one of the most popular and respected artists from the Balkans. He is also very well valued elsewhere in Eastern and Central Europe.
Tim Kingsbury.  Tim Kingsbury is a Canadian musician and member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. He plays bass guitar guitar and occasionally keyboards.He spent his early years living in and around Guelph Ontario. His peers would become indie names such as Gentleman Reg and Jim Guthrie. Eventually Tim moved to Montreal where the Arcade Fire formed.Kingsbury also toured and recorded with Wolf Parade for a while as a bassist.
Bobby Cruz.  Bobby Cruz (born February 2 1937) is a salsa singer and religious minister. He is well known for his success beginning in 1965 as part of the duo Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz. His seminal professional pairing with Richie Ray is one of the longest-lived partnerships in Latino music lasting over 50 years. His wide vocal range and quiet gentlemanly demeanor has earned Cruz enormous popularity over the years.
François-Victor Hugo.  François-Victor Hugo (28 October 1828 – 26 December 1873) was the fourth of five children of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher.
Weston Ochse.  Weston Ochse (Born 1965 in Gillette Wyoming) is an American author and educator. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction. His novel SEAL Team 666 is currently under development by MGM Films. Dwayne Johnson has attached himself to the film to executive produce as well as act in a leading role.
Dave Davies.  David Russell Gordon Dave Davies (born 3 February 1947) is an English musician best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks.In 2003 Davies was ranked 88th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Stan Hart.  Stan Hart is a comedy writer with many television credits. His work also appeared for decades in Mad magazine.
Steve Augarde.  Steve Augarde (born 3 Oct 1950) is a British author and artist. He has written and illustrated several novels for children and young adults as well as over seventy picture books for younger children including pop-up books for which he designed the paper engineering. He also designed and illustrated the Little Red Car books by Matthew Price among others.
Chris Henderson (Canadian musician).  Chris Henderson (born April 7 1984) is a Canadian country musician. He is the lead singer of the Chris Henderson Band which formed in 2007. He was born in Estevan Saskatchewan where he grew up. His debut album Follow the Signs was released across Canada on September 28 2008. Chris attended the University of Regina studying in the Faculty of Education. He convocated in 2006.
Erik Friedlander.  For the mathematician see Eric Friedlander.Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.A veteran of NYC's experimental downtown scene Friedlander has worked in many contexts but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with saxophonist/composer John Zorn. Friedlander grew up in a home filled with art and music: his father is photographer Lee Friedlander noted for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records.
Pat Wictor.  Pat Wictor (born 1966 Caripito Venezuela) is an American blues and folk musician guitarist singer/songwriter and recording artist. Known for his ethereal style he was nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year in 2006 by the Folk Alliance and has released a number of solo albums. In 2010 Wictor co-founded the folk trio Brother Sun with singer-songwriters Joe Jencks and Greg Greenway and the band has since released two full albums and toured extensively.
Norman Connors.  Norman Connors (born March 1 1947) is an American jazz drummer composer arranger and producer who has led some influential jazz and R&B groups. He also achieved several big R&B hits of the day especially with love ballads.
David Friedrichsfeld.  David Friedrichsfeld (c. 1755 – February 19 1810) was a German-Jewish writer in German and Hebrew. Friedrichsfeld was born in Berlin where he absorbed the scholarship and ideas of the Meassefim. In 1781 he went to Amsterdam where he was one of the leaders in the fight for the emancipation of the Jews writing in the promotion of this cause his Beleuchtung ... das Bürgerrecht der Juden Betreffend Amsterdam 1795 and Appell an die Stände Hollands etc. ib. 1797.
N. D. Cocea.  N. D. Cocea (common rendition of Nicolae Dumitru Cocea Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e duˈmitru ˈkot͡ʃe̯a] also known as Niculae Niculici or Nicu Cocea; November 29 1880–February 1 1949) was a Romanian journalist novelist critic and left-wing political activist known as a major but controversial figure in the field of political satire.
Eric Drooker.  Eric Drooker (b. New York City) is an American painter graphic novelist and frequent cover artist for The New Yorker. He conceived and designed the animation for the film Howl (2010).Drooker grew up in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town adjacent to the Lower East Side which was then a working-class immigrant neighborhood with a tradition of left-wing political activism. He attended the Downtown Community School in Manhattan's East Village.
Grace Krilanovich.  Grace Krilanovich (born October 5 1979) is an American author. Her first novel The Orange Eats Creeps was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2010.
Willie King.  Willie King (March 18 1943 – March 8 2009) was an award-winning blues guitarist and singer known for shunning fame and playing at a local bar in Mississippi.
Ray C. Strang.  Ray C. Strang (born Sandoval Illinois USA 1893 – died 1957) was an American Western artist and illustrator. He was educated in Centralia Illinois and attended the Art Institute of Chicago Art Students League of New York and New York School of Fine and Applied Arts.
Nastaran Akhavan.  Nastaran Akhavan (in Persian: نسترن اخوان December 5 1961 Tehran is an Iranian Non-fiction writer. Being the only survivor of Iranian Black Friday she wrote the true story of the day and afterwards in her view as a 17 years old Iranian school girl in a book Spared. She left the country in 1978 first resided in England and obtained her high school diploma. In 1979 she immigrated to the United States.
Caspar Brötzmann.  Caspar Brötzmann (born 13 December 1962) is an electric guitar player. He was born in Wuppertal Germany.While Brötzmann typically performs with the power trio lineup of Caspar Brötzmann Massaker (his early band) with guitar bass guitar and drum set he only uses rock and roll and heavy metal music as a basis for his music.
Mario Giordano (writer).  Mario Giordano (born 30 May 1963) is a German writer.His novel Black Box (1999) which is based on a true occurrence (Stanford prison experiment) was adapted to a film under the name Das Experiment directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The film was acclaimed and Giordano received for it among other prizes the Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay.
Alice Mason.  Alice Trumbull Mason (1904–1971) was an American abstract painter. She was descended from renowned history painter John Trumbull through her father. She travelled throughout Europe when she was young. Beginning in 1921 she studied art in Rome attending the British Academy in 1923. She settled in New York by 1927 and was influenced by early abstract artist Arshile Gorky.
Jacqueline Berger.  Jacqueline Lisa Berger (born November 30 1960) is an American poet and director of the graduate English program at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. She is the author of three books of narrative poetry: The Mythologies of Danger (1997) Things That Burn (2005) and The Gift That Arrives Broken (2010). Her work is concerned with the themes of desire and loss.
Ray Petri.  Ray Petri (1948-1989) was a fashion stylist and creator of the fashion house Buffalo.Born Ray Petrie in Dundee Scotland Petri moved to Brisbane Australia with his family at age 15. In 1969 feeling Australia was too provincial he moved to London where he ran a jewellery booth at the Camden Street antiques market. He loved reggae and styled Freddie McGregor. Between 1983 and 1989 Petri worked freelance with lifestyle magazines The Face i-D and Arena.
Hugh Facy.  Hugh Facy (fl. 1618) also known as Hugh Facey or Hugh Facio was an English composer from the Renaissance. He composed largely choral or keyboard pieces.
Julie Crochetière.  Julie Crochetière (born July 10 1980 in Montreal) is an independent Canadian singer/songwriter pianist and arranger.Julie Crochetière began learning to play the piano at the age of six continuing her classical piano studies for another eight years. At the age of thirteen Crochetière wrote her first song.
Einar Økland.  Einar Økland (born 1940) is a Norwegian lyricist playwright essayist and children's writer. He made his literary debut in 1963 with the poetry collection Ein gul dag. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for the children's book Sikk-sakk. He was awarded the Melsom Prize 1991 for Når ikkje anna er sagt and the Dobloug Prize in 2000.
Fiona Brice.  Fiona Brice is a composer orchestral arranger and violinist. She is known as sidewoman with the alternative rock band Placebo.Brice writes orchestral arrangements for various artists and has toured and recorded with several major pop and rock acts including Placebo Kanye West Sugababes Boy George Westlife Sophie Ellis Bextor Patrick Wolf and Simply Red.
Ezio Carabella.  Ezio Carabella (Rome 3 March 1891- Rome 19 April 1964) was an Italian operetta song and film music composer. He provided music for several films directed by Mario Camerini among others.
Howard E. Scott.  Howard E. Scott (born March 15 1946 in San Pedro Los Angeles California) is an American funk/rock guitarist and founding member of the successful 1970s funk band War.
Tommy Wieringa.  Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboot (2005) and the Libris Prize in 2013 for the novel Dit zijn de namen (2012).
Viive Sterpu.  Viive Sterpu (formerly Sirkel born December 10 1953) is an Estonian artist married to fellow artist Eugen Sterpu. She lives and works Tallinn Estonia.Viive Sterpu draws mostly with pastel colours on sandpaper. She also has had experiments with graphic art and glass works. Sterpu finds her motifs mostly from everyday life and from her art can be found female tenderness as well as the loneliness of a citywoman. She loves animals and nature and portrays them with pleasure in her art.
Woody Weatherman.  Woodroe Woody Weatherman is lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Corrosion of Conformity.Woody was born on July 29 1965 in Raleigh North Carolina and now lives in Virginia.He started Corrosion of Conformity with Mike Dean and Reed Mullin in 1982 where they started as a punk band but later transformed to a more metal sound with the addition of Pepper Keenan.
Jason Bonham.  Jason John Bonham (born 16 July 1966) is an English drummer. Jason's father was Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and his mother is Pat Phillips. After his father's death in 1980 he played with Led Zeppelin on different occasions including the Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert at The O2 Arena in London in 2007.
Thalia Myers.  Thalia Myers (born in the West of England in 1945) is a British concert pianist teacher and animateur.Her solo recordings include six albums of contemporary works as well as music by Haydn and Chopin. She is the initiator of the highly successful Spectrum anthologies published by the ABRSM and the Chamber Music Exchange.
Dave Berg (cartoonist).  Dave Berg (Brooklyn June 12 1920 – May 17 2002) was an American cartoonist most noted for his five decades of work in Mad.Berg showed early artistic talents attending Pratt Institute when he was 12 years old and later studying at Cooper Union. He served a period of time in the Army Air Corps. In 1940 he joined Will Eisner's studio where he wrote and drew for the Quality Comics line.
Pushkar Lele.  Pushkar Lele (born 14 November 1979) is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist. He is best known for his 'Kumar Gandharva Style Gayaki (singing)'.
Otto Luening.  Otto Clarence Luening (June 15 1900 – September 2 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music.Luening was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin to German parents Eugene a conductor and composer and Emma (nee Jacobs) an amateur singer. When he was 12 his family moved to Munich where he studied music at the State Academy of Music.
Sara Henderson.  Sara Jane Henderson (15 September 1936 – 29 April 2005) was an Australian pastoralist and author.She was named Businesswoman of the Year in 1991 for managing the Bullo River cattle station 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory.
Hans Bornemann.  Hans Bornemann (active from 1448 - d. 1474) was a late Gothic painter who was active in Hamburg. The earliest written mention of him is a record that he received an inheritance in 1448. He was one of the founders of the Guild of Saint Luke in Hamburg. He was active in the city council of Hamburg and painted 17 portraits of princes for the Hamburg city hall. After his death his workshop was taken over by Hinrik Funhof who in 1475 also married Bornemann's widow.
Timberlake Wertenbaker.  Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright screenplay writer and translator.
Georgia Fabish.  Georgia Fabish (born 31 January 1994 Wellington New Zealand) is a New Zealand actress. She is best known for her TV work with Thomas Robins as Celia West in The Killian Curse and as Chiquita Holden in Out of the Blue (2006 film) the film version of the New Zealand shootings in 1990. Fabish attended Sacred Heart College before attending Hutt Valley High School in New Zealand.[citation needed]
Ona Zee.  Ona Zee (born March 3 1951) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and model.
Scott Lew.  Scott Lew is a scriptwriter who has ALS.Lew wrote the script for Sexy Evil Genius starring Seth Green and Michelle Trachtenberg. He is also the subject of the documentary film Jujitsu-ing Reality released in 2013.
Felipe Rodríguez (singer).  Luis Felipe Rodríguez better known as Felipe La Voz Rodríguez (May 8 1926– May 26 1999) born in Caguas Puerto Rico was a singer of boleros. He is regarded as the most popular Puerto Rican male singer of the 1950s based on record sales and live audience records. Many of Rodríguez's recordings are often considered to be classics in Puerto Rico.
Qi Baishi.  Qi Baishi (simplified Chinese: 齐白石; traditional Chinese: 齊白石; pinyin: Qí Báishí; Wade–Giles: Ch'i Pai-shih) (January 1 1864 – September 16 1957) was an influential Chinese painter.Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan Hunan Qi became a carpenter at 14 and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40 he traveled visiting various scenic spots in China. After 1917 he settled in Beijing.
William Edward Hickson.  William Edward Hickson (January 7 1803 – March 22 1870) commonly known as W. E. Hickson was a British educational writer. He was the author of Time and Faith and was the editor of The Westminster Review (1840–1852). He wrote part of the Official Peace Version of the British national anthem approved by the Privy Council found in the 1925 edition of Songs of Praise and with one line changed in the 1933 edition.
Homeyra.  Parvaneh Amir-Afshari (Persian: پروانه امير افشاری‎ born March 16 1945) also known as Homeyra (Persian: حميرا‎) is an Iranian singer. She is a veteran celebrity of Iran's Golden Years of music. Her voice has been measured to span three octaves.
Andrew J. Lewis.  Andrew J Lewis is a writer musician artist and co-founder of the Toshist movement.
James Ford (musician).  James Ford is an English musical composer record producer and musician.
Tom Bellamy.  Thomas Rhys Bellamy is the multi-instrumentalist responsible for contributing guitar bass synthesizer keyboard trumpet programming samples melodica harmonica percussion toy piano bowed guitar decks FX/beats vocals and lyrics in the band The Cooper Temple Clause. He is also a keen DJ and has remixed several songs by The Cooper Temple Clause as part of his side project Rhysmix.
Christian Rønn.  Christian Rønn (born in Denmark on May 23 1969) is a Danish composer of film music. He is also a producer and performer of electronic music and has produced a number of artists. F.ex. Vanessa Daou (Once in a While) Claire Ross-Brown (Complexity) and Christos Stylianou. (Be With You) & (The Game)Since 1998 his musical scores have appeared on more than 24 feature films and documentaries.
Alex Goot.  Alexander George Gut (Poughkeepsie March 15 1988) is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist from New York. Goot grew rapidly through the channel lists YouTube Top 200 with his covers of famous songs and his original songs. His channel GootMusic is among the over 70 registered with more than one million subscribers. He plays acoustic guitar bass guitar piano drums and other instruments.
Anthony D'Amato.  Anthony D'Amato is an American songwriter and singer. He released two albums independently before signing with New West Records.
Charles Weidman.  Charles Weidman (1901 – 1975) is a renowned choreographer modern dancer and teacher. He is well known as one of the pioneers of Modern Dance in America. He wanted to break free from the traditional movements of dance forms popular at the time to create a uniquely American style of movement. Born in 1901 he choreographed from the 1920s to the 1970s until his death in 1975. While he is most famous for his work with Doris Humphrey Weidman did a lot of work on his own.
Tracy Lawrence.  Tracy Lawrence (born January 27 1968) is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called Live At Libby's where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music. Lawerence signed to Atlantic Records in 1991 Lawrence debuted that year with the album Sticks and Stones which produced his first chart single and first Number One hit in its title track.
Frank Tenney Johnson.  Frank Tenney Johnson (June 26 1874 – January 1 1939) was a painter of the Old American West and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as The Johnson Moonlight Technique. Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives fingers and brushes.
Lena Philipsson.  Maria Magdalena Lena Philipsson (also known as Lena Ph; born January 19 1966 in Vetlanda Sweden) is a Swedish singer and media personality.
Lize Marke.  Lize Marke (born Liliane Couck Wemmel 1 December 1936) is a Belgian singer best known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest.
Francis Edward Faragoh.  Francis Edward Faragoh (16 October 1898 – 25 July 1966) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 20 films between 1929 and 1947. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1931 for Best Writing Adaptation for Little Caesar.He was born in Budapest Hungary and died in Oakland California from a heart attack.
Lasairfhíona.  Lasairfhíona (pronounced Lah-sah-reena) also known as Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola is an Irish singer/songwriter. She is deeply rooted in the sean-nós singing style of her home on Inis Oírr one of the Aran Islands. She is a graduate of Celtic Studies from Trinity College Dublin.
Miirrha Alhambra.  Pauline Joutard (1890–1957) was a French-born pianist who performed under the stage name Miirrha Alhambra.Her sister Flora Joutard and she had studied in Bad Homburg before touring Europe and South America together in the early 1900s.
Andrew Wood (singer).  Andrew Patrick Wood (January 8 1966 – March 19 1990) was an American musician best known as the lead singer for alternative rock bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. Wood was also known for his androgynous aesthetical persona.Wood formed Malfunkshun in 1980 with his brother Kevin and Regan Hagar. The band used alter ego personas onstage with Wood using the name Landrew the Love Child.
Robert Tan.  Robert See-Hoong Tan (born 1959) is a physician author and medical director. He currently lives in Houston Texas. He has written & lectured extensively on aging and men's health issues including andropause. He is a pioneer in testosterone replacement therapy and effects on the brain. Dr. Tan completed his early education at Anglo Chinese School and National University of Singapore.
Paul Lewis (composer).  Paul Lewis (born 1943) is a British composer who was born in Brighton England. Lewis began composing for television at age 20 and is best known today for his television music. It includes TV scores for dramatic series such as Arthur of the Britons The Prisoner of Zenda and Undermind children's series such as Brendon Chase Seal Morning and Woof! and comedies such as the celebrated Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Benny Hill Show.
Sowmya Raoh.  Sowmya Raoh (born 18 April) is an Indian playback singer who has performed in Kannada Tamil Hindi and Telugu languages.
Mary Batten.  Mary Batten (1937 in Smithfield Virginia United States) is an American writer of science books for children and adults. She is also known for writing television productions films and magazines and has won several awards concerning her work in these areas.
Franz Nicolay.  Franz Nicolay (born 1977) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer currently based in Brooklyn New York. He is perhaps best known for playing the accordion and the piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and playing keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010.
Jan Brzechwa.  Jan Brzechwa (Polish pronunciation: [ˈbʐɛxfa]) (Żmerynka Podolia 15 August 1898 – 2 July 1966 Warsaw Poland) was a Polish poet and author known mostly for his contribution to children's literature. He was born Jan Wiktor Lesman to a Polish family of Jewish descent.
Mami Higashiyama.  Mami Higashiyama (東山麻美 Higashiyama Mami born June 11 1977 in Himeji Hyōgo Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer best known for her role as Miku Imamura/Mega Pink in the 1997 Super Sentai series Denji Sentai Megaranger. She is affiliated with Sun Music Brain talent agency.
Mat Maitland.  Mat Maitland (born 1971) is an English art director and visual artist who lives in London.
Lewis Carroll.  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən/; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/) was an English writer mathematician logician Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.
Johnny Chester.  John Howard Johnny Chester (born 26 December 1941) is an Australian singer-songwriter who started his career in October 1959 singing rock'n'roll and in 1969 changed to country music. He has toured nationally with The Beatles Roy Orbison The Everly Brothers Kenny Rogers Johnny Cash Tammy Wynette and Charley Pride. During his career he has led various groups including Johnny Chester and The Chessmen Johnny Chester and Jigsaw Johnny Chester and Hotspur.
Pipo Nguyen-duy.  Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy (born 1962 in Hue Vietnam) is a fine art photographer based in Ashland Oregon and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College.
Feliks Konarski.  Feliks Konarski (pseudonym: Ref-Ren) (January 9 1907 – August 9 1991) was a Polish poet songwriter and cabaret performer.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (/ˈɡɪlmən/; July 3 1860 – August 17 1935) was a prominent American feminist sociologist novelist writer of short stories poetry and nonfiction and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.
Derek Roddy.  Derek Roddy (born August 28 1972) is an American drummer and snake breeder originally from South Carolina. His ability to record entire drum tracks in one or two takes earned him the nickname One Take.Though he may be known as the second drummer of Hate Eternal he has also played and recorded with Nile Malevolent Creation Divine Empire Council of the Fallen (where he also played guitar) Today Is the Day Traumedy and Aurora Borealis.
Carolyn Dawn Johnson.  Carolyn Dawn Johnson (born April 30 1971 in Grande Prairie Alberta) is a Canadian Juno Award winning country music singer-songwriter. Johnson co-wrote Chely Wright's 1999 single Single White Female which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1999. Johnson was signed in 2000 to record label Arista Nashville.In 2001 Johnson released her debut album Room with a View. The album's first single Georgia reached No.
Ann Morfee.  Ann Morfee sometimes credited as Anne Morphee Ann Morphy or similar variants is co-founder of Opus 20 and a member of the Michael Nyman Band since 1992.She was educated at Chetham's School Manchester York University and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.She has performed with Audrey Riley Cathy Giles Colin Sheen Graeme Perkins Isobel Griffiths John Wilson Justin Pearson London Metropolitan Orchestras Ltd London Session Orchestra London Telefilmonic Orchestra Music Solutions Ltd and Roz Colls.She has performed in pit orchestras for the shows Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Evita and The Producers.
Zdeněk Pololáník.  Zdeněk Pololáník (born October 25 1935) belongs to the most respected Czech contemporary composers. His son Petr Pololanik is a conductor and orchestrator at Capellen Music Production.Zdeněk Pololáník has written nearly 700 compositions of various styles and genres. Since the 1960s he became a sought-after composer of film music sacred music and commissioned works. His music has been performed by prominent musicians orchestras and choirs worldwide.
Ema Kogure.  Ema Kogure (小暮 英麻 Kogure Ema born October 31 1976) is a Japanese voice actress who is freelance she was previously affiliated with Mausu Promotion. She was born in Osaka Prefecture but was raised in Adachi Tokyo.
Zamir Jafri.  Zamir Jafri (Urdu: ضمیر جعفری) (January 1 1918 – May 12 1999) was a Pakistani poet born in Dina Jhelum. He became famous for his Urdu humorous poetry and also wrote humorous columns in the newspapers and periodicals. After graduating from Islamia College Lahore[Punjab University]] he joined the army’s public relation department during World War II and retired as a major.
Jaro Procházka.  Jaro Procházka (April 22 1886 in Prague Vyšehrad – September 30 1949 in Prague) was a Czech painter specializing in cities and landscapes.He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague under Prof. Jakesch (1900–1904) and then at the Academy of Fine Arts where his studies were interrupted by the First World War. He was a member of the Union of Artists in Prague.His work was influenced by the impressionist movement.
Barbaros Erköse.  Barbaros Erköse (born 1936) is a Turkish clarinet player ensemble leader and composer. Erköse began to play the clarinet at age 9. While he was in secondary school he was playing at wedding ceremonies. Around the same time Erköse quit school. When he was 12 the musician took clarinet lessons from Saffet Gündeğer.
Veronica Ballestrini.  Veronica Jean Ballestrini (born October 29 1991) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Veronica has released two studios album. Her self-made success story has caught national attention as Jon Caramanica wrote in the New York Times ... When someone like Ms. Ballestrini arrives essentially unannounced and begins to attract attention it’s signiﬁcant.”
Aaron Accetta.  Aaron Accetta (born May 11 1971) is an American record producer songwriter and musician. He has written and/or produced for such names as He is We Forever The Sickest Kids James Garfunkel Brooke Hogan Deborah Gibson Jordan Knight Rich Cronin LFO KeKe Palmer Aaron Carter Nick Carter and Jeff Timmons.Born and raised in Mt. Kisco NY a small town outside of New York City Accetta began his music career at the early age of fourteen; writing his first song on his Fender Stratocaster.
Ira Sullivan.  Ira Sullivan (born May 1 1931) is a bop jazz trumpeter flugelhornist flautist saxophonist and composer born in Washington D.C.. An active musician since the 1950s he may be best known for his extensive work with Red Rodney and Lin Halliday among others.
Alpa Gun.  Alper Sendilmen (born 4 July 1980) is a German rapper with Turkish origin better known as Alpa Gun. In 2004 he got signed to Berlin label Sektenmuzik and since then a member of rap group Die Sekte.
Arun Shenoy.  Arun Shenoy (born April 30 1978) is a composer and music producer of Indian origin based in Singapore. He is also the owner of Arun Shenoy Music Publishing a publishing house he founded in 2011. On Dec 5 2012 Shenoy was announced as a nominee for a Grammy Award at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in the category of Best Instrumental Pop Album for his debut full-length studio album Rumbadoodle. Shenoy has also set up a new record label Narked Records in 2013.
Graham Dury.  Graham Dury (born in Clifton Nottingham) is a British cartoonist. He is known for his work with adult comic Viz having contributed to the magazine from its early years.
Ayah Bdeir.  Ayah Bdeir (born 1982 in Montreal Canada) is an interactive artist engineer and founder/CEO of littleBits an open source library of modular electronics that snap together with magnets. Bdeir is considered one of the leaders of the Open Hardware Movement and was named on Fastcompany's Most Creative People in Business for 2013.Bdeir received her masters degree from the MIT Media Lab and undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering and Sociology from the American University of Beirut.
Thongchai McIntyre.  Thongchai Bird McIntyre (Thai: ธงไชย แมคอินไตย์ pronounced [tʰōŋ.tɕʰāj]) (born Albert Thongchai McIntyre December 8 1958) is a Thai pop singer who released his debut album in 1986. He is also sometimes known as Bird Thongchai Phi Bird (elder brother Bird) or simply Bird.Considered to be Thailand's No.1 Superstar[citation needed] he is one of the most successful singers in Thailand's history having sold more than 20 million albums.
Alex Robinson.  Alex Robinson (born August 8 1969) is an award-winning American comic book writer and artist.
Marcel Lévesque.  Marcel Lévesque (1877–1962) was a French film actor.
Peter Herbert.  Peter Herbert is an Austrian jazz double-bass player who has two albums as leader and who has appeared on the albums of others including Paul Simon Franz Koglmann Marcel Khalife Arto Tuncboyaciyan Tom Cohen and many others.
Volker Pispers.  Volker Pispers (born January 18 1958 in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt) is a German Kabarett artist who is well known for his political satire. His comic style includes drastic and sometimes sarcastic commentary on current events especially about the political situation in Germany but also about the politics of the United States since 9/11 and during the Iraq War.
Reba McEntire.  Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28 1955) is an American country music singer songwriter and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band on local radio shows with her siblings and at rodeos. While a sophomore in college she performed the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City and caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall.
Deborah Manship.  Deborah Manship (born 25 September 1953) is a Welsh actress best known for her roles in the television drama series Angels (as Sister Valerie Price) and The District Nurse (as Nesta Mogg).She later appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
Kevin Seconds.  Kevin Seconds (born March 24 1961) is an American singer/songwriter/musician born in Sacramento California. As a teenager he moved with his family to Reno Nevada where he lived until 1988 when he relocated back to Sacramento and has been based ever since.It was while living in Reno that he founded the highly influential hardcore punk band 7 Seconds in 1979 with his younger brother Steve Youth. Having been their frontman from the start he also writes their lyrics.
Dasaradhi Rangacharya.  Dasaradhi Rangacharya is an Indian novelist. He wrote Chillera Devullu Modugupulu and Janapadam.
Andrea Tessa.  Andrea Tessa Vergara (born 1961 in Santiago) is a Chilean singer-songwriter TV presenter and actress of Italian descent. Daughter of the operatic soprano Victoria Vergara Olguín and Patricio Tessa Marchant. She studied at Scuola Italiana de Santiago. She started her musical career in 1979 singing Decir te Quiero in Viña del Mar International Song Festival song written by Scottie Scott winning for Best Interpreter.
René Ouvrard.  René Ouvrard (1624–1694) was a French priest writer and composer.Ouvrard was born in Chinon. He received orders and became kapellmeister of the cathedral of Bordeaux Narbonne and the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris then he was a canon in Tours. He became a priest in 1682. He died in Tours.
Alain Kirili.  Alain Kirili (born in 1946) is a French sculptor. He is recognized for his post-minimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his large-scale public sculptures. His work has subsequently been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in America and Europe and has received considerable critical interest from art historians such as Thierry Dufrêne Robert C. Morgan Robert Rosenblum and Kirk Varnedoe. Alain Kirili lives and works in Paris and New York.
Takako Nishizaki.  Takako Nishizaki (born April 14 1944) is a Japanese violinist. She was the first student to complete the Suzuki Method course at age nine.Nishizaki came to the United States from Japan in 1962.
Jonathan Coulton.  Jonathan Coulton (born December 1 1970) is an American singer-songwriter known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans.
Jamie Hewlett.  Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic book artist and designer. He is known for being the co-creator of the comic Tank Girl and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Nigel de Longchamps.  Nigel de Longchamps also known as Nigel Wireker (fl. c. 1190 died c. 1200) was an English satirist and poet of the late twelfth century writing in Latin. He is known to have been a monk of Christ Church Canterbury from 1186 to 1193 and perhaps earlier (he claims to have met Thomas Becket killed in 1170).
Junya Watanabe.  Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer originally the protégé of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. Born in Fukushima Japan in 1961 he went on to attend Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo graduating in 1984. At this time he began his apprenticeship at Comme des Garçons as a patternmaker. In 1987 he was promoted to chief designer of Tricot knitwear line and then moved on to design for the Comme Des Garçons Homme line.
Kyoko Okazaki.  Kyoko Okazaki (岡崎 京子 Okazaki Kyōko born December 13 1963) is a Japanese manga artist whose manga are popular for their unorthodox style and controversial topics for instance sex sadomasochism drugs homosexuality rape murder and prostitution. The Tokyo born Okazaki often focuses on urban Japanese life in the capital from the 1980s and 1990s. Her writings are often studded with modern jargon.
Jean-Marc Luisada.  Jean-Marc Luisada (born 3 June 1958) is a French pianist born in Bizerte Tunisia. He started on the piano at six years old the normal age.At the age of 16 he began studies at the Conservatoire de Paris under Dominique Merlet and Marcel Ciampi (piano) and Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux (chamber music).
Michiko Tanaka.  Michiko Tanaka (1909-1988) was a Japanese singer and actress. She lived and worked mainly in Germany where she married the actor Viktor de Kowa.
Caitlin Rother.  Caitlin Rother (born in Montreal Canada) is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction true crime American-Canadian author and journalist who lives in San Diego California.
Rudy Rush.  Rudy Rush born September 27 1973 is an American comedian.In 2000 he became the host of Showtime at the Apollo.
Mona Lyngar.  Mona Lyngar (born 1944) is a Norwegian novelist. She was born in Drammen. She made her literary debut in 1966 with a prize-winning contribution to the anthology Gruppe 66 and the novel Ved stupet. She published the short story collection Ballonger in 1967. Later novels are Fasadeklatrerne from 1984 Noe å slekte på from 1996 and Noe å skryte av from 2001.
Pedro Aznar.  Pedro Aznar (born 23 July 1959) is an Argentine musician with a lifetime of experience in jazz Argentine folk music and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style by playing the fretless bass with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius.
Helen Rowland (actress).  Helen Rowland credited as Baby Helen Rowland (born October 23 1919) was an American child actress. She appeared in nine films between 1922 and 1927.
Elgiazar Farashyan.  Elgiazar Farashyan (in Belorussian Ягіазар (or Егіязар) Фарашян in Armenian Եղիազար Ֆարաշյան) (born 2 November 1988) is a Belarusian singer. Born in Armenia Farashyan and his family relocated to the Gomel region in eastern Belarus when he was five years old.Farashyan's musical ambitions were fostered by his mother a vocal teacher. He studied at the Gomel College of Art. In 2005 he won the Grand Prix at the Land under White Wings and in 2006 he won the Grand Prix at Kind Stork.
Nazar (rapper).  Afshar Ardalan (Persian: افشار اردلان‎; born 20 September 1984 in Tehran) better known by his stage name Nazar is an Austrian rapper Iranian descent from Vienna.
T. W. Wheeler.  Terence Wheeler (also known as T.E.R. Wheeler) (born 1936) is a British writer. His debut novel The Conjunction was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. He has also published two other novels From Home in Heaven and The Wreck of the Rat-Trap and had a two plays broadcast by the BBC.
Monica Howe.  Monica Howe is a British costume designer who made her film debut in 1976 with Bugsy Malone for which she received a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design nomination at the 31st British Academy Film Awards. She was again nominated in 2001 for her work on the Academy Award-nominated film O Brother Where Art Thou?.
Kristyna Myles.  Kristyna Myles (born 10 May 1984) is a British singer-songwriter who is currently based in Manchester. Originally from Leicestershire she came into prominence after winning Busk Idol a 2005 nationwide singing competition organised by BBC Radio 5 Live. Since winning she has featured on albums by Chris de Burgh and Rick Guard and has performed on television programmes such as Songs of Praise Wogan Now & Then and Play It Again. She also supported de Burgh on nine dates of his European tour.
Gillian Galbraith.  Gillian Galbraith is an Advocate-turned-author a Scottish crime writer whose protagonist DS Alice Rice is based in Edinburgh.
Cassandra Golds.  Cassandra [Mia] Golds (1962- ) is an Australian children's author.
Ilse-Margret Vogel.  Ilse-Margret Vogel was a German-American author who mostly wrote for children and young adults. However she is perhaps best known for her memoir Bad Times Good Friends - A personal memoir which tells the story of her life between 1943 and 1945 living in Nazi Germany and how a small group of German artists and dissidents lived under Hitler.Her husband is artist children's author and illustrator Howard Knotts.
Ryan Laird.  Ryan Laird (born March 8 1984) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter.He received recognition and media attention across The United States and Canada in December 2008 after putting up a billboard on Nashville Tennessee's famed music row asking Taylor Swift to produce his album. Located at Broadway & 17th Ave the billboard displayed Laird in a classroom holding a note reading “Hey Taylor - I LOVE your music.
Ove Røsbak.  Ove Røsbak (born 1959) is a Norwegian poet novelist children's writer and biographer. He made his literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Lævandes dikt. He has written biographies on Alf Prøysen and Rolf Jacobsen.
Rob Dixon.  Rob Dixon is an American jazz saxophonist.A native of Atlanta Dixon went to school at Indiana University where he came under the influence of the renowned jazz educator David Baker.
Erik Parker.  Erik Parker (born 1968) is a New York based artist. He has had solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut; the De Appel in Amsterdam; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Texas; Colette in Paris; Honor Fraser in Los Angeles; and Galleri Faurschou in Copenhagen Denmark.[citation needed]
Peter Fox (musician).  Pierre Baigorry (born 3 September 1971) better known as Peter Fox also known as Enuff and Pete Fox is a German reggae and Hip hop musician from Berlin. He is also a member of the German reggae and dancehall band Seeed.
V. S. Naipaul.  Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (/ˈnaɪpɔːl/ or /naɪˈpɔːl/; b. 17 August 1932) is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for the comic early novels of Trinidad the bleaker later novels of the wider world and the chronicles of his life and travels.Naipaul has published more than 30 books both of fiction and nonfiction over some 50 years.Naipaul was married to Patricia Ann Hale from 1955 until her death in 1996. She served as first reader editor and critic of his writings.
Ritsuko Okazaki.  Ritsuko Okazaki (岡崎 律子 Okazaki Ritsuko December 29 1959 – May 5 2004) was a Japanese singer-songwriter born on Hashima Island Nagasaki Prefecture. She first made her professional debut with the single Kanashii Jiyū / Koi ga Kiete Yuku.
Skitsnygg.  Brian Migliore more commonly known as Skitsnygg (born 23 November 1988 Buffalo New York USA)is an American Electro House record producer and DJ.
Vincenzo Mecozzi.  Vincenzo Vicente Mecozzi (1909 in Frascati Italy - 1964 in São Paulo Brazil) was a Brazilian decorator professor and painter born in Italy. Along with father Arnaldo Mecozzi he was noted for his work in Brazil. They worked on buildings such as the Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria of São Paulo.
Tiziano Sclavi.  Tiziano Sclavi (born April 3 1953 in Broni) is an Italian comic book author journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986 for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore. More than eighty titles have appeared in the series which has sold 3 million copies.
David Homyk.  David Homyk (born in Canada) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. His music can be described as a blend of Maroon 5 and James Blunt often mixed with a Timbaland style production. A producer by trade David has made recordings for many well-known artists including Beyoncé Knowles and her sister Solange. He tours and performs regularly having shared stages with artists ranging from American Idol's Constantine Maroulis to the hip-hop legend & Hall of Fame inductee Doug E.
Will Cook (writer).  William Everett Cook (1921 – July 1964) was a western writer as Will Cook and Frank Peace. He also wrote under the pseudonym James Keene with the romance writer Ida Cook and as Wade Everett with the western and erotic writer Giles A. Lutz.Some of Will Cook's novels have been adapted to films.
Carl Marcus Tuscher.  Carl Marcus Tuscher (June 1 1705 in Nuremberg - January 6 1751 in Copenhagen) was a German-born Danish polymath: portrait painter printmaker architect and decorator of the Baroque period.Tuscher was born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1705 to humble parents. His mother Ursula Negelin was single while his father is said to have been Ferdinand Tuscher who gave him his name.
Alan Burridge (writer).  Alan Burridge (born 7 May 1951) is the official biographer of the heavy rock band Motörhead. He is also a writer of fiction novels and local interest books.
Alex Niño.  Alex Niño (born May 1 1940) is a Filipino comic book artist best known for his work for the American publishers DC Comics Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing and in Heavy Metal magazine.
Richard Cole.  Richard Cole (born January 2 1946) was heavily involved in the rock music business from the mid-1960s to 2003 and is most famous for being the tour manager of English rock band Led Zeppelin from 1968 to 1980.
Mark Ayres.  Mark Ayres (Born 1961) is a television composer who is best known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who.Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks.
David Gilmore.  David Gilmore (born 5 February 1964 in Cambridge Massachusetts) is an American session jazz guitarist.Gilmore studied at New York University with Joe Lovano and Jim McNeely. In 1987 he began working professionally with the M-Base Collective and Ronald Shannon Jackson. In the 1990s he was a member of a jazz fusion band called Lost Tribe and has also appeared with Me'shell N'Degeocello Monday Michiru and Tom Lang.
Camané.  Camané ( born in Oeiras 1967) is a male vocalist and a forerunner of the new generation of fado male singers.
Marc Dugain.  Marc Dugain (born 1957) is a French novelist chiefly known for La Chambre des Officiers (English The Officers' Ward) (1999) a novel set in World War I.Dugain was born in Senegal and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble. His prize-winning first novel was made into a successful film in 2001.
Prem Kishore Patakha.  Prem Kishore Patakha (प्रेम किशोर 'पटाखा') (born 27 October 1943) is a Hindi author of comedic poetry (hasya kavi). He was born into a Brahmin family at Aligarh Uttar Pradesh. He appeared as a guest on the television programme of Bollywood actor Bharat Bhushan. Patakha's niece 'Kajal' died in a road accident in Kurawali Mainpuri.
Shingai Shoniwa.  Shingai Elizabeth Maria Shoniwa (/ʃɪŋˈɡaɪ/ shing-GYE; born on 22 September 1981) is an English singer best known as the vocalist and bassist for the UK indie rock band Noisettes. Her first name Shingai means be strong in the Shona language.
Margie Adam.  Margie Adam (born 1947 in Lompoc California U.S.) is an American musician and composer. Adam is one of the pioneers of the Women's Music movement.
Maureen McGovern.  Maureen Therese McGovern (born July 27 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar-winning songs The Morning After from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure and We May Never Love Like This Again from The Towering Inferno in 1974.
Vinay Apte.  Vinay Apte (June 17 1951 - Dec 7 2013) was an Indian film and television actor. He acted in several Marathi movies and television shows in his almost 40-year-old career. He has also acted in Hindi movies such as Chandni Bar Ek Chalis Ki Last Local It's Breaking News Satyagraha and Rajneeti.Apart from acting he was associated with a production house. He died in Mumbai on 7 December 2013.Apte began his acting career in 1974 in Marathi theatre and gradually began directing Marathi plays.
François Marius Granet.  François Marius Granet (17 December 1775 – 21 November 1849) was a French painter.
Jane Frank.  Jane Schenthal Frank (born Jane Babette Schenthal) (July 25 1918 – May 31 1986) was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter sculptor mixed media artist and textile artist. Her landscape-like mixed-media abstract paintings are included in some important public collections including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Leona Edmiston.  Leona Edmiston is an Australian fashion designer based in Sydney. She studied fashion design at East Sydney Technical College and began her first label called Morrissey Edmiston with fellow Australian designer Peter Morrissey in 1983. The label was popular for over 14 years.
Blue Weaver.  Derek John Blue Weaver (born 11 March 1947 Cardiff Wales) is a British keyboard player session musician songwriter and record producer.
Per Aldeheim.  Per Henrik Aldeheim is a Swedish guitarist songwriter and producer. He started out in the business with the band LAZY also featuring Kim Björkgren. In 1985 they quit the band and started a new It's Alive together with among others Max Martin (then known as Martin White) as their singer and frontman. It's Alive ceased to exist in 1995 after releasing two albums. Aldeheim has since then worked together with Max Martin as a producer as Cheiron Studios.
Frazey Ford.  Frazey Ford is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was a founding member of The Be Good Tanyas. Her solo debut Obadiah was released on Nettwerk on July 20 2010.Ford cites Rhythm and Blues singers Ann Peebles Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway as influences and this is evident in Obadiah. Jenny Charlesworth of The Georgia Straight wrote that a few of the songs swing with a mellow neo-soul beat enlivened by buttery vocals.
Philippe Panneton.  Philippe Panneton (pseudonym Ringuet which was his mother's maiden name) (April 30 1895 – December 28 1960) was a Canadian physician academic diplomat and writer.Born in Trois-Rivières Quebec he received a degree in medicine from Université Laval in 1920. In 1935 he became a professor at the Université de Montréal. In 1944 he was a founding member of L’Académie canadienne-française (now known as the Académie des lettres du Québec) and served as its president from 1947 until 1953.
Rory Barnes.  Rory Barnes (born 1946) is an Australian writer of popular fiction. Although born in London he has lived most of his life in Australia.
Kelly Sweet.  Kelly Sweet (born March 29 1988) is an American electropop singer-songwriter currently living in Los Angeles CA.
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav.  Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (February 2 1849 - November 8 1921) was a Slovak poet dramatist translator and for a short time member of the Czechoslovak parliament. First he wrote in traditional style but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism.
Manuel Mota (guitarist).  Manuel Mota (born October 22 1970) is an experimental jazz and blues guitarist from Lisbon Portugal.Mota started playing guitar at 15. In the late 1980s his discovery of experimental music jazz and all the underground activity of that period inspired him to turn his work public which happened in 1989. Between 1989 and 1997 he studied and experimented with prepared guitar mainly acoustic and focused his work on drone music influenced by Phill Niblock and La Monte Young.
Vachel Lindsay.  Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10 1879 – December 5 1931) was an American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry as he referred to it in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
Kenny Kweens.  Kenny Kweens is an American musician who is best known for his nine-year tenure as bassist in the hard rock band Beautiful Creatures. In 2009 Kweens left the group and joined L.A. Guns (fronted by Phil Lewis) replacing previous bassist Scott Griffin. However in 2011 Kweens departed replaced by Griffin.Prior to joining Beautiful Creatures Kweens was a member of Shake the Faith No.
Yoichi Numata.  Yoichi Numata (沼田 曜一 Numata Yōichi) (19 July 1924 – 29 April 2006) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 27 films between 1949 and 2001.
Peter Phillips (artist).  Peter Phillips (born 21 May 1939) is an English artist. His work ranges from conventional oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture. As an originator of Pop art Phillips trained at the Royal College of Art with his contemporaries David Hockney Allen Jones R.B. Kitaj and others figures in British Pop Art.
Muntu Valdo.  Muntu Valdo (b. 1977) is a Jazz guitarist harmonica player and singer from Doula Cameroon. He has performed on-stage with Ali Farka Toure Manu Dibango Richard Bona Lokua Kanza Eko Roosevelt Lionel & Stephane Belmondo Keziah Jones and Alpha Blondy and has played at Womad music festivals.
Gordon Stewart Anderson.  Gordon Stewart Anderson (1958 – July 8 1991) was a Canadian writer whose novel The Toronto You Are Leaving was published by his mother 15 years after his death.Anderson was born in Hamilton raised in Sault Ste. Marie and lived for many years in Toronto. He graduated from the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario. A gay man Anderson died of AIDS-related causes.
Nemir Matos-Cintrón.  Nemir Matos-Cintrón is a Puerto Rican author who resides in Florida. She has published several books of poetry and parts of a novel. She has openly thematized her lesbianism in much of her work.
Victor Noriega (pianist).  Victor Noriega (born May 5 1978 in Vancouver) is a Filipino American jazz pianist based in Seattle.
David Collier (cartoonist).  David Collier (born January 24 1963) is a Canadian alternative cartoonist best known for his fact-based comic strip essays.
Maiko Yūki.  Maiko Yūki (夕樹舞子 Yūki Maiko born January 30 1977) is a Japanese AV idol actress and stripper. One of the top AV idols in the mid-1990s she was named the AV Girl of the Year in 1998. In 2003 Yūki was the star performer in the first Japanese strip show to perform in the People's Republic of China.
Jodie Aysha.  Jodie Aysha Henderson (born 22 November 1988 in Leeds England) is an English singer and songwriter. Henderson had her first taste of success at the age of 18 when her song Heartbroken which she wrote when she was 14 about her older sister who at the time was heartbroken was remixed by producer T2. Heartbroken reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart only to be held off the top spot by X Factor winner Leona Lewis.
Robin Llywelyn.  Robin Llywelyn (born 24 November 1958 in Llanfrothen) is a Welsh novelist writing in both Welsh and English. His works include From Empty Harbour to White Ocean winner of the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal. He is also the managing director of Portmeirion Ltd which runs the Italianate village of Portmerion built by his grandfather Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.Llywelyn was educated at University of Wales Aberystwyth studying Welsh and Irish.
Alejandro Balbis.  Alejandro Ernesto Balbis (Montevideo December 4 1967) is a Uruguayan singer composer guitarist and producer.
Dolores Keane.  Dolores Keane (born 26 September 1953) is an Irish folk singer and occasional actress. She was a founding member of the successful group De Dannan and has since embarked on a very successful solo career establishing herself as one of the most loved interpreters of Irish song.
Michael J. Colacurcio.  Michael Joseph Colacurcio (born July 2 1939) is a Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA. He specializes in American literature and literary history.
Fanizani Akuda.  Fanizani Akuda also known as Fanizani Phiri was a member of the sculptural movement usually called Shona sculpture (see Shona art and Art of Zimbabwe) although he and some others of its recognised members were not ethnically Shona. He worked initially at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community 150 km north of Harare near Guruve which he joined in 1966.Fanizani died on 5 February 2011.
Joan Walker.  Joan Walker née Sutter was a Canadian writer. She won two noted Canadian literary awards in the 1950s the Stephen Leacock Award in 1954 for Pardon My Parka and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1957 for Repent at Leisure.
Olly and Suzi.  Olly and Suzi Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley are two British artists who specialise in collaborative painting of wildlife.
Barbara Popović.  Barbara Popović (Macedonian: Барбара Поповиќ Macedonian pronunciation: [ˈbarbɐrɐ ˈpɔpovic]; born on August 16 2000) is a young Macedonian singer who represented her country at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013.
Wang Ruowang.  Wang Ruowang (Chinese: 王若望; pinyin: Wáng Rùowàng; Wade–Giles: Wang Jowang) (February 4 1918 – December 19 2001) was a Chinese author and dissident who was imprisoned various times for political reasons by both the Kuomintang and the Communist government of China for advocating reform and liberalization. His name at birth was Shouhua (traditional Chinese: 壽華; simplified Chinese: 寿华; pinyin: Shòuhuá) but he was most commonly known by his pen name Ruowang.
Amalia Bakas.  Amalia Bakas (born Mazaltov [Mally] Matsa 1897-1979) was a Greek singer and performer in the United States during the 20th century. She was heavily involved in the eighth Avenue scene in New York City and in Greek communities around the United States. Her repertoire consisted of mostly traditional songs to which she added her own style and words. Unlike other singers of the time her songs were mostly about love.
Daiki Suzuki.  Daiki Suzuki is a Japanese-born American fashion designer.
Władysław Młynek.  Władysław Młynek (6 June 1930 in Gródek - 1 December 1997 in Nawsie) was a Polish teacher writer and poet from Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.He attended Polish elementary school in Gródek and later a Polish Gymnasium in Český Těšín where he expressed his interest about the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz.
Marcin Nowak (musician).  For information on the athlete see Marcin Nowak (athlete).Marcin Novy Nowak (born October 17 1975) is a Polish death metal musician known for his contribution to the bands Devilyn Dies Irae Nader Sadek Thy Disease Behemoth Spinal Cord Vader Virgin Snatch and Crucified Mortals.
Balázs Fülei.  Balázs Fülei was born in Kecskemét Hungary 1984. He started to learn music at the age of eight his first teacher was Katonáné Szabó Judit. In the Bartók Conservatory Budapest his professors were Gábor Eckhardt and Balázs Réti then he made his diploma with honours at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest 2008 in György Nádor Márta Gulyás and Balázs Réti’s class. Balázs Fülei was an active participant in prof.
Hilary Hemingway.  Hilary Hemingway (born 1961) is an American author and wife to author Jeff Lindsay and daughter of Leicester Hemingway Ernest Hemingway's brother. In many of her earlier published works she is included as Lindsay's co-author. She is also an award-winning screenwriter and has worked for studios such as Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. She has also written for Interview Magazine the Miami Herald and Harper's Bazaar.
Mano Murthy.  Mano Murthy is a leading musician and composer in the Kannada Film Industry. Although his compositions in his earlier films were also successful he shot to fame with Mungaru Male one of the biggest hits in Kannada industry. Before moving onto becoming a composer he was an entrepreneur having co-founded three companies in California. He was a programmer in Microsoft. His latest venture an IP security provider called Allegro Systems was acquired by Cisco Systems.
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé.  Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel.Philippe-Ignace-Francois was tutored by his father Philippe-Joseph and studied at the seminary of Nicolet. He worked as a journalist at the Quebec Mercury and Le Canadien. He was sentenced to a month in prison in November 1835 after clashing with Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan who had questioned his integrity.
Georgia Germein.  Georgia Germein is an acoustic pop singer-songwriter based in Adelaide Australia. She performs solo (vocals guitar/piano) as well as with her two sisters Ella (bass/synth backing vocals) and Clara (drums backing vocals.)
Kathy Brown.  Kathy Brown (born July 12 1960) is an American R&B dance and house singer from South Carolina.
Desiree Coleman.  Desiree Coleman Jackson aka Dez (born September 12 1966) Jamaica Queens New York is an American vocalist and actress. She is married to former basketball player and current head coach of the Golden State Warriors Mark Jackson. Desiree Coleman came on the scene replacing Tisha Campbell in the longest running Off-Broadway musical production of Mama I Want to Sing! in 1983.Desiree Coleman discovered her ability to sing at the age of six.
Vernor Vinge.  Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ˈvɪndʒiː/; born October 2 1944) is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics computer scientist and science fiction author.
Julius von Voss.  Julius von Voss (August 24 1768 Brandenburg an der Havel Prussia – November 1 1832 Berlin) was a German author.
Irving Fields.  Irving Fields (born August 4 1915) is an American pianist and lounge music artist who was born in New York City New York. Some of his most noteworthy compositions include Miami Beach Rhumba Managua Nicaragua and Chantez Chantez covered by Dinah Shore in 1957.
Miguel Aceves Mejía.  Miguel Aceves Mejía (November 15 1915 – November 6 2006) was a Mexican actor composer and singer.Miguel Aceves Mejía or the King of the falsetto as he was popularly known was born in Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua.
Michelle Stephenson.  Michelle Stephenson (born 3 January 1977) is a British singer and television presenter. At the age of 17 she was briefly a member of the English girl group that would go on to become the Spice Girls.Stephenson was born in Abingdon Oxfordshire.
Georgia Brown (Brazilian singer).  Georgia Brown pseudonym of Rossana Monti (born June 29 1980) is an Italian Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. She was listed in the 2005 Guinness World Records for hitting the highest vocal note and for possessing the greatest vocal range for a female claimed to be exactly 8 octaves from G2-G10 using scientific pitch notation. However as of 2013 baritone Tim Storms holds the record for the widest vocal range of any human with 10 octaves.
Paul Winterhart.  Paul Winter-Hart (born 19 September 1971 in Hammersmith London England) is the drummer for the English band Kula Shaker. He is noted for being more reserved in interviews and grew up in East Pennard Somerset.In between Kula Shaker splitting in 1999 and reforming in 2006 Winterhart played drums for Thirteen:13 did sessions work with Aqualung and formed blues-rock band Zero Point Field who prior to Kula Shaker reforming were working on their debut album.
Bob Margolin.  Bob Margolin (born May 9 1949 Brookline Massachusetts United States) is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is Steady Rollin'.
Sikandar Ali Wajd.  Sikandar Ali Wajd (1914–1983) was a talented Urdu poet from Aurangabad Maharashtra India. He had equal proficiency in composing gazals and poems.
Frederick Varley.  Frederick Horsman Varley also known as Fred Varley (January 2 1881 – September 8 1969) was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists.
Diana King.  Diana King (born 8 November 1970 Spanish Town Jamaica) is a reggae fusion singer-songwriter who specifically performs a mixture and fusion of R&B reggae and dancehall. She was born to an Indo-Jamaican mother and an Afro Jamaican father.
Dale Smith (writer).  Paul Dale Smith (born November 1976) is a writer and playwright from Leicester England but currently living and working in Greater Manchester. He writes under the name Dale Smith and has had previous works published and performed under the names Paul Smith and Paul D. Smith.He is most well known for work on various Doctor Who spin-offs.[citation needed]
John Henry Willcox.  John Henry Willcox (1827 in Savannah Georgia – 1875 in Boston Massachusetts) was an organist and organ maker educated at Trinity College (Connecticut). He spent the rest of his life as an organist in Boston. While there he was a partner in the organ building firm run by William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons. He was succeeded as organist and choir master at the Church of the Immaculate Conception by George Whiting.
Nigel Hess.  Nigel John Hess (born 22 July 1953) is a British composer best known for his television theatre and film soundtracks including the theme tunes to Wycliffe Dangerfield Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Ladies in Lavender.
Aleksandar Stamatović.  Aleksandar Stamatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Стаматовић; born February 12 1967 in Sarajevo Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin historian professor and politician. He is the leader of the Serb Party of the Fatherland (Отаџбинска српска странка) which received 0.75% votes in the 2009 assembly election and joined the Serbian Unity-coalition for the Montenegrin parliamentary election 2012.
Eleanor Bodel.  Eleanor Bodel (real name Bodil Ellinor Olsson) ( (1948-07-06) July 6 1948 in Nacka Sweden) is a Swedish pop singeress who began perform for public in year 1968 in the orchestra of Bruno Glennmark and from 1969 as solo artist. Of her hits Sunday will never be the same (1968) One Way Ticket written by Neil Sedaka (1969) and a cover from a single of Del Shannon Keep Searchin' (1969) stays at the top ten of chart during a few weeks and were also as the number one.
Salvatore Agnelli.  Salvatore Agnelli (1817–1874) was an Italian composer. He was born at Palermo studied at the Naples Conservatory under Furno Zingarelli and Donizetti.
Aleksander Glondys.  Aleksander Glondys (b. January 30 1957 in Bielsko-Biała Poland) is a Polish jazz and rock drummer who led the group Al'Mad which was described in music journalist Robert Buczek's article for Jazzi Magazine as one of Poland's finest hard-bop formations.
Dennis Jernigan.  Dennis Jernigan is a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. He is native to Oklahoma and headquarters a music-based Christian ministry from there. Jernigan now lives in Muskogee Oklahoma with his wife and their nine children. Jernigan is a self-identified ex-gay and has been married to his wife for more than 25 years.Jernigan is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University.
Izumi Aki.  Izumi Aki (亜希 いずみ Aki Izumi) a.k.a. Yasuko Takahashi (高橋 靖子 Takahashi Yasuko) born May 15 1960 is a Japanese actress especially known for her roles in pink film.Izumi made her pink film debut in October 1980 in Ryōjoku gishiki (凌辱儀式) produced by Shishi Pro (Shishi Puro (獅子プロ)) and released by Toei. In the next four years Aki appeared in about sixty pink films primarily for the Shintōhō Eiga and Million Film studios.
Milton Barnes (composer).  Milton Barnes (16 December 1931 – 27 February 2001) was a Canadian composer conductor and jazz drummer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre his music is noted for its frequent use of Jewish themes its rejection of the avant garde in favor of tonality and its blend of classical jazz and pop elements. His music has been labeled by some critics as eclectic fusion.
Kevin Cannon.  Kevin Cannon is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
Chiemi Chiba.  Chiemi Chiba (Chiba Chiemi 千葉千恵巳; born February 25 1975) is a Japanese voice actress J-Pop singer and former gravure model. She was born in Saitama prefecture Japan and made her singing debut on 7 April 1993 as a member of the J-Pop group Aurora Gonin Musume. She has since voiced several characters in Anime series such as Tsubasa Chronicle MegaMan NT Warrior Sister Princess and Magical DoReMi. She also did the Japanese dubbing of Baby Bop from Barney & Friends.
Yagutil Mishiev.  Yagutil Israelovich Mishiev (Russian: Мишиев Ягутил Израилович; Hebrew: יאגוטיל מישייב‎; born March 29 1927 in Qırmızı Qəsəbə Azerbaijan Republic of USSR) — writer author of books about the history of Derbent Dagestan Russia. The distinguished Teacher of the Republic of Dagestan and the Russian Federation.
Young Buck.  David Darnell Brown (born March 15 1981) also known as Young Buck is an American rapper actor and producer. Buck is a former member of the hip hop groups UTP Playas & G-Unit. He currently resides as president of his own record label Ca$hville Records.
Harald Sverdrup (writer).  Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (29 May 1923 – 26 June 1992) was a Norwegian poet and children's writer. He received several literary prizes including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment the Dobloug Prize and the Riksmål Society Literature Prize.
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.  Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (born April 10 1968) is a gay Puerto Rican author scholar and performer. He is better known as Larry La Fountain. He has received several awards for his creative writing and scholarship as well as for his work with Latino and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students. He currently resides in Ann Arbor Michigan.
David Maraniss.  David Maraniss (born 1949) is an American journalist and author currently serving as an associate-editor for The Washington Post. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election. Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss will receive an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the spring commencement ceremony May 16 2014.
Paul Siebel.  Paul Siebel is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born on September 19 1937 in Buffalo NY. He is best known for other artist's cover versions of his songs most notably Louise. Other notable Siebel songs include Spanish Johnny Long Afternoons Any Day Woman Nashville Again She Made Me Lose My Blues and Then Came the Children.
Garth Williams.  Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16 1912 – May 8 1996) was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children's books. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children's literature.In Stuart Little Charlotte’s Web and in the Little House series of books of Laura Ingalls Wilder Williams['s] drawings have become inseparable from how we think of those stories. In that respect...
Toby Hemingway.  Toby Michael C.A. Hemingway (born 28 May 1983) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Reid Garwin in the 2006 supernatural thriller The Covenant. Hemingway's most recent films include Black Swan Into the Darkness Street and Playback.
Cassie Gaines.  Cassie LaRue Gaines (January 9 1948 – October 20 1977) was an American singer best known for her work with Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Ruth Borchard.  Ruth Borchard (1910-2000) was a British writer who created a collection of self-portraits made by 100 modern British artists the Ruth Bochard Collection.A notable work of Borchard's was John Stuart Mill: the Man.
Paul Colline.  Paul Colline (1895–1980) was a French actor and screenwriter.
Maxime Defert.  Maxime Defert (born May 11 1944) is a French artist whose works comprise Geometric composition paintings on canvas and paper.
Michael Gore.  Michael Gore (born March 5 1951) is an American composer. He along with lyricist Dean Pitchford won the Oscar in 1981 for best original song for Fame from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.Gore wrote the music for the notorious Broadway flop Carrie - The Musical.
Iris Gordy.  Iris Gordy (born February 16 1943) is an American songwriter producer and music executive. She is a former vice president at Motown where she helped launch the careers of DeBarge Teena Marie and Rick James.
Emmanuel Top.  Emmanuel Top (born 25 October 1971) is a French acid techno music producer. He was popular in the 1990s for his releases on his own record label Attack Records.
Henry Wiencek.  Henry Wiencek (born 1952) is an American journalist historian and editor whose work has encompassed historically significant architecture the Founding Fathers various topics relating to slavery and the Lego company.
Suzi Quatro.  Susan Kay Suzi Quatro (born 3 June 1950) is a British-based American singer-songwriter bass guitar player and actor. She is the first female bass player to become a major rock star. This broke a barrier to women's participation in rock music.In the 1970s Quatro scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland.
Jacques Baron.  Jacques Baron (1905–1986) was a French surrealist poet whose first collection of poems was published in Aventure in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement following his meeting with André Breton in 1921 and contributed to La Révolution surréaliste. In 1927 like many of his contemporaries Baron joined the Cercle Communiste Démocratique.
Gunnar Ekelöf.  Gunnar Ekelöf (Stockholm 15 September 1907 - Sigtuna 16 March 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.
Matteo Balducci.  Matteo Balducci was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Fontignano a small town near Lake Trasimeno in Perugia. Balducci was an associate of Giovanni Antonio Bazzi between 1517 and 1523. The following year he painted an altar-piece in San Francesco di Pian Castagniano in Monte Amiata in Tuscany. He also painted in churches of Siena including an Assumption of the Virgin in the Capella Borghesi of Santo Spirito and a Nativity in Santa Maria Maddalena
Stacia Napierkowska.  Stacia Napierkowska (16 September 1891 – 11 May 1945) was a French actress and dancer who worked during the silent film era. She appeared in 86 films between 1908 and 1926.
Sawako Agawa.  Sawako Agawa (阿川 佐和子 Agawa Sawako born 1 November 1953) is a Japanese author and television personality.
Janice Vidal.  Janice M. Vidal often credited as Janice is a Cantopop Hong Kong English pop Jazz and R&B singer based in Hong Kong. She is the twin sister of singer Jill Vidal.Debuted in 2005 Vidal performs in English Cantonese Mandarin and Japanese although she knows Tagalog and Korean as well.
Jonathan Williams (antiquary).  Jonathan Williams (c. 1752 – 19 August 1829) was a Welsh clergyman schoolmaster and antiquarian writer.He was born at Rhayader some time between 1752 and 1754 the son of a draper and had two brothers who also went into the church. He studied at Pembroke College Oxford going on to teach at the grammar school in Leominster on the English-Welsh border. He was also curate of nearby Eyton. At Leominster he got married and had two daughters.
Dolly Shahine.  Dolly Joseph Abu Shahine commonly known as Dolly Shahine (in Arabic دوللي شاهين ) (born February 7 1979 in Beirut Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer actress fashion designer dancer and makeup artist. She rose to fame in 2005 with her role in the Egyptian movie Wija as the femme fatale. In 2008 speculated by rumours she drew controversy and criticism that she had converted to Islam in order to obtain a divorce from her Catholic husband Lebanese businessman Sami Qalib.
Owen Johnson (dendrologist).  Owen Johnson has spent the last twenty years studying and recording over 60000 trees around Britain and has built up some unique skills in field identification. He grew up in Hastings near Alexandra Park. He completed a doctorate on the poetry of Ted Hughes.He is a Registrar at the Tree Register where he has compiled and written Champion Trees of Britain and Ireland (2003) and The Sussex Tree Book (1998) and the Collins Tree Guide with illustrations by David More.
Gonzales Coques.  Gonzales Coques (8 December 1614-18 April 1684) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Sheila (singer).  Sheila (born Annie Chancel 16 August 1945) is a French pop singer who became successful as a solo artist in the 1960s and 1970s and later fronted a disco act called Sheila and B. Devotion. Her stage name came from the title of her first release a French cover version of Sheila a hit by Tommy Roe.
Helicopter Girl.  Helicopter Girl is the stage name of Jackie Joyce a musician from Perth Scotland. Her first album was 2000's How to Steal the World which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. Also in 2001 she appeared on the Rod Stewart album Humanperforming with him on the track Don't Come Around Here.Joyce then took an extended break from the business before writing and recording her second album Voodoo Chic which featured the single Angel City and was released in 2004.
Sippy Gill.  Sippy Gill is a Punjabi actor singer and lyricist.
Allison Wolfe.  Allison Wolfe is a Washington DC-based singer songwriter and zine writer who has been the lead vocalist for several punk rock groups including Bratmobile and Partyline.
Rafael de Utrera.  Rafael Usero (born July 14 1973) is a Spanish flamenco singer more commonly known of his stage name Rafael de Utrera.
Georges Pillement.  Georges Pillement (March 23 1898 - April 14 1984) was a French writer translator and photographer. He was born in Mayet in the Loire region.
Sadayoshi Fukuda.  Sadayoshi Fukuda (福田 定良 Fukuda Sadayoshi April 6 1917 – December 12 2002) was a Japanese social philosopher and critic.
Ivy Compton-Burnett.  Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an English novelist published (in the original hardback editions) as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.Her subject matter focused on the late-Victorian upper classes. Manservant and Maidservant (1947) is often considered to be her best work.
Mabel Pryde.  Mabel Pryde (February 12 1871 Edinburgh – July 1918 England)[citation needed] was an artist best known for being the wife of artist William Nicholson and mother of artists Ben Nicholson and Nancy Nicholson and the architect Christopher 'Kit' Nicholson.Mabel was the daughter of David Pryde Headmaster of Edinburgh Ladies College 1870-1891 and Barbara Lauder whose father William was a brother of the famous Scottish artists Robert Scott Lauder and James Eckford Lauder.
Bing Crosby.  Harry Lillis Bing Crosby Jr. (May 3 1903 – October 14 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century with over half a billion records in circulation.A multimedia star from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales radio ratings and motion picture grosses.
Kenneth Hamilton.  Kenneth Hamilton is a Scottish pianist and writer known for virtuoso performances of Romantic music especially Liszt Alkan and Busoni. Hamilton's playing is characterized by spontaneity technical assurance and a wide variety of keyboard colour. He was a student of Alexa Maxwell Lawrence Glover and the Scottish composer-pianist Ronald Stevenson whose music he champions. Hamilton lectures on music.
T. P. Rajeevan.  Thachom Poyil Rajeevan (born 1959 Paleri in Kozhikode Kerala India) is a poet novelist and literary reviewer in Kerala a southern state in India. He writes both in Malayalam his native language and English. His poems have been translated into many languages and published in the United States and Europe. A regular contributor for The Hindu where he writes literary reviews mostly in English.
Paul Harris (musician).  Paul Harris is a keyboards player and musician.Harris appears on several albums of the 1960s 1970s and 1980s by leading artists such as Stephen Stills B. B. King Judy Collins Grace Slick Al Kooper ABBA Eric Andersen Rick Derringer Nick Drake John Martyn John Sebastian Joe Walsh Seals & Crofts Bob Seger and Dan Fogelberg. In the 1970s he was a member of Stephen Stills' band Manassas and later the Souther Hillman Furay Band. He currently resides in Florida.
Dževad Karahasan.  Dževad Karahasan (born 25 January 1953) is a Bosnian writer and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded with Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.
Luigi Serena.  Luigi Serena (Montebelluna 1855 - Treviso 1911) was an Italian painter. Born in the Veneto resident in Treviso he exhibited throughout Italy. In 1881 at Venice he exhibited: Andemo a la sagra; Baruffa di donne; La morosa in collera; Dolci parole ; Piazzetta e Molo of Venice. in 1883 in Milan: Pollivendola; Lassine el me filo. In 1883 at Turin: Pollivendola was again exhibited. Other works are: Femo pase; Piazzetta al molo.
Simon Davis (artist).  Simon Davis (born 1968) a British comics artist best known for his fully painted art work on Sinister Dexter Black Siddha and Stone Island. However he is also a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and has produced prize-winning fine art.
Lynne Reid Banks.  Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults.She has written forty books including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard which has sold over 10 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel The L-Shaped Room published in 1960 was an instant and lasting best seller. The L-Shaped Room was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely.
Josh Howie.  Joshua Howie (born February 1976) is an English stand-up comedian raised in London by his mother Lynne Franks and his father Paul Howie
Ana Díaz.  Ana Margarita Díaz Aceves is better known as Ana Diaz. She was born on February 6 1972 in Oaxaca de Juarez Oaxaca Mexico). She is a Mexican composer and singer of contemporary Mexican songs. In her musical style she mixes sounds like jazz blues bossa nova ballad pop latin music cumbia and Mexican rhythms which essentially makes her genre world music.
José-Maria de Heredia.  José-Maria de Heredia (22 November 1842 – 3 October 1905) was a Cuban-born French poet. He was the fifteenth member elected for seat 4 of the Académie française in 1894.
Aroon Raman.  Aroon Raman is an Indian entrepreneur and author. Raman did his Masters in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi and then pursued his MBA from Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. Raman currently owns a Research and Development company and till date he has written two books.
Marilyn Kaytor.  Marilyn Kaytor (July 26 1929 – October 20 2007) was an American journalist editor and author internationally known for writing about cooking style and fashion.
Mark Tansey.  Mark Tansey (born 1949 San Jose California)[citation needed] is an American painter.
Jonathan Coleman (author).  Jonathan Coleman born in Allentown Pennsylvania is a New York Times bestselling author of literary nonfiction who lives in Charlottesville Virginia.
Jean-Marc Ligny.  Jean-Marc Ligny (born 13 May 1956) is a French science fiction writer. He began in 1978 and went on to win both the Prix Rosny-Aîné and the Prix Tour Eiffel de Science-Fiction. He has done notable works of cyberpunk and space opera. He is also known for the Les voleurs de rêves series and the award-winning Jihad. In addition to that he wrote an homage to the group Dead Can Dance.
William Loose.  William George Bill Loose (June 5 1910 – February 22 1991) was an American composer of film cartoon and television soundtrack music and stock musical cues.
Derek Clendening.  Derek Clendening (born November 18 1981 in Fort Erie Ontario) is a Canadian writer who primarily focuses on horror fiction related non-fiction and erotica.With Dark Scribe Magazine he has published numerous interviews with notable horror authors such as Joe Nassise and Greg Lamberson. His story Season's Tickets will be published in Blood Lite 2 from Pocketbooks. Clendening has also written erotica short stories and novels.
Inbal Perlmuter.  Inbal Perlmuter (Hebrew: ענבל פרלמטר‎ January 15 1971 – October 1 1997) was an Israeli composer musician singer and lyricist and a founding member of the band Ha-Mechashefot (The Witches).Perlmuter's music was influential to the Israeli music of the 1990s. She began her musical career in 1992 when she founded along with Ifat Netz and Yael Cohen the band Ha-Mechashefot.
Bruce Gilbert.  Bruce Gilbert (born Bruce Clifford Gilbert 18 May 1946) is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire Gilbert branched out into electronic music performance art music production and DJing during the band's extended periods of inactivity. Gilbert left Wire in 2004 and has since been focusing on solo work and collaborations with visual artists and fellow experimental musicians.
Marvin Isley.  Marvin Isley (August 18 1953 – June 6 2010) was the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist.Originally from Cincinnati Ohio Isley and his family moved to a home in Englewood New Jersey in the summer of 1959. Isley eventually graduated from Englewood's Dwight Morrow High School in 1972. In 1976 he graduated from C.W.
Vincent Malo.  Vincent Malo (Cambrai 1585/1605 (ca. 1595) - Rome 1649) was a painter of Flemish descent who after training in Antwerp was mainly active in Italy where he was known as Vincenzo Malo.
Johnny Pate.  John W. Johnny Pate (born December 5 1923 Chicago Heights Illinois) is a former jazz bassist who late became a music arranger/producer and a leading figure in Chicago soul as well as pop/R&B music.Pate learned to play piano and tuba as a child and later picked up the bass and learned arranging while serving in the Army.
ICS Vortex.  Simen Hestnæs (born March 4 1974 in Oslo Norway) also known as I.C.S. Vortex or just simply Vortex is a Norwegian musician best known as the current vocalist of the similar named band ICS Vortex the avant-garde metal band Arcturus the current vocalist and bass guitarist to the progressive black metal band Borknagar vocalist in the doom metal band Lamented Souls and the former bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir.
Amelia Curran (musician).  Amelia Curran is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador and currently lives in Halifax Nova Scotia. The National Post describes her music as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channeled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”Curran started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and eventually dropped out of university in order to busk on the streets of St. John’s.
Charlotte Zolotow.  Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26 1915 – November 19 2013) was an American author poet editor and publisher of many books for children (HarperCollins puts her number of books for young audiences at over seventy).Zolotow's work was published by more than 20 different houses.
Raymond Hermantier.  Raymond Hermantier (January 13 1924 – February 11 2005) was a French actor.Raymond Hermantier aspired to acting since the age of 17. His training was interrupted by World War II during which he served in the Free French Forces until the liberation of Paris. Decorated by General Charles de Gaulle he resumed his acting career immediately after the end of the war.
Bobby Timmons.  Robert Henry Bobby Timmons (December 19 1935 – March 1 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods (July 1958 to September 1959; February 1960 to June 1961) between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including Moanin' Dat Dere and This Here – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention.
Jeffery Farnol.  Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 – 9 August 1952) was a British writer since 1907 until his death known for his over 40 romance novels some formulaic and set in the Georgian Era or English Regency period and swashbucklers he with Georgette Heyer founded the Regency romantic genre.
Jason McCaslin.  Jason Paul Cone McCaslin (born September 3 1980) is a Canadian musician. He is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of the band Sum 41 and Music Producer. He joined the band in November 1998. Sum 41 was signed by Island Records about a year after he joined.
Michael Parsberg.  Michael Parsberg (born Michael Parsberg-Hansen; 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish trance and house producer and DJ.Parsberg has been the co-producer behind successful Danish acts such as Safri Duo DJ Encore Barcode Brothers and Pegboard Nerds and has remixed numerous of Danish and international artists like Shakira Infernal and Aqua.
Helmut Lotti.  Helmut Lotti (born Helmut Barthold Johannes Alma Lotigiers on 22 October 1969) is a Flemish Belgian tenor and singer-songwriter. Lotti performs in several styles and languages: Once an Elvis impersonator he has sung African and Latino hit records and he crossed over into classical music in the 1990s.
Emile Norman.  Emile Norman (1918–2009) was an iconoclastic California artist known for mosaics panels jewelry and sculpture – with a meticulous attention to detail.
Hikari Ōta.  Hikari Ōta (太田 光 Ōta Hikari born May 13 1965 in Kamifukuoka Saitama) is a Japanese television comedian.He is most famous as one half of the owarai duo Bakushō Mondai along with Yūji Tanaka where he acts as the boke.
Stef Lang.  Stef Lang (born Stephanie Jane Lang December 30 1988) is a Canadian singer songwriter producer and performer who resides in Vancouver BC. Originally from the Vancouver Island town of Ladysmith BC Lang moved to Vancouver at 17 to pursue her musical career. Lang played every pub bar club and café she could meanwhile honing her songwriting craft.
Scott Morriss.  Scott Edward Morriss (born 10 October 1973 in Wandsworth London England) is an illustrator the former bass player for the English band The Bluetones. He is the younger brother of former bandmate and lead vocalist Mark Morriss with whom he also played with as backing group The Mummys.Currently based in Edinburgh Morriss now works as a freelance animator and illustrator.
Kenneth Jennings.  Kenneth Jennings (born 1925) is the Harry R. and Thora Helseth Tosdal Professor Emeritus of Music and Director Emeritus of the St. Olaf Choir. He is a published arranger composer and choral music educator.
Rachel Dodson.  Rachel Dodson (née Pinnock) is an American comic book inker and colorist who often works with her husband Terry Dodson. Her work includes Marvel Knights Spider-Man Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do and Avenging Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and Wonder Woman for DC Comics.
Iain Burgess.  Iain Burgess (24 November 1953 – 11 February 2010) was an English record producer and audio engineer.
Keo Nozari.  Keo Nozari is an American pop singer-songwriter / producer and well-established New York City DJ.Years of live performances in the early 2000s—including solo shows in New York City at former CBGBs and the Virgin Megastore—culminated in Nozari releasing his debut album Late Nite VIP on October 18 2005. The album of his original material received both critical acclaim and commercial success.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet literary critic and philosopher who with his friend William Wordsworth was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria.
Skatterman.  Stacy Landis better known by his stage name Skatterman (pronounced Scātterman) is an American rapper from Kansas City Missouri.
Ricardo Iorio.  Ricardo Iorio (born June 25 1962 in Ciudadela Buenos Aires Province Argentina) is an Argentine heavy metal musician who participated in various of the most important metal bands of the nation.He was one of the founders of V8 (1979 –1987) and later founded the successful band Hermética (1988–1994). He has been the singer and main composer of Almafuerte since 1995. His songs are realistic urban stories dealing with the life of lower classes as well as Argentine 'metalheads'.
Steven Farebrother.  Steven Farebrother is an English actor who appearance in ITV1's Emmerdale as journalist John McNally. He previously made an appearance in Cracker.
Lou Rawls.  Louis Allen Lou Rawls (December 1 1933 – January 6 2006) was an American recording artist voice actor songwriter and record producer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game. Rawls released more than 60 albums sold more than 40 million records and had numerous charting singles most notably his song You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine.
Jessica Jackson Hutchins.  Jessica Jackson Hutchins-Malkmus (born 1971) is an American artist based in Portland Oregon.She is a graduate of Oberlin College.
Hou Chun-Ming.  Hou Chun-Ming (traditional Chinese: 侯俊明) is a contemporary Taiwan artist from Jia-Yi Taiwan. After many years of relative obscurity as an artist Hou Chun-Ming’s quick ascent into the art world began in April 2007 when Hong Kong Sotheby’s auctioned his graphic artwork Erotic Paradise. Although it was not considered a favorite it nevertheless sold for $480000 HKD twelve times over the starting bid.
Andrija Kačić Miošić.  Andrija Kačić Miošić (pronounced [ǎndrija kâtʃitɕ mîɔʃitɕ]; April 17 1704 – December 14 1760) was a Croatian poet and Franciscan monk.Born in Brist near Makarska he became a Franciscan monk. He was educated in Zaostrog monastery and Buda.
Laxman Aelay.  Laxman Aelay (born 1964) is an Indian painter. His muse has been the live of poverty stricken people from his village and specific culturality of a village with men women against the backdrop of their homes. He likes doing monochromes.
Lars Göran Petrov.  Lars Göran Petrov born 17 February 1972 better known simply as LG Petrov is a Swedish singer. He is best known for his work with the band Entombed. In 1991 he was forced to quit Entombed due to personal problems. He then did the vocals for Comecon's debut album Megatrends in Brutality. In 1992 he returned to Entombed and has been with the band ever since. He also played drums in Morbid with Per Yngve Dead Ohlin in its original line up.
Shankar Ghosh.  Pandit Shankar Ghosh (born 1935) is a noted Indian tabla player from the Farukhabad gharana of Hindustani classical music. He is also an occasional Hindustani classical singer where he follows the Patiala gharana.He was awarded the 1999-2000 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Tabla the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists by Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy of Music Dance & Drama.
Rocío Jurado.  María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈθi.o xuˈɾaðo]; died June 1 2006) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona Cádiz and nicknamed La más grande (The Greatest). She was once married to boxer Pedro Carrasco with whom she had a daughter Rocío Carrasco. Divorced she married bullfighter José Ortega Cano and they adopted two children Gloria Camila Ortega Mohedano and José Fernando Ortega Mohedano.
Ant Henson.  Ant Henson (born 14 February 1989 in Poole as Anthony Mark Henson) is a British singer-songwriter who released his first single I Love You And I Miss You in 2010.
Omar Mansoor.  Omar Mansoor is a London based fashion designer best known for his couture occasion wear. He dresses British actresses and International royalty and European aristocracy;Omar Mansoor is widely credited with re-introducing the fusion clothing into modern fashion.
Maud Yates.  Maud Yates was a British actress of the silent era.
Todd Krampitz.  Todd Krampitz (May 23 1972 – April 20 2005) was a photographer who owned TK Images a digital photography company.Growing up in Southeast Houston he attended Moore Elementary School Thompson Intermediate School and J. Frank Dobie High School. Todd was married to Julie Krampitz. On August 12 2004 he underwent a successful liver transplant at the Methodist Hospital in Houston. His family used a unique approach in trying to obtain a donor.
Edna Hicks.  Edna Hicks (October 14 1895 – August 16 1925) was an American blues singer and musician. She is best remembered for her recordings of Hard Luck Blues and Poor Me Blues.She also recorded Down Hearted Bluesand Gulf Coast Blues on the Brunswick label in 1923.Born Edna Landreaux in New Orleans Louisiana United States she was the half-sister of Lizzie Miles. She is believed to have moved north in her mid-teens.
Ted Nevill.  Ted Nevill is a British author. He specializes in military history and has contributed to many books on military history. He currently resides in Beith North Ayrshire where he is the director of the military history picture library Cody Images. In 2008 Nevill was announced as the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Candidate in the Kilbirnie and Beith by-election.
David Kalstone.  David Kalstone (1933 – June 14 1986) was an American writer and literary critic.
Alistair Taylor.  James Alistair Taylor (21 June 1935 – 9 June 2004) was the English personal assistant of Brian Epstein who accompanied him to the Cavern Club when he first saw The Beatles play on 9 November 1961. Taylor later became General Manager of Apple Corps for a short period.
Otto de la Rocha.  Otto Benjamín de la Rocha López (born 23 August 1933 in Jinotega Nicaragua) is a well known Nicaraguan singer songwriter and radio actor best known for his characterization of the picaresque persona Aniceto Prieto.
Melissa Rapp.  Melissa Catherine Rapp (born July 15 1978) is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Honolulu Hawaii and is a featured cast member of Bravo's first season of the songwriting competition show Platinum Hit. Her music is a blend of pop soul folk and rock.
Bernhard Wagner.  Bernhard Wagner (born in Caracas living in Zürich) is a guitar player composer software engineer and software engineering lecturer.Wagner's performances in several countries (Switzerland UK Sweden Japan Australia USA) have gained him international recognition for his unique and musical approach to live looping.
Bảo Thy.  Trần Thị Thúy Loan stage name Bảo Thy (2 June 1988) is a female Vietnamese singer and actress.In 2010 she took the lead role in the comedy film vi:Công Chúa Teen Và Ngũ Hổ Tướng (The Teen Princess and the 5 Brave Generals). In June 2012 she was the subject of controversy in the South Korean press when the Chosun Ilbo (Korea Daily) accused her video director of plagiarising a dance scene in front of an SUV from a video by Kim Hyun-a.
Beverly Crawford.  Beverly Crawford (born August 31 1963) is an African American gospel vocalist who is best known for singing with the New Life Singers on Bobby Jones Gospel on the Black Entertainment Television (BET) and for having well-known songs such as Praise Jehovah Run to the Water He's Done Enough and most recently It's About Time For A Miracle.
Steven Galloway.  Steven Galloway (born July 13 1975) is a Canadian novelist.Galloway was born in Vancouver and raised in Kamloops British Columbia. He attended the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia. Galloway is an Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the UBC Creative Writing Program. He lives with his wife and two young daughters in New Westminster.
Mariam Petrosyan.  Mariám Petrosyán (born (10-08-1969)August 1969 10 Yerevan) is an Armenian painter cartoonist and novelist most known as an author of the award-winning novel The House in Which... (2009).
David Slater.  David Slater (born November 22 1962) is an American singer.
Robert Squirrel Lester.  Robert Squirrel Lester (August 16 1942 – January 21 2010) was the second tenor in the Chicago-based singing group The Chi-Lites. Lester was born in McComb Mississippi. He was part of the original Chi-Lites line-up when the group (then named 'The Hi-Lites') were first formed in 1960 from two Chicago groups — The Desideros and The Chantours (Lester had been a member of the latter).
Adel Bencherif.  Adel Bencherif is a French actor of Tunisian origin.He is most famous for his role in the 2009 film A Prophet.
Drake (rapper).  Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24 1986) who records under the mononym Drake is a Canadian recording artist rapper songwriter and actor. He was born in Toronto Ontario. He first garnered recognition for his role as Jimmy Brooks on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Theodore Taylor (author).  Theodore Taylor (June 23 1921 Statesville North Carolina USA – October 26 2006 Laguna Beach California USA) was an American author of more than 50 fiction and non-fiction books for young adult readers including The Cay The Weirdo (winner of the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery) Ice Drift Timothy of the Cay The Bomb Sniper and Rogue Wave.Taylor died on October 26 2006 in Laguna Beach CA from complications of a heart attack.
Anton Schwartz.  Anton Schwartz (born July 16 1967) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer based in Seattle Washington and Oakland California.
Robin Wesner.  Robin Wesner (born December 8 1952 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an abstract painter.A self-taught artist Wesner paints using a palette knife - a technique she learned from her father artist and architect William Netherwood who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her works are based on the lines and curvature of flowers. She has completed over 80 large works in acrylic on canvas. Wesner is an artist member of the Noyes Museum of Art of Richard Stockton College.
Rosa Henderson.  Rosa Henderson (November 24 1896 – April 6 1968) was an American jazz and classic female blues singer and vaudeville entertainer.
Kabelo Mabalane.  Kabelo Mabalane (born 15 December 1976) known by his stage name as Kabelo or Bouga Luv is a South African kwaito musician songwriter and actor. He was a member of the kwaito trio TKZee. He has opened shows for American world famous musicians such as Jay-Z 50 Cent Ja Rule and RihannaKabelo co-own Faith Records a South African independent music company. He has also been a judge on SA's Got Talent for the past two seasons
Keith F. Davis.  Keith F. Davis (born 1952) is an American photography curator collector and the author of several books on photography. Between 1979 and 2005 Davis built the Hallmark Photographic Collection spanning the history of American photography. In December 2005 the collection was donated to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Missouri. At that time the collection consisted of 6500 images by 900 artists with an estimated market value of $65 million.
Sukumar Azhikode.  Sukumar Azhikode (26 May 1926 – 24 January 2012) was an Indian writer critic and orator acknowledged for his contributions to Malayalam language and insights on Indian philosophy. He was a scholar in Sanskrit Malayalam and English languages.Azhikode was a bachelor and lived in Eravimangalam near Thrissur Kerala state. He died on 24 January 2012 at the age of 85 at Amala Institute of Medical Sciences in Thrissur due to cancer.
Mark Millar.  Mark Millar MBE (born 24 December 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer known for his work on books such as The Authority The Ultimates Marvel Knights Spider-Man Ultimate Fantastic Four Civil War Wanted and Kick-Ass the latter two of which have been adapted into feature films.For his work Millar has been nominated for four Eisner Awards and two Eagle Awards and in June 2013 he was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to film and literature.
Muriel Aked.  Muriel Aked (9 November 1887 – 21 March 1955) was a British film actress. She was a student at Liverpool Repertory Theatre for six months but left to do war work. She made her screen debut in 1920 in A Sister to Assist 'Er. She also appeared in Can You Hear Me Mother? Public Nuisance No.1 Royal Eagle Fame and Don't Rush Me.
Gerald Warner Brace.  Gerald Warner Brace (September 24 1901 – July 20 1978) was an American novelist writer educator sailor and boat builder. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England.
A.M. Parkin.  Anthony Montague Parkin (1943-2012 also known as A.M. Parkin Tony Parkin Monty Parkin) was an English artist known for his drawings engravings and watercolours depicting daily life and nature in his home village of Kemsing Kent.
Narada Michael Walden.  Narada Michael Walden (born Michael Walden April 23 1952 Kalamazoo Michigan United States) is an American producer drummer singer and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades in which he was awarded several gold platinum and multi-platinum awards. Walden has also owned and operated Tarpan Studios a recording studio in San Rafael California since the mid-1980s.
Knut Faldbakken.  Knut Faldbakken (born Hamar 31 August 1941) is a Norwegian novelist.
Don Carlos (musician).  Don Carlos a.k.a. Don McCarlos (born Ervin Spencer 29 June 1952) is a Jamaican reggae singer and composer.
Jana Kirschner.  Jana Kirschner (born December 29 1978 Martin) is a Slovak singer.She first attracted public attention as a participant of the beauty pageant Miss Slovakia 1996. In 1996 she made her first album Jana Kirschner. She won the prize for Discovery of the Year (1997) Album of the Year (1999) and Female Singer of the Year (1999). In 1999 she also won the Slávik (Nightingale) award.In 2013 she released her seventh studio album part one of a two album project titled Moruša: Biela.
Erol Toy.  Erol Toy (born 1936 in Manisa Turkey) is a Turkish writer.Graduated from secondary school Erol Toy started working from his childhood. After working as a baker banker creator of the mutual organization of spong fishermen paralysed after decompression problems he moved to Istanbul. He became a unionist by creating the Bank-İş union. Erol Toy who published his writings in several papers published his first novel in 1952 in the Çınar magazine.
Dick Thomas (singer).  Richard Thomas Goldhahn (September 4 1915 – November 22 2003) known professionally as Dick Thomas was an American singing cowboy and actor. He was best known for his 1945 single Sioux City Sue a Number One country hit and No. 16 pop hit that year which later became a country music standard and was included in a Gene Autry movie. Thomas was married to the former Maria McGarrigan from 1935 to her death in 1989. They had four sons and two daughters.
Jabari Asim.  Jabari Asim is an author poet playwright associate professor of writing literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts. and since August 2007 has been the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis magazine a journal of politics ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910.In welcoming Asim to The Crisis in August 2007 then publisher Roger Wilkins said: “Mr.
Zsuzsi Mary.  Zsuzsa Mary also known as Zsuzsi Mary (13 October 1947 – 24 December 2011) was a Hungarian pop singer.
Kanon Suzuki.  Kanon Suzuki (Japanese: 鈴木 香音 Hepburn: Suzuki Kanon born on August 5 1998 in Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese pop singer. She is a ninth-generation member of the Japanese girl idol group Morning Musume.
Felipe Sosa.  He was a guitar player composer and guitar Paraguayan teacher.He was born in 1945 in Caazapá city of the department with the same name in Paraguay.
Javad Mojabi.  Javad Mojabi (Persian: جواد مجابی ‎ born 14 October 1939 in Qazvin Iran) is an Iranian poet writer researcher and literary and art critic.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai.  Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam: തകഴി ശിവശങ്കര പിള്ള) (17 April 1912 - 10 April 1999) was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language. He is popularly known as Thakazhi after his place of birth. He focused on the oppressed classes as the subject of his works which are known for their attention to historic detail. He wrote several novels and over 600 short stories. His most famous works are Kayar (Coir 1978) and Chemmeen (Prawns 1956).
Pete Yorn.  Peter Joseph Pete Yorn (born July 27 1974) is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and drummer who first gained international recognition after his debut record Musicforthemorningafter was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2001. He is known for playing the bulk of the instruments on his records.
Thurman Ruth (promoter).  Thurman Ruth (also Therman Ruth Thermon Ruth and T. Ruth) (March 6 1914–September 13 2002) who got his start in vaudeville in 1927 was a gospel singer deejay and concert promoter and a forefather of such rhythm and blues (R&B) producers as Ralph Bass.
Hilda Chaulk Murray.  Hilda Chaulk Murray is the nom-de-plume of Newfoundland author Hilda Emily Louise Murray née Chaulk.She was born on February 3 1934 in Maberly a small hamlet on the shores of the then country of Newfoundland and which constitutes an integral part of the town of Elliston. In 1960 she married Murdo Murray a recent Scottish immigrant originally from Ness on the Isle of Lewis. They have three children and four grandchildren.
John Woo (musician).  John Woo is a musician best known for his work with the indie pop band The Magnetic Fields.
Karl Schröder II.  Karl Schröder II (18 December 1848 Quedlinburg – 22 September 1935 Bremen) was a German cellist composer and conductor and son of violinist Karl Schröder.He studied as a child with his father and with Karl Drechsler in Dessau. He had three brothers Hermann Schroeder (1843-1909) who became a composer and violin professor in Berlin Franz Schröder (before 1855-?) would work as a conductor in St.
Joyce Fox.  Joyce Fox is a Christian Fiction author. She authored Slave to Grace published in 2013 by DocUmeant Publishing and numerous articles published in various periodicals. She has lived in Michigan Ohio Indiana Illinois Tennessee North Carolina and Arkansas. Fox was awarded the Michigan People's Choice Award for Favorite Reporter in the Capital City Area by Lansing Community Newspapers.
Aaron Stainthorpe.  Aaron Stainthorpe (born 12 November 1968) is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He was born in England but moved to Germany when he was six months old because his British army officer father was stationed in the country. He currently lives in Halifax West Yorkshire. He has a baritone vocal range.In December 2005 it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some lyrics to a song with Sarah Jezebel Deva's new band Angtoria.
Bishwanath Ghosh.  Bishwanath Ghosh (born 26 December 1970) is an Indian writer and journalist best known for his literary travelogue works which concentrate on describing the real essence of India. He is the author of Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began (2012) which is a portrait of Madras now known as Chennai.
Naledge.  Jabari Miles Evans better known by his stage name Naledge is an American rapper and one half of the hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall.
Dorce Gamalama.  Dorce Gamalama (born Dedi Yuliardi Ashadi July 21 1963) is an Indonesian trans woman who is a pop singer actress presenter and comedian.Gamalama was born in Solok West Sumatra Indonesia. She was raised by her grandmother after both parents died when she was a year old. Her grandmother introduced her to music while she was still at elementary school singing with a group called the Bambang Brothers.
Aaron Goldstein (musician).  Aaron Goldstein (born May 8 1983 Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian musician songwriter and record producer best known for his performance on the pedal steel guitar. He is a member of the Tom Wilson-led collective Lee Harvey Osmond has recorded and toured with Cowboy Junkies and is a member of the band Huron. Since 2011 he has played live with City and Colour.He was named Guitarist of the Year at the 2010 Hamilton Music Awards.
Alex Blake.  Alex Blake (born Alejandro Blake Fearon Jr) is a post-bop jazz double-bassist and electric bass guitarist who was born in Panama and moved to the United States at the age of 7 growing up in Brooklyn NY. He began his career with Sun Ra in his band Arkestra.
Hampe Faustman.  Erik Hampe Faustman (3 July 1919 – 26 August 1961) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 23 films between 1940 and 1961. He also directed 20 films between 1943 and 1955.Married to actress Gunn Wållgren 1941–1949.
Billy Martin (percussionist).  Billy Martin is an American jazz drummer best known as a member of jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood.
Peter Robinson (novelist).  Peter Robinson (born March 17 1950) is a Canadian crime writer born in Britain. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He has also published a number of other novels and short stories as well as some poems and two articles on writing.
Starshell.  Starshell (born LaNeah Menzies; May 27 1988) is an American actress model songwriter singer and recording artist.
Rudolf von Scherer.  Rudolf Ritter von Scherer (11 August 1845 Graz – 21 December 1918 Vienna) was an Austrian religious law professor.
DJ Kay Slay.  Keith Grayson (born August 14 1966) best known as DJ Kay Slay is an American DJ. He was referred to by the New York Times as Hip Hop's One-Man Ministry of Insults. He has sold 350000 copies of his two official albums.
Edwin Whitefield.  Edwin Whitefield (September 22 1816 – December 26 1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Born in East Lulworth near Wareham Dorset England he emigrated to the United States in 1838.
David McComb.  David Richard McComb (17 February 1962 – 2 February 1999) was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of the Australian band The Triffids.
Allison Weiss.  Allison Amling Weiss (born April 13 1987) is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. In late 2009 Weiss created a Kickstarter project to press her first full-length. After reaching her goal in 10 hours and tripling it over 2 months she became a poster child for internet promotion and appeared in The New York Times Wired Magazine and as a panelist at SXSW 2010.
Vytautas Juozapaitis.  Vytautas Juozapaitis (born December 14 1963 in Radviliskis Lithuania) is a Lithuanian singer (baritone) recipient of Lithuanian National Prize a soloist of Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and Kaunas State Musical Theatre a professor of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and a docent of Vilnius College of Higher Education and a television personality. He has performed in many international venues and is considered the most famous contemporary Lithuanian baritone.
Dougie MacLean.  Dougie MacLean (born 27 September 1954 in Dunblane) OBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter composer multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Described by music critic Craig Harris in Allmusic as one of Scotland's premier singer-songwriters MacLean's most famous pieces include The Gael from his 1990 album The Search which was adapted by Trevor Jones as the main theme to The Last of the Mohicans (1992); and Caledonia from his first album.
Tomoyasu Hotei.  Tomoyasu Hotei (布袋 寅泰 Hotei Tomoyasu born on February 1 1962 in Takasaki Gunma Japan) is a Japanese musician guitarist composer singer-songwriter producer and actor. With a career spanning more than 30 years Hotei has sold millions of albums and has collaborated with acclaimed artists around the world. Hotei first rose to prominence in the 1980s as the guitarist for Boøwy one of Japan's most popular rock bands before starting a solo career.
King James (singer).  King James born James Ruhumuriza is a Rwandan singer and performer of R&B and Afrobeat music. He is known for his energetic and entertaining live performances.
Jusuf Buxhovi.  Jusuf Buxhovi (Serbo-Croat: Jusuf Budžovi Јусуф Буџови) (born 4 August 1946 in Peć Democratic Federal Yugoslavia) is an Kosovar-Albanian poet journalist and historian He attended primary and secondary schools in Gjakova and he studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Pristina.
Marty Lederhandler.  Martin Marty Lederhandler (November 23 1917 – March 25 2010) was a photographer for the Associated Press for 66 years making him the longest-serving AP staff member.
Rigoberto Soler.  Rigoberto Perez Soler (born 1896-died 1968) was a Spanish post-Impressionist painter.
Hans Nilsson (musician).  Hans Hasse Nilsson is the current drummer for the band Dimension Zero.His experience within the Swedish metal scene goes back 17 years and has included many of its luminaries; Liers in Wait with Kristian Wåhlin; Luciferion an early band of Dark Tranquillity's Michael Nicklasson; and Crystal Age consisting of Oscar Dronjak (HammerFall ex-Ceremonial Oath) and Fredrik Larsson (ex-HammerFall).Dimension Zero features current In Flames guitarist Jesper Strömblad also formerly of Ceremonial Oath and HammerFall.Nilsson's style generally sways within the blastbeat/double bass tempo that is typical of death metal. 
Gabriel Vargas.  Gabriel Bernal Vargas (5 February 1915 – 25 May 2010) was a Mexican painter artist and cartoonist whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937. This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican popular culture. Vargas won Mexico's Premio Nacional de Periodismo (National Journalism Prize) in 1983 and the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Tradiciones Populares (National Sciences and Arts Prize) in 2003.
Mark Beaumont (journalist).  Mark Beaumont is a British music journalist.
Ajeesh.  Ajeesh (or Ajesh Ashok) is an Indian playback singer from Chennai Tamilnadu.
Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes.  Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes (Minna) (21 May 1765 – 3 June 1788) was a German singer pianist actress and composer. She was born in Berlin the daughter of actress Ester Charlotte Brandes née Koch and playwright Johann Christian Brandes and toured with her parents in Europe performing on stage at an early age.
Vita Mavrič.  Vita Mavrič is a Slovene female chansonnier.
Maia Estianty.  Maia Estianty (born 27 January 1976) known as Maia Ahmad during her marriage to Dewa 19 frontman Ahmad Dhani is an Indonesian songwriter music producer singer dancer and actress.Estianty was born in Surabaya East Java and showed interest in music at an early age winning a marching band competition while still in elementary school. She began training as a disc jockey while still in junior high school; it was around this time that she first met Dhani.
W. N. Herbert.  W. N. Herbert also known as Bill Herbert (born 1961) is a poet from Dundee Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish. Educated at Grove Academy and Brasenose College he currently teaches at Newcastle University. In September 2013 Herbert was appointed as Dundee's first makar.
Maria Bellonci.  Maria Villavecchia Bellonci (Rome 30 November 1902 – 13 May 1986) was an Italian writer known especially for her biography of Lucrezia Borgia. She and Guido Alberti set up the Strega Prize in 1947.
Michael Lally (poet).  Michael Lally is an American-born poet and the author of twenty-seven books of poetry. He is considered part of the New York School of poetry which began in the early 1950s and is acknowledged as one of the most influential movements of American poetry. He counts among his major influences the poets Frank O'Hara and William Carlos Williams as well as writer William Saroyan.
Richard Nicoll.  Richard Nicoll (born 1977) is a London based fashion designer best known for his work on modernist classics with day-to-night versatility. Nicoll was awarded three Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode (ANDAM) prizes in 2008 and was named Best Young Designer at the Elle Style Awards during London Fashion Week 2009 along with twice being a BFC Vogue Fashion Fund finalist.
Glenn Hughes.  Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1951) is an English rock bassist and vocalist best known for playing bass and performing vocals for funk rock pioneers Trapeze and the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s. In addition to being an active session musician Hughes also maintains a notable solo career. He fronted the supergroup Black Country Communion from 2009-2012 and in 2013 he formed a new band called California Breed.
Patrick Fillion.  Patrick Fillion (born 1973 Quebec Canada) is a Canadian illustrator and writer of comic books with erotic homosexual characters and themes.Fillion drew comic book art and nudes from an early age but when he moved to Vancouver in 1991 and became part of the gay community his work went from mild to more explicit erotica.
Orazio Vecellio.  Orazio Vecellio (c. 1528-1576) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. the son and pupil of Titian was born at Venice about 1528. He distinguished himself as a painter of portraits some of which were thought little inferior to those of his father. He occasionally painted historical subjects; one of the most important was destroyed in the conflagration in the ducal palace at Venice.
Annie Williams (singer).  Annie Williams is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee. Her songs have been described by various music blogs as “pristine lullabies with cultivated polish there’s a real strength of mind in Williams’ understatement and musical elegance and “flush with resonant backings and vibrant soundscapes.”
Mary Soon Lee.  Mary Soon Lee (born 1965) is a British speculative fiction writer and poet. She was born in London England and attended Trinity Hall Cambridge University where she graduated with a Master of Arts in mathematics and a diploma in computer science. After graduating she worked as a Lisp programmer for a few years at the software company Harlequin. She began writing in 1991 on TV scripts and in 1992 began writing short stories making her first short story sale to Strange Days magazine.
Andreas Ulvo.  Andreas Ulvo (born 22 July 1983 in Kongsvinger Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz pianist organist keyboardist and composer known from cooperations with Shining Ingrid Olava Mathias Eick Quartet Solveig Slettahjell & Slow Motion Orchestra Karl Seglem and Thom Hell.
Master of the Darup Altarpiece.  The Master of the Darup Altarpiece sometimes called the Master of Darup was an anonymous German painter active in Westphalia around 1430. His work is influenced by that of Conrad von Soest; his name is derived from the altarpiece in the parish church of Darup whose central panel a Crucifixion uses delicate colors which appear to have been influenced by French miniature painting.
Star De Azlan.  Star De Azlan (born Esther Gonzalez) is an American country music singer. Signed to Curb Records in 2007 she released her debut single She's Pretty in early 2008; the song peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.De Azlan's parents owned a family restaurant in San Marcos Texas where her father would sometimes feature mariachi music. After performing at Fiesta San Antonio when she was 12 she returned often to perform in the city's Market Square area.
Andrew Davidson (author).  Andrew Davidson (born April 12 1969) is a Canadian novelist. He has a B.A. in English literature from the University of British Columbia and worked as a teacher in Japan before returning to Canada.He has so far published just one novel The Gargoyle a psychological thriller about love religion mental illness and medieval history.
Susie Honeyman.  Susie Honeyman (born Glasgow 31 January 1960) is a violin player best known for her work with the Mekons. She is co-founder of the Grey Gallery.
Ye Weiqu.  Ye Weiqu (simplified Chinese: 叶渭渠; traditional Chinese: 葉渭渠; pinyin: Yè Weìqú; 6 August 1929 - 11 December 2010) was a Chinese Vietnamese translator and scholar. Ye was a visiting professor at Waseda University Gakushuin University and Ritsumeikan University.He was among the first few in China who translated the works of Yasunari Kawabata's into Chinese language.
Ric Formosa.  Riccardo Ric Formosa (born 1 September 1954) is an award-winning Italian-born Australian musician and composer. He was the lead guitarist for pop band Little River Band from 1975 to 1976 and recorded their first two albums Little River Band and After Hours.
Carmen Sánchez.  Carmen Sánchez (April 21 1899 – November 20 1985) was a Spanish singer dancer and actress.
Thierry Veltman.  Thierry Veltman (Bussum December 16 1939) is a Dutch painter sculptor ceramist and art educator. He focuses in particular on figures and still life.Veltman won his first art prize at the age of 12 at an international exhibition of children's drawings in Brazil. In 1958 when he was 19 he exhibited his own interpretations of the Suriname rainforest. He went on to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Robert Gernhardt.  Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer painter caricaturist and poet.
Harry Smart.  Harry Smart (born 1956) is a British poet.He was born in Yorkshire and lives in Montrose Scotland.He has had three poetry collections published by Faber and Faber:Shoah (ISBN 0571167934 May 1993)Pierrot (ISBN 0-571-16279-7)Fool's Pardon (ISBN 0571173594 July 1995)He has also written a novel called Zaire (ISBN 1-873982-92-5).
Stig Lasseby.  Stig Lasseby (born March 5 1925 died 1996) was a Swedish actor comedian writer and film director.
Jennifer Taylor (writer).  Jennifer Taylor (born (1949-01-01)1 January 1949 in England) is a popular British writer of 50 medical romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1988.
Étienne Delaune.  Étienne Delaune Delaulne or De Laune a French engraver was born in Paris or more probably at Orléans in 1518. He commenced bis career as an engraver of medals and is said to have been helped by Benvenuto Cellini who was at that time living in Paris. He afterwards engraved many prints after Raphael and the Italian masters of Fontainebleau and still more after the designs of his son Jean with whom he passed the greater part of his life at Strassburg.
Jon Schmidt.  Jon Schmidt (born 1966) is an American pianist currently residing in Bountiful Utah. He describes his style as New Age Classical. He was born to German immigrants who acquainted him with the works of such composers as Beethoven Mozart and Chopin. He began songwriting at age 11.
Janis Ian.  Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink April 7 1951) is an American songwriter singer musician columnist and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s she has continued recording into the 21st century.
Copywrite (rapper).  Peter William Nelson (better known by his stage name Copywrite also known as Copywrite 78 C-write or Copy) is an underground hip hop artist from Columbus Ohio. His ancestry consists of mixed Irish and Italian.
Petter Wettre.  Petter Wettre (born 11 August 1967 in Sandefjord Norway) is a Norwegian Saxophonist and Composer. This Jazz musician and Band leader is known from a number of recordings accompanied by receiving the Spellemannprisen two times.
Rik Fox.  Richard Suligowski (born December 28 1955) better known today as Rik Fox is an American heavy metal bassist. He was active mainly during the 1970s and 1980s both in the New York City and Hollywood area rock and metal scenes.
Sai Kham Leik.  In this Burmese name Sai is an honorific.Sai Kham Leik (Burmese: စိုင်းခမ်းလိတ်) is a successful and prolific Burmese songwriter. Physician by training the ethnic Shan songwriter has written more than 500 songs in Burmese 200 in Shan and about 35 in English. His father Kham Ka was a noted poet and a former minister of Hsenwi Palace. He was born on 27 April 1949 in Hsenwi. He has three siblings. He married Dr. Nwe Nwe Tin in 1971 and has four children. His other name is Louis Kham.
Ron Nevison.  Ron Nevison is an American record producer and audio engineer. He started his career in the early ‘70s as an engineer on albums like Quadrophenia by The Who and Bad Company's debut album. He eventually became a producer working with artists like Meat Loaf The Babys Led Zeppelin Ozzy Osbourne UFO Survivor Jefferson Starship Kiss Europe Grand Funk Railroad and Heart among many others.
Melissa Schuman.  Melissa Amber Schuman (born August 21 1984) is an American singer and actress. Schuman is best known for her role in the all-girl teen band Dream. With Dream she appeared in their two biggest hits He Loves U Not and This is Me. Schuman quit the band after their two hits to pursue her own solo career in singing. Schuman has never gained much fame in singing since her departure from Dream.
Jennifer Clement.  Jennifer Clement (b. 1960) is an American author who was raised and lives in Mexico. Among other works Clement wrote the memoir Widow Basquiat (considered one of the most important books on the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat) that made the Booksellers' Choice list in the United Kingdom and three novels: A True Story Based on Lies which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction in the United Kingdom The Poison That Fascinates and Prayers for the Stolen.
Peter Young (artist).  Peter Young (born January 2 1940 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American painter. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with Minimal Art Post-minimalism and Lyrical Abstraction. Young has participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions and he has had more than forty solo exhibitions in important contemporary art galleries throughout his career.
Peter Allen Golden.  Peter Allen Golden (born in 1953 Newark New Jersey) is an American author historian journalist and blogger. He is the author of 6 full-length works of non-fiction and fiction and five books of interactive fiction. He is best known for his writings on the Cold War and his interviews with World Leaders.
Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona.  Francisco Antonio Cano (November 24 1865 - May 10 1935) was a Colombian painter sculptor writer and engraver from Antioquia who is famous for his works in which he portrays the cultural identity of the country and the region. One of his best known works is Horizons which depicts the beginning of the colonization of Antioquia (1913) that took place during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Asami Seto.  Asami Seto (瀬戸 麻沙美 Seto Asami born April 2 1993) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Saitama Prefecture Japan. She is affiliated with Sigma Seven.
Joyce Dunbar.  Joyce Dunbar (born 1944 in Scunthorpe England) is an English writer. She primarily writes books for children and has published over seventy books. Dunbar is perhaps best known for Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep This Is The Star and the Mouse And Mole series. She is the mother of book author-illustrator Polly Dunbar.
K. J. Bishop.  Kirsten J. Bishop is an Australian writer and artist. In 2004 her first book The Etched City was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Dauid mac Tanaide Ó Maolconaire.  Dauid mac Tanaide Ó Maolconaire Ollamh Síol Muireadaigh died 1419.The Annals of Connacht state:1419. Dauid son of Tanaide O Mailchonaire ollav of the Sil Muiredaig died of the plague in his own house at Kilmore after Unction and Penance and was buried in the monastery of John Baptist at Trim with much honour and state in the autumn.
Doug Hazlewood.  Doug Hazlewood (born September 20 1954) is an American comic book artist known primarily for inking.Hazlewood has primarily worked for DC Comics during his career often partnering with pencilers Tom Grummett and Nicola Scott and he occupies a particular niche as Superman's event-book inker working on such titles and story lines as The Death of Superman (1993) and Superman: The Wedding Album (1996).
William R. Christopher.  William Rodolphus Christopher (1924 - 1973) was an American artist and civil rights activist.
Yū Aku.  Yū Aku (阿久 悠 Aku Yū) (occasionally credited as You Aku) (February 7 1937 – August 1 2007) was a Japanese lyricist poet and novelist.He was famous for contributing lyrics to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s more than 20 of them reached #1 on the Japanese Oricon chart and 7 singles sold more than a million copies.
Raegan Butcher.  Raegan Butcher (born January 15 1969) is an American poet and singer. He is known for his association with the anarchist collective CrimethInc. who published his first two books of poetry Stone Hotel and Rusty String Quartet. According to a CrimethInc. biography Butcher was born in Seattle Washington and moved to Snohomish Washington in his youth. In 1991 he published his first written work: a chapbook of poetry titled End Of The World Graffiti.
Adolf Eybel.  Adolf Eybel (1808-1882) a German painter of historical and genre subjects and of portraits was born at Berlin. He studied at the Berlin Academy and under Professor Kolbe as well as in Paris under Delaroche. One of his most noted pictures represents Richard Coeur-de-Lion with his Court listening to Blondel's Song. He died at Berlin in 1882.
Gini Koch.  Gini Koch (born Jeanne Marie Gerrard on January 25 in California) is a science fiction fantasy and horror writer based in Phoenix Arizona. She is best known for the Alien Series (informally known as the Katherine 'Kitty' Katt series) novels published in the United States by DAW Books. She speaks frequently on what it takes to become a successful author and other aspects of writing and the publishing business.
John Hoagland.  John Hoagland (15 June 1947 – 16 March 1984) was a war photographer and photojournalist noted for his documentation of civil conflicts in Nicaragua Lebanon and El Salvador.Hoagland was born in San Diego California and educated at the University of California San Diego where he was influenced by the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse as well as a classmate Angela Davis.
Jasmine Thompson.  Jasmine Thompson (born 8 November 2000) is a singer from Central London. Her acoustic reworking of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody made #32 on the UK Singles Chart after being featured in an advert for supermarket chain Sainsbury's for their by Sainsbury's range.
Kathryn Tucker Windham.  Kathryn Tucker Windham (June 2 1918 – June 12 2011) was an American storyteller author photographer and journalist. She was born in Selma Alabama and grew up in nearby Thomasville.Windham got her first writing job at the age of 12 reviewing movies for her cousin's small town newspaper The Thomasville Times. She earned a B.A. degree from Huntingdon College in 1939. Soon after graduating she became a reporter for the Alabama Journal.
Matthieu Chedid.  Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971 in Boulogne-Billancourt Hauts-de-Seine France) better known by his stage name ‑M-  is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.
Miguel Escueta.  Miguel Escueta (born May 6 1984) is a Filipino male vocalist singer and performer.
Michael Fielding.  Michael Fielding more commonly known as Mike Fielding is a comedian and actor known for his role as Naboo in the British surreal comedy The Mighty Boosh. He was born in 1982 in Westminster London England and raised in Mitcham South west London. He plays Smooth the butler in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy as well as other roles such as Doo-Rag.
Edward Vilga.  Edward Vilga (born Manchester Connecticut) is an American author of books plays and films. His work is often themed around transformation and forgiveness and stem from his experiences as an American yoga teacher. Edward Vilga graduated from Yale University after majoring in English Literature.
Darko Perović.  Darko Perović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дарко Перовић born June 14 1965 in Aranđelovac) is a Serbian comic-book and graphic novel creator known best for his comics Brek Magico Vento (written by Gianfranco Manfredi) Shangai Devil (written by Manfredi) Les Carnets secrets du Vatican (written by Hervé Loiselet alias Novy) and Alamo (written by Olivier Dobremel alias Dobbs).He works for Serbian French Italian and Spanish publishers lives in Belgrade.
Megan Slankard.  Megan Slankard (born June 6 Tracy California) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.
Elin Fflur.  Elin Fflur Jones is a Welsh singer and songwriter from Wales. Elin is well known in Welsh-language media especially after she won the Cân i Gymru contest in 2002. Elin also had successes in the bands Carlotta and Y Moniars. Elin also occasionally works behind the scenes and as a presenter on S4C the Welsh-language television channel.
Josh Woodward.  Josh Woodward is a singer-songwriter based in Findlay Ohio. He releases his music freely on the Internet in addition to selling hard copies of his albums as well as releasing his music on iTunes.
Donita K. Paul.  Donita Kathleen Paul (born November 20 1950) is a best-selling contemporary Christian fiction novelist. Best known for her fantasy DragonKeeper Chronicles series she won a finalist medal in the Christy Awards for the first installment of the DragonKeeper Chronicles DragonSpell. She has also written romances and juvenile novels under the name Kathleen Paul. Born in Lawrence Kansas Paul now lives in eastern Colorado.
B.G. the Prince of Rap.  Not to be confused with New Orleans rapper B.G..Bernard Greene also known as B.G. the Prince of Rap is an American rapper and eurodance artist. He experienced modest success in Germany where he lived after being posted by the U.S. Army.
Eds Chesters.  Eds Chesters (born Edward Daniel Chesters; born 24 October 1970 in Bishop Auckland England) was the drummer for the English band The Bluetones. He currently works as an osteopath at Health in Motion clinic in Maidenhead Berkshire and at The Point Osteopathic Clinic Colchester. Prior to joining the Bluetones Chesters was best known for being a behind-the-scenes member of the late 1980s band Soho.
Penny Tai.  Penny Tai (born April 22 1978 in Johor Malaysia) is a Malaysian Chinese singer and songwriter in the Mandopop scene. Since her debut in 2000 she has released ten albums.
Guy Williams (comedian).  Guy Malachi Jones Williams (born 1987) is a New Zealand comedian and television personality sometimes known as Guy Williams from Nelson. As of April 2014 he is the third chair in the Jono & Ben at Ten Show. Williams was educated at Nelson College from 2001 to 2005 and was a member of the school's 'A' basketball team from 2003 to 2005.
Jeff Rich.  Jeff Rich also known as Worzel (born 8 June 1953 Hackney London) is an English rock drummer best known as a former drummer for the English rock band Status Quo. He attended school in Hackney at Upton House Comprehensive and whilst there he appeared in the opera Tosca at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.He helped out Def Leppard in August 1986 and played alongside Rick Allen who had lost his left arm in a car accident in December 1984.
Laurence Jalbert.  Laurence Jalbert (born Lise Jalbert 18 August 1959 in Rivière-au-Renard Quebec) is a pop singer-songwriter from Quebec.She began her career with the band Volt in 1985. The band won CKOI-FM's L'Empire des futures stars competition in 1987. They recorded only one single (Nobody Knows) before breaking up. Jalbert went on to a solo career releasing her first album in 1990 which would know much success and become her first certified platinum album only one year later.
Top Dog (rapper).  Top Dog (birth name Dashawn Jamal Yates) is an American rapper member of the Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik and the trio O.G.C.. Top Dog (also known as Big Kahuna and D.O.) debuted on Smif-N-Wessun's Dah Shinin' in 1995 appearing on the single Sound Bwoy Bureill and the track Cession at da Doghillee. Top Dog became a member of The Fab 5 in 1995 releasing the hit single Blah b/w Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka. He and O.G.C.
Paul Chadwick.  Paul Chadwick (born 1957) is an American comic book creator best known for his series Concrete about a normal man trapped in a rock-hard body.Born in Seattle Chadwick grew up in its suburb Medina where his father Stephen F. Chadwick was the City Attorney. As a teenager he participated in Apa-5 the amateur press alliance of comics fans and he then attended Art Center College of Design majoring in illustration.
Marcello Bernardini.  Marcello Bernardini (near Capua 1730 or 1740 – around 1799) was an Italian composer and librettist. Little is known of him save that he wrote 37 operas in his career. His father was most likely the composer Rinaldo di Capua.
Popsie Randolph.  William “PoPsie” Randolph (19 1920 – October 1 1978) was an US photographer of Greek descent. The son of Greek immigrants Randolph capitalized on his early success in music photography of the New York music scene from the 1940s by continuing to photograph many of the music industry's greats but also movie stars athletes and politicians including Robert F Kennedy during the release of the Kennedy Years recordings.
Shepard Fairey.  Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15 1970) is an American contemporary street artist graphic designer activist and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his Andre the Giant Has a Posse (…OBEY…) sticker campaign in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama Hope poster.
Ingus Baušķenieks.  Ingus Baušķenieks (born December 30 1956 ) is a Latvian musician known as a member of Dzeltenie Pastnieki and as a solo artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist with the bass guitar being his primary instrument in band engagements. He is also known for his proficiency in home recording and tape editing.He is the son of the noted Latvian painter Auseklis Baušķenieks (1910–2007).
Isadore Bernstein.  Isadore Bernstein (26 November 1876 – 19 October 1944) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 65 films between 1914 and 1938.He was born in New York New York and died in Hollywood California from a heart attack.Bernstein was the west coast studio manager for Carl Laemmle. Although he acted as Laemmle's representative concerning many business issues he was not a principal as was Pat Powers in the formation of Universal Film Manufacturing Company (Universal Pictures).
William Berra.  William Berra is an American painter of landscapes figures and still life. He is represented by galleries throughout the United States and his work is in many public and private collections. Berra has appeared in over 40 solo and group shows.
Oscar Florianus Bluemner.  Oscar Bluemner (June 21 1867 – January 12 1938) born as Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and since 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner was a German-born American Modernist painter.
Ora Alexander.  Ora Alexander was an American classic female blues singer. She was active as a recording artist in the early 1930s and her best known tracks were You've Got to Save That Thing and I Crave Your Lovin' Every Day. Her meagre recordings were in a primitive barrelhouse style. Little is known of her life outside of music.
June Rochelle.  June Rochelle is an American soul singer from Indianapolis Indiana. Her debut album Changing Places was released in 2006 and her second album Play This in 2008. She was previously a backing vocalist for Diana Ross and Celine Dion.
Charles Schillings.  Charles Schillings is a French House DJ originally from Belgium. He has worked with Pschent Music since 1996.
Aka Høegh.  Aka Høegh (b. 16. December 1947) is a Greenlandic artist. Born in Qullissat on Disko Island she moved to Qaqortoq in her childhood and has lived in southern Greenland ever since. As a painter graphic artist and sculptor Høegh focuses on nationalistic expressionism creating art which reflects local traditional myths and is steeped in heritage and local lore.
John Cooper Clarke.  John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a punk poet. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s and continues to perform regularly.His recorded output has mainly centred around musical backing from the Invisible Girls which featured Martin Hannett Steve Hopkins Pete Shelley Bill Nelson and Paul Burgess.
Joe Stampley.  Joe Stampley (born June 6 1943 Springhill Webster Parish Louisiana) is an American country music singer.
Hillary Scott (singer).  Hillary Dawn Scott-Tyrrell (born April 1 1986) known professionally as Hillary Scott is an American country music singer-songwriter. She is the co-lead singer of Lady Antebellum a country group that was formed in 2006 and signed to Capitol Nashville.
Matty Goldberg.  Matty Goldberg is an American comedian.
Chris Carter (musician).  Chris Carter (born 28 January 1953 in London England) is an English musician best known for being a synthesist and member of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey. His longtime partner Cosey Fanni Tutti is the mother of his son Nick as well as a member of Throbbing Gristle.
Hiro Sachiya.  Hiro Sachiya (ひろさちや Hirosachiya born 1936) is a Japanese religious scholar and a popular contemporary writer of Buddhism. His birth name is Masuhara Yoshihiko (増原 良彦).He was born in Osaka Prefecture and studied Indian Philosophy at University of Tokyo graduating in 1960. Under the pen name Hiro Sachiya (derived from the Sanskrit Satya) he has written more than 400 books and articles. His interest in religion is not limited to Buddhism.
Jennifer Knapp.  Jennifer Lynn Knapp (born April 12 1974) is an American-Australian folk rock and formerly contemporary Christian musician. She is best known for her first single Undo Me from her debut album Kansas (1998) and the song A Little More from her Grammy Award-nominated album Lay It Down (2000). The Way I Am (2001) was also nominated for a Grammy. In total the three albums have sold approximately 1 million copies.
Adam Grant.  Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (Viking Press 2013). He is widely considered to be one of the most influential thought leaders of his generation.Grant has been recognized as both the youngest tenured and most highly rated professor at the Wharton School.
S. J. Rozan.  S.J. Rozan (born 1950 Bronx New York) is an award winning American writer of detective fiction and thrillers.
Nene Humphrey.  Nene Humphrey is a New York-based sculptor and installation artist. Her work focusing on sensory experiences of the world human psychology and handcraft has been compared to that of Kiki Smith Janine Antoni Petah Coyne and Louise Bourgeois. She has lived and worked in New York since 1978.
Peter Semolič.  Peter Semolič (born 1 February 1967) is a Slovene poet and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poems have been translated into English German Italian French Spanish Polish Hungarian Finnish Serbian Bulgarian and Macedonian. He translates from English French Serbian and Croatian and also writes radio plays and children's literature.Semolič was born in Ljubljana in 1967 and studied Linguistics and Sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana.
Matt Odmark.  Matthew Odmark (born Matthew Thomas Odmark on January 25 1974) is an American musician most known for being a guitarist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay.At times Odmark's first name is noted as Matthew instead of Matt. Curiously these occurrences all indicate the group's other guitarist Stephen Mason as Steve Mason thus expanding Odmark to his full name while abbreviating Mason's name.
Barbara Ciardo.  Barbara Ciardo (October 30 1983 Naples) is an Italian comic book colorist mainly active in American and French markets.
Jaren Johnston.  Jaren Johnston is an American country music and rock singer and songwriter. He is a member of the group The Cadillac Three.
Bill Engvall.  William Ray Bill Engvall Jr. (born July 27 1957) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work as a stand-up comic his signature Here's Your Sign bit and as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group.
Tomas Espedal.  Tomas Espedal (born 1961) is a Norwegian writer. He made his literary debut in 1988 with the novel En vill flukt av parfymer. His novel Gå. Eller kunsten å leve et vilt og poetisk liv from 2006 was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for 2009 for his novel Imot kunsten (notatbøkene).
Adam Robinson (author).  Adam Robinson is an American educator freelance author and a US Chess Federation life master. He is the co-founder of The Princeton Review.Robinson co-authored Cracking the SAT with John Katzman the only test preparation book ever to become a New York Times best seller. His other books which include Cracking the LSAT What Smart Students Know and The RocketReview Revolution have received high acclaim from students and educators.
Mona Ghoneim.  Mona Ghoneim (Arabic: منى غنيم‎; b. 1955; first name also spelled Mauna) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers.Ghoneim studied piano with E. Puglisi and composition with Gamal Abdel-Rahim at the Cairo Conservatoire beginning in 1962; she graduated with a degree in composition in 1977 and in 1978 with a degree in piano.
Kiyotaka Imai.  Kiyotaka Imai (今井 清隆 Imai Kiyotaka born November 5 1957[citation needed]) is a Japanese actor and singer who starred in the musicals Evita The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables.
Hafiz Rashid Khan.  Hafiz Rashid Khan (Bengali: হাফিজ রশিদ খান; 23 June 1961) is a Bangladeshi author poet editor and journalist. He wrote more than eighteen titles including poetry and criticism. He is known for his post colonialism anti-military voice and was reputed for working in tribal area at Chittagong Hill Tracts Bangladesh.
Georgette Chen.  Georgette Chen born Chang Li Ying (Chinese: 张荔英; pinyin: Zhāng LìYīng) was a Singapore painter known for her Post-Impressionistic styled oil paintings at the turn of the 20th-century. She was a forerunner of the visual arts in Singapore who contributed to the birth of the Nanyang art style in Singapore.Chen was born the fourth of 12 children - 10 girls and 2 boys - in Zhejiang Province China in 1906.
A.B.C. Whipple.  Addison Beecher Colvin (Cal) Whipple (July 15 1918 – March 17 2013) was an American journalist editor historian and author. He was born in Glens Falls N.Y. on July 15 1918 and spent most of his childhood in Suffield Conn. He graduated from the Loomis School from Yale University in 1940 and received an M.A. from Harvard University before being hired by Life Magazine. He had many positions at Time/Life and wrote a number of books about maritime history.
Geoff Tyson.  Geoff Tyson (also referred to as Jeff Tyson) played guitar for T-Ride whose debut album shared the same title. He was a student of Joe Satriani and one of two students Satriani has said 'Graduated' from his lessons (the other being Steve Vai).
Chris Garver.  Chris Garver (born September 11 1970) is a tattoo artist featured on the TLC reality television show Miami Ink.Garver was born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where he attended The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Garver's mother was an artist and encouraged his interest in painting and drawing. He first experimented with tattooing at age 17 after selling his bass guitar in order to purchase his tattoo equipment.
Ernie Graham.  Ernie Graham (born Ernest Harold Graham 14 June 1946 in Belfast died 27 April 2001 in London) was a singer guitarist and songwriter active from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s
Taylor Hanson.  Jordan Taylor Hanson (born March 14 1983) is an American musician best known as a member of the pop rock band Hanson. He sings both lead and back-up vocals and plays keyboard percussion (including drums bongos and the tambourine) guitar harmonica and piano. He is also the lead singer of supergroup Tinted Windows.
Josh Santana.  Michael Alexander Alvarez Pamular better known by his stage name Josh Santana is a Filipino television actor and singer. Santana was born on 18 June 1983 in Metro Manila Philippines to Spanish-Filipino parents Ramón Delgado Pamular (judge) and Sonia Magno Álvarez. He rose to popularity in 2003 as the male love interest of Carol Banawa in the TV series Bituin. It was from the character he played in Bituin where he took the name Josh Santana.
George Etherege.  Sir George Etherege (c. 1636 Maidenhead Berkshire – c. 10 May 1692 Paris) was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub in 1664 She Would if She Could in 1668 and The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676.
Thakoon Panichgul.  Thakoon Panichgul (/təˈkuːn pəˈnɪtʃɡəl/; Thai: ฐากูร พานิชกุล born in Nakhon Phanom Province Thailand) is a Thai-American fashion designer.
Dasha Zhukova.  Darya Dasha Alexandrovna Zhukova (Russian: Дарья Александровна Жукова; born 8 June 1981) is the girlfriend of billionaire Roman Abramovich.Ms. Zhukova is affiliated with a number of organizations based on which she has been described as a philanthropist entrepreneur fashion designer and magazine editor. However with the exception of a three-month period with one magazine none of Ms. Zhukova's organizations appear to have any existence independent of her or Mr. Abramovich.
Aysel Teymurzadeh.  Aysel Teymurzadeh (Azerbaijani: Aysel Məhəmməd qızı Teymurzadə; born 25 April 1989 Baku) is an Azerbaijani pop and R&B singer.
Cold Specks.  Cold Specks is a band led by Al Spx the pseudonym of a Canadian singer-songwriter based in London England. Her musical style has been described as doom soul and shows the influence of American deep south gospel with a strong goth streak. She signed with Mute Records at the beginning of 2012. Cold Specks appeared on Series 39 Episode 7 of Later with Jools Holland. Her debut single Holland was released on October 17 2011 and she worked on tracks with producer Jim Anderson.
Lynn Breeze.  Lynn Breeze is a British illustrator and author.Lynn is known for writing and illustrating children's books including All Day Long and All Night Long Hodder & Stoughton; the This Little Baby series Orchard (My Day Out My New Baby My New Potty My First Tooth); Babyfaces series Orchard (Baby's Food Baby's Toys Baby's Clothes Baby's Animals); Pickle books Kingfisher (Pickle and the Box Pickle and the Blanket Pickle and the Blocks and Pickle and the Ball) as well as illustrating books by other authors such as Tony Bradman's Billy and the Baby and Our Baby Lorraine Kelly's Numbers Colours and Opposites Donna Bryant's One Day series (including One Day at the Seaside and One day at Grandma's); Sue Nicholls's Bobby Shaftoe Clap Your Hands Felicia Law's Lost Baggage' Joy Cowley Joyce Dunbar's Potatoes and Tomatoesand David Hately's Noah.
Didrik Solli-Tangen.  Didrik Solli-Tangen (born 11 June 1987 in Porsgrunn Telemark county Norway) is a Norwegian singer who represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 on homeland with the song My Heart Is Yours.
David Whitaker (composer).  David Sinclair Whitaker (6 January 1931 – 11 January 2012) was an English composer songwriter arranger and conductor who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s.Whitaker who was born in Kingston upon Thames collaborated with some of the most prestigious British and French artists including Air Etienne Daho Marianne Faithfull Claude François Serge Gainsbourg France Gall Johnny Hallyday The Rolling Stones Jimmy Page (Death Wish II) Saint Etienne Simply Red Sylvie Vartan and others like Lee Hazlewood Kings of Convenience and Francesco De Gregori.Whitaker recorded several sessions with the BBC Radio Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios London in the early 1980s featuring a mixture of his own compositions and arrangements to high-acclaim.
Rene Van Verseveld.  Rene Van Verseveld (born in Utrecht Netherlands) is a Dutch musician songwriter recording engineer composer and record producer. He lives in Santa Clarita and works in his own studio Future Sound Studios in Hollywood California.
Earl Bostic.  Earl Bostic (April 25 1912 – October 28 1965) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist and a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as Flamingo Harlem Nocturne Temptation Sleep Special Delivery Stomp and Where or When which all showed off his characteristic growl on the horn. He was a major influence on John Coltrane.
Rick Denzien.  Rick Denzien is a songwriter singer and studio technician from Buffalo New York.
Wallace Nutting.  For the U.S. Army general see Wallace H. NuttingWallace Nutting (1861 - 1941) was a U.S. minister photographer artist and antiquarian who is most famous for his pictures. He also was an accomplished author lecturer furniture maker —some of whose reproductions pass as antiques— antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style.He was born in Rockbottom Massachusetts on Sunday November 17 1861.
Natalie Tong.  Natalie Tong Sze-wing (born 3 May 1981) is a TVB actress. Before becoming an actress Natalie was a full-time model(now only part-time). Natalie once studied in Methodist College. She can speak Chinese Japanese and English.
Houston Stackhouse.  Houston Stackhouse (September 28 1910 – September 23 1980) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. He is best known for his association and work with Robert Nighthawk. Although Stackhouse was not especially noted as a guitarist nor singer Nighthawk showed gratitude for being taught to play by Stackhouse by backing him on a number of recordings in the late 1960s. Apart from a tour to Europe Stackhouse confined his performing around the Mississippi Delta.
Azusa Itagaki.  Azusa Itagaki (板垣あずさ Itagaki Azusa) is a Japanese gravure model and AV idol.
Marco Sison.  Raul Marco Sison (born July 10 1957 Tagbilaran City Bohol) is a singer in the Philippines.
Francesca Kingdon.  Francesca Kingdon (also billed as Frances Da Costa) is a British actress best known for modelling on K8TIE.com & playing Yasmin Salter in the ITV2 drama Footballers' Wives: Extra Time She also appeared in 8mm 2 and the London-based comedy film Filth and Wisdom directed by Madonna.
Vuk Kulenovic.  Vuk Kulenovic (born 1946) is a contemporary composer and teacher based in Boston Massachusetts. He teaches counterpoint orchestration and directed study at Berklee College of Music. He actively composes and has commissions from around the world. His influences are wide-tanging including jazz Indian ragas Balkan folk music rock and many other contemporary styles.
Dana DeArmond.  Dana DeArmond (born June 16 1979) is an American pornographic actress who entered the industry in 2005.
Sandra Kitt.  Sandra Kitt is an African-American author of contemporary romance novels. Her works have frequently made it to Essence magazine's Black Board bestseller lists.
Alireza Assar.  Alireza Assar (born 1969 Shahr-e Rey) is an Iranian pop singer and piano player.
G. Venkatasubbaiah.  Ganjam Venkatasubbaiah (Kannada: ಪ್ರೊ ಜಿ.ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ) (born August 23 1913) is a Kannada lexicographer who has compiled over 10 dictionaries edited over 25 books and published several papers. He is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary.
Lura (singer).  Lura born Maria de Lurdes Assunção Pina (born July 31 1975 in Lisbon Portugal) is a Portuguese singer and musician of Cape Verdean descent. Her compositions are based on traditional Cape-Verdean music as for example the Morna Funaná and Batuque and influenced by African and contemporary Western music.
Gong Ji-young.  Ji-Young Gong (공지영; born January 31 1963) is a South Korean novelist and one of the most popular of the 'new wave' of female writers who shattered the South Korean literary establishment's glass ceiling in the 1980s and 1990s.
Gertrud Arndt.  Gertrud Arndt (née Hantschk; 20 September 1903 – 10 July 2000) was a photographer associated with the Bauhaus movement. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930.
Aaron Krach.  Aaron Krach is an American film critic artist writer and journalist currently living in New York City.
Dmitry Glukhovsky.  Dmitry A. Glukhovsky (Russian: Дми́трий Алексе́евич Глухо́вский born June 12 1979) is a Russian author and journalist known for Sci-Fi Magic-Realism and his exploration of social and political structures. He began writing his first novel Metro 2033 at the age of 18 and then published it on his website in 2002 available for all to read for free. The novel has become an interactive experiment drawing in over 3 million readers worldwide.
Kishori Amonkar.  Kishori AmonkarN- is an Indian singer who performs in the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan. Amonkar trained under her mother classical singer Mogubai Kurdikar of the Jaipur gharana (musical tradition of Jaipur) but experimented with a variety of vocal styles in her career. She is considered one of the preeminent representatives of Hindustani classical music.
Nik Weston.  Nik Weston is a DJ music producer record label owner of Mukatsuku Records and music buyer for Juno Records. Based out of London UK he was from the late 1990's to 2007 a key player in the promotion and distribution of Japanese recording artists and their releases outside of the country as part of the late 1990s into 2000s revival in the jazz dance soul-jazz and electronic Japanese music scene. He is a keen advocate of the vinyl record format.
Brooke McEldowney.  Brooke McEldowney is the creator of the newspaper comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane and the webcomic Pibgorn.
Margaret Mayo (novelist).  Margaret Mayo (born 7 February 1936 in Staffordshire England) is a British writer of over 75 romance novels since 1976.
Trish Wylie.  Trish Wylie is an Irish author of category romance novels.
Pietro Lauri.  Pietro Lauri (middle 17th century) (also called Pietro Laurier) was a French painter active mainly in Bologna.He lived most of his life in Bologna where he was brought up in the school of Guido Reni. He painted several pictures for the churches at Bologna ; including for the Cappuccini a picture of the Virgin presenting the Infant Jesus to St. Felix ; and in La Madonna della Libertaa St. Anthony of Padua.
Mark Schultz (comics).  Mark Schultz (born June 7 1955) is an American writer and illustrator of books and comics. His most widely-recognized work is his self-created and owned comic book series Xenozoic Tales about a post-apocalyptic world where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures coexist with humans. He is also the current writer of the Prince Valiant comic strip.
Michelle Chamuel.  Michelle Jacqueline Chamuel (born 1986) is an American musician singer songwriter and producer from Amherst Massachusetts. She was the runner-up on the fourth season of NBC's The Voice. From 2007 to 2011 she was the lead singer of the band Ella Riot. Chamuel uses the artistic trade name The Reverb Junkie. Her last album All I Want was released in September 2013. She released a single titled Go Down Singing in November and an EP titled The Drift in January 2014.
Alfred Yuson.  Alfred A. Yuson (born 1945) (also known as Krip Yuson) is a Filipino author of novels poetry and short stories.
Lily Burana.  Lily Burana is an American writer whose publications include the memoir I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love War and Other Battles (Weinstein Books 2009) the novel Try (St. Martin's Press 2006) and Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Miramax Books 2001).I Love a Man in Uniform won the ELLE Magazine Reader's Prize in May 2009.Strip City was named one of the Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly Salon New York Newsday and The Rocky Mountain News.
Konshens.  Garfield Spence aka Konshens is a Jamaican dancehall artist.
Margalit Tzan'ani.  Margalit Tzan'ani (Hebrew: מרגלית צנעני; born December 19 1948) also known as Margol is an Israeli singer and television personality. Tzan'ani is famous for her repertoire of Israeli oriental music style with soul influences as well as jazz blues rock pop and Arab music.
Jimmy Crowley.  Jimmy Crowley is an Irish folk musician and song collector. He has specialized in collecting and playing traditional songs from County Cork.Crowley started collecting music at the age of 16. His recordings popularised local songs such as Johnny Jump Up Salonika The Boys of Fairhill and The Armoured Car.
James Russell Lowell.  James Russell Lowell (/ˈloʊəl/; February 22 1819 – August 12 1891) was an American Romantic poet critic editor and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Nooshafarin.  Fatima Abdi (Persian: ‎) better known by her stage name Nooshafarin (Persian: Nuŝāfarin Abdi‎ also spelled Nush Afarin) is an Iranian singer. She is part of a very large network of Iranian singer composer and songwriter exiles of the 1970s era who live and work in Southern California.
Daron Jones.  Daron Tavaris Jones (born December 27 1976) is a co-founder and member of R&B group 112. His debut solo album titled Uncensored was released December 5 2010. The first single from the album is the digitally released Money. Daron is currently in the studio working on his album Reinvention. Five singles from the upcoming album are available now on iTunes - Baby let me prove it Infatuation Party Time Beautiful and Safe with me.
Radical G.  Radical G is a Belgian Synthpop project by Glenn Keteleer.
Veniamin Margolin.  Veniamin Savelyevich Margolin (Russian: Вениамин Савельевич Марголин 12 January 1922 Petrograd — 19 March 2009 Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet Russian classical trumpeter and music teacher. He was the principal trumpeter at the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and professor of trumpet at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.Veniamin Margolin started to play the trumpet at the age of 11 years old.
S. John Ross (game designer).  Samuel John Ross Jr. known as S. John Ross is a game writer game designer graphic artist and the creator and owner of Cumberland Games & Diversions. He is best known as an early self-publisher of role playing games with Risus and was guest of honor at several conventions.
Steve Seungjun Yoo.  Yoo Seungjun also known as Steve Yoo is a former Korean American pop star and one of the biggest selling artists in Korean history selling over 5 million records in the country. Yoo Seungjun's career in South Korea ended in 2002 due to controversies around his mandatory military service. He was known for his high-energy dancing style rapping and singing ability.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom.  Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California Irvine. Wasserstrom studies modern China and is especially interested in student protest. Wasserstrom also writes about China for a popular audience.
Georgia Wettlin Larsen.  Georgia Wettlin Larsen is a Nakota singer who has released several discs featuring Native American songs. Perhaps her most famous performance was when her song Ojibway Square Dance was featured during the fourth season episode Learning Curve of Northern Exposure. Learning Curve originally aired on February 8 1993.She has served as Program Director for the First Nations Composer Initiative in St. Paul Minnesota.
Charles R. Jackson.  Charles Reginald Jackson (April 6 1903 – September 21 1968) was an American author widely known for his 1944 novel The Lost Weekend.
David N. Cole.  David Cole is a record producer who has worked with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Melissa Etheridge Richard Marx Steve Miller Band Cake Emerson Drive and many others.
Deso Dogg.  Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert better known by his stage name Deso Dogg (Berlin in 1975) is a German rapper and signed to Streetlife Entertainment releasing three albums: Schwarzer Engel (2006) Geeni'z in collaboration with Jasha (2008) and Alle Augen auf mich (2009).He put his rap career on hold after converting to Islam and taking the name Abou Maleeq.
Alf Goddard.  Alf Goddard (28 November 1897– February 25 1981) was a British film actor.Brother of a famous boxer Alf Goddard was once a boxer too. He was also a trained athlete and a professional dancer. He served in the army in World War I and when he was invalided out he worked on munitions. He made his stage debut in a musical hall act in 1916. His first appearance in films was as a stunt double where he did a number of risky jobs like jumping off bridges and swimming in rough seas.
Kathleen O'Brien.  Kathleen O'Brien (1914–1991) was an Australian comic book artist book illustrator and fashion artist. O'Brien is most notable for her 1943 comic strip Wanda the War Girl the first Australian comic strip to present an account of life during and after World War II from a female perspective.
Louis Wiltshire.  Louis Wiltshire (born 23 April 1969) is a British sculptor.
Bahman Mohasses.  Bahman Mohasses (1 March 1931 Rasht Iran-28 July 2010 Rome Italy) was an Iranian painter sculptor translator and theatre director.
David Rokeach.  David Rokeach is a San Francisco-area jazz drummer.
Jay Ashley.  Jay Ashley (born January 1 1971) is a pornographic actor and director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Carmen Twillie (actress).  Carmen B. Twillie (born 1950) is an American studio singer and actress. She is a long-time friend of Tommy Morgan and has appeared as guest soloist with Morgan's choir. She is best known for singing the Elton John and Tim Rice song Circle of Life in the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated feature The Lion King. She worked with Pink Floyd for their 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason providing additional voices.
Rolinha Kross.  Rolinha Kross (born 16 June 1961) is a Dutch singer with a Jewish/Czech mother and a Surinamese father. From an early age she was fascinated by Eastern European music and the Yiddish language. She performed with various groups a.o. with her mother Ilona Cechova under the name Sense. She followed the vocalprogram in jazz and light music at the Conservatory in Hilversum (now in Amsterdam).
Gregory Wm. Gunn.  Gregory Wm. Gunn (born 1960 in Windsor Ontario) is a Canadian poet of the New Formalist tradition. He is the author of four collections of poetry and has poems published in several print and online publications including recent work (2009) in The Toronto Quarterly and Inscribed magazine.He moved to London Ontario in 1970.
Dave Ball (musician).  David 'Dave' J Ball (born 30 March 1950 in Handsworth Birmingham England is a guitar player who is currently a resident of Burton-On-Trent England.In 1971 he joined Procol Harum after he saw an advertisement in Melody Maker. He replaced Robin Trower who had left the group to form his own band. Ball can be heard on the group's live album Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra but left the group during the recording sessions for their 1973 album Grand Hotel.
Joan Snyder.  Joan Snyder (born April 16 1940) is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her paintings have been exhibited at several museums including the de Saisset Museum and the Jewish Museum.
Christopher Yost.  Christopher Lee Yost (born February 21 1973) is an American film animation and comic book writer best known as the head writer of the Marvel animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and co-writer (with his frequent collaborator Craig Kyle) of the comic book series X-23: Innocence Lost X-23: Target X New X-Men X-Force. and Scarlet Spider' (Volume 2). 'Yost was one of the screenwriters of Marvel Studios Thor: The Dark World which was released in 2013.
Theodor Roos.  Theodor Roos (born 1638 in Wesel died 1698) was a German Baroque painter of historical scenes.
Lola Beer Ebner.  Lola Beer Ebner (1916-1997) was an Israeli fashion designer.Lola Beer Ebner was born in Czechoslovakia. She studied at the Prague College of Design.In Israel she became known as the national dresser for designing the clothes of the wives of Israeli prime ministers and politicians. In the 1950s she designed uniforms for El Al stewardesses and in the 1960s the uniforms for Israel Defense Force women soldiers. She designed the academic robes of the Weizmann Institute and theater costumes.
Joshua Radin.  Joshua Radin (born June 14 1974) is an American recording artist songwriter and actor.
Shōhei Ōoka.  Shōhei Ōoka (大岡 昇平 Ōoka Shōhei 6 March 1909 – 25 December 1988) was a Japanese novelist literary critic and translator of French literature who was active during the Shōwa period of Japan. Ōoka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose World War II experiences at home and abroad figure prominently in their works. Over his lifetime he contributed short stories and critical essays to almost every literary magazine in Japan.
TD Cruze.  TD Cruze is an American multi-instrumentalist and producer. He began making music in 2010 and in 2012 he produced Tell You This a single from rapper Lil B. His debut EP The Savage Beast was released in December 2012 and was created using only animal noises.
Charlie Shaabi.  Charlie Shaabi (born 9 August 1976) is DJ and a Music producer and currently a member of the Arab Electronic band Electrowavez.
Hans Ernback.  Hans Ernback (27 March 1942 – 19 February 2013) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 20 films and television shows between 1966 and 1984.
Oscar Zimmerman.  Oscar G. Zimmerman (September 21 1910 – April 2 1987) was an American musician teacher and double-bass player.
Jack Smith (film director).  Jack Smith (November 14 1932 in Columbus Ohio – September 25 1989 in New York City) was an American filmmaker actor and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art and has been critically recognized as a master photographer though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
Tatsuya Fuji.  Tatsuya Fuji (藤 竜也 Fuji Tatsuya born 27 August 1941) is a Japanese actor. He has starred in two films (Empire of Passion and Bright Future) that have been entered into the Cannes Film Festival.
Lívia Rusz.  Lívia or Livia Rusz (Hungarian pronunciation: [liːviɒ rus] Romanian: [ˈlivi.a rus]; born September 28 1930) is a Romanian and Hungarian graphic artist best known for her work in illustration comic strip and comic book genres. One of the most recognizable contributors to these fields during Romania's communist period she created popular children's comics such as Mac and Cocofifi before signing as one of the main illustrators for Editura Ion Creangă publishing house.
Pico Iyer.  Pico Iyer (born 11 February 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian origin. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. An essayist for Time since 1986 he also publishes regularly in Harper's The New York Review of Books The New York Times and many other publications.
Teja Singh.  Teja Singh (Punjabi: ਤੇਜਾ ਸਿੰਘ) was a Sikh scholar teacher author and translator.
Ronald Wraith.  Ronald Edwards Wraith is a British scholar on public and colonial administration. He was chairman of the Nigerian Federal Electoral Commission in the late 1950s.In 1945 he was the head of a department involved in colonial studies at the London School of Economics he later went on to write a few books on corruption local government and public administration in developing countries.
George Underwood (artist).  George Underwood artist and musician was born in 1947. He is best known for designing album covers for numerous bands in the 1970s.
María Fernanda Neil.  María Fernanda Neil (born 19 October 1982) is an Argentine actress singer and fashion model perhaps the best known for her role of Fernanda Peralta Ramos in series Rebelde Way.
Anna Acton.  Anna Acton (born 1 January 1979 Marlow Buckinghamshire) is a British actress who is best known for her role as Rochelle Barratt the wife of a borough commander in the ITV television series The Bill.
Stephanie Laurens.  Stephanie Laurens (b. Ceylon now Sri Lanka) is a best-selling Australian author of romance novels.
IMAKEMADBEATS.  IMAKEMADBEATS (also known as NeMo) is an American hip hop record producer based in Brooklyn New York City. IMAKEMADBEATS is affiliated with the groups and projects BlakOut The Transcontinental Strangaz Productions and the 3 Wisemen. He has a collection of over 2000 beats to his name.[citation needed]
Sheng Wang.  Sheng Wang is a Taiwanese American stand-up comic.Wang was a featured performer in 2007 at Montreal Comedy Festival. On January 28 2011 Comedy Central Presents aired his first thirty-minute special broadcast on national television.
Carl Friedrich Zelter.  Carl Friedrich Zelter (11 December 1758 – 15 May 1832) was a German composer conductor and teacher of music. Working in his father's bricklaying business Zelter attained mastership in that profession and was a musical autodidact.Zelter was born and died in Berlin. He became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his works include settings of Goethe's poems.
Slide Hampton.  Locksley Wellington Slide Hampton (born April 21 1932) is an American jazz trombonist composer and arranger. A master composer arranger and uniquely gifted trombone player Hampton's career is among the most distinguished in jazz.
Eugène Edine Pottier.  Eugène Edine Pottier (4 October 1816 Paris – 6 November 1887 Paris) was a French revolutionary socialist poet and transport worker.Pottier was elected a member of the Paris municipal council - the Paris Commune in March 1871. Following the Commune's defeat in June 1871 he wrote the poem L'Internationale which became the International Workingmen's Association anthem during its last years (1871–1876) and has been used by most socialist and leftist political internationals since.
Ludwig Gies.  Ludwig Gies (3 September 1887 – 27 January 1966) was a German sculptor medal engraver and professor of art. He is best known for his crucifix in Lübeck Cathedral vandalized in March 1922 and later considered a typical work of degenerate art and his famous Federal Eagle (also known as the Gies Eagle) (1953) which is hung at the front of the Plenary Hall of the Reichstag in Berlin.
Avrahm Yarmolinsky.  Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13 1890 - September 28 1975) was an author translator and the husband of Babette Deutsch.Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library 1918-1955. He also taught in the Columbia University and the City College of New York.
Martin Denny.  Martin Denny (10 April 1911 ‒ 2 March 2005) was an American piano-player and composer best known as the father of exotica. In a long career that saw him performing well into his 80s he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion imaginative rearrangements of popular songs and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture.
Robert J. Wicks.  Robert J. Wicks (born August 2 1946 in Queens New York) is a clinical psychologist and leading writer about the intersection of spirituality and psychology. Wicks is a well known speaker therapist and spiritual guide who for more than thirty years has been teaching at universities and professional schools of psychology medicine nursing theology and social work.
Samantha Gillison.  Samantha Gillison is a writer who frequently contributes to Salon.com and Condé Nast Traveler. Gillison attended Brown University where she majored in ancient Greek and has taught at Columbia University. In 2000 she was a recipient of the Whiting Award for her work in The Undiscovered Country.
Alexander Fesca.  Alexander Ernst Fesca (22 May 1820 in Karlsruhe 22 February 1849 in Braunschweig) was a German composer and pianist.
Kane Roberts.  Kane Roberts (born Robert William Athas) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his tenure in Alice Cooper's band during the late 1980s. He has performed as a solo act. Roberts is notable for his Rambo-like appearance and physique and his usage of an electric guitar shaped like a machine gun.
Lucy Peacock.  Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816) was a British author editor translator bookseller and publisher of children's books during the late eighteenth century. Possibly she was married or perhaps in partnership with a member of her family since 'R. and L. Peacock' published a number of items at the Juvenile Library No. 259 Oxford-Street during the mid-1790s.
Prageeth Eknaligoda.  Prageeth Eknaligoda is a cartoonist political analyst and journalist. He was reported missing on January 24 2010 - two days before the presidential polls in Sri Lanka.. He actively participated in the presidential campaign of common opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka while working as a freelance journalist for a pro-opposition website(Lankanews.com) and as a political columnist for Colamba newspaper.
John McNeil (musician).  John McNeil (born March 23 1948) is an American jazz trumpeter. He has performed with artists including Billy Hart Rufus Reid Horace Silver Gerry Mulligan and The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra.
Darryl Jenifer.  Darryl Jenifer (born October 22 1960) is the bassist for the hardcore punk band Bad Brains and for the rap-rock group The White Mandingos. He appeared in TV's Illest Minority Moments presented by ego trip and the three-part ego trip's Race-O-Rama on VH1.Born in Washington D.C. Jenifer released his first solo album entitled In Search of Black Judas on October 26 2010.
Sam Bernard.  Sam Bernard (5 June 1863 in Birmingham England - 16 May 1927) was a renowned stage film and vaudeville star.
DJ Edwin.  Edwin Campbell X Morrow (ca. 1968 – 16 March 2014) known professionally as DJ Edwin was a DJ remixer songwriter and producer. As a DJ he pioneered the Brisbane dance music and club scene along with DJ Angus and DJ Kesson in the late 1980s. In the 1990s Edwin created the Halloween and Adrenalin dance parties and the all-female DJ party Adrenalene.
Adam Shore.  Adam Shore was Warrant's original singer. He sang on early Warrant demos such as You've Got A Broken Heart and Tease Machine. He also co-wrote the Warrant song Thin Disguise (which was originally a B-side) with his replacement Jani Lane although Jani Lane actually sang on that song.Adam Shore went on to several other bands including Shake City and Hot Wheelz.
Jeff Mach.  Jeff Mach is an American playwright musician and founder of Widdershins LLC which organizes and promotes a series of events and fair called Wicked Events including Wicked Faire the Steampunk World's Fair the Anachronism the Geeky Kink Event and other steampunk science fiction and fantasy events.
Margaret Holford (the elder).  Margaret Holford (1757–1834 sometimes known as the elder) was a British novelist playwright and poet of the late 18th century. Born Margaret Wrench in Chester in 1757 she later married Allen Holford of Davenham. Margaret died in Chester in November 1834.Her daughter Margaret Holford (1778–1852) was also an accomplished author. Their works are said to be often confused in catalogues and dictionary entries.
Paul Crump.  Paul Crump (April 2 1930 – October 11 2002) was a death row inmate who gained international notoriety and parole after writing the novel Burn Killer Burn.
Van Williams (musician).  Van Williams (born December 5 1966) is an American drummer best known as the former drummer of Nevermore. Van Williams hails from New York where he began his music career in various bands later relocating to Seattle Washington in 1993. After auditioning for the band Nevermore (ex Sanctuary) they were soon signed onto Century Media Records.
DJKAM.  Kilian Albert Merz (KAM) better known as DJKAM is a Swiss electronic dance music producer and DJ from Zürich Switzerland.
Colin Wilson.  Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime mysticism and the paranormal. Wilson called his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism and maintained his life work that of a philosopher and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism.”
Nick Jago.  Nick Jago (born 19 July 1977) is an English musician. He was born in Abadan Iran to an English father and Peruvian mother and grew up in Devon England. He studied at the Winchester School of Art for a couple of years before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. He now lives in Los Angeles.
Bereket Mengisteab.  Bereket Mengisteab (Ge'ez: በረኸት መንግስተአብ 1938) is a well-known Eritrean songwriter composer and singer.
Jamshied Sharifi.  Jamshied Sharifi is an American composer and musician. He was born October 17 1960 in Topeka Kansas to an Iranian father and an American mother. At an early age Sharifi was exposed to Jazz and Middle Eastern music by his father and to European classical and church music by his mother. He began to study classical piano at age five and quickly developed a thirst for musical instruction and a desire to improvise. At age nine he began studying guitar and drums and at age ten added flute.
Jacob Hilditch.  Jacob Hilditch (1864 – 1930) was a Norwegian writer. His literary debut was the short story collection Under norsk Flag from 1889. He is particularly known for the three volumes of Trangvikposten 1900 to 1907. He was a co-founder of the Norwegian Authors' Union and leader for to periods from 1896 to 1900 and from 1908 to 1910.
Tom Rapp.  Thomas Dale Rapp (born 8 March 1947 Bottineau North Dakota) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine the psychedelic folk rock group of the 1960s and 1970s. More recently he has practiced as a lawyer.
Ock Joo-hyun.  Ock Joo-hyun (Hangul: 옥주현; sometimes spelled Ock Ju-hyun) (born March 20 1980) is a K-pop singer and musical theatre actress known mostly for her role as the lead singer for the South Korean girl group Fin.K.L. After their unofficial breakup in 2002 Ock released three solo albums and has participated in musicals namely Aida Chicago Cats 42nd Street and The Count of Montecristo.
Giuseppe Leuzzi.  Giuseppe Leuzzi (born 19 June 1941 Delianuova Reggio Calabria) ) is an Italian journalist essayist and writer.Leuzzi is a political and business journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent and whose articles regularly appeared in leading Italian newspapers (Repubblica Il Foglio Avanti! and many others) as well as in international ones such as the International Herald Tribune.He also worked for RAI and wrote several current events books and essays.
Geoffrey Sumner.  Geoffrey Sumner (20 November 1908 Ilfracombe Devon - 29 September 1989 Alderney Channel Islands) was a British actor. As well as appearing in a number of films he was also a commentator for British Movietone News.A sample of Train Sequence (This is a journey into sound) from the LP A Journey Into Stereo Sound (1958) was used by different artists like Coldcut in their remix of Eric B.
Zhu Xijuan.  Zhu Xijuan is a mainland Chinese film actress. In 1960 Zhang graduated from Shanghai Drama Academy. After the audition of The Red Detachment of Women she selected as the leading role which directed by Chinese master Xie Jin. For this breakthrough performance Zhu won Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress . In 1962 Zhu listed in the Ministry of Culture in recognition of the twenty-two stars (新中国22大明星).
Allyson Mitchell.  Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture installation and film. Her practice melds feminism and pop culture to trouble contemporary representations of women sexuality and the body largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft.Mitchell is based in Toronto where she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.
Emily Bear.  Emily Bear (born August 30 2001) is an American composer and pianist who has achieved wide notice at an early age. After beginning to compose and play piano as a small child Bear has played with orchestras in the U.S. Europe and Asia at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. She released her first studio album in 2013 produced by her mentor Quincy Jones.
Triston Palmer.  Triston Palmer aka Triston or Tristan Palma (born 1962 Waltham Park Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer/deejay. He has been active since the mid-1970s.
Jack Hemingway.  John Hadley Nicanor Jack Hemingway (October 10 1923 – December 1 2000) was a Canadian-American fly fisherman conservationist and writer.
Greg D'Angelo.  Greg D’Angelo (born 18 December 1963 in Brooklyn New York) is a drummer most famous for his work in the American band White Lion.
Eva Badura-Skoda.  Eva Badura-Skoda (née Halfar) is a German/Austrian musicologist.Eva Halfar studied at the Vienna Conservatory and took courses in musicology philosophy and art history at the universities of Heidelberg Vienna (Erich Schenk) and Innsbruck (Ph.D. 1953 with the thesis Studien zur Geschichte des Musikunterrichtes in Österreich im 16. 17. und 18.
Germán Cueto.  Germán Cueto (born Mexico City February 8 or 9 1883 – died February 14 1975) was a Mexican artist. He was part of the initial wave of artistic activity following the Mexican Revolution. However his stay in Europe from 1927 to 1932 moved him into more European and more abstract work especially sculpture.
Eusèbe Jaojoby.  Eusèbe Jaojoby (born July 29 1955) commonly known by his surname Jaojoby is a composer and singer of salegy a musical style of northwestern Madagascar. Critics consider him to be one of the originators of the modern salegy style that emerged in the 1970s and credit him with transforming the genre from an obscure regional musical tradition into one of national and international popularity. Jaojoby also contributed to the creation of two salegy sub-genres malessa and baoenjy.
Vassilis Alexakis.  Vassilis Alexakis (Greek: Βασίλης Αλεξάκης; born Athens 12 December 1943) is a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek his mother tongue and French.
Angel Bartolotta.  Andrew Angel Bartolotta (born November 26 1981) is an American drummer. He is best known as the former drummer for American alternative metal band Dope and former drummer of industrial metal band Genitorturers. He is also the founder of the large collaborative music project Team Cybergeist.
John Taylor (bass guitarist).  Nigel John Taylor (born 20 June 1960) is an English musician who is best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of new wave band Duran Duran.Duran Duran were one of the most popular groups in the world during the 1980s due to their revolutionary music videos that played in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV. Taylor played with Duran Duran from its founding in 1978 until 1997 when he left to pursue a solo recording and film career.
Margie Day.  Margie Day (born Margaret Hoffler April 1926) now Margie Day Walker is an American former R&B singer who had success in the 1950s and 1960s.
Jan Lamb.  Jan Lamb Hoi Fong is a DJ pop singer and actor in Hong Kong. Jan is the elder brother of actor/DJ/game host Jerry Lamb and younger brother of singer and radio personality Sandy Lamb. He formed a comedic musical duo during the late 80s with fellow actor and comedian Eric Kot called 'Softhard' (軟硬天師). His wife Cass Phang is one of the famous female singers of the 1990s.
Kim Howard Johnson.  Kim Howard Johnson (born August 6 1955 Ottawa Illinois) is the author of several books related to Monty Python as well as other nonfiction volumes. Johnson was the publisher of a Monty Python fanzine when he first met the members of the troupe in 1978.
Gregory Burns.  Gregory Burns MFA (b. 1957) is an American athlete painter author and motivational speaker. As a competitive swimmer Burns represented the USA in the 1992 1996 and 2000 Paralympic Games winning five medals; he has broken five world records and numerous American records.
Donnie Munro.  Donnie Munro (Donaidh Rothach) (born 2 August 1953 Uig Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland) is a Scottish musician and former lead singer of the band Runrig.A native speaker of Scottish Gaelic much of his work is in that language.
Elizabeth Etienne.  Elizabeth Etienne ( ) is an American Photographer. Etienne's images are part of the permanent collection at the Museum Of Modern Photography.
Ron Chesterman.  Ron Chesterman (27 November 1943 – 16 March 2007) was an English musician and archivist. He is best known as the original double bass player with Strawbs. He was county archivist in Chester.
Rhonda Vincent.  Rhonda Lea Vincent (b. July 13 1962 Kirksville Missouri) is an American bluegrass singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The Wall Street Journal has proclaimed Vincent the new Queen of Bluegrass.Vincent's musical career began when she was a child in her family's band The Sally Mountain Show and has spanned more than four decades.
Natalie Browne.  Natalie Browne is a vocalist project name owned by Almighty Records a dance label based in London.The most popular person to record as 'Natalie Browne' is Juliette Jaimes who has recorded a large number of dance and Hi-NRG covers of contemporary non-dance songs or 1980s classics for the club scene. Natalie has performed at numerous gigs within the UK mainly within the gay scene.Natalie's first single was in 1996 and was a cover of Celine Dion's 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now'.
Cho Yong-pil.  Cho Yong-pil (hangul: 조용필; hanja: 趙容弼; also written Jo Yong-pil) is a South Korean pop singer born in 1950. Many Korean Pop fans believe that Cho is one of the most influential figures in Korean pop music and has produced many hits of Korean pop music history including Return to Busan Port Dear Friend and The Lady Outside the Window.
Omar Regan.  Omar Laquon Regan (born June 12 1975) is an American stand-up comedian actor and former musician.
Susan Krieg.  Susan Krieg (born 1952) is an American artist known for her mixed-media collage paintings and murals. She created a series Archetypes of the Feminine that consisted of more than 400 mixed media paintings. She has created murals and facilitated the creation of murals including the Hollywood Walk of Fame Doors Project and Judy Chicago's Pomona Envisions the Future. Her works have been shown on television programs and have been on display at two Trump buildings in Atlantic City.
Lewis Spence.  James Lewis Thomas Chalmbers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist whose efforts as a compiler of Scottish folklore have proved more durable than his efforts as a poet and occult scholar.
Eric Young (drummer).  Eric Young (born Eric Gjerdrum; February 19 1984 Kenya) is a Swedish drummer who is the drummer for the Swedish Sleaze rock/Glam metal band Crashdïet. He is a multi-instrumentalist who played guitar for a band before Crashdïet named Pandemonic who he recorded 2 CDs with. He is a fan of extreme and thrash metal.
Susie Allanson.  Susie Allanson (born March 17 1952 in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an American country music singer and actress. Susie was raised in Burbank and lived in Las Vegas from 1963-71. Before beginning her singing career in the mid-1970s she toured as part of Jesus Christ Superstar and appeared in the film of the same name. As a singer she released five studio albums and charted several singles on the Billboard and Cashbox country charts including the No. 2 hit We Belong Together.
Avey Tare.  Avey Tare (born David Michael Portner April 24 1979) is an experimental musician and founding member of Animal Collective currently residing in Los Angeles California.
Howie Pyro.  Howie Pyro (born Howard Kusten) on 28 June 1960 is an American bass player. He is a founding member of both The Blessed and D Generation. He was a DJ at Green Door parties.
Davit Guramishvili.  Prince Davit Guramishvili (Georgian: დავით გურამიშვილი) (1705 – July 21 1792) was a Georgian poet who wrote the finest pieces of pre-Romantic Georgian literature.
Phyllis Eisenstein.  Phyllis Eisenstein (born 1946) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels whose work has been nominated for multiple Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards. She is a friend of author George R. R. Martin who dedicated A Storm of Swords to her for convincing him to include dragons in A Song of Ice and Fire.
Agostino Carollo.  Agostino Carollo also known as Spankox is an Italian musician disc jockey singer and producer who is currently signed with EMI. Originally a classical violinist he specializes in pop and dance music including remixes of songs such as KC and the Sunshine Band's That's the Way. He's also released records as X-Treme Eyes Cream Ago K-Roll Tino Augusto DJ and Spankox.
K7 (musician).  Louis Sharpe (born August 25 1966) better known by his stage names K7 or Kayel is an Puerto-Rican American musician.He is the frontman of the Latin freestyle group TKA is a pop-oriented hip-hop emcee from the U.S. signed to Tommy Boy Records.
Syd tha Kyd.  Sydney Loren Bennett known by her stage name as Syd tha Kyd or more recently Syd (born April 23 1992) is a singer producer and DJ from Crenshaw Los Angeles California. She is one of the main producers in Odd Future and a singer producer and mixer in the trip-hop group The Internet with Matt Martians. She is the main producer for fellow Odd Future rapper Mike G and the older sister of non-musical Odd Future member Travis Taco Bennett.
Charles-Amable Lenoir.  Charles-Amable Lenoir (22 October 1860–1926) was a French painter. Like his mentor William-Adolphe Bouguereau he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes. His artistic career was so prestigious that he won the Prix de Rome twice and was awarded the Légion d'honneur.Lenoir was born in Châtellaillon a small town just outside of La Rochelle. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a customs officer.
Lee Weeks.  Lee Weeks is an American comic book artist known for his work on such books as Daredevil.
Dudley Taft.  Dudley S. Taft (born July 4 1966 Washington D.C.) is an American musician. Taft is a blues/rock musician that fronts his own band and was a songwriting member of Seattle band Sweet Water and member and chief songwriter of Seattle Washington-based rock band Second Coming.
Anne Mather.  Anne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson (born 10 October 1946 in England) a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished Caroline (1965) was also her first book to be published. Her novel Leopard in the Snow (1974) was developed into a 1978 film.
Mischa Maisky.  Mischa Maisky (Latvian: Miša Maiskis; born January 10 1948 in Riga) is a Latvian-born Jewish cellist.
Miklos Suba.  Miklos Suba (1 April 1880 – 18 July 1944) was an Hungarian-born American artist. Trained as an architect he devoted his time to both architecture and art until 1940 when he dedicated the remainder of his life to painting subject matter in Brooklyn New York. He is classified as a member of the precisionism movement.
Lil B.  Brandon McCartney (born August 17 1989) known by his stage name Lil B or The BasedGod is an American rapper and author from Berkeley California. Lil B has recorded both solo and with The Pack. He is noted for his extensive use of social media websites such as MySpace and Twitter to build an online following.
Sun Yu (director).  Sun Yu (March 21 1900 – July 11 1990) was a major leftist film director active in the 1930s in Shanghai. One of the core directors of the Lianhua Film Company Sun Yu made a name for himself with a series of socially conscious dramas in the early to mid-1930s. After the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 Sun Yu made his way to the interior where he continued to make films glorifying the war effort against the Japanese.His career took a turn for the worse after the Communist victory in 1949.
Issey Ogata.  Issey Ogata (イッセー尾形 Issei Ogata born 22 February 1952 in Fukuoka Fukuoka) is a Japanese actor and comedian. He was interested in plays since childhood. After he graduated from Toyotama High School in Japan he joined a theatrical company and appeared on the stage. Later he jumped at the opportunity to be an entertainer when he took the gold medal at the audition called Birth of Comedians. Then he started garnering roles on Japanese TV.
Chris Cunningham.  Chris Cunningham is a British video artist. He was born in Reading Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath Suffolk.Cunningham has primarily directed music videos for ambient music and electronica acts such as Autechre and Aphex Twin. He has also created art installations and directed short movies. He was approached to direct a movie version of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer but nothing came of early discussions. In the 2000s Cunningham began doing music production work.
Son Dong-woon.  Son Dong-Woon (Hangul: 손동운; Hanja: 孫東雲; born June 6 1991) more commonly known as just Dong Woon is a South Korean idol singer and dancer. He is the vocalist and youngest member of the Korean boy group Beast.
David Browne.  David Browne is an American journalist and author. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006. He was an editor at Music & Sound Output magazine and a music critic at the New York Daily News before EW. He has written articles for a variety of publications including: the New York Times Rolling Stone Spin New Republic and Time.
Chamin Correa.  Chamin Correa is a Latin-American guitarist from Mexico. He is renowned in the Spanish-speaking world for his traditional romantic music. Member of Los Tres Caballeros together with Roberto Cantoral and Leonel Gálvez from 1954. In 1957 they gained 4 golden discs for being the trio of major success on a global scale.
Joni James.  Joni James (born Giovanna Carmella Babbo September 22 1930 Chicago Illinois) is an American singer of traditional pop music.
Don Newton.  Don Newton (November 12 1934 — August 19 1984) was an American comic book artist. During his career he worked for a number of comic book publishers including Marvel Comics DC Comics and Charlton Comics. He is best known for his work on The Phantom Aquaman and Batman. Newton also drew several Captain Marvel/Marvel Family stories and was a fan of the character having studied under Captain Marvel co-creator C. C. Beck.
Léon Wieger.  Léon Wieger (born July 9 1856 in Strasbourg France - died March 25 1933 in Xian County Hebei China) was a French Jesuit missionary medical doctor theologist and sinologist who worked at the Catholic Jesuit mission in Hejian together with Séraphin Couvreur.He has published numerous books on Chinese culture Taoism Buddhism and Chinese language.
Walt Stanchfield.  Walt Stanchfield (1919–2000) was an American animator writer and teacher. Stanchfield is known for work on a series of classic animated feature films at Walt Disney Studios and his mentoring of Disney animators.Walter Stanchfield was born in 1919 in Los Angeles California. After graduating from high school in 1937 Stanchfield worked as an animator at the Charles Mintz Studio. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy.
Azra Kolaković.  Azra Kolaković (born 1 January 1977) known professionally as Donna Ares is a Bosnian pop singer popular over former Yugoslavia.
Smitty.  Varick D. Smith better known as Smitty is an American rapper and hip-hop ghostwriter from Little Haiti a neighborhood in Miami Florida.
Daniel Lindström.  Daniel Lindström (born January 30 1978) is a Swedish singer from Umeå who won the Swedish Idol 2004 contest against Darin Zanyar. His first single Coming True sold double platinum and his self-titled album released in December 2004 topped the Swedish pop charts. The second album Nån slags verklighet (Some kind of reality) contains songs written in Swedish by the singer himself. His third album D-Day was released in January 2009.
Jean Beauvoir.  Jean Beauvoir is an American singer bassist guitarist multi-instrumentalist songwriter and producer.
Neil Taylor (guitarist).  Neil Taylor (born 26 January 1961) is an English rock and pop guitarist best known for his long-time affiliation with Robbie Williams and for formerly being a member of the backing band of Tears for Fears.
Jimmy Pike.  Jimmy Pike (c1940-2002) Walmatjarri Aboriginal artist.
Shane Davis.  Shane Davis is an American comic book artist.
Gargi Vachaknavi.  Gargi Vachaknavi was an ancient Indian philosopher. In Vedic Literature she is honored as one of the great natural philosophers.
Ira Ishida.  Ira Ishida (石田 衣良 Ishida Ira born March 8 1960)　is a Japanese novelist and TV commentator. After graduating from Seikei University he worked for a number of different advertising production companies and as a freelance copywriter.In 1997 he published his first short story collection Ikebukuro West Gate Park which won the 36th All Yomimono New Mystery Writer's Prize.
Stephen Mayes.  Stephen Mayes is a 25 year veteran within the fields of photography art and journalism. He is currently the New York head of VII Photo Agency and secretary of the World Press Photo Competition. In the past he chaired the World Press Photo Competition. Additionally he served as creative director for Getty Images Photonica and Eyestorm.com and as CEO of Network Photographers London the Art + Commerce Image Archive and amana New York.
Tony Tallarico.  Tony Tallarico (born 1933) is an American comic book artist and children's book illustrator and author. Often paired in a team with his generally uncredited penciler Bill Fraccio Tallarico drew primarily for Charlton Comics and Dell Comics — including for the comic book Lobo the first to star an African-American.
Anton Makarenko.  Anton Semenovych Makarenko (Ukrainian: Анто́н Семе́нович Макаре́нко Russian: Анто́н Семёнович Мака́ренко *1888 – †1939) was a Russian and Soviet educator and writer who promoted democratic ideas and principles in educational theory and practice. As one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy he elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and introduced the concept of productive labor into the educational system.
Johan Åberg.  Johan Åberg (born 17 April 1972) is a Swedish music producer songwriter and manager. In the late 90's and early 00's he wrote and produced several international hit songs with artists like Christina Aguilera (Come On Over Baby) and Cher (A Different Kind Of Love Song) etc. Aside from writing and producing music he is also currently the manager of among others Swedish singer/songwriter Ulrik Munther.
Ken Marcus.  Ken Marcus (born October 2 1946 in Hollywood California) is an American photographer known for his glamour photography with Penthouse and Playboy magazines. For over 30 years he has produced hundreds of centerfolds editorials album covers and advertisements. His work is shown in galleries published in books and magazines. He was an artist-in-resident at the Yosemite National Park Museum. Marcus also lectures and conducts workshops internationally. He has an adult fetish and BDSM site.
Maki Miyamae.  Maki Miyamae (宮前真樹 born 16 January 1973) is a Japanese pop singer and the oldest member of the group Coco. She was born in Tōkamachi Niigata Japan but grew up in Tokyo. She left the entertainment world in 2004 to attend Le Cordon Bleu; she is now a professional chef and food education instructor running her own restaurant CAFE RESTAURANT M.NATURE in Aoyama Tokyo.
Bimal Guha.  Bimal Guha (Bangla: বিমল গুহ) (born 27 October 1952) is a Bangladeshi poet and a leading poet of his generation. He appeared on the Bangladesh literary scene in the 1970s. His themes revolve around the war of liberation and the eternal subjects of love nature motherland mother-tongue tradition and modernity.
Nicky Bomba.  Nicholas Caruana aka Nicky Bomba (born 7 September 1963 Malta) is an Australian musician and singer. He is the frontman of his band Bomba as well as the former drummer and percussionist of John Butler Trio. He has also performed alongside other acts and is a solo artist himself.
DeWayne Quirico.  Robert DeWayne Quirico (better known as simply DeWayne Quirico) is a professional drummer best known for his work with The Bobby Fuller Four. One of his most notable works is his unique percussion work on the band's biggest hit I Fought the Law.At the unavailability of drummer Dalton Powell Bobby Fuller personally chose Quirico to be the band's drummer upon their relocation to Hollywood from El Paso.
Mark L. Smith.  For the surgeon see Mark L. Smith (physician)Mark L. Smith is a virtuoso pianist since 4 years of age. He has released several albums and is associated with acts such as Amy Grant Chris Tomlin and Alexandre Tharaud.
Joanna Trollope.  Joanna Trollope OBE (/ˈtrɒləp/; born 9 December 1943) is a British writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Miloš Crnjanski.  Miloš Crnjanski (in Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански pronounced [mîlɔʃ t͡srɲǎnskiː]; 26 October 1893 – 30 November 1977) was a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism author and a diplomat. From his beginnings as a journalist whose social-political stance was at one moment openly opposed to freedom and progress he gradually arose to become a poet and romanticist.
Peter Mennim.  Peter Mennim (born 1955) is a British artist based in Cambridge.
Jacquire King.  Jacquire King (born January 11 1967) is an American record producer mixer and engineer. King has worked with artists including Tom Waits Modest Mouse Buddy Guy Norah Jones Kings of Leon Of Monsters and Men Josh Ritter Cold War Kids Punch Brothers Melissa Etheridge The Airborne Toxic Event Robert Ellis and Dawes. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner with nearly 30 nominations.King had his initial training in recording engineering at Recording Workshop in Chillicothe Ohio.
Brad Holland (artist).  Bradford Wayne Holland (born 1943) is an American illustrator best known for his work for Playboy and Penthouse magazines.
Elise Testone.  Elise Nicole Testone (born July 29 1983) is an American singer and songwriter from Mount Pleasant South Carolina. She placed sixth on the eleventh season of American Idol. Her debut album In This Life was released in February 2014.
Harold Tovish.  Harold Tovish (July 31 1921 – January 4 2008) was an American sculptor who worked in bronze wood and synthetic media. He was famous for exacting standards and even refused to complete many of the sculptures he began. Tovish focused on the human form as the primary vehicle for exploring metaphysical existence.
Phil Rainford.  Phil Rainford is a former singer and music producer who formed part of the Manchester music scene in late 1970s and early 1980s. He was the original singer of post-punk band The Durutti Column who were signed to Factory Records having joined the band in early 1978. He was sacked in July of that year for not being a considered correct choice.
Pio Fabio Paolini.  Pio Fabio Paolini or Pio Paolini (Udine 1620 -1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Claude Victor de Boissieu.  Claude Victor de Boissieu (28 November 1784 - 23 November 1868) was a French artist and local politician.Boissieu was born in Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain. He first studied art under his uncle the engraver Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810). After working at court during the restoration of the monarchy after 1815 de Boissieu served as Mayor of Ambérieu-en-Bugey Justice of the Peace and Councillor for Ain.
Abdul Hameed (writer).  Abdul Hameed (Urdu: اے۔ حمید-‎; 1928 – 29 April 2011) was an Urdu fiction writer from Pakistan who wrote over two hundred books.
Braguinha (composer).  Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga (March 29 1907 – December 24 2006) commonly known as Braguinha (Little Braga) or João de Barro (the Hornero) was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro where he lived all his life.
B. Sasikumar.  B. Sasikumar is a noted Carnatic music violinist musician teacher composer and writer from Kerala South India.
Frank Yerby.  Frank Garvin Yerby ((1916-09-05)September 5 1916 – November 29 1991(1991-11-29)) was an African-American historical novelist. He is best known as the first African-American writer to become a millionaire from his pen and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation.
Stephanie Opal Weinstein.  Stephanie Opal Weinstein (born 1973) is an American musician. She is the ex-wife of Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo. They were married on the 31st of October 2001 on Anselmo's property in Louisiana. That same year they created an acoustic band called Southern Isolation releasing a self-titled EP. The original EP contained four songs with the re-release containing a fifth song Southern Man I Am in which Anselmo joined Weinstein on vocals.
Al Scaduto.  Alvaro Scaduto (July 12 1928 – December 8 2007) better known as Al Scaduto was a cartoonist noted for his 61-year span of work for King Features Syndicate on the classic strips They'll Do It Every Time and Little Iodine created by Jimmy Hatlo.A New Yorker who was born in the Bronx Scaduto attended high school at the School of Industrial Art where he focused on cartooning and won several awards. He also studied at the Art Students League.
Erik Segerstedt.  Erik Segerstedt (born April 20 1983 in Uddevalla) is a Swedish singer. He was the runner-up to Markus Fagervall on the third season of Swedish version of Idol 2006.Erik was part of the Swedish band E.M.D. alongside two other Idol contestants Danny Saucedo from Idol 2006 and Mattias Andréasson from Idol 2007. The band took a break in late 2010.Erik was a contestant in Let's Dance 2013.
Clare Bell.  Clare Bell (born 1952) is an author in the U.S. best known for her Ratha series of young adult fantasy novels about prehistoric big cats. These books also called the Named series are about intelligent self-aware large cats who have puma cheetah and lion characteristics and are based on fossil creatures who are ancestors of the saber-tooth cat.The first book in the series Ratha's Creature appeared in 1983.
Les Edgerton.  Les Edgerton is an American author of fifteen books including two about writing fiction: Finding Your Voice (Writer's Digest Books) and Hooked (Writer's Digest Books). He also writes short stories articles essays novels and screenplays.
Don Davis (artist).  Don Davis (Donald E. Davis born October 21 1952) is a space artist known for his portrayals of space-related subjects. His work is characterised by attention to detail and authentic portrayals based on what is known of the subject. Chesley Bonestell considered by many to be one of the most accomplished practitioners of the space art genre critiqued Davis' early paintings and encouraged him to pursue an artistic career.Davis worked for the U. S.
Mr. C.  Richard West (born 2 January 1968 London) is a British DJ musician actor and rapper who uses the monikers Mr. C Sycophant Slags & Indigo Kidz. He is best known as the frontman for The Shamen during their most commercially successful era. West is also a house music DJ and was co-owner/co-founder of London's The End nightclub with Layo from Layo and Bushwacka!.
Monir Vakili.  Monir Vakili (December 19 1923 in Tabriz Iran – February 28 1983 in Belgium) was an Iranian singer.
Jim Ed Brown.  James Edward Jim Ed Brown (born April 1 1934 in Sparkman Arkansas) is an American country music singer who achieved fame in the 1950s with his two sisters as a member of The Browns. He later had a successful solo career from 1965 to 1974 followed by a string of major duet hits with Helen Cornelius through 1981. Brown is currently the host of the Country Music Greats Radio Show a syndicated country music program from Nashville Tennessee.
Shaul Tchernichovsky.  Shaul Tchernichovsky (20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943; Hebrew: שאול טשרניחובסקי‎; Russian: Саул Гутманович Черниховский) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets identified with nature poetry and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.
Jess Walter.  Jess Walter (born July 20 1965) is an American author of six novels a collection of short stories and a non-fiction book. His books have been published in twenty-six countries and translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award among others and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006.
Franz Sedlacek.  Franz Sedlacek (1891–1945) was an Austrian painter who belonged to the tradition known as New Objectivity (neue Sachlichkeit) an artistic movement similar to Magical Realism. At the end of the Second World War he disappeared as a soldier of the Wehrmacht somewhere in Poland.
Peter Biker.  Peter Biker (born 10 May 1961) is a Danish record producer and songwriter. He is also a musician drummer and keyboard player. He has produced or written for many local Danish and international acts. He was on the judging panels of shows like Stjerneskud and Popstars
Frank Tennant.  Frank Tennant was a British actor of the silent era.
Erich Kästner.  Emil Erich Kästner (German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ]) (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German author poet screenwriter and satirist known primarily for his humorous socially astute poetry and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war.
Keith Pollard.  Keith Pollard (born January 20 1950) is an American comic book artist. Originally from the Detroit area Pollard is best known for his simultaneous work on the Marvel Comics titles Fantastic Four Thor and The Amazing Spider-Man in the late 1970s-early 1980s.
Grégory Lemarchal.  Grégory Lemarchal (13 May 1983 – 30 April 2007) was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality TV programme Star Academy France broadcast on the TF1 television network.He sold over 1 million albums in France becoming the second highest-selling album of Star Academy France winner behind Jenifer Bartoli who sold 1.3 million albums in 2007. He died at age of 23 of health complications while waiting in hospital for a lung transplant.
Blake Morgan.  Blake Morgan is an American musician singer-songwriter music producer and record label owner based in New York City. After releasing the alternative rock solo album Anger's Candy (1997) on Phil Ramone's N2K Sony/Red label he began producing music independently and founded the label Engine Company Records in 2002 which in 2012 became ECR Music Group.
Aida Baraku.  Aida Baraku (born September 19 1971) is an Albanian Kosovar singer composer journalist and television producer. She is known for her songs Shoqet (The friends) Leze Leze Titanik (Titanic) etc.Today she is mostly known as a composer. Together with her husband Armend Rexhepagiqi they composed songs for famous singers like Adelina Thaçi Tuna Jehona Sopi and many others. Baraku as a journalist has worked for prestigious newspapers like Zëri and Koha Ditore.
Dornford Yates.  Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960) whose novels and short stories some humorous (the Berry books) some thrillers (the Chandos books) were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.The pen name Dornford Yates first in print in 1910 resulted from combining the surnames of his grandmothers – the paternal Eliza Mary Dornford and the maternal Harriet Yates.
Marie Denise Pelletier.  Marie Denise Pelletier (born 3 April 1960 Rosemont) is a francophone Canadian singer. She has served as President of Artisti a copyright collective for music artists operated by Quebec's l'Union des artistes (UDA).
Craig Ross.  Craig David Ross is an American guitarist best known for performing and recording with Lenny Kravitz.
David Yallop.  David Anthony Yallop (born 27 January 1937) is a British author who writes chiefly about unsolved crimes. In the 1970s he also contributed scripts for a number of BBC comedy shows.[citation needed] In October 1992 he lost his job when as a scriptwriter for EastEnders he proposed killing some of the characters by means of an IRA bomb. Yallop successfully sued the BBC for breach of contract.
Goran Trajkoski.  Goran Trajkoski (Macedonian: Горан Трајкоски) (born 21 November 1963) is an eminent Macedonian musician. He rose to international prominence as a frontman of the group Anastasija which was featured on the soundtrack album for the Academy Award nominated movie Before the Rain directed by Milčo Mančevski. He started his musical career as a member of the punk rock band Afektiven naboj from Struga. After moving to Skopje he joined the punk band Saraceni led by Vladimir Petrovski Karter.
David Sarser.  David Sarser is an American musician audio engineer and electronics designer. He played violin with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s under Arturo Toscanini and worked with Les Paul in the design of the first 8 track recording deck (built for Mr.
Concha Meléndez.  Dr. Concha Meléndez (January 21 1895 – June 26 1983) was an educator poet and writer. She was the first woman to belong to the Puerto Rican Academy of Languages.
Just Jack.  Jack Christopher Allsopp (born 18 May 1975) known by the stage name Just Jack is an English musician from Camden Town London. He first came to prominence with the release of his 2007 single Starz in Their Eyes which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. He has also since been known for the songs Embers peaking at number 17 and The Day I Died which peaked at number 11.
Ebanda Manfred.  Ebanda Manfred (December 2 1935 – September 3 2003) was a Cameroonian makossa singer. He is also composer of the hit song Amie later made famous by Bebe Manga.
Alka Yagnik.  Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966 in Kolkata West Bengal India) is a noted playback singer of Hindi cinema with a career spanning three decades. She is a record seven-time winner from a record of 35 nominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer a two-time recipient of the National Film Award as well as several other music awards & honours listed below. Further as many as 20 of her tracks feature in BBC's Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time review.
Joe Zawinul.  Josef Erich Joe Zawinul (July 7 1932 – September 11 2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of rock and world music. Later Zawinul co-founded the groups Weather Report and the world fusion music-oriented Zawinul Syndicate.
Speckled Red.  Speckled Red (October 23 1892 - January 2 1973) was born Rufus Perryman in Hampton Georgia.
Lauren Groff.  Lauren Groff (born July 23 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Jose Mata.  Jose Mata (born Jose Esquivel Mata Jr. on September 22 1979 in Honolulu HI) is a North American dance music DJ and record producer who has worked internationally since 2004. Mata has performed alongside some of the largest names in electronic dance music at festivals and nightclubs from all over the world. He has been featured on Sirius Satellite Radio's Area 38 on the Ultra Music Festival Radio Show as well as The Vanishing Point.
Alex Newell.  Alex George Newell (born August 20 1992) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his recurring role as Wade Unique Adams on Fox's musical comedy-drama Glee and as being a first season runner-up on Oxygen's The Glee Project.
Lenny Zakatek.  Lenny Zakatek also known as The Voice (born Lenny du Platel 1947 Karachi British India) is a pop and rock singer and musician who has lived in London since the age of thirteen. Zakatek was born just prior to Karachi becoming part of Pakistan and is best known for his work with the British bands Gonzalez and The Alan Parsons Project.
Carlos Solórzano.  Carlos Solórzano Fernández (May 6 1919 – March 30 2011) was a Guatemalan born Mexican playwright. He is considered one of the most important playwrights in Guatemalan history. His contribution to the theater in Latin America range from his plays to articles in theater journals and encyclopedias and essays related to the history and anthology of Latin theater.
Louis Archambault.  Louis Archambault OC (April 4 1915 – January 27 2003) was a Quebec sculptor.Born in Montreal Quebec he won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied Arts Medal in 1958.In 1956 works by Archambault along with those of Jack Shadbolt and Harold Town represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.In 1968 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Patrick Wensink.  Patrick Wensink is an American author (born 1979). His most recent work is a novel entitled Broken Piano for President. The novel received increased publicity when the whiskey company Jack Daniel's sent a politely worded cease-and-desist letter to the author asking that he change the design of his book cover which closely resembled the label on Jack Daniel's whiskey. In a post on the Huffington Post Wensink used this experience as a model for how books can gain publicity.
Janice Acoose.  Janice Acoose (born 1954) is a Canadian author newspaper columnist filmmaker indigenous language advocate and professor of indigenous and English literature at First Nations University of Canada in Saskatchewan.
Anak Agung Gde Sobrat.  Anak Agung Gde Sobrat (1912–1992) was a painter in Indonesia.
George Pullen Jackson.  George Pullen Jackson (1874-1953) was an American educator and musicologist. He was a pioneer in the field of Southern (U.S.) hymnody. Many consider him the most diligent scholar of fasola singing in the 20th century and one of the foremost musicologists of American folk songs. He was responsible for popularizing the term white spirituals to describe the fasola singing.
Marita Lindquist.  Marita Lindquist (born 10 November 1918 in Helsinki) a Finnish author of many children's books. She was of Swedish ethnicity. In addition she has written song lyrics illustrated books worked as a translator materials writer producer former editor and journalist.Lindquist graduated from high school in 1937 and then studied languages. She is the author of hundreds of song texts and poems. Her repertoire includes about forty children's books (usually the characters are fictional but ex.
Raimondo Inconis.  Raimondo Inconis (born Mars 27 1959 in San Gavino Monreale Sardinia) is an Italian contrabassoonist. He is widely regarded as one of the preeminent contrabassoon and pedagogues of the 20th and early-21st centuries.
Prajakta Shukre.  Prajakta Shukre (born 29 November 1987) is an Indian singer who works in Bollywood films as well as reality shows. She was studying science in 12th standard in Jabalpur when she decided to participate in Indian Idol Season 1. She finished at 4th place.Notable work of Prajakta is Title song of Dill Mill Gaye season 2 aired on Star One in 2009 with Sonu Nigam.
Jörgen Andersson.  See also Jörgen Andersson (politician).Jörgen Ingemar Andersson (born 14 September 1951 in Önnestad Sweden) is a Swedish actor dramaturge and pedagog. He studied at Malmö Theatre Academy.
Carol Leifer.  Carol Leifer (/ˈliːfər/ LEE-fər;born July 27 1956) is an American comedian writer producer and actress whose career as a stand-up comedian started in the 1970s when she was in college. David Letterman discovered her performing in a comedy club in the 1980s and she has since been a guest on Late Night with David Letterman over twenty-five times as well as numerous other shows and venues.
WestBam.  Westbam real name Maximilian Lenz (born 4 March 1965 Münster Westphalia Germany) is a techno DJ and musician from Germany. He is the founder of the record label Low Spirit.
Sharon Chan.  Sharon Chan (born 17 January 1979) is a Hong Kong actress and model. She is currently under contract with TVB in Hong Kong.
Charly Chiarelli.  Calogero (Charly) Chiarelli (born October 2 1948) is a Canadian writer storyteller actor and musician.Born in Racalmuto Sicily Chiarelli grew up in the industrial north end of Hamilton Ontario. He has a Master's degree in Social Work from Carleton University; also degrees in Psychology from McMaster University and Linguistics from the University of Toronto.As a storyteller Charly Chiarelli is best known for his one-person plays Cu'Fu and Mangiacake directed for theatre by Ronald Weihs.
Ivan Ozhogin.  Ivan Ozhogin (Russian Иван Геннадьевич Ожогин Ivan Gennadievich Ozhogin; born September 1 1978 in Ulyanovsk) is a Russian actor and opera singer best known for his work in musical theater. In 2013 he received The Golden Mask Russia's highest theater award for the role of Count von Krolock in the Russian production of the musical Dance of the Vampires.
Zelo.  Choi Junhong (Hangul: 최준홍; born October 15 1996) better known by his stage name Zelo is a South Korean rapper dancer singer and beatboxer. He is best known as a member of a South Korean K-Pop group B.A.P as the maknae (youngest) and is the lead rapper of the group. He made his recording debut with the single Never Give Up under B.A.P's sub-unit Bang & Zelo in November 2011. He is currently signed under TS Entertainment.The stage name Zelo is derived from Greek mythology.
Tatyana Divina.  Tatyana Divina (Tatiana Divina) – composer of Instrumental music Easy listening Electronic music New Age and Neoclassical Dark Wave music.
Natalie Holland.  Natalie Radina Holland is a Russian-born contemporary artist formerly based in Norway and now working in England.
Eric Kretz.  Eric Kretz (born June 7 1966) is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played for Talk Show and Spiralarms. Eric who was born in San Jose California attended and graduated from Willow Glen High School in San Jose in 1984. He currently owns and operates Bomb Shelter Studios in Los Angeles.
Gallen Lo.  Gallen Lo Ka-leung is a Hong Kong actor and singer who primarily acts in television series. He is sometimes credited as King Gallen or Law Ka-leung.
Yuka Nomura.  Yuka Nomura (野村 佑香; Nomura Yūka b. March 20 1984 in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Flora Rheta Schreiber.  Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24 1918 – November 3 1988) an American journalist was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who suffered from dissociative identity disorder and had 16 different personalities. As Mason had insisted on protection of her privacy Schreiber gave her the cover identity of Sybil Isabel Dorsett.Ms. Schreiber was an English instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for many years.
Vineeth Vincent.  Vineeth Vincent (born 9 July 1989) is a beatboxer musician emcee and performing artist from Bangalore Karnataka India.
Frane Milčinski.  Frane Milčinski (pen name Ježek) (14 December 1914 – 27 February 1988) was a Slovene poet satirist humorist and comedian actor children's writer and director. He is considered one of Slovenia's foremost 20th-century satirists and entertainers.
Cenzo Townshend.  Vincenzo Capellini Townshend is an award-winning English music producer mixer and audio engineer and has worked with artists and bands including Kaiser Chiefs U2 Snow Patrol Florence + the Machine Friendly Fires Bloc Party Franz Ferdinand Corinne Bailey Rae Jamie Cullum and Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Wilson Mizner.  Wilson Mizner (May 19 1876 – April 3 1933) was an American playwright raconteur and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple produced in 1910 and The Greyhound produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles California and was affiliated with his brother Addison Mizner in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical Road Show.
Magik (rapper).  Piotr Łuszcz also known as Magik (pol. Magician) (born on 18 March 1978 in Jelenia Góra - died on 26 December 2000 in Katowice) was a Polish rapper and a record producer. From 1994 to 1998 he was a member of the Polish hip hop group Kaliber 44.
Keith Harkin.  Keith Harkin (born (1986-06-10)10 June 1986 in Derry Northern Ireland) is a singer and songwriter.
G. Sankara Kurup.  G. Sankara Kurup ( Malayalam: ജി.ശങ്കരകുറുപ്പ് born June 3 1901 Nayathode Kingdom of Cochin (now in Ernakulam district Kerala) - February 2 1978 Vappalassery Angamaly Ernakulam district Kerala) better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet G) was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award India's highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam Odakkuzhal (The bamboo flute 1950).
Brian Herbert.  Brian Patrick Herbert (born in Seattle Washington June 29 1947) is an American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert.Brian Herbert's novels include Sidney's Comet Prisoners of Arionn Man of Two Worlds (written with his father) and Sudanna Sudanna. In 2003 Herbert wrote a biography of his father: Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert.
Trevor Shane.  Trevor Shane (born April 4 1976) is an American author of contemporary thriller suspense speculative fiction dystopian drama and genre fiction. His debut novel Children of Paranoia was published in September 2011 by Dutton Books. It is the first book in a trilogy set to be published by Dutton Books.
August von Bayer.  August von Bayer who was born at Rorschach in 1804 first studied architecture under Weinbrenner at Carlsruhe. He visited Munich and Paris and subsequently devoted himself to painting interiors of churches chapels cloisters halls &c. in which he produced very happy effects. In 1853 he was appointed conservator of the monuments and antiquities in the Grand Duchy of Baden and died at Carlsruhe in 1873 (or 1875).
Ryu Sera.  Ryu Sera (Korean: 류세라); born September 3 1987) is a South Korean idol singer dancer and model. She is the main vocalist of the South Korean girl group Nine Muses. She is one of the original line-up of Nine Muses and debuted with the group in August 2010. She was born in Toronto Canada. She has one younger brother.
Francesco Rasi.  Francesco Rasi (14 May 1574 – 30 November 1621) was an Italian composer singer (tenor) chitarrone player and poet.Rasi was born in Arezzo. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1594 he was studying with Giulio Caccini. He may have been in Carlo Gesualdo's retinue when he went to Ferrara for his wedding in 1594.
Carlo Sacchi.  Carlo Sacchi (1617–1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Pavia and trained with a painter Benigno Rossi in Milan then traveled to Rome before settling in Venice. There he imitated a style recalling Paolo Veronese. He was also an engraver. Sacchi died in Pavia. One of his pupils was Carlo Girolamo Bersotti.
Roger Zelazny.  Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13 1937 – June 14 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series.
James Arthur (singer).  James Andrew Arthur (born 2 March 1988) is a British singer and musician who won the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012. His debut single Impossible was released after the final and debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. It has since gone on to sell over 1.25 million copies in the UK and 2.5 million copies worldwide. He released his self-titled debut album in November 2013. It debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart.
Kydd (rapper).  Randell Jones better known by his stage name Kydd is an American hiphop artist from Austin Texas. He has collaborated with artists such as GLC Pac Div Yelawolf & Kirko Bangz.
Claudja Barry.  Claudja Barry (born 1952 Jamaica) is a singer songwriter and actress. She was member of the disco group Boney M before leaving and perusing a solo career. As an actress she is known for performing in the European versions of stage musicals Hair and Catch My Soul.
Dean Geyer.  Dean Stanley Geyer (born 20 March 1986) is a South African Australian singer-songwriter and actor who finished third in the 2006 season of the talent show television series Australian Idol and has had a notable role in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Ty Harper. He joined the cast of the US show Glee in the 4th season as NYADA Junior Brody Weston.
Scott Stephens.  Scott Stephens is an American television producer. He currently is Executive Producer of True Detective and served as Supervising Producer on the Western drama Deadwood and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the series.
Dan Brodie.  Dan Brodie (born 1974) is an ARIA Award nominated singer/songwriter from Melbourne Australia.His debut EP I'm Floatin' Mama was independently released in 1998; followed by his debut album Big Black Guitar in 1999. Backed by The Broken Arrows which featured his brother Chris Brodie on slide guitar Craig Williamson (These Immortal Souls) on drums and Dan Kelly on bass Brodie signed to EMI who re-released his debut album.
Leon M. Lion.  Leon M. Lion (12 March 1879 - 28 March 1947) was a British stage and film actor.
Ameen Rihani.  Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī) (Arabic: أمين الريحاني‎ / ALA-LC: Amīn ar-Rīḥānī; 1876 – 1940) was a Lebanese Arab-American writer intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America and an early theorist of Arab nationalism. He became an American citizen in 1901.
Michaela Shiloh.  Michaela Mickey Shiloh (born January 25 1992) is an American songwriter and recording artist. Shiloh was signed as an artist and songwriter to Rodney Darkchild Jerkins from 2009 until 2011 and has written songs for artists such as Janet Jackson Pitbull Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez.
Guy Maestri.  Guy Maestri (born in Mudgee New South Wales in 1974) is an Australian contemporary artist who won the 2009 Archibald Prize for a portrait of Australian singer and musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the National Art School in Darlinghurst in 2003 and was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize.He is currently patronised by the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney which lists the key themes in his work as ecology human folly and the violated landscape.
Paul Moak.  Paul Moak is an American GRAMMY-nominated producer engineer mixer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently residing in Nashville TN.
Lindy Robbins.  Lindy Robbins is an award winning multi platinum selling songwriter from Los Angeles.
Gilbert Odd.  Gilbert Odd (1902 – 12 May 1996) was a British boxing historian and sportswriter. Odd boxed briefly as an amateur then at 18 turned his sights on the sports writing side of the game becoming a ringside correspondent for the weekly magazine Boxing. Starting in 1941 and continuing for ten years after he served as Editor in Chief of Boxing News the successor to Boxing.
Ray Guy (humorist).  Ray Guy (22 April 1939 – 14 May 2013) was a Newfoundland journalist and humourist best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.Ray Guy was born in Come By Chance Placentia Bay Newfoundland to George Hynes and Alice Louise Guy but was raised and schooled in Arnold's Cove the community that was to provide fodder for many of his columns.Guy studied journalism at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. After graduation he wrote for the St.
Enrico Pieranunzi.  Enrico Pieranunzi (born 5 December 1949) is an Italian jazz pianist. He fuses classical technique with jazz.
Emyr Humphreys.  Emyr Humphreys (born 15 April 1919) is a leading Welsh novelist poet and author. He was born at Prestatyn in Flintshire and educated at Rhyl High School and University of Wales Aberystwyth. He registered as a conscientious objector in the Second World War working on a farm and later doing relief work in Egypt and Italy.
François Richard.  François Richard (ca. 1585 – 1650) was a French composer of airs de cour. His Airs de cour a quatre parties (1637) mentions the pleasure Louis XIII found in the music of his Chamber.
Iain Torrance.  Iain Richard Torrance (born 1949) is Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland Honorary Professor of Early Christian Doctrine and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh President and Professor of Patristics Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland. He is a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Jared Gold.  Jared Gold (born 2 May 1972[citation needed] in Idaho) is a fashion designer of avant-garde American Gothic fashion.
Todd Tobias.  Todd Tobias is a record producer and musician/ multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Robert Pollard and his band Guided by Voices. Other projects include Circus Devils Kramies The Library is on Fire The Celebrity Pilots Brian Lisik Slark Martyr and musical theatre composer and lyricist George Griggs. Todd's debut album titled Medicine Show was released on April 26 2012 by Hidden Shoal Recordings.
Eduardo Úrculo.  Eduardo Úrculo (21 September 1938 – 31 March 2003) was a Spanish Basque pop artist who also worked in other art movements including Expressionism and Neo-Cubism. Both painter and sculptor he is notable for his portrayals of luggage the gentleman's hat and the female bottom. With El Equipo Crónica (“Chronicle Team”) formed by the artists Manolo Valdés and Rafael Solbes Úrculo is considered one of the drivers of pop art in Spain.
Peace Orchestra.  Peace Orchestra is a musical solo project from Viennese trip-hop-dub producer Peter Kruder best known as one half of Kruder & Dorfmeister.
Kelly Khumalo.  Kelly Khumalo is a South African singer and actress. She has so far released three albums: TKO Itshitshi and Siyajabula. Khumalo is from Spruitview in the East Rand and had been singing in church all her life until realizing that there is a whole bigger world out there. She was named the Best Newcomer of 2005 in the Afro Pop music circuit.
Randolph Healy.  Randolph Healy (born 1956) is an Irish poet and publisher.Healy was born in Scotland and moved to Dublin at the age of 18 months. After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College Dublin. He now works as a teacher of mathematics at second level.
June Knox-Mawer.  June Knox-Mawer née Ellis (10 May 1930 in Wrexham Wales – 19 April 2006) was a British writer of non-fiction books and romance novels and a radio broadcaster. In 1992 her novel Sandstorm won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Toquinho.  Antônio Pecci Filho (born July 6 1946 in São Paulo Brazil) better known as Toquinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [toˈkĩɲu]) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well known for his collaborations as composer and performer with Vinicius de Moraes.
Niranjan Bhagat.  Niranjan Bhagat (Gujarati: નિરંજન ભગત Hindi: निरंजन भगत); born May 18 1926 in Ahmedabad) full name Niranjan Narhari Bhagat is a Gujarati poet and commentator who won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his critic Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha. He is also an English poet and has written over hundred 100 poems in English most being written in the style of Gitanjali.
Harry Welchman.  Harry Welchman (24 February 1886 – 3 January 1966) was a British actor.Welchman was born in Barnstaple Devon. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1960 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in a taxi outside the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith London. He died in Penzance Cornwall at age 79.
Murchadh Ó Cuindlis.  Murchadh Ó Cuindlis Irish scribe fl. 1398 – 1411.Said to be a native of Bally Lough Deacker in what is now the extreme south of Co. Galway Ó Cuindlis was one of the scribes of The Book of Lecan under the guidance of Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh and later An Leabhar Breac at Duniry.
Eric Durchholz.  Eric Durchholz (born Patrick John Coleman on June 25 1972) is an American author 3-D and multimedia graphic artist and former Internet radio host.
Michael Kidner.  Michael James Kidner RA (1917–2009) was a pioneer of Op art in the mid-1960s from Kettering Northamptonshire England. Michael Kidner was one of its earliest and most consistent exponents and it was in these overlapping fields of optical effect and systemic structure that he was to find the creative substance that was to sustain his whole career. A Constructivist by inclination his interest in mathematics chaos and wave theories informed an art that is both rational and intuitive.
Larry King (musician).  Larry King is an American singer-songwriter music producer and band leader based in Chicago Illinois. In the late 1980s King was the founder and lead singer of the Los Angeles glam rock band Human Factor and after moving back to Chicago founded the Larry King Orchestra in 1997. He founded MFO Entertainment Group a year later and remains as president of the company.
Guy Touvron.  Guy Touvron (born 15 February 1950) is a French classical trumpet player and music teacher. He is an accomplished soloist having played with some of Europe's leading orchestras and has premiered several prominent trumpet concertos. Touvron has given over 3000 concerts features on over 70 recordings and has won several prizes including three international Grands Prix.Touvron also teaches trumpet and regularly conducts master classes around the world.
Charley Booker.  Charley Booker (September 3 1925 – September 20 1989) was a blues singer and guitarist from the Mississippi Delta who recorded in the early 1950s for Modern Records.
Alun Lewis (actor).  Alun Lewis is a Welsh actor best known for his roles in ITV's Emmerdale as postmaster Vic Windsor and Darryl Stubbs in BBC1 sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989-1997.
Antal Stašek.  Antal Stašek (born Antonín Zeman) (22 July 1843 – 9 October 1931) was a Czech writer and lawyer. He was born in the village of Stanový in the Liberec district of northern Bohemia. From 1877 Stašek was a successful barrister in Semily. His work is mainly set in the area around the Krkonoše mountains that straddle the today's border between the Czech Republic and Poland.
Abraham Straski.  Abraham Straski (1903 – 1987) was a Polish born painter who moved to the United States after surviving the Nazi concentrations camps in the Holocaust. His works are usually representations of rabbis done in warm rich colors.
Irving Sandler.  Irving Sandler (born July 22 1925 in New York City) is an American art critic art historian and educator. He has provided numerous first hand accounts of American art beginning with abstract expressionismin the 1950s where he managed the Tanager Gallerydowntown and co-ordinated the New York artists' ZT 'Club' of the New York School from 1955 to its demise in 1962 as well as documenting numerous conversations of from the Cedar Street Tavernand other artists venues.
Billy Childish.  Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper 1 December 1959) is an English painter author poet photographer film maker singer and guitarist.
Eliades Ochoa.  Eliades Ochoa (born 22 June 1946) is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba.He began playing the guitar when he was six and in 1978 he was invited to join Cuarteto Patria a group founded in 1939 as its leader.
Saori@destiny.  Saori@destiny (born June 10 year unknown) is a Japanese electronica artist produced by Terukado Ōnishi who also produces Aira Mitsuki. She made her independent debut on December 5 2007 with the single My Boy and has released two studio albums and two mini-albums to date named Japanese Chaos Wow War Techno World Wild 2010 and Domestic Domain.
Os Guinness.  Os Guinness (born September 30 1941) is an author and social critic.
Giovanni Paolo Panini.  Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was a painter and architect who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti (view painters). As a painter Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities. Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti) and his vedute—paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome.
Acharya Ramlochan Saran.  Acharya Ramlochan Saran (1889–1971) was a Hindi littérateur grammarian and publisher. He founded the Pustak Bhandar in Laheriasarai and Patna in 1915 which made the little-known place like Laheriasarai prominent in Indian publishing. He shifted his publishing activities to Patna in 1929.
Red Garland.  William Red Garland (May 13 1923 – April 23 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist whose block chord style in part originated by Milt Buckner influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom.
G. Ramanathan.  Gobalsamy Ramanatha Iyer or G. Ramanatha Iyer (Tamil: ஜி. இராமநாதன்) was a music composer for Tamil movies. He is also known as 'Isai Methai' (Genius of Music) or 'Sangeetha Chakravarthy' (Emperor of Music) and considered to be one of the influential Tamil Music composers to take Carnatic Music to the masses. Notable for his association with M.K.Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. G.Ramanathan also composed for films of Salem Modern Theatres and Coimbatore Central Studios.
Natalia Zeta.  Natalia Zeta (born 29 December 1983) is a Spanish pornographic actress.She has posed for adult magazines such as Private Forward Edge and SIE7E as well as for the automobile magazines Top Tuning Tuners and Maxituning.[citation needed]In May 2009 she made headlines for a stunt at a Spanish football game between Real Madrid and Barcelona to promote an upcoming film.
Bernard Baily.  Bernard Baily (April 5 1916 – January 19 1996) was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters the Spectre and Hourman and a comics publisher writer and editor.
Haydn Bendall.  Haydn Bendall (born 12 April 1951 in Essex) is an English music record producer engineer and mixer. He was Chief Engineer at Abbey Road Studios for ten years and was awarded the Audio Pro Industry Excellence Award for Best Studio Engineer in 2009.
Chen Sisi (singer).  Chen Sisi (simplified Chinese: 陈思思; traditional Chinese: 陳思思; pinyin: Chén Sīsī; born 28 December 1976) is a Chinese singer philanthropist politician.
Jo Amar.  Yosef Jo Amar (Hebrew: יוסף (ג'ו) עמר  Arabic: يوسف (جو) عمار‎) (born 1 June 1930 Settat Morocco - died 26 June 2009 Woodmere New York) was a noted Moroccan-born Israeli singer and hazzan.Amar began his singing career in the late 1940s in Morocco. In 1956 Amar emigrated from Morocco to Israel where he lived on Moshav Yad Rambam.He was a pioneer in the introduction of Moroccan Jewish liturgical music to Israel.
Rosalind Nash.  Rosalind Nash née Smith (1862–1952) was a relative and confidante of Florence Nightingale. She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson when Pearson was writing his biography of Francis Galton.Rosalind Smith was the elder daughter of FN's cousin W. Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale) whom Florence Nightingale regarded almost as a brother. Lady Stephen the wife of Sir Harry L. Stephen was her younger sister.
Trent Zelazny.  Trent Zelazny (born November 28 1976) is an American author of crime and horror fiction. His work includes To Sleep Gently Fractal Despondency Shadowboxer The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories Destination Unknown A Crack in Melancholy Time Butterfly Potion Too Late to Call Texas and People Person.
Sunil Santha.  Sunil Santha (Sinhala:සුනිල් සාන්ත) (14 April 1915 - 11 April 1981) was a renowned and influential Sri Lankan composer singer and lyricist. He was pivotal in the development of Sinhala music and folk songs in the mid to late 1940s and early 1950s. He composed the beloved soundtracks to Lester James Peries' Rekava and Sandesaya in 1956 and 1960. In a later comeback he produced several experimental works.
P. J. Olsson.  Paul Josef Olsson is the lead singer for the Alan Parsons Live Project. He has five released albums. He has toured with various artists over his lifetime including The Alan Parsons Project Kid Rock Muse Train Rufus Wainright Iggy Pop Beth Orton Bob Geldof Something Corporate Ben Harper Nelly Furtado Placebo Michelle Branch and others.
David Malloy.  David Ernest Malloy is an American Country Music and Pop songwriter record producer and A&R executive with 41 number one hits. He has received multiple Grammy nominations as writer and/or producer and has worked with many artists and projects including USA for Africa Tim McGraw Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series) Julianne Hough Eddie Rabbitt Dolly Parton Reba McEntire Kenny Rogers Mindy McCready Badfinger and Tanya Tucker.
Tran Thu Ha.  Trần Thu Hà also known as Hà Trần (born August 26 1977 in Hanoi Vietnam) is a Vietnamese pop singer. She is considered by the public and critics as one of the four divas in Vietnam besides Thanh Lam Hồng Nhung and Mỹ Linh.
Katharine Lee Bates.  Katharine Lee Bates (August 12 1859 – March 28 1929) was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful. She popularized Mrs. Santa Claus through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889).
Toshinobu Kubota.  Toshinobu Toshi Kubota (久保田 利伸 Kubota Toshinobu born 24 July 1962) is a Japanese singer songwriter musician music producer and radio personality. Toshinobu Kubota has produced six million-seller records and thirty-three Top 40 singles during his career. He is currently part of Sony Music Japan.
Ill Bill.  William Braunstein (born July 14 1972) better known as Ill Bill is a Jewish-American rapper and record producer from Brooklyn New York. Having gained notoriety in the underground hip hop group Non Phixion Ill Bill is known for his hardcore/sexual/violent diverse lyrics and as the producer founder and CEO of Uncle Howie Records. His brother Ron is also a rapper and producer known as Necro.
John Hopkins (actor).  John Hopkins (born 1974) is an English actor known for playing Sgt. Dan Scott on Midsomer Murders.
Kevin Coyne.  Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 - 2 December 2004) was a musician singer composer film-maker and a writer of lyrics stories and poems. The former anti-star was born on 27 January 1944 in Derby UK and died in his adopted home of Nuremberg Germany on 2 December 2004.Coyne is notable for his unorthodox style of blues-influenced guitar composition the intense quality of his vocal delivery and his bold treatment of injustice to the mentally ill in his lyrics.
Val Mayerik.  Val Mayerik (born March 29 1950) is an American comic-book and commercial artist best known as co-creator of Marvel Comics' satiric character Howard the Duck.
Johnny Shentall.  Johnny Shentall (born 3 September 1978) is a British pop singer. He was first a member of the pop group Boom! before joining another pop group Hear'Say in 2002.
Neil Fallon.  Neil P. Fallon (October 25 1971 in Portsmouth Virginia) is the lead singer and occasional rhythm guitarist keyboardist and percussionist for the rock band Clutch and lead singer for The Company Band.
Robin McAuley.  Robin McAuley (born 20 January 1953 County Meath Ireland) is an Irish rock vocalist known mostly for his work in McAuley Schenker Group and before that Grand Prix with whom he recorded two albums.
Rita Lynch.  Rita Lynch is a singer songwriter who achieved a major profile in the UK the early 1990s and was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary filmed as part of the Out series. Her music has been used in a Channel 4 drama Rosebud and in British horror movie Vampire Diary.Her sound has been described as PJ Harvey meets at the Drive-In with a dose of the usual dark ambience that accompanies most Bristol releases.She retains a devoted following today and continues to record and perform.
F. E. Higgins.  F.E. Higgins is the pen name of Irish writer Fiona Higgins. She is known for her books The Bone Magician and The Black Book of Secrets the latter of which was awarded a Bisto Honour Award in 2008. Higgins has previously worked as a schoolteacher before becoming a full-time writer in 2000.
Philip Labonte.  Philip Steven Labonte (Born April 15 1975) is an American musician from Massachusetts best known as the lead singer of the American melodic metalcore band All That Remains. Labonte is the former lead vocalist for Shadows Fall and was the touring vocalist for Killswitch Engage in early 2010.
Amaldus Nielsen.  Amaldus Clarin Nielsen (23 May 1838 – 10 December 1932) was a Norwegian painter.
Marie-France Boyer.  Marie-France Boyer (*22 April 1938 in Marseille) is a French actress singer and the author of many internationally published non-fiction books on France.
Vivimarie Vanderpoorten.  Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a Sri Lankan poet. Her book Nothing Prepares You won the 2007 Gratiaen Prize. She was also awarded the 2009 SAARC Poetry Award in Delhi. She is of Belgian and Sinhala ancestry and grew up in Kurunegala. She holds a PhD from the University of Ulster UK and is currently a senior lecturer in English language literature and linguistics at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Her poetry has been called gentle reflective minimalism which touches the soul by Dr.
Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort.  Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort Anthonie van Blocklandt or Anthonie van Montfoort (1533 or 1534 - 18 October 1583) was a Dutch painter
Todd Strange.  Todd Strange (born January 31 1966) is the bassist who played on the first Down album NOLA and with Crowbar. Forming Crowbar with Kirk Windstein (Down) Matt Thomas and Craig Nunenmacher (Black Label Society) they released the best-selling albums of the band's discography. This included the Crowbar self-titled LP with the hits All I Had (I Gave) Existence is Punishment No Quarter (by Led Zeppelin) and I Have Failed produced by Phil Anselmo.
Ron Fitzgerald.  Ron Fitzgerald is an American television writer. He has worked on the NBC drama Friday Night Lights and the Showtime comedy Weeds and has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards.
Matt Wagner.  Matt Wagner (born October 9 1961) is an American comic book writer and artist known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.
Hannes Bok.  Hannes Bok pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard (July 2 1914 – April 11 1964) was an American artist and illustrator as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction fantasy and detective fiction magazines as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations.
David Armand.  David Armand (born David Whitehead on September 1977) is an English comedian actor and writer who has performed on stage film radio and most notably television where the shows he has appeared in include Fast and Loose Episodes How Not to Live Your Life Pulling The Armstrong and Miller Show Swinging and Peep Show.He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows Sorry I've Got No Head and Pixelface.
Cesare Poggi.  Cesare Poggi (1803–1859) was an Italian painter active in the Neoclassic style of grand manner history depiction mainly around his native city of Milan. He was a pupil of Luigi Sabatelli but after 1824 studied in Venice and Rome. He died at Milan where he became a member of the Academy of Painters.
Ken Chu.  Ken Chu (Chinese: 朱孝天; pinyin: Zhū Xiàotiān was born on 15 January 1979 in Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese singer actor and composer; and a member of Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band F4. Educated in Singapore (Boon Lay Secondary School) he speaks Mandarin Cantonese and English.
Liis Lemsalu.  Liis Lemsalu (born October 20 1992 in Tallinn Estonia) is an Estonian singer. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of Eesti otsib superstaari the Estonian version of Idol series. She was then signed to Universal Music Group. After winning the show Liis went on tour with other participants of Eesti otsib superstaari and released a single Kõnnime seda teed together with the runner-up of the show Artjom Savitski.
Rufus Payne.  Rufus Payne was an early 20th-century American blues musician from Greenville Alabama who was more widely known by his nickname Tee Tot.Payne's nickname of Tee Tot is a pun for teetotaler. It is said that Payne received his nickname because he usually carried a homemade mixture of alcohol and tea wherever he went.
Johann Anton Leisewitz.  Johann Anton Leisewitz (born 9 May 1752 in Hanover died 10 September 1806 in Braunschweig) was a German lawyer and dramatic poet and a central figure of the Sturm und Drang era. He is best known for his play Julius von Tarent (1776) that inspired Friedrich Schiller and is considered the forerunner of Schiller's quintessential Sturm und Drang work The Robbers (1781).
Niccolò Semitecolo.  Niccolò Semitecolo was a 14th-century Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period active mainly in Venice. His work demonstrates the influence of Giotto.
Solomon Ilori.  Solomon Gbadegesin Ilori (born c. 1935) is a Nigerian drummer and percussionist who moved to New York City in the late 1950s and collaborated with jazz artists such as Art Blakey before recording his debut album for Blue Note Records in 1963.
Shaun Steels.  Shaun Steels (born Shaun Taylor-Steels 22 August 1970) is a British heavy metal drummer and bassist.Steels replaced Bill Law in My Dying Bride and once was a member of Anathema.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips.  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (b. December 11 in Cincinnati Ohio) is an award-winning and best-selling American writer of romance novels.
Giovan Tomaso di Maio.  Giovan Tomaso di Maio (also Majo Mayo c. 1490 - after 1548) was an Italian composer. His villanelle like those of Giovanni Domenico da Nola were popular throughout Italy.
Jania Aubakirova.  Jania Aubakhirova is a Kazakhstani pianist.She was second to Stanislav Bunin at the 1983 Long-Thibaud Competition; she has performed internationally since. Aubakhirova is a recipient of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Kazakhstan State Premium. She is the Rector of the Kazakh National Conservatory since 1997.
Amba Shepherd.  Amba Shepherd is an Australian singer and songwriter best known for her collaborations with the Dutch music producer Hardwell. Amba Shepherd was named The most relevant guest vocalist in EDM by Elektro Mag June 2013 & The number one voice on today’s dance floor by DMC World. Her collaboration with Hardwell on the track Apollo held the number one position on the Beatport Top 100.Shepherd comes from a musical family in Sydney.
Carlota Alfaro.  Carlota Alfaro (born June 4 1933) is a high fashion designer from Puerto Rico. She is known as Puerto Rico's grande dame of fashion.Alfaro showed a passion for design ever since she was a child often designing clothes for family and friends.
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz.  Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter (20 February 1894 – 2 March 1980) was a Polish poet essayist dramatist and writer. He is mostly recognized for his literary achievements in poetry before World War II but also criticized as a long-term political opportunist in the communist Poland actively participating in the slander of Czesław Miłosz and other expatriates. He was removed from school textbooks by the new liberal regime in the early nineties.
Soupy Sales.  Soupy Sales (January 8 1926 – October 22 2009) was an American comedian actor radio-TV personality and host and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face which became his trademark.From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows.
Valentina Nappi.  Valentina Nappi (born 6 November 1990) is an Italian pornographic film actress and adult model.
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael.  Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c.1629 – 10 March 1682) was a prolific Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and is considered the most famous of four Haarlem family members who created landscape paintings though traditionally their works have been difficult to tell apart.
Dave Morris (comedian).  Dave Morris was a music hall comedian who made a successful transition to radio and television. He was born on 5 July 1896 son of Samuel Morris and Lily Reubens. Samuel a tailor lived at 110 Wilson Street Middlesbrough.His first stage appearance was on 10 December 1908 at the Oxford Playhouse Middlesbrough and his first London appearance in 1913 at the London Shoreditch. He started with a juvenile troupe then as a black-face comic.
DJ DB.  DJ DB (also known as DB Burkeman) is a British jungle/drum and bass DJ who moved from London to New York in 1989. He was an early pioneer in rave culture in the U.S. Also he was partly responsible for bringing drum and bass to America. He was the co-founder of Breakbeat Science recordings & store the first record store in the United States to specialize in drum and bass.
Sheilah Beckett.  Sheilah Beckett (September 5 1913 - November 17 2013) was an American illustrator known for her work on the Little Golden Books series. She illustrated more than 70 classic fairy-tale titles for Little Golden Books among them The Twelve Days of Christmas The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Snow White and Rose Red.
Shabbir Ahmed (writer).  Shabbir Ahmed is a writer of books in both Urdu and English on history and Islam. He was born in Pakistan in 1947 and currently resides in Florida United States. A medical doctor by profession he started his military career in the Pakistan Army under Emergency Commission as a young Captain in 1971. Then he served in Royal Saudi Army (Medical Corps) and became a Brigadier General at an age of just 31.
Maria Edgeworth.  Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views for a woman of her time on estate management politics and education and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.
Bobbie Gentry.  Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27 1944) professionally known as Bobbie Gentry is an American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative Ode to Billie Joe in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the No.
Thomas J. Herzfeld.  Thomas J. Herzfeld (born: New York 1945) is the founder Chairman and President of Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors Inc. an investment firm specializing in the field of closed-end funds. Herzfeld is also the Chairman and President of The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund Inc. the first closed-end fund formed to invest in the Caribbean region (as well as Cuba when permitted). Herzfeld wrote the first of his six books on the subject of closed-end funds in 1979.
Irene Ryder.  Irene Ryder (Chinese: 黎愛蓮; pinyin: Lí Àilián; born 1949) was a popular Eurasian Hong Kong English pop singer in Hong Kong during the 1960s. In 1966 she attained the unofficial title of Go Go Queen after winning a talent quest. Her first single was To Sir With Love. Among the other singles that she recorded were a duet with Robert Lee former member of Hong Kong beat band The Thunderbirds and the younger brother of Martial Arts star Bruce Lee.
King Diamond.  Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956 in Copenhagen) better known by his stage name King Diamond is a Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist he is known for his extensive vocal range in particular his usage of falsetto. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond.
Slim (singer).  Marvin Scandrick (born September 30 1977) better known as Slim is an American R&B recording artist best known for his unique voice and his lead vocals in the Bad Boy group 112. After 112 released their fifth album Pleasure & Pain in 2005 Slim decided to embark on a solo career. In 2008 Slim released the single So Fly featuring Yung Joc which was quickly embraced by R&B fans and DJ's alike. So Fly had reached #49 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ardeshir Kamkar.  Ardeshir Kamkar (Persian: اردشیر کامکار ‎ born 1962 in Sanandaj Iran) is a Kurdish musician from Iran.He started his music training under the supervision of his father. He came to Tehran in 1980 and continued studying traditional arrangements under Mohammad Reza Lotfi and his brother Pashang.
Henry Halsey Noyes.  Henry Halsey Noyes (1910 – June 22 2005) was an American writer publisher teacher and distributor of Chinese books and magazines.
Paul Samson.  Paul Samson (4 June 1953 – 9 August 2002) was a British guitarist closely associated with the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Born Paul Sanson after a period in several obscure bands Samson formed his own eponymous outfit Samson in 1977 consisting of Chris Aylmer on bass guitar and Clive Burr on drums. Burr left and eventually joined Iron Maiden and was replaced by Thunderstick who wore a gimp mask on stage.
Marlaine Gordon.  Marlaine Gordon is a British actress.
Jeng Jundian.  Jeng Jundian (Chinese: 鄭君殿; born 1963) is a Taiwanese painter and contemporary artist known predominantly for his large scale works of portrait and landscape painted by layers of colorful lines; He is associated with color lines painting. He currently lives and works in Paris or Taiwan
Guy de Cointet.  Guy de Cointet (1934 – 1983) was a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces.
Rolla Norman.  Rolla Norman (1889–1971) was a French actor. He was born as Edouard Charles Norman.
Billy Cross.  Billy Cross (born in Manhattan New York on July 15 1946) is an American guitarist singer and producer who has lived in Denmark since 1980. He was also part of Danish bands Delta Cross Band Cross-Schack-Ostermann and Everybody's Talking.
Marco Micone.  Marco Micone (born 1945) is an Italian-Canadian playwright and journalist. He was born in Montelongo Italy and emigrated to Montreal in 1958.
Elvis Costello.  Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus; 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk & new wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album My Aim Is True was recorded in 1976. Shortly after recording his first album he formed The Attractions as his backing band.
Alexander Pushnin.  Alexander Tikhonovich Pushnin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ти́хонович Пушни́н; March 28 1921 city of Morshansk Tambov Province Soviet Russia – September 5 1991 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russian painter Doctor of Art-criticism professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin lived and worked in Leningrad member of the Leningrad Union of Artists regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his portrait and historical painting.
David Seals.  David Seals (born April 29 1947 in Denver Colorado) is a Huron writer specializing in Native American culture and history.
Milton Knight.  Milton Knight (born May 12 1962 in Mineola New York) is an African-American cartoonist/animator comic book artist and writer painter and storyboard/layout artist known for his Golden Age (1930s) cartooning style.
Jeff VanderMeer.  Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer (born July 7 1968) is an American writer editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris in books like City of Saints and Madmen.
Bunny Lee.  Edward O'Sullivan Lee OD (born 23 August 1941) better known by the name Bunny Striker Lee is a Jamaican record producer and one of the major forces in the Jamaican music industry.
Paolo Barnard.  Paolo Rossi Barnard (2 January 1958) is an Italian journalist and documentary maker.
Ben Sidran.  Ben Hirsch Sidran (born August 14 1943) is an American jazz and rock pianist organist vocalist and writer born in Chicago Illinois United States noted for his work with the early Steve Miller Band.
Jeff Golub.  Jeff Golub (born April 15 1955 Akron Ohio) is an American jazz guitarist.
Tony Parenti.  Tony Parenti (6 August 1900 – 17 April 1972) was an American jazz clarinettist and saxophonist born in New Orleans perhaps best known for his decades of work in New York City.
Francis Tolson.  Francis Tolson (? – 1745) was an English poet dramatist and the author of several works. He was the Vicar of Easton Maudit and Chaplain to the Rt. Hon.ble the Earl of Sussex.
Hideki Tasaka.  Hideki Tasaka (田坂 秀樹 Tasaka Hideki born March 15 1975 in Shizuoka) is a Japanese voice actor who currently works for Sigma Seven. He is best known as the voice of Reks in the original Japanese version of Final Fantasy XII and Duelo McFile in Vandread.
Walter Becker.  Walter Carl Becker (born February 20 1950) is an American musician songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder guitarist bassist and co-songwriter of Steely Dan.Becker met his future songwriting partner Donald Fagen while studying at Bard College. After a brief period of activity in New York the two relocated to California in 1971 and formed the nucleus of Steely Dan who enjoyed a critically and commercially successful ten-year career.
Penny Jay.  Penny Jay (June 12 1925 – March 29 2006) was an American country music singer and songwriter who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s. She is best known for Don't Let Me Cross Over a song she wrote which reached #1 on the country music charts in late 1962.Jay was born in Knoxville Tennessee and began performing with her mother at church functions at the age of 10.
Vasantrao Deshpande.  Vasantrao Deshpande (Marathi: वसंतराव देशपांडे) (1920–1983) was a renowned Hindustani classical vocalist who was also a great performer of Natya Sangeet.In 1982 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy of Music Dance & Drama.
Udai Mazumdar.  Udai Mazumdar (Hindi: उदय मज़ूमदार) (born March 28 1970) is an Indian tabla player music producer and composer.
Andrew Lycett.  Andrew Lycett is an English biographer and journalist.Lycett was educated at Charterhouse School and studied history at Christ Church Oxford. He then worked for a while for The Times as a correspondent in Africa the Middle East and Asia.
Christopher Smart.  Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771) also known as Kit Smart Kitty Smart and Jack Smart was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart a high church Anglican was widely known throughout London.Smart was infamous as the pseudonymous midwife Mrs.
Harry Kemp.  Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15 1883 – August 5 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the Vagabond Poet the Villon of America the Hobo Poet or the Tramp Poet and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era the hero of adolescent Americans.
Janine Chang.  Janine Chang (born September 4 1982) also known as Chang Chun-ning is a German-born Taiwanese actress. Chang attended National Taipei University obtaining a bachelor's degree in law. In June 2010 Chang graduated from the Institute of Industrial Economics at National Central University with a master's degree.
Ran Blake.  Ran Blake (born April 20 1935) is an American pianist composer and educator. He is known for his unique style that combines blues gospel classical and film noir influences into an innovative and dark jazz sound. His career spans over 40 recording credits on jazz albums alongside over 40 years of teaching jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music where he started the Department of Third Stream (now called the Department of Creative Improvisation) with Gunther Schuller.
Michele Cusa.  Michele Cusa (Rimella Valsessia 1799 - October 17 1870) was an Italian painterHe trained initially in Varallo then studied at the Brera Academy of Milan under Giuseppe Gaudenzio Mazzola from Valdugia. In Turin in 1828 he won a stipend to study in Rome until he was recruited by the king to teach at the Albertina Academy. Late in life he retired to Varallo where he worked at reproducing in two dimensions all the scenes depicted in the 45 chapels of the Sacro Monte di Varallo.
Craig Reucassel.  Craig Bruce Campbell Reucassel (born 31 December 1976 in South Africa) is a television and radio comedian from Sydney Australia. He is best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser. He currently hosts the Australian version of Balls of Steel which premiered in April 2011. In 2013 Craig Reucassel and fellow Chaser Julian Morrow return to turn consumer TV on its head with The Check Out. The new 10-part series will air on ABC1 from 21 March.
Duff McKagan.  Michael Andrew Duff McKagan (born February 5 1964) is an American musician and writer. He is best known for his twelve-year tenure as the bassist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Buster Williams.  Charles Anthony Buster Williams (born April 17 1942 Camden New Jersey United States) is an American jazz bassist.
Krishna Bhatt.  Krishna Mohan Bhatt (Hindi: कृष्ण मोहन भट्ट) (born 1949) is a sitar player teacher and scholar from Jaipur India.He comes from a family of musicians in Jaipur. His father the late Shashi Mohan Bhatt a sitarist of great repute and a professor at the University of Rajasthan Jaipur trained many musicians in the family including Krishna Bhatt Manju Mehta in Ahmedabad and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
Karjam Saeji.  Karjam or Karsangjamtso Saeji is a Tibetan singer/songwriter/dancer from the grasslands near Maqu in Gansu Province in China. He performed with the Gannan Tibetan Performance Troupe from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture from 1991 and moved to America in 2007. He recorded a CD Pilgrimage in 2007 as part of the Lopez Artist Advance Project on Lopez Island in Washington State.
Frank Simes.  Frank Turner Simes (born March 7 1956) is a Grammy nominated and platinum record awarded musician guitarist songwriter composer and record producer. Frank is Musical Director for The Who and Roger Daltrey and has recorded and performed with Mick Jagger Don Henley and Stevie Nicks.
Michael Panckridge.  Michael Panckridge (born 1962) is an Australian author who writes fictional sport novels for children. He is also a secondary school teacher.He has written over 35 novels and is famous for his Legends and Toby Jones series. His novels feature the likes of cricket football soccer tennis basketball and swimming.
Richard Scarry.  Richard McClure Scarry (June 5 1919 – April 30 1994) was a popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide.
Sergio Vega (singer).  José Sergio Vega Cuamea (September 12 1969 – June 26 2010) better known by his stage name El Shaka was a Mexican banda singer. He was born in Ejido Hornos Sonora located near Ciudad Obregón in Mexico. On 26 June 2010 he was killed by gunfire in the Mexican state of Sinaloa after a car chase. The assailants pursued Sergio Vega for a distance shooting at him and his passenger Montiel Sergio Ávila 30 times. He was killed and Ávila was seriously injured.
Scott Joplin.  Scott Joplin (c. 1867/1868? – April 1 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was later titled The King of Ragtime. During his brief career he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces one ragtime ballet and two operas.
George Hamilton (musician).  George Spike Hamilton (1901-1957) was a popular bandleaderwho led a band based at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Among the musicians in the band included Ray Robbins Spike Jones and Leighton Noble. In the 1930s he appeared in the movie Gift of Gab. He also appeared in a 1937 short film entitled Sunday Night at the Trocadero. Hamilton also developed a perfume called White Shoulders. His first wife was Ann Stevens formerly Mrs.
Ashok Kondabolu.  Ashok Kondabolu also known by his stage name Dapwell is an American rapper and dancer from Queens New York. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City Kondabolu is best known for being a member of and hype man for the New York-based rap group Das Racist. Kondabolu has also announced that he will eventually release his own solo material.
Emcee N.I.C.E..  Aulsondro Novelist Hamilton better known by his stage name Emcee N.I.C.E. is an African American Puerto Rican rapper born in Los Angeles California descending from Ponce Puerto Rico but was raised in both El Paso Texas and Topeka Kansas whose extensive resume includes working with such artists as 2 Pac Nas Lighter_Shade_of_Brown Aaron_Hall_(singer) K-Ci Hailey Doctor_Fink Melissa_Molinaro MC_Lyte and more...Since 2002 he has been a part of 28 different records which includes blockbuster soundtracks multiple guest features and television show theme songs. 
Jay Jay French.  Jay Jay French (born John French Segall July 20 1952) is an American guitarist manager and producer.French is most famous for his role as the founding member and one of the guitarists of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. Since his first performances with Twisted Sister French has played more than 9000 concert performances. Being an avid runner French has also completed two New York Marathons in 1981 and 1986.
Amirbai Karnataki.  Amirbai Karnataki (ca 1906 - March 3 1965) was a famous actress/singer and playback singer of the early Hindi cinema and was famous as Kannada Kokila. Mahatma Gandhi was an ardent fan of her song Vaishnav Jan To.
Fredric Lehne.  Fredric Lehne (born 3 February 1959) also known as Fredric Lane is an American actor best known for playing Marshall Edward Mars on Lost and the Wolf in Zero Dark Thirty (2012).
Jun Kung.  Joventino Couto Remotigue also known as Jun Kung (Chinese: 恭碩良; pinyin: ɡōnɡ shuò liánɡ; born August 18 1977) is a drummer singer and songwriter who resides in Hong Kong.
Molly Antopol.  Molly Antopol (born February 26 1978) is an American fiction and nonfiction writer.
Molly Crabapple.  Molly Crabapple (born September 13 1983) is an American artist known for her work for The New York Times The Paris Review CNN The Guardian The Daily Beast Der Spiegel Marvel Comics DC Comics and as a regular columnist for Vice. [citation needed]Molly has been called equal parts Hieronymus Bosch William S. Burroughs and Cirque du Soleil by The Guardian; “THE artist of our time” by comedian Margaret Cho and “a brilliant and principled artist” by BoingBoing.
April Gornik.  April Gornik (born 1953 Cleveland Ohio) is an American artist who paints American landscapes.Her work Storm and Fires (1990) is included into the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as in many other national museums and private collections.In 2007 The Smithsonian Art Collectors Program commissioned Gornik to produce a print to benefit the educational and cultural programs of the Smithsonian Associates.
Kazuki Kitamura.  Kazuki Kitamura (北村 一輝 Kitamura Kazuki born July 17 1969) is a Japanese film and television actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 14th Yokohama Film Festival for Minazuki Kyohansha and Kanzen-naru shiiku.
David Shields.  For the American ice hockey defenceman see David Shields (ice hockey)David Shields (born July 22 1956) is an American author of nonfiction and fiction although much of his work resists generic classification.
Valentino Urbani.  For the ancient people of Sardinia see Valentini (ancient people).Valentino Urbani (born in Udine; fl. 1690–1722) was an Italian alto castrato who sang for the composer George Frideric Handel in the 18th century. He was known by the stage name Valentini. He sang the role of Eustazio at the première of Handel’s Rinaldo the role of Silvio at the premiere of Il pastor fido and the role of Egeo at the first performance of Teseo.
Leslie Dunner.  Leslie Byron Dunner (born January 5 1956) is an American conductor and composer.
Kate Atkinson.  Kate Atkinson MBE (born 1951) is an English writer.
Joe Crabtree.  Joe Crabtree (born 21 September 1979) is a session drummer based in London England most noted for his progressive rock work with Pendragon and David Cross.Crabtree is currently touring with Wishbone Ash having taken over from Ray Weston.
Bonzie.  Bonzie (born Nina Ferraro) is an American singer/songwriter and musician. Born in 1995 Bonzie has been compared to a young Chan Marshall and described as a “wunderkind” by Spin magazine. In 2014 she played for the first time at SXSW and was praised by Jon Pareles in the New York Times who called her performance riveting. In 2010 Bonzie released her debut EP The Promise as Nina Ferraro and began using the stage name Bonzie shortly thereafter.
Judy Kuhn.  Judy Kuhn (born May 20 1958) is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theatre. She is a three-time Tony Award nominee. After graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Kuhn made her professional stage debut in 1981 and her Broadway debut in 1985 in the original production of the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Domenico Vitus.  Domenico Vitus (born c. 1536) was an Italian engraver. He is supposed to have studied engraving under Agostino Veneziano whose style he imitated with some success. In the prime of life he retired to the monastery of Vallombrosa. Among his plates are the following: St. Bartholomew; inscribed. Dom. Vitit orditut Valumbrosa monachus excitit Roma (1576); St. Joachim holding a Censer; after Andrea del Sarto; Jupiter and Callisto; inscribed Dominici V. F.
Todd Wolfe.  Todd Stewart Wolfe (born January 22 1957 Queens New York) is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.During a professional career that has spanned three decades Wolfe has had numerous album releases with his own band in the blues and rock genre.
J Dilla.  James Dewitt Yancey (February 7 1974 – February 10 2006) better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee was an American record producer and rapper who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org he was one of the music industry's most influential hip-hop artists working with big-name acts including A Tribe Called Quest De La Soul Busta Rhymes Erykah Badu MF Doom The Roots The Pharcyde and Common.
Marion Quednau.  Marion Quednau (born 1952) is a Canadian author poet and children's writer who lives in Mission British Columbia. Her novel The Butterfly Chair won the 1987 Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her first children's novel The Gift of Odin was published in 2007. Quednau is also an accomplished poet whose 2009 poem Paradise Later Years won a gold medal for The Malahat Review which entered Quednau's work in the poetry category for the Canadian National Magazine Awards.
Ali Slaight.  Ali Slaight is a Canadian singer-songwriter signed to Universal Music Canada. She grew up in Toronto Ontario where she performed in bands and musical theatre beginning at the age of 11. She currently attends Berklee College of Music in Boston and is working on her full-length major label debut.
Joe Corrie.  Joe Corrie (1894 - 1968) was a Scottish miner poet and playwright best known for his radical working class plays.He was born in Slamannan Stirlingshire in 1894. His family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Corrie was still an infant and he started work at the pits in 1908. He died in Edinburgh in 1968.Shortly after the First World War Corrie started writing.
Karl Förster.  Karl Förster (1784-1841) was a German poet and translator.
Stuart Beattie.  Stuart Beattie (born 1972) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. He attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney New South Wales where his mother Sandra was a languages teacher and later Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
Harvie June Van.  Harvie June Van (March 2 1940) is country music singer. She was born in Monterey Tennessee. She first broke into the music scene in 1954 when she was only 13 by Syd Nathan of King Records. She came from a family of musicians and her father had a local radio show in Ohio.
Judith Moore.  Judith Moore (1940 – May 15 2006) was an American author and essayist best known for her 2005 book Fat Girl: A True Story published by Hudson Street Press.Moore was born in Oklahoma in 1940 and claimed to have become an obese child weighing 112 pounds by second grade ([1]); Fat Girl is a memoir of her childhood.She moved to Florida as a teenager and graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington.
Sadeq Chubak.  Sādeq Chubak (Persian: صادق چوبک‎) sometimes Sādegh Choubak (August 5 1916—July 3 1998) was an author of short fiction drama novels and one of the leading 20th-century writers of Iran. Chubak's short stories are characterized by their intricacy economy of detail and concentration on a single theme leading some to compare them to Persian miniature paintings.
Daniel Woodrell.  Daniel Woodrell (born March 4 1953) is an American writer of fiction. He has written eight novels most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks. Woodrell coined the phrase country noir to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing.
Marshall Ellison Smith Sr..  Marshall Ellison Smith Sr. (21 November 1933 – 14 May 1999) was an American painter sculptor and printmaker based in Alapaha Ga. in the Southeastern United States.
J. E. H. MacDonald.  James Edward Hervey MacDonald (May 12 1873 – November 26 1932) known as J. E. H. MacDonald was a Canadian artist and one of the founders of the Group of Seven who initiated the first major Canadian national art movement. He was the father of illustrator Thoreau MacDonald.
Patty Smyth.  Patty Smyth (born June 26 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention in 1982 as the lead singer of the band Scandal. She went on to record and perform on her own. Her distinctive voice and new-wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on what were then newly emerging cable music video channels such as MTV. Her debut album Never Enough was well received and generated a pair of Top 40 hits.
Giuseppe de Majo.  Giuseppe de Majo (di Maio; 5 December 1697 – 18 November 1771) was an Italian composer and organist. He was the father of the composer Gian Francesco de Majo. His compositional output consists of 10 operas an oratorio a concerto for 2 violins and a considerable amount of sacred music.
Charlie Smith (Romani poet).  Charlie Smith (June 20 1956 — 8 November 2005) was Romnichal poet who had a booklet of his poems published in the 1980s which included the acclaimed Space Gypsies poem.He was from a family of tailors his schooling was not good and he left early thinking himself semi-illiterate.He is a member of the International Romani Writers' Association IRWA (Kansainvälinen Romanikirjailijaliitto)
Joel Sternfeld.  Joel Sternfeld (born June 30 1944) is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has many works in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York City and the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He has influenced a generation of color photographers including Andreas Gursky who borrows many of Sternfeld's techniques and approaches.
Édouard Lantéri.  Édouard Lantéri (1 November 1848 – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British sculptor and medallist whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture. His name is also frequently spelled without accents als Edouard Lanteri and his first name sometimes given in its English form as Edward.
Robert P. Davis.  Robert P.
Mary B. Schuenemann.  Mary B. Schuenemann (September 5 1898 – June 15 1992) was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Her life was dedicated to the arts in particular the painting of watercolors. She was influenced by the artistic trends of the East Coast.Her summer home was in Pineville New Jersey where she often found her themes of water boats fishing paraphernalia characterized by intense juxtapositions of color.
James & Ernie.  James & Ernie are an American Navajo comedy duo consisting of James Junes and Ernest Ernie David Tsosie III.
Yusuf Güney.  Yusuf Güney (born 5 June 1984 in Trabzon Turkey) is a Turkish singer who currently lives in London. Alongside Rafet el Roman their song was the number one single for 16 weeks in the Turkish charts in 2008 with the song Aşk-ı Virane and thus the most successful song of the year. He became famous after visiting Rafet El Roman's concert which took place in London. He introduced himself as a journalist in order to be able to go near him.
Choppa.  Darwin Turner better known by his stage name Choppa is a New Orleans rapper.
J. V. Raghavulu.  Jetti Veera Raghavulu (died 7 June 2013) better known as J. V. Raghavulu (Telugu: జె. వి. రాఘవులు) was an eminent Indian music director and playback singer. He started as playback singer and became a music director after the sudden death of Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao. He made his screen debut in Drohi (1970) a film by Suresh Productions. He scored music to about 172 films.
Michelle Harrison.  Michelle Harrison (born 1979 Grays Essex England) is a British author whose debut novel 13 Treasures won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and has been sold for translation in 16 countries. The book is the first part of the trilogy The 13 Treasures has been followed by 13 Curses and the last part 13 Secrets. Her fourth novel and her first Young-adult fiction book is Unrest and was released in 2012.
Felix Borowski.  Felix Borowski (March 10 1872 – September 6 1956) was a British/American composer and teacher. Felix Borowski was of Polish descent but was born in the English village of Burton-in-Kendal Westmorland. His father who was quite a musician was of distinguished Polish stock. His mother was English and very accomplished in music. His father gave him his first instruction on the piano as well as on the violin . He was educated in London and at the Cologne Conservatory.
Mike Mangan (musician).  Mike Mangan is an American keyboard player from Los Angeles California who specializes in the Hammond B3 Organ. Mangan is known for his percussive playing technique and his use of effects pedals on the Hammond Organ.Mike Mangan is best known for his band Big Organ Trio which he formed in Los Angeles CA in 2003. The band is an instrumental power trio consisting of Hammond B3 Organ electric Bass and Drums.
Giora Schmidt.  Giora Schmidt (Hebrew: גיורא שמידט‎ born January 9 1983) is an American/Israeli violinist.
Jukka Koskinen.  Jukka Koskinen is a Finnish musician who is the bassist for the Finnish bands Wintersun and Cain's Offering. He was also the bassist for Norther from 2000 until their disbandment in 2012 and for Amberian Dawn from 2010 until 2013.
Helen Lowe.  Helen Lowe is a New Zealand-based novelist. Her first novel Thornspell was published in 2008. She has since published the first two books in The Wall of Night quartet The Heir of Night and The Gathering of the Lost. Lowe is a three time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award and won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer in 2012.
Takayuki Yamada.  Takayuki Yamada (山田 孝之 Yamada Takayuki born October 20 1983 in Satsumasendai Kagoshima) is a Japanese actor and singer.
Sirvan Khosravi.  Sirvan Khosravi (Persian: سیروان خسروی‎; born 26 July 1982) is an Iranian pop singer musician composer music arranger voice recorder and recording supervisor. He is the older brother of Xaniar Khosravi who is also a Pop and Rap singer.
David Wilcox (American musician).  David Patrick Wilcox (born March 9 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter guitarist. He has been active in the music business since the late 1980s.
David Sirota.  David J. Sirota (born November 2 1975) is an American liberal political commentator and radio host based in Denver. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Democratic political spokesperson and blogger.
David Wojahn.  David Wojahn (born 1953 St. Paul Minnesota) is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been the director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Creative Writing Program.
Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson.  Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson (October 24 1894 - April 23 1985) was born in Chicago IL. Following his service in the U.S. Army during the first World War he worked as a mural painter’s assistant in several studios in New York City. In the 1930s and 40s he painted murals for the Works Progress Administration. Bronson accompanied four scientific marine expeditions as a staff artist resulting in the creation of numerous nature books for children.
Jim Flora.  James Jim Flora (January 25 1914 ‒ July 9 1998) best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books. Less well-known is that he was a fine artist with a diabolical bent who created hundreds of paintings drawings etchings and sketches over his 84-year lifespan.
Jorge Figueroa Acosta.  Jorge Figueroa Acosta is a Mexican painter and sculptor born (April 23 1942) in Cananea Sonora Mexico.
Joe Kelly (author).  Joe Kelly (born 1954) is an author known primarily for books about fathering. He was co-founder with Michael Kieschnick of a national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters in the United States Dads and Daughters (DADs) which operated from 1999 until 2008. In 1993 he helped his wife Nancy Gruver to found New Moon edited by girls 8- to 14-years old girls.He is best known for the book Dads & Daughters which discusses issues for fathers and stepfathers raising daughters. In it (p.
Fin Leavell.  Fin Leavell (/ˈlʌvɛl/) is an American musician singer songwriter producer mixing engineer and sound designer who is also known by his stage name Nightswim.He has played in numerous bands notably Against All Authority and The Summer Obsession but also Start Trouble Greyfield Bed Destroyers and Separation Is Natural.He has moonlighted with Maynard Ferguson Citizen Fish and Mephiskapheles.He studied music theory for classical jazz and electronic music at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.Notably Fin is the first person to add music to MySpace.com in 2003.
Jules Depaquit.  Jules Depaquit (1869–1924) was a French illustrator.
Oderisi da Gubbio.  Oderisi da Gubbio (Gubbio circa 1240 - Rome 1299) was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator of the 13th century. Few details of his life are known. Documents to his activities in Bologna span from 1262 to 1271.
Lolene.  Lolene Everett (born March 12 1985) professionally known simply as Lolene is a British recording artist songwriter record producer and performer from Bristol England.
Whilce Portacio.  William Whilce Portacio (born July 8 1963) is a Filipino-American comic book writer and artist noted for his work on such titles as The Punisher X-Factor Uncanny X-Men Iron Man Wetworks and Spawn. Portacio was also one of the seven co-founders of Image Comics though he did not become a partner in the company.
Oli Beaudoin.  Oli Beaudoin is the drummer of Kataklysm. He is also known for his past involvements with the Montreal-based technical death metal band Neuraxis for his live session work for the Austrian metal band Belphegor and the Norwegian metal band Keep of Kalessin and Ex Deo. He is also a drum clinician and instructor who performed at the Montreal Drumfest 2011.He is currently playing with the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm.
Gordon R. Dickson.  Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1 1923 – January 31 2001) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer. He was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000.
Sean Nicholas Savage.  Sean Nicholas Savage (born 30 May 1986) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Montreal Quebec who is an influential member of the Arbutus Records and Canadian indie music scene. He has been described by Emilie Friedlander in an article for The Fader as a singer-songwriter madcap philosopher and all-around scene-pillar in the particular freak-flag-flying sector of the Canadian music community surrounding folks like Grimes Mac DeMarco and Doldrums.
Augusta Savage.  Augusta Savage born Augusta Christine Fells (February 29 1892 – March 26 1962) was an African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher and her studio was important to the careers of a rising generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.
Christen Købke.  Christen Schiellerup Købke (26 May 1810 – 7 February 1848) Danish painter was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke a baker and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children. Købke is one of the best known artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.
Norm Hamlet.  Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist perhaps best known as a member of Merle Haggard's The Strangers band for the past 42 years (as of 2014).Hamlet was born on February 27 1935 in Woodville California. He began playing guitar in his teens and played throughout North Central California for a number of years with several groups before going to Bakersfield California in 1965 where he became an influential part of the Bakersfield sound.
Jean Graton.  Jean Graton (born 10 August 1923) is a comic book author and cartoonist of French nationality. Graton created the famous character Michel Vaillant and the eponymous series in 1957.
Lisa Shannon.  Lisa J. Shannon is an American author human rights activist and speaker known for her work in the international women’s movement including founding Run for Congo Women and co-founding Sister Somalia with Fartun Adan Abdisalan. She is author of A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman (Seal Press 2010).
Vincent Jones (musician).  Vincent Jones is a Canadian musician. He was a member of The Grapes of Wrath and Ginger and a frequent collaborator with Lava Hay a band which included Jones' former wife Michele Gould.He was born to parents Leslie and Patricia Jones (née Smith) originally from Corby England the family moved to Canada after Leslie was offered a job in the country.
Jim Bryson.  Jim Bryson is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Briefly a founding member of the band Punchbuggy he moved to a musical life under his own name with the release of his debut album The Occasionals in 2000.A member of singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards's touring band Bryson has also toured and recorded with many other artists including Howe Gelb Lynn Miles Sarah Harmer The Weakerthans Hilotrons and The Tragically Hip.Bryson has toured Canada and the United Kingdom extensively.
Gisèle Prassinos.  Gisèle Prassinos (born 1920) is a French writer of Greek heritage associated with the surrealist movement.She was born in Istanbul Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two where they lived initially in Nanterre. Her brother Mario Prassinos is a noted artist and designer.Her writing was discovered by André Breton in 1934 when she was just fourteen and published in the French surrealist magazine Minotaure and the Belgian periodical Documents 34.
Stephen Marchesi.  Stephen Marchesi (born December 30 1951) is an artist who lives in Croton-on-Hudson in New York. He has created illustrations for textbooks magazines and children's books.Marchesi was born in Astoria New York. As a child Marchesi drew his own comics. While a student at High School of Art and Design he worked for Warren Publications. In 1973 he graduated from Pratt Institute.
Tommy Collins (country music).  Leonard Raymond Sipes (September 28 1930 – March 14 2000) better known as Tommy Collins was an American country music singer and songwriter.Active primarily during the 1950s through the 1970s Collins was instrumental in helping create the Bakersfield sound of the country music genre. He enjoyed a string of hits during the mid-1950s including It Tickles and Watcha Gonna Do Now.
Ellen Einan.  Ellen Einan (15 June 1931–25 March 2013) was a Norwegian poet and illustrator. She made her literary debut in 1982 with the poetry collection Den gode engsøster. She was awarded the Aschehoug Prize in 2002.
Hedwig Anuar.  Hedwig Anuar was the first Singaporean Director of the National Library in 1960. As a librarian and an administrator she is responsible for many of the foundations of the modern library system in Singapore. Until her retirement in 1983 the National Library made considerable developments growing from one library to nine and a change in membership from 43000 to 33300.
Yavuz Çetin.  Yavuz Hilmi Çetin (25 September 1970—15 August 2001) was a Turkish musician as well as songwriter and singer in the blues and psychedelic music genres who gained renown in his native country for the skill and sensitivity of his guitar performances and in the wake of his suicide at the age of 30 before the release of his highly-praised album Satılık [For Sale] has achieved a near-iconic posthumous status as a talent lost on the brink of great achievement.
Yağmur Sarıgül.  Yağmur Sarıgül (Turkish pronunciation: [jaːˈmuɾ saɾɯˈɟyl]; born 26 August 1979; Antalya) is a Turkish songwriter and the electric guitarist of the rock band maNga. He writes both lyrics and music.Yağmur “yamyam” Sarıgül was born in Antalya Turkey on August 26 1979 but grew up caused chaos and discovered music in Ankara.
José Jacinto Milanés.  José Jacinto Milanés y Fuentes (born August 16 1814 Matanzas Cuba – November 14 1863) a self-educated and from humble origins was a renowned poet linguist and writer who has been acclaimed as one of the best exponents of Cuban literature with the publication of his magnum opus El Conde Alarcos (1838) (The Count Alarcos). Milanés is also considered the best playwright of Cuba.
Anna Bartlett Warner.  Anna Bartlett Warner (August 31 1827 – January 22 1915) was an American writer the author of several books and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children.
Johnny Pacheco.  Johnny Pacheco (born 25 March 1935) is a Dominican musician arranger producer and bandleader of Cuban music (guaracha son montuno danzón cha cha chá guajira-son pachanga). He is one of the most influential figures in Latin music best known for being the creator of the Fania All-Stars and for coining the term Salsa to denote the genre.
Daniel Powter.  Daniel Richard Powter (born February 25 1971) is a Canadian recording artist songwriter and pianist. He is best known for his self-penned hit song Bad Day (2005) which spent five weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. Powter was the only solo artist to register a #1 hit in that year without previously having had another song chart in the Hot 100.
Ivo Neame.  Ivo Michael Beale Neame (born 13 March 1981) is a British jazz pianist saxophonist and composer. He is a member of London's Loop Collective and leads his own trio quartet quintet and octet as well as performing in many other bands.
Nozinja.  Nozinja is a South African artist producer and DJ credited with the creation and popularisation of the 'shangaan electro' genre of African dance music influenced by traditional folk Tsonga disco Kwaito house and township backstreet dance styles from the Limpopo region of South Africa.
Romey Gill.  Romey Gill (born Romey Singh Gill) (1979 – 24 June 2009) was a Punjabi Indian singer. He had success with his songs Nahron Paar Bangla Jeeto and Nakhra Chari Jawani Da.[citation needed]
Boogie Woogie Red.  Boogie Woogie Red (October 18 1925 - July 2 1992) was a Detroit blues boogie-woogie and jazz pianist singer and songwriter. He variously worked with Sonny Boy Williamson I Washboard Willie Baby Boy Warren Lonnie Johnson Tampa Red John Lee Hooker and Memphis Slim.
Wanda Kosakiewicz.  Wanda Kosakiewicz (1917 ; 1989) French theatre actress in the 1940s was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's love interests and Olga Kosakiewicz's sister. Sartre wrote that she was one of the reasons that his friendship with Albert Camus went sour. Her relations with both rival philosophers featured in the book The Boxer and the Goalkeeper by Andy Martin (Simon & Schuster 2012); she appears as Wanda in Lettres à Sartre and Tania in Lettres au Castor.
Harold F. Clayton.  Harold F. Clayton (Born May 1954) is a noted sculptor and stone-carver best known for several sets of life-size sculptures of cows on display at various public sites in Texas.Initially interested in painting Clayton studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston Massachusetts and the University of North Texas in Denton Texas graduating cum laude with a BFA in 1977.
Geoffrey Ricardo.  Geoffrey Ricardo(born 1964) is an Australian contemporary visual artist whose work focuses around his sculpture and printmaking practice.
Thomas Whitcombe.  Thomas Whitcombe (possibly 19 May 1763 – circa 1824) was a prominent British maritime painter of the Napoleonic Wars. Among his work are over 150 actions of the Royal Navy and he exhibited at the Royal Academy the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists. His pictures are highly sought after today.
Erika Lopez.  Erika Lopez (born 1968) is an American cartoonist novelist and performance artist of Puerto Rican descent who has published six books and speaks openly of her bisexuality. She lives in San Francisco California.
Ron Jackson (jazz musician).  Ron Jackson (born 1964) is an American jazz guitarist composer arranger and instructor.
Giovanni Sgambati.  Giovanni Sgambati (May 28 1841 – December 14 1914) was an Italian pianist and composer.
Jon FX.  Jon FX (born John A. Crawford 31 May 1983 in St. Andrew) is a popular Jamaican dancehall producer. Jon FX has worked with artists such as Shabba Ranks and Akon on Gun Session I Wayne on Book of Life and Gyptian on I Can Feel Your Pain.
Reiko Takashima.  Reiko Takashima (高島 礼子 Takashima Reiko born 25 July 1964 in Yokohama Kanagawa) is a Japanese actress.
Bone Crusher (rapper).  Wayne Hardnett Jr. (born August 23 1971) better known by his stage name Bone Crusher is an American rapper/hype man based in Atlanta. After working as part of the group Lyrical Giants he debuted in 2003 with his first solo album AttenCHUN! which featured the single Never Scared used as the theme for the 2003 Atlanta Braves and also found in the video game Madden NFL 2004.
Nexhmije Pagarusha.  Nexhmije Pagarusha (born 7 May 1933) is a popular Albanian singer and actress from Kosovo often referred to as the queen of Albanian music.
August Saabye.  August Vilhelm Saabye (7 August 1823 – 12 November 1916) also known as August Wilhelm Saabye was a Danish sculptor.
Shunzei's Daughter.  Fujiwara no Shunzei no Musume (藤原俊成女 Fujiwara no Shunzei's daughter; also occasionally called 藤原俊成卿女 皇(太)后宮大夫俊成(卿)女 or 越部禅尼) 1171? – 1252? was a Japanese poet; she was probably the greatest female poet of her day ranked with Princess Shikishi.
Mariusz Szczygieł.  Mariusz Szczygieł [shchygyel] (September 5 1966 Złotoryja Poland) is a Polish journalist and writer.
Edward Ramsay.  Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793– 1872) a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Dean of Edinburgh in that communion from 1841 has a place in literature through his Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character which had gone through 22 editions at his death. It is a book full of the personality of the author and preserves many traits and anecdotes.His memorial is on Princes Street in the grounds of Church of St John the Evangelist Edinburgh.
Miljenko Prohaska.  Miljenko Prohaska (born 17 September 1925) is a notable Croatian composer music arranger and orchestra conductor. He is mainly known for founding a number of prominent Croatian orchestras and for his longtime service as the conductor of the Radio Zagreb Dance Orchestra (present-day Croatian Radiotelevision Big Band Orchestra).
Frank J. Myers.  Frank Joseph Myers (born in Dayton Ohio) is an American country music singer songwriter and record producer. In his career he has written songs for John Michael Montgomery Eddie Rabbitt Crystal Gayle Lonestar and others. In 1995 he and frequent songwriting partner Gary Baker (formerly of The Shooters) recorded one album on Curb Records as the duo Baker & Myers.
Eric Cross (writer).  Eric Cross (1905–1980) was an Irish writer.Born in Newry County Down he published The Tailor and Ansty in The Bell in 1942. This was a collection of stories and sayings from an old country tailor called Timothy Buckley and his wife Anastasia that Cross had recorded with a foreword by Frank O'Connor. The book was banned by Censorship Board a short time after during the government of Éamon de Valera.
Kathy McCord.  Kathy McCord (born 1952) is an American singer and musician.
Percy Cudlipp.  Percy Cudlipp (10 November 1905 – 5 November 1962) was a prominent Welsh journalist.He was born at 180 Arabella Street Cardiff and was the brother of Hugh Cudlipp (later Baron Cudlipp) and Reginald Cudlipp both notable journalists. Percy Cudlipp began his journalistic career with the South Wales Echo.
Brion Gysin.  Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a painter writer sound poet and performance artist born in Taplow Buckinghamshire.He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique used by his friend the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.
Wilkie Collins.  William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist playwright and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White The Moonstone Armadale and No Name.Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in London. He received his early education at home from his mother. He then attended an academy and a private boarding school. He also traveled with his family to Italy and France and learned the French and Italian languages.
Colin Chisholm (singer).  Colin Chisholm is a singer from Edinburgh. He was a member of Bilbo Baggins and had a UK #42 hit with them called She's Gonna Win and provided background vocals for the Runrig album The Big Wheel including for the song Hearthammer which made #25 on the UK Singles Chart.
Msizi Shabalala.  Msizi Innocent Shabalala is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo a South African choral group founded in 1960 (and still led) by his father Joseph Shabalala.Msizi was born in Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) to Joseph and his late wife Nellie Shabalala.
Alexandre Da Costa.  Alexandre Da Costa is a Canadian concert violinist from Montreal Quebec.
Paul Tazewell.  Paul Tazewell is a costume designer for the theatre dance and opera. He has received five Tony Award nominations for costume design three Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design the Lucille Lortel Award (for On the Town) and the Theater Development Fund's Irene Sharaff Award in 1997. He is also the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award bestowed by the Princess Grace Foundation to artists of excellence in various disciplines.
Ranking Roger.  Ranking Roger (born Roger Charlery 21 February 1961) is an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band The Beat (known in the U.S. as The English Beat) and General Public. He leads a re-formed Beat line-up with drummer Everett Morton.The Ranking moniker is short for Top Ranking or High Ranking and is a boast typical of many MC's.Roger was born in Birmingham England the son of Jean Baptiste Charlery.
Mars Williams.  Mars Williams (born May 28 1955 in Elmhurst Illinois) is an American jazz and rock saxophonist. Exposed to Big Band and Dixieland Jazz by his trumpet playing father Williams played classical clarinet for ten years then migrated to the saxophone in his senior year of high school citing influences from Eric Dolphy John Coltrane and Charlie Parker.
Giorgio Amendola.  Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 – 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician.Born in Rome in 1907 he was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kuhn and Giovanni Amendola a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after having been attacked by killers hired by Benito Mussolini.
Sati (singer).  Violeta Sati Jurkonienė (born April 11 1976 in Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian singer a member of band Agama.
Abraham Laboriel.  Abraham Laboriel Sr. (born July 17 1947) is a Mexican bassist who has played on over 4000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player Magazine described him as the most widely used session bassist of our time. Laboriel is the father of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and of producer songwriter and film composer Mateo Laboriel.Laboriel was born in Mexico City. Originally a classically trained guitarist he switched to bass guitar while studying at the Berklee School of Music.
Al Weisel.  Al Weisel (July 18 1963 – February 27 2010) was a freelance writer who lived in New York City.Weisel wrote for various publications such as Rolling Stone The Washington Post New York Newsday and Us magazine. He also wrote for Premiere Spin Tracks George Travel & Leisure Out Time Out New York and the Bulletin (Australia). From 1999 to 2002 he was the Movies Editor at CDNow where he launched the video/DVD section.
Gian Paolo Lomazzo.  Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first name is sometimes also given as Giovan or Giovanni) was an Italian painter best remembered for his writings on art theory belonging to the second generation that produced Mannerism in Italian art and architecture.Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born in Milan from a family emigrated from the town of Lomazzo. His early training was with Giovan Battista della Cerva in Milan.
Leilani Leeane.  Leilani Leeane (born October 1 1992) is the stage name of an American model and pornographic actress.
David Rambo.  David Rambo (born 1955) is a writer actor and producer.He grew up in Spring City Pennsylvania. His grandmother and mother were librarians which helped develop his lifelong interest in literature and art.After moving to Los Angeles to become an actor Rambo started working in the real estate business.
Severin von Eckardstein.  Severin von Eckardstein is a German classical pianist. He was born in 1978 in Düsseldorf Germany and took his first piano lessons when he was six years old.At the age of 12 he was accepted into a young-talent class at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. During his school years von Eckardstein continued his piano studies in Hannover and in Salzburg with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.After his graduation he attended the Berlin University of the Arts to take lessons from Klaus Hellwig.
Luigi Malice.  Luigi Malice (born 1937 Naples Italy) is an Italian abstract artist.Malice studied at Naples Academy of Fine Arts as a pupil of Emilio Notte later studying under avant-guard and Informal Art painter Domenico Spinosa.He began as an expressionist and figurative painter in the late 1950s his then style demonstrated by his painting Still life with figure for which he received the Michetti Prize and Ricordo di Spagna (Memory of Spain) which Malice exhibited for the Posillipo Prize.In the early 60's he has approached the Arte Informale it:Arte informale an Italian art movement close to the American Abstract expressionism and to the French Art Informel or Tachisme . 
Eva Henger.  Eva Henger (born 2 November 1972) is a Hungarian former pornographic actress a mainstream film actress films and an adult model.She was born in the city of Győr and won the beauty pageant contest Miss Teen Hungary in 1990 at age 17. In 1995 she moved to Italy and soon became the girlfriend of the pornographic film producer Riccardo Schicchi. She married Schicchi and they had two children. Henger gained popularity through her striptease performances and a few pornographic film appearances.
Kalki Krishnamurthy.  Kalki (Tamil: கல்கி) was the pen name of R. Krishnamurthy (September 9 1899–December 5 1954) a noted Tamil freedom fighter social crusader novelist short story writer journalist humorist satirist travel writer script-writer poet film & music critic Indian independence activist and connoisseur of the arts writer from Tamil Nadu India.
John Brogden (jeweller).  John Brogden was a Victorian manufacturing jeweller.He was apprenticed to a London firm of watch and clockmakers becoming a partner in 1831 with James William Garland with a workshop in Bridgewater Square. From 1842 to 1864 he was a partner in the firm of Watherston and Brogden (est. 1798) goldsmiths of 16 Henrietta Street Covent Garden. In 1864 Brogden took over the business and operated under his own name until 1880.
Taylor Wane.  Taylor Wane (born August 27 1968) is the stage name of an award winning British pornographic actress director model and serial entrepreneur. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2005 the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame in 2007 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2014. Wane is also the Penthouse Pet of the Month cover girl and centerfold for June 1994.
Charlie Huston.  Charlie Huston is an American author of crime novels and superhero comic books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife actress Virginia Louise Smith. According to an interview with Paradigm he prefers to be classified as a writer of pulp as opposed to noir.
Clara Mannes.  Clara Mannes (born Clara Damrosch; 1869–1948) was a German-born American musician and music educator. With her husband David Mannes she founded the Mannes College The New School for Music in 1916 (then simply the David Mannes Music School).Mannes was born in Breslau. Her mother Helene von Heimburg was a former opera singer and her father was conductor Leopold Damrosch. Her siblings were conductors Frank Damrosch and Walter Damrosch.
Carol Birch.  Carol Birch (b Manchester 1951) is a British novelist and attended Keele University. The author of eleven novels she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991 and she was long-listed for the 2003 ManBooker Prize for Turn Again Home. Her novel Jamrach's Menagerie was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Matt Bayles.  Matt Bayles is a record producer based in Seattle Washington and former keyboard player with Minus the Bear.
Andrew Schär.  Andrew Schär (born December 14 1981) is a South African-born film composer actor and musician.
Zal Yanovsky.  Zalman Zal Yanovsky (December 19 1944 – December 13 2002) was a Canadian rock musician. Born in Toronto he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964. According to Sebastian He could play like Elmore James he could play like Floyd Cramer he could play like Chuck Berry. He could play like all these people yet he still had his own overpowering personality.
Richard Jeni.  Richard John Colangelo (April 14 1957 – March 10 2007) better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Larz Bourne.  Larz Bourne (February 8 1916 — March 14 1993) was an American cartoon writer for Famous Studios Hanna Barbera DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Terrytoons
Maria Bramsen.  Maria Bramsen (born 1963) is a Danish singer graphic designer and illustrator. She is probably most widely known for her career as a vocalist for pop bands Tøsedrengene and Ray Dee Ohh.Bramsen joined Tøsedrengene in 1981 barely at the age of 18 replacing vocalist Gitte Naur. After Tøsedrengene's dissolution in 1986 she continued her career in the short-lived The Lejrbåls before becoming vocalist in Ray Dee Ohh along with Caroline Henderson.
Edmund C. Tarbell.  Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26 1862 – August 1 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art National Gallery of Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Corcoran Gallery DeYoung Museum National Academy of Design New Britain Museum of American Art Worcester Art Museum and numerous other collections.
Leslie Bovee.  Leslie Bovee is an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Leslie Bovée.She appeared in over 50 movies between 1975 and 1980.Leslie Bovee has been inducted into both the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Alaviyya Babayeva.  Alaviyya Babayeva (Full name: Alaviyya Babayeva Hanifa kizi) (born 12 August 1921 in Baku Azerbaijan) is a prose-writer translator of contemporary Russian literature publicist Honoured Art Worker and President grand- pensioner. In her creation the human being and his position in society the fate of the people were reflected in real colors.
Blaze Foley.  Michael David Fuller (December 18 1949 – February 1 1989) better known under the stage name Blaze Foley was an American singer-songwriter.
James C. Humes.  James C. Humes is an author and former presidential speechwriter. Humes along with William Safire and Pat Buchanan is credited for authoring the text on the Apollo 11 lunar plaque.
Syesha Mercado.  Syesha Raquel Mercado (born January 2 1987) is an American singer songwriter actress and model. Mercado was second runner-up (the last lady standing) on the seventh season of American Idol. Prior to Idol Mercado was on The One: Making a Music Star and she won Florida Super Singer.
Baiyu (singer).  Sara Baiyu Chen known professionally as Baiyu is a Chinese-born American singer-songwriter and actress. In the early 90's her family moved to Maryland where she was then given the American name of Sara. Baiyu has appeared in several independent films and was a VJ for the mtvU show The Freshmen from 2006–2008. She completed high school in three years' time and later graduated from Princeton University in 2008 with a degree in Sociology.
Michael Carr (composer).  Michael Carr (11 March 1905 – 16 September 1968) real name Maurice Alfred Cohen was a British light music composer born in Leeds. He is best remembered for the song South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) written with Jimmy Kennedy for the 1939 film of the same name.Among Carr's other compositions were The Shadows instrumental hits Man of Mystery (UK #5 hit in December 1960) and Kon-Tiki (UK #1 hit in October 1961).
Nina Shatskaya.  Nina Arkadyevna Shatskaya (Russian: Нина Аркадьевна Шацкая April 22 1970 Rybinsk USSR) (1966 or 1972 according to other sources) is a Russian singer and actress best known for her unique jazzy take on the Russian romance heritage. Staying out of the spotlight Shatskaya is held in high regard by critics and colleagues.
Patrick Castagne.  Patrick Stanislaus Pat Castagne (3 October 1916 – 5 May 2000) was a Guyanese-born Trinidadian composer best known for composing Forged from the Love of Liberty the national anthem of Trinidad and Tobago.
Zikmund Winter.  Zikmund Winter (27 December 1846 - 12 June 1912) was a Czech writer and historian. The author of many historical novels and essays he maintained an interest in Bohemian life from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. He died in 1912 and he was buried in Vinohrady Cemetery.
Johann Ludwig Bach.  Johann Ludwig Bach (4 February 1677 – 1 May 1731) was a composer and violinist.He was born in Thal. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there and later Kapellmeister. He wrote a large amount of music and regularly oversaw performances both at Meiningen and neighbouring courts.He was a second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach who made copies of several of his cantatas and performed them at Leipzig.
Pierrette Alarie.  Pierrette Alarie CC CQ (November 9 1921 – July 10 2011) was a French Canadian coloratura soprano. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.
Joy Denalane.  Joy Maureen Denalane (born 11 June 1973) known as Joy Denalane is a German singer-songwriter known for her mixture of soul R&B and African folk music with lyrics in German and English.
Tommy Valando.  Thomas F. Valando (March 1 1916 – February 14 1995) was a Broadway producer and owner of a New York City music publishing company Tommy Valando Publishing Group Inc. Valando played a role in the emergence of BMI songwriters on the Broadway scene. In the early 1950s he was responsible for composer Jerry Bock getting onto Broadway with the score for Catch a Star. In 1964 he introduced John Kander and Fred Ebb who became a prominent songwriting team.
Matthew Crompton.  Matthew Crompton (born 17 July 1971) is a British actor most famous for his role as Sam Harker in ITV's The Bill. He has also appeared in various other TV shows including two distinct roles in Brookside (Darren Murphy in 1992 and Dan Morrissey in 2002-3). From 3 December 2007 he played Dan Mason in Coronation Street signing a new one-year contract in April 2008 but left the show on completion of the extended contract.Matthew currently works for Telecommunication Company Virgin Media.
Seth and Mary Eastman.  Seth Eastman (1808–1875) and his second wife Mary Henderson Eastman (1818 – 24 February 1887) were instrumental in recording Native American life. Eastman was an artist and West Point graduate who served in the US Army first as a mapmaker and illustrator. He had two tours at Fort Snelling Minnesota Territory; during the second extended tour he was commanding officer of the fort. During these years he painted many studies of Native American life.
J Smooth.  Jorh-el Aburto better known by his stage name J Smooth is an Hispanic-American rapper music video director and hip hop producer from Los Angeles California.
Gemma Files.  Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer journalist and film critic. Her short story The Emperor's Old Bones won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
Yoshii Isamu.  Count Yoshii Isamu (吉井 勇 October 8 1886 - November 9 1960) was a Japanese tanka poet and playwright writer active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. Attracted to European romanticism in his youth his later works were more subdued.
Édouard Rod.  Édouard Rod (March 31 1857–January 29 1910) a French-Swiss novelist.He was born at Nyon in Switzerland studied at Lausanne where he wrote his doctoral thesis about the Oedipus legend (Le développement de la légende d'Œdipe dans l'histoire de la littérature) and Berlin and in 1878 found his way to Paris.In 1881 he dedicated his novel Palmyre Veulard to Zola of whom he was at this period of his career a faithful disciple. A series of novels of similar tendency followed.
Sigvart Dagsland.  Sigvart Dagsland (born 18 October 1963 in Stavanger Norway) is a Norwegian singer pianist and composer.
Rajneesh.  Chandra Mohan Jain (About this sound pronunciation ; 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (About this sound pronunciation ) during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989 was an Indian mystic guru and spiritual teacher who has an international following.A professor of philosophy he travelled throughout India during the 1960s as a public speaker.
Anna Pennybacker.  Anna Pennybacker (May 7 1861-February 4 1938) was an American educator author and activist for peace and woman rights. Pennybacker started teaching in 1880 in a Missouri grammar school and later a Missouri high school as a history teacher and the principal. In 1888 she published A New History of Texas for Schools which found its way into many Texas classrooms. She then left Missouri for Texas in 1893.
Heine Totland.  Heine Totland (born 16 October 1970 in Moster Bømlo Norway) is a Norwegian singer and has featured in several prominent productions like State Gli Scapoli Silje Nergaard the musical Sophies verden Køhn/Johansen Sextet among others.
Gusttavo Lima.  Nivaldo Batista Lima (born 3 September 1989) better known by his stage name Gusttavo Lima is a Brazilian singer of sertaneja. Known in his country with many hits like Inventor dos Amores Cor de Ouro and gained international fame and success through the song Balada. He is often compared to the sertanejo singers Luan Santana and Michel Teló.
Prolyphic.  Prolyphic is an American indie hip hop artist from Rhode Island.
Francis Ledwidge.  Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the poet of the blackbirds he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.
Tahira Syed.  Tahira Syed (Urdu: طاہرہ سيد‎) (born 1958) is a Pakistani ghazal and folk singer. Her repertoire of Urdu Punjabi and Pahari folk songs have made her a popular singer.
Juliana González Valenzuela.  Juliana González Valenzuela (Mexico September 19 1936) is a Mexican philosopher.
Joanna Storm.  Joanna Storm (born August 23 1958) is a pornographic actress since the 1980s. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2009.
Gorilla Zoe.  Alonzo Mathis (born January 26 1983) better known by his stage name Gorilla Zoe /ˈzoʊ/ is an American rapper. He is a former member of rap group Boyz N Da Hood. His solo debut album Welcome to the Zoo came out in 2007. His next two albums Don't Feed Da Animals and King Kong were released in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
Fereshta Samah.  Fereshta Samah (Persian: فرشته سما ) is an Afghan-Tajik singer from Afghanistan. She is currently a resident of Germany having spent most of her childhood there. She is the younger sister of Hangama another popular Afghan singer. In 2006 she made a trip to Afghanistan for concerts in Kabul.
Rizwan-ul-Haq.  Rizwan–ul–Haq is a Pakistani guitarist multi-instrumentalist occasional actor music composer record producer and backing vocalist earning fame as lead guitarist for the acclaimed band Vital Signs.
Eric Andrews.  Eric Montgomery Andrews (born 1933) is an Australian historian academic and author. He was born in London and gained his first degree at Oxford University. He did his PhD at the Australian National University and since 1967 has taught history at the University of Newcastle.His book Isolationism and appeasement in Australia; reactions to the European crises 1935-1939 has been quoted in the Australian Capital Territory House of Representatives. [1] [2]
Gregory Page (musician).  Gregory Page (born April 14 1963) is a singer songwriter guitarist cabaret artist record producer and filmmaker. He was born in London England on Easter Sunday in 1963. His Armenian and Irish parents met while they were on tour with their bands en route to the Middle East. His Irish Mother was the lead singer in the all-girl group The Beat-Chics who opened four concerts for The Beatles in Spain August 1965.
Don Jackson (producer).  Don Jackson is an English electronic music producer. He has worked with several of the top vocal trance singers including Tiff Lacey Kirsty Hawkshaw Andrea Britton and Stine Grove .Headstrong topped the Romanian Charts in April 2013 with number 1 hit record Headstong-Tears ft Stine Grove. The music produced is released under the Headstrong alias and is featured on many compilation albums including Nightmusic Volume 2 (2007) and The DJ 3 in the Mix (2006).
Brett-Livingstone Strong.  Brett-Livingstone Strong (born October 31 1953) is an Australian-born artist best known for his sculptures of Hollywood celebrities.
Dan Dunn (painter).  Dan Dunn (born 1957) is an American improvisational Speed Painter and the creator of Paintjam a theatrical performance art show in which paintings are created in minutes on stage.
Brian LeBarton.  Brian Manuel LeBarton is a keyboardist composer and electronic musician from Los Angeles California.
Moko (singer).  Diane Nadia Adu-Gyamfi (born 29 October 1991)[citation needed] better known by her stage name Moko is a British soul singer from New Cross in London. She rose to fame after featuring on the Chase & Status single Count On Me which charted at number five in the UK Singles Chart and also appeared with the band on tour. Moko released her debut EP Black on MTA and Virgin EMI on 20 October 2013.
Ton Koopman.  Ton Koopman (born October 2 1944) is a Dutch conductor organist and harpsichordist. He is also professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands receiving the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Lucien Vogt.  Lucien Vogt (born 1891 in New York died 1968) was an American painter and illustrator .
Fergus Bordewich.  Fergus M. Bordewich (born November 1 1947) is an American writer historian and editor based in Washington D.C.. He is the author of six nonfiction books including a memoir and an illustrated children's book.
Mike Herrera.  Michael Arthur Herrera (b. November 6 1976) is an American musician most widely known as the vocalist and bass guitarist for the skate punk band MxPx as well as being the front-man of his new band Tumbledown.
Lil Durk.  Durk Banks (born October 19 1992) better known by his stage name Lil Durk is an American rapper from Chicago Illinois. He is signed to the major record label Def Jam as well as French Montana's Coke Boys imprint.
Stoyan Yankoulov.  Stoyan Yankoulov (Bulgarian: Стоян Янкулов var. Stoyan Yankulov or Stoyan Yanculov; born 10 September 1966) also known as Stundji (Bulgarian: Стунджи) is one of Bulgaria's most popular and renowned drummers and percussionists. Yankoulov formed the duo Elitsa & Stoyan to represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki and will once again represent Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö.
Liesel Moak Skorpen.  Liesel Moak Skorpen is German-born children's author. Ms. Skorpen moved to the United States at a young age.Her works include Old Arthur We Were Tired of Living In a House His Mother's Dog Elizabeth and Outside My Window. Her illustrator for Old Arthur was Wallace Tripp.Born in Germany to Walter and Elizabeth Moak she came to the US with her family was raised and educated in Cleveland Ohio.
Simone James.  Simone James is a British actress best known for her role as Becca Swanson in television soap opera EastEnders.
Leo Dorfman.  Leo Dorfman (February 17 1914 – July 9 1974) (also credited as Geoff Brown and David George) was a writer of comic books throughout the Silver Age; although the majority of his work was for DC Comics he also wrote for Dell Comics.Dorfman grew up on New York's Lower East Side.
Jorge Rodríguez (director).  Jorge Fish Rodríguez is a Latin Grammy Award-winner music video director. Rodríguez was awarded the Best Short Form Music Video at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006 for Atrévete-te-te co-directed by Gabriel Coss and performed by Calle 13.
Martin Edmond.  Martin Edmond (born Ohakune 1952) is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. Heis the son of writer Lauris Edmond.Edmond studied Anthropology and English graduating MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington.
Andrew Godefroy.  Andrew Godefroy CD M.A. Ph.D. is a Canadian soldier innovator scholar and author noted for his work in strategic studies innovation studies organizational design biography and military history.
Luigi Antoldi.  Luigi Antoldi (Mantua died 1878) was an Italian engraver.
Doug Anderson (singer).  Doug Anderson (born August 31 1973 in Anderson Indiana) is a Christian vocalist.Basketball fans who watched Doug Anderson play for Lapel High School in the late 1980s probably had no idea what his post high school ambition really was. They probably assumed that the all-county all-state player wanted to become a college and NBA star.
Eva Maler.  Eva Maler is a German born playwright currently living in London.
Aniella di Beltrano.  Aniella di Beltrano or Anniella di Rosa (1613–1649) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period. She was the daughter of Francesco di Rosa and niece of Pietro Rosa. She trained with Massimo Stanzione who was a fellow pupil with her husband Agostino Beltrano (also called Agostiniello) (1616–1665). It is said that her husband stabbed her to death in a fit of jealousy. Her recognized output of paintings is minimal.
Inger Lorre.  Inger Lorre (born Lori Ann Wening) is an American singer who is best known for her bands The Nymphs and Motel Shootout.
Tess Danesi.  Tess Danesi is an American sex educator blogger and writer of BDSM erotica who conducts workshops courses and events. She writes for the American erotica anthology market has contributed to Time Out New York and has been featured in Fleshbot a sex-oriented weblog founded by Gawker Media.
Herman Kruk.  Herman (Herschel) Kruk (Yiddish: הערשל קרוק) was a Polish-Jewish librarian and Bundist activist who kept a diary recording his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II.Kruk fled Warsaw and relocated to Vilna at the outbreak of invasion of Poland. While confined to the Vilna Ghetto he organized and oversaw the creation and operation of a library in the Ghetto.
Mary Early.  Mary Early (born 1975 Washington DC) is a sculptor living and working in Washington DC. Her three-dimensional works in beeswax wood and concrete are abstract references to symmetrical and structured forms. She studied visual art film and video at Bennington College.Early's work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden Washington Project for the Arts Hemphill Fine Arts and The Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Charles Kerins.  Charles M. Kerins (December 7 1915–January 1988) American illustrator and painter.
Marwan Khoury.  Marwan Khoury (Arabic: مروان خوري‎) (February 3 1968) is a Lebanese singer writer composer and music arranger. His compositions are performed by some of the most famous artists in the Arab World and adapted by many other countries including Turkey. He composed hits for leading artists such as Majida El Roumi Saber Rabai Nawal Al Zoghbi Assala Nasri Najwa Karam Fadl Shaker Elissa Carole Samaha Bassima and Myriam Fares.
Mildred Cram.  Mildred Cram (October 17 1889 Washington D.C. - April 4 1985 Santa Barbara California) was a popular American writer.Her short story Stranger Things was included in the O. Henry Award story collection for 1921. A number of her stories and novels were made into films. She was nominated along with Leo McCarey for the Academy Award for Best Writing Original Story for Love Affair (1939).
Wade Hayes.  Tony Wade Hayes (born April 20 1969 in Bethel Acres Oklahoma) is an American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 1994 he made his debut that year with his gold-certified album Old Enough to Know Better.
David Aja.  David Aja (born April 16 1977) is a Spanish comic book artist best known for his work on The Immortal Iron Fist Hawkeye and Daredevil. His style is reminiscent of Jim Steranko.
Naoto Inti Raymi.  Naoto Nakamura (中村 直人 Nakamura Naoto) better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi (ナオト・インティライミ Naoto Intiraimi) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He initially debuted with Sony in 2001 under the stage name Naoto (なおと) however rose to fame in 2010. He is also known for being a radio personality on bayfm in 2005 and for his travel diary Sekai yo Odore published in 2006.Inti Raymi is Quechuan (Incan language) for festival of the sun.
Steve Buccellato.  Steve Buccellato (born May 1968) is a freelance artist and self-publisher who has worked in the comics industry as a colorist writer penciller and editor.
Ira Spring.  Ira Spring (1918–2003) was an American photographer author mountaineer and hiking advocate. He was the photographer and co-author with Harvey Manning of the 100 Hikes series of books published by The Mountaineers. He co-founded the trails advocacy and maintenance organization Washington Trails Association (WTA) along with fellow trails advocate Louise Marshall.
John Hultberg.  John Hultberg (February 8 1922 – April 15 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter lecturer and playwright.
Haruka Suenaga.  Haruka Suenaga (末永 遥 Suenaga Haruka born July 22 1986 in Fujisawa Kanagawa) is a Japanese actress and gravure idol. At a young age she began making TV appearances on Oha Star and was part of the Oha-Girls. She has done some commercials for Glico. One of her most notable roles was Sakura Nishihori/BoukenPink in the Super Sentai series GoGo Sentai Boukenger.
Dana Stabenow.  Dana Stabenow (born March 27 1952 in Anchorage Alaska) is an American author of science fiction mystery and suspense/thriller novels.
Lucy Hockings.  Lucy Hockings (born c.1975) is a New Zealander who is working as a television journalist for BBC World News. She joined the network as producer in 1999 just before being promoted to senior producer in 2000 and worked on Asia Today and HARDtalk. Due to viewer complaints about the accent she went to the Royal Academy of Drama for speech lessons. She reported on the September 11 2001 attacks followed by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Harry J.  Harry Zephaniah Johnson (July 6 1945 – April 3 2013) known by the stage name Harry J was a Jamaican reggae record producer of African Sicilian and Scottish descent.
9th Prince.  9th Prince (born Terrance Hamlin) is a rapper and one of the founding members of rap group Killarmy. He was initially responsible for bringing the various members together under the guide of his brother. He released his solo debut album Granddaddy Flow in 2003. He is the younger brother of RZA. He went by the alias Madman & Iron Fingers especially in his early recordings. 9th Prince gets his name from the kung-fu movie Shaolin Prince.
Otto Pankok.  Otto Pankok (6 June 1893 – 10 October 1966) was a German painter printmaker and sculptor.
Humberto López y Guerra.  Humberto Lopez y Guerra (born 1945) is a Swedish-Cuban director and novelist. He began his film career 1960 producing and directing a series of documentary films for the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema ICAIC. In 1963 he was given through election a scholarship to study film directing at the Cinema Superior School at Babelsberg Berlin Germany. After graduating from Babelsberg's he returned to Cuba where he directed his film Juventud 67 (Youth 67).
Samudrala Raghavacharya.  Samudrala Raghavacharya (19 July 1902 – 16 March 1968) also known as Samudrala Senior was a writer producer director and playback singer of Telugu films Andhra Pradesh India. Samudrala Senior was the one who advised the renowned singer Ghantasala to try his luck in film Industry as a singer in 1942.
Melanie Moore (pornographic actress).  Melanie Moore (born March 1 1962 in Tulsa Oklahoma) is an American former pornographic actress and nude model. She featured in over 300 films during the 1990s. She won the 1993 Best Supporting Actress Video AVN Award for Party of Payne.
Hakam Sufi.  Hakam Sufi (Punjabi: ਹਾਕਮ ਸੂਫ਼ੀ) was a noted Punjabi singer as well as songwriter. He was known for his songs like paani vich maaran deetan from a Punjabi film and more. Known for his clean and pure style of music Hakam Sufi stayed away from vulgarity and bawdy lyrics. Untrapped by commercial interests Sufi who worked as a school teacher remained dedicated to pristine pure music till his death.
Mike de Albuquerque.  Mike de Albuquerque (born 24 June 1947 Wimbledon London) is an English musician.In 1971 in partnership with Frank Ricotti (percussion) he released the album First Wind (as `Ricotti and Albuquerque'). From 1972 to 1974 Albuquerque was the bass player for Electric Light Orchestra. He left for domestic reasons amid the recording sessions for the group's fourth album Eldorado to be replaced with bassist Kelly Groucutt.
Murad Kajlayev.  Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev (Russian: Мурад Магомедович Кажлаев) is a well-known Soviet and Dagestani composer and conductor People's Artist of the USSR (1981) laureate of international premiums and contests Artistic Director and chief conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Panos Papadopoulos.  Panos Papadopoulos (born 1958 in Athens Greece) is the founder designer and entrepreneur behind Panos Emporio AB established 1986 in Gothenburg Sweden the largest swimwear supplier in Scandinavia. He is known as the bathing suit king. He is also well known as the man who desired to change the face of beauty competitions when he purchased the Miss Sweden contest and changed the name to New Miss Sweden.
Jacopo Bertoia.  Jacopo Bertoia also known as Giacomo Zanguidi or Jacopo Zanguidi or Bertoja (1544 - ca. 1574) was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style that emerged in Parma towards the end of the 16th century.He was strongly influenced by Parmigianino. Born in Parma he apparently studied in Bologna with Sabatini. His masterpiece is the Sala del Bacio in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma. He also helped decorate the Sala di Orfeo in the same palace.
Catriona Sparks.  Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965 Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian science fiction writer editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner Australian horror writer Rob Hood Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction. She is also a writer graphic designer photographer and desktop publisher with stories and artwork appearing in a selection of magazines and anthologies.
Claire Richards.  Claire Richards is an English singer-songwriter and dancer best known for being the lead singer in the pop group Steps from 1997 until Richards left the band resulting in the band splitting shortly after in 2001. The group reformed in 2011 and went on a comeback tour and released a greatest hits collection followed by their fourth studio album Light Up The World in November 2012. Richards was a contestant on the second series of Popstar to Operastar before being voted off in the semi finals.
Billy Yates (singer).  Billy Yates (born March 13 1963 in Doniphan Missouri) is an American country music artist. He has released eight studio albums and has charted four singles on the Billboard country charts including the number 36 Flowers in 1997. Yates also co-wrote George Jones' singles I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair and Choices.
Stan Waterman.  Stanton A. Waterman (born 1923) is a five-time Emmy winning cinematographer and underwater film producer.Waterman graduated from Dartmouth College where he studied with Robert Frost in 1946 with a degree in English. He began his SCUBA diving career in the Bahamas where he owned and operated a diving charter business from 1954-1958. His big break came in 1965 when he filmed a year-long family trip to Tahiti. National Geographic purchased the rights to the work and showed it on television.
George Small (musician).  George Small is a musician composer and producer who is active on the New York music scene. He has a wide variety of credits that include hit recordings live performances with music's elite (Broadway concert and TV) and a wide variety of productions and original compositions.
Brian McGilloway.  Brian McGilloway is an author hailing from [Londonderry] Northern Ireland. Born in 1974 he studied English at Queens University Belfast where he was very active in student theatre winning a prestigious national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is currently Head of English at St. Columb's College Londonderry. McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands.
Pingali Lakshmikantam.  Pingali Lakshmikantam (10 January 1894 in Arthamuru West Godavari district British India – 1972) was an Indian poet and writer.
Akiko Yano.  Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子 Yano Akiko born February 13 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born as Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 顕子 Suzuki Akiko) in Tokyo and raised in Aomori Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s.
Madlyn-Ann C. Woolwich.  Madlyn-Ann Crawford Woolwich (born 1937) is an American pastel and oil painter in impressionist style of landscapes floral gardens and still lifes and an author on the subject.Born in Fall River Massachusetts Woolwich obtained BS and M.Ed degrees from Bridgewater State College Massachusetts with further study at Parson's School of Design The American Academy of Design NYC The University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth Campus) and Brookdale Community College New Jersey.She is a Master Pastelist Pastel Society of America signature member and former National Vice President of Knickerbocker Artists USA.As a writer Woolwich has written feature articles for The Artist's Magazine and Pastel Journal and has been included in books as a featured artist in several publications.[citation needed] Her first book Pastel Interpretations was published in 1993 given a three month museum exhibition of the included artists at the Monmouth Museum[citation needed] and republished in 1995 in Asnières France by the Ulisses Publishing Company. 
Raaj J Konwar.  Raaj J Konwar ( Assamese :ৰাজ জে কোঁৱৰ born in 7 Oct 1975 ) is an Indian singer and composer from North Lakhimpur Assam. His songs have been featured in recent Bollywood movies and Assamese movies.
Edna Mayne Hull.  Edna Mayne Hull (May 1 1905 - January 20 1975) was a science fiction writer who published under the name E. Mayne Hull. She was the first wife of A. E. van Vogt also a science fiction writer.She was born in Brandon Manitoba. After working as a private secretary in Alberta she moved back to Winnipeg where she met her future husband. Hull and van Vogt got married on May 9 1939 shortly before his first story Black Destroyer was published.
Carmen Mastren.  Carmen Mastren (born Carmen Mastandrea 6 October 1913 – 31 March 1981) was an American jazz guitarist banjoist and violinist born in Cohoes New York. Mastren is best remembered for his work from 1936–1941 with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra as a guitarist.
Hoàng Trọng.  Hoàng Trung Trọng (Hải Dương 1922 - USA 16 July 1998) was a Vietnamese songwriter.
Dea Loher.  Dea Loher is a German playwright and author.
Sarah Caudwell.  Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn (27 May 1939 – 28 January 2000) a British barrister and writer of detective stories.She is best known for a series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999 centred around the lives of a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln’s Inn and narrated by a Hilary Tamar a Professor of Medieval Law (sex unknown) who also acts as detective.
Haris Džinović.  Haris Džinović (born 26 September 1951) is a popular Bosnian folk singer. He is also a composer a musician and songwriter for his songs.
Tommy Cash.  Tommy Cash (born April 5 1940) is a singer-songwriter and younger brother of Johnny Cash.
Nanaho Katsuragi.  Nanaho Katsuragi (葛城七穂 Katsuragi Nanaho born December 20 1966 in Nagoya) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce. Between 1987 and 1997 she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue assigned to the Snow Troupe.
Rich Clarkson.  Rich Clarkson is a Denver Colorado based photographer. Rich owns the photography and publishing company Rich Clarkson and Associates LLC. Clarkson is a former Director of Photography at the National Geographic magazine and was a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated magazine for several decades starting in the 1970s through the 1990s. His photographs have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated over 30 times.
Denis King.  Denis King (born 25 July 1939 Hornchurch Essex) is an English Ivor Novello award-winning composer singer and actor.As a writer he composed music for the British television series The Adventures of Black Beauty Dick Turpin Within These Walls Lovejoy and Worzel Gummidge amongst others. He also composed the theme to the 1992 series The New Adventures of Black Beauty.
Yıldız Tilbe.  Yıldız Tilbe (born 16 July 1966) is a Turkish pop folk singer and one of the best selling musical artists in Turkey known especially for her eastern-infused ballads.
John Robins (comedian).  John Robins (born 4 May 1983) is an English stand-up comedian and host of television and radio show programs.
Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen.  Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen sometimes also known as HKKS (born July 23 1965 in Oslo) is a Norwegian percussion and cimbalom player
Maureen Corrigan.  Maureen Corrigan is an American journalist author and literary critic. She writes for the Book World section of The Washington Post and is a book critic on the NPR radio program Fresh Air. In 2005 she published a literary memoir Leave Me Alone I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books.
Marek Eben.  Marek Eben (born 18 December 1957) is a Czech actor singer composer writer and television host. He studied music and drama at the Prague Conservatory. His father Petr Eben was a composer.Eben is considered to be one of the best TV moderators in the Czech Republic and has won many awards. He has hosted many television shows such as the Czech version of the show Dancing with the Stars.
Elsie Finnimore Buckley.  Elsie Finnimore Buckley (1882-1959) was an English writer and translator.Buckley was born at Calcutta the daughter of Robert Burton Buckley a civil engineer and Ada Marian Sarah Finnimore. She was educated at Girton College Cambridge. In 1920 she married the writer Anthony Ludovici.
Emi Motoi.  Emi Motoi (本井 えみ Motoi Emi born October 11 in Kanagawa) is a Japanese voice actress.
Jiang Shi (Qing dynasty).  Jiang Shi (1818-1866) was a Chinese official and poet of the late Qing period primarily famous for his use of simpler language within the general context of Song School poetry (Neo-Confucianism).He was also expert in calligraphy line drawing and Chinese brush painting.
AG Coco.  Mohd Hezry Mohd Hafidz (born 7 July 1984) or commercially known as AG Coco is a Malaysian music producer from Alor Star Kedah living in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently band member of Hujan as lead guitarist and producer. He is also commonly associated in Malaysia music industry national television station and produce music for local musicians such as Yuna Tomok Hafiz.
Les C. Copeland.  Leslie C. Copeland (June 4 1887 – March 3 1942) was an American composer and pianist. As a boy he played in Lew Dockstader's minstrel troupe. He later sold ragtime compositions to Jerome H. Remick and others. Some of his performances are preserved on piano rolls. He died in San Francisco California.
Juan 'Punchy' Gonzalez.  Juan Punchy Gonzalez is a record producer/artist who has worked with many talents including Morbid Angel Christian Death Lover of Sin Nile and many others. He was also the guitarist/producer of his own band Diet of Worms. Juan Carlos Gonzalez was born in Tampa Florida and is of Spanish descent. His family figures prominently in the history of Ybor City Tampa’s Latin Quarter founded by Cuban Spanish and Italian immigrants.
Robert E. Griswold.  Robert E. (Bob) Griswold (born January 1 1935 Chicago Illinois) is an American author educator composer and business leader and a long-time leader in the field of human potential development He is the founder of Effective Learning Systems Inc. and has authored over one hundred self-help audio programs. He is best known for his audio series The Love Tapes and While-U-Drive and his book Attract Money and More.[1]
Tony Rosenthal.  Bernard J. Rosenthal (August 9 1914 - July 28 2009) also known as Tony Rosenthal was an American abstract sculptor.
Ammon Shea.  Ammon Shea is an American writer known for his nonfiction books about the English language. With Peter Novobatzky he wrote Depraved English (1999) and Insulting English (2001) which both highlight obscure and unusual English words. Shea later read the entire Oxford English Dictionary and documented his observations in Reading the OED: One Man One Year 21730 Pages (2008). He was subsequently hired to work at Oxford University Press as a consulting editor of American dictionaries.
David Laskin.  David Laskin (born October 25 1953) is an American writer of books about history travel weather gardens and literary biography.
Richard Henry (pseudonym).  Richard Henry is a pseudonym credited on collaborative works of authors Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton.Works attributed to Richard Henry include Frankenstein or The Vampire's Victim a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein presented at the Gaiety Theatre London in 1887.
Sylvanus Stall.  Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 – 6 November 1915) was a United States Lutheran pastor most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels.Stall was born in Elizaville New York (now part of Gallatin). In 1866 he entered Hartwick Seminary then Pennsylvania State University and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained a minister in 1874.Stall held a Doctor of Divinity degree.
Finbarr Dwyer.  Finbarr Dwyer (often misspelled as Finbar Dwyer) (20 September 1946 – 8 February 2014) was a traditional Irish accordion player from the famed Dwyer musical family. He was born in Castletownbere Co. Cork on 20 September 1946 began playing accordion at the age of three and began composing at the age of nine. Both of his parents played accordion and his father also played fiddle.
Miron Polyakin.  Miron Borisovich Polyakin (Russian: Мирон Борисович Полякин; (February 12 1895 in Cherkasy - May 21 1941 in Moscow) was a legendary Imperial Russian and Soviet violinist and pedagogue one of the best known disciples of the famous Leopold Auer. Between 1917-1926 he toured many countries of the world and in 1922 gave his New York debut.
Johanna Fateman.  Johanna Fateman (born 1974) is a writer songwriter musician and record producer. She is a member of the post-punk rock band Le Tigre and founded the band MEN with Le Tigre bandmate JD Samson.
Charles Gordon (artist).  Charles Allyn Gordon Jr. (July 3 1909 Corsicana Texas - June 9 1978 Los Angeles California) was a watercolor artist.He graduated from Corsicana High School in 1925 and from the University of Texas Austin in 1929 with a degree in architecture. Gordon is best known for his watercolor artwork. Between 1935 and 1940 he exhibited at art events sponsored by the Museum of Fine Art of Houston.
Lisa M.  Marlisa Marrero Vázquez (born January 16 1974) better known by her stage name Lisa M or her nicknames The Queen of Spanish Rap or La Suprema (The Supreme) is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter record producer and dancer who fuses genres such as pop merengue rap and reggaetón. She is known as one of first female rap artists to debut in Puerto Rico. She disclosed her lesbianism on Facebook on April 19 2010.
Le Sieur Danoville.  Le Sieur Danoville (fl. late 17th century) was a French gambist and instrumental teacher.He described himself as a disciple of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. In Paris in 1687 he published the book L'Art de toucher le dessus et le basse de violle about playing on viola da gamba. This concise work of 47 pages was written only for self-study.
Ascanio Trombetti.  Ascanio Trombetti (bapt. 27 November 1544 – 20/21 September 1590) was an Italian composer.He was born in Bologna as a son of Astore Cavallari. In his family the surname Trombetti was used because of the great ability of its members in playing wind instruments.
Kent Kobersteen.  Kent Kobersteen is an American photographer due to whom the National Geographic won the National Magazine Award five times in a row. In 1983 he joined the National Geographic Society as a picture editor and from 1998 to 2005 worked as a senior editor of the National Geographic itself. During that time he traveled to the United States Canada and 25 other foreign nations including Norway.
Michael Chamberlain.  Michael Leigh Chamberlain (born 1944) is an Australian writer retired teacher and former pastor best known due to the 1980 death of his daughter Azaria as the result of a dingo attack whilst camping near Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory Australia. When Chamberlain's then-wife Lindy was falsely convicted of the baby's murder in 1982 he was convicted of being an accessory after the fact.
Leanne Hinton.  Leanne Hinton is an emerita professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. She specializes in American Indian languages sociolinguistics and language revitalization.
Juicy J.  Jordan Michael Houston (born April 5 1975) better known by his stage name Juicy J is an American rapper songwriter and record producer from Memphis Tennessee. He is a founding member of the Southern hip hop group Three 6 Mafia established in 1991. In 2002 he released his solo debut album Chronicles of the Juice Man in between Three 6 Mafia projects.
Campbell Christie (writer).  Campbell Christie (1893-1963) was an Indian-born British playwright and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with his wife Dorothy Christie on plays such as Carrington V.C. and Someone at the Door.
Edmund Sylvers.  Edmund Theodore Sylvers (January 25 1957 – March 11 2004) was the lead singer of the 1970s family disco/soul music group The Sylvers. Born in Memphis Tennessee Sylvers was 15 years old when he started singing with the family-based musical group and was 18 when he sang lead on the group's biggest hit Boogie Fever (1975). Sylvers provided the voice of Marlon on the 1971–73 ABC-TV cartoon series The Jackson 5ive. Sylvers died of lung cancer at age 47.
Aleksandra Trajković.  Aleksandra Trajković (born 13 October 1975) is a Serbian pianist Assistant Professor of Piano and Chief of the Piano Department at the University of Pristina's Faculty of Arts.
James Bernard Frost.  James Bernard Frost is an American author. His novels A Very Minor Prophet and World Leader Pretend explore American subcultures. His travel guide for vegetarians The Artichoke Trail won a Lowell Thomas Award for travel journalism. He regularly publishes essays on the online magazine The Nervous Breakdown.
Pedro Hernández (sculptor).  Pedro Hernández (Salamanca 1585? - 1665) was a Spanish sculptor drawer and engraver. He belongs to the Castilian school being a contemporary artist of Gregorio Fernández. He mainly created religious works. His artistic language evolved from the Mannerism to a full Baroque style. He worked in the province of Salamanca.
Brian Connolly.  Brian Francis Connolly (5 October 1945 – 9 February 1997) was a Scottish musician best known as the lead singer of the British rock band Sweet.
Daniel Mustard.  Daniel Homeless Mustard (born December 25 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He got his nickname from being homeless. He went on the Opie and Anthony Show because he was homeless and during his interview Daniel disclosed his history as a musician. They asked him to perform a song and he performed Creep by Radiohead and delivered a solo performance which was better than interviewers or audience expected.
Nicole Avril.  Nicole Avril (born 15 August 1939) is a French academic actress model and writer.
Little and Large.  Little and Large were a British comedy double act comprising straight man Syd Little (Born Cyril Mead in 1942) and comic Eddie Large (Born Edward McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941). They formed their partnership in 1962 appearing as singers in local pubs around north-west England.
Eric Gravatt.  Eric Kamau Grávátt (born March 6 1947) is a jazz drummer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He has played with McCoy Tyner Joe Henderson Weather Report Byard Lancaster Dom Um Romão. He was a member of Weather Report from 1972-1974.
Hana Zagorová.  Hana Zagorová (born 6 September 1946 in Petřkovice) is a Czech female singer who has been recording since 1964. She has written the lyrics to around fifty of her recorded songs[citation needed]. Nine times she was listed number one in the national Zlaty Slavík (Golden Nightingale) popularity chart.Since 1992 she has been married to opera singer Štefan Margita.[citation needed]
Lisa Unger.  Lisa Unger (born April 26 1970 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American author of contemporary fiction. Her novels have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list have sold more than 1.7 million copies and have been translated into twenty-six languages.
C-Sick.  C-Sick (born Charles Dumazer) is a French/African-American Hip Hop producer from Chicago Illinois. He participated in his first beat battle at the age of 17 and became the 2008 Chicago Big Tune Beat Battle champion. C-Sick had the chance to go and move on to the National Finals in New York City to prove to his audience his ability of becoming a music producer. C-Sick has produced music for artists such as Nas Logic Lil Twist Fabolous King L and many others.
Phaeleh.  Matt Preston (Phaeleh pronounced Fella) is a multi-instrumentalist producer and DJ residing in Bristol United Kingdom.He produces music that could be loosely described as cinematic electronica but his roots are in dubstep garage and house. His compositions are a fusion of live instrumentation and electronic production. He has created numerous DJ mixes two albums and 11 EPs and singles.
Don Peachey.  Don Peachey is an American band leader accordionist musician and recording artist who has been performing and recording since the 1950s with The Don Peachey Band aka Don Peachey and His Orchestra. Peachey was elected to the International Polka Hall of Fame in 2011 by the International Polka Association.
Sunrise Adams.  Sunrise Adams (born on September 14 1982) is a former American pornographic actress she won multiple awards for her work in the industry after beginning her career in 2001. She was contracted by Vivid Entertainment a year later.
Chellapilla Venkata Sastry.  Chellapilla Venkata Sastry (born 8 August 1870) was a Telugu language poet laureate and scholar. He was one of the two poets known as Tirupati Venkata Kavulu and other being Divakarla Tirupati Sastry.
Ricardo Aguirre.  Ricardo José Aguirre González (Maracaibo May 9 1939 and died in the same city November 8 1969) was a Venezuelan folk musician and Gaita Zuliana singer and composer. He was known as the Monumental de la Gaita (Gaita Monumental).
Mira Żelechower-Aleksiun.  Mira Żelechower-Aleksiun (born 26 March 1941 in Millerovo) is a Polish painter of Jewish descent.
Zamor (artist).  Zamor born in March 8 1951 in Colombia is a Colombian and French painter sculptor and writer. He became known for his large paintings and the treatment of his male and female subjects with a technique that is neither realism nor hyperrealism.Influenced by the Italian mannerists and their distorted figures as well as anamorphosis and trompe-l'oeil his techniques borrow from the Renaissance. creating his own and unique style that he calls “suprarealism”.
Ehab Tawfik.  Ehab Tawfik (Arabic: إيهاب توفيق‎) (born January 7 1966) is an Egyptian singer.
Adriana Lisboa.  Adriana Lisboa (born April 25 1970 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer. She is the author of six novels and has also published poetry short stories and books for children. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese her books have been published in fourteen countries and translated into English Spanish French German Italian Arabic Swedish Serbian and Romanian with forthcoming translations into Polish and Turkish.
Frank Conroy.  Frank Conroy (January 15 1936 – April 6 2005) was an American author born in New York New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time. Published in 1967 this ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world.
Sidney Patrick Shelley.  Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley 8th Baronet (18 January 1880-1965) is a relative of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley was born to Lt. Col. Sir Charles Shelley 5th Baronet and Lady Mary Jane Jemima Shelley (née Stopford) daughter of 5th Earl of Courtown.
Henning Löhlein.  Henning Löhlein (born in 1965 in Germany) is an illustrator working in Bristol.His work has appeared in many media outlets including The Guardian The Observer The Financial Times and he has illustrated over thirty books so far.He has drawn his distinctive illustrations for authors of children's books from Britain and Germany including Werner Holzwarth Katja Reider Manfred Mai Gudrun Pausewang.Since 2006 he has been selected every year for the exhibition of the German Cartoon Prize.
Donald Braswell II.  Donald Braswell II (born February 22 1963) is an American actor classical crossover tenor and composer. Braswell was on a fast track to become an internationally acclaimed opera singer when he suffered a car accident in 1995 that made him unable to speak for almost two years. After that he had lived a quiet life outside of the spotlight until his appearance on the 2008 season of America's Got Talent where he was a Top 5 finalist which gave him another chance at a career in entertainment.
Garry Wills.  Garry Wills (born May 22 1934) is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American author journalist and historian specializing in American history politics and religion especially the history of the Roman Catholic Church.Wills has written nearly 40 books and since 1973 and has been a frequent reviewer for the New York Review of Books. He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980 where he is currently an Emeritus Professor of History.
William Nicholson (artist).  Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (5 February 1872 – 16 May 1949) was an English painter of still-life landscape and portraits also known for his work as a wood-engraver illustrator author of children's books and designer for the theatre.
Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay.  Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay (Burmese: ဂျာနယ်ကျော် မမလေး [ma̰ ma̰ léi]) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Burmese writers of 20th century. Her stories are known for authentic portrayals of modern Burmese society. Along with Ludu Daw Amar Ma Ma Lay was one of a few female authors in Burma. She died in 1982 at the age of 65.
Tommy McLain.  Tommy McLain (born 15 March 1940 Jonesville Louisiana) is an American swamp pop musician best known as a singer but who also plays keyboards drums bass guitar and fiddle.
Lily Renée.  Lily Renée Wilheim Peters Phillips (born Lily Renée Wilheim c. 1925 Vienna Austria) often credited as L. Renée Lily Renée or Reney is an Austrian-American artist writer and playwright. She escaped from Nazi-occupied Vienna to England and later New York whereupon she found work as a penciller at Fiction House on such titles as The Werewolf Hunter Jane Martin and Senorita Rio.
Francis Ambrière.  Francis Ambrière (September 27 1907 – 1 July 1998) was a French author who was selected for the Prix Goncourt in 1940 for his book Les Grandes Vacances; the prize was awarded in 1946 because of World War II.
Tommy Allsup.  Tommy Allsup (born November 24 1931 in Owasso Oklahoma) is an American musician.
Jnanadabhiram Barua.  Jnanadabhiram Barua (Assamese: জ্ঞানদাভিৰাম বৰুৱা; 1880-1955) was an notable writer dramatist translator of Assam. He also participated in India's freedom struggle.
Megitza.  Małgorzata Babiarz professionally known as Megitza (born November 27 1984 in Zakopane) is a Polish singer double bass player and composer. She combines Polish and Eastern European folk music Romani music and gypsy jazz with world music Latin music pop worldbeat and Americana.In 2001 Megitza emigrated to Chicago where she appeared in charity concerts and events such as Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity and where she promoted Polish culture.
Jane Bunnett.  Jane Bunnett OC (born October 22 1956) is a Canadian soprano saxophonist flautist and bandleader known for her Afro-Cuban jazz melodies.In 2004 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2006 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Queen's University at Kingston Ontario Canada.In addition to her primary instruments Bunnett also plays the trompeta china a Cuban wind instrument of Chinese origin.
Toyo Tsutsuli.  Toyo Tsutsuli (Chinese name Fong Juei Yang born July 14 in Taipei Taiwan) is a Taiwanese indie singer songwriter and video artist. Because his past musical participation was focused on the market in Japan his first name in Chinese was used as artist name in Japanese pronunciation. Toyo was born in a Taiwanese family but he is a Dutch origin from his mother's ancestry.
Matthew Abelson.  Matthew Abelson is an American hammered dulcimer player. Originally from Princeton New Jersey he lives in Cleveland Heights Ohio.Abelson performs in a variety of styles from classic Celtic tunes to Folk-Rock. His audiences have included President Bill Clinton (in 1998) Vice President Al Gore author Anne Rice and others and he has played well over 1000 shows throughout the continental United States and Canada.
Pietro Bellotti.  Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Salò. He was a pupil of Girolamo Forabosco in Venice. He was patronized by Pope Alexander VIII and by the Duke of Uceda. He lived in Bolzano. He painted mostly portraits. He died at Venice.
Alice Neel.  Alice Neel (January 28 1900 – October 13 1984) was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends family lovers poets artists and strangers. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color psychological acumen and emotional intensity.
Darren Wilson (musician).  Darren Wilson is drummer of the Chicago-based indie-rock group The Hush Sound.
Barbarina Brand.  Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre (née Ogle; 1768–1854) was an English poet playwright and translator.She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle 1st Baronet (died 1816) and Hester Thomas (daughter of John Thomas Bishop of Winchester). In 1789 Barbarina married Valentine Henry Wilmot an officer in the guards though they later separated. The couple had one daughter Arabella (1796–1839).
Lauren Weinstein (comics).  Lauren R. Weinstein (born April 16 1975 in Brookline Massachusetts) is an American comic book artist. Her surrealist alternative comics detail a complex world where a pall of mystery sexual intrigue and violent death hangs over the animal kingdom outer space and suburban America alike. In terms of style her detailed cross-hatching style aligns her with artists like Robert Crumb and Tony Millionaire.Weinstein was one of a number of artists who graduated from Washington University in St.
Greta Salpeter.  Greta Morgan Salpeter (born February 12 1988) is the pianist and one of the lead singers for the band Gold Motel. She started in the band The Hush Sound which has now re-formed after a 3 year hiatus. Gold Motel's first album was released on June 1 2010. She now uses the stage name Greta Morgan.
Ethel Hays.  Ethel Hays (March 13 1892 – March 19 1989) was an American syndicated cartoonist specializing in flapper-themed comic strips in the 1920s and 1930s. She drew in art deco style. In the later part of her career during the 1940s and 1950s she became one of the country's most accomplished children's book illustrators.
Matt Scannell.  Matthew Matt Scannell is an American singer guitarist songwriter and musician. Scannell is the lead vocalist lead guitarist primary songwriter and founding member of the alternative rock band Vertical Horizon.
Shiho Fujimura.  Shiho Fujimura (藤村 志保 Fujimura Shiho born 3 January 1939 in Kawasaki Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress. She was given a Special Prize for her career at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival.
Maître Gims.  Gandhi Djuna better known by his stage name Maître Gims (born in Kinshasa Zaire on 6 May 1986) is a French rapper. He was part of the rap group Sexion d'Assaut but is currently developing his solo career with a major solo release his solo album Subliminal. He has also found his own record label MMC (Monstre Marin Corporation).
Anton Pann.  Anton Pann (born Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu and also mentioned as Anton Pantoleon or Petrovici; 1790s—2 November 1854) was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer musicologist and Romanian-language poet also noted for his activities as a printer translator and schoolteacher. Pann was an influential folklorist and collector of proverbs as well as a lexicographer and textbook author.
Moritz Fuerst.  Moritz Fuerst (March 1782 – 1840) was an American artist of Jewish-Slovak origin. He was born near Bratislava and died in Philadelphia. Prior to immigrating he was enlisted by the American consul at Livorno Italy in 1807 and came to the United States to work as an engraver. In 1808 he settled in Philadelphia where he set up business as a seal and steel engraver and die-sinker.
Carlo Antonio Rambaldi.  Carlo Antonio Rambaldi (1680-1717) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of Domenico Maria Viani.
César Amaro.  César Nicanor Amaro Carlevaro was a guitarist born in Montevideo Uruguay on 25 October 1948. He died on 31 July 2012. He is well known among many classical guitar players and listeners.
Mike Rizzo.  Michael Mike Rizzo is an American DJ/producer/remixer from New York City since the early 1990s. He is well known for working with various artists such as Jennifer Green and Sun all of whom scored hits on both Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Airplay charts.He also achieved success on both charts in 2005 with the song Can't Go On which featured female singer Allie (Credited as Mike Rizzo Presents Allie).
Nicolas Vanier.  Nicolas Vanier (born 5 May 1962 Senegal) is a French adventurist writer and moviemaker. His 2004 film The Last Trapper (Le dernier trappeur) is about a trapper in the Yukon in Canada.His latest feature film Loup (Wolf) was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Aslaug Vaa.  Aslaug Vaa (August 25 1889 – November 28 1965) was a Norwegian poet and playwright.
Cameron Cartio.  Kamran Sabahi (Persian: کامران صباحی‎) better known by his stage name Cameron Cartio (کامرون کارتيو) born on 9 April 1978[citation needed] is an Iranian-born Swedish pop singer and songwriter.Being signed to Sony Music he released his debut album Borderless in 2005. Cameron is now signed to Taraneh Records and Sherfa Music and has a publishing deal with Universal Music Group and is working on his second untitled release album.
Screechy Peach.  Myrna Crenshaw Brown (July 6 1959 – April 1 2007) best known as Screechy Peach was an American singer and songwriter. Initially the lead singer of Whild Peach alongside her husband guitarist David Whild she would acquire fame in the 1990s due to her collaboration with such artists as Outkast and Macy Gray.[citation needed]
John Baker Saunders.  John Baker Saunders Jr. (September 23 1954 – January 15 1999) was a founding member and bassist for the American grunge rock supergroup Mad Season as well as a member of The Walkabouts.
Jean-Damascène Sallusti.  Jean-Damascène Sallusti (An Deyi) (d. 1781) was an Italian missionary to China as well as a court painter under Emperor Qianlong.A member of the Augustinian order and later a Jesuit Sallusti was (somewhat controversially) appointed Bishop of Beijing in 1778 a position he held until his death in 1781.
Signy Fardal.  Signy Fardal (born 29 August 1961) is a Norwegian magazine editor.Since 1998 she is the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian version of Elle. She graduated from the University of Oslo in 1984 worked as a journalist for Dagbladet from 1984 to 1986 and for Dagens Næringsliv from 1986 to 1998. She also manages the company that publishes Elle in Norway.
Shane (pornographic actress).  Shane (born December 16 1969 in Simi Valley California) is the stage name of Shannon Hewitt an American pornographic actress and director known for creating the Shane's World series of adult videos after having debuted in the Seymore Butts video series.Shane is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. In June 2007 Shane came out of retirement to shoot a video called Shane and Friends for Odyssey Video.She is married to Bobby Fernandez-Hewitt of the band Orgy.
Alice Tan Ridley.  Alice Tan Ridley (born December 21 1952) is a gospel and R&B singer and the mother of actress Gabourey Sidibe. She auditioned on the NBC series America's Got Talent. Prior to joining America's Got Talent Alice also appeared in the television show 30 Seconds To Fame winning $25000 in the pilot episode.
Dennis To.  Dennis To Yu-hang (born 1 January 1981) is a Hong Kong martial artist and actor. He started his career as a wushu practitioner and won several awards at various competitions including a silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games and a gold medal at the 2005 East Asian Games. To became an actor in 2007 and started off by playing minor roles in Ip Man (2008) Bodyguards and Assassins (2009) and Ip Man 2 (2010).
Shady Nate.  Nathaniel Findley better known by his stage name Shady Nate is an American rapper from Oakland. He is CEO and Founder of Shady Nation. He is also member of the groups Da Heavy Hitterz (Jay Jonah) The Go Boyz aka Pot of Gold (Dotrix 4000 J. Stalin & Kaz Kyzah) Livewire (J. Stalin Lil Blood The Mekanix Philthy Rich & Stevie Joe) & Livewire Da Gang (J. Stalin & Jay Jonah).
Ping He (fashion designer).  Ping He (fashion designer) is an award winning leading international fashion designer living in London and the founder of the international luxury designer womenswear label PINGHE. Ping’s creativity and vision were honed in through her work for fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen and previous appearances at London Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week came when Ping was charged with designing Aftershock’s couture collection ‘Aftershock Gold’.
Ronika.  Ronika (born Veronica Sampson) is an English singer-songwriter and DJ. Born in Nottingham she writes sings and produces her own music. Although relatively new to the music scene Ronika has gained a lot of attention for her electro and disco-inspired music particularly from music website Popjustice where two of her tracks were featured as Song of the Day in May 2011.
Alice Anderson.  Alice Anderson (London 1976) is a French-British sculptor and filmmaker. She works primarily with copper wire.
Perch Proshyan.  Pertch Proshian (Armenian: Պերճ Պռոշյան Hovhannes Ter-Arakelian June 15 [O.S. June 3] 1837 Ashtarak – 23 November 1907 Baku) was an Armenian writer.
Irena Jordanova.  Irena Jordanova (born September 8 1980) is a Macedonian writer. She graduated from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje the Department of World and Comparative Literature.
Victor Juhasz.  Victor Juhasz (born 02-19-1954) is an American artistJuhasz is an artist illustrator and children's book illustrator. The artist works in pen and ink as well as pencil colored pencil and watercolor.
Bobby Goldsboro.  Bobby Goldsboro (born January 18 1941) is an American pop and country singer-songwriter. He had a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s including his signature No. 1 hit Honey which sold over one million copies in the United States.
BB Jay.  Jarvis Edward Cooper often abbreviated J.E. Cooper is an American hip hop artist professionally known as BB Jay from Brooklyn NY famously noted for his vocal similarity to late hip-hop legend The Notorious B.I.G.. He is noted for his music to reflect the Christian views and values of his faith and belief in the divinity of Jesus.
Gerald Petievich.  Gerald Petievich is an American crime writer. He was a United States Secret Service Special Agent from 1970 to 1985.The following films were made of his novels: To Live and Die in L.A. The Sentinel and Boiling Point. Petievich also co-wrote the screenplays for those films. He lived in San Gabriel California.
Salome MC.  Salome Mc (Persian: سالومه born 1985) is a female rap artist from Iran. She is known for being Iran's first female rapper and today is one of very few. Even though the topics expressed in her lyrics are a mixture of politics social issues and personal matters she defines herself as apolitical and her poetry being about whatever occupies her mind.
Giuseppe Bonati.  Giuseppe Bonati (1635 – March 12 1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Rome and Ferrara.He is also known as Giovannino del Pio or Giovanni Bonatti. He initially trained as a pupil of Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo and Leonello Bononi. Under the patronage of cardinal Carlo Pio in 1658 he was sent to Bologna to train with Guercino. In 1662 he travels to Rome to work in the studio of Pier Francesco Mola. Bonati attempts to establish a studio to rival Carlo Maratta.
Gene Cotton.  Gene Cotton (born June 30 1944 in Columbus Ohio) is a pop and folk singer-songwriter. He is best known for his four Billboard Top 40 entries during the years 1976–1978.
U-Jean.  U-Jean is a German-American pop R&B and hip-hop artist. He is most known for featuring on the songs Turn This Club Around and Animal by German dance band R.I.O.. His debut single Heaven Is a Place on Earth a cover of the Belinda Carlisle song was released on 17 June 2011. The song features vocals from Carlprit.
Dick Warner.  Dick Warner is an Irish environmentalist writer and broadcaster.
Maurice Constantin-Weyer.  Maurice Constantin-Weyer (April 24 1881 Bourbonne-les-Bains Haute-Marne – October 22 1964 Vichy Allier) was a French writer. His best known novel is Un homme se penche sur son passé Prix Goncourt 1928 (tr.: A Man Scans His Past 1929).
Juan Carlos del Valle.  Juan Carlos del Valle (born 1975 in Mexico City) is a painter of realist poetics known for his expressive use of light evoking subtle meanings from a single reality. To reveal the duality of human conduct Juan Carlos del Valle has developed a visual language based on pictorially altering icons from contemporary myths such as processed food toys and fantastic narratives.
Reid Anderson.  Reid Anderson (born 15 October 1970) is a bassist and composer originally from Minnesota. Anderson is best known for his work in The Bad Plus with pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King.
Pelle Seth.  Per Gustaf (Pelle) Seth (born 5 June 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish film director cinematographer and screenwriter.
Louis Jordan.  Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8 1908 – February 4 1975) was a pioneering American musician songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as The King of the Jukebox he was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him no.
Charlie Harper (singer).  Charlie Harper (born David Charles Perez 25th May 1944 Hackney East London England) is a singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer from the punk band U.K. Subs.
Joy Berry.  Joy Wilt Berry (born April 15 1944) is an American writer and Child Development specialist.She has written over 250 self-help books for kids that have sold over 85 million copies and is known in the juvenile publishing and media industries as the “Inventor of Self-Help Books for Kids.”According to Joy “I began writing self-help books for kids in order to fill a void in both educational institutions as well as the marketplace.
Lili Haydn.  Lili Haydn (born in Toronto Canada) is a violinist vocalist composer guitarist and actress. As a child she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Haydn was fifteen she had played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.After graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in Political Science Haydn started composing original songs and became one of the most requested session violinists around Los Angeles.
Teddy Thompson.  Teddy Thompson (born 19 February 1976) is a British folk and rock musician. He is the son of folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson and brother of singer Kamila Thompson. He released his first album in 2000.
Pavel Annenkov.  Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov (Russian: Па́вел Васи́льевич А́нненков) (July 1 1813 – March 20 1887)- He was a significant Russian literary critic and memoirist.
Alexandra Bracken.  Alexandra Bracken (born February 27 1987) is a New York Times bestselling American author. Her debut novel Brightly Woven was published by EgmontUSA in 2010.
Mafizuddin Ahmed Hazarika.  Mafizuddin Ahmed Hazarika (Assamese: মফিজুদ্দিন আহমদ হাজৰিকা; 1870-1958) was a prominent poet belonged to the Jonaki era of Assamese Literature. He was popularly known as 'Jnan Malinir Kobi' (জ্ঞান মালিনীৰ কবি) among the people of Assam. He was elected as the president of the 12th Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1930 held at Golaghat district Assam. He was one of the organizers of Dibrugarh Sahitya Sabha and served as its secretary from 1904 to 1934.
John Uzzell Edwards.  John Uzzell-Edwards was a Welsh painter. He is also the father of artist Charles Uzzell Edwards.
Suki Sivam.  Suki (suhi / sugi) Sivam (Tamil: சுகி சிவம்) is a popular scholar in Tamil. His motivational religious and philosophical speeches are famous among Tamil Hindus. He hosts a TV show Indha naal iniya naal on Sun TV.
Constance Lloyd.  Constance Wilde (2 January 1859 – 7 April 1898) born Constance Mary Lloyd was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons Cyril and Vyvyan. The daughter of Horace Lloyd an Irish barrister and Adelaide Atkinson Lloyd she married Wilde on 29 May 1884 and had both her sons within the next two years. In 1888 she published a book based on children's stories she had heard from her grandmother called There Was Once.
Big Time Sarah.  Big Time Sarah (born January 31 1953 Coldwater Mississippi) is an American blues singer.
Jamilah Lemieux.  Jamilah Lemieux is an American columnist cultural critic and editor based in New York City. She is a three-time Black Weblog Awards winner and in 2010 she ranked #94 on BlackWeb 2.0's 100 Most Influential Black Women On Twitter.Lemieux was born in Chicago Illinois where she attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School.
Lecatte-Folleville.  Gilles-Jean-Benoît Lecatte known as Folleville (Paris 14 May 1765 - Brussels 9 August 1840) was a French actor mainly active in Brussels.The son of an official in Louis XVI's court he joined the French Navy and left for America. On his return to France he set up home in Nantes where he made his debut then in Rouen Bordeaux and Amsterdam.He was an actor at Liège in 1789 then at the Théâtre de Monsieur in 1790-1791 he arrived in Brussels in 1803.
Vaniity.  Vaniity (born July 26 1973) is an award winning transsexual pornographic film actress model and AVN Hall of Fame inductee.
Lydie Solomon.  Lydie Solomon (Lydie Waï Solomon) is a French pianist and actress born in 1982 to a Franco-Romanian father and a Korean mother. She speaks fluent French Korean English and Spanish and has a working knowledge of German and Italian.
Rebecca Ferguson.  Rebecca Caroline Ferguson (born 21 July 1986) is a British singer-songwriter. She came to prominence in 2010 when she became the runner-up of the seventh series of The X Factor losing to the winner that year Matt Cardle. She subsequently signed a joint record deal with Syco Music and Epic Records in the UK.
Amy Denio.  Amy Denio (born June 9 1961) is a Seattle (USA)-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance film and theater as well as a songwriter and music improviser. Often called an unclassifiable avant-garde jazz musician she is also deeply inspired by world music. She is probably best known as a vocalist accordionist and saxophone-player.
Cyril Berry.  Cyril J J Berry (1918 – 4 November 2002) widely cited as CJJ Berry is best known as the author of the popular book First Steps in Winemaking which has sold more than three million copies worldwide. Throughout the first half of the 20th century homebrewing in Britain was limited by taxation prohibition and scarcity of ingredients during wartime.
Noy Alooshe.  Noy Alooshe (Hebrew: נוי אלוש‎; born 13 August 1979) is an Israeli journalist and musician of Tunisian Jewish descent best known outside Israel for his Zenga Zenga spoof song on Muammar Gaddafi.
Kenneth Chiacchia.  Kenneth Chiacchia (b. December 29 1961 in Hackensack NJ) is an American writer in the Fantasy and Science Fiction genre.
Anna Ballbona i Puig.  Anna Ballbona i Puig (Montmeló 1980) is a Catalan journalist writer and literary critic. She usually collaborates on media such as El PuntAvui El 9 Nou El 9 Esportiu i Núvol. She studied Journalism Literary theory and Comparative literature. In 2008 she was awarded the Premi Amadeu Oller for her first book of poems La mare que et renyava era un robot.
Al Cohn.  Al Cohn (November 24 1925 – February 15 1988) was an American jazz saxophonist arranger and composer. He came to prominence in the band of clarinetist Woody Herman and was known for his longtime musical partnership with fellow saxophonist Zoot Sims.
Adolphe Appian.  Adolphe Appian (born as Jacques Barthelemy Adolphe Appian on 28 August 1819 in Lyon France died on 29 April 1898 in Lyon) was a French landscape painter and etcher.
Johnny Green.  Johnny Green (10 October 1908 – 15 May 1989) was an American songwriter composer musical arranger and conductor. He was given the nickname Beulah by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest Body and Soul. Green was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
Ursula Krechel.  Ursula Krechel (born 4 December 1947) is a German writer.Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies theatre and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972 she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972 she lived in Frankfurt am Main for many years and now works in Berlin as a writer focusing on Lyric poetry but also writing prose drama and radio drama.
Dee Edwards (singer).  Doris Jean Harrell (June 19 1945 – January 25 2006) who recorded professionally under the name Dee Edwards was an American singer.
Stefan Hechenberger.  Stefan Hechenberger is an Austrian artist and programmer. His works include interactive software computer vision projects and open source hardware.Hechenberger has worked with Zach Lieberman in creating the OpenCV library for openFrameworks an open source C++ library for creative coding and graphics. (openFrameworks website).
Giovanni Baglione.  Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and his important collection of biographies of the other artists working in Rome in his lifetime although there are many works of his in Roman churches and galleries and elsewhere.
Wally Besser.  Wally Besser (born January 16 1936) is a trumpet and flugelhorn player with a large career playing with best orchestras as the Glenn Miller Orchestra the Sammy Kaye Orchestra or Larry Elgart. He spent twenty years with Fotis Gonis Express doing the top Greek work in New York and around the country as well as Canada and Venezuela.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson.  Melissa Holbrook Pierson (born (1957-12-14) December 14 1957) is a writer and essayist of non-fiction.Pierson was born in Akron Ohio. She is a lifelong motorcycle enthusiast and this is reflected in many of her books. Her works are often explorations of personal experience extended into general social commentary and history.When asked in an interview Do you consider yourself a travel writer a kind of “place writer” a nature writer or— Pierson answered All of those things.
Steve Kamb.  Steve Kamb (born in Sandwich Massachusetts) is a self-employed personal trainer fitness instructor blogger and e-book author best known for promoting the paleolithic diet at the website NerdFitness.com.
Tora Teje.  Tora Teje (17 January 1893 – 30 April 1970) was a Swedish theatre and silent film actress. She appeared in ten films between 1920 and 1939.
Roberto Dutesco.  Roberto Dutesco (born June 6 1961) is a Romanian-born Canadian artist photographer and filmmaker. He travels and works worldwide and resides in his three homes in Montreal New York City and São Paulo Brazil.Dutesco began his career as a fashion photographer in Montreal Canada. In 1994 he shifted the focus of his work to long-term personal projects that explore his environmental interests and natural subject matter.
Idan Raichel.  Idan Raichel (Hebrew: עידן רייכל‎ IPA: [ʔiˈdan ˈʁaiχel]; b. September 12 1977) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and a musician known for his Idan Raichel Project (Hebrew: הפרוייקט של עידן רייכל) distinctive for its fusion of electronics traditional Hebrew texts Arab and Ethiopian music. Prior to the Project Raichel was a keyboardist collaborating with artists such as Ivri Lider.
Tadeusz Żmudziński.  Tadeusz Żmudziński (9 July 1924 in Chorzów - 17 October 1992 in Katowice) was a Polish pianist and educator. In 1946 Żmudziński graduated with highest honours from the University of Music in Katowice where he studied under Prof. Władysława Markiewiczówna. The following year he took lessons from Imre Ungar Walter Gieseking and Alfred Cortot.
Noémie Lvovsky.  Noémie Lvovsky (born 14 December 1964) is a French film director writer and actress.
Jacek Sawaszkiewicz.  Jacek Sawaszkiewicz (September 10 1947 - June 11 1999) was a Polish science fiction writer satirist also a contributor to satirical magazine Karuzela and Polish radio broadcast Polskie Radio Szczecin.He made his debut with a story Sanatorium (Karuzela 1972). His book debut was Czekając (1978). Most known for his social science fiction Kronika Akaszy series.
Marcela Donoso.  Marcela Donoso is an important painter in the Latin American current of Magic Realism where Jose Donoso and Isabel Allende belong in literature or Fernando Botero in sculpture.She also demonstrated her creativity in other visual arts like books illustrations or films as Production Designer.
Apirana Taylor.  Apirana Taylor (born 15 March 1955) is a New Zealand poet novelist performer story-teller musician and painter.
Troy Johnson.  Troy Johnson is an American gospel and soul singer. He got his first break with a track on the Blame it on Rio soundtrack in 1984 and signed to Motown Records where he released his first album. He scored a hit in 1986 with It's You which peaked at number 65 on Billboard′s Hot R&B Singles chart. After a religious conversion Johnson began recording gospel music.
Amaury Vassili.  Amaury Vassili (born 8 June 1989 in Rouen Upper Normandy) is a French opera singer and professional tenor. His debut album Vincerò from 2009 went double platinum in France and he has had international success with releases in Canada South Africa and South Korea.
Chico Freeman.  Chico Freeman (born Earl Lavon Freeman Jr.; July 17 1949) is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman. He began recording as lead musician in 1976 with Morning Prayer won the New York Jazz Award in 1979 and earned the Stereo Review Record of the Year in 1981 for his album The Outside Within.
Hugh Masekela.  Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (born 4 April 1939) is a South African trumpeter flugelhornist cornetist composer and singer. He is the father of American television host Sal Masekela.
Christopher Dow (author).  Christopher Dow (born June 17 1950) is an American writer. He is the author of three volumes of poetry four novels a collection of essays and a theoretical book on the martial art of t'ai chi ch'uan. A practitioner of t'ai chi for more than 30 years Dow has written articles on these subjects that have appeared in Tai Chi Magazine Inside Kung Fu and Yoga Journal.
Chip Douglas.  This article is about an actual person. For the television character see My Three Sons and for the film character see The Cable Guy.Douglas Farthing Hatlelid (born August 27 1942) better known as Chip Douglas is a songwriter musician (bass guitar and keyboards) and record producer whose most famous work was during the 1960s. He was the producer of some of the Monkees biggest hits including Daydream Believer and Pleasant Valley Sunday.
Napoleone Nani.  Napoleone Nani (Venice 1841- Verona 1899) was an Italian painter active in Venice where he became professor of the Accademia di Belle Arti.
D.V.S*.  Derek VanScoten better known by his stage name D.V.S* is an American electronic producer based in Brooklyn New York. His tracks have been included on compilation albums such as Emancipator Remixes. In April 2012 he was a featured guitarist and co-producer on Michal Menert's album Even If It Isn't Right via the Pretty Lights Music Label. VanScoten self-released a 30 song solo LP Coming Up for Air in 2011.
William Congreve.  William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet.
Max Tundra.  Ben Jacobs more commonly known by the stage name Max Tundra is an English multi-instrumental musician singer and music producer. His work is predominantly electronic music but incorporates non-electronic styles and instruments. Other than his full length albums he has also done remix work for bands of varying genres including Franz Ferdinand Architecture in Helsinki Kid606 and the Pet Shop Boys.
Theresa Andersson.  Theresa Andersson (born 1972 Gotland Sweden) is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Jean-Pierre Faye.  Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.
Mitchy Slick.  Mitchy Slick is an American rapper from San Diego California. He is a member of the group Strong Arm Steady along with rappers Phil Da Agony and Krondon. He performs solo with three albums released in addition to many collaborations. Mitchy Slick is the CEO of Wrongkind Records and is currently signed to Hoo-Bangin' Records.
Anne Baker.  Anne Baker (née Salmond) (born 1914) is a British writer of historical biographies.
Ken Parker (musician).  Ken Parker (born c.1948 Darliston Westmoreland Parish Jamaica) is a Jamaican musician who first recorded in the 1960s.
Walter Herries Pollock.  Walter Herries Pollock (21 February 1850 – 21 February 1926) was an English writer poet lecturer and journalist. He is best known as editor of the Saturday Review a position he held from 1884 to 1894 but also had published various miscellaneous writings that included novels short stories plays poetry and translated works between 1877 and 1920.
Richard Bach.  Richard David Bach (born June 23 1937) is a American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah among others. Bach's books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. Bach is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context.
Stefan Weinerhall.  Stefan Weinerhall born 1976 in Mjölby Sweden is a heavy metal guitarist presently playing with Falconer the band he started in 1999.Stefan played in the Viking metal band Mithotyn from their formation until their eventual split in 1999. He and his Mithotyn band mate Karl Beckman also made two albums with the black/thrash metal band Indungeon.
Ad Reinhardt.  Adolph Frederick Reinhardt (Ad Reinhardt) (December 24 1913 – August 30 1967) was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. He was also a founding member of the Artist's Club.
Hinemoana Baker.  Hinemoana Baker is a writer musician producer editor and teacher of creative writing. Her first book of poetry Matuhi Needle was published in New Zealand and the United States in 2004 and her new collection was released in July 2010. In the same year she was an International Writing Program fellow at the University of Iowa. She has produced two albums of original music – one solo and one with her duo Taniwha.
Dave Mustaine.  David Scott Dave Mustaine (born September 13 1961) is an American musician best known as the founding guitarist-vocalist of the American thrash metal band Megadeth and as the original lead guitarist for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Mustaine is considered to be one of the most influential heavy metal guitarists of all time.
Stavros Konstantinou.  Stavros Konstantinou (Σταύρος Κωνσταντίνου) (born August 26 1984 in Nicosia Cyprus) is a Greek Cypriot singer who rose to popularity after winning Super Idol the Greek version of Pop Idol shown by MEGA TV in 2004 in its only season under that name. The program was reintroduced as Greek Idol in 2010.
Sam Rizzetta.  Sam Rizzetta (born May 23 1942) is a hammered dulcimer player builder and designer originally from Chicago and now living in Inwood West Virginia.Rizzetta discovered the hammered dulcimer while working in the repair of guitars and illustrated books in the 1960s to put himself through graduate school. His first exposure to the instrument was hearing the traditional player Chet Parker. Sam and his wife Carrie moved east around 1968 and he took a job with the Smithsonian Institution.
Mike Morgan (actor).  Mike Morgan (1928 – 5 June 1958) born John Michael Pughe-Morgan was a British actor. His film acting debut was in the 1957 film comedy Barnacle Bill which starred Sir Alec Guinness.Morgan played a much larger role in another film with Guinness The Horse's Mouth as Nosey a sidekick of Guinness' character Gulley Jimson. However shortly before filming ended he fell ill with meningitis and died before the film was completed; some of his lines were therefore dubbed by another actor.
Nason Schoeffler.  Nason “Nasty” Schoeffler is an American musician. He is the former bassist of Falling in Reverse.
Sugizo.  Yasuhiro Sugihara (杉原 康弘 Sugihara Yasuhiro) born Yūne Sugihara (杉原 有音 Sugihara Yūne on July 8 1969 in Hadano Kanagawa Japan) is a Japanese musician singer-songwriter and record producer. Known exclusively by his stage name Sugizo he is best known as lead guitarist and violinist of the rock band Luna Sea. He started his solo career in 1997 and has since collaborated with many artists.
Efrat Ungar.  Efrat Ungar (October 10 1971 – June 9 1996) was an Israeli illustrator and writer of children's literature. Unger and her husband were killed in a shooting attack by Palestinians on June 9 1996.
Cheryl St.John.  Cheryl St.John is a best-selling author of romance fiction located in Omaha Nebraska.
Keyshia Cole.  Keyshia Cole Gibson (born October 15 1982) known by her stage name Keyshia Cole is an American singer-songwriter record producer and television personality. She was born in Oakland California and her career began when she met MC Hammer at the age of twelve and later met rapper Tupac Shakur. At the age of eighteen she moved to Los Angeles and was later introduced to A&M Records.
Emil Gorovets.  Rahmil Emil Yacovlevich Gorovets (in Russian Рахмиль Яковлевич Горовец) (born in Haisyn Ukraine 10 June 1923 - died in New York on 17 August 2001) was a famous Soviet Ukrainian singer of Jewish origin Gorovets standing for Horovitz in Russian. Gorovets' voice in between a tenor and baritone was bright and had lush tonal coloration and emotional interpretations. Besides his hits in Russian Ukrainian and Yiddish he was also known to sing European and American famous hits in Russian.
Marc Edwards (drummer).  Marc Edwards is a free jazz drummer who has played and recorded with artists such as Cecil Taylor Charles Gayle and David S. Ware. His influences include Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich. He is currently playing with a project with Weasel Walter and with his own group Marc Edwards Slipstream Time Travel an afrofuturistic free jazz ensemble. Many of his solo works have a science fiction theme.
Dave Navarro.  David Michael Dave Navarro (born June 7 1967) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction with whom he has recorded four studio albums and as a former member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Willard Hill.  Willard Hill (born June 8 1982 in Atlanta GA) is an American rapper singer-songwriter and producer from New Orleans LA. Hill got his start in song writing and producing working with Wyclef Jean and Jerry Wonda after moving to New York City in 2008. In October 2011 he released the largely self-produced album Gemini Mood Swings. which featured the single Future Fresh that caught the attention of New Orleans radio host Wild Wayne and subsequently found its way to the airwaves.
N. G. Chandavarkar.  Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar (Konkani: नारायण गणेश चन्दावरकर)(December 2 1855 - May 14 1923) was an early Indian National Congress politician and Hindu reformer. He was regarded by some as the leading Hindu reformer of western India
Xiang-Dong Kong.  Xiang-Dong Kong (born 1968 Shanghai) is a Chinese pianist. He was one of the young musicians featured in From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China.Kong was Gold Medalist at the 1988 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. In 1992 he won the Sydney International Piano Competition.
Chiara Siracusa.  Chiara Siracusa better known by her mononym Chiara (born 25 September 1976) is a Maltese singer. She represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 2005 and 2009.
Michael Shellenberger.  Michael Shellenberger is an American author environmental policy expert and the president of Breakthrough Institute. He was named a Time magazine Heroes of the Environment (2008) winner of the 2008 Green Book Award co-editor of Love Your Monsters (2011) and co-author of Break Through (Houghton Mifflin 2007) and The Death of Environmentalism (2004). He and his co-author Ted Nordhaus have been described as ecological modernists and eco-pragmatists.
Daniel Fichelscher.  Daniel Danny Secundus Fichelscher (born 7 March 1953 in Berlin) is a German multi-instrumentalist who played a pivotal role in Krautrock band Popol Vuh was a member of German group Gila and is currently Amon Düül II's drummer. Fichelscher is the son of jazz pianist and singer Toby Fichelscher.
Sutter Kain.  Robert Evans better known by his stage names DJ Bless and Sutter Kain is an American rapper and producer from Queens New York. His productions range from traditional East Coast hip hop to ghetto metal a style that samples metalcore. The name Sutter Kain is based on the character Sutter Cane from the 1995 horror film In the Mouth of Madness. He is the founder and owner of Never So Deep Records.
Robie Macauley.  Robie Mayhew Macauley (May 31 1919 – November 20 1995) was an editor novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years.
Guy Garvey.  Guy Edward John Garvey (born 6 March 1974 in Bury Lancashire England) is the singer and guitarist in the band Elbow as well as a presenter (Sunday afternoon 2 pm to 4 pm British time) for BBC 6 Music and A&R manager of Skinny Dog Records. He previously presented a show on Sunday evenings on XFM.
Frans Michael Franzén.  Frans Michael Franzén (9 February 1772 – 14 August 1847) was a Swedish and Finnish poet.
Mark Steel.  Mark Steel (born 4 July 1960) is an English socialist columnist author and comedian. A stand-up comedian known for his left-wing beliefs (he was a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party before he resigned in 2007) he has made many appearances on radio and television shows as a guest panellist and has written regular columns in printed media.
Mikhail Alperin.  Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Юхи́мович Альпе́рін born 7 November 1956 in Kamenez Podolsky Ukraine) is a Ukrainian jazz musician (piano) known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio.Alperin was born in Kamenez Podolsky Ukraine and grew up in Moldavia where he was classically trained. In 1980 he formed one of the first Moldavian jazz ensembles.
Roma Baran.  Roma Baran (born 1946 or 1947) is a Canadian record producer best known for her work with Laurie Anderson Rosalie Sorrels Annabelle Chvostek and Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Much of her production work is done as a duo with partner Vivian Stoll.Originally from Montreal Baran has lived in New York City since 1976.
Zade Dirani.  Zade Dirani (Arabic: زيد ديراني born in 1980) is a Jordanian and American pianist and composer whose genre blending songs are inspired by Arabic Latin pop and classical music.He has performed before thousands around the world including Queen Elizabeth Dalai Lama Nelson Mandela amongst others.
Henriette Sontag.  Henriette Countess Rossi (3 January 1806 – 17 June 1854) was a German operatic soprano of great international renown. She possessed a sweet-toned lyrical voice and was a brilliant exponent of florid singing.
Ryōko Ono.  Ryōko Ono (小野 涼子 Ono Ryōko born June 22 1977) is a Japanese voice actress from Yokohama Japan. She also known as Nazuna Gogyō (五行 なずな Gogyō Nazuna).
Sergio Denis.  Héctor Omar Hoffmann better known as Sergio Denis (born in San José Colony N° 2 Coronel Suárez Buenos Aires Province 16 March 1949) is an Argentine singer-songwriter and occasional actor.
Vladimir Dudintsev.  Vladimir Dimitrievich Dudintsev (Russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Дуди́нцев Ukrainian: Володимир Дмитрович Дудинцев; July 29 1918 - July 23 1998) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer who gained fame for his 1956 novel Not by Bread Alone published at the time of the Khruschev Thaw.Dudintsev the son of a member of the gentry attended law school in Moscow and fought during the second world war.
Kris Cook.  Kris Cook is an American author of erotic romance.
Randolph Caldecott.  Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognised by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century.
Stephen Bradbury (artist).  Stephen Bradbury (born 1954 in Ardwick Manchester) is a British artist and illustrator illustrating science fiction and fantasy novels for over 20 years.
Taki Tsan.  Panagiotis Stravalexis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Στραβαλέξης) (born 28 September 1979) better known by his stage names Tymvorychos Paidi Thavma and Taki Tsan is a Greek music producer tattoo artist and rapper.
Max Dauthendey.  Max Dauthendey (July 25 1867 – August 29 1918) was a German author and painter of the impressionistic period. He was born in Würzburg and died in Malang.Together with Richard Dehmel and Eduard von Keyserling he is regarded as one of the most influential authors of that period.
Tamara de Lempicka.  Tamara Łempicka commonly known as Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980) born Maria Górska in Warsaw Congress Poland then part of the Russian Empire was a Polish Art Deco painter and the first woman artist to be a glamour star.
Marie-Pierre Arthur.  Marie-Pierre Arthur is the stage name of Marie-Pierre Fournier a Canadian pop singer-songwriter from Quebec. Originally from Grande-Vallée she is currently based in Montreal.Formerly a backing musician and vocalist for artists such as Karkwa Galaxie Ariane Moffatt Stefie Shock Nanette Workman and Édith Butler she released her self-titled debut album as a solo artist in 2009.
Joseph Caillot.  Joseph Caillot (Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois Paris 24 January 1733 – Paris 30 September 1816) was a French actor and singer
Károly Markó the Younger.  Károly Markó also known as Carlo Markò or Markò the Younger (Pest Hungary January 22 1822 - Moscow Russia 1891) was a Hungarian-Italian painter mainly of landscapes.Carlo's father Károly Markò the Elder (1791-1860) was born in Budapest and died in Moscow. At the age of 16 years Carlo the younger moves to Italy settling in Florence along with his brother Andrea Markò where he studied and resided. Among his works are depictions of the Valle di Quesa near the countryside by Pisa.
Marjorie Hughes.  Marjorie Hughes (born Marjorie Carle December 15 1925 in Springfield MA) was a singer in the Frankie Carle Orchestra. She was also Frankie Carle's daughter. After singers Betty Bonney (aka Judy Johnson) and Phyllis Lynne had come and gone Carle was auditioning new female singers - some in person and some by means of demo records. Carle's wife sneaked in a demo of Carle's daughter recorded from a radio program. She was singing with the Paul Martin band in her first singing job.
Alannah Myles.  Alannah Myles (born December 25 1958 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of Canadian broadcast pioneer William Douglas Byles (1914-1988) who was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame in 1997. When she decided to pursue a career in entertainment at the age of 19 she changed her last name to Myles.
Kate Hoffmann.  Peggy Hoffmann is an American writer of over 70 romance novels since 1993 as Kate Hoffmann. She has written for both the Temptation and Blaze lines for Harlequin Books. She lives in southeastern Wisconsin.
Winfried Zillig.  Winfried Zillig (1 April 1905 – 18 December 1963) was a German composer music theorist and conductor.Zillig was born in Würzburg. After leaving school Zillig studied law and music. One of his teachers there was Hermann Zilcher. In Vienna he was a private pupil of Arnold Schönberg later following him to Berlin. His first compositions date from this time.In 1927 he became the assistant of Erich Kleiber at the Berlin State Opera. A short time later he became repetiteur to the Oldenburg Opera.
Sara Bareilles.  Sara Beth Bareilles (/bəˈrɛlɪs/; born December 7 1979) is an American musician singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single Love Song which reached number one on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Bareilles has sold over one million records and over four million singles in the United States alone and has been nominated for a Grammy Award five times.
Andrej Trobentar.  Andrej Trobentar (born 22 November 1951) is a Slovene painter illustrator and musician. Trobentar was born in Sveti Jurij near Grosuplje in central Slovenia in 1951. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1976 and specialized in painting under Jože Ciuha. He works as a painter art teacher and illustrator.
Keith Semple (musician).  Keith Semple is a Northern Irish singer and musician (born September 20 1981 in Larne Northern Ireland). He originally had his own band Keith Semple Band. In 2002 he took part and was a winner in Popstars: The Rivals consequently becoming a member of the boyband One True Voice (OTV). After the split up of the band he had a solo career before joining the American Chicago-based rock band 7th Heaven in 2006 as their lead singer.
Marie Rouanet.  Marie Rouanet (Maria Roanet) (born 1936 in Béziers Hérault) is an Occitan singer and writer.Her father was a mechanic and she studied to be a school teacher. Since she was very interested in the history and the ethnography of her region she started to write poems and songs in Occitan and was a member of the so-called Nova Chançon (New Song) along with Patric Joan-Pau Verdier or Rosina de Pèira .
Denis Leary.  Denis Colin Leary (born August 18 1957) is an American actor comedian writer director and film producer. He is known for his biting and fast-paced comedic style. He was the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me which ended its seventh and final season on September 7 2011. He has starred in many motion pictures most recently as Captain George Stacy in Marc Webb's 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man and the voice of Diego in the animated Ice Age series.
Victor Kim.  Victor Kim (also known as Victor King) is an American-born Korean dancer singer musician artist and actor.
Isaac Hasson.  Isaac Hasson is a professional musician songwriter and record producer who is active in Los Angeles.
Dennis Miller.  Dennis Miller (born November 3 1953) is an American stand-up comedian talk show host political commentator sports commentator actor television personality and radio personality. He is known for his critical assessments laced with pop culture references. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985 and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO CNBC and in syndication.
Ernest Franklin Bozman.  Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968) is a British author and the editor of two editions of Everyman's Encyclopaedia.
John Rogers Cox.  John Rogers Cox (24 March 1915 – 30 January 1990) was an American painter from Terre Haute Indiana. His style and subject matter align him with the Regionalist (American scene painting) and Magic Realist landscape tradition.
Nenad Radulović.  Nenad Radulović (September 13 1959 in Belgrade – February 12 1990 in Belgrade) also known as Neša Leptir (Neša Butterfly) was a former Yugoslav rock musician best known as the frontman of the pop rock band Poslednja Igra Leptira.
Nabiha.  Nabiha Bensouda is a Danish singer-songwriter who has gained attention after releasing three albums including a re-issue and enjoying a number of successful singles on Tracklisten the official Danish Singles chart as well as on the official Airplay chart.
Syd Nicholls.  Sydney 'Syd' Wentworth Nicholls (20 December 1896 – 3 June 1977) was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist best known for the long-running comic strip Fatty Finn.
Dave Clarke (techno DJ).  Dave Clarke (born 19 September 1968) is an English techno DJ producer and radio presenter. BBC radio presenter John Peel named Clarke The Baron of Techno.
Adriano Celentano.  Adriano Celentano (Italian pronunciation: [adriˈano tʃelenˈtano]; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer songwriter comedian actor film director and TV host. He is the best-selling male Italian singer.
Thomas P. Whitney.  Thomas Porter Whitney (January 26 1917 – December 2 2007 in Manhattan New York) was an American diplomat author translator philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.Born in Toledo Ohio Whitney graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. degree and went on graduate from Columbia University in 1940 with a Masters degree in Russian history.
Racci Shay.  Racci Shay (born Racci Shay Hart in LaGrange Georgia) is an American rock drummer. He is most famous for his involvement with the Genitorturers Dope Wednesday 13 and most recently the touring drummer for Murderdolls. He has been featured in the Vic Firth Artist Spotlight featuring an interview taken with him at a live show with Wednesday 13 in NYC.
Bud Cockrell.  Bud Cockrell was a bassist and vocalist for the California rock and roll band Pablo Cruise. Cockrell was in the band at its inception in 1973 but left in 1977 before its most successful album Worlds Away. He was replaced by former Santana bassist Bruce Day.Cockrell previously had a brief stint with the band It's a Beautiful Day with David LaFlamme and Pattie Santos. Featured guests included Airto Moreira Flora Purim (Return To Forever) and Jaco Pastorius.
Joan Sebastian.  José Manuel Figueroa Sr. better known as Joan Sebastian (pronounced: [xoˈan seβaˈstjan]) (born in Juliantla Guerrero on April 8 1951) is a popular Mexican multi Grammy award winning singer and songwriter. He has composed hundreds of songs and been a regular staple on the top-40 charts in Mexico since his career began in 1977. His music is a mixture of Latin pop ranchera and grupera music.
DJ Collage.  Lawrence Chatman better known as DJ Collage or Mista Chatman is a reggae vocalist and electronic music producer. Raised in Chicago he moved to the Bay Area in the early 1990s and now calls Seattle home. His style of music is referred to as reggae fusion.
Angela Grant.  Angela Grant (born 1950) is a British actress best known for her appearances in Carry On Up the Khyber and Carry On Girls. Before she started acting she was a teenage fashion model for the Lucie Clayton agency she now does public speaking and work for charity. She lives in Knightsbridge London.
Robert Hurst (musician).  Robert Hurst (born October 4 1964) is an American jazz bassist.Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He worked with Out of the Blue in 1985 and also did work with musicians such as Tony Williams Mulgrew Miller Harry Connick Jr. Geri Allen Russell Malone and Steve Coleman. From 1986 to 1991 Hurst played in Wynton Marsalis's ensemble and played with Branford Marsalis in the early 1990s. He was also a member of The Tonight Show Band.
W. Kamau Bell.  Walter Kamau Bell (better known as W. Kamau Bell) is an African-American stand-up comic. Prominent within the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene he is best known as the former host of the FXX television series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.
Zameer Rizvi.  Zameer Rizvi (born 5 February 1981) is a Canadian singer/songwriter musician and composer. Rizvi's songs often reference social and political issues resulting from his exposure to political unrest while living in Pakistan Libya and Saudi Arabia. Rizvi's poignant writing style landed him amidst much controversy with songs Mind Over Murder and Tatti that challenge socio-political norms of the Middle East and South Asia.
Chucho Sanoja.  Jesús Chucho Sanoja (September 26 1926 – December 11 1998) was a Venezuelan musician pianist composer music director and arranger.
Albert Butz.  Albert Butz (1849–1905) Swiss born inventor and businessman who immigrated to the United States in the 1850s and founded the Butz Thermo-electric Regulator Company that through a series of re-organizations name changes and mergers became Honeywell Incorporated.
André Launay.  André Joseph Launay is a novelist essayist humourist and dramatist of French descent who writes in English under the pen names André Launay Drew Launay Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He is the author of family dramas psychic thrillers humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US.
E. T. A. Hoffmann.  Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) better known as E.T.A. Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror a jurist composer music critic draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based.
Barry Pain.  Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 September 1864 – 5 May 1928) was an English journalist poet and writer.
Luigj Gurakuqi.  Luigj Gurakuqi (February 19 1879 – March 2 1925) was an Albanian writer and politician. He was an important figure of the Albanian National Awakening and was honoured with the People's Hero of Albania medal.
Illogic.  Jawhar Glass (born January 18 1980) better known by his stage name Illogic is an American indie hip hop artist from Columbus Ohio. He has collaborated with many artists—particularly Blueprint who has produced three of his albums but also Aesop Rock Vast Aire Eyedea Slug and other MCs. His style has been described as having a classically metered flow with deep lyrics and poetic verses.
Yotam Ottolenghi.  Yotam Ottolenghi (born 14 December 1968) is an Israeli-born chef cookery writer and restaurant owner.
Dan Donnelly (singer-songwriter).  Daniel Thomas Donnelly is a singer-songwriter.Growing up in Belfast Donnelly played in a number of local bands finding success in Ireland with Watercress a four piece acoustic folk-rock band for whom he played guitar mandolin percussion and plumbing (a home-made didgeridoo). They released six EPs between 1995 and 1998 when they released their one album Bummer all on their own local label Creeping Herb.
Lorraine Monk.  Lorraine Monk OC O.Ont née Lorraine Althea Constance Spurrell (b. Montreal Quebec Canada) is a Canadian photographer.Her daughter Karyn Monk is a novelist.
Lee Loughridge.  Lee Loughridge is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. He is possibly best known for his work on the various Batman Adventures titles.
Adolph Murie.  Adolph Murie (September 6 1899 – August 16 1974) the first scientist to study wolves in their natural habitat was a naturalist author and wildlife biologist who pioneered field research on wolves bears and other mammals and birds in Arctic and sub-Arctic Alaska. He was also instrumental in protecting wolves from eradication and in preserving the biological integrity of the Denali National Park and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Rossy (musician).  Rossy born Paul Bert Rahasimanana is a singer and songwriter from Madagascar generally considered the most popular Malagasy artist of the 1990s. Beginning his musical career as an accordionist and singer within a traditional hira gasy musical troupe Rossy innovated a fusion of hira gasy instrumentation and vocal style with contemporary rock funk and folk sounds to create a uniquely Malagasy genre of contemporary popular music.
Intars Busulis.  Intars Busulis (born 2 May 1978 in Talsi Latvian SSR USSR) is a Latvian singer represented Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow Russia with the song Probka (traffic jam). It competed in the second semi-final on May 14 but finished last with seven points and failed to win a place in the final.
Sylvia Fraser.  Sylvia Fraser (born 8 March 1935 in Hamilton Ontario) is a Canadian novelist journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario. In her long year career as a journalist she has written hundreds of articles beginning as a feature writer for the Toronto Star Weekly (1957–68) and continuing with articles for many other magazines and newspapers including The Globe and Mail Saturday Night Chatelaine The Walrus and Toronto Life.
Linda Armstrong.  Linda Armstrong is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as the Irish Sister Brigid in The Royal.
Tim Wheeler.  Timothy James Arthur Wheeler (born 4 January 1977) known as Tim Wheeler is a Northern Irish guitarist songwriter and vocalist for the rock band Ash. He formed the band with Mark Hamilton and they were originally called Vietnam. Wheeler can be seen playing a Korina Gibson Flying V in almost all of Ash's music videos. He has written nearly all of their notable pieces such as Oh Yeah Shining Light Kung Fu and Goldfinger.
Madhav Gudi.  Madhav Gudi (Kannada:ಮಾಧವ ಗುಡಿ Devanagari:माधव गुडि) (1941 – 22 April 2011) was a Hindustani classical vocalist specializing in Khayal and light forms.
Taylor Hicks.  Taylor Reuben Hicks (born October 7 1976) is an American singer who won the fifth season of American Idol. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade during which he also released two independent albums. Upon winning Idol he was signed to Arista Records under which his self-titled major label debut was released on December 12 2006.
Roger Marshall.  Roger Marshall is an English television screenwriter. Born during March 1934 in Leicester in the UK he was educated at Cambridge before embarking on a writing career that included The Avengers The Sweeney Public Eye The Gentle Touch The Professionals Travelling Man Lovejoy and London's Burning as well as many other popular television series. He is married with two children: Rodney Marshall a teacher and freelance writer and Christopher.
Linda Chorney.  Linda Chorney is an American singer-songwriter. Originally from Sudbury Massachusetts Chorney made history by being the first independent artist to get nominated for Best Americana Album in 2012 without a manager label or publicist by utilizing the Grammy 365 Social Networking site. She is a 1978 graduate of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and studied at the University of Miami.
Brian Shannon.  Brian Shannon CMT (November 16 1967) is an American author and technical analyst. Shannon published his acclaimed book entitled Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes in 2008 to educate beginning and intermediate day traders on the tools and techniques that have made him one of the best indie traders in the business.
Gerald Jacobs.  Gerald Jacobs is a British author and the literary editor of the Jewish Chronicle. His book Sacred Games an account of a Hungarian Jew Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer who survived Adolf Hitler's death camps was published in 1995.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime.Born in County Durham the eldest of 12 children Browning was educated at home. She wrote poetry from around the age of six and this was compiled by her mother comprising what is now one of the largest collections extant of juvenilia by any English writer.
David Lichens.  David Lichens is an American guitarist singer and songwriter.In 1995 he joined legendary Christian rock band Petra which exposed him to lots of worldwide touring and studio experience.Lichens then moved to Los Angeles. His demos caught the attention of EMI Publishing. He is currently leading the band The Heavy Steadies.Lichens' songs and compositions have been featured in several films and soundtracks. His single Let Go was featured on the movie soundtrack She's the Man.
Richard Sakai.  Richard Sakai (born January 28 1954) is an American producer best known for partnering with James L. Brooks and for his work on The Simpsons. He began his career as a helper for James L. Brooks in 1977. In 1984 Brooks invited Sakai to become a producer in his new film production company Gracie Films. As a film producer he has produced many of James L. Brooks' later films such as Spanglish As Good as It Gets and Jerry Maguire (for which he received an Academy Award nomination).
Ajaz Anwar.  Ajaz Anwar [ Urdu: اعجاز انور ] is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a teacher at National College of Arts Lahore. His watercolour paintings show the grandeur of the old buildings and the cultural life in Lahore.
Doogie White.  Douglas Doogie White (born 7 March 1960) is a Scottish rock vocalist who has sung for La Paz Midnight Blue Rainbow Cornerstone Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Praying Mantis and Rata Blanca. He is currently the vocalist for the Michael Schenker Group his original band La Paz and British metal band Tank.
Master Honoré.  Master Honoré was a Parisian secular artist who produced Gothic-era illuminated manuscripts for the French monarchy particularly Philip the Fair. He is considered sculptural in the design of his figures even capturing the light as it plays on their bodies. His Parisian workshop was on the street known today as rue Boutebrie.Master Honoré lived and worked in Paris for the court of Phillip the Fair from 1288 until 1318.
James Mylne (artist).  James Mylne is a British contemporary artist known for his drawings in ballpoint pen. His technical abilities with this unorthodox art medium have earned Mylne recognition in Europe and the UK where he's considered among the leaders of the genre and reportedly emulated by art students. Mylne's photorealist likenesses of iconic celebrities have garnered the most attention. The artist also creates mixed-media works adding spray paint and magic markers to his ballpoint originals.
John Gross (musician).  John Gross (né John Curtis Gross; born in 30 May 1944 Burbank California) is an American saxophone flute and clarinet player.Gross is known as a musician's musician a mainstay and in 1994 Saxophone Journal called him one of the most meaningful players on the American Jazz scene. Gross is a jazz original an improviser a versatile accompanist and creator of a notational method called Multiphonics for the Saxophone.
Chad Klinger.  Chad Klinger is a Canadian country music artist. Klinger recorded his self-titled debut CD in Nashville in 1998 produced by Dean Sams of Lonestar. Two singles released from the project Who Needs the Moon and Bring It On reached the Top 30 of the RPM Country Tracks chart.
Patrick Hanrahan.  Patrick Hanrahan is an Australian writer who was born in Ballarat Victoria. He lives in Rome Italy in a country house with his wife Mirella. He has two sons Paul Hanrahan a painter and Robert Hanrahan a musician.The Heretic Press created by Tim Anderson published two of Patrick Hanrahan's books online NUNC and TUNC.Hanrahan also wrote My eyes are not blue for the Minerva Press.
Chrispa.  Chryspa (Greek: Χρύσπα born Chrysanthi-Pagona Pitiropoulou on December 7 1982) is a Greek singer. She has released five studio albums.
Martin Deschamps.  Martin Deschamps (born June 23 1970) is a Canadian rock singer from Quebec. He records and performs both as a solo artist and as the lead vocalist for the reunited Offenbach.
Hannah Brand.  Hannah Brand (1754–1821) was an English actress and playwright.She was born in Norwich where she ran a young Ladies Boarding School No. 18 St. Giles's Broad-street with her sister Mary until she turned to the stage.
Sylviane Deferne.  Sylviane Deferne (born in Geneva Switzerland) is a Swiss pianist and musician.
Joe Van Moyland.  Joseph Antony Bernays (born 1983 in York) is an English singer drummer and actor who works under the pseudonyms Joe Van Moyland and Joe Lean. He was frontman in the band Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong and previously drummed for The Pipettes.
Rubén Martinez.  Ruben Martinez (born 1962 Los Angeles) is a journalist author and musician. He is the son of Rubén Martínez a Mexican American who worked as a lithographer and Vilma Angulo a Salvadoran psychologist.
Benjamin Smoke.  Benjamin (born Robert Dickerson) was an American singer-songwriter who fronted the Atlanta Georgia bands Smoke and the Opal Foxx Quartet. He was noted for being a radical gay rock 'n' roll performer. He died on January 29 1999 due to liver failure caused by Hepatitis C at age 39. He performed his final concert in Atlanta Georgia on New Year's Eve 1998.
Khori Dastoor.  Khori Dastoor is an American operatic soprano and actress. A native of Pasadena California as of 2010 she is an Artist in Residence with Opera San Jose. Her voice has been recognized for its formidable silvery upper register and graceful crisp sound.[citation needed]
Martin Blanes.  Martin Blanes (born 1980 in Ourense Spain) is a Galician guitarist ethnomusicologist and composer.
Ane Carmen Roggen.  Ane Carmen Stuve Roggen (born 16 September 1978 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Soprano singer Conductor Arranger and Journalist and is the younger sister of Jazz singer Live Maria Roggen and twin sister of Jazz singer Ida Roggen.
Ellis Miah.  Ellis Miah (born March 21 in New York City New York USA) is an American songwriter record producer composer vocalist and DJ of Bangladeshi and Caribbean descent. He has had over 17 records on various Billboard charts including the Billboard 200 Electronic Album Club Play and Maxi Singles as part of the production teams the Orange Factory and Beat Hustlerz.
Hiromi Iwasaki.  Hiromi Iwasaki (岩崎 宏美 Iwasaki Hiromi born on November 12 1958 in Kōtō Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese female singer debuted in 1975. Her younger sister Yoshimi Iwasaki is also a singer. In 1981 she was awarded the Silver Prize at the Tokyo Music Festival for her song Koimachigusa.Her representative songs are ロマンス Romance (1975) 思秋期 Shisyūki (1977) and 聖母たちのララバイ Madonna tachi no lullaby (1982).
Rick Salutin.  Rick Salutin (born 30 August 1942 in Toronto) is a Canadian novelist playwright journalist and critic and has been writing for more than forty years. Until October 1 2010 he wrote a regular column in the Globe and Mail; on February 11 2011 he began a weekly column in the Toronto Star. He currently teaches a half course on Canadian media and culture in University College (UNI221) at the University of Toronto. He is a contributing editor of This Magazine.
Bai Juyi.  Bai Juyi (772–846) or Bo Juyi was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made as a government official including as governor of three different provinces.
Pierre Michon.  Pierre Michon (born 28 March 1945 Châtelus-le-Marcheix Creuse) is a French writer. His first novel Small lives (1984) is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German Dutch Italian Spanish Greek Portuguese Polish Serbian Czech and English.
Juan Carlos Cáceres.  Juan Carlos Cáceres (born in 1936 Buenos Aires Argentina) is an Argentinian musician.Born in the '30s in Buenos Aires Juan Carlos Cáceres became intimately involved with the existentialist movement that thrived in the city during the years of his youth. Cáceres was an accomplished jazz trombonist by his mid-twenties and though he studied fine arts at the university rather than music he quickly became a fixture in the Buenos Aires jazz community.
Josie Long.  Josie Long (born 17 April 1982) is a British comedian.
Joan London (Australian author).  Joan Elizabeth London (born 24 July 1948 Perth Western Australia) is an Australian author of short stories screenplays and novels.She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She lives in Fremantle Western Australia with her husband Geoff.London is the author of two collections of stories.
Chris Zabriskie.  Chris Zabriskie (born March 10 1982 in Olympia Washington) is an American composer and musician.
Raphaël Millet.  Raphaël Millet is a French writer critic producer and director of cinema and television as well as an organiser and programmer of photographic and cultural events.
Noro Morales.  Norosbaldo Morales (January 4 1912 Puerta de Tierra – January 16 1964 San Juan) was a Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader.
Ashihei Hino.  Ashihei Hino (火野 葦平 Hino Ashihei 1907 January 25 – 1960 January 24) was born in Wakamatsu (now Wakamatsu ward Kitakyūshū) and in 1937 he received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels Fun'nyōtan (糞尿譚 Tales of Excrement and Urine). At that moment he was a soldier for the Japanese army in China. He then got promoted to the information corps and published numerous works about the daily lives of Japanese soldiers.
Yukmouth.  Jerold Dwight Ellis III (born October 18 1974 in Oakland California) better known by his stage name Yukmouth is an American rapper from East Oakland Oakland California. He is the founder of The Regime Smoke-A-Lot Records and Godzilla Entertainment. He is a member of Thug Lordz with C-Bo.
Joyce Cheng.  Joyce Cheng Yan-yee (born 30 May 1987 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) with family root in Taishan (Guangdong) and Shanghai is a Hong Kong singer writer actress and performer. She is the daughter of late Hong Kong comedian Lydia Shum and singer/actor Adam Cheng.
Roza Baglanova.  Roza Tazhibaevna Baglanova (January 1 1922 – February 8 2011) was a Soviet and Kazakh soprano opera and pop music singer who was honored with many awards throughout her career including the People’s Artist of the USSR (1967) and the Order of Lenin. She was also deemed a National Hero of Kazakhstan.
Butch Miles.  Butch Miles (born Charles J. Thorton Jr. on July 4 1944 in Ironton Ohio) is an American jazz drummer. He has played with the Count Basie Orchestra Dave Brubeck Ella Fitzgerald Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra among others.Miles who cites Buddy Rich Gene Krupa and Jo Jones as favorite drummers began playing snare drum at the age of 9 and majored in music at West Virginia State University 1962–1966. After receiving his degree he went on tour with the Iris Bell Trio.
Catherine Lucy Innes.  Catherine Lucy Innes (c.1840–28 April 1900) was a New Zealand writer. She was born in London London England on c.1840.
Bart Shatto.  Bart Shatto is a Broadway theatre actor/singer who has appeared in the Broadway musicals Les Misérables The Civil War and Dracula the Musical as well as the national tour of Cats. He is a veteran member of the rock band The Trans-Siberian Orchestra.Shatto is from Peoria Illinois but lived in Bradford Illinois during grade school. After his family moved back to Peoria he attended Bergan High School (now part of Peoria Notre Dame High School). He resides in Jersey City New Jersey.
Jean Clouet.  Jean (or Janet) Clouet (1480–1541) was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance. He was the father of François Clouet.
Wilbur Smith.  Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a best-selling novelist. His writings include 16th and 17th century tales about the founding of the southern territories of Africa and the subsequent adventures and international intrigues relevant to these settlements. His books often fall into one of three series.
Meco.  Meco (real name Domenico Monardo; born November 29 1939) is an American record producer and musician as well as the name of a band or production team based around him. Meco is best known for his 1977 space disco version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; both the single and album were certified platinum in the U.S.
Glukoza.  Natalia Ilinichna Ionova (Russian: Наталья Ильинична Ионова) better known by her stage name Glukoza (Russian: Глюкоза literally glucose) is a Russian singer.
Jacob van Schuppen.  Jacob van Schuppen (26 January 1670 – 29 January 1751) was an Austrian Baroque painter.
Drew Lachey.  Andrew John Drew Lachey (born August 8 1976) is an American singer and actor. He is known as a member of 98 Degrees the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars and is the younger brother of Nick Lachey.
Julia Messenger.  Julia Messenger is an Australian singer-songwriter and producer best known for her work in electronica and chill-out although she has performed in a wide range of musical genres including Jazz rock classical and blues. She has performed recorded and collaborated with such notable musical figures as Klaus Schulze Henning Schmitz Ferry Corsten Klaus Waldeck and Scott Rockenfield. Messenger is also renowned for the versatility and power of her voice.
Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov.  Aleksey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Жемчу́жников February 11 (23) 1821 - March 25 (April 7) 1908) was a Russian poet dramatist essayist and literary critic a nephew of Antony Pogorelsky a cousin to A.K. Tolstoy and co-creator of Kozma Prutkov the famous mid-nineteenth century comical literary character.
Erra-Pater.  Erra-Pater (or Erra Pater) is the assumed name of the author of an astrological almanac first published in 1535 and referred to by Samuel Butler in Hudibras (I.i) and by William Congreve in Love for Love.
Sonny Mayo.  Sonny Mayo (born July 16 1971 Washington D.C.) is an American guitarist songwriter and music producer. He began playing in a thrash metal band called Silence in the late 1980s. Silence (John Mayes Benjamin Gaither Louie Denslow Jason Robinson and Sonny) regularly sold out venues in the DC Metro area including the Bayou in Georgetown. While with Silence he released a nine track CD Vision and recorded a three song tape with Alex Perialas (producer -Anthrax Overkill S.O.D.).
Doug Blair.  Doug Blair born February 11 1963 as Douglas Blair Lucek is a heavy metal guitarist and member of W.A.S.P.. Doug's early development as a musician took place in his home state of Connecticut (USA). His focus on technical ability with the guitar quickly saw him gaining a reputation locally with his early band Run 21. This band played small club dates in the Tri-State area (NYNJCT) and recorded some original material during that time.
Ludvig Karsten.  Ludvig Karsten (8 May 1876 – 19 October 1926) was a Norwegian painter. He was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch Henri Matisse and the contemporary French painting. He first participated at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901 and had his first separate exhibition in 1904. He is represented at museums in many Scandinavian cities and with several paintings at the National Gallery of Norway. Karsten was known for his bohemian lifestyle and pending temper.
Mark Murphy (singer).  Mark Murphy (born March 14 1932) is an American jazz singer based in New York. He is most noted for his definitive and unique vocalese and vocal improvisations with both melody and lyrics. He is the recipient of the 1996 1997 2000 and 2001 Down Beat magazine readers jazz poll for Best Male Vocalist of the Year and is also the recipient of six Grammy award nominations for Best Vocal Jazz Performance.
Giovanni Battista Bissoni.  Giovanni Battista Bissoni (1576–1636) was an Italian painter. He was born in Padua. He was first a pupil of Francesco Appollodoro called Il Porcia a portrait painter and afterwards of Dario Varotari the Elder. Bissoni painted for the churches and convents at Padua and Ravenna. In the refectory of the convent of San Vitale he painted a Last Supper.
Mir Taqi Mir.  Mir Taqi Mir (Urdu: مِیر تقی مِیرؔ‎—Mīr Taqī Mīr) whose real name was Muhammad Taqi (Urdu: مُحَمَّد تقی‎—Mọḥammad Taqī) and whose takhallus (pen name) was Mir (Urdu: مِیرؔ‎—Mīr) (sometimes also spelt Meer Taqi Meer) was the leading Urdu poet of the 18th century and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself.
Alessandro Albini.  Alessandro Albini (1568–1646) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. He was born in Bologna and was an early pupil of the school of the Carracci. He was known for designs he made for the funeral ceremony of Agostino Carracci. He painted a Tomb of St. Valerian and St.Tibertius for the church of San Michele in Bosco in Bologna and paintings of St. Peter St. Catherine St. Agnes and St. Cecilia for San Pietro Martyr.
Serafino Razzi.  Fra Serafino Razzi (Marradi 1531 - Florence 1613) was an Italian Dominican monk who in 1563 published a large collection of carnival songs in the lauda (song) genre. Razzi's collection Libro primo delle laudi spirituale is a miscellany of pieces of varying age and character from the music of Florence. It contains 91 lauda settings for one to four voices. Razzi travelled widely and kept diaries of his journeys.
Theatrical Productions of André Antoine.  André Antoine (31 January 1858 – 23 October 1943) was a French actor theatre manager film director author and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France. The following is a list of his theatrical productions.
Steve Reynolds (singer-songwriter).  Steve Reynolds is a singer-songwriter from Vancouver British Columbia. Reynolds was nominated for a 2008 Grammy award for his album the Carnival Papers. He has released three albums on various record labels. His song Mistaken Identity appears in the season 5 premiere for Grey's Anatomy along with dozens of other TV shows and film and ad campaigns.
Raja Kashif.  Raja Kaasheff or Raja Kashif (born 26 August 1978) is a United Kingdom-based Asian singer/music director equally known in India Pakistan and Urdu/Hindi-speaking diaspora around the world. ] learned music under the guidance of music director Ravi and the Sham-Churasi Gharana (meaning family). His films include Do Badan Chaudhavin Ka Chand Hamraaz Gumrah and Nikah.
Indra Lesmana.  Indra Lesmana (born March 28 1966 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian jazz pianist.
Irina Kulikova (classical guitarist).  Irina Kulikova (born 30 April 1982) is a Russian-Dutch classical guitarist.
James H. Hyslop.  James Hervey Hyslop Ph.D LL.D (August 18 1854 – June 17 1920) was a professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University a psychologist and a psychical researcher. From 1906 until his death he was the secretary-treasurer of the American Society for Psychical Research. He was one of the first American psychologists to connect psychology with psychic phenomena.
Luis Camnitzer.  Luis Camnitzer (born 1937) is a German-born Uruguayan artist and academic who resides in the United States. He is a conceptual artist who creates work in a variety of media—including installation printmaking drawing and photography—that breaks down limitations and questions that define the center versus the periphery.
Kaoru Shimamura.  Hiroko Takahashi (高橋浩子 Takahashi Hiroko April 15 1969 – February 26 2013) better known by the stage name Kaoru Shimamura (嶋村カオル Shimamura Kaoru) was a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce.Shimamura died at 3:06pm JST on February 26 2013 from breast cancer at a Yokohoma hospital at the age of 43.
Donald Hall.  Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (born September 20 1928) known as Donald Hall is an American poet writer editor and literary critic. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy Harvard and Oxford Hall is the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature biography memoir essays and including 22 volumes of verse.
Arthur Wallace.  Arthur Wallace born January 4 1919 in Bear River City Utah died on October 11 2008 in Santa Monica California at age 89 was a soil scientist.
Nucha (singer).  Nucha (born Cristina Isabel dos Santos Baldaia Trindade 21 June 1966 Águeda) is a Portuguese singer best known for her participation in the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest.Nucha's first participation in Portugal's Eurovision selection Festival da Canção was in 1988 with the song Se calhar but this failed to pass the semi-final stage.
Albéric Bourgeois.  Albéric Bourgeois (November 29 1876 – November 17 1962) was a French-Canadian cartoonist credited with creating the first continuing comic strip to use word balloons in Canada.
Ilona (singer).  Ilona (born January 24 1985) is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Bogotá Colombia. Her beginnings in music were through presentations on the public transport bus service in Bogotá when she was 15 years old and her surprised audience gave her money. Ilona played with her guitar on public places and eventually established a band with a bassist and a drummer with whom she performed regularly in bars in the city.
Francesco Brina.  Francesco Brina or Del Brina or Brini (1540 – 1586) was an Italian painter of Mannerist period active mainly in Florence.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka.  Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞 Matsuoka Yoshitsugu born September 17 1986) is a Japanese voice actor from Hokkaido Japan. He is affiliated with I'm Enterprise.
Amar Noorie.  Amar Noorie (Punjabi: ਅਮਰ ਨੂਰੀ) also spelled as Amar Noori is a Punjabi singer as well as actress from East Punjab (India). She is married to Sardool Sikander a noted Punjabi singer. They have two sons Sarang Sikander and Alaap Sikander who are also very talented singers/musicians and are introducing their debut work in the music industry in the near future.[citation needed]
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli.  Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (Montepulciano Tuscany c. 1630 – Madrid c. 1669/1670) was an Italian composer and violinist.Little is known of Pandolfi Mealli.
Joanna Dunham.  Joanna Dunham (born 6 May 1936) is an English actress best noted for her work on stage and television. She has also appeared in several major films.
Philip Fox (actor).  Philip Phil Fox is an English film and television actor known particularly for comic roles. His appearances include Genie in the House Maurice People Like Us Waking the Dead Maxwell Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War.
Gangadhar V. Chittal.  Gangadhar V. Chittal (1923–1987) was a recipient of Karnataka Sahitya Academy award. He held several administrative positions for the Government of India and audited several Indian Embassies and Consulates. During the Quit India struggle (1942) Chittal was debarred from his college.Born in Hanehalli Gangadhar completed primary education in his hometown and high school diploma(S.S.C.) from Gibbs High School Kumta in 1940 with the first rank to the State of Bombay.
Julien Laubscher.  Julien Laubscher also known as Julien Cassette (born 5 June 1987) is a South African pop artist; singer pianist keyboardist programmer producer musician and actor.
Frank Moore (performance artist).  Frank James Moore (June 25 1946 – October 14 2013) was an American performance artist shaman poet essayist painter musician and Internet/television personality who experimented in art performance ritual and shamanistic teaching since the late 1960s.Moore is perhaps most well known as one of the NEA-funded artists targeted by Jesse Helms and the GAO (General Accounting Office) in the early 90s for doing art that was labeled “obscene.
Rolv Yttrehus.  Rolv Berger Yttrehus (b. Duluth Minnesota March 12 1926) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.He holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan and a Diploma from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He studied harmony with Nadia Boulanger and composition with Ross Lee Finney Roger Sessions Aaron Copland and Goffredo Petrassi.
El Coyote.  El Coyote also known as José Angel Ledezma Quintero (born November 1 1970) lived most of his infancy and adolescence in a town named Coyotitán. Before José planned to be a music artist he wanted to play baseball professionally. Which made him travel to Mazatlán Mexico. The capital of the big star sinaloense bands This is where he slowly began to get the nickname of El coyote.
Robert Bernard Hass.  Robert Bernard Hass is an American poet literary critic and professor.
Sarika Devendra Singh Baghel.  Sarika Singh (Born August 9 1980) is an Indian politician and member of Lok Sabha. She was elected to 15th Lok Sabha from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh as a candidate of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).She was nominated as a Lok Sabha Candidate of Samajwadi Party from Agra. However she was expelled from the party after her husband was overheard calling Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav an Old Man.
Anna Laetitia Waring.  Anna Letitia Waring (or Anna Laetitia Waring) (19 April 1823 – 10 May 1910) was a Welsh poet and hymn-writer.She was born at Plas-y-Felin Neath the daughter of Elijah Waring (d. 1857). Her family were Quakers but she became an Anglican and was baptised into the Church of England in 1842 at Winchester. Literary interests were fostered by members of her family as her uncle Samuel Miller Waring (also an Anglican) and her father Elijah both published works of literature.
George Claydon.  George Claydon (4 September 1933 – 4 October 2001) was a British actor notable for his dwarfism. His television roles included that of Nikabrik in the 1989 BBC adaptation of Prince Caspian. He also appeared as Photographer George in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour a television film that initially aired on BBC1 in 1967 on boxing day as an Oompa Loompa in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and as Hercules in I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) with Joan Collins.
Richard Hughes (musician).  Richard David Hughes (born 8 September 1975 Gravesend Kent) is an English musician best known as the drummer of the British piano rock band Keane. He is the eldest member of the band.
Nico Kasanda.  Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay (July 7 1939 – September 22 1985) popularly known as Docteur Nico was a guitarist composer and one of the pioneers of soukous music. He was born in Mikalayi Kasai province in the Belgian Congo.
Akira Kubo.  Akira Kubo (born 1 December 1936) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in 75 films since 1952. He starred in the film Arashi which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Noel Paine.  Noel Paine (born 1971 Woolwich London) is a British artist based in Lazio Italy and Vienna Austria.
Rodney Graham.  Rodney Graham (born January 16 1949) is an artist and musician born in Abbotsford British Columbia. He is most often associated with the Vancouver School. He is married to the artist Shannon Oksanen and lives in Vancouver.
Eddie Fisher (singer).  Edwin John Eddie Fisher (August 10 1928 – September 22 2010) was an American entertainer. He was the most successful pop singles artist of the first half of the 1950s selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show.Fisher left his first wife actress Debbie Reynolds to marry Reynolds' best friend actress Elizabeth Taylor when Taylor's husband film producer Mike Todd died. This event garnered scandalous and unwelcome publicity for Fisher. He later married Connie Stevens.
Yuuki Matsuda.  Nezumi (born Takehiro Matsuda (松田 健浩 Matsuda Takehiro) on March 3 in Tokyo) better known by the stage name Yuuki Matsuda (松田 佑貴 Matsuda Yūki) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce. Nezumi is best known for voicing K' from SNK Playmore's King of Fighters franchise. On October 20 1997 he changed his legal name to Nezumi Miki (美木 ねずみ Miki Nezumi). He later changed his legal name to Nezumi on April 1 1999.
Scott Raynor.  Scott William Raynor Jr. (born May 23 1978) is an American musician best known as the former drummer of rock band Blink-182. Born in Poway California Raynor first approached the drums in his preteens as a fan of Metallica. He joined Blink-182 at a very young age and continued with the band; by the time he was 19 the group had accumulated a large fan base and a gold record Dude Ranch.
Keith Hennessy.  Keith Hennessy (born 1959 in Sudbury Ontario Canada) is a San Francisco-based dancer choreographer and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of queer and AIDS-themed expressionist dance. He is known for non-linear performance collages that combine dance speaking singing and physical and visual imagery and for improvised performances that often undermine the performer-observer barrier.
Fred Raynham.  Fred Raynham was a British actor of the silent era.
Charles Gavin.  Charles de Souza Gavin (born on July 9 1960) is a drummer and musical producer whose fame comes mainly from his drums works at Brazilian rock band Titãs.
Emma Trelles.  Emma Trelles is a Latina poet and writer.
Griffith Hartwell Jones.  Griffith Hartwell Jones (1858 or 1859 – 27 May 1944) was a Welsh academic. He was educated at Jesus College Oxford where he was a scholar and became professor of Latin at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire Cardiff lecturing on historical and philological topics and writing extensively.
Giuseppe Ciaranfi.  Giuseppe Ciaranfi (Pistoia 1818- Florence 1902) was an Italian painter.
Annie Fox (author).  Annie Fox (born 1950) is an American book author.She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Human Development. She then completed her Master's in Education from the State University of New York at Cortland and became a teacher. Her first book was People Are Like Lollipops (1971 Holiday House).With her husband game programmer David Fox she opened the world's first public access microcomputer facility (Marin Computer Center) in 1977.
Gregory Halpern.  Gregory Halpern (born 1977) is an American photographer who grew up in Buffalo New York. He recently published his third book of photographs entitled A (J&L Books 2011) a photographic ramble through the streets of the American Rust Belt. His other books include Omaha Sketchbook (J&L Books 2009) an artist's book portrait of the titular city and Harvard Works Because We Do (W.W.
Angelo Ribossi.  Angelo Ribossi (1822-1886) was an Italian painter.
Ángel Sanzo.  Ángel Damián Sanzo Herrera (born in Antequera 1973) is a Spanish pianist. He teaches at Badajoz's Conservatory.
Gabe Serbian.  Gabriel Serbian is an American drummer and guitarist most famous for his work in The Locust Cattle Decapitation and Holy Molar. He is recognized as a very capable drummer as showcased on recent Locust albums.
Nico Ibaviosa.  Nico Ibaviosa is a Filipino actor and swimmer. He is under contract with Star Magic.
Jeff Barlett.  Jeff Barlett is an American singer-songwriter from Apache Junction Arizona. He is best known for his songs She is my only love and My endless love song both featured on iTunes and Amazon.com. As of March 2013 he has released two albums and 5 singles.
Max Santos.  Max Agende Santos (born January 30 1982 in the South Bronx New York City) was the bass player of the bachata group Aventura.He began playing bass at age 12 after borrowing an instrument at school. He and his brother Lenny now a fellow member of Aventura often experimented together at home in duo bass and guitar.
Morris Pleasure.  Morris Joseph Pleasure (aka “Mo” born July 12 1962 in Hartford Connecticut) is a composer producer multi-instrumentalist and touring musician. Morris plays piano bass trumpet and guitar in genres that include pop funk jazz R&B Soul Brazilian and Classical music. Pleasure holds a Bachelor of Arts degreein Music from the University of Connecticut (1986).
Brad Ferguson.  Brad Ferguson (born 1953) is an American science fiction writer. He worked as a writer editor and producer for CBS Radio News in New York. He is married to scientist Kathi Ferguson with whom he collaborated on one novel.Ferguson is the author of a number of Star Trek tie-in novels several short stories and the post-holocaust novel The World Next Door.He served a three-year term as eastern regional director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) starting in 1999.
Jean Kwok.  Jean Kwok is a contemporary Chinese American writer and the author of the national bestseller Girl in Translation.
Naoko Ken.  Naoko Ken (研 ナオコ Ken Naoko) (born July 7 1953– ) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is well known for her comedy roles featuring idiosyncratic looks and a string of successful torch songs that gained popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
H. L. Gold.  Horace Leonard H. L. Gold (April 26 1914 – February 21 1996) was a science fiction writer and editor. Born in Canada Gold moved to the United States at the age of two. He was most noted for bringing an innovative and fresh approach to science fiction while he was the editor of Galaxy Science Fiction and also wrote briefly for DC Comics.
William Victor Higgins.  William Victor Higgins (June 28 1884-August 23 1949) was an American painter and teacher born at Shelbyville Indiana. He studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri René Menard and Lucien Simon and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von Hayek. He was an associate of the National Academy. He moved to Taos New Mexico in 1913 and joined the Taos Society of Artists in 1917.
Hoàng Cầm (poet).  Hoàng Cầm (22 February 1922 – 6 May 2010) was penname of Bùi Tằng Việt a Vietnamese poet playwright and novelist. He is best remembered for his poems such as Bên kia sông Đuống Lá diêu bông or the plays Kiều Loan and Hận Nam Quan. Being involved in the Nhân Văn affair Hoàng Cầm retreated from the Vietnam Association of Writers in 1958 later in 2007 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature and Art by the Government of Vietnam.
Joey Ayala.  Joey Ayala (born José Iñigo Homer Lacambra Ayala on June 1 1956 in Bukidnon Philippines) is a Filipino singer songwriter and former chairman of the music committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He is well known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music. His public music life started when he released an album recorded in a makeshift-studio in 1982 in Davao City.
Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer.  Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer (Tamil: மகாராஜபுரம் விசுவநாதையர்) (1896–1970) was one of the great Indian Carnatic vocalists. He won several awards including Sangeetha Kalanidhi and Sangeetha Bhupathy.
Sarah Hopkins.  Sarah Hopkins is an Australian criminal lawyer and novelist married to celebrity chef Matt Moran. Sarah Hopkins has worked in the area of social justice and prisoner rights for 15 years. She is currently working as a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney. She and Moran have two children Harry and Amelia.Her best known book is The Crimes of Billy Fish. Her new novel Speak to Me was released by Penguin in May 2010.
Rahsaan Patterson.  Rahsaan Patterson is an American singer and actor best known for portraying The Kid on the popular 1980s television show Kids Incorporated. His singing and songwriting style have been said to be reminiscent of Stevie Wonder while his voice has also drawn comparisons to Chaka Khan.
Mika Itō.  Mika Itō (伊藤 実華 Itō Mika born on March 25 1984) is a Japanese voice actress who was born in Tokyo Japan. She is affiliated with the entertainment office Three Tree.
Lam Bun.  Lam Bun (25 September 1929 - 25 August 1967) was a radio commentator at Commercial Radio Hong Kong who was fiercely critical of leftists. He was assassinated during the Hong Kong 1967 riots and has become an icon for free speech in Hong Kong.
Tim Ries.  Tim Ries (né Timothy M. Ries; born 1959) is an American saxophonist composer arranger band leader and music educator at the collegiate/conservatory level. Ries is in his seventh year as a professor of jazz studies at the University of Toronto. His universe of work as composer arranger and instrumentalist ranges from rock to jazz to classical to experimental to ethno to fusions of respective genres thereof.
William H. Gass.  William Howard Gass (born July 30 1924) is an American novelist short story writer essayist critic and former philosophy professor. He has written three novels three collections of short stories a collection of novellas and seven volumes of essays three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which A Temple of Texts (2006) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award.
Gregg Sutton.  Gregg Sutton is an American musician songwriter guitarist singer and bassist who lives in Los Angeles.
John Fay (writer).  John Fay is an award-winning British television writer and playwright from Merseyside. He is known for his work on television soap operas Brookside and Coronation Street as well as his later work on original dramatic production.
Achille Solari.  Achille Solari (Naples October 9 1835 - 1884 ) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes of the region around Naples.He obtained a stipend from the province of Terra di Lavoro to study at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples and earned prizes and a stipend in Naples from his province. Paints in oil and watercolor. He exhibited in 1884 in Turin and in London he exhibited a landscape.
Kalyan Sundaram.  Kalyan Vaidyanathan Kuttur Sunderam (11 May 1904 – 23 September 1992) also referred as K.V.K. Sundaram was an Indian civil servant who holds the record as the first Law Secretary (1948–58) of independent India and second Chief Election Commissioner of India (December 20 1958 – September 30 1967). He also Chaired the Fifth Law Commission of India for the period 1968–71.
Åsmund Sveen.  Åsmund Sveen (28 April 1910 – 31 January 1963) was a Norwegian poet novelist and literary critic. He was born in Elverum. Among his poetry collections are Andletet from 1932 and Eros syng from 1935. He published the novel Svartjord in 1937. In the legal purge in Norway after World War II Sveen was convicted to several years imprisonment.
Will Wallner.  Will Wallner is an English rock guitarist and songwriter. His main influences are Ritchie Blackmore Gary Moore and John Sykes. He began playing guitar at age 16 and received his first real guitar a Gibson Les Paul Custom which he has played his entire career at the age of 18. He began playing guitar by ear then had taken his first formal guitar lessons from a rock guitar teacher in his home town of Devon England.
Troy Olsen.  Troy Olsen (born July 12 1973) is an American country music singer-songwriter signed to EMI Nashville a sister label to Capitol Records Nashville. He co-wrote Blake Shelton's 2009 single I'll Just Hold On and Tim McGraw's Ghost Town Train a cut from the album Southern Voice.Olsen released his debut single Summer Thing in April 2010 followed by a digital Self-titled extended play on May 11. Summer Thing debuted at No.
John Dryden.  John Dryden (19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet literary critic translator and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him Glorious John.
Chun Ge.  Chun Ge (simplified Chinese: 春哥; Tongyong Pinyin: Chūn Gē) which means Brother Chun and is often translated as Spring Brother is a nickname for the singer Li Yuchun which subsequently became a popular Chinese Internet meme. She was known by this nickname in her youth due to her androgynous appearance and personal traits. After winning first prize in a singing contest Super Girl in 2005 her nickname Chun Ge was widely used by Chinese mass media.
Biz Markie.  Marcel Theo Hall (born April 8 1964) better known by his stage name Biz Markie is an American rapper beatboxer DJ comedian singer reality television personality and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single Just a Friend an American Top 10 hit in 1989. In 2008 Just a Friend made #100 on VH1's list of the 100 greatest hip hop songs of all time.
Rudolf Schenker.  Rudolf Schenker (born 31 August 1948 Hildesheim Lower Saxony) is a German guitarist and founding member of heavy metal band Scorpions being the rhythm/lead guitarist and one of the main song writers of the band.
Brett Josef Grubisic.  Brett Josef Grubisic (born 1963) is a Canadian novelist and editor and professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He obtained degrees from University of Victoria (B.A. M.A.) and the University of British Columbia (Ph.D.)He has edited one anthology of gay male pulp fiction and co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers.
Radu Sîrbu.  Radu Sîrbu (also known as Radu Sârbu RadU and Picasso; born 14 December 1978 in Peresecina Moldavian SSR Soviet Union) is a Moldovan singer. He was part of the Moldovan pop music trio O-Zone. He currently lives and works in Bucharest Romania.
Farzad Farzin.  Farzad Farzin (Persian: فرزاد فرزین) was born in Tehran Iran on 24 June 1981. He is an Iranian singer song writer arranger and actor.
Ricky Ross (musician).  Ricky Ross born Richard Alexander Ross (22 December 1957) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and broadcaster most famously for his work with rock band Deacon Blue.
Jan Duursema.  Jan Duursema (born October 27 1954) is an American comic book artist known for her work on the Star Wars comics franchise. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos.
Jean Ven Robert Hal.  Jean Ven Robert Hal stage name for Roberto D'Agostino Vendola born 11 May 1970 is an Italian musician composer of Electronic Music Kosmische Musik Space music Progressive Ambient Jazz Synth pop and Orchestral music.
Barnaby Furnas.  Barnaby Furnas (born Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1973) is an American painter and former graffiti artist who currently lives and works in New York City. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and received a BFA in 1995 before going on to study at Columbia University in New York receiving an MFA in 2000. He makes his own paint from pigment mixed with urethane.
Sam Wills.  Sam Wills (born 28 August 1978) is a New Zealand prop-comic currently residing in London. On stage he performs as The Boy With Tape On His Face or as one half of the two person act Spitroast or simply as Sam Wills. He performs regularly on the New Zealand Comedy Circuit has featured in the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and the World Buskers Festival.
Freddy Mullins.  Frederick Stephen Mullins (born March 26 1979) is a singer/songwriter from Nashville Tennessee. His musical style falls into the modern-folk label encompassing folk folk-rock and folk-soul. He has released six albums on the indy label Bellajade Records an EP demo Bring Me Blue and five LPs Everything in Between Broken White Lines When Mixed Up Sleep Tonight and The Walkaway.
Gauge (pornographic actress).  Gauge (born July 24 1980 in Hot Springs Arkansas U.S.) is an American pornographic actress.Gauge entered the pornographic film industry in 1999 at the age of eighteen.After having appeared in about 140 movies she left the industry in 2005 due to a contract dispute with her management company. She was certified as a surgical technologist but was often turned down for jobs because of her adult film career.
Wendi Knight.  Wendi Knight (born in Fort Worth Texas United States) is a former pornographic film producer pornographic film director (active from 2003-2009) and pornographic actress (retired from performing around 2006).Knight began performing in adult films around 1997. In 2003 she made her directorial debut with Grand Theft Anal. She has since directed the movies in the Grand Theft Anal Strip Tease Then Fuck and Wet Dreams Cum True series under contract with Zero Tolerance Entertainment.
Georg Büchner.  Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was also a revolutionary a natural scientist and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner.
Joe Venuti.  Giuseppe Joe Venuti (possibly September 16 1903 – August 14 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.
Ritu Beri.  Ritu Beri (Hindi: रितु बेरी) (Punjabi: ਰਿਤੂ ਬੇਰੀ) is a New Delhi based International fashion designer. She was the first Asian designer to head the French fashion brand Jean-Louis Scherrer.
Archibald Clavering Gunter.  Archibald Clavering Gunter (25 October 1847 – 24 February 1907) is primarily known today for authoring the novel that the film A Florida Enchantment was based upon and for his hand in popularizing Casey at the Bat. He clipped the original publication of the poem from the San Francisco Examiner and passed it on to DeWolf Hopper whose performances brought it fame.
Uta Weyand.  Uta Weyand is a German pianist born in Reutlingen. Weyand who started her concert career in 1989 is currently active in Germany and Spain where she settled after winning the 1996 José Iturbi competition. A former professor at Castellón's Conservatory she currently teaches at the Madrid Royal Conservatory.
Stephen Sidelinger.  Stephen Sidelinger (born 1947) is an artist/designer/educator/architectural colorist/textile artist/ embroiderer and book artist. He received a B.F.A. in Design from Syracuse University and an M.S. in Design from The Illinois Institute of Technology. His work draws on varied disciplines to create one-of-a-kind fine hand bound books of contemporary illuminated manuscripts which are in public and private collections throughout the world. His work often includes fine and elaborate embroidery.
Nico Kaufmann.  Nico Kaufmann (Zürich June 14 1916 – Zürich November 23 1996) was a Swiss pianist and composer.In addition to his studies at the Zürich Conservatory he was for a short time (1937) Vladimir Horowitz's only disciple (and lover) in his European time. He then became the Cabaret Cornichon's arranger and musical conductor and took part at the VII Concours de Geneve (1945) which he won.
Sanjib Chattopadhyay.  Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সঞ্জীব চট্ট্যোপাধ্যায়) (born February 28 1936 in Kolkata India) is a Bengali novelist and writer of short stories. His style is characterized by use of short satirical sentences mixed with very lively language.[citation needed]
Kimara Lovelace.  Kimara Lovelace is a female dance music vocalist who placed three songs in the Top 10 of the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the late nineties. Circles spent a week at #1 in 1998. In this same year Kimara performed in R4: Ridge Racer Type 4's jazz soundtrack at the time was signed to King Street Sounds a label that also provided about 20 of the over 40 songs for Ridge Racer 7. Her follow-up single to Circles was When Can Our Love Begin.
Stefano Langone.  Stefano Langone (born February 27 1989) is an American singer from Kent Washington. Langone placed seventh on the tenth season of American Idol.
Gemma O'Connor (writer).  Gemma O'Connor is an Irish mystery writer born in Dublin in 1940. In 1995 she published her first mystery story which became successful.[citation needed] Educated in Ireland and France she lived in Oxford where she worked as a bookbinder restorator and stewardess before becoming a writer. O'Connor and eighteen other female Irish writers contributed short stories for the 2005 collection Irish Girls Are Back in Town.
Gray Lyda.  Grady (Gray) Lyda (born July 17 1954) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his time travel series Tempus Fugit in Star*Reach magazine.
General Degree.  Cardiff Butt (born 28 April 1968) better known as General Degree (or simply Degree) and later as Snapple Dapple is a Jamaican dancehall deejay and record producer.
Garry Shandling.  Garry Emmanuel Shandling (born November 29 1949) is an American comedian actor and writer. He is best known for his work in It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Larry Sanders Show.Shandling began his career writing for sitcoms such as Sanford and Son and Welcome Back Kotter. He made a successful stand-up performance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and became a frequent guest-host on the show.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon.  Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 - 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor.Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville Eure in the Haute-Normandie region of France the second son of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. Of the six Duchamp children four would become successful artists. He was the brother of Jacques Villon (1875–1963) painter printmaker; Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) painter sculptor and author; Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963) painter.
Tylea.  Tylea (rhymes with Kylie) is an Australian singer and songwriter. She started out as a solo performer releasing eps Bellowing Flower (1994) and Tylea with a T in 1997 and went on to become the singer and guitarist for Gota Cola. After Gota Cola took a break she released a selftited ep in 2003 with Tylea and the Imaginary Music Score a band featuring Magoo and Marcel Lip.
Ryoko Sekiguchi.  Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japanese; 関口 涼子 ; Tokyo December 21 1970) is a Japanese poet and translator. She studied History of Art at the Sorbonne and a doctorate in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Tokyo. She publishes her books in both French and Japanese and works for institutions like Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales.
Liu Zhengcheng.  Liu Zhengcheng (Simplified Chinese: 刘正成; Hanyu Pinyin: Liú Zhèngchéng) (1946 - ) is a contemporary Chinese calligrapher based in Beijing China particularly noted for his use of the cursive script. He is president of the International Association of Calligraphers and chief editor of the Chinese Calligraphy journal. He was formerly deputy secretary of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
Aldo Crommelynck.  Aldo Crommelynck (26 December 1931 – 22 December 2008) was a master printmaker who made intaglio prints in collaboration with many important European and American artists of the 20th Century.
Bobby Orlando.  Robert Philip Orlando also known as Bobby Orlando or just Bobby O is an American record producer dance music artist musician and songwriter.
Adrian Butchart.  Adrian Butchart is an award winning British screenwriter and film producer.In 2003 Butchart wrote his first film the highly acclaimed indie arthouse film I Love Your Work with actor and director Adam Goldberg. The film an indictment on celebrity culture was not a commercial success but became part of film school curriculum with a cast including Giovanni Ribisi Christina Ricci Joshua Jackson Jason Lee Vince Vaughn and Elvis Costello.
Patrick Kennedy (folklorist).  Patrick Kennedy early 1801 - 29 March 1873 was a folklorist from Co. Wexford Ireland. A bookseller by trade he is known for his collections of Irish (Leinster) folktales. The tales are told in rusticated English of the Irish peasantry who had established roots in The Pale the anglicized part of Ireland. He is widely credited with preserving irish idioms in the turn of phrase sentence structure Irish words.
Nonchalant.  Nonchalant (born Tanya Pointer born October 18 1970) is an American female rapper and songwriter from Washington D.C. who was signed to MCA Records.Nonchalant is best known for her hit single 5 O'Clock which peaked at #24 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was eventually certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500000 copies. It peaked at #44 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1996.
Alice Kuipers.  Alice Kuipers is a British-born author living in Saskatchewan Canada who is best known for her young adult novels. 40 Things I Want To Tell You won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2013.
Etsuko Nakanishi.  Etsuko Nakanishi (中西悦子 Nakanishi Etsuko) (July 11 1977) is a drummer known most recently for being in the Japanese rock trio Shonen Knife. She initially began her career with Shonen Knife as one of many temporary drummers first playing with the group on January 30 2005 during a show in Osaka with The Shins. Etsuko was chosen as a permanent drummer for the band on March 24 2006 a tenure which lasted until April 9 2010 when she left the band.
Gavin Maxwell.  Gavin Maxwell FRSL FIAL FZS (Sc.) FRGS (15 July 1914 – 7 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author best known for his work with otters. He wrote the book Ring of Bright Water (1960) about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. Ring of Bright Water sold more than a million copies and was made into a film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna in 1969.
Luiz Eça.  Luiz Mainzi da Cunha Eça (April 3 1936 – May 24 1992) was a Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova pianist from Rio de Janeiro Brazil probably best known for his 1960s work with the bossa nova Tamba Trio/Tamba 4 (with Helcio Milito and Bebeto Castilho). Trained as a classical pianist Eça created a formal but stunning approach to bossa nova classics such as The Hill by Antonio Carlos Jobim and works by Edu Lobo.
Jesse Leach.  Jesse David Leach (born July 3 1978) is an American musician from Providence Rhode Island and is best known as being the current lead vocalist of the metalcore band Killswitch Engage and also for being the vocalist for the blues rock band Seemless. He is also the current singer for the hardcore metal band The Empire Shall Fall and Times of Grace. In February 2012 he rejoined Killswitch Engage following the departure of vocalist Howard Jones in January 2012.
Ryan Gage.  Ryan Gage is an English actor who has most recently appeared in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as Alfrid and The Musketeers as King Louis XIII.He has also appeared in a number of stage productions including Hamlet and Macbeth at the RSC.
Amanda Kramer.  Amanda Kramer is an American musician best known as a former keyboard player of the 1980s electronic band Information Society. She soon left the band claiming personal issues.[citation needed] She then joined the musical collective Golden Palominos beginning with 1989 A Dead Horse as a featured vocalist. She then appeared on some 10000 Maniacs albums as a guest artist most prominently on their MTV Unplugged album. In 1993 she met Karl Wallinger and joined World Party.
Viola McCoy.  Viola McCoy (ca. 1900 – ca. 1956) was an African American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style during a career that lasted from the early 1920s to the late 1930s.
Jon Lord.  John Douglas Jon Lord (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was an English composer pianist and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms especially with Deep Purple as well as Whitesnake Paice Ashton Lord The Artwoods and The Flower Pot Men. In 1968 Lord co-founded Deep Purple a hard rock band of which he was regarded as the leader until 1970. Together with the other members he collaborated on most of his band's most popular songs.
Katelyne Halliday.  Katelyne Halliday was a member of The Dunnes since 2013 alongside founding member Rachel Osler.
Rosko.  Paul Eric Bosko also known as Rosko is an American singer songwriter musician and producer. He is perhaps best known as a recording artist for his 2005 single Love Is A Drug which reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart and was produced by John Creamer & Stephane K.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant.
Angela Kincaid.  Angela Kincaid formerly known by her married name of Angela Mills is a children's book illustrator best known for The Butterfly Children series of picture books. With her then husband Pat Mills she created the Celtic comics character Sláine for 2000 AD.
Makoto Yuki.  Makoto Yuki (優希 まこと Yūki Makoto born July 7 1990) is a Japanese actress tarento gravure model and former AV Idol.
Lisa Kelly.  Lisa Ann Kelly (Irish Laoise Ní Cheallaigh born 7 May 1977) is a singer of both classical and celtic music. She has taken part in many musical theatre productions and concerts and is a founding and former member of the musical group Celtic Woman.
Ciaran Creagh.  Ciaran Creagh is an Irish writer from Dublin who writes for the theatre and film. He has had three plays publicly performed and his first film PARKED starring Colm Meaney and Colin Morgan.Element Pictures Distribution released the film in Ireland and the UK in October 2011 and Olive Films will release the film in America in 2012.Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him and brightens up his lonely world.
Junggeun Oh.  Junggeun Oh also Oh Jung Geun (Korean: 오정근; born 27 September 1970 in Seoul South Korea) is a Korean painter. Living in Berlin since 2004 he paints artworks of a modern minimalism mixing abstraction with realism. The artist is represented by galerie son Berlin.
Dehab Faytinga.  Dehab Faytinga is an African Pop singer from Eritrea. Formerly Dehab was a freedom fighter during the Eritrean War of Independence. She debuted internationally as part of Sibrit Band on a tour of the United States and Europe. In 1995 she recorded her first album on cassette as a solo artist.Her first CD album drew upon her father's Kunama heritage while also melding it with her mother's Tigrinya and Bilen heritage.
Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers.  Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers (January 31 1855 – October 3 1895) was a German traveller who is known for his account of a long trip through inland Southeast Asia documented in his 1894 book Im Sattel durch Indochina and recently republished by White Lotus Press of Thailand in English as a three-part series entitled On Horseback Through Indochina.
Kaori Natori.  Kaori Natori (名取香り Natori Kaori born September 3 1982) is a Japanese singer under management of Stardust Music. She is signed to Chimera Energy a label handled by Universal Music Japan.In 2010 Natori became the permanent vocalist for the hip-hop/reggae band Spontania. As a member of the band she is referred to as Kaori (in romaji).
Bill Stoneham.  William Stoneham is an artist and writer who is notable for painting eBay's 'haunted painting' The Hands Resist Him which became an Internet meme. Bill (William) Stoneham was born in 1947 in Boston Massachusetts. He was given up for adoption at birth spending his first nine months in a Boston orphanage. His adoptive parents gave him the Stoneham name.
Lilian May Miller.  Lilian May Miller (July 20 1895 - January 11 1943) was an American painter woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo Japan. In the world of art she marked her place with imagery while she attended presentations in traditional kimonos and signed her paintings with a monogram. She practiced oil painting watercolor painting book illustrations photography and printing.
Shrikant Narayan.  Shrikant Narayan (born 17 January 1968) is an Indian stage and playback singer known for the Marathi song Dol Doltay Warya Vari which reached double platinum status in India in 1986. Narayan records music in a number of languages; Hindi Marathi Tamil Telugu Kannada and Malayalam.
Richard Harned.  Richard Harned (born 1951) is a contemporary kinetic sculptor and glass artist. Harned trained under Dale Chihuly in the 1970s at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with other artists of the American Glass Movement including Bruce Chao and Tom Kreager. In 1974 he established the Abstract Glass studio in Providence Rhode Island. After graduating from and teaching at RISD he also taught glass art at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and the University of Tennessee.
Mandla Langa.  Mandla Langa (born 1950 in Stanger Durban) is a published South African poet short story writer and novelist. He grew up in KwaMashu township.Langa studied at the University of Fort Hare graduating in 1972 with a B.A. degree in English and Philosophy.
Gerald Kersh.  Gerald Kersh (1911–1968) was a British-born American writer of novels and short stories.
Chad Hunt.  Chad Hunt (born in Wadsworth Ohio United States 1973) is a former gay pornographic film actor who has also appeared on the cover of Badpuppy Jock Honcho All Man and Unzipped magazines.In 2009 he was 5'10 and weighs 160 pounds. In movies at that time he had appeared tattooed and goateed.
Andrea Lehmann.  Andrea Lehmann (born 1975) is an artist based in Germany.Andrea Lehmann was born in Düsseldorf. She attended the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1995 and gained her MA in 2000.She has shown work in exhibitions including Stuffed Diamonds at Anna Klinkhammer in Düsseldorf and Happy Days at Kulturministerium Prague.
Gordon Wharton.  Gordon Wharton (born in 1929 in High Wycombe Buckinghamshire) died 2 December 2011 (http://richardawarren.wordpress.com/back-from-oblivion-tracking-the-poetry-of-gordon-wharton/ ) was a British poet.He left school aged 14 and said that anything he learned afterwards was self-taught.
M-1 (rapper).  Mutulu Olugbala better known by his stage name M-1 is an American rapper activist and author from Brooklyn New York. He is best known for his work as one half of the Political hip hop duo Dead Prez with stic.man.
Robert Sempill the younger.  Robert Sempill the younger (1595?–1663?) Scottish poet son of James Sempill was educated at the University of Glasgow having matriculated in March 1613.During the Civil War he fought for the Stuarts and seems to have suffered heavy pecuniary losses under the Commonwealth. He died between 1660 and 1669. He married Mary daughter of Sir Thomas Lyon of Auldbar.
Christopher Ryan.  Christopher Ryan (born 25 January 1950) is an English actor. Ryan is perhaps best known for his role as Mike The Cool Person in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones.
Marty Munsch.  Marty Munsch is an American music producer. Munsch has worked extensively with punk rock bands both as a producer and a recording engineer. Munsch founded Punk Rock Records in 1983 which released material by U.S. Chaos. Munsch has also produced several LP's and singles for Violent Society The Suspects and The Broken Heroes.
Madeleine Milhaud.  Madeleine Milhaud (22 March 1902 – 17 January 2008) was a French actress and librettist. She was both a cousin and the wife of the French composer Darius Milhaud.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father Darius' uncle was from Aix-en-Provence and her mother from Brussels. She began acting at a young age and had a long career as an actress and reciter.Darius and Madeleine Milhaud were married in 1925; they had one son Daniel (born 1930) a painter.
Poogie Bell.  Poogie Bell (born Charles Bell jr. 1961 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American jazz drummer composer band leader and producer. Bell is best known as a drummer working extensively with bassists Marcus Miller and as a sideman for other artists such as Erykah Badu Victor Bailey David Bowie Stanley Clarke Randy Crawford Roberta Flack Al Jarreau Chaka Khan Angelique Kidjo Joe Sample David Sanborn John Scofield Stanley Turrentine Luther Vandross Vanessa Williams and Victor Wooten.
Nikos Nikolaou.  Nikos Nikolaou (Greek: Νίκος Νικολάου) (1909–1986) was a major figure in Greek art during the 20th century.In 1929 Nikolaou is admitted into the Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied under Konstantinos Parthenis and Umbertos Argyros.In 1932 he has his first exhibition when he participates in the group exhibition of the Athens School of Fine Arts students and in 1935 he becomes a member of the group Free Artists (Ελεύθεροι Καλλιτέχναι) and participates in the Parnassos exhibition.
Osama Com Laude.  Syed Osama Karamat Ali Shah (Urdu: سید اسامہ کرامت علی شاہ‎; born October 26 1987) better known by his stage name Osama Com Laude or OCL is a Pakistani rapper singer-songwriter and lyricist from Orlando Florida. OCL rose to popularity with his 2011 collaboration on Desi Thumka and the viral sensation Pakistani (Wild Boy Remix). Set to release his debut EP in spring 2013.
Buck Clayton.  Buck Clayton (born Wilbur Dorsey Clayton; Parsons Kansas November 12 1911 – New York City December 8 1991) was an American jazz trumpet player who was a leading member of Count Basie’s Old Testament orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong.
Emily Rooney.  Emily Rooney (born 1950) is an American journalist TV talk show and radio host and former news producer. Since 1997 Rooney has been the host executive editor and creator of Greater Boston and the weekly Beat the Press on WGBH-TV which are also later rebroadcast on the Boston-based WGBH radio station. As of 2010 she hosts the Emily Rooney Show on WGBH radio.
Samantha Newark.  Samantha Newark was born just outside London England and is a singer songwriter and voice actress.Newark is best known for her voice-over work on the animated 1980s cartoon series Jem as the speaking voice of Jerrica/Jem (Britta Phillips was the singing voice). Other voice-over credits include guest-starring on the original Transformers cartoon as Ariel and Elise Presser.
Abramo Basevi.  Abramo Basevi (December 1818 – November 1885) was an Italian musicologist and composer.Basevi was born in Livorno. He began as a physician in Florence (1858) but then devoted himself exclusively to music. His first attempts as a composer failed but in time he composed operas (Romilda ed Ezzelino 1840; and Enrico Howard 1847) and other music.Basevi was editor of the musical journal L'Armonia.
Kan Kick.  Kankick (also spelled as Kan Kick real name Ted Hughes) is an American hip-hop producer from Oxnard Los Angeles.
Kaori Yamagata.  Kaori Yamagata (山像かおり Yamagata Kaori born February 27 1963) is a Japanese voice actress from Hirakata Osaka.
Eugene Maltsev.  Eugene Demjanovich Maltsev (Russian: Евгений Демьянович Мальцев; August 9 1929 Ryazan Oblast USSR — December 24 2003 Saint Petersburg Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter People's Artist of the Russian Federation a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of the Soviet Artists) who lived and worked in Leningrad.
Early B.  Earlando Arrington Neil better known by his stage name Early B was an early dancehall and reggae deejay whose lyrics had a cultural bent noted mainly in his hits Visit of King Selassie History of Jamaica and Wheely Wheely the latter an ode to bicycle-riding in Jamaica.
Julian Schnabel.  Julian Schnabel (born October 26 1951) is an American artist and filmmaker.
Motoko Arai.  Motoko Arai (新井素子 born 1960 in Nerima Tokyo) is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first novel received an award in 1977 when she was in high school. In 1981 and 1982 she received the Seiun Award for short fiction. She graduated from Rikkyo University in 1983. Her works have also been filmed. Arai is on the selection committee for the annual Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award.
Sandra Birdsell.  Sandra Louise Birdsell CM (née Bartlette) (born 22 April 1942) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage.Born in Hamiota Manitoba she studied at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba where she studied under Robert Kroetsch.In 1996 she moved to Regina Saskatchewan where she currently resides.Birdsell was the fifth of eleven children. She lived most of her life in Morris Manitoba.
Alice Underwood Fitch.  Alice Underwood Fitch (July 5 1862 – August 1936) was an American painter born in Memphis Tennessee.Fitch went to France in 1900 to study and paint. She became especially noted for her work as a miniature painter. For over 20 years she was in constant demand as a copyist of famous paintings in the Louvre and other French galleries.
Balthasar van der Ast.  Balthasar van der Ast (1593/94 – 7 March 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit as well as painting a number of remarkable shell still lifes; he is considered to be a pioneer in the genre of shell painting. His still lifes often contain insects and lizards. He was born in Middelburg and died at Delft.His lifetime of works was once summarized by an Amsterdam doctor who said In flowers shells and lizards beautiful.
Jack Anglin.  Jack Anglin (May 13 1916 – March 8 1963) was an American country music singer best known as a member of The Anglin Brothers and later Johnnie & Jack with Johnnie Wright. Anglin was born on a farm near Columbia Tennessee. He worked at a local hosiery mill and became acquainted with his future wife Louise; and through her her brother Johnnie Wright. At the time Wright his wife Murial (Kitty Wells) and Louise were regulars on WSIX-AM as Johnnie Wright And The Harmony Girls.
Eric Burdon.  Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter best known as a member and vocalist of rock band the Animals and the funk band War and for his aggressive stage performance. He was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Sarah Spiegel.  Sarah Spiegel is an American singer and actress.
Arny Freytag.  Arny Freytag (born April 12 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for Playboy magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the Playboy centerfold photographs.Freytag grew up in Chicago Illinois attending Sutherland grammar school and Luther South High School. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1970 and from Brooks Institute of Photography (Santa Barbara California) in 1974.
Kashiram Das.  Kashiram Das (কাশীরাম দাস born 16th century) is an important poet in medieval Bengali literature. His Bangla re-telling of the Mahabharata known as Kashidasi Mahabharat is a popular and influential version of the Mahabharata legend in Bengal. Although the entire work is intra-textually ascribed to him most scholars agree that he composed only the first four of the eighteen books (parvas).
John Lescroart.  John Lescroart (/lɛsˈkwɑː/; born January 14 1948) is a New York Times bestselling author known for his series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt. His novels have sold more than ten million copies have been translated into twenty-two languages in more than seventy-five countries and sixteen of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list.
Y-Love.  Yitz Jordan (born January 5 1978) better known by his stage name Y-Love is a Los Angeles-based American hip-hop artist. An Orthodox Jew Jordan was formerly Hassidic. Jordan rhymes in a mixture of English Hebrew Yiddish Arabic Latin and Aramaic often covering social political and religious themes.
Ashley Ballard.  Ashley Ballard is a R&B singer who was signed to Atlantic Records in the 2000s (decade). Her debut single Hottie was released in 2001 and received tremendous airplay charting on the US Billboard charts peaking at number twenty-five. Her début album Get in the Booth followed on May 15 2001 though it was never fully released.
Andy Hamilton (author).  Andy Hamilton is an English writer of two books The Selfsufficientish Bible and Booze for Free. He has written for Wired the Guardian and the Ecologist. He was born in Northampton and now lives in Bristol.
Sook Nyul Choi.  Sook Nyul Choi (born 1937) is a Korean American children's storybook author.
Charlotte Blake.  Charlotte M. Blake (May 30 1885 – August 21 1979) was an American composer of waltzes marches and ragtime.Blake was the oldest of six children born to Edward and Caroline Blake of Ohio. At age 18 she got a job as a writer and arranger for Jerome H. Remick. Her first published composition King Cupid appeared in 1903. After retiring from the music business she worked as a clerk at Douglas Aircraft Company for two decades.
John L. Watson (singer).  John L. Watson was an American singer who fronted English rock band The Web in the 1960s. He would later record solo in the 1970s and 80s.
Frank Magalona.  Francis Michael Arroyo Magalona Jr. better known as simply Frank Magalona (born on December 19 1987 in Manila Philippines) is a Filipino actor and rapper.
John Braheny.  John Braheny (December 9 1938 – January 19 2013) was an American author and singer-songwriter. He released a solo album in 1970 Some Kind of Change on the Pete label. He was born in 1938 in Iowa. He also wrote songs for others including December Dream in 1967 which was recorded by The Stone Poneys who included lead vocalist Linda Ronstadt. It was released on the band's Evergreen - Volume Two album that year.He died on January 19 2013 aged 74.
Sheri-D Wilson.  Sheri-D Wilson (a.k.a. The Mama of Dada) is a Canadian poet and playwright.Her influences include Guillaume Apollinaire T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.Her most recent poetry collection Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe is the first poetry book to use QR codes that connect to video audio and interactive talk-back. Her collection Re:Zoom (2005 Frontenac House) won the 2006 Stephan G.
Agostino Accorimboni.  Agostino Accorimboni (28 August 1739 - 13 August 1818) last name also given as Accoramboni Accorimbeni or Accorrimboni was an Italian composer known mostly for his operas. He composed thirteen operas of which ten premiered in Rome between 1770 and 1785.
Friedrich Herlin.  Friedrich Herlin (c. 1425/30 – 1500) was a German painter. His earliest known work depicting scenes from the Life of the Virgin is dated 1459. A signature on an altarpiece in Nördlingen dating it to 1462 identifies him as being from Rothenburg as do citizenship documents from 1467. Nevertheless it is possible that he lived there for only a short time and that his origins lie in Ulm where a painter named Hans Herlin lived and worked from 1449 until 1468.
Maria (Danish singer).  Maria (born Maria Jensen on May 13 1978) is a Danish singer and songwriter. Although she was born in Denmark she grew up in different parts of Europe. Despite her parents' initial hesitation and the fact that she did not come from a musical family Maria decided to pursue a career as a singer. She was eventually discovered and signed by Soulshock from the famous writing and production duo Soulshock & Karlin to Soulpower/Dreamworks Records.
Barbara (singer).  Monique Andrée Serf (June 9 1930 – November 24 1997) whose stage name was Barbara was a French singer. She took her stage name from her Russian grandmother Varvara Brodsky. Her song L'Aigle noir sold a million copies in twelve hours.
Mark Geary.  Mark Geary is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician born in Dublin Ireland into a large family with ten siblings one of whom is actor Karl Geary. In 1992 he emigrated to New York City after being called up for a lottery-won green card. Living in New York's East Village Geary began playing the local circuit in venues such as the Sin É alongside Jeff Buckley and other artists. Geary also worked in popular New York bar The Scratcher.
Jonibek Murodov.  Jonibek Murodov was born on May 29 1986.
Harry Blain.  Harry Blain (born 12 September 1967) is an English art dealer gallery owner and founder of Sedition art an online resource where editioned digital artworks by the world's leading contemporary artists can be bought and traded.In 1992 Blain opened Blains Fine Art which specialised in the private placement of works of art by a wide range of contemporary artists. In 2002 he started Haunch of Venison gallery with Graham Southern.
Gary Frank.  Gary Frank (born 1969) is a British comic book artist notable for pencilling on Midnight Nation and Supreme Power both written by J. Michael Straczynski. He has also worked with author Peter David on The Incredible Hulk and Supergirl.
Fabiana Masili.  Fabiana Masili (Rio Claro (1978-05-22)22 May 1978) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
Susan Nirah Jaffee.  Susan Nirah Jaffee is an American screenwriter and television producer primary working on sit-coms and as at 2007 serving as a writer and producer for Desperate Housewives.Beginning as an episode writer and story editor for Cybill in 1997 and remaining on the show for its last two seasons she later worked as an executive story editor for Sex and the City and a writer for Movie Stars Maybe It's Me and One on One the later which she also produced.In 2006 she joined the crew of Desperate Housewives as a supervising producer and writer for the third season of the show.
Betty Baxter Anderson.  Betty Baxter Anderson (March 10 1908 – June 17 1966) was an American author.
Bill Craig (writer).  Bill Craig (1930–2002) was a Scottish television scriptwriter.He wrote a large number of scripts including the TV adaptations of Sunset Song Cloud Howe Grey Granite and The Eagle of the Ninth.He also wrote for the series The Borderers starring Michael Gambon.
Mario Mafai.  Mario Mafai (12 February 1902 – 31 March 1965) was an Italian painter. With his wife Antonietta Raphaël he founded the modern art movement called the Scuola Romana or Roman school.
George Baldi III.  George William Baldi III (born August 29 1970) is an American singer best known as the bass singer of the a cappella singing group Rockapella since 2002.
Linda Yellin.  Linda Yellin is an American memoirist novelist and humorist.
Wilfred Brown Baron Brown.  Wilfred Banks Duncan Brown Baron Brown MBE (29 November 1908 – 7 March 1985) was the chairman and the managing director of Glacier Metal Company (1939–1965) author of several books and articles on management and labour issues university administrator and United Kingdom's Minister of State at the Board of Trade (1965–1970).
Margaretta Angelica Peale.  Margaretta Angelica Peale (born Philadelphia Pennsylvania October 1 1795 - died there January 17 1882) was an American painter one of the Peale family of artists. The daughter of James Peale she was the sister of Sarah Miriam Peale Anna Claypoole Peale and Maria Peale. She was taught by her father and painted primarily still-lifes many of which were copies of his work. Stylistically her paintings are reminiscent of his.
Roger Langridge.  Roger Langridge (born 14 February 1967) is a New Zealand-born comics writer/artist/letterer currently living in Britain.
Jerrold Robertshaw.  Jerrold Robertshaw (28 March 1866 in Allerton West Riding of Yorkshire – died 14 February 1941 in London) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era.
Marko DeSantis.  Marko DeSantis (born May 3) is a music professional best known as the lead guitarist for American modern rock band Sugarcult; he grew up in Santa Barbara California.With Sugarcult he has made 3 studio records 2 DVDs 1 live record and toured internationally since 2001.
Rahul Raj.  Rahul Raj is an Indian composer of original scores and soundtracks mainly for Malayalam movies.
Dave Kerzner.  David Nathaniel Kerzner is an American musician songwriter producer and sound designer as well as founder of the sound sampling development company Sonic Reality Inc. Along with Simon Collins Kerzner was a co-founder of the band Sound of Contact but left the group in January 2014.Kerzner has worked with artists and bands such as Alan Parsons Genesis Francis Dunnery Neil Peart Keith Emerson Tom Waits and Smashing Pumpkins.
Ken Laszlo.  Ken Laszlo (born as Gianni Coraini 1954) is an Italo disco singer who became famous in the 1980s.Laszlo was interested in music at a young age and his career began in 1980 when he played and sang in discos and clubs. His first hit in Europe was the single Hey Hey Guy in 1984. His songs Tonight and Don't Cry are also well-known.Many of Laszlo's songs appear under his own name and many others under pseudonyms such as Ric Fellini DJ NRG and Ricky Maltese.
Alessandro Guardassoni.  Alessandro Guardassoni (Bologna 13 December 1819 – Bologna 1 March 1888) was an Italian painter. He mainly painted religious themes. He trained in the Accademia Pontificia di Belle Arti of Bologna under Clemente Albèri. He collaborated with Cesare Mauro Trebbi. He was named to a professorship of the Accademia Felsinea.
Andreas Paraschos.  Andreas Paraschos (born April 1958) is the editor-in-chief of Kathimerini a daily morning newspaper published in Athens.Born in Larnaca Paraschos spent the first years of childhood in a very turbulent period in the history of Cyprus. He spent his primary school years in the Arrenagogeio of Larnaca and then graduated from the American Academy of Larnaca.
Joanna Lech.  Joanna Lech (born January 25 1984 in Rzeszów Poland) – Polish poet and writer. Author of Zapaść and Nawroty (nominated for NIKE Literary Award 2011). Graduate of the Literary-Arts faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Lives in Kraków.
Johnny Hodges.  John Cornelius Johnny Hodges (July 25 1906 – May 11 1970) was an American alto saxophonist best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years except the period between 1932 and 1946 when Otto Hardwick generally played first chair. Hodges was also featured on soprano saxophone but refused to play soprano after 1946 when he was given the lead chair.
Yossi Sassi.  Yossi Sassi (born February 5 1975) is a guitarist producer merging roots with contemporary music. composer arranger and co-founder of Orphaned Land an Israeli progressive metal band formed in 1991. In 2012 Sassi released his debut album 'Melting Clocks'. In March 2013 Yossi Sassi was voted Top Newcomer of 2012 by Rock Hard Readers.
Pampidoo.  Pampidoo is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. He was most popular in Jamaica in the late 1980s with a series of singles using his self-styled 'Rockstone Voice'. He is not to be confused with the similarly named deejay Prince Pompidou.
Claire Yiu.  Claire Yiu (姚嘉妮) born on 10 August 1978 is a Hong Kong actress. She started her acting career after being the 2nd runner-up in the Miss Asia Pageant in 1998. After filming some ATV series such as 海瑞鬥嚴嵩 and Ten Tigers of Guangdong (廣東十虎) she went over to TVB and filmed in some minor roles such as 趙美美 (Mia) in To Catch The Uncatchable and 戴玉瑩 (Grace) in Healing Hands 3.
William Maxwell Reed.  William Maxwell Reed (January 12 1871 - September 1962) a.k.a. W. Maxwell Reed was a pioneering U.S. author of illustrated science books for children.Reed was born in Bath Maine in 1871. After schooling at Harvard he taught astronomy at Harvard and Princeton University.Reed later went into the steel industry.Beginning as a series of letters to his nephew his first book The Earth for Sam was first published in 1929.
Nayana Karunaratne.  Nayana Karunaratne is a well known Sri Lankan beautician and a fashion designer. She owns the company called Salon Nayana established in 1980 and a founder of Sri Lanka Association of Hairdressers And Beauticians (SLAHAB) established in 1996.
Greg Potter.  Greg Potter is an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the DC Comics series Jemm Son of Saturn with artist Gene Colan.
Arisa Noto.  Arisa Noto (能登 有沙 Noto Arisa born December 26 1988) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is a member of StylipS and a former member of Ongaku Gatas.
Lennie Moore.  Lennie Moore (born December 12 1961) is an American composer conductor orchestrator of music for video games film TV and Multi-media.
Tukufu Zuberi.  Tukufu Zuberi (born April 26 1959) is an American sociologist filmmaker social critic educator and writer. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora including Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002) and 500 Years Later (2005). He is one of the hosts of the long-running PBS program History Detectives. As founder of his own production company he produced the film African Independence which premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January 2013.
Ace Enders.  Arthur Carl Ace Enders (born April 19 1982 in Hammonton New Jersey) is an American musician. Enders is the lead singer and guitarist of the band The Early November. He is also the lead musician songwriter and co-producer in his band I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business. He has also released music under the name Ace Enders and a Million Different People.
Bill McGuffie.  Bill McGuffie (11 December 1927 – 22 March 1987) was a pianist who went on to become a film composer and conductor. He also made several television appearances most notably in Softly Softly as a pub pianist.When he was about 16 years old McGuffie came down from Scotland to London to join the Teddy Foster Band which was playing in London.
Prem Chowdhry.  Dr Prem Chowdhry is an Indian social scientist historian feminist Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research New Delhi and critic of violence against couples refusing arranged marriages.She is a well-known scholar of gender studies authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India and daughter of Hardwari Lal the renown educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana.
Lacksley Castell.  Lacksley Castell sometimes misspelled Laxley Lacksly Lasky or Locksley Castel (1959 – 1983) was a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his work in the early 1980s.
Elizabeth Butterworth.  Elizabeth Butterworth (born 1949) is an English artist especially known for her paintings of parrots. She was born in Rochdale Lancashire and studied at the Rochdale School of Art 1966-1968 Maidstone College of Art 1968-1971 and at the Royal College of Art in London 1971-1974. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her work. Publications containing her work include: 1978 – Parrots and Cockatoos. (Text by Rosemary Low). Fischer Fine Art: London. 1983 – Amazon Parrots.
Warren Cuccurullo.  Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (born December 8 1956 in Brooklyn New York) is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa was a founding member of Missing Persons and has been a long term member of Duran Duran.
Tammy Rogers.  Tammy Rogers (born 1966 in Tennessee) is an American country music singer songwriter and musician. In addition to releasing three albums on the Dead Reckoning Records label (which she founded with Kieran Kane) she works as a studio musician primarily on fiddle violin and viola. She has also written a single for Terri Clark.
Cozi Costi.  Cozi Costi is a female pop house and electronica singer and songwriter based in London.She co-wrote and sang backing vocals on the song Naughty Girl by the Australian singer Holly Valance in 2002.Among her vocal collaborations with dance DJs is the song Baby When the Light by the French DJ David Guetta.
Pedro Ortiz Dávila.  Pedro Ortiz Dávila a.k.a. Davilita (May 21 1912 – July 8 1986) was a popular singer of boleros and Puerto Rican patriotic songs.
Artus Wolffort.  Artus Wolffort (1581–1641) also Wolffaert was a Flemish Baroque painter from Antwerp.
Max Lilja.  Max Lilja (born October 27 1975) is a finnish cello player. He is best known for as a founding member of the finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica a band he left in 2001 to join the Finnish thrash metal band Hevein. Beginning in 2007 Lilja has been a recording and touring member of Tarja Turunen's solo band. Throughout his career Lilja has continued to play classical music alongside rock metal and crossover projects.
Alexandra Sviridova.  Alexandra Sviridova (Russian: Александра Свиридова alternate spellings: Alexandra Sviridov Aleksandra Sviridov and Aleksandra Sviridova) is a writer journalist and filmmaker from Moscow Russia. Her great-grandfather was the famous Rabbi Finkelstein of Czarist Russia.
John Berkey.  John Berkey (August 13 1932 – April 29 2008) was an artist known for his space and science fiction-themed works. Some of Berkey's best-known work includes much of the original poster art for the Star Wars trilogy the poster for the 70s re-make of King Kong and also the Old Elvis Stamp.He worked as a freelance artist from the 1960s after an eight-year stint at a St. Paul Minnesota advertising agency.
Annie Dalton.  Annie Dalton born 18 January 1948 in Dorset is a British children's author perhaps best known for writing the Agent Angel series formerly known as the Angels Unlimited series and now retitled The Angel Academy.
Winston Riley.  Winston Riley (14 May 1943 – 19 January 2012) was a Jamaican singer songwriter and record producer. The Jamaica Gleaner notes he was one of the most successful reggae producers.
Cody Simpson.  Cody Robert Simpson (born 11 January 1997) is an Australian pop singer from Gold Coast Queensland who is currently signed to US record label Atlantic Records.
Ronan Tynan.  Ronan Tynan (born 14 May 1960) is an Irish tenor singer. Irish audiences recognise him as a member of The Irish Tenors while American audiences consider him most famous for his renditions of God Bless America at Yankee Stadium during important New York Yankees games such as Opening Day nationally-televised games the last game at the old Yankee Stadium and playoff games.
Mario Basini.  Mario Basini (born 1943) is a journalist broadcaster and author the son of a Welsh Italian cafe owner in Merthyr Tydfil Wales.
Andy Gerold.  Andy Gerold (born June 13 1978 in Sandusky Ohio) is a professional multi-instrumentalist and is best known as a former bassist of Marilyn Manson. Currently playing guitar for Rock of Ages at The Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (as of 1/2013).
Ippolito Fiorini.  Ippolito Fiorini (c. 1549 – 1621) was a composer and lutenist and the maestro di capella at the court of Alfonso II d'Este in Ferrara during its entire existence (1568 – 1597). As maestro di capella his role was largely an administrative one however in addition to being involved with the music of the chapel he also was involved with the concerto delle donne. He also played the archlute.
Dan Gilroy.  Dan Gilroy (born June 24 1959) is an American screenwriter.
Tom Miller (musician).  Tom Miller is an American musician and visual artist from Las Vegas Nevada best known as the lead singer and co-creator of Black Camaro. Miller shares songwriting duties with co-creator Brian Garth while also providing the visual aesthetic for Black Camaro's album art and live concert posters. Miller holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNLV and is an active member of the arts community in Las Vegas.
Spanner Banner.  Joseph Bonner (born c.1970) better known as Spanner Banner is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician.
Bikash Bhattacharjee.  Bikash Bhatacharjee (21 June 1940 – 18 December 2006) was an Indian painter from Kolkata in West Bengal. Through his paintings he depicted the life of the average middle-class Bengali - their aspirations superstitions hypocrisy and corruption and even the violence that is endemic to Kolkata. He worked in oils acrylics water-colours conté and collage. In 2003 he was awarded the highest award of Lalit Kala Akademi India's National Academy of Arts the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship.
Henry Holland (fashion designer).  Henry Holland BA (Hons) (born 26 May 1983) is an English fashion designer businessman and blogger from Ramsbottom Greater Manchester. Holland gained attention with his bold 1980s-inspired T-shirts that displayed catchphrases such as I'll tell you who's boss Kate Moss in the 2000s; Holland subsequently designed a full collection and founded his own fashion house. He is well known for his work with model Agyness Deyn.
Fabrice Rouzier.  Fabrice Rouzier is a Haitian pianist producer and entrepreneur who has been in the Haitian music industry for more than 20 years.
Tommy Castro.  Tommy Castro (born April 15 1955 San Jose California United States) is an American blues R&B and rock guitarist and singer. He has been recording since the mid-1990s. His music has taken him from local stages to national and international touring. His popularity was marked by his winning the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer Of The Year.
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.  Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Born in Oregon on October 30 1982) is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter.
Tommy Facenda.  Tommy Bubba Facenda (born November 10 1939) is an American rock and roll singer and guitarist. He is best known for his one-hit wonder single High School U.S.A.
Gaynor Rowlands.  Gaynor Rowlands (3 April 1883 - 18 July 1906) was an English actress singer and dancer born in London of Welsh parents. In Wales she became known as Eos Gwalia: The Nightingale of Wales.Rowlands began her career in the ballet of The Empire Theatre London under Miss Katie Lanner graduating in 1900. She joined the company chorus line of George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre in 1900 toured India in 1901/02 and quickly became a star.
Giacinto Bellini.  Cavaliere Giacinto Bellini (17th century) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. Giacinto Bellini born at Bologna in the early part of the 17th century was a scholar of Francesco Albani. On leaving the school of that master he was taken under the protection of the Count Odoardo Pepoli by whom he was sent to Rome with Francesco Carracci for the advantage of study.
Eric Adams (artist).  Eric Adams is an illustrator writer cartoonist and graphic designer. Best known in comics as the creator of the series Lackluster World which was nominated for the 2004 Howard E. Day Prize the 2008 and 2010 Space Prize and is the winner of the 2010 Champion City Award for Best Limited Series.
Mitchell Spinelli.  Mitchell Spinelli (born Mitchell Weinstein) is a pornographic film director. Son of porn director Anthony Spinelli he has directed films in series such as White Panty Chronicles All Natural and Taped College Confessions. In 1995 he won the AVN Award for Best Screenplay Video for The Face. In 2003 he founded the film company Acid Rain Productions which specializes in gonzo pornography. He had previously owned the company Plum Productions.
Paul Johnson (comics).  Paul Johnson (born 13 October 1958) is a British comic book artist.
Per Roger Lauritzen.  Per Roger Lauritzen (born 1956) is Norwegian non-fiction writer. He hails from Asker. He has worked as an editor for the Norwegian Trekking Association for more than thirty years and has published more than fifty books. He was awarded Den norske friluftslivprisen in 2007 jointly with Leif Ryvarden.
Gino Paoli.  Gino Paoli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒino ˈpaoli]; born 23 September 1934 in Monfalcone) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is a seminal figure who has written a number of songs widely regarded as classics in Italian popular music including: Il cielo in una stanza Che cosa c'è Senza fine and Sapore di sale.
Yaroslav Oros.  Yaroslav Oros (Ukrainian: Ярослав Орос) (born April 18 1959 village Shyroky Lug the west of Ukraine) is a writer and journalist. He graduated from the Storozhynets College of Forestry in 1978 and the journalism department of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv in 1986.Oros is the first recipient of the International Literature Prize “Granoslov-91” for his novel «Змагання катів» (“Fight of executioners” 1992) .
Yu Haoming.  Yu Haoming is a Mandopop singer from Guangzhou China. He debut in 2007 on the Chinese singing competition Super Boy on which he placed sixth nationwide. On 22 October 2010 Whilst filming the television series I Have a Date with Spring (我和春天有个约会) in Shanghai Yu was injured in an explosive accident with co-star Selina. He suffered third degree burns over 39% of his body.
Ronan Keating.  Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish recording artist singer-songwriter musician and philanthropist. Keating debuted on the professional music scene alongside Keith Duffy Mikey Graham Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately in 1994 as the lead singer of Irish group Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999 and resulted in 9 albums.
Manuel Muñoz (writer).  Manuel Muñoz (born March 4 1972 Dinuba California) is an award-winning Mexican American novelist short story writer and professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson Arizona.
Kit Chan.  Kit Chan (Chinese: 陈洁仪; pinyin: Chén Jiéyí born 15 September 1972) is a Singaporean singer and actress. Born in Singapore Chan is the third daughter in a family of four sisters. Chan speaks English Mandarin Cantonese and French.On 8 December 2012 Chan married her long-time boyfriend whom she met in 2000.
Buwi Meneses.  Buhawi Buwi Francia Meneses (born June 4 1976) is a Filipino bassist for the band Parokya ni Edgar and formerly for Franco.
Désirée Talbot.  Professor Désirée Talbot (born 24 October 1926 Cape Town South Africa) is a retired South African opera soprano and one of the founding members of the UCT Opera Company.
Choe Yun.  Ch'oe Hyon-mu (born 1953) better known by her pen name Ch'oe Yun (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer and professor of French literature.
Roger Filgate.  Roger Filgate is an American guitarist most noted for his work with Wishbone Ash.
Georgi Vladimov.  Georgi Nikolaevich Vladimov (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Влади́мов; real family name Volosevich Russian: Волосевич; February 19 1931 – October 19 2003) was a Russian dissident writer.
Kumar Sanu.  Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 23 September 1957) better known as Kumar Sanu is a leading Indian singer. He is noted for his contributions as a playback singer in the Bollywood. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer Award for five consecutive years. In 2009 the Government of India awarded him Padma Shri India's fourth highest civilian honour in recognition of his achievements.
Sal Iacono.  Sal Iacono (born July 5 1971) better known as Cousin Sal is an American comedian writer and game show host. He is perhaps best known for his roles on The Man Show and the late night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He is Jimmy Kimmel's cousin hence his nickname Cousin Sal.
Keiko Nemoto.  Keiko Nemoto (根本 圭子 Nemoto Keiko born December 10 1979 in Chiba Japan) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce. She is married to voice actor Masaya Takatsuka.
Saib Tabrizi.  Saib Tabrizi (Persian: صائب تبریزی‎ Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī میرزا محمّدعلی صائب تبریزی Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib Azerbaijani: Saib Təbrizi; 1601/02-1677) also called Saib Isfahani (Persian: صائب اصفهاني‎ Ṣāʾib Eṣfahānī) was a Persian poet and one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets known as the ghazal.
Samahaara.  Samahaara is an Indian theatre group based in Hyderabad. It was founded by two young theatre personalities the actor-director Rathna Shekar Reddy and the playwright Anjali Parvati Koda. The group began with touring its maiden production The Crest of the Peacock an educational play on mathematics across the twin cities to schools and colleges staging more than 50 shows.
Cho Sung-ki.  Cho Sung-ki is a Korean author
Benjamin Champney.  Benjamin Champney (November 20 1817 – December 11 1907) was a painter whose name has become synonymous with White Mountain art of the 19th century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist Fitz Henry Lane at Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston. Most art historians consider him the founder of the North Conway Colony of painters who came to North Conway New Hampshire and the surrounding area during the second half of the 19th century.
Taban Lo Liyong.  Taban Lo Liyong (born 1939) is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.
Joy Jones.  Joy Jones is a writer and educator in the United States a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Detroit. She spent 12 years as a teacher trainer and administrator in the Washington D.C. public school system. She has written a children's book and her articles have been published by The Washington Post.
David Ruffin.  Davis Eli David Ruffin (January 18 1941 – June 1 1991) was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968 (or the group's Classic Five period as it was later known). He was the lead voice on such famous songs as My Girl and Ain't Too Proud to Beg. Known for his unique raspy and anguished tenor vocals Ruffin was ranked as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008.
Edward Spencer Beesly.  Edward Spencer Beesly (1831–1915) was an English positivist and historian.
Moe Bandy.  Marion Franklin Bandy Jr. known professionally as Moe Bandy (born February 12 1944) is a country music singer. He was most popular during the 1970s when he had several hit songs both alone and with his singing partner Joe Stampley.
Mingo (musician).  Mingo is an ambient musician and composer based out of Colorado USA. With a discography of over twenty years he has explored a vast array of electronic music from techno to new age.
Steven Gould.  Steven Charles Gould (born February 7 1955) is an American science fiction author teacher and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has written eight novels and is best known for his 1992 novel Jumper which was made into a film and released in 2008. He is married to science fiction writer Laura J. Mixon and lives in Albuquerque New Mexico.
Tripuraneni Gopichand.  Tripuraneni Gopichand (Telugu: త్రిపురనేని గోపిచంద్) (8 September 1910 - 2 November 1962) was a Radical humanist Telugu short story writer novelist editor essayist playwright and film director. Gopichand was son of renowned a social reformerand play writer Tripuraneni Ramaswamy .Gopichand inspired by M.N.Roy's Radical Humanismand became the first state secretary of Radical Democratic Party (India) Andhra Pradesh.
Upendra Bhanja.  Kabi Samrata Upendra Bhanja (Oriya: ଉପେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭଞ୍ଜ) (born during 1670 (opinions differ between 1670 and 1688) at Kullada Ghumusara near the town 'Bhanjanagar' a princely state in Odisha and died during 1740 (again opinions differ)) was considered as the greatest poet of Oriya Literature and was awarded the title Kavi-Samrata (also given as Kabi) – The Emperor of the Poets. Born in a royal family Upendra Bhanja had never eyed for throne.
Don Cherry (trumpeter).  Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18 1936 – October 19 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. He is well known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman which began in the late 1950s. In the 1960s he became a pioneer of world fusion music incorporating various ethnic styles into his playing. In the 1970s he relocated to Sweden but he continued to tour and play festivals throughout the world and worked with a wide variety of musicians.
Cecily von Ziegesar.  Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar (born June 27 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl series of novels.
Dave Georgeff.  Dave Georgeff (born February 28 1968 in Naperville Illinois) is an American musician. Born in Naperville Illinois and raised in nearby Downers Grove Georgeff is a graduate of the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles California.Georgeff is a member of the Los Angeles indie rock combo Sign of the Fox. He previously played bass guitar with mid-1990s Interscope-signed California pop punk band Wax.
Fleur Bennett.  Fleur Alison Bennett (born 18 June 1968) is a British television actress.
Peter Hollens.  Peter Hollens is an American independent singer/songwriter producer and entrepreneur. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he and Leo da Silva founded the University of Oregon's a cappella group On The Rocks known as the first official collegiate a cappella group in Oregon.
Kurien Kunnumpuram.  Rev. Kurien Kunnumpuram S.J. (born July 8 1931) is a Roman Catholic Indian Jesuit priest and well-known Christian theologian. Member of the academic staff of the Faculty of Theology at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (JDV) Pune (India) (Emeritus) he contributed in the field of ecclesiology particularly with regard to Vatican II.He was the founder-publisher-editor of Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies from 1998 to 2010.
Felix Drake.  Felix (born 1 June 1992) an English child actor and bass guitar player known for playing Wolfie in The Story of Tracy Beaker. His acting debut came in 2001 where he appeared alongside childhood friends in a production of Terry Deary's 'A Horrible Christmas' which was performed in front of an audience of 150. In 2003 he appeared as the White Rabbit in a version of 'Alice in Wonderland'.
George Grosz.  George Grosz (July 26 1893 – July 6 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933.
Ivri Lider.  Ivri Lider (Hebrew: עברי לידר; born 10 February 1974) is an Israeli pop star and part of the duo TYP also known as The Young Professionals. He is one of the biggest-selling contemporary artists in Israeli music and has won the Male Singer of the Year honor from Israeli national and local radio stations since entering the Israeli music scene in the late 1990s.
Michael Ruhlman.  Michael Carl Ruhlman (born July 28 1963 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American author home cook and entrepreneur. He has written 21 books of mostly nonfiction the best known of which have been in collaboration with American chefs.
Rainbow Rowell.  Rainbow Rowell is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park and Fangirl both received a great deal of critical acclaim in 2013.
Rick Steier.  Rick Steier (born October 8 1960 in Louisville Kentucky) is a guitarist who has played in the bands Warrant Kingdom Come Wild Horses and KrunK/Kottak. Drummer and fellow Louisville native James Kottak was also in all these bands with Rick Steier.
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir.  Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (born 6 May 1989) is an Icelandic musician. She is the lead vocalist and guitarist along with Ragnar Raggi Þórhallsson of the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and Men. Currently Nanna resides in Reykjavík Iceland.
Bender (rapper).  Al Bender better known mononymously as Bender is a Canadian underground hip hop artist. He is a member of the group Flight Distance and is a former King of the Dot champion. Bender is also a professional artist.
Hendel Lieberman.  Chenoch Hendel Lieberman (29 March 1900 OS – 15 March 1976) born Chenoch Hendel Futerfas was an Orthodox Jewish Russian-born Chabad hasidic American artist. He was the brother of the famed Mashpia Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas. He was born in Pleshchenitsy Belarus. In 1925 he married Breina Freidman with whom he had two daughters; all three were killed by a Nazi Einsatzgruppe in 1941 in Brahin Belarus while he was serving in the army.
Dmitri Plavinsky.  Dmitri Plavinsky (Russian: Дмитрий Петрович Плавинский) (28 April 1937 – 1 September 2012) was a Russian-American artist. An active member of the Nonconformist art community in the Soviet Union Plavinsky mastered various mediums including painting etchings and mixed media.In 1956 he graduated from the theater department of the 1905 Institute of Art. In the 1960s Plavinsky became one of the founders and leaders of the artistic nonconformist movement in Russia.
Denys Corbet.  Denys Corbet (22 May 1826 – 21 April 1909) was a Channel Islands poet Naïve painter and school master. He was the second son of Pierre and Susanne (née de Beaucamp) who was born at La Turquie Vale Guernsey Channel Island. He married Mary Elizabeth Wellington (1833–1909) and had 6 children.Corbet wrote for the most in the Dgernesiais language used historically (but with little modern use) in Guernsey the Channel Islands. Corbet described himself as the Le Draïn Rimeux (The Last Poet).
Marty Adams.  Marty Adams (born September 12 1981) is a Canadian television and film actor/writer and comedian. He began a football program at McMaster University but injured his knee. His sister encouraged him to get involved in a comedy program at Humber College which got him his first major comedy gig in the Facebook of Revelations at The Second City. His last Second City main stage show was 0% Down 100% Screwed leaving the main stage on 21 June 2009.
Claude P. Dettloff.  Claude P. Dett Detloff (born July 7 1899 in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin-died July 18 1978 Vancouver British Columbia Canada) was an American photographer who gained fame for the picture which has become known as Wait for Me Daddy. Dettloff began his career with the Minneapolis Journal in 1923 and worked for eleven years with the Winnipeg Tribune. He joined the Vancouver Daily Province in 1936 becoming the chief photographer.
Richard Barrett (author).  Richard Barrett (born March 7 1945) is a British author who writes about leadership leadership development values consciousness as well as cultural evolution in business and society.
Robert Hite (artist).  Robert Hite (born 1956 in Richmond Virginia) is an American visual artist. Hite lives and works in Esopus New York. In April 2014 Hite was named as a Guggenheim Fellow for his work in fine arts.
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson.  Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (February 22 1847 – January 8 1906) was an American-born artist who was recognized as one of the leading American women artists in Paris during the 1880s and whose artwork was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.Dodson's artistic interests were broad from the semi-classic French influence of her earlier works such as La Danse to the schools of the Italian Renaissance followed by a period of realistic portraiture including one of her more famous works The Signing of the Declaration of Independence painted in 1883. 
Robert Gober.  Robert Gober (b. September 12 1954) is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks doors and legs.
Kelly Holland.  Kelly Holland aka Toni English is a pornographic film director and producer. Currently Holland is the president of Penthouse Studios.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke.  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (née Antonella Gambotto born 19 September 1965) is an Australian author and journalist.Gambotto-Burke has written one novel The Pure Weight of the Heart two anthologies Lunch of Blood and An Instinct for the Kill and a memoir The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide which has been published in four languages.
Pablo Curatella Manes.  Pablo Curatella Manes (December 14 1891 – November 14 1962) was a prolific Argentine sculptor.
Giovanni Battista Granata.  Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1621 – 1687) was an Italian classical guitarist and composer. By profession Granata was a barber-surgeon.
Roy Thomas (artist).  Anishinaabe painter Roy Thomas was one of the most influential aboriginal artists in Canada and was famous for paintings of colourful totemic animals.
Bobs Coghill Haworth.  Bobs Coghill Haworth (1900–1988) was a South African-born Canadian painter and potter. She practiced mainly in Toronto living and working with her husband painter and teacher Peter Haworth. She co-founded the Canadian Group of Painters with Yvonne McKague Housser Isabel McLaughlin and members of the Group of Seven.
Alex Fletcher (actress).  Alexandra Fletcher (born 8 July 1976 in Childwall Liverpool) is a British actress currently best known for her role as Diane O'Connor in Hollyoaks and previously for playing Jacqui Farnham in the now defunct soap Brookside.
Stanley Loomis.  Stanley Loomis (21 December 1922 – 19 December 1972) was the author of four books on French history: Du Barry (1959) Paris in the Terror (1964) A Crime of Passion (1967) and The Fatal Friendship (1972). Paris in the Terror was named one of the “books of the century” by the University of California Berkeley. His books have been published in eight languages and reprinted numerous times.
Adalet Shukurov.  Ədalət Şükürov (full name Ədalət Zakir oğlu Şükürov) also known as simply Ədalət (born 22 April 1966) is an Azerbaijani pop singer and celebrity in Azerbaijan.
Tatico Henriquez.  Tatico Henriquez (July 30 1943 – May 23 1976) considered one of the best accordionists of merengue tipico was born in Nagua Dominican Republic. His career began in the 1960s and the early 1970s. He was known for his skill on the accordion and the addition of new instruments to a standard merengue tipico band.
Salvador Sánchez Barbudo.  Salvador Sánchez Barbudo (March 14 1857 – November 28 1917) was a Spanish painter active mainly in Rome Italy.He was born in Jerez de la Frontera Province of Cádiz Spain. He had his first training in his native Spain in Seville and Madrid. He then moved to Rome under the sponsorship of D. José Juan Fernández de Villavicencio Marqués del Castrillo. There he met and worked under the painter José Villegas y Cordero and joined a community of Spanish painters including Vincente Poveda.
Yuhanna al-Armani.  Yuhanna al-Armani al-Qudsi (cca 1720 - 1786 Cairo Ottoman Empire) was an artist of Armenian origin in Ottoman Egypt. He is most notable for his religious works especially his Coptic icons that decorate The Hanging Church in Old Cairo.
Tamar Giladi.  Tamar Giladi (Hebrew: תמר גלעדי‎) is an Israeli singer. She is married to Ariel Horowitz.
Jean-Louis Costes.  Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician performance artist and film actor. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin though unlike Allin's rudimentary brand of hardcore punk Costes' music is largely synth-driven relying heavily on looped beats overmodulated vocals and random outbursts of screaming and glitch fills.
Stuart Emerson.  Stuart Emerson is a background vocalist and musician playing drums bass keyboards and guitars. He has worked on albums for artists including Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler.His first recordings were with NWOBHM band Emerson which included Simon Blewitt (aka Sam Blue) Stuart Emerson Brian Emerson Dru Irving Jon Sellers. They released their debut single Something Special in 1983 on Neat Records without much commercial success.
Eric Moo.  Eric Moo Kai-yin (simplified Chinese: 巫启贤; traditional Chinese: 巫啟賢; pinyin: Wū Qǐxián; Cantonese Yale: Mou Kai-yin; born February 9 1963 in Kampar Perak Malaysia) is a Malaysian Chinese award-winning singer-songwriter and record producer.
Nathalie Mallet.  Nathalie Mallet is a Canadian mystery science fiction and fantasy writer. She grew up in Shippagan New Brunswick but now resides in Prince George British Columbia.Her debut novelThe Princes of the Golden Cage published by Night Shade Books in 2007 is the first installment in the Prince Amir Mystery series. The second book in the series The King’s Daughters is scheduled for 2008.
Toru Iwaya.  Toru Iwaya (岩谷 徹 Iwaya Tōru born February 12 1936) is a Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter.
Mark Milloff.  Mark Milloff (born 1953) is an internationally exhibited American painter and art professor. He has been exhibiting his work for over thirty years beginning with exhibitions at the Alan Stone gallery in New York City while he was still in graduate school. At present Milloff is a professor of art at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2013 he is the subject of a one man exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London Connecticut Mark Milloff: An Artist Renders the Whale.
Alek Carrera.  Aleksander Savitzky Carrera (born October 7 1980) better known as Alek Carrera is a Mexican model actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in Héroes sin patria (1999) Vidas cruzadas (2009) and Beyond the Trophy (2012).
Lee Major.  Leigh Elliott better known by his alias Lee Major is an American music producer from Petersburg Virginia.Lee Major has received production credit on tracks for Maybach Music Presents Self Made Vol. 1 Jay-Z Rick Ross Jadakiss Ace Hood Young Jeezy DJ Khaled and many others.Growing up in a family of musicians (his mother playing piano father playing the drums and eldest brother playing bass guitar) Lee was born with the tools to become one of America's best young producers.
Tuomari Nurmio.  Tuomari Nurmio is the artist name of Hannu Juhani Nurmio (b. 1950 in Helsinki) a Finnish rock singer and songwriter.
Richard Schickel.  Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10 1933) is an American author journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is a former film critic for Time magazine and has also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He currently reviews films for Truthdig. Schickel was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin the son of Helen (née Hendricks) and Edward John Schickel. He is featured in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.
Vandana Srinivasan.  Vandana Srinivasan is an Indian playback singer working mainly as an inpendent singer and for the South Indian film industry.
Tom McHale (novelist born 1902).  Thomas Joseph Tom McHale (May 7 1902 – November 12 1994) was an American novelist. He was the author of Dooley's Delusion a novel published in 1972 a story about the Great West (Sioux City) set in the 1880s and 1890s.
Anan Anwar.  Anan Anwar (Thai: อนัน อันวา) born on 15 September 1986 in Thailand is a Thai singer traceur and actor. He is the fourth child of his Scottish mother and Indonesian father. His older brother Joni Anwar was a member of the musical group Raptor.Anan gained celebrity as a solo singer with the record company RS. He released his first album Anan in 1999 and followed it up with Fast Foot in 2000.
Melody (Belgian singer).  Nathalie Lefebvre (born T'Sobbel on 20 January 1977) known under the name of Melody was a Belgian singer. She sang in French.
Joyce Lankester Brisley.  Joyce Lankester Brisley was an English writer. She is most noted for her Milly-Molly-Mandy series which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor. She both wrote and illustrated her books. Brisley had two sisters who were also illustrators: Nina.K.Brisley and Ethel C Brisley. All three sisters illustrated postcards for Alfred Vivian Mansell with Nina and Ethel becoming quite prolific. Brisley died in 1978 at the age of 82.
Roy Petley.  Roy Petley (born 3 April 1951) is a British painter. Petley paints en plein air to depict the wide expanse of English beaches and the gentle allure of Venetian landscapes.
Margaret Halsey.  Margaret Halsey (February 13 1910-February 4 1997) was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Some (1938) grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller selling 600000 copies.
Franz Ries.  Franz Ries (7 April 1846 – 20 January 1932) was a Romantic German violinist and composer son of Hubert Ries. He studied at the Paris Conservatory. He also worked in the publishing business.
Paul Weber (artist).  Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823-12 October 1916) was a German artist.He was born in Darmstadt. He studied art in Frankfurt and in 1848 came to the United States settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt where he was appointed court painter.
Bunny Brunel.  Bernard 'Bunny' Brunel is a French-born American bass guitarist who has played with various jazz notables including Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter and others. He is a founding member of the jazz fusion band CAB and is also involved in musical instrument design and film and television scoring.
Rafi Escudero.  Rafi Escudero (born December 30 1945) is a Puerto Rican musician singer composer poet and a political activist.
Scott Miller (artist).  Scott Miller (December 24 1955 – May 18 2008) was an American painter based in Cleveland Ohio.
Rup Magon.  Rupinder Rup Singh Magon is a Canadian singer songwriter producer actor and author born and raised in Montreal. He is a co-lead singer of JoSH a South Asian fusion band.
Dave Goulder.  Dave Goulder (born January 1 1939) is a singer guitarist dry stonewall builder mountain climber railway fireman humorist and composer. He is best known for his song January Man which has been recorded by many top singers and for his collections of railway songs which have received acclaim by critics and enthusiasts alike.
Patty Parsons.  Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange a Marin County California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.Patty is the aunt of Kat Parsons a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter.
James Baluyut.  James Baluyut (Born on February 6 1972 in Detroit Michigan) is a US singer guitarist and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist for Versus from 1995 onwards and the primary singer guitarist and producer for +/- a band he formed with Versus bandmate Patrick Ramos in 2001. Baluyut has produced and engineered recordings for other artists such as Whysall Lane Versus (before joining the band) Mark Robinson The Missing Planes and The Naysayer.
Drew Holcomb.  Hampton Andrew Drew Holcomb Jr. (born May 13 1982) is an American singer and songwriter who grew up in Memphis Tennessee and now calls East Nashville Tennessee home. Holcomb's wife Ellie performs alongside him in the band Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors. Holcomb earned a considerable following after his 2005 album Washed in Blue was released and had multiple TV placements on Lifetime's Army Wives and Showtimes's United States of Tara and A&E's The Cleaner.
Wilhelm August Stryowski.  Wilhelm August Stryowski (1834–1917) was a Polish-German painter. Born in Gdańsk (Danzig) he finished the Gdańsk School of Fine Arts. He studied here under Johann Carl Schultz the school founder and director and with a scholarship he later studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. From 1870-1873 he was one of creators of the City Museum (now National Museum in Gdańsk).
Obo Addy.  Obo Addy (January 15 1936 – September 13 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s. He taught music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon.
Jay Jason.  Jay Jason (1915–2001) was an American stand-up comedian who continuously performed in the show-business industry from 1933 to 2000.
Bilal (American singer).  Bilal Sayeed Oliver (born August 23 1979) better known mononymously as Bilal is an American singer-songwriter musician and producer. He is currently an independent artist residing in New York City.Bilal is noted for his wide vocal range his work across multiple genres and his live performances.
Winona Beamer.  Winona Kapuailohiamanonokalani Desha Beamer (1923–2008) was a champion of authentic and ancient Hawaiian culture publishing many books musical scores as well as audio and video recordings on the subject. In her home state she was known as Auntie Nona. She was an early proponent of the ancient form of the hula being perpetuated through teaching and public performances. Beamer was the granddaughter of Helen Desha Beamer.
Richard Hathwaye.  Richard Hathwaye (fl. 1597 - 1603) was an English dramatist. Little is known about Hathwaye's life. There is no evidence that he was related to his namesake Richard Hathaway the father of Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway. Hathwaye is not heard of after 1603.Information on Hathwaye's dramatic career is derived mostly from the papers of Philip Henslowe.
Kathy Kirby.  Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke; 20 October 1938 – 19 May 2011) was an English singer reportedly the highest-paid female singer of her generation. She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day's Secret Love and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest finishing in second place. Her physical appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila.  Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century.His fame began to spread only in the last few years before his death particularly by way of German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called escolios (or glosses).
Matt Goldman.  Matt Goldman (born December 30 1969) is an American record producer engineer mixer and songwriter based in Atlanta Georgia.
Raymond Berthiaume.  Raymond Berthiaume (born May 9 1931 and died June 23 2009) was a jazz singer musician producer and composer from Québec Canada.
Tex Blaisdell.  For the fictional character named Tex Blaisdell see Bob and Ray.Philip Eustice Blaisdell (March 30 1920 - March 14 1999) better known as Tex Blaisdell was an American comic strip artist and comic book editor. He worked on 22 syndicated features including Little Orphan Annie which he drew for five years.
Lou Cowell.  Lou Cowell (born Emma Louisa Cowell on 15 July 1978 in Epsom Surrey) is a British singer songwriter author kickboxer and occasional TV presenter. She is the daughter of Simon Cowell the host of Animal Planet's Wildlife SOS and founder of Wildlife Aid.
Alex Randall.  Alex Randall (born in 1982 London) is a British lighting designer and artist. She is probably best known for her use of unconventional materials in large-scale chandeliers such as taxidermy rawhide and salvaged materials.
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers.  Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers is a French writer and poet. He was born on 22 October 1939 in Versailles and died on 6 December 2013.
Mileo.  Miles (Mileo) Curtis Sesselmann (born 16 January 1995) known by his stage name Mileo is a Australian/Norwegian singer songwriter and recording artist with English and Norwegian origin.
Jenny Eclair.  Jenny Eclair (born 16 March 1960) is an English comedian novelist and actor best known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women between 2004 and 2007 and in Loose Women in 2011 and 2012.
Elle Kennedy.  Elle Kennedy is a Canadian contemporary romance and romantic suspense writer. In 2010 she received a RITA Award nomination for Silent Watch her debut novel with Silhouette Romantic Suspense. She also publishes with Harlequin Blaze and Samhain Publishing. She received her B.A. in English from York University in 2005. She also publishes under the name of Leeanne Kenedy.
Federico Cervelli.  Federico Cervelli (Milan 1625 —before 1700) was an Italian painter who established his workshop in Venice at the age of about thirty.
Haroldo González.  Haroldo González was born in Montevideo Uruguay in 1941. Up to date he has made nineteen solo exhibitions and he has participated in fifty six collective exhibitions. His artworks have been exhibited at several cities of America Europe Japan and Africa.
Émile Zola.  Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (French: [e.mil zɔ.la]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French writer the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse.
Mountjoy Square.  Mountjoy Square (Irish: Cearnóg Mhuinseo) is a Georgian garden square in Dublin Ireland on the north side of the city just under a kilometre from the River Liffey. One of five Georgian squares in Dublin it was planned and developed in the late 18th century by the Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy. It was surrounded on all sides by terraced red-brick Georgian houses.
Yppah.  Joe Corrales Jr. also known as Yppah (pronounced Yippah) is an electronic/rock musician. He is currently signed to Ninja Tune records and resides in Long Beach California.
Neil Cooper (drummer).  Neil Cooper (born 1 August 1973 Derby England) is best known as the current drummer with Therapy? a hard rock band from Northern Ireland and formerly of The Beyond a hard rock band from England.Cooper uses and is endorsed by Mapex drums. He also uses Paiste cymbals.
Santiago Posteguillo.  Santiago Posteguillo Gómez is a Spanish philologist linguist and author born in Valencia in 1967. He has become known for a number of novels set in Ancient Rome especially his Scipio Africanus trilogy.
Dave Thompson (author).  Dave Thompson (born 4 January 1960) is an English writer who is the author of more than 100 books largely dealing with rock and pop music but also covering film sports philately numismatics and erotica. He was born in Devon and in the late 1970s wrote and published a punk rock fanzine. In the 1980s he was employed by Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell in London's Docklands. He relocated to the US in 1989.
Stacy Clark.  Stacy Clark (born September 21 1980) is an American singer-songwriter born in Buffalo New York.
Andrius Pojavis.  Andrius Pojavis (born 25 November 1983 in Jurbarkas Lithuanian SSR USSR) is a Lithuanian singer-songwriter. On 20 December 2012 he was selected to represent Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 which was held in Malmö Sweden on 18 May 2013.
David Reed (artist).  David Reed (born 1946) is a contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.
László Ney.  László Ney (also known as Lancelot Ney) (26 July 1900 Budapest - 1965 Paris) was a Hungarian graphic artist.He was a succeful caricaturist already in his early life. In the Hungarian Collage of Fine Arts his teacher was István Réti. At the age of 22 he went to Germany on a study trip. In Germany he got to know Moholy-Nagy and by him Kurt Schwitters. First he worked as a graphic artist then as a painter.
Bradley Hathaway.  Bradley Hathaway (born February 13 1982) is a spoken word poet and a folk singer and songwriter from Fort Smith Arkansas
Eric Platz.  Eric Platz (born March 3 1973 in Cumberland Maryland) is a drummer percussionist and educator.Since the late 90's Platz has maintained an active performing career across North America touring with artists of many different backgrounds. Platz performs in many styles and genres including but not limited to: jazz americana world music rock and classical.
John Man (author).  John Anthony Garnet Man (born 15 May 1941) is a British historian and travel writer. His special interests are China Mongolia and the history of written communication.
Thecla Åhlander.  Thecla Åhlander (3 June 1855 - 8 April 1925) was a Swedish stage and film actress whose career began on the stage in the late 19th century and lasted through the early 1920s.Åhlander was born Thekla Ottilia Åhlander in Norrköping and initially studied drama as pupil of Frans Hedberg in 1872. She continued her studies at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School from 1874 to 1877. She made her stage debut at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1877 in a play titled Ett namn.
Kim Chambers.  Kimberly Chambers (born January 11 1974 in Fullerton California) is an American retired (as of around 2007) pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 1993 at the age of around 19 and she has since performed in nearly 200 films. She has also directed at least four films.
Ann Turner (writer).  Ann Warren Turner (December 10 1945-) is an American poet and children's author.
Buzz Osborne.  Roger Buzz Osborne also known as King Buzzo (born March 25 1964) is the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and technically the only remaining founding member of the Melvins. (Drummer Dale Crover is often regarded as a founding member but he joined after the band was formed though before they had yet recorded an album.) Osborne is also a founding member/guitarist for both Fantômas and Venomous Concept.
Capital J.  Capital J is a Canadian drum and bass DJ and record producer. From a young age Capital J was interested in battle deejaying. By the age of thirteen he was winning London Ontario's foremost scratch competitions. In 1997 Capital J moved to Toronto and became involved in the drum and bass scene. Within two months he was awarded DJ of the month by Tribe Magazine. He followed that up by releasing the magazine’s top selling mixtape by a feature DJ.
Julia Darling.  Julia Rose Darling (21 August 1956 – 13 April 2005) was an award-winning British novelist poet and dramatist.
Vivian Dunn.  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Vivian Dunn KCVO OBE FRSA (24 December 1908—3 April 1995) was the Director of Music of the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines from 1931 to 1953 and Principal Director of Music of the Royal Marines from 1953 to 1968. He was the first British Armed Forces musician to be knighted.
Enid Stamp Taylor.  Enid Stamp Taylor (12 June 1904 – 13 January 1946) was a British actress.Taylor first became known when she won a beauty pageant at a young age and this led to parts in musical comedies on stage including The Cabaret Girl (1922) in which she was billed as simply Enid Taylor.
Syreeta Wright.  Syreeta Wright (August 3 1946 – July 6 2004) who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta was a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter best known for her work with ex-husband Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston.
Giovanni Baronzio.  Giovanni Baronzio also known as Giovanni da Rimini (died 1362) was an Italian painter. His year of birth is unknown.
Christopher Lane.  Christopher Lane is an author whose books include the Inupiat Eskimo Mystery series.
Peter Cunningham (writer).  Peter Cunningham FSA (1816–1869) was a Scottish writer son of Allan Cunningham and his wife Jean (née Walker 1791–1866).
Gene Ammons.  Eugene Jug Ammons (April 14 1925 – July 23 1974) also known as The Boss was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.
Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Ta-Nehisi Coates (/ˌtɑːnəˈhɑːsi ˈkoʊts/ TAH-nə-HAH-see KOHTS; born 1975) is an American senior editor for The Atlantic and a blogger for the publication's website. Coates has worked for The Village Voice Washington City Paper and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine The Washington Post The Washington Monthly O and other publications. In 2008 he published a memoir The Beautiful Struggle: A Father Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood.
April Blair.  April Blair is an American writer and producer of film and television. Blair has written scripts for the films Christmas Caper Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous Lemonade Mouth. She also co-wrote with director Tom Bezucha the film Monte Carlo starring Selena Gomez and Leighton Meester. Blair is also the creator and executive producer of the ABC Family series Jane by Design which premiered in January 2012.
Victor Brauner.  Victor Brauner (Romanian: [ˈviktor ˈbrawner] also spelled Viktor Brauner; June 15 1903 – March 12 1966) was a Romanian Jewish sculptor and painter of surrealistic images.
Annie Parkhouse.  Annie Parkhouse (née Halfacree) has been one of the leading letterers in British comics for over 30 years.
Martin Harley.  Martin Harley (born 1975 Cardiff Wales) is a British singer-songwriter and slide guitarist. Specialising in folk and blues he and his band have released five albums between 2003 and 2012.
Pete Shelley.  Pete Shelley (born Peter Campbell McNeish 17 April 1955 in Leigh Lancashire) is an English singer songwriter and guitarist best known as the leader of the Buzzcocks.
Josey Wales.  Josey Wales born Joseph Winston Sterling in St. Mary Jamaica is an influential Jamaican dancehall deejay. He was considered along with Brigadier Jerry Yellowman and sound system partner Charlie Chaplin one of the best deejays of the 1980s.
Søren Rasted.  Søren Nystrøm Rasted (born Søren Rasted on 13 June 1969 in Blovstrød Denmark) is a Danish musician producer and songwriter. He plays keyboard guitar and sings backing vocals. He is one of the four members of Danish-Norwegian pop band Aqua and is married to the Aqua vocalist Lene Nystrøm.Rasted and Claus Norreen were voted in the US two of the ten best pop songwriters/producers who have ever come out of the Scandinavian pop scene.[citation needed]
Abubakari Lunna.  Dolsi-naa Alhaji Abubakari Lunna was a teacher folkloric musician drum-maker virtuoso performer and Ghanaian cultural expert. From 1995 until his death in 2009 he served as consultant and mentor to countless artists across the world including ethnomusicologist and Professor of Music David Locke and American percussionist Jerry Leake. He has taught at Tufts University the Berklee College of Music and many independent African music and dance ensembles throughout North America.
Joseph Aston.  Joseph Aston (1762 – 19 October 1844) was an English journalist dramatist and miscellaneous writer.
Roby Duke.  Roby Duke (December 6 1956 – December 26 2007) was a contemporary Christian musician and songwriter from Greenwood Mississippi. He was noted for his blues-inflected vocal style and rhythmic thumping acoustic guitar playing.
George Frederick Cameron.  George Frederick Cameron (24 September 1854 – 17 September 1885) was a Canadian poet lawyer and journalist best known for the libretto for the operetta Leo the Royal Cadet.
Lukas Simonis.  Lukas Simonis is a Dutch guitarist mainly active in the experimental music and sound art. Besides his career as a musician he's also involved with the Rotterdam based avant garde venue WORM. and runs the music lab of the venue.Simonis published a book in 1979 entitled Slime in the early '80s.
Martin Sturfält.  Martin Sturfält (born in Katrineholm 1979) is a Swedish classical pianist.
Geraldine Aron.  Geraldine Aron (born 1951) is an Irish playwright. She was born in Galway Ireland has lived in Zambia Zimbabwe and South Africa and now lives in Cape Town and London.Aron's play Bar and Ger was performed at the Space Theatre in Cape Town in 1975 and then won awards and was produced in other countries.Dawn French's performance of Aron's one-hander My Brilliant Divorce at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End was nominated for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
Richard Benson (singer).  Richard Philip Henry John Benson known as Richard Benson (born 10 March 1955 Woking England) is an English-Italian singer. It is said he moved to Rome in 1965.
François Valéry.  François Valéry (real name : Jean-Louis Mougeot born on 4 August 1954 in Oran French Algeria) is a French singer-songwriter and composer.
Bouteldja Belkacem.  Bouteldja Belkacem (born 1952) is an Algerian Raï songwriter lyricist and composer.
John Paul Thomas.  John Paul Thomas (4 February 1927 Bessemer Alabama – 5 September 2001 Honolulu Hawaii) was an American artist specializing in oil painting watercolor and drawing in several media. He was also an educator and arts scholar.
Sophie Cunningham.  Sophie Cunningham is a Melbourne-based writer and editor.
Norman Garstin.  Norman Garstin (28 August 1847 – 22 June 1926) was an Irish artist teacher art critic and journalist associated with the Newlyn School of painters. After completing his studies in Antwerp and Paris Garstin travelled around Europe and painted some of his first professional paintings while on the journey. He later took students to Europe to some of his favourite places.Garstin painted plein air and was influenced by Impressionism Japanese works and James McNeill Whistler.
José Carlos Somoza.  José Carlos Somoza (born November 13 1959) is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for political reasons. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994.
T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan.  T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (Tamil: தொ. மு. சிதம்பர ரகுநாதன்  20 October 1923 - 31 December 2001) was a Tamil writer translator journalist and literary critic from Tamil Nadu India. He is also known as T. M. C. Ragunathan Tho. Mu. Si. Ragunathan or by his Tamil initials as Tho. Mu. Si.
Kei Mizutani.  Kei Mizutani (水谷 ケイ Mizutani Kei) (born May 7 1974) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in multiple photo books movies and TV series in Japan and her DVD sets are popular in Japan the United States and Europe.
Ernst Raupach.  Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (May 21 1784 – March 18 1852) was a German dramatist.
Michael Cretu.  Michael Cretu (Romanian: Mihai Crețu pronounced [miˈhaj ˈkret͡su]; born 18 May 1957 Bucharest Romania) is a Romanian-German musician. He is also known as Curly MC or Curly M.C. because of his fair curled hair (creț means curly in Romanian).
Linda Vallejo.  Linda Vallejo (born 1951 Los Angeles) is an American artist known for painting sculpture and ceramics with pieces held by several public museums.
Peter Straub.  Peter Francis Straub (born March 2 1943) is an American author and poet. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award.
Cristoforo Roncalli.  Cristoforo Roncalli (c. 1552–1626) was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as il Pomarancio. Roncalli was born in Pomarance a town near Volterra. His training occurred in Tuscany and around 1578 he relocated to Rome Italy where he worked for Niccolò Circignani (also known as il Pomarancio).Most of his fresco work was in Rome though he worked for a decade in Loreto (1605–1615) where he decorated the New Sacristy.
Vladimir Colin.  Vladimir Colin (Romanian pronunciation: [vladiˈmir koˈlin]; pen name of Jean Colin; May 1 1921 – December 6 1991) was a Romanian short story writer and novelist. One of the most important fantasy and science fiction authors in Romanian literature whose main works are known on several continents he was also a noted poet essayist translator journalist and comic book author.
Kelleigh Bannen.  Kelleigh Bannen is an American country music singer signed to EMI Records Nashville. She debuted in 2012 with the single Sorry on the Rocks which has charted on Hot Country Songs. The song received three stars from Billy Dukes of Taste of Country who compared her voice to Terri Clark but criticized the production. Paul Worley and Jerry Smith will produce her debut album. Bannen is also a Christian and has sung a duet with Patrick Mayberry's Kingdom Reign.
Carlo Goldoni.  Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (Italian: [ˈkarlo ozˈvaldo ɡolˈdoni]; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves often dramatizing the lives values and conflicts of the emerging middle classes.
Elizabeth Wellburn.  Elizabeth Wellburn is a Canadian author. Her writing has been in the areas of fiction for children and educational technology.In 1998 her book Echoes From the Square (ISBN 0-921156-99-5) was published. It tells a fictionalized story based on the real musician Vedran Smailovic adding the character of a young boy who learns to cope in the aftermath of war in Sarajevo. The paintings for the book were created by Deryk Houston. Elizabeth Deryk and their children live in Victoria British Columbia.
Big Pokey.  Milton Powell (born December 4 1977) better known by his stage name Big Pokey is a rap artist from Houston Texas and is one of the original members of the Screwed Up Click.Big Pokey joined up with DJ Screw in the early 1990s and started releasing songs on DJ Screw's many mixtapes. His first full-length album appeared in early 1999 Hardest Pit in the Litter.
Rie Ishizuka.  Rie Ishizuka (石塚 理恵 Ishizuka Rie born April 23 1964 in Shizuoka) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Theatrical Group EN.
Pål Hausken.  Pål Hausken (born 25 August 1980 in Rennesøy Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (drums and percussion) most known from bands like the jazz trio In The Country where he plays together with Morten Qvenild and Roger Arntzen but also for his collaboration with artists like Susanna Wallumrød Bull of the Year Zahl and Music for a While together with Tora Augestad.
John Lefler.  John C. Lefler born March 18 1975 is an American songwriter singer guitarist pianist and has been with Dashboard Confessional since 2002.
John J. Boyle.  John J. Boyle (1851 New York City - February 10 1917 New York City) was an American sculptor.He studied at the Franklin Institute Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and École des Beaux-Arts.He married Elizabeth Carroll in Philadelphia in 1882. In 1910 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.
Wally Bastian.  'Ogustus Martheneus Bastiansz' better known as Wally Bastiansz (died January 16 1985) was a Sri Lankan singer who developed the style of chorus baila in the 1940s.Bastianz was a police officer attached to the traffic division who also played in the marching band when he began his music career. He was an also an experienced guitarist banjo player and violinist.
Sean Hayes (musician).  Sean Padrick Hayes (born August 27 1969) is an American singer-songwriter. Hayes is a native of New York City but was raised in North Carolina. He began playing traditional American and Irish music with a band called the Boys of Bluehill. He traveled the south from the Black Mountain Music festival (LEAF Festival) in the Blue Ridge Mountains down to Charleston South Carolina and eventually found his way to San Francisco where he has lived since 1992.
Dyloot.  Dyloot (Jason Sperling born December 22 1977) is an American trance music DJ and producer from Berkeley California.
Gary Cohn (comics).  Gary Cohn (born January 25 1952) is a comic book writer and co-creator (with Dan Mishkin) of the DC Comics characters Amethyst Princess of Gemworld and Blue Devil.
Terry Butler.  Terry Butler (Born November 1967) of Tampa Florida U.S. is the current bassist in the death metal bands Obituary and Massacre. He was also a member of Six Feet Under and Death.
Bo Weavil Jackson.  Bo Weavil Jackson (dates and places of birth and death unknown real name said to be James Butler) was an African-American blues singer and guitarist. Some sources claim he was born in Birmingham Alabama.He recorded as one of the first country bluesmen in 1926 for the Paramount and Vocalion labels on the latter under the name of Sam Butler.
Benjamin Beduneau.  Benjamin Beduneau also known as Lancelot is a French composer.In September 2005 he sued Malcolm McLaren for plagiarism alleging that McLaren had copied one of Beduneau's compositions for use in the soundtrack to Kill Bill 2. McLaren's lawyer has admitted that McLaren does not play any musical instruments.In November 2005 a French court in Angers (Maine-et-Loire) threw out the case ruling there was not enough evidence to support the claim.
Professor Longhair.  Henry Roeland Roy Byrd (December 19 1918 – January 30 1980) better known as Professor Longhair was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist.
Johnny Hazzard.  Johnny Hazzard (born Frankie Valenti on September 21 1977) is an American pornographic actor model and recording artist who performs in gay and bisexual pornographic films for a number of studios mainly Rascal Video. Most of these videos are directed by Chi Chi LaRue. In August 2008 he worked on a controversial bisexual film directed by LaRue titled Shifting Gears although he only performed in an all-male scene. He is also a music reviewer for Frontiers magazine.
Ed Robison.  Edward Volney Robison is an American writer of short stories novels and screenplays. His work most often focuses an unvarnished light on the events encounters and malaise of blue collar America particularly in the logging region of the Pacific Northwest.Born in Bellingham Washington to Mildred and Volney Robison Ed Robison is the middle of three siblings. The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where Robison spent the majority of his childhood.
Jane Sharp.  Jane Sharp was a 17th-century English midwife who published in 1671 The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered becoming the first English woman to publish a book on midwifery. In her book she combines the medical knowledge of the time with personal anecdotes and states her belief that the profession of midwifery should be reserved for women as male midwives were becoming more common.
Dan Wilde.  Dan Wilde is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Blackpool now living in Canterbury. He has released two solo albums so far the most recent being With Fire in Mind.
Hebe Tien.  Tien Fu-Chen (Chinese: 田馥甄; pinyin: Tián Fùzhēn) more commonly known as Hebe was born on 30 March 1983 in Hsinchu City Taiwan. She is a Taiwanese singer actress TV program hostess and most notably a member of Taiwanese Mandopop girl group S.H.E. She is the second child in her family. After living in Hsinchu for eighteen years Hebe moved to Taipei after she was signed as a singer. She finished high school but did not attend college.
Michelangelo Carducci.  Michelangelo Carducci was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Umbria. He was born in Norcia. Extant works include:Resurrection of Lazarus fresco in the Basilica of San Benedetto Norcia (signed and dated 1560)Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John fresco in the church of Santa Maria della Misericordia Spello (1562)
Sheela Lambert.  Sheela Lambert (born 1956 in New York City) is an American civil rights activist and writer. She is the founder of the Bi Writers Association co-founder of Bi Women of All Colors and is active in a number of bisexual rights groups including BiNet USA.
Stephanie McIntosh.  Stephanie McIntosh (born 5 July 1985)[citation needed] is an Australian actress and singer. She is known for her role as Sky Mangel in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and her music career which began with the release of her debut album Tightrope in September 2006.
Giovanni Srofenaur.  Giovanni Srofenaur (28 February 1580 – 8 April 1634) was an Italian trumpeter and served as court trumpeter for the Duke of Mantua during the time of the House of Gonzaga. He served as the lead trumpeter from 1606–1631 under Ferdinando I Gonzaga Vincenzo II Gonzaga and Charles I Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. Srofenaur led the trumpet fanfare trio during the 1607 premier performance of Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
Rikki Six.  Rikki Six (born December 18 1990) is an American pornographic actress.
Siddiqa Begum.  Siddiqa Begum (Urdu: صدیقہ بیگم‎) Is a well known literary personality of city of Lahore. She is editor of Urdu magazine Adbe Latifsince 1984.
Ken Fallin.  Ken Fallin (born November 11 1948 in Jacksonville Florida) is an American illustrator and caricaturist. His first big break was in 1983 doing the posters and advertising for the popular satirical revue Forbidden Broadway.
Kim Heechul.  Kim Hee-chul (Hangul: 김희철; hanja: 金希澈 born 10 July 1983) simply known as Heechul is a South Korean singer actor and presenter. He is a member of South Korean boy band Super Junior and its subgroup Super Junior-T. On 1 September 2011 Heechul enlisted for his mandatory military service. He served as a public service worker for 23 months after undergoing four weeks of basic training at the Nonsan military camp in Chungcheongnam-do Province.
Zayda Y Los Culpables.  Zayda Y Los Culpables (English: Zayda and the Guilty Ones) is a Mexican grupero band. The group sang romantic ballads about love and loss. The song Tiro de Gracia (Coup de Grâce) describing a failed relationship was one of the most popular songs from the band.
Jenny Lynn (photographer).  Jenny Lynn (born 1953 Tampa Florida) is an American photographer.She works and lives in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.Her 2004 monograph PhotoPlay features photographs collages and photograms from thirty years of work. The book's introduction is by novelist and editor Richard Burgin. Photography curator Virginia Heckert wrote the book's essay.Lynn's work has appeared in Photo District News Zoom International magazine The New Yorker and other publications.
José Arpa.  José Arpa y Perea 1858–1952 was an artist of Spanish birth who worked in Spain Mexico and Texas. Born in Carmona Spain he studied under Eduardo Cano de la Peña at the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville where he won the Rome Prize three times allowing him to study in Rome. During his years in San Antonio Texas he influenced many painters most notably Xavier Gonzalez Octavio Medellín and Porfirio Salinas.
Buddy Rich.  Bernard Buddy Rich (September 30 1917 – April 2 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as the world's greatest drummer and was known for his virtuoso technique power groove and speed.
Antonio Machado.  Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz known as Antonio Machado (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
Heinrich Christoph Fehling.  Heinrich Christoph Fehling a German painter born at Sangerhausen in Thuringia in 1653 was instructed by Bottschildt to whom he was related. After having lived several years in Italy he was appointed court-painter to the Elector John George IV and became director of the Academy and inspector of the Art Galleries at Dresden where he died in 1725.
Audrey Auld-Mezera.  Audrey Auld-Mezera (née Audrey Auld) is an Australian American country music touring singer–songwriter. As of 2013 she has released ten albums and two EPs on her own Reckless Records label. She has recorded with numerous musicians including Kieran Kane Fred Eaglesmith Mary Gauthier Dale Watson Kasey Chambers and Carrie Rodriguez. Auld-Mezera currently resides in Nashville Tennessee.
Maurice Joly.  Maurice Joly (1829—1878) was a French satirist and lawyer known for his work titled The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu later used as a basis for The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Marco Brown.  Marco Brown (born 1969) is an abstract artist from the Mediterranean country of Malta. He currently resides in Tel Aviv Israel.Marco developed an interest in art at an early age. After winning a painting competition organised by the children's television show Take Hart Marco developed his hobby into a passion.
Izumi Inamori.  Izumi Inamori (稲森 いずみ Inamori Izumi born March 19 1972 in Kagoshima Prefecture) is a Japanese actress signed to Burning Production.
Ian Tamblyn.  Ian Tamblyn (born December 2 1947) in is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter and record producer adventurer and playwright.
Shinsuke Ashida.  Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介 Ashida Shinsuke 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in over 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
Max Bunker.  Max Bunker pseudonym of Luciano Secchi (born 24 August 1939) is an Italian comic book author.Secchi was born in Milan. His career started with a western style comic book Maschera Nera (Black Mask) in 1962 and went on to enjoy success with Kriminal and Satanik in collaboration with Magnus (Roberto Raviola).
Michael Hawkins (British actor).  Michael Hawkins (born on 26 November 1928 in Bedfordshire England) is a British actor. Though rarely the star in any series or film in which he appeared Hawkins appeared in supporting roles in dozens of productions over a forty year period.His credits include parts in The Avengers I Claudius George and Mildred Doomwatch and the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space.Hawkins retired in 1979.
Veeramanidasan.  Veeramani Daasan is an Indian singer of devotional songs. Earlier Veeramani Daasan had a light music troupe Sruti Laya. But now it is devotional singing most of the way. He has sung for a couple of films too. Beginning with Ramanuja Suprabhatham Veeramani Daasan has come out with many albums including the recent Amman Kovil. A song from one of his old album Irumudi which brings out the bhakti of a Nari kurava.
Michael David (painter).  Michael David born Michael David Singer; born September 22 1954 is an American-born American painter. Born in Reno Nevada David's family relocated to Brooklyn New York where he was raised. He attended SUNY Fredonia for one year and in 1976 received a B.F.A. from Parson's School of Design. David is classified as an abstract painter best known for his use of the encaustic technique which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax.
Albert Glasser.  Albert Glasser (b. 25 January 1916 Chicago Illinois - d. 4 May 1998 Los Angeles California) was a prolific composer of musical scores for B-movies during the 1940s 50s and 60s. He scored approximately 200 films during his career many for American International Pictures and director Bert I. Gordon.Glasser was educated at University of Southern California through an Alchin Chair Foundation scholarship.
Bernard Edwards.  Bernard Edwards (October 31 1952 – April 18 1996) was a bass player singer songwriter and record producer both as a member of the funk/disco band Chic and on his own projects.
Miguel Condé.  Miguel Condé (born 1939) is a Mexican figurative painter draughtsman and printmaker. According to Radio France he is one of the most important contemporary masters in the field of engraving. Condé's works are in important museum collections all over the world; he is exhibiting regularly at both public and private venues and he has received numerous international honors and awards.
Izya Shlosberg.  Izya Shlosberg (born November 4 1950) is a Jewish American artist writer and philosopher well known for expressing his philosophical and scientific ideas through his paintings. Born in 1950 in Pinsk Belarus Izya moved to the United States in 1994 and quickly became known in the New York and Baltimore art circles for his unique style and ability to express himself through his work.
Charles Courtney Curran.  Charles Courtney Curran (1861 – 1942) was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting beautiful women in pleasant settings.
Georges Yatridès.  Georges Yatridès (born 1931) is a French artist. His work is held in various North American private collections and has been featured in retrospectives.
John Hammink.  John Hammink (born May 1 1970) is an American engineer musician writer and linguist from Ohio.Hammink was born in Cleveland Ohio and graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1993 with a B.A. in Linguistics. He emigrated to Finland in 1996 to lecture at Jyväskylä and Kajaani Polytechnics and to Estonia in 2003.
Julian Argüelles.  Julian Argüelles Clarke (born 28 January 1966) is an English jazz saxophonist. He is a member of the HR Big Band in Frankfurt am Main Germany.
KLC.  Craig KLC Lawson (born July 15 1969) is a rap music producer from the Third Ward of New Orleans Louisiana. He found fame as a member of No Limit Records' in-house production team Beats by the Pound. Since leaving the label he has been a member of the Medicine Men consisting of much of the same producers as the original Beats by the Pound as well as some new talent. Along with Mannie Fresh KLC is arguably one of the most important producers in New Orleans Rap and in Southern Rap.
Clare Briggs.  Clare A. Briggs (August 5 1875 – January 3 1930) was an early American comic strip artist who rose to fame in 1904 with his strip A. Piker Clerk. Briggs was best known for his later comic strips When a Feller Needs a Friend Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling? and The Days of Real Sport.
James Whitcomb Riley.  James Whitcomb Riley (October 7 1849 – July 22 1916) was an American writer poet and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored the majority are in dialect.
Tanaka Isson.  Tanaka Isson (田中一村 22 July 1908 - 11 September 1977) was the pseudonym of a Japanese Nihonga painter from the Showa period noted for his flower-and-bird paintings of the Amami Islands. His real name was Tanaka Jun.Isson was born in what is now Tochigi City Tochigi Prefecture as the son of a local sculptor. Interested in art at an early age he won his first award for a watercolor painting at the age of 7.
François Sudre (1787–1862).  Jean-François Sudre (15 August 1787 – 3 October 1862) was a violinist composer and music teacher who invented a musical language called la Langue musicale universelle or Solrésol.Sudre was born in Albi in southern France on August 15 1787. He studied music as a child and at the age of eighteen was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris on May 12 1806 where he studied violin under François Habeneck and harmony under Charles Simon Catel.
Támar.  Ashley Támar Davis known professionally as Támar is an American R&B singer who came to prominence through her association with the artist Prince. She sang the co-lead vocals on his Grammy-nominated song Beautiful Loved and Blessed from his 2006 album 3121 and on backup vocals throughout the album. Támar started her musical career in the group Girl's Tyme appearing with them on Star Search but left before the group was renamed Destiny's Child.
Ayako Wakao.  Ayako Wakao (若尾 文子 Wakao Ayako November 8 1933 Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress. Contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth New Face group she often appeared in the films of director Yasuzo Masumura. She has appeared in nearly 160 films since her debut in 1952.
Don Higginbotham.  Don Higginbotham (May 22 1931 – June 22 2008) was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History and Peace War and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading scholar of George Washington he was a pioneering practitioner of the “new” military history and an expert on colonial and revolutionary America and the early national United States. He served twice (1975–76 and 1998–99) as visiting professor of history at the United States Military Academy.
Maxine Swann.  Maxine Swann (born February 11 1969) is an American fiction author.
Rod Evans.  Rod Evans (born 19 January 1947 in Slough Berkshire) is a former English singer. In the late 1960s he began his professional career in The Maze formerly MI5 after which he was a member of the original Deep Purple lineup who produced three studio albums with a more progressive and pop driven sound. After recording a solo single he was a member of the original Captain Beyond lineup who produced two studio albums.
Steve Galluccio.  Steve Galluccio is a Canadian screenwriter. His credits include the films Mambo Italiano (based on his play Mambo Italiano) Surviving My Mother and Funkytown and the television series Ciao Bella. He has also been involved in the writing and composition of music for his film soundtracks garnering two Genie Award nominations for Best Original Song: for Mambo Italiano's Montréal Italiano in 2004 and for Funkytown's Waiting for Your Touch in 2011. Galluccio is openly gay.
Clare Thomas.  Clare Thomas (born 2 April 1989 in Buckinghamshire England) is a British actress who has appeared in several British films and television series.
Chris d'Lacey.  Chris d'Lacey (born December 15 1954) is an English writer of children's fiction.
Naim Popal.  Naim Popal (Persian: نعیم پوپل‎; born 18 June 1954) is an Afghani singer songwriter and composer.In 2006 Popal returned to perform for a Persian New Year concert in Afghanistan after 30 years in exile.
David Dixon.  David Dixon (born 28 October 1947) is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born in the Nightingale Maternity Home Derby near his father's shop in 94 London Road and brought up there before the family moved to 14 St. James's Road Normanton in 1959.Dixon's most notable role was in the 1981 BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which he starred as Ford Prefect. He also received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Ariel in the 1980 BBC version of The Tempest.
Frank Calloway.  Frank Calloway (born July 2 1915) is a self-taught artist from the United States. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1952 he was committed to Bryce Hospital and the Alabama Department of Mental Health in Tuscaloosa. As of 2011 he lives in the Alice M. Kidd Nursing Facility in Tuscaloosa. His imagery is primarily agrarian depicting the Old South as he remembers it. He draws on butcher paper using crayons pen and markers.
José Manuel Castañón.  José Manuel Castañón (February 10 1920 – June 6 2001) was a Spanish writer born in Pola de Lena Asturias. Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising he was very soon disappointed with Franco’s regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile in Venezuela. His best-known novel “Moletu-Voleva” published in Madrid in 1956 a story about the crazy lust for money was very much acclaimed.
Pierre Albuisson.  Pierre Albuisson (born 26 September 1952 in Madagascar) is a French postage stamp engraver and designer.
Guido Rimonda.  Guido Rimonda is an Italian violinist and conductor.
Steven Hacker.  Steven M. Hacker is the author of The Medical Entrepreneur: Pearls Pitfalls and Practical Business Advice for Doctors creator of the Medical Entrepreneur App and the course director of a symposium based on the book. He is also the founder of SkinStore.com and PassportMD.
Colette Trudeau.  Colette Marie Trudeau (born June 17 1985) is a Canadian born Métis singer/songwriter who first shot to notoriety as a vocalist for the band LiveonRelease.LiveonRelease was the genesis of Colette Trudeau and Brittin Karroll who had decided to form an all female rock band at the age of 15. Colette used the Georgia Straight an entertainment newspaper in Vancouver to recruit the missing members.
Billy Boyle.  Billy Boyle is an Irish actor on British film television and stage. He is a veteran of the West End stage having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows. In his first West End musical Maggie May he was nominated as best newcomer. Gower Champion then chose him to play Barnaby in Hello Dolly at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane. He appeared in Canterbury Tales at the Phoenix Theatre as The Clerk of Oxford.
Qu Bo (novelist).  Qu Bo 曲波(1923–2002) was a Chinese novelist. His name was also translated as Chu Po. Qu 曲 the family name has meanings of curve melody and tune. Bo 波 stands for ripples and waves. His first book Tracks in the Snowy Forest (林海雪原) made him one of the most popular authors at the time.
Øyvind Myhre.  Øyvind Kvernvold Myhre (born 1945) is a Norwegian author of science fiction and fantasy literature. He has written more than twenty novels and short stories. from 1975-1977 he was author and editor of the Norwegian science fiction magazine NOVA. He also published a fanzine called GANDALF. Øyvind Myhre earned his siv.ing. degree from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
Doug Pettibone.  Doug Pettibone (born in Los Angeles California) is an American guitarist singer songwriter and studio musician.
Charles Vess.  Charles Vess (born June 10 1951) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His influences include British Golden Age book illustrator Arthur Rackham Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha and comic-strip artist Hal Foster among others. Vess has won several awards for his illustrations.
Miles Black.  Miles Black (born April 13 1966) is a multi-instrumentalist and producer residing in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.[1]
Sinclair Lewis.  Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7 1885 – January 10 1951) was an American novelist short-story writer and playwright. In 1930 he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create with wit and humor new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars.
Roni Benise.  Roni Benise (best known as Benise and pronounced Buh-ness-see) is an American guitarist who describes his style as nouveau spanish flamenco.After growing up in Nebraska Benise moved to Los Angeles to pursue rock stardom. After hearing flamenco music on the radio he switched from electric guitar to nylon-stringed classical guitar.He and a group of friends began busking on the street and playing neighborhood theaters and flea markets.
Brett Hoffman.  Bret Hoffmann (Born February 8 1967 in Stoughton Massachusetts) is a death metal vocalist. He currently fronts Malevolent Creation and Down The Drain. He performed on the first three Malevolent Creation releases until he left the band after 1993's Stillborn album. He then returned and performed on The Fine Art Of Murder and Envenomed before leaving again and being replaced by Kyle Symons. In 2005 he returned again and replaced Symons.
Stacy Francis.  Stacy Francis (born April 16 1969) is an American singer and actress. She is best known for being a part of the girl group Ex Girlfriend and as a contestant in the first season of The X Factor USA. Francis has also made several television appearances on various shows. She also performed for Tom Cruise at his 40th birthday.
Kōhei Miyauchi.  Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 孝幸 Miyauchi Takayuki August 4 1929 – June 2 1995) better known by the stage name Kōhei Miyauchi (宮内 幸平 Miyauchi Kōhei) was a Japanese voice actor born in Kagoshima Prefecture. On June 2 1995 Miyauchi died on his hospital bed at the Nihon University Itabashi Hospital from abdominal varices. At the time of Miyauchi's death he was represented by Aoni Production.
Dan Connolly (musician).  Dan Connolly is a singer-songwriter guitarist pianist and Irish drummer. He recently started his music career in earnest drawing from a varied background. With an extensive repertoire of ballads and fusion rock. Connolly now has a band that includes violinist Geoffrey Castle and other Seattle musicians.
Johann Sperl.  Johann Sperl (3 November 1840 – 29 July 1914) was a German painter.
Kenichi Mochizuki.  Kenichi Mochizuki (望月健一 Mochizuki Kenichi born March 16) is a Japanese voice actor.
Vicente Fidel López.  Vicente Fidel López (April 24 1815 in Buenos Aires – August 30 1903) was an Argentine historian lawyer and politician. He was a son of writer and politician Vicente López y Planes.
Shizuo Fujieda.  Shizuo Fujieda (藤枝 静男 Fujieda Shizuo December 20 1907 - April 16 1993) was a Japanese author.Shizuo Fujieda's first profession was of an ophthalmologist. For many years before becoming a full-time author he wrote only when he was free from his work as an ophthalmologist. Fujieda's literary career began rather. He was already 39 when his first short story was published in a literary magazine. Fujieda knew Shugo Honda and Ken Hirano two literary critics from his school days.
Alan Mair.  Alan Mair is a musician and producer. He is best known as the bassist from The Only Ones.
Ashkan Kooshanejad.  Ashkan Kooshanejad a.k.a. Ash Koosha is an Iranian Singer-songwriter composer and record producer living in London United kingdom. He is the singer of the Iranian duo Take It Easy Hospital. He mainly plays guitar bass and Keyboard.
Dave Freeman (American author).  David Stewart Freeman (February 21 1961 – August 17 2008) was an American advertising executive best known for co-authoring the 1999 book 100 Things to Do Before You Die with his friend Neil Teplica. It was based on the Web site whatsgoingon.com which the pair ran together from 1996 to 2001.
Helen Baylor.  Helen Baylor (born January 8 1953 as Helen LaRue Lowe) is an American gospel singer.
Anthony Callea.  Anthony Cosmo Callea (born 13 December 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter who rose to prominence after being the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. He was signed to Sony Music Australia until 2009 and is now an independent artist.
Gil Goldstein.  Gil Goldstein (born 1950) is American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.
Jeanne Mas.  Jeanne Mas born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante Spain but naturalised in France. She is both a French pop singer and actress.She is well known in France Switzerland and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. Her first success was Toute première fois in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the United Kingdom in English. Two of her singles charted at number one in France: Johnny Johnny and En Rouge et Noir in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
Gillian Wearing.  Gillian Wearing OBE RA (born 1963) is an English conceptual artist one of the YBAs and winner of the annual British fine arts award The Turner Prize in 1997. On 11 December 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Jack Craciun lll.  Jack Craciun lll (born Cleveland Ohio) is an American music and entertainment producer who is perhaps best known for having staged the first rock concert in history at a United States Army base in Fort Campbell Kentucky.In his hometown of Cleveland he has produced the TVT and TVI music awards among many other events. He also owned the TCI nightclub an extension of his bilateral Chinese American entertainment and media firm ITM.
Éric Le Lann.  Éric Le Lann(born 1957 in Brittany) is a French jazz trumpeter.He moved to Paris in 1977 where he had his professional debut and gained notice in 1980. He has worked with Aldo Romano Henri Salvador and others. He also did music for films including those of Bertrand Tavernier. In 2005 he and guitarist Jean-Marie Ecay did an album in tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Malësori.  Malësor Prenkoçaj (born 17 July 1977) better known by his stage name Malësori is a famous Albanian singer from Malesi e Madhe.
Fernand Fonssagrives.  Fernand Fonssagrives (June 8 1910 - April 23 2003) born near Paris France was a photographer known for his 'beauty photography' in the early 1940s and as the first husband of the model Lisa Fonssagrives. He died in 2003 at Little Rock Arkansas.
Lin Yu-chun.  Lin Yu-chun (Chinese: 林育羣; pinyin: Lín Yùqún; Wade–Giles: Lin2 Yü4-ch'ün2); born March 9 1986 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese singer who gained fame by appearing on a Taiwanese talent show One Million Star (超級星光大道) singing I Will Always Love You (written and originally sung by Dolly Parton) in the style of Whitney Houston's cover version. Lin is well known for his mezzo-soprano-like and sometimes contralto-like countertenor singing voice although he has an adult speaking voice.
Kathryn Minshew.  Kathryn Minshew is the CEO and co-founder of The Muse a career-development platform.
Ashwin Sood.  Ashwin Sood (born September 25 1967 in Birmingham West Midlands England) is a Canadian musician. Sood plays drums percussion keyboards and sings.Sood was Sarah McLachlan's drummer and was married to McLachlan although they are now divorced.Sood grew up in Calgary Alberta Canada. He started playing the drums at age seven. In high school he played with a band called Banood where he played drums percussion and provided vocals for the group.
Jorge de la Vega.  Jorge de la Vega (1930–1971) was an Argentine painter graphic artist draftsman singer and songwriter.Although de la Vega studied architecture in Buenos Aires for six years he then became self-taught as a painter. From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the art movement called Nueva Figuración. During his involvement in this movement he became a member of the Otra Figuración group.
Michael White (singer).  Larry Michael White (born in Knoxville Tennessee) is an American country music artist. The son of songwriter L.E. White who has written for Conway Twitty Michael had a song he wrote recorded when he was still a teenager. “You Make It Hard To Take The Easy Way Out appeared on the B-side to Conway Twitty's hit “You’ve Never Been This Far Before”.Michael was later signed to Reprise Records in 1992 releasing his debut album Familiar Ground that year.
Douglas Anne Munson.  Douglas Anne Munson (February 17 1948 - December 22 2003) was an attorney teacher and author of four critically acclaimed novels. She published three of those novels under the pseudonym of Mercedes Lambert.Douglas Anne Munson was born in Crossville Tennessee on February 17 1948.
Aref Arefkia.  Aref Arefkia known as Aref (Persian: عارف‎) born August 15 1941 in Tehran Iran is an Iranian-born pop singer. Aref’s first introduction to music came in part from his Azari mother listening to Radio Baku as a child. Radio Baku played Azari and Western music as well as European operas in that time. In the 1960s Aref introduced a new wave of romantic styles to the large spectrum of romantic Persian music. After the Islamic revolution Aref left Iran and went to London and Los Angeles.
Jimmy Rankin.  James Kevin Jimmy Rankin (born May 28 1964) is a Canadian country and folk artist. A member of The Rankin Family Rankin has also released six solo albums Song Dog (2001) Handmade (2003) Edge of Day (2007) Forget About the World (2011) Tinsel Town (2012) and Back Road Paradise (2014). Rankin's solo and Rankin Family awards include 5 Junos 27 East Coast Music Awards 9 SOCAN top radio play Awards 7 Canadian Country Music Awards 2 Music NS Awards and 2 Canadian Radio Music Awards.
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen.  Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720–1778) the son and pupil of Frans Eisen was born at Valenciennes. In 1741 he went to Paris and in the following year entered the studio of Le Bas. His talent and his sparkling wit gained him admission to the court where he became painter and draftsman to the King and drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour. He afterwards fell into disgrace and in 1777 retired to Brussels where he died in poverty in 1778.
Ann Grifalconi.  Ann Grifalconi (born September 22 1929) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born in New York she studied art at the Cooper Union School of Art where she received a certificate in advertising art in 1950.
Maejor Ali.  Brandon Green better known by his stage names Maejor Ali or Bei Maejor is an American music producer songwriter and recording artist from Detroit Michigan. Ali has written and produced songs for several artists such as Trey Songz Justin Bieber Austin Mahone Tinie Tempah Keri Hilson LeToya Luckett Ciara Sean Kingston Cody Simpson Lloyd Chrisette Michelle T-Pain New Boyz Ne-Yo Wiz Khalifa Bun B Monica Ginuwine Plies Tiësto Three 6 Mafia Iggy Azalea and Asal Hazel.
Maggie Bell.  Margaret Maggie Bell (born 12 January 1945 Maryhill Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish rock vocalist.
Pablo Ganguli.  Pablo Ganguli (born 23 November 1983) is a cultural entrepreneur artist director and impresario who has created and directed several international festivals movements and summits of arts literature media film fashion and culture through his organisation Liberatum.Ganguli is the mastermind behind leading international cultural diplomacy ventures ranging from Hong Kong to Berlin Moscow to Istanbul.
Lynn Marie Kirby.  Lynn Marie Kirby is an American artist and filmmaker and teacher. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.With a background in cinema and conceptual performance Kirby works with shifting recording technologies creating film/video hybrids site interventions and mappings that become records of time technologies and places.
Alicia Ostriker.  Alicia Suskin Ostriker (born November 11 1937) is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.She was called America's most fiercely honest poet by Progressive.
David Whitfield.  David Whitfield (2 February 1925 – 16 January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist.
Tore Stjerna.  Tore Gunnar Stjerna (aka Necromorbus) has played guitar and drums in the following bands; Watain Chaos Omen Corpus Christii Funeral Mist Ofermod Zavorash Desolation In Aeternum. He is also a producer who owns Necromorbus Studio.
Maggie Thompson.  Margaret Maggie Thompson (born Margaret Curtis on November 29 1942) is a former librarian longtime editor of the now-defunct Comics Buyer's Guide (a monthly comic book industry news magazine) science fiction fan and collector of comics.
Diane Schoemperlen.  Diane Mavis Schoemperlen (born July 9 1954) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Thunder Bay Ontario and educated at Lakehead University.Her first novel In the Language of Love (1994) is composed of one hundred chapters each one based on one of the one hundred words in the Standard Word Association Test which was used to measure sanity.
Mel Pritchard.  Mel Pritchard (20 January 1948 – 28 January 2004) was the former drummer with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest.
Adam Avil.  Adam Avil (born 30 June 1970) is an Indian rock artist and the lead guitarist founder songwriter and lead vocalist of the Indian rock band Pralay. The band formed in the early 1990s was previously called Greek; its members included: Adam's younger brother Eddie Avil Luke Kenny Joy Dattagupta Ulysses Veyra Brian Soans and Victor D'souza. The band was active for a decade.
Jack Ludwig.  Jack Barry Ludwig (born August 30 1922) is a former Canadian novelist short story writer and sportswriter.Born and raised in the Jewish Canadian community of Winnipeg Manitoba Ludwig was educated at the University of Manitoba graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1944 and the University of California Los Angeles earning his Ph.D. in 1953.
Jin Chao-chun.  Jin Chao-chun (Chinese: 金超群) is a Golden Bell Award-winning Taiwanese actor who achieved regional fame in East Asia and Southeast Asia for his portrayal of the ancient Chinese official Bao Zheng in the 1993 TV series Justice Bao. By 2012 he has portrayed Bao Zheng in over 700 episodes of television series produced in Taiwan Hong Kong Mainland China and Singapore. In 1997 he financed the construction of Chao-chun Film Studio in Qingdao China to film Bao Zheng-related television drama.
Michael S. Smith.  Michael Scott Smith (January 30 1946 – January 2 2006) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
Shakka (singer).  Shakka is a singer-songwriter and producer from Notting Hill whose music has been influenced by Indie Dub Reggae Hip-Hop Motown and Garage. His musical inspirations include Bob Marley Coldplay The Police and Andre 3000. He is well-respected and multi-talented across the arts; performing at Tate Britain alongside Speech Debelle as part of their 'Great British Art Debate' as well as performing in 'Home' being shown at the National Theatre.
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe.  Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936) was an American painter designer etcher commercial artist and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member student and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. She made genre paintings including revolutionary and colonial American history most notably The First Thanksgiving held at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth Massachusetts.
Jen Sookfong Lee.  Jen Sookfong Lee is a Canadian broadcaster and novelist. A radio personality for CBC Radio One in Vancouver British Columbia she contributes a regular literary segment called Westcoast Words to On the Coast and All Points West the network's local programs in Vancouver and Victoria and is also a regular contributor to the national network program The Next Chapter.
Arthur Blythe.  Arthur Blythe (born May 7 1940 in Los Angeles California) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.
Alexandre Dumas.  Alexandre Dumas (French: [a.lɛk.sɑ̃dʁ dy.ma] born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie [dy.ma da.vi də la pa.jə.tʁi]; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) also known as Alexandre Dumas père was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Giovanni Battista Brazzè.  Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio) was an Italian painter of genre subjects active in late-Mannerist period active in Florence. He painted capricci with small human figures and also still-lifes with fruit and musical instruments. trained with Jacopo da Empoli.
Michael Hickey.  Michael Hickey originally of Manhasset New York is a screenwriter best known for the screenplay of the horror film Silent Night Deadly Night. Hickey's controversial screenplay focused on a serial killer who disguised as Santa Claus takes the lyric He knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake rather too literally.Hickey also authored the stage play Murrow about the life of newscaster Edward R.
Sandy Boucher.  Sandy Boucher (born 15 July 1936 in Columbus Ohio) is an American author Buddhist and feminist. She lives in Oakland California.
Robert Bernard Martin.  Robert Bernard Martin (1918-1999) was an American scholar and biographer specializing in Victorian literature. He was born in Illinois and taught at Princeton University from 1951 to 1975. He published several books about the Victorian era including biographies of Alfred Tennyson Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edward Fitzgerald. His life of Tennyson won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize.
Lish McBride.  Lish McBride is an American writer of urban fantasy. Her first book was Hold Me Closer Necromancer a young-adult novel about a fast-food fry cook who learns he is a necromancer. It won a 2011 Washington State Book Award and the annual William C. Morris YA Debut Award.[citation needed] Her second novel Necromancing the Stone was released in September 2012.McBride grew up outside Seattle. She moved to Seattle when she was 21 then to New Orleans for her MFA in fiction.
Lise Darly.  Lise Darly (born 27 December 1981) is a French singer and was selected to represent Monaco in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest held in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.Lise was born in Nice. She made her mark by beating over a hundred rivals to win the Graine de Star Tour in 1999. She subsequently became a professional singer in 2001 and in 2003 entered a casting process designed to find a suitable singer to represent Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Darly came second in the process.
Jane Gilmore Rushing.  Jane Gilmore Rushing (November 15 1925 - July 4 1997) was a Texan novelist and journalist who formerly was a staff writer for the Abilene Reporter-News in Abilene Texas. Her works are the subject of Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work a book by Lou Halsell Rodenberger former professor of English at McMurry University in Abilene Texas.Rushing grew up in Pyron a West Texas farming community now recognizable only by a cemetery and railroad sign.
Anatoly Konenko.  Anatoly Ivanovich Konenko (Russian: Анато́лий Ива́нович Коне́нко; 23 February 1954 Orsk) — is a microminiature painter from the Russian city of Omsk in 1996 he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the worlds smallest book. Konenko began his career in 1981 becoming the first microminiature artist in Siberia.
Jerome Gilson.  Jerome Gilson (born January 12 1931) is an American trademark lawyer and author of a multivolume treatise on trademark law.
Dan Wilson (musician).  Dan Wilson (born May 20 1961) is a multi-instrumentalist vocalist visual artist songwriter and producer.
Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry.  Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry M.A. (Telugu: మల్లాది రామకృష్ణశాస్త్రి) (16 June 1905 - 12 September 1965) was an eminent Telugu writer.
Faultline (musician).  Faultline is the musical brainchild of producer and artist David Kosten.Working under the name Faultline Kosten is known for both his largely instrumental debut Closer Colder and the follow up Your Love Means Everything which featured guest vocals from Coldplay’s Chris Martin The Flaming Lips & R.E.M’s Michael Stipe.
Christophe Arleston.  Christophe Arleston (born 14 August 1963) was born in Aix-en-Provence France. He is a French comics writer and editor. His real name is Christophe Pelinq. He has also worked as Scotch Arleston.
Conrad Marca-Relli.  Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5 1913 Boston – August 29 2000 Parma) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
Frédéric Yonnet.  Frédéric Yonnet (born 1973) is a French musician producer and recording artist who is best known for his use of the harmonica as a lead in jazz R&B funk gospel and hip-hop influenced music.
Ken Bruen.  Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.
Ernie C.  Ernie Cunnigan better known by his stage name Ernie C is the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Body Count.
Fredrik Strömberg.  Fredrik Strömberg (born 14 July 1968) is journalist and author writing mostly about comics. He is the chairman of Seriefrämjandet (the Swedish Comics Association) the editor for Bild & Bubbla and the headmaster for a comics art school.
Selwyn (singer).  Selwyn (born Selwyn Pretorius 1982 in Durban South Africa) is an R&B singer from Perth Western Australia. He was a contestant on the Australian reality series Popstars 2 but did not make it through to the final group lineup. He was re-discovered while working at a shopping centre as a trolley boy. Producer Audius Mtawarira overheard him singing and offered to produce him.
Gillian Gilbert.  Gillian Lesley Gilbert (born 27 January 1961) is an English musician keyboardist guitarist and singer best known as a member of New Order and a founding member of The Other Two.
Jason Crabb.  Jason Crabb (born March 3 1977) is a Christian music singer and musician. He has been the lead vocalist for the group The Crabb Family.Crabb was voted Favorite Male Vocalist at the first annual Harmony Honors Awards and Favorite Young Artist at the 2000 Singing News Fan Awards. In 2004 he was voted 2004 Gospel Music Male Vocalist of the Year. He has been nominated for many other awards during his career. He has worked extensively with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir as a soloist.
Clara Beranger.  Clara Berenger (January 14 1886 – September 10 1956) was an American screenwriter of the silent film era and a member of the original faculty of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Richard Carlile.  Richard Carlile (8 December 1790 – 10 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom.
Emma Hewitt.  Emma Louise Hewitt (born c. 1988) is an Australian singer-songwriter and trance vocalist who resides in Los Angeles.
Zhang Yaodong.  Zhang Yaodong (simplified Chinese: 张耀栋; traditional Chinese: 張耀棟; pinyin: Zhāng Yàodòng born Teoh Yeow Tong on 17 December 1977) is a Malaysian actor based in Singapore.
Amber Liu (singer).  Amber Josephine Liu (traditional Chinese: 劉逸雲; simplified Chinese: 刘逸云; pinyin: Liú Yìyún; Cantonese Yale: Làuh Yahtwàhn; born September 18 1992) also known as Amber is a Taiwanese American singer active in South Korea. She is a part of South Korean quintet pop girl group f(x) as the sub-vocalist and the main rapper.
Aya Nakahara.  Aya Nakahara (中原アヤ Nakahara Aya born July 28 1973 in Osaka) is a Japanese manga artist. She won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga for Love Com.
Dr. Chud.  Dr. C.H.U.D. (for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Drummer born David Calabrese on April 4 1964 in Lodi New Jersey) is an American rock drummer and singer.
Chen Ran.  Chen Ran (Chinese: 陈染; pinyin: Chén Rǎn) is a Chinese avant-garde writer. Most of her works appeared in the 1990s and often deal with Chinese feminism.
Konomi Maeda.  Konomi Maeda (前田 このみ Maeda Konomi born October 15) is a female Japanese voice actor formerly affiliated with Aoni Production.
Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.  Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (5 January 1679 – 22 February 1750) was an Italian composer organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino. Three years later in 1708 his father brought him to Naples where he became an organist at court.
Jeanie MacPherson.  Jeanie MacPherson (May 18 1887 – August 26 1946) was a silent film actress from 1908 to 1917 and a film screenwriter through the 1940s.Jeanie MacPherson was born in Boston Massachusetts. She was educated in Paris and in Chicago and studied dancing from Theodore Kosloff. Her onstage experience started when she went to Chicago Musical College. In 1908 she made her screen debut in the D.W.
Joe Garner (author).  Joe Garner (Joseph Garner) is a former radio executive (Westwood One Radio Networks) American author and acclaimed keynote speaker who resides in Los Angeles.Garner spent twenty years working in the radio industry with over ten of those years employed as an executive with the Westwood One radio network. He contributed to the creation and production of numerous audiobooks for Simon & Schuster.
Wil Francis.  William Roy wiL Francis (born in Seattle Washington on January 8 1982) is the lead vocalist of the band Aiden as well as his electronic project William Control. Francis also acts as producer to the band A Midnight Tragedy and Ashestoangels.In 2003 Aiden had formed with Francis as bass player. After the original lead singer had quit the band Francis took over as vocalist. In 2005 Aiden was signed to Victory Records (they had been previously signed to Dead Teenager Records).
William Brymner.  William Brymner CMG (December 14 1855 – June 18 1925) was a Canadian art teacher and a figure and landscape painter.
John Altenburgh.  John Altenburgh (born April 20 1960 Wausau Wisconsin United States) is an American jazz and blues pianist composerarranger and producer who has made his home in Mosinee Wisconsin. Altenburgh studied music at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He is the founder of Altenburgh Records distributed by The Orchard a division of Sony Entertainment and has recorded numerous albums as a solo artist and with his blues group Johnny & The MoTones.
Mark Knopfler.  Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British songwriter film score composer guitarist and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist vocalist and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits which he co-founded with his brother David Knopfler in 1977.After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995 Knopfler went on to record and produce seven solo albums and as with his previous tenure produced many hit songs.
Aadhavan Sundaram.  Aadhavan (Tamil: ஆதவன்) is the pseudonym of K. S. Sundaram (Tamil: கே. எஸ். சுந்தரம் 21 March 1942 - 19 July 1987) a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu India.
Cezary Ostrowski.  Cezary Maciej Ostrowski (born 30 September 1962) is a Polish composer musician songwriter author visual artist and journalist.Ostrowske was born in Brzeg Lower Silesia. He is best known for his work as a leader of the critically acclaimed new wave band Bexa Lala established in 1983. Before that he had fronted the groups: Taz and Leo Patett in the early 1980s bands renowned for their rough and violent sound influenced by free jazz electronica and post-punk.
Ariel Ramírez.  Ariel Ramírez (4 September 1921 – 18 February 2010) was an Argentine composer pianist and music director. He was considered a chief exponent of Argentine folk music and noted for his iconic musical compositions.Ramírez is known primarily for his Misa Criolla (1964). It allowed him to travel around Europe and Latin America to build his reputation. He had more than 300 compositions during his career and sold millions of albums. By the time he died in 2010 his work was globally renowned.
Radioinactive.  Kamal Humphrey De Iruretagoyena better known by his stage name Radioinactive is an indie hip hop artist from Los Angeles California. He is a member of the Shape Shifters collective. He was a member of Log Cabin along with Eligh Murs and Scarub. He has released a number of solo albums as well as collaborating with artists such as Busdriver Daedelus and Antimc.
Jim McCann (musician).  James Jim McCann (born 26 October 1944) is an Irish entertainer and folk musician. Although a solo artist for most of his career McCann was a member of the folk group the Dubliners from 1974 until 1979.
Peter Kreeft.  Peter John Kreeft (born 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy theology and apologetics. He also formulated together with Ronald K. Tacelli SJ Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God.
Jade Williams.  Jade Williams (born 1988 Broxbourne Hertfordshire England) (or Sidcup Kent - [1]) is a British solo pop singer who has performed under the stage names Sunday Girl and Whinnie Williams. The Sunday Girl moniker originates from when she was younger and used to work in a pet shop every Sunday; where over time she became known as Sunday Girl. Williams is currently signed to the record labels Island and Polydor.
Natalie Appleton.  Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett (born May 14 1973) is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the band All Saints. During All Saints' five years of inactivity she was a member of Appleton with her younger sister Nicole.
Bryce Hudson.  Bryce Hudson (March 29 1979 Rabat Morocco – Present Louisville Kentucky) is a Moroccan-American Neo-plasticist (De Stijl) painter. Hudson's early geometric paintings explore race and stereotypes through means of the Geometric abstraction style. Later in his career influenced by the theories of Constructivism the paintings and wall sculptures referenced abstracted architectural and spatial elements.
Cherry Dee.  Cherry Daniella Andrea Frampton (born 11 June 1987) is a former glamour model and Page 3 girl from Buckley in Flintshire Wales who posed under the name Cherry Dee. During her modelling career she was featured in magazines such as Fast Car Fit For Men and Nuts tabloid newspapers such as The Sun Daily Star and The Daily Sport and on a number of softcore websites. She frequently posed topless but never fully nude.
Symbolyc One (S1).  Larry D. Griffin Jr. (born August 3 1976) professionally known as Symbolyc One or simply S1 is an American music producer from Waco Texas. He works primarily with Strange Fruit Project The Dividends with singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe and is signed to Kanye West's Very GOOD Beats as a producer.
Paul Jenkins (writer).  Paul Jenkins (born 6 December 1965) is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.
Itamar Assumpção.  Itamar Assumpção (September 13 1949 – June 12 2003) was a Brazilian songwriter and composer who was born in Tietê a city in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Assumpção built a strong reputation in the Brazilian independent and alternative music scenes during the 1980s and 1990s particularly in his home state of São Paulo.
Paul Connolly (journalist).  Paul Connolly is an Irish investigative journalist radio personality and documentary maker who currently works for Ireland's commercial television station TV3. He worked as a host for various famous Irish sports show and also is host to a series of investigative documentaries self-titled as Paul Connolly Investigates.
Vinny Burns.  Vinny Burns (born 4 April 1965 Oldham Lancashire) is an English hard rock guitarist and producer best known for his work with the bands Dare Ten and Bob Catley. He has also been a member of Asia Ultravox Hugo FM The Ladder Phoenix Down and on his own project with Sam Blue Burns Blue. He is active as a producer and owns his one recording studio (The Viper Room). The last album he produced was the debut album of the rock band The Beautiful Sleazy All Fired Up.
Rockin' Dave Allen.  David Allen Stich a.k.a. Rockin’ Dave Allen a.k.a. Dave Allen (September 27 1941 – April 28 1985) was an American blues guitarist singer and songwriter. Allen performed live throughout Texas and the Gulf Coast area from the late 1950s through the early 1980s. He recorded for the Jin Eric International Artists Rock-a-Billy and Big Orange record labels for a total of sixteen 45 sides and two vinyl LPs. Some of this material has also appeared on compact disc anthologies by Ace Records.
Phyllis Arkle.  Phyllis Arkle (Chester 23 April 1910 - 1997) was an English author of children's books. She was born and educated in Chester but 1959 saw her move to the village of Twyford Berkshire. Among her works was The Railway Cat (1983) and the Roddy the Roadman series (beginning in 1970). Arkle's death was in 1997.
Ray Peterson.  Ray Peterson (April 23 1939 – January 25 2005) was an American pop singer who was best remembered for singing Tell Laura I Love Her and Corrine Corrina in the 1960s.
Brenda Lee.  Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11 1944) known as Brenda Lee is an American performer and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly pop and country music and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley The Beatles and Ray Charles.
Ruth Hauser.  Ruth Hauser (November 19 1923 – January 11 2007) was born Ruth Elizabeth Neudorf in Lancaster Pennsylvania. She toured the world as a member of the Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens musical group. In 1946 Ruth married Charles Fritz Hauser a young Naval officer whom she met on tour and relocated to New York State.
Doug Kovacs.  Douglas Kovacs is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Boris Brott.  Boris Brott OC OOnt (born March 14 1944) is a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker.Born in Montreal the son of violinist and composer Alexander Brott and cellist Lotte Brott and brother of cellist Denis Brott. Boris Brott is one of the most internationally-recognized Canadian conductors. He has conducted on stages around the world—from Carnegie Hall to Covent Garden.
Jerry Weldon.  Jerry Weldon (born 27 September 1957) is a tenor saxophonist noted for his involvement in various groups such as Lionel Hampton Orchestra and Harry Connick Jr.s big band. He is seen as a veteran of the New York jazz scene.
Bob Saget.  Robert Lane Bob Saget (born May 17 1956) is an American stand-up comedian actor and television host. Although he is best known for his family-friendly roles as Danny Tanner in Full House and the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos Saget is also known for his very vulgar stand-up routine. From 2005-2014 he provided the voice of the future Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother.
Vincent de Moor.  Vincent de Moor (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɪn.sɛnt də ˈmʊːr]) (born 5 December 1973 Delft Netherlands) is a Dutch trance artist. He is most notable for his work with the record producer Ferry Corsten under the working title Veracocha and for his 2001 single Fly Away.
Matthew Caws.  Matthew Caws (born August 5 1967 in New York City) is American singer songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop rock band Nada Surf. Caws is also a member of the indie rock duo Minor Alps alongside Juliana Hatfield.
Ellis Marcus.  Ellis Marcus (May 6 1918-June 23 1990) was an American television writer whose career spanned four decades. He contributed episodes to over fifty television programs from 1949 through 1984. His widow Ann Marcus is also a television writer. They had three children together.
Ben Ottewell.  Ben Ottewell is an English singer-songwriter. He is one of the three lead singers of the English indie rock band Gomez. He was the recipient of the Mercury Music Award Prize in 1998 and is well known for his deep raspy voice and gravelly baritone. Ottewell has recently embarked upon a solo-project with the debut album Shapes & Shadows.
Benno de Goeij.  Marinus Bernardus de Goeij known as Benno de Goeij (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛnoː də ˈɣui]) (born on 19 May 1975) is a Dutch trance producer. He is perhaps best known for his participation in Rank 1 with Piet Bervoets and Kamaya Painters with Tiësto. Since 2008 de Goeij has been known as the co-producer behind the Dutch trance acts Armin van Buuren and Jochen Miller.
Jean de La Bruyère.  Jean de La Bruyère (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃dəlabʁyˈjɛʁ]) (16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist.
Lil' ½ Dead.  Donald Smith (born September 13 1974) better known by his stage name Lil' ½ Dead is an American hip hop recording artist from Long Beach California. Smith's moniker is based on the character Half Dead in the 1979 film Penitentiary. He is the cousin of fellow hip hop artists Nate Dogg Butch Cassidy and Snoop Dogg.The song Lil Ghetto Boy (from Dr. Dre's The Chronic) has a brief reference to Smith as do Fuck You and Housewife both from Dr.
Carl Weingarten.  Carl Weingarten is an American guitarist photographer and founder of the independent music label Multiphase Records. Regarded as one of the truly great indie musicians working today by the San Francisco Chronicle he is best known for his atmospheric sound and use of the slide guitar and Dobro. Weingarten has played a significant role in progressive underground music for nearly 30 years recording several solo and collaborative instrumental albums and signing various musicians to his label.
Chris DeRose (author).  Chris DeRose is an American author law professor and political consultant. His latest book Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America's Greatest President is an account of Abraham Lincoln's one and only term in the United States Congress
William Beckett (singer).  William Beckett born February 11 1985 is an American musician best known for his work with the now-defunct Chicago based band The Academy Is... (TAI) who were signed to Atlantic Records/Fueled by Ramen/Decaydance Records. While still in high school in 2002 Beckett and guitarist Mike Carden came together from rival bands in Chicago to form The Academy Is....
William Goyen.  Charles William Goyen (April 24 1915 – August 30 1983) was an American novelist short story writer playwright poet editor and teacher. Born in a small town in East Texas these roots would influence his work for his entire life.In World War II he served as an officer aboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific where he began work on one of his most important and critically acclaimed books The House of Breath.
Guillaume Coutu Dumont.  Guillaume Coutu Dumont is an electronic musician from Montreal Canada who is based in Berlin Germany. He is noted for his various collaborations with musicians such as Julien Roy David Fafard and Vincent Lemieux as part of his association with MUTEK and is one of the premiered performers at the MUTEK Festival in Montreal.
George Henry Morland.  George Henry Morland (died c. 1789) was a British genre painter.
Will Crewdson.  Will Crewdson is a London-based guitarist/writer/producer best known for his work with the UK band Rachel Stamp US singer Johnette Napolitano and Adam Ant.Crewdson spent 10 years touring and recording with the rock band Rachel Stamp who at one point became the only unsigned band to sell out the London Astoria. They also played gigs with Iggy Pop Korn No Doubt The Tubes and Cheap Trick among others.
Jozef Mazur.  Jozef C. Mazur (March 17 1897 – April 23 1970) was a Polish-American (Galician) stained glass artist painter and sculptor. His works can be found signed as Josef Mazur Joseph Mazur Joe Mazur J. C. Mazur as well as a few others.
Stef Broks.  Stef Broks (born 1 May 1981 in Etten-Leur Netherlands) is a Dutch drummer best known for his work with Textures. He is known for playing rock and metal with a fusion touch and an extensive use of polyrhythms. He also had success with the fusion band Exivious playing on their first album. However after the band reformed in 2011 and became a full-time band Broks split with the band on good terms citing that he simply cannot find reasonable time to commit to another full-time band.
John Pierce (country singer).  John Pierce (born in Montana) is an American country music singer-songwriter. His debut single I'd Still Have You peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in February 2006. Pierce recorded an album for RCA Nashville with producer Byron Gallimore that was originally scheduled to be released in 2006.Pierce wrote Zac Brown Band's 2013 single Sweet Annie.
Faisal Tehrani.  Faisal Tehrani is the pen name of Mohd Faizal Musa is a novelist from Malaysia. He was born on August 7 1974 at Hospital Kuala Lumpur and grew up in Malacca Malaysia. This novelist has won prizes and awards including the prestigious Anugerah Seni Negara in 2006.
Kjell Aukrust.  Kjell Aukrust (19 March 1920 – 24 December 2002) was a Norwegian author poet and artist.He was born in Alvdal as a son of Lars Olsen Aukrust (1886–1965) and Louise Walmsnæss (1887–1973). He was a nephew of Olav Aukrust brother of Odd Aukrust a noted economist who was responsible for research at Statistics Norway and first cousin of Tor Aukrust.
Ellen Frothingham.  Ellen Frothingham (25 March 1835 - 1902) worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.
Lionel Batiste.  Uncle Lionel Batiste (February 11 1931 – July 8 2012) was a jazz and blues musician and singer from New Orleans. He began his music career at the age of 11 playing bass drum with the Square Deal Social & Pleasure Club. He was the bass drummer vocalist and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band; known for his kazoo playing and singing as well and has recorded a cd as a vocalist.
Bobby Keys.  Robert Henry 'Bobby' Keys (born December 18 1943 Slaton Lubbock County Texas United States) is an American saxophone player and has performed with other musicians as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones Lynyrd Skynyrd The Who Harry Nilsson Delaney Bramlett George Harrison Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker amongst other notable musicians. Keys has been a touring musician since 1956.
Emile Haynie.  Emile Haynie often credited simply as Emile is an American record producer from Buffalo New York. His range of production includes alternative rock hip hop indie and pop music. He was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and won for Best Rap Album for Eminem's Recovery. Haynie works out of his studio in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea.
Charles Almanzo Babcock.  Charles Almanzo Babcock (born 1849 date of death unknown) was a late-nineteenth-century superintendent of schools in Oil City Pennsylvania. He is credited with launching Bird Day a day to celebrate birds in American schools on May 4. The first Bird Day was celebrated in Oil City schools in 1894 and by 1901 the practice was well established.
Pentti Linkola.  Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (born 7 December 1932) is a radical Finnish deep ecologist polemicist and fisherman. He has written widely about his ideas and is a prominent thinker in Finland but at the same time is also an extremely controversial figure. He lives a simple and austere life. Linkola was a year-round fisherman from 1959 to 1995. He has fished on Keitele Päijänne Gulf of Finland and from 1978 he fishes on Vanajavesi.
TJ Davis.  TJ Davis (born Teresa Jane Davis 6 January 1969 Leeds England) is a British singer. She started as a backing vocalist for Gary Numan D:Ream and Blur and quickly developed a career of her own. She is known among video game music aficionados for working with award-winning composer Richard Jacques on the soundtracks of Sonic R and Metropolis Street Racer.
Jack Trevor.  Jack Trevor (14 December 1890 – 19 December 1976) (born Anthony Cedric Sebastian Steane) was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 67 films between 1922 and 1943.Although winning the Military Cross serving with the Manchester Regiment during World War I during World War II he made propaganda films for Joseph Goebbels’ ministry for which he was eventually sentenced to three years’ imprisonment but the sentence was quashed on appeal as he was held to be acting under duress.
Songs of Green Pheasant.  Songs of Green Pheasant is the solo project of Duncan Sumpner a recording artist and school teacher from Oughtibridge in Sheffield England. Blending acoustic-based songs with electronic effects Sumpner's music has been described as psychedelic folk with warm washes of sound.
Milo Urban.  Milo Urban (pseudonyms Ján Rovňan ml. Podbabjagurský) (24 August 1904 in Rabčice Kingdom of Hungary – 10 March 1982 in Bratislava) was Slovak writer translator journalist and important representatives of modern Slovak literature. Urban is controversial figure because he served as an editor-in-chief of an official propagandist magazine of the Hlinka Guard Gardista in the era of the clerofascist Slovak State and was found guilty for collaboration by the court in 1948.
Miranda Horner.  Miranda Horner is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for various roleplaying games including Dungeons & Dragons and the Star Wars roleplaying game.
Morley (artist).  Morley (born 1982) is a street artist based in Los Angeles California. He specializes in wheatpaste prints that feature bold text and an image of the artist drawing the words with a sharpie marker. Morley has indicated that he studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2011 his work caught the eye of former Banksy manager Steve Lazarides whose Outsiders division began selling screen prints of his work shortly after.
Leon Dabo.  Leon Dabo (July 9 1864 – November 7 1960) was an American tonalist landscape artist best known for his paintings of New York particularly the Hudson Valley. His paintings were known for their feeling of spaciousness with large areas of the canvas that had little but land sea or clouds. During his peak he was considered a master of his art earning praise from such luminaries as John Spargo Bliss Carman Benjamin De Casseres Edwin Markham and Anatole Le Braz.
Kuroda Seiki.  Viscount Kuroda Seiki (黒田 清輝 August 9 1866 - July 15 1924) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter and teacher noted for bringing Western theories about art to a wide Japanese audience. He was among the leaders of the yōga (or Western-style) movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. His real name was Kuroda Kiyoteru which uses an alternate pronunciation of the Chinese characters.
Bob Moore.  Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30 1932) is an American session musician orchestra leader and bassist who was a member of the legendary Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 60s.
Nils-Udo.  Nils-Udo (born 1937) is a Bavarian artist who has been creating environmental art since the 1960s when he moved away from painting and the studio and began to work with and in nature. Perhaps the best known example of his work for the general public is the cover design for Peter Gabriel's OVO.
Sibel Can.  Sibel Can (born August 1 1970) is a popular Turkish folk pop singer. In recent years she has also become popular in Azerbaijan. Sibel Can became a dancer at the age 14 and later started her singing career. She has been known as one of the most successful and powerful singers in Turkey. She is of Romani heritage.
Padraig Marrinan.  Padraig Marrinan (December 10 1906 – October 25 1975) was an Irish painter. Also known as PH Marrinan or Patrick H. Marrinan he was born in Belfast Ireland. He contracted poliomyelitis at the age of five years and for several years he could not walk. Virtually self-taught as an artist he was privately educated as his ailment prevented public schooling.
Paris Francesco Alghisi.  Paris Francesco Alghisi (June 19 1666 - March 29–30 1733) was an Italian organist and composer. He was born in and died in Brescia.
Steven Staples.  Steven Staples is a Canadian policy analyst. He is president of Public Response a digital agency that services non-profit organizations and trade unions in the fields of online engagement and government relations.He also leads the Rideau Institute a non-profit independent research consulting and left-leaning advocacy group located in Ottawa Ontario Canada. The Rideau Institute specializes in defence and foreign affairs policy.
Ray Williams (producer).  Ray Williams (born 1947 London England) is an A&R music producer/publisher. He is well known as the man who discovered Elton John and introduced him to lyricist Bernie Taupin. Williams has been a prominent figure of the music and film industry for many years as a press agent A&R head artist manager film music producer and publisher. He was the music supervisor of films including The Last Emperor Absolute Beginners and Naked Lunch.
Johannes Carl Andersen.  Johannes Carl Andersen (14 March 1873 – 19 June 1962) was a New Zealander clerk poet ethnologist librarian editor and historian . He was born in Klakring (now Hedensted) Denmark on 14 March 1873.
Amir (singer).  Amir (Persian: امیر‎) (born in Tehran) is a Persian pop singer who moved United States in 1988 with the family. He studied construction in California and resides in San Diego.Amir released his first album Neverending Story (قصه ناتمام) in 2005. In this album he worked with Andranik Asatourian and Shahyar Ghanbari.
Austin Clarke (novelist).  Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke CM OOnt (born July 26 1934) is a Canadian novelist essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto Ontario. He has been called Canada's first multicultural writer.
Karl Denson.  Karl Denson (born 1956) is a funk and jazz saxophonist flutist and vocalist from Santa Ana California. He was a member of Lenny Kravitz's band and has co-founded and led The Greyboy Allstars. Denson has recorded with artists including Jack DeJohnette Dave Holland Slightly Stoopid Blind Boys of Alabama Blackalicious Stanton Moore and Jon Foreman of the rock band Switchfoot.
Lindy Kelly.  Lindy Kelly (born 1952) is a children's author short story writer playwright and thriller writer who lives in Nelson New Zealand. She has had 113 adult short stories and 13 children's books published. She has also written plays and poetry and taught creative writing.
Jean Bart (writer).  Jean Bart (1879/80 – 1955; pseudonym of Marie Antoinette (de) Sarlabous) was an American playwright and screenwriter.Her works included: A Prince in a Pawnshop (1916 film)The Flaming Omen (1917 film)The Squall (1926; film version 1929)Man Who Reclaimed His Head (play; film version 1934)Verbena trágica aka Tragic Festival (1939 film)The Mad Empress (1939 film)Strange Confession (1945 film)She died March 6 1955 in New York City at the age of 75.
George Moore (novelist).  George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist short-story writer poet art critic memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter and studied art in Paris during the 1870s.
Rudy Nebres.  Rudy Nebres (born January 14 in the Philippines) is a Filipino comics artist who has worked mostly as an inker in the American comic book industry. Known for his lush detailed inklines Nebres' most prolific period was in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
Kenneth Ma.  Kenneth Ma Kwok-ming (born 13 February 1974) with family roots in Xinhui Guangdong is a Hong Kong-born Canadian actor. He is currently based in Hong Kong.
Conor Kostick.  Conor Kostick is an historian and writer living in Dublin. He is the author of many historical political and cultural works.
Hannes Stein.  Hannes Stein (born February 15 1965 in Munich) is a German journalist and author. He worked for several major German newspapers such as the FAZ the Berliner Zeitung and Die Welt. Other works include articles for Der Spiegel and First Things.Several of his books are published and describe sociopolitical themes in a rather humorous style.
Klaus Wachsmann.  Klaus Philipp Wachsmann (8 March 1907 – 17 July 1984) was a British ethnomusicologist of German birth. Born in 1907 in Berlin he is considered a pioneer in the study of the traditional musics of Africa. He lived in Uganda from 1937 to 1957 and compiled an extensive collection of field recordings there between 1949 and 1952.
John Grey (screenwriter).  John Grey (1873 – 27 June 1933) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 60 films between 1917 and 1933.Grey was born in San Jose California and died in Hollywood California.
Horace Faith.  Horace Faith (born Horace Smith Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for his cover of the Checkmates Ltd. song Black Pearl which reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in 1970.Released by Trojan Records (TR 7790) Black Pearl spent ten weeks in the UK Singles Chart in the latter half of 1970 peaking at number 13 in October that year. Coincidentally the original version of the song by Checkmates Ltd. peaked at number 13 in the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.
Maynard James Keenan.  Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan; April 17 1964) also known by fans simply by his initials as MJK is an American progressive metal singer songwriter musician record producer winemaker and actor best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning American progressive metal band Tool. He is originally from Ohio but spent his high school and college years in Michigan.
Keith Pyott.  Keith Pyott (Blackheath London 9 March 1902 - 6 April 1968) was a British actor.He transferred from stage to screen and was a regular face in drama in the early days of television appearing in The Prisoner Out of the Unknown The Avengers and the Doctor Who story The Aztecs.He also appeared in over twenty feature films including Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1965).
Sali Herman.  Sali Herman (12 February 1898 — 3 April 1993) was a Swiss-born Australian artist one of Australia's Official War Artists for the Second World War.
Cozy Cole.  William Randolph Cozy Cole (October 17 1909 – January 9 1981) was an American jazz drummer who scored a #1 Cashbox magazine hit with the record Topsy Part 2. Topsy peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100 and at number one on the R&B chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. The track peaked at No. 29 in the UK Singles Chart in 1958.
Busy Bee Starski.  David Parker (born October 26 1962 Bronx New York) known by the stage name Busy Bee is an old school hip hop musician and MC. First coming on the New York City music scene in 1977 Busy Bee worked with many of hip-hop's founding fathers including Melle Mel Afrika Bambaataa and Kool DJ AJ.
Cherifa.  Ouardia Bouchemlal (January 9 1926 – March 13 2014) was an Algerian female singer-songwriter originally from Kabylia that has composed hundreds of songs in more than 40 years of artistic life.
Maurice Dorléac.  Georges Maurice Edmond Dorléac (26 March 1901 – 4 December 1979) was a French actor of the stage and screen. He was the father of actresses Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.
Álvaro Cunqueiro.  Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo December 22 1911 – Vigo February 28 1981) was a Galician novelist poet playwright and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish including Merlín e familia (Merlin and family). He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. In 1991 Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him.
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay.  Sandhya Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: সন্ধ্যা মুখোপাধ্যায় shondha mukhopaddhae) (b. 1931) is an Indian singer and musician specialising in Bengali music. She was born in Kolkata India. She is also known as Sandhya Mukherjee. She was very close friends with the late Alpana Banerjee. She received Banga-Vibhushan the highest civilian honour in West Bengal in 2011.
Terry Black.  Terry Black (February 3 1949 - June 28 2009) was a Canadian pop singer and teen idol born in Vancouver British Columbia.
Hans-Peter Zimmer.  Hans-Peter Zimmer (23 October 1936 in Berlin - 5 September 1992 in Soltau) was a German painter and sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.He formed Gruppe SPUR in 1957 with the painters Heimrad Prem Helmut Sturm and the sculptor Lothar Fischer. After a joint exhibition at the Pavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten in Munich they met the Danish artist and philosopher Asger Jorn who linked them up with the Galerie Van de Loo which exhibited them.
Andy Abraham.  Andrew Andy Abraham (born 16 July 1964 in North London England)[citation needed] is an English singer. He was the runner-up in the second UK series of TV talent show The X Factor in 2005 to Shayne Ward and also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.Before applying for The X Factor Abraham was a refuse collector. Prior to this he worked as a bus driver for Arriva London North based at Palmers Green bus garage.
Ian M. Anderson.  Ian Anderson is an American entrepreneur who founded The Afternoon Company. He started his own recording label Afternoon Records after graduating high school that has evolved into The Afternoon Company which is composed of Afternoon Records Afternoon Printing The Math Team Agency Mead Hall Games & Comics The Meadery Swim Agency Beta Beta Duh Media and MFR Presents.
Snežana Babić.  Snežana Babić best known as Sneki (Cyrillic: Снежана Бабић Снеки) (born 1 October 1967) is a Serbian actress and turbo-folk singer with notability and success throughout the former Yugoslav republics.
Cris Alexander.  Cris Alexander (born Alan Smith; January 14 1920 – March 7 2012) was an American actor singer dancer designer and photographer.
Nicholas Urie.  Nicholas Urie (born July 29 1985 in Los Angeles California) is an American composer of jazz and classical music. Urie teaches arranging at the Berklee College of Music.Urie was a recipient of the first annual ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award. Urie left Los Angeles to study composition with Bob Brookmeyer in Boston MA.
Mike Krahulik.  Mike Krahulik (/krəˈhuː.lɪk/; born September 25 1977) is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker Jonathan Gabriel or Gabe. He does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart as the character was not originally meant to represent him.
Nathan Massengill.  Nathan Massengill is an American comic book artist most known for his work as a brush inker. His work includes Marvel Comics' Deadpool and DC Comics' the Justice Society of America. He is best known for inking Ed McGuinness penciler on the Deadpool series. He is also known for his inking work over pencilers Mike Wieringo (Image Comics' Tellos) Dale Eaglesham (DC Comics JSA) Steve Scott (Marvel Adventures Hulk) and Sanford Greene (Marvel Adventures Spider-Man).
Andrzej Zieliński (artist).  Andrzej Zieliński (born 1976 Kansas City Missouri)Zieliński received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. In 2004 he earned his MFA from Yale University in New Haven CT.
E.J. Altbacker.  Ernie Altbacker (known as E.J. Altbacker) is a screenwriter who has worked on television shows including Static Shock Ben 10 Spider-Man Jay Jay the Jet Plane Mucha Lucha and Green Lantern: The Animated Series. He holds an MFA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute and an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.He has also written a series of books for children Shark Wars published by Razorbill an imprint of Penguin.
Christopher R. Shimmin.  Christopher R. Shimmin (1870–1933) Manx playwright and MHK.
Jon Pardi.  Jon Pardi (born May 20 1985) is an American country music singer/songwriter signed to Capitol Records Nashville.
Jessica Williams.  Jessica Williams (born March 17 1948) is an American pianist and composer who has deep roots in jazz. She has been called one of the top jazz pianists of today.
Manas Chakraborty.  Pandit Manas Chakraborty (Bengali: মানস চক্রবর্তী Maanosh Chokrobortee) (9 September 1942 – 12 December 2012) was an Indian classical vocalist. He belonged to Kotali Gharana started by his father and guru Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty. Chakraborty performed at many music conferences and programs including the Allauddin Music Conference (1976) the 5th RIMPA Music Festival (Benaras 1984) Swai Gandharva Sangeet Mahotsav (Pune 1984). He was a writer and composer.
Martyn LeNoble.  Martyn LeNoble (Dutch: Martijn LeNoble; born 14 April 1969 Vlaardingen Netherlands) is a Dutch bassist and founding member of Porno for Pyros.LeNoble started his musical career by playing bass in a Dutch punk rock band when he was 14. In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles and played with the likes of Thelonious Monster and The Too Free Stooges. In 1992 he joined Peter DiStefano Stephen Perkins and Perry Farrell to form Porno for Pyros.
Ken Eastman.  Kenneth C Eastman (born 1960 in Watford) is an English ceramic artist best known for his austere flat bottomed slab built ceramic vessels. He exhibits internationally and has won various awards in the field of ceramic arts including the ‘Premio Faenza’ Italy in 1995 the ‘Gold Medal’ at the World Ceramic Exposition 2001 Korea and the ‘President De la Generalitat Valencia’at the 5th Biennale International De Ceramica Manises Spain.
Alan Kupperberg.  Alan Kupperberg (born May 18) is an American comic artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips.
Alison Bauld.  Alison Margaret Bauld (born 7 May 1944) is an Australian writer and composer who lives and works in London England.
Michel François (artist).  Michel François (born 1956 Saint-Trond Belgium) is a Belgian artist. He lives and works in Brussels Belgium.His art explores a variety of media including installation video sculpture and photography.
Hiroshi Fujiwara.  Hiroshi Fujiwara (藤原ヒロシ Fujiwara Hiroshi) (born 1964) is a Japanese musician producer and designer.
Gene McFadden.  Gene McFadden (July 2 1948 – January 27 2006) was an American singer songwriter and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.
Coleridge Goode.  Coleridge George Emerson Goode (born 29 November 1914) is a former British Jamaican-born jazz bassist most noteworthy for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a key figure in Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet throughout its eight-year existence as a regular unit (1958–65). Goode was also an important contributor to Harriott's later pioneer fusions of jazz and Indian music.
Dre Knight.  Andre Dre Knight Sr. (born August 1 1977) is an American record producer pianist songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of The Narcotics a production team out of New York NY. He has produced songs for various artists including Frank Ocean Sizzla Sha Stimuli K. Michelle Astro (rapper) Nicki Minaj and LL Cool J.Dre's production style consists of mainly live instrumentation with Hip Hop driven undertones.
Sabrina Johnson.  Sabrina Johnson (born 29 July 1977 in Leigh England) is an English former pornographic actress.She began performing in adult movies in around 1995 at the age of 18. In 2000 she attempted to break the world gangbang record by reportedly having sex 2000 times during a two-day event named Gangbang 2000 held on 28 and 29 December.
Luis Nubiola.  Luis Nubiola (born May 28 1974) is a Cuban-born jazz saxophonist composer and teacher.
Alan Silvestri.  Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26 1950) is an American composer and conductor who works primarily in film and television. He is best known for his frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis including composing major hit films such as the Back to the Future trilogy and Forrest Gump as well as the superhero films Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel's The Avengers.
George Meyer.  George A. Meyer (born 1956) is an American producer and writer. Raised in Tucson Meyer attended Harvard University. There after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon he graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry. Abandoning plans to attend medical school Meyer attempted to make money through dog racing but failed after two months.
Neelam Jain.  Dr. Neelam Jain is a prominent woman in Jain society. She is the editor of Jain Mahiladarsh.
Adam Gollner.  Adam Leith Gollner is a Canadian writer and musician who lives in Montreal. He has written two books and is the former editor of Vice Magazine. Gollner has also played in bands including We Are Molecules Dessert and the Hot Pockets.
Hilton McConnico.  Joseph Hilton McConnico (born 13 May 1943) is a designer and artist who was born in Memphis Tennessee but has lived and worked in Paris since 1965. After working in fashion for such designers as Ted Lapidus and Yves St. Laurent he was set designer & art director for more than 20 films including the cult classic Diva.
Nick Bertozzi.  Nick Bertozzi (born May 26 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist as well as a commercial illustrator and teacher of cartooning. His series Rubber Necker from Alternative Comics won the 2003 Harvey Awards for best new talent and best new series. His project The Salon (published by St. Martin's Press) examines the creation of cubism in 1907 Paris in the context of a fictional murder mystery.
Laurie MacKenzie.  Laurie MacKenzie was born in Dauphin Manitoba Canada but relocated to Winnipeg at age 19. He is a guitarist for the popular band The Guess Who. Prior to joining The Guess Who MacKenzie toured and recorded with Laurie MacKenzie and the Bandits and the Laurie MacKenzie Band.
Harumi Fujita.  Harumi Fujita (藤田 晴美 Fujita Harumi born 1961 in Tondabayashi Osaka Japan) is a Japanese composer and sound effects creator best known in the videogame community for her work at Capcom.
Agustín Goiburú.  Agustín Goiburú was a politician from Paraguay. He was the leader of the movement MOPOCO (Popular Colorado Movement) that represented the strongest opposition to the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. He was murdered during the Condor Operative in 1977. He was a doctor specialized in orthopedic surgery in Brazil. When he returned to the country he worked in the Social Prevention Institute and in the Police Policlinic “Rigoberto Caballero”.
Peter Holmström.  Peter Holmström is an American rock musician. He is in the bands The Dandy Warhols Pete International Airport and Rebel Drones.
Jake Deckard.  Jake Deckard (born December 30 1972) is an American pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines. In April 2006 a shakeup between Titan Media and Raging Stallion ended in a swap with him (Raging) and François Sagat (Titan). Deckard has been named Raging Stallion 2007 Man of the Year. Deckard has also worked for porn director Chi Chi LaRue. In 2008 he started his own production company Screaming Eagle XXX. Deckard is no longer a Raging exclusive.
René Magritte.  René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fall under the umbrella of surrealism. His work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Mike Clark (guitarist).  Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies a band he has played with since 1987 and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when it reunited. He originally played in the thrash metal band No Mercy of which Muir was also the vocalist.
Katy Rose.  Kathryn Rosemary Bullard (born January 27 1987) known as Katy Rose is an American singer songwriter producer musician and actress. Her music styles vary from indie rock electro pop grunge pop lounge music and techno.Starting at age sixteen Rose began work on her debut album Because I Can for V2 Records which was released on January 27 2004 along with Overdrive her first single from the album. The single I Like also appeared on Because I Can.
Tamao Nakamura.  Tamao Nakamura (中村 玉緒 Nakamura Tamao) born July 12 1939 in Kyoto Japan is a Japanese actress. She was married to Shintaro Katsu.
Antoine Danchet.  Antoine Danchet (7 September 1671 – 21 February 1748) was a French playwright librettist and dramatic poet.
Frances White.  Frances White (born 1 November 1938 Leeds) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles as Kate Hamilton in Crossroads and as Miss Flood in the BBC sitcom May to December.She has also appeared in The Pumpkin Eater; Press for Time; Trevor's World of Sport; Dangerfield; A Very Peculiar Practice; as Cassandra prophetess of Troy in the Doctor Who story The Myth Makers; as Julia daughter of Augustus Emperor of Rome in I Claudius; and as Queen Charlotte wife of George III in Prince Regent. 
Emma Ejwertz.  Emma Katarina Lovisa Ejwertz born November 22 1980 in Båstad Sweden.
LeToya Luckett.  LeToya Nicole Luckett (born March 11 1981) known professionally as LeToya is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She was an original member of the R&B group Destiny's Child with whom she won two Grammy Awards and released many successful commercial recordings.She began her solo career after signing a record deal with Capitol Records. Her solo debut album LeToya (2006) topped the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart in July 2006 and was certified platinum by the RIAA in December 2006.
Dosso Dossi.  Dosso Dossi (c. 1490 – 1542) real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting.
Barbara Dennerlein.  Barbara Dennerlein (born 25 September 1964 in Munich Germany) is a hard bop post-bop and jazz organist. She has achieved particular critical acclaim for using the bass pedalboard on a Hammond organ and for integrating synthesizer sounds onto the instrument and has been described as the most interesting jazz organist to emerge during the 1980s.
Troo.L.S.  Troels Nielsen (born in 1982) better known by his stage name Troo.L.S is a Danish musician and music producer from Albertslund a suburb of Copenhagen.His career debut was in a local Danish hip hop group Sidste Niveau. He also contributed to the group Suspekt and their self-titled album Suspekt in 1999. He also cooperated with music producer Rune Rask rapping to some of his productions including in the 2005 album Forklædt Som Voksen a joint album with Orgi-E.
Jean-Louis Martinet.  Jean-Louis Martinet (born 8 November 1912 Sainte-Bazeilledied 20 December 2010) is a French composer. He studied at the Schola Cantorum with Charles Koechlin and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jean Roger-Ducasse and Olivier Messiaen. He also studied privately with René Leibowitz. In 1971 he was appointed professor at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.
Peter Egge.  Peter Egge (1 April 1869 – 15 July 1959) was a renowned Norwegian writer.He was the father of Ørnulf Egge and grandfather of Åsmund Egge. He was born in Trondheim.
Elmo Hope.  St. Elmo Sylvester Hope (June 27 1923 – May 19 1967) was an American jazz pianist composer and arranger chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres.
Eric McLuhan.  Eric McLuhan (born 1941) is the son of well-known media theorist Marshall McLuhan and co-author with him of the books Laws of Media (1990) Media and Formal Cause (2011) and Theories of Communication (2011). According to McLuhan associate Dean Motter Eric McLuhan also collaborated with his father on some books as a ghostwriter.He received his BSc in Communications from Wisconsin State University in 1972 and his M.A.
Genrikh Pavlovsky.  Genrikh Vasilievich Pavlovsky (Russian: Павловский Генрих Васильевич) (October 15 1907 Kamenskoe Ukraine Russian Empire – December 17 1973 Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad school of painting.
Friedrich Eckenfelder.  Friedrich Eckenfelder (6 March 1861 – 11 May 1938) was a Swiss-German impressionist painter best known for his portrayals of farm horses and for townscapes with a background of the Swabian Alps. He was born and raised in modest circumstances but his talent was discovered at an early age so that he was able to receive training as a painter and later to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Jennifer Graylock.  Jennifer Graylock is an American fashion and entertainment photographer. Her work has been published in Vogue Glamour Us Weekly People TV Guide and InStyle.
Gretel Ehrlich.  Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer poet and essayist.Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara California she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full time in 1978 living on a Wyoming ranch after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with The Solace of Open Spaces a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming.
Etta Cameron.  Etta Cameron (b. Ettamae Louvita Coakley November 21 1939 Nassau Bahamas - March 4 2010 Aarhus Denmark) was a Bahamian-Danish singer. She especially sang jazz and gospel and left her mark in the Danish music culture through her entire career from her arrival in Denmark in the 1970s.
William Bosworth.  William Bosworth (died 1650?) was an English poet known for a posthumous volume of verse from 1651.
Franz Stahl.  Franz Kenneth Stahl (born October 30 1962) is an American guitarist best known for being a member of both the Washington DC hardcore punk band Scream with his brother Peter Stahl and the alternative rock band Foo Fighters led by former Scream and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.
Mary Saunderson.  Mary Saunderson (1637–1712) later known as Mary Saunderson Betterton after her marriage to Thomas Betterton was an actress and singer in England during the 1660s and 1690s. She is considered one of the first English actresses.Her most notable accomplishments are her being the first female actress to portray several of Shakespeare's woman characters on the professional stage.
D.A. Wallach.  D.A. (also known as D.A. Wallach) is an American musician and business executive. He is the former lead singer of the group Chester French and is currently a solo artist signed by Harvest Records a subsidiary of Capitol Records. He is the official artist-in-residence at Spotify and invests in and advises several other technology companies.
Grass Green.  Richard Eugene Grass Green (May 7 1939 – August 5 2002) was an African American cartoonist notable for being the first black participant in both the 1960s fan art movement and the 1970s underground comics movement. His creations included Xal-Kor the Human Cat and the feature Wildman and Rubberroy.
Hugh O'Neill (artist).  Hugh O'Neill (1784–1824) was an English architectural and antiquarian draughtsman who contributed 441 drawings of scenes from Bristol England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge. The Braikenridge Collection makes Bristol's early 19th century appearance one of the best documented of any English city.O'Neill was born in Bloomsbury London on 20 April 1784 the son of Jeremiah O'Neill an architect. He exhibited at the Royal Academy during 1800–04.
Keith Monroe.  Keith Monroe (22 August 1915 – 30 August 2003) was an American authorof children's science fiction and of books and magazine articles about Boy Scouting.Monroe attended Stanford University and UCLA. He worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune for advertising and public relations firms and for North American Rockwell.
Jim Beard.  James Arthur Beard (born August 26 1960 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist contemporary instrumental composer arranger and record producer.
Chris Roberts (author).  Chris Roberts is a librarian in South London England and sometime walking tour guide as he is the proprietor of F and M Walking Tours in London. The stories that Roberts incorporated into his walking tours became the inspiration for his book Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme. which was first published in November 2003 with a limited print run of 2000 copies.
Elvira Nikolaisen.  Elvira Nikolaisen (born 16 July 1980 in Moi) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter signed for Sony BMG. She released her debut single Love I Can't Defend in December 2005 it reached the number 3 spot on the Norwegian singles list. She followed up the hit with her first album Quiet Exit and a second single Egypt Song in March 2006.
Fyodor Abramov.  Fyodor Aleksandrovich Abramov -(Russian: Фёдор Алекса́ндрович Абра́мов) (February 29 1920 – May 14 1983) was a Russian novelist and literary critic. His work focused on the difficult lives of the Russian peasant class. He was frequently reprimanded for deviations from Soviet policy on writing.
Walter Keane.  Walter Stanley Keane (October 7 1915 – December 27 2000) was an American artist working in San Francisco. He gained fame as a painter who together with his wife Margaret Keane produced a large number of kitsch paintings characterized by large-eyed waifs.
Wenceslao Garcia.  Wenceslao Sicat Garcia (September 28 1914 - March 7 1979) was a visual artist and a writer. He became a professor at the University of Santo Tomas. He earned a complement from Mariano Madarang the first director of Philippine Women’s University as the greatest teacher of painting in University of Santo Tomas because of his discipline dedication and systematic lesson.
Bill Carroll (musician).  Bill Carroll (born December 29 1966 in Wilmington Delaware) is an American singer songwriter record producer bassist and guitarist. He has been a professional musician since the mid-1980s and has been a member of the groups No Such Thing Doubting Thomas and The Real Underground.
Andre Afram Asmar.  Andre Afram Asmar is an American hip hop producer from Los Angeles California.
Richard Green Moulton.  Richard Green Moulton was a professor author & lawyer born in England 1849 and died in America on 15 August 1924. He was the brother of William Fiddian Moulton John Fletcher Moulton and James Egan Moulton.
Louis de Wohl.  Louis de Wohl earlier Ludwig von Wohl was a Hungarian-born British Catholic author and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 during World War II. Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible.
Yumiko Igarashi.  Yumiko Igarashi (いがらし ゆみこ Igarashi Yumiko born 26 August 1950 in Asahikawa Hokkaidō) is a female Japanese manga artist. She is a resident of Sapporo Hokkaido. She is also the cousin of fellow manga artist Satsuki Igarashi; a member of Clamp.[citation needed]In 1968 as a third-year high school student at the Asahi Gaoka High School in Sapporo Hokkaidō she made her debut in Shueisha's Ribon manga magazine with Shiroi Same no iru Shima.
Joe Ely.  Joe Ely (born February 9 1947 Amarillo Texas United States) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk Texas Country Tex-Mex and rock and roll.He has had a genre-crossing career performing with Bruce Springsteen Uncle Tupelo Los Super Seven The Chieftains and James McMurtry in addition to his early work with The Clash and more recent acoustic tours with Lyle Lovett John Hiatt and Guy Clark.
Michael Stuart.  Michael Stuart (born January 9 1975) is an American salsa singer and actor of Puerto Rican descent.
Homer Watson.  Homer Ransford Watson (January 14 1855 – May 30 1936) was a Canadian landscape painter. He was the man who first saw Canada as Canada rather than as dreamy blurred pastiches of European painting according to J. Russell Harper a former curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. He was a member and president (1918–1922) of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts as well as a founding member and first president (1907–1911) of the Canadian Art Club.
Margaret Beames.  Margaret Beames (born 18 October 1935) is a multi-award winning author of children's books who lives in Feilding New Zealand. Her first book was The Greenstone Summer published in 1977. Since then she has had at least 35 books published.
Kilo Ali.  Kilo Ali (born May 1 1973) formerly Kilo is an American rap music Artist from Atlanta Georgia. Kilo Ali recorded mainly bass music (described more closely to miami bass style music) but also hip hop tracks with a less distinctive southern flavor. His most well known singles include Show Me Love Baby Baby and Love In Ya Mouth.
J. T. Krul.  J. T. Krul (born November 14 1972 in Michigan) is a comic book writer best known for his work on Aspen MLT's Fathom comic series.
Miho Miyazaki.  Miho Miyazaki (宮崎美穂 born July 30 1993 in Tokyo Japan) is a member of the Japanese girl idol group AKB48. Currently a member of AKB48's Team K she was formerly in the group's Team B and before reshuffling she was the member of Team A.
Bakul Kayastha.  Bakul Kayastha (Born 1400s CE) was mathematician from Kamrup. He was specially known for his master piece in the field of mathematics named Kitabat Manjari written in 1434 CE and Lilavati.Kitabat Manjari is a poetical treatise on arithmetic Surveying and book-keeping. The book teaches how accounts are to be kept under different heads and how stores belonging to the royal treasury are to be classified and entered into a stock book.
Sam Campbell (writer).  Samuel Arthur Campbell was born August 1 1895 in Watseka Iroquois County Illinois. He was the youngest of two children born to Arthur J. and Katherine Kittie (née Lyman) Campbell.Sam Campbell was many things including a writer lecturer photographer and diligent student of nature. He studied wild animals from his home which he called the Sanctuary of Wegimind and during his various travels.Campbell died April 13 1962 in Barrington Illinois.
Harry Methuen Schofield.  Harry Methuen Schofield (November 1899 - December 1955) was a British test pilot who participated in the Schneider Trophy competition in 1927 and who won the King's Cup Air Race in 1934.Harry Schofield was born in Battersea and educated at secondary school there. In 1917 he started his career in the Royal Naval Air Service that in April 1918 merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force.
Kalidas Nag.  Kalidas Nag (1892-1966) was an Indian author and parliamentarian. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1952 and served till 1954.
Charles Howard Johnson.  Charles Howard Johnson (1868 - July 3 1896) was a nineteenth-century American illustrator and newspaper artist. He is best known for his sparse illustrations of the 1890 U.S. edition of The princess by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.Very little is known of Johnson's life. He was reportedly born in Kansas City and came to New York in about 1889 after studying art for a year in Cincinnati Ohio.
Jaime de Angulo.  Jaime de Angulo (1887–1950) was a linguist novelist and ethnomusicologist in the western United States. He was born in Paris of Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905 to become a cowboy and eventually arrived in San Francisco on the eve of the great 1906 earthquake. He lived a picaresque life including stints as a cowboy medical doctor and psychologist. He survived a suicide attempt after cutting his throat from ear to ear in Berkeley.
Kim Dani.  Danielle Kim (Hangul: 김다니; born December 23 1999) commonly known as Dani is a South Korean idol singer rapper and a member of sub-girl group T-ara N4.
Hiba Tawaji.  Hiba Michel Tawaji (Arabic: هبة ميشال طوجي‎) was born on December 10 1987 in Achrafieh Beirut and grew up in the Elissar Matn District. Tawaji is a Lebanese singer actress and director. She sings in Arabic English and French.
Asuca Hayashi.  Asuca Hayashi (林 明日香 Hayashi Asuka) (born May 28 1989) is a Japanese singer who debuted at the age of 13 in January 2003 in Japan and Taiwan.
Willie Revillame.  Wilfredo Buendia Revillame (born January 27 1961) is a television host actor comedian and a recording artist in the Philippines.
Trevor Von Eeden.  Trevor Von Eeden (born July 24 1959) is a comic book writer/artist who known for his work on such DC Comics books as Black Lightning Batman and Green Arrow as well as Marvel Comics books such as Power Man and Iron Fist and the biographical series The Original Johnson.
Erwin Wurm.  Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg Austria.Since the late 1980s he has developed an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture.
Mark Atkins (musician).  Mark Atkins is an Australian Aboriginal musician known for his skill on the didgeridoo a traditional instrument.Mark Atkins is also a storyteller songwriter composer and painter. He descends from the Yamatji people of Western Australia. He was the 1990 winner of the Golden Didjeridu competition.
David Roberts (painter).  David Roberts RA (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.
Seanbaby.  Sean Patrick Reiley (born June 15 1976) better known as Seanbaby is an American writer best known for his comedy website and frequent contributions to video game media outlets Electronic Gaming Monthly and 1UP.com. He is also a regular contributor to the humor website Cracked.com. His site began as a personal homepage while he was studying for his bachelor's degree in art at the University of Idaho.
Marsha Skrypuch.  Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (born 1954) is a Ukrainian Canadian children's writer who lives in Brantford Ontario. She received a BA in English and a Master of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario and began writing fiction in 1992. After being rejected more than 100 times her first book Silver Threads was published in 1996.Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children and young adults.
George Fiske.  George Fiske (October 22 1835 – October 21 1918) was an American landscape photographer.Fiske was born in Amherst New Hampshire and moved west with his brother to San Francisco. He apprenticed with Charles L. Weed and worked with Carleton E. Watkins both early Yosemite photographers. Fiske and his wife moved to Yosemite in 1879 and lived there until he committed suicide in 1918.
Darryl Worley.  Darryl Wade Worley (born October 31 1964) is an American country music artist. Signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 2000 Worley released four albums for the label: Hard Rain Don't Last (2000) I Miss My Friend (2002) Have You Forgotten? (2003) and Darryl Worley in 2004. After the label closed in 2005 he moved to 903 Music an independent label owned by Neal McCoy releasing Here and Now in 2006 shortly before that label's closure.
Nolan Van Way.  Nolan Van Way (born January 31 1931) is an American operatic baritone and tenor whose stage career in opera and Broadway musicals spanned half a century. He sang in many languages including French German Italian Russian and Spanish. After retiring from the stage Van Way became a vocal coach.
Michael Carroll (space artist).  Michael W. Carroll is an award-winning astronomical artist and science writer. His art has appeared in magazines such as TIME National Geographic Astronomy and other publications and has flown aboard the Russian space station MIR and NASA's Phoenix Mars lander. He is also a founding member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
John Campbell (musician).  John Campbell is a musical composer. He wrote the music for most of the Adventures in Odyssey radio drama series as well as Paws & Tales Down Gilead Lane and the Father Gilbert Mysteries. He also has written for many television shows and composed themes for many broadcasting series including Focus on the Family Insight for Living The Coral Ridge Hour Promise Keepers among others.
Nancy Buckingham.  Nancy Joyce Buckingham (b. 10 August 1924 in Bristol England UK) is a British co-writer of gothic and romance novels in collaboration with her husband John Sawyer (b. 4 October 1919 - d. 1992). They wrote novels under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham and under the pseudonyms Christina Abbey Erica Quest Nancy John and Hilary London.
Karl Kerschl.  Karl Kerschl is a Canadian comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics books including Adventures of Superman Majestic All-Flash and Teen Titans: Year One.
Shen Zhou.  Shen Zhou (Chinese: 沈周; pinyin: Shěn Zhōu 1427–1509) courtesy name Qi'nan (启南) was a Chinese painter in the Ming dynasty.
Daniela Mercury.  Daniela Mercury (born Daniela Mercuri de Almeida on July 28 1965) is a Brazilian axé samba-reggae and MPB singer songwriter and record producer. Since her breakthrough Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers selling over 20 million albums worldwide. She is also the Brazilian female performer with most #1 hits in the country with 14.[citation needed]
Fabien Vehlmann.  Fabien Vehlmann (born 30 January 1972) is a French comics writer best known for Green Manor and Seuls. Yvan Delporte dubbed him The René Goscinny of the third millennium.
Mākii.  Mākii (マーキー) (born August 23 1987 Okinawa Japan) is a Japanese musician who was formerly the vocalist and songwriter for the Okinawa-based band High and Mighty Color. She was the youngest member of the band. She has an older brother who introduced her to the world of music and anime.[citation needed] When she performed at a concert in Okinawa in 2003 a scout for a record label noticed her and Anti Nobunaga.
Ivan Julian.  Ivan Julian (born June 26 1955) is a guitarist and bassist founding member of the seminal Punk/New Wave group Richard Hell and the Voidoids The Outsets and Lovelies.He has performed with the Isley Brothers The Clash Matthew Sweet and Shriekback.
Leslie Perrins.  Leslie Perrins (7 October 1901 – 13 December 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. In his long career he appeared in well over 60 films. He was born in Moseley Birmingham Warwickshire and died in Esher Surrey.
Evan Ziporyn.  Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago Illinois 14th December 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation drawing equally from classical music avant-garde various world music traditions and jazz. He has composed for a wide range of ensembles including symphony orchestras wind ensembles many types of chamber groups and solo works sometimes involving electronics.
Ann C. Crispin.  Ann Carol Crispin (April 5 1950 – September 6 2013) was an American science fiction writer the author of twenty-three published novels. Her writing career began in 1983. She wrote several Star Trek novels and created her own original science fiction series called Starbridge.
Tony Trov.  Tony Trov (born Anthony Trovarello 1983) is an American film maker comic book creator and musician best known for the independent horror comedy Alpha Girls.
Odd-Arne Jacobsen.  Odd-Arne Jacobsen was born on 29 December 1947. He stands today as a unique personal voice in European improvisation music with his own distinctive tone language. Odd-Arne has worked with most of the leading artists in Norway in theatre and music and has also presented his art internationally.
Andreas Christoph Graf.  Andreas Christoph Graf (1701 Augsburg – 1776 Augsburg) was a German teacher author and poet.
Giuseppe Aureli.  Giuseppe Aureli (Rome December 5 1858 – 1929) was an Italian painter of mainly historical subjects and paintings of oriental themes. He was a pupil of Raffaele Galzini and Cesare Maccari. He exhibited in various exhibitions; among his works:An Appointment for Hunting in 1500s. (Rome 1883) Carica Lancieri Aosta at the Battle of Custoza (Rome 1866) Emmanuel Philibert returns to Turin after the Battle of St.
Steve Kubby.  Steven Wynn Steve Kubby (born December 28 1946) is a Libertarian Party activist who played a key role in the drafting and passage of California Proposition 215. The proposition was a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana which was approved by voters in 1996. Kubby himself is well known as a cancer patient who relies on medical cannabis. He has authored two books on drug policy reform: The Politics of Consciousness and Why Marijuana Should Be Legal.
Lee Friedlander.  Lee Friedlander (born July 14 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban social landscape with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections structures framed by fences posters and street signs.
Tobias Cummings.  Tobias Cummings is an Australian singer-songwriter from Melbourne who has recorded two albums.
Tom Palumbo.  Tom Palumbo (1921–2008) was an American photographer and theatre director. He was born in Molfetta Italy in 1921. His family moved when he was about 12 years old to New York City. As a young man Palumbo was employed first building scale models for ships in an engineering company. Later he was employed as an assistant by photographer James Abbe. His experience working with Abbe led him to commercial work in fashion photography.
Shane Howard.  Shane Michael Howard (born 26 January 1955) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist he was the mainstay of folk rock group Goanna which had hits with Solid Rock and Let the Franklin Flow. After their disbandment in January 1987 he pursued a solo career.
Louis Racine.  Louis Racine (born November 6 1692 Paris; died January 29 1763 Paris) was a French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment.The second son and the seventh and last child of the celebrated tragic dramatist Jean Racine he was interested in poetry from childhood but was dissuaded from trying to make it his career by the poet Boileau on the grounds that the gift never existed in two successive generations.
Vince Harder.  Vince Harder (born c.1982) is a New Zealand R&B/pop recording artist and producer.His most notable song to date is Everything which reached number one in New Zealand on the New Zealand Singles Chart in 2008. In May 2010 he released the single Say This With Me which peaked at number 39 on the singles chart.
Ollie E. Brown.  Ollie E. Brown (sometimes credited as simply Ollie Brown) is an American drummer percussionist record producer and high-school basketball coach. A prolific session musician Brown has performed on over a hundred albums in the 1970s 80s and 90s. Brown was also half of the American dance-pop duo Ollie & Jerry which had a Top 10 hit with Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us in 1984.
Stoney Cooper.  Dale Troy Cooper (October 16 1918–March 22 1977) known professionally as Stoney Cooper was an American country star and member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was a master of the fiddle and the guitar.
Cara Braia.  Cara Louise Braia (born June 4 1992) better known by her stage name as Cara Braia is a singer songwriter pianist rapper and actress from North Wales UK.
Reza Mahjubi.  Reza Mahjubi (Persian: رضا محجوبی‎) (birth date: 1898 - 14 July 1954) was a Persian (Iranian) composer and violinist.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius.  Hans-Joachim Roedelius (born 26 October 1934 in Berlin)[citation needed] is a German experimental ambient and electronic musician. He is best known as a co-founder of the krautrock groups Cluster and Harmonia and for his work in the ambient jazz trio Aquarello.
Abdul Halim Sharar.  Abdul Halim Sharar (Urdu: عبدالحلیم شرار‎) (1860–1926) was an essayist and historian of Lucknow. His book Guzishta Lucknow is a rich source of information on the genesis of the city and its culture.He wrote famous tales with historical content. One of them is فردوس بریں (Firdos -e- Bareen) which is named after a section of paradise according to Islamic Doctrine.
Yuka Koyama.  Yuka Koyama (小山 裕香 Koyama Yuka born February 9 1968 in Hiroshima Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress.
Jules Halfant.  Jules Halfant (June 23 1909 New York City New York – May 5 2001 Berkeley Heights New Jersey) is an American painter and printmaker. He is notable as a Federal Art Project (FAP) artist during the Great Depression of the 1930s in both mural and easel categories of the New York Works Progress Administration (WPA). While in the WPA he worked alongside such well-known artists as Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Milton Avery and Stuart Davis.
Alois Plum.  Alois Johannes Plum (born Mainz 2 March 1935) is an artist working in Mainz Germany who has acquired a national reputation for his stained glass his paintings (esp. murals) and his plastic art. Active since the 1950s his work decorates hundreds of churches and public buildings in Germany.
Son Hoyoung.  Son Ho Young (born March 26 1980) is a Korean American singer known for being part of the popular group g.o.d. Son was born in New Jersey United States.
Kris Holmes.  Kris Holmes (b. 1950 Reedley California) is a calligrapher who has worked on many typeface designs some of which have been direct adaptations of her calligraphy. She is with Charles Bigelow the co-creator of the Lucida font family.
Johnny Lee Middleton.  Johnny Lee Middleton (born May 7 1963 in St. Petersburg FL) is an American musician and songwriter best known as the bass guitar player for Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Lawren Harris.  Lawren Stewart Harris CC (October 23 1885 – January 29 1970) was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford Ontario and is best known as a member the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. A. Y. Jackson has been quoted as saying that Harris provided the stimulus for the Group of Seven. During the 1920s Harris's works became more abstract and simplified especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic.
Garie Blackwell.  Garie Blackwell is a painter and illustrator from Fort Lauderdale Florida.She initially studied to be an art director for a Los Angeles advertising agency. On the insistence of others at her talents she located an agent upon relocating to New York and quit her job as an art director to focus on becoming a full-time illustrator. Her first commercial illustration was for Seventeen (magazine).
V. A. Urechia.  V. A. Urechia (most common version of Vasile Alexandrescu Urechia Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdresku uˈreke̯a]; born Vasile Alexandrescu and also known as Urechiă Urechea Ureche Popovici-Ureche or Vasile Urechea-Alexandrescu; February 15 1834 – November 21 1901) was a Moldavian-born Romanian historian Romantic author of historical fiction and plays academic and politician.
Tomoya Nagase.  Tomoya Nagase (長瀬 智也 Nagase Tomoya born November 7 1978) is a Japanese singer and actor. He is a member of Tokio a Johnny & Associates musical group. He is the primary vocalist in addition to playing the guitar alongside Tokio's leader Shigeru Joshima.
John Idan.  John Idan is a Detroit USA born guitarist and vocalist best known for his work with The Yardbirds The McCarty Band and his own bands The John Idan Group and The Top Topham - John Idan Band.
Freda Payne.  Freda Charcilia Payne (born September 19 1942) is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling 1970 hit single Band of Gold. She was also an actress in musicals and film as well as the host of a TV talk show. Freda is the older sister of former Supreme Scherrie Payne.
Sunanda Patnaik.  Sunanda Patnaik (born 7 November 1934) is an Indian classical singer of Gwalior gharana from Odisha. Popularly known as guruma she is considered one of the great dames of Hindustani music. She is the daughter of legendary Oriya poet Baikunthanath Patnaik. She started singing at All India Radio in Cuttack in 1948 at the age of 14.
Davor Badrov.  Davor Badrov (born 21 September 1992) is a Bosnian Croat pop-folk singer whose musical career started in 2007 when he was 15 years old.
Ruth Rose.  Ruth Rose (January 16 1891 – June 8 1978) was a writer who worked on several films in the 1930s and the 1940s most famously the original 1933 classic King Kong.
Ichirō Fujiyama.  Ichirō Fujiyama (藤山 一郎 Fujiyama Ichirō April 8 1911 – August 21 1993) born Takeo Masunaga (増永 丈夫 Masunaga Takeo) was a popular Japanese singer and composer known for his contribution to Japanese popular music called ryūkōka by his Western classical music skills. He was born in Chūō Tokyo and graduated from the Tokyo Music School. Although he was regarded as a tenor singer in Japanese popular music he was originally a classical baritone singer.
Ben Claassen III.  Ben Claassen III is a comics artist and illustrator originally from New Orleans Louisiana who frequently works with non-traditional media such as stencils long exposure photography and the use of stop-motion animation via a Game Boy Camera.
Jack London.  John Griffith Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney January 12 1876 – November 22 1916) was an American author journalist and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
Alice Reagan.  Alice Reagan is an American theater director.She is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College Columbia University in New York NY.
Thomas Brown Clark.  Thomas Brown Clark (1895–1983) was a Scottish painter who worked in oils pastels and watercolours.
William Ames (Quaker).  William Ames (died 1662) was an early English itinerant Quaker preacher and writer.
Umi Garrett.  Umi Garrett (born August 15 2000) is an American pianist.
Alex Beckstead.  Alex Beckstead is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco.Beckstead graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in Film Studies. His first short film sXe screened at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
John Cadvan Davies.  John Cadvan Davies 1846 – 1923 was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid. He is better known in Wales by his bardic name Cadfan (sometimes Cadvan).
Gabriel Batz.  Gabriel Batz is a progressive house and trance producer and DJ from Montreal Canada.He has released records on labels such as Armada Anjunabeats and Coldharbour Recordings. He owns and operates his own label Ora Recordings.
Israel Salazar.  Israel Salazar de Luna Freire (born 11 June 1990) is a Brazilian Christian singer and songwriter.
Jyrki Hämäläinen.  Jyrki Hämäläinen (27 July 1942 Tampere Finland - 18 March 2008) was a Finnish magazine editor who also authored several biographies of prominent figures in Finnish pop culture. Hämäläinen was the former editor of Suosikki a magazine which focuses on the country's pop music scene. Hämäläinen also worked as an MC concert promoter columnist and producer.Jyrki Hämäläinen was the editor of Suosikki a teen magazine from 1968 until his retirement from the publication in 2002.
Âşık Ali İzzet Özkan.  Âşık Ali İzzet Özkan (1802-1881) was a Turkish minstrel. A native of Şarkışla Özkan became an âşık at a young age and went to Adana at the age of 22 to compete with other âşıks from Çukurova. Özkan wandered throughout Turkey for many years and said countless (original) poems. Özkan participated in the festival of Turkish âşıks held in Konya.
Dave Lee (Jazz musician).  Dave Lee (born 12 August 1926) is a jazz pianist and a former orchestra leader music arranger songwriter and film composer.In a varied musical career he wrote the hit song Goodness Gracious Me was the resident musician on That Was the Week That Was wrote the score for the movie The Masque of the Red Death had a hit jazz album in the USA and was a resident fixture in early episodes of The Avengers. Later in life he was instrumental in founding 102.2 Jazz FM.
Chris Regan.  Chris Regan is an American comedy writer. From 1999 to 2006 Regan was a writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he won five Emmy awards two Peabody Awards and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award.
Kayoko Kishimoto.  Kayoko Kishimoto (岸本加世子 Kishimoto Kayoko born 29 December 1960 in Shizuoka Japan) is an actress.She appeared in several of Takeshi Kitano's films such as Hana-bi Kikujiro and Dolls. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Kikujiro.
Sarah Burton.  Sarah Jane Burton OBE (née Heard born 1974) is an English fashion designer currently creative director of fashion brand Alexander McQueen. She designed Catherine Middleton's wedding dress for her wedding to Prince William Duke of Cambridge in April 2011. In 2012 she was named in Time 100 an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time.
Nick Warren.  Nick Warren is an English house DJ and producer. He is well known for his eight albums released in the Global Underground series and as a member of the duo Way Out West. He is head of A&R for the progressive house and breaks record label Hope Recordings.
Laurence Sterne.  Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons wrote memoirs and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.
Franz Grothe.  Franz Grothe (1908–1982) was a German composer.
Susanne Kappeler.  Susanne Kappeler born 1949 was a lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Al Akhawayn University and now works as a freelance writer and teacher in England and Germany.
Gard Nilssen.  Gard Nilssen (born 24 June 1983 in Skien Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (drums) and composer and member of the bands Bushman's Revenge and Puma.
Edward Mickolus.  Edward Francis Mickolus Jr. (born December 28 1950) is an author and counter-terrorism expert and formerly an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency from which he retired in 2008. Mickolus is the author or co-author of a number of books on counter-terrorism.
Scott Mebus.  Scott Mebus is American novelist composer and playwright. He has written two adult novels Booty Nomad and The Big Happy and the children's urban fantasy series Gods of Manhattan. His musical Tarnish played in the NY International Fringe Festival in 2001. He also composed the theme song for the Discovery Channel Kids program Outward Bound.
Cait Brennan.  Cait Brennan (born February 14 1969) is an American singer-songwriter pianist guitarist and screenwriter. Brennan's musical style contains elements of Americana Piano Rock alternative country glam rock and Power pop. Her music and film work has been praised and earned her a cult following.
François Leperlier.  François Leperlier (born 1949) is a French writer essayist poet philosopher and art historian known especially for his work on the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun. He contributed to many edited volumes journals exhibition catalogs conference proceedings and participated in radio broadcasts (France Culture).
Ed Elliot.  Ed Elliott (born 1985) is an English sculptor who achieved national recognition for his large wooden angel commissioned by the National Trust.Elliott who won the Hereford based h.Art 2012 Young Artist's Bursarywas educated at The Chase School in Barnards Green Malvern Worcestershire.and obtained a BA(Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) from Cardiff School of Art & Design.The angel sculpture Greer has a 14' (4.26m) wingspan carved from London Plane wood from the Mottisfont Estate commissioned by the National Trust was received with critical acclaim.[citation needed] The sculpture which was installed on the Trust's Mottisfont Estate near Romsey in Hampshire is now part of a collection in Essex alongside sculptures by Antony Gormley Elisabeth Frink and Thomas Heatherwick.Elliott's works have also been exhibited in New Zealand Italy and Vietnam. 
Rick Spears.  Rick Spears is an American comic book writer best known for Teenagers from Mars and other independent comics.
Attilio Andreoli.  Attilio Andreoli (Chiari near Milan April 7 1877 - Cavaglio-Spoccia Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola November 9 1950) was an Italian painter depicting portraits genre and sacred subjects. He painted in oil and acquaforte often in a realist style.
Michael Aranda.  Michael Peter Aranda (born on February 27 1986) is a vlogger musician and professional online video producer originally from California. As of April 2014 his main YouTube channel has over 240000 subscribers and more than 10.4 million total video views.
Garnett Brown.  Garnett Brown (born 31 January 1936) is a jazz trombonist who has worked with The Crusaders Herbie Hancock Lionel Hampton and others.Born in Memphis Tennessee he graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and later studied film scoring and electronic music at UCLA. In 1974 he won the Down Beat Reader's poll for trombonist and appears on the classic 1976 recording Bobby Bland and B.B.
Eric Wagner.  Eric Wagner (born April 24 1959) is an American heavy metal singer who is best known for his work with doom metal band Trouble which he formed in 1979 when he was 20 years old. He briefly left Trouble in the mid-nineties and formed Lid with guitarist Danny Cavanagh resulting in 1997's In The Mushroom. Wagner rejoined Trouble in 2000 after his replacement Kyle Thomas was dismissed from the band.
Charlie Grosso.  Charlie Grosso (born January 3 1979) is a Chinese American artist and photographer based in California. She is best known for her photos of food markets and street scenes in East Asia Europe South America and the Middle East. Her series Wok the Dog a photo exposé of East Asian meat markets (where dogs are often on the menu) has attracted the attention of photo galleries art exhibitions and those Westerners curious about Eastern cuisine.
Herbert Crowley.  Herbert E. Crowley (1873 – 1939) was a British artist set designer and comic strip cartoonist. He is the author of The Wigglemuch a symbolic comic strip published by the New York Herald. It ran for a total of 13 installments from March to June 1910. His work was exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show.
Chris Heffelfinger.  Chris Heffelfinger (born 1979) is an researcher and writer based in Washington D.C.. He is the editor of Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities. This is a two-volume work published by the Jamestown Foundation[1]. He is also the author of Radical Islam in America: Salafism's Journey from Arabia to the West. He specializes in contemporary and classical Islamic thought.
Vinko Möderndorfer.  Vinko Möderndorfer (born 22 September 1958) is a Slovene writer poet playwright and theatre and film director.Möderndorfer was born in Celje in 1958. He studied at the Academy for Theatre Radio Film and Television in Ljubljana and worked in mumerous theatre companies around Slovenia.
Smokin Jo.  Smokin Jo is a British club DJ and Remixer from London England.
Peter Lockyer.  Peter Lockyer is an American actor and singer. He was born in Westbrook Connecticut. As a child he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol. Lockyer has appeared in numerous productions including Miss Saigon as Chris Les Misérables as Marius and La Boheme on Broadway. He has also appeared in a tour of The Phantom of the Opera and on TV with Bette Midler in a 1993 adaption of Gypsy.
Momo Wandel Soumah.  Momo Wandel Soumah (died June 15 2003) was a singer composer and saxophonist from Guinea recognisable by his characteristic gravelly voice. Soumah started out in the 1950's playing in dance bands but moved to modern Guinean music following the cultural revolution. From the mid 1980's Soumah developed an idiosyncratic blend of jazz and African traditional music. He died suddenly on June 15 2003. At the time of his death Soumah was musical director of Circus Baobab.
Alice Samter.  Alice Samter (11 June 1908 – 19 March 2004) was a German music educator and composer.
Andreas Jynge.  Andreas Grimelund Jynge (3 September 1870 – 1955) was a Norwegian civil servant and writer.He was born in Skien. He was hired as secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Labour in 1898 and was promoted to head of his department in 1912. From 1919 to 1937 he was a director in the Norwegian State Railways.He was also a poet; his most important poetry collections were the 1896 Viser og vers and the 1903 Egne veie.
Charles Willson Peale.  Charles Willson Peale (April 15 1741 – February 22 1827) was an American painter soldier and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution as well as for establishing one of the first museums.
Liu Yonghong.  Liu Yonghong (simplified Chinese: 刘勇宏; traditional Chinese: 劉勇宏) (born May 1 1970) is a Chinese cinematographer based in Beijing. His work was recognized at the 23rd Manaki Brothers International Film Camera Festival for his work as director of photography on Seafood (2001). As well as at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for his work as director of photography on Blind Shaft (2003).
B. R. Chaya.  B. R. Chaya (Kannada: ಬಿ. ಆರ್. ಛಾಯಾ) is an Indian playback singer Stage performer and a popular Sugama Sangeetha singer from Karnataka state. She has performed as a singer for over 300 feature films and recorded for over 10000 musical albums ranging from Pop folk devotional and bhavageethe (light music). She is affectionately known as the Nightingale of Karnataka and a Rajyotsava Prashasti recipient from the State Government of Karnataka.
D. T. Suzuki.  Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō; he rendered his name Daisetz in 1894; 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese Japanese and Sanskrit literature.
Lasse Holm.  Lars-Eric Gustav Lasse Holm born 9 December 1943 in Stockholm Sweden is known as a composer lyricist and singer.Since childhood he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: Doug and the Millsmen The Spacemen and The Moonlighters.
Florian Süssmayr.  Florian Süssmayr (born 1963 in Munich) is a German painter from Munich.In the 1980th Süssmayr was involved in the punk scene and member of a punk band. In the 1990th he was working as a lighting technician and cinematographer. In doing so he was involved in the production of the movies Am I Beautiful? and Deathmaker amongst others. Since 1997 he devoted himself to the art of oil painting. His works can be found in galleries in Munich Tokyo and New York.
Jan Annino Godown.  Jan Annino Godown is an American writer who lives in Tallahassee Florida.JG Annino is the byline of writer Jan Godown who in 2008 published Florida's Famous Animals with the Globe Pequot Press. It tells the stories of 13 real animals in Florida whose interactions with humans made news. Jet the Dog Big Guy the Panther & Snooty the Manatee are among the creatures whose stories are told.
Raffaele Casnédi.  Raffaele Casnédi (1822-1892) was an Italian painter and scenic designer active mainly in Milan.He was born to Pietro Casnedi e Angela Spaini. He attended the Accademia di Brera from 1840 to 1850 to the disappointment of his parents. There he studied under Sogni and Luigi Sabatelli. In 1852 he won the Mylius prize for the fresco of The school of Leonardo painted in a lunette for the Accademia. He interned in Rome where he befriended the landscape artist Costa.
Tamas Wells.  Tamas Wells (/ˈteɪməs/ TAY-məs) is an Australian singer-songwriter based in Rangoon Burma. Wells first came to attention in his home country in 2002 with airplay of a three-track demo Cigarettes a Tie and a Free Magazine recorded with three friends. They followed this up with an EP Stitch in Time the same year. The band took off in 2004 when they were spotted by record producer Tim Whitten and invited to record their debut album A Mark on the Pane with Popboomerang Records.
Steve Zodiac.  Steve Zodiac (pseudonym adopted from the lead character of Fireball XL5) is a rock guitarist and prolific songwriter who gained recognition in the early 1980s as frontman of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal band Vardis. He is credited as writer of classic heavy metal tunes If I Were King Lets Go and 100mph; and had a Fender Telecaster.
Robin Lee Bruce.  Robin Lee Bruce (née Robin Lee Irwin November 7 1963 in Nashville Tennessee) is an American country music artist. She recorded in the 1980s and 1990s as Robin Lee for Evergreen and Atlantic Records charting at number 12 on Hot Country Songs in 1990 with a cover of Alannah Myles' Number One pop single Black Velvet. After charting her last single in 1994 she began working as a songwriter for other artists.
Boff Whalley.  Allen Mark Boff Whalley (born 1 January 1961) is the former lead guitarist for the band Chumbawamba.
Can Bonomo.  Can Bonomo (born 16 May 1987 İzmir) is a Turkish-Jewish singer who represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan.
Poe (singer).  Poe (born Anne Decatur Danielewski) (born March 23 1967) is an American singer songwriter and record producer. Poe's musical style is a unique blend of Rock Jazz Electronica Folk and Hip Hop elements combining intimate lyrical compositions. Many of Poe's songs have been featured in films and on television.
Ariel X.  Ariel X (born May 15 1980) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Sticks Evans.  Samuel Sticks Evans (1923-1994) was a drummer percussionist music teacher arranger and musical director. He was credited variously as Sammy Stick Evans Samie Evans Sammy Evans Sammie Evans Belton Evans Stick Evans and Sticks Evans.
Rebecca Norris Webb.  Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) is an American photographer. Originally a poet her books often combine text and images. She has collaborated with her husband and creative partner the photographer Alex Webb.
Nima Behnoud.  Nima Behnoud (in Persian: نیما بهنود) is an Iranian-American fashion designer based in New York City. He is the first fashion designer who implemented Persian calligraphy in a form of clothing.
Sissel Lange-Nielsen.  Sissel Lange-Nielsen née Herlofson (born 27 January 1931) is a Norwegian writer literary critic and journalist.Born in Kristiansund she won the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1982. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.She was married to barrister and judge Trygve Lange-Nielsen (1921–2014).
Ahmad (rapper).  Ahmad Ali Lewis (born October 12 1975) simply known as Ahmad (often stylized AHMAD) is an American hip hop recording artist songwriter motivational speaker and author from Los Angeles California. He is perhaps best known for the 1994 single Back in the Day a nostalgic song that became a fixture for nostalgia in hip-hop culture. Ahmad is also a former member and founder of the hip-hop fusion band 4th Avenue Jones.
José Sazatornil.  José Sazatornil Buendía (born 13 August 1925 in Barcelona Spain) is a Spanish actor who has appeared in numerous films since making his debut in 1946.
Jim Keays.  James Jim Keays (born 9 September 1946 Glasgow Scotland) is an Australian musician who fronted rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter guitarist and harmonica-player during 1965–1972 and subsequently had a solo career including leading Jim Keays' Southern Cross. The Masters Apprentices had Top 20 hits on the Go-Set National Singles Charts with Undecided Living in a Child's Dream 5:10 Man Think about Tomorrow Today Turn Up Your Radio and Because I Love You.
Vincenzo Thoma.  Vincenzo Thoma is a Canadian pop singer songwriter.
Felice Riccio.  Felice Riccio (1542–1605) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period born and mainly active in Verona. He is also known as il Brusasorci or Brusasorzi or Felice Brusasorci. He was the son of the painter Domenico Riccio. He painted a Deposition for the church of Tombazosana in the town of Ronco all'Adige. He painted a canvas for the Sanctuary-Basilica of Santa Maria della Pace in Verona.Among his pupils were Alessandro Turchi Pasquale Ottini Santo Creara and Marcantonio Bassetti.
Herman Bemberg.  Herman Emanuel Bemberg Ocampo (29 March 1859 – 21 July 1931) was a French-Argentinean musical composer.He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina of German Argentine parents (Otto Bemberg 1827-95 and Luisa Bernabela Ocampo Regueira 1831-1904) and studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Massenet whose influence with that of Gounod is strongly marked in his music. He won the Rossini Prize in 1885.
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade.  Joaquim de Sousa Andrade better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade (July 9 1833 — April 20 1902) was a Brazilian poet adept of the Condorist movement. His poetry too much innovating for the time it was published is now considered an early example of Symbolism and Modernism in Brazil.He also designed the flag of the Brazilian State of Maranhão.
Motiur Rahman Mollik.  Motiur Rahman Mollik (Bengali: মতিউর রহমান মল্লিক; 1 March 1950 – 2010) was a poet lyricist compositor writer organizer researcher editor singer and a cultural leader. He was one of the modern poets of Bengali literature.
Hau Latukefu.  Langomi-e-Hau Latukefu (born 1976) better known as Hau Latukefu or sometimes MC Hau or simply Hau is an Australian hip hop musician and radio host. He is best known as half of the duo Koolism (with Danielsan) and as the host of Triple J's hip hop program.
John Davidson (UK writer).  John Davidson (born 1944) is an English writer on mysticism and Christian origins.
William Houghton (naturalist).  The Reverend William Houghton (1828-1895) was an English naturalist and clergyman noted for being the author of British Fresh-Water Fishes. He was rector of Preston-on-the-Weald Moors Shropshire a serious naturalist and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. To produce this work Houghton studied fish specimens at the British Museum.
N. P. Mohammed.  N. P. Mohammed (1 July 1929 - 3 January 2003) popularly known by his initials N.P. was a Malayalam novelist and short story writer from Kerala state South India. He along with his contemporaries like M. T. Vasudevan Nair O. V. Vijayan Kakkanadan and Kamala Das ushered in a modernist movement in Malayalam fiction in the late 1950s. During his long literary career NP served as the President of Kerala Sahitya Akademi.
Rudi Stephan.  Rudi Stephan (29 July 1887 Worms Grand Duchy of Hesse – 29 September 1915) was a German composer of great promise who shortly before the First World War was considered one of the leading talents among his generation. He died in the war aged 28.Stephan was a composition pupil of Bernhard Sekles at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and of Heinrich Schwartz and Rudolf Louis in Munich where he settled after completing his studies in 1908.
Nalini Jameela.  Nalini Jameela is an Indian best selling author activist and sex worker from Thrissur Kerala. She is the author of the book The Autobiography of a Sex-worker. The book was translated to English in 2007 by J. Devika. She is the coordinator of the Kerala Sex workers Union.Her upcoming book is titledIn the Company of Men: the Romantic Encounters of a Sex Worker.
Michael Culkin.  Michael Culkin is an English theatre film and television actor probably best known for his role as Judge Buller in the BBC drama Garrow's Law. Among his other credits include a role in the children's drama M. I. High as a solicitor and Hugo Blandford in Doctors. He also had a role in the 2009 film Dorian Gray.
Magdalena Abakanowicz.  Magdalena Abakanowicz (born June 20 1930 in Falenty Poland) is a Polish sculptor and fiber artist. She is notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium. She was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań Poland from 1965 to 1990 and a visiting professor at University of California Los Angeles in 1984. Abakanowicz currently lives and works in Warsaw.
Willie Mack.  Willie Mack is a country music singer-songwriter born in Tulsa Oklahoma and raised in Chico Texas. He has had his songs recorded by Sara Evans Collin Raye The Oak Ridge Boys and Mark Wills among others. His single Don't Waste Your Pretty charted on the Canadian Hot 100.
Mathias Malzieu.  Mathias Malzieu (born 1974) the lead singer of the French band Dionysos co-founded the group in 1993 when he lived in Valence in Drôme. Three of his school-friends (Eric Serra Tosio Michael Ponton and Guillaume Garidel) comprised the original band membership.
Claude Bendier.  Claude Bendier (died 1677) was a doctor of the Sorbonne canon of Saint-Quentin Aisne and a well-known French bibliophile.Born in Saint-Quentin in an unknown year he always remained strongly attached to his native city to which he bequeathed his 3000 volume library on the condition that it be open to the public twice a week. His Life of St. Quentin was read in many primary schools during the Restoration and the early reign of Louis-Philippe.
Linc Chamberland.  Linc Chamberland (né Lionel Victor Chamberland; 13 September 1940 Norwalk Connecticut — 24 June 1987 New York City) was an American jazz guitarist based in Connecticut who after playing in the 1960s with The Orchids shunned touring and thereafter subsisted by teaching privately and playing locally near Norwalk Connecticut. Published critical acclaim by industry professionals fans and virtuoso jazz musicians rank Chamberland as legendary.
Giovanni da Asola.  Giovanni da Asola (active 1512- 1530) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance who along with his son Bernardino da Asola were prominent in the Venice of the early 16th century. Born in Brescia Giovanni appeared in Venice in 1512 probably contemporary with Girolamo Romanino. An Adoration of the Magi were painted for the Duomo of Asola in 1518. In 1526 he and his son painted a set of organ shutters for San Michele in Murano now in Museo Correr.
Seyid Shushinski.  Seyid Shushinski (Azerbaijani: Seyid Şuşinski) born Mir Mohsun Seyid Ibrahim oglu Shushinski (12 April 1889 Horadiz – 1 November 1965 Baku) was an Azerbaijani folk singer. She is also khananda descent.
Mark Tornillo.  Mark Tornillo (born. 29 May 1963 in Brielle New Jersey) is an american singer the current vocalist of heavy metal band Accept. He joined the band officially in May 2009 as Udo Dirkschneider's replacement and has appeared on three albums with them to date: Blood of the Nations (2010) Stalingrad (2012) and Blind Rage (2014).Before he joined Accept he played with TT Quick.
Ivar Loe Bjørnstad.  Ivar Loe Bjørnstad (born 1981 in Surnadal Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz and rock musician (drums) brother of the dancer Marit Loe Bjørnstad (1983).
Harm van den Dorpel.  Harm van den Dorpel (born 1981 in Zaandam The Netherlands) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist. He investigates aesthetic hierarchies and modes of distribution in social media networks and contemporary visual culture in relation to canonised art history. In his work he explores how intuitive gestures andassociative information can be described by and emerge from algorithmically structured information systems.His practice includes sculpture collage animation and websites.
Paul Thomas (pornographic actor).  Philip Toubus (born April 17 1947 in Winnetka Illinois) better known as Paul Thomas is an American pornographic film actor and director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame. He is unrelated to Paul Thomas Anderson who directed Boogie Nights a mainstream film portraying the porn industry. He was a major male star in the Golden Age of Porn.
Norman Ettlinger.  Norman Ettlinger (born 1920) was an English actor who appeared in Rumpole of the Bailey as his colleague Percy Hoskins. He also played many other roles both on stage and screen.
Gareth McGrillen.  Gareth McGrillen (born on 16 October 1982) is an Australian bass guitar player record producer and DJ. McGrillen is currently a part of the EDM duo Knife Party. He was also the bassist in electronic rock band Pendulum.
Mickael Korvin.  Mickael Korvin (born 1957 in Cuba) is a Franco-American author and translator who is of Hungarian origin. He lives in Paris.
Tor Bomann-Larsen.  Tor Bomann-Larsen (born 26 April 1951 in Jevnaker Oppland) is a Norwegian illustrator children's writer non-fiction writer novelist and government scholar. He started his career as a satirical illustrator for various newspapers including Friheten Ny tid Dagbladet Nationen and Arbederbladet. He has written biographies of explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen and writer Sigurd Christiansen. He was awarded the Cappelen Prize for 1993 and the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2004.
Will Hay.  William Thomson Will Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian actor film director and amateur astronomer.
Daniel Svensson.  Daniel Svensson (born on November 20 1977 in Gothenburg Sweden) is the current drummer and youngest member of the Swedish band In Flames and drummer / vocalist for the band Sacrilege GBG. He was also in Diabolique before he joined In Flames in 1998 to fill the position created when Björn Gelotte moved from drums to guitars. In Flames' first album with him as drummer along with Peter Iwers was Colony and it was released the following year. He rejoined Sacrilege GBG in 2006.
Kevin Shegog.  Kevin Joseph Shegog (20 August 1933—9 November 2000) was an Australian country music singer. He is perhaps most well known for his cover of Claude King's hit Wolverton Mountain and his singles One Small Photograph and Little Kangaroo.
Joe Gores.  Joe Gores (born Joseph Nicholas Gores on December 25 1931 in Rochester Minnesota USA; died January 10 2011 in Greenbrae California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional Dan Kearney and Associates (the DKA Files) private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man.
Zabel Yesayan.  Zabel Yesayan (Armenian: Զապէլ Եսայեան) (February 4 1878 – 1943) was an Armenian novelist translator and professor of literature.
Alphie McCourt.  Alphonsus Joseph Alphie McCourt (born 29 July 1940) is an Irish-American writer. He is the youngest brother of Frank McCourt.
Louis Oppenheim.  Louis Oppenheim (1879–1936) was a German graphic artist painter and type designer.Born in Coburg Oppenheim studied in London from 1899 to 1906. He moved to Berlin and started his work as a graphic artist in 1910 signing his work with his initials LO and working for clients such as AES the Reichsbahn Persil and Adrema. His posters are considered a significant product of the 'Berlin poster style'.
Nicole Wray.  Nicole Monique Wray (born May 2 1981) also known as simply Nicole is an American R&B and hip hop singer. Her 1998 debut single Make It Hot was certified gold.
Robert E. Kreutz.  Robert Edward Kreutz (March 21 1922–April 7 1996) was an American composer of Roman Catholic liturgical worship music. He graduated from Aquinas High School in 1940. Robert Kreutz studied music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago Illinois and at the University of California-Los Angeles. He was best known for the Eucharistic hymn: Gift of Finest Wheat which was first performed at the International Eucharistic Congress in 1976 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Ralph Roeder.  Ralph Roeder (April 7 1890 - October 22 1969) was an American author.Ralph Edmund LeClercq Roeder was born in New York a son of German immigrant George Roeder and Ida Carolina LeClercq of Charleston South Carolina. His maternal grandmother was the American composer Marie Regina Siegling LeClercq. He was educated at Harvard and at Columbia University. In the 1920’s he was Rome correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.
Fredrika Stahl.  Fredrika Stahl (born 24 October 1984 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter signed to Sony Music in France. Her style is a mix of jazz and pop. Along with singing Fredrika plays the piano and guitar.Her debut album A Fraction of You was released in 2006. It features musicians such as Tom McClung (piano also arrangements) José Palmer (guitar) Diego Imbert (double bass) and Karl Jannuska (drums).
Grand Popo Football Club.  Grand Popo Football Club are a French electronic music group of a DJ/book-loving television presenter/chat show host and producer/classically-trained pianist who studied at the National Conservatory in Paris respectively.The duo apparently adopted their unusual moniker after Ariel Wizman visited the West African village of Grand-Popo in Benin to film a television programme and decided that the community was missing a football club.
Stella McNicol.  Stella McNicol (1956 - 1996) was a musician from Toronto (Canada).
Amanda Filipacchi.  Amanda Filipacchi (/fɪlɪˈpɑːkɪ/; born October 10 1967) is an American novelist. She was born in Paris and educated in both France and the U.S. She is the author of three novels Nude Men (1993) Vapor (1999) and Love Creeps (2005). Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages and she has been praised for her comic talent.
Enrico Rava.  Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939 in Trieste Italy) is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s he was a member of Steve Lacy's group.
Gary Gianni.  Gary Gianni is an American comics artist best known for his eight years illustrating the syndicated newspaper comic Prince Valiant.After Gianni graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1976 he worked for the Chicago Tribune as an illustrator and network television news as a courtroom sketch artist.
Corrinne May.  Corrinne May is a Singaporean musician singer and songwriter. She has released five record albums the latest being Crooked Lines in 2012.
Jiang Ying (musician).  Jiang Ying (simplified Chinese: 蒋英; traditional Chinese: 蔣英; pinyin: Jiǎng Yīng; August 11 1919 – February 5 2012) was a Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
Harry Crosby.  Harry Crosby (June 4 1898 – December 10 1929) was an American heir a bon vivant poet publisher and for some epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature. He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England a Boston Brahmin and the nephew of Jane Norton Grew the wife of financier J. P. Morgan Jr.. As such he was heir to a portion of a substantial family fortune. He was a volunteer in the American Field Service during World War I and later served in the U.S.
Yoma Komatsu.  Yoma Komatsu (小松代真 Komatsu Yoma born December 30 1975) is a Japanese pop singer. She is the eldest member of the Konami-produced J-Pop group BeForU.
Epes Sargent.  Epes Sargent (1813–1880) was an American editor poet and playwright.
Yudai Chiba.  Yudai Chiba (千葉 雄大 Chiba Yūdai born March 9 1989 in Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese actor who played as Alata (Gosei Red) in Tensou Sentai Goseiger and its movies. He reprised this role in a voice-only appearance in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen.
Ron Pernick.  Ron Pernick is an American author and the co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge a Portland Oregon research and advisory firm that monitors clean technology markets. He is an accomplished market research publishing and business development entrepreneur with two decades of high-tech experience. At Clean Edge he has co-authored many reports on emerging green technologies and has worked with multinational companies government agencies and investors.
Peter Stroud.  Peter Stroud is a US guitarist best known for his work with Sheryl Crow Don Henley Pete Droge and Sarah McLachlan. He is cofounder of 65amps a company manufacturing guitar amplifiers.
Doug Levitt.  Doug Levitt is an American singer-songwriter and author known principally for his seven-year project The Greyhound Diaries.In 2004 Levitt set out on his first six-week journey by Greyhound and began writing songs and stories about fellow travelers many struggling to get by. The journey modeled on WPA-era projects that drew a fuller portrait of America is ongoing passing 70000 miles at the end of 2011.
Nikolai Virta.  Nikolai Yevgenyevich Virta (Russian: Никола́й Евге́ньевич Вирта́) (real name Karelsky) (December 19 [O.S. December 6] 1906 - January 3 1976) was a Soviet writer who developed the theory of conflictless drama.
Pavol Strauss.  Pavol Strauss (30 August 1912 Liptovský Mikuláš – 3 June 1994 Nitra); was a Slovak doctor writer essayist translator.
Bobby Au-yeung.  Bobby Au-yeung Tsan-wah (born 28 July 1960) is a Hong Kong actor best known for his comedic roles in many TVB television dramas. He gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Ben Yu in the 1991 legal drama File of Justice appearing in all five seasons. Au-yeung is also known for his lead roles in several of TVB's most successful television series franchises including Armed Reaction Witness to a Prosecution and Forensic Heroes.
Eliot Porter.  Eliot Furness Porter (December 6 1901 – November 2 1990) was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature.
Håkon Bleken.  Håkon Ingvald Bleken (born January 9 1929 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
Dannah Gresh.  Dannah Gresh (born 1967) is a Christian author and public speaker. She lives in State College Pennsylvania United States and has a son and two daughters. When she was 15 she engaged in sexual activity with her boyfriend. In 1996 she founded Pure Freedom an organization that teaches young girls about chastity. She also leads an organization that provides abstinence-only sex education in Zambia.
Chris Lindsey.  Christopher M. Chris Lindsey is an American country music songwriter and record producer. He is the husband of Aimee Mayo with whom he has written several songs. The two own Aimeeland Studios.Lindsey's production credits include the number 1 hits I Breathe In I Breathe Out by Chris Cagle and 19 Somethin' by Mark Wills.
Paul Overstreet.  Paul Lester Overstreet (born March 17 1955) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005 and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts including two No. 1 hits. He has also written singles for several other country acts including No. 1 hits for Randy Travis Blake Shelton and Keith Whitley as well as hits for The Judds and Kenny Chesney.
Jun Shibata.  Jun Shibata (柴田淳 Shibata Jun born November 19 1976 in Setagaya Tokyo) nicknamed Shibajun is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter.
Flower Tucci.  Flower Tucci (/ˈtʊʃi/ TUUSH-ee born January 2 1981) is an American nude model and pornographic actress.
Dorothy Iannone.  Dorothy Iannone is an American-born visual artist who is particularly noted for her autobiographical texts films and paintings that explicitly depict female sexuality and ecstatic unity. She currently lives and works in Berlin Germany.
Fan Hung-hsuan.  Fan Hung-hsuan (Chinese: 范鴻軒) is a Taiwanese actor who achieved regional fame in East Asia and Southeast Asia for his portrayal of Gongsun Ce in the 1993 TV series Justice Bao.
Nazim Hussain.  Nazim Hussain is an Indian musician who plays the tabla. He is the youngest son of shehnai master Ustad Bismillah Khan whom he accompanied as well.
Thara Prashad.  Thara Natalie Prashad (born January 16 1982) also known as Thara is an American R&B singer and model. Her father is Indo-Guyanese while her mother is part Irish and part African-American. Formerly signed to the Desert Storm label most known for rapper Fabolous.Born and raised in New Jersey Thara started singing at 16 and began taking modeling jobs in the hopes of getting closer to the music industry. She landed a huge Reebok commercial campaign followed by a Verizon campaign.
Thomas Rathnam.  Thomas Rathnam (Tamil: தாமஸ் ரத்னம்) is an Indian music composer doing music for Tamil English Kannada Telugu and Hindi films.
Nathanael Salmon.  Nathanael Salmon (22 March 1675 – 2 April 1742) was an English antiquary who wrote books on Roman and other antiquities in the southeast of England. He was not well respected for either his writing or his morals but was well travelled and recorded many local customs and much folklore.
Thea Halo.  Thea Halo (born 1941) is an American writer and painter of Assyrian and Greek heritage. Born in New York City she is the 8th child of Abraham and Sano Halo. Thea began writing poetry and short-stories in 1992 and in 2000 she published her book Not Even My Name (ISBN 0312262116) the memoir of her mother who belonged in Turkey's Greek minority.
Sero Khanzadyan.  Sero Nikolai Khanzadyan (November 20 1916 Goris - June 26 1998 Yerevan) was an Armenian writer.
Jūji Tanabe.  Jūji Tanabe (田部 重治 Tanabe Jūji August 4 1884 - September 22 1972) was a Japanese literature scholar teacher and mountain climber.Tanabe was born in Toyama City. He majored in English literature at Tokyo Imperial University specializing in William Wordsworth. He lectured at Toyo University and Hosei University.He climbed the Japanese Alps and Okuchichibu Mountains. He wrote a book The Japanese Alps and a pilgrimage to Chichibu (日本アルプスと秩父巡礼 Nippon Alps to Chichibu junrei) in 1919.
Terri Lyne Carrington.  Terri Lyne Carrington (born August 4 1965) is a Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer composer record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with Dizzy Gillespie Stan Getz Clark Terry Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter Joe Sample Al Jarreau Yellowjackets and many others.
Phil Pritchett.  Phil Pritchett (born 1971) is a rock and roll musician from Texas. Members of his band have varied over the years. The current incarnation of the Full Band includes J.W. Blu Marshall on bass and Stu Wiley on drums.Phil's performance to his eighth grade class of The Beatles Love Me Do first inspired him to enter into music. Phil got his real musical start at age 13 starting a Van Halen-style cover band and started playing local parties.
Anders Heger.  Anders Heger (born 10 July 1956) is a Norwegian publisher and writer and is one of the six children of Wanda Hjort Heger and Bjørn Heger.In 1982 Heger started Radio Nova the first student radio in Norway. In 1985 he wrote a book about the juridical process against the Norwegian writer Agnar Mykle and in 1999 wrote Et diktet liv a biography about Agnar Mykle which received the Brage Prize (comparable in Norway to a Pulitzer Prize).
Lester Sterling.  Lester Sterling OD (born 31 January 1936) also known as Lester Ska Sterling or Mr. Versatile is a Jamaican trumpet and saxophone player.
Jeordie White.  Jeordie Osbourne White (born June 20 1971) better known by his stage name Twiggy Ramirez (derived from Twiggy a fashion icon and Richard Ramirez a convicted serial killer) is an American musician best known as both a bassist and guitarist particularly within the band Marilyn Manson. Previously he was the bassist for A Perfect Circle and a touring member of Nine Inch Nails and is currently the vocalist for Goon Moon. He left Marilyn Manson in 2002 but rejoined the band in 2008.
French Carpenter.  David French Carpenter born June 7 1899 in Clay County West Virginia died May 22 1965 was a noted West Virginia mountaineer Old time fiddle player. He is listed by the Library of Congress as a musician on two sound recordings: Elzics Farewell Kanawha 1976; and Old-time music from Clay County West Virginia Charleston W.Va. Folk Promotions 1964.
Frederick Richard Pickersgill.  Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (25 September 1820 London – 20 December 1900) was an English painter and book illustrator. Born into a family of artists he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1840. He did some book illustrations for the works of John Milton and Edgar Allan Poe.Pickersgill's The Burial of Harold was accepted as a decoration for the Houses of Parliament in 1847. He also did some landscapes under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Alexander Milne Calder.  Alexander Milne Calder (August 23 1846 – June 4 1923) was a Scottish American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson Alexander Sandy Calder became significant sculptors in the 20th century.
J. Anthony Brown.  James Anthony Brown (born in Columbia South Carolina) is an American comedian actor and radio personality. He received the Peabody Award and the NAACP Image Award.
Grace Lumpkin.  Grace Lumpkin (March 3 1891 - March 23 1980) was an American writer of proletarian literature focusing most of her works on the Depression era and the rise and fall of favor surrounding communism in the United States. Most important of four books was her first To Make My Bread (1932) which won the Gorky Prize in 1933.
Masao Koga.  Masao Koga (古賀 政男 Koga Masao November 18 1904 – July 25 1978) was a Japanese composer and guitarist known for creating melodies and a pioneer of Japanese popular music. He was regarded as a notable figure for establishing the genre enka though Koga considered that he was a ryūkōka composer. He wrote numerous songs for Ichiro Fujiyama and Hibari Misora and his work has been featured in various films including Come See the Paradise and Memoirs of a Geisha.
Maureen O'Farrell.  Maureen O'Farrell is a British actress probably best known for her role as Linda Perelli in the 1980s television drama Widows.Other TV credits include: Minder Dempsey and Makepeace C.A.T.S. Eyes The Bill and Coronation Street.
Brian Ray.  Brian Thomas Ray (born January 4 1955) is an American session musician guitarist bassist singer–songwriter and musical director. He is best known for his work as rhythm lead and bass guitarist with Paul McCartney though he has worked with an extensive list of artists in addition to his own solo career.
Camillo Innocenti.  Camillo Innocenti (Rome 1871 - 1961) was an Italian painter.
Eddie Hoh.  Eddie Hoh (nicknamed Fast Eddie Hoh) is an American rock drummer who was active in the 1960s. Although primarily a studio session and touring drummer Hoh exhibited a degree of originality and showmanship that set him apart and several of his contributions have been singled out for acknowledgment by music critics. Often uncredited and unknown to audiences he played the drums on several well-known rock songs and albums including those by Donovan and the Monkees.
Werner Wolff (photographer).  Werner Wolff (born 11 June 1911 - 26 January 2002) was a German-born American photojournalist known primarily for his work in association with the Black Star agency from 1945 to the late 1980s. Born in Mannheim Germany in 1911 Wolff emigrated to New York City in 1936 initially working for Alfred Eisenstaedt as a darkroom technician and then starting his own photographic agency Camera Features. After a brief stint in the U.S.
Wu Mingyi.  Wu Ming-Yi (born June 20 1971) is a multidisciplinary Taiwanese artist author academic and environmental activist. In Chinese he is especially well known for his non-fiction books on butterflies The Book of Lost Butterflies (2000) and The Dao of Butterflies (2003) which he also designed and illustrated.
Gareth Morris.  Gareth Charles Walter Morris (13 May 1920 – 14 February 2007) was a British flautist. He was the principal flautist of a number of London orchestras including the Boyd Neel Orchestra before joining the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was the principal flautist of this orchestra for 24 years and Professor of the Flute at the Royal Academy of Music from 1945 to 1985.
Parveen Shakir.  Parveen Shakir (Urdu: پروین شاکر‎) (November 24 1952 – December 26 1994) was an Urdu poet teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.Parveen started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry Khushbu [Fragrance] to great acclaim in 1976.
Attila József.  Attila József (Hungarian: [ˈɒtilːɒ ˈjoːʒɛf]; 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was a Hungarian poet of the 20th century.
Daniel Ingram.  Daniel Ingram is a Canadian composer and songwriter primarily for animated series soundtracks. He has written more than 200 songs for television in genres ranging from current Pop and Classic Rock right through to large-scale Broadway-style musical theater. His music has been heard in 180 countries.Ingram has received several awards for his music. Between 2012 and 2013 he has been nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Song in a Children's or Animated Series.
Ercole Bazicaluve.  Ercole Bazicaluve or (Bazzicaluve) (active 1640) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Pisa and pupil of Girolamo Parigi and became castellan of the castle of Livorno. Bartsch describes seven of his prints and Brulliot others. Of his works may be mentioned a Triumphal Procession and twelve landscapes.
Tim Thorney.  Tim Thorney is a Canadian guitarist songwriter and record producer currently working out of Toronto.
Rafael Alvarez.  For the Spanish diver see Rafael ÁlvarezRafael Alvarez (born May 24 1958) is an American author based in Baltimore and Los Angeles. Alvarez went to work for the Sunpapers of Baltimore as a teenager - first in the circulation department and then the horse racing desk in sports - before landing on the City Desk as a utility man and neighborhood folklorist. He was with The Sun from 1977 through 2001.
Shawn Camp (musician).  Darrell DeShawn Shawn Camp (born August 29 1966) is an American musician who performs country and Americana music. Originally signed to Reprise Records in 1993 as a recording artist Camp charted two minor singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that year.
Carrie Kabak.  Carrie Kabak (née Howells) is an author copywriter and graphic designer. Born and raised in the United Kingdom she now lives in Kansas City Missouri.Her first book Cover the Butter won a AudioFile Earphones Award in 2006. It was reviewed by Publishers Weekly BookList Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal.
Kati Rekai.  Kati Rekai CM (October 20 1921 – February 1 2010) was a Hungarian-Canadian writer/broadcaster author of a series of travel books for children: The Adventures of Mickey Taggy Puppo and Cica and How They Discover Toronto The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art Toronto 200 Ottawa Montreal Kingston Brockville and the Thousand Islands British Columbia Budapest Vienna The Netherlands France Italy Switzerland and Greece published in English French Polish Romanian Hungarian Chinese and Braille.Puppet shows based on Mickey Taggy Puppo and Cica: The Great Totem Pole Caper The Tale of Tutenkhamen and The Boy Who Forgot.
Brendan Canty.  Brendan Canty (born March 9 1966 in Teaneck New Jersey) is an American musician composer producer and film maker best known as the drummer for the band Fugazi.In 2007 Stylus Magazine ranked Canty at #29 on the list of 50 Greatest Rock Drummers based on his drumming work with Fugazi.
Musa Haji Ismail Galal.  Musa Haji Ismail Galal (Somali: Muuse Xaaji Ismaaciil Galaal Arabic: موسى الحاج اسماعيل جلال‎) (1917–1980) was a Somali writer scholar linguist historian and polymath.
Yasuko Thanh.  Yasuko Nguyen Thanh is a Canadian writer and guitarist born June 30 1971 in Victoria British Columbiato a German mother and a Vietnamese father. At 15 Thanh dropped out of school and lived on the streets. Previous to winning the Journey Prize for her short story Floating Like the Dead in 2009 Thanh earned her living as a busker in Vancouver. She has lived in Canada Mexico Germany and Latin America and she was named one of ten CBC Books' writers to watch in 2013.
Peter Schilling.  Peter Schilling (born Pierre Michael Schilling; January 28 1956) is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes (aliens astronauts nuclear holocaust etc.).Schilling was born in Stuttgart Germany. His 1983 album Error in the System generated his only international hit single Major Tom (Coming Home) a retelling of David Bowie's classic 1969 song Space Oddity.
Charles Bucke.  Charles Bucke (16 April 1781 – 31 July 1846) was an English writer who despite being poor most of his life still managed to produce roughly eleven different works each varying in number of volumes and topics.
Habib Bektaş.  Habib Bektaş (Salihli March 1 1951) is a German-Turkish writer who has lived in Germany since 1972.He lives with his wife in Erlangen and he has two adult children. In Germany he has worked in several places (restaurants pharmaceutical enterprises...) and as a columnist of the journals Evrensel and Yeni Hayat.
Vladimir Becić.  Vladimir Becić (1886–1954) was a Croatian painter best known for his early work in Munich which had a strong influence on the direction of modern art in CroatiaBecić studied painting in Munich at the prestigious Academy of Arts along with Oskar Herman Miroslav Kraljević and Josip Račić. This group of Croatian artists are known as the Munich Circle or Munich Four and are very important figures in Croatian art of the 20th century.
Christian Nikolaus Eberlein.  Christian Nikolaus Eberlein (1720–1788) a German historical painter was born at Rudolstadt in 1720. He worked in Göttingen Wolfenbüttel and Salzdahlum and in 1776 became inspector of the gallery in the last-named town and made good copies of many of the pictures therein. He died at Salzdahlum in 1788. His son Christian Eberhard Eberlein who was also a painter was born at Wolfenbüttel in 1749 and died at Göttingen in 1804.
Joel Lawrence.  Joel Lawrence (born September 24 1964) is an American pornographic actor.
Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt.  Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt B.A. (Oxon.) ICS FRGS (25 June 1874–11 June 1963) diplomat and writer began his career as an English member of the Indian Civil Service. His duty in India began in 1896 and he started as an assistant magistrate and collector. He was originally assigned to Khulna Midnapore Hooghly and Calcutta. At some point he was re-assigned to the commander-in-chief in India and later served in the British legation in Tehran.
Edmund Robert Harris.  Edmund Robert Harris (c. 1804 – 27 May 1877) was an English lawyer from Preston Lancashire UK who was the principal benefactor of the Harris Museum Harris Institute or Art School Harris Technical School and the Harris Orphanage.Harris was the son of the Reverend Robert Harris (1764–1862) vicar of St George's Parish Church in Preston and headmaster of the Preston Grammar School.
Rachelle Ann Go.  Rachelle Ann Go is a Filipina singer model actress who won in several singing contests the first of which was in Eat Bulaga! at age eleven. She rose to fame when she emerged as the Grand Champion of the reality talent search Search For a Star in 2004. She has been managed by VIVA Artist Agency.In July 2004 Go released her self-titled debut album with the singles Love of My Life and a remake of Don't Cry Out Loud.
Lawrence Weiner.  Lawrence Weiner (born February 10 1942) is one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.
Heather Myles.  Heather Myles (born July 31 1962) is a country music singer. Her honky tonk singing is in the Bakersfield sound-style and has been likened by many to that of Dwight Yoakam. She has had her songs featured in a major feature film.She was born in Riverside California where her parents bred and trained horses for racing.
Krishna Prakash Bahadur.  Krishna Prakesh Bahadur is an Indian writer from Allahabad India who published a large number of books including many on history philosophy and poetry.
Tony Dize.  Tony Feliciano Rivera' Better known by his stage name Tony Dize or his other nickname La Melodía De La Calle is a reggaeton artist born in Boston Massachusetts of Puerto Rican descent. His first recorded performance was from the album Blin Blin Vol. 1 with Wisin & Yandel in 2003 after which he collaborated with other artists of the genre and later released his debut album in 2008 titled La Melodía De La Calle (Spanish for Street Melody) under WY Records and Machete Music.
Robert Loren Fleming.  Robert Loren Fleming (born 1956) is an American comic book writer.
Max Green (musician).  Maxwell Scott Green (better known as Max Green) is an American musician (born December 15 1984 Cincinnati Ohio United States). He is the bassist and one of the founders of the band Escape the Fate and also the former guitarist for the band The Natural Born Killers.
Wladimir Burliuk.  Wladimir Burliuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Давидович Бурлюк; Russian: Владимир Давидович Бурлюк; 1886–1917) was an avant-garde artist (Neo-Primitivist and Cubo-Futurist) book illustrator. He died at the age of 32 in World War I.
George Pelecanos.  Pelecanos redirects here. For the private investigator and Federal convict and defendant see Anthony Pellicano.George P. Pelecanos (born 18 Feb 1957) is an American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer. He worked extensively on the HBO series The Wire.
Oliver Kohlenberg.  Oliver Kohlenberg (born 24 January 1957) is a German composer. Born in Aachen he is noted for his work in Finland. In 1997 he received the Oulu City Prize.
Michael Falzarano.  Michael Falzarano is an American guitarist singer and songwriter. He has been a professional musician since the 1970s most notably in Hot Tuna the New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Memphis Pilgrims a Memphis-style rock and roll/blues band that he founded in 1986.Falzarano released an album entitled We Are All One. in 2008 on Woodstock Records and The King James Sessions in 2005 on Blues Planet Records.
Mimori Yusa.  Mimori Yusa (遊佐 未森 Yusa Mimori) (born February 20 1964 in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Although she has had a very prolific career Yusa achieved only minor popularity in Japan until very recently when her song newest song Kuro was featured on the popular NHK television program Minna no Uta from December 2005 until January 2006.
José Ángel Mañas.  José Ángel Mañas (Madrid 1971) is a Spanish writer. Mañas is often included as a member of the generation of neorealist Spanish writers from the 1990s along with Juan Gracia Gabriela Bustelo Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria. His books have been translated into several languages.
Dan Chandler.  Dan Chandler is an American singer and songwriter from St. Louis MO. He is best known for his work with the alternative rock band Evans Blue. Chandler is currently the lead vocalist for the band Fight or Flight.
Diane Dufresne.  Diane Dufresne CQ (born 30 September 1944 in Montreal Quebec Canada) is a singer and painter and has sung a number of classics of Quebec repertoire of popular songs.Dufresne lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where she studied voice with Jean Lumière and dramatic art with Françoise Rosay.
Roger Bissière.  Roger Bissière (22 September 1886 – 2 December 1964) was a French artist. He designed stained glass windows for Metz cathedral and several other churches.
Darja Schabad.  Darja Schabad (Russian: Дарья Шабад) born 6 January 1983 is a vocalist and actress originally from Riga Latvia. Darja (pronounced Daria) grew up in Bremen Germany before moving to London United Kingdom where she visited Bradfield College to complete her A-Level studies. Darja speaks four languages fluently due to her international upbringing - Russian German English and Spanish.
Mike Morasky.  Mike Morasky is an American composer animator/visual effects artist director and programmer. He is best known for his work at Valve Corporation composing the scores for Portal 2 the Left 4 Dead series Team Fortress 2 and the original Portal. He is also known for his groundbreaking visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix trilogies as well as founding the seminal underground art band Steel Pole Bath Tub.
Cecil Day-Lewis.  Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Jason Truby.  Jason Truby (born June 1 1973 in Little Rock Arkansas) is an American musician. He began his career in 1989 when he formed the Christian metal band Living Sacrifice as its lead guitarist. Even though he was a founding member of the Arkansas-based band he left Living Sacrifice in 1997 to spend time with his family. However in 2003 the band P.O.D. needed a new guitarist after former band member Marcos Curiel parted with the band amidst controversy.
Eugeen Van Mieghem.  Eugeen Van Mieghem (October 1st. 1875– March 24th. 1930) was a Belgian artist born in the port of Antwerp. As a boy Van Mieghem was confronted with the harsh reality of life at the waterfront.Even at primary school he showed a talent for drawing. He was introduced to the work of Vincent van Gogh Georges Seurat Camille Pissarro Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others at an exhibition organised by Flemish painter and architect Henry van de Velde at the Antwerp Academy around 1892.
Michael Monarch.  Michael Monarch (born on July 5 1950 in Los Angeles California) is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with the band Steppenwolf.As the original lead guitarist with Steppenwolf (until 1969) he played on all their hits including Born to Be Wild Magic Carpet Ride and Rock Me while still in high school. He also played on Janis Joplin's album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!. He later went on to record for the SwanSong/Atlantic recording group Detective.
Elan Lee.  Elan Lee (born 1975) is a game designer who is widely regarded (along with Jordan Weisman and Sean Stewart) as one of the creators of the genre of Alternate Reality Games.
Emmanuel Mouret.  Emmanuel Mouret (born 30 June 1970) is a French actor director and screenwriter.
Diane McFarlin.  Diane McFarlin is the current Publisher for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.[1]. Effective January 1 2013 McFarlin will become Dean of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.McFarlin is a fourth-generation Floridian and she began her journalism career at age 15 when she covered her first city commission meeting for her hometown newspaper. McFarlin went on to study Journalism at the University of Florida and her first job was with the Herald-Tribune.
Deborah Coonts.  Deborah Coonts (born Deborah Buell) is an American novelist and lawyer best known for her Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures series of romantic humorous mystery novels.
Muazzez Abacı.  Muazzez Abacı (Turkish pronunciation: [muazˈzez abaˈdʒɯ]) (born 1947 in Ankara Turkey) is a Turkish singer. Trained in Turkish classical music she has achieved considerable popular success in the Arabesk genre.
J. Allen Boone.  J. Allen Boone (17 February 1882 – 17 June 1965) was an American author of several books about nonverbal communication with animals in the 1940s and '50s. He wrote much on his friendship with Strongheart a film star-German shepherd who he credits with teaching him how to achieve deeper bonds through extrasensory perception a silent language that can be learned.Boone was an early film producer and correspondent for the Washington Post.
Thelma Houston.  Thelma Houston (née Jackson; born May 7 1946 Leland Mississippi) is an American singer and actress. She scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her cover version of the song Don't Leave Me This Way which won the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
Headman Shabalala.  Headman Msongelwa Shabalala (10 October 1945 - 10 December 1991) was a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo a South African choral group founded and still led by his brother Joseph.Headman was born in Ladysmith in the eMnambithi area and grew up with his brothers Joseph Jockey Enoch Makhosini and Ben. In 1960 he joined the first incarnation of his brother Joseph's group and became a full-time member alongside his brother Enoch and various cousins and relatives.
Keshav Vaman Bhole.  Keshav Vaman Bhole (Marathi: केशव वामन भोळे) also known as Keshavrao Bhole (23-May-1896 to 1967) was a well known music composer and critique in Indian Cinema.He was the founder of a theatrical company called Natya-Manvantara. In 1933 he was admitted to Prabhat Film Company as a music composer. His works include Kunku Amritmanthan Sant Tukaram RamshastriAs a critique he wrote under pseudonym 'Ekalavya' and 'Suddha Saranga'.
Heinz Pototschnig.  Heinrich Heinz Pototschnig (June 30 1923 – April 11 1995) was an Austrian writer and physician.Pototschnig was born in Graz. After World War II and after he graduated in medicine he moved to Carinthia where he practised in Villach and started writing. His works include narratives essays lyric poetry and radio plays. In 1962 he became editor of Der Bogen which was edited by Hans Leb before.In 1977 he participated in the first edition of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition Klagenfurt.
Géo Voumard.  Géo Voumard (2 December 1920 – 3 September 2008) was a Swiss jazz pianist and composer. He was a co-founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival and composer of the song Refrain which won the first Eurovision Song Contest.
Steve Hatcher.  Steve Hatcher (born July 30 1967) is an American pornographic actor.
Amanda Brewster Sewell.  Amanda Brewster Sewell (February 24 1839 - November 15 1926) born Lydia Amanda Brewster was a 19th-century American painter of portraits and genre scenes.She studied at the Cooper Union the Art Students League and Académie Julian Paris.Sewell was one of only four women to exhibit a significant number of paintings at The World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893.
Alexander Williams (cartoonist).  Alexander Alex Williams (born October 18 1967 in London) is an English film animator and cartoonist. He is the son of animator Richard Williams. He has worked on numerous animated films and is the author of the Queen's Counsel cartoon strip in The Times.
Carl Riseley.  Carl Riseley (born 21 December 1982) is an Australian singer and recording artist.
V.R. Raghava Krishna.  V.R. Raghava Krishna (born 1987) is a Carnatic music vocalist from Chennai India. Hailing from a family with a rich music tradition he was exposed to the south Indian classical music at an early age.V.R. Raghava Krishna is the son of veteran violin artist V.V. Ravi and Visalam Ravi. He started learning music from his mother Visalam Ravi and Akhila seshadri. He is currently a disciple of Padmabhushan P. S. Narayanaswamy and his uncle Naadayogi V.V.
Jason Scheff.  Jason Randolph Scheff (born April 16 1962 in San Diego California) is an American bassist singer and songwriter. Since 1985 he has been the bassist and singer for the veteran pop-rock band Chicago. He is the oldest son of well-known session bassist Jerry Scheff who toured for several years with Elvis Presley. His brothers Darin and Lauren Scheff are also professional songwriters.Scheff was a graduating member of the Class of 1980 at San Diego's Point Loma High School.
Yameen.  Yameen is a hiphop producer from Philadelphia PA. His most recent work Never Knows Encore was released on February 10 2010 on Rumble Pack Records. His music can be heard weekly on the Activision videogames podcast One of Swords where he is also occasionally a guest commentator.
Mark Charan Newton.  Mark Charan Newton is a British fantasy author. He is best known for his fantasy series The Legends of the Red Sun published by Tor UK an imprint of Pan Macmillan. He was also a reviewer for The Ecologist UK's oldest ecological magazine.
Vrezh Kirakosyan.  Vrezh Kirakosyan (in Armenian Վրեժ Կիրակոսյան) (born in 1983) is an Armenian singer who won the first series (2010–2011) of the Armenian X-Factor series (in Armenian Իքս-Ֆակտոր) after getting top votes in the final broadcast live on the Armenian Shant TV station on 15 May 2011 against rival finalist and runner-up Srbuhi Sargsyan.Title holder Kirakosyan competed in the over 25 category and was mentored by judge Gisané Palyan.
Gigi (singer).  Ejigayehu Shibabaw known by her stage name Gigi is one of the most successful contemporary Ethiopian singers worldwide. Coming from an ancient tradition of song originating in the Ethiopian Church she has brought the music of Ethiopia to wider appreciation and developed it in combination with a wide variety of other genres.
Geoff Useless.  Geoffrey Palmer (born January 17 1980 in Wakefield Massachusetts United States) also known by the stage name Geoff Useless is an American musician from Portsmouth New Hampshire. He played bass and provided backing vocals for The Queers straight out of high school and played guitar and did lead vocals for The Guts and The Nobodys.In early 2011 he did a folk punk solo project with other musicians around Portsmouth called The Geoff Useless (Band).
Chris Corsano.  Chris Corsano is a drummer from New England USA. He often performs in an improvisation duo with saxophonist Paul Flaherty. He has also recorded material with artists such as Evan Parker Dredd Foole Sunburned Hand of the Man Six Organs of Admittance Kim Gordon Thurston Moore Matt Valentine Nels Cline Vibracathedral Orchestra Cold Bleak Heat Jim O'Rourke Jandek Michael Flower and C.
Jan van Os.  Jan van Os (23 February 1744 – 7 February 1808) was a Dutch painter and a member of the renowned Van Os family of artists.
Jack Leigh.  John David Jack Leigh II (November 8 1948 – May 19 2004) a native of Savannah Georgia and a graduate of The Savannah Country Day School and the University of Georgia was a photographer and author best known for the cover photograph on the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Tag Adams.  Tag Adams or Chet Roberts (born 1972 in Hanover Pennsylvania) are the stage names of an American gay pornographic film actor.
Joel Kovel.  Joel Kovel (born 27 August 1936) is an American scholar and author.
Dawn Penn.  Dawn Penn (from Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer.
Louise Carver (South African singer).  Louise Carver (born 10 January 1979) is a South African folk rock singer-songwriter and pianist.Carver was born in Cape Town and holds dual citizenship in South Africa and the United Kingdom. She began playing piano at the age of 11 and received her first recording contract at the age of 15. She matriculated at the Rustenburg School for Girls matriculating in 1996. She earned an honours degree in Politics Philosophy and Economics from the University of Cape Town in 2002.
Stacey Cadman.  Stacey Cadman is a British actress and television presenter. She was born and educated in the West Midlands England. After leaving John Willmott School in Sutton Coldfield Stacey studied performing arts and Dance in Birmingham. She followed this with a course in Musical theatre at The Arts Educational Schools in London.She was chosen from hundreds of actresses for the leading role in the BBC TV series Cavegirl.
Graeme Bell.  Graeme Emerson Bell AO MBE (7 September 1914 – 13 June 2012) was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist composer and band leader. According to The Age his band's music was hailed for its distinctive Australian edge which he describes as 'nice larrikinism' and 'a happy Aussie outdoor feelTemplate:'.Aside from playing Bell was one of the leading promoters of jazz in Australia bringing American performers such as Rex Stewart to Australia.
Lenny Ibizarre.  Lenny Ibizarre is a Danish Producer and Musician from Copenhagen.
Robin Beanland.  Robin The Bean Beanland (born August 27 1968) is a British composer of video game music composing music for numerous Rare titles such as the Killer Instinct franchise Conker's Bad Fur Day (which he also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Seavor) and many others. Prior to joining Rare Beanland composed music for T.V. and films.
Klashnekoff.  Darren Kandler better known by his Stage name Klashnekoff (pronounced K-Lash-Nek-Off) or Ricochet Klashnekoff is a Jamaican-English Rapper from Stoke Newington London. Klashnekoff was born in Hornsey but then moved to Hackney in London where he began his career in rapping.
Gary Holton.  Gary Frederick Holton (22 September 1952 – 25 October 1985) was an English singer-songwriter musician and actor from London. He was the frontman of the band Heavy Metal Kids (1974–77) he worked with Casino Steel (1981–84) and played the part of Wayne in the UK television comedy Auf Wiedersehen Pet (1983–85). Holton died from an overdose of morphine combined with alcohol in 1985.
Andy McKee.  Andy McKee (born April 4 1979 in Topeka Kansas.) is an American fingerstyle guitar player.His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable international fanbase. In late 2006 a live performance of his signature song Drifting became a Featured Video on YouTube and MySpace achieving over 48 million views on the former to date and remaining one of its highest-rated music clips.
Max Meldrum.  Duncan Max Meldrum (3 December 1875 – 6 June 1955) was a Scottish born Australian painter. He is known as the founder of Australian Tonalism a representational style of painting as well as his portrait work for which he won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.
Nic Endo.  Nic Endo (born January 7 1976) is a Japanese-German-American noise musician who plays with the German digital hardcore group Atari Teenage Riot. The daughter of a Japanese mother and a German father Endo was born in Wichita Falls Texas US.
Damien Leith.  Damien Leo Leith (born 18 January 1976 in Dublin) is an Irish-Australian singer–songwriter. He was the winner of the Network Ten music contest Australian Idol 2006.He was born in Ireland and now lives in Australia with his Australian wife Eileen Stapleton their two sons Jarvis Dion (born 2005) and Jagger Ramone (born 30 May 2007) and daughter Kikki Bo (born 27 March 2011).
Cilvaringz.  Tarik Azzougarh better known as Cilvaringz is a rapper executive manager and hip hop producer associated with the Wu-Tang Clan. He was discovered by Ol' Dirty Bastard and Method Man at a Wu-Tang Clan concert in Amsterdam the Netherlands on May 26 1997.
Joe Bridgewater.  Joe Bridgewater was an American soul jazz/R&B trumpeter probably better known for his recordings with Ray Charles.In Houston in 1973 he played in the Sonny Franklin Big Band with Tom Archia Arnett Cobb Cedric Haywood and his bandmate from the Ray Charles band Don Wilkerson with guest appearances by Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and Clarence Gatemouth Brown.
Pegi Young.  Pegi Morton Young; (born December 1 1952) is an American singer-songwriter environmentalist educator and philanthropist. She lives in Northern California with her husband Neil Young with whom she has one step-son Zeke Young and two biological children Ben Young and Amber Young. Pegi's debut as a musician came in 1994 when she appeared at the Academy Awards singing backup on the song Philadelphia composed by her husband.
John Lees (musician).  John Lees (born 13 January 1947 Oldham Lancashire) is an English musician who founded the rock band Barclay James Harvest.Educated at Robin Hill Secondary Modern and Breeze Hill School Lees had no formal musical education but took up playing the guitar when he was fourteen. Lees went on to study at Oldham School Of Art where he met Stuart 'Woolly' Wolstenholme in 1964.
Jennifer Brien.  Jennifer Brien is a former talk show host whose show was broadcast on weekdays from 1-3 p.m. on WRKO in Boston Massachusetts. She was replaced by Michele McPhee who returned to WRKO on June 11 2012. She was named as the permanent replacement for the retired Steve Leveille for the overnight weeknight shifts from 12 AM-5 AM on WBZ AM 1030 Boston. The Jen Brien Show began on June 25 2013 and lasted only 3 months. On October 2 2013 it was announced that Brien would no longer be on WBZ.
Girolamo Nattino.  Girolamo Nattino (1842 – 1913) was an Italian painter who depicted eclectic subjects including genre landscapes and portraits.
Eugen V. Witkowsky.  Eugen V. Witkowsky (Евге́ний Влади́мирович Витко́вский; born June 18 1950) is a Russian fiction and fantasy writer literary scholar poet and translator.
Kéda Black.  Kéda Black born in Mwami (Zambia) 23 May 1976 is a French food writer of Scottish extraction.
Steinar Hansson.  Steinar Hansson (31 May 1947 – 3 August 2004) was a Norwegian journalist and publisher. He was born in Asker. He worked as editor in the publishing house Pax Forlag and edited the newspaper Ny Tid from 1979. From 1983 he worked for the publishing house J.W. Cappelens Forlag. He was cultural editor for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet and later for Dagbladet. He was chief editor of Arbeiderbladet (renamed to Dagsavisen in 1997) from 1995 to 2001He was awarded The Great Journalist Prize in 1999.
Lluïsa Vidal.  Lluïsa Vidal i Puig (Barcelona 2 April 1876 – 22 October 1918) was a painter. Raised in a well-off family closely related to Catalan modernist circles she is known as the only professional women painter of Catalan modernism and one of the few women of that period who went abroad to receive art lessons.
Ignacio Zuloaga.  Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26 1870 – October 31 1945) was a Spanish painter born in Eibar (Guipuzcoa) near the monastery of Loyola.
Sherry Turkle.  Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a BA in Social Studies and later a Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology at Harvard University. She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction.
Shaik Dawood Khan.  Shaik Dawood Khan (16 December 1916 – 21 March 1992)also known as Ustad Shaik Dawood & Sheik Dawood was a performer on the Indian tabla. He was formerly a staff artist in All India Radio.Ustad Shaik Dawood Khan was born in Sholapur. His father Hashim Sahib was a draughtsman in the PWD (Public Works Dept.) Bijapur.Shaik Dawood received his training under several notable masters.
Ronald Shusett.  Ronald Shusett is an American motion picture screenwriter and producer usually in the science fiction genre.He wrote the original story for Alien (1979) with Dan O'Bannon.In 1974 he was the first to option the Philip K. Dick short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale that became the basis of the film Total Recall.Shusett is sometimes credited as Thilo T. Newman.
Herman Voaden.  Herman Arthur Voaden CM (19 January 1903 – 27 June 1991) was a Canadian playwright.
Arambilet.  Angel Luis Arambilet Alvarez (born September 16 1957) generally known professionally as simply Arambilet is a novelist poet screenwriter painter graphic artist filmmaker and systems engineer from the Dominican Republic.In the Latin American and Caribbean region he is considered a Computer Art Pioneer[1] for his computer punched card short story (Artes y Letras [Arts & Literature] 1978) and graphical poems (combination of text and graphics – Arte y Cibernetica [Art and Cybernetics] 1978) using computerized line text art or ASCII art. 
Rupert Holliday-Evans.  Rupert Holliday Evans (also Rupert Holliday–Evans) is an English actor. He is well known for his roles in programmes such as the ITV police drama The Bill and CBBC children's programmes The Giblet Boys and Powers. In episodes of comedy sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme he played one of the Double-Take Brothers. He recently played the role of Colonel Mace in the Doctor Who episodes The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky.
Lari Pittman.  Lari Pittman (born 1952 in Los Angeles California) is an American painter. His American father met his Colombian mother while the former was working abroad in the latter's homeland. Pittman received his MFA from the Cal Arts in 1976. There he met his life partner abstract painter Roy Dowell who he has lived with ever since. He is now a professor at UCLA (an institution which he once attended but from which he did not earn a degree).
Max Braithwaite.  John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author.Braithwaite was born in Nokomis Saskatchewan and spent his youth in a number of communities in that province.
Leela Gilday.  Leela Gilday is a Dene/Canadian singer and songwriter born and raised in Yellowknife Northwest Territories. From a very young age Leela was immersed in music and by the age of 8 had already begun her singing career. Today she is one of the North's better known performing artists.
Kinnon Beaton.  Kinnon Beaton (born March 26 1956) is a Canadian musician from Mabou Nova Scotia. He is the son of Donald Angus Beaton and Elizabeth MacEachen.He plays the fiddle in the Scottish genre famous throughout Cape Breton Island.He has published a book of violin music The Beaton Collection
Yukijirō Hotaru.  Yukijirō Hotaru (螢雪次朗 Hotaru Yukijirō) is a Japanese actor.
Arinze Kene.  Arinze Kene is a British actor and playwright.
Dexter Dalwood.  Dexter Dalwood (born 1960 Bristol UK) is an artist based in London. He attended Humphry Davy School in his early life. then from 1981 he attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London; he received his BA in 1985. He studied for his MA at the Royal College of Art London from 1988-1990.
Jairo Guedz.  Jairo Guedz (born as Jairo Guedz Braga November 25 1968 in João Monlevade Brazil) is a Brazilian guitarist and bassist. He was the lead guitar player of the heavy metal band Sepultura from 1985 to 1987 and was part of the short lived project Guerrilha alongside Igor and Max Cavalera and Sílvio SDN of Mutilator. He also played with The Mist Overdose Eminence. He currently plays bass in a Metallica tribute band called Metallica Cover Brazil and is working on another musical project.
Geri King.  Geri King (born March 28 1979) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter composer and record producer.
Paul McCarthy.  Paul McCarthy (born August 4 1945) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles California.
George Yanok.  George Yanok is an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter television producer and actor.
Hasil Adkins.  Hasil Adkins (pronounced Hassle not Haysil) (April 29 1937 – April 26 2005) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His genres include rock and roll country blues and more commonly rockabilly. He generally performed as a one-man band playing guitar and drums at the same time.From humble beginnings Adkins' bizarre and mythically proportioned lifestyle is reflected in his music.
Maiko Zulu.  Maiko Zulu is a Zambian musician human rights activist and a recognized International labour organisation child ambassador to Zambia. His work both in the music industry and human rights arena is well known both locally and internationally.
Stelarc.  Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou in Limassol in 1946 but legally changed his name in 1972) is a Cyprus-born performance artist raised in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such most of his pieces are centered on his concept that the human body is obsolete. Until 2007 he held the position of Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham England.
Riff Cohen.  Riff Cohen (born in 1984 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli singer songwriter actress and musician who performs songs in Hebrew and French. She grew up in the Ramat Aviv Gimmel neighborhood of Tel Aviv from a Tunisian father and an Algerian mother and didn't perform the obligatory military service in the Israeli Army. Instead she focused on her own career studied and later moved to Paris after winning an artistic scholarship.
Sighsten Herrgård.  Sighsten Herrgård (January 8 1943 - 20 November 1989) was a Swedish fashion designer. Herrgård was the first Swedish celebrity with AIDS to go public about it giving AIDS a face.Sighsten Herrgård received his fashion education at Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm and at the pattern development academies in Stockholm and Copenhagen. His career took off in 1966 when he won the Courtauld International Design Competition with a collection of unisex clothing.
The Bloody Beetroots.  The Bloody Beetroots is an Italian electro house and dance-punk formation established in late 2006. The name is primarily used as a pseudonym for the solo projects of Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo (production guitar keyboards DJ). Tommy Tea (sampling) was included in a duo formation baptized as The Bloody Beetroots DJ Set. The project is well known for the black Venom mask they wear during performances.
Antoine-Félix Bouré.  Antoine-Félix Bouré (8 July 1831 – 8 April 1883) known in his own time as Félix Bouré but sometimes found in modern scholarship as Antoine Bouré was a Belgian sculptor best known for his monumental lions.
Siemon Allen.  Siemon Allen born in Durban in South Africa is an artist working mainly with installations. He is living and working in the United States. Allen is considered one of the most prominent exponents of the South African arts diaspora in the North Eastern USA.
Giles Lamb.  Giles Lamb is an award winning Scottish music composer and sound designer.Lamb composed the trailer theme for the 2011 video game Dead Island as well additional music and sound design for the films Valhalla Rising Wild Country Asylum and Blinded.On the 11 April 2014 Lamb released his debut studio album Before the Birds on Dazzle of Fog records.
Andy Chatterley.  Andy Chatterley (born 8 May 1973) is a Grammy-nominated record producer songwriter musician and remixer.
Henrie Mutuku.  Henrie Mutuku is a multi award winning Kenyan Gospel Singer.
Alan Broadbent.  Alan Leonard Broadbent MNZM (born 23 April 1947 in Auckland New Zealand) is a jazz pianist arranger and composer best known for his work with artists such as Charlie Haden Woody Herman Chet Baker Irene Kral Sheila Jordan Natalie Cole Warne Marsh Bud Shank and many others.
J.J. Belle.  J.J. Belle (born Roger Elvidge Belle French Guyana 17 October 1955 died 26 November 2004) was a renowned British session musician mostly known for his work as a guitarist. Artists he played for included Marc Almond Fish (playing guitar on the US leg of his 1997 Sunsets on Empire tour) Debbie Harry Johnny Hates Jazz Grace Jones George Michael Madonna Dusty Springfield and Tina Turner.
Czesław Miłosz.  Czesław Miłosz ([ˈt͡ʂɛswafˈmiwɔʂ] ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet-diplomat prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of twenty naive poems. After serving as a cultural attaché for the Republic of Poland (1945–1951) he defected to the West in 1951 and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) is a classic of anti-Stalinism.
H-Wonder.  H-wonder is a composer and arranger born in Japan. He debuted in 1995 under his birth name Wada Hiroki (和田 弘樹).In June 1998 he stopped being a solo artist and changed his name to h-wonder and became a composer. One of his notable collaborations is with Maaya Sakamoto and BoA.
Kristen Øyen.  Kristen Øyen (born 14 May 1938) is a Norwegian forester.He was born in Jostedal and graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1964. From 1984 to 2001 he was the director of the Norwegian Institute of Land Inventory. In 2006 he released a work on the history of the Norwegian Institute of Land Inventory: Kartlegginga av Noregs grøne gull.
Ellen Reid.  Ellen Lorraine Reid (born 14 July 1966 in Selkirk Manitoba Canada) is a Canadian musician. She provides backing vocals piano keyboards and accordion for the Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies.On the band's fourth album Reid sang lead vocals on Just Chillin' Get You in the Morning and A Little Something. She also shared lead vocals with Brad Roberts on the single B-sides Filter Queen and Party's Over.
Eric Masterson (pornographic actor).  Eric Masterson (born March 23 1970) is a pornographic film actor.
Lorraine Ellison.  Lorraine Ellison (March 17 1931 – January 31 1983) was an American soul singer known for her recording of the song Stay with Me (sometimes known as Stay With Me Baby) in 1966.
Gary Lawyer.  Gary Lawyer (born 1959) is an Indian singer-songwriter best known for his most successful single Nights on Fire.
Aaron Gillespie.  Aaron Roderick Gillespie (born July 18 1983) is an American musician best known for being the drummer and clean vocalist for the metalcore band Underoath and the current lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band The Almost. Gillespie also maintains his own solo project and released his debut full-length album Anthem Song on March 8 2011. As of August 26 2013 he is the touring drummer for Paramore.
Darroh Sudderth.  Andrew Darroh Sudderth is the lead singer for the alternative metal band Fair to Midland from Sulphur Springs Texas.
Gregory Isaacs.  Gregory Anthony Isaacs (15 July 1951 – 25 October 2010) was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles writing in The New York Times described Isaacs as the most exquisite vocalist in reggae. His nickname was the Cool Ruler.
Stephen Volk.  Stephen Volk is a British screenwriter whose first produced work was Ken Russell's film Gothic in 1986.His most famous work is Ghostwatch a controversial drama shown on BBC One on Halloween 1992. It is commonly misrepresented as a hoax documentary but this was never the intention. It was originally planned as a six-part series for the BBC. However the producer of the six-part series Ruth Baumgarten didn't believe it had commercial viability.
Bernardino Parasole.  Bernardino Parasole (c. 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born to the painters Isabella and Leonardo Parasole but then apprenticed with Giuseppe Cesari. Bernardino died young.
Stepan Zoryan.  Stepan Yeghiayi Zoryan (Arakelyan) (Armenian: Ստեփան Եղիայի Զորյան (Առաքելյան) September 15 1889 Karakilisa - October 14 1967 Yerevan) was a Soviet Armenian writer.
Macy Gray.  Macy Gray (born Natalie Renée McIntyre; September 6 1969) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter musician record producer and actress known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.Gray has released six studio albums and received five Grammy Award nominations winning one. She has appeared in a number of films including Training Day Spider-Man Scary Movie 3 Lackawanna Blues Idlewild and For Colored Girls.
Max Deutsch.  Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 in Vienna – 22 November 1982 in Paris) was an Austrian-French musical composer conductor and teacher.He was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and founded the theater Der Jüdische Spiegel (The Jewish Mirror) in Paris. Here many works of composers like Schoenberg Anton Webern or Alban Berg were debuted in France. From 1940 to 1945 Deutsch served in the French Foreign Legion.
Simon Cousins.  Simon Cousins (born Simon Frederick Cousins 17 January 1965 Bath Somerset) is an English singer-songwriter and musician who was a member of Liverpool indie country rock band The Onset and folk rockers Ophiuchus. He studied music at the Liverpool Music College and has a degree in philosophy from Liverpool University.
Lim Hyung-joo.  Lim Hyung Joo (born in May 7 1986) is a South Korean operatic pop (popera) tenor and classical crossover singer.
William H. Mosby.  Bill Mosby (born William Harry Mosby on 24 January 1898 Sioux City Iowa) was an important American teacher of fine arts.
Jeroen van der Boom.  Jeroen van der Boom (born 22 June 1972 in Nijmegen Netherlands) is a Dutch singer who rose to fame in 2007 with his #1 hit single Jij bent zo.
Yasmien Kurdi.  Yasmien Yuson Kurdi-Soldevilla (born 25 January 1989 in San Juan Metro Manila Philippines) is an award-winning Filipina actress voice actress singer-songwriter and commercial model. She was one of the Final Four in the first season of StarStruck a reality-based talent search show by GMA Network in the Philippines where she finished first runner up.
Gee Vaucher.  Gee Vaucher is a visual artist who was born in 1945 in Dagenham East London.Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was seminal to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change. In her collection of early works (1960-1997) Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist Monsters Dagenham East London. Vaucher can be seen to have expressed her strong anarcho-pacifist and feminist views in her paintings and collage.
Eugene C. Barker.  Eugene Campbell Barker (November 10 1874 – October 22 1956) was a distinguished professor of Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the first living person to have a UT campus building the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center named in his honor. The structure is part of the Center for American History and was relocated in 1971 to Sid Richardson Hall.
Jacqueline Defferary.  Jacqueline Defferary is a British actress.
Alexandru Toma.  Alexandru Toma (occasionally known as A. Toma born Solomon Moscovici; February 11 1875–August 15 1954) was a Romanian poet journalist and translator known for his communist views and his role in introducing Socialist Realism and Stalinism to Romanian literature. Having debuted as a Symbolist Toma was influenced by 19th-century writer Mihai Eminescu an admiration which came to characterize his entire work.
Niall Williams.  Niall Williams is an Irish author. He was born in Dublin in 1958. He studied English and French literature at University College Dublin before graduating with a Master's degree in Modern American Literature. He moved to New York in 1980 where he married Christine Breen whom he had met while she was a Master's student also at UCD and took his first job opening boxes of books in Fox and Sutherland's bookshop in Mount Kisco.
Bharti Kirchner.  Bharti Kirchner is an Indian American author.Bharti Kirchner is the author of eight books—four novels and four cookbooks—and has been publishing since 1992. She has written numerous articles and essays on food travel fitness and lifestyle. She has won two Seattle Arts Commission literature grants and an Artist Trust GAP grant.
Joseph Shabalala.  Joseph Shabalala (born 28 August 1941) born Bhekizizwe Joseph Siphatimandla Mxoveni Mshengu Bigboy Shabalala is the founder and musical director of the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
James Frothingham.  James Frothingham (1786–1864)was an American portrait painter in Massachusetts and New York.
Lindsay Cooper.  Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow she was also a member of Comus National Health News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group.
Duo Duo.  Duo Duo or Duoduo (Chinese: 多多 1951 - ) is the pen name of contemporary Chinese poet Li Shizheng (栗世征) a prominent exponent of the Chinese Misty Poets (朦胧诗). Duo Duo was awarded the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Jean Karat.  Jean Karat (Syriac: ܓܐܢ ܟܐܪܐܬ) was an Assyrian/Syriac singer born on 1949 in Qamishli Syria. He rose among the second generation of Syriac singers there. He lived in Qamishli his whole life until his death in 2003. He is known as one the most famous singers among the Syriac of Syria and has written many famous songs such as Sawkakh Komo Hol Ema and Mdalaleti. His songs were in both Syriac and Arabic.
ZJ Chawa.  Dimanga Chawa (born 28 December 1993 in Nairobi) better known by his stage name ZJ Chawa is a Kenyan DJ and remixer. and VJ
Tony Braunagel.  Tony Braunagel is an American drummer record producer and composer from Houston Texas. He was the drummer in Paul Kossoff's band Back Street Crawler renamed Crawler after Kossoff's death in 1976.
Giovanni Battista da Ponte.  Giovanni Battista da Ponte (1533–1613) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Venice and his native Bassano del Grappa. He was the second son of Jacopo da Ponte. He was chiefly known as a copyist of his father's works. Many of his productions now figure no doubt under Jacopo's name. Also known as Giovanni Battista Bassano.
Jacob Hashimoto.  Jacob Hashimoto (born 1973 Greeley Colorado USA) is an artist based in New York.
Kyla Cole.  Kyla Cole (born Martina Jacová Slovak: [jatsovaː]; November 10 1978) is a Slovak glamour model Penthouse Pet and former television presenter.
Dana Parish.  Dana Parish is a New York-based singer and songwriter known for her powerful voice and emotional delivery combined with a pop awareness and penchant for writing memorable hooks. Growing up outside of Philadelphia Parish learned to value the ideals and melodies of a city with so much soul and she was writing and recording by 13.
Ron Korb.  Ron Korb is a Canadian flutist(flautist) composer songwriter and record producer from Toronto Ontario Canada. He is also known as Dragon Flute (Traditional Chinese: 龍笛) in China Thunder Blessing (Traditional Chinese: 雷恩寇伯 ; pinyin: lái-en-kò-búo) in Taiwan and Prince of Flutes (Japanese: furūto no kikōshi) in Japan
Rappin' Granny.  Vivian L. Smallwood (born June 18 1933) known by her stage name Rappin' Granny is an American grandmother who performs hip-hop music. She lives in Castaic California near Los Angeles.Smallwood was a contestant on the NBC television series America's Got Talent who qualified August 16 2006 season finale for the one-million-dollar grand prize.
Josh Leo.  Josh Leo (born 1953 in Des Moines Iowa) is an American guitarist songwriter and record producer active in Nashville Tennessee.Leo was born in Des Moines Iowa but was raised in Kansas City Missouri. In 1973 he moved to Chicago Illinois and subsequently became a guitarist of the short-lived Eddie Boy Band. The band then traveled to Los Angeles California two years later where they recorded an album for MCA Records (which was the first record Leo had made).
Thomas K. Martin.  Thomas Kieth Martin (born Middlesboro Kentucky September 25 1960) is an American fantasy author.
Frida Lyngstad.  [citation needed]Princess Anni-Frid Synni Reuss Countess of Plauen (German: Prinzessin Anni-Frid Synni Reuss Gräfin von Plauen) (née Lyngstad pronounced [ˈlʏŋstɑːd] 15 November 1945) widely known as Frida Lyngstad or by just the mononym Frida is a Swedish pop and jazz singer. Born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German father she grew up in Sweden and was a member of the famous Swedish group ABBA between 1972 and 1982.
Cheri Viswanath.  Cheri Viswanath (born August 9 1933) is a South indian Screenwriter Playwright Lyricist and Journalist. [1]
David Strassman.  David Dave Strassman (born September 6 1957) is an American ventriloquist stand-up comedian actor voice artist and comedian. He is best known for his ventriloquism act with Chuck Wood and Ted E. Bare.
Lee Oser.  Lee Oser (born in 1958 in New York City) is a Roman Catholic novelist and literary critic. He was educated at Reed College and Yale University where he received his PhD in English in 1995. He teaches Religion and Literature at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts.
Dimitri Coats.  Dimitri Coats is an American musician songwriter producer and actor.
Chen Shucheng.  Tan Soo Seng better known as Chen Shucheng (Chinese: 陈澍城 born October 21 1949) is a Singaporean actor. He is one of MediaCorp's few artistes still active from the black and white era.
Friedrich Heinrich Kern.  Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19 1980 in Ludwigshafen) is a German composer and pianist.Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he graduated with a Diplom in Music Composition and Piano. His principal teachers included Ulrich Leyendecker and Sidney Corbett. Additionally he spent one year studying traditional Korean music at Seoul National University. In 2007 he was a visiting composer at Wesleyan University.
Gregory Corso.  Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26 1930 – January 17 2001) was an American poet youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs).
Edward Capern.  Edward Capern (21 January 1819 – 5 June 1894) born at Tiverton Devonshire was an English poet.
Doctor Steel.  Doctor Steel (full name Doctor Phineas Waldolf Steel) was the stage persona of an anonymous American musician and internet personality from Los Angeles. He performed on rare occasions with a backup band claiming that a fictitious robot band had malfunctioned. Shows incorporated puppetry multimedia and performances by female members (Nurses and Scouts) of his street team The Army of Toy Soldiers. Steel made a brief appearance on The Tonight Show and has had numerous interviews.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.  Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal. Currently Lozano-Hemmer lives and works in Montreal and Madrid.[citation needed]
Roger Clyne.  Roger Meade Clyne (born January 13 1968) is the lead singer primary songwriter and rhythm guitar player for the American rock band Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. His previous bands include The Refreshments and the Mortals.Clyne and the Peacemakers (also known as RCPM) released their seventh full-length studio album The Independent on April 29 2014.
Joe McGinniss.  Joseph McGinniss Sr. (December 9 1942 – March 10 2014) known as Joe McGinniss was an American non-fiction writer and novelist. He first came to prominence with the best-selling The Selling of the President 1968 which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon and from that time until his death in March 2014 authored eleven works.
So Chan-whee.  Kim Kyoung-hee (Korean: 김경희 born January 20 1972) better known by her stage name So Chan-whee (Korean: 소찬휘) is a South Korean singer.
Innocente Alessandri.  Innocente Alessandri (born c. 1740) was an Italian engraver born in Venice and was instructed by Francesco Bartolozzi before that artist left Italy.
Rick Epping.  Rick Epping is a California-born musician who has immersed himself in American old-time and Irish traditional music since the 1960s. He is an accomplished player of the harmonica concertina banjo and jaw harp. During the 1970s he lived in Ireland where he studied traditional Irish music. He was the 1975 All-Ireland Harmonica champion and a member of the successful folk group Pumpkinhead.
H. L. Oldie.  Henry Lion Oldie or H. L. Oldie (Russian: Генри Лайон Олди Г. Л. Олди) is the pen name of Ukrainian science/fantasy fiction writers Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky. Both authors reside in Kharkiv Ukraine and write in Russian. On Eurocon 2006 in Kyiv the European Science Fiction Society named them Europe's best writers of 2006. Oldie collaborated with other Russophone Ukrainian writers such as Andrey Valentinov Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.The H. L.
Rick Springfield.  Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe; 23 August 1949) is an Australian musician singer-songwriter and actor. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 then started his solo career with his début single Speak to the Sky reaching the top 10 in Australia in mid-1972 when he relocated to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with Jessie's Girl in 1981 in both Australia and the US for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Little Mack Simmons.  Little Mack Simmons (January 25 1933 — October 24 2000) was an African-American Chicago blues harmonica player singer and songwriter.
Fariz RM.  Fariz Rustam Munaf better known as Fariz RM (born Jakarta 5 January 1959) is an Indonesian musician and audio-visual artist. Beginning his career in 1977 he has released 19 solo albums and three with other artists. He is best known for his songs Barcelona and Sakura (Cherry Blossom). Three of his solo songs were listed in Rolling Stone Indonesia's 2009 list The 150 Best Indonesian Songs of All Time with another of his compositions also listed.
Amy Bourret.  Amy Bourret is the author of Mothers and Other Liars. She lives in Dallas and Aspen. Bourret graduated from Yale Law School and was formerly a partner in a national law firm. In school and in her practice she did pro bono work for child advocacy organizations. She found she was unable to be a full-time child advocate and so also worked in corporate law before she retired to become a writer. From a young age Bourret wrote about lost children a recurring theme in her work.
Kantarō Suga.  Kantarō Suga (菅貫太郎 Suga Kantarō) (born December 12 1934 in Yuzawa Akita - died March 16 1994 in Yokohama was a leading Japanese actor. His film credits span three decades from 1960 to 1990. One of his prominent appearances was in the lead role in Pastoral: To Die in the Country. Suga also appeared in The Gate of Youth Sword of the Beast and Theater of Life.
Margaret Foley.  Margaret F. Foley (1827–1877) was an American sculptor.
Sarah Harmer.  Sarah Harmer (born November 12 1970) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.
Nuru Kane.  Nuru Kane (born Papa Nouroudine Kane) is a Senegalese singer/songwriter who plays guitar bass and guimbri a three-stringed Moroccan bass in the band Bayefall Gnawa.Nuru's debut CD Sigil which was released in the UK on March 14 2006 and the rest of the world on April 24 by Riverboat Records and World Music Network included griot gnawa and blues influences.In 2013 he released Exile by Riverboat Records and World Music Network.Nuru Kane played with his band Bayefall Gnawa at the 2004 Festival in the Desert in Mali at the 2006 Africa Oye as well as at the Oslo World Music Festival 2010 in Norway.Two of Nuru's songs appears on soundtracs: Goree in the film The Mechanic (2011) at the graveyard scene and Toub in the film Wonderful World (2009 film).
Lee Brooks.  Lee Raymond Brooks (born February 26 1983 in Acton Massachusetts U.S.) is a composer and sound designer for film.
Ernst Fischer (composer).  Ernst Fischer (10 April 1900 – 10 July 1975) was a German keyboardist and composer of light music both for piano and for orchestra. He became well-known to radio listeners all over the world from the 1930s to 1960s. Although he wrote numerous piano pieces Sparkling Champagne by Claudio Abbado & Berlin Philharmonic in Classic Arts Showcase. Perhaps his most famous work is the orchestral suite Südlich der Alpen (South of the Alps).
Tivi Etok.  Tivi Etok (born 1929) is a Canadian Inuit artist illustrator and printmaker. In 1975 he was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released. He is now an Inuk Elder.
Keith Carlock.  Keith Carlock is an American drummer originally from Clinton Mississippi. He currently resides in New York City NY. He has recorded and/or toured with musicians that include Sting John Mayer Steely Dan James Taylor Donald Fagen Walter Becker Diana Ross Faith Hill The Blues Brothers Band Leni Stern David Johansen and the Harry Smiths Richard Bona Chris Botti Wayne Krantz Harry Belafonte Oz Noy Clay Aiken Rascal Flatts Paula Abdul and Grover Washington Jr..
JJ Lee (writer).  JJ Lee is a Canadian writer. His debut book The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father a Son and a Suit was published in 2011 and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Governor General's Award for English non-fiction and the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize.Based in Vancouver British Columbia Lee is also a fashion columnist and art critic for various media outlets in Vancouver including CBC Radio the Vancouver Sun and the Georgia Straight as well as a producer for CBC Radio.
Andy Anderson (drummer).  Andy Anderson (birth name Clifford Leon Anderson) is a drummer best known for his short stint with The Cure. He was born in West Ham East London England on 30 January 1951.
Charles Thévenin.  Charles Thévenin (12 July 1764 – 28 February 1838) was a neoclassical French painter known for heroic scenes from the time of the French Revolution and First French Empire.
Amora (recording artist).  AMORA (born Andrea Lee Charlier; January 20 1974) better known by her stage name AMORA The Godmother AMORA The Spiritual Girl or Amora Corvo is an American recording artist producer activist actress and entrepreneur. Born in Middletown Connecticut she moved to New York City in 1997 to pursue a career in entertainment. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Heiros Gamos Entertainment LLC and creator of Rise of the Independents founded in Connecticut in 2007.
Revo Jõgisalu.  Revo (né Revo Jõgisalu; 9 July 1976 – 30 August 2011) was an Estonian rapper. He was one of the founding members of Estonian most influential hip-hop groups Toe Tag and A-Rühm.
Phoenix Marie.  Phoenix Marie (born September 21 1981) is an American pornographic actress and also the Penthouse Pet of the Month for November 2010.
Nayef Al-Rodhan.  Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan (born 8 June 1959) is a philosopher neuroscientist geostrategist and author. He is a Senior Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University Oxford United Kingdom Senior Fellow and Centre Director of the Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Geneva Switzerland.
CeCe Peniston.  CeCe Peniston (born Cecilia Veronica Peniston; September 6 1969)is an American recording artist and former beauty queen. At the beginning of the 1990s she was considered to be one of the most successful dance club artists in the history of the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play scoring five major number one hits in the chart within three years.
Rob Simonsen.  Rob Simonsen (born March 11 1978) is an American film composer located in Los Angeles.
Pompeo Coppini.  Pompeo Luigi Coppini (May 19 1870 – September 26 1957) was an Italian born sculptor who emigrated to the United States. Although his works can be found in Italy Mexico and a number of American states the majority of his work can be found in Texas. He is particularly famous for the Alamo Plaza work Spirit of Sacrifice aka The Alamo Cenotaph as well as numerous statues honoring Texas heroes.
Brian Nankervis.  Brian Nankervis (born in 1956) is an Australian writer film producer and comedian.
Jenny Reynolds.  Jenny Reynolds is an American folk singer/songwriter. She began her career performing at open mics in the Boston area in the early 1990s while working as a high-school English teacher. After several years of performing she quit teaching to pursue music full-time though she continues to do creative writing workshops with schoolchildren.
Alé Garza.  Alé Garza (born Alejandro Garza on May 4 1977) is a penciler and comics artist. At the age of 18 he started working for Wildstorm and quickly moved on to working with writers like Chris Claremont and Judd Winick lending his art to titles like Gen¹³ Zero E.V.E. Protomecha Batgirl and Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day.
Anni Rossi.  Anni Rossi is an American singer violist and keyboardist from Minnesota. She graduated for the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley.
Dave Bickler.  Dave Bickler (born March 1 1953) is an American vocalist best known as the lead singer for the rock band Survivor from 1977–1983. His distinctive vocal was featured on the #1 U.S. hit Eye of the Tiger. In addition to his wide vocal range his street-wise image included a trademark beret. Bickler would go on to provide the vocals in advertisements including the Real Men of Genius Bud Light TV and radio commercials. Bickler has long been an advocate of variety.
KK (musician).  Kristján Kristjánsson also known as KK is an Icelandic blues and folk musician. His stage name is pronounced cow cow.KK was born on March 26 1956 in Minnesota USA but later moved to Iceland with his family. He attended music school in Malmö Sweden for four years and then played his way across Europe from 1985 until 1990 when he returned to Iceland.
Greg Long (singer).  Greg Long (born December 12 1966) is a contemporary Christian Music solo artist and also a member of the contemporary Christian pop group Avalon.Long was born in Aberdeen South Dakota. He began singing at the age of 2 in his father's revivals.
Queenie Chan.  Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language comic artist who co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel In Odd We Trust a prequel to Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas and published by Del Rey. She illustrated the sequel Odd Is On Our Side and is illustrating The Boy's Book of Positive Quotations for Fairview Press.
Alison Edith Hilda Drummond.  Alison Edith Hilda Drummond (22 January 1903–3 July 1984) was a New Zealand farmer writer historian and editor. She was born in Waitekauri Thames/Coromandel New Zealand on 22 January 1903.
Bernardus van Schijndel.  Bernardus van Schijndel (1647–1709) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of small scale genre works.
Jeff Stein (author).  Jeff Stein (born February 13 1944) is the SpyTalk columnist and blogger at The Washington Post. Previously he was the SpyTalk columnist and National Security Editor for Congressional Quarterlys website CQ Politics from 2002–2009. He specializes in U.S. intelligence military and foreign policy issues. In addition to his work for CQ he has written three books and hundreds of news articles opinion pieces and book reviews. He has also made numerous television and radio appearances.
Lianna Klassen.  Lianna Klassen is a Canadian Christian Celtic/Christian New Age influenced musician songwriter speaker and worship leader. A Juno Award nominee and GMA Canada Covenant Award winner Klassen has released seven albums to date. Her compositions are chants hymns and meditations on the themes of praise prayer and worship. Stylistically they have also included Christmas carols contemporary praise country music and Christian folk.
Patrick Robinson (author).  Patrick Robinson (21 January 1940) is a British novelist and newspaper columnist.His recent books are naval-based thrillers each telling the story of a crisis facing the world in the early 21st century.
Asuman Krause.  Asuman Krause (born 1 March 1976) is a German-born former fashion model singer presenter actress of mixed Circassian and German-Dutch descent. Holding Turkish-German dual citizenship Krause was crowned Miss Turkey in 1998. She is fluent in English French German and Turkish.Krause grew up in Germany until the end of middle school. She played for the Germany national youth basketball team. Afterwards she decided to stay with her mother in Turkey.
Koi Ikeno.  Koi Ikeno is a manga author and illustrator. Family name : 池野 Given name: 恋. She was born April 16 1959 in Hanamaki Iwate Prefecture Japan.She created Tokimeki Tonight in the 80s and Nurse Angel Ririka in the 90s two manga series which received anime adaptations that ran while the manga was ongoing.
Fermín Solís.  Fermín Solís Campos (born May 16 1972) is a Spanish cartoonist animator and illustrator. Born in Madroñera Cáceres Extremadura his illustrations have appeared in Clio Época and Rockdelux.
Illmind.  Illmind (often stylized as !llmind) (born Ramon Ibanga Jr.) is a Filipino American hip hop producer from Bloomfield New Jersey. He has co-written and produced hip-hop pop soul and electronic music for labels such as Nature Sounds Records Def Jam and G-Unit and has worked with artists such as Kanye West and Eminem.
Paul Morris (writer).  Paul Morris (born 1958) is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter born in Uddingston South Lanarkshire. His early original plays in Scottish theatre include Three Wee Kings Stef Crabs and Wilsy and Transformer a reworking of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Fahad Albutairi.  Fahad Albutairi (Arabic: فهد البتيري‎; born May 12 1985) is the first Saudi stand-up comedian to appear on stage professionally in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf states and is an actor and a recent YouTube personality.
Ingrid Haebler.  Ingrid Haebler (born Vienna Austria June 20 1929) is an Austrian pianist. Studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum Vienna Music Academy Geneva Conservatory and privately in Paris with Marguerite Long. She toured worldwide but is best known for a series of recordings from the 1950s to 1980s. Her complete recording of Mozart's piano sonatas for the Denon label are still regarded as among the finest sets and were the source for the pirated cycle attributed falsely to Joyce Hatto.
Xul Solar.  Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (born December 14 1887 – April 9 1963) Argentine painter sculptor writer and inventor of imaginary languages.
Maureen Jennings.  Maureen Jennings (born 1939) is a Canadian writer. She was born on Eastfield Road in Birmingham England; she spent her formative years there until emigrating to Canada at the age of seventeen with her mother.[citation needed] She is best known as the author of the Detective Murdoch series which has been turned into a television series Murdoch Mysteries.
Barbara Hepworth.  Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few women artists to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
Dong Zhen.  Dong Zhen (born 27 August 1986) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and lyricist best known for performing the theme songs of many Chinese MMORPGs including The Legend of Sword and Fairy series Jade Dynasty and Zu Online.
Tim Seibles.  Tim Seibles (born 1955) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of five collections of poetry most recently Fast Animal (Etruscan Press 2012). His honors include an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In 2012 he was nominated for a National Book Award for Fast Animal.
Henri-Alexandre Sollier.  Henri-Alexandre Sollier (born 1896 in Bagnolet died 1966 in Paris) was a French painter and illustrator .
Kathleen Worth.  Kathleen Worth was a British actress who played Shop Assistant in Coming Home she has also been in The Bill Casualty The Lakes Lovejoy Grange Hill City Central and Dalziel and Pascoe.
John Christian Langli.  John Christian Langli (born 1961) is a Norwegian economist and Professor at the BI Norwegian Business School.Langli graduated from the BI Norwegian Business School with a siviløkonom degree in 1988 and took the dr.oecon. degree at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1993.He was a research fellow at these respective institutions from 1988 to 1992 and 1992 to 1994. He was hired as associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School in 1994 and is now professor.
Shane Minor.  Shane Allen Minor (born May 3 1968 in Modesto California) is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999 Minor released his self-titled album that year and it produced three hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.
Jake Andrews.  Jake Andrews (born April 16 1980) is an American blues rock guitarist singer and songwriter from Austin Texas.
Don Walker (musician).  Don Walker (born 29 November 1951) is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983 when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour both solo and with Tex Don and Charlie and worked as a song-writer for others. In 2009 he released his first book.Richard Clapton describes Walker as the most Australian writer there has ever been.
Steve Ellis (musician).  Steve Ellis (born Stephen John Ellis 7 April 1950 Edgware Middlesex) is an English rock / pop singer who now lives in Brighton. His biggest success was with the band Love Affair.
Ken Kesey.  Kenneth Elton Ken Kesey (/ˈkiːziː/; September 17 1935 – November 10 2001) was an American author best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and as a countercultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. I was too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie Kesey said in a 1999 interview with Robert K. Elder.
Anup Jalota.  Anoop Jalota also known as Anup Jalota (born 29 July 1953) is an Indian singer and musician best known for his performances in the Hindu devotional music bhajan and the Urdu form of poetry ghazal.He is popularly known as the Bhajan Samraat (Emperor of Bhajans). Padma Shri for 2012 has been conferred upon him in the field of Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal by Government of India.
Sandy (singer).  Sandy Leah Lima (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɐ̃dʒi ˈlɛa ˈlimɐ] born January 28 1983) known simply as Sandy is a Brazilian singer-songwriter producer and actress.
Lee Lozano.  Lee Lozano (November 5 1930 – October 2 1999) was an American painter and visual and conceptual artist.
Alan Moore.  Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books a medium where he has produced series including Watchmen V for Vendetta and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history he has been called one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile Jill de Ray and Translucia Baboon.
Guy Denning.  Guy Denning (born 1965) is a self taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group a former member of Stuckism International and part of the urban art scene in Bristol.
Måns Nathanaelson.  Måns Gustaf Daniel Nathanaelson (born 18 September 1976 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish actor best known his role as Oskar Bergman in the films about the police detective Martin Beck.
Anahit Tsitsikian.  Anahit Tsitsikian (Armenian: Անահիտ Ցիցիկյան; born Leningrad August 26 1926; death Yerevan May 2 1999) was the first renowned Armenian female violinist. She toured around the world through more than 100 cities during the Soviet times; she taught at the State Conservatory for approximately 40 years and wrote more than 300 articles and scenarios for television and radio programs.
Fayo.  Mario LeBlanc (born 1977) better known under his stage name Fayo (transl. bean) is an Acadian musician born in Dieppe New Brunswick. As many artists from south eastern New Brunswick Fayo sings in chiac the local French dialect mixing French words with English grammar and vice-versa. His music is a blend of folk rock and urban poetry.
D. V. Paluskar.  Pandit Dattatreya Vishnu Paluskar (May 28 1921 - October 25 1955) was a Hindustani classical vocalist. He was considered a child prodigy.
Gavin Claxton.  Gavin Claxton (born 19 July 1966 Derby England) British producer screenwriter and director of the feature film comedy The All Together starring Martin Freeman and Danny Dyer. He is also producer co-writer and performer - providing the voices of Freddie Mercury & Kurt Cobain - of the British television comedy series House of Rock and series producer writer & director of numerous comedy and entertainment series on British television.
Joe Kubert.  Joseph Joe Kubert (/ˈkjuːbərt/; September 18 1926 – August 12 2012) was an American comic book artist art teacher and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. He is also known for working on his own creations such as Tor Son of Sinbad and Viking Prince and with writer Robin Moore the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret.
Ron Embleton.  Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 – 13 February 1988) was a British comics artist and illustrator whose work was much admired by fans and editors alike. David Ashford and Norman Wright writing in Book and Magazine Collector (March 2002) note that his work for such diverse periodicals as Express Weekly TV Century 21 Princess Boy's World and Look and Learn have earned him the respect of every practitioner in the field and the gratitude of all of us who admire the art of the comic strip.
Mark Portmann.  Mark Portmann is a record producer and songwriter who worked with Celine Dion and Josh Groban. Portman began to learn classical piano as a child but beginning at Coconut Creek High School turned to pop music and jazz. He went to the Eastman School of Music on a scholarship studying composition and attended the University of Miami. In 1988 Portman became a keyboardist in the jazz group The Rippingtons and left the group four years later.
George Bures Miller.  George Bures Miller (born 1960) is a Canadian artist noted for his collaborative works with wife Janet Cardiff. Miller and Cardiff represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale. They live in Berlin Germany and several months of the year in Grindrod British Columbia.
Ram Sampath.  Ram Sampath (born 1977) is an Indian composer music producer and musician who started his career composing advertising jingles for Mumbai-based advertising industry subsequently he started composing for pop albums like Tanha Dil (2000) by Shaan before composing for films like Delhi Belly (2011) and Talaash (2012).He has composed music for advertising jingles for brands like Airtel Docomo Thums Up Pepsi and the Times of India.
Max Vadukul.  Max Vadukul (born 2 February 1961 Nairobi Kenya) is a British photographer who is based in New York City. He is noted for his art reportage photography which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art.” He has also had a lifelong affinity with black and white photography a foundation of much of his early work. He has long standing relationships with magazines such as The New Yorker French Vogue Italian Vogue L’Uomo Vogue and Rolling Stone.
Olivia Goldsmith.  Olivia Goldsmith (January 1 1949 – January 15 2004) was an American author best known for her first novel The First Wives Club (1992) which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996).
Robert Mankoff.  Robert Bob Mankoff (born c. 1944 in the Bronx) is an American cartoonist editor and author. He is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as cartoon editor Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for twenty years.
Gavriil Malish.  Gavriil Kondratievich Malish (Russian: Гаврии́л Кондра́тьевич Ма́лыш; March 25 1907 Kitaygorodka Ekaterinoslav Province Ukrain Russian Empire – October 25 1998 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) - Soviet Russian painter watercolorist and graphic artist lived and worked in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his decorative still lifes and landscapes.
Don Eddy.  Don Eddy (born November 4 1944; Long Beach California) is an American painter who gained initial fame as a photorealist; but his recent works have veered into the realm of metaphysics.
David Grindrod.  David Grindrod is a British theatre and television casting director primarily working with Andrew Lloyd Webber.His West End theatre credits include Mamma Mia! The Phantom of the Opera Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat West Side Story Saturday Night Fever and Starlight Express. More recently he has branched out into film casting for Mamma Mia and Phantom of the Opera.
Ricky Martinez.  Ricky Martinez (born October 1 1978 in the Dominican Republic) is a Dominican pornographic film actor best known to perform autofellatio. He defines himself as straight but he has performed in many gay-themed pornographic movies such as BuckleRoos (Part 1) Trunks and Anaconda. Mr. Anaconda is a stage name that he uses.Martinez did movies personal appearances and photo shoots from 2004 to 2012 and the Internet Adult Film Database lists him in 36 titles but this is not a complete list.
Tomás Rivera.  Tomás Rivera (December 22 1935 – May 16 1984) was a Chicano author poet and educator. He was born in Texas to migrant farm workers and worked in the fields as a young boy.
Richard Peebles.  Richard Peebles (born 1956) working under the stage name Rikki is a Glaswegian singer who won the BBC's A Song for Europe contest in 1987 with his own composition Only the light. Although he had been writing and performing with the group Marmalade[citation needed] at the time he was picked to represent the UK he was a mini-cab driver in Glasgow. At the Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels the song fared poorly and was placed 13th out of the 22 entries.
Dara Maclean.  Dara Joy Maclean (born May 19 1986) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter born and raised in Fort Worth Texas. On July 12 2011 Maclean released the album entitled You Got My Attention her first full length studio album.
Moritz Hartmann.  For the footballer see Moritz Hartmann (footballer)Moritz Hartmann (October 15 1821 - May 13 1872) was a German poet and author.
Suboi.  Hàng Lâm Trang Anh (born January 14 1990) known by her stage name Suboi is a Vietnamese rapper singer and songwriter.Raised in Saigon where she lives Suboi is the first Vietnamese female rapper to become successful in her country and is considered Vietnam's queen of hip hop.
Martyn P. Casey.  Martyn Paul Casey (born 10 July 1960) is an English-born Australian rock bass guitarist. He has been a member of The Triffids Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Casey plays either his Fender Precision Bass or Fender Jazz Bass.
Jan Wijn.  Jan Wijn (born 1934 Amsterdam) is a Dutch pianist and piano pedagogue.Wijn studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory under Cornelius Berkhout where he received his diploma in 1955. He then studied under Bela Siki in Switzerland and Alicia de Larrocha in Spain. In 1960 Jan Wijn won first place in the concours van Ourense (international piano competition in Ourense (Spain)). Up to 1975 Jan Wijn had an international as well as national career.
Onur Demirsoy.  Onur Demirsoy (born July 11 1981 Ankara Turkey) is the animation director and one of the cartoonists of the humour web site Grafi2000.
Danny Ross (musician).  Danny Philip Ross (born 1983) is an Australian singer songwriter and guitarist based in Kangaroo Valley New South Wales. Ross is best known as a 2013 finalist on The Voice Australia and is a regular performer at musical festivals and live venues in Australia. Ross has described the death of his father who was a farmer but loved singing-songwriting as the inspiration for him focusing on a career in music Ross was coached by Joel Madden of Good Charlotte fame.
Eugenie Gershoy.  Eugenie Gershoy (January 1 1901 Krivoi Rog Russian Empire – May 8 1986) was an American sculptor and watercolorist.
Cameron Jackson.  Cameron Jackson (born 16 February 1986 Děčín Czechoslovakia) is a former pornographic actor who appeared in video and photographic productions predominately gay bareback and occasionally in transsexual heterosexual and bisexual productions and pornographic magazines.
Dick Farrelly.  Dick Farrelly born Richard Farrelly (17 February 1916 – 11 August 1990) was an Irish songwriter policeman and poet composer of The Isle of Innisfree the song for which he is best remembered. His parents were publicans and when Dick was twenty-three he left Kells County Meath for Dublin to join the Irish Police Force. He served in various Garda stations throughout his thirty-eight-year career ending up in the Carriage Office in Dublin Castle.
Thorvald Aadahl.  Thorvald Aadahl (23 July 1882 – 26 March 1962) was a Norwegian newspaper editor novelist and playwright.He was born in Rødenes. He was chief editor of the newspaper Nationen from 1913 to 1942 and chaired the Norwegian Press Association from 1931 to 1934.In the Norwegian parliamentary election 1927 he was the third ballot candidate for the party National Legion behind Karl Meyer and Frøis Frøisland and ahead of Jens Bratlie.
John Coy.  John Richard Coy (born August 9 1958) is an American children's book author. He is best known for his books on basketball Strong to the Hoop Around the World and Box Out as well as Night Driving and his coming-of-age novel about sports and decisions Crackback.
Jabbar Baghtcheban.  Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh (Persian:میرزا جبار عسگرزاده) (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban (Persian: جبار باغچه بان)) established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf and was the inventor of Persian cued speech.
Yukiko Okada.  Yukiko Okada (岡田 有希子 Okada Yukiko August 22 1967 – April 8 1986) was a Japanese pop singer and winner of the talent show Star Tanjō! in Tokyo Japan.
Selena Steele.  Selena Steele (born January 17 1961 in Los Angeles California U.S.) is the stage name of an American erotic dancer and pornographic actress.
Welton Gite.  Welton Gite is a bass guitarist composer and arranger.Gite moved to New Orleans at age 11 and began playing bass at the age of 12. He moved to Los Angeles in 1975 and began his 20-year road musician journey touring with many artists from all genres of music such as Marvin Gaye Marlena Shaw Billy Preston Willie Bobo Ronnie and Hubert Laws Alphonse Mouzon The Jacksons Cheryl Lynn Luther Vandross Thelma Houston Sister Sledge Shalamar John Kay & Steppenwolf and many others.
Ernst Kreuder.  Ernst Kreuder (29 August 1903 – 24 December 1972) was an award-winning German author. He was born in Zeitz and died in Darmstadt.
Toya Alexis.  Toya Alexis (born Ajax Ontario) is a Canadian R&B vocalist and actress.
Dave Meltzer.  David Allen Dave Meltzer (born October 24 1959) is an American journalist covering professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Since 1983 he has been the publisher/editor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON). Meltzer has also written for the Oakland Tribune the Los Angeles Times Yahoo! Sports and The National Sports Daily. He has extensively covered mixed martial arts since UFC 1 in 1993 and currently covers the sport for SB Nation.
Jóannes Lamhauge.  Jóannes Brynolfsson Lamhauge (born 25 December 1985) is a Faroese painter writer graphic designer actor film director singer and songwriter. Jóannes is best known as a painter and singer and has in recent years starred in numerous musical productions such as Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Piaf Ronja Røverdatter and Lort í Býin. Jóannes is the designer and co-founder of the non-profit charity Saving Penguins Foundation.
Elfriede Jelinek.  Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power.
Anders Hana.  Anders Hana (born 7 August 1982 in Stavanger Norway) is a Norwegian musician (guitar) and composer known as a veteran of the bands Noxagt Ultralyd and Moha! and a series of album releases.
Drapht.  Paul Gary James Ridge (born 4 September 1982) better known by the stage name Drapht is an Australian hip hop artist from Perth. Drapht is a member of the Syllaboliks (SBX) crew a collective that includes fellow Perth-based hip hop artists such as Downsyde.
Vanessa Grant.  Vanessa Grant is a Canadian writer of romance novels having had 29 published from 1985 to 2001. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and she has over 10 million books in print.In 1997 she wrote a manual of writing: Writing Romance and now she is an international lecturer.
Eva Fuka.  Eva Fuka-Engle (born May 5 1927) is an American photographer. She was born in 1927 in Prague Czechoslovakia.In 1942 she attended the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague under Professor Rudolf Skopec and later studied at the Academy of Visual Arts from 1945 to 1950. She married fellow-artist Vladimir Fuka in 1950 and gave birth to her only child Ivana in 1951.
Dan McDougall.  Dan McDougall is an international journalist. He is the current Africa Correspondent for The Sunday Times of London.
Akira Kuroda.  Akira Kuroda (黒田 晶 Kuroda Akira) born 1977 is a Japanese novelist.
Jerry Bock.  Jerrold Lewis Jerry Bock (November 23 1928 – November 3 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Harnick.
Takeshi Kaneshiro.  Takeshi Kaneshiro (Japanese and Chinese: 金城 武 romaji: Kaneshiro Takeshi Pinyin: Jīnchéng Wǔ pronounced [tɕíntʂ͡ʰə̌ŋ ù] born October 11 1973) is a Japanese actor and singer of mixed heritage - his father is Okinawan Japanese and his mother is Taiwanese.
Edda Magnason.  Edda Karin Hjartardóttir Magnason (born on 22 August 1984) is a Swedish/Icelandic singer-songwriter musician and film actress. She has released two albums of her own Edda Magnason (2010) and Goods (2011) and a soundtrack album Monica Z - Musiken från filmen (2013). She made her debut as an actress in the film Waltz for Monica playing the leading role of Monica Zetterlund.
Dmitriy Bellman.  Dmitriy Bellman (born 22 June 1977) is a Russian artist-jeweler
Émile Lombard (painter).  Émile-Félicien Lombard (1883 - ?) was a French painter.
Penny Slinger.  Penny Slinger is a British-born American author and artist. In 1977 she published The Secret Dakini Oracle a deck of cards for divination. With Nik Douglas she wrote the classic 1978 tantra book Sexual Secrets which has sold over a million copies in 19 translations and many editions and created over 600 drawings for it.
Barbara Martin.  Barbara Diane Martin Richardson (born June 1943 in Detroit Michigan) is an African-American singer; better known for being one of the original founding members of Motown singing group The Supremes. After The Primettes dropped Betty McGlown from their lineup due to McGlown's upcoming nuptials Martin replaced her in the group in 1960.
Funkefeller.  Daniel Douglas Orlando (born May 29 1981) also known as Funkefeller is an Electro House producer from Phoenix Arizona. Funkefeller has a very impressive background in computer science so portraying the Funkefeller identity as a mad scientist seems fitting. When playing live Funkefeller can be found in full costume with an extensive amount of gear on stage.
George Van Eps.  George Van Eps (August 7 1913 – November 29 1998) (often called the Father of the Seven String Guitar) was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist.
Dave Carter.  Dave Carter (August 13 1952 – July 19 2002) was an American folk singer-songwriter who described his style as post-modern mythic American folk music. He was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer who were heralded as the new voice of modern folk music in the months before Carter's unexpected death in July 2002.
Lorne Michaels.  Lorne Michaels CM (born November 17 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer and writer best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that have spun off from it.
Rumiko Takahashi.  Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子 Takahashi Rumiko born October 10 1957) is a Japanese manga artist.Takahashi is one of Japan's most affluent manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide where they have been translated into a variety of languages. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history; as of February 2010 over 170 million copies of her various works had been sold.
Michael Watford.  Michael Watford is an African American dance music singer who was born in Virginia and raised in New Jersey. He is best known for his gospel-influenced vocals on house records through the 1990s and 2000s. Four of his singles charted on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the mid-1990s including So Into You which hit Number 1 in 1994. The same track peaked at #53 on the UK Singles Chart.
Qudrat Ullah Shahab.  Qudrat Ullah Shahab (or Qudratullah Shahab; 26 February 1917 – 24 July 1986) (Urdu: قدرت الله شهاب) was an eminent Urdu writer and civil servant from Pakistan. He is best known for his autobiography Shahab Nama.
Jeremy Penn.  Jeremy Penn (1979 - ) is an American artist who lives in New York City.
James Forbes (screenwriter).  James Grant Forbes (September 2 1871 – May 26 1938) was a Canadian playwright who worked as a Hollywood movie screenwriter. Having started as an actor in the nineteenth century Forbes achieved his distinction as a playwright-director. Before he turned to play-writing in 1904 he accumulated experience in the theatre in the 1890s by working as an actor a drama critic and a press representative for established theatre companies.
Sayuri Uchida.  Sayuri Uchida (内田 さゆり Uchida Sayuri born October 25 1972 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress. She played Ako Hayasaka in the TV series Chōjin Sentai Jetman.
Aleksa (singer).  Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Chvikova Russian: Александра Александровна Чвикова also known as Aleksa Russian: Алекса is singer of Ukrainian origin a graduate of the Russian reality show Фабрика Звёзд (Star Factory). She is daughter of Ukrainian businessman.
Brenda Bennett.  Brenda Bennett (born Brenda Elizabeth Claire Siobhan; January 24 1962) is a British-American singer from Scotland. She is best known as a member of the R&B/Funk group Vanity 6 who married the musician Prince's set-designer Roy Bennett and then became Prince's wardrobe mistress. She started off in a CBS Records band called Ken Lyon and Tombstone which toured with Mott the Hoople and Queen.
Otto Duecker.  Otto Duecker (born 1948 Tulsa Oklahoma) is an American Hyperrealist painter and draughtsman.Mr. Duecker graduated from Oklahoma State University and became known for his Hyperrealist renderings of floating fruit still lifes and most recently his near photographic oil paintings of both contemporary and historical celebrities.
Maynard Ferguson.  Walter Maynard Ferguson (May 4 1928 – August 23 2006) was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own band in 1957. He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high register and for his bands which served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent.
Iceberg Slimm.  Duane Dyer better known by his stage name Iceberg Slimm (born 1978) is a Black British rapper and founder of Frojak Entertainment who is best known for his hit singles Nursery Rhymes Bad Boy and Starship taken from his debut album Da World on Ice. The video for the single Bad Boy is historic in the United Kingdom as it was the first of its kind to be played on Channel U (now Channel AKA).[citation needed] He also featured on Raghav's single Can't Get Enough which charted No.
Hollie-Jay Bowes.  Hollie-Jay Bowes (born Billie Jean Bowes 17 January 1989) is an English recording artist and actress best known for her role as Michaela McQueen in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. Her parents changed her name from Billie Jean to Hollie Jean as her father thought she would get bullied at school and be called 'Billie Bowes' and at 13 she changed her name to Hollie-Jay.
Katarina Lilja.  Katarina Lilja born November 1 1979 is a singer from Örebro Sweden. She was the vocalist of the band Sobre Nocturne and a session singer for the symphonic metal band Therion and a live member for the Gothic Kabbalah world tour the 20 Year Celebration Tour in 2007 and the Sitra Ahra Tour in 2010.Now she is a Music Teacher in Josefinaskolan of Uppsala town where she lives.
Mieko Kamiya.  Mieko Kamiya (神谷 美恵子 Kamiya Mieko January 12 1914 – October 22 1979) was a Japanese psychiatrist who treated leprosy patients at Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium. She was known for the translation of books on philosophy. She worked as a medical doctor in the Department of Psychiatry at Tokyo University following World War II.
Jeff Anderson (singer).  Jeff Anderson is an American musician originally from Marietta Georgia. His debut album Seamless was recorded in Ohio with production from John Reuben and CR Pendleton for Gotee Records.Seamless was released on March 15 2005 and was the only record that Anderson released while on the Gotee Records roster. A single from the record Open My Eyes reached number 14 on Billboard's Christian Music Charts and landed Anderson a first round Grammy nomination.
Jože Privšek.  Jože Privšek (19 March 1937 – 11 June 1998) who also presented himself with the pseudonyms Jeff Conway and Simon Gale was one of the most acclaimed Slovene jazz and pop musicians. He was a pianist a vibraphonist a composer and a conductor.
Courtney Marie Andrews.  Courtney Marie Andrews (born November 7 1990) is a singer-songwriter originally from Phoenix Arizona.
Anton Vodnik.  Anton Vodnik (28 May 1901 - 2 October 1965) was a Slovenian poet art historian and critic. He was one of the most notable representatives of Slovene Catholic expressionism in the interwar period.He was born in Ljubljana and studied art history at the University of Vienna. He was member of the circle of young Slovene Catholic intellectuals gathered around the Christian left journal Križ na gori.
Claudio Sanchez.  Claudio Paul Sanchez III (born March 12 1978 in Suffern New York United States) is an American writer and musician of Puerto Rican and Italian descent best known for being the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative/progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria. He is the creator of the comic book series The Amory Wars as well as Key of Z and Kill Audio both co-written with wife Chondra Echert. Sanchez co-authored the novel Year of the Black Rainbow with Peter David.
Taylor McFerrin.  Taylor McFerrin is an American DJ Producer Keyboardist Beatboxer and Vocalist signed to Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label. Son of popular musician Bobby McFerrin Taylor falls into a very unique and cutting edge genre of Hip Hop known as Future Soul characterized by electronic ambient textures highly processed and often progressive drum samples/beats 60's soul and jazz and a structure heavily based on improvisation all gelled together with a strong Hip-Hop feel.
Chishu Ryu.  Chishu Ryu (笠 智衆 Ryū Chishū May 13 1904 – March 16 1993) was a Japanese film actor.
Dakotsu Iida.  Dakotsu Iida (飯田 蛇笏 Iida Dakotsu 26 April 1885 – 3 October 1962) was a famous Japanese haiku poet from what is now part of the cirt of Fuefuki Yamanashi Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu his real name was Takeji Iida (飯田 武治 Iida Takeji). He trained under Kyoshi Takahama and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu (magazine) and Unmo. He was chief editor of Unmo.
Tommy Ladnier.  Thomas James Tommy Ladnier (May 28 1900 – June 4 1939) was an American jazz trumpeter. French jazz critic Hugues Panassié rated him second only to Louis Armstrong.Ladnier was born in Mandeville Louisiana across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. He played in the local Independence Band led by clarinetist Isidore Fritz (a.k.a. Frick) from c. 1914. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson sometimes also played with this band and gave young Ladnier tuition. In 1917 he moved with his mother to Chicago.
Jean Kerr.  Jean Kerr (July 10 1922 – January 5 2003) was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton Pennsylvania and best known for her humorous bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies and the plays King of Hearts and Mary Mary.
Kevin Brandow.  Kevin Brandow (born in New York) is a Christian musician and songwriter. Brandow grew up in East Greenbush New York. He went to Saint Rose College in Albany New York where he studied music theory.
Théo van Rysselberghe.  Théo (Théophile) van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 14 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century.
Shaikh Ayaz.  Shaikh Ayaz (Sindhi: شيخ اياز) born Mubarak Ali Shaikh (Sindhi: مبارڪ علي شيخ) on 23 March 1923 -died 28 December 1997 was one of the prominent Sindhi poets of Pakistan. His poetry brought new trends into Sindhi literature. He was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz for his literary works.
Lotta Engberg.  This page is about the singer Lotta Engberg and the dansbands Lotta & Anders Engbergs orkester Lotta Engbergs orkester / Lotta EngbergsAnna Charlotte Lotta Engberg (born Anna Charlotte Pedersen on 5 March 1963 in Överkalix Norrbotten County Sweden) is a Swedish pop singer and later in life a successful television host notably with music show Lotta på Liseberg and the game show Bingolotto.She represented Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with Boogaloo after winning Melodifestivalen 1987. 
Benjamin Carl Unseld.  Benjamin Carl Unseld (October 18 1843 – November 19 1923) better known as B. C. Unseld was a U.S. gospel music teacher composer and publisher.
Michael Terry.  Michael Terry FRGS FRGSA (3 May 1899–1981) was an Australian explorer surveyor prospector and writer. He was born at Gateshead County Durham England. During the First World War he served with No. 2 Squadron of the RNAS Armoured Cars in Russia against the Bolsheviks by whom he was captured at Kursk though subsequently released. He moved to Australia in 1918.
Elizam Escobar.  Elizam Escobar (24 May 1948) is a Puerto Rican art theorist poet visual artist and writer.
Joseph Chang.  Joseph Chang (Chinese: 張孝全; pinyin: Zhāng Xiàoquán; Wade–Giles: Chang Hsiao-chuan born 28 December 1983) is a Taiwanese actor. He is best known for his role in the critically acclaimed 2006 Taiwanese film Eternal Summer which earned him two Golden Horse Awards nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best New Performer for his role as Yu Shouheng.
Shiv Dayal Batish.  Shiv Dayal Batish (also known as S.D. Batish Master Ramesh Nirmal Kumar Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish; 14 December 1914 – 29 July 2006) was an Indian musician born in Patiala India to a Brahmin family. He died in Santa Cruz California USA where he had lived since 1970.
David A. Trampier.  David A. Trampier (1954 – March 24 2014) was an artist and writer whose artwork for TSR Inc. illustrated some of the earliest editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Many of his illustrations such as the cover of the original Players Handbook became iconic.
Martin Rossiter.  Martin Rossiter (born 15 May 1970) is a Welsh singer who is noted for being the lead singer of the British indie band Gene from 1993 until their break-up in 2004.As well as writing and recording as a solo artist he is also a member of the band Call Me Jolene. He lives in Brighton where he is the manager for ATM Studios. He has three children.
Yōko Teppōzuka.  Yōko Teppōzuka (鉄炮塚 葉子 Teppōzuka Yōko born May 7 1964 in Shimodate Ibaraki at Ibaraki Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress. She started acting in 1991 and she is affiliated with Aoni Production.
James Fenton (farmer).  James Fenton (1820–1901) was an Irish-born Australian farmer and writer.He was born 20 November 1820 in Dunlavin Ireland. His family emigrated in 1833 and (after his father's death en route) arrived in Hobart Town Van Diemen's Land (now Hobart in Tasmania) in 1834. Starting in 1840 he pioneered on the island's Forth River first clearing heavy forest for farming.
H. G. Peter.  Harry George Peter (March 8 1880 – 1958) was a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist known for his work on the Wonder Woman comic book.Born in California Peter was a long-time resident in San Francisco.His first work for comic books was through Lloyd Jacquet's comic shop Funnies Inc. where he illustrated such features as the biography of General George Marshall in True Comics #4 (September 1941).
Cool Calm Pete.  Cool Calm Pete is a Korean American rapper and producer with a sometimes hypnotically slow lazy-sounding rapping style. Pete was born in Seoul Korea and raised in Queens New York. Pete is one of the three members of the hip-hop group Babbletron. Cool Calm Pete's debut solo album Lost was released in the United States on Embedded Music and released in Europe on Definitive Jux. He has since released a 9 track EP entitled Loosies featuring several remixes of his older work.
Antony Hopkins.  Antony Hopkins CBE (born 21 March 1921) is an English composer pianist conductor and radio broadcaster.Hopkins was born in London under the name Ernest William Antony Reynolds; his surname was changed to Hopkins after he was adopted by a master at Berkhamsted School following the death of his father.
Walter Vinson.  Walter Vinson (February 2 1901 – April 22 1975) was an American Memphis blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks worked with Bo Chatmon and his brothers and co-wrote the blues standard Sitting on Top of the World. Walter Vinson is variously erroneously known as Walter Vincson and Walter Vincent and sometimes recorded as Walter Jacobs thus using his mother's maiden name.
Algimantas Kezys.  Algimantas Kezys (born 1928) is a photographer born in Lithuania who has lived in the United States since 1950.Kezys was ordained as a Jesuit priest in the 1950s; he received a master's degree in philosophy from Loyola University (Chicago) in 1956. He founded the Lithuanian Library Press in Chicago and directed the Lithuanian Youth Center in Chicago between 1974 and 1977.One of Kezys' first major exhibitions took place in 1965 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Julieta Schildknecht.  Julieta Schildknecht (April 7 1960 São Paulo) is a Swiss-Brazilian photographer who grew up in São Paulo. After completing a law degree at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro she spent a few years working in the advertising industry. During her three-year stay in New York Schildknecht one year at the Parsons School of Design and worked in the fashion industry and has been related to Liz Clayborne and Fiorucci in São Paulo.
Tomislav Volek.  Tomislav Volek is a Czech musicologist and one of the world’s leading Mozart scholars.
Akira Fuse.  Akira Fuse (布施 明 Fuse Akira born on December 18 1947 in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer who was once married to Olivia Hussey. He debuted in 1965 with the single Kimi ni Namida to Hohoemi o (君に涙とほほえみを Tears and Smiles to You). His greatest hits are Cyclamen no Kahori (シクラメンのかほり Shikuramen no Kahori The Scent of Cyclamen) and Kimi wa Bara Yori Utsukushii (君は薔薇より美しい You are More Beautiful than a Rose).
William Closson.  William Baxter Palmer Closson was an American artist born in Thetford Vermont.
Mary Walker Phillips.  Mary Walker Phillips (November 23 1923 – November 3 2007) was an American artist author and teacher. Born in Fresno California she earned an MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan and in 1962 moved to Greenwich Village New York City. Jack Lenor Larsen (a textile designer) wrote in the forward to Phillips' book Step by Step Knitting “she is the great knitter of our time.
Jimmy Heath.  James Edward Heath (born October 25 1926) nicknamed Little Bird is an American jazz saxophonist composer and arranger. He is the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.
Dáithí O'Cléirigh.  Dáithí O'Cléirigh is a freelance session musician producer percussionist and drummer originally from Dublin Ireland.
Ho Ho Ying.  Ho Ho Ying (Chinese: 何和应; pinyin: Hé HéYīng) is a Singaporean abstract artist known for his avant-garde Chinese calligraphy and his Abstract Expressionistic works of art unique to Asian ideology. He is also an accomplished author under his reputed moniker 子木(Zǐ Mù) and an art critic for the Singapore visual arts community.Ho was born the eldest of five children in Hainan. When he was born his father had left the family to come to Kuala to work as a cook for a British family.
Sabrina Setlur.  Sabrina Setlur (born January 10 1974) formerly known as Schwester S. is a German rapper songwriter and occasional actress.
Vincenzo Capobianchi.  Vincenzo Capobianchi or Capobianchi (Rome 1836-1928) was an Italian painter who is best known for painting realistic Neo-Pompeian genre scenes. He was also a prominent numismatist and author of papers on Italian coinage.Among his works are: The Yellow Dress (1875) Roman children practice indoor archery (1881) and The Merchant of Fine Antiquities
Luke Chable.  Luke Chable is an Australian electronic music producer DJ and more recently singer/songwriter. He has released hundreds of remixes and original records with labels across the globe. He has collaborated with many artists including Ivan Gough Phil K and Nubreed.Luke Chable first started producing at age 9 in 1990 and has produced professionally since 1998. Chable's first release was Accelerator under the moniker Quest in 1999 on Melbourne record label Vicious Vinyl.
Sanjaya Malakar.  Sanjaya Joseph Malakar (born September 10 1989) is an American singer who was a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol. He gained national attention on the series controversially advancing to 7th place with public votes despite being poorly received by the show's judges particularly Simon Cowell.After Idol Malakar made many television guest appearances and has been commonly parodied in popular culture.
Dora Curtis.  Dora Curtis was an artist member of the expedition together with Maud Doria Haviland (1889–1941) Miss Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1886–1921) Polish anthropologist and Mr. Henry Usher Hall of the Philadelphia University Museum (1876–1944) on a trip down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Kara Sea in 1914.
Drummond Percy Chase.  Drummond Percy Chase (September 14 1820 – June 27 1902) was the Principal of St Mary's Hall Oxford.He is most well known for his translation of the Nicomachean Ethics. He is the author under D.P. Chase D.D. of Constitutional Loyalty and other Words Necessary for these Times published by Rivingtons London in 1886. According to the publisher of that book he is also the author of The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans.
Jaroslav Vrchlický.  Jaroslav Vrchlický (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈvr̩xlɪtskiː]; 17 February 1853 in Louny Bohemia – 9 September 1912 in Domažlice) was one of the greatest Czech lyrical poets. He was born Emil Bohuslav Frída Vrchlický being a pseudonym.He also wrote epic poetry plays prose and literary essays and translated widely from various languages introducing e.g. Dante Goethe Shelley Baudelaire Poe and Whitman to Czech literature.
Brendon Burchard.  Brendon Burchard is an American author public speaker and online trainer on the topics of motivation high performance and online marketing. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive.
Artimus Pyle.  Thomas Delmer Artimus Pyle (born July 15 1948) is an American musician best known for playing drums with Lynyrd Skynyrd for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
Lisa Maffia.  Lisa Maffia (born 16 June 1979 South London) is an English singer-songwriter musician fashion designer model and presenter who originally came to the public's attention as the main female member of So Solid Crew. Whilst in So Solid the singer notched up five top 20 hits including a platinum-selling single 21 Seconds and a platinum selling album They Don't Know.
Dolores Hayden.  Dolores Hayden is an American professor urban historian architect author and poet. She teaches architecture urbanism and American studies at Yale University.
Smoke DZA.  Sean Pompey (born February 8 1984) better known by his stage name Smoke DZA is an American hip hop recording artist from Harlem New York City. Smoke DZA decided on his moniker after being influenced by Chris Tucker's character Smokey from the movie Friday and the acronym DZA stands for Dream Zone Achieve.
ESKA.  ESKA (born Eska Mtungwazi) is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Meho Puzić.  Mehmed Puzić (24 July 1937 – 25 June 2007) known professionally as Meho Puzić was a Bosnian folk and sevdalinka singer and songwriter.
Channii.  Channii (born May 27 1991) is a singer and songwriter from Amsterdam The Netherlands.
Patricia Buckley Bozell.  Patricia Buckley Bozell (April 23 1927 – July 12 2008) was an American writer. She helped found and served as managing editor of Triumph a Catholic opinion journal that lasted for almost a decade. She had also been a freelance editor at Regnery Publishing National Review The American Spectator and Communio: International Catholic Review.
Virginie Déjazet.  Pauline Virginie Déjazet (30 August 1798 – 1 December 1875) was a French actress.She was born in Paris and made her first appearance on the stage at the age of five.
Kenneth C. Madsen.  Kenneth C. Madsen (October 31 1927 – December 25 2002) was an American artist. He was the son of a Danish immigrant father and a mother who influenced his interest in the arts. His most famous work is his 1991 painting “Discovery” a representation of the voyage of Christopher Columbus. The painting graced the program cover of the National Independence Day Festival and Parade in Washington D.C. In celebration of the Columbus Quincentennial Utah’s governor Norman H.
Lauren Savoy.  Lauren Waaktaar-Savoy is an American musician composer director and photographer. She was born on the 17th April 1968 in Boston Massachusetts.Since 1995 she has played with husband Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and drummer Frode Unneland in the group Savoy.
Megumi Makihara.  Megumi Makihara (槇原めぐみ or 槙原めぐみ or 慎原めぐみ Makihara Megumi) is a Japanese actress known for her appearances in the pink film genre. She has appeared in award-winning pink films and was herself given a Best Actress award for her work in 1997.
D.H. Peligro.  D.H. Peligro is an American punk rock musician most commonly known in hardcore punk and as the second drummer for the hardcore punk band the Dead Kennedys from February 1981 until their breakup in December 1986. He appears on the albums Plastic Surgery Disasters Frankenchrist and Bedtime for Democracy as well as the EP In God We Trust Inc.
Hiroko Mita.  Hiroko Mita (三田寛子 Mita Hiroko born January 27 1966 in Kyoto Japan) is a Japanese singer and actress.
Jean Wells (artist).  Jean Wells is an American artist known for her large-scaled and life-sized mosaic sculptures featuring pop-inspired objects such as ice cream cones hamburgers hot dogs and candy.
Harold Coyle.  For the Irish architect see Harold Edgar Coyle.Harold Coyle (born 1952[citation needed]) is an American author of historical speculative fiction and war novels including Team Yankee a New York Times best-seller. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1974 and spent fourteen years on active duty with the U.S. Army.
Tony Brent.  Tony Brent (26 August 1927 — 19 June 1993) was a British traditional pop music singer most active in the 1950s. He scored seven Top 20 chart hits in the UK over an almost six-year period starting in January 1953.
Ella Jenkins.  Ella Jenkins (born August 6 1924) is an American folk singer. Dubbed “The First Lady of the Children’s Folk Song” by the Wisconsin State Journal Jenkins has been a leading performer of children's music for fifty years.
Belinda O'Hooley.  Belinda O'Hooley is a British singer-songwriter and pianist with Irish roots who was born in Leeds and went to university in Huddersfield where she is now based. Formerly a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (now The Unthanks) she now records and performs with fellow Yorkshire singer-songwriter Heidi Tidow (pronounced Tee-doe) who is also her civil partner as O'Hooley & Tidow.
Tove Nilsen.  Tove Nilsen (born 25 October 1952) is a Norwegian novelist children's writer and literary critic.She made her literary debut in 1974 with the novel Aldri la dem kle deg forsvarsløst naken. Her adolescence novel from a dormitory town Skyskraperengler (1982) was a bestseller.She was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1993. Her novel Øyets sult (1993) was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
Kareem Salama.  Kareem Salama (Arabic: كريم سلامة‎; born 1978) is an Egyptian American musician. He is known as the first American Muslim country music singer. His music is a hybrid of country pop and rock music. He has released 3 albums Generous Peace (2006) This Life of Mine (2007) and a third City of Lights (2011) the latter after signing for LightRain Records.
Joseph Rouleau.  Joseph A. Rouleau CC GOQ (born February 28 1929) is a French-Canadian bass opera singer particularly associated with the Italian and French repertories.Born in Matane Quebec he studied privately with Édouard Woolley and Albert Cornellier in Montreal and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Martial Singher. He went to Milan Italy for complementary studies with Mario Basiola and Antonio Narducci.
Arsen Roulette.  Arsen Roulette (born July 23 1976) to Argentine immigrants is an American singer lyricist guitar player and upright bass player from Fresno California. Roulette is a prolific songwriter penning more than 100 songs in the Rockabilly Genre a mixture of Rock and Roll Blues and American Hillbilly music.
Derrick Plourde.  Derrick William Plourde (October 17 1971 – March 30 2005) was a drummer who was born in Goleta California. Active between 1989 and his death in 2005 he was a former member of Lagwagon Bad Astronaut Jaws The Ataris Mad Caddies Rich Kids on LSD and others. Rush's Neil Peart and RKL's Bomer Manzullo are credited as influences to his playing style. Plourde was able to play very fast and accurate.
Ingrid Rimland.  Ingrid Rimland Ed.D. (born May 22 1936 in Halbstadt (Molotschna) in Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born American author child psychologist activist former social worker and Holocaust denier. She has written several novels loosely based upon her own experiences from growing up in a Mennonite community in Ukraine and as a refugee child during World War II.
Francesco Menzocchi.  Francesco Menzocchi (1502–1574) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist period. He was born in Forlì belonged to the Forlì painting school and was active mainly in Forlì and Pesaro. Menzocchi was also called il Vecchio di San Bernardo. He apprenticed first with painter Marco Palmegiani and later Girolamo Genga. He worked under the latter in the Villa Imperiale in Pesaro where he would influence Raffaellino del Colle.
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl.  Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (6 May 1823 – 16 November 1897) was a German journalist novelist and folklorist.Riehl was born in Biebrich in the Duchy of Nassau and died in Munich.Riehl's writings became normative for a large body of Volkish thought. He constructed a more completely integrated Volkish view of man and society as they related to nature history and landscape.
Tudur ap Gwyn Hagr.  Tudur ap Gwyn Hagr (fl. second half of the 14th century) was a Welsh language poet from south-west Wales.
Céline Marie Tabary.  Céline Marie Tabary (29 July 1908 – 23 May 1993) was an artist and arts professor at Howard University who championed African-American art in 1940s Washington D.C. She emigrated from France in 1938 teaching and working in Washington D.C. through the 1950s before returning to France. Tabary won the Landscape Prize in 1944 from the National Museum Washington D.C.
Zebedee Jones.  Zebedee Jones (born March 12 1970) is an English abstract painter.
Al Lewis (singer-songwriter).  Al Lewis (born Alwyn Lewis Roberts 1984 Pwllheli Wales) is a Welsh singer and songwriter. He is well known in the Welsh language media after he came second in the Cân i Gymru contest in 2007.
DJ Kalonje.  George Waweru (born 1987) known as DJ Kalonje is an award winning Kenyan DJ and VJ. He is from Nairobi Kenya.
Lee Soo-geun.  Lee Soo-geun (born February 10 1975) is a South Korean comedian who has worked on a number of comedy shows on South Korean television. He began his comedian career on KBS Gag Concert and appeared in Finding Laughter. He currently lives in Mapo-gu a district in Seoul.
Chris Moss Acid.  Chris Moss Acid is a British acid house and electronic musician named Chris Moss. Moss is also known simply by his forename Chris.Chris Moss Acid's output is largely defined by the classic acid house sound often composed by Roland TB-303 SH-101 TR-707 Ensoniq ESQ-1 Casio SK1 and a Commodore 64. His output also includes ambient drill 'n' bass and guitar songs.
Keith Gessen.  Keith A. Gessen (born January 9 1975) is a Russian-born American novelist journalist and co-editor of n+1 a thrice-yearly magazine of literature politics and culture based in New York City.
Rudy Autio.  Rudy Autio (October 8 1926 – June 20 2007) was an American sculptor best known for his figurative ceramic vessels.Rudio Autio was born Arne Rudolph Autio to a family of Finnish immigrants in Butte Montana. As a child he first learned to draw by taking evening classes from Works Progress Administration artists working in Butte. He served in the Navy for two years during World War II.
Ary Barroso.  Ary Barroso (Portuguese pronunciation: [aˈɾi baˈʁozu]) (November 7 1903 – February 9 1964) was a Brazilian composer pianist soccer commentator and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century.
Gerald Griffin.  Gerald Griffin (December 12 1803 – June 12 1840) was an Irish novelist poet and playwright.
Damien Jurado.  Damien Jurado is an American indie rock singer/songwriter from Seattle Washington. Over the years he has released albums on many labels; today his primary label is Secretly Canadian.
Reinhard Heinrich Ferdinand Fischer.  Reinhard Heinrich Ferdinand Fischer (18 June 1746 Stuttgart – 25 June 1813 Stuttgart) was a German architect and master builder of Duke Charles Eugene of Württemberg.
Brigitte Kronauer.  Brigitte Kronauer (born 29 December 1940) is a German writer. She lives in Hamburg. In 2005 she was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize for her literary oeuvre.
Tilly Armstrong.  Tilly Armstrong (8 April 1927; Sutton Surrey England – 6 July 2010; Carshalton England) was a British writer of romance novels from 1978 to 1998 she also wrote as Tania Langley and Kate Alexander.She was the fourteenth elected Chairman (1987–1989) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was one of its Vice-Presidents until her death at 83 on 6 July 2010 at Carshalton England UK.
Simon Frug.  Simon Frug (Russian: Семён Григо́рьевич Фру́г IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈfruk] ; November 15 1860 – September 22 1916) was a multi-lingual Russian poet lyricist and author.He was born in Ukraine at the Jewish agricultural colony of Bobrovy-Kut Kherson. During his youth he received religious training at his native village. At the age of 16 he began writing Russian poetry and was first published in 1880 in the Russophone Jewish magazine Razsvet (ru) (Dawn).
Talib Kweli.  Talib Kweli Greene (October 3 1975) is an American rapper who performs under the name Talib Kweli. His first name Talib (طالب) in Arabic means student or seeker; his middle name in Swahili means true. Kweli earned recognition through his work in Black Star a collaboration with fellow MC Mos Def.
Julius La Rosa.  Julius La Rosa (born January 2 1930) is an American traditional popular music singer who worked in both radio and television beginning in the 1950s.
Lexie Marie.  Lexie Marie (a.k.a. Lexi Marie) is an American pornographic film actress exotic dancer and nude model.She began working as an exotic dancer at a club in Phoenix Arizona a few weeks after her 18th birthday. Soon after she appeared nude in a magazine pictorial which then led to girl-girl videos. A few months later in November 2004 she became an exclusive contract performer with Vivid Entertainment and began performing in boy-girl scenes. The contract was not renewed the following year.
Silas House.  Silas Dwane House (born 1971) is an American writer best known for his novels. He is also a music journalist environmental activist and columnist. House's fiction is known for its attention to the natural world working class characters and the plight of the rural place and rural people.
Moto Blanco.  Moto Blanco is an English DJ and electronic music duo consisting of Danny Harrison and Arthur Smith.They are also regularly joined by British record producer Jon Cohen.
Jamala.  Jamala (Ukrainian: Джамала) the real name Susana Jamaladinova (Ukrainian: Сусана Джамаладінова) is a Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar jazz-singer (spinto soprano) performing the music of her own composition on the junction of jazz soul world music and rhythm&blues with the elements of classics and gospel. The turning point in Jamala's career path came with her performance at the New Wave - 2009 International contest of young pop singers in Jūrmala.
Deni Loubert.  Deni (Denise) Loubert (born September 30 1951) is a French Canadian comics publisher co-founder of Aardvark-Vanaheim and founder of Renegade Press. She is the ex-wife of Dave Sim with whom she founded Aardvark-Vanaheim and published Cerebus from issues #1 to #77 (1977–1985).Loubert and Sim met in 1976 and were married from October 6 1978 to August 20 1983.
Kym Purling.  Kym Purling is an Australian pianist composer and conductor who was found abandoned at 2–3 days of age during the Vietnam War.
Sundaygar Dearboy.  Michael Davies (born July 20 1972) popularly known by his stage name Sundaygar Dearboy is a Liberian Hipco singer songwriter and record producer from District 2 Grand Bassa County. He records primarily in Bassa and English; he has released several contemporary gospel songs. In 2005 he produced Let Us Vote Ma Ellen the official campaign song for the Unity Party. The song was released during Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's 2005 presidential campaign.
Eric Telchin.  Eric Telchin (born December 4 1978) is an American author/artist best known for his Boy Sees Hearts project which showcases photographs of naturally occurring heart shapes. His book See a Heart Share a Heart was published by Dial Books for Young Readers a division of Penguin Young Readers Group on December 6 2012.
Edward Hoagland.  Edward Hoagland (born December 21 1932 in New York New York United States) is an author best known for his nature and travel writing.
Oleg Mityaev.  Oleg Mityaev (Russian: Олег Григорьевич Митяев 19 February 1956) is a Russian bard musician and actor.People's Artist of Russia (2009). Member of Russian Writers Union.An author and first performer of popular bard song Как здорово что все мы здесь сегодня собрались (1978).
Alfa Castaldi.  Alfa Castaldi (Milan 19 december 1926 - Milan 17 december 1995) was an Italian photographer.
Christos Mylordos.  Christos Mylordos (Greek: Χρίστος Μυλόρδος) is a Greek-Cypriot singer. He was born in Nicosia on 30 April 1991.
Griffin House (musician).  Griffin House (born April 21 1980) was born and raised in Springfield Ohio. His father worked in a tire shop and his mother helped place children with foster families. In high school the athletically gifted House landed a role in a musical and was surprised to learn that he had a natural talent for singing.
Robert Earl (singer).  Robert Earl (born Monty Leigh 17 November 1926) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s whose style was operatic like fellow crooners David Whitfield David Hughes and Edmund Hockridge. He is the father of Robert Earl.
Kaira Gong.  Kaira Gong (simplified Chinese: 龚诗嘉; traditional Chinese: 龔詩嘉; pinyin: Gǒng Shī Jiā born July 25 1981 in Singapore) is a Singaporean singer whose family is of Shanghai China descent. She is signed with Taiwanese HIM International Music and is best known as the protégé of Taiwanese musician David Tao as well as the label-mate of pop group S.H.E.She sang the theme song for Singapore's National Day Parade 2006 titled My Island Home.
Robin Brockway.  Robin Brockway (born April 17 1981 in Shrewsbury) is a British actor.
Herbert Lomas (actor).  Herbet Lomas was a British actor who appeared in more than forty films in a career lasting between 1931 and 1955. He was born in Burnley Lancashire in 1887 and made his first screen appearance in the 1931 film Hobson's Choice.
Isaac Guillory.  Isaac Guillory (February 27 1947 – December 31 2000) was an American folk guitarist. He wrote over 70 songs during a career that spanned 30 years.
Kento Handa.  Kento Handa (半田 健人 Handa Kento born June 4 1984 in Kobe Hyōgo Japan and raised in Ashiya) is a Japanese actor remembered by fans of Kamen Rider 555. He plays many musical instruments including the guitar bass drums and the piano.
Joanne Gair.  Joanne Kiwi Jo or Kiwi Joe Gair (born c. 1958) is a New Zealand-born and raised make-up artist and body painter whose body paintings have been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 1999 to the most recent edition. She is considered the world's leading trompe-l'œil body painter and make-up artist and she became famous with a Vanity Fair Demi's Birthday Suit cover of Demi Moore in a body painting in 1992.
Scott Hull (musician).  Scott Hull (born c. 1972) is an American heavy metal musician and the current guitarist and producer for Pig Destroyer Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Japanese Torture Comedy Hour. He has been part of many other projects including the controversial band Anal Cunt (also known as AC or AxCx). Aside from his music works he currently works as a government computer specialist.
Itaal Shur.  Itaal Shur (born October 22 1966) is an American composer producer and musician. He has written songs for a number of musicians including Maxwell Jewel and Enrique Iglesias and has produced records for various artists including Kronos Quartet The Scumfrog and Lucy Woodward.
Kim Jones (designer).  Kim Jones (born 11 September 1979) is a British fashion designer. He is a graduate of Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
Elisha Cooper.  Elisha Cooper is an American writer and children's book author. Cooper went to Foote School and Hopkins School in Connecticut.
Jonathan Mover.  Jonathan Mover a.k.a.
Lattanzio Pagani.  Lattanzio Pagani (active after 1543 died circa 1582) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period active mainly in Umbria.He was born in Monterubbiano in the province of Fermo in the region of Marche. He was an artist attached to Cardinal Tiberio Crispo after 1543 and when the Cardinal was papal legate in Umbria in 1545-1548. After 1553 Pagani became a captain in the militia. He later studied law in Perugia receiving a doctorate in 1567.
Sarah McLeod (musician).  Sarah McLeod is an Australian musician and singer the former frontwoman of rock band The Superjesus. She has three ARIA awards and over 300000 record sales to her name (from her Superjesus days 1994-2004) and has been referred to as the iconic Aussie rock chick.
Rabih Abou-Khalil.  Rabih Abou-Khalil (Arabic: ربيع أبو خليل‎ born August 17 1957 in Lebanon) is an oud player and composer.
Sarah Sheard.  Sarah Sheard (born February 13 1953 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian novelist.Sheard published her first novel Almost Japanese in 1985. Her latest novel her first political fiction came out in fall 2012. She has been a creative writing instructor at Glendon College was a member of the editorial board of Coach House Press for 13 years and has been a writing mentor with the Humber School for Writers at Humber College since 1995.
Manda Ophuis.  Manda Ophuis (born 27 November 1980) is a Dutch singer and composer who is best known for being the lead vocalist in the Dutch symphonic rock band Nemesea. She has been involved in music since a young age.
Martin Wallström.  Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz (born 7 July 1983 in Uddevalla) is a Swedish actor. He was trained at the University of Gothenburg's Academy of Music and Drama from 2004 to 2008. Wallström is married with Swedish actress Lisa Linnertorp.
Tim Key.  Tim Key (born 2 September 1976 in Cambridgeshire) is an English actor writer and performance poet. In 2009 he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
Luke Steele (musician).  Luke James Steele (born 13 December 1979) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Steele is the vocalist and primary songwriter of alternative rock band The Sleepy Jackson and is also a member of electronic music duo Empire of the Sun.
Tatiana Badanina.  Tatiana Badanina (born 1955 Nizhniy Tagil Sverdlovsk Region Russia) - a Russian artist Painting graphics sculpture photography object and installation art
Cedric Smith (actor).  Cedric Smith (born September 21 1943) is a British Canadian actor and musician. He played Alec King in the CBC television series Road to Avonlea and was the voice of Professor X in the X-Men TV series.
Jack Yarber.  Jack Yarber also known by his stage name Jack Oblivian is an American singer songwriter and guitarist based in Memphis Tennessee.
Peter Cetera.  Peter Paul Cetera (/səˈtɛrə/ sə-TERR-ə; born September 13 1945) is an American singer songwriter bassist and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago before launching a successful solo career. As a solo artist Cetera has scored six Top-40 singles including two that reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
Henrik Hertz.  Not to be confused with Heinrich Hertz a German physicistHenrik Hertz (August 25 1797 – February 25 1870) was a Danish poet.
Shihan Mihiranga Bennet.  Shihan Mihiranga( born 18 March 1985) is a Sri Lankan singer composer and songwriter. He finished in fifth place on the first season of Sirasa Superstar an idol program in Sri Lanka on the lines of American Idol. He released his first album 'Dreams of Shihan' in 2006. Then in 2008 he released his second album Dreamz 2 - My Life.
Janet Joyce.  Janet Joyce is a pseudonym used for the partnership of American writers Janet Bieber and Joyce Thies. Together they have written more than 15 romance novels.
Levi Henriksen.  Levi Henriksen (born 15 May 1964) is a Norwegian novelist and short story writer. He made his literary début in 2002 with the short story collection Feber. His first novel Snø vil falle over snø som har falt from 2004 gave him Norwegian Booksellers' Prize.Other books are the novel Badlands (2006) the easy readers Den aller siste mohikaner (2006) and Trekkspilltvillingene (2007) the novel Like østenfor regnet (2008) and the short story collection Alt det som lå meg på hjertet (2009).
Richard S. Johnson (artist).  Richard S. Johnson is an award-winning contemporary American painter based in Chicago Illinois.
Edward Barnes (composer).  Edward Barnes (born December 16 1958) is an American composer and producer.
Oliver Kentish.  Oliver John Kentish (born 1954 in London England) is a British-born cellist tutor and composer living in Reykjavík Iceland moving there in 1977 and being granted Icelandic nationality in 1989.
Tsuyoshi Matsubara.  Tsuyoshi Matsubara (松原 剛志 Matsubara Tsuyoshi) is a Japanese singer and actor originally from Tokyo. He is a founding member of the vocal group Project DMM and in recent years has been a member of the Nippon Columbia group Project.R gaining prominence as the vocalist for the 35th anniversary Super Sentai Series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger's opening theme song. Matsubara has also appeared in various musical productions in Japan including performing as Enjolras in a production of Les Miserables.
Joseph W. Ferman.  Joseph Wolfe Ferman (June 8 1906 – December 29 1974) was a Lithuanian-born American science fiction publisher.Ferman moved to the United States and began working on the magazine American Mercury the primary publication of the Mercury Press which added Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941.
Rusudan Petviashvili.  Rusudan Petviashvili (Georgian: რუსუდან ფეტვიაშვილი; (born 25 January 1968) Tbilisi Georgia) – Georgian artist graphic artist creates paintings using unique technique: total image is performed in one-touch.Petviashvili's works and lives in Tbilisi few months a year she works in Berlin Geneva and Paris where she has a studio.
Whitton (singer-songwriter).  Jaime Whitton is an independent American singer-songwriter who performs under her mononym Whitton. She started her career in 2009 releasing a self-titled EP in 2010 and in 2011 debut album Rare Bird which was mixed by producer-engineer Michael James and nominated for Best Pop Album by the Independent Music Awards.
Antoine-Pierre de Bavier.  Antoine-Pierre de Bavier often referred to as Antoine de Bavier was a celebrated twentieth-century Swiss clarinettist and orchestral conductor.De Bavier was a pupil of the clarinetist Luigi Amodio and of Wilhelm Furtwängler. His earlier career was dedicated more particularly to his instrumental work as a clarinettist.
David Alexandre Winter.  David Alexandre Winter (born Leon Kleerekoper 4 April 1943) is a Dutch-born pop singer.Winter was born in Amsterdam. From 1966 to 1968 he sang in the Amsterdam/The Hague-based band Daddy's Act. Under the name John van Doorn he was a DJ at Radio Veronica and recorded two singles for the Philips label. Other pseudonyms he used were John van Doren and Jaap Paardekoper. In 1969 he left the Netherlands to go to Paris.
Vikki Thorn.  Vikki Thorn (née Simpson) is an Australian harmonica player guitarist vocalist and songwriter and one-third of the Australian folk rock band The Waifs. Her sister Donna Simpson also plays guitar and sings in the band. Vikki has released six albums with The Waifs and wrote the band's single Sun Dirt Water.
Karen LaMonte.  Karen LaMonte (born December 14 1967) is an American artist known for her life-size sculptures in ceramic bronze and cast glass as well as her large scale monotype prints.
Shirley Murdock.  Shirley Murdock (born May 22 1957) is an American R&B singer-songwriter who is best known for her 1986 R&B hit single As We Lay and for her vocals on Zapp and Roger hit single Computer Love.
Siddharth Vipin.  Siddharth Vipin is music director in the Indian Film Industry. Has composed music for malayalam movies Kurukshetra and Currency before making his debut in tamil with Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom for which he's done the background score.
Martha Rofheart.  Martha Rofheart (1917–1990) was an American writer of historical novels and an actress. She was born Martha Jane Jones May 27 1917 in Louisville KY. After moving to New York City she became a model with the Harry Conover agency.
Randy Holden.  Randy Holden (born July 2 1945) is a guitarist best known for his involvement with the West Coast blues rock group Blue Cheer on their third album New! Improved! Blue Cheer (1969).
Matthew B. Brown.  Matthew B. Brown (born 1964 - October 5 2011) was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) author and historian whose emphasis was on the history and doctrine of Joseph Smith and his successors through Brigham Young.
Fred Kabotie.  Fred Kabotie (c. 1900–1986) was a celebrated Hopi painter silversmith and educator.
Gil Scott-Heron.  Gilbert Gil Scott-Heron (April 1 1949 – May 27 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet musician and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz blues and soul as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron.
Charles John Ayton.  Charles John Ayton (24 February 1846 – 29 July 1922) was a New Zealand goldminer rabbiter rural labourer and diarist. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England on 24 February 1846.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.  Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist author of the novel El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat 1874). The story is an adaptation of a popular tradition and provides a lively picture of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia.
Rodney Griffin.  Rodney Griffin is a Southern Gospel singer and songwriter currently performing with Greater Vision. Griffin was named favorite songwriter in the Singing News Fan Awards every year from 1998 to 2011. He was also named Favorite Baritone in 2006. Many of his songs including My Name is Lazarus (1999) and Just One More Soul (2000) have won Favorite Song.
Ben Weber (composer).  William Jennings Bryan Ben Weber (July 23 1916 in St. Louis – June 16 1979 in New York) was an American composer.Weber was largely self-taught. He worked initially as a copyist and only came to recognition in the 1950s. Weber used the twelve-tone technique but rather than avoid tonality he worked with it and achieved a virtuoso Romantic style.
Win Stracke.  Winfred Win J. Stracke (February 20 1908 – June 29 1991) was an American folk musician and co-founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago Illinois. Stracke was a Chicago fixture in music theater and television in the 1940s and was known for his booming bass voice. Nationally he was known as Uncle Win to viewers of his nationally syndicated children's television show on NBC until it was canceled in the wake of the 1950s blacklist.
Tadeo Gomez.  Tadeo Gomez was a worker at Fender Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company in Fullerton California in the 1950s. He has become famous amongst players and collectors of electric guitars for the high quality of his work and his habit of signing his name or initials on the guitars he helped to craft.His initials appear on famous guitars such as Eric Clapton's Brownie.
Patsy Watchorn.  Patsy Watchorn (born 16 October 1944 in Crumlin Dublin) is an Irish folk singer. He is notable for being members of Dublin City Ramblers and later The Dubliners.
Yuki Matsuzawa.  Yuki Matsuzawa is a pianist who was born in 1960 in Tokyo Japan.Ms Matsuzawa is a pupil of Akiko Iguchi and Hiroshi Tamura at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She subsequently studied with Vladimir Ashkenazy.Ms Matsuzawa's recording of the Chopin Etudes was the basis for one of the many plagiarised recordings issued under the name of Joyce Hatto. This plagiarised recording was hailed by the critic Ates Orga as …an extraordinary feat poetically strong and frequently electrifying.
Nick Traina.  Nicholas John Steel Traina (May 1 1978 – September 20 1997) was an American singer who was lead singer for the punk band Link 80.
Alice Tegnér.  Alice Charlotta Tegnér (12 March 1864 – 26 May 1943) was a Swedish music teacher poet and composer. She was recognized as a foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the first half of the 20th century.
James Shaffer.  James Christian Shaffer (born June 6 1970) also known as Munky is an American musician best known as co-founder and guitarist of the nu metal band Korn.His nickname Munky is a reference to his feet which resemble monkey's hands when spread.
Scott Hardy.  Scott Hardy is an underground Techno DJ and musician who has appeared in the UK and Australia and on Second Life since 2001 to present. As an Audio Engineer he was published in New Zealand.
Donald Deskey.  Donald Deskey (November 23 1894 – April 29 1989) was a native of Blue Earth Minnesota. He studied architecture at the University of California but did not follow that profession becoming instead an artist and a pioneer in the field of Industrial design. In Paris he attended the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes which influenced his approach to design.
Milan Stanković.  Milan Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Станковић born in Obrenovac September 9 1987) is a Serbian pop-folk singer.Born in Obrenovac Milan began his career as a contestant on the 2007 season on the televised singing contest Zvezde Granda where he finished in 4th place and became a fan favorite (SMS votes put him in the first place in 12 out of 14 contest shows[citation needed]). He made it to the finale and attracted significant media attention.
Rusty Wier.  Russell Allen Rusty Wier (May 3 1944 – October 9 2009) was an American singer-songwriter from Austin Texas.Wier's career dates back to the 1970s and covers multiple music genres. He is most famous for his composition Don't It Make You Wanna Dance which was a minor pop hit for him but has been covered by among others Jerry Jeff Walker Todd Snider Chris LeDoux John Hiatt and Barbara Mandrell.
Tito 6.  Troy Garland better known by his stage name Tito-6 is rapper/producer and Chairman and CEO of SoSay International. Born and raise in Flint MI on March 28 he grew up in an impoverished neighborhood known as the “Pierson Hood”. The youngest of five children to Motown songwriter/ music producer Regional Garland and his wife Gloria the budding artist flourished in a household full of musicians and singers which sparked his interest in numerous genres of music.
Troy Titus-Adams.  Troy Titus-Adams is a British actress. She has appeared in soap operas EastEnders as Nina Harris and Family Affairs as Kim Davies as well as several films and stage productions.
Kay One (rapper).  Kenneth Glöckler (born 7 September 1984) is a German rapper known as Kay One. He is also known as Prince Kay One.
Dalton Powell.  Dalton Powell (born 1942) is an El Paso musician perhaps best known for his time as drummer of The Bobby Fuller Four.
Jorge Fernández-Trevejo Rivas.  Jorge Fernández-Trevejo Rivas (born in Havana Cuba on August 6 1949) is a Cuban artist painter and caricaturist. He currently resides in Argentina.
Pyun Hye-young.  Pyun Hye-young (Hangul: 편혜영 born 1972) is a South Korean writer.
Laura Grimaldi.  Laura Grimaldi (1928 – 3 July 2012) was an Italian writer and translator from English.
Song Jieun.  Song Jieun (Hangul: 송지은; Hanja: 宋枝恩; born May 5 1990) popularly known as Jieun sometimes Ji Eun or Ji-eun is a South Korean idol singer and dancer. She is best known as a member of a popular South Korean girl group Secret as the main vocalist of the group. Aside from being a member of Secret she began a foray of solo activities in South Korea with her debut single Yesterday and participating in various OSTs.
Tina St. John.  Tina St. John (born 1966 in Michigan USA) is an award-winning author of historical and paranormal romance novels. As Tina St. John she wrote seven historical romances and under the pseudonym Lara Adrian she currently writes the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Midnight Breed vampire series of parnanormal romances published by Random House Books.
Apuleius.  Apuleius (/ˌæpjʉˈliːəs/; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; Berber: Afulay; c. 125 – c. 180 CE) was a Latin-language prose writer. He was a Numidian Berber and lived under the Roman Empire. He was from Madaurus (now M'Daourouch Algeria). He studied Platonist philosophy in Athens; travelled to Italy Asia Minor and Egypt; and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries.
Avaneeswaram S R Vinu.  Avaneeswaram S R Vinu (Malayalam: ആവണീശ്വരം എസ് ആര്‍ വിനു) (born 10 June 1973) is an Indian Violin player (Carnatic style).
Kim Tae-woo (singer).  Kim Tae-Woo (Hangul: 김태우 Hanja: 金太佑 born May 12 1981) is a K-pop singer originally the lead singer of popular boy band g.o.d.. Kim was born in Gumi North Gyeongsang Province the third in a family of one son and two daughters. He attended Kyunghee University in the Post Modern Music Department. He debuted in the K-pop industry as the lead singer for g.o.d. (short for groove overdose); the group became one of the most popular groups in the 2000s.
Susan Justice.  Susan Cagle (born 1981) is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and guitarist known by her stage name Susan Justice. She is known best for her debut self-recorded album The Subway Recordings.
Doug Cranmer.  Doug Cranmer (1927 - 2006) also known as Pal'nakwala Wakas and Kesu' was a Kwakwaka'wakw carver and artist as well as a 'Namgis chief. Cranmer was a significant figure in the Northwest Coast art movement both in its traditional form and in a modern contemporary form that he created and developed.
Madeline Juno.  Madeline Obrigewitsch (born 11 August 1995) better known by her stage name Madeline Juno is a German singer-songwriter. She released her first single Error in November 2013.
Juan Carlos Calabró.  Juan Carlos Calabró (3 February 1934 – 5 November 2013) was an Argentine actor and comedian.
DOT DOT DOT (artist).  DOT DOT DOT (also spelled ... or dotdotdot) is the pseudonym for an anonymous Norway-based graffiti artist.He has left his mark on walls around Europe and especially Norway in cities like Oslo Bergen Stavanger Copenhagen Berlin Fuengirola and Malaga.His age and real name are not officially known.
Roshon Fegan.  Roshon Bernard Fegan also known by his music name RO SHON (born October 6 1991) is an American actor singer-songwriter and dancer. He is best known for his role as Ty Blue on the Disney Channel original series Shake It Up and for his role as Sander Loyer in the Disney Channel movie franchise Camp Rock with the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. His 2014 release of his new single Bout That helped him transition from Disney star to up-and-coming artist and producer.
George Călinescu.  George Călinescu (Romanian: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]; June 19 1899 – March 12 1965) was a Romanian literary critic historian novelist academician and journalist and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century.
José Eustasio Rivera.  José Eustasio Rivera Salas (February 19 1888 - December 1 1928) was a Colombian lawyer and poet primarily known for his national epic The Vortex.
Brad Wolf.  Brad Wolf (born in Caryville Tennessee) is an American country music singer. He is the great-great-grandson of Fiddlin' John Carson.Wolf recorded for Warner Bros. Records in 2003 releasing the single Strictly Business. The song appeared on a NASCAR-themed compilation album titled Inside Traxx and was used by NBC on the TV series The Apprentice. The song spent four weeks on the Hot Country Songs charts peaking at No. 56.
Robin Wood (comics).  Robin Wood (New Australia 1944) is a Paraguayan comic book writer and author. He is mostly known for his classical work in Argentine comics and his later work in European comics.
Anne Bøe.  Anne Bøe (born 1956) is a Norwegian poet. She made her literary début in 1984 with the poetry collection Silkestein for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. Among her later poetry collections are Ildrose from 1989 and minimum from 2009.
Mai Takahashi.  Mai Takahashi (高橋 真唯 Takahashi Mai born February 23 1984 in Fukuoka Japan) is a Japanese actress and model. Takahashi made her acting debut in 2004 playing the role of Amano Sora in TV Asahi's Sky High 2. In 2005 she made her film debut as Fumie Hayashida in Simsons. Since her debut Takahashi has worked with many prominent directors; playing Kawahime the River Princess in Takashi Miike's horror-fantasy children's film Yokai Daisenso (released in the U.S.
Frederick Pyne.  Frederick Pyne (born London 30 December 1936) is an actor best known for his role as Matt Skilbeck on the ITV soap Emmerdale Farm from 1972–1989.Pyne worked as a farmer before serving in the Royal Air Force he then went to RADA for training as an actor.
Adolphe Lemoine.  Adolphe Lemoine known as Lemoine-Montigny or Montigny (1812–1880) was a French comédien and playwright. He was also the director of the Théâtre du Gymnase.He married the comic-actress Rose Chéri. He was the uncle of the comic-actress Anna Judic.
Chantelle Barry.  Chantelle Barry is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress from Perth best known for being in the original line up of girl group Bardot. She left the group suddenly only weeks after the group was formed on the first series of the Australian version of Popstars.
Marta Rivera de la Cruz.  Marta Rivera de la Cruz (1970 Lugo Spain) is a Spanish writer.
Waldemar Bastos.  Waldemar dos Santos Alonso de Almeida Bastos (born January 4 1954 São Salvador do Congo Portuguese Angola) is an Angolan musician who combines Afropop Portuguese (fado) and Brazilian influences.
Edith Heath.  Edith Kiertzner Heath (May 24 1911 – December 27 2005) was an American studio potter but soon became involved in the design and production of pottery and tableware on a far larger scale than that of most studio potters. In 1948 Edith founded Heath Ceramics. The company well known for its mid-century modern ceramic tableware including Heathware and architectural tiles is still operating in Sausalito in Marin County of the San Francisco Bay Area California United States.
Csaba Pintér.  Csaba Pintér (born January 11 1967) is the bass player of Hungarian heavy metal band Pokolgép since 1996.
Francis Hackett.  Francis Hackett (21 January 1883 – 25 April 1962). He was born in Kilkenny Ireland to the daughter of a farmer and a medical officer. He is most famous for writing a detailed book about Henry VIII but was also a noted critic and published several other books most of which were either non-fiction or biographies. He was educated in St Kieran's College where Thomas MacDonagh was his teacher.
Linnea Sinclair.  Linnea Sinclair (1954 New Jersey United States) is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's Gabriel's Ghost was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly she was a news reporter and retired private detective.
Roman Dragoun.  Roman Dragoun (born 8 April 1956) is a Czech singer songwriter and keyboardist. In 1980-1983 and 2007–present he is member of Progres 2. He was member of Stromboli T4 and Futurum. He was a session musician for number musicians and he was singer for musical theatre. In 2012 Dragoun was inducted into Beatová síň slávy (the Beat Hall of Fame).He was son of painter František Roman Dragoun.
Yi Mun-yol.  Yi Mun-yol (born May 18 1948) is a South Korean writer.
Pat Jordan (author).  Pat Jordan (born April 22 1941 in Bridgeport Connecticut) is a leading sports writer with his work included in the Best American Sports Writing anthology series seven times. He is also the acclaimed author of A False Spring a bittersweet memoir about his minor league baseball career which is ranked #37 on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. and Time Magazine called “one of the best and truest books about baseball and about coming to maturity in America…”
Lou Reed.  Lewis Allan Lou Reed (March 2 1942 – October 27 2013) was an American musician singer and songwriter.
Karen Mal.  Karen Mal (born 1967 in Bristol Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin Texas. She is best known for her strikingly open childlike voice and her poetic and somewhat didactic songwriting. She is also known in the industry as a first-call session singer with a gift for harmony.
L. Frank Baum.  Lyman Frank Baum (May 15 1856 – May 6 1919) known as L. Frank Baum was an American author of children's books best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels nine other fantasy novels and a host of other works (55 novels in total plus four lost novels 83 short stories over 200 poems an unknown number of scripts and many miscellaneous writings) and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.
Kris Kidd.  Kris Kidd (born August 2 1993) is an American writer and model.
Alan E. Cober.  Alan E. Cober (1935–1998) was an illustrator. His artwork appeared in The New York Times Life and Time. He also illustrated a series of children's books called Cober's Animals.Cober was born in New York City and attended the University of Vermont and the School of Visual Arts.
Tim Carvell.  Tim Carvell is an American writer known for this work for the TV comedy series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his print work in publications such as Mad and The New York Times.
Surianne.  Surianne Dalmedo known as Surianne is a Gibraltarian international singer and songwriter of acoustic Latin/Rock/Flamenco music. Described as la nina del sur (Spanish: girl of the South) her music style is derived from a blend of various cultures; Gibraltarian Spanish British and North African inspired by Mediterranean grooves strongly influenced by the fusion of acoustic guitar sounds and driving percussive rhythms.
Kapu Rajaiah.  Kapu Rajaiah (7 April 1925 – 20 August 2012) was an Indian painter. He was well known for his depiction of country life paintings and his works were displayed around the world. He was the founder of Lalita Kala Samithi in 1963 whose extension was inaugurated at Kala Bhavan.
E-40.  Earl Stevens (born November 15 1967) better known by his stage name E-40 is an American rapper entrepreneur and investor from Vallejo California. He is a founding member of the rap group The Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. He has released over ten albums appeared on numerous movie soundtracks and has also done guest appearances on a host of other rap albums. Initially an underground artist his 1995 solo album In a Major Way opened him up to a wider audience.
Anne Born.  Anne Rosemary Cookes Born (9 July 1924 – 27 July 2011) was a British poet local historian writer and translator.
Chihiro Yamanaka.  Chihiro Yamanaka (Japanese: 山中千尋 Hepburn: Yamanaka Chihiro) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Kiryū Gunma Prefecture. As of 2012 she is based in New York.Yamanaka studied at the Berklee College of Music and is an alumna of the Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency program.
Quayshaun.  Quayshaun is CEO of Que Records LLC. His work has included rapping as well as collaboration and consultation with executives and artists over 22 years in the music business. His company states he has assisted in generating over 100 million dollars in revenue for companies such as Uptown Records Ruffhouse Records BMG and Tommy Boy Records.
Federigo Tozzi.  Federigo Tozzi (born January 1 1883 in Siena; died March 21 1920 in Rome) was an Italian writer.Federigo Tozzi was the son of an innkeeper. He first worked as a railway official then took over running his father's inn. In 1911 he published his first book of poetry. In 1913 he began to work on his first novel Con gli occhi chiusi (With closed eyes) a highly autobiographical text. In this year he also founded the magazine La Torre. Tozzi then became a journalist in Rome.
David Weber.  David Mark Weber (born October 24 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is the author of several sci-fi and fantasy books series the best known of which being the the Honor Harrington series of sci-fi books.
Kasey Smith (singer).  Kasey Smith is an Irish singer that will represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark. She will perform the song Heartbeat with the group Can-Linn. Smith is a former member of the group Wonderland and attempted to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song Kiss Me ultimately placing third in the national final.
Krystal Davis.  Krystal L. Davis or simply Krystal Davis is an American session musician and background singer for Herbie Mann Evelyn King and Cyndi Lauper. She made history right after her single So Smooth was released in 1985 which peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and had reigned there for 12 weeks (as of December 1985).
Theresa Thomason.  Theresa Thomason is an American Gospel music singer.
Alfred Gerrard.  Alfred Horace Gerry Gerrard RBS (7 May 1899 – 13 June 1998) was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968 where he taught a number of well-known sculptors.
Nely.  Josias de la Cruz (born March 19 1987) professionally known as Nely El Arma Secreta is a reggaeton producer introduced in the genre by Luny Tunes.
Rex Griffin.  Alsie Rex Griffin ((1912-08-12)August 12 1912 – October 11 1959(1959-10-11)) was an American country musician and songwriter.
Li Lili.  Li Lili (黎莉莉 1915–2005) was a Chinese film actress and singer. Her films Little Toys The Big Road and Storm on the Border were blockbusters of the 1930s and 1940s.
Jamie McMann.  Jamie McMann is an American Record Producer Mixer and Audio Engineer currently based in Los Angeles Ca.
Jeff Mirza.  Jeffrey Mirza (born 3 February 1964) is an English stand-up comedian and actor of Pakistani descent.
Jared Paul.  Jared Paul is an organizer independent journalist slam poetry champion and Strange Famous Records recording artist from Providence Rhode Island. His poetry and music are often focused on issues of social justice human rights environmental justice and animal rights.
Taya Marquis.  Taya Marquis (born February 8 1989) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Taya currently lives in Mississauga a suburb in the Greater Toronto Area.
Thomas Herbst (painter).  Thomas Herbst (27 July 1848 – 19 January 1915) was a German impressionist painter and founding member of the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub.Herbst studied in 1866 at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Giovanni Francesco Cassana.  Giovanni Francesco Cassana (1611–1691) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Genoa.
Paul Henderson (photojournalist).  Paul Samuel Henderson (October 10 1899 – May 24 1988) was an African-American photojournalist for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper from 1929 through circa 1960. He became well-known for taking pictures of large groups and distant objects atop a ladder he carried. Henderson primarily photographed people including church groups politicians graduations local college and university groups weddings events during the African-American Civil Rights Movement and more.
Daniel Haaksman.  Daniel Haaksman is a German musician producer and DJ. He founded the record company Man Recordings in 2005. Daniel Haaksman is also a freelance music journalist contributing to German dailies such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Tagesspiegel ZEIT Magazin amongst other. Since January 2013 he runs a weekly radio show on German public radio Funkhaus Europa called Luso FM.
Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani.  Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani who lived at Pistoia in the 14th century is thought by Ciampi to have been employed at the Campo Santo of Pisa in 1382. He is known to have painted a 'Virgin and Child between SS. Nicholas and John the Baptist' in the Oratorio dei Nerli at Montemurlo. His last work which is now lost was the decoration of a church in Pistoia which was begun in 1396 and finished in 1398.
Catherine Jones (novelist).  Catherine Jones née Lace (b. 1956) is a British writer of romance novels since 1990. She also wrote as Kate Lace and as Annie Jones in collaboration.She is the twentyfourth elected Chairman (2007–2009) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Conrad Uno.  Conrad Uno is an American record producer and founder of the independent record label PopLlama Records. Uno began his career making his own music as a teenager in his makeshift basement studio. At the request of his friends the Young Fresh Fellows Uno produced their debut album The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest. When the band decided to release their debut album themselves Uno founded PopLlama Records to help with the release.
Jinzai Kiyoshi.  Jinzai Kiyoshi (神西 清 15 November 1903 - 11 March 1957) was a Japanese novelist translator and literary critic active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Christopher Lukas.  Christopher Lukas (b. (1935-03-06)March 6 1935) is a writer television producer and director who for the past forty-five years has worked primarily for public television. From 1963 to 1971 he produced for WNET in New York City making over 200 hours of programming for the educational station. In 1969 he was promoted to director of programming.
Phil Puleo.  Phil Puleo is an American composer drummer illustrator and visual artist from New York. He is known as a founding member of the band Cop Shoot Cop and for his current involvement in the experimental rock group Swans. He has also collaborated with Michael Gira on his Angels of Light musical project. After briefly touring with the Swans during the mid-nineties Puleo joined the band as a full-time member in 2010.
John P. Kee.  John P. Kee (born John Prince Kee on June 4 1962) is an American gospel singer and pastor.
Blakewill & Harris.  Blakewill & Harris (Marc Blakewill and James Harris) are a UK-based comedy writing partnership with credits on television and radio.They have written on the popular CBBC sketch shows Horrible Histories and Sorry I've Got No Head as well as ITV1 topical animation shows Headcases and 2DTV Comedy Cuts (ITV2) The Charlotte Church Show and The 11 O'Clock Show (both Channel 4) and The Sitcom Trials (ITV1) - and have written caustic put-downs for Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link (BBC).Most recently they wrote the pilot for Ace Of Clubs a BBC panel show hosted by Warwick Davis as well as contributing to Adrian Poynton's BBC Three sitcom White Van Man starring Will Mellor four series of Russell Howard's Good News (BBC Three) and the ITV1 Christmas special The All Star Impression Show.On radio they have written for Week Ending The Bearded Ladies and This Day (all BBC Radio 4) as well as Grrr (BBC Radio Scotland) Hudd And Quantick's Global Village The News Huddlines and Parsons & Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (both BBC Radio 2). 
Adam Ross (musician).  Adam Ross is a Los Angeles-based guitarist songwriter and producer. He is best known for being Rihanna's touring guitarist including the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour The Glow In The Dark Tour and the Last Girl on Earth Tour. He is featured in Rihanna's 2008 release Good Girl Gone Bad Live and has also shared the stage with Jay-Z Eminem Chris Brown and Ne-Yo while on tour.
Dino Dvornik.  Miljenko Dino Dvornik (20 August 1964 – 7 September 2008) was a Croatian singer songwriter music producer actor and reality television star.
Liza Marklund.  Eva Elisabeth Liza Marklund (born 9 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and crime writer. She was born in Pålmark near Piteå Norrbotten. Her novels most of which feature the fictional character Annika Bengtzon a newspaper journalist have been published in thirty languages. Marklund is the co-owner of Sweden's third largest publishing house Piratförlaget and a columnist in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. She is also a Unicef ambassador.
Blue Mitchell.  Richard Allen Blue Mitchell (March 13 1930 – May 21 1979) was an American jazz rhythm and blues soul rock and funk trumpeter known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside Blue Note and then Mainstream Records.
Joseph Moser.  Joseph Moser (1748 – 22 May 1819) was an English artist author and magistrate. He was a nephew of George Michael Moser enamel painter and drawing-master to George III. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1774 to 1782. He was made magistrate for Westminster in 1794 and published political pamphlets dramas and fiction.
Reynaert.  Reynaert (born Joseph Reynaerts 1955 Seraing) is a Belgian singer-songwriter best known for his participation in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.
Paul Grist.  Paul Grist (born 9 September 1960) is a British comic book creator noted for his hard-boiled police series Kane and his unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff.
Hans Dürer.  Hans Dürer (born February 21 1490 in Nuremberg - ca. 1538) was a German Renaissance painter illustrator and engraver. He was the younger brother of Albrecht Dürer and after him the most talented of 17 siblings. Most siblings died in childhood. He was certain to have been trained in the workshop of his already famous brother. He became the court painter for Sigismund I of Poland.
Maram & Aabroo.  Maram & Aabroo are a makeup and photography duo in the Pakistani fashion community. Based in Lahore Maram Azmat and Aabroo Hashimi are the sole proprietors of their make up and photography studio and salon. Their work has featured in fashion publications in Pakistan and they have worked with Pakistani fashion designers. They work in print runway television music videos and film.
Paolo Girolamo Besozzi.  Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (17 April 1704 – 1778) was an Italian oboe virtuoso bassoonist who devoted his life to the study of the bassoon and oboe. He was born in Parma.
John Nightingale (actor).  John Nightingale (23 December 1942 – 31 March 1980) was a British actor from Burnley LancashireHe was best known for his role in the popular 1970s TV series When the Boat Comes In.
Pınar Toprak.  Award winning composer Pinar Toprak has written music for an impressive number of diverse movies and distinguished filmmakers with over 30 feature film credits to date.
Milton Nascimento.  Milton Nascimento (Portuguese pronunciation: [miwˈtõ nasiˈmẽtu]; born October 26 1942 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is a prominent Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Oskar Bonde.  Oskar Ossi Bonde Carl Oskar Torkelsson Bonde af Björnö born January 24 1979 is a Swedish drummer in the rock duo Johnossi.Bonde grew up in Storängen Nacka Sweden and lives currently in Stockholm. He has an older brother and sister.Bonde got his first drum kit at age 12 after being fascinated by the drumming during a live band performance at a student party for his sister.
Matthew Ryan (musician).  Matthew Ryan (born Ryan Webb; November 7 1971) is an American alternative country singer-songwriter. Ryan has also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a hushed rasp with words catching like vows destined to be broken - one of modern music's most potent whispers. Like the Jayhawks Son Volt and other artists from the late 1990s alternative country scene Ryan has a dedicated following but only limited commercial success.
Ronald Alexander McIntosh.  Ronald Alexander McIntosh (21 January 1904–17 May 1977) was a New Zealand journalist and astronomer. He was born in Auckland Auckland New Zealand on 21 January 1904.
Perpessicius.  Perpessicius (Romanian: [perpeˈsit͡ʃjus]; pen name of Dumitru S. Panaitescu also known as Panait Şt. Dumitru D. P. Perpessicius and Panaitescu-Perpessicius; October 22 1891 – March 29 1971) was a Romanian literary historian and critic poet essayist and fiction writer. One of the prominent literary chroniclers of the Romanian interwar he stood apart in his generation for having thrown his support behind the modernist and avant-garde currents of Romanian literature.
Rufus (actor).  Rufus (born 19 December 1942; Riom Puy-de-Dôme) or Zio Vittorio is the stage name of Italian-French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known by the international film audience for his performance as Raphaël the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001).He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He had the lead role in the movie Train de vie (1998) an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust.
Jocie Kwok.  Jocie Kwok (born 21 March 1982) also known as Guo Mei Mei is a Singaporean female singer who made her first appearance on the entertainment scene in the middle of 2005. She is signed under Singapore record company Play Music which practises packaging and marketing their new artistes as cartoon caricatures on album covers and music videos.
Michael Thomas (musician).  Michael Moose Thomas (born 4 June 1981) is a Welsh musician songwriter and drummer. He is in Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine along with Matthew Tuck (lead singer rhythm guitar) Michael Paget (lead guitar backing vocals) and Jason James (bass backing vocals). He drums in the open-handed style.Michael Thomas said he started playing guitar for two years and he started playing drums after.
M. R. James.  Montague Rhodes James OM MA FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) who used the publication name M. R. James was an English author medieval scholar and provost of King's College Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings.
Oscar Alemán.  Oscar Marcelo Alemán (February 20 1909 – October 14 1980) was an Argentine jazz guitarist.He was a singer dancer entertainer and guitarist. Aleman was born in Machagai Chaco Province in Northern Argentina on February 20 1909.He was the fourth child of seven born to pianist Malcela Pereira (a native Argentine of the Toba people) and Jorge Alemán Moreira who played guitar in a folk quartet with his own children Carlos Jorgelina and Juan.
Rudy Vaughn.  Rudy Vaughn Brannon (born August 28 1980) is an American musician singer-songwriter and recording artist.
Hansi Hinterseer.  Hans Hansi Hinterseer (born February 2 1954 in Kitzbühel) is an Austrian singer actor entertainer and former alpine skier.
Torres (musician).  Mackenzie Scott (born January 23 1991) is an independent American singer songwriter musician and artist who performs under the musical moniker Torres.
Jards Macalé.  Jards Anet da Silva (born March 3 1943) known as Macalé is a Brazilian composer singer and actor. Da Silva was born in Rio de Janeiro. He composed the score from several filmes including Macunaíma O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro The Amulet of Ogum Rainha Diaba Se Segura Malandro! and Tenda dos Milagres.
Howard Gaye.  Howard Gaye (1878 – 1955) was a British actor who worked mainly in the United States.
Vittorio Avanzi.  Vittorio Avanzi (Verona February 21 1850 – Campofontana August 7 1913) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes.Born in Verona he studied at the Academy in Munich Bavaria. He exhibited at the exhibition of Venice in 1887 1897 and 1899. Among his paintings are:Prima della pioggia Le vicinanze di Dachau (village of Bavaria) Nelle vicinanze dell' IsaarLa marina di Capri Le prime foglie↑
Stewart F. Lane.  Stewart F. Lane (born 1951) is a five-time Tony Award winning Broadway producer with two shows currently on Broadway: Priscilla Queen of the Desert andWar Horse. He also has a DVD out now based on his critically acclaimed book Let's Put on a Show! and a new book called Jews of Broadway He has also produced in Dublin and London (Olivier nominated twice).
Mary Jane Auch.  Mary Jane Auch is an author and illustrator of children's books including One Plus One Equals Blue Ashes of Roses The Road to Home Journey to Nowhere and the I was a Third Grade ... series of books for younger readers. The Princess and the Pizza a collaboration with Herm Auch was an International Reading Association Children's Choice in 2003 and won the 2003 Storytelling World Award.
Dmitry Strelnikov.  Dmitry Aleksandrovich Strelnikov (Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Стрельников; born in Kazakhstan in the borders of USSR in 1969) is a Russian and Polish writer biologist and a journalist for television radio and the press living in Poland; the graduate of The Correspondence Course of the Mathematic on the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and of the Biology Departament on the Warsaw University.
Robert Straube.  Robert Straube was an American artist born in 1938 St Louis Missouri and died in 2006 in Shoreview Minnesota. He may have been one of the most printed artist in American history. A majority of his art work was seen on checks from the Deluxe Company. In his later life his work could be seen on Courage Cards.
Ed Krebs.  Edward Ed H. Krebs (born August 1951 in Bethlehem Pennsylvania) is a photographer and musician based in Laguna Beach California.
Karen Zoid.  Karen Zoid (born Karen Louise Greeff) is a female South African rock singer and guitarist.
Karl Ichiro Akiya.  Karl Ichiro Akiya (1909 – 2001) was a Japanese-American writer and activist for numerous political and social causes. A labor activist in both the United States and Japan Akiya was also an intellectual figure in the Japanese-American community.
Kirito.  Shinya Kirito Murata was born in Sapporo Hokkaidō on February 24. Formerly vocalist of the rock band Pierrot he is now the vocalist of Angelo and also holds a solo career.
Brendan Perry.  Brendan Michael Perry (born 30 June 1959 in Whitechapel London) is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the male half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard.
Findlay Brown.  Findlay Brown is a British singer songwriter and recording artist. His debut album Separated By the Sea was released in 2007 on Peacefrog Records England. It was produced by former Simian singer Simon Lord. Findlay's second solo album Love Will Find You was released in 2010 on Verve Records US. It was produced by ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler.
Susmit Sen.  Susmit Sen is a guitarist formerly part of Indian Ocean an Indian fusion band.He is a self-taught musician.
Clarinda (poet).  Clarinda was the pen name used by an anonymous Peruvian poet generally assumed to be a woman who wrote in the early 17th Century. The only work attributed to her is the long poem Discourse in Praise of Poetry (Discurso en loor de la poesía) which was printed in Seville in 1608. She is one of very few female Spanish-speaking colonial-period poets whose work has not been lost.
Tony Clarkin.  Tony Clarkin (born Anthony Michael Clarkin 24 November 1946 Shard End Birmingham) is a British musician best known as the guitarist of the rock band Magnum. He has been the primary songwriter throughout Magnum's history writing all of the material on their 16 studio albums.
Walter Benton.  Walter Benton (September 8 1930 Los Angeles - August 14 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Benton first began playing saxophone as a high schooler in Los Angeles. After three years of service in the Army in the early 1950s he played in 1954 with Kenny Clarke Max Roach and Clifford Brown. From 1954 to 1957 he played with Perez Prado including on a tour of Asia. He worked with Quincy Jones in 1957 and Victor Feldman in 1958-59.
Jorge Aliaga Cacho.  Jorge Aliaga Cacho is a writer and sociologist born in Lima Peru. He entered the National Institute of Culture where he was elected President of the Association of Workers (ATINC). In his capacity as chairman he played an important role in the formation of the Confederation of State Employees (CITE).
Jeff Garlin.  Jeffrey Jeff Garlin (born June 5 1962) is an American comedian actor producer voice artist director writer podcast host and author. He has acted in many television shows and some movies but is best known for his role as Jeff Greene on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm. He currently stars in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs.
Arthur Clare Cawley.  Arthur Clare Cawley (1913–1993) was an English literature academic.Cawley graduated from University College London in 1934. He went to the Education Department at the University of Hull for a year and in 1935 returned to UCL for three years as a part-time Lecturer whilst he completed his MA.In 1938 Cawley went to Harvard on a Commonwealth Fellowship and on his return to England joined the British Council.
Dominic Aitchison.  Dominic Aitchison (born 11 October 1976) is a Scottish bassist. He is best known as the bassist and founding member of post-rock band Mogwai. Aside from Mogwai he also plays bass guitar in Crippled Black Phoenix and Stage Blood.Aitchison studied Graphic Design at The Glasgow College of Building and Printing which is now part of Glasgow Metropolitan College.
Saint Dog.  Saint Dog is an American singer. Originally from Chisholm Minnesota he was an original member of the Kottonmouth Kings along with D-Loc and Brad Daddy X. He started his career as part of the hip hop group P.T.B. (P-Town Ballers) along with D-Loc and Johnny Richter. Daddy X had joined the group and Johnny Richter had left for personal reasons. The three remaining members formed the Kottonmouth Kings.
Stuart Vevers.  Stuart Vevers graduated from the University of Westminster in 1996. His first job was at Calvin Klein followed by Bottega Veneta Givenchy and Louis Vuitton where he worked with Marc Jacobs. He joined Mulberry as Creative Director in 2005 and was instrumental in the company's success transforming their leather goods into the must-have bags. He has also collaborated with Luella Bartley and Designer of the Year Giles Deacon.
Cesare Balbi di Robecco.  Cesare Balbi di Robecco (Alessandria 1854 - Genoa 1939) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and seascapes.
Håkon Hoff.  Håkon Hoff (15 April 1898 – 4 July 1976) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Orkanger as a son of a builder. He joined the Labour Party in 1913 chaired the local branch of Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund and was a board member of the regional Labour Party branch from 1919 to 1921. He worked as a laborer until 1923 first at a sawmill then as a carpenter.
Yayoi Kusama.  Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生 or 弥生 Kusama Yayoi born March 22 1929) is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media including painting collage sculpture performance art and environmental installations most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art minimalist and feminist art movements Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
Sweet Baby J'ai.  Sweet Baby J'ai is an American contemporary jazz singer songwriter producer arranger playwright and actress. She lives in Los Angeles CA.
Jang and Kev.  Jang and Kev (Jeremiah Ang and Kevin Seow) are a conceptual fashion and stills photography duo.
Georgina Anderson.  Georgina Anderson (22 October 1998 – 14 November 2013) was a singer from Marske-by-the-Sea Teesside. On November 14 2013 she died after being diagnosed with stage four liver cancer. Her posthumous 2013 single Two Thirds of a Piece reached number 63 on the UK Singles Chart.
John Deacon.  John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is a retired English musician best known as the bassist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band he was the last to join and also the youngest being only 19 years old when he was recruited by the other members of the band.
Emma Crewe.  Emma Crewe (active 1787 - 1818) was a gifted amateur artist who along with Diana Beauclerk (1734–1808) and Elizabeth Templetown (1747–1823) contributed designs in Romantic style to Josiah Wedgwood for reproduction in his studio in Rome.
Maiko Sakae.  Sakae Maiko (栄舞子) or just Maiko (舞衣子 まいこ) is currently bassist and vocalist for the pop/rock band ZONE (Disbanded 2005 reformed 2011). She was formerly the lead singer and one of two bassists in the pop/rock band MARIA which disbanded in 2010.
Jim Rugg.  Jim Rugg (born February 1 1977) is an American cartoonist and illustrator from Pittsburgh known for his tongue-in-cheek evocation of 1970s-era comics and pop culture. His graphic novels and comics collections include Street Angel Afrodisiac The P.L.A.I.N. Janes and Janes in Love One Model Nation and The Guild.
Steve Von Till.  Steve von Till is best known as singer and guitarist for the atmospheric metal band Neurosis replacing Chad Salter in 1989. He is also in Tribes of Neurot and Culper Ring and records solo work under both his given name and the moniker Harvestman. His solo albums are composed of original songs and traditional folk arrangements using minimalistic acoustic guitar and vocal styles.Outside his semi-professional role as a musician he works as an elementary school teacher. His father Stephen F.
Jack Barty.  Jack Barty (31 December 1888 in London – 25 November 1942 in Streatham London) was a British film actor.
Keisha Buchanan.  Keisha Kerreece Fayeanne Buchanan (born 30 September 1984) is a British singer-songwriter and was a founding member of the BRIT Award-winning girl group the Sugababes alongside Mutya Buena Siobhan Donaghy Heidi Range and Amelle Berrabah. With the Sugababes Buchanan had six number one singles and two number one studio albums making the Sugababes one of the most successful British pop acts of the 21st century.
Rodney Sheppard.  Rodney Sheppard (born November 25 1967) is the guitarist of rock band Sugar Ray.
Emil Schumacher.  Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen Westfalen –4 October 1999 in San José Ibiza) German painter important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany.In 2009 the Kunstquartier Hagen was inaugurated combining the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen as well as the newly built Emil-Schumacher-Museum in one Museum complex.
Tess Henley.  Tess Henley is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Kent Washington USA.
Linda Williams (singer).  Linda Williams (born Henriëtte Willems 11 June 1955 Valkenswaard) is a Dutch singer best known for her participation in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. Williams was unknown at the time she took part with two songs in the 1981 Dutch Eurovision selection as a last-minute replacement for singer Oscar Harris who had had to drop out at short notice.
Jane Lovering.  Jane Lovering is a British writer of romance novels since 2008. In 2012 her novel Please Don't Stop the Music won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Miho Mosulishvili.  Miho (Mikho) Mosulishvili (Georgian: მიხო მოსულიშვილი IPA: [mixɔ mɔʼsuliʃvili]; born December 10 1962) is a Georgian writer and playwright.
Eli Meltzer.  Eli Meltzer (born September 26 1979) better known by his stage name Smoov-E is an American musician. He is from Summertown Tennessee but moved to Sebastopol California at a young age.
Henny Koch.  Henny Koch (September 22 1854 – June 13 1925) was a translator and a German children's author. She was born in Alsfeld Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1898 on she lived in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in Hessia Germany where she died in 1925. She produced the first German translation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890. Henny Koch wrote 29 books mainly for young girls. Her books were published in eight countries.
Joseph Brooks (songwriter).  Joseph Brooks (March 11 1938 – May 22 2011) was an American screenwriter director producer and composer. He composed the song You Light Up My Life for the film of the same name that he also wrote directed and produced. In his later years he became the subject of an investigation after being accused of a series of casting-couch rapes. He was indicted in 2009 but committed suicide on May 22 2011 before he could be brought to trial.
Adam Lopez.  Adam Lopez Costa billed as Adam Lopez is an Australian pop musician vocal coach and session vocalist. He is noted for his ability to produce extremely high notes in his whistle register and for his extensive vocal range. He is currently a Guinness World Record holder for singing the highest note (by a male) and a half step below the E in the 8th octave (E♭8) or a tone and a semitone above the highest note on a standard 88-key piano.
Ruth Copeland.  Ruth Copeland is an English singer known for her involvement with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.
Rachel Sermanni.  Rachel Sermanni (born 7 November 1991) is a Scottish folk musician from Carrbridge in Strathspey. As of 2012 she is a recent addition to the folk scene but has already toured with a number of well-known folk and indie artists in the United Kingdom. Her first album was released in September 2012.
Rusty Anderson.  Rusty Anderson (born January 20 1959) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the accompanying lead guitarist for Paul McCartney's tours and performances since 2001 though he has worked with an extensive list of artists in addition to his own solo career.
Adam 'Tex' Davis.  Adam Tex Davis is an American screenwriter and director. He is most famous for writing the scripts for Spring Break Lawyer and Just Friends.Adam 'Tex' Davis at the Internet Movie Database
John Pettie.  John Pettie RA (Edinburgh 17 March 1839 – 21 February 1893 Hastings) was a Scottish painter who spent most of his career in England. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1866 and a full academician in 1874.As an enthusiastic amateur musician he helped the career of the young composer Hamish MacCunn by organizing concerts for him in his own studio.
Edith Vogel.  Edith Vogel (April 5 1912 in Czernowitz – June 12 1992 in London) was an Austro-Hungarian-born classical pianist active in the UK. After she got as far as she could with her first teacher Vogel took lessons from Wally Loew first assistant to Richard Robert whom she described as a sergeant-major of the first order who forced her to study only dramatic and virtuoso pieces.She made her debut in Vienna at the age of 10 and studied at the Vienna Academy.
Yung Wun.  James Carlton Anderson better known by his stage name Yung Wun is an American rapper from Atlanta Georgia.
Gilles Montezin.  Gilles Montezin is a French clothing designer well known for his elegant haute couture style. His clothes have been worn by various high-profile celebrities and featured in films such as Sex and the City and Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Kirsten Cooke.  Kirsten Cooke (born 4 October 1952 Cuckfield East Sussex England) is an English stage actress who trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art London. Almost all of her acting work has been in the field of comedy.She is best known for her role as resistance fighter Michelle Dubois in the British television series 'Allo 'Allo! produced by the BBC.
Anika (musician).  Anika is a British and German singer-songwriter and political journalist.
Barry McGuire.  Barry McGuire (born 15 October 1935) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song Eve of Destruction and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian music.
Alexis Mabille.  Alexis Mabille is a Lyons born Parisian based fashion designer who is the creative director of his namesake label Alexis Mabille.
Harry Edison.  Harry Sweets Edison (October 10 1915 – July 27 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and member of the Count Basie Orchestra.
Luis Días (composer).  Luis Díaz Portorreal best known as Luis Días was a musician composer and performer of popular music born in the Dominican Republic.He was immersed in the popular music and customs of Dominican folklore. In the artistic realms he is known as El Terror (The Terror) due to his particular performance style and his overtones.He was the author of lyrics and music that fused many diverse musical styles.
Joseph C. Smith.  Joseph C. Smith (August 13 1883 – March 22 1965) was a violinist composer dance band leader and recording artist most popular in the second and third decades of the 20th century.
Yasuhiko Fukuda.  Yasuhiko Fukuda (福田 裕彦 Fukuda Yasuhiko born May 3 1957) is a Japanese producer arranger and keyboardist.
Alexander Knox (1757–1831).  Alexander Knox (17 March 1757 – 17 January 1831) was an Irish theological writer.As a boy and young man Alexander Knox befriended and corresponded with John Wesley and - though he later asserted his theological independence from Methodism - he later published defences of Wesley against John Walker and Robert Southey.In the 1790s Knox entered political life briefly (in 1798) becoming private secretary to Lord Castlereagh and publishing Essays on the political circumstances of Ireland (1799) before retiring from politics in 1799.Knox lived in or near Dublin for the final three decades of his life becoming known as the 'sage of Bellevue'. 
Jade MacRae.  Jade Aurora MacRae (born June 4 1979) is an Australian R&B/soul singer and the daughter of two professional New Zealand musicians who live in the United Kingdom (UK).
Smitha Madhav.  Smitha Madhav is an accomplished and performing Carnatic Classical Singer and Bharatanatyam Dancer. Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance originating from the state of Tamil Nadu India and one of the oldest of the classical dance forms. Carnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of India and one of the two main classifications of Indian Classical Music (the other being Hindustani Classical Music).
Amandine Bourgeois.  Amandine Bourgeois (born 12 June 1979 Angoulême Charente) is a French singer. She was the winner of the sixth edition of the French version of the Pop Idol series Nouvelle Star in 2008.
Ewan Dobson.  Ewan Dobson is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist and Candyrat Records recording artist.
Ken Mizorogi.  Ken Mizorogi (溝呂木 賢 Mizorogi Ken born September 16 1980 in Yamanashi Japan) is a Japanese actor.
Mark Nesler.  Mark Nesler (born January 5 1961 in Beaumont Texas) is an American country music artist. Signed to Elektra Records as a recording artist in 1998 Nesler charted three singles on the U.S. Billboard country charts. In addition he has written several singles for other country music artists including Tim McGraw's Just to See You Smile a song which Billboard ranked as the Number One country single of 1998.
Derrick Tribbett.  Derrick Tribbett (born December 18 1984) is an American musician better known by his stage names Tripp Lee and Sinister. Tribbett is also known for his role on the reality show Daisy of Love starring former Rock of Love 2 contestant Daisy De La Hoya.
Alistair Paterson.  Alistair Ian Hughes Paterson ONZM (born 1929) is a New Zealand-born writer and poet. A long time editor of the literary journal Poetry New Zealand Paterson was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Esther Povitsky.  Esther Lauren Povitsky also known as Little Esther is an American stand-up comedian actress and podcast host living in Los Angeles California. Originally from Skokie Illinois and half Jewish Esther was drawn to comedy at a very early age and considers herself a theatrical comedian.
Marcus Reichert.  Marcus Reichert (born June 19 1948) is an American painter poet author photographer and film writer/director.He was given his first exhibition of paintings at the age of twenty-one at the legendary Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery New York home to the Surrealists during WWII. In 1990 he was honored with a retrospective organised by the Hatton Gallery of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne which toured in various forms to Glasgow London Paris and the United States.
Joan Brady (Christian novelist).  Joan Brady (born 1950) is an American best-selling writer since 1995.
Guilherme Arantes.  Guilherme Arantes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎɛrmi aˈrãtis]) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist. As a teenager he was a member of the band Os Polissonantes which also featured Brazilian actor Kadu Moliterno on Bass guitar. In 1969 Arantes started the band Moto Perpétuo with fellow students from USP's architecture course. It was with Moto Perpétuo that Arantes got his first taste of touring and recording in a studio.
Zena McNally.  Zena McNally (born 8 March 1979 Birmingham England) was a co-presenter of the breakfast show on the BBC Radio 1Xtra alongside Trevor Nelson. She is a former member of the band Mis-Teeq and also a solo singer. McNally is now living in the United States with her husband Chicago Fire Soccer Club defender Cory Gibbs.
Arundhati Roy.  Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes. Roy's novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author.
Steve Moss (musician).  Steve Moss is an American multi-instrumentalist best recognized for his work with guitarist Joe Baiza and his involvement in the band Universal Congress Of. He has also collaborated frequently with jazz saxophonist Gary Thomas and has appeared on albums by Firehose and Public Enemy.
Shahla Zaland.  Shahla Zaland (Persian: شهلا زلاند‎) (also spelled as Shahla Zoland & شهلا زولاند) is an Afghan singer. She is the daughter of singer and composer Ustad Zaland.She is sister to composer Farid Zaland and singers Soheila Zaland and Wahid Zaland. Shahla shared stages with some of the most notable singer such as her father Ustad Zaland her aunt Jila and Iranian singer Leila Forouhar. Her first song is Hamsadaye Khobe-man which was composed by her father Ustad Zaland.
Damian Lau.  Damian Lau Chung-yan (born 14 October 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV.
Louise Erdrich.  Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich June 7 1954 Little Falls Minnesota United States) is an American writer of novels poetry and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians a band of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwa and Chippewa).Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
Flora Fraser (writer).  Flora Fraser Soros (born 30 October 1958) is an English writer of historical biographies.
Chabuca Granda.  María Isabel Granda Larco (Cotabambas Apurímac Peru 3 September 1920 - Miami United States 1983) better known as Chabuca Granda was a Peruvian singer and composer. She created and interpreted a vast number of Criollo waltzes with Afro-Peruvian rhythms. Her best known song is La flor de la canela (The Cinnamon Flower).
Friedrich Schlotterbeck.  Albert Friedrich Schlotterbeck (January 9 1909 – April 7 1979) was a German author who wrote prose fiction plays and radio plays and was a local leader of the German Resistance during World War II.
Charlie Connelly.  Charlie Connelly (born 22 August 1970 London England) is an author of popular non-fiction books. In addition to being a writer Connelly also appears as a presenter on radio and television shows.
Mark Lee (musician).  Mark David Lee (born May 29 1973) is the guitarist and a founding member of the Christian rock band Third Day.Third Day has amassed album sales of over 6 million units. Lee has performed over 1200 shows with the band traveling throughout the United States Europe Australia Brazil and South Africa.
Amrit Bhushan Dev Adhikari.  Amrit Bhushan Dev Adhikari (Assamese: অমৃতভূষণ দেৱ অধিকাৰী; 1885–1942) was n writer from Goalpara district Assam India. He was the president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha held at Jorhat district Assam in 1923. His book Srimon Namghosa (শ্ৰীমন নামঘোষা) a simple Assamese translation of Namghosa (originally written by Madhavdeva) was published in 1911.
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani.  Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani (born 1939) is a Persian writer poet literary critic editor and translator.Born in Nishapur Razavi Khorasan Shafiei-Kadkani graduated from Tehran University with a doctorate degree in Persian literature. He was a student of prominent figures as Badiozzaman Forouzanfar Mohammad Moin and Parviz Natel-Khanlari. He is currently professor of literature at Tehran University. Shafiei-Kadkani is known for his works on literary criticism and modern Persian poetry.
Rick Leonardi.  Rick Leonardi (born August 9 1957) is an American comic book illustrator who has worked for various series for Marvel Comics and DC Comics including Cloak and Dagger The Uncanny X-Men  The New Mutants Spider-Man 2099 Nightwing Batgirl Green Lantern Versus Aliens and Superman. He has worked on feature film tie-in comics such as Star Wars: General Grievous and Superman Returns Prequel #3.
Kosta Khetagurov.  Konstantin (Kosta) Khetagkati (Ossetian: Хетæгкаты Леуаны фырт Къоста Georgian: კოსტა ხეთაგუროვი; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1859 – 1 April [O.S. 19 March] 1906) was a national poet of the Ossetian people who is generally regarded as the founder of the Ossetian literature. He was also a talented painter and a notable public benefactor.
Anna King (artist).  Anna King is a Scottish landscape artist who seeks out forgotten spaces and derelict buildings. She was born in Shetland in 1984 spent most of her life in the Scottish Borders and lives in the village of Greenlaw near Kelso.She first came to attention of the general public at her degree show at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2005. As a young artist this her first exhibition was a sell out a pattern that was followed in several of her future exhibitions.
John Ashton (musician).  John Geza Ashton (born 30 November 1957 at Whips Cross Hospital Forest Gate London England) is a British musician songwriter and record producer. He is a guitarist and former member of the Psychedelic Furs along with brothers Tim and Richard Butler.
Frode Glesnes.  Frode Glesnes is one of the founders of the Norwegian Viking metal band Einherjer. He started as guitarist/vocalist but decided to concentrate on the guitar duties. He did the lead vocals on Einherjer's last album Blot. He started a new band with the other Einherjer members called Battered. He did the lead vocals on their first demo recording but they chose a new singer. He also had a couple of projects with Einherjer drummer Gerhard Storesund called Angelgrinder and Beelzebub.
Magdolna Rúzsa.  Magdolna Rúzsa (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒɡdolnɒ ˈruːʒɒ]; Serbian: Ружа Магдолна Ruža Magdolna) or simply Magdi Rúzsa (born 28 November 1985 in Titov Vrbas SR Serbia SFR Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian pop singer who won the 2006 title of Megasztár (Megastar) Hungary's nationwide talent search that resembles but is not based on Pop Idol.
Tracey Lee.  Tracey Lee (born October 22 1970) is an American rapper and Lawyer. He became known in 1997 when his single The Theme (It's Party Time) had some commercial success. His debut album Many Facez followed on March 25 1997. Tracey Lee also recorded the track Keep Your Hands High in which he collaborated with The Notorious B.I.G..
Lizzy (South Korean singer).  Park Soo-Young (born July 31 1992) known by her stage name Lizzy is a South Korean idol singer and actress. She is a member of the group After School and its sub-unit Orange Caramel. Lizzy is also member of After School Blue and Mystic White. She debuted with the group in 2010 with the release of After School's third single Bang!. Lizzy ranked #63 on TC Candler's Annual Independent Critics List of the Most Beautiful Faces of 2013.
Mark Wilson (musician).  Mark Wilson is an Australian bass guitarist best known as part of the Melbourne-based rock band Jet.He was asked to join the group in 2002 by the other three members Nic Cester Chris Cester and Cameron Muncey but initially refused perhaps out of loyalty to The Ca$inos since he was that band's original bassist. Later he rang up Muncey and the Cesters and agreed to join them instead.Wilson usually plays a vintage Fender Precision in either sunburst or white. He plays with a pick.
Masood Kamandy.  Masood Kamandy (born 1981) is an American contemporary artist. Kamandy participated in documenta XIII in Kassel Germany where he presented an installation stemming from his work with students in the photography department at the University of Kabul which he helped establish in 2002.
Ian Flynn.  Ian Flynn (born May 31 1982) also known by his Internet pen name Ian Potto is an American comic book writer. He has been the chief writer for Archie Comics's Sonic the Hedgehog since issue #160.
Todd Hido.  Todd Hido (born 1968 Kent Ohio) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Currently based in San Francisco much of Hido’s work involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S. of which the artist produces large highly detailed and luminous color photographs.Hido's photographs reveal isolation and anonymity in contemporary suburbia.
Guillermo Morón.  Guillermo Morón Montero (Carora Venezuela 8 February 1926) is a Venezuelan writer and historian. Guillermo Morón has won awards including the Municipal Prize of Literature (Narrative mention) (1987) and the National Prize for Literature (1990).
Julia Sweeney.  Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10 1959) is an American actress comedian and author. She is known for her role as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for her autobiographical solo shows. She played Mrs. Keeper in the animated film Stuart Little and voiced Brittany in Father of the Pride.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe.  Louise Emma Augusta Dahl (November 19 1895 – December 11 1989) was an American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.
Garnet Walch.  Garnet Walch (Broadmarsh (Tasmania) 1 October 1843 – Melbourne 3 January 1913) was an Australian writer dramatist journalist and publisher. From 1872 on he became very popular as author of numerous pantomimes burlesques comedies and comediettas.As a publisher his most outstanding work was Victoria in 1880 a de luxe book with lavish engravings by Charles Turner compiled by Walch and published by George Robertson in Melbourne celebrating the 1880–1881 International Exhibition.
Nicolas Gosse.  Nicolas Louis François Gosse (1787-1878) was a French historical painter.
Neal Avron.  Neal Avron (born December 31 1969) is an American musician record producer mixer and audio engineer. Working predominately in rock music Avron began working on records in 1993 and achieved his production breakthrough when he co-produced Everclear's 1997 album So Much For The Afterglow.
Toeti Heraty.  Toeti Heraty (Toeti Heraty Noerhadi-Roosseno) is an Indonesian poet.
Ivan Shakespeare.  Ivan Shakespeare (born West Bromwich Staffordshire 19 July 1952; died London 3 February 2000) was a British comedy writer. A commissioned writer on the BBC Radio 4 show Week Ending Shakespeare was also commissioned to pen the radio comedy series A Square of One's Own and the BBC political satire show Bremner Bird and Fortune.He died in his forties from a heart-attack.
Tommy Bolin.  Thomas Richard Tommy Bolin (August 1 1951 – December 4 1976) was an American-born guitarist who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971) The James Gang (from 1973 through 1974) and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976); in addition to maintaining a notable solo career.
Vlado Žabot.  Vlado Žabot (born 11 August 1958) is a Slovene writer and journalist. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for two terms between 2003 and 2007.Žabot was born in Šafarsko in eastern Slovenia in 1958. He completed his studies in comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana in 1986 and worked for the Delo newspaper from 1987.He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1996 for his novel Pastorala and the Kresnik Award for his novel Volčje noči in 1997.
Turibio Santos.  Turibio Soares Santos (born March 7 1943) is a Brazilian classical guitarist.He established himself with a wide repertoire of pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos Ernesto Nazareth Francisco Mignone and by accompanying musicians like Clara Sverner Paulo Moura and Olivia Byington on many CDs.At the age of 10 he was attracted to the classical guitar his first teacher being Antonio Rebello and later Oscar Càceres.
Grigoriy Oster.  Grigoriy Oster (born 1947) is a Russian author and scriptwriter. He has written scripts for over 70 animated films and is considered one of the most important living Russian authors of children’s books.
Tommy LiPuma.  Tommy LiPuma (born July 5 1936 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American music producer. As of May 2012 LiPuma's productions have earned him 35 albums certified gold or platinum 33 Grammy nominations and 3 Grammy wins.
Louisa Anne Meredith.  Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895) also known as Louisa Anne Twamley was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.
Johnny Ryan.  John F. (Johnny) Ryan IV (born November 30 1970 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American alternative comics creator. He is best known for Angry Youth Comix a comic book published by Fantagraphics and for Blecky Yuckerella a comic strip which originated in the alternative newspaper the Portland Mercury and now appears on Ryan's website. In a throwback to the days of underground comix Ryan's oeuvre is generally an attempt to be as shocking and politically incorrect as possible.
Oğuz Abadan.  Oğuz Abadan is a Turkish musician born in Ankara. His music life began when he started playing the mandolin during his primary school years. At the age of twelve he started to learn how to play the guitar. After playing along with several different amateur bands during his youth he carried on with professionals: he has appeared in orchestras such at the one headed by Cemil Başaran as guitarist.
Jure Detela.  Jure Detela (12 February 1951 – 17 January 1992) was a Slovene poet writer and essayist.Detela was born in Ljubljana and studied History of Art at the University of Ljubljana. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Iztok Osojnik and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their Podrealistični manifest (The Sub-realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group called Pisarna Aleph (Aleph Office).
Will Theakston.  William Theakston (born 4 October 1984) is an English actor who appeared in the first Harry Potter film. He played the role of the Slytherin Quidditch seeker Terence Higgs. He attended Latymer Upper School.He has also appeared in two children's TV series: CBBC's The Ghost Hunter and CITV's Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land. In Ghost Hunter he played the character of Roddy one of the main characters.
Graham Goddard.  Graham Goddard (born April 12 1982) is a Trinidadian American conceptual artist known for making visual statements about the environment spirituality and commodification through painting sculpture and site-specific land art installations. Goddard's work has been exhibited at the Skirball Museum the California African American Museum and numerous art galleries in the United States and abroad.
Geoffrey Maloney.  Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.
Francesco Alziator.  Francesco Alziator (Cagliari 1909-1977) was a Sardinian writer and journalist. He was concerned for much of his career with the preservation of traditional Sardinian culture mainly of is hometown Cagliari.
Genevieve Hafner.  Geneviève Hafner (Paris 1961) is a French photographer based in New York City known mostly for her colorful and spirited photographs of the street scenes of New York City. Her 100+ postcard collection of New York under Concrete Jungle has shown many locals and visiting tourists a new way to look at the city.Hafner's first book Paris-New York was published in 2003 by OPERAE V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Factory. It was described by Michael MacInnis in The New York Art World November 2004 as Mr.
James Jessen Badal.  James Jessen Badal (born 1943) is an American true crime writer. He is also an assistant professor in English language and journalism at Cuyahoga Community College. His true crime works include a book about the disappearance of Beverly Potts and three books about the Cleveland Torso Murders case.
Richard Linton.  Richard Linton ASMA (born 1935) is an internationally renowned Australian artist. His paintings are primarily of maritime subjects.
Loden (musician).  Jolan Koks better known by his stage name Loden is an electronic music producer based in Brussels Belgium.
Judith Moffett.  Judith Moffett (born 1942) is an American author and academic. She has published poetry nonfiction science fiction and translations of Swedish literature. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and presented a paper on the translation of poetry at a 1998 Nobel Symposium.She began her career writing poetry and about poets including a 1984 book about James Merrill who was both her friend and mentor.
Richard Steere (author).  Richard Steere (1643 – 1721) was a colonial American merchant and poet.Steere was born in Chertsey Surrey England probably in 1643. He is known for his book of poetry A Monumental Memorial of Marine Mercy and The Daniel Catcher (1713) an anti-Catholic answer to 's Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden.
Peter Benjamin Graham.  Peter Benjamin Graham (4 June 1925 – 15 April 1987) was an Australian visual artist printer and art theorist.In 1954 Graham began to explore native Australian wildlife (notably Kangaroos) and themes associated with Aboriginal culture using the visual languages of European figurative Modernism and later geometric abstraction.He began developing a new form of visual geometry related to Chaos Theory from 1960 eventually called Thematic Orchestration.
Danitza Kingsley.  Danitza Kingsley is an American photographer and actress. As Danica Perez she published a collection of her photographic work The Glow: A Journey to Motherhood in 2001.
Papo Román.  Víctor Papo Román (born December 12 1957 in Dorado Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican musician most known for being the percussionist of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega.
Brian Reed.  Brian Reed (b. July 1 1973 Anderson Indiana) is an American comic book and video game writer.
Harjit Harman.  Harjit Harman (Punjabi: ਹਰਜੀਤ ਹਰਮਨ) is a famous Punjabi singer of Indian Punjab. He belongs to Doda village near Nabha Punjab.
Patrick Bouchitey.  Patrick Bouchitey (born 11 August 1946) is a French actor and film director. He has appeared in over 80 films and television shows since 1972. His film Cold Moon was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Red Café.  Jermaine Denny better known as his stage name Red Café is an American rapper. He was born to Afro-Guyanese parents and is signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik Diddy's Bad Boy Records and Ciroc Entertainment and DJ Clue's Desert Storm label.
Luis Alberto Ambroggio.  Luis Alberto Ambroggio (Córdoba Argentina 1945) is an Argentine American poet independent scholar and writer. Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española) and correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española). His works include award-winning essays poetry and translations. Influenced by F.
Francesco Clemente.  Francesco Clemente (born in Naples March 23 1952) is an Italian contemporary artist. His work is influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson William Blake Allen Ginsberg and J Krishnamurti.Dividing his time between New York and Varanasi India Clemente has adopted for his paintings a vast variety ofsupports and mediums exploring discarding and returning to oil paint watercolor pastel and printmaking.
Michael Harris (writer).  Michael Harris (born 1944 in Glasgow Scotland) is a Canadian poet and translator. His book Circus is a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.He has taught at McGill University Concordia University and Dawson College.
Max Zimmering.  Max Zimmering (16 November 1909 – 15 September 1973) was a German writer.
Meredith MacNeill.  Meredith MacNeill (born 1975) is an actress originally from Nova Scotia Canada who now lives in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.She is most famous for her roles in the BBC Three sketch show Man Stroke Woman and the film Confetti.In 2005 she appeared in series 3 episode 2 of Peep Show playing the character of Mark and Jez's old friend from university Canadian Merry.
Yukie Maeda.  Yukie Maeda (前田 ゆきえ Maeda Yukie born October 14 1973) is a Japanese voice actress from Nara Japan. She goes under the name of Kana Nojima when voicing characters in adult games or OVAs.
Jessel Miller.  Jessel Miller (born 1949 Ontario Canada) is an American watercolor artist and children's writer.
Jack Conte.  Jack Conte is a multi-instrumentalist song-writer entrepreneur and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area who lives off the sale of MP3s online. Conte has recorded two EPs - Sleep in Color and Nightmares and Daydreams and released them along with the compilation VideoSongs Volume I through the iTunes Store.
Nestore Leoni.  Nestore Leoni (L'Aquila Abruzzo February 14 1862 - 1947) was an Italian painter and illuminator of manuscripts (miniatore).He was a resident of Florence. He first studied in Aquila but later dedicated himself to the study of classic illumination of texts including those in the Florentine Libraries and set himself to imitating the antique. Among his first works was the cover of an Album commemorating the arrival of the Emperor William II of Germany to Rome.
Jaclyn Victor.  Jaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor (born December 4 1978) popularly known as Jac is a singer and actress who won the inaugural Malaysian Idol and Ikon Malaysia. As the winner of Malaysian Idol she won a recording contract with Sony BMG Entertainment. She is under the management of The 8 Unit. She represented Malaysia in the first Asian Idol and Ikon Asean. She has been dubbed Asia's Divette for her vocal prowess.
Greg Hunter.  Greg Hunter (born 1965 in Hammersmith London) is an English composer and sound engineer. He attended Goldsmiths University of London. He is known for his work with The Orb and with producer Youth in their collaboration to form Dub Trees and as a composer of electronic / world music.
Louise Brann.  Louise Brann was an American painter who worked in the Federal Art Project during the New Deal. She is known for a fresco mural at the Mount Vernon Library in Mount Vernon NY based on a Goebelin tapestry The Lady and the Unicorn.
Bojan Zulfikarpašić.  Bojan Zulfikarpašić (Бојан Зулфикарпашић also known by the stage name Bojan Z.) was born February 2 1968 in Belgrade) is a Serbian jazz pianist. He started playing piano at the age of 5 and as a teenager he started playing in bands on Belgrade jazz scene where he received an award as the Best Young Jazz Musician of Yugoslavia award in 1989.In 1986 studied with Clare Fischer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
Irene Nelson.  Irene Nelson is a Russian pop - rock recording artist songwriter and producer. She was successful in the 1990s under the pseudonym Diana. She moved to Germany and in 2000 created Reflex which achieved success in the CIS. During her participation in the group she won three Golden Gramophone Awards. In 2010 her first English single Sunrise found success on the dance chart reaching # 35 in Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play.
Kaylynn.  Kaylynn (born September 26 1977) is an American pornographic actress.
Suzanne Packer.  Suzanne Packer (born Suzanne Jackson; 20 June 1958) is a Welsh actress who is best known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the long-running television series Casualty.The daughter of Jamaician immigrant parents to Abergavenny her mother worked as a nurse. She is the elder sister of the Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson.
Mike Keneally.  Michael Joseph Keneally (born December 20 1961) is an American guitarist keyboardist vocalist and composer. Allmusic says: With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era.
Brooke Duff.  Brooke Duff is a New Zealand recording artist and songwriter. She was discovered by Illegal Musik who eventually signed her to the record label along with its counterpart Warner Music Group. Duff released her debut single Til The End in July 2012. The single reached number nine on the New Zealand Singles Chart.
Carlos McKinney.  Carlos McKinney (born January 10 1978) is a Grammy Award winning American record producer and jazz pianist.
John Ramsey Miller.  John Ramsey Miller (born October 3 1949) is an American author living in North Carolina.He began his writing career as a journalist including an exclusive interview with Martha Mitchell during the Watergate era.
Baldassare Carrari.  Baldassare Carrari (Forlì circa 1460 circa 1520) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Ravenna. He was a pupil of the painter Niccoló Rondinelli.
Harry Mileham.  Harry Robert Mileham was an English artist. He was born in 1873 and died in 1957.His work included oil painting and stained glass windows for various churches in Sussex including work for Cox & Barnard. An exhibition collecting many of his works was held at the National Gallery and toured the United Kingdom in 1995.
Patrick Cowley.  Patrick Joseph Cowley (October 19 1950 - November 12 1982) was an American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist. Besides Giorgio Moroder he is frequently credited with pioneering electronic dance music.
William Lederer.  William Julius Lederer Jr. (March 31 1912 – December 5 2009) was an American author.
Michael Cavanaugh (musician).  Michael Cavanaugh (b. 1972 Cleveland Ohio USA) is an actor musician and singer most famous for playing the piano/lead vocals in the band for the Broadway musical Movin' Out. Michael was handpicked by Billy Joel for this musical and appeared in the show for three years and over 1200 performances receiving many accolades.[citation needed]
Ishay Berger.  Ishay Berger (Hebrew: ישי ברגר‎) (born July 8 1978 in Haifa Israel) is an Israeli musician best known for his work as the lead guitarist for successful Israeli punk rock band Useless ID. and the bassist of brutal death metal/grindcore act Whorecore.
John McCoy (musician).  John Matthew McCoy (born c. 1950 Huddersfield Yorkshire England) is an English bass guitarist who is best known for his work with Ian Gillan and Mammoth as well as numerous other bands and sessions since the late 1960s. He currently plays in British rock trio Guy McCoy Torme with former Gillan/Ozzy guitarist Bernie Torme and Bruce Dickinson/Sack Trick drummer Robin Guy. He is also an accomplished guitar drum trumpet cello and double bass player.
Erich Loest.  Erich Loest (German pronunciation: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈløːst]; 24 February 1926 – 12 September 2013) was a German writer born in Mittweida Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.
Masashi Hamauzu.  Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦 正志 Hamauzu Masashi born September 20 1971) is a Japanese video game composer who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010. He is best known for his work on the Final Fantasy and SaGa series. Born into a musical family in Germany Hamauzu was raised in Japan.
Simonna.  Simona Milinytė (born December 12 1995) also known as Simonna is a Lithuanian singer and actress.
Enrico Crivellaro.  Enrico Crivellaro (born in Padova Italy) is an Italian blues musician who currently lives in Los Angeles.
Burton Raffel.  Burton Raffel (born 1928) is a translator a poet and a teacher. He has translated many poems including the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf poems by Horace and Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais. In 1964 Raffel recorded an album along with Robert P. Creed on Folkways Records entitled Lyrics from the Old English. In 1996 he published his translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote which has been acclaimed for making Cervantes more accessible to the modern generation.
Charles Delaunay.  Charles Delaunay (18 January 1911 – 16 February 1988) was a French author jazz expert co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France.
Mazisi Kunene.  Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene (12 May 1930 – 11 August 2006) was a South African poet best known for his poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime Kunene was an active supporter and organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa. He would later teach at UCLA and become Africa's and South Africa's poet laureate.
Roy Hay (musician).  Roy Hay (born Roy Ernest Hay 12 August 1961 Southend Essex England) is the guitarist/keyboardist with Culture Club one of the more popular bands of the 1980s fronted by Boy George. Hay a trained pianist since the age of five under the tutelage of Ms Eileen Chick replaced founding member Johnny Suede in 1981. Some of Hay's musical influences were Stevie Wonder The Isley Brothers and Led Zeppelin.
Thomas James Hurst.  Thomas James Hurst is an American Photographer Pastor and Entrepreneur/Inventor.
Russell Mael.  Russell Craig Mael (born October 5 1948 in Santa Monica California) is an American singer and songwriter who with his elder brother Ron formed the band Sparks in 1971 which was renamed from Halfnelson. He is also the co-founder of Lil' Beethoven Records.
Nils Petter Molvær.  Nils Petter Molvær (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmol.væɾ]) also known as NPM (born September 18 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter composer and producer. Molvær is considered a pioneer of future jazz a genre that fusing jazz and electronic music showcased on his most commercially successful album Khmer on the ECM label in October 1997 in Europe and early 1998 in North America.
Gaelen Foley.  Gaelen Foley (b. November 16 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania U.S.A.) is an American writer of romance novels.
Veselin Marinov.  Veselin Marinov is a Bulgarian singer. He was born of 4 August 1961 in the town of Polski Trambesh near Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria.
Yuki Matsuzaki.  Yuki Matsuzaki (松崎 悠希 Matsuzaki Yuki born September 24 1981) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in movies and on television.Matsuzaki appeared in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima and in The Pink Panther 2 where he portrayed Kenji Mazuto a technology wiz-kid. He appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as a character named Garheng.
Marti Frederiksen.  Martin Harold Marti Frederiksen (born July 1 1962) is an American songwriter record producer and musician. He writes and produces music primarily in rock country and pop. He is best known for his work with many artists bands including Aerosmith Gavin Rossdale Carrie Underwood Buckcherry Daughtry Ozzy Osbourne and Faith Hill. He's also well known for performing the lead vocals for the fictitious band Stillwater in the movie Almost Famous.
Indranil Sen.  Indranil Sen (Bengali: ইন্দ্রনীল সেন) is an Indian Bengali male singer and producer of Bengali films. He mainly sings in Bengali songs of own albums as well as in other Indian Bengal type such as Jeebon Mukhi Rabindra Sangeet & Modern Bengali Song. He has received numerous awards including for BFJA Awards for Best Male Playback Singer.
Marija Ugrica.  Marija Ugrica (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Угрица) (born July 27 1995 in Belgrade Serbia) is a pop singer well known by her strong live performances and YouTube music covers. She has won numerous awards for her songs and performances in the country and abroad.
Ernie Colón.  Ernesto Ernie Colón (born July 13 1931 in Puerto Rico) is an American comics artist known for his wide-ranging career including working in the fields of children's comics horror and nonfiction.
Minh Tuyet.  Minh Tuyết (Saigon 15 October 1976) is a Vietnamese-American pop singer currently performing on Thuy Nga's Paris by Night. Her sisters are Cẩm Ly a singer in Vietnam and Hà Phương (also a singer) who performs with her as part of the cast of Paris By Night. She is known in the Vietnamese American culture as the Vietnamese Pop Princess. Her real name is Tran Thi Minh Tuyet which in English literally means morning snow.
Ismael Parraguez.  Francisco Ismael Segundo Parraguez Cabezas or simply Ismael Parraguez (1883—8 May 1917) was a Chilean musician Normal teacher poet and novelist. He was known for being the creator of the Orfeón Chileno in 1914 during the centennial of the Battle of Rancagua. Parraguez was also known by the pseudonym of Misael Guerra.
Harold Tishler.  Harold Tishler (1893-1993) was a Russian artist. He studied art in high school and in 1910 began to study Engineering at the University of Grenoble. He moved to New York in 1913 and later joined the Army from 1917 to 1922. He was exposed to cloisonné in Hong Kong which stoked a lifelong career in the art of enameling. Tishler spent 1927 to 1932 in Vienna to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule. During his time in Vienna he studied with Michael Powolny and Josef Hoffmann as well as Edward Winter.
Chen Lin (singer).  Chen Lin (simplified Chinese: 陈琳; traditional Chinese: 陳琳; pinyin: Chén Lín) (b. January 31 1970 in Chongqing - d. October 31 2009 in Beijing) was a mandopop singer. She committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of an apartment in Chaoyang District Beijing.She rose to stardom with her 1993 album entitled I Can Never Understand Your Love. It reached the top of the Chinese album charts selling 1.5 million copies.
Rex Allen Jr..  Rex Allen Jr. (born August 23 1947) is an American country music singer who started singing at the age of six; he had followed in the footsteps of his father Rex Allen a singing cowboy and the narrator of many Walt Disney films. Rex Allen Jr. followed his father's footsteps as a film narrator when he lent his voice as narrator of the Jim Carrey movie Me Myself and Irene.Allen was born in Chicago Illinois.
Haven Gillespie.  James Haven Lamont Gillespie (February 6 1888 – March 14 1975) was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist.
Chameleone.  Jose Chameleon born Joseph Mayanja on 30 April 1979in Uganda is an Afrobeat and reggae musician. His other stage names include Joe Chameleon Jose Chameleone or simply Chameleone (sometimes spelled Chameleon). He is one of the most popular Ugandan musicians of the 21st century and enjoys strong popularity in many countries throughout Africa. Chameleone sings in Luganda English and Swahili.
Vice Ganda.  Jose Marie Borja Viceral (born March 31 1976) who uses the stage name Vice Ganda is a Filipino television presenter endorser actor and recording artist.
Noel Leung.  Noel (Vivian) Leung Siu Bing (born 29 December 1969 in Macau) is a Hong Kong actress known for her roles in TVB television. She was the second runner-up in Miss Hong Kong 1990.
Ernest Procter.  Ernest Procter ARA (1886–1935) was an English designer illustrator and painter and husband to artist Dod Procter. He was actively involved with the Newlyn School partner of the Harvey-Procter School and an instructor at the Glasgow School of Art.
Bernard Etxepare.  Bernard Etxepare (pronounced [berˈnart eˈtʃepaɾe]) was a Basque writer of the 16th century most famous for a collection of poems titled Linguæ Vasconum Primitiæ (Beginnings of the Basque Language) he published in 1545 the first book to be published in the Basque language.
Regan Tamanui.  Regan Tamanui is a self-taught artist based in Melbourne Australia. In October 2000 he founded the Melbourne Stuckists the fourth Stuckist group to be started and the first outside of the United Kingdom. The Stuckists are pro-painting and anti-conceptual art.
Avigdor Stematsky.  Avigdor Stematsky (1908–89) was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.
India (entertainer).  India is a pornographic actress singer and rap artist.She began working as an adult actress in around 1998 and has since appeared in over 200 videos. For five years she was an exclusive contract girl for the production company Video Team and she has an exclusive sex toy line manufactured by California Exotic Novelties.India owns the record company Black Widow Entertainment and in 2006 she released her debut solo album Role Play.
Chachamaru.  Yukihiro Fujimura (藤村幸宏 Yukihiro Fujimura born March 3 1960 in Kyoto Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese guitarist singer-songwriter arranger and producer. Usually referred to by his stage name Chachamaru little is known about his early years and personal life. Besides as a member and collaborator with various bands and musical acts in the 80s and 90s he is most known as being the lead guitarist and associate music producer for Gackt.
Hitomi Kanehara.  Hitomi Kanehara (金原 ひとみ Kanehara Hitomi born August 8 1983) is an award-winning Japanese novelist.
Hakushū Kitahara.  Hakushū Kitahara (北原 白秋 Kitahara Hakushū 25 January 1885 – 2 November 1942) is the pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi (北原 隆吉 Kitahara Ryūkichi) a Japanese tanka poet active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan. He is regarded as one of the most popular and important poets in modern Japanese literature.
Jack Raine.  Jack Raine (May 18 1897 – May 30 1979) was a British television and film actor. He was married to actress and musician Binnie Hale.
Magnus Lindgren.  Magnus Lindgren (born in Västerås 1974) is a Swedish jazz musician. He studied at the Västerås Music College. He then attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm Sweden and began working with the Soul Enterprise. He began playing with Herbie Hancock at age 18 and formed his current quartet in 1997. Among others he has also worked with James Ingram Koop Barbara Hendricks Gregory Porter Till Brönner Nicola Conte Marie Fredriksson and Ivan Lins.
Paul Coker.  Paul Coker (born Paul Coker Jr. 1929 in Lawrence Kansas) is an American illustrator. He has worked in many media including Mad character design for Rankin-Bass TV specials such as Frosty the Snowman and advertising.Coker's first appearance in Mad was in 1961; he has since gone on to illustrate over 375 articles for the magazine.
Tanner Sparks.  Tanner Sparks (born in La Mesa California) is an American musician audio engineer mix engineer and record producer. Sparks has recorded multiple artists including Switchfoot.Sparks was the previous bassist for the band Destroy the Runner guitarist for Chapter 14 and currently the guitarist for A Veil.
Kemar Thompson.  Kemar Thompson (aka Noncowa aka Jr. Pinchers) (born 10 October 1982 Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. His is the eldest son of reggae mainstay Pinchers.
Blaze Bayley.  Blaze Bayley (born Bayley Alexander Cooke 29 May 1963) is an English singer lyricist and songwriter. He was the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994 and currently from 2007 following a reunion. Blaze is best known for being the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999. Since then he has embarked on a solo career.
LaShun Pace.  Tarrian LaShun Pace (sometimes credited as LaShun Pace Rhodes or Shun Pace Rhodes) is an American gospel singer Stellar Award winner and evangelist.Born in Atlanta Georgia in 1961 and raised in a small community called Poole Creek Pace first emerged during the mid-1970s performing alongside her siblings in the group The Anointed Pace Sisters. Her singing and ministering skills were further honed while she toured with the Rev.
Henry Hampton Halley.  Henry Hampton Halley (White Sulphur Caldwell County Kentucky 1874–1965) was an American Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister and religious writer. He was best known as author of Halley's Bible Handbook 1922.
Alan Sharp.  Alan Sharp (January 12 1934 – February 8 2013) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films mostly produced in the United States.Sharp was raised in Greenock Scotland the son of a single mother and he was adopted at the age of six weeks by Margaret and Joseph Sharp a shipyard worker. His adoptive parents belonged to a Salvation Army church.
Peter Hasse.  Peter (Petrus) Hasse (ca. 1585 – June 1640) was a German organist and composer and member of the prominent musical Hasse family.[citation needed] The first written record of Hasse dates from his appointment as organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck a post later held by Buxtehude. Although virtually nothing is known of Hasse's early life he is believed to have been a student of Sweelinck between 1606 and 1609.
Shyam (composer).  Samuel Joseph alias Shyam is a popular Malayalam music composer from Tamil Nadu India. He has scored music for over 300 films including Telugu Kannada Tamil and Hindi languages. He also composed many Christian devotional songs. He is best known for the background scores for Malayalam thriller films of eighties and early nineties.Apart from his music scores in movies his theme musics are still considered as the finest example of scores ever composed in Malayalam cinema.
Laura Gilpin.  Laura Gilpin (April 22 1891 – November 30 1979) was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans particularly the Navajo and Pueblo and her Southwestern landscapes.
William McKendree Snyder.  William McKendree Snyder (December 20 1848-September 1930) was an American painter active in Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries best known for detailed Indiana landscapes. He was one of the first artists to paint in Brown County Indiana making him a forerunner of the Brown County Art Colony.He was born in Liberty Indiana to a prominent Methodist minister William W. Snyder.
Nieves Hidalgo.  Nieves Díaz Hidalgo (born November 19 1976 born in Toledo Spain) is a Spanish singer. Nieves is known for participate in the Spanish version of The Voice.
Don Grierson (music business).  Don Grierson is a UK-born music industry executive best known for his work with bringing The Beatles to the United States and signing Celine Dion to her first US recording contract.
Franz Nadorp.  Franz Johann Heinrich Nadorp (June 23 1794 – September 17 1876) was a German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome.Nadorp was born in Isselburg into a family of artists. He was the only son of Johann Theodor Nadorp and Gertrud Anna Stroof.
Fan Bingbing.  Fan Bingbing (born 16 September 1981) is a Chinese actress singer and television producer. She was born in Qingdao but was raised in Yantai. She graduated from Shanghai Xie Jin Film and Television Art College and Shanghai Theatre Academy.Fan has received awards from the Tokyo International Film Festival Beijing College Student Film Festival Golden Horse Film Festival and Hundred Flowers Awards among others.
Reggie Grisham.  Reggie Grisham is an American horn player.
David Phelps.  David Norris Phelps (born October 21 1969) is an American Christian vocalist songwriter and vocal arranger who is best known for singing tenor in the Gaither Vocal Band. He has also released several solo albums including four Christmas collections. On January 13 2008 Phelps appeared on Extreme Makeover Home Edition for the Woodhouse family.
Cytherea (pornographic actress).  Cytherea (born September 27 1981) is an award winning American pornographic actress and model. She is known for her ability to ejaculate (known as squirting in the adult industry) while performing sex acts.
Alain-Fournier.  Alain-Fournier (pronounced: [a.lɛ̃.fuʁ.nje]) was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier (3 October 1886 – 22 September 1914) a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.
Stijn Van Cauter.  Stijn Van Cauter is a doom metal and ambient music producer from Belgium.He has several solo projects including Beyond Black Void I Dream No More and Fall of the Grey-Winged One. His most notable solo project is Until Death Overtakes Me.
John Banim.  John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842) was an Irish novelist short story writer dramatist poet and essayist sometimes called the Scott of Ireland. He also studied art working as a painter of miniatures and portraits and as a drawing teacher before dedicating himself to literature.
Jaime Sáenz.  Jaime Sáenz Guzmán (29 October 1921 – 16 August 1986) was a Bolivian poet novelist and short story writer. Born in the city of La Paz he lived his entire life there and the rough topography and harsh climate of this Andean city had a powerful effect on much of his work.
Kim Sa-rang (singer).  Kim Sa-rang (Hangul: 김사랑; born December 3 1981) is a South Korean rock singer-songwriter.
Dwight Pattison.  Dwight Pattison was an Indian bassist and guitarist born in Kolkata India.
Georgie Fab.  Georgie Fab (born Robert George Johnston 31 July 1952) is a Canadian rock musician guitarist singer songwriter and producer.In his recent work as a record producer he has collaborated with Darcy Hepner ( of the band: Blood Sweat and Tears) the King Biscuit Boy CD Biscuits 'n' Gravy the Poison Arrows song Puss n' Boots and with Sylvain Sylvain of The New York Dolls.
Jay Fenster.  Jay Matthew Fenster (born January 8 1977; Rahway New Jersey) is an American travel writer blogger social media practitioner and casino industry expert. He has covered Walt Disney World and Orlando for Open Road Publishing from 1994 to 2006 and covered Las Vegas for Open Road from 2006 to 2008.
Yvonne Owen.  Yvonne Owen (1923–1990) was a British film actress.
Larusso.  Larusso (born Laetitia Serero on October 11 1979) is a French singer.She popularized songs such as Tu m'oublieras and Je survivrai the latter sung by Régine in the 1980s which is a French adaptation of I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.
Checo Acosta.  Alcibiades Antonio Acosta Agudelo (June 6 1965 in Soledad Atlántico Colombia) is a Colombian folk singer.
Matt Thorr.  Matt Thorne a.k.a. Matt Thorr is a bassist who has played in the glam metal band Ratt Rough Cutt and Jailhouse. He co-wrote the song Back For More with Stephen Pearcy on Ratt's album Out of the Cellar. He currently owns MT Studios for BlueThumbProductions in Burbank California where he has produced engineered and mixed albums for artists such as The Eels and Trapt.
Mia Murano.  Mia Murano (Japanese: 邑野みあ/邑野未亜/Murano Mia born July 22 1986 in Otsu Shiga Japan) is a Japanese model and actress.
Thierry Lamouche.  Thierry Lamouche (born 12 July 1955 in Paris) is a French illustrator known for the design of the Marianne des Français series the present French definitive stamp series.Thierry Lamouche became suddenly famous in July 2004 when his stamp design for a new Marianne series is chosen by the public and President Jacques Chirac. The definitive stamp series was issued January 2005 under the name Marianne des Français.
Darren Hanlon.  Darren Hanlon is an Australian singer/songwriter who plays urban folk music. He has released five solo albums three EPs and eight singles on Candle Records and Flippin Yeah industries as well as several compilation tracks.
B. Gunar Gruenke.  B. Gunar Gruenke is a stained glass artist in Wisconsin.
Ba Nyan.  Ba Nyan (Burmese: ဘဉာဏ် pronounced: [ba̰ ɲàɴ]; 1897 – 12 October 1945) was a Burmese painter who has been called the greatest name in modern painting in Myanmar. His oil paintings were quiet and academic in their style but display occasional flashes of virtuosity and brilliance in bold impasto brushstroke and skillful handling of the medium.
Anabheri Prabhakar Rao.  Anabheri Prabhakar Rao (Telugu: అనభేరి ప్రభాకేర్ రావు ) (15 August 1910 – 14 March 1948) is a Telangana armed struggle martyr and is also considered a foremost authority of the Telugu language. He was an Indian freedom fighter considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He was an intellectual guerrilla leader diplomat military theorist and major figure of the Telangana Rebellion.
Alice Colonieu.  Alice Victorine Antoinette Colonieu (5 November 1924 in Marseille 16 July 2010 in Roaix Vaucluse) was a French ceramicist painter and sculptor.
Qin Hao.  Qin Hao (Chinese name: Chinese: 秦昊; pinyin: Qín Hào) is a Chinese actor. He is known for starring in the 2009 film Spring Fever.
Kazuya Tatekabe.  Kazuya Tatekabe (たてかべ和也 Tatekabe Kazuya born July 25 1934 in Kimobetsu Hokkaidō) is a Japanese voice actor. He is currently represented by Kenyu Horiuchi's Kenyu Office.He is most known for the roles of Jaian (Doraemon) Walsa (Time Bokan) and Tonzura (Yatterman).
Antonis Fostieris.  Andonis Fostieris (Greek: Αντώνης Φωστιέρης) (b. Athens 1953) is a Greek poet. He studied Law at the University of Athens and History of Law at Sorbonne Paris.
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.  Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (25 September 1909 Valence Drôme – 15 April 1985 Montpellier) was a French film director script-writer playwright and author.After studying law he was made chief editor of the daily newspaper Sud-Est. He founded the journal Valence-Républicain.His play All in the Family adapted by Victor Wolfson was given its first performance at the Strand Theatre London on 17 June 1959. It was directed by Norman Marshall and designed by Paul Mayo.
John Roscigno.  John Roscigno is the Music Director of Thousand Oaks Philharmonic Director of Orchestral Studies at California State University Northridge and Music Director of CSUN Youth Orchestras. His previous conducting positions were with Conway Symphony Orchestra University of Central Arkansas University of Arizona Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Auburn University. He is a native of the Bronx New York.
Gopeshwar Banerjee.  Gopeshwar Banerjee or Gopeshwar Bandopadhyay (1880-1963) was an Indian classical singer and musicologist belonging to Bishnupur gharana of Hindustani music which originated in Bishnupur in West Bengal. He was known for his khyal and dhrupad renditions besides Rabindra Sangeet. He also sang thumri and most notably the thumri Kon Gali Gayo Shyam in Raga Mishra Khamaj which he popularized.
Kate DeAraugo.  Katherine Jenna Kate DeAraugo pronounced de roosh (born 5 November 1985) is an Australian singer-songwriter who was the third winner of Australian Idol in 2005. After idol DeAraugo signed to Sony BMG and released her debut single Maybe Tonight in November 2005. The single debuted and peaked at Number 1 on the ARIA Charts and was certified platinum. Her debut album A Place I've Never Been was released in December 2005 and was also certified platinum.
Armen Weitzman.  Armen Weitzman is a comedian and actor who has been seen in Burning Love The Sarah Silverman Program Childrens Hospital Role Models School for Scoundrels and Oceans 13 amongst other film and television programs. He was recently on the short-lived MTV show Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous as the title character's best friend. He holds a trademark for the phrase Karf.
Arthur John Strutt.  Arthur John Strutt (Chelmsford 1819 – Rome 1888) was an English painter engraver writer traveller and archeologist. He was the son of the landscape painter Jacob George Strutt (1790–1864) and the writer and traveller Elizabeth Strutt.After travelling across Italy in 1831[citation needed] in retinue of his father he moved to Rome where he definitively established is residence.
Glen Duncan.  Glen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton Lancashire England to an Anglo-Indian family. He studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Lancaster and Exeter.In 1990 Duncan moved to London where he worked as a bookseller for four years writing in his spare time.
Simon Tan.  Simon Leonardo P. Tan (born August 13 1970) is a Filipino bassist. Beginning classical guitar lessons at age 13 at the Yamaha School of Music stimulated his later exposure to electric guitar and inevitably his interest in the electric bass. In 1988 he studied the contrabass at the University of the Philippines College of Music until 1992 and thereafter embarked on a professional musical career.
Rosie Thomas (singer-songwriter).  Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter and stand-up comedian originally from Michigan.
Brenda Jackson.  Brenda Jackson (b abt 1953) is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line and has seen many of her novels reach the New York Times and USAToday Bestsellers lists. Brenda reached a milestone in her career in October 2013 when she published her 100th novel becoming the first African American to achieve such an accomplishment.
Shary Boyle.  Shary Boyle (born May 26 1972 in Scarborough Ontario) is a Canadian artist who works with sculpture painting drawing and performance. She lives in Toronto and is currently represented by Jessica Bradley Art+Projects.
Porcelain Black.  Alaina Marie Beaton (born October 1 1985) better known by her stage name Porcelain Black is an American industrial pop singer-songwriter rapper and model. At eighteen she embarked on her music career as a solo act under the name Porcelain and the Tramps with Virgin Records. However Black and Virgin could not agree on the music she would record. The music she recorded was posted to her Myspace account rockcitynosebleed where she gained millions of hits.
Sheila Horne.  Brides of Funkenstein member Sheila Horne was hired as a back-up singer for original Brides Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva in 1978. She became a main singer with Silva and Jeanette McGruder in 1979 for the second Brides album Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy and joined Rick James on tour in 1981 as an original Mary Jane. Horne wrote songs for George Clinton's solo albums on Capitol in the mid-1980s and As of 2005 continues to tour with P-Funk All-Stars.
Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer.  Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (July 26 1822 London - January 4 1904) was an English-American writer both of original works and translations.
Dindin Moreno.  Ferdinand Dindin Alvarez Moreno (born March 16 1976) is a Filipino drummer for the band Parokya ni Edgar.
Gloria (singer).  Galina Peneva Ivanova (Bulgarian: Галина Иванова Пенева) (born June 28 1973 in Ruse Bulgaria) better known as Gloria (Bulgarian: Глория) is a famous Bulgarian Pop Dance Rock and Pop folk singer. Arguably the most popular of her generation she is known as the Mother of pop-folk.
Julian Morrow.  Julian Francis Xavier Morrow (born 1975) is an Australian comedian and television producer from Sydney. He is best known for being a member of the satirical team The Chaser. As a member of The Chaser he has appeared on several ABC Television programs including CNNNN The Checkout and The Chaser's War on Everything of which he is also executive producer.
Olaus Dons Schmidt.  Olaus Dons Schmidt (8 November 1895 – 28 April 1969) was a Norwegian genealogist.He was born in Trondhjem as a son of trader Johan Christian Ludvig Schmidt (1850–1919) and Inga Cecilie Broström (1858–1919). In 1925 he married engineer's daughter Hildur Synnøve Strøm from Hamar.He took middle school started training in the postal service in 1913 and spent his entire career as a postal clerk in Trondhjem. On the side however he was a productive genealogical and historical writer.
Kristina Kovač.  Kristina Kovač (Serbian pronunciation: [kristǐːna kôʋatʃ]; Serbian Cyrillic: Кристина Ковач; born November 1974 in Belgrade Serbia SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer and composer. She is a major pop star in Serbia. She became famous during the 1990s when she and her sister Aleksandra Kovač were a big attraction in Serbia and surrounding countries - R&B band K2. She got back in the spotlight in 2007 thanks to her hit-single Kolena which spent more than 15 weeks at No.
Charlie Tagawa.  Charlie Tagawa (born October 27 1935) is a Japanese-American musical entertainer banjoist and Japanese immigrant. His musical career has spanned seven decades and as a critically acclaimed performer he is regarded as one of the best (contemporary) banjo players and arguably one of the all-time best. He performs regularly across the U.S. and in Japan where he is known professionally as Japan's 'Harry Reser'.
Sakanoue no Mochiki.  Sakanoue no Mochiki (坂上 望城 dates unknown) was a Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He was a relative of Sakanoue no Korenori one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.As one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber (梨壺の五人) Yoshinobu assisted in the compilation of the Gosen Wakashū. He also compiled kundoku (訓読) readings for texts from the Man'yōshū.
Kenta (musician).  Kenneth Kenta Gustafsson (mostly known just as Kenta) (August 11 1948 – March 3 2003) was a Swedish musician.Gustafsson was born in Nacka Sweden. He grew up in Vällingby a suburb northwest of Stockholm. Early in his life Kenta had problems with alcohol and drug addictions which was the subject for the three documentaries by Stefan Jarl known as The Mod Trilogy.
Alfredo Seiferheld.  Alfredo Seiferheld (July 26 1950 – June 3 1988) was a Paraguayan writer and journalist.
Jay Brannan.  Jay Brannan (born March 29 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He was born in Texas and briefly studied in Ohio but moved to California to become an actor. Brannan appeared in the 2006 movie Shortbus which included one of his songs in its soundtrack and began to build a fan base by performing on YouTube. He released an EP and acted in Holding Trevor in 2007. Since then he has toured and released three albums.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya.  Abhijeet Bhattacharya (Bengali: অভিজিৎ ভট্টাচার্য born 30 October 1958) is an Indian singer.
Lisi Raskin.  Lisi Raskin (born 1974) is a New York based artist known for creating large-scale architectural environments that refer to the often clandestine fallout shelters and missile silos constructed during the Cold War. Raskin performs rigorous field research in order to understand these architectures and the stories embedded within them.
Camillo Gabrielli.  Camillo Gabrielli a native of Pisa was a scholar of Ciro Ferri. Lanzi states that he was the first who introduced the style of Pietro da Cortona among his countrymen. He painted some oil pictures at the Carmelites and for private collections; but he was more distinguished for his fresco paintings which were much esteemed. His principal work was the decorations of the great saloon in the Palazzo Allicata. He died in 1730.
Kurt Edward Fishback.  Kurt Edward Fishback is an American photographer noted for his portraits of other artists and photographers. Kurt was born in Sacramento CA in 1942. Son of photographer Glen Fishback and namesake of photographer Edward Weston he was exposed to art photography at an early age as his father's friends included Edward Weston Ansel Adams and Wynn Bullock.
Gus Dudgeon.  Angus Boyd Dudgeon (30 September 1942 – 21 July 2002) most commonly known as Gus Dudgeon was an English record producer most notable for production of many of Elton John's recordings.
Amber Holcomb.  Amber Nicole Holcomb (born March 17 1994) is an American singer who came in fourth place on the twelfth season of American Idol.
Nina Gagen-Torn.  Nina Gagen-Torn (Russian: Ни́на Ива́новна Га́ген-То́рн IPA: [ˈnʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə ˈɡaɡʲɪn ˈtorn] ; December 15 [O.S. December 2] 1900 — June 4 1986) was a Russian and Soviet poet writer historian and ethnographer.She was born in St. Petersburg to a noble (dvoryan) family of baron Ivan Eduardovich Gagen-Torn physician Russified Swede. She graduated from the Petrograd Institute of Geography and post-graduate course of the Petrograd University (1924).
Fritz Scholder.  Fritz Scholder (October 6 1937 – February 10 2005) was a Native American artist. Born in Breckenridge Minnesota Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought to deconstruct the mythos of the American Indian. A teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the late 1960s Scholder influenced a generation of Native American students.
Hallway Productionz.  Hallway Productionz is a 3x Grammy Nominated Dove Award-winning music production duo made up of producer/mixer/engineer/multi-instrumentalist Teak & Dee Underdue. The pair reside in Stockton California. Teak and Dee's production is most notably featured on Ice Cube WC T-Bone & Mindless Behavior & Blackalicious records.
Mark Porter (writer).  Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born Scottish-based travel writer and publisher.Porter is the author of Coast to Coast Cycle Routes (ISBN 9780955508264) a guide book to three of Britain's most popular cycle routes all of which travel through the Lake District and Northern England now in its 16th edition.
Claire Beck Loos.  Claire Beck Loos was a photographer and writer born in 1904 in Pilsen Czechoslovakia. She was the third wife of early modern Czechoslovak-Viennese architect Adolf Loos.Claire Beck's immediate and extended relations - the Beck Hirsch Turnowsky and Kraus families - and friends the Semmlers were some of Loos' first clients.
Bill Viola.  Bill Viola (born January 25 1951) is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic sound and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth death and aspects of consciousness.
Stanford Luce.  Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19 1923 – March 26 2007) was an American academician known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline and for his English translations of Jules Verne books especially The Kip Brothers and The Mighty Orinoco which he was the first to translate into English.
Isolée.  Isolée is microhouse artist Rajko Müller a minimalist house producer whose music is reminiscent of indie electronic pop music of the early eighties and ambient techno from a decade on. Isolée is credited with creating the very first microhouse record to reach the club charts. Isolée's 2000 album Rest containing the hit Beau Mot Plage was arguably the first microhouse full-length.
Joe Lynn Turner.  Joe Lynn Turner (August 2 1951) is an American singer known for his works with hard rock band Rainbow. During his career Turner fronted pop rock band Fandango had the short-lived collaboration for Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Deep Purple. From the mid 1990s he worked with various musical groups (Mother's Army Brazen Abbot Hughes Turner Project Sunstorm The Jan Holberg Project) while pursuing a solo career. He is currently the vocalist for Rated X based on Mother's Army.
Jon Stock.  Jon Stock (born 12 May 1966 in England) is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and at Magdalene College Cambridge England. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three children. He has three brothers one of whom is Andrew Stock former president of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
Vera Love.  Vera Love (born Aurora North Carolina) is an American blues singer. She sang with Ray Charles Muddy Waters Cab Calloway Josephine Baker Lucky Thompson and Louis Armstrong.
John Potter (musician).  John Potter is an English tenor and academic.
Arnaldur Indriðason.  Arnaldur Indriðason (pronounced [ˈartnaltʏr ˈɪntrɪðasɔn]; born 1961) is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction; most of his books feature the protagonist Detective Erlendur(fr).
Alberto Acereda.  Alberto Acereda currently works as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Vice President and COO of Higher Education at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton NJ. He is responsible for responding proactively to the many rapid and large developments taking place in domestic and global colleges and universities.
Tim McIlrath.  Timothy James Tim McIlrath (born November 3 1978) is an American punk rock musician. He is the lead singer rhythm guitarist songwriter and co-founder of the American punk rock band Rise Against. McIlrath is known to support animal rights and actively promotes PETA with his band and he is Straight-edge.
Noel Haggard.  Noel Lee Haggard (born September 4 1963 in Bakersfield California) is an American country music artist.Haggard is the son of country music legend Merle Haggard. He was signed to a recording deal with Atlantic Records and released his debut album One Lifetime in 1997. The album produced two singles both of which peaked at No. 75 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.His first single Once You Learn also peaked at No. 72 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Peter Pohl.  Peter Pohl (born 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005 he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden.
Rudolph Schadow.  Rudolph Schadow (also spelled Ridolfo Schadow; July 9 1786 – January 22 1822) was a German sculptor.
Christina Dodd.  Christina Dodd (b. July 14) is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
Jenny Silver.  Jenny Maria Silver (born January 22 1974) is a Swedish singer.
Mabel Osgood Wright.  Mabel Osgood Wright (26 January 1859 – 16 July 1934) was an American author.
Adonis Shropshire.  Adonis Shropshire or Adonis for short(born November 1 1977) is an award-winning American songwriter and record producer.He has written and or produced singles including: Mariah Carey's I Stay In Love Usher Raymond's My Boo P. Diddy's I Need a Girl (Part One) I Need a Girl (Part Two) Chris Brown's Say Goodbye Ciara's And I Marques Houston's Circle Day26's Since You've Been Gone Enrique Iglesias's Push Ginuwine's Last Chance Beyoncé's Summertime.
Irina Odoyevtseva.  Irina Vladimirovna Odoyevtseva ( Russian: Ирина Влади′мировна Одо′евцева real name Iraida Heinike; born in Riga Russian Empire June 15 1895 according to some sources in 1901; died in Leningrad Soviet Union October 14 1990) was a Russian poet novelist and author of memoirs. In 1922 Irina Odoevtseva (with her husband Georgy Ivanov) left Russia but returned in 1987 enjoying warm reception not long before her death in 1990.
Jeffery Straker.  Jeffery Straker (born in Punnichy Saskatchewan) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter who is based in Toronto Ontario and Regina Saskatchewan. His piano-based pop musical style has drawn comparisons to Elton John Neil Young and Rufus Wainwright.
Raquel Castro.  Raquel Castro (born November 17 1994) is an American teen actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké the daughter of Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) and Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez) the role for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Younger. She was a contestant in the American version of The Voice.
Kym Ng.  Kym Ng (simplified Chinese: 钟琴; traditional Chinese: 鐘琴; pinyin: Zhōng Qín born Ng Kwee Khim Chinese: 黄桂琴; pinyin: Huáng Guìqín) is a Singaporean actress and television host with MediaCorp.
Mark Bin Bakar.  Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian musician comedian and radio announcer writer director/producer as well as an indigenous rights campaigner based in Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He is best known for his radio and television character the acid-tongued Mary Geddarrdyu or Mary G who has gained somewhat of a national cult following and has been described as a Dame Edna Everage in thongs.
José Antonio Muñoz.  José Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz (born July 10 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist. He is most notable for his influential black-and-white artwork. His hardboiled graphic novels series Alack Sinner (with writer Carlos Sampayo) is a noted source for Frank Miller's Sin City.
Rza.  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs (born July 5 1969) better known by his stage name Rza (stylized RZA) (/ˈrɪzə/ RIZ-ə) is an American music producer multi-instrumentalist author rapper actor director and screenwriter. A prominent figure in hip hop RZA is the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan. He has produced almost all of Wu-Tang Clan's albums as well as many Wu-Tang solo and affiliate projects.
Mutlu Onaral.  Mutlu Onaral is an American Soul singer from Philadelphia. A first generation American of Turkish ancestry Onaral released a five-song EP in 2004 and has served as the guitarist for Amos Lee at live shows also providing vocal work. He released his debut album Livin' It on Manhattan Records in 2008 with the Philadelphia Daily News giving it an A-. The album was produced by Tom Wolk who also provided backing vocals on two of the songs.
Fritz Heinrich Klein.  Fritz Heinrich Klein (2 February 1892 in Budapest – 12 July 1977 in Linz) was an Austrian composer. He was a student of Alban Berg and the inventor of the all-interval twelve-tone row.Klein's twelve-tone theories appear to originate independently of Schoenberg's as with Josef Matthias Hauer's and these claims as well as frequent stylistic changes helped to exclude him from the Second Viennese School though Klein's theories where highly influential on Alban Berg.
Bill Chase.  Bill Chase (October 20 1934 – August 9 1974) was an American trumpet player and leader of the jazz-rock fusion band Chase.
Patten (musician).  patten (always written in lowercase) is an unidentified London-based musician and producer.
Sarina Paris.  Sarina Paris (born December 22 1973) is a Canadian dance-pop singer/songwriter best known for her international dance-club hits and Look at Us and Just About Enough released in 2002 and 2001 respectively.
Rex Garvin.  Rex A. Garvin (July 24 1940 – December 2 2013) was an American rhythm and blues singer songwriter keyboard player and arranger. His writing credits include the 1957 US chart hit Over The Mountain Across The Sea by Johnnie and Joe and his own 1966 recording Sock It To 'Em J.B. later recorded by The Specials.
Bunny Matthews.  Bunny Matthews is a cartoonist from the Greater New Orleans Area. He is best known for his depictions of New Orleans characters and local dialect especially Vic and Nat'ly Broussard an overweight husband and wife who speak in what some call the Yat dialect and run a working-class corner bar and po-boy emporium in the city's Ninth Ward.
John K. Samson.  John Kristjan Samson is a musician from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and currently the frontman of the Canadian indie folk/rock band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s.Samson is married to Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Fellows. He is an adjunct professor with the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia.
Anrakuan Sakuden.  Anrakuan Sakuden (安楽庵策伝 1554 – February 7 1642) was an Edo period Japanese priest of the Jōdo (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism; devotee of the tea ceremony; connoisseur of camellias; and dilettante poet. The name Anrakuan takes from the name of the tea house that he built and lived at after he retired at the age of seventy. He is famous as the author of the Seisuishō (醒睡笑 Laughs to Wake You Up) which is a collection of humorous anecdotes.
Freddy Quinn.  Freddy Quinn (born Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl 27 September 1931 Niederfladnitz Austria) is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity within the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. Similar to Hans Albers two generations before him Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home family and friends. Quinn's Irish family name comes from his Irish born salesman father Johann Quinn.
René Hausman.  René Hausman (21 February 1936) is a Belgian comic-book writer and artist best known for his dark fairytales and aquarel drawings.
Omar Bashir (musician).  Omar Bashir (Arabic: عمر بشير‎) is an Iraqi Hungarian Musician. His father Munir Bashir was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system.Omar Bashir was born in Budapest in 1970 and started playing the oud with his father at the age of 5.
Dean Magraw.  Dean Magraw is an American guitarist and composer.
Raymond Pettibon.  Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn on June 16 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.
Sidney Carroll.  Sidney Carroll (May 25 1913-November 3 1988) was a film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplays for The Hustler (1961) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and for A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966). He has also won Emmys for the documentaries The Louvre (1978) and China and the Forbidden City (1963).
Donatan.  Donatan (born Witold Czamara on 2 September 1984 in Kraków) is a Polish musician music producer and sound engineer. Donatan along with Teka co-created RafPak.Donatan was born to a Russian mother and Polish father. He began producing music 2002 with is debut album Brudne południe released in 2007.
John Minter Morgan.  John Minter Morgan (1782–1854) was an author and philanthropist.
Yayoi Jinguji.  Yayoi Jinguji (神宮司 弥生 Jinguuji Yayoi born Yayoi Fujimoto (藤本 弥生 Fujimoto Yayoi) December 8 1965 in Hyogo Japan) is a Japanese voice actress. She is recognized for her role in voicing Morrigan Aensland from Capcom's Vampire/Darkstalkers franchise. Jinguji currently works for Arts Vision.
Palani Subramaniam Pillai.  Palani Subramaniam Pillai (1908–1962) was a well known Carnatic music percussionist. He was adept in playing the mridangam and kanjira. He was the sishya (disciple) of the celebrated Palani Muthaiah Pillai (his father).
Luz Leskowitz.  Luz Leskowitz (Born August 7 1943) is an Austrian violinist founder of the Salzburg Soloists music ensemble.He is an owner of the ex-Prihoda Stradivarius violin made in 1707.
Luca Princiotta.  Luca Princiotta born July 12 1982 in Como is an Italian guitarist. He began his career playing in the thrash metal band Deathector between 1996 and 1998 before joining the Iron Maiden tribute band Clairvoyants. His most prominent role to date has been in BLAZE (the band of former Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley) as a replacement for their departed founding guitarist Steve Wray.
Ashley George Old.  Ashley George Old (b. 1913 d. 2001) was an artist best known for documenting the lives of prisoners of war forced to construct the Thailand-Burma Railway. He trained at Northamptonshire College of Art then the Clapham School of Art.During World War II he was stationed in Singapore and when it fell to the Japanese in February 1942 he was taken prisoner and sent to work on the aforementioned Death Railway.
Finn Robertson.  Finn Buster Robertson (born 13 September 1981) is an Australian composer and music producer. He grew up in country Victoria learning to play piano guitar and trumpet before discovering the bizarre and otherworldly sounds that were possible to make with a computer. From 2000 to 2002 he applied and expanded these skills from his early experiments in electronic and acoustic composition at RMIT University's Media Arts under Philip Brophy and Philip Samartzis.
María Eugenia Suárez.  María Eugenia Suárez Riveiro (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾi.a euˈxenja ˈswaɾes]; born March 9 1992 in Buenos Aires) also known as Eugenia Suárez and China Suárez; is an Argentine actress singer and model. She is the best known for her role of Jaz Romero in the Cris Morena Group series Casi Ángeles and as a member of its group Teen Angels.
Tim Kendall.  Tim Kendall (born 1970) is an English poet editor and critic. In 1994 he founded the magazine Thumbscrew which published work by poets including Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney and Miroslav Holub and which ran under his editorship until 2003.[citation needed] In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Prize for his poetry.
Willem Schellinks.  Willem Schellinks (1627–1678) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Elias Viljanen.  Elias 'E.Vil' Viljanen (born July 8 1975) is a Finnish musician known for being the guitarist for Sonata Arctica since 2007. Viljanen joined Sonata Arctica in spring 2007 in order to replace Jani Liimatainen who left the band in August 2007 to fulfill his civil duties in Finland. The decision was only made official on August 8 2007 but Elias Viljanen had been known to replace Liimatainen in concerts during the spring and summer tour.
Frank Stanford.  Frank Stanford (August 1 1948 – June 3 1978) was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— a labyrinthine poem without stanzas or punctuation. In addition Stanford published six shorter books of poetry throughout his 20s and three posthumous collections of his writings (as well as a book of selected poems) have also been published.
Grimanesa Amorós.  Grimanesa Amorós (born in Lima lives and works in New York City and Peru) is an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history scientific research and critical theory. She is most known for her public art particularly her light sculptures and has exhibited internationally in the United States Europe and Latin America.
Stephen W Tayler.  Stephen Tayler is a mixing and recording engineer music producer musician composer and sound designer who has contributed this collection of talents to hundreds of world-class albums for artists including Kate Bush Suzanne Vega Peter Gabriel Underworld Duncan Sheik Howard Jones Stevie Nicks Milla Jovovich Rush Bob Geldof Rupert Hine and Tina Turner. Stephen works closely with producer filmmaker and artist Sadia Sadia.
Pinchas Cohen Gan.  Pinchas Cohen Gan (Hebrew: פנחס כהן גן‎) (born 1942) is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist.
William T. Vollmann.  William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28 1959 Los Angeles California) is an American novelist journalist war correspondent short story writer and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Europe Central.He lives in Sacramento California with his wife and daughter.
Toti Soler.  Jordi Soler i Galí (born 7 June 1949) known by the stage name Toti Soler is a Catalan guitarist singer and composer one of the most important figures of contemporary music in Catalonia. He had a classical training with influences of blues jazz and flamenco. His compositions are noted for their poetic sensitive qualities and often use extracts from poetry.
Jeremy Messersmith.  Jeremy Messersmith is an indie pop musician based in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Rust Epique.  Charles Lopez (February 29 1968 – March 9 2004) better known by his stage name Rust Epique was an American guitarist and painter who performed with the bands Crazy Town and pre)Thing. A native Californian he was also known for his enthusiastic rock star lifestyle.
Charles Ghigna.  Charles Ghigna (born August 25 1946) is an American writer best known for children's poetry. He sometimes uses the nickname Father Goose. He lives in Homewood Alabama.The themes of his books and poetry reflect a celebration of childhood as well as a reverence for nature and animals. His other subjects and themes include humor holidays riddles seasons school sports and the power of a positive attitude.
Poh Siew Wah.  Poh Siew Wah is a Singaporean artist known for his powerful Abstract Expressionistic styled paintings themed to Singapore and Southeast Asian landscapes. His Rhythmic Exuberance series of paintings also form the main theme for the interiors of the Farrer Park MRT Station.Born in Singapore Poh first received his art education in Gan Eng Seng Secondary School where he was taught by his teachers artist S.
Soluna Samay.  Soluna Samay Kettel (born 27 August 1990 Guatemala City Guatemala) is a Guatemalan-Danish-Swiss singer. Samay represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan with her entry Should've Known Better.
Nami Tamaki.  Nami Tamaki (玉置 成実 Tamaki Nami born June 1 1988) is a Japanese pop singer. She has various commercial tie-ins with the anime and games industry and has also performed in stage musicals and a movie.
Charles Perrault.  Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre the fairy tale with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) Cendrillon (Cinderella) Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots) La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) and La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard).
BlackOwned C-Bone.  Corey Andrews AKA BlackOwned C-Bone is a member of the hip-hop crew the Dungeon Family and the trio Konkrete. He has made notable appearances on OutKast's Gangsta Shit in 2000 and on Kryptonite the lead single from 2006's Got Purp? Vol 2 Purple Ribbon Records's first major release.
Virginia Henley.  Virginia Henley née Virginia Syddall (born 5 December 1935 in Bolton England) is a British successful writer of historical-romance novels. She is well-known for her Medieval Renaissance and other period piece romance novels.
Paolo Ferrari.  Paolo Ferrari (1822–1889) Italian dramatist was born at Modena. His numerous works chiefly comedies and all marked by a fresh and piquant style are the finest product of the modern Italian drama. After producing some minor pieces in 1852 he made his reputation as a playwright with Goldoni e le sue Sedici Commedie. Among numerous later plays his comedy Parini e la Satira (1857) had considerable success.
Tony Marshall (actor).  Tony Marshall (born 14 May 1974) is a British television actor.He is probably best known for his appearance in the BBC drama series Life on Mars and the final episode of its spinoff Ashes to Ashes as the bartender and confidant Nelson and Rodney's friend Chris in Only Fools and Horses. Previously he played Diesel in all three series of Preston Front he also star in the 2003 Christmas special of My Family.He is currently starring in Casualty as receptionist Noel Garcia.
Olivér Pittner.  Olivér Pittner (1911–1971) was a Hungarian painter.
Alessandro Sani.  Alessandro Sani (1856-1927) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects.He was born and resident in Florence. Among his works: La tentazione completed in 1879; Una lezione di mandolino; Scacco matto; Il piatto favorito; Una partita a scacchi; Soldati e Ostessa; Un cercatore mal capitato; Le promesse; La visita alla balia; Il saggio del vino; his paintings faithfully reproduce interior scenes.
J. T. Meirelles.  João Theodoro Meirelles (October 10 1940 – June 3 2008) better known as J. T. Meirelles is a Brazilian saxophonist and flautist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and died at 67 years old in that same city. Meirelles is considered one of the creators of the samba-jazz rhythm along with Manfredo Fest.
Renaud Garcia-Fons.  Renaud Garcia-Fons (born December 24 1962) is a French upright-bass player and composer notable for his customised 5-stringed bass.
Ralph Schuckett.  Ralph Schuckett (born March 2 1948 Los Angeles California) is an American keyboardist songwriter record producer and TV/film composer.
Beate S. Lech.  Beate Slettevoll Lech (born 10 April 1974 in Volda Møre og Romsdal Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz singer composer and lyricist in modern jazz and related music raised in Øvre Årdal Sogn og Fjordane.
Andy Moor (musician).  Andy Moor (born 16 January 1980) is a trance and progressive Producer DJ. He has used multiple aliases in the past (Dub Disorder Dwight van Man Sworn) and has been part of Indigo Leama & Moor Lewis & Moor Tilt Whiteroom and Zoo DJ's. Moor was nominated for a Grammy Award in December 2007 for his remix of Canadian artist Delerium with Angelicus featuring vocals from Isabel Bayrakdarian.
Chloé (singer).  Chloé Ditlefsen known as Chloé (born February 7 1995) is a Belgian pop singer. She has a Danish father and a Flemish mother and lives in Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium). Ditlefsen participated in the Junior Eurosong 2008 for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the entry Un nouveau rêve in both French and Dutch lyrics. She didn't win but got to announce the Belgian votes in the Junior Eurovision final in Cyprus. She has also participated in the Ketnetpop talentshow.
Zendee Rose Tenerefe.  Zendee Rose Tenerefe (Zendee Rose Japitana Tenerefe born on June 21 1991) is a Filipina singer who rose to prominence after a video of her singing a karaoke version of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You was put on YouTube. Known on YouTube as the 'random girl of SM Megamall' she gained a following and went on to sign with the record label Warner Music Philippines. Prior to her discovery she had already participated in numerous singing competitions in the Philippines.
Alan Jay Lerner.  Alan Jay Lerner (August 31 1918 – June 14 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe and later Burton Lane he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards among other honors.
Moinuddin Khan (sarangi player).  Moinuddin Khan is a veteran Indian classical instrumentalist and vocalist who plays sarangi. Based in Jaipur he belongs to the Jaipur gharana of Hindustani classical music.In 2014 Government of India conferred upon him its fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri.
Warren Storm.  Warren Storm (born February 18 1937 in Abbeville Louisiana) is a drummer and vocalist known as a pioneer of the musical genre swamp pop a combination of rhythm and blues country and western and Cajun music and black Creole music.
Said Sheikh Samatar.  Said Sheikh Samatar (Somali: Saciid Sheekh Samatar Arabic: سعيد الشيخ سمتر‎) is a prominent Somali scholar and writer.
Victoria Carling.  Victoria Carling is an English radio television film and theatre actress.She has an MA in English from Cambridge and graduated from Bristol Old Vic in 1987 winning the Carleton Hobbs award (with Stephen Tompkinson) in the same year.After many roles for BBC radio including a 1991 dramatisation of The Railway Children she played Harriet Humphrey in the BBC sitcom Bonjour la Classe in 1993.Subsequent television roles have included Drop the Dead Donkey East Enders Coronation Street Holby City Silent Witness the ITV drama Homefront and BBC1's Doctors.She appeared in the 2000 TV mini-seies Anna Karenina and the 2001 film of Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven.Her first theatre appearance was in the 1988 premiere of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays directed by the playwright Alan Ayckbourn.In 1991 she appeared with Dawn French in Ben Elton's Silly Cow at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. 
Ruben DJ.  Rubén Urrutia (born February 3 1967) better known as Ruben DJ is a Puerto Rican former rap star who became famous in the late 1980s with the hit song La Escuela.
Gene Gerrard.  Gene Gerrard (31 August 1892 – 1 June 1971) was an English film and stage actor. He starred in light musical comedies but returned to his stage career by the 1930s.He was born Eugene O'Sullivan and began as a cutter in his father's tailoring business in High Holborn in Central London. He became an assistant to Mozart and made his stage debut at the revue at the Alhambra London in 1910 and his screen debut in 1912 for the Hepworth Company. He served in WWI.
Chōgorō Kaionji.  Chōgorō Kaionji (海音寺 潮五郎 Kaionji Chōgorō) was the pen-name of Tōsaku Suetomi (末富 東作 Suetomi Tōsaku) a Japanese author. Noted for his historical novels he was active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Michael Cobley.  Michael Cobley born on 10 October 1959 is a science fiction and fantasy author born in Leicester England but living since the age of seven in Glasgow Scotland.
Phalanx (art group).  Phalanx was an association of artists formed in Munich in 1901 who were opposed to old fashioned and conservative viewpoints in art. Founding members were Wassily Kandinsky Rolf Niczky Waldemar Hecker and Wilhelm Hüsgen. Kandinsky was elected president of the association and also became the director of the Phalanx School of Painting.
Allison Brennan.  Allison Brennan (born 1969) ) is an American best-selling writer of romantic thriller novels. Her first book was published in 2005.
Rita Mae Brown.  Rita Mae Brown (born November 28 1944) is an American writer and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Published in 1973 it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.
Punt and Dennis.  Punt and Dennis are a comedy double act consisting of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The duo first met at the Footlights while studying at Cambridge University in the early 1980s. Initially they started off as an amateur double act performing at various venues in London on the weekends due to Dennis' weekday job commitments and have since branched out into acting and screen writing.
Robert Fulghum.  Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4 1937) is an American author
Jeff Jacoby (sound artist).  Jeff Jacoby is an American sound and radio artist. His programs and artworks have been heard on NPR PBS Pacifica Radio and other venues nationwide. He is an Associate Professor in the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University.
Gary Chester.  Gary Chester (October 27 1924 – August 17 1987) (born Cesario Gurciullo in Siracusa Italy) was one of the 20th century's busiest studio drummers. Gary is counted as one of the greats when it comes to studio session musicians. His work appears on thousands of tracks including hundreds of hit records from the '50s '60s and '70s. He logged over 15000 studio sessions over three decades.
Jennifer Grotz.  Jennifer Grotz (born 1971) is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and at the University of Rochester where she is Associate Professor. She is also a Contributing Editor for Born Magazine and the Assistant Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.Grotz grew up in small Texas towns but has lived in France and Poland all of which inform her poems.
Jean-Adrien Mercier.  Jean-Adrien Mercier (1899–1995) was a French illustrator.
Diane Noomin.  Diane Noomin (born 1947 in Brooklyn New York) is an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement best known for her character Didi Glitz. She is the editor of the anthology series Twisted Sisters and one of the original contributors to Wimmen's Comix. She has also done theatrical work creating a stage adaptation of Didi Glitz. She is married to cartoonist Bill Griffith.Noomin attended Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute. She won an Inkpot Award in 1992.
Megan Isaacson.  Megan Isaacson is an Gospel Music Association award winning Christian and Gospel singer who was born in Austin Texas.
Eric Christmas.  Eric Cuthbert Christmas (19 March 1916 – 22 July 2000) was a British stage and screen actor with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit. He was well known for his role as Mr. Carter the principal of Angel Beach High School in the 1982 hit comedy Porky's the 1983 sequel Porky's II: The Next Day and the 1985 sequel Porky's Revenge!. He was also well known for his sporadic role as Reverend Diddymoe in the NBC sitcom Amen.
Glen Gray.  Glen Gray (June 7 1906 – August 23 1963) was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.
Floyd Gahman.  Floyd Gahman was a noted American landscape and building artist who specialized in oil paintings of the New England and mid-Atlantic area. He was born in 1894 in Elida Ohio and died in 1979 in New York City New York. He was named as a National Academician in 1969 and listed in Who's Who in America. He has one oil on canvas painting (Cold Spring Road 1932)in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Susanne Abbuehl.  Susanne Abbuehl (born July 30 1970 in Bern canton of Berne Switzerland) is a Swiss jazz singer who performs in various jazz mediums like Progressive jazz avant-garde jazz Continental jazz and post bop. As a child she got lessons in harpsichord playing baroque music. At the age of 17 she went to Los Angeles where she went to a High School attending music lessons on a daily basis.
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.  Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V. M. Bhatt (born July 12 1950) is Grammy-winning Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan Veena (slide guitar).
Gary D..  Gerald Malke (Born 1964) is a German trance/hardstyle producer and DJ who is best known for his work under Gary D. and his trance compilation D.Trance. The name Gary D. grew for a synonym for hard and pumping trance and techno. From 1996 to present Gary D. has released five artist albums.
Bartosz Źrebiec.  Bartosz Źrebiec (born 7 January 1978 in Poland in Wrocław) also known as Barth La Picard is a Polish guitarist and vocalist who is the frontman for the heavy metal band Grimlord.
Ralph Block.  Ralph J. Block (June 21 1889 Cherokee – January 2 1974 Wheaton) was an American film producer in the 1920s and became a full-time screenwriter in 1930. He is most famous however for being President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1934 to 1935. He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1940 for his dedicated work for the Motion Picture Relief Fund.
Johann Heinrich Schönfeld.  Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (March 23 1609 in Biberach an der Riß – 1684 in Augsburg) was a Baroque painter of Germany.
DJ Concept.  DJ Concept is DJ & producer from Long Island New York. He is the co-founder of The Bash Brothers DJ Crew along with DJ Mickey Knox.
Remy Ma.  Reminisce Smith (born May 30 1980) better known by her stage name Remy Ma formerly Rémy Martin is a Grammy-nominated American rapper and former member of Big Pun's rap crew Terror Squad. Ma was featured on the group's hit song Lean Back from their second album True Story and M.O.P.'s Ante Up (Remix). Her debut solo album There's Something about Remy: Based on a True Story was released on February 7 2006.
Andrew Crayford.  Andrew Crayford is a British singer-songwriter leader of rock band The Kosmos.
Tama Starr.  Tama Starr is an American businesswoman and author.She is the president of Artkraft Strauss located in Manhattan. Throughout the twentieth century the company was the preeminent designer and creator of Times Square's signs and displays and was also responsible for the annual midnight ball-lowering that signaled the arrival of the new year. Starr is also known as a satirist and social commentator.
Stevie Holland.  Stevie Holland is an American jazz singer cabaret performer and actress and lyricist.Born in Westchester County New York she moved to New York City to study drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.Holland has toured nationally in the United States and performed in concert at Iridium Jazz Club Jazz at Lincoln Center The Town Hall Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
Randy Gregg (musician).  Randy Gregg (born Nov. 8 1969 in Rockaway Beach in Queens New York City) is an American hard rock musician. Currently he is the bass guitar player for Almost Queen. Gregg has additionally performed and recorded with notable acts that include Thin Lizzy The Lauren Harris Band Angel Dee Snider's SMFs and Garlic.Randy Gregg began his musical oeuvre along with Joey Anderson when they formed the band Garlic in 1995.
Dann Glenn.  Dann Glenn (born May 30 1950) is an American jazz fusion electric guitar player and composer who has published and recorded a catalog of six symphonies and released numerous jazz and avant garde albums over the years.Originally a bassist after an injury to his left hand Glenn switched his primary instrument to that of electric guitar around 2003-04. Also a pianist Glenn has been a multi-instrumentalist on his jazz fusion and modern orchestral recordings.
Eric Sykes.  Eric Sykes CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio television and film writer actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period including Tony Hancock Spike Milligan Tommy Cooper Peter Sellers John Antrobus and Johnny Speight.
Sunil Kashyap.  Sunil Kashyap is an Indian film music composer singermusician in Telugu Cinema. Kashyap has been contributing his talent towards Telugu film music since 2008 and has been providing the audience with wonderful songs mostly melodious to Telugu audience.Sunil has sung the famous Azeemo Shan Shehenshah of A. R. Rahman's Jodha Akbar in Telugu and Tamil.
John Thomas (screenwriter).  John C. Thomas is an American screenwriter based in California. With his brother Jim Thomas he wrote and/or was substantially involved with the screenplays of numerous films - including Predator (1987) The Rescue (1988) Predator 2 (1990) Executive Decision (1996) Wild Wild West (1999) Mission to Mars (2000) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001) - and the short-lived TV series Hard Time on Planet Earth.
Lawrence A. Cunningham.  For the college athletic administrator see Bubba Cunningham.Lawrence A. Cunningham (born July 10 1962) is an American scholar an author of corporate governance and investing books and the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University.
Harl Vincent.  Harl Vincent (October 19 1893 – May 5 1968) was the publication name of Harold Vincent Schoepflin an American mechanical engineer and science fiction author. He was published regularly in science fiction pulp magazines.
Lawrence H. Levy.  Lawrence H. Levy is an American writer and producer on Savannah Fantasy Island Family Ties Trapper John M.D. Saved by the Bell Who's the Boss? 7th Heaven Roseanne Seinfeld.
Himiona Tupakihi Kamira.  Himiona Tupakihi Kamira (1880–28 August 1953) was a New Zealand historian and genealogist. Of Māori descent he identified with the Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa iwi. He was born in Reena Northland New Zealand on 1880.
Benedicto Cabrera.  Benedicto Reyes Cabrera (born August 27 1942)[citation needed] better known as BenCab is a Filipino painter and was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006. He has been noted as arguably the best-selling painter of his generation of Filipino artists.
Flux Pavilion.  Joshua Kierkegaard G. Steele known by his stage name Flux Pavilion is an English dubstep producer and DJ who has been performing since 2008.
Ray Weston.  Ray Weston is a Scottish drummer most noted for his work with Wishbone Ash.
Dave Atchison.  Dave Atchison (born 1979) is an American drummer/ musician based in Portland Oregon. Atchison a Nashville Tennessee native is a founding member of the hardcore punk band From Ashes Rise a band in which he played from 1997-2005 and again from 2009 to the present. During the hiatus of From Ashes Rise from 2005 to 2009 he played drums in Smoke or Fire recording and touring with the band until his departure in 2009. Atchison currently resides in Portland Oregon.
Dean Tidey.  Dean Tidey is a musician mainly known for his work with British rock band Feeder as their live guitarist. Dean was asked to join Feeder for Yesterday Went Too Soon album tour in 1999 and has played ever since only missing their late 2000 and 2001 shows. Dean has been a member of two other bands alongside his work with Feeder indie rock outfits Sandstone Veterans and Velvet Jones.
Tennessee Ernie Ford.  Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13 1919 – October 17 1991) known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western pop and gospel musical genres. Today he is best remembered for his hit recordings of The Shotgun Boogie and Sixteen Tons.
Muhsinah.  Muhsinah /mʊˈsiːnʊ/ is a Grammy nominated singer and producer from Washington DC.She cites Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Quincy Jones Nirvana and Chopin as among her influences.
Daisy Newman.  Daisy Newman (1904 - 1994) was born in Britain to American parents. She wrote novels and non-fiction about Quakers (the Society of Friends) in America. Ms. Newman was educated at Radcliffe College Barnard College and Oxford University. She married George Selleck late in life. Both were elders at Friends Meeting in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Allister Brimble.  Allister Mark Brimble (born 1970 in Westminster London) is a British video game music composer. Brimble began composing music and sound effects for the video game industry in the mid-1980s. He also produced various audio tracks as Brimble's Beats that were distributed on cover disks of magazines including CU Amiga and Amiga Format.Brimble works as a freelance musician and sound designer for the games and console industry alongside colleague Anthony Putson at Orchestral Media Developments.
Don Bendell.  Don Bendell (born January 8 1947 in Akron Ohio) is an American author rancher tracker and a former Green Beret. He has published 26 books and assisted in exposing former Atlantic City Mayor Bob Levy's claims of serving as a Green Beret as false.Bendell has had his worked published in several newspapers and magazines such as The American Spectator.
Emanuel Vidović.  Emanuel Božidar Vidović (1870–1953) was a painter and graphic artist from Split Croatia.Emanuel Vidović was instrumental in bringing the modern art ideas to Split. From 1900 he was an active member of the Literary-Art Club and in 1907 together with Ivan Meštrović he founded the Medulić Society.
Jenna Bans.  Jenna Bans is an American Writers Guild of America Award nominated screenwriter.Originally hired as a staff writer for Jerry Bruckheimer's cancelled action series Fearless Bans became a part of the crew of Desperate Housewives in 2004. In 2006 she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for the screenplay to the Desperate Housewives episode Next and in 2007 she received another nomination for the episode It Takes Two. Bans co-wrote both episodes together with Kevin Murphy.
Phil Jimenez.  Phil Jimenez (born July 12 1970 in Los Angeles California) is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003 as one of the five pencilers of the 2005-2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis and his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles.
William Brighty Rands.  William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823 Chelsea Middlesex — 23 April 1882 East Dulwich London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of Victorian era.
De Lysle Ferree Cass.  De Lysle Ferrée Cass (1887–1973) was a writer of fantasy short stories. He had at least five stories published pre-World War I in magazines from the Munsey pulp stable.
Tom Lyle.  Thomas Tom Lyle (born November 2 1953) is a comic book artist and penciller.
Stuart Wilde.  Stuart Wilde (24 September 1946 – 1 May 2013) was a British writer. Best known for his works on New Age self-empowerment and spirituality he was also a lecturer teacher humorist essayist scriptwriter lyricist and music producer. He was the author of twenty books including the popular series The Taos Quintet: Miracles The Force Affirmations The Quickening and The Trick to Money is Having Some.
Dušan Vasiljev.  Dušan Vasiljev (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Васиљев; 1900–1924) was a Serbian poet novelist and playwright. He was one of the most significant Serbian expressionists.
Little Tony (singer).  Little Tony (born Antonio Ciacci; 7 February 1941 – 27 May 2013) was an Italian-born Sammarinese pop singer and actor who achieved success in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the lead singer of Little Tony & His Brothers before returning to Italy where he continued a successful career as a singer and film actor.
Connie Lapallo.  Connie Lapallo is a historical fiction novelist from Mechanicsville Virginia whose debut novel Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky did surprisingly well considering it was self-published by Llumina Press. With the help of her family she successfully continues to market her own work doing book signings and speaking engangements to bring in extra cash while she works on the sequel to her novel which she plans to call When The Moon Has No More Silver.
Mai Haruna.  Mai Haruna (春菜まい Haruna Mai) is a popular and prolific Japanese model and AV idol. She debuted in 2002 and performed in a variety of Japanese adult video genres until her retirement in 2005.
Joža Horvat.  Joža Horvat (10 March 1915 – 26 October 2012) was a Croatian writer. He was the author of many novels short stories dramas screenplays essays and radio dramas translated into at least nine languages including Russian Chinese and Esperanto.
Murray Attaway.  Murray Attaway was the lead singer and guitarist for the Marietta Georgia jangle pop band Guadalcanal Diary. After the band's breakup Attaway recorded one solo album titled In Thrall which was released in 1993. Attaway also had the track Allegory featured on DGC Rarities Vol. 1.
Daniel Suarez.  Daniel Suarez (born December 21 1964) is an American information technology consultant turned author. He initially published under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus (his name spelled backwards).His career as an author began with a pair of techno-thriller novels. The first one Daemon originally was self-published under his own company Verdugo Press in late 2006. It was later picked up by the major publishing house Dutton and re-released on January 8 2009.
Axelle Red.  Axelle Red (born Fabienne Demal on 15 February 1968) is a Belgian singer-songwriter.
Melissa Monet.  Melissa Monet (born July 16 1964) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and film director.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet.  Jean-Yves Thibaudet (born 7 September 1961) is a world-renowned French pianist.
Rin Takanashi.  Rin Takanashi (高梨 臨 Takanashi Rin born December 17 1988) is a Japanese actress.
Ragnar Frislid.  Ragnar Frislid (29 June 1926 – 14 June 2009) was a Norwegian writer photographer and environmentalist.He was born in Oslo. He was a journalist in Dagbladet from 1950 to 1959. From 1965 to 1986 he edited Norsk Natur the magazine released by Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature. He also edited the magazines Jakt-Fiske-Friluftsliv and Fjell og Vidde as well as the yearbook of the Norwegian Trekking Association. He wrote about 30 books and translated other books.
Nathaniel Milljour.  Nathaniel Milljour is a self-taught Canadian artist painter and sculptor from Calgary Alberta Canada.Milljour's Artwork ranges far and wide in subject matter from traditional architecture to figures of incredible emotion depth and color as well as more recently digitally created vector imagery.Often working under his company name Studio Noire his artwork has been featured on promotional materials and album artwork for musicians both Canadian and abroad.
Frances Fyfield.  Frances Fyfield (born 18 November 1948) is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty a lawyer and crime-writer.Born and brought up in Derbyshire Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduating she took a course in criminal law. She worked initially for the Metropolitan Police and later the Crown Prosecution Service.
Jesse Valenzuela.  Jesse Valenzuela (born May 22 1962) was the original vocalist of the alternative rock band Gin Blossoms when it was formed in 1987. In 1988 he switched roles with the band's new guitarist Robin Wilson. He continued to be a member until the band's breakup in 1997 and reunited with the rest of the group in 2002.
Bryce Dessner.  Bryce Dessner (born April 23 1976) is a Brooklyn based composer guitarist and curator primarily known as a member of the Grammy Award-nominated band The National. In addition to his work with The National Dessner has made a name for himself as an acclaimed composer working with some of the world’s most creative and respected musicians. Dessner is also the founder of the MusicNOW Festival a founding member of the improvisatory instrumental group Clogs and co-founder of Brassland Records.
Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann.  Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (c. 1855 – 30 March 1946) was a Canadian composer of operettas conductor and educator and violinist best known for his operetta Leo the Royal Cadet.He was born in Mengeringhausen (now part of Bad Arolsen) Waldeck Germany and at an early age emigrated with his parents to Kingston Ontario. He began his musical studies in Canada. In 1882 with his siblings he formed the Telgmann Concert Party a touring ensemble.
Roddy Hart.  Roddy Hart is a Scottish singer–songwriter from Glasgow. He has released three solo records - Bookmarks Sign Language and Road of Bones - and one EP The Dylan EP (with Irish artist Gemma Hayes). Hart now releases albums with his band The Lonesome Fire the first of which was Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire produced by Coldplay and Morrissey producer Danton Supple. Released in late 2013 the album was nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award in April 2014.
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer.  Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (12 January 1636 – 20 February 1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in flower pieces. He was attached to the Gobelins tapestry workshops and the Beauvais tapestry workshops too where he produced cartoons of fruit and flowers for the tapestry-weavers and at Beauvais was one of three painters who collaborated to produce cartoons for the suite The Emperor of China.
Qiu Xiaolong.  Qiu Xiaolong (Chinese: 裘小龙 /ˈtʃuː ˌʃaʊˈlɒŋ/; born Shanghai China 1953) is an English-language poet literary translator crime novelist critic and academic currently living in St. Louis Missouri with his wife Wang Lijun and daughter Julia Qiu. He originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S.
Nick Reynolds.  Nicholas Wells Nick Reynolds (July 27 1933 – October 1 2008) was an American folk musician and recording artist. Reynolds was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio whose largely folk-based material captured international attention during the late fifties and early sixties.
Will J. Quinlan.  Will J. Quinlan (William James Quinlan 3rd 1877–1963) artist was born in Brooklyn on June 27 1877. He lost his hearing as a child. He had an early interest in art and attended the National Academy of Design Pratt Institute and Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He was an accomplished etcher primarily of architectural city scenes and also painted with oils.
Herbert Tarr.  Herbert Tarr (1929 – 18 November 1993) born Herbert Targovik was an American Reform rabbi who left his pulpit to become a novelist and humorist believing he could reach more people that way because religion is basically out of touch with people.
Leslie Esdaile Banks.  Leslie Esdaile Banks née Peterson (December 11 1959 – August 2 2011) was an American writer under the pennames of Leslie Esdaile Leslie E. Banks Leslie Banks Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks. She wrote in various genres including African-American literature romance women's fiction crime suspense dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction.She won several literary awards including the 2008 Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year.
Sarah Hoyt.  Sarah A. Hoyt is an award-winning fiction author who also writes under the names Sarah D'Almeida and Elise Hyatt.
Dick Diespecker.  Richard Alan Diespecker (March 1 1907 — February 11 1973) was a Canadian novelist and journalist.Born in Adstock England Diespecker was educated at the University of British Columbia. After a brief career in teaching in 1927 he became a journalist with The Vancouver Star. Diespecker later joined the staffs of The Vancouver News and The Victoria Colonist. He began broadcasting in Vancouver at CJOR which produced many of his radio plays.
Amy Pearson.  Amy Elizabeth Pearson (born 19 July 1985) is an English singer-songwriter. Her debut album Who I Am was released April 2008.
RBX.  Eric Dwayne Collins (born June 20 1968) better known by his stage name RBX (standing for Reality Born Unknown) is a rapper and R&B singer from Long Beach California. Contrary to popular belief Collins is not related to funk legend Bootsy Collins although the two are close friends.
Dorothy Johnston.  Dorothy Johnston (1948) is an Australian author of both crime and literary fiction. She has published novels short stories and essays.Born in Geelong Victoria Australia Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field. She lived in Canberra from 1979 to 2008 and currently lives in Ocean Grove Victoria (Australia). She is a former President of Canberra PEN and a founding member of the Seven Writers' Group.
Samuel Flynn Scott.  Samuel Flynn Scott (born 1978) is a New Zealand musician and composer and a founding member of The Phoenix Foundation.
Richie Ray.  Ricardo Richie Ray (born February 15 1945) is a virtuoso pianist singer music arranger composer and religious minister known for his success beginning in 1965 as part of the duo Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz. He is known as El Embajador del Piano (The Ambassador of the Piano).
John Michael Talbot.  John Michael Talbot (born May 8 1954) is an American Catholic singer-songwriter guitarist author television presenter and founder of a monastic community known as the Brothers and Sisters of Charity.
Exuma (musician).  Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey who recorded as Exuma (18 February 1942 – 25 January 1997) was a Bahamian musician known for his almost unclassifiable music: a strong mixture of carnival junkanoo calypso and ballad. In his early days in New York's Greenwich Village Tony McKay (his self-given name) performed in small clubs and bars.
Maury Muehleisen.  Maury Muehleisen (January 14 1949–September 20 1973) was an American-born musician songwriter and artist best known for his studio work live accompaniment and impact on the music of Jim Croce. He died in the same plane crash that killed Croce.
Pampady John Joseph.  Pampady John Joseph (Pampady 1887-Jul 1940) known as Pampady John or Pampady Joseph was a Dalit activist and the founder of the socio-religious movement Cheramar MahajanSabha.
Jeff Smith (cartoonist).  Jeff Smith (born February 27 1960) is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His most recent series RASL focused on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers hiding out on various parallel worlds. He is currently working on a webcomic series Tüki Save the Humans.
Wayne Horvitz.  Wayne Horvitz (born 1955) is an American composer keyboardist and record producer.
Trisno.  Trisno Ishak more popularly known as Trisno was born on July 18 1978 in Singapore. He is a musician and a teacher. In 2000 Trisno came to fame as the lead singer of Urban Xchange which later evolved to Parking Lot Pimp. Trisno has performed alongside Stacy Orrico Jamie Cullum Jay Sean Missy Higgins and Ben and Joey of The Click Five. He has also collaborated with Grammy Award winner John Lennon Grammy Award nominee Brian McKnight Mr.
Melanie Safka.  Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3 1947) is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as Melanie she is best known for her hits Brand New Key Ruby Tuesday What Have They Done To My Song Ma and her song about performing at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).
Dave Foster.  Dave Foster is an American musician who was the third drummer for the grunge rock band Nirvana. He was fired after playing only a couple of performances with the band mostly because of his inability to attend rehearsal sessions regularly. Foster lived hours away from Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic back in Aberdeen Washington which required the men to pick Foster up and bring him to the band's rehearsal space in Tacoma.
Andy Riley.  Andy Riley (born 27 April 1970) is a British author cartoonist comics scriptwriter and television screenwriter.Riley has written several best-selling cartoon books The Book of Bunny Suicides (2003) Return of the Bunny Suicides The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides Dawn of the Bunny Suicides Great Lies To Tell Small Kids (2005) Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids (2006) and Selfish Pigs which have produced calendar greetings card Bunnycides iPhone app and poster spin-offs.
Pietro Morgari.  Pietro Morgari (1852-1885) was an Italian painter.
Alex Gárgolas.  Alex Gárgolas is a reggaeton producer best known for the Gargolas series which has been five albums so far.
Shahu Modak.  Shahu Modak (1918–1993) was an Indian actor who acted in many Hindi as well as Marathi movies. Shahu Modak was mostly famous for the mythological characters that he played. He mostly played the roles of Lord Krishna and Sant Dyaneshwar.
Tinca Stegovec.  Tinca Stegovec (born April 8 1927) is Slovenian artist mostly printmaker and painter and associated with the group of artists internationally known as Ljubljana Graphic School.
Elma Lewis.  Elma Idna Lewis (September 15 1921 – January 1 2004) was the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (including a museum) and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She received the MacArther Fellows Grant in 1981. She was also given a Presidential Medal for the Arts by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. She is also an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Faye Reagan.  Faye Reagan formerly Faye Valentine (born September 19 1988) is an American pornographic actress.
Geoff Rickly.  Geoffrey William Rickly (born March 8 1979) is an American musician. He is best known for being the former lead singer and songwriter of Thursday an American rock band from New Brunswick New Jersey and is currently fronting United Nations. He released six studio albums with Thursday and has released one with United Nations with a second due 2014. Rickly grew up in Dumont New Jersey.
Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger.  Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger (Strasbourg September 8 1825 Strasbourg April 17 1903) was a French painter.
Peter Max.  Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein October 19 1937) is a German-born American illustrator and graphic artist known for the use of psychedelic shapes and color palettes as well as spectra in his work. At first works in this style appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms all across America. Max then became fascinated with new printing techniques that allowed for four-color reproduction on product merchandise.
Phil Napoleon.  Phil Napoleon (2 September 1901 – 1 October 1990) born Filippo Napoli was an early jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Boston Massachusetts.
Kevin McDaid.  Kevin McDaid (born in Nigeria on 7 March 1984) was brought up in Newcastle England. He was best known as a member of the British boy band V which he joined in 2003 along with four others. The band had three chart hits in 2004 before splitting up in February 2005 less than a year after their first single was released.McDaid is now a professional photographer.
Thanos Kalliris.  Athanasios 'Thanos' Kalliris (born 13 August 1962) is a Greek singer who was born in Athens. His father was a guitarist and composer Titos Kalliris (1934-2013). In the 1980s he was a part of the pop music band Bang alongside Vassilis Dertilis. In the 1990s he wrote and sung pop songs and ballads making a successful solo career for himself. He was also involved in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Seth Glier.  Seth Glier is an American singer-songwriter pianist and guitarist.USA Today has called Glier a singer with an exquisite tenor echoing Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel in the piano pop style....
Asrul Sani.  Asrul Sani (10 June 1927 – 11 January 2004) was an Indonesian writer poet and screenwriter.
Michael Lewis.  Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include Liar's Poker (1989) The New New Thing (2000) Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006) Panic (2008) Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (2009) The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010) and Boomerang (2011). He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009.
Jaymala Shiledar.  Jaymala Shiledar (Marathi: जयमाला शिलेदार) (21 August 1926 – 8 August 2013)was an Indian Hindustani classical singer and theatre actress. She had appeared in many sangeet nataks (musical play) where she played various roles. Along with singing for the roles she played she had also composed music for some. In the career span of over 50 years she has appeared in more than 4500 shows.
Bhikari Bal.  Bhikari Bal (May 25 1929 – November 2 2010) better known as Bhajan Samrat to the people of Odisha was an Indian singer best known for his performances in the Indian musical form the bhajans.
Jacques Toja.  Jacques Toja (1929–1996) was a French actor.
Jason Blaine.  Jason Blaine (born April 19 1980 in Pembroke Ontario) is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter from Pembroke Ontario. The winner of Project Discovery 2002 Blaine has charted four singles on the Canadian Hot 100.
Nivas.  Nivas (born Srinivasan Ragunathan) is an Indian playback singer in South Indian films.
Gayle Gibbons Madeira.  Gayle Gibbons Madeira is an American dancer choreographer singer and painter. She is a two-time USA Tango Champion and works in the style of realism painting.
Caleb Bacon.  Caleb Bacon (born December 22 1980 in Albany New York) is an American television writer and podcaster. He is currently writing on the TBS sitcom Sullivan and Son.
Minako Sango.  Minako Sango (さんご みなこ Sango Minako born 11 June 1971 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress.
Zbigniew Rybczyński.  Zbigniew Rybczyński (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf rɨpˈt͡ʂɨɲskʲi]; born January 27 1949) is a Polish filmmaker director cinematographer screenwriter creator of experimental animated films and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally. He has taught cinematography and digital cinematography and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing technology at Ultimatte Corporation.
Ted Nugent.  Theodore Anthony Ted Nugent (/tɛd ˈnuːdʒɨnt/; born December 13 1948) is an American rock musician from Detroit Michigan. Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes before embarking on a solo career.
Peter Doyle (singer).  Peter John Doyle (28 July 1949 – 13 October 2001) was an Australian pop singer who had success with a number of Top 40 hits in Australia in the 1960s then success internationally as a member of the New Seekers in the early 1970s before resuming a solo career in 1973.
Giovanni Girolamo Frezza.  For the Italian film actor of the 1980s see Giovanni Frezza.Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1659–1730) was an Italian engraver. He was born in Canemorto near Tivoli and died in Rome. He was instructed in engraving at Rome by Arnold van Westerhout.
The Sxplay.  Sayuri Sugawara (菅原 紗由理 Sugawara Sayuri born June 29 1990 in Yokote Akita) is a Japanese singer also known by the name The Sxplay. She debuted as a musician in 2009 and sung Kimi ga Iru Kara the theme song for the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XIII.
Yen Shui-long.  Yen Shui-long (顏水龍; June 5 1903 – September 24 1997) a Taiwanese painter and sculptor was born in Xiaying in Tainan County (now part of Tainan City). He began to study abroad in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (now Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) since 1922 and graduated in 1927.In 1929 Yen went to France to study arts. Between 1933 and 1944 he returned to Japan worked on advertising design and applied arts.
Mini (singer).  mini born March 12 1985 is a Japanese model and electro-pop singer who debuted in 2010 on major label Avex. She is produced by Jin who also produces GReeeeN.
Charlie Souza.  Charlie Souza is a bass player vocalist musician writer and producer. He is best known for playing bass in Mudcrutch.
Jesús Elías.  Oscar Jesús Elías Lucero (born in Oruro in 1977) is a Bolivian cellist classical guitarist composer and conductor . He is the director of the Oruro Symphony Orchestra (2006–2008). His musical style is a combination of classical music and traditional Bolivian folk music.
Dini Petty.  Dini Petty (born January 15 1945 in Kingston upon Thames Greater London England) is a Canadian television and radio host. At 22 wearing a trademark pink jumpsuit and working for Toronto radio station CKEY she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter. She clocked 5000 hours as pilot-in-command of a Hughes 300.Later at Citytv Toronto she worked as a writer reporter and co-anchor with Gord Martineau of evening newscast CityPulse at 6.
Calum MacDonald (musician).  Calum Macdonald (Scottish Gaelic: Calum MacDhomhnaill; born 12 November 1953 Lochmaddy North Uist) is the percussionist of the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig as well as their primary songwriter with his older brother Rory MacDonald. Rory tends to write the melody and Calum the lyrics.
Calvin Klein (fashion designer).  Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes watches and jewelry.
Bradford Morrow.  Bradford Morrow (born April 8 1951) is an American novelist editor essayist poet and children's book writer. Professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College he is the founding editor of Conjunctions literary magazine.
Young Jean Lee.  Young Jean Lee (born 1974) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director working in experimental theater. She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. Lee was called one of the best experimental playwrights in America by David Cote in Time Out New York.
Bruce Conner.  Bruce Conner (November 18 1933 – July 7 2008) was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage film drawing sculpture painting collage and photography among other disciplines.
Chris Clark (musician).  Chris Clark is an English electronic musician who performs under the mononym Clark. He is currently signed to Warp Records.
Yuko Takada Keller.  Yuko Takada Keller (高田ケラー有子 Yuko Takada Keller born May 1 1958) is an artist curator and essayist based in Helsinge Denmark since 1997. The first exhibition in Denmark was in 1996 container '96 in Copenhagen. After she moved to Denmark in 1997 she had lots of exhibitions in not only Denmark but also some other EU countries and Japan. Since 2002 she has been working as a curator as well and invited many Japanese artists to Denmark.
Claudio Maldonado (musician).  Claudio Maldonado (born in 1980 in Lanús Buenos Aires Province Argentina) is an Argentinean composer guitarist and arranger referent musician from the new generation of classical music contemporary composers from Patagonia .He is the author of Suite Patagonica AH! and Colección among others; the last one is based on Georg Miciú's paintings.
Peter Graf (painter).  Peter Graf (born 1937 in Crimmitschau) is a German painter. He won the Hans-Theo-Richter-Preis of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in 2001.
James Bonn.  James Bonn (aka James West Jim Fimiani Jim West) is an American pornographic actor who has appeared in about 90 films.
Donato Cabrera.  Donato Cabrera is an American conductor with an active international career. He is the Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony the Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Music Director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the New Hampshire Music Festival.
Julije Bajamonti.  Julije (Julio) Bajamonti (Italian: Giulio Bajamonti; 4 August 1744 - 12 November 1800) was a medical historian writer translator encyclopedist historian philosopher and musician from the city of Split in present-day Croatia.
N.O.R.E..  Victor Santiago Jr. (born September 6 1977) better known by his stage names Noreaga N.O.R.E. and P.A.P.I. is an American hip hop and reggaeton recording artist from Queens New York City. N.O.R.E. is perhaps best known for being one half of the East Coast hip hop duo Capone-N-Noreaga (C-N-N) alongside fellow Queens-based rapper Capone as well as his solo singles Superthug Banned from T.V. Nothin' Oye Mi Canto and Mas Maiz among several others. N.O.R.E.
Louis de Bernières.  Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year.
Jacques Marquet de Montbreton de Norvins.  Jacques Marquet de Montbreton baron de Norvins (Paris 18 June 1769 - Paris 30 July 1854) was a French politician and writer.
Jon Meacham.  Jon Ellis Meacham (/ˈmiːtʃəm/; born May 20 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek a contributing editor to Time Magazine editor-at-large of WNET and a commentator on politics history and religious faith in America. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his work American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.
Cathryn Harrison.  Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 25 May 1959) is an English actress.She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the granddaughter of actor Sir Rex Harrison. Her siblings Simon and Harriet Harrison are also in the acting profession. Cathryn Harrison has half-siblings from her father's second marriage Will and Chloe and an older half-sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing.
Giovanni Cianfanini.  Giovanni Cianfanini (1462-1542) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Florence. Little biographical information is known except that he was the son of Benedetto Cianfanini also a painter. Giovanni appears to have had a short apprenticeship with Sandro Botticelli then been associated with the studio of Lorenzo di Credi in Florence. He mainly painted history sacred subjects and portraits.
Sumru Ağıryürüyen.  Sumru Ağıryürüyen is a singer and mandolinist from Turkey. Her solo album Issız/Solitude was released under the label Kalan Music. She released two other albums (Ayde Mori and Balkan Journey) with the group Balkan Journey.
Gerry Embleton.  Gerry Embleton is an Anglo-Swiss artist born in London. He is the brother of Ron Embleton.
Gamini Haththotuwegama.  Gamini Kalyanadarsha Haththotuwegama (29 November 1939 – 30 October 2009) was a Sri Lankan playwright director actor critic and educator. He was widely known as the father of Sri Lanka's modern street theatre. He was among the most influential directors of post-independent Sri Lanka.
Linus of Hollywood.  Kevin Dotson (born March 4 1973) better known by his stage name Linus of Hollywood is an American rock and pop singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and record producer. The stage name comes from his early days in Los Angeles where he would frequently wear striped shirts similar to the Peanuts character Linus van Pelt. He is currently a member of Nerf Herder and comedy duo Jarinus.
Terence Tiller.  Terence Rogers Tiller (September 19 1916–December 24 1987) was an English poet and radio producer.
Jack Yellen.  Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń; July 6 1892 - April 17 1991) was an American lyricist and screenwriter.
Nathaniel S. Hardy Jr..  Nathaniel Sidney Hardy Jr. (born April 19 1964 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American musician composer and keyboardist.
John Farrell (poet).  John Patrick Farrell (22 May 1968 – 4 November 2010) was an American poet and composer.
Ray Chen.  Ray Chen (born 6 March 1989 in Taipei Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and now records on the Sony Masterworks label.
Little Bruce.  Little Bruce is an American rapper from Vallejo California best known for this 1994 debut album released on Sick Wid It now known as Heavy on the Grind Entertainment and Jive Records XXXtra Manish.
Joshua Middleton.  Joshua Middleton (sometimes credited as Josh Middleton) is an artist and designer working in the animation film comics and book industries. In 2004 he was nominated for an Eisner Award as Best Cover Artist for his work on Marvel's NYX X-Men Unlimited and New Mutants.
Ken Greengrass.  Ken Greengrass (June 22 1926 – April 10 2014) was an Emmy-winning American music and television producer perhaps best known as a manager of such musical performers as Eydie Gormé and Steve Lawrence Art Garfunkel and Florence Henderson.
Boris Kalin.  Boris Kalin (24 June 1905 – 22 May 1975) was a Slovene sculptor. He mainly created classically formed portraits public monuments and acts. Some of his sculptures are kept in the Brdo Castle as part of the representative collection of modern Slovene art.
Mbongeni Buthelezi.  Mbongeni Buthelezi born 1956 in Johannesburg in South Africa is an artist who became known for painting in plastic.
Mark Mothersbaugh.  Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (/ˈmʌðərzbɔː/; born May 18 1950) is an American musician composer singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series films and video games.
Gary Barnacle.  Gary Barnacle (born 1959 Dover England) is an English saxophonist/flautist brass instrument arranger composer and producer primarily noted for session work live work incl.
Steve March-Tormé.  Steve March-Tormé (born January 29 1953) is an American singer and songwriter who currently resides in Appleton Wisconsin. He is the son of the legendary Mel Tormé and former model Candy Toxton (Tockstein). The two later divorced and Toxton married actor/comedian Hal March who became Steve's stepfather.Apart from his father Steve's early musical influences include The Four Seasons Nat King Cole The Temptations Ricky Nelson and Gene Pitney.
Dean Marney (author).  Dean Marney (born 1952) is the author of several children's books along a common theme including:The Christmas Tree That Ate My MotherThe Computer That Ate My BrotherThe Easter Bunny That Ate My SisterThe Jack-O'-Lantern That Ate My BrotherThe Turkey That Ate My Father andThe Valentine That Ate My TeacherHe is also the writer of Pet-rified! How to Drive Your Family Crazy... On Halloween and How to Drive Your Family Crazy... On Valentine's Day.
Rafael Cepeda.  Rafael Cepeda Atiles a.k.a. The Patriarch of the Bomba and Plena (July 10 1910 – July 21 1996) was the patriarch of the Cepeda family known internationally as the exponents of Afro-Puerto Rican folk music.
Francissca Peter.  Luciana Francissca Peter (born September 6 1961) also affectionately known as Fran is a Malaysian singer-songwriter.She has had over twenty Number 1 hits in the Malaysian music charts and was awarded Best Female Vocalist for five consecutive years in the mid 80s. She has over 30 albums to her name.
Bernadette (singer).  Bernadette (born Bernadette Kraakman 1 March 1959 Volendam) is a Dutch singer best known for her participation in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest. Bernadette was not a well-known name when she took part with two songs in the 1983 Dutch Eurovision selection but she emerged the narrow victor (by just one point) with Sing Me a Song which despite the title was sung in Dutch.
Tim Winton.  Timothy John Tim Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.
Matt Aub.  Matt Aub is the guitarist/vocalist from the American speed-metal band TimeLord. TimeLord is signed to the highly prestigious Guitar Hero label Shrapnel Records. Matt Aub cites Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne) Michael Schenker Wolf Hoffmann (Accept) James Hetfield (Metallica) Andy LaRocque (King Diamond) Paul Gilbert (Racer X) and George Lynch (Lynch Mob Dokken) as influences.
Jay Mya.  Jonathan Yerrell (born 18 October 1985 in Rotherham South Yorkshire) better known as Jay Mya is a British musician DJ and rapper. His genre of music varies from R&B pop grime and hip hop. He was discovered by Max and Jess.Jay Mya charted at number 15 in the UK Indie Charts in August 2011 with his single Chasing Rainbows released through his own independent record label Drunken Boy Records.
Joe Inoue.  Joe Inoue (井上 ジョー Inoue Jō born August 30 1985) is a Japanese American rock musician signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Ki/oon Records label. He was born and grew up in Los Angeles California to two Japanese immigrants. It was not until middle school that he became interested in music and that eventually led him to start his musical career in 2007. Inoue performs every instrument on his recordings in addition to writing and composing the pieces on his own.
Guy Scholefield.  Guy Hardy Scholefield (17 June 1877 – 19 July 1963) was a New Zealand journalist historian archivist librarian and editor known primarily as the compiler of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. He was born in Dunedin Otago New Zealand on 17 June 1877 and died on 19 July 1963. He was the second chief parliamentary librarian and succeeded Charles Wilson.
Anthony Triano.  Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) was a painter sculptor illustrator and teacher. His works feature natural forms especially the human form and tend toward the abstract. He exhibited in 37 one-man shows and numerous group shows.
Jonathan Estabrooks.  Jonathan Estabrooks (born Ottawa Canada 1983) is a Canadian baritone and graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School. He is active in the Canadian and American Opera Concert and Musical Theatre worlds.Jonathan began his musical training as a member of the Opera Lyra Ottawa Boys Choir and Opera Lyra Chorus. He first sang with orchestra in 1994 as the Shepherd Boy in Tosca by Puccini.
Michael Sembello.  Michael Andrew Sembello (born April 17 1954) is an American musician and songwriter from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Lucky Oceans.  Lucky Oceans is a pedal steel guitarist and a former member of Country/Western Swing band Asleep at the Wheel. He is now a broadcaster in Perth Western Australia with the Australian Broadcasting CorporationHis presence on the local music scene stretches from his early music to being a member of local group the Zydecats.
Włodzimierz Korcz.  Włodzimierz Korcz (born November 13 1943 in Łódź) is a Polish composer pianist music producer and author of many popular songs. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Łódź and debuted in 1965. In 1968–1970 Korcz worked as music editor for Polskie Radio in Łódź. In 1974–1977 he was the music director at Teatr na Targówku in Warsaw.Korcz composes film and theatre music and performs at radio and TV concerts.
Yankel Talmud.  Yaakov Dov (Yankel) Talmud (18 December 1885 – October 1965) was a Hasidic composer of Jewish liturgical music and choirmaster in the main synagogue of the Gerrer Rebbes both in Ger Poland and in Jerusalem Israel. Known as the Beethoven of the Gerrer Rebbes he composed dozens of new melodies every year for the prayer services including marches waltzes and dance tunes. Though he had no musical training and could not even read music Talmud composed over 1500 melodies.
Coki Ramírez.  Patricia Silvana Ramírez Ter Hart (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkoki raˈmiɾes]; born in Córdoba (Argentina) on February 6 1980) best known as Coki Ramírez is a singer model and actress from Argentina.
Ernest Spybuck.  Ernest Spybuck (January 1883 – 1949) was a Native American artist. Born on a reservation in Indian Territory Spybuck was encouraged in his artistic endeavors by a meeting with a visiting anthropologist M.R. Harrington. His detailed depictions of ceremonies games and social gatherings were used to illustrate many anthropological publications. Spybuck has been received very positively by both Native American and artistic communities.
Rasmus Steinsvik.  Rasmus Steinsvik (1863 – 1913) was a Norwegian writer magazine editor and newspaper editor. He was born in Volda and was married to Marta Steinsvik. He edited the magazine Fedraheimen from 1889 to 1891 and started the newspaper Den 17de Mai in 1894 which he edited until his death. Among his literary works were Martyra from 1892the story I dulsmaal from 1896 and Holmgang from 1909.
Marit Larsen.  Marit Elisabeth Larsen (born 1 July 1983) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She began playing violins at age of 5 and played it until the age of 8. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. More recently she has pursued her own music career releasing her solo debut album Under the Surface in 2006. Her second album The Chase was released in Norway in October 2008.
Dave Sharp.  Dave Sharp (born 28 January 1959 Kersal Salford Lancashire) is an English guitarist who co-founded along with Mike Peters the Welsh punk/new wave band The Alarm.
Ling Shuhua.  Ling Shuhua (Chinese: 凌叔华; 1900–1990) also known as Su-hua Ling Chen after her marriage was a Chinese modernist writer and painter whose short stories became popular during the 1920s and 30s. Her work continues to be widely anthologized today.
Ben Vaughn.  Ben Vaughn is an American musician music producer and a longtime Rambler (automobile) enthusiast.Vaughn grew up in Collingswood New Jersey and his interest in music began at age 6 when his uncle gave him a Duane Eddy record. The Ben Vaughn Combo released two albums and toured the U.S. from 1983 to 1988. Vaughn then had a solo career 1988–1994 recording four albums and touring Europe and the United States.
Mimi Fariña.  Mimi Baez Fariña (born Margarita Mimi Baez April 30 1945 – July 18 2001) was a singer-songwriter and activist the youngest of three daughters to a Scottish mother and a Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.
Giacomo Finetti.  Giacomo Finetti (died 1630) was an Italian Anconitan priest and composer. He was Maestro di cappella in the gran Casa of Venice.
Manuel Felguérez.  Manuel Felguérez Barra (born December 12 1928) is a prominent abstract artist of Mexico part of the Generación de la Ruptura which broke with the muralist movement of Diego Rivera and others in the mid 20th century. Felguérez was born in Zacatecas in 1928 but political instability caused his family to lose their land there and move to Mexico City. In 1947 he had the chance to travel to Europe and impressed with the art there decided to dedicate himself to the vocation.
Cristina Rodríguez.  Cristina Rodríguez (Spain – January 1 1972) is a journalist and writer from Spain who writes in the French language. Historian specialist in Early Roman Empire biographer of Caligula and Nero she is best known for his historical novels and numerous articles on numismatic.She has also published hundreds of short stories and fanfics to Internet.
Fritz Melbye.  Fritz Melbye (24 August 1826 - 14 December 1869) was a Danish marine painter the brother of Anton Melbye and Vilhelm Melbye who were also marine painters. He traveled widely painting seascapes coastal and harbour scenes as well as some landscapes in Europe the Caribbean Venezuela North America and Asia.
Delia Falconer.  Delia Falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist. She is the author of a novel The Service of Clouds and a novella The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She has been described by Australian critic Peter Craven in Best Australian Stories 1999 as the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature of this country. Falconer lives in Sydney. She frequently publishes reviews in newspapers and journals.
Mary-Jess Leaverland.  Mary-Jess Leaverland (born 28 March 1990) is a British singer who won Min Xing Chang Fan Tian (or in English: I Want to Sing to the Stars) a provincial Chinese televised talent competition in December 2009.
Shealeigh.  Shealeigh Noelle Voitl (born March 29 1998) also known as Shealeigh is an American pop musician. Shealeigh is best known for winning the fourth season of Radio Disney's N.B.T. (Next Big Thing) competition.
William Donahey.  William Donahey (19 October 1883 – 2 February 1970) was a U.S. cartoonist and creator of The Teenie Weenies a comic strip about two-inch tall people living under a rose bush. The strip appeared in the Chicago Tribune for over 50 years. He drew The Teenie Weenies for a total of about 2100 strips.Donahey was a very shy child when growing up. He would dream up imaginary characters and The Teenie Weenies as a pastime.
Joanna Kanska.  Polish born Joanna Kanska (b. 1959) is an actress who has starred in films television programmes theatre and radio predominantly in her adopted homeland of England. She moved from Poland in 1981
Madchild.  Shane Bunting (born October 21 1975) better known by his stage name Madchild is a Canadian rapper. He is part of the Vancouver-based hip hop group Swollen Members. In 2009 he released a solo EP entitled The Madchild EP. in 2012 he released his first album titled Dope Sick and another in 2013 titled Lawn Mower Man. In 2001 he was named a member of the legendary 'Rock Steady Crew'.
Anthony Aston.  Anthony Aston (died 1731) was an English actor and dramatist.He began to be known on the London stage in the early years of the 18th century. He had tried the law and other professions which he finally abandoned for the theatre. He had some success as a dramatic author writing Love in a Hurry (performed in Dublin about 1709) and Pastora or the Coy Shepherdess an opera in 1712.
Ron Kavana.  Ron Kavana is an Irish singer songwriter guitarist and band leader. Born in the County Cork town of Fermoy he is the son of an Irish father and an American mother from Chicago with Cajun roots. Performing with a lengthy list of bands Kavana has performed with influential musicians from the worlds of Celtic music British soul blues rhythm & blues rock Irish folk and folk-rock and worldbeat music.
Chris Panaghi.  Chris “The Greek” Panaghi is a DJ producer and remixer based in Long Island New York. He performs in the electronic music genre with remixes spanning electronic dance trance and house music and has remixed for artists including: Michael Jackson Gloria Estefan Celine Dion Jessica Simpson Celia Cruz Jon Secada Marc Anthony Aqua and Yoko Ono.
Elijah Fenton.  Elijah Fenton (20 May 1683 – 16 July 1730) was an English poet biographer and translator.
Sheila Baxter.  Sheila Baxter (born 1933) is an anti-poverty activist who has written several books about poverty and mental illness in Canada.
Nicholas Schaffner.  Nicholas Schaffner (January 28 1953 – August 28 1991) was an American non-fiction author journalist and singer-songwriter. As an author his works include the biographies The Beatles Forever and A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey as well as the children's book The Boys from Liverpool: John Paul George Ringo. Schaffner also wrote articles for Rolling Stone Musician The Village Voice and Trouser Press.
Liza Fox.  Liza Fox is a Russian-born singer-songwriter best known for her U.S. Billboard and U.K. Music Week charting single Gimme All (Ring My Bell).
Ralph Beyer.  Ralph Alexander Beyer (6 April 1921 – 13 February 2008) was a German letter-cutter sculptor and teacher. He was most noted for his work on Basil Spence's new Coventry Cathedral where Beyer carved his masterpiece Tablets of the Words.
Jacques Saly.  Jacques François Joseph Saly also known as Jacques Saly (20 June 1717 – 4 May 1776) French-born sculptor who worked in France Denmark and Italy was born in Valenciennes to François Marie Saly and his wife Marie Michelle.
Nicole Stansbury.  Nicole Stansbury (born May 14 1963 in Whittier California) is an American novelist short story and essay writer. Her novel Places to Look for a Mother (2002) and her collection of short stories The Husband's Dilemma (2004) were published by Carroll & Graf and her shorter works have appeared in The Threpenny Review PRISM international and Yellow Silk.She earned a BA (1986) in English and an MFA (1991) in Creative Writing from the University of Utah.
Al Sarrantonio.  Al Sarrantonio (born May 25 1952) is an American horror and science fiction author who has published over the past 35 years more than 45 books and 80 short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies and has been called brilliant and a master anthologist by Booklist.
Chris Biscoe.  Chris Biscoe (born 5 February 1947 Pensford Somerset England) is an English jazz multi-instrumentalist a player of the alto soprano tenor and baritone saxophone the alto clarinet piccolo and flute. Biscoe is most notable for his work done with Mike Westbrook and the NYJO. From 1970 to 1973 Biscoe played with National Youth Jazz Orchestra in London doing gigs with various other London based bands of that period.
Jože Pahor.  Jože Pahor (20 February 1888 – 1 September 1964) was a Slovene writer playwright editor and journalist.In 1951 he won the Levstik Award for his travel journal around Yugoslavia entitled Hodil po zemlji sem naši (I Walked Our Land).
Tete Montoliu.  Tete Montoliu (28 March 1933 – 24 August 1997) was a jazz pianist from Catalonia Spain. His real name was Vicenç Montoliu i Massana.
Luigi Mercantini.  Luigi Mercantini was an Italian poet and writer who took part in the movements for the Italian unification in the late 19th century. He is better known for his poem La spigolatrice di Sapri depicting the ill-fated expedition led in 1857 by Carlo Pisacane against the Kingdom of Naples which was also translated into English by Henry W.
Raffi Besalyan.  Raffi Besalyan (Armenian: Րաֆֆի Բէսալյան)is an Armenian Concert Pianist and is associate professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. He was formerly a member of the faculty of Rowan University in New Jersey U.S.A.
Monique Proulx.  Monique Proulx (born January 17 1952 in Quebec City Quebec) is a Canadian novelist short story writer and screenwriter.
Kiriti Sengupta.  Kiriti Sengupta an Indian poet-translator promoted the rich heritage of Bengali poetry to the Western countries in his book The Reciting Pens. The author has significantly showcased the aura of Bengali literature to the English-speaking audience. The Reciting Pens has been widely reviewed and published by the Inner Child Press Limited (U.S.A.). Dr. Kiriti Sengupta is a professionally qualified Dental Surgeon from Calcutta a bilingual poet and translator both in Bengali and English.
Wade Frugé.  Wade Frugé (August 27 1916 Eunice Louisiana – June 23 1992) was a Cajun fiddle player in southwest Louisiana. He raised sheep and farmed. He learned to play from contemporaries of his time. His only album was recorded in 1988 with various tunes recorded in 1979 1983 and 1989 at the home of Marc Savoy. He married Evelyn Courville in 1942 and adopted a child. Gumbo Waltz Listen (MP3)↑ ↑
Nick Monu.  Nick Monu (born 25 March 1965) is a Nigerian dramatist actor and director.
Georgi Minchev (musician).  Georgi Minchev (Bulgarian: Георги Минчев also called Gosho Minchev or Zhoro Minchev) was a Bulgarian rock musician singer songwriter and TV presenter born in 1943 deceased in 2001.He is best known as one of the pioneers of the rock music genre in Bulgaria as well as one of the advocates of the restoration of the democracy in the country.
Frank Woodley.  Frank Woodley (born Frank Wood 29 February 1968) is an Australian comedian who is best known for his work alongside Colin Lane as part of the comedic duo Lano and Woodley. The two performed together for almost 20 years in live shows a television series and an album of comedic songs before deciding to pursue individual careers in 2006.
Phillip Nixon.  Phillip Nixon (also known as Philip Nixon or Phil Nixon) is a British composer and graphic designer for video games. His most notable role was as a member of Flair Software (otherwise known as MicroValue) during the 1990s as an artist musician and game designer. More recently he had been part of Rage Software plc until the company went bust in 2003. Nixon has also had other roles working with Millennium Interactive Hirographics and Horror Soft.
Hannah Gonzalez.  Hannah Gonzalez (born 21 November 1990 Cali Colombia) is a Colombian disc jockey of electronic music musical producer and model.
Tom Wilson (record producer).  Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr. (March 25 1931 – September 6 1978) was an American record producer best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan The Mothers of Invention Simon and Garfunkel The Velvet Underground Cecil Taylor Sun Ra Eddie Harris Nico The Blues Project and others.
Minami Ozaki.  Minami Ozaki (尾崎南 Ozaki Minami) is a Japanese manga artist cartoonist and illustrator of novels born on February 27 1968 in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan. She is famous for her best-selling manga series Zetsuai 1989 which is considered to have redefined the Shōnen-ai/Yaoi genres in the late 80s/early 90s. Her old penname is Ryo Minami (南亮 Minami Ryo) but in 1986 she changed her penname to Minami Ozaki.
María del Mar Fernández.  María del Mar Fernández (Cádiz 1 October 1978) is a Spanish flamenco singer best known for her rendering of the song Señorita from the 2011 hindi film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.
Kouhei Matsunaga.  Kouhei Matsunaga (aka NHKyx Koyxen NHK Koyxen) is an electronic musician and draughtsman born in 1978 in Osaka Japan currently residing in Osaka and Berlin Germany.
Lev Mei.  Lev Aleksandrovich Mei (Russian: Лев Алекса́ндрович Мей; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1822 – 28 May [O.S. 16 May] 1862) was a Russian dramatist and poet.
J. J. Paulsen.  John James J.J. Paulsen is an American sitcom writer and television producer. He has written for several television programs including Cosby In Living Color and Grace Under Fire.In the spring of 2007 Paulsen was arrested for the murder of his wife Leanne Serrano-Paulsen after police found her body in the attic of their Carmel Indiana home.
Stephen Mueller.  Stephen Mueller (born September 24 1947 in Norfolk Virginia - D. September 16 2011 in New York City New York) was an American painter whose color field and Lyrical Abstraction canvases took a turn towards pop. He earned his B.F.A. in painting from the University of Texas Austin in 1969 and his M.F.A.
Waddy Wachtel.  Robert Waddy Wachtel (born May 24 1947) is an American musician composer and record producer most notable for his guitar work.
Jamie Tinkler.  Jamie Tinkler is an English singer born in Linthorpe Middlesbrough England in 1981.
Arthur J. Stone.  Arthur J. Stone (1847–1938) a leading American silversmith was born trained and worked in Sheffield England and Edinburgh Scotland before travelling to the United States in 1884. He was one of the last silversmiths in America to train apprentices to carry out designs in hand-wrought silver. In 1901 Stone set up a workshop in Gardner Massachusetts which operated under his name until its sale in 1937 to Henry Heywood.
Jean Guichard.  Jean Guichard born in Paris on April 28 1952 is a French photographer known for his images of lighthouses. One series of seven pictures titled La Jument is world-famous; taken in 1989 it depicts the French lighthouse La Jument in a tempest. In the photograph a wave is about to engulf the lighthouse as its keeper Théodore Malgorne thinking Guichard's was the rescue helicopter looks out the open door.
Megalopsy.  Megalopsy is the project of Nicolas Di Bernardo and Matias Benamo born around 2002 in Buenos Aires Argentina. They met experimenting with nu metal and grunge playing in bands and they decided to explore the realm of electronic music after being exposed to psychedelic trance in underground parties around 2000.
Luis Franco (writer).  Luis (Leopoldo) Franco (November 15 1898 – June 1 1988) was an autodidact a self-made intellectual essayist and poet. He was the son of Luis Antonio and Balbina Acosta and lived most of his life in his native province far from the limelights of Buenos Aires and the academic world which he sincerely despised in favor of a bucolic and rural setting of his father's cattle farm in Belén. At age seventeen Franco was awarded a literary prize for his Oda primaveral.
Mike Mitchell (artist).  Mike Mitchell is an American artist known for his pop surrealism and for leading the online grassroots movement in supporting Conan O'Brien during the 2010 Tonight Show conflict. He designed the I'm with Coco poster which was based on a photo that went viral on the internet in January 2010.
Leonel Kaplan.  Leonel Kaplan (born 1973) is an Argentine trumpet player active in free improvisation.
Hans Sommer (composer).  Hans Sommer (20 July 1837 Brunswick – 26 April 1922 Brunswick) was a German composer and mathematician. He was most successful as a composer for the theatre.
Bernard Cronin.  Bernard Cronin (18 March 1884 – 9 June 1968) was an English author and journalist.Cronin was born in Ealing Middlesex England second son of Charles Frederick Cronin (1859–1887) an auctioneer and Laura née Marshall (1850–1934). His father was advised to go to Australia for the sake of his health. Charles and his wife set off in 1886 leaving Bernard and his brother in England in the care of their grandmother and aunts.
Yanwari Kazama.  Yanwari Kazama (風間やんわり Kazama Yanwari June 13 1977 – October 22 2013) was a Japanese manga artist.He started drawing the Taberemasen (not fit for consumption) yonkoma cartoon in 1995 in the Kodansha-published Young Magazine while still in high school and continued the series until 2013. Besides publishing in Young Magazine he also published social satire cartoons in the weekly magazine Friday.He died on October 22 2013 from liver failure.
Panas Myrny.  Panas Myrny (real name is Panas Yakovych Rudchenko 13 May 1849 - 28 January 1920) was a famous Ukrainian writer.
Lamya.  Lamya Al-Mugheiry (1973 - January 8 2009) better known as her mononym Lamya was a Kenyan-born British female R&B and dance music singer. She was born in Kenya and was of Omani descent and raised in Sheffield United Kingdom. A remix of her song Empires hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.Aged just 16 Lamya sang lead vocals on Ready 4 Love by DJ Vaughn Mason (under the guise 'Razette') an answer track to the single Break 4 Love by Raze previously a hit in 1988.
Susan Ann Sulley.  Susan Ann Sulley (born 22 March 1963) formerly known as Susanne Sulley and Susan Ann Gayle is a British singer and one of the two female vocalists of the synthpop group The Human League.Born and raised in Sheffield England as a schoolgirl in 1980 Sulley (aged 17) and her friend Joanne Catherall were discovered in the Crazy Daisy Nightclub in Sheffield by Philip Oakey the lead singer and a founding member of The Human League.
Mike Brant.  Mike Brant (born Moshé Michaël Brand Hebrew: משה ברנד‎) (February 1 1947 – April 25 1975) was an Israeli pop star who achieved fame after moving to France. His most successful hit was Laisse-moi t'aimer (Let me love you). Brant committed suicide at the height of his career by jumping from the window of a Paris apartment.
Paul Smith (Christian music performer).  Paul Charles Smith is a Contemporary Christian Music performer and songwriter. He is best remembered for his early years with influential gospel group The Imperials. Paul spent four years with that group recording four albums and one live video. Smith was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame as a member of The Imperials. He has recorded five solo albums and is an award-winning songwriter.
Jason Lytle.  Jason Lytle (born March 26 1969) is an American musician best known for his work in the indie rock group Grandaddy between 1992 and 2005. Since the group split he has continued to release music as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. Grandaddy reformed in 2012 for a series of live shows.
Frederick Ouseley.  Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley 2nd Baronet (12 August 1825 – 6 April 1889) was an English composer organist musicologist and priest.
Claudio Ambrosini.  Claudio Ambrosini (born 9 April 1948) is an Italian composer and conductor.
Steven Lewis Simpson.  Steven Lewis Simpson is an independent film and documentary maker from Aberdeen Scotland.
Raymond To.  This is a Chinese name; the family name is To.Raymond To Kwok-Wai(Chinese: 杜國威; born August 13 1946) is a Hong Kong contemporary dramatist screenwriter and film director with ancestry from Panyu Guangzhou China. Raymond's broadcast script was once broadcast in New York by Chung Wah Commercial Broadcast (CWCB).
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval.  Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (6 April 1767 in Rennes – 1 September 1842 in Paris) was a French dramatist sailor architect actor theatre manager. He was the eighth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1812.Duval was brother to the diplomat Amaury Duval (1760-1838).
James D. Macdonald.  James D. Macdonald (born 1954) is an American author and critic who lives in New Hampshire with his wife and frequent collaborator Dr. Debra Doyle. He works in several genres concentrating on fantasy but also writing science fiction and mystery and media tie-ins.
Stanley Spencer.  Sir Stanley Spencer KCB CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as a village in Heaven and in his biblical scenes fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts.
Thierry Amiel.  Thierry Amiel (born 18 October 1982) is a French singer and songwriter from Marseille France. He rose to fame after coming in second place to Jonatan Cerrada on the first edition of the French 'Pop Idol' À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star.
Alan Blakley.  Alan Blakley (1 April 1942 - 1 June 1996) was an English guitarist and record producer who was a member of the Tremeloes from its inception until January 1975 where he started writing for other bands. His credits include writing various hits for the Tremeloes and co-producing the UK No. 42 hit She's Gonna Win with Bilbo Baggins.
John M. Ford.  John Milo Mike Ford (April 10 1957 – September 25 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer game designer and poet.Ford was regarded (and obituaries tributes and memories describe him) as an extraordinarily intelligent erudite and witty man. He was a popular contributor to several online discussions.
Cristina García.  Cristina García (born July 4 1958) is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. After working for Time Magazine as a researcher reporter and Miami bureau chief she turned to writing fiction. Her first novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992) received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003) and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature.
Loredana Errore.  Loredana Errore (born October 27 1984) is a Romanian-born Italian singer-songwriter. After participating in various singing competitions she officially debuted in 2009 at the ninth edition of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi eventually reaching the finals and finishing in second place.She signed a contract with record label Sony Music Entertainment which allowed her to publish an EP called Ragazza Occhi Cielo in 2010.
Joel Snape.  Joel Snape (born 28 February 1979) is an English author. He is most famous for having written the Dylan Douglas series described by the Daily Telegraph as having the flavour of a junior Martin Amis. He is also GMA-nominated contributor to the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine and unofficial PlayStation magazine PSM3 has written for Venue and previously worked as The Boy Next Door an agony uncle for J-17.
Lynn Carey.  Lynn Carey (born October 29 1946) is an American singer songwriter model and actress best known as the lead vocalist in the band Mama Lion. She is also the daughter of actor Macdonald Carey.
Benn Jordan.  Benn Lee Jordan (born October 28 1978) is an American modern jazz and IDM musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb. Other popular names Benn has released as are Acidwolf Human Action Network and FlexE.
Christoph Krehl.  Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried Krehl (1825–1909) was a German Orientalist born at Meissen and educated at Leipzig Tübingen Paris and Saint Petersburg. He became secretary of the Royal Library in Dresden in 1852 and in 1861 went to Leipzig as librarian of the university and professor or Oriental languages.
Karen Sosnoski.  Karen Sosnoski (born November 30 1964) is an American author radio contributor and documentary filmmaker.
John Pearson (author).  John George Pearson (born 5 October 1930) is a novelist and an author of biographies notably of Ian Fleming the creator of James Bond and of the Kray twins.
Jared Warren.  Jared Warren is the bassist of both Big Business (alongside drummer Coady Willis and guitarist Scott Martin) and The Melvins.Both Warren and Willis joined The Melvins in January 2006 and appear on (A) Senile Animal as well as 2008's Nude With Boots and 2010's album The Bride Screamed Murder. He's tied with Kevin Rutmanis as longest serving bassist for the band. He was previously a member of bands Karp Tight Bros From Way Back When> and The Whip.
Gregory Pepper.  Gregory Pepper is an indie pop artist based in Guelph Ontario and signed to Fake Four Inc.
Joanna Domańska.  Joanna Domańska (born 20 September 1959) is a Polish classical pianist and music teacher from Gliwice.
Joseph Tushinsky.  Joseph Tushinsky (1910 in New York City – 1988 in Encino California) was an American electronics industry pioneer inventor and musician who co-founded Sony/Superscope Inc. in 1954. He is considered to be The Father of Stereo. In 1964 Superscope Inc. purchased the Marantz Co. the Audio Electronics mfg. founded by Saul Marantz.
José Miguel Class.  José Miguel Class (26 September 1938 in Manatí Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer who gained wide international fame during the 1960s and 1970s.Nicknamed El Gallito de Manati (Manati's Bantam) Class achieved fame in Puerto Rico during the '60s before moving to Mexico where he achieved wide success.
Angela Washko.  Angela Washko (born 1986) is a New York-based new media artist and facilitator who works to mobilize communities and creates new forums for discussions of feminism where they do not exist. Washko has been creating performances inside the online video game World of Warcraft since 2012 in which she initiates discussions about feminism within the gameplay.
Sarah Sze.  Sarah Sze (born 1969) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations. She is the United States Representative for the Venice Biennale the 55th International Art Exhibition in 2013.
Janet Paschal.  Janet Paschal (born October 18 1956) is an inspirational Christian and southern gospel vocalist. She is often associated with Bill Gaither's Homecoming events.
Michael Fredo.  Michael Fredo (born July 17 1978 in Elmira New York) is an American musician and the nephew of Tommy Hilfiger. He has collaborated with producers like Quincy Jones Rudy Perez David Foster Jay Levine and performed original material opening for Norah Jones David Lee Roth Julio Iglesias and Lenny Kravitz.
Calma Carmona.  Myraida Carmona (born August 27) better known by her stage name Calma Carmona is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. Her music has been denominated as Latin Soul and Calma has a display of influences ranging from Sade Adu Thelonious Monk and Santana even PJ Harvey La Lupe and Tina Turner. She sings in both Spanish and English with the same easiness. She is recognizable for her massive tangle of dreads perched on her head which project a unique and powerful look.
Antonella Colonna Vilasi.  Antonella Colonna Vilasi is the President of the Research Center on Intelligence in Rome -Italy- UNI.She was the first European author to have published a trilogy on intelligence issues. She collaborates with numerous scientific journals with articles on intelligence and security. She teaches in a number of intelligence Agencies and Universities. Her many books have mostly been published in Italian with some translations
Nicholas Vasallo.  Nicholas Vasallo (born October 28 1979) is an American experimental composer of Filipino and Taiwanese descent. In 1997 Vasallo graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville California where he began his musical career as an electric guitarist and vocalist in a hardcore band called Y.F.H. (which later became Antagony). He has been credited as being the father of a genre of extreme metal called deathcore.
Henrik Wergeland.  Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 – 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright polemicist historian and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the development of a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and of modern Norwegian culture.Though Wergeland only lived to be 37 his range of pursuits covered literature theology history contemporary politics social issues and science.
Pierre Doris.  Pierre Doris (1919–2009) was a French actor and humorist.
John L. Carey.  John L. Carey was a member of the General Assembly of Maryland in 1843 and a newspaper editor in Maryland in the years leading up to the American Civil War. He was much preoccupied with the vexed question of slavery about which he wrote a number of letters and books.
Dimitris Lipertis.  Dimitris Theophani Lipertis (Greek: Δημήτρης Λιπέρτης) (1866–1937) is a Cypriot born Greek poet and is considered as one of the most prominent poets of the island.
Celia Dale.  Celia Dale (1912 – 31 December 2011) was an English author and book reviewer. Her first novel The Least Of These was published in 1943 and she went on to write ten more. She has won several awards including the Crime Writers' Association Best Short Story of the Year award.She worked as a secretary to the author Rumer Godden. Dale died on 31 December 2011.
Lol Hammond.  Lol Hammond (born 1965 in London England) is a musician producer and DJ. Hammond's career in electronic music started in the sound system Spiral Tribe in 1991. Simultaneously he created the production/remix act Drum Club together with London DJ Charlie Hall. Drum Club toured with Orbital in 1993 and released the studio albums Everything is Now and Drums Are Dangerous. In 1995 Hammond and Nina Walsh formed the Brithop group Slab!.
Gerry Judah.  Gerry Judah (born 30 July 1951) is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre film television museums and public spaces. He has recently returned to his fine art roots with highly acclaimed contemporary paintings exploring the effects of war and environmental catastrophes on the urban landscape which have entered a number of international private and public collections.
Dan Zimmermann.  Daniel Hans Erwin Zimmermann (born October 30 1966 in Nürnberg Germany) is a power metal drummer. Dan is best known as being the drummer of German power metal bands Gamma Ray and Freedom Call from 1997 to 2012. He was a founding member of Freedom Call from which he departed in 2010. Two years later he also left Gamma Ray announcing a rest from the music business in 2012.
Sven Martin.  Sven Martin (born 26 November 1976 in Wulfrath Germany) is a German musician and music producer better known as musical director and keyboardist of Russian duo t.A.T.u.. Since 2009 he's been working for Lena Katina on the same position.
Rob Evan.  Rob Evan is a singer and actor best known as a lead performer in numerous Broadway musicals a performer in national and international tours of musical productions and a featured vocalist on several music albums.
Anusree Roy.  Anusree Roy (born 1982 in Kolkata India) is a playwright actor and librettist.Roy emigrated to Canada with her family at age 17 and studied theatre at York University and the University of Toronto. She premiered her first piece breathlessness in 2006. Her play Pyaasa debuted at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2007 and won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the independent theatre division in 2008 including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance (Female).
Frank Gagliardi.  Frank Gagliardi (November 16 1931 Denver CO – February 6 2011 Plano TX) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist big band composer arranger director and professor. He was the creator and director of the UNLV Jazz Ensemble from 1974 until 1996.
Bienvenido Santos.  Bienvenido N. Santos (1911–1996) was a Filipino-American fiction poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao Pampanga Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.
Margo Timmins.  Margo Timmins (born January 27 1961 in Montreal Quebec) is the lead vocalist of the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies. She is the sister of Michael Timmins the band's lead guitarist and Peter Timmins the band's drummer. Margo's ethereal vocals paired with the band's spare and quiet songs performed at a languid pace give the band its unique sound.
Tom Shear.  Tom Shear is an American musician and music producer and is the sole member of the electronic act Assemblage 23 & an official member of the electro-rock collective Polaroid Kiss.He was born on November 12 1971 in State College Pennsylvania where he lived until he was about age six. After that he lived in New Jersey for two years and then in New Hampshire for around twelve years. Shear currently resides in Seattle Washington with his wife Megan.
Masahiro Matsuoka.  Masahiro Matsuoka (松岡 昌宏 Matsuoka Masahiro born January 11 1977) is a Japanese drummer and actor. He is a member of Tokio a Johnny Entertainment musical group. His nicknames are Mabo and Maa-kun. He starred as Shinichi Ozaki in Godzilla: Final Wars. and comedy series Yasuko to Kenji.
Paul Whaley.  Paul Whaley is an American drummer best known as the drummer for rock band Blue Cheer. He grew up in the town of Davis California where he played drums with a local band called Oxford Circle. Whaley is credited on the Oxford Circle album Live at the Avalon 1966. When he left the Oxford Circle to join Blue Cheer in 1967 the former band dissolved.
Hartvig Lassen.  Hartvig Marcus Lassen (9 August 1824 – 9 August 1897) was a Norwegian editor and literary historian.
Salim Nourallah.  Salim Nourallah (born 1967) is a Texas-based singer songwriter and producer.
Gérard Séty.  Gérard Séty (1922–1998) was a French actor.
Joseph David Jones.  Joseph David Jones (1827 – 17 September 1870) was a Welsh composer and schoolmaster commonly known as J. D. Jones. He was the father of the politician and industrialist Sir Henry Haydn Jones and the renowned Congregationalist minister John Daniel Jones (1865-1942).Jones was head of Rhos Street School and later founded the Clwyd Bank Academy a private grammar school at Ruthin. His compositions included songs and hymn tunes the best-known of which is 'Capel y Ddôl'.
Will Reiser.  Will Reiser (born 1980) is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the 2011 film 50/50 which was based on his own experience with cancer.
Bridget Bate Tichenor.  Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate on November 22 1917 – died on October 20 1990) also known as Bridget Tichenor or B.B.T. was a Mexican surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor. Born in Paris and of British descent she later embraced Mexico as her home.
Warsan Shire.  Warsan Shire (Somali: Warsan Shireh Arabic: ورسان شاير‎) (born 1988) is a British-Somali poet.
Ranking Joe.  Ranking Joe aka Little Joe (born Joseph Jackson 1 July 1959 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae deejay who rose to prominence in the 1970s and had continuing success in the 1980s.
Jerry Vale.  Jerry Vale (born Gennaro Luigi Vitaliano; July 8 1932 The Bronx New York) is an American singer.
Rey Ruiz.  Rey Ruiz (Reinerio Ruiz born June 21 1966 in La Lisa Havana Cuba) is a salsa singer from Cuba. Ruiz reached international fame across Latin America Europe and among Hispanic music fans in the United States.
Markus Grosskopf.  Markus Großkopf (born 21 September 1965 in Hamburg Germany) is a German musician and songwriter best known as the bass guitarist backing vocalist and founding member of power metal band Helloween and one of two remaining original members the other one being Michael Weikath. Markus Grosskopf's family members currently live in South Africa Canada the US and Germany.
Klas Östergren.  Klas Östergren (born 20 February 1955) is a Swedish novelist screenwriter and translator. On 28 February 2014 the Swedish Academy announced that Östergren had been appointed a new member of the Academy succeeding Ulf Linde on seat 11. Östergren will be formally installed as a member on 20 December 2014.In 1999 he was nominated for his country's top film award the Guldbagge Award and in 2005 received the grand prize bestowed by the country's premier literary society Samfundet De Nio.
Bobby Pulido.  Roberto Pulido Jr. (born April 25 1971) better known as Bobby Pulido is a Mexican-American Tejano music performer who was born in Edinburg Texas.
Yu Junjian.  Yu Junjian(simplified Chinese: 郁钧剑; traditional Chinese: 鬱鈞劍; pinyin: Yù Jūnjiàn born April 16 1956) is a Chinese singer.
Melvin Taylor.  Melvin Taylor (born March 13 1959 Jackson Mississippi United States) is an American electric blues guitarist based in Chicago Illinois.
JD McPherson.  JD McPherson (Jonathan David McPherson born April 14 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Broken Arrow Oklahoma. He is known for a retro sound rooted in the rock and roll rhythm and blues and rockabilly music of the 1950s. Among more obvious influences like Little Richard and Fats Domino McPherson also draws inspiration from artists as diverse as the Wu-Tang Clan Pixies and Led Zeppelin.
Bruno Ceccobelli.  Bruno Ceccobelli (born September 2 1952 in Montecastello di Vibio Todi Italy) is an Italian painter and sculptor.
Sarah Corpstein.  Sarah Beth Corpstein (born September 28 1982) is a beauty queen from Anamosa Iowa who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. Corpstein won the Miss Iowa USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in Ottumwa Iowa in September 2005. It was her second attempt at the title as she placed 1st runner up to Joy Robinson in 2005. In April 2006 she represented Iowa in the Miss USA 2006 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore Maryland.
Lars Nilsson.  Lars Nilsson (born 1966 in Stockholm Sweden) is a fashion designer and fully integrated member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America who has worked with several major fashion houses including Christian Dior Bill Blass Nina Ricci and an own menswear line Mr. Nils.
Mark Pistel.  Mark Pistel is a producer engineer programmer remixer and songwriter who has been working in the genres of electronic music experimental music break beat hip-hop and dance since 1988.Pistel works out of a San Francisco recording studio called Room 5.Pistel was a founding member of the band Consolidated and has contributed to recordings as varied as artists such as Meat Beat Manifesto Tino Corp. Latin Soul Syndicate The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy MC 900 Foot Jesus Machines of Loving Grace ledenhed BlackMahal Hector Zazou and Grace Jones. 
Yoshino Takamori.  Yoshino Takamori (鷹森 淑乃 Takamori Yoshino born November 23 1963) is a prolific Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture. Takamori is a member of Arts Vision.
Tina Tyler.  Tina Tyler (born July 16 1965 on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada) is the stage name of a former Canadian pornographic actress and director.
Sivert Høyem.  Sivert Høyem (born 22 January 1976) is a Norwegian singer best known as the vocalist of the rock band Madrugada. After the band broke up following the death of Robert Burås in 2007 he has enjoyed success as a solo artist and is also a member of The Volunteers with whom he released the album Exiles in 2006.
Bob Bralove.  Bob Bralove is an auxiliary keyboard–synthesizer player who worked as a sound technician with Grateful Dead starting in 1986 through the 1990s. He was influential on their integration of MIDI technology first working with drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman keyboardist Brent Mydland and later guitarist Bob Weir and synthesizer/piano player Vince Welnick. He also co-wrote and contributed to such songs as Picasso Moon Way to Go Home Easy Answers.
Duke Garwood.  Duke Garwood (1969) is a London based English multi-instrumentalist.
Michael Smith (poet).  Michael Smith (born 1942) is an Irish poet author and translator.A member of Aosdána the Irish National Academy of Artists Michael Smith was the first Writer in-Residence to be appointed by University College Dublin and is an Honorary Fellow of UCD. He is a poet who has given a lifetime of service to the art of poetry both in English and Spanish. He has been described as a classical modernist a poet of modern life.
Joseph Bentwich.  Joseph Bentwich (Hebrew: 'יוסף בנטוויץ‎; born 3 February 1902 died 1982) was an Israeli educator.
Malcolm Margolin.  Malcolm Margolin is an author publisher and the founder and executive director of Heyday Books an independent nonprofit publisher and cultural institution in Berkeley California. In 1974 Margolin founded Heyday with the publication of his book The East Bay Out a guide to the East Bay Regional Parks.
Shinichi Mori.  Shinichi Mori (森 進一 Mori Shin'ichi born November 18 1947 in Kofu Yamanashi) is a Japanese male enka singer and composer who also sings folk and pop music. He has sold more than 90 million records making him one of the best selling Japanese musicians.Shinichi's real name is Kazuhiro Moriuchi (森内 一寛). He has been married and divorced twice first to Reiko Ohara and then to Masako Mori.
Pierre Cogen.  Pierre Cogen (born 2 October 1931) is a French organist composer and teacher.Cogen studied at the Schola Cantorum. His compositions are primarily for the organ and he has recorded music by Langlais Tournemire and others.
Christina Katrakis.  Christina Kushch-Katrakis (Ukrainian: Христина Анатоліївна Кущ-Катракіс December 16 1980) — is an American and European artist art historian modern art critic and curator.
Beata Kozidrak.  Beata Kozidrak (born 4 May 1960 in Lublin Poland) is a Polish singer and vocalist of the pop-rock band Bajm.Her career began in 1978 when she placed second at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole performing the song Piechotą do lata. Since the 1980s she has been a member of the group Bajm with whom she has recorded ten albums.
Cameron Davidson.  Cameron Davidson is an American photographer from Washington D.C. who have published his work in such magazines as Vanity Fair National Geographic Smithsonian and many other magazines.
Alberto Arvelo Torrealba.  Alberto Arvelo Torrealba (September 3 1905 - March 28 1971) was a Venezuelan lawyer educator and folklorical poet. Author of Florentino y El Diablo. A municipality in Barinas was named after him.
Wiliam Midleton.  Wiliam Midleton (c.1550 – c. 1596) was a Welsh language poet.He was born into a prosperous family that had been the patrons of poets. He learnt the craft of Welsh bardic poets and around 1594 he wrote Bardhoniaeth neu brydydhiaeth which he intended to act as an aid to others who wished to practise the craft.In 1595 Midleton composed a metrical Welsh translation of the Psalms entitled Rhann o psalmae Davyd a phropwyti eraill.
J. Stalin.  Jovan Smith (born 1987) better known by his stage name J. Stalin (also stylized as J Stalin or J-Stalin) is a rapper from the Cypress Village housing projects in West Oakland. In 2007 he signed to Zoo Entertainment Production Company run by artist Mekanix who described his style as a variant of Hyphy known as Go. He is also the Owner of Livewire Records President of Town Thizzness ENT which is a sub-division of the late Mac Dre's Thizz ENT.
Pierre Kartner.  Petrus Antonius Laurentius Pierre Kartner (born 11 April 1935) is a Dutch musician who sings under the alias Father Abraham and who has written around 1600 songs.
Mark Lockheart.  Mark Lockheart (born Lymington 1961) is a British jazz tenor saxophonist who came to prominence as a member of the Loose Tubes big band during the 1980s.Following the demise of Loose Tubes Mark went on to form the co-led eclectic jazz/folk quartet Perfect Houseplants with Huw Warren Dudley Phillips & Martin France. The band released five albums including two with the early music group The Orlando Consort.
Nicolaus Rohlfs.  Nicolaus Rohlfs was an 18th-century German mathematics teacher (arithmeticus) in Buxtehude and Hamburg who wrote astronomical calendars a book about gardening and other treatises that were continued by Matthias Rohlfs.
Patty Schemel.  Patricia Theresa Schemel (born April 24 1967) is an American drummer and musician who rose to prominence as the drummer of alternative rock band Hole from 1992 until 1998. In 1998 Schemel left Hole and in the early 2000s reunited with Hole frontwoman Courtney Love during her solo career and later drummed for Juliette and the Licks. As of 2010 Schemel continues to play music and gives drum lessons in addition to owning a dog daycare/boarding business.
Lynn Davis (singer).  Lynn Davis is an American singer/vocalist who has toured and/or recorded with many artists such as George Duke Marvin Gaye Emerson Lake & Palmer Toshinobu Kubota Tracie Spencer Mooney Suzuki Mariah Carey Marilyn Manson Whitney Houston Thomas Anders Meat Loaf and Yanni with whom she appears on the live concert album and video Yanni Live at the Acropolis as a vocalist for Aria. She also appears with Yanni on Yanni Live at Royal Albert Hall.
Luigi Rosa.  Luigi Rosa (Venice August 6 1850 - Rome 1919) )was an Italian painter mainly of vedute of his native lagoon.He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. In 1880 at Turin he exhibited Interior of the Church of the Frari in Venice in 1881 at Milan and Venice: Sul Livenza; Maremma; Un rio; Un campo a Venezia e Sul Gorgazzo. In 1883 exhibited at Rome and Milan: Araldi; In Laguna; In the Lagoon after the rain; A Chioggia; and In Marzo.
Andrew Belle.  Drew Fortson (born in August 26 1984) better known as Andrew Belle is an American singer-songwriter. Belle is originally from Wheaton Illinois. He moved to Nashville in 2009 and he currently also resides in Chicago. He married Jill Dart on June 9th 2012.
Hugo Fattoruso.  Hugo Fattoruso was born in Montevideo Uruguay in 1943. Fattoruso is a composer arranger multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.[1]As well as developing a career as a soloist he has participated and performed in many different genres: Trio Fattoruso (with his father and his brother Osvaldo) Hot Blowers Los Shakers Opa Eduardo Mateo etc.
Bill Strickland (writer).  Bill Strickland is a journalist book author and editor whose work focuses primarily on the sport of cycling and is based in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley a community noted for the cycling culture fostered by notable personalities such as Olympic gold medalist Marty Nothstein and Bicycling magazine publisher Robert Rodale (who also founded the Lehigh Valley Velodrome).
Martha Beck.  Martha Nibley Beck (born November 29 1962) is an American sociologist life coach best-selling author and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology both from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS (Mormon) scholar and apologist Hugh Nibley.
Remi Kanazi.  Remi Kanazi (born 1981) is a Palestinian-American performance poet and human rights activist based in New York City. He is the editor of the anthology of hip hop poetry and art Poets for Palestine (2008) and the author of the collection of poetry Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine (2011). He has toured hundreds of venues across the US Canada Europe and the Middle East.
Laura White.  Laura Jane Amanda White (born 31 August 1987) is an English singer/songwriter from Atherton in Bolton Greater Manchester. She is best known for finishing in eighth place on the fifth series of The X Factor in 2008. In early 2010 White was the special guest of the Peter Andre tour.White's debut single You Should Have Known was released and reached number two on the UK Indie Charts and reached number fourteen in the official iTunes chart.
Vilde Lockert.  Vilde Lockert (born April 28 1970) is a musician and currently vocalist and lyrics-writer for Magenta. She has done guest vocals for Apoptygma Berzerk Arcturus Fleurety as well as being vocalist in Vandalist Virgin and Femme Brutale.
Paolo Baronni.  Paolo Baronni was an Italian painter. His date of birth and death are not known.Not much is known about Baronni's life. He is known primarily through records of his works. The Basilica of St Denis contains a trompe-l'œil painting done by Baronni around 1709.
Mike Barson.  Michael Mike Monsieur Barso Barson (born 21 April 1958) is a British musician best known as a founding member and keyboardist of the second wave ska band Madness.
Jules Verne.  Jules Gabriel Verne (French: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.Born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes Verne was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage.
Cordelia Fine.  Cordelia Fine (born 1975) is a Canadian-born British academic psychologist and writer. She is the author of two books on neuroscience and psychology several book chapters and numerous academic publications. She wrote the introduction to The Britannica Guide to the Brain is active as a journalist and wrote the column Modern Mind for newspaper The Australian.Born in Toronto Fine spent her childhood in the United States and Edinburgh.
Wax (rapper).  Michael Jones (born August 20 1980) better known by his stage name Wax is an American musician rapper singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer. He became a YouTube star after uploading several videos of himself rapping and singing. He currently resides in Los Angeles California. Wax is widely known for his popular 2012 re-released single Rosana which has been viewed over 27 million times on YouTube.
Sir David Graaff 1st Baronet.  Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff 1st Baronet (30 March 1859 – 13 April 1931) was a South African cold storage magnate and politician. Graaff revolutionized the cold storage industry in Africa. He founded the Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company in 1899 and aggressively ran it until he left to serve in government. Graaff grew the company into one of the largest in Africa. Graaff's wealth soared at the turn of the century.
James Harcourt.  James Harcourt was a British character actor. He was born on 20 April 1873 in Headingley Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire.He started work as a cabinet maker and drifted into amateur dramatics. He appeared as a stage actor first in 1903 and worked with the Liverpool Repertory Company from 1919 to 1931.He died in London on 18 February 1951 aged 77.
Damian Lanigan.  Damian Lanigan is a British writer. He has written two novels - Stretch 29 and The Chancers. He is the writer and series creator of BBC Three sitcom Massive. He wrote the play Dissonance which debuted at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 2007 before being premiered in New York at the Bay Street Theater Sag Harbor in 2010.
Jovan Rajić.  Jovan Rajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Рајић; September 21 1726 – December 22 1801) was a Serbian and Bulgarian writer historian traveller and pedagogue considered one of the greatest Serbian academics of the 18th century.
Steven Townsend.  Steven Townsend is a self-taught artist who was born in Colne Lancashire in 1955. His work has been shown at the John Southern Gallery in Dobwalls. He counts as influences realist painters such as John Salt and painters of the Newlyn School such as Stanhope Forbes and Walter Langley. In 1999 he was voted Artist of the Year by the Fine Art Trade Guild.
Maurice O'Sullivan.  Maurice O'Sullivan (Irish: Muiris Ó Súilleabháin Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠɪɾʲɪʃ oː sˠuːlʲəˈvˠɑːnʲ]; 19 February 1904 – 25 June 1950) an Irish author famous for his memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle County Kerry off the western coast of Ireland.
Ken Hirai.  Ken Hirai (平井 堅 Hirai Ken born on January 17 1972) is a Japanese R&B and pop singer. Since his debut Hirai has worked as a model actor composer lyricist singer and spokesperson.During his career Hirai has released 32 singles and 11 albums up until October 2010. According to Oricon his single Hitomi Wo Tojite (Close Your Eyes) became the best-selling single of 2004 in Japan.
Simms Taback.  Simms Taback (February 13 1932 – December 25 2011) was an American writer graphic artist and illustrator of more than 35 books. He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.Taback graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and served in the United States Army. He was a designer for CBS Records and The New York Times.
Ryan Clark (musician).  Ryan Clark (born June 23 1979) is an American graphic designer and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Demon Hunter which he co-founded with his brother guitarist Don Clark.
Kaspar Fürstenau.  Kaspar Fürstenau (born 26 February 1772 in Münster – d. 11 May 1819 in Oldenburg) was a German flautist and composer. He wrote about sixty compositions for his instrument among rondos fantasias suites and concertos. Together with his son Anton Bernhard Fürstenau he traveled extensively around Europe always with acclaimed success.
Philip Selway.  Philip James Phil Selway (born 23 May 1967) is an English musician singer and songwriter best known as the drummer of English rock group Radiohead. In addition to drums he provides backing vocals along with occasional guitar and lead vocals for 7 Worlds Collide. Selway is well known for his precision and proficiency in various styles and unusual time signatures being named the 26th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008.
Helen Hyde.  Helen Hyde (April 6 1868 - May 13 1919) was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations.
Ra Heeduk.  Ra Heeduk is a Korean poet.
Narvel Felts.  Narvel Felts (born November 11 1938 in Keiser Arkansas) is an American country music singer. Known for his soaring tenor and high falsetto Felts enjoyed his greatest success during the 1970s most famously 1975's Reconsider Me.
Sasha Allen.  Sasha Sierra Allen (born June 4 1982) is an American singer and actress.
James W. Huston (author).  James Webb Huston (born October 26 1953) is an American author and lawyer best known for his popular military and legal thrillers. A graduate of TOPGUN he served as a Naval Flight Officer and worked in Naval Intelligence before going on to become a New York Times best-selling author.
Alan Dowty.  Alan Dowty is an American author and Professor of Political Science Emeritus University of Notre Dame.
Natalie Ascencios.  Natalie Ascencios is a painter sculptor and marionette maker.She received her BA and BFA at the New School for Social Research at Eugene Lang College and Parsons The New School for Design.Her work has appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times Review of Books Rolling Stone Time and many others.
Cian Ciaran.  Cian Ciaran (born 16 June 1976 Bangor Wales) is a Welsh musician best known as the keyboard player in the band Super Furry Animals.Ciaran plays keyboards guitar and drums and sings. He has been a member of techno collective Acid Casuals and is currently producing under the names Paps Kirkland and as himself. His single Martina Franca the first from his then-forthcoming debut solo album was released in June 2012.
Antoine Hervé.  Antoine Hervé (born 20 January 1959 in Paris) is a French composer and pianist.Hervé studied composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. Between 1987 and 1989 he was director of the French National Jazz Orchestra.
Lisa Miller (journalist).  Lisa Miller (born 1963) is an American writer and journalist. She is currently a contributing editor for New York. Formerly a senior editor of Newsweek and a religion columnist for the Washington Post Ms. Miller is a Wilbur Prize-winning author and a commentator on religion history and religious faith.She has written Newsweek cover stories on Barack Obama Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin as well as several New York cover stories on social trends.
Yuri Khukhrov.  Yuri Dmitrievich Khukhrov (Russian: Ю́рий Дми́триевич Хухро́в; May 14 1932 Leningrad USSR – November 22 2003 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter graphic artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) and regarded by art historian Sergei V.
Little Jimmy Dickens.  James Cecil Dickens (born December 19 1920) better known as Little Jimmy Dickens is an American country music singer famous for his humorous novelty songs his small size 4'11 (150 cm) and his rhinestone-studded outfits. He started as a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1948 and became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983.
Fanny Crosby.  Frances Jane van Alstyne née Crosby (March 24 1820 – February 12 1915) more commonly known as Fanny Crosby was an American mission worker poet lyricist and composer. A lifelong Methodist she was one of the most prolific hymnists in history writing over 8000 hymns and gospel songs with over 100 million copies printed. This is despite her being blind from shortly after birth. Crosby is also known for her preaching teaching and her rescue mission work.
Deividas Zygas.  Deividas Danielius Žygas (born 2 February 1995 Utena Lithuania). He is Lithuanian singer and songwriter. He has a lot of awards in Republicans and Internationals contests. In 2012 he participated in PILDYK talent stage with his own song Sugrius pasaulis be tavęs.
Sejfulla Malëshova.  Sejfulla Malëshova (born March 2 1900 in Këlcyrë; died June 9 1971 in Fier) was an Albanian politician and writer.
Félix Danjou.  Jean-Louis-Félix Danjou (1812-1866) was a French organist composer-arranger and organist who discovered the Montpellier Codex in 1847 and was founder of the Revue de la musique religieuse.Danjou was organist at Church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux 1831-34 Saint-Eustache from 1834–1844 at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1840 to 1847. He was also a partner with André-Marie Daublaine and fr:Louis Callinet of the fr:Callinet family in the fr:Daublaine-Callinet organ company.
Sally Carr.  Sally Carr (born 28 March 1945) is a Scottish singer best known as the lead singer of the 1970s pop group Middle of the Road.
Dahlia Sky.  Dahlia Sky (born August 10 1989) formerly known as Bailey Blue is an American pornographic actress.
Deni Bonet.  Deni Bonet is a US-born singer/songwriter electric violinist and multi-instrumentalist. She began her professional career in the house band of National Public Radio’s Mountain Stage radio show. She left to pursue a solo career and also became a prolific session musician.
Paul Edwin Zimmer.  Paul Edwin Zimmer (16 October 1943 – 18 October 1997) was an American poet and author. He was also an accomplished swordsman and founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. His sister Marion Zimmer Bradley was also a science fiction and fantasy author.He is best known for his Dark Border series - a set of 4 published books: The Lost Prince King Chondos' Ride A Gathering of Heroes Ingulf the Mad and one still awaiting publication The King who was of Old.
Sarah-Jane Gwillim.  Sarah-Jane Gwillim is a British television and stage actress who worked mainly from the mid-1960s until the 1980s. She now teaches as an Assistant Professor of Acting at the University of Michigan.
Joan Brady (American-British writer).  Joan Brady (b. 4 December 1939 in San Francisco California) is an American-British writer. She is the first woman and American to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her novel Theory of War.
Jeffrey Evans.  Jeffrey Evans is singer and songwriter best known for his Memphis TN based band '68 Comeback and The Gibsons Bros. South Filthy and his current solo career.Evans' musical style combines elements of rockabilly blues garage rock punk and rock'n'roll.
Shermon Tang.  Not to be confused with Sheren Tang.Shermon Tang Sheung Man (Chinese: 鄧上文) is a Hong Kong television actress. Shermon was awarded the Miss Photogenic award at the 2005 Miss Hong Kong pageant launching her career in showbiz. Shermon attended King George V School an International School before studying in Australia.Actually Shermon's childhood ambition was to become a lawyer or a nurse.
Lucinda Kennard.  Lucinda Kennard is an English actress who played Amy Kerrigan the team co-ordinator in Dream Team.Lucinda's hometown is in Worthing West Sussex in England.She attended - and still takes exams there - the N.A.T.D. dance school: Le Serve School of Ballet & Theatre Dance from a young age. The dance school has a 100% success rate on the students passing their dance exams. The school teaches Ballet Modern/Jazz & Tap Dance.
Fatimah Tuggar.  Fatimah Tuggar (born 1967) is a Nigerian visual artist and now based in the United States.
System D-128.  System D-128 (also known as Duey FM born Brian Torres Korlofsky) is a music video and film director editor video artist new media artist and producer.
Bunky Echo–Hawk.  Bunky Echo–Hawk (born 1975) is a Native American artist and poet who is known for his acrylic paintings about Native American topics and hip-hop culture.
Hippolyte Bayard.  Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839. He claimed to have invented photography earlier than Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre in France and William Henry Fox Talbot in England the men traditionally credited with its invention.
Vishwanathbuwa Jadhav.  Vishwanathbuwa Jadhav (1885−1964) also referred as Proudh Gandharva or with title Pandit was an Indian Hindustani classical khyal singer. He was a celebrated disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan the founder of Kirana gharana. He learned under Ustad from 1906 until Ustad's death in 1937 under the gharanedaar style of teaching with one student at a time.
Johannes van Haensbergen.  Johannes (Jan) van Haensbergen (1642–1705) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Estelle Yancey.  Estelle Mama Yancey (January 1 1896 – April 19 1986) was an American blues singer. She was nominated four times for the Blues Music Awards as Traditional Blues Female Artist.
Elsa Lunghini.  Elsa Lunghini stage name Elsa (born May 20 1973 in Paris) is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986 she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts with the single T'en va pas and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade. Elsa her album of 1988 had achieved double-platinum status by 1993.
Zíngaro.  Antonio Salazar Barrull (A Coruña 1949) known as Zíngaro is a Spanish singer and composer of Gypsy origin whose style corresponds to a merger between Flemish jazz and rock that began in the late 1970s. He is the brother of another artist: Luis Salazar Barrull best known as El Luis.
Nicolas Ghesquière.  Nicolas Ghesquière (French pronunciation: ​[nikola ɡɛs.kjɛːʁ]; born 9 May 1971) is a fashion designer and is currently creative director of the house of Louis Vuitton owned by LVMH).
Fat Tony (rapper).  Anthony Obi (born March 24 1988) is a Nigerian-American rapper from Houston Texas known as Fat Tony.Smart Ass Black Boy Fat Tony's second album was released June 11 2013 on Young One Records. The album is produced by Tom Cruz and was written in two days and recorded in four days in Los Angeles CA during April 2012. NPR premiered a full length stream of Smart Ass Black Boy on June 3 2013 and wrote positively of the album's material.
Steven Hassan.  Steven Alan Hassan (born 1954) is a licensed mental health counselor who has written extensively on the subject of cults. In 1978 Hassan was one of the first people to develop and perform exit counseling[citation needed] and is the author of three books on the subject of destructive cults and what he describes as their use of mind control thought reform and the psychology of influence in order to recruit and retain members.Hassan is a former member of the Unification Church.
Roy Nathanson.  Roy Nathanson has had a varied career as a saxophonist composer bandleader actor and teacher. He became the leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers a six piece group that he founded with Curtis Fowlkes in 1987. They have toured Europe many times and played at major festivals in Finland Germany Italy France and Switzerland as well as the J.V.C. Festival in New York the Du Maurier Festival in Canada and toured throughout the United States and Canada.
Jack Matthews (author).  Jack Matthews (22 July 1925 – 28 November 2013) was an American novelist short story writer essayist playwright and former professor. He published 7 novels 7 collections of short stories a novella and 8 volumes of essays. He was an avid book collector and many of his book finds served as a basis for his essays and the historical topics he explored in his fiction. His 1972 novel The Charisma Campaigns was nominated by Walker Percy for the National Book Award.
J. R. Richards.  John Robert J. R. Richards (born April 30 1967) is the former lead singer/songwriter for alternative rock band Dishwalla. J.R. is now working as a Music Producer - Singer - Songwriter and is the Co-Founder of Artist Production Company Reid Richards Productions. He has appeared in the films Almost Anything 2:13 and Morning (which he also scored) and he guest starred on Charmed as himself.
Charles Lecocq.  Alexandre Charles Lecocq (June 3 1832 – October 24 1918) was a French musical composer.Lecocq was born in Paris where he was admitted into the Conservatoire in 1849 being already an accomplished pianist. He studied under François Bazin François Benoist and Fromental Halévy winning the first prize for harmony in 1850 and the second prize for fugue in 1852.
Adam Hawkes.  Adam Hawkes was an English immigrant who was the original settler of what is now known as Saugus Massachusetts United States.
Michael Hennet Sotomayor.  Michael Mikel Hennet Sotomayor (born 20 January 1983) is a member of the boyband D'NASH. He is known simply as Mikel and is the romantic of the band as well as the child of the group. Mikel studied audio-visual communications in the United Kingdom. He has experience as a model and salsa dancer.
Leandro Moldes.  Leandro Moldes is a Swiss singer born May 26 1986 in Spain to Rita and Manuel. He has a sister Riwana.In 2000 Leandro released a CD titled Leandro and a 6-track maxi single titled Girl under the BMG Berlin label. He currently owns Moldes International Commodity Trading (Moldes ICT) located in Wabern bei Bern. He lives near Berne Switzerland.
Jon Larsen (Danish musician).  Jon Larsen is a Danish drummer. He is the drummer for the band Volbeat.
E. W. F. Tomlin.  Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin CBE (1913–1988) was a British essayist known mostly for many books and articles on philosophical topics.He knew both T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis and wrote on them.
Hiroko Emori.  Hiroko Emori (江森 浩子 Emori Hiroko born January 27 1961) is a Japanese voice actress whose works for Aoni Production.
John Fischer (painter).  John George Paul Fischer (1786–1875) was a painter.Fischer was born at Hanover on 16 September 1786. He was the youngest of three sons of a line-engraver who died very soon after the birth of the youngest child leaving his family in poverty. At the age of fourteen Fischer was placed as a pupil with Johann Heinrich Ramberg the fashionable court painter by whom he was employed in painting portraits theatrical scenery and generally assisting his master.
Michael Turco.  Michael Turco (born February 4) is an American magician best known[citation needed] for Coming Home Red Carpet Event (support troops). He received national exposure by appearing on the sixth season of America's Got Talent on NBC in the summer of 2011.
Masayoshi Soken.  Masayoshi Soken (祖堅正慶 Soken Masayoshi born January 10 1975) is a Japanese video game composer and sound editor who has worked for Square Enix since 2001. He is best known for scoring Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and Final Fantasy XIV. Throughout his musical career Soken has also gone under the names Masayoshi Kikuchi Sorbonne Soken and Luis Noma.
Wang Dulu.  Wang Baoxiang (Chinese: 王葆祥; 1909–1977) courtesy name Xiaoyu (Chinese: 霄羽) better known by his pen name Wang Dulu (simplified Chinese: 王度庐; traditional Chinese: 王度廬) was a Chinese writer of wuxia novels. Wang is best known for his work Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that was adapted into a successful feature film of the same title by film director Ang Lee in 2000.
Mark Shenton.  Mark Shenton (born 12 September 1962 in Johannesburg South Africa) is a London-based British arts journalist and theatre critic. Between April 2002 and December 2013 he was chief Theatre Critic for the Sunday Express. He also writes a daily blog for The Stage online as well as reviews and features for the weekly newspaper and contributes to newspapers and theatre magazines in the UK and around the world.
Billy Hector.  Billy Hector born 1956 is a blues guitarist and singer-songwriter from Orange New Jersey Hector who considers himself a workingman’s musician has been performing and producing albums for over 20 years. Hector’s guitar style is a combination of Jersey Shore blues and rock n roll. Hector received the Best Guitarist Award from music critic Bob Makin of The Aquarian Weekly's East Coast Rocker section twice. Hector is also the recipient of three Asbury Park Music Awards.
Adam Donovan.  Adam Donovan comes from Shepparton Victoria and is one of the original members in the Australian band Augie March. He attended St Brendans Primary school Shepparton and Notre Dame High school Shepparton.He attended a music course at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE along with fellow Augie March founding members Edmondo Ammendola and David Williams.
Natsumi Abe.  Natsumi Abe (安倍 なつみ Abe Natsumi born August 10 1981 in Muroran Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese singer and actress a former member of Morning Musume and currently a member of Dream Morning Musume.
Mary Benson.  Mary Benson (née Sidgwick; 1841 - 1918) was an English hostess of the Victorian era. She was the wife of Revd. Edward Benson who during their marriage became Archbishop of Canterbury i.e. chief bishop of the Church of England and of the world-wide Anglican communion. Their children included several prolific authors and contributors to cultural life. When she was widowed she became involved with Lucy Tait daughter of the previous Archbishop of Canterbury.
Alan Epstein.  Alan Epstein is an author who has written four books including the travel book As The Romans Do (ISBN 0-06-093395-X) which appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Jeremy Doner.  Jeremy Doner (born 1974 in Detroit Michigan) is an American screenwriter.
Trevor Dandy.  Trevor Dandy is a gospel and funk musician. The song Is There Any Love from his 1970s release Don't Cry Little Tree has recently been sampled by Kid Cudi and Monsters of Folk.
Mark Wynter.  Mark Wynter (born Terence Sidney Lewis 29 January 1943) is an English actor and former singer who had four Top 20 singles in the 1960s including Venus in Blue Jeans and Go Away Little Girl. He enjoyed a lengthy career from 1960 to 1968 as a pop singer and teen idol but developed later into an actor in film musicals and plays.
Frederick Arthur McKenzie.  Frederick Arthur McKenzie (1869–1931) was a correspondent active in the early 20th century who wrote several books on geopolitical developments in eastern Asia. He was born in Quebec and described himself as Scots-Canadian. He briefly contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette and then for several years he worked with the Daily Mail as traveling correspondent in the Far East.
Jiří Kabeš.  Jiří Kabeš alias Kába (* 26 March 1946 in Křemín Czechoslovakia) is a Czech rock singer violist violinist guitarist and songwriter. From 1970 he is member of The Plastic People of the Universe which he play on viola and violin occasionally sings and play on theremin. early seventies he played with rock'n'roll group The Old Teenagers. Since 1997 he is also member of The Velvet Underground Revival Band which plays the guitar.
Giuseppe Valentini.  Giuseppe Valentini (14 December 1681 – November 1753) nicknamed Straccioncino (Little Ragamuffin) was an Italian violinist painter poet and composer though he is known chiefly as a composer of inventive instrumental music. He studied under Giovanni Bononcini in Rome between 1692 and 1697. From 1710 to 1727 he served as ‘Suonator di Violino e Componitore di Musica’ to Prince Michelangelo Caetani.
Theo Harych.  Theo Harych (19 December 1903 – 22 February 1958) was a German writer.
Lucy Wainwright Roche.  Lucy Wainwright Roche (born December 16 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and the daughter of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche. Preceded by two EPs 8 Songs and 8 More Roche released her debut album Lucy in October 2010. She also stars as Jeri in the Stuff You Should Know television show.
George Frederick Abbott.  George Frederick Abbott (born 1874 died 13 March 1947 at Tunbridge Wells) was an English war correspondent and author. Abbott was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge taking the degree of B.A. in 1899. In 1900 he was sent by Cambridge University to Macedonia to make studies in the folk-lore of that region. He acted as special correspondent in southwestern Europe for several London newspapers until 1903.
Morteza Hannaneh.  Morteza Hannaneh (Persian: مرتضی حنانه) (March 1 1923 - October 17 1989) was a well-known Persian (Iranian) composer and horn player.
Acey Slade.  Acey Slade (born Emil John Schmidt IV on December 15 1974) is the lead singer and guitarist of the band Acey Slade & the Dark Party and current bassist in Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Previous to this he was the lead vocalist and guitarist in the punk rock band Trashlight Vision which broke up September 12 2007. Slade is perhaps best known as the former guitarist in the horror punk and glam metal act the Murderdolls. He resides in Brooklyn NY.
Antonio Isopi.  Antonio Isopi (5 February 1758 – 3 October 1833) was a Roman sculptor of Classicism mainly working at the court of the Dukes (later Kings) of Württemberg. Antonio Aloysius Petrus Isopi first lived and worked in his home city as a sculptor and soon specialized on restoring antique pieces of art. The iron cast Württemberg heraldic animals lion and hart – still to be seen in front of Stuttgart’s New Castle – are one of his major works.
Louis Emanuel.  Louis Emanuel (also Louis Alexander Emanuel or L. A. Emanuel) (1819–1889) was an English composer conductor and bandmaster born in Plymouth. He was music director at Vauxhall Gardens London from 1845. He was Jewish.Compositions include 'The Desert' 'What Does Little Birdie Say?' 'The Charm' 'My Switzer Love Is Brave' and 'The Syren and Friar.'
Nandan Mehta.  Nandan Mehta (1942 – March 26 2010) was an eminent Indian tabla player and revered teacher from Ahmedabad who belonged to the Benaras Gharana
Slawomir Grünberg.  Sławomir Grünberg (born April 6 1951) is a Polish-born naturalised American award-winning documentary producer director and cameraman.
Johannes Belsheim.  Johannes Engebretsen Belsheim (1829 – 1909) was a Norwegian teacher priest translator and biographer. He is known for his studies of biblical handwritings including the Codex Aureus Codex Gigas Codex Corbeiensis I Codex Palatinus Codex Veronensis and Codex Claromontanus V. He wrote a biography of Ivar Aasen.
Douglas Simmonds.  Douglas Simmonds (18 February 1958 – 15 March 2011) was a British child actor who played the part of Doughnut in the British television show Here Come the Double Deckers.Simmonds left acting to work in science and medicine training as a medical student before becoming a theoretical physicist and researcher.
Paul Archibald Brent.  Paul Archibald Brent (March 4 1907 Baltimore – March 11 1997 Baltimore) was an American musician the first African American to attend the prestigious Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore Maryland. He graduated in 1953.
Richard Bozulich.  Richard Bozulich (born 1936) is an American author and publisher of go books in English and a college math professor. He co-founded the Ishi Press. He has worked with several Japanese professional players.He has a regular go column in The Daily Yomiuri Japan's largest English-language newspaper. He lives in Chigasaki Japan.He is now a candidate for Comptroller of New York City for the War Veterans Party. His name will appear on the ballot in the election on November 5 2013.
James Barlow (author).  James Barlow was a British novelist born on December 1 1921 in Birmingham England. The author of thirteen novels and one work of non-fiction he was married with 4 children when he died suddenly at the age of 51 in Ireland on January 30 1973. He is buried near Cork.
Ned Washington.  Ned Washington (August 15 1901 – December 20 1976) was an American lyricist.
Maurice Milliere.  Maurice Milliere (1871–1946) was a French painter printmaker and illustrator born in Le Havre to upper working class parents; his father was a merchant's clerk.
Lin Gengxin.  Lin Gengxin (Chinese: 林更新) born 13 February 1988 Shenyang Liaoning province China is an actor. Lin is known for his role in Scarlet Heart.
Terence Siufay.  Terence Siufay (born 13 July 1976 in Macau) is a Chinese singer who has been with the group C-Plus for the past 10 years in Macau. In 2007 he joined Gold Typhoon in Hong Kong. He got the new male singer bronze award from JSG 07 and won the silver award for the song 逼得寵物太緊 with Kary Ng.
Kyoko Ariyoshi.  Kyōko Ariyoshi (有吉 京子 Ariyoshi Kyōko born September 14 1950) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She was born in Kumamoto City Kumamoto Prefecture. She debuted by publishing her work Kitty and a Girl (Koneko to Shōjo) in Shukan Margaret in 1971.Ariyoshi is well known for her works of the ballet stories. Swan (Part 1 1977 – 1980 and Part 2 1980 – 1981) Swan -The Prayer of Swan- (1982–1983) and Applause are the representative works. These are all stories of ballet and ballerinas.
Michael Prescott.  Michael Prescott is a contemporary American New York Times bestselling crime writer.
DJ M.E.G..  Eduard Magaev (born 20 December 1982) better known by his stage name DJ M.E.G. is a Russian DJ and record producer. Like Swanky Tunes and Hard Rock Sofa DJ M.E.G. is one of the most demanded DJ's on Russian House scene. His DJ performance set is mixture of commercial Electro House and Trap music.
Motokichi Takahashi.  Motokichi Takahashi (高橋 元吉 Takahashi Motokichi 6 March 1893 - 28 January 1965) was a poet in Taishō and Showa period Japan. He was born in Maebashi city Gunma Prefecture.
Biyouna.  Baya Bouzar (باية بوزار) known by the stagename Biyouna (Arabic: بيونة) is an Algerian singer dancer actress born on September 13 1952 in Belcourt Algiers Algeria.
Harald Julius von Bosse.  Harald Julius von Bosse (1812–1894; Гаральд Юлиус Боссе) was a 19th-century architect and painter. He was descended from a Germano-Baltic noble family and was a subject of the Russian Empire.
Richard Darbyshire.  Richard Darbyshire (born 8 March 1960) is an English singer a songwriter a producer and a songwriting coach. Darbyshire is best known as the frontman for the 1980s Sheffield band Living in a Box.
Chris Higgins (musician).  Christopher Higgins best known by his stage name Chris X-13 Higgins (born September 23 1972) is an American musician former backup guitar/vocal/keyboard/percussion player in the punk rock band The Offspring from 1994 to 2005. He provided backing vocals for Offspring's studio albums between Americana and Rise and Fall Rage and Grace. During his 11 years with the band he performed live with the Offspring on tour and made an appearance in the music video for Why Don't You Get a Job?.
Simaro Lutumba.  Simaro Massiya Lutumba Ndomanueno (born 14 March 1939) popularly known as Simaro is a soukous rhythm guitarist songwriter and bandleader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was a member of the seminal soukous band TPOK Jazz which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Ilia Beshkov.  Ilia Beshkov Dunov (Bulgarian: Илия Бешков Дунов; 24 July 1901–23 January 1958) was a Bulgarian artist (painter graphic artist cartoonist and illustrator) writer and pedagogue.Beshkov was born in Dolni Dabnik nowadays a small town near Pleven in Pleven Province central northern Bulgaria. In 1918–1920 he studied at the Faculty of Law of Sofia University and briefly returned to his native Dolni Dabnik as a teacher.
Obed Nicholls.  Obed Nicholls (1885–1962) was a Cornish artist in copper repousse in the art nouveau style of Newlyn in Cornwall.He was born without the use of his legs and used a wheelchair in his parents' house. J. D. Mackenzie founder of the Newlyn Industrial Class arranged for him to attend evening classes until he became sufficiently skilled to work at home on his own production. He is now regarded as one of the finest of the Newlyn workers.
David Ippolito.  David Ippolito is an American singer/songwriter/playwright who lives in New York City. He has self-released eight albums and is best known for his weekly summer performances in Central Park which are attended by thousands of people. He styles himself as That Guitar Man from Central Park.
Charles J. Ross.  Charles Joseph Charlie Kelly (February 18 1859 – June 15 1918) known professionally as Charles J. Ross was a Canadian-American entertainer composer and theatrical producer who performed in vaudeville burlesque and on the stage. Ross and his wife Mabel Fenton became popular for their parodies of classical plays.
Andrew Guenther.  Andrew Guenther (born 1976) is an American artist based in Brooklyn New York. Guenther received his BFA from Lawrence University in 1998 and his MFA from Rutgers University in 2000.
Jesse James Dupree.  Jesse James Dupree (born September 22 1962) is an American rock guitarist and lead singer in the band Jackyl. His most famous routine involves playing a chainsaw during the song The Lumberjack.He also started a solo project with guitarist John Hayes and bassist Roman Glick (formerly of Brother Cane). His 2000 solo release Foot Fetish issued on V2 Records featured the single Mainline which hit #34 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Oran Etkin.  Oran Etkin is an internationally acclaimed jazz/world artist and composer who is known for giving music classes for children in New York City. He recently released Wake Up Clarinet! his first release in the genre of family music.
Piotta (singer).  Piotta is a stage name of Tommaso Zanello (born 26 April 1974 in Rome Italy) an Italian rapper. Piotta which in Roman slang means 100 liras became famous with his song Supercafone which describes the Coatto (suburban unpolite politically incorrect peasant).Piotta's single La Mossa del giaguaro hit #15 on the Italian charts in 2000.Now considered a veteran of Italian hip hop Piotta set up a record label La grande onda with a focus on emerging Italian musicians.
Lorenzo Fratellini.  Lorenzo Fratellini (1690s-1729) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Also known as Lorenzo Maria Fratellini. Born in Florence his mother Giovanna Fratellini was renowned for painting miniature portraits. Like his mother he trained under Antonio Domenico Gabbiani. He specialized as a still life and vedute painter.
Akemi Matsunae.  Akemi Matsunae (松苗あけみ Matsunae Akemi born 18 November 1956 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She made her debut in 1977 with Yakusoku (Promise) in Lyrica. In 1988 she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Junjō Crazy Fruits.
Wawa (Malagasy musician).  Wawa is a performer and composer of salegy a genre of music from the norther coastal region of Madagascar. He is among the most popular contemporary salegy artists and has recorded songs in collaboration with numerous other Malagasy artists. In 2011 he released an album of traditional salegy featuring kabosy marovany and traditional percussion accompaniment.
Kevin Kallaugher.  Kevin Kallaugher (born March 23 1955 Norwalk Connecticut) is a political cartoonist for The Economist and the former cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun. He is well known as KAL. On February 12 2012 the Baltimore Sun announced that KAL is returning to the Sun.
Dee Murray.  Dee Murray (3 April 1946 - 15 January 1992) was an English bassist best known as a member of Elton John's band.
Aleijadinho.  Aleijadinho (b. Antônio Francisco Lisboa; 1730 or 1738 – November 18 1814) was a Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil.Born in Vila Rica (Rich Town) whose name was later changed to Ouro Preto (Black Gold) Minas Gerais Brazil in 1738 (sometimes said to be in 1730) he was the son of Manuel Francisco da Costa Lisboa a Portuguese man and his African slave Isabel.
Jimmy McCracklin.  Jimmy McCracklin (August 13 1921 – December 20 2012) was an American pianist vocalist and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues Jump blues and R&B. Over a career that spanned seven decades he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin recorded over 30 albums and earned four gold records.
Dancenoise.  Dancenoise is an American performance art duo created by Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton. Dancenoise entered the New York and Washington D.C. art and club scene in 1983 performing at venues such as WOW Café the Pyramid 8BC Performance Space 122 Franklin Furnace The Kitchen La Mama and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. Their work has also been presented around Europe as well as at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Attilio Parelli.  Attilio Enrico Paparella known professionally as Attilio Parelli (31 May 1874 - 26 December 1944) was an Italian conductor and composer.His most important opera is I dispettosi amanti (The Mischievous Lover) which debuted in March 1912 at the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia.Parelli was born in Monteleone d'Orvieto in 1874. He studied from 1891 to 1899 with Cesare de Sanctis at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Bernadette Mayer.  Bernadette Mayer (born May 12 1945) is an American poet writer and visual artist associated with both the Language poets and the New York School. Mayer's record-keeping and use of stream-of-consciousness narrative are two trademarks of her writing though she is also known for her work with form and mythology.
Ximena Abarca.  Ximena Abarca (born September 24 1981 in Santiago Chile) is a Chilean pop singer and actress. She debuted in 2003 as a solo artist at the Chilean TV show Protagonistas de la Musica. She won the first place in the TV show.She released her first studio album in 2003 entitled Punto de Partida under the Warner label.
Kim Yeonji.  Kim Yeonji (Hangul: 김연지; born October 30 1986) is a Korean singer who came to prominence as the lead vocalist for the K-Pop vocal group SeeYa. Kim became a solo artist following SeeYa's disbandment in 2011. During her tenure with the group Kim was noted for her dynamic vocal style and wide vocal range.
Barbara Kingsolver.  Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8 1955) is an American novelist essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels.
Albert Féraud.  Albert Féraud (born 26 November 1921 in Paris - died 11 January 2008 in Bagneux) was a French sculptor author of sans titre exposed at the Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air in Paris and friend off French painter Annick Gendron.
Harry Ekman.  Harry Ekman (born in Chicago Il. in 1923) was a significant American graphic artist. His early influences were Gil Elvgren Haddon Sundblom Joyce Ballantyne. Ekman initially apprenticed with Sundblom who was a close family friend and by 1951 for Elvgren. He died in Medford New Jersey in 1999.
Rakaa.  Rakaa Taylor better known by his stage names Rakaa Rakaa Iriscience and Iriscience is a rapper from Los Angeles California. He is a member of Dilated Peoples alongside Evidence and DJ Babu.
Peter Bull.  Peter Cecil Bull DSC (21 March 1912 – 20 May 1984) was a British character actor.
Marianne Dissard.  Marianne Dissard (born May 20 1969 Tarbes France) is a singer lyricist and filmmaker who lived in Tucson Arizona United States from 1994 to 2013. A central figure in Tucson's desert music community with her unique hybrid of French Chanson and Americana she is noted as a charismatic performer.
Amzi Chapin.  Amzi Chapin (1768–19 February 1835) was an American cabinetmaker singing-school teacher shapenote and composer.
Frank Seamans.  Frank Seamans is the former tenor singer for the Southern Gospel Quartet Legacy Five. He originally sang with The Sound the group that brought Legacy Five lead singer Scott Fowler's attention to the Cathedrals Quartet.
Tam Lenfestey.  Tam Lenfestey (1818-1885) published poetry in Guernsey newspapers and in book form.
Betty Sabo.  Betty Sabo (Betty Jean Beals; née Angelos Sabo; Kansas City – 15 September 1928) is an American landscape painter and sculptor. She is best known for her realistic oils of New Mexico landscapes.
Karin Ireland.  Karin Ireland is an American author. Many of her books are self-help guides.
Giorgi Kartvelishvili.  Giorgi Kartvelishvili (Georgian: გიორგი ქართველიშვილი) (1827 – 1901) was a Georgian public figure philanthropist publisher and businessman. Kartvelishvili owned a fishing and timber manufacturing enterprises in Georgia's Shida Kartli province and ran a sizable trading business.
Terror Fabulous.  Cecil Campbell (born c.1974) better known as Terror Fabulous is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who had success in the 1990s.
Barış Manço.  Mehmet Barış Manço (attained fame as Barış Manço also spelled Baris Mancho in some European album releases) born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço (January 2 1943 in Üsküdar Istanbul – February 1 1999 in Kadıköy Istanbul) was a Turkish rock singer composer and television producer. He composed about 200 songs some of which were translated into a variety of languages including English French Japanese Greek Italian Bulgarian Romanian Persian Urdu and Arabic.
David Choe.  David Choe (born April 21 1976) is an American painter muralist graffiti artist and graphic novelist of Korean descent. His figure paintings which explore themes of desire degradation and exaltation are characterized by a raw frenetic tone that he has termed dirty style. In the graffiti world he is identified with the bucktoothed whale he has been spray-painting on the streets since he was in his teens.
Chinawoman.  Michelle Gurevich known by her stage name Chinawoman is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her music is influenced by her Russian heritage and has been described as slowcore rock and lo-fi pop. Her largest fanbase is in Eastern Europe.
Dalziel + Scullion.  Dalziel + Scullion are Scottish based artists Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion who have worked in collaboration since 1993; their studio creates artworks in photography video sound and sculpture that explore new artistic languages surrounding the subject of ecology.Dalziel + Scullion regularly collaborates with: musicians naturalists philosophers and scientists to make artworks that visualise aspects of our shared environment from alternative perspectives and to re-establish and re-evaluate our engagement with the non-human species we live alongside.
Tom Harrison (musician).  Tom Harrison (born July 25 1985) is an English alto saxophonist and flautist who has been active on the British jazz scene since 2009. He reached a national audience following the release of his band Dagda's self-titled debut album in 2012. Time Out (magazine) describes Dagda as 'guitar/sax-led melodic modern jazz with a poppy/rocky edge'. Harrison has also worked with Mark Lockheart Liam Noble Jean Toussaint David Lyttle and Kenny Werner.
Elisabeth Carew.  Elisabeth Carew (born 13 June 1985 in Lørenskog Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. Carew is best known for competing in Melodi Grand Prix 2010 and 2014.
E. J. Pratt.  Edwin John Dove Pratt FRSC (February 4 1882 – April 26 1964) who published as E. J. Pratt was the leading Canadian poet of his time. He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto Ontario. A three-time winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry he has been called the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century.
Armandinho.  Armandinho (born Armando da Costa Macêdo in Salvador) is a Brazilian composer and singer. He is son of Osmar Macêdo from the world's first trio elétrico the Trio Elétrico de Dodô e Osmar.
Chris Frantz.  Chris Frantz (born Charlton Christopher Frantz May 8 1951) is an American musician and record producer. He was the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.
Debbie Macomber.  Debbie Macomber (born October 22 1948 in Yakima Washington) is a best-selling American author of over 150 romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Over 170 million copies of her books are in print throughout the world and four have become made-for-TV-movies. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a Romance Writers of America RITA and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America.
Barb Rocks.  Barbara Wahli /ˈwɔːliː/ (born July 2 1971) known by hermoniker Barb Rocks is an American promoter band manager musicfestival producer and blogger. She started her business Barb RocksPresents in 2006 and has been working with San Francisco Bay Area bands in show bookings and artist management ever since.
H. S. Shivaprakash.  H.S. Shivaprakash (Hulkuntemath Shivamurthy Sastri Shivaprakash born 1954) is a leading poet and playwright writing in Kannada. He is professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. He heads the Cultural Centre at Berlin known as the Tagore Centre as Director run by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). He has seven anthologies of poems twelve plays and several other books to his credit.
Melissa Horn.  Astrid Melissa Edwarda Horn Weitzberg (born 8 April 1987) known as Melissa Horn is a Swedish pop artist. She is the daughter of the singer Maritza Horn.
Pierre Montan Berton.  Pierre Montan Berton (7 January 1727 – 14 May 1780) was a French composer and conductor. He resided primarily in Paris and was an opera director. Pierre's son Henri Montan Berton (1767–1844) was also a composer more famous than Pierre himself.
Johnny Pace.  Johnny Pace was a jazz vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s.Pace was born in Paterson New Jersey and served in the Army USO in Germany where he met his wife Anneliese Glaser they traveled back to the states in 1954. Johnny and Anneliese had three children Monica Suzanne and John.
Liza Ryan.  Liza Ryan is a contemporary American visual artist whose works consist of photography video and mixed media.
Pakito.  Pakito is the alias of French electronic dance music artist Julien Ranouil. He became known due to his cover of Living on Video by Trans-X. Later hits are Moving on Stereo and Are U Ready. So far his music style can be best determined as Euro house. His name is taken from 'Paquito el Chocolatero' a famous pasodoble dance from Alicante in the Comunidad Valenciana region of Spain.His album Video was released on November 8 2006 in the United States.
Juan O'Gorman.  Juan O'Gorman (July 6 1905 – January 17 1982) was a Mexican painter and architect.
Banks (singer).  Jillian Banks simply known as BANKS is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She releases music under Harvest Records Good Year Recordings and Iamsound Records. Her music has been in international rotation and also featured in a 2013 commercial for Victoria's Secret. She has toured internationally with The Weeknd and was also nominated for the Sound of 2014 award by the BBC and an MTV Brand New Nominee in 2014.
Heather McDonald.  Heather Ann McDonald (born June 14 1970) is an American actress comedian and New York Times Bestselling author. She is best known for her appearances on the E! series Chelsea Lately. She is one of the eight writers on the show and often participates in sketches and segments. McDonald also appears in the show's spin-off After Lately.
Jun Masuo.  Jun Masuo (増尾 遵 Masuo Jun born October 5 1986) is a Japanese actor best known for his role as Jadeite in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Jun has also worked as a model. Nowadays he plays with the music group As a Sign of human as guitarist/vocalist.
Pinchas Zukerman.  Pinchas Zukerman (Hebrew: פנחס צוקרמן‎ born July 16 1948) is a violinist violist and conductor of Israeli birth.
Peng Yuyan.  Eddie Peng (Chinese: 彭于晏; pinyin: Péng Yúyàn born in Taipei also known as Peng Yu-yen) is a Taiwanese Canadian actor. He migrated to Canada at the age of thirteen. Subsequently he was admitted into the University of British Columbia where he majored in economics. He was expected to be a businessman.However when he went back to Taiwan because of his grandmother's death he was discovered by director Yang Daqing who cast him in the TV series named The White Paper of Love (愛情白皮書).
Roy Brown (Puerto Rican musician).  Roy Brown Ramírez (born July 18 1945) is a composer singer and a fervent believer in the cause for the independence of Puerto Rico. Some of his songs have been performed by several renowned international artists.
Akane Tomonaga.  Akane Tomonaga (友永 朱音 Tomonaga Akane born December 2) also known as Yukari Aoyama (青山 ゆかり Aoyama Yukari) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan.
Iris Chung.  Iris Chung was born in England and studied in London. She worked as designer at Sanrio when she back to Hong Kong. After one year modeling experience Iris joined Jacso Entertainment in 2010.
Mark Frye.  Mark Frye (born 1957) is a two-time Emmy Award winning musician and composer. He was signed to Virgin Records in 1996. He is also the great-grandson of West Virginia Oil Baron J. S. Pridemore.Frye is part of the long-lived nostalgia rock group Phil Dirt and the Dozers. His work as a commercial musician is extensive including scoring for advertising television and film.
Henry Litolff.  Henry Charles Litolff (5 February 1818 – 5 or 6 August 1891) was a piano virtuoso composer of Romantic music and music publisher. He became a prolific composer although he is now known mainly as the founder of the Litolff Edition of classical and modern music. He died at Bois-Colombes near Paris.
D-Code (DJ).  D-Code is a British DJ. After beginning as a DJ on pirate radio in London he became a producer. In 2005 he became acquainted with Nerm the founder of Shiva Soundsystem releasing his first record on the label in 2006 and recording with the collective. He has toured internationally and featured on radio including BBC-1. He was a featured artist on the 2009 video game DJ Hero.
James Havard.  James Havard (born 1937) is an American painter and sculptor. He was a pioneer of abstract illusionism in the 1970s. In the 1980s he changed his style into a form of abstract expressionism influenced by Native American and tribal cultures as well as outsider art. Drawing inspiration from outsider and tribal art Havard stands within a tradition that includes such notable artists as Paul Gauguin Cy Twombly Jean Dubuffet Jean-Michel Basquiat and Joseph Beuys.
Stuart Scharf.  Stuart Scharf (1941 – November 8 2007) was an American composer guitarist and record producer.Scharf grew up in Crown Heights and attended Winthrop Junior High School. He was good friends with guitarist Jay Berliner who was a serious influence on his musical career. In the early 1960s Scharf was lead guitarist for folk-singer Leon Bibb. He also worked with arranger Walter Raim and folk-singer Judy Collins as well as bassist Bill Lee (Spike Lee's father).
Aaron Nelson-Moody.  Aaron Splash Nelson-Moody (Tawx’sin Yexwulla born 14 April 1967) is a Squamish carver working in the Coast Salish tradition. Nelson-Moody's works include the doors to the B.C.-Canada pavilion at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. He also creates Coast Salish based jewellery.Nelson-Moody's Squamish name of Tawx’sin Yexwulla means Splashing Eagle giving rise to his nickname of Splash.
Gerhard Eichelmann.  Gerhard Eichelmann (born in 1962) is a leading German wine critic with an international influence on German wine.
XXXChange.  Alex Brady Epton better known as XXXChange is a Brooklyn-based musician record producer remixer and DJ. He garnered attention for his work with the musical group Spank Rock whose influential debut album YoYoYoYoYo he produced. More recently he has been involved with the group WIN WIN alongside Chris Devlin and Ghostdad who released their self-titled debut in 2011 on Vice Records.
Mike Hindert.  Michael Dirt Hindert (born 8 August 1980) is the bass guitarist of the New York rock/electronica band The Bravery.Hindert grew up in Falls Church Virginia where his identical twin Bryan plays bass guitar in a local indie surf rock band. He is actually a guitar player and ukelele lover who learned the bass guitar to join the Bravery a multi-instrumentalist.Before the band took off Hindert worked as a waiter and delivery boy on St.
Gregory Gillespie.  Gregory Joseph Gillespie (November 29 1936 – April 26 2000) was an American magic realist painter.
Gayane Khachaturian.  Gayane Khachaturian (Armenian: Գայանե Խաչատուրյան) (May 9 1942 – May 1 2009) was a Georgian-Armenian painter and graphic artist.
Tim Dog.  Tim Dog is the stage name of Timothy Blair (born January 1 1967) an American rapper from the Bronx New York who rose to prominence during the early 1990s with his debut LP Penicillin on Wax and the celebrated diss track Fuck Compton. Tim had already appeared on songs with the Ultramagnetic MCs and went on to form a duo Ultra with member Kool Keith.
Bill Conti.  William Bill Conti (born April 13 1942) is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores including Rocky (and all but one of the five sequels) For Your Eyes Only and The Right Stuff the latter of which earned him an Academy Award. He is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Joseph McElroy.  Joseph Prince McElroy (born August 21 1930) is an American novelist short story writer and essayist. He is noted for writing difficult fiction.
Arabesque (rapper).  Arabesque also known as Besque (born Stephen Kawalit September 17 1981 in Toronto Canada) is a Juno nominated hip hop artist from Toronto. He studied graphic communications management at Ryerson University. He has signed record deals in the US Canada the UK and Japan.
Brian Newman.  Brian Newman is an American jazz musician singer and trumpet player. He is most known for his numerous performances with Lady Gaga and her surprise appearances at his performances in New York City. Newman currently holds a residency at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City and is married to American burlesque performer Angie Pontani.
Jerry Marcoss.  Jerry Marcoss is a singer and composer of kawitry mangaliba and salegy music of Madagascar. Born in Antalaha in 1980 Jerry Marcoss is responsible for the national popularization of the kawitry genre of the northeast coast and has been termed the King of Kawitry by the Malagasy press. Since launching his musical career in 2001 Marcoss has released five albums and regularly gives performances across Madagascar as well as in Europe and throughout the region.
Charles Buchel.  .Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) (1872–1950) was a British artist.Buchel was born in Mainz Germany but immigrated to England as a child. Buchel studied art at the Royal Academy Schools. He was hired by the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1898 and worked with him for sixteen years.Buchel painted several portraits of Tree and also designed theatrical programmes and advertising posters programmes for the theatre.
Bryan Keith.  Bryan Keith is a singer based in New York New York. His father is a two-time Grammy-winning artist.
Marcantonio Chiarini.  Marcantonio Chiarini (c. 1652–1730) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Born near Bologna he trained with Francesco Quaino and Domenico Santi. He painted scenography for plays as well as quadratura in which Sigismondo Caula inserted figures. Active in Bologna and Milan he also painted the quadratura of the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca for which Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole painted the main frescoes.
Hussein Fatal.  Bruce Washington (born April 3 1977) better known by his stage name Hussein Fatal is an American rapper and member of the hip hop group Outlawz. He is best known for his collaborative work with Tupac Shakur as a member of Outlaw Immortalz.
Gretchen Parlato.  Gretchen Parlato (born 1976) is an American jazz singer. She has performed and recorded with musicians such as Wayne Shorter Herbie Hancock Kenny Barron Esperanza Spalding Terence Blanchard Marcus Miller and Lionel Loueke.Parlato's 2009 sophomore release In a Dream was positively reviewed by NPR Jazz Times the Village Voice and the Boston Globe.
Benjamin Braidley.  Benjamin Braidley (1792–1845) was a writer on Sunday schools.Braidley was the son of farmer Benjamin Braidley and was born at Sedgefield Durham on 19 August 1792. He was apprenticed to a firm of linen importers in Manchester and in 1813 first became an active worker in the Bennett Street Sunday schools. In 1815 1635 pupils received prizes for regular attendance and in 1816 2020 scholars were on the rolls of the schools.
Walter Reisch.  Walter Reisch (May 23 1903 – March 28 1983) was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter. He also wrote lyrics to several songs featured in his films one popular title is Flieger grüß mir die Sonne.
Kathie Kay.  Kathie Kay (20 November 1918 – 9 March 2005) was a singer from Lincolnshire known for her radio and television appearances in the Billy Cotton Band Show during the 1950s and 1960s. Her best known recordings are We Will Make Love and A House With Love In It.
Carter Mull.  Carter Mull (born 1977 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American artist working in Los Angeles. Mull took his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2006.
Fernando Arbex.  José Fernando Arbex Miró (18 May 1941 – 5 July 2003) was an influential Spanish musician and songwriter from Madrid who enjoyed success both with his own groups and also with other artists.While still in his teens he was the drummer in Los Estudiantes and in 1965 he formed the very successful pop band Los Brincos (often seen as the Spanish Beatles) in which he also played drums.
Canton Jones.  Canton Jones is an American Christian musician and Christian hip-hop artist.
Hwa Hwa.  Hwa Hwa is a former part of the singing duo China Dolls. She is also a member of the Thai pop groups 2002 rahree and 2005 tiwa hula hula. Hwa Hwa's Thai Name is ไพลิน รัตนแสงเสถียร Pailin Rattanasangsatian and her Chinese Name is 陈冠桦 (Chén Guānhuà) Hwa Hwa was born in Taipei Taiwan to a Thai Chinese father and a Taiwanese mother. Her family later migrated to Phuket Thailand.Hwa Hwa is fluent in Thai and Mandarin.
Lene Lovich.  Lene Lovich (born 30 March 1949) is an American singer of English descent based in England who first gained attention as part of the new wave music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her most popular hit single was Lucky Number first released in 1978.
Franklin Delano Williams.  Franklin Delano Williams ((1947-06-27)June 27 1947 in Smithdale Mississippi - March 22 1993(1993-03-22) in Savannah Georgia) was an American Gospel music singer.
Josephine Kermode (Cushag).  Josephine Kermode (1852-1937) was a Manx poet and playwright better known by the pen name Cushag.
Caius Gabriel Cibber.  Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700) was a Danish sculptor who enjoyed great success in England and was the father of the actor author and poet laureate Colley Cibber. He was appointed carver to the king's closet by William III.
Roland Hanna.  Roland Pembroke Hanna (February 10 1932 in Detroit Michigan – November 13 2002 in Hackensack New Jersey) was an American jazz pianist composer and teacher.
Francisco Aguabella.  Francisco Aguabella (1925–2010) was an Afro-Cuban master percussionist whose career spanned folkloric traditions popular dance bands and jazz. He was born in Matanzas Cuba on October 10 1925 and died in Los Angeles California on May 7 2010.
Magda Bogin.  Magda Bogin is a New York-based writer who has produced a body of work that straddles fiction poetry opera and non-fiction. Born in Manhattan she has lived and worked extensively in Mexico France Italy and Russia.The recipient of numerous grants and awards most recently as a librettist in residence with American Lyric Theater in New York she has taught writing at Columbia University Princeton and the City College of New York.
Asha Puthli.  Asha Puthli is an Indian-born singer-songwriter producer and actress.Best recognized for her daredevil vocals on the Science Fiction album by jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman Asha Puthli has recorded ten solo albums for labels like EMI CBS/Sony and RCA.
Robbie Dupree.  Robert Dupuis (born December 23 1946 in Brooklyn New York) better known by his stage name Robbie Dupree is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1980 top ten pop hit Steal Away which hit #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 12-19 1980. Thereafter he scored another hit with Hot Rod Hearts which rose to #15 in October 1980. Dupree's final single to make the Billboard charts Brooklyn Girls peaked at #54 in June 1981.
Jimbo Mathus.  James H. Mathis Jr. (born August 1967) known as Jimbo Mathus is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his work with the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Jim Connolly (illustrator).  Jim Connolly (born 1978) is an illustrator designer and commercial artist from Sheffield England. He is best known for creating comic book style designs for album/single covers concert posters magazine articles and silkscreen prints. His style features loud and brash bubblegum colours and comical characters usually drawn with a sharp vectorized look. The dominant features of his work usually include comic book science fiction and horror references often with a UK slant.
Pam Conrad.  Pam Conrad (1947-Jan 221996) was an author for children. Her book Our House: Stories of Levittown was a Newbery Medal finalist.Ms. Conrad was born in New York City and graduated the New School for Social Research.
Njabulo Ndebele.  Professor Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele (born 4 July 1948 in Johannesburg) an academic a literary and a writer of fiction is the former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town. On November 16 2012 he was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.
Leila Kasra.  Leila Kasra (Persian: لیلا کسری‎) also known as Hedieh (Persian: هدیه‎) (March 27 1939 – May 16 1989) was a legendary Persian poet songwriter and lyricist who wrote countless hits for many famous Persian pop artists like Ebi Dariush Sattar Vigen Moein Mahasti Andy Homeyra Hassan Shamaizadeh Siavash Shams Shohreh Shahram Solati Nooshafarin Nasrin Habib Shahrokh Morteza Farzin Golpa Iraj Kouros and the majority of Hayedeh's songs who was a close friend of her's.
Beppe Gambetta.  Beppe Gambetta is an Italian musician born in Genoa in 1955. An acoustic guitar flatpicker and singer Beppe has been called a virtual United Nations of influences: Italian Ukrainian Appalachian Sardinisn Celtic. He is a composer teacher and researcher of traditional music and instruments.
Norm Macdonald.  Norman Gene Norm Macdonald (born October 17 1963) is a Canadian stand-up comedian writer producer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years. Early in his career he wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and made appearances on shows including The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio. He also starred in The Norm Show from 1999 to 2001.
Sylvie Vartan.  Sylvie Vartan (born 15 August 1944) is a Bulgarian-French singer. She is known as one of the most productive and tough-sounding yé-yé artists. Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV. Yearly shows with then-husband Johnny Hallyday attracted full houses at the Olympia and the Palais des congrès de Paris throughout the 1960s and mid-1970s.
Jef Mallett.  Jef Mallett (born 1962) is the creator and artist of the nationally syndicated comic strip Frazz. He attended nursing school as well as EMT training for a period of time before leaving to pursue his artistic interests. He has a longtime interest in bicycling and hanggliding and is an avid triathlete having completed his first triathlon in 1981 (coming in 9th); twice he has also participated in and completed the Ironman Triathlon.
William Page.  William Page (January 3 1811 in Albany New York – October 1 1885 in Tottenville Staten Island) was an American painter and portrait artist.
Samir Guesmi.  Samir Guesmi (born 7 October 1967 in Paris) is a French actor. He has performed in more than ninety films since 1988.
James T. Mangan.  James T. Mangan (1896–1970) was a famous eccentric public relations man and best-selling author on self-help topics who publicly claimed ownership of outer space in 1948.Mangan founded what he called the Nation of Celestial Space and registered it with the Recorder of Deeds and Titles of Cook County Illinois on January 1 1949.
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek.  Włodzimierz Książek (1951 Warsaw Poland - body found May 18 2011) Pawtucket USA) was a Polish-born contemporary artist based in New England and since 2001 worked from a 6000 sq. ft. studio in Rhode Island. He was best known for his large-scale abstract paintings.
Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal.  Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480) was a Welsh poet from Norman stock. He composed primarily in Welsh but was also responsible for the first known poem in the English language written by a Welshman. His father Hywel Swrdwal was also a poet and there are doubts as to whether a number of extant works should be attributed to the father or to the son.
Jeff Ott.  Jeff Ott (born October 18 1970) is an activist musician author and longtime member of the Berkeley punk community having fronted such bands as Crimpshrine and Fifteen.
Stephanie Trick.  Stephanie Trick (born 1987 in St. Louis Missouri) is an American stride ragtime and jazz pianist.
Maria Kawamura.  Shigeyo Maria Kawamura (川村 繁代 Kawamura Maria Shigeyo born November 21 1961 in Tokyo) better known by the stage name Maria Kawamura (川村 万梨阿 Kawamura Maria) is a Japanese voice actress. Kawamura is a freelancer and a former affiliate of Arts Vision. Her best-known role is arguably Naga the Serpent in Slayers. In 1991 she married Japanese manga artist Mamoru Nagano.
Hugh McDonald (Australian musician).  Hugh McDonald is an Australian musician. Active since the 1970s he performed and recorded with The Bushwackers The Sundowners Moving Cloud and The Colonials.He became better known when he joined the folk-rock group Redgum in 1981. McDonald wrote a number of the group's songs including The Diamantina Drover.
Mark Gruenwald.  Mark E. Gruenwald (June 18 1953 – August 12 1996) was an American comic book writer editor and occasional penciler known for his long association with Marvel Comics.
Zaharije Orfelin.  Zaharija Orfelin (Serbian Cyrillic: Захаријa Орфелин; Vukovar 1726 – Novi Sad 1785) was an 18th-century Serb polymath who lived and worked in the Austrian Monarchy and Venice. Described as a Renaissance man he was an educator administrator poet engraver lexicographer herbalist historian translator editor publisher polemicist polyglot a prominent oenologist and traveler.
Wilhelm von Schütz.  Christian Wilhelm von Schütz (Berlin 13 April 1776 - Leipzig 9 August 1847) was a German author.
Erlend Caspersen.  Erlend Caspersen is a Norwegian bassist who currently plays in Spawn Of Possession and The Allseeing I. He also played for Deeds of Flesh. He is notable for his aggressive bass tone and highly technical playing with a very varied range of techniques including two-handed tapping sweeping and slapping.
Marcus Brosch.  Marcus Brosch is a German songwriter record producer and remixer.Lacking success at playing football in the early eighties he stopped playing it in favour of playing the guitar at the age of thirteen years playing in several bands with his later partner in productions Henrik Menzel. In the mid-90s he founded the Hip-Hop group Aroma with Menzel and Philipp Grüthering which was the predecessor of the progressive group Deichkind.
Jan Bradley.  Jan Bradley (born Addie Bradley July 6 1943 in Byhalia Mississippi) is an American soul singer.Bradley grew up in Robbins Illinois. She was noticed by manager Don Talty (who also managed Phil Upchurch) at a high school talent show. After graduating she auditioned for Curtis Mayfield and soon recorded the Mayfield-penned We Girls which became a hit regionally in the Midwest (on Talty's Formal Records label).
Jean Chapman.  Jean Chapman (b. 30 October 1939 in England) is a British writer of romance novels since 1981 and a lecturer in creative writing. Her debut novel The Unreasoning Earth and The Red Pavilion were both shortlisted for the Parker Pen Romantic Novel of the Year Award.She was elected the twenty Chairman (2001–2003) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and is the three-time President of the Leicester Writer's Club.
Ben Rector.  Ben Rector (born November 6 1986) is an American musician based in Nashville Tennessee. His most recent record The Walking In Between was released in August 2013. Through word of mouth his 2011 record Something Like This charted at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart and climbed above Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV to the #4 spot on iTunes albums overall bested only by Lady Antebellum’s same day release Coldplay and Adele.
Francesco Renga.  Pierfrancesco Renga (born June 12 1968 in Udine Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2005 with the song Angelo. He also took part to Sanremo Music Festival in 2009 with Uomo senza età and in 2012 with La tua bellezza.
Garner Tullis.  Garner Handy Tullis (born Cincinnati Ohio 1939) is an American born artist residing in Pietrarubbia Italy since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Tommaso Barnabei.  Tommaso Barnabei (sometimes as Tommaso Bernabei) also known as Maso Papacello (c. 1500 in Rome or Cortona-May 18 1559 in Cortona) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was a pupil of Luca Signorelli and aided Giulio Romano at Rome. At about 1523-4 he assisted Giambattista Caporali at the villa of Cardinal Passerini near Cortona.
Christoph Brüx.  Christoph Brüx (born 13 December 1965) is a German sculptor painter composer pianist keyboardist arranger and music producer. He composed for interpreters such as No Angels Matthias Reim The Underdog Project (Summer Jam) Brooklyn Bounce etc. and he also composed film scores.
Camillo Federici.  Camillo Federici (9 April 1749 – 23 December 1802) was an Italian dramatist and actor.He was born at Garessio a small town in Piedmont. His real name was Giovanni Battista Viassolo; he took his pen-name from the title of one of his first pieces Camillo e Federico. He was educated at Turin and showed an early fondness for literature especially for the theatre.
Shayne Ward.  Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984) is an English singer who rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor. His debut single That's My Goal was released in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2005 and became the last number one of 2005 on the UK Singles Chart and that year's Christmas number one.
Yim Si-wan.  Yim Si-wan (Hangul: 임시완; Hanja: 任時完; born on December 1 1988) better known by his stage name Siwan is a member of the nine-member South Korean boyband ZE:A managed by Star Empire Entertainment. They debuted on January 7 2010 with the single Mazeltov. He legally changed his first name from Woong-jae to Si-wan before his debut. He appeared in 2012 MBC Moon Embracing the Sun as young Heo Yeom.
Holly Ryder.  Holly Ryder(born 1963/some sources state 1970) was an American pornographic film star. She specialised in bondage movies and was particularly known for her large clitoris. She started in the porn business in 1990.
Big Hawk.  John Edward Hawkins (November 15 1969 – May 1 2006) better known as H.A.W.K. or Big Hawk was an American rapper from Houston Texas and a founding member of the late DJ Screw's rap group the Screwed Up Click.
Giovenale Boetto.  Giovenale Boetto was a Piedmontese fresco painter who flourished at Turin Italy from 1642 to 1682. He was principally employed in embellishing the palaces and public edifices at Turin with allegorical subjects. Among his works are twelve frescoes in the Casa Garballi representing subjects emblematical of the Arts and Sciences. Luigi Lanzi affirms that he excelled as an engraver.
Julio Abril.  Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga ( 20 August 1911 Moniquirá Boyacá Department - 24 April 1979 in Villavicencio Meta) was a Colombian sculptor painter and draughtsman.
Kyle Mills (author).  Kyle Mills (born 1966) is an American writer of thriller novels including Rising Phoenix Fade and The Second Horseman. Several of his books (Rising Phoenix Storming Heaven Sphere of Influence Free Fall and Darkness Falls) include a character Mark Beamon an FBI special agent.
Samuel Roberts (writer).  Samuel Roberts (6 March 1800 – 24 September 1885) or simply S.R. was a Welsh political and economical writer.In 1843 Roberts founded a Welsh language journal Y Cronicl in which he campaigned for radical causes. In 1857 he travelled to Tennessee in the hope of setting up a Welsh colony there. After ten years he gave up the attempt and returned to Wales.He was one of the earliest if not the earliest advocates of postal reform.
Bucky Pizzarelli.  John Paul Bucky Pizzarelli (born January 9 1926) is an American Jazz guitarist and banjoist and the father of jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and upright bassist Martin Pizzarelli. Pizzarelli has also worked for NBC as a staffman for Dick Cavett (1971) and also ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952). The list of musicians Pizzarelli has collaborated with over his career includes Les Paul Stephane Grappelli and Benny Goodman.
David Burrows (artist).  David Burrows (born 1965) is British artist and writer. His work consists of drawings and paint-spattered debris-littered haphazard installations. He writes articles on art and aesthetics and is the editor of Article Press at Birmingham City University. He is a lecturer in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art where his research interests include the depictions of events and aftermaths utopian narratives and indexical art practices.
Jah Thomas.  Nkrumah Jah Thomas (b. 1955 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae deejay and record producer who first came to prominence in the 1970s later setting up his own Midnight Rock and Nura labels.
Adithya Srinivasan.  Adithya Srinivasan is an Indian ghazal and pop singer. He has opened for Ghulam Ali and has been invited on stage with Hariharan.
Hooshang Kamkar.  Hooshang Kamkar (Persian: هوشنگ کامکار Kurdish: Hoşeng Kamkar) (born 1946) is an Iranian Kurdish musician. He was born in Sanandaj a city in Kurdistan province in Iran. He started his musical training with his father Hassan Kamkar. Later he attended the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and the University of San Francisco in USA. He is a prolific composer writer and translator.
Venmani Mahan Nambudiripad.  Venmani Mahan Nambudiripad (1844-1893) (also known as Kadamban) was a famous Malayalam poet of the Venmani Illam and one of the main literary figures of the Venmani Movement of Malayalam Literature.Venmani Mahan was born in 1844 to the famous Venmani Achhan Nambudiripad and Sreedevi of Polpaya Mana. He was a reputed scholar and practitioner of Rig Vedam. He started writing poetry from a very early age but because of his natural laziness and lethargy he could not finish most of his poems.
Kyp Malone.  David Kyp Joel Malone (born February 27 1973) is a multi-instrumentalist and member of the bands TV on the Radio and Iran.Malone formed Iran with film director/singer/songwriter Aaron Aites in 2000. Malone later joined Tunde Adebimpe and David Sitek in TV on the Radio for the recording and release of Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes. He writes sing and play instruments in the band.
Donari Braxton.  Donari Braxton (born November 11 1982) is an American filmmaker and writer. His independent narrative films are generally considered experimental though have been featured diversely both in film festivals and art film reviews internationally.
Ans Wortel.  Ans (Anna Maria) Wortel (Alkmaar (Netherlands) 18 October 1929 – Hilvarenbeek (Netherlands) 4 December 1996) was a Dutch painter poet and writer. She made gouaches and oil paintings aquarels drawings collages lithographies etchings sculptures and glass sculptures. She was an autodidact and has won the first prize at the bienelle of Paris in 1963. She was one of the leading female artists of postwar Dutch modern art.
Alexandre Cabanel.  Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter born in Montpellier Hérault. He painted historical classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter.He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen.Cabanel studied with François-Édouard Picot.
Vance Joy.  James Keogh (better known as Vance Joy) is an Australian singer-songwriter born in Melbourne. Vance Joy has signed a five-album deal with Atlantic Records. He has a arts/law degree from Monash University. He released his debut EP God Loves You When You're Dancing in March 2013. His song Riptide was voted number 1 on the 2013 Triple J Hottest 100 with follow up single Play With Fire coming in at #95.
Carl Morten Iversen.  Carl Morten Iversen (born 1 May 1948 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (Upright bass) son of Jazz violinist Arild Iversen (1920–65). He is known from numerous recordings has long been central to the Oslo Jazz scene.
Ysa Ferrer.  Ysa Ferrer (born 4 June 1972 in Oran Algeria) is a French actress and singer of Spaniard Heritage.
Rushton Moreve.  Rushton Moreve (born John Russell Morgan; November 6 1948 – July 1 1981) was an American bass guitarist best known for his work with the rock band Steppenwolf from 1967–68 and again in 1978.
Shani Boianjiu.  Shani Boianjiu (Hebrew: שני בוינג'ו‎; born 1987) is an Israeli author. Her debut novel The People of Forever Are Not Afraid was released in 2012 and has been published in 23 countries.
William H. Armstrong.  William H. Armstrong (September 14 1911 – April 11 1999) was an American children's author and educator best known for his 1969 novel Sounder which won the Newbery Medal.
Bob Ostertag.  Robert Bob Ostertag (born April 19 1957 in Albuquerque New Mexico United States) is an experimental sound artist based in San Francisco.
Tony Vigorito.  Tony Vigorito is an American author. His published books include Just a Couple of Days and Nine Kinds of Naked.
Jacob Miller (musician).  Jacob Miller (May 4 1952 – March 23 1980) was a Jamaican reggae artist who first recorded with Clement Dodd. While pursuing a prolific solo career he became the lead singer for reggae group Inner Circle with whom he recorded until his death in a car accident at the age of 27.
Bo Ma.  Ma Bo (born August 22 1947) is a Chinese non-fiction writer who currently resides in Beijing China.
August Mencken Jr..  August Mencken (February 18 1889 – May 19 1967) was an American civil engineer and author. He was the younger brother of Henry Louis Mencken and the son of cigar magnate August Mencken Sr.
Mary Rogers (artist).  Mary Maize C Gamble Rogers (1882–1920) was an American painter and sculptor born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She studied with Robert Henri in New York City and with Lucien Simon and Émile-René Ménard in Paris.She painted in watercolor and was known for still lifes miniatures landscapes and cityscapes of New York City.
JMSN.  Christian Berishaj better known by his stage name JMSN (pronounced Jameson) is an Albanian American singer-songwriter and record producer from Eastpointe Michigan. Also a multi-instrumentalist music engineer and mixer JMSN's debut album Priscilla was released in 2012. He wrote and produced the album by himself as well as directed the music videos accompanying its release.
John Bailey (producer).  John Beetle Bailey is a Canadian freelance recording engineer who won the 2007 Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year. He has worked with such musicians as The Headstones Tom Cochrane Haywire Triumph and Love Inc..
Ahmed Fouad Negm.  Ahmed Fouad Negm (Arabic: احمد فؤاد نجم‎ pronounced [ˈæħmæd foˈʔæːd ˈneɡm]; 22 May 1929 – 3 December 2013) popularly known as el-Fagommi الفاجومي ([elfæˈɡuːmi] was an Egyptian vernacular poet. Negm is well known for his work with Egyptian composer Sheikh Imam as well as his patriotic and revolutionary Egyptian Arabic poetry. Negm has been regarded as a bit of a folk hero in Egypt.
Fujiko (actress).  Fujiko (不二子) real name Reiko Matsuo (松尾 玲子) or Reo Matsuo (松尾 玲央) born 5 March 1980 is Japanese actress and model.
Udo Kasemets.  Udo Kasemets (November 16 1919 – January 19 2014) was an Estonian-born Canadian composer of orchestral chamber vocal piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage and was also a conductor lecturer pianist organist teacher and writer.Kasemets was born in Tallinn Estonia and trained at the Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie der Musik in Stuttgart.
Amar Goswami.  Amar Goswami (Hindi: अमर गोस्वामी; 28 November 1945 – 26 June 2012) was a senior journalist and one of the prominent fiction writers of Hindi literature. His work includes satires short stories poems novels novelettes and translations from Bengali to Hindi. He was associated with Kathantar Vikalp Aagamikal Sampa Manorama Ganga Sunday Observer (Hindi) Bharti Features Uxhur Bharat Bharatiya Jnanpith Remadhav Publications.
Jun Maki.  Jun Maki (眞木 準 Maki Jun October 20 1948 in Aichi Prefecture - June 22 2009) was a Japanese copywriter. A 1971 graduate of Keio University he formerly worked for Hakuhodo Japan's second largest advertising agency. He died on June 22 2009 of a myocardial infarction. He was 60 years old.
Roland Marais.  Roland Pierre Marais (c. 1685 Paris – c. 1750 Paris) was a French viol player and composer son of Marin Marais.His compositions are written in a similar style to his father's.
John Abbot (poet).  John Abbot (1587/1588 – c. 1650) was an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain but may have been London or Leicester. Abbott is believed to be the nephew both of George Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Abbot the bishop of Salisbury. Abbot was thus from a strongly Protestant family. After being educated at Balliol College Oxford he travelled to the continent where he converted to Roman Catholicism.
Hıfzı Topuz.  Hıfzı Topuz (born 1923) is a Turkish veteran journalist travel writer and novelist. He also served as a lecturer on journalism at several universities.
Rafael Arráiz Lucca.  Rafael Arráiz Lucca (born 3 January 1959 Caracas Venezuela) is a Venezuelan essayist poet historian and professor.Arraiz Lucca is professor in the Metropolitan University of Caracas (UNIMET). Since 2001 has been in charge of the Fundación Para la Cultura Urbana (Foundation for Urban Culture) in Caracas.
Jean-François Batellier.  Jean-François Batellier (born 1947 in Paris) is an independent political (in the broadest sense) cartoonist. He works in the dazibao style frequently exhibiting his drawings on the streets. He has had many court cases concerned with the legality of so exhibiting his work. Several volumes of drawings have been published.
Pawlu Aquilina.  Pawlu Aquilina (August 28 1929 – January 29 2009) was a Maltese poet and writer from Siġġiewi Malta. He studied at the Archbishop's Seminary and St Michael's Training College for Teachers.In 1950 Aquilina started his teaching career in the Maltese Government Primary Schools till 1957 when he was appointed scriptwriter with the Department of Information - Education Broadcasting Section. In 1959 he was appointed Master of Maltese at The Lyceum.
Kris Van Assche.  Kris Van Assche (born May 12 1976 Belgium) is a Belgian fashion designer. He studied at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1994 to 1998. After graduating he moved to Paris in 1998. He was immediately appointed at Yves Saint Laurent as Hedi Slimane’s first assistant for the Rive Gauche Homme line. The collaboration with Mr. Slimane continued at Christian Dior for the launching and development of the hugely successful Dior Homme collection until September 2004.
Jeffrey Catherine Jones.  Jeffrey Catherine Jones (born January 10 1944 – May 19 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through 2000s. Jones provided over 150 covers for many different types of books through 1976 as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. World renowned illustration artist Frank Frazetta called Jones the greatest living painter.
Paula Broadwell.  Paula Dean Broadwell (née Kranz; born November 9 1972) is an American writer academic and former military officer.Broadwell is known for the extramarital affair ending the career of David Petraeus as the Director of the CIA. An FBI investigation found Paula Broadwell stalking Senior Military Leaders and top U.S. Officials. The investigation was initiated when Broadwell sent anonymous threats to General Allen Director Petraeus and Dr.
Li Han-hsiang.  Richard Li Han Hsiang (Chinese: 李翰祥; pinyin: Lǐ Hànxiáng; 7 March 1926 in Jinzhou Liaoning - 17 December 1996 in Beijing) was a Chinese film director. Li directed more than 70 films in his career beginning in the 1950s and lasting till the 1990s. Li also won the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for his work on the movie Xi Shi in 1965. Most of his movies in the 1970s and 1980s focused on Chinese historical drama. He died in Beijing due to a heart attack. He was seventy.
Valerie Ahern.  Valerie Ahern is an American television screenwriter and producer.She has written episodes for a number of television series since 1995 including The Young and the Restless (July 27 2007 - November 29 2007; April 4 2008 - July 7 2008) Clueless Desperate Housewives The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Drawn Together The Parent 'Hood Renovate My Family Hot Properties Spyder Games (Head Writer) and The Crew.
Sunsun.  Sunsun is an American singer-songwriter and performer.In September 2006 Sunsun debuted on DJ Kaskade's fourth solo album Love Mysterious as the vocalist for the album's first single Be Still which reached #4 on Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Club Play.Sunsun is also a vocalist on Kaskade's seventh album Strobelite Seduction for the songs Back On You and I'll Never Dream (and the Japanese bonus track Are You Listening).
Wes Keely.  Wes Keely is a drummer from the United States best known for his time in Walls of Jericho Until the End and Remembering Never and has also drummed for bands such as Most Precious Blood Throwdown Anything But Joey The Famed Earthmover and is a current member of Seattle rock band Again & Again.
Justin Lee Collins.  Justin Lee Collins (born 28 July 1974) is an English comedian television presenter and West End actorCollins is known for presenting shows such as Bring Back... and The Friday Night Project which he co-presented with Alan Carr and its Sunday spin-off. Other notable works include The Convention Crasher and Justin Lee Collins: Turning Japanese.
Miguel (singer).  Miguel Jontel Pimentel (born October 23 1985) who performs under the name Miguel is an American recording artist songwriter and producer. Signed to Jive Records in 2007 Miguel released his debut album All I Want Is You in November 2010. Although it was underpromoted and performed poorly upon its release the album became a sleeper hit and helped Miguel garner commercial standing.
Robert Christgau.  Robert Christgau (/ˈkrɪstɡaʊ/; born April 18 1942) is an American essayist music journalist and self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics.One of the earliest professional rock critics Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews published from 1969 to 2013 in his Consumer Guide columns. He also spent 37 years as music editor for The Village Voice during which time he created the annual Pazz & Jop poll.
Roland Dorgelès.  Roland Dorgelès (French pronunciation: ​[dɔʁʒəlɛs]; 15 June 1885 – 18 March 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.Born in Amiens Somme under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès) he spent his childhood in Paris.A prolific author he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses (Les croix de bois) a moving study of World War I in which he served.
Erling Lars Dale.  Erling Lars Dale (12 March 1947 – 25 September 2011) was a Norwegian educationalist.He took his doctor's degree in 1987 and was an associate professor at the University of Oslo. He was hired as professor in 1993.
David Arthur Skinner.  David Arthur Skinner (born January 3 1980 on the Isle of Wight UK) is a pianist bandleader and composer known from performing all types of improvisation music from early jazz and stride piano through bebop swing and contemporary music and member of the group Sphinx since 1999.
Kent (Gillström) Isaacs.  Kent Isaacs a Swedish producer mixer musician songwriter and music-entrepreneur is owner and operator of Cosmos Music Group the biggest independent music company in Scandinavia. Isaacs has been known to work with Robyn RZA Slick Rick Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) Clay Aiken Eagle Eye Cherry Infinite Mass Arnthor and Stina Nordenstam (showcased on the hit 1996 soundtrack to Romeo + Juliet).A music industry veteran Isaacs has been in the business since the early 1980s.
Marcel Duchamp.  Marcel Duchamp (French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter sculptor chess player and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art although not directly associated with Dada groups.
Dimitri from Paris.  Dimitri from Paris (born Dimitri Yerasimos in October 1963) is a French music producer and DJ of Greek origins. His musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary house music as well as original soundtracks from 1950s and 1960s cult movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's La Dolce Vita and The Party which were sampled in his album Sacrebleu. Dimitri fused these sounds with electro and block party hip hop he discovered in the 1980s.
Bruce Bouillet.  Bruce Einstein Bouillet (/buːiːˈeɪ/; born February 3 1965 in Memphis TN) is a guitarist who played in the bands Racer X The Scream DC-10 and Epidemic.
Kevin Henkes.  Kevin Henkes (born November 27 1960) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. As an illustrator he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). As a writer he has twice been a runner-up for the companion Newbery Medal.
Augustus John.  Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter draughtsman and etcher. For a short time around 1910 he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom.Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse.
Deborah Remington.  Deborah Remington (1930 – April 21 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction. Born in New Jersey she became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Beat scene in the 1950’s. In 1965 she moved to New York where her style solidified and her career grew substantially. A twenty-year retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in California in 1983.
Federigo Brunori.  Federigo or Federico Brunori or il Brunorino (1566-1649) was an Italian painter active mainly in Gubbio.
James Ledbetter.  For the Welsh rugby union player of a similar name see James LeadbeaterJames Ledbetter is an author and editor based in New York City.
Frederick Henry Sykes.  Frederick Henry Sykes (October 21 1863 – October 14 1917) was an American college president born at Queensville Ontario in Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1885 studied at Johns Hopkins University (1891–95) and afterwards held various teaching positions. From 1903-10 he was professor of English literature and director of extension teaching at Columbia University then professor of English at Teachers College Columbia (1910–13).
Domenico Fetti.  Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Rome Mantua and Venice.
Hans G. Kresse.  Hans G. Kresse (Amsterdam 3 December 1921–Doorwerth 12 March 1992) was a Dutch cartoonist. He was the winner of the 1976 Stripschapprijs.
Dhimitër Pasko.  Dhimitër Pasko  (b. 13 September 1907 Pogradec Albania – d. 4 May 1967 Tirana Albania) alias Mitrush Kuteli (or Janus) was an Albanian writer and translator.
Muggsy Spanier.  Francis Joseph Julian Muggsy Spanier (November 9 1901 – February 12 1967) was a prominent cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene.Muggsy led several traditional/hot jazz bands most notably Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band (which did not in fact play ragtime but rather hot jazz that would now be called Dixieland).
Christopher Isherwood.  Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English novelist.
Ruslan Mamilow.  Ruslan Mamilov - Ingush painter and sculptor. Honored Artist of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.
Jimmy Velvit.  Jimmy Velvit is an American rock and roll singer who began his career in the 1960s. His real name is James Mullins originally from Coalgate Oklahoma later from Dallas Texas. He is best known for recording a white rhythm and blues version in 1962 of Robert & Johnny's 1958 hit We Belong Together. Velvit's first release was Sometimes at Night on Division Records in 1961 afterwards released on Cub Records (a division of M-G-M).
Brian Nelson (screenwriter).  Brian Nelson is an American screenwriter.
Don Loper.  Don Loper (April 29 1906 – November 22 1972) was an American costume and necktie designer as well as a screenwriter choreographer associate producer actor and assistant to MGM musicals producer Arthur Freed. He began his career as a dancer and was teamed with Ginger Rogers in the film Lady in the Dark (1944).Loper is also known for introducing Judy Garland to her future husband director Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me in St.
William Hamilton Maxwell.  William Hamilton Maxwell (June 30 1792 in Newry County Down Ireland - Dec. 29 1850 in Musselburgh Scotland) was a Scots-Irish novelist.He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He claimed to have entered the British Army and seen service in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo but this is generally believed to be untrue.
Laurence Campbell.  Laurence Campbell is a British comics artist best known for his work in 2000 AD but he has also recently received attention from his work for Marvel.
Adolf von Heydeck.  Gustav Adolf (Adolph) Heideck from 1836 von Heideck (born Dessau 25 April 1787 - died there 23 January 1856) was a German painter. A classmate of Friedrich and Ferdinand Olivier in Dessau he studied at the Hauptschule there with Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. Apart from this he is not known to have any formal training and is referred to in documentation as an Autodidakt and Dilettant or amateur in painting and etching. From 1813 to 1820 he was in Rome and he returned there in 1837.
Asta Gröting.  Asta Gröting (born 1961) is a German contemporary artist film maker and ventriloquist. She is also currently a professor at the Braunschweig University of Art.
Ian Millington.  Ian Millington is a British developer and author of books and courses on software development particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence decision support and game physics engine development. Also an AJAX technology pioneer.[citation needed]
Kristan Cunningham.  Kristan Cunningham is an American actress and interior designer living in Los Angeles CA U.S. She studied interior design at the University of Charleston. Kristan was raised in Sylvester and is a graduate of Sherman High School in Seth West Virginia.Kristan Cunningham is best known as a host of HGTV's Design on a Dime as well as her appearances on Rachael Ray.
Suu Minazuki.  Suu Minazuki (水無月すう) is a Japanese manga artist.His fantasy comedy manga Sora no Otoshimono has been released as two anime seasons and two movie. The name of the first movie is Tokei Jikake no Angeloid(The Angeloid of Clockwork) Second movie will be in theathers in japan on 26-04-2014 named Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Master this will presumebly be also the final of the series.
Kenya Hathaway.  Kenya Canc'Libra Hathaway (born January 1 1971) is a contemporary American R&B and jazz singer. She is the daughter of R&B and jazz singer Donny Hathaway and classically trained vocalist Eulaulah and is the younger sister of Lalah Hathaway also a R&B and jazz singer.Kenya Hathaway attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She has performed with many prominent artists including with Lee Ritenour on his track Papa Was A Rollin' Stone and Morning Glory.
Marcie Bolen.  Marcie Bolen (born October 28 1977) is an American guitarist from Detroit Michigan. She grew up in Southgate Michigan and went to school for art and cosmetology.
Kristy Frank.  Kristy Frank is a recording artist with Transcontinental Music Group.Kristy currently serves as a StarPower Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation encouraging other young people to commit their time energy and resources to help other kids and working with Starlight to brighten the lives of seriously ill children.
Géraldine Martineau.  Géraldine Martineau is a French actress originally from Nantes France. She started acting when she was 8-years-old. At the age of 17 She was accepted into the Cours Florent and started a course in the Classe Libre (a free 2-year acting course) before she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique two years later. She has acted on the stage in front of television cameras and even on the big screen.
Mitsuzo Sasaki.  Mitsuzo Sasaki (佐々木 味津三 Sasaki Mitsuzō March 18 1896–February 6 1934) is a Japanese author.He was born in Shitara Aichi.
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd.  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1825–1899) miscellaneous writer son of Rev. Dr. Boyd of Glasgow was originally intended for the English Bar but entered the Church of Scotland and was minister latterly at St. Andrews.
S. G. Browne.  S.G. “Scott” Browne is an American author of dark comedy and social satire. His debut novel Breathers: A Zombie's Lament is a dark rom-zom-com (romantic-zombie-comedy) told from the point of view of a zombie. His second novel Fated a black comedy about fate and destiny was released November 2 2010. Lucky Bastard a novel about a man with the ability to steal other people's luck with a handshake was released April 17 2012 and was his third published novel.
Eka Budianta.  Christophorus Apolinaris Eka Budianta Martoredjo also known as C. A. Eka Budianta more commonly known as Eka Budianta (b. 1956 in Ngimbang East Java) is an Indonesian poet. He was born into a Catholic family and was the second child of nine. His father was a farmer and his mother worked as an elementary school teacher. After graduating from high school in Malang he attended the Lembaga Pendidikan Kesenian Jakarta now known as Institut Kesenian Jakarta but did not complete his studies.
Norval Morrisseau.  Norval Morrisseau CM (March 14 1932 – December 4 2007) also known as Copper Thunderbird was an Aboriginal Canadian artist. Known as the Picasso of the North Morrisseau created works depicting the legends of his people the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions his existential struggles and his deep spirituality and mysticism. His style is characterized by thick black outlines and bright colors.
Iván Segarra Báez.  Iván Segarra Báez was born in Caguas Puerto Rico in 1967. He has published three books of poems: Candela (1997) Entre tu cuerpo y mi alma (2000) and Hay veces que llora el mar (2001)His first novel El Guardián de la Lujuria was published in 2003. In Trento Italy the publishing house Edizioni Universum awarded him the Libro d' Oro diploma di Merito for this work January 29 2003.
Nicholas Solovioff.  Nicholas Solovioff (1927–1994) was an American artist.Solovioff was a prolific illustrator having done covers for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Fortune Sports Illustrated Horizon Readers Digest and the Smithsonian Institution. He also illustrated articles in Fortune and illustrated some of the Time-Life books. He specialized in illustrating architecture technology science and nature.
Sara Jane Lippincott.  Sara Jane Lippincott (1823–1904) was better known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. She was an American author poet and lecturer. One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries she used her questions to advocate for social reform and women's rights.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle.  For other uses of Fontenelle see Fontenelle.Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (11 February 1657 – 9 January 1757) also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle was a French author. Isaiah Berlin said Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time and indeed of most times. In 1935 the lunar crater Fontenelle was named after him.
Kahimi Karie.  Mari Hiki (比企真理 Hiki Mari born March 15 1968) better known by her stage name Kahimi Karie (カヒミ・カリィ Kahimi Karii) is a Japanese Shibuya-kei musician.Kahimi sings in English French and Japanese (among other languages) with whisper-like vocals. A number of her early songs were written for her by Momus. She also has a strong connection to Cornelius who collaborated on many early works and whose trendy Trattoria label released many of her EPs in the mid-'90s.
V.I.C..  Victor Grimmy Owusu (born July 20 1987) better known by his stage name V.I.C. is an American rapper from Atlanta Georgia. His single Get Silly reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2008.
Michael Manning (fetish artist).  Michael Manning (born 1963) is an American comic book artist and writer fine art illustrator and traditionally trained animator currently based in Los Angeles California. He is best known for his graphic novel series The Spider Garden and Tranceptor which combine elements of pan-sexual fetishism and BDSM culture with complex characters in science fiction and fantasy settings.
Sarah McFarland Taylor.  Sarah McFarland Taylor is an American academic and author. She is currently Associate Professor of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University where she also teaches in the Environmental Policy and Culture Program. Areas of focus include women's studies in religion religion and ecology and religion and American culture.Taylor has held numerous fellowships including the Andrew W.
Carl Hiaasen.  Carl Hiaasen (/ˈhaɪ.əsɛn/; born March 12 1953) is an American journalist columnist and novelist.
John Grisham.  John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8 1955) is an American lawyer politician and author best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade.
Jasvinder Singh.  Jaswinder Singh is an Indian Ghazal singer. He renders ghazals of popular poets such as Mirza Ghalib Daag Faiz Ahmed Faiz Jigar and Kaifi Azmi.
Astolfo Petrazzi.  Astolfo Petrazzi (1583-1653 or 1665) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in his hometown of Siena but also Spoleto and Rome. He was a pupil of mainly Francesco Vanni but also worked under Ventura Salimbeni and Pietro Sorri. He died in Siena.
Modulok (rapper).  Moe Gonsalves better known by his stage name Modulok is an underground hip hop artist based in East York Ontario.
Alan Krueck.  Alan Henry Krueck (born in Rochester New York November 15 1939 – died Brownsville Pennsylvania June 24 2010) was an American musicologist editor and professor of German language and the head of the North American branch of the International Draeseke Society.Krueck wrote his doctoral dissertation The symphonies of Felix Draeseke: a study in consideration of developments in symphonic form in the second half of the nineteenth century for the University of Zurich in 1967.
Butch Vig.  Bryan David Butch Vig (born August 2 1955) is an American musician and record producer best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of diamond-selling album Nevermind by Nirvana.A native of Wisconsin Vig had been based in Madison for much of his career from studying at the University of Wisconsin to performing in local bands Spooner and Fire Town and then to setting up his own recording studio Smart Studios in the town. 
Edward Charles Volkert.  Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935) was an American Impressionist artist best known for his colorful and richly painted impressionist landscapes. His trademark subject was that of cattle and plowmen. He has been referred to as America's cattle painter extraordinaire.The son of a hat merchant from Alsace Volkert was born in Cincinnati Ohio in 1871. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck whose draftsmanship would influence Volkert.
Edward Dwelly.  Edward Dwelly (1864–1939) was a Scottish Gaelic lexicographer and genealogist. He is generally believed to have created the authoritative dictionary in Scottish Gaelic and his work although arguably never bettered in Scotland has been an immense influence on Irish lexicography. He also practised as a professional genealogist and published transcripts of many original documents particularly relating to Somerset.
Steve Grand (musician).  Steve Grand (born 1990)[citation needed] is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Lemont Illinois a Chicago suburb. He became an overnight internet celebrity and was acclaimed by some to be the first openly gay male country musician to attract mainstream attention in the United States. The music video of his first hit All-American Boy went viral on YouTube in less than a week in July 2013. This attention landed Grand on “Good Morning America” CNN and other national media.
Jamie Davis (musician).  Jamie Davis (born September 3 1983) is an American country/soul/Southern rock musician. He is best known as lead singer guitarist and principal songwriter of Jamie Davis & Soul Gravy the band notable for its 2006 single Mississippi Moonshine.
Richard Manuel.  Richard George Manuel (April 3 1943 – March 4 1986) was a Canadian composer singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his contributions to and membership in The Band.
Chew Fu.  Chew Fu is a New York based electronic record producer remixer and DJ born in the Netherlands.He is best known for his official refixes for pop artists including Lady Gaga Rihanna Timbaland Mariah Carey Far East Movement and Robyn and his distinctive style of production which features a fusion of electro house and hip hop music.Instead of using the term remix Chew Fu coined the term refix because he says that his remixes are like a completely new productions. When DJ-ing Chew Fu only plays his own original productions and refixes.On where his name came from My crew came up with it when I was producing tracks for Bad Boy Records to describe my production process and style. 
Saška Janković.  Aleksandra Janković (Serbian: Александра Јанковић; born 29 April 1988) professionally known as Saška Janković (Serbian: Сашка Јанковић) and Miss Jukebox is a Serbian singer-songwriter. She was previously a backing vocalist for numerous other artists including Milan Stanković at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and Nina Radojičić at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. In 2012 Janković participated in Prvi glas Srbije a musical talent show similar to The Voice.
Sara Zarr.  Sara Zarr (born October 3 1970) is an American writer. She was raised in San Francisco and now lives in Salt Lake City Utah with her husband. Her first novel Story of a Girl was a 2007 National Book Award finalist. She is also the author of Sweethearts and Once Was Lost. All three are published by Little Brown.
Cliff Rathburn.  Cliff Rathburn is an American comic book artist. He pencils inks colors and greyscales.
Andy Dixon.  Andy Dixon (born 1979) is a Canadian artist and musician who gained notoriety as a member of the North Vancouver punk rock band d.b.s. He founded the record label Ache Records and later played in The Red Light Sting. Beginning in 2003 during the final months of The Red Light Sting he began to cut up audio recordings he made himself and compose glitch/IDM music under the alias Secret Mommy though he used The Epidemic for his first solo release.
Andrew Chou.  Andrew Cho born May 7 1990 is an American born Taiwanese songwriter DJ producer and musician.He was the youngest member of the Taiwanese hip-hop group Machi. While in Machi he released three studio albums with the group along with his debut album Oh My!.Since then he has written songs for numerous artists including Vanness Wu Nicky Lee and also fully composed and produced an EP for Steven Lin entitled War in 2007.
Keri Kelli.  Keri Kelli (born Kenneth Fear Jr.) is an American hard rock guitarist until recently playing for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Alice Cooper. He occasionally also plays with Skid Row and Night Ranger. He played guitar and co-wrote songs (Killed By Love The One That Got Away and Feminine Side) on the 2008 Alice Cooper studio album Along Came a Spider released worldwide July 29. He has also worked extensively with former Warrant vocalist Jani Lane as well as Slash of Guns N' Roses.
Ipe Ivandić.  Goran Ipe Ivandić (December 10 1955 in Vareš PR Bosnia-Herzegovina FPR Yugoslavia – January 13 1994 in Belgrade Serbia FR Yugoslavia) was a Bosnian and Yugoslav rock drummer famous for his work with the band Bijelo Dugme.
Shahid Parvez.  Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan (born 14 October 1955[citation needed]) is a sitar player of Hindustani classical music. He carries on a legacy of sitar playing that goes back several generations in his family. He belongs to the famous Etawah Gharana and belongs to the seventh generation of this musical lineage. He is one of India’s most celebrated younger musicians praised especially for the vocalistic phrasing of his raga improvisations.
Keith Laumer.  John Keith Laumer ((1925-06-09)June 9 1925 – January 23 1993(1993-01-23)) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a U.S. diplomat. His older brother March Laumer was also a writer known for his adult reinterpretations of the Land of Oz (also mentioned in Laumer's The Other Side of Time). Frank Laumer their youngest brother is an historian and writer.
Tim Staffell.  Timothy J. Tim Staffell (born 24 February 1948 in Ealing London) is an English rock musician visual artist model maker and designer. He was a member of Smile a band which included guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Upon Staffell's departure Smile were joined by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon to form the band Queen.
Kenan Doğulu.  Kenan Doğulu (Turkish pronunciation: [ceˈnan doːuˈɫu]) (born 31 May 1974 in Cihangir Beyoğlu Istanbul) is a Turkish pop musician. He represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki where he placed fourth with 163 points.Kenan Doğulu has been in a relationship with Beren Saat the leading Turkish actress since February 2012.
Bapsi Sidhwa.  Bapsi Sidhwa (born 1938) is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English and is resident in America.She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film Water.
Roger Springer.  Roger Springer (born June 15 1962 in Caddo Oklahoma) is an American country music artist. Springer's only single as a solo artist The Right One Left was released in 1992 on MCA Nashville and peaked at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.In 1998 Springer formed the country music trio Springer! with Shara Johnson and Joe Manuel. Their first single Don't Try to Find Me peaked at No. 64 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Walter Sichel.  Walter Sichel (1855-1933) was an English biographer and lawyer the brother of Edith Helen Sichel of German descent born in London and educated at Harrow and at Balliol College Oxford.He studied law and was called to the bar in 1879. He wrote two law books and made contributions to the reviews.
Kieran Kane.  Kieran Kane (born October 7 1949 in Queens New York) is an American country music artist as well as the owner of Dead Reckoning Records an independent record label. Between 1986 and 1990 he and Jamie O'Hara comprised The O'Kanes a duo which charted seven singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts including the Number One single Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You. In addition Kieran charted a string of solo singles on Asylum Records in 1982.
Peter Chan.  Peter Chan Ho-sun (born 28 November 1962) is a film director and producer.
Robin Kornman.  Robin Kornman (April 17 1947 – July 31 2007) is best known for his work as a Tibetan Buddhist scholar as well as a founding member of the Nalanda Translation Committee. Up until his death he had spent many years working on an English translation of the Tibetan (living) epic Gesar of Ling — it is his work on this translation that has gained him the most recognition.
Debojit Saha.  Debojit Saha (Bengali:দেবজিৎ সাহা) born at Silchar Assam in a Bengali Hindu familyis an Indian Bengali singer and past winner of Zee TV's reality series Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005.
Jack Lawrence (artist).  Jack Lawrence (born 1975 in Canterbury Kent) is a British comics creator. Prior to 2002 he also worked as an animator.
Jerry Frissen.  Jerry Frissen (born Thierry Frissen in Brussels on June 2 1964) is an American comic book writer and a toy designer from Los Angeles California. He has written the anthology comic book series Lucha Libre and The Zombies That Ate The World illustrated by Guy Davis.
Benedetto Diana.  Benedetto Diana (died 1525) was an Italian Renaissance painter a companion of Vittore Carpaccio and Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti who lived in the latter part of the 15th and early part of the 16th centuries. No date can be given of his birth. He was an inferior artist and worked both in tempera and oils. He painted The Brethren distributing Alms in San Giovanni Evangelista Venice and he assisted Lazzaro Bastiani in painting the standards on the Piazza of San Marco.
John Fletcher (playwright).  John Fletcher (1579–1625) was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration his fame rivalled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
Oste Erceg.  Oste Erceg (Serbo-Croatian: [Осте Ерцег]; 23 March 1947 ) is a Bosnian Serb painter from Novi Grad Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hashim bey Vazirov.  Hashim bey Miriman oglu Vazirov (Azerbaijani: Haşım bəy Vəzirov; 1868-1916) – was an Azerbaijani journalist writer and publisher.
John Salew.  John Salew (Portsmouth Hampshire 1902 – September 1961 London) was a British stage film and TV actor. Salew made the transition from stage to films in 1939 and according to Allmovie the manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances.
Kirk Jarvinen.  Kirk Jarvinen (born 1967 in Detroit Michigan) is an American artist / illustrator best known for his cartoon-style comic book art.
Bill Ramsay.  William George Ramsay (Bill or Rams; born January 12 1929 in Centralia Washington) is an American jazz saxophonist and band leader based in Seattle. In 1997 he was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame the top of eight Golden Ear Award categories presented annually since 1990 by the Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle. Ramsay performs on all the primary saxophones – soprano alto tenor and baritone – as well as clarinet (his boyhood instrument) and bass clarinet.
Carl Friedrich Zöllner.  Carl Friedrich Zöllner (17 May 1800 in Mittelhausen – 25 September 1860 in Leipzig) was a German composer and choir director. After studying at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig he started teaching voice. He wrote organ variations on God Save the Queen and wrote several songs. His son was composer Heinrich Zöllner.
Hemant Divate.  Hemant Divate is a reputed Marathi poeteditortranslator and publisher based in Mumbai.
Cynthia Sayer.  Cynthia Nan Sayer is a jazz banjoist vocalist concert and recording artist and entertainer. She is also a 2006 inductee into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame as recognition as a Contemporary Performer.
Rasmus Thude.  Rasmus Thude (born in Aarhus Denmark on 26 March 1989) is a Danish singer and songwriter. He has previously participated in the Danish X Factor in 2010.In January 2011 was his song LLL (Love Liquor Lick It) confused with the American singer Justin Timberlake and several thought it was American's new single.
Alvin Gittens.  Alvin L. Gittins (17 January 1922 – 7 March 1981) was an English-born artist who was a professor at the University of Utah. He has been described as one of [the United States] greatest portrait artists ever.Gittins was born in Kidderminster Worcestershire England. He attended art school in London. Gittins was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England. He first came to the United States in 1946 and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1947.
Akane Ogura.  Akane Ogura (小椋アカネ Ogura Akane born October 25) is a Japanese manga artist from Nagoya Aichi Prefecture Japan. She resides in Tokyo.Her latest work Eikyū Shōjo (永久少女) is scheduled to appear in the March issue of Hakusensha's bi-monthly shōjo manga magazine LaLa DX.
Alberto Pappafava.  Count Alberto Pappafava or Pappafava dei Carraresi (1832-1929) was an Italian painter mainly of Romantic style landscapes in watercolor and oil.
Brandon Heath.  Brandon Heath Knell better known by the stage name Brandon Heath (born July 21 1978[citation needed]) is a contemporary Christian musician from Nashville Tennessee. He has released four studio albums: Don't Get Comfortable (2006) What If We (2008) Leaving Eden (2011) and Blue Mountain (2012). He is best known for the No. 1 I'm Not Who I Was and Give Me Your Eyes. He was nominated four times at the Dove Awards of 2008 and won in the New Artist of the Year category.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or The Bridge a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. In 1933 his work was branded as degenerate by the Nazis and in 1937 over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.
Nina Barr Wheeler.  Nina Barr Wheeler (September 3 1909 - May 1 1978) was an American artist. She worked with Hildreth Meiere on many of her murals and also a painter of Catholic religious art. She designed stained glass windows for the National Cathedral in Washington DC and murals for the interior of The Tavern on the Green restaurant in New York City.
Roger King (novelist).  Roger Frank Graham King (born March 14 1947) is an English novelist and filmmaker.
Tinga Stewart.  Tinga Stewart (born Neville Stewart c.1955 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer. Stewart won the Festival Song Contest three times twice as a singer and once as a songwriter.
Ruby Lovett.  Ruby Lovett (born February 16 1967 in Laurel Mississippi) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Lovett was put up for adoption as a baby. She cut a 45 rpm recording of One Day at a Time and Me and Jesus when she was 6 years old. She later entered local talent contests and won the True Value Country Showdown three years in a row. She started writing songs at age 10 and formed a band at age 13.Lovett's mother encouraged her to perform but also to get an education.
Patrice Jeener.  Patrice Jeener is a leading Frenchartist and copper engraverspecialising in work of a mathematical nature.He studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then (1963) at the l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Mari Kvien Brunvoll.  Mari Kvien Brunvoll (born 1984 in Molde Norway) is a Norwegian folk and jazz singer and has over the last few years attracted attention at festivals in Norway and internationally with her solo concept where the voice is complemented by small electronic and acoustic instruments in a sound inspired by jazz pop and folk music. She is the daughter of Lawyer Knut Anker Brunvoll (b.
Stevie Hyper D.  Stevie Hyper D (born Stephen Austin 20 September 1967 – 5 July 1998) was a drum and bass MC.
Kat Bjelland.  Katherine Kat Lynne Bjelland (born December 9 1963) is an American singer-songwriter musician and guitarist. Bjelland rose to prominence as the lead singer guitarist and songwriter of the punk rock band Babes in Toyland which formed in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1987.
Alex Baroni.  Alex Baroni born Alessandro Guido Maria Baroni (December 22 1966 – April 13 2002) was an Italian white soul singer active between 1994 and 2002. He released four albums during his lifetime. A fifth posthumous record a tribute album and two more collections (one of which double both of them containing previously unreleased material and his greatest songs) came out after his death.
Mike A. Males.  Mike A. Males (born 1950) is an American sociologist who is senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice San Francisco and content director for YouthFacts.org the online information service on youth issues.
Megan Pearson.  Megan Pearson is a British actress who is best known for playing Jean Tate in ITV's Emmerdale. She lives in Leeds England.
Vasireddy Seethadevi.  Vasireddy Seethadevi (Telugu: వాసిరెడ్డి సీతాదేవి) (December 15 1933 - April 13 2007) was a Telugu writer of Andhra Pradesh India.Seethadevi published around forty-two novels ten short-story collections and several essays. Her novel Mareechika was banned by the state government of Andhra Pradesh. She waged a war against the government in the court and got her book released.
Nirmal Verma.  Nirmal Verma (Devanāgarī: निर्मल वर्मा; 3 April 1929 – 25 October 2005) was a Hindi writer novelist activist and translator.
Gus Kahn.  Gustav Gerson Kahn (November 6 1886 – October 8 1941) was an American lyricist.
Eugeniy Derevianko.  Eugeniy Derevianko (born 7 January 1968 in Kiev in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian expressionist sculptor artist and art teacher.
Michel Garder.  Michel Garder is a French author and military man who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1965 book L'Agonie du Regime en Russie Sovietique (The Death Struggle of the Regime in Soviet Russia). He set the date of the collapse as 1970.
Elvis Crespo.  Elvis Crespo Díaz (born July 30 1971 in New York City) is an American-born Puerto Rican Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning Merengue singer.
Pamela Allen.  Pamela Kay Allen MNZM (born April 1934 in Devonport New Zealand) is a children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 30 picture books since 1980 when she moved to Australia. Eight of her books have been adapted for the stage by The Patch Theatre Company and performed at the Sydney Opera House. Allen currently lives in Auckland.
Kandula Mallikarjuna Rao.  Kandula Mallikharjuna Rao better known as Mallik (1921–1996) was popular music composer and singer. He was born to K. Venkatachalam and Lakshmi Narasamma. He was born in Machilipatnam Krishna District Andhra Pradesh. He received initial training in music from late Krovi Satyanarayana. He worked as a music composer and singer at All India Radio Madras for 30 years. He later transferred to All India Radio Vijayawada.
Ryan Dennis.  Ryan Thomas Dennis (born 8 January 1984) is a Canadian athlete best known as the former lead singer of the Canadian rock band Serial Joe. He also fronted the independent hard rock band High Kapitol. Dennis also plays guitar and starred in a music video for Our Lady Peace's Superman's Dead.
Stanley Beckford.  Stanley Beckford (1942–2007) was a Jamaican born Mento singer songwriter and four time Jamaica Independence Festival song contest winner who recorded as a solo artist and with the bands The Starlights/Starlites Stanley and the Turbines and Stanley and the Astronauts.
K'naan.  Keinan Abdi Warsame (Somali: Keynaan Cabdi Warsame Arabic: كَينَان عَبدِ وَرسَمَ‎ Kaynān ʿAbdi Warsama) better known by his stage name K'naan (/ˈkeɪnɑːn/) is a Somali Canadian poet rapper singer songwriter and instrumentalist. He rose to prominence with the success of his single Wavin' Flag which was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Besides hip-hop K'naan's sound is influenced by elements of Somali music Ethio-jazz and world music.
Michael Gaunt.  Michael Gaunt is a former pornographic actor.
Giovanni Andrea Sirani.  Giovanni Andrea Sirani (4 September 1610 – 21 May 1670) was an Italian Baroque painter from Bologna.He is best known as the father of the female painter Elisabetta Sirani. Sirani trained initially with Giacomo Cavedone then worked in the studio with Guido Reni. He became entangled in various conspiracies circling around the death of his daughter in 1665. Giovanni accused a maid of poisoning her; others accuse Giovanni of causing her to develop a stomach ulcer from overwork.
I. K. Dairo.  Isaiah Kehinde Dairo (1930) MBE (1930–1996) was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician.
Jean-Jacques Lafon.  Jean-Jacques Lafon (born on October 5 1955) is a French singer-songwriter (one-hit wonder) and painter. He remains known for his 1985 hit Le géant de papier which peaked at #6 on the SNEP singles chart and earned a Silver disc. Lafon is also the writer of the 1987 hit Viens boire un p'tit coup à la maison for Licence IV under the pseudonym of Falon.
Carol Kidd.  Carol Kidd MBE is born on 19 October 1945 in Glasgow Scotland and is a Scottish jazz singer.She came to prominence in the mid-1970s as the vocalist in the band led by vibrophonist / saxophonist Jimmy Feighan. In 1990 she released her award-winning album The Night We Called It a Day. She has subsequently performed and recorded extensively on her own. She has won several awards at the British Jazz Awards. In 1998 she was awarded an MBE.
Steven Cheung (actor).  Steven Cheung Chi-hang (born November 10 1984) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Steven Cheung was a member of the Cantopop duo Sun Boy'z from 2002–2006 where William Chan joined in and the group was renamed Sun Boy'z. It was officially disbanded in December 2008.
Julie Heffernan.  Julie Heffernan (born 1956 in Peoria Illinois) is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as a new kind of history painting. Her imaginative landscapes feature such elements as exploding cities castoff gods and garbage and falling torrents of animals meteors and gemstones.David Cohen art critic of The New York Sun says of Heffernan's art at a 2007 exhibition: These paintings are a hybrid of genres and styles mixing allegory portraiture history painting and still life while in title they are all presented as self portraits.Heffernan was raised in Northern California and lives in Brooklyn New York. 
May Qwinten.  May Qwinten (born in Malmö Sweden on 10 May 1983) is a Swedish pop / rock singer. She also has roots in both Finland and Denmark. She is signed to Universal Music Sweden.She started singing and dancing at the age of 3. By the age of 16 she started recording at the local Malmöstudio and toured Sweden and Poland.
Terrence McNally.  Terrence McNally (born November 3 1938) is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards an Emmy Award two Guggenheim Fellowships a Rockefeller Grant the Lucille Lortel Award the Hull-Warriner Award and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Warren Norwood.  Warren Carl Norwood (1945 – June 3 2005) was an American author teacher and musician.Norwood was a former member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Suzanne Lacy.  Suzanne Lacy (born 1945 Wasco CA) is an American artist educator writer curator and former public servant. She has worked in a variety of media including installation video performance public art and artists' books and describes her work as focusing on social themes and urban issues. She also served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown then mayor of Oakland California and went on to become an arts commissioner for the city.
Henry Saxe.  Henry Saxe OC (born September 24 1937) is a Canadian sculptor.Born in Montreal Quebec he attended the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.In 1988 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his own unconventional works which have left an indelible imprint on Canadian sculpture. In 1994 he was awarded the Government of Quebec's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas.
Valerie Day.  Valerie Day (born November 20 1959) is an American pop and jazz singer. Born in Portland Oregon United States she is a fourth-generation Oregonian and grew up in a musical family. She was the lead singer and a founding member of the 1980s dance band Nu Shooz along with her husband John Smith.Day's performances with Nu Shooz had mixed reviews. She and Smith were credited with rewriting the book on Portland's R&B sound.
Billy Higgins.  Billy Higgins (October 11 1936 – May 3 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
Yammie Lam.  Yammie Lam Kit-ying (born 27 April 1964) also known as Yammie Nam is a former Hong Kong TVB actress most notable for her excellent performance in The Greed of Man and Looking Back In Anger.
James Taranto.  James Taranto (born January 6 1966) is an American journalist and columnist for The Wall Street Journal editor of its online editorial page OpinionJournal.com and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. He is best known for his daily online column Best of the Web Today. The column typically includes political social and media commentary in the form of conventional opinion writing as well as wordplay and other recurring themes on news stories crowdsourced from readers.
Noel Pointer.  Noel Pointer (December 26 1954 Brooklyn NY - December 19 1994) was an American jazz violinist and record producer.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela.  Enrique Jardiel Poncela (15 October 1901 Madrid – 18 February 1952) was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works.In 1932-33 and 1934 he was called to Hollywood to help with the Spanish-language versions shot in parallel to the English-language films.His daughter Evangelina wrote a book entitled Mi padre (My Father).
Luis Ortiz Monasterio.  Luis Ortiz Monasterio (b. Mexico City August 23 1906 – d. Mexico City February 16 1990) was a Mexican sculptor noted for his monumental works such as the Monumento a la Madre and the Nezahualcoyotl Foundation in Chapultepec Park. His work was recognized in 1967 with the Premio Nacional de Artes and was a founding member of the Academia de Artes.
Frank Rich.  Frank Hart Rich Jr. (born June 2 1949) is an American essayist op-ed columnist and writer who has—most notably—held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011.On March 1 2011 it was announced that he would be leaving the Times to become an essayist and editor-at-large for New York magazine starting in June 2011.
Persimmon Blackbridge.  Persimmon Blackbridge (born 1951) is a Canadian writer and artist.Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Blackbridge moved to British Columbia with her family as a teenager and has worked and resided in Canada ever since. Along with artists Susan Stewart and Lizard Jones she has been a member of the Vancouver-based Kiss and Tell collective.Although predominantly a non-fiction writer whose work focuses on lesbian disability and mental health issues Blackbridge has also published two novels.
Aleksandra Ekster.  Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (Russian: Александра Александровна Экстер Ukrainian: Олександра Олександрівна Екстер; 6 January 1882 – 17 March 1949) also known as Alexandra Exter was a Russian-French painter (Cubo-Futurist Suprematist Constructivist) and designer.
Kay Adams (singer).  Kay Adams (born Princetta Kay Adams; April 9 1941) is an American country singer.
Azim Azimzade.  Azim Aslan oglu Azimzade (Azerbaijani: Əzim Aslan oğlu Əzimzadə; 7 May 1880 Novxanı village Absheron Rayon – 15 June 1943 Baku) was an Azerbaijani artist and cartoonist. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Roy McKie.  Roy McKie (usually spelled McKié) was an illustrator of children's books most notably under the Beginner Books imprint. He illustrated many books penned by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) under the pen name Theo. LeSieg (Geisel spelled backwards).
Bissan Rafe.  Bissan Rafe (Arabic: بيسان رافع ‎) is an American visual artist of Palestinian origin living and working in Houston Texas. She established Nohra-Studio in Houston back in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and biennials throughout the world including: USA Italy Portugal Germany Japan UK and Palestine.
Fazil Iskander.  Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (Russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; Abkhaz: Фазиль Абдул-иҧа Искандер; born 6 March 1929 Sukhumi USSR) is an Abkhaz writer known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of Caucasian life mostly written in Russian. He has written various stories most famously Zashita Chika which star a crafty and likable young boy named Chik.
Sam Abell.  Sam Abell (born 1945 in Sylvania Ohio) is an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in National Geographic. He first worked for National Geographic in 1967 and is one of the more overtly artistic photographers among his magazine peers. Sam Abell's style of photography is documentary in the sense that his major avenue the National Geographic magazine is a publication of record.
Rob Donn.  Rob Donn (Brown-haired Rob) (1714 - 1778) was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Sutherland. It is generally assumed that his surname was MacKay (MacAoidh) but this has been disputed so he is sometimes referred to as Rob Donn MacAoidh.
Patience Wright.  Patience Lovell Wright (1725 – March 23 1786) was the first recognized American-born sculptor. She chiefly created wax figures of people. She loved to write poetry and was also a painter.
George Forster (traveller).  George Forster (died 1792) was an English traveller and civil servant of the East India Company on the Madras establishment. He has sometimes been confused with Johann Georg Adam Forster.
David C. Williams (film composer).  David C. Williams is an American film composer. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Southwest Missouri State University and his Master of Music from the University of North Texas College of Music then later took classes with Academy Award winning composer John Corigliano. Williams is known for his work on films such as No Way Back Supernova Phantoms and The Prophecy the latter using the theme he created for all the film's sequels.
Winston Spear.  Winston Spear is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor from Toronto Ontario. He is the winner of the 2003 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-up and was a member of the cast of CTV sketch comedy show Comedy Inc.. Winston is known for dancing during his live performances.
Roland Ansieau.  Roland Ansieau (1901–1987) was an early 20th-century French art deco graphic artist best known for his 1935 Berger 45 wine advertisement which is widely reproduced as poster prints. Ansieau also created colorful illustrations for a 1931 seasonal guide to Deauville the flowered beach. Little else is known of his life or work.
Peter Keys.  Peter Pisarczyk (born May 30 1965) better known as Peter Keys is an American keyboardist. He is best known for his work with George Clinton in various P-Funk line-ups. He became the new keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd following Billy Powell's death in early 2009.
Lorado Taft.  Lorado Zadoc Taft (April 29 1860 – October 30 1936) was an American sculptor writer and educator. Taft was born in Elmwood Illinois in 1860 and died in his home studio in Chicago in 1936.
Paul Cain (author).  Paul Cain was the pen name used by George Caryl Sims' (born May 30 1902 in Des Moines Iowa died June 23 1966 in North Hollywood California) an American pulp fiction author and screenwriter. He was the author of 17 short stories in Black Mask and one book Fast One.
Nicholas Matthews Condy.  Nicholas Matthews Condy or Nicholas Condy the Younger (1816 – 20 May 1851) was a British maritime painter.
Keki N. Daruwalla.  Keki N. Daruwalla (born 1937) is a major Indian poet and short story writer in English language. He has written over 12 books and published his first novel For Pepper and Christ in 2009. He is also a former Indian Police Service officer who retired as Additional Director in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 for his poetry collection The Keeper of the Dead by the Sahitya Akademi India's National Academy of Letters.
William Henry Giles Kingston.  William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 – 5 August 1880) often credited as W. H. G. Kingston was an English writer of boys' adventure novels.
Grant Lewi.  William Grant Lewi II (June 8 1902 – July 14 1951) was an American astrologer and author.Best known for his books Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What Lewi has been described as the father of modern astrology in America.
Rob Dean.  Rob Dean (born 23 April 1955) is a British musician and is now a professional illustrator who rose to prominence playing guitar as a member of the British new wave band Japan.
Norman Vincent Peale.  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31 1898 – December 24 1993) was a minister and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of positive thinking.
Nate Kelley.  Nate Kelley (born February 15 1978 in Rockford Illinois) was the original drummer and backing vocalist for the progressive rock band Shabutie (now called Coheed and Cambria). Kelley along with Claudio Sanchez Travis Stever and Jon Carleo formed the band Beautiful Loser in 1995 which later became Shabutie after Stever left.[citation needed] Kelley left Shabutie in February 2000. He currently performs with the band Pontius Pilate Sales Pitch.
Dregen.  Dregen (born Andreas Tyrone Svensson on 12 June 1973 in Nässjö Sweden) is a Swedish musician best known as the former guitarist The Hellacopters and current guitarist of Backyard Babies and the newest member of Michael Monroe's band replacing Ginger as guitarist.
Hemant Mehta.  Hemant Mehta (born 1983) is a math teacher author blogger and atheist activist who gained fame for selling his soul on eBay. Mehta is a regular speaker at atheist events and has sat on the boards of charitable organizations such as the Secular Student Alliance and the Foundation Beyond Belief. He also runs a blog Friendly Atheist in which he posts multiple times a day.
John West (musician).  John M. West is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.He was born in Syracuse New York on October 29 and has sung for such bands as Artension Royal Hunt Badlands Lynch Mob Cozy Powell Michael Lee Firkins Yngwie Malmsteen Trans-Siberian Orchestra James Murphy Marc Ferrari Many Moons Rider and Feinstein.
Yutaka Matsushige.  Yutaka Matsushige (松重 豊 Matsushige Yutaka born 19 January 1963 in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese actor.
Amy Schumer.  Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1 1981) is an American stand-up comedian actress and writer. She placed fourth on the fifth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing and she placed second on Comedy Central's Reality Bites Back. In 2012 she held a recurring role on the Adult Swim series Delocated. She is the star of the comedy series Inside Amy Schumer which premiered on Comedy Central on April 30 2013.
Thomas Floyd.  Thomas Floyd (fl. 1589–1603) was a Welsh writer at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Molly Peters.  Molly Peters (born 15 March 1942 in Walsham-le-Willows Suffolk England) is an English actress. She appeared in only three films during the 1960s. Her best-known appearance was the role of Bond girl Patricia Fearing or Pat a nurse who takes care of James Bond (Sean Connery) while he's on vacation at her health clinic in Thunderball (1965). Molly was the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen in the Bond series.Peters appeared in Playboy in the November 1965 issue.
Vicentico.  Gabriel Julio Fernández Capello (born (1964-07-24)July 24 1964 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a musician and composer better known by his stage name Vicentico. Co-founder and vocalist of the band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs along with Flavio Cianciarulo. He was part of the group since its creation in 1984 to the year 2001 when he began a solo career as a singer.He lives with his wife actress Valeria Bertuccelli and their sons Florián and Vicente.
Anita Perras.  Anita Perras is a Canadian country music singer. Perras has released seven albums and charted twenty-six songs on the RPM Country Tracks chart between 1981 and 1995 including the Top 10 singles Heads You Win Tails I Lose (#10 1986) Isn't That the Strangest Thing (with Tim Taylor No.
Asad Qizilbash.  Asad Qizilbash (born 5 October 1963) is a Pakistani sarod player.
John Dyer Baizley.  John Baizley is a painter and musician based in Savannah Georgia. He is notable for his album cover art and t-shirts for artists including Kvelertak Kylesa Pig Destroyer Darkest Hour Daughters Skeletonwitch Torche Cursed Black Tusk Vitamin X Flight of the Conchords The Red Chord Gillian Welch Metallica and his own band Baroness for which he is the singer and rhythm guitarist.
Leopoldina Fortunati.  Leopoldina Fortunati is an Italian feminist theorist and author. Her influences include Mariarosa Dalla Costa Antonio Negri and Karl Marx.She is the author of The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework Prostitution Labor and Capital (L'arcano della riproduzione: Casalinghe prostitute operai e capitale) a feminist critique of Marx.Leopoldina Fortunati teaches Sociology of Communication and Sociology of Cultural Processes at the Faculty of Education of the University of Udine Italy.
May McNeer.  May Yonge McNeer Ward (1902 in Tampa Florida – 1994 in Reston Virginia) was an American journalist and author of a variety of subjects many of which were illustrated by her husband Lynd Ward whom she married a week after his graduation from Columbia University in 1926. In 1975 the two were jointly awarded the Regina Medal. Her first published story appeared in a Washington D.C. newspaper when she was eleven years old.
Valda Setterfield.  Valda Setterfield (born September 17 1934) is a British postmodern dancer and actress noted for her work as a soloist with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and for her performances in works by her husband postmodern choreographer and director David Gordon. She has been described as his muse. Their son playwright and actor Ain Gordon has worked with Setterfield on a number of projects as well.
Jim McCrary.  Jim McCrary (Aug. 31 1939 – April 29 2012) was a photographer known for his 1970s album covers most notably Carole King's Tapestry The Carpenters' Ticket to Ride and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Ioan Gyuri Pascu.  Ioan Gyuri Pascu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈo̯an ˈɡjuri ˈpasku]; also credited as Ioan Ghiurico Pascu Gyuri Pascu and Ghyuri Pascu; born August 31 1961) is a Romanian pop music singer producer actor and comedian also known for his participation in the comedy troupe Divertis and for his activity in Romanian cinema and television.
Laura Marie Greenwood.  For the actor see Laura GreenwoodLaura Marie Greenwood (1897 – 1951) was an American painter of portraits and still lifes. She worked with oils watercolors and pastels. Greenwood also lectured on art history and taught fine art.
Lillian Pitt.  Lillian Pitt (born in 1944) is a Native American artist from the Columbia River region of the Pacific Northwest. Her Native American name is Wak’amu (camas root) chosen because it represents a stubborn plant that won’t let go of the earth referring to the long periods of time she spent wandering the hills during her childhood.
John Hiatt.  John Hiatt (born August 20 1952) is an American rock guitarist pianist singer and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums including New Wave blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry.
Alvarenga Peixoto.  Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto (1744 — 1793) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and a lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste Fenício.It is attributed to him the design of the flag of Minas Gerais.
Jack Simcock.  Jack Simcock (6 June 1929-13 May 2012) was a British painter. He was born to a mining family in Biddulph Staffordshire and studied at Burslem School of Art. He is best known for a long series of bleak sombre oils on board of the Mow Cop area in which he lived for much of his life.
L.V. Banks.  L.V. Banks (October 28 1932 – May 2 2011) was an American Chicago blues and soul blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He was a respected club performer in Chicago for many years before recording two albums for Wolf Records.
Judith Forst.  Judith Doris Forst OC OBC (born November 7 1943) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano. Born in New Westminster British Columbia she received a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia in 1964. She is the sister-in-law of long time Vancouver radio personality Brian (Frosty) Forst. In 1968 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.Forst made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on September 19 1968 at the age of 24 in the small role of the Page in Rigoletto.
Willard Manus.  Willard Manus (born September 28 1930) is a Los Angeles-based novelist playwright and journalist. His best known book is Mott the Hoople (1966) the novel from which the British 1970s rock music band named Mott the Hoople adopted their name. Manus was born in New York. He is the author of This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables a memoir of life in Lindos Rhodes Greece from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Julian Smith (saxophonist).  Julian Smith (born 21 May 1969) is a British saxophonist and music teacher from Halesowen. He is also known by his stage name Joolz Gianni. He has made guest appearances alongside artists such as Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) Gwen Dickey (Rose Royce) and Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) and has performed on national television together with Chris Rea M People and Dina Carroll. In 2003 he released a solo album Chilled 2 the Sax which features Acker Bilk Dina Carroll and Ola Onabule.
Joe Simon.  Joseph Henry Joe Simon (born Hymie Simon; October 11 1913 – December 14 2011) was an American comic book writer artist editor and publisher.
Milly Quezada.  Milagros Quezada Borbón known simply as Milly Quezada is a Latin Grammy-winning Dominican Merengue music singer. She is a singer in Latin America; especially in those Latin American countries bordered by the Caribbean Sea and in the eastern seaboard region of the United States. She is also known as Merengue Queen. She has won four Latin Grammy Awards.
Jim Ferguson.  Jim Ferguson (born James Edwin Ferguson 1948) is an American guitarist composer music educator author and music journalist/editor.Born in Dayton Ohio Jim Ferguson began his early music education playing the trombone at age 7 and then after eight years of study switched to the guitar at age 15. He moved to California and began his music career in the 1970s performing teaching and devoting serious study to the guitar. He has since performed in the U.S.
Howard J. Buss.  Howard J. Buss (born January 6 1951 in Allentown Pennsylvania) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Buss’ works include instrumental solos chamber music symphonic choral and band works. His music has received awards including the 2011 Lieksa (Finland) Brass Week Composition Competition the National Flute Association’s Newly-Published Music Competition the Erik Satie Mostly Tonal Award State of Florida Fellowships and ASCAP Plus Awards.
Jennifer Reuting.  Jennifer Reuting is an American business consultant author entrepreneur and public speaker on corporate structuring and legal document production. She is currently the Founder and CEO of DocRun a software company that lets users create legal documents.She is the author of the best selling book Limited Liability Companies For Dummies (Wiley Publishing Inc. 2007) (a book in the popular For Dummies educational series) and is represented by ICM (International Creative Management).Ms.
Nicholas G. J. Ballanta.  Nicholas G.J. Ballanta (1893–1962) was a Sierra Leonean music scholar composer and educator who conducted field research of the music of West Africa in the early 20th century. His education in European music influenced his musical compositions. The years he spent collecting indigenous African music prompted him to compose musical plays or operas set in African villages; his work combines elements from both African and European music.
Nguyên Lê.  Nguyên Lê (Vietnamese: Lê Thành Nguyên ; born 14 January 1959 in Paris France) is a French Jazz musician and Composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar and he also plays electric bass guitar and guitar synthesizer.He has released numerous albums both as a leader and as a sideman. His 1996 album Tales from Viêt-Nam blends jazz and traditional Vietnamese music.
Chris McKinney.  Chris McKinney (born 1973) is an American writer born and raised in Hawaii.
Jim Peterik.  James Michael Jim Peterik (born November 11 1950 in Berwyn Illinois) is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the band Survivor and as vocalist and songwriter of the hit song Vehicle by The Ides of March.
Linden Dalecki.  Linden Dalecki (born December 23 1968) is an American author. He writes novels for children and young adults.
Thomas Rosenkranz.  Thomas Rosenkranz is a contemporary American pianist noted for performances of modern and international music.
Dia (singer).  Dia (Hangul: 디아 stylized as DIA) (born June 12 1992) is a South Korean singer and also a member of Girl Group KISS & CRY.
Bernadette Farrell.  Bernadette Farrell (born 1957) is a British Catholic hymnwriter whose works have gained popularity among Christians of a variety of denominations. She has composed hymns alone and with her husband Owen Alstott she also lives with her daughter Joanna.
Timothy Mahr.  Timothy Mahr (born March 20 1956 in Reedsburg Wisconsin) is a professor of music at St. Olaf College and an American composer and conductor. He is married to Jill Mahr music performer and educator and they have two daughters Jenna and Hannah.
Archer Prewitt.  Archer Prewitt (b. 1963 Frankfort Kentucky) is an American musician and cartoonist associated with the independent music scene in Chicago Illinois.
Ferdinando Sarmi.  Count Ferdinando Sarmi (born c. 1916) was the head of the Sarmi fashion design house in New York City.
Steve Beresford.  Steve Beresford (born 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York. He has played a variety of instruments including piano electronics trumpet euphonium bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music.
Álvaro Carrillo.  Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was a Mexican popular music composer and songwriter born in San Juan Cacahuatepec Oaxaca on 2 December 1921 who died in a car accident on 3 April 1969.
Jean-Pierre Dantan.  Jean-Pierre Dantan (Paris 28 December 1800 – 6 September 1869 Baden-Baden) known as Dantan the Younger was a French portrait sculptor. His subjects include many famous figures from the realms of politics (for example Talleyrand William Douglas) music and the arts (Beethoven Paganini Verdi Liszt Berlioz) and literature (Victor Hugo Balzac). He is said to be the inventor of the sculptural caricature.
Rosinha de Valença.  Maria Rosa Canelas (July 30 1941 – June 10 2004) better known as Rosinha de Valença was a Brazilian composer arranger and musician. She was considered one of the best acoustic guitarists in Brazilian music and played with many famous artists such as Baden Powell Sérgio Mendes and Sivuca.
Benjamín Carrión.  Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora (Loja April 20 1897 – Quito March 9 1979) was an Ecuadorian writer diplomat and cultural promoter.
Goreti Venkanna.  Goreti Venkanna (born 1963) is a popular Indian poet and folk singer. He became popular after his song Palle Kanneru Peduthundo in Khubasum Telugu movie had moved the masses and virtually prevented TDP to retain power in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh State in 2004. He also became popular by acting as a judge for the folk song program Rela Re Rela on Telugu TV channel Maa. He is one of the main Telangana separation activists. He is one of the icons of Telangana culture.
Trina Michaels.  Trina Michaels (born January 13 1983) is an American pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet. Prior to entering the adult film business she worked in a car insurance claims office and also worked as a waitress. Trina has worked for professional wrestling companies Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) as a manager. She also worked for Women's Extreme Wrestling (WEW) Naked Women's Wrestling League (NWWL) PWA SCP and AWS.
Tom Kelley (photographer).  Tom Kelley Sr. (December 12 1914 – January 8 1984) was an American photographer who photographed Hollywood celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his iconic 1949 nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe which were distributed widely as calendar art and one was featured in the inaugural issue of Playboy magazine in 1953.Kelley was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Cindy Blackman.  Cindy Blackman (born November 18 1959) sometimes known as Cindy Blackman-Santana is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman is best known for recording and touring with Lenny Kravitz. Blackman has recorded several straight-ahead jazz albums under her own name and has performed with acclaimed jazz and rock artists including Pharoah Sanders Ron Carter Sam Rivers Cassandra Wilson Angela Bofill Buckethead Bill Laswell and Joe Henderson. Tony Williams is her main drumming influence.
Joseph Kuhn-Régnier.  Joseph Kuhn-Régnier born Joseph Louis Wilfrid Kuhn-Regnier (10 December 1873 - 1940) was a French illustrator who worked in Paris. His work is recognizable by his characters inspired by Greek and classical art. He contributed full-page colored illustrations and advertisements to society magaziness between 1911 and 1934 such as La Vie Parisienne Fantasio and Le Sourire.
Mariolino Barberis.  Mariolino Barberis (born Mario Barberis Turin 14 August 1949) is an Italian singer.
Billy Ireland.  William Addison Ireland (1880 – May 29 1935) a native of Chillicothe Ohio was a self-taught cartoonist well known throughout Ohio as Billy Ireland. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum was named in his honor in 2009.
Derek Watkins (trumpeter).  Derek Roy Watkins (2 March 1945 – 22 March 2013) was an English jazz pop and classical trumpet player. Best known for his lead trumpet work on the soundtracks of every James Bond film from Dr. No (1962) to Skyfall (2012) Watkins recorded with every notable British jazz bandleader as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra the London Symphony Orchestra and The Beatles. Dizzy Gillespie called him Mr. Lead.
Jin Goto.  Jin Goto (後藤 仁 Gotō Jin born 1968 in Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese Nihonga painter.
Terry Evans (musician).  Terry Evans (born August 14 1937) is an African American R&B blues and soul singer guitarist and songwriter. He has worked with many musicians including Ry Cooder Bobby King John Fogerty Eric Clapton Joan Armatrading John Lee Hooker Boz Scaggs Maria Muldaur and Hans Theessink.
Joel Pett.  Joel W. Pett (born September 1 1953) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Laudelino Mejías.  Laudelino Mejías b. (Trujillo Venezuela August 1893) d. (Caracas Venezuela November 30 1963) was a Venezuelan composer best known for the waltz Conticinio.
Patrick Defossez.  Patrick Defossez (born 7 August 1959 at Valenciennes France) is a Belgian composer pianist and improviser of contemporary classical music. A Belgian citizen he has lived in France for many years and divides his time between Belgium Reims and the foothills of the Mont Ventoux.He is also the musical director of the 2d’Lyres not-for-profit organization and the Autres Voix de piano collective.
Joseph Meyer (songwriter).  Joseph Meyer (March 12 1894 – June 22 1987) was an American songwriter who wrote some of the most notable songs of the first half of the twentieth century.Meyer collaborated with many famous songwriters of the day including Buddy DeSylva Al Lewis and Al Sherman. Three of his most famous songs were the 1922 hit California Here I Come My Honey's Lovin' Arms (1922) and If You Knew Susie (1925) a song he co-wrote with Buddy DeSylva.
Master Dhanraj.  Master Dhanraj (also credited as Dhanraj Master) is a musician multi-instrumentalist from Tamil Nadu India.
Suki Kim.  Suki Kim is a Korean American writer a 2006 Guggenheim fellow and the author of the award winning novel The Interpreter.
Leela James.  Leela James (born June 2 1983 in Los Angeles California) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter. James cites singers James Brown Roberta Flack Marvin Gaye Donny Hathaway Gladys Knight Mavis Staples and Stevie Wonder as her influences. Her deep rich gritty vocals have drawn comparisons to Aretha Franklin Chaka Khan and Tina Turner.
Hikari Hino.  Hikari Hino (妃乃ひかり Hino Hikari) is a Japanese AV idol who has performed for several prominent adult video (AV) companies and who has appeared in more than 500 AVs.
Robert Katona.  Robert Katona is an American artist and innovator of the Flow Painting Technique. His method uses liquid acrylic paint poured onto the canvas creating a dynamic flowing composition. When the paint is dry he studies the free form color field and looks for abstract shapes and images that suggest a theme. He then paints these visions into the background with startling precision.
Ryan Cayabyab.  Ryan Cayabyab (born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab on May 4 1954 in Manila Philippines but known as Mr. C) is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Cecil Gray (composer).  Cecil Gray (1895–1951) was a Scottish music critic and composer. He published books on the composers Jean Sibelius Peter Warlock and Carlo Gesualdo the last of these co-authored by the same Warlock; also a history of music collections of essays on music a play about Gilles de Rais and an autobiography.He also wrote three operas: Deirdre (performed in part on the BBC) The Temptation of St Anthony (after Flaubert) and The Trojan Women.He married the daughter of Natalia Brasova.
Paulette Jiles.  Paulette Jiles-Johnson (born 4 Apr 1943) is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem Missouri she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature. Jiles moved to Canada in 1969.She is married to Jim Johnson and has three stepchildren and six grandchildren.Currently she lives in San Antonio Texas.
Vincenzo Dandini.  Vincenzo Dandini (1607 in Florence–1675 in Florence) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of his brother Cesare Dandini in Florence then he moved to Rome and worked in the studio of Pietro da Cortona. Among his pupils were Giovanni Battista Marmi and Antonio Domenico Gabbiani. His nephew Pietro and his two children Ottaviano and Vincezo the younger also worked as painters in his studio.
Christina Courtin.  Christina Courtin (born 1984) is an American singer violinist and songwriter.A performer from an early age and a graduate of the Juilliard School Christina Courtin released her first self-titled album in June 2009 on Nonesuch Records of which Patrick McKiernan of website allgigs.co.uk stated It's nothing short of immense how beautiful this girl's debut album is. She was featured on NPR's World Cafe in 2009.
Rafael Alers.  Rafael Alers (October 16 1903 – March 20 1978) was a musician composer bandleader and the first Puerto Rican to compose the music score for a Hollywood feature film.
Got Slapz.  Lewis Molinaro (born October 29 1986) also known by the alias Got Slapz is an American hip-hop and rap producer from California. Born in Santa Barbara and raised in Seaside California he is currently active in the underground music scene in Seaside where he's produced for rap and hip-hop artists.
Abednego Mazibuko.  Mpindela Abednego Mazibuko is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo a South African choral group founded in 1960 - and still led - by his cousin Joseph.Abednego was born in Ladysmith South Africa and was the youngest of six sons; the others being Albert Milton Funokwakhe Mehlo and Joseph Mazibuko. Abednego joined the group in 1974 as a bass singer.
Frans Bauer.  Frans Bauer (born 30 December 1973 in Roosendaal) is a Dutch singer of het levenslied (Dutch folk music).
Ciro Pessoa.  Ciro Pessoa Mendes Correa (born June 12 1957) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter journalist and poet. Formerly a member of rock band Titãs and the founder and lead vocalist of the now-defunct post-punk band Cabine C he currently leads a solo career having released two albums.
Henry Hudson Kitson.  Sir Henry Hudson Kitson (April 9 1863 1864 or 1865 – June 26 1947) was an English born American sculptor who sculpted many representations of American military heroes. Often known as H. H. Kitson he was born Harry in Huddersfield West Yorkshire England and died at Tyringham Massachusetts.
Andrew Ridgeley.  Andrew John Ridgeley (born 26 January 1963) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was a member (with George Michael) of the music duo Wham!.
Alison Crum.  Alison Crum (born 23 November 1949 in the United Kingdom) is an English viol player.
Harald Sæther.  Harald Sæther (born May 9 1946) is a Norwegian composer with a diploma (MA) from Grieg Academy (2008) . He is member of the Norwegian Society of Composers and New Music Composers Group (NMK) where he was chairman from 2009 to 2011.
Charly Alberti.  Carlos Alberto Ficicchia Gigliotti (born March 27 1963) known by his stage name Charly Alberti is an Argentine rock musician best known as the drummer of the influential Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. Because of this he is considered one of the most important musicians of latin and Spanish rock. He's the oldest son of Dolly Gigliotti and Argentine jazz drummer Tito Alberti.
Indra (singer).  Indra (born 20 July 1967 in Gothenburg Sweden) is a singer and actress best known in France.
William Morris (glass artist).  William Morris (born July 25 1957 in Carmel California USA) is an American glass artist who has been able to change the history of art within his lifetime. He was educated at California State University Chico California and Central Washington University Ellensburg Washington.CareerWilliam Morris began his glass career as a truck driver for Pilchuck Glass School Stanwood Washington where he was first introduced to the material.
Carl Aarsleff.  Carl Vilhelm Oluf Peter Aarsleff (14 August 1852 - 4 January 1918) was a Danish sculptor He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1901 and from 1914 to 1917 served as its director.
Carolyn Brady.  Carolyn Brady (May 22 1937 - May 5 2005) was an American photorealist painter and artist. Her work often consists of hyper-realistic watercolors of flowers and table settings.
Victor d'Hupay.  Joseph Alexandre Victor d'Hupay (1746–1818) was a French writer and philosopher.
Michael Echter.  Michael Echter (5 March 1812 Munich — 4 February 1879 Munich) was a German painter.
Suzanne Valadon.  Suzanne Valadon (23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French painter born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe Haute-Vienne France. In 1894 Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
Allen Lanier.  Allen Glover Lanier (June 25 1946 – August 14 2013) was an original member of Blue Öyster Cult. Lanier played keyboards and rhythm guitar. He resided in Manhattan.Lanier wrote several songs for Blue Öyster Cult albums including True Confessions Tenderloin Searchin' for Celine In Thee I Love the Night and Lonely Teardrops. In addition to his work with Blue Öyster Cult he also contributed to music by Patti Smith Jim Carroll The Dictators and The Clash among others.
Renée Faure.  Renée Faure (born in Paris on 4 November 1919 died in Clamart Hauts de Seine on 2 May 2005) was a French stage and film actress.She was a jury member during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Paul Resika.  Paul Resika (born 1928) is an American painter was born and raised in New York City. Resika began exhibiting his paintings in New York City in the 1940s. He has had several dozen one-man exhibitions in important galleries and museums and his works have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions since the late 1940s until the present.He is a well-known New York artist who chaired the Parsons School of Design MFA program from 1978-1990.
Edith Searle Grossmann.  Edith Searle Grossmann (8 September 1863–27 February 1931) was a New Zealand teacher novelist journalist and feminist. She was born in Beechworth Victoria Australia on 8 September 1863.
Pepe Smith.  Joseph William Feliciano Smith (born December 25 1947) is a Filipino singer-songwriter drummer and guitarist. More commonly known alternately as Joey Smith and Pepe Smith he is an icon of original Filipino rock music or Pinoy Rock.
John Eskow.  John Eskow is an American screenwriter.
Maon Kurosaki.  Maon Kurosaki (黒崎 真音 Kurosaki Maon born January 13) is a female Japanese singer-songwriter from Tokyo signed to Geneon Universal Entertainment. She released her debut album H.O.T.D. in September 2010 which features the ending themes of the anime series Highschool of the Dead. Her two singles that followed Magic∞World and Memories Last were used as the ending themes for the anime A Certain Magical Index II.
Jonathan M. Roberts.  Jonathan M. Roberts Esq. (1821 – 1888) authored the book Antiquity Unveiled which was published in 1892. It claims to be an account of spirit messages proving Christianity an offspring of more ancient religions. He studied and practised law prior to becoming an editor. Roberts was a member of the abolitionist party prior to the American Civil War and a Republican afterward. The following link is helpful in explaining his message [1].Roberts' father was a member of the U.S. Senate.
Withered Hand.  Dan Willson better known by his stage name Withered Hand is a Scottish indie rock musician. His first studio album Good News was released in 2009 in Scotland and was re-released on March 15 2011 on Absolutely Kosher Records in the United States. His new album entitled New Gods was released in March 2014 through Fortuna Pop Records in the UK and Slumberland Records in the USA. He performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin Texas in 2014 as part of the Scottish Showcase.
Kenny Price.  James Kenneth Kenny Price (May 27 1931 - August 4 1987) was a singer songwriter and actor. Nicknamed the Round Mound of Sound Price recorded for the Boone and RCA Victor MRC and Dimension record labels charting thirty-four singles on the Hot Country Songs charts between 1966 and 1980. His highest-peaking singles Walking on New Grass and Happy Tracks both reached No. 7 on that chart.
Robert Owenson.  Robert Owenson (Robert MacOwen) (1744–1812) was an Irish actor author and father of Lady Olivia Clark and novelist Lady Morgan.
Buzz Cason.  James E. Buzz Cason (born November 27 1939 Nashville Tennessee United States) is an American rock singer songwriter producer and author.He was a founding members of The Casuals Nashville's first rock and roll band. Together with Richard Williams and Hugh Jarrett of The Jordanaires he recorded as The Statues for Liberty.
Kevin McCall.  Kevin McCall or K-Mac is a Grammy award-nominated American singer-songwriter producer and rapper signed to RCA Records and Chris Brown Entertainment (CBE).
JJ Appleton.  JJ Appleton born Jon Jason Appleton is an American musician and singer-songwriter based in New York City who has toured throughout the United States extensively in support of his own records and also with other bands including Jamie Cullum Newton Faulkner Pete Yorn Edwin McCain Sister Hazel Joan Osborne Keb Mo Hootie and the Blowfish.
Wilfrid Mervyn Lusty.  Wilfrid Mervyn Lusty (25 March 1907–31 May 1987) was a New Zealand journalist drama critic theatre administrator and adult educationalist. He was born in Auckland Auckland New Zealand on 25 March 1907.
Ben Coes.  Ben Coes (born September 10 1966) is a New York Times best-selling author of international political thriller and espionage novels. He lives with his wife and four children in Wellesley Massachusetts.Coes's novels feature Dewey Andreas a former member of U.S. Special Forces 1st SFOD-D also known as Delta Force. Coes has called his books reality-based drawing upon his early career at the White House and in finance. Coes has credited his godfather a former member of the U.S.
Alex Gross.  Alex Gross (born August 30 1968 in Roslyn Heights New York) is a visual artist currently working in Los Angeles California. He specializes in oil paintings on canvas whose themes include globalization commerce great beauty dark mayhem and the remorseless passage of time.Alex graduated in 1990 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California.
Peter Ho.  Peter Ho (born September 13 1975) is a Taiwanese-American singer actor and model. Ho was born in Los Angeles California and raised in Taiwan and Canada.
Dorothea Lange.  Dorothea Lange (May 26 1895 – October 11 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.
Tom Scott (painter).  Tom Scott (1854 – 1927) was a Scottish painter primarily a watercolourist born in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.
Lerika Engalycheva.  Valeriya Lerika Engalycheva (Russian: Валерия Енгалыкева; born 7 April 1999) is a Moldovan-Russian teen singer who represented Moldova in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song No-No and Russia in the 2012 contest with Sensatsiya (Sensation).
Hal Rockland.  Hal Rockland (born 1975 February 11 in Darmstadt (then West) Germany) is a former pornographic film actor who appeared primarily in gay pornographic films .Rockland was the third of the Rockland brothers triptych but second of the siblings to join the gay pornographic industry following in the footsteps of his older brother Vince Rockland. The eldest brother Shane Rockland joined the industry later.
John Stanier (drummer).  John Stanier (born 2 August 1968 in Baltimore Maryland) first came into the spotlight in 1989 as the drummer for the band Helmet. He is known for his speed endurance and precision as a performer. Stanier grew up in Florida and is a veteran of the local hardcore music scene. He is known for having a drum corps background but never actually marched a summer season. He played tenor drums for the Florida Wave Drum and Bugle Corps through a few years of their winter/spring camps.
Jed Davis.  Jed Davis (born July 7 1975 in Farmingdale New York) is an American musician based in Albany New York. He sings and plays keyboards as a solo artist and with Sevendys The Hanslick Rebellion Skyscape Space Toilets and Jeebus and occasionally with Avi Buffalo.
Fujiwara no Okikaze.  Fujiwara no Okikaze (藤原 興風 dates unknown) was a middle Heian waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu.Okikaze's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies including Kokin Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Okikazeshū also remains.
Payal Kapadia.  Payal Kapadia is an author of Children's books. She is the recipient of the 2013 Crossword Book Award (Children's Literature) for Wisha Wozzariter.
Tharon Musser.  Tharon Musser (January 8 1925 – April 19 2009) was an American lighting designer who worked on more than 150 Broadway productions. She was termed the Dean of American Lighting Designers and is considered one of the pioneers in her field.Musser was best known for her work on the musicals A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls. A Chorus Line was the first production of Broadway to utilize a fully computerized lighting console instead of manually operated piano boards.
Georgios Chortatzis.  Georgios Chortatzis (c. 1545–1610) was a Greek dramatist in Cretan verse. He was along with Vitsentzos Kornaros one of the main representatives of a school of literature in the vernacular Cretan dialect that flourished in the late 16th and early 17th centuries under Venetian rule. His best-known work is Erofili (or Erophile) a tragedy set in Egypt.
Marie Desplechin.  Marie Desplechin (born Roubaix Nord 7 January 1959) is a French writer. She studied literature and journalism before becoming a writer. She is the author of a children's novel and Taking it to Heart a collection of short stories. Sans Moi her first novel has been a great success in France where it has sold over 120000 copies. She won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for her book La vie sauve.
Virginia Liston.  Virginia Liston (1890 – June 1932) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville. Liston recorded You Can Dip Your Bread In My Gravy But You Can't Have None Of My Chops and Just Take One Long Last Lingering Look. She worked with her then husband Samuel H. Gray billed as Liston And Liston and also alongside Clarence Williams.
Robert Shaw (blues musician).  Robert Shaw (August 9 1908 – May 18 1985) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist best known for his 1963 album The Ma Grinder.
Patti Warashina.  Patti Warashina (born 1940) is an American artist known for her imaginative ceramic sculptures. Her works are in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design New York National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
D. Rogers.  D. Rogers is an Australian musician. He was a member of Klinger until he left in 2003 and moved to Japan. While in Japan working as an English teacher he recorded two albums the first being a friends-only release. He returned to Australia in 2007 and recorded a third solo album.
Alvin Soura Pandey.  Alvin Soura Pandey (Bengali: এ্যালভিন সৌর পাণ্ডে; born January 30 1985; better known as Soura) is a Bangladeshi Audio Engineer and composer. He introduced HD surroundAudio Song in Bangladesh.Soura started his musical journey in 2004 with his first band Dhushor. He has worked on production and post-production of albums with artists from Bangladesh and Australia also worked with Asian music producers such as Debendranath Chatterjee.
Carole King.  Carole King (born February 9 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter.Her career began in the 1960s when King along with her then husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists many of which have become standards and she has continued writing for other artists since then.
Janiva Magness.  Janiva Magness (born January 30 1957) is an American blues and soul singer and songwriter. To date she has released nine albums.The Blues Foundation named Magness the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year in 2009 becoming only the second woman after Koko Taylor to be so honored. In the same year she was named the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year which she had already won in 2006 and 2007 and was nominated for again in 2012. Since 2006 she has had 22 similar nominations.
William Raimond Baird.  William Raimond Baird (1848–1917) was the namesake of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities and publisher of its early editions.
Sippy Pallippuram.  Sippy Pallippuram is a Malayalam children's story writer from India who won Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for children's literature in 2010. Born at Pallippuram Vypeen island Ernakulam district Kerala state he was a teacher by profession. He belongs to the category of children’s literature among the notable writers of Malayalam literature. He has penned a 130 of poetry and stories for children through various publishers.
Bucky Baxter.  William Bucky Baxter (born 1955) is an American multi-instrumentalist from New Jersey. He was born in Melbourne Florida. He has appeared on various albums by artists such as Bob Dylan Ryan Adams Steve Earle R.E.M. and Joe Henry. In studio or while performing live Baxter has played steel guitar acoustic guitar electric guitar mandolin dobro and/or organ as well as other instruments.
Miwako Ichikawa.  Miwako Ichikawa (市川 実和子 Ichikawa Miwako born 19 March 1976 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress sister of actress Mikako Ichikawa. She began in 1991 as a model and released a single in 1998 and an album the following year. She debuted in acting in 2000 and immediately starred in the movies Another Heaven in 2000 and Konsento (aka Concent or Power Point) in 2001.
Dennis Rea.  Dennis Rea (born 7 July 1957) is an American guitarist and music event organizer currently living in Seattle. Rea first came to prominence as a member of the electronic music group Earthstar in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is probably best known in the West as a musician for his work with Jeff Greinke in Land. Rea's first solo album Shadow In Dreams (1990) is notable as one of the first releases in mainland China by a western musician on the state record label.
Dave Godfrey.  Dave Godfrey (born August 9 1938) is a Canadian writer and publisher. His novel The New Ancestors won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1970.Born in Winnipeg Manitoba Godfrey was educated at Trinity College at the University of Toronto Iowa State University and Stanford University. He taught in Ghana for several years including Adisadel College Cape Coast from 1963-65 where he was the English and music instructor.
Nick Pollock.  Nick Pollock is a Seattle-based guitarist singer and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge/metal band My Sister's Machine. He has also played in various bands with other notable musicians including Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley and Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton. He graduated from Lindbergh High School in 1986.
Frank Marshall Davis.  Frank Marshall Davis (December 31 1905 – July 26 1987) was an American journalist poet political and labor movement activist and businessman.Davis began his career writing for African-American newspapers in Chicago. He moved to Atlanta where he became the editor of the paper he turned into the Atlanta Daily World then moved back to Chicago. During this time he was outspoken about political and social issues while also covering topics that ranged from sports to music.
Marina Lizorkina.  Marina Sergeevna Lizorkina (Russian: Марина Серге́евна Лизоркина; born 9 June 1983) is a Russian singer and former member of girl group Serebro which she left in 2009.
Alfunction.  Alfunction born Alan Leonard James in Costa Mesa California on June 9 1972 is an American guitarist. His stage name was bestowed upon him in 1994 by future bandmate Lauren Boquette in reference to his band at the time Malfunction. He currently plays guitar for Six the band he formed with Lauren Boquette in 2001.He was previously a hired guitarist for Cypress Hill during the Skull and Bones tours making his debut U.S.
Emily Post.  Emily Post (ca. October 27 1872 – September 25 1960) was an American author famous for writing about etiquette.
Edogawa Ranpo.  Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎 Hirai Tarō October 21 1894 – July 28 1965) better known by the pseudonym Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩) was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the Boy Detective's Gang (少年探偵団 Shōnen tantei dan).Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers and especially of Edgar Allan Poe.
Ramesh Chandra Parida.  Dr. Ramesh Chndra Parida is a retired Professor of Chemistry  College of Basic Science and Humanities Odisha University of Agriculture and Tenchnology Bhubaneswar. He is an acclaimed popular science writer in Oriya literature.
Sara Lee (musician).  Sara Lee is an English bassist and singer-songwriter who came to prominence replacing Dave Allen on bass guitar in post-punk band Gang of Four. She is also notable for work with Robert Fripp B-52s Ani DiFranco and Indigo Girls.
Amy Alexander.  Amy Alexander is an artist and researcher working in audio/visual performance interactive art and software art working under a number of pseudonyms including VJ Übergeek and Cue P. Doll. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego.
Robert Kerr (musician).  Robert Kerr is an American musician and composer. Kerr has written a symphony called Legendary Florida that was inspired by paintings of Florida history. He has also written a symphony known as The American Journey and served as the director of a string quartet.
Kevin Cadogan.  Kevin Rene Cadogan (born August 14 1970 in Oakland California) is an American singer/songwriter producer and rock guitarist. He is a founding member of the band Third Eye Blind. He performed with the band from 1993 to 2000. Cadogan co-wrote some of Third Eye Blind's most notable hits including How's It Going to Be Losing a Whole Year and Graduate He co-wrote 10 of the 14 songs on the self-titled Third Eye Blind debut album.
Randy Piper.  Randy Piper (born William Randall Piper on April 13 1953 in San Antonio Texas) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter best known as the co-founder and original guitarist of the heavy metal band W.A.S.P..
Ion Negoițescu.  Ion Negoiţescu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon neɡo.iˈt͡sesku]; also known as Nego; August 10 1921 – February 6 1993) was a Romanian literary historian critic poet novelist and memoirist one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle. A rebellious and eccentric figure Negoiţescu began his career while still an adolescent and made himself known as a literary ideologue of the 1940s generation.
Jeffrey Eugenides.  Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993) Middlesex (2002) and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides has been filmed while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award the International Dublin Literary Award and France's Prix Médicis.
Doug Katsaros.  Doug Katsaros is an Emmy-winning keyboardist arranger orchestra conductor and composer.In 1978 he played on Paul Stanley's debut album followed by working on albums by Richie Havens Michael Bolton Arc Angel Bon Jovi and his band Balance featuring Bob Kulick and Chuck Burgi. He also contributed music to the musicals Diamonds and A... My Name Is Alice. He also composed the opening theme for the TV series The Tick as well as music for the movie Who Do I Gotta Kill? starring Sandra Bullock.
Enrique González Rojo Jr..  Enrique González Rojo in fact Enrique González Arthur (b. Mexico City October 5 1928) is a Mexican writer philosopher and teacher.
Prem Dhoj Pradhan.  Prem Dhoj Pradhan (Nepali: प्रेम ध्वज प्रधान) is a Nepalese musician born in 1938 in Chautara a small town 28 miles east of Kathmandu. He is a singer composer and a regional playback singer. He sings in the two major languages of Nepal Newari (Nepal Bhasa) and Nepali. He is also known as the Golden Voice and King of Romantic Melodies of Nepal.Prem Dhoj is known for being the first to perform with a guitar in Nepal.
Vidar Busk.  Vidar Busk (born 19 May 1970 in Langesund Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist vocalist composer and record producer within genres blues and soul.
Saúl Hernández.  Saúl Alfonso Hernández Estrada (born January 15 1964) is the former lead singer songwriter and guitarist of Caifanes a famous Mexican rock en español group formed in 1986.In 1996 Saúl Hernández sang a duet with Algerian raï singer Khaled.
Robert A. Dillon.  Robert A. Dillon (February 13 1889 – November 28 1944) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 81 films between 1914 and 1937. He also directed eight films between 1916 and 1927.He was born in New York and died in Los Angeles California.
Jamie Linden (writer).  Jamie Linden (born 1980) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of 2006 film We Are Marshall and the writer of 2010 film Dear John. He also wrote and directed the 2010 independent movie 10 Years starring Channing Tatum.
Eduardo Kingman.  Eduardo Kingman Riofrío (February 23 1913 – November 27 1997) was one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamin and Camilo Egas.
George Millington.  George Millington (1862-1916) was an Irish author and academic and a member of the Irish Literary Revival. His most well-known work is the novella St. Michan's Vaults published in 1899.
Nándor Balaskó.  Nándor Balaskó (August 30 1918 – June 28 1996) was a sculptor from Romania. Balaskó graduated from Silvania National College in 1937. He studied at the Bucharest National University of Arts (1937–40) and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (1940–43). Then he worked with Ion Andreescu Institute of Fine and Decorative Art in Cluj Napoca. In 1958 he took part in the International Auschwitz-contest. In 1970 Balaskó emigrated to Sintra Portugal.
Tommy Coster.  Thomas Joseph Coster Jr. (born June 10 1966) known as Tommy Coster or Tommy Coster Jr is an American record producer keyboardist entertainment entrepreneur and composer. He is the founder and current CEO of FAUP Entertainment 327 Entertainment Retsoc Tech and Kitty King Music Publishing.
Rex Salas.  Rex Salas (born March 16) is a Grammy and Emmy Award nominated American record producer songwriter musical director and music arranger.
Marc Regnier.  Marc Regnier is an American classical guitarist.
Jules Bastien-Lepage.  Jules Bastien-Lepage (November 1 1848 – December 10 1884) was a French naturalist painter a style following the Realist movement.
Ian Bradshaw (photographer).  Ian Bradshaw is an American freelance photographer and picture editor.His most famous image is The Twickenham Streaker taken in February 1974 of Michael O’Brien being led away by police after streaking at an England-France rugby match at Twickenham. Crucial to the image's success was that it was taken when a policeman's helmet was positioned at the exact spot on O'Brien's body to allow the photograph to be published in the mainstream media without alteration.
Lalgudi Jayaraman.  Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (Tamil: லால்குடி கோபால ஐயர் ஜெயராமன்) (September 17 1930 – April 22 2013) was an Indian Carnatic violinist vocalist and composer.His awards included the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for his score to the film Sringaram: Dance of Love.His disciples included his two children Lalgudi G. J. R.
George O'Brien (writer).  George O'Brien (born 14 February 1945 in Enniscorthy County Wexford) is an award-winning Irish memoirist writer and academic.
El-B.  El-B (born Lewis Beadle) is a British producer and DJ. He is commonly seen as one of the pioneers of the dubstep genre. He was initially one half of the duo known as Groove Chronicles but left in 1999 to pursue a solo career. He runs the Ghost Recordings label and is also part of the duo El-Tuff. He has been relatively inactive since 2004 but played a comeback set at The End in London in June 2006.
Fausto Pirandello.  Fausto Pirandello (1899–1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School). He was the son of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello.
Joseph Beuys.  Joseph Beuys (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus happening and performance artist as well as a sculptor installation artist graphic artist art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his extended definition of art and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk for which he claimed a creative participatory role in shaping society and politics. 
Simon Henderson.  Simon Henderson is a musician in UK.
Tad Kinchla.  Thaddeus Arwood Tad Kinchla (born (1973-02-21)February 21 1973) is an American musician most famous as the bassist for the jam band Blues Traveler.He was born in Princeton New Jersey Kinchla is the younger brother to long-time Blues Traveler guitarist Chan Kinchla. He began playing the upright bass as a child after his brother had settled with the guitar.
Kirk Winterrowd.  Kirk Winterrowd is an American video game music composer and musician best known for his work for Origin Systems namely several of the Ultima titles. He also served as a voice actor in Ultima VIII: Pagan.
Kusumagraj.  Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar (Marathi: विष्णु वामन शिरवाडकर) (February 27 1912 – March 10 1999) popularly known by his pen name Kusumāgraj (Marathi: कुसुमाग्रज) was an eminent Marathi poet playwright novelist short story writer apart from being a humanist who wrote of freedom justice and emancipation of the deprived In a career spanning five decades starting in pre-independence era he wrote 16 volumes of poems three novels eight volumes of short stories seven volumes of essays 18 plays and six one-act plays. 
Alexis Roland-Manuel.  Alexis Roland-Manuel (22 March 1891 – 1 November 1966) was a French composer and critic remembered mainly for his criticism.
Irmtraud Morgner.  Irmtraud Morgner (22 August 1933 – 6 May 1990) was a German writer best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.
Hellmuth Kolbe.  Hellmuth Kolbe (28.8.1926 – 15.7.2002) was a Swiss musician audio recording and acoustics pioneer.
Peter Murphy (musician).  Peter John Murphy (born 11 July 1957) is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus and later went on to release a number of solo albums such as Deep and Love Hysteria. Thin with prominent cheekbones a baritone voice and a penchant for gloomy poetics Murphy is often called the Godfather of Goth.
Krizz Kaliko.  Samuel William Christopher Watson (born March 7 1974 in Kansas City Missouri) better known by his stage name Krizz Kaliko is an American rapper and singer. He is a longtime collaborator with fellow hometown native Tech N9ne and is signed to the label that Tech co-owns Strange Music.
Thomas Connellan (priest).  Rev. Thomas Connellan (1855 – about 1920) was an Irish writer and Catholic priest who left the church to become a clergyman of the Church of Ireland.
Antonella Barba.  Antonella Maria Barba (born November 26 1986) is an American singer who placed in the top 16 on the sixth season of American Idol. She was eliminated before the top 12 were chosen.
Zhang Deli.  Zhang Deli (Chinese: 张德丽; pinyin: Zhāng dé lì) Mandarin: [tʂáŋ dɤ li] is a [Shanghai]-based artist born in Zhengzhou Henan province in 1979. Her work in new media has been exhibited around China especially in Beijing and Shanghai as well as in Hong Kong and Brussels.
Smiljan Rozman.  Smiljan Rozman (28 January 1927 – 15 March 2007) was a Slovene writer author of numerus novels and collections of short stories who also wrote for young readers and scipts for children's programmes and drama series on television.Rozman was born in Celje in 1927. Soon after his birth the family moved to Maribor where he grew up. During the Second World War sent on forced labour to Germany and France.
Blakey Vermeule.  Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule (born July 14 1966) commonly known as Blakey Vermeule is an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and theory of mind. She is a Professor of English at Stanford University.
Jodie Moore.  Jodie Moore also known as Jodi Moore Jody Moore and Little Jody (born 11 April 1976) is an Australian pornographic actress and exotic dancer.
Richard E. Kim.  Richard Eun Kook Kim (1932–2009) was a Korean-American writer and professor of literature. He was the author of The Martyred (1964) The Innocent (1968) and Lost Names (1970) and many other works. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant. His most popular work is Lost Names a fictional work based on his experience during the Japanese colonization of Korea.
James Knight (actor).  James Knight was a British actor.
Joanna Janét.  Joanna Janét (born in Baton Rouge Louisiana) is an American country music singer. Janét was signed to DreamWorks Nashville and recorded an album for the label Destination Love that was scheduled to be released in August 2002. The first single from the album Since I've Seen You Last peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. When Janét's producer Paul Worley left DreamWorks for Warner Bros. Records she went with him.
Martin Kearns.  Martin Kearns is an English drummer specializing in death metal known for his association with Bolt Thrower.Martin joined Bolt Thrower when Andrew Whale left in 1994.Martin joined the band when he was seventeen years old after playing in several local bands in Coventry Playing anything from Metal to Reggae; he has been playing pub gigs since the age of 14.Bolt Thrower was the first professional band in which he played and due to his age his nickname was 'Kiddie'.He is known for his hard hitting style probably due to having a significant John Bonham influence in his playing style.Kearns subsequently left due to personal reasons in 1998.Band and fans alike were happy that he returned to Bolt Thrower in 2000.Martin is now the longest standing drummer for Bolt Thrower.He recorded drums on both the Honour-Valour-Pride album and on Those Once Loyal the latter of which has been met with widespread critical acclaim from magazines such as Rock Sound Rock Hard and Metal Hammer.
Dylan Kight.  Dylan Kight (born September 4 1984) is an American singer-songwriterKnown as the lost record. What should have been the debut record for Dylan Kight became one of his first tests as an artist. It took over 8 months to record and consisted of about 30 songs. The record was almost mixed when the record was lost. It was recorded on 2 inch analog tape and then transferred to Pro Tools HD to maximize mixing capabilities. However at some point the hard drive malfunctioned and the record was lost.
David Nicholls (writer).  David Alan Nicholls (born 30 November 1966) is an English novelist and screenwriter.
Alexander Gordon (journalist).  Alexander Garrievich Gordon (born February 20 1964) - Russian radio and television presenter journalist actor and director. Head of the Moscow Institute Workshop of journalism TV and Radio Ostankino (Mitra) a lecturer in a Makgaffina Film School. Five-time winner TEFI (2007 twice in 2008 2010 2011).According to the results of many surveys of TV viewers Gordon repeatedly was recognized as one of the best contemporary Russian TV people.
Yuan Wenqing.  Yuan Wenqing is one of the most famous and skilled modern wushu practitioners in the world. Known for his explosive speed and power he won numerous national and international competitions in the eighties and early nineties including the first Asian Games in 1990.
James Williamson (musician).  James Robert Williamson (born 29 October 1949 in Castroville Texas) is an American guitarist songwriter record producer and electronics engineer who is best known for his contribution to the protopunk rock band Iggy & The Stooges.
Pat Bunch.  Pat Bunch is an American country music songwriter. Much of her earlier chart hits resulted from collaborations with fellow songwriters Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose. Since 1995 Bunch has also had multiple chart successes co-writing with Doug Johnson. Bunch's co-writing credits include the Grammy Award-nominated song I'll Still Be Loving You by Restless Heart. Other songs that she has written include Wild One by Faith Hill and Living in a Moment by Ty Herndon.
Heather McElhatton.  Heather McElhatton is a writer and producer for Public Radio International. McElhatton produced the literary series Talking Volumes from 2001 to 2006. From 2005 to 2007 she hosted the live variety show Stage Sessions for Minnesota Public Radio at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul Minnesota.
Mamta Sharma.  Mamta Sharma is an Indian playback singer. She is known for the song Munni Badnaam Hui from Dabangg. The song was super hit and fetched her several awards and nominations including a Filmfare award for Best Playback Singer (Female).
Fat Jon.  Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician (born John Marshall) is an American hip hop producer from Cincinnati Ohio. He is a member of Five Deez and 3582. Fat Jon is also credited with some of the music in the anime series Samurai Champloo. He currently resides in Germany.
Leah Kauffman.  Leah Kauffman (born c. 1986) is an American singer and songwriter who is responsible for singing and writing four popular viral videos: My Box in a Box I Got a Crush... on Obama Obama Girl vs. Giuliani Girl and I Like a Boy. The first song was written by Kauffman the second and third were co-written by Kauffman and Ben Relles. Kauffman does not appear in the videos. Instead actresses lip-synch to her vocals.
Danny Weinkauf.  Danny Weinkauf(born December 4 1963) is a Grammy-winning New York-based musician and composer. He is currently a member of the backing band for They Might Be Giants (TMBG). Playing bass guitar he has recorded and toured with the band since the late 1990s. Weinkauf had previously performed in a band called Lincoln along with TMBG's guitarist Dan Miller and drummer Gonzalo Martinez De La Cotera. He has written three songs for TMBG all for their children's albums.
Charles Heavysege.  Charles Heavysege (May 2 1816 – July 14 1876) was a Canadian poet and dramatist. He was one of the first serious poets to emerge in Canada and his play Saul was hailed on its appearance as the greatest verse drama in English since the time of Shakespeare.
Dick Mine.  Dick Mine (ディック・ミネ Dikku Mine [dikku͍ mine] October 10 1908 - June 10 1991) was a popular Japanese crooner and film actor. His recording career spanned nearly the entire Showa era.
Francesco Magini.  Francesco Magini (Fano between 1668 and 1670 – 1714) was a minor Italian composer active in Rome in the first decade of the eighteenth century.
John Bayley (musician).  John Bayley (circa 1847 - 1910) was an English bandmaster clarinetist violinist and organist who was active in his native country and North America. Cornetist Herbert L. Clarke described him in his autobiography as a finished musician of high order; he was a remarkable organist... and one of the best clarinetists I have ever heard in my life.
Piergiorgio Colautti.  Piergiorgio Colautti (born October 16 1934 Rome Italy) is modern Italian painter and sculptor who lives and works in Rome. He is known for his own distinctive style sometimes labelled Hyperfuturism in which figurative elements are enmeshed and submerged by symbols reflecting a cold and modern technological world.
Monica Reinagel.  Monica Reinagel is a Baltimore-based licensed nutritionist. She is the author of The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan and host of the Nutrition Diva podcast. She has been called the leading author of books on inflammation.
Suvi Teräsniska.  Suvi Pirjo Sofia Teräsniska (born in Kolari Finland on 10 April 1989) is a Finnish singer signed with Warner Music Finland.
Lee Sung Jong.  Lee Sung Jong (Hangul : 이성종; born September 3 1993) commonly known as SungJong is a South Korean idol singer and dancer. He is the youngest member and vocalist of boy group Infinite under Woollim Entertainment.
Mutsuo Takahashi.  Mutsuo Takahashi (高橋 睦郎 Takahashi Mutsuo born December 15 1937) is one of the most prominent and prolific male poets essayists and writers of contemporary Japan with more than three dozen collections of poetry several works of prose dozens books of essays and several major literary prizes to his name. He is especially well known for his open writing about male homoeroticism. He currently lives in the seaside town of Zushi several kilometers south of Yokohama Japan.
Anish Kapoor.  Sir Anish Kapoor CBE RA (born 12 March 1954) is an Indian sculptor. Born in Bombay Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990 when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
Ronnie Penque.  Ronnie Penque is a bassist singer and songwriter who has been working in the music industry for over 30 years. Penque is most notably recognized for his work with the current New Riders of the Purple Sage. The New Riders emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco California in 1969. The band originally included members of the Grateful Dead including Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia. Penque was also lead singer and bass player for Melvin Seals and JGB.
Naoe Kinoshita.  Naoe Kinoshita (木下 尚江 Kinoshita Naoe 12 October 1869 – 5 November 1937) was a Japanese Christian socialist activist and author.
Kenneth Cole (designer).  Kenneth D. Cole (born March 23 1954) is an American clothing designer.
Solange Knowles.  Solange Piaget Knowles (born June 24 1986) also known simply as Solange is an American singer songwriterand model. Knowles was born in Houston Texas to Matthew and Tina Knowles both of whom left their careers to support her older sister Beyoncé's recording interests. Expressing an interest in music from an early age Knowles had several temporary stints in Destiny's Child before signing with her father's Music World Entertainment label.
Yakov Smirnoff.  Yakov Naumovich Pokhis better known as Yakov Smirnoff (born 24 January 1951 in Odessa Ukraine) is a Soviet-born American comedian actor and writer. After emigrating to the United States in 1977 Smirnoff began performing as a stand-up comic. He eventually gained fame and he reached his biggest successes in the mid-to-late 1980s when he also appeared in several films and television shows including his own 1986-87 sitcom What a Country!.
Tommy Vig.  Tommy Vig (July 14 1938) is a jazz vibraharpist drummer percussionist arranger big band leader film television and classical concert composer inventor author and educator.
Don Jazzy.  Michael Collins Ajereh (born November 26 1982) better known as Don Jazzy is a Nigerian Multi award-winning record producer singer-songwriter musician former CEO of Nigerian record label Mo' Hits Records founded in 2004 and current CEO of the Mavin Records label which he founded in May 2012 after his split up with childhood friend and Mo'Hits partner D'banj.
Michael Sampson.  Dr. Michael Sampson (born October 13 1952) is an American children's writer best known for easy-to-read books that feature rhythmic and repetitive language. Sampson's first children's book The Football That Won was written solo in 1992 and illustrated by Ted Rand. Later Sampson wrote 21 books with his best friend and mentor Bill Martin Jr. including Chicka Chicka 1 2 3 and The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry.
Dennis Culp.  Dennis Culp (born April 23 1970 in Denver Colorado) is an American trombonist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with the bands Brave Saint Saturn and the no longer defunct Five Iron Frenzy. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife Melinda and has released one solo album Ascents under the name Dennis Bayne.
Ray Raphael.  Ray Raphael (born April 19 1943) is an American historian and author of sixteen books. He is noted for his work on the American Revolution and the regional history of Northern California.
Thomas Canty.  Thomas Canty (born 1952) is an illustrator and book designer in the field of fantasy literature.
Felecia.  For the R&B singer of Mo Thugs fame see Felecia Lindsey-Howse.Felecia Danay (born in Tacoma Washington) is an American pornographic actress nude model and feature dancer. Her pornography career lasted from roughly 1993 to 2008 in which she performed only in lesbian or solo scenes. Although one movie of her performing fellatio on a male in two different scenes does exist.Felecia features in a comic book entitled Adult Star Stories: Felecia by Hippy Comix.
Vahan Tekeyan.  Vahan Tekeyan (Armenian: Վահան Թէքէեան (January 21 1878 Constantinople - April 4 1945 Cairo) was an Armenian poet and public activist.
Antonio Flores.  Antonio González Flores (14 November 1961 – 31 May 1995) was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor.He was the only son of singers and actors Antonio González 'El Pescaílla' and Lola Flores. He was the brother of actresses Lolita Flores and Rosario Flores. He was divorced from Ana Villa with whom he had a daughter Alba.
Sarvajna.  Sarvajña (Sanskrit for all-knowing Kannada: ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ) was a Kannada poet pragmatist and philosopher. He is famous for his pithy three-lined poems which are called tripadis with three padas three-liners a form of Vachanas. He is also referred as Sarvagna in modern translation.
Scott Hackwith.  Scott Hackwith (born September 3 1968) is an American composer-producer-musician whose career has progressed from work as a professional guitarist and singer to recording producer and scoring motion pictures.
Danilo Bach.  Danilo Bach (born March 1 1944) is an American screenwriter and film producer.
Francisco Porrata-Doría.  Francisco Luis Porrata-Doría (1890–1971) was a Puerto Rican architect from Ponce Puerto Rico. Porrata-Doría was a pioneer in the development of the local modern architecture and one of the architects responsible for what has been called Ponce Monumental Architecture of which the Banco Crédito is a good example.
Robert Antoni.  Robert Antoni (born 1958) is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010 for his work on the historical novel As Flies to Whatless Boys.
John Vanderlyn.  John Vanderlyn (October 18 1775 – September 23 1852) was an American neoclassicist painter.
Will Durant.  William James Durant (/dəˈrænt/; November 5 1885 – November 7 1981) was an American writer historian and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975.
Norman O. Frederiksen.  Norman “Fritz” Frederiksen was an American research psychologist and leading proponent of performance assessment an approach to educational and occupational testing that focused on the use of tasks similar to the ones individuals actually encounter in real classroom and work environments. In keeping with the philosophy underlying this approach Frederiksen was a critic of multiple-choice testing which he felt negatively influenced school curricula and classroom practice.
Donald Clarke (writer).  Donald Clarke (born 1940) is an American writer on music. Clarke was born in 1940 and raised in Kenosha Wisconsin worked ten years in a car factory and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lived in England from 1973 to 1998 before moving to Austin Texas for five years. He moved to West Des Moines Iowa in 2003 where he worked for a time on the music e-zines blueswax.com and folkwax.com.
Frank Boeijen.  Frank Boeijen (born 27 November 1957 in Nijmegen) is a Dutch singer and guitarist. His best known songs are Kronenburg Park (Ga die Wereld Uit) about a prostitute Zwart Wit about the racial murder of Kerwin Duinmeijer in Amsterdam and Twee gezichten about a split personality. Having been in the music business for 25 years he received the Edison award for his career achievements in 2005.
Olivia Giacobetti.  Olivia Giacobetti is a French perfumer currently creative director at Parfum Lubin.
Jason Moss (musician).  Jason David Moss (born April 19 1969) is an American musician known for his work as the lead guitarist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies of which he was a member from 1992 to 2010.
Robin Gerster.  Robin Gerster is an Australian author and academic. He is a Professor at the School of English Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University. His major fields of expertise are the cultural histories of war and travel. As a postgraduate he won the Australian War Memorial's inaugural C.E.W. Bean Scholarship for his research project on the heroic theme in Australian war writing.
Lou Smith.  Louis Lou Smith (March 9 1928 - October 21 2007) was a country and western singer who recorded for Top Talent Records at one time and reportedly had gotten his start into music when the nephew of Tex Ritter Ken Ritter heard him perform at a local honky tonk.Lou played many of the local Southeast Texas clubs and honky tonks. At one point country legend George Jones sang backup for Lou during Jones' early teens when he was just beginning his career.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8 1896 – December 14 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work The Yearling about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
Imaad Wasif.  Imaad Wasif is a singer guitarist and songwriter whose music combines elements of psychedelic folk and rock. Wasif’s music has been described as “unbelievably intense with sparkling raga-influenced guitar and a mystic bent.”In 2006 he started releasing solo albums. Also during 2006–2007 Wasif played with Yeah Yeah Yeahs for the Show Your Bones world tour playing acoustic guitar bass and synths. He performed as the supporting act for most shows.
Chow Yun-fat.  Chow Yun-fat SBS (born May 18 1955) is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow The Killer and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his roles in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as Li Mu-bai and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Sao Feng. He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan.
Elaiza Ikeda.  Elaiza Ikeda (池田 依來沙 Ikeda Eraiza born 16 April 1996 in the Philippines) is a Japanese fashion model and actress.
Syron.  Syron (full name Catherine Daisy Syron Russell) is an English singer and musician from London with plays on both Radio 1 and 1Xtra and classed as one to watch by MTV and named one of 2012’s coolest new female talents by ID magazine. Her music has been blogged by The xx and Idolator as well as tweeted about by Danny Brown. Popjustice is also a fan.Syron went to BRIT School of Performing Arts & Technology in South London.
Nathan Lerner.  Nathan Lerner (1913–1997) was an influential Chicago photographer whose work helped define his city. The New York Times wrote that his work was inextricably bound up in the history of visual culture in Chicago He was Henry Darger's landlord and discovered Darger's work shortly before his death.
Anatole France.  Anatole France (pronounced: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet journalist and novelist. He was born in Paris and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.
Ann Hamilton (artist).  Ann Hamilton (born June 22 1956 Lima Ohio) is a visual artist known for large-scale multi-media installations as well as her work in video sculpture photography textile art and printmaking.Hamilton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 1985. From 1985 to 1991 she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Jenny Cowern.  Jenny Cowern (1943–2005) was a visual multi-media artist who took inspiration from the natural surroundings of her adopted county Cumbria to produce some of the most dramatic and lasting images of nature. An acute observer of the continual change in the natural world she took light and reflection growth and decay beaches and tides pebbles and stones clouds and shadows and manipulated them to capture a unique view of her surroundings.
Kenny Greene.  Kenny Greene (January 17 1969 – October 1 2001) was an American singer-songwriter who was also a member of the R&B group Intro.
W. H. Davies.  William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and United States but became one of the most popular poets of his time. The principal themes in his work are observations about life's hardships the ways in which the human condition is reflected in nature his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met.
Warren Bernhardt.  Warren Bernhardt (born in November 1938 in Wausau Wisconsin) is a noted pianist in jazz pop and classical music.
Rose Mazzola.  Rose Casper Mazzola(Rosalyn Mazzola)born 5 September 1982 was a member of the punk rock band The Distillers where she played guitar and sometimes sang. She left the band after the making of Sing Sing Death House. Later she was the bassist in the band Gold Cash Gold. She is the daughter of Joey Mazzola of Sponge and The Detroit Cobras fame. Mazzola currently lives in Tallahassee Florida where she periodically plays guitar and sings at local events.
Eric Hill.  Eric Gordon Hill OBE (born 7 September 1927 in London) is a popular author and illustrator of children's picture books best known for his character Spot the Dog. His works have been widely praised for their contributions to child literacy.He appeared on Mister Roger's Neighborhood Episode #1645 where he and Fred Rogers discussed the making of a page in a Spot book.He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Ryūsaku Chiziwa.  Ryūsaku Chiziwa (千々和 竜策 Chiziwa Ryūsaku born May 27 1969) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo Japan working for Artepro.
Gregg Hale (musician).  Gregg Hale (born January 29 in Idaho Falls) is an American musician producer and recording engineer best known for playing guitar for multi-platinum British band Spiritualized his work as an A&R Rep and his recording work with the Fox Soccer Channel The Glenn Beck Program Disney KONAMI and Guitar Hero.
Rachel Trachtenburg.  Rachel Sage Piña-Trachtenburg (born December 10 1993) is an American musician radio personality model singer activist and actress from New York City. Trachtenburg is most notable for her key role as drummer and backup vocalist of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players a family band consisting of herself and her parents Jason and Tina.
Giacinto Platania.  Giacinto Platania (Acireale circa 1612 - 1691) was an Italian painter
Alexander Stepanovich Yakovlev.  Alexander Stepanovich Yakovlev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Я́ковлев) (November 23 1886 – November 4 1953) was a Russian/Soviet writer.
Desa Muck.  Desa Muck (born 29 August 1955) is a Slovene writer children's writer and actor. She works as a free-lance artist and writes newspaper columns radio plays but is best known for her juvenile fiction.Muck was born in Ljubljana in 1955. She writes for children and teenagers and won the Levstik Award for her series of stories Anica in 2005.
Gari Glaysher.  Gari Glaysher (born 1962 in London) is a British operatic tenor and classical crossover singer.
Stoo Hample.  Stuart E. Hample (January 6 1926 – September 19 2010) also known as Stoo Hample was an American children's book author performer playwright and cartoonist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Joe Marthen and Turner Brown Jr. He is best known for the books Children's Letters to God and The Silly Book and the comic strip Inside Woody Allen.
Anastasia Vyaltseva.  Anastasia Dmitrievna Vyaltseva (Анастаси′я Дми′триевна Вя′льцева 1871-1913) was a Russian mezzo-soprano operetta singer renowned for her beauty and extravagance. She specialized in Gypsy art songs. Vyaltseva was born in Trubchevsk went to school in Kiev where she started her operetta career before moving to Moscow and then to Saint Petersburg.
Inez Andrews.  Bishop Inez Andrews (14 April 1929 – 19 December 2012) was an American gospel singer songwriter and recording artist. Her soaring wide-ranging voice — from contralto croon to soul-wrenching wail — made her a pillar of gospel music.
Jung Joon-young.  Jung Joon-young (Hangul: 정준영 Hanja: 鄭俊英 born February 21 1989) is a South Korean rock singer songwriter radio DJ an MC and well known for finishing in the Top 3 of Mnet’s reality television talent show Superstar K4. Born in Indonesia but raised in China Japan Europe (England and France) and the Philippines. Jung Joon-young has lived in ten different countries because his father was an international business man.
Ola Rotimi.  Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi best known as Ola Rotimi (13 April 1938 – 18 August 2000) was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors. He has been called a complete man of the theatre - an actor director choreographer and designer - who created performance spaces influenced by traditional architectural forms.
Léon Benett.  Léon Benett (born Hippolyte Léon Benet; 1839–1917) was a French painter and illustrator. He was born in Orange Vaucluse. He changed his name to Benett to differentiate his career in the French administration from his work as a draftsman.Benett is the most important illustrator of books written by Jules Verne; during 1873 - 1910 he illustrated twenty-five novels from the Voyages Extraordinaires series. He also illustrated other books by Verne.
Justus Sustermans.  Justus Sustermans (28 September 1597 – 23 April 1681) also known as Giusto Sustermans was a Flemish painter in the Baroque style. He was born in Antwerp and died in Florence.Sustermans is chiefly notable for his portraits of members of the Medici family as he was their court painter. His work can be found in both the Palatina Gallery and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and in many other galleries around the globe.
Kissey.  Christina Kim Ingrid Asplund better known as Kissey (formerly Kissey Asplund) (born 23 July 1982) is a singer songwriter producer and performer from Stockholm Sweden.
Don Wright (cartoonist).  Donald Conway Don Wright (born January 23 1934) is an American editorial cartoonist. He is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes having received one in 1966 and another in 1980.
Agnes Giberne.  Agnes Giberne (19 November 1845 Belgaum India – 20 August 1939 Eastbourne England) was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people.Educated by governesses in Europe and England after her father Major Charles Giberne retired from service in India Agnes Giberne started publishing didactic novels and short stories with improving themes under her initials A.G. some of it for the Religious Tract Society.
Lucie Cave.  Lucie Cave whose career started with Trouble TV is the Editor of Heat magazine. Shegraduated with a 2:1 in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 1995 where she was the editor of the University newspaper 'Darts'.[citation needed]
Mike Posner.  Michael Robert Mike Posner (born February 12 1988) is an American singer songwriter and producer. Posner released his debut album 31 Minutes to Takeoff on August 10 2010. The album includes the US Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 single Cooler Than Me his second single Please Don't Go as well as his third single Bow Chicka Wow Wow.
Jang Woo-hyuk.  Jang Woo Hyuk (born May 8 1978) is a South Korean rapper. He debuted under SM Entertainment as one of the members of the 5 member boyband H.O.T. in 1996.
Misty Dawn.  Not to be confused with Misti DawnMisty Dawn (born May 15 1963) is the pseudonym of adult video performer Laurie Rose. Rose worked in pornographic films and videos and she danced as an exotic dancer. She married pornographic actor John Johnny Wadd Holmes in 1987 and after his death she published his autobiography and appeared in several films about his life.Holmes stopped making adult films in the early 1980s. According to Rose John thought one porn person in the family was enough.
Eline Nygaard Riisnæs.  Eline Nygaard Riisnæs (born 5 July 1913 in Sandefjord – died 3 February 2011 in Oslo) was a Norwegian pianist and musicologist at UiO mother of the pianist and piano pedagog Anne Eline Riisnæs (1951-) and the saxophonists Knut Riisnæs (1945-) and Odd Riisnæs (1953-).
Brad Strut.  Brad Strut is an Australian hip hop emcee and singer based in Melbourne. Strut has performed and released material as a solo artist and is also a member of hip hop group Lyrical Commission.
Phil Hale.  Philip Oliver Hale (born in 1963) is an American figurative painter who currently resides in London England.Prior to turning to fine arts he worked as an illustrator doing mostly figurative work. He was apprenticed to/ partnered with American painter Rick Berry.His current work focuses on figure as well in depictions of slightly surreal scenes with strange characters performing various physical feats usually in a confrontation of some sort.
Fernand Léger.  Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe]; February 4 1881 – August 17 1955) was a French painter sculptor and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.
Tracy G.  Tracy G (born Tracy Grijalva on January 3 1959 in Whittier California) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his time with Dio from 1993 to 1999.His first band was with his father called the Grijalva Brothers.It started out when he was seven and wanted to play in Little League Baseball childhood illness struck and he couldn't play in the season.
Priya Anjali Rai.  Priya Anjali Rai (born December 25 1977) also known as Priya Rai is an Indian-American former pornographic actress.
Émile Martel (writer).  Émile Martel (born August 10 1941 in Amos Quebec) is a Canadian diplomat and writer who won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1995 for his poetry collection Pour orchestre et poète seul.Educated at the University of Ottawa Université Laval and the University of Salamanca he taught French and Spanish literature in Canada and the United States before joining Canada's Department of External Affairs as a diplomat.
Irma Chilton.  Irma Chilton (born Mair Elizabeth Irma Evans 12 November 1930 – 1990) was a Welsh children's writer in English and Welsh languages.
Kevin Schafer.  Kevin Schafer is an American photographer and writer.
Vic Steele.  Vic Steele (born Victor Winston Farrell 8 May 1945 in Manchester) is a former British guitarist. He was a member of the original Hollies line-up.
David Odell.  David Odell is an American screenwriter and film director.Odell was nominated in 1980 for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program for The Muppet Show alongside Jim Henson Don Hinkley and Jerry Juhl. He won the award the following year with co-nominees Jerry Juhl and Chris Langham.
Natsuko Aso.  Natsuko Aso (麻生 夏子 Asō Natsuko) (born August 6 1990 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress and singer.
Jeff Banks.  Jeff Banks CBE (born 17 March 1943) is a Welsh designer of men's and women's clothing jewellery and home furnishings. Born in Ebbw Vale Wales Banks co-founded the fashion chain Warehouse in the late 1970s. He later created and presented the television programme The Clothes Show broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000.
Jack Lambert (British actor).  Jack Lambert (29 December 1899–13 March 1976) was a British film and television actor.
Tomotaka Imamichi.  Tomotaka Imamichi (イマミチ・トモタカ Imamichi Tomotaka kanji: 今道友隆 aka Imasa) (born October 12 1959) is a Japanese music producer guitarist and songwriter from Tokyo Japan. He first became active in the Japanese rock scene in 1984 as the guitarist and primary songwriter for the rock band the Barbee Boys.
Tomohisa Sako.  Tomohisa Sako (佐香 智久 Sakō Tomohisa born December 26 1991 Sapporo Hokkaido) is a Japanese singer. He has several singles and albums that have charted on the Oricon charts including Zutto which reached number 12 on the Oricon Singles Chart and Kimi Koi Calendar which peaked at number 13 both in 2012. His album Hajimemashite reached number 27 on the Oricon Albums Chart.
Jinyoung (singer).  Jung Jin Young (Hangul: 정진영; hanja: 鄭振永; born November 18 1991) better known by his stage name Jinyoung is a South Korean idol and the leader of boy band B1A4. He made a debut on the stage of MBC Show! Music Core on April 23 2011. He has been part of four mini albums and two official Korean albums and one official Japanese album.
Alexis Jordan.  Alexis Jordan (born April 7 1992) is an American singer and actress from Columbia South Carolina. Jordan rose to fame as a contestant on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006. After being eliminated from the show she began to upload cover songs to YouTube which received millions of views.
Rick DePiro.  Rick DePiro (born May 30 1967) who is known by his stage name Ricky Dee is an American Country singer-songwriter notable and award winning jazz pianist and jazz organist and a music producer who has recorded and produced over twenty-five albums.
David A. Adler.  David Abraham Adler (born April 10 1947) is an American writer of nearly 200 books for children and young adults most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series the Picture Book of ... series and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers.
Mike Manuel.  Mike Manuel is a Christian country music artist based out of Nashville Tennessee.
Leela Nambudiripad.  Leela Nambudiripad under the pen name of Sumangala is a popular author of children's literature in Malayalam.
Friedrich Brentel.  Friedrich Brentel a German printmaker in engraving and etching and miniature painter was born at Lauingen in 1580 and became a citizen of Strasbourg in 1601. His principal work is a set of plates for 'The Funeral of Charles III Duke of Lorraine' and the Royal entry of his son as the new duke published at Nancy in 1611. They are from the designs of Claude de La Ruelle and Jean La Hire and are etched in a slight spirited manner.
John Stowell.  John Stowell is an American Jazz guitarist composer author and lecturer.
Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh.  Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh is a freelance Science writer coloumnist book author broadcaster researcher from Odisha.He hasI have been contributing regularly to a variety of prominent Oriya news papers and magazines since 1993. Over the past one and half decade he has written more than 700 stories on science and environment for various news papers and magazines. He has also contributed to several radio programmes. He is the author of 22 books on popular popular science .
Jean Kittson.  Jean Kittson is an Australian performer writer and comedian in theatre and print on radio and television. She made her comedy debut at Melbourne’s comedy venue Le Joke in a series of solo performances and then in the stage version of Let The Blood Run Free.Jean Kittson is one of Australia's best known and most popular comedians amusing audiences in theatre film print on radio and television.She came to national attention on The Big Gig.
Sergio Andricaín.  Sergio Andricaín is a Cuban journalist literary scholar publisher and author of children's books.
Zyranna Zateli.  Zyranna Zateli (Greek: Ζυράννα Ζατέλη) (born 1951) is a Greek novelist born in Sochos near Thessaloniki. She attended a drama school 1976-1979 and then worked as an actress and radio producer before becoming a full-time writer. Both her novels were awarded with the National Book Prize for Literature 1994 and 2002 and they are translated into several European languages.
Richard Christian Matheson.  Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of the short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and Dystopia; the novel Created By; the magic-realism novella The Ritual of Illusion and was the editor of the commemorative book BATTLEGROUND. He co-wrote the screenplays for Three O'Clock High Full Eclipse Loose Cannons Paradise and others.
Mark Robinson (musician).  Mark Richard Robinson (born February 21 1967) is an American indie-rock musician from Washington D.C. who founded TeenBeat Records in 1984. Best known for founding Unrest (with Phil Krauth) he has also been a member of Air Miami Flin Flon Grenadine and currently plays with his wife Evelyn Hurley (Blast Off Country Style) in Cotton Candy. He has released a number of solo records. His recordings are typically sparse often based around a carefully controlled guitar.
Ellsworth Young.  Ellsworth Young (1866 Albia Iowa – 1952 Evanston Illinois) was an American magazine and book illustrator and a noted painter of landscapes. He worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Collection of the Illinois State Museum and was employed by the Denver Times and The Chicago Tribune as an editorial illustrator. Ellsworth Young studied at The Art Institute of Chicago with Oliver Dennett Grover and John Vanderpoel.
Andreas Kisser.  Andreas Rudolf Kisser (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɐ̃dɾjɐs ˈʁudowf ˈkiseɾ] is a Brazilian guitar player songwriter and producer. He is most known for being the guitar player for the metal band Sepultura. He has been featured on every Sepultura release from Schizophrenia to The Mediator [...]. Additionally Kisser has also been involved in other bands such as the rock supergroup Hail! Sexoturica and more recently De La Tierra.
Bessie Smith.  Bessie Smith (April 15 1894 – September 26 1937) was an American blues singer.Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and along with Louis Armstrong a major influence on other jazz vocalists.
Roland Mathias.  Roland Glyn Mathias (4 September 1915 – 16 August 2007) was a Welsh writer known for his poetry and short stories. He was also a literary critic and responsible with Raymond Garlick for the success of the literary magazine Dock Leaves (from 1949) later from 1957 The Anglo-Welsh Review. He edited it from 1961 to 1976.
Jamie Reid.  Jamie Reid (born 1947) is an English artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note came close to defining the image of punk rock particularly in the UK.
Brenda Holloway.  Brenda Holloway (born June 21 1946) is an American singer and songwriter who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the soul hits Every Little Bit Hurts When I'm Gone and You've Made Me So Very Happy. The latter which she co-wrote was later widely popularized when it became a Top Ten hit for Blood Sweat & Tears.
Dawnay.  Dawnay is a South African singer producer and song writer best known for his hit U Touch Me which broke records in South Africa when it spent 22 weeks at the top of the charts in 2001 toppling artists such as Destiny's Child and Shaggy from the No. 1 position. Dawnay opened for Shaggy in 2002. In 2002 Dawnay also received a SAMA nomination for Best pop album.
Lola Checain.  Lola Chacain is a soukous recording artist composer and vocalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz led by François Luambo Makiadi which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Cyril Hume.  Cyril Hume (March 16 1900 – March 26 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was a descendent of philosopher David Hume.Hume was a graduate of Yale University where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
Jason Falkner.  Jason Falkner (born June 2 1968) is an American pop and rock musician. Active since the late 1980s he has performed with several bands. In addition to releasing several albums as a solo artist he is a prolific session musician and producer who has contributed to dozens of other recordings by other bands and musicians.
Te Hapimana Tauke.  Te Hapimana Tauke (1810–1915) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader mission teacher and historian. Of Māori descent he identified with the Nga Ruahine and Ngati Ruanui iwi. He was born in the Waikato in about 1810.
Alexander Drummond (consul).  Alexander Drummond (died 1769) was an English consul.
Sandra St. Victor.  Sandra St. Victor is a Dallas born singer songwriter most known for her work as lead singer of The Family Stand. She attended the now famous Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Arts Magnet) High School studying all styles of music. Arts Magnet was also stomping grounds for musical colleagues Erykah Badu Roy Hargrove Norah Jones & Edie Brickell.
Bruno Jasieński.  Bruno Jasieński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈbrunɔ jaˈɕeɲskʲi]; born Wiktor Zysman Klimontów Congress Poland 17 July 1901 – died 17 September 1938 in Butyrka prison Moscow) was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union.Wiktor (Bruno) was born to a Polish family of Zysmans with Jewish and German[citation needed] roots but from his mother's side he was a descendant of nobility (Pol. szlachta).
Yi Chong-jun.  Yi Chong-jun (This is the preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) was a prominent South Korean novelist. Throughout his four decade-long career Lee wrote more than 100 short stories 13 novels. He died from lung cancer at the age of 68 on July 31 2008.
Cornell Gunter.  Cornell Gunter (November 14 1936 – February 26 1990) was an American rhythm and blues singer most active in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Coffeyville Kansas and died in Las Vegas Nevada after being shot in his automobile.
Michael Blackburn (poet).  Michael Blackburn (born 1954) is a British poet.
Norma K. Hemming.  Norma Kathleen Hemming (b. September 1928 in Ilford Essex London England – d. 4 July 1960 in Melbourne Australia) was a British-Australian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was the Australia's first significant female science fiction writer. As N. K. Hemming published twenty stories in the 1950s and also wrote and appeared in a series of plays that were performed at Australian science fiction conventions.
Toni Montano.  Toni Montano (Serbian Cyrillic: Тони Монтано) real name Velibor Miljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Миљковић) is a Serbian rock musician.
Buddy Banks (bassist).  Alvin Buddy Banks (January 15 1927 - August 2005) was a jazz double-bassist. He was born in St. Thomas Ontario Canada.Banks grew up in the United States and traveled to Europe with the U.S. military in 1948. His first appearance on record was in Vienna with Thurmond Young; this group also played live at the Colored Club. He played in Paris with Gerry Wiggins in 1950 and then with Bill Coleman in Berne Switzerland Belgium and Le Havre France.
John Baskcomb.  John Baskcomb (7 February 1916 – 29 March 2000) was an English character actor who made numerous television and film appearances over a 35 year period.He was the son of the founder of the Bank of England Opera and Dramatic Society and was educated at Croydon High School for Boys.
Pit Passarell.  Pedro (Pit) Passarell (born April 11 1968 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is an Argentinian-born Brazilian bassist main composer and occasional lead vocalist of Brazilian heavy metal band Viper. He also writes for the rock band Capital Inicial that his brother Yves Passarell joined after leaving Viper.
Maxime Le Forestier.  Maxime Le Forestier (born 10 February 1949 as Bruno Le Forestier) is a French singer.
Shmuel Levi.  Shmuel Levi (14 March 1884 – July 1966) was an Israeli painter.
Lonnie Simmons.  Lonnie Simmons is an American record producer from Los Angeles California. He is founder and president of the now-defunct Total Experience Records. As a composer he wrote several #1 R&B songs for his label's major acts The Gap Band and Yarbrough and Peoples.
Mitsuomi Takahashi.  Mitsuomi Takahashi (高橋 光臣 Takahashi Mitsuomi March 10 1982) is a Japanese actor best known for playing Satoru Akashi/BoukenRed in the tokusatsu show GoGo Sentai Boukenger. He took part in the 20th and 21st SASUKE competition. He unfortunately failed both times in the first stage.
Yumiko Kobayashi.  Yumiko Kobayashi (小林 由美子 Kobayashi Yumiko born June 18 1979 in Yōkaichiba Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress. She is a freelance voice actor but until August 2007 was affiliated with Arts Vision.She and fellow Excel Saga voice actress Mikako Takahashi are known as the duo The Excel Girls. She is also part of the voice actress quartet Prits along with Natsuko Kuwatani Nana Mizuki and Hisayo Mochizuki; all four voiced characters in Sister Princess.
Ramiro Saavedra.  Ramiro Saavedra Linares (born 14 March 1984 Arequipa) is a Peruvian singer best known for being the winner of imitation and singing reality television series Yo soy which characterized grunge singer Kurt Cobain.
Iain Jennings.  Iain Jennings is a keyboard player known for being a member of the progressive rock band's Mostly Autumn (from 1995 until 2006 and again from 2007 to present) and Breathing Space (from 2005 to 2011).
Alfred George Horton.  Alfred George Horton (c.1843–11 March 1903) was a New Zealand printer newspaper proprietor and editor businessman. He was born in Lincolnshire England on c.1843.
Mark Tedin.  Mark Tedin is an artist whose work has appeared in collectible card games and role-playing games.
D. Putnam Brinley.  Daniel Putnam Brinley (March 8 1879 – July 31 1963) was an American muralist and painter. He was born in Newport Rhode Island the son of Edward Huntington Brinley and Rebecca Maitland Porter Brinley. Brinley spent his childhood at his parents' home in Cos Cob Connecticut where he was known affectionately as Put. During the 1890s he came to the attention of local artists when he watched them at work. Brinley studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1900 to 1902.
Jan Korbička.  Jan Korbička (born 4 May 1952 in Brno Czechoslovakia) is a Czech pianist member of Synkopy 61 rock band.
Brissia Mayagoitia.  Brissia Daniela Mayagoitia Orta better known as Brissia (born August 3 1991 in Saltillo Coahuila) is a Mexican singer and actress. She was a former member of Mexican pop band La Nueva Banda. Mayagoitia left the band to become a solo artist in 2008. The remaining band members continued without her but split in the spring of 2009.
Tom Russell.  Thomas George Tom Russell (born March 5 1947/1948) is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Texas Country music tradition his music also incorporates elements of folk Tex-Mex and the cowboy music of the American West. Many of his songs have been recorded by other artists including Johnny Cash The Texas Tornados k.d.
Giuseppe Bonito.  Giuseppe Bonito (11 January 1707 – 9 May 1789) was a Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period. Giuseppe Bonito is known for genre depictions on canvas. Many of Gaspare Traversi's paintings had previously been attributed to Bonito. Bonito was born at Castellammare di Stabia and like Traversi was a student at the large studio of Francesco Solimena. One of his contemporaries there was Gaspare Traversi. Bonito represented urban scenes with folklore details and figures of commedia dell'arte.
Tom Hazelmyer.  Tom Hazelmyer (born 1965) is an American musician and printmaker. He is known as the founder and owner of the independent label Amphetamine Reptile Records as well as being the lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Halo of Flies.
Neil Sutton.  Neil Sutton is a long term associate member of the veteran British synthpop group The Human League. He is best known as the on stage and studio keyboard player but also has written various lyrics and composed instrumental tracks for the band and has numerous Human League album credits.His association with the Human League started in 1986 where he was employed as a session musician for the Crash Tour of late 1986.
Marjorie Acker Phillips.  Marjorie Acker Phillips (1894-1985) was an American Impressionist painter and art collector. She co-founded the Phillips Collection with her husband Duncan Phillips.
Ozwald Boateng.  Ozwald Boateng OBE (/ˈɒzwəld ˈboʊtɛŋ/; born 28 February 1967) is an English fashion designer of Ghanaian descent known for his trademark twist on classic British tailoring and bespoke style.
Nikolaj Frobenius.  Nikolaj Frobenius (born September 29 1965) is a Norwegian novelist and screen writer.Frobenius was born in Oslo but grew up at Rykkinn. He studied film writing and research at LCP London. He has written several books and screenplays including the screenplay for the classic Nordic film thriller Insomnia which was adapted into a major Hollywood production in 2002. His international breakthrough as a novelist came with the novel Latours katalog (1996).
Olle Jönsson.  Olle Jönsson (born December 1 1955) is a Swedish singer for the dansband Lasse Stefanz which was awarded a Grammis for Dansband of the year in 1989. Earlier he was also drummer until a wrist operation. In January 2007 Gunnar Nilsson became the band's drummer instead.
Boris Zakhoder.  Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Заходе́р; 9 September 1918 Kagul Bessarabia — 7 November 2000 Moscow Russia) was a Soviet poet and children's writer. He is best known for his translations of Winnie-the-Pooh Mary Poppins Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other children's classics.
Semiha Yankı.  Semiha Yankı (born 15 January 1958 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish pop music singer presenter and film actress. She is best known for representing Turkey for the first time at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song Seninle Bir Dakika.
Florence Fuller.  Florence Ada Fuller (1867 – 17 July 1946) was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert Hawker Dowling and teacher Jane Sutherland and took classes at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School becoming a professional artist in the late 1880s.
Chip Silverman.  Howard Burton Chip Silverman Ph.D M.P.H. M.S. C.A.S. was the author of five books coached the NCAA's only African-American college lacrosse team and was the former head of the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration.
Pacita Abad.  Pacita Abad (September 5 1946 – December 7 2004) was born in Basco Batanes a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more-than-thirty-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to undertake graduate studies. She had over 40 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in the U.S. Asia Europe Africa and Latin America. She also participated in more than 50 group and traveling exhibitions throughout the world.
Stan Barstow.  Stanley Barstow FRSL (28 June 1928 – 1 August 2011) was an English novelist.
Kyle Creed.  Kyle Creed (1912–1982) was an influential musician and banjo luthier of 20th century Appalachia. Along with Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham he is considered to be one of the originators of the Roundpeak clawhammer banjo style that developed in the 1960s and came to shape banjo practices in the Old-time music tradition.
Kyle Andrews.  Kyle Andrews is an American songwriter and performer born in Chicago IL and based in Nashville TN. He has released albums on Portland's Badman Recording Co. as well as his own Elephant Lady Records imprint. His 2010 song You Always Make Me Smile (co-written with friend Neil Mason) was featured in a worldwide Holiday Inn ad. The music video for the song was filmed in Utah[citation needed] during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest water balloon fight and went viral.
Harold Cleworth.  Harold James Cleworth is an automotive artist.Cleworth was born in Leigh Lancashire in the late 1930s and was born into a family of two brothers and two sisters. He studied at Manchester College of Art. In 1972 Cleworth moved to San Francisco and began his automobile painting career in earnest. AutoWeek dubbed him the painter laureate of the car.His work was exhibited at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles in 2006.
Demetrius Ross.  Demetrius Sir Jam Ross is a musical engineermixer and inventor as well as a recording artist. Ross was born into musical royalty and called “Sir Jam” by the New Power Generation. He worked with Prince. Levi Seacer guitarist and producer who discovered him. Ross wrote and performed with Prince T. C.
Randy Jackson (Zebra).  Randy Jackson is an American rock musician from New Orleans Louisiana best known for his role as frontman for the band Zebra.Randy Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans Louisiana. He started playing piano and guitar at age 5. His earliest influences were Les Paul and Mary Ford The Beatles The Allman Brothers Cream Jimi Hendrix The Moody Blues and Led Zeppelin.In 1973 he joined “Shepards Bush” as lead guitarist. It was here that he met Felix Hanemann.
Andy Bull.  Andy Bull is an Australian alt-pop/ singer-songwriter producer based in Sydney. He is best known for his self produced 2013 single Keep On Running as well as his prolific Australian touring.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien.  Hou Hsiao-Hsien (born April 8 1947) is a Taiwanese actor singer producer and director. He is a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.  Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet and editor the founder of the Futurist movement.
Jona Bechtolt.  Jona Bechtolt (born December 2 1980) is an electronic musician and multimedia artist based in Portland Oregon United States. He is a former member of The Badger King and The Blow and has released solo records under the name Yacht (often stylized as YΔCHT) since 2003. Nearly all of his recordings have been distributed by both Marriage Records and States Rights Records.
Perry N. Halkitis.  Perry N. Halkitis (born February 24 1963) is an American psychologist known for his research on issues of health human behavior and developmental psychology with a specific application to the domains of HIV/AIDS substance abuse and mental health burden.
Jeffrey Lyons.  Jeffrey Lyons (born November 5 1944) is an American television and film critic.
Eef Barzelay.  Ifar Eef Barzelay is an Israeli-born American musician born in Tel Aviv Israel on May 12 1970. He is the principal songwriter and singer of alt country band Clem Snide but has also toured as a solo act both as a headliner and in support of various artists such as Ben Folds. Barzelay grew up in Teaneck New Jersey and attended Teaneck High School.In 2006 Barzelay released his debut solo album entitled Bitter Honey. In 2007 he composed many original tracks for the film Rocket Science.
George Earth.  George Earth (born July 3 1966) is an American musician guitarist songwriter composer music producer comic book artist and talk show host from Echo Park California. He is perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for both World Entertainment War and Switchblade Symphony later touring and recording with Angel Corpus Christi Stolen Babies and other bands before forming Los Angeles-based Small Halo in 2008.
Jordon Zadorozny.  Jordon Zadorozny (born c.1974 Pembroke Ontario) is a Canadian rock musician. He is the singer and songwriter for indie rock band Blinker the Star. He is best known for cowriting songs with Courtney Love in the late 1990s. Zadorozny has also appeared on recordings by Melissa Auf der Maur Sam Roberts Tara Slone and Mandy Moore.As of 2007 Jordon is a member of Canadian indie band Abbey with Sofia Silva and SheLoom with Filippo Gaetani.
Lyfe Jennings.  Lyfe Jennings (born Chester Jermaine Jennings on June 3 1973) is a platinum-selling American R&B and soul singer-songwriter record producer and instrumentalist. He plays the guitar bass and piano which he integrates into his music. The New York Times referred to him as a socially minded R&B singer.His love for music led him to join a group that included two of his cousins and his older brother. After splitting Lyfe continued his interest in music.
Jo Carson.  Josephine Catron Jo Carson (October 9 1946 – September 19 2011) was an American playwright poet fiction writer and actor as well as the author of three children's books. Her best-known play is Daytrips (1991) and her poetry is collected in Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet (1989).
Yamada Waka.  Yamada Waka (山田わか Yamada Waka 1 December 1879 - 6 September 1957) was a pioneering Japanese feminist and social reformer active in the late Meiji period Taishō and Showa periods of Japan.
Robert Wringham.  Robert Wringham (born Robert Westwood on 28 November 1982) is a British humorist and magazine editor from Dudley.In 2012 Go Faster Stripe published Wringham's non-fiction book You Are Nothing a history of Dadaesque comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra whose members included Stewart Lee Simon Munnery Kevin Eldon Julian Barratt Graham Linehan Sally Phillips and Johnny Vegas.Wringham is editor and publisher of New Escapologist a lifestyle magazine founded in 2007 the content of which offers escape routes from the present-day predicaments of demeaning work status anxiety and urban lethargy. The tone of the magazine alternates between light humor black comedy and prescriptive polemic. 
Joseph lacasse.  Joseph Lacasse (1894 - 1975) is a Belgian artist who enjoyed a career that spanned some sixty-five years during which he stood at the helm of Abstraction.
Urban Blitz.  Urban Blitz is best known for his eerie and atmospheric (Ira Robbins) electric violin baritone violectra and lead guitar work with the 1970s London protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness.However Blitz had considerable earlier musical experience graduating from a classical background to hone his skills on the London late 1960s and early 1970s club and pub rock scene. He travelled to Italy in early 1973 to play with the Neapolitan Italian / Celtic chanteuse Jenny Sorrenti.
Pulsedriver.  Slobodan Petrovic Jr. (born on 22 February 1974 in Trappenkamp) is a Yugoslav-German electronic dance music DJ producer and is the founder of Aqualoop Records in 2000. He is best known by his alias Pulsedriver.
David Fairrington.  David Neal Fairrington (born October 18 1940 in Fort Lewis Washington) is an American artist currently living in Beaumont CA. Although mostly associated with his realistic portraits Fairrington paints a variety of subjects including landscapes still life and western art in a range of styles including abstract conceptual fantasy figurative impressionist pop art and romantic.
Luci Tapahonso.  Luci Tapahonso (born November 8 1953) is a Navajo poet and a lecturer in Native American Studies.
Devlin (rapper).  James Devlin (born 7 May 1989) better known mononymously as Devlin is an English rapper from Dagenham East London England signed to Island Records. Part of Grime collective 'O.T Crew' with Dogzilla Deeperman M. Eye Benson Kozy Syer Bars and Daze. Devlin was also a member of The Movement consisting of himself Wretch 32 Scorcher Ghetts Lightning Mercston and DJ Unique but has since left.
Kyōko Koizumi.  Kyoko Koizumi (小泉 今日子 Koizumi Kyōko) (born February 4 1966 in Atsugi Kanagawa) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is signed to Victor Entertainment.
Lemar.  Lemar Obika (born 4 April 1978) professionally known simply as Lemar is an English R&B singer–songwriter and record producer. Lemar has had a run of chart success in the United Kingdom Europe and Australia. He rose to fame after finishing in third place on the first series of British talent show Fame Academy which was won by songwriter David Sneddon.Since then Lemar has had seven top ten UK singles and sold over two million albums.
Afroman.  Joseph Edgar Foreman (born July 28 1974) better known by his stage name Afroman is an American rapper best known for the hit single Because I Got High. He was nominated for a Grammy award in 2002.
Dorothy Whipple.  Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (1893 Blackburn Lancashire – 1966 Blackburn Lancashire) was an English writer of popular fiction.
Nikki Yanofsky.  Nicole Nikki Yanofsky (born February 8 1994) is a Canadian jazz-pop singer-songwriter from Montreal Quebec. She is best known as the vocalist of the Canadian CTV theme song for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games I Believe.She performed Canada’s National Anthem at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver British Columbia.
Nipsey Russell.  Julius Nipsey Russell (September 15 1918 – October 2 2005) was an American comedian best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s especially Match Game Password Hollywood Squares To Tell the Truth and Pyramid. His appearances were distinguished in part by the short humorous poems he would recite during the broadcast.
Sascha (pornographic actor).  Sascha (born 24 October 1976 in Leonberg Germany) is a German pornographic film actor and director.
Jamuna Rani.  K. Jamuna Rani (born on May 17 1938 in Andhra Pradesh India) is a prolific Indian Playback singer who has sung over 6000 songs in Telugu Tamil Kannada Malayalam and Sinhala languages.Rani is the daughter of private officer K. Varadarajulu and violinist K. Droupathy.
Stefan Andersson (singer).  Stefan Andersson (born in Haga Gothenburg Sweden on 8 August 1967) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Andersson is also known for his 1992 Swedish hit song Catch the Moon which reached #4 on the Swedish charts.
Missy Chase Lapine.  Missy Chase Lapine is an American author. She is best known for her cookbook The Sneaky Chef published by Running Press in 2007.Before the release of The Sneaky Chef Lapine was publisher of Eating Well magazine
Akihiro Yamada.  Akihiro Yamada (山田 章博 Yamada Akihiro) (born February 10 1957) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. He was born in Kōchi Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan and now resides in Kyoto. Yamada is known for delicate images reminiscent of suiboku and depiction of fantasy subjects. He is the 1996 Seiun Award winner in art category.
Fernanda Lara.  Fernanda Arcevenco Lara (Canoas August 24 1976) is a Brazilian musician. She graduated from Ulbra/Rio Grande do Sul University Brazil with a degree in physiotherapy although she has been working in the field of gospel music since 1994. Presently she is studying pharmacy.
Chico MacMurtrie.  Chico MacMurtrie was born in New Mexico in 1961. He has been awarded four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for Interdisciplinary Artists. In 1990 he received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award.In 1992 MacMurtrie formed Amorphic Robot Works a group of artists and engineers working together to create robotic art performances and installations.
Joel Bakan.  Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian writer jazz musician filmmaker and professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.Born in Lansing Michigan and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing Michigan where his parents Paul and Rita Bakan were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan State University. In 1971 he moved with his parents to Vancouver British Columbia.
Maurice Sagoff.  Maurice Sagoff (1909 or 1910–March 18 1998) was an American poet best remembered for ShrinkLits his bestselling collection of light verse.Sagoff was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston College he worked for one decade as a research librarian at the Boston Public Library and for two decades at Fairchild Publications as a regional editor.
Norman Lewis (grammarian).  Norman Lewis (born December 30 1912 in Brooklyn New York – died September 8 2006 in Whittier California) was an author grammarian lexicographer and etymologist. Lewis was a leading authority on English-language skills whose best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary published by Pocket Books in 1971 promised to teach readers how to make words your slaves in fifteen minutes a day.
Freddie Redd.  Freddie Redd (born May 29 1928 in New York City) is an American hard-bop pianist and composer.
Gar Samuelson.  Gary C. Gar Samuelson (February 18 1958 in Dunkirk New York – July 22 1999 in Orange City Florida) was a drummer best remembered for his work with the thrash metal band Megadeth from 1984 to 1987 contributing to their first two albums. He is considered as one of the most influential drummers to thrash metal having pioneered the incorporation of jazz fusion into the subgenre.
Vânia Bastos.  Vânia Bastos (born May 13 1956) is a Brazilian singer who began her professional life with the Vanguarda Paulista avant-garde movement in the early 1980s.
Ivor Williams.  Ivor Williams (1908 – 1982) was a Welsh artist.He was born in London the son of the distinguished Welsh painter Christopher Williams and Emily Appleyard (sister of the artist Fred Appleyard).He trained at the Central School of Art and Design and later the Slade School of Art University of London where he was awarded first prize for portraiture.
Acharya Sarangdhar.  'Acharya' Sarangdhar (born 31 January 1960) is a teacher Hindi writer poet essayist story writer and scholar. He penned numerous books on Hindi 'vyakaran' essays poems and is a regular columnist in various Hindi and Bhojpuri magazines published from India and abroad.
Marie Tussaud.  Anna Maria Marie Tussaud (née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850) was a French born artist of German decent who became known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds the wax museum that she founded in London.
Patrick Chapman.  Patrick Chapman is an Irish poet writer and screenwriter born in 1968.Chapman's first published work was Jazztown released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later by The New Pornography a collection of poems described as darkly humorous by The Irish Times. His story collection The Wow Signal (Bluechrome Publishing ISBN 9781904781752) was published in 2007.
Anita Traversi.  Anita Traversi (born 25 July 1937 Giubiasco - died 25 September 1991 Bellinzona) was a Swiss singer best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1960 and 1964.
Pat Rolle.  Pat Rolle (born 1943/1944) is a singer who sings in the style of Nat King Cole. He used to sing at Peanuts Taylor's Drumbeat Club in Nassau Bahamas. As of June 2009 he continues to sing professionally.
Joanie Keller.  Joanie Keller (born in Wayne Nebraska) is an American country music singer. Keller began performing in her father's band when she was a small child. After graduating high school she played local clubs in Colorado before moving to Nashville to pursue a career as a country singer.Keller's debut album Sparks Are Gonna Fly was released by Broken Bow Records in April 2000. Its first single Three Little Teardrops peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Andy Hawkins (musician).  Andy Hawkins is a guitarist and composer from Missouri and a founding member of the band Blind Idiot God.
Lope de Vega.  Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard.  Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15 1925 – May 7 1972) was an American photographer from Normal Illinois.
Brice Long.  William Brice Long (born August 25 1971) is an American country music singer. Signed to Columbia Records in 2005 Long charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts that year: Anywhere but Here which was also released by Chris Cagle a year later. In addition Long co-wrote Gary Allan's 2004 Number One single Nothing On but the Radio and Randy Houser's debut single Anything Goes.
Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma.  Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma also known as Prince Rama Varma is a South Indian classical musician a performing vocalist veena player teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music and writer. He was born as the youngest son of Princess Pooyam Thirunal Gowri Parvathi Bayi(Chairperson of Kerala Travels Ltd) of the Travancore Royal Family and Chembrol Raja Raja Varma his elder sister is Princess Thiruvathira Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi(wife of Professor Madhava Das Nalapat).
Frank Le Gall.  Frank Le Gall born September 23 1959 in Rouen is a French author of comics. He was first published as a comic author at the age of 16 in Pistil. He then went on to work for Spirou creating Valry Bonpain a comic series following a jazz musician with Alain Clement.He is best known for his own comic series Théodore Poussin.
Tony Martino (singer).  Tony Martino is a singer-songwriter record producer and independent record label owner from Chicago. Martino is also the primary singer/songwriter and producer for his new side-project formed in late-2013 The Rarest Kind a group with a revolving member format in which he is the only official and permanent member. His songs have been featured in several television shows including the Ghost Whisperer on CBS MTV's The Real World and Road Rules Discovery Channel's Dr.
Bhimsen Joshi.  Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Kannada: ಪಂಡಿತ್ ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಜೋಷಿ) (About this sound pronunciation ); February 4 1922 – January 24 2011) He was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the khayal form of singing as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs).In 1998 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy for Music Dance and Drama.
Shunichi Miyamoto.  Shunichi Miyamoto (宮本 駿一 Miyamoto Shun'ichi born April 1 1986) is a Japanese musical artist and voice actor. He is noted for having performed several songs for the anime adaptation of D.N.Angel.
Vivian Vande Velde.  Vivian Vande Velde (born 1951 Rochester New York) is an American authorwho writes books primarily aimed at children and young adults. She began writing at age 28 the same year her daughter was born and has been publishing relatively consistently since. She currently resides in Rochester New York.
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten.  Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born 23 September 1971 in Oppdal Norway) is a Norwegian bassist active in the jazz and free jazz genres.
Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram.  Dr. Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram (Tamil: சீர்காழி கோ. சிவசிதம்பரம்) is a Carnatic music vocalist from Chennai. He is an alumnus of the Trinity College of Music. He is also a medical doctor with a post graduate degree in internal medicine. Sivachidambaram is the son of Padma Shri winner Sirkazhi Govindarajan. Sivachidambaram has recorded a song Enadharumai Raanuva Veerargaal written by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam former President of India.
Tony Ray (reggae musician).  Tony Ray born in Kingston Jamaica is a Jamaican-Israeli musician. He is most noted as being the pioneer of Reggae in Israel as he released I Feel Like Reggae in 1981 which was the first full-length reggae album in the country.
Kyle Park.  Kyle Park is an American country singer-songwriter and music producer from Austin Texas. Park writes and produces his own music and performs more than 175 shows a year with his band.He self-released his first studio album Big Time in 2005 and after his second album in 2008 Anywhere in Texas he released Spring 2010 EP and Fall 2010 EP the latter reaching No. 7 on iTunes' Top Ten Country Records. It also hit No. 1 on Billboard Heatseekers South Central list.
Ted Hawkins.  Ted Hawkins (October 28 1936 – January 1 1995) was an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Biloxi Mississippi United States.Hawkins was an enigmatic figure through most of his career; he split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach California where he was a mostly anonymous street performer and Europe where he and his songs were better known and well received in clubs and small concert halls.
Daniel Speer.  Georg Daniel Speer (2 July 1636 – 5 October 1707) was a German composer and writer of the Baroque. Speer was born in Breslau (today Wrocław Poland) and died in Göppingen Germany.
Ercole de Maria.  Ercole de Maria (? – c. 1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter Guido Reni. He was also known as Ercolino di Guido. He was awarded a knighthood by Urban VIII but died young.
Scipio Moorhead.  Scipio Moorhead (active c. 1773) was an enslaved African-American artist who lived in Boston Massachusetts. His only surviving work is a portrait of the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley. Moorhead gained recognition through Phillis Wheatley's inscription To S. M. a young African Painter on seeing his Works published in Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral 1773.Moorhead was a slave of the Reverend John Moorhead of Boston Massachusetts.
Ray Robertson.  Ray Robertson is a Canadian novelist and a contributing book reviewer at The Globe and Mail. His most recent work Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction and long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction. He lives in Toronto Ontario. His newest novel I Was There the Night He Died will be launched in the Spring of 2014.
Reza Sadeghi.  Reza Sadeghi (Persian: رضا صادقی‎ born 1979 in Bandar Abbas Iran) is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter Often referred to as the King of Black or King of Love Government (in Persian Soltane Meshki or Soltan e Dollat Eshgh)Sadeghi belongs to the new generation of pop singers who emerged in post revolutionary Iran. He gained popularity among young Iranians. His most famous song is Black is the color of love (in Persian Meshki rang e eshgheh). His first song was created in 1992.
Julian Klemczyński.  Julian Klemczyński was a Polish composer and teacher who spent the bulk of his career in France.
Richard Austin (punchcutter).  Richard Austin (c. 1765–1830) was an English punchcutter. He was the original cutter of typefaces Bell Scotch Roman and Porson. Born in London he studied wood engraving under Thomas Bewick before joining John Bell's British Letter Foundry in 1788 as a punch-cutter where he worked until the foundry closed in 1798. He then worked for William Miller's foundry in Edinburgh before founded his own Imperial Letter Foundry in London.
Alexander Laszlo (composer).  Alexander Laszlo (November 22 1895 Budapest (Hungary) - November 17 1970 Los Angeles California) was an Hungarian-American pianist musical composer arranger and inventor. He was born Sandor (San) Totis but used the professional name of Alexander Laszlo as a composer and music publisher. Lazlo studied piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and started as a pianist at the Blüthner Orchestra in Berlin in 1915.
Piotr Vasiliev.  Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev (Russian: Пё́тр Константи́нович Васи́льев; January 26 1909 Saint Petersburg Russian Empire – June 9 1989 Leningrad USSR) was Russian Soviet realist painter who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Moissaye Marans.  Moissaye Marans (October 11 1902 Kishinev Russian Empire - 1977 New York City) was an American sculptor.
Chigusa Takaku.  Chigusa Takaku (高久 ちぐさ Takaku Chigusa born 11 August 1978 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in a number of Japanese TV dramas and films.In 2010 she appeared in Aparna Sen's Bengali Film The Japanese Wife as the leading female opposite Rahul Bose.
Lloyd Arntzen.  Lloyd Arntzen (born September 19 1927) is a jazz clarinetist folk singer and soprano saxophonist from Vancouver British Columbia Canada. Arntzen has been an active participant on the New Orleans jazz scene forming the New Orleans North Traditional Jazz Band along with members Alan Matheson Grant Simpson Craig Scott and Graeme Peters. Arntzen is also a member of the band Sweet Papa Lowdown featuring band members Jeff Schucard Dan Marcus and Craig Smith.
Charly B.  Charly B born Charles Blanvillain in 1981 is a French reggae singer-songwriter who performs and whose music is distributed internationally.
Cindy Wilson.  Cynthia Leigh Wilson (born February 28 1957) is a vocalist songwriter and a founding member of new wave rock band The B-52s.She was born in Athens Georgia.
Junichi Watanabe.  Junichi Watanabe (渡辺 淳一 Watanabe Jun'ichi born 1933) is a Japanese writer known for his portrayal of extra-marital affairs of middle aged people. His 1997 novel A Lost Paradise became a bestseller in Japan and over Asia and was made into a film and a TV miniseries.
Mariene de Castro.  Mariene Bezerra de Castro (12 May 1978 in Salvador da Bahia) is Brazilian musician. She is known for her revival of Northeastern Brazilian musical styles including maracatu and samba de roda. Mariene began her professional career as a backing vocalist for Timbalada Carlinhos Brown and Marcia Freire. She began her solo career in 1997. In 2001 she won a Caymmi Award for Best Artistic Production. Her first album was released in 2005.
Andrew Norman Wilson (artist).  Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1983) is an artist and curator living in New York City.
Ian Scott (artist).  Ian Christopher Scott (20 April 1945 - 27 June 2013) was a New Zealand painter. From the late 1960s his work was significant for pursuing an international scope and vision within a local context previously dominated by regionalist and national concerns.
Michael Chance.  Michael Chance CBE (born 7 March 1955 in Penn Buckinghamshire England) is an English countertenor.
George Whiting Flagg.  George Whiting Flagg (June 26 1816 - January 5 1897)(DOD- verified New York Times Jan. 12 1897- Death List Of A Day) from New Haven Connecticut was an American painter of historical scenes and genre pictures. He was the brother of the artist Jared Bradley Flagg. George Whiting Flagg lived out his later years at his home located at 12 Westminster Street Nantucket Massachusetts until his death January 5 1897. Painting from a small studio next to this home.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt.  Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been rumored that he had been offered but declined the award already in 1919.Karlfeldt was born into a farmer's family in Karlbo in the province of Dalarna.
Yu Minhong.  Yu Minhong or Michael Yu (Simplified Chinese: 俞敏洪; born 15 October 1962 in Jiangyin Jiangsu) is the founder and current CEO of New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (Simplified Chinese: 新东方教育科技集团) and a member of the central committee of China Democratic League. Yu Minhong is considered one of the twenty-five people that has had the greatest impact on China in the twentieth century.
David Means.  David Means (born 1961) is an American writer based in Nyack New York. His short stories have appeared in many publications including Esquire The New Yorker and Harper's. They are frequently set in the Midwest or the Rust Belt or along the Hudson River in New York.
Robert Holles.  Robert Holles (1926–1999) was a British author and TV and film screenwriter.Holles was the son of a sergeant major and enlisted in the British army as a boy soldier at 14. He served in Korea as a sergeant with the 1st battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and saw action during the Battle of Imjin in 1951 one of The Glorious Glosters greatest battle honours.
William MacDonald (Christian author).  William MacDonald (January 7 1917 – December 25 2007) was President of Emmaus Bible College teacher Plymouth Brethren theologian and a prolific author of over 84 published books.MacDonald refused to accept royalties for his books but established a fund for translating his work Believers Bible Commentary into foreign languages.
Austin Peralta.  Austin Peralta (October 25 1990 – November 21 2012) was a musician and composer. He had two CDs released by CBS/Sony in Japan by the age of 16.
Patrick Henry Hughes.  Patrick Henry Hughes (born March 10 1988) is an American multi-instrumental musician from Louisville Kentucky who was born without eyes and unable to fully straighten his arms and legs making him unable to walk.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon.  Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון‎) (July 17 1888 – February 17 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (שי עגנון). In English his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Galicia Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ukraine).
Armando Trovajoli.  Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli) (2 September 1917 - 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor many of them jazz scores for low-budget exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects including one segment of Boccaccio '70.
William H..  William H. is a director of pornographic films for the studio Elegant Angel.
Mr. Sam.  Samuel Paquet (born February 28 1975 in Tourcoing France) better known by his stage name Mr. Sam is a French techno/trance music DJ and producer.
Guitar Gable.  Guitar Gable (born August 17 1937) is an American Louisiana blues swamp blues and swamp pop musician. He is best known for recording the original version of This Should Go On Forever and his part in the vibrant swamp blues and pop scene in Louisiana in the 1950s and early 1960s.
John Kennedy Toole.  John Kennedy Toole (December 17 1937 – March 26 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans Louisiana whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime.
Augustus Dunbier.  Augustus William Dunbier (January 1 1888 – September 11 1977) was a Nebraskan Impressionist painter best known for his landscapes. Dunbier was educated in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago. He often worked in the southwest United States and painted landscapes still lives and portraits.
Tuccio d'Andria.  Tuccio d'Andria or Tuzio d'Andrea (Late 15th century) was an Italian painter.
Reni Jusis.  Reni Jusis (born March 29 1974 in Konin raised in Mielno) is a female Polish pop singer songwriter and producer. At first Jusis recorded R&B music which evolved into electronic dance style in later albums. After ten years of her career she recorded piano pop music.
K. N. Ganeshaiah.  Dr. K.N. Ganeshaiah is an agricultural scientist and professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore. He is also a novelist specializing in thrillers and writes in the Kannada language.
Stefano Dall' Arzere.  Stefano Dall' Arzere or Stefano Dell'Arzere as an Italian painter of the second half of the 16th century.According to Ridolfi and others was a native of Padua painted numerous altar-pieces for the churches and convents of that city. In the Chiesa degli Eremitani he painted some subjects from the Old Testament and two pictures of 'St. Peter' and 'St. Paul' and in the church of the Servite monastery the principal altar-piece is by him.
Cliff Taylor.  Cliff Taylor is the editor of The Sunday Business Post a newspaper based in Ireland. He replaced Ted Harding shortly after the takeover by Thomas Crosbie Holdings.
Sitti Navarro.  Sitti Navarro (born November 29 1984 in Las Piñas) also known as Sitti is a Filipino bossa nova singer. After releasing her first album Café Bossa in 2006 other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed. Navarro is also featured in the segment A.S.A.P. Sessionistas of the variety show ASAP.
Stuart Brennan.  Stuart Brennan is a BAFTA winning English actor and film maker.He was born 8 October 1982 Barnstaple North Devon the second son of Nigel & Lorraine Brennan and has five brothers Rob Ollie Clive Leo & Kit.Stuart attended Pilton Infants School Pilton Bluecoats School Pilton Community College North Devon College then went on to Studied Drama at the University of Winchester (formerly known as King Alfreds College).
Stjepan Šejić.  Stjepan Šejić (born November 27 1981) is a Croatian comic book artist currently working as an illustrator for American comic book Witchblade published by Top Cow Productions.
Ben Sherwood.  Ben Sherwood (born February 12 1964) is the president of ABC News.
Richard Boon.  Richard Boon former manager of Buzzcocks and boss of the record label New Hormones.Boon a school friend of Howard Devoto became the manager for seminal punk group Buzzcocks by default after organizing gigs for the band. Seeking to release the band's music Boon started the New Hormones label. The label released the Spiral Scratch (EP) in January 1977 and began releasing records by other artists regularly from 1979 to 1982.
Gerard Pieter Adolfs.  Gerard Pieter Adolfs (born 2 January 1898 in Semarang Central-Java; died 1 February 1968 in 's-Hertogenbosch the Netherlands) was a Dutch East Indies painter and architect. In the 1930s – at the height of his artistic career – the press called G.P. Adolfs the “Wizard of Light”.
Woody Rock.  Woody Rock (born James Green on September 10 1976 in Baltimore Maryland) is an African-American singer and musician. Woody is best known as a former member of multi-platinum R&B act Dru Hill a group for which he has written and sung lead on songs such as 5 Steps April Showers and Angel. He has also recorded his own solo gospel album Soul Music for Kirk Franklin's Gospocentric Records.
Robert Draper.  Robert Draper (born November 15 1959) is a freelance writer a correspondent for GQ and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Previously he worked for Texas Monthly where he first became acquainted with the Bush political family.
William Haggard.  William Haggard (11 August 1907 – 27 October 1993) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton an English civil servant and writer of fictional spy thrillers. He was born in Croydon.
Romek Marber.  Romek Marber (born 1925) was a freelance designer noted for his work illustrating the covers of Penguin Books. He retired in 1989 becoming a Professor Emeritus of Middlesex University (nee Hornsey College of Art).
Sarah Lucas.  Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour and include photography collage and found objects.
Hiromi Itō.  Hiromi Itō (伊藤 比呂美 Itō Hiromi born September 13 1955) is one of the most prominent women writers of contemporary Japan with more than a dozen collections of poetry several works of prose numerous books of essays and several major literary prizes to her name. She divides her time between the towns of Encinitas California and Kumamoto in southern Japan.
Dean DeLeo.  Dean DeLeo (born August 23 1961 in Newark New Jersey) is an American guitarist known for his work with rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Dean is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone. He is the older brother of Robert DeLeo who plays bass for STP.DeLeo's playing has received strong critical acclaim over the years. STP's second album Purple released in 1994 was ranked at #73 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All-time list.
Carlos Gardel.  Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardes; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a singer songwriter composer and actor and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. The unerring musicality of Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings.
Pasquale Ruggiero.  Pasquale Ruggiero (San Marzano sul Sarno Salerno 1851 – Naples 1915) was an Italian painter mainly of portraits and genre subjects in a Realist style.
Shizuto Masunaga.  Shizuto Masunaga (増永 静人 Masunaga Shizuto 1925–1981) was a Japanese Shiatsu practitioner and author of books on Shiatsu.He was born in Kure Hiroshima and graduated in Psychology from Kyoto University. In 1959 he graduated from the Japan Shiatsu College and went on to teach Psychology at the college. He is the author of Shiatsu which became Zen Shiatsu when translated into English and published in North America and Europe in 1977. He also wrote several other Shiatsu books.
Brian Allen Carr.  Brian Allen Carr (born 1979) is an American writer based in Texas. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus (2011) and was the winner of the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize as judged by Larry McMurtry in 2011. Carr was also a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction 2011. His stories have appeared in Annalemma Boulevard Fiction International Hobart Keyhole and Texas Review among others.
Barry Gibb.  Barry Alan Crompton Gibb CBE (born 1 September 1946) is a musician singer songwriter and producer who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Bee Gees one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music.
Auguste Feyen-Perrin.  François Nicolas Augustin Feyen known as Feyen-Perrin (Bey-sur-Seille 12 April 1826 - Paris 14 October 1888) was a French painter. He was the younger brother of Jacques-Eugène Feyen.
Roberto Giacobbo.  Roberto Giacobbo (born 12 October 1961) is an Italian journalist author television presenter and television writer.He has a bachelor degree in Economics and Commerce.He has been the presenter of mystery programs on Italian television and published some books and articles about pseudoscience and paranormal activity.Today he is the author and presenter of the television program Voyager - Ai confini della conoscenza popular program of the Italian channel Rai Due.
Reed Mathis.  Reed Mathis is an American composer record producer and multi-instrumentalist from Tulsa Oklahoma. He is highly regarded for his innovative use of effected bass as well as his stylistic versatility. He records and tours with Tea Leaf Green the Marco Benevento Trio amongst other artists and was a founding member of the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey a group he co-led for fifteen years.
Lyle H. Lanier.  Lyle H. Lanier (1903–1988) was an American writer professor and university administrator. He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the volume I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition as a member of the Southern Agrarians.
Harry Somers.  Harry Stewart Somers CC (September 11 1925 – March 9 1999) was one of the most influential and innovative contemporary Canadian composers of the past century. Possessing a charismatic attitude and rather dashing good-looks as well as a genuine talent for his art Somers earned the unofficial title of “Darling of Canadian Composition.” A truly patriotic artist Somers was engaged in many national projects over the course his lifetime.
Brittany Haas.  Brittany Haas is an American fiddle player. She plays as a duo with Lauren Rioux. She is a member of the Boston-based alternative bluegrass band Crooked Still which are currently on hiatus. She graduated from Princeton University in 2009 and was a member of the Princeton University Band. She has been a member of Darol Anger's Republic of Strings.
David Parkins.  David Parkins is a British cartoonist and illustrator who has worked for D.C. Thomson publisher of The Beano and The Dandy. Now based in Canada he illustrates children's picture books.He was born in Brighton but moved to Grantham Lincolnshire at the age of five. He didn't take up art until sixth form when he also began drawing caricatures of his teachers.
Amber Hayes.  Amber Hayes is a traditional American country music singer/songwriter. In 2008 she was cast as Kathy Twitty in the Conway Twitty production Conway Twitty: The Man The Music The Legend.... She was signed to FUNL Music in 2010 and released her debut album C'mon and video later that year.C'mon was the first of two singles off the album and went to 38 on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart.
Paramytha Lestari Mulyarto.  Paramytha Lestari Mulyarto (born June 29 1991) is an Indonesian pop singer with mother Ani. On September 11 2007 she won the first season of the reality television Mamamia Show.
Big Ali.  Big Ali (earlier Breakingz) is an American singer-songwriter DJ and rapper born in Queens New York and based in Paris France since 2001. He is signed to Up Music a Warner Music label.
Ernie Andrews.  Ernie Andrews (born December 25 1927 Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States) is an American jazz blues and pop singer. He grew up in Los Angeles California and one of his first jobs was with the Harry James orchestra. He went on to be recorded by Columbia Records and others. His career declined in the 1960s and 1970s but would rebound in the 1980s.He latterly recorded with the Capp/Pierce Juggernaut Band Gene Harris Jay McShann and the Harper Brothers.
Timmy Shaw.  Jake Hammonds (or Hammond) Jr. (September 13 1938 – March 29 or 30 1984) who used the name Timmy Shaw was an African American R&B singer who recorded in the 1960s.He was born in Detroit. He first recorded in 1960 as Jay Hammond with I'll Be Your Fool on the Hi-Q label followed by Hey Baby b/w Taste Of The Blues on the Audrey label owned by Detroit businesswoman and record producer Johnnie Mae Matthews.
Vladimir Holstinin.  Vladimir Petrovich Holstinin (Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Холстинин) is a Russian guitarist. He is one of the founding members of heavy metal band Aria.Vladimir was born May 12 1958 in Lyubertsy Russian SFSR. He graduated Moscow Power Engineering Institute where he met Vitaly Dubinin. The two institute mates became friends and formed a band Volshebnie Sumerki (Magic Twilight). The band played mostly cover versions of foreign bands songs such as Deep Purple and Rainbow.
Dom Mariani.  Dom Mariani (born 1958) is an Australian guitarist vocalist producer and songwriter. Mariani has been a member of several bands since the early 1980s including The Stems The Someloves DM3 and Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp. The Stems is the best-known and most successful of Mariani's projects.
Edmund Chojecki.  Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki (Polish pronunciation: [xɔˈjɛt͡skʲi]; Wiski Podlasie 15 October 1822 – 1 December 1899 Paris) was a Polish journalist playwright novelist poet and translator.
Gina Ochsner.  Gina Ochsner (born 1970) is an American author best known for her story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall which won the Flannery O'Connor Award in 2001 and her novel The Russian Dream Book of Colour and Flight (2009).She is a graduate of George Fox University in Newberg Oregon and holds a masters degree from Iowa State University.Her first published story was Feldspar's Rock Shop in the Dog River Review Volume 13 No. 1 (1994) under the pseudonym (maiden name) G. Withnell.
Kevin Griffin.  Kevin Griffin (born October 1 1968) is an American guitarist vocalist producer and songwriter.Griffin formed the alternative rock band Better Than Ezra in 1988. The band had great success in the 1990s with hits such as Good In the Blood and Desperately Wanting and has continued in the 2000s with hits such as Extra Ordinary A Lifetime and Juicy. They continue to tour and produce new recordings the most recent of which was Paper Empire released in 2009.
Jang Eun-jin.  Jang Eun-Jin (Hangul: 장은진) is a female South Korean writer.
Christine Fugate.  Christine Fugate (born December 12 1963) is an American film director specializing in documentaries and independent films. She is also a journalist interviewer and author of Mothering Heights a now monthly online column also published in the Laguna Beach Independent. In 2008 she edited a collection of essays by women sharing diverse perspectives on the same subject The Mothering Heights Manual for Motherhood Volume I.
Hugo Burnham.  Hugo Burnham (born 25 March 1956 London) was the drummer for the English rock group Gang of Four. The band formed at Leeds University in 1977 where Burnham was studying English Literature. Before the band signed with EMI Records (UK R.O.W.) and Warner Bros.
Casey Chaos.  Casey Chaos - real name Karim Chmielinski - (born October 9 1969) is the frontman guitarist bassist vocalist and songwriter for punk rock solo project Amen (formerly a band of the same name). Chaos is known for his energetic stage performance - earning him awards as best frontman of the year[citation needed]. Chaos fronts the band Scum as a side project. He has worked with a variety of other artists through the course of his musical career.
Étienne Baudet.  Étienne Baudet an eminent French engraver was born at Vineuil in the department of Loir-et-Cher about 1636. He was a pupil of Sébastien Bourdon and Cornelis Bloemaert and afterwards went to Rome and appears to have adopted the manner of Cornelis Bloemaert in his earliest plates which are executed entirely with the graver.
Henryk Kowalski.  Henryk Kowalski (July 2 1911 - January 24 1982) was a Polish Jewish violinist and composer.
Ibrahim Touqan.  Ibrahim Abd al-Fattah Touqan (Arabic: إبراهيم طوقان</span>‎ 1905–May 2 1941) was a Palestinian nationalist poet whose works rallied Arabs during their revolt against the British. Touqan was born in Nablus Palestine during Ottoman times. He was the brother of poet Fadwa Touqan and he tutored and influenced her to write poetry. Ibrahim belonged to the prominent Touqan family that governed Nablus for much of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Louis Saladin.  Louis Saladin was a seventeenth-century composer from Provence France. He wrote in the Baroque style and is most remembered for his association with the Provençal Jewish community and the commissioned works he composed for that community. His Canticum hebraicum rediscovered by the Israeli musicologist Israel Adler is his most remembered work today. It celebrates the circumcision of a baby boy and might have been written to appeal to the Gentiles present at the Jewish ritual.
Jim Bajor.  Jim Bajor (1953 – 21 December 2006) was a New Age music pianist with some jazz influences. His self-released debut album Awakening received a Grammy nomination. In 1995 he performed on the 'Somewhere In Time' album a cover version of Erroll Garner's 1954 Jazz standard Misty (song). He also worked with PBS on a special about the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Billy Ray Latham.  Billy Ray Latham (born January 12 1938 Arkansas) is an American banjo player. He is best known as a member of the Kentucky Colonels (1961-c.1974). He then joined The Dillards in 1974 and left c.1978.
Phil Heuzenroeder.  Phil Heuzenroeder is a musician and community cultural development leader working in Melbourne Victoria and Australia with people with a disability people living with mental illness and in community music making.
Irv Gotti.  Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. (born June 26 1970) better known as Irv Gotti is an American hip hop and R&B record producer and is the head and founder of The Inc record label. Irv was born in New York and is of African American and Dominican descent. A producer and music executive he co-founded The Inc. with his brother Chris. The Inc. was originally Murder Inc. but after legal troubles in the 2003 the company was renamed in 2005.
Lisa Matassa.  Lisa Matassa (born October 12 in Manhasset New York) is an American country singer and singer-songwriter. In the 1980s she had two pop hits reach the Top 10 on the Dance Music Charts including 1987's I've Got the Hots for You and 1988's Rock Me Baby both credited to Lysa Lynn. She released a debut country EP on March 31 2011 titled Me Time.
Teemu Mäntysaari.  Teemu Manta Ray Mäntysaari is a guitarist for the Finnish band Wintersun and played for Imperanon until their break-up (joining both of these bands in 2004). He was born in Tampere Finland in 1987 and began playing guitar at the age of 12. He has written many unreleased songs with Imperanon and has toured with Wintersun. Teemu's early musical influences on guitar were Steve Vai Joe Satriani John Petrucci and Shawn Lane among others.
Vincent Gaddis.  Vincent Hayes Gaddis (December 28 1913 – February 26 1997) was an American author who coined the phrase Bermuda Triangle in a February 1964 Argosy cover piece. He popularized many stories about anomalous phenomena in a style similar to that of Charles Fort. Gaddis was born in Ohio to Tilden H. and Alice M. (Smith) Gaddis. He married Margaret Paine Read on July 14 1947. Gaddis worked as a newspaper reporter and writer-editor for a Warsaw Indiana radio station from 1947 to 1952.
Nicholas Clapton.  Nicholas Clapton (born 16 September 1955) is an English countertenor singing-teacher and author.
Mohammed Wardi.  Mohammed Osman Hassan Salih Wardi (Arabic: محمد عثمان حسن وردي‎) (born 19 July 1932 – 18 February 2012) was a Nubian Sudanese singer and songwriter.
Fiona Horne.  Fiona Horne (born 1966 in Sydney) is an Australian singer rock musician radio and television personality actress and author. She was the singer in Australian band Def FX and has published numerous books on witchcraft. She is considered a worldwide authority on modern witchcraft[citation needed] being invited to speak at Harvard University on the subject in 2006.[citation needed]
Jamie O'Hara (singer).  James Paul Jamie O'Hara (born August 8 1950 in Toledo Ohio) is an American country music artist. Between 1986 and 1990 he and Kieran Kane comprised The O'Kanes a duo which charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts including the Number One single Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You. After The O'Kanes disbanded in 1990 both O'Hara and Kane recorded solo albums of their own. In addition O'Hara has continued writing songs for other country music artists.
Ron Davis (jazz musician).  Ron Davis is a pianist and composer based in Toronto Canada. Davis' performances and musical creations have earned critical acclaim in Canada and abroad including comparisons to jazz greats like Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum. To date Ron has released seven full-length recordings to unanimous international critical praise.
Chen Chusheng.  Chen Chusheng (born July 25 1981 in Hainan) is a popular singer in China.
Salvatore Castiglione.  Salvatore Castiglione (21 April 1620 – 1676) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Genoa the brother and pupil of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and he painted landscapes and pastoral subjects. He also completed a highly-finished etching representing the '’Resurrection of Lazarus’' (1645).
Nazeer Akbarabadi.  Nazeer Akbarabadi (Urdu: نظیر اکبر آبادی‎ — Naẓīr Akbar Ābādī) (real name Wali Muhammad) (1735–1830) was an 18th-century Indian poet known as Father of Nazm who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under nom de plume (takhallus) Nazeer most remembered for his poems like Banjaranama (Chronicle of the Nomad) a satire. His father was Muhammad Farooq and his mother was the daughter of Nawab Sultan Khan who was the governor of Agra Fort.
Paul Stewart (musician).  Paul Ronald Stewart is the drummer in the British band The Feeling. He went to St Wilfrid's Catholic School Crawley where he met Kevin Jeremiah and Ciaran Jeremiah now fellow members of The Feeling.He currently lives in St Albans Hertfordshire with his wife former Fame Academy graduate Sinéad Quinn. They became engaged on 9 October 2007 and were married in Quinn's hometown Irvinestown Northern Ireland on 6 December 2008.He also plays in his wife's band Sinead And The Dawnbreakers.
Justin Emerle.  Justin Emerle is the lead singer guitarist and founding member of Echo Orbiter. Together with brother Colin Emerle Justin found varied underground success in and around Philadelphia.
Károly Doncsecz.  Károly Doncsecz (Slovene: Karel Dončec) was a Slovene potter in Hungary and in 1984 he received the award Master of folk art for his work. Doncsecz was born in Orfalu (Vas country).He graduated from the apprenticeship in Magyarszombatfa and Zalaegerszeg Sümeg (Zala country) after Szentgotthárd.From 1940 on Doncsecz lived and worked in Kétvölgy (Vas County). Since the 1970s he was the only Slovene potter in Hungary.
Kim McLarin.  Kim McLarin is an African-American novelist. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times The Philadelphia Inquirer The Greensboro News & Record and the Associated Press.
Terry Cryer.  Terry Cryer (born June 24 1934 in Leeds United Kingdom) is a British jazz and blues photographer. Described by MOJO magazine as The Dean of UK jazz and blues photographers Cryer is best known for portraits of some of the genre’s most renowned performers.
Sean Linkenback.  Sean Linkenback is an attorney and author known mainly for writing the Unauthorized Guide to Godzilla Collectibles the first comprehensive guide on the subject in the English language. Before that he was an adviser to Warren's Movie Poster Price Guide the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide as well as being an adviser on the first Sotheby's comic book auction and a frequent writer about comics including the feature CBM Presents Sleepers in Comic Book Marketplace.
Alexander Faulkner Shand.  Alexander Faulkner Shand FBA (20 May 1858 – 6 January 1936) was an English writer and barrister. Born in Bayswater London he was the son of Hugh Morton Shand a Scot and his wife Edrica Faulkner Italian born but the daughter of Joshua Wilson Faulkner of Kent. He was a founding member of the British Psychological Society in 1901 and was awarded with honorary membership in 1934. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).
Adam Johnson (writer).  Adam Johnson (born July 12 1967) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist and short story writer.
Gerald Casale.  Gerald Vincent Casale (born Gerald Vincent Pizzute July 28 1948) often known as Jerry Casale is a vocalist bass guitar/synthesizer player and a founding member (with Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Lewis) of the new wave band Devo.
Ronnie Hilton.  Ronnie Hilton (26 January 1926 – 21 February 2001) was an English singer and radio presenter. According to his obituary in The Guardian newspaper For a time Hilton was a star – strictly for home consumption – with nine Top 20 hits between 1954 and 1957 that transitional era between 78 and 45rpm records. A quarter of a century later he became the voice of BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the Fifties series.
Surinder Kaur.  Surinder Kaur (Punjabi: ਸੁਰਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ) was a Punjabi singer-songwriter. She sang mainly Punjabi folk songs where she is credited for pioneering and popularising the genre and later was known as the ‘Nightingale of Punjab’.
Rob Thomas (musician).  Robert Kelly Rob Thomas (born February 14 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist.
Nick Towne.  Nick Towne is an American television writer. He has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on Deadwood .
Jean-Claude Izzo.  Jean-Claude Izzo (Marseille 20 June 1945 – Marseille 26 January 2000) was a French poet playwright screenwriter and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three neo-noir crime novels Total Chaos Chourmo and Solea (widely known as the Marseilles Trilogy) featuring as protagonist ex-cop Fabio Montale and set in the author's native city of Marseille.
Edith Somerville.  Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (2 May 1858 – 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as E. Œ. Somerville. She wrote in collaboration with her cousin Martin Ross (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym Somerville and Ross. Together they published a series of fourteen stories and novels the most popular of which were The Real Charlotte and The Experiences of an Irish R. M. published in 1899.
Jo Eisinger.  Jo Eisinger (1909 - 1991) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than forty years from the early forties well into the eighties. He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs: Gilda (1946) and Night and the City (1950).His credits also include The Sleeping City (1950) and Crime of Passion (1957) a coda to the films of the noir style for which he wrote the story as well as the screenplay.
Murray Wall.  For the baseball player see Murray Wall.Murray James Wall (born 28 September 1945 Melbourne) is an Australian jazz double bassist.Wall was an autodidact on double bass having learned by playing along with records by Oscar Pettiford. He began playing professionally in 1962 and played with visiting musicians such as Clark Terry Mel Torme and Billy Eckstine. He moved to the United States in 1979 and played with Jon Hendricks in 1981–1985 including tours of Europe and Israel.
Alexey Vorobyov.  Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyov (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Воробьёв; January 19 1988) is a Russian singer and actor who performs both in Russian and English. For international purposes Vorobyov is also credited as Alex Sparrow a translation of his Russian name. He is best known for appearing on the Russian version of The X Factor at the age of 17 in 2005.
Diane Fletcher.  Diane Fletcher (born 17 April 1944) is an English actress.Fletcher was born in Derby Derbyshire. She played Nancy in Fairly Secret Army and has appeared in other popular British television shows such as Coronation Street as Angela Hawthorne Inspector Morse Agatha Christie's Poirot Within These Walls Midsomer Murders and Heartbeat. In 1971 she appeared in No One Was Saved at the Royal Court Theatre schools scheme. Her first film was Roman Polanski's Macbeth.
John Hanson (singer).  John Hanson (August 31 1922 - December 4 1998) was a Canadian-born British tenor and actor who starred in several West End musicals during the 1950s and 1960s.Born John Stanley Watts in Oshawa Canada of English parents who moved back across the Atlantic three years later. He was educated at Dumfries Academy in Dumfries Scotland. His headmaster recognized his talent as a boy soprano and recommended him to the Scottish Broadcasting Corporation.
John Figueroa.  John Joseph Maria Figueroa (4 August 1920–5 March 1999) was a Jamaican poet and educator. He played a significant role in the development of Anglophone Caribbean literature both as a poet and an anthologist. He contributed to the development of the University College of the West Indies as an early member of staff and had a parallel career as a broadcaster working for various media organizations including the BBC.
Babette Mangolte.  Babette Mangolte is a French-American cinematographer and film director.
Edward Clark (artist).  Edward Clark also known as Ed Clark (b. May 6 1926) is an African-American abstract expressionist painter and one of the early experimenters with shaped canvas in the 1950s.Edward Clark stated:..all great artists can only do what they esteem to be right. No matter how it appears at first it will always be beautiful.↑ ↑ ↑
Cynthia Carlson.  Cynthia Carlson (born 1942) is an American visual artist living and working in New York.
Fred Jordan (singer).  Fred Jordan (5 January 1922 – 30 July 2002) was a farm worker from Ludlow Shropshire and is noted as one of the great musically untutored traditional English singers. He was first recorded in the 1940s by folk music researcher Alan Lomax and over subsequent decades endeared himself to the English folk-song revival movement.
Dario Varotari the Younger.  Dario Varotari the Younger (active 1660) was an Italian painter engraver and poet of the Baroque.He was born in Padua the son of the painter Alessandro Varotari and grandson of Dario Varotari the Elder.He was popular as a portrait painter.
Constantinos Coconis.  Constantinos (Ted) Coconis is an American illustrator who illustrated many children's books including the 1971 Newbery Award-winning The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars and The Golden God Apollo by Doris Gates.
Glen Phillips.  Glen Phillips (born December 29 1970) is a songwriter lyricist singer and guitarist. He is best known as the singer and songwriter of 1990s alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Emily Maguire (singer).  Emily Lucy Maguire (born 8 March 1975 in London) is an independent English singer songwriter. She has released three albums to date which are distributed through Universal by Active Media. All the songs are written and composed by Maguire. She runs her own record label Shaktu Records with her partner Christian Dunham.
Bobby Benson.  Bobby Benson (11 April 1922 - 14 May 1983) was an entertainer and musician who had considerable influence on the Nigerian music scene introducing big band and Caribbean idioms to the Highlife style of popular West African music.
Juan de Valdés Leal.  Juan de Valdés Leal (4 May 1622 – 15 October 1690) was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era.
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo.  Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (June 24 1820 — April 11 1882) was a Brazilian novelist doctor teacher poet playwright and journalist famous for the romance A Moreninha.He is the patron of the 20th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Elton Dean.  Elton Dean (28 October 1945 – 8 February 2006) was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally keyboard.Dean was born Nottingham England moving to Tooting London soon after his birth. From 1966–67 Dean was a member of the band Bluesology led by Long John Baldry.
DbClifford.  Daniel Clifford (born 1979) better known by his stage name dbClifford is a Canadian singer of French and English descent. Born in France he previously lived in Los Angeles and Victoria but now resides in Toronto. His debut album Recyclable was released in Canada in 2007. The first single Simple Things was a top 40 hit on Canadian Hot AC radio and a number-one hit in Japan. The second single from the album was Don't Wanna.
Harry Enfield.  Henry Richard Harry Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is a BAFTA award-winning English comedian actor writer and director.
Sarah de Leeuw.  Sarah de Leeuw (born 1973) is a Canadian writer who wrote Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 Frontlines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia and Geographies of a Lover.A native of British Columbia she grew up in Duncan the Queen Charlotte Islands and Terrace. She has worked as a tug boat driver logging camp cook and journalist.
Myke Hideous.  Myke Hideous is an American gothic rock singer who created The Empire Hideous and performed with Bronx Casket Company Spy Society 99 and the Misfits.Before joining The Misfits Myke released a 1994 solo album called Out Of Anger and sang for The Empire Hideous. Myke joined the Misfits in 1998 when Michale Graves took an indefinite hiatus because he did not want to go on an extensive tour outside the USA.
Bridgette Kerkove.  Bridgette Kerkove is an American pornographic actress director and producer.Kerkove entered the adult film industry in January 1999 at the urging of her husband Skeeter Kerkove. She started directing in 2001 working for companies such as Metro Studios and No Boundaries. Her first feature movie as a director was Babe Illustrated 15.
Aloys Schmitt.  Aloys Schmitt (26 August 1788 – 25 July 1866) was a German composer pianist and music teacher. He was born in Erlenbach am Main. In 1824 he was appointed court composer in Munich. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen.Among his students were Ferdinand Hiller Carl Almenräder Carl Arnold and Carl Wolfsohn.
Mikie Hara.  Mikie Hara (原 幹恵 Hara Mikie born 3 July 1987 in Niigata Niigata Japan) is a Japanese gravure idol and actress. Her debut role was in Cutie Honey: The Live as the lead role of Honey Kisaragi/Cutie Honey.According to Japanese company Oscar Promotion Hara has worked in many TV roles and has appeared in many DVD videos several commercials and several mooks. Cutie Honey: The Live is her first leading role in a drama.
August Macke.  August Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe.
R-Mean.  R-Mean (Armin Hariri) is an American rapper from Los Angeles California with Armenian descent. Most notable for his song Open Wounds about the Armenian Genocide and Lost Angels featuring Game. R-Mean has also appeared on multiple occasions on Sway in the Morning and The Wake Up Show on Shade 45.
Bill Leeb.  Wilhelm Anton Bill Leeb (born 21 September 1956 Vienna Austria) is an Austrian-Canadian electronic musician.He moved to Kitimat British Columbia Canada with his family when he was 13. He was a high school student at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.Leeb began his musical career with industrial band Skinny Puppy under the pseudonym of Wilhelm Schroeder in 1985 contributing bass synth and occasional backing vocals to a few of their recordings and concerts from this period.
Loon (rapper).  Amir Junaid Muhadith (born Chauncey Lamont Hawkins  June 20 1975 in Harlem New York) best known by his stage name Loon is an American rapper formerly signed to P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records. In 2004 he parted ways with Bad Boy Records starting his own label Boss Up Entertainment. After having converted to Islam in 2009 he subsequently ended his music career.
Eric Johnson.  Eric Johnson (born August 17 1954) is an American guitarist songwriter and vocalist from Austin Texas.
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer.  Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (1873 – June 24 1943) was an American illustrator painter and printmaker known for her portrayals of Tennessee society women and their children. As a printmaker she pioneered the white-line woodcut. Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale who named one of his daughters Sophonisba after the Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola.Hergesheimer was born in Allentown Pennsylvania in 1873.
Samuel Ebart.  Samuel Ebart (1655-1684) was a German baroque composer. He was Kantor and organist of Halle's Market Church and on his death succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. His best known surviving work is a solo motet Miserere Christe mei which was among tenor Hugues Cuénod's concert pieces in the 1930s and has been recorded by soprano Ruth Ziesak.
Sergey Zvantsev.  Sergey Zvantsev (November 2 1893 – June 15 1973) was a Soviet writer playwright and feuilletonist.
Victor Gorelick.  Victor Gorelick (born April 5 1941) is an American comic book editor and executive. Currently the Editor-in-Chief of Archie Comics he has worked for the company for over fifty years in a wide variety of roles.
Silvia Richards.  Silvia Richards was a screenwriter who worked on a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s including the film noir Ruby Gentry and the Western Rancho Notorious. She also wrote for television in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Pete York.  Pete York (born Peter York 15 August 1942 Redcar Yorkshire England) is a rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.
Curt Gentry.  Curt Gentry (born 13 June 1931 Lamar Colorado) is an American writer. He is best known for co-authoring with Vincent Bugliosi the 1974 book Helter Skelter which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Gentry lives in San Francisco California.Frame-Up was a nominee for the 1968 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.Helter Skelter won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.[citation needed]J.
Bill Odenkirk.  Bill Odenkirk (born October 13 1965) is an American comedy writer.
Rafig Babayev.  Rafig Farzi oglu Babayev (Azerbaijani: Rafiq Farzi oğlu Babayev 31 March 1937 Baku—19 March 1994) Azerbaijani jazz musician composer conductor arranger author of scores for films People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1993).
Eric Kroll.  Eric Kroll (born 23 October 1946 in New York City) is a fetish photographer and editor living in San Francisco California.
Alfred Wainwright.  Alfred Wainwright (A.W.) MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991) was a British fellwalker guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District.
Mick Jackson (singer).  Michael George Mick Jackson (born 2 November 1947 Münster Germany)[citation needed] is an English singer-songwriter and the co-writer of the song Blame It on the Boogie.
Orrin Evans.  Orrin Evans (born 1976) is an American jazz pianist. Evans was born in Trenton New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia. He attended Rutgers University and then studied with Kenny Barron. He worked as a sideman for Bobby Watson Ralph Peterson Duane Eubanks and Lenora Zenzalai-Helm and released his debut as a leader in 1994. He signed with Criss Cross Jazz in 1997 recording prolifically with the label. He was awarded a 2010 Pew Fellowships in the Arts.Evans is married to vocalist Dawn Warren.
Dan Christensen.  Dan Christensen the American abstract painter was born in Cozad Nebraska on October 6 1942 he died in Easthampton New York on January 20 2007. He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction Color field painting and Abstract expressionism.His early work from 1965-1966 was related to Minimalism. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute class of 1964 Dan Christensen moved to New York City from the Mid-West during the late summer of 1965.
MaJiKer.  MaJiKer alias Matthew Ker is a British music producer and musician. He resides in Paris France but works internationally. He has recorded two of his own albums and also has had success producing and performing with other artists including French singer Camille on her platinum-selling album Le Fil (2005) and its follow-up Music Hole (2008) . During 2005-2008 he also performed and worked on the arrangements for Camille's world tours playing piano accordion body percussion and beatbox.
Satkirin Kaur Khalsa.  Satkirin Kaur Khalsa (Punjabi: ਸਤਕਿਰਨ ਕੌਰ ਖਾਲਸਾ Hindi: सत्किरन कौर) is a Sikh preacher and prolific Sikh Kirtan singer. She hosts a Kundalini Yoga show on the JUS Punjabi television channel.
Johnny Colla.  John Victor Johnny Colla (born 2 July 1952) is an American musician playing the guitar and saxophone and songwriter. He is a founding member of the American rock band Huey Lewis and the News. He has been heavily involved in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for more than 25 years having been in several other bands including Sly and the Family Stone Clover Sound Hole and Johnny Colla & The Lucky Devils.
Giovanni Battista Ricci.  Giovanni Battista Ricci (Novara circa 1537 – Rome 1627) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque period active mainly in Rome.
Michelle Vogel.  Michelle Vogel is an Australian-born film historian author and free-lance editor. Vogel has written biographies of Gene Tierney Marjorie Main Olive Thomas Olive Borden Lupe Velez Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe as well as two compilations 'Children of Hollywood Accounts of Growing up as Sons and Daughters of Stars' and 'Hollywood Blondes Golden Girls of the Silver Screen'. She has also written a children's book entitled 'Three Twisted Tales'.
Stephen Ewart.  Stephen Ewart (born 13 March 1869 in Birmingham Warwickshire - died 1953 in Middlesex) was a British actor.
Taco (musician).  Taco Ockerse (born July 21 1955) better known by his stage name Taco is an Indonesian-born Dutch singer and entertainer who started his career in Germany.
Matthew Brunson.  Matthew Moses Brunson is the guitarist for sludge metal band Crowbar replacing Steve Gibb and bass player for Kingdom of Sorrow. He is from Metairie in Jefferson Parish Louisiana and formerly played guitar in Shedding Old Skin. He attended East Jefferson High School in Metairie.
Tomoko Akiya.  Tomoko Akiya (秋谷 智子 Akiya Tomoko born May 14 1976) is a Japanese voice actor.
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline.  Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702–1760) was a French engraver portraitist illustrator and printmaker.
Tumi Molekane.  Boitumelo Tumi Molekane (born 16 August 1981) is an African rapper and poet. He is the lead vocalist of Tumi and the Volume a hip hop music ensemble that comprises the members of the Mozambican band 340ml.Molekane was born in Tanzania while his South African parents lived in exile there. In 1992 he repatriated to South Africa and took up residence in Soweto.In 2005 he recorded the song Trade Winds with Cincinnati-based rapper Main Flow.
Gordon Huntley.  Gordon Huntley (1930-1988) was a musician and steel guitar player. His early playing career was with the Hawaiian Serenaders in 1959 when he played a triple neck Fender lap steel guitar. He converted this to a pedal steel by adding an accelerator pedal from a tractor connected with bicycle brake cable. About 1963 Huntley teamed up with Nigel Dennis (a Newbury solicitor) to manufacture Denley steel guitars (DENnis-huntLEY).
Yuki Hsu.  Yuki Hsu (徐懷鈺; pinyin: Xú Huáiyù) (born March 3 1979) is a Taiwanese pop singer. She is perhaps best remembered for the single Fen Fei (分飛). Between 1998 and 2001 she scored a series of hits in Taiwan. Most of her songs were upbeat catchy melodic dance tracks often with youthful themes or lyrics. Her song Angel featured a chorus of kids singing along with her.
Richard Bennett Lamas.  Richard Bennett is a former comic book artist and current freelance film concept and storyboard artist born in Uruguay. He broke into the comic book industry in 1990 penciling and inking the Cyberad series for Continuity Comics.
Chang Chen-yue.  Chang Chen-yue also known as A-Yue，and by his Amis name Ayal Komod (simplified Chinese: 张震岳; traditional Chinese: 張震嶽; pinyin: Zhāng Zhènyùe; Wade–Giles: Chang Chen-yue; born 2 May 1974) is a Taiwanese rock musician. He is most known for his 1998 hit song Ai Wo Bie Zou. He is a songwriter singer and guitarist and also a dance music DJ under the name DJ Orange. Chang is also the frontman of his band Free Night also known as Free9.
Michael Audreson.  Michael Audreson (born 1 August 1956) is a British actor who appeared in many films and T.V. shows in the 1960s. He appeared in 12 children's films called The Magnificent Six and a Half before playing the bespectacled Brains in Here Come the Double Deckers in 1970. He played Winston Churchill as a schoolboy in the film Young Winston in 1971.In 1978 he also appeared in the The Tomorrow People TV series.In 1996 he founded Rivendell Healthcare a Drug & Alcohol addiction treatment centre.
Gilbert Hernandez.  Gilberto Hernández (/hiːlˈbɛərtoʊ/ heel-BAIR-toh; Spanish pronunciation: [xilˈβerto]; born February 1 1957) usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbeto]) is an American cartoonist. He is best known for his Palomar/Heartbreak Soup stories in Love and Rockets an alternative comic book he shared with his brothers Jaime and Mario.
Giuseppe Baini.  Giuseppe Baini (October 21 1775 – May 21 1844) was an Italian priest music critic and composer of church music.He was born at Rome. He was instructed in composition by his uncle Lorenzo Baini and afterwards by G. Jannaconi. In 1814 he was appointed musical director to the choir of the pontifical chapel to which he had as early as 1802 gained admission in virtue of his fine bass voice.
Pierre Ferret.  Pierre Joseph Ferret (1908–1978) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer. He was known by his Gypsy nickname Baro which meant Big One or even King in Romany. Through his brother Jean Matelo Ferret Baro met Jean Django Reinhardt and the two became both friends and notorious rivals. From 1931 the Ferret brothers along with their third brother Etienne Sarane Ferret' and cousin René Challain Ferret were favorite sidemen of Reinhardt.
Victor O'D. Power.  Victor O'Donovan Power (? – 1918) was an Irish playwright novelist and prolific short-story writer.He was born at Rosbercon County Kilkenny. His mother was a poet from West Cork his father was a nationalist. He was educated at St Patrick’s College Carlow. He started writing and contributing stories to magazines while still a teen-ager. His best-known creation is the woman of the roads Kitty the Hare the most remarkable person that ever graced the pages of Ireland's Own (Con Houlihan).
Joan Manuel Serrat.  Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam mənuˈɛɫ səˈrat]) (27 December 1943) is a Spanish musician singer-songwriter recording artist and performer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages.Serrat's lyrical style has been influenced by other poets such as Mario Benedetti Antonio Machado Miguel Hernández Rafael Alberti Federico García Lorca Pablo Neruda and León Felipe.
Hiroaki Yura.  Hiroaki Yura (born July 21 1981) is a Japanese violinist who is the founder and Artistic Director of the Eminence Symphony Orchestra in Sydney Australia.He was educated at The Scots College in Bellevue Hill.The founder of the Eminence Symphony Orchestra the Eminence Audio Production company and a violin virtuoso Hiroaki has extensive solo experience ranging from recitals to solo concerto performances.
Frans Hedberg.  Frans Teodor Hedberg (1828-1908) was a Swedish dramatist.
Wu Yingyin.  Wu Yingyin (born Wu Jianqiu 吳劍秋; 1922 – December 17 2009) also romanized as Woo Ing-ing was a Chinese singer. By the 1940s she became one of the seven great singing stars.
Tore Johansen.  Tore Johansen (born 23 December 1977 in Bodø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (trumpet) the younger brother of drummer Roger Johansen (b. 1972) and known from cooperations with Chick Corea Karin Krog Kenny Wheeler Steve Swallow Lars Jansson Hal Galper Siri Gellein and Jan Gunnar Hoff.
Princessa.  Princessa born Mónica Capel Cruz is a Spanish pop/dance singer. Born on 18 May 1975 she first became known for her participation in World On Ice in Madrid and in Spain's Gran Circo Mundial. She was discovered by producer Frank Peterson at age 16 and a few years later recorded her first album. She has produced three full-length records released in Europe and Japan and a fourth All I Want is in production having released the title single.
Petr Váša.  Petr Váša (born 7 February 1965 in Brno Czechoslovakia) is a Czech poet rock singer-songwriter experimental actor artist and educator. In 1985 he founded his first band called Z kopce (Czech downhill). From 1999 he performed with Ty Syčáci. He was also member of the rock band Jasná Páka.
Susan Haynes.  Susan Haynes (born in Atlanta Georgia) is an American country music artist. Signed to Epic Records Nashvillein 2005 she released two singles for the label including Drinkin' in My Sunday Dress which peaked at No. 51 on the country singles charts late that year. A self-titled album was released only to digital retailers.
Karel Kryl.  Karel Kryl (April 12 1944 Kroměříž – March 3 1994 Munich) was an iconic Moravian singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist and later also post-communist regimes in his home country.The lyrics of Karel Kryl's songs are highly poetic and sophisticated with a frequent use of metaphors and historical allusions.
Mami Ayukawa.  Mami Ayukawa (鮎川 麻弥 Ayukawa Mami born on March 29 1961) is a female Japanese singer from Shinjuku Tokyo Japan.
Philip Guston.  Philip Guston born Phillip Goldstein (June 27 1913 – June 7 1980) was a painter and printmaker in the New York School which included many of the abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo-expressionism in painting abandoning the so-called pure abstraction of abstract expressionism in favor of more cartoonish renderings of various personal symbols and objects.
Earl Scruggs.  Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6 1924 – March 28 2012) was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group The Blue Grass Boys.
Estelle Anna Lewis.  Estelle Anna Blanche Robinson Lewis (April 1824 – 24 November 1880) was a United States poet and dramatist.
Sonal Mansingh.  Sonal Mansingh (born Apr 30 1944) is an eminent Indian classical dancer and choreographer of Odissi dancing style; who is also proficient in other Indian classical dancing styles including Bharatnatyam Kuchipudi and Chhau. She was married and divorced to former Indian diplomat Lalit Mansingh.
Michael Ricketts (musician).  Michael David Ricketts (born January 21 1965 in College Park Maryland) is an American rock musician and songwriter. Guitarist for heavy metal rock band ALLOY20. Michael acted as primary recording engineer for their debut CD ALLOY20 - Part I: Lost in the Veil of Darkness released on October 20th 2012. Michael spends his spare time producing other acts and is also working on a solo project. He was co-founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Snydly Crunch.
Luis Egidio Meléndez.  This article is about the 18th-century Spanish painter. For the unrelated 19th-century Spanish genre painter see Luis Menéndez PidalLuis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780) was a Spanish painter. Although he received little acclaim during his lifetime and died in poverty Meléndez is recognized today as the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th century.
Sheridan Le Fanu.  Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his best known works are Uncle Silas Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.
Kylian Mash.  Kylian Mash is a French DJ and multi-rewarded music producer born in Paris on 14 February 1983. Well known for his smash hits like 'Discobitch' 'Club Certified' 'Closer' or again 'No Tomorrow' he has collaborated with many international artists such as Akon Snoop Dogg Flo-Rida and Timbaland. He also had founded his own label Most Wanted Music which publishes and produces numerous musical projects into Majors industry.
Alan Manly.  Alan Philip James Manly (born in 1950) is an Australian published author and computer engineer.
Antero Alli.  Antero Alli was born 11 November 1952 in Finland. Alli currently resides in Berkeley California where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions some of which have been released as films. Alli is also a professional astrologer and has authored books on experimental theatre astrology and Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness.
Hiromu Arakawa.  Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘 Arakawa Hiromu born May 8 1973) is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō. She is best known for the manga Fullmetal Alchemist which became a hit both domestically and internationally and was later adapted into two anime television series.She often portrays herself as a bespectacled cow. Her given name is Hiromi (弘美) the first character being written identically to her male pen name Hiromu.
Clifford Webb.  Clifford Webb (14 February 1895 - 29 July 1972) was an English artist illustrator and author: RBA 1936 RE 1948. He was apprenticed as a lithographer but served in the British Army (Wiltshire Regiment) during World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art. He fought at Mons Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. He was wounded four times and mentioned in despatches.
Sadie Jemmett.  Sadie Jemmett is an award winning British singer songwriter based in London who plays guitar piano dulcimer and harmonica.
Ambelique.  Owen George Anthony Silvera (born c.1956) better known as Ambelique is a Jamaican reggae singer primarily working in the lovers rock genre.
Irina Getmanskaya.  Irina Ivanovna Getmanskaya (Russian: Ири́на Ива́новна Ге́тманская; January 6 1939 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russians painter and art teacher living and working in Saint Petersburg a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Kjell Bækkelund.  Kjell Bækkelund (6 May 1930 – 13 May 2004) was a Norwegian classical pianist born in Oslo. He was known as a child prodigy.Bækkelund made his debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of eight. His final years of study took place at Stockholm with Professor Boon and at Vienna with Professor Seidlhofer.
Albert Kriemler.  Albert Kriemler is a designer and Creative Director at Swiss fashion company Akris.
Olga Arefieva.  Olga Arefieva (born 21 September 1967 in Verkhnyaya Salda) is Russian singer-songwriter poet and musician. She has graduated from Gnessin State Musical College (her teacher was Lev Leshchenko) founded band Kovcheg (The Ark) composed more than 400 songs issued 15 music albums and won the literary prize of magazine Znamya for her poems.
Anton Beinset.  Anton Konrad Beinset (7 January 1894 – 16 December 1963) was a Norwegian journalist newspaper editor short story writer crime fiction writer and politician.He was born in Aukra a son of farmers Kristian Ivarson Beinset and Marie Aukra. Beinset was journalist for Den 17de Mai from 1916 to 1927. He was chief editor of the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen 1928 to 1932 and edited Tunsberg og Horten Blad from 1933 to 1934. He also wrote short-stories for the periodical Arbeidermagasinet.
Frank Aresti.  Frank Aresti is an American guitarist and composer in the progressive metal band Fates Warning.
Donald Knaack.  Donald Knaack is an American percussionist. He performs on and composes for recycled materials exclusively.His album Junk Music was nominated for a Grammy award and he has played in many prominent venues worldwide including Lincoln Center The Kennedy Center The Vans Warped Tour The Sundance Film Festival Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Kansas City International Jazz Festival and more.
Ernesto De Curtis.  Ernesto De Curtis (October 4 1875 – December 31 1937) was an Italian composer.Born in Naples the son of Giuseppe De Curtis and Elisabetta Minnon he was a great-grandson of composer Saverio Mercadante and the brother of poet Giambattista De Curtis with whom he wrote the song Torna a Surriento. He studied piano and received a diploma from the Conservatory of San Pietro a Maiella in Naples.He died at Naples in 1937.
Mick Flannery.  Mick Flannery (born 28 November 1983) is an Irish singer and songwriter.His debut album Evening Train resulted from his time spent studying music and management at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa in Cork. It featured tracks which had previously won Flannery two categories at the International Songwriting Competition in Nashville Tennessee as judged by his idol Tom Waits.
Karnail Singh Paras.  Karnail Singh Paras was a Sharomani Kavishar award winning Kavishar of Indian Punjab. He was the father of former union minister and Akali politician Balwant Singh Ramoowalia and Canada based writer Iqbal Singh Ramoowalia. One of his granddaughters is married to famous Punjabi singer and actor Harbhajan Maan.
Deuce (singer).  Aron Erlichman (born March 2 1983) better known by his stage name Deuce (formerly known as Tha Producer) is an American music producer singer-songwriter and rapper. Brought to fame as a producer singer-songwriter and one of the founding members of rap rock band Hollywood Undead Deuce has since moved on to solo work through the label Five Seven Music a branch of Eleven Seven Music.
Marika (singer).  Marika (born as Marta Kosakowska on 14 December 1980 in Łomża) is a Polish vocalist songwriter radio DJ. Her style is a mixture of reggae dancehall funk and soul music. Hailed the First Lady of Polish dancehall she is best known for energetic shows strong voice and conscious lyrics.
Raymond Queneau.  Raymond Queneau (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ kəno]) (21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist poet and co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo) notable for his wit and his cynical humour.
T. Glynne Davies.  Thomas Glynne Davies (12 January 1926 – April 1988) usually known as T. Glynne Davies was a Welsh poet novelist and television and radio broadcaster. Davies was born at 64 Denbigh Street in Llanrwst Denbighshire Wales.
Lawrence Calcagno.  Lawrence Calcagno (1913–1993) was a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter. He described his artistic motivation in the following words“Painting was the one avenue through which I could find psychical tolerance and be released. My life has always been motivated not by intellectual or rational considerations but more by a subjective compulsion by what I love.”↑ ↑
Millicent Silver.  Millicent Irene Silver (17 November 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English harpsichordist who began her career as a pianist and violinist.
Terry Ellis.  Terry Lynn Ellis (born September 5 1963) is an R&B singer best known for her work with the vocal group En Vogue.
Roy Campbell Jr..  Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. (September 29 1952 – January 9 2014) was an American trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz although he also performed rhythm and blues bebop and funk at times during his career.
Kim Cesarion.  Kim Hugo Leonel Niko Cesarion (born in Stockholm on July 10 1990) professionally known as Kim Cesarian is a Swedish singer and songwriter with Swedish Greek and Guadeloupean origin. Kim Cesarion is a classically trained musician. He studied at Lilla Akademin a highly acclaimed music school in Stockholm. He plays several instruments including the violin piano bass viola and played drums in school. He also attended classical music school in Russia.
Ashley Jade.  Ashley Jade is a singer-songwriter and actress from Ashton-under-Lyne Greater Manchester England. She was previously a part of the pop music band Soda Club.
Robert Francis (musician).  Robert Francis (born September 25 1987 in Los Angeles California) is a multi-instrumentalist Americana singer-songwriter.
Susanna Moodie.  Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada which was a British colony at the time.
Elana Amsterdam.  Elana Amsterdam is the New York Times Bestselling author of Paleo Cooking from Elana's Pantry. She writes cookbooks for gluten-free cooking using almond flour and coconut flour as a gluten-free alternative to wheat flour. Her book The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook was named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2009 by The Denver Post. Amsterdam has partnered with the California Almond Board in conjunction with her works.
Matthew Stokoe.  Matthew Stokoe (born in 1963) is a British writer and screenwriter.
Michael Kunze.  Michael Kunze (born 9 November 1943) is a German musical theater lyricist and librettist.He is best known for the hit musicals Elisabeth (1992) Dance of the Vampires (1996) Mozart! (1999) Marie Antoinette (2006) and Rebecca (2006).He has also written the lyrics for a number of hit songs including the number one Billboard hit Fly Robin Fly (1976) and was one of the top 1970s record producers including songs for musical acts Silver Convention Penny McLean and Sister Sledge.
Francis Wolff.  Francis Wolff (1907 or 1908 in Berlin Germany – March 8 1971 in New York City United States) was a record company executive photographer and record producer.
Richard Dominguez.  Richard Dominguez (born Eufrancio Ricardo Dominguez September 22 1960 in Dallas Texas) is an American comic book artist and freelance storyboard illustrator. Best known for creating the popular series El Gato Negro Dominguez publishes his comics through his imprint and art studio Azteca Productions. Dominguez also is well known for influencing other artists and creators in the pursuit of their own self-publishing ventures.>
Arellius.  Arellius was a Roman painter active in the 1st century BC mentioned by Pliny.
Harold Stephens (author).  Harold Stephens (December 3 1926) is an American author known for his explorations of World War II China and his world travels and adventures.
James Clancy Phelan.  James Clancy Phelan (born 21 May 1979) known professionally as James Phelan is an Australian author of thrillers and young adult novels including Fox Hunt The Last 13 series for teens and the Jed Walker and Lachlan Fox thrillers. He has also written short stories and non-fiction works such as Literati.
Arthur Elliot (artist).  Arthur Elliot was an English artist who sketched dozens of lively pictures of Montreal Canada during his visit there from September 1881 to March 1882. He had a sharp eye for the details of daily life and recorded them with an equally sharp wit. The winter months in particular were of interest to Elliot who recorded the various sleighs and the winter dress of Montréalers and painted charming watercolours of skating carnivals and of children sledding on city streets.
Julie Grant.  Julie Grant (born 12 July 1946) is an English pop music singer who was mainly active during the 1960s. She had three hits on the UK Singles Chart with Up on the Roof (1963) Count on Me and Come to Me (both 1964).
Thaeme Mariôto.  Thaeme Mariôto (born October 4 1985) is a Brazilian pop singer and songwriter. She rose to fame after winning the second season of the reality television show Ídolos Brazil. After Idolos she enjoyed a solo career prioe to joining the sertanejo duo Thaeme & Thiago alongside Thiago (real name José Lazaro Servo).
Elizabeth Melendez.  Elizabeth Melendez (born June 6 1985) is an American actress and former model of Cuban and Uruguayan descent.
Marcus Tsutakawa.  Marcus Tsutakawa (born 1954) is the Music director at Garfield High School (Seattle Washington). Born in Seattle Washington Tsutakawa attended Franklin High School (Seattle Washington) a rival of Garfield High School. He began his teaching career as a Japanese teacher but became the Garfield Orchestra director in 1985.
Mudrooroo.  Colin Thomas Johnson (born 21 August 1938) better known by his nom de plume Mudrooroo is a novelist poet essayist and playwright. He has been described as one of the most enigmatic literary figures of Australia and since 2001 he has been living in Kapan Nepal. His many works are centred on Australian Aboriginal characters and Aboriginal topics.Also known as Mudrooroo Narogin and Mudrooroo Nyoongah.
Nadia Tueni.  Nadia Mohammad Hamadeh Tueni (1935–1983) was a Lebanese Francophone poet who authored of numerous volumes of poetry.
Jacopo Bambini.  Jacopo Bambini (1582-1629 ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Ferrara.He trained with Domenico Mona. Along with Giulio Croma (Giulio Cromer) he set up a painter's academy in Ferrara. He painted three altarpieces for the cathedral: a Flight into Egypt an Annunciation and a Conversion of St. Paul. He died at Ferrara. An account of his other works will be found in Barotti's Future e Scolture di Ferrara.
Andrea del Rosario.  Andrea Marie del Rosario born on November 27 1977 is a Filipina actress and model.She is part of the Star Magic talents. Later she decide to leave ABS-CBN to do projects on GMA-7.
Paul Rebhan.  Paul Rebhan (also known as Reb Han [1]) is an author musician and artist living in New York City. He is known for hanging one of his own paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and as the inventor of Quiet Parties also called Silent Dating where people communicate by writing notes instead of speaking .
Mike Scott (musician).  Michael 'Mike' Scott (born 14 December 1958) is the founding member lead singer and the lead songwriter of rock band The Waterboys. He has also produced two solo albums Bring 'em All In and Still Burning. Scott is a vocalist guitarist and pianist and has played a large range of other instruments including the bouzouki drums and Hammond organ on his albums.
James Baker (musician).  James Lawrence Baker (born 7 March 1954) is a rock musician from Perth Western Australia. He has drummed with and was instrumental in the founding of several influential Australian bands including The Scientists Le Hoodoo Gurus Beasts of Bourbon and The Dubrovniks.
Jane R. Goodall.  Jane R. Goodall (born 1951) is an Australian author.Born in Yorkshire England Goodall studied at London and Oxford Universities. She currently lectures in drama at the School of Community Arts University of Western Sydney.Each of Goodall's novel feature the character Detective Briony Williams.
Mia Martina.  Martine Johnson (born January 14 1984) better known by her stage name Mia Martina is a Canadian artist signed to CP Records.
Steve Cole.  Steve Cole (born 17 August 1966) is an American tenor saxophonist who has released five albums starting in the late 1990s throughout the 2000s. Most of his albums have been well-received earning him several awards. He is also a professor/adviser of music business at the University of St. Thomas.
Eric Hansen (travel writer).  Eric Hansen is a travel writer most famous for his book Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo about a 4000 km trek through the heartland of Borneo. He lives in San Francisco. For 25 years he has traveled throughout Europe the Middle East Australia Nepal and Southeast Asia.
Nawal Al Zoghbi.  Nawal Al Zoghbi (Arabic: نوال الزغبي‎ Lebanese pronunciation: [naˈwaːl ezˈzʊɣbi]; born 29 June 1972 Byblos Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer. Performing in Arabic she has a solid fan base throughout the Arab world and extending into Iran North America and Europe. Her musical career has spanned over 20 years. Zoghbi believes her success is due to the true emotion she delivers through her voice. She is quoted as saying whether a voice is big or small if it lacks emotion it will never succeed.
Henri Barbusse.  Henri Barbusse (May 17 1873 – August 30 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party.
Tash (rapper).  Rico Smith better known by his stage name Tash is an American rapper. He is most known for his work as a member of West Coast hip hop group Tha Alkaholiks alongside J-Ro and E-Swift. He has released two solo albums Rap Life (1999) and Control Freek (2009) and has worked on five albums with Tha Alkaholiks. Tash recently announced signing with the hip hop record label Amalgam Digital to release his independent debut entitled Control Freek.
Laurence Shurtliff.  Laurence Shurtliff (1947 Montana – May 16 2006 Petaluma CA) also spelled Lawrence Shurtliff and a.k.a. Ram Rod was President of Grateful Dead Productions Inc. from 1976 the year that the Grateful Dead incorporated until the death of guitarist Jerry Garcia in 1995.
Dave Valentin.  Dave Valentin (born April 29 1952 in New York City) is a jazz flutist.He learned latin percussion first when he was in the womb and then switched to flute. Valentin's teacher Hubert Laws suggested that he not double on saxophone because of his attractive sound on the flute. He studied at the Bronx Community College. He is of Puerto Rican descent.In 1977 he made his recording debut with Ricardo Marrero's group and he appeared also on a Noel Pointer album.
Aaron Marsh.  Aaron Marsh is an American singer-songwriter musician and producer from Florida. He first gained prominence as the lead singer guitarist and pianist for the Florida-based indie rock band Copeland who formed in 2000.
Amy Malkoff.  Amy Malkoff is an American singer-songwriter and musician based on the East Coast. Her music blends Acoustic and Pop-Folk music. She started auditioning for musical theatre productions at age 5 and by age 15 was touring in semi-professional shows.
Pete Mazich.  Peter Mazich (born October 25 1964) is a punk rock organist best known for his work with Mike Watt And The Secondmen.
Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño.  Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño (August 2 1889 – December 7 1927) was an Ecuadorian poet and a member of the Generación decapitada (The Decapitated Generation).Noboa y Caamaño came from a wealthy family in Guayaquil and was always plagued by a neuroses that only morphine could temporarily cure. He sought to ameliorate his mental condition by traveling to Europe but no matter what he tried he felt hopelessly lost and without spirit to overcome the loneliness of this world.
Alfred Amory George.  Alfred Amory George (20 April 1854–13 October 1930) was a New Zealand journalist newspaper proprietor and editor printer. He was born in London London England on 20 April 1854.
Rossiter Johnson.  Rossiter Johnson (27 January 1840 in Rochester New York – 1931) was a United States author and editor.
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper.  Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is the stage name of musician Aly Spaltro. She first began writing music around the age of 15 in the basement of a video store in Brunswick Maine. She would work at the store until closing at 11 and then would experiment with and record music all night into the morning.
Ai Kobayashi.  Ai Kobayashi (小林愛 Kobayashi Ai born May 25 1973) is a Japanese voice actress from Adachi Tokyo. She is affiliated with HeaT.
Claudia Schmidt.  Claudia Schmidt (born 1953) is a musician originally from New Baltimore Michigan who has recorded folk jazz blues and spoken word albums. She plays guitar and Appalachian dulcimer and sings. She has appeared numerous times on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion. She has recorded with Paul Cebar and Peter Ostroushko as well as Steve Tibbetts.
Doug Fieger.  Douglas Lars Doug Fieger (August 20 1952 – February 14 2010) was an American singer-songwriter-musician. He was the lead singer of the rock band The Knack and co-wrote My Sharona the biggest hit song of 1979 in the USA with lead guitarist Berton Averre.
Jimmie Noone.  Jimmie Noone (or Jimmy Noone; April 23 1895 – April 19 1944) was an American jazz clarinetist.
Roy Smeck.  Roy Smeck (born Leroy Smeck 6 February 1900 – 5 April 1994) was an American musician. His skill on the banjo guitar steel guitar and especially the ukulele earned him the nickname Wizard of the Strings.
Brianna Perry.  Brianna Perry (born January 11 1992) also known as Lil' Brianna is an American female rapper from Miami-Dade County Florida. She was the youngest act signed to Missy Elliott's label The Goldmind Inc. and affiliated with Slip-N-Slide Records home to rappers Trina and Rick Ross. Perry made her debut on Trina's album Diamond Princess on the track Kandi. Since then she has released six mixtapes four mainstream singles and various viral freestyles.
Eduardo Pondal.  Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente (February 8 1835 – March 8 1917) was a Galician (Spain) poet who wrote in both Galician and Spanish.Of Hidalgo origin Pondal was the youngest of a family of seven. From 1884 onwards he studied Latin in a school in Vilela de Nemiña which belonged to his cleric relative Cristobal Lago.
Peter Kovál.  Peter Kovál usually spelled Koval is a professional photographer and artist.
David Holt (musician).  David Holt (born October 15 1946 in Gatesville Texas) performs and preserves traditional American music and stories. A four time Grammy Award winner Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales hosts Riverwalk a jazz program on public radio; Folkways a television program on folk music and culture Great Scenic Railway Journeys and North Carolina Mountain Treasures on North Carolina public television.
Anne Matthews.  Anne Matthews is a college lecturer and author of articles and books with environmental and academic themes. Her book Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains was a 1993 Pulitzer Prize finalist in nonfiction. At Deep Creek written with William Howarth under the joint pen name Dana Hand was selected by the Washington Post as one of the best novels of 2010.
DJ Arafat.  brother = TV3DJ Arafat or Arafat Muana (English: Arafat the Child born January 26 1986 as Ange Didier Houon) an ex-disc jockey in Shangaï on Princess Street (Rue Princesse located in Yopougon Côte d'Ivoire) is a griot DJ and singer from Côte d'Ivoire who makes music of the Coupé-Décalé genre. DJ Arafat is son of the Tina Glamour an artist from Cote d'Ivoire.[citation needed]
Hilary Thayer Hamann.  Hilary Thayer Hamann (born November 7 1962 in New York City) is an American author. Her first novel Anthropology of an American Girl is the story of a search for authenticity told in the first-person voice of teenaged protagonist Eveline Auerbach. The semi-autobiographical literary novel contains an examination of the social and cultural pressures that prevent individuals from living meaningfully.
Greg Bear.  Gregory Dale Greg Bear (born August 20 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books) artificial universes (The Way series) consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels) and accelerated evolution (Blood Music Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children). His most recent work is the Forerunner Trilogy written in the Halo universe. Greg Bear has written 44 books in total.
Lee Qri.  Lee Ji-hyun (Hangul: 이지현; Hanja: 李智賢; born December 12 1986) better known by her stage name Qri is a South Korean idol singer model actress and the leader of K-pop girl group T-ara.
Pamela Ropner.  Pamela Christine Ropner (1931 – 4 July 2013) was a British author. She was the daughter of Richard Ropner and Margaret Forbes Ronald and graduated in 1951 from the University of Edinburgh with an M.A. She married the doctor and medical writer Tom Stuttaford in 1957 by whom she had 3 sons.
Dave Alvin.  David Albert Dave Alvin (born November 11 1955 in Downey California) is a Grammy award-winning guitarist singer-songwriter and a proponent of Americana (music). He is a former member of The Blasters X and The Knitters.
Therese Merkel.  Eva Therese Margaretha Merkel also known as Tess Merkel (born 18 April 1970 Nyköping Sweden) is a Swedish singer who is one of the original members of the pop group Alcazar.
Jared Flood.  Jared Flood is an American knitwear designer photographer and founder of the design house and yarn manufacturer Brooklyn Tweed. His work is inspired by historical hand-knitting traditions of the British Isles and Scandinavia but imagined for contemporary urban life. Flood has aligned himself with the local purchasing movement committing his yarn company to sourcing and milling all its wool in the United States.
Eric Gamalinda.  Eric Gamalinda (born in Manila Philippines) is a poet fiction writer playwright and experimental filmmaker. His work has been described as “luminous” (Arthur Sze) and “wonderful and vibrant” (Michael Burkard). “Gamalinda is a marvelous poet” wrote D. Nurkse poet laureate of Brooklyn.
Krystal Boyd.  Krystal Boyd (born April 14 1993) also known as Anjelica is a professional Russian adult film actress. Boyd has been an instant success in the adult industry with performances for Wow girls MET-Art Passion HD and other erotic sex sites.
J. R. Vautour.  J. R. Vautour is a Canadian country music artist from Toronto Ontario. In his career he has recorded three studio albums and released more than fifteen singles. He was also nominated for a Juno Awards 2002 a Canadian Country Music award and an East Coast Music Award.
Jan Robbe.  Jan Robbe (born 14 June 1980 in Ghent Belgium) otherwise known by his music project aliases Atomhead Erratic and UndaCova is an electronic music artist. He founded the experimental netlabel Entity in 2003 with friend Nico de Gols (aka Kaebin Yield). Jan Robbe is known for expressing various musical styles under different pseudonyms.
Ibrica Jusić.  Ibrica Jusić (born Ibrahim Jusić; 15 December 1944) is Croatian-Bosniak folk rock pop and sevdalinka singer.
Ignacio Corsini.  Ignacio Corsini (February 13 1891 – July 26 1967) was a well-known Argentine folklore and tango vocalist.
Nick Brownlee.  Nick Brownlee is a British journalist and crime thriller writer.His critically acclaimed debut novel Bait published in December 2008 by Piatkus was the first in a series featuringKenyan crimebusting duo Jake Moore and Detective Inspector Daniel Jouma. The second Burn was published in June 2009 and the third Machete in July 2010. The fourth in the series Snakepit was published in 2011.
Black Scorpio.  Black Scorpio is a Jamaican sound system and record label run by Maurice Jack Scorpio Johnson.
Charles Nalder Baeyertz.  Charles Nalder Baeyertz (15 December 1866 – 5 June 1943) was a New Zealand teacher journalist editor publisher and music critic. He was born on 15 December 1866 in Richmond Victoria.He was the son of the famous evangelist Emilia Louise Baeyertz.His capacity to memorize a page at a glance enabled him to display an apparently inexhaustible supply of knowledge and to acquire several languages. He claimed to have learnt Maori by memorizing a dictionary.
Leila Mackinlay.  Leila Antionette Sterling Mackinlay (5 September 1910 – 13 April 1996) was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions a musical book.
Suzuka Nakamoto.  Suzuka Nakamoto (中元 すず香 Nakamoto Suzuka born December 20 1997) is a Japanese idol singer and model. She is represented by the talent agency Amuse Inc. and has been a member of three musical groups formed by the company: Karen Girl's Sakura Gakuin and Babymetal.
Antonello Venditti.  Antonello Venditti (born 8 March 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.
Drake Levin.  Drake Maxwell Levinshefski (August 17 1946 – July 4 2009) was an American musician who performed under the stage name Drake Levin. He was best known as the guitarist for Paul Revere & the Raiders.Levin joined the group when he was 16 years old which earned him the nickname The Kid from Paul Revere. His addition helped establish Paul Revere and the Raiders as a premier showband in the Northwest United States.
Ted Key.  Ted Key (born Theodore Keyser; August 25 1912 – May 3 2008) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel Hazel which was later the basis for a television series of the same name and also the creator of Peabody's Improbable History.
Edmond Mondesir.  Edmond Mondesir was born in Fort-de-France (Martinique) in 1948. Professor of Philosophy talented writer and composer he is also a recognized singer and an awarded « tanbou bèlè » musician.
Gary Bartz.  Gary Bartz (born September 26 1940 Baltimore Maryland) is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.
Jūgatsu Toi.  Jūgatsu Toi (戸井 十月 Toi Jūgatsu 12 October 1948 – 28 July 2013) was a Japanese travel writer and visual producer. He became a travel writer after his activity as an illustrator and reporter.
Sam Woolf.  Samuel Joseph Sam Woolf (born April 19 1996) is an American singer from Bradenton Florida. He finished in 5th place on season 13 of American Idol.
Chris Cutler.  Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist composer lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands including Art Bears News from Babel Pere Ubu and (briefly) Gong/Mothergong. He has collaborated with many musicians and groups including Fred Frith Lindsay Cooper Zeena Parkins Peter Blegvad and The Residents and has appeared on over 100 recordings.
Tom Scholz.  Donald Thomas Tom Scholz (born March 10 1947) is an American rock musician inventor engineer and philanthropist best known as the founder of the band Boston. He is also the inventor of the Rockman guitar amplifier. He has been described by Allmusic as a notoriously 'un-rock n' roll' figure who never enjoyed the limelight of being a performer preferring to concentrate almost exclusively on his music and in more recent years spending much of his time working with charities.
Peter Wilkinson (musician).  Peter Wilkinson (born Leslie Peter Wilkinson 9 May 1969) in an English musician from Liverpool who has played for artists such as Shack Cast and Echo & the Bunnymen.
Conny Nimmersjö.  Conny Nimmersjö (born 1967) Swedish musician most known for playing guitar with bob hund and Bergman Rock.
Jean-Philippe Baratier.  Jean-Philippe Baratier (also Johann Philipp Baratier; January 19 1721 Schwabach near Nuremberg – October 5 1740) was a German scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts.
Alina Devecerski.  Alina Natalie Devecerski (born 27 March 1983) is a Swedish singer from Sundbyberg in Stockholm County Sweden. She is managed by Anders Johansson and signed to EMI Sweden.At age 19 she started singing in a girl band. She has also written songs for many other artists. In 2010 she launched her solo career working for a year and a half writing solo material for herself only. Her 2012 debut single was Jag svär.
Ayla (producer).  Ingo Kunzi (born 7 November 1966) is a German trance producer and DJ best known for his work under Ayla. The name was inspired by the name of a girl in the recording studio during his first recording. His track Ayla which is his best known work was remixed by DJ Taucher and was a hit in the clubs. The track peaked at #22 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1999.
Lina Zahr Eddine.  Lina Zahr Eddine(Arabic: لينا زهر الدين‎) (born 1975) is a Lebanese news presenter and talk show host.
Maximilien Misson.  Francis Maximilian Misson originally François Maximilien Misson (c.1650 – 12 January 1722) was a French writer and traveller. Born in Lyon he fled France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and settled in Britain. He travelled through Italy during 1687 and 1688 and in 1691 published the Nouveau voyage d'ltalie which was to be the standard travel guide to Italy for the following fifty years.
Mikołaj Rej.  Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (February 4 1505 – between September 8 and October 5 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages as well as a politician and musician. He was the first Polish author to write exclusively in the Polish language and is considered (with Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski) to be one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.
Václav Žáček.  Václav Žáček (born January 17 1978 in Prague is a Czech professional extreme sport athlete who performs freestyle on a personal watercraft.He is also former member of the successful band T-BOYZ from Czech Republic. And former R&B and hip-hop deejay radio host and music producer.
Blossom Dearie.  Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28 1924 – February 7 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist often performing in the bebop genre and remembered for her light and girlish voice. One of the last supper club performers she performed regular engagements in London and New York City over many years.
Dallas Clayton.  Dallas Clayton is an American author and illustrator best known for his children’s works in the Awesome Book series.
Avram Davidson.  Avram Davidson (April 23 1923 – May 8 1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction science fiction and crime fiction as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre a World Fantasy Life Achievement award and a Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine short story award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre.
Jim Steinman.  James Richard Jim Steinman (born November 1 1947) is an American composer lyricist and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger pianist and singer. His work has included songs in the adult contemporary rock and roll dance pop musical theater and film score genres.
Walter Biggar Blaikie.  Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE (23 November 1847 Pilrig Edinburgh - 3 May 1928) was a Scottish civil engineer printer historian and astronomer.Son of William Garden Blaikie. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University Blaikie worked in India from 1870-74.He became one of the leading scholars of the Jacobite period especially of the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Denise Legeay.  Denise Legeay (22 January 1898 – 27 May 1968) was a French film actress whose popularity peaked during the silent film era of the 1920s.Legeay made her film debut at age 23 in the 1921 film L’infante à la rose and would continue to act in films until 1926 including a ten episode film serial Vingt ans après in 1922.
Miriam Christine.  Miriam Christine Borg is a Maltese pop and rhythm and blues singer best known for representing Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.
Inul Daratista.  Inul Daratista (born Ainur Rokhimah on 21 January 1979) is a dangdut singer and performance artist from Pasuruan East Java Indonesia. She became nationally famous in 2003 and is known for her suggestive style of dancing that has caused major controversy in Indonesia. Inul is a corrupted version of Ainur and the singer's childhood pet name.
Jack Walrath.  Jack Walrath (born May 5 1946 in Stuart Florida) is an American post-bop jazz trumpeter and musical arranger known for his work with Ray Charles Gary Peacock Charles Mingus and Glenn Ferris among others.
Matthew Jay.  Matthew Jay (10 October 1978 – 25 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter who was often likened to artists such as Nick Drake Badly Drawn Boy and Jeff Buckley.The son of two folk musicianshe was born in Plymouth England and moved to Abergavenny South Wales with his family when he was ten. He then moved to Nottingham after getting signed.
Jasmine Becket-Griffith.  Jasmine Becket-Griffith (born June 4 1979) is a freelance artist who specializes in fairy fantasy and gothic artwork. Her preferred medium is acrylic on canvas or wood and her designs appear on many lines of licensed merchandise notably through the chain stores Hot Topic and collectibles through the Bradford Group including co-branded Disney projects.
Brantley Gilbert.  Brantley Gilbert (born January 20 1985) is an American country rock singer-songwriter from Jefferson Georgia. He is signed to Big Machine Records' Valory division for whom he has released two albums. These albums have produced a combined five chart entries on the Hot Country Songs charts of which three have gone to number 1. Gilbert also co-wrote Jason Aldean's singles My Kinda Party and Dirt Road Anthem.
Mario Frangoulis.  Mario Frangoulis (Greek: Μάριος Φραγκούλης; born 1967) is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song Vincerò Perderò. He sings in Italian Spanish English French and Greek; he is fluent in all five languages.
Jerry Lott.  Jerry Lott aka Marty Lott aka The Phantom (January 30 1938 – September 4 1983) was an American rockabilly singer with the frantic Dot single Love Me backed with the ballad Whisper My Love (Dot 45-16056). Both sides were recorded in 1958 but not issued until January 1960. Songwriting credit for both is M. Lott.
Charles Beaumont.  Charles Beaumont (January 2 1929 – February 21 1967) was a prolific American author of speculative fiction including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes such as The Howling Man Miniature Printer's Devil and Number Twelve Looks Just Like You but also penned the screenplays for several films among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. Novelist Dean R.
Bennie Moten.  Bennie Moten (November 13 1894 – April 2 1935) was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City Missouri.He led the Kansas City Orchestra the most important of the regional blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s Big Bands.His first recordings were made (for OKeh Records) in 1923 and were rather typical interpretations of the New Orleans style of King Oliver and others. 
Al Staehely.  Al Staehely was a singer/songwriter from the 1970s. He was featured in Spirit The Staehely Brothers The Nick Gravenites John Cipollina Band and recorded with labels such as Epic and Polydor.He is now an entertainment lawyer based in Houston Texas. He has specialized in legal matters pertaining to the music and film industries since 1979.
Tommy Guerrero.  Tommy Guerrero (born September 9 1966) is an American professional skateboarder company owner and musician.
Erik Larsen.  Erik J. Larsen (born December 8 1962) is an American comic book writer artist and publisher. He is known for his work on Savage Dragon as one of the founders of Image Comics and for his work on Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.
Marin Poole.  Marin Morgan Poole is a beauty queen from Logan Utah who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.Poole won the Miss Utah Teen USA 2002 title in a state pageant held in December 2001 competing as Miss Cache Valley Teen USA. She also won the Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic awards in that pageant. Her first runner up was Jessica Dawn Black who later won the Miss Utah Teen USA 2003 title.
Mai Goto (voice actress).  Mai Gotō (後藤 麻衣 Gotō Mai born August 22 1982) is a Japanese voice actress from Obihiro Hokkaido Japan.
Kajiyama Toshiyuki.  Kajiyama Toshiyuki (梶山 季之 2 January 1930 – 11 November 1975) was a Japanese novelist active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was known for his popular novels which primarily consisted of mysteries and erotica.
Anne Weber.  Anne Weber (born November 13 1964 in Offenbach am Main Germany) is a German-French author translator and self-translator. Since 1983 Anne Weber lives in Paris. She studied in Paris and worked for several editors.Anne Weber started writing and publishing in French but immediately translated her first book Ida invente la poudre into German Ida erfindet das Schießpulver. Since then she writes each of her books in French and German.
Malabo Lopelo Melaka.  Malabo Löpèlo Mëlaka or King Malabo I (1837–1937) born on the island of Fernando Po (today Bioko Equatorial Guinea) was the son of former Bubi king Moka and served as king between 1904 until his death in 1937 during the Bahítáari Dynasty. One of his three sons Francisco Malabo Beosá (1896–2001) was a successor to the royal throne as well as the final heir to the Bubi Kingdom.Prior to his reign King Malabo I served as the secretary to Sas-Ebuera from 1899 until 1904.
Amy Kuney.  Amy Kathryn Kuney (born August 6 1985) is an American singer songwriter guitarist and pianist.
Jay Mariotti.  Jay Mariotti (/mæriˈɒti/; born June 22 1959) is the host of the Jay Mariotti Show a print and broadcast internet venture. He is a former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and panelist on the ESPN show Around the Horn.
Jeremy Taggart.  Jeremy Ronald John Taggart is a Canadian drummer best known for playing with Our Lady Peace since 1993.
Jesse West.  Jesse West aka 3rd Eye (born December 4 1967 in the South Bronx New York) is a producer/rapper. Jesse grew up in the Bronx River Projects where the Master/Teacher DJ Afrika Bambaataa founded the Universal Zulu Nation.
Peter Milligan.  Peter Milligan is a British writer best known for his comic book film and television work.
Leonard Caston.  Leonard Baby Doo Caston (June 2 1917 – August 22 1987) was an American blues pianist and guitarist. He is best noted for the tracks Blues At Midnight and I'm Gonna Walk Your Log.
Khalilullah Khalili.  Khalilullah Khalili (1907 – 1987; Persian: خلیل‌الله خلیلی‎ - Ḫalīlallāḥ Ḫalīlī; alternative spellings: Khalilollah Khalil Ullah) was Afghanistan's foremost 20th century poet as well as a noted historian university professor diplomat and royal confidant. He was the last of the great classical Persian poets and among the first to introduce modern Persian poetry and Nimai style to Afghanistan. He had also expertise in Khorasani style and was a follower of Farrukhi Sistani.
Andrew Wojtanik.  Andrew Wojtanik (born 1989) was the winner of the National Geographic Bee hosted by Alex Trebek in 2004 and the National Geographic World Championship in 2005. To get to the National Geographic Bee finals he survived two tiebreakers to advance to the final round against 13-year-old Matthew Wells of Montana beating him to win a $25000 scholarship.
Yuri Galanskov.  Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov Russian: Юрий Тимофеевич Галансков (June 19 1939 Moscow - November 4 1972 Mordovia) was a Russian poet historian human rights activist and dissident. For his political activities such as founding and editing samizdat almanac Phoenix he was incarcerated in prisons camps and forced treatment psychiatric hospitals (Psikhushkas). He died in a labor camp.
Paolo Alboni.  Paolo Antonio Alboni (1671–1734) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born and trained in Bologna where he became a landscape painter. After practicing some time in Rome and Naples he went in 1710 to Vienna where he remained nearly thirteen years but being deprived of the use of his right side by a stroke he returned to Bologna; he subsequently painted with his left hand. His daughter Luigia Maria Rosa was also a landscape painter. She died in 1759.
Leo Kraft.  Leo Kraft (July 24 1922-April 30 2014) was an American composer author and educator.Kraft was born in Brooklyn New York. He holds degrees from Queens College (CUNY) and Princeton University. He studied composition with Karol Rathaus Randall Thompson and Nadia Boulanger. His music has been recorded on several labels including Centaur Records Albany Records and Arizona University Recordings.In addition Kraft taught at Queens College for many years.
Rasmus Faber.  Rasmus Faber (born Rasmus Peter Faber on May 16 1979) is a music artist from Stockholm Sweden. He is a pianist DJ remixer composer record producer sound engineer and founder of the record label Farplane Records. He is mostly active in the electronic dance music genre but also ventures into a wide variety of other musical styles. Rasmus performs solo as a DJ and pianist and live with his band the RaFa Orchestra.
Kellie Coffey.  Kellie Coffey (born April 22 1971) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2002 with the release of her single When You Lie Next to Me a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Her debut album also titled When You Lie Next to Me was released the same year on BNA Records and in 2003 Coffey won the Top New Female Vocalist award from the Academy of Country Music.
John Entwistle.  John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was a British musician songwriter singer film and music producer who was best known as the bass guitarist for British rock band The Who. He was the only member of the band to have formal musical training. His aggressive lead sound influenced many rock bass players.
Keith Abrams.  Keith Abrams is a rock drummer known mostly for his work with Time of Orchids and PAK. He is a frequent collaborator both with Ron Anderson and Jesse Krakow.Abrams was recruited along with Jesse Krakow into Time of Orchids in 1999. In 2003 PAK's bassist Krakow asked band leader Ron Anderson to audition Abrams for PAK - Abrams impressed Anderson with his ability to play a difficult passage without warming up much faster than its regular tempo and so he was admitted to the band.
Bhavesh Sheth.  Bhavesh Sheth (Birth Date: 2 October 1965) is an Indian Author Martial Artist & Businessman. He was born in Mumbai India to Mrs. Rasila & Dr. Harikrishna C. Sheth.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade.  Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31 1902 – August 17 1987) was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem Canção Amiga (Friendly Song) was printed on the 50 cruzados bill. He is considered to be among the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.
Conchita Wurst.  Thomas Tom Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988) better known as his drag persona Conchita Wurst is an Austrian singer. In the role of Conchita Wurst he will represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark.
Vidyadhar Vyas.  Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas (born September 8 1944) is an Indian Hindustani vocalist and a contemporary exponent of the Paluskar style of North Indian classical singing. He belongs to the Gwalior gharana and the lineage of Sangeet Maharshi Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar contributed to his background. He is considered a maestro with this creative thinking artistic approach and aesthetic research in the gharana gayaki with his arduous riyaz.
Ray Ellington.  Henry Pitts Brown (17 March 1915 – 27 February 1985) known professionally as Ray Ellington was a popular English singer drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960.
Mustapha Skandrani.  Mustapha Skandrani (November 17 1920 in the Lower Casbah Algiers – October 2005) is an Algerian pianist performer of chaâbi music. His family was native of Cherchell (Tipasa) and according to him its origins are from Iskander a town in Turkey.He grew up and studied until the elementary certificate without problem in the secular Casbah.
Giovanni Maria Butteri.  Giovanni Maria Butteri (1540–1606) also known as Giovanmaria Butteri was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period active in his native Florence.He was a pupil of Alessandro Allori and Francesco Salviati. He participated in the fresco decoration of the large cloister at Santa Maria Novella. Other works can be found at the churches of Santa Monica and San Barnaba in Florence as well as in the Civic Museum in Prato.
Agnetha Fältskog.  Agnetha Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋˈneː.ˈta ˈfɛlt.ˈskuːɡ] born 5 April 1950) is a Swedish recording artist.
Bill Ware.  Bill Ware III born William Anthony Ware III (b. January 28 1959 East Orange New Jersey) is an American jazz vibraphonist.
Roki.  Rockford Josphat (born on July 07 1985) better known by his stage names Roki or Rocqui is a Zimbabwean contemporary musician who has also tapped into Acting recently. Born in Madagascar and raised in ParkTown Waterfalls Harare Roki made his debut in 2001 after releasing hits such as Seiko which featured Leonard Mapfumo and Suzanna.
Bob Gallion.  Bob Gallion (born April 22 1924 in Ashland Kentucky; died August 20 1999) was an American country music singer. Between 1958 and 1973 he recorded for various country labels charting nine times on the Hot Country Songs charts. His biggest hit was Wall to Wall Love which went to number 5 in 1962.
SoShy.  SoShy (born Deborah Sarah Epstein; September 14 1986) is a French-born American singer and songwriter.
Raúl Martínez (artist).  Publio Amable Raúl Martínez González known as Raúl Martínez (1 November 1927 – 2 April 1995) was a Cuban painter designer photographer muralist and graphic artist. He is best known for colorful pop-art portraits of leading Cuban political figures including José Martí and Camilo Cienfuegos.Martínez was born in Ciego de Ávila and studied in Havana and at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana Cuba and later at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Norman Page.  Norman Page (born in Nottingham Nottinghamshire – died 4 July 1935 in London) was a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of David Lloyd George Prime Minister during the First World War in the 1918 film The Life Story of David Lloyd George which is believed to be the first ever feature length political biopic.
Udi Spielman.  Ehud (Udi) Spielman (Hebrew: אהוד (אודי) שפילמן) (born on December 4 1951) is an Israeli singer and Hazan. He came to Chazanut (Cantorial music) after a long career as a singer and performer in Israel. He has published several CDs and DVDs and his music is featured in the Florida Atlantic University Judaica Sound Archives and will soon also be in the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archives.
Hayato Matsuo.  Hayato Matsuo (松尾早人 Matsuo Hayato born August 13 1965 in Kashiwa Japan) is a Japanese video game and anime composer arranger and orchestrator. He has worked on titles such as Front Mission 3 Final Fantasy XII the Shenmue series and Magic Knight Rayearth. Inspired by his mother a piano teacher he graduated from the music composition department of Tokyo University of the Arts. While in college he composed for the band G-Clef and occasionally stood in for members.
Emade.  Emade (real name Piotr Waglewski) (born December 15 1981) is a Polish hip-hop producer brother of rapper Fisz and son of the Polish musician Wojciech Waglewski lead vocalist of Voo Voo.He started out playing percussion at the age of 13 in his own hardcore formation. Few years later he formed RHX group with his brother and Inespe and began his career as a hip-hop producer with their debut album release in 1999.
Abi Eniola.  Abi Eniola is a television actress. She has been acting since 1995 and is still ongoing. She is renowned for her roles in Grange Hill (2000) Little Britain (2003 / 2004) and The Bill (2008).
J. G. Thirlwell.  James George Thirlwell (born 29 January 1960) – also known as Clint Ruin Frank Want Foetus among other names – is an Australian singer composer and record producer. Because of his musical diversity he is known for juxtaposing a variety of different styles.
Ahmad Jamal.  Ahmad Jamal (born Fritz Russell Jones July 2 1930) is an American jazz pianist composer and educator. According to American music critic Stanley Crouch Jamal is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Charlie Parker. For five decades he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.
Samudrala Ramanujacharya.  Samudrala Ramanujacharya also known as Samudrala Junior (1923 – May 31 1985) was a screenwriter for Telugu films based in Andhra Pradesh India. He was the son of Samudrala Raghavacharya or Samudrala Senior.
Qurratulain Hyder.  Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu: قرۃ العین حیدر‎; January 20 1928 – August 21 2007) was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer an academic and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature she is most known for her magnum opus Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire) a novel first published in Urdu in 1959 from Lahore Pakistan that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of India.
Antonio Tozzi.  Antonio Tozzi (c. 1736 - after 1812) was an Italian opera composer.He was born at Bologna Italy. He studied with Padre Martini and became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna in 1761. His first opera Tigrane was performed in Venice in 1762. His La morte di Dimone of 1763 was an early opera semiseria. In 1764 he was asked to work for the court in Brunswick. In 1774 he became Hofkapellmeister in Munich and his Orfeo ed Euridice was performed there in 1775.
Ani Choying Drolma.  Ani Choying Drolma (Nepali: आनी छोइङ डोल्मा born June 4 1971 in Kathmandu Nepal) also known as Choying Drolma and Ani Choying (Ani nun is an honorific) is a Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. She is known in Nepal and throughout the world for bringing many Tibetan Buddhist chants and feast songs to mainstream audiences. She has been recently appointed as the Unicef Goodwill Ambassador to Nepal.
Puff Guo.  Puff Kuo (born 郭雪芙; pinyin: Guō Xuě Fú) is a Taiwanese model actress singer and a member of Taiwanese girl group Dream Girls.She made her acting debut in Inborn Pair playing the supporting role Li Er (黎兒). In 2013 she tops the list of FHM Taiwan’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Jim Stewart (record producer).  Jim Stewart (born July 29 1930) is a former record company executive and producer who co-founded Stax Records.
Frank Enders.  Frank Enders (1860 – June 1921) was an American painter and etcher.
Carlo Collodi.  Carlo Lorenzini (November 24 1826 – October 26 1890) better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Steven Schrader.  Steven Schrader is an American writer from New York City. In addition to being the author of five books he served as the director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative for ten years. He currently lives in New York's Upper West Side a strong presence in his stories with his wife Lucy Kostelanetz a documentary film maker.
Eric Barclay.  Eric Barclay (1894–1938) was a Swedish film actor. Barclay became a prominent actor in French silent films of the early 1920s often working with director Jacques de Baroncelli. He also appeared in German and British films and those of his native Sweden.
Bob Wiseman.  Robert Neil Bob Wiseman is a film score composer filmmaker political themed singer-songwriter and actor. Wiseman discovered or produced many artists including Canadian member of parliament Andrew Cash Ron Sexsmith The Lowest of the Low and Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall. He is a founding member of Blue Rodeo with whom he won 5 Juno Awards.
František Sláma (politician).  Dr. František Sláma (3 November 1850 in Chotěboř - 25 April 1917 in Brno) was a Czech writer traveller lawyer and politician. He is known as the first person who spread the knowledge about Silesia to the Czech lands.He came to Silesia in 1882 when began working as a judge in Cieszyn the centre of the Duchy of Teschen. He then decided to travel across the Silesian territory as he was fascinated by local history and traditions.
Susan McCullough.  Susan McCullough is a professor at the Lamont School of Music University of Denver in the United States of America and a respected and experienced French horn recitalist. She performs regularly at horn society conferences around the world and as a soloist in America. She often performs in tandem with her son Jesse McCormick the second horn in the Cleveland Orchestra. In 2008 Susan Hosted the 40th International Horn Symposium at the Lamont School of Music University of Denver.
Nurul Momen.  Nurul Momen (Bengali: নুরুল মোমেন; November 25 1908 – February 16 1990) also known as Natyaguru (নাট্যগুরু) was a professor educationist playwright director actor humorist acclaimed orator lawyer broadcaster philanthropist and essayist of Bangladesh. He is recognized as the pioneer of modern Bengali drama acting as a bridge between earlier and later playwrights in terms of content and style and even referred to as the Father of Bangladeshi theatre.
Ari Lasso.  Ari Bernardus Lasso (born 17 January 1973 in Madiun East Java) better known as Ari Lasso is an Indonesian musician and former lead vocalist of Dewa 19.
Johnny Loughrey.  Johnny Loughrey (July 20 1945 – April 13 2005) was an Irish singer and songwriter born in Newtownstewart County Tyrone Northern Ireland. With his mix of country songs Irish ballads and easy listening music which he had a passion for he achieved success in both England and Ireland.
CeDell Davis.  CeDell Davis (born Ellis Davis 9 June 1927) is an American blues guitarist and singer.Davis is most notable for his distinctive style of guitar playing. Davis plays guitar using a table knife in his fretting hand in a manner similar to slide guitar resulting in a welter of metal-stress harmonic transients and a singular tonal plasticity. He uses this style out of necessity.
Alan Campbell (writer).  Alan Campbell (born 7 July 1971) is a Scottish fantasy novelist.
Tim LaHaye.  Timothy F. Tim LaHaye (born April 27 1926) is an American evangelical Christian minister author and speaker. He is best known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins. He has written over 50 books both fiction and non-fiction.
Dhafer Youssef.  Dhafer Youssef (Arabic: ظافر يوسف‎; born 19 November 1967 in Teboulba Tunisia) is a composer singer and oud player. He developed an interest in jazz at an early age and clandestinely listened to it during his education at a Qur'anic school. He later left Tunisia to start a jazz career and has lived in Europe since 1990 usually in Paris or Vienna. He also works in avant garde and world music where he has been nominated for awards.
Yui Aragaki.  Yui Aragaki (新垣 結衣 Aragaki Yui born June 6 1988) is a Japanese idol model actress singer voice actress and occasional radio show host.She is particularly recognized for her beauty and her movie projects.
Irwin Kremen.  Irwin Kremen (born 1925) is a North Carolina artist and professor emeritus at Duke University. His artwork mainly consists of abstract collages often composed from pieces of weathered paper he gathered during his travels. Early on he worked on a small scale producing collages no larger than his hand. He invented his own method of affixing the disparate pieces with paper hinges - not the traditional glue of other collage artists.
Eiji Maruyama.  Eiji Maruyama (丸山 詠二 Maruyama Eiji born October 23 1930 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor who works for Arts Vision.
Eric Olsen (writer).  Eric Olsen (born August 5 1958) was the founder editor-in-chief and publisher of broad-based online critical magazine Blogcritics and author of local Cleveland blog Cleve-blog.
Nancy Sinatra.  Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8 1940) is an American singer and actress.
Charles Tobias.  Charles Tobias (August 15 1898 – July 7 1970) was an American songwriter.
Jonathan Kis-Lev.  Jonathan Kis-Lev (born 1985) is an Israeli artist and a peace activist. He is mostly known for his colorful naïve paintings which have granted him recognition in Israel and have become part of major art collections including the collection of Bank Leumi one of Israel's largest banks. Kis-Lev is also the president of the Israeli League of Young Esperanto Speakers.
Jeremy Michael Ward.  Jeremy Michael Ward (May 5 1976 – May 25 2003) was the sound technician and vocal operator for The Mars Volta and for the dub outfit De Facto. He created many of the soundscapes heard on The Mars Volta's album De-Loused in the Comatorium.
Urbano Romanelli.  Urbano Romanelli (c. 1645-1682) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Viterbo the son of the painter Giovanni Francesco Romanelli. After his father died he entered the studio of Ciro Ferri in Rome. He painted in Rome and in churches at Velletri and Viterbo.
Boldy James.  James Clay Jones III (born August 9 1982) better known by his stage name Boldy James is an American rapper from Detroit Michigan. His debut album My 1st Chemistry Set was released on October 15 2013.
Stephanie Nakasian.  Stephanie Nakasian (b. Patricia Stephanie Nakasian August 29 1954) is an American jazz vocalist and voice teacher.
Ariadna Scriabina.  Ariadna Aleksandrovna Scriabina (Russian: Ариадна Александровна Скрябина; also Sarah Knut née Ariadna Alexandrovna Schletzer pseudonym Régine; 26 October 1905 – 22 July 1944) was a Russian poet and activist of the French Resistance.She was the eldest daughter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and Tatyana Schletzer. After death of her father Ariadna took his last name and after the death of her mother she was exiled in Paris.
Guillaume Boni.  Guillaume Boni (c.1530–c.1594) was a French Renaissance composer. Boni was choirmaster at Saint-Étienne Cathedral from 1565 until his death after 1598. Like Anthoine de Bertrand he was born in Auvergne and working in Toulouse.
Kurt Kaiser.  Kurt Kaiser (born December 17 1934) is an award winning songwriter of Contemporary Christian music and member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He has produced and arranged albums for the likes of: Kathleen Battle Ernie Ford Larnelle Harris Burl Ives Ken Medema Christopher Parkening George Beverly Shea Joni Eareckson Tada Ethel Waters and Anne Martindale Wiliams. He has recorded sixteen piano solo albums of his own.
Daniel Cardoso.  Daniel Cardoso (born 28 March 1981) is a multi-instrumentalist song writer and producer. He was born in the south of Portugal and is currently a member of British band Anathema. Daniel was also in Head Control System with Kristoffer Rygg and Leafblade with Danny Cavanagh.First known as the drummer in the band SiriuS and with whom he released two records through the Norwegian label Nocturnal Art Productions (property of Tomas Samoth Haugen).
Baryalai Samadi.  Baryalai Samadi (Pashto: بريالی صمدي) is a singer/artist from Afghanistan. He was born in 1978 in Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan.Baryalai Samadi was born to Ustad Abdul Samad. His father was a singer and artist as well. Baryalai was in third grade when he found interest in music and singing.
Brooks Adams.  Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24 1848 Quincy Massachusetts - February 13 1927 Boston) was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871.He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities.
Charlotte Mary Yonge.  Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output now mostly out of print.
David Landau (screenwriter).  For other people of the same name see David Landau (disambiguation).David Landau is an award winning screenwriter and filmmaker. His screenplay Seance won Niad Management's Be A Hollywood Screenwriter competition and his pitch for a television program based on his company Murder to Go won the 2003 People's Pilot contest.
Aurela Gaçe.  Aurela Gaçe (born October 16 1974) is an award-winning Albanian singer. She is a three-time Festivali i Këngës winner and Balkan Music Award winner for Best Singer from Albania. Gaçe represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the entry Feel the Passion. She was a judge on the third season ofThe Voice of Albania. After the show ended she announced that she won't be returning in the panel.
Jan-Chris de Koeijer.  Jan-Chris de Koeijer or Jan Chris de Koeyer (born 20 October 1966 Yerseke) is a Dutch bass player and singer. He is best known for his position in Gorefest.
Jem Godfrey.  Jeremy Jem Godfrey (born 6 October 1971) is a British music producer keyboardist and songwriter.Godfrey was responsible with Bill Padley at Wise Buddah music for many UK number one hits including Atomic Kitten's platinum-selling single Whole Again which earned the pair two Ivor Novello Award nominations and the production and remixing of the international hit version of Kiss Kiss by Holly Valance.He won an Ivor Novello on 25 May 2006 for the best selling single of 2005 That's My Goal for The X-Factor's Shayne Ward.That's My Goal was released in the UK on Wednesday 21 December 2005 and after selling 742000 copies in the first week (including 313000 on its first day) it became the Christmas number one single of 2005 held the top spot for four weeks and stayed in the top 75 until June 2006 which was a 21-week run. 
William Henry Bartlett.  William Henry Bartlett (March 26 1809 – September 13 1854) was a British artist best known for his numerous steel engravings.
Charlie Ondras.  Charlie Ondras was a drummer from New York and a founding member of the noise rock band Unsane formerly Lawn-Chair-Blisters. He also collaborated with Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez under the name Boss Hog and appeared on the band's first two releases. Ondras died of a heroin overdose while attending the 1992 New Music Seminar in New York.
Zyon Cavalera.  Zyon Cavalera is a Brazilian-American drummer best known as the son of Soulfly and ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera and as the current drummer for Soulfly and Lody Kong.
Steven Gore.  Steven Gore is an American thriller writer and author of the Graham Gage (Final Target 2010 Absolute Risk 2010 and Power Blind 2012) and Harlan Donnally (Act of Deceit 2011 and A Criminal Defense July 30 2013) series published by HarperCollins [1].
Steve Honoshowsky.  Steve Honoshowsky is a professional musician raised in Basking Ridge NJ. He began playing drums at the age of ten inspired by the likes of Neil Peart Bill Bruford and Terry Bozzio. In 2008 Honoshowsky represented the United States at the YMCA Europe Festival in Prague Czech Republic giving two solo drum performances on the center stage.
Arnold Fishkind.  Arnold Fishkind sometimes credited as Arnold Fishkin (born July 20 1919 Bayonne New Jersey - d. September 6 1999 Palm Desert California) was an American jazz bassist who appeared on over 100 albums.Fishkind grew up in Freeport Long Island where he met and began a lifelong friendship with Chubby Jackson. At age 7 Fishkind began learning violin and played in The Musical Aces a local band of budding musicians. By age 14 he was playing bass.
Michael Richard Plowman.  Michael Richard Plowman (born July 20 1965) is a British composer and conductor based in London UK Los Angeles California and Vancouver Canada.
Brian Vander Ark.  Brian Vander Ark is an American singer-songwriter best known as lead singer for the band The Verve Pipe.
Tim Rogers.  Tim Rogers (born Timothy Adrian Rogers on 20 September 1969[citation needed]) is an Australian musician actor and writer best known as the frontman of Australian rock band You Am I. He has also recorded solo albums with backing bands. As of July 2013 Rogers has released 12 albums with You Am I and five solo albums.
John P. Hammond.  John Paul Hammond (born November 13 1942 New York City United States) is an American blues singer and guitarist. The son of record producer John H. Hammond he is sometimes referred to as John Hammond Jr..
Alla Rakha.  Qureshi Alla Rakha Khan (Dogri: क़ुरैशी अल्ला रखा ख़ान) popularly known as Alla Rakha (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000) was an Indian tabla player. He was a frequent accompanist of Ravi Shankar.
Geoff Johns.  Geoff Johns (born January 25 1973) is an American comic book writer best known for his work for DC Comics where he has served since 2010 as the Chief Creative Officer in particular for characters such as Green Lantern The Flash and Superman. He is a television writer as well who has written episodes of Smallville and Arrow and a comic book retailer who co-owns Earth-2 Comics in Northridge California with Carr D'Angelo and Jud Meyers.
Michel Sidibé.  Michel Sidibé (born in 1952) is a citizen of Mali.
Maude Robinson.  Maude Robinson (1859–1950) was a Quaker writer of short stories and a memoir about growing up on a South Downs farm at Saddlescombe in the 1860s. She was the younger sister of the paediatrician Louis Robinson.
Elmaz Abinader.  thumbnailElmaz Abinader (born 1954 Pennsylvania) is an Arab-American author poet performer English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Vona/Voices. In 2000 she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection In the Country of My Dreams....
Alexander James Adams.  Alexander James Adams (born November 8 1962) is an American singer musician and songwriter in the Celtic and World music genres. He blends mythical fantasy and traditional themes in performances switching between instrumental fiddle and songs accompanied by guitar bodhrán and fiddle playing.
Aidan Mathews.  Aidan Mathews sometimes Aidan Carl Mathews (born 1956) is an Irish poet and dramatist born in Dublin.
Claes Månsson.  Claes Månsson (born February 5 1950) is a Swedish actor comedian writer and film director. Most famous for Lorry. Most recently he wrote and directed a 1939-set thrillerwhich had its world premiere in March 2012 in Stockholm.
Jillian Becker.  Jillian Becker (born 1932 Johannesburg South Africa) is a novelist prize-winning story-writer critic journalist and lecturer best known internationally as a writer researcher and authority on the subject of terrorism.
Chris Strachwitz.  Chris Strachwitz (born July 1 1931) is a German-born American record label executive and record producer. He is the founder and president of Arhoolie Records which he established in 1960 and which became one of the leading labels recording and issuing blues Cajun norteño and other forms of roots music from the US and elsewhere in the world.
Lou Pearlman.  Louis Jay Lou Pearlman (born June 19 1954) is an American impresario of successful 1990s boy bands such as the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync. In 2006 it was discovered that Pearlman had perpetrated one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history leaving more than $300 million in debts. After getting caught on the run he pleaded guilty to conspiracy money laundering and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding.
Keith Hopwood.  Keith Hopwood (born 26 October 1946) is an English musician singer-songwriter composer businessman and record producer who served as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocals for the 1960s pop band Herman's Hermits. Hopwood also served as a keyboardist singer and guitarist for the post-Peter Noone outfit Sour Mash which recorded an unreleased album A Whale of a Tale for RCA.
Gjon Mili.  Gjon Mili (November 28 1904 – February 14 1984) was an Albanian-American photographer best known for his work published in LIFE which he photographed artists such as Pablo Picasso .
Trini Lopez.  Trinidad Trini López III (born 15 May 1937) is an American singer guitarist and actor. He was born in Dallas Texas on Ashland Street in the Little Mexico neighborhood.
Luigi De Giudici.  Luigi De Giudici (December 12 1887 – February 16 1955) was an Italian painter of the Venetian anti-academic movement in the first years of the twentieth century. His works were exhibited at Ca' Pesaro between 1912 and 1920 and at the International Exposition of Paris (1937).
June (singer).  Hyun Jun (현준 born January 2 1987) better known as June is a solo R&B singer under Sony Music Japan. He is Korean by birth but is a performer in Japan. So far he has released three singles and most recently a mini-album. His first single Baby It's You was used as the ninth ending theme for the anime Bleach. His second single Pride of Tomorrow was the second ending theme for the anime D.Gray-Man.
Logan (illustrator).  Logan (born 1971 in Nantes) is a French illustrator that mainly draws gay erotic comics. The characters are mostly of the bearish manly look.His comics are published by H&O Editions. Notable series of comics include Porky (the adventures of Benjamin Folly) Deimos and Pornomicon. Besides the France-based publisher H&O Editions titles are available through Class Comics in English and Gmünder in German.
Evgeny Shvarts.  Evgeny Lvovich Shvarts (Russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц; October 21 [O.S. October 9] 1896 Kazan Russian Empire – January 15 1958 Leningrad USSR) was a Soviet writer and playwright whose cult works include twenty-five plays and screenplays for three films (in collaboration with Nikolai Erdman).
Alex T. Smith.  Alex T. Smith (born Coventry England in 1985) is an author and illustrator of several children's books including Primrose Egg Ella and the Claude series of books. He was announced as the illustrator for World Book Day 2014 in September 2013. He graduated in 2006 from Coventry University with a degree in illustration. His books have been published in several languages including Welsh French German Swedish Italian Hungarian and Chinese.
Patricia Gibson-Howell.  Patricia Gibson-Howell (born 1966) is a British actress of stage and screen.Her television roles include Rosie McConkey in Doctors Sue Perkins in Casualty and Patricia Truscott in Vote for Laurence she has also appeared on The Bill.Gibson-Howell trained at the Academy Drama School where she was the recipient of the Stage Scholarship.
Brian Francis Slattery.  Brian Francis Slattery is an American writer and an editor at The New Haven Review. He has published three novels Spaceman Blues: A Love Song (Tor 2007) Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America (Tor 2008) and Lost Everything (Tor 2012). Spaceman Blues was nominated for best novel by both the Lambda Literary Awards and the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards .
Raymond Acevedo.  Raymond Acevedo (born December 21 1971) is a Puerto Rican rock music singer.
Tets Ohnari.  Tets Ohnari (大成哲 Tets Ohnari born in Tokyo on June 30 1980) is a Japanese sculptor contemporary artist.Tets Ohnariborn in TokyoJapan 1980live and work as sculptor in Tokyo and Prague(Czech Republic).
Kasperi Heikkinen.  Kasperi Heikkinen (born 1980 in Kajaani Finland) is a guitar player who is best known as a member of Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. He played in the band from early 2007 until late 2012. He is also the guitarist for Finnish metal bands Merging Flare and Guardians of Mankind which is a Gamma Ray tribute band. As of 2013 he is also the guitarist for German metal band U.D.O..
Marcelo Camelo.  Marcelo de Souza Camelo (Rio de Janeiro February 4 1978) is a Brazilian composer singer guitarist and poet. He is best known as composer and lead guitarist of the Brazilian band Los Hermanos. Since the end of the band he continues composing for many interpreters mainly Maria Rita and Ivete Sangalo. In 2008 was released his first solo CD Sou.
Craig Bloxom.  Craig Bloxom was the bass player/singer of Australian ska/rock band vSpy vSpy which formed in Sydney in 1981 with Mike Weiley on guitar and Cliff Grigg on drums. They became known for tackling political issues including racism homelessness and contemporary drug culture. Bloxom left Spy vs Spy in 2003 worked as a chef in US/Mexico for four years and now resides in Newcastle Australia.
Stephen Dau.  Stephen Dau (born 1971) is an American writer.His debut novel is The Book of Jonas published in 2012. Originally from Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) he lives in Brussels Belgium. His work has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The North Atlantic Review McSweeney's and on MSNBC.com.
Karl Wilhelm Wach.  Karl Wilhelm Wach (also Carl Wilhelm or Wilhelm Wach) (September 11 1787 - November 24 1845) was a German painter.
Antonique Smith.  Antonique Smith is an American Broadway film and television actress singer and songwriter.
Ľudo Ondrejov.  Ľudo Ondrejov (October 19 1901 in Slanje present day Croatia – March 18 1962 in Bratislava Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak poet and prose writer.
William Turner (artist).  William Turner (12 November 1789 – 7 August 1862) was an English painter who specialised in watercolour landscapes. He was a contemporary of the more famous artist J. M. W. Turner and his style was not dissimilar. He is often known as William Turner of Oxford or just Turner of Oxford to distinguish him from his better known namesake. Many of Turner's paintings depicted the countryside around Oxford.
Sara Azmeh Rasmussen.  Sara Azmeh Rasmussen (born 1973 in Damascus Syria) is a Syrian-Norwegian writer secular humanist lesbian and critic of religions.In March 2009 on the celebration of International Women's Day she protested against headscarves by burning hers in public in Oslo.
Pietro Ruffo.  Pietro Ruffo (born 1978) is an Italian contemporary artist.
Charlie Cole (photographer).  Charlie Cole was a Newsweek photographer. Cole won the 1989 World Press Photo of the Year for a photo taken of the Tank Man during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Christopher Wolstenholme.  Christopher Tony Chris Wolstenholme (born 2 December 1978) is an English musician multi-instrumentalist and the bassist backing vocalist and vocalist for the English rock band Muse. Wolstenholme also sometimes plays keyboard or guitar instead of bass though the latter is occasionally handled by Morgan Nicholls during live performances.He lives in Oxshott with his family.
Christian Godefroy.  Christian H. Godefroy (25 October 1948 - 17 November 2012) was a French author of self-improvement books. His books include Mind Dynamics How to write a letter that sells Time management System Expressive learning system and Infopreneur. He also started a publishing company and founded CORESPRIT an annual gathering of self-improvement motivators.
Putri Ayu Silaen.  'Putri Ayu Silaen' born at Sibolga North Sumatra Indonesia on May 24 1997 is a soprano singer who previously dabbled in the genre pop. She starts her singing career in very young age by joining several singing competition in North Sumatra. She began to sing classical song when she joined Pesparawi competition a classical singing competition she won gold medal.
Ulla Hahn.  Ulla Hahn (born April 30 1946) is a German poet and novelist.
Hal Erickson (author).  Harold (Hal) Erickson (born 1950) is a media historian who was a senior editor at AllRovi for 15 years starting in 1994 when it was known as All Movies. He has also written several books relating to the history of movies and television as well as many media articles for Encyclopædia Britannica. He lives in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Bucie.  Bucie (born Busisiwe Nolubabalo Nqwiliso 10 March 1987) is a South African R&B and House singer.
Edward Bliss Foote.  Edward Bliss Foote (20 February 1829 — 5 October 1906 [1]) was an American doctor and author writing about family and social issues and an advocate for birth control. He was a co-founder of the Free Speech League.
Hideo Kobayashi.  Hideo Kobayashi (小林 秀雄 Kobayashi Hideo 11 April 1902 – 1 March 1983) was a Japanese author who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.
Andy Donato.  Andy Donato (born 1937) is an editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun newspaper chain.He was born in Scarborough Ontario. He graduated from Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute in 1955 and worked at Eaton's as a layout artist. He joined the Toronto Telegram in 1961 working as a graphic artist in the promotion department. In 1968 he was appointed art director and began cartooning on a part-time basis. After The Telegram folded in 1971 he joined The Toronto Sun.
Starkey Banton.  Starkey Banton aka Starkey Super (born David Murray 15 November 1962) is a British reggae deejay known for his cultural lyrics active since the mid-1970s.
Mathias Grassow.  Mathias Grassow is a German ambient musician whose recordings can also be classified in the genres ofdark ambient and drone ambient. His music often has a meditative and emotional and spiritual context inducing in listeners deep feelings of introspection. Over his long career he collaborated extensively with other notable ambient composers such as Klaus Wiese Oöphoi Alio Die Bruno Sanfilippo and Tomas Weiss.
Antonio Baroni.  Antonio Baroni (1678 – December 31 1746) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active in Verona. He trained with Simone Brentana in Verona and then in Bologna with Marcantonio Franceschini. He painted Sacrifice of Isaac for the oratorio di San Biago. He painted a Nativity for the church of San Alessio. He painted a San Simone Apostle for the Oratory of San Simone Apostolo as well as a David and the angel with whips
Rea Irvin.  Rea Irvin (August 26 1881—May 28 1972) was an American graphic artist. Although never formally credited as such he served de facto as the first art editor of The New Yorker. He created the Eustace Tilley cover portrait and the New Yorker typeface. He first drew Tilley for the cover of the magazine's first issue on February 21 1925. Tilley appeared annually on the magazine's cover every February until 1994.
Salena Jones.  Salena Jones (born Joan Elizabeth Shaw January 29 1944 in Newport News Virginia) is an American jazz and cabaret singer.
Peter Campus.  Peter Campus (born 1937) is an American born artist known for his interactive and single channel video work of the early 1970s alongside an extensive body of photographic and digital video works to the present day. His work is widely collected by major museums and galleries including the MoMA in New York the Whitney Museum the Guggenheim Museum Tate Modern the Renia Sofia and the Centre Pompidou.
Stacy Silver.  Stacy Silver is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model. She has performed in more than a hundred pornographic movies and has occasionally directed them.She has a tribal design tattoo on right biceps and her navel and tongue are pierced.
Archibald (musician).  Leon T. Gross (September 14 1912 or 1916 – January 8 1973) who performed and recorded as Archibald was an influential American rhythm and blues pianist and singer who had a hit in 1950 with Stack-A-Lee a version of Stagger Lee.
Elly Akira.  Elly Akira (晶エリー Akira Erī) born Fareeza Terunuma on January 25 1986 is a Japanese AV actress. She was formerly known as Yuka Osawa (大沢佑香 Ōsawa Yūka) and Hitomi Nishikawa (西川ひとみ Nishikawa Hitomi). By late 2013 she had appeared in more than 800 adult videos as listed on the site of the major Japanese video retailer DMM.
Simon Coleby.  Simon Coleby (born March 2nd 1967) is a British comic book artist who has worked mainly for British sci-fi comic 2000 AD and Marvel Comics.
Bak Man-biu.  Bak Man Biu (白文彪）（; 1921–2007) was a veteran Hong Kong actor best known for his role as the Patriatch Lok Fai in the TVB drama A House Is Not a Home (1977).
Kaho (actress).  Kaho (夏帆 born June 30 1991 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress and fashion model. Her real name is not disclosed.From 2004 to 2007 Kaho was the 11th Mitsui ReHouse Girl. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival for her performance in the film A Gentle Breeze in the Village.
Julianne Regan.  Julianne Regan (born 30 June 1962 Coventry) is an English singer song writer guitarist bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band All About Eve.
Grace Hartigan.  Grace Hartigan (March 28 1922 – November 15 2008) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.
Bruce Catton.  Charles Bruce Catton (October 9 1899 – August 28 1978) was an American historian and journalist best known for his books on the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian Catton specialized in popular history featuring colorful characters and historical vignettes in addition to the basic facts dates and analyses. Although his books were well researched and supported by footnotes they were not generally presented in a rigorous academic style.
Rupie Edwards.  Rupie Edwards (born Rupert Lloyd Edwards 4 July 1945 Saint Ann Parish Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.
Michael Sittow.  Michael Sittow (c. 1469 – 1525) also known as Master Michiel Michel Sittow Michiel Miguel and many other variants was a painter from Reval (now Tallinn Estonia) who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. For most of his life Sittow worked as a court portrait painter for Isabella of Castille the Habsburgs and others in Spain and the Netherlands. He was one of the most important Flemish painters of the era.
Elizabeth Fritsch.  shortlistedElizabeth Fritsch MA(RCA) CBE (born 1940) is a British studio potter. Her hand built painted pots are often influenced by music painting literature and architecture. Fritsch studied harp and then piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1958 to 1964 but later took up ceramics under Hans Coper and Eduardo Paolozzi at the Royal College of Art from 1968 to 1971. In 1985 she set up a studio in east London England. Since her first show in 1972 Fritsch has had a number of solo shows.
Mirkka Rekola.  Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 – 5 February 2014) was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems aphorisms essays. Her poetry was considered ‘difficult’ thus she gained wide audience as late as in the 1990s. She died in Helsinki in 2014.
Adam Gussow.  Adam Gussow (born April 3 1958 New York United States) is an American scholar memoirist and blues harmonica player. He is currently an associate professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Brett Matthews.  Brett Matthews is an American writer of comics and TV shows. He was assistant to Joss Whedon on TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel and Firefly. He scripted the Firefly episode Heart of Gold. In 2004 he wrote the screenplay for the Direct to DVD animated movie The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury. In comics Matthews has co-written the Serenity comic book prequel mini-series Those Left Behind and Better Days with Joss Whedon.
Jeff Cook.  Jeffery A. Jeff Cook (born August 27 1949 in Fort Payne Alabama) is an American musician who is best known as one of the founding members of the country music group Alabama.Born in Fort Payne Alabama and of English and Native American descent Cook is a graduate of Fort Payne High School and Jacksonville State University.
Henry McCullough.  Henry Campbell Liken McCullough (born 21 July 1943 Portstewart) is a Northern Irish guitarist vocalist and songwriter who has played guitar in such bands as Sweeney's Men Spooky Tooth Paul McCartney & Wings and The Grease Band. He turned up in many different places as sideman or a performer in his own right. In 2008 he recorded Poor Man's Moon featuring the single Too Late to Worry.
Nicolas Edelinck.  Nicolas-Étienne Edelinck (9 April 1681 - 11 May 1767) a French engraver was born to a family of engravers in Paris the eighth son of Gérard Edelinck. Although he had the advantage of his father's instruction and of studying in Italy he never rose above mediocrity. He engraved some portraits and a few plates for the Crozat Collection. He died in Paris in 1768. Among other prints by him are the following: Gerard Edelinck; after Tortebat. Cardinal Giulio de' Medici; after Raphael.
Chad Szeliga.  Chad Szeliga (born December 23 1976) is an American professional drummer born in Elyria Ohio and now residing in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. He is best known for being the drummer for the bands OurAfter Scott Stapp and Black Label Society.
Hatice Güleryüz.  Hatice Güleryüz (born February 18 1968) is a contemporary Turkish artist. She has worked in video photography art books and drawing.
Fitz-Greene Halleck.  Fitz-Greene Halleck (July 8 1790 – November 19 1867) was an American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group. Born and reared in Guilford Connecticut he went to New York City at the age of 20 and lived and worked there for nearly four decades. He was sometimes called the American Byron. His poetry was popular and widely read but later fell out of favor.
Andy McCoy.  Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962) better known as Andy McCoy is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of Hanoi Rocks but has also played with Iggy Pop.Artistically McCoy's works cover a wide range of music forms including rock 'n' roll punk rock flamenco glam punk glam rock blues rock and hard rock.
Cynthia Basinet.  Cynthia Basinet is an American actress and singer born in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. She is best known for her iconic version of Santa Baby which has tended to be mistakenly attributed to Marilyn Monroe.
Bjørn Nilsen.  Bjørn Nilsen (born 1934) is a Norwegian poet and television producer. His literary debut was the poetry collection Hvis jeg var trollmann from 1960. He was a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Profil a co-founder of The Norwegian Writers' Center (Norwegian: Norsk Forfattersentrum) and a leader of the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1975 to 1977. He worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1964 to 1992 and as a freelance producer until 1998.
Guy Mutton.  Guy Christopher Mutton also known as Mutto (born in England 17 October 1976) is an Australian singer a Top 12 contestant in the fourth season of Australian Idol and lead singer of the Gold Coast–based rock band Soulframe.Prior to Idol Mutton worked with kids as a teacher at Hillcrest Christian College. He left his career in education when his band Soulframe began gaining popularity. With experience on drums and piano Mutton was reluctant to audition as a vocalist.
Michael Connelly.  Michael Connelly (born July 21 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus Harry Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books which have been translated into 36 languages have garnered him many awards. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004.
Omid Djalili.  Omid Djalili (/əˈmiːd dʒəˈlɪli/; Persian: امید جلیلی‎; born 30 September 1965) is a British stand-up comedian actor television producer and writer.
Kuriko Namino.  Kuriko Namino (波乃 久里子 Namino Kuriko) (born December 1 1945 in Kamakura Japan) is an actress. Her brother Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII is an actor in kabuki theatre television and commercials.
Cyre de Toggenburg.  Cyre de Toggenburg (born June 17 1972) is a Swiss-French visual artist who specializes in abstract art.
Lawrence Ritter.  Lawrence S. Ritter (May 23 1922 – February 15 2004) was an American writer whose specialties were economics and baseball.Ritter was a professor of economics and finance and chairman of the Department of Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University. He also edited the academic periodical Journal of Finance from 1964 to 1966. He died at age 81 in New York City. His book Principles of Money Banking and Financial Markets coauthored with William L.
Kami Garcia.  Kami Garcia (born March 25 1972) is an American writer.
Shant Kenderian.  Shant Kenderian is notable as an Iraqi-born United States citizen who became an American prisoner-of-war after being forced to fight against the United States in the Persian Gulf War. He wrote a book about his adventures and is currently an engineer in Pasadena.
Rhiannon Lassiter.  Rhiannon Lassiter (born February 1977) is a children's books author.
Michael Coleman (blues musician).  Michael Coleman (born June 24 1956) is an American Chicago blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He was voted one of the top 50 bluesmen in the world by Guitar World magazine. Coleman has released five solo albums to date and variously worked with James Cotton Aron Burton Junior Wells John Primer and Malik Yusef.
Alexander Finta.  Alexander Finta (1881–1958) was a Hungarian-born American artist. Finta received his early education in Europe before moving onto Columbia University. He settled in Los Angeles California in 1939 and proceeded to mainly create marble and bronze busts. He worked for 20th Century Fox until his death in 1958.
Larry Correia.  Larry Correia is an American fantasy novelist known for his Monster Hunter series.
Illmaculate.  Gregory Poe (born February 4 1986) known as iLLmacuLate is an underground hip hop artist/rapper of Native American descent from Portland Oregon. At age 17 he won the 2004 Scribble Jam freestyle rap competition making him the youngest winner in the competition's history. He is a member of the Sandpeople group.
Alison Goodman.  Alison Goodman is an Australian writer of books for young adults born in 1966 in Melbourne.Goodman's debut novel Singing the Dogstar Blues (published in Australia 1998 subsequently released in several foreign editions) won an Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.
Ashin.  Ashin (Chinese: 阿信; pinyin: Āxìn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-sìn) born on 6 December 1975 Taipei Taiwan is a Taiwanese singer/songwriter and author. His legal name is Chen Hsin-hung (陳信宏). He is the lead vocalist of the Taiwanese rock band Mayday. Even though he majored in art during high school and college Ashin started his career as a musician after graduating from college.
Haiducii.  Paula Mitrache (born June 14 1977) known by the stage name Haiducii (Romanian pronunciation: [hajˈdut͡ʃij]) is a Romanian singer model and actress.
Wojciech Żywny.  Wojciech Żywny (Czech: Vojtěch Živný; May 13 1756 – February 21 1842) was a Czech-born Polish pianist violinist teacher and composer. He was Frédéric Chopin's first professional piano teacher.
Roland Armontel.  Roland Armontel (7 December 1904 – 9 March 1983)Born Auguste Louis Magnin in Vimoutiers Orne France he died in Paris.
Michael Neher.  Michael Neher (1798 at Munich – 1876 in Munich) the son of Joseph Neher a citizen and painter of that city but of a family from Biberach. Michael received a classical education and was instructed in the rudiments of painting by Mitterer and in 1813 entered the Academy at Munich. From 1816 to 1818 he studied under Matthias Klotz and was then employed by Angelo Quaglio in his theatrical work.
Marta Sosińska.  Marta Sosińska-Janczewska (born in Warsaw 4 October 1939) is a Polish pianist who was awarded the 7th Frédéric Chopin International Piano Competition (1965)'s 3rd prize. She subsequently contributed to a recording of Chopin's complete works. From 1985 on she held a post as professor at the Music University at Würzburg Germany where she lives.
Jen Currin.  Jen Currin is an American/Canadian poet. Born and raised in Portland Oregon she is currently based in Vancouver British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen University and Simon Fraser University.Her 2010 collection The Inquistion Yours won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry in 2011 and was a shortlisted nominee for that year's Lambda Literary Award Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and ReLit Award.She published two prior collections The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography.
Burt Kennedy.  Burt Kennedy (September 3 1922 – February 15 2001) was an American screenwriter and director known mainly for directing Westerns.After World War II service in the 1st Cavalry Division the Muskegon Michigan-born Kennedy found work writing for radio then used his training as a cavalry officer to secure a job as a fencing trainer and fencing stunt double in films.
Samm Schwartz.  Samm Schwartz (October 15 1920 - November 13 1997) was an American comic artist best known for his work in MLJ and Archie Comics specifically on the character Jughead Jones. Schwartz was born in Brooklyn where he took art instruction at the Pratt Institute. After working as an apprentice at a New York fashion studio and a part-time male model he joined MLJ in 1942 shortly after the creation of Archie.
Clarence C. Wiley.  Clarence C. Wiley (October 25 1883 – March 2 1908) was an American pharmacist from Oskaloosa Iowa who won fame for his folk rag entitled Car-Balick-Acid Rag.According to Census records he was one of five children born to Benson and Ella Wiley.Wiley copyrighted his composition on August 9 1901. Giles Brothers purchased his rag in 1904 and sold it in turn to Jerome H. Remick and Company in 1907.
Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht.  Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht (September 18 1858 Amsterdam - December 11 1933 The Hague) was a Dutch painter and illustrator famed for his military art.
Jethro (comedian).  Jethro is the stage name of Cornish stand-up comedian Geoffrey J Rowe based in Lewdown in Devon. Rowe was born in 1948 in St Buryan a village in west Cornwall.After leaving school Rowe was apprenticed as a carpenter and then worked as a timber man in a tin mine. At the age of eighteen he joined the St. Just and District Operatic Society and in addition to his bass voice locals found he had a talent for making an audience laugh.
Chico DeBarge.  Jonathan Arthur Chico DeBarge (born June 23 1966 Detroit Michigan) is an American R&B singer and a younger brother of the members of the Motown family act DeBarge. Unlike the rest of his DeBarge siblings Chico is the only male DeBarge that does not sing in the falsetto range that is well known in his family; he sings tenor.
Øystein Sevåg.  Øystein Sevåg (born March 19 1957) is a Norwegian classical and world music composer and musician.
Aaron Lawrence (entrepreneur).  Aaron Lawrence (born March 29 1971) is an American gay pornographic film actor  director sex advice columnist author and entrepreneur married to Calum Macphee. After graduating from college Lawrence embarked on an unplanned male hustling career which he parlayed into both a writing and acting career. Lawrence who is openly gay then started his own gay pornographic video company utilizing his international travels as an escort to shoot amateur pornography films.
Makoto Aida.  Makoto Aida (会田 誠 Aida Makoto born October 4 1965 in Niigata Prefecture) is a contemporary Japanese artist known for his provocative works of manga painting video photography sculpture and installation. Though less well-known internationally than Takashi Murakami or Yoshitomo Nara he is recognized in Japan as one the preeminent figures of Japanese contemporary art.Four of the members of the modern art collective Chim-Pom had previously worked with Aida.
Roy Shirley.  Ainsworth Roy Rushton Shirley (18 July 1944 – July 2008) better known simply as Roy Shirley and also known as King Roy Shirley and The High Priest was a Jamaican singer whose career spanned the ska rocksteady and reggae eras and whose Hold Them is regarded by some as the first ever rocksteady song. He was also one of the original members of The Uniques.
Meek Mill.  Robert Williams (born May 6 1987) better known by his stage name Meek Mill is an American hip hop recording artist from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He was briefly signed to Atlanta-based record label Grand Hustle owned by record executive and fellow American rapper T.I..
Christopher Ride.  Christopher Ride (born Canberra Australia 1965) is a science fiction and thriller writer. He lives in Melbourne Australia. He is also managing director of Interactive an IT service provider and has won the 2011 Southern Region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology award.
Anita Ward.  Anita Ward (born December 20 1957) is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper Ring My Bell.
Newcomb Pottery.  Newcomb Pottery also called Newcomb College Pottery was a brand of American Arts & Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940. The company grew out of the pottery program at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College the women's college now associated with Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana. The Pottery was a contemporary of Rookwood Pottery the Saturday Evening Girls University of North Dakota-School of Mines Pottery Teco and Grueby.
Will Bradley.  Wilbur Schwictenberg (July 12 1912 – July 15 1989) was an American trombonist and bandleader who also performed under the name Will Bradley. He was known for swing and sweet dance music as well as boogie woogie songs many of which were written by Don Raye.Born in Newton New Jersey Schwictenberg was one of the premier trombonists on the New York swing scene and he often participated in jam sessions broadcast on The CBS Saturday Night Swing Club.
Pietro Giovanni Leonori.  Pietro Giovanni Leonori (active 1400) was an Italian painter of the Bolognese school. Leonori painted Madonna & Saints in the Custom's House and decorated several public buildings with frescoes.
Colin Blumenau.  Colin Blumenau (born London 7 August 1956) is a British actor and theatre director.He played Francis Taffy Edwards in The Bill from 1984 to 1990. He was Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds between 1996 and 2012 and spearheaded its restoration project.His son is the actor Jack Blumenau.
Abai Qunanbaiuli.  Abay (Ibrahim) Qunanbayuli (Kazakh: Абай (Ибраһим) Құнанбайұлы) (August 10 1845 – July 6 1904) was a great Kazakh poet composer and philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.
Lightnin' Slim.  Lightnin' Slim (March 13 1913 - July 27 1974) was an African-American Louisiana blues musician who recorded for Excello Records and played in a style similar to its other Louisiana artists. Blues critic ED Denson has ranked him as one of the five great bluesmen of the 1950s along with Muddy Waters Little Walter Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson.[citation needed]
Foxy Brown (rapper).  Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand (born September 6 1978) better known by her stage name Foxy Brown is an American rapper model and actress. She was best known for her solo work as well as numerous collaborations with other artists and her brief stint as part of hip hop music group The Firm. Raised in Brooklyn New York her father Keith Stahler abandoned the family at a young age to pursue his career at ERAC records.
Nashenas.  Nashenas (Pashto/Persian: ناشناس) born as Sadiq Fitrat Habibi (Pashto/Persian: صادق فطرت) is one of the oldest surviving musicians from Afghanistan. His fame began in the 1970s and since then he has produced many albums consisting of Persian Pashto and some Urdu songs. He is sometimes called the Afghan Saigal.
George Steinmetz.  George Steinmetz (born 1957) is an American photographer. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Geophysics in 1979. He began his career in photography after hitchhiking through Africa for 28 months in his twenties. His current work focuses on photographing the world's deserts while piloting a motorized paraglider.
Nipsey Hussle.  Ermias Asghedom (born August 15 1985) better known by his stage name Nipsey Hussle (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$le) is an American rapper from Los Angeles California. He has released many mixtapes including the Bullets Ain't Got No Name series The Marathon The Marathon Continues and Crenshaw. In 2014 he plans to release his debut studio album Victory Lap via his All Money In record label.
Francesco Saverio Torcia.  Francesco Saverio Torcia (1840–1891) was an Italian painter mostly of marine landscapes.Torcia was born in Naples where he completed his studies at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples; he then worked in the studio of Domenico Morelli. Among his works: A Song of Love and Idyll exhibited at Milan and reproduced in the Illustrazione Italiana; Smarrita. He painted genre and landscape paintings.
Julie Night.  Julie Night (born July 2 1978 in Los Angeles California USA) is an American pornographic actress.
Hope Sandoval.  Hope Sandoval (born June 24 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer for Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions.Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists including vocals on Massive Attack's Paradise Circus from their 2010 album Heligoland. Recent interest in her unique vocal style has been ignited by the release of the Gears of War 3 release trailer featuring Mazzy Star's Into Dust.
Janick Gers.  Janick Robert Gers (/ˈjænɪk ˈɡərz/; born 27 January 1957 in Hartlepool England) is an English musician best known for being one of the three current guitarists in Iron Maiden along with Dave Murray and Adrian Smith as well as his earlier work with Gillan and White Spirit.
Boris Dlugosch.  Boris Dlugosch is a house music producer from Germany. Boris is usually known for funky/deep house tracks mostly produced in conjunction with Mousse T. and Michi Lange his partners in the Peppermint Jam Records label.Boris Dlugosch started his career as a DJ in the German night club Front. Dlugosch differed from his countrymen by playing house music tracks instead of happy hardcore or trance more established in Germany.
Branislav Dešković.  Branislav Dešković (1883–1939) was a Croatian sculptor best known for his expressive animal sculptures especially his hunting dogs. He is considered the first Impressionist sculptor in Croatia.
Bob Sinclar.  Bob Sinclar (born Christophe Le Friant; 10 May 1969) is a French record producer house music DJ remixer and the owner of the label Yellow Productions.
Jun Konno (voice actor).  Jun Konno (金野 潤 Konno Jun born October 18 1975 in Noda Chiba Japan) is a Japanese voice actor.
Joel Compass.  Joel Compass is British R&B and soul singer from London United Kingdom. He is best known for his 2014 single Forgive Me which peaked at number 34 on the UK Singles Chart.
Brane Mozetič.  Brane Mozetič (born 14 October 1958) is a Slovene poet writer editor and translator. He is known for his homoerotic poetry his editorial work and his translations of works by Rimbaud Genet and Foucault into Slovene.Mozetič was born in Ljubljana in 1958. He studied Comparative literature and Literary theory at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1983. He works as the editor of the literary collections Aleph and Lambda at the Centre for Slovenian Literature.
DJ Hype.  DJ Hype is a stage name of drum and bass producer and DJ Kevin Ford. His 1993 track Shot in the Dark appeared in the UK Singles Chart in 1993.
Pola Oloixarac.  Pola Oloixarac is an Argentinan writer journalist and translator.
William Wallace Denslow.  William Wallace W. W. Denslow (May 25 1856 – May 27 1915) was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics[citation needed] which has fueled political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Edward Kienholz.  Edward Kienholz (October 23 1927 – June 10 1994) was an American installation artist and sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and fifth wife Nancy Reddin Kienholz.
Nesim Tahirović.  Nesim Tahirović (born 23 October 1941) is a Bosnian painter. He studied art (painting) in Belgrade under professor Kosta Hakman.Along with painting he also works in the area of scenic design and other applied arts. During a forty five-year career as an independent artist he had around sixty solo exhibitions and more than hundred group exhibitions in his native country and abroad where he also received numerous awards for both painting and scenic design.
Jonathan Podwil.  Jonathan Podwil (born 1966) is an American painter and experimental filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn New York. He is known for paintings based on film and photography and often have oblique references to historical events. In addition he has made short super8 films which are digitally manipulated and presented as looped animations. Podwil earned his B.A.
Carl Larsson.  Carl Larsson (May 28 1853 – January 22 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils watercolors and frescoes. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice) a large wall mural now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.
Jeff Sipe.  Jeff Sipe (born January 31 1959 Berlin Germany) is an American drummer. He is a rock and jazz fusion drummer however he is proficient in many other styles which he has demonstrated in his decades of drumming. He is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit along with Col. Bruce Hampton. He also played with the self-applied Cajun Slamgrass Band Leftover Salmon and in the Zambiland Orchestra an experimental big band featuring members of Phish Widespread Panic and others.
Megumi Urawa.  Megumi Urawa (浦和 めぐみ Urawa Megumi born on November 30 1965) in Kashiwa Chiba) is a Japanese voice actor who works for Aoni Production.
Giovanni Bragolin.  Bruno Amadio (1911–1981) popularly known as Bragolin and also known as Franchot Seville Angelo (Giovanni) Bragolin and J. Bragolin (if you read the signature on his paintings wrong) was the creator of the group of paintings known as Crying Boys. The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead.
Abu Talib (musician).  Abu Talib (born as Fred Leroy Robinson and previously known as Freddie or Freddy Robinson; February 24 1939 – October 8 2009) was an African American blues and jazz guitarist singer and harmonica player.
Liz Danforth.  Elizabeth T. Danforth is a figure of note in the role-playing game and video game industry. Although primarily recognized as an illustrator she is an editor writer game scenario designer and game developer.
Terri Hollowell.  Terri Hollowell (born July 2 1956 in Jeffersonville Indiana) is an American singer. She had five nationally charted singles between 1978 and 1980 has toured internationally and has appeared on numerous nationally televised programs.
Goscombe John.  Sir William Goscombe John R.A. (21 February 1860 – 15 December 1952) was a Welsh sculptor.
Henry Mason (piano manufacturer).  Henry Mason (1831–1890) was one of the co-founders of the American piano manufacturer Mason and Hamlin.He was the son of American church music composer Lowell Mason and the brother of composer William Mason.
David Grant (singer).  David Grant (born 8 August 1956 Hackney London) is an English pop singer celebrity and vocal coach.
David Dencik.  David Dencik (born 31 October 1974) is a Swedish Danish actor.After having had minor roles in different films David Dencik became an established actor in Sweden for his role as the killer John Ausonius in the three-part TV mini-series Lasermannen in 2005. He also occasionally works and lives in Denmark. In 2006 he starred in the comedy Everything About My Bush (Swedish title: Allt om min buske).
Marco Mendoza.  Marco Mendoza (born May 3 1963) is an American rock musician the bass guitarist with Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders.
Typesun.  Luke Harney aka Typesun is an English record producer drummer and DJ from Bristol England.
Thiruvizha Jayashankar.  Thiruvizha Jayashankar (born 1940) is an Indian classical musician and a well known Nadaswaram expert in South India.
Francis Trevelyan Miller.  Francis Trevelyan Miller (1877–1959) was an American writer and film-maker. He is known for his books about exploration travel and photography. Notable works from him including several books about the American Civil War such as The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes (New York: The Review of Reviews Co. 1912). He has also made several feature films and wrote the screenplay for the 1919 film Deliverance about Helen Keller.
Annie Abrahams.  Annie Abrahams (born 1954) is a Dutch performance artist specialising in video installations and internet based performances which also consist of collective writings and derives from collective interaction. Born and raised in Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands she migrated and settled in France in 1987.
Richard Jack.  Richard Jack (15 February 1866–29 June 1952) was a painter of portraits figure subjects interiors and landscapes and prominent war artist for Canada.
Andrew Picken.  Andrew Picken (1788 – 23 November 1833) was a novelist born in Paisley Scotland. He was in business in the West Indies and in Glasgow and Liverpool but not being successful he went to London to try his fortunes in literature.
Tatjana Radisic.  (born in 1973) is a costume designer for theater and film. Her work has been seen on stages throughout the country and internationally on screen.She holds a double BFA from Belgrade University in Fine and Applied Arts and an MFA from Belgrade University in Costume Design. Ms. Radisic is former Committee Chairman of a Set and Costume Design sections of ULUPUDS - Association of Applied Artists and Designers of Serbia. She is member of Supervisory Board at Film Center of Serbia.
Muanpair Panaboot.  Muanpair Panaboot (Thai: เหมือนแพร พานะบุตร born January 1 1988) is a Thai pop singer who released her debut album in 2009. She is also known as Ging The Star. She was the fourth in The Star 5 a popular reality show in Thailand in 2009.
Chan Shen.  Chan Shen (11 March 1940 - 26 April 1984) was a Taiwanese born Hong Kong film actor. He is best known for his roles as gangsters or villains in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s.Already an established film actor in Taiwan he entered the Hong Kong film industri in 1971. He was a particularly prolific actor and would often appear in as many as ten films a year.
Kevin Blechdom.  Kevin Blechdom (born Kristin Erickson 1978) is an American experimental electronic musician/performance artist from San Francisco California.
Fullkawa Honpo.  Fullkawa Honpo (古川本舗 Furukawa Hompo Fullkawa Head Office) is a Japanese musician who began releasing Vocaloid music under the name Fullkawa-P (古川P) in 2009. After self-releasing Vocaloid music and self-cover extended plays using his own voice he debuted under independent label Balloom using the name Fullkawa Honpo in 2011.
Jonathan Pérez (musician).  Jonathan Alejandro Pérez (born May 1 1979 Viña del Mar Chile) is a Chilean drummer who is currently based in Kristiansand Norway. He is known for his work with the Norwegian gothic metal and symphonic metal bands Trail of Tears and Sirenia.
Craig Davidson.  Craig Davidson is a Canadian author of short stories and novels who has published work under both his own name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter. His style has been compared to that of Chuck Palahniuk.
Corín Tellado.  María del Socorro Tellado López (April 25 1927 El Franco Asturias – April 11 2009) known as Corín Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several Spanish-language countries. She published more than 4000 novels and sold more than 400-million books which have been translated into several languages.
Karp Zolotaryov.  Karp Ivanovich Zolotaryov (Russian: Карп Иванович Золотарёв fl. last quarter of the 17th century) was a Muscovite painter interior designer and wood carver employed by Posolsky prikaz and the Kremlin Armoury. Zolotaryov was the author of iconostasis of the Transfiguration church in Novodevichy Convent and the Church of the Intercession at Fili and the icons of Donskoy Monastery.
Childe Hassam.  Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17 1859 – August 27 1935) was a prolific American Impressionist painter noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors dealers and museums. He produced over 3000 paintings oils watercolors etchings and lithographs over the course of his career and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century.
The Gambit.  The Gambit is a bilingual rap music artist and producer from Finland that performs songs in English and in Finnish. The Gambit debuted in 2005 with his independently released single Move Gambit / Cos My Clique Is which reached #9 in the Finland singles chart.The Gambit runs a label/production company QGL - Queen Gambit Laboratoires. The Gambit's debut album Rosary released in 2007 led him to open shows for international acts such as Delinquent Habits Rick Ross and Three 6 Mafia.
ECAMI.  ECAMI (Empresa de Comunicaciones S.A.) is a renewable energy business based in Nicaragua selling solar PV wind power and hydroelectric systems. ECAMI was founded in 1982 by Luis Lacayo Lacayo to supply radio communications equipment in rural areas of Nicaragua where infrastructure had been destroyed during the prolonged civil conflict and revolution. Photovoltaics (PV) were the ideal way of powering thisequipment because there was no grid electricity.
Orla Gartland.  Orla Gartland (born 1995) is an Irish singer/songwriter from Dublin who gained popularity from posting cover songs on her YouTube account. At present her YouTube channel has received over 10 million views in total.Gartland describes her music as folk pop most heavily influenced by Joni Mitchell Regina Spektor and Imogen Heap. She frequently refers to herself as a music makin' ginger nutcase.On 11 November 2013 Gartland released a four-song EP Roots.
Stoll Vaughan.  Stoll Vaughan is a singer-songwriter from Lexington Kentucky. He is the great-nephew of United States Senator John Sherman Cooper. Vaughan began his professional music career as guitar player for the Indiana band Chamberlain. [1] He briefly attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen Michigan.Vaughan has toured through much of the United States as well as Europe.
Izumi Sakai.  Izumi Sakai (坂井泉水 Sakai Izumi) born Sachiko Kamachi (蒲池幸子 Kamachi Sachiko February 6 1967 – May 27 2007) was a Japanese Pop singer song writer and member of the group Zard.
Raymond Leblanc.  Raymond Leblanc (born May 22 1915 in Neufchâteau Belgium – died March 21 2008 in Brussels) was a Belgian comic book publisher and film producer best known for publishing works such as The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé and Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs. He debuted published and promoted many of the most famous Franco-Belgian comics. Leblanc and his two partners created Le Lombard publishing Tintin magazine PubliArt advertising agency and Belvision Studios.
Gaspard Manesse.  Gaspard Manesse (born March 25 1975) is a French actor and musician.He is best-remembered for starring as Julien in the film Au revoir les enfants (1987). He acted in and composed the music for the film Comme il vient. Gaspard is a composer and musician - he tours throughout the heart of France playing the trumpet with a group called Surnatural Orchestra from the Ile-de-France.
Yi Kwang-su.  Yi Kwang-su (1892 Chongju – 1950) (Hangul: 이광수) is a South Korean writer and independence activist. His pennames were Chunwon andGoju.
Masahiro Andoh.  Masahiro Andoh (安藤 まさひろ Andō Masahiro born September 16 1954) is a Japanese composer guitarist and T-Square's leader from Chikusa-ku Nagoya Aichi Prefecture Japan. He was also one-third of Ottottrio a Superband led by three Japanese guitarists: himself Hirokuni Korekata of KORENOS and Issei Noro of Casiopea.Andoh was also commissioned to create the music for Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits and Gran Turismo.
Fotini Epanomitis.  Fotini Epanomitis (born 23 July 1969 Perth Western Australia) is an Australian novelist. Her first novel The Mule's Foal won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize best first book South East Asia and South Pacific and the 1992 Australian Vogel Award.
Simon Haynes.  Simon Haynes is an Australian writer of speculative fiction novels and short stories particularly the Hal Spacejock series. Haynes also uses his experience with computers to write software which he designs for himself and then shares for free through his website. The most well-known of these programs is yWriter a program designed specifically for composing novels. Haynes is a founding member of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.
Uwe Reimer.  Uwe Reimer (* 16 February 1948 in Hamburg; † 23 February 2004 in Göttingen) was a German writer who wrote numerous books about history and social studies.
Jack Ritchie.  John George Reitci (February 26 1922 – April 25 1983) was an American writer of detective fiction who wrote under the name Jack Ritchie. Although he wrote one novel he was primarily known for his vast output of short stories.
Philip Boehm.  Philip Boehm (born 1958) is an American playwright theatre director and literary translator. Born in Texas he was educated at Wesleyan University Washington University in St. Louis and the State Academy of Theater in Warsaw Poland.Boehm is the founder of the Upstream Theater in St. Louis which has become known for its productions of foreign plays. Fluent in English German and Polish he has directed plays in Poland and Slovakia.
Frank D'Rone.  Frank D'Rone (April 26 1932 – October 3 2013) was an American jazz singer and guitarist.
Aaron Parks.  Aaron Parks (born October 7 1983 in Seattle WA) is a jazz pianist.
Zanele Muholi.  Zanele Muholi (Born 19 July 1972 in Umlazi Durban) is a South African photographer and visual activist.
Torbjørn Sunde.  Torbjørn Sunde (born 16 February 1954 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (trombone) known from several recordings with such as Terje Rypdal Edward Vesala Jon Balke Knut Værnes Rickie Lee Jones Randy Crawford Dr. John Jan Eggum Jan Garbarek and Mezzoforte.
Jacques Legras.  Jacques Legras (1923–2006) was a French actor.
Dimitrija Demeter.  Dimitrija Demeter (Greek: Δημήτριος Δημητρίου - Dimitrios Dimitriou; sometimes spelled Dimitrije Demeter or Dimitrije Demetar; 21 July 1811 – 24 June 1872) was a Croatian poet dramatist short story writer and literary critic.
Keith Bunin.  Keith Bunin (born c. 1971) is a dramatist and screenwriter. His plays include The Credeaux Canvas The World Over and The Busy World is Hushed all of which have been produced by Playwrights Horizons. Bunin was born in Poughkeepsie New York.
David Weatherley.  David John Weatherley (born 1 March 1939) is a New Zealander actor known for his roles as Spencer the butler and the voice of Benglo the Fearcat in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive and Barliman Butterbur in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.Weatherley was born in London England and moved to Canada for a military career. He eventually moved to New Zealand to engage in a theatre acting career.
Vic Carrabotta.  Vic Carrabotta (born June 24 1929 is an American comic-book artist and advertising art director whose career stretches to the early 1950s. His comic book art includes much work for Marvel Comics' 1950s forerunner Atlas Comics.
Vempati Sadasivabrahmam.  Vempati Sadasivabrahmam shortly Sadasivabrahmam (Telugu: వెంపటి సదాశివబ్రహ్మం) (b: 1905 – d: 1968) was a writer of film stories dialogues and lyrics in the early period of Telugu cinema.He was born in East Godavari district Andhra Pradesh. He studied Pancha Kavyas and achieved proficiency in Sanskrit and Telugu languages.He has debuted with the 1941 film Choodamani directed by Raja Sandow. He wrote the story dialogues and lyrics for this successful film.He died on 1 January 1968 in Chennai.
Karl Dominik.  Karl Dominik (Chinese name: Kaier 凯洱 pinyin: Kǎiěr lit. Triumphant River born March 2 1980) is a Western Chinese speaking actor based in China. Originally from Poland he studied acting in Canada in 1996 and started his acting career in China in 2006.He created an organization to help actors create a community and share information and knowledge the Shanghai Actors Association.
Gwen Garci.  Not to be confused with Gwen GarciaGwen Garci is a Filipina actress and model who is widely known as being one of the original members of the all-female group Viva Hotbabes and one of the favorite cover girl of FHM Philippines. She was also one of RAN Online's calendar girls for 2007. Gwen describes herself as a quiet introverted girl with a rebellious side. Gwen was born Mai Lee Ang on May 7 1981 in Tuba Benguet Philippines.
Yao Lee.  Yao Lee (Chinese: 姚莉) also credited as Yao Li Yiu Lei and Miss Hue Lee is a Chinese singer active from the 1930s to the 1970s. She is the sister of Yao Min also a famous singer. She was considered one of the Seven great singing stars of Shanghai in the 1940s.
Preston Powers.  Preston Powers (1843 – 1931) American sculptor painter and teacher born in Florence Italy. He is also known as William Preston Powers.
Przemysław Truściński.  Przemysław Truściński (born December 15 1970 in Siedlce) Polish comics artist. He graduated Academy of Fine Arts In Łódź. He uses the Trust nickname.
Bob Catley.  Robert Adrian 'Bob' Catley is a British musician perhaps best known as the lead singer of the rock band Magnum. He is also an accomplished solo artist.
Jackson Pollock.  Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28 1912 – August 11 1956) known as Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.During his lifetime Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive he had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life.
Walter S. Arnold.  Walter S. Arnold (born in Chicago Illinois) is an American stone carver and sculptor best known for his gargoyles.
Rutu Modan.  Rutu Modan (Hebrew: רותו מודן‎ born 1966) is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist. She is co-founder of the Israeli comics group Actus Tragicus and published the critically acclaimed graphic novels Exit Wounds (2007) and The Property (2013).
Nicole Natalino.  Nicole Monserrat Natalino Torres (born March 5 1989) is a Chilean singer and modelmade famous from was member former from the band Kudai she left the band on 2006 and on 2008 she's comeback to her solo music career.
Steve Patterson (comedian).  Steve Patterson is a Canadian stand-up comedian actor writer television and radio host and television producer known for his satire and observational comedy.
Erin Levy.  Erin Levy is an American television writer. She has worked on the AMC drama Mad Men and has won an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award.
Jason Overby.  Jason Overby (born March 4 1975 in Oklahoma City) is an American artist and critic associated with the art comics and abstract comics movements. His work has appeared in online and print media.
Zero Chou.  Zero Chou (Chinese: 周美玲; pinyin: Zhōu Měilíng born 24 July 1969) is an award-winning Taiwanese director.
Linda McQuaig.  Linda Joy McQuaig is a Canadian journalist columnist non-fiction author and social critic. Often described as feisty provocative and uncompromising she is best known for her series of best-selling books that challenge what she describes as Canada's departure from the principles of universal social programs towards an American-style means-based system. The National Post newspaper has described McQuaig as Canada's Michael Moore.
Black Rob.  Black Rob (born Robert Ross; June 8 1968) is a rapper who was formerly signed to Bad Boy Records.
Campbell Armstrong.  Campbell Armstrong (25 February 1944 – 1 March 2013) was born Thomas Campbell Black and was a Scottish author who graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Sussex England. He taught creative writing from 1971 to 1974 at the State University of New York at Oswego; from 1975 to 1978 he taught at Arizona State University. He worked for some years as a fiction editor with various London publishing houses.
John Dyfnallt Owen.  Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen (7 April 1873 – 28 December 1956) was a Welsh poet and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1954 until his death. He was often known simply by his bardic name Dyfnallt.Owen was born in Llangiwg Glamorgan and was brought up by his grandparents because of the death of his mother when he was an infant. He worked for a short period as a coal miner then obtained an education at Parcyfelfed Academy and Bala Bangor College.
Chris Thile.  Christopher Scott Thile (/ˈθiːliː/ THEE-lee; born February 20 1981) is an American musician best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and acoustic folk/progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
Teresa May.  Teresa May is an English glamour model.In 1997 she appeared in the music video for The Prodigy's single Smack My Bitch Up. She moved into acting later in her career in B movies such as Exterminator City and One Man and his Dog.In addition to films May has appeared in numerous tabloids and men's magazines including Hustler Men Only and Razzle.[citation needed]
Bob Hammer.  Howard Robert Hammer (born March 3 1930) is an American jazz pianist composer and arranger.Hammer was born in Indianapolis Indiana. He began performing in Michigan at age 15 before studying at Michigan State University and the Manhattan School of Music. Hammer had familiarized himself with early jazz styles (his father had performed with territory bands during the 1930s) and while living in New York he performed with musicians such as Red Allen and Bud Freeman.
Scalper (musician).  Scalper (IPA /skɑːlpɜr/) (born October 31 1967) is a London-bred rapper producer and songwriter of Pakistani descent who is now based in Auckland New Zealand.
Clare Potter.  Clare Potter was a fashion designer who was born in Jersey City New Jersey in 1903. In the 1930s she was one of the first American fashion designers to be promoted as an individual design talent. Working under her elided name Clarepotter she has been credited as one of the inventors of American sportswear. Based in Manhattan she continued designing through the 1940s and 1950s. Her clothes were renowned for being elegant but easy-to-wear and relaxed and for their distinctive use of colour.
Jasper Francis Cropsey.  Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18 1823 – June 22 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Paolo de Lorenzi.  Paolo de Lorenzi (1733 – after 1790) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period. A native of Ceneda. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Bellucci (painter) and Piazzetta. He became progressively blind.
Pearl Rivers.  Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (1843–1896) who wrote under the nom de plume Pearl Rivers was a United States journalist and poet. She took the name from the Pearl River near her home in Mississippi.
Adolf Rzepko.  Adolf Rzepko (1825 – 1892) was a Polish composer oboist choral and orchestral conductor and pianist.He was a disciple of Václav Tomášek. He was mainly active as a performer (he served for many years as the Wielki Theatre orchestra's principal oboe) a choral conductor and a pedagogue. He was the author of two music treatises: The principles of music (1869) and A piano school. Rzepko was born in Prague. He died in Warsaw.
Bim Bom.  Bim Bom (or Bim and Bom) was a Moscow circus clown duo consisting of Ivan Radunsky (as Bim) and various Boms active intermittently from 1891 up until at least the World War II. The clown act was enormously popular but often banned or censored due to its satirical political content. Each act would begin with an original song and dance performed by Bim.
Lee Kyung-kyu.  Lee Kyung-kyu (born August 1 1960) is a South Korean actor comedian MC film producer and screenwriter. He was the highest paid entertainer on the KBS network in 2010 with earnings of ₩535 million.Lee patented his instant noodle recipe Kkokkomyeon (Korean: 꼬꼬면) which he created during an amateur cooking contest in an episode of the variety show Qualifications of Men. It became one of the top-selling products of 2011 and changed the landscape of the domestic instant noodles' market.
Steve Tibbetts.  Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is a St. Paul Minnesota-based American guitarist known for an original approach to both composing and sound-forming. Tibbetts views the recording studio as a tool for creating sounds. Most of his releases include world percussionist Marc Anderson.
Bob Ong.  Bob Ong or Roberto Ong is the pseudonym of a contemporary Filipino author known for using conversational Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of Philippine life. His actual name is unknown.
Peter Didsbury.  Peter Didsbury (born 1946) is an English poet who was born in Fleetwood Lancashire but lived most of his life in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. There he has worked as an archaeologist and creative writing tutor.
Heather Kelley.  Heather Kelley (aka moboid) is a media artist and video game designer. She is co-founder of the Kokoromi experimental game collective with whom she produces and curates the annual Gamma game event promoting experimental games as creative expression in a social context.
James Percy FitzPatrick.  Sir James Percy FitzPatrick KCMG (24 July 1862 – 24 January 1931) known as Percy FitzPatrick was a South African author politician mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children's book Jock of the Bushveld (1907). As a politician he defended British Imperial interests before and during the Anglo-Boer War.
Barry Biggs.  Barry Biggs (born 1947 although some accounts list 1953; St. Andrew Jamaica) is a reggae singer best known in the UK for his cover of the Blue Magic song Sideshow which got to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977.
Vasily Belov.  Vasily Ivanovich Belov (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Бело́в; October 23 1932 – December 4 2012) was a Soviet/Russian writer poet and dramatist who published more than 60 books which sold (as to 1998) 7 million copies.
Billie Anthony.  Billie Anthony (11 October 1932 — 5 January 1991) was a Scottish female singer. She is best known for her Top 10 hit version of This Ole House which despite chart competition from other versions of the same song reached #4 in the UK chart.
Dillinger (musician).  Dillinger (born Lester Bullock June 25 1953 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae artist.
Joseph Achron.  Joseph Yulyevich Achron also seen as Akhron (Russian: Иосиф Юльевич Ахрон) (May 13 1886 – April 29 1943) was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a Jewish harmonic and contrapuntal idiom underscored and informed much of his work. His friend the composer Arnold Schoenberg described Achron in his obituary as one of the most underrated modern composers.
Kanji Tsuda.  Kanji Tsuda (津田 寛治 Tsuda Kanji born 27 August 1965) is a Japanese actor.
Michael Cohl.  Michael Cohl is a Canadian concert promoter theatrical producer and touring impresario. He is the former Chairman of Live Nation the largest live entertainment company in the world. Cohl now runs S2BN Entertainment with offices in Miami and Toronto.
U. A. Fanthorpe.  Ursula Askham Fanthorpe CBE FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet. She published under the form U. A. Fanthorpe.
Mladen Grdović.  Mladen Grdović (born July 7 1958) is a Croatian pop singer.
Malcolm Parks.  Malcolm Ross Parks is an American author and Professor in the Department of Communication at University of Washington.He has a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1976.His interests are in interpersonal relationships organizational change persuasion and social networks.
Datta Bhagat.  Datta Bhagat (born 13 June 1945 in Waghi village of Nanded district Maharashtra) is a noted Marathi playwright and one of the leaders of the Dalit theater movement in Marathi.
Stephen Billington.  Stephen Billington (born 10 December 1969) is a British actor best known for playing Greg Kelly in Coronation Street (for which he won the 1999 British Soap Award for Villain of the Year). He has worked with many leading film directors including Peter Greenaway Franco Zeffirelli and Mel Gibson. He trained at Drama Centre London where he has since taught and also teaches at the London School of Dramatic Art (LSDA) the Method Studio London and the City Literary Institute.
John Angell (shorthand writer).  John Angell (fl. 1758) was an Irish professional shorthand writer. Angell was from Dublin and professor of the art there.
Stephen Cartwright.  Stephen Cartwright (28 December 1947 – 12 February 2004) was a British children's book illustrator who illustrated more than 150 books which sold millions of copies worldwide. His illustrations are noted for being instantly recognizable and usually depicting open-faced innocent-looking children and animals.
Park Min-gyu.  Park Min-gyu (born 1968) (Hangul: 박민규) is a South Korean writer.
Anthony R. Michaelis.  Anthony R. Michaelis (22 August 1916 in Berlin – 18 October 2007 in Heidelberg) was a science journalist and publisher.He was born Kurt Otto Adolf Michaelis a doctor's son in Berlin on August 22 1916 and educated at the Falk Real Gymnasium.
Frans Koppelaar.  Frans Thomas Koppelaar (born April 23 1943) is a Dutch painter who was born in The Hague Netherlands.From 1963–1969 he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague.
Laurentius of Echternach.  Laurentius of Echternach fl. 704-722Laurentius was a scribe who wrote the Echternach martyrology in minuscule and charters for Echternach between 704 and 722.His name may be a Latin rendering of the Irish personal name Lorcán so there is a possibility he was Irish
Georges Lagrange.  Georges Lagrange (August 31 1928 Gagny Seine-Saint-Denis – April 30 2004 Poitiers) was a French esperanto writer member of Academy of Esperanto. He translated several theater pieces from French to Esperanto acted in some of them and wrote poems and detective novels under the pseudonym Serĝo Elgo.
Jessie Litchfield.  Jessie Sinclair Litchfield (18 February 1883 – 12 March 1956) was an Australian author and Northern Territory pioneer.Litchfield was born Jessie Sinclair Phillips at Ashfield to contractor John Phillips and Jean Sinclair née Reid. Jessie was educated at Neutral Bay Public School and was taught by Mary Cameron.
Adam Cruz.  Adam Cruz (born 1970) is an American jazz drummer from New York City.
Joe Petro III.  Joe Petro III (born May 3 1956) is a second-generation fine artist who works as a sculptor in bronze clay and printmaking on silk-screen and handmade paper. He majored in Zoology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He worked with Kurt Vonnegut Jr in Vonnegut's later years on silk-screen prints of Vonnegut's artwork.Verification of data from KET - Kentucky Educational TV station and ScreenWeb Magazine.
Käthe Kollwitz.  Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German painter printmaker and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition and the tragedy of war in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing etching lithography and woodcut embraced the victims of poverty hunger and war.
Alfred H. Bill.  Alfred Hoyt Bill (1879–1964) was an American writer. His non-fiction mostly dealt with American history while his fiction (some of it aimed at children) was set in different periods of British and French history.One of his later works of fiction The Wolf in the Garden was republished by Centaur Press in 1972.
Saskia De Coster.  Saskia de Coster (born 1976) is a Belgian writer. Her work has been published in literary magazines and she also writes screenplays and novels. De Coster has also been cited as an up-and-coming author.Saskia de Coster has published six books as of 19 April 2013
Angela Morley.  Angela Morley (born Walter Wally Stott 10 March 1924 – 14 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor. Morley was born in Leeds Yorkshire in 1924 and played saxophone in a number of dance bands and in 1944 became a member of Geraldo's band. She attributed her entry into composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian light music composer Robert Farnon. In 1972 Morley underwent a sex-change operation.
Beppie Noyes.  Beatrice Beppie Noyes (July 20 1919 – July 3 2007) was an American author and illustrator.
James Crutchfield.  James Crutchfield (May 25 1912 – December 7 2001) was an American St. Louis barrelhouse blues singer piano player and songwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His repertoire consisted of original and classic blues and boogie-woogie and depression-era popular songs.Known as the 'King of Barrelhouse Blues'; Crutchfield's better known songs include I Believe You Need A Shot and My Baby Cooks My Breakfast.
David Castell.  David Castell is an American record producer musician and recording engineer based in Dallas Texas.Castell’s recording career spans nearly three decades; his work with many major record labels and independent labels alike includes both platinum-selling national recording artists and unsigned regional acts and a wide range of musical genres.He has been instrumental in career albums of Blue October Burden Brothers Course of Empire Deep Blue Something and SouthFM.In spring 2008 Castell began production of the Toadies’ album No Deliverance which was released on August 19th 2008 on Kirtland Records.After two years of collaboration with DFW-based electronic band Shock of Pleasure their first full-length album Its About Time was released on September 16th 2008 by Universal Music Group produced by David Castell.Blue October's two disc set Foiled For The Last Time features a re-release of Calling You also produced by David Castell. 
Kōtarō Takamura.  Kōtarō Takamura (高村 光太郎 Takamura Kōtarō March 13 1883 – April 2 1956) was a Japanese poet and sculptor.
Richard E. Holz.  Richard E Holz (30 October 1914 – August 1986) was an American brass band composer served as Chaplain to the U.S. Air Force in New Guinea Philippines and Japan. He married Ruby Walker in 1941.The Richard E. Holz Conference Center at the Salvation Army's Crestmont College is named for him.
Yasuhisa Furuhara.  Yasuhisa Furuhara (古原 靖久 Furuhara Yasuhisa born August 13 1986) is a Japanese actor best known for the leading role of Sousuke Esumi/Go-On Red in the 2008 tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger.
Bartolomeo Bonascia.  Bartolomeo Bonascia was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He painted a Pietà in the Modena Gallery dated 1485.
Lazar Yazgur.  Lazar Semionovich Yazgur (Russian: Ла́зарь Семё́нович Язгу́р; June 7 1928 Leningrad USSR – 2000 Israel) - Soviet Russian-Jew realist painter who lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Chiharu Matsuyama.  Chiharu Matsuyama (松山千春 born December 16 1955) is a Japanese folk singer and songwriter. He made his debut with the single Tabidachi in 1977 and success soon followed with the two hits Toki no Itazura and Kisetsu no Nakade.Matsuyama has been portrayed in film by Shunsuke Daitō. Daitō played him in a 2008 film based on Matsuyama's autobiographical work Ashoro Yori published in 1979.
Maurelio Scanavini.  Maurelio Scanavini or Scannavini (Ferrara May 7 1665 – June 1 1698) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Ferrara.
Peter C. Newman.  Peter Charles Newman CC CD (born 10 May 1929) is a Canadian journalist and writer.
Hans Multscher.  Hans Multscher (ca. 1400–1467) was a German sculptor and painter.Multscher was born in Reichenhofen (today Leutkirch im Allgäu).He made himself with new artistic styles from northern France and the Netherlands and became a free citizen of the city of Ulm in 1427. There he married Adelheid Kitzin the same year. He ran his own business as a painter and sculptor together with his brother Heinrich Multscher.Multscher died in Ulm.
Lou Rhodes.  Lou Rhodes (born 1 November 1964) is an English singer and songwriter from Manchester now living in Wiltshire. In addition to providing vocals and lyrics for the band Lamb Rhodes has released three solo albums: Beloved One Bloom and One Good Thing.
Julian Bell.  Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf). The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister. His relationship with his mother is explored in Susan Sellers' novel Vanessa and Virginia.He was brought up mainly at Charleston Sussex.
Jaune Quick–to–See Smith.  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith (born 1940) is a Native American contemporary artist. Notably her work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts the Smithsonian American Art Museum the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Brian Sibley.  Brian Sibley (born 14 July 1949) is an English writer. He is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries features and weekly programmes. He is widely known as the author of many movie 'making of' books including those for the Harry Potter series and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
Agustín Alberdi.  Agustín Alberdi is a Latin Grammy Award-winner music video director. Alberdi is the director of the production company Landia which ranked at number 10 in the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2009. Landia presented short-films to advertise Coca-Cola and Stella Artois.
María Conchita Alonso.  María Conchita Alonso (born June 29 1957) better known as María Conchita is a Cuban-born Venezuelan-raised three time Grammy Award–nominated singer/songwriter and actress.
Yuri Morozov (singer).  Yuri Vasilyevich Morozov (Russian: Юрий Морозов March 6 1948 – February 24 2006) was a Russian rock Multi-instrumentalist sound engineer and composer. He created his own style using Progressive rock Psychedelic rock Experimental music Folk music Jazz and many more. Besides having his own musical career he also participated in the recording of albums of bands such as DDT Aquarium Chizh & Co and many others.
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron.  Alfonso Gumucio Dagron (born in Bolivia 1950) is a writer filmmaker journalist photographer and development communication specialist. His father was Alfonso Gumucio Reyes a leader of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) Minister of Economy during the Government of Víctor Paz Estenssoro and Ambassador to Uruguay and Spain.
Ian Ross (playwright).  Ian Ross (born April 8 1968 in McCreary Manitoba) the son of Grace and Raymond Ross; is a Métis Canadian playwright. Ross earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in film and a minor in theatre from the University of Manitoba in 1992. He spent the first five years of his life in the Métis community of Kinosota Manitoba before moving to Winnipeg which he currently now calls his home.
Seán Cullen.  Seán Cullen (born 1965) is a Canadian comedian and author. He is known for combining improvisation with mimicry and music. Cullen has been described in Time as the vanguard of comedy's next generation. He is best known for voicing Four Five and Seven in Seven Little Monsters which debuted on 10 September 2000 and ended in 2003.
Michael Wenberg.  Michael Wenberg (born March 1956) is an young adult author from Spokane Washington. He lives in Walla Walla Washington with his wife Sandy son Luke and was the CEO of the Walla Walla Symphony. Wenberg attended Seattle Pacific University and Eastern Washington University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Gonzaga University. A speaker in elementary schools Wenberg uses his trombone-playing to introduce children to his stories reading writing and music.
Terry Brooks.  Terence Dean Terry Brooks (born January 8 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career and has over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.
Joseph Palermo.  Dr Joseph A. Palermo (born 1959) is an Associate Professor of History at Sacramento State University an author and a commentator.He received his undergraduate degree in Sociology and Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz a Masters degree in History from San Jose State University and a Masters and Doctorate in American History from Cornell University. For four years after receiving his doctorate he taught at both Cornell and Colgate University.
Camilla Henemark.  Camilla Henemark (born 23 October 1964) also known as La Camilla is a Swedish singer actress political spokesperson and former fashion model.
Martin Firrell.  Martin Firrell (born April 4 1963 Paris France) has been described variously as a cultural activist a campaigner a public artist or benevolent provocateur stimulating debate in public space to promote positive social change.Firrell has raised questions about the politics of aging individual liberty the right to personal idiosyncrasy cultural diversity gender equality faith climate change masculinity what constitutes a meaningful and purposeful life hero worship fair and truthful government and the quality of human lived experience.He has used cinema screens newsprint the internet portraiture and video interviews of culturally significant figures like Howard Jacobson April Ashley Johnson Beharry VC and A C Grayling and large-scale digital projection onto the Guards Chapel spiritual home of the Household Division of the British Army the National Gallery in London the Houses of Parliament the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Tate Britain and St Paul's Cathedral.Firrell has worked with complex and influential organisations including the Church of England (St Paul's Cathedral 2008) and The British Army (Household Division 2009). 
Julia Chambers.  Julia Chambers is a British television actress. She was educated at Warblington School.
Athole Stewart.  Athole Stewart (1879–1940) was a British film actor.
Wade Bowen.  Wade Bowen is an American Texas Country/Red Dirt singer from Waco Texas.Bowen was a member of the band West 84 with friend Matt Miller before the band was re-aligned in 2001. He released his first album in 2002 Try Not To Listen which became a regional hit in Texas. He released his first live album 2003 and another studio album in 2006. In 2008 he released If We Ever Make It Home his biggest success to date.
Joseph Funk.  Joseph Funk (1778 – 1862) was a pioneer American music teacher publisher and an early American composer. He invented a shape note system in 1851 for the Harmonia Sacra. Joseph Funk was born April 6 1778 (though his gravestone states March 9 1777) in Berks County Pennsylvania the son of Henry and Barbara (Showalter) Funk and a grandson of Bishop Henry Funck. Bishop Funck came to America in 1719 and was the first Mennonite bishop in America.
Zuby (musician).  Nzube Udezue (born 19 August 1986) better known by his stage name Zuby is an English rapper. Zuby has released three studio albums and two EPs under his own independent record label COM Entertainment. On 15 February 2013 Zuby released an EP entitled 'Zubstep' which charted at No.12 on the UK iTunes Hip-Hop Chart. Zuby is a graduate of the University of Oxford. A number of his songs have been played by BBC Radio Oxford and he has been a guest on their BBC Introducing show multiple times.
Arthur Frederick Jones.  Arthur Frederick Jones was an American writer and dog-show judge. In 1926 (at 20 years of age) he became an assistant editor for Pure-Bred Dogs(now calledThe American Kennel Gazette) the official publication of the American Kennel Club. In 1941 he was made editorand in 1951 managing editor. He was also Kennel Editor of the New York Times and was chosen as special editor of dog terms for Webster's New International Dictionary.
Richard Scheufler.  Richard Scheufler (1 November 1964 Ústí nad Labem Czech Republic) – a multi-instrumentalist solo singer composer music arranger teacher and producer. He is one of the most significant personalities of the contemporary Czech but also European music scene. Richard's music represents a mixture of various music styles including funk pop rock modern jazz hardcore and its fusion with the classical music.
Antoni Ballero.  Antoni Ballero de Càndia (born 1927 in Alghero Island of Sardinia Italy) is an Italian poet and lawyer member of La Palmavera society. Almost all of his works are in the Catalan language.
Alex Metric.  Alex Metric (born Alex Drury) is a British musician DJ and producer. He has released numerous EPs remixed artists such as Depeche Mode La Roux N.E.R.D Phoenix Ellie Goulding and Bloc Party as well as working as a producer for acts such as The Infadels Charli XCX and Adam Freeland. Alongside Yuksek as The Alexanders he released Don't Miss featuring Anna Lunoe on 24 February 2014.
Adrian Gurvitz.  Adrian Gurvitz (born Adrian Curtis Gurvitz 26 June 1949 in Stoke Newington North London) is an English singer songwriter musician and record producer. His prolific songwriting ability has gained him hits on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack The Bodyguard Eddie Money’s No. 1 Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts single The Love in Your Eyes and with his own song Classic a No. 8 UK hit single as well as the Top 10 UK Rock Chart single Race with the Devil with his band The Gun.
Gina Bachauer.  Gina Bachauer (Greek: Τζίνα Μπαχάουερ; May 21 1913 Athens – August 22 1976 Athens) was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe.Gina Bachauer was born in Athens Greece. She gave her first recital in Athens at the age of eight. Her first concert with an orchestra was in 1932 when she was 19 years old. She recorded for the HMV (His Master's Voice) RCA Victor and Mercury labels.
Lauren Beukes.  Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976 in Johannesburg South Africa) is a South African novelist short story writer journalist and TV scriptwriter.
James Bingham.  James 'Jimmy' Bingham (23 January 1925 – 8 December 2009) was a Belfast-based painter. He spent thirty years in London working as a signwriter with his brother. In 1967 he returned to Belfast where he met fellow Belfast artist Daniel O'Neill. They became friends and from 1968 he worked with O'Neill in his studio until O'Neill's death in 1974. Bingham was born in Belfast Northern Ireland and died there in 2009 after a long illness.
Mark Batson.  Mark Batson is an American record producer and songwriter from Bushwick Brooklyn now based in Los Angeles.As a co-writer and producer with Dr. Dre he is responsible for Jay-Z's 2006 single Lost One as well as tracks for Eminem 50 Cent Game and Snoop Dogg. As a co-writer with James Blunt he is responsible for James Blunt's 2007 single 1973 (song).
Michio Kurihara.  Michio Kurihara (栗原ミチオ Kurihara Michio) (born November 23 1961) is a Japanese guitarist who has played with Ghost Boris and The Stars formerly known as White Heaven. He has also released a solo album Sunset Notes.
Grant Callin.  Grant David Callin (born 1941) is part of the hard science fiction stream of authors. He sometimes goes by the pseudonym Flash Richardson.Callin graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1963 and retired from the service in 1984. He holds a bachelor's degree in basic sciences and advanced degrees in space physics physiology and biophysics.
Lesley Dill.  Lesley Dill (born 1950) is an American contemporary artist and currently lives and works in Brooklyn New York. She is represented by George Adams Gallery New York and Arthur Roger Gallery New Orleans.
Loukas Giorkas.  Loucas Yiorkas (Greek: Λούκας Γιώρκας; Greek pronunciation: [ˈlukas ˈʝorkas]; born in Larnaca Aradippou Cyprus on 18 October 1986) is a Greek-Cypriot singer and model and the winner of the first season of the Greek version of the television talent series The X Factor. In September 2009 he released his first EP album Mazi which attained gold status. He studies Biology at the University of Patras.
Sasy Mankan.  Sasan Heydari nicknamed Sasy Mankan (in Persian: ساسی مانکن) is an Iranian rapper. He was born on November 17 1988 in Ahvaz and has 8 famous video clips. The News agency Reuters called him one of Iran's best-known underground rap singers. Before the 2009 Iranian presidential election he met with the candidate Mehdi Karroubi.
Sleep (rapper).  Christopher Tafoya better known by his stage name Sleep is an alternative hip hop artist based in Portland Oregon. He is a founding member of the Pacific Northwest hip hop collective Oldominion and collaborates with Josh Martinez as The Chicharones. He is currently signed to Strange Famous Records. Sleep's fourth solo album Oregon Failure was released on April 15 2014. The entire album is produced by Maulskull.
Milica Pap.  Milica Pap (born December 14 1973 in Sarajevo Yugoslavia) is a classical pianist of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Serbian and Croatian descent.
Luis López Nieves.  Luis López Nieves (born January 17 1950) is one of the most influential and best-selling Puerto Rican authors ever. He has won the National Literature Prize on two occasions: first in 2000 with his book of historical short stories The True Death of Juan Ponce de León; second in 2005 with his novel Voltaire's Heart. He published two other books including Seva and Writing for Rafa. His short stories have been published in Latin American and Spanish anthologies.
Cedar Walton.  Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17 1934 – August 19 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards including Mosaic Bolivia Holy Land Mode for Joe and Ugetsu also known as Fantasy in D.
Wild Willy Barrett.  Wild Willy Barrett (born Roger John Barrett - 30 May 1950) is an experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist from Aylesbury best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style has included folk blues psychadelia pop and punk rock and his live performances are punctuated with his dry humour and onstage wit. He is known for virtuoso fiddle playing ability with a great number of stringed instruments and playing slide guitar with a whole raw egg (known as egg-necking).
Richard Hell.  Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) is an American singer songwriter bass guitarist and writer.Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn cut and drawn-on shirts often held together with safety pins.
Pierre Vidal (composer).  Pierre Vidal (1927–2010) was a French composer.
Bobby Few.  Bobby Few (born October 21 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.
Jeff Bates.  Jeffery Wayne Jeff Bates (born September 19 1963) is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records in late 2002 Bates released his debut album Rainbow Man in May 2003. A second album Leave the Light On was released in 2005 on RCA. He left RCA in 2006. This album was followed by Jeff Bates in 2008 on the independent Black River Entertainment.
Don Kent (blues historian).  Don Kent is a collector of blues and bluegrass recordings a founder and owner of record labels (such as Mamlish Records Country Turtle Records Flying Crow Records) and a much sought-after writer of liner notes not only on his own label's issues but also on others' such as Yazoo Records.
Robert Venditti.  Robert Venditti is an American comic book writer known for his work on the Top Shelf Productions title The Surrogates which was adapted to a major motion picture starring Bruce Willis directed by Jonathan Mostow for Disney.
Susan Loy.  Susan Loy (born 1951) is an American artist calligrapher and author best known for her Literary Calligraphy watercolor paintings of the Language of Flowers and the White House Easter Egg Roll. These paintings combine hand-lettered classic quotations from William Shakespeare Emily Dickinson Biblical sources etc. with finely-rendered illustration done with steel pens and brushes.
Peter De Vries.  Peter De Vries (February 27 1910 – September 28 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as probably the funniest writer on religion ever.
Alberto Carpani.  Alberto Carpani is an Italian singer born in April 23 1956 in Italy (Pavia). He is also a DJ and music producer.
Earl Carpenter.  Earl Carpenter (born 9 May 1970) is an English musical theatre actor recognized chiefly for his work in London's West End. He is known for his performances as Javert in the stage musical Les Misérables and as the Phantom in the London production of The Phantom of the Opera. He recently starred as the Phantom in London's West End and is currently playing the Phantom in the 25th Anniversary UK Tour replacing John Owen-Jones who left the tour in September.
J (musician).  Jun Onose (小野瀬 潤 Onose Jun born on August 12 1970 in Hadano Kanagawa) known exclusively by his stage name J is a Japanese musician singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known as bassist and co-founder of the rock band Luna Sea. After the group disbanded in 2000 he focused on his solo career for which he performs lead vocals and bass.
Eddie Allen (folk musician).  Eddie Allen is an American folk musician. To date he has produced two albums The Trempealeau Hotel (1985) and Faith in Gravity (1990) both released by Weary Wolf Records a division of Folked Up Musics (BMI). His musical style is firmly rooted in the folk tradition of the midwestern United States and many of his songs describe the trials and tribulations of the lives of people in the working class.
Joe Moretti.  Joseph Edward Joe Moretti (10 May 1938 – 9 February 2012) was a Scottish guitarist renowned for his work on seminal UK rock and roll records such as Vince Taylor's Brand New Cadillac and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' Shakin' All Over.
AJ Junior.  Achraf Janussi better known as AJ Junior also known as AJ Janussi is a well-known songwriter and music producer based in Sweden. The credits may also use A Janussi Ashraf Janussi and sometimes Jannusi as well). He closely cooperates with record producer RedOne and at many times with Bilal Hajji (also known as Bilal The Chef Hajji).
Super Cat.  Super Cat (born William Anthony Maragh in Kingston Jamaica 25 June 1963) is a deejay who achieved widespread popularity during the late 1980s and early 1990s dancehall movement. His nickname the Wild Apache was given to him by his mentor Early B. He is the elder brother of reggae artist Junior Cat.
Terje Gewelt.  Terje Gewelt (born June 8 1960 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).
David Williams (guitarist).  David Williams (November 21 1950 – March 6 2009) was an American rhythm guitarist who performed and recorded with Michael Jackson Madonna Herbie Hancock and the Temptations among others.
Carleen Anderson.  Carleen Anderson (born 10 May 1957) is an American soul singer who has had success in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of the singer Vicki Anderson and stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd and is most well known as the lead singer in the Young Disciples as well as for her own solo career.
Mike Johnson (guitarist).  Mike Johnson (born 1952) is an American experimental rock guitarist and composer best known as the co-founder and member of the Denver-based avant-rock group Thinking Plague. He has also been a member of Hamster Theatre and The Science Group and has collaborated with several musicians including Bob Drake Susanne Lewis and Janet Feder.
Manish Gupta (author).  Manish Gupta is a banking professional. He is an engineering graduate from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.Manish Gupta is well known for his first published work English Bites! His book holds wide appeal across the South Asia subcontinent with favorable reviews from many newspapers. The book holds immense appeal to vernacular speaker or a GRE/GMAT/CAT/XAT aspirant as the book helps expand one's vocabulary and improve one's verbal ability.
Jimmy D'Anda.  Jimmy D'Anda was born and raised in Boyle Heights Los Angeles California and began playing drums at the age of 13. He created a daily drum-regimen for himself in his makeshift music room which also doubled as his bedroom. Over the next few years D'Anda played in bands around East L.A.
Gabriel García Márquez.  Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣarˈsi.a ˈmarkes] About this sound audio ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist short-story writer screenwriter and journalist known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Martin Armiger.  John Martin Armiger (born 10 June 1949 Hertfordshire United Kingdom) is an Australian musician record producer and film/TV composer.
Sarah T. Bolton.  Sarah Tittle Bolton née Barrett (18 December 1814 – 5 August 1893) an American poet and Indiana's pioneer poet is best known for her poem “Paddle Your Own Canoe” (1850). An activist for women’s rights she worked with Robert Dale Owen during Indiana's 1850–1851 constitutional convention to include the recognition of women's property rights.
Bent Fabric.  Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (born December 7 1924 in Frederiksberg Denmark) better known internationally as Bent Fabric is a Danish pianist and composer.
Wu Zuoren.  Wu Zuoren (Chinese: 吴作人; pinyin: Wú Zuòrén; Wade–Giles: Wu Tso-jen; 1908–1997) was a Chinese painter. A native of Jing County Anhui he was born in Suzhou Jiangsu Province. He practiced both traditional Chinese ink painting and European oil painting.
John Frazee (sculptor).  John Frazee (July 18 1790 – February 24 1852) was an American sculptor and architect. The Smithsonian has a collection of many of his sculptures as well as paintings of Frazee by other artists including Asher B. Durand Henry Colton ShumwayHe was born in Rahway New Jersey and worked in the Neo-Classic tradition.
Maxwell Gray.  Mary Gleed Tuttiett (11 Dec 1846 – 21 Sep 1923) better known by the pen name Maxwell Gray was an English novelist and poet best known for her 1886 novel The Silence of Dean Maitland.
Georg Patermann.  Georg Patermann (c.1580 - after 1628) was a German composer and organist at St. Jakobi in Rostock and the Schloßkirche Güstrow.Two wedding motets survive: Quam pulchrae sunt mammae tuae (1610) and Sponsa velut Christo juncta est Ecclesia Sponso (1619)
Marshall Browne.  Marshall Browne (27 November 1935 – 14 February 2014) was an Australian crime fiction writer.A former merchant banker he has lived in Hong Kong London and Bhutan. He later lived in Melbourne. He also served as a commando in the Australian forces and as a paratrooper in the British forces.He died in Melbourne on 14 February 2014.
Rick Germanson.  Rick Germanson (born May 29 1972) is an American jazz pianist from Milwaukee Wisconsin.Germanson started playing piano at a young age and grew up playing in the Milwaukee jazz scene.
Alois Toldt.  Alois Toldt was an Austrian painter born in 1890.
Ferrando Bertelli.  Ferrando Bertelli (born c. 1525) was an Italian engraver of the Renaissance period. He was born in Venice. He engraved Omnium fere nentium Sc. Ven. (1569); Christ curing the sick after Farinait (1530); The Crucifixion after Giulio Somalio; Venus and Cupid after Titian (1536); and Specchio della Vite Humana (1566).
Burton Rascoe.  Arthur Burton Rascoe (October 22 1892 - March 19 1957) was an American journalist editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune.Born in Fulton Kentucky to Matthew L. Rascoe and Elizabeth Burton Rascoe Rascoe grew up in Shawnee Oklahoma. He was class president at Shawnee High School and participated in sports while also working for the local newspaper.
Dan Matovina.  Dan Matovina (born October 10 1957) is known for his work as a recording engineer record producer and author of a book on Badfinger. Matovina was born in Cleveland Ohio. Beginning in the early 1980s his music engineering included artists such as New Edition The Monkees Manhattan Transfer Frankie Valli The Beach Boys The Pandoras James Lee Stanley Radio Cammon Easter The Rats and Jigsaw Seen.
John Power (musician).  John Timothy Power (born 14 September 1967 in Allerton Liverpool) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Power achieved commercial success as the bass guitarist and secondary vocalist for The La's from 1986 to 1991 and later as the frontman of Cast during the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.Following the split of Cast in 2001 John Power embarked on a solo career.
Yves Duteil.  Yves Duteil is a French singer-songwriter. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.Duteil is a noted proponent of the French language the rights of children and the respect of environment.Duteil is the mayor of Précy-sur-Marne in Seine et Marne.
Ayub Bachchu.  Ayub Bachchu (Bengali: আইয়ুব বাচ্চু; born August 16 1962) is a Bangladeshi musician singer and lyricist best known as a founding member and the leader of the rock band LRB.
Kira Plastinina.  Kira Sergeyevna Plastinina (Russian: Ки́ра Серге́евна Пласти́нина; born June 1 1992 in Moscow Russia) is a Russian fashion designer. She has more than 120 stores in Russia Ukraine Kazakhstan Belarus China and Philippines.Her father Sergei Plastinin is a millionaire and former CEO of a large dairy corporation called Wimm-Bill-Dann. He invested significant capital in his daughter's vision. Together they opened up stores in Europe and later the United States in May 2008.
James Culliford.  James Culliford (8 September 1927 – March 2002) was a British actor on stage film and television.He met his life partner the actor Alfred Lynch at theatre acting evening classes. Some of his noted roles are The Entertainer (1960) Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and The Trygon Factor (1969). He also appeared in the Doctor Who serial Frontier in Space in 1973.After James Culliford's stroke in 1972 he and Lynch moved from London to Brighton until his death in 2002. Lynch died the following year.
Cleveland Eaton.  Cleveland Cleve Eaton (born August 31 1939) is an American jazz double bassist from Fairfield Alabama a suburb of Birmingham Alabama. His most famous accomplishments are substantial playing stints with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and later with the Count Basie Orchestra. His 1975 recording Plenty Good Eaton is also considered a classic in the funk music genre.
Jennifer Peña.  Jennifer Marcella Peña (born September 17 1983 in San Antonio Texas) is an American Tejano/Latin Popsinger and actress who has sold over 3.5 million records internationally. Peña is the third and youngest daughter of Jaime and Mary Peña with other siblings Janet and Jackie. Peña is of Mexican descent native to the state of Texas raised in Corpus Christi Texas.
Wait what.  Charlie Kubal better known by his stage name wait what is a San Francisco music producer specializing in mashups most notable for his creation of the notorious xx. The album paired the music of Notorious B.I.G. with the debut album of The xx and was named the best mashup album of 2010 by The Guardian . He has released three albums and performed with artists including Lil Wayne Wiz Khalifa Mötley Crüe and Taking Back Sunday.
York Wilson.  Ronald York Wilson (December 6 1907 – February 10 1984) was a Canadian painter and muralist.He is known for his murals at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre the Salvation Army Headquarters Imperial Oil Building Bell Telephone Building and Central Hospital. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Athos Dimoulas.  Athos Dimoulas (Greek: Άθως Δημουλάς) (Athens Greece 1921–1985) was an award-winning Greek poet. He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and abroad (in Belgium England and France) and worked for the Hellenic State Railways from 1944 to 1972. His collection of poems Άλλοτε και αλλού was awarded the State Prize for Poetry in 1967.
Rupankar Bagchi.  Rupankar Bagchi (Bengali: রুপঙ্কর বাগচী) is a Bengali singer from Kolkata West Bengal India.He has sung many famous songs in recent Bengali films like Baishe Srabon (2011) Aparajita Tumi (2012) Chalo Let's Go (2008) Hemlock society (2012) Dutta Vs Dutta (2012) and Jaatishwar (2014). He was awarded the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song E Tumi Kemon Tumi from Jaatishwar.
Laila Sari.  Hajjah Laila Sari (born 4 November 1935) born Nurlaila Sari Jahrotuljannah is an Indonesian comedian and singer of rock and children's songs. She has been nicknamed the energetic old lady (nenek-nenek lincah) for her on-stage persona.
Tierney Sutton.  Tierney Sutton (born June 28 1963) is an American jazz singer.A five-time Grammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album as well as for arranging she was Jazzweek Vocalist of the Year in 2005 Sutton was born in Omaha Nebraska and was educated at Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut and the Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts.
Nancy Mercado.  Nancy Mercado BA MA Ph.D. (Born December 1959) is an American writer editor educator and activist; her work focuses on issues of injustice the environment and the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States. She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement a literary genre that came out of the Beat Movement.
Pieter van Laer.  Pieter van Laer (or Pieter Bodding van Laer) (Christened 14 December 1599 – c. 1642) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre scenes active for over a decade in Rome where his nickname was Il Bamboccio. Artists working in his style became known as the Bamboccianti.
Sarah McLachlan.  Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28 1968) is a Canadian musician singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range as of 2009 she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards.
Arnold Friberg.  Arnold Friberg (December 21 1913 – July 1 2010) was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. He is also well known for his 15 pre-visualization paintings for the Cecil B.
William Wright (poet).  William Wright (1782-??) was a Scottish poet.Born in the Row Ednam he was largely paralysed from birth.He was particularly keen on nature poetry and spent long hours in Ednam kirkyard penning his poems which includeTo a Robin Redbreast To a Thrush and To a Wild Flower. He also wrote about events of his time such as the Napoleonic wars.The date of his death is uncertain. It would have probably been around the mid-19th century.
Brittany Andrews.  Brittany Andrews (born Michelle Barry on August 13 1973 in Milwaukee Wisconsin) is an American pornographic actress club DJ exotic dancer and film producer.
Matthew Heiti.  Matthew Heiti is a Canadian actor screenwriter novelist and playwright. As cowriter with Ryan Ward of the film Son of the Sunshine he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.Born and raised in Sudbury Ontario Heiti was educated at Ryerson University and the University of New Brunswick. He subsequently returned to Sudbury where he has been a playwright-in-residence with the Sudbury Theatre Centre since 2011.
Eydie Gormé.  Eydie Gormé (also spelled Gorme; August 16 1928 – August 10 2013) was an American singer who performed solo as well as with her husband Steve Lawrence in popular ballads and swing. She earned numerous awards including a Grammy and an Emmy. She retired in 2009 and is survived by Lawrence who continues to perform as a solo act.
Bob Burns (drummer).  Robert Louis 'Bob' Burns (born November 24 1950) is an American drummer who was in the original line-up of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Burns helped to form the band in 1964 with Gary Rossington and Larry Junstrom and remained until 1974 although by some accounts he left the band for a while during the early 1970s. Burns plays on the band's earliest demos recorded in 1970 but on the album Skynyrd's First and...
Stephen Coulter.  Stephen Coulter (born 1914) is an English novelist journalist and as James Mayo the author of several spy and adventure thrillers.His series character Charles Hood a James Bond clone is an art-loving British spy. Coulter was also friends with Bond creator Ian Fleming. Both men had served in Royal Navy Intelligence during World War II became reporters Reuters correspondents and both eventually wrote for the Sunday Times.
Rodrigo Crespo.  Rodrigo Crespo (born 18 June 1979) is an Argentinian musician producer songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. He began working as a producer at a young age in the city of Buenos Aires. He worked closely with the Music Brokers record label and produced the Bossa N' Stones compilation an album of The Rolling Stones remakes in Bossa Nova style that went on to sell over 1 million copies in over 35 territories.
David S. Ware.  David Spencer Ware (November 7 1949 – October 18 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist composer and bandleader.
Laudadio Rambaldo.  Laudadio Rambaldo (late 14th century) was an Italian painter active in Ferrara also known as Rambaldo di Ferrara. According to Lanzi flourished about 1386 and painted in the Church of the Servi at Castel Tedaldo.
Neal Ulevich.  Neal Hirsh Ulevich (born June 18 1946)[citation needed] is an American photographer. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok.
Elmo Scott Watson.  Elmo Scott Watson (1892–May 6 1951) was an American journalist and college professor whose longest educational stint was at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. He was particularly known for his emphasis on the American West having been a reporter for the Gazette and Telegraph newspaper in Colorado Springs Colorado before he entered the field of higher education.
Zorica Dimitrijević-Stošić.  Zorica Dimitrijević-Stošić (Smederevo 1934 - Belgrade February 14 2013) was a Serbian pianist and accompanist and professor of piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
Marc Lawrence (filmmaker).  Marc Lawrence (born October 22 1959) is an American screenwriter film producer and film director. In 1981 he graduated from Binghamton University with a degree in English and later served as a staff writer and then supervising producer on NBC's Family Ties. Lawrence has written films such as Life with Mikey (1993) Forces of Nature (1999) the remake of The Out-of-Towners (1999) Miss Congeniality (2000) and its sequel Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005).
Olena Teliha.  Olena Ivanivna Teliha (Ukrainian: Олена Іванівна Теліга July 21 1906 – February 21 1942) was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity.
Mary Lawrence.  Mary Lawrence (Tonetti) (1868–1945) was an American sculptor. She designed the Christopher Columbus at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Craig Walsh.  Craig Thomas Walsh (born April 11 1971 in Somerville New Jersey) is an American composer.Walsh studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York City and at Brandeis University in Boston. He has received numerous awards for his work including grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Meet the Composer and ASCAP among others. He is an associate professor of music composition at the University of Arizona.
William Tenn.  William Tenn was the pseudonym of Philip Klass (May 9 1920 – February 7 2010) a British-born American science fiction author notable for many stories with satirical elements.
John Freeman (editor).  John Freeman is a British writer/editor/designer known for his work with Marvel UK and on Doctor Who Magazine and The Really Heavy Greatcoat.
Studs Terkel.  Louis Studs Terkel (May 16 1912 – October 31 2008) was an American author historian actor and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for “The Good War” and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Jody Williams (Afrikaans singer).  Jody Williams (born 17 May 1990) better known as Jody is a South African Pop/R&B singer.
Sarah Bates (singer).  Sarah Bates (née Harrop died 11 December 1811) was an English singer born in Lancashire. She was married to the conductor Joah Bates.
Alessandro Piperno.  Alessandro Piperno (born Rome March 25 1972) is an Italian writer and literary critic of Jewish descent having a Jewish father and a Catholic mother.He graduated in French Literature at the University of Rome where he currently teaches and researches.
Lawrence Weschler.  Lawrence Weschler (born 1952 Van Nuys California) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California Santa Cruz (1974) Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies.
Robert Adams (science fiction writer).  Franklin Robert Adams (August 31 1933 – January 4 1990) who wrote as Robert Adams was an American science fiction and fantasy writer and formerly a career soldier. He is best known for his Horseclans books.
Daniel Gortler.  Daniel Gortler (דניאל גורטלר) is an Israeli pianist and a faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University.
Friedrich Laun.  Friedrich August Schulze (1 June 1770 – 4 September 1849) was a German novelist who wrote under the pen name Friedrich Laun. Schulze was born in Dresden. His first novel Der Mann auf Freiersfüssen (1801) was favorably received. He wrote many volumes and with Johann August Apel edited a ghost story anthology Das Gespensterbuch (The Ghost Book) (1811–1815).
Sami Sirviö.  Sami Sirviö (born May 28 1970) is the lead guitarist of the Swedish rock band Kent.
Johnny Kelly.  Johnny Kelly (born March 9 1968) is an American drummer best known as the former drummer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative from Brooklyn New York. He is the current drummer for the bands Danzig A Pale Horse Named Death and Kill Devil Hill.He joined Type O Negative in 1994 to replace Sal Abruscato. He had previously been the band's drum tech.He currently endorses Gretsch Drums Sabian cymbals Easton Ahead drumsticks and Attack drum heads.
Josie Miles.  Josie Miles (c. 1900 – c. 1953–65) was an American vaudeville and blues singer. She was one of the classic female blues singers popular in the 1920s.She was born in Summerville South Carolina United States. By the early 1920s she was working in New York City where she appeared in Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's musical comedy Shuffle Along. In 1922 she made her first recordings for the Black Swan Company and later recorded for the Gennett Ajax Edison and Banner Records labels.
Toby Smith.  Toby Smith (born Toby Grafftey-Smith 29 October 1970 London) is a musician most famous for being the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Jamiroquai from 1992 up to 2002.Smith left Jamiroquai on 29 April 2002 during the Funk Odyssey tour. Reasons stated he wanted more family time fatigue and wanting to move on to different things.He is the current music producer and manager for the English indie pop band The Hoosiers.Smith now owns Angelic Recording Studios based near Banbury.
Corey Smith (artist).  Corey Smith (born October 3 1977) is an contemporary American painter sculptor photographer professional snowboarder and snowboard designer. Smith was the art director at COMUNE curator and founder of their Drop City artist collective (which he is no longer a part) and a contributing artist for CAPiTA Snowboards. In addition Smith founded the snowboard company Spring Break Snowboards.
Dapper Laughs.  Dapper Laughs (born Daniel O'Reilly) is a comedian from Clapham Common.Dapper Laughs recently grew to fame on social networking sites Facebook and Vine on which he has amassed followers of 800000 and 320000 respectively.
June Thomson.  June Thomson (also known as June Valerie Thomson) (born 1930 in Rettendon Essex United Kingdom) is a detective novelist.
Dick Griffey.  Richard Gilbert Dick Griffey (November 16 1938 – September 24 2010) was an American record producer and music promoter who founded SOLAR Records an acronym for Sound of Los Angeles Records. The label played a major role in developing a funk-oriented blend of disco R&B and soul music during the 1970s and 1980s. As a concert promoter Griffey arranged bookings for artists including James Brown Aretha Franklin Jon Gibson Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.
Frank Stephens (sculptor).  George Francis Stephens (1859–1953) known as Frank Stephens was an American sculptor political activist and co-founder of a utopian single-tax community in Arden Delaware.
Dorinea Shirley.  Dorinea Shirley was a British actress of the silent era.
Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus Baron de Puymaurin.  Jean-Pierre Marcassus de Puymaurin (December 5 1757 – February 14 1841) also Jean-Pierre-Casimir de Marcassus Baron de Puymaurin was a French chemist medallist politician and man of letters.Casimir de Marcassus was born in Toulouse to a distinguished family. His grandfather and father both served as governing magistrates for the Capitole de Toulouse. His father was also a patron of the arts and avid art collector.
Ryan Murphy (writer).  Ryan Murphy (born November 30 1965) is an American film and television screenwriter director and producer. Murphy is best known for creating/co-creating a number of television series including Popular Nip/Tuck Glee American Horror Story and The New Normal.
Oleta Adams.  Oleta Adams (born May 4 1953 Seattle Washington) is an American soul jazz and gospel singer and pianist.
Stephen Frink.  Stephen Frink is a prolific underwater photographer and frequent contributor to Scuba Diving magazine.Frink was born in Illinois and moved to Key Largo Florida in 1978 where he currently lives with his wife and daughter. He is often cited as one of the most frequently published underwater photographers in the world.[1][2][3]
Alberto Hauss.  Alberto Hauss (born Ingo Hauss in 1954; also known as Bela Lagonda or Bela Wycombe) is a German composer and producer. He has worked on projects with artists such as Oliver Cheatham Beats 4 You Chocolate U96 F.R.E.U.D Boytronic ATC and Culture Beat. Hauss has also remixed songs for Aretha Franklin Sting and Diana Ross.Currently Hauss is working on the Terra Del Sol compilations.
Chizuko Hoshino.  Chizuko Hoshino (星野千寿子 Hoshino Chizuko) is a female Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan.
Jim Capaldi.  Nicola James Jim Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States. Capaldi and Winwood wrote many of Traffic's major hits and most of the tracks on the band's ten albums.
Otto Dix.  Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁiç ˈɔto ˈdɪks]; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
Alexander Rüstow (soldier).  Alexander Rüstow (October 13 1824 – July 25 1866) was a Prussian soldier and military writer from Brandenburg an der Havel. The brother of Wilhelm Rüstow and Caesar Rüstow he is remembered for his work Der Küstenkrieg (Berlin 1848). Alexander and Caesar both fell on the field of battle during the 1866 Austro-Prussian War with Alexander dying at Horitz from wounds sustained in the Battle of Königgratz.
Naoko Yamano.  Naoko Yamano (山野直子 Yamano Naoko) (December 18 1960) is a musician and founder of the Japanese rock trio all-female band Shonen Knife.
Rudolph Delson.  Rudolph Delson (born March 26 1975) is an American author best known for his 2007 debut novel Maynard and Jennica published by Houghton Mifflin. Maynard and Jennica is a modern love story set in New York City. Rudolph Delson was born and raised in San Jose California.
Finley Quaye.  Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974 Edinburgh Scotland) is a Scottish musician. He won the 1997 Mobo Award for best reggae act and the 1998 BRIT Award for Best Male Solo Artist.
Terence Yin.  Terence Yin Chi Wai (Chinese: 尹子維; pinyin: Yǐn Zǐwéi; Cantonese Yale: Wan Jiwai; born May 19 1975) is a Chinese film actor singer producer and media relations. Yin has starred in over 30 movies released one solo album and resides in Hong Kong.
Ray Stevens.  Ray Stevens (born Harold Ray Ragsdale January 24 1939) is an American country and pop singer-songwriter musician and comedian.
Algis Kizys.  Algis Kizys (born in Chicago 1960) is a New York City bass guitarist most well known for his long-time membership in New York band Swans. First joining Swans on 1986s Greed LP he stayed with the group through The Great Annihilator (1995). He is also a founding member Of Cabbages and Kings an off-shoot of Bag People.
Kunzang Choden.  Kunzang Choden (born 1952) is a Bhutanese writer. She is the first Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English.Choden was born in Bumthang District. Her parents were feudal landlords. At the age of nine her father sent her to school in India where she learned English. She has a BA Honours in Psychology from Indraprastha College in Delhi and a BA in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has worked for the United Nations Development Program in Bhutan.
Odysseas Elytis.  Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης born Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; November 2 1911 – March 18 1996) was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 the Nobel Prize in Literature was bestowed on him.
Ji Suk-jin.  Ji Suk-jin (Hangul:지석진 ; or spelled Ji Seok-jin; born on February 10 1966) is a South Korean comedian and broadcaster. He graduated from Ajou University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. In 1992 he debuted as a singer releasing his first single I Know.Ji-Suk-jin gained popularity as a main MC through the show called Star Golden Bell which aired from 2004 to 2010.
Angeline Khoo.  Angeline Khoo(Chinese: 邱燕妮; pinyin: Qiū yàn nī born 4 March 1986) is a Malaysian actress and singer. Her debut album titled 古代经典名曲 was in a group called 七仙女(Seven Fairies) which consisted of Huang Mei Diao Opera songs. She was the youngest member out of the 7 members being only 6 at that time. In late 2000 Angeline joined the girl group M-Girls and has released over 50 albums in her 20+ years in the music industry which was all mentioned in the Hisoing Interview in 2012.
Jutta Ditfurth.  Jutta Ditfurth (born Jutta Gerta Armgard von Ditfurth September 29 1951 in Würzburg) is a German sociologist writer and radical ecologist.She co-founded the Green Party. In the 1980s she was approached by the CIA to become a collaborator but she refused. She became highly critical of the subsequent trajectory of the Green Party which she characterized as counterrevolutionary hierarchical and nepotistic; she left the Greens in 1991.
Sripada Pinakapani.  Professor Sripada Pinakapaani also known as S. Pinakapani (Telugu: శ్రీపాద పినాకపాణి) (August 3 1913 – March 11 2013) was a medical doctor administrator professor in medicine and carnatic musician.Pinkapani was born at Priya Agraharam of Srikakulam district and died on 11 March 2013 in Kurnool Andhra Pradesh. He spent three months in violin maestro Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu's school. He joined M.B.B.S. in 1932. He completed M.D.
Douglas E. Wright.  Douglas Edward Wright (born 1955 in Goose Bay Labrador) is a Canadian Supernatural Suspense / Dark Fantasy writer of horror fiction who now resides in Victoria British Columbia Canada.Douglas grew up in Labrador Saskatchewan and Ontario. He started school in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and continued in CFB Borden and Prescott Ontario.
Velmurugan.  Velmurugan is a South Indian film playback singer who shot to fame with folk songs like Madura in Subramaniapuram and Aadungada in Naadodigal and the recent Otha Sollala in Aadukalam. He considers being called by James Vasanthan as one of the turning points in his life.
Dinavon Bythwood.  Dinavon Bythwood (born May 23 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) and also known by his music industry moniker “X1” is an American Pop Music record producer and songwriter. Bythwood is also a former American professional football player who was an NFL free agent acquisition by the Cleveland Browns.
George Dubourg.  George Dubourg (1799–1882) was a writer on the violin.Dubourg grandson of Matthew Dubourg published in 1836 ‘The Violin being an Account of that leading Instrument and its most eminent Professors’ &c. a work which has since been frequently reprinted.
Bengt Eklund.  Bengt Gunnar Eklund (born 18 January 1925 in Stockholm died 19 January 1998 in Stockholm) was a Swedish actor.
Laurent Levesque.  Laurent Levesque (born January 28 1970 in Lyon France) is a film score composer.
Katha Pollitt.  Katha Pollitt (born October 14 1949) is an American feminist poet essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues including abortion rights racism welfare reform feminism and poverty.
Judy Chamberlain.  Judy Chamberlain (born September 26 1944 in New York City) is an American jazz singer bandleader and journalist known for her extensive repertoire estimated at four thousand songs from the Great American Songbook. The Los Angeles Times jazz critic Don Heckman has called Judy remarkably eclectic and versatile...
Jacelyn Tay.  Jacelyn Tay (Chinese: 郑秀珍; pinyin: Zhèng Xiùzhēn born on June 12 1975) is a Singaporean actress.
John W. Campbell.  John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8 1910 – July 11 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.
Vincenzo Ragusa.  Vincenzo Ragusa (8 July 1841 – 13 March 1927) was an Italian sculptor who lived in Meiji period Japan from 1876–1882. He introduced European techniques in bronze casting and new methods of modeling in wood clay plaster and wire armatures which exerted a significant role in the development of the modern Japanese sculptural arts.
Sister Carol.  Carol Theresa East (born 15 January 1959 Kingston Jamaica) known by her stage name of Sister Carol is a Jamaican-born American reggae recording artist and actress.
Gervasio Gallardo.  Gervasio Gallardo (born 1934) was born in Barcelona Spain. He is known as a prolific producer of surreal paintings and book covers for many science-fiction and fantasy authors. Gervasio Gallardo studied in Spain working for several Spanish advertising agencies before moving to Munich Germany in 1959. The next four years he spent working for the Delpire Agency in Paris before travelling to the United States in 1963.
Joan Howson.  Joan Howson (1885–1964) was a British stained glass artist of the Arts and Crafts movement. She trained at the Liverpool School of Art before becoming a student and apprentice to Caroline Townshend. They later developed a lifelong partnership creating stained glass works under the name of their company Townshend and Howson.
Helmut Fritz.  Helmut Fritz is the stage name of French singer Éric Greff who was born in 1975 in Forbach France and who grew up in Béning-lès-Saint-Avold in the Moselle département. Greff is known for his 2009 single Ça m'énerve (It Bugs Me) in which he portrays a German dandy living in Paris.
Aron Eli Coleite.  Aron Eli Coleite (sometimes credited Aron Coleite) is an American comic book writer television writer and producer best known for is work on the NBC series Heroes and on the comic book series Ultimate X-Men.
Jayso.  Paul Nuamah Donkor (born June 1 1983) better known by his stage name Jayso is a Ghanaian Record Producer Rapper Singer and Sound Engineer. He is the CEO and founder of Skillions Records.
Pellegrino Tibaldi.  Pellegrino Tibaldi (Valsolda 1527–Milan 1596) also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini was an Italian mannerist architect sculptor and mural painter.
Drew Goddard.  Drew Goddard (born February 26 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter director and producer. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2012 dark comedy horror-thriller The Cabin in the Woods.
Pío Baroja.  Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family his brother Ricardo was a painter writer and engraver and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja son of his younger sister Carmen was a well known anthropologist.
E. Lynn Harris.  Everette Lynn Harris (June 20 1955 – July 23 2009) was an American author. Openly gay he was best known for his depictions of African-American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books that reached The New York Times Best Seller list making him among the most successful African-American or gay authors of his era.
Jim Mooney.  James Noel Jim Mooney (August 13 1919 – March 30 2008) was an American comic book artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books. He sometimes inked under the pseudonym Jay Noel.
Jim Clench.  James Patrick Jim Clench (May 1 1949 – November 3 2010) was a Canadian bassist and vocalist best known for his roles in the Canadian rock bands April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
Miguel Peraza.  Miguel Peraza is a Mexican self-taught sculptor born in Mexico City September 29 1959. His production consists of about 300 works of small format and 34 monumental works with many monuments along Mexico and Colombia mainly in universities.Throughout his career he has demonstrated mastery of materials regardless of the size of his sculptures and covering many topics.
Nyzzy Nyce.  DeAngelo Samuel (born January 4 1988) better known by his stage name Nyzzy Nyce (aka Nyzzy) is an American rapper from Fort Wayne Indiana. He is the lead artist/songwriter on one of the largest community driven and collaborative hip hop based music projects in the world called HipHop4theCity now known as the MyCity Movement.
Victor Feldman.  Victor Stanley Feldman (April 7 1934 – May 12 1987) was a British jazz musician best known as a pianist and percussionist.
Ira Coleman.  Ira Coleman is an American jazz bassist.He appears on four albums by Paris-based pianist Laurent de Wilde and has worked with artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater Milt Jackson Ulf Wakenius John Esposito Joanne Brackeen Herbie Hancock Tony Williams Ayọ and Antonio Farao.Coleman is currently touring with Sting and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on his Symphonicities tour.
Melissa McClelland.  Melissa McClelland (born c. 1979) is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Hamilton Ontario in her youth and now bases her career from Toronto. McClelland's music is influenced by blues and americana. A writer on CMJ's staff blog wrote that McClelland has a persona reminiscent of a female Tom Waits.
Ricky Sinz.  Eric William Mirshak[citation needed] better known as Ricky Sinz (born November 12 1980[citation needed]) is an American pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films. He resides in Chicago Illinois.[citation needed]
Torborg Nedreaas.  Torborg Nedreaas (13 November 1906 in Bergen Norway – 30 June 1987) was a Norwegian author who debuted with the collection of short stories Bak skapet står øksen in 1945. The majority of the stories centered on events and interactions during the Second World War.
Thomas Yamamoto.  Thomas Yamamoto (August 20 1917–2004) was an American artist.Born in Alameda California Thomas Yamamoto majored in art at UC Berkeley. His instructors included John Haley and Erle Loran who worked with Hans Hofmann. To some degree they influenced his future work. In the 1930s Tom was active in the art scene of the San Francisco Bay area until the Pearl Harbor incident.
Danny Mixon.  Daniel Asbury Mixon (born August 19 1949 in Harlem New York City) is an American jazz pianist.Mixon gained some attention in the 1970s and continues to record and play in New York and abroad. He started off as a tap dancer attending the Ruth Williams Dance Studio.
Fumiko Enchi.  Fumiko Enchi (円地 文子 Enchi Fumiko 2 October 1905 – 12 November 1986) was the pen-name of Fumi Ueda one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Shōwa period of Japan.
Torild Wardenær.  Torild Wardenær (born 1951) is a Norwegian poet and playwright. She hails from Stavanger.She made her literary debut 1994 with the poetry collection I pionértiden which earned her Aschehoug's debutant prize. She was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1997. She received the Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize in 1998. Among her latest collections are Paradiseffekten (2004) and PSI (2007).
Christopher Mangum.  Christopher M. (born 1975 in Oakland) Christopher Mangum known as the “Painter of Chefs” is a contemporary oil painter who lives in San Diego California. His artwork encompasses the culinary arts and viticulture which has sparked the interest of foodies nation-wide. He gains inspiration for his paintings by visiting the kitchens of many renowned chefs such as Charlie Trotter (Check out Selected Works below to see who else Christopher M. has painted).
Sydney March.  English sculptor Sydney March (1876–1968) was a prolific artist whose primary focus was portrait busts and other sculptures of British royalty and contemporary figures as well as war memorials. One of eight artists in his family he and his siblings completed the National War Memorial of Canada after the death of their brother Vernon March in 1930.
Demetrios Farmakopoulos.  Demetrios Farmakopoulos (Δημήτριος Φαρμακόπουλος)(1919–1996) also known as Mimis Farmakopoulos. An influential Greek painter whose main recurring theme is space and the future.
Douglas Johansson.  Sten Gunnar Douglas Johansson (born 31 January 1960) is a Swedish actor best known as Jan Martinsson in the films about Kurt Wallander.
Bahamadia.  Bahamadia is a Philadelphia-born hip hop artist. She released her debut album Kollage in 1996. Kollage was followed in 2001 by BB Queen an EP release. She then released Good Rap Music and then in 2014 Here.
Lydia (singer).  Lydia Rodríguez Fernández (born 1980 in Madrid) better known as Lydia is a Spanish pop singer.
Eddy Cobiness.  Eddy Cobiness (born 1933 in Warroad Minnesota United States died January 1 1996 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) was a Canadian artist. He was an Ojibwa-Indian and his art work is characterized by scenes from the life outdoors and nature. He began with realistic scenes and then evolved into more abstract work.
Ma Wing-shing.  Ma Wing-shing (born 16 January 1961) is a Hong Kong manhua artist writer and publisher. He is best known for creating the Fung Wan and Chinese Hero series.
Jack Paar.  Jack Harold Paar (May 1 1918 – January 27 2004) was an American author radio and television comedian and talk show host best known for his stint as host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary noted that: His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar.
Chandan Dass.  Chandan Dass (born 12 March 1956) is one of a popular Indian Ghazal singer.
Virtu-oso.  Virtu-oso a.k.a. V-Man is a producer who is noted for his work with UK rapper Persona Bars & also his solo projects. His most high-profile work has been his production on Persona's underground track Let It B Let It Grow which went on the nighttime playlist of UK urban music channel Channel U for a few months & has received over 10000 views on YouTube.
Oskar Ekberg.  Oskar Ekberg (born in Södertälje 1977) is a Swedish pianist basically active as a performer at the Swedish concert scene. He has shown particular interest in Olivier Messiaen's and Johan Helmich Roman's music the latter recorded on Daphne Records. Oskar Ekberg is also working as an orchestra pianist in the major orchestras of Sweden. Ekberg teaches at Ersta Sköndal University College.
Pat DiNizio.  Pat DiNizio (born October 12 1955) of Scotch Plains New Jersey is the lead singer songwriter and member of the band The Smithereens which he formed in 1980 with Jim Babjak Dennis Diken and Mike Mesaros from Carteret New Jersey.In addition to the Smithereens' body of work DiNizio has also released three solo albums Sounds and Songs (1997) This is Pat DiNizio a collection of cover songs arranged for piano and vocals (2006) and Pat DiNizio (2007).In 2000 DiNizio made an unsuccessful run for the New Jersey seat of the United States Senate running on the Reform Party ticket. 
Jimmy Breslin.  Jimmy Breslin (born October 17 1930) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News' Sunday edition. He has written numerous novels and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He served as a regular columnist for the Long Island NY newspaper Newsday until his retirement on November 2 2004 though he still publishes occasional pieces for the paper.
Eugenio Scomparini.  Eugenio Scomparini (Trieste September 1 1845 - March 17 1913) was an Italian painter.He initially took lessons from the engraver Giovanni Moscotto at the School of Design in Trieste. His mother Maria Scomparini had heralded from Venice. He moved with his friend Antonio Lonza to Venice. In 1863 using a stipend from the city of Trieste he enrolled at the Accademia of Venice where he trained with Michelangelo Grigoletti and Pompeo Molmenti.
Toño Rosario.  Máximo Antonio del Rosario (born November 3 1955) commonly known as Toño Rosario is a Grammy-award nominee Merengue musician.
Jean Medawar.  Jean Shinglewood Medawar (née Taylor; July 2 1913 – May 3 2005) was a British author and a former chairman of the Family Planning Association and wife of the British Nobelist Peter Brian Medawar.Medawar was born in London England the daughter of Katherine Leslie (née Paton) and Charles Henry Shinglewood Taylor a doctor.
Yung Skeeter.  Yung Skeeter aka DJ Skeet Skeet and Trevor Skeet (born Trevor McFedries on November 27 1985) is a Los Angeles-born Iowa-raised DJ producer and director. Formerly a part of the A&R operations at Photo Finish Records in 2011 he was a support act for Katy Perry on her California Dreams Tour.He came to Los Angeles at the age of sixteen and from high school eventually earned himself a football scholarship to San Jose State University.
Antonio Capuzzi.  Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (also Capucci; August 1 1755 – March 28 1818) was an Italian violinist and composer.Although popular in his day most of his music is now forgotten. The most commonly performed piece today is his concerto for double bass. The concerto was found in the British Museum and is dedicated to Kavalier Marcantonio Montenigo who is assumed to have performed on that instrument.
Robert Qualters.  Robert L. Qualters Jr. (born March 13 1934) is an American painter installation artist and printmaker based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His work encompasses traditional painting as well as murals and collaborations with other Pittsburgh-based artists across several disciplines. He is associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement of Representational Painting.
Allie Moss.  Allie Moss is a New Jersey singer vocal coach and guitarist. She released her own EP titled Passerby in 2009. In 2011 Moss released her debut album Late Bloomer. She regularly performs as lead guitarist for singer/songwriter and friend Ingrid Michaelson.
Milena Plavšić.  Milena Plavšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милена Плавшић) is a Bosnian-Serbian folk singer. Among her hits are Ti ne znaš a ja te volim Pisma ću tvoja čuvati Ko će da me sakrije od kiše Jaka žena and her interpretation of Banja Luka.
Jane Kelly.  Jane Kelly (born 7 May 1956) is a journalist and artist affiliated with the Stuckist art group. She was dismissed from the Daily Mail after exhibiting a painting of serial killer Myra Hindley.
Linda de Suza.  Linda de Suza (born Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lança 22 February 1948 in Beja Portugal) is a Lusophone and Francophone singer actress and author. She is of Portuguese origin.
Petey Pablo.  Moses Mortimer Barrett III (born July 22 1973) known by the stage name Petey Pablo is an American rapper from Greenville North Carolina.
Daniello Solaro.  Daniello Solaro was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. He was active in Genoa and France. He trained under the Genoese artist Domenico Parodi.
Dorothea Herbert.  Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829) was an Irish diarist and poet. Her Retrospections first published in two volumes in 1929-30 contain local accounts of life in the late eighteenth century but are soon overshadowed by her unrequited passion for John Roe heir to Rockwell near Knockgrafton another of her father's parishes.She was the eldest daughter of Rev. Nicholas Herbert rector of Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary Ireland.
Tom Rainey.  Thomas Tom Rainey (born 1957 Santa Barbara California) is an American drummer.After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne and also with Nels Cline Fred Hersch Tony Malaby Tom Varner Drew Gress Kenny Werner Mark Helias and Simon Nabatov.
Heather McHugh.  Heather McHugh (born August 20 1948) is an American poet.
Patrick Adams (musician).  Patrick Peter Owen Adams (born March 17 1950 in Harlem New York City New York US) is an American musician and record producer. He has earned 32 gold and platinum records. He is known primarily for his production songwriting and engineering work on the New York-based Salsoul Records Prelude Records and major record labels as well as his associations with various recording artists such as R.
Aco Pejović.  Aleksandar Aco Pejović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ацо Пејовић born April 18 1972 in Prijepolje Serbia Yugoslavia) is a popular Serbian pop-folk singer. He finished musical education in Podgorica at the Vasa Pavić High School for Music (Srednja muzička škola Vasa Pavić). He has lived in Belgrade since 1994 when he came with his group Trag.Pejović is of Montenegrin descent.
Vincent Montana Jr..  Vincent Montana Jr. (February 12 1928 – April 13 2013) known as Vince Montana was an American composer arranger and percussionist best known as a member of MFSB and as the founder of the Salsoul Orchestra. He has been called the Godfather of Disco.
Jemaine Clement.  Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand comedian actor and multi-instrumentalist best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Academy Award winner Bret McKenzie.
The Widowmaker – Ian Easton.  The Widowmaker is the alias for Ian Easton a folk music artist from Hampshire England. Easton has played at the Glastonbury Festival Camp Bestival and Blissfields playing before acts such as Seth Lakeman The Levellers Ed Sheeran First Aid Kit and Laura Marling. Easton is known for his blues groove folk-revival sound.
Sandro Botticelli.  Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi better known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445 – May 17 1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later as a golden age a thought suitably enough he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli.
Thomas Alfred Grut.  Thomas Alfred Grut (1852-1933) was a Guernsey photographer and author. He published Des lures guernesiaises in 1927 a collection of newspaper columns in Guernésiais. He also translated some of the Jèrriais stories of Philippe Le Sueur Mourant into Guernésiais.Grut was also one of if not the most noted of all Guernsey photographers in his day.
Scott James Meyer.  Scott James Meyer is an attorney comedian and writer currently based out of Birmingham Alabama.
Molly Lewis.  Molly Lewis (aka Sweetafton23) is an American Internet musician who is known for her ukulele playing. She plays both covers and original songs. Her original music consists of comedic songs about pop culture topics that trend towards the nerdy. She is currently signed with DFTBA Records through which she released her first EP I Made You A CD...
Todd Snider.  Todd Daniel Snider (born October 11 1966) is an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines Americana alt-country and folk.
Michael De Medeiros.  Michael De Medeiros is the author of more than 13 books including fiction and non-fiction Elvis: The Complete Music Catalog Barack Obama and The NBA Championships. He was the editor-in-chief of Maximum Fitness magazine and recently has been appointed the editor-in-chief of Men's Fitness magazine.
Peter Ries.  Peter Ries (also known as Marc Cassandra Gilbert or Steve Hall) is a German record producer composer arranger and remixer. Ries started his career as a singer in 1980 under nickname Gilbert. Following collaborations Sandra and Sally Oldfield he became widely known for his work with 'N Sync Kylie Minogue Love Inc. Eros Ramazzotti the No Angels Bro'Sis Joana Zimmer Thomas Anders Xavier Naidoo Kool & the Gang Mr.
Humphrey Campbell.  Humphrey Campbell (born 26 February 1958 Suriname) is a Dutch singer and record producer of Surinamese descent known for his participation in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest.
Maria Konopnicka.  Maria Konopnicka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarʲa kɔnɔpˈɲit͡ska] ) née Wasiłowska (May 23 1842 – October 8 1910) was a Polish poet novelist writer for children and youth a translator journalist and critic as well as an activist for women's rights and Polish independence. She used the pseudonym Jan Sawa and others. She was one of the most important Polish poets of the positivism in Poland period.
Danielle Senior.  Danielle Senior is a London-based singer and songwriter originally from Devon in the United Kingdom. Senior also spent part of her childhood in Norway Scandinavia. She is currently signed to Notting Hill Music Publishing. She has written and performed on a broad range of music including pop dance and urban.
Emilio Cavenaghi.  Emilio Cavenaghi an Italian painter of landscapes and genre pieces was born in Caravaggio in 1852. He studied under Giuseppe Bertini. La Stanza Poldi and The Music Amateur are two of his best works. He also designed many woodcuts for book-illustrations. He painted the decorations and sipario (curtain) of Teatro Manzoni. He died at Milan in 1876.He appears to be a sibling to Luigi Cavenaghi (Caravaggio August 8 1844 – Milano December 7 1918).
Lore Segal.  Lore Segal (born March 9 1928) née Lore Groszmann is an American novelist translator teacher and author of children's books currently living in New York City. Her most recent book Shakespeare's Kitchen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. Her novel Half the Kingdom is forthcoming from Melville House October 2013.
Nick Seymour.  Nick Seymour (born Nicholas More Seymour 9 December 1958 in Benalla Victoria Australia) is a musician painter and record producer. He is best known for being the bass guitarist in the Australasian rock group Crowded House and brother to Mark Seymour of another successful group Hunters and Collectors.
CJ Mac.  CJ Mac (born Bryan Ross on March 12 1969) is an American rapper and actor.He released his debut EP Color Me Funky independently in 1991 under the name CJ Mack. The album is out of print and extremely rare. He returned in 1995 and released his second album True Game on Rap-A-Lot Records in 1995 as Mad CJ Mac.
Liuboslav Hutsaliuk.  Liuboslav Hutsaliuk (first name also variously spelled Lubomyr Luboslau Ljuboslav or shortened to Lubo and surname also spelled Hucaljuk) (2 April 1923 in Lviv – 16 December 2003 in New York City) was a Ukrainian-American painter graphic artist cartoonist and caricaturist. Along with Edward Kozak Mykola Butovich and Michael Moroz Hutsaliuk was cited in 1972 as amongst the best known of Ukrainian painters living in the United States and mentioned as becoming increasingly popular.
D.King.  Justin Busia (born November 27 1986) also known as D.King or DK is an American rapper songwriter and recording artist in the hip hop genre. The name D.King or DK is short for Don and the King.
Migene González-Wippler.  Migene González-Wippler is a Puerto Rican new-age author and a leading expert on the Afro-Caribbean religion of Santería. González-Wippler was born in Puerto Rico and has degrees in psychology and anthropology from the University of Puerto Rico and from Columbia University.
Harold Land.  Harold de Vance Land (December 18 1928 – July 27 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal modern style. His tone was strong and emotional yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to recognize.
Jorge Guillermo Borges.  Jorge Guillermo Borges (February 24 1874 – February 14 1938) was an Argentine writer lawyer and philosopher. He was the father of Jorge Luis Borges.
Fred Mandel.  Frederick Lawrence Fred Mandel (born c. 1953 Estevan Saskatchewan) is a Canadian session musician. He is a keyboard player and guitarist.Mandel became involved in music from an early age. He started playing the piano and age 4 and picked up the guitar aged 8.
Ser Petracco.  Ser Petracco (Pietro di Parenzo di Garzo; 1267—1326) was the father to the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch. His father was Ser Parenzo son of Ser Garzo who lived to be 100. They all were notaries public the same office that Ser Petracco held in Florence. The family did have a small property in Florence. His wife’s name was Eletta Canigiani (1270—1319) the mother to Petrarch whom he married around 1302.
Gabi Delgado-López.  Gabriel Gabi Delgado-López (born 18 April 1958 in Córdoba Andalusia Spain) commonly known as Gabi Delgado is a composer lyricist and producer. He is best known as singer and co-founder with Robert Görl of the electronic band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
Guido Crepax.  Guido Crepax (15 July 1933 – 31 July 2003) was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character Valentina created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing and for the psychedelic dreamlike storylines generally involving a strong dose of erotism. A film based on his work called Baba Yaga featuring the character Valentina was made in 1973.
Katrin Alvarez.  Katrin Alvarez (born 9 July 1944) is a German contemporary painter with an international reputation for surreal yet highly realistic works. She is a self-taught artist and has a background in journalism and writing.
Russ Spencer.  Russell Spencer (born 1 March 1979 in Bournemouth) is an English television presenter and singer.
Scott Amendola.  Scott Amendola is an American jazz drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz blues groove rock and new music. He is considered central to the Bay Area music scene.Amendola was originally from New Jersey and studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area he came to popularity in the 1990s as a member of T.J. Kirk with Charlie Hunter Will Bernard and John Schott. Their second album received a Grammy Award nomination.
Charles M. Schulz.  Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 – February 12 2000) nicknamed Sparky was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time cited as a major influence by many later cartoonists.
Julia Hailes.  Julia Hailes (born 1961) is an author who first came to prominence in 1988 when she wrote The Green Consumer Guide which sold a million copies worldwide. She subsequently wrote The New Green Consumer Guide published in 2007. She has authored or co-authored nine books. In 1989 she was elected to the UN `Global 500 Roll of Honour’ for ‘outstanding environmental achievements'.
John Balance.  John Balance (first name also spelled Jhon and Jhonn; born Geoffrey Laurence Burton later taking his stepfather's surname of Rushton; 16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004) was an English musician and a co-founder of the experimental music group Coil in collaboration with his partner Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. He was responsible for vocals lyrics chants synthetics and various esoteric sound-making instruments and devices.
Linda Chung.  Linda Chung Ka-yan (Chinese: 鍾嘉欣) (born in 9 April 1984) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is active in Hong Kong and signed with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) after winning the 2004 Miss Chinese International. She has starred in several TV series most notably Virtues of Harmony II Heart of Greed A Journey Called Life The Gem of Life and Yes Sir. Sorry Sir!.
Gabriel Brown.  Gabriel Brown (1910–1972) was an American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist.
Jeff LeBlanc.  Jeff LeBlanc (born February 9 1986) is an independent American singer and songwriter. He was born and raised in Center Moriches New York before attending Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Connecticut where he studied history music history and education.
FYÜTCH.  Harold Michael Simmons II (born September 17 1988) better known by his stage name FYÜTCH (also spelled FYUTCH) (formerly known as Future and Mr. Flattop ) is an American rapper singer-songwriter and record producer best known for his songs Ballin' and I Walk The Line Remix with Wick-it the Instigator. He recently changed his artist name from Future to FYÜTCH to avoid confusion with Atlanta rapper Future.
Scotty (reggae vocalist).  Scotty (born David Scott 1950 Westmoreland Jamaica – died 27 February 2003 Kingston Jamaica ) performed as a reggae vocalist and deejay.
Vlado Janevski.  Vladimir Vlado Janevski (Macedonian: Владимир Владо Јаневски [ˈvlaːdɔ ˈjanɛfski] ) is a popular Macedonian singer. He was Macedonia's first Eurovision contestant finishing 19th in Birmingham at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ne Zori Zoro.
Charlie Looker.  Charlie Looker is a New York City based musician who has many releases under different names. He has had positive coverage in local media as well as web media. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University (2003) and was named one of NPR's Top 100 Composers Under 40 in 2011. Looker was a member of experimental band Zs and has worked with Dirty Projectors. He was the guitarist and lead vocalist for his band Extra Life a hybrid of math rock and Renaissance music until November 2013.
Anthony Armstrong (writer).  George Anthony Armstrong Willis (1897-1976) was an Anglo-Canadian writer dramatist and essayist. He was the son of George Hughlings Armstrong Willis R. N. and Adela Emma Temple Frere; although his parents were both English he was born in Esquimalt British Columbia as a consequence of his father's career as a Paymaster Captain in the Royal Navy. They returned to England before his brother's birth in 1900 in Dorset. He was educated at Uppingham School.
Dave Konopka.  Dave Konopka is an American musician who is best known as the bassist and guitarist in Battles.
Eros Ramazzotti.  Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born October 28 1963) known simply as Eros Ramazzotti is an Italian musician and singer-songwriter. Ramazzotti is popular in Italy and most European countries and throughout the Spanish-speaking world as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.Since 1984 he has released 11 studio albums one EP three compilation albums three live albums and 37 singles. Ramazzotti has sold over 55 million records in his 30-year career.
Jaideep Mehrotra.  Jaideep Mehrotra (born 1954 Mumbai India) is an Indian artist. He did his schooling from Mayo College Ajmer Starting his artistic career at a young age of 13 Mehrotra works across mediums like Oils acrylics cast resin sculptures giclee prints site specific installations and video art. Having had no formal training in art Jaideep's style has been developed as a concatenation from introspection and exploration.Mehrotra's works maneuver away from conforming to the orthodox approaches.
Steve Gaines.  Steven Earl Gaines (September 14 1949 – October 20 1977) was an American musician. He is most well known as a guitarist and songwriter for southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and is the younger brother of Cassie Gaines who was also a member of the band.
Yuen Woo-ping.  Yuen Woo-ping (Chinese: 袁和平; pinyin: Yuán Hépíng; born 1945 in Guangzhou China) is a Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director renowned as one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of Hong Kong action cinema. He is one of the inductees on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong. Yuen is also a son of Yuen Siu-tien a renowned martial arts film actor.
Gianni Togni.  Gianni Togni (born July 24 1956 in Rome) is an Italian singer.He begins his musical experience with the album In una simile circostanza (1975) he obtained a notable success in 1980 with the single Luna from the album ... E in quel momento which ranked first in the Italian hit parade. Other top-ten singles included the songs Semplice and Vivi.
Ragnhild Jølsen.  Ragnhild Theodora Jølsen (28 March 1875 – 28 January 1908) was a Norwegian author. Norwegian oral traditions were a recurring theme in her works. Her writings often focused on the conflict between the old rural society and modern industrial society.
Anthony Robert Klitz.  Anthony (Tony) Robert Klitz (3 September 1917 – 19 September 2000) was an artist who specialised in cityscapes notably London. He was born in Southport attended Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and studied art at the Cheltenham Art College (1936–1939) whilst simultaneously training to be an architect. He died in Dublin.In comparison with other great capitals of the world London remains astonishingly unpainted. Mr.
Jon Wurster.  Jonathan Patrick Jon Wurster (born October 31 1966) is an American musician and humorist best known as the drummer for indie rockers Superchunk and The Mountain Goats as well for his comedic work with radio host Tom Scharpling on the The Best Show on WFMU.Wurster has recorded and/or performed live with artists such as Bob Mould Jay Farrar Ben Gibbard Robert Pollard Katy Perry The New Pornographers Rocket from the Crypt Ryan Adams R.E.M. Guided by Voices Marah Alejandro Escovedo A.C. 
Alex Clare.  Alexander George Alex Claire (born 14 September 1985) is a British singer-songwriter. Clare adopted his current stage name Alex Clare in 2010 replacing Alexander G. Muertos a pseudonym he first used whilst still at school.
Tris McCall.  Tris McCall is a music journalist novelist and rock musician from Hudson County New Jersey described by The New York Times as the plugged-in Internet-era muse of Jersey City. In 2010 he became the music critic for the Newark Star-Ledger.
James Bamford.  V. James Bamford (born September 15 1946) is an American bestselling author and journalist noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies especially the National Security Agency (NSA). Bamford has taught at the University of California Berkeley as a distinguished visiting professor and has written for The New York Times Magazine The Atlantic Harper's and many other publications.
Stu Mead.  Stu Mead (born 1955 in Iowa) is an American painter living in Germany. He is primarily-known for girl art incorporating strong elements of sexual fantasy and taboo themes including adolescent sexuality and bestiality. His work could be said[citation needed] to exist somewhere between Balthus and good-girl artist Bill Ward.
Arthur M. Jolly.  Arthur M. Jolly (born 1969) is an American playwright and screenwriter. In 2006 he was awarded an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for a script named The Free Republic of Bobistan.
Georges Martin Witkowski.  Georges Martin Witkowski (6 January 1867 Mostaganem French Algeria – 12 August 1943 Lyon) was a French conductor and composer of classical music.Witkowski started out in the army becoming a cavalry officer and meeting Louis Vierne during that time.
Arthur Krystal.  Arthur Krystal is an American essayist editor and screenwriter. He has written for The New Yorker Harper's The New York Times Book Review and many other publications. His books include The Half-Life of an American Essayist Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature and Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic. His essay Except When I Write appeared in The Best American Essays 2010.
Şeker Ahmed Pasha.  Şeker Ahmed Pasha (1841 – 5 May 1907) was an Ottoman painter soldier and government official. His real name was Ahmed Ali his nickname Şeker meaning sugar in Turkish.
Val Biro.  Val Biro (pronounced Beer-oh) (born October 6 1921) children's author artist and illustrator was a native of Hungary but is now resident in Sussex in England. He received his education in Budapest and London. His studio is located in Amersham in Buckinghamshire. He is 92 years old.
Francesco Bovini.  Francesco Bovini was an Italian painter who was active in Ferrara. He painted two altar pieces for the church of the Oratorio della Penitenza in Ferrara one representing the Immaculate Conception and the other the Adoration of the Magi.
Eveline Willett Cunnington.  Eveline Willett Cunnington (23 April 1849–30 July 1916) was a New Zealand social reformer feminist lecturer and writer. Cunnington was born Eveline Willett Leach in Briton Ferry Glamorganshire Wales on 23 April 1849. She emigrated to Christchurch New Zealand in 1875 and the following year married Capel Baines and moved to South Australia where he worked. When her husband died suddenly she was left to bring up her children alone and soon remarried.
Cody Wood.  Cody Brendan Wood is an actor singer violinist and songwriter living in Los Angeles California.
Jorge González (musician).  Jorge González Ríos is the former lead singer main songwriter and sole composer of the Chilean band Los Prisioneros and is currently the frontman of Los Updates. Los Prisioneros enjoyed a huge level of popularity and success initially in Chile and eventually all of Latin America beginning in 1984. The band called it quits in 1992 and González went on a successful solo career.González plays guitar bass contra bass keyboard synthesizer programming piano percussion and drums.
Kim Byung-man.  Kim Byung-man is a South Korean comedian best known for his incredible slapstick and acrobatic stunts as a Master in Gag Concert and survival skills in Law of the Jungle.
Anand Rajaram.  Anand Rajaram (born March 5 1972) is a Canadian actor writer and director. Anand Rajaram was born in New Delhi India and has a bachelor's degree in drama and theatre arts from the University of Waterloo.
Norman Cambridge.  Norman Richard Jochen Cambridge is a British-born music company director best known for his work as an urban production music writer for United States domestic markets. Selections of his US credits include Chris Rock's Everybody Hates Chris (CBS) MTV Cribs My Super Sweet 16 (MTV Networks) executive producer of urban music Wat It Do for True Blood(HBO) with Gary Calamar.
Warren Entner.  Warren Entner (born July 7 1944 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American singer songwriter organist and guitarist for the rock and roll band The Grass Roots. He then became a manager for several successful heavy metal/rock groups.
Camille Hilaire.  Camille Hilaire (2 August 1916 – 7 June 2004) was a French painter and weaver from Metz. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris during World War II and was also tutored by André Lhote.
Jean Grae.  Jean Grae (born Tsidi Ibrahim November 26 1976) formerly known as What? What? is an American hip-hop artist. She rose to prominence in the underground hip-hop scene in New York City and has since built an international fanbase.
Miwa Yasuda.  Miwa Yasuda (安田 美和 Yasuda Miwa born December 6 1977 in Hyōgo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production.
May Singhi Breen.  The original Ukulele Lady May Singhi Breen was born in New York City the daughter of a builder and a pianist in 1895. Her work in the music publishing business spanned several decades. Breen was the driving force in getting the ukulele accepted as a musical instrument by the American Federation of Musicians.
Gerald Albright.  Gerald Albright (born August 30 1957) is an American jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Albright has sold over 1000000 albums in the U.S. alone[citation needed]. His self-produced music features him on bass guitar keyboards flutes drum programming and background vocals.
Shona Laing.  Shona Laing (born 9 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician. She has had several hits in her native country as well as a few minor international hits most notably (Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy and Soviet Snow. Laing also contributed to the Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika. Laing also contributed music to and appeared in the 1985 action film Shaker Run.Currently she resides in New Zealand and occasionally plays live shows enjoying a small but devoted fan base.
Yolanda Soares.  Yolanda Soares is a Portuguese soprano singer songwriter and crossover solo artist. Soares' performances are operatic productions which blend pop arrangements and classical vocals most notably fado.
John Stagliano.  John Allen Stagliano (born November 29 1951 in Chicago Illinois) also known as Buttman is an American entrepreneur former pornographic actor producer and director who founded and owns the Evil Angel pornographic film studio.
Pavao Ritter Vitezović.  Pavao Ritter Vitezović (7 January 1652 – 20 January 1713) was a noted Croatian writer historian linguist and publisher.
David Guetta.  Pierre David Guetta (born November 7 1967) known commonly by his stage name David Guetta  is a French house producer and disc jockey. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album Just a Little More Love in 2002.
Eugène Fromentin.  Eugène Fromentin (October 24 1820 – August 27 1876) was a French painter and writer.
Christopher Ward (songwriter).  Christopher William Ward (born 28 July 1949 Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian songwriter and broadcaster known as a former long-standing on-air personality at MuchMusic Canada's music video network where he and J.D. Roberts were among the first video jockeys in 1984. Ward was a judge on The Next Star which is a Canadian reality television show on YTV.
Albert Nipon.  Albert Nipon (born 1927) is an American fashion designer and ladies-clothing manufacturer.
William Rodney Allen.  William Rodney Allen is an American author and former Professor of English at the Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts. He received his PhD from Duke University and was a faculty member at LSMSA from the time the school first opened in 1983 until his retirement in 2011. He is married to Cindy Allen a counselor at the school and has two daughters Emily and Claire with her.
Prince Far I.  Prince Far I (c. 1944 – 15 September 1983) was a Jamaican reggae deejay producer and a Rastafarian. He was known for his gruff voice and critical assessment of the Jamaican government. His track Heavy Manners used lyrics against measures initiated towards violent crime.
Mercy Hatton.  Mercy Hatton was a British actress.
John Vlismas.  John Vlismas (born 3 May 1973) is a South African stand-up comedian and entertainment promoter.Vlismas won the 2007 South African Comedy Award for best stand-up comedian of the year and was a finalist in the 2008 Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh Off.In 2010 Vlismas was in the comedy film Outrageous with fellow South African comedians Barry Hilton Joey Rasdien Loyiso Gola Mark Banks Riaad Moosa and Krijay Govender - the only female in the cast.In April 2014 Vlismas was part of the dais at Comedy Central Africa's Roast of Kenny Kunene.
Kevin C. Fitzpatrick.  Kevin C. Fitzpatrick (born January 10 1966) is an American historian and non-fiction writer. He is best known for his research and writings on Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table.
Bennett Cohen.  Bennett Cohen (August 28 1890 – June 10 1964) was an American screenwriter and director. He wrote for 187 films between 1915 and 1953. He also directed 17 films between 1925 and 1934. He was born in Trinidad Colorado and died in Los Angeles California.
Azumi Kawashima.  Azumi Kawashima (川島和津実 Kawashima Azumi) born August 8 1979 in Tokyo Japan is a former adult video (AV) actress and model.
George W. Johnson.  George Washington Johnson (c. October 1846 – January 23 1914) was a singer and pioneer sound recording artist the first African-American recording star of the phonograph.
Bohemia (musician).  Roger David (born 15 October 1979) known by his stage names Bohemia or Raja is a Pakistani American rapper and music producer from California. He is a rap singer and sings in Punjabi; he is known as The Punjabi Rapper. He has released three studio albums and an independent album. His songs include Vich Pardesan De Kali Denali and Sahara.
Billy Connolly.  William Billy Connolly CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian musician presenter and actor. He is sometimes known especially in his native Scotland by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade in the early 1960s was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in The Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist.
Dingdong Avanzado.  Dingdong Avanzado (born July 7 1968) is a singer actor politician TV host and composer in the Philippine music industry. Regarded as one of the most outstanding concert performers this multi-platinum recording artist/songwriter/director and total entertainer garnered several attributes such as “Kilabot Ng Mga Kolehiyala” and “Crush Ng Bayan” and has been dubbed “The Original Prince of Pop.”
Tim Spencer (singer).  For other persons with the same name see Tim SpencerVernon Harold Timothy Spencer (July 13 1908 – April 26 1974) was an American singer songwriter and actor. Spencer is best known for founding the popular American Cowboy singing group the Sons of the Pioneers in 1933 along with Bob Nolan and Roy Rogers.
Lidiya Ginzburg.  Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg (Russian: Ли́дия Я́ковлевна Ги́нзбург; March 18 1902 Odessa Russian Empire - July 17 1990 Leningrad USSR) was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad. She was born in Odessa in 1902 and moved to Leningrad in 1922.
Ian Robb.  Ian Robb is an English-born folk singer currently based in Ottawa Ontario. He was a founding member of Friends of Fiddler's Green and a columnist for Sing Out!. He is also a member of the Canadian folk trio Finest Kind. He wrote a parody of Stan Rogers song Barrett's Privateers titled Garnet's Homemade Beer. He was the recipient of the 2005 Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Traditional Singer for his work on the CD jiig.
Patrick Hamilton (writer).  Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley and study of his novels has been revived recently because of their distinctive style deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the disadvantaged as well as an acerbic black humour.
Francis Whitaker.  Francis Whitaker (1906 - October 3 1999) was a blacksmith in Carmel California and later an artist-in-residence at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale CO.He was born in Woburn Massachusetts and died in Glenwood Springs Colorado. In 1995 he received the Colorado Council on the Arts Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 1997 he received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Derek Grant (drummer).  Derek Grant is the drummer for punk band Alkaline Trio where he replaced Mike Felumlee. He was previously a member of The Suicide Machines Telegraph Gyga Thoughts of Ionesco Remainder Walls of Jericho The Exceptions and Broken Spoke a side band with Royce Nunley and Jay Navarro.
Pinchface.  Michael Andrew Hakopian better known as Pinchface is the drummer of the Deli Creeps Giant Robot II and the Cornbugs. He has also appeared on numerous Buckethead albums such as Population Override and Giant Robot (tracks I Come In Peace and Star Wars). He has also appeared on numerous occasions in Buckethead's Binge Clip Videos. In 2006 he toured the United States with Buckethead and Delray Brewer. He also works as a real estate agent according to his Facebook page.
Bharti Kher.  Bharti Kher (born 1969) is an Indian contemporary artist. Her work encompasses painting sculpture and installation often incorporating bindis the popular forehead decoration worn by women in India in her work.
Lyle Mays.  Lyle Mays (born November 27 1953) is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Along with Metheny Mays has been a co-composer and arranger of almost all of the group's music and has won eleven Grammy Awards.
Crispian Steele-Perkins.  Crispian Steele-Perkins is an internationally acclaimed classical trumpeter who was educated at Copthorne Preparatory School Marlborough College and the Guildhall School of Music.
Adewale Ayuba.  Adewale Ayuba with stage name Ayuba is a Nigerian singer. He was born on May 6 1966 in lkenne Remo Ogun State Nigeria. He grew up as a child singer. By the age of eight he had started singing at local Musical competitions and fiestas in lkenne Remo Ogun State Nigeria. He is a distinct Fuji music artiste with a brand of Fuji that appeals to both the elite and lowly far beyond Nigerian shore. Unlike other Fuji artiste he has many enviable academic degrees.
Francesco Tito.  Francesco Tito (Naples October 15 1863 - ) was an Italian painter. He first studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Naples but continued then under professor Vincenzo Petrocelli. In 1881 at the Promotrice of Naples he exhibited: Ciò che mi resta; Un momento d'attenzione. At the 1882 International Exposition at Rome he displayed L'uccellino del mio nido; at the Promotrici of Genoa Verona and Milan: Momenti di gioia.
Paul Vinitsky.  Paul Vinitsky (born Vinitsky Pavel; June 11 1983 in Dubna Moscow Region Russia) is a Russian electronic dance music trance and progressive DJ & producer.Vinitsky released in autumn 2011 his debut album with 9 vocalists and own unique option the DJ singing his own tracks on stage.Vinitsky: is a DJ singer and producer from Moscow Russia. Well established on progressive / trance scene for last years. played like 250 gigs for several years in 5 countries.
Amy Jenkins (artist).  Amy Jenkins (born 1966) is an American artist from Peterborough New Hampshire who is recognized for her work in video installation and experimental film.
Hans Holten.  Hans Holten (1892 – 1973) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Surnadal took education as an agronomist but became a journalist by occupation. From 1933 to 1940 he led the press office of the Agrarian Party at the same time being secretary general. From 1945 to 1963 he was the editor-in-chief of Nationen. He was also a member of the Norwegian Language Council representing Bokmål writers.
Monk Montgomery.  William Howard Monk Montgomery (October 10 1921 – May 20 1982) was an American jazz bassist.
A.Paul.  A.Paul is an electronic music producer/DJ and label Manager born in Lisbon Portugal in November 1971 as Paulo Pereira. His career started in 1987 although his first contact with music was made at a very early stage mainly through the hands of his older sister who would regularly listen to disco funk and electro sounds in the 70's. A.Paul also produces under the following aliases: Beat Therapy Cronik Rebel Eypol Heilo Bitnik Loudon Kleer Luther Miek & Paulo Pereira.
Gorō Matsui.  Gorō Matsui (松井 五郎 Matsui Gorō) is a Japanese lyricist born 11 December 1957 in Gifu Prefecture Japan though he considers Tokyo to be his hometown. Beginning with participation in the Yamaha Popular Song Contests he made his debut writing the lyrics for the 1981 Chage and Aska album Hot Wind (熱風 Neppū). Matsui then began writing lyrics for groups such as Anzen Chitai Kyosuke Himuro Hound Dog and others becoming one of the more popular lyrcists for a variety of rock bands.
Robert Veyron-Lacroix.  Robert Veyron-Lacroix (13 December 1922 in Paris – 3 April 1991 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine)) was a French harpsichordist and pianist whose post-war career was defined by his musical partnership with the celebrated French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal.
Beryl Cook.  Beryl Cook OBE (10 September 1926 – 28 May 2008) was an English artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings of people enjoying themselves in pubs girls shopping or out on a hen night drag shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad – tangoing in Buenos Aires or gambling in Las Vegas. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until middle age.
Urthboy.  Tim Levinson better known by the stage name Urthboy is an Australian hip-hop MC and producer from the Australian state of New South Wales. He is widely known for his solo music under the moniker Urthboy as a founding member of the hip-hop group The Herd and for co-founding and managing the Elefant Traks record label.
Panos Koutrouboussis.  Panos Koutrouboussis (Greek: Πάνος Κουτρουμπούσης) (b. 1937 Livadeia) is a Greek writer and artist. He studied film directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia at Rome. He worked as an assistant director and assistant producer in Greek and foreign films he illustrated book covers and record sleeves and he also was a radio producer for the Greek Service of the BBC.
Bobby Vaughn (designer).  Robert Christian Bobby Vaughn born February 20 1975 is an American clothing designer and entrepreneur.Vaughn a former sponsored surfer is best known for co-founding the Von Dutch clothing line with former partner Michael Cassel.
Luna H. Mitani.  Luna H. Mitani (born December 22 1963 in Kushiro Hokkaido Japan) is a Japanese-American artist. He works in the fields of painting and pen & ink drawing.After traveling through more than 33 countries in Europe including England and Ireland Mitani began his fine art training in Amsterdam Netherlands. Afterward he continued traveling around the world for sketching.
Xu Yuanchong.  Xu Yuanchong (Chinese: 許淵冲)( born April 18 1921 in Jiangxi China) is a translator of Chinese ancient poets into English and French. Xu took foreign language studies at Tsinghua University after he studied abroad. And after that he became a professor in English and French.
David Soyer.  David Soyer (February 24 1923 – February 25 2010) was an American cellist.He was born in Philadelphia and began playing the piano at the age of nine. At 11 he started the cello. One of his first teachers was Diran Alexanian. Later on he studied with Emanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. He debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in 1942 playing Ernest Bloch's Schelomo.Chamber music was a special love of his.
Judy Toll.  Judy Toll (January 14 1958 – May 2 2002) was an American comedian writer and actress.
Bing Davis.  Willis Bing Davis (born June 30 1937) is a contemporary artist and an educator.
Berkeley Everett.  Berkeley Everett is an American jazz pianist well known for his association with vocalist Kalil Wilson. He has headlined Jazz Reggae Festival  the Jazz Bakery UCLA Spring Sing as well as numerous other venues and festivals in the Los Angeles area. In 2008 Everett graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Ethnomusicology and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in jazz piano at the Manhattan School of Music. Berkeley is a protégé of guitar legend Kenny Burrell.
Danny Hyde.  Danny Hyde is an experimental musician and remix artist. Hyde has contributed to production and mixing on many Coil albums including Horse Rotorvator Love's Secret Domain The Remote Viewer Black Antlers and The New Backwards. Hyde has also worked with Psychic TV and Pop Will Eat Itself.
Tom Egeland.  Tom Egeland (born 8 July 1959 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author. His great-grandfather was Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger one of the pioneer authors of popular literature in Norway. Egeland's novels are published in 24 languages. His most famous novel is Sirkelens ende published in English under the title Relic which deals with several of the same topics as The Da Vinci Code.
Liam Titcomb.  Liam Titcomb (born August 16 1987) is a Canadian musician and actor. He released his self-titled album on Sony Music Canada in 2005. He released his second album Can't Let Go on Double Dorje Records and his 3rd Cicada on Nettwerk Music. He played the character Will in Strange Days at Blake Holsey High and currently stars as Jones in the CBC Television drama Wild Roses.
Mrs Mills.  Gladys Mills née Gladys Jordan (29 August 1918 – 24 February 1978) known as Mrs. Mills was an English pianist who was active in the 1960s and 1970s and who released many records. Her repertoire included many sing-along and party tunes made popular in the music hall.
Lotte Anker.  Lotte Anker (born 1958 Copenhagen) is a Danish jazz saxophonist and composer. With pianist Marilyn Crispell she serves as one of the co-leaders of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble.
Norrie MacLaren.  Norman Angus MacLaren (born 6 May 1948) is a Scottish Highlands-based television and film producer [1] fashion photographer scriptwriter artist and environmentalist (and Highland gardener). McLaren was born and raised in Scotland and is the son of Lady Edith MacLaren and grandson of Edith Abney-Hastings 12th Countess of Loudoun.Maclaren has been involved in photography editing and/or art direction for many British publications such as Harpers & Queen Deluxe [2] and Boulevard.
Konstantin Biebl.  Konstantin Biebl (February 26 1898 Slavětín – November 12 1951 Prague suicide) was a Czech poet.
Raoul Hausmann.  Raoul Hausmann (July 12 1886 – February 1 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada his experimental photographic collages sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.
Thomas Baxa.  Thomas M. Baxa is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Pat Torpey.  Pat Torpey is an American rock and roll drummer known as the drummer of the hard rock band Mr. Big. He has also played for Impellitteri The Knack David Lee Roth Band and the Exile Social Club. He is noted by Neil Peart for composing unique rhythms such as that of Take Cover a rock song from Mr. Big.[citation needed]
Jon Theodore.  Jon Philip Theodore (born December 30 1973) is an American drummer. He is best known as a former member of The Mars Volta and as the current drummer for Queens of the Stone Age. Theodore is also a member of One Day as a Lion and hard rock supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra. Known for his explosive multi-textural playing style Theodore was a member of both Golden and Royal Trux before joining The Mars Volta in 2001.
Chisato Morishita.  Chisato Morishita (森下 千里 Morishita Chisato born September 3 1981 in Nagoya Aichi) is a Japanese idol tarento actress and former race queen.
Grace Clements (artist).  Grace Richardson Clements (1905–1969) was an American painter mosaicist and art writer. She was active as an artist in the 1930s and early 1940s.Clements was born in Oakland California on June 8 1905. She studied art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson in New York City from 1925 to 1930. She moved to Los Angeles in 1930 settling in the neighborhood of Edendale. She taught art at the Chouinard Art Institute and Pasadena's Stickney Memorial School of Art.
Jack Jackson (British radio).  Jack Jackson (20 February 1906 – 15 January 1978) was an English trumpeter and bandleader popular during the British dance band era and who later became a highly influential radio disc jockey.
Tommy Stewart (trumpeter).  Tommy Stewart is an American trumpeter arranger producer composer and pianist residing in Birmingham Alabama. He is a member of several active performing groups including the Magic City Jazz Orchestra Cleveland Eaton and the Alabama All-Stars the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and Ray Reach and Friends. He was a 1988 inductee into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Eugène Gigout.  Eugène Gigout (French: [ʒiɡu]; 23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer mostly of music for his own instrument.
Lidiya Zablotskaya.  Lidiya Zablotskaya (Belarusian: Лідзія Заблоцкая) is a Belarusian child-singer. She represented Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Armenia with the song Angely dobra.Lidiya participated at the national selection to Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 but finished fourth. In the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 she got third place at finals with 99 points.
Jon Lajoie.  Jonathan Jon Lajoie (/ləˈʒwɒ/ lə-zhwaw; born August 21 1980) is a French-Canadian comedian actor rapper singer musician and Internet celebrity from Montreal Quebec. He gained fame mostly from his YouTube channel jonlajoie posting comedic original songs (as rapper E=MC Vagina) as well as comedy skits. He is also known for his role as Taco MacArthur on the FX comedy series The League.
Jordan Schmidt.  Jordan Schmidt is a music producer engineer mix engineer and songwriter. He has produced engineered mixed and/or written tracks for Motion City Soundtrack One Ok Rock All Time Low Quietdrive and many others. He currently resides in Nashville Tennessee.
Kevin R. Griffith.  Kevin R. Griffith (born January 22 1964) is an American poet and short fiction writer. He has published several books and currently teaches English at Capital University in Bexley Ohio. In addition to his books he has had over two hundred poems published over the last twenty years.Griffith was born and raised in Adrian Michigan and would eventually go to Ohio State University. It was there he found that he discovered poetry and writing. In 1992 he graduated from college with a Ph.D.
Rachel Rotten.  Rachel Rotten (born on October 8 1983) is an American former pornographic actress.
Clifton Chenier.  Clifton Chenier (June 25 1925 – December 12 1987) a Creole French-speaking native of Opelousas Louisiana was an eminent performer and recording artist of Zydeco which arose from Cajun and Creole music with R&B jazz and blues influences. He played the accordion and won a Grammy Award in 1983.
Arthur Meschian.  Arthur (Artashes) Meschian (Armenian: Արթուր Մեսչյան born March 3 1949 Yerevan) is an Armenian rock musician singer composer artist and architect. He is also known as one of the founders of Armenian rock.
René Marqués.  René Marqués (October 4 1919 - March 22 1979) was a renowned Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.
Biff Byford.  Peter Rodney Biff Byford (Honley West Yorkshire 15 January 1951) is an English singer best known as the lead singer of the heavy metal band Saxon.
A. Lawrence Vaincourt.  A. Lawrence Vaincourt was a Canadian writer best known for the poem Just a Common Soldier also known as A Soldier Died Today.The poem appears on thousands of websites was reprinted in Ann Landers syndicated column and received the Bronze Helmet Award of Excellence.
Spurgeon Tucker.  Spurgeon Tucker (November 2 1894 – June 5 1968) was an accomplished 20th-century American painter and successful lithographer.
Graeme K..  Graeme K. (b. Graeme Kennedy) is a musician producer and owner of Mckeenstreet Music a small independent record label based in Portland Maine. As an artist he is known for dense highly orchestrated compositions utilizing electronics and live instrumentation. In 2005 he was selected as one of the ten best unsigned artist in New York City by CMJ and asked to play in the 'Best of the Five Boroughs' concert in Prospect Park. In 2008 he released his debut record Hidden Beast.
Damien O'Kane.  Damien O'Kane was born in Coleraine Northern Ireland on 1 September 1978.He currently lives in Yorkshire with his wife Kate Rusby and their two daughters.
Tiberio d'Assisi.  Tiberio d'Assisi was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in the early 16th century. He painted in the style of Pietro Perugino. He is also known as Tiberio Diatelevi or Tiberio di AssisiHe painted a Madonna in the church of S. Martino near Trevi; a Madonna and five scenes from the life of St. Francis (1512) in the church of San Francesco in Montefalco; a St. Sebastian for the church of S. Fortunato in Montefalco; a Madonna in S.
Derrick Murdock.  Derrick Lee Murdock (aka Dock born December 13 1957) is an American bassist composer and producer. He is best known as the bassist in The Tonight Show Band lead by Kevin Eubanks on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2006–2011).
Günter Sommer.  Günter Baby Sommer (born 25. August 1943 in Dresden) is a German jazz drummer.He studied music in Dresden. He rose to fame in the GDR. He is part of the European free jazz avantgarde. He was part of the trio with Conny Bauer and Peter Kowald. He is now professor for drums and percussion in Dresden. The drummer and composer Christian Lillinger was one of his former students.
Julia Cæsar.  Julia Maria Vilhelmina Cæsar (28 January 1885 – 18 July 1971) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 144 films between 1913 and 1968.
Leonid Kuzmin.  Leonid Kuzmin is a Belarussian pianist.He won the Belarussian State Competition and the Prague Competition before settling in the United States in the 80s. He subsequently shared the 1991 Liszt-Bartók Competition's 2nd prize with Midori Nohara. He has performed internationally and remains active mainly in the Latin American scene.
Chloe Morgan (musician).  Chloe Morgan is an independent singer/songwriter currently based in Vancouver British Columbia. Her debut EP Piano Forté was released on August 21 2012.
Fast Eddie.  Fast Eddie (born Edwin A. Smith; January 20 1969) is an American house producer from Chicago Illinois.
Jake Childs.  Jake Childs is a tech-house producer and DJ. He was born as Leonard Jacob Rothschild on Sept. 30 1976 in Austin Texas and started playing music early in life following in the footsteps of his father who played trumpet professionally with the Navy Jazz Band. Childs learned to play trumpet guitar bass and keyboard.Childs’ musical career as a house music producer and DJ started in Houston where he became a fan of a house radio show and began attending weekly house music events.
Hoxton Tom McCourt.  'Hoxton' Tom McCourt (born 1961) is the former bassist and bandleader of punk rock/Oi! band The 4-Skins.
Francis Rossi.  Francis Rossi OBE (born 29 May 1949 Forest Hill South London) is a British musician best known for being a co-founder of the English rock band Status Quo in which he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar.
Su Su Bobien.  Suzette Montgomery (born November 4 1970) also known by her popular stage name Su Su Bobien is an American gospel and house music vocalist. Bobien rose to fame on the domestic and international house music scene with her 1999 hit You Don't Know (1999).
KT Tunstall.  Kate Victoria KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song Black Horse and the Cherry Tree on Later... with Jools Holland. She has enjoyed commercial and critical success since picking up three nominations before winning a BRIT Award and a Grammy Award nomination. She is also the recipient of an Ivor Novello Award.
Roger Hane.  Roger T. Hane (1939–1974) was an illustrator of paperback books commercial advertising campaigns and record albums known for his surreal fanciful art. During his eleven-year professional career Hane produced over three hundred illustrations. He painted the covers of the Collier-Macmillan editions of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia books as well as such Simon & Schuster publications as Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality.
Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain.  Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain an engraver was born in Paris about 1710. One account given of his history states that his proper name was Philippe and that he served as a French officer in the campaign in Flanders but afterwards devoted himself to the pursuit of art. He was endowed with extraordinary capacity; and had his application been but equal to his genius few would have surpassed him in the branch of art to which his natural disposition directed him.
Vitaly Novich.  Vitaly Novich (Riga Latvia (born May 5 1989) is a Peruvian - Russian singer who plays Latin pop and Tropical music.
Jimmy Ray.  Jimmy Ray (born 3 October 1970 Walthamstow London England) is an English pop-rock musician. In press interviews and promotional materials he cited his influence by the music of Elvis Presley and other rock and roll stars such as Buddy Holly Eddie Cochran and Tommy Steele. His manager was Simon Fuller who also managed The Spice Girls and produced the hit show American Idol.
Nalo Hopkinson.  Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside California.
Jason Perry (singer).  Jason Perry is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the Suffolk based band ’A’. He has an identical twin brother Adam and a younger brother Giles both of whom are also members of the band. Recently Perry has produced albums by Ivyrise The Blackout Kids in Glass Houses Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Futures Matt Willis and McFly.
Andrea Beck.  Andrea Beck is a Montreal-born author/illustrator living in Unionville Ontario who is well known for her best selling Elliot Moose books and the spin off Elliot Moose television show which aired in Canada and the US for ten years. Ms. Beck's characters are loved for their sweetness and charm and her books generally model friendship and community. Her recent publications include the Pierre Le Poof trilogy and the popular Goodnight Canada. Ms. Beck currently lives in Unionville ON.
Abigail Washburn.  Abigail Washburn (born November 10 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet.
John Gracie.  John Gracie is a Canadian folk music artist. Born in Glace Bay Nova Scotia Gracie is a three-time East Coast Music Awards Male Artist of the Year winning in 1989 1990 and 2000. He has also received nominations from the Juno Awards and the RPM Music Awards among others. His song Pass It On was selected as a theme song for food banks across Canada.
Eliphalet Oram Lyte.  Eliphalet Oram Lyte (1842 - 1913) was an American teacher and author of grammar and composition textbooks. He is credited as the composer of the tune to the popular song Row Row Row Your Boat in the publication The Franklin Square Song Collection (1881 New York). It is also indicated that he adapted the lyrics previously published to a different melody.Lyte was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania taught there in Millersville Pennsylvania and died there. Dr.
Ted Mooney.  Ted Mooney (born in Dallas Texas) is an American novelist and short story writer; He has published four novels: Easy Travel to Other Planets (1981) Traffic and Laughter (1990) Singing into the Piano (1998) and The Same River Twice (2010).
Bubba Hernandez.  Bubba Hernandez and Alex Meixner were nominated in the Best Polka album category in the 50th Annual Grammy Awards for their self-titled debut album Polka Freak Out. He is a former member of the Denton Texas based band Brave Combo but is best known as the bassist for The Wee-Beasties.He is currently the front member of Los Super Vatos also based out of Denton where he primarily plays bass.
Jim Raymond.  Jim Raymond (1917–1981) was a comic strip artist and the younger brother of Flash Gordon artist Alex Raymond.
Richard Barry O'Brien.  Richard Barry O'Brien (7 March 1847 – 17 March 1918) was an historian Irish journalist and prolific writer on Irish subjects.He was born at Kilrush County Clare. He studied law at the Catholic University Dublin after which he went to London. He was a founder-member of the Irish Literary Society and also joined the London Gaelic League. Politically he was loyal to Parnell. Parnell wished to make him a MP but he declined as he preferred to remain focused on writing.
Jorge Cham.  Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (born in May 1976) is a Chinese Panamanian cartoonist and roboticist best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). Cham lives in the United States where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University. He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in four published book collections.He was featured on NPR on December 20 2010.
Sylvia Chang.  Sylvia Chang (born Ai-chia Sylvia Chang 21 July 1953 in Chiayi Taiwan) is a Taiwanese actress writer singer producer and director. In 1992 she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Kirsten Rosenberg.  Kirsten Rosenberg is an American female singer currently with the all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens. She is also an animal rights advocate as well as a former co-owner of Sticky Fingers an all-vegan bakery in Washington D.C.
John Mascaro.  John Mascaro (born 1970s) is a painter and self-taught architect working between New York and Paris.Mascaro graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2004. In 2008 he co-founded Mut-Architecture with Eleonore Morand after meeting at Acconci Studio in Broolkyn NY.
Li'l Millet.  McKinley James Millet (25 October 1935 - 29 June 1997) was an American rhythm and blues pianist bass player singer and songwriter best known for co-writing and first performing the songs Rich Woman and All Around the World with his group Li'l Millet and the Creoles.
Nicole Skeltys.  Nicole Skeltys is an Australian composer writer and presenter currently based in London UK. From 1993 to 2003 she was part of B(if)tek an Australian electronica and dance act. Skeltys also released electronic music under the name Artificial during this period and was a member of Clan Analogue. Since 2002 she has been the writer for the webcomic Pigeon Coup with comic artist Aaron Doty (an episode of which appeared in Tango Seven). Since 2004 Skeltys has moved away from pure electronica.
Carlo Bozzoni.  Carlo Bozzoni (c. 1605-1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with his father the painter and engraver Luciano Bozzoni.
Tom Bennett (actor).  Tom Bennett is a British actor. He has appeared in many British television shows including The Hunt for Tony Blair Red Cap The Worst Week of My Life My Hero Life Begins The Booze Cruise II Foyle's War Midsomer Murders and EastEnders playing Steve Clarke. His early television appearances include Shoot The Writers! (2004) a late night comedy sketch show that doubled as a competition for new writers.
Baaba Maal.  Baaba Maal (born 12 November 1953) is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor on the Senegal River. He is well known in Africa and internationally is probably Senegal's most famous musician after Youssou N'Dour. In addition to acoustic guitar he also plays percussion. He has released several albums both for independent and major labels.
Tim Gaze.  Tim Gaze (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian rock and blues guitarist songwriter singer and producer. He was a member of several prominent Australian groups of the 1960s and 1970s including Tamam Shud Kahvas Jute Ariel and Rose Tattoo.
J Balvin.  José Álvaro Osorio Balvín (born May 7 1985) known artistically as J Balvin is a Colombian reggaeton singer. Balvin was born in Medellín the largest city of Antioquia where he became interested in rap dancehall champeta and bachata at a young age. He is known for his song Yo Te Lo Dije and Tranquila.
Sunny Chan.  Sunny Chan Kam-Hung (born 1 January 1967) is a Hong Kong television and film actor. His breakout film role was in the internationally multi-award-winning 1998 Hong Kong film Hold You Tight for which he won the coveted Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festival in 1998.
Henry Gilbert.  Henry Gilbert (1868–1937) was a popular children's author and the paternal grandfather of Molly Holden. His books continue to be reprinted as late as 2009 nearly 100 years after their original publication. His books are noted for both their historical accuracy and their story telling style.
Chris Wilson (drummer).  Christopher Ryan Wilson (born May 5 1981) is the drummer for Matt Toka and for JMSN. He was formerly the drummer for The Summer Obsession Good Charlotte. He filled-in for Yuri Ruley after he retired from MxPx.
David Lemieux (archivist).  David Hardy Lemieux (November 8 1970) is an audio and film archivist. He is a Grammy Juno and Gemini Award voting member. He is audiovisual archivist for the Grateful Dead.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.  The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre is a comedy act that began in the UK in 2005 and has performed nationally and internationally since. They first appeared as part of The Sitcom Trials in London. They appeared in the Gilded Balloon at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007 2008 2009 and 2010 attracting rave reviews. The act has toured nationally and internationally every year since 2008 including Holland Denmark and the Channel Isles.
Martha Carson.  Martha Carson (March 19 1921 – December 16 2004) born Irene Amburgey was an American gospel-country music singer most popular during the 1950s.
Marty Haggard.  Marty Haggard (born June 18 1958) is an American country music singer. He is the son of singer-songwriter Merle Haggard. Between 1981 and 1987 Haggard charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in addition to performing in his father's road band.
Ryan Roxie.  Ryan Roxie born in Sacramento California December 1 1965 is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter currently residing in Stockholm Sweden. He is the founding member of Roxie 77 and probably most well known for his guitar work with Alice Cooper Slash's Snakepit Casablanca Dad's Porno Mag plus many more. Along with his writing recording and touring schedule he is also developing a new TV web magazine show entitled 'All Excess with Ryan Roxie'.
Mr. J. Medeiros.  Jason C. Medeiros better known as Mr. J. Medeiros is an American M.C. record producer and songwriter He is responsible for forming the Hip Hop group The Procussions the IAmConstance campaign and his own label De Medeiros. He is of Portuguese and Scottish descent.
Alex Michon.  Alex Michon is a British artist based in London and runs the Transition Gallery in Hackney with Cathy Lomax.
Dong Yong.  Dong Yong (other names: 董勇 Tung Yung; born 15 December 1968 China) is a Chinese actor. He studied singing opera and also kung-fu.
Ronnie Spector.  Ronnie Spector (born Veronica Yvette Bennett August 10 1943) is an American rock and roll and popular music vocalist. She was lead singer of the 1960s hit-making girl group the Ronettes. She has been called the original bad girl of rock and roll.
Howard Fishman.  Howard Fishman is a singer guitarist bandleader and composer from New York NY. His music is inspired by a deep passion for New Orleans jazz pop gospel and country music but is filtered through a contemporary aesthetic. Fishman began his musical career on the streets of New Orleans and in the subways of New York before making his debut at The Algonquin Oak Room in 1999.
Susan Grant.  Susan Grant is a pilot and New York Times bestselling author best known for combining science fiction with romance. Grant graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1982 the third class to include women and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. She went on to pilot training at Laughlin Air Force Base Texas. After graduating she stayed on as a flight instructor.
Raquel Ilonbé.  Raquel Ilonbé pseudonym of Raquel del Pozo Epita (1938 – 1992) was an Equatoguinean writer in Spanish.
Debby Applegate.  Debby Applegate (born 1968) is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.Born in Eugene Oregon in 1968 Applegate attended Amherst College as an undergraduate where she began a two-decade fascination with famous alumnus Henry Ward Beecher a 19th-century abolitionist minister who was later the subject of a widely publicized sex scandal.
Dov Feigin.  Dov Feigin (Hebrew: דב פייגין‎; born 1907 died 2000) was an Israeli sculptor.
George William Tighe.  George William Tighe 25 February 1776 – March 1837) was the common-law husband of Margaret King Lady Mount Cashell.Tighe was living in Rome when he met Lady Margaret King who was visiting the city with her then husband the 2nd Earl Mountcashell. They began a passionate affair around 1803 which continued until Margaret's death at Pisa in January 1835. Lady Mountcashell remained with her husband however until 1805 when Lord Mountcashell left her in Germany.
Mac Powell.  Mac Powell (born Johnny Mac Powell; December 25 1972) originally from Clanton Alabama is an American singer-songwriter producer and musician who formed the Christian rock band Third Day with guitarist Mark Lee. Powell won the 2001 Gospel Music Association award for Male Vocalist of the Year.
Tim Hart.  Tim Hart is also the name of the original Theory of a Deadman drummer. It is also the name of a traditional Irish whistle player from California.Tim Hart (9 January 1948 – 24 December 2009) was an English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of electric folk band Steeleye Span.
Michael Scott Parker.  Michael Scott Parker (born 6 May 1981) is an American musician songwriter and visual artist currently living in Austin Texas. She had an international upbringing as the elder of Hollywood stuntwoman Ramsey Scott's two children.
Andrés Muciño.  Enrique Andrés Muciño Castro (born December 27 1991 in Puebla Puebla Mexico) is a Mexican pianist.
Léon Spilliaert.  Léon Spilliaert (28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.Spilliaert was born in Ostend the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert who was a perfumer and Léonie (née Jonckheere). From childhood he displayed an interest in art and drawing. A prolific doodler and autodidact he was predominantly a self-taught artist. Sickly and reclusive he spent most of his youth sketching scenes of ordinary life and the Belgian countryside.
Pierre Viaud.  Pierre Viaud wrote a book titled Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud. First published in French in 1768 and in English in 1771. The book was reprinted several times in both languages and was an 18th century international bestseller.On 16 February 1766 Le Tigre a French merchant brigantine was en route to New Orleans and wrecked 300 yards east of Dog Island in a great storm. Pierre Viaud was a passenger on this ship.
Jim Evans (artist).  Jim Evans was born sometime in the 1950s. Sometimes known as T.A.Z. Jim Evans is an American painter printmaker and Creative Director who was a contributing figure in the visual art movement known as underground comics. After a successful career as a comic illustrator Jim Evans became known for his work as a painter poster maker and owner of the digital design group Division 13.
Esther Ballou.  Esther Williamson Ballou (17 July 1915 – 12 March 1973) was an American music educator organist and composer. She was born in Elmira New York began organ lessons at age 13 and began composing in her twenties. She studied at Bennington College Mills College and The Juilliard School of Music in 1943.After completing her education she married Harold Ballou in August 1950.
Koji Inada.  Koji Inada (稲田 浩司 Inada Kōji born March 14 1964) is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering. His drawing style is very similar to that of Akira Toriyama. He is associated with Weekly Shōnen Jump.Much to his and his fans' dismay Inada has been ill since September 2006 which led to the hiatus of Beet the Vandel Buster at volume 12.
Adrian Salmon.  Adrian Salmon is a comic book artist and illustrator from England.
Todd McFarlane.  Todd McFarlane (/məkˈfɑrlɪn/; born March 16 1961) is a Canadian cartoonist artist writer toy designer and entrepreneur best known for his work in comic books such as the fantasy series Spawn. In the late 1980s and early 1990s McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise on which he was the artist to draw the first full appearances of the supervillain Venom.
Arijit Singh.  Arijit Singh (Bengali: অরিজিৎ সিং) (born 25 April 1987 in Jiaganj Murshidabad) is an Indian playback singer. He was one of top six contestants in reality-singing series Fame Gurukul in 2005 and became an assistant to music director Pritam. He married Koel in 2014.
Octavio Cordero Palacios (writer).  Octavio Cordero Palacios (Santa Rosa Azuay May 3 1870 – December 17 1930) was an Ecuadorian writer playwright poet mathematician lawyer professor and inventor.Today a town and parish in Cuenca is named after him.
Jahméne Douglas.  Jahméne Aaron Douglas (born 26 February 1991) is a British soul/gospel singer who was the runner-up to James Arthur on the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012.In December 2012 he signed a record deal with Sony Music.
Berton Roueché.  Berton Roueché (/ruːˈʃeɪ/ roo-SHAY; April 16 1910 – April 28 1994) was a medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books including Eleven Blue Men (1954) The Incurable Wound (1958) Feral (1974) and The Medical Detectives (1980). An article he wrote for The New Yorker was made into the 1956 film Bigger Than Life and many of the medical mysteries on the television show House were inspired by Roueché's writings.
Olga Slavnikova.  Olga Alexandrovna Slavnikova (Russian: О́льга Алекса́ндровна Сла́вникова; born 23 October 1957) is a Russian novelist and literary critic. She was awarded the 2006 Russian Booker Prize for her novel 2017.
Kan Chun.  Kan Chun (Burmese: ကံချွန် pronounced: [kàɴ tɕʰʊ̀ɴ]; 4 April 1946 – 20 August 2009) was a Burmese satirist journalist novelist cartoonist and painter from Mandalay Burma (Myanmar). He was a prolific cartoonist and writer; he published 73 books. He died in August 2009 of cancer.
W. Ben Hunt.  Walter Bernard Ben Hunt (March 13 1888 – March 30 1970) “was an American artist outdoor educator and author” whose books and articles covered topics such as “Native American arts and performance woodworking whittling scoutcraft pioneering jewelry making metalworking and calligraphy.”Hunt was born in Greenfield Wisconsin and grew up in a log cabin.
Ean Golden.  Ean Golden (born on January 17 1980) is a San Francisco CA-based DJ controllerist designer of DJ equipment and founder of the digital DJ blog DJ TechTools.
Ron J. Friedman.  Ron J. Friedman is an American screenwriter best known for his work with Steve Bencich.Friedman and Bencich have collaborated on screenplays for several animated films including Brother Bear Chicken Little and Open Season. DreamWorks has purchased their comedy screenplay Gullible's Travels about a gullible man who travels in time in a portable toilet.
Algebra (singer).  Algebra (born Algebra Felicia Blessett 1976 Atlanta Georgia) is an American contemporary R&B singer.
Ricardo Gallén.  Ricardo Jesús Gallén García (12 March 1972) is a Spanish classical guitarist who has been active since the mid-1990's. He is currently a Professor of Guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar Germany.
Shaukat Galiev.  Shaukat Galiev (full name Shaukat Galievich Idiyatullin Tatar: Шәүкәт Галиулла улы Һидиятуллин Şəwkət Ğali uğlı Hidiətullin; Russian: Шаукат Галиевич Идиятуллин) 20 November 1928 – 7 May 2011He was a renowned Tatar poet writer and a publisher widely known for his children books.
Ana Cristina.  Ana Cristina Álvarez (born June 2 1985) Ana Cristina is a Cuban American singer-songwriter.Ana was born in Miami Florida United States and is of Cuban descent and of Spanish English and Italian ancestry. Ana Cristina showed exceptional talent at a very young age.
Bae Suah.  Suah Bae (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean author who was born in 1965.
Helen Fielding.  Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason have been published in forty countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name have achieved worldwide success.
Konstantin Pankov.  Konstantin Leonidovich Pankov (Russian: Константин Леонидович Панков 1910–1942) was an ethnically Nenets/Mansi Soviet painter. Born in the far north in a family of hunters he became the first Nenets artist. He started to paint his landscapes although he had never seen any paintings. As Gennady Gor wrote Pankov's paintings are meditations on his land in terms of color. In the Far North airplanes and self-propelled sledges can be seen side by side with sleds pulled by teams of reindeer.
Giovanni Battista Passeri.  Giovanni Battista Passeri (c. 1610 – 22 April 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Domenichino as the latter worked at Frascati. He painted genre and still life paintings. Born in Rome Passeri is also known for his volume of artists' biographies or Lives of the painters sculptors and architects who practiced in Rome and died between 1641 and 1673 published in 1773.
Crane (musician).  Crane is a pseudonym of Richard Alan Krieger (born ca. 1956). He is a trumpeter and vocalist that has played and recorded with Minutemen on their albums Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat and Project: Mersh and with that group's D. Boon in the Revival of Rock in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.He is the songwriter and bassist who started the group Wasted Space/Tragicomedy in 1974; they recorded Homage to Nada on New Alliance Records in 1983.
Tiberio Tinelli.  Tiberio Tinelli (1586–1638) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period active mainly in his native city of Venice.He trained with Giovanni Contarini a pupil of the late Titian. Tinelli then either worked under or emulated Leandro Bassano. He was well known for his portraits of aristocracy merchants and intellectuals in Venice whom he often painted in historical dress. His small pictures of historical and mythological subjects were also popular.
Mark Gaudet.  Mark Gaudet (born October 30 1963) is a Canadian musician from Moncton New Brunswick. He has played in various indie and metal music groups such as Elevator Eric's Trip Purple Knight and Funeral Fog. In 1974 at the age of eleven Gaudet formed his first band Purple Knight. In 1991 Gaudet joined Eric's Trip taking the place of former drummer Ed Vaughn. Mark Gaudet joined Moncton black metal band Funeral Fog in 2003.
Jayadevi Jangamshetti.  Jayadevi Jangamashetti (Kannada: ಜಯದೇವಿ ಜ೦ಗಮಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of Jaipur Gwaliar gharana.
Will Meugniot.  Will Meugniot is an American writer storyboard and comics artist film producer and director. He is known for his work on animated shows in the 1990s and 2000s.
Kagami Yoshimizu.  Kagami Yoshimizu (美水 かがみ Yoshimizu Kagami born October 7 1977) is a Japanese manga author from Satte Saitama Japan. He is perhaps best known as the creator of a four-panel comic strip Lucky Star which has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine since January 2004. He is also credited for creating Comptiq's mascot character Comp-chan (コンプちゃん Konpu-chan). Yoshimizu also works under the pen name Tsukasa Suina (水奈 つかさ Suina Tsukasa).
Hoyt Axton.  Hoyt Wayne Axton (March 25 1938 – October 26 1999) was an American folk music singer-songwriter and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured some of his songwriting efforts became well known throughout the world. Among them were Joy to the World The Pusher No No Song and Greenback Dollar.
Ryan Ottley.  Ryan Ottley aka Uncle WYA is an American comic book artist. He is best known for work on Image Comics' Invincible.
Sinnamon Love.  Sinnamon Love is a former African American pornographic actress fetish model glamour model and dominatrix.She was raised in Flint Michigan and attended both private and magnet schools. At age 16 she moved to Los Angeles California where she received her high school diploma a year early. She got married while at Santa Monica College but later divorced leaving her a single mother of two children. She has since had one more child.
Mirko Fait.  Mirko Fait June 3 1965 Milan Italy is an Italian jazz saxophonist and composer. Born in a family of musicians Fait began playing the saxophone in his teenage years gaining notoriety in 2002 when he accompanied Cuban musician Gendrickson Mena Diaz on a four-day fashion event hosted by Pitti Uomo.
Tom Smothers.  Tom Smothers (born Thomas Bolyn Smothers III on February 2 1937) is an American comedian composer and musician best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers alongside his younger brother Dick.
Aung Myint.  Aung Myint (Burmese: အောင်မြင့် pronounced: [ʔàʊɴ mjɪ̰ɴ]; born 27 October 1946) is a Burmese painter and performance artist. He is considered a pioneer in experimental art rejecting traditional romanticism and confronting social and critical issues through a range of distinctive styles and media.
Aleksei Bibik.  Aleksei Pavlovich Bibik (Russian: Алексей Павлович Бибик; October 17 1878- November 18 1976) was one of the first working-class novelists in Russia.
Circuba.  Circuba is Cuba's national circus and is associated with the Cuban National Circus School founded on June 6 1968. Members of the Circuba company have to first complete the normal academic course work required of all Cuban students before they can hope to be accepted for the four-year program of rigorous training in the circus arts. It consists of about twenty artists aged between 19 and 30. Twenty-one artists graduated in 1979.
Patricia O'Callaghan.  Patricia Mary O'Callaghan (born 1970) is a classically trained Canadian singer. She is a soprano who has built an international reputation as a performer of contemporary opera early 20th-century cabaret music and the songs of Leonard Cohen. She trained as an opera singer after being unable as a teenager to decide whether to become a rockstar or a nun and JazzTimes magazine has labelled her the stunning Canadian chanteuse with the chilling soprano voice.
Hendrick van Balen.  Hendrik van Balen (1575 – 17 July 1632) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Michael Gow.  Michael Gow is an Australian playwright and director most famed for his 1986 work Away. As a student at Sydney University Gow acted and directed with the Dramatic Society from 1973-1976. After graduation Gow went on to act with Nimrod Thalia and Sydney Theatre Companies.He was the Artistic Director at the Queensland Theatre Company from 1999 until 2010.
Carl Randall.  Carl Randall (born 1975) is a British figurative painter whose recent work is based on images of modern Japan.
Hartmut Abendschein.  Hartmut Abendschein (Schwäbisch Hall 7 October 1969) is a German-Swiss writer.
Anastasiya Markovich.  Anastasiya Markovich (Born October 23 1979 Brichany Moldavia) is a Ukrainian painter. Anastasiya Markovich lives and works in Chernivtsi in the south-west of Ukraine where she grew up after her birth.Anastasiya Markovich is known for several exhibitions in- and outside of the Ukraine and publications in several (art) magazines and the art book “Світ Левкасу” (“The World of Levkas”).
Barry Liebmann.  Barry Liebmann is a comedy writer whose work has frequently appeared in the pages of MAD Magazine and has also worked for Looney Tunes comics. In addition he has done work as an actor appearing regularly with The Play's the Thing Theatre Company Living Legends Radio Theatre and with The NoName Players as Beloved Intern Barry.
Elof Ahrle.  Elof Ahrle (21 January 1900 – 3 June 1965) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 80 films between 1920 and 1960. He also directed ten films between 1942 and 1950. He was married to actress Birgit Rosengren (1912-2011).
Paul Ayshford Methuen 4th Baron Methuen.  Paul Ayshford Methuen 4th Baron Methuen (29 September 1886 – 7 January 1974) was a zoologist painter and landowner. He was the eldest child of the 3rd Baron Methuen and his second wife Mary Ethel.
Peter D. Kramer.  Peter D. Kramer (b. October 22 1948) is an American psychiatrist former Marshall Scholar and faculty member of Brown Medical School specializing in the area of depression. He considers depression to be a serious illness with tangible physiological effects such as disorganizing the brain and disrupting the functioning of the cardiovascular system.
Jeff Pidgeon.  Jeffrey Pidgeon or Jeff Pidgeon (born March 19 1965) is an American voice actor writer and animator at Pixar.
Shel Dorf.  Sheldon Shel Dorf (July 5 1933 – November 3 2009) was an American comic-strip letterer and freelance artist and the founder of the San Diego Comic-Con International. Dorf lettered the Steve Canyon comic strip for the last 12 to 14 years of the strip's run.
Macc Lads.  The Macc Lads were a punk and hard rock band from Macclesfield Cheshire England. Self-proclaimed the rudest crudest lewdest drunkest band in Christendom the Macc Lads used irreverent zany and foul-mouthed lyrics political incorrectness drinking sexism and homophobia.
Nicola Reynolds.  Nicola Jane Reynolds (born 1972 Pontypridd) is a Cardiff-based Welsh actress.After appearing in the 1999 film Human Traffic she appeared in a series of jobbing roles including Clocking Off and High Hopes. Nicola also appeared in Scrum 4 as Meg.She made her public break through in the children's CBBC show The Story of Tracy Beaker as head care worker Shelley. During this period she also became part of an ensemble around comedian turned actor Johnny Vegas.
Kristin Asbjørnsen.  Kristin Asbjørnsen (born 12 May 1971 in Lillehammer Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer and composer whose focus is on improvised music. She was educated at the Jazz Program at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music Norwegian Academy of Music and the University of Oslo and known from different musical projects like Dadafon Krøyt Kvitretten and Nymark Collective among others.
Angelos Sikelianos.  Angelos Sikelianos (Greek: Άγγελος Σικελιανός; 28 March 1884 – 19 June 1951) was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history religious symbolism and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed Prologue to Life Mother of God and Delphic Utterance. His plays include Sibylla Daedalus in Crete Christ in Rome The Death of Digenis and Asklepius. He was the first twentieth-century Greek poet being candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Warren Ellis.  Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English author of comics novels and television who is well known for sociocultural commentary both through his online presence and through his writing which covers transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology cryonics mind transfer and human enhancement). He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea England.
Richard Stone (composer).  Richard Stone (November 27 1953 - March 9 2001) was an American composer. He played an important part in the revival of Warner Bros. animation in the 1990s composing music and songs for Tiny Toon Adventures Taz-Mania SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron[citation needed] Animaniacs Pinky and the Brain Freakazoid! Road Rovers Histeria! and The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries.
Álvaro Urquijo.  Álvaro Urquijo (born 22 June 1962) is a Spanish guitarist and singer-songwriter who is known as one of the founding members of the pop rock group Los Secretos.He founded Los Secretos with his brothers Javier and Enrique Urquijo in 1980.
Max Bohm.  Max Bohm (1868–1923) was an American artist born in Cleveland but he spent much of his time in Europe.
Tiffany Foxx.  Tiffany Foxx (born in St.Louis MO) is an American hip-hop artist signed to rapper Lil' Kim under the label International Rock Star Records. Foxx has worked with Akon Lil' Kim Nelly and Snoop Dogg among others.
Mandy Harvey.  Mandy Harvey (born January 2 1988) is a deaf American jazz singer and songwriter. A Vocal Music Education major at Colorado State University Mandy lost her hearing in 2006-2007 at age eighteen and left. She pursued several career options including education but returned to music in 2008. Smile (2009) is a self-produced album and has received acclaim from Jazz critics. She plans two more before December 2010.
Mabel Murray Hickson.  Mabel Murray Hickson née Mabel Greenhow (2 February 1859 Esher – 12 November 1922) was an English writer of short stories.She married Robert Murray Hickson in 1884. After publishing a short novel A Latter-Day Romance in 1893 Hickson became a prolific contributor of stories to periodicals of the 1890s. Upon her second marriage in 1896 she became Mabel Greenhow Kitcat though she continued to write under the name Mrs Murray Hickson.
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar.  Mohammad-Taqí Bahār (محمد تقی بهار in Persian) (November 6 1884 Mashhad Iran – April 22 1951 Tehran Iran) widely known as Malek o-Sho'arā (ملک‌ الشعراء) and Malek o-Sho'arā Bahār (literally: the king of poets) is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar who was also a politician journalist historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character.
Kim Sa-in.  Kim Sa-in is a Korean poet.
Tony Schumacher (author).  Tony Schumacher (17 May 1848 in Ludwigsburg – 10 July 1931 in Ludwigsburg; born Antonie Louise Christiane Marie Sophie von Baur-Breitenfeld) was a German author. Together with Thekla von Gumpert Isabella Braun Ottilie Wildermuth Johanna Spyri Agnes Sapper and others she belongs to the most well known German children books authors of the 19th and early 20th century.
Miriam Mandel.  Miriam Mandel (June 24 1930 – February 13 1982) was a Canadian poet who won Canada's Governor General's Award.
Rob Heyland.  Rob Heyland (born 2 April 1954) is a British actor turned television writer.His first TV role was as a police constable in a 1982 episode of The Professionals entitled Cry Wolf.He is perhaps best known for his role as Donald Turner in the popular BBC series One By One about a zoo vet.
Nelson De La Nuez.  Nelson De La Nuez (born in 1959) in Havana Cuba is an American Pop Artist and visual satirist.
Weaver Hawkins.  Harold Frederick Weaver Hawkins (1893-1977) was an English painter who specialized in ambitious sometimes mural-sized modernist allegories of morality for an age of atomic warfare and global over-population.
Enrico Cerulli.  Enrico Cerulli (February 15 1898 - September 19 1988) was an Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies a governor and a diplomat.
Nojus Bartaška.  Nojus Bartaška also known as Bartas (born June 26 1996 in Kaunas Lithuania) is a singer-songwriter who supported Lithuania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
Kirill Pokrovsky.  Kirill Pokrovsky (born in Moscow as Покровский Кирилл Владимирович) is a Russian/Belgian composer and performer. When he was only five years old his mother instructor & pianist gave him the first music lessons.
Zarina (artist).  Zarina Hashmi (born 1937) is an Indian artist who produces work in a number of forms primarily using paper. Her work spans drawing printmaking papermaking sculpture and drawing. It is abstract and minimal and explores the concept of home.Born in Aligarh India she earned a degree in mathematics before studying a variety of printmaking methods in Thailand France (where she was apprenticed to Stanley William Hayter) and Japan.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte.  Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE and was a war correspondent for twenty one years (1973–1994). His first novel El húsar set in the Napoleonic Wars was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his Alatriste series of novels. He is now a member of the Royal Spanish Academy a position he has held since 12 June 2003.
Ryan North.  Ryan M.
Sophie Radford de Meissner.  Sophie Radford de Meissner (November 17 1854 – April 17 1957) was an author playwright diplomat's wife spiritualist and socialite.
Bob Daisley.  Robert John Bob Daisley (born 13 February 1950) is an Australian musician and author. A bassist and songwriter he has performed with numerous acts since the 1970s most notably Rainbow Ozzy Osbourne Gary Moore and Uriah Heep.
Arjang Kamkar.  Arjang Kamkar (Kurdish: Erjeng Kamkar Persian: ارژنگ کامکار ‎ born 1954) is a Kurdish musician from Iran.As a child he was interested in painting and came to Tehran in 1978 to study art at Tehran University's Faculty of Fine Arts. As he lived in a family of musicians he learned to play the Tombak which he played for many years as a member of the Art and Culture Orchestra of Sanandaj.
Vasily Tropinin.  Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Russian: Василий Андреевич Тропинин; March 30 [O.S. March 19] 1776 – May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1857) was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Gold-Embroideress.
Dale Henderson.  Dale Henderson (born January 8 1966) is an American musician. He is best known as the frontman and guitarist of the crossover thrash band Beowülf where he is the only constant member. He composed the music and wrote the lyrics on all of Beowülf's albums.
Chéri Samba.  Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi (born December 30 1956 in Kinto M’Vuila) is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the most famous contemporary African artists with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A large amount of his paintings are also found in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi.
Milton Davis.  Milton Davis is an American musician songwriter and producer from Birmingham Alabama and based in the California bay area.
James Still.  James Still (July 16 1906 – April 28 2001) was an American poet novelist and folklorist. He lived most of his life in a log house along the Dead Mare Branch of Little Carr Creek Knott County Kentucky. He was best known for the novel River of Earth which depicted the struggles of coal mining in eastern Kentucky.
DJ Scotch Egg.  DJ Scotch Egg (born Shigeru Ishihara) is a Japanese producer of chiptune/gabba music based in Brighton England.He has released music on the Wrong Music label Adaadat and was signed to Load Records after Lightning Bolt was impressed by his music.).
Erik Rico.  Erik Rico is an American born musician singer songwriter producer and DJ.
Angela Knight (author).  Angela Knight is an American author of mostly erotic fantasy. She was a reporter for ten years and a comic book author. She lives in South Carolina. First published under Red Sage she was able to write romantic fiction for the first time in 1996. She published several short stories in their Secrets anthologies. Editor Cindy Hwang brought her to Berkley Publishing and has helped her become a best selling author.
Leonard Wibberley.  Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley (9 April 1915 – 22 November 1983): a prolific and versatile Irish-born author who spent most of his life in the United States. Wibberley published under his name as well as 3 pen-names more than 100 books. He is best known for five satirical novels about an imaginary country Grand Fenwick—particularly The Mouse That Roared.Wibberley's adult and juvenile publications cut across the categories of fictional novels history and biography.
Rob Johnson (musician).  Robert Arthur Rob Johnson (born November 20 1971 in Edmonton Alberta and also known under various pseudonyms including Freshbread) is a Canadian musician currently based in Vancouver British Columbia. He played bass guitar in the punk and alternative rock bands SNFU and the Wheat Chiefs in addition to recording his own hip hop and hard rock music in various incarnations.
Gökçe (singer).  Gökçe Dinçer (born 9 September 1979) better known by her mononym Gökçe is a Turkish singer and songwriter. She is best known for Tuttu Fırlattı a song that stayed at the top of Türkçe Top 20 the official Turkish Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks in August and September 2011.
Lars Lilholt.  Lars Lilholt (born in Herlev Denmark on March 14 1953) is a Danish singer violinist guitarist and composer.
Joe Lamont.  Joe Lamont is an Australian American[citation needed] rock singer songwriter and musician. Lamont has been a member of several rock bands; while in these bands he was known as Joe Lamente. In 1985 he released a solo album entitled Secrets You Keep.
Alfred Döblin.  Bruno Alfred Döblin (August 10 1878 – June 26 1957) was a German novelist essayist and doctor best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism.
Ian Callanan.  Ian Callanan (born 17 March 1971 Cork Ireland Ireland) is an Irish composer of Catholic liturgical music and a contemporary Christian songwriter best known for composing the hymn Comfort My People and Take and Eat This is my Body.
Gianni Meccia.  Giovanni Gianni Meccia (born 2 June 1931 Ferrara Italy) is an Italian actor composer and singer. He is usually associated with Jimmy Fontana.
Prem Parkash.  Sahitya Akademi (Indian academy of letters) award-winner Prem Parkash (born April 7 1932. Khanna Ludhiana district) is one of the major short story writers in post-1947 East Punjabi literature.[citation needed]He worked as a journalist and as of 2003 lives in Jalandhar with his family.
M. P. Paul.  M. P. Paul was a college professor scholar and a literary critic of Malayalam.
Kanoko Sakurakoji.  Kanoko Sakurakoji (桜小路 かのこ Sakurakōji Kanoko born in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. She writes primarily for Shogakukan in the shōjo manga magazine Betsucomi. She is best known as the author of Backstage Prince and Black Bird. Black Bird received the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga. Both Backstage Prince and Black Bird are licensed in English in North America by Viz Media.
Hovik Vardoumian.  Hovik Vardoumian (Armenian Հովիկ Վարդումյան) (Born Jojkan Armenia July 26 1940 is an Armenian short story writer and novelist.
Milt Franklyn.  Milton J. Franklyn (September 16 1897 – April 24 1962) was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons.Franklyn moved from New York to Salt Lake City at the age of three where he went to high school and finished one year at the University of Utah. He was the state junior tennis champion in Utah for six years.
Fundisha.  Fundisha Johnson is an American R&B singer. She sang with Lil' Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri on 2002's Basketball and on Thank You before issuing solo albums and singles.
Robert J. Avrech.  Robert J. Avrech is an American screenwriter whose works include the 1984 film Body Double (with Brian De Palma) and A Stranger Among Us (1992).Robert Avrech won an Emmy Award for his screenplay The Devil's Arithmetic based on the young adult novel by Jane Yolen.
Guy Berryman.  Guy Rupert Berryman (born 12 April 1978) is a Scottish musician multi-instrumentalist and producer best known as the bassist for the groups Coldplay and Apparatjik. Berryman is left-handed but plays the bass right-handed.
Amanda Mair.  Amanda Ulrika Magdalena Mair (pronounced Mayer) (born 14 June 1994) is a Swedish singer and musician.Amanda Mair grew in Lidingö Sweden where she lived with her parents who ran a bakery. Because she was underage when she started singing in night clubs her parents would usually accompany her during the gigs. She also studied at the Rytmus Musikergymnasiet a music school in Stockholm. Mair was discovered by the label Labrador Records in 2010.
Conny Vandenbos.  Conny Vandenbos (16 January 1937 – 7 April 2002) was a popular Dutch singer. She had her first radio hit in 1966 and continued to make hit recordings through the 1970s. Notably in her later career she released an entire album of Janis Ian songs in 1980.
Susan Tichy.  Susan Elizabeth Tichy (born 25 April 1952 Washington D.C.) is an American poet.
M. Ranga Rao.  M. Ranga Rao (1932–1991) was a prominent Indian Music director who predominantly worked in Kannada films. He was known for his mellifluous scores and lilting tunes backed with strong classical nuances.
Ella Leya.  Ella Leya is an Azerbaijani-American composer singer and writer born in Baku Azerbaijan. Her American CD releases include Queen of Night Russian Romance and Secret Lives of Women. Queen of Night -- and especially the songs Kabbalistic Prayer and He’s Just A Little Boy—was a tribute to the memory of her son Sergey. Russian Romance -- dug into her cultural heritage combining classic Russian poetry Middle Eastern rhythms and her atmospheric melodies.
Roger Loveless.  Roger Loveless is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Martin Greenberg.  Martin Greenberg ( 28 June 1918 - 20 October 2013) is an American book publisher and editor of science fiction anthologies.
Richard Beasley (author).  Richard Beasley (born 1964) is an Australian author and barrister.
Hugo Claus.  Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦyˑɣoˑ klɒˑu̯s]; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama the novel and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch although he also wrote some poetry in English.His death by euthanasia which is legal in Belgium led to considerable controversy.
Al Trace.  Albert J. Trace (December 25 1900 – August 31 1993) was a prolific American songwriter and orchestra leader of the 1930s 40s and 50s whose peak of popularity was reached in the Chicago area during the height of the Big Band era.A native of Chicago Al Trace played professional baseball before deciding on music as a career.
Esteban Vicente.  Esteban Vicente Pérez (January 20 1903 – January 10 2001) was an American painter born in Turégano Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists.
Petre Hârtopeanu.  Petre Hârtopeanu (15 June 1913 Dângeni Botoşani County Romania — 2001 Frankfurt-am-Main) was a Romanian-German painter art professor.
Emiel Pijnaker.  Emiel Pijnaker is a film producer composer and singer. In 2004 he and his band Yellow Pearl were signed to BMG Records now called Sony Music Entertainment. In 2009 he wrote music for the movie Monkeyman935. In 2014 several other movie projects will feature his music including the documentary Wrestling with Faith about the life of wrestler Ted DiBiase.
Kim Ryeo-ryeong.  Kim Ryeo-ryeong (Hangul: 김려령; born 1971) is a South Korean writer.
Russ Freeman (guitarist).  Russ Freeman (born February 11 1960 in Nashville Tennessee) is a smooth jazz artist of multiple genres composer and bandleader.
Allan Wu.  Allan Wu (Chinese: 吴振天; pinyin: Wú Zhèntiān born Chinese: 吴振宇; pinyin: Wú Zhènyù on 11 June 1972) is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor host VJ and former model. He is currently host of the Asian version of The Amazing Race.Wu decided to change his Chinese name because it was similar to Hong Kong film star Francis Ng (Chinese: 吳鎮宇; pinyin: Wú Zhènyù).
Memo Acevedo.  Memo Acevedo is an Colombian-born Canadian-American drummer percussionist composer arranger bandleader and educator considered a pioneer both in his native Colombia and in Spain (in his contribution to their respective rock music scenes) as well as in Canada where he later became a leading figure in the proliferation of Latin jazz. Since 1996 Acevedo has resided in New York City.
Jel.  Jeffrey James Logan better known by his stage name Jel is an American alternative hip hop producer and rapper. He is co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon. He has been a member of Themselves Subtle 13 & God and Presage.
Béla Spányi.  Béla Spányi (Pest 1852 – Budapest 1914) was a Hungarian artist with works in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery.
Necro (rapper).  Ron Braunstein (born June 7 1976) better known by his stage-name Necro is a Jewish-American rapper producer director and record label owner from Brooklyn New York. He is the owner of Psycho+Logical-Records founded November 1999. He is the brother of fellow rapper Ill Bill.
Taeko Kunishima.  Taeko Kunishima (September 2) is a Japanese jazz pianist. Initially influenced by classical composers she switched to jazz music after listening to Miles Davis. She incorporates traditional Japanese music into her repertoire.
Adam Anderson (economist).  Adam Anderson (1692 or 1693 – 10 January 1765) was a Scottish economist. He was a clerk for forty years in South Sea House the headquarters of the South Sea Company where he published a work entitled Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time containing a History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire (1762 2 vols. fol.).Late in his life Anderson traveled to the American colonies begetting a son Adam E.
Betsy Byars.  Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for The Night Swimmers (1980)and an Edgar Award for Wanted ... Mud Blossom (1991).
Letha Weapons.  Letha Weapons (born July 5 1972) is an adult model and former porn actress who appeared in many adult films in the big-bust category.
Madampu Kunjukuttan.  Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan is a renowned Malayalam author and a screenplay writer. He was born on June 23 1941 in Kiralur a small village in Thrissur district in the Indian state of Kerala. He is one of the most prolific and versatile writers in modern Malayalam literature. His novels short stories and screenplays speaks more about the Kerala society.
Pier Simone Fanelli.  Pier Simone Fanelli (Ancona December 29 1641 - Cingoli 1703) was an Italian painter active in the Region of the Marche active in a Baroque style.His training is unclear. By 1665-1666 he was painting in the church of the Filippini in Recanati. By 1680 he was employed by the Cappuccini in Macerata. In Macerata he worked with Giovanni Domenico Ferracuti a landscape painter. He also worked with Paolo Marini to decorate the church of San Filippo Neri in Cingoli.
Umar Dimayev.  Umar Dimayev (Chechen: Умар Димаев) (October 1 1908 – 1972) was a Chechen accordionist and folk musician. His sons Ali Valid and Said are professional Chechen musicians.
Roger Tory Peterson.  Roger Tory Peterson (August 28 1908 – July 28 1996) was an American naturalist ornithologist artist and educator and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
Geoffrey Olsen.  Geoffrey Olsen (1943-2007) was a Welsh artist from Merthyr Tydfil who spent time living in the Cotswolds Rome Florence and Miami.
Dean Turner (musician).  Dean Turner (6 January 1972 - 21 August 2009) was an Australian rock musician and record producer. He was best known as a founding member and bass player of Australian rock band Magic Dirt.
Nina Sevening.  Nina Sevening (1885–1958) was an English stage actress singer and light comedienne.
Primož Čučnik.  Primož Čučnik (born 1 June 1971) is a Slovene poet editor and translator. He has published numerous poetry collections.Čučnik was born in Ljubljana in 1971. He studied philosophy and sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana and works as an editor at the literary journal Literatura.He won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 2008 for his poetry collection Delo in dom and the Jenko Award in 2011 for his poetry colletion Kot dar.
Dustin Lynch.  Dustin Charles Lynch (born May 14 1985) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
John Faulkner (author).  John Faulkner (September 24 1901 – March 28 1963) was an American author. His works in a plain style depict life in Mississippi. Faulkner is best-remembered for the novels Men Working (1941) and Dollar Cotton (1942) and the memoir My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence (1963) about his elder sibling author William Faulkner.John Faulkner was also an accomplished self-taught painter.
Stephen Sprouse.  Stephen Sprouse (September 12 1953 – March 4 2004) was a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility [1].
Johnny Craig.  John Thomas Alexis Craig (April 25 1926 – September 13 2001) better known as Johnny Craig was an American comic book artist notable for his work with the influential EC Comics line of the 1950s. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Jay Taycee and F. C. Aljohn.
Thomas Dybdahl.  Thomas Dybdahl (born 12 April 1979 in Sandnes Norway) is a Norwegian musician in the singer/songwriter tradition.
John Eddie.  John Eddie (born 1959 Richmond Virginia) is an American rock singer. Eddie moved to New Jersey in the 1970s and became a popular club circuit musician there occasionally performing with Bruce Springsteen.Eddie signed with Columbia Records and released two albums including his 1986 self-titled debut John Eddie. The first single Jungle Boy from John Eddie peaked on Billboard at #17 Rock and #52 Hot 100.
Molly Bobak.  Molly Bobak CM ONB (née Lamb; February 25 1922 – March 2 2014) was a Canadian teacher writer printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada's war effort and in particular the work of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C).
Brad Garrett.  Brad Garrett (born Brad H. Gerstenfeld; April 14 1960) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared in numerous television and film roles.Garrett was initially successful as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s. Taking advantage of that success in the late 1980s Garrett began appearing in television and film in minor and guest roles. His first major role was Robert Barone on the CBS series Everybody Loves Raymond.
Winifred Hervey.  Winifred Hervey (born May 14 1955) is an American television producer and screenwriter. She is sometimes credited as Winifred Hervey Stallworth.
Margaret Gibson (writer).  Margaret Gibson (June 4 1948 - February 25 2006) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lived in Toronto Ontario.
Shayna Steele.  Shayna Steele (born September 23 1975) is an American singer and songwriter and a Broadway stage actress. Her Broadway credits include Rent at the Nederlander Theatre the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Foxwoods Theatre (formerly the Ford Center for the Performing Arts) and the original Broadway cast of Hairspray in which she played a member of the girl group The Dynamites.Steele sings background vocals for Bette Midler in The Showgirl Must Go On in Las Vegas.
Jim Lowe.  Jim Lowe (born May 7 1927) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1956 number-one hit record Green Door. He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality and has been considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s.[citation needed]
Sammi Smith.  Sammi Smith (August 5 1943 - February 12 2005) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Born Jewel Faye Smith she is best known for her 1971 country/pop crossover hit Help Me Make It Through the Night which was written by Kris Kristofferson. She became one of the few women in the outlaw country movement during the 1970s.
Will Gregory.  William Owen Will Gregory (born (1959-09-17)17 September 1959) is a keyboard/synthesizer player producer and composer/songwriter. He is best known as lead keyboardist producer and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp.
Nana Mizuki.  Nana Mizuki (水樹 奈々 Mizuki Nana born Nana Kondō (近藤 奈々 Kondō Nana) January 21 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress represented by the agency Sigma Seven. She was born and raised in Niihama Ehime Japan. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer and made her debut as a voice actress in 1998; however she released her debut single Omoi under the King Records label on December 6 2000.
Filippo Marchetti.  Filippo Marchetti (26 February 1831 Bolognola Macerata – 18 January 1902 Rome) was an Italian opera composer. After studying in Naples his first opera was successfully premiered in Turin in 1856.
Li Xuejian.  Li Xuejian (born July 7 1954) is a Chinese actor. He is best known for his role as Song Jiang in The Water Margin a 1998 television series adapted from the Chinese classical novel of the same title. Li has also played the roles of military personnel in television series set in the Chinese Civil War. He also acted in the 2006 film The Go Master which was based on the biography of renowned go player Go Seigen.
Havana Brown (musician).  Havana Brown or DJ Havana Brown (born Angelique Meunier; 14 February 1985) is an Australian DJ singer and dancer. In 2008 Brown signed with Island Records Australia as a DJ for the record company and began releasing her Crave compilation album series which featured remixes of songs from other artists.
Alexis Panselinos.  Alexis Panselinos (Greek: Αλέξης Πανσέληνος) (b. 1943 Athens Greece) is an award winning Greek novelist and translator. He read Law at the University of Athens and worked as a practicing lawyer. Panselinos was awarded the 2nd State Prize Award in 1985 for his novel Η Μεγάλη Πομπή.His father Asimakis Panselinos (1903-1984) was a renowned author as well.
Harriet Auber.  Harriet Auber (Middlesex 1773 — Hoddesdon Hertfordshire 1862) was an English poet and hymnist. She was the daughter of a Church of England clerygman. Her ac­tu­al name was Henr­i­ette but she was known as Har­ri­et.Auber is best remembered for her collection The Spirit of the Psalms published in 1829 and for her hymn Our blest Redeemer ere he breathed a treatise on the Holy Spirit and his work.
Mykhailo Drahomanov.  Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov (Ukrainian: Михайло Петрович Драгоманов; September 30 1841 in Hadiach – July 2 1895 in Sofia) was a Ukrainian political theorist economist historian philosopher ethnographer and public figure in Kiev. Born to a noble family of Petro Yakymovych Drahomanov who was of a Cossack descent. Mykhailo Drahomanov started his education at home then studied at the Hadiach school Poltava senior school and Kiev University.
Nick McCarthy.  Nicholas John Nick McCarthy (born 13 December 1974) is an English musician. He is the guitarist backing/lead vocalist and keyboardist of the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand as well as a member of the band Box Codax.
Melanie Blatt.  Melanie Blatt (born 25 March 1975) is an English singer-songwriter and actress turned television presenter. She rose to fame in 1997 as a member of the BRIT Award-winning girl group All Saints. The group have gained five number one singles two multi-platinum albums two BRIT Awards and have sold over 10 million records worldwide making them one of the best-selling girl groups of all time and the second best-selling girl group in the UK.
Edward Carroll (musician).  Edward Carroll is a prominent American trumpeter. He is director of the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale in Enfield New Hampshire. He is also part of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts McGill University and Dartmouth College.Carroll has been the principal trumpet of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the San Diego Symphony.
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai.  Kayyar Kinhanna Rai (Kannada: ಕಯ್ಯಾರ ಕಿಞ್ಞಣ್ಣ ರೈ) (born 8 June 1915) is an Indian independence activist author poet and former journalist.
Michael Fleisher.  Michael Lawrence Mike Fleisher (born November 1 1942) is an American writer known for his DC Comics of the 1970s and 1980s particularly for the characters the Spectre and Jonah Hex.
Josh Gracin.  Joshua Mario Josh Gracin (born October 18 1980) is an American country music singer. A former member of the United States Marine Corps he first gained public attention as the fourth-place finalist on the second season of the Fox Network talent competition American Idol.After his elimination from the show Gracin completed his service in the Marine Corps and after his honorable discharge he signed a record deal with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album was released in 2004.
Ramón Flores (trumpet player).  Ramón Flores (born August 22 Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico) is a Mexican trumpet player. He has played with many Mexican and non-Mexican artists like José José Juan Gabriel Paul Mauriat (tour in Japan '1974– '1985) and Ray Charles. He has been on world tour with Cock Robin (1990) Brian Setzer (1994) Don Henley (2000) and Yanni (2003–2005).
Gavin Brown (musician).  Gavin Brown is a Canadian record producer songwriter and musician. Some of the known artists he has produced include: Three Days Grace Billy Talent Metric Sarah HarmerThe Tragically Hip and The Barenaked Ladies.
Alexander Kanengoni.  Alexander Kanengoni (born 1951) is a Zimbabwean writer formally a member of ZANLA took part in Zimbabwe's war for independence. He is a graduate of Kutama College. He is also a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe
Trevor Moran.  Trevor Moran (born September 30 1998) is an American recording artist and YouTube personality.
Mehdi Huseyn.  Mehdi Ali oglu Huseynov famed under the pseudonym Mehdi Huseyn (Azerbaijani: Mehdi Hüseyn) – was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer and critic laureate of the State Stalin Prize of the third degree (1950) and member of the All-Union Communist Party since 1941.
Bulud Qarachorlu.  Bulud Qarachorlu (Persian: بولود قاراچورلو‎ Azerbaijani: Bulud Qaraçorlu born 1926 in Maragheh Eastern Azerbaijan — died 1979 in Tehran) mainly known by his pen name (Sahand : سهند) was a legendary Iranian poet of Azerbaijani people Sahand wrote and His poems was in Azerbaijani language.
Michał Urbaniak.  Michał Urbaniak (born January 22 1943) is a Polish jazz musician and composer born in Warsaw Poland playing mainly the violin lyricon and saxophone during concerts and recordings. He played a central role in the development of jazz fusion in the 1970s and 1980s and has introduced elements of folk R&B hip hop and symphonic music to jazz.
Timothy Deaux.  Timothy Deaux is a multi-instrumentalist song writer and musician. He currently plays bass for the American Rock band The Whigs. He was born in Mississippi but spent his childhood traveling the world. After graduating from the University of Florida he moved to Athens Georgia in 2007 where he began touring full-time with band mates Julian Dorio and Parker Gispert. In the summer of 2009 they recorded In The Dark at Chase Park Transduction Studios in Athens GA.
Simon Procter.  Simon Procter (born November 8 1968 in Lancashire England) is an expatriate British artist and photographer who has collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood and whose work includes Galliano Royal (2007).
Norman Hapgood.  Norman Hapgood (March 28 1868 - April 29 1937) was an American writer journalist editor and critic and an American ambassador to Denmark.
Ron Westray.  Ronald Kenneth Westray Jr. (b. June 13 1970 in Columbia South Carolina) is an American jazz trombonist composer and educator. He holds a B.A. from South Carolina State University and a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Illinois University. He has played with Marcus Roberts the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (since its inception in 1993) and has been a regular member of the Mingus Big Band. In 2005 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin.
Sid Ramin.  Sidney Norton Ramin (born January 22 1919) is an American orchestrator arranger and composer.
Stephen Duffy.  Stephen Anthony James Duffy (born 30 May 1960 Alum Rock Birmingham England) is an English singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother Nick. He has also co-written with Robbie Williams and Steven Page.
Linda Bengtzing.  Linda Birgitta Bengtzing (born March 13 1974 in Gullspång Sweden) is a Swedish pop singer famous for her participation in the fourth season of Fame Factory in Sweden and for her entries at Melodifestivalen 2005 2006 2008 2011 and 2014
Milt Jackson.  Milton Bags Jackson (January 1 1923 – October 9 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist usually thought of as a bebop player although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players.A very expressive player Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations on harmonics and rhythm.
Rie Yasumi.  Rie Yasumi (やすみ りえ) (born 1 March 1972 in Kobe Hyogo) is a Japanese senryū poet a graduate of Otemae University. Her real name is Rieko Yasumi (休 理英子 Yasumi Rieko).
Alla Levonyan.  Alla Levonyan (Armenian: Ալլա Լեւոնյան) is an Armenian singer. In 2007 she became UNICEF Armenia Goodwill Ambassador. According to UNICEF Alla Levonyan is one of the most popular and respected singers in Armenia. In 1993 at the age of 17 she entered one of her original songs called Ogaragan which won first place in a monthly music contest run by Ardzagang studio in Yerevan.
Shyam Telikicherla.  Shyam Telikicherla is an architectural designer engineer artist and musician from the Washington DC area. He is currently based in Chicago IL. Currently a member of the band Cassettes on Tape and formerly a member of the band Metropolitan.
Detail (record producer).  Noel Fisher professionally known as Detail is an American music producer and recording artist from Detroit Michigan.
Lefteris Poulios.  Lefteris Poulios (Greek: Λευτέρης Πούλιος) (b. Athens 1944) is a Greek poet.He belongs to the so-called 1970s Generation which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s and especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi.
Muna Lee (writer).  This article is about the Puerto Rico-based writer. For the American athlete see Muna Lee (athlete).Muna Lee (January 29 1895 – April 3 1965) was an American poet author and activist who first became known and widely published as a lyric poet in the early 20th century. She also was known for her writings that promoted Pan-Americanism and feminism.
J.Trill.  Joshua Jordan aka J.Trill is an American hip-hop artist and rapper originally from Tifton Georgia. His first single So Bright has amassed over 340000 views on YouTube and was featured on the MTV musical reality show Taking the Stage.
Arild Nyquist.  Arild Nyquist (1937–2004) was a Norwegian novelist lyricist writer of children's books and musician. He was born in Oslo the son of Gerd Nyquist. His father-in-law was Olav Mosebekk. He made his literary debut in 1963 with the novel Ringer i et sommervann.Nyquist was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1971. He was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1994 for the self-biographic novel Ungdom.
Chara M. Curtis.  Chara M. Curtis is a writer and children's book author from Minnesota.
Giovanni Battista Fiammeri.  Giovanni Battista Fiammeri (c. 1530 – 1606) was an Italian painter and Jesuit priest active in Florence.He oversaw part of the decoration of the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Peter Howson.  Peter Howson OBE (born London England 27 March 1958) is a Scottish painter. He was the British official war artist in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War.
Kazunari Kojima.  Kazunari Kojima (小嶋 一成 Kojima Kazunari born December 12 1977 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor.
Milton Brown.  Milton Brown (September 7 1903 – April 18 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum jazz and pop together into a unique distinctly American hybrid thus giving him the nickname Father of Western Swing. The birthplace of Brown's upbeat hot-jazz hillbilly string band sound was developed at the Crystal Springs Dance Hall in Fort Worth Texas from 1931 to 1936.
Aria Crescendo.  Aria Crescendo is a French singer songwriter and yoga teacher best known for being a member of pop group The Paradiso Girls.
Pamela Spence.  Pamela Aslı Spence (born 25 February 1973) is a Turkish pop-rock singer.Born in Heidelberg Germany to a British American father and a Turkish mother she sings in Turkish which she learned at the age of 15 after her family moved to Turkey. In addition to her solo career she has collaborated with a number of other Turkish singers including Teoman. She also acted in several musicals.[citation needed]Spence studied Theater Arts at the Ankara State Conservatory.
Auguste Franchomme.  Auguste-Joseph Franchomme (10 April 1808 – 21 January 1884) was a French cellist and composer.Born in Lille Franchomme studied at the local conservatoire with M. Mas and Pierre Baumann before continuing his education with Jean-Henri Levasseur and Louis-Pierre Norblin at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won his first prize only after one year.He began his career playing with various orchestras and was appointed solo cello at the Sainte-Chapelle in 1828.
Janne Puurtinen.  Janne Johannes Puurtinen better known as Emerson Burton is the current keyboard-player in the Finnish rock band HIM. He was born 17 October 1974 in Helsinki. Burton made his second debut as a temporary member of the band at the concert arranged at the Semifinal Club on 12 January 2001. This was to give the keyboarder the chance to appear in a low key environment before the tour dates in Sweden Norway and Denmark later that month.
Komaki Kurihara.  Komaki Kurihara (栗原小巻 Kurihara Komaki) (born 14 March 1945) is a Japanese film actress. She has appeared in 30 films since 1967. She starred in the 1974 film Sandakan No. 8 which was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1975 she was a member of the jury at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1981 she was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.
Hideaki Kobayashi (composer).  Hideaki Kobayashi (小林秀聡 born October 18 1973) is a game music composer for Sega. He is perhaps best known for his symphonic music in the Phantasy Star series.
Mandy Chiang.  Mandy Nga-man Chiang is a Hong Kong singer signed to the Emperor Entertainment Group Music Icon Rocords. Her music career first began in 2002 when she was partnered with Yumiko Cheng (鄭希怡) and Maggie Lau (劉思惠) to form the female group 3T. The group released one EP (少女蝶) and separated shortly after. Then in 2005 Mandy's music career began again when she was asked to be a duet couple with Don Li. Together they have released three albums.
Boris Williams.  Boris Peter Bransby-Williams (born 24 April 1957) is an English drummer best known for his extensive work with The Cure (1984–1993).
Lucio Manca.  Lucio Manca is an Italian bass player and currently plays for the Doom Metal band Exorcism and Heavy Metal band Raven Lord. He also played and recorded in band Solid Vision. Manca is endorsed by Ibanez guitars and plays a five string bass guitar BTB 675.
Martin H. Greenberg.  Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1 1941 – June 25 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all he compiled 1298 anthologies and commissioned over 8200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books a packager of more than 2000 published books. As well he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.
Altamiro Carrilho.  Altamiro Carrilho (born Altamiro Aquino Carrilho; December 21 1924 – August 15 2012) was a Brazilian musician and composer. He is widely regarded as a master flutist and a major representative of the choro genre.Carrilho died of lung cancer on August 15 2012 in Rio de Janeiro.
DJ Shadow.  Joshua Paul Josh Davis (born June 29 1972) better known by his stage name DJ Shadow is an American music producer and DJ. He is a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing...... He has an exceptionally large personal record collection with over 60000 records. He is the cousin of singer and guitarist Richie Kotzen.
Dorothee Raetsch.  Dorothee Rätsch (* 1940 in Heilsberg today Lidzbark Warmiński) is a German sculptor and graphic artist. Her mother Margarete Neumann a German Author worked as a welfare worker in Heilsberg.
Peter Fend.  Peter Fend is an American artist born in 1950. In 1980 he founded Offices and the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation with Colen Fitzgibbon Jenny Holzer Peter Nadin Richard Prince and Robin Winters which was a corporation invented for a group of artists. In 1994 the organization changed its name to Ocean Earth Development Corporation (OCEAN EARTH).
Suave (singer).  Suave is an R&B singer from Los Angeles California. Born on February 22 1966 he went on to hit the American top 40 charts with a cover of The Temptations' My Girl in 1988.
Kim Cameron (musician).  Kim Cameron (born November 28 1966) is an American recording artist and author from Washington D.C.. Her music incorporates elements of rock pop Rhythm and Blues and jazz.
Knut Are Tvedt.  Knut Are Tvedt (born 1952) is a Norwegian encyclopedist.He is the editor of the encyclopedias Store norske leksikon and Oslo byleksikon. His main interests are the history and politics of Oslo. He also has a quiz-column in the daily newspaper Aftenposten Aften.
Louis Moholo.  Louis Tebogo Moholo (born 10 March 1940 in Cape Town) is a South African jazz drummer.He formed The Blue Notes with Chris McGregor Johnny Dyani Nikele Moyake Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana and emigrated to Europe with them in 1964 eventually settling in London where he formed part of a South African exile community that made an important contribution to British jazz.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2 1950 – April 12 2009) was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies queer theory (queer studies) and critical theory. Her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies.
Jimmy Cliff.  Jimmy Cliff OM (born James Chambers 1 April 1948) is a Jamaican reggae musician multi-instrumentalist singer and actor.
Ahmet Yatman.  Ahmet Yatman was a Turkish composer and kanun player. He was the son of Mehmet Bey an amateur violinist and Saide Hanım.
Claire Pettibone.  Claire Pettibone (born May 23 1967) is an American fashion designer based in Los Angeles. She is prominently known for her couture wedding gowns and intimate apparel lifestyle collection.The Washington Post cited her collection as “proof positive that bridal fashion is keeping up with the runway.”. The Los Angeles Times calls her a “Style maven.” Say Yes to the Dress’ Randy Fenoli confirms “Claire has a cult following.”
Jonathan Fritzén.  Jonathan Fritzen (born October 11 1982) is a contemporary jazz pianist and multi-instrumentalist.
Kevin Moyers.  Kevin Moyers is the creator and writer of the Septagon Studios comic book Scorn which has received critical acclaim from respected sources such as Ain't It Cool News Comics Bulletin and ComicBloc. He is also the costar of many independent films including the Lionsgate film Machined and the international theatrical release Sportkill.
Shannon Worrell.  Shannon Worrell is a singer-songwriter based in Charlottesville Virginia. Known for a series of critically acclaimed albums in the 1990s culminating with an appearance (as September 67) on the Lilith Fair tour and for collaborations with fellow Charlottesville-based musicians Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Worrell's acoustic songwriting has been described as subtly orchestrated chamber pop and like a lean country cousin of the Throwing Muses.
Roy Harvey (musician).  Roy Cecil Harvey (March 24 1892 – July 11 1958) was an American old time guitar player singer and songwriter. He was the guitarist with Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers and also recorded on his own appearing on more than 200 records between 1926 and 1931.
Hajime Hana.  Hajime Hana (ハナ肇 Hana Hajime) was a Japanese actor. He was the leader of the comic jazz band The Crazy Cats which featured such talent as Hitoshi Ueki and Kei Tani and which starred in a series of film comedies (such as the Irresponsible (Musekinin) series at Toho) and in TV variety shows such as Shabondama Holiday. He won the award for best actor at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards for Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You.
Gladys Lucy Adshead.  Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books. Adshead was born in Manchester England to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers and later in Maryland Massachusetts and Illinois in the United States.
Paul Degen.  Paul Degen (24 March 1941 – 30 May 2007) was a Swiss illustrator caricaturist painter and sculptor. He is mostly known for the cartoons he did for The New York Times and his 34 title illustrations for The New Yorker magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1992 he was awarded the Basel Innovation Prize for inventing the ROMA birth wheel.
Jack Barry (singer).  Jack Barry also known by the stage name of Jacob Belser (December 15 1909 - September 23 1982) is an American singer. He sang on the radio from 1930 to 1936 on his Jack Barry Show.
Siddharth Mahadevan.  Siddharth Mahadevan (born 16 April 1993) is an Indian playback singer and composer who is known for his songs in the film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag in which he sang Zinda and the rock version of the title song Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He sang the song Malang Malang for music director Pritam in the movie Dhoom 3. He has also composed music for the Marathi film Swapna Tujhe ni Majhe with his cousin Soumil.
Joe Bolton (poet).  Joe Bolton (December 3 1961 – March 1990) was an American poet.He was born in Cadiz Kentucky. He completed a Masters degree at the University of Florida in 1988. In 1990 after completing his M.F.A. he committed suicide. He published three books of poetry.Bolton's work represents the convergence of several important currents in American poetry and culture.
Angus Wilson.  Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson KBE (11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.
Bill Berg (musician).  Bill Berg is a noted drummer in jazz and fusion music best known for his work with the group Flim & the BB's as well as guitarist Wayne Johnson. He also served as the drummer for fellow Hibbing Minnesota native Bob Dylan's notable record Blood on the Tracks.Berg has also recorded and worked with Leo Kottke Gary Brunotte Bill Perkins and others. He has also worked with the Marc Yaxley Trio a local jazz band in Transylvania County North Carolina.
John Dixon (cartoonist).  John Dixon is an Australian comic book artist and writer best known for his creation Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors.
Henriett Seth F..  Henriett Seth F. (Hungarian pseudonym Seth F.
Lee Kang-sheng.  Lee Kang-sheng (born 1968 in Taipei Taiwan) is a Taiwanese actor film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in all of Tsai Ming-liang's feature films. Lee's directorial efforts include The Missing in 2003 and Help Me Eros in 2007.
Lisa Lougheed.  Lisa Lougheed (pronounced Low-heed) (born 1969 in Etobicoke Ontario) is a Canadian singer and voice actor. She is probably best known for her role as Lisa Raccoon in the animated television series The Raccoons as well as for singing the series' various songs including the theme song Run with Us.
Charles Schneeman.  Charles Schneeman (24 November 1912 Staten Island New York - 1 January 1972 Pasadena California) was an American illustrator of science fiction.
José Malhoa.  José Vital Branco Malhoa known simply as José Malhoa (Caldas da Rainha 28 April 1855 ; Figueiró dos Vinhos 26 October 1933) was a Portuguese painter.Malhoa was with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting in the second half of the 19th century. He painted often popular scenes and subjects like his two most famous paintings The Drunks (1907) and Fado (1910).
Mark Rankin.  Mark Rankin was lead vocalist with Scottish rock band Gun who were best known for their cover of Word Up! originally by Cameo. The single was taken from the album Swagger and was released in 1994. Other singles were Better Days Taking On The World and Steal Your Fire.
Lucky Dube.  Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced doo-beh) (3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007.
Dez Skinn.  Derek Dez Skinn (born February 4 1951) is a British comic and magazine editor and author of a number of books on comics. As head of Marvel Comics' operations in England in the late 1970s Skinn reformatted existing titles launched new ones and acquired the BBC license for Doctor Who Weekly. After leaving Marvel UK Skinn founded and edited Warrior which featured key works by Alan Moore.Called by some the British Stan Lee Skinn is one of British comics' most influential figures.
Petrus van Schendel.  Petrus van Schendel (1806–1870) was a Dutch Romantic painter etcher and draughtsman.
Matt Garrison.  Matthew Garrison (born June 2 1970) is an American jazz bassist son of Jimmy Garrison.He is noted for playing his signature series Fodera bass and for having created and developed a pizzicato technique which uses four fingers.[citation needed] He founded his own recording label and production company in 2000 called GarrisonJazz Productions through which he has released two CDs and a live performance DVD.
Postino (musician).  Postino (real name Junho Lee) is an electronic music producer based in London. He is the owner of independent record label Postino Records and is noted as being one of the first South Korean producers to top the European DJ charts.[citation needed]
Kalifa Tillisi.  Khalifa Mohammed Tillsi (Arabic: خليفة محمد التليسي‎ ;9 May 1930 – 13 January 2010) was a well known Libyan historian translator and linguist.
Ako (actress).  Ako (亜湖) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for Woman with Red Hair and Wet Weekend.
Calvin Harris.  Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984) better known by his stage name Calvin Harris is a Scottish DJ singer-songwriter and producer. He owns the vanity label Fly Eye Records. His gold-selling debut album I Created Disco was released in 2007 and contained the top-ten singles Acceptable in the 80s and The Girls.
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez.  Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez (March 28 1897 – April 25 1948) Montevideo Uruguay also known as Becho was a Uruguayan musician composer and journalist.
Joseph Hill.  Joseph Hill (January 22 1949 – August 19 2006) was the lead singer and songwriter for the roots reggae group Culture most famous for their 1977 hit Two Sevens Clash but also well known for their International Herb single. Hill recorded twenty-two albums.
Christos Dantis.  Christos Dantis (Greek: Χρήστος Δάντης; born Christos Vlahakis 26 September 1966) is a Greek multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter lyricist and record producer best known for his hits such as To Palio Mou Palto and Ena Tragoudi Akoma and later for composing and co-writing the song My Number One for Elena Paparizou winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece.
Roman Schatz.  Roman Schatz (born 21 August 1960 in Überlingen Baden-Württemberg) is a German-born Finnish TV show host and an author. He was born in Western Germany in 1960 and has been living in Helsinki Finland since 1986. He has appeared on TV in various programs including his own show Toisten-TV in international movies Better Than Andy and he has written several books. His first book was called From Finland with love – Suomesta rakkaudella. Many of his books have been also been published in Germany.
Bill Mantlo.  William Timothy Mantlo (born November 9 1951) is an American comic-book writer primarily at Marvel Comics best known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: the Eagle Award-winning Micronauts and the long-running Rom. An attorney who worked as a public defender Mantlo was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in 1992 and has been in institutional care ever since.
Bruce Slesinger.  Bruce Slesinger better known by his stage name Ted was the first drummer for the Dead Kennedys. He drummed for the band from July 1978 to February 1981. He played the drums on their first album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. He also co-wrote their second single Holiday in Cambodia in conjunction with the rest of the group and Pull My Strings a song written with lead singer and primary songwriter Jello Biafra specifically for the 1980 Bay Area Music awards.
Murray Leinster.  Murray Leinster (June 16 1896 – June 8 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published more than 1500 short stories and articles 14 movie scripts and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
Angelos Akotantos.  Angelos Akotantos (Greek: Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a 15th-century Icon-painter and hagiographer who lived and worked at Heraklion Crete then part of the Republic of Venice. He was the first hagiographer to sign his name on his icons by writing in Greek: Χειρ Αγγέλου which translated in English means By hand of Angelos.Most known about Akotantos is from his will written in 1436 which now can be found at the State Archives of Venice.
Charles Exbrayat.  Charles Exbrayat born in Saint-Étienne Loire France on 5 May 1906 was a French fiction writer. He published over 100 novels and short stories most of them humorous thrillers. They were very popular and a considerable number were turned into films.While living in Nice with his parents he was studying to becoming a medical doctor but then found his true calling as a writer.His debut novel was Aller sans Retour (single fare no return) written while in Geneva before going to Paris.
Alfred Beesley.  Alfred Beesley (1800-10 April 1847) was an English topographer and poet.He was apprenticed to a watchmaker at Deddington Oxfordshire but only served a portion of his time and subsequently devoted himself to literary and scientific pursuits. He died on 10 April 1847 and was buried in Banbury churchyard. He published a collection of poems and 'The History of Banbury including copious historical and antiquarian notices' in 1841 in 8 volumes.
Evaristo de Miranda.  Evaristo Eduardo de Miranda is a Brazilian writer and researcher at Embrapa. He is an expert in agriculture ecology environment and land management.
Tony Burgess (author).  Tony Burgess (born 1959 in Toronto Ontario Canada) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. His most notable works include the 1998 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and the screenplay for the film adaptation of that same novel Pontypool.Burgess’ unique style of writing has been called literary horror fiction and described as ”blended ultra-violent horror and absurdist humour inflicting nightmarish narratives on the quirky citizens of small-town Ontario: think H. P.
John Davis (singer-songwriter).  John Davis (born April 12 1974 in Tennessee) is a founding member of the rock band Superdrag.
Enys Tregarthen.  Nellie Sloggett (29 December 1851 Padstow Cornwall UK – 1923) was an author and folklorist who wrote under the names Enys Tregarthen and Nellie Cornwall.
Tero Civill.  Tero Civill (born 1976 in Nokia Finland) is a Finnish DJ and music producer. He began promoting warehouse raves and DJing at age of 15. Civill also has a weekly radio show Sunnuntaikooma at Finland's only electronic music radio station Basso FM. His music production work began around 1994 when he began to use old synthesizers he had started collecting years before.
Samar Deb.  Samar Deb (Bengali: সমর দেব) (born 1 November 1963) is an Indian Bengali writer & poet deeply committed to a revolutionary and radical chain of thoughts. He was born at Coochbehar West Bengal. He is the youngest child of Satish Chandra Deb and Sabita Deb.He is most known for his classic novel Lohitparer Upakatha (2010).
Clare Asquith.  Clare Asquith the Countess of Oxford and Asquith (born 2 June 1951) is an independent scholar and author of Shadowplay: the Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare which has posited that Shakespeare was a covert Catholic whose works contain coded language which was used by the Catholic underground particularly the Jesuits in Reformation-era England but also appealed to the monarchy in a plea for toleration.
Liz Fielding.  Liz Fielding (b. 1 June in Berkshire England) is an awarded British writer of over 60 romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1992.
Thad Jones.  Thaddeus Joseph Thad Jones (March 28 1923 – August 21 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter composer and bandleader.
Utako Yamada.  Utako Yamada (山田詩子 Yamada utako) is a Japanese writer illustrator and translator from Tokyo Japan. She is the author of 3 official children's books on which the most notable were The Story of Cherry the Pig and Buzzy the Honeybee. She also owns a tea shop named Karel Capek located in Kokubunji Tokyo. She is married in Tokyo with her husband and two sons.
P. N. Elrod.  Patricia N. Elrod is an American novelist specializing in urban fantasy. She's written in the mystery romance paranormal and historical genres with at least one foray into comedic fantasy. Elrod is also an editor having worked on several collections for Ace Science Fiction DAW Benbella Books and St. Martin's Griffin.
Laidback Luke.  Laidback Luke (born Lucas Cornelis van Scheppingen; 22 October 1976) is a Filipino-Dutch DJ and producer. He was voted #46 on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list in 2008 before jumping to #27 in 2009 and jumping up 10 places in 2010.
Michael Romeo.  Michael James Romeo (born March 6 1968) is an American guitarist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Symphony X. Michael is one of two members to appear on every Symphony X release (the other being Michael Pinnella).Romeo was ranked #91 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World.
Keiko Fuji.  Keiko Fuji (藤 圭子 Fuji Keiko) real name Junko Utada (宇多田 純子 Utada Junko) (5 July 1951 – 22 August 2013) was a Japanese enka singer and actress. She had success in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s with her ballad-type songs. Her parents were itinerant musical performers.[citation needed] She was also the mother of Japanese pop singer Hikaru Utada.
Pompeo Posar.  Pompeo Posar (February 21 1921 – April 5 2004) was a Playboy magazine staff photographer who photographed many centerfold features and accompanying pictures of women featured as playmate of the month. Notably he was responsible for the December 1968 centerfold of Cynthia Myers and the November 1975 centerfold of Janet Lupo.
Jonas Breum.  Jonas Breum (born in 1979) is a Danish singer and songwriter.In 1997 he started at age 18 when he released his demo as a download album entitled Manuskript uden titel. Hetehn formed the Danish pop/rock band Coolsville in which he was songwriter and lead vocalist. The band released in May 2005 their album Langt fra landet with resulting singles Det gælder Brændt af and Tog til møde ved en fejl.
Colin Munroe.  Colin Munroe (born June 18 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer originally from North Gower Ontario who now resides in Toronto.
Marisol Calero.  Marisol Calero (born September 13 1963) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer.
Bowvayne.  Bowvayne is a British children's writer and musician currently living in New York. In 2008 he completed his first album Molten.
Philip Martin (screenwriter).  Philip Martin (born 1938 in Liverpool) is an English television screenwriter.His early work included regular series such as Z-Cars in the late 1960s/early 70s but his most famous work is the postmodern television series Gangsters. This was an examination of race seen through an increasingly surreal vision of Birmingham's criminal underworld. Beginning as an acclaimed one-off edition of Play for Today in 1975 it was followed by two series of 6 episodes each in 1976 and 1978.
Mawi.  Asmawi Ani(born August 25 1981) better known as Mawi is a Malaysian singer and winner of the Third Season of Malaysia's popular reality show Akademi Fantasia. His father Pak Atan is a renown blacksmith in his hometown of Kulai.[citation needed]Apart from singing he is currently testing his skills in acting and performing magic acts. He is also a budding businessman.
Kirk Whalum.  Kirk Whalum (born July 11 1958) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured with Whitney Houston for over seven years and soloed in her single I Will Always Love You the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. He has recorded a series of well received solo albums and film soundtracks with music ranging from pop to R&B to smooth jazz. Kirk’s musical accomplishments have brought him a total of 12 Grammy nominations.
José da Silva Coelho.  The Goan writer José da Silva Coelho was the author of several dozen pieces of wickedly satirical short fiction in the 1920s and 1930s published for the most part in the Portuguese-language newspaper O Heraldo.
Charles Deenen.  Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees) is a Dutch computer/video game Audio Director Music Composer Sound Designer & Mixer. He is also known for his music and sound efforts for games of C64 and Amiga era. He was one of the first demosceners.
Craig A. Kraft.  Craig A. Kraft (born Craig Allan Kraft; born on December 7 1949) is an American sculptor. Over the course of his career Kraft has gained national recognition for his neon light works establishing him as one of the leading neon sculptors of today. In his earlier works such as Seated/Unseated Woman and Light Figure Fragment Kraft rendered sculptures incorporating details in neon.
Natalya Baranskaya.  Natalya Vladimirovna Baranskaya (Russian: Наталья Владимировна Баранская; January 31 1908 – October 2004) was a Soviet writer of short stories or novellas. She was born in 1908 in Russia and graduated in 1929 from Moscow State University with degrees in philology and ethnology. After the war while she raised two children alone since her husband was killed in 1943 she also attended post-graduate school part-time and earned yet another degree.
Sidonie de la Houssaye.  Sidonie de la Houssaye née Hélène Perret pen name Louise Raymond (Edgar August 17 1820 – February 18 1894) was an American French language writer.The daughter of French Creoles Ursin Perret and Françoise Pain she received a bilingual education in English and French while living in St. John the Baptist Parish Louisiana.
Tang Guoqiang.  Tang Guoqiang (born 4 May 1952) is an award winning Chinese actor best known for playing historical figures in several films and television series. Some of his more notable roles to date are: various Chinese emperors (including Emperor Taizong of Tang Yongle Emperor Yongzheng Emperor etc.) Zhuge Liang Yan Zhenqing and Mao Zedong. Tang's acting career started when he first joined a performance troupe in 1970 after graduating from middle school.
Lilian Johansson.  Anny Lilian Johansson (born 10 March 1948 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. She has been engaged at the Stockholm City Theatre since 1978.
Larry Tee.  Larry Tee (born October 12 1959) is a New York City-based DJ club promoter and music producer who coined the musical genre term electroclash and helped launch the careers of such artists as RuPaul Scissor Sisters Fischerspooner Peaches W.I.T. and Avenue D and has written songs for and collaborated with Afrojack Shontelle Princess Superstar Santigold RuPaul Sean Garrett Steve Aoki and Amanda Lepore.
Ionel Teodoreanu.  Ionel Teodoreanu (January 6 1897 - February 3 1954) was a Romanian novelist and lawyer. He is mostly remembered for his books on the themes of childhood and adolescence.
Girolamo Giacobbi.  Girolamo Giacobbi (baptized on 10 August 1567 – before 13 February 1629) was an Italian choirmaster conductor and composer.
Shorty (rapper).  Shorty born Dalibor Bartulović is a Croatian rapper from Vinkovci. He released his debut album in 2004 under the name 168 and became famous with his two records Zeka and Dođi u Vinkovce.
Jesús M. Toribio.  Jesús M. Toribio (born 10 November 1988 in Madrid Spain) is a keyboardist pianist and composer. He joined the Spanish power metal band Phoenix Rising in late 2010 and currently resides in Alcorcón Spain when not on tour.
Alex Winters.  Alex Winters (born 10 January 1977) is a Welsh children's television presenter and actor who studied Drama and Theatre Studies with Psychology in Liverpool before working on a range of theatre projects and as a supporting artist in the hit locally filmed programmes Torchwood and Doctor Who.Winters was named as one of two new continuity presenters for Discover and Do and The Bedtime Hour on BBC children channel CBeebies alongside Cerrie Burnell.
Paddy Boom.  Paddy Boom (born Patrick Seacor on September 6 1968) is an American professional drummer. He was the original drummer in the U.S. glam rock band Scissor Sisters.
Akimi Yoshida.  Akimi Yoshida (吉田 秋生 Yoshida Akimi born August 12 1956) is a Japanese manga artist.Yoshida is best known for the series Banana Fish. She twice won the Shogakukan Manga Awards for shōjo for Kisshō Tennyo in 1984 and for Yasha in 2002. In 2007 she received an Excellence Award for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Umimachi Diary.
Zhang Jizhong.  Zhang Jizhong (born August 23 1951) is a Chinese film producer director teacher and writer. He is known as one of the more prominent television producers in China. His best known productions include the CCTV adaptations of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature namely Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin as well as adaptations of Louis Cha's wuxia novels.
Gordon Browne.  Gordon Frederick Browne (15 April 1858 – 27 May 1932) was an English artist and children's book illustrator in the late 19th century and early 20th century.He was born in Banstead the younger son of notable book illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (who as Phiz illustrated books by Charles Dickens).
Hans-Jürgen Schlieker.  Hans-Jürgen Schlieker (April 8 1924 – March 12 2004) was a German abstract painter grouped in importance with Hans Hartung Bernard Schultze and Emil Schumacher.
Sarah Wylie.  Sarah Wylie (born 1989) is a Canadian writer of young adult novels. Her first novel All These Lives was published in 2012. Her next novel another stand-alone contemporary young adult novel will be published in 2014.
Debananda Bharali.  Debananda Bharali (Assamese: দেবানন্দ ভৰালি; 1883-1972) was a pioneer linguistic writer translator and dramatist from Assam. He write many articles in the pen name of Miri. He was born in June 1883 in Sivasagar district Assam to Ishananda Bharali.
Sido (rapper).  Paul Würdig (born 30 November 1980) better known as Sido is a German rapper.Würdig distinguishes himself by using provocative and aggressive lyrics. After his breakthrough with his debut album Maske in 2004 Würdig was always seen wearing a silver skull mask.
Cara Dillon.  Cara Elizabeth Dillon (born 21 July 1975 Dungiven County Londonderry Northern Ireland) is an Irish folk singer. In 1995 she joined folk group Equation and signed a record deal with Warners Music Group. She collaborated with Sam Lakeman under the name Polar Star. In 2001 she released her first solo album titled Cara Dillon. The album contained traditional songs and original Dillon/Lakeman songs Blue Mountain River and I Wish I Was.
Marc with a C.  Marc with a C is the stage name of Marc Sirdoreus (born January 17 1978) an indie pop singer/songwriter from Orlando Florida. He has released eight official albums and numerous other EPs and compilations since 2002.
Kesava Reddy.  Kesava Reddy (Telugu: పి కేశవ రెడ్డి ) is a renowned Telugu novelist. Hailing from Andhra Pradesh state in India. In his writings he addresses many of the important social problems in India like poverty prejudices and superstitions and encourages people to be socially responsible. He successfully bridges the idealistic and the popular styles of literature.
Zavoloka.  Zavoloka (full name Kateryna Zavoloka) is a contemporary experimental music and electronic music composer sound artist improviser performer and graphic designer from Kiev the capital of Ukraine. She was born in 1981.The word zavoloka means deep fog and also maverick in Ukrainian. Zavoloka's main interests in music are to mix ancient Ukrainian traditions with modern electronic music technology. She combines melodic experimental electronic music with self-recorded Ukrainian folk music.
Niccolò Corso.  Niccolò Corso (active c. 1503) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Genoa. His pictures are chiefly in the cloister and refectory of the monastery of the Olivetan Fathers at Quarto near Genoa; including frescoes on the life of St. Benedict.There is a painting of Saint Jerome by this Italian Renaissance painter in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Bill Rank.  Bill Rank (June 8 1904 – May 20 1979) was an American jazz trombonist.Born in Lafayette Indiana he was best known for his work in the Jean Goldkette orchestra of the late 1920s alongside Bix Beiderbecke in small groups and with Paul Whiteman until 1938.He was a member of the WLW radio staff orchestra in Cincinnati from 1942 to 1947 and led a local Dixieland group called the Over The Hill Gang. Rank also recorded and performed with Dick Sudhalter.[citation needed]
John Farnham.  John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949 Dagenham East London England) (formerly billed as Johnny Farnham from his professional debut 1967 until 1980) is an English-born Australian pop singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979 and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band during 1982–1985.
Saadallah Wannous.  Saadallah Wannous (Arabic: سعد الله ونوس‎) (1941–1997) Syrian playwright. He was born in the village of Hussein al-Bahr near Tartous from the Alawites sect ('Alawīyyah Arabic: علوية) where he received his early education. He studied journalism in Cairo Egypt and later served as editor of the art and cultural sections of the Syrian paper Al-Baath and the Lebanese As-Safir. He also held for many years the directorship in the Music and Theater Administration of Syria.
Brian Smith (photographer).  Brian Smith (born July 16 1959) is an American portrait photographer and photojournalist. He may be known best for portraits of actors business leaders politicians and athletes that are at once stylish and telling.
Sue Monk Kidd.  Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12 1948) is a writer from the Southern United States best known for her novel The Secret Life of Bees.
Gudda Gudda.  Carl Lilly (born March 11 1983) better known by his stage name Gudda Gudda is an American rapper from New Orleans. He was originally a member of Squad Up with Kidd Kidd and Lil Wayne. After forging a long-time friendship with Wayne he signed to Young Money Entertainment Cash Money Records and later Republic Records.
Kathryn Erskine.  Kathryn Erskine is a Netherlands-born American writer of children's literature. She won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for her novel Mockingbird.
Emma Tahmizian.  Emma Tahmizian (* 13. December 1957 Plovdiv Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian pianist of Armenian descent living in the USA.She debuted at an international level at 11 representing Bulgaria at a concert series in Moscow. She has performed and recorded internationally regullarly since she won the 1977 Robert Schumann Competition. She was subsequently prized at the Tchaikovsky Competition (1982) the Leeds Competition (1984) and the Van Cliburn Competition (1985).
Mary Swan.  Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is also a trained librarian with a keen eye for history. Her novel The Boys in the Trees a shortlisted nominee for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. was inspired by a newspaper clipping concerning a death within a family.Swan was the winner of the 2001 O. Henry Award for short fiction for her short story The Deep which was published in The Malahat Review.
Gerald A. Browne.  Gerald Austin Browne (born 1924 in Connecticut USA) is an American author and editor.
Genevieve Pou.  Genevieve Long Pou (/ˈpjuː/ pew; October 23 1919 – April 22 2007) was a novelist and writer based in Atlanta Georgia. Pou was born in Tupelo Mississippi. During her life she published seven mystery novels under the pseudonym Genevieve Holden. She attended the University of Mississippi and the University of Georgia. During World War II she worked as a journalist on the Birmingham Post and Idaho Statesman newspapers. She was married to Charles D.
Margaret Peterson Haddix.  Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9 1964) is an American writer known best for the children's series Shadow Children (1998–2006) and The Missing (from 2008). She also wrote the tenth volume in The 39 Clues published by Scholastic.
Elvina Kong.  Elvina Kong Yan-yin (Traditional Chinese: 江欣燕) is a Hong Kong television actress and presenter currently under contract to TVB. She played the role of Gam Yiu-kin in the sitcom Off Pedder from 2008 to 2010. She also played the role of Diana Man in the TVB sitcom Best Selling Secrets from 2007 to 2008.
Joe Fitzgerald.  Joe Fitzgerald (born in Washington D.C.) is one of the designers of the 2005 United States nickel. His design President Jefferson with Handwritten Liberty appears on the obverse of that coin. Fitzgerald who is also an active and accomplished painter was one of the twenty-four United States Mint Artistic Infusion Program artists. He has had numerous one-man-shows. His work has been exhibited in the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies Program.
Alphonse Mouzon.  Alphonse Mouzon (born November 21 1948) is a well-known jazz-fusion drummer and percussionist and the owner of Tenacious Records a label that primarily releases Mouzon's recordings. He also composes arranges and produces as well as acts. Alphonse Mouzon's popularity as a performing artist first became realized in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Buddy Childers.  Marion Buddy Childers (February 12 1926 – May 24 2007) became famous in 1942 at the age of 16 when Stan Kenton hired him to be the lead trumpet in his band.
Paolo Albertoni.  Paolo Albertoni was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born in Rome and trained in the studio of Carlo Maratti. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1695 and died soon after. There are pictures by him in the church of San Carlo al Corso in Santa Maria in the Campo Marzo Santa Marta al Collegio Romano and other churches in Rome. He frescoed for the chapel in the Palazzo Chigi in Formello .
Detsl.  Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatskiy (Russian: Кири́лл Алекса́ндрович Толмацкий born July 22 1983) better known by his stage name Detsl (Russian: Децл) is a Russian hip hop artist. He graduated in Switzerland and the British International School in Moscow.In 1999 Detsl made his debut in the Russian rap scene with the album Who Are You?. In 2001 he released his second album Street Fighter.
Stuart Liddell.  Stuart Liddell is a Scottish bagpipe player. He is one of the most recognized names in piping and one of the top competitive solo players in the world today.
Eugene Hütz.  Eugene Hütz (pronounced [ˈjʊəɡeːnə hyts] Ukrainian: Євген Гудзь Ukrainian pronunciation: [jɛvɦɛn ɦydsʲ] Yevhen Hudz′; born Yevheniy Aleksandrovich Nikolayev-Simonov Russian: Евгений Александрович Николаев-Симонов September 6 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer and composer most notable as the frontman of the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. Hütz is also a DJ and actor.
Richard Mawdsley.  Richard Mawdsley(born 1945) is an American artist known for his work in metalsmithing particularly narrative sculptures and vessels made of precious metal tubing cogs gears and mechanical components.
Bob Katsionis.  Babis Bob Katsionis (Greek: Μπάμπης Κατσιώνης; born February 17 1977 in Athens Greece) is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Firewind Revolution Renaissance and Outloud. He is considered to be Greece's most successful rock/metal keyboard player[citation needed] being the only musician ever winning the same category Best Keyboardist in Greek Metal Hammer's Annual Readers' Polls for 5 years in a row (2006–2011).
Eric Heatherly.  Eric Heatherly (born February 21 1970 in Chattanooga Tennessee) is an American country music artist. In 2000 he debuted with a cover of The Statler Brothers' Flowers on the Wall the first of three singles from his debut album Swimming in Champagne which was issued in 2000 on Mercury Nashville Records.
Scott Rockenfield.  Scott Rockenfield (born June 15 1963) also known as SRock is an American drummer and Grammy-nominated composer. He is best known as the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche which he co-founded in 1982 and the hard rock band Slave to the System.
Ethan Ash.  Ethan Ash is an English singer-songwriter and musician based in Cambridge England.
Ryan Paris.  Ryan Paris (born Fabio Roscioli March 12 1953) is an Italian musician who gained international popularity in 1983 for the worldwide hit single Dolce Vita.Dolce Vita was written and produced by Pierluigi Giombini. Paris continued to release records in the mid-1980s and 1990s but was not able to duplicate the success of his previous hit.
Billy Hoffman (singer).  Billy Hoffman (born in Arkansas and raised in Poteau Oklahoma) is an American country music singer. Hoffman was born with a hearing problem and is only three percent away from being deaf. He also learned to play guitar to gain dexterity after being born with underdeveloped hands.In 2000 he was the first artist signed to Critter Records which was managed by Joe Stampley.
Wolfgang Ebner.  Wolfgang Ebner (1612–1665) was a German baroque composer. He was a Viennese court organist in the latter years of the reign of Ferdinand III Holy Roman Emperor and then of Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor. Ebner was born in Augsburg. He may have preceded Johann Heinrich Schmelzer as ballet master at the court. He died in Vienna.
Luke Jackson (author).  Luke Christopher Jackson (born 18 August 1988) is the author of Freaks Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence a book penned from first-hand experience about his life with Asperger syndrome. Jackson has three sisters and three brothers. One of his brothers Joe has AD/HD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and another brother Ben has autism.
Marcia Barrett.  Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948 St Catherine Jamaica) is one of the original singers with the vocal group Boney M.
Evaline Ness.  Evaline Ness (April 24 1911 – August 12 1986) was an American commercial artist illustrator and author of children's books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own.She is noted for using a great variety of artistic media and methods.As illustrator of picture books she was one of three Caldecott Medal runners-up each year from 1964 to 1966 and she won the 1967 Medal for Sam Bangs and Moonshine which she also wrote. In 1972 she was the U.S.
Rowland Scherman.  Rowland Scherman is an American photographer. Rowland Scherman was born in NY in 1937. He studied at Oberlin College and was dark room apprentice at LIFE magazine. He was the first photographer for the newly formed Peace Corps in 1961.
Wendy Schaetzel Lesko.  Wendy Schaetzel Lesko is the executive director of the Youth Activism Project. Lesko is an author of several books on youth-led advocacy especially in the public policy arena and recognized nationally as a youth voice expert.
Solon Bixler.  Solon Bixler (born January 4 1977) is an American rock–indie musician. He is a former guitarist for the bands Thirty Seconds to Mars and Earlimart. He is currently the lead male vocal and guitar player in the band Great Northern.
Anniela.  Anniela (born 3 June 1990) is a Swedish pop singer originally from Rinkaby in Skånebut residing in Stockholm since a few years. Signed to Hitworks shereleased her debut album Extravaganza in 2009. She appeared on TV4 whenshe was 13 years old in a talent show and in various musicals. Her musiccan be described as international electro dance pop in English with hints of R&B and sheoffers avery visual performance. Annielas debut was released in a numberof foreign countries.
Susana Félix.  Susana Félix (born in Torres Vedras 12 October 1975) is a Portuguese singer songwriter musician actress producer.In 2006 she was the artistic coordinator of the show Sexta Feira 13 - O Musical Xutos & Pontapés after the Portuguese band Xutos & Pontapés. Susana was also the Portuguese voice of Pocahontas the Disney character. Her musical career started in 1999 and since then she has released several albums. The first disc came out in that same year Um Pouco Mais.
Henry Caine.  Henry Caine (born 19 June 1888 in Leamington Spa Warwickshire – died 9 July 1962 in Hayle Cornwall) was a British film actor.
James Melvin Washington.  James Melvin Washington (April 24 1948 - May 3 1997) was an African-American historian educator and minister from Knoxville Tennessee.
August Dillmann.  Christian Friedrich August Dillmann (25 April 1823 – 7 July 1894) was a German orientalist and biblical scholar.
Jenny Alpha.  Jenny Alpha (22 April 1910 – 8 September 2010) was a Martinique-born French actress and singer who appeared in more than a hundred theatre productions and movies. Born in Fort-de-France Martinique in 1910 Alpha moved to Paris in 1929 to pursue a career in teaching but became sidetracked due to her passion for theatre. As well as appearing in theatre she displayed a variety of talent and became a successful singer appearing alongside the likes of Duke Ellington and Josephine Baker.
Victor Massé.  Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé; 7 March 1822 – 5 July 1884) was a French composer.
Brett Murray.  Brett Murray (I) (born in 1961) is a South African artist mostly known for his steel and mixed media wall sculptures. He was born in Pretoria South Africa. Murray has a master's degree in fine art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art 1989. Referred to by critic Brenda Atkinson as the dark prince of South African pop (art) Murray is one of the country's most popular artists often using easily recognisable media images with the addition of a subversive and bitterly funny twist.
Scrapper Blackwell.  Francis Hillman Scrapper Blackwell (February 21 1903 – October 7 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer; best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s he was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues style with some critics noting that he veered towards jazz.
Altaf Fatima.  Altaf Fatima (born 1929 in Lucknow British India) is an Urdu novelist short-story writer and teacher (specializing in Muhammad Iqbal). Her novel Dastak Na Do (Do not knock) is regarded as one of the defining works in the Urdu language.[citation needed] An adaptation was presented on Pakistan television and an abridged translation was serialised by the Karachi monthly Herald.
Richard Sloan (artist).  Richard Sloan (1935–2007) was an American artist. He painted wildlife in Arizona and in rainforests.Considered to be North America's Dean Of Rainforest Painters Sloan was born in Chicago Illinois where he attended the America Academy Of Art. He then worked as an advertising illustrator before joining Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo as staff artist.
Kevin Cheng.  Kevin Cheng Ka-wing (born 15 August 1969) is a Hong Kong American actor and singer who is currently under the management of the Hong Kong television network TVB. Cheng rose to fame in late 2004 after playing his first lead role in the TVB drama Hard Fate. He is best known for his role as Law Lik-ah in the 2011 TVB legal drama Ghetto Justice which earned him a TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor.
Patrick Jenkins.  Patrick Jenkins is an award-winning Canadian artist animator and documentary filmmaker living in Toronto Canada who specializes in paint-on-glass animation a form of stop motion animation.
Tomas Lindberg.  Tomas Tompa Lindberg (born October 16 1972 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.Tomas is rated #30 out of 50 of The Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time by Roadrunner Records.
Lee Loughnane.  Lee Loughnane (pronounced LOCK-nane) born 21 October 1946 in Elmwood Park Illinois to Juanita Wall and Philip Louis Loughnane is an American trumpeter flugelhorn player vocalist and songwriter best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago.
Eloy Fariña Núñez.  Eloy Fariña Núñez was born in Humaita historical city of the department of Ñeembucu in the Republic of Paraguay on July 25 1885 son of Felix Fariña and Buenaventura Núñez.
Jimmy Newquist.  James P. Jimmy Newquist (born May 10 1970) is the American primary song writer guitarist and lead singer for the alternative rock band Caroline's Spine. Born in Boston Massachusetts and raised in Phoenix Arizona he is one of eight children. Newquist started song writing at an early age and moved to Los Angeles California to further his music career.
Rustie.  Rustie (born Russell Whyte) is a Scottish musician from Glasgow.
Fiona Xie.  Fiona Xie (謝宛諭 Xie Wanyu; born 24 January 1982) is a Singaporean actress host and contracted artiste under MediaCorp. She works on both the English-language Channel 5 and Chinese-language Channel 8. She has also endorsed products such as Marigold's fruit juices and OSIM's massage devices.
Juan Carreño de Miranda.  Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.Born in Avilés in Asturias son of a painter with the same name Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623 and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de Las Cuevas and Bartolomé Román. He came to the notice of Velázquez for his work in the cloister of Doña María de Aragón and in the church of El Rosario.
David Jaymes.  David Jaymes is an English musician and songwriter best known as the founder member of the Leyton Buzzards (1976–1980) and the multi-hit salsa band Modern Romance (1980–1985). He now works in Music Management and Consultancy.
Rolly Teranishi.  Rolly Teranishi (ローリー 寺西 Rōrī Teranishi) more commonly known as Rolly is a Japanese musician and music producer.
Stacey Kade.  Stacey Kade (also known as Stacey Klemstein) is an American author from Chicago Illinois. She is the author of The Ghost and The Goth Queen of The Dead and Body & Soul. In 2011 her book Queen of The Dead was nominated for a YALSA award for Best Fiction for Young Adults She announced in February 2011 that she will begin writing a new two part book series called Project Paper Doll: THE RULES scheduled to be released in April 2013 and the second book to be released in 2014.
Francis Payne (author).  Francis Payne is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
Ray Strong.  Ray Stanford Strong (1905–2006) was an American painter from Corvallis Oregon.
Satish Chakravarthy.  Satish Chakravarthy is an Indian music composer who mainly produces film scores and soundtracks in the Tamil film industry. He rose to fame with critically acclaimed music in the films Leelai and Kanimozhi.
Duane Allman.  Howard Duane Allman (November 20 1946 – October 29 1971) was an American guitarist session musician and the co-founder and primary leader of the The Allman Brothers Band until his death in a motorcycle accident in 1971 at the age of 24.The Allman Brothers Band was formed in 1969 and based in the Southeastern United States. In the early 1970s the band was hugely successful.
Grzegorz Hyży.  Grzegorz Hyży (born 1987) is a Polish singer-songwriter who rose to fame after finishing as the runner-up in the third series of X Factor in 2013. He is currently signed to Sony Music.
Ardian Bujupi.  Ardian Bujupi (born 27 April 1991) is a Albanian-German singer-songwriter. Bujupi rose to fame when he finished third in the eighth season of the German talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2011.
Casey Dienel.  Casey Dienel (born March 10 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She released her debut album Wind-Up Canary in 2006 on Hush Records. Dienel presently performs and records as White Hinterland whose first album titled Phylactery Factory was released on March 4 2008 by the independent record label Dead Oceans.
Kim Fransson.  Kim Fransson (born in Trollhättan Sweden on 7 June 1982) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He is particlularly known for taking part in the first season of the series Made in Sweden along with Janet Leon where he collaborated with Anders Bagge Laila Bagge Andreas Carlsson for his debut album also writing some of his own notable co-writing such as Here Comes the Night with Fredrik Hallström.Kim Fransson started his career at 12 when he appeared on Swedish TV4's program Nyårsgala.
Sam Gooden.  Samuel G. Sam Gooden (born on September 2 1934 in Chattanooga Tennessee) is an African-American soul singer. He is best known for being an original member of the successful group The Impressions from its beginnings as The Roosters in the 1950s. Gooden and the group are still recording and performing. He was inducted with the group in 1991 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Angie Be.  Angie Be (born 1977) pseudonym of Élodie Bouche is a French singer and former candidate of Secret Story 2009 (France). Her single Soundwaves reached number 17 on the French charts in 2009 and remained on the chart for almost one year. In December 2009 a French version of Soundwaves was available digitally. This version was in the musical programming of Fun Radio during October 2009 – March 2010.She created and directed a manicure company at home from 2007 to 2009 in Southern France.
Richard Greene (writer).  Richard Greene is a Canadian poet. His book Boxing the Compass won the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.A resident of Cobourg Ontario Greene teaches English literature at the University of Toronto.
MC Ceja.  MC Ceja (born February 15 1978) as Alberto Mendoza Nieves in Arecibo Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican rap artist. He is also known as El Cejón due to his heavy eyebrows.
Cláudya.  Cláudya (formerly Cláudia and Cláudia Oliveira stage names of Maria das Graças Rallo; born May 10 1948 in Rio) is a Brazilian singer.
Antonio Scandello.  Antonio Scandello (January 17 1517 – January 18 1580) was an Italian composer born in Bergamo. He worked as musician at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden. In 1549 he became court-bandmaster and in 1568 Kapellmeister. His music combines elements of the Italian Renaissance with German musical traditions.Scandella composed a memorial mass for the Saxon Elector Maurice (Missa super Epithaphum Mauritii) who had been wounded to death at the battle of Sievershausen.
Jay Lane.  Jay Lane (born December 5 1964) is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a member of Bob Weir's RatDog Scaring the Children with Weir and Rob Wasserman and the hip hop/jazz fusion group Alphabet Soup and has previously played with bands such as Primus and Furthur.In 2002 Lane was named drummer of the year by the California Music Awards. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife Aida their two daughters Erika and Xenia and his mother.
Peter Erasmus Müller.  Peter Erasmus Müller (29 May 1776 - 4 September 1834) was a Danish bishop historian linguist and professor of theology.
Josh Rouse.  Josh Rouse (born 1972) is an American folk/roots pop singer-songwriter.
Mon Laferte.  Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte (born May 2 1983 in Viña del Mar) better known by her stage name Mon Laferte is a Chilean singer-songwriter and actress.In 2009 Mon was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. But two years after recorded her first album under her stage name Mon Laferte titled Desechable.
Jack Morelli.  Jack Morelli (born October 26 1962) is a comic book letterer and author also credited under the name John Morelli. He has designed many comic book logos.
Udi Davidi.  Udi Davidi (Hebrew: אודי דוידי‎) is an Israeli singer musician lyricist and composer. Davidi is considered one of the most prominent singers of Jewish music among creative artists.Davidi began his musical career in the year 2004 when he released his first album Speak to Him.In 2006 his second album Coming Back to You was released turning Davidi into one of the most popular singers of Original Jewish Music.
Amilkar Ariza.  Amilkar Ariza (born 1943 in Riohacha Guajira Colombia) is a painter and sculptor.
Andrew Chaikin.  Andrew L. Chaikin (born June 24 1956) is an American author speaker and science journalist. He currently lives in Vermont.He is the author of A Man on the Moon a detailed description of the Apollo missions to the Moon. This book formed the basis for From the Earth to the Moon a 12-part HBO miniseries.From 1999 to 2001 Chaikin served as executive editor for space and science at Space.com. From 2008 to 2011 he was a faculty member for Montana State University in Bozeman Montana.
Shirō Hamaguchi.  Shirō Hamaguchi (浜口 史郎 Hamaguchi Shirō born November 19 1969) is a Japanese anime composer arranger and orchestrator. He is best known for composing music to the anime franchises One Piece and Oh My Goddess! and arranging/orchestrating music in the Final Fantasy series. He frequently collaborates with fellow composers Kohei Tanaka and Akifumi Tada on anime scores.
Jacob Richler.  Jacob Richler is a Canadian newspaper and magazine journalist and the son of novelist Mordecai Richler and Florence Isabel (Wood). He was the inspiration for his father's Jacob Two-Two trilogy of children's books.Richler was a long-time restaurant reviewer for the National Post known for his biting highly critical reviewing style though he is no longer listed under that newspaper's columnists directory and has not contributed an article to the newspaper since early 2007.
Scuba (musician).  Paul Rose usually known as Scuba (also known by his SCB alias) is a British electronic musician now based in Berlin.
Marcel Odenbach.  Marcel Odenbach with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch is one of the most well-established and internationally known German video artists. In the 1970s they formed the producer group ATV. Odenbach's works paradigmatically criticize the specific conditions of the German society for which he usually finds literary titles referring to puns or traditional sayings.
Dennis Cusick.  Dennis Cusick (c. 1800-1824) was a Tuscarora painter from New York and one of the founders of the Iroquois Realist Style of painting.
Donald Wandrei.  Donald Albert Wandrei (April 20 1908–October 15 1987) was an American science fiction fantasy and weird fiction writer poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales another sixteen in Astounding Stories plus a few in other magazines including Esquire.
Vincenzo Moscuzza.  Vincenzo Moscuzza (1827 - 1896) was an Italian composer. Born in Syracuse Sicily he was the son of composer Luigi Moscuzza and his initial musical training was from his father. He later studied at the Naples Conservatory with Saverio Mercadante. He is chiefly known for his many operas of which his most successful were Stradella il trovatore (1850) Don Carlo (1862) and Gonzales Davila (1869). He died in Naples.
Papo Lucca.  Enrique Arsenio Lucca Quiñonez better known as Papo Lucca (Papo being a common Puerto Rican slang for junior) is a Puerto Rican multi-instrumentalist best known for his pianist skills. His main musical genres are Salsa and Latin Jazz. He ranks with the late Charlie Palmieri as one of the best piano instrumentalists in Latin Jazz and Salsa.[citation needed] He is the co-founder with his father Don Enrique Quique Lucca Caraballo of the Puerto Rican band La Sonora Ponceña.
Billy Hart.  William Billy Hart (born November 29 1940 in Washington D.C.) is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history.
René Froger.  René Froger (Amsterdam 5 November 1960) is a Dutch singer.He was born and spent his first years in the Jordaan a neighbourhood in Amsterdam. His father Bolle Jan had a cafe that Froger started performing in. He began with Ted de Braak and Mini en Maxi and in 1987 he released his first single Love Leave Me. Major success eluded him until Winter in America entered the Dutch Top 40 in 1988.
Benedicto Ducat.  Benedicto “Bong” Ducat (born 1957) is a Filipino impressionist painter and is now teaching at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design. He is noted for his plants flowers and nature paintings done in droplet - like brush strokes and using bright colors.
Lou Ann Barton.  Lou Ann Barton (born February 17 1954 Fort Worth Texas United States) is an American blues singer based in Austin Texas since the 1970s.
Franklin D. McDowell.  Franklin Davey McDowell (1888 - 1965) was a Canadian writer whose novel The Champlain Road won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1939.Beginning his career in 1909 as a journalist with the Toronto World the Toronto Mail and Empire and the Winnipeg Free Press McDowell also published a number of short stories. He subsequently worked for Canadian National Railways from 1923 to 1953.
Mat Devine.  Mat Devine (born Matthew Devine on April 16) is an American singer songwriter musician actor and author. He is most well known for creating and fronting the alternative rock band Kill Hannah. His debut solo album Gold Blooded is due for release in April 2014.
Mark Epstein.  Mark Epstein (born 1953) is an American author and psychotherapist integrating both Buddha's and Sigmund Freud's approaches to trauma who writes about their interplay. In his most recent book The Trauma of Everyday Life he interprets the Buddha’s spiritual journey as grounded in Buddha's personal childhood trauma.
Darach Ó Catháin.  Darach Ó Catháin (1922 – 1987) was an Irish sean-nós singer. Ó Catháin was born in Maimin Lettermore Connemara seventh in a family of twelve children in 1922. In 1935 his family moved to new government created Gaeltacht of Rath Cairn Co. Meath. His love of singing and many of his songs were learned from his mother. By the late 1950s he was established as one of the finest sean-nós singers in the country.
Senge Motomaro.  Senge Motomaro (千家 元麿 8 June 1888 – 14 March 1948) was a Japanese poet active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.
Folco de Baroncelli-Javon.  Folco de Baroncelli-Javon (1 November 1869 – 15 December 1943) was a French writer and cattle farmer. As an influential gardian (a kind of Provençal cowboy) he is an important figure in the traditional lifestyle and culture of the Camargue region of southern France.
Hortense Ellis.  Hortense Ellis (18 April 1941 - 19 October 2000) was a reggae musician and the younger sister of fellow artist Alton Ellis.
Serio (rapper).  Jonathán Pérez better known as Serio is a Mexican American rap artist from Los Angeles California United States. He has worked with other chicano rap artists such as Kid Frost Lighter Shade of Brown Proper Dos and MC Magic.
Andrea England.  Andrea England is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Nova Scotia now based in Toronto Ontario. She has won a number of songwriting competitions and had songs featured in shows such as Joan of Arcadia and Dawson's Creek.
Latifa (singer).  Latifa Bint Alayah Al Arfaoui (Arabic: لطيفه بنت عليه العرفاوي‎) (born February 14 1968) better known as Latifa (لطيفة) is an Arab pop singer Latifa standing for gentle in Arabic.
Georgi Vinogradov (tenor).  Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov (Russian: Георгий Павлович Виноградов) Honoured Artist of Russia (16 November [O.S. 3 November] 1908 – 11 November 1980) was a Russian tenor: a popular World War II singer on Radio Moscow recording artist and soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble.
László Krasznahorkai.  László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː krɒsnɒhorkɒ.i]; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult demanding postmodernist novels with dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works notably his novels Satantango (Sátántangó) (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája) (1989) have been turned into feature films by Hungarian film director Béla Tarr.
Jesse Pearson (writer).  Jesse Pearson is an American editor and writer. He was the editor-in-chief of Vice Magazine from October 2002 until December 2010 and has interviewed notable figures such as David Lynch Marina Abramović Bret Easton Ellis David Simon and Johnny Knoxville.
Pete Lawrence.  Pete Lawrence is a conceptualist recording artist DJ event organiser music programmer writer and broadcaster based in the UK.
Sebastian (rapper).  Garland Mosley (born September 01 1977 in Norfolk United States) commonly known by his stage name Sebastian is an American rapper and songwriter. He is the younger brother of fellow rapper Timbaland.
Apademik.  Apademik (/æpəˈdɛmɨk/; born July 26 Long Island New York) is an American hip-hop producer movie director CEO and founder of Funkin Beatz Entertainment Corporation and ASCAP registered recording artist. Known for his role as producer director and co-music director for the movie The Razah Code Underground Hip-Hop Vol. 1 released September 2006 Koch Records.
Soheila Zaland.  Sohaila Zaland (Persian: سهیلا زلاند‎) (also spelled as Soheyla Zoland & سهیلا زولاند and Sohaila Zaland and Soheyla Zaland and Sohaila Zoland) is a popular singer of Afghanistan. She is the daughter of singer and composer Ustad Zaland. She is sister of composer Farid Zaland and singers Shahla Zaland and Wahid Zaland.
Daniel Boone (singer).  Daniel Boone (also known as Peter Lee Stirling born Peter Charles Green 31 July 1942 Birmingham England) is an English pop musician who became a one-hit wonder in the U.S. with the single Beautiful Sunday in 1972. The song was written by Boone and Rod McQueen and sold over two million copies worldwide. It peaked at number 15 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1972 having already reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart earlier that same year.
Robert Kinkel.  Bob Kinkel is an American professional session keyboardist and music engineer most known for his role as a co-creator/co-producer/co-composer and touring keyboardist with Trans-Siberian Orchestra along with extensive studio work with the progressive metal band Savatage. He attended Hamilton College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in music with a minor in physics.
Larry Kusche.  Lawrence David 'Larry' Kusche (born November 1 1940) is an American author and pilot. He had been a commercial pilot flight instructor instrument-rated pilot instrument instructor and librarian by the time he wrote The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved (ISBN 0879759712) (1975) and The Disappearance of Flight 19 (1980).Larry Kusche was born in Racine Wisconsin but grew up in Phoenix Arizona.
Kirk Farmer.  Richard “Kirk” Farmer (born February 14 1973) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist from Richmond Virginia. He is best known for his gritty blues style vocals and roots rock song writing.
Hilary Knight.  Hilary Knight (born November 1 1926) is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books.
U Brown.  Huford Brown (born 8 June 1956 Kingston Jamaica) better known by the stage name U Brown is a reggae deejay who released eleven albums between 1976 and 1984.
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa.  Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (澁澤 龍彦 Shibusawa Tatsuhiko 8 May 1928 - 5 August 1987) was the pen name of Shibusawa Tatsuo a novelist art critic and translator of French literature active during Shōwa period Japan. Shibusawa wrote many short stories and novels based on French literature and Japanese classics. His essays about black magic demonology and eroticism are also popular in Japan.
Mick Pyro.  Michael Tierney (known as Mick Pyro) is an Irish musician. He is best known as the frontman of the Dublin funk rock band Republic of Loose. He has also partaken in other independent work with fellow Irish and international musicians and performed a duet with Sinéad O'Connor at the 2008 Meteor Awards when she revealed her admiration for his vocals. He has also written for the Irish Independent. Pyro is known for his distinctive vocals and his bearded appearance.
Stanley Tretick.  Aaron Stanley Tretick (July 21 1921 - July 23 1999) was an American photojournalist who worked for UPI Look and People magazines. He covered every president from Harry S. Truman through George H. W. Bush. Tretick also did stills for many films including All the President's Men. He is best known today for the photographs he took of John F. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign and presidency. In the final issue of Look in 1971 Tretick was called President Kennedy's photographic Boswell.
Wali Mohammed Wali.  Wali Muhammad Wali (1667–1707) (also known as Wali Deccani Urdu: ولی دکنی Wali Gujarati and Wali Aurangabadi) was a classical Urdu poet from India.He is the first established poet to have composed Ghazals in Urdu language and compiled a divan (a collection of ghazals where the entire alphabet is used at least once as the last letter to define the rhyme pattern).
Taiguara.  Taiguara Chalar da Silva (Montevideo October 9 1945 – São Paulo February 14 1996) whose stage name was Taiguara was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Taiguara was born in Montevideo Uruguay as his father toured the country as a musician but grew up in Rio and later moved to São Paulo.
Noboru Kawasaki.  Noboru Kawasaki (川崎のぼる Kawasaki Noboru born January 28 1941 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He is most famous for drawing the series Star of the Giants. He won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1969 for Animal 1 and Inakappe Taishō as well as the eight Kodansha Children's Manga Award for Star of the Giants in 1967 and its successor Kodansha Manga Award in shōnen category for Football Hawk in 1978.
Kim Dong-jun.  Kim Dong-jun (born February 11 1992) is a member of the nine-member South Korean boyband ZE:A (aka Children of Empire) which debuted on 7 January 2010 with the single Mazeltov.Kim Dong-jun is the Maknae (youngest) and the lead vocalist out of the 9-membered boyband.The group released both a music video and a short music drama for All Day Long where member Kim Dong-jun played the lead actor.Kim Dong-jun made many appearances in Let's Go Dream Team Season 2 as a Dream Team member.
Alexander Roslin.  Alexander Roslin (often spelled Alexandre in French; 15 July 1718 – 5 July 1793) was a Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania Bayreuth Paris Italy and St. Petersburg primarily for members of aristocratic families. He combined insightful psychological portrayal with a skillful representation of fabrics and jewels.In his choice of style and lustrous shimmering colors Alexander Roslin exemplifies Rococo.
Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora.  Gherardo di Giovanni di Miniato del Fora (1445–1497) was an Italian painter.
Mau Marcelo.  Maureen Mau Flores Marcelo (born May 13 1980) is a Filipina Puerto Rican R&B soul singer who rose to prominence as the first winner of Philippine Idol in 2006. She was dubbed as the Soul Idol and The Black Belter at the competition for her R&B-style vocals.
Bruce Sudano.  Bruce Charles Sudano (born September 26 1948) is an award-winning American singer-songwriter record producer and arranger noted for creating songs for some of the most famous artists in the world such as Michael Jackson Dolly Parton Reba McEntire and his wife the Grammy Award-winning singer Donna Summer. Sudano is the founder of indie record label Purple Heart Recording Company.
Kathleen Sloan.  Kathleen Sloan is an American violinist based in Los Angeles CA and a member of the Sonus Quartet.
Theodor Blumer.  Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 December 1964) was a German composer and conductor.Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931 he became the conductor of the Dresden Radio Orchestra and after this moved to Leipzig to head the Middle German Radio Orchestra there for eleven years.
Florentijn Hofman.  Florentijn Hofman (16 April 1977) is a Dutch artist. He is known for playful urban installations such as the Rubber Duck.Florentijn Hofman was born in 16 April 1977 in Delfzijl in the Netherlands. He went to primary and secondary school in Emmen. He studied arts at the art academy of Kampen and later Berlin.In 2013 Pittsburgh became the first American city to be visited by Hofman's Rubber Duck.
Ah Young.  Cho Ja Young (Hangul: 조자영; born May 26 1991) commonly known by her stage name Ah Young is a South Korean singer actress and model. She is best known for being a member of the pop girl group Dal Shabet and for portraying Gong Sun-hye in the KBS drama Ad Genius Lee Tae-baek.
Leonard Peikoff.  Leonard S. Peikoff (/ˈpiːkɑːf/; born October 15 1933) is a Canadian-American philosopher. A former professor of philosophy he was designated by the philosopher Ayn Rand as heir to her estate. He is an author a leading advocate of Objectivism and the founder of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). For several years he hosted a nationally syndicated radio talk show.
Martino Cignaroli.  Martino Cignaroli (1649–January 10 1726) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Also called il Veronese he was born and studied in Verona with Giulio Carpioni. He mainly painted both religious frescoes and landscapes. His Cignaroli family line produced over a dozen artists and artisans. Martino’s son Scipione became a pupil of Pieter Mulier II (Cavalier Tempesta). Martino's grandson Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (1730–1800) was a known landscape painter for the House of Savoy in Turin.
Alsou.  Alsou Ralifovna Abramova (Russian: Алсу́ Рали́фовна Абра́мова; Tatar Cyrillic: Алсу Рәлиф кызы Абрамова Latin: Alsu Rälif qızı Abramova; née Safina better known as just Alsou (Алсу́ born on June 27 1983) is a popular Russian singer. She competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 in which she came in second place giving her recognition all over Europe as well. Alsou hosted the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 held in Moscow.
Joi Cardwell.  Joi Cardwell (born on October 8 1967) is an American singer-songwriter.
Meleka.  Meleka (born c. 1988) is a singer/songwriter who first came to public attention after winning the annual talent competition HUGO Urban Rules in 2008. The event saw her performing for music industry experts and stars Estelle and ex-Mystique singer Sabrina Washington. Upon winning Meleka had the chance to sing on stage with the pair.
Marko Kitti.  Marko Kitti (born 11 July 1970 in Turku Finland) is a Finnish author. He has published five works of fiction. He was a candidate for the 2008 Runeberg prize
Josh Newton.  Josh Newton (born June 8 1973 in New Bedford Massachusetts) is an American musician perhaps best known for his tenure in Every Time I Die playing bass guitar. He is also the singer and guitarist of The Great Fire of Sixteen Sixty Six. Newton was a member of the following rock bands: Shiner From Autumn To Ashes Biology Glazed Baby Season to Risk Iron Rite Mangle Creamy Shots Fired The Damned Things and Reggie and the Full Effect.
Kelly DeVries.  Kelly DeVries is an American historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. As of 2012 he is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He received his PhD in Medieval studies in 1987 from the University of Toronto.[1]
Paul Budnitz.  Paul Budnitz (born September 14 1967) is the founder of Kidrobot a retailer of art toys apparel and accessories. He also owns and runs Budnitz Bicycles is an author of several books exhibits as a photographer[citation needed] and filmmaker and has founded a dozen companies.[citation needed]
Yakub Kolas.  Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas Belarusian: Яку́б Ко́лас November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1882 – August 13 1956) real name Kanstancin Mickievič (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a Belarusian writer People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926) and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.In his works Yakub Kolas was known for his sympathy towards the ordinary Belarusian peasantry.
Nick McDonell.  Robert Nicholas Nick McDonell (born February 18 1984) is an American writer.
José Rey de la Torre.  José Rey de la Torre (b. December 9 1917 Gibara Cuba; d. July 21 1994 San Jose California) known by his stage name Rey de la Torre was one of the most significant classical guitarists of the mid-twentieth century and considered by many to be the father of “modern classical guitar technique”.
Mary Settegast.  Mary Settegast is a contemporary American scholar and author who specializes in the Neolithic Age.The accomplished but reclusive Settegast earned graduate degrees from both the University of California Berkeley and Columbia University. She has received critical praise for her books Plato Prehistorian Mona Lisa's Moustache and When Zarathustra Spoke.
Berry (singer).  Élise Pottier known better by her stage name Berry is a French singer originally an actress in theatre whose first album Mademoiselle (Miss) released in 2008. The album reached the Top 34 in France and Top 46 in Belgium. A second album titled Les passagers (The passengers) released in 2012.
Mabel Loomis Todd.  Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis (November 10 1856 – October 14 1932) was an American editor and writer and the wife of the astronomer David Peck Todd. She is remembered as the editor of posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson.
Vasyl Symonenko.  Vasyl Symonenko (Ukrainian: Василь Андрійович Симоненко; January 8 1935–1963) a well-known Ukrainian poet journalist activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s.
Abie Philbin Bowman.  Abie Philbin Bowman is an Irish comedian and journalist. His works include Jesus: The Guantanamo Years and Eco-Friendly Jihad.He is the writer/director/performer of Jesus: The Guantanamo Years which was staged in 2006 in the Project Arts Centre (Temple Bar Dublin) and the Underbelly (Cowgate Edinburgh) as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was widely reported in the media and sold out - The Scotsman referred to him as the face of this year's Fringe.
Metin Yurdanur.  Metin Yurdanur (born 1951) is a Turkish sculptor who was awarded the title State Artist of Turkey.
Nick Perito.  Nicholas Perito (April 7 1924 – August 4 2005) was a Hollywood composer and arranger and for 40 years the closest collaborator of singer Perry Como.
Mahmoud Ahmed.  Mahmoud Ahmed (born May 8 1941) (Amharic: መሀሙድ አህመድ) is an Ethiopian singer of Gurage ancestry. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s before rising to international fame with African music fans in Europe and the Americas.
Brian Crosby.  Brian Crosby (born 12 June 1973) is an Irish musician/producer and award-winning composer. He is a board director on the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO).
Elis Paprika.  Elis Paprika (real name Erika Elizabeth Nogues; May 8 1980) is an independent Singer-songwriter from Guadalajara Mexico. She has been an active and important part of Mexico’s Rock scene since 2004. She has performed 3 times at Auditorio Nacional in México City along with Julieta Venegas in 2007 Belanova in 2008 and Juan Gabriel in 2009. She has performed in three Vive Latino Festivals in México City first in 2006 in 2011 and again in 2014.
Boris Golovin.  Boris Golovin (Russian: Бори́с Голови́н IPA: [bɐˈrʲis ɡəlɐˈvʲin] ; born May 26 1955) is a Russian singer-songwriter musician poet and novelist. Golovin published his first book of poetry in Moscow in 1987.
Doni (Bulgarian singer).  Dobrin Dimitrov Vekilov (born May 7 1967) (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Добрин Димитров Векилов) best known by his stage name Doni (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Дони) is a Bulgarian pop singer composer and actor.Prior to turning to singing Doni was educated as a pharmacist. He began studying music in 1988 and started his professional music career in the 1990s as a member of the bands Atlas and Medikus.
Daniel Bedingfield.  Daniel John Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is an English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and record producer. He is the brother of fellow singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle. He was a judge on The X Factor NZ in 2013.
Aldo Leopold.  Aldo Leopold (January 11 1887 – April 21 1948) was an American author scientist ecologist forester and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949) which has sold more than two million copies.Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation.
Gilbert Buote.  Gilbert Buote (20 February 1833 – 16 July 1904) was an Acadian educator publisher and author.Buote was born in Miscouche Prince Edward Island. He along with his son François-Joseph founded and published the first Acadian newspaper on the Island L'Impartial. His novel Placide l'homme mystérieux was published in 30 installments in L'Impartial between 1904 and 1906. Gilbert was married to Madeleine Gallant on 20 February 1860. He died in Tignish Prince Edward Island.
Carew Rice.  Carew Rice (1899 - 1971) was best known for his silhouettes of the South Carolina Lowcountry and of famous people of his day. His grandson Clay Rice continues to create silhouettes.
Maqbool Ahmed Sabri.  Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (October 12 1945 - September 21 2011) was a major Qawwali singer and a leading member of the Sabri Brothers a leading qawwali group.
Prakash Chandra Pandey.  Prakash Chandra Pandey (born 25 October 1962) is a Hindi poet and writer. He is the author (poet) of Aaj Ka Sawal and Nayi Subeh Ki Aur Hindi poetry books.
Howard Moss (songwriter).  Howard Moss is a British born songwriter from Trim County Meath Ireland. Howard attended School at St. Michael's Diocesan School Trim having moved to Ireland with his parents at the age of five. He started playing guitar and the age of 13 and performed in his first school band Near Dark at the age of 14.In 1991 Howard moved to Dublin and began concentrating on writing his own songs. In 1994 he released a 4-track E.P entitled Sally Forth which was recorded at Pulse Studios Dublin.
Alexander Reid (playwright).  Alexander Reid (1914–1982) was a Scottish playwright.
Jamie Kennedy.  James Harvey Jamie Kennedy (born May 25 1970) is an American comedian television producer screenwriter and actor.
Driss Chraïbi.  Driss Chraïbi (July 15 1926 El Jadida – April 1 2007 Drôme France) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism culture clashes generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical.Born in El Jadida and educated in Casablanca Chraïbi went to Paris in 1946 to study chemistry before turning to literature and journalism.
Carlos Méndez Villalobos.  Carlos Méndez Villalobos (born September 7 1954) is a Mexican writer of poetry short stories and novels. He is also an awarded physician for the Mexican Health Ministry in the central state of Guanajuato.
Kelly Richey.  Kelly Richey (born November 30 1962) is an American blues rock guitarist singer and composer based out of Cincinnati Ohio.
Robert Heron (writer).  Robert Heron (6 November 1764 – 13 April 1807) was a Scottish writer.
Smokey Hogg.  For the Scottish rugby league footballer of the 1900s for Great Britain England Other Nationalities and Broughton Rangers see Andrew HoggFor the English association footballer for Malta Pietà Hotspurs and Valletta see Andrew HoggAndrew 'Smokey' Hogg (January 27 1914 - May 1 1960) was an American post-war Texas and country blues musician.
Jihae (rock musician).  Jihae is a South Korean-born singer composer and multimedia artist based in New York City.
Clarence Clemons.  Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr. (January 11 1942 – June 18 2011) also known as The Big Man was an American musician and actor. Reported to be 6'5 tall. From 1972 until his death he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band playing the tenor saxophone.He released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with You're a Friend of Mine a duet with Jackson Browne.
Aaliyah.  Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16 1979 – August 25 2001) who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (/ɑːˈliːə/) was an American recording artist dancer actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn New York and raised in Detroit Michigan. At the age of 10 she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12 Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. Hankerson introduced her to R.
Kareem Lopez.  Kareem Ignacio Lopez Contreras (born January 1 1990) better known by his stage name Karim Lopez is a Mexican musician and singer who became widely known as former member of the musical group AK-7.
Gaynor Arnold.  Gaynor Arnold is a Welsh-born author. Born in Cardiff she studied English Literature at St. Hilda's College Oxford and for a Diploma in Social and Administrative Studies at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention University of Oxford.
Claudia Church.  Claudia Lorraine Church (born in Lenoir North Carolina) is an American country singer whose hits include What's the Matter With You Baby and Home in My Heart (North Carolina).
John William Hill.  John William Hill or often J.W. Hill (1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor gouache lithography and engraving. Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes still lifes and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Joyce Carlson.  Joyce Carlson (March 16 1923 – January 2 2008) was an American artist and designer credited with creating the idyllic universe of singing children at It's a Small World rides at Walt Disney theme parks around the world. Carlson also worked as an ink artist in the Walt Disney Animation Studios on such films as Cinderella Peter Pan and Sleeping Beauty. She was the lead ink artist for the 1955 Disney classic Lady and the Tramp.
Val Telberg.  Val Telberg (born in Moscow Russia on February 14 1910) was a Russian painter. He lived in China during his youth. He studied painting at the Art Student's League New York in 1942 where he was exposed to the surrealism movement and experimental film-making. To support his painting Telberg traveled from Florida to Massachusetts printing photographs of nightclub patrons and working at photographic concession stands where people posed with cutouts of celebrities.
Francis Clay.  Francis Clay (November 16 1923 – January 21 2008) was a jazz and blues drummer best known for his work behind Muddy Waters in the '50s and '60s and as an original member of the James Cotton band.
Otgonbayar Ershuu.  Otgonbayar Ershuu (Mongolian: Эршүүгийн Отгонбаяр; * 18 January 1981 in Ulan Bator) is a Mongolian painter. His artist name is OTGO.
Wacław Kisielewski.  Wacław Wacek Kisielewski (February 12 1943 – July 12 1986) was a Polish pianist son of Stefan Kisielewski. He was part of the piano duo called Marek i Wacek (Marek and Wacek) with Marek Tomaszewski. He made arrangements of classical and modern music and played concerts in many countries worldwide.Waclaw died in a car accident and was buried in the Powązki Cemetery Warsaw on July 17. The funeral mass in the Church of Saint Cross Piaseczno was attended by a huge crowd.
Frank Gryner.  Frank Gryner is a Canadian record producer mix engineer audio technician and multi-instrumentalist. He has mixed/engineered or performed on recordings for multiplatinum artist Rob Zombie as well as A Perfect Circle BT Peter Pepper and Andrew W.K. among many others.
Babis Tsertos.  Haralambos (Babis) Tsertos (Greek: Μπάμπης Τσέρτος; born October 27 1956) is the brother of the singer Nadia Karagianni. His father was a musician too and he was playing the Mandolin. At the age of 17 he settled permanently in Athens and in 1974 he entered the Faculty of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Marie-Mai.  Marie-Mai Bouchard (born 7 July 1984 in Varennes Quebec) also known as her stage name Marie-Mai is a French Canadian singer from Quebec. She was initially known as one of the top finalists of the first season of the Quebec reality show Star Académie.
Jeremiah Jae.  Jeremiah Jae is an American rapper and producer from the neighborhood of Jackson Park Highlands in Chicago Illinois. First signed to the LA label Brainfeeder in 2007 when the Ann Arbor based producer Samiyam passed on Jae's Lunch Special Part I to Flying Lotus. After a post and then private message on his MySpace profile Jae was flown out to LA to work with Flying Lotus.
Master of Latin 757.  The Master of Latin 757 (fl c. 1380–1395) is the name given to a Lombard painter of illuminated manuscripts whose work is very poorly known. Three manuscripts all in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris were first ascribed to him by Pietro Toesca; these include a combined Book of Hours and Missal the so-called Lancelot du lac and several folios of a handbook on health the Tacuinum sanitatis.
Kristy Yang.  Kristy Yang (born 7 January 1974) also known as Kristy Yeung is a Hong Kong-based Chinese Canadian actress.Yang was born in Shanghai China to a Chinese father and a British Chinese mother.
DJ UCH.  Uchenna Martin Anyanwu (born August 30 1979) in New York City known professionally as Uch or DJ Uch is an American radio presenter mixshow dj and house music producer originally from The Bronx New York.
Li Guowen.  Li Guowen (simplified Chinese: 李国文; traditional Chinese: 李國文; pinyin: Lí Guówén; born 24 August 1930) is a Chinese novelist who was the director of China Writers Association. Li is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
Richard Huziak.  Richard Huziak (born March 18 1957 in Yorkton Saskatchewan) is a Canadian amateur astronomer for whom the International Astronomical Union named main-belt asteroid 4143 Huziak. A former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Saskatoon Centre for six years and a prominent member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers Huziak has over 165000 observations of variable stars to his credit.
Edwin Butler Bayliss.  Edwin Butler Bayliss (1874–1950) was an artist based in the Black Country famous for his realistic and unsentimental paintings of industrial sites in the area.
Douglas Anthony Cooper.  Douglas Anthony Cooper is a Canadian writer.
Terri White.  This article is about the American singer. For the Oklahoma social worker see Terri White (commissioner).Terri White is an American singer and actress raised in Palo Alto California.
Elizabeth Coatsworth.  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31 1893 – August 31 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing The Cat Who Went to Heaven as the previous year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's writers.
Léon Reynier.  Léon Reynier (11 August 1833 in Saint-Cloud – 5 May 1895 in Paris) was a well known and greatly appreciated French virtuoso violinist. He is said to have been presented by Napoleon III with a richly varnished 1681 orange-reddish Stradivarius. A pupil of Lambert Massart he was awarded first prize in 1848 at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Bang Minah.  Bang Minah (born May 13 1993; Hangul: 방민아) better known by her stage name Minah (Hangul: 민아) is a South Korean idol singer. She is best known as a main vocalist of the girl group Girl's Day under Dream Tea Entertainment.
Josephine Roberto.  Josephine Roberto (born December 25 1977) commonly known as Banig or Banig Roberto is a singer songwriter actress and record producer born in the Philippines. Although she began singing when she was 3 her professional career started at the age of 8 when she appeared on Ang Bagong Kampeon a nationally televised talent show in the Philippines. She was a 7-week champion and placed third in the grand finals.
Saturnin Pandi.  Saturnin Pandi (1932–1996) was a soukous recording artist conga player in the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was one of the founding members of the soukous band TPOK Jazz formed in 1956 led by François Luambo Makiadi which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s through the 1980s. He was also a member of the Bantous de la Capitale formed in Brazzaville in 1959 led by Jean Serge Essous.
Tujiko Noriko.  Tujiko Noriko (ツジコノリコ) born Noriko Tsujiko (辻子紀子 Tsujiko Noriko) in Osaka Japan is a Japanese avant-pop experimental musician sometimes compared to múm or Björk. Much of her music consists of repetitive layers of samples and electronic beats and melodies being gradually added on top of each other with her singing on top of that. Her lyrics are in Japanese and English. She has worked for the Austrian label Mego and the German Tomlab.
Cristian Álvarez (musician).  Cristian Pity Álvarez is an Argentine rock musician born June 28 in 1972 in Buenos Aires Argentina. He was raised at the Piedrabuena Complex western part of the city.In 1993 Pity became part of a Stone Rock band: Viejas Locas from which he left in the year 2000 to establish Intoxicados: the band he leads in the present although as of early 2009 it has been speculated that he might return to his former band.
Antonio Dardani.  Antonio Dardani (c. 1677-1735) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born and active in Bologna where he had been a pupil of Giovanni Maria Viani and Marcantonio Toni. In around 1720 he painted the Theater of Reggio along with Giovanni Zanardi.
Ihaia Hutana.  Ihaia Hutana (c.1844–9 November 1938) was a New Zealand tribal leader newspaper editor and assessor . Of Māori descent he identified with the Ngati Kahungunu iwi. He was born in Poroutawhao Manawatu/Horowhenua New Zealand on c.1844.
Scott LaFaro.  Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3 1936 – July 6 1961) was an influential American jazz double bassist perhaps best known for his seminal work with the Bill Evans Trio.
Kid Rock.  Robert James Ritchie (born January 17 1971) known by his stage name Kid Rock is an American multi-instrumentalist music producer and actor. He is most popularly known for his first commercial success the 1998 studio album Devil Without a Cause which sold 13 million albums worldwide. He is a five time Grammy Award nominee and has sold 25 million albums in the U.S. according to soundscan. The RIAA certified him selling 23.5 million albums.
Theodore Lukits.  Theodore Nikolai Lukits (November 26 1897 – January 20 1992) was a California portrait and landscape painter.
Anne Ryan.  Anne Ryan (1889 – 1954) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Her first contact with the New York Avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17 a famous printmaking workshop that the British artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the 1930s and then brought to New York when France fell to the Nazis. The great turning point in Anne Ryan's development occurred after the war in 1948.
Fiordaliso.  Marina Fiordaliso best known as Fiordaliso is an Italian pop-rock singer. During her career she has sold over 6 million records.
Ronnie Singer.  Ronnie Singer (June 9 1928 – September 12 1953) was an American jazz guitarist in Chicago and New York City during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His talent has been compared to Jimmy Raney and his style noted as influential on other jazz musicians. At the age of 25 he and his wife committed suicide in New York. According to Lou Levy Singer was one of the great losses... He would have been one of the all-time greats.
Barbara Brousal.  Barbara Brousal is a Boston Massachusetts based singer-songwriter. She sings plays guitar and mandolin and composed songs on four children's albums with Dan Zanes and Friends including the Grammy-winner Catch That Train. Additionally she toured with Dan Zanes and Friends from 2000 to the fall of 2006.Brousal has also released three solo albums of original material Breathing Down Your Neck (1996) Pose While It Pops (2000) and Just About Perfect (2002).
Giovanni Spoldi.  Giovanni Spoldi (died 1904) was an Italian painter active mainly in the Veneto painting vedute of marine scenes.He was born and lived in Venice. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice during the 1870s garnering some prizes. In 1887 in Venice he exhibits: Bassa Mavea; Calm Morning on the Lagoon; and Scirocco. At the 1888 Exposizione of Fine Arts in Bologna were exhibited: Un tramonto in laguna and Un mattino tranquillo in laguna.
David Isay.  David Isay (born 5 December 1966) is an American radio producer and founder of Sound Portraits Productions. He is also the founder of StoryCorps an ongoing oral history project.
Saule (singer).  Baptiste Lalieu better known as Saule sometimes stylized SAULE in all capital letters (born September 25. 1977) is a Belgian singer-songwriter who has found recognition and chart success with his single Dusty Men (featuring Charlie Winston) followed by his album Géant that includes French quality music with Anglo-Saxon rock sound and country music influences.
Lee Lik-chi.  Lee Lik-chi (李力持) (born May 10 1961) is a Hong Kong-based actor film director and screenplay writer.
Emily Bindiger.  Emily Bindiger (born May 10 1955 in Brooklyn New York U.S.) is an American singer belonging to the award-winning a cappella group The Accidentals.Bindiger has recorded for soundtracks for movies such as The Stepford Wives One Life to Live Bullets Over Broadway Everyone Says I Love You Donnie Brasco The Hudsucker Proxy Michael Collins and The Tune.Other work she has done includes songs in skits for Live with Regis and Kathie Lee Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Drew Carey Show.
Christine Edwards.  Christine Edwards is a British film writer and producer. Christine founded independent film and TV production company Jaffa Entertainment. Christine's films include Cash and Curry Four Hours and the Sons of God trilogy. Christine Edwards is also the Creative Director of the UK Christian Film Festival.
Jesús Carles de Vilallonga.  Jesús Carles de Vilallonga (born 1927) is a Catalan painter sculptor printmaker and designer. Born in Girona (Catalonia) Spain he has witnessed first-hand (and reflected in his work) the political and historical changes of the early 20th through the 21st century as well as the artistic and cultural developments which have accompanied them.Vilallonga is considered the modern equivalent of a Renaissance painter.
Noah McCullough.  Noah McCullough (born c. 1995) is an American author. He authored The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia published by Random House and First Kids: The True Stories of all the Presidents' Children published by Scholastic Books in 2008.He lives in Colorado.
Pol Medina Jr..  Apolonio Pol Medina Jr. (born April 6 1960) is a Filipino cartoonist best known for creating Pugad Baboy a black-and-white comic strip first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 18 1988.
Jim Diamond (music producer).  Jim Diamond is a music producer studio engineer and bass guitar player based in Detroit Michigan. He worked on the first two White Stripes albums and played bass with The Dirtbombs.
Poncho Sanchez.  Poncho Sanchez (born October 30 1951) is a Mexican-American conguero (conga player) Latin jazz band leader and salsa singer. In 2000 Sanchez and his ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their work on the Concord Picante album Latin Soul. Sanchez has performed with artists Cal Tjader Mongo Santamaría Hugh Masekela Clare Fischer and Tower of Power among others.
Marin Varbanov.  Marin Varbanov (Марин Върбанов) (20 September 1932 – 22 July 1989) was born in Oryachovo Bulgaria and was a Bulgarian painter and modern tapestriest.
Pee Wee Russell.  Charles Ellsworth Russell much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell (March 27 1906 – February 15 1969) was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones but he eventually focused solely on clarinet. With a highly individualistic and spontaneous clarinet style that defied classification Russell began his career playing Dixieland jazz but throughout his career incorporated elements of newer developments such as swing bebop and free jazz.
Ann Hui.  Ann Hui On-Wah MBE (traditional Chinese: 許鞍華; simplified Chinese: 许鞍华; pinyin: Xǔ Ānhuá; Hepburn: Kyo Anka; born 23 May 1947 to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother) is a Hong Kong actress film director film producer and occasional screenwriter one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave. She is best known for her controversial films surrounding the topics of social issues in Hong Kong.
Freak Nasty.  Freak Nasty is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer from Atlanta Georgia.
Mary Turnbull.  Constance Mary Turnbull (born 1927 February 9 England – d. 2008 September 5 England) was a historian lauded for her lifetime of literary research writing contributing to the documentation of Asian history and for her documentary work on the history of Singapore.
Mikey Mileos.  Mikey Mileos (born 6 December 1980) is a stand up comedian and comedy writer from Sydney Australia who lives in Arizona USA.In April 2009 Mileos was a national finalist in Triple J radio's Raw Comedy competition a nationally televised event. Since then he has played at almost every major comedy club in Australia.
Ernest Mancoba.  Ernest (Methuen) Mancoba (29 August 1904 – 25 October 2002) was an avant-garde artist born in South Africa who spent the majority of his life in Europe. He was probably South Africa's first professional Black modern artist and exhibited from the late 1920s onward.
Shelly West.  Shelly West (born May 23 1958 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American country music singer. Her mother was the country music star Dottie West whose career spanned three decades. Shelly West is best known for having hit duets with David Frizzell and for their No. 1 hit You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma. She also was a successful solo artist having her own No. 1 hit Jose Cuervo in 1983.
Paul Ernst (German writer).  (Karl Friedrich) Paul Ernst (7 March 1866-13 May 1933 aged 67) was a German writer dramatist critic and journalist.
Steve Dunwell.  Steve Dunwell is an American photographer noted for his color photographs of urban and scenic landscapes.
Barry Eisler.  Barry Eisler (born 1964) is a best-selling American novelist. He is the author of two thriller series the first featuring anti-hero John Rain a half-Japanese half-American former soldier turned freelance assassin and a second featuring black ops soldier Ben Treven. Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog Heart of the Matter and at the blogs CHUD Firedoglake The Huffington Post MichaelMoore.com The Smirking Chimp and Truthout.
Michael Smerick.  Michael Schermick (born 1958) known professionally as Michael Kelly Smith is an American guitarist who formerly played for the glam metal band Cinderella. Following his departure from Cinderella he joined up with Dean Davidson to form Britny Fox and became their lead guitarist.
Damijan Stepančič.  Damijan Stepančič (born 22 May 1969) is a Slovene painter and illustrator best known for his children's books illustrations.Stepančič was born in Ljubljana in 1969. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1996 and his creative work focuses on illustration for children's books and journals.He was included on the IBBY Honour List for 2010.
Marcus Canty.  Marcus Canty (born January 22 1991) is an American R&B and soul singer and dancer. He finished in fourth place in the first season of The X Factor USA.
Abdul Rahim Sarban.  Abdul-Rahim Sārbān (Persian: عبدالرحیم ساربان‎) known simply as Sarban was a singer from Kabul Afghanistan. He is known for his unique voice and music style that no other singer from Afghanistan has been able to imitate. A celebrity in Afghanistan Sarban had also success in the neighboring Persian-speaking countries like Iran and Tajikistan where he gave live performances at the height of his career. He sang both in Pashtu and Dari.
DJ DNA.  Arjen de Vreede (born 26 April 1962) known by his stage name DJ DNA is a Dutch DJ and producer. At age seventeen he started as a DJ and became a pioneer in the Dutch music scene playing hiphop house acid house and techno in renowned Dutch clubs such as the Roxy and the Vrije Vloer. He also co-founded the Urban Dance Squad.After leaving the Urban Dance Squad he was in various bands like JMX and Stuurbaard Bakkebaard. He made remixes for a.o.
Philippe Nicaud.  Philippe Nicaud (1926–2009) was a French actor.
Jaki Byard.  John Arthur Jaki Byard (June 15 1922 – February 11 1999) was an American jazz pianist composer and arranger who also played tenor and alto saxophones among several other instruments. He was known for his eclectic style incorporating everything from ragtime and stride to free jazz.Byard played with Maynard Ferguson in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a member of bands led by Charles Mingus for several years including on several studio and concert recordings.
Ethan Bortnick.  Ethan Jordan Bortnick (born December 24 2000) is an American pianist singer composer songwriter actor musician and one of the youngest philanthropists in the world.
Kim Anderzon.  Kerstin Kristina Birgitta Kim Anderzon (born 20 March 1943 in Östersund Sweden) is a Swedish actress active in film and theatre. In the early part of her career she was at Pistolteatern. Her daughter Anna Catharina Tintin Anderzon is also an actress. She won the award for Best Actress at the 19th Guldbagge Awards for her role in Second Dance. Along with Tomas Bolme she co-hosted the 27th Guldbagge Awards.
Dmitri Kedrin.  Dmitri Borisovich Kedrin (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Ке́дрин; February 4 [O.S. December 22 1906] 1907 – September 18 1945) was a Russian Soviet poet. He died in railway-related accident (had been struck by commuter train). Some charge that this accident was murder.
Nik Fish.  Sydney born Nik Fish is an Australian DJ.Nik Fish’s position as a leading Australian DJ is reinforced by his skill determination drive passion and many years of hard work.
Joanna Wang.  Joanna Wang (Chinese: 王若琳; pinyin: Wáng Ruòlín) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter daughter of renowned music producer Wang Zhi-ping (王治平). Born in Taipei but raised in Los Angeles California Wang dropped out from Gabrielino High School when she was 16. Her debut album Start From Here was released in January 2008 as a double-disc set one in English and the other in Chinese. The album reached No.1 in Taiwan and has been popular throughout Southeast Asia.
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi.  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (草彅 剛 Kusanagi Tsuyoshi born July 9 1974 in Seiyo Ehime Japan) is a Japanese entertainer. Kusanagi is a member of the popular Japanese idol group SMAP and has also appeared in a number of television dramas variety shows and movies.
Zhou Chen.  Zhou Chen (Chinese: 周臣; 1460–1535) also known as Chou Ch'en was a famed Chinese painter active during the middle of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in 1460 in Suzhou in the Jiangsu province.Zhou's style name was 'Shunqing' and his sobriquet was 'Dongchun'. He specialized in painting landscapes and human figures. He had two very famed students Tang Yin and Qiu Ying. He died in the Zhizong Jiajing 14th year (1535).
Will Durst.  Will Durst (born March 18 1952) is an American political satirist; he has been called a modern mix of Mort Sahl and Will Rogers.
Olufemi Terry.  Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone-born writer. He won the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing for his second short story Stickfighting Days which was originally published in Chimurenga Vol. 12/13. The judges said he was a talent with an enormous future. He hopes to publish his debut novel soon.
Byron Berline.  Byron Berline (born July 6 1944 Caldwell Kansas) is an American fiddle player. He is widely recognized as one of the world's premier fiddle players known for his ability to play almost any style within the vast American tradition -- from old-time to ragtime bluegrass Cajun country rock and beyond.
Clarence Hawkes.  Clarence Hawkes (December 16 1869 – January 19 1954) was an American author and lecturer known for his nature stories and poetry. Born in Goshen Massachusetts Hawkes was physically disabled at a young age; part of one leg was amputated when he was nine and he became blind four years later after a gun discharged in his face during a hunting accident. He was subsequently schooled at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston where he befriended the young Helen Keller.
Jean Daurand.  Jean Daurand (1913–1989) was a French actor. He starred in La Nuit Merveilleuse and Derrière la Facade.
Ron Thaler.  Ron Thaler is a multi-instrumentalist composer musical director recording artist and record producer based in New York.
Russ Manning.  Russell Manning (1929 -1981 ) was an American comic book artist who created the series Magnus Robot Fighter and illustrated such newspaper comic strips as Tarzan and Star Wars. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
Eddie Large.  Eddie Large (born 25 June 1941) is the stage name of Edward Hugh McGinnis a British comedian. He is best known as a part of the double act Little and Large with Syd Little.
Danijel Žeželj.  Danijel Žeželj is a Croatian comic book artist painter and illustrator and author of a number of graphic novels.
Go Shinomiya.  Go Shinomiya (四宮 豪 Shinomiya Gō born June 6 1975) is a Japanese voice actor from Kyoto Prefecture Japan.
Max Azria.  Max Azria (born January 1 1949) is a French fashion designer who founded the contemporary women's clothing brand BCBG Max Azria. Azria is also the designer chairman and CEO of BCBG Max Azria Group a global fashion house that encompasses over 20 brands. He is based in Los Angeles.
Michael Ridpath.  Michael Ridpath is an English author of thrillers based around the world of high finance. He was born in Devon in 1961 and grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at Millfield School and Merton College Oxford where he obtained first-class honours in Modern History and represented the University at athletics. He spent eight years working as a bond trader at an international bank in the City of London.
Noriko Matsueda.  Noriko Matsueda (松枝 賀子 Matsueda Noriko born December 18 1971) is a Japanese former video game composer. She is best known for her work on the Front Mission series The Bouncer and Final Fantasy X-2. Matsueda collaborated with fellow composer Takahito Eguchi on several games. Composing music at an early age she began studying the piano and electronic organ when she was three years old.
Kelly Divine.  Kelly Divine (born July 3 1984 in Chester Pennsylvania) is an American pornographic actress.
James Kevin McGuinness.  James Kevin McGuinness (20 December 1893 – 4 December 1950) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 36 films between 1927 and 1950. He wrote for The New Yorker magazine.He was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1904. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1920s at the dawn of the talkies era and thereafter worked in the film industry as a writer and later a producer. He died in New York in 1950 from a heart attack.
Nancy Bond.  Nancy Barbara Bond is an American author of children's literature. In 1977 her first book a fantasy novel set in Wales called A String in the Harp received a Newbery honor and the Welsh Tir na n-Og Award.
Ved Pratap Vaidik.  Ved Pratap Vaidik (30 December 1944 Indore - ) is a scholar political analyst and free lancer columnist of India. He had been with Press Trust of India as the founder-editor of its Hindi news agency “Bhasha”. Before that he was the Editor (views) in Nav Bharat Times. At present he is the Chairman of Bhartiya Bhasha Sammelan.
Irfan Makki.  Irfan Makki is a Pakistani-born Canadian Muslim singer and songwriter. He is signed to Awakening Records specializing in Muslim music with distribution agreement with Sony Music.
Jacqueline Susann.  Jacqueline Susann (August 20 1918 – September 21 1974) was an American novelist. Her most famous work is Valley of the Dolls (1966).
Taka Kato.  Taka Kato (加藤鷹 Katō Taka) or Taka Katou was a Japanese male adult video (AV) actor.
Dugald Stewart Walker.  Dugald Stewart Walker (1883 — 1937) was an early twentieth century American illustrator.
Neith Nevelson.  Neith Nevelson (born 24 July 1946 New York City) is an artist best known for paintings of horses female nudes and male faces.
Katherine Austen.  Katherine Austen (1629 – ca. 1683) was a British diarist and poet best known for Book M her manuscript collection of meditations journal entries and verse.
Antony Hegarty.  Antony Hegarty (born 1971) often referred to simply as Antony is an English singer composer and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.Antony was born in the town of Chichester South East England in 1971. In 1981 Antony's family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.
Stacha Halpern.  Stanislav Stacha Halpern (20 October 1919 – 28 January 1969) was a Polish Australian painter and sculptor. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 Halpern emigrated to Australia. A decade later he became a naturalised Australian citizen. Based in Melbourne for much of his early career Halpern painted bold semi-abstract works of street life. Later he travelled throughout Europe and experimented with pure abstraction and expressionistic portraiture.
Carol Ann Lee.  Carol Ann Lee (born 1969) is an English author.She is a biographer and has written extensively on Anne Frank the Holocaust and on the crimes of Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.Her tenth book Evil Relations was nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.
Michiel Heyns.  Michiel Heyns (2 December 1943) is a South African author translator and academic.He went to school in Thaba Nchu Kimberley and Grahamstown and later studied at the University of Stellenbosch and Cambridge University before serving as a professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch from 1983 until 2003.Since then he has concentrated on his writing full-time and has won numerous awards for his reviews translations and novels.
Ester Rada.  Ester Rada is an Israeli actress and singer.
Michael Colleary.  Michael Colleary is an American film producer screenwriter and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off Firehouse Dog The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.He is a frequent collaborator with Mike Werb in which they won a Saturn Award for their work on Face/Off. Colleary most recently wrote for the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History.
David Lavender.  David Sievert Lavender (February 4 1910 – April 26 2003) was an American historian and writer who was one of the most prolific chroniclers of the American West. He published more than 40 books including two novels several children's books and a memoir. Unlike his two prominent contemporaries Bernard DeVoto and Wallace Stegner Lavender was not an academic.
Ru Long.  Ru Long (simplified Chinese: 汝龙; traditional Chinese: 汝龍; pinyin: Rǔ Lóng; 1916 - 13 July 1991) was a Chinese translator and professor.He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelist Anton Chekhov.
Andrew Scott (Canadian musician).  Andrew Scott (born Robert Andrew Scott on September 27 1979) is a Canadian musician and song writer specializing in Alternative Country Alternative Folk and Folk Rock with additional interests in Folk Music and Blues. Scott was born and raised in Grande Prairie Alberta Canada. He is married to Julie Sauve Scott.
Bogdan Willewalde.  Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde (German: Gottfried Willewalde; January 12 1819 Pavlovsk Saint Petersburg - March 24 1903 Dresden) was a Russian artist academic emeritus Professor of military art and a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Paul Rudd (DJ).  Paul Rudd (born 15 September 1979) also known professionally as DJ Paul Rudd is an English house music producer and DJ. Starting as a radio DJ during the 1990s he went on to DJ on cruise ships and venues around the world before returning to the UK club scene. Rudd has released eleven singles and his debut album The Sound of London came out in November 2012.
Alessandro Papetti.  Alessandro Papetti (born 1958 in Milan) is an Italian painter. Since being featured in the 2003 Venice Biennale Papetti emerged as one of the most important Italian painters today. Since 1995 he has been dividing his time between Milan and Paris.Papetti is a self-taught artist.
Bruce Johnston.  Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27 1942) is an American singer songwriter and record producer. He is best known as a member of The Beach Boys; he joined the band in 1965 contributed to many of their subsequent albums. He also composed the song I Write the Songs.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737 Le Havre – 21 January 1814 Éragny Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel Paul et Virginie now largely forgotten but in the 19th century a very popular children's book.
Parthenon Huxley.  Parthenon Huxley (born January 19 1956) is an American musician singer songwriter and producer who is known for his solo albums and for his involvement in ELO Part II and The Orchestra both of which are latter-day offshoots of the 1970s-80s orchestral rock band Electric Light Orchestra. He has also made several cameo appearances in several films including The Flintstones.
Adam Muto.  Adam Muto is an American artist and director who is best known for being a writer storyboard artist and co-executive producer on the animated television series Adventure Time. Originally Muto started out as a storyboard artist being partner with Elizabeth Ito. During the show's second and third seasons he was partnered with Rebecca Sugar. During the following year he was promoted to creative director and midway through the show's fifth season he was promoted to co-executive producer.
Frequency (record producer).  Frequency (born Bryan Fryzel in January 17 1983) is an American music producer and DJ from Rockville Centre New York.
Shelby Cinca.  Shelby Serban-Alex Cinca (born 19 March 1976) is a Romania-born musician one of the founding members of the DC post-hardcore band Frodus and the vaudevillian steampunk band The Cassettes. He has also been a part of such bands as Frantic Mantis and Decahedron. In 2006 Shelby began releasing solo electronic music under his own name that he created with a Game Boy (Game Boy music) using the Nanoloop software accompanied by various synthesizers and occasional guitars.
Ramendra Kumar.  Ramendra Kumar is an award winning Indian writer for children with 24books in English and translations in 7 foreign and 8 Indian languages. He also dabbles in satire poetry travelogues and adult fiction.
Sabrina Ouazani.  Sabrina Ouazani (born 6 December 1988 in Saint-Denis) is a French actress of Algerian descent. She is best known for her performance as Frida in Games of Love and Chance.
Mykhaylo Chornyi.  Mykhaylo Nikiforovich Chornyi (Ukrainian: Михайло Никифорович Чорний; Russian: Михаил Никифорович Чёрный; November 26 1933) іs a Ukrainian Realist Neo-Primitivist) painter and graphic artist. Chornyi is described as the founder of Ukrainian Neo-Folk Style. A member of Ukrainian National Artists' Union since 1968.People's Artist of Ukraine (2003).
Bernhard Cella.  Bernhard Cella (born 1969 in Salzburg) is an Austrian artist and curator
Peter Grant (music manager).  Peter James G Grant (5 April 1935 – 21 November 1995) was an English music manager. Grant managed the popular English bands the Yardbirds Led Zeppelin and Bad Company among others and was also a record executive for Swan Song Records. Grant has been described as one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history. He is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for musicians in dealings with concert promoters.
Danny Fernandes.  Danny Fernandes (born September 16 1985) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He is signed to CP Records.
Mika Antić.  Miroslav Mika Antić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Мика Антић) (March 14 1932 – June 24 1986) was a Yugoslavian poet film director journalist and painter. He was a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave. He had six children. His oldest son Igor Antić is a visual artist.He wrote poems articles dramas movie and TV scripts and documentaries. As film-maker he was considered as a part of the Black Wave of Yugoslav film.
Anatole Broyard.  Anatole Paul Broyard (July 16 1920 – October 11 1990) was an American writer literary critic and editor for The New York Times. In addition to his many reviews and columns he published short stories essays and two books during his lifetime.
Jon Gomm.  Jon Gomm is an English singer-songwriter and performer. Using a single acoustic guitar to create drum sounds bass lines and melodies simultaneously his songs draw on a range of influences and styles including blues soul rock and even metal. Michael Hedges is an important source of inspiration. To date he has recorded three solo albums and has toured full-time since 2004. He is often a member of the Guitar Masters tour alongside its founder Preston Reed and Andy McKee.
Clive Cussler.  Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15 1931) is an American adventure novelist and marine archaeologist. His thriller novels many featuring the character Dirk Pitt have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler is the founder and chairman of the real-life National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) which has discovered more than sixty shipwreck sites and numerous other notable sunken underwater wreckages.
Freddie Bourne.  Frederick Freddie Joseph Bourne III (born March 11 1992 in Freehold New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter. Bourne is best known for his piano pop covers on the video-sharing website YouTube where his versions of Dance Again by Jennifer Lopez and Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen received attention from Easy FM in China. He released his first solo debut album Only Human on August 6 2013 through iTunes.
Scott Reeder (artist).  Scott Reeder is an artist who’s work has been shown widely including exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery London Gavin Brown’s enterprise NY The Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago and Luce Gallery Turin Italy. Recent solo exhibitions include Lisa Cooley New York the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Kavi Gupta Chicago and Berlin.. In January 2014 Reeder will debut a major project at 356 Mission Road Los Angeles.
Noboru Ando.  Noboru Ando (安藤 昇 Andô Noboru born 1926) is a Japanese film actor known for his yakuza roles. In fact Ando was a real-life yakuza gang boss before becoming an actor in 1965 when he appeared in a film about himself Chi to Okite (Blood and Rules). He later wrote produced and starred in a series of films about his life and his former gang the Ando-gumi.
Michael Gallagher (translator).  Michael Gallagher (born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature. His translation of Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973 while his nonfiction work Laws of Heaven was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology. As a Jesuit scholastic he spent three years teaching English at St.
Claudio Lolli.  Claudio Lolli (Bologna March 28 1950) is an Italian singer-songwriter poet writer and secondary school teacher.
Indira Parthasarathy.  Indira Parthasarathy (commonly known as Ee. Paa.) is the pen name of R. Parthasarathy. Born on July 10 1930 in Chennai in a traditional Iyengar family.
Ernesto Allason.  Ernesto Allason (Turin 1822 –March 1 1868 ) was an Italian painter.
Italo Alighiero Chiusano.  Italo Alighiero Chiusano (10 June 1926 – 15 February 1995) was an Italian independent writer literary critic Germanist literary historian essayist author of dramas and journalist.Chiusano authored several television screenplays.
Walter B. Rogers.  Walter Bowman Rogers (October 14 1865 – December 24 1939) was an American cornet player brass band leader orchestral conductor and composer who was responsible for most of the orchestral arrangements on recordings made for the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1904 and 1916.
Louella Parsons.  Louella Parsons (August 6 1881 – December 9 1972) was the first American movie columnist. She was retained by William Randolph Hearst possibly because she had praised Hearst's mistress Marion Davies and her columns were read by 20 million people in 400 newspapers worldwide.She remained Queen of Hollywood until the arrival of flamboyant Hedda Hopper who displayed similar talents and with whom she feuded viciously for years.[citation needed]
Steffen Kummerer.  Steffen Kummerer (born June 1 1985) is a German guitarist multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is the founder main songwriter vocalist and guitarist of the successful death metal band Obscura as well as the black metal band Thulcandra in which he is the only remaining founding member. Kummerer's custom guitars have become a signature shape unique to him and his band Obscura.
Abdul Karim Khan.  Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (Devanagari: अब्दुल करीम ख़ान Persian script: استاد عبدالکریم خان) (November 11 1872–1937) was an Indian classical singer of the Kirana Gharana.
Eric Adjetey Anang.  Eric Adjetey Anang (About this sound pronunciation ; born 1985) is a Ghanaian sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter. He was born in Teshie Ghana where he lives and runs the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop.
Simon Lewis (writer).  Simon Lewis is a novelist and screenwriter born in Newport Monmouthshire in 1971. He went to school in Monmouth then studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College in London.After graduation he travelled extensively in Asia before beginning work as a travel writer for Rough Guides publishing. He has since worked on five editions of the Rough Guide to China and is sole author of the Rough Guide to Shanghai and the Rough Guide to Beijing.
Claudia Leitte.  Cláudia Cristina Leite Inácio Pedreira (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈklawdʒɐ ˈlejtʃi]) known by the stagenames Claudia Leitte (with double tt) and Claudinha (born July 10 1980 in São Gonçalo Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is a Brazilian axé and pop singer and former vocalist of the group Babado Novo. Since she is one of the most popular axé singers in Brazil she hosted MTV Brasil's Video Music Brasil 2007 in which she had been nominated as best singer in that award.
Craig Poile.  Craig Poile is a Canadian poet who won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2010 for his collection True Concessions.
Guo Liang (actor).  Guo Liang (born 11 November 1968) is a China-born Singaporean actor and television host.
Pete Levin.  Pete Levin is a jazz keyboardist composer and horn player with a 15-year association with the Gil Evans Orchestra and an 8-year association with Jimmy Giuffre. As a bandleader he produced the album Deacon Blues in 2007. He plays Hammond organ Clavinet and Moog synthesizer and he has performed for such film and television scores as Missing in Action Lean on Me Silver Bullet Red Scorpion The Color of Money Maniac Spin City America's Most Wanted and Star Trek.
Kalen Delaney.  Kalen Delaney is a relational database professional and author living near Seattle. She is a prominent keynote speaker at major database related conferences and has a series of training DVDs available. [1] As a well known personality in the Microsoft SQL Server community she is often cited for her knowledge in SQL Server internals.Her work with SQL Server began in 1987 when she joined Sybase as a technical support engineer.
Matthias Zimmermann (artist).  Matthias Alexander Kristian Zimmermann (* 6 May 1981 in Basel) is a media artist from Switzerland.
Walter Davis (blues).  Walter Davis (March 1 1911 – October 22 1963) was an African American blues singer and pianist. Born in Grenada Mississippi he died in St. Louis Missouri.Davis had a rich singing voice that was as expressive as the best of the Delta blues vocalists. His best-known recording a version of the train blues standard Sunnyland Blues which he released in 1931 is more notable for the warmth and poignancy of his singing than for his piano playing.
Sébastien Léger.  Sébastien Léger is a French house DJ and producer. Currently ranked No. 138 on The DJ List his singles Hit Girl Hypnotized and Aqualight have become hit dance singles played in clubs across Europe.[citation needed]
John Stanley (cartoonist).  John Stanley (March 22 1914 – November 11 1993) was an American cartoonist and comic book writer best known for writing the comic book Little Lulu from 1945 to 1959. While mostly known for scripting Stanley also drew many of his stories including the earliest issues of Little Lulu and its Tubby spinoff series. His specialty was humorous stories both with licensed characters and those of his own creation. His writing style has been described as employing colorful S. J.
Julia Fox.  Julia Fox is an author and historical researcher and a former teacher. She lives in London with her husband the Tudor historian John Guy. Her first book was Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford a study of the lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII of England and the sister-in-law of Anne Boleyn.
Ruby Smith.  Ruby Smith (August 24 1903 – March 24 1977) was an American classic female blues singer. She was a niece by marriage of the better known Bessie Smith who discouraged Ruby from a recording career. Nevertheless following Bessie's death in 1937 Ruby went on to record twenty-one sides between 1938 and 1947. She is also known for her recorded explicit and candid observations on her own and Bessie's lifestyle.
Nyusha.  Anna Vladimirovna Shurochkina (Russian: Анна Владимировна Шурочкина born August 15 1990) better known by her stage name Nyusha (Ню́ша) is a Russian singer-songwriter. She's considered one of the most successful singers in Russia with six number one singles and a big popularity in media.
Herblock.  Herbert Lawrence Block commonly known as Herblock (October 13 1909 – October 7 2001) was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on national domestic and foreign policy from a liberal perspective.
Joe Elliott.  Joseph Thomas Joe Elliott (born 1 August 1959) is a British singer-songwriter and musician best known as the lead vocalist and occasional rhythm guitarist of the British rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz. He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album.
Alexander Krull.  Alexander Krull (born 31 July 1970 in Ludwigsburg Baden-Württemberg) is the lead vocalist for the German metal band Atrocity as well as backing vocalist in the band Leaves' Eyes.
Reinaldo Arenas.  Reinaldo Arenas (July 16 1943 – December 7 1990) was a Cuban poet novelist and playwright who despite his early sympathy for Fidel Castro and the 1959 revolution grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.
John Williams.  John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer conductor and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest film composers of all time. In a career spanning over six decades he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history including Jaws Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock's final film) the Star Wars series Superman the Indiana Jones series E.T.
Margaretha Krook.  Margaretha Krook (15 October 1925 – 7 May 2001) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976 she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film Release the Prisoners to Spring.
Amy Anderson (comedian).  Amy Anderson (September 1 1972) is a Korean American comedian actress and writer. Born in Seoul South Korea she was adopted by Swedish parents and raised in Minnesota.A classically trained musician she has been playing piano and classical guitar for many years earning her Bachelor's degree in Music Education from Westminster Choir College.
László Tihanyi.  László Tihanyi (born 21 March 1956) is a Hungarian composer and conductor.
Joan Haggerty.  Joan Haggerty (born 26 April 1940) is a Canadian novelist.Born in Vancouver British Columbia she studied at the University of British Columbia.She lives in Telkwa British Columbia.
Randy Newman.  Randall Stuart Randy Newman (born November 28 1943) is an American singer-songwriter arranger composer and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.Since the 1980s Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime Awakenings The Natural Leatherheads James and the Giant Peach Cats Don't Dance Meet the Parents Cold Turkey Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog.
Lynda Thalie.  Lynda Thalie (born in Oran Algeria on 25 June 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Algerian origin. Her family immigrated to Canada and resided in Quebec province since 1994. She has released three albums and has also written her autobiography entitled Survivre aux naufrages published in 2011.
John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd.  J D K Lloyd or more fully known as John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd was born on 28 April 1900 at Plas Trefaldwyn Montgomery in the present day county of Powys in mid Wales. He was the son of John Maurice Edward Lloyd a barrister. He went to Winchester School and Trinity College Cambridge before embarking on a long life devoted to antiquarian research and to his community.
Roy Rayon.  Roy Rayon (born 20 June 1959) is a Jamaican singer who has won the Jamaica Independence Festival Popular Song Competition four times.
Jason Mraz.  Jason Thomas Mraz (/məˈræz/; born June 23 1977) is an American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence on the San Diego coffee house scene in 2000. At one of these coffee houses Mraz met percussionist Toca Rivera and released Live at Java Joe's. He released his debut album Waiting for My Rocket to Come which contained the hit single The Remedy (I Won't Worry) in 2002 but it was not until the release of his second album Mr.
Frank Martínez (artist).  Francisco Alonzo Frank Martínez (August 9 1924 – August 17 2013) was an American artist. He painted murals of his Mexican American heritage.
Curtis Jones (pianist).  Curtis Jones (August 18 1906 – September 11 1971) was an American blues pianist.
Lee Aaron.  Lee Aaron (born Karen Lynn Greening July 21 1962) is a Canadian rock and Jazz singer. She had several hits in the 1980s and early 1990s such as Metal Queen Whatcha Do to My Body and Sex with Love.
Masha (singer).  Masha (born 13 June 1990) is a Latvian-born American pop/rock singer-songwriter signed to Claude Kelly's Carousel Records.Masha (born Masha Shirin) in Riga Latvia moved to the Bronx in New York City with her family at six months of age. Masha began to sing at the age of 11. Masha's father former lead guitarist for Latvian superstar Laima Vaikule supported his daughter’s musical ambitions. He helped her put together a demo CD of cover tunes that landed her a management deal.
Spencer Moody.  Spencer Moody is the vocalist for Seattle-based noise rock group Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. He was the lead vocalist for the Murder City Devils until their breakup in 2001 and returned to the band when they reformed in 2006.In addition to his musical endeavors Moody also owned and operated a self-proclaimed junk shop called The Anne Bonny in Seattle which closed in 2010.
Tomma Abts.  Tomma Abts (born 1967) is a German-born abstract painter who won the Turner Prize in 2006.
Mary van der Valk.  Maria Elisabeth van der Valk (born July 13 1958) is a Dutch Children's literature and spirituality writer. She has written a series of children books for the 9-13 age group- In 2009 her book Dolfijnenmysterie in Mexico! (Dolphin Mystery in Mexico!) was the recipient of the Berlicum Children's Jury Award as the best children's book of the year.
Kevin Patterson (singer).  Kevin Patterson (born 5 March 1960) is a Scottish songwriter and singer known for his work in Fiction Factory a New Wave band with heavy Synth influences active during the 80s.
Mary Norton (author).  Mary Norton or Kathleen Mary Norton née Pearson (10 December 1903 – 29 August 1992) was an English author of children's books.
Frank Edwards (blues musician).  Frank Edwards (March 20 1909 – March 22 2002) was an American blues guitarist harmonica player and singer. He was variously billed as Mr. Frank Black Frank and Mr. Cleanhead.Edwards was born in Washington Georgia.He recorded for three record labels in his career; Okeh Records in 1940 Regal Records in 1949 and Trix Records in the mid-1970s. Some more recent sessions were done for the Music Maker Relief Foundation.
Giuseppe Ungaretti.  Giuseppe Ungaretti (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe uŋɡaˈretti]; 10 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet journalist essayist critic academic and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo (Hermeticism) he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism he was briefly aligned with futurism.
Eduardo Machado.  Eduardo Oscar Machado (born June 11 1953) is a Cuban playwright living in the United States. Notable plays by Machado include Broken Eggs Havana is Waiting and The Cook. Many of his plays are autobiographical or deal with Cuba in some way. Machado teaches playwriting at New York University. He has served as the Artistic Director of the INTAR Theatre in New York City since 2004. He is openly gay.
Frelow.  Frelow (born December 22 1973) is a Swedish recording artist song writer and producer.
Gary Go.  Gary Baker known by his stage name Gary Go is a British singer songwriter producer and visual artist who has played shows across Europe USA and Australia; including tours with Snow Patrol Lady Gaga Take That and Mika.His debut album Gary Go was released in 2009 spawning the hit single Wonderful.
Albert Garzia.  Albert Garzia (born 1977) is a Maltese composer musician and music teacher. He started his musical training as an accordionist at an early age under Dorselle Mifsud with whom he also studied piano performance later on. Even though he initially graduated in Industrial Electronics his fascination for the diverse facets of music led him to experiment in many of its fields.He started his composition studies with Raymond Schiberras. He completed his B.A.
Debra Killings.  Debra Killings is an American singer and bass guitarist notable for extensive session and background vocal work for LaFace Records and Rowdy Records-based artists such as TLC Monica and OutKast.Killings appears on the majority of the recordings in TLC's catalogue singing background vocals in Monica's first albums (Miss Thang The Boy is Mine) and has performed both background vocals and bass guitar for several OutKast albums including ATLiens and Aquemini.In 2002 Killings signed for Verity Records and she released her debut solo album a gospel LP entitled Surrender in 2003. 
Damien Fahey.  Damien Fahey is a radio DJ television host former MTV VJ comedian and drummer. In 2002 he replaced Carson Daly as the host of MTV's Total Request Live after Daly left the network to host his own late-night show on NBC.
Constantin Daniel Stahi.  Constantin Daniel Stahi (14 November 1844 - 18 June 1920) was a Romanian painter and gravure artist.
Cheesa.  Cheesa Laureta (born August 4 1990) known by the mononym Cheesa is a Filipina-American Pop/R&B singer and songwriter most noted for her run on NBC's The Voice in 2012. After being chosen by Cee Lo Green mentored by Babyface and making it to the Quarter-Finals Cheesa was eliminated from The Voice in April 2012. Since The Voice Cheesa has focused on developing her solo career releasing the Asian iTunes chart-topping single I'm Not Perfect (feat. Charice) and her debut album NAKED.
Rasmus Nøhr.  Rasmus Nøhr (born 7 March 1972 in København) is a Danish musician composer and guitarist who had a breakthrough in Denmark with the song Det glade pizzabud a duet with Ida Corr. In 2004 he released his debut album called Rasmus Nøhr. In 2006 he released his second album - Lykkelig Smutning.
Jon Sholle.  Jon Sholle born April 2 1949 in New York City is an American guitarist multi-instrumentalist and musician who plays mainly jazz bluegrass rock country roots music and folk music.
Infernus.  Roger Tiegs (born on June 18 1972) better known by his stage name Infernus is a Norwegian black metal musician and Satanist. He is the sole founding member and chief ideologist of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth which was formed in 1992 as well as the founder and head of Forces of Satan Records. He is mainly a guitarist but has also participated as bassist drummer and vocalist on several recordings released both by Gorgoroth and other bands.
Oleh Krysa.  Oleh Krysa (Ukrainian: Олег Криса; born June 1 1942) is a Ukrainian American violinist Merited Artist of Ukraine.
Vanessa Lane.  Vanessa Lane (born October 14 1983) is an American pornographic actress.
Sarvepalli Gopal.  Sarvepalli Gopal (Telugu: సర్వేపల్లి గోపాల్‌) (1923–2002) was a well known Indian historian. He is the author of Radhakrishnan: A Biography and Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography.
Ian Rilen.  Ian William Rilen (12 August 1947 – 30 October 2006) was an Australian musician he was bass guitarist and songwriter with Rock N' Roll band Rose Tattoo and led punk rock group X also providing lead guitar rhythm guitar and vocals. Rilen was born in Bendigo Victoria started his musical career in Sydney and later lived in Melbourne.
Patricia Kraus.  Patricia Kraus (born 4 January 1964 Milan Italy) is a Spanish singer best known for her participation in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest.Kraus daughter of Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus was born in Milan where her father was based at the time.
Joey Pearson.  Joey Pearson (born Joseph A. Pearson on September 19 1991) is an American pop and R&B singer and actor from Hinesville Georgia currently lives in San Diego California.
Jesse Pintado.  Jesus (Jesse) Ernesto Pintado Andrade (July 12 1969 – August 27 2006) was a lead guitar player born in Mexico who at an early age moved to the US. He started in the band Terrorizer where he recorded the grindcore album World Downfall the first album to feature Pete Sandoval who would later leave the band to join Morbid Angel.
Soweto Kinch.  Soweto Kinch (born 10 January 1978) is a British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper.
Tracie Young.  Tracie Young (often just billed as Tracie) (born 1965 Derby England) was a pop singer in the 1980s. She achieved success after becoming a protégée of Paul Weller.
Erika Moen.  Erika Moen is an American comic book artist born in 1983 and based in Portland Oregon.
Nicholson Baker.  Nicholson Baker (born January 7 1957) is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. He often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Baker has written about poetry literature library systems history politics time manipulation youth and sex.
Stéphane Freiss.  Stéphane Freiss (born 22 November 1960) is a French actor.
Choi Sung-bong.  Choi Sung-bong (최성봉; Hanja: 崔聖奉 born 18 February 1990) is a South Korean vocalist who became famous after his appearance on Korea's Got Talent was picked up by the worldwide news media. He finished second in the competition.
Steve Moore (comics).  Steve Moore (11 June 1949 – 16 March 2014) was a British comics writer. Moore was credited with showing acclaimed writer Alan Moore (no relation) then a struggling cartoonist how to write comic scripts.
Maya Lin.  Maya Ying Lin (born October 5 1959) is an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
Pete Townshend.  Peter Dennis Blandford Pete Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who.
Janis Rozentāls.  Janis Rozentāls (March 18 1866 Bebri Farmstead Saldus parish Courland Governorate – December 26 1916) was a famous Latvian painter.
Kate Rhodes.  Kate Rhodes (born 1964 London) is a British poet.In 1993 she completed a Ph.D. on the work of Tennessee Williams at the University of Essex and has worked as an English teacher in a sixth form college and as a university lecturer. In 2004 she was granted a fellowship by the Hawthornden Literary Institute. Her debut collection Reversal was published in 2005 by Enitharmon Press. Reversal was the inaugural volume of the Enitharmon New Poets Series.
Gary Young (poet).  Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American poet printer and book artist. In 2010 he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz county.
Ashley Wood.  Ashley Wood (born 1971) is Australian comic book artist and award-winning illustrator known for his cover art concept design and his work as an art director. Wood initially worked in both the U.K. and international comic book industries working on characters such as the British character Judge Dredd) before breaking into the U.S. market where he worked for such companies as Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Ismaël Lô.  Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo) is a Senegalese musician. He was born in Dogondoutchi Niger on 30 August 1956 to a Senegalese father and a Nigerien mother. Shortly after Lo's birth the family returned to Senegal where they settled in the town of Rufisque near the capital Dakar. He plays guitar and harmonica.In the 1970s Lo studied at the School of Art in Dakar. He later joined the popular group Super Diamono but left in 1984 to start a solo career.
Andrea Caccese.  Andrea Caccese (born 16 July 1988) is an Italian singer-songwriter guitarist and musician.
Jane Weaver.  Jane Weaver is a singer songwriter and guitarist from Liverpool England. She runs the record label Bird.
Monte Moir.  Monte Moir is the original and current keyboardist for The Time as well as songwriter and producer for Janet Jackson Alexander O'Neal Gladys Knight the duo Deja (Curt Jones & Starleana Young) and Lolly Pop. He is also credited for working with Prince Vanity 6 Deniece Williams Thelma Houston and various other artists.
Sakura Ando.  Sakura Ando (安藤 サクラ Andō Sakura born February 18 1986) is a Japanese actress.
Andreya Triana.  Andreya Triana is a British singer-songwriter originally from London and currently based in London. To date she has collaborated with Flying Lotus Mr. Scruff Breach and Bonobo. Her songs have been remixed by Flying Lotus Mount Kimbie and Tokimonsta.
Tom Palmer (comics).  Tom Palmer Sr. (born July 13 1942) is an American comic book artist best known as an inker for Marvel Comics.
Kurt Lockwood.  Kurt Lockwood (born June 4 1970 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American pornographic actor model and musician.
Andrice Arp.  Andrice Arp (born 1969 in Los Angeles) is a U.S. comics artist and illustrator and the daughter of Halton Arp. She has been a contributor to the self-published comic called Hi-Horse. In 2004 Hi-Horse Omnibus comprising all new material was published by Alternative Comics. Arp also contributes to comics anthology Mome. In September 2006 Arp's work was featured in an exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco as well as a museum in New York.
Stephen Cooper (writer).  Stephen Cooper is an American editor and biographer.
Katarzyna Grochola.  Katarzyna Grochola (born July 18 1957) is a Polish writer and journalist.
Torfinn Haukås.  Torfinn Haukås (1931 – 1993) was a Norwegian novelist.He was born in Høyanger. Notable novels include 63 Johnsen (1958) Meg skal dere aldri få tak i (1967) Søndag i Andorra (1977) and Duellen (crime 1981).
Choi Seungho.  Choi Seungho (Hangul: 최승호 is a modern Korean poet.
Mary Ellen Matthews.  Mary Ellen Matthews is a photographer based in New York City and East Hampton New York. She is best known for her photographs featured on the television sketch comedy and variety show Saturday Night Live (SNL); her portraits of the celebrities who appear as guest-hosts and musical guests of SNL are displayed as the show returns from commercial breaks. Since 2010 she has also directed videos for SNL.
Bong-Ra.  Bong-Ra is the performing name of Dutch breakcore musician Jason Kohnen from Utrecht. Formed in 1996 initially producing and DJing jungle music.
Miles Marshall Lewis.  Miles Marshall Lewis (born December 18 1970) is an American pop culture critic essayist literary editor fiction writer and music journalist. He is a graduate of Morehouse College class of 1993.Lewis was born in The Bronx New York at the beginning of hip hop culture in the early 1970s. He expatriated from the United States to Paris France during 2004 in response to the Iraq War.
Musa Ćazim Ćatić.  Musa Ćazim Ćatić (12 March 1878 – 6 April 1915) was a prominent Bosniak poet of the Bosnian Renaissance at the turn of the 20th century.
Christof Migone.  Christof Migone is a Swiss-born experimental sound artist and writer formerly based in Montreal now living in Toronto.He is the director/curator of the Blackwood Gallery and is a lecturer at the Department of Visual Studies at The University of Toronto's Mississauga campus.Migone's solo recordings include Sound Voice Perform (2006) South Winds (2003) Crackers (2001) Quieting (2000) The Death of Analogies (1999) vex (1998) and Hole in the Head (1996).
Jesper Thilo.  Jesper Thilo (born 28 November 1941) is a Danish jazz musician mainly known as a tenor saxophonist alto saxophonist and clarinetist. He is considered to be one of the top European straight-ahead jazz musicians of the post-1970 period.
Pier Francesco Guala.  Pier Francesco Guala (15 September 1698 – 27 February 1757) also known as Pierfrancesco and Pietro Francesco was an eighteenth-century Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth Casale Monferrato.Guala was the seventh of eight siblings of whom only he and a sister survived infancy.
Noël Godin.  Noël Godin (born 13 September 1945) is a Belgian writer critic actor and notorious cream pie flinger or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels pelting the software magnate with cream pies. After bombarding Gates Godin allegedly said My work is done here.
Antonio Sacre.  Antonio Sacre (born 1968) is an American bilingual storyteller author and performance artist. Born in Boston to an Irish American mother and Cuban father he now is based in Los Angeles and performs in both English and Spanish.He has written 10 plays and over 30 stories and performs at storytelling festivals (including the National Storytelling Festival) and fringe festivals. He is a member of the Redmoon Theater company in Chicago Illinois.
Annie Crummer.  Annie Crummer is a New Zealand pop singer and songwriter who has seen success in both a solo career and as part of various musical groups.She grew up in West Auckland. Her father a Cook Islander was one of her strongest musical influences. She did one semester of Cook Island Maori language (te reo) at Auckland University in 2000.She has worked with New Zealand bands Netherworld Dancing Toys When The Cat's Away Herbs. She recorded 'I Hope I Never' as part of the ENZSO project in 1996.
Brigitte Lahaie.  Brigitte Lahaie (born on 12 October 1955) is a French-born radio talk show host mainstream film actress and former pornographic actress. She began her career at age 15 when legalization in France had changed with a minor role in Africa Erotica (1970) and performed in pornographic films from 1976 through 1980. She is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Dominic Green (writer and musician).  For other persons named Dominic Green see Dominic Green (disambiguation).Dominic Green (born 1970) is a British writer and musician.
PackFM.  PackFM (born Omar Rogelio Tull on June 11 1977) is an American Underground hip hop artist and producer from Brooklyn New York City. As a teenager in the mid-1990s PackFM began his battle career winning numerous prestigious freestyle titles.
Isaac Hayes.  Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20 1942 – August 10 2008) was an American singer-songwriter actor and producer. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s.
Derek Jewell.  Derek Jewell (1927 - 21 November 1985) was a British writer broadcaster and music critic. A music critic for the London Sunday Times for twenty-three years Jewell wrote extensively about jazz and also introduced British audiences to avant garde jazz rock and improvisational music especially through live performances on his BBC Radio show Sounds Interesting.
Christine Ng.  Christine Ng Wing-Mei is a Hong Kong actress under contract to Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited or TVB. Christine is known for her roles in TVB's dramas including C.I.B. Files and The Silver Chamber of Sorrows
Noriko Ohara.  Noriko Ohara (小原 乃梨子 Ohara Noriko born Noriko Tobe (戸部 法子 Tobe Noriko) October 2 1935 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress. She is represented by Production Baobab.
Namita Gokhale.  Namita Gokhale (born 1956) is an Indian writer.
Mirza Babayev.  Mirza Abduljabbar oglu Babayev (Azerbaijani: Mirzə Əbdülcabbar oğlu Babayev; July 16 1913 - January 14 2003) – was an Azerbaijani movie actor and singer. He was honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1956) and People’s Artist of Azerbaijan (1992).
Chris Combs (composer).  Chris Combs is a composer arranger steel guitarist and producer from Tulsa Oklahoma. He has been a part of the jazz group Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey since 2008. Combs also writes and plays lap steel with Gogo Plumbay a Tulsa-based quintet that has been together since 2009. Combs records frequently with many artists working in a variety of capacities and can be found on releases from Kinnara Records Royal Potato Family Horton Records and Scissortail Records.
Chas Hodges.  Chas Hodges (born Charles Nicholas Hodges on 28 December 1943) is an English musician and singer probably best known for being one half and lead vocalist of the English musical duo Chas & Dave.Before founding Chas & Dave Hodges had worked with the producer Joe Meek as a session musician backing Jerry Lee Lewis & Gene Vincent and has also played with Mike Berry and 'The Outlaws' along with Ritchie Blackmore and Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers which had Mick Burt on drums.
Zhang Guoqiang.  Zhang Guoqiang (Chinese: 张国强; Pinyin: Zhang Guoqiáng; born September 30 1969) is a Chinese actor.
Nick Lowe (comics).  Nicholas Albert Nick Lowe is the senior editor of the X-Men titles at Marvel Comics. He was responsible for the Nextwave title along with The Eternals by Neil Gaiman.
Sheila Hylton.  Sheila Hylton (born c. 1956 London England) is a reggae singer who grew up in Kingston Jamaica. She is best known for the songs Breakfast in Bed (#57 UK 1979) The Bed's Too Big Without You (#35 UK 1981) and Mellow Mood.Her latest album Steppin' was released in 2006.
Silvio Allason.  Silvio Allason (1845 - 1912) was an Italian painter mainly of land sea and moonscapes. He was a resident in Turin. He first trained with his elder cousin Ernesto Allason. He captures on canvas the calm melancholy of the Alps the terrible impetuosity of the sea and the landscapes of moonlit nights. He exhibited in 1877 in Naples a canvas titled: A noi e Salvataggio; Dopo la tempesta e Sconfitti exhibited at Turin in 1880. He also painted A Morning at Thuille.
Ozan Çolakoğlu.  Ozan Çolakoğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [ozˌan ˈʧolaˌkoːɫu] Adana 1972 - ) is a Turkish composer songwriter and music producer; famous for his work with pop idol Tarkan and his various film scores. He co-founded the production company Sarı Ev (Yellow House) but left it in 2010 to work for dB Müzik.
Céu.  Céu (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɛu]) whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007. She was born in São Paulo Brazil on April 17 1980 into a musical family her father being a composer arranger and musicologist.
Nick Montfort.  Nick Montfort is an associate professor of digital media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is also a poet computer scientist and author of interactive fiction. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto the sticker novel Implementation and the contemporary fiction novel 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems text generators and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum.
Aislinn O'Neill.  Aislinn O'Neill is an English actress and musician also known by the stage name Kyneska. Her work in film and television includes the 2013 feature film Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart the 2009 TV serial adaptation of Emma TV series Law & Order: UK TV series Chickens starring Simon Bird and BBC TV medical series Holby City. She is also the singer bass guitarist and producer for all-sister rock band Kyneska from which she takes her stage name.
Alexander Francis Lydon.  Alexander Francis Lydon (1836–1917) was an English watercolour artist illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age. He collaborated on a large number of works with the Rev.
Nida Fazli.  Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli known as Nida Fazli (Urdu: ندا فاضلی ‎) (born 12 October 1938) is an Indian Urdu poet.
Reginald Gray (artist).  Reginald Gray (1930 – 29 March 2013) was an Irish portrait artist. He studied at The National College of Art (1953) and then moved to London becoming part of the School of London led by Francis Bacon Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. In 1960 he painted a portrait of Bacon which now hangs in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Bill Bourne.  Bill Bourne (born William Sigurd Bourne March 28 1954 in Red Deer Alberta) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who frequently collaborates with a variety of artists including Alan MacLeod Shannon Johnson Lester Quitzau Madagascar Slim Aysha Wills Eivør Pálsdóttir Wyckham Porteous and Jasmine 'Jas' Ohlhauser.Raised in a musical family in rural Alberta Bill's musical education began at 2 years of age when he would sleep behind the piano at country dances where his parent's band would perform. 
Richard Hageman.  Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor pianist composer and actor.
Torquil Campbell.  Torquil Campbell (born March 17 1972) is the co-lead singer and a songwriter for the Montreal-based indie rock band Stars. In addition to singing he also plays the melodica and trumpet. Torquil is also involved in a solo project called Dead Child Star created in March 2008. The first album from Dead Child Star came out in January 2011 titled Cold Hands Warm Heart. He also is a member of the band Memphis.
Nicolas Lancret.  Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) French painter was born in Paris and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
Munetaka Higuchi.  Munetaka Higuchi (樋口 宗孝 Higuchi Munetaka) (December 24 1958 – November 30 2008) was a Japanese musician and record producer best known for being the original drummer of the heavy metal band Loudness.
Mihalis Violaris.  Michalis Kyriakou known by his stage-name Michalis Violaris (Greek: Μιχάλης Βιολάρης) (born 9 January 1944 Agia Varvara Nicosia Cyprus) is a popular singer and composer of modern Greek and Cypriot music.He is also a pioneer responsible for popularising in Greece Cypriot songs sung in the Cypriot dialect. His song Ta Ryalia (also Ta Rialia) sung in Cypriot Greek became a hit in the top-10 of Greece in 1973.
Baimurat Allaberiyev.  Baimurat Allaberiyev also known as Tajik Jimmy is a vocalist and musician from Tajikistan of Uzbek ethnic origin. He was discovered while working in a warehouse as the result of a colleague videoing him performing a cover of Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja from the Bollywood movie Disco Dancer with a cell phone and posting it on the internet. Since that time he has moved to St. Petersburg and performed there and elsewhere in Russia in theaters and night clubs.
Gao Mang.  Gao Mang (Chinese: 高莽; pinyin: Gāo Mǎng; born 1926) also known by his pen name Wulanhan (simplified Chinese: 乌兰汗; traditional Chinese: 烏蘭汗; pinyin: Wū Lánhán) is a Chinese translator and painter who had been honored by the governments of both Russia and China.He is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian poets Alexander Pushkin Ivan Bunin Mikhail Lermontov and Anna Akhmatova.
Magnus Lidehäll.  Magnus Lidehäll is a Swedish producer who started as part of the duo Afasi & Filthy (2002-2009) where he was known with his stage name Filthy. He now concentrates on songwriting and music production.
Zane Chylde.  Zane Chylde is a power metal singer from New Zealand best known as the frontman and primary lyricist of Razorwyre.
Candy Dulfer.  Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch smooth jazz and funk alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums two live albums and one compilation album.
Attila Csihar.  Attila Csihar (Hungarian: [ˈɒtilːɒ ˈtʃihɒr]; born 29 March 1971) also sometimes known as Void is a Hungarian black metal vocalist best known for his vocal work on Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album. Author Ian Christe describes his vocals as operatic.He graduated as an electrical engineer and is a former private teacher of mathematics and physics. He is a divorced father of two children Arion and Julia.
Federico Agnelli.  Federico Agnelli (1626–1702) was an Italian engraver and printer active in Milan. He was chiefly employed in portraits though he occasionally engraved emblematical and architectural subjects. He engraved with the architect Carlo Butio a set of plates representing the Cathedral at Milan.
John Warren (Canadian musician).  John Warren (born 23 September 1938 in Montreal Canada) is a Canadian Jazz musician (saxophone) and composer known for the cooperation with John Surman and Mike Westbrook.
Torsten Lilliecrona.  Torsten Lilliecrona (4 January 1921 Jönköping - 15 October 1999) was a Swedish actor. He is mostly famous for his role as Melker Melkersson in the highly successful TV show Vi på Saltkråkan (Life on Seacrow Island) for which Astrid Lindgren wrote the script. He starred in over 100 productions in film and television before his death in 1999 as well as in radio shows and theater productions but eventually became identified with the character Melker Melkerson.
Kina (musician).  Kina Cosper (born January 25 1969 Detroit) is an American musician best known for her work with Grammy Award-nominated group Brownstone and her 2000 solo single Girl from the Gutter. She is currently working on new music.
William Murray (musician).  William Murray (died 1998) was a drummer and photographer from Glasgow Scotland.
David Morales.  David Morales (born 21 August 1961) is an internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning American house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks. Born in New York City he is of Puerto Rican ancestry.
Todd Kuffner.  Todd Alan Kuffner (born May 26 1983) is an American-born British musician. He is best known as a lead vocalist songwriter and guitarist.
Jack Fina.  Jack Fina (August 13 1913 – May 14 1970) was a bandleader songwriter and pianist.Known as The Ten Most Talented Fingers On Radio[citation needed] Fina was born in Passaic New Jersey and educated at the New York College of Music and was a student of August Fraemcke and Elsa Nicilini.
Zeb Wells.  Zeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics as well as his work on Robot Chicken.
David Willoughby Gooding.  David Willoughby Gooding (born 1925) is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queen's University Belfast and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.He is a highly regarded Bible teacher and his international teaching ministry is marked by fresh and careful expositions of both testaments. He has published scholarly studies on the Septuagint and Old Testament narratives as well as expositions of Luke John 13–17 Acts Hebrews and the New Testament's use of the Old Testament.
Mohammad Hussain Sarahang.  Ustād Mohammad Hussain Sarāhang (Pashto/Persian: استاد محمد حسین سرآهنگ‎ - Sarahang; 1924–1983) was an Afghan musician and best known exponent of hindustani classical music from Kabul Afghanistan. He was the second oldest son of the renowned musician Ustad Ghulam Hussain. Mohammad Hussain was born and raised in Kharabat (Kabul) a city famous and conceivably notorious for its musicians.
Glenn Dakin.  Glenn Dakin (born 1960) is a British cartoonist and author of children's books. He is the author of the Candle Man book series and he contributed to a number of British comics magazines including Escape and Deadline and was part of the British small press comics scene in the 1980s. His main creations are Temptation and the semi-autobiographical strip Abe.
Ehlo Huang.  Ehlo Huang (Chinese: 黃玉榮; pinyin: Huang Yu Rong; born April 1 1977 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese actor and member of Taiwanese group 183 Club. He is of Hakka and Amis descent.
Carl B.  Carl B (born Carl Barrdahl on October 10 1984) is an upcoming Swedish trance DJ and music producer. Since he started in 2004 he has released more than 15 singles and 20 remixes. Carl B is one of the most well known Swedish disc jockeys. He has released hit singles such as Social Suicide Chasing Leaves and Just A Thought. He has also created remixes to artists like Tiësto Armin van Buuren and Talla 2XLC. Since his breakthrough he has been travelling round Europe to play at nightclubs.
Jimmy Smith (musician).  James Oscar Jimmy Smith (December 8 1925 or 1928 – February 8 2005) was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard.
Raynald Arseneault.  Raynald Arseneault (9 June 1945 – 27 January 1995) was a Canadian composer and organist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre his compositional output consists of more than 50 works. His style was particularly influenced by Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Giacinto Scelsi; both of whom he met with in Europe during the 1970s.
Lea Michele.  Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29 1986) known professionally as Lea Michele is an American actress and singer best known for her performance as Rachel Berry on the Fox television series Glee. Michele's portrayal of Rachel has received much critical praise earning her two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2010 and 2011 and an Emmy Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Comedy Series in 2010.
Jakob Lothe.  Jakob Lothe (born 1950 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian literary scholar and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo.
Giovanni Maria Bottala.  Giovanni Maria Bottala (1613–1644) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Savona. He traveled to Rome as a young boy and later became pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. He painted in Rome Naples and Genoa. He was taken into the patronage of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti for whom he painted a Meeting of Jacob and Esau. Bottala acquired the name of 'Rafaellino' from his great veneration for the works of Raphael. Other works are in the churches of Naples and Genoa.
Dirck Hendricksz.  Dirck Hendricksz (Amsterdam 1544 – Amsterdam 1618) was a Dutch-Italian painter. In Italy he was known as Teodoro d'Errico or Dirk Hendrici. He was engaged in painting mainly altarpieces and for churches in Naples from 1574-1606. Although born in Holland he is referred in texts as a Flemish painter.
Johnny Thunders.  Johnny Thunders (July 15 1952 – April 23 1991) born John Anthony Genzale Jr. was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls. He later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist.
Robbie Ribspreader.  Robbie Ribspreader is the reclusive b-movie screenwriter of such films as Doomed to Consume She-Demons of the Black Sun Tender Flesh For Zombie Goddess and others. His film Purple Glow (directed by Sv Bell) was screened in 2005 at the Fantasia Festival and took first place in the science-fiction category at the 2005 Wreck-Beach Film Festival.
Loulie Jean Norman.  Loulie Jean Norman (born in Birmingham Alabama on March 12 1913; died August 2 2005 in Los Angeles) was a famous coloratura soprano who worked with famed arranger Gordon Jenkins. Jenkins and Norman collaborated on a number of albums. Norman was also a member of the Ray Conniff Singers. She was married to Norman H. Price Sr. and had four children Patricia Pamela Priscilla and Norman Jr.
Lev Lunts.  Lev Natanovich Lunts (Russian: Лев Ната́нович Лунц; May 2 1901 – May 10 1924) was a Russian/Jewish writer playwright critic translator and essayist. He was a member of the Serapion Brothers literary group.
Laurel Halo.  Laurel Halo is an American electronic musician and recording artist from Ann Arbor Michigan.
Henry Flint.  Henry Flint is a British comic book artist who has worked mainly for British science fiction comic 2000AD.
Michelle Amato.  Michelle Amato is an American vocalist; she trained at the University of Miami School of Music. She has toured and/or recorded with numerous artists including Quincy Jones Jon Secada Liza Minnelli Al Green Sandi Patti Jon Hendricks Donna Summer Michael McDonald Celia Cruz Rita Marley and has been a featured soloist with the Memphis Symphony and the South Florida Pops. She has performed with Yanni during the 2003-2004 Ethnicity tour and her featured solo work can be heard on that CD.
Kenn Smith.  Kenn Smith (born April 27 1962) birth name Kenneth LaMont Smith is an American guitarist bassist composer educator and journalist born and raised in Chicago Illinois. While well versed in many styles of music his favorites are Progressive Rock Jazz Ambient and Classical.
Leonardo Parasole.  Leonardo Parasole (born c. 1570) was an Italian engraver on wood of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods.He was born and active in Rome. He married the engraver Isabella Parasole and discarded his original last name Norsini or Norcino and took his wife's more distinguished last name. He made cuts for the Herbal book written by Castor Durante physician to Pope Sixtus V which was engraved by order of that pontiff.
Alex McManus.  Alex McManus is a musician from Omaha Nebraska. He is part of the indie scene and played with bands such as Acorns Empire State Lambchop Vic Chesnutt and Bright Eyes. He is also in his own band called The Bruces.
Ishmael Beah.  Ishmael Beah (born on November 23 1980) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. His first novel Radiance of Tomorrow was published in January 2014.
Tim Sanders (writer).  Tim Sanders (born 6 November 1961) is a New York Times bestselling author public speaker and former Yahoo! executive. He joined Yahoo! through the acquisition of Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com in 1999. After arriving at Yahoo! Sanders created and led the ValueLab an internal group dedicated to providing insight into Yahoo!'s customers.
Malcolm Travis.  Malcolm Travis (born 15 Feb 1953) is an American drummer from Boston Massachusetts best known for his work with Human Sexual Response The Zulus Sugar (with Bob Mould and David Barbe) No Man (with Roger Miller) and Kustomized (with Peter Prescott).
Armani Depaul.  Armani Depaul (born Oakland California 1988) also known as Flav is an American rapper songwriter producer and director. Based in the Bay Area in Northern California he operates the independent label Beach Boi Music.He has released a number of singles and collaborated with artists such as Stevie Joe Iamsu! Kool John Dj.Fresh and Sage the Gemini. In 2012 he contributed production to the track Try'na Get On off the J. Stalin album Memoirs of a Curb Server.
Anton Losenko.  Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Cyrillic Антон Павлович Лосенко) (10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1737 — 4 December [O.S. 23 November] 1773) was a Ukrainian neoclassical painter and academician who lived in Imperial Russia and who specialized in historical subjects and portraits. He was one of the founders of the Imperial Russian historical movement in painting.
Soyeon Kate Lee.  Soyeon Kate Lee (이소연 born 1979) is a Korean-American classical pianist who currently lives in New York USA.
Ilias Papadakis.  Ilias Papadakis (born January 27 1977) is a Greek thrash metal guitarist. He is the founder and guitarist of Memorain.
Pedro Barreto.  Pedro Barreto (born September 4 1991) is a Brazilian violinist.
Rikki Rockett.  Richard Allan Ream (born August 8 1961) better known by the stage name Rikki Rockett is an American drummer for the multi-platinum selling Hard rock band Poison.The band have sold over 45 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 including six Top 10 singles and the Hot 100 number-one Every Rose Has Its Thorn.
França Júnior.  Joaquim José da França Júnior (March 18 1838 — November 27 1890) was a Brazilian playwright journalist and initially a painter. Alongside Martins Pena he is one of the most famous adepts of the comedy of customs genre.He is patron of the 12th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Jimmy Oliver (musician).  James Henry Oliver was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader based in Philadelphia. Active from the mid-1940s his bands including the house band at local venues featured among other musicians Philly Joe Jones Steve Davis Red Garland Johnny Coles Charlie Rice Sam Reed and Mickey Roker.
Andrew De Silva.  Andrew Conrad De Silva (born 23 November 1974) is an Australian R&B and rock singer. He was a member of the band CDB from 1991 to 1997 when he left to undergo treatment for cancer.De Silva was the winner of Australia's Got Talent in 2012 which included a cash prize of $250 000.De Silva was born in Melbourne into a family originally from Sri Lanka. He is married with two children.De Silva was a judge for the Miss Sri Lanka Online contest in 2012.In 2013 he released the song Miracle.
Ma Ji.  Ma Ji (traditional Chinese: 馬季; simplified Chinese: 马季; Pinyin: Mǎ Jì; August 2 1934 – December 20 2006) born Ma Shuhuai (traditional Chinese: 馬樹槐; simplified Chinese: 马树槐; Pinyin: Mǎ Shù Huái) was a xiangsheng performer in China. He was one of his generation's most popular and influential xiangsheng performer and was mentor to many later xiangsheng performers.
Geoffrey Álvarez.  Geoffrey Alvarez is a British/Nicaraguan composer and conductor. He chairs the annual international composition competition run by the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra. He is also a writer on music and inventor of Gravesian Analysis.
Anne-Marie Helder.  Anne-Marie Helder is a British singer-songwriter and musician best known for fronting the UK rock band Panic Room.Also a solo performer in her own right Helder has performed internationally both as a solo artist and with various bands since circa the year 2000.Helder released her solo EP The Contact in November 2004 which received strong reviews and secured airplay on BBC Radio 2 with the legendary DJ Bob Harris declaring: this is very dramatic music.[citation needed] UK national music magazine Classic Rock gave the EP a 8/10 review[citation needed] and since its release Helder has toured across the UK Europe and the USA playing both headline shows and supports for established artists.In 2005 she supported Fish on his major Return to Childhood tour and since then she has opened shows for artists including Midge Ure Nick Harper Glenn Tilbrook (of Squeeze) and then landing the support for the major Ultravox tour in 2010 where she performed to thousands each night in venues across the UK including the Birmingham Symphony Hall London Roundhouse and Glasgow SECC.
Babar Bhatti.  Babar Bhatti (also known as Barbar Bhatti)(born 14 February 1949) is a British actor of Pakistani origin. He was probably best known for the part of Punkah Wallah Rumzan in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum his first role.Bhatti made an appearance in Only Fools and Horses in the episode Cash and Curry as an Indian Restaurant owner.Bhatti graduated as an architect from UCL London and went into property business. A successful business man of his time.
M. Balamuralikrishna.  Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna(Telugu: మంగళంపల్లి బాలమురళీకృష్ణ) (born 6 July 1930) is an Indian Carnatic vocalist multi-instrumentalist playback singer composer and actor. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan India's second-highest civilian honour for his contribution towards Indian Art. He was made Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005.
Aiza Seguerra.  Aiza Seguerra (born 17 September 1983) is a Filipina actress singer-songwriter and guitarist. After participating on Eat Bulaga!'s Little Miss Philippines 1987 she became a child star starring in several movies and TV shows. Later in her teens she pursued a career in music spawning her major hit single Pagdating ng Panahon (When the Time Comes).
Lazee.  Mawuli Kulego (better known by his stage name Lazee) is a Swedish rapper from Malmö.
J. J. Barrie.  J. J. Barrie (born Barry Authors July 7 1933 Oshawa Ontario Canada) is a Canadian songwriter and singer. He is best known for his 1976 UK chart-topper No Charge.
Meredith Webber.  Meredith Webber is the author of over 50 contemporary romance novels. Many of her novels have been published as part of Mills and Boon's Medical Romance line of category romances. Her novels have been translated into dozens of languages including Icelandic.Before becoming a writer Webber worked as a teacher a travel agent a pig farmer and the coordinator of a respite care service. In 1992 she began to write medical romances.
Ethan Canin.  Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19 1960) is an American author educator and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.Canin was born in Ann Arbor Michigan while his parents were vacationing from Iowa City where his father taught violin at the University of Iowa.
Philip Clairmont.  Philip Anthony Clairmont (1949–1984) was a New Zealand painter.
Robert Roth (musician).  Robert Roth (born 1966) is best known as a songwriter vocalist and guitarist of 90's Sub Pop and Capitol Records band Truly. The band have recently have reunited with all original members to play in shows in Seattle London and Azkena Rock Festival 2008 alongside Ray Davies the Sex Pistols Dinosaur Jr. and the Sonics.Roth also received much international critical acclaim for his 2004 solo debut Someone Somewhere....
Antje Duvekot.  Antje Duvekot (/ˈɑːntjə ˈduːvəkɑːt/ AUNT-yuh DOO-va-kott; born 1976 in Heidelberg Germany) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Somerville Massachusetts. She holds three top songwriting awards including the Kerrville New Folk Competition's Best New Folk Award Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act and Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
Imre Ungár.  Imre Ungár (23 January 1909 Budapest – 22 November 1972 Budapest) was a Hungarian pianist.He was blind since the age of three. While a student under István Thomán at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music he won the Competition for Young Talents beginning a concert career through Hungary. He took part in the II Fryderyk Chopin Competition tying with Russian émigré Alexander Uninsky for the 1st prize. Uninsky won the coin flipping.
Mad Professor.  Mad Professor (born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser 1955 Georgetown Guyana) is a Guyanese dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age.
Steve Little (actor).  Steve Little (born July 2 1979) is an American comic actor who acts on the shows Eastbound & Down and Adventure Time.
Paul Simmons.  Paul (Paulie) Simmons is an American drummer. Currently he is the drummer for the Reverend Horton Heat. He is previously most well known as the drummer for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers from 2003 to 2005. He was also the drummer in Christian rock band Petra from 2003 until their retirement in 2005. He has also played with several other rock bands including touring with Black Oak Arkansas during the 1980s.
Joel Manuel Hoffman.  Dr. Joel Manuel Hoffman (also known under the pen name of J.M. Hoffman) is an American scholar writer speaker and novelist known for his criticism of the Christian fundamentalism's style of Biblical interpretation. He has served as a translator for the ten volume series of My People's Prayer Book.
Andreas Nottebohm.  Andreas Nottebohm born in 1944 is an American/German artist whose work is associated with Op Art visionary art and Space Art. He is considered one of the key innovators of Metal Painting.
Scott Olson.  Scott Olson is a guitarist bassist and recording engineer. He played guitar with Heart 1995-1998 and 2002–2003 and in 1996 he performed with Alice In Chains on their MTV Unplugged concert.He is currently working with Seattle's London Bridge Studios best known for their work on Pearl Jam's Ten and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger.Olson attended Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie Washington.
Matt Rollings.  Matt Rollings is an American composer musician and record producer. He plays piano organ and keyboards.Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band he has worked with many artists not all country.
Curt Johannes Braun.  Curt Johannes Braun (1903-1961) was a German screenwriter.
Shirley Hazzard.  Shirley Hazzard (born 30 January 1931) is an Australian author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia but holds citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Her 1970 novel The Bay of Noon was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010and her 2003 novel The Great Fire won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Darius Semaña.  Darius Gerard Laluna Semaña (born June 30 1973) is a Filipino lead guitarist for the band Parokya ni Edgar and is the oldest member of the group.
Subtitle (rapper).  Giovanni Marks (born October 2 1978) better known by his stage name Subtitle is a rapper and producer based in Los Angeles California. He is one half of the duo Lab Waste alongside Thavius Beck. He has also collaborated with other artists such as K-the-I??? Busdriver and Islands.
Barry Morrow.  Barry Morrow (born June 12 1948) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for Rain Man.Several of Morrow's scripts are inspired by real people especially people with disabilities and/or extraordinary talents. These include the savant played by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man inspired by the real savant Kim Peek; and mentally retarded Bill Sackter played by Mickey Rooney in the TV movie Bill.
MNEK.  Uzoechi Osisioma Emenike professionally known as MNEK (born 9 November 1994 in Lewisham London) is a Grammy-nominated British singer songwriter and record producer of Nigerian descent signed to Virgin EMI Records.
Ken Crawford (astrophotographer).  Ken Crawford is an American astrophotographer based on Rancho Del Sol Camino California.
Rebecca Stead.  Rebecca Stead (born January 16 1968) is an American writer of fiction for children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal in 2010 the oldest award in children's literature for her second novel When You Reach Me.She won the Guardian Prize in 2013 recognizing Liar & Spy as the year's best British children's book by a writer who has not previously won it.
Walt Monaghan.  Walter Monaghan is a rock bass guitarist.He played in British rock groups of the 1970s including Freedom the Mick Abrahams Band and the final line-up of IF before going on to join his former IF-bandmate Cliff Davies in US rock musician Ted Nugent's band.
Wilbur Schwandt.  Wilbur Schwandt (June 28 1904 Manitowoc Wisconsin – July 23 1998 Miami Florida) was a musician best known for his song Dream a Little Dream of Me with Fabian Andre. He frequently went by the stage name Don Swan and released many Latin jazz albums in the 1950s and 1960s.
Paul McCartney's musical career.  Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and composer. He gained fame around the world as a member of the Beatles along with John Lennon George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
George Kashdan.  George Kashdan (May 17 1928 – June 3 2006) was an American comic book writer and editor primarily for DC Comics who co-created such characters as Tommy Tomorrow Mysto Magician Detective and others. He was additionally a screenwriter for such animated television series as The Mighty Hercules and The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
Michael Lewis (musician).  Mike Lewis (born Michael Lewis) is a saxophonist and bassist from Minneapolis Minnesota. He is a founding member of contemporary jazz groups Happy Apple and Fat Kid Wednesdays. He also plays electric bass in Alpha Consumer and Red Start.Mike Lewis has contributed to other projects such as Fog's Ditherer and Gayngs' Relayted. He is currently a member of Andrew Bird's band as well as Dosh and Bon Iver.After trying trumpet Mike Lewis settled on the saxophone at age 10.[citation needed]
Fher Olvera.  José Fernando Emilio Fher Olvera (born December 8 1959 Puebla Mexico) is the secondary guitarist composer and lead singer for the Mexican rock band Maná. Olvera studied communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has collaborated with other famous musicians such as Rubén Blades Carlos Santana Pablo Milanés Luciano Pavarotti Zucchero Miguel Ríos Miguel Bosé and Juan Luis Guerra among others.
Skip Horack.  Skip Horack (born May 24 1976) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Giacomo Benvenuti.  Giacomo Benvenuti (16 March 1885 Toscolano — 20 January 1943 Barbarano-Salò) was an Italian composer and musicologist. He was the son of organist Cristoforo Benvenuti and studied at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna under Luigi Torchi (musicology) and Marco Enrico Bossi (organ). In 1919 his collection of songs for voice and piano accompaniment Canti a una voce : con accompagnamento di pianoforte was published in Bologna.
Rex O'Malley.  Rex O'Malley (1901-1976) was a British actor. His mother was an Irish seamstress. At one stage she worked for Queen Victoria as her dressmaker and had a store on Sloane Street London. He acted on Broadway in films and in television.
Dan Andersson.  Dan Andersson (1888 – 1920) was a Swedish author poet and composer. A nom de plume he sometimes used was Black Jim. Although counted among the Swedish proletarian authors his works are not limited to that genre.
Takeshi Kobayashi.  Takeshi Kobayashi (小林 武史 Kobayshi Takeshi) (born June 7 1959) is a Japanese keyboardist lyricist composer arranger and record producer.Kobayashi started his professional career in the late 1970s. After working in the backing bands for singers such as Yosui Inoue Misato Watanabe and Anri he came into prominence as a musical collaborator for the Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata's eponymous 1988 solo album.
Roberta Gregory.  Roberta Gregory (born 1953 in Los Angeles California) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.Gregory's father was Disney comics writer and artist Bob Gregory. Educated at the California State University Long Beach she began her career in 1974 by publishing comics in the influential all-female Wimmen's Comix anthologies and in other '70s underground comix and created the strip Feminist Funnies.
Zhang Xiaotao.  Zhang Xiaotao was born in 1970 in Hechuan Chongqing China. He is a painter based in Beijing and Chengdu.He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts [1] in 1996.He then became a teacher in the Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu and this lasted from 1996-2009. In 2010 Xiaotao taught in the New Media Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
Chris Guillebeau.  Chris Guillebeau is an American entrepreneur nonfiction author blogger and speaker. He is best known for The Art of Non-Conformity blog and book. He has also written guides for travel and small business topics under the brand Unconventional Guides. He organizes the annual World Domination Summit in Portland Oregon.
Jim Dine.  Jim Dine (born June 16 1935) is an American pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement.
Helen Zelezny-Scholz.  Helen Zelezny also known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz Helen Scholz or Helene Scholzová-Železná (16 August 1882 – 18 February 1974) was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor. She is widely considered one of the most influential figures in the sculpture of north Moravia and Silesia besides Josef Obeth at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Louis Chauvin.  Louis Chauvin (March 13 1881 – March 26 1908) was an American ragtime musician.
Dave Haley.  Dave Haley is an Australian drummer with the death metal band Psycroptic the black metal band Ruins both from Hobart and the Melbourne grindcore band Blood Duster. As of August 2013 he is also a touring member of the death/black metal band The Amenta from Sydney with whom he previously served between 2003 and 2007.
Erick Morillo.  Erick Morillo is a Colombian-American DJ music producer and record label owner.
Colette Justine.  Colette Justine better known as Colette is a multimedia artist known for her pioneering work in performance art street art and the constructed photograph. She is also known for her work exploring male and female gender roles her use of different guises and personas and for her soft fabric environments where she often appears as the central element.She was born in Tunis Tunisiaof french nationalityand grew up in Nice France before becoming a naturalized American citizen.
Joe Simon (musician).  Joe Simon (born September 2 1943) is an American chart-topping Grammy Award winning soul and R&B musician. Amongst other chart singles Simon secured three number one hits on the US Billboard R&B chart between 1969 and 1975.
Gustavo Scoppa.  Gustavo Scoppa (Naples March 7 1856 - ?) was an Italian painter mainly of land- and particularly sea-scapes.He studied under his father's instructions then at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. He has exhibited at the Promotrice of Naples. Among his paintings: Il cantiere mercantile di Castellammare; Marina di Puzzano; Seascape of Mollo; Beach at Capri; and Shore of Sorrento.
Helen Noble.  Helen Noble (born in Wigan) is a British actress best known for her role as Abby Davies in the British soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004 with a brief return in 2005.Helen attended Wigan's Willpower Youth Theatre as a teenager and it was through this and their links with Intercity Casting that she got her first audition to play Abby in Holloaks.After leaving Hollyoaks she appeared in pantomime and in 2004 appeared on a celebrity version of The Weakest Link dressed as her pantomime character from Dick Whittington.In the 2005-06 pantomime season she appeared as Princess Apricot Crumble in Jack & the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal Plymouth.In February 2006 she fronted a bid to promote the work of the Halton Drug Action Team and its partner agencies in Widnes and Runcorn by living 'homeless' in the Halton YMCA.In April 2006 she appeared alongside Sara Crowe in The Safari Party at Richmond Theatre and toured the UK with the same play.In September 2007 it was announced that along with her former Hollyoaks colleague Sarah Jayne Dunn and the theatre actor Graham Tudor she would be teaching students at a new acting school in Liverpool. 
Tony Juliano.  Tony Juliano (also known as Tony “Baloney” Juliano) (born February 7 1975) is a satirist painter in New Haven Connecticut and is affiliated with the international art movement Stuckism.
Mark Coggins.  Mark Coggins is the American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist AugustRiordan. He was born in New Mexico in 1957 and attended Stanford University where he earned anundergraduate degree in International Relations a masters in Computer Science and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.While at Stanford Coggins took creative writing classes with Tobias Wolff and Ron Hansen and wrotethe first short story featuring August Riordan in a class for Hansen.
Anthony A. Mitchell.  Lieutenant Commander Anthony A. Mitchell (August 26 1918 – January 20 2009) born Antonio Alberto Miceli was an American clarinetist composer and conductor who led the United States Navy Band from 1962 until his retirement from the Navy in 1968. He was a prolific composer of marches including Our Nation's Capital the official march of Washington D.C.
Marcos Hernandez (singer).  Marcos Hernandez was born in Phoenix Arizona in 1982 and raised in Dallas Texas. He worked at the Lewisville YMCA in Flower Mound Texas as a lifeguard. Hernandez was discovered by Vanilla Ice manager Tommy Quon. He is a Mexican American pop singer whose debut single If You Were Mine was released in August 2005. The single got a good amount of airplay on Pop and Rhythmic stations and slowly crept up to the Top 25 on Top 40 radio. The single also went to #1 in South Africa and France.
AZ (rapper).  Anthony Cruz (born March 9 1972) better known by his stage name AZ is an American rapper. Born in Brooklyn he currently resides in Englewood New Jersey. He is known for being a longtime and frequent rhyme partner of Nas and also a member of hip-hop group The Firm alongside Nas Foxy Brown Cormega and Nature.In a countdown of the 10 Most Underappreciated Rappers—Most Underrated Rappers of All Time the editors of About.com listed AZ as #1 on the list.
Luciano (singer).  Jepther McClymont OD (born 20 October 1964) better known as Luciano is a Jamaican second-generation roots reggae artist.
Balwantray Thakore.  Balwantrai Thakore (Balavantarāya Kalyāṇarāya Ṭhākora Gujarati: બ.ક.ઠાકોર or બળવંતરાય ઠાકોર) (1869-1952) as popularly he is known was a Poem-teacher or Kavita-Shikshak in Gujarati literature.
Matt O'Connor (music).  Matt O'Connor is a music producer songwriter and A&R manager originally from Sydney Australia.
Giovanni Francesco Bembo.  Giovanni Francesco Bembo was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona mainly active from 1515-1543. He apprenticed with Boccaccio Boccaccino. In 1515 he painted two frescoes: Presentation in the Temple and an Adoration of the Magi for the Duomo of Cremona. He painted in 1524 an altarpiece for San Pietro depicting a Madonna with three saints and a donor. In 1530 he painted a Madonna with Saint Stephen and in 1540 a Madonna with St.
Steffan Andrews.  Steffan Andrews is a Gemini-nominated Canadian Film Television and Video Game composer known for animated series soundtracks.Steffan has composed music for hundreds of episodes of television including series such as Littlest Pet Shop Pound Puppies and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. His work has also reached triple-A video game titles and feature films. Steffan's skills cover a diverse palette of genres and styles from orchestral to acoustic from comedy to drama and beyond.
Nippleus Erectus.  Nippleus Erectus was a drummer of GWAR (played by former White Cross member Rob Mosby) who did all the drumming for Hell-O. He is also credited for the drums on Scumdogs of the Universe though it was Jizmak Da Gusha who played them. When Jizmak signs the Scumdogs album he is known to cross out the picture of Nippleus as well.
Kalil Wilson.  Kalil Amar Wilson born October 8 1981 in Oakland California is an American operatic jazz and R&B vocalist producer and ethnomusicologist. Wilson began singing as a child with the Oakland Youth Chorus studied at the UC Berkeley Young Musicians Program and graduated magna cum laude from the UCLA Music and Ethnomusicology Departments where he was named the Distinguished Ethnomusicology Student of his graduating class.
Francisco Balagtas.  Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2 1788 – February 20 1862) also known as Francisco Baltazar was a prominent Filipino poet and is widely considered as one of the greatest Filipino literary laureate for his impact on Filipino literature.
Eliot Elisofon.  Eliot Elisofon (April 17 1911 - April 7 1973) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Arthur L. Jarrett.  Arthur L. Jarrett (February 5 1884 – June 12 1960) was an American screenwriter and film actor. He wrote for 70 films between 1932 and 1947. He also appeared in 12 films between 1914 and 1950.He was born in Marysville California first appearing on stage in A Royal Rival in 1902 He also appeared in the touring company of Abie's Irish Rose in 1944 and on Broadway in The Bad Seed at the Coronet Theatre in 1955.He died in New York City aged 76.
Peter Jenkins (travel author).  Peter Jenkins (born July 8 1951) is an American travel author. He is known for walking from New York to Oregon while writing two books that describe his experiences over the nearly six years that he spent walking. He is a graduate of Alfred University with a BFA in Sculpture/Ceramics (1973) as well as an honorary doctorate (2003). Jenkins began his walk across America in Alfred New York in October 1973.
Andrew Hodges.  Andrew Hodges (born in London 1949) is a mathematician an author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.Since the early 1970s Hodges has worked on twistor theory which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose.Hodges is best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing.
Ali Zafar.  Ali Zafar (Punjabi Urdu: علی ظفر‎; born as Ali Mohammad Zafar on 18 May 1980) is a Pakistani musician composer singer song writer painter and film actor. He started his singing career with the song Jugnuon Se Bhar Le Aanchal in the film Shararat directed by Pakistani actress and director Samina Peerzada but made a big mark with his first single Channo from his first album Huqa Pani that sold over five million copies worldwide.
Roman Totenberg.  Roman Totenberg (1 January 1911 – 8 May 2012) was a Polish-American violinist and educator.
Anthony Strong.  Anthony Strong (born 29 October 1984) is an English jazz singer pianist and songwriter.
Aylin Aslım.  Aylin Aslım (born 14 February 1975 in Lich Hesse) is a Turkish singer and songwriter.Aylin was born in Lich Hessen Germany into a Turkish family but moved back to Turkey when she was only one year old. She sang in several rock and electronica bands in several clubs in Istanbul. Her first album Gelgit -released in 2001 was more of an electronic album. However she switched back to rock for her later releases one of which is her second album Gülyabani was released in 2005.
Colin William MacLeod.  Colin William MacLeod (born 26 June 1943 in Edinburgh; died 17 December 1981) was a British classical scholar educator and author.MacLeod is known for his work on Gregory of Nyssa and mysticism in Plato Plotinus and the Church Father as well as studies of Horace Aischylos Euripides and Homer.
Julian Sprung.  Julian Sprung (born 1966) is an American writer on marine aquarium fishkeeping. He is an alumnus of the University of Florida where he studied zoology graduating in 1988.Sprung has authored articles in aquarium hobby publications such as Freshwater And Marine Aquarium Seascope Advanced Aquarist Online Aquarium Frontiers Marine and Reef Aquarium USA Practical Fishkeeping Tropical Fish Hobbyist and Coral.
Arthur Law (playwright).  William Arthur Law (22 March 1844 – 2 April 1913) better known as Arthur Law was an English playwright actor and scenic designer.
Gjergj Fishta.  Gjergj Fishta (October 23 1871 – December 30 1940) was an Albanian Franciscan poet rilindas and a translator. Notably he was the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet.In 1921 he became the Vice President of the Albanian parliament. In 1937 he completed and published his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís an epic poem written in Gheg dialect of Albanian.
Sammy Price.  Sammy Price (October 6 1908 – April 14 1992) was an American jazz boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader. He was born Samuel Blythe Price in Honey Grove Texas United States. Price was most noteworthy for his work on Decca Records with his own band known as the Texas Bluesicians that included fellow musicians Don Stovall and Emmett Berry.
Maeve O'Donovan.  Maeve O'Donovan was a finalist in the 2006/2007 final on the RTÉ programme You're a Star. She made it to the semi-final. In the final week of the competition her track Landslide made it into the Irish music charts.The Irish Rugby Team (coached by her father Niall O'Donovan) pledged their support for her to win the You're A Star competition in which she came in third.
Clemens Meyer.  Clemens Meyer (born October 3 1977 in Halle an der Saale then East Germany) is a German writer. He is the author of Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming 2006) Die Nacht die Lichter (All the Lights 2008) and Gewalten (Acts of Violence 2010). All the Lights was translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2011.
James Sleator.  James Sinton Sleator (1886–1950) artist was born in Portadown County Armagh Ireland United Kingdom.Painter of portraits and still life James Sleator was son of William Slator (different spelling as James changed this along with his middle name from Samuel to Sinton) who taught at Derryvane National School near Portadown and was later principal of Strandtown National School Belfast.
Hsiao Hung Jen.  Hsiao Hung Jen (simplified Chinese: 萧闳仁; traditional Chinese: 蕭閎仁; pinyin: Xiāo Hóng Rén; Wade–Giles: Hsiao Hung Jen; sometimes Xiao Hong Ren) (born August 21 1984) is a Taiwanese musician who notably mixes Taiwanese Hokkien Mandarin and occasionally English in his lyrics.
Reuel Meditz.  Reuel Meditz is a classical pianist. He has played in venues such as Carnegie Hall. He has also provided music for film.
Christian Rudder.  Christian Rudder is an American writer musician and entrepreneur.He attended Harvard University graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1998.Rudder was the creative voice of TheSpark.com which was the viral content arm of SparkNotes during the site's early rise to popularity. Rudder joined the company in October 1999 a few months after its founding. He became TheSpark's Creative Director in March 2001.
Mario Balassi.  Mario Balassi (1604–1667) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Florence and Rome.He began training with Jacopo Ligozzi then with Matteo Rosselli and finally with Domenico Passignano who he accompanied him to Rome to work under the papacy of Pope Urban VIII Here he was patronized by Ottavio Piccolomini and accompanied him to Vienna where he painted a portrait of the Emperor Ferdinand III.
Robert Dunn (novelist).  Robert Dunn (born 1950) is the author of five musical novels Pink Cadillac (2001) Cutting Time (2003) Soul Cavalcade (2005) Meet the Annas (2007) Look at Flower (2011) and Stations of the Cross: A Musical Novel of Obsession (2013). The novels are published under Dunn's own independent publishing company Coral Press located in New York City. His novel 'The Sting Rays' is available online at Electron Press.Dunn has won an O.
Sunny Duval.  François (Sunny) Duval is a Québécois rock guitarist and songwriter. He has been associated with the band Les Breastfeeders. He has also performed as Pierre Rival in the duo Les Freres Rivaux with Damien Robitaille (Michel Rival).He has released two albums under his own name Achigan in 2005 and Sein Noir Sein Blanc in 2010. The latter record won the award for best rock and roll album at the 2010 GAMIQ (Gala Alternatif de la Musique Indépendante du Québec) Awards.
Dee Marie.  Dee Marie is an American novelist of historical fantasy as well as a journalist artist professional photographer and former magazine editor.Marie has studied British Celtic and Druid history with a focus on Arthurian legends. As part of her studies she has traveled to historical Arthurian sites in Britain. The first novel in her Arthurian saga “Sons of Avalon” was published in 2008 by Conceptual Images Publishing.
Duilio.  Duilio (born Lorenzo di Ciccio 23 February 1973 Frenkendorf) is an Italian language Swiss singer best known for his participation in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.Duilio was chosen by broadcaster SRG SSR to represent Switzerland in the 39th Eurovision Song Contest with the song Sto pregando (I'm Praying).
Smiley Burnette.  Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18 1911 – February 16 1967) better known as Smiley Burnette was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments some simultaneously. His career beginning in 1934 spanned four decades including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.
Terry Danko.  Terry Danko (born 1949) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who has been active since childhood.
Christian Jacob (musician).  Christian Jacob is a lyrical jazz pianist. He has gained widespread exposure as co-leader arranger and pianist with vocalist Tierney Sutton although he has also maintained a substantial career as a solo artist and leader.
Himanshu Suri.  Himanshu Kumar Suri better known by his stage name Heems is an American rapper from Queens New York. Best known for being part of the alternative hip hop group Das Racist Suri is also the founder of Greedhead Music an independent record label. In 2012 Suri released his first solo mixtape Nehru Jackets on his Greedhead imprint and in conjunction with SEVA NY a community-based organization from Queens of which Suri is a board member.
Greig Nori.  Greig Andrew Nori (born November 21 1972) is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Canada and is well known as the frontman lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger. In the late 1990s he began working as a producer with Sum 41 and was their in-house producer and manager until 2004.
Easy Mo Bee.  Osten Harvey Jr. better known by his stage name Easy Mo Bee is a hip hop/R&B record producer known for production work for late 80's artists such as Big Daddy Kane and Miles Davis but most notable for his affiliation with Bad Boy Records in its early years and his heavy production involvement in The Notorious B.I.G.'s acclaimed debut Ready to Die.
James D. Havens.  James Dexter Havens (1900–1960) was a printmaker and painter in Rochester New York who is considered part of the color woodblock revival in America. He has works in the collections of the Library of Congress the Metropolitan Museum the Albright-Knox Art Gallery the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and Strong National Museum of Play. A founding member of the Print Club of Rochester Havens designed its logo which is still in use. Havens was the son of James S.
Grace Kirby.  Grace Kirby is an English film and television actress. She played Female Cenobite in Clive Barker's directorial debut Hellraiser (1987).
Susan Kirshenbaum.  Susan Kirshenbaum is an American television writer.
Jerry Keller.  Jerry Keller (born Jerry Paul Keller June 20 1937 Fort Smith Arkansas) is an American pop singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1959 million selling record Here Comes Summer.
Tatsuko Hoshino.  Tatsuko Hoshino (星野 立子 Hoshino Tatsuko 15 November 1903—3 March 1984) was a Japanese haiku poet active in Shōwa period Japan.
Gary Hill.  Gary Hill (born 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s and 1980s he in fact began working in metal sculpture in the late 1960s.
Mister Bibal.  Samuel Ludwig Salla better known by his stage name Mister Bibal is a Cameroon-born and Paris-based musician and producer.
Chris Joseph (writer/artist).  Chris Joseph is British/Canadian multimedia writer and artist who also creates work under the name 'babel'.
André Bormanis.  Andre Bormanis is an American television producer screenwriter and author of the book Star Trek: Science Logs. Bormanis is most notable for his involvement in the long-running Star Trek franchise and was the science consultant on Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.
Joanna Wayne.  Jo Ann Vest is an American author of contemporary romance novels under the pseudonym Joanna Wayne.
Fernando Tordo.  Fernando Tordo born March 29 1948 in Lisbon Portugal is a singer and composer. In 1969 he made his singing debut on Portuguese television while competing to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). He would try again for the next three years until he finally won in 1973 with his song Tourada a political protest song. He competed in the ESC that year in Luxembourg where he finished in 10th place.
Lan Samantha Chang.  Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán) born 1965 is an American writer of novels and short stories. She is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Kerry Chater.  Kerry Michael Chater is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known as a member of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap but he has been a successful Nashville songwriter for many years.
Suwanni Sukhontha.  Suwanni Sukhontha (Thai: สุวรรณี สุคนธา) was the pen name of Suwanni Sukhonthiang (Thai: สุวรรณี สุคนธ์เที่ยง; 1 March 1932 – 3 February 1984) a Thai writer and novelist. In 1971 she won the SEATO Literature Award the award which has been succeeded by the S.E.A. Write Award after the dissolution of SEATO.
Rossa (singer).  Rossa Roslaina Sri Handayani known mononymously as Rossa or by some fans as Te'ocha (born on October 9 1978 in Sumedang West Java Indonesia) is an Indonesian singer. She remains one of the most popular artists in Indonesia and Malay-speaking countries.
Jane Satterfield.  Jane Satterfield is a British-American poet essayist editor and professor. She is the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry.
Frank McGuinness.  Professor Frank McGuinness (born 29 July 1953) is an Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works which include The Factory Girls Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen he is recognised for a strong record of adapting literary classics having translated the plays of Racine Sophocles Ibsen and Strindberg to critical acclaim. Prof.
Yang Gui-ja.  Yang Gui-ja (born 1955) (Hangul: 양귀자 梁貴子) is a South Korean writer.
Andy Coogan.  Andy Coogan (born 1917) is a Scottish author World War II veteran and former champion runner.Born in Glasgow the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants Coogan's promising athletic career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
Miranda Cosgrove.  Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14 1993) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cosgrove's career began at the age of three when she appeared in television commercials. Her film debut was in 2003 as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock. Cosgrove appeared in a number of minor television roles over several years before coming to prominence on the Nickelodeon TV series Drake & Josh.
Hideaki Tokunaga.  Hideaki Tokunaga (德永 英明 Tokunaga Hideaki born February 27 1961 in Yanagawa Fukuoka) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and actor.Although Tokunaga failed to pass the test of Star Tanjō! in 1982 he debuted as a recording singer in 1986. After he released hit songs such as Yume o Shinjite (the first ending theme of the anime series Dragon Warrior: Legend of the Hero Abel) and Kowarekake no Radio in 1990 his single Wednesday Moon reached No. 1 on Oricon weekly charts in 1991.
Jeff Rivera.  Jeff Rivera (born September 5 1976 in Salt Lake City Utah) is an American novelist who writes books targeted at young adults. His most recent work Forever My Lady was released by Warner Books in July 2007. He is also the author of Oh Yes I Can! (2003).
Derek Gibbs.  Derek Gibbs is the current bass player for Reel Big Fish and the now defunct Forces of Evil and Jeffries Fan Club. He was chosen to replace the band's previous bass player Matt Wong who left the band to spend more time with his family and newborn child. Gibbs appeared on the band's tour in support of the album Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free and also appeared in the music video for Party Down.
Carlos Miele.  Carlos Miele is a Brazilian fashion designer. His labels sell in more than 30 countries worldwide. He specializes in women's ready-to-wear collections. He established his own label Carlos Miele in 2002 and a second label Miele in 2006. Carlos Miele is based in São Paulo Brazil.
Keve Hjelm.  Karl Evert Keve Hjelm (23 June 1922 – 3 February 2004) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 70 films between 1943 and 2004. At the 1st Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Raven's End. At the 15th Guldbagge Awards he won the Special Achievement award.
Peter Momtchiloff.  Peter Momtchiloff (born 10 March 1962) is a British guitarist and bassist. He was educated at Winchester College and Worcester College Oxford.His musical career began in 1978 playing bass guitar in Winchester band The Big Figure. At Oxford he continued as a bass player and vocalist in Ron and His Beat Busters (under the name Miguel Horton) and The Communists. These outfits played a combination of cover versions and original material with New Wave R&B and rockabilly influences.
Tomato (musician).  Tomato (born Chris Harfenist August 17 1969) is an American musician who is best known for being the lead singer and drummer for the alternative rock band Sound of Urchin. Tomato was born in New York City grew up in Rockland County NY and presently resides in Brooklyn NY. He also plays drums in The Moistboyz as well as Dave Dreiwitz from Ween's Crescent Moon. Tomato was mentored by Gary Chester author of Modern Drummer Publication's best-selling drum book The New Breed.
Speech (rapper).  Todd Thomas (born October 25 1968) better known by the stage name Speech is an American rapper and musician. He is a member of the progressive hip hop group Arrested Development and has released a number of solo albums.
Garðar Thór Cortes.  Garðar Thór Cortes (pronounced [ˈkarðar tʰouːr ˈkʰɔr̥tɛs]) is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas as well as a leading part in The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End.
Igor Sorin.  Igor Vladimirovich Sorin (10 November 1969 Moscow— 4 September 1998 Moscow) — was a Russian poet musician artist. He was part of the Russian boy band Ivanushki International which he left in 1998 striving for a solo career. He died in September 1998 after a traumatic fall from a window.
Parisa.  Fātemeh Vā'ezi (Persian: فاطمه واعظی‎) (born 15 March 1950 in Tonekabon Iran) commonly known by her stage name Parīsā (Persian: پریسا‎) is a Persian Classical vocalist and musician.A student of maestro Mahmoud Karimi Parisa has published several albums and performed numerous concerts throughout the world sometimes with Dastan ensemble. Her major debut in Tehran was a concert at the Iran-America Society arranged by Lloyd Miller a disciple of Dr. Daryush Safvat.
Richard Anuszkiewicz.  Richard Anuszkiewicz (pronounced Aah-Nuss-KAY-Vitch; born May 23 1930 Erie Pennsylvania) is an American painter printmaker and sculptor.
Linzi Stoppard.  Linzi Stoppard (born 1979 in Surrey) is a violinist from United Kingdom.
Wang Anyi.  Wang Anyi (born in Nanjing in 1954) is a Chinese writer who is the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai.
Daniel Garlitsky.  Daniel Garlitsky (Russian: Даниил Борисович Гарлицкий) (born September 8 1982 in Moscow Russia) is a Russian violinist.
Claudia Pavel.  Claudia Pavel (born October 19 1984 in Mangalia) alias Claudia Cream is a Romanian pop singer and dancer. Pavel has had a string of hit music albums and music singles in Romania and is considered one of Romania's most successful and popular singers of the 2000s. Pavel speaks fluent Romanian Greek and English also some Turkish.
David S. Dorfman.  David Dorfman was born in Riverdale New York. He attended New York University and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting. After years of working as a script reader at William Morris Dorfman finally broke through and sold his first major script to New Line Cinemas originally entitled The Guest in 1998. The film's release was delayed and Dorfman's second major script Anger Management was actually released first.
Skott Freedman.  Skott Freedman (born June 4 1979) is an American singer/songwriter. Freedman is formally trained in piano.
Jason Betts.  Jason Willis Betts (born October 4 1977) is a singer songwriter actor and now teacher. Betts has won numerous awards for his acting career including the Atlantic Film Festival Moonsnail for Best Male Actor in 1997 for his role in Terminal Lunch as Red Braid and many other awards won from festivals in his home province of New Brunswick.
Masako Okōchi.  Masako Okōchi (大河内雅子 Okōchi Masako born March 10 1983) is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka Prefecture. She is a freelance performer not affiliated with any one studio and has provided voice work for a number of video games and other projects since beginning her career in 2004.
Jeremih.  For similar names see Jeremiah.Jeremih Felton (born July 17 1987) who performs under the mononym Jeremih /ˈdʒɛrɨmaɪ/ is an American recording artist and producer signed to Def Jam Recordings. Jeremih's debut single Birthday Sex (which was also recorded in French) peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. His first and self-titled album Jeremih debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 selling 59000 copies in its first week.
Georgeanna Tillman.  Georgeanna Marie Tillman Gordon (February 6 1943 – January 6 1980) was an American singer and an original member of the Motown girl group The Marvelettes.
Anthony Arthur.  Anthony Arthur (1937–2009) was an American author.Educated in Pennsylvania and later California he spent three years in the US Army before becoming a journalist in Arizona. He returned to education and completed an MA in English at Penn State University and in 1970 completed his PhD in English. He was a Fulbright Scholar and retired in 2002 from California State University Northridge. He died in 2009.
Rick Bartow.  Rick Bartow (born 1946 in Newport Oregon) is a Native American artist of Wiyot and Yurok (Native American groups indigenous to Humboldt County California) heritage. He works in sculpture print etching monotype ceramics mixed media and painting.
Ram Kumar (artist).  Ram Kumar (Hindi: राम कुमार; born in Shimla 1924 ) is an Indian artist and writer who has been described as one of India's foremost abstract painters. He was associated with the Progressive artist's group along with greats like M.F. Hussain Tyeb Mehta S.H. Raza. He is said to be one of the first Indian artists to give up figurativism for abstract art. His art commands high prices in the domestic and international market.
Ginjer Buchanan.  Ginjer Buchanan (born December 12 1944) is Editor-in-Chief at Ace Books and Roc Books the two science-fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin Group (USA); she has worked at Ace since 1984 and has been nominated for both the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award for her editing. She was a Guest of Honor at OryCon in 2008 Foolscap in 2000 and ArmadilloCon in 1988 and was Toastmaster at the World Fantasy Convention in 1989.
Aki Tomosaki.  Aki Tomosaki (友崎亜希 Tomozaki Aki) (born September 16 1969) is a Japanese porn actress who has made a name for herself in the growing mature woman genre of the Japanese AV industry. The Japanese AV industry has awarded her for her work in this genre.
Naoshi Mizuta.  Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志 Mizuta Naoshi born January 24 1972) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He is best known for his work on Final Fantasy XI (with Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka) but has also composed music for Mega Man & Bass Street Fighter Alpha and Parasite Eve II. He was formerly a composer for Capcom but is currently a composer for Square Enix.
Alan Pownall.  Stephen Alan Fletcher Pownall (born 30 December 1986) is the lead singer of electronic outfit Pale. The duo formed in late 2012 and have supported The Vaccines and Sky Ferreira. They have been working with Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco who has produced their first two singles released through the independent label 37 Adventures.
Nam Gyu-ri.  Nam Gyu-ri (Hangul: 남규리 born on April 26 1985 in Seoul South Korea) is a South Korean singer and actress. She was a former member and leader of the Korean female trio SeeYa. In 2009 Nam Gyu-ri had a contract dispute with the group's management company and left the group. Nam has also acted most notably in the film Death Bell and the drama 49 Days. In 2012 She was ranked at #58 on The 23rd Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces.
Carla Baumann.  Carla Baumann (born December 2 1987) is a beauty queen from Hueytown Alabama who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.Baumann was crowned Miss Alabama Teen USA 2006 on September 17 2005 in Birmingham in her first attempt at a Miss Teen USA state title. The first runner-up in the competition Rebecca Moore of Birmingham would later become Miss Alabama USA 2007. Baumann's sister titleholder was Haleigh Stidham Miss Alabama USA 2006.
Anthony Ryan (writer).  Anthony Ryan is a fantasy fiction author who currently lives in London England.
Charles Grant Craig.  Charles Grant Craig (sometimes credited as Charlie Craig) is an American television producer and writer. He worked on the third season of supernatural drama series The X-Files. The season was nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series.
Allen Ravenstine.  Allen Ravenstine (born May 9 1950) is an American keyboard player most recognized for his work in the experimental rock group Pere Ubu. In 1991 he quit music to become a commercial airline pilot.
George Washington Dupee.  George Washington Dupee (July 24 1826 – 1897) was a former slave who became a Baptist leader in Kentucky USA.
John Boutté.  John Boutté (November 3 1958) is an American jazz singer based in New Orleans Louisiana who has been active since the mid-1990s. He is known for diverse music style that goes beyond jazz to R&B gospel Latin and blues. He is the younger brother of the jazz and gospel singer Lillian Boutté.
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir.  Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (aka Kría Brekkan born January 5 1982) is an Icelandic vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist. She is best known as a former frontperson of múm and later on for collaborating with former husband David Portner as Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
Sarah Colonna.  Sarah Colonna (born December 29 1974) is an American stand-up comedian actress and comedy writer. She currently appears as a roundtable regular on the hit E! cable TV network comedy/talk show Chelsea Lately.
Shot Jackson.  Shot Jackson (born Harold Bradley Jackson September 4 1920–January 24 1991) was a country music guitarist best known for playing Dobro and pedal steel guitar. He also designed and manufactured guitars under the name Sho-Bud.
Patrick Monahan (comedian).  Patrick Monahan (born 1976) is an Irish-Iranian stand-up comedian best known for performing seven times at Edinburgh Festival Fringe including five solo shows. He won the television competition series Take the Mike in 2001 and Show Me the Funny in 2011.
Tommaso Sandrino.  Tommaso Sandrino (1575-c. 1630) was an Italian painter of quadratura painter of the late-Renaissance period active in Brescia.
Aron Burton.  Aron Burton (born June 15 1938) is an American electric and Chicago blues singer bass guitarist and songwriter. In a long career as a sideman he has played with Freddie King Albert Collins and Junior Wells and has released a number of solo albums including Good Blues to You (1999 Delmark). His own recorded work has been nominated four times for a Blues Music Award in the 'Blues Instrumentalist - Bass' category.
Gordon Boshell.  Gordon Boshell was born in Blackburn Lancashire and was a journalist and writer for more than 40 years. He wrote for the Daily Mail and also worked as a scriptwriter and a feature editor for the BBC.In 1951 Boshell left Fleet Street to join The World Health Organisation as an information officer. During this time he worked in South East Asia and the Western Pacific as well as in the organisation's headquarters in Geneva.
Yutaka Sone.  Yutaka Sone (born 1965 in Shizuoka Japan) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He is represented by David Zwirner New York.
Paco Serrano.  Paco Serrano (Francisco Miguel Serrano Cantero) is a Flamenco guitarist from Córdoba.At the age of 12 he was studying at the Flamenco Academy of Merengue de Córdoba (the teacher also of Vicente Amigo and José Antonio Rodríguez) his sister Luisa learning dance with Merengue's wife Concha Calero at the same location.
Michael Tolcher.  Michael Tolcher (born c. 1973) is an American singer-songwriter who blends pop blues and urban grooves. He was born in Front Royal Virginia and has lived most of his life in and around Atlanta Georgia.
Michael Lington.  Michael Lington (born June 11 1969) is a Danish-American contemporary saxophonist songwriter producer and recording artist. He is the grandson of Danish composer and band leader Otto Lington and have released seven solo albums and 14 Radio and Records/Billboard radio singles.
Cornelius Grant.  Cornelius Grant (born April 27 1943 in Fairfield Texas USA) is an American guitarist composer and band leader. He served as the musical director guitar player and live show arranger for Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1964 until 1982.Grant was born in Fairfield Texas a small town 80 miles south of Dallas. Raised by his grandmother who he adored he taught himself how to play guitar at the age of nine. When he was 13 his family moved to Detroit.
Burns Mantle.  Robert Burns Mantle (December 23 1873 – February 9 1948) was an American theatre critic. He founded the Best Plays annual publication in 1920.
Tracie Spencer.  Tracie Monique Spencer (born July 12 1976 in Waterloo Iowa) is an American R&B and Pop Singer-songwriter Actress and Model. She is best known for her singing with singles; Symptoms of True Love (1988) Tender Kisses (1991) and It's All About You (Not About Me) (1999). As of 2007 Spencer has taken a hiatus from music; however she is still modeling and pursuing other interests.
Lilian Darcy.  Lilian Darcy (b. 14 February in Australia) is popular Australian writer of over 75 medical romance novels since 1981.
Ilona Yusuf.  Ilona Yusuf is an English language poet. She is a citizen of both Pakistan and United Kingdom. She was born in London England to a Pakistani father and a Polish mother. A business woman she lives in Pakistan with her husband and two children. “Picture This…” is her first book of poems.A designer of lamps and furniture she spends her time between Pakistan and the United States. She is married with two children. “Picture This…” is her first book of poems.
Andrew Selkirk.  Andrew Selkirk is Editor-in-chief of Current Publishing a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and former Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute.
Carmel (singer).  Carmel McCourt (born 24 November 1958) is an English singer best known for her eponymous band Carmel with bassist Jim Parris and drummer Gerry Darby.
Li Jing (actor).  Li Jing (Chinese: 利菁; pinyin: Lì Jìng) born Wú Míng'ēn (吳明恩) on October 25 1962 is a Taiwanese television show hostess and model who is notable for being Taiwan's first mainstream transsexual entertainer. Due to her time spent hosting shopping channel programs on Eastern Television's Shopping Channel (ETTV Shopping) she has been referred to as the 'Queen of the Shopping Channel' in Taiwan.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood.  Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a British science fiction and fantasy author.
Vassilis Saleas.  Vasilis Saleas (Greek: Βασίλης Σαλέας) is a clarinetist of Greece.A former accompanist for Dionisis Savopoulos Saleas has worked with Vangelis since the early '90s. His debut solo album Orama: The Music of Vangelis featured interpretations of Vangelis' compositions.
Jin Katagiri.  Jin Katagiri (片桐 仁 Katagiri Jin born November 27 1973) is a comedian actor sculptor and potter from Saitama Prefecture Japan. He graduated from Kasukabe High School and Tama Art University. Outside of Japan he is most well known for playing the PC (opposite Kentarō Kobayashi who plays the Mac) in the Get A Mac advertising campaign in Japan. He is a member of the Rahmens owarai comedy duo.
Beth Ann Bauman.  Beth Ann Bauman is an American writer of fiction based in New York. Bauman has published a collection of short stories Beautiful Girls in 2003 (MacAdam/Cage) and a novel for young adults Rosie and Skate in 2009. Her work has been published in The Barcelona Review and the anthology Many Lights in Many Windows and has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has also received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Jerome Foundation.
Bertram Burleigh.  Bertram Burleigh (1890-1961) was a British actor of the silent era.
Hugues Rebell.  Georges Grassal de Choffat or Hugues Rebell (27 October 1867 Nantes - 6 March 1905 Paris) was a French author. He wrote against Christianity and professed paganism while remaining a Catholic.
Nathan Gaunt.  Nathan Gaunt is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter. His debut EP Nothingwomb was released in 1999. His style is an eclectic mix of rock pop blues and folk. Along with vocals Gaunt plays a variety of instruments including the guitar and piano.
Raquel del Rosario.  Raquel del Rosario Macías (born 3 November 1982 in Teror Gran Canaria Canary Islands) is a Spanish singer. She is the lead vocalist of the band El Sueño de Morfeo (Morpheus' Dream).
Janet Lawson.  Janet Lawson born Janet Polun on November 13 1940 in Baltimore Maryland is a jazz singer and educator. She was born into a family of professional musicians. As a child she performed on the radio and regional television. She has worked with Duke Ellington Bob Dorough Tommy Flanagan Ron Carter Barry Harris Milt Hinton Dave Liebman Joe Newman Rufus Reid Barney Kessel Clark Terry Ed Thigpen Cedar Walton and the Art Farmer Quartet.
Bunny DeBarge.  Etterlene Bunny DeBarge (born March 15 1955) is an American soul singer-songwriter best known as the lone female sibling of the Motown family group DeBarge. She is also best known as the lead vocalist behind the classic R&B ballad A Dream from the group's In a Special Way album and is also the co-writer of the group's 1982 breakthrough hit I Like It and the number-one hit Time Will Reveal.
Lucy Spraggan.  Lucy Spraggan (born 21 July 1991) is an English musician currently signed to Columbia Records who describes her music as 'A-Flop' a mixture of acoustic folk and hip-hop. In July 2011 she was announced as the runner up of the Urban Pop & Acoustic category of Live and Unsigned at the age of 20. In June 2012 she performed alongside Razorlight at Osfest at the Oswestry Showground in Shropshire.
Don Martin (cartoonist).  Don Martin (May 18 1931 – January 6 2000) was an American cartoonist whose best-known work was published in Mad from 1956 to 1988. His popularity and prominence was such that the magazine promoted Martin as Mad's Maddest Artist.
Norbert Wu.  Norbert Wu is a photographer illustrator and an author of more than 17 books.
Daniel Pipes.  Daniel Pipes (born September 9 1949) is an American historian writer and political commentator. He is the president of the Middle East Forum and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal. His writing focuses on the American foreign policy and the Middle East. He is also an Expert at Wikistrat.After graduating with a PhD from Harvard and studying abroad Pipes taught at a number of universities.
Limmie Snell.  Limmie Snell (1945 – 1986) was an American soul singer born in Dalton Alabama. He grew up in Canton Ohio and attended McKinley Senior High School but did not graduate. As Limmie B. Good he began recording at the age of 11 for Columbia Records Mercury Records and Warner Bros. Records. In early 1965 under the name Lemme B. Good Snell released the original version of Good Lovin' later a number one hit for the Young Rascals.Limmie & the Family Cooking was the group he formed later.
Hector Malot.  Hector Malot (20 May 1830 - 17 July 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.His first book published in 1859 was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books.
Terry Edwards.  Terry Edwards (born 10 August 1960 Hornchurch Essex) is an English musician who plays trumpet saxophones guitar and keyboards.
Ed Pinsent.  Ed Pinsent (born 1960 Liverpool England) is a British cartoonist artist and writer.
Pasquale Rizzoli.  Pasquale Rizzoli (born 9 April 1871 Bologna) was an Italian sculptor. He was born to a family of wealthy merchants and was married to Adelinda Serra Zanetti in May 1896. Rizzoli was a student of Salvino Salvini at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna. In addition to his most famous bronze sculpture that made in 1903 which is found in the Parco della Montagnola in Bologna many of his works are in the cemetery Certosa of Bologna.
Yoshiki Hayama.  Yoshiki Hayama (葉山 嘉樹 Hayama Yoshiki March 12 1894 – October 18 1945) is a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement. He is perhaps best known for Men Who Live on the Sea　海に生くる人々 a novel about the appalling labor conditions on factory ships and for short stories such as The Prostitute 淫売婦(imbaifu) an early (1925) example of proletarian literature in Japan.
Simone Leigh.  Simone Leigh (born 1968) is an American contemporary artist. Leigh works in sculpture video and installation. Her influences include African art ethnography and feminism. Her sculptures mix surreal juxtapositions of ceramics with found objects.
Niels Fredrik Dahl.  Niels Fredrik Dahl (born 11 May 1957) is a Norwegian novelist lyricist and dramatist. He was awarded the Brage Prize in 2002 for the novel På vei til en venn. He has also written scripts for TV series. Dahl is married to author and journalist Linn Ullmann.
Louis Ganne.  Louis-Gaston Ganne (born Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) 5 April 1862 – died Paris 13–14 July 1923) was a conductor and composer of French operas operettas ballets and marches.
Björn Granath.  Björn Gösta Tryggve Granath (born 5 April 1946) is a Swedish actor. Granath was born in Örgryte Gothenburg Sweden. He has starred in a broad range of films from comedies to dramas. He was active as an actor and director on the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm between the years 1987–2007. He received the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2003.
Little Hatch.  Little Hatch (October 25 1921 – January 14 2003) was an American electric blues singer musician and harmonica player. He variously worked with George Jackson and John Paul Drum.
Mark Bowden (composer).  Mark Bowden (born 1979) is a British composer of classical music.Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield before completing a Masters degree at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. He has received commissions from the BBC Symphony Orchestra the BBC National Orchestra of Wales the Ulster Orchestra amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
Tatiana Okupnik.  Tatiana Okupnik vel Tatiana (born September 2 1978 Łódź Poland) is a Polish singer composer and songwriter. She has a characteristic unique voice timbre. Musically she collaborated e.g. with Tim Hutton Wyclef Jean Lenny White and Polish band Blue Café. In 2012 Okupnik joined the judging panel on the second series of the Polish reality television competition X Factor.
Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry.  Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry (Telugu: మధునపంతుల సత్యనారాయణ శాస్త్రి) (b: March 5 1920 - d: November 7 1992) is one of the most eminent personalities in pure Telugu literature of recent times. He lived in Rajahmundry in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh of South India. His magnum opus is Andhra Puranam. He was awarded the Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi Award for this work.
Tracey Porter.  Tracey Porter is an American children's book author. She writes novels targeted towards children aged 9 to 12. Her novel Billy Creekmore was named in Oprah.com's Kids' Reading List compiled by the American Library Association. She is a middle-school teacher at Crossroads School in Santa Monica California.
Villy Sørensen.  Villy Sørensen (13 January 1929 – 16 December 2001) was a Danish short-story writer philosopher and literary critic of the Modernist tradition. His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard. He is the most influential and important Danish philosopher since Søren Kierkegaard.
Andrew Carrick Gow.  Andrew Carrick Gow RA (London 15 June 1848 – 1 February 1920 London) was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre.He studied at Heatherley's School of Art. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and elsewhere from 1867 onwards and in 1880 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy become a full Royal Academician in 1890.
Akemi Kanda.  Akemi Kanda (神田 朱未 Kanda Akemi born November 10 1978 in Nagoya Aichi) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Aoni Production. She was formerly a member of the voice actor unit Drops which included fellow voice actors Ai Nonaka Tomoko Kaneda Mariko Kōda and Ryōko Shiraishi and of the voice actor unit Aice5 along with Yui Horie Chiaki Takahashi Masumi Asano and Madoka Kimura.
Wondress Hutchinson.  Wondress Hutchinson also known as Wondress is an American electronic dance music and jazz fusion singer who has worked with old school hip hop/electro funk group Mantronix (1990 album This Should Move Ya where she sang lead vocals on the album's Top 10 British Singles hits Got to Have Your Love and Take Your Time).In 1995 Hutchinson sang background vocals for jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra (1995 album Love and Other Obsessions).More recently in 2001 and again in 2003 Hutchinson sang lead and background for Baltimore-based house music artist DJ Spen (Solid Ground EP (2001)) and gospel music/house music group Jasper Street Co. 
John Lymington.  John Lymington (1911–1983) was born John Richard Newton Chance in London. He was a prolific writer of short stories children's literature mystery and science fiction novels. An obituary in Ansible Link [1] credits Lymington with writing over 150 novels 'including 20+ SF potboilers' adding that he 'made a steady income by delivering thrillers to Robert Hale (the publisher) at a chapter a week'.Lymington's first book Wheels in the Forest was written in 1935.
James Fox (journalist).  James Fox (born 1945) is a British journalist best known for his book White Mischief and for co-authoring Life the best-selling memoir of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards.
Sheryn Regis.  Sheryn Mae Poncardas Regis better known as simply Sheryn Regis (The Crystal Voice of Asia) is a Filipina pop singer-songwriter host entrepreneur and actress.
Harris Jayaraj.  Harris Jayaraj' (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian film composer from Chennai Tamil Nadu. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil Telugu and Hindi films.
Ken Feingold.  Kenneth Feingold (USA 1952 - ) is a contemporary American conceptual artist based in New York. He has been exhibiting his work in video drawing film sculpture and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship(2003) and has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science among others.
Murray Cook.  Murray James Cook AM (born 30 June 1960) is an Australian vocalist songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as one of the founding members of the children's band The Wiggles. Cook was also a regular guest on the Australian TV show Spicks and Specks with his good friend host Adam Hills.
Steven Van Zandt.  Steven Van Zandt (born November 22 1950) is an American musician songwriter arranger record producer actor and radio disc jockey who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. He is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band in which he plays guitar and mandolin and has acted in television dramas The Sopranos (1999–2007) in which he played the character Silvio Dante and Lilyhammer (2012–present) in which he plays the character Frank The Fixer Tagliano.
Michael Patrick Walker.  Michael Patrick Walker is a composer/lyricist and musician as well as an arranger and orchestrator. He is best known as one of the co-writers and co-creators of the musical Altar Boyz which was written by Walker fellow composer/lyricist Gary Adler and book writer Kevin Del Aguila. For his work on Altar Boyz Walker was nominated for a 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and for two 2005 Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and for Best Lyrics.
Kaoru Kurimoto.  Kaoru Kurimoto (栗本 薫 Kurimoto Kaoru February 13 1953 – May 26 2009) was the pen name of Sumiyo Imaoka (今岡 純代 Imaoka Sumiyo) an award-winning Japanese novelist. Imaoka also used the pen name Azusa Nakajima (中島 梓 Nakajima Azusa) to write criticism. She was known for her record-breaking 130-volume Guin Saga series which has been translated into English German French Italian and Russian. Her style has been described as being part of the New Wave science fiction movement.
Michael Turner (illustrator).  Michael Turner (born 1934) is a British illustrator who specialises in motoring and aviation paintings. He is regarded as one of the early examples of such type and is one of the most highly regarded of all. Turner counts racing drivers teams sponsors pilots motor and aircraft manufacturers R.A.F. (Royal Air Force) and Army messes museums and private collections as his client lists and has hosted a number of solo shows all over the world plus other specialist shows.
Coley McCabe.  Coley McCabe is an American country music singer. In 2000 she signed to RCA Records Nashville and released two singles. The first of these Grow Young with You (a duet with labelmate Andy Griggs) was also included in the soundtrack to the 2000 film Where the Heart Is. A second single entitled Who I Am to You followed but McCabe never released an album. She also co-wrote SHeDAISY's 2001 single Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me).
Jimmy Demers.  Jimmy Demers is an American singer/songwriter best known as the original voice of the Always Coca-Cola ad campaign. He is also a contributor to The Huffington Post.Demers was born and raised in Worcester Massachusetts. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music and was soon one of the first artists signed by John McClain to Interscope Records.
Lupillo Rivera.  Guadalupe Rivera Saavedra (born January 30 1972) in Long Beach California USA is a Mexican regional singer.
Frank Cook (musician).  Frank Cook was a drummer and former member of blues bands Pacific Gas & Electric Canned Heat and Bluesberry Jam. For a time he was also the manager of Pacific Gas & Electric.
Munni Begum.  Munni Begum (Bengali: মুন্নী বেগম Urdu: منی بیگم‎) is a famous Pakistani ghazal singer. Her real name is Nadira (Bengali: নাদিরা; Urdu: نادرہ‎). She is an American national based in Chicago IL USA.
Adolf Fierla.  Adolf Fierla (16 January 1908 – 8 September 1967) was a Polish writer and poet from the region of Cieszyn Silesia.He was born 16 January 1908 in Orlová to a coal miner's family and graduated from the local Juliusz Słowacki Polish Gymnasium. Fierla later studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Slavic studies in Prague.
Billy Martin (guitarist).  William Dean Billy Martin (born June 15 1981 in Annapolis Maryland) is an American musician best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop punk band Good Charlotte.
Pierre Reverdy.  Pierre Reverdy (French: [ʁəvɛʁdi]; September 13 1889 – June 17 1960) was a French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative art movements of the day Surrealism Dadaism and Cubism. The loneliness and spiritual apprehension that ran through his poetry appealed to the Surrealist credo. He though remained independent of the prevailing “isms” searching for something beyond their definitions.
Andrew Landeryou.  Andrew John Clyde Landeryou (born c. 1969 – c. 1970) is an Australian political blogger and online business consultant. He edits the blogs The Other Cheek and VEXNEWS which he began in July 2007 and August 2008 respectively.
Dee Demirbag.  Dilnarin Dee Demirbag (born 14 November 1973 in Kirvan Turkey) is a Swedish dancer and singer of Kurdish background.
Yotam Ben Horin.  Yotam Ben Horin (Hebrew: יותם בן חורין‎) (born February 17 1979 in Haifa Israel) is an Israeli musician best known for his work as the lead singer and bassist for successful Israeli punk rock band Useless ID as well as a successful solo artist releasing music closer to the indie/alternative rock scene. Most recently he is also known for his work as an additional guitarist and backing vocalist for Israeli classic rock band Kaveret on their 2013 reunion performances.
Dwight Shepler.  Dwight Shepler (1905-1974) was an American naval officer and painter.Dwight Shepler was born August 11 1905 in Everett Massachusetts. He graduated from Williams College in 1928 as well as studying in Boston Museum School of Fine Art. In 1942 he received a commission from the US Navy’s officer-artist program and was soon sent into the South Pacific.In 1943 he went to Londonderry Northern Ireland (October 1943) and England and took part in the 1944 Normandy invasion as an artist.
Yoko Sugimura.  Yoko Sugimura (Japanese: 杉村 陽子 Sugimura Yoko born November 1 1974 in Nagano Japan) is a former Japanese gravure idol and race queen.Yoko Sugimura began her modeling career as a race queen for Kure in 1997 where she teamed up with Fumika Suzuki. As with Fumika Suzuki the race queen modeling gave her career a good start. In 1997 she also was Toyota's event girl at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Flavour N'abania.  Chinedu Okoli (born 23 November 1983) better known by his stage name Flavour N'abania or simply Flavour is a prolific Nigerian recording artist dancer songwriter and performer. He began his musical career as a drummer for a local church in his hometown of Enugu State. Flavour is popularly known across Africa and the world for his massive club banger Nwa Baby (Ashawo Remix).
Les Sampou.  Les Sampou (born November 4 1961) is an American folk singer/songwriter.Sampou was born in Norwalk Connecticut. She got her start singing in Boston's Haymarket subway stop in 1985. She performed in several duos and trios including Double Edge with Ellie Mae Higgins but settled into a solo career after a few years.In 2005 Les created a band The Tin Angels with musicians from her home state of Massachusetts.
Arthur Herzog.  Arthur Herzog III (April 6 1927 – May 26 2010) was an American novelist non-fiction writer and journalist well known for his works of science fiction and true crime books. He was the son of songwriter Arthur Herzog Jr. He was married to Leslie Mandel-Herzog III.His novels The Swarm and Orca have been made into films.
Nick Stone (author).  Nick Stone (born 31 October 1966 in Cambridge England) is a British thriller writer.
Kid Cudi.  Scott Mescudi (born January 30 1984) better known by his stage name Kid Cudi (/ˈkɪd ˈkʌdi/ KID KUD-ee often stylized KiD CuDi) is an American hip-hop recording artist and actor from Cleveland Ohio. After moving to Brooklyn New York with aspirations of becoming a rapper Cudi initially gained recognition after the release of his first official full-length project a mixtape titled A Kid Named Cudi which he released in 2008.
Roza Montazemi.  Fatemeh Bahrayni (Persian: فاطمه بحرینی generally known as Roza Mantazemi (Persian:رزا منتظمی) (c. 1921 – October 23 2009) was an Iranian author of cookbooks. Her cookbook Honar-e Aashpazi (Art of Cooking) has been in publication since 1964–1965 and is now in its 41st edition with 1700 Iranian and non-Iranian recipes.She died in Tehran Iran in 2009.
Róbert Bérczesi.  Róbert Bérczesi (born 1976) is a Hungarian musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Hungarian cult band hiperkarma. Before the hiperkarma he win a Hungarian talent spotter (the Pepsi Generation Next at 1997) with his band called BlaBla then as the winner of the talent spotter they can make they own studio album Kétségbeejtően átlagos with the Sony Music Entertainment label. With the hiperkarma makes only two albums the hiperkarma (2000) and amondo (2003).
Mr. Pam.  mr. Pam (born December 8 1972) is an American female director of gay pornography. Openly bisexual mr. Pam holds a unique position as gay adult's only female videographer.Between 1996 and 2008 Pam shot and edited for a variety of gay pornographic studios including Black Scorpion Video COLT Studio Group Hot House Entertainment Jet Set Men and Studio 2000. In addition Pam edited movies directed by Chi Chi LaRue John Rutherford and Steven Scarborough.
Raymond Hitchcock (author).  Raymond John Hitchcock (9 February 1922 – February 1992) was an English novelist screenwriter and cartoonist. He is best remembered for his novel Percy which was the basis for a 1971 film of the same name. Several of his earlier books were light-hearted sexual farces; his later titles included several thrillers.Hitchcock was born in Calcutta India in 1922 to English parents.
Derek Fordjour.  Derek Fordjour (born 1974 in Memphis TN) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video/film sculpture and painting. Fordjour received a B.A. degree from Morehouse College and a Master's degree in Art Education from Harvard University. He is currently pursuing an MFA in painting at Hunter College.Fordjour is the executive producer of the The Black Sorority Project: The Exodus the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Lasse Berghagen.  Lars Lasse Nils Berghagen (born 13 May 1945 in Enskede Stockholm) is a Swedish singer songwriter and actor.Berghagen is a well known singer-songwriter in Sweden. He released his first record in 1965 aged just 19. Four years later in 1969 he released the single Teddybjörnen Fredriksson (The Teddybear Fredriksson) which has become a classic.
Sarah Beth Goncarova.  Sarah Beth Goncarova (born 1980) is an American painter sculptor and installation artist known for abstract textile pieces and non-specific figurative scenes. Her works are in several individual corporate and public collections.
Joe Henry.  Joe Henry (born December 2 1960) is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and Grammy award winning producer. He has released 12 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists.
Dimitrije Banjac.  Dimitrije Banjac Grs is a Serbian comedian. Together with Nikola Škorić and Dejan Ćirjaković he is the creator and actor of several popular Serbian television show programs including Noćna smena Velika Srbija and Državni posao. Audiences in Serbia know him best for his roles as Professor Kišprdilov in Noćna smena and Đorđe Čvarkov in Državni posao.
Leanna Brodie.  Leanna Brodie (born in Winnipeg Manitoba 16 May 1966) is a Canadian actor and playwright.
Kristin Williamson.  Kristin Löfvén Williamson (born 1940) is an Australian journalist and author.Kristin Williamson was born in Melbourne went to school in Geelong and trained as a teacher. On graduating she took up a scholarship at the University of Florence in Italy to study Italian.
Michael Morrison (pornography).  Milton Owen Ingley (May 23 1946 - December 22 2006) also known as Michael Morrison was an American pornographic actor producer and director.He was a member the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Jean Audureau.  Jean Audureau (1932 – 2001) was a French writer and playwright known for the whimsey of his work.
Ronnie Ronalde.  Ronnie Ronalde (born Ronald Charles Waldron 1923 London) is a British music hall singer and siffleur. Ronalde is famous for his voice whistling yodelling imitations of bird song and stage personality. His crystal clear yodelling gained him acceptance with connoisseurs of Alpine and Western music around the world.
Shelagh Stephenson.  Shelagh Stephenson is a British playwright.
Tommy Giles Rogers Jr..  Tommy Giles Rogers (born December 24 1980 in Morganton North Carolina) is an American musician most notable for being the lead vocalist keyboardist and founding member of the American heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me. His vocal style combines death growls and screams with peaceful sometimes falsetto singing melodies.
Alan Di Fiore.  Alan Di Fiore (sometimes Alan DiFiore) is an award-winning screenwriter.
Lee Harding.  Lee Harding (born 8 June 1983) is an Australian pop singer. He is from Frankston Victoria where he worked at the local AMC cinema multiplex. He became known from performing in the third season of Australian Idol and being a member of the band Patience Project.
J. F. Gonzalez.  Jesus F. Gonzalez is best known as an author primarily of horror fiction (writing under the pseudonym J. F. Gonzalez). He has written many notable novels and has done collaborations with Bram Stoker Award winners Mike Oliveri and Brian Keene.
Stuart M. Kaminsky.  Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29 1934 – October 9 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman.
Adelaide Johnson.  Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) was an American sculptor whose work is displayed in the U.S. Capitol and a feminist who was devoted to the cause for equality of women.
Danny Dill.  Horace Eldred Dill (September 19 1924 – October 23 2008) known professionally known as Danny Dill was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
Catherine Britt.  Catherine Britt (born 31 December 1984) is a country music artist who has had success in both her native Australia and in the United States. She was born in Newcastle New South Wales Australia and moved to Nashville Tennessee United States in 2004. She has charted several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in the U.S. in addition to releasing five studio albums in her native Australia.
Chanté Moore.  Chanté Torrane Moore (born on February 17 1967 in San Francisco California) is an American R&B and jazz singer. Chante is known for her songs Love's Taken Over Chante's Got A Man and Straight Up.
Jedd Novatt.  Jedd Novatt (born 1958) is an American sculptor who creates dynamic non-representational compositions of geometric forms. He is best known for his 'Chaos' series of works in either welded steel or bronze.
Henry H. Neff.  Henry H. Neff is the author and illustrator of the Tapestry a fantasy fiction series that follows the life of a boy named Max McDaniels. The series comprises five novels of which four have been published the most recent on October 23 2012. The last book's exact publication date is yet to be determined.
Ruh al-Alam.  Ruh al-'Alam (Arabic: روح العالم‎; born Ruhul Alam Bengali: রুহুল আলম 1981) is an English Islamic artist who creates mainly works of Islamic calligraphy and is the founder of Visual Dhikr which is an Islamic calligraphic artwork project.
Tom Rowe.  Thomas J. Tom Rowe (November 4 1950 Lewiston Maine – January 17 2004 Portland Maine) was the bass player and a singer in the folk trios Schooner Fare and Turkey Hollow. He was noted for playing a model XL2 Steinberger bass guitar. Born to Charles Bud Rowe and his wife Thoma he had two brothers named Russ and Chuck and a sister named Shirley. He went to school in Auburn Maine and graduated from Edward Little High School as part of the class of 1969.
Dickie Peterson.  Richard Allan Dickie Peterson (September 12 1946 – October 12 2009) was the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer. He also recorded two solo albums: Child of the Darkness and Tramp.
Gaston Lachaise.  Gaston Lachaise (March 19 1882 – October 18 1935) was an American sculptor of French birth active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris he was most noted for his female nudes such as Standing Woman. Gaston Lachaise was taught the refinement of European sculpture while living in France. He met a young American woman Isabel Nagel and the pair moved to America where his craft reached maturity and he was influenced and inspired by American ways.
Philip Dodd (author).  Philip Dodd (born 24 November 1957) is a British author editor and publisher best known for his work on books with high-profile musicians TV stars and media personalities. He has collaborated with the Rolling Stones Genesis actor Philip Glenister and celebrity entrepreneur James Caan (entrepreneur). Philip Glenister once said of Dodd: “Phil makes writing seem effortless.
Mona Lisa (singer).  Kimberly Leadbetter (born November 20 1979) known by her professional stage name Mona Lisa is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter actress model and record producer. She is best known for her debut single Can't Be Wasting My Time featuring the Hip-Hop group Lost Boyz which was featured on the Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack as well as her debut album 11-20-79.
C. S. Lakshmi.  C. S. Lakshmi (born 1944) is a Tamil feminist writer and independent researcher in women's studies from India. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai.
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin.  Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin (Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠɑːd̺.ɾˠɪɡʲiːnʲ nʲiː u.a.l̺ˠaxˠɑːinʲ]) (born 23 August 1950) is an Irish singer song-writer academic and former newsreader from County Louth Ireland.
George Bassman.  George Bassman (February 7 1914 – June 26 1997) was an American composer and arranger.
Antoine Benoist.  Antoine Benoist (1632–1717) was a French painter and sculptor who served as personal painter to King Louis XIV. He was accepted as a member of the Académie Royale Paris in 1681. Benoist's fame grew after he exhibited forty-three wax figurines of the French Royal Circle at his residence in Paris. Thereafter the king authorized the figurines to be shown throughout France. His work became so highly regarded that James II of England invited him to visit England in 1684.
Darius Rucker.  Darius C. Rucker (born May 13 1966) is an American musician. He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Hootie & the Blowfish which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan Jim Soni Sonefeld and Dean Felber. The band has released five studio albums with him as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Inger Christensen.  Inger Christensen (16 January 1935 – 2 January 2009) was a Danish poet novelist essayist and editor considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.
Gwyneth Bebb.  Gwyneth Bebb was the plaintiff in Bebb v. The Law Society a test case in the opening of the legal profession to women in Britain. In 1911 she graduated from St Hugh's College Oxford with a first in jurisprudence. At that time women were not awarded degrees at Oxford although they could take the examinations. In 1913 advocates of women in the legal profession selected Bebb for a test case for the cause; the case was known as Bebb v. The Law Society.
János Vaszary.  János Vaszary (1867–1938) was a Hungarian painter. He was born in Kaposvár Hungary. His masters included Bertalan Székely at the School of Decorative Art. He went on with his studies in Munich and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He was particularly influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and Puvis de Chavannes. He painted pictures with a social message (Servant 1902). His pictures of soldiers of World War I are particularly moving. Later he painted expressionistic visions Golgotha.
Dagul.  Romeo Pastrana (born October 5 1958) commonly known by his stage name Dagul is a Filipino midget actor comedian and politician. He was born in Victorias City Negros Occidental on October 5 1958 and is married with 3 children.
Gil Parris.  Gil Parris is an American Grammy-nominated rock blues jazz and pop guitarist. He graduated from Ardsley High School. After briefly attending the Berklee School of Music Parris left to tour Europe as part of a musical troupe performing Jesus Christ Superstar before becoming a recording artist. Parris has released six solo albums and played collaboratively with over 20 other groups/artists. Parris is known for his blending of blues jazz rock and smooth jazz in his work.
Heinz Tetzner.  Hein Tetzner (8 March 1920 - 20 August 2007) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Tetzner was born in Gersdorf (Saxony). He died in Gersdorf 2007.
Bob Bennett (singer-songwriter).  Bob Bennett (born March 21 1955) is an American Christian singer guitarist and songwriter from Downey California. Bennett is known for his distinctive baritone voice Christian lyrics and folk-inspired guitar playing.
Julia Pirotte.  Julia Pirotte (1908 – July 25 2000) was a photojournalist known for her work in Marseille during the Second World War when she documented the French Resistance and for photographs taken in the aftermath of the Kielce Pogrom of 1946.Pirotte grew up in a working class Jewish family in Warsaw. She emigrated to Belgium in 1934 where she married Jean Pirotte a labor activist in Brussels and studied photography.
Hans Lang (German composer).  This article is about the German composer. For the Austrian composer see Hans Lang.Hans Lang (20 August 1897 – 17 July 1968) was a German composer. He studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich with Joseph Haas from 1921 to 1926. In 1927 he joined the faculty at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in Cologne where he taught for three years.
Maurice Risch.  Maurice Risch is a French film and theater actor born on 25 January 1943 in Paris.
William Lamson.  William Lamson (born 1977) is an American installation artist performance artist and generative artist. He lives and works in Brooklyn New York. His work includes small performances and actions that create objects and images.
Ariel Rivera.  José Ariel Jiménez Rivera (born 1 September 1966) is a Filipino recording artist and actor.Rivera was born in Manila Philippines but has since migrated with his family to Canada. He has since become a successful singer-songwriter actor and Aliw award-winning artist. He is dubbed as Kilabot ng Kolehiyala a title formerly bestowed upon Hajji Alejandro a popular Filipino singer in the 1970s.
Hossein Behroozinia.  Hossein Behroozinia (Persian: حسین بهروزی نیا) (b. 1962 in Tehran) is a renowned Iranian barbat and oud player.He studied oud playing under the supervision of Mansour Nariman.
Hannah Kahn.  Hannah Kahn (1911–1988) was an American poet born in New York City and subsequently a longtime resident of Miami Florida. She was known especially for her inspirational poem “Ride a Wild Horse.”
Walt Partymiller.  Walt Partymiller (1912 - 1991) was an American cartoonist and artist known for his watercolors. Partymiller a native of Seattle moved to York PA after World War II and penned over 7500 political cartoons for the York Gazette & Daily and its successor the York Daily Record. Partymiller painted a number of watercolors including numerous barns and Pennsylvania landscapes until his death in 1991. Partymiller was a friend and contemporary to area artists Luigi Rist and C.X. Carlson.
Lucien Biva.  Lucien Felix Biva (13 August 1878 – October 1965) was a French–American artist. He studied painting early on with his father the Naturalist painter Henri Biva. He was also the nephew of the painter Paul Biva. Between 1921 and 1949 he was an ornamental designer for textile fabrics and similar articles of manufacture having surface ornamentation patenting over eighty designs with the United States Patent Office.
Miriam Michelson.  Miriam Michelson (1870-1942) was an American journalist and writer.
Christine Evans (poet).  Christine Evans (born 1943) is an English poet who was born in West Riding Yorkshire.Evans lives half the year on Bardsey Island spending winters at Uwchmynydd. In 1967 she moved to Pwllheli where her father and grandmother were brought up to work as a teacher and married into a Bardsey Island farming family.
Sheetal Menon.  Sheetal Menon is an Indian model and actress.Menon is trained as a Bharatanatyam dancer and began her career as a model with the agency headed by Atul Kasbekar. During her final year in college she joined Anupam Kher’s course Actor Prepares. Her first acting role came in Nari Hira's Bhram – An Illusion directed by Pawan Kaul. Her upcoming films include the Indo-Chinese joint release The Desire (2009) and Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan.
Arrigo Minerbi.  Arrigo Minerbi (10 February 1881 – 9 May 1961) was an Italian sculptor.
Donal Skehan.  Donal Skehan (born in Dublin Ireland on 3 June 1986) is an Irish singer television personality/presenter food writer/chef and photographer. He was also a member of the boy band 'Streetwize' and vocalist with Industry earning two #1s on the Irish Singles Chart in 2009. He also took part in Eurosong 2008 to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008. His other successful family members include rugby coach and teacher at St Micheals college Andrew Skehan.
Frank McKelvey Bell.  Lieutenant-Colonel Frank McKelvey Bell was a Canadian soldier and author who penned A Romance of the Halifax Disaster (1918). The novel was based on his experiences in the medical wards after the Halifax Explosion of 1917. In the disaster's aftermath Bell was the chair of the medical relief committee.
MacKinlay Kantor.  MacKinlay Kantor (February 4 1904 – October 11 1977) born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor was an American journalist novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels several set during the American Civil War and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel Andersonville about the Confederate prisoner of war camp.
Enrico Reycend.  Enrico Reycend (Turin November 3 1855 – Turin February 21 1928) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and vedute.
Tadeusz Różewicz.  Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet dramatist and writer. Różewicz belonged to the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918 following the century of foreign partitions. He was born in Radomsko near Łódź. His first poems were published in 1938. During the Second World War like his brother Janusz (also a poet) he was a soldier of the Polish underground Home Army. His other brother Stanislaw was a noted film director.
Jimmy Wakely.  James Clarence Jimmy Wakely (February 16 1914 - September 23 1982) was an American actor and country Western music vocalist and one of the last singing cowboys. During the 1930s 1940s and 1950s he released records appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books.
Oren Safdie.  Oren Safdie (born April 20 1965) is a Canadian-American-Israeli playwright and screenwriter and the son of architect Moshe Safdie.Prior to embarking on a career in writing he graduated with a master's in architecture from Columbia University. He also received an MFA from Columbia University in fiction writing.
Franklin Adreon.  Franklin Pete Adreon (November 18 1902 – September 10 1979) was an American film and television director producer screenwriter and actor.
Woodrow Landfair.  Woodrow Landfair born Stanley Wood Landfair Jr. on November 9 1982 in Richmond Virginia also called Pack Landfair is an American storyteller and the author of the autobiographical novel Land of the Free (Harbinger Book Group June 2014). Landfair first gained notoriety in 2006 and 2007 while chronicling a 48 state motorcycle trek and paying his way as a laborer from town to town across all 50 states.
Sam Tsui.  Samuel Sam Tsui (born May 2 1989) is an American musician and internet celebrity who rose to fame on YouTube. He is best known for covering songs by popular artists like Adele Britney Spears Jay Sean Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars as well as for his original songs medleys and mashups.
Thom Bell.  Thomas Randolph Thom Bell (born January 26 1943 in Kingston Jamaica) is an American songwriter arranger and producer best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.
Thomas Sébillet.  Thomas Sébillet (1512–1589) was a French jurist and grammarian. He is now remembered for his Art Poétique from 1548 on French verse. He was strongly contradicted later by Joachim du Bellay whose art poétique became normative. This decapitation of richesse lead to a centralisation of language too (additionally to the concentration of political power)
Klaus Ebner.  Klaus Ebner (b. August 8 1964) is an Austrian writer essayist poet and translator. Born and raised in Vienna he began writing at an early age. He started submitting stories to magazines in the 1980s and also published articles and books on software topics after 1989. Ebner's poetry is written in German and Catalan; he also translates French and Catalan literature into German.
David Lee Murphy.  David Lee Murphy (born January 7 1959) is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1994 Murphy made his first appearance on the Billboard country charts that year with Just Once a song from the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds. A year later Murphy's debut album Out with a Bang was released; overall it produced four chart singles.
Mekka Don.  Chukwuemeka Nnamdi Onyejekwe (born September 6 1981) also known as Mekka Don is an American rapper actor lawyer and entrepreneur. In 2012 he was named an mtvU Freshman and won mtvU Best Freshman Video for his music video Dirty in March of the same year. Additionally he has been featured on MTV VH1.com ESPN Bossip and several other media outlets. His projects include collaborations with Bizzy Bone MGK D.J. Mick Boogie and The Kickdrums.
Rune RK.  Rune Reilly Kølsch also known as Rune RK Rune ENUR and Kölsch is a record producer and DJ from Denmark. Together with his half-brother Johannes Torpe they make up the musical production team Artificial Funk.
The Norwegian Writers' Center.  The Norwegian Writers' Center (Norwegian: Norsk forfattersentrum) is an organization of Norwegian poets and fiction writers that encourages interactions among writers and the general public. It is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and promotes literacy through poetry readings public talks conferences presentations in schools and cultural events.
Bertrand Besigye.  Bertrand Besigye (born 24 October 1972 in Kampala Uganda) is a Norwegian writer. He made his debut in 1993 with the poetry collection Og du dør så langsomt at du tror du lever for which he won the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.
Mruthyunjay C Doddawad.  Mruthyunjay Doddawad is the founder of Sangeetha Dhama music academy. He is well known as a light music director and singer.
Martin Sharp (journalist).  Martin Andrew Sharp (1847–1910) was an English historian long a resident in Spain. He assumed the name Martin Andrew Sharp Hume as a condition of receiving a legacy from a Spanish-English relative who was a Hume. He was born in London and was educated at Madrid. He was the editor of the Spanish State Papers in Simancas for the Public Record Office London. He saw active service with the Turks in 1878-79 and travelled extensively in Central and South America.
Washed Out.  Ernest Greene (born October 3 1982) better known by his stage name Washed Out is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.
Jeri Southern.  Jeri Southern (August 5 1926 – August 4 1991) was an American jazz pianist and singer.
Gentry McCreary.  Gentry McCreary Sr. (born Gentry McCreary on September 19 1941 in Oakland California) is a Gospel Music Executive. He was the First African-American Executive to be employed by Word Records Light Records and Benson Records. McCreary also has his own labels Luminar and Onyx International Records.
Brian Michael Jenkins.  Brian Michael Jenkins born in 1942 in Chicago is an expert on terrorism and transportation security. During his nearly four decades of analysis Jenkins has advised governments private corporations the Catholic Church the Church of England and many other international organizations on terrorist threats.Jenkins joined the United States Army at 19. He served with the 7th Special Forces Group in the Dominican Republic and with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam.
Alistair MacLeod.  Alistair MacLeod OC FRSC (July 20 1936 – April 20 2014) was a Canadian novelist short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants the descendants of Scottish immigrants who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present.
Minoru Yada.  Minoru Yada (矢田 稔 Yada Minoru born April 27 1931 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actor.
Barbara Zbrożyna.  Barbara Zbrożyna (1923–1995) was a Polish sculptor author of figural sculptures monuments portraits religious and sepulchral sculptures. Her style evolved from realism through the synthetic simplifications expressive and metaphoric deformation to abstraction. She was also a painter drawer and poet. Awarded for achievements in arts by Solidarność (1984 1989) awarded the Prize of Brat Albert Chmielowski (1986) and Prize of Polcul Foundation (1991).
Jean-Baptiste Stahl.  Jean-Baptiste Stahl (German: Johann Baptist Stahl) (20 June 1869 – 31 January 1932) was the inventor and designer of the Phanolith. He was born in Oberbetschdorf Alsace in 1869 as the son of Louis Stahl (born 1843) and Anna Maria Braun (born 1841)He grew up in the traditional pottery of his family. His studies of ceramics modelling and sculpture led him to Strasbourg and Höhr-Grenzhausen.
Tomas Haake.  Tomas Haake (born 13 July 1971) is a Swedish drummer of the experimental metal band Meshuggah.
Marusya Klimova.  Marusya Klimova (first name also transliterated Marusia or Maroussia; Russian: Мару́ся Кли́мова; real name Tatyana Nikolayevna Kondratovich Татьяна Николаевна Кондратович; born January 14 1961 in Leningrad Soviet Union) is a Russian writer and translator.Klimova plays with prose and reality creating a blend of the two. Vladimir Sorokin Victor Erofeyev and Ilya Kabakov named Klimova as one of the most prominent contemporary Russian authors.
Edith Pargeter.  Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995) also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters was a British author of works in many categories especially history and historical fiction and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries both historical and modern.
Giovanni Maria Ciocchi.  Giovanni Maria Ciocchi (Florence 23 March 1658 - Florence 1725) was an Italian painter and art critic active during the Baroque period. He was born into a family of artists and it is not clear that he is related to Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1487 – 1555) from Perugia who became Pope Julius III. it is not clear that Giovanni Maria is related to the 16th century painter Ulisse Ciocchi.
Ekachai Jearakul.  Ekachai Jearakul (born July 5 1987) is a classical guitarist from Thailand whose born in Ubonratchathani province of Thailand. Ekachai studied guitar with Kiattipong Tangsakul at Yamaha Ubonratchatani at age 13. He moved to Bangkok in 2003 to study at the College of Music Mahidol University where he studied with Worakarn Saengsomboon Dr.Paul Cesarczyk and many other fine teachers at the University.
Danny Byrd.  Danny Byrd (born 4 May 1979) is a drum and bass DJ producer and musician from Bath in the South West of England. He is influenced by genres such as house UK garage R&B and the old skool rave/jungle/techno sound. He primarily releases his music through Hospital Records the UK-based independent dance music label.
Jim McCann (writer).  James Andrew Jim McCann II (born January 7 1974) is an American writer of comic books theater and television programs. Jim has worked on several films and music videos before entering the ABC Daytime Writer Development Program during which time he wrote for the popular ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. Upon moving to New York City in 2004 from Nashville Jim found a position at Marvel Comics handling publicity and PR for publishing while managing press and panels at conventions.
Joe McKee (musician).  Joe McKee is a London born singer-songwriter and composer. He was raised in the Darling Ranges of Western Australia from the age of five.
Tonina Torrielli.  Tonina Torrielli (born 22 March 1934 in Serravalle Scrivia Italy) is an Italian singer.In 1956 Torrielli represented Italy in the first Eurovision Song Contest with the song Amami se vuoi (Love me if you Want) it is unknown what position the song finished as only the winning song was announced. However at a later date it was announced she finished fifth.[citation needed]
Dorothy Yost.  Dorothy Yost (April 25 1899 – June 10 1967) was an American screenwriter. She wrote for 74 films between 1920 and 1966.She was born in St. Louis Missouri and died in Monrovia California.
Vaali (poet).  Vaali (born T. S. Rangarajan; 29 October 1931 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian poet and lyricist whose works were in Tamil had a five decade long association with the Tamil film industry wrote over 15000 songs. He acted in a number of films including Sathya Hey Ram Paarthale Paravasam and Poikkal Kudhirai. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri India's fourth highest civilian honour.
Eric Merriman.  Eric Hugh Peter Merriman (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was a British radio and television writer who provided material for numerous comedians including Frankie Howerd Terry Scott and Morecambe and Wise. Born in Golders Green he attended Finchley Catholic High School where he started writing for Boy Scout magazines and children's annuals. When he left school his first job was as a subeditor on a scout magazine - and he created sketches for the Boy Scout Gang Show.
Chris Wyse.  Chris Wyse is an American bassist and vocalist known for his performances with Jerry Cantrell The Cult Ozzy OsbourneJC and Mick Jagger amongst others. Wyse has played with The Cult since 2006 and is the vocalist and bassist for Owl a band he founded in 2007. Owl who have been described as approaching timeless rock structures through a healthy amount of experimentation and instrumental intricacy released their debut in 2009 and will release The Right Thing in April 2013.
Bijan Najdi.  Bijan Najdi (Persian: بیژن نجدی‎ pronounced [biːʒæn nædʒdiː];) (15 November 1941 in Khash Iran – 25 August 1997 in Lahijan Iran) was an Iranian writer and poet. Najdi is most famous for his short story collection The leopards who have run with me (1994).
Rufus Wright.  Rufus Wright (born 14 September 1974 as Rufus Gerrard-Wright) is an English actor notable for screen and theatre work.
Anneke Eussen.  Anneke Eussen is a contemporary artist in fields of drawing sculpture and photography and installation. Eussen was born in Netherlands 1978 and currently lives and works in Berlin.Eussen won Young Artists On The Road Award in 2003 and was nominated with Parkstad Limburg Prijs 2004.
Danger Silent.  Danger Silent was a solo project of American musician Chris J. Vaughn. Formerly of Autumns Fall Vaughn brings a metal/hardcore influence to his music infused with an experimental indie rock sound. Chris plays all instruments (vocals guitar piano bass drums and more) himself as well as all recording mixing and mastering at his studio AVM Recordings.
Monica Dolan.  Monica Dolan is a British actress who has appeared in a number of roles in British television shows and numerous stage productions. She was born in Middlesbrough England. Credits include Agatha Christie's Poirot Dalziel and Pascoe Tipping the Velvet (with Rachael Stirling) and Judge John Deed and starred in ITV drama U Be Dead. Stage appearances include She Stoops to Conquer King Lear and The Seagull both with Ian McKellen.
K-Ske Hasegawa.  K-Ske Hasegawa (ハセガワ ケイスケ Hasegawa Keisuke born December 26) is a male Japanese light novelist from Fukui Japan. In June 2003 he made his debut with the Ballad of a Shinigami series of light novel and has gone on to create several other works. He enjoys listening to the bands Bump of Chicken The Pillows Number Girl and Zazen Boys among others and makes references to song lyrics produced by these bands in his work.
Mopreme Shakur.  Maurice Williams better known by his stage name Mopreme Shakur originally known as Wycked is an American rapper. He was a member of the hip-hop group 'Thug Life' and is the older step-brother of Tupac Shakur. He was also a member of The Outlawz (under the name Komani) but later dropped out because of a financial disagreement with Death Row Records.
Priscilla Paris.  Priscilla Paris (January 4 1945 – March 5 2004) was an American singer. She had two sons Edan and Seth.Backed by her two older Paris Sisters Albeth and Sherrell Priscilla Paris is best remembered for the song I Love How You Love Me an international hit in October 1961. She died unexpectedly in Paris France as a result of a fall in her home.
Giovanni Conti (painter).  Giovanni Conti (died April 9 1909) was an Italian painter mainly of sacred subjects.He was a pupil of Luigi Pastore in Aversa. He painted Trumpet of the Last Judgement (1865) Resurrection of Lazarus (1869) and Death of Abel (1869). He participated in Neapolitan Promotrice exhibitions.
Dargen D'Amico.  Jacopo D'Amico better known by his pseudonyms Dargen D'Amico JD' or Corvo D'Argento (born in Milan Italy June 2 1980) is an Italian singer and rapper.
Darryl Neudorf.  Darryl Neudorf (born June 7 1964 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada) is a Canadian musician record producer and audio engineer.He was the drummer for 54-40 from 1982–1986. He is best known during this time for co-writing the hit song I Go Blind a Canadian hit which was later covered by U.S.
Nikolay Haytov.  Nikolay Haytov (Bulgarian: Николай Хайтов) (15 September 1919–30 June 2002) was a Bulgarian fiction writer playwright patriot and publicist known for his publications and research regarding the life of Bulgarian revolutioner Vasil Levski.
Liu Yumin.  Liu Yumin (simplified Chinese: 刘玉民; traditional Chinese: 劉玉民; pinyin: Liǘ Yùmín; born February 1951) is a Chinese novelist who was the vice president of Shandong Literature and Art Association.
François Brune.  For the article on the priest and other French writer with the same name: François Brune (priest).François Brune (born 1940) whose real name is Bruno Hongre is a French author and professor. He contributed to the Monde Diplomatique where he wrote articles about advertisement.
Cyrus (metal musician).  Cyrus (born Terje Andersen on May 12 1975) is a Norwegian musician best known as the guitarist of Norwegian black metal band Susperia. He plays guitar and bass guitar.
Saori Hara.  Saori Hara (原紗央莉 Hara Saori) is a former Japanese AV idol model and actress who has also used the name Mai Nanami (七海まい Nanami Mai).
Claude-François-Alexandre Houtteville.  Claude François Alexandre Houtteville (1686 Paris - 9 November 1742 Paris) was a French churchman and religious writer.
Maira Kalman.  Maira Kalman born in 1949 is an American illustrator author artist and designer. Born in Tel Aviv Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She attended the High School of Music and Art now LaGuardia High School.Kalman has written a series of children's books about Max Stravinsky the poet-dog. She has done covers for The New Yorker including one she did with Rick Meyerowitz called New Yorkistan.
Immanuel the Roman.  Immanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Rome (Immanuel of Rome Immanuel Romano Manoello Giudeo) (1261 Rome – 1328 Fermo Italy) was an Italian-Jewish scholar and satirical poet. He was a member of a prominent wealthy family and occupied an important position in Rome possibly secretary or treasurer of the Jewish community there. He preached on Yom Kippur and delivered discourses on special occasions. In 1325 he lost his entire fortune and was obliged to leave his home.
Yōko Mitsui.  Yōko Mitsui (三井葉子 Mitsui Yōko January 1 1936 – January 2 2014) was a Japanese poet.
Walter Scott (vocalist).  Walter Scott (February 7 1943 – December 27 1983 ) was an American singer who fronted Bob Kuban and The In-Men a St. Louis Missouri-based rock 'n' roll band that enjoyed brief national popularity during the 1960s.
Derek Leckenby.  Derek Lek Leckenby (14 May 1943 – 4 June 1994) was an English musician and lead guitarist most famous for his work with English pop group Herman's Hermits.
Charles James Martin (artist).  Charles James Martin (September 1886 – August 9 1955) was an American modernist artist andarts instructor. He worked in a variety of media including etching lithography watercolor monotype linocut woodcut oil photography mezzotint and silversmithing. Bornin Mansfield England in 1886 Martin emigrated to the USA as a boy and lived out theremainder of his life as an American.
Omar Samra.  Omar Samra (born 11 August 1978) is an adventurer mountaineer entrepreneur inspirational speaker and future astronaut. He is the first Egyptian and youngest Arab to climb Mount Everest. He reached the summit at 9:49 am Nepal time (roughly 7:19 am Egyptian time) on 17 May 2007. He is also the first Egyptian to complete the 7 Summits challenge on 31 May 2013 climbing the highest mountain on all 7 continents.
Song Soo-kwon.  Song Soo-Kwon (Hangul: 송수권) is a South Korean modern writer.
Michael Byrne (poet).  Michael Patrick Byrne (born 28 April 1978) is an Australian poet reviewer anthologist and freelance poetry tutor. He was born in Sydney spent his early childhood in Tuross Head on the New South Wales South Coast and came to Canberra in 1987 where he currently lives. Byrne attended high school at Radford College in Canberra graduating in 1996. In 1998 he undertook an Arts degree from the Australian National University completing it in 2001.
Adi Lukovac.  Adi Lukovac (1970 – June 18 2006) was a Bosnian musician best known as the pioneer of electronic music in Bosnia and Herzegovina and leader of the Bosnian industrial band Adi Lukovac & The Ornaments.Lukovac founded band Ornamenti (The Ornaments) during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992. In 1996 he was founded label Post War Sound Records (PWS). With band Ornamenti two albums were recorded: Pomjeranja (Movements) in 1999 and Fluid in 2001.
Jani Liimatainen.  Jani Allan Kristian Liimatainen (born September 9 1980 in Kemi Finland) is a Finnish musician songwriter and backing vocalist . He is the former guitarist and one of the founding members of the power metal band Sonata Arctica. He has also performed with Cain's Offering Altaria and Stratovarius vocalist Timo Kotipelto (his band mate in Cain's Offering).Most of his technique is self-taught even though he had a few guitar lessons early in his life.
Ian Middleton.  Ian Middleton (1928 - 24 October 2007) was a New Zealand novelist who made a particular mark with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E.
Lacey Fosburgh.  Lacey Fosburgh (3 October 1942 – January 11 1993) was an American journalist author and academic best known for her bestselling book Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977).
Martina Sorbara.  Martina Sorbara (born November 13 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the band Dragonette. She is also the daughter of Greg Sorbara a former Member of Provincial Parliament and Minister of Finance in Ontario. Martina is a graduate of the Toronto Waldorf School.Her debut album Unplaceables was released independently in 1998 and is no longer in print.Sorbara's second album The Cure for Bad Deeds was released independently in 2000.
Pauly Shore.  Paul Montgomery Pauly Shore (born February 1 1968) is an American comedian and actor who starred in several comedy films in the 1990s and hosted a video show on MTV in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Shore is still performing stand-up comedy and toured in 2012.
Willi Schmid.  Wilhelm Eduard Schmid (died 1934) better known as Willi Schmid was a German music critic and an accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity.Schmid studied music under Christian Döbereiner and founded the Munich Viol Quartet. He was also a well-respected music critic and wrote for the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten.
Aly Monroe.  Aly Monroe is a British writer of historical thrillers set in the 1940s. She was brought up in Purley England. She has spent a large part of her life in Spain where she worked as a teacher translator and voice-over. She is the author of the Peter Cotton series of historical novels including Icelight which won the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Award
Harley Flanagan.  Harley Frances Flanagan (born 1968) is a founding member and former bassist of the hardcore punk band Cro-Mags.At age 12 Flanagan was the drummer for The Stimulators. When he was nine Flanagan published a book of poetry with a foreword written by family friend Allen Ginsberg.
Thomas Harris.  Thomas Harris (born April 11 1940) is an American author and screenwriter best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films the most notable being the multi-Oscar winning The Silence of the Lambs which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories.
Fatoumata Diawara.  Fatoumata Diawara (born 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a Malian musician currently living in France. Born in Côte d'Ivoire to Malian parents Diawara moved to France to pursue acting appearing in Cheick Oumar Sissoko's 1999 feature film La Genèse Dani Kouyaté's popular 2001 film Sia le rêve du python in the internationally renowned street theatre troupe Royal de Luxe and played a leading role in the musical Kirikou et Karaba.
T. Lynn Ocean.  T. Lynn Ocean is an American author of present-day Southern fiction. Often working as a freelance writer for major newspapers and publications—including her local paper The Sun News—Ocean has had three novels published. These are Fool Me Once Sweet Home Carolina and Southern Fatality. Her most recent novel Southern Fatality is the first installment of a mystery series featuring the character Jersey Barnes.
Dan McKeown.  Dan McKeown a Philadelphia producer who has gained international fame with his music and television productions.
Slim Dusty.  David Gordon Kirkpatrick known professionally as Slim Dusty AO MBE (13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and producer with a career spanning nearly seven decades. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the Australian Bush Lifestyle and also for his many trucking songs. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 Hit song with Gordon Parsons (A Pub with No Beer).
Crystal Lewis.  Crystal Lynn Lewis (born September 11 1969) is an American contemporary Christian/gospel vocalist songwriter and author.
Piero Golia.  Piero Golia (born 1974) is a conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. Golia was born in Naples Italy. He studied engineering at Universitá Ferderico II. His work is defined by constant accuracy and humor. As artist organizer teacher innovator and catalyst for broad experimentation in culture Piero Golia celebrates the paradox of seriousness and its impossibility.
Bob Nelson (screenwriter).  Bob Nelson is an American screenwriter and nominee for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) at the 86th Academy Awards for writing Nebraska which was directed by Alexander Payne and released in 2013.Nelson was a cast member and writer on the Seattle sketch comedy TV show Almost Live! in the 1990s.Nelson won the 2014 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Nebraska.He currently lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State.
Fran Detela.  Fran Detela (3 December 1850 – 11 July 1926) was a Slovenian writer and university professor.
Ted Stamm.  Ted Stamm (1944–1984) was an American painter identified with the movement of monochrome painting minimalism and conceptual art. He is best known for his abstract shaped canvases.
James Luna.  James Luna (born 1950) is a Pooyukitchum (Luiseño) and Mexican-American performance artist and multimedia installation artist living on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California.
Josephine van Lier.  Josephine van Lier (B. 1968 the Netherlands) is a performing cellist specialized in both baroque and contemporary cello residing in Canada.
Simon Price.  Simon Price (born 25 September 1967 Barry Wales) is a British music journalist and author. He is known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday and his book Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers).Everything a biography of the Manic Street Preachers was claimed by Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian in 1999 to be the fastest selling rock book of all time. It was later listed by The Guardian in a Top Ten books about rock.
Elephant Man (musician).  O'Neil Bryan (born 11 September 1975) better known by his stage name Elephant Man is a Jamaican dancehall musician.
Susanne Sundfør.  Susanne Aartun Sundfør (born 19 March 1986) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and old Bjork back vocal. She is the granddaughter of linguist Kjell Aartun. She was born in Haugesund but later moved to Oslo.
Matt Morgan (comedian).  Matthew Matt Morgan (born 10 August 1977) is an English comedian actor writer DJ and radio presenter. He is best known for his work with Russell Brand with whom he shared numerous writing credits as well as co-hosting The Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
J. D. Wilkes.  Joshua J. D. Wilkes (born April 18 1972 Baytown Texas) and now a resident of Paducah Kentucky is an American visual artist musician author and amateur filmmaker. Wilkes is a Kentucky Colonel an honorable title bestowed upon those with a connection to or are famous residents of Kentucky by the state's Governor.He is also an accomplished harmonica player having recorded for such artists as Merle Haggard John Carter Cash Mike Patton and Hank Williams III.
Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen.  Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (fl. ca. 1440-1480) was a Welsh language poet during the time of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr the professional Poets of the Nobility.In common with other poets of the era some of his work consists of praise-poems addressed to his patrons.
Khen Shish.  Khen Shish (born 1970) is a painter and installation artist.
Vivian Schmitt.  Vivian Schmitt formerly known as Anna B. (born 31 March 1978) is a German pornographic actress.
Jesper Strömblad.  Clas Håkan Jesper Strömblad (born 28 November 1972) is a Swedish musician who is the guitarist for the bands Dimension Zero and The Resistance. He is best known as founder and former guitarist/drummer/keyboardist of the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames guitarist of the band Sinergy bassist of Ceremonial Oath and drummer of HammerFall.In March 2004 Jesper (along with Björn Gelotte) were both ranked #70 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of all time by Guitar World.
Delores Holmes.  Delores Holmes (July 18 1946 – April 16 2010) was an American soul singer. She was best known for her years as backup singer for the Bruce Springsteen Band during 1969 to 1972 the last grouping before the E Street Band. The Bruce Springsteen Band included David Sancious Vini Lopez Garry Tallent and Steven Van Zandt among others.
Alfonso Iannelli.  Alfonso Iannelli was an Italian-American sculptor artist and industrial designer.Based in Chicago for most of his life Iannelli was born in Andretta Italy on 17 February 17 1888. He came to America in 1898. He studied to be a sculptor under Gutzon Borglum later famous for Mount Rushmore.From 1910 to 1915 he designed posters for the vaudeville acts appearing at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright's son John saw his work and the two became friends.
B. M. Suhara.  B. M. Suhara (Malayalam: ബി. എം. സുഹ്റ) is a Malayalam writer from Kerala state South India. She was born in Thikkodi Kozhikode district. Some of her best-known works are Kinavu (Dream) Mozhi Iruttu (Darkness) Nizhal (Shadow) Venal (Summer) Bhraanth (Madness) Choyichi and Akaasabhoomikalute Thaakkol. She is the sister of the cartoonist B. M. Gafoor. She has won the Lalithambika Memorial Special Award (1992) the K.
Jordan Carlos.  Jordan Carlos is an American stand-up comedian who played a recurring character on The Colbert Report and is a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids' show Me TV.
Paddy Keenan.  Paddy Keenan (born 30 January 1950) is an Irish player of the uilleann pipes who first gained fame as a founding member of The Bothy Band. Since that group's dissolution in the late 1970s Keenan has released a number of solo and collaborative recordings and continues to tour both as a soloist and with singer/guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan.
Rob Thomas (writer).  Rob Thomas (born August 15 1965) is an American author producer and screenwriter best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God creator of the critically acclaimed television series Veronica Mars and co-creator of 90210 and Party Down.
Beans On Toast (musician).  Beans On Toast is a British folk singer. He sings about sex drugs and politics.
Émile Gaboriau.  Émile Gaboriau (November 9 1832 – September 28 1873) was a French writer novelist and journalist and a pioneer of detective fiction.
Andrew Diamond.  Andrew Diamond (born 1969 Stanford California) is an American reggae artist and music producer.Originally a drummer Andrew founded The Solid Foundation Band to support Jamaican reggae artist Winston Jarrett for a US tour in 2000.
Pete Candoli.  Pete Candoli (June 28 1923 – January 11 2008) was an American swing and West Coast jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman Stan Kenton and many others and worked extensively in the studios of the recording and television industries. He was born in Mishawaka Indiana.
Thomas-Joachim Hébert.  Thomas-Joachim Hébert (1687 — 1773) was a leading Parisian marchand-mercier supplying the court (suivant le Cour) of Louis XV of France.In the 1720s Hébert commissioned furniture from the workshops of André-Charles Boulle. Among the ébénistes working to his commissions in later days was Bernard II van Risamburgh; about 1750 he supplied furniture by Bernard to the minister Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville some of which can be traced in modern collections.
Jitendra Abhisheki.  Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki (Devanagari: जितेंद्र अभिषेकी; 21 September 1929 – 7 November 1998) was an Indian vocalist composer and scholar of Indian classical semi-classical and devotional music. While he distinguished himself in Hindustani music he is also credited for revival of the Marathi musical theatre in the 1960s.
Neil Smith (writer).  Neil Smith is a Canadian fiction writer. A three-time nominee for the Journey Prize Smith published his debut collection Bang Crunch with Knopf Canada in 2007. It was later published in America Britain France Germany and India. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail.
Adam Guettel.  Adam Guettel (/ˈɡɛtəl/; born December 16 1964) is an American composer-lyricist of musical theater and opera. He is best known for the musical The Light in the Piazza for which he won two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations and two Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Orchestrations.
Alice Smith.  Alice Smith (born 1978) is an American singer and songwriter her style anchored in rock R&B blues jazz and soul.
Gillian Welch.  Gillian Welch (/ˈɡɪliən ˈwɛltʃ/; born October 2 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style which combines elements of Appalachian music Bluegrass and Americana is described by The New Yorker as at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms.Welch and Rawlings have released five critically acclaimed albums.
Pa Neumüller.  Pa Neumüller (born 22 January 1963 in Stockholm Sweden). Neumüller studied journalism and acting at some of the best Television and broadcasting schools in Sweden before she moved to the United States of America. She appeared in The Young and the Restless; then in 1988 she played the main female character Robin Kelly in High Mountain Rangers. Afterwards she returned to Sweden and became a program host and a radio personality in programs and commercials.
Charles Newman (author).  Charles Hamilton Newman (May 27 1938 - March 15 2006) was an American writer editor and dog breeder.
Candace Allen (author).  Candace Allen is an American novelist political activist cultural critic and screenwriter who is based in London. She was the first African-American woman to be a member of the Directors Guild of America.
Antonio Consetti.  Antonio Consetti (1686–1766) was an Italian historical painter born and died in Modena. He was represented in the Estense Gallery of his native city by a Virgin of the Rosary with St. Dominic and a St. Joseph & Angels. He painted the Virgin and child with St. Rose at the Museo Civico d'Arte di Modena . Along with Pellegrino Spaggiari he decorated the vault of the Sala dei Cardinali at the Collegio San Carlo di Modena. In 1722 he moved back to Modena to open an Academy of drawing.
Naya (singer).  Naya (Arabic: نايا‎ (born April 11 1988) is a Lebanese singer. In 2009 Eli Dib introduced her to the Arabic music scene. It's also clearly noticeable that this beautiful singer won many people's hearts even till obsession in many cases after her big success in Dancing With The Stars season 2 and that can be proved by comments and interractions from fans on her accounts on the social media whether Instagram Facebook Youtube and ofcourse Twitter.
Bernardo Daddi.  Bernardo Daddi (c. 1280 – 1348) was an early Italian Renaissance painter and apprentice of Giotto. He was also influenced by the Sienese art of Lorenzetti.Daddi's birth date remains unknown. He is first mentioned in 1312. He focused on religious motifs and altarpieces. A triptych he painted in 1328 is in the Uffizi and there are several panels in National Gallery of Art and the Walters Art Museum.Daddi became the leading painter of Florence during his generation.
Bhamidipati Radhakrishna.  Bhamidipati Radhakrishna (1929 – September 4 2007) was an Indian playwright and script writer in Telugu cinema. He is son of Hasya Brahma Bhamidipati Kameswara Rao.He has written some plays and playlets.
Svante Thuresson.  Svante Thuresson (born 7 February 1937 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963.
Hecate (musician).  Rachael Kozak better known by her stage name Hecate is an American-Austrian experimental industrial and breakcore musician based in Berlin Germany. Her stage name originates from Hecate the Greek goddess of sorcery.
Nana Katase.  Nana Katase (片瀬 那奈 Katase Nana born November 7 1981) is a Japanese actress songstress and fashion model.Katase portrayed Kiyomi Takada in Death Note: The Last Name. She also released a number of albums. Fantasy was one of her songs and it was in the third intro of Hikaru no Go.
Jamie Treacher.  Jamie Treacher (born 1976) is an English actor best known for playing DC Wayne Hughes in the British soap opera EastEnders. He is the son of former EastEnders actor Bill Treacher.
Patricio Caxés.  Patricio Caxés Caxesi or Caxete (died 1612) was an Italian painter who primarily lived and worked in Spain. His exact date of birth is not known.Caxés was a native of Arezzo. It is not known by whom he was instructed but he became an artist of sufficient celebrity to be invited to Spain by Philip II who employed him in the palaces of Madrid.
Kurt Calleja.  Kurt Calleja (born 5 May 1989) is a Maltese singer. Calleja represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan.
Phil Spalding.  Philip Spalding (born 19 November 1957 London England) also known as Phil Spalding is an English bass player. He is best known as a session musician and player of Fender Precision Bass guitars. He has played and appeared with performing artists such as Mick Jagger Seal Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Elton John and Randy Crawford.At an early age he was a successful child model and appeared in a television advertisement for Smiths Crisps.
Edward L. Allen.  Edward L. Allen (1830-1914) or E.L. Allen was a photographer in 19th-century United States. He kept a studio on Temple Place in Boston Massachusetts (c. 1868-1871). For some years he worked in partnership with Frank Rowell (as Allen & Rowell). Examples of Allen's photographs reside in the Boston Public Library and the Boston Athenaeum.
Paris Jefferson.  Paris Jefferson (born 6 March 1970) is a British actress who has acted in more than 29 film and television works since 1987 including The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Agatha Christie's Poirot Highlander and the main protagonist in Xena: Warrior Princess the goddess Athena.
Carlo Grossi.  Carlo Grossi (c. 1634 – 14 May 1688) was an Italian composer.
Margaret MacPherson.  Margaret Louise Macpherson née Kendall (19 June 1895 Leeds England; 14 September 1974 Kaitaia) was a journalist editor and writer. She attended school at University of St Andrews Scotland.After marriage to Alfred Sinclair Macpherson the new couple moved to New Zealand. After giving birth to five sons she became the writer of a column called 'Wahine' in the Maoriland Worker. In the early 1920s she began editing Northlander in Kaitaia. In 1925 she and her husband were divorced.
Calvin Carter.  Calvin Carter is the brother of the founder of Vee-Jay Records Vivian Carter. Born May 27 1925. He joined the company in 1953 and became the principal producer in charge of the recording sessions. He is a songwriter and composer of jazz and popsongs.
Antonio Vassilacchi.  Antonio Vassilacchi (1556–1629) (Greek: Αντώνιος Βασιλάκης Antonios Vasilakis Italian: Antonio Vassilacchi [anˈtɔnjo vassiˈlakki]) also called L'Aliense was a Greek painter who was active mostly in Venice and the Veneto.
Jonathan Emile.  Jonathan Emile (Jon E) (Born February 19 1986) is a Jamaican Canadian singer poet musician and entrepreneur from Montreal Quebec. He is the creator and the founder of Mindpeacelove Enterprises (a conscious art company and record label) and a cancer survivor. In 2011 he received Grammy nominations and appeared on the long-list in the 'Rap Album of The Year' category for his album The Lover/Fighter Document EP.
Nippy Noya.  Nippy Noya (born 27 February 1946) is an Indonesian Netherlands-based percussionist and songwriter specialising in congas kalimba bongos campana güiro cabasa shek caxixi triangle and the berimbau.
Ravuri Bharadhwaja.  Rāvūri Bharadvāja (1927 – 18 October 2013) was a Jnanpith award winning Telugu novelist short-story writer poet and critic. He wrote 37 collections of short stories seventeen novels four play-lets and five radio plays. He also contributed profusely to children's literature. Paakudu Raallu a graphic account of life behind the screen in film industry is considered his magnum opus. Jeevana Samaram is another of his popular works.
Craig Douglas.  Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper Only Sixteen (1959) sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version.
Paul Leppin.  Paul Leppin (November 27 1878 - April 10 1945) was a 20th-century Bohemian writer of German language who was born and lived in Prague.Although he wrote in German he was in close contact with Czech literature. He translated Czech books and wrote articles on Czech literature. He was also an editor of two literary periodicals Fruhling and Wir.
Ria Brieffies.  Maria Petronella Ria Brieffies (February 23 1957 - July 20 2009) was a Dutch singer best known as a member of 1980s girl group Dolly Dots.
Kastro (Outlawz).  Katari Terrance Cox (born December 30 1976) better known by his Stage name Kastro is an American Rapper. Best known for being part of Tupac Shakur's rap group Outlawz. He was also blood cousins with Shakur and is featured on many of the late rapper's songs such as Made Niggaz & Hail Mary. When he was in Elementary School he introduced his friend and future Outlawz rapper Malcolm Greenbridge later named E.D.I. Mean to his cousin.
Fyfe Robertson.  James Fyfe Robertson (19 August 1902 – 4 February 1987) was a Scottish television journalist.Robertson was born in Edinburgh Scotland. He was one of six children of Jane Dunlop and James Robertson a miner who became a minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He grew up in poverty but attended the High School of Glasgow.
Adolphe Joanne.  Adolphe Joanne (born as Adolphe-Laurent Joanne on 15 September 1813 in Dijon France died on 1 March 1881 in Paris) was a French geographical writer and author of travel books.
Nikki Glaser.  Nikki Glaser (born June 1 1984) is an American stand-up comedian podcast and television host.
Ippolito Galantini (painter).  Ippolito Galantini (1627–1706) called II Cappucino and sometimes II Prete Genovese was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born at Florence in 1627 he was for some time a scholar of Padre Stefaneschi through whose influence he became a monk of the order of the Capuchins whence the two names by which he is frequently known. He was sent as a missionary to India where he passed several years and on his return to Europe painted several pictures for the churches of his order.
Michael J. Mullins.  Michael J. Mullins (born Michael John Mullins 9 November 1953) is an English lead vocalist backing singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of Salsa band Modern Romance (1982–85). Modern Romance achieved eight Top 40 singles and two hit albums.
Dntel.  James Scott Jimmy Tamborello more commonly known as Dntel /ˈdɪntɛl/ is an electronic music artist. He is sometimes cited as James Figurine the co-programmer and vocalist for the electropop outfit Figurine. Other projects include Strictly Ballroom Headset and The Postal Service.
William Bast.  William Bast (born April 3 1931) is an American screenwriter and author currently living in Los Angeles. In addition to writing scripts for motion pictures and television he is the author of two biographies of the screen actor James Dean.
Vincenzo Pacetti.  Vincenzo Pacetti (1746–1820) was an Italian sculptor and restorer from Castel Bolognese particularly active in collecting and freely restoring and completing classical sculptures such as the Barberini Faun (1799 - now in the Glyptothek Munich)— his most famous work— the Hope Dionysus (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the Athena of Velletri (1797 - now in the Louvre) and selling them on to rich collectors as finished artefacts. He was the brother of Camillo Pacetti.
Howie Payne.  Howie Payne (born Howard Elliot Payne 5 November 1970) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist formerly of The Stands.Following The Stands' split Payne embarked on a solo career under the name Howard Eliott Payne and released his debut album Bright Light Ballads in 2009.
Maria Rita Teresa Batalla-Laforteza.  Maria Rita Teresa Batalla-Laforteza (born 3 August 1960) is a Filipino artist who graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in the Fine Arts Department majoring in Painting. Currently she is taking her master’s degree in the same university. Ms. Batalla-Laforteza is also the daughter of the artist and musician from Cabuyao Domingo M. Batalla.
Mr. Fastfinger.  Mika Tyyskä (Born November 5 1976) better known by his stage name Mr.Fastfinger is a Finnish virtuoso guitarist and multi instrumentalist who encompasses several genres of music.Originally Mr. Fastfinger was an imaginary character created and animated in Flash to be host of the website GuitarShredShow.com an award-winning combination of further animation and an online guitar school. The online guitar school opened 2005.
Zhang Hongtu.  Zhang Hongtu (Simplified Chinese: 张宏图; Traditional Chinese: 張宏圖; Wade-Giles: Chang Hung-t'u; Pinyin: Zhāng Hóngtú) (born 1943) is a Chinese artist based in New York.Zhang was born in Pingliang. He works in a variety of media such as painting (sometimes with soy sauce) sculpture collage ceramics digital imaging and installation. His work explores the freedom to criticize the Chinese authorities afforded to an artist living in the West.
Jimmy Robbins.  Jimmy Robbins (born James Michael Robbins on September 3 1989 in Raleigh North Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter and producer.
Don Friesen.  Don Friesen is an American stand-up comedian. Friesen is a relatively clean performer who uses self-deprecating humor to lampoon his life as a suburban husband and father. His act consists of satirical scenes that spoof his daily interactions with his wife kids tech support creditors and airline pilots mixed in with impressions improvisation and audience interaction. Friesen was born and raised in Fresno California.
Jan Jelinek.  Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben Gramm and The Exposures. His music is usually categorized as minimal techno glitch or microhouse and is characterized by deep basslines extensive use of samples from earlier jazz and rock recordings and clicks & cuts effects. He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche.
T. J. Binyon.  Timothy John Binyon (18 February 1936 – 7 October 2004) was an English scholar and crime writer. He was a distant relative of the poet Laurence Binyon.T.J. Binyon was born in Leeds where his father Denis was a university lecturer. When aged 18 doing his National Service he was assigned to the Joint Services School for Linguists in Bodmin Cornwall to learn Russian.
Rosario Bagnasco.  Rosario Bagnasco (Palermo 1845 – ) was an Italian sculptor both in stone but mainly in wood active mainly in Palermo Sicily. He is also known as Rosario Bagnasco Bonetti.Another Rosario Bagnasco (1810-1879) also from Palermo was also a sculptor but mainly remembered as a politician and prominent patriot along with his brother Francesco a legal advocate.The relationship between these two is unclear.
Peter Ackroyd.  Peter Ackroyd CBE FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of among others Charles Dickens T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte.  Léon Augustin Lhermitte (Mont-Saint-Père 1844–1925 Paris) was a French realist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.He was a student of Lecoq de Boisbaudran he gained recognition after his show in the Paris Salon in 1864. His many awards include the French Legion of Honour (1884) and the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle in 1889.Lhermitte’s innovative use of pastels won him the admiration of his contemporaries.
Mark Nightingale.  Mark Daryl Nightingale (born May 29 1967) is an English jazz trombonist.Nightingale was born in Evesham. He began on trombone at age nine and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in his teens. He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985-88. He performed at the 1989 International Trombone Workshop with a trombone quintet called Bonestructure; following this he was asked to return to play at workshops in Germany in 1992 in the U.S.
Hilda Plowright.  Hilda Plowright (November 29 1890 - October 9 1973) was an English actress. She was born in Swaffham Norfolk. She had over 60 film and television appearences between 1938 and 1965.
Harry Macqueen.  Harry Macqueen (born 17 January 1985) is an English stage and screen actor writer and director. His professional debut was in Richard Linklater's 2008 film Me and Orson Welles. Other credits include Jed Quinn in EastEnders and Stanley in Rob Petit's film Blackbird opposite BAFTA nominee Christian McKay.He won Best Actor at the 2013 Bootleg Film Festival.Hinterland is his debut feature film as a writer and director.
James Gilligan.  James Gilligan is an American psychiatrist and author husband of Carol Gilligan and best known for his series of books entitled Violence where he draws on 25 years of work in the American prison system to describe the motivation and causes behind violent behavior.During his career Gilligan has served as director for the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane director of mental health for the Massachusetts prison system and as President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. 
Bhagirathi Nepak.  Late Shri Bhagirathi Nepak (Born : 1 Apr 1931 Died : 3 Jan 2007) was an eminent scholar on Mahima Dharma and Bhima Bhoi and well known Orissa Sahitya Academy award winning writer from Western Orissa/ Kosal.He was born to Late Sadanand Nepak and Late Shreemati Devi at Binika of Sonepur District. But later his family moved to Lachhipur village of Sonepur District. After finishing his graduation in Philosophy from GM College Sambalpur he joined as an auditor in the Orissa Govt.
William Sleator.  William Warner Sleator III (February 13 1945 – August 3 2011) known as William Sleator was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science then trying to deal with the situation.
Jack Williamson.  John Stewart Williamson (April 29 1908 – November 10 2006) who wrote as Jack Williamson was an American science fiction writer often called the Dean of Science Fiction after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
Antonio Carnio.  Antonio Carnio (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Portogruaro in Friuli. He first trained with his father afterwards studied at Venice. He painted a St. Thomas of Villanuova for the church of Santa Lucia in Udine. He was living in 1680.
Jill Tweedie.  Jill Sheila Tweedie (22 May 1936 – 12 November 1993) was an influential British feminist writer and broadcaster. She was educated at the independent Croydon High School in Croydon South London. She is mainly remembered for her column in The Guardian on feminist issues (1969-1988) 'Letters from a faint-hearted feminist' and for her autobiography Eating Children (1993).
Yvonne Levy Kushner.  Yvonne Kushner (née Levy; October 12 1906 – February 8 1990) was an American actress and fund raiser for women's and Jewish causes.
Frode Unneland.  Harald Frode Unneland (born 14 April 1967 in Bergen) is a Norwegian musician drummer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar bass guitar keyboards piano and vocals).
Ahmed El Esseily.  -	Ahmad El Esseily (Arabic: أحمد العسيلي) born 1976 is an Egyptian film and television editor/director and host of radio and television shows.
Jinzō Toriumi.  Jinzō Toriumi (鳥海 尽三 Toriumi Jinzō February 1 1929 – January 17 2008) was a Japanese screenwriter who first began his career during the revolutionary era of Japanese animation on Mach GoGoGo (Speed Racer) Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets/G-Force) and Yatterman.Toriumi was born in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaidō. After trying his hand at live-action at Nikkatsu he began writing animation scripts at Mushi Productions for Mighty Atom (Astro Boy) in 1964.
Phesto.  Damani Thompson known by the stage names Phesto and Phesto Dee (born April 29 1974) is an American rapper and producer. He is one of the founding four members of the Oakland California-based underground hip hop group Souls of Mischief and with the Souls of Mischief a part of the eight-person alternative hip hop collective the Hieroglyphics.
Mariam Matossian.  Mariam Matossian (born at Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a musician specialising in Armenian folk music.
Margaret Storey (children's writer).  Margaret Storey is the author of several books for children. Neil Gaiman has cited her as an influence: Margaret Storey is more or less out of print these days alas.
George Adomeit.  George Gustav Adomeit (1879–1967) was a German-born American painter and printmaker and also co-founder and long-time president of the Caxton Company a printing company that was bought by the Fetter Printing Company in 1955.Adomeit was born in Memel Germany (now Klaipėda Lithuania) but at the age of four he moved with his family to Cleveland Ohio which became his home and which was where he died in 1967.Heavily involved in the Cleveland art community he was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists. 
Hilary Henkin.  Hilary Henkin is an American screenwriter and producer nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for her work on the screenplay of Wag the Dog in 1997.
Joey Molland.  Joseph Joey Charles Molland (born 21 June 1947 Edge Hill Liverpool England) is an English composer and rock guitarist whose recording career spans four decades. He is best known as a member of Badfinger the most successful of the acts he performed with.
Lee Quiñones.  George Lee Quiñones (born 1960) is an American artist and actor of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is one of the several artists rising from the New York City Subway graffiti movement.Quiñones' style is rooted in popular culture often with political messages along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Quiñones was one of the innovators of New York’s street-art movement and is considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the graffiti era.
Glenn Letsch.  Glenn Letsch (born Jun 23 1949) is an American bass guitarist. He was in a Los Angeles band with Mitchell Froom called Bullet Park . After Ronnie Montrose produced their demo he asked Letsch to join his band Gamma where Letsch became friends with singer Davey Pattison. When Gamma disbanded in 1982 Pattison became Robin Trower's principal vocalist and Letsch continued with several of Ronnie Montrose projects and session work including playing bass on Sims computer games.
Robert Coupe.  Robert Coupe is an Australian author who specializes in Australian history.Previously a school teacher he commenced writing in 1968 and has completed more than 15 works.
Kinya Aikawa.  Kinya Aikawa (愛川 欽也 Aikawa Kin'ya born June 25 1934) as Toshiaki Ikawa (井川 敏明 Ikawa Toshiaki) is a Japanese actor tarento and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo.
Harry M. Woods.  Henry MacGregor Woods (November 4 1896 - January 14 1970) was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist. Woods is sometimes credited as Harry Woods.
Clara Sofie.  Clara Sofie Fabricius Rosenhoff (born 16 March 1981) is a Danish singer and songwriter.Clara Sofie studied at University of Copenhagen graduating with an MSc. degree in Modern Culture and then moved to live in London and New York to break through as a singer and songwriter. She also sang in church choirs Her breakthrough came in June 2010 with her cooperation with house-DJ Rune RK.
Louis La Roche.  Brett Ewels (born 1990) best known by his stage name Louis La Roche is a French house/nu-disco/funk producer remixer and DJ from Norwich UK.Louis La Roche sprung to prominence in 2008 with his Michael Jackson sampled debut track ‘Love’ (which was originally mistaken for Daft Punk) and featured on an unofficial five-track EP entitled 'The Peach EP' (2008). The track quickly made an impact across online blogs and led to recognition via an article by the British newspaper The Guardian.
Chu Omambala.  Chu Omambala sometimes credited as Chu Ombala is a British actor.
Roy Hargrove.  Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music in 1997 and in 2002. Hargrove has played primarily with jazz musicians including Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock.Hargrove is the bandleader of the progressive group the RH Factor which combines elements of jazz funk hip-hop soul and gospel music.
Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye.  Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (or de La Fresnaye) (1536–1608) was a French poet born at the château of La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage in Normandy in 1536.He studied the humanities at Paris and law at Poitiers and Bourges. He fought in the Wars of Religion under the maréchal de Matignon and was wounded at the siege of Saint-Lô (1574).
Laurence Howarth.  Laurence Howarth is an English comic actor and writer. He has appeared in one episode each of the TV series After You've Gone (2007) Hyperdrive (2006) Blessed (2005) The Robinsons (2005) My Hero (2005) and Dark Ages (1999). He has also appeared in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations and written for TV to Go the 2006 TV series of Dead Ringers and for Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (1996).He is one half of the double act Laurence & Gus alongside fellow comedian and writer Gus Brown.
Rob Barraco.  Rob Barraco is a keyboardist who has played with Phil Lesh and Friends The Dead Dark Star Orchestra Chris Robinson & New Earth Mud the Zen Tricksters Red Flannel Hash and The Dragonflys. He was the permanent keyboardist for Phil Lesh and Friends from 2000 to 2003 and has been in the band's line-up at other times.
Giovanni Giacomo Borni.  Giovanni Giacomo Borni (1635 - 29 October 1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Lombard in towns near the province of Brescia including Saviore dell'Adamello. He is also referred in local documents as Gian Giacomo Gaioni or Gajoni detto il Bate or Bornibatte. Also known as Giacomo Borno. He was born Ponte to Tomaso Bornini. His early mentors are unknown. He married Margherita Gelmini from Ponte in 1659 and had about a half dozen children.
Charley Trujillo.  Charley Trujillo (born November 6 1949) is a Chicano novelist editor publisher and filmmaker. He is known for his novel and documentary Soldados: Chicanos in Việt Nam.
Giuseppe Staffa.  Giuseppe Staffa (1807-1877) was an Italian composer and conductor. He is best remembered for his seven operas which he composed between 1827 and 1852. He was active as a conductor in Naples at the Teatro del Fondo and Teatro Nuovo. One of his students was Enrico Bevignani.
Isabel Florence Hapgood.  Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21 1851 – June 26 1928) was a U.S. writer and translator of Russian and French texts.
Doruntina Disha.  Doruntina Disha (Serbo-Croat: Doruntina Diša) is an Kosovan-Albanian singer.
Ed Roland.  Edgar Eugene Roland Jr. (born August 3 1963) is an American musician singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Collective Soul. He is also active with a new project Ed Roland and the Sweet Tea Project.
Bobby Bryant (musician).  Bobby Bryant (May 19 1934 – June 10 1998) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
James Blish.  James Benjamin Blish (May 23 1921 – July 30 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
Cuban Link.  Felix Delgado (born December 18 1974) better known by his stage name Cuban Link is a Cuban rapper.
Joe Sorren.  Joe Sorren (born 1970 Chicago) began painting in 1989.Sorren grew up in Arizona and began painting in 1991 the year he had his daughter Martha. Two years later he earned a BFA from Northern Arizona University. His artwork has appeared in various publications including The New Yorker Time and Rolling Stone. Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records have also used his art.His first solo exhibit was in 1995 and had his first retrospective in 2010.
Abby Gaines.  Abby Gaines is a romance novelist from New Zealand.Gaines wrote her first romance novel as a teenager and submitted it to Mills and Boon for publication; the company rejected it. After her graduation from high school she attended university where she studied French German Japanese and Spanish for a B.A.. Following university she worked for IBM where she met her husband.
Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet).  Paul Blackburn (November 24 1926 – September 13 1971) was an American poet. He influenced contemporary literature through his poetry translations and the encouragement and support he offered to fellow poets.
Laurindo Rabelo.  Laurindo José da Silva Rabelo (July 8 1826 — September 28 1864) was a Brazilian Ultra-Romantic poet teacher and medician. Famous for his lundu lyrics and satires he won the epithet of the Brazilian Bocage and because of his physical appearance the nickname Poeta-Lagartixa (Gecko-Poet).He is the patron of the 26th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Burt Styler.  Burt Malcolm Styler (February 20 1925 – June 13 2011) was an American television and film screenwriter and producer. His film credits include Bob Hope comedy Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number! and such popular TV series as The Life of Riley My Favorite Martian Mayberry R.F.D. Gilligan's Island McHale's Navy Chico and The Man M*A*S*H The Carol Burnett Show and Too Close For Comfort.
Tom Franklin (author).  Thomas Gerald Franklin (Dickinson Alabama 1962) is an American crime fiction writer. He is author of the novels Hell at the Breech' (2003)' Smonk (2006) and Crooked Letter Crooked Letter (2010) which won the CWA Gold Dagger Award. In addition Franklin's first book is collection of short stories Poaches (199). He is the husband of poet Beth Ann Fennelly and his next published novel is co-written with her entitled The Tilted World (2013).
Ning Jing.  Ning Jing (born April 27 1972) is a Chinese actress of Han and Nakhi descent.
Scout Niblett.  Emma Louise Niblett (born 29 September 1973) better known by the stage name Scout Niblett is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Niblett debuted in 2001 with her first full-length studio album Sweet Heart Fever and went on to release four more studio albums over the next nine years including collaborations with Steve Albini Chris Saligoe Will Oldham and Kristian Goddard.
Sohrab Fakir.  Sohrab Fakir [ Sindhi: سھراب فڨیر (1934 ] - October 23 2009) was a Sindhi Sufi singer. His full name is Sohrab Fakir Khaskhely. He was born in 1934 in Khairpur Mir's. His father Hamal Fakir was a disciple of Kush Khair Muhammad Fakir.
Chase Masterson.  Chase Masterson born Christianne Carafano on February 26 1963 in Colorado Springs Colorado is an American actress singer and voice actor.
Sakurako Kimino.  Sakurako Kimino (公野 櫻子 Kimino Sakurako) is a female Japanese novelist. She is notable for the creation of Sister Princess and Strawberry Panic! two very successful bishōjo series where almost all the characters in both series are young girls. She has had her work serialized in the Japanese bishōjo magazine Dengeki G's Magazine published by MediaWorks. She is also the creator of the light novel series Baby Princess currently serializing in Dengeki G's Magazine.
Cyndi Thomson.  Cyndi Thomson (born October 19 1976) is an American country music artist. Thomson wrote songs with songwriter Tommy Lee James and in 2000 she signed with Capitol Records Nashville as a recording artist. She released her first album My World in 2001 and her debut single What I Really Meant to Say became a number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. She later abandoned her recording career in 2002 but resumed recording in 2006.
Giuseppe Sacconi.  Giuseppe Sacconi (Montalto delle Marche July 5 1854- 1905) was an Italian architect. He is best known as the designer of the monument of Vittorio Emanuele II in the centre of Rome.The monument was erected amid both extravagant praise and dismay. Time has not proven to generate more respect for this massive work. He was born in Montalto delle Marche.
Rebecca Prichard.  Rebecca Prichard (born 1971) is English author and playwright and one of the major contributors to the In-yer-face theatre movement.
Costas Evangelatos.  Costas Evangelatos is a Greek artist and poet born in Argostoli in 1957 but he is originated by his father side from Lixouri Kefalonia. He studied law at Athens University painting and aesthetic theory of modern art in Manhattan (New York City). From 1986 until 1993 he was the artistic director of the DADA Gallery in Athens and in 1990 founded the art group ART STUDIO EST.Along with painting has worked internationally in the fields of Performance Body Art Happening and Mail art.
Guji Lorenzana.  Gregory Mangindin Lorenzana Jr. who is better known as Guji (pronounced Goo-G) Lorenzana (born May 11 1980 in Long Beach California U.S.) is an actor theater actor host former radio DJ for Mellow 94.7 (2008-2010) freelance magazine contributor former commercial model and a Filipino alternative rock pop rock singer.As a talent of ABS-CBN's Star Magic (aka Star Circle) Batch 16 where he was officially launched on ASAP 08 on August 17 2008 Guji is now seen on various ABS-CBN television shows and publications. 
Cofield Mundi.  Cofield Mundi is a South African singer and songwriter born in Johannesburg South Africa. Raised in a musical family she began singing and performing from a young age and wrote her first song at the age of 12. Her aunt is South African born actress and singer Jill Kirkland famous for her role in the movie Katrina.Cofield's has released two albums Ceremony and The Big Question through Universal Music Group South Africa.Both albums were nominated for South African Music Awards.
James Cummins (author).  James Cummins is a Canadian author and businessperson. In 2009 Cummins was awarded the Canadian Authors Association's BookTelevision Emerging Writer Award for his book Ambrosia: About a Culture. He began his professional writing career as a playwright in 2000 and has published books on Electronica music legal history business spirituality and philosophy.
Lynn Messina.  Lynn Messina is an American author.
Zheng Shuang (born 1991).  Zheng Shuang (born 22 August 1991) is a Chinese actress and singer. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2011.
Adolf Ziegler.  Adolf Ziegler (16 October 1892 in Bremen – 18 September 1959 in Varnhalt today Baden-Baden) was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of Degenerate art made by most of the German modern artists. He was the favoured painter of Hitler.
Jackiem Joyner.  Jackiem Joyner (born February 9 1980) also known by the stage name Lil Man Soul is a saxophonist and flute player from Norfolk Virginia United States. He has worked in contemporary jazz gospel and world music.
Predikador.  Predikador (born Víctor Delgado) is a reggaeton producer from Arraiján Panama. He is signed to Mas Flow Inc.
Cornelius Willemse.  Cornelis Wilhelmus Joannes Maria Cornelius Willemse (30 September 1871 Rotterdam - 11 July 1942 Manhattan) was a New York City policeman and detective from 1900 to 1925. He was the author of two memoirs Behind the Green Lights(1931) and A Cop Remembers(1933). His books are among the few reliable first-hand accounts of the criminal gangs and police methods of that time.
Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov.  Alexander Ignatyevich Tarasov-Rodionov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Игна́тьевич Тара́сов-Родио́нов) October 7 1885 – September 3 1938 was a Russian/Soviet writer.
Julie Anne Peters.  Julie Anne Peters (born January 16 1952) is an American author of young adult fiction. Peters has published 20 works mostly novels geared toward children and adolescents many of which deal with LGBT issues. In addition to the United States Peters's books have been published in numerous countries including South Korea China Croatia Germany France Italy Indonesia Turkey and Brazil.
Maria Susanna Cummins.  Maria Susanna Cummins (April 9 1827 – October 1 1866) was an American novelist.
DJ Screw.  Robert Earl DJ Screw Davis Jr. (July 20 1971 – November 16 2000) was an American hip hop DJ who was based in Houston Texas. He was known as a central figure in the Houston hip hop community and was the creator of the now-famous Chopped and Screwed DJ technique. This creation led to his nickname of The Originator.Davis was recognized for his various mixtapes and albums mostly on a regional level until after his death.
MIQ.  MIQ (三玖 Miku born October 3 [year unknown]) also previously known as MIO is a Japanese pop singer and vocal trainer from Minato Tokyo. She is known for her performances on the soundtracks of various anime notably the theme songs of Sunrise's Aura Battler Dunbine and Heavy Metal L-Gaim. The throaty soulful timbre of her voice was uncharacteristic of Japanese vocalists of the 1980s (although it has become more commonplace today).
Elchin Azizov.  Elchin Azizov (Azerbaijani: Elçin Əzizov born Elchin Yashar ogly Azizov January 1 1975) is an Azerbaijani opera baritone From 1992 to 2001 he was a member of the Parni iz Baku team of the Russian TV show KVN. Since 2008 he has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
Thomas Johnson (botanist).  Thomas Johnson (died 1644) was an English botanist and a royalist colonel in the English Civil War. He has been called the father of British field botany.
Alan Licht.  Alan Licht (born June 6 1968) is an American guitarist and composer whose work combines elements of pop noise free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.
Akarigbo of Remo.  The Akarigbo of Remo or Lord of Remo is a title of Kingship attributed to the Obas or Lords of the Yoruba town of Sagamu (pronounced Shagamu). This town and its surrounding areas are part of a larger community known as the Ijebu Kingdom.
John Pål Inderberg.  John Pål Inderberg (born 6 August 1950 Steinkjer Norway) is a versatile saxophonist with a natural spontaneity of expression and one of the leading traditional musicians in Norway. His playing synthethises many different styles not least when in partnership with Norwegian and American jazz musicians - players as contrasting as Gil Evans and Lee Konitz.
M.I.  Jude Abaga better known by stage name M.I meaning Mr Incredible is a Nigerian Hip hop Artist. He has won Several Awards including the MTV Africa Music Awards 2009 and was Nominated for BET 2010 Awards for the Best International Act Category. He rose to prominence in 2006 when his song Crowd Mentality became popular in his hometown Jos. He is signed to Chocolate City music label. On the 11th of December 2008 M.I released his critically acclaimed debut album Talk About It.
Audrey Williams.  Audrey Mae Sheppard (February 28 1923 – November 4 1975) better known as Audrey Williams was an American musician and the first wife of country music icon Hank Williams Sr. mother of Hank Williams Jr. and grandmother of Hank Williams III and Holly Williams.Audrey and Hank were married from December 15 1944 until July 10 1952 when their divorce was finalized.
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire.  Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire was an American band fronted by musician Andrew Bird. After releasing his first solo album Music of Hair Bird appeared on three albums by Squirrel Nut Zippers before taking becoming the bandleader for Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire released Thrills on Rykodisc in 1997 shortly followed by second album Oh! The Grandeur in 1998.
Tom Rigney.  Tom Rigney is a San Francisco Bay Area musician specializing in Zydeco and Cajun music. He is an electric violinist and Cajun fiddler.He is the leader of the American roots music band Tom Rigney and Flambeau.In February 2004 his music was featured in the Alameda Civic Ballet production of Fiestive Les Bons Temps (The Good Times) at the Alameda Education Foundation Mardi Gras Gala.
Mitch Allan.  Mitchell Allan Scherr professionally known as Mitch Allan is the lead singer songwriter guitarist and producer of rock band SR-71 and the lead guitarist backing vocalist and producer of alternative project Satellite.
Black Prophet.  Black Prophet born Kenneth Wilberforce Zonto Bossman on 3 April 1977 in Accra Ghana is a Ghanaian reggae music composer and a member of the Rastafari movement.
Yuko Shimizu (illustrator).  Yuko Shimizu (清水裕子) is an award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. She was selected as one of “100 Japanese People The World Respects” (世界が尊敬する日本人１０0) by Newsweek Japan in 2009. Among comic fans she is best known for her ongoing monthly covers for The Unwritten and her cover art for P. Craig Russell's comic book adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: The Dream Hunters published by Vertigo (DC Comics).
Jose Angelo Gellada.  Jose Angelo Chua Gellada better known by his nickname Sheldon is the bassist of the former band Hale. He currently resides in Parañaque.
Edgar Samuel Paxson.  Edgar Samuel Paxson (April 25 1852 – November 9 1919) was an American frontier painter scout soldier and writer based mainly in Montana. He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting Custer's Last Stand.
Andre Canniere.  Andre Canniere (born 02/20/1978 in Coudersport Pennsylvania) is an American trumpet player and composer. He is based in London England where he's lived since 2008. Canniere has toured throughout the United States and Europe performing at Carnegie Hall Birdland the London Jazz Festival the Hague Jazz Festival and the Rochester International Jazz Festival among others.
Ashley Gearing.  Ashley Gearing (born May 15 1991 in Springfield Massachusetts) is an American country music artist.Ashley Gearing made her chart debut in 2003 with the song Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You? which peaked at No. 36 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Eleven years old at the time she became the youngest solo artist to enter the country charts breaking a record held by Brenda Lee.
Melvin Helitzer.  Melvin Helitzer (October 18 1924 - April 11 2009) was a professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University where he taught sports publicity promotion and public relations in the university's graduate school of recreation and sports sciences.
Jessica Andersen.  Jessica Andersen (b. 1973 in Massachusetts USA) is an American writer of mystery and medicine since 2003. She has a PhD in Genetics.
Richard Serra.  Richard Serra (born November 2 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca New York and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
W. Andrew Robinson.  W. Andrew Robinson (born 1957) is a British author and former newspaper editor.Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School Eton College where he was a King's Scholar University College Oxford where he read Chemistry and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is the son of Neville Robinson an Oxford physicist and Daphne Robinson.Robinson first visited India in 1975 and has been involved with the country's culture ever since.
Andy Bellin.  Andy Bellin is a director and screenwriter whose credits include the 2013 film Lovelace. He is the son of plastic surgeon Dr. Howard Bellin and model Christina Bellin.
Video Game Pianist.  Martin Leung (born 1986) also known as the Video Game Pianist or the Blindfolded Pianist is one of the first pianists to gain worldwide recognition for playing popular video game music on the piano both in concert venues and in online videos.Unlike many recognized musicians Leung's breakthrough occurred almost entirely online when on 2 July 2004 a video of him playing the Super Mario Bros. theme blindfolded debuted on eBaum's World and later appeared on numerous viral video websites.
Morgan Oey.  Morgan Oey or Handi Morgan Winata (born in Singkawang West Kalimantan on May 25 1990) better known by his first name Morgan is an Indonesian singer dancer actor and model. He was past member of the Indonesian boy band SM*SH since October.
Paul Bollenback.  Paul Bollenback (born 1959) is a jazz guitarist who has appeared on Entertainment Tonight The Tonight Show The Today Show Joan Rivers and Good Morning America and has performed with musicians including Charlie Byrd Arturo Sandoval Herb Ellis Stanley Turrentine Spyro Gyra's Scott Ambush and Della Reese. He is cited as a jazz guitarist who uses modern quartal harmony.
Evangelista Martinotti.  Evangelista Martinotti (Monferrato Piedmont 1634-1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Salvator Rosa and often painted lansscapes. His brother Francesco (1636-1374) a figure painter also trained with Rosa.
Mary Ann Martin.  Mary Ann Martin (5 July 1817–2 January 1884) was a New Zealand community leader teacher and writer. She was born in London London England on 5 July 1817.
Mort Weisinger.  Mortimer Weisinger (April 25 1915 – May 7 1978) was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features as Aquaman Green Arrow and Johnny Quick served as story editor for the Adventures of Superman television series and compiled the often-revised paperback 1001 Valuable Things You Can Get Free.
Andrea Habay.  Andrea Habay (1883–1941) was a French film actor. Habay appeared in more forty films during the silent era mostly in Italy. He also directed three films during the early 1920s. He played the role of Petronius in the 1925 epic Quo Vadis one of his final films.
Canti Lau.  Lau Sek Ming (Chinese: 劉錫明; pinyin: Liu Xi Ming; born 16 July 1964 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong actor whose ancestral home is Chaoyang Guangdong China.
Fushigi Yamada.  Kyoko Yamada (山田 恭子 Yamada Kyōko born November 11 1959 in Tokyo Japan) better known by her stage name Fushigi Yamada (山田 ふしぎ Yamada Fushigi) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce. Yamada is a graduate of Tokyo University of Science.
Doug Howard (musician).  Doug Howard (born May 2 1956) is an American bassist vocalist and songwriter. He is best known for his work as a performing/recording musician and occasional co-writer with groups and artists such as Touch Stun Leer Todd Rundgren Utopia and The Edgar Winter Group. He also played the role as the singing narrator Songster in the 1987 live production of the Masters of the Universe Power Tour based upon the Mattel He-Man series action figures.
Evan Taubenfeld.  Evan David Taubenfeld (born June 27 1983) is an American singer-songwriter best known for being Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist music director and frequent collaborator. Taubenfeld's debut album Welcome to the Blacklist Club was released on May 18 2010 on Warner Bros Records.
Hideyuki Kurata.  Hideyuki Kurata (倉田 英之 Kurata Hideyuki born July 9 1968 in Ibara Okayama) is a Japanese novelist manga and anime script writer of such works as Read or Die Now and Then Here and There Kamichu! and Cloth Road. He has been working in Studio ORPHEE Inc since 2003.
Ida Kohlmeyer.  Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer (3 November 1912 – 29 January 1997) was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana. Notably her work is held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts the Smithsonian American Art Museum the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Ms.
Gary McSpadden.  Gary McSpadden (born January 26 1943 Mangum Oklahoma United States) is an American pastor singer songwriter producer television host and motivational speaker. He has musical roots in quartet music and Southern gospel with The Statesmen The Oak Ridge Boys The Imperials The Bill Gaither Trio and The Gaither Vocal Band. McSpadden's songs include Jesus Lord To Me” “Hallelujah Praise The Lamb” and “No Other Name But Jesus”. He has produced albums for numerous groups.
Aharon Appelfeld.  Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן אפלפלד‎; born Ervin Appelfeld February 16 1932) is an Israeli novelist.
Vin Garbutt.  Vin Garbutt (born Vincent Paul Garbutt 20 November 1947 in South Bank Middlesbrough) is an English folk singer and songwriter. A significant part of his repertoire consists of protest songs covering topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland (Troubles of Erin) unemployment and abortion.
Steven Savile.  Steven Savile (born October 12 1969 in Newcastle England) is a British fantasy horror and thriller writer and editor living just outside of Stockholm Sweden. He emigrated in 1997. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies. Savile supports the London-based football club Tottenham Hotspur.
Carlos Goez.  Carlos Goez was the founder of the original Pomander Book Shop a rather unprepossessing Dickensian storefront The Pomander as it was known was located at 252 West 95th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side next to the Thalia one of New York's first repertory movie theatres.
Walter Beasley.  Walter Beasley is an American saxophonist a professor of music at the Berklee College of Music and founder of Affable Publishing and Affable Records.
Jason Chatfield.  Jason Chatfield (born Perth 1984-) is an Australian editorial and comic strip cartoonist and stand-up comedian based in Melbourne Victoria. At 23 he became Australia's most widely-syndicated cartoonist appearing daily in over 120 newspapers in 34 countries. His work covers the areas of comic strips political cartoons book illustrations commissioned caricatures and Live/On-the-spot Caricatures as entertainment at corporate events.
Rebecca Stephens.  Rebecca Stephens (born Rebecca Louise Stephens on 30 July 1982) is a singer formerly with British band The Pipettes where she was commonly known as RiotBecki.On 18 April 2008 it was announced in a blog post on the band's Myspace that Becki and bandmate Rosay had left the band to pursue other musical projects.
Máire MacNeill.  Máire MacNeill (7 December 1904 – 15 May 1987) was an Irish journalist folklorist and translator. She is best known for her magisterial study of the Irish harvest festival The Festival of Lughnasa (1962 1983). She was born at Portmarnock County Dublin the second daughter of historian and political figure Eoin MacNeill and Agnes Moore. After the family moved into the city she attended Muckross Park school. She received her BA in Celtic Studies from University College Dublin in 1925.
Dean Brown (guitarist).  www.deanbrown.comDean Brown (born August 19 1955) is an American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician.
Rachel de Solla.  Rachel de Solla was a British actress.
Gerard Bouwhuis.  Gerard Bouwhuis is a Dutch pianist b. 1954 best known for his work on contemporary music. A graduate from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Geoffrey Douglas Madge he is a member of the Xenakis Ensemble. Composers such as Louis Andriessen Cornelis de Bondt and Martijn Padding have written works for him.
Matt Brandstein.  Matt Brandstein (born 29 January 1972) is an American writer and occasional Bollywood film actor. He is most known for his writing of the popular Jewish children's comic book series Mendy and the Golem. Brandstein often employs the use of his Hebrew name Moshe in honor of his Jewish heritage.
David Stones.  David Blake (born July 31 1988) better known by his stage name David Stones is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn New York. He is the co-founder of District of Hip Hop also known as the DOHH Squad and the younger cousin of Boot Camp Clik leader and Duck Down Music Inc. Co-CEO Buckshot.David started receiving notoriety in 2010 while still known by the pseudonym Stones after remixing Diddy Dirty Money's hit song Hello Good Morning and releasing a music video to accompany it.
Noel Zancanella.  Noel Zancanella is an American songwriter and record producer based in Los Angeles California.Since 2009 Zancanella has been signed to Patriot Games Publishing the company founded by OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. The signing came through Zancanella co-writing OneRepublic’s hit “Good Life.” That song became the third single from the pop-rock quintet’s second album Waking Up (Mosley/Interscope 2009).
Carter Cornelius.  Carter Cornelius (later a.k.a. Prince Gideon Israel; October 5 1948 – November 7 1991) was a rhythm and blues musician.
Dorothy Fadiman.  Dorothy Fadiman (born 1939 Pennsylvania) is an American documentary filmmaker director and producer.
Étienne Pélabon.  Étienne Pélabon (in occitan : Estève Pelabon - Tolon 25 January 1745 - Marseille ? 1 November 1808) was a provençal occitan-language writer from the 18th century. He is above all remembered for his play Maniclo (classical norm : Manicla).Maniclo was staged for the first time in 1789 and according to occitan schorlar Robèrt Lafont was print in 12 000 exemplars.
Nibbs Carter.  Timothy 'Nibbs' Carter (Cleethorpes 28 November 1966) British born bassist for heavy metal band Saxon. He is the most enduring bass player in Saxon history appearing on eleven of their studio albums. Furthermore he played an important role in the renewal process of the musical style Saxon embraced from 1990 onwards.
Indy Sagu.  Inderpal Singh Sagu (born July 25 1980) better known by his stage name Indy Sagu is a British Sikh award winning record producer musician singer and DJ. Sagu has made a global name for himself as a leading Asian pioneer of fusion genre his urbanized record production infuses the sounds and incorporates the elements musical instruments and hook lines of traditional bhangra with urban western sounds primarily with a special emphasis on American hip hop.
Moorkoth Kunhappa.  Murkoth Kunhappa is a bureaucrat-turned-journalist born on May 14 1905 as youngest son of Moorkoth Kumaran. Kunhappa's was a dominant presence in the State's cultural scene when he served Malayala Manorama a leading malayalam daily from 1966 until his demise in 1993. He had been an Associate Editor of this newspaper for 27 years. Just like his father he was also a follower of Sree Narayana Guru.
Dinah Washington.  Dinah Washington born Ruth Lee Jones (August 29 1924 – December 14 1963) was an American singer and pianist who has been cited as the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s. Primarily a jazz vocalist she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues R&B and traditional pop music and gave herself the title of Queen of the Blues. She is a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Katrina Kraven.  Katrina Kraven (born October 17 1977) is an American former pornographic actress. She is among the few adult film performers to ever garner AVN Award nominations for Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year in the same year.
Francesco Gonin.  Francesco Gonin (Turin December 16 1808- Giaveno near Susa Piedmont September 14 1889) was an Italian painter engraver and scenographer.His father was of French stock and his mother Sara Castanier was from Germany. He initially studied under Giovanni Battista Biscarra in the Accademia Albertina and later learned fresco painting from Luigi Vacca. He married the daughter of the scenographer of the Teatro Regio at Turin.
Stanley Clarke.  Stanley Clarke (born June 30 1951) is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass as well as for his numerous film and television scores. He is best known for his work with the fusion band Return to Forever and his role as a bandleader in several trios and ensembles.
Simpi Linganna.  Simpi Linganna (1905 – May 5 1993) was a writer of the Kannada language. He is known for his immense contribution for folk literature. He was the President of 62nd Kannada Sahitya Sammelana which was held at Koppal in 1992.
Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge.  Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge (1908–1981) was a prolific writer whose career spanned nearly fifty years. Her work appeared in major magazines plus she was the author of fifteen books—all published under her maiden name of Hildegarde Dolson.
Washboard Sam.  Robert Brown (July 15 1910 – November 6 1966) known professionally as Washboard Sam was an American blues singer and musician.
Fred J. Barnes.  Fred James Barnes (died 1917) was a British songwriter. He co-wrote numerous songs with R. P. Weston and Fred Godfrey.
Cordy Ryman.  Cordy Ryman (born 1971 New York City) an artist based in New York City. Ryman earned his BFA with Honors in Fine Arts and Art Education from The School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997. He is the son of artist Robert Ryman.
Bunta Sugawara.  Bunta Sugawara (菅原 文太 Sugawara Bunta born August 16 1933) is a Japanese actor from Sendai Miyagi Prefecture who has appeared in almost 200 feature films. He is the father of one son actor Kaoru Sugawara and two daughters.
Robert Greenberger.  Robert Bob Greenberger (born July 24 1958) known for his work as an editor for Comics Scene Starlog and Weekly World News as well as holding executive positions at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. He is also an elected office holder in his home of Fairfield Connecticut.
Hayley-Marie Coppin.  Hayley-Marie Coppin (born 23 April 1983[citation needed]) is an English glamour model from Essex England known for her topless and nude modelling as well as softcore pornography. Coppin began her modelling career in 2003 with Page 3 appearances in The Sun and The Daily Star.
Edward E. Simbalist.  Edward E. Simbalist (5 September 1943 – 12 March 2005) was a role-playing game designer.
Daisy Dern.  Daisy Dern is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Records in 2002 Dern released one single Gettin' Back to You which charted on the Hot Country Songs charts. An album for Mercury was never released on the label although she later released it independently.
Jean Tinguely.  Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.
Nick Gentry.  Nicholas James Gentry (born 29 May 1980) is a British artist from London. Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials. He states that through this process contributor artist and viewer come closer together.
Jérôme Tharaud.  Jérôme Tharaud (18 May 1874 Saint-Junien Haute-Vienne - 23 January 1953 Paris) was a French writer. He was elected the fifteenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1938.
Alice Chalifoux.  Alice Chalifoux (January 22 1908 – July 31 2008) was Principal Harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra from 1931–1974 and for many years was its only female member.
Shūko Honami.  Shūko Honami (本阿弥周子 Honami Shūko) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 10th Yokohama Film Festival for Ureshi Hazukashi Monogatari.
Deborah Biancotti.  Deborah Biancotti is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
Tucker McGuire.  Tucker McGuire (born 29 January 1913 in Winchester Virginia USA - died 3 August 1988 in London England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She was born as Anne Tucker McGuire.
Matt Taylor (musician).  Matt Taylor is an Australian blues musician. He is best known for his work with long-lasting blues band Chain and for the hit song I Remember When I Was Young.
Masahiko Tanaka.  Masahiko Tanaka (田中 正彦 born on October 1 1954) is a Japanese voice actor.
Li Yu (director).  Li Yu (Chinese: 李玉; pinyin: Lǐ Yù) (born December 2 1973) is a female Chinese film director and screenwriter. Li began her career in entertainment at a young age serving as a presenter at a local TV station. After college she worked for CCTV where she directed television programs before moving onto documentaries and eventually feature films.
Angelo Maria Mazzia.  Angelo Maria Mazzia (Roggiano-Gravina Province of Cosenza October 1823 – Naples 1891) was an Italian painter. He was son of the painter Francesco Mazzia.
Richard Halliburton.  Richard Halliburton (January 9 1900 – presumed dead after March 24 1939) was an American traveler adventurer and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—36 cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career.
Amy Gulick.  Amy Gulick is an American nature and wildlife photographer.
Jamal Igle.  Jamal Yaseem Igle is an American comic book artist editor art director and animation storyboard artist. He is primarily known for his pencilling inking and coloring work on books such as Supergirl and Firestorm.
Josiah Flynt.  Josiah Flynt (properly Josiah Flynt Willard) (Jan.231869–Jan.201907) was an American sociologist and author born at Appleton Wisconsin. He was educated at the University of Berlin in 1890–1895 and after several years of experience as a professional vagrant published in 1899 Tramping with Tramps a picaresque study.
Oscar Millard.  English writer Oscar Millard (1908 – 1990) found success in Hollywood when he collaborated on the screenplay to the 1949 hit Come to the Stable a comedy about nuns. He fared better the following year when he picked up an Academy Award nomination for the gritty war movie The Frogmen. Millard's output after that was less successful though interesting: the James Stewart thriller No Highway in the Sky (1951) and Otto Preminger's full-guns-blazing femme fatale movie Angel Face (1952).
Aimé Charles Irvoy.  Aimé Charles Irvoy (born on 25 November 1824 in Vendôme Loir-et-Cher died on 28 March 1898 in Grenoble Isère) was a French sculptor who lived and worked in Grenoble. He was the pupil of Étienne-Jules Ramey Auguste Dumont and Victor Sappey. In 1854 he won the second Grand prix de Rome. In 1856 as the post of school director of architectural sculpture in Grenoble was vacant he obtained this position and kept it for forty-one years.
Michael Whelan.  Michael Whelan (born June 29 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s he has pursued a fine art career selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009 the first living artist so honored.
Carla Porta Musa.  Carla Porta Musa (15 March 1902 – 10 October 2012) was an Italian essayist and poet. Musa was born in Como Italy to Maria Casella and Enrico Musa a well known engineer in Milan. Her passion for books started on her sixth birthday when her father gave her a small library which she shared with her three siblings. She studied in Lausanne Switzerland Bushey United Kingdom and Paris France.She died on 10 October 2012 at Valduce Hospital in Como from pneumonia complications.
Bret Easton Ellis.  Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7 1964) is an American novelist screenwriter and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style.
Jonathan Cain.  Jonathan Cain (born Jonathan Leonard Friga February 26 1950 Chicago Illinois) is an American musician best known for his work with The Babys Journey and Bad English.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss.  Kathleen E. Woodiwiss née Kathleen Erin Hogg (June 3 1939 – July 6 2007) was a U.S. writer pioneered the historical romance genre with the 1972 publication of her novel The Flame and the Flower.
Glen Drover.  Glen Drover (born May 25 1969) is a heavy metal guitarist from Missisauga Ontario Canada where he currently resides. Drover is best known as the former lead guitarist in Megadeth and King Diamond as well as his own band Eidolon along with his brother Shawn Drover.
Em Stone.  Emily Stone (often credited as Em Stone; born July 22 1978) is an American comic book illustrator most known for artwork on Devil’s Due Publishing's HACK/Slash series.
Chetes.  Luis Gerardo Garza Cisneros (born September 19 1979 in Monterrey Nuevo León México) better known as his stage name Chetes is a Mexican rock musician well known for being the leader of the influential Avanzada Regia rock bands Zurdok Vaquero and eventually his own solo career.
Mike Campbell (musician).  For other people named Mike Campbell (including another musician) see Michael Campbell (disambiguation).Michael Wayne Mike Campbell (born February 1 1950) is an American guitarist songwriter and record producer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Dušan Jovanović (theatre director).  Dušan Jovanović (born 1 October 1939) is a Slovene theatre director playwright and essayist. He is known for his experimental and grotesque saryrical theatre. Since 2005 he has also been the president of the Prešeren Foundation.Jovanović was born in Belgrade in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Henry Oliver Walker.  Henry Oliver Walker (May 14 1843 – January 14 1929) was an American painter of figures and portraits best known for his mural decorations. His works include a series of paintings honoring various poets for the Library of Congress and decorations for public buildings such as the Appellate Court House in New York City Bowdoin College in Maine the Massachusetts State House the Minnesota State Capitol and the Court House in Newark New Jersey.
Ryan Shaw.  Ryan Christopher Shaw (born 25 December 1980) is a soul musician from Georgia USA.
Helen Gardner (critic).  Professor Dame Helen Louise Gardner DBE (13 February 1908–4 June 1986) was an English literary critic and academic. She was best known for her work on the poets John Donne and T. S. Eliot.
Rangeya Raghav.  Rangeya Raghav (रांगेय राघव) (17 January 1923 – 12 September 1962) birth name Tirumalla Nambakkam Viraraghava Acharya was born in Agra a city of Uttar Pradesh state India. A prominent Hindi writer of the 20th century he completed his post-graduation studies from St. John's College Agra and later completed his Ph.D. on Guru Gorakhnath. He started writing at the age of 13 years and during his short life of almost 40 years he was endowed with a number of prizes.
Mili Jay.  Mili Jay (born December 23 1983) is a Slovak pornographic actress. In 2006 she won the Best Starlette Ninfa Prize for her performance in Las Perversiones de Silvia Saint.
Warner Norton Grubb III.  Warner Norton Grubb III is an American author educational economist and professor emeritus. His academic focus has been inequality in society particularly institutional sources of inequality.
Cliff Dorfman.  Cliff Dorfman is an American screenwriter film director and actor best known for his work on HBO's Entourage and the 2011 feature film Warrior. Dorfman's entertainment industry career began in the 1990s with recurring roles on 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210.
Marie Hamsun.  Marie Hamsun (born Marie Andersen) (19 November 1881 - 4 August 1969) was a Norwegian actress and writer. Marie Andersen was born in Elverum Hedmark Norway. She was the eldest child in an affluent family. In 1897 the family moved to Christiania where her father was involved in the property trade for twenty years until he bought the farm in Åneby in Nittedal. She attended Ragna Nielsen's private school where in 1901 she took final exams.
Neil M. Gunn.  Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific novelist critic and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century (with the possible exception of Lewis Grassic Gibbon the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell).
Carrie Lucas.  Carrie Lucas is an American female R&B musician born in Carmel California. In 1976 she was signed to Soul Train Records. Lucas made six albums over seven years with Soul Train and Solar Records.
Trond Granlund.  Trond Granlund (born in Oslo Norway on 29 July 1950) is a Norwegian rock and folk singer composer and guitarist.Granlund grew up on Torshov and Manglerud in Oslo and has lived in Lørenskog since 1968. Granlund started performing in 1973 releasing the independent Rock album. He released his debut solo self-titled album Trond Granlund in 1976 and has been prolific in releasing of albums.
Andy Caldwell.  Andy Caldwell is an American electronic house music DJ and producer.Andy Caldwell became known through the San Francisco House scene in the early part of the 2000s. First as a member of the live House act Soulstice and later as a solo artist. Andy has released his music on Om Records followed most recently with releases on his own label Uno Recordings.
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine.  Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine (French pronunciation: ​[ybɛʁ feliks tjefɛn]) is a French pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was born on 21 July 1948 in the town of Dole in the Jura département. Mostly shunned by television and radio he has built over the years – through word of mouth and frequent touring – a considerable following which allowed him to fill the 17000-seater Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy for an anniversary concert in 1998.
Steve J. Spears.  Steve J. Spears (22 January 1951 – 16 October 2007) was an Australian playwright actor writer and singer. His most famous work was The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin (1976). He was cited as one of Australia's most celebrated playwrights.
Rana Dasgupta.  Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury England) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge England and studied at Balliol College Oxford the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi India since 2001 with his partner Ms. Narula. In 2010 The Daily Telegraph called him one of Britain's best novelists under 40.
Olga Konkova.  Olga Konkova (born 25 August 1969 in Moscow Russia) is a Norwegian/Russian Jazz musician (piano) married to the bassist Per Mathisen and known from several recordings and collaboration with international Jazz musicians like Adam Nussbaum Gary Husband and Karin Krog.
Abhay Jodhpurkar.  Abhay Jodhpurkar is an Indian singer born in Madhya Pradesh on July 31. He is best known for his song Moongil Thottam a duet with Harini for the Tamil film Kadal.
Vladimir Vysotsky.  Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Russian: Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr sʲɪˈmʲɵnəvʲɪt͡ɕ vɨˈsot͡skʲɪj]; 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980) was a Soviet singer-songwriter poet and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet and Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street jargon. He was also a prominent stage and screen actor.
Andreas Horvath.  Andreas Horvath (born 25 August 1968 in Salzburg) is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker.
Ulrike Haage.  Ulrike Haage (born in Kassel lives in Berlin) is a German pianist and composer. She is also a producer for radio plays for which she does the dramaturgy and the music composition. Last but not least she is a sound artist.
Anthony Evans Jr..  Anthony Tyrone Evans Jr. (born July 14 1978) is an American Christian singer-songwriter. He is the son of mega church pastor and Christian radio personality Dr. Tony Evans who is the pastor of Oak Hill Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas.
DJ JoN-E.  Johney Brar (born July 25 1984 in Toronto Ontario) also known as DJ JoN-E is a North American South Asian DJ Producer and Radio Jockey. He is the host of the primetime Desi Live Radio Program which airs nationally in New York/New Jersey WRKS 98.7FM HD2 Washington WTOP 103.5FM HD2 Chicago WWWN 101.1FM HD2 San Jose/Bay Area KIOI 101.3FM HD2 and Los Angeles KPWR 105.9FM HD2 on HD Radio.
Jackie Orszaczky.  Miklós József Jackie Orszáczky (8 May 1948 Budapest Hungary – 3 February 2008 Sydney Australia) was a Hungarian-Australian musician arranger vocalist and record producer. His musical styles included jazz blues R&B funk and progressive rock; he mainly played bass guitar – from the early 1990s he used a modified piccolo bass – but also various other instruments.
Petar Preradović.  Petar Preradović (19 March 1818 – 18 August 1872) was a Croatian poet writer and military general in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was a part of the Illyrian movement which influenced much of his politics and work.
Israel Crosby.  Israel Crosby (January 19 1919 – August 11 1962) was an African-American jazz double-bassist born in Chicago Illinois best known as member of the Ahmad Jamal trio from 1957 to 1962. A close contemporary of Jimmy Blanton Crosby is less considered as a pioneer but his interactive playing in Jamal's trio and that of George Shearing shows how easily and fluently he displayed a modern approach to jazz double bass.
Colin Allen.  Colin Eric Allen (born 9 May 1938 Bournemouth Hampshire (now in Dorset) England) is an English blues drummer and songwriter.
Robert Graham (sculptor).  Robert Graham (August 19 1938 – December 27 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.
Norman Watt-Roy.  Norman Joseph Watt-Roy (born 15 February 1951 Bombay India) is the bassist for The Blockheads previously known as Ian Dury & the Blockheads.
KAWS (artist).  Brian Donnelly (born 1974) professionally known as KAWS is a New York-based artist and designer of limited edition toys and clothing. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn New York.
Cherine Anderson.  Cherine Anderson (born (1984-09-25)25 September 1984 Rockfort East Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican actress and dancehall/reggae vocalist.
John Steel (drummer).  For other persons named John Steele see John Steele (disambiguation).John Steel (born February 4 1941) was the original drummer of the band the Animals and is currently the only original band member he served as the bands drummer since its inception in 1963 his tenure with the band is 1963-1966 1975-1976 1983 and 1992-Present. Steel is the owner of the rights to the band's name by virtue of a trademark registration.
Pete Morisi.  Peter A. Morisi (January 7 1928 – October 12 2003) who sometimes went by the pseudonym PAM is an American comic book writer and artist who also spent much of his professional life as a New York City Police Department officer. He is best known as creator of the 1960s Charlton Comics series Peter Cannon ... Thunderbolt a thoughtful superhero comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture.
Hi-C (rapper).  Hi-C (born Crawford Wilkerson) is an American hip hop recording artist from Compton California. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with DJ Quik and AMG.
Girolamo Besozzi.  Girolamo Besozzi (b. 1745 or 1750 in Naples – d. 1788 in Paris) was an Italian composer and oboist and member of a renown family of wind players. Son of composer Gaetano Besozzi and nephew of Antonio Besozzi he became oboist in the court orchestra in Naples from 1765. By 1770 he moved to Paris where he played in the Concert Spirituel before the King of France. He was known as a composer of chamber music.
Roberto Cavalli.  Roberto Cavalli (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto kaˈvalːi]) (born 15 November 1940) is an Italian fashion designer from Florence. He is known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. He is the father of fashion designer Daniele Cavalli (b. 1986).
Mavis Fan.  Mavis Fan (Chinese: 范曉萱; pinyin: Fàn Xiǎoxuān; born (1977-02-27)27 February 1977) is a Taiwanese pop singer who also plays the flute and piano. She's also known as 'Bo Bo' or 'Little Witch'.Mavis began her singing career in the mid 90s as a pop idol singing songs catered mostly towards children and young teenagers. For example the lyrics to 'Health Song' encouraged daily exercise and was accompanied by a music video in the style of a fitness video.
Kim Esty.  Kim Esty is a Canadian Eurodance musician. She is best known for her 1993 song Summer in the Street which reached number 5 on the Canadian RPM Dance chart. She is also known for collaborating with The Boomtang Boys on two singles the top 10 hit Squeeze Toy and the top 30 hit Pictures.
William Grant Still.  William Grant Still (May 11 1895 – December 3 1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra the first to have a symphony (his first symphony) performed by a leading orchestra the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company and the first to have an opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as the Dean of African-American composers.
Friedrich Richard Petri.  Friedrich Richard Petri (1824–1857) was a German-born Texas painter whose works recorded life in the original German immigrant settlements and portrayed native American tribes in family settings.
Max Legrand.  Max Legrand (born February 26 1958) is a French artist. His fields are: painting installations poetry and Neo-expressionism. He has been influenced by Aimé Césaire Marc Chagall Cy Twombly A.R. Penck Henri Matisse Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. His career began in the late 1980s when he started to produce Neo-expressionist paintings in Hamburg. His greatest inspiration for writing and painting originates from jazz music.
Vernon Smith (screenwriter).  Vernon Smith a writer of American films is credited with contributing to 69 (mostly short) works between 1924 and 1951.Some of his most known short works are The Constabule Fight Night and All Night Long.
Povl Erik Carstensen.  Povl Erik Carstensen (born 20 February 1960 in Vangede) is a Danish comedian actor and jazz double bassist. Appearing both on film and TV and as a live stand-up he is best known for his role as Aage in the comic duo of John and Aage on TV 2 alongside Morten Lorentzen and for his work with Thomas Wivel. He directed and starred in the film Holes in the Soup in 1988 featuring John and Aage.
Walter Boeykens.  Sir Walter Boeykens (January 6 1938 – April 23 2013) was a Belgian conductor and a world renowned clarinetist. Boeykens' impressive discography including several critically acclaimed performances are testimony to his status as one of the most notable clarinetists of the 20th century. Boeykens remained active and was in concert frequently all around the world until his death in 2013.
George Grey Barnard.  George Grey Barnard (May 24 1863 – April 24 1938) often written George Gray Barnard was an American sculptor an excellent American sculptor the French art dealer René Gimpel reported in his diary (1923) very much engrossed in carving himself a fortune out of the trade in works of art. His major works are largely symbolical in character. His lasting monument is the architectural nucleus of The Cloisters New York City rather than any sculpture of his own.
Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz.  Armando Rodríguez Ruidíaz (born in Havana Cuba 1951) is a Cuban composer guitarist professor and bagpiper.
Alec Bathgate.  Alec Bathgate is a New Zealand musician who was a key member of The Enemy and Toy Love as well as being one half of Flying Nun Records act Tall Dwarfs alongside Chris Knox. As well as playing guitar in these bands he has released two solo albums.
Roy Mayorga.  Roy Maurice Mayorga (born April 6 1970 in New York City New York) is the drummer for the hard rock band Stone Sour. He is of Ecuadorian and Cuban descent.
Sanusi Pane.  Sanusi Pane (14 November 1905 – 2 January 1968) was an Indonesian writer journalist and historian. He was highly active in literary media sitting on the editorial boards of several publications. He has also been described as the most important dramatist from before the Indonesian National Revolution.
Ellen McIlwaine.  Ellen McIlwaine (born October 1 1945 Nashville Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.
Ruby Frost.  Ruby Frost (born 1987) (born Jane de Jong) is a New Zealand pop recording artist from Auckland New Zealand. In 2009 she won the nationwide music competition MTV 42Unheard giving her a recording contract with Universal Music New Zealand. Since then she has performed showcases at CMJ in New York and The Viper Room in LA; toured with Mt Eden Cut Copy Evermore and Van She; and opened for acts including Diplo Nero Kimbra Digitalism and Garbage.
Lætitia Sadier.  Lætitia Sadier (born 6 May 1968 sometimes known as Seaya Sadier) is a French musician best known as the singer of the band Stereolab.
Chris Soentpiet.  Chris Soentpiet (also known as Chris K. Soentpiet) is a Korean American children's book illustrator and author. He was born in Seoul South Korea in 1970. At age 8 he moved to Hawaii to live with his adoptive family. A year later the Soentpiets relocated to Portland Oregon. Soentpiet currently lives and works in New York City.Around Town a picture book written and illustrated by Soentpiet marked the artist's debut in 1994.
Douglas A. Blackmon.  Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
Al Dempsey.  Al Dempsey is an American author of historical fiction.
Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan.  Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan (1922-2010) was a British author who specialized in writing literature belonging to the mystery suspense or detective genre. She wrote under a number of pseudonyms including Clare Curzon Marie Duell and Rhona Petrie.
Brandy Clark.  Brandy Lynn Clark (born 1977) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Her songs have been recorded by Miranda Lambert The Band Perry Reba McEntire LeAnn Rimes Billy Currington Darius Rucker and Kacey Musgraves.
Willie Alexander.  Willie Loco Alexander (born January 13 1943) is an American singer and keyboard player based in Gloucester Massachusetts.He played with the Lost the Bagatelle and the Grass Menagerie before becoming a member of The Velvet Underground in late 1971 joining fellow Grass Menagerie alumni Doug Yule and Walter Powers and replacing Sterling Morrison who had gone off to pursue an academic career.With the Velvet Underground Alexander toured England Scotland and the Netherlands in support of then-current album Loaded. 
Jane de Gay.  Rev Dr Jane de Gay is a British academic and lecturer who has earned a reputation as an expert on the life and works of Virginia Woolf. Dr de Gay's works on Woolf include a series of articles and a 2006 book Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past published by Edinburgh University Press. Her work has been recognised by the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.
Shalom Hanoch.  Shalom Hanoch (Hebrew: שלום חנוך) (born September 1 1946) is an Israeli rock singer lyricist and composer.He is considered to be the father of Israeli rock and one of the most important artists of that area. His works have profoundly influenced Israeli rock and modern Israeli music. His collaboration with Arik Einstein produced some of the first Israeli rock albums. He is called the king of Israeli rock.
John Currin.  John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences including sources as diverse as the Renaissance popular culture magazines and contemporary fashion models. He often distorts or exaggerates the erotic forms of the female body.
Fred J. Broomfield.  Fred J Broomfield (2 April 1860 - 22 May 1941) was English-born Australian writer friend of Australian writer Henry Lawson and prominent co-member with him of the Dawn and Dusk Club which formed around poet Victor Daley; some meetings were held in his Darlinghurst home. Before coming to Sydney in the 1880s where he gained employment as an accountant Broomfield worked for the Kyneton (Victoria) Guardian and as a correspondent for the Melbourne Age.
Tim Hodgkinson.  Tim Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949 Salisbury Wiltshire England) is an English experimental music composer and performer principally on reeds and keyboards. He is best known as one of the core members of the British avant-rock group Henry Cow which he formed with Fred Frith in 1968. After the demise of Henry Cow he participated in a number of bands and projects including a solo recording career.
Howard Pyle.  Howard Pyle (March 5 1853 – November 9 1911) was an American illustrator and author primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington Delaware he spent the last year of his life in Florence Italy.In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art Science and Industry (now Drexel University). After 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The scholar Henry C.
Brooks Tipton.  James Brooks Tipton (born October 9 1981) is an American musician who has played in several bands. He toured and recorded with Unwed Sailor from 2003-2008. He appeared as keyboardist on their 2009 release Little Wars. He joined the American rock band Colour Revolt in early 2010. Brooks performed with the Epitaph band Thursday on their final tours in the United States Canada and Australia in 2011/2012.
Hiroe Suga.  Hiroe Suga (菅浩江 Suga Hiroe born April 21 1963 in Kyoto) is a Japanese science fiction and mystery writer. She was first published in 1981. She has won three Seiun Awards – in 1992 and 2001 for best novel of the year and in 1993 for best short story of the year. She is also a musician and a qualified dancer in the Wakayagi school of Japanese traditional dance.Music and dance have figured in her fiction.She is married to Gainax founder Yasuhiro Takeda.
Chris Murphy (violinist).  Chris Murphy is a violinist band leader and composer that has been composing and performing music for over 15 years.His music combines jazz blues country classical ethnic and electronic music. Chris has performed in over 40 U.S. states including Hawaii and in England and Ireland. He has lived worked and studied in New York City Boston Seattle and his current home Los Angeles USA.
Rafał Górski.  Rafał Górski (22 September 1973 - 4 July 2010) was a Polish historian writer anarchist trade union and housing activist.Górski was the author of several books and pamphlets on self-governance and cooperation. He was one of the most important figures in the contemporary Polish anarchist movement.
Sybil Andrews.  Sybil Andrews (19 April 1898 – 21 December 1992) was a British-born (Bury St Edmunds) Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts.
Howard Dyck.  Howard Dyck CM (November 17 1942) is a Canadian conductor and broadcaster. He was born in Winkler Manitoba. Based in Waterloo Ontario he has had a long and distinguished career in classical music. He is the Artistic Director Emeritus of the Grand Philharmonic Choir (formerly known as the Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic Choir) and chamber singers and is the Conductor Emeritus of the Bach Elgar Choir of Hamilton.
Elena Filatova.  Elena Vladimirovna Filatova (Russian: Елена Филатова Ukrainian: Олена Володимирівна Філатова; born 1974 in Ukraine Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian motorcyclist and photographer who uses the online nickname KiddOfSpeed. In 2004 she gained internet fame after publishing online a photo-essay presented as solo motorcycle rides through Chernobyl's zone of alienation. Her website gained popularity due to its mention on Slashdot and other online news sources.
Giorgio Scherer.  Giorgio Scherer (1831 - 1896) was an Italian painter mainly of genre paintings. He was born and resident in Parma. Among his many works he exhibited an oil canvas on 1870 in Parma depicting; Titian and Odoardo Farnese; Consolare gli afflitti; La mascherata; Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti. In 1882 a Florence; A lesson at the piano forte; An unfortunate news ; exhibited in the next year at the same Exposition. The son of the soldier ; Il merciaio ambulante exhibited in 1884 in Turin.
Daisy Voisin.  Daisy Voisin (23 September 1924 – 7 August 1991) was a Parang singer and composer.Voisin was born in Erin Trinidad and Tobago. She began her singing career in the Village Council and other local groups. A deeply religious person she received the message to spread the gospel of Parang in a church in Siparia in 1973. Not long after she was launched into the spotlight at a Best Village competition in 1971.
Shanti Thatal.  Shanti Thatal (Nepali: शान्ति ठटाल) is a Nepali music composer and singer. She has more than 200 songs to her credit including music for several Nepali films. She is the first female music composer of the Nepali film industry.
Chris Cummings.  Christopher Allen Thomas Chris Cummings (born August 11 1975) is a Canadian country music artist. In his career he has released five studio albums an EP and two compilations. Several of his singles have charted on the Canadian country charts including the Number One hits Sure Enough and The Kind of Heart That Breaks.
Moti Nandi.  Moti Nandi (Bengali: মতি নন্দী; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer based in Kolkata India. He was born in Kolkata in 1931. He was an alumnus of the University of Calcutta. He died in 2010.
Antoine Bello.  Antoine Bello (born 25 March 1970) is a French-American author born in Boston Massachusetts. He currently lives in New York.
Stephen Schwartz (composer).  Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6 1948) is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971) Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics for a number of successful films including Pocahontas (1995) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) The Prince of Egypt (1998; music and lyrics) and Enchanted (2007).
Vladimir Matetsky.  Vladimir Leonardovich Matetsky (Russian: Владимир Леонардович Матецкий); May 14 1952 Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet composer producer and radio presenter. Matetsky is a member of the Russian Authors' Society. He is married and has one daughter Maria (born 1987) and son Leonid (born 2001).Matetsky started to take music classes under the direction of Sofija Moisseevna Karpilovskaya a student of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina. Vladimir learned to play guitar just as piano.
Cannon and Ball.  Tommy Cannon (born Thomas Derbyshire 27 June 1938) and Bobby Ball (born Robert Harper 28 January 1944) known collectively as Cannon and Ball are an English comedy double act best known for their comedy variety show The Cannon and Ball Show which lasted for nine years on ITV. The duo met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham Lancashire.
Rhian Benson.  Rhiannon Afua Rhian Benson is a Ghanaian-British soul and jazz singer and songwriter.
Pedro Medina Avendaño.  Pedro Medina Avendaño (14 September 1915 – 31 August 2012) was a Colombian lawyer and poet author of the Anthem of Bogotá and the Anthem of Boyacá he was also known as the Poet of the Anthems.Medina son of Pedro Medina Niño and Carmen Avendaño married Sofia Torres Remolina in 1944.
Kim Young-ha.  Kim Young-ha is a modern South Korean writer.
Peter Parler.  Peter Parler (Latin: Petrus de Gemunden in Suevia Czech: Petr Parléř (c. 1330 Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 13 1399 Prague) was a German architect best known for building Saint Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge in Prague where he lived from about 1356.
Isak Strand.  Isak Strand (born 8 March 1982 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums) sound engineering music producer and composer living in Oslo known from different musical projects such as electro techno and crossover stuff such as Moen Meets Me At Sea.
Elgie Stover.  Elgie Stover (1938-2011) was an American songwriter composer producer and background singer most famous for his associations with uncle Harvey Fuqua and legendary Motown star Marvin Gaye co-writing two of Gaye's songs from the singer's acclaimed 1971 album What's Going On.Growing up in Cleveland Ohio Elgie and his brother Kenneth later moved to Detroit where the brothers worked closely with Harvey Fuqua on his Tri-Phi Records label.
Conte Candoli.  Secondo Conte Candoli (July 12 1927–December 14 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman Stan Kenton Benny Goodman and Dizzy Gillespie and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He played with Gerry Mulligan and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials.
Jimmy Hughes (musician).  James C Hughes (born 21 August 1958 London) is an English bassist who has played with many punk rock and new wave bands and whose career as a rock musician and writer continues to this day.Born to Irish parents in London Hughes inspired by the glam rock sensibilities of his hero Ziggy Stardust and the bass playing of Free's Andy Fraser began his career in music at the birth of punk rock with The Banned enjoying immediate success as their first single Little Girl broke into the UK Top 30. 
Neil Nathan.  Neil Nathan is an American rock/folk/alt country singer songwriter from New York City. Neil is best known for his folky cover of ELO and The Move's Do Ya featured on the Californication Season 2 Soundtrack. His debut album “The Distance Calls released in Summer 2010 was produced by Bobby Harlow (The Go) and features musicians from The Dead Weather Queens of The Stone Age Kid Rock Detroit Cobras The Paybacks and The Go.
Thomas C. Breuer.  Thomas C. Breuer (born 15 October 1952) is a German writer and cabaret artist.Breuer was born in Eisenach Thuringia. Since 1977 he has performed cabaret in Germany Switzerland and North America. He also works regularly for television and writes satire and novels. His twenty-fifth book Hitze in Dosen was published in 2007.
María Teresa Vera.  María Teresa Vera (Guanajay February 6 1895 – Havana December 17 1965) was a Cuban singer guitarist and composer. She was an outstanding example of the Cuban trova movement.She started her career as a singer in 1911 in a theatre where she sang the criolla Mercedes of Manuel Corona. Her first guitar teacher was the cigar-roller José Díaz.
Sami Frey.  Sami Frey born Samuel Frei (born October 13 1937 Paris) is a French actor of Polish Jewish descent. The most famous films he starred in include En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (in which he portrays French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud) and Bande à part by Jean-Luc Godard.
Seshulatha Kosuru.  Dr. Seshulatha Kosuru is a leading Carnatic musician and teacher from Andhra Pradesh. She has performed widely in India and abroad and has received numerous awards and titles from many leading organizations. She has tuned and released many carnatic & devotional albums and has also set to tune many dance ballets.
Clay Garner.  Gao Shan (Chinese: 高山; pinyin: Gāo shān) is the Chinese stage name of American-born recording artist and internet star Clay Garner (born May 3 1994 in Norwalk Connecticut). He rose to fame in China on major websites such as Sina Weibo and Youku after uploading a series of self-produced original Chinese songs and covers to the web. His videos have received over 50 million views as of August 2012. In 2012 Clay was a cast member on a Beijing TV youth talk show.
Chihiro Otsuka.  Chihiro Otsuka (大塚 ちひろ Ōtsuka Chihiro) (born March 12 1986) is a Japanese actress. Her birth name in kanji is 大塚 千弘 but she transformed her given name into hiragana characters.
Sophie Hunger.  Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on (1983-03-31)31 March 1983 in Bern Switzerland) is a jazz pop singer-songwriter film composer multi-instrumentalist (guitar blues harp piano) and bandleader living in Zurich Switzerland.
Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz.  Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz (Barcelona 13 January 1979) is a Catalan poet and rhapsodist. He is a personality in the world of poetry reading in the Catalan Countries. He has also contributed to various mass media including the Avui newspaper Catalunya Ràdio or the magazines El Temps Paper of Vidre and Bossa Nova. In the music dimension in 2007 he carried through the hip-hop show Endoll along with Guillamino.
Shelt Carpenter.  Shelton Shelt Carpenter born February 7 1862 at Sutton West Virginia died April 28 1937 was an outdoorsman fiddle player and mountain folklife philosopher of note. He is interred in the Braxton County Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Sutton West Virginia.
Allen Sangree.  Allen Luther Sangree also as Allan or Alan
Takako Katou.  Takako Katou (Katou Takako Katoh Takako Katō Takako 加藤貴子 born 14 October 1970) is a TV actress former J-pop singer and the oldest member of the groups Lip's and Nanatsuboshi. She was born in Shimizu-ku Shizuoka Japan and made her debut on 21 March 1990.
Future Beat Alliance.  Matthew Puffett known by the stage name Future Beat Alliance is an English ambient techno musician and producer. He started producing music in 1996 by releasing it through Void Records.
Phil Rose.  Phil Rose is an English actor born in Manchester England UK on 2 May 1952.
DJ Buddha.  DJ Buddha (born Urales Vargas) is a DJ of Dominican descent who grew up in Lawrence Massachusetts.
Greg Davies.  Greg Davies (born 14 May 1968) is a British stand-up comedian and actor best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners and as Ken Thompson in Cuckoo and his guest appearances in Mock the Week Would I Lie to You? and Fast and Loose. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series.Davies is noted for his stature — he stands at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall and has size 13 feet.
Samantha Stollenwerck.  Samantha Stollenwerck (born September 8) is an American singer-songwriter. She has recorded 2 full length albums “Square One” and “Carefree” and also released a 4 song EP “Summerlove”. Carefree will release on November 10 2009 on indie label Dusty Peach Records.
Ben Gillies.  Benjamin David Gillies (born 24 October 1979) is an Australian musician best known as the drummer of Australian rock band Silverchair from 1992 until its breakup in 2011. In 2003 Gillies formed Tambalane with Wes Carr initially as a song-writing project they released a self-titled album in 2005 and toured Australia but subsequently folded.
O'Bryan.  O'Bryan McCoy Burnette II is an American singer/songwriter known by the one-name moniker O'Bryan.
Mike Shinoda.  Michael Kenji Mike Shinoda (born February 11 1977) is an American musician record producer and artist. He is best known as the rapper principal songwriter keyboardist rhythm guitarist and one of the two vocalists of the rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda is also a solo rapper in his side-project Fort Minor. He also provides artwork production and mixing for both projects. Shinoda was ranked #72 in the list of Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader. Shinoda's voice is baritone.
Antonio Alice.  Antonio Alice (23 February 1886 – 24 August 1943) was an Argentine portrait painter. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1904.
Robby Takac.  Robert Robby Carl Takac Jr. (born September 30 1964) is an American musician who is one of the founding members of the Goo Goo Dolls along with Johnny Rzeznik. He is the band's bassist and was formerly the lead singer on the Goo Goo Dolls' earlier albums.
Steve Maich.  Steve Maich is the editor of Canadian Business and was appointed to the position in July 2009. He was previously a business columnist at Maclean's magazine. His articles focus primarily on business and public policy. He graduated from St.
Michel Pagliaro.  Michel Armand Guy Pagliaro (born 9 November 1948 Montreal Quebec Canada) is a Canadian rock singer songwriter and guitarist from Montreal. Pagliaro was nominated for a 1975 Juno Award as male vocalist of the year. He is often referred to as simply Pagliaro or Pag. Although he writes and records predominantly in French Pagliaro has released material in English.
Hugh Cornwell.  Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949 Tufnell Park North London England) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band The Stranglers from 1974 to 1990.
Ningeokuluk Teevee.  Ningeokuluk Teevee (born May 27 1963 in Cape Dorset) is a Canadian Inuk writer and artist. Her first children's book Alego is currently a nominee for the 2009 Governor General's Award for children's literature illustration.
Gyptian.  Windel Beneto Edwards (born October 25 1983) better known by his stage name Gyptian is a Jamaican reggae singer. He often appears with roots reggae songs within the reggae subgenre dancehall.Gyptian's best known hits include Hold Yuh Nah Let Go Wine Slow Serious Times Mama Beautiful Lady I Can Feel Your Pain Love Against The Wall and She's My Lady.
Chris McCarvill.  Christopher Lee “Chris” McCarvill (born 3 October 1971) is an American musician best known as the touring and/or recording bass guitarist and backing vocalist with arena rock bands Dokken and House of Lords. He is well known for his energetic and technical virtuosity on the bass and his heartfelt vocal performances.
Rainy Milo.  Rainy Milo is a British recording artist born in south-east London; she began her career singing with local musicians and arts collectives when she was 14. In 2012 Milo released her debut mixtape Limey which contained jazz-inspired hip-hop production this was followed by Milo's debut EP entitled Black & Blonde which was released in April 2013. Most recently Milo released her debut album This Thing Of Ours in March 2014 in the UK via Limey/Virgin EMI.
Ken Lo.  Kenneth Low Wai-kwong (born 17 March 1959) is a Hong Kong actor martial artist and stuntman. He was a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team.
Frank Egginton.  Frank Egginton (10 November 1908 – 7 April 1990) was a British contemporary painter.He was born in Cheshire England and educated at Newton Abbot College Devon where his father was headmaster.Egginton painted many scenes in County Donegal Ireland visiting there in 1930. He exhibited 19 works at the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Hillary Hauser.  Hillary Rika Hauser (born in 1944) is an American photojournalist and environmental activist with a focus on the oceans — underwater diving adventure politics and conservation. In 2009 in recognition of her ocean environmental work as it relates to underwater diving Hauser received the NOGI Award for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences. In 2013 the Academy elected Hauser as President of its Board of Directors.
Jan Kuehnemund.  Janice Lynn Jan Kuehnemund (November 18 1961 – October 10 2013) was an American lead guitarist who founded the all-female hard rock/glam metal band Vixen.
Jean Roemer.  Jean Roemer (born in England about 1815; died in Lenox Massachusetts 31 August 1892) was a Dutch soldier and a United States professor of French language and literature at the City College of New York.
Yvonne Vera.  Yvonne Vera (September 19 1964 - April 7 2005) was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. Her novels are known for their poetic prose difficult subject-matter and their strong women characters and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past. For these reasons she has been widely studied and appreciated by those studying postcolonial African literature.
Patrick Wilson (musician).  Patrick George Pat Wilson (born February 1 1969) is an American musician best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band Weezer. He joined the band in 1992. In addition to his work in Weezer he also fronts his own band The Special Goodness.
Ken Penders.  Ken Penders is a comic book creator and writer. He makes his living as a freelance writer and artist accepting assignments involving screenplays storyboards character design backgrounds website graphics and some the magazine covers portraits or commissioned work. Penders illustrated the cover of the complete series DVD set of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Daniele Nadone.  Daniele Nadone (June 24 1979 – October 9 2005) was an Italian post-modern painter and photographer who committed suicide at his home in 2005 in Trastevere Rome at the age of 26.
Felix da Housecat.  Felix da Housecat (born Felix Stallings Jr. August 25 1971 Chicago Illinois) is an American DJ and record producer mostly known for house music and electroclash. His name was inspired by Felix the Cat.Felix is regarded as a member of the second wave of Chicago house and has produced an eclectic mic of sound since from resolute acid and techno warrior to avant-garde nu-skool electro-disco.
Pat Arrowsmith.  Pat Arrowsmith (born March 2 1930) is a British author and peace campaigner.Arrowsmith was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College read history at the University of Cambridge and then read Social Science at the University of Liverpool and at Ohio University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar. She is a co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.She has served eleven prison sentences for her political activities.
Walter Pierce (impresario).  Walter Pierce (born November 1 1930 Cambridge Massachusetts) is a performing arts impresario who from 1965 until 1996 presented managed and promoted over 1500 music dance and theater events in Boston under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston. Pierce also served as president of the International Society for the Performing Arts in 1976 and 1977.
Anwar Maqsood Hameedi.  Anwar Maqsood Hameedi (Urdu: انور مقصود حمیدی‎; b. 1935) commonly known as Anwar Maqsood (Urdu: انور مقصود‎) is a Pakistani scriptwriter television host satirist humorist and infrequent actor. He is well known for his artists write ups for Pakistan Television Corporation in late 1970s.
Kari Skjønsberg.  Kari Skjønsberg (17 January 1926 – 6 January 2003) was a Norwegian academic writer and feminist. She was Associate Professor of children's literature at Statens bibliotekhøgskole (now Oslo and Akershus University College) 1968-94 President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights 1972-78 and wrote several books on children's literature. In the 1940s she worked for the NRK's Lørdagsbarnetimen and in the 1950s as a literarary critic for Arbeiderbladet and Verdens Gang.
Marius Gabriel.  Marius Gabriel (born 13 November 1954 in Mafeking South Africa) is an international romance and mystery writer and artist. Under the pseudonym Madeleine Ker he is a popular writer of over 30 romance novels since 1983. As Marius Gabriel he has written four mystery best-sellers and two historical novels. He has also written and illustrated children's books including Smartypig the tale of a genetically modified piglet.He lives in Cairo Egypt.
Rob Smith (Irish musician).  Rob Smith is an Irish singer/songwriter musician and DJ from Terenure in Dublin. Originally a street-busker he has released two commercial albums to date.
Kwan Tak-hing.  Kwan Tak-hing MBE (27 June 1905 - 28 June 1996) was a Hong Kong actor who played the role of martial artist folk hero Wong Fei-hung in at least 77 films between the 1940s and the 1980s. No-one else in cinema history has portrayed the same person as many times. In total he made over 130 films. He was elected to be the chairman of Chinese Artist Association of Hong Kong in 1955. He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1983.
Tommy Clufetos.  Tommy Clufetos (born December 30 1979) is an American drummer currently on tour with Black Sabbath. He is also the drummer for Ozzy Osbourne's solo band.
DJ Solo.  Dave Abrams better known as DJ Solo (often stylized DJ SOLO) is an American DJ producer rapper and visual artist. He is a part of the Cypress Hill affiliated Soul Assassins collective. His production credits include La Coka Nostra Everlast Planet Asia GZA B-Real Adil Omar Mitchy Slick and others. He has released several mash-ups remixes and a compilation album of his production work titled My MPC Is A Pipe Bomb and produced on the Soul Assassins Intermission album.
Fumi Hirano.  Fumi Hirano (平野 文 Hirano Fumi born April 23 1955 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress and essayist who is best known for voicing Lum Invader in the anime series Urusei Yatsura. Fumi attended Tamagawa University in Machida Tokyo where she graduated with a degree in Theatre from the Department of Fine Arts in the College of Humanities. She is employed by the talent management and entertainment firm Horipuro.
Danijay.  Danijay (born Daniele Zaffiri 19 April 1977) is an Italian Italodance DJ and artist. Genoa Italy Danijay began deejaying in 1994 and producing in 2003. His first single Il Gioco dell'Amore (The Game of Love) was released in 2003 and became a European dance radio hit and one of the best-selling dance singles of the year. His second single I Fiori di Lillà (The Lilacs) featured Italian singer-songwriter Alberto Fortis and was played on the Italian quiz show Passa Parola.
Ray Nance.  Ray Willis Nance (December 10 1913 Chicago - January 28 1976 New York City) was a jazz trumpeter violinist and singer. He is best remembered for his long association with band leader Duke Ellington.
Luigi Antonio Calegari.  Luigi Antonio Calegari (1780–1849) was an Italian opera composer born in Padua. He was nephew of Antonio Calegari (1757–1828) and possibly related to other composers in the Padua Calegari family; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari (1656–1742) and Giuseppe Calegari composer of a Betulia liberata (1771). He died in Venice.
Stephen Osborne (writer).  Stephen Osborne (born September 11 1947) is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World and since 1990 has been the editor of Geist magazine.
El Carrao de Palmarito.  El Carrao de Palmarito (born Juan de los Santos Contreras; April 7 1928 – December 10 2002) was a Venezuelan llanero singer. He took his stage name from the limpkin (Spanish: Carrao Latin: Aramus guarauna) a bird with a piercing call.
Mud Morganfield.  Larry Mud Morganfield (born 1954) is an American blues singer who is the oldest son of Muddy Waters.
Pamela McCorduck.  Pamela McCorduck (born 1940) is an American author of a number of books concerning the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence the future of engineering and the role of women and technology. She is also the author of three novels. She is a contributor to Omni The New York Times Daedalus the Michigan Quarterly Review and is a contributing editor of Wired. She is a former vice president of the PEN American Center.
Kevin Cogill.  Kevin Dale Cogill (born October 8 1980) is a Los Angeles music blogger who is known for leaking the Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. After leaking a suspected 9 tracks from the alleged 14-track album Cogill was arrested in his home late August by the FBI. Chinese Democracy was released worldwide November 23 2008 and in the UK November 24 2008.
Viktor Gluth.  Viktor Gluth (born Pilsen May 6 1852; died January 17 1917) was a Bohemian-German composer. He was professor at the Königliche Akademie der Tonkunst (Royal Academy of Music) in Munich.
Caroline Coade.  Caroline Coade is an American violist who was born and raised in San Diego. She began playing violin at the age of 6 but switched to viola when she turned 14. She have graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy and then pursued Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory as well as the Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music following by Master's from the Juilliard School.
Anupam Roy.  Anupam Roy is a Bengali lyricist composer singer from Kolkata West Bengal India. He is best known for his song Amake amar moto thakte dao (আমাকে আমার মত থাকতে দাও) which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2010 film Autograph.
Arline Fisch.  Arline Fisch is an American artist and educator who works with metal as her medium.
Pete M. Wyer.  Pete M. Wyer (born 24 March 1964) is a British composer. Wyer was born in Cheltenham UK. He began his career as a guitarist with pop and jazz bands in the 1980s becoming a music teacher in the 1990s while developing his work and profile as a composer.
Terry LaBan.  Terry LaBan (born July 19 1961) is an alternative/underground cartoonist and newspaper comic strip artist. He is probably best known for his comic book series Cud and his syndicated strip Edge City created with his wife Patty LaBan a couples and family therapist. LaBan is known for his sympathetic and believable characters real-life dialogue tight cartoon style and straightforward storytelling.
Darren John Langford.  Darren John Langford is a British actor who is best notable for playing the mentally disabled character Spencer Gray in the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. Langford left Hollyoaks in late 2010.Darren is the brother of Workington AFC player Andy Langford.[citation needed].Darren is also the brother of Shop Direct Group Senior eCommerce Content Author Steven Langford.
Cor Fijneman.  Cor Fijneman (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɔr ˈfɛi̯.nə.ˌmɑn]) is a Dutch producer DJ and remixer from Breda Netherlands. In 2004 Cor set up a sublabel of Black Hole Recordings called Outstanding.His work has included remixes such as Andain's Beautiful Things and original productions as well. Some of his work includes co-productions with Tiesto under Hammock Brothers and Geert Huinink (aka Dawnseekers).
Fred Kaplan.  Fred M. Kaplan (born July 4 1954) is an author and journalist who most frequently contributes to Slate magazine. His War Stories column for Slate covers international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
Ken Emerson.  Kenneth Albert Emerson (9 July 1927 – 12 February 2010) was an Australian cartoonist and comic strip creator. He is best known for writing the comic strips The Warrumbunglers and On The Rocks. Emerson was the son-in-law of cartoonist Eric Jolliffe.
Alana Davis.  Alana Davis (born May 6 1974 in New York City) is an American singer-songwriter. Her father Walter Davis Jr. was an African American pianist who played alongside such jazz greats as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.A record deal with Elektra Records produced Davis' first two albums; Blame It on Me which was chosen as one of Time's five best albums of 1997 and 2001's Fortune Cookies which featured production by The Neptunes and Ed Tuton.
Jennifer Olayvar.  Jennifer Rose Olayvar was a ballerina from the Republic of the Philippines. She was a dancer for Ballet Manila from 2000 to 2013. She became the Special Assistant to Lisa Macuja-Elizalde from 2004 to 2007. Olayvar has taken minor and intermediate examinations for the Royal Academy of Dance London.
Sniti Mishra.  Sniti Mishra is a trained vocalist in Hindusthani classical music who appeared for the first time in a the Zee TV musical reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar. She had been associated with Indo-Swedish Fusion jazz band Mynta. She has also worked with the percussionist Sivamani and Grammy Award- nominated jazz musician-keyboardist Louis Banks.
Paul Durcan.  Paul Durcan (born 16 October 1944) is a contemporary Irish poet.
Spencer Gibb.  Spencer David Gibb (born 21 September 1972) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as a founder member of American groups Jez Spencer and 54 Seconds.
Tatiana (singer).  Tatiana Palacios Chapa (born 12 December 1968 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) better known as simply Tatiana is a Mexican American singer and actress based in Monterrey Mexico. She has been nominated for five Latin Grammy Awards for Best Children's Album and has sold over 9 million records.
Matthew Rettenmund.  Matthew Rettenmund (born December 25 1968) is the author of the novels Boy Culture and Blind Items: A (Love) Story as well as the non-fiction books Encyclopedia Madonnica Totally Awesome '80s and Hilary Duff: All Access. He was the founding Editor in Chief of Popstar! Magazine from October 1998 until May 2012.
Charlie Chan (composer).  Charlie Chan (born 2 January 1966) is an Australian pianist/composer best known for her original mostly instrumental music albums and for creating numerous soundtracks for the stage and screen.Having studied piano guitar double bass orchestration and computer-based music technology in her childhood Chan’s public career began in the 1990s with a series of original jazz classical improvisation and world-music inspired albums on the Sony Masterworks classical label.
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar.  Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet essayist patriot and academic who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He remerged as a poet of rebellion as a consequence of his nationalist poetry written in the days before Indian independence.
Lil Tuffy.  Lil Tuffy is an American rock poster artist and printmaker. He was born in Michigan. Currently he lives and works in San Francisco California. Lil Tuffy is best known for his minimal style which relies heavily on typography and incorporates negative space. He creates limited edition hand-screened posters for such bands as the Black Lips and Pavement as well as many others. He also created the CBGB's 30th Anniversary poster.
John Paul Ospina.  John Paul Ospina Morales (born September 2 1980 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a Colombian singer songwriter producer actor and TV host. He is well known for his participation on Latin American Idol (Season 1) aired by Sony Entertainment Television Latin America and for hosting the Latin version of E! News for E! Entertainment Television Latin America.
Tuesday Vargas.  Marizel Sarangelo is a Filipina singer actress and a resident judge of TV5's Talentadong Pinoy. She is a notable alumna of Manila Science High School alongside fellow alumnus Michael V. a popular local actor TV comedian.
John Malam.  John Malam is a British historian archaeologist and author of Children's non-fiction (informational) books.
Ladyscraper.  Ladyscraper is the performing name of Wayne Adams a UK breakcore artist. He is one of many artists associated with the Wrong Music label.
Wolfgang Dziony.  Wolfgang Dziony was born in 1949 in Elze Germany. He was a drummer and percussionist with the German heavy metal/hard rock band The Scorpions from 1965 to 1972.He appeared on: Lonesome Crow (1972) History of German Rock 1972–1976 (1976) Best (1999) The Last Hard Men (2001) Krautrock (2005) Gold (2006) Krautrock Vol. 2 (2007) The Flames still burns - song on Ballroom Hamburg — A Decade of Rock compilation (2010)
Laura Sippola.  Laura-Liina Sippola (born 14 September 1974 in Lapua) is a pianist and a singer-songwriter based in Helsinki Finland. She works as a freelance musician and a composer.
Cinzia Giorgio.  Cinzia Giorgio (born April 1 1975 in Venosa Province of Potenza) is an Italian writer.
Joan Maude.  Joan Maude (16 January 1908 Rickmansworth Hertfordshire — 28 September 1998 Lewes East Sussex)was an English actress active from the 1920s to the 1950s. She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.The daughter of actors Charles Maude and Nancy Price Maude's great grandmother on her father's side was the singer Jenny Lind known as the Swedish Nightingale.
Hirotaka Chiba.  Hirotaka Chiba (千葉 皓敬 Chiba Hirotaka born October 5 1992) is a Japanese actor and voice actor.
Tyagaraja.  Kakarla Tyagabrahmam Telugu (కాకర్ల త్యాగబ్రహ్మం) (May 4 1767 – January 6 1847) colloquially known as Tyāgarāju or Tyāgayya in Telugu Tyāgarājar in Tamil was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or Indian classical music. He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development of the classical music tradition. Tyagaraja composed thousands of devotional compositions most in praise of Lord Rama many of which remain popular today.
Blaine Pardoe.  Blaine Lee Pardoe is an award winning author known primarily for writing the Battletech and MechWarrior: Dark Age series of science fiction books business management books military history works on a number of Great War topics and true crime (Secret Witness) works. Pardoe is one of the original writers for Battletech's fiction. He contributes more stories to on-line pay-to-read fiction website Battlecorps. His best known book in the MechWarrior Dark Ages line is Surrender Your Dreams.
Sanja Bizjak.  Sanja Bizjak (born September 8 1988) is a Serbian pianist.Bizjak was born in Belgrade. She began studying the piano at the age of six with Professor Zlata Males. At age seven she played the Joseph Haydn Keyboard Concerto in D with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. At twelve in February 2001 she begun studying under Jacques Rouvier at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Alba Calderón.  Alba Calderón de Gil (1908 - 1992) was an Ecuadorian social realist painter leftist activist and feminist. She founded the movement for the recognition of women's rights in Ecuador.Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil.
Stuart Townend.  Stuart Townend (1963- )is an English Christian worship leader and writer of hymns and contemporary worship music. His songs include In Christ Alone (2002 co-written with Keith Getty Townend's first collaboration with any other songwriter) How Deep The Father's Love For Us Beautiful Saviour and The King of Love. As of 2008 Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) lists In Christ Alone in its Top 25 CCLI Songs list.
Chris Perry-Metcalf.  Christopher Chris Perry-Metcalf (born 11 January 1989 in Liverpool) is a former child actor who is best known for playing a Year 11 pupil at Grange Hill called Togger Johnson.His character receives the nickname 'Togger' by the other classmates. His hobbies include football (he supports Liverpool F.C.) and enjoys boxing for which he trains several times a week. His favourite TV programmes are The O.C. and The Bill.He admits he can't dance but likes to dance around his opponents in the ring.
Mitchell Grobb.  Mitchell Grobb (born June 22 1984) is a Canadian violinist and multi-instrumentalist.
SubtractiveLAD.  Based in Vancouver British Columbia Canada subtractiveLAD (a.k.a. Stephen Hummel) is a Canadian electronic musician. In early 2005 subtractiveLAD released his first album titled Giving Up The Ghost. The following year subtractiveLAD produced another album with Suture. In 2007 he put out No Man’s Land.
David Carpenter (writer).  David C. Carpenter born October 28 1941 in Edmonton Alberta is a Canadian writer who lives in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. His oeuvre which includes poetry essays short stories novellas and full-length books in fiction as well as non-fiction genres focuses primarily on nature and his native western Canada.
Hanifa Deen.  Hanifa Deen is an award-winning third generation Australian writer of Pakistani ancestry. She has described how one of her grandfathers was a Kashmiri who jumped ship in Melbourne while the other was a Punjabi small business man who came in the wake of the Afghan camel drivers who helped to facilitate access to the Australian interior.Her non-fiction books have focused on issues concerning Muslims. Her first book Caravanserai portrayed the lives of Australian Muslims.
Bernardino Ciceri.  Bernardino Ciceri (born 1650) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Pavia. He was a pupil of the painter Carlo Sacchi in Rome. One of his pupils was Gioseffo Cristona. He painted the Baptism of Christ for the church of il Carmine in Pavia.
Arron Scott.  Arron Scott (born 1985) is an American ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
James Carroll (author).  James Carroll (born January 22 1943 in Chicago Illinois) is an author historian and journalist. A Roman Catholic reformer he has written extensively about his experiences in the seminary and as a priest and has published besides novels books on religion and history.
Ismail Hossain Siraji.  Syed Ismail Hossain Siraji (Bengali: ইসমাঈল হোসেন সিরাজী) (1880–1931) was a Bengali writer and poet. He was born in Sirajganj in East Bengal (now in Bangladesh). He added the suffix Shiraji in honour of his home region.
Twm Morys.  Twm Morys (born 1961) is a Welsh poet and musician.
Alexander Gradsky.  Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Гра́дский; born November 3 1949 in Kopeysk) is a Russian rock singer bard multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was one of the earliest performers of rock music in Russia. His diverse repertoire includes rock 'n' roll traditional folk songs performed with a rock twist and operatic arias. He has composed two rock operas and numerous songs including soundtrack music for several films.
Cornelius Van Leemputten.  Cornelius Van Leemputten (1841–1902) was a Belgian painter.Born in Werchter Cornelius van Leemputten is predominantly known for his landscapes with sheep similar to the style of Charles Jacque. He began his painting career without formal training. He was well known for his barnyard subjects. Leemputten eventually became a pupil of the Academy of Antwerp though his style remained primarily self-taught.
Justin Vali.  Justin Vali ranks among the greatest living players of traditional Malagasy music on the valiha a bamboo tube zither considered the national instrument of Madagascar. He also performs on the marovany box zither of central and southern Madagascar. Vali contributed to several compilations in the late 1980s before beginning to release his own albums in 1990. In 1994 he recorded Ny Marina (The Truth) at Real World Studios under Peter Gabriel's Real World Records.
Arnold Lobel.  Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22 1933 – December 4 1987) was an American author of children's books including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. He both wrote and illustrated those picture books as well as Fables for which he won the 1981 Caldecott Medal recognizing the year's best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated the works of other authors including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley first published in 1969.
Margarita Karapanou.  Margarita Karapanou (Greek: Μαργαρίτα Καραπάνου) (1946–2008 Athens Greece) was a Greek novelist. Daughter of the renowned novelist Margarita Limberaki she grew up in Athens and Paris. She studied Philosophy and Cinema in Paris and Nursery in London. Her novels have been translated in many European languages.
Michel Graillier.  Michel Graillier was a French jazz pianist born 18 October 1946 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais) died 11 February 2003 in Paris.
Bugge Wesseltoft.  Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964 in Porsgrunn Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician pianist composer and producer son of the Jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft.
William Frederick Alexander.  William Frederick Alexander (20 July 1882–14 August 1957) was a New Zealand subeditor poetry anthologist and newspaper editor. He was born in Little River Northern Canterbury New Zealand on 20 July 1882.
Folkert de Jong.  Folkert de Jong (born 1972) is an artist based in Amsterdam.De Jong was born in Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands. He makes large-scale sculpture and installation.
Eduardo Araújo.  Eduardo Araújo (born Eduardo Oliveira Araújo; July 23 1942 in Joaíma) is a Brazilian rock singer. Once part of the Jovem Guarda movement he is now linked to the country music scene. He is famous for his Jovem Guarda hit O Bom.
Efrim Menuck.  Efrim Manuel Menuck (born November 4 1970) is a Canadian musician involved with a number of Montreal-based bands most notably Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Menuck is also a frequent record producer working with musicians from Montreal and abroad.
Mia Borisavljević.  Mia Borisavljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Миа Борисављевић; born June 8 1984) is a Serbian pop and folk singer.
Rick Amor.  Rick Amor (born 3 March 1948) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an Official War Artist.
Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi.  Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi (1697–1737) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Tagliasacchi was born at Borgo San Donnino. For some time he painted historical scenes in the manner of his teacher Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. He was also an excellent portrait painter. He was mainly active in Piacenza.
Lidor Yosefi.  Lidor Yosefi (Hebrew: לידור יוספי‎ born March 6 1974) is an Israeli singer.
Camryn.  Camryn Magness (born July 14 1999[citation needed]) known publicly as Camryn is an American pop singer and actress from Denver Colorado. She first gained attention through a series of YouTube videos she posted in 2010 which led to her first United States tour alongside Cody Simpson and Greyson Chance. Most recently Camryn joined One Direction on their Up All Night Tour and was also asked to rejoin One Direction for 63 sold-out shows on their 2013 Take Me Home Tour in Europe.
Marshall Allen.  Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute oboe piccolo and EVI (an electronic valve instrument made by Steiner Crumar company).Allen is best known for his work with eccentric keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s and having led Sun Ra's Arkestra since 1993.
Jan Fabre.  Jan Fabre (born 1958 Antwerp Belgium) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist playwright stage director choreographer and designer.He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Between 1976 and 1980 he wrote his first scripts for the theatre and made his début performances.Between 1976 en 1980 he wrote his first texts for the theatre and did his first solo performances.
Dennis Berry.  Dennis Alfred Berry (August 21 1921 – June 21 1994) was an English musician composer arranger and producer. His work has been used in filmmaking and television productions.
Damien Dragonetti.  Damien Dragonetti (born October 30 1971) is an American rapper/record producer. He is best known for his feature on Variable02 (1999) he is also President and owner of the recording/clothing company Dirty Chamber™ C.E.O of the TiTe Mic™ Corporation and producer of the album Chronicles of a Woman the 2007 album by American female rapper Madawm which features superstars Eminem and Xzibit.
Stevie Benton.  Stevie Benton is an American bass guitarist who is best known for performing in the metal band Drowning Pool also as a backing vocalist a role he has performed in the band since its formation (although a previous version of the band did exist prior to Benton's addition). Benton is also a member of Even the Dead Love a Parade.
Richard Doyle (illustrator).  Richard Dickie Doyle (September 1824 – 11 December 1883) was a notable illustrator of the Victorian era. His work frequently appeared amongst other places in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue and designed the magazine's masthead a design that was used for over a century.
William Anderson (guitarist).  William Anderson (born 1962) is an American guitarist and song writer.Anderson studied the guitar with Allen Krantz Christoph Harlan and David Starobin and studied composition with Frank Brickle.
Matt Paxton.  Matt Paxton (born Matthew Jeffrey Paxton; May 26 1985) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Hamilton Ontario now living in Vancouver British Columbia.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.  Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig (now the southern part of Jutland in Denmark) to Henrik Vilhelm Eckersberg painter and carpenter and Ingeborg Nielsdatter. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting and is referred to as the Father of Danish painting.
Alexander of Villedieu.  Alexander of Villedieu was a French author teacher and poet who wrote text books on Latin grammar and arithmetic everything in verse. He was born around 1175 in Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy studied in Paris and later taught at Dol in Brittany. His greatest fame stems from his versified Latin grammar book the Doctrinale Puerorum. He died in 1240 or perhaps in 1250.
Page Hamilton.  Page Hamilton (born May 18 1960 in Portland Oregon) is an American guitarist singer songwriter and record producer mostly noted for his work with alternative metal band Helmet. Most of his work has been in the hard rock and alternative metal styles though he trained in jazz guitar and has substantial connections with avant-garde music and film soundtrack composition.
Ken Shimura.  Ken Shimura (志村 けん Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳 Shimura Yasunori) February 20 1950 in Higashimurayama Tokyo) is a Japanese comedian and actor. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Ken Shimura no Bakatono-sama.
Pip (musician).  Phillip Andrew Arnold (born in Marietta Georgia on April 26 1992) better known by his stage name Pip is an American singer who participated in season 2 of The Voice as part of Team Adam Levine.
Dean Ormston.  Dean Ormston is a British born comic book artist. His most notable work has been for the British comic 2000 AD and for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena.  Giovanni Maria Galli called Giovanni Maria da Bibiena was born at Bibiena in the Bolognese state in 1625. He studied under Albani and his productions have often been mistaken for those of his master. He died in 1665. Of his larger works in the churches at Bologna the following are the most esteemed: The Ascension in the Certosa; St. Anne in La Carita; St. Andrew in San Biagio; and St. Francis of Sales at the Padri Servi.
John Van Alstine.  John Van Alstine (born 1952) is an American contemporary art sculptor and former assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and the University of Maryland in College Park where he taught drawing and sculpture. He primarily creates abstract stone and metal sculptures. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the US as well as Europe and Asia.
Reinhold Schneider.  Reinhold Schneider (born in Baden-Baden on May 13 1903; died in Freiburg im Breisgau on April 6 1958) was a German poet who also wrote novels. Initially his works were less religious but later his poetry had a Christian and specifically Catholic influence. His first works included Luís de Camões and Portugal He had written anti-war poems which were banned in Nazi Germany.
Hector Holthouse.  Hector Holthouse (1916 – 1991) was an Australian journalist and author. He was born on the Darling Downs in Queensland and while working as a chemist for the Queensland Sugar industry in North Queensland prior to the Second World War became interested in the history of the area. He took up journalism writing for the Brisbane Telegraph for many years and lecturing in journalism at the University of Queensland.
Sarah Zettel.  Sarah Zettel (born December 14 1966) is an American science fiction fantasy and mystery author.
Angela Aki.  Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ Anjera Aki) born Kiyomi Angela Aki (安藝 聖世美 アンジェラ Aki Kiyomi Anjera) on September 15 1977 is a pop singer-songwriter and pianist born in Itano Tokushima Japan to a Japanese father and Italian-American mother.
Talay Riley.  Talay Riley (born 10 July 1990) is a British singer signed to record label Sony Music and RCA Music Group. Riley began his musical career after featuring on rapper Chipmunk's single Look for Me. He released his fourth single Make You Mine on 28 August 2011.
Johnny Răducanu.  Johnny Răducanu (born Răducan Creţu; 1 December 1931 – 19 September 2011) was a Romanian jazz pianist of Romani ethnic background whose family has a long musical tradition dating back to the 17th century.He was born in Brăila and started playing the double bass at the age of 19 before switching to piano. During his musical career some of his many collaborations outside Romania were those with Art Farmer (trumpet) and Slide Hampton (trombone) and Friedrich Gulda (piano).
Iain Harvie.  Iain Wallace Harvie (born 19 May 1962 Glasgow Scotland) is the guitarist with the Scottish rock band called Del Amitri. Along with lead singer and bassist Justin Currie Harvie is one of only two members to be present throughout Del Amitri's history from its 1982 inception. He is also the co-writer with Currie of many of the group's songs.Harvie now works as a record producer on albums with both Eileen Rose and The Maccabees.
Barry Sutton.  Barry Thomas Sutton (born 1965 Liverpool) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Liverpool who has performed with numerous alternative rock bands since 1981. His career began as the songwriter and vocalist in the unsigned bands Western Diplomats (1981–1983) and Marshmallow Overcoat (1983–1987).
François Cotinaud.  François Cotinaud born in 1956 is a French saxophonist clarinettist soundpainter et composer.François Cotinaud studied piano (1964-1971) drums (1967-1972) and later he studied saxophone (mostly tenor and soprano) and clarinet.He studied improvisation with Alan Silva Jo Maka Jimmy Lyons Cecil Taylor Archie Shepp Steve Lacy Lee Konitz Paul Motian Joe Lovano Kenny Wheeler Steve Coleman Joëlle Léandre Bojan Z or Garrett List.
James Bodell.  James Bodell (circa 1831 – 23 September 1892) was a New Zealand soldier businessman local politician and writer. He was born in Arnold Nottinghamshire England in circa 1831. He was Mayor of Tauranga in 1888–1889.He wrote an account of his life published in 1982 as A Soldier's View of Empire.
Severino Reyes.  Severino Reyes (February 11 1861 – September 15 1942) was a Filipino writer playwright and director of plays. He used the pen name Lola Basyang. He was nicknamed Don Binoy. Reyes is known as the Father of Tagalog Plays and as the Father of the Tagalog Zarzuela.
Seán Cannon.  Seán Cannon (born 29 November 1940) is an Irish musician. Since 1982 he has been the lead singer and guitarist for The Dubliners and their follow-up-band The Dublin Legends.
Jimmy Pardo.  Jimmy Pardo (born James Ronald Pardo Jr. July 28 1966) is an American stand-up comedian actor and host of the comedy podcast Never Not Funny.
Jesús Delgado Valhondo.  Jesús Delgado Valhondo (Mérida Spain 19 February 1909 – Badajoz Spain 23 July 1993) was a spanish poet.
Nick Payne.  Nick Payne is a British playwright who studied at the University of York and subsequently at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He is also a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writer's Programme.Payne's first play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet which won the George Devine Award opened at the Bush Theatre in October 2009 and received a very strong response from critics with the Evening Standard calling it a comic tour de force and the Financial Times a knockout.
Lo Hoi-pang.  Lo Hoi-pang (born December 21 1941) is a Hong Kong actor for both TVB and ATV and a singer. Lo attended TVB's Training Classes in 1973. Among his classmates are Chow Yun-fat and Ng Man-tat. Lo won the 2012 31st Hong Kong Film Awards for the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance in Life Without Principle.
Jussi Lehtisalo.  Jussi Lehtisalo (born 1973 is a Finnish bassist. In 1991 he founded Circle a prolific band drawing influences from heavy metal and krautrock to develop a style of repetitive experimental rock. He also runs a record label Ektro Records releasing his own music alongside left field rock and metal releases by artists such as Faust and Acid Mothers Temple.
Xiaolu Guo.  Xiaolu Guo (simplified Chinese: 郭小橹; traditional Chinese: 郭小櫓; pinyin: Guō Xiǎolǔ) born 1973) is a Chinese-born novelist and filmmaker who uses cinema and literary language to explore themes of alienation memory personal journeys daily tragedies and develops her own vision of China's past and its future in a global environment. She is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature in both Chinese and English. Her novels have been translated into more than 26 languages.
Marit Kaldhol.  Marit Kaldhol (born 13 April 1955) is a Norwegian poet and children's writer.She was born in Ålesund. Her poetry collections include her 1983 debut Lattermilde laken ('Mirthful Bed Sheets') and 2005's Den einaste kjolen ('The Only Dress'). Her children's books include the internationally acclaimed Farvel Rune ('Goodbye Rune' 1986). Translated into German as Abschied von Rune it earned her the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1988.
Enrica Zunic'.  Enrica Zunic' is the pseudonym of Enrica Lozito an Italian science-fiction writer. She lives and works in Turin. Her work is partly inspired by her activities with Amnesty International. In 2003 she won the Premio Italia award for science fiction.
Meri Wilson.  Meri Wilson Edgmon known professionally as Meri Wilson (June 15 1949 – December 28 2002) was a model songwriter and an American popular music singer best known for singing double entendre novelty songs.
Fane Flaws.  Fane Flaws is a New Zealand musician songwriter and artist.
Osamu Dazai.  Osamu Dazai (太宰 治 Dazai Osamu June 19 1909 – June 13 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan.
Giuseppe Moriani.  Giuseppe Moriani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Tuscany in the late 17th and early 18th century.. He was strongly influenced by Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani. He painted the Story of Santa Verdiana in the church of Santa Verdiana in Castelfiorentino in collaboration with Sagrestani Ranieri del Pace Niccolò Lapi Antonio Puglieschi and Agostino Veracini. In the museum of sacred art in Greve in Chianti is Moriani's Healing of the blind since birth.
W. E. Shewell-Cooper.  Dr. Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper M.B.E. N.D.H. F.L.S. F.R.S.L. F.R.H.S. Dip. Hort. (Wye) (1900–1982) was a British organic gardener and pioneer of no dig gardening. He was the author of Soil Humus and Health (1975) The Royal Gardeners (1952) Grow your own food supply (1939) The ABC of Vegetable Gardening (1937) and many other books on gardening. He was the founder in 1966 of the Good Gardeners Association.
Rich Jones (musician).  Rich Jones is an English guitarist born in Coventry in 1973. He has since lived and played music in Toronto Vancouver and Los Angeles before settling in London England.He was a founder member and principal songwriter of Canadian punks The Black Halos from 1993–2001 and has since played in bands such as U.S punk–rockers Amen and British punkabilly outfit The Yo-Yos.
Harry Hudson Rodmell.  Harry Hudson Rodmell (28 May 1896 – 3 March 1984) was an English painter and Commercial artist specialising in marine art. He studied at Hull School of Art before enlisting in the Royal Engineers during World War I. After demobilisation he was recruited by Ronald Massey a London agent seeking nautical illustrations for publicity material. Subsequently he produced work for many of the major shipping lines including P & O Canadian Pacific and the British India Line.
Christopher B. Landon.  Christopher Beau Landon (born February 27 1975) is an American screenwriter and film director best known as the writer of 2007 film Disturbia the last three Paranormal Activity films and as the son of late actor Michael Landon. Landon wrote and made his first directorial debut on the satirical thriller Burning Palms which was released in 2010. He recently wrote and directed the found footage horror film Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.
Niccolò Castiglioni.  Niccolò Castiglioni (17 July 1932 – 7 September 1996) was an Italian composer pianist and writer on music.Castiglioni was born and raised in Milan where he began studying piano at the age of 7. He received his performer's diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1952 and graduated there in composition in 1953. His student compositions were marked by Stravinsky's neo-classicism but after graduation his style changed under the influence of the Second Viennese School.
Finbar Furey.  Finbar Furey (born 28 September 1946 Ballyfermot Dublin) is an Irish folk musician best known for his band of brothers The Fureys.Finbar's father Ted began him on the Uillean pipes while he was very young.
Giuseppe Agellio.  Giuseppe Agellio (1570 - after 1620) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Sorrento he was a pupil of the painter Cristoforo Roncalli and although worked in Rome. He excelled in painting landscape and architecture.
Jimi Goodwin.  Jimi Goodwin (born Jamie Francis Alexander Goodwin 28 May 1970 Manchester England) is the bassist vocalist and guitarist for Doves. Before their incarnation as Doves the three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub.Goodwin is best known as the lead singer bassist and guitarist for Doves but in songs like Here It Comes he is known for swapping positions with drummer Andy Williams and taking over as drummer.
Erik Rutan.  Erik Rutan is an American heavy metal musician and producer from New Jersey. He currently leads Hate Eternal on lead vocals and guitar and has also spent time with Morbid Angel (three different stints) and Ripping Corpse. When not performing Rutan operates his own recording studio in Florida called Mana Recording Studios.
Machi (hip hop group).  Machi (Chinese: 麻吉; pinyin: májí) is a Taiwanese Hip hop group that has nine active members with two additional members on a hiatus from group activities.
Jean Galbert de Campistron.  Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656 – 11 May 1723) was a French dramatist
Mitchell Ayres.  Mitchell Ayres (December 24 1909 – September 5 1969) was an orchestra leader music arranger composer and performer. He is best known for his many years of work with Perry Como on radio records and television and as the musical conductor for The Hollywood Palace.
Georgina Chapman.  Georgina Rose Chapman (born 14 April 1976) is an English fashion designer and actress. Chapman alongside Keren Craig an actress and a former model are the co-founders of fashion label Marchesa.
Toshiya Ueda.  Toshiya Ueda (上田 敏也 Ueda Toshiya born February 24 1933 in Sapporo Hokkaidō) is a Japanese voice actor who works for 81 Produce.
Madeline Miller.  Madeline Miller is an American novelist whose debut novel was The Song of Achilles. Miller spent ten years writing the book while she worked as a Latin and Greek teacher. The novel set in Greece tells the story of the love between Achilles and Patroclus. The Song of Achilles won the Orange Prize for Fiction making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize.
Shweta Pandit.  Shweta Pandit (born 7 July 1986) is a popular Bollywood Playback/Recording Vocalist songwriter composer Performing Artist and Actor in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for various Telugu and Tamil film songs.At the age of four Shweta worked with Legendary Indian Composer Ilayaraja for the award-winning film Anjali which was re-recorded in Hindi. She dubbed for the lead role in the film in Hindi.
Jan Byrczek.  Jan A. Byrczek (born 15 Jun 1936 Chelmek) is a jazz musician (double bass) jazz critic and jazz magazine editor. He was born raised and until the age of 41 worked as a musician in Poland performing with artists that include the Trio Komeda Quartet Kurylewicz. Due to illness Byrczek stopped playing. He then managed the Krakow Jazz Club and Polish Jazz Federation. He was a co-founder of the European Jazz Federation in 1956 and founded Jazz Forum in 1946.
Edinburgh Painter.  The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure techniques.His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh National Museums of Scotland 1956.436.
Dana Rayne.  Dana Rayne (born March 5 1981 Long Island New York) is an American dance and Pop singer. Rayne was a success on the American club scene where she started off as a DJ in New York. This led to her releasing a song Object of My Desire which was a cover of Starpoint's popular dance tune in the mid 1980s. It reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in January 2005.
A. M. Rajah.  Aemala Manmatharaju Rajah (1 July 1929 – 8 April 1989) was a South Indian playback singer-music composer popular in the 1950s and the early 1960s in South India. He was popularly known as A. M. Rajah or Rajah. His songs were featured in numerous Tamil Telugu Malayalam and Kannada films in the 1950s early 1960s and early 1970s. He also composed music for several films.
Whistlin' Alex Moore.  Whistlin' Alex Moore (November 22 1899 – January 20 1989) was an American blues pianist singer and whistler. He is best remembered for his recordings of Across The Atlantic Ocean and Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls.
George Innes.  George Innes (born 8 March 1938 in Wapping East London) is an English actor.
Everett Warner.  Everett Longley Warner (July 16 1877 – October 20 1963) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker as well as a leading contributor to US Navy camouflage during both World Wars.
Diana Reyes.  Diana Reyes (born November 18 1979) is a Mexican singer of duranguense music.Reyes was born in La Paz Baja California Sur Mexico. She has released three gold records since 2004: La Reina del Pasito Duranguense Las No. 1 de la Reina and Te Voy a Mostrar. Reyes holds strong ties to her father's native state of Sinaloa and her mother's native Sonora.
Darya Dadvar.  Daryā Dādvar (Persian: دريا دادور ‎ born in Mashhad Iran) is an accomplished Iranian soprano soloist and composer living in Paris France.
Ali Roz.  Ali Roz (Arabic علي الرز) is the Managing Editor of Kuwait's daily newspaper Al Rai[1]. Born in Lebanon he is a syndicated columnist and a frequent commentator on Arabic satellite TVs.
George Albert Tuck.  George Albert Tuck (1884–1981) was a notable New Zealand builder soldier and diarist. He was born in Cambridge Waikato New Zealand in 1884.
Maya Matievich.  Maya Matievich (Serbian: Маја Матијевић; born January 5 1990) is a classical pianist. She started to play the piano at the age of five. She was born in the musical family her father Boris is a trumpet player and a conductor and her mother Sanya finished the piano and solo singing but she is a teacher of English today.Maya finished the Secondary Music School Dr. Vojislav Vučković in Belgrade in the class of Professor Branka Žiravac–Jeremić.
Antonio del Pollaiolo.  Antonio del Pollaiolo (January 17 1429/1433 – February 4 1498) also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiolo was an Italian painter sculptor engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance.
Mark Reeder.  Mark Reeder (born 5 January 1958) grew up in Manchester England. He is a musician and record producer. At a young age Reeder became interested in progressive rock and especially early electronic music. In his teens he worked in a small Virgin Records store in Manchester city centre.Reeder has been living and working in Berlin since 1978. He is also the founder and owner of the German electronic dance music label MFS and Flesh.
Albert Alcalay.  Albert Alcalay (1917 Paris - March 29 2008 Boston) was an American abstract artist.
Trudy Benson.  Trudy Benson is an abstract artist who lives and works in Brooklyn NY. She was born in Richmond Virginia in 1985. She received an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is represented by Horton Gallery.Trudy Benson is known for her large scale abstract paintings that utilize large swaths and globs of paint. Her style was influenced by early computer painting programs such as MacPaint and Windows Paint.
Keith Morant.  Keith Morant (born England 1944) is an international award winning abstract contemporary artist best known for his vibrant celebratory works in New Zealand and Italy.[citation needed]
Michael Dahl.  Michael Dahl (1659–1743) was a Swedish portrait painter who lived and worked in England most of his career and died there. He was one of the most internationally-known Swedish painters of his time. He painted portraits of many aristocrats and some members of royal families such as Queen Anne of Great Britain Prince George of Denmark and the exiled Queen Christina of Sweden.
Michael DeForge.  Michael DeForge (born 1987 in Ottawa Ontario Canada) is a Canadian comics artist and illustrator.
Gareth Alban Davies.  Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 - 9 February 2009) was a Welsh poet educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh and was a noted expert on the works of Fernando Arrabal and Federico García Lorca.
Tim Asch.  Timothy Asch (July 16 1932 – October 3 1994 Los Angeles California) was a noted anthropologist photographer and ethnographic filmmaker. Along with John Marshall and Robert Gardner Asch played an important role in the development of visual anthropology. He is particularly known for his film The Ax Fight and his role with the USC Center for Visual Anthropology.
Jerry Joseph.  Jerry Joseph is an American singer songwriter and guitar player.
John Bilezikjian.  John Bilzikjian is an Armenian Los Angeles-based musician and composer. Most renowned as a oud master he also plays the violin mandolin dumbek. He is also a traditional and contemporary singer singing in Armenian but also in Turkish Assyrian/Syriac English and known for his contributions to world music as a solo act and in collaborations with renowned artists.
Lee Wei.  Lee Wei(Chinese: 李威) is a Taiwanese actor and singer.
Alex Barclay.  Eve Alex Barclay (born Dublin Ireland in 1974) is an Irish crime writer.Barclay studied journalism at university and worked for a period in fashion and beauty journalism as a copywriter in the RTÉ Guide. In 2003 she left the fashion industry to write Darkhouse the first of two novels featuring NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi. Her second novel The Caller was released in 2007 and Last Call in 2008.
Birgit Schuurman.  Birgit Schuurman (born 1 July 1977 in Utrecht) (artist name Birgit) is a Dutch rock singer and actress.
Louis Adamic.  Louis Adamic (Slovene: Alojz Adamič) (23 March 1898 – 4 September 1951) was a Slovene-American author and translator mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of America.
Salvatore Falco.  Salvatore Falco is an Italian journalist.He won a national journalism prize in worship of Ilaria Alpi in 2006. He took part to the investigating stories show 'Lavori in Corso' (Work in Progress) during which he designed and implemented a journalistic investigation documentary work about illegal immigrants. He spent whole days with them in order to understand and describe their working days. The investigating documentary was entitled 'New Slaves'.
Nancy Whiskey.  Nancy Whiskey (born Anne Alexandra Young Nancy Wilson 4 March 1935 – 1 February 2003) was a Scottish folk singer best known for the 1957 hit song Freight Train.
Stanley Cornwell Lewis.  Stanley Cornwell Lewis MBE (December 18 1905 – September 9 2009) was a British portrait painter and illustrator.
Luke Clennell.  Luke Clennell (8 April 1781 – 9 February 1840) was an English engraver and painter.
Gisbert Flüggen.  Gisbert Flüggen (1811-1859) was a German painter.
Harry Adaskin.  Harry Adaskin OC (Latvian: Harijs Adaskins; 6 October 1901 – 7 April 1994) was a Canadian violinist academic and radio broadcaster.
Elvis Perkins.  Elvis Perkins (born February 9 1976) is an American folk-rock recording artist. He released his debut studio album Ash Wednesday in 2007. Perkins subsequently toured in support of the album with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland composed of Perkins alongside multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough (bassvocals saxophone) Wyndham Boylan-Garnett (organ harmonium trombone guitar vocals) and Nick Kinsey (drums clarinet vocals).
Matt Worobec.  Matt Worobec was the drummer for Canadian southern rock band The Organ Thieves. Worobec was one of the three original members of Canadian pop punk band Cauterize. Worobec served as Cauterize's principal drummer for the entirety of the band's existence and not plays part-time with The Organ Thieves with former Cauterize bandmate Chuck Coles as lead singer.
John Maus.  John Maus (born February 23 1980) is an American avant-garde musician composer and a philosopher. A keyboard player for Panda Bear and Ariel Pink he has released three albums of his own music to acclaim. He grew up in Minnesota. He is known for his eclectic samples when composing an almost absurd mix – a stand-off between taut bass-driven post-punk whooshing electro-pop and thanks to the chants and bleak intoning Medieval and Gregorian disco.
Raffaele Rabbia.  Rafaelle Rabbia (17th century) was an Italian painter mainly painting portraits. He was born in Marino and active in 1610.
Charlie Hunter.  Charlie Hunter (born May 23 1967) is an American guitarist composer and bandleader.First coming to prominence in the early 1990s Hunter has recorded 17 albums. Hunter plays custom-made seven and eight-string guitars on which he simultaneously plays basslines rhythm guitar and solos. Critic Sean Westergaard describes Hunter's guitar technique as mind-boggling ...
Johnny Bond.  Cyrus Whitfield Bond (June 1 1915 – June 12 1978) known professionally as Johnny Bond was a popular American country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s.
Liu Sifen.  Liu Sifen (simplified Chinese: 刘斯奋; traditional Chinese: 劉斯奮; pinyin: Liǘ Sīfèn; born January 1944) is a Chinese novelist and painter who was the president of Guangdong Literature and Art Association.
Steven Long.  Steven Hayward Long (born July 17 1944) from Houston Texas is an American journalist magazine publisher and author of three true crime books and one novel. He has worked the three roles simultaneously covering news events for magazines and newspapers while editing the monthly Horseback Magazine and researching books.
William Willis (artist).  William Willis (born 1943) is an American abstract painter.
Dave Ockun.  Dave Ockun was born in Syosset New York and is a well-known Los Angeles Real Estate Agent for Keller Williams and former concert producer and music industry professional based in Los Angeles. Ockun has appeared on several reality TV shows representing celebrity clientele selling Real Estate. Ockun has managed the tours of Nick Carter The Monkees and They Might Be Giants. Ockun has also toured with Backstreet Boys Melissa Etheridge Barry Manilow and others.
Chieko Honda.  Chieko Honda (本多 知恵子 Honda Chieko March 28 1963 – February 18 2013) was a Japanese voice actress. During her life she was attached to Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society and Mix Max; she was attached to Aoni Production at the time of her death. On February 18 2013 Honda died of multiple forms of cancer while undergoing treatment.
Tracy Chevalier.  Tracy Chevalier (born October 19 1962) is an American historical novelist. She has written seven novels. She is best known for her second novel Girl with a Pearl Earring which was made into a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
Saint Saviour (musician).  Becky Jones better known as Saint Saviour is an English musician from Stockton-On-Tees. Formerly of the electro band The RGBs she toured with Groove Armada as their lead singer in 2010 before deciding to create her own solo act. Her song This Ain't No Hymn appeared in the 2011 trailer for the film Miss Bala.
Jonah Keri.  Jonah Keri (born September 20 1974 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian journalist sportswriter and an editor. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.
Mick Thomson.  Mick Thomson is an American metal musician. He is best known as being one of two guitarists in the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Slipknot. When performing with Slipknot Thomson is known as Number Seven being that the eight piece band follows a numbering scheme for its members ranging from 0-8. (Number 2 is still assigned to deceased bassist and co-founding member Paul Gray). His number is also tattooed on his left arm as seven which can be seen in music videos such as Dead Memories.
Joanne (singer).  Lee Yoon-ji (born September 28 1988) better known by her stage name Joanne is a South Korean singer. She is the little sister of Lee Seung Hyun who is a member of a Korean boy band TAKE. She debuted on August 2001 with her debut album titled First Love which gained mainstream success in South Korea. She was called the second BoA because of her powerful dance and pleasant voice.She has collaborated with some artists from SM Entertainment such as H.O.T.
Tao Lin.  Tao Lin (Traditional Chinese: 林 韜 Simplified Chinese: 林 韬 Pinyin: Lín Tāo born July 2 1983) is an American novelist poet essayist short-story writer and artist. He has published three novels two books of poetry one short story collection and one novella in print as well as an extensive assortment of online content.
Jean Hotteterre.  Jean Hotteterre (died 1720) was a composer and musician of the Hotteterre family in the court of Louis XIV of France. He and his brothers Jacques-Martin and Nicolas made many enhancements to the hautbois creating an indoor version similar to the shawm. Jean and Michel Philidore created the oboe.
Ronald Kessler.  Ronald Borek Kessler is an American journalist and author of 19 non-fiction books about the U.S. Secret Service FBI and CIA. Six of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Orshi Drozdik.  Orshi Drozdik (born February 15 1946) is a Hungarian feminist artist based in New York. Her work consists of series of installations exploring connected themes sometimes over many years.
Hal Ketchum.  Hal Michael Ketchum (born April 9 1953) is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986 including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful having been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Between 1991 and 2006 Ketchum also made 17 entries on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Andy Palacio.  Andy Vivian Palacio (December 2 1960 – January 19 2008) was a Belizean Punta musician and government official. He was also a leading activist for the Garifuna people and their culture.
George Fuller (painter).  George Fuller (January 17 1822 – March 21 1884) was an American figure and portrait painter.
Kenneth S. Davis.  Kenneth Sydney Davis (September 29 1912 – June 10 1999) was a historian and university professor most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh Adlai Stevenson and authored the first biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower entitled Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier of Democracy.
Carolyn Creedon.  Carolyn Creedon (born 1969) Newport News Virginia is an American poet.
Martin Gordon.  Martin Gordon (born 1954 Ipswich Suffolk) is an English musician who plays bass guitar double bass and piano.
Sequeira Costa.  José Carlos de Sequeira Costa (born 18 July 1929 Luanda Angola) is a Portuguese pianist who is especially admired for his interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.As a child Sequeira Costa showed exceptional musical talent. When he was eight years old he moved to Lisbon to become the protégé of José Vianna da Motta who was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt.
Tom Baxter.  Tom Baxter (born Thomas Baxter Gleave 29 October 1973) is an English singer-songwriter based in London. He was born in Ipswich Suffolk and grew up in Cornwall with his sister Vashti Anna two brothers Jo Spencer and Charlie Winston and parents Jeff and Julie Gleave (who were regulars on the folk music circuit in the late 1960s and early 1970s).
Andrei Ivanovitch.  Andrei Ivanovitch (born 1968 in Bucharest Romania) is an international classical pianist and winner of a number of international competitions.
Flora Wiegmann.  Flora Wiegmann (born 1976 Lincoln Nebraska) is an American dancer choreographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Edyta Bartosiewicz.  Edyta Bartosiewicz (born January 11 1965 in Warsaw) is a Polish rock singer composer and songwriter. Her career has been awarded by five Fryderyks. In Poland she's known for her highly reflective and unusual lyrics.
John Drew Mackenzie.  John Drew MacKenzie was a master craftsman and instructor of the Newlyn Copper school in Cornwall UK. His style is described as arts and crafts/art nouveau. He was educated at Clifton College. He is credited with being the instigator of the Newlyn Copper Industry.[1]He arrived in Cornwall in 1888 as a painter and illustrator and in 1890 founded the Newlyn Industrial Class instructing local people in metalwork; enamelling and embroidery.
Pietro Paolo Bencini.  Pietro Paolo Bencini (ca. 1670 – 6 July 1755) was an Italian Baroque composer and Kapellmeister.
Olav Gullvåg.  Olav Gullvåg (31 December 1885 - 25 September 1961) was a Norwegian playwright novelist poet and editor.He was born in Trondheim. He worked as editor-in-chief of Søndmøre Folkeblad from 1911 to 1912 Norig from 1912 to 1921 and Gula Tidend from 1921 to 1929.
Yda Hillis Addis.  Yda Hillis Addis (born 1857 disappeared 1902) was the first American writer to translate ancient Mexican oral stories and histories into English. The most widely published of her more than 100 stories are The Romance of Ramon and Roger's Luck.Addis published her Mexican oral stories in The Argonaut a bi-monthly San Francisco journal founded in 1877 by Frank M. Pixley. Addis also wrote original fiction.
Witold Skulicz.  Professor Witold Skulicz (12 February 1926 in Kraków – 28 December 2009) was a Polish artist.Founder and President of International Print Triennial Society in Kraków. The initiator of International Print Biennial and Triennial. For many years a Dean of Department of Graphic Arts and a Head of Graphic Project Studio at Academy of Fine Art in Kraków. Meritorious member of ZPAP.The author of programmes promoting Polish print: Polish Eagles Icon Data The Best Diploma.
Jeanine Lobell.  Jeanine Nichole Lobell is an American make-up artist and businesswoman. She is the creator of Stila Cosmetics.Lobell is married to actor Anthony Edwards.Lobell is featured on the beauty blog Into The Gloss.
Qateel Shifai.  Aurangzeb Khan or Qateel Shifai (24 December 1919 - 11 July 2001) (Urdu: قتیل شفا ئی ) was a Pakistani Urdu poet.
Matt Wertz.  Matt Wertz is a singer-songwriter. Originally from LaVale MD he now lives in Nashville Tennessee. His interest in visual art led him to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated with a degree in industrial design. While there his musical talents and ambitions grew.
Tom Reynolds (author).  Tom Reynolds (born 1960 in Wisconsin) is an American author and television producer. He is not Tom Reynolds (born 1971) who wrote Blood Sweat and Tea (2010). He wrote the popular books I Hate Myself and Want to Die and Touch Me I'm Sick. He also wrote Wild ride : how outlaw motorcycle myth conquered America. This book was based on his 1999 documentary. He currently lives in Nacogdoches Texas where he teaches Speech and English at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Odd Hølaas.  Oddleiv Sigurd Bang Hølaas (27 March 1898 – 2 March 1968) was a Norwegian journalist and writer. He won the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1964.He was born in Tveit as a son of physician Oddleiv Magne Hølaas (1869–1915) and Aasta Bang (1867–1953). He was a paternal grandson of Andreas Hølaas. He finished secondary education in 1917 and was hired in the newspaper Christianssands Tidende. Already in 1918 he went on to Nationen and in 1924 to Tidens Tegn.
Kenny Baker (fiddler).  Kenneth Clayton Baker (June 26 1926 – July 8 2011) was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Bluegrass Boys.
Dina Melicov.  Dina Melicov (1905–1969) was an American sculptor and painter who studied at The Educational Alliance Art School. She graduated from Wadleigh High School for Girls and studied with Solon Borglum. She married Samuel Gould.Dina Melicov was a member of the Sculptors Guild. She worked for the Federal Art Project. Her works include a 1942 statue of Dr.
Paul Bins comte de Saint-Victor.  Paul Bins comte de Saint-Victor (11 July 1827 Paris – 9 July 1881 Paris) known as Paul de Saint-Victor a French author and critic. He is likely most known today as a French cultural figure mentioned by Marcel Proust in the novel In Search of Lost Time.
Chris Shar.  Chris Shar (born Christopher Joshua Shar November 14 1978) is an American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.Shar is a former member of the bands Stiffed and Man Man (under pseudonym Sergei Sogay) and is bassist for Santigold.
Henry Krtschil.  Henry Krtschil is a German Composer music producer and pianist. He worked for 25 years as an film composer for Deutscher Fernsehfunk and over 30 years with the German singer Gisela May.Krtschil studied music between 1951 and 1956 at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. Then he was a Répétiteur for one year at Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin and until 1970 at Berliner Ensemble. Between 1970 and 1977 he worked at the theatre Volksbühne.
Iris Häussler.  Iris Häussler (German pronunciation: [ˈiːʁɪs ˈhɔʏslɐ]; born April 6. 1962) is a conceptual- and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto Ontario Canada. Many of Iris Häussler's works are detailed hyperrealistic installations that visitors can decode as narrative stories. Recurring topics in her work include social origins such as family ties and relationships and physical origins such as biographies or emigration.
Bernie Calvert.  Bernard Bamford Calvert (16 September 1942 Brierfield Lancashire England) played bass guitar and keyboards with The Hollies from 1966 until 1981.
Adge Cutler.  Alan John 'Adge' Cutler (19 November 1930 – 5 May 1974) was an English singer best known as the frontman of the comic folk band The Wurzels. Cutler was known for his songs but also his dry West Country humour and gained the unofficial title of The Bard Of Avonmouth.
Eck Robertson.  Alexander Eck Robertson (born November 20 1887 in Delaney Arkansas died February 15 1975 in Borger Texas) was an American fiddle player mostly known for commercially recording the first country music songs in 1922 with Henry Gilliland.
More or Les.  More Or Les (born 29 November in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian rapper busker DJ producer and a member of the Backburner crew. He currently resides in his home town of Toronto Ontario.
Muhammad Izhar ul Haq.  Muhammad Izhar ul Haq (Urdu: محمد اظہار الحق) is a columnist and a renowned poet of Urdu language in Pakistan. He has received international recognition for his contribution to Urdu literature and has been awarded Pakistan’s highest civil award Pride of performance in 2008. He has published four books of Urdu poetry and writes weekly column in Daily Dunya.
Despot Badžović.  Despot S. Badžović (Serbian: Деспот С. Баџовић Macedonian: Деспот Баџовиќ) (1850 — 30 November 1930) was a teacher and an activist of the Serbian national movement in Macedonia.
Really Doe.  Warren Trotter (born July 21 1980) better known by his stage name Really Doe is an American rapper from Chicago Illinois.
Lee Camp (comedian).  Lee Camp (born July 21 1980) is an American stand-up comedian writer actor and activist.
Gary Stroutsos.  Gary Stroutsos is a flute player based in Seattle Washington who plays a variety of genres of music. He has made his mark by tapping into the Native American canon and has brought several forgotten songs to life. He plays a variety of different flutes from all around the world and in unusual settings. Gary has played and collaborated with many recognized musicians.
Fitz James O'Brien.  Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; December 31 1828 – April 6 1862) was an Irish-born American writer some of whose work is often considered a forerunner of today's science fiction.
Gaspare Gasparini.  Gaspare Gasparini (died 1590) was a native of Macerata. He was a disciple of Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta whose style he followed though in a less finished manner; as appears in his two pictures in the church of San Venanzio at Fabriano representing The Baptism of Christ and The Last Supper. He is seen to more advantage in his picture of St. Peter and St. John curing the Lame Man in the same church a grand composition in which he seems to have imitated the style of Raphael.
Steve Macdonald (filk musician).  Steve Macdonald (born November 26 1961) is a filk musician (singer/songwriter) from Michigan who also appears at Renaissance Faires as Gallamor the Bard. He served for several years as the Pegasus Award Evangelista and was responsible for many changes in the award process that led to much greater participation among the voting base. He was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2006.In September 2006 he emigrated to Germany.
Eric Medlin.  Eric Medlin (American Photographer/Artist)Eric has compiled an eclectic body of work over the past 25 years ranging from the abstract to grand landscapes. His main focus now is on portrait photography.
Cameron Hall (actor).  Cameron Hall (born 6 January 1897 in Hull East Riding of Yorkshire – died 19 December 1983 in Sidmouth Devon) was a British actor.
Irshad Alasr Jafri.  Irshad Alasr Jafri is Pakistani novelist recognized for the Imran Series from Muzaffargarh. After the falling health of Mazhar Kaleem he along with Zaheer Ahmed Safder Shaheen Irshad Al Asar Jaferi Ali Hasan Gilani and Khalid Noor took over writing the Imran Series under the aegis of Arslaan Publications.
Chantal Chamandy.  Chantal Chamandy (born at Alexandria Egypt) is a Canadian singer and entertainer based in Montreal Quebec. She previously performed under the names Chantal Condor and Chantal.
Stella Vine.  Stella Vine (born Melissa Jane Robson 1969) is an English artist who lives and works in London. Her work is figurative painting with subject matter drawn from either her personal life of family friends and school or rock stars royalty and celebrities.
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.  Urbano Tavares Rodrigues GCIH (December 6 1923 – August 9 2013) was a Portuguese professor of literature a literary critic and a fiction writer winner of many literary prizes. He was born in 1923 in Lisbon Portugal but spent most of his childhood near Moura in Alentejo the Southern region of Portugal. From his youth on he became close to the Portuguese Communist Party.
Ole Beich.  Ole Beich (1955 – October 16 1991) was a Danish musician best known as the bassist for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses.
Nanette Hassall.  Nanette Hassall (born 1947) is an Australian dancer choreographer and dance teacher.
Roshan (music director).  Roshanlal Nagrath (14 July 1917 – 16 November 1967) better known simply by his first name Roshan was a Bollywood film music composer. He was the father of the actor and film director Rakesh Roshan and music director Rajesh Roshan and paternal grandfather of Hritik Roshan.
Maurice Broaddus.  Maurice Broaddus is a fantasy and horror author best known for his short fiction and his Knights of Breton Court novel trilogy. He has published dozens of stories in magazines and book anthologies including in Asimov's Science Fiction Black Static and Weird Tales.
Michael Gill.  George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 – 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and television director responsible for creating 'ground-breaking' documentaries for the BBC.He was born in Winchester Hampshire but was brought up in Canterbury. He contracted tuberculosis as a child which disrupted his education severely including four years in a spinal chair. He served in the RAF in Intelligence during the war.
Brad Thor.  Brad Thor (born 1969) is an American thriller novelist and author of The Lions of Lucerne Path of the Assassin State of the Union Blowback Takedown The First Commandment The Last Patriot The Apostle Foreign Influence The Athena Project Full Black and Black List. His most recent novel Hidden Order was released in July 2013. Thor's novels have been published in countries around the world.
Helen Steiner Rice.  Helen Steiner Rice (May 19 1900 – April 23 1981) was an American writer of religious and inspirational poetry.Helen Steiner was born in Lorain Ohio on May 19 1900. Her father a railroad worker died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager which was rare for a woman at that time.
Leon Ware.  Leon Ware (born February 16 1940) is an American music artist songwriter and composer. He was born and raised in Detroit MIchigan. Besides a solo career as a performer Ware is best known for producing hits for other artists including Michael Jackson Quincy Jones Maxwell Minnie Riperton and Marvin Gaye co-producing the latter music artist's album I Want You.
Angela Dufresne.  Angela Dufresne (born 1969) is a painter originally from Connecticut who is based in Brooklyn.Dufresne received a BFA in 1991 from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art Temple University Philadelphia in 1998.She has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York the 2005 ARCO Art Fair for Galeria Marta Cervera in Madrid Miracle on Franklin Street at GV/AS in Brooklyn The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London and a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles CA. 
Caroline Graham.  Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright screenwriter and novelist.
Barbara Tucker.  For the Australian born peace activist see Barbara Grace Tucker For the African American church vocalist from Texas see Barbara Johnson Tucker.Barbara Tucker Brooklyn New York) is an African American house R&B and soul singer songwriter and choreographer. Her music has had an impact on mainstream and dance music across the United States and throughout Europe.
Kreva (rapper).  Takashi Hatakeyama (畠山 貴志 Hatakeyama Takashi born June 18 1976) better known by his stage name Kreva is a Japanese rapper and record producer signed with the Burger Inn Records and Pony Canyon's Knife Edge labels.
Ariane Moffatt.  Ariane Moffatt (born 26 April 1979) is a Quebec singer-songwriter. Known for working across multiple musical genres Moffatt's music combines elements of electronica jazz folk and pop. A francophone she is bilingual and has recorded tracks in both French and English. Her 2002 debut album Aquanaute went platinum in Quebec earning 11 nominations at the 2003 ADISQ Awards and winning three Félix awards (for Discovery of the Year Album of the Year – Pop/Rock and Album Producer of the Year).
Gato Barbieri.  Leandro Barbieri (born November 28 1932 in Rosario Santa Fe Province Argentina) known as Gato Barbieri (Spanish for Barbieri the Cat) is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.
Ryohgo Narita.  Ryohgo Narita (成田 良悟 Narita Ryōgo) (born May 30 1980) is a Japanese light novelist. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano! which was made into an anime TV series in 2007. His series Durarara!! was also made into an anime TV series which began airing January 2010.
Ray Yoshida.  Raymond Ray Kakuo Yoshida (October 3 1930 – January 10 2009) was a Chicago artist known for his paintings and collages and a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1959 to 2005. He was an important mentor of the Chicago Imagists a group in the 1960s and 1970s who specialized in distorted emotional representational art.Yoshida was born in Hawaii and returned there after 2005 when his health began to fail.
Stanwood Cobb.  Stanwood Cobb (November 6 1881 – December 29 1982) was an American educator author and prominent Bahá'í of the 20th century.He was born in Newton Massachusetts to Darius Cobb - a Civil War soldier artist and descendent of Elder Henry Cobb of the second voyage of the Mayflower - and Eunice Hale (née Waite) - founding president of the Ladies Physiological Institute of Boston and mother of Cobb's four sisters and two other brothers.
Harvey Spencer Stephens.  Harvey Spencer Stephens (born 12 November 1970) is an English actor who played the role of young Damien Thorn in The Omen.Stephens was born in Putney London England. He was four years old when picked for the part which required him to have his blond hair dyed dark brown. According to Omen director Richard Donner during an interview with AMC Stephens got the part after he beat up Donner and punched him in the testicles at Donner's urging.
Jean-Marc Rives.  Jean-Marc Rives is a French painter singer musician poet and writer. He is son of French father and Italian Mother and was born 16 November 1950 in Rabat. He is known for writing guitar saxophone and Music Instruments. His work of art is constituted from over 500 paintings all figurative and modern. Jean was awarded with Elected Knight of the International Academy Greci-Marino and Excellence in International Grand Prix of the Lords of Art.
Randy Houser.  Shawn Randolph Randy Houser (born December 18 1975) is an American country music artist. Signed to Universal South Records in 2008 he charted the single Anything Goes. It was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country singles chart and the title track to his debut album of the same name which also produced his first Top 10 hit Boots On. His second album They Call Me Cadillac included the number 31 single Whistlin' Dixie. In 2012 he moved to Broken Bow Records imprint Stoney Creek.
Ann Scott (singer).  Ann Scott is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin Ireland.
Pyotr Yakubovich.  Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich (Russian: Пётр Филиппович Якубович; November 3 1860 – March 30 1911) was a Russian revolutionary poet and member of Narodnaya Volya (People's Will Party) during the 1880s. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University (1882). After graduating he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya. He was an organizer of the Young People's Will Party as well as its leader and ideologist.
André Vianco.  André Vianco (São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer of popular horror fiction.
Alexander George Fraser.  Alexander George Fraser (1786-1865) was a Scottish genre and domestic painter who exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy in London for many years. His son Alexander Fraser (1827-1899) was also a prominent artist with whom he is sometimes confused (and his paintings are sometimes misidentified as being by his son).
John A. Wilson (sculptor).  John Albert Wilson (1877–1954) was a Nova Scotian sculptor who produced public art throughout North America. He was a professor in the School of Architecture at Harvard University for 32 years. He is most famous for his American Civil War monuments the Confederacy Statue (Silent Sam) in North Carolina and his Washington Grays Monument (the 'Pennsylvania Volunteer') in Philadelphia.
Lyn (singer).  Lee Se-jin (born November 9 1981) is a K-pop singer known professionally as Lyn. She has released five albums to date.
Felicia Chin.  Felicia Chin Foon Ling (simplified Chinese: 陈凤玲; traditional Chinese: 陳鳳玲; pinyin: Chén Fènglíng; born 24 October 1984) who was also once known by her Chinese stage name Chen Jingxuan (simplified Chinese: 陈靓瑄; traditional Chinese: 陳靚瑄; pinyin: Chén Jìngxuān) is a Singaporean actress and contracted artiste under MediaCorp.
Elizabeth Sun.  Elizabeth Chi-Wei Sun is a musician and actress of Hong Kong Chinese descent. She was raised in Glasgow Scotland.In 2000 she played Maggie McMullen in the movie Groove. In 2004 she joined the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello as a dancer percussionist and backing vocalist.
Friedrich Lange (artist).  Friedrich Lange (29 October 1834 Plau am See – 18 July 1875 Strasbourg) was a German history painter and member of the Nazarene movement.
Kathy Yuen.  Kathy Tong-Ka-yee Yuen is a female artist from Hong Kong. She is signed under the Emperor Entertainment Group label. She attend to be a Beauty Cook is discovered to make a contract to become an artist.
Shigeru Mizuki.  Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる Mizuki Shigeru real name: Shigeru Mura born March 8 1922) is a Japanese manga cartoonist most known for his Japanese horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro (which was originally titled Hakaba Kitaro) Kappa no Sanpei and Akuma-kun. Originally from Sakaiminato in Tottori prefecture he resides in Tokyo. His pen-name Mizuki comes from the time when he managed an inn called 'Mizuki Manor' while he drew pictures for picture story shows a Japanese form of storytelling.
Walter Mehring.  Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich and fled the country.
Larry Doyle (writer).  Larry Doyle (born November 13 1958 in Camden New Jersey) is an American novelist television writer and producer.
Laura Oldfield Ford.  Laura Oldfield Ford (born 1973) is a British artist and psychogeographer. Her photorealist work in ballpoint pen acrylic paint and spray paint is politically-motivated and focuses on British urban areas. Oldfield Ford publishes a blog titled Savage Messiah which was also the name of a zine published from 2005 to 2009.
Flo Steinberg.  Florence Flo Steinberg is an American publisher of one of the first independent comic books the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix in 1975.
Connie Kaldor.  Connie Isabelle Kaldor CM (born 9 May 1953) is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.Born in Regina Saskatchewan she graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1972 and the University of Alberta in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre. She performed with various theatre groups including Theatre Passe Muraille The Mummers and 25th Street House Theatre until 1979 when she gave it up to start a full-time music career.
Ilija Crijević.  Ilija Crijević (Latin: Aelius Lampridius Cervinus) also known in Italian as Elio Lampridio Cerva was a poet born in the city of Dubrovnik in the homonymous Republic c. 1460 (or 1434 as indicated by some sources) and belonged to one of the most important local noble families the House of Cerva.
Yasuhiro Kawakami.  Yasuhiro Kawakami (川上康広 Kawakami Yasuhiro) is a Japanese video game composer and sound programmer who was employed at Square from 1991 to 1999. Before he joined Square he worked at Sega. Kawakami frequently collaborated with fellow composer Ryuji Sasai.
François Porché.  François Porché (born Cognac November 21 1877 - died Vichy April 19 1944) was a French dramatist poet and literary critic. The French Academy awarded him the Grand Prix de Literature in 1923. Les Butors et la Finette a symbolical and allegorical drama premiered in 1917 Sam Abramovitch in 1927 (in New York City) and Un roi deux dames et un valet in 1934. He published a war poem L' Arret sur la Marne in 1916 and a poetry collection called Charles Baudelaire in memory of the poet.
Benjamin Diamond.  Benjamin Diamond (born Benjamin Cohen 11 March 1972 in Paris France) is a French singer.He started life as a punk rocker in the band Chicken Pox but taking inspiration from artists such as New Order Michael Jackson and Roxy Music he veered towards electro. However he is best known for his collaboration in Stardust with Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk) and Alan Braxe. He sang the lyrics in their 1998 single Music Sounds Better With You which was an international success.
Alan Bamberger.  Alan Bamberger is a San Francisco–based art consultant and advisor best known for his regular posts to ArtBusiness.com [1] where he creates a visual diary of gallery openings and happenings in the art world in the Bay area. In addition he makes insightful comments takes close-up views with the memorable Pinky-Cam giving the sense of scale and detail to the artwork on view.
Danielle Pafunda.  Danielle Pafunda is an American writer and poet. She is Assistant Professor for the Department of English at the University of Wyoming.
Eşref Armağan.  Eşref Armağan (born 1953) is a blind painter of Turkish origin. Born without sight to an impoverished family he taught himself to write and print. He has painted using oil paints for roughly thirty-five years.Using a braille stylus to etch the outline of his drawing Armağan requires total silence to create art. Oil paint is then applied with his fingers and left to dry fully before a new color is applied. This unique method is used so that colors do not smudge.
Syed Ahmad Hussain Shah Tirmezi.  Ahmad Hussain Shah Tirmezi is the Chief Imam of Al-Jamia Al-Zahra in Halifax West Yorkshire UK. He is the grandson of Pir Walayat Ali Shah from Gujrat District in Pakistan. He has been the vice-president of Markazi Jama'at-e-Ahle Sunnah UK & Europe (part of the British Muslim Forum BMF). Professor Tirmezi was brought up in a very strict Islamic atmosphere. He delivered the Jumu'ah (Friday) khutbah (sermon) since the age of 12.
Eric Stokes (composer).  Eric Stokes (1930–1999) was a composer whose work spanned an eclectic range of influences and styles.Stokes was born in Haddon Heights New Jersey about ten miles southeast of Philadelphia. His mother was a fine vocalist and the early artistic influence in his life. Stokes studied piano at an early age and began composing on his own in high school.
Yaroslav Trofimov.  Yaroslav Trofimov is an award-winning author and journalist. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal since 1999 covering the Middle East Africa and recently South and Southeast Asia. He shared in the Overseas Press Club award for foreign reporting on India and won the SAJA Daniel Pearl award for the outstanding story on South Asia among other honors.
Jay-J.  Jay-J is a house DJ and producer from San Francisco. He has released over 120 recordings since his 1995 debut. From his Moulton Studios he has collaborated with producers and DJs including Kaskade Miguel Migs Marques Wyatt Halo Julius Papp Mark Grant and Chris Lum.Jay-J has toured the world performing at La Terraza (Spain) Pacha (Ibiza) Zouk (Singapore) and Ministry of Sound (United Kingdom).
Clint Bajakian.  Clint Bajakian (born 1963 in Concord Massachusetts)[citation needed] is an American video game composer and musician.
Michele Wiles.  Michele Wiles is an American ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre from 2005 - 2011. In 2011 she left ABT to form the independent classical ballet company Ballet Next with former New York City Ballet principal dancer Charles Askegard.
Doug Kershaw.  Douglas James Doug Kershaw (born January 24 1936) is an American fiddle player singer and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1949 Kershaw has recorded fifteen albums and charted on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Nobody (producer).  Elvin Estela better known by his stage name Nobody is an underground hip hop producer based in Los Angeles California. He is a resident DJ at Low End Theory. He has collaborated with 2Mex Abstract Rude Freestyle Fellowship Busdriver and Mystic Chords of Memory among others. He is a member of Blank Blue along with Niki Randa. He is also one half of Bomb Zombies along with Nocando.Better Propaganda listed him as number 73 on Top 100 Artists of the Decade.
Moshe Peretz.  Moshe Peretz (Hebrew: משה פרץ; born 10 May 1983) is an Israeli Mizrahi Pop singer-songwriter and composer. He is also currently serving as a judge for the first season of The X Factor Israel.
Annie Lanzillotto.  Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1 Bronx New York) is an Italian American lesbian writer poet performer and songwriter. She currently teaches Solo-Theater at The Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Her new memoir L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir was released through State University of New York Press. She has been on Wisconsin Public Radio's Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders talking about her newest book.
Antonio Guzmán Capel.  Antonio Guzmán Capel (born January 19 1960 in Tétouan) is a Spanish painter.Since 1961 he resides in the city of Palencia Spain.
Yumeji Takehisa.  Yumeji Takehisa (竹久 夢二 Takehisa Yumeji September 16 1884 – September 1 1934) was a Japanese poet and painter. Takehisa died in 1934 at the age of 49. He never studied drawing in any painting school nor under any teacher formally.
Iain Hamilton (journalist).  Iain Hamilton (1920-1986) was a British journalist author and poet. Between 1962-64 he was the editor of The Spectator and for five years he was Editorial Director of the Hutchinson group of publishing companies.The most widely known of his literary works is his biography of Arthur Koestler the writer titled: Koestler published by Secker & Warburg London 1982. ISBN 0-436-19101-6.Other books by Iain Hamilton include:Scotland the BraveSpectrum ed.
Phrynos Painter.  The Phrynos Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter active in Athens between circa 560 and 545 BC.Since his real name is unknown he was allocated the conventional name Phrynos Painter after the potter Phrynos as he had painted three cups signed by the latter:Boston Museum of Fine Arts 03.855London British Museum 1867.5-8.962 (B 424)Torgiano Wine Museum A 15Especially the London cup is considered a masterpiece of the black-figure style.
Willis Earl Beal.  Willis Earl Beal is a Chicago born artist and musician.
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low.  Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low (1858–1946) was an American painter who specialized in landscapes genre paintings and portraits. She was born in New Haven Connecticut and studied at the St. Louis Art School (where she won a three years' scholarship) and in Paris at the Académie Julian and under Carolus Duran. She had her own studio at 11 Impasse du Maine (now part of Musée Antoine Bourdelle).She married Frederick MacMonnies in 1888 and divorced him in 1909. She married Will H.
Fujiwara no Motozane.  Fujiwara no Motozane (dates unknown Japanese: 藤原 元真) was a middle Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.Motozane's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies including the Shin Kokin Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Motozane-shū also remains.
Alan Sheridan.  Alan Sheridan (born 1934) is an English writer and translator.
Yasmine (singer).  Hilde Rens (3 March 1972 - 25 June 2009) better known by her stage name Yasmine was a Belgian singer presenter and television personality.
Howard Armstrong (musician).  Howard Louie Bluie Armstrong (March 4 1909 – July 30 2003) was an African American string band and country blues musician who played fiddle mandolin and guitar and also sang. He was also a notable visual artist and raconteur.
Richard Lobban.  Dr. Richard A. Lobban Jr. husband of Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is an anthropologist and early pioneer in social network modeling archaeologist Egyptologist and Sudanist foreign policy expert human rights activist mentor father and beekeeper. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies at Rhode Island College Providence Rhode Island since 1972; also a lecturer at the Archaeological Institute of America and the Naval War College.
Jack Finney.  Jack Finney (October 2 1911 – November 14 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.
Rick Wakeman.  Richard Christopher Rick Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and composer best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for his solo albums contributing to the BBC comedy series Grumpy Old Men and for Rick's Place his former radio show on Planet Rock that aired until December 2010.Wakeman was born in West London. He purchased his first electronic keyboard at 12 years of age.
John Wesley Ryles.  John Wesley Ryles (born December 2 1950) is an American country music artist. He is best known for his 1968 single Kay and for his work as a backing vocalist.
Preston Trombly.  Preston Andrew Trombly (born December 30 1945 in Hartford Connecticut) is an American composer visual artist and broadcast personality best known as a program host on Sirius XM's Symphony Hall classical music channel.Trombly is the son of Perley A. Trombly who owned a printing company in Manchester Connecticut and Elizabeth Sage Trombly.Trombly earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Connecticut in 1969.
Philippe Vallois.  Philippe Vallois (born 27 August 1948 in Bordeaux France) is an openly gay screenwriter and director whose film Johan (1976) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
Phil Kelsall.  Philip Julian Phil Kelsall MBE ALCM (born 13 July 1956) is an English theatre organist who has been principal organist at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom since 1977. Born in Warrington he was inspired to learn the instrument by Reginald Dixon and was initially appointed as organist for the Tower Circus band aged 18 in 1975; he also deputised for Ernest Broadbent in the Ballroom itself.
Sebastian Diaz Morales.  Sebastian Diaz Morales (born 1975) is an Argentine visual artist.Born in 1975 in Comodoro Rivadivia Argentina and currently dividing his time between that city and Amsterdam The Netherlands Sebastián Díaz Morales belongs to the newest generation of Latin American artists. In his films and videos Mr.
Gary Penn.  Gary Penn is a former British games reviewer who wrote for Zzap!64 in the 1980s and is a games industry veteran. He later was editor of The One and was Creative Director at DMA Design where he supervised the release of the first Grand Theft Auto game in 1997.
Shaggy Flores.  Shaggy Flores (born 1973) is a Nuyorican poet writer and African Diaspora scholar who forms part of the Nuyorical literary movement.
Andy Seto.  Andy Seto (司徒劍僑 Mandarin: Sītú Jiànqiáo 3 June 1969) is a comic artist who specializes in martial-arts based stories.
Australian Idol (season 3).  The third season of Australian Idol debuted on 26 July 2005. The first of three semi-finals was held on 16 August 2005 with three of the Final 12 contenders announced the following night on 17 August 2005. 2Day FM radio host Kyle Sandilands replaced former judge Ian Dickson.
Jess Sum.  Jess Sum Cheuk-ying (traditional Chinese: 沈卓盈) (born 5 April 1984) is an actress in Hong Kong under TVB. She filmed in many TVB shows since she started working in the company.
Daniel Portman.  Daniel Portman (born 13 February 1992) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Podrick Payne in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
William McIlvanney.  William McIlvanney (born 25 November 1936) is a Scottish writer of novels short stories and poetry. McIlvanney is a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works Laidlaw The Papers of Tony Veitch and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s. He is regarded as the father of 'Tartan Noir’ and Scotland's Albert Camus.
H.R..  H.R. (Human Rights) (born February 11 1956) is the stage name of Paul D. Hudson the lead singer of the hardcore punk band Bad Brains. His vocal delivery is very diverse ranging from a rapid-fire nasal whine to feral growling and screeches to smooth near-crooning or staccato reggae rhymes. He has departed the band periodically to pursue solo efforts that are more mellow reggae than Bad Brains' usual punk/metal offerings. He is the older brother of Earl Hudson Bad Brains' drummer.
Al Murray.  Alastair James Hay Al Murray (born 10 May 1968) is an English comedian and TV personality best known by his stand-up persona and quick repartee. He is best known for his character of The Pub Landlord a mock-xenophobic but stereotypical public house licensee. In 2003 Murray was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2007 he was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Jane Monheit.  Jane Monheit (born November 3 1977) is a jazz and adult contemporary vocalist for Concord Records. She has collaborated with artists such as Michael Bublé Ivan Lins Terence Blanchard and Tom Harrell and has received Grammy nominations for two of her recordings.
Lex Humphries.  Lex Humphries (August 22 1936 – July 11 1994) was a jazz drummer. He worked with two musicians known for mixing world music with jazz: Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef. As a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra he appeared in the film Space Is the Place.Humphries played on the Giant Steps sessions with John Coltrane. The renditions he and Cedar Walton recorded with Coltrane were released as alternative tracks in 1974.
Louis Barillet.  Louis Barillet (1880 – 1948) was a French artist known for his work in stained glass. Among those with whom he collaborated was Jacques Le Chevallier. His windows may be seen in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien.
Jimmy Cauty.  James Francis Cauty (commonly known as Jimmy or Jimi Cauty also known as Rockman Rock) (born 19 December 1956) is a British artist and musician born in Totnes England. Cauty is best known as one half of the hitmaking duo The KLF; as co-founder of The Orb and a leading innovator in the birth of the ambient house genre; and as the man who burnt one million pounds.Cauty was married to Cressida (née Bowyer) with whom he has twins Daisy and Harry and a younger son Alfie.
Sarah Myerscough.  Sarah Myerscough (pronounced Myers/co) is an English artist and sculptor based in Blackpool Lancashire.
Norman Wong.  Norman Wong is an American writer and activist. He is best known for his 1995 short story collection Cultural Revolution which was one of the first book-length works of LGBT literature ever published by an Asian American writer.
Buscemi (DJ).  Buscemi is the nickname of the Belgian DJ Dirk Swartenbroekx. His style can be described as dance music with a touch of Latino with among others lounge house jazz brazilian grooves afrobeat and drum and bass.The CD Camino Real contains house music with funk and latin influences. Artists like Isabelle Antena Ted Milton and Michael Franti cooperated in the production of this CD. On the CD Late Nite Reworks Vol.
Jean Duvivier.  Jean Duvivier (1687- 30 April 1761) was a French medallist who was appointed official medallist to King Louis XV of France.Jean Duvivier was born in 1687 in Liège.He moved to Paris in 1710. In 1719 he was chosen by Louis XV as his official medallist succeeding Jean Mauger (1648-1722). He was extremely prolific and engraved more than four hundred dies.He was made a member of the Academy.He died on 30 April 1761 in Paris.Jean Duvivier married Marie-Louise Vignon who died on 28 September 1752.
Julio Correa.  Julio Correa was a Paraguayan poet in Guarani language.He was born in Asunción August 30 1890. His maternal grandfather was of Polish origins and was named Myzkowsky. His father was Portuguese. Correa left school at young age. He started to publish his poems in 1926.Encouraged by the poet Manuel Ortiz Guerrero he started to write an article titled “Dialoguitos Callejeros” (Small Street Dialogues) in the newspaper Guarani of Facundo Recalde.His talent became apparent during the Chaco War.
William Wordsworth.  William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who with Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published prior to which it was generally known as the poem to Coleridge.
Phạm Duy.  Phạm Duy (October 5 1921 – January 27 2013) was Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. With a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn.
Mitch Fatel.  Mitch Fatel (born Mitch Faytel in 1968 in Manhattan) is a stand-up comedian. He was raised in Yonkers New York and began doing stand-up at the age of 15[citation needed]. In 1988 Fatel attended NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and majored in Film and Acting Studies. Around this time Mitch was an intern on The Howard Stern Show. When Mitch left the show he brought in a friend of his John Melendez.
Tor Torkildsen.  Tor Torkildsen (* June 3 1932 in Trondheim; † July 8 2006) was a Norwegian novelist and seaman. He wrote Brenning-series (20 books).
Erich Auerbach.  Erich Auerbach (November 9 1892 – October 13 1957) was a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times and frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature.
Gruffudd ab Adda.  Gruffudd ab Adda (fl. mid 14th century) was a Welsh language poet and musician. Gruffudd was a contemporary of Dafydd ap Gwilym whose death he mourned in elegy.
René-Jean Clot.  René-Jean Clot (19 January 1913 Algiers - 1997) was a French painter and novelist. His novel L'Enfant halluciné won the 1987 Prix Renaudot.He corresponded with Albert Camus.
Ryan Idol.  Ryan Idol (born Marc Anthony Donais August 10 1964) is an American gay pornographic film actor who performed in the 1990s and later onstage in mainstream theater. He has French Irish and Native-American ancestry. Idol describes himself as the creation of Marc Anthony Donais.
Frank Foster (country singer).  Frank Foster (born in Cypress Bottom Louisiana) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Foster has released three independent albums: Rowdy Reputation in 2011 Red Wings and Six Strings in 2012 and Southern Soul in 2013.
Jules Janin.  Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic.
Mick Abrahams.  Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams (born 7 April 1943 Luton Bedfordshire England) was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He recorded the album This Was with the band in 1968 but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the musical direction of the band led Abrahams to leave once the album was finished. Abrahams wanted to pursue a more blues/rock direction while Anderson wanted to incorporate more overt folk and jazz influences.
Peter Lykke-Seest.  Peter Lykke-Seest (1868 – 1948) was a Norwegian poet novelist playwright non-fiction writer script writer and film director.He was born in Christiania as a son of wholesaler Jens Peter Seest and Caroline Christiane Frederikke Thy.He made his literary debut in 1896 with the poetry collection Hvide nætter and published the novel Under Paddehatten in 1898. His most popular film was Historien om en gut from 1919. He published a book on the trial against Vidkun Quisling in 1945.
Coco Solid.  Coco Solid (born Jessica Hansell in Auckland New Zealand) is an emcee and writer. Her musical style is a mixture of hip hop disco and electronica. She works with multiple collaborators across the globe.
DJ Lord.  DJ Lord (born Lord Aswod' in Savannah Georgia United States) is an American DJ and turntablist. In 1999 DJ Lord joined the hip-hop group Public Enemy on its 40th World Tour replacing Terminator X. Soon after DJ Lord had his own performance segment within the Public Enemy show. While hip hop has been at the foundation of his career he also works in the drum and bass arena.
Liliane Klapisch.  Liliane Klapisch is an Israeli painter.
Benoîte Groult.  Benoîte Groult (born January 31 1920 in Paris) is a French writer.
Mohammed Naseehu Ali.  Mohammed Naseehu Ali is an author originally from Ghana. He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Bennington College. His first book a collection of short stories titled The Prophet of Zongo Street was published in 2006 and received positive reviews. He has published short stories and non-fiction essays in several publications including The New Yorker the New York Times Mississippi Review BOMB Gathering of the Tribes and Essence. Ali now lives in Brooklyn New York.
Jean-Pierre Velly.  Jean-Pierre Velly (b. 14 September 1943 Audierne France - d. 26 May 1990) was a Breton etcher draftsman and painter.In 1965 after attending the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Toulon he began study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The following year he won the Grand Prix de Rome for etching. In 1967 he moved to Rome for three years to work under Balthus at Villa Medici the French Academy.
Silvy De Bie.  Silvy De Bie (born on 4 January 1981 in Heist-op-den-Berg) was a dance vocalist for the dance band Sylver.
Billy Nicholls.  William Morris Billy Nicholls Jr (born 15 February 1949 White City Hammersmith London) into a musical family. His father: Billy Nicholls (Senior) played double bass and sang in Big Bands like The Squadronairs.
Maki Otsuki.  Maki Otsuki (大槻 真希 Ōtsuki Maki born May 11 1973 in Sabae Fukui Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese singer and musician. She is best known for performing the first two ending themes of One Piece and is currently the lead vocalist of the J-pop band CASSIS.
Pamela Burford.  Pamela Burford (b.August 9 1954 in Las Cruces New Mexico United States) is an American novelist. She is an award-winning author of 14 contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels and she is the twin sister of the author Patricia Ryan (aka P.B. Ryan). Most of Pamela's novels are currently available as ebooks.
Mike Kowalski.  Mike Kowalski (born July 28 1944) is a percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the former drummers from the rock band The Beach Boys. He and saxophonist Joel C. Peskin recorded as The Backsters in 1984.
Eddie Chamblee.  Edwin Leon Chamblee (24 February 1920 – 1 May 1999) known as Eddie Long Gone Chamblee was an American tenor and alto saxophonist and occasional vocalist who played jazz and R&B.
Natalia Goncharova.  Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvnə ɡənt͡ɕɐˈrovə]; June 4 1881 – October 17 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist painter costume designer writer illustrator and set designer. Her great-aunt was Nataliya Nikolaevna Goncharova wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.
Alexandre Schaffman.  Alexandre Schaffman (Sevastopol September 25 1900 — São Paulo December 1992) was a Ukrainian violinist who became a member of the String Quartet of São Paulo Brazil.
Boris Titulaer.  Boris Titulaer currently better known as Bo Saris is a contemporary soul singer-songwriter from the Netherlands.
Aroc.  Aroc (Born Aaron T. Shepherd September 15 1978 in Greensboro North Carolina) is an American rapper and singer of the band Weekend Excursion. His song Better Man (1998) his voice on Finally Found You and Moving On were featured on Dawson's Creek (1999) and MTV's The Real World (2000). He currently performs alongside of his old band buddies including Samuel Fisher Jr. of his label Lucas Gambit Records for the annual Jimmy V Foundation concert benefiting cancer research work permitting.
Kamal Sidhu.  Kamal Sidhu (born February 24 1971) is an Indo-Canadian model VJ TV anchor and actor. Winner of Miss India–Canada in 1991 she has been having a sucessful carrier as presenter and show host.
Gino Santercole.  Gino Santercole is an Italian singer/songwriter guitarist and actor. He is well known for his breakthrough hit Questo vecchio pazzo mondo (This old crazy world) a cover of P.F. Sloan's Eve of Destruction and for the song Such a Cold Night Tonight that he sang in the movie Yuppi Du.
John McLevy.  John McLevy (born Dundee Scotland 2 January 1927 – 27 November 2002) was a Scottish jazz trumpeter.He played in Europe for Benny Goodman in the 1970s alongside George Masso Hank Jones and Slam Stewart. McLevy also performed with artists such as Max Bygraves Roy Williams accordionist Jack Emblow and later in a duo with veteran trumpeter Tommy McQuater.
Three Guys from Miami.  The Three Guys From Miami--Raúl Musibay Glenn Lindgren and Jorge Castillo--are chefs and food writers. They provide Cuban cooking tips and advice for professional and amateur chefs all over the world. Their recipes have been included in several cookbooks newspapers and national magazines.
Siavash Shams.  Siavash Shams (Persian: سیاوش شمس‎) (born 26 January 1963) is Persian and World music singer songwriter composer and record producer who has released seven albums.
Frédéric de Courcy.  Frédéric de Courcy born Frédéric Charlot de Courcy (16 August 1796 Paris – 6 May 1862 Paris) was a French man of letters.
Rasmich.  Francisco Ortiz (born in Jumilla Spain) better known as Rasmich is a Spanish electronic musician and producer of dubstep drum and bass and jungle music.
Zachary Breaux.  Zachary Charles Breaux (June 26 1960 Port Arthur Texas – February 20 1997 Miami Beach Florida) was an American jazz guitarist influenced by George Benson and Wes Montgomery and best remembered for his soul-jazz work. He played with many notable jazz musicians during his career including Roy Ayers Stanley Turrentine Jack McDuff Lonnie Liston Smith Dee Dee Bridgewater and Donald Byrd.
Daniel Way.  Daniel Way (born December 27 1974) is an American comic book writer.
John Hazlitt.  John Hazlitt (13 May 1767 – 16 May 1837) was an English artist who specialised in miniature portrait painting. He was the elder brother of William Hazlitt – a major essayist of the English Romantic period as well as an artist and radical social commentator – and had a significant influence on his career.
Rebecca Abe.  Stephanie Fey alias Rebecca Abe (Starnberg 1967) is a German writer and illustrator.
Semothy Jones.  Andrew Hughes better known as Semothy Jones or Sem for short is an English songwriter and record producer from Islington London. Semothy first gained attention in 2007 after working closely with old friend Plan B on a bootleg Mixtape called Paint It Blacker.
Brian Chase.  Brian Chase (born February 12 1978) is an American drummer playing in the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at #50 in Gigwise's list of The Greatest Drummers of All Time. He plays drums with traditional grip.
Martin Jackson.  Martin Jackson (born 30 August 1955 in Manchester England) is a British drummer who has played with several new wave bands from Manchester although his most successful roles were with Magazine in 1978 with the release of the influential Real Life album and Swing Out Sister in 1986 with the hit song Breakout.
Anastasia Karpova.  Anastasia Karpova (Russian: Анастасия Карпова; born 2 November 1984) is a Russian singer best known as a member of girl group Serebro. She became a Serebro member after Marina Lizorkina left the band in 2009.
Francine Noël.  Francine Noël (born 1945 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian writer whose 2005 work La Femme de ma vie won the 2006 edition of Première Chaîne's Le Combat des livres.She teaches theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Antonija Šola.  Antonija Šola (born 5 June 1979) is a Croatian actress and singer-songwriter.
Sidney Samson.  Sidney Samson (born 2 October 1981) is a Dutch DJ and dance musician. Samson started DJing at the age of 13 focusing on hip hop music before working seriously on house music from 1999. He is a resident DJ at The Matrixx a major Dutch nightclub and released Bring That Beat Back and It’s All Funked Up on the digidance and Spinnin' Records labels respectively.
Tyrell Davis.  Tyrell Davis (1902–1970) was a British film actor.
Blanche Edith Baughan.  Blanche Edith Baughan (16 January 1870 – 20 August 1958) was a New Zealand poet writer and penal reformer. She was born in Putney Surrey England on 16 January 1870.In 1935 she was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.
Clemente Albèri.  Clemente Albèri (Rimini 1803 -Bologna 1864) was an Italian painter best known for portraits and copies of Renaissance and Baroque works.He first trained under his father Francesco who was professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna active in a neoclassical style.
Shivkumar Sharma.  Shivkumar Sharma (born January 13 1938 Jammu India) is an Indian Santoor player. The Santoor is a folk instrument from Jammu and kashmir. Sharma is often referred to by the title Pandit.
Krišjānis Barons.  Krišjānis Barons (October 31 1835 in Strutele Jaunpils parish Latvia – March 8 1923 in Riga) is known as the father of the dainas (Latvian: Dainu tēvs) thanks largely to his systematization of the Latvian folk songs and his labour in preparing their texts for publication in Latvju dainas. His portrait appears on the 100-lat banknote the only human face of an actual person on modern Latvian currency.
Zhang Wei (author).  Zhang Wei (simplified Chinese: 张炜; traditional Chinese: 張煒; pinyin: Zhāng Wěi; born November 1955) is a Chinese author. He was born in China's northern province of Shandong. He graduated from the Chinese Department at Yantai Normal College in 1980. Three years later he became a member of Chinese Writers Association an organization for which he has served as the chairman of the Shangdon branch. He is best known for his novels The Ancient Ship and September's Fable.
Danger Mouse.  Brian Joseph Burton (born July 29 1977) better known by his stage name Danger Mouse is an American musician songwriter and producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album which combined vocal performances from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from the Beatles' White Album.He formed Gnarls Barkley with Cee Lo Green and produced its albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple.
Michael Standing (actor).  Michael Lionel Standing (born London 19 June 1939; died 1 December 1984) was a British actor appearing mostly in the 1960s and early 1970s.Between an appearance in a 1964 episode of the TV series of The Saint and his final appearance in the 1973 opening season of The Tomorrow People in which he played Ginge the biker heavy who became the Tomorrow People's ally Standing appeared in a considerable number of dramas such as Z-Cars and the soap opera The Newcomers and episodes of fantasy television series such as Adam Adamant Lives! The Champions and Ace of Wands.Standing is probably best remembered for his role as Arthur in the 1969 film The Italian Job who was as Michael Caine's character Croker famously observed only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! after he had totally destroyed a van with gelignite.The audio commentary to the DVD of the first Tomorrow People story The Slaves of Jedikiah comments that Standing has died but gives no details. 
Nick Lavallee.  Nick Lavallee is an American comedian musician and singer-songwriter from Manchester New Hampshire United States. Active in stand-up since 2009 Lavallee has released four albums numerous web videos and has performed with Bo Burnham Bob Marley (comedian) MC Lars and Sally Struthers.
Mike Starr (musician).  Michael Christopher Mike Starr (April 4 1966 – March 8 2011) was an American musician best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993.
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.  Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (Russian: Михаи́л Евгра́фович Салтыко́в-Щедри́н born Saltykov pseudonym Nikolai Shchedrin; 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1826 – 10 May [O.S. 28 April] 1889) was a major Russian satirist of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov he acted as editor of the well-known Russian magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until it was banned by the government in 1884.
John Glasby.  John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician he produced over 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint.Glasby's output can be summarised briefly as follows: Approximately 25 speculative fiction novels using pseudonyms such as A.
Daniel Lavoie.  Daniel Lavoie (born Gérald Lavoie; March 17 1949 ; French pronunciation: ​[danjɛl lavwa]) is a Canadian singer–songwriter actor producer poet and radio host best known for his song Ils s'aiment and the role of Frollo in musical Notre-Dame de Paris. With his powerful velvet voice combined with a rare charisma and stage presence Daniel Lavoie is one of Canada's most highly respected francophone singer-songwriters and one of the best-known singers of the Francophone world today.
Eli Robinson.  Eli Robinson (23 June 1911-24 December 1972) was a jazz trombonist and arranger. After working in Cincinnati in bands led by Speed Webb and Zack White as well as McKinney's Cotton Pickers and making his first recordings in 1935 with Blanche Calloway in 1936 he moved to New York where he played with Teddy Hill and Willie Bryant. After working briefly with Roy Eldridge in Chicago in 1939 he joined Count Basie from 1941 to 1947.
Stedman Pearson.  Stedman Pearson (born 29 June 1964) is an English singer and dancer most notable for being a member of the pop group Five Star with his four siblings.
Tam Joseph.  Tam Joseph (born Dominica 1947) is a British painter.
Lee Kalcheim.  Lee Kalcheim (June 27 1938 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter.
Daniel Blok.  Daniel Blok or Daniel von Block (1580–1660) was a German Baroque painter.
Dwaram Lakshmi.  Dwaram Lakshmi is an Indian singer of classical carnatic and Hindustani music. She performs the bhajanas of Meera and Tulasidas and other composers of devotional music.
Nikhil D'Souza.  Nikhil D'Souza is an Indian playback singer song writer and guitarist. He was the South Asia Soloist Winner at SUTASI '09. He made his playback singing debut in Rajshree Ojha's Aisha.
Larry Byrom.  Larry Clifton Byrom (born December 27 1948 in Huntsville Alabama) is an American guitarist. Byrom performed in a band called the Precious Few in the 1960s then joined T.I.M.E. and in 1970 joined Steppenwolf. He left Steppenwolf in 1972 and formed Ratchell. Byrom began working as a session musician in 1980 after moving to Nashville Tennessee.
Alessandro Magnasco.  Alessandro Magnasco (February 4 1667 – March 12 1749) also known as il Lissandrino was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized fantastic often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
Magni Wentzel.  Magni Wentzel (born 28 June 1945 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (vocals and guitar) the daughter of musicians Odd Wentzel-Larsen and Åse Wentzel and known for a number of jazz recordings.
Katherine Ryan.  Katherine Ryan (born 30 June 1983) is a Canadian comedian writer and actress based in the United Kingdom. She has appeared on British panel shows Mock the Week Never Mind the Buzzcocks 8 out of 10 Cats Sweat the Small Stuff QI Have I Got News For You and Fake Reaction. She won the Nivea Funny Women Award a comedy competition in the UK and was runner-up in the Amused Moose Laugh-Off competition in 2008.
Roland Curram.  Roland Curram (born 1932) is a successful English actor.Curram was educated at Brighton College and has led a long film television and theatre career. His appearances include Julie Christie's gay travelling companion in her Oscar-winning film Darling and the expatriate Freddie in the BBC's short-lived soap opera Eldorado. He is the author of three novels:- Man on the Beach published 2004 by Matador The Rose Secateurs (2007) and Mother Loved Funerals (2010).
Sugita Genpaku.  Sugita Genpaku (杉田 玄白 20 October 1733 – 1 June 1817) was a Japanese scholar known for his translation of Kaitai Shinsho (New Book of Anatomy).Besides Kaitai Shinsho he also authored Rangaku Kotohajime (Beginning of Dutch Studies).Sugita assembled a team of Japanese translators and doctors to translate a Dutch book of anatomy: Kulmus' Ontleedkundige Tafelen.
Louis Frederick Roslyn.  Louis Frederick Roslyn born Louis Frederick Roselieb (1878–1934) was a British sculptor noted for his World War I war memorials and other sculptures. Before beginning his career he studied at Westminster City & Guilds College and the Royal Academy. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 but for medical or other reasons was put on the reserve until 1917 when he was called to the School of Military Aeronautics and subsequently made Lieutenant.
Laurent Garnier.  Laurent Garnier (born 1 February 1966 Boulogne-sur-Seine France) also known as Choice is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade he had a broad stylistic range able to span deep house Detroit techno trance and jazz. He added production work to his schedule in the early 1990s and recorded several albums.
Kevin Kayirangwa.  Kevin Kayirangwa (born 11 February 1991) also known by the mononym Kevin or Kevin K is the winner of Idool 2011 in season 4 of the Belgian version of Pop Idol. His first album Thank You on Sony BMG released in 2011 reached #2 in the Ultratop Belgian Flemish Singles Charts.In May 2012 he joined Dennis De Neyer a co-contestant of Kevin in the same series and Dean Delannoit a winner of Idool 2007 season 3 winner to form the Belgian Flemish boyband 3M8S.
Edu Ardanuy.  Eduardo (Edu) Ardanuy (born on June 20 1967 in São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian guitarist who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin Anjos da Noite Blezqi Zatzas Supla and Eduardo Araújo. He was included in a 'Top 10 Greatest Guitar Players' ranking by the Guitar Player Magazine in 1998. He has also played with Steve Vai being invited by him.
Johann Georg Jacobi.  Johann Georg Jacobi (September 2 1740 – January 4 1814) was a German poet.
Pauline Croze.  Pauline Croze (Noisy-le-Sec 4 May 1979) is a French pop/folk singer and musician.She started to sing and play the guitar when she was fourteen and six years later she made her first demos with Quito of the group Señor Holmes.
Kreayshawn.  Natassia Gail Zolot (born September 24 1989) better known by her stage name Kreayshawn is an American rapper and music video director from Oakland California. In 2011 while serving as a member of a rap group with her friends she released the music video to her debut single Gucci Gucci to internet viral success. The popularity of the song and its video led to a recording contract with Columbia Records soon after.
Jan Erik Tiwaz.  Jan Erik Tiwaz aka Tyr (born 22 June 1972) is the former bassist for the Norwegian black/folk metal band Borknagar. Tyr is known for his progressive playing style in black metal and his use of erb's (extended range basses). Tyr made of use erb's in his later work with Borknagar namely a 6 string fretless on 'Origin' and a custom 8 string fretless on 'Universal'.
Susanne Lundeng.  Susanne Merethe Lundeng (born 18 August 1969 in Bodø Norway) is an Norwegian traditional folk musician (fiddle) and composer.
Chad Smith.  Chadwick Gaylord Chad Smith (born October 25 1961) is an American musician and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers whom he joined in 1988 and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with. Smith was also the drummer of the hard rock band Chickenfoot and currently the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats.
Taylor Mitchell.  Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow (August 27 1990 – October 28 2009) known by her stage name Taylor Mitchell was a Canadian folk singer. She is the only adult person and second person overall known to be fatally attacked by coyotes.
Jimmy Herring.  Jimmy Herring is an American guitarist who is the lead guitarist in the band Widespread Panic. Herring is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit and Jazz Is Dead. He has also played with The Allman Brothers Band Project Z Derek Trucks Band and has enjoyed a long and successful tenure with Phil Lesh and Friends as well as The Dead.
Alberto Ziveri.  Alberto Ziveri (born 1908) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School) author of urban landscapes and realist narrative scenes. Also using a chiaroscuro recalling the Settecento style.
A. Y. Jackson.  Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG (October 3 1882 – April 5 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada and was successful in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto. He exhibited with the Group of Seven from 1920.
Sid Avery.  Sid Avery (1918 – 2002) was an American photographer and director who was best known for capturing the private moments of legendary Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor Rock Hudson James Dean Marlon Brando Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn as showcased in his book Hollywood at Home.
Bianca Barnett.  Bianca Barnett (Born August 24 1981) is an American actress and model.She was born in Dallas County Texas and moved to Los Angeles California at the age of seventeen to pursue a career in acting.Barnett was honored with the Golden Cob Award for Best Rising B Actress in 2011.
Vivienne Westwood.  Dame Vivienne Westwood DBE RDI (born Vivienne Isabel Swire on 8 April 1941) is an English fashion designer and businesswoman largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road which became famous as SEX. It was their ability to synthesise clothing and music that shaped the 1970s UK punk scene dominated by McLaren's band the Sex Pistols.
Eugene Mirman.  Eugene Boris Mirman (July 24 1974) is a Russian-born American comedian and writer. Mirman also played Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated and voices Gene Belcher on the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.
Dawood Sarkhosh.  Dawood or Daud Sarkhosh (Persian: داود سرخوش‎) is an Afghan poet singer and musician born 1971 in Daykundi Oruzgan (now Daykundi Province) of Afghanistan. He belongs to Hazara ethnic minority group of Afghanistan.
Jasmine Dellal.  Jasmine Dellal is a British-born film director and producer. She was born and raised in Great Britain studied in the United States and has often visited India where her grandmother lives. She speaks Spanish French and English.
Mark Bomback.  Mark Bomback (born August 29 1971) is an American screenwriter originally from New Rochelle NY. Bomback is a graduate of Wesleyan University where he studied English Literature and Film Studies.
Rick J. Jordan.  Rick J. Jordan (born Hendrik Stedler 1 January 1968 in Hanover Germany) is a sound designer audio engineer and song composer who is most well known for his work in the German band Scooter.On stage Rick's main instruments are the Access Virus TI and a Roland Fantom X8.Jordan learned to play the piano at age five and completed study as a sound mixer. He was responsible for the sound design aspects and melodic production elements for Scooter until beginning of 2014. He lives in Hamburg.
Nick Harmer.  Nicholas Scott Harmer (born January 23 1975) is the bass guitarist for the group Death Cab for Cutie.
Alberta Hunter.  Alberta Hunter (April 1 1895 – October 17 1984) was an American blues singer songwriter and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s and from there on she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. In the 1950s she retired from performing and entered the medical field only to successfully resume her singing career in her 80s.
Nicky Romero.  Nick Rotteveel (born January 6 1989) known by his stage name Nicky Romero is a Dutch DJ and house music composer/producer. He has worked with and received support from DJs such as Tiësto Fedde Le Grand Sander van Doorn David Guetta Calvin Harris Armand Van Helden Avicii and Hardwell. He currently ranks #7 on DJ Magazine's annual Top 100 DJs poll. He is known for being a one hit wonder in the UK when his song 'I Could Be The One' went to Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.
Marion May Campbell.  Marion May Campbell (born 1948) is a contemporary Australian novelist and academic.Born in Sydney New South Wales Campbell earned a BA in French Literature studying first at the University of New South Wales and completing her degree at the University of Western Australia.
J. C. Leyendecker.  Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23 1874 – July 25 1951) was one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster book and advertising illustrations the trade character known as The Arrow Collar Man and his numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Between 1896 and 1950 Leyendecker painted more than 400 magazine covers. During the Golden Age of American Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post alone J. C.
Endre Granat.  Endre Granat (born 1937) is an American violinist.
Mykola Bakay.  Mykola Petrovych Bakay (Ukrainian: Микола Петрович Бакай) (2 March 1931 – 28 July 1998) was a Ukrainian singer composer poet author and Soviet dissident.
Boro Drašković.  Boro Drašković (Serbian: Боро Драшковић) born May 29 1935 in Sarajevo Kingdom of Yugoslavia is a Serbian director playwright and screenwriter Doctor Honoris Cause University of Audiovisual Arts European Film Academy (ESRA).
Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan.  Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan (born in Karaman Turkey 1926) is a Turkish poet and songwriter.He graduated in 1948 from a military college and served as a regimental officer. Later he graduated from the Faculty of Linguistics History and Geography and taught literature at the Turkish Naval High School the German Deutsche Schule and Marmara College.Erdoğan has written folk poetry in syllabic metric and aruz. He also used Turkish lyrics in a number of songs and his works.
Young Jeezy.  Jay Wayne Jenkins (born September 28 1977) better known by his stage name Young Jeezy or simply Jeezy is an American hip hop recording artist from Atlanta Georgia. He is the de facto leader of Southern hip hop group United Streets Dopeboyz of America (USDA) and a former member of Boyz n da Hood as well as the Black Mafia Family (BMF).
Manny Mashouf.  Manny Mashouf (Persian: مانی مشعوف‎) is an Iranian-American businessman born in Mashad. He came to the USA in his teens and settled first in Chicago then in San Francisco. There he went to San Francisco State University and graduated with a political science degree in 1966. He is the founder and present chairman of bebe stores. Bebe (pronounced: bee bee. Currently Bebe has 297 branches in North America.He has recently pledged 10 million dollars to his alma mater San Francisco State.
Edward E. Kramer.  Edward E. Kramer (born March 20 1961) is an American convicted child sex predator who is editor of numerous science fiction fantasy and horror works and co-founder and former part-owner of the Dragon*Con commercial media convention in Atlanta Georgia. He lives in Duluth Georgia and has worked as a clinical and educational consultant. He is the former program director of the Metropolitan Atlanta Council on Alcohol and Drugs.
Gary Wehrkamp.  Gary Wehrkamp (born May 11 1970 in Butler New Jersey) is an American musician songwriter and producer. He is most notably a member of the American progressive rock band Shadow Gallery.
Linda Chapman.  Linda Chapman (born in Liverpool in 1969) is a British writer principally of series for younger children. She is particularly known for her fantasy books about unicorns mermaids and magic. She also writes the Superpowers series under the pen-name Alex Cliff.
Gay Woods.  Gay Woods (b September 1948) is an Irish singer. She was one of the original members of Steeleye Span.
DJ Cassidy.  Cassidy Durango Milton Willy Podell (born 1981) better known as DJ Cassidy is a New York DJ. One of the highest earners in the business Cassidy is known for his work at celebrity functions including the 50th birthday party and 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama and the 2008 wedding of Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
James Weldon Johnson.  James Weldon Johnson (June 17 1871 – June 26 1938) was an American author educator lawyer diplomat songwriter and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership within the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) where he started working in 1917 being chosen as the first black executive secretary of the organization effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930.
Cristina Branco.  Cristina Branco (born 1972 in Almeirim Ribatejo Portugal) is a Portuguese musician.Branco was originally drawn to jazz and forms of Portuguese music before finally opting for fado after being introduced to the music of Amália Rodrigues by her grandfather. Branco studied the poems from which major fado lyrics are taken. Branco continues to work on her fado repertory accompanied by Custódio Castelo on guitar and as composer.
Tony Cortes.  Antonio de Jesus Cortez Espina (born in La Havana Cuba August 31 1968) is an actor in theater film and television producer and host of controversial television shows. He resides in Miami Florida.
Roy North.  Roy North (born 16 March 1941 Hull Yorkshire England) is an English actor and television presenter who played Mr Roy in Basil Brush.He attended Hull Grammar School and is a Hull City fan and occasionally he would wear a Hull City shirt on the television.
Marie-Abraham Rosalbin de Buncey.  Marie-Abraham Rosalbin de Buncey was a French 19th-century landscape allegorical and figure painter.
Hector C. Macpherson.  This is about the Scottish journalist and writer. For others sharing the same name see Hector Macpherson (disambiguation).Hector Carsewell Macpherson FRSE (16 October 1851 – 17 October 1924) was a prolific Scottish writer and journalist who published books pamphlets and articles on history biography politics religion and other subjects.
Barbara Park.  Barbara Lynne Park (April 21 1947 – November 15 2013) was an American author of children's books.
R. B. Sprague.  R. B. (Roger) Sprague (September 12 1937 – July 28 2010) was an American Contemporary Realist artist.
Paige Chua.  Paige Chua (Chinese: 蔡琦慧; pinyin: Cài Qíhuì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tshuà Kî-huē born 25 June 1981) is a Singaporean model and television actress.
Malin Ek.  Malin Ek (born Malmö April 18 1945) is a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2010. She is the daughter of actor Anders Ek (the 1971 O'Neill Award laureate) and choreographer Birgit Cullberg.She won the award for Best Actress at the 19th Guldbagge Awards for her role in Mamma. She won again in 1985 for her role in False as Water. She won it for a third time at the 26th Guldbagge Awards for her role in The Guardian Angel.
Juan Luis Guerra.  Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born June 7 1957) known professionally as Juan Luis Guerra is a Dominican singer songwriter and producer who has sold over 30 million records and won numerous awards including 15 Latin Grammy Awards two Grammy Awards and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. He won 3 Latin Grammy Awards in 2010 including Album of the Year.
Philip van Dijk.  Philip van Dijk (10 January 1683 – 2 February 1753) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands
Ödön Márffy.  Ödön Márffy (born Budapest 30 November 1878; died Budapest 3 December 1959) was a Hungarian painter one of The Eight in Budapest credited with bringing cubism Fauvism and expressionism to the country.
Pep Bertran.  Pep Bertran (born in Mataró Maresme 20 September 1971) is a Catalan writer. He studied information science psychoanalysis and film direction. In 1996 he received the Premi de novel·la curta Just Manuel Casero Award for his novel La Ribera which was published in 1997 by Empúries publishing house. Then he left the writing and he was trained as a psychoanalyst. He collaborated on El Punt newspaper between 1997 and 1998.
Thomas Carlyle.  Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher satirical writer essayist historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics the dismal science wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia and became a controversial social commentator.Carlyle's strict Calvinist parents expected him to become a preacher but he lost his Christian faith while attending the University of Edinburgh.
Eric Gast.  Eric M. Gast (born 23 April 1968) is an American music industry professional - record producer mixer engineer and recording studio designer - and founder and CEO of a nonprofit public health care charity. Gast was born in New Jersey and raised in New York City. He is cousin to documentary filmmaker Leon Gast.
Brenda A. Ferber.  Brenda A. Ferber (born April 23 1967) is an author of children's literature. She is an alumna of the University of Michigan. She won the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for her book Julia's Kitchen before it was published and the Sydney Taylor Book Award following publication.
Rolando Alarcón.  Rolando Alarcón Soto was a teacher folklorist soloist and composer living in Chile. He became a national-known figure in his homecountry due to his work as a musician and at his funeral even the president Salvador Allende expressed his regrets.Born on August 5 1929 he grew up in Sewell Chile where he lived together with his parents Atilio Alarcón de la Fuente and Zunilda Soto Riquelme and his three brothers.
Joshua Ozersky.  Joshua Ozersky (born August 22 1967) is an American food writer and historian. He first came to prominence as a founding editor of New York magazine's food blog Grub Street for which he received a James Beard Foundation Award (with co-editor Daniel Maurer) in 2008. He is the author of several books including The Hamburger: A History (2008 ISBN 0-300-11758-2) Meat Me In Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to New York (2003 ISBN 0-9703125-7-1) (as Mr.
Eleanor Summerfield.  Eleanor Summerfield (7 March 1921 – 13 July 2001) was an English actress.Summerfield was born in London in 1921. She received her acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In the mid-1960s she played P.G. Wodehouse's character Aunt Dahlia in BBC One's black-and-white TV series World of Wooster (1965–1967).
Russell Webb (musician).  Russell Webb (born 1958 Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish new wave bass guitarist who was member of bands like Slik PVC2 (both with Midge Ure) Zones Skids The Armoury Show and Public Image Ltd and collaborated with Richard Jobson and Virginia Astley and The Who.
Shlomo Artzi.  Shlomo Artzi (Hebrew: שלמה ארצי‎) is an Israeli folk rock singer-songwriter. He was born on November 26 1949 in Moshav Alonei Abba. In the course of his career he has sold over 1.5 million albums making him one of Israel's most successful male singers.
Andrew McNair (actor).  Andrew Andy McNair (born Andrew Robert McNair on June 15 1979 in London England) is an English actor probably best known for his role on Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
Michéal Castaldo.  Michéal Castaldo (born September 25 1962) is an Italian-born Canadian and now a New York City resident classical crossover tenor music producer and composer.
Clifford T. Ward.  Clifford Thomas Ward (10 February 1944 – 18 December 2001) was a popular English singer-songwriter best known for his career as a solo artist.
Yoshiko Asai.  Yoshiko Asai (浅井 淑子 Asai Yoshiko born March 21 1941) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan. She works for 81 Produce. She is also a lecturer for the Yoyogi Animation Institute where she holds classes for voice talents.
Jacopo Corsi.  Jacopo Corsi (17 July 1561 – 29 December 1602) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts after only the Medicis. His best-known work is Dafne (1597/98) whose score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri. Six fragments of the score have survived two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini has survived intact.
Perfecto de Castro.  Perfecto Perf de Castro is a multi-awarded Filipino musician currently focusing on Classical and Flamenco music played on the Ten-string guitar but perhaps best known for having been a celebrated fixture in the Philippine alternative rock scene during the 1990s. During the course of that decade he was part of the alternative rock band Rivermaya founded the band Triaxis and also collaborated with the seminal Filipino rapper Francis Magalona.
Ted Taylor (musician).  Austin Taylor better known as Ted Taylor (February 16 1934 – October 2 1987) was an American soul musician.Born in Okmulgee Oklahoma United States Taylor sang with The Cadets/The Jacks in the 1950s. He sang lead vocals on The Cadets' Do You Wanna Dance (Hey Little Girl) and I Cry and also on The Jacks' Away and My Darling. He did not appear on The Cadets' biggest hit Stranded In The Jungle in 1955. For that session he was replaced by singer Prentice Moreland.
Mogubai Kurdikar.  Mogubai Kurdikar (Devanagari:मोगुबाई कुर्डीकर) (July 15 1904 – February 10 2001) was a renowned Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.
Stephen Egerton (guitarist).  Stephen Patrick O'Reilly (born September 2 1964) better known as Stephen Egerton is an American guitarist best known for his work playing with Descendents and All.
Kevin MacMichael.  Kevin Scott MacMichael (7 November 1951 – 31 December 2002) was a Canadian guitarist songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the 1980s English based pop-rock band Cutting Crew who had a number-one hit in 1987 with (I Just) Died in Your Arms. Cutting Crew was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987.
Dave Young (comedian).  Dave Young (born 16 August 1969) is an Irish stand-up comedian actor singer and voice actor. He gained notoriety for his outrageously funny live comedy shows. He employs story telling effected voices and sound effects in his act whose other trademarks include references to relationships and his use of Irishisms. He has been called a comedy genius by RTÉ's Gerry Ryan. He also made the main Irish news RTE One by hanging over the River Liffey in a glass box for 44 hours.
Dionne Farris.  Dionne Yvette Farris (born December 4 1968) is an American singer songwriter producer and actress. Born and raised in New Jersey she began singing in elementary school and competed in pageants as a teenager. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as the vocalist on hip hop group Arrested Development (1992) hit single “Tennessee”.Farris released her debut album Wild Seed - Wild Flower (1994) on Columbia Records. The album featured the Top 40 single I Know (1995).
Aurelio Espinosa Pólit.  Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (Quito July 11 1894 – February 21 1961) was an Ecuadorian writer poet literary critic and university professor. He co-founded the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and he founded the Aurelio Espinosa Polit Museum and Library in Quito.He was a Jesuit priest in the religious order Society of Jesus. He worked on more than 600 pieces and books in his lifetime and was a renowned translator.
Asja Lācis.  Asja Lācis (Russian: Анна 'Ася' Эрнестовна Лацис Anna 'Asya' Ernestovna Latsis; German: Asja Lazis; October 19 1891 – November 21 1979) was a Latvian actress and theatre director.
Bunker Hill (musician).  David Walker better known by his stage name Bunker Hill was an American rhythm & blues and gospel singer.Walker sought a career in professional boxing at one point becoming the sparring partner of Archie Moore. He left boxing to pursue a career singing gospel and in the late 1950s joined the Mighty Clouds of Joy.In 1960 he was offered the chance to record a secular novelty song by manager Ray Vernon (the brother of Link Wray).
Henri-Edmond Cross.  Henri-Edmond Cross born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was very influential to Henri Matisse and many other artists and his work was an instrumental influence in the development of Fauvism.
Juan Magan.  Juan Manuel Magán González (born 30 September 1978) is a Spanish producer singer remixer and DJ of electronic music recognized internationally for his contributions to the Electro Latino category of music.As a remixer he has worked with the following artists among others: Selena Don Omar Paulina Rubio Juanes Nelly Furtado Dulce María Pitbull Michael Gray Milk & Sugar Bob Sinclar Gary Nesta Pine Ian Oliver Azzido da Bass Jerry Ropero E Smoove Barbara Muñoz Pier Bucci and INNA
Francesco Rossi (DJ and producer).  Francesco Rossi is an Italian DJ & Producer. His recent success Paper Aeroplane (based on Angus & Julia Stone's song) was released on the Italian record label d:vision in May 2013. It was selected as Pete Tong's Essential New Tune and was featured in Maya Jane Coles' BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.
Yasuko Sakata.  Yasuko Sakata 坂田 靖子 is a manga artist who belongs to the Post Year 24 Group. She was born on the 25th of February 1953 in Osaka Japan. Her official debut was with the work Saikon Kyousou Kyoku 再婚狂騒曲 published in Hana to Yume in 1975. In the late 1970s and early 1980s she was involved in the yaoi doujinshi movement having co-coined the term yaoi with Akiko Hatsu. One of Sakata's doujinshi Loveri was amongst the very first to be described as yaoi.
Miguel Hernández.  Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910 Orihuela – 28 March 1942 Alicante) was a 20th-century Spanish poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 movement and the Generation of '36 movement.
Will Munro.  William Grant Will Munro (February 11 1975 – May 21 2010) was a Toronto artist club promoter and restaurateur known for his work as a community builder among disparate Toronto groups.
Blackie Ko.  Blackie Ko (Chinese: 柯受良; pinyin: Kē Shòu Liáng) (February 22 1953 - December 9 2003) was a famous Taiwanese film director producer stuntman and actor. Blackie was considered as the greatest automotive stunt choreographer in Asia.
Laura Gissara.  Laura Simone Gissara (born 1984) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter. She was a final 10 contestant on the 2005 season of TV talent show Australian Idol and was eliminated on 26 September. In June 2006 she issued her debut single Ti amo which peaked in the top 50 on the ARIA Singles Chart. It is a cover version of Laura Branigan's 1984 rendition of the Umberto Tozzi 1977 original.
Jim Roslof.  James Paul Jim Roslof (November 21 1946 – March 19 2011) was an American artist and graphic designer particularly well known for cover art and interior illustrations of fantasy role-playing games published by TSR Inc. during the golden age of Dungeons & Dragons.
Nima Fakhrara.  Nima aka Nima Fakhrara is Film Music Composer born on 12 November in Tehran Iran and currently based in Los Angeles.
Li Yang (director).  Li Yang (simplified Chinese: 李杨; traditional Chinese: 李楊; pinyin: Lǐ Yáng) (born 1959) is a Chinese writer-director.
Oni Hasan.  Oni Hasan (born August 1 1984) is the lead guitarist and composer of the Bangladeshi heavy metal hard rock band Warfaze. Multiple changes have taken place in its membership since its foundation in 1984.
Del Reeves.  Franklin Delano Reeves (July 14 1932 – January 1 2007) better known as Del Reeves was an American country music singer best known for his girl-watching novelty songs of the 1960s including Girl on the Billboard and The Belles of Southern Bell. He is also known for his 1968 trucker's anthem Looking At The World Through A Windshield which demonstrated he was capable of more than just novelty songs. He became one of the most successful male country singers of the 1960s.
Til Brugman.  Mathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888 Amsterdam - 24 July 1958 Gouda) was a Dutch author poet and linguist.
Nancy Mitford.  Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) known as Nancy Mitford was an English novelist biographer and journalist. She was one of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years and is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit.
Fabio Frizzi.  Fabio Frizzi (born July 2 1951) is an Italian musician and composer.Born in Bologna Emilia-Romagna he is best known for his film scores. A frequent collaborator with famous horror director Lucio Fulci his scores have become some of the most widely known in the genre.
Evelyne Lallemand.  Evelyne Lallemand was a French writer noted for her continuation of Enid Blyton's The Secret Seven in the 1970s producing an additional twelve books to add to Blyton's fifteen. Nine of them were translated into English by Anthea Bell between 1983 and '87.
Nikita Larionov.  Nikita Larionovič Larionov (Chuvash and Russian: Никита Ларионов) (born 7 February 1932) was a writer and poet. Larionov was a member of the Chuvashia Writers Union (1991) member of the Russia Writers Union and was a USSR sports master. He lives in Alikovo Alikovsky District Chuvash Republic.
Darko Dimitrov.  Darko Dimitrov (Macedonian: Дарко Димитров [ˈdarkɔ ˈdimitrof] ; born January 21 1973 in Skopje SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Republic of Macedonia)) is a Macedonian record producer songwriter arranger and record executive. Highly acclaimed for revitalising the Macedonian mainstream pop music scene which also influenced the surrounding Balkan countries he also received international recognition for working with many popular foreign artists.[citation needed]
Ingrid Oliver.  Ingrid Oliver is a British actress and comedian and one half of comic double act Watson & Oliver.
Mantarō Kubota.  Mantarō Kubota (久保田 万太郎 Kubota Mantarō 11 November 1889 – 6 May 1963) was a Japanese author playwright and poet.
Joseph Awad.  Joseph Frederick Awad (May 17 1929 – July 17 2009) was a poet painter public relations and executive. He was appointed national president of the Public Relations Society of America in 1982 and Poet Laureate of Virginia in 1998. Awad was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 1992. His poetry has been anthologized with both Arab-American and Irish-American writers (see List of Arab American writers).
James DeBarge.  James Curtis DeBarge (born August 22 1963) is an American R&B and soul singer. He was one of the members of the singing family group DeBarge who became stars with their 1980s songs All This Love In a Special Way Rhythm of the Night and Who's Holding Donna Now?.
Adam Kotsko.  Adam Kotsko (born 1980) is an American writer theologian religious scholar and translator working chiefly in the field of political theology. As of 2013 he is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago. He is especially known for his interpretative work on Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben as well as his writing on American popular culture. Kotsko's better-known works include Why We Love Sociopaths (2012) Awkwardness (2010) and Žižek and Theology (2008).
Holly Bodimeade.  Holly Bodimeade (born 26 July 1995) is a British actress. She starred in her first lead role as Maddy in the BAFTA-nominated BBC TV drama Summerhillabout the radical school of the same name. More recently she appeared as Megan in the CBBC TV series Paradise Cafe filmed in New Zealand and the Cook Islands.
Castellino Castello.  Castellino Castello (1580–1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Genoa. He trained with Giovanni Battista Paggi.
Chino XL.  Derek Keith Barbosa (born April 8 1974) better known by his stage name Chino XL is an American rapper and actor known for his technically accomplished style consisting of self-consciously over-the-top punchlines exaggerated egotism complex rhyme schemes and use of multiple similes puns metaphors and word play. He is a member of the intellectual collective Mensa International and has collaborated on various projects with some of the most well known in Hip Hop.
Gene Pierson.  Gene Pierson or Gene Chandler (born Giancarlo Salvestrin 29 April 1946) is a musician who had an early solo career in New Zealand and then in Australia. His 1960s and early 1970s songs Love Love Love You Got to Me and Reach Out achieved local chart success in New Zealand.
Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson.  Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson (23 January 1746 Laval Mayenne – 24 March 1794) was a French actor.Denounced by Robespierre as having intended to sow discord among the Jacobins he was tried by the Revolutionary Court. He was sentenced to death and guillotined March 24 1794 at the age of 48 years.
D-Pryde.  Russell Llantino (born October 13 1993) better known by his stage name D-Pryde is a Canadian rapper from Brampton Ontario and is now based out of New York United States. He is currently signed to indie label Mars Music Group and major recording label BMG.
Thomas Tessier.  Thomas Tessier (born May 10 1947) is an American writer of horror novels and short stories. He has also written poetry and drama.
D Fuse.  D:Fuse (born Dustin Fuselier) is an American producer remixer and DJ based out of Los Angeles California.
Colin Frechter.  Colin Frechter is a musical director arranger keyboard player and vocalist.
Salman Gambarov.  Salman Gambarov Huseyn oglu (Azerbaijani: Salman Qəmbərov Hüseyn oğlu born April 18 1959 Baku) is an Azerbaijani jazz musician pianist and composer.
Sarbel.  Sarbel Michael (Greek: Σαρμπέλ Μιχαήλ) (Arabic: شربل مخائيل‎) (born 14 May 1983) known professionally as Sarbel is a Greek Cypriot pop singer of partial Greek Cypriot and Lebanese ancestry. He is well known in Cyprus Greece and parts of the Arab world for his debut single Se pira sovara and his subsequent albums Parakseno sinesthima Sahara and Kati san esena.
Edgar Allan Poe.  Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19 1809 – October 7 1849) was an American author poet editor and literary critic considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Mai Yamane.  Mai Yamane (山根 麻以 Yamane Mai) is a Japanese singer well known for her work on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack with Yoko Kanno. Her career started at the very beginning of the 1980s when she participated in a young singer's contest in Japan. Six months later she finished her first album. She recorded as a solo artist until 1995 releasing albums like The Day Before Yesterday (1984) Flying Elephants (1985) Embassy (1986) Woman Tone (1988) and 1958 (1989).
Robert Lawson (screenwriter).  Robert Lawson is an American playwright director composer screenwriter and visual artist. His film What Goes Up co-written with Jonathan Glatzer and starring Steve Coogan Olivia Thirlby Hilary Duff Molly Shannon and Josh Peck was released on May 29 2009. The film was distributed by Sony Pictures with a DVD release on June 16 2009 by Sony Home Entertainment.
Josef Svatopluk Machar.  Josef Svatopluk Machar ([ˈjosɛf ˈsvatopluk ˈmaxar]; 1864 – 1942) was a Czech poet and essayist. A leader of the realist movement in Czech poetry and a master of colloquial Czech Machar was active in anti-Austrian political circles in Vienna. Many of his poems were satires of political and social conditions. In the poetic cycle The Conscience of the Ages (1901–1921) of which Golgotha was the initial volume he contrasted antique with Christian civilization favoring the former.
Georgi Kay.  Georgina Georgi Kingsley (born 15 March 1993) most commonly known by her stage name Georgi Kay is an Australian indie pop musician based in Perth Western Australia.
S. A. Rajkumar.  S. A. Rajkumar is an Indian film music director who hails from Chennai Tamil Nadu. He has composed music for many south Indian films in Tamil Telugu Malayalam and Kannada languages. Light-hearted melodies are often considered his forte. He has won 3 Filmfare Best Music Director Award (Telugu) for the Telugu films PelliRaja and one jury award for special mention films Telugu and Tamil languages.
John Nathan.  John Nathan (born 1940) is the translator of Japanese works written by celebrated authors such as Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburō Ōe. Nathan is also an Emmy-award winning producer writer and director of many films about Japanese culture and society and American business.He studied at University of Tokyo. He is currently the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at University of California Santa Barbara.
Oliverio Girondo.  Oliverio Girondo (August 17 1891 – January 24 1967) was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe where he studied in both Paris and England.
David Parlett.  David Parlett (born 1939) is a games scholar from South London who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes The Oxford Guide to Card Games and The Oxford History of Board Games both now out of print. Parlett also invented a number of board games the most successful of which is Hare and Tortoise (1974). The German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) in 1979.
Queldryk.  Queldryk (also Qweldryk) (fl. c. 1400) was an English composer. He is thought to have been associated with a similarly named estate (Wheldrake) of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. He may have been the Richard Queldryk who donated a miscellanea volume of sacred music to Lichfield Cathedral.(A place in Yorkshire spelled Queldryke recorded in 1422 may refer to the estate.) His known surviving output comprises two pieces in the Old Hall Manuscript a Gloria and a Credo.
Ti Manno.  Ti Manno (June 1 1953 in Gonaives Haiti - May 13 1985 in New-York) was a singer guitar player keyboard player and percussionist.
Kutty (cartoonist).  Puthukkody Kottuthody Sankaran Kutty Nair (4 September 1921 – 22 October 2011) better known as Kutty was an Indian political cartoonist.
Angelo Stano.  Angelo Stano (born January 6 1953) is an Italian comic book artist. He is mainly famous for his drawings for Dylan Dog for which he drew the very first story. He is the current cover artist of the series.
Khadija Qalanjo.  Khadija Qalanjo (Somali: Khadiija Qalanjo Arabic: خديجة قالانجو‎) was a popular Somali singer and folklore dancer in the 1970s and 1980s.
Adolf Zander.  Adolf Zander (born 16 January 1843 in Barnewitz an Havel; died 1 August 1914 in Kleinaupa Riesengebirge) was a 19th-century German composer organist at the Church of St. Sophia in Berlin choir director Royal Prussian music director and founder of the new male Berliner Liedertafel choir.
Ansel Adams.  Ansel Easton Adams (February 20 1902 – April 22 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West especially Yosemite National Park have been widely reproduced on calendars posters and in books.With Fred Archer Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs.
Mark Dvorzhetski.  Mark Dvorzhetski (Hebrew: מרק דבורז'צקי; born 1908 died 15 March 1975) was an Israeli physician historian and Holocaust survivor. He was born in Lithuania (at the time part of the Russian Empire) and emigrated to Israel after World War II. He authored a number of books on the Holocaust in particular with reference to the Baltic States and the medical profession.
Thomas Hart Benton (painter).  Thomas Hart Benton (April 15 1889 – January 19 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
Salim Barakat.  Salim Barakat (Arabic: سليم بركات‎ Kurdish: Selîm Berekat) (b. Qamishli 1951) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He was brought up in Qamishli in northern Syria and spent most of his youth there. In 1970 he moved to Damascus to study Arabic literature but after one year he moved to Beirut where he stayed until 1982. While in Beirut he published five volumes of poetry a diary and two volumes of autobiography.
Devin Velez.  Devin Velez (born April 22 1994) is an American singer from Chicago Illinois who came in eighth place on the twelfth season of American Idol.
Jamie Hutchings.  Jamie Buchanon Hutchings (born 1971 Sydney New South Wales Australia) is the lead singer-songwriter and guitarist for Australian band Bluebottle Kiss who have released six albums plus numerous EPs and singles. Huchings has released three solo albums The Golden Coach His Imaginary Choir and Avalon Cassettes. Unlike Bluebottle Kiss albums which Hutchings produces himself His Imaginary Choir was co-produced with notable Australian producer Tony Dupe.
Sigurd Wongraven.  Satyr (born Sigurd Wongraven on 28 November 1975) is the vocalist lead and rhythm guitarist bassist and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon (although the band had been around for a short length of time as Eczema without him) and have so far released eight albums two demos and a live DVD. He has also contributed to other bands such as Darkthrone Eibon Storm Thorns Black Diamond Brigade and Wongraven.
Odd Nosdam.  David Madson better known as Odd Nosdam is an American underground hip hop producer and DJ. He is co-founder and ex-art director of the record label Anticon.
Lene Nystrøm.  Lene Grawford Nystrøm Rasted (born 2 October 1973) better known by her stage name Lene is a Norwegian singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist of the Danish-Norwegian dance-pop group Aqua.
André de Leones.  André de Leones (Goiânia 1980) is a Brazilian novelist. He was born in Goiânia and grew up in Silvânia in the inner state of Goiás Brazil. His home town frequently appears in his novels.He was the winner of the 2005 Prêmio Sesc de Literatura for his debut novel Hoje Está um Dia Morto. De Leones has released three more novels and a short story collection and has been published in several poetry and short story anthologies. He has also written about literature for Brazilian newspapers.
Colette Audry.  Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist screenwriter and critic. Audry was born in Orange Vaucluse. She won the Prix Médicis for the autobiographical novel Derrière la baignoire (Behind the Bathtub). As a screenwriter she first gained acclaim for The Battle for the Railway and also wrote for her sister Jacqueline.
Amber Coffman.  Amber Dawn Coffman (born June 15 1984 in Austin Texas) is a singer and musician based in Brooklyn New York. She is best known for her work with Sleeping People and Dirty Projectors. At the late of 2013 she is working on her debut solo album.
Johanna Edwards.  Johanna Edwards (born February 27 1978) is a bestselling American novelist and award-winning entertainment journalist. Born in Memphis Tennessee Edwards graduated magna cum laude from the University of Memphis with a degree in journalism in 2001.Edwards is best known for her chick-lit novel The Next Big Thing which was published in 2005 and remained on the national bestseller list for nearly three months. Her follow-up novel Your Big Break was also a bestseller.
Lea Sunshine.  Lea Quezada better known by her stage name Lea Sunshine or simply Lea is an American recording artist from Queens New York City New York. She is perhaps best known for being the featured singer on American rapper Lil Flip's 2004 hit single Sunshine. In 2011 Lea secured a recording contract with 50 Cent's G-Note Records which he founded in 2010 as a subsidiary label for pop dance and R&B artists.
Theodosia Tsatsou.  Theodosia Tsatsou (Greek: Θεοδοσία Τσάτσου) is a Greek singer known for her songs with the band Ble and also for her solo career.
Teodoro Ghisi.  Teodoro Ghisi (1536–1601) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance Period mainly active in his native Mantua. He specialized in paintings of animal and nature scenes.Teodoro was known mostly for his drawings and illustration of animals. His brother Giorgio Ghisi was a well-known engraver. Teodoro was a custodian of the Duchal summer house known as the Palazzo del Te in Mantua.
Richard Anthony Hewson.  Richard Anthony Hewson (born 17 November 1943 Stockton-on-Tees Teesside) is an English producer arranger conductor and multi-instrumentalist who is best recognized for his studio group The RAH Band.
Alanis Morissette.  Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1 1974) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter guitarist record producer and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums Alanis and Now Is the Time under MCA Records Canada. Her first international album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill released in 1995.
Jill Shalvis.  Jill Shalvis is a best-selling American author of over 50 contemporary romance novels including her award-winning Lucky Harbor series. She has also written under the pseudonym Jill Sheldon.Jill's books have made the New York Times Bestseller List and she has won numerous awards including the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Simply Irresistible three National Readers' Choice Awards and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award.
Kevin Tinsley.  Kevin Stickman Tinsley is an American comics creator and publisher.
Roddy Doyle.  Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of ten novels for adults seven books for children seven plays and screenplays and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland especially working-class Dublin and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect.
Kunal Basu.  Kunal Basu (Bengali: কুনাল বসু) is an Indian author of English fiction who has written four novels – The Opium Clerk (2001) The Miniaturist (2003) Racists (2006) and The Yellow Emperor's Cure (2011). He has also written a collection of short stories The Japanese Wife (2008) the title story of which has been made into a film by the Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen.
Albert Joseph Penot.  Albert Joseph Pénot (1862–1930) was a French painter known for female nudes. Today he is more popularly and specifically recognized for a subset of paintings centering on women of darker more macabre themes.
Pat Alger.  Pat Alger (born September 23 1947 in LaGrange Georgia) is a country music songwriter singer and guitarist.
Sohail Sen.  Sohail Sen (Bengali: সোহেল সেন); born 24 June 1984 is an Indian film composer musician and singer who works in Bollywood. He debuted as a film composer with the Hindi film Sirf (2008) which went majorlyunnoticed. Later he gained fame as a Hindi film composer with his acclaimed work in What's Your Raashee? (2009).
Jason Isaacs (singer).  Jason Isaacs (1967) is a UK singer and songwriter.
Robert Louis Stevenson.  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist poet essayist and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.
Paul Hardcastle.  Paul Hardcastle (born 10 December 1957 London England) is an English composer musician and multi-instrumentalist. Although he specializes in the synthesizer he can also play multiple instruments.
Yakiv Holovatsky.  Yakov Holovatsky (Russian: Яков Фёдорович Головацкий Ukrainian: Яків Головацький; October 17 1814 in Chepeli Zloczow powiat Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Austria-Hungary - May 13 1888 in Vilno Russian Empire) was a noted historian literary scholar ethnographer linguist bibliographer lexicographer and poet.
Alexander Dukhnovich.  Alexander Vasilyevich Dukhnovich (Rusyn: Александeр Васильєвич Духновiч Aleksander Vasyl’jevyč Duxnovič; Ukrainian: Олександр Васильович Духнович Oleksandr Vasylovych Dukhnovych; Slovak: Alexander Duchnovič; Russian: Александр Васильевич Духнович Aleksandr Vasilevich Dukhnovich; 24 April 1803 – 30 March 1865) was a priest poet writer pedagogue and social activist of the Slavic peoples of the Carpathians. He is considered as the awakener (Rusyn: Будитиль Budytyl’) of the Rusyns.
Hikari Ishida.  Hikari Ishida (石田ひかり Ishida Hikari) is a Japanese actress. She starred along with Megumi Odaka and Natsuki Ozawa in the TV-series Hana no Asuka-gumi!. She also released several singles and six albums and she had one minor hit with the song Emerald no Suna. Ishida also made numerous commercials for hair products and released several photobooks and videos. Ishida has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta. She is younger sister of Yuriko Ishida also an actress.
Lee San-san.  Lee San-San (Chinese: 李珊珊) born 9 October 1977 was the winner of the 1996 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and her territory's representative at Miss Universe 1997. Lee placed 45th at that pageant like former Miss Hong Kongs Mok Hoi Yan and Halina Tam. She also competed at the Miss Chinese International 1997 pageant where she finished 2nd. She signed with TVB and starred in various Hong Kong television dramas before leaving the network.
Andrei Galut.  Andrei Galut (born 2 August 1984) is a Romanian rock singer. He won the 2007-08 season of Prima TV's Megastar!
Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao.  Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao (Telugu: ద్వారం భావనారాయణ రావు) (15 June 1924 - 24 July 2000) was famous Violinist and son of legendary Padmasri Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu.He is born to Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu and Venkata Jaggayyamma on 15 June 1924 at Bapatla. He was educated in Chennai. He was trained by his father and the late Prof. P. Sambamurthy.He has worked as Principal of Maharajah's Government College of Music and Dance at Vizianagaram from 1962 to 1973.
Ramon Ortiz (musician).  Ramon Luis Ortiz (born June 15 1970) is a Puerto Rican guitarist best known as a founding member and director of the band Puya. He is currently sponsored by Fernandes Guitars who built him his first signature 7 string tribal themed guitar designed by him.Ortiz was born in San Juan Puerto Rico. He started the guitar at seven years old.
Hong Yoo-kyung.  Hong Yoo-kyung (Korean: 홍유경; born September 22 1994) is a South Korean singer and dancer. She is a former member of the Korean girl group A Pink.
Sarah MacLean.  Sarah MacLean (born December 17 1978) is an American author of young adult novels and romance novels. Her first adult romance novel Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List where it stayed for four weeks.
P. Vijay.  Pa. Vijay is a Tamil language poet and lyricist who writes song lyrics for films. He has also won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics in India for his performance of Ovvoru Pookalume in Cheran's Autograph.
Pierre Bettencourt.  Pierre Bettencourt (1917–2006) was a French writer and printer.
Stuart Sankey.  Stuart Sankey (1927–May 1 2000) was a pedagogue of the double bass. His students included Gary Karr the first bass player of the modern era to make a career as a solo artist and Edgar Meyer. He taught for nearly 50 years at the Aspen Music School. He also held teaching positions at the University of Texas Indiana University and the University of Michigan. He made a large number of transcriptions for the double bass increasing the literature for the instrument.
Michael O'Donoghue.  Michael O'Donoghue (January 5 1940 – November 8 1994) was a writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine and was the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Chalee Tennison.  Chalee Tennison (born April 11 1969) is an American country music artist from the state of Texas. She has released three major-label studio albums (two on Asylum Records and one on Dreamworks Records) in addition to charting six singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Her highest charting singles Just Because She Lives There and Go Back both reached No. 36 on that chart.
Jim Teachenor.  Jim Teachenor is an American Rockabilly and Country singer songwriter and musician. He was born in Clay County Arkansas and raised in Fagus Missouri. He toured throughout the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2013 he was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Javon Jackson.  Javon Anthony Jackson (born June 16 1965) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He played in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1987 until Blakey's death in 1990 and has also played with the Harper Brothers Benny Green Freddie Hubbard and Elvin Jones. In his solo career his music has been a mix of hard bop with soul and funk influences. He became chair of the University of Hartford's Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz in 2013.
Claire Pichet.  Claire Pichet is a French soloist singer.
Gemini (musician).  Thomas Slinger known professionally as Gemini is an English producer songwriter vocalist and DJ.Born and raised in Leicester he soon discovered a talent for the production of electronic dance music (particularly dubstep) and released his first EP Blue on 14 February 2011 whilst studying at Leeds University.
Laura Natalia Esquivel.  Laura Natalia Esquivel (born May 18 1994 in Buenos Aires Argentina) known professionally as Laura Esquivel is an Argentine actress and singer who gained international popularity for her debut acting role as Patricia Patito Castro in the popular Argentine children's telenovela Patito Feo.
Donald Lipski.  Donald Lipski (born May 21 1947) is an American sculptor best known for his installation work and large-scale public works.
Hayati Çitaklar.  Hayati Çitaklar (born 18 September 1986) is a young Turkish playwright director novelist actor and poet. He is also the editor of some literature magazines.
Harold Betters.  Harold Betters (born March 21 1928) is an American jazz trombone player. A prominent jazz musician in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Betters released nine LPs on Gateway Records and three LPs for Reprise.Born in Connellsville Pennsylvania Betters is the brother of drummer and singer Jerry Betters. Betters studied music education at Ithaca College for two years and then studied at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for a year.
Billy Vera.  Billy Vera (born William Patrick McCord May 28 1944) is an American singer songwriter actor author and music historian. A singer and songwriter since the 1960s his most successful record came with At This Moment a US no.1 hit in 1987.
Thomas Stirling Lee.  Thomas Stirling Lee (1857–1916) was an English sculptor specialising in reliefs and portrait heads.
Martin Marthus Škaroupka.  Martin Marthus Škaroupka (born 20 January 1981 in Brno Moravia Czech Republic) is the current drummer for British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth and German metal band Masterplan.
Nils E. Øy.  Nils E. Øy (born 11 January 1946) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Ørsta. He started his journalistic career in Fredriksstads Blad in 1964 and was promoted to feature editor in 1971. From 1977 to 1983 he was the assisting director of the Institute for Journalism in Fredrikstad and from 1979 to 1981 he edited the union magazine Journalisten.He took a break to serve as editor-in-chief of both Samhold from 1984 to 1987 and Gudbrandsdølen and Lillehammer Tilskuer from 1984 to 1988.
Greg Horn.  Greg Horn is an American comic book artist best known for his work as a cover artist for Marvel Comics and various other publications. Working primarily as a digital painter he is well known for his pinup paintings of female characters.
Junior Brown.  Jamieson Junior Brown (born June 12 1952) is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released nine studio albums in his career and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Brown's signature instrument is the guit-steel double neck guitar a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar.
Sajjad Hussain (composer).  Sajjad Hussain (15 June 1917 Sitamau - 21 July 1995) was an Indian film score composer.
Giovan Battista Ruoppolo.  Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (1629–1693) was a Neapolitan painter from the Baroque era notable for painting still-lifes. He was a disciple of Paolo Porpora (1617–1673) a contemporary of Salvatore Rosa. Additional Porpora pupils who formed a school of still-life painters in Naples were Giovan Battista Giuseppe Recco and Ruoppolo's brother of Giuseppe Ruoppolo. In addition he influenced Andrea Belvedere and Giacomo Nani.
Zhang Jue Long.  Zhang Juelong (張覺隆) is a composer and entertainer. He is also a music producer with experience in music technologies and techniques. Zhang Juelong has composed arranged and produced music in styles ranging from pop/rock R&B folk and TV/radio musicals to world music ambient/experimental music and dance music.
Nicolas Giraud.  Nicolas Giraud (born November 12 1978) is a French actor. Among the various films roles in which he has appeared is as one the kidnappers in the 2008 film Taken. He was the writer and director of Faiblesses (2009).
Ken Hammond.  Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University.Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies -East Asia(1989) and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University.
John Hollander.  John Hollander (October 28 1929 – August 17 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University having previously taught at Connecticut College Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY.
Geoffrey James (writer).  Geoffrey James is an author journalist and freelance writer. His works have been published in Wired The New York Times Men's Health Brandweek Technology Markeing SellingPower magazine and ComputerWorld. He has written several books. He lives in New Hampshire. From February 2007 to September 2011 he wrote a blog about sales for CBS Interactive. He has also worked as a consulting analyst for a number of market research firms. He now writes a daily column for Sales Source on Inc.com
George Bernard Shaw.  George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism his main talent was for drama and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist novelist and short story writer.
David Hogan (composer).  David Hogan (b. July 1 1949 in Nokesville Virginia – d.July 17 1996 off East Moriches New York) was a composer and musical director of CIGAP -- Le Choeur Int'l Gai de Paris -- a choir composed of men who loved music and wanted to show pride in their identity as gay men. A native of Virginia Hogan graduated from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and would go on to earn a master's degree in voice in 1975.
Sam Denoff.  Samuel Denoff (July 1 1928 – July 8 2011) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter television producer. He was born in Brooklyn New York. With his long-time collaborator Bill Persky he wrote and created the television show That Girl starring Marlo Thomas. Their writing collaboration on episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show resulted in some of the show's most popular episodes.
Leigh Hobbs.  Leigh Hobbs is an Australian artist and author.Although he works across a wide range of mediums he is best known in Australia and the United Kingdom for the humorous children’s books he has written and illustrated. These feature his characters Old Tom Horrible Harriet Fiona the Pig Mr Badger and Mr Chicken. Plus the characters in the 4F for FREAKS books.
Mina Cheon.  Mina Cheon (born 1973) is a Korean American new media artist scholar and educator. Since 1997 she has been living between Baltimore New York and Seoul.
Stian Johannsen.  Stian Johannsen (born October 12 1971 in Sarpsborg Norway) is a Norwegian musician known under the stage name Occultus and Cultoculus among others. He was briefly a vocalist and a bassist for the black metal band Mayhem. Occultus was in the band for a very short time in 1991 after the suicide of Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin).He has also been in many other bands: Con Anima Shadow Dancers Thyabhorrent Einar Grimm Group Pussycunts Perdition Hearse and Soul Transition.
Andrew Ostrowski.  Andrew Joseph Ostrowski (born November 7 1966) is an American freelance writer author and media personality.He is a weekly columnist with the Am-Pol Eagle a Buffalo New York based newspaper in which he features both a commentary and a question and answer column.Ostrowski is the Director of Real Live Relic Hunter (RLRH) a film company dedicated to unearthing lost artifacts.In 2011 Ostrowski unveiled AndrewOstrowski.com which featured a broad synopsis of his works and interests.
JC Stylles.  JC Stylles is the performing name of jazz guitarist Jason Campbell (he took the name to avoid confusion with Jason Campbell of the NFL) an Australian based in New York City since 2005 (as well as from 1992 to the mid-1990s). He studied under John Scofield Steve Erquiaga Miroslav Vitous Woody Shaw Johnny Griffin Pat Martino Tal Farlow Rodney Jones John Abercombie and Barry Harris and others.
Yūji Takada.  Yūji Takada (高田 裕司 Takada Yūji born 高田 祐司  January 10 1960 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actor and voice actor represented by Ōsawa Jimusho. Takada has featured in numerous anime television series and drama series and has also appeared as a narrator in numerous productions. In 1998 he made his debut in an anime with the Sunrise series Gasaraki.
Paul Quarrington.  Paul Lewis Quarrington (July 22 1953 – January 21 2010) was a Canadian novelist playwright screenwriter filmmaker musician and educator.
Ramlee Awang Murshid.  Ramlee Awang Murshid is a Malaysian novelist.
Moorkoth Kumaran.  Moorkoth Kumaran (1874–1941) was a teacher and a prominent short story writer in Malayalam.Kumaran came from a respected Thiyya family of Kannur.[citation needed] He was a disciple of Narayana Guru and wrote the first biography of Guru. This biography contains the essence of Guru's message. He has initiated to install first statue of Narayana Guru in Kerala when he was alive.
Paul Reynolds (musician).  Paul Reynolds (born 4 August 1962 Liverpool England) is the former lead guitarist and backup singer for the Liverpool band A Flock of Seagulls.
Elmer Livingston MacRae.  Elmer Livingston MacRae (1875–1953) was an American visual artist known for his paintings pastels and sketches and for his role as a leading member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Greenwich Connecticut. MacRae was one of the organizers of the influential 1913 Armory Show in New York; he was also instrumental in founding the American Pastel Society (serving as its first secretary-treasurer) as well as the Greenwich Society of Artists.
William Moore (musician).  William Bill Moore (March 3 1893 – November 22 1951) was an African American blues singer and guitarist.Born in Dover Georgia United States he was the only Virginian country bluesman to record for the Paramount label (1928 in Chicago). As a resident of Tappahannock Virginia Bill Moore recorded sixteen sides for Paramount Record Company in 1928. His four 78 rpm records are highly sought by collectors and have been numerously re-released on LP and CD compilation albums. His songs (e.g.
Maria Mori.  Maria Mori (森マリア born June 29 1956) is a former singer and actress from Sapporo Japan. She was also known as Maria Elizabeth. The daughter of an American FBI agent and a Japanese mother she was a member of the Golden Half singing group whose other members all had Japanese mothers and fathers from other countries.
Jimmy Little.  James Oswald Jimmy Little AO (1 March 1937 – 2 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician actor and teacher from the Yorta Yorta people and was raised on the Cummeragunja Mission New South Wales.From 1951 he had a career as a singer-songwriter and guitarist which spanned six decades. For many years he was the main Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. His music was influenced by Nat King Cole and American country music artist Jim Reeves.
The Crowd (band).  The Crowd was a charity group formed specifically to produce a charity record for the Bradford City stadium fire in which 56 people died on 11 May 1985. The group consisted of singers actors television personalities and others.Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers had decided to make a charity record to aid the families of the victims of the disaster (the Bradford City Disaster Fund).
Kit Williams.  Christopher 'Kit' Williams (born 28 April 1946 in Kent England) is an English artist illustrator and author best known for his 1979 book Masquerade a pictorial storybook which contains clues to the location of a golden (18 carat) jeweled hare created by Williams and then buried somewhere in Britain.Williams published three other books and was commissioned to create three public clocks with elaborate mechanisms and moving parts such as animals for visual interest.Williams continues to paint figurative art at his studio in Gloucestershire England.
Christian Casadesus.  Christian Casadesus (December 26 1912 – March 6 2014) was a French actor who worked professionally in both movies and in theater.
Tom Rachman.  Tom Rachman (born 1974) is an English/Canadian novelist. His debut novel is The Imperfectionists published in 2010 by Dial Press an imprint of Random House. The book has been published in 12 languages.Rachman was born in London England and grew up in Vancouver. Rachman studied at the University of Toronto and obtained a Master's Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a journalist for the Associated Press.
Pépé Kallé.  Pépé Kallé sometimes written as Pepe Kalle (November 30 1951 – November 28 1998) was a soukous singer musician and bandleader from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Martin Walser.  Martin Walser (born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. He became famous for describing the conflicts his anti-heroes have in his novels and stories. In 1998 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt.
Luca Napolitano.  Luca Napolitano (born 5 May 1986 in Avellino Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Will Clark (pornographic actor).  Will Clark (born March 9 1968 Wausau Wisconsin) is an American gay pornographic film actor. He is a member of the Grabby Awards Hall of Fame and has received a special citation from the GayVN Awards for his fundraising work in support of HIV/AIDS charities.
Mookonda Poonacha Nitin Kushalappa.  Mookonda Poonacha Nitin Kushalappa is an Indian writer and amateur historian besides being a blogger and engineer as well. He was born in 1986 in Virajpet town in Kodagu and brought up in the city of Bangalore both places are in Southern Karnataka. He did his schooling in Clarence High School in Bangalore his senior secondary at St. Joseph's PUC and college from CMRIT under VTU. He also works as a software engineer who makes apps for the iPhone.
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.  Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (Paris 6 March 1714 - Paris 15 May 1789) was a French painter draughtsman and administrator.
Jay-R Siaboc.  Eduardo Siaboc Jr. (January 21 1987) also known as Jay-R Siaboc is a Filipino TV actor and singer. He started as a student of Pinoy Dream Academy and became a first runner-up next to the grand star dreamer Yeng Constantino.
Ken Floyd.  Ken Floyd is a musician mostly known from his time in the hardcore band Eighteen Visions which he founded in 1995 as the drummer and became 2nd guitarist in 2004. He has also played drums for several tours with the band Throwdown. From 1996 to 1998 he was in Swingset in June which released a compilation on Prime Directive Records and previously was in First Day Somber.Since the break-up of Eighteen Visions he has been working on a new-wave band named Hi-Deaf.
Freq Nasty.  Darin McFadyen better known by his stage name FreQ Nasty is a DJ and producer of breakbeat electronic music based in Los Angeles California. Originally from New Zealand McFadyen's artistic career has taken him across the world first as a resident in London's Fabric Nightclub to multiple tours in Europe and Australia. He currently resides in the United States where he has become a fixture amongst North American art and music festivals most notably Burning Man.
Robert Murray (artist).  Robert Gray Murray (born March 2 1936) is a Canadian sculptor printmaker painter and art teacher whose large outdoor works resemble abstract stabile style of Alexander Calder. Some of his installations have attracted controversy because of their abstract design.Born in Vancouver British Columbia and raised in Saskatoon Saskatchewan he has lived in the United States since 1960. He attended the Regina College School of Art.
Cesare Berlingeri.  Cesare Berlingeri (born 1948) is an Italian contemporary artist the master of the piegature
William Hawes.  William Hawes (1785 – 18 February 1846) English musician was born in London and was for eight years (1793–1801) a chorister of the Chapel Royal where he studied music chiefly under Dr Ayrton.He subsequently held various musical posts being in 1817 appointed master of the children of the Chapel Royal.
Lee Sullivan (comics).  Lee Sullivan is a comic artist who lives and works in the UK.
Alvan Fisher.  Alvan Fisher (August 9 1792 – February 13 1863) was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works.
Irén Lovász.  Irén Lovász is a renowned Hungarian folk singer and ethnographer. She has a total of 12 albums to her credit including on the Erdenklang Music CC'nC Records Fono and Hungaroton Classics labels as well as recent CDs on her own SIRENVOICES label. She is featured on several compilations including on the respected HEARTS OF SPACE label WARNER MUSIC France Minos-EMI and other world music compilations. She is the recipient of numerous awards.[citation needed]
Picky Talarico.  Picky Talarico is a film director and photographer who has directed music videos for artists like Juanes Julieta Venegas Paulina Rubio Diego Torres Julio Iglesias Gustavo Cerati Kevin Johansen and Bajofondo.He has been nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards and five MTV Awards among other multiple awards around the globe.
Vincenzo Ansaloni.  Vincenzo Ansaloni was a native of Bologna and a disciple of Lodovico Carracci. Under so able an instructor he became a reputable painter of history. Malvasia speaks in very favourable terms of an altar-piece by this master in the chapel of the family of Fioravanti in the church of Santo Stefano of Bologna representing the 'Martyrdom of St.
Eli T..  Eli T. is a Singaporean electro-pop artist. He is also an established producer arranger and singer-songwriter who has worked for Chynahouse Recordings (EMI Asia) earlier in his career.In 2012 He released his debut album 'Revolt' with Assassins Records a subsidiary of a Singaporean media group Assassins Pte. Ltd.
Jean-Léon Gérôme.  Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul 11 May 1824 – Paris 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting Greek mythology Orientalism portraits and other subjects bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period and in addition to being a painter he was also a teacher with a long list of students.
Tanya Huff.  Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these her Blood Books series featuring detective Vicki Nelson was adapted for television under the title Blood Ties.
Paul Mooney (comedian).  Paul Gladney (born August 4 1941) better known by the stage name Paul Mooney is an American comedian writer social critic television and film actor. He is best known for his appearances on Chappelle's Show and as a writer for the comedian Richard Pryor.
Rangga Dewamoela.  Rangga Dewamoela Soekarta (born 6 January 1988) is a pop/R&B singer dancer actor from Indonesian origin. He is a member of boyband SM*SH.
Sebastiano Brunetti.  Sebastiano Brunetti (died 1649) was an Italian painter active in his native Bologna. He first trained with Lucio Massari then Guido Reni. He painted a Guardian Angel for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore at Bologna and a Holy Family for the church of San Giuseppe and for Santa Margherita a Mary Magdalen praying in the Desert.
John Siket.  John Siket is a music producer recording engineer and mixer. He is best known for his work with Sonic Youth Phish Yo La Tengo Dave Matthews Band Blonde Redhead Fountains of Wayne Moe Peter Murphy Freedy Johnston and Ex Cops.
Manzie Johnson.  Manzie Johnson (August 19 1906 – April 9 1971) was an American jazz drummer.Johnson was raised in New York where he played piano and violin before switching to drums. He worked with Willie Gant's Ramblers (1926) June Clark Elmer Snowden Joe Steele Fats Waller Jelly Roll Morton (1928) James P. Johnson and Horace Henderson (1930) before joining Don Redman's orchestra where he played from 1931 to 1937.
Évelyne Bouix.  Évelyne Bouix (born 22 April 1953) is a French film actress and stage actress. She has appeared in 61 films from 1970.She was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1999.
Ross Mintzer.  Ross Mintzer is an American musician born and raised in New York. He was selected to play in the 47th Annual Grammy Music Awards in Los Angeles and is a member of The Ross Mintzer Band.
Elizabeth Moon.  Elizabeth Moon (born March 7 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.
Joseph Bruchac.  Joseph Bruchac (born October 16 1942) is a writer of books relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore. He has published poetry novels and short stories. Bruchac is from Saratoga Springs New York and is of Abenaki English and Slovak ethnicity. Among his works are the novel Dawn Land (1993) and its sequel Long River (1995) which feature a young Abenaki man before European contact.
Alina Orlova.  Alina Orlova (lithuanian. Alina Orlovskaja polish Alina Orłowska born June 28 1988) is a Lithuanian sung poetry singer and musician. She is of mixed Polish-Russian heritage.
Eileen Wilks.  Eileen Wilks is an American award-winning fiction writer living in Midland Texas.
Neck Face.  Neck Face (born 1984 in Stockton California) is an anonymous graffiti artist. He is known for his frightening drawing style and humorous writings.
Bharata Muni.  Bharata (Sanskrit: भरत) was an ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist who authored the Natya Shastra a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics especially Sanskrit theatre. It is dated to between 1st-century BC to 3rd-century CE.Indian dance and music find their root in the Natyashastra.
Derek Shulman.  Derek Shulman (born Derek Victor Shulman 11 February 1947 in The Gorbals Glasgow Scotland) is a British musician and singer multi-instrumentalist and record executive. From 1970 to 1980 he was lead vocalist for the band Gentle Giant.
Betty Spindler.  Betty Spindler (born 1943) is an American ceramist known for her ceramic renditions of fruits vegetables and other foods.Born in Long Beach California in 1943 Spindler struggled with learning disabilities as a child later diagnosed as dyslexia. She began her art career with classes at Sherman E. Burroughs High School but did not continue to college instead marrying and starting a family.Spindler resumed her formal art education in 1979 with classes at Cerro Coso Community College.
Rebecca Rush.  Rebecca Rush (January 1 1779 – 1850) was a writer in the early United States. She published her only known book Kelroy in 1812 at the age of thirty-three. Unfortunately the book was not much noticed because it appeared on the eve of the War of 1812 which overshadowed its publication.Very little is known about Rebecca Rush.
Margit Gréczi.  Margit Gréczi (born 13 December 1941 in Gyöngyös) is a Hungarian painter.
Takahisa Masuda.  Takahisa Masuda (増田 貴久 Masuda Takahisa born 4 July 1986) is a Japanese idol from Johnny's Entertainment.
Louis Lamothe.  Louis Lamothe (1822 – 1869) was a French academic artist born in Lyons. He is remembered today primarily as the teacher of several more renowned artists notably Edgar Degas Elie Delaunay Henry Lerolle Henri Regnault and James Tissot.Lamothe was a pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.
Myria Benedetti.  Myria Alexandra Benedetti (Thai: มีเรีย เบนเนเด็ตตี้) (born February 6 1975) is a Thai singer actress model and MC.
William Sunners.  William Sunners (1904 – 1988) was an American author who wrote over 100 books on how to win prizes in contests.In the 1930s and 1940s he won several prizes in puzzle contests including three automobiles. In 1949 he published a best-selling book entitled How to win prize contests which sold over 100000 copies in 8 years.Sunner was an occasional contributor to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.
Victor Wong (singer).  Victor Wong Pin Kuan is a Malaysian Chinese singer who has made his name in the Taiwan music scene. He was born on February 26 1972.
Rien Poortvliet.  Rien Poortvliet (August 7 1932 – September 15 1995) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter.Born in Schiedam he was best known for his drawings of animals and for Gnomes in the famous series of books provided with text by Wil Huygen and published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. of New York City.Being a plasterer's son from Schiedam making a living as an artist did not seem an option for Rien Poortvliet.
Paul Klee.  Paul Klee (German pronunciation: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a painter born in Münchenbuchsee Switzerland and is considered to be a Swiss German. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism cubism and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism.
Michael Asher (artist).  Michael Max Asher (July 15 1943 – October 15 2012) was a conceptual artist described by The New York Times as among the patron saints of the Conceptual Art phylum known as Institutional Critique an often esoteric dissection of the assumptions that govern how we perceive art. Rather than designing new art objects Asher typically altered the existing environment by repositioning or removing artworks walls facades etc.Asher was also a highly regarded professor of art who spent decades on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts. 
Ira Levin.  Ira Marvin Levin (August 27 1929 – November 12 2007) was an American author dramatist and songwriter.
Tijana Dapčević.  Tijana Dapčević (Macedonian: Тијана Тодевска Дапчевиќ Serbian: Тијана Дапчевић Serbian pronunciation: [tǐjana dâptʃeʋitɕ]) (née Tijana Todevska; born February 3 1976) also known as simply Tijana is a pop singer performing mainly in Serbia. She speaks Macedonian Serbian English and Italian.
Jean-Baptiste Arban.  Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (28 February 1825 – 8 April 1889) was a cornetist conductor composer pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini's virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing virtuoso technique on the instrument. Born in Lyon France he studied trumpet with Francois Dauverné at the Paris Conservatoire from 1841 to 1845.
John Evan.  John Evan (born John Spencer Evans 28 March 1948) played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London.Evans was born in Blackpool Lancashire. He changed his name when his first band The Blades changed their name to The John Evan Band.
Jason White (singer-songwriter).  Jason White (born May 9 1967) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio United States he now resides in Nashville Tennessee. He began his career as the lead vocalist and songwriter for The Janglers a Cleveland-based rock band then as the frontman for Jason White and the Dying Breed.
Marnie Stern.  Marnie Stern is an American musician singer-songwriter and guitarist. She has garnered acclaim for her technical skill and tapping style of guitar play.
Nana Lee.  Nana Lee (born January 29 1985) is an Indonesian singer songwriter musician saxophonist and actress. She is best known for taking part in Super Idol Taiwan.
DeAnne Smith.  DeAnne Smith is an award-winning Canadian-American comedian writer and columnist. Smith first gained notice as a comedian in 2008 touring her debut full-length solo stand-up show to popular and critical acclaim culminating in her winning the Sydney Comedy Festival's Time Out Best Newcomer Award and earning a nomination for Best Newcomer in the 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards. Smith has since continued to tour internationally with her shows proving to be both commercial and critical successes.
Anthony Raine Barker.  Anthony Raine (A.R.) Barker (1880–1963) was a British artist. He attended Framlingham College Suffolk. He initially trained as an architect winning in 1909 the RIBA Soane Medallion for design[citation needed] and in 1910 the RIBA Certificate of Honourable mention.A.R.
Constantin Daniel Rosenthal.  Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (b. Pest Austrian Empire: Rosenthal Konstantin 1820 – July 23 1851) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of Austrian-Jewish birth and a 1848 revolutionary best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects.
Benjamin Scolnic.  Rabbi Benjamin Edidin Scolnic born October 28 1953 is an author who has been the spiritual leader at Temple Beth Sholom in Hamden Connecticut since 1983.He was educated at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS). He also received his Ph.D. from JTS.Scolnic was the editor of the journal Conservative Judaism from 1993-2000.
Yuji Adachi.  Yuji Adachi (足立祐二 Adachi Yūji born March 10 1964 in Osaka Japan) known as You is a Japanese musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist of the influential heavy metal band Dead End. He also runs a guitar school.In 1982 You was a member of Terra Rosa and a year later of Jesus before joining Dead End in 1986 in the year of bands's debut studio album Dead Line released by independent record label Night Gallery.
Erich Correns.  Erich Correns (1821 – 77) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.
Angham.  Angham Mohamed Ali Suleiman (Arabic: أنغام محمد علي سليمان‎) (born January 19 1972) is an Egyptian singer record producer and actress. Her debut was in 1987 under the guidance of her father Mohammad Suleiman. She is the most successful vocal female artist in Egypt starting from the 1980s till nowadays.
Morgan Rose.  Morgan Jay Rose (born December 13 1968) is an American drummer record producer and founding member of the Atlanta-based alternative metal band Sevendust. He is also responsible for much of the background unclean vocals. Recently he joined Call Me No One and recorded debut album and it was released on June 5 2012 via Asylum. Morgan Rose is vice president of Imagen Records.
Alexander Julian.  Alexander Julian (born (1948-02-08)February 8 1948) is an American clothing designer. He is most notable for his Colours clothing brand.
Rick Tippe.  Ricky Clarence Rick Tippe (born December 21 1958 in Maple Ridge British Columbia) is a Canadian country music artist. Tippe has released seven albums on Moon Tan Records including a greatest hits collection in 2000. His highest charting single The Craziest Thing peaked at No. 9 in 1996. He has won more than 25 awards from the British Columbia Country Music Association including three consecutive Entertainer of the Year wins from 2001-2003.
Qiu Jie.  Qiu Jie (born 1961) is a Chinese artist working in Switzerland France and China. He was born in Shanghai China.
Brian Haner.  Brian Elwin Haner Sr. (born April 7 1958) also known as Guitar Guy or Papa Gates is an American musician comedian and author. Haner is known for touring with fellow stand-up comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham as in the 2008 holiday program Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special.
MK Balaji.  MK Balaji is an Indian playback singer from Chennai Tamil Nadu. As a playback singer he has sung more than 100 songs for noted music directors including Harris Jeyaraj G. V. Prakash Kumar Vijay Antony and many other composers in various languages like Tamil Telugu and Kannada. His hits include Rettai Kathire from Maattrraan Sexy Lady from Ninaithale Inikkum Enge Poveno from Angadi Theru Dailamo Dailamo from Mahatma (Telugu) and many more.
Don Rhymer.  Don Rhymer (February 23 1961 – November 28 2012) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote movies like Big Momma's House The Santa Clause 2 Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London The Honeymooners Deck the Halls and the computer animated mockumentary Surf's Up.
Gopala Chandra Praharaj.  Gopala Chandra Praharaj (9 September 1874 – 16 May 1945) was a writer and linguist in the Oriya language well known as the compiler of the Purnachandra Oriya Bhashakosha. He also contributed significantly to Oriya literature by his works in prose.
Jennifer Ward (author).  Jennifer Ward (born December 4 1963) is an American children's picture book author. Many of her books focus on the science nature and the Southwest United States. Ward has a B.A. in education from the University of Arizona.
Evan Thomas.  Evan Welling Thomas III (born April 25 1951) is an American journalist and author. He currently teaches journalism at Princeton University.
John Berger.  John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic novelist painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing written as an accompaniment to a BBC series is often used as a university text.
Sachidananda Routray.  Sachidananda Rautray (1916–2004) was an Oriya poet novelist short-shorty writer. He received Jnanpith Award the highest literary award of India in 1986. He was popularly known as Sachi Routray.
Elaha Soroor.  Elaha Soroor (also spelled as Elaha Sorur) (Persian: الهه سرور‎) was born in 1988 in Iran. She was in musical reality show Afghan Star a television program similar to the Idol franchise. Though she didn't secure the first place but earned more fame than other participants due to her voice and being female. She is a member of Hazara ethnic group of Afghanistan.
Thomas Duis.  Thomas Duis (born 1958 in Frankfurt) is a German pianist.Duis studied with Kurt Gerecke in Wiesbaden Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover and Fanny Waterman in Leeds.He was the top-ranking pianist at the 1986 Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv (he was awarded the 2nd prize the 1st being declared void) and was awarded 2nd prize at the 1986 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and 3rd prizes at the 1985 Sydney Competition and the 1987 ARD Competition in Munich.
Sabrina Porshi.  Sabrina Porshi (Bengali: সাবরিনা পড়শী) is a Bangladeshi singer. Sabrina Porshi's career began when she became 2nd runner up in a Music telnet hunt show Channel i Khude gaan raj in 2008. Porshi's first song recording was for a movie in 2009 arranged by Khude Gaan Raj team.
Steve Erwin.  Steve Erwin (born January 16 1960) is an American comic book artist.
Gillian Duffy (editor).  Gillian Duffy is a food writer and editor of New York magazine. She was born in Salisbury England and now lives in Weston Connecticut.Brought up on a Sussex farm she spent summers in France and is fluent in French. After Finishing School(The Triangle)in London she worked in various Ad. agencies learning the trade.She became art buyer for the advertising agency Papert Koenig Lois Later Director of art studio Baird Harris.
Kutt Calhoun.  Melvin Lewis Calhoun Jr. better known by his stage name Kutt Calhoun is an American rapper from Kansas City Missouri. His second album Feature Presentation debuted at #60 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in its first week of release. His third album Raw and Un-Kutt performed better on the charts and debuted at #162 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release.
Ronald Kirkbride.  Ronald de Levington Kirkbride (February 1 1912–March 1973) was a writer of escapist romances Westerns and mystery novels.
Gervase de Peyer.  Gervase Alan de Peyer (born 11 April 1926) is an English clarinetist and conductor.
Clark Ashton Smith.  Clark Ashton Smith (January 13 1893 – August 14 1961) was a self-educated American poet sculptor painter and author of fantasy horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.
Declan Mulholland.  Thomas Declan Mulholland (6 December 1932 – 29 June 1999) was a Northern Irish character actor of film and television. Born in Belfast his first role was in H.M.S. Defiant (1962) as Morrison. He also played Jabba the Hutt in a deleted scene of the original Star Wars (1977). The scene was later placed back into the movie for the film's twentieth anniversary re-release in 1997 replacing Mulholland with a computerized Jabba.
Mai Hirano.  Mai Hirano (平野 妹 Hirano Mai born October 7) is a Japanese voice actress from Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. She is affiliated with the Amuleto talent agency.
Shades of Love (band).  The Shades of Love were an electronic dance studio act consisting Meli'sa Morgan. Hailing from New York City their best known material is Keep in Touch. The original version entered the charts in 1982 and the remake slightly more successful than the original came out in 1995.
Kunal Ganjawala.  Kunal Ganjawala is a popular playback singer whose songs are mostly featured in Hindi and Kannada films. He has also sung in Marathi Bengali and other offical languages of India. Kunal began his career by singing jingles. He came to limelight in Hindi with the song Bheege Honth Tere from the film Murder in 2004. It was his first biggest hit. The song earned him Zee Cine Award as Best Playback Singer in 2005.
Anil Gupta.  Anil Gupta is a British comedy writer and producer. He has produced many shows on radio and television including Goodness Gracious Me the spoof chat show The Kumars at No. 42 The Office Citizen Khan and Bromwell High. He wrote the Cinderella episode of the 2008 comedy drama series Fairy Tales and ElvenQuest.
Hamish Blake.  Hamish Donald Blake (born 11 December 1981) is an Australian Gold Logie Award winning comedian actor and author from Melbourne. Since 2003 he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio most notably with their drive-time radio program Hamish & Andy.
Olombelona Ricky.  Olombelona Ricky also known as Ricky is a Malagasy vocalist and roots musician based in Antananarivo Madagascar. Launching his musical career in 1991 Ricky recorded his first album in 1998 sparking the phenomenon of Rickymania. His socio-political messages and uncompromising approach to his career have earned him a strong following among urban youth within Madagascar.
Terence Cooper.  Terence Cooper (5 July 1933 – 16 September 1997) was a British film actor.Born in 1933 at Carnmoney a district of the modern-day borough of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland Cooper is most famous for appearing in the 1967 film Casino Royale a James Bond satire based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel of the same name. He was also at one point a candidate for the role of Bond in the official movie series. He was also famed as a water color artist.
Jason Robert Brown.  Jason Robert Brown (born June 20 1970) is an American musical theater composer lyricist and playwright. Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. An accomplished pianist Brown has often served as music director conductor orchestrator and pianist for his own productions.
Charles Tolliver.  Charles Tolliver (born March 6 1942) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Lietbertus of Saint-Ruf.  Lietbertus of St. Ruf was the abbot of Saint-Ruf in the diocese of Avignon. He was the author of a commentary on the Psalms called Flores Psalmorum and wrote the customs practiced in his abbey. He was educated at the Lille collegiate church of St. Peter which was dedicated in 1066.
Kimati Dinizulu.  Nana Kimati Dinizulu was an African-American percussionist. He performed with many great artists like Toni Morrison Alvin Ailey Donald McKayle Gregory Hines Sonny Rollins Nina Simone Harry Belafonte Wynton Marsalis Jackie McLean and Dizzy Gillespie and many more.
Michael Cohen (musician).  Michael Cohen (born 1951 died 1997) is an American singer-songwriter from New York City who released three albums in the 1970s which were among the first to deal with explicitly gay themes.[citation needed] Cohen was licensed as a cab driver in New York City in 1972.
Athanasios Psalidas.  Athanasios Psalidas (Greek: Αθανάσιος Ψαλίδας; 1767–1829) was a Greek author scholar and one of the most renowned figures of the modern Greek Enlightenment.
Feridun Düzağaç.  Feridun Düzağaç (born 10 October 1968) is a Turkish rock music singer and songwriter usually known for his pessimistic and melancholic songs.
Will.i.am.  William Adams (born March 15 1975) known by his stage name as will.i.am (pronounced Will I Am) is an American rapper singer songwriter entrepreneur voice actor actor DJ record producer and philanthropist best known as one of the founding members of the hip hop/pop band The Black Eyed Peas.
George Sylvester Viereck.  George Sylvester Viereck (December 31 1884 Munich Germany – died March 18 1962 Holyoke Massachusetts) was a German-American poet writer and propagandist.
Tymon Dogg.  Tymon Dogg (born Stephen John Murray) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Dogg's career started early with shows at the Cavern and Peppermint Lounge in Liverpool when he was just 15. AS well as pursuing a solo career he collaborated with many bands and musicians including The Clash and was a member of Joe Strummer's last band The Mescaleros.
Douglas Killmer.  Douglas Doug Killmer (July 18 1947 – August 29 2005) was an American blues and rock bass guitarist active from the 1960s to the late 1990s. He is sometimes credited as Douglas Kilmer or Doug Kilmer. He is best remembered for playing the bass line on Norman Greenbaum's 1970 hit Spirit in the Sky (number 333 on Rolling Stone 's list of 500 greatest songs of all time).
Soraya Moraes.  Soraya Moraes (born January 29 1973) is a Brazilian gospel singer.Moraes was born in São Paulo and sang in church as a child. Her professional career began in a band called Metanoya in 1992; their debut album Guerra was released in 1993. In 1998 she signed with Gospel Records as a solo artist and her debut Pensando em Deus was released in 1999. Her 2004 release Deixa o Teu Rio Me Levar was awarded a Latin Grammy in 2005 for best Portuguese language Christian album.
Giovanni Battista Pozzi.  Giovanni Battista Pozzi was an Italian painter born at Milan towards the end of the 17th century. He decorated a large number of buildings in the Piedmont including San Cristoforo at Vercelli.
Juhi Chaturvedi.  Juhi Chaturvedi (born 1975) (Hindi: जूही चतुर्वेदी) is an Indian screenwriter and advertising professional. Juhi is the script writer of the Bollywood movie Vicky Donor (2012). She is based in Mumbai.She won the 2013 Filmfare Award for Best Story for Vicky Donor (2012).
Helen Callus.  Helen Callus is a British violist who currently teaches at the University of California Santa Barbara.Callus studied with Ian Jewel at the Royal Academy of Music in London earning an Honorary ARAM (Associate of the RAM). She then continued her studies at the Peabody Conservatory where she served as the teaching assistant to Paul Coletti.
Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder.  Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar (Bengali: দক্ষিণারঞ্জন মিত্র মজুমদার) (1877–1956) was a celebrated Indian writer in Bengali of fairy tales and children's literature. He was born at Ulail in Dhaka district of Bengal province in British India (now Dhaka District of Bangladesh).
G. K. Chesterton.  Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G.K. Chesterton was an English writer lay theologian poet philosopher dramatist journalist orator literary and art critic biographer and Christian apologist.
Will Tura.  Will Tura (born 2 August 1940 in Veurne) is the stage name of Arthur Achiel Albert Knight Blanckaert a Belgian artist famous in Flanders and the Netherlands. Tura is a singer musician (he plays the piano guitar drums accordion and harmonica) composer and songwriter. He is married to Jenny Swinnen with whom he has a son David (born 16 October 1974) and a daughter Sandy Tura (born 21 November 1975).
Juan Francisco Casas.  Juan Francisco Casas (born September 21 1976 La Carolina Jaén Andalusia) is a Spanish artist and poet. Casas recreates photographs he's taken as large scale oil paintings on canvas as well as similarly scaled drawings using only blue ballpoint pens. He is considered one of the more influential young painters in Spain.[citation needed]Casas lives and works in Paris and Madrid.
Gene Watson.  Gary Gene Watson (born October 11 1943) is an American country singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit Love in the Hot Afternoon his 1982 hit Fourteen Carat Mind and his signature song Farewell Party. Watson's long career has notched six number ones 23 top tens and over 75 charted singles.
Arthur Streeton.  Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter and leading member of the Heidelberg School also known as Australian Impressionism.
Dániel Kővágó.  Dániel Kővágó also known as Monstaz. (born on 20 August 1991 in Budapest Hungary) is an Hungarian guitarist producer and DJ.In May 2013 Dániel was the guitarist of ByeAlex in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. He played the song Kedvesem along with ByeAlex which ultimately reached 10th place in the final with a score of 84 points.
Ravji Patel.  Ravji Patel (1939–1968) was a modernist poet and novelist in Gujarati. He was born in Vallavpura village in Kheda District of Gujarat. His only collection was published posthumously titled 'Angat' ( 1971).He could only study up to the second year of college and had to leave his studies owing to financial difficulties.
Loren L. Coleman.  Loren L. Coleman is a science-fiction writer born and grew up in Longview Washington. He is known for having written many books for series such as Star Trek Battletech/Mechwarrior Age of Conan Crimson Skies Magic: The Gathering and others. He has also written game fiction and source material for such companies as FASA Corporation TSR Inc. and Wizards of the Coast. He resides in Washington with his wife Heather and three children.
François Mauriac.  François Charles Mauriac (French: [moʁjak]; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French author member of the Académie française (from 1933) and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
Michael Casswell.  Michael Casswell (June 18 1963) is an English session guitarist who has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Brian May Joe Bonamassa Steve Hackett Wang Chung Ronan Keating Rose Royce Cozy Powell Tony Hadley Go West Dean Friedman Limahl (Kajagoogoo) Rhinos Revenge Band and Marcus Malone.
Peanut Butter Wolf.  Chris Manak better known by his stage name Peanut Butter Wolf is an American DJ and producer from San Jose California. He is the founder of Stones Throw Records.
Katti Padma Rao.  Katti Padma Rao (born 27 July 1953) is an Indian poet and dalit activist. He is also a communal leader against Hinduism.
Eddie Lovette.  Eddie Lovette (born Eddie Lovett 1943- April 29 1998) was a Coconut Grove reggae musician. He recorded six albums that all have a strong Caribbean influence. Lovette was born in the town of Cairo in the state of Georgia. He was the fourth of ten children. When he was nine years old he joined the Cairo Echo Jr's gospel singing group.An alum of Miami High School Lovette went on to earn a degree in Psychology from the University of Miami.
Subhaprasanna.  Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the 'Calcutta Painters' group. He is married to artist Shipra Bhattacharya.
Minerva Teichert.  Minerva Bernetta Kohlhepp Teichert (August 28 1888 – May 3 1976) was an American painter notable for her art depicting Western and Mormon subjects including a collection of murals depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon.
Daniel Herskedal.  Daniel Herskedal (born 2 April 1982 in Molde Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (tuba) known from playing with numerous ensembles and participating in several recordings. Herskedal is regarded as one of the most talented jazz tubaists in Norway. He is also combining several genres.
Johann Berthelsen.  Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen ( July 25 1883 – April 3 1972) was a prominent and prolific American Impressionist painter noted for his urban scenes. He is most commonly known for his poetic renditions of New York City.
Tamsyn Challenger.  Tamsyn Challenger is a British conceptual political and installation artist based in London and Cornwall. She is known for her acclaimed gender-political work '400 Women' which took five years to create and comprises a critical mass of portraits by nearly 200 artists including Maggi Hambling Paula Rego Zoe Laughlin and Rachel Howard.
Julia Johnson.  Julia Johnson is a London-born singer-songwriter and a founder-member of Post Trip-Hop band Second Person. Her first solo album I Am Not The Night recorded at Livingston Recording Studios and produced by Tristan Ivemy (Frank Turner The Holloways) was released in May 2011 through the independent label Blue January.
John Grant (musician).  John Grant (born 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010.
Olaf Keil.  Olaf Keil was the founder and lead guitarist of New Zealand rock & roll group The Keil Isles playing on their pre 1963 recordings on the TANZA and Viking record labels. He was also a custom guitar and banjo builder for Fender. He is also the creator of the Keil Midi. For a period of time he also managed and took care of the booking for the Keil Isles.
Wellington E. Alves.  Wellington Eleutério Alves is a Brazilian flautist and composer.He studied flute at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. He currently plays with Orquestra Filarmônica Cesumar Orquestra Sinfônica da Uem Coral de Flautas da Uem. He is also the founding member of the Ensemble Ad Libitum a group dedicated to contemporary music. Alves studied composition with Rael Toffolo at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. His chamber music has been performed by several ensembles e.g.
Jan Jämsen.  Katla is a Finnish singer most notable for co-founding and singing in the folk metal band Finntroll.
Ryōko Kinomiya.  Ryōko Kinomiya (来宮 良子 Kinomiya Ryōko 10 July 1931 – 25 November 2013) was a Japanese actress and voice actor. She was born Ryōko Sakurai in Kyoto Japan. She was known for her low voice.
Gabriel Popa (painter).  Gabriel Popa (1937–1995) was a Romanian painter. Popa was born on July 18 1937 in Ploiești Romania. He graduated from the Art Institute in Cluj Napoca. He moved to Timişoara in 1961. He was a professor between 1962–1974 at the city's Art Institute teaching painting and drawing. Since 1974 Gabriel Popa became a professional painter member of the Romania's Artists Guild. He died of leukemia in the summer of 1995.His art is known and appreciated in Romania and internationally.
Håvard Syvertsen.  Håvard Syvertsen (born 1962) is a Norwegian novelist and short story writer. He made his literary debut in 1992 with the short story collection Nå ville han ikke tenke på det. Among his novels are Etterpå from 1995 I lyset from 2002 and Det håndgripelige from 2010.He was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 2000.
Chad Matt & Rob.  Chad Matt & Rob is a group of filmmakers based in Los Angeles known for their short films that blend comedy with horror adventure and sci-fi.Their most notable works include a series of Prank Gone Wrong found footage videos and a collection of Choose Your Own Adventure style films known as Chad Matt & Rob's Interactive Adventures.
Tarcy Su.  Tarcy Su (simplified Chinese: 苏慧伦; traditional Chinese: 蘇慧倫; pinyin: Sū Huìlún; born October 27 1970 in Taipei Taiwan) is a Taiwanese singer and actress who was popular in the 1990s during her recording days with Rock Records.Her first album was released in 1990 when she was 20 years old. Her albums were primarily in Mandarin although she had three Cantonese solo albums to her name. To date Su has acted in 5 movies and several TV series.
Karen Kong.  Karen Kong (simplified Chinese: 龚柯允; traditional Chinese: 龔柯允) is a Malaysian Chinese singer.
Jess Stacy.  Jess Stacy (August 11 1904 – January 1 1995) was an American jazz pianist who gained prominence during the Swing era. He is perhaps best known for his years with the Benny Goodman band during the late 1930s particularly his performance at Goodman's legendary Carnegie Hall concert in 1938.
Anjani.  Anjani Thomas (born July 10 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist best known for her work with singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as well as Carl Anderson Frank Gambale and Stanley Clarke. She became a solo artist in 2000.
Alan Chin (artist).  Alan Christopher Chin (born October 15 1987) is a contemporary American artist[citation needed] . He lives and maintains a studio in Downey working in variety of traditional and experimental mediums including painting photography sculpture film and performance. He received his BFA in Ceramics and Painting (2010) at the California College of the Arts in Oakland California[citation needed]
Nicola Fago.  Francesco Nicola Fago 'II Tarantino' (26 February 1677 – 18 February 1745) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He was the father of Lorenzo Fago (1704-1793).
Hot Dollar.  Hot Dollar (born Leon Gray) is a rapper born in Chicago Illinois raised in Hattisburg Mississippi and based in Compton California. He's best known for his 2007 single Two Steppin' (Streets on Lock) which samples Tupac's All Eyes On Me. Rick Ross and Gucci Mane appear on a remix of the track. Most recently Hot Dollar released a single in October 2011 titled Where Is The Love At?.
Rachel Lee (actress).  Rachel Lee (Chinese: 李麗珍 earlier known as Loletta Lee) is a Hong Kong actress born on 8 January 1966 in Hong Kong.She started playing small roles in Hong Kong movies in the 1980s. Her first role as main actress is in Devoted to You. She continued to play as young teenager in the 1980s until 1990.Her performance in Ordinary Heroes earned her a Golden Horse Award in 1999 for Best Actress.
Mia Couto.  António Emílio Leite Couto (born July 5 1955) better known as Mia Couto is a world-renowned Mozambican writer and the winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Simon Christian Hammer.  Simon Christian Hammer (1866 – 1932) is a Norwegian writer and journalist.He was born in Arendal in the county of Aust-Agder Norway. He became editor-in-chief of Stavangeren in 1893 and later worked at Farmand Verdens Gang and Tidens Tegn. He was also the Norwegian correspondent for The Times from 1917 to 1932. He published several history books.
Rabbi Shergill.  Rabbi Shergill (born Gurpreet Singh Shergill 1973) is a Sikh musician well known for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005 Bullah Ki Jaana (I know not who I am!). His music has been described variously as rock Punjabi with a bani style melody and Sufi-style (sufiana) and semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arrangements. Shergill has been called Punjabi music's true urban balladeer.
Joe Jones (artist).  Joseph John Jones (1909–1963) was a 20th-century artist: painter landscape painter lithographer and muralist. TIME magazine followed him throughout his career. Although Jones was never a member of the John Reed Club his name is closely associated with its artistic members most of them also contributors to the New Masses magazine.
Irma (singer).  Irma Pany (born 15 July 1988) better known as Irma is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in France.
Wolfgang Paalen.  Wolfgang Paalen (July 22 1905 in Vienna – September 24 1959 in Taxco Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter and theorist.
Virgil Mazilescu.  Virgil Mazilescu (born 11 April 1942 Corabia Olt County Romania — died 10 August 1984 Bucharest Romania) was a Romanian poet essayist and translator.
Brian Campeau.  Brian Campeau (born 1980) is a musician currently based in Sydney Australia.
John Robb (musician).  John Robb (born 4 May 1961 in Fleetwood England) is vocalist in the punk rock band Goldblade. Based in Manchester he has also written several books on music and occasionally makes media appearances as a music commentator.
Chris Squire.  Christopher Russell Edward Chris Squire (born 4 March 1948) is an English musician songwriter and singer best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes.
Robbin Thompson.  Robbin Thompson (born Boston Massachusetts 1949) is an American singer-songwriter based in Richmond Virginia. Since 1976 he has recorded several albums which have featured guest appearances by among others Melissa Manchester Steve Cropper Waddy Wachtel Bruce Hornsby and Ellen McIlwaine. He was also a member of an early Bruce Springsteen band Steel Mill and has co-written songs with Timothy B. Schmit Phil Vassar and Butch Taylor and Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band.
Marten Toonder.  Marten Toonder (May 2 1912 – July 27 2005) was a Dutch comic creator born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence in the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions.
Jesse Fuller.  Jesse Fuller (March 12 1896 – January 29 1976) was an American one-man band musician best known for his song San Francisco Bay Blues.
John H. Lee.  John H. Lee (1847 - September 7 1890) was an American banjoist composer and author of the late 19th century.
Henry Vega.  Henry Vega (born 1973) is an award-winning composer and Electroacoustic musician from New York currently living in The Hague Netherlands. He founded The Spycollective in 2006 a now defunct music theater and dance group and is a founding director of Artek Foundation. Vega has been composing and performing internationally since 2001 and is also a founding member of The Electronic Hammer trio with Diego Espinosa and Juan Parra Cancino. He is married to Polish composer Kasia Glowicka.
Joan Baez.  Joan Baez /ˈbaɪ.ɛz/ (born January 9 1941 as Joan Chandos Báez) is an American folk singer songwriter musician and activist. Baez has performed publicly for over 55 years releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music.
Simon Harel.  Simon Harel is a Canadian intellectual born in Montréal in 1957. In addition to being a prolific writer and speaker and an adjunct professor at the Département d'études littéraires of the Université du Québec à Montréal he is full professor at and Director of the Département de littérature comparée of the University of Montreal.
Jane Kirkpatrick.  Jane Kirkpatrick is an Oregon writer who has written many inspirational fiction and non-fiction books.
Faucher de Saint-Maurice.  Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher (April 18 1844 – April 1 1897) was a Canadian author journalist army officer and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice.
Party Ben.  Party Ben is a DJ in San Francisco who spent many years working at local radio station Live 105 and is one of the more notable figures in the mashup scene.
Tera Patrick.  Linda Ann Hopkins professionally known as Tera Patrick (born July 25 1976) is an American pornographic actress.
August Zamoyski.  Count August Zamoyski (June 28 1893 in Jabłoń Lublin Voivodeship Poland – May 19 1970 in Saint-Clar-de-Rivière France) was a Polish sculptor member of groups Bunt and Formiści.Zamoyski was an author of stone compositions in simplified and geometrised form. His first works was influenced by French cubism and Itialian futurism. In 1920s he developed his own monumental style in which he referred to Classicism. In his last period Zamoyski was an author of expressive religious works.
Yonas (hip hop artist).  Yonas is an independent electro infused hip-hop artist hailing from New York City. Yonas often claims that with his music he hopes to bring content back to popular music.
Rebecca Warren.  Rebecca Warren (born 1965) is a British sculptor and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize.Rebecca Warren was born in Pinhoe Devon. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College University of London receiving a BA (Hons) (1989–92) before taking her MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art London (1992–93). She then took on an artist-in-residence place at the Ruskin School Oxford University Oxford (1993–1994).
Benji Webbe.  Clive Benji Webbe (born March 11th 1967) is a Welsh singer best known as the lead vocalist for the a reggae/nu metal band Skindred and as a former member of Dub War. He has also featured on albums by Bullet For My Valentine and Soulfly and plays the synthesizer in Skindred.Benji Webbe is a native of Newport Wales and a veteran of the rock explosion of the mid-90s which led to Spin magazine dubbing the town 'The New Seattle'.
Frederick Lee Bridell.  Frederick Lee Bridell (baptised 5 December 1830 – died 20 August 1863) was a popular painter of 19th century Britain initially as a Portrait artist gaining favour with luminaries such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning who entertained Bridell and his wife (Eliza F Bridell-Fox a fellow artist) for their wedding meal at Bocca di Leone Rome in 1859.His early professional career was as an apprentice to a picture dealer (Edwin Holder) who had him copying pictures by Old Masters although he also funded his education abroad.
Tim Alexander.  Timothy W. Tim Alexander (born April 10 1965 in Cherry Point North Carolina) is an American musician best known as the drummer for the rock band Primus. Tim played on the Primus recordings Suck on This to Tales from the Punchbowl before leaving the band in 1996 only to rejoin in 2003 for the EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People. He was a member of and toured with Primus from early 2003 until approximately 2009 when he was replaced by Jay Lane.
John Lockwood Kipling.  John Lockwood Kipling C.I.E. (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911) was an English art teacher illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in British India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling.
Mitch Berman.  Mitch Berman (born May 29 1956) is an American fiction writer known for his imaginative range exploration of characters beyond the margins of society lush prose style and dark humor.
Sylvie Bélanger.  Sylvie Bélanger (born in 1951 in Le Gardeur Québec Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist using sound video photography and installation. Bélanger received an MFA from York University a BFA from Concordia University and a Baccalauréat in Philosophy of Religion from Université de Montréal. She lives and works in Toronto and is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo.
Claude Tousignant.  Claude Tousignant OC is a Canadian artist born in Montreal Quebec on December 23 1932. He is an important contributor to the development of geometric abstraction in Canada.
Heather B. Gardner.  Heather B. Gardner billed professionally as Heather B. (born 1971) in New Jersey USA is an American hip hop artist who first gained fame as a member of the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions before becoming a cast member on The Real World: New York the first season of MTV's reality show The Real World.
Toshiki Kadomatsu.  Toshiki Kadomatsu (角松敏生 Kadomatsu Toshiki) (born 12 August 1960) is a Japanese rock/R&B singer-songwriter musician and producer. He has released many studio albums as well as several instrumental and live albums. He has been active since at least 1981 and is still active having released his most recent album in March 2012. In 1987 he released the hit instrumental album SEA IS A LADY which charted at #4.
Roy Best.  Roy Best was an American illustrator and painter of pin-up girls.He was born in Waverly Ohio on December 3 1892 and attended the Art Institute of Cincinnati working on a railroad construction crew to support himself. He later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago.Later Best was represented in New York City by American Artists. During this time he painted several covers for The Saturday Evening Post. By 1931 Best was painting pin-ups for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company.
Noel Fielding.  Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973) is an English surrealist comedian actor artist DJ and musician. He is known for his role as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh which he co-wrote with comedy partner Julian Barratt and is a team captain on the music panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. His solo comedy sketch show Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy began broadcasting in January 2012 on the UK's E4 a second series of which is due to be broadcast in 2014.
D. Srinivas (instrumentalist).  D. Srinivas also known as Veena Srinivas (born 12 September 1968) is an Indian veena player of Carnatic music.
Charles Jeter.  Charles Jeter is an American politician and business executive. He is known for having founded Team Racing Auto Circuit (TRAC). He also is the President of Intermodal FCL Inc. He is a Republican serving district 92 as a member of the NC House of Representatives.
Dan Crary.  Dan Crary (aka Deacon Dan Crary) (born September 29 1939 in Kansas City Kansas) is an American bluegrass guitarist and a recording artist. He helped re-establish flatpicked guitar as a prominent soloing bluegrass instrument. Crary is an innovator of the flatpicking style of guitar playing. He is also a Speech communications Professor at California State University Fullerton.
Richard Attree.  Richard Attree is a British TV and film composer. He attended Highgate School and then studied electronic music at the Royal College of Music following a degree in computer science. Whilst completing these studies he played as a keyboard player with various bands. He also worked as a freelance composer producing music for dance and theatre productions at the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and Royal National Theatre.
E. Rose Sabin.  Elenora Rose Sabin (E. Rose Sabin) is an author of fantasy and science fiction novels for adults and young adults the most notable being A School for Sorcery which is set in an invented world in a country called Arucadi. That novel in manuscript form in 1992 won the Andre Norton Gryphon Award for the best unpublished manuscript by a new woman fantasy writer.
Hiroshi Ōnogi.  Hiroshi Ōnogi (大野木 寛 Ōnogi Hiroshi born 1959) is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist focusing on anime productions.Ōnogi attended Keio University in the same years as Macross character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto and creator Shōji Kawamori both of whom he would first collaborate with in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
Brooks Wheelan.  Brooks Wheelan (born August 21 1986) is an American stand-up comedian who is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Wheelan was born in Cedar Rapids Iowa and his hometown is Manchester Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 2009 with a biomedical engineering degree.
Odd F. Lindberg.  Odd F. Lindberg (born 1945) is a Norwegian freelance journalist Arctic explorer and film maker.
Alberto Testa (lyricist).  Alberto Testa (Santos April 11 1927 - Rome October 19 2009) was an Italian composer lyricist singer and writer for television. He was known primarily for his work as a lyricist and his words were set by such songwriters as Tony Renis (such as Quando Quando Quando and Grande grande grande) and Memo Remigi.
Pake McEntire.  Del Stanley Pake McEntire (born June 23 1953 in Chockie Oklahoma) is an American country music artist. He is the oldest brother of Reba McEntire and Susie Luchsinger and a younger brother of Alice Foran. Signed to RCA Nashville in 1986 Pake made his debut on the national country music scene with the release of his first single Every Night which peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. It was followed by his biggest chart hit Savin' My Love for You at No. 3.
Lavinia R. Davis.  Lavinia Riker Davis (1909–1961) was an American author of picture books teenage novels and mysteries for children and adults.
George Roper.  George Roper (15 May 1934 – 1 July 2003) was an English stand-up comedian best known for his appearances in the long-running UK television series The Comedians.
Wally Fowler.  John Wallace Fowler (February 15 1917 – June 3 1994) better known as Wally Fowler was an American Southern gospel music singer manager and music promoter and businessman. He founded the Oak Ridge Quartet a gospel act that eventually became the Oak Ridge Boys; and popularized all-night gospel sings. An accomplished songwriter in both the country music and gospel fields Fowler's composition Wasted Years became a gospel music standard.
Robert Buettner.  Robert Buettner is an American author of military science fiction novels. He is a former Military Intelligence Officer National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology and has been published in the field of Natural Resources Law. He has written five volumes of the Jason Wander series and two volumes of the Orphan's Legacy series. Buettner currently lives in Georgia.
Hussam Al-Rassam.  Hussam Al Rassam (Arabicحسام الرسام) (born 29 March 1978 in Hilla Iraq) is an Iraqi singer who has become a known singer post the 2003 Iraq war. He is credited for being the first Iraqi singer to debut in the post Saddam Hussein era.He started his career as a singer fairly young but did not have much success until later in life with his album Al Agrobah (The Scorpion).
Cathy Park Hong.  Cathy Park Hong (born August 7 1976) is a Korean-American writer. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative.
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel.  Johannes Adam Simon Oertel (born Fürth Bavaria 3 November 1823; died 9 December 1909) was a German-American Episcopal clergyman and artist.
Raphael.  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28 1483 – April 6 1520) better known simply as Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Jordi Savall.  Jordi Savall i Bernadet (Catalan: [ˈʒɔrði səˈβaʎ i βərnəˈðɛt]; born August 11941) is a Spanish viol player conductor and composer from Catalonia. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s largely responsible for bringing instruments of the viol family (most notably the viola da gamba) back to life on the stage.
Issam Eid.  Issam Eid (Arabic: عصام عيد) (born November 8 in Beirut Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist/editor who is well known in the automotive world within the middle-east and the gulf region. He is between the young journalists who appeared in the automotive field from very early age. His first article VW Beetle the Love Bug was published in September 2005 in ArabWheels magazine. His articles ranged among ArabWheels and Telecom Review from 2005 till now.
Jimmy Godden.  Jimmy Godden (11 August 1879 – 5 March 1955) was a British film actor.He was educated at Christ's Hospital and was in the Civil Service before becoming a concert pianist. Godden later turned to the stage and made his debut in pantomime at the Theatre Royal Plymouth then going on to the London West End doing a number of comedies and revues.
Ingeman Arbnor.  Ingeman Arbnor (born 1949) is a Swedish economist Professor at the Lund University Lund known for his international bestseller Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge written with Björn Bjerke.
Nick Speed.  Nick Speed is a platinum credited Hip hop producer who has produced tracks for 50 Cent Mopreme Shakur Lloyd Banks M.O.P. Talib Kweli Phat Kat Musiq Soulchild Bishop Lamont and many more.
Johnny Williams (blues musician).  Johnny Williams (May 15 1906 - March 6 2006) was an American Chicago-based blues guitar player and singer who was one of the first of the new generation of electric blues players to record after World War II.
Tak Toyoshima.  Tak Toyoshima (born April 11 1971 in New York New York) is an Asian American art director with the Weekly Dig and the author of the comic strip Secret Asian Man.According to an interview with AArisings Toyoshima is a second-generation Japanese American born in New York City. He received a degree in advertising from Boston University and currently resides in Boston.
Vann Johnson.  Vann Johnson is an American singer who has toured or recorded with artists such as Michael Bolton Neil Young The Temptations and Yanni. She appears as a featured vocalist in Yanni's live concert album and video Tribute in which she sang his first-ever song with lyrics Love Is All. She is a featured member of the house band The Groove for the television show The Singing Bee.
Calder Willingham.  Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23 1922 - February 19 1995) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of thirty after just three novels and a collection of short stories The New Yorker was already describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy” his signature a dry straight-faced humor made funnier by its concealed comic intent.
Dave Hillyard.  Dave Hillyard is a tenor saxophonist originating from San Diego California. He has performed with many groups such as The Slackers The Rocksteady Seven The Donkey Show Hepcat Stubborn All-Stars and has guested with the likes of Rancid Victor Rice Skinnerbox NYC and Alexandra Lawerentz. He is a skilled improviser and composer/arranger with more than thirty album credits to his name.
Maria Prilezhayeva.  Maria Pavlovna Prilezhayeva (Мария Павловна Прилежаева June 22 1903 Yaroslavl Russian Empire - April 8 1989 Moscow USSR) was a Russian/Soviet children's author literary critic and the Soviet Union of Writers official best known for her novel The Life of Lenin (1970) which earned her the Nadezda Krupskaya RSFSR State Prize in 1971 and later the Order of Lenin.
Hannah Vogt.  Hannah Vogt (1910–1994) was a German historian who wrote the best-selling book The Burden of Guilt - A short history of German 1914-1945. It was first published in Germany in 1961 and sold 400000 copies in the first two years.
Kim Stockwood.  Kim Stockwood (born 11 November 1965 in St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador Canada) is a Canadian pop singer/songwriter and television and radio personality.
John D. Kendall.  John D. Kendall (August 30 1917 – January 6 2011) was a leader in bringing the Suzuki Method to the United States. In 1959 he was presented with a grant to travel to Japan to meet Shinichi Suzuki and translate his ideas and teachings into a philosophy and pedagogy for violin teachers around the U.S.An internationally acclaimed string pedagogue Mr. Kendall taught violin at the college level for more than 50 years and was largely responsible for bringing the Suzuki Method to the United States.
Freddie Williams II.  Freddie E. Williams II is an American comic book writer and artist. Best known for his work on DC Comics' Robin and for working almost entirely in Digital format.
Shane Smith (drummer).  Shane Smith (born January 22 1979 in Armstrong British Columbia) is a Canadian drummer. He has performed with the punk rock bands SNFU and Slaveco. and the alternative industrial rock bands Neurosonic and Jakalope.
Glen Campbell.  Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22 1936) is an American country music singer guitarist television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show business Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album.
R. D. Reynolds.  Randy Baer better known by his ring and pen name RD (Real Deal) Reynolds is a former professional wrestling manager and is also the co-creator of the professional wrestling website WrestleCrap with Merle Vincent (who died in September 2000). He has also authored three books WrestleCrap The Death of WCW co-authored with Bryan Alvarez and The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! co-authored with Blade Braxton.
Grace Greenwood Ames.  Grace Greenwood Ames (born Brooklyn January 15 1905 – died New York City July 21 1979) was an American artist who worked predominantly in Mexico where she got her artistic training.Like her younger sister Marion she painted murals together with Diego Rivera José Clemente Orozco David Alfaro Siqueiros Pablo O'Higgins Leopoldo Méndez and other well-known Mexican muralista.
Brooke Ballentyne.  Brooke Ballentyne (born July 13 1982 in Charlotte North Carolina) is a former (from around 2002-07) pornographic actress.She started in the adult industry by shooting website content in North Carolina and then traveled to Los Angeles to shoot adult videos.
Clinton Ford (painter).  Clinton S. Ford Sr. was a 20th-century American painter born in Richmond Virginia in 1923. He died at his home in Chesterfield Virginia on January 8 2006.He enlisted in the Virginia National Guard during the Second World War and was sent to Europe as a paratrooper. His artworks reflects his experiences at such places as the Battle of the Bulge and Nijmegen.An exhibition of his work took place at the Richard Bland College library Petersburg Virginia in the November/December 2000.
Stephen Robinett.  Stephen Allen Robinett (13 July 1941 – 16 February 2004) was an American writer of science fiction and mystery novels and short stories.Robinett's first publication was part of the March 1969 edition of the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact: the novelette Minitalent which was published with his most-used pseudonym Tak Hallus (which he claimed was Persian for pseudonym). By the mid-1970s however he had begun using his own name.
Shannan Leigh.  Shannan Leigh was born in Manhattan New York and has appeared in numerous fantasy sci-fi and erotic thrillers such as Virgins of Sherwood Forest and Platinum Blonde. Leigh has also had appearances in the series Kama Sutra Lady Chatterly and Bedtime Stories. She appeared in the movie Andromina in 1999 along with Griffin Drew Shyra Deland and Tess Broussard.
John Alcorn (artist).  John Alcorn (February 10 1935 – January 27 1992) was an American commercial artist and designer and an illustrator of children's books. In addition to his accomplishments in the areas of packaging corporate and dimensional design Alcorn designed the opening titles for several Federico Fellini films. During his career Alcorn created numerous book jackets and paperback covers and his work appeared in many major exhibits.
Michael Colgan (director).  Michael Colgan is a film and television producer and is also the Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
Hans-Christian Vadseth.  Hans-Christian Vadseth (born 9 January 1963) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He studied journalism at the University of Georgia and spent his early journalist career in Fædrelandsvennen from 1985 to 1987 and Dagbladet from 1987 to 1990. He was a journalist in Verdens Gang from 1990 to 2000 news editor in Verdens Gang from 2000 to 2006 editor-in-chief of E24 Næringsliv from 2006 to 2008 and in Fædrelandsvennen from 2008.
Shan Sa.  Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni (born October 26 1972 in Beijing China) a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside of France and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (a prize voted by secondary school students). Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress (2006).
Lara Roxx.  Lara Roxx was the stage name of a Montreal Quebec-born Canadian former pornographic actress who in March 2004 became the first known individual in four years to contract HIV while making a US pornographic video.
Jake MacDonald.  Jake MacDonald (born 1949) is a Canadian author who lives in Winnipeg Manitoba. Over twenty-five years he has produced eight books of both fiction and non-fiction and several hundred stories for many of Canada’s leading publications including The Globe and Mail Canadian Geographic Maclean's Cottage Life Canadian Business and The Walrus.
Tilmann Wröbel.  Tilmann Wröbel is a Franco-German Fashion Designer born in 1964 in Düsseldorf Germany. He is now working and living in Paris.
Paul Quinn (guitarist).  Paul Quinn (born Paul Anthony Quinn 26 December 1951 Barnsley West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English guitarist and the founding member of the heavy metal band Saxon. Quinn and vocalist Biff Byford are the only remaining members of Saxon's original line up and are both present on every Saxon release. Quinn is also a songwriter contributing to every Saxon album.
John Bunyan.  John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher. He is the author of The Pilgrim's Progress arguably the most famous published Christian allegory. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles many of them expanded sermons.Bunyan faced legal challenges to fulfilling his calling but did not make any concessions to the authorities. As a dissenter who was not ordained in the Church of England he was unlicensed to preach.
Albert Kotin.  Albert Kotin (August 7 1907 - February 6 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. The New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
Walter Harte.  Walter Harte (1709–1774) was an English poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope Oxford don canon of Windsor and vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall Oxford.The son of the Reverend Walter Harte a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford prebendary of Wells canon of Bristol and vicar of St. Mary Magdalen Taunton Somerset the young Harte was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and St Mary Hall Oxford where he graduated BA in 1728 and proceeded MA in 1731.
Adolfo Wildt.  Adolfo Wildt (Milan March 1 1868 - Milan May 12 1931) was an Italian sculptor whose works which blend simplicity and sophistication led the way for numerous modernist sculptors.[1]
Christoph Albrecht.  Christoph Albrecht (born 4 January 1930 Salzwedel) is a German organist conductor composer musicologist and music educator. He has toured extensively as an organist appearing in concerts and recitals throughout Europe and in the United States. He is the author of several publications on the topics of liturgy and hymnology.
Jules Mazellier.  Jules Mazellier (b. 6 April 1879; d. 6 February 1959) was a French composer and conductor.Mazellier studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1909 he won the Prix de Rome for his composition La Roussalka. He composed chamber music works for piano songs and various operas.
Junko Hagimori.  Junko Hagimori (萩森 侚子 Hagimori Junko born 萩森 順子 October 20 1964 in Hyōgo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production.
Tomm Coker.  Tomm Coker also known as Thomas L. Coker is an American comic book artist and film director/writer.
DJ Bobcat.  Bobby “Bobcat” Ervin professionally known as Bobcat or DJ Bobcat (born December 13 1967) is a Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum Producer songwriter DJ artist and music executive.He has worked with musicians such as Clive Davis Russell Simmons Rick Rubin Lyor Cohen Steve Rifkind Madonna Guy Oseary Jermaine Dupri and has Written and Produced Classic Songs for Artists such as: LL Cool J Ice Cube Mack 10 Tupac Mc Ren Sir Mix A Lot K9 Posse Breeze Nas King T Kam Candyman YoYo Recording Artists and countless Record Labels. 
Sami Efendi.  Sami Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: سامى Modern Turkish: Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi) (1837-1912) was an Ottoman calligrapher. The Tughra found its definitive shape in the era of Abdulhamid II in the hands of Sami Efendi.
Timo Kotipelto.  Timo Antero Kotipelto (born 15 March 1969 in Lappajärvi Finland) is the vocalist of the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius and is the creator and vocalist of the power metal band Kotipelto. Kotipelto is currently the longest standing member of Stratovarius after the departure of Timo Tolkki.
Fuko.  Fuko (風子 Fūko) is a Japanese gravure idol and AV idol known for her natural 47-inch bust.
Deezer D.  Deezer D (born 1965) whose real name is Dearon Thompson is an American actor rapper and motivational speaker. He is best known for his role as Nurse Malik McGrath in the US TV series ER and for his roles in the films CB4 and Fear of a Black Hat. Deezer D's most recent album Delayed But Not Denied was available on iTunes and from his website August 8 2008. Previously Thompson released Unpredictable (2002) and Living Up in a Down World (1999).
Lewis Merenstein.  Lewis Merenstein is most famous as the record producer for the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks and as executive producer for Moondance Morrison's 1970 album.Astral Weeks is listed as #19 on the Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.
Kang Sung-hoon (singer).  Kang Sung Hoon (born February 22 1980) is a vocalist formerly from the group Sechs Kies. He was the lead vocalist of Sechs Kies and sometimes referred to having the best singing voice like Kangta's voice. After Sechs Kies had ended Kang Sung Hoon was considered to be born-again as a singer and working under Laful Entertainment but now is working for NH Media Entertainment. There were some little rivalry as Sung Hoon released 4 albums as the leader of Sechs Kies did; Eun Ji-won.
Pete Brown.  Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940) is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto! and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film production company. Comedian and actor Marty Feldman was Brown's cousin.[citation needed]
Yi Kyoung-ja.  Yi Kyoung-ja (Hangul: 이경자) is a South Korean author whose work focuses on the position of women in Korean society.
Alonzo Foringer.  Alonzo Earl Foringer (February 1 1878 - December 8 1948) was a painter from Saddle River New Jersey most famous for his World War I Red Cross promotional poster The Greatest Mother in the World.
Gail Simone.  Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey her other notable works include Secret Six Welcome to Tranquility The All-New Atom and Deadpool. In 2007 she took over Wonder Woman.In 2011 she became the writer for Batgirl.
František Kupka.  František Kupka (September 23 1871 – June 24 1957) also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism (Orphism). Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism but later evolved into pure abstract art.
Tony Vilgotsky.  Anton Tony Vilgotsky (Russian: Антон Вильгоцкий) is a Russian (ethnically German) musician composer horror/fantasy writer and musical columnist. He is mostly known for his novels Chosen by the Pentacle and Evil Never Sleeps as well as his articles and interviews which are published by Dark City magazine (Moscow).
Marcelle Tinayre.  Marcelle Marguerite Suzanne Tinayre born October 8 1870 in Tulle Corrèze and died August 23 1948 in Grossouvre Cher was a French woman of letters and prolific author. She was educated at Bordeaux and Paris and in 1889 married the painter Julien Tinayre.
Loose Logic.  Ian Westbrook (born June 2 1983) better know by his stage name Loose Logic is an American hip hop emcee from California. At his parents insistence he began piano lessons at the age of 8. His career started when the song he recorded as a high school senior The O.C. Anthem was widely downloaded. In 2006 he was nominated as Best Hip Hop Artist of the Year by the Orange County Music Awards. He describes his work as poetry over music.
Loganathan Arumugam.  Loganathan Arumugam (July 15 1953 – June 4 2007) better known as Loga was a Malaysian singer who was one of the founding members of the band called Alleycats. Loga the co-lead singer for Alleycats after his elder brother David. Datuk Loganathan Arumugam died from lung cancer at the Mount Miriam Hospital on 4 June 2007. He left behind 2 children and his wife Susan Lovie.
Miriam Barr.  Miriam Barr (born 1982) is a New Zealand page and performance poet.She is one of the original members of The Literatti an Auckland-based performance poetry group started in 2006.
Nacole Rice.  Nneka Renacole Rice (born January 27 1977) known professionally as Nacole Rice is an American R&B/Soul singer.
David Carson (graphic designer).  David Carson (born September 8 1954) is an American graphic designer art director and surfer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun in which he employed much of the typographic and layout style for which he is known. In particular his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called grunge typography era.
Zaain Ul Abideen.  Zaain Ul Abideen (Urdu: زين العابدين‎ born Zaain Ul Abideen; 20 June 1986 in Karachi Pakistan) is a Pakistani pop singer.
Yoshimi P-We.  Yoshimi P-We (born Yoshimi Yokota (横田佳美 Yokota Yoshimi) on February 18 1968) is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.Yoshimi also plays trumpet guitar and keyboard and sings.Born in Okayama Japan Yoshimi joined her first band U.F.O. or Die with Yamatsuka Eye in 1986.
Ngo Ka-nin.  Ngo Ka-nin (敖嘉年 born 26 September 1976) is a Hong Kong actor and host. He debuted as a radio DJ before he got into acting. He has also been one of the hosts for the entertainment news show E-Buzz since 2005 to 2007.Ngo is perhaps best known for his role as Chiang Bit-man in the 2009 drama Rosy Business which earned him the Most Improved Actor award and a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 2009 TVB Anniversary Awards.
Johannes Hermann.  Johannes Hermann also Johann Herrmann (1515 – 22 April 1593 in Freiberg) was a German Thomaskantor hymn writer and jurist.Thomaskantor from 1531 to 1536 he became the first Protestant Kantor of Freiberg and a jurist in 1540.Johann Sebastian Bach used his hymn Jesu nun sei gepreiset in three stanzas of 14 lines each for New Year's Day in three cantatas composed in Leipzig for the occasion first Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV 190 (1724) a year later the chorale cantata Jesu nun sei gepreiset BWV 41 (1725) and Gott wie dein Name so ist auch dein Ruhm BWV 171 (1729).
Jane Cannan.  Jane Cannan (1822–1861) was an Anglo-Australian artist.
Kenneth Allsop.  Kenneth Allsop (29 January 1920 – 23 May 1973) was a British broadcaster author and naturalist. He was a regular reporter on the BBC current affairs programme Tonight during the 1960s. He also was Rector of Edinburgh University and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Thomas Pichon.  Thomas Pichon (1700–1781) was a French government agent during Father Le Loutre's War who is renowned for betraying the French Acadian and Mi’kmaq forces by providing information to the British which led to the fall of Beausejour. He has been referred to as The Judas of Acadia. Upon his return to France he had a relationship with French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1757–1760).
Keith Washington.  Keith Washington (born November 15 1960) is an American R&B vocalist from Detroit Michigan who scored a hit single in the United States in 1991 with Kissing You which was also used as background music for an episode of soap opera General Hospital on ABC. Kissing You was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance Male and won a 1992 Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Male.
Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara.  Faiz Mohammad Katib son of Saeed Mohammad b. Khudydad was born in 1862-63 in Zard Sang village of Qarabagh district Ghazni Province of Afghanistan he spent a part of his life in Nahoor another district of Ghazni and died in Kabul in March 3 1931. He was an ethnic Hazara and was of Mohammad Khuwaja clan. He was Afghan court chronicler a skilled calligrapher and secretary to Emir Habib Ullah Khan from 1901 to 1919.
Héctor Campos Parsi.  Héctor Campos Parsi (October 1 1922 – January 30 1998) was a Puerto Rican composer. He studied at the New England Conservatory with Francis Judd Cooke he also studied with Paul Hindemith. In Tanglewood he studied with Oliver Messiaen and Aaron Copland and in France with Nadia Boulanger.
Kabra Kasai.  Kabra Kasai (Hebrew: כברה קסאי‎; born August 3 1982) is an Israeli singer best known for her work alongside Idan Raichel in the Idan Raichel Project (Hebrew: הפרוייקט של עידן רייכל). She is also known for her participation in the first season of the Israeli version of American Idol Kochav Nolad where she reached the top 8.
Darry Cowl.  Darry Cowl (born André Darricau; 27 August 1925 – 14 February 2006) was a French actor and musician. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004 for his role as a concierge in Pas sur la bouche (Not on the lips) which proved to be his last appearance.He was born in Vittel and came to prominence when he was cast by Sacha Guitry in Assassins et voleurs (1956) (Assassins and Robbers).
Marziale Carpinoni.  Marziale Carpinoni (c. 1644-1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the grandson of Domenico Carpinoni was born at Clusone. First taught the first principles of art by his father then by his grandfather. He was afterwards sent to Rome to the school of Ciro Ferri. He painted historical subjects. In the principal church at Clusone is the ' Virgin and Child with Saints' and 'The Baptism of Christ by St. John; ' and in the cathedral at Bergamo SS.
Marie Gasquet.  Marie Gasquet (1872–1960) was a French regionist writer from Provence.
Tommy Nilsson.  Erik Tommy Nilsson (born 11 March 1960 in Köping) is a Swedish rock singer and composer. Swedish critics state that he has one of the best voices of Sweden[citation needed].
Lin Cheng-sheng.  Lin Cheng-sheng (Chinese: 林正盛; pinyin: Lin Zheng Sheng) (born March 31 1959) is a Taiwanese film director. His 1997 film Sweet Degeneration was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
Aleksandra Kwasniewska.  Aleksandra Kwasniewska (born 13 March 1978 Bielawa Poland) is a Polish folk-pop singer. Since 2005 she has lived and worked in London. She recorded and released her debut album Island Girl with the band The Belgian Sweets in 2008. Kwasniewska released her second album The Sky is on Fire in 2012.
Mike Perkins.  Mike Perkins is a British comic book artist known for both his inking work and full art duties on comic books such as Captain America Ruse and Stephen King's The Stand.
Richard Case.  Richard Case (born 1964) is an American comics artist most often seen published by DC Comics especially the Vertigo imprint. His credits include pencilling the majority of issues of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol as well as drawing Jamie Delano's limited series Ghostdancing the final story arc of Peter Milligan's Shade the Changing Man and Hunter: The Age of Magic with Dylan Horrocks.
Robert Browning.  Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse especially dramatic monologues made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Ellen Fein.  Ellen Fein is an author best known for co-writing The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right a best-selling 1995 book. The book was co-authored by Sherrie Schneider. Fein went from near anonymity to instant celebrity after the book sold 2 million copies.When Fein filed for divorce in 2000 her credibility as an expert on relationships was questioned.
Cora Miao.  Cora Miao (simplified Chinese: 缪骞人; traditional Chinese: 繆騫人; Mandarin Pinyin: Miào Qiānrén; Jyutping: Miu6 Hin1jan4) is a Chinese actress who worked predominantly in Hong Kong films. During her career she was nominated for four Hong Kong Film Awards and four Golden Horse Film Festival awards winning one. She won Miss Photogenic award in Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1976. She is married to film director Wayne Wang.
Jonas Berkeley.  Jonas Berkeley is a saxophonist from the Southern Ontario region of Canada and his work was nominated for a Juno Award (Best Alternative Album) with the Constantines on 2003's Shine A Light;; (see nomination listing for the following year). He has been playing for 17 years and is conversant on tenor and baritone sax flute clarinet and bass clarinet.
Todd Wright (musician).  Todd Wright is a songwriter from Leesburg Virginia. He has contributed many songs to popular culture including multiple placements in TV and Film
Oliver Lewis (violinist).  Oliver Lewis (born 12 May 1971) is a British violinist and founding member of the electronic music group Deviations Project. He is best known as one of the 'world's fastest violinists' having broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest performance of the Flight of the Bumblebee. Lewis played the piece during a live broadcast on the BBC children's television programme Blue Peter in October 2010 in one minute 3.356 seconds.
Jacques Martin (comics).  Jacques Martin (25 September 1921 – 21 January 2010) was a French comics artist and comic book creator. He was one of the classic artists of Tintin magazine alongside Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé of whom he was a longtime collaborator. He is best known for his series Alix. He was born in Strasbourg.
Jonathan Katz.  Jonathan Paul Katz (born December 1 1946) is an American comedian actor and voice actor best known for his starring role in the animated sitcom Dr. Katz Professional Therapist. He produces a podcast titled Hey We're Back and can be heard on Explosion Bus.
Travis McNabb.  Travis Aaron McNabb is a New Orleans-born and Nashville-based American drummer and percussionist. McNabb is perhaps best known as a longtime member of the band Better Than Ezra although he has performed session and touring work with many acts during his career. Prior to joining Better Than Ezra in January 1996 McNabb toured with acts such as Vigilantes of Love Beggars and seminal Oregon-based punk rock band The Wipers.
Sachika Misawa.  Sachika Misawa (三澤 紗千香 Misawa Sachika born January 13 1993) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Yamanashi Prefecture who is affiliated with Style Cube. As a singer she is signed to Warner Home Video.
Catherine Christian.  Catherine Christian (1901–1985) was an English novelist known for her children’s books and retellings of Arthurian legend. She is classified as having produced 45 works in 85 publications in two languages (English and French) and with 1019 library holdings. She was also involved with the Girl Guide movement and published several books for girls in the “Ranger” series under the nom de plume of Patience Gilmour.
Nicole Moudaber.  Nicole Moudaber is a DJ and producer born in Nigeria raised there and then in Lebanon and is now based in Ibiza. In 2009 Carl Cox described her as the most underrated DJ to DJ Magazine which helped to launch her career. Her 2013 debut album Believe was Number 1 for a month on the Beatport techno tech house and deep house charts. Moudaber has teamed with techno notables such as Carl Cox Adam Beyer etc.
Camillo Boito.  Camillo Boito (October 30 1836 – June 28 1914) was an Italian architect and engineer and a noted art critic art historian and novelist.
Charles Maigne.  Charles Maigne (November 11 1879 – November 28 1929) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 32 films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 18 films between 1918 and 1923.He was born in Richmond Virginia and died in San Francisco California.
Bill Everett.  For the Massachusetts politician see William EverettWilliam Blake Bill Everett (May 18 1917 – February 27 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard Everett founder of Dedham Massachusetts.
Aliki Brandenberg.  Aliki Liacouras Brandenberg (born September 3 1929) is an American author and illustrator of books for children.Brandenberg was born in Wildwood Crest New Jersey to James Peter and Stella (née Lagakos) Liacouras. Her parents who lived in Philadelphia were originally from Greece and they taught her to speak Greek as a first language. She started to draw at an early age and her parents enrolled her in art classes.
Tatsuhisa Suzuki.  Tatsuhisa Suzuki (鈴木 達央 Suzuki Tatsuhisa born November 11 1983) is a Japanese voice actor and singer born in Ichikawa Chiba Japan. He is affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Lantis. He is a graduate of the Japan Narration and Acting School.[citation needed] He is also the vocalist for Oldcodex.
Anatoliy Yevdokymenko.  Anatoliy Yevdokymenko (20 January 1942 — 23 October 2002 Kyiv) was a Ukrainian musician director of Chervona Ruta. He is a People's Artist of Ukraine husband of Sofia Rotaru (marriage: 22 September 1968).Graduated from the Physics and Mathematics department of the Chernivtsi University.He was producer and scenario writer for most of concert programmes and tours of Sofia Rotaru.In 2003 the street where he lived was named with his name.
Budgie (musician).  Peter Edward Clarke (born 21 August 1957 in St Helens Lancashire) better known as Budgie is an English drummer. His first recording was with The Slits in 1979. He then became the drummer of the influential band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979–1996) and its side-project The Creatures (1981–2004).
Jim Drnec.  Jim Drnec is a drummer who played for the band Cinderella. He replaced original Cinderella drummer Tony Destra who went on to the band Britny Fox. Drnec was himself replaced by drummer Fred Coury although session player Jody Cortez played on Cinderella's first official album Night Songs. Drnec is now a trial attorney in Wilmington Delaware and plays the occasional gig with his blues band The DelCats.
Dharmaraj Thapa.  Janakabi Keshari Dharmaraj Thapa (जनकवि केशरी धर्मराज थापा) ( Shrawan 1 B.S. 1981) is one of the most significant Nepali folk singers. He is most famous for his songs Hariyo Danda Maathi (हरियो डाँडा माथि) Nepali le Maya Maaryo Barilai (नेपालीले माया मार्यो वरिलै). Dharmaraj Thapa started singing hyms folk songs including dancing acts from his early childhood.He was married to 13yrs old Shavitri at the age of 15 on 28th Baisakh 1996 B.S.
Francisco de Quevedo.  Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ðe keˈβeðo]; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo. This style existed in stark contrast to Góngora's culteranismo.
Mr. Gângster.  Mr. Gângster is the stage name of Luiz Paulo Pereira da Silva (born July 22 1995) a Brazilian singer songwriter producer and designer.The rapper has recorded one album became known for his songs Recomeço and Rolé a Noite
Janet Neel Cohen Baroness Cohen of Pimlico.  Janet Neel Cohen Baroness Cohen of Pimlico (b. 4 July 1940) is a British lawyer and crime fiction writer. She is the daughter of George Edric Neel and Mary Isabel Budge. She was educated at South Hampstead High School Hampstead London England and graduated from Newnham College Cambridge University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Honours Law.She started to work as a practising solicitor in 1965. She married James Lionel Cohen son of Dr.
R.S.A.G..  Jeremy Hickey (also known as Rarely Seen Above Ground—abbreviated as R.S.A.G.—) is an Irish multi-instrumentalist from Kilkenny. He has three albums: Rarely Seen Above Ground (2007) Organic Sampler (2008) and Be It Right Or Wrong (2010). Rotate EP (2013).Following a performance at Electric Picnic in 2008 he appeared on the television series Other Voices. The double album Organic Sampler received a Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish Album of the Year 2008 in 2009.
Ruben Studdard.  Christopher Ruben Studdard (born September 12 1978) best known as Ruben Studdard is an American R&B pop and gospel singer. He rose to fame as winner of the second season of American Idol and received a Grammy Award nomination in December 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for Superstar. In the years following Idol Studdard has released five studio albums including his platinum-selling debut Soulful and the top-selling gospel follow-up I Need an Angel.
Richard Zimmermann.  Richard Augustus Zimmermann genre and landscape painter was born in Zittau in 1820.He was the son of the impresario Karl Friedrich August Zimmermann and his three brothers Albert Max and Robert have all been well-known painters. He was a pupil of the first and in 1838 followed him to Munich devoting himself in opposition to his advice to landscape painting instead of history.
Juan Manuel Ferrari.  Juan Manuel Ferrari was an Uruguayan sculptor born on Montevideo on 21 March 1874 and died in Buenos Aires on 31 October 1919.He studied with his father sculptor Juan Ferrari in Montevideo and in 1890 traveled to Italy to study under Ettore Ferrari in Rome with a scholarship from the government of Uruguay. Later while still in Italy he studied under Ercole Rosa at the Royal Institute of Beaux Arts.Ferrari returned to Uruguay in 1896 and opened his own studio.
Noush Skaugen.  Noush Skaugen is an UK based independent alternative rock artist. A classically trained musician and songwriter she has been described as Stevie Nicks blended with a female Mick Jagger.
Milić Vukašinović.  Milić Vukašinović a.k.a. Mitch Valiant (Serbian Cyrillic: Милић Вукашиновић) (born March 9 1950 in Belgrade Serbia Yugoslavia) is a musician from Serbia of Yugoslavian ethnicity. He was the founder of the rock band Vatreni Poljubac and drummer of the famous Yugoslav band Bijelo Dugme.Born in Belgrade he moved with his family to Peć when he was six years old.
Pat Lowther.  Patricia Louise Lowther (née Tinmuth) (July 29 1935 – September 24? 1975) was a Canadian poet. Born in Vancouver British Columbia she grew up in the neighboring city of North Vancouver.
Aymé Kunc.  Aymé Kunc (born Toulouse 1877 – died there 1958) was a French composer and administrator director of the Toulouse Conservatory from 1914 until 1944. He won second prize alongside Maurice Ravel in the Prix de Rome competition of 1902; until 1907 he was the orchestra chief at the Théâtre Apollo in Paris.
Dennis DeYoung.  Dennis DeYoung (born February 18 1947) is an American singer songwriter musician and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx as lead vocalist and keyboardist a tenure that lasted from 1961 until June 1999. DeYoung has been credited as the writer of more Styx songs than any other Styx member.
John Smith (musician).  John Smith is an English folk guitarist and singer from Devon.
Sam Sparro.  Samuel Falson (born 8 November 1982) better known by his stage name Sam Sparro is an Australian singer-songwriter music producer and former child actor. His stage name was derived from a family nickname which in turn was inspired by the Sydney radio announcer Gary O'Callaghan's on-air character Sammy Sparrow. He is signed to the British record label Island Records.
Jane French.  Jane French is an American singer/songwriter. French is well known for her song Breathe which was the theme song for the NBC soap opera Passions. As a child French grew up in Montgomery Ohio a suburb of Cincinnati. French learned piano at a young age as well as performed in musicals around Cincinnati studied dance and sang in commercials mainly for Kenner Toys. She was the voice of such products as Play-Doh and Sit 'n Spin.
Keith Drinkel.  Keith Drinkel (born 14 November 1944 York) is an English actor educated at St Michael's College Leeds and now based in Brighton.His notable appearances in film and television include A Family at War (1970) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Gandhi (1982) and the Doctor Who story Time-Flight (1982).
Jan Philips van Thielen.  Jan Philips van Thielen (1618 in Mechelen – Booischot 1667) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flowers.
Jerry Avenaim.  Jerry Avenaim (born August 21 1961 in Chicago Illinois) is an American photographer best known for his fashion and celebrity images.
Manfred Siebald.  Manfred Siebald (born 26 October 1948 at Alheim-Baumbach) is a German singer-songwriter and Lecturer in American Studies in Mainz.Siebald is best known as a Christian singer-songwriter who writes and speaks on contemporary worship music. His songs have gained a firm place in the songbooks of many different Christian denominations and are sung in fellowships and youth groups throughout Germany.
Donnis.  Ladonnis Decurtis Crump (born June 2 1984) better known by the stage name Donnis is an American rapper based in Atlanta Georgia. He released his debut mixtape Diary of an ATL Brave in 2009 and signed to Atlantic Records in 2010.
Ken Keeler.  Kenneth Ken Keeler (born 1961) is an American television producer and writer. He has written for numerous television series most notably The Simpsons and Futurama. According to an interview with David X. Cohen he proved a theorem which appears in the Futurama episode The Prisoner of Benda.
Pharrell Williams.  Pharrell Williams (born April 5 1973) also known simply as Pharrell (/fəˈrɛl/) is an American singer-songwriter rapper record producer musician and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes producing soul hip hop and R&B music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of rock funk and hip hop band N.E.R.D which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley.
Vangelis Trigas.  Vangelis Trigas is a virtuoso soloist and master of the bouzouki. He was born 1960 in Argos and began playing the bouzouki during the years of elementary school. He learned to play his first songs from his father who was an amateur. He is self-taught and began playing professionally at the age of 15. He has worked with many of the leading Greek singers. During his many collaborations he concurrently began teaching in 1990.
Keith Milow.  Keith Milow is a British artist born in London (1945) lived in New York (1980–2002) now lives in Amsterdam. He is an abstract sculptor as well as a painter and printmaker. His work can be characterized as architectural monumental and (post-)minimal. Throughout his career Keith Milow has been pre-occupied with the form of the Latin cross.
Emilie Stoesen Christensen.  Emilie Stoesen Christensen (born 1986 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz singer and actor the daughter of Jazz drummer Jon Christensen (b. 1943) and actor Ellen Horn (b. Stoesen in 1951) and half sister of Theater director Kjersti Horn (b. 1977). She has lately been gaining recognition for her work with a number of Norwegian bands including the «Oslo JazzNonett» and made her record debut with Jon Balke's Batagraf album Say And Play (2011) at ECM Records.
Mary Chapin Carpenter.  Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21 1958) is an American singer songwriter and musician. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records who marketed her as a country singer.
Rondot Kassongo.  Rondot Kassongo is a soukous recording artist and saxophonist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz led by François Luambo Makiadi which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s through the 1980s.
George Post (painter).  George Booth Post (September 29 1906 – March 26 1997) was an American watercolorist and art teacher.
Simwnt Fychan.  Simwnt Fychan (c. 1530 – 1606) was a Welsh language poet and genealogist probably born in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd in north-east Wales.He was a colleague of the poet and scholar Gruffudd Hiraethog.In 1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England appointed a commission to control the activities of minstrels rhymers and bards in Wales. They were summoned to meet at Caerwys and Simwnt Fychan was appointed pencerdd i.e. the senior bard.
Henry Thomas Ryall.  Henry Thomas Ryall (August 1811 - 14 September 1867) was an English line stipple and mixed-method engraver and later used mixed mezzotint.Ryall was appointed the royal engraver by Queen Victoria. Forty of his works appear in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Giovanni Testori.  Giovanni Testori (Novate Milanese 12 May 1923 – Milan 16 March 1993) was an Italian writer playwright art historian and literary critic. His literary works are characterised by linguistic experimentalism featuring both lexicon and syntax that mix and fuse elements of the Lombard dialect with French and English. Religion is present in his oeuvre as a tragic tension to transcendence marked by doubt blasphemy and repentance.
Pat Nourse.  Pat Nourse (born 1977) is an Australian restaurant critic and food writer. He is currently employed by Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine as their chief restaurant critic and features editor. He also writes about Australia for the American food magazine Gourmet and is the Australian member of the voting academy for the World's 50 Best Restaurants. He has been a contributor to The Age Good Food Guide and The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide among other publications.
Joseph King (musician).  Joseph John King is an American singer songwriter and guitarist based in Brooklyn New York whose music has spanned several genres including rock reggae dub surf and trip hop. He is currently touring in support of his latest album Wanderlusting which was released March 4 2014. He formerly fronted the bands Deadbeat Darling Canvas and Murder My Sweet.
Armas Äikiä.  Armas Äikiä (1904–1965) was a Finnish communist writer and journalist. He wrote the Anthem of Karelo-Finnish SSR. A citizen of two countries who had several collection of poems published in the Soviet Union. Äikiä was one of the few Finnish exile writers and politicians who in the 1930s and 1940s avoided Stalin's terror and forced labour camps. Back in Finland when the Communist Party was banned he spent years in prison and wrote defiant poems.
Lydia Lunch.  Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch June 2 1959 Rochester New York) is an American singer poet writer actress and self-empowerment speaker whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene. The Boston Phoenix named Lunch one of the 10 most influential performers of the 1990s.Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic operating independently of major labels and distributors.
Simon C. Page.  Simon C. Page is a British graphic designer based in London. He is most known for creating geometric graphic designs. He created promotional posters for the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) and for the International Year of Chemistry (IYC).In 2009 he won the Intel Digital Artist: Stars of Tomorrow award.
Whit Dickey.  Whit Dickey (born May 28 1954 New York City) is a free jazz drummer. He has recorded albums as a bandleader with David S. Ware Matthew Shipp and others.
Helen Keller.  Helen Adams Keller (June 27 1880 – June 1 1968) was an American author political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher Anne Sullivan broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
Tim Metcalf.  Tim Metcalf is an Australian poet and doctor and has been described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets.He lives at Brogo New South Wales. He has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984 and has worked in NSW Victoria NT and British Columbia. In 2007 he was awarded the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems Verbal Medicine.. Verbal Medicine is his fourth book.
Arthur Preuss.  Arthur Preuss (1871–1934) was an American journalist editor and writer. He is noted for editing the Fortnightly Review and opposing Freemasonry. He was a German-American conservative whose father Edward Friedrich Reinhold Preuss had also edited a Catholic newspaper.
Skip Stephenson.  Charles Frederick Skip Stephenson (April 18 1940 – May 18 1992) was an American actor and comedian. He was born in Omaha Nebraska and graduated in 1958 from Holy Name High School. After attending a year at University of Omaha Stephenson took a job as a DJ in Alliance Nebraska.In the 1970s he moved to Los Angeles where he performed stand-up comedy at the L.A. Cabaret Comedy Club in Encino and the legendary Comedy Store. His big break came in 1979 as the co-host of NBC's Real People.
Walter Afanasieff.  Walter Afanasieff (born February 10 1958) is a multiple Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter. He is best known for his long association with Mariah Carey for whom he was co-producer and co-writer for several years beginning in 1990.
Daniel Olivas.  Daniel Olivas (born on April 8 1959 in Los Angeles California) is a United States author and attorney.
Xuefei Yang.  Xuefei Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨雪霏; traditional Chinese: 楊雪霏; pinyin: Yáng Xuěfēi; born March 15 1977) is a Chinese classical guitarist.
Ed Allen (musician).  Ed Allen (December 15 1897 Nashville Tennessee – January 28 1974 New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
Myles Kennedy.  Myles Richard Kennedy (born Myles Richard Bass; November 27 1969) is an American musician and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Alter Bridge and as the lead vocalist in Slash's current solo project. A former guitar instructor from Spokane Washington Kennedy is known for his ability as both a guitarist and a vocalist possessing a tenor vocal range that spans four octaves.
Hiroshi Tsuburaya.  Hiroshi Tsuburaya (円谷 浩 Tsuburaya Hiroshi March 8 1964 - July 24 2001) was a Japanese actor. The third son of Hajime Tsuburaya and grandchild of Eiji Tsuburaya he was born in Setagaya Tokyo. He became known to tokusatsu series audiences for playing the leading role in Uchuu Keiji Shaider (Space Sheriff Shaider) as Dai Sawamura/Shaider.
Christos Demetriou.  Chris Demetriou born in Paphos Cyprus is a musician songwriter record producer and media entrepreneur. One of his songs Step On appears in Q Magazine’s top hundred singles of all time and the original version was eventually cited by The Guinness Book of Records as being the first sample ever used on a record. Step On was also used in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. From 200 million members Demetriou had one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012.
Rahman Abbas.  Rahman Abbas (Maharashtra) is an Indian fiction writer. He writes in Urdu and English. Abbas has Master's degrees in Urdu and English literature from Mumbai University.Abbas' first Urdu novel Nakhalistan Ki Talash (2004) written when he was 24 created a storm in the conservative Urdu literary circles and protests by religious conservatives forced him to resign from his post as lecturer in a junior college in the heart of Mumbai.
Benjamin Kim.  Benjamin Kim (Ben Kim) is an American pianist who won the 55th ARD International Music Competition in Munich September 2006 (First prize).Kim started studying the piano at age five with the famed Oregonian piano teacher Dorothy Fahlman. At the age of eight he performed his first public solo recital and his orchestral debut at twelve. He has featured on National Public Radio's classical music show From the Top.
Frank Atkinson (actor).  Frank Atkinson (March 19 1893 in Blackpool Lancashire – February 23 1963 in Pinner Middlesex) was a British actor.
Max Samosvat.  Maxim Vyacheslavovich Samosvat (Russian: Максим Вячеславович Самосват) (15 June 1981 Moscow) — Russian rock musician vocalist «Mechanical Poet» (2003–2006) and Epidemia (2000–2010).
Malcolm Young.  Malcolm Mitchell Young (born 6 January 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian guitarist best known as founder rhythm guitarist backing vocalist and songwriter for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He has remained with the band since its November 1973 inception barring a brief absence in 1988.
Peter Ruber.  Peter Ruber (born 1941) was a United States author editor and publisher. He had been an advertising executive book publisher and for the past two decades a consultant and free-lance journalist for many leading business information technology magazines.
Go Shiina.  Masaru Shiina (椎名豪 Shiina Masaru) better known as Go Shiina is a Japanese video game composer employed at Namco Bandai Games. He is best known for creating the scores to Tales of Legendia the Mr. Driller series and God Eater.
Maya Vik.  Maya Vik is a Norwegian musician. She is the former bass guitar and bass synthesizer player of the Norwegian Spellemannsprisen winning band Montée. She has previously played with the gold selling band Furia who supported Lenny Kravitz on his European tour in 2005 and Savoy with Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of a-ha and with Chris Lee. She has released two solo albums Château Faux-Coupe (2011) and Bummer Gun (2012).In 2007 she was voted the most beautiful woman in Norway by fashion magazine ELLE Mann.
Ida Pollock.  Ida Julia Pollock née Crowe (12 April 1908 – 3 December 2013) was a British writer of several short-stories and 125 romance novels that were published under her married name Ida Pollock and under a number of different pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen; Susan Barrie Pamela Kent Averil Ives Anita Charles Barbara Rowan Jane Beaufort Rose Burghley Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell. She has sold millions of copies over her 90-year career.
George Olesen.  George Olesen (December 6 1924 – October 15 2013) was an American comic book artist best known for his work as a penciller on popular comic strip The Phantom. He worked with the character for around forty years although he did not get any official credit for it until penciller Sy Barry retired and Keith Williams took over as the new inker.
Mutlu Çerkez.  Mutlu Çerkez (17 September 1964 – 10 December 2005) was a British-born Australian-Turkish Cypriot conceptual artist. Çerkez was known for titling his work based upon a future date which he would remake it although not necessarily in its original form. He represented Australia at the 6th Istanbul Biennial in Turkey in 1999 and Sao Paolo Biennale in Brazil in 1998.
Pete Thomas.  Pete Thomas (born 9 August 1954 Hillsborough Sheffield England) is best known as the longtime drummer for Elvis Costello. Tom Waits has referred to him as one of the best rock drummers alive.
Tonio K.  Tonio K. (born Steven M. Krikorian July 4 1950) is an American singer/songwriter who has released eight albums. His songs have been recorded by Al Green Aaron Neville Burt Bacharach Bonnie Raitt Chicago Wynonna Judd and Vanessa Williams among many others.Warner-Chappell Music Publishing 1991-2000 His song “16 Tons Of Monkeys” co-written with guitarist Steve Schiff was the featured tune in the 1992 Academy Award winning Short Film Session Man.
Kenia Arias.  Kenia Arias (born October 22 1982) often referred to simply as Kenia (/ˈkɛnjə/ KEN-ya; is an American film stage television actress businesswoman and singer-songwriter. Her music is distributed by the independent record label Tate Music Group.
Evan Jones (writer).  Evan Jones (born 1927 Portland Jamaica) is a poet playwright and screenwriter based in Britain. He was educated in Jamaica the United States and England. Jones taught at schools in the United States before moving to England in 1956 and beginning a career as a writer. He wrote the scripts for the feature films King & Country Modesty Blaise Funeral in Berlin Wake in Fright and several television plays.
Sebastião Tapajós.  Sebastião Tapajós (born April 16 1944) is a Brazilian guitarist and composer from Santarém (Pará). He began learning guitar from his father when he was nine years old and later studied at the Conservatório de Lisboa and at the Instituto de Cultura Hispânica de Madrid. In 1998 he composed the soundtrack for the Paraense (Pará-born) film Lendas Amazônicas. In the 2000s Tapajós has performed in Europe. He has recorded more than 50 albums in his career.
Alice Walker.  Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9 1944) is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Olivia Lufkin.  Olivia Lufkin (born December 9 1979) professionally known as OLIVIA is a Japanese American bilingual singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of an American father and a Japanese mother. Her two younger siblings are Jeffrey Lufkin who is a musician she collaborates regularly with and Caroline Lufkin who is an independent musician. Lufkin began her solo career after being in the Japanese girl group D&D.
Dustin Nguyen (artist).  For the actor see Dustin Nguyen.Dustin Nguyen (born in 1976) is a comic book artist who has worked for DC Comics and WildStorm since 2000. Outside of comics Dustin is also known as a conceptual artist for toys games and animation.
Tyler Turkle.  Tyler Turkle (born May 29 1947) is an American Contemporary Artist and Filmmaker.
Fakrul Alam.  Dr. Fakrul Alam (Bengali: ফকরুল আলম born 20 July 1951) is a Bangladeshi academic writer and translator. He writes on literary matters and postcolonial issues and translated works of Jibanananda Das and Rabindranath Tagore into English.
Brooks Headley.  Brooks Headley is an American musician and chef best known as the drummer in several hardcore punk and indie rock bands. Headley is presently the executive pastry chef at Del Posto a New York Times-rated four-star restaurant in New York City.
Izhar Cohen.  Izhar Cohen (Hebrew: יזהר כהן born 13 March 1951 Giv'atayim Israel) is an Israeli singer who won the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.
Akira Kobayashi.  Akira Kobayashi (小林 旭 Kobayashi Akira born November 3 1938 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actor and singer. His nickname is Maitogai (マイトガイ mighty guy).
Dan Morgenstern.  Dan Morgenstern (born October 24 1929 Munich Germany) is a jazz critic and librarian.Morgenstern moved to the United States in 1947 and attended Brandeis University from 1953-1956. He wrote for jazz publication Jazz Journal from 1958–1961 and following this edited several jazz magazines: Metronome in 1961 Jazz from 1962–1963 and Down Beat from 1964-1973. He is the author of the book Jazz People and has arranged jazz concerts and lectures over the course of his career.
Marissa Paternoster.  Marissa Paternoster is an artist singer and guitarist active in New Jersey's New Brunswick music scene. She is the singer and guitarist in the bands Screaming Females and Noun.Paternoster's mother and father met while both teachers for the Elizabeth New Jersey Public Schools. Her mother Leslie Okun was a gifted art teacher who suffered from fragile health and now resides in Florida. Her father Angelo Paternoster is a school principal in New Jersey.
Jibanananda Das.  Jibanananda Das (Bengali: জীবনানন্দ দাশ /dʒɪbɒnʌnɒndɔː dʌʃ/) (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was a Bengali poet writer novelist and essayist. Dimly recognised during his lifetime today Das is acknowledged as “the premier poet of the post-Tagore era in India and Bangladesh. One of his translators Clinton B. Seely is among those who consider Jibananda Das as Bengal's greatest modern poet and its best loved poet too.
Ryan Moore (musician).  Ryan Moore is a Canadian musician known primarily for his dub project Twilight Circus his long association with the influential experimental electronic rock band The Legendary Pink Dots and the Tear Garden.
Roman Opałka.  Roman Opałka (August 27 1931 – August 6 2011) was a French-born Polish painter.Opałka was born on August 27 1931 in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien France to Polish parents. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Lodz. He later earned a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He moved back to France in 1977. Opałka lived in Teille near Le Mans and Venice.
Floyd Miles.  Floyd Miles (born April 13 1943) is an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He has released four solo albums since 1992.
Irma Boom.  Irma Boom (born (1960-12-15)15 December 1960 in Lochem Gelderland Netherlands) is a Dutch graphic designer – who specializes in book making.
John Kacere.  John C. Kacere (June 23 1920 Walker Iowa – August 5 1999 Cedar Rapids Iowa) was an American artist. Originally an Abstract-Expressionist Kacere adopted a photorealist style in 1963. Nearly all of his photorealist paintings depict the midsection of the female body. He is considered one of the original photorealists although he rejected the term.Kacere painted his first photorealist painting in 1969 involving the midsection of a woman dressed in lingerie.
Albert Flynn DeSilver.  Albert Flynn DeSilver is an American author poet artist teacher speaker and publisher—born 1968 in Norwalk Connecticut. He is the author of several books of poetry including Letters to Early Street (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press 2007) and Walking Tooth & Cloud (French Connection Press—Paris 2007).
Victoria Legrand.  Victoria Legrand (born May 28 1981) is a singer-songwriter and keyboardist for the dream pop band Beach House. She is a niece of French composer Michel Legrand. She graduated from Vassar College in 2003.Her vocals have been described as sultry and elegant in a review of the song Slow Life by Grizzly Bear in which she featured.
Maria Yumeno.  Maria Yumeno (夢野まりあ Yumeno Maria) is a Japanese pink film and adult video (AV) actress. In 2003 she was called one of Japan's highest-earning AV performers and probably its most famous. Many of her movies emphasized her large bust and thin body.
Taeko Kono.  Taeko Kōno (河野 多惠子 Kōno Taeko born February 24 1926) is a Japanese writer and critic and is considered one of the most important contemporary writers of modern Japanese literature. She is best known in English for her collection of short stories Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories.
B. Traven.  B. Traven was the pen name of a presumably German novelist whose real name nationality date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute.
Gino Vannelli.  Gino Vannelli (born June 16 1952) is a Canadian singer songwriter musician and composer.
Jacques Balutin.  Jacques Balutin is a French actor.
James McKinnon.  James William McKinnon (April 7 1932 - February 23 1999) was an American musicologist most known for his work in the fields of Western plainchant medieval and renaissance music Latin liturgy and musical iconography. He studied classical languages at Niagara University before going to Columbia University to study with Paul Henry Lang and Edward Lippman completing his PhD in 1965.
Reed Whittemore.  Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. (September 11 1919 – April 6 2012) was an American poet biographer critic literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964 and in 1984.
Max Brody.  Max Brody (born Matthew Woods Brody 1969) is an American musician based outside of Austin Texas best known as the one-time percussionist/saxophonist for the hard rock band Ministry.
Jo Callis.  John William Callis known as Jo Callis (born 2 May 1951) is an English musician and songwriter who played guitar with the Edinburgh based punk rock band The Rezillos (under the name Luke Warm) and post-punk band Boots For Dancing before joining The Human League.
Filippo Gagliardi.  Filippo Gagliardi (died 1659) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome. He collaborated with Filippo Lauri and Andrea Sacchi. He also helped in the renovation of San Martino ai Monti (1647–54). He contributed illustrated architectural perspectives to Ferrari's Hesperides (1646) and became principe of the Accademia di San Luca (1656–57). He also appears to confused with Giovanni Francesco Gagliardi.
Guglielmo Quarenghi.  Guglielmo Quarenghi (October 22 1826 – February 3 1882) was an Italian composer and cellist. From 1839 to 1842 he studied with Vincenzo Merighi at the Milan Conservatory. In 1850 he became principal cellist at La Scala and in 1851 a professor at the conservatory. Along with Luigi Felice Rossi and Alberto Mazzucato Quarenghi formed the Società di S Cecilia in 1860. In 1879 he succeeded Raimondo Boucheron as maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral.
Mark Doty.  Mark Doty (born August 10 1953) is an American poet and memoirist and the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
Tabitha Nauser.  Tabitha Nauser (born 23 February 1992) is a Singaporean Pop/R&B singer who was the second runner-up in the 2009 season of Singapore Idol (Season 3). In 2010 she was selected to represent the continent of Asia to sing the Official Theme Song of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games Everyone.
Nicholas Kazan.  Nicholas Kazan (born 1950) is an American screenwriter film producer and director. He is the son of director Elia Kazan and his first wife playwright Mary Day Thacher (Molly) Kazan. He married Robin Swicord a writer producer actress and director in 1984. His daughter is the actress Zoe Kazan.
Christian Beldi.  Christian Beldi (born in Bucharest 1958) is a Romanian pianist. He is a professor at the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf.
Neville Smith.  Neville Smith (born January 1940 in Liverpool) is a British screenwriter and actor who has contributed to numerous television productions radio plays and movies.After studying politics and history at the Hull University Smith worked as a teacher. Subsequently he became an announcer and from 1965 he wrote for BBC Radio. He took part in a total of 57 radio dramas.
Nobuyoshi Araki.  Nobuyoshi Araki (荒木 経惟 Araki Nobuyoshi born May 25 1940) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname Arākī (アラーキー).
Charmaine Neville.  Charmaine Neville born March 31 1956 is a member of a famous New Orleans music family which includes the Neville Brothers. The daughter of Charles Neville she is currently the leader and lead singer of the Charmaine Neville Band a jazz/funk band based in New Orleans Louisiana.Ms. Neville was in international news due to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when the failure of the Federal levees swamped the city of New Orleans with up to 18 feet (5.5 m) of water in some locations.
Anna Nalick.  Anna Christine Nalick (born March 30 1984) is an American singer-songwriter. Her debut album Wreck of the Day featuring her first radio hit Breathe (2 AM) was released on April 19 2005. Nalick left her label under Sony in 2009 after a falling-out surrounding the release of her second album. On March 2 2011 Nalick announced her new album Broken Doll & Odds & Ends to be released May 2011 but after several delays the album was released on June 5.
Ryo Owatari.  Ryo Owatari (大渡 亮 Ōwatari Ryō?) is a Japanese guitarist who was born April 4 1972 in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan. He was formerly a member of the amateur band pee-ka-boo but he is mainly known for his work in the band Do As Infinity alongside Tomiko Van and Dai Nagao that has resumed activities after their 2005 split. After the disbanding of Do As Infinity he started working with his new band Missile Innovation.
Elizabeth Hoyt.  Elizabeth Hoyt is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance. She also writes contemporary romance under the name Julia Harper. She now lives in central Illinois with her husband and two children.
James Robinson (writer).  James Dale Robinson is a British writer of comic books and screenplays who is known for his interest in vintage collectibles and memorabilia. Some of his best known comics are series focusing on the Justice Society of America in particular the Starman character he co-created with Tony Harris.
Julie Anthony (singer).  Julie Moncrief Lush AM OBE (born 24 August 1949 in Lameroo South Australia) better known as Julie Anthony is an Australian soprano and entertainer. She sang the Australian National Anthem at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Human Nature. She has also sung with The Seekers first taking the place of Judith Durham as the lead vocalist in the song The Carnival Is Over for the Closing Ceremony of Expo '88.
Stephen Deas.  Stephen Deas born in 1968 in Southeast England is an English fantasy author. He is most famous for his fantasy opus the Memory of Flames sequence set in a fantasy world inhabited by dragons.
David Fonseca.  David Fonseca (Portuguese pronunciation: [dɐˈvid fõˈsekɐ] born on 14 June 1973 in Leiria) is a Portuguese musician singer-songwriter. As a musician he plays several instruments including acoustic guitar and organ. He is recognized for his successful music career as a member of Silence 4 and since 2003 as a solo artist. Besides penning most of his works he is also responsible for the graphic design on his album covers and the art direction on his videoclips.
Slug (rapper).  Sean Michael Daley (born September 7 1972) better known by his stage name Slug or Sep Seven is an American rapper. He is from Minneapolis Minnesota. Slug is best known as one half of the hip hop group Atmosphere which he founded with Derek Turner (Spawn). Turner has since left and Anthony Davis (Ant) produces Atmosphere with Slug.
Giuseppe Crespi.  Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14 1665 – July 16 1747) nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo (The Spaniard) was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits but he is now most famous for his genre paintings.
Sebastian Piras.  Sebastian Piras is a photographer and filmmaker from Sardinia Italy.Sebastian has lived in Italy England France and Germany before settling in New York City in 1985.His main photographic subject has been portraiture. His exhibition Artists Exposed contains a collection of captivating portraits of known artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and lesser known ones.
Sergey Kalmykov.  Sergey Ivanovich Kalmykov (Russian: Серге́й Иванович Калмыков; 6 October 1891 – 27 April 1967) was a Russian painter draughtsman and writer. Barely known during his art career and abandoned at the end of his life he is currently regarded as one of the most important figures of the Russian avant-garde art an author of over fifteen hundred of paintings drawings illustrations theater decorations and numerous writings.
Alex DeLaszlo.  Alex DeLaszlo is an American musician. He contributed bass harmonica harmonica saxophone and backing vocals to King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) the first incarnation of avant-garde band King Missile.
Bill Peck.  William Bill Peck (born April 1 1979) is a guitarist from Orlando Florida. Peck is best known for being a close friend with musician Mark Tremonti and for being featured in Guitar One Magazine several times.Bill Peck has played live many times with Michael Angelo Batio.He toured nationally in 2001 with Gotti 13 on the 'N Sync Pop Odessey tour and in 2002 with electronica group Prophecy Collective.
Emilio Bobadilla Cáceres.  Emilio Bobadilla Cáceres was a Paraguayan songwriter. He was born in Cerro Verá in the town of Pirayú Paraguay on March 3 1907. He was son of Ramón Bobadilla and Isabel Cáceres.
Dana Heitman.  Dana Conrad Heitman (born January 18 1966) is an American musician known for his work as the trumpeter for the Eugene Oregon ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies of which he has been a member since the band's formation.
Simeon Stuart.  Simeon Stuart (1864-1939) was a British film actor of the silent era.
Logan Lynn.  Logan Dennis Lynn (born October 15 1979) is an American musician writer producer and LGBT activist from Portland Oregon.Lynn's music is most commonly classified in the pop indie electronic techno and dance genres. He has released seven studio albums and he is the former host of Logo's weekly music video countdown cable television show NewNowNext Music.
Raman Mahadevan.  Raman Mahadevan is an Indian playback singer known for his Bollywood songs. He also has an indipop Album Ramanasia in his discography.
Hipólito da Costa.  Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça (August 13 1774 — September 11 1823) was a Brazilian journalist and diplomat considered to be the father of Brazilian press.He is the patron of the 17th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Saori Atsumi.  Saori Atsumi (アツミ サオリ Atsumi Saori) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.As of August 2013 she has released nine singles and three albums. Her second major album Miraculous Happening (ミラキュラスハプニング) was released on September 25 2013.
Izzy Stradlin.  Jeffrey Dean Isbell (born April 8 1962) known by his stage name Izzy Stradlin is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and former rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses which he left at the height of its fame in 1991. Following his departure he led his own band Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds for one album and tour. Since the late 1990s Stradlin has released ten solo albums the last six independently.
Jim Galloway.  Jim Galloway (born James Braidie Galloway 28 July 1936 in Kilwinning Ayrshire Scotland) is a jazz clarinet and saxophone player. He has based his career in Canada since emigrating in the mid-1960s. He began an ensemble the Wee Big Band in the late 1970s.One of his albums Walking On Air was nominated for Best Jazz Album at the Juno Awards of 1980.He has been artistic director of the Toronto Jazz Festival Toronto Jazz Festival from 1987 to 2009.
Johan Nordahl Brun.  Johan Nordahl Brun (21 March 1745 in Trondheim—26 July 1816) was the poet dramatist bishop in Bergen (1804-1816) and politician who contributed significantly to the growth of National Romanticism in Norway contributing to the growing national consciousness. He traveled to Copenhagen in 1767 where he passed his theological examinations.
Victor Oreshnikov.  Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Орешников) (January 7 (O.S. January 20) 1904 Perm – March 15 1987 Leningrad) was a Soviet Russian painter People's Artist of the USSR active member of the Soviet Academy of Arts (1954–1987) Stalin Prize winner rector of Repin Institute of Arts (1953–1978).
Hans Grundig.  Hans Grundig (February 19 1901 – September 11 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement.He was born in Dresden and after an apprenticeship as an interior decorator studied in 1920–1921 at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts. He then studied at the Dresden Academy from 1922–1923. During the 1920s his paintings primarily portraits of working-class subjects were influenced by the work of Otto Dix.
Olly Murs.  Oliver Stanley Olly Murs (born 14 May 1984) is an English singer-songwriter musician and television presenter. Murs rose to fame after finishing as the runner-up in the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009.
Jack Schroer.  John Henry Jack Schroer (January 12 1944 – June 23 1995) was a saxophonist pianist and arranger best known for his work with Van Morrison in the 1970s as a member of his band The Caledonia Soul Orchestra.Morrison first met Schroer in 1969 whilst he was playing for the Colwell-Winfield Blues Band: I met Jack Schroer in New York when I heard him play in a blues band and I invited him to play on a gig with me the next night. Schroer played with Morrison in concert until 1973 when he disbanded The Caledonia Soul Orchestra.Schroer played notable saxophone solos on many Morrison songs including Moondance and Tupelo Honey.
Wu Tianming.  Wu Tianming (December 5 1939 – March 4 2014) was a Chinese film director and producer who was considered one of the leading Fourth Generation directors.
H. H. Lewis.  H.H. Lewis (1901–1985) was a Communist American poet during the 1930s thru the 1970s.Harold Harwell Lewis or H.H. Lewis as he become known was born January 13 1901 near Cape Girardeau Missouri. He was one of four children born to Thomas and Catherine Tisdale Lewis.He received his secondary education at the Southeast Missouri State Normal School--Third District Training School which is now named Southeast Missouri State University.
Donn Pearce.  Donn Pearce (born 1928) is an American author best known for the novel and screen play Cool Hand Luke.Born Donald Mills Pearce in a suburb of Philadelphia Pearce left home at 15. He attempted to join the United States Merchant Marine at 16 but was turned away due to his age. He lied about his age registered for the draft and was inducted into the United States Army in 1944.
Mitsugu Saotome.  For the aikido teacher see Mitsugi SaotomeMitsugu Saotome (早乙女貢 Saotome Mitsugu January 1 1926 – December 23 2008) was the pen-name of a Japanese writer of historical fiction in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. His real name was Kanegae Hideyoshi.
Audrey Hannah.  Miriam Hannah (born September 29 1982) better known as Audrey Hannah is a German singer and presenter. She is known for the Christmas song It's December (And I'll Be Missing You).
Tatsuya Ishii.  Tatsuya Ishii (石井竜也 Ishii Tatsuya) also known as Tatuya Ishii (born September 22 1959) is a Japanese singer-songwriter artist and industrial designer from Ibaraki Prefecture.
Ana Nova.  Ana Nova (also known as Tara Young) (born June 5 1975 in Magdeburg Germany) is a pornographic actress.She moved to Berlin in her early teens. After her eighteenth birthday she went into modeling and stripping. In 2000 she took the step into Euro-hardcore. She got to see all of Europe but when she made her first trip to the United States upon meeting other adult entertainers she realized she could make more money doing porn in the US. She moved to Los Angeles and debuted in 2002.
Yulia Chicherina.  Chicherina officially Yulia Dmitrievna Chicherina (Russian: Юлия Дмитриевна Чичерина is a Russian pop-rock artist. She has been performing since 1997 and is part of the wave of Uralic rock along with Nautilus Pompilius and Chaif.
Ree Drummond.  Ann Marie Ree Drummond (née Smith born January 6 1969) is an award-winning American blogger No. 1 New York Times bestselling author food writer photographer and television personality who lives on a working ranch outside of Pawhuska Oklahoma. In February 2010 she was listed as No. 22 on Forbes' Top 25 Web Celebrities—one of only four women.
Remo Brindisi.  Remo Brindisi (Rome 1918 – Lido di Spina Ferrara 1996) was an Italian painter.
Ponziano Loverini.  Ponziano Loverini (Gandino July 6 1845 – Gandino August 21 1929) was an Italian painter known for his canvases and frescoes of sacred subjects.
Jay Wiseman.  Jay Wiseman (Jay Joseph Wiseman)(born 1949) is an American BDSM writer and speaker.In 1991 Wiseman started the Greenery Press publishing house with his partner Janet Hardy author Lady Green of The Sexually Dominant Woman. The publishing house grew to the point of publishing several titles a year and they hired two other employees.
Girolamo da Treviso.  Girolamo da Treviso (1508 – September 10 1544) also known as Girolamo di Tommaso da Treviso the Younger and Girolamo Trevigi was an Italian Renaissance painter.
Van Ikin.  Van Ikin (born 25 November 1951) is an academic and science fiction writer and editor.
Groove Junkies.  Groove Junkies is American house record producer and DJ based out of Los Angeles CA. Groove Junkies consists of founding member Evan Landes who produces House Soul and is popular in Europe Australia UK China Japan and USA. Groove Junkies is considered a leader of the soulful house movement[citation needed] and has produced and remixed some of the most prominent artists of our time.[citation needed] Groove Junkies music has been featured on BBC KPWR and Ministry of Sound.
Cynthia Layne.  Cynthia Layne is an American contemporary jazz vocalist. Layne describes her music as soothing to the soul...a mix of groove based R&B with strong jazz undertones.She has performed on stages around the world singing in a multitude of styles. Layne goes beyond genre to find something of herself in any music. Cynthia got her start hanging out in clubs and sitting in with local bands. From there she started singing with groups regularly and quickly started getting shows of her own.
William Swanson (artist).  William Swanson ( b. 1970 Chicago IL) is a painter living and working in Oakland California.
Lawrence Wright.  Lawrence Wright (born August 2 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author screenwriter staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
Ranking Trevor.  Maxwell Grant (20 January 1960 – 7 August 2012) better known as Ranking Trevor and sometimes as Ranking Superstar was a Jamaican reggae deejay.
Ofir Shwartz.  Ofir Shwartz (Hebrew: אופיר שורץ) (born on 1979 in Haifa) is an Israeli award-winning jazz pianist composer arranger and producer. The Ofir Shwartz Trio was formed in 2006 and creates new music ever since.
Jason James (musician).  Jason James (born 13 January 1981) is a Welsh musician singer songwriter and Bassist. He is the bassist in Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine along with Matthew Tuck (lead singer rhythm guitar) Michael Paget (lead guitarist) and Michael Thomas (drums) and the former bassist and vocalist for N.U.K.E. He is a single father and has two kids: a son aged 3 and a daughter aged 7.
Xi Murong.  Xi Murong (Chinese: 席慕容; pinyin: Xí Mùróng; born 1943) is a writer and painter. She is most famous for her poetry especially the collections Qi li xiang (Seven-li scent) and Wuyuan de qingchun (Unregrettable Youth).
Pat Kelly (musician).  Pat Kelly (b. 1949 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer whose career began in the late 1960s.
Warne Marsh.  Warne Marion Marsh (26 October 1927 – 18 December 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist. Born in Los Angeles his restrained cerebral playing first came to prominence in the 1950s as a protégé of pianist Lennie Tristano and earned attention in the 1970s as a member of Supersax.
Project Itoh.  Project Itoh (伊藤 計劃 Itō Keikaku) real name Satoshi Itō (伊藤 聡 Itō Satoshi October 14 1974 – March 20 2009) was a Japanese science fiction writer.
David Tudor.  David Eugene Tudor (January 20 1926 – August 13 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.
Suzanna Reeves.  Suzanna Reeves (born December 28) is an American author singer composer pianist known for Ambient and Celtic soundtrack genre of music and Urban Fiction/Fantasy novels. Reeves is originally from San Antonio Texas and moved to California's Inland Empire in the summer of 2002. Reeves returned to her home state in the Summer of 2011 and currently lives north of Houston Texas.
Donnie Elbert.  Donnie Elbert (May 25 1936 – January 26 1989) was an American soul singer who had a prolific career from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s. His US hits included Where Did Our Love Go? (1972) and his reputation as a Northern soul artist in the UK was secured by A Little Piece of Leather a performance highlighting his powerful falsetto voice.
Pete Wentz.  Peter Lewis Kingston Pete Wentz III (born June 5 1979) is an American musician best known for being the bassist and primary lyricist for the American rock band Fall Out Boy. Since the announcement of Fall Out Boy's temporary hiatus in 2009 Wentz has formed the experimental electropop/dubstep group Black Cards. He owns a record label Decaydance Records which has signed bands such as Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes.
Sam Meikle.  Sam Meikle (b. 1971) is an Australian writer and director best known for his work in television. He has won several Awgie Awards. He is the son of actor Richard Meikle.
Louis O. Coxe.  Louis Osborne Coxe (April 15 1918 – May 25 1993) was an American poet playwright essayist and professor who was recognized by the Academy of American Poets for his long powerful quiet accomplishment largely unrecognized in lyric poetry. He was probably best known for his dramatic adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd which opened on Broadway in 1951.
Samy Deluxe.  Samy Sorge (born 19 December 1977) commonly known as Samy Deluxe Wickeda MC or Sam Semillia is a German rapper and hip hop artist from Hamburg.When his Sudanese father left Germany when Samy Deluxe was just two years old Samy grew up with his mother's family. His half-sister was born shortly after his father left. The family lived in Barmbek for many years then moved to Eppendorf a better-off part of Hamburg.
David Peppercorn.  David Peppercorn (born 1931) is a British Master of Wine French wine importer and author known for his books about the wines of Bordeaux and long experience in his field having collected tasting notes since the late 1950s. He is married to fellow MW and wine writer Serena Sutcliffe. They were the first husband and wife team to both earn the qualification of Master of Wine.
Sauli Lehtonen.  Sauli Tapani Lehtonen (10 April 1975 in Jyväskylä Finland – 9 September 1995 in Helsinki Finland) was a Finnish tango singer.
Jay Scott Pike.  Jay Scott Pike (born 1924 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator known for his 1950s and 1960s work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics advertising art and as a good girl artist. He created the DC character Dolphin and co-created the Marvel character Jann of the Jungle.
Digby George Gerahty.  Digby George Gerahty (1898-1981) who wrote under the pen-names of Robert Standish and Stephen Lister was an English novelist and short story writer most productive during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a featured contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. His novels include Elephant Walk which was later made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor.
Carlton Barrett.  Carlton Carly Barrett (December 17 1950 – April 17 1987) was an influential reggae drummer and percussion player. His musical development in the early years was with his brother Aston Family Man Barrett as a member of Lee Scratch Perry's house band The Upsetters. The brothers joined Bob Marley and The Wailers around 1970. He wrote the well known Bob Marley song War and with his brother Aston co-wrote Talkin' Blues.
Adrian Caesar.  Adrian Caesar (born 1955) is an Australian author and poet.Caesar was born in Manchester United Kingdom and emigrated to Australia in 1982. He studied at Reading University and has held appointments at various Australian universities including the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales' School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Margaret Marshall Saunders.  Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE (May 13 1861–February 15 1947) was a Canadian author.Saunders was born in the village of Milton Nova Scotia though she spent most of her childhood in Berwick Nova Scotia where her father was a Baptist minister. Saunders is most famous for her novel Beautiful Joe. It tells the true story of a dog that has had a difficult puppyhood with many obstacles including a cruel owner. It is told from the dog's point of view.
Jaclyn Reding.  Jaclyn Reding (born March 23 in Ohio USA) is an American writer of historical romance novels. She has been a Golden Quill Awards winner and the author of an Amazon.com's #1 bestseller.[citation needed] She also is a National Readers' Choice Awards finalist and has received a nomination for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.
Juan Eslava Galán.  Juan Eslava Galán (Arjona Jaén March 7 1948) is a Spanish writer of historic genre of both fiction and non-fiction. He has published some works under the pseudonym of Nicholas Wilcox.
Stefan Wul.  Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of French science fiction writer Pierre Pairault (27 March 1922 – 26 November 2003). He was a dental surgeon but science fiction was his real passion. Most of his books reflect that showing a deep knowledge of scientific data. Pairault retired from dental surgery in 1989 but remained active in the French science fiction scene.He published eleven novels between 1956 and 1959 and a twelfth in 1977.
Janet Tashjian.  Janet Tashjian (born 29 June 1956) is an Armenian-American novelist living in Los Angeles. Her middle grade and young adult fiction is published by Henry Holt and Company. Her novels often incorporate different formats and play with the line between fiction and non-fiction. She is married and is the mother of Jake Tashjian who provided illustrations for four of her novels.
Monty Wedd.  Montague Thomas Archibald 'Monty' Wedd (1921 – 2012) was an Australian comic artist animator and author.
Sarah Dessen.  Sarah Dessen (born June 6 1970 in Evanston Illinois) is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill North Carolina.
Atli Örvarsson.  Atli Örvarsson (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈahtlɪ ˈœrvarsɔn]; born 7 July 1970) is an Icelandic film score composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's biggest projects including the Pirates of the Caribbean series Angels and Demons The Holiday The Eagle Vantage Point Babylon A.D. Thick as Thieves The Fourth Kind and Season of the Witch.
Mark Olf.  Mark Olf (May 15 1905 - June 7 1987) was a Jewish folksinger and recording artist. Accompanying himself on the guitar Olf documented and preserved Yiddish and Hebrew folk songs many of which he had heard as a child in Russia.
David Knopfler.  David Knopfler (born 27 December 1952) is a British rhythm guitarist pianist record producer and singer-songwriter. He is also a poet and book writer.He is a co-founder of the British rock band Dire Straits spending three years with them.
Kurt Baker (musician).  Kurt Milton Baker (born January 31 1987 in Portland Maine) is an American musician songwriter music producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his work in the Pop-Punk group The Leftovers and his own band The Kurt Baker Band.
Carlos Baker.  Carlos Baker (May 5 1909 Biddeford Maine – April 18 1987 Princeton New Jersey) was an American writer biographer and former Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He earned his B.A. M.A. and Ph.D at Dartmouth Harvard and Princeton respectively.
Anwan Glover.  Ralph Anwan Glover (also known as Big G) is an American actor and musician. He is one of the founding members of the Backyard Band a go-go band as well as appearing as gang member Slim Charles in the HBO series The Wire. He has also appeared in music videos such as Boyz n da Hood's Dem Boyz and Wale's Chillin among others and has a spot on WKYS-FM radio in the Washington D.C.
Rob Diament.  Robert Diament (born 1980 in Reading Berkshire England) is an English singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of UK electronic rock band Temposhark. In 2010 Diament began working as a gallerist with Carl Freedman a contemporary art gallery in East London.
Tony Buffery.  Tony Buffery (Anthony Walter Harold Buffery) is a British actor comedian and writer – apart from having a career in academic psychology.
Kei Akagi.  Kei Akagi (ケイ 赤城/赤城 恵 Akagi Kei born March 16 1953) is a Japanese American jazz pianist. In particular he is known for his work with the Airto Moreira/Flora Purim group and in Miles Davis's band in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was born in Japan but lived in Cleveland Ohio for part of his childhood until he moved back to Japan at the age of 12. He later returned to the United States at 22. He is associated with the Californian jazz scene at present.
Sidney Buchman.  Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27 1902 – August 23 1975) was a screenwriter and producer who worked on 38 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He is also sometimes credited as Sydney Buchman.
Russell Ferrante.  Russell Keith Ferrante (born 1952) is a jazz pianist from San Jose California who is a founding member of the group Yellowjackets.
Bruce Onobrakpeya.  Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932) is a Nigerian printmaker painter and sculptor. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Malmö Konsthall in Malmö Sweden.The National Gallery of Modern Art Lagos has an exhibit of colorful abstract canvases by Onobrakpeya.
Jenny Hirsch.  Jenny Hirsch (25 November 1829 Zerbst – 10 March 1902 Berlin) was a German author and reformer.
Balakrishnabuwa Ichalkaranjikar.  Balakrishnabuwa Ichalkaranjikar (1849–1926) was an Indian vocalist of Khayal-genre of Hindustani classical music. He learnt under Gwalior gharana and brought its singing style to Maharashtra also became the founder of Khayal music in Maharashtra.
Pinetop Smith.  Clarence Smith better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith (June 11 1904 – March 15 1929) was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune Pine Top's Boogie Woogie featured rhythmic breaks that were an essential ingredient of ragtime music.He was a posthumous 1991 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Tina Charles (singer).  Tina Charles (born 10 March 1954) is an English singer who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s. Her most successful single was the no. 1 hit I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance) in 1976.
Edward Burnham.  Edward Burnham is a former actor born on 25 December 1916 in Lincolnshire England.He is best known for To Sir with Love (1967) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and 10 Rillington Place (1971) and twice appearing in Doctor Who in The Invasion (1968) and Robot (1974/5).
Eusebio da San Giorgio.  Eusebio da San Giorgio or Eusebio di Jacopo di Cristoforo da San Giorgio (c. 1470 – c. 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Naoki Urasawa.  Naoki Urasawa (浦沢 直樹 Urasawa Naoki born January 2 1960 in Fuchū Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese manga artist and occasional musician. He has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has received the Shogakukan Manga Award three times the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice and the Kodansha Manga Award once.
Carol Sloane.  Carol Sloane (born March 5 1937) is an American jazz singer born in Providence Rhode Island who has been singing professionally since she was 14 although for a time in the 1970s she worked as a legal secretary in Raleigh North Carolina. In addition between September 1967 and May 1968 she occasionally wrote album reviews for Down Beat. She currently lives in Stoneham Massachusetts.One of her early efforts was working with Les and Larry Elgart's orchestra.
Blue Lu Barker.  Louise Blue Lu Barker (née Dupont) (November 13 1913 – May 7 1998) was an American jazz and blues singer. Her better known recordings included Don't You Feel My Leg and Look What Baby's Got For You.She was born in New Orleans Louisiana and often sang and performed with her husband Danny Barker a regular of the New Orleans music scene.The recording of A Little Bird Told Me by Barker was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 15308.
Ellis Amburn.  Ellis Edward Amburn (born August 2 1933 in Jack County Texas) is an American book editor and biographer.
Vyacheslav Ganelin.  Vyacheslav (Slava) Ganelin (Hebrew: ויאצ'סלב (סלבה) גנלין ‎ Lithuanian: Viačeslavas Ganelinas Russian: Вячеслав Шевелевич Гане́лин; born 17 December 1944 in Kraskovo near Moscow) is a Lithuanian–Israeli jazz musician composer and pedagogue.Primarily a pianist he also plays other keyboards (organ and synthesizer) as well as bass guitar and percussions.
Dianne Bates.  Dianne Di Bates (born 20 March 1948) is an Australian writer and teacher .Bates was born in Sydney and spent her early years in Appin New South Wales attending Campbelltown High School. Later she undertook teaching training in Wollongong where she received a Diploma of Teaching since gaining a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Wollongong.While teaching Bates began her writing career with her first book Terri published by Penguin Books in 1980.
Alan Jackson.  Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17 1958) is an American country music singer known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 14 studio albums 3 Greatest Hits albums 2 Christmas albums 2 Gospel albums and several compilations all on the Arista Nashville label. More than 50 of his singles have appeared on Billboard's list of the Top 30 Country Songs.
Janine O'Leary Cobb.  Janine O'Leary Cobb is a women's health activist and educator and the author of one of the first popular books on menopause intended for a mainstream audience Understanding Menopause (first published in 1988 now in its 6th edition published 2005).
Harry Bates (author).  Harry Bates (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania October 9 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. His 1940 short story Farewell to the Master was the basis of the well-known 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Yokoyama Taikan.  Yokoyama Taikan (横山 大観 November 2 1868 – February 26 1958) was the pseudonym of a major figure in pre-World War II Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of Nihonga. His real name was Sakai Hidemaro.
Wise (rapper).  Seiji Kameyama (亀山晴児 Kameyama Seiji born on August 10 1979) better known by his stage name Wise is a Japanese hip hop musician who raps in both Japanese and English. His father is Japanese and his mother is American and during high school he lived in the United States. He is affiliated with the creative group Kazenohito. In 2005 he formed the group Wise'N'SonPub with beatmaker SonPub and the group Teriyaki Boyz with Ryo-Z Ilmari (from RIP SLYME) and Verbal (from M-Flo).
John Wozniak.  John Keith Wozniak (born January 19 1971) is an American musician best known as the lead singer guitarist and songwriter of the band Marcy Playground. He is the son of Robert Wozniak a developmental psychologist dad and Nora Wozniak a free spirited Bohemian mother.
Eddy Louiss.  Eddy Louiss (born 2 May 1941 in Paris) is a French jazz musician.His primary instrument is the Hammond organ. As a vocalist he was a member of Les Double Six of Paris from 1961 through 1963.He has worked with Kenny Clarke René Thomas and Jean-Luc Ponty. In 1971 he was a member of the Stan Getz quartet (with René Thomas and Bernard Lubat) that recorded the celebrated Getz album Dynasty.In duet he has recorded with pianist Michel Petrucciani (1994) and accordionist Richard Galliano (2002).
Pat Hare.  Auburn Pat Hare (December 20 1930 - September 26 1980) was an American electric Memphis blues guitarist and singer. His heavily distorted power chord-driven electric guitar music in the early 1950s is considered an important precursor to heavy metal music.
Eugène Cormon.  Pierre-Étienne Piestre known as Eugène Cormon (May 5 1810 – March 1903) was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother's name Cormon during his career.Cormon wrote dramas comedies and from the 1840s libretti; around 150 of his works were published.
David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr).  David Richards (22 January 1751 – 12 May 1827) better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr was a Welsh-language poet born at Glanyrafon near Bryn-crug in the parish of Tywyn in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) north-west Wales.He took an interest in poetry as a result of his acquaintance with Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) who was curate of St Cadfan's Church Tywyn and was later sent to a school at Ystradmeurig to obtain a better education than was available locally.
Iconiq.  Ayumi Itō (伊藤 亜由美 Itō Ayumi) (born August 25 1984) better known by her stage name Iconiq (stylized ICONIQ) is a Japanese singer of Korean ethnicity in Japan. She was a member of the Korean girl-group Sugar. Ito was born as a third generation Korean resident and raised in Japan for much of her younger life and is the reason for her Japanese accent although she is now fluent in both languages.
Black Angelika.  Black Angelika (born October 25 1987) is a Romanian pornographic actress.She has several tattoos including a black scorpion on her right ankle and three on top of her mons pubis: two Chinese character tattoos 命 (life) and 愛 (love) on either side of a filigree covering a previous tattoo spelling Ruka.
Giuseppe Ghezzi.  Giuseppe Ghezzi (November 6 1634–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome.
H. B. Marriott Watson.  Henry Brereton Marriott Watson (20 December 1863 – 30 October 1921) known by his pen name H.B. Marriott Watson was an Australian-born British novelist journalist playwright and short-story writer. He worked for the St. James Gazette was assistant editor of the Black and White and Pall Mall Gazette and staff member on W.E.
Fritz Löhner-Beda.  Fritz Löhner-Beda (24 June 1883 – 4 December 1942) born Bedřich Löwy was an Austrian librettist lyricist and writer. Murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp and nearly forgotten many of his songs and tunes remained popular up to today.
Passage (rapper).  David Bryant better known by his stage name Passage is an alternative hip hop artist based in Oakland California. He is a member of Restiform Bodies along with Bomarr and Telephone Jim Jesus.
Bob Berg.  Bob Berg (April 7 1951 – December 5 2002) was a jazz saxophonist originally from Brooklyn New York City. He started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. Bob Berg was a Juilliard graduate influenced heavily by the late 1964–67 period of John Coltrane's music.
Mykola Bazhan.  Mykola Platonovych Bazhan (Ukrainian: Микола Платонович Бажан; 9 October [O.S. 26 September] 1904 in Kamianets-Podilskyi – 23 November 1983 in Kiev) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer poet highly decorated political and public figure.
Evidence (musician).  Michael Taylor Perretta better known as Evidence (born December 10 1976) is an American MC producer and member of the rap group Dilated Peoples. Before becoming a rapper and producer Evidence was a graffiti artist.
Olaf Olsen (drummer).  Olaf Olsen (born 8 August 1976) is a Norwegian musician known as the drummer of BigBang (1999–May 2000 May 2001–current) with whom he has remained the longest after frontman Øystein Greni. He is renowned for his tall posture rising high above his drum kit emphasized by his long blonde hair and beard. Olsen currently resides in Los Angeles California along with the other members of the band to try their luck in the United States.
Jetty Rae.  Jetty Rae (born January 13 1987) is an unsigned indie folk singer/songwriter whose career began in Kona Hawaii but now resides in Michigan. Notable appearances include Lilith Fair 2010 CMJ Music Festival and a number of CFA festivals including Agapefest Big Ticket and Fandana Festival. Jetty Rae also sang the jingle on three nationally televised Truvia television commercials in 2011-2012. She is known for taking lyrics and adding a depth that few artists can..
Giovanni Francesco Straparola.  Giovanni Francesco Gianfrancesco Straparola (c. 1480 – c. 1557) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector from Caravaggio Italy. He has been termed the progenitor of the literary form of the fairy tale. Charles Perrault borrowed most of his stories from Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile.[citation needed]While his given name is likely to have been Giovanni Francesco the last name of Straparola is not plausible.
Adrianne León.  Adrianna Therese León (born March 15 1987) is an American singer-songwriter chef personal fitness trainer model and actress. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Caught Crimson. León began writing songs for the Emmy award-winning soap opera General Hospital.
Meredith Dillman.  Meredith Dillman is a fantasy artist and illustrator from Minnesota who specializes in fairies and fairy tale paintings. Meredith graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead where she studied art. During college she won several awards the Minnesota Newspaper Association for her illustrations and comic strips in the university's student paper. Most of her art is created in watercolor. Her artwork has been published in role playing games and several watercolor books.
Earl Lestz.  Earl Lestz is the Master Planning Director of Plymouth Rock Studios a new film and television studio being developed in Plymouth Massachusetts. Lestz was formerly President of the Studio Group at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles from 1985 to 2005. Lestz serves as vice chair on the Executive Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Henny Youngman.  Henry Henny Youngman (original Yiddish surname Yungman; 16 March 1906 – 24 February 1998) was a British-born American comedian and violinist famous for one-liners - short simple jokes delivered rapid-fire. His best known one-liner was Take my wife ... please.In a time when many comedians told elaborate anecdotes Youngman's routine consisted of telling simple one-liner jokes occasionally with interludes of violin playing.
Michel Rio.  Michel Rio (born in 1945) is a French writer and novelist. Born in Brittany he was raised in Madagascar and currently lives in Paris. He has won several literary awards and has been translated in many languages.
Pierre Alechinsky.  Pierre Alechinsky (born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to Tachisme Abstract expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction.Alechinsky was born in Brussels. In 1944 he attended the l'Ecole nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts décoratifs de La Cambre Brussels where he studied illustration techniques printing and photography.
Kazuo Funaki.  Kazuo Funaki (舟木一夫 born 12 December 1944 in Ichinomiya Aichi) is a Japanese Enka singer. Kazuo also has a career as a stage actor film actor and TV actor.His real name is Shigeyuki Ueda (上田成幸).
D. R. MacDonald.  D. R. MacDonald is the pen name of David R. MacDonald a Canadian-American writer who publishes novels and short stories. Born in Boularderie Nova Scotia and raised in Ohio he is a professor emeritus of creative writing at Stanford University. He still spend summers at the family homestead in Cape Breton Island which he purchased in 1971 and his fiction is set in Cape Breton.His novel Lauchlin of the Bad Heart was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007.
Lori Yates.  Lori Yates (born in Oshawa Ontario Canada) is a Canadian Juno Award-nominated country music singer and songwriter.
Damon Che.  Damon Che (born Damon Che Fitzgerald Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is a rock drummer and guitarist. He has made significant contributions to indie rock and progressive rock through his work with math rock pioneers Don Caballero since 1991. His style is heavily influenced by metal hard rock punk jazz and fusion.Che utilizes a hard-hitting yet flowing extrovert style of drumming. In Don Caballero his drumming takes more of a lead instrument role than just keeping time.
James Stevenson (musician).  James Stevenson (born October 1958) is an English punk/alternative rock guitarist at one time appearing with The Alarm Gene Loves Jezebel Generation X and Chelsea.
Nayer.  Nayer Regalado (born August 2 1988) better known as Nayer is an American pop singer. She is known as being a featured artist along with Ne-Yo for Pitbull's 2011 hit single Give Me Everything produced by Afrojack. She is also known for her hit single in 2011 titled Suave (Kiss Me) featuring American rapper Pitbull and Swedish-Congolese singer-songwriter Mohombi.
Hristo Botev.  Hrìsto Bòtev (Bulgarian: Христо Ботев also transliterated as Hristo Botyov) (6 January 1848 [O.S. 25 December 1847] – 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1876) born Hristo Botyov Petkov (Bulgarian: Христо Ботьов Петков) was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.
Matt Fletcher (musician).  Mad Matt Fletcher (born Matthew Lee Fletcher July 15 1977 in Norman Oklahoma US) is an American musician and the current bassist (former guitarist) for the hardcore band Shai Hulud since 1999 and his side project with founding Shai Hulud member Matthew Fox Zombie Apocalypse.
Hilda Montalba.  Hilda Montalba (1846—1919) was a British painter and sculptor.
Craig Handy.  Craig Mitchell Handy (born 1962) is an American post-bop tenor saxophonist.Born in Oakland California Handy attended North Texas State University from 1981 to 1984 and following this played with Art Blakey Wynton Marsalis Roy Haynes Abdullah Ibrahim Elvin Jones Joe Henderson Betty Carter George Adams Ray Drummond Conrad Herwig Dee Dee Bridgewater and David Weiss among many others.
Easton Corbin.  Easton Corbin (born April 12 1982) is an American country music singer. He signed to Mercury Records Nashville in 2009 and released his self-titled debut album in March 2010 featuring the two Number One hits A Little More Country Than That and Roll With It as well as the top 15 hit I Can't Love You Back. Corbin's second album All Over the Road was released on September 18 2012. Its first single Lovin' You Is Fun was released in February.
Geeno Fabulous.  Gunther Göbbel (born on 6 May 1979 in Nuremberg Germany) is a German singer who took part in second season (2003-2004) of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) series coming 5th overall in 12 finalist contestants. He then became part of the German cover songs duo Lemon Ice as Geeno alongside rapper Jay Low. After the break-up of the group he continued his solo music career as Geeno Fabulous (singer and DJ) and a record producer (under his name Gunther Göbbel).
Hideki Ishima.  Hideki Ishima (石間 秀機 Ishima Hideki born 21 March 1944 in Sapporo Hokkaido Japan) is a Japanese musician known primarily for his work with Flower Travellin' Band. Currently he exclusively plays the sitarla an instrument he invented which is a combination of a sitar and an electric guitar.Ishima was originally in the group sounds band The Beavers who had released some singles but not had major success.
Daniel MacMaster.  Daniel Stewart MacMaster (July 11 1968 – March 16 2008) was a Canadian singer who was lead vocalist for the Canadian/British hard rock band Bonham.
Cara Fawn.  Cara Fawn (born July 18 1978) also known by the stage name of Cheyenne Silver is an American actress and former pornographic actress.
John Francis Wade.  John Francis Wade (1711 – 16 August 1786) was an English hymnist who is sometimes credited with writing and composing the hymn Adeste Fideles (which was later translated to O Come All Ye Faithful) even though the actual authorship of the hymn remains uncertain. The earliest copies of the hymn all bear his signature.Born either in England or in Douai in Flanders France Wade fled to France after the Jacobite rising of 1745 was crushed.
Gaganendranath Tagore.  Gaganendranath Tagore (Bengali: গগনেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (September 18 1867 – 1938) was an Indian painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school. Along with his brother Abanindranath Tagore he was counted as one of the earliest modern artists in India.
Fredy Reyna.  Fredy Reyna (April 3 1917 - March 26 2001) was a Venezuelan musician arranger and performer regarded as the undisputed master of the Venezuelan cuatro which he elevated to the level of a concert instrument and one of his country's most important cultural figures in the 20th century.
Jenna Rose.  Jenna Rose Swerdlow (born September 28 1998) is an American teenage singer who gained media attention as a pre-teen with her single My Jeans. After the video went viral on YouTube and received 14 million views Swerdlow is considered a semi-viral star.
Will Ludwigsen.  Will Ludwigsen is an American writer of horror mystery and science fiction. His work has appeared in a number of magazines including Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Cemetery Dance Weird Tales and Strange Horizons as well as his first collection of short fiction Cthulhu Fhtagn Baby! and Other Cosmic Insolence.Ludwigsen was born on 27 June 1973.
Isabella Kelly.  Isabella Kelly née Fordyce also Isabella Hedgeland (1759 in Scotland - June 25 1857 in London) was a British novelist and poet. She married Robert Hawke Kelly (died in or before 1807 in Trinidad) a captain in the Royal Navy. Their son Fitzroy Edward Kelly became Attorney-General.
Maki Goto.  Maki Goto (後藤 真希 Gotō Maki born September 23 1985) is a Japanese singer lyricist and former actress. Born and raised in Edogawa Tokyo Goto began her musical career in 1999 when she joined Morning Musume as the only third generation member. Her first single with the group Love Machine topped the Oricon singles charts and sold over a million copies. Goto was the lead vocalist of the group up until her graduation from the group in 2002.
Gavin Menzies.  Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (born 14 August 1937) is a British author and retired submarine lieutenant-commander. He is best known for his controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World in which he asserts that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng He visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492 and that the same fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan.
Hassan Sheikh Mumin.  Hassan Sheikh Mumin (Somali: Xasan Sheekh Muumiin Arabic: حسن الشيخ مؤمن‎) (b. 1931 - d. 16 January 2008) was a Somali poet playwright broadcaster actor and composer.
Liam Bailey.  Liam Bailey is an UK musician from Nottingham England. Bailey co-wrote & performed on the 2011 top 5 Chase & Status single Blind Faith. Following two EP releases Bailey's debut single You Better Leave Me was released the same year on Polydor Records.
Arturo Stable.  Arturo Stable (born July 7 1975) is a Cuban Master percussionist and composer. His diverse musical experience and unique sound have allowed him to work in many environments but is best known as a Latin Jazz percussionist. He has performed in many famous Jazz Festivals around the world such as the San Francisco Jazz Festival and Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival.
Wendy Shalit.  Wendy Shalit (/ʃəˈliːt/; born 1975) is an American conservative writer and author who has written the books A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue published by Free Press in 1999 and Girls Gone Mild: Young Rebels Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good published by Random House in 2007 and The Good Girl Revolution: Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards published by Random House in 2008.Born in Milwaukee Wisconsin she is the sister of writer Ruth Shalit and Mina Shalit. 
Dexter Romweber.  John Michael Dexter Romweber (born June 18 1966 in Batesville Indiana) is an American rockabilly/roots rock musician (primarily playing electric guitar) from Chapel Hill North Carolina. Dex is best known as one-half of the seminal two-piece Flat Duo Jets. He currently fronts the Dex Romweber Duo with his older sister Sara Romweber.
Brian Larsen.  Brian Larsen (born April 9 1986 in Laurel Maryland) is a multi-instrumentalist singer and record producer. Larsen has released ten albums eight under the name Twilight's Moon and two under his own name 2009's Breaking and 2012's Building. In late 2012 it was announced that Larsen's eleventh album would be titled Being and is to be released in early 2014.
Andy Powell.  Andy Powell (born Andrew Powell 19 February 1950 Stepney London) is an English guitarist and songwriter and best known as a founding member of Wishbone Ash. Alongside Wishbone Ash's other twin lead guitarist Ted Turner the pair were acknowledged as Two of the Ten Most Important Guitarists in Rock History (Traffic magazine 1989).
Zack Kim.  Zack Kim Yong Woon 	(born May 5 1983) or simply Zack Kim is a Korean guitarist who has become known for his mastery of technique called “free hands” which involves tapping the guitar strings with both the left and right hands simultaneously.
David Palfreyman.  David Palfreyman (born 26 September 1966) is an English actor musician songwriter and poet.His acting work includes productions for Sheffield Crucible Theatre Canal Cafe Theatre in Maida Vale and the Horla Theatre Company. TV and film work includes EastEnders Voice-Overs for BBC Newsnight Oi Queer and Brassed Off. He trained at Richmond Drama School and graduated in 2000.
Pedro Frugone.  Pedro Frugone is the former Guitarist of the now-defunct Chilean rock band La Ley. He replaced original guitarist Andrés Bobe after Bobe's death in 1994.
Mai Tachihara.  Mai Tachihara (立原 麻衣 Tachihara Mai) is a Japanese actress.
Steven Belledin.  Steven Belledin is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Hideko Mizuno.  Hideko Mizuno (水野英子 Mizuno Hideko born 29 October 1939 in Shimonoseki Yamaguchi Japan) is one of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists. She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō. She made her professional debut in 1956 with Akakke Pony. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970s starting with White Troika which serialized in Margaret in 1963.
William S. Gillies.  William S. Gillies (b. 1911 San Francisco – d. 2000) was an American artist letterer and type designer working in New York City.Gillies is best remembered as an illustrator for the covers of several books including the Ken Holt Mysteries Nancy Drew Mysteries and The Hardy Boys Mysteries. He also drew for Collier's Weekly magazine and Saturday Home magazine. He was also a gifted painter of portraits.
Maloy Lozanes.  Maria Lucia Moreno Lozañes (born 13 December 1976) better known by her stage name MaLoY is a Philippine-born German singer. She was the second female singer of the German Eurodance act Captain Jack from 1998 until 2000. After taking a break from the record music scene she returned in 2006 with the German DJ act Shaun Baker.
Valerio Varesi.  Valerio Varesi is an Italian author of crime novels. So far two of his novels have been published in English both of which were shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger. His novels have all been bestsellers in the original Italian.
Doris Gates.  Doris Gates (November 26 1901 – September 3 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction. Her novel Blue Willow about the experiences of Janey Larkin the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930's California is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner. A librarian in Fresno California Gates lived and worked among the people described in her novels. She is also known for her collections of Greek mythology.
Hugh Pendexter.  Hugh Pendexter (born 1875) was an American journalist novelist screenwriter. Pendexter began his career as a humorous writer; some of this early work was anthologised in Mark Twain's book Library of Humor and Wit. Pendexter's main body of fiction consisted of historical novels and Westerns for such publications as Adventure and Argosy.
Jen Delos Reyes.  Jen Delos Reyes is an artist originally from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Her research interests include the history of socially engaged art artist-run culture group work band dynamics folk music and artists’ social roles. Delos Reyes is the founder and director of Open Engagement an international conference on socially engaged art. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Portland State University where she teaches in the Art and Social Practice program.
Big Mike.  Michael Barnett better known by his stage name Big Mike or the motha phuckin Peterman is an American rapper from New Orleans Louisiana. He was originally a member of Convicts with Houston rapper Mr. 3-2. Its album would be the first of many releases Mike would put out on Houston-based Rap-A-Lot Records.
Ray Kennedy (country singer).  Ray Kennedy (born May 13 1954 in Buffalo New York) is an American country music artist. He has recorded two albums for Atlantic Records. His two Atlantic albums produced a total of four singles on the Hot Country Songs charts with 1991's What a Way to Go being his only top 40 country hit peaking at No. 10.Kennedy won a Grammy Award in 2005 in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category for production on Steve Earle's album The Revolution Starts Now.
Eliette Abécassis.  Éliette Abécassis (born January 27 1969) is a French writer of Moroccan descent. She is a professor of philosophy in Caen.Abécassis was born in Strasbourg. Her first book Qumran was released in 1996 after three years of research and has been translated into eighteen languages. Her second title L'Or et la cendre details the historical and mysterious murder of a Berlin theologian.
Neal Hellman.  Neal Hellman is a performer and teacher of the mountain dulcimer. He has been active in performing writing teaching and recording acoustic music for the past thirty years throughout the United States and Europe.In collaboration with Joe Weed Neal wrote the score for Princess Furball a children's video by Weston Woods which won a 1993 American Library Association Commendation.
Raymond Cilliers.  Raymond Cilliers is an South-African gospel and contemporary Christian recording artist. His career began in 1993 with his debut album Gloryland that reached gold status.
Jan Vayne.  Jan Vayne (pseudonym of Jan Veenje) (June 9 1966 in Zuidwolde Drenthe) is a Dutch pianist. For his 4th birthday he got his first piano lessons and he was winning competitions by the age of 10. In 1990 he obtained a soloists diploma from a conservatorium. Vayne has released several CDs and has performed many concerts. He performed at former President of the United States Bill Clinton's inaugural ball in 1997 at the Shakespeare Library Washington D.C.
Bernard Butler.  Bernard Joseph Butler (born 1 May 1970 Stamford Hill North London) is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged as a key player in the early Britpop era and is best known as the first guitarist and primary songwriter with Suede until 1994. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists.
Joey Silvera.  Joey Silvera (born Joseph Nassivera on December 20 1951) is an American pornographic actor and director.Joey Silvera has been involved in the American pornographic industry since the early 1970s. A native of upstate New York he got his start performing in San Francisco in 1974 and went on to appear in more than 1000 videos.
Oleg Mavromati.  Oleg Yurevich Mavromati (also known as Mavromatti; born February 5 1965 Volgograd) is a Russian artist-actionist and a filmmaker.
Jerry Butler.  Jerry Butler (born Jerry Butler Jr. December 8 1939 Sunflower Mississippi) is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the famed R&B vocal group The Impressions as well as a 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Butler is also an American politician. He serves as a Commissioner for Cook County Illinois having first been elected in 1985.
Elaine Kim (fashion designer).  Elaine Kim (born 1962) is an American fashion designer.
Trevor Boris.  Trevor Boris (born September 10 1978) is a Canadian comedian and writer from Selkirk Manitoba.
Giriraja Kavi.  Giriraja Kavi (Telugu: గిరిరాజ కవి) was a noted composer of Carnatic music who lived in the 18th century in the kingdom of Thanjavur. His hometown Tiruvarur lies in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu.Born into a pious but impoverished Telugu speaking smarta brahmin family belonging to the Mulukanadu sub-caste Giriraja Kavi rose to occupy a place of eminence in the court of the Maharaja of Thanjavur which in that era was a fountainhead of cultural talent.
Judy Baca.  Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20 1946) is an American Chicana artist activist and University of California Los Angeles professor of Chicana/o Studies in the School of Social Sciences and a professor of World Arts and Cultures in the School of Art and Architecture.
Locksmith (rapper).  Locksmith is a rapper of Iranian- (Persian) and African-American descents from Richmond California. He is one half of the underground duo The Frontline.
Thomas Campbell (poet).  Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London. In 1799 he wrote The Pleasures of Hope a traditional 18th century didactic poem in heroic couplets.
Jimmy Carr.  James Anthony Patrick Jimmy Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an English stand-up comedian television host and actor known for his signature laugh deadpan delivery dark humour and use of edgy one-liners. He is also a writer actor and presenter of radio and television. Carr moved to a career in comedy in 2000 and has become a successful comedian.
Tommy Flanagan.  Thomas Lee Flanagan (March 16 1930 – November 16 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit initially influenced by pianists Art Tatum Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole and then by the newer bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956 he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' landmark Saxophone Colossus.
Stephen Susco.  Stephen Susco is a film and television screenwriter who is most famous for writing the hit movies The Grudge and The Grudge 2.
Edwin Arnold.  Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSI (10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist who is most known for his work The Light of Asia.
Janet Morris.  Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25 1946) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a non-lethal weapons concept for the U.S. military.
Issa Bagayogo.  Issa Bagayogo (born 1961) is a Malian musician. He has released four full-length albums all under the record label Six Degrees Records. Bagayogo lends his voice and plays the kamele n'goni (a six-stringed West African instrument similar to a banjo) while Yves Wernert is the producer and keyboardist.
Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz.  Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852 – January 9 1916) was a Polish realist painter from around the turn-of-the-century best known for his battle-scenes portraits landscapes and paintings of horses. He was educated in Kraków in the Austrian sector of the Partitioned Poland. He died in the armed struggle for Poland's independence around Kraków during World War I.
Masami Kikuchi.  Masami Kikuchi (菊池 正美 Kikuchi Masami born April 24 1960 in Nagano) is a Japanese voice actor who works for Troubador Ongaku Jumusho.
Tiko Kerr.  Tiko Kerr (March 8 1953) an Canadian artist and activist whose works primarily reflect Western Canadian culture.
Yuki Kashiwagi.  Yuki Kashiwagi (柏木 由紀 Kashiwagi Yuki born July 15 1991 in Kagoshima Kagoshima Prefecture) is a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She auditioned for AKB48 on December 3 2006 and is now a member of Team B. She was previously the captain of Team B before she was replaced by Ayaka Umeda as the captain. She is also a member of AKB48 sub-group French Kiss. Her talent agency is Watanabe Productions. Her nickname is Yukirin.
Jane Wade.  Jane Wade (also known as Holman) (born c1966) is a Tyneside multi-talented singer/actress from Newcastle.
Edwin Deakin.  Edwin Deakin (May 21 1838– May 11 1923) was a British-American artist best known for his romantic landscapes which included Spanish missions and wild areas of the state of California. His still life works are also notable. Deakin is considered one of the more obscure artists of a small group that best represent the issues of representing China Town in art.
Olga Shapir.  Olga Andreyevna Shapir (Russian: Ольга Андреевна Шапир; October 9 1850 – July 13 1916) was a Russian writer and feminist.
Streetlife (rapper).  Patrick Charles better known by the stage name Streetlife is a hip hop artist who is a close associate of the Wu-Tang Clan particularly of Method Man. He was born in the Bronx moved to Houston Texas and later moved to Staten Island where he grew up.
Bridget Everett.  Bridget Everett is an American comedian writer actress and singer. Her material frequently focuses on shock value bawdy humor and discomforting sex references. She is known for being the opening and sometimes closing act for comedian Amy Schumer and for her performances in Sex and the City and Gayby.Bridget also fronts the not for the faint of heart rock / funk band Bridget and the Tender Moments who released their debut album Pound It in 2013. In 2009 she performed at the first U.S.
Ian Templeton.  Ian Campbell Templeton CNZM OBE (born 1929) is a veteran New Zealand political reporter who celebrated 50 years of reporting the New Zealand Parliament from the press gallery in 2007. He has written several books on politics. He was the only print journalist to get a weekly one-on-one briefing with Prime Minister Helen Clark.He was educated at King's High School Dunedin and completed an economics degree at the University of Otago.
Luther Kent.  Luther Kent (born June 23 1948) is an American blues singer based in New Orleans Louisiana. Kent is known for a big soulful voice and his big horn-based group Luther Kent & Trick Bag that mixed swinging blues with New Orleans R&B.
Kristina Wayborn.  Kristina Wayborn (born 24 September 1950) is a Swedish-born actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
Dan Kanter.  Daniel Joseph Dan Kanter (born on June 10 1981) is a musician songwriter and producer from Toronto Canada. He is the musical director and lead guitarist for Justin Bieber. Kanter co-wrote and co-produced the song Be Alright on Bieber's album Believe (Justin Bieber album) and co-produced his My Worlds Acoustic and Believe Acoustic.
Eric Ludy.  Eric Winston Ludy (born December 17 1970) is a bestselling author internationally recognized speaker and president of Ellerslie Mission Society. He is also the senior pastor at the Church at Ellerslie and the lead instructor at Ellerslie Leadership Training in Windsor Colorado. Since the mid-nineties Ludy has been a speaker at hundreds of conferences colleges and events as well as a guest on many popular media venues.
Mike McColl-Jones.  Mike McColl-Jones is a veteran comedy writer for Australian television. He wrote for Graham Kennedy Don Lane and Bert Newton.McColl-Jones is the author of My Funny Friends and Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember The King.
Leon Garfield.  Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television.
Earthquake (comedian).  Nathaniel Martin Stroman (born May 29 1963) best known as Earthquake is an African-American actor voice artist and comedian. He currently hosts his own radio show on WBLS 107.5 (http://www.wbls.com)Earthquake performed a half-hour HBO special as part of the series One Night Stand which first aired on August 26 2005. He also had a small role in Kevin Smith's film Clerks II and a supporting role in the film The Longshots.
Hetty Koes Endang.  Hajjah Hetty Koes Endang (born 6 August 1957) is an Indonesian kroncong singer. Her 1977 duet with Ajie Bandi Damai Tapi Gersang (Peaceful Yet Arid) was the first Indonesian song to win the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo. The song was selected by Rolling Stone Indonesia in 2009 as one of the best Indonesian songs of all time.
Emil Sjögren.  Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren (16 June 1853 Stockholm – 1 March 1918 Knivsta) was a Swedish composer.Born in Stockholm Sjögren entered the Stockholm Conservatory at the age of seventeen and later continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory.From 1890 he served as the organist at the Sankt Johannes kyrka in Stockholm until shortly before his death on 1 March 1918.Sjögren is remembered best for his lieder and piano music.
Llywelyn ab y Moel.  Llywelyn ab y Moel (died 1440) was a Welsh language poet and father of the poet Owain ap Llywelyn ab y Moel who lived in Llanwnnog north of Caersws Powys.Llywelyn is noted for his bardic debate between himself and Rhys Goch Eryri on the nature and origin of the poetic muse or awen.
Jeff Stone (author).  Jeff Stone is an American author best known for a series of Kung Fu themed books for teens called The Five Ancestors published by Random House.
Barrett Seaman.  Barrett Seaman is the co-author of Going For Broke: The Chrysler Story (Doubleday 1981) together with Michael Moritz and the author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess. It was published in 2005 by Wiley. Seaman is a former Time magazine correspondent White House correspondent and editor. He is a graduate and charter trustee of Hamilton College in Clinton New York.
John O'Kane Murray.  John O'Kane Murray (December 12 1847 – July 30 1885) was a noted physician and author. He was born in County Antrim Ireland in 1847. He came with his family to the United States in 1856. He attended St. John's College (now Fordham University) and became a physician. He also wrote several books including books on church history hagiography Irish poetry English literature and history. He died in Chicago in 1885.
Krishna Balagita.  Krishna Balagita popular by his first name Krishna(born March 26 1967 in Jakarta) is a Jakarta-born musician arranger and composer. He achieves his popularity through Ada Band a well-known band in Indonesia whose songs hit are Krishna’s own creation.
Victoria Holmes.  Victoria Vicky Holmes comes up with the ideas for the New York Times Bestselling Warriors books.
Peter Bowker.  Peter Bowker (born 1958) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the television serials Blackpool (2004) a musical drama about a shady casino owner; Occupation (2009) which follows three military servicemen adjusting to civilian life after a tour of duty in Iraq; and Desperate Romantics (2009) a biographical drama about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 2007 he adapted Blackpool for CBS as Viva Laughlin.
Enrico Intra.  Enrico Intra (born July 30 1935 Milan Italy) is an Italian jazz pianist composer conductor.During his long career Intra has collaborated with such notable musicians as Gerry Mulligan Franco Cerri Lee Konitz Milton Jackson Pino Presti Tullio De Piscopo David Liebman and others.
Pierre Lamo.  Pierre Lamo (died 1578) was an Italian painter mainly of histories. He was a pupil of Innocenzo da Imola. He died in Bologna.
Michael D. Ellison.  Michael D. Ellison (aka MIKE-E Mike Ellis Michael Ellison) is an African American recording artist. He is well-known for his slam poetry performances and his involvement with the Detroit Concert of Colors annual event.
Tyrone Edmond.  Tyrone Edmond (born Enoch Edmond in Cap-Haïtien Haiti) is a Haitian-born model.
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle.  Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (22 January 1819 – 31 October 1897) was an Italian writer and art critic.
Jan Staller.  Jan Staller is an American photographer who captures imagery of urban landscapes that focus on patterns of highway graveyards unfinished buildings and ongoing construction sites.
Kathryn Cramer.  Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16 1962) is an American science fiction writer editor and literary critic.
Chuck Patton.  Francis Chuck Patton is an African-American comic book artist and animator. He is best known in comics circles for his work on DC Comics' Justice League of America in the 1980s specifically for the period in which the team relocated to Detroit Michigan and was staffed with new multicultural super-heroes. With writer Gerry Conway Patton created Gypsy and Vibe as well as redesigning Vixen and Steel: The Indestructible Man.
Dan Barrett (musician).  Dan Barrett (born December 14 1955 in Pasadena California) is an American arranger cornetist and trombonist.The earliest mention of Dan Barrett was in the Melody Maker 10 February 1973 which reported that he played Ory's Creole Trombone at the end of Kid Ory's Funeral on 28 January that year.
Trygve Wiese.  Trygve Wiese (born March 15 1985 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian music artist. Trygve is best known for the football song «Me e Viking» on YouTube that was first performed during the opening ceremony of the new Viking Stadion May 1 2004. In front of 15300 spectators he played to capacity and made history. Before R.E.M. Before Bryan Adams.
George Dunn (publisher).  George Dunn was an influential American music publisher and lithographer. He entered the music publishing business in 1863 during the American Civil War and rapidly rode to prominence. His firm was George Dunn & Company and during the War Dunn published thirty-two works on his own and twenty-four with partner Julian A. Selby.Some of the company's more popular works include The Southern Soldier Boy God Save the Southern Land Ardent Recruit and A Gallant Boy.
Nicola Verlato.  Nicola Verlato (born February 19 1965) is an Italian-American visual artist based in Los Angeles California.
Luca Cattapani.  Luca Cattapani was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period active in his native Cremona. He was born about the year 1570 and was a pupil of one of the Campi. He painted a Decollation of St. John for the church of San Donato at Cremona.
William Safire.  William Lewis Safire (/ˈsæfaɪər/; December 17 1929 – September 27 2009) was an American author columnist journalist and presidential speechwriter.He was perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for the New York Times and the author of On Language in the New York Times Magazine a column on popular etymology new or unusual usages and other language-related topics from its inception.
Little Natali.  Natali (or Little Natali) started her musical career as a child prodigy singer from Cyprus and soon became a sensation throughout Europe. Born in 1988 to a Greek Cypriot father and an Australian mother Natali resides in Limassol and shares her home with her siblings Antonios and Janet. She attended Ayios Tychonas elementary school and also studied classical piano and music theory with the renowned musicologist Dr.
Richard Zenith.  Richard Zenith (born February 23 1956 Washington D.C.) is an American-Portuguese writer and translator winner of Pessoa's award in 2012.
Marcus Bourne Huish.  Marcus Bourne Huish (25 November 1843-4 May 1921) was an English barrister writer and art dealer.He was the son of Marcus Huish of Castle Donington and his wife Margaret Jane Bourne. His mother died in 1847 and in 1849 his father remarried Frances Sarah Darwin daughter of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin.He was a Japanophile.
Byam Shaw.  John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872 – 26 January 1919) commonly known as Byam Shaw was an Indian-born British painter illustrator designer and teacher.
Steve Requin.  Steve Requin (born Stéphane Johnson July 21 1968) is a Canadian comics artist and writer from Montréal in Québec Canada.
Vee F. Browne.  Vee F. Browne (Ganado Arizona 1956) is an American writer of children's literatureShe studied journalism at the New Mexico State University. She has worked as a journalist in Navajo Hopi Observer.
Joan Howard Maurer.  Joan Howard Maurer (born April 2 1927) is the daughter of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. She has written several books on the Three Stooges and appeared in a few films.She was married to cartoonist/director Norman Maurer until his death in 1986.Maurer currently resides in Seattle Washington and regularly attends Three Stooges conventions held yearly in Fort Washington Pennsylvania. Her sons Michael Maurer and Jeffrey Scott (Maurer) are both animation writers.
Evan Johns.  Evan Johns (b. 1955) is an American guitarist specializing in a variety of music including rockabilly.Johns was born in McLean Virginia and began his musical career in the Washington D.C. area. There Johns met and played with guitarist Danny Gatton writing three songs (including the title track) for Gatton’s 1978 album Redneck Jazz. After his stint with Gatton Johns founded his own band called the H-Bombs which became popular playing regular gigs in the DC area.
Anthony Armstrong Jones.  Ronnie Jones (born June 2 1949 in Ada Oklahoma; died June 16 1996) was an American country music singer known professionally as Anthony Armstrong Jones a stage name that he took from the name of the British photographer who married Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon. A former professional golfer Jones recorded four albums for Chart Records in that timespan in addition to charting six times in the Top 40 on the Billboard country singles charts. His debut single was a No.
James Wen.  James Wen (traditional Chinese: 溫昇豪; simplified Chinese: 温升豪; pinyin: Wēn Shēngháo; born 22 February 1978) is a Taiwanese actor model and former reporter. He is known for his supporting performance in Taiwanese drama My Queen for which he received one of his four Golden Bell Awards nominations. According to Yahoo! Search Wen was the 9th most searched celebrity from January to April 2009.
Sunny Leone.  Karenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13 1981) better known by her stage name Sunny Leone is an Indo-Canadian and American actress businesswoman model and former pornographic actress. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003 and was a contract star for Vivid Entertainment. Named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010 she has also played roles in independent mainstream films and television shows.
Frank J. Burgoyne.  Frank James Burgoyne (? – October 1913) was a British librarian and author. He was the Chief Librarian of Lambeth from 1887 until his death in 1913; an article in the South London Press said that under his care the Lambeth Libraries became the best equipped institutions of the kind in the Metropolis. An obituary in the Pall Mall Gazette said that in addition to several authoritative works on public library administration [he] published some important contributions to Baconian literature.
Arthur Hoyle.  Arthur Robert Hoyle (1922 - 2 May 2012) was an Australian historian and biographer. Born in Sydney Australia in 1922 to Arthur Hoyle (1896–1971) and Gertrude Underwood (1895–1972) he served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator during World War II with 460 Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Australia and married Moira Peisley (1924–1998).
Renate Stendhal.  Renate Stendhal (born Renate Neumann 1944) is a Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and writing coach. She serves as a provost for UIL (University for Integrative Learning) and is ordained by AIWP (Association for the Integration of the Whole Person). Born in Germany she spent half of her adult life in Paris and the other half in California (first in Berkeley now in Point Reyes. Her offices are in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sonia Faleiro.  Sonia Faleiro (born in Goa India) is an award-winning Indian reporter and writer. She grew up in New Delhi where she studied history at St. Stephen's College and received her master's degree from the University of Edinburgh. While in graduate school Faleiro started writing her first novel The Girl which was published by Penguin Viking in 2005. India Today magazine described the book as 'epic' 'dazzling' and 'strangely dark'.
Jack Lawrence (musician).  Little Jack Lawrence (born December 18 1976) is an American musician from Covington Kentucky currently living in Nashville Tennessee.
Sameen Qasim.  Sameen Qasim is a Pakistani musician from Lahore Pakistan. She was a part of the second season of the Pakistani musical show Nescafe Basement.
Brian Littrell.  Brian Thomas Littrell (born February 20 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist and released a solo album Welcome Home in 2006. Brian has four Top 20 solo singles in the US Christian chart.Littrell was also a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.
Lizzie Allen Harker.  Lizzie Allen Harker (née Watson; 1863 – 14 April 1933) was an English author.Amongst her works are Marigold (with Francis R. Pryor) which was turned into a 1938 film Marigold.She was born at Gloucester and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College. She was the wife (married 1885) and later widow of James Allen Harker (1847–1894) professor at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester. Their sons were Oswald Allen Harker (1886–1968) and Brig.
McKenzie Lee.  McKenzie Lee (born 16 May 1979 in Leicester England) is a British pornographic actress.
Kevin Godley.  Kevin Godley (born Kevin Michael Godley 7 October 1945 Prestwich Lancashire England) is a British musician and music video director.He was born in a family of Jewish descent and went to North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham.The first band Kevin was part of was Group 17 which had its origins in the Jewish Lads Brigade (The JLB).
Helen Ferrers.  Helen Ferrers (1869–1943) was a British actress. She was the daughter of a London coal merchant and the younger sister of the actress May Fortescue. She was married to the actor Eugène François Mayeur who died in 1918 having given her one daughter Mary Helen Mayeur.
Talbot Baines Reed.  Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the second half of the 20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper (B.O.P.) in which most of his fiction first appeared.
David Madden (musician).  David Madden (born 1943) is a Jamaican trumpeter known for his solo recordings and as a member of Zap Pow as well as playing on records of Bob Marley and many other great reggae artists.
L.O.C. (rapper).  Liam O'Connor (born 10 July 1979) is a Danish rapper more commonly known as L.O.C. He is the son of Danish Susan Nygaard O'Connor and Irish Dermot O'Connor. He is a former member of Alzheimer Klinikken (The Alzheimer Clinic) and B.A.N.G.E.R.S. and in 2009 he formed the Selvmord (Suicide) along with the Danish band Suspekt. He is the best-selling rapper in Denmark having sold more than 150000 albums.
Michel Berger.  Michel Berger (28 November 1947 – 2 August 1992) born Michel Jean Hamburger was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday.He died of a heart attack at the age of 44.
Edmonia Lewis.  Edmonia Lewis (ca. July 4 1844 – September 17 1907) was an American sculptor who worked for most of her career in Rome. She gained fame and recognition as a sculptor in the international fine arts world.
Åke Lindström.  Åke Lindström (22 July 1928 – 26 December 2002) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001.
Terry Walsh (actor).  Terry Walsh (5 May 1939 - 21 April 2002) was a British actor stuntman stunt arranger and fight arranger who contributed much to British television and film especially during the 1970s. He stunt-doubled for Michael Caine Jon Pertwee Tom Baker and David Warner amongst others.Walsh is known for his work on the science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He worked on the show from 1966 to 1979.
Alina Szapocznikow.  Alina Szapocznikow (Polish pronunciation: [ʂapɔt͡ʂˈɲikɔf]; sometimes called Szaposznikow; May 16 1926 – March 2 1973) was a Polish sculptor.As a Jew she was imprisoned in the Pabianice and Łódź Ghettos and in Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt German Nazi concentration camps. She was the wife of Polish graphic designer Roman Cieślewicz. She produced casts of her body and later of her son's body.Szapocznikow was born in Kalisz in 1926 to a Jewish medical family.
Ragnhild Magerøy.  Ragnhild Magerøy (9 July 1920 – 16 November 2010) was a Norwegian novelist essayist and poet. She made her literary début in 1957 with the novel Gunhild the first in a novel trilogy from the rural society in the 19th century. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1975.
Obsession (pornographic actress).  Obsession (born September 29 1976) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress.In 2001 she appeared in the groundbreaking blockbuster hit Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle.In 2011 Complex magazine ranked her at #15 on their list of The Top 50 Hottest Black Porn Stars Of All Time.
D.J. D.  D.J. D or alternatively D.J. Dee (born 1969) was an American DJ and briefly a member of the old school hip hop/electro funk/dance music group Mantronix during the group's later years. D.J. Dee is Kurtis Mantronik's cousin and appeared on one Mantronix album 1990's This Should Move Ya before he was ultimately replaced by singer Jade Trini on Mantronix's final album in 1991.
Ron Heung.  Adrian 'Ron' Heung Tze-Chun (born 1985) is a Hong Kong baseball player actor and art director. He has appeared in a lead role in two films and as a supporting player in two others. He was also art director for the film Permanent Residence in 2009 and in the same year appeared in the Hong Kong action film Rebellion (2009) as Chung. The following year he worked in the art department for Amphetamine.
Sean O'Dwyer (artist).  Sean O'Dwyer (b. 4 December 1964) is an Irish painter and sculptor.Sean O'Dwyer was born in Nenagh County Tipperary and educated in Dublin. He studied at the National College of Art and Design graduating in 1989 with a Higher Diploma in Art & Design.
Kim Eon.  Kim Eon is a Korean poet.
Vicky Kaya.  Vicky Kayas (Greek: Βίκυ Καγιά; born July 4 1978 in Athens) is a Greek model television presenter and occasional actress who has appeared on the covers of numerous international fashion magazines such as Vogue Esquire Madame Figaro Marie Claire and Elle.She is currently hosting the Greek equivalent of America's Next Top Model Next Top Model (Greece).
Dave Couse.  Dave Couse is a musician producer and radio DJ. He was the lead singer and main song writer with Irish band A House and has released three albums as a solo artist. He is recognized for the honesty and cleverness of his lyrics as well as an often caustic irony and a tendency sometimes to write songs in the form of lists.
Saber Rebaï.  Saber Rebaï (Arabic: صابر الرباعي‎ transliteration Saber al Ruba'i; born 13 March 1967 in Sfax Tunisia) is a Tunisian pan-Arab singer and composer that enjoys popularity throughout the Arab World and internationally with concerts in Europe the Americas and Asia. He is mostly known for his song Sidi Mansour. Some albums carry the variant transliteration Saber el Rebaii. He has been signed since 2004 to the pan-Arab record label Rotana.
Herman Brood.  Hermanus Herman Brood (pronounced Hairmon Broat /bro:t/; 5 November 1946 – 11 July 2001) was a Dutch musician painter actor poet and media personality.
Syu.  Syu (シュウ Shū) is a Japanese musician best known as leader and guitarist of metal band Galneryus but also performs guitar and lead vocals in Spinalcord (formerly known as Aushvitz) and was formerly a member of Animetal. On September 29 2010 he released a cover album named Crying Stars -Stand Proud!- covering songs from Scorpions Stratovarius Yngwie Malmsteen Skid Row M.S.G. Racer X and more.
Scott B. Sympathy.  Scott Bradshaw who records as Scott B. Sympathy is a Canadian indie rock musician. He released several albums with his eponymously named band in the 1990s and subsequently became a member of Stratochief following the 1999 death of that band's singer Greg McConnell.The name Scott B.
Jerry Wilkerson.  Jerry Oliver Wilkerson (September 5 1943 in Texas – June 2 2007) was a St. Louis Missouri artist known for his contemporary pointillistic style of painting and as a supporter of local business and talent. After completing his BS at Lamar University in Beaumont Texas in 1966 Wilkerson obtained his MFA (1968) from Washington University in St. Louis Missouri. He settled in St. Louis following military service in the Army from 1968 - 1970. Wilkerson exhibited at galleries in St.
Andreas of Ratisbon.  Andreas of Ratisbon (sometimes Andreas of Regensburg) was a historian of the later 14th and early 15th century. All that is known concerning him is gathered from the scanty particulars given in his works. He was ordained priest at Eichstätt in 1405 and joined the Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Ratisbon in 1410 where he devoted himself to historical studies.
Eiluned Lewis.  Janet Eiluned Lewis (1 November 1900 – 15 April 1979) was a Welsh novelist poet and journalist.Born in Penstrowed near Newtown Montgomeryshire Lewis was educated at Levana School Wimbledon and Westfield College London. She had a long period of work on the Sunday Times where she became assistant editor and from 1944 until her death in 1979 she also wrote for the magazine Country Life.In 1937 Lewis married William Graeme Hendrey and they had one daughter Katrina.
Bernard Gruver.  Bernard Gruver (Born: June 25 1923 - Died: June 14 1985) was best known as one of the original animators of the Peanuts cartoon series. He also was an animation professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema. He died of pneumonia following treatment for leukemia in 1985. Happy New Year Charlie Brown was dedicated to him.
Yuri Nagibin.  Yuri Markovich Nagibin (Russian: Ю́рий Ма́ркович Наги́бин; April 3 1920 – June 17 1994) was a Soviet writer screenwriter and novelist.He is best known for his screenplays but he also has written several novels and novellas and many short stories. He is known for his novel The Red Tent that he later adapted for the screenplay for the film of the same name.
Ennis Rees.  Ennis Samuel Rees Jr. (March 17 1925 – March 24 2009) was an American poet and professor. He was named by Governor Richard Wilson Riley as the third South Carolina Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1985.
Cosculluela.  José Fernando Cosculluela Suárez (born October 15 1980) is a singer from Puerto Rico.
Giannis Ploutarhos.  Giannis Ploutarhos (Greek: Γιάννης Πλούταρχος; born 18 December 1970) is a popular Greek singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the most popular laïko singers of his time and has been characterized with having a genuine laïko voice. To date he has released 11 studio albums along with one greatest hits album.
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.  Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (born 1954 in California and raised in Nebraska residing near San Jose California) is a versatile author and performer best known for her science fiction and fantasy works. Bohnhoff also writes magic realism nonfiction and has written and performed music professionally or semi-professionally since 1979 — generally folk or rock music and since the 1990s more specifically filk and parody music styles — with her husband Jeff Bohnhoff.
Karl Hubenthal.  Karl Hubenthal (1917–1998) was a cartoonist who did both editorial and sports cartoons.
Allen Shellenberger.  Allen Shellenberger (September 15 1969 – August 13 2009) was an American drummer who played in the band Lit.
Todd Parr.  Todd Parr (born July 9 1962) is an American children's author and illustrator. Parr grew up in Rock Springs Wyoming and later moved to San Francisco California in 1995 where he pursued a career as an artist. He has also worked as a flight attendant before becoming a full-time author.In November 2005 the preschool television show he created ToddWorld premiered on TLC and Discovery Kids.
Claire Drainie Taylor.  Claire Drainie Taylor née Wodlinger (September 11 1917 - November 2009) was a Canadian actor and writer who wrote and acted in radio and television productions for CBC Radio from the 1930s through the 1960s.Born and raised in Swift Current Saskatchewan she briefly married Jack Murray as a teenager moving with him to Vancouver Island before divorcing him at age 21.
Carlos Moore (writer).  Carlos Moore (born Charles Moore Wedderburn in Cuba 4 November 1942) is a writer researcher and social scientist (with two doctorates from the University of Paris 7 France) dedicated to African and Afroamerican history and culture.He is internationally known for combating racism and defending pan-Africanism and for writing the authorized biography of the Nigerian singer saxophonist and activist Fela Kuti Fela Fela: This Bitch of a Life which inspired the stage musical Fela!
Alex Gopher.  Alex Gopher (born Alexis Latrobe) is a French DJ who composes electronic dance music and house.
Hooman Khalatbari.  Hooman Khalatbari (Persian: هومن خلعتبری) is an Iranian-Austrian pianist and music conductor.
Geneva Cruz.  Geneva Mendoza Cruz who is better known by her screen name Geneva Cruz (born April 2 1976) is a multi-awarded Filipina singer and actress. Cruz was a member of the defunct music group Smokey Mountain.
Hans Holbein the Elder.  Hans Holbein (c. 1460–1524) was a German painter.
Karoline Hausted.  Karoline Hausted is a Danish pianist and songwriter. In 2003 she was featured on Danish National Radio's Karrierekanonen CD Compilation. Also at this time she released the album Down to The River with the band Salley Gardens In 2008 Karoline released her solo album Double Silence on her own label; Blush Music.
Monika Christodoulou.  Monika Christodoulou (Greek: Μόνικα born May 26 1985 in Athens Greece) also known by her stage name Monika is a Greek singer-songwriter. She sings and plays the piano guitar saxophone accordion and drums. Monika’s debut album “Avatar” was released in 2008 and her second album “Exit” followed in 2010. Both albums achieved platinum status.
Alexx Calise.  Alexx Calise is an American guitarist singer and song writer. She is best known for her solo work and her other musical project Sound Of Cancer.
Robert Post (musician).  Robert Post (born Robert Øien Fylling 1979 Langevåg Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. Post won two awards Best Male Artist and Best Video at Norway's equivalent of the Grammys Spellemannprisen in 2005 for his debut album. He has also toured with Aimee Mann Rufus Wainwright Ray Lamontagne Texas Natalie Imbruglia and Jason Mraz.Post debuted with a worldwide release of his eponymous debut album in August 2005.
Minerva Bloom.  Minerva Bloom is a bilingual poet and nature photographer born in 1959 in Tinguindin Michoacán a small town nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. She has been living and is a citizen of the USA since 1983 and writes poetry both in English and her native Spanish language. She currently resides in the state of Florida.Minerva Bloom has published books of poetry and photography and has contributed for several international poetry and art anthologies.
Leigh Gorman.  Leigh Gorman (born 1961) is an English rock musician record producer and composer best known for his work as the bass player for Bow Wow Wow.
Ayşegül Abadan.  Ayşegül Abadan (born 21 June 1980) is a Turkish pianist.
Willie Mabon.  Willie Mabon (October 24 1925 – April 19 1985) was an American R&B singer songwriter and pianist.
Ariana Jollee.  Ariana Jollee is an award-winning American pornographic actress and director.
Ricky Ian Gordon.  Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15 1956) is an American composer of songs stage musicals and opera.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain.  Máirtín Ó Cadhain ([ˈmɑːrtʲiːnʲ oː ˈkainʲ]; 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century.
Tess Mattisson.  Tess Mattisson (born February 13 1978) is a Swedish singer. Her mother is of Swedish/Belgian origin and her father of Finnish/Indian origin. She worked as a dancer and back-up singer for Rob'n'Raz Dr. Alban Basic Element and Drömhus. Before pursuing a solo career she and DJ/producer Andréz formed the eurodance duo La Cream. She has also studied French for three years.
Torgrim Sørnes.  Torgrim Sørnes (born March 2 1956 in Moss) is a Norwegian physician historian and author who has written extensively on Norwegian social and forensic history.
Hans Blum.  For the songwriter see Henry Valentino.Hans Blum (June 8 1841 Leipzig - January 30 1910 Rheinfelden) was a German journalist and writer.
Mel Miller (comedian).  Mel Miller (born 14 October 1943) is a South African stand-up comedian and celebrity.With friend Mel Green Mel Miller began his career in 1963 as the comedy duo Mel and Mel. He also worked as a radio actor on the programmes Jet Jungle The World of Hammond Innes Marriage Lines and Squad Cars for Springbok Radio.With the launch of television in South Africa in 1976 Miller became famous for his appearance in the comedy Biltong and Potroast.
Wolfgang Van Halen.  Wolfgang William Van Halen (born March 16 1991) is an American musician. He is the bassist for Van Halen having replaced Michael Anthony in 2006. On September 11 2012 he joined the Mark Tremonti solo band as bassist for their first tour.
Naum Gabo.  Naum Gabo KBE born Naum Neemia Pevsner (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890 – 23 August 1977) (Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.
Krassimir Avramov.  Krassimir Avramov (Bulgarian: Красимир Аврамов) born November 5 1972 in Sliven Bulgaria is a singer and songwriter.
Frank Liddell.  Frank Liddell (born in Houston Texas United States) is an American record producer. A former artists and repertoire director at Decca Records he founded Carnival Music in 1999. Liddell is also married to singer Lee Ann Womack for whom he has produced.
Ron Garmon.  Ron Garmon is an American journalist rock critic and short story writer who served as Arts Editor for L.A. CityBeat during its last ten months of publication. He resides in Los Angeles.Garmon's lyrical oft-hallucinatory writings have been a fixture in L.A. rock journalism since the late 1990s through his scene columns in Mean Street L.A. Record and L.A. CityBeat. While at L.A. CityBeat Garmon interviewed Jimmy Carter Edward Albee Carl Reiner and many more.
Srikanto Acharya.  Srikanto Acharya is a Kolkata-based modern Bengali singer-songwriter and music director.
Diego Siloe.  Diego Siloe or Diego de Siloé (c. 1495 - 1563) was a Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor progenitor of the Granadan school of sculpture. He developed the majority of his work in Andalusia.
Frida Öhrn.  Frida Öhrn born February 24 1979 raised in Solna Sweden is a Swedish singer. She is the singer of Indie-pop band Oh Laura and one of the three singers in the band Cookies 'N' Beans performing in the Swedish Melodifestivalen (Eurovision Song Contest qualifier) in 2009 with What If and in 2013 with Burning Flags. She is also known for several well-received collaborations with a variety of Swedish musicians where she performs mainly in Swedish. She also plays harmonica.
James Herbert.  James John Herbert OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. A full-time writer he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages including Chinese and Russian.
Hugh Sinclair (actor).  Hugh Sinclair (19 May 1903 – 29 December 1962) was a British actor born in London England the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Charterhouse School and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first marriage was to the actress Valerie Taylor. In his book The Stage Struck Me! fellow actor Neville Phillips felt Sinclair always played variations of himself handsome debonair suave and witty and excelled in light comedy.
Sigurd Wallén.  Sigurd Wallén (1 September 1884 - 20 March 1947) was a Swedish actor film director and singer.
Dirk van der Burg.  Dirk van der Burg (10 August 1721 — 2 July 1773) was a Dutch 18th century artist landscape painter and watercolourist.He was born in Utrecht on 10 August 1721. He drew landscapes some of which are currently in the Centraal Museum of Utrecht. He made especially sketches and drawings of towns villages and castles but also portraits. His works include landscapes of the Utrecht region: Leerdam (1743) and in 1749: Hagestein Vianen Tiel Rijswijk and de Lek.
Babette Deutsch.  Babette Deutsch (September 22 1895 – November 13 1982) was an American poet critic translator and novelist.
Alison Lester.  Alison Lester born on 17 November 1952 is an Australian author and illustrator. She has published over 25 children's picture books and 2 young adult novels; The Quickstand Pony and The Snow Pony. In 2005 Alison won the CBCA Picture Book of the Year for her children's book Are We There Yet?: A Journey around Australia. Her books have been published worldwide. Alison grew up in the country and has always loved horse riding and reading.
Rina Banerjee.  Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is a Manhattan-based artist. Banerjee's work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Whitney Museum of American Art.Banerjee was born in a Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1963. She grew up in London and New York and has lived in the United States ever since. She has an MFA in Painting and Print Making from Yale School of Art Yale University.
P. W. Catanese.  Paul Catanese is an American author and advertising writer that writes under the pseudonym P. W. Catanese. Catanese is best known for his Books of Umber series which has been mostly well received. As a teenager Catanese attended Trumbull High School in Trumbull Connecticut later attending the University of Connecticut and taking a job with an advertising company in Glastonbury Connecticut.
Holly McNarland.  Holly McNarland (born October 23 1975 in The Pas Manitoba raised in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian musician singer and songwriter.She collaborated with Matthew Good on the song Flight Recorder From Viking 7 from the album Loser Anthems as well as on the song Pony Boy from Matthew Good's greatest hits package In a Coma.
Debby Boone.  Deborah Anne Debby Boone (born September 22 1956) is an American singer author and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit You Light Up My Life which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again.
Steven Sivyer.  Steven Sivyer (born 1974) is a composer and organist currently based in Kent. He is the director of music at St. Mary of Charity Faversham Parish Church and runs a successful church choir.[1][2] The choir has received many awards from the RSCM including the highest Gold Award with two successful candidates in 2007. The choir regularly tours various cathedrals across England.
Virgilio Dávila.  Virgilio Dávila (January 28 1869 - August 22 1943) was a Puerto Rican poet from the modern literary era educator politician and businessman.
Ellen Gilchrist.  Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20 1935) is an American novelist short story writer and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories Victory Over Japan.
Jamie N Commons.  Jamie N Commons (born 22 October 1988 in Bristol England) is a British blues rock and folk musician based in New Cross London.
Marc Storace.  Marc Storace (Sto-rah-chey) is a Maltese rock vocalist and songwriter. His career in music started in the 1960s but he is most noted for his position as frontman lead singer and songwriter of Swiss hard rock band Krokus from 1980. Before joining Krokus he sang with the Swiss progressive rockers TEA following smaller bands - including one he had formed himself in London. He has since also undertaken a solo project duets and an acoustical project.
Johan Svärdshammar.  Johan Svärdshammar (born in Stockholm - September 21 1974) is composer guitarist and backing vocalist in the bands Waves under Water and LinaLaukaR which he founded together with Angelica Segerbäck. In the past he has also played in other band formations such as Cynthia Leech.In 2007 Johan wanted to form a new group with a female vocalist and asked Angelica if she would be interested in trying to sing to a few of his songs.
U. Srinivas.  Uppalapu Shrinivas (Telugu: ఉప్పలపు శ్రీనివాస్) (born February 28 1969) is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. Shrinivas plays an electric mandolin and has collaborated with John McLaughlin Michael Nyman and Michael Brook. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2010.
George B. Loomis.  George B. Loomis was an American music teacher who began teaching in Indianapolis Indiana in 1866. He was recommended for the position by Lowell Mason a prestigious American music educator and worked for several years without instructional materials. In response to this void he created Loomis' Progressive Music Lessons a series of texts widely used in Indiana and surrounding states during the late 19th century.
Darwin Hobbs.  Darwin Hobbs is an American gospel music singer noted for his vocal similarity to classic soul singer Luther Vandross. In addition to his career as a gospel artist Hobbs and his ensemble The Darwin Hobbs Choir have also performed both studio and live background vocals for artists such as Switchfoot Jars of Clay BeBe Winans Marvin Winans CeCe Winans Michael W. Smith T.D. Jakes Shirley Murdock Michael McDonald and countless others.
André Lhote.  André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French sculptor and painter of figure subjects portraits landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
Eric Mercury.  Eric Mercury is a Canadian singer songwriter and musician. He was born and raised in Toronto Ontario into a family of musicians. He performed with groups including The Pharaohs and Eric Mercury and the Soul Searchers in the 1960s and moved to New York in 1968 to perform by himself. His debut solo album was recorded in 1969.
Antoine-Laurent Baudron.  Antoine-Laurent Baudron (1742 Amiens – 1834 Paris) was a French musician and composer. He was the head violinist in the orchestra of the Comédie Française and wrote the original music for The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais. He also wrote the first known French violin quartets.
Cheb Aziz.  Cheb Aziz born Bechiri Boudjema (1968 – 20 September 1996) was an Algerian musician and performer. Aziz was a very popular singer and performer across North Africa. He was known to play Algerian musical genres such as Staifi and Chaoui.
Ottavio Semini.  Ottavio Semini (c. 1530-1604) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance.He was born and trained in Genoa and died in Milan. He was the son and pupil of Antonio Semini and was influenced by Perino del Vaga. Aided his brother Andrea in many works but was obliged to leave Genoa on account of a homicide and rape and afterwards led a dissipated life in Milan. He helped paint for the chapel of San Girolamo in St. Angelo in Milan.
Mags L Halliday.  Liz Halliday (born 1971) is an author who writes under the name Mags L Halliday in Doctor Who-series of science fiction. She is distinct from the writer Liz Holliday who has also contributed to Doctor Who-related science fiction. Her published work includes the Doctor Who novel History 101 (2002) and contributions to the Faction Paradox series including the novel Warring States (2005).
Bassic.  Martin Bassic Lindhe (born 20 January 1971 Borås Sweden) is a Swedish musician and composer working a style that blends electronica ambient and dance. His music is often progressive and suggestive in nature. He is best known for his string of hits on the music website mp3.com where he during a period of almost two years was one of the most downloaded artists in the genres electronica new age mood music and progressive trance.
Harvey Sachs.  Harvey Sachs (born Cleveland Ohio June 8 1946) is an American-Canadian-Swiss writer who has written many books on musical subjects.
Amir Tataloo.  Amir Hossein Maghsoudlou better known by his stage name Amir Tataloo is an Iranian musician. He was born on September 21 1988 in Majidiye Tehran. Amir attended elementary school years in Rasht but moved to Tehran again and to work and study at the same time.
Karim Alrawi.  Karim Alrawi (Arabic كريم الراوي; born September 9 1958) is a writer born in Alexandria Egypt. His family emigrated to England then to Canada. Alrawi graduated from University College London and the University of Manchester England.
Mariko Ebralidze.  Mariko Ebralidze (Georgian: მარიკო ებრალიძე; born 1984) is a Georgian jazz singer who will represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 along with the group The Shin with the song Three Minutes to Earth.Born in Tbilisi Ebralidze studied at the Zakaria Paliashvili music college and the Pedagogical Institute of Music Arts and received a Bachelor's degree as a soloist and teacher in 2008. She had gained popularity in Georgia as a jazz singer.
Aslı Gökyokuş.  Aslı Gökyokuş (born October 26 1977 İstanbul) is a Turkish singer.
Jesús Maria Sanromá.  Jesús María Sanromá (November 7 1902-October 12 1984) was a Puerto Rican pianist. He is considered by many to be one of the 20th century's most accomplished and important pianists.
Wentworth Smith.  Wentworth Smith (1571 – in or after 1614) was a minor English dramatist of the Elizabethan period who may have been responsible for some of the plays in the Shakespeare Apocrypha though no work known to be his is extant.
David Rowley.  David Rowley is an English writer specialising in the Beatles music.He is the author of Beatles For Sale (Mainstream Publishing 2002) Help 50 songwriting recording and career tips used by the Beatles (Matador 2008) and All Together Now the abc of the Beatles songs and albums (Matador 2013).
Bessie Brown.  Bessie Brown (1890 – 1955) also known as The Original Bessie Brown was an American classic female blues jazz and cabaret singer. She sometimes recorded under the pseudonyms of Sadie Green Caroline Lee and possibly Helen Richards. Brown was active as a recording artist from 1925 to 1929.
David Bollier.  David Bollier is an American activist writer and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute.
İlhan Mimaroğlu.  İlhan Mimaroğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈilhan mimaɾˈoːɫu] March 11 1926 – July 17 2012) was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul Turkey the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes denomination 20 lira of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by a Rockefeller Scholarship.
Odd Nordstoga.  Odd Nordstoga (born 1972) is a musician actor and editor from Vinje in Telemark Norway. In 2004 he went from relative obscurity to becoming the country's biggest selling recording artist with the phenomenal success of his first solo album proper Luring. The album a fusion of pop and Norwegian folk music has sold more than 160000 copies in Norway to date and earned him several Spellemannsprisen awards.
Christian Älvestam.  Gunnar Christian Älvestam (Born April 14 1976 in Sweden) is a vocalist lyricist guitarist bassist and drummer for several bands from Sweden. He is however best known as the former vocalist for the Swedish metal band Scar Symmetry. He currently performs with several bands including Solution .45 and Miseration and has made several guest appearances for other music bands. He is most known in the metal community for possessing both an extreme clean singing range and an ability to growl.
François Cosset.  François Cosset (Picardy c.1610 - c.1673) was a French composer. His works include 8 masses 4 of them composed at Reims in 1659.
Rocky Burnette.  Rocky Burnette (born Jonathan Burnette 12 June 1953) is an American rock and roll singer/musician and the son of rock and roll pioneer Johnny Burnette. He is best known for his 1980 hit single Tired of Toein' the Line.
Ahmed Shawqi.  Ahmed Shawqi (1868–1932) (Arabic: أحمد شوقي‎ Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔæħmæd ˈʃæwʔi]) also written as Ahmed Chawki nicknamed Amīr al-Shu‘arā’ (Arabic: أمير الشعراء‎ which literally means the prince of poets) was one of the greatest Arabic poets laureate an Egyptian poet and dramatist who pioneered the modern Egyptian literary movement most notably introducing the genre of poetic epics to the Arabic literary tradition.
Hisham Matar.  Hisham Matar (Arabic: هشام مطر‎) (born 1970)is a Libyan writer. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar’s essays have appeared in the Asharq Alawsat The Independent The Guardian The Times and The New York Times. His second novel Anatomy of a Disappearance was published on 3 March 2011. He currently lives and writes in London.
Denise Faro.  Denise Faro was born in Italy in August 1988. She is a singer and actress with a good career in Italy and Latin America. Denise is fluent in both Italian and Spanish.
Don Nix.  Don Nix (born September 27 1941 Memphis Tennessee) is a songwriter composer arranger musician and author. Although cited as being obscure he is a key figure in several genres of Southern rock and Soul R&B and the Blues. He was instrumental in the creation of the trademark Memphis soul and Stax Records.A native of Memphis Tennessee Nix began his career playing saxophone for The Mar-Keys which also featured Steve Cropper Duck Dunn and others.
Carl August Lebschée.  Carl August Lebschée (1800 - 1877) was a German a painter etcher and lithographer born at Schmiegel (modern Śmigiel Poland). He studied at Munich where his parents settled in 1807. He painted landscapes and architecture in oil and watercolours and designed in the style of different masters. His etchings are executed with great spirit and he signed with the initials C. L. or a monogram. He died at Munich.
Larry Goldings.  Larry Goldings (born 1968) is an American pianist organist producer/arranger and composer.
John Ballem.  John Bishop Ballem (1925 - 2010) was a Canadian murder mystery/thriller novelist. While best known for his novels about the oil industry and private law Ballem was also a naval air force pilot assistant professor specialist in the oil industry and private law lawyer. He was an acknowledged legal authority on oil and gas and winner of the Petroleum Law Foundation Prize in 1973.
Jennifer Ouellette.  Jennifer Ouellette (born May 17 1964) is a science writer based in Los Angeles California. Her writings are aimed at mainstream audiences unfamiliar with complex scientific issues.
Nicolas Vallet.  Nicolas Vallet (ca. 1583 – ca. 1642) was a Dutch lutenist and composer of French birth.Vallet a Huguenot was born at Corbeny Aisne but fled from France to the Netherlands for religious reasons. In Amsterdam he worked as a self-supporting musician lute-teacher and as the owner of a dance school.His primary work Le Secret des Muses contains compositions and instruction for the 10-string Renaissance lute. It appeared in two parts in 1615 and 1616.
Gladys Buchanan Unger.  Gladys Buchanan Unger (September 16 1884 or 1885 – May 25 1940) was an American author who also lived in England and who wrote screenplays for Broadway plays for the London stage and for Hollywood films.
Cosey Fanni Tutti.  Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Newby 4 November 1951) is a performance artist and musician best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.Her name came about in 1973 before which she performed under the name Cosmosis. According to John Ford Cosey Fanni Tutti was suggested to her by mail artist Robin Klassnick and it comes from the opera Così fan tutte meaning literally They [women] all do the same.
Mariko Takahashi (singer).  Mariko Takahashi (高橋 真梨子 Takahashi Mariko born March 6 1949 in Hiroshima Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese female singer. She is known for her ballad pop songs. She began her singing career in 1973 singing covers but soon progressed to writing her own songs.
Francis Bicknell Carpenter.  Francis Bicknell Carpenter (August 6 1830 – May 23 1900) was an American painter born in Homer New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln which is hanging in the United States Capitol. Carpenter resided with President Lincoln at the White House and in 1866 published his one volume memoir Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. Carpenter was a descendant of the New England Rehoboth Carpenter Family.
Peter Bacho.  Peter Bacho is a writer and teacher best known for his book Cebu which won the American Book Award. His book is defined as Filipino American literature because of its explorations in themes such as neocolonialism and Filipino-American identity.Bacho also won the Washington Governor’s Writers Award for Dark Blue Suit a collection of stories. Many of Bacho's books deal with the Filipino experience in the United States.
Barbara Lee (singer).  Barbara Lee (May 16 1947 – May 15 1992) was a member of girl group the Chiffons.She was born in the Bronx New York and died one day short of her 45th birthday of a heart attack on May 15 1992.
Asa Aarons.  Asa Aarons (born October 20 1956) co-creator of Just Ask Asa! is a consumer reporter and photojournalist. His reports focus on the problems concerns and realities of everyday life ranging from false advertising claims to credit card rip-offs and business swindles. Aarons has appeared on television stations in cities including New York City Detroit and Pittsburgh.
Mıgırdiç Civanyan.  Mıgırdiç Civanyan (Born Constantinople Ottoman Empire 1848 - died Istanbul Ottoman Turkey February 14 1906) was an Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.
Jeff Berlin.  Jeff Berlin (born Queens New York January 17 1953 is an American jazz fusion electric bass player.
Sterling Gates.  Sterling Gates (born March 1 1981 in Tulsa Oklahoma) is an American comic book writer currently working for DC Comics.
Nina Girado.  Marifil Niña Girado (born November 1 1980) better known by her stage name Nina is a Filipino pop/R&B singer occasional songwriter record producer TV and radio personality. She made her recording debut in 2002 after signing a recording contract with Warner Music Philippines. Following the release of her debut album she received numerous awards from different organizations and multiple album certifications by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI).
Ariel Lin.  Ariel Lin (Chinese: 林依晨; pinyin: Lín Yī Chén; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm I-sîn Hakka: Lim Yi Sen) was born 29 October 1982. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer who won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd and 47th Golden Bell Awards. She majored in Korean and Literature at National Chengchi University Taiwan.
Yuridia.  Yuridia Francisca Gaxiola Flores (born October 4 1986 in Hermosillo Sonora) is a popular Mexican singer who gained international fame by coming 2nd place in the hit reality show La Academia. In 2005 Yuridia released her debut album La Voz de un Ángel. It became the second best-selling album in 2006 and one of the fastest-selling albums of all time in Mexico. It has been certified Diamond since its release.
Edward Mena.  Edward Mena (born 15 April 1990) is a Venezuelan singer that currently resides in Miami Florida. In 2009 he was awarded a Premio Estrella Music Award.
Darey.  Dare Art Alade - popularly known as Darey - is a Nigerian multi-platinum selling and award-winning musician singer-songwriter and Idol series judge. He is the son of the renowned Nigerian entertainer Art Alade.Darey though very successful in Nigeria has his eyes on the international market and has plans to re-release his music in conjunction with a major international record label.
Órla Fallon.  Órlagh Fallon (born 24 August 1974) professionally known as Órla Fallon is an Irish soloist songwriter and former member of the group Celtic Woman and the chamber choir Anúna.
Xi Xi.  Xi Xi (Chinese: 西西; pinyin: Xī Xī born 1938) is the pseudonym of the Chinese author and poet Zhang Yan (Chinese: 張彥; pinyin: Zhāng Yàn). She was born in China and came to Hong Kong at the age of twelve. She was a teacher and now a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China.
Tony Bellotto.  Antonio Carlos Liberalli Bellotto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtonɪ beˈlotʊ] born on June 30 1960) is a Brazilian musician and writer best known as the guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also written and released several books.
Joachim Albertini.  Joachim Albertini or Gioacchino Albertini (30 November 1748 Pesaro – 27 March 1812 Warsaw) was an Italian-born composer who spent most of his life in Poland. His opera Don Juan albo Ukarany libertyn (Don Juan or the Libertine Penalized) was performed in the 1780s with both Italian and Polish libretti.
Adrian Tomine.  Adrian Tomine (born May 31 1974) a popular contemporary cartoonist is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker.
Arshaguhi Teotig.  Arshaguhi Teotig (Armenian: Արշակուհի Թեոդիկ) (1875 - 1922) was an Armenian social worker educator publicist writer and translator.
Laura Wright (author).  Laura Wright is an American author of romance novels.
Zoran Drvenkar.  Zoran Drvenkar (born July 19 1967) is a Croatian German novelist.
Geraint Jarman.  Geraint Jarman is a Welsh musician poet and television producer whose career dates back to the early years of Welsh popular music. He has recorded many albums as a solo artist and with his band Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr.
Konrad Elser.  Konrad Elser is a German pianist born in Schwäbisch Gmünd.Elser won the 1985 Epinal Competition and was awarded the 1982 Concours de Geneve's 3rd prize and the 1987 Concorso Busoni's 5th prize. He has performed internationally as a soloist and a chamber musician.He is a professor at the Musikhochschule Lübeck where he has taught since 1992.
Eva Ayllón.  Eva Ayllón (born February 6 1956 as María Angélica Ayllón Urbina) a composer and singer is one of Peru's foremost Afro-Peruvian musicians and one of the country's most enduring living legends. She holds the record for most nominations without a win with six for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
Jacques Hustin.  Jacques Hustin (15 March 1940 - 6 April 2009) was a Belgian singer-songwriter and artist who was successful in his homeland in both fields and is best known internationally for his participation in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.
Jeannette Walls.  Jeannette Walls (born April 21 1960) is an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.
Cole Plante.  Cole Plante is a DJ/Producer from Los Angeles California. He is currently signed to Hollywood Records and has contributed music to Disney movies and TV shows. Plante has played at Rain Nightclub in Las Vegas Nevada and the Avalon Nightclub in Hollywood.[citation needed] Cole has shared the stage with DJs Paul Oakenfold and Avicii. He also performed at Lollapalooza 2013 alongside Skrillex and Steve Angello.
Jay Sparrow.  Jay Sparrow is a Canadian singer-songwriter.Born in Thunder Bay Ontario and raised in Edmonton Alberta Sparrow was lead singer for the Edmonton punk rock band Murder City Sparrows; however he eventually decided to dissolve the band and pursue a different musical direction after realizing that he had no punk rock on his iPod but instead listened mainly to roots rock songwriters such as Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen.He released his first solo EP The Running in 2008 and followed up with two more EPs Good Days Gone By in 2009 and The Tempest Line in 2010 before releasing his full-length album debut In Our Time in fall 2010. 
Pippo Barzizza.  Giuseppe Pippo Barzizza (Italian pronunciation 'pippo dʒu'zeppe bar'tsitsa; Genova 15 May 1902 – Sanremo 4 April 1994) was an Italian composer arranger conductor and music director.Giuseppe Barzizza called Pippo was born in Genova on 15 May 1902 and he died in Sanremo in 4 April 1994.
Suw Charman-Anderson.  Suw Charman-Anderson (born 15 April 1971) is the former Executive Director of the Open Rights Group a campaign group based in London. She is also a journalist social software consultant blogger and public speaker. On 15 February 2008 she married Kevin Anderson. Named one of the 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph she has also worked to gain recognition for other women in technological fields.
Martin Travers.  Martin Travers (born Howard Mantin Otho Travers in Margate Kent on 19 February 1886 – died in 1948) was an English church artist and designer whose name is often connected with the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Church of England especially that part of the movement which favoured a return to the Baroque style of church furnishing.
Surendra Sharma.  Surender Sharma is a poet and who usually writes comic sketches of himself and his wife.He originally belongs to village Nangal Chaudhary Mahendragarh district Haryana and has made a very good contribution to Haryanvi comic poetry.He did his graduation in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)of Delhi University. He sometimes uses the Marwari language for his humour as well.
Eason Chan.  Eason Chan (陳奕迅; Chan Yick-shun) is a prominent male singer in Hong Kong's music industry. Eason Chan has been praised by Time magazine as a front runner in the next generation of Cantopop. He is considered by some to be Hong Kong's third god of song after Samuel Hui and Jacky Cheung. In 2012 Time Out Hong Kong crowned Chan as the King of Asian Pop.
Nancy Weber.  Nancy Weber (born 1942 in Hartford Connecticut) is an American writer known primarily for her non-fiction work The Life Swap (1974; re-issued 2006). Her twenty-some other books include The Playgroup (1982) and Brokenhearted (1989) both speculative novels with medical themes and eight romances written under the byline Jennifer Rose. She is the mother of two grown children and lives in New York.
Iggy Pintado.  Iggy Pintado (born Ignacio José Ramon de la Santícima Trinidad Pintado y Vicente on August 8 1961) is a Spanish-Australian author and marketer who wrote the book Connection Generation.From 1986 to 2008 he held professional management and executive positions in marketing sales and online management at IBM Australia (1986–2006) Telstra (2006–2008) and UXC Connect (2010-2012).
Carlo Ascenzi.  Carlo Ascenzi (Rome 17th century) was an Italian painter active in a Baroque style.
Megan Abbott.  Megan Abbott (born 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing with a female twist.
Charles Reis Felix.  Charles Reis Felix (born April 29 1923 New Bedford Massachusetts) is one of America's prominent writers of Luso-American literature.
Ronald Brautigam.  Ronald Brautigam (born 1954) is a Dutch concert pianist best known for his performances of Beethoven's piano works on the fortepiano.Born in Amsterdam Brautigam studied with Jan Wijn and left to study in London and in the United States. His skill as a pianist was recognised by Dutch musicians and in 1984 he was awarded the Nederlandse Muziekprijs.Brautigam lives in Amsterdam with his wife Mary.
Jack Ingram.  Jack Owen Ingram (born November 15 1970) is an American country music artist formerly signed to Big Machine Records an independent record label. He has released eight studio albums one extended play six live albums and 18 singles. Although active since 1992 Ingram did not reach the U.S. country Top 40 until the late 2005 release of his single Wherever You Are.
Stefan Zeniuk.  Stefan Zeniuk is a New York City based musician and filmmaker. Often seen performing on the tenor saxophone bass saxophone c-soprano saxophone english horn clarinet contra-alto clarinet and bass clarinet he is noted for his intense musical personality and dynamic stage presence.
Quincy Jones III.  Quincy Delight Jones III (born (1968-12-23)December 23 1968) (also known as QDIII QD3 and Snoopy) is a composer music producer film producer and author.
Pamela Irving.  Pamela Irving (born 1960) is a Australian visual artist specialising in bronze ceramic and mosaic sculptures as well as printmaking and copper etchings. In addition to her extensive art work Irving has lectured in art and ceramics at Monash University the Melbourne College of Advanced Education the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Chisholm Institute of Technology.
Marike Jager.  Marike Jager (born February 4 1979 in Amersfoort) is a Dutch singer-songwriter guitarist and television presenter. She grew up in Leusden and learned to play the guitar while backpacking through Australia New Zealand Asia and South Africa. There she wrote her first song 'Lizzy'. When she got back in the Netherlands she went to the stages quickly winning the 'Studenten Songfestival in Maastricht (songfestival for students in Maastricht).
Mystic (singer).  Mandolyn Wind Ludlum (born c. 1974–75) better known by her stage name Mystic is an American hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. After touring and recording with Digital Underground she released her debut solo album in 2001.
Chapman Pincher.  Harry Chapman Pincher (born 29 March 1914) is a British journalist historian and novelist whose writing has mainly focused on espionage and related matters after some early books on scientific subjects. He turned 100 in March 2014.
2562 (musician).  Dave Huismans better known by his stage name as 2562 is a musician from The Hague Netherlands. Having previously released records of various musical styles under the monikers A Made Up Sound and Dogdaze Huismans created 2562 under which his output is generally described as dubstep. The debut 2562 album Aerial (Tectonic Records 2008) was released to favourable reviews.
Johann Georg Fischer.  Johann Georg Fischer (25 October 1816 – 4 May 1897) was a German poet and playwright.
Edward Hyams.  Edward Solomon Hyams (1910-1975) was a British writer.Hyams was known for his writings as a French scholar and socialist historian.
Ottavio Viviani.  Ottavio Viviani (c. 1579-c. 1641) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Viviani was born in Brescia. He was initially a pupil of Tommaso Sandrino. He painted for the royal palace of Monaco and in the Ducal palace of Sassuolo. He specialized in quadratura.
Ewan David Alman.  Ewan Alman (born 31 July 1984) is a British actor and rapper commonly known by his stage name Da Brakes and known for his role as Fraser in the feature film Breathe.
Maurice Barrès.  Auguste-Maurice Barrès (French: [baʁɛs]; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist journalist and politician. Spending some time in Italy he became a figure in the French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888.
Eivind Opsvik.  Eivind Opsvik (born 1973 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass) and composer the son of the Norwegian interior and furniture designer Peter Opsvik.
Georges Lemmen.  Georges Lemmen (1865 – 1916) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter. He was a member of Les XX from 1888. His works include The Beach at Heist Aline Marechal and Vase of Flowers. Yvonne Serruys studied in his workshop in Brussels from 1892 to 1894.
Rita Angus.  Rita Angus (12 March 1908 – 25 January 1970) was a New Zealand painter. Along with Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston she is credited as one of the leading figures in twentieth century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and water colour and is well known for her portraits and landscapes.
Yasmin Deliz.  Yasmin Deliz (born June 2 1987) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter model and actress of Dominican and Colombian and Venezuelan heritage. She is best known for her starring role in Next Day Air and her work as co-host on mun2's music video countdown show Vivo and reality television show The Chicas Project.
Laura Smith (blues singer).  Laura Smith (unknown – February 1932) was an American classic female blues and country blues singer. She is best known for her recordings of Gonna Put You Right In Jail and her version of Don't You Leave Me Here. She led Laura Smith and her Wild Cats and worked with Clarence Williams and Perry Bradford. Details of her life outside of the music industry are scanty.
David Small.  David Small (born February 12 1945 in Detroit Michigan) is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books.
François Bloemhof.  François Bloemhof is a South African author playwright composer copywriter and film reviewer. He writes mostly in Afrikaans and has won a number of prizes for his work.
Luke Temple.  Luke Temple is an American pop-folk singer-songwriter. He records under his own name and with New York-based band Here We Go Magic. Temple was born in Salem Massachusetts. After spending time in Northern California he studied painting at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. After struggling to make a living as visual artist including painting murals in upscale New York apartments Temple moved into songwriting and recording.
Empire ISIS.  Empire ISIS (true name Miriam Moufide also stage-named The Gangstress) is a singer songwriter and social activist based in Montreal Canada. Her musical style has been described as a blend of dancehall reggae hip hop pop and World music. She is signed to Monumental Records and distributed by Universal Music Group.
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.  Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায়; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a well-known literary figure of Bengal. He was also actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. His most famous creation is the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi.He wrote different forms of prose: novels short stories plays and screenplays. However his forte was short stories and novels.
Kancherla Gopanna.  Kancherla Gopanna (Telugu: కంచెర్ల గోపన్న) (c 1620 – 1680) popularly known as Bhakta Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu(Telugu: భద్రాచల రామదాసు) was a 17th-century Indian devotee of Rama and a composer of Carnatic music. He is one among the famous vaggeyakaras (same person being the writer and composer of a song) in the Telugu language the others being Tyagaraja Annamayya Kshetryya and Shyama Satri.
Gladys Henson.  Gladys Henson (27 September 1897 - 21 December 1982) was a British actress whose career lasted from 1932 to 1976 and included roles on stage radio films and television series. Among her most notable films were The History of Mr Polly (1949) and The Blue Lamp (1950).
Jim Dodge.  Jim Dodge (born 1945) is an American novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy set in a timeless present. He has published three novels Fup Not Fade Away and Stone Junction and a collection of poetry and prose Rain on the River.
Fausta Cialente.  Fausta Terni Cialente (1898-1994) was an Italian novelist and journalist.
Antonio Lorenzini.  Antonio Lorenzini (1655–1740) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque active in his native Bologna as well as in Florence. He was also called the Frate Antonio (Brother Anthony). He was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli.
Robert Walker (musician).  Robert Bilbo Walker Jr. (born February 19 1937) is a blues musician. who is known in the blues music world due to his rock 'n' roll showmanship and flamboyant Chuck Berry imitations.
Hisham Bharoocha.  Hisham Akira Bharoocha was born in Niigata Japan and is an ex-member of the Providence Rhode Island bands Lightning Bolt and Black Dice. Currently Bharoocha is involved in his band Soft Circle and works as an artist in New York City.
Alfred Austin.  Alfred Austin DL (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Tee Mac Omatshola ISELI.  Dr. Tee Mac Omatshola Iseli (MFR) is a Nigerian flutist with cross-cultural Itsekiri and Swiss roots.
Hans Jørgen Hurum.  Hans Jørgen Hurum (1906 – 1981) was a Norwegian music critic and non-fiction writer. He graduated as cand.jur. in 1929. He was a music critic for the newspaper Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende from 1932 to 1939 and for Aftenposten from 1946 to 1982.
Sithara (singer).  Sithara Krishnakumar (Malayalam: സിതാര) (born July 1 1986) is an Indian singer. Popularly known by her first name Sithara is a playback singer in Malayalam who has also recorded songs for a number of Tamil Telugu and Kannada films. Trained in Hindustani and Carnatic Classical Music traditions she is also a recognized Ghazal singer. She travels extensively in India and abroad and has performed at more than a hundred stage shows.
Anson Holzer.  Anson Holzer is an outsider artist living and working in Washington DC.His work has been likened to that of artists of the Color Field school that originated in DC in the 1950s.Holzer's palette is tightly controlled and exhibits a very precise use of color contrasting almost monochromatic textural backgrounds against precise often explosive foreground elements. His work bears a strong Buddhist influence and frequently centers on meditative abstract or primal themes.
Nina Lola Bachhuber.  Nina Lola Bachhuber is a contemporary artist working in the realm of sculpture installation art and drawing.Nina Lola Bachhuber was born in Munich Germany and obtained her Masters of Fine Arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.Bachhuber has exhibited her work widely e.g.
Bahauddin Dagar.  Baha'ud'din Mohiuddin Dagar (born 1970) is the rudra veena player and son of noted north Indian musician Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. He plays rudra veena with the dagarbani style. He represents the 20th generation of Dagar lineage referring to Nayak Haridas Dagar of the 16th century.
Dennis Ferrer.  Dennis Ferrer (born 1970) is a New York-based DJ producer and remixer. He currently resides in Union City New Jersey. A veteran of soulful house music production Dennis has worked with the likes of Masters at Work (MAW) Little Louie Vega the Martinez Brothers and many other notable New York producers and DJs.
Sardool Sikander.  Sardool Sikander (Punjabi: ਸਰਦੂਲ ਸਿਕੰਦਰ) is a Punjabi folk and Punjabi Pop singer who made his first appearances on radio and television in the early 1980s with his introductory album Roadways Di Laari. He has also acted in some Punjabi language movies like Jagga Daku. Sardool's father late Sagar Mastana was a famous talented tabla player who invented a special type of tabla that was played with a thin bamboo stick.
George Belcher.  George Frederick Arthur Belcher (19 September 1875 – 3 October 1947) was an English cartoonist etcher and painter of genre sporting subjects and still life. He was born in London on 19 September 1875 and studied at the Gloucester School of Art. He drew for the Punch Almanac from 1906 and for Punch itself regularly from 1911; also for The Tatler and Vanity Fair. Belcher exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1909. He was made an Associate (A.R.A.) in 1931 and a Royal Academician (R.A.) 1946.
John Smybert.  John Smybert (or Smibert) (1688–1751) was a Scottish American artist who was born in Edinburgh Scotland and died in Boston Massachusetts United States.
Jim Leonard (Vivation).  Jim Leonard (June 2 1955 – September 23 2008) was an American teacher author and an early pioneer of modern day Breathwork. He was the originator of Vivation and author of three books and numerous articles on human potential. Jim did not consider Vivation Breathwork although others have classified it as such. Jim considered Vivation a form of yoga.
Gojmir Anton Kos.  Gojmir Anton Kos (January 24 1896 – May 22 1970) was a Slovene academy-trained painter photographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.Gojmir was born in the town of Gorizia (then part of Austria-Hungary now in Italy) where his father the renowned historian Franc Kos from the vicinity of Škofja Loka in Carniola taught at the prestigious State Gymnasium. His mother was a Friulian from the Austrian Littoral.
Vince Powell.  Vince Powell (6 August 1928 – 13 July 2009) was a British television writer.Powell was born as Vincent Smith to Roman Catholic parents in Miles Platting Manchester. When he was five his mother died; two years later his father remarried.
Eddie Brill.  Eddie Brill is an American comedian writer and actor who started his career in Boston Massachusetts. He is the former warm-up comedian and former comedy talent coordinator of Late Show with David Letterman. He tours frequently performing in the US as well as England Ireland France Australia Amsterdam and Hong Kong.
Roy Walker (TV personality).  Robert Roy Walker (born 31 July 1940) is a television personality and comedian from Northern Ireland who worked for many years as both a television presenter and comedy actor. He is best known as the original host of the game show Catchphrase between 1986 and 1999 and as one of the stars of the stand-up comedy showcase The Comedians.
Marty Panzer.  Marty Panzer is an American songwriter and first song-writing partner of Barry Manilow. He is the author of over 30 songs recorded by Manilow and over a hundred songs for Disney Pictures. He also co-wrote Through The Years performed by Country music superstar Kenny Rogers. Panzer hails from New York City. His song-writing contributed to 35 gold and platinum albums. He is a recipient of the 1999 Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production.
Jack Welpott.  Jack Welpott is an American photographer.
Sandra Schleret.  Sandra Carola Schleret (born June 26 1976) is the lead singer of the German band Siegfried and the former singer of Elis after Sabine Dünser's death. She was the lead singer of now disbanded Austrian band Dreams of Sanity.
Peter R. Newman.  Peter Richard Newman (4 June 1926 – 22 February 1975) was an English television screenwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge. He wrote a television play Yesterday's Enemy which he later turned into a screenplay for Val Guest; the film version was released in 1959. As a three-act play it was published by Samuel French in 1960.He wrote The Sensorites for the first season of Doctor Who in 1963-64.
Serkan Özkaya.  Serkan Ozkaya (b. 1973 Istanbul Turkey) is a conceptual artist whose work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction and typically operates outside of traditional art spaces. Ozkaya lives in New York City USA. He holds an M.F.A. from Bard College New York and a Ph.D in German Language and Literature from Istanbul University where he also earned his B.A. and M.A.
Stanley Turrentine.  Stanley William Turrentine also known as Mr. T or The Sugar Man (April 5 1934 – September 12 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Rita Cadillac (Brazilian entertainer).  Rita de Cássia Coutinho known as Rita Cadillac (June 13 1954 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian dancer and singer. She took her stage name from Rita Cadillac an acclaimed French dancer of the 1950s and 1960s. She is a former chacrete a special name to identify the dancers who appeared in the TV shows hosted by Chacrinha.In 1982 she co-starred with Gretchen in the pornochanchada Aluga-se Moças and made a brief cameo appearance as herself in the 2003 film Carandiru.
Pero Budmani.  Pero Budmani (October 27 1835 - December 27 1914) was a writer linguist grammarian and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot. Budmani was instrumental in the emergence of the second group of Serb Catholics in the 1880s.
Atticus Ross.  Atticus Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician composer and producer. Ross along with Trent Reznor won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network in 2010. In 2013 the pair won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their music for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Sampo Waeran.  Jonas Mungungu (born 24 January 1993) known by his stage name as Boet is a Namibian multi-award winning musician. He is one of the most outstanding artists in Namibia and is considered one of the Best of Namibia's kwaito genre. His debut album Unexpected Arrival released in 2014 was Namibia's first Best kwaito album.
Rolf Armstrong.  Rolf Armstrong (April 21 1889 – February 22 1960) was an American painter of pin-up art.
Joe Wong (comedian).  Joe Wong (Chinese: 黄西; pinyin: Huáng Xī born April 20 1970) is a Chinese American comedian and chemical engineer. He was born to a Korean Chinese family in Baishan Jilin China. His family moved from Korea to China three generations ago. He graduated from Jilin University and Chinese Academy of Sciences before he went to further study chemistry at Rice University in Texas in 1994.
Master of the Perkins Saint Paul.  The Master of the Perkins Saint Paul was an Italian artist active during the third quarter of the fourteenth century. His origins are uncertain; he is believed to have been Tuscan and has tentatively been linked by some historians with the city of Lucca. He appears to have been familiar with the work of Antonio Veneziano. A number of his works including that from which his name is derived are held by the Treasury of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi.
Kari Berg.  Kari Berg is a Swedish/Norwegian singer-songwriter actress model and author. She was born in Östersund Jämtland in Sweden. She was the female singer of Ashbury Heights and is now part of the EBM-band Chaos All Stars and doing a solo career. She has starred in a film and has modelled for designers in several genres.
Henry Hunt (artist).  Henry Hunt (16 October 1923 – 13 March 1985) was a Canadian First Nations woodcarver and artist from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly Kwakiutl) people of coastal British Columbia.He was born in 1923 in the Kwakwaka'wakw community of Fort Rupert B.C. He was a descendant of the renowned ethnologist George Hunt.
Natasha Mostert.  Natasha Mostert is a South African author and writer presently living in London.
Alamgir (pop singer).  Alamgir is a versatile singer and is one of the pioneers of the Urdu pop music in Pakistan. His style of singing is inspired by playback singer Ahmed Rushdi. In April 2013 Alamgir joined Meesha Shafi String Ali Azmat and Shahzad Hasan as a judge on the immensely popular singing talent show Cornetto Music Icons aired on ARY Digital.
Vinny Appice.  Vincent Samson Vinny Appice (born September 13 1957 in Brooklyn New York) is an American rock drummer and the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice. He is best known for his work with the bands Dio Black Sabbath Heaven & Hell and Big Noize
William McKay Aitken.  William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken) is a Scottish born naturalized Indian travel writer and a mountain lover. He is the author of a number of books about India its mountains rivers and its steam trains.Born in Tullibody in Clackmannanshire Scotland in 1934 Aitken attended Handsworth Grammar School Birmingham and completed his M.A in comparative religion at the University of Leeds. In 1959 he hitchhiked overland to India and taught for a year at Hindi HighSchool in Calcutta.
Mahmoud Hammad.  Mahmoud Hammad (Born 1923. Jarabulus Syria) is a Syrian painter. A pioneer of modern Syrian art he studied art in Accademia di belle arti di Roma during 1953–1957 in the art of engraving and especially the art medals. After completing his studies he returned to Damascus in 1960 and taught as professor at the Fine Arts Faculty of Damascus since its creation. From 1970 until 1980 he became dean at the Fine Arts Faculty of Damascus.
Peter Rühmkorf.  Peter Rühmkorf (Dortmund 25 October 1929 – Roseburg Schleswig-Holstein 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.Rühmkorf's literary career started in 1952 in Hamburg with the magazine Zwischen den Kriegen (Between the Wars) which the poet and essayist Werner Riegel (de) and he edited and mainly wrote until Riegel's early death in 1956.
Jane Wattenberg.  Jane Wattenberg (born 1949) is an American author photographer and illustrator of books for children. Mrs. Mustard is her pen name.
Michelle Newell.  Michelle Newell (born 18 May 1951) is a British actress probably best known for her role in the BBC mini-series The Cleopatras and as Gill Gregory in Coronation Street. Other television credits include When the Boat Comes In (as Mary Seaton) Accident Return of the Saint Brimstone and Treacle Shoestring and The Professionals.She has also appeared in various radio and theatrical roles and has published a novel called Still Falls the Rain.
Madhukar Vasudev Dhond.  Madhukar Vasudev Dhond (M. V. Dhond In Devanagari: मधुकर वासुदेव धोंड म. वा. धोंड) (October 3 1914 – December 5 2007) was a literary and art critic from Maharashtra India.
Jane Green (singer).  Jane Green (2 January 1897 - 28 August 1931) was a United States singer popular in the 1920s.
Elizabeth Macleod.  Elizabeth MacLeod is a Canadian author. Her biographies are written for elementary students.
Toby Sawyer.  Toby Sawyer (born 1969 in Wilmslow England) is a British actor.He has appeared in a number of British television dramas including the role of Aiden Lester in Coronation Street Born and Bred Crossroads Rosemary and Thyme Casualty Keen Eddie The Royal Elizabeth and for three years was original main cast in teen drama Hollyoaks playing the part of Bazil McCourtey.
Manji Khan.  Ustad Badruddin Manji Khan (1888–1937) was a Hindustani Classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana founded by his father Utd. Alladiya Khan.
Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa.  Juan Pablo Plata (Bogota 1982) is a Colombian writer journalist and researcher.He studied literature at Universidad de los Andes but did graduate from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. He was anthologized in the book Umpalá (Sic Editores 2006) and Inhabited heart. Recent stories about love in Colombia (Algaida. Grupo Anaya 2010. Spain).
Graham Arnold (artist).  Graham Arnold (born 1932) is a British contemporary fine artist working primarily in oil and mixed media.Arnold along with his wife and fellow artist Ann Arnold is a founder member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists with Sir Peter Blake David Inshaw Jann Haworth Graham Ovenden and Annie Ovenden.Arnold's work contains a combination of realistic and surrealist elements. Subjects often include still life and landscapes.
Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard.  Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard (21 August 1814 – 7 June 1881) was a French composer and teacher.Savard was a teacher at the Paris Conservatory in tonic solfa harmony and figured bass. Among his pupils were Jules Massenet Cécile Chaminade Eduard Reuss and Edward MacDowell. Massenet describes him fondly in his memoires. His works include the following: Kyrie (1860) (Niedermeyer) Messe solennelle (1865) He also published books on music theory and a compilation of plainsong chants.
Tony Lucca.  Anthony James Tony Lucca (born January 23 1976 in Pontiac Michigan) is an American singer songwriter producer and sometime actor. He is perhaps best known for starting his career on the Mickey Mouse Club. After the Mickey Mouse Club Lucca went to LA for a brief career as an actor then became a full-time musician releasing over seven studio albums and five EPs.
Bill Leslie (journalist).  Bill Leslie is a journalist who anchors the morning and noon newscasts for WRAL-TV in Raleigh North Carolina. He is also known as a new age record artist who along with his World Music band Lorica who perform traditional as well as Celtic fusion music composed by Leslie. Leslie has also composed music featured on two albums by Bragh Adair. Leslie graduated from the University of North Carolina.
Alfons Maniura.  Alfons Maniura (July 31 1895 – March 27 1942) was a Polish soldier who fought in all three Silesian Uprisings (as a Sergeant in the third one) and in the Battle of Annaberg.Maniura was the founder and first chairman of Naprzód Lipiny.During World War II he was deported to the USSR where he later joined Anders Army as an Artillery Sergeant.He was buried in Kenimech in Uzbekistan.
Jim Aparo.  James N. Jim Aparo (August 24 1932 – July 19 2005) was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work including on the characters Batman Aquaman and the Spectre.Aparo's style was primarily in the tradition of his influential contemporary Neal Adams striving for realistic renditions of his subject rather than caricature or exaggeration. Aparo's muscular figures tended to be leaner than those drawn by most of his peers.
Giovanni Battista Fiorini.  Giovanni Battista Fiorini was a native of Bologna. He flourished at the close of the 16th century and died subsequently to 1595. He is chiefly known as a coadjutor of Cesare Aretusi in conjunction with whom he painted several pictures at Bologna and Brescia and distinguished himself especially as a good designer and a happy inventor. By him there are the following works: Bologna Cathedral. Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter. Bologna San Giovanni in Monte.
Kim Wilde.  Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer author DJ and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with Kids in America. In 1983 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female. In 1987 she had a major hit in the US when her version of The Supremes' classic You Keep Me Hangin' On topped the charts. Worldwide she has sold 10 million albums and 20 million singles.
Eddie Clarke.  Edward Allan Clarke (born 5 October 1950 Twickenham London) better known as Fast Eddie Clarke is a guitarist who was a member of British heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead.
Daniel Allen Cox.  Daniel Allen Cox (born February 3 1976) is a Canadian author and screenwriter. Shuck his debut novel about a New York City hustler was a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award finalist.
Andy Couturier.  Andy Couturier (born 1964) is the American author of two books Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer (Ulysses Press 2005) and A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance (Stone Bridge Press 2010). He has written for the Japan Times The North American Review Adbusters Kyoto Journal The Oakland Tribune and Creative NonFiction.He was born in New York New York United States and grew up in Washington D.C.
Mike Reno.  Joseph Michael John Mike Reno (né Joseph Michael Rynoski; born January 8 1955) is a Canadian drummer/musician and the lead singer of the rock band Loverboy. He is reported to have played the guitar being self-taught. He fronted other bands including Moxy before helping form Loverboy.
The Vertebrats.  The Vertebrats are a musical group formed in the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana (CU) Illinois initially active from 1979 until 1982. They are credited with being one of the originators of a local CU DIY music scene that still exists.
Marko Saaresto.  Marko Saaresto (born December 5 1970) is the founding member lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the Finnish alternative rock band Poets of the Fall. Saaresto worked as a graphic designer before forming the band in late 2002. Sam Lake Saaresto's friend and writer of the Max Payne series of videogames offered Saaresto a job writing the lead single for the game Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.
Yves Meynard.  Yves Meynard (born 1964 in Quebec City) is a science fiction and fantasy author. He began writing fiction in 1986. He has won the Prix Aurora Award for best book in French once (for La Rose du désert 1997) and for best short story in French five times. He has also written in English.
Andrew Cornell Robinson.  Andrew Cornell Robinson (born 1968 in New Jersey) is an American artist based in New York City.
Jacone Puligo.  Jacone Puligo was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Florence. He was the brother of Domenico Puligo was also an apprentice to Andrea del Sarto.
Kinzie Kenner.  Kinzie Kenner (born July 22 1984 in California) is an American pornographic actress and go-go dancer. She entered the adult film industry in 2003 at the age of 19.In fall 2005 she underwent breast implant surgery going to a D cup. In 2008 she was one of several porn stars to appear in a music video by the rapper Necro for his song Who's Your Daddy?.
Mariya Ocher.  Mary Ocher (Oh-chur born November 10 1986) is a singer-songwriter poet director and artist. She was born Mariya Ocheretianskaya (Russian: Мария Очеретянская Hebrew:מאריה אוצ'רטיאנסקי) in Moscow an only child to a voice and puppet theater actor father and an unemployed engineer mother both of Jewish/Ukrainian descent.
Steve Yeowell.  Steve Yeowell is a British comics artist well known for his work on the long-running science fiction and fantasy weekly comic 2000 AD.
Dino Valls.  Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Since 1988 he has lived and worked in Madrid.Building on a childhood passion for drawing Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982 Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting.As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art Valls' work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being.
Piotr Belousov.  Piotr Petrovich Belousov (Russian: Пё́тр Петро́вич Белоу́сов; May 3 1912 Berdyansk Russian Empire – 1989 Leningrad USSR) – Soviet Russian painter graphic artist art teacher professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin People's Artist of USSR Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR who lived and worked in Leningrad.
John van Melle.  John van Melle (11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author. His real name was Johannes van Melle.Van Melle was born in Goes. He arrived in South Africa in 1906 and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies settled in South Africa permanently in 1913.
Eduardo Mateo.  Eduardo Mateo (1940–1990) was a Uruguayan singer songwriter guitarist and arranger. He played a key role in the development of the modern Uruguayan music mixing beat jazz bossa nova and local rhythms like candombe in a similar way than Brazilian Tropicalismo.Musicians like Academy Award winner Jorge Drexler cited Mateo as a big influence.Artists like Fattoruso Trio Jaime Roos Sandra Mihanovich Pedro Aznar Milton Nascimento Leon Gieco Mio Matsuda Tomohiro Yahiro etc.
Xiao Huang-Chi.  Xiao Huang-Chi (Chinese: 蕭煌奇; Hanyu Pinyin: Xiāo huáng qí; Tongyong Pinyin: Hsiāo huáng chí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siau Hông-kî born September 22 1976 in Banciao Taiwan) is a blind Taiwanese Tai-pop and Mandopop artist. Xiao Huang-Chi emerged in the Tai-pop scene after winning the Best Tai-pop male artist 2008 award in the Golden Melody Awards.Xiao had congenital cataracts which led him to be blind at birth which was partially cured by surgery when he was 4.
Wu Di (pianist).  Di Wu (Chinese: 吳迪; ) is a Chinese pianist.
Gerhart Hauptmann.  Gerhart Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Ludmila Ulehla.  Ludmila Ulehla (1923 – 2009) was an American composer and music educator.
Otto Hammann.  Otto Hammann (23 January 1852 Blankenhain – 18 June 1928 Fürstenberg/Havel) was a German journalist and a German Foreign Office official 1894-1916.
Ann Voskamp.  Ann Voskamp (born August 10 1973 in Listowel Ontario) is the author of the New York Times Bestseller One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are published by Zondervan.
Published work on cinema by Denis Gifford.  In addition to published work on cinema this article also includes Denis Gifford's film creditsDenis Gifford provided one of the earliest researched archives of early cinema with The British Film Catalogue 1895-1970 and produced numerous authoritative works on previously uncatalogued films from the UK and the US. Gifford had a particular interest in early horror and science fiction and early comedy including Laurel and Hardy.
Yasunori Imamura.  Yasunori Imamura (今村 泰典 Imamura Yasunori born 19 October 1953 in Sakai Osaka) is a Japanese lute musician. His teachers included lute with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis where in 1981 he received his soloist's diploma. In addition he studied interpretation and thorough bass with Ton Koopman and Johann Sonnleitner and composition with Wolfgang Neininger.Imamura has appeared on more than 120 CDs both as a soloist and as a member of ensembles.
A.C. Greene Jr. (author).  A.C. Greene (né Alvin Carl Greene Jr.; 4 Nov 1923 Abilene Texas — 5 April 2002 Salado Texas) was an American writer — important in Texas literary matters as a memoirist fiction writer historian poet and influential book critic in Dallas. As a newspaper journalist he had been a book critic and editor of the Editorial Page for the Dallas Times Herald when JKF was assassinated which galvanized his role at the paper to help untangle and lift a demoralized city in search of its soul.
Cho Chung-kwon.  Cho Chung-kwon (born February 22 1949 in Seoul) is a South Korean poet and critic.
Jules Hodgson.  Jules Hodgson also credited as Joolz or J. Hogstorm is the guitarist for KMFDM an industrial band and The Spittin' Cobras (along with KMFDM bandmate Andy Selway). He is a former member of PIG and Lodestar. In 2006 Hodgson married pin-up model Go-go Amy and divorced in 2008. Jules now resides in Seattle Washington. In 2007 he formed The Black Lab Studio.Hodgson is originally from Leeds England.
Don Byas.  Carlos Wesley Don Byas (October 21 1912 – August 24 1972) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist most associated with Bebop. He played with Count Basie Duke Ellington Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie among others and also led his own band. He lived in Europe for the last 26 years of his life.
Kristina Train.  Kristina Train (born January 17 1982 in New York City) is an American pop singer-songwriter and musician who has lived in London United Kingdom since 2011. Her music blends influences from country soul gospel blues folk and jazz.Kristina was born in New York City and raised in Savannah Georgia. She is of Norwegian Italian and Irish heritage. At the age of four Kristina started studying classical violin and ballet. She taught herself to play piano and guitar at an early age.
Tracy Quan.  Tracy Quan is an American writer and former sex worker. She is best known for her Nancy Chan novels. In addition Quan has written a regular column for The Guardian website on pop culture sex and politics and is involved in the prostitutes' rights movement.
Rosaline Masson.  Rosaline Masson (1867–1947) was prolific writer of novels biographies histories and other works. She was born on 6 May 1867 in Edinburgh and was the daughter of David Masson Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University and of Emily Rosaline Orme. She sometimes calls herself 'Rosaline Orme Masson' (perhaps in intimation of her brother David Orme Masson) but the second name is not in her birth or death certificates. She died on 7 December 1947 in Edinburgh.
Michael O'Toole.  Michael O'Toole is an Irish guitarist.He studied for many years with John Feeley in the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama and also spent two years studying with the renowned Cuban virtuoso Ricardo Iznaola in Denver Colorado. He has since established himself as one of Ireland's leading guitarists giving many memorable recitals and becoming Artistic Director of both The Waltons International Guitar Festival and the Chord Ennis International Music Festival.
John Harris Jr. (artist).  John Harris Jr. (17 November 1791 - 1873) was an English artist who specialised in pen-and-ink facsimile.
Louis Niedermeyer.  Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (27 April 1802 – 14 March 1861) was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas and a teacher who took over the École Choron duly renamed École Niedermeyer a school for the study and practice of church music where several eminent French musicians studied including Gabriel Fauré and André Messager.
Jim Abbiss.  Jim Abbiss is a British music producer best known for his work on records including Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize winning debut album Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not Ladytron's Witching Hour Sneaker Pimps' debut Becoming X and both of Adele's albums 19 and 21.He started his music career playing keyboards with Peterborough band The Pleasure Heads on Red Rhino Records before getting his first studio job at Spaceward Studios near Cambridge in 1986.[citation needed] It was here that he trained under maverick engineer & producer Owen Morris (Oasis Ash). 
Giovanni Bernardo Carlone.  Giovanni Bernardo Carlone (1590–1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was born in Genoa. He was the son of Taddeo Carlone a sculptor and historical painter who placed him under the tuition of Pietro Sorri and he afterwards frequented the school of Domenico Passignano at Florence. He returned to Genoa was much employed there and at Rome and Florence.
Johnny Jolin.  Johnny Jolin (born October 17 1964 in Williamsport Pennsylvania) is a notable American country music artist best known as the frontman of the critically acclaimed Johnny Jolin Band being the lead vocalist for Country/Folk group The Front Porch Country Band and in 2011 by his Top-Ten hit single Thank God.His career began after winning a talent search competition during his ten years of service in the U.S. Army.
John Torreano.  John Torreano (born 1941) is an American artist from New York City. He is currently clinical professor of studio art at the Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development at New York University. Torreano is known for utilizing faceted gems in a variety of mediums in order to create movement oriented perception in his works. Artist Richard Artschwager described Torreano's works as paintings that stand still and make you move.
Juan Carlos Baglietto.  Juan Carlos Baglietto (born June 14 1956 in Rosario Santa Fe Province) is an Argentine musician and composer. He is one of the iconic figures of the musical movement called Trova Rosarina.He was a member of various small bands until Irreal was formed in 1980 comprising himself Juan Chianelli (keyboards) Jorge Llonch (bass) Piraña Fegundez (flute) Alberto Corradini (guitar) and Daniel Wirtz (drums).
Maurice Hines.  Maurice Hines (born December 13 1943) is an American actor director jazz singer and choreographer.
Mina Rosner.  Mina Rosner (1913–1997) was a native of Buchach Ukraine who survived The Holocaust by hiding with a Polish family. After the war she moved to Winnipeg Canada with her husband Michael Rosner. She recorded her war-time experiences in her book I am a Witness. In 1990 she returned to Buchach for the first time since the war and the visit was captured in a CBC documentary called Return to Buchach. The documentary won a gold medal at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1992.
Barbara Gaskin.  Barbara Gaskin (born 5 June 1950) is a British singer who along with her musical partner the keyboardist Dave Stewart formed a duo in 1981. In September of that year they had a number one single in the UK with a cover version of the song It's My Party. Subsequent singles Busy Doing Nothing (1983) and The Locomotion (1986) also entered the UK Singles Chart without reaching the heights of their debut release. Five albums followed released on the duo's own Broken Records label.
Ben Arogundade.  Ben Arogundade (born April 11 1965 London) is a British-born author publisher voiceover artist and creative director of limited edition books. He originally trained as an architect before diversifying into print journalism and graphic design. In the mid-1990s he launched his own style magazine Extract. In 2000 he wrote his first book Black Beauty which explored Western culture's perceptions of the black image.
Jason Frederick.  Jason Frederick (born November 29 1970) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer of music for films and television.
Bruce Driscoll.  Bruce Driscoll is a Brazilian/American record producer songwriter guitarist film composer and vocalist. He first gained notoriety as one half of the indie pop band Astaire (now Blondfire). Co-writing/Producing/Self-releasing songs with his sister Erica.He is a frequent collaborator with Andy Chase (Ivy). Playing guitar in Chase's band Brookville keyboards in Ivy and more recently co-producing and writing for Chase's new project Camera2.
Wolfgang Michels.  Wolfgang Michels (born July 15 1951) is a German singer-songwriter guitarist and producer.
Jonathan Kane.  Jonathan Kane is an American musician and composer. Coming out of New York's Downtown Music scene of the early 1980s Kane is known for his work with minimalist composers La Monte Young and Rhys Chatham was a founding member of NYC band Swans and leads his own minimalist blues band Jonathan Kane's February.Kane began his professional career while in high school in 1974. Along with his brother harmonica player Anthony Kane they formed the Kane Bros.
Catherine S. Snodgrass.  Catherine S. Snodgrass (born in Brooklyn NY) is an American author and illustrator of children's books graphic designer and advocate of children on the autism spectrum.She grew up in New York City and attended the High School of Art and Design. After working for several years in the New York City publishing industry her first book Super Silly Sayings that are Over Your Head: A Children's Illustrated Book of Idioms was published in 2004 by Starfish Press.
Residente.  René Pérez Joglar (born February 23 1978 in Hato Rey San Juan Puerto Rico United States) better known by his stage name Residente Calle 13 or simply Residente is the American lead singer and composer of the Puerto Rican band Calle 13 which also includes his siblings Ileana (PG-13) and Eduardo (Visitante).
Ian Shaw (singer).  Ian Shaw (born 2 June 1962) is a Welsh jazz singer record producer and stand up comedian.Shaw was born in St. Asaph Wales and took his music degree at the University of London. His career in performance began in the 1980s on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit alongside such performers as Julian Clary Rory Bremner and Jo Brand. At the same time he was playing in piano bars and at festivals in London and throughout Europe.In 1990 he toured Europe and recorded with fellow singer Carol Grimes.
Russell Hill.  Russell Hill (born 1988 Rugby Warwickshire) is an artist living and working in London UK who works primarily in sculpture and installation art. He won the 2011 Catlin Art Prize. He is known for his work employing everyday material such as air fresheners or domestic appliances.
Claire de la Fuente.  Clarita Crisostomo Dela Fuente-De Guzman (born December 28 1958) better known as Claire de la Fuente is a Filipino singer who achieved celebrity status in the late 1970s with the jukebox hit Sayang. She was given the title Asia's Sweetest Voice because of her sweet voice. She was dubbed the Karen Carpenter of the Philippines as her voice has a striking resemblance to that of the late singer. Her first album in 1977 was then the Philippines' biggest ever seller.
Arsalan Kamkar.  Arsalan Kamkar (Persian: ارسلان کامکار‎ Kurdish: Erselan Kamkar born in 1960 in Sanandaj Iran) is an Iranian-Kurdish musician from Iran. He learned the preliminaries of music from his late father Master Hassan Kamkar and since childhood he performed in several ensembles directed by his late father.Later he came to Tehran and studied music in School of Fine Arts. After the completion of his studies he worked with Tehran Symphony Orchestra as violin player.
Claudia Brant.  Claudia Alejandra Menkarski (born July 21 1968) commonly known as Claudia Brant is an Argentine singer and composer of international acclaim. She has composed songs for singers like Il Divo Ricky Martin Anahí Santana Luis Fonsi Chayanne Tito Nieves Olga Tañón Paulina Rubio La Ley or Víctor Manuelle. Claudia also has teamed with composers as famous as the acclaimed David Foster Walter A. Noel Schajris (Sin Bandera) Gianmarco Jorge Luis Piloto Luis Fonsi and Gabriel Flores.
Jamie Jones (DJ).  Jamie Jones is a Welsh DJ producer member of pop music group Hot Natured and the head of the record label Hot Creations. In 2011 he was polled as the worlds foremost DJ by online dance music magazine Resident Advisor and in 2012 he received mainstream success with Hot Natured's single Benediction peaking at #40 on the UK Singles Chart. For the past couple of years he has been hosting his own Paradise parties at Ibiza's DC10 nightclub.
Saned.  Saned Rivera (born May 30 1976 in San Juan Puerto Rico to parents Edwin Rivera and Sandy Rodriguez) is a singer of Salsa music. Her entire family is musically gifted. Her father has been a member of a trio who performed and sang at local hotels and resorts since early age. Her mother belonged to the prestigious Coro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico Choir).
Tone Žnidaršič.  Tone Žnidaršič (5 November 1923 - 9 April 2007) was a Slovene painter and sculptor who also illustrated children's books and textbooks.He won the Levstik Award in 1964 for his illustrations for the primary school textbook Nauk o človeku (On the Human Body).
David Kitt.  David Kitt (born 1975 in Dublin Ireland) is an Irish musician. He is the son of Irish politician Tom Kitt.He has released six studio albums to date: Small Moments The Big Romance Square 1 The Black and Red Notebook Not Fade Away and The Nightsaver.
Gary Corbett.  Gary Corbett (from Hendersonville Tennessee) is a Grammy Award winning American keyboardist composer and producer most famous for playing in the band Cinderella.Corbett has contributed in various capacities to over 27 albums. In addition to his work with Cinderella he has toured with Kiss Lou Gramm has worked with all of Bob Marley's sons - with which he won his two Grammys.
Pavel 183.  Pavel 183 (Russian: Павел Пухов tr. Pavel Pukhov; 11 August 1983 – 1 April 2013) was a Russian street artist.
Antoine Roux.  Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux Antoine Roux (1765–1835) was a French fine art painter who specialised in maritime painting sometimes referred to as marine art.
Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli.  Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli (17 April 1604 – 12 July 1656) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Brescia.He was born in Offanengo near Crema and was is mentioned as a mentor of Evaristo Baschenis. Among his works are a Nativity altarpiece for the sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Brughiera in Bulliana in the province of Biella.
John Whitehead (singer).  For other people named John Whitehead see John Whitehead (disambiguation).John Whitehead (July 10 1948 – May 11 2004) was an American singer and songwriter.
Sia Berkeley.  Sia Berkeley (born 24 April 1985) is an English actress. She is best known for her television work perhaps most for playing Scarlett in the television series Skins.
Trinidad Sanchez Jr..  Trinidad Sanchez Jr. (15 June 1943 - 30 July 2006) was a poet and activist who wrote about culture and socialissues. He received several awards during his lifetime and was given the President's Peace Commission Art of Peace award posthumously in 2007.
William Rudolf O'Donovan.  William Rudolf O'Donovan (March 28 1844 – April 20 1920) was an American sculptor.
Joe Butterworth.  Joe Butterworth (born August 1 1983) is a British heavy metal drummer known for his work with Nephwrack Dead Interlock and currently Talanas.
Roger Roger (composer).  Roger Roger (5 August 1911 - 12 June 1995) was a French film composer and bandleader. His aliases included: Eric Swan Cecil Leuter the last being a pseudonym he used for his electronic productions. He was one of the first with Pierre Henry and Jean-Jacques Perrey to experiment with the Moog synth; his Pop Electronique album was released in 1969 five years after Bob Moog put his synth on the market.Roger died in Paris in 1995.
Sanga of The Valley.  Anthony Francis (born April 22 1957) known by his stage name Sanga of The Valley is a Trinidadian drummer Babatunde Olatunji’ s student member of the Village Drums of Freedom.
Zuber Usman.  Zuber Usman (12 December 1916 – 25 July 1976) was an Indonesian teacher and writer known as an early pioneer of Indonesian literary criticism. Born in Padang West Sumatra he was educated in Islamic schools until 1937 after which he became a teacher. Dabbling in writing short stories during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia and the ensuing revolution for the rest of his life Usman focused on teaching and writing about literature.
William James Aylward.  William James Aylward (September 5 1875 - February 26 1956) was a war artist for the United States Army during World War I.
Junichi Masuda.  Junichi Masuda (増田 順一 Masuda Jun'ichi born January 12 1968) is a video game composer director designer producer and programmer best known for his work on the Pokémon franchise. He is a member of the Game Freak board of directors and has worked at the company since 1989. He helped compose the music for games like Mendel Palace and Smart Ball before beginning to work on the first Pokémon games.
Ishmael (singer).  Rev Ian Smale (born 1950) better known by the stage name Ishmael is a gospel beat Christian punk and children's music musician and evangelist from the United Kingdom. He has had an international ministry since playing in the acoustic duo Ishmael and Andy with Andy Piercy starting in 1970.
Nakamura Nakazo I.  Nakazō I Nakamura (1736 – June 6 1790) also known as Hidetsuru or Sakaeya was a Japanese kabuki actor.Nakamura was born in Edo.He started playing villains at the Nakamura theater then performed at the Ichimura theater inventing a new acting style since known as Hidetsuru. He eventually became master of the Shigayama School of Dancing introducing male roles in the shosagoto dances.Nakamura died in Edo.
Gwyn Jones (author).  Gwyn Jones (24 May 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a Welsh novelist and story writer and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history. Jones was a native of New Tredegar Monmouthshire. His translations include Four Icelandic Sagas (1935) The Vatndalers' Saga (1944) The Mabinogion (1948) Egil's Saga (1960) Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (1961) and The Norse Atlantic Saga (1964). He also wrote A History of the Vikings (1968) and Kings Beasts and Heroes (1972).
Andrianary Ratianarivo.  Andrianary Ratianarivo (1895-1949) was a pianist and composer of kalon'ny fahiny vakondrazana and ba-gasy music from the central highlands of Madagascar. He was a major composer for the Malagasy theatrical genre that reached its peak between 1920 and 1940 at the Theatre d'Isotry in Antananarivo. Ratianarivo was born in the year of Madagascar's colonization to a musician of the royal palace.
Asghar Ali Engineer.  Asghar Ali Engineer (10 March 1939 – 14 May 2013) was a Indian reformist-writer and social activist.Internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam he led the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement. The focus of his work was on communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South Asia.
Kamala Surayya.  Kamala Suraiyya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) also known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and Kamala Das was an Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala India.
Chandravadan Mehta.  Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta (Hindi: चंद्रवदन मेहता Gujarati: ચંદ્રવદન મહેતા; April 6 1901 – 1992) also referred as C. C. Mehta was a Gujarati playwright critic self-writer poet and travel writer based in Vadodara. His play Aag Garhi (Fire Engine) about an ailing fireman marked the rise of amateur theatre movement in Gujarati theatre.
Pinch (dubstep musician).  Rob Ellis better known as Pinch is a dubstep artist from Bristol United Kingdom noted for his fusion of styles such as Reggae World Music and Dancehall with dubstep. He released his first album Underwater Dancehall in 2007 on Tectonic records which he founded. One of Pinch's most well-known tracks is Qawwali which references the devotional singing of the same name and features samples of harmonium and singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan which was released on Planet Mu records.
Ran Ito.  Ran Ito (伊藤 蘭 Ito Ran born 13 January 1955 in Kichijoji Musashino Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress and previous member of the 1970s legendary idol group Candies. As the leading member of Candies Ran Ito was in charge of the solo of most hit songs. She is married to Mizutani Yutaka a famous actor in Japan. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Disciples of Hippocrates.
Luisa Värk.  Luisa Värk (born 6 February 1987 in Elva) is an Estonian singer.Värk was a runner-up of on the first season of Estonian Pop Idol (Eesti otsib superstaari). She was also a runner-up on Tantsud tähtedega Estonia's version of Dancing with the Stars.
Chuck Redd.  Chuck Redd (born September 10 1958) is an American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.
Melliangee Pérez.  Melliangee Pérez-Maldonado (born ca. 21 June 1976) is a Puerto Rican lyric soprano singer of classical music and opera as well as other music genres.
Margot Blanche.  Margot Blanche Moussempes (born August 29 1983)is a French/Filipino singer and songwriter
Joey Eppard.  Joey Eppard is a music writer recording artist and the lead vocalist and guitarist for the experimental/progressive rock band 3. He is also the brother of Josh Eppard the drummer for Coheed and Cambria and former drummer of 3.In addition to his work with 3 Joey Eppard has worked with many other musicians and bands including Parliament-Funkadelic and Bad Brains.
Richard Westerfield.  Richard Westerfield is an American conductor. He has served as Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has led orchestras such as the Brown University Orchestra the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.He came to prominence in 1993 at age 35 when he stepped in at the last minute for three concerts with the New York Philharmonic to fill in for an ailing Erich Leinsdorf to critical acclaim.
Laurie Roberts.  Laurie Roberts is a news columnist for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.
Rolf Sohlman.  Rolf Sohlman (born 12 March 1954) is a Swedish actor and film director. He starred in the 1970 film A Swedish Love Story.
Leo Robin.  Leo Robin (April 6 1900 – December 29 1984) was an American composer lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song Thanks for the Memory sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.
Manveen Sandhu.  Manveen Sandhu (1962–2009) was an Indian writer educationist culture promoter and a peace activist. She was the creator and director of Punarjyot an NGO that works for the preservation and promotion of the heritage of Punjab and also founded Saanjh: Amritsar-Lahore festival to promote cultural interaction and better understanding between the cities of Amritsar & Lahore Sandhu was posthumously awarded the Kalpana Chawla award for promotion of art culture and education.
Trygve Waldemar Fiske.  Trygve Waldemar Fiske (born 1987 in Frei Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) known from different Norwegian jazz bands and recordings.
Jeff Robbins.  Jeff Lowe Robbins (born January 18 1969) is an American musician and co-founder of the web development company Lullabot.Robbins was an employee of O'Reilly & Associates in the early 1990s and participated in the development of Global Network Navigator the first commercial web publication before founding the web design company Liquid Media in 1994.Also in 1994 Robbins and drummer Paul Buckley founded Orbit a Boston-based power trio that released four CDs.
Reverend Freakchild.  Reverend Freakchild is a New York City-based musician singer and songwriter known for writing and performing a distinct style of the blues incorporating elements of psychedelic music country music and the blues.
Leslie Mándoki.  Hungarian-born Leslie Mándoki (Mándoki László) (born January 7 1953 in Budapest Hungary) is a musician who performed for music group Dschinghis Khan and has since then gone on to a solo performer.Leslie Mandoki studied drums and percussion at the musical conservatory of Budapest in the early 1970s.
Rosario Murillo.  Rosario Murillo (born June 22 1951) is a Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary who fought in the Sandinista revolution in 1979. She is also the wife of current President Daniel Ortega and is the First Lady of Nicaragua a title she also held in 1985 when her husband became President 6 years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the Somoza dynasty.
Jorge González Camarena.  Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a prominent painter muralist and sculptor. He is best known for his mural work as part of the Mexican muralism movement although his work is distinct from the main names associated with it (Rivera Orozco and Siqueiros). His major works include the mural on the main administration building of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies and a mural created for the Universidad de Concepción in Chile.
Øystein Moen.  Øystein Moen (born 16 August 1980 in Steinkjer Norway) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer known for his participation in the bands Jaga Jazzist and Puma.
C.G mix.  C.G mix (畠山慎司 Hatakeyama Shinji) is one of the main composers of the Japanese music production I've Sound.The meaning of his name is Communication Groove mix. C.G mix has already composed many songs for visual novel games and recently anime theme songs for the I've Sound singers. Also a singer he also performs songs for visual games but mostly for BL (Boy's Love) games. In 2001 he joined I've Sound and immediately became a composer and arranger of the group.
Hal Lindes.  Hal Andrew Lindes (born on June 30 1953 in Monterey California) is an English-American guitarist and film score composer.In 1980 he began recording a solo album with producer Al Kooper along with Herbie Flowers on bass and John Bradbury (of The Specials) on drums. The project was halted mid-stream when Lindes received an invitation by Mark Knopfler to join the British rock band Dire Straits.
Taisha Abelar.  Taisha Abelar born Maryann Simko is an American writer and anthropologist who was a close associate of Carlos Castaneda. She disappeared shortly after Castaneda's death in 1998.
Anu Garg.  Anu Garg (born April 5 1967) is an Indian-American author and speaker. He is also founder of Wordsmith.org an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several books about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers. He is a columnist for MSN Encarta and Kahani magazine.
Anne-Marie David.  Anne-Marie David (born 23 May 1952 Arles Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur France) is a French singer. She represented two different countries at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Piero di Puccio.  Piero di Puccio was a fourteenth-century Italian painter of the Gothic period active mainly in Orvieto. He is also known as Pietro di Puccio. He painted a fresco of stories from Genesis from the Creation to the Deluge on the North wall of Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. The fresco was devastated during the allied bombing during World War II.
Shantam Shubissa.  Shantam Shubissa (born Mohamed Ibrahim Waday  December 1944) is an Oromo composer singer and poet. He was born in Dire Dawa Ethiopia. Along with musicians such as Ali Birra Shantam Shubissa is regarded one of Oromia’s significant contributors to music during the late 20th century The stage name ‘Shantam’ translates to English as the number fifty.
Doug Morris.  Doug Morris (born November 23 1938) is an American music executive. He is the current Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of the Universal Music Group from 1995 to 2011.
Karl Klindworth.  Karl Klindworth (25 September 1830 – 27 July 1916) was a German composer pianist conductor violinist and music publisher. He was one of Franz Liszt's pupils and later one of his closest disciples and friends being also on friendly terms with composer Richard Wagner of whom he was an admirer. He was highly praised by fellow musicians including Wagner himself and Edward Dannreuther. Among his pupils were Hans von Bülow Georgy Catoire Ethelbert Nevin and William Mason.
John Pugh (artist).  John Pugh is an American artist known for creating large trompe-l'oeil wall murals giving the illusion of a three-dimensional scene behind the wall. Pugh has been creating his murals since the late 1970s. He attended California State University Chico receiving his BA in 1983 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. He has received numerous public and private commissions in the United States Taiwan and New Zealand. He lives in Santa Cruz California.
Clinton Adams.  Clinton Adams (December 11 1918 – May 13 2002) was an American artist and art historian.
Varetta Dillard.  Varetta Dillard (3 February 1933 – 4 October 1993) was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1950s whose biggest hit was Mercy Mr. Percy.
Richard Malcolm Johnston.  Richard Malcolm Johnston (March 8 1822 - September 23 1898) was an American educator and author. Johnson was born in Powelton Hancock County Georgia. His father was a Baptist minister and his early education was received at a country school and finished at Mercer University. After graduating there he spent a year teaching and then took up the study of law and was admitted to the Bar in 1843.
Jurica Pađen.  Jurica Pađen (born February 3 1955) is a well-travelled Croatian singer and guitarist. He was a founding member of the bands Parni valjak and Aerodrom and member of Azra and Grupa 220. During the 1990s he started his own group Pađen Band.
Mingma Sherpa.  Mingma Sherpa (born 23 September 1980) is a Nepalese pop singer born in Lukla Nepal into the Sherpa family. whose career began in 2000. He is known for releasing two albums Yatharthama and Feel. He gained popularity from 2000-2004 after having released the top songs Bhumarimaa Cham-Cham and Namuna Banai Diyeu. The following year he was honored with the Dhuk Dhuki in the city of Pokhara and was nominated in the Image award as Best New Artist.
Jakob Huwyler.  Jakob Huwyler II (August 30 1867 – April 27 1938) Swiss artist was born in Sursee LU the son of Jakob Huwyler I another painter. He is famous for painting the frescos in the Catholic church of St. Andreas in Gremheim (Dillingen Germany).
Alexandr Onishenko.  Alexandr Onishenko is an artist based in Prague CZ. Well known for his vibrant impressionist paintings his work is exhibited throughout Europe and the United States.
Ed Solo.  Ed Solo (born Ed Bickley) is a British disc jockey and record producer of electronic and dance music. He has worked with artists including Blak Twang Deekline MC Det Fatboy Slim Roots Manuva Shy FX DJ Swift DJ Trace and Eliabeth Troy.
Patrick Wybrant.  Patrick Wybrant (born 1816 Rothdrum County Wicklow Ireland) was an Irish born artist who painted in the UK from 1849 to 1852 spent approximately three years in the United States and returned to work in East and North Yorkshire UK around 1855 and may have continued to work until his death in Knaresborough North Yorkshire in 1894.Several US Art dealers and commentators have incorrectly identified him as having been a Native American.
David Grann.  David Grann (born March 10 1967) is an American journalist a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and a best-selling author.His first book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon was published by Doubleday in February 2009.
Agrippa d'Aubigné.  Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (February 8 1552 – April 29 1630) was a French poet soldier propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece.
Jean Van Leeuwen.  Jean Van Leeuwen (born December 26 1937) is the author of over forty children's books including the Oliver Pig series. She currently lives in Chappaqua New York.
Kano (rapper).  Kane Robinson (born 21 May 1985) better known as Kano is an English rapper and actor.
Beth Ditto.  Mary Beth Patterson known by her stage name Beth Ditto (born February 19 1981 in Searcy Arkansas) is an American singer-songwriter most famous for her work with the indie rock band Gossip (formerly The Gossip).
Karen Attard.  Karen Attard is an Australian writer of fantasy and short fiction.
Pietro Casola.  Pietro Casola (1427 – November 6 1507) was a Catholic Canon born to a noble Italian family in Milan. He is most notable for the journal of his Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494. He served in Rome as a secretary attache to the Milanese Embassy in Rome and later as senior of the Cardinal Deacons of the Duomo. In 1467 Pope Paul II nominated him for the benefice of St. Victor at Corbetta as a reward for his service to the Catholic Church.
Hank Bagby.  Hank Bagby (died 11 December 1993) was originally a singer around Denver in the mid-1940s. He started playing sax in San Francisco in the late 1940s and worked with such musicians as Leo Wright Kenny Drew and the late Addison Farmer. In the early 1950s he worked in Los Angeles with the late Joe Maini Frank Butler and others. Hank Bagby first started writing seriously while co-leading the Elmo Hope - Hank Bagby Quartet in the late 50s through the early 60s.
Katsura Hattori.  Katsura Hattori (服部 桂 born 1951) is a Japanese editor. After studying in MIT Media Lab he worked as editor for computer magazines ASAHI pasokon and Doors.
Freda Diesing.  Freda Diesing (2 June 1925 – 4 December2002) was one of very few female carvers of Northwest Coast totem poles and a member of the Council of the Haida Nation of British Columbia Canada. Her Haida name is Skil Kew Wat meaning magical little woman.
Colin McAdam (novelist).  Colin McAdam is a Canadian novelist.
Jennifer Stewart.  Jennifer Stewart (born in Redondo Beach California) is an American former pornographic film actress.She appeared in about 20 porn movies and in 1991 won the AVN Award for Best New Starlet. She was at some time a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment. She was a major co-star with Christy Canyon in Vivid's acclaimed 1991 series Passages 1–4 directed by Paul Thomas. In 1997 she had a minor role in the American TV series Hot Springs Hotel using the name Jen Stewart.
Antonio León Ortega.  Antonio León Ortega Ayamonte (Huelva) December 7 1907 - Huelva January 9 1991 Spanish sculptor he had his professional education in Madrid and he created a personal style in the Andalusian imagery of the 20th century.
Tadeusz Breyer.  Tadeusz Breyer (15 October 1874 in Mielec – 15 May 1952 in Warsaw) - Polish sculptor and medallic artist. He studied at School of Fine Arts in Kraków. Then he left to Academy in Florence. In 1904 he moved to Warsaw. From 1910 to 1952 except periods of world wars he taught on Academy of Fine Arts. While his working on Academy he educated many Polish sculptors e.g.: Alfons Karny Józef Gosławski Magdalena Gross Ludwika Nitschowa and Franciszek Strynkiewicz.
Tomás Batista.  Tomás Batista (born 1935) is one of Puerto Rico's greatest sculptors. He is the creator of some of Puerto Rico's most famous monuments.
Pieter Jansz van Asch.  Pieter Jansz van Asch (1603 - 6 June 1678 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Gunnar D. Hansson.  Gunnar D. Hansson born in 1945 on the island Smögen in Sweden is an author poet essayist translator and associate professor of literature at Göteborg University. He is an acclaimed translator of several works including Old English poetry.
Elsa Waage.  Elsa Waage is an Icelandic contralto opera singer. She was born in Reykjavík 1959 the second child of parents Steinar Waage orthopedic shoe maker and Clara Grimmer Waage.[citation needed]
Eugene Pitt.  Eugene Sampson Pitt born November 6 1937 in Brooklyn New York USA was the founding member of Jive Five.He first formed a group with some schoolfriends in 1954 called the Genies in which he was the lead singer. No recordings from this group. In 1959 he together with Jerome Hanna Richard Harris Norman Johnson and Billy Prophet formed The Jive Five. Among their classic doo-wop recordings released on Belton Records was My True Story Never Never and What Time Is It?.
Sunny Sanwar.  Sahibzada Sanwar Azam Sunny (/ˈsænˈwɔr ˈəsəm səniː/; born December 17 1989) is a Bangladeshi-born artist environmental activist and social entrepreneur. He became fluent in multiple languages and is one of the youngest artists to have a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery with work in permanent collection at the Liberation War Museum.
Dorothy Garlock.  Dorothy Garlock (b. June 22 1942 in Texas U.S.A.) is a best-selling American author of over 50 historical romance novels most of them set in the American West. She has also written under the pen names Johanna Phillips Dorothy Phillips and Dorothy Glenn.
Eric Papilaya.  Eric Papilaya (born 9 June 1978 in Vöcklabruck Upper Austria) is a singer from Austria who represented his home country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki Finland. He performed the song Get A Life - Get Alive but eliminated in semi-finals. Before he participated in Starmania where he reached a top-5 position. He is of mixed Indonesian-Austrian ancestry.
Philippé Wynne.  Philippé Wynne (April 3 1941 – July 14 1984) born Phillip Walker was an American R&B singer. Best known for his role as the lead singer of The Spinners (a role he shared with fellow group member Bobby Smith) Wynne scored notable hits such as How Could I Let You Get Away The Rubberband Man and One of a Kind (Love Affair). After leaving The Spinners Wynne never regained the same success although he featured in hits by other artists such as (Not Just) Knee Deep by Funkadelic.
La Toya Hankins.  La Toya Hankins (born September 18 1971 in Washington DC) is the author of LGBT themed works including novels poetry and prose. She also serves as the Chair of Shades of Pride organizer of the annual Triangle Black Pride.
Matthew Guinness.  Matthew Guinness (born 6 June 1940) is an English actor. He played the part of the Farmer in the 1976 film Nuts in May appears in Ridley Scott's The Duellists (1977) and had a small role in 1987's Lady Jane. He has also worked extensively in theatre.Guinness was born in London the only child of actor Alec Guinness (1914–2000) and Merula Salaman (1914–2000).
Alex Colville.  David Alexander Colville PC CC ONS (24 August 1920 – 16 July 2013) was a Canadian painter.
Juno (rapper).  Jon Korhonen (born in Helsinki Finland on 5 January 1987) is a Finnish rapper of Kenyan origin.Born in Helsinki he lived in the city's Kruununhaka and Pihlajamäki neighborhoods performing from the early 2000s. In 2005 he appeared as Juno in a TV reality show called Rap SM in the Finnish language rap section of the show. The other rappers in the Finnish leg were Kajo and Ruudolf.Juno joining various successful formations. Juno was first in the duo Hulabaloo with Mr.
Wayne Caparas.  Wayne Caparas (born February 8 1963) is an American writer award-winning entrepreneur and performing artist. Caparas is also a journalist and photojournalist and has been involved in the creation and launch of several non-profit organizations and Christian ministries. He has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1995.
Eileen Myles.  Eileen Myles (born 1949) is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry fiction nonfiction libretti plays and performance pieces over the last three decades. Myles is described as one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature. In 2012 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir) which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life.
Gregory Magarshak.  Gregory Magarshak (born April 6 1983) is an American musician.
Anbara Salam Khalidy.  Anbara Salam Khalidy (1897 – 1986) was a Lebanese feminist translator and author who significantly contributed to the emancipation of Arab women.
Armand Kaliz.  Armand Kaliz (23 October 1887 - 1 February 1941) was a French born American film actor of the silent film and early sound period of the 1930s.Born in Paris Kaliz began his career in vaudeville. He appeared in films such as The Temptress (1926) with actresses such as Greta Garbo making some 82 film appearances between 1917 and 1941.After 1933 the majority of his small roles in films went uncredited and he died on 1 February 1941 from a heart attack in Beverly Hills.
Eugen Malmstén.  Eugen Malmstén (16 February 1907 Helsinki – 1 September 1993 Helsinki) was a Finnish-Swedish musician singer orchestra conductor composer and lyricist.
Anne Plichota.  Anne Plichota (born Dijon 1968) is a French childrens' author. With her fellow Strasbourg librarian Cendrine Wolf she co-authored Oksa Pollock (2007-2013) a French fantasy series and a second more gothic trilogy Susan Hopper (first novel published March 2013).The two authors were originally refused by major publishing houses so self-published the first book and distributed it locally in Strasbourg.
Pauline Ester.  Pauline Ester (born Sabrina Ocon born on 18 December 1963 in Toulouse) is a French singer.
Linsey Dawn McKenzie.  Linsey Dawn McKenzie (born 7 August 1978) is an English glamour model porn star and television personality who made her topless modelling debut in the Sunday Sport tabloid newspaper on her 16th birthday in 1994.
André Caplet.  André Caplet (November 23 1878 – April 22 1925) was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.
Mark Bacino.  Mark Bacino is an American singer-songwriter producer multi-instrumentalist and writer.
Arthur Laurents.  Arthur Laurents (July 14 1917 – May 5 2011) was an American playwright stage director and screenwriter.After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S.
Kelly Schembri.  Kelly Schembri (born on 13 November 1986 in the United Kingdom) also known as Kelly Stelfox is a Maltese model singer-songwriter dancer and actress. She is currently living in London United Kingdom. She is known for participating in the Maltese national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song Love Me Like Your Money.
Bud Grace.  Bud Grace (born c. 1944) is a cartoonist who has worked on the comic strip Ernie whose title was later changed to The Piranha Club in the United States. He also drew Babs and Aldo comic strip for King under the pseudonym Buddy Valentine. Grace was born in Chester Pennsylvania grew up in Florida and currently resides in Oakton Virginia.Grace has a Ph.D. in physics from Florida State University and worked as a nuclear physicist at FSU before turning cartoonist 1979.
Kit Hain.  Kit Hain (born Cobham Surrey 15 December 1956) is a British musician and songwriter. She formed the Marshall Hain band with former partner Julian Marshall and their 1978 single ‘Dancing In The City’ reached #3 in the UK. However the band split when Julian Marshall found the pressure too much. Kit Hain’s first release after the band was predictably dropped by their record company was 'The Joke’s On You' for Harvest Records.
Jang Su-won.  Jang Su Won (born July 16 1980) is a former vocalist from the group Sechs Kies and a duet singer along with former Sechs Kies member Kim Jae Duc under Kiss Entertainment. He was known to be the most considerate of the group and also the youngest of member of the group. He was a sophomore is college as he was a member of the boy band. Though he had little parts in the group his parts were very valuable as he sang it with much ease.
Laurence Boldt.  Laurence G. Boldt (born 1954) is the author of Zen and the Art of Making a Living Zen Soup The Tao of Abundance and How to Find the Work You Love. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a career consultant. His books are a hybrid between Eastern religious principles (Taoism Zen) and pragmatic Western problem solving. The theme of his works is to live a happy prosperous productive life that respects and incorporates Taoist principles.
Theodor Lerner.  Theodor Lerner (10 April 1866 – 12 May 1931) was a German journalist and polar explorer who conducted several expeditions to Svalbard. In 1897 he witnessed the start of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 and took part in the search for Andrée in 1898 during a journey with Friedrich Römer and Fritz Schaudinn. He visited Bjørnøya in 1898 and 1899 exploring the viability of coal mining and eventually claiming ownership of the island as a territory of the German Empire.
Lehmber Hussainpuri.  Lehmber Hussainpuri (Punjabi: ਲਹਿੰਬਰ ਹੁਸੈਨਪੁਰੀ lahimbar husainpurī pronounced [lǽmbər husɛːnpuri]; born 17 July 1977 in Punjab India). He is a popular Bhangra singer in India UK US and Canada.
Caro Emerald.  Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw (born 26 April 1981) best known by her stage name of Caro Emerald is a Dutch pop and jazz singer. She debuted on 6 July 2009 with her single Back It Up.
Anne Chu.  Anne Chu (born 1959 New York United States) is an artist based in New York.She graduated from Philadelphia College of Art in 1982 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 1985.She has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo museum shows at Museum Haus Lange Krefeld Germany Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Weatherspoon Art Museum Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Avril Lavigne.  Avril Ramona Lavigne (/ˈævrɨl ləˈviːn/; AV-ril lə-VEEN; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian and French singer-songwriter. She was born in Belleville Ontario and spent most of her youth in the town of Napanee. By the age of 15 she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16 she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million. In 2002 when she was 17 years old Lavigne broke onto the music scene with her debut album Let Go.
Lili Ivanova.  Lili Ivanova (Bulgarian: Лиляна Иванова Петрова) (born April 24 1939 in Kubrat) is a renowned Bulgarian singer. In tribute to her contribution to the culture of the country she is often referred to as the Prima of Bulgarian popular music. Her best known songs are Panairi (Панаири eng. Fairs) Shturche (Щурче eng. A Cricket) Stari Moj Prijatelju (Стари мой приятелю eng. My Good Old Friend Vetrove (Ветрове eng.
Matt Bronleewe.  Matt Bronleewe is an American record producer musician novelist and songwriter.
Neil Innes.  Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944) is an English writer and performer of comic songs best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.
Cornelis Apostool.  Cornelis Apostool (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔʀˈneːlɪs aːpɔsˈtoːl]) (6 August 1762 – 10 February 1844) was a Dutch artist diplomat and museum director.
Robert Conquest.  George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FAAAS FRSL FBIS (born 15 July 1917) – known as Robert Conquest – is an Anglo-American historian and poet notable for his influential works of Soviet history which include The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purges of the 1930s (1968 4th ed. 2008). He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Tom Hatton (actor).  Tom Hatton is a British actor specializing in New Media. In 2010 Hatton hosted Sony Pictures International TV show In The Qube for the Animax channel.He trained in theater at The Old Vic Theatre in London and theater and film at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.His US television roles include appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hatton provided the voice of the British Prince in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
Ivan Aralica.  Ivan Aralica (born September 10 1930) is a Croatian novelist and essayist.Born in Promina near Knin and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar Aralica had worked in post-war period as a high school teacher in the backwater villages of the rural hinterland of northern and central Dalmatia.
Michael Jantze.  Michael Jantze is an American cartoonist and humorous illustrator best known as the author of the syndicated newspaper comic strip The Norm . Born in 1962 in Middletown New York he grew up in Normal Illinois. He now lives in Ross California and is currently a freelance cartoonist and humorous illustrator.
Tasos Athanasiadis.  Anastasios (Tasos) Athanasiadis (Greek: Τάσος Αθανασιάδης) son of Michael (Salihli of Asia minor November 1913-Athens 21 September 2006) was a writer and gownsman.
Stefanie von Schnurbein.  Stefanie von Schnurbein is a German professor of modern literature who first became well known for her 1992 book Religion als Kulturkritik as well as for publishing research about occult literature.
Malaya Watson.  Malaya Tina Bandico Watson (born September 24 1997) is an American singer and tuba player from Southfield Michigan who finished in 8th place on the thirteenth season of American Idol. Malaya is the second youngest contestant in American Idol history that has reached the live show next to Season 10 contestant Lauren Alaina.She is a half Filipino American half African-American the daughter of Ronald Watson a professional guitar player and Marian Bandico Watson a nurse.
Wally Tax.  Wally Tax (14 February 1948 Amsterdam - 10 April 2005 Amsterdam) was a Dutch singer and songwriter best known as founder and frontman of the Nederbeat group The Outsiders. After commercial and artistic success with The Outsiders in the late 1960s he had a brief solo career in the 1970s and then was a successful songwriter producing a number of hit songs for Dutch artists.
Mighty Dougla.  Cletus Ali better known as Mighty Dougla was a Trinidadian calypsonian who won the island's Calypso King title in 1961.
Nicola Luisotti.  Nicola Luisotti (born 26 November 1961) is an Italian musician. He has been music director of San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples since 2012. He served as the principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra from April 2009 to the spring of 2012.
Ellis Paul.  Ellis Paul (born Paul Plissey; January 14 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born in Aroostook County Maine Paul is a key figure in what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting a literate provocative and urbanely romantic folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s.
Rachel Sweet.  Rachel Sweet (born July 28 1962 Akron Ohio) is an American singer television writer and actress.
Abra (rapper).  Raymond Abracosa better known as Abra is a Filipino hip hop artist. He gained popularity in his song Gayuma (Love Potion). The music video for the song shows Abra being given a potion only to realize that his love interest is in fact a transgender. The video has reached more than 26 million views on YouTube the highest number generated by any local artist.
Eiko Shimamiya.  Eiko Shimamiya (島みやえい子 Shimamiya Eiko born April 20 in Sapporo Japan) also called EIKO or PEKO is a female J-pop singer and a former member of the production group I've Sound. She is best known for singing the opening themes of the anime series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Eiko also handles a school called Shimamiya Size (S-size) in Sapporo. Some of her former students include I've Sound singers Mami Kawada Kotoko and Kaori Utatsuki.
Wade Hemsworth.  Albert Wade Hemsworth (23 October 1916 – 19 January 2002) was a Canadian folk singer and songwriter. Although he was not a prolific composer having written only about 20 songs during his entire career several of his songs — most notably The Wild Goose The Black Fly Song and The Log Driver's Waltz — are among the most enduring classics in the history of Canadian folk music.
Ruth Minnikin.  Ruth Minnikin is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was formerly a member of Booming Airplanes The Heavy Blinkers The Guthries and Reels and now performs as Ruth Minnikin and her Bandwagon.She received nominations for Best Female Album and Best Folk Album at the 2007 Nova Scotia Music Awards.Minnikin has performed at the East Coast Music Awards South by Southwest and North by Northeast.Minnikin has collaborated frequently with other artists and has contributed to 45 recordings.
Doughbeezy.  Tai Carr (born 1986 Cleveland Ohio) better known by his stage name Doughbeezy is an American rapper from Houston Texas. Active since 2010 he has released a number of mixtapes and collaborated with musicians such as Killa Kyleon Bun B Slim Thug Devin The Dude and Paul Wall.
Dara Birnbaum.  Dara Birnbaum (born 1946) is an American video and installation artist who lives and works in New York (USA). Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the American household. Her oeuvre primarily addresses ideological and aesthetic features of mass media through the intersection of video art and television.
David Cicero.  David John Cicero (born 29 May 1970 Greenport Long Island United States) is an American singer and keyboardist who was signed in 1988 to Spaghetti Records a record label owned by Pet Shop Boys. Releasing material as Cicero he went on to have minor success in the early 1990s.
Patrick Doyle.  Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish film composer. A longtime collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh Doyle is known for his work composing for films such Henry V (1989) Sense and Sensibility (1995) Hamlet (1996) and Gosford Park (2001) as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Eragon (2006) Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Thor (both 2011).
Mordecai Bauman.  Mordecai Bauman (March 12 1912 Bronx NY - May 16 2007 New York City NY) was an American baritone.
Steele Rudd.  Steele Rudd was the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 – 11 October 1935) an Australian author best known for On Our Selection.
Vivienne Binns.  Vivienne Joyce Binns OAM (born 6 November 1940) is an Australian artist
Sandor Katz.  Sandor Ellix Katz (born 1962) is a culinary author DIY food activist and self-described fermentation fetishist. He has taught hundreds of fermented food workshops around the United States and his book Wild Fermentation has been called a classic the bible for people embarking on DIY projects like sourdough or sauerkraut and especially notorious for getting people excited about fermenting food.
Michael Scott (Irish author).  Michael Scott (born 28 September 1959) is an Irish author of science fiction fantasy horror and romance (under a pen name). He is also a collector and editor of folklore.
Moothiringode Bhavathrāthan Namboothiripad.  Moothiringode Bhavathrāthan Namboothiripad (മുത്തിരിങ്ങോട് ഭവത്രാതൻ നമ്പൂതിരിപ്പാട് ) was a Malayalam author who is known for his work Aphante Makal which had great social relevance in pre-independent Kerala society.
Gary Pihl.  Gary O. Pihl (pronounced peel) (born 1950) is a guitarist best known for playing with Sammy Hagar and his membership in the band Boston.
Dani Martín.  Daniel Martín García (born 19 February 1977) is the vocalist of award-winning Spanish pop rock band El Canto del Loco (ECDL) and has also acted prominently in Spanish film Yo soy la Juani also in the TV series Cuenta atrás and Los hombre de Paco.
Dilipkumar Roy.  Dilipkumar Roy (22 January 1897 – 6 January 1980) was a Bengali Indian musician musicologist novelist poet and essayist.He was son of Dwijendralal Ray.In 1965 the Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy for Music Dance and Drama awarded him its highest honour for lifetime achievement the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi.  Eliezer ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn (1140–1225) (Hebrew acronym ראבי״ה Ra'avyah) Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asher ben Jehiel (the ROSH). As a Rishon he was prominent amongst the Tosafists of the middle-ages and was a signatory to the Takkanot Shum.
Abbie Betinis.  Abbie Betinis (born 1980) is an American composer. A 2009 McKnight Fellow Betinis' compositions have been performed by numerous professional and amateur choruses including New Amsterdam Singers Cantus and The Rose Ensemble. Since 2006 she has served as Composer In Residence at The Schubert Club in Saint Paul Minnesota.
Hopsin.  Marcus Jamal Hopson (born July 18 1985) better known by his stage name Hopsin is an American rapper record producer director and actor from Los Angeles California. In 2007 he was signed to Ruthless Records and has since founded his own record label Funk Volume in 2009. Hopsin has released three studio albums Gazing At the Moonlight through Ruthless Records Raw and his latest album Knock Madness along with the mixtape Haywire (with SwizZz) through Funk Volume.
Vsevolod Bazhenov.  Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov (Russian: Все́волод Андре́евич Баже́нов; February 18 1909 Serdobsk Russian Empire – August 2 1986 Leningrad USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his landscape paintings.
Margaret Johansen.  Margaret Johansen (4 April 1923 – 1 March 2013) was a Norwegian novelist.She was born in Skien as a daughter of Olav Foss (1895–1941) and Astrid Marie Olsen (1886–1991). She was married twice last to Olaf Andreas Johansen (1912–1985).
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.  Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (Russian: Игна́тий И́горевич Вишневе́цкий; born September 5 1986 in Moscow Soviet Union) is a Russian-born United States-based film critic and essayist. He works as a critic for the film website Mubi.com is an occasional contributor to the Chicago Reader and has been a contributing film critic for The A.V. Club since May 2013Vishnevetsky co-hosted Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies a nationally syndicated film criticism television show with Christy Lemire.
Rishab Prasanna.  Rishab Prasanna (Hindi: ऋषभ प्रसन्ना Urdu: رشبھ پرسنا‎) (born 16 February 1985) is an Indian flute or bansuri player. He was born in New Delhi. He is the son of the flute and shehnai player Pt. Rajendra Prasanna
Hime Tsukino.  Hime Tsukino (月野姫 Tsukino Hime) (born March 25 1985 in Osaka) is a Japanese trans woman and award-winning model and former adult video (AV) actress.
Arshile Gorky.  Arshile Gorky (/ˌɑrʃiːl ˈɡɔrkiː/; born Vosdanig Manoug Adoian (Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15 1904 – July 21 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian Genocide.
Jiang Wen.  Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese film actor screenwriter and director. As a director he is sometimes grouped with the Sixth Generation that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986). He has a younger brother who is also an actor Jiang Wu.
Joe Giardullo.  Joe Giardullo (July 24 1948) born in Brooklyn NY is a soprano saxophonist and composer.
Mahmud A. Asrar.  Mahmud Anjum Asrar (born November 20 1976 in Ankara Turkey) is a Turkish-born comic book artist of Pakistani and Austrian ethnicity who is known for his work on American and non-American comic books.His American work includes pinups for Savage Dragon #124 and Invincible #20 and for co-creating with writer Jay Faerber the series Dynamo 5 which debuted in March 2007 from Image Comics.
Maya (singer).  Maya (Korean: 마야) (born Kim Young-Sook (Korean: 김영숙) on 17 November 1975) is a South Korean singer and actress. The youngest of one brother and four sisters. Her hobbies are skiing and scuba diving. She attended Kumgok High School and the Seoul Institute of the Arts.Maya's performance debut was during the m.net programme Show King M on 11 March 2003.
Adam Blackstone.  Adam Blackstone (born 1982 in Trenton) is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter producer bassist. He is currently the musical director for Nicki Minaj and Justin Timberlake. Adam has also directed and played in performances with Jay-Z Kanye West Eminem Janet Jackson Dr. DreThe Jonas Brothers The Roots Ms.Marilyn Marshall Al Green The Isley Brothers Angie Stone Mike Posner Steve Tirpak Al Jarreau Maroon 5 Demi Lovato and Jill Scott.
Angèle Dubeau.  Angèle Dubeau OC CQ (born March 24 1962) is a Canadian violinist.Born in Saint-Norbert Quebec Dubeau is a graduate and First Prize winner of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and later went to Romania to work with Ştefan Gheorghiu. Since that time Dubeau has been regarded as one of Canada's most prominent classical performing artists.
Eddie Rambeau.  Eddie Rambeau (born Edward Cletus Fluri 30 June 1943 Hazleton Pennsylvania) is an American singer songwriter and actor.
Emo Philips.  Emo Philips is an American entertainer and comedian born in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences spoken in a wandering falsetto tone of voice and a confused childlike delivery of his material to produce the intended comic timing in a manner invoking the 'wisdom of children' or the idiot savant.
Tim O'Brien (illustrator).  Tim O'Brien (born November 16 1964 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American artist.Tim O'Brien is an American illustrator/artist who works in a realistic style. Illustrations by O'Brien appear in magazines such as Time Magazine Newsweek The Atlantic Monthly National Geographic and others.
Jay Kinney.  Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author editor and former underground cartoonist. A member along with Skip Williamson Jay Lynch and R. Crumb of the original Bijou Funnies crew Kinney also edited Young Lust a satire of romance comics in the early 1970s with Bill Griffith. He later founded the political comic Anarchy Comics which was published sporadically by Last Gasp between 1978 and 1987.
Jay Beckenstein.  Jay B. Beckenstein (born May 14 1951 in Long Island New York) is a saxophone player smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra. He also owned a studio in New York that was called BearTracks Studios.He also played the saxophone solo on American progressive metal band Dream Theater's Another Day from the album Images and Words and single version of song Through her Eyes from the album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory.
Claudia Roth Pierpont.  Claudia Roth Pierpont is a writer and journalist. She has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004. Her subjects have included Friedrich Nietzsche Katharine Hepburn Mae West Orson Welles the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.A collection of eleven of Pierpont’s New Yorker essays Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World was published in 2000.
Harry Gorodetzer.  Harry Gorodetzer (1914–2002) was a cellist for the Philadelphia Orchestra for 50 seasons during a period in which the orchestra received world-wide acclaim for its Philadelphia Sound. It was during this time that the Orchestra also produced some of its most well-known recordings.Mr. Gorodetzer was the last musician hired for the orchestra by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski. In 1936 while still a student at the famed Curtis Institute of Music Mr.
Richard Chizmar.  Richard Thomas Chizmar (born 1965) is best known as the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications. He also edits anthologies writes fiction produces films writes screenplays and teaches writing.
M.K. Sankaran Namboothiri.  Sankaran Namboothiri (Malayalam: ശങ്കരന്‍ നമ്പൂതിരി) (aka Pranavam Sankaran Namboothiri) is a Carnatic classical music vocalist from Kerala. Renowned as a child prodigy he started learning music at the age of ten under the tutelage of Sri C. S. Narayanan Namboothiri. He went on to pursue his training under the able guidance of stalwarts like Sri T. V. Gopalakrishnan Prof. Mavelikkara R. Prabhakara Varma and Late Sri.Palakkad K.V. Narayana Swamy.
Eric Tsang.  Tsang Chi-wai MH (曾志偉) (born 14 April 1953) also known as Eric Tsang is a Hong Kong actor film director producer and television host best known for hosting the variety show Super Trio series on the Hong Kong television network TVB over 18 years.
Caparezza.  Caparezza [kapaˈrɛttsa] (Curly Head in Molfetta's dialect) pseudonym of Michele Salvemini born 9 October 1973) is an Italian rapper. Born in Molfetta Apulia Caparezza debuted in 1997 at the Sanremo Festival under the name MikiMix.
Jerry Peters.  Jerry Peters is an American songwriter record producer multi-instrumentalist conductor and arranger. He is best known for writing the hit song Going In Circles by The Friends of Distinction.
Mattie Moss Clark.  Dr. Mattie Moss-Clark (March 26 1925 - September 22 1994) was an American gospel choir director and the mother of The Clark Sisters a world-renowned gospel vocal group. Clark is credited for creating the three-part harmony (separating vocal parts into soprano alto and tenor) a technique which is prevalent among gospel choirs today.
Paul Allender.  Paul Allender (born 17 November 1970 Colchester Essex England) is the lead guitarist of the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.
Pascal Lamour.  Pascal Lamour (born 28 October 1958 in Theix Morbihan) is a French Breton musician. After a long career as an herbalist he devoted himself entirely to music since 2000. He has produced thirteen albums under his own label BNC since 1994 but has actually made known in the music business since 2005-2006. He has played throughout Europe and in Quebec the United States Brazil Vietnam and other countries.He mixes traditional Breton music with electronic rhythms.
Franco Moschino.  Franco Moschino (February 27 1950 - September 18 1994) was an Italian fashion designer remembered for his witty colorful lively and provocative designs which not only challenged but poked fun at the fashion establishment.
INOJ.  Ayanna Porte (born November 27 1976) better known by her stage name INOJ is an American R&B singer-songwriter.She was born and raised in Madison Wisconsin. During college in Baltimore Maryland she was in a group called Spellbound.In 1997 she released her debut single Love You Down a cover of Ready for the World's 1986 hit that reached #25 in the United States. Her debut album was also named Ready for the World the name of the band which originally sung her lead single.
Alex Westaway.  Alex Westaway is the co-lead vocalist and guitarist in post-hardcore band Fightstar alongside Charlie Simpson Omar Abidi and Dan Haigh.
Oscar Reutersvärd.  Oscar Reutersvärd (November 29 1915 – February 2 2002) widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure was a Swedish graphic artist who in 1934 pioneered the art of 3D drawings which may initially appear feasible yet cannot be physically constructed.
Norbert Davis.  Norbert Harrison Davis (April 18 1909 - July 28 1949) was an American crime fiction author.Norbert Davis was born in Morrison Illinois where he grew up. At the end of the 1920s his family moved to Southern California and by the end of 1934 he was to receive his law degree from Stanford University but never bothered to take the bar exam. He started writing short stories for Black Mask in 1932 and lived in the Los Angeles area.
Ian Edwards (comedian).  Ian Edwards (born February 11 1972) is a stand up comedian. He has appeared on Family Guy Live at Gotham and HBO's Bad Boys of Comedy. He can be seen weekly at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. On August 1 Gilbert Arenas used one of Edwards' jokes on his popular blog. This has created some controversy as Arenas did not cite Edwards in the same entry.
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer).  Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is a British Indian pop singer best known for his UK number-one hits Release Me and The Last Waltz as well as After the Lovin' and A Man Without Love.Born in Madras India Dorsey moved to Leicester England as a child with his family where he took an early interest in music. Initially playing the saxophone in nightclubs he soon started singing releasing his first single I'll Never Fall in Love Again in 1958.
Paul Poulton.  Paul Poulton is a British singer-songwriter guitarist producer and writer. Born in West Bromwich West Midlands UK he has released fourteen albums and three singles since 1989. That year Paul did over a hundred performances in his first year on the road as a Singer/Songwriter. He tours in the UK and US appearing at a variety of venues. His song Flaky People was played extensively by Mid-West American radio station WQRP in the late 1990s.
Peter Watson (intellectual historian).  Peter Watson (born 1943) is an intellectual historian and former journalist now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas.He was educated at the universities of Durham London and Rome. Watson was deputy editor of New Society and was for four years a member of the Insight team at The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for The Observer Punch The Spectator and The New York Times.
Peter LeMarc.  Peter LeMarc (or Lemarc; born Lenn Marc Fransson 23 October 1958) is a Swedish singer and songwriter.After enjoying a hugely popular career from 1987 to 1997 and after a hiatus he enjoyed a comeback starting 2003 onwards with a series of new albums reaching the top of the Swedish Albums Chart.
Ruth Miller.  Not to be confused with American movie actress Patsy Ruth Miller born on the same day or the Leicester UK songwriter Ruth Miller. For the South African poet see Ruth Miller (poet)Ruth Blanchard Miller (January 17 1904 – May 21 1978) was an American artist.Miller was born to Kempster Blanchard Miller and Antha (Knowlton) Miller in Chicago Illinois.
Johnnie Taylor.  Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5 1934 – May 31 2000) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres from rhythm and blues soul blues and gospel to pop doo-wop and disco.
Masashi Tashiro.  Masashi Tashiro (田代 まさし Tashiro Masashi real name pronounced the same but written as 田代 政) (born August 31 1956) is a former Japanese television performer and the founding member of the band Rats & Star. Tashiro was a tenor vocalist for Rats & Star and later on made himself a name as a TV entertainer in Japan. He also directed a movie after his band broke up.His arrest for looking up a woman's skirt in September 2000 marked the beginning of Tashiro's problems with the law.
Haruomi Hosono.  Haruomi Hosono (細野 晴臣 Hosono Haruomi born July 9 1947 in Minato Tokyo) also known as Harry Hosono is a renowned Japanese musician. He is best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra with Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto.Hosono has also released many solo albums covering a variety of styles including film soundtracks and a variety of electronic ambient albums.
Terry Hunter.  Terry Hunter is an American house music DJ from Chicago Illinois. He has been active in the Chicago music scene since the early 1990s. He has produced many of his own albums as well as remixes for other artists. His 1997 track Harvest for the World (a cover of the Isley Brothers track) peaked at #48 in the UK Singles Chart in July that year.Currently Terry Hunter dj's and hosts his weekly event in Chicago appropriately called BANG! Sundays at The Shrine.
William Wegman (photographer).  William Wegman (born December 2 1943) is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.
Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy.  Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy (Russian: Александр Непомнящий February 16 1968 Kovrov - April 20 2007 Ivanovo) was a Russian poet singer and bard and a member of National Bolshevik Party.
Wilfy Rebimbus.  Wilfred Gerald Rebimbus (2 April 1942 – 9 March 2010) was a Konkani singer and lyricist. He was known as Konkan Kogul (the nightingale of Konkani).
David Ray Stephens.  David Ray Stephens (born January 13 1962) is an independent songwriter recording artist and record producer based in Camarillo CA.A 1984 graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts in Percussion Performance Stephens displayed an early prodigy for the drums and piano before branching out to guitar bass electronic keyboards and other instruments during high school.
J. Jill Robinson.  Jacqueline Jill Robinson (born June 16 1955) is a western Canadian writer editor and teacher. She is the author of a novel and four collections of short stories. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals including Geist the Antigonish Review Event Prairie Fire and the Windsor Review.
Andy Nicholson.  For the production designer see Andy Nicholson (production designer)Andy Nicholson is an English musician DJ and producer best known as the original bass guitarist of the Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys which he left in 2006. In 2008 he founded Mongrel with Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers. In 2009 he became the bassist for ex-Milburn (band) frontman Joe Carnall's band The Book Club but left later that year to join Reverend and the Makers.
Elin Sigvardsson.  Elin Ruth (born November 23 1981 in Mönsterås Småland) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her music has been published variously under the names Elin Ruth Elin Ruth Sigvardsson and Elin Sigvardsson.Elin Ruth debuted in 2003 with the album Saturday Light Naive which was produced by Lars Winnerbäck. The album was hailed by critics and led to a Swedish Grammy nomination for best new artist. In early 2005 she released her second album Smithereens which she produced herself.
Carsten Bleness.  Carsten Bleness (born 22 July 1958) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Oslo as a son of Magne Bleness. He took the examen artium in 1977 and worked as a sailor then manual laborer at Jøtul from 1980 to 1982. He took education as a Chief Mate and served as such for two years and then returned to manual labor at Standard Telefon og Kabelfabrik until 1985.From 1985 to 1987 he led the radio station Radio Klassekampen.
Edward Gorman.  Ed Gorman (born Edward Joseph Gorman 1941) is an American authorbest known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann.He has written under many Pseudonyms including E. J. Gorman and Daniel Ransom. He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story The Face in 1992. His fiction collection Cages was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.
Roger Craig Vogel.  Roger Craig Vogel (born July 6 1947 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and a music educator.
Juliana Pasha.  Juliana Pasha (born 20 May 1980 Burrel Albania) is an Albanian singer. In 2010 she won Honorary Citizen Award of Burrel from the mayor of the city. After she went into Eurovision in 2010 she won the first prize in the festival Kenga Magjike with the song called Sa e shite zemren. She was a mentor and judge on the first series of Albania and Kosovo's version of The X Factor.
DJ Mehdi.  Mehdi Favéris-Essadi (20 January 1977[citation needed] – 13 September 2011) better known by his stage name DJ Mehdi was a French hip hop and house producer.
Eldrid Lunden.  Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet and Norway's first professor in creative writing at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989 and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000.Lunden belonged to the circle surrounding the modernist literary magazine Profil.She was born in Naustdal and took her cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo.
Fernando Saunders.  Fernando Saunders (born January 17 ) is a musician performer vocalist and bass player from Detroit Michigan. He is perhaps best known for his long partnership with singer Lou Reed intermittently from the early 1980s to at least 2008.
Richard Roderick.  Richard Roderick (baptized 1710 died 20 July 1756) was a British editor and poet.A native of Cambridgeshire Roderick was admitted pensioner of Queens' College Cambridge on 20 December 1728 and graduated B.A. in 1732. He subsequently became a fellow commoner of the college and a grace was granted by the president and fellows for him to proceed to the degree of M.A. on 5 June 1736.
Paul Shearer.  Paul Shearer is a British actor who is best known as a member of the Fast Show team.
Ewelina Lisowska.  Ewelina Lisowska (born August 23 1991) is a Polish musical artist composer and song-writer.
Magda Hagstotz.  Magda Hagstotz (1914–2001) was a German painter and designer belonging to the post-war abstract art movement. Her major means of expression were watercolors and elaborately textured surfaces. She was a prolific artist and worked by preference small and medium sizes.
Justin Meldal-Johnsen.  Justin Meldal-Johnsen (born March 26 1970 in Eugene Oregon) is an American producer songwriter bassist multi-instrumentalist and musical director best known for his work as a musician with Grammy Award-winning artists Beck and Nine Inch Nails as well as Air and M83. He served as the touring bassist for Nine Inch Nails in 2008 and 2009. He has been Beck's longtime bassist and musical director on and off since 1996 to present day.
Micol Ostow.  Micol Ostow (born April 29 1976) is an American author editor and educator who has written more than 40 published works. Her first original hardcover novel Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa was named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. She has also been the ghostwriter for novelizations of television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer Charmed and Fearless.
Louis August Wollenweber.  Louis [or Ludwig] August Wollenweber (5 December 1807 Speyer - 25 July 1888 Reading Pennsylvania) was a German-American German-language journalist and a writer of prose and poetry in Pennsylvania Dutch.
Paul Haefliger.  Paul Haefliger (*1914 Germany – †1982 Switzerland) was an abstract painter art critic writer and printmaker. He was a major figures in the Sydney art world in the 1940s and 1950s and as art critic for Art in Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald he helped mould the standards of Australian art during this period.
Hank Williams Jr..  Randall Hank Williams (born May 26 1949) better known as Hank Williams Jr. and Bocephus is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock blues and traditional country.
Lady June.  June Campbell Cramer (3 June 1931 – 7 June 1999) better known as Lady June was an English painter poet and musician. She was associated with the Canterbury scene and recorded two albums. She exhibited and performed her works in several countries often combining her painting poetry and music into multimedia presentations.Allmusic described her as a Bohemian artist and an obituary in The Independent called her a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster.
Troy Shondell.  Troy Shondell (born Gary Shelton May 14 1940 Fort Wayne Indiana) is an American vocalist who achieved a modicum of fame and recognition in the early 1960s. He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the US and the UK. The song This Time (or sometimes billed as This Time (We're Really Breaking Up) sold over one million records earning gold disc status. In a single year sales were over three million copies.
Bertrand Planes.  Bertrand Planes (born 1975) is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris France.[citation needed] His artworks often involve subverting and finding new uses for everyday objects.
Nathaniel Motte.  Nathaniel Warren Seth Motte (born January 13 1984) is an American singer producer and film composer from Boulder Colorado. He is a member of the electronic pop duo 3OH!3 with Sean Foreman.
Nora Istrefi.  Nora Istrefi (born 25 March 1986) is an Albanian Kosovar singer.
Michael Fall.  Michael Fall (born Lokeren June 9 1980) is a Belgian DJ producer and remixer from Moerbeke-Waas Belgium. He was an artist from BMC Universal till 2012. He signed a publishing contract in November 2012 at Strengholt Holding. In 2013 he released his debut album called 'Turn on your radio' and was listed in the official Belgium Album charts. Michael is owner of MFrecords based in Belgium. In 2014 he received a Golden award for his debut album.
Edward Peel.  Edward Peel (born 1943) is a British actor.He has mostly appeared on television his roles include Shogun (1980) Juliet Bravo (1983–1985) Cracker (1993–1995) Emmerdale Farm (Tom Merrick: 1981-1982 Tony Cairns: 1997-1998) and London's Burning (2000–2001).
Hurby Azor.  Hurby Luv Bug Azor or Fingerprints as he was also known is a hip-hop music producer best known for discovering the successful female hip-hop trio Salt-n-Pepa and the also successful hip-hop duo Kid 'n Play.
Marco Carta.  Marco Carta (born 21 May 1985 in Cagliari Italy) is an Italian singer. To date he has sold more than 245000 albums and 60000 singles.
Sora Amamiya.  Sora Amamiya (雨宮 天 Amamiya Sora born August 28 1993 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress. She is affiliated with Music Ray'n.
Ti-Grace Atkinson.  Ti-Grace Atkinson (born November 9 1938 in Baton Rouge Louisiana as Grace Atkinson) is an American feminist author.Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. The Ti in her name reflects the Cajun or French language petite for little.Atkinson earned her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1964. While still in Philadelphia she helped found the Institute of Contemporary Art acting as its first director and was sculpture critic for the periodical ARTnews.
Shelby Flint.  Shelby Flint (born September 17 1939 North Hollywood California) is a singer-songwriter who had two top-100 hits Angel on My Shoulder in 1961 and Cast Your Fate to the Wind in 1966.Her single I Will Love You appeared in the Variety T.I.P.S. (Tune Index of Performance and Sales) Top 100 in 1961. She has been a singer in several movies including Snoopy Come Home (Do You Remember Me? (Lila's Theme)) and The Rescuers.
Chimo Bayo.  Chimo Bayo (born Joaquín Bayo 25 October 1961) is a Spanish dance artist who gained prominence in the early 1990s with the one hit wonder Así Me Gusta A Mí (X-Ta Sí X-Ta No). The song was a major hit in Spain Greece and South America as well as reaching number one in Japan Israel and elsewhere.
Dan Smith (American author).  Col. Dan Smith is a retired U.S. Army colonel and author who writes articles for Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) CounterPunch and other anti-war minded publications. With almost three decades of military experience Smith writes articles on the current Iraq War.
Jonnie Barnett.  Jonathan Barnett Kaye (1946 in Sumter South Carolina – August 18 2002) known professionally as Jonnie Barnett was an American musician. In the 1970s he performed as an opening act for several acts such as Tom Waits Cheech and Chong and Frank Zappa. He also made appearances in the 1975 film Nashville and in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie. One of Barnett's compositions One Foot in the Blues was recorded by Johnny Adams and received a Blues Song of the Year award from 1997 W. C.
Leon Sylvers III.  Leon Frank Sylvers III (born March 7 1953 Memphis Tennessee) is an American singer songwriter record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He was a member of the family group The Sylvers and became one of the most successful producers in black music in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s through his association with Dick Griffey's SOLAR Records.
Håkan Westergren.  Håkan Westergren (29 April 1899 Solna – 15 October 1981 Stockholm) was a Swedish actor. He was mostly known for playing in Swedish comedy movies during the 1930s and 1940s but was sometimes seen in some more serious roles. He was married to Swedish actress Inga Tidblad.
Bonnie Anderson (singer).  Bonnie Anderson is an Australian singer/songwriter from Australia. She was the first winner of reality TV show Australia's Got Talent in 2007 at age 12. She released her debut single Raise The Bar in 2013.
Faye Adams.  Faye Adams (born Fanny Tuell May 22 1923) is an American singer who recorded rhythm and blues in the 1950s before retiring from the music business.
Turbo B.  Turbo B (born Durron Maurice Butler; April 30 1967) is an American musician rapper and beatboxer best known for his time fronting the electronic music group Snap!.
George Blaikie.  George Neil Blaikie (1915 – 12 October 1995) was an Australian author and journalist.Blaikie was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Grammar School and Melbourne University. He joined Smith's Weekly in December 1931 after his bank manager father had impressed on Smith's Weekly owner Joynton Smith a customer what an asset the boy would be. Blaikie was still with the paper in October 1950when it closed.Blaikie later worked for the Courier Mail in Brisbane.
Ann Herendeen.  Ann Herendeen is an American author of popular fiction. Herendeen's novels are notable for their queering of the traditional Romance novel.
Questlove.  Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born January 20 1971) known professionally as ?uestlove or Questlove (also known as BROther ?uestion Questo Brother Question or Qlove) is an American drummer DJ music journalist and record producer.
Émile Lessore.  Émile-Aubert Lessore or Lessorre (Paris 1805–Marlotte 1876) was a French ceramic artist and painter.
Jens Galschiøt.  Jens Galschiøt (Born 4 June 1954) is a Danish sculptor best known for the Pillar of Shame. Galschiøt moved to Odense in 1973 and in 1985 he opened a 2000 square metre combined foundry studio gallery Galschiøt and sculpture park. In 1990 Galschiøt Erik Mortensen and Jean Voigt created the sculpture The Ringwearer's Jacket which was commissioned by the Clothing Industry’s Union of Denmark for Queen Margrethe II’s 50th birthday.
Max Kruse (author).  Max Kruse (born November 19 1921 in Bad Kösen) is a German writer mostly known for his children's books Der Löwe ist los (The Lion is on the loose) and Urmel aus dem Eis (Urmel from the Ice Age).
Marcello Abbado.  Marcello Abbado (born 7 October 1926 Milan) is an Italian composer conductor and pianist. His compositional output includes several orchestral works a ballet numerous pieces for solo piano and a number of chamber works. He has collaborated on several compositions with Roberto Goitre. In 1989 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Meritorious Culture and Art (Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte) by the Government of Italy.
Mick Walter.  Mick Walter (born Michael E. Walter in Huddersfield Yorkshire in 1955) often referred to by the stage name Big Mick is an English actor noted for his dwarfism. He is known for appearing in television comedies first appearing as Jack Large in Blackadder.
Elif Şafak.  Elif Şafak (or Shafak born 25 October 1971 Strasbourg France) is an outspoken Turkish author columnist speaker and academic. As Turkey's bestselling female writer Şafak is a brave champion of cosmopolitanism a sophisticated feminist and an ambitious novelist who infuses her magical-realist fiction with big important ideas....
Howza.  Howza born Tshepo Howard Mosese (19 July 1983) is a South African rapper songwriter and actor.
Kanzan Shimomura.  Kanzan Shimomura (下村 観山 Shimomura Kanzan April 10 1873 – May 10 1930) was the pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Meiji through to the early Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Shimomura Seizaburō.Kanzan was born in 1873 in Wakayama city Wakayama prefecture into a family of hereditary Noh actors.Having moved to Tokyo at the age of eight Kanzan studied under Kanō Hōgai and after Hōgai's death under Hashimoto Gahō.
Steven Cummings.  Steven Cummings is an American comic book artist.
Eri Miyajima.  Eri Miyajima (宮島 依里 Miyajima Eri born February 3 1974) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan. She voices Guren in Naruto: Shippuden and Kana in Haibane Renmei.
Rocky Boyd.  John Erskine Rocky Boyd (Boston 1936) is an American jazz saxophonist. He studied at the South End Music School Berklee and the Boston Conservatory. Interested in jazz he moved to New York in 1958 where he continued his studies while playing at jazz clubs. He played his first date at the Five Spot. Before long he was working with Johnny Griffin Philly Joe Jones and Pete LaRoca.
Richard Barrett Davis.  Richard Barrett Davis (1782-1854) was an animal and landscape painter. Davis was born at Watford in 1782. He studied under Evans of Eton under Beechey and in the schools of the Royal Academy where he first exhibited in 1802. He joined the Society of British Artists in 1829 and was appointed animal painter to William IV in 1831. He died in 1854. Amongst his works are: Mares and Foals from the Royal Stud. 1808.Going to Market. 1814.Horse Fair.
Marie Fredriksson.  Gun-Marie Fredriksson known as About this sound Marie Fredriksson (born 30 May 1958) is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter and pianist best known for forming one half of the pop rock duo Roxette which she created together with Per Gessle in 1986. She and Per Gessle achieved international success from the late 1980s to the early 1990s with a total of six top 10 US hit songs such as It Must Have Been Love Listen to Your Heart The Look Joyride and Dangerous.
Bruce Le.  Bruce Le (real name Huang Jian Long a.k.a. Wong Kin Lung) is a martial artist and actor who is known for the martial arts films he made in the 1970s and '80s. Most of these were cheaply produced and were made to capitalize on the martial arts phenomenon started by Bruce Lee whose death in 1973 left a large box office void (hence the name change to Bruce Le).Bruce Le was a contract player for the Shaw Brothers where he appeared in the fondly remembered science fiction opus Infra-Man.
Andrew William Bruce.  Andrew William Bruce is the Co-Founder & Chairman of Autograph Sound Recording. Bruce began his career in grand opera beginning his theatre career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1968 before co-founding Autograph Sound Recording in 1972. He was associate designer on several landmarks of British musical theatre such as Evita Cats and Starlight Express and designed the original London production of Les Misérables on 1985.
James Lancelot.  James Bennett Lancelot (born 2 December 1952) is Master of the Choristers and has been Cathedral Organist at Durham Cathedral since 1985.Lancelot was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School and Ardingly College prior to going up to King's College Cambridge where he was Organ Scholar from 1971-74.
Rebecca Chambers.  Rebecca Chambers (born 31 May 1975) is an Australian concert pianist from Melbourne. In 1996 she was named Young Australian of the Year.She was educated at Victorian College of the Arts. She made her debut as piano soloist with an orchestra at age 7.She won the piano section of the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards in 1993 and has performed around Australia with every symphony orchestra.
Steinar Eikum.  Steinar Schanke Eikum (born on 6 October 1958 in Drøbak Norway) was the original bassist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT. He joined the band after doing an audition in the Easter of 1982 and played on their self-titled debut album the same year. He was replaced by Morty Black in 1983.Before Eikum joined TNT he played in the Oslo-based band Red. In 1987 he joined the Trondheim-based band Blonde on Blonde and recorded a self-titled album with them the following year.
Rick Gibson.  Rick Gibson (born 1951) is a Canadian sculptor and artist. He was born in Montreal Quebec and he studied Psychology at the University of Victoria. Between 1973 and 1974 he drew weekly comics for the student newspaper. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 he moved to Vancouver Canada. He lived in London England from 1983 to 1989. He received a Master of Science degree in Interactive Art and Technology from Simon Fraser University Surrey in 2004.
Enrique Simonet.  Enrique Simonet Lombardo (February 2 1866 – April 20 1927) was a Spanish painter.Enrique Simonet was born in Valencia and first studied at the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia.In 1887 obtained a grant to study painting in the Fine Arts Academy in Rome where he painted in 1890 Heart's anatomy also known as She had a heart! or Autopsy; a painting that would bring him international recognition and which won him several prizes.He also obtained several international awards including Madrid in 1892 Chicago in 1893 Barcelona in 1896 and Paris in 1900.His painting Saint Paul's beheading is in a preferred place at the Cathedral of Malaga.In 1911 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.
Peter Friend (author).  Peter Friend is a New Zealand born science fictionwriter who won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for fiction three times.
Abby Morton Diaz.  Abby Morton Diaz (November 22 1821 – April 1 1904) was a teacher and women's rights organizer.In the 1840s she was a teacher at the Brook Farm communal experiment in West Roxbury Massachusetts. She later was a founder of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston.
Harvey Pekar.  Harvey Lawrence Pekar (/ˈpiːkɑr/; October 8 1939 – July 12 2010) was an American underground comic book writer music critic and media personality best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series.
Rob Paparozzi.  Rob The Honeydripper Paparozzi (born Robert Steven Paparozzi; 14 October 1952)is a Grammy nominated American harmonica player and vocalist from New Jersey.He has toured with Dolly Parton George Jones and has contributed to works by Whitney Houston Bruce Springsteen Judy Collins Cyndi Lauper and Bobby McFerrin. He is a former member of The Original Blues Brothers band and is the singer for the reformed Blood Sweat and Tears.
Ivan Rusilko.  Dr. Ivan Rusilko D.O. (born March 3 1984) is a weight-loss wellness physical-enhancement and sexual-health physician Co-Founder at Club Essentia Wellness Retreat at Delano in Miami Beach Florida and is the owner of Dr. Ivan Rusilko Lifestyle Medicine with its headquarters in Miami Beach and debuting in Buenos Aires.[citation needed] Rusilko is the former Mr. USA 2008 & 2010. He is also a certified sports nutritionist champion bodybuilder and international fitness model.
Anna Nakagawa.  Anna Nakagawa (中川安奈 Nakagawa Anna) real name Anna Kuriyama (栗山安奈 Kuriyama Anna) (born August 30 1965 in Suginami Tokyo Japan) is an actress. She won the award for best actress at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days.
Melodie Crittenden.  Melodie Crittenden (born in Shawnee Oklahoma) is an American country and Christian music artist. She initially recorded a self-titled debut album for Asylum/Elektra Records in 1998 the same year that she charted with her rendition of Bless the Broken Road (her version was titled simply Broken Road); she would later record the song a second time as a member of the gospel group Selah.Crittenden has released two studio albums starting with her self titled debut in 1998.
Uilliam Ó Duinnín.  Uilliam Ó Duinnín (fl. 1670–1682) was an Irish scribe.The son of Domhnall Óg Ó Duinnín Uilliam was the owner of MS 1336 which he may have sold to Edward Lhuyd. He transcribed William Bedell's Irish Old Testament which was published in 1685.
Kourtney Klein.  Kourtney Klein is a music producer keyboardist and drummer. She performed as a touring musician for industrial bands Nitzer Ebb and Combichrist before forming her own synthpop group Army on the Dance Floor in 2011. In 2005 she began hosting the Spike TV show Boom!.
Marjorie Mikasen.  Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959) is an abstract geometric hard-edge acrylic painter working in Lincoln Nebraska. She has a degree in studio arts from The University of Minnesota. She is co-author with Mark Griep of the nonfiction book Re'Action!' Chemistry in the Movies.
Takaya Kagami.  Takaya Kagami (鏡 貴也 Kagami Takaya born May 22 1979) is a Japanese light novel writer.
Joshua Field (artist).  Joshua Field (born 27 October 1973) is an American artist known for narrative paintings which use iconic and psychological imagery to create complex sometimes mysterious scenarios. He exhibits his paintings in the United States and Europe.Many of Field’s best-known artworks utilize the visual language of collage to bring a broad range of disparate images into a narrative scheme.
Johnny Dyani.  Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist who played with such musicians as Don Cherry Steve Lacy David Murray Finnish Guitar player Jukka Syrenius and Leo Smith.He was born and grew up in Duncan Village a township of the South African city of East London.In the early 1960s Dyani was a member of South Africa's first integrated jazz band The Blue Notes with Mongezi Feza on trumpet Dudu Pukwana on alto saxophone Nikele Moyake on tenor saxophone Chris McGregor on piano and Louis Moholo on drums. 
Marjan Pejoski.  Marjan Pejoski (Macedonian: Марјан Пејоски) is a Macedonian fashion designer who lives and works in the UK. He is mainly known for designing Björk's iconic swan dress which the singer wore many times: on the Vespertine album cover for the Vespertine Tour for the 2000 Cannes Festival and for the 2001 Academy Awards.In 2003 Pejoski launched his own designer brand K-T-Z.In 2004 Pejoski designed the costumes for Misia's dome tour The Tour of Misia 2004 Mars & Roses.
Shermain Jeremy.  Shermain Sunja Jeremy (born 24 June 1983) is an Antiguan singer and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Miss Antigua and Barbuda Carnival Queen Show competition in 2002 and Jaycee's Caribbean queen show that year.
Musarrat Nazir.  Musarrat Nazir is a singer and actress who sang and acted in many Urdu and Punjabi films. She also sang solo mostly wedding and folk songs. She was born to a middle-class family on October 13 1940. Her parents were of Punjabi origin from Lahore. Her father Nazeer Ahmed worked for the municipal corporation as a registered contractor at the time of her birth.
Castro Alves.  Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (14 March 1847 – 6 July 1871) was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the Condorism he won the epithet of O Poeta dos Escravos (The Poet of the Slaves).He is the patron of the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
CEvin Key.  cEvin Key (born Kevin William Crompton February 13 1961) is a Canadian musician and founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy. In addition to his work with Skinny Puppy Key has had several side projects including Doubting Thomas Cyberaktif and Hilt. He was also at one point a drummer and song-writer for synthpop group Images in Vogue. After Skinny Puppy disbanded in 1995 Key's main project was electronic noise group Download as well as some solo releases.
Rebecca Lynn Howard.  Rebecca Lynn Howard (born April 24 1979 in Salyersville Kentucky) is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and has released three studio albums. Her highest-charting single Forgive peaked at No. 12 on the country music charts in 2002.
Aslak Hartberg.  Aslak Rakli Hartberg alias Alis (born 1 May 1975 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian rapper and bass player and was the leading figure in the Norwegian hip hop band Klovner i Kamp. He is the brother of cartoonist Flu Hartberg.
Xanopticon.  Ryan Friedrich (born July 14 1980 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States) better known by his moniker Xanopticon is an electronic musician. One of breakcore's most prominent producers he has toured internationally and released music with several electronic labels including Hymen Records Mirex Cock Rock Disco Entity and Tigerbeat6. His live shows are often noted for their intensity and his sound for its attention to detail having been described by one journalist as waves of breaks.
Justin Gray.  Justin Gray is an American comic book writer employed by DC Comics.
Colin Bass.  Colin Bass (born 4 May 1951 in London England) is an English musician award-winning record producer and songwriter. Since 1979 he has been a member of the British progressive-rock band Camel who have recently completed a short world tour. From 1984 to 1992 he was also a core figure in the pioneering World Music group 3 Mustaphas 3. He has also made two solo albums under his own name and three albums recorded in Indonesia under the name Sabah Habas Mustapha.
Jozef Israëls.  Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter and the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century.
Wilhelm Dichter.  Wilhelm Dichter is a Polish-American writer who has written three novels based on his life. He was born in 1935 in Borysław (in modern day Ukraine) where he survived the war. His father had died and he and his mother (remarried after the war) came to live in Poland toward the end of 1944. He finished his studies at the Warsaw Polytechnic where he earned his doctorate in mechanical engineering and worked for 13 years until 1968.
Matty Lewis.  Matty Lewis (born May 8 1975 in Portsmouth Virginia) is the rhythm guitarist and co-lead singer of Zebrahead and is a native of Papillion Nebraska. Lewis took up playing the guitar and writing songs at age 12.
EQ Nicholson.  EQ Nicholson (4 November 1908 – 7 September 1992) was an English painter and textile designer.
Martin Pasko.  Martin Joseph Marty Pasko (born August 4 1954) is a writer and editor in a diverse array of media including comic books and television.Pasko has worked for many comics publishers but is best known for his work with DC Comics over three decades. He has written Superman in many media including television animation webisodes and a syndicated newspaper strip for Tribune Media Services as well as comics. He also co-created the 1975 revamp of Doctor Fate.
Jackie Evancho.  Jacqueline Marie Jackie Evancho (/iːˈveɪŋkoʊ/ ee-VAYNG-koh; born April 9 2000) is an American classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age and since 2009 has issued five albums including a platinum and gold album and three Billboard 200 top 10 debuts.Between 2008 and 2010 Evancho entered several talent competitions; made singing appearances mostly in Pennsylvania (including singing the U.S.
Leroy Shield.  Leroy Shield (October 2 1893 - January 9 1962) was an American film score and radio composer.
Will Youmans.  Will Youmans (born February 9 1978) is a Palestinian American writer and activist.
Hugh Burden.  Hugh Burden (3 April 1913 - 17 May 1985) was an English actor and playwright.He was the son of a colonial official and was educated at Beaumont College and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and RADA.
Andrea Di Vito.  Andrea Di Vito (born May 28 1971) is an Italian comic book artist.
Akira Emoto.  Akira Emoto (柄本 明 Emoto Akira born 3 November 1948 in Chūō Tokyo) is a Japanese actor.
Keni Burke.  Kenneth M. Burke (born September 28 1953) better known as Keni Burke is an American R&B soul funk and jazz singer songwriter record producer and multi-instrumentalist who began his career as a member of the 1970s soul outfit the Five Stairsteps.
Qamar Gula.  Qamar Gula (قمر ګله) is a singer from Afghanistan. Among the female singers from Afghanistan she is very well known and has fans all across Afghanistan and the Pashtun . She is said to have been among the very first female singers who sang for Radio and Television Afghanistan.
Friedrich Kaulbach.  Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach (8 July 1822 – 17 September 1903) was a German painter from Bad Arolsen Hesse. His father was Christian Kaulbach (1777–1847) a cabinet maker in Arolsen. He was also the cousin and at one time the student of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach son of Philipp Karl Friedrich v. Kaulbach (1775–1846) goldsmith and amateur painter; Wilhelm's son Hermann von Kaulbach (1846–1909); and his own son Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850–1920).
Matthew Good.  Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29 1971) is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s before dissolving the band in 2002. Other band members included drummer Ian Browne guitarist/keyboardist Dave Genn and original bassist Geoff Lloyd later replaced by Rich Priske.
Mark Lothar.  Mark Lothar [ló:tar] (born Lothar Hundertmark 23 May 1902 Berlin – 6 April 1985 Munich) was a German composer. In May 1938 his opera Tailor Wibbel inspired by a play by Hans Müller-Schlösser was performed at the Berlin State Opera.
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas.  Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (1909 – June 27 1980) was a leading Turkish poet and author.
Mie Hama.  Mie Hama (浜美枝 Hama Mie IPA: [hama mi.e]) (born 20 November 1943) is a Japanese actress best-known outside Japan for her role as Kissy Suzuki in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.
Crystal Bowersox.  Crystal Lynn Bowersox (born August 4 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and actress who was the runner-up on the ninth season of American Idol. She was the first female finalist in three years.Bowersox's debut album Farmer's Daughter was released on December 14 2010 by Jive Records. Bowersox released her second album All That for This on March 26 2013. She will be playing Patsy Cline in the Broadway production of Always Patsy Cline in 2014.
Ying Liang.  Ying Liang (Chinese: 应亮; pinyin: yīng liàng; born 1977) is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.
Hao Ge.  Hao Ge (Chinese: 郝歌; pinyin: Hǎo Gē) is the Chinese stage name of Nigerian-born singer Uwechue Emmanuel. He rose to fame through a performance with Han Hong on the CCTV New Year's Gala and has emerged as one of the most notable foreign singers in China.He began his singing career in the choir at Lagos' House on the Rock Pentecostal church in Nigeria. He received a degree in engineering and began to pursue a singing career which led his father to disown him.
Jamie Kime.  Jamie Kime is an American guitarist best known for his work with artists such as Michelle Branch Jewel and as a member of the Zappa Plays Zappa world tour.Kime attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood California training under guitarists such as Peter Sprague and Ted Greene. He then began a performance and recording career that culminated in his rhythm guitar duties on the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. Concerts reviewers have noted Kime's positive addition to songs on the tour.
Wande Coal.  Wande Coal (born 18 October 1985) born as Oluwatobi Wande Ojosipe in Lagos Island Lagos state Nigeria to Chief Ibukun Olufunto and Mrs Omolara Oluwayemisi Ojosipe. The first of two children Wande had his primary school education at Staff Nursery and Ijaniki Primary School and his secondary education in Federal Government College ijanikin in Lagos State and went on to University of Lagos (Unilag) Lagos State where he studied Curriculum Studies.
Gary Burton.  Gary Burton (born January 23 1943 Anderson Indiana) is an American jazz vibraphonist.Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering fusion jazz and popularizing the duet format in jazz as well as being a major figure in jazz education due to his 30 years at the Berklee College of Music.
Anna Crilly.  Anna Crilly (born 28 November 1975 in Pembury Kent)[citation needed] is an English actress and comedian. Crilly was educated at Kent College Pembury and attended Middlesex University where she studied performing arts. She was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny competition at the Gilded Balloon in 2003 and performed two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the following year. From 2006 to 2011 she played the role of Magda an Polish housekeeper in the BBC sitcom Lead Balloon.
Lou Marini.  Blue Lou Marini Jr. (born May 13 1945) is an American saxophonist arranger and composer. He is noted for his work in the jazz rock blues and soul music traditions and more popularly for being an original member of the Blues Brothers band as well as featuring in the eponymous very successful movie in 1980.
Ernest Bernbaum.  Ernest Bernbaum (February 12 1879–March 8 1958)was an English educator scholar author and an opponent of the Suffragette movement.Born in Brooklyn N.Y. the son of Ole Kruse and Dorothea Christiansen Ernest was educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He attended Harvard University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in philology in 1907. He taught English at Harvard from 1907–1916 then joined the staff of the University of Illinois.
Val Anthony.  Val Anthony is an American singer and musician. He was a pianist and cabaret singer at Jilly's a popular New York City night club in the 1960s owned by Jilly Rizzo. Frequent guests included Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
Eric Beach.  Eric Beach born 1947 is a New Zealand and Australian poet playwright and short story writer.
Jussi Chydenius.  Jussi Chydenius (born December 30 1972) is a Finnish musician and composer. He is best known for singing bass in the vocal ensemble Rajaton.He is the son of composer Kaj Chydenius and director Kaisa Korhonen. His brother is music producer Kalle Chydenius. He played drums for the rock band Don Huonot from 1989–2001 and was a founding member. He also starred in the sketch comedy show Vintiöt.
Jordan Evans (producer).  Jordan Evans (born January 22 1991) is a multi-platinum selling Canadian hip hop and R&B producer from Toronto Canada. His production resume includes working with major recording artists such as Eminem Drake Lil Wayne Young Jeezy Bun B Big Sean Meek Mill Tyga Kirko Bangz Marsha Ambrosius and Childish Gambino. Jordan Evans has been nominated for both a Grammy Award and Juno Award for his work and is a member of The Recording Academy.
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté.  Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (Russian: Софи Кармен Экхардт-Граматте; 6 January 1899 in Moskow Russia – 2 December 1974 in Stuttgart Germany) was a Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist.Born in Moscow as Sofia (Sonia) Fridman-Kochevskaya Eckhardt-Gramatté studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where her teachers included Alfred Brun and Guillaume Rémy for violin S. Chenée for piano and Vincent d'Indy and Camille Chevillard for composition.
Aurelio Martinez.  Aurelio Martinez is a Honduran musician and politician who is also a member of the Garifuna community. He is the first black person to become a deputy in the National Congress of Honduras.His 2004 album Garifuna Soul was released internationally by Stonetree Records and won wide acclaim in world music circles.
Barbara Brennan.  Barbara Ann Brennan (born 19 February 1939) is an American author physicist spiritual healer businesswoman and teacher working in the field of energy healing. In 2011 she was listed by the Watkins Review as the 94th most spiritually influential person in the world.
Fil Ge.  Fil Ge (sometimes mistakenly spelled Phil G.) is a Caribbean-American singer and songwriter from Las Vegas Nevada.
Raúl di Blasio.  Raúl di Blasio (born November 14 1949) is an Argentine jazz and easy listening pianist.
George Abbe.  George Bancroft Abbe (born January 28 1911 Somers Connecticut - March 15 1989) was an American poet and novelist.
Z. Randall Stroope.  Z. Randall Stroope (born October 25 1953) is an American composer conductor and lecturer. He has published more than 125 pieces with: Oxford University Press Alliance Music Publishing Walton Colla Voce and Lorenz. Among his most famous works are: Lamentaciones de Jeremias Amor de mi alma and Hodie! (This Day).
Ken Castleman.  Kenneth R. Castleman is the president of Advanced Digital Imaging Research (ADIR) the author of the canonical textbook Digital Image Processing ISBN 0-13-211467-4 and an authority in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. He holds a B.S M.S. and Ph.D. all in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. In 1984 he co-founded Perceptive Systems Inc (PSI) with Don Winkler in League City TX.
DJ Chuck Chillout.  Charles Turner (born October 22 1962) better known as DJ Chuck Chillout is an American hip hop DJ and producer on New York City's 98.7 KISS FM radio station.He began his career on 98.7 Kiss FM in 1982. He was one of the first hip-hop artists to become world-renowned which also includes Run-D.M.C. LL Cool J Salt-n-Pepa and Slick Rick. “Hip-hop was fun and energetic during this time. Hip-hop was just growing so there was a lot of creativity and great live performances” says Chuck.
Robert Bateman (painter).  Robert Bateman OC OBC (born 24 May 1930) is a Canadian naturalist and painter born in Toronto Ontario.
Han Nolan.  Han Nolan (born August 25 1956) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. She has published eight young adult novels. She won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1997 for the novel Dancing on the Edge; among others she thanked critique groups both in Connecticut and Alabama.Nolan was born in Birmingham Alabama and grew up in New York City. She has been fascinated with stories since early childhood. Even as a little girl she would spin yarns for her friends.
David Daniels (countertenor).  David Daniels (born 12 March 1966) is an American countertenor.
Cutfather.  Cutfather (born Mich Hedin Hansen; 9 April 1968) is a Danish music producer songwriter remixer DJ.
Augustus Vincent Tack.  Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949) was an American painter of portraits landscapes and abstractions.
Fran Smith Jr..  Fran Smith Jr. is a bass guitar player and vocalist from the Philadelphia Pennsylvania area. He has enjoyed a successful career in the music industry for over twenty-five years. Best known for his stint with the Philadelphia-based rock group The Hooters Smith has also maintained a career as a recording artist in his own right as well as a producer for other artists.
David Baron (comics).  David Baron is an American comic book colorist from San Diego.
Benjamin Biolay.  Benjamin Biolay (French pronunciation: ​[bɛ̃.ʒa.mɛ̃ bjo.lɛ]; born 20 January 1973) is a French singer songwriter musician actor and record producer. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément whose two albums he wrote and produced and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho.
Seth Herzog.  Seth Herzog (aka The Zog) is an American comedian. Besides being active in New York City performing comedy Herzog was the subject of the short film Zog's Place. He has also had small roles in such films as Safe Men The Ten and The Baxter. He has acted in numerous commercials and on such T.V.
Michael McKenzie (artist).  Michael McKenzie (born in 1953 in New York). His mother a fourth generation Irish/German and his father of recent Scottish immigrants. He began writing drawing painting and publishing at a young age his first publication at age 5 was Two Cents Plain a four page magazine (selling for 2 cents) he made using a mimeograph machine at his father's office.
Steve Nardella.  Steve Nardella (born June 26 1948 Providence Rhode Island United States) is an American blues rock and roll blues rock and rockabilly guitarist and singer. Allmusic journalist Cub Koda stated Nardella is a strong American roots-music performer equally adept at rockabilly and low-down blues.
Jesse Tobias.  Jesse Tobias (born April 1 1972) is an American guitarist. He first gained notoriety during a brief tenure with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993 although he was replaced by Dave Navarro within a month after joining the band. Before he joined the Chili Peppers he briefly played with the L.A. based band Mother Tongue. Afterwards he played for Alanis Morissette and Morrissey.
Nicholas David.  Nicholas David Mrozinski formerly known as Nick The Feelin' Mrozinski (born 1981) is an American soul singer-songwriter based in St. Paul Minnesota. He was a finalist on the third season of NBC’s The Voice.
Nanako Matsushima.  Nanako Matsushima (松嶋 菜々子 Matsushima Nanako born October 13 1973) is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also a main character in A Story of Love along with Ring co-star Hiroyuki Sanada. In 2011 her drama Kaseifu no Mita scored ratings of 40% making it one of the highest rated Japanese dramas of all time.On February 21 2001 she married Japanese actor Takashi Sorimachi.
Julio Iglesias.  Julio Iglesias (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxuljo iˈɣlesjas] born Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva; September 23 1943) is a Spanish singer and songwriter who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 80 albums and more than 2600 gold and platinum records certified. According to Sony Music Entertainment he is the best selling Latin music artist in history.
Luis Pacheco de Narváez.  Don Luis Pacheco de Narváez (Baeza 1570–1640) was a Spanish writer on fencing. He was don Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza's student and later published a multitude of works based on the Destreza school of fencing. Some of his works were compendiums of Carranza's work while others were less derivative.He may be the most prolific fencing author in history.
Oscar Hammerstein II.  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (/ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12 1895 – August 23 1960) was an American librettist theatrical producer and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for singers and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music.
Noizi Ito.  Noizi Ito (いとうのいぢ Itō Noiji or Noiji Ito) (born August 9 1977) is a Japanese manga and game artist from Hyōgo Japan. She is employed by the H-game maker UNiSONSHIFT and is a part of the circle Fujitsubo-Machine. Unlike most romanized Japanese words and names Noizi Ito's name uses the Kunrei-shiki romanization form.Ito is well known for her work as the character designer and artist for the Shakugan no Shana novel series which spawned a manga and anime series.
Emma Fryer.  Emma Fryer is a British stand-up comedian actress and writer from Coventry best known for playing Tania in BBC Three's Ideal Janine in E4's PhoneShop and Gaynor in BBC 2's Home Time which she co-wrote with Neil Edmond.In 2005 she was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny? Funny Women and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year competitions.
Ingemund Fænn.  Ingemund Fænn (1907 – 1987) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Stryn. He worked in Fjordingen from 1928 to 1936 and was hired in Bergens Tidende in 1936. He advanced to head of its Oslo office in 1946 and was editor-in-chief from 1956 to 1977.
Marilyn Manson.  Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5 1969) better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson is an American musician songwriter actor painter multimedia artist and former music journalist known for his controversial stage personality and image as the eponymous lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson of which he is the founder and only constant member.
James Spaulding.  James Spaulding (born July 30 1937) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.
Oliveria Prescott.  Oliveria Louisa Prescott (3 September 1843 – 1919) was an English writer and composer.
David Pringle.  David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor.Pringle served as the editor of Foundation an academic journal from 1980 through 1986 during which time he became one of the prime movers of the collective which founded Interzone in 1982. By 1988 he was the sole publisher and editor of Interzone a position he retained until he sold the magazine to Andy Cox in 2004.
Maggie Ollerenshaw.  Maggie Ollerenshaw is a British actress most famous for her role as Mavis on the sitcom Open All Hours. She also played Mrs. Clegg in the short-lived series First of the Summer Wine. She became a more familiar television face after playing Florence Ranby in The House of Eliott terrorising the girls in the workroom. She received a BAFTA best comedy performance nomination for playing Ethel in an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine.
Rebeka Dremelj.  Rebeka Dremelj (born July 25 1980 in Brežice Slovenia at the time SR Slovenia Yugoslavia) is a singer model fashion designer actress and TV presenter. She was chosen to represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade Serbia with the song Vrag naj vzame.
Steve Jordan (musician).  Stephen Steve Jordan (born January 14 1957) is an American multi-instrumentalist composer musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H.
Ellen Lupton.  Ellen Lupton was born in 1963 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Lupton is a graphic designer writer curator and educator. Well known for her fascination and study within typography Lupton decided to expand her love for design and took on the graphic design world. Lupton is the curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and is the director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.
Dominika Peczynski.  Dominika Peczynski (born September 20 1970) is a Swedish singer model and television host.
Tze Ming Mok.  Tze Ming Mok (Simplified and Traditional Chinese 莫志明 pinyin: Mò Zhìmíng) born 1978) is a fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator and has been a prominent New Zealand Asian community advocate.
Lucas Miré.  Lucas Miré (born 1972) is an American singer/songwriter based in Atlanta Georgia whose music is characterized by personal lyrics relationship themes and melancholy melodies. His debut CD Forever's Not As Long As It Used To Be was independently released in 2005 on Zakz Records.In 2005 Miré was selected by singer-songwriter/activist Doria Roberts to perform during the Queerstock block at Atlanta's Gay Pride.
Juan Atkins.  Juan Atkins (born December 9 1962) is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three sometimes called the Belleville Three attended high school together in Belleville Michigan near Detroit.
Giovanni Maria Tamburini.  Giovanni Maria Tamburini (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was initially a pupil of Pietro Faccini and then of Guido Reni in Bologna. He painted for several of the churches in Bologna. He painted a St. Antony of Padua for the church of La Morte and an Annunciation for S. Maria della Vita.
Scott Oden.  Scott Oden (born June 24 1967 in Columbus Indiana) is an American historical novelist. His settings run the gamut from Late Period Egypt to the era of Alexander the Great to Medieval Cairo. His first book was the critically acclaimed Men of Bronze (2005).
Evelyn E. Smith.  Evelyn E. Smith (25 July 1922 – 4 July 2000) was an American writer and crossword puzzle compiler. During the 1950s she regularly published—under her real name—short stories and novelettes in magazines like Galaxy Science Fiction and Fantastic Universe. These range from post-apocalyptic satires such as “The Last of the Spode” and “The Hardest Bargain” to “BAXBR/DAXBR” where she explores the dangers of Martian crossword puzzles.
Jack Guthrie.  Leon Jerry Jack Guthrie (13 November 1915 – 15 January 1948) was a songwriter and performer whose rewritten version of the Woody Guthrie song Oklahoma Hills was a hit in 1945. The two musicians were cousins.
Brian Fogarty.  Brian Fogarty is an English novelist short story writer poet painter and printmaker.Fogarty was born in Hackney in the East End of London England. He moved to Ealing in West London and aged 18 became lead singer in The City Lights a rock band. He began write songs and poetry. He than started writing novels the first of which was The Cage. He studied acting at The Questors Theatre in Ealing and established The Intimate Theatre group.
Carlo Bononi.  Carlo Bononi (1569 - c. 1632) was an Italian painter.
Patrick Chamoiseau.  Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement.
Andy Towle.  Andy Towle /ˈtoʊl/; born May 15 1967 in Chicago Illinois) is an American blogger and media commentator based in New York City. Towle who is gay started his blog Towleroad in 2003 while he was in Los Angeles. The blog focuses on gays pop culture photography politics media entertainment technology and travel. Towle works full-time creating Towleroad.
David Palumbo.  David Palumbo is a professional illustrator and fine artist.
Jonathan Stroud.  Jonathan Anthony Stroud (born 27 October 1970) is a British writer of fantasy fiction mainly for children and young adults.
Sparkle Hayter.  Sparkle Hayter (born 1958) is a Canadian journalist and author.Hayter was born in Pouce Coupe British Columbia Canada and grew up in Edmonton Alberta. In 1986 she graduated in film and television production from New York University. Among other things she worked for CNN in Atlanta WABC in New York and Global Television in Toronto. At the time of the Afghan civil war she moved to Pakistan and then went along with the Mujahedin to Afghanistan reporting for the Toronto Star.
Christopher Holcroft.  Christopher John Holcroft RFD JP (born 15 June 1953) is an Australian author. He is best known as the author of the Scott Morrow adventure trilogy which consists of the books Only The Brave Dare Canyon and A Rite of Passage. He has also written Finding Thomas and One Last Concert in his Afterlife series.
Chris Sisarich.  Chris Sisarich is a fashion photographer and former New Zealand model who served as a judge on the reality series New Zealand's Next Top Model. He lives in Auckland.
Moos (singer).  Moos is a French singer (born in 1974 in Toulouse France) and had a great success with the song Au Nom de la rose.
Brooks Hansen.  Brooks Hansen is an American novelist screenwriter and illustrator best known for his 1995 book The Chess Garden. He has also written one young adult's novel. He lives with his family in Carpinteria California. He was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.
John Shanks.  John Matthew Shanks (born December 18 1964) is an American writer of modern rock music and a Grammy Award–winning producer.
Giulio Cesare Fellini.  Giulio Cesare Fellini (born c. 1600) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Gabriele Ferrantini and Annibale Carracci. He excelled in painting horses and figures and was assisted by his son Marcantonio Fellini.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky.  Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ mʲɪrʲɪˈʂkofskʲɪj]; 14 August [O.S. 2 August] 1866 – December 9 1941) was a Russian novelist poet religious thinker and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement Merezhkovsky – with his poet wife Zinaida Gippius – was twice forced into political exile.
Richard Tuttle.  Richard Dean Tuttle (born 12 July 1941) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small subtle intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. His works span a range of media from sculpture painting drawing printmaking and artist’s books to installation and furniture. He lives and works in New York City Abiquiú New Mexico and Mount Desert Maine.
Bud Gaugh.  Floyd Bud I. Gaugh IV (born October 2 1967) is a rock music drummer who played in the bands Sublime (1988–1996) Long Beach Dub Allstars (1997–2002) Eyes Adrift (2002–2003) Volcano (2004) Del Mar (2006–present) and Sublime with Rome (2009–2011).
Dominique Frémy.  Dominique Frémy (1931 – October 2 2008) was the creator of the Quid encyclopedia. His spouse Michèle and son Fabrice participated in writing it as well.He was a diplomed student of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (English: Paris Institute of Political Studies) and of the Faculté des lettres de Paris. He was employed by Shell in London but quit his job to produce a new encyclopedia with his wife Dominique. It began in 1963 named Quid.
Bobby Farrell.  Roberto Bobby Alfonso Farrell (6 October 1949 – 30 December 2010) was a Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.
Ettore Campogalliani.  Ettore Campogalliani (30 September 1903 – 3 June 1992) was an Italian composer musician and teacher.Campogalliani studied piano in 1921 graduating from the Conservatory of Bologna. He then studied composition at the Conservatory of Parma in 1933.
Jaroslav Tůma.  Jaroslav Tůma (born 1956 in Prague Czech republic) is a Czech Organist.This organist clavichord harpsichordist and pianoforte player graduated from the Prague Conservatory and from the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Milan Šlechta organ and Zuzana Růžičková harpsichord). He won first prizes in organ improvisation competitions in Nuremberg in 1980 and in the Dutch city of Haarlem in 1986.
Cam Banks.  Cam Banks is a game designer who was lead designer for the Origins Award- and ENnie award-winning Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and lead designer of the Origins Award-winning supplement to the Serenity Role Playing Game the Big Damn Heroes Handbook.
Nancy Warren.  For other uses see Nancy Warren (baseball).Nancy Warren is a Pacific Northwest author of contemporary romance novels. She received her first publication contract after winning Harlequin's 2000 Summer Blaze contest. Since then she has released 30 novels and novellas been twice nominated for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award and won a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award.
Freekey Zekey.  Ezekiel Jiles better known by his stage name Freekey Zekey is an African-American rapper and music executive. He is best known as a founding member of The Diplomats and as Owner/CEO of 730 Dips Records. He is also a member of fellow rapper Jim Jones' ByrdGang. Freekey has made a habit of yelling his name in songs; it is his signature on tracks whether he is featured or the sole artist.
Matteo Messori.  Matteo Messori (born 23 April 1976 in Bologna Italy) is a renowned Italian keyboard player conductor musicologist and teacher. He performs on period instruments including the harpsichord pipe organ clavichord and pedal piano. He founded the early music ensemble Cappella Augustana.
Maxine Sullivan.  Maxine Sullivan (May 13 1911 – April 7 1987) born Marietta Williams in Homestead Pennsylvania was an American jazz vocalist and performer.As a vocalist Maxine Sullivan was active for half a century from the mid-1930s to just before her death in 1987. She is best known for her 1937 recording of a swing version of the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond. Throughout her career Sullivan also appeared as a performer on film as well as on stage.
Gerhard Aspheim.  Gerhard Aspheim (born 27 September 1930 - deceased 21 November 2009) was a Norwegian jazz trombonist.
Natty Dominique.  Anatie Natty Dominique (August 2 1896 – August 30 1982) was a jazz trumpeter born in New Orleans Louisiana most notable for his long body of work with Johnny Dodds.Dominique was a pupil of the legendary Manuel Perez moving to Chicago Illinois in 1913. For a brief time in the 1940s Dominique stopped performing and began working as a porter at the Chicago Airport.
Martin Smith (English musician).  Martin James Smith (born 6 July 1970) is an English vocalist guitarist and songwriter. Smith was the front man of the Christian rock and worship band Delirious?. Some of the most recognised songs by Delirious? include I Could Sing of Your Love Forever History Maker My Glorious Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble? Shout To The North Deeper Majesty (Here I Am) and What a Friend I've Found.
AiRI.  AiRI (born September 13) is a Japanese singer signed to Lantis. She is best known for performing Dreamer the opening theme to the anime Tari Tari. She was previously known under the stage name UR@N.
Dustin Ransom.  Dustin Ransom (born December 5 1986) is a multi-instrumentalist producer vocalist arranger music transcriber and film composer based in Nashville Tennessee. As a session and live musician he has performed with artists including Ryan Bingham Jars of Clay Matt Maher Andy Davis Andrew Belle Ben Rector Steve Moakler Laura Story Brandon Heath and Brooke Waggoner. As an arranger and transcriber he has worked with music companies including Vic Firth and Mel Bay.
Fiona Pardington.  Fiona Pardington D.F.A. (born in 1961 Devonport New Zealand) is a New Zealand artist her principal medium being photography. She is of Māori Ngāi Tahu Kāti Mamoe and Ngāti Kahungunu and Scottish (Clan Cameron of Erracht) descent.
Davide Dileo.  David Dileo also known as Boosta (born 27 September 1974) is an Italian singer writer and television host. He is known as the co-founder of the alternative rock band Subsonica.[citation needed]
George Demeter.  George Demeter (/dɪˈmiːtər/; 1896–1983) is the author of Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure. The second Wednesday in April has been designated as George Demeter Day in Massachusetts.
Aundrea Fimbres.  Aundrea Aurora Fimbres (born June 29 1983) is an American singer and dancer. Fimbres is a member of the pop music group Danity Kane. She is a soprano and was known for her melismatic vocal runs and falsetto registered harmonies and also for having the highest vocal range of her fellow band members.
Charles Sheffield.  Charles Sheffield (June 25 1935 – November 2 2002) was an English-born mathematician physicist and science fiction author. He was also a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.His novel The Web Between the Worlds featuring the construction of a space elevator was published almost simultaneously with Arthur C.
Julie Robbins.  Brandy Dayle Koonts (September 17 1979 – September 22 2005) better known by her stage name Julie Robbins was an American pornographic actress and exotic dancer. She was born in Lexington North Carolina and died in a car accident in Winston-Salem North Carolina.
Cristóbal Balenciaga.  Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (pronounced: [kɾisˈtoβal βalenˈθjaɣa ejθaˈɣire]) (January 21 1895 Spain – March 23 1972 Spain) was a Spanish Basque fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house.
Dr. Oloh.  Israel Olorunfeh Cole (March 20 1944 - October 13 2007) better known by his stage name Dr. Oloh was a Sierra Leonean afropop and Jazz musician.Israel Olorunfeh Cole commonly known as Dr. Oloh was born on March 20 1944 in the mountain village of Leicester near Freetown in the Western Area of Sierra Leone to a Nigerian mother and a Creole father. He led a band known as Milo Jazz. He was awarded the OR (Order of Rokel) by the Sierra Leonean Government in 1989.
Colleen McCullough.  Colleen McCullough-Robinson AO is an Australian author her best-known work being The Thorn Birds.
Carlmann Kolb.  Carlmann Kolb (29 January 1703 – 15 January 1765) was a German priest organist and composer. He was born in Kösslarn Griesbach Lower Bavaria and educated in Asbach and Landshut. He was ordained a priest in 1729 at the Benedictine Abbey of Asbach and was also appointed organist there. He acted as tutor to the family of the Count of Tattenbach-Reinstein in Munich and received his patronage.
Leyla Pınar.  Leyla Pınar is a Turkish harpsichordist and musicologist. She is the founder and artistic director of the Istanbul Barok ensemble and the International Istanbul Baroque Music Festival which she founded in 1994. Pınar also teaches in the Drama and Music Department of Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul.
Peggy March.  Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio March 8 1948 Lansdale Pennsylvania) is an American pop singer. She is primarily known for her 1963 million-selling song I Will Follow Him.
Laura Crossley.  Laura Crossley (born 29 August 1979) is a British actress.
Suli McCullough.  Suli McCullough is an American comic-actor and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Crazy Legs in the spoof movie Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood and for his recurring role as Mouse on the WB sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show. McCullough has also had several dramatic roles depicting real-life individuals.
Lattanzio Gambara.  Lattanzio Gambara (c. 1530 – 18 March 1574) was an Italian painter active in a Renaissance and Mannerist styles. It is likely that Gambara is the same 16th century painter referred to as Lattanzio Cremonese or Lattanzio da Cremona
Loston Wallace.  Loston Wallace (b. 1970 in Clintwood Virginia) is a freelance comic book artist and comics-licensing illustrator based in North Carolina.
Christian Bautista.  Christian Joseph Morata Bautista (born October 19 1981) more popularly known by his screen name Christian Bautista is a Filipino singer actor host and model. He was a finalist of Star In A Million a Philippine reality show aired on ABS-CBN channel winning the 4th place in the competition in 2003. After the contest he signed a recording contract with Warner Music Philippines and released his self-titled debut album Christian Bautista.
Jim Steranko.  James F. Jim Steranko (born November 5 1938) is an American graphic artist comic book writer/artist historian magician publisher and film production illustrator.His most famous comic book work was with the 1960s superspy feature Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales and in the subsequent eponymous series.
Darko Macan.  Darko Macan (born 1966) is a Croatian author and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics essays and science fiction and fantasy. He is also an editor.
Keiko Abe.  Keiko Abe (安倍 圭子 Abe Keiko born April 18 1937) is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire and through her collaboration with the Yamaha musical instrument company developed the modern five-octave concert marimba.
Pierantonio Tasca.  Pierantonio Tasca (1858-1934) was an Italian opera composer. His first opera Bianca premiered in 1885 to a libretto by Enrico Golisciani. The famed singer Luisa Tetrazzini participated in the premiere.His next operas A Santa Lucia (1892) and Pergolesi (1898) had successful premieres in Berlin. The libretto for A Santa Lucia was written by Enrico Golisciani based on the book Scene popolari napoletane (1889) by Goffredo Cognetti (Napoli 1855-Castiglioncello Livorno 1943).
Chuck Berry.  Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry (born October 18 1926) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as Maybellene (1955) Roll Over Beethoven (1956) Rock and Roll Music (1957) and Johnny B.
Ian Gibson (comics).  Ian Gibson (born 1946) is a British comic book artist best known for his 1980s black-and-white work for 2000 AD especially as the main artist on Robo-Hunter and The Ballad of Halo Jones as well as his long run on Judge Dredd.
Leonora Jakupi.  Leonora Jakupi (born 3 March 1979) is an Albanian Kosovar singer.
Elen Levon.  Elen Levon (born 13 July 1994 in Ukraine)[citation needed] is an Australian singer songwriter and dancer. She is signed to Ministry of Sound Australia and imprint label NuFirm. Her debut single Naughty was released in September 2011.
Milind Date.  Milind Date (born 28 February) is an Indian flutist and music composer who plays the bansuri. He studied under Hariprasad Chaurasia and is known for his blowing technique and his playing of a variety of musical styles.
Manfred Sommer.  Manfred Sommer (May 27 1933 - October 3 2007) was a Spanish comics artist best known for the reporter comics series Frank Cappa.
Raymond Sabouraud.  Raymond Sabouraud (November 24 1864–1938) was a French physician born in Nantes. He specialized in dermatology and mycology and was also an accomplished painter and sculptor.He invented a method to select fungi with a medium of low pH and a rather high concentration of sugar. This medium called Sabouraud agar is named after him.In 1904 Sabouraud introduced radiological treatment against ringworm of the scalp.
Victor Ray Wilson.  Victor Ray Wilson (February 20 1959 – April 30 1996) better known as Beatmaster V was the drummer of Body Count.
Bharathwaj.  Bharathwaj is a Tamil film composer. He has since scored music in languages including Tamil Telugu and Malayalam. trained in Hindustani Western and Carnatic music. He is a recipient of Kalaimamani Award for the year 2008 from Tamil Nadu Government. He had composed music for programmes on AIR and DD at the age of 17.
Pola Brändle.  Pola Brändle (born April 7 1980) in AachenGermany) is a German collage/decollage artist and photographer who now lives and works in Berlin Germany and Santanyí Mallorca.
Darden Smith.  Darden Smith (born March 11 1962 in Brenham Texas) is an Austin-based singer-songwriter known for his lyrics and for weaving folk and Americana influences with rock pop and the musical roots of his home state. His debut album Native Soil was released in 1986. His fourteenth album Love Calling came out August 27 2013. Over the past decade Smith has developed two programs The Be An Artist Program (2003) and SongwritingWith (2011).
Zhang Dingyuan.  Zhang Dingyuan (Chinese: 张玎苑; pinyin: Zhāng Dīngyuàn) (born 1976) is a Chinese pianist.Zhang was born in Xi'an Shaanxi. She started to play piano at the age of 3 and was later admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing to study piano performance under the tutelage of Professors Zhong Hui Zhao Pingguo and Chen Bigang.
Jerry Yan.  Jerry Yan (Chinese: 言承旭; pinyin: Yán Chéngxù) was born 1 January 1977. He is a Taiwanese actor and became famous as part of the F4. His birth name is Liao Yangzhen (Chinese: 廖洋震; pinyin: Liào Yángzhèn).
Eric Wilson (suspense writer).  Eric Wilson is a suspense writer. He currently has ten novels in print four with Waterbrook Press (a division of Random House) and six with Thomas Nelson. Since he published his first books in 2004 he has had at least one novel published each year since then.His works include Dark to Mortal Eyes Expiration Date The Best of Evil and A Shred of Truth. The Best of Evil and A Shred of Truth are part of the Aramis Black mystery series.
Jacinta Brondgeest.  Jacinta Brondgeest (aka Jacinta) is an Australian-American singer songwriter musician music producer and electronic dance music artist.
Seymour Chwast.  Seymour Chwast (born August 18 1931) is an American graphic designer illustrator and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser Edward Sorel and Reynold Ruffins he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954.
Charles Curtis (musician).  Cellist Charles Curtis is an internationally renowned performer and composer of a wide variety of music with particular emphasis on the avant-garde.
Susan Fletcher (British author).  Susan Fletcher (born 1979) is a British novelist. Fletcher was born in Birmingham and studied at the University of York (BA in English and Related Studies) and then at the University of East Anglia (MA in Creative Writing).Her first novel Eve Green was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate an imprint of HarperCollins. It features an eight-year old girl who is sent to a new life in rural Wales. It won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and the 2005 Betty Trask Prize.
Gavin Friday.  Gavin Friday (born Fionán Martin Hanvey 8 October 1959) is an Irish singer and songwriter composer actor and painter.
Ayako Nishikawa.  Ayako Nishikawa (西川 史子 or にしかわあやこ Nishikawa Ayako 5 April 1971) is a Japanese female TV star tarento comedian and cosmetic surgeon. She is unusual in Japan in that she is willing to appear on television as professional doctors are generally hesitant to appear.
Matthew Kelly (The Autumns).  Matthew Kelly is the vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band The Autumns.Kelly's output with The Autumns began in 1997 with the EP Suicide at Strell Park and the full-length The Angel Pool.In addition to his work with The Autumns Kelly made an appearance on all three albums of the experimental rock band the Sound of Animals Fighting providing vocals on Act II: All is Ash or the Light Shinning Through It My Horse Must Lose The Heretic and On the Occasion of Wet Snow.
Terry Jennings.  Terry Jennings (19 July 1940 – 11 December 1981) was an American minimalist composer and performer.Terry Jennings was born in Eagle Rock Los Angeles California in 1940. Coming from a background in jazz he played piano clarinet and saxophones. He played jazz with La Monte Young in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s and later began to compose in the manner of Young's early sustained-tone style (Garland and Young 2001).
Abeba Haile.  Abeba Haile is a prominent Eritrean singer. She has produced albums in the Tigrinya language.
Gustave Nadaud.  Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix – 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier.Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro. This genre of songwriting followed on from writers of the previous generation such as Pierre-Jean de Béranger.
Arthur Edgehill.  Arthur Edgehill (b. Brooklyn N.Y. 21 July 1926) (originally spelt Edghill) is a hard bop jazz drummer active in the 1950s 60s and 70s appearing on several of the Prestige recordings recorded at the successive Van Gelder Studios in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs including Mal Waldron’s debut album Mal-1 (1956) but especially with Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Shirley Scott.His first professional work was touring with Mercer Ellington in 1948 and in 1953 he toured with Ben Webster.
Norman Gevitz.  Norman Gevitz Ph.D. is a medical historian. He has written numerous books and papers on the history of medicine in the United States and England. He is perhaps best known for his book The D.O.s: Osteopathic Medicine in America where he discusses the history of the profession osteopathic medicine in the United States.Gevitz formerly taught at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is currently a professor and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at A.T.
Brian Howes.  Brian Howes is a Canadian rock producer singer and was a member of the band Closure. He has an exclusive partnership with EMI Music Publishing.
Jack Casady.  John William Jack Casady (born April 13 1944) is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C.
Peter Scheithauer.  Peter Scheithauer is the guitar player and founder of Temple of Brutality Stream Killing Machine and also played for Joey Belladonna on the Spells of Fear album. Endorsed by ESP guitars (AX 400) Scheithauer played and/or recorded with members of Kiss Black Sabbath Megadeth Ozzy Osbourne Testament Slayer W.A.S.P. Anthrax Loudness Yngwie Malmsteen and Accept among others.
Samiyam.  Sam Baker better known by his stage name Samiyam is an instrumental hip hop producer based in Los Angeles California.
Thomas Clausen (musician).  For the Louisiana educator see Thomas Clausen (Louisiana).Thomas Clausen (born 5 October 1949) is an award-winning[citation needed] Danish jazz pianist.He recorded with Scandinavian jazz musicians and with Bob Brookmeyer Eddie Lockjaw Davis Miles Davis Dexter Gordon Johnny Griffin Jackie McLean and Ben Webster.
Skyla.  Skyla (born Lucy Batty; 5 March 1991) is an English dance singer from Altrincham.
Juan Fontanive.  Juan Fontanive (born 1977) is a contemporary American artist who lives in New York City. He was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1977. In 1999 he graduated with a BA in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University New York.
Daniel Pemberton.  Daniel Pemberton (born 3 November 1977) is an Ivor Novello winning and multi BAFTA-nominated English composer.In 2013 he completed the score to director Ridley Scott's film The Counselor. The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Ernst von Possart.  Ernst von Possart (11 May 1841 – 8 April 1921) was a German actor and theatre director.Possart was born in Berlin and was early an actor at Breslau Bern and Hamburg. Connected with the Munich Court Theatre after 1864 he became the oberregisseur in 1875.
Jim Reeves.  James Travis Jim Reeves (August 20 1923 – July 31 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound (a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music). Known as Gentleman Jim his songs continued to chart for years after his death. Reeves died in the crash of a private airplane.
Takeshi Miura.  Takeshi Miura (三浦 威 Miura Takeshi April 2 1938 – December 9 2013) was a Japanese actor.He was married to actress Etsuko Takeuchi.
A.E. Coleby.  A.E. Coleby (1876 – July 15 1930) was a British film director actor and screenwriter of the silent era.
Harriet Adams.  Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (December 11 1892 – March 27 1982) was an American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career. She wrote many books in the Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene) and a few in the Hardy Boys series (under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon). She also oversaw other ghostwriters who wrote for these and many other series as a part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
Leonid Zuborev.  Leonid Zuborev (Зуборев Леонид Иосифович Зубараў Леанід Іосіфавіч Зубарев Zubarev Zubarau - November 18 1943) is a Soviet born author / biographer. He's been a school teacher in Minsk Belarus and has written 14 books (mostly in Russian) ranging from historical novels biographies and children's literature. He came to United States twenty years ago and has continued to write in both English and Russian. He has published and sold about 100000 books. Leonid currently lives in Brooklyn NY.
Saint Lu.  Saint Lu is the stage name of the Austrian blues-rock singer and songwriter Luise Gruber. She was born in the city of Wels on 27 June 1982 and is currently living in Berlin.
Elizabeth Wallace (actor).  Elizabeth Wallace is a British actress. She played the White Witch in the 1967 television adaptation of The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe.Wallace started acting in the early 1950s. Her last piece of acting was in 1983 in an episode of Number 10 in which she played Lady Jersey.Elizabeth Wallace was the Godmother of the son of Wendy Craig. She died in January 2011.
Teeter Sperber.  Teeter Sperber is an American singer-songwriter. She was the lead singer of Ley Royal Scam and is the lead singer of the electro-pop group LadybiRdS and has appeared on two Fairmont albums.
Ernie Hammes.  Ernie Hammes (born 1968) is a Luxembourger trumpet virtuoso arranger composer and big band director who is prolific in both jazz and classical idioms. Notably in jazz Hammes toured with Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau band in 2005 alternating between the lead and jazz roles. Hammes has performed in more than twenty-five countries while simultaneously supporting the jazz scene in Luxembourg.
Ranald MacDougall.  Ranald MacDougall (March 10 1915 – December 12 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945) The Unsuspected (1947) June Bride (1948) and The Naked Jungle (1954) and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra.
Pauline Amos.  Pauline Amos born in Liverpool UK; currently based in London works internationally.First came to media attention in 2005 with a painting on sale in London for £1.3m a comment on the art/commodities markets;followed by a series of performance works; featured in The Times newspaper; working in the art collective Luxor withWilliam Orbit and Anna-mi Fredriksson.[citation needed]I place my self within the painting and become part of it the art is the person – the life that is making the work.
Aco Mavec.  Aco Mavec (8 December 1929 – 17 August 1982) was a Slovene painter best known for his illustrations of children's books and comics.He won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (Otok zakladov) in 1966.
Khachatur Abovian.  Khachatur Abovian (Armenian: Խաչատուր Աբովյան; October 15 [O.S. October 3] 1809 – April 14 [O.S. April 2] 1848 (disappeared)) was an Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and eventually presumed dead. He was an educator poet and an advocate of modernization. Reputed as the father of modern Armenian literature he is best remembered for his novel Wounds of Armenia.
Bright Light Bright Light.  Rod Thomas (stage name Bright Light Bright Light) is a Welsh London-based independent singer. Bright Light Bright Light incorporates many elements of nu-disco into his music also branching into synthpop dance and house music. He released his debut solo album Make Me Believe in Hope in June 2012.
Roland Orzabal.  Roland Orzabal (born August 22 1961) is a British musician songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists. In 2014 Orzabal published his first novel.
Surkin.  Benoit Heitz (born 1985) known by his stage name Surkin is a French house/Electro house DJ and producer. He gained attention with his releases on the French Institubes music label. In 2011 he launched the record label Marble along with Para One and Bobmo.Surkin released his first album USA late 2011 which was called by dance magazine Mixmag one of the most exciting concept albums of the 21st century.
Jello Biafra.  Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17 1958) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys and is currently a musician and spoken word artist. After he left the Dead Kennedys he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray.
M. G. Vassanji.  Moyez G. Vassanji CM (born 30 May 1950) is a novelist and editor who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. A citizen of Canada Vassanji's identity easily straddles three continents.M. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania where he specialized in nuclear physics before moving to Canada as a postdoctoral fellow in 1978.
Kevin Rudolf.  Kevin Winston Rudolf (born February 17 1983) is an American musician singer-songwriter and music producer. Born and raised in New York City New York Rudolf began writing songs at a young age. He has written or co-written every song on each of his albums as well as writing and producing songs for many of the most popular artists of the era. Rudolf's production skills and guitar playing have also won acclaim.
Tianna (pornographic actress).  Tianna is the stage name of a retired American pornographic actress.She entered the adult film industry in 1989 at age 26.She was a favorite of director John Stagliano who cast her in many of his early-1990s Buttman productions.In September 1990 she has featured on the front cover of Hustler Erotic Video Guide.She retired as a pornographic actress in 1995.
TolumiDE.  Tolu Olumide (also known as TolumiDE) born on February 3 in Toronto Canada is a Nigerian R&B Soul Afro-Pop Singer and music recording artist.Olumide grew up in Nigeria. She graduated from York University in Canada then relocated and currently resides in Washington D.C. She is known in the East Coast U.S where she actively performs.
Vivian Stuart.  Vivian Stuart née Violet Vivian Finlay (born 2 January 1914 in Berkshire England – died August 1986 in Yorkshire) was a British writer from 1953 to 1986. She published under different pen names: her romantic novels as Vivian Stuart Alex Stuart Barbara Allen Fiona Finlay and Robyn Stuart her military sagas as V.A.
Julia Ford.  Julia Ford is a British actress and TV/ Film director.She has appeared in a variety of theatre film radio and television productions including Waking the Dead Silent Witness Midsomer Murders and All About George The Street Red Riding Coming Down The Mountain In A Land of Plenty Insiders and Island at War. In 2009 she played the part of Fleur in Being Human and Jean in an episode of Moving On called Bully.
Marion Lignana Rosenberg.  Marion Lignana Rosenberg (December 8 1961 – November 28 2013) /ma.ʁjɔ̃ liˈɲaːna ruːsəm.ˈbærj/ was an award-winning writer music critic translator and an acclaimed broadcaster and journalist who blogged for WQXR Operavore and had a weekly column called Prima Fila for La Voce di New York.
Harumi Ikoma.  Harumi Ikoma (生駒 治美 Ikoma Harumi born February 5 1970) in Osaka is a Japanese voice actress that is best known for performing narration and character voices in popular fighting videogames for SNK now known as SNK Playmore. She is the standard voice for the characters Blue Mary King Charlotte and Nakoruru who appear in the popular franchises of video games King of Fighters Fatal Fury Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown.
Chris Allen (author).  Chris Allen is an Australian thriller writer based in Sydney Australia. A former paratrooper Allen has also served as Security Manager for the international aid agency CARE in Timor Leste; with the Australian Protective Service; and for the NSW Government as Head of Security for the Sydney Opera House and as Sheriff of NSW. His first novel Defender of the Faith was published in 2011.
Jamie Isaac.  Jamie Isaac is a London based singer and producer born and raised in Croydon. Signed to House Anxiety / Marathon Artists Jamie's debut EP I Will Be Cold Soon attracted attention for its near-choral incantations minimalist jazz tones and post-rock layering. Jamie has been praised for utilising the power of silence with experimental and enveloping swaggering beats and his self-aware lyrics. His forthcoming EP Blue Break is already gaining recognition for its soulful piano-led sound.
Sofia Sida.  Sofia Stenman (born 1984) better known as Sofia Sida is a Mexican-Finnish singer. Born in Vaasa Finland Sofia relocated to Helsinki the capital of Finland at the age of thirteen. Her first public performance was at the age of eight in children's singing contest called Tenavatähti. At the age of 15 Sofia signed her first record deal with Universal Music Finland and recorded two singles with a group called 'F2F'.
Robert S. Duncanson.  Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 – December 21 1872) was an African-American painter associated with the Hudson River School. He is often described incorrectly as Robert Scott Duncanson the son of a Canadian of Scottish descent but he was actually descended from freed Virginia slaves.
Daisuke Satō.  Daisuke Satō (佐藤大輔 Satō Daisuke born on April 3 1964) is a Japanese board game designer novelist and manga writer. He is known for the publication of the alternate history novels Seito (Divided Japan like Korea) Red Sun Black Cross (Japan fights against Germany) and so on and the manga series Imperial Guards (Army with saber-toothed tigers) and Highschool of the Dead (Zombie apocalypse) which he produces with illustrator Shōji Satō.
Yao Yao.  Yao Yao (Chinese: 瑶瑶; pinyin: Yao Yao born 18 July 1990) is a Taiwanese singer and actor. In 2013 she won the Golden Horse Award for Best New Artist.
Stephen Dwoskin.  Stephen Dwoskin (January 15 1939 – June 28 2012) was an accomplished experimental filmmaker whose work had a decisive effect on the British film theorists of the early 1970s.
Faramarz Aslani.  Faramarz Aslani (Persian: Farāmarz Aslāni - فرامرز اصلانی ‎) is an Iranian guitarist songwriter and Persian pop and folk singer.
India Fisher.  India Fisher is a British actress born in 1974. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt who appears with her in the play Other Lives.She has appeared in the television series Dead Ringers and provided the voice for the character of Sophia Winchell in the BBC.co.uk flash-animated webcast series Ghosts of Albion.
Katharine Kerr.  Katharine Kerr (born 1944) is a science fiction and fantasy novelist best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry.
Constance Rourke.  Constance Mayfield Rourke (November 14 1885 – March 29 1941) was an American author and educator. She was born in Cleveland Ohio and attended Sorbonne and Vassar College. She taught at Vassar from 1910 to 1915. She died in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1941.Rourke specialized in American popular culture. She wrote numerous pieces of criticism for magazines like The Nation and The New Republic.
Cheb Mami.  Ahmed Khelifati Mohamed (Arabic: أحمد خليفاتي محمد‎‎ aḥmad khalīfātī muḥammad) better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (Arabic: شاب مامي‎‎ shābb māmī) (born in Saïda Algeria on 11 July 1966) is an Algerian raï singer. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometimes in French or Eastern Arabic dialects.
Patryk Dominik Sztyber.  Patryk Dominik Sztyber (born 4 August 1979 in Opoczno) stage name Seth is a Polish heavy metal musician. He is best known for being the session rhythm guitarist lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Behemoth. He contributed with Polish death metal band Nomad.
Lior Narkis.  Lior Narkis (Hebrew: ליאור נרקיס‎; born November 8 1976 in Holon Israel) is a male Israeli singer. He was born to a mixed Iraqi and Serbian Jewish family.
Henri Étiévant.  Henri Étiévant (13 March 1870 – 9 August 1953) was a French actor.Born Henri Gaston Étiévan-Estival in Paris he died in 1953 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Pietro Delitala.  Pietro Delitala was the first Sardinian poet to write in Italian. His work was greatly influenced by Torquato Tasso and the Sardinian poets Gerolamo Araolla and Gavino Sugner.
Derek Webb.  Derek Walsh Webb (born May 27 1974) is an American singer-songwriter who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call and later embarked on a successful solo career. As a member of the Houston Texas-based Caedmon’s Call Webb has seen career sales approaching 1 million records along with 10 GMA Dove Award nominations and three Dove Award wins and six No. 1 Christian radio hits.In 2003 Webb left Caedmon's Call to pursue a solo career.
Ken Morley.  Ken Morley is an English comedian and actor who is best known for his role as Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street. He played the role from 1989 until quitting the show in 1995. Between 1988 and 1991 he was a regular in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! playing General Leopold von Flockenstuffen and later guest starred as the Nazi captain Vorheese in the Red Dwarf episode Stoke Me a Clipper. He has since starred in the sitcom Hardware.
Rob Grange.  Rob Grange (born Flint Michigan) is an American rock bass guitarist best known for his work with Ted Nugent and his unique phase bass lines in the song Stranglehold.
James Cuthbert Hadden.  J. Cuthbert Hadden (1861–1914) was a prolific Scottish author journalist biographer and organist.
Naru Nanao.  Naru Nanao (七尾 奈留 Nanao Naru) (pseudonym) is a female Japanese artist from Okinawa Japan. Nanao's choice of her pseudonym stems from the Circus' game Aries; one of the characters was named Runa Nanao (七尾 留奈 Nanao Runa). She is a free illustrator and thus is not affiliated with one single company; she is primarily a character designer.
Jade Seah.  Jade Seah (Chinese: 谢美玉; pinyin: Xiè Měiyù born on 6 April 1983) is a Singaporean model host and actress.
Peter Connelly.  Peter Connelly (born on September 8 1972) is a video game composer and sound designer best known for his work on the action-adventure Tomb Raider series. He has been part of several award-winning video game releases working mainly with Core Design Eutechnyx and Ubisoft.Connelly has shown interest for music and sounds since his early ages.
Jonalyn Viray.  Jonalyn Roxas Viray (born November 15 1989 in Marikina City Philippines) is a Filipina singer and an occasional actress. She was the first ever Pinoy Pop Superstar Grand Champion. She also received five gold medals and three plaques at the 2006 World Championships of Performing Arts.She is a member of a trio named La Diva along with Maricris Garcia and Aicelle Santos in which she sings as a soprano. She is also a cast of the top-rating Sunday variety show Sunday All Stars.
Tamara McKinley.  Tamara McKinley (born 25 February 1948) is a British-based Australian author living in the south of England.She was born in Launceston Tasmania in 1948 but was raised in Devonport until the age of ten when who accompanied her English grandmother (who had adopted her at age six) to the United Kingdom where she has been based ever since.
Brian Welch.  Brian Phillip Welch (born June 19 1970) better known as Head is an American musician best known as one of the guitarists and co-founder of the nu metal band Korn and his solo project Love and Death.
Harriet Jones (musician).  Harriet Jones (born 31 October 1993) is a British soul indie and folk singer/songwriter.
Leon Carr.  Leon Carr (June 10 1910 – March 27 1976) was a prolific American songwriter composer arranger pianist and conductor best known for his marketing jingles used in advertisements for Mounds candy (Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut...) and Chevrolet (See the U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet) and the Bert the Turtle theme song for the nuclear public education awareness film Duck and Cover.
Roger Rocha.  Roger Rocha is an American songwriter guitarist and vocalist of Brazilian origin.He is perhaps best known as the guitarist for the group 4 Non Blondes. He is the grandson of abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still.Rocha is now singing and playing guitar with the psychedelic indie rock group The Goldenhearts.
Leadenhall Press.  The Leadenhall Press was founded by Andrew White Tuer (1838-1900) as the publishing division of the London partnership of Field & Tuer following a move to 50 Leadenhall Street in 1868. The firm began as job printers stationers and manufacturers in 1862 when Tuer joined with Abraham Field (1830-1891) an established producer of registers and log books.
Bert Kaempfert.  Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs including Strangers in the Night and Moon Over Naples.
Michiyo Nakajima.  Michiyo Nakajima (中嶋美智代 Nakajima Michiyo born 2 January 1973) is a former Japanese pop singer and voice actress. Michiyo was born in Saitama Prefecture Japan and made her debut on 30 January 1991. Her final JPOP release was on 10 June 1998. She sang the ending theme for the animated (anime) version of Ranma ½ Season 5 (1991) - Red Poppy (Hinageshi). She also sang the opening and ending themes of Floral Magician Mary Bell (1992–93).
Minka Pradelski.  Minka Pradelski (born 1947) is a German sociologist and documentary filmmaker. Her parents were Holocaust survivors and she is an honorary member of the Shoah Foundation. Her first novel Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman appeared in 2005 and was translated into English by Philip Boehm.
Krzysztof Raczkowski.  Krzysztof Raczkowski (October 29 1970 – August 20 2005) also known as Docent or Doc was a Polish drummer best known as a member of Polish death metal bands Vader (1988–2005) and Dies Irae. He also appeared as a guest or temporary musician in Sweet Noise Hunter Slashing Death Unborn Moon and Overdub Trio.
Kerry Andrew.  Kerry Andrew (born 5 April 1978 High Wycombe Buckinghamshire) is an English composer performer writer and educator.From age 3 to age 6 Andrew lived in Canada with her family. The family subsequently returned to the UK and settled in the Buckinghamshire area. Andrew earned a BA in Music MA and PhD in Composition all from the University of York.
Jeff McComsey.  Jeff McComsey was born on December 11 1981. He is an American illustrator and author of graphic novels animations and video game art. His most notable works include American Terror a graphic novel series published through Alterna Comics and the self-published work FUBAR.
Passi.  Passi (French pronunciation: ​[paˈsi]) is a French hip hop artist who became famous in the mid-1990s with the group Ministère AMER which included himself and Stomy Bugsy. He is most widely known however as a solo artist as well as a participant in many other groups such as Bisso Na Bisso and Dis l'heure 2 zouk.
Bret Lunsford.  Bret Lunsford (born December 12 1962) is a vocalist songwriter guitarist and founding member of the influential bands Beat Happening and D+. In addition to his own musical endeavors Lunsford owns and operates Knw-Yr-Own Records an independent label based in Lunsford's hometown of Anacortes Washington and manages What the Heck Fest an annual music festival featuring independent and local musicians. He is also a writer of cultural criticism and author of Images of America Anacortes.
George Shuffler.  George Shuffler (April 11 1925 – April 7 2014) was an innovative American bluegrass guitar player and an early practitioner of the crosspicking style. During his career Shuffler played with The Bailey Brothers The Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. He was a 2007 recipient of the North Carolina Heritage Award and in 2011 was elected to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
Atsuko Seki.  Atsuko Seki (born in Tokyo 1964) is a Japanese pianist. Seki received her education at Musashino School of Music Tokyo (1983-90). She then continued her education at Music Academy Dortmund. Seki won ex-aequo with Hideyo Harada the IV Schubert Competition (1991) and was awarded the IX José Iturbi Competition (1994)'s 3rd prize. She has recorded three CDs.
Biffco.  Biffco are a music production and songwriting team from Brighton England formed by Richard Biff Stannard. The group have worked with a number of high-profile artists including One Direction Atomic Kitten Leona Lewis Little Mix Kylie Minogue Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Will Young. They are also largely responsible for the rise of the Spice Girls and Five.
Nic Pizzolatto.  Nic Pizzolatto (born: 1975) is an American novelist screenwriter and producer.
Yasuo Tanaka (voice actor).  Yasuo Tanaka (田中 康郎 Tanaka Yasuo March 6 1932 – 2003) was a Japanese voice actor who was born in Tokyo Japan. His exact date and cause of death are unknown.His name is commonly mistranslated as Yasurō Tanaka.
Torry Castellano.  Torrance Heather Torry Castellano (born January 8 1979 in San Francisco California ) is the former drummer of The Donnas announcing her retirement in July 2010. She is the cousin of actress Laura San Giacomo.Early in her childhood she moved to Palo Alto California where she met her bandmates. She was asked to be part of the band by Allison Robertson and agreed even though she did not have any experience.
Tandyn Almer.  Tandyn Douglas Almer (July 30 1942 – January 8 2013) was an American musician composer lyricist and record producer. Almer wrote co-wrote or produced numerous songs performed by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s including The Purple Gang the Garden Club Dennis Olivieri and The Beach Boys.
Leonard Gardner.  Leonard Gardner (born 1933) is an American novelist short story writer and screenwriter. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review Esquire The Southwest Review and other publications and he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.Gardner was born in Stockton and went to San Francisco State University. He currently lives in Larkspur California.Gardner's 1969 novel Fat City is an American classic whose stature has increased over the years.
Olivia (singer).  Olivia Theresa Longott (born February 15 1981) professionally known as Olivia is an American R&B singer best known for contributing vocals to 50 Cent's Billboard chart topper Candy Shop and her debut album Olivia.
Emina Jahović.  Emina Jahović Sandal (pronounced [emǐːna jâːhovit͡ɕ sǎndal] Cyrillic: Емина Јаховић Сандал; born 15 January 1982) is a singer-songwriter model and actress. She holds Serbian and Turkish dual citizenship. Born and raised in Novi Pazar she primarily studied at the Mokranjac Music School and briefly attended Braća Karić University's Faculty of Management in Belgrade. Her brother is Mirsad Türkcan (né Jahović).
Mona Malm.  Mona Malm (born 24 January 1935) is a Swedish actress. She began her career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater in 1957.
Harry Wayne Casey.  Harry Wayne K.C. Casey (born January 31 1951) is an American musician singer songwriter and producer. He is most famous for his group KC and the Sunshine Band and as a producer of several hits for other artists.
Lexie Dean Robertson.  Lexie Dean Robertson (July 25 1893 – February 16 1954) was a teacher and award-winning Poet Laureate of Texas from 1939 to 1941. She grew up in Canton Texas the daughter of teachers and married a fellow student at North Texas State Normal College (today the University of North Texas) J. F. Robertson in 1911. The couple settled in Rising Star in 1920.
Mark Masri.  Mark Masri (born in Toronto Ontario Canada on August 23rd) is a Canadian singer songwriter and producer of pop classical and inspirational songs. He also plays the piano. He is signed to EMI record label. He has released four albums: Mark Masri La Voce Christmas Is... and A Christmas Time with You as well as a special US release: See My Face. He sings mainly in English but has a multilingual repertoire of interpretations.
Jeremy Wilkin.  Jeremy Wilkin (born 6 June 1930) is an English-born Canadian actor possibly best known for his contributions to the television productions of Gerry Anderson.Born in Byfleet Surrey Wilkin emigrated to Toronto Canada after completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Tahita Bulmer.  Tahita Rotardier Bulmer (born 29 April 1976) is an English singer-songwriter.She is currently the lead vocalist for the English electropop band NYPC (formerly New Young Pony Club) and has previously been a member of Alphawave and Blue States. Tahita is the daughter of Rowan Bulmer previously one of the Richmond Faces along with his flatmate Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and photographer for Ready Steady Go/The Marquee Club now retired and Valewska Rotardier (1939–1999).
Roman Konoplev.  Roman Yevgenyevich Konoplev (Russian: Роман Евгеньевич Коноплев) is a Russian political and public figure publicist rock-bard.
Ekaterina Sedia.  Ekaterina Sedia was born in Russia on July 9 1970. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. She is best known as a fantasy author. Her most famous work is The Alchemy of Stone a steampunk novel that examines sexism and class bigotry. Sedia’s other novels include The Secret History of Moscow According to Crow and The House of Discarded Dreams. She has also written several short fiction stories poems and nonfiction books.
Anne Parrish.  Anne Parrish (November 12 1888 – September 5 1957) was an American novelist and writer of children's books. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal three times from 1925 to 1951.
Thomas G. Bergin.  Thomas G. Bergin (November 17 1904 - October 30 1987) was an “eminent twentieth-century American scholar of Italian literature” who was “noted particularly for his research on Dante's Divine Comedy and for its translation.” He was the Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University and Master of Timothy Dwight College. He is the first poet to have his words launched into outer space to orbit the earth.
Demi Evans.  Demi Evans (real name is Demetrious Evans) is an American vocalist and lyricist from Dallas Texas who is heavily marketed in Western Europe and especially France as a famous blues singer although she is relatively unknown in the US. She is known in the European jazz for her voice.
Anna German.  Anna Wiktoria German (February 14 1936 – August 25 1982) was a Polish singer immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in 1960s-1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish as well as several albums with Russian repertoire.
Pyotr Vail.  Pyotr Lvovich Vail (Russian: Пётр Львович Вайль; born 29 September 1949 Riga Latvian SSR – 7 December 2009 Prague Czech Republic) was a Russian author journalist essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russia service.
Lee Carlson.  Lee Carlson (born February 21 1958) is an American writer best known for his memoir Passage to Nirvana about surviving traumatic brain injury. Prior to publishing Passage to Nirvana he was a magazine and newspaper journalist specializing in writing about outdoor adventure sports such as skiing and scuba diving. He was senior travel editor forSkiing magazine and has worked for media outlets such as Outside magazine Newsday NBC Sports ESPN and many others.
Angela Groothuizen.  Angela Groothuizen (born 28 September 1959) is a Dutch singer artist and television personality.
Kipp Lennon.  Christopher Kipp Lennon (born March 12 1960 in Venice California) is an American musician and a founding member of the folk rock band Venice. His role in the band includes performing as a lead vocalist and guitarist.
Rich Mullins.  Richard Wayne Rich Mullins (October 21 1955 – September 19 1997) was an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond Indiana. He had two sisters and two brothers. Mullins was best known for his worship songs Awesome God and Sometimes by Step both of which have been embraced as modern classics by many Christians.
Regina Belle.  Regina Belle (born July 17 1963) is an American singer-songwriter who first started in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson A Whole New World.
Colin Wilson (comics).  Colin Wilson is a comic book artist born in Christchurch New Zealand on 31 October 1949.He is known for his detailed artwork which he uses in 2000 AD stories like Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. According to Andy Diggle the 2000 AD editor who got him back to the title in the late nineties and has worked with him since no one ...
Jerrod Edson.  Jerrod Edson is a Canadian novelist. Edson was born in 1974 in Saint John New Brunswick. His work is currently published by Ottawa's Oberon Press and has been widely praised by critics including fellow New Brunswick writer David Adams Richards who said in 2005 that Edson is one of our best young writers. In 2010 the Telegraph-Journal claimed that Edson is one of the best New Brunswick writers period.His novels all take place in Saint John and focus on the underbelly of society.
Kento Masuda.  Kento Masuda (増田 顕人 ケントマスダ) (born June 29 1973 in Katori Chiba Japan) is an international composer musician and artist. His musical career spans over 20 years and has also led to a career in music creation that began in the 2000s. He enjoys an international audience with music that encompasses a diverse sound which includes mixed musical styles and unique orchestrations.
Konstantin Paustovsky.  Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky (Russian: Константи́н Гео́ргиевич Паусто́вский 31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1892 – July 14 1968) was a Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965.
Constance Briscoe.  Constance Briscoe (born 18 May 1957) is a barrister one of England's earliest black female recorders and a convicted criminal.
Bill Hatcher.  Bill Hatcher (born 1959) is an America photographer. His first story published in National Geographic (magazine) was “Storming the Tower” May 1996 a cover story that documents the free ascent of the East face of the Nameless Tower in the Trango Towers Pakistan. He has covered other stories for National Geographic (magazine) including the first mountain biking and canyoning coverage to appear in the magazine.
Alison Saar.  Alison Saar (born February 5 1956) is an American artist whose work explores themes of African cultural diaspora and spirituality.
Gene Dunlap.  Gene Dunlap born June 19 1954 in Detroit Michigan is an American jazz/soul/disco drummer and bandleader.
Mary Antin.  Mary Antin (June 13 1881 – May 15 1949) was an American author and immigration rights activist.Born to Israel and Esther Weltman Antin a Jewish family in Polotsk Belarus at that time part of Russia she immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894 moving from Chelsea to Ward 8 in Boston's South End a notorious slum as the venue of her father's store changed. She attended Girls' Latin School now Boston Latin Academy after finishing primary school.
Thor (singer).  Ettore Dulay better known by his stage name Thor is a Filipino singer performer & songwriter.
Lykke Li.  Lykke Li (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlʏ.ˈkɛ ˈliː]; born Li Lykke Timotej Svensson Zachrisson; born 18 March 1986 in Ystad) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her music often blends elements of pop indie rock and electronic; various instruments can also be found in her songs including violins synthesizers tambourines trumpets saxophones and cellos. Li possesses the vocal range of a soprano. Her debut album Youth Novels was released in 2008.
James Murray (lexicographer).  Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death.
J. F. Hendry.  James Findlay Hendry (12 September 1912 – 17 December 1986) was a Scottish poet known also as an editor and writer. He was born in Glasgow and read Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Intelligence Corps. After the war he worked as a translator for international organisations including the UN and the ILO. He later took a chair at Laurentian University.
Leinil Francis Yu.  Leinil Francis Yu is a Filipino comic book artist who began working for the American market through Wildstorm Productions. In an interview published in Marvel's Daily Bugle newsletter he described his style as Dynamic Pseudo-Realism.[citation needed]
Battistello Caracciolo.  Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (also called Battistello) (1578–1635) was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio.
Julian Gaskell.  Julian Gaskell is a multi-instrumentalist band leader and singer-songwriter currently based in Cornwall UK.
Jean Ricardou.  Jean Ricardou (b. Cannes 17 June 1932) is a French writer and theorist of the nouveau roman literary movement. Between 1962 and 1971 Ricardou was on the editorial board of French avant-garde journal Tel Quel.
Katie Roiphe.  Katie Roiphe is an American author and journalist. She is best known as the author of the non-fiction examination The Morning After: Fear Sex and Feminism (1994). She is also the author of Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End (1997) and the 2007 study of writers and marriage Uncommon Arrangements.
Margaret McJannett.  Margaret McJannett is an Australian naturalist and author. She was born in Canberra.She is best known for her books about the Brindabella Ranges near Canberra which she wrote with her former partner Ian Fraser.She wrote an article for the Bogong magazineVol 12 No2 published by CASEREC Canberra & South-East Region Environment Center where she describes the idea 'Let's write a book about the Brindabellas' my mate said!..
Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy.  Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy (February 14 1914 — March 21 1998) popularly referred to as CSM was one of the most distinguished Mridanga maestros of the 20th century. He was a contemporary of Palghat Mani Iyer (1912–1981) and Palani Subramania Pillai (1908–1962). The three legends are revered as the Holy Trinity of Mridanga.
Ruskin Spear.  Ruskin Spear CBE RA (30 June 1911 – 17 January 1990) was an English painter.Born in Hammersmith Spear attended the local art school before going on to the Royal College of Art in 1930.
André Schiffrin.  André Schiffrin (June 14 1935 – December 1 2013) was a French-born American author publisher and socialist.
Adam Killian.  Adam Nicholas Killian is an American gay pornographic film actor. He started in 2003 when he was around 28 years old. He has a degree in Dance & Theatre from UC Santa Cruz.
Storm Thorgerson.  Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was an English graphic designer best known for his work for rock artists such as Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath Scorpions Peter Gabriel Genesis Europe Catherine Wheel Bruce Dickinson Dream Theater The Cranberries The Mars Volta Muse Biffy Clyro and Rival Sons.
Gabriel Cevallos García.  Gabriel Cevallos García (Cuenca January 6 1913 - March 16 2004) was an Ecuadorian writer historian professor and philosopher.He was the rector of the University of Cuenca from 1964 to 1968 and founder professor and dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the university.He taught for some years at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez where he settled in 1969 to work as a teacher.
Lady May.  Lady May (born Rhonda Robinson) is an American rapper from Long Island New York's suburbs.May was born in the 1980s and grew up listening to Elton John Duran Duran and Michael Jackson.
Malachi Cush.  Malachi Cush also recording as Malachi (born 23 September 1980) is a singer/songwriter from Donaghmore a small village in County Tyrone Northern Ireland. Coming from a large musical family he started singing and playing Irish traditional music at an early age. He appeared on the first series of Fame Academy and has had chart success in the UK and Thailand. His musical influences also included The Pogues U2 and Van Morrison.[citation needed] Malachi is now married.
Jack McManus (singer).  Jack McManus (born 1984) is a BRIT School educated singer-songwriter from West Wickham London in England.
Jason Henderson.  Jason Henderson (born 1971) is a writer of computer games novels and several comic book series. He is the writer of the young adult novel series Alex Van Helsing from HarperCollins and the comic book series Sword of Dracula from Image Comics Strange Magic from Marvel Comics and Soulcatcher. His book Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising was added to the 2011 Texas Library Association Lone Star Reading List a list of the top 20 books published in the previous year for middle grade readers.
Melanie Hudson.  Melanie Hudson is an English actress and comedian one half of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine along with Vicki Pepperdine. The pair wrote and star in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show.She is perhaps best known for performing a number of roles in Knowing Me Knowing You... with Alan Partridge including Alan's French co-host Nina Vanier. She played Lauren Cooper's French teacher in a sketch on The Catherine Tate Show.
Elizabeth Berg (author).  For the lead singer and guitarist Elizabeth Berg of band The Like see The LikeElizabeth Berg is an American nurse turned writer born on December 2 1948 in Saint Paul Minnesota USA now living in Chicago earlier in Boston. She studied English at the University of Minnesota but later ended up with a nursing degree. Her writing career started when she won an essay contest in Parents magazine.
Sir George Barrow 2nd Baronet.  Sir George Barrow (22 October 1806 – 1876) was an English civil servant.
Scott Kelly (musician).  Scott Michael Kelly is one of three founding members of Oakland California experimental metal band Neurosis in which he is a vocalist and guitarist. He has been writing and publishing music since 1985 with Neurosis Tribes of Neurot Blood and Time and his solo acoustic project. He is also involved in a project named Shrinebuilder involving Al Cisneros Scott Weinrich and Dale Crover. The first album from Shrinebuilder was released in October 2009.
Andy Milonakis.  Andrew Michael Andy Milonakis (born January 30 1976) is an American actor writer rapper and comedian best known for creating and starring in The Andy Milonakis Show on MTV and MTV2. In 2013 he began a recurring role on the Comedy Central sketch series Kroll Show playing the role of Roman Armond.
Ryō (actress).  Ryō (りょう) (born January 17 1973) is a Japanese model actress voice actress and former singer whose birth name is Yumiko Miyada (宮田 ゆみ子 Miyada Yumiko).
Matteo Sommacal.  Matteo Sommacal born November 18 1977 in Roma (Italy) is an Italian composer and mathematical physicist.As a composer he has been active since 2000 writing concert and film music. Since late 2000 he has been serving as the artistic director of the Italian chamber ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi that premiered and recorded several of his compositions.
Nikolay Oleynikov.  Nikolay Makarovich Oleynikov (Russian: Никола́й Мака́рович Оле́йников; born 5 August 1898 d. 24 November 1937) was a Russian editor avant-garde poet and playwright who was arrested and executed by the Soviets for subversive writing. During his writing career he also used the pen names Makar Svirepy Nikolai Makarov Sergey Kravtsov NI chief engineer of the mausoleums Kamensky and Peter Shortsighted.
Mary Millington.  Mary Millington (30 November 1945 – 19 August 1979) was an English model and pornographic actress. Her appearance in the short softcore film Sex is My Business led to her meeting with magazine publisher David Sullivan who promoted her widely as a model and featured her in the softcore comedy Come Play With Me which ran for a record-breaking four years at the same cinema.
Dobrosav Milojevic.  Dobrosav Milojević was born in Donje Štiplje near Jagodina in 1948. He is well-known living Serbian artist among the Naïve painters. Now he lives and works in Donje Štiplje.
Cozi Zuehlsdorff.  Cozi Zuehlsdorff (born August 3 1998) is an American actress pianist and singer. She started her acting career by acting in plays then she began to try out for movies. Her most recent play is You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. She is also known for her appearance in the movie Dolphin Tale (2011) and the sequel Dolphin Tale 2 (2014).
Lorenz Ritter.  Lorenz Ritter (24 November 1832 – 3 September 1921) was a German painter and etcher.
David J. Bradley.  David John Bradley (February 22 1915 – January 7 2008) was an American writer surgeon politician and champion skier. His best-selling 1948 book No Place to Hide a memoir of the Bikini atomic bomb tests alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon explosions. Bradley was elected as a Democrat to the New Hampshire House of Representatives serving 1955–59 and 1973–75.
Coko.  Cheryl Elizabeth Coko Gamble-Clemons (born June 13 1970) is an American gospel and R&B singer and lead singer of R&B group Sisters With Voices (SWV).
Álvaro de Campos.  Álvaro de Campos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaɫvɐɾu dɨ ˈkɐ̃puʃ]) (1890 – ?) was one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's various heteronyms widely known by his powerful and wrathful writing style. According to his author this alter ego was born in Tavira Portugal studied mechanical engineering and finally graduated in ship engineering in Glasgow. After a journey in Ireland Campos sailed to the Orient and wrote his poem Opiario in the Suez Canal onboard.
Revere La Noue.  Revere La Noue (born October 20 1976) is an American artist filmmaker and entrepreneur. He has developed extensive collections of work in art film and experimental media. In 2010 he founded The Mascot Gallery an online resource and store featuring a range of artwork and film about America’s great icons with impressionistic depictions of their often forgotten origins. In 2012 he launched a two-story studio and exhibition space on Main Street in Durham North Carolina.
Faizal Tahir.  Faizal Tahir is a Malaysian Singer who is the current official Malaysian DC Brand Ambassador. He provoked the industry by ripping off his shirt during one of the live-telecast resulting being sternly warned by the authority and banned from performing in front of live audiences.
Justine Larbalestier.  Justine Larbalestier (/ˌlɑrbəˈlɛsti.ɛər/ LAR-bə-LES-tee-air) (born September 23 1967) is an Australian young-adult fiction author best known for the novel Liar.
Domenico Manetti.  Domenico Manetti (1609–1663) was at Italian painter.Manetti was born at Siena in 1609 and was probably a relation of Rutilio Manetti. He painted chiefly for the churches of Siena but also produced historical subjects of an easel size. Lanzi particularly mentions one in the Casa Magnoni representing the Baptism of Constantine. He died in 1663.
Ki Theory.  Joel Burleson better known as Ki:Theory (pronounced “Key Theory”) is an American recording artist and producer who specializes in alternative rock with electronic elements.
Juan Jacinto (musician).  Juan Jacinto is an Argentinian multi-instrument musician singer/songwriter drummer and percussionist based in London U.K. actively involved in experimental music combining rhythms melodies and harmonies from South America.Jacinto has written composed produced and mixed his debut album Cerca Del Cereal playing all the instruments in it with some exceptions. Recorded in 2008 Cerca del Cereal introduced Jacinto to the music scene in Buenos Aires and Latin America.
Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury.  Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury is a Bengali singer from West Bengal India. She is a playback singer in Tollywood films and also has her own solo album. She is also a guest lecturer of psychology at the Asutosh College in Kolkata.
James Blake (musician).  James Blake Litherland (born 26 September 1988) known as James Blake is an English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter from London. He is also known as Harmonimix when releasing remixes. His eponymous debut album was released in the United Kingdom in 2011 and nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for that year. His second studio album Overgrown won the Mercury Prize in 2013. Blake received his first Grammy nomination at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for Best New Artist.
Caitriona O'Reilly.  Caitríona O'Reilly (born in Dublin in 1973) is an Irish poet and critic. She took BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College Dublin and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection The Nowhere Birds (2001 Bloodaxe); she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College Cambridge.
Stas Shurins.  Stas Shurins (Latvian: Stas Šurins) real name - Stanislav Andriyovich Shurin (Ukrainian: Станіслав Андрійович Шурін) is a Latvian singer. He holds both Russian and Latvian citizenship. He is the winner of Fabrika Zirok Season (The Ukrainian Star Academy).
Yonrico Scott.  Yonrico Scott is an American Grammy Award-winning drummer and percussionist. He was a longtime member of The Derek Trucks Band and is bandleader of his own ensemble; the Yonrico Scott Band. Having developed his craft not only from years of session work roadwork and study the Cape Cod Times proclaimed him a standout in the band... whose strong beats powered songs such as 'I'll Find My Way' off the group's Songlines CD.
Kasper Hassler.  Kasper or Caspar Hassler (17 August 1562 Nuremberg - 21 June 1618 Nuremberg) was a German organist and composer. He was the son of the organist Isaak Hassler and the brother of the musicians Jakob Hassler and Hans Leo Hassler.
Kathleen Klein.  Kathleen Klein is an American television writer.
Harry Miller (writer).  Harry Miller (1923-5 October 1998) was a journalist writer photographer and naturalist who lived most of his life in Madras India. He was a popularizer of wildlife nature and science with numerous articles in local newspapers including The Hindu and The Indian Express.Born as Harry Colin Miller in Swansea Wales he came from a poor Welsh family. He was a self-made man who counted among his close friends the Dalai Lama Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Queen Frederika of Greece.
Norman Hassan.  Norman Lamont Hassan (Arabic: نورمان حسن‎; born 26 January 1958) is an English musician of Yemeni and Welsh descent who is best known as being a member of the reggae band UB40 since its foundation in 1978.
Derek Bourgeois.  Derek Bourgeois (born in Kingston upon Thames 1941) is an English composer. Educated at Cambridge University (honours degree and doctorate) he spent two years at the Royal College of Music studying composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult.From 1970 to 1984 he was a lecturer in music at Bristol University and then Director of the National Youth Orchestra. He was appointed Director of Music at St Paul's Girls School London in 1994.
Jon Elia.  Jaun Elia (Urdu: جون ایلیا‎ December 14 1931 – November 8 2002) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet philosopher biographer and scholar. He was the brother of journalist and psychoanalyst Rais Amrohvi and journalist and philosopher Syed Muhammad Taqi and husband of columnist Zahida Hina. He was fluent in Arabic English Persian Sanskrit and Hebrew.
Paul Urquhart.  Paul Urquhart was the pen name for paperbacks used initially by collaboration between Ladbroke Black and Thomas Meech and later by Black alone. Seven books were published between 1906 and 1918 by Ward Lock & Co. Later books by Black alone from 1922 onwards were published by the Amalgamated Press (not listed here). The Eagles (1906) The Web (1907) The Shadow (1908) The Turmoil (1915) One Clear Call (1916) The Awakening (1918) Cross Currents (1918)
Rusty Cooley.  Rusty Cooley is a guitarist from Houston Texas known for his highly refined guitar technique. He is regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in the United States and a master of the shredding technique of guitar. Guitar Player magazine called him the leading light of the post-Malmsteen shred-volution.
Roland Giraud.  Roland Giraud (born Rabat Morocco on 14 February 1942) is a French actor. He is married (1966) to the actress Maaike Jansen.Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971. Around this time he worked also with the troupe Le Splendid. His first cinematic role came in 1974 in Michel Audiard's Bons baisers...à lundi.
108 (artist).  108 (born 1978) is an Italian artist in the field of street art and contemporary art from Alessandria.108 has moved from working in traditional graffiti art to painting large and mysterious figures that invade public spaces. He was the first writer to use numbers instead of letters for his name. He started to work when he was a child on the streets of Alessandria and used different names.His work has appeared on the streets of Milan Paris London Berlin and New York City.
Audrey Howard.  Audrey Howard (b. 1929 in Liverpool Merseyside) is an English writer of historical romance novels. In 1988 her novel The Juniper Bush won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Aj Muhlach.  Adrian Justine Muhlach or AJ Muhlach (born May 20 1992) is a Filipino pop singer actor and a member of the boy band XLR8. He starred in the Philippine television drama P.S. I Love You in 2011 and Bagets on TV5.He is an actor and a singer/dancer with his P-pop group XLR8 on Party Pilipinas on GMA Network.
Phil Moody.  Phil 'Ron' Moody was a member of British anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. He joined the group in 2007 as the accordionist. He has since however played a number of instruments. Jude Abbott has described Moody as Doing all the little funny bits such as comedy one-liners and re-enacting certain samples (in Ratata-tay for instance he actually recites the poem during live performances). He also contributes to the vocal harmonies and contributes percussion.
Carroll Baker (singer).  Carroll Anne Baker CM (member of the Order of Canada) (born March 4 1949) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter.
Henri-François Rey.  Henri-François Rey (July 31 1919 in Toulouse - July 22 1987 in Paris) was a French writer dramaturge and screenwriter. His book La Fête espagnole (The Spanish party) won the 1959 Prix des Deux Magots. His best-known work Les Pianos mécaniques (Mechanical pianos) won the Interallié prize in 1962 and was adapted to film by Juan Antonio Bardem in 1965 as The Uninhibited.
Matt Bell (author).  Matt Bell (born 1980) is an American writer. He is the author of How They Were Found (2010) and Cataclysm Baby (2012). He studied at Bowling Green State University. In 2012 he took a position as an assistant professor in the English department at Northern Michigan University.Bell is the senior editor at Dzanc Books as well as the founding editor of The Collagist a monthly online literary magazine.
Henry James Forman.  Henry James Forman (February 17 1879 - January 3 1966) was an author famous for his 1933 book Our Movie Made Children which was a summary of the Payne Fund Studies. The book has been described as an alarmist tome and was responsible for publicizing the study's more negative results.
Yukimasa Obi.  Yukimasa Obi (小尾 元政 Obi Yukimasa born September 22 1978 in Abashiri Hokkaidō) is a Japanese voice actor who works for GadgetLink.
Alice McCall.  'Alice McCall' is a London-born Australian fashion designer who got her start as a successful stylist in the London fashion scene. As a stylist she worked with a variety of celebrity and corporate clients including Kelis Blondie (band) and Marianne Faithful as well as styling international advertising campaigns for MTV Levi's Nike and Rimmel.In her spare time Alice began making one off silk tops and 50’s style customised vintage dresses.
Michael Mobbs.  Michael Mobbs is a Sydney-based author and environmental consultant. He worked as an environmental lawyer for 19 years and through this work developed an interest in sustainability. In the 1990s Mobbs converted his Chippendale home into a more sustainable house by modifying the water energy and waste systems. He regularly opens his house for guided public tours.In 2009 The (Sydney) Magazine listed Michael Mobbs as one of Sydney's 100 most influential people.
Zealous1.  Beau Fa'asamala (born 1983) is an American rapper and producer from Oceanside California known as ZeaLouS1. The self-proclaimed King of the Boss Fights and The Sleeping Dragon of Nerdcore started making beats producing and MC'ing while attending California State University San Marcos as an Audio Production major. He has worked with notable artists such as MC Lars YTCracker Random and Beefy.
Don Was.  Don Was (born Donald Fagenson; September 13 1952) is an American musician bassist and record producer.
Tony Lloyd (artist).  Tony Lloyd (born 1970) is an Australian contemporary artist. Lloyd's paintings are influenced by cinema in particular Film Noir and Science Fiction and the Romantic conception of the sublime. Lloyd's largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style.Lloyd currently resides in Melbourne Australia. Lloyd acquired a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at RMIT University (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in 2000.
L. T. C. Rolt.  Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February 1910 – 9 May 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways.
Barbara Faith.  Barbara Faith de Covarrubias (b. (1921-02-19)February 19 1921 in Cleveland Ohio – d. October 10 1995(1995-10-10)) was an American writer of more than 40 romance novels as Barbara Faith (her maiden name) from 1978 until the day of his death. She won a RITA Award in 1982.
Tsuchida Bakusen.  Tsuchida Bakusen (土田麦僊 February 9 1887 - June 10 1936) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style active during the Taishō and early Shōwa eras. His birth name was Tsuchida Kinji (土田金二).
Chuckii Booker.  Chuckii Booker (born December 19 1964 in Los Angeles California) is an American award-winning producer singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.
André Antoine.  André Antoine (31 January 1858 – 23 October 1943) was a French actor theatre manager film director author and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.
Noah Rubin.  Noah Rubin is an American-born artist/producer and music executive based in New York City. As of 2013 Rubin serves as VP of Music for Decon.
Nick Sheppard.  Nick Sheppard is a Bristol-born guitarist best known for being in the well-known punk band The Clash for a short time.
John Picacio.  John Picacio (born September 3 1969) is an American artist specializing in science fiction fantasy and horror illustration.
Stan Borys.  Stan Borys or Stanisław Guzek (was born September 3 1941 in Załęże (now a district of Rzeszów)) is a Polish singer-songwriter actor director and poet.He is a charismatic person and a versatile artist who has a broad musical taste acting and directing capabilities.In his over 50-year-long (celebrated 2011) musical career he has recorded 8 albums has been a performer at many festivals and won many awards.
Giles Martin.  Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English record producer songwriter composer and multi-instrumentalist. His studio recordings stage shows TV and film works have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful across the globe. He is the son of Sir George Martin the producer of almost all of The Beatles' records and half-brother of actor Gregory Paul Martin.
Vinnie Mele.  Vinnie Mele (born as Vincenzo Seraphino Mele on February 17 1977) is an American singer actor composer and instrumentalist. His style is influenced by the blues southern rock reggae and country music. Mele's songs contain humor and pop culture references.
Stanhope Forbes.  Stanhope Alexander Forbes R.A. (18 November 1857 – 2 March 1947) was an artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often called 'the father of the Newlyn School'.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24 1896 – December 21 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned The Great Gatsby (his most famous) and Tender Is the Night.
T-Minus (producer).  Tyler Williams (born February 25 1988) professionally known as T-Minus is a Canadian hip-hop and R&B producer from Ajax Ontario. He has produced for artists such as Kendrick Lamar Copenhanni T.I. Ciara Nicki Minaj Plies Ludacris LeToya Luckett Birdman Lil Wayne Wale and Drake August Rigo Justin Bieber and Slaughterhouse among others. He won Top Producer at the 2012 BMI Urban Awards. He is also signed to Drake's OVO Sound with Noah 40 Shebib.
Aleksei Kruchenykh.  Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh or Kruchonykh or Kruchyonykh (Russian: Алексе́й Елисе́евич Кручёных; 21 February 1886 – 17 June 1968) a well-known poet of the Russian Silver Age was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum.
Axle Whitehead.  Axle Whitehead (born 16 December 1980; Melbourne Australia) is a former Australian Video Hits TV host and current singer musician and actor. In 2008 he released his first studio album Losing Sleep which debuted outside of the ARIA top 50. He also plays Liam Murphy in Channel Seven's Home and Away and is the host of The World's Strictest Parents.
David Malouf.  David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000 his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996 he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008 and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Dawayne Bailey.  Dawayne Bailey is an American guitarist who has toured and recorded with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Véronique Sanson and Chicago.Bailey was born and raised in Manhattan Kansas. While still attending Manhattan High School in Kansas he founded the band Rathbone which developed a strong regional fan base. In 1972 Bailey and Rathbone moved to Los Angeles to foster their musical career.
Peter Ricq.  Peter Ricq (born February 24 1981 in Montreal Quebec) is the co-creator of the animated television series League of Super Evil (L.O.S.E.). He also participated in the animated television series Storm Hawks as a junior designer. His last animated short film (Glitch) was awarded with nine best animation awards and one jury prize. He studied at Concordia University (Montreal Quebec) in Film Animation.He is the co-founder of the band Humans.
Said Durrah.  Said Durrah (Arabic: سعيد درة‎; born February 9 1982) is an American stand-up comedian of Arab descent.
Vinny Miller.  Vinny Miller (born in Dorset England) is a British singer-songwriter and record producer once signed to the 4AD label.He first came to musical prominence in 1998 as a 4AD signing under the moniker Starry Smooth Hound releasing a track co-produced by Guy Fixsen (of Too Pure band Laika) on the label sampler Anakin.Two singles Pigpen and Breaking Out of Your Arms preceded Miller's debut full-length studio album On The Block in April 2004.
Shelley Puhak.  Shelley Puhak (born 1975) is an American poet. She is Eichner Professor of Creative Writing at Notre Dame of Maryland University. She won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
Nadia Azzi.  Nadia Azzi (born August 11 1998 in Dunedin Florida) is an American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin. Fluent in Japanese and English she began playing piano at age four and a half and has won many awards since then. She currently resides in New York.
Murray Hantman.  Murray Hantman (1904–1999) was a painter muralist and teacher. Over the course of his career Hantman's work progressed from realism to abstraction. His later work shows a mastery of color and form. Based out of New York City Hantman spent summers on Monhegan Island. Like many of his generation Hantman ultimately rejected explicit narrative in his paintings for a more primal expression of experience
Pradeep Palluruthy.  Pradeep Palluruthy is a noted Malayalam singer. He is from Cochin and is a little bit hit in the Malayalam film industry. He has sung in 25 films.
Liza Morozova.  Líza Morózova (Russian: Лиза Морозова Елизавета Алексеевна Морозова; born May 4 1973) is a Russian female artist (performance art installation art body art) psychologist (Candidate of Sciences PhD Level) art therapist and columnist. Participant of more than 150 international art exhibitions and biennale in 17 countries of the world. Lives in Moscow.
Joseph Vincent.  Joseph Vincent Encarnacion (born August 15 1989) better known as Joseph Vincent is a Filipino American guitarist singer and songwriter. Joseph has been featured on NBC’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show and has performed at well-known Los Angeles venues such as The House of Blues The Knitting Factory Roxy Theatre El Rey Theatre The Troubadour among international venues in Australia Singapore and Canada. He is currently managed by Tom Ngo and Catch Adventures.
Consequence (rapper).  Dexter Raymond Mills Jr. (born June 14 1977) better known by his stage name Consequence is an American hip hop recording artist from Queens New York City New York. Consequence debuted in 1996 appearing several times on A Tribe Called Quest's fourth album Beats Rhymes and Life. In March 2007 he released his debut album Don't Quit Your Day Job! under Columbia Records and Kanye West's GOOD Music.
Top Quality.  Top Quality was an American rapper formally signed to RCA Records in the early 1990s. He was the first rapper from White Plains to get a major label record deal.After appearing in The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype a column dedicated to finding unsigned talent Top Quality eventually caught the eye of EPMD's Parrish PMD Smith who made him a member of the rap collective Hit Squad and was subsequently signed a deal with RCA Records.
Conrado Dess.  Conrado Dess (born August 3 1991 in São José do Rio Preto Brazil) is a Brazilian singer songwriter actor and record producer.Dess got his start in his hometown where he sang gospel songs in church throughout his childhood. At age 14 he started taking singing lessons to refine his singing voice.He spent the next few years maintaining a MySpace profile where he uploaded various self-written tracks.
Rick Davies.  Richard Rick Davies (born 22 July 1944 in Swindon Wiltshire England) is an English musician best known as the founder vocalist and keyboardist of progressive rock band Supertramp. Davies is the only member of Supertramp to have been with the group for their entire history and has composed many of their most well-known songs including Goodbye Stranger Bloody Well Right My Kind of Lady and Cannonball.
John Bainbridge (author).  John Bainbridge (born 1953) is an English author and campaigner for countryside preservation and access. He read Literature and Social History at the University of East Anglia.Born in West Bromwich Staffordshire Bainbridge spent his childhood at 15 Ray Hall Lane Great Barr and was educated at Hamstead Primary School Grove Vale School and Dartmouth Comprehensive. It was from there that he began exploring the British countryside often taking walking tours that lasted for months at a time.
Everett Owens.  Everett Owens is the pen name under which Rob Thomas authored three books in The X-Files young adult series. Thomas constructed the pen name from the names of his two dogs.
Emil Rittershaus.  Friedrich Emil Rittershaus (3 April 1834 – 8 March 1897) was a German poet.
Chip Mosher.  Chip Mosher (born in Chillecothe Ohio) is a poet high school teacher and newspaper columnist who writes about education and history.
Roberto Benabib.  Roberto Jack Benabib is a Mexican American television writer producer and film director best known for writing/directing the 1997 comedy film Little City. He has served as a writer/producer on the Showtime dark comedy series Weeds since 2005.
Tripti Mukherjee.  Pandita Tripti Mukherjee is an Indian classical vocalist. She belongs to Mewati Gharana. She is the founder and director of the Pandit Jasraj Institute for Music Research Artistry and Appreciation.
Jeff Caxide.  Jeff Caxide is an American bassist best known for his time with post-metal band Isis of which he was a founding member and present until its dissolution in 2010. He was also a founding member of Red Sparowes but left after the release of their first full-length. He also contributed to side-project Spylacopa.
Blake Nelson Boyd.  Blake Nelson Boyd commonly known as Blake Boyd (born October 1 1970) is an American film actor comedian and visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans and London. Boyd was mentored by Andres Serrano and Andy Warhol Factory manager Billy Name in the 1990s. Boyd's visual art takes many different forms of expression including painting photography drawing sculpture video and installation.
Margaret Mitchell.  Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8 1900 – August 16 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager Lost Laysen have been published.
Patricia A. McKillip.  Patricia Anne McKillip (born February 29 1948) is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels which have been winners of the World Fantasy Award the Locus Award and the Mythopoeic Award. In 2008 she was a recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge.  Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 1985) is an English actress writer and director. She made her stage debut in 2009 and has since appeared extensively on stage and screen. She is the co-artistic director of DryWrite theatre company. Besides acting she has also scripted plays including Good. Clean. Fun. and Fleabag.
Casey Royer.  Casey Royer (born October 8 1960) is an American musician who began his career playing drums for punk bands The Detours and Social Distortion at age 18 in 1978. He then moved on to play for The Adolescents off and on from 1980–87. While The Adolescents were on hiatus from 1981–86 Casey went on to form D.I. in 1981 a Southern California hardcore beach-party punk band.
Ryan Colucci.  Ryan Patrick Colucci (born 1978) is an American feature film producer writer and comic book creator.
Carlos Orozco Romero.  Carlos Orozco Romero (September 3 1896 – March 29 1984) was a Mexican cartoonist and painter who co founded several cultural institutions in Mexico including the Escuela Nacional de Pintura Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda. His work was recognized with membership in the Academia de Artes and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and in 1980 with Mexico’s Premio Nacional de Arte (National Art Prize).
Lisa Goldstein.  Lisa Goldstein (born November 21 1953) is a fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has been nominated for Nebula Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Her 1982 novel The Red Magician won a National Book Award in the one-year category Original Paperbackand was praised by Philip K. Dick shortly before his death.
Sharyn McCrumb.  Sharyn McCrumb (born February 26 1948) is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series the Ballad series and the St. Dale series.
Natalie Diaz (poet).  Natalie Diaz is a Mohave American poet.
Stefan Askenase.  Stefan Askenase (10 July 1896 – 18 October 1985) was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue.
Tanel Padar.  Tanel Padar (born 27 October 1980) is an Estonian singer. He is best known internationally for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers in 1999.
Jens Funke.  Jens Funke is an American Musician. He has played bass with many bands such as Stroke 9. In October 2006 he began playing with the band Deadsy filling in for injured bassist Ashburn Miller.
Ted Allbeury.  Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury (24 October 1917-4 December 2005) was a British author of espionage fiction. Between 1965 and 1967 he had been the managing director of the fort-based pirate radio station Radio 390 later moving to the ship-based Radio 355 until its closure in August of 1967.During World War II Allbeury served in Britain's Special Operations Executive.His first novel A Choice of Enemies was published in 1972.
Sabrina Matthews.  Sabrina Matthews (born 1977) is a Canadian ballet choreographer. She has created pieces for some of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world including multiple pieces for the renowned Stuttgart Ballet. This in-demand choreographer has premiered works on three continents in over a dozen cities from Beijing to New York to London. She was recognized as one of Canada's Amazing Women to Watch alongside Oscar nominees.
Kwanza Jones.  Kwanza Jones is an American dance / pop singer and songwriter. She was born in Los Angeles California and started her singing career when she was in college at Princeton University. She is currently signed to the independent label Innovation Entertainment.
Kosmonova.  Kosmonova (born Michael Nehrig; April 8 1970 in Krefeld Germany) is a DJ and music producer.
Pat Myne.  Pat Myne (born September 12 1966 in Los Angeles California USA) is an American pornographic actor and director.He was previously married to Shelbee Myne Stormy Daniels and Alektra Blue.
Pierre Saint-Sevin.  Pierre Saint-Sevin (1695–1768) was a French composer.
Betty Berzon.  Betty Berzon (January 18 1928 – January 24 2006) was an American author and psychotherapist known for her work with the gay and lesbian communities.Berzon was among the first psychotherapists to assist gay and lesbian clients.
Edith Summers Kelley.  Edith Summers Kelley (April 28 1884 – June 9 1956) was a Canadian-born author who lived and worked in the United States and is best known for her 1923 novel Weeds (1923) set in the hills of Kentucky.Kelley was born in Toronto Canada to Scottish immigrants and graduated from the University of Toronto before moving to Greenwich Village where she met Upton Sinclair who offered her a job at Helicon Home Colony.
John Moulder-Brown.  John Moulder-Brown (London 3 June 1953) is a British actor who started his career as a child; he is best remembered for his role in the 1971 classic Deep End.Moulder-Brown founded The Academy of Creative Training a drama school in Brighton Sussex in 1997.
Agnes Gund.  Agnes Gund (born 1938) is an American philanthropist art patron and collector and advocate for arts education. She is founding trustee of the Agnes Gund Foundation and President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Chairman of its International Council. She is also Chairman of MoMA PS1. In 2011 Gund was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on the Arts.
Joaquín Pasos.  Joaquín Pasos (May 14 1914—January 20 1947) was a Nicaraguan poet narrator and essayist. He was one of the leading figures of the national Vanguardia literary movement. The poem Pasos is best known for was his Canto de guerra de las cosas (The song of the war of things) poem.
Nisar Bazmi.  Nisar Bazmi (Urdu: نثار بزمی ; December 1 1924 – March 22 2007) was a composer and music director of Pakistan film industry. Bazmi remained one of the most famous musicians of South Asia. He also introduced new singers like Alamgir. The duo of composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal were musicians with Bazmi in India before partition. However he is primarily remembered for his compositions in the voice of playback singer Ahmed Rushdi.
Charlie Mariano.  Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12 1923 – June 16 2009) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston Massachusetts and died in Cologne Germany.
James Croak.  James Croak (born 1951) is a visual artist known for his work in conceptual figuration and sculpture.
Francesco Saverio Salfi.  Francesco Saverio Salfi or Franco Salfi (Cosenza 24 January 1759 – Paris 1832) was an Italian writer politician and librettist.
Eric Winstone.  Eric Winstone (born 1 January 1913 in London died 2 May 1974 in Pagham Sussex) was an English big band leader and composer.Playing piano in his spare time from a job as Westminster Gas and Coke Company led him to form his first band in 1935.[citation needed] He learned the accordion started an accordion school and formed an accordion quintet a swing quintet and a big band orchestra.[citation needed]During World War II his orchestra entertained the forces and performed at holiday camps after the war. 
Friedrich Suppig.  Friedrich Suppig was an 18th-century music theorist and composer. Practically nothing is known about him or his life or even if he was in fact a professional composer. He is known for two manuscripts; in one of which he discussed theoretical tuning systems:Calculus musicus is a treatise on tuning systems: a 19-tone just intonation and a 31-tone system.
Wilma Burgess.  Wilma Burgess (born Wilma Charlene Burgess June 11 1939 - August 26 2003) was an American country music singer. She rose to fame in the mid-1960s and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard C&W charts between 1965 and 1975.
Dizzy Gillespie.  John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (/ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21 1917 – January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter bandleader composer and occasional singer.Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge.
Alex Fong (actor).  Alex Fong (Chinese: 方中信 Fong Chung-Sun; born March 17 1963 in Macau) is an actor in the Hong Kong TV and film industry. He married actress Ho Yan Mok (Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1993) after 12 years together. They now have a baby daughter.
Jun Hamamura.  Jun Hamamura (浜村純 Hamamura Jun 7 February 1906 – 21 June 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 1995.
Preeti Sagar.  Preeti Sagar is a former Bollywood playback singer who won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the folk song Mhare gaon.. in Manthan in 1978 and was previously nominated for the hit song My Heart is Beating from Julie (1975).
Howard Bilerman.  Howard Bilerman (born September 25 1970) is a Canadian recording engineer producer and Grammy nominated musician. He is a former member of the band Arcade Fire having recorded & drummed on their debut album Funeral as well as records by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band Vic Chesnutt Basia Bulat Peter Peter Rich Aucoin and Angela Desveaux.
Ogura Yuki.  Ogura Yuki (小倉 遊亀 1 March 1895 – 23 July 2000) was a nihonga painter in Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Mizoguchi Yuki. She was known for her bijinga.
Lucy Shelton.  Lucy Shelton is an American soprano best known for her performance of contemporary music. She graduated from The Putney School in 1961 and Pomona College in 1965.The only artist to receive the International Walter W. Naumburg Award twice as a soloist and as a chamber musician soprano Lucy Shelton has performed repertoire from Bach to Boulez in major recital chamber and orchestral venues throughout the world.
Jerome Dillon.  Jerome Dillon is a professional musician best known for his tenure as drummer with industrial rock group Nine Inch Nails from 1999-2005. After his departure his own project Nearly released its debut album reminder in December 2005 along with a cd maxi-single for the song Straight to Nowhere. All is Lost a song from reminder that Dillon co-wrote with 12 Rounds singer Claudia Sarne was featured in the 2008 film Diary of a Nymphomaniac.
Dan Biggin.  Dan Biggin/Danny B is a guitarist and bassist performing with Chilean thrash band Criminal Chilean death metal band Pentagram Chile and also involved in his own side projects Takoma Star (punk rock) and Flight 19 (instrumental – avant garde).
Juan José Calandria.  Juan José Calandria (1902 – 1980) Uruguayan painter and sculptor.
Barry Maitland.  Barry Maitland (born 1941 in Scotland) is an Australian author of crime fiction. After studying architecture at Cambridge Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia where he became a Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle. He retired in 2000 and took up writing full-time.
Tom Hodgkinson.  Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) is a British writer and the editor of The Idler which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. His philosophy in his published books and articles is of a relaxed approach to life enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future. The Idler was originally a series of essays written by Dr Johnson in 1758-9.
Mike Kaufmann.  Mike Kaufmann (born Michael Kaufmann in Oakland California on April 19 1966) is an American heavy metal bass guitarist. He is best known as the bass player for the thrash metal band Defiance.
Duane Peters.  Duane Peters (born June 12 1961) nicknamed The Master of Disaster is a punk rock singer/songwriter and professional skateboarder. Active since 1975 he is probably best known as the singer in the California punk rock band U.S. Bombs which formed in 1993.
Indiana (singer).  Indiana (born 1987) is British singer-songwriter from Nottingham. She is best known for her 2014 single Solo Dancing which reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and number 93 on the Irish Singles Chart.
Bhargavi Rao.  Bhargavi Prabhanjan Rao (14 August 1944 – 23 May 2008) a Sahitya Akademi Awardee was an eminent translator in Telugu Literature. She was actively involved in Translating various works of celebrated author and playwright Girish Karnad. Her most famous works include Noorella Panta a compilation of one hundred short stories by women writers of twentieth century is acclaimed as a landmark in Telugu literature. She died due to a heart attack on 23 May 2008 in Hyderabad.
Taichi Kokubun.  Taichi Kokubun (国分 太一 Kokubun Taichi born September 2 1974) is a Japanese keyboardist and actor. He plays keyboard for Tokio a Johnny & Associates musical group.
Gonjasufi.  Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks in 1978) is an American musician disc jockey actor and yoga teacher.
Lee MacLeod.  Lee MacLeod (born May 16 1953 Los Angeles California) is an illustrator. He is probably best known for doing the cover illstration for the Spooksville series by Christopher Pike.
Tomas Venclova.  Tomas Venclova (born September 11 1937 Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian poet prose writer scholar and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of Lithuanian Helsinki group. In 1977 following his dissident activities he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980 he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University.
Ivy Close.  Ivy Close (15 June 1890 – 4 December 1968) was a British actress. She acted in 44 films between 1912 and 1929.
Rita Bouboulidi.  Rita Bouboulidi (Greek: Ρίτα Μπουμπουλίδη) is a Greek pianist. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where she was taught by Lazare Levy. Her international career has earned great praise from critics.Template:Who?
Łukasz Targosz.  Łukasz Targosz (Polish pronunciation: [wukaʂ tarɡoʂ]; born 20 February 1977 in Cracow) is a Polish film composer music and film producer. A graduate from The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Jazz and Pop Music Department) in 2002.He started his career as a session musician. After writing music for a movie entitled The Crown Witness he gained recognition.
Linda Hoyle.  Linda Hoyle was the vocalist of English jazz-rock band Affinity. Her singing style combines rock blues soul and jazz. Her brief musical career and the fact of non-commercial play caused her music to be obscure.She played with Affinity from 1968 to 1971. In 1970 the band produced the album Affinity that had positive critical reviews.
Asencio.  Henry Asencio (born 1971 in Los Angeles) is an award-winning contemporary American painter who works largely in the medium of oil on canvas. Asencio is widely known for his paintings of the female form on abstract backgrounds. His works’ “personal investigations of femininity spirituality and abstraction possess the power to transform today’s ideals of contemporary sensuality and simple elegance”
Fred Below.  Fred Below (September 16 1926 – August 14 1988) was an American blues drummer best known for his work with Little Walter and Chess Records in the 1950s. According to Tony Russell Below was creator of much of the rhythmic structure of Chicago blues especially its backbeat.
Katharine Carl.  Katharine Augusta Carl (1865–1938) (sometimes spelled Katherine Carl) was an American portrait painter and author. She made paintings of notable and royal people in the United States Europe and Asia. She spent nine months in China in 1903 painting a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the St. Louis Exposition. On her return to America she published a book about her experience titled With the Empress Dowager.
Odilon Redon.  Odilon Redon (born Bertrand-Jean Redon; French: [ʁədɔ̃]; April 20 1840 – July 6 1916) was a French symbolist painter printmaker draughtsman and pastellist.
Rha Goddess.  Rha Goddess is a hip-hop artist and playwright who coined the term floetry and independently released a solo album Soulah Vibe in 2000. Rha Goddess has collaborated with artists like Zulu Nation The Last Poets and Chuck D. She began writing poems and journals when her mother died of stomach cancer in 1995; her death was followed by the deaths of a family friend an uncle and two young men from her community.
Emilie Poulsson.  Anne Emilie Poulsson (1853 – 1939) was an American children's author and campaigner for early childhood education and the kindergarten movement.Poulsson was born in Cedar Grove New Jersey on September 8 1853 the daughter of Halvor and Ruth Anne (Mitchell) Poulsson. She later worked from Boston Massachusetts.
Kalpakam Swaminathan.  Kalpakam Swaminathan (15 August 1922 – 6 April 2011) was a vainika (veena player) of Carnatic music.
MSN Murthy.  MSN Murthy (Mutnuri Srinivasa Narasimha Murthy - मुट्नूरि श्रीनिवास नरसिम्ह मूर्ति in Devanagari) is an eminent Carnatic Music violinist. He has been winning high degree of critical acclaim for his purity of style fine aesthetic sense powerful sound flawless execution and complete command over the instrument.
Philip Sutton (artist).  Philip Sutton (born 20 October 1928 in Poole Dorset) is a British artist active since the 1950s best known for large and highly coloured paintings of landscape flowers and people.
George Gipe.  George Gipe (February 3 1933 in Boston Massachusetts – September 6 1986 in Glendale California) was an American magazine writer author and screenwriter. Gipe died at the age of 53 as the result of an allergic reaction to a bee sting.
Alain Cuny.  Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor.He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo Brittany and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s. Among his most notable films are Les Visiteurs du soir (1942) Les Amants (The Lovers 1958); La Dolce Vita (1960) and Satyricon (1969) the later two directed by Federico Fellini.
Julian Gough.  Julian Gough (born in 1966) is an Irish novelist.His first novel Juno & Juliet was published in 2001 by Flamingo almost a decade after Gough sung and wrote lyrics for the Irish 1980s cult group Toasted Heretic. His second novel Jude: Level 1 was published in 2007 at Old Street Publishing shortly after he won the 2007 National Short Story Award for the book's first chapter titled The Orphan and the Mob.
Chuck Comeau.  Charles-André Chuck Comeau (born September 17 1979) is a French Canadian musician who is best known as the drummer for pop punk band Simple Plan.
Thom Merrick.  Thom Merrick (January 1 1963 in Sacramento California) is an American artist. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute and emerged in the mid 1980s represented by pioneer gallerists Colin de Land (b. 1955–2003) and Pat Hearn (b. 1955 - d. 2000) in New York City. He exhibited throughout Europe represented by the prominent minimalist art dealer and collector Rolf Ricke in Cologne and by the conceptual Galerie Susanna Kulli in St.
Francis Burke (Franciscan).  Francis Burke O.F.M. (died 1697) was an Irish Franciscan friar and writer.Born in Galway sometime early in the 17th century Burke was among those expelled from the local Franciscan convent in 1652. He died in Italy in 1697. His only known work Directorium Concionatorium I and II was published in Prague in 1690.
Fred Williams.  Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams OBE (23 January 1927 – 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than seventy solo exhibitions during his career in Australian galleries as well as the exhibition Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977.
Fereydoon Motamed.  Amir Fereydoon Motamed (AKA Amir Fereydoon Motamed or Fereydoon H. Motamed) 1917–1993 was an internationally known professor and linguist winner of the Louis de Broglie award from the Académie française and recipient of literary award Le Grand Prix Littéraire d'Iran from Writer's Association of French Language.Fereydoon was son of an Iranian surgeon Dr.
Sandrone Dazieri.  Sandrone Dazieri (born November 4 1964) is a popular Italian crime writer. His most famous work is the Gorilla series an episode of which was also dramatized as a television film.
George Lynch (musician).  George Lynch (born September 28 1954) is an American hard rock guitarist and songwriter. Lynch is best known for his work with the bands Dokken Lynch Mob and Souls of We. He is ranked #68 in 100 greatest guitarists of all time by Guitar World magazine.
Aka Morchiladze.  Aka Morchiladze (Georgian: აკა მორჩილაძე) is the pen name of Giorgi Akhvlediani (გიორგი ახვლედიანი) (born November 10 1966) a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literature. Morchiladze’s work shows Georgian literature's reorientation in the early 21st century toward Western influences.Born in Tbilisi Morchiladze graduated in 1988 from the Department of History Tbilisi State University where he has since taught.
Ralph Macchio (comics).  Ralph Macchio (born December 28) is an American comic book editor and writer who has held many positions at Marvel Comics including executive editor. Macchio is commonly associated with Daredevil the Spider-Man line of comics and the Ultimate Marvel line.Macchio is not related to the actor Ralph Macchio but is nicknamed Karate Kid after that actor's famous role.
Bruce Conforth.  Bruce Michael Conforth (born approximately half way through the 20th century in Paterson New Jersey) was the first curator of Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is presently a lecturer of American Culture at the University of Michigan.
Helen Boulding.  Helen Boulding is a London-based singer-songwriter originally from Sheffield South Yorkshire UK. Her first album New Red Dress was released in February 2008.
Peter Murphy (artist).  Peter Murphy (born 1959) is an English artist working in traditional egg tempera and gold leaf techniques and a member of the Stuckist art movement.
May Stevens.  May Stevens (born June 9 1924) is an American feminist artist political activist educator and writer. Major works include: Freedom Riders (1963) Big Daddy series (1968–1976) Ordinary/Extraordinary (1976) and SoHo Women Artists (1978). In 1977 she was one of the featured artists discussed in a seminar given by Jacqueline Moss at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The seminar was titled The Women's Movement: Iconography Esthetics.
Kate Roberts (author).  Kate Roberts (13 February 1891 – 4 April 1985) was one of the foremost Welsh-language authors of the twentieth century. Known as Brenhines ein llên (The queen of our literature) she is known mainly for her short stories but she also wrote novels. Roberts was also a prominent Welsh nationalist.
Raul Malo.  Raúl Francisco Martínez-Malo Jr. (born August 7 1965 Miami Florida) known professionally as Raúl Malo is an American singer songwriter guitarist and record producer. He is the lead singer of country music band The Mavericks and the co-writer of many of their singles as well as Rick Trevino's 2003 single In My Dreams. After the disbanding of The Mavericks in the early 2000s Malo pursued a solo career. He has also participated from 2001 in the Los Super Seven supergroup.
Wolf Kahn.  Wolf Kahn (born October 4 1927) is a German-born American painter. Kahn is known for his combination of realism and Color Field and known to work in pastel and oil paint. He studied under Hans Hofmann and also graduated from the University of Chicago. Kahn is a resident of both New York City and during the summer and autumn West Brattleboro Vermont.
Trevor Bolder.  Trevor Bolder (9 June 1950 – 21 May 2013) was an English rock bassist musician songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his tenure with The Spiders from Mars the one-time backing band for David Bowie although he also played alongside a variety of musicians from the early 1970s.
Claire Johnston (musician).  Claire Johnston is a singer best known as the face and voice of Mango Groove. Born in the United Kingdom she has been a South African resident for most of her life. At age ten Claire debuted as an actor dancer and singer in the Johannesburg production of the musical Annie. During her senior high school year she joined the crossover band Mango Groove and has been a symbol of the Rainbow Nation ever since.
Müzeyyen Senar.  Müzeyyen Senar (born July 16 1918) is a Turkish classical music performer known as the Diva of the Republic.
François Corteggiani.  François Corteggiani (born 1953) is a French comics artist and writer.
Davide Fabbri.  Davide Fabbri is a comic book artist. He has worked mainly for Dark Horse Comics on various Star Wars series. Also worked for Dynamite and recently for DC Comics.In 2010 he worked on Victorian Undead written by Ian Edginton for Wildstorm. This series pitted Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson against a legion of undead zombies.
Dieter Borst.  Dieter Borst (born 12 May 1950) is a German painter and sculptor of 20th century art.
Lis Sørensen.  Lis Sørensen born 28 May 1955 in Brabrand Aarhus is a Danish singer. In the 1970s she worked with Anne Linnet in Shit & Chanel and Anne Linnet Band. In 1983 she released her first solo album.
Dominic John.  Dominic John (born 1980) is a British pianist.John began piano lessons with his mother. He studied with Patsy Toh at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and with John Barstow and Andrew Ball at the Royal College of Music. He held the Royal College of Music Society Junior Fellowship from 2004-2006. He is active as a soloist member of various chamber ensembles and accompanist to singers and instrumentalists.
Marcus Mumford.  Marcus Oliver Johnstone Mumford (born 31 January 1987) is an English musician best known as the lead singer of the band Mumford & Sons. He also plays a number of instruments with the group including guitar drums and mandolin.
Neeraj Goswami.  Neeraj Goswami (Devanagari: नीरज गोस्वामी) born in Patna in 1964 is an Indian Artist. He is a prominent Indian contemporary painter and sculptor. Neeraj has made the medium of oils his own achieving a brilliance and vibrancy that is outstanding. Using tones of Celadon Porcelain and Onyx Styrations Neeraj Goswami gives his canvases a gentle radiance. His paintings glow like precious stones with translucence rarely seen.
Eunice White Beecher.  Eunice White Beecher (born in West Sutton Massachusetts 26 August 1812; died in Stamford Connecticut 8 March 1897) was a United States author.
Ivy Pochoda.  Ivy Claire Pochoda (born January 22 1977) is an American novelist and former professional squash player. Pochoda grew up in Brooklyn New York where she attended Saint Ann's School. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband filmmaker and screenwriter Justin Nowell.
John Bauer (potter).  John Bauer (b. 6 January 1978) one of South Africa’s most original and technically inventive ceramists lives and works in Harfield Village (Cape Town South Africa). A fecund and obsessive maker his home revolves around his studio and his work spills into every room virtually filling the entire space.
Iimani David.  Iimani David (born December 15 1969) is an American author of literary fiction. His novels and short stories often branded as an extreme form of impressionism are known for their sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical bent.
Bartolomeo di Tommaso.  Bartolomeo di Tommaso also known as Bartolomeo da Foligno (born in Foligno c. 1400s active by 1425 died 1453/54) was an Italian painter of the Umbro-Sienese school.
Gianfranco Bortolotti.  Gianfranco Bortolotti is an Italian producer and manager of Media Records and Media Studio. He was a member of Cappella who had several hits and Fits of Gloom who had a UK #47 hit with Heaven and a UK #49 hit with The Power of Love featuring Lizzy Mack.Originally becoming a DJ to supplement his university days he helped distribute records for DJ Pierre and after scoring a few minor hits re-invested money back into the Media Records.
Michael Falzon (actor).  Michael Falzon (born 16 May 1972) is a Sydney born Australian musical theatre/rock tenor actor and producer - running his own production company Good Egg Creative He is known primarily for his roles in Rock of Ages; Jeff Waynes Musical Version of The War of The Worlds; and Hedwig and The Angry Inch.
Frank Hutchison.  Frank Hutchison (March 20 1891 – November 9 1945) was an American early country blues and Piedmont blues musician and songwriter. Hutchison was best known as a slide guitar player where he held the guitar in his lap.
Brian Walski.  Brian Walski is a professional photographer who was accused in 2003 of altering a news photograph which he later admitted to. Until the incident he was a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. Previously he had won the California Press Photographers Association's 2001 Photographer of the Year.
Billy Wright (musician).  Billy Wright (May 21 1932 – October 28 1991) was an American jump blues singer.
Hans Stefan Santesson.  Hans Stefan Santesson (born 8 July 1914 in Paris France died 18 February 1975) was an American editor writer and reviewer.
Sensi Pearl.  Sensi Pearl is a former American pornographic actress and model.
Cisco Adler.  Cisco Sam Adler (born September 6 1978) is an American musician and former frontman for the band Whitestarr.
Asami Abe.  Asami Abe (安倍 麻美 Abe Asami) (born February 27 1985 in Muroran Hokkaidō Japan) is a former Japanese singer and actress also known as the younger sister of pop idol Natsumi Abe. She started her career doing commercials for Nintendo Puzzle Collection and she has also appeared in a few TV dramas.
Kenneth S. Stern.  Kenneth S. Stern is an American defense attorney and an author. He is director on antisemitism hate studies and extremism for the American Jewish Committee. In 2000 Stern was a special advisor to the defense in the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt trial.
Sophie Brzeska.  Sophie Suzanne Brzeska or Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1873–1925) was a Polish writer and artistic muse most noted for being the companion of sculptor/artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (a man half her age). They met in 1909 at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris and began an intense symbiotic relationship. Henri annexed her surname although they never married. Much of what scholars and historians have been able to trace about Sophie Brzeska has come from her personal correspondence with Henri.
Michele Rosewoman.  Michele Rosewoman is an American jazz pianist living in New York NY. She is most notable for her work and recordings with her Quintessence ensemble as well as her New Yor-Uba ensemble.Rosewoman has released nine albums including five with Quintessence and several trio and quartet recordings. Her New Yor-Uba ensemble featured Orlando Puntilla Rios until his death in 2008 is an Afro-Cuban jazz big band that Rosewoman founded in 1983.
Joy Esther.  Joy Esther (born 14 June 1984) is a French actress and singer.
Omid 16B.  16B or Omid 16B (real name Omid Nourizadeh) is a British-Iranian electronic music producer/composer and DJ based in London.He has performed remixes for artists including Gus Gus The Cure Steve Lawler Francois Kevorkian and John Creamer & Stephane K. He has also released several singles of his own on his Alola Disclosure and SexOnWax labels. His first album Sounds From Another Room on eye q and released his second artist album How to Live 100 Years on Hooj Choons.
Yi Ho-woo.  Yi Ho-woo (Hangul: 이호우) was a South Korean poet and journalist.
Paige Peterson (artist).  Paige Matthews Peterson (born March 19 1955 in Marin County California) is an American painter and illustrator specializing in acrylic landscapes portraits and figural images. She is the former daughter-in-law of billionaire and former US Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. She now lives and works in New York City and East Hampton Long Island. Peterson's work has been characterized as lyrical by the Philadelphia Inquirer and spare but evocative by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Duke Henderson.  Duke Henderson (died 1972) born Sylvester C. Henderson was an American blues shouter and jazz singer in the mid-1940s. His styles included West Coast blues and jump blues. In the late 1940s he renounced his past and began broadcasting as a minister and gospel DJ. He eventually became a preacher.
Daniel E. Gawthrop.  Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949 in Fort Wayne Indiana) is an American composer primarily of choral music. His output also includes a substantial body of works for the organ as well as orchestral and instrumental works. He has been the recipient of over one hundred commissions to write original music. His works have been published by Dunstan House Warner Brothers Theodore Presser Sacred Music Press and others.
Grimes (musician).  Claire Boucher (born March 17 1988)[citation needed] better known by her stage name Grimes is a Canadian producer artist musician singer-songwriter and music video director. Born and raised in Vancouver Grimes began recording experimental music while attending McGill University in Montréal where she became involved with the underground music scene.In 2010 she released her debut album Geidi Primes on Arbutus Records (based in Montréal Québec) followed by Halfaxa (2010).
Antonino Russo Giusti.  Antonino Russo Giusti (Catania February 23 1876 - September 28 1957) was an Italian dramatist.After passing his youth in Belpasso Giusti studied the classics at Catania before taking his diploma in jurisprudence upon completion of which he dedicated himself to forensics.
Bada (singer).  Bada (Hangul: 바다 born February 28 1980) is a South Korean singer and musical actress. Her birth name is Choi Sung-hee (최성희). Bada studied theater at Dankook University. The former lead vocal of the now-defunct S.E.S. Bada has released four solo albums and three singles. She won Best Actress at the 3rd The Musical Awards and has starred in eight musicals to date.
Roderick Gordon.  Roderick Gordon (born November 1960) is the author of Tunnels a bestselling children's book and the first book in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.
Richard Prince.  Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975. His image Untitled (Cowboy) a rephotograph of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement was the first rephotograph to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005.Starting in 1977 Prince photographed four photographs which previously appeared in the New York Times.
Dave Gaynor.  Dave Gaynor is a drummer who once played for the band Girl. He played on Girl's first album Sheer Greed. He was replaced by Pete Barnacle for Girl's next album Wasted Youth.
Chris Jagger.  Chris Jagger (born 19 December 1947 in Dartford Kent) is an English musician. He is the younger brother of Mick Jagger.Jagger released his first two albums in 1973 and 1974 but remained in the shadow of his elder brother.
Sunil Padwal.  Sunil Padwal (born November 17 1968) is a renowned Indian painter based in Mumbai India. He was born in Jaswali near Shrivardhan MaharashtraIndia. He had done the BFA foundation from Sir J. J. School of Art Mumbai in (1986) and then completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir J. J.
Jason Downs.  Jason Wright Downs (born September 8 1973 Columbia Maryland) is an American singer of Cherokee Dutch Irish and Scottish descent. He has released two albums on Jive Records White Boy With a Feather and The Spin. He has also released White Boy With a Feather Revenue Cherokee Trippin' Shut Up (Let's Hook Up) and the remake of the Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle as CD singles. His single White Boy with a Feather debuted at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart.
Anna Tatangelo.  Anna Tatangelo (born 9 January 1987) is an Italian pop singer. At the age of 15 she became the youngest person to win the Newcomer's Award at the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival singing contest.Her repertoire consists mainly of pop music (with slight influences of neo-melodic in some of the songs composed for her by singer Gigi D'Alessio) but also in the fifth fusion albums Progetto B.
Jim Garver.  James Jim Garver is a country music guitarist. Garver is credited with naming the bar The Oaisis (after a closed establishment in his hometown of Concordia Kansas) in the song Friends in Low Places made famous by Garth Brooks. Garver toured extensively with Brooks and as of 2012 Garver has been credited with 25 different albums with roles ranging from musician to composer.
Mark Poirier.  Mark Jude Poirier is a contemporary American novelist short fiction writer and screenwriter whose work often is set in the Southwestern United States.
Plies (rapper).  Algernod Lanier Washington (born July 1 1976) better known by his stage name Plies is an American rapper. He is the founder of Big Gates Records. Born in Fort Myers Florida Washington was a wide receiver on the football team of Miami University in Ohio in 1996 and 1997 before he became a rapper. After dropping out of college he founded Big Gates with his stepbrother. Signed to Slip-n-Slide Records from 2007 to 2008 he released three albums.
Maffeo Verona.  Maffeo Verona (1576–1618) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance. He was born at Verona in 1576 and was a pupil of Luigi Benfatto but derived more advantage from the works of his kinsman Paolo Veronese than from his master. He is said to have painted with uncommon celerity. Many of his works exist in the public buildings of Venice among them a Christ bearing His Cross and a Crucifixion in the chapel dedicated to St. Isidoro in the St. Mark's Basilica.
Johnny Dowd.  Johnny Dowd (born March 29 1948 in Fort Worth Texas) is an American alternative country musician from Ithaca New York. Typical of his style are experimental noisy breaks in his songs and strong gothic (in the sense of dark and gloomy) elements in the lyrics as well as in the music. There is also a strong undercurrent of black humor and the absurd in his work.Although his early albums were most celebrated in the alternative country community he has never quite fit into any particular genre.
Theodor Storm.  Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (14 September 1817 – 4 July 1888) commonly known as Theodor Storm was a German writer.
Nat King Cole.  Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17 1919 – February 15 1965) known professionally as Nat King Cole was an American singer and musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft baritone voice which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show The Nat King Cole Show and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in February 1965.
Mick Paynter.  Michael Kenneth (Mick) Paynter (born 1948 Cornwall United Kingdom) is a Cornish civil servant trade union activist and poet.
Nash brothers.  The Nash brothers were two British artists Paul Nash (May 11 1889 – July 11 1946) and John Nash (11 April 1893 – 23 September 1977). Both were noted war artists.
Peter Foy.  Peter Foy (11 June 1925 – 17 February 2005) was the stage flying effects specialist who founded Flying by Foy most widely known for its work flying actors in the play Peter Pan.Born in London England he began in show business as a child actor and in one of his roles (as a Sea Witch in Where the Rainbow Ends) was called upon to fly.
Andy Nicholls.  Andy Nicholls (born 1962) is an English former football hooligan manager and author of a number of books on football hooliganism. He has been banned from every ground in England and Wales. He is banned from for life from the home ground of the team he supports Everton Goodison Park. and has served three months in prison for football related violence. Nowadays Nicholls spends a lot of time on social media where he is a known keyboard warrior. .
Velapene Screen.  Velapene Screen or simply Velapene is an electronic musician Chris Ghiraldi. based in Los Angeles New York and more recently Las Vegas. Velapene began releasing electronic music officially at the age of 24. However he purchased his first drum machine at the age of 14.
Eric Goldberg (artist).  Eric Goldberg (1890–1969) was a Jewish-Canadian painter born in 1890 in Berlin Germany. Goldberg was influenced by the art of Pierre-Auguste Renoir at an early age.
Billy Chung.  Billy Cheung is a Hong Kong-based director.
Frank Capp.  Frank Capp (born August 20 1931) is an American jazz drummer.
Joseph Israel (musician).  Joseph Israel is an American Spiritually Enlightened reggae musician. Born Joseph Montgomery Fennel in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1977 he is currently based in California.Mixing Rock Jazz and Folk to a Rockers Reggae Bass Joseph Israel is a musician who knows the past with an eye on the future.” Relix Magazine Jan 2008 “Message Music delivered with the energy of youth and a Faith that eschews all boundaries.” Beat Magazine Vol.26 2007 May 20 2008.
Jacques Tarride.  Jacques Tarride (1903–1994) was a French actor. He was the son of the actor Abel Tarride and the brother of the director Jean Tarride.
Karise Eden.  Karise Eden (born 11 July 1992) is an Australian singer-songwriter and the winner of the first series of The Voice (Australia) in 2012. She subsequently signed with Universal Music Australia and released her debut single You Won't Let Me. It was one of the four songs recorded by Eden that entered the ARIA Singles Chart top five during the week of 25 June 2012. She became the first artist to achieve this feat since The Beatles who held the top six positions of the chart in 1964.
Elena Ferretti.  Elena Ferretti (born 1960 in San Donato Milanese Italy) better known as Sophie or Rose is an Italian Eurobeat and Italo disco singer. She has performed and recorded for many record labels under many aliases. Her music was produced by various well-known Italian producers namely Giacomo Maiolini Mauro Farina Sergio Dall'Ora and Giancarlo Pasquini.She often collaborated with Clara Moroni who wrote many of her compositions.
Samuel Bookatz.  Samuel Bookatz (October 3 1910 – November 16 2009) was a prolific painter who defied the demands of his blue collar Orthodox Jewish upbringing to study art in the United States and Europe. Bookatz painted in a variety of styles: for commissions with presidential military political and civic portraits; for murals during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Federal Art Project; for religious and secular frescoes; and mostly for his own vision.
Dave McCaig.  Dave McCaig is a Canadian artist and colourist who also works in the animation industry.Comics he has worked on include Adam Strange X-Men Star Wars Superman: Birthright The Matrix Comics Nextwave New Avengers Northlanders American Vampire and Nemesis.
George R. R. Martin.  George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20 1948) often referred to as GRRM is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy horror and science fiction genres as well as a screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones.
Thomas Russell (painter).  Thomas Russell (August 14 1895 – March 9 1958) was an American painter.
Mike Brewer (musician).  Michael Brewer (born April 14 1944) in Oklahoma City Oklahoma) is an American musician. He and Tom Shipley were the popular music duo Brewer & Shipley.Mike Brewer formed a duo in Los Angeles during early 1966 named Mastin & Brewer with singer/songwriter Tom Mastin. The group recruited drummer Billy Mundi and bass guitar player Jim Fielder for live performances opening for The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield during spring 1966.
Richard Setlowe.  Richard Setlowe Richard Setlowe is an American author and journalist best known for his suspense novels which have enjoyed critical and academic recognition. His early career as a Navy officer in the Far East and a fascination with technology inform his thrillers. The Brink published in 1976 was acclaimed as the classic novel of the Era of Undeclared War and was a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for First Novels.
Lodewijk Mortelmans.  Lodewijk Mortelmans (5 February 1868 Antwerp – 24 June 1952 Antwerp) was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. Sometimes called de Vlaamse Brahms (the Flemish Brahms) Mortelmans composed in a number of forms including piano music and orchestral works but he was most celebrated in his day for his art songs. Beginning in 1899 he often set the poetry of the priest Guido Gezelle.
Tommaso Salini.  Tommaso Salini (1575–1625) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period active in Rome. He is best remembered for defending his friend Giovanni Baglione in his libel suit against Caravaggio and other painters in his circle. Baglioni describes his still life paintings. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1605.
Zia Fariduddin Dagar.  Zia Fariduddin Dagar (15 June 1932 - 8 May 2013) was an Indian classical vocalist in the Dhrupad the oldest existing form of north Indian classical music (Hindustani classical music) and part of the Dagar family of musicians. He taught at the Dhrupad Kendra Bhopal along with his elder brother Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar for 25 years.He was awarded the 1994 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Hindustani music-Vocal by Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy of Music Dance and Drama.
So Yamamura.  So Yamamura (山村聰 Yamamura Sō 24 February 1910 – 26 May 2000) was a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1947 and 1991 and directed four films. He was also known by the name Satoshi Yamamura while his actual birth name is Koga Hirosada.
Eduardo Rodríguez Rodway.  Eduardo Rodríguez Rodway (born in Seville in 1945) is a Spanish singer and musician guitarist of the rock band Triana.
Lambil.  Lambil (born 14 May 1936) is a Belgian comic-book artist best known for the series Les Tuniques Bleues which has been published in English as The Blue Tunics and The Bluecoats.
Ami Suzuki.  Ami Suzuki (鈴木亜美 Suzuki Ami born February 9 1982) is a Japanese recording artist actress and DJ from Zama Kanagawa Japan. Having been discovered at the talent TV show Asayan she was one of the most popular female teen idol in the late 1990s. However in 2000 Suzuki faced legal problems with her management company resulting in a controversial blacklisting from the entertainment industry.
Noite Ilustrada.  Mário Sousa Marques Filho better known as Noite Ilustrada (April 10 1928 – July 28 2003) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.The nickname was given by Zé Trindade who commanded the musical revue Noite Ilustrada in Além Paraíba Minas Gerais where the young Mario began his career as a guitarist.
Margaret Bakkes.  Margaret Bakkes (born 14 December 1931) is a noted South African writer. She is married to historian Cas Bakkes and is the mother of four children: Johannes Marius Matilde and Christiaan. Two of her children C. Johan Bakkes and Christiaan Bakkes have become writers as well.She has written over thirty books and short stories.
Mausami Gurung.  Mausami Gurung (Nepali: मौसमी गुरुङ) is a singer song-writer of Nepal.
Jonathan Nolan.  Jonathan Jonah Nolan (born 1976) is a British-American television writer producer screenwriter and author. He is the creator of the crime drama series Person of Interest and he has co-written several screenplays with his brother filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
James Michael Newell.  James Michael Newell (February 21 1900 – December 1985) was a gold medaled WPA artist best known for his fresco murals. He was born in Carnegie Pennsylvania into a large Irish family. His birth name was James Erbin Newell but he changed it when becoming an artist. He had one child with his first wife Emma Greaves. His daughter Patricia Ann Newell was born in 1927.
William Johnson (artist).  </font>William Henry Johnson (March 18 1901–1970) was an African-American painter born in Florence South Carolina. He became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York. His style evolved from realism to expressionism to a powerful folk style (for which he is best known).
Ken Sutherland.  Ken Sutherland (born 1939) is a composer lyricist playwright and artist who has written songs and scores for a number of movies including the award-winning Savannah Smiles.
Jim Cooper (musician).  Jim Cooper (born in Princeton Indiana) is a contemporary Christian musician songwriter and producer.Cooper studied at Temple Christian Academy in his hometown. Jim Cooper got his feet wet with Jody Davis (who went on to play guitar in the Newsboys) with the band Phos Also in the Band was a lead singer by the name of Gary. Towards the end of Phos the drummer of David and the Giants Keith Thibodeaux joined Phos.
Rick Allen (drummer).  Richard John Cyril Rick Allen (born 1 November 1963) is the drummer for the English hard rock band Def Leppard. He is famous for overcoming the complete amputation of his left arm and continuing to play with the band which subsequently went on to its greatest popular success worldwide. His fans now call him the Thunder God.
Ingrid Søfteland Neset.  Ingrid Søfteland Neset (born 1992 in Os Hordaland) is an award winning Norwegian Classical flautist living in Copenhagen. She is the daughter of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (b. 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (b. 1961) and the sister of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset (b. 1987) and jazz saxophonist Marius Søfteland Neset (b. 1985).
Ivana Chubbuck.  Ivana Chubbuck is an acting coach and author. She is the founder and director of the Ivana Chubbuck Studio.
William Hawte.  Sir William Hawte (sometimes spelled Haute or Haut) (fl. 1460 – 1470) was an English composer about whom little is known. He was knighted in 1465 and is represented in a number of manuscript choirbooks that survive to this day. A setting of the Benedicamus may be found in the Pepys Manuscript and a number of his works including a Stella coeli exist in the Ritson Manuscript.
Skip Woods.  Skip Woods (born December 4 1970) is an American screenwriter producer and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for Swordfish and the film adaptation of the Hitman video game series. He lives in Austin Texas.Woods is also a partner in Wetwork Tactical LLC – a weapons handling and tactics consulting firm – with former Army Special Forces member Jimmy Littlefield.
Charles Dera.  Charles Dera is an American pornographic actor dancer model former United States Marine and MMA fighter. He has performed in dozens of straight pornographic movies.
Machiko Kawana.  Machiko Kawana (川名 真知子 Kawana Machiko born September 30 1983) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo affiliated with Aoni Production. She is best known for her role of Kaoru Matsubara/Powered Buttercup in the Powerpuff Girls Z.
Angèle Arsenault.  Angèle Arsenault OC OPEI (October 1 1943 – February 25 2014) was an acclaimed Canadian-Acadian singer songwriter and media host.
Pasi Koskinen.  Pasi Koskinen (born 1972) is a Finnish metal vocalist best known for his work with the band Amorphis from 1995 to 2004. Koskinen also played in Shape of Despair from 2001 to 2010 and in St.Mucus (now Am I Blood) which he founded from 1992 to 1995. He is currently the vocalist for three active bands: Mannhai Ajattara (under the alias I. Ruoja Suruntuoja) and To Separate the Flesh from the Bones (under the alias Herr Arschstein).
Denis Matsuev.  Denis Leonidovich Matsuev (Russian: Дени́с Леони́дович Мацу́ев born June 11 1975) is a Russian award-winning classical pianist. He appeared in hundreds of recitals in the most prestigious concert halls worldwide and collaborated with the world's best known symphony orchestras.
Justin Welch.  Justin Steven Welch (born 4 December 1972) is an English musician best known as the drummer in Elastica.Welch moved to London in his late teens and studied at London's Drumtech drum school.
Paal Nilssen-Love.  Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974 in Molde Norway) is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.
Gotlib.  Gotlib (born Marcel Gotlieb July 14 1934) is a French comics artist/writer and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded L' Écho des Savanes and Fluide Glacial Gotlib was one of the key figures in the switch in French-language comics from their children's entertainment roots to an adult tone and readership. His series include La Rubrique-à-Brac Gai-Luron Superdupont and Hamster Jovial.
Ryan Lewis.  Ryan Lewis (born March 25 1988) is an American producer musician and DJ. Along with producing his own album titled Instrumentals Lewis produced the albums The VS. EP (2009) and The Heist (2012).
Wes Abbott.  Wes Abbott is an artist who has worked as a letterer in comic books.
Aseem Trivedi.  Aseem Trivedi (born 17 February 1987) is a controversial Indian political cartoonist and activist best known for his anti corruption campaign Cartoons Against Corruption. He is a founder member of Save Your Voice a movement against internet censorship in India.
Henry Chalfant.  Henry Chalfant (born January 2 1940 in Sewickley Pennsylvania United States) is an American photographer and videographer most notable for his work on graffiti breakdance and hip hop culture. His photos are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Mucho Muchacho.  Mucho Muchacho also called Mucho Mu is the pseudonym of Oliver Gallego Sarmiento MC of Barcelona born in 1976 member of the group 7 Notas 7 Colores and that founded on 2003 the musical seal C.R.E.A.M. under which it published his only LP in solitaire like MC Chulería.
Sybil Gibson.  Sybil Gibson (February 18 1908 – January 2 1995) was an American painter. Born Sybil Aaron in Dora Alabama her father was a wealthy coal mine owner and farmer. She was educated at Jacksonville State Teachers College earning a B.S. in Elementary Education before going on to become a teacher. The Estate of Sybil Gibson is represented by Woodward Gallery.
Morteza Mahjubi.  Morteza Mahjubi (1900 – 21 March 1965) was an Iranian pianist and composer. He was a piano soloist for the Golha radio programme.
Devin Davis.  Devin Davis is a Chicago based American indie musician. Growing up in Clinton Iowa he started playing music when he was five years old; from the piano to the saxophone and guitar Devin tried his hand at numerous musical styles soon graduating to first a drumming role in a Marching Band and later a band called Irving Philharmonic in Jacksonville.
Paolo Mojo.  Paolo Mojo originally from St.Helens Merseyside but now based in London United Kingdom is an electronica DJ. His style incorporates the genres of house funk techno breaks electro disco and acid music. He was the mixer behind the Renaissance label's Renaissance Digital 01: Paolo Mojo which was the first DJ mix to be made exclusively for an iTunes release. He also compiled the 9th in the Balance series of DJ mix compilations released by EQ Recordings since 2001.
Leandro Díaz.  Leandro José Díaz Duarte (February 20 1928 – June 22 2013) was a Colombian vallenato music composer. He is mostly known for his ability to compose very descriptive and narrative vallenato songs despite his blindness.
Shel Silverstein.  Sheldon Allan Shel Silverstein (September 25 1930 – May 10 1999) was an American poet singer-songwriter cartoonist screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in some works. Translated into more than 30 languages his books have sold over 20 million copies.
Mattie Montgomery.  Mattie Montgomery is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and frontman in the Christian metalcore band For Today. Mattie Montgomery has been with For Today since 2007 and has released five albums with the band. In addition to his work with For Today Montgomery has his own solo gospel project named after himself in which he has released two albums and a book. He also preaches as a traveling evangelist when not recording or on tour.
Kamal Khan (singer).  Kamal Khan (born 25 April 1989) is an Bollywood playback singer. He won the reality singing competition Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar in 2010. Later he won the Zee Cine Awards Fresh Singing Talent 2012 for the song Ishq Sufiyana (Male) from the film The Dirty Picture (2012).
Laura Sullivan (composer).  Laura Sullivan is an American composer pianist and New-age music artist. She has worked with some of the most leading musicians of the industry and Grammy award winners including Nancy Rumbel Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman. Her album Love's River won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
Alvaro Guillot.  Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) was a French artist born in Uruguay.
David Siegel (musician).  David Siegel (born April 12 1973) is an American producer songwriter and musician based in South Beach Florida. He is best known for co-writing Escape recorded by Enrique Iglesias in 2002 as well as co-writing a three-times certified platinum song by the RIAA. Whatever You Like recorded by T.I.
Karolina Nowakowska.  Karolina Nowakowska (born 17 May 1982 in Warsaw) - Polish actress dancer and vocalist. Known primarily with the role of Olga in the M jak miłość. She played among others in the city law Pitbull 2 Na wspólnej Kryminalni. She is a graduate of the Higher School of Journalism M. Wankowicz and music school.
Dagmar Freuchen-Gale.  Dagmar Freuchen-Gale (1907 – March 9 1991) was a Danish illustrator author and editor.
Thomas Gallant.  Thomas Gallant is an American oboist who performs with the Adaskin String Trio as well as other chamber music groups. Gallant is managing director of MCM Artists a classical and contemporary musicians agency.
Lidia Grychtołówna.  Lidia Grychtołówna (born in Rybnik 1928) is a Polish pianist.In 1955 she was awarded the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition's 7th prize and one year later she shared the 3rd prize of the inaugural edition of the Robert Schumann Competition with Mikhail Voskresensky. She subsequently performed throughout the world and held a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Paul Reade.  Paul Reade (1943 – 7 June 1997) was an English composer. Born in Lancashire he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and worked at English National Opera as a repetiteur.Reade was active as a composer for television with credits including the series The Victorian Kitchen Garden (published in various arrangements this music continues to be played in recitals and music examinations).
Jeremy Stangroom.  Jeremy Stangroom is a British writer editor and website designer. He is an editor and co-founder with Julian Baggini of The Philosophers’ Magazine and has written and edited several philosophy books. He is also co-founder with Ophelia Benson of the website 'Butterflies and Wheels'.Stangroom was awarded a B.Sc. in sociology in 1985 from Southampton University an M.Sc in sociology in 1987 from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Ph.D.
Halca.  Halca (ハルカ Haruka born June 11 1988 in Okinawa Japan) is a Japanese musician who was elected to be the new High and Mighty Color main vocalist after Mākii's departure.It is revealed in the official site that she has a special skill in shopping and that her favorite food is the goumi and she dislikes watermelon. The site also mentions that her favorite musicians are Kurt Cobain and Brody Dalle.
Richard Loqueville.  Richard Loqueville (died Cambrai 1418) was a French Medieval and Renaissance transitionary composer. He played the harp and taught it to the son of the Duke of Bar in 1410 as well as taught plainsong to the Duke's choirboys. From 1413 he taught music at Cambrai Cathedral where he almost certainly taught Guillaume Dufay.Attributed to him are four rondeaux a ballade an isorhythmic motet in honour of the Breton saint Yvo a Marian motet and several Mass movements.
Didier Comès.  Didier Comès (11 December 1942 – 7 March 2013) was a Belgian comics artist best known for his graphic novels published in the magazine (À Suivre).
Natalia Barbu.  Natalia Barbu (born August 22 1979 in Bălţi USSR then Republic of Moldova) is a Moldovan singer who represented Moldova on the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 with the song Fight.
Jon Levin.  Jon Levin (born March 18 1966) is the current guitarist for the American heavy metal band Dokken.
Albert Becker (composer).  Albert Ernst Anton Becker (13 June 1834 – 10 January 1899) was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period.Becker was born in Quedlinburg. In 1853–1856 he studied music composition under Siegfried Dehn in Berlin. He taught on the faculty of the Akademie der Künste where his famous pupils included Johan Halvorsen and Jean Sibelius. In 1889 he was appointed conductor of the Royal cathedral choir in Berlin. He was the grandfather of composer Günter Raphael. He died in Berlin.
Ryan Bingham.  George Ryan Bingham (born March 31 1981) is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles California.After garnering critical acclaim for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun Ryan Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone Burnett on the soundtrack for the 2009 acclaimed film Crazy Heart including notably co-penning & performing the film’s award-winning theme song The Weary Kind.
Joyce Sims.  Joyce Sims (born August 6 1959 Rochester New York United States) is an American singer-songwriter. Her biggest hit single was Come into My Life which reached top-10 status in both the US Billboard R&B chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1987/8.
Roma Ryan.  Roma Shane Ryan (born 20 January in Belfast Northern Ireland) is an Irish writer poet and lyricist currently living in Artane Ireland with her husband Nicky.Ryan is the primary lyricist for the singer Enya who has stated that the importance of Roma's and Nicky's contributions are such that without them Enya would not exist.
Gar Waterman.  Gar Waterman is a sculptor based in New Haven in Connecticut who is notable for large public arts projects for public places and creations which mimic sealife. He works in marble stone bronze wood and sometimes glass. Some of his very large sculptures resemble giant insects welded together from scrap metal according to one account. He creates sculptures which often resemble creatures from the ocean and nature. He married his agent and arts organizer Thea Buxbaum in 1997.
Lady Bianca.  Lady Bianca (born August 8 1953) is an American electric blues singer songwriter and arranger. She has worked as a session singer depicted Billie Holiday on stage and since 1995 released six solo albums three of which were nominated for a Grammy Award.She is currently based in Oakland California.
Jack Hanrahan.  Jack Hanrahan (1933 – April 28 2008) was an American Emmy Award-winning comedy writer.
Mike Wead.  Mike Wead (real name Mickael Vikström) is a Swedish guitarist who lives in Stockholm. Wead contributed to heavy metal bands such as Hexenhaus Memento Mori Abstrakt Algebra The Haunted Edge of Sanity Witch Firegod Candlemass The Project Hate. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate King Diamond and bibleblack. As a guitarist in King Diamond Wead shares lead guitar duties with Andy LaRocque. Wead also works as a producer and sound engineer.
Writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero.  The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most famous bodies of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity. Cicero a Roman statesman lawyer political theorist philosopher and Roman constitutionalist lived from 106 to 43 BC. He was a Roman senator and consul (chief-magistrate) who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
Francisco Salzillo.  Francisco Salzillo y Alcaraz (21 May 1707 – 2 March 1783) was a Spanish sculptor. He is the most representative Spanish image-maker of the 18th century and one of greatest of the Baroque.[citation needed] Francisco Salzillo worked exclusively on religious themes and almost always in polychromed wood. He made hundreds of pieces that are distributed throughout the Region of Murcia and some in bordering provinces.
Alma De Groen.  Alma De Groen is an Australian dramatist. She was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to Australia when she was 24 years old.
Fredrik Skagen.  Fredrik Skagen (born 30 December 1936) is a Norwegian writer.He was born in Trondheim. He is best known for his crime fiction but is also the author of some children's books and several radio plays. His first book was published in 1968. His works have been translated into German Danish Swedish Dutch and French. Skagen has received several awards including the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 1985 and the Glass Key Award in 1996 for best Nordic crime novel.
Thomas Brewer (composer).  Thomas Brewer (1611–c. 1660) was a 17th-century composer best known for introducing the glee form. Little is known of his life. However many of his compositions have survived. Most of them are catches rounds and glees but three instrumental pieces are stored in the Oxford Music School collection.
Pablo de Rokha.  Pablo de Rokha is a Chilean poet born October 17 1894 in Licantén Chile; died September 10 1968 in Santiago Chile. He won the Chilean Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Literature Prize in 1965 and is counted among the The four greats of Chilean poetry along with Pablo Neruda Vicente Huidobro and Gabriela Mistral. He is considered an avant-garde poet and an influential figure in the poetry scene of his country.
Volkan Ş. Ediger.  Volkan Ş. Ediger (born 1953 Ereğli-Konya Turkey) scientist writer bureaucrat. Assigned as the first Energy Adviser to the President of Turkish Republic in 1998 and has worked with three presidents since then. Awarded with Sedat Simavi Social Sciences Award in 2006 for his book Neft and Petroleum in the Ottoman Empire and became one of the few scientists awarded on social sciences field.
Emory Douglas.  Emory Douglas (born May 24 1943 in Grand Rapids Michigan) worked as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. His graphic art was featured in most issues of the newspaper The Black Panther (which had a peak circulation of 139000 per week in 1970) and has become an iconic representation of the struggles of the Party during the 1960s and 1970s.
Larry D. Alexander.  Larry Dell Alexander (born May 30 1953) is an American artist Christian author and teacher from Dermott Arkansas in Chicot County. Alexander is best known for his creations of elaborate colorful and black & white pen and ink drawings in his crosshatching or hatching technique. He also received notoriety and a personal presidential thanks for his personal rendition of a Clinton Family Portrait oil painting which he gave to U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1995.
Les Vandyke.  Les Vandyke (born Yani Panakos Paraskeva Skoradalides 21 June 1931 Battersea South London England) was a popular music singer and later songwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as Johnny Worth (or John Worth) and John Worsley. Allmusic journalist Bruce Eder states Vandyke is one of those rare talents in English pop music whose songwriting success crossed several genres and eras from the end of the 1950s right into the 1970s.
Karl Backman.  Karl Backman (born 27 October 1970 Umeå) is a Swedish artist and musician.
Carroll Thompson.  Carroll Thompson (born 1960 Letchworth Hertfordshire England) is an English Lovers rock singer best known for her work in the 1980s.
Olivier Giacomotto.  Olivier Giacomotto (born 2 February 1976 in BordeauxFrance) is a French electronic music producer and disc jockey (DJ) also known as Superskank Ohmme or OG.He started his career in 1999 and first got into production by working in recording studios where he learned the use of samplers mixing desks effects computers and music software.
Roland Harvey.  Roland Bruce Harvey (11 December 1945) is an Australian children's illustrator and author. He is best known as an illustrator of children's books using pen ink and watercolour.
Jake Adam York.  Jake Adam York (August 10 1972 – December 16 2012) was an award-winning American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book Abide was released in 2014.
Edita Abdieski.  Edita Abdieski (born November 14 1984) is a Swiss pop singer. She rose to fame during the debut series of the German X Factor show which she won in November 2010.
Scott Klopfenstein.  Scott Allen Scotty Klopfenstein (born May 31 1977) is an American musician and a former member of the band Reel Big Fish. He sings and plays trumpet guitar and keyboard.Before joining Reel Big Fish Klopfenstein played trumpet in The Nuckle Brothers and trumpet and vocals in The Scholars.
Li Xiaolu.  Li Xiaolu (also known as Lulu and as Jacqueline Li) (Chinese: 李小璐; pinyin: Lǐ Xiǎolù; born 30 September 1982) is a Golden Horse award-winning Chinese actress best known for her role in Joan Chen's directing debut Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.Li was born in Beijing China.[citation needed] She recently starred in Gao Xiaosong's Rainbow (2005 along with Chen Daoming) About Love (2005 along with Takashi Tsukamoto) and Alexi Tan's Blood Brothers (2007 along with Daniel Wu Liu Ye Shu Qi and Chang Chen). 
William Groombridge (painter).  William Groombridge (1748 – 1811) was a British water-colour painter.Groombridge first appears as an exhibitor of landscapes at the Royal Academy in 1770 and continued to exhibit up to 1790. His pictures were tinted drawings and the smaller ones were neatly finished and well thought of. He was less successful in larger compositions. About 1780 he removed from London to Canterbury. He exhibited for the last time in 1790. He published a volume of Sonnets London 1789.
Beatriz Canedo Patiño.  Beatriz Canedo Patiño is Bolivian fashion designer Beatriz Canedo specializes in Alpaca-based coats and suits.
Kevin Mark Trail.  Kevin Mark Trail (born October 1980 London) is a British R&B soul reggae and hip hop singer-songwriter. He has released one album Just Living which spawned three singles Perspective D Thames and Last Night. He rose to fame however by appearing on two tracks on The Streets debut album Original Pirate Material including the hit single Let's Push Things Forward which made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.
Choo Jackson.  Choo Jackson is an American hip hop recording artist and producer. He is a Florida native from Vero Beach who later moved to Chambersburg Pennsylvania. He worked at ID Labs studio in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where he was discovered by Mac Miller who signed him to his Most Dope label. He has appeared along with his song Bikes on MTV2's on Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family.
Chiaki Morita.  Chiaki Morita (森田 樹優 Morita Chiaki born in Hokkaido on July 1 1968) is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with Across Entertainment. Her birthname was originally given in Katakana language (森田 チアキ). She has done voice roles for Anime and Video games. She also did some foreign voice-dubbing as well. She is sometimes mistaken for Japanese-Filipina professional model Chiaki Morita as they are both popular but their names differ from two letters when written in Kanji.
Bobby Sherman.  Robert Cabot Bobby Sherman Jr. (born July 22 1943) is an American singer actor and occasional songwriter who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He graduated in 1961 from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys California. Sherman attended Pierce College in Woodland Hills California.
Fam-Lay.  Nathaniel Johnson also known as Fam-Lay (born May 28 1974)[citation needed] is an American rapper from Norfolk Virginia.
Justin Lo.  Justin Lo (born 1 July 1976) is a Hong Kong American Cantopop singer-songwriter actor and record producer working in Hong Kong.
Nancy Pimental.  Nancy Marie Pimental (born May 31 1965) is an American actress and film and television writer.
Kerim Tekin.  Kerim Tekin (April 18 1975 - June 27 1998) was a Turkish pop singer and musician.
Marc Bryan-Brown.  Marc Bryan-Brown is a photographer based in Manhattan New York USA.Bryan-Brown was educated in England at the Dragon School in Oxford and Marlborough College in Wiltshire. He then attended the Rochester Institute of Technology in the USA.Bryan-Brown operates through Marc Bryan-Brown Photography. He has photographed entertainers including Whitney Houston. He has also undertaken photography for Broadway theatre productions.
Jacqui Dankworth.  Jacqui Dankworth (born 5 February 1963) is a British jazz singer. She is the daughter of the jazz musician arranger and composer Sir John Dankworth and the singer Dame Cleo Laine.
Anne Hills.  Anne Hills is an American folk singer-songwriter.Hills was born in October 1953 to a family of missionaries in India and grew up in Michigan. She studied at Interlochen where she played in a band with Chris Brubeck and Peter Erskine. In 1976 she moved to Chicago and was a co-founder of the record label Hogeye Music. After releasing a few records on Hogeye the label was bought out by Flying Fish Records in the mid-1980s.
Zamir Ali Badayuni.  Zamir Ali Badayuni (sometimes spelled Badayooni or Badaiyuni) was a well-known critic and broadcaster on the Karachi literary scene in which he played an important role through his writing and his support for new trends and younger writers. The son of Yaqoob Ali he was born 20 June 1941 in Badayun UP India and received his early education in Bombay before migrating to Pakistan.
Sidney Waugh.  Sidney Waugh (January 17 1904 - June 30 1963) was an American sculptor known for his monuments medals etched and moulded glass and architectural sculpture. Waugh was born in Amherst Massachusetts. His father Frank Waugh was a landscape architect and professor of horticulture and landscape gardening at Massachusetts State College.
Hassoum Ceesay.  Hassoum Ceesay (born 1971) is a Gambian historian writer and museum curator at the Gambia National Museum. He is one of the sharpest and most prolific Gambian historians.
Carl Michael Bellman.  Carl Michael Bellman (About this sound listen ; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish poet songwriter composer and performer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music as well as in Scandinavian literature to this day.Bellman is best known for two collections of poems set to music Fredman's songs (Fredmans sånger) and Fredman's epistles (Fredmans epistlar). Each consists of about 70 songs.
George Martin.  Sir George Henry Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926) is an English record producer arranger composer conductor audio engineer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as the Fifth Beatle in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles' original albums.
Todd Womack.  Todd Womack (born September 1 1975) is a stand-up comedian from El Paso TX. He is best known for his work on the musical parody web series The Key of Awesome. Womack lives in Brooklyn and works as a writer/performer on Barely Political.
Vidup Agrahari.  Vidup Agrahari (Born in 1969) is an Indian playback singer who is best known for his album Kaisi Ye Deewangee telecasts on Doordarshan.
Saki Seto.  Saki Seto (瀬戸 早妃 Seto Saki born 21 June 1985) is a Japanese actress gravure idol and TV personality from Sendai Miyagi Prefecture. Her most notable appearances are in Shimokita Glory Days. Seto appeared in her first movie Seoul Raiders in 2005.
Ricardo Aleman.  Ricardo Aleman (born April 25 1977) is a Mexican-American author and comedian based in New York City where he performs regularly at Comic Strip Live and was a featured comedian in their Guinness World Record 50 hour Longest Stand Up Comedy Show. He has appeared on NBC's reality television show America's Got Talent where he insulted judges David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan. Immediately after which Ricardo released his first CD entitled REALITY CD: I Am Not An Insult Comic.
Pierre Lafitte Ithurralde.  Pierre Lafitte Ithurralde (21 May 1901 – 23 February 1985) was a French Basque priest and author.
Peter Randall-Page.  Peter Randall-Page (born 1954) is a British artist. He studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1973–77.
Walter Anthony.  Walter Anthony (February 13 1872 in Stockton CA – May 1 1945 in Hollywood CA) was a screenplay titles and documentary film writer. Before Walter started writing in films he was a dramatic and musical critic for San Francisco Morning Call.
Edwin Dickinson.  Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11 1891 – December 2 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits quickly painted landscapes which he called premier coups and large hauntingly enigmatic paintings involving figures and objects painted from observation in which he invested his greatest time and concern. His drawings are also widely admired and were the subject of the first book published on his work.
Bjørn Berge.  Bjørn Berge (born in Sveio Norway on 23 September 1968) is a Norwegian guitarist and blues artist. After being name Best Musician of the Year by Dagbladet in 1998 In 2001 he won Spellemannprisen for his album Stringmachine and in 2002 for his album Illustrated Man. He also toured allover Europe gaining more popularity. He also won NBFs Bluespros in 2001.
The Vehicule Poets.  The Vehicule Poets was a collective formed in Montreal in the 1970s by poets Endre Farkas Artie Gold Tom Konyves Claudia Lapp John McAuley Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris who shared an interest in experimental American poetry and European avant-garde literature and art.
Merton Simpson.  Merton Daniel Simpson (September 20 1928 – March 9 2013) was an American abstract expressionist painter and African and tribal art collector and dealer.
Giovanni Balducci.  Giovanni Balducci called Il Cosci after his maternal uncle (c. 1560 — after 1630) was an Italian mannerist painter.
Angel Haze.  Raykeea Angel Wilson (born July 10 1991) better known by her stage name Angel Haze is an American rapper and singer signed to Universal Republic and Island Records. She was born in Detroit Michigan and grew up in the Greater Apostolic Faith. In 2012 Haze released her EP Reservation for free online she later signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records later moving to Republic Records.On August 28 2013 Haze released her first single from her debut album Echelon (It's My Way).
Máiréad Carlin.  Máiréad Carlin is an Irish singer and a member of the ensemble Celtic Woman.
Alfio Giuffrida.  Giuffrida Alfio (born 28 January 1953 in Zafferana Etnea) is a contemporary Italian sculptor object and installation artist set designer and painter. He is one of the artists who consciously refused to bow down to the current trends in order to create a highly distinct coherent piece of work.
Nocturno Culto.  Ted Skjellum (born 4 March 1972 in Kolbotn Oppegård) also known by the stage names Nocturno Culto Nocturno or Kveldulv is a Norwegian musician best known as the vocalist lead guitarist and partial bassist (shared with Fenriz) of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher and has a son and a daughter.
Britney Amber.  Britney Amber (born November 10 1986 in Banning California) is an American pornographic actress and feature dancer.
Charlie Louvin.  Charles Elzer Loudermilk (July 7 1927 – January 26 2011) known professionally as Charlie Louvin was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known as one of the Louvin Brothers and was a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1955.
Ernest Hemingway.  Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 – July 2 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels six short story collections and two non-fiction works.
Patrick Bonfrisco.  Patrick Bonfrisco is a drummer based out of Orange County CA. He has recorded and performed with several bands most notably enewetak joining the band in 1995 following the departure of original drumemr Ben Fall. He remained an active member until enewetak disbanded in 2004.
Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam.  Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam is an eminent Carnatic music vocalist. As a student and performer of classical music for over three decades she has performed extensively in India and abroad since the age of twelve. She has conducted numerous workshops and lecture demonstrations on the various aspects of Carnatic Music. She has presented papers at international conferences in many countries over the last decade. She is a serious researcher of music.
Craig Spangenberg.  Craig Spangenberg (18 Feb. 1914-17 March 1998) was a nationally-renowned trial attorney who founded the law firm now known as Spangenberg Shibley & Liber in Cleveland Ohio.
Duncan Gifford.  Duncan George Gifford (born 26 November 1972) is an Australian-born award-winning concert pianist and teacher. He has been a professor of piano at the Conservatory of Palma in Majorca since 2006. Musica Viva describes him as a major artist of his generation. The Sydney Morning Herald described him as a virtuosic and musically eloquent soloist.
Gil de Siloé.  Gil de Siloé (Antwerp? 1440s – Burgos 1501) was a Castilian sculptor of Flemish origin who worked in Burgos in a late gothic or Isabelline Gothic style.His style which combines influences of the Germanic and Flemish gothic and Mudéjar is very meticulous endowed with great technical virtuosity.He was the father of an important architect and sculptor Diego de Siloe.
Natalie D-Napoleon.  Natalie D-Napoleon (born in Fremantle Western Australia) is an Australian singer/songwriter and musician. Through fronting the Perth-based ensemble Flavour of the Month she was a fore runner in the emergence of alternative country music within Australia.
Grace Beacham Freeman.  Grace Beacham Freeman (February 18 1916 – October 2002) was an American poet columnist short story writer and educator. She wrote a syndicated column At Our House from 1954 to 1964 and was named by Governor Richard Wilson Riley as the fourth South Carolina Poet Laureate from 1985 to 1986.
Torsten Amft.  Torsten Amft (born 14 January 1971 in Leipzig Germany) is a German fashion designer and artist.
Betsy Eby.  Betsy Eby (born April 3 1967) is an American encaustic painter currently residing on Vashon Island in Washington.
Ai (singer).  Ai Carina Uemura (植村 愛 カリーナ Uemura Ai Karīna born November 2 1981) known mononymously as Ai (Japanese pronunciation: [ai] stylized as AI or A.I. /eɪaɪ/) is a Japanese-American singer and songwriter. Born in Los Angeles in 1981 Ai spent her childhood in both Kagoshima Japan and Los Angeles. She debuted as a singer in 2000 later moving to Def Jam Japan and rising to fame with her album 2004 Ai.
Tanith Lee.  Tanith Lee (born 19 September 1947) is a British writer of science fiction horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories a children's picture book (Animal Castle) and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award) for her book Death's Master (1980).She also writes under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
German Sadulaev.  German Umaralievich Sadulaev (Russian: Герман Умаралиевич Садулаев born 2 February 1973) is a Chechen writer.
Joseph Serebriany.  Jasef Alexandrovich Serebriany (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Серебряный) (April 25 1907 Horodnia Chernigov Governorate – 1979 Leningrad) was a Soviet Russian painter and stage decorator who lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists People's Artist of the Russian Federation professor of the Repin Institute of Arts regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting well known for his portrait paintings.
Javier Sicilia.  Javier Sicilia (1956 Mexico City) is a poet essayist novelist and journalist in Mexico. He contributes to various print media such as the Mexico City daily La Jornada and Proceso magazine.
John Steakley.  John William Steakley Jr. (July 26 1951 – November 27 2010) was an American author best known for his science fiction writing. He published two major novels Armor (1984) and Vampire$ (1990); the latter was the basis for John Carpenter's Vampires movie. He published four short science fiction and fantasy stories.
Barney McKenna.  Bernard Noël Banjo Barney McKenna (16 December 1939 – 5 April 2012) was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He played the tenor banjo mandolin and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player.
Maurice Le Boucher.  Maurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher (25 May 1882 – 9 September 1964) was a French organist composer and pedagogue.Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904 he entered the Paris Conservatory where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré. In 1907 Le Boucher won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. Later he became professor at the École Niedermeyer and organist at St. Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris. He wrote an Organ Symphony in E major which was published in 1917 by Leduc Paris.
John Kleckner.  John Kleckner (born 1978 United States) is a painter based in Berlin Germany.Kleckner’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Deste Foundation in Athens Greece the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains (CAPC) in Bordeaux and the Royal Academy in London.
Anabel Jensen.  Dr. Anabel L. Jensen is an American educator and author best known for her work with curriculum utilizing emotional intelligence. A former director of the Nueva Learning Center in the 1980s and 1990's she became president of Six Seconds in 1997 and CEO of Synapse School in 2009. She currently is a professor at Notre Dame De Namur University.
Josiah McElheny.  Josiah McElheny (born in 1966 United States) is an artist and sculptor primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program genius grant.
Hyuna.  Kim Hyuna (Hangul: 김현아; Hanja: 金泫我/金泫雅; born June 6 1992) often performing under the mononym Hyuna stylized HyunA is a South Korean rapper singer-songwriter dancer lyricist model designer and television personality. She is best known for being the lead rapper of the Korean girl group 4Minute and musical duo Trouble Maker.Hyuna first rose to fame as the lead rapper of the Korean girl group Wonder Girls before leaving in 2007 due to issues relating to her health.
Guy Davis (comics).  Guy Davis (born 1966) is an American comic book artist primarily known for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre and various Hellboy-related comics. He has also done work for various White Wolf Inc. books as well has his own series Nevermen and The Marquis.
Archpoet.  The Archpoet (c. 1130 – c. 1165) or Archipoeta (in Latin and German) is the name given to an anonymous 12th century author of ten medieval Latin poems the most famous being his Confession found in the Carmina Burana manuscript (under CB 191).
Elizabeth Partridge.  Elizabeth Partridge (born September 1 1951) is an American writer the author of more than a dozen books from young-adult nonfiction to picture books to photography books. Her books include Marching for Freedom (2009 Viking) as well the biographies John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking 2005) This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie (Viking 2002) and Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking 1999).
Wil McCarthy.  Wil McCarthy (born September 16 1966 Princeton New Jersey) is a science fiction novelist president and co-founder of RavenBrick (a solar technology company) and the science columnist for Syfy. He currently resides in Colorado.Wil McCarthy popularized the Wellstone or Programmable matter concept.
Krithika.  Mathuram Bhoothalingam (pen name Krithika) was a Tamil writer who wrote plays and short stories in Tamil and English.
Eric Dover.  Eric Dover (born January 19 1967 in Jasper Alabama) is an American musician guitarist and singer most notably with Jellyfish Slash's Snakepit Imperial Drag and Alice Cooper.
Raina Kabaivanska.  Raina Kabaivanska (Bulgarian: Райна Кабаиванска) (December 15 1934) is a Bulgarian opera singer one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini although she sang a wide range of roles. Born Raina Jakimowa in Burgas Bulgaria she studied in Sofia with Prokopowa and Jossifow and made her debut at the Bulgarian National Opera in Sofia as Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in 1957.
Michael Komarck.  Michael Komarck is a fantasy artist. His work has been featured in many roleplaying games board games book covers and collectible cards. Komarck produced the official art and calendars for George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
Shah Indrawan Ismail.  Shah Indrawan bin Ismail or popularly known as Tomok is a Malaysian singer and the winner of the third season of One in a Million (OIAM) a reality TV singing competition. He became the first male contestant and the first recording artist to do so in the history of the competition. He is also the lead vocalist of a Malaysian band called New Boyz. Tomok 27 years old and Rahayu Abas 32 years old married on Friday night 9.30pm at Dewan Serbaguna AU2 Taman Keramat Kuala Lumpur on July 1st 2011.
Viktoriya Tokareva.  Viktoriya Samoilovna Tokareva (Russian: Виктория Самойловна Токарева) (born 20 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer.
Scott Peterson (comics).  Scott James Peterson (born December 9 1968) is an editor at WildStorm Productions an imprint of DC Comics and a writer of comic books and children's books.
Ellen Hopkins.  Ellen Louise Hopkins (born March 26 1955) is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.
Paweł Jasienica.  Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar (10 November 1909 – 19 August 1970) a Polish historian journalist and soldier.During World War II Jasienica (then Leon Beynar) fought in the Polish Army and later the Armia Krajowa resistance. Near the end of the war he was also working with the anti-Soviet resistance which later led to him taking up a new name Paweł Jasienica to hide from the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland.
Richard Bone.  Richard Bone (born February 3 1952) is an American electronic musician.
Deborah Grabien.  Deborah Grabien (born June 28 1954) is an American novelist and essayist. Her works cross several genres including murder mysteries supernatural thrillers utopian fantasies etc. Her novel Plainsong is a religious fantasy featuring the Wandering Jew and a female Messiah.Deborah is currently a reviewer and guest editor for Green Man Review and Sleeping Hedgehog.Deborah was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2002.
Bill Pinkney.  Bill Pinkney (August 15 1925 – July 4 2007) was an American performer and singer. Pinkney was often said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters who achieved international fame with numerous hit records. He was chiefly responsible for its early sounds. The Drifters have had a strong influence on soul rhythm and blues and rock and roll music.
Howard Finster.  Howard Finster (December 2 1916 – October 22 2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Gardens a folk art sculpture garden with over 46000 pieces of art. His creations include outsider art naïve art and visionary art. Finster first came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for bands such as R.E.M. and Talking Heads.
Sait Faik Abasıyanık.  Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 – 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry. Born in Adapazarı he was educated at the Bursa Erkek Lisesi. He enrolled in the Turcology Department of Istanbul University in 1928 but under pressure from his father went to Switzerland to study economics in 1930. He left school and lived for three years in Grenoble France - an experience which made a deep impact on his art and character.
F. R. Scott.  Francis Reginald Scott CC commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott (August 1 1899 – January 30 1985) was a Canadian poet intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor the New Democratic Party. He won Canada's top literary prize the Governor General's Award twice once for poetry and once for non-fiction. He was married to artist Marian Dale Scott.
Stet Howland.  Stet Howland (b. Aug. 14 1960) is a professional drummer from Plymouth Massachusetts United States. He graduated in 1978 from Duxbury High School. He started playing drums at age 7 and has been teaching and playing for a living since age 13. Influences are Buddy Rich Gene Krupa Animal from the Muppets Sam Kinison and Hulk Hogan.
Nick Kotz.  Nathan Nick K. Kotz (September 16 1932- ) born in San Antonio Texas is an American journalist author and historian. His most recent book 'The Harness Makers Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas' tells the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison’s journey to the United States. He is best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of President Johnson and Dr.
Kurt Tucholsky.  Kurt Tucholsky (German: [tuˈxɔlski]; January 9 1890 – December 21 1935) was a German-Jewish journalist satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser Peter Panter Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic.
Michael Marcovici.  Michael Marcovici (born 27 September 1969) is an Austrian sculptor painter conceptual artist and designer of CADO Danish Modern furniture. His works make statements regarding politics science and technology social topics and style. His output includes media works of ironic content lithe furniture designs and abstract hi-tech sculptures. His formative years were spent as a financial analyst and outdoor sportsman.
Nelson Rodrigues.  Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23 1912 in Recife – December 21 1980) was a Brazilian playwright journalist and novelist. In 1943 he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress) considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright.
Henri Rollin.  Henri Rollin (November 9 1885–April 1955) was a French essayist.In 1903 Henri joined the French Navy and served on Diderot in World War I. He subsequently served on Paris II and was taken prisoner by Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker on taken December 13 1917 following the sinking of this ship.In 1939 he published L'Apocalypse de notre temps which explored the world of intrigue within which the forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion was fabricated.
Boris Georgievich Derevenskij.  Boris Georgievich Derevenskij (Russian: Борис Георгиевич Деревенский; born June 30 1962) is a Russian writer best known for his publication of a popular omnibus “Jesus Christ in the Documents of History” (Russian: «Иисус Христос в документах истории») which had several reissues (1st publication – 1998 5th publication – 2007).Derevenskij also has publications in different literary magazines and collective books.
Harish Bhadani.  Harish Bhadani (1933–2009) is a Rajasthani poet. He was vice-president of Janvadi Lekhak Sangh. He was editor of Vatayan from 1960 to 1974.
Steven L. Thompson.  Steven Lynn Thompson (born 1948) is an author magazine journalist historian of technology and former motorcycle racer.
Fran Ross.  Fran Ross (born June 25 1935 – September 17 1985) was an African American author best known for her novel Oreo. She briefly wrote comedy for Richard Pryor.
Michael Smith (newspaper reporter).  Michael Smith is a British author and screenwriter who specializes in spies and espionage. He is a former journalist who obtaining the documents collectively known as the The Downing Street Memos.
Zee Avi.  Zee Avi (born Izyan Alirahman also known as KokoKaina)PBK is a Malaysian singer-songwriter guitarist and ukulele player. She hails from the oil-rich town of Miri located in Sarawak Malaysia on the island of Borneo. She moved to Kuala Lumpur at 12 and at 17 she taught herself to play the guitar.
Eileen Grubba.  Eileen Grubba is an American film and television actress born in Anchorage Alaska.A lifetime member of the Actors Studio. Her skills have been compared to theater greats Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley and actresses like Meryl Streep and Ellen Burstyn due to her range emotional depth and vulnerability. Trained at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta HB Studios in New York City and with Actors Studio members Barbara Bain Martin Landau Mark Rydell Lou Antonio.
Muharrem Ertaş.  Muharrem Ertaş (1913 in Kırşehir – December 3 1984) was a Turkish folk music singer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. He was one of the most important members of the Bozlak genre.
Kerri Woelke.  Kerri Woelke (born August 15 1977) is a Folk/Roots/Alt-Country singer–songwriter from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. She is currently represented by Signpost Music.
William Cauldwell.  William Cauldwell (October 12 1824 – December 2 1907) was a 19th-century newspaper publisher of the New York Sunday Mercury. He has been called the Father of Sunday Journalism and also served in the New York State Senate.
Rey Washam.  Rey Washam (born Reynolds Washam March 14 1961 in Austin Texas) is a drummer who has been performing for more than 35 years. He has collaborated with many bands the most notable of which include: Scratch Acid Rapeman Ministry the Big Boys Helios Creed the Didjits Lard and Tad and Butthole Surfers offshoot Daddy Longhead. When Jason Schwartzman of Phantom Planet left that band Washam was hired to fill in on drums for a tour which never materialized.
Eduard Gerhardt.  Eduard Gerhardt (born Erfurt 1813; died Munich 1888) was a German painter and lithographer.
Gregory Mcdonald.  Gregory Mcdonald (February 15 1937 – September 7 2008) was an American mystery writer best known for his creation of the character Irwin Maurice Fletcher an investigative reporter who preferred the nickname Fletch. Two of the Fletch books have earned Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America: Fletch was named Best First Novel in 1975 and Confess Fletch won for Best Paperback Original in 1977. This is the only time a novel and its sequel won back-to-back Edgars.
Marie Lucas Robiquet.  Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (1858 – 1959) was a French Orientalist artist who worked within the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.Lucas-Robiquet was recognized for her paintings of African and Algerian subjects. The 1897 edition of Parisian Illustrated Review cites her outdoor studies for a wise tendency toward reasonable impressionism by an artist of the highest order.Works by Lucas-Robiquet have sold well in the past few years.
Willard Motley.  Willard Francis Motley (July 14 1909 – March 4 1965) was an African-American writer. He published a column in the Chicago Defender under the pen-name Bud Biliken. Motley also worked as a freelance writer and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers Project. His first and best known novel was Knock on Any Door (1947).
Jorma Kaukonen.  Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. (born December 23 1940) is an American blues folk and rock guitarist best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.
Victor Edelstein.  Victor Edelstein (born 10 July 1946) is a former couturier best known for his fashion designs for Diana Princess of Wales in the 1980s. In 1989 he was described as the English equivalent to Oscar de la Renta and the master of the English thoroughbred look. He now works as a painter.
Domino (rapper).  Shawn Antoine Ivy known as Domino is an American rapper born in 1972 in St. Louis Missouri and raised in Long Beach California. Being a Crip himself he auditioned for the Bloods & Crips project in the early 1990s. He is the first rapper in order of appearance in the title track Bangin' on Wax on the album of the same name. His debut album Domino spawned two major hits in the United States including the Top 10 hit Getto Jam which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Lazzaro Baldi.  Lazzaro Baldi (c. 1624–1703) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome.Baldi was born in Pistoia and died in Rome. He was part of the large studio of Pietro da Cortona and became adept at fresco technique. He painted a David and Goliath for Alexander VII in the Palazzo Quirinale. He also painted in fresco (1658) for the church of San Giovanni in Oleo as well as a fresco of San Giovanni in Patmos(1660–1665) for San Giovanni in Laterano.
Vincent Crane.  Vincent Crane (21 May 1943 – 14 February 1989) was a self-taught pianist who studied theory and composition at Trinity College of Music and graduated in 1964. He was best known as the organist for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster.
Angelica Lee.  Angelica Lee (李心潔 Lee Sin-Jie; born 23 January 1976 in Kedah Malaysia) is a Malaysian Chinese film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Lee starred in The Eye the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Festival and a Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Award.
Joaquín Xaudaró.  Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau (August 17 1872 – 1933) was a Spanish cartoonist illustrator and caricaturist. His humorous depictions of the new technologies of his time –he published a volume of cartoons called The Perils of Flight (Les péripéties de l'aviation Garnier Frères Paris 1911)- serve as an important link between the worlds of nineteenth-century illustration and twentieth-century cartooning.
Gary Kinder (author).  Gary Kinder is an American writer. He authored true crime classic Victim: The Other Side of Murder (1980); Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier (1987); and the The New York Times Best Seller Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (1988).
Charles Asprey.  Charles Asprey is the publisher of the quarterly journal PICPUS and the founder of ArtSchool Palestine. as well as being one of the trustees of The Henry Moore Foundation and the Michael Clark Company. For many years he was the co-owner and co-director of aspreyjacques a London art gallery with Alison Jacques which introduced British audiences to young emerging German artists. These included Thilo Heinzmann Manfred Pernice Christian Flamm and the late Michel Majerus.
Jim Armstrong (guitarist).  James 'Jim' Armstrong (born 24 July 1944 in Belfast Co Antrim) is a guitarist from Northern Ireland.Armstrong's musical career started while he was still a schoolboy when he played in Belfast's top showband The Melotones who were resident in the city's Romano's Ballroom. Armstrong played and recorded in the mid-'60s with Van Morrison and Them touring both Europe and America (where he lived – playing and recording - for 4 years).
Stefano di Giovanni.  For the village near Livorno see Sassetta TuscanyStefano di Giovanni di Consolo known as il Sassetta (ca.1392–1450 or 1451) was an Italian painter who is considered one of the most important representatives of Sienese Renaissance painting.
Jimmy Bower.  Jimmy Bower (born September 19 1968) is an American sludge/heavy metal guitarist and drummer who has played with six bands most notably Eyehategod Crowbar Down and Superjoint Ritual.Jimmy Bower is known in some circles as the Godfather of Southern Metal for his involvement in the New Orleans Metal and Hardcore scene as well as being a founding member of legendary sludge metal bands Eyehategod and Crowbar which is an obvious influence on many of the hardcore and heavy metal bands that later emerged from the South. 
Sid Harkreader.  Sidney Harkreader (February 26 1898 — March 19 1988) was an American Old-time fiddle player and string band leader. He was an early member of the Grand Ole Opry at first accompanying banjoist Uncle Dave Macon and later performing on the program with his own band.
Rachel Sternberg.  Kimberley Rachel Sternberg is an English actress. She is known for her role as Hermione Granger in the video game of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. She also played a role in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
Gret Palucca.  Gret Palucca born Margarethe Paluka (8 January 1902 – 22 March 1993) was a German dancer and dance teacher notable for her dance school in Dresden.
Stephen Thompson (producer).  Stephen Thompson (born August 1 1972) is an online music producer for NPR and editor of several music-related columns for NPR.org including Song Of The Day and Shadow Classics.
Mao Denda.  Mao Denda (傳田 真央 Denda Mao) also known as MAO/d is a Japanese singer-songwriter.
Lila McCann.  Lila Elaine McCann (born December 4 1981) is an American country music singer who made her debut at age sixteen with the single Down Came a Blackbird. Reaching a peak of No.
Keaton Henson.  Keaton Henson (born 24 March 1988) is an English folk rock musician visual artist and poet from London.As a musician Henson usually sings and plays guitar. Henson suffers from serious stage fright and as a result he rarely plays concerts. His art show Hithermost took place at the Pertwee Anderson & Gold gallery in London in January 2013 and sold quickly.
Steven Lippman.  Steven Lippman is a former competitive surfer and skateboarder turned commercial photographer and director who has been called “one of the most explosive and diverse photographers around today.” Specializing in lifestyle fashion and beach/rock & roll culture he has shot advertising campaigns for clients such as Harley-Davidson Patrón Paul Mitchell Sony Coors Light Verizon James Perse and Billabong.Since first exploring filmmaking in 1995 Lippman has directed many commercials and groundbreaking viral videos. 
Andrea Busati.  Andrea Busati was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was a follower of the Giovanni Bellini is the author of a signed St. Mark enthroned between SS. Francis and Andrew painted about 1510 and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. A figure of a Saint in the Vicenza Gallery is also ascribed to him.
Lorentz Aspen.  Lorentz Aspen (born April 23 1978 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian heavy metal pianist and keyboardist. He played in Theatre of Tragedy from October 2 1993 to October 2 2010 and with them he released seven studio albums one live album and five EP's. He also played in Imperium as an additional musician and he played the hammond organ on Therion's Vovin.
Oren Lavie.  Oren Lavie (Hebrew: אורן לביא) (born 1976) is an Israeli singer songwriter playwright and theatre director. His music video for Her Morning Elegance earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for Best Short Form Music Video. On March 10 2009 Oren released his debut album The Opposite Side of the Sea in the United States. He revealed on his Facebook page that he has a second album in the works.
Nigel Stonier.  Nigel Stonier is a UK-based rock roots and pop producer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Homer Hickam.  Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19 1943) is an American author Vietnam veteran and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel Rocket Boys: A Memoir was a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller is studied in many American and international school systems and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the Josh Thurlow historical fiction novels. His books have been translated into several languages.
Maad*Moiselle.  MAAD*MOISELLE is an American R&B-pop singer-songwriter
Charlie Huhn.  Charlie Huhn (born January 11 1951) is an American rock singer and guitarist. He got his start playing with Vic Amato Andy Dennen and Al Lesert in the band Cirrus in and around Grand Rapids Michigan playing many gigs in West Michigan before joining Ted Nugent in 1978.
Dionne Hughes.  London Hughes (born 7 June 1989) is an English comedienne television writer and CBBC Presenter. She also wrote and starred in Laughter Shock a comedy for the BBC which piloted in 2010.
Brian Michael Bendis.  Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18 1967) is an American comic book writer and former artist. He has won critical acclaim including five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books.Starting out with crime and noir comics Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work.
Gabriela Adameșteanu.  Gabriela Adameșteanu (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡabriˈela adameʃˈte̯anu]; born April 2 1942) is a Romanian novelist short story writer essayist journalist and translator. The author of the celebrated novels The Equal Way of Every Day (1975) and Wasted Morning (1983) she is also known as an activist in support of civil society and member of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS) as well as editor of Revista 22.
Deepali Kishore.  Deepali Kishore (Bihari: दीपाली किशोर) (born 6 January 1989 in Patna Bihar) is an Indian singer. She was a finalist of Indian Idol 3. She also appeared along with Bollywood actor John Abraham and performed a group song from film Goal. She has sung a song for movie Don Muthuswami. The song is 'I love you' composed by Anu Malik. She has also hosted the auditions and the Roobaroos alongside Meiyang Chang in Indian Idol season 4.
Peter Sproule.  Peter Sproule (born 1947) was an English actor in the 1960s and 70s. His roles include a guest appearance on an early episode of Upstairs Downstairs. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his first appearance at the Bristol Old Vic in 1968.
Dick Swanson.  Dick Swanson is an American photographer with over 400 images being printed in various publications nationwide.
John Worley.  John C. Worley was a college professor saxophonist and a composer of classical as well as more contemporary music for saxophone. He was born in Waltham Massachusetts in 1919 and died on February 16 1999.
Pieretta Dawn.  Pieretta Dawn (born January 28 1994) is the pen name of Praekarn (Pier) Nirandara (Thai: แพรกานต์ นิรันดร) the youngest English-writing author in Thailand. She received national critical acclaim when her debut young adult novel The Mermaid Apprentices the first of The Interspecies Trilogy was published at age 15 in 2009 by NanmeeBooks.
Guy Warrack.  Guy Warrack (6 February 1900 Edinburgh - 12 February 1986 Englefield Green) was Scottish composer and conductor. From 1925-1935 he taught on the faculty of the Royal College of Music. From 1935-1946 he was principal conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and from 1948-1951 he was conductor for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. He is the father of English music critic John Warrack.
Nathan McCree.  Nathan McCree is a music composer and sound effects editor for multimedia projects including computer games television live events and radio. He worked mainly with Core Design for the first three Tomb Raider games among others. He worked also with profile names such as the Spice Girls and Orange.He has been praised among critics and has received several informal awards.
Jean-Antoine Watteau.  Jean-Antoine Watteau (French: [ʒan‿ɑ̃twan wato]; baptised October 10 1684 – July 18 1721) better known as Antoine Watteau was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens).
Carlos Trillo.  Carlos Trillo (May 1 1943 – May 8 2011) was an Argentine comic book writer best known for writing the Cybersix comics.
Corey Wood.  Corey Wood is a Canadian musician. He is the drummer for Cuff the Duke.
Kerrie Taylor.  Kerrie Taylor (b. 20 June 1973 Romsey Hampshire England) is a British actress.Taylor is best known for the role of Beth Enright/Beresford on the ITV1 family drama Where the Heart Is a role she played for four years. In 2005 Kerrie filmed her final scenes with the ITV drama after she decided it was to be her last series.
Fuyumi Ono.  Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美 Ono Fuyumi) is a Japanese novelist best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記 Jūni Kokuki) series on which a popular anime is based. Her married name is Fuyumi Uchida (内田 不由美 Uchida Fuyumi) but she writes under her maiden name. She is married to Yukito Ayatsuji the author of the horror novel Another.[citation needed]
Jason Thompson (writer).  Jason Thompson (born October 13 1974) is an American writer journalist comics artist and editor. He has edited for Viz Media and is the author of Manga: The Complete Guide.
Enriqueta Jiménez.  María Teresa Enriqueta Queta Jiménez Chabolla (born circa 1941) more commonly known by her stage name La Prieta Linda is a Mexican recording artist and actress. The younger sister of popular recording artist and actress Flor Silvestre Jiménez debuted as a singer with Silvestre Vargas's mariachi in 1955 and shortly after won the first Ranchera Music Festival with the song Amantes de una noche.
Manami Watanabe.  Manami Watanabe (渡辺 愛未 Watanabe Manami) (born December 28 1986 in Osaka Prefecture Japan) is the female lead singer of Jyukai a Japanese pop/soft rock group.
Neshama Carlebach.  Neshama Carlebach (born October 9 1974 New York) (נשמה קרליבך) daughter of the Jewish singer-songwriter Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach is a singer the protégé of her late father.
Oskar Saville.  Oskar Saville is the former lead singer of Chicago-based Rubygrass and is also a solo artist. She served as lead vocalist for 10000 Maniacs from 2002 to 2007.
Lee Henshaw.  Lee Henshaw (born 1972 Macclesfield) is a British fiction writer.His first novel Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room was published by Legend Press in 2008 and was called 'distinctive and engaging' by The Guardian. It also received praise from comedian and author Dom Joly. He called it ‘simply brilliant’ and described Lee as ‘a stoned new Kerouac’. Fruit Tree Books released the Queer Fish in God’s Waiting Room audiobook in early 2011.
Rikk Agnew.  Richard Francis Agnew Jr. (born December 9 1958) more commonly known as Rikk Agnew is an American guitarist who has played in some of the most influential bands of the Orange County hardcore punk scene as well as the influential deathrock band Christian Death.
Roland Lazenby.  Roland Lazenby is an American sportswriter and educator.Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books mainly about basketball and American football.
Jean Delumeau.  Jean Delumeau (b. June 18 1923 Nantes) is a French historian specializing in the Catholic church history and author of several books regarding the subject.
Robert B. Sherman.  Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19 1925 – March 5 2012) was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known songs were incorporated into movies and animations like Mary Poppins The Jungle Book The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Slipper and the Rose Charlotte's Web and the theme park song of It's a Small World (After All).
Mike Heller.  Mike Heller originally from Brooklyn New York is a drummer in bands including industrial metal group Fear Factory and technical death metal band Malignancy. Mike also formed the band System Divide and is a session drummer with credits in many genres.
Malin Alegria.  Malin Alegria is an American author of Youth literature who primarily focuses on the genre of young adult novels.
Emily Barker.  Emily Barker (born December 2 1980) is a guitarist and singer-songwriter born in Bridgetown Western Australia. With multi-instrumental trio The Red Clay Halo she has recorded four albums: Photos.Fires.Fables. (2006) Despite The Snow (2008) Almanac (2011) and Dear River (2013).
Deborah Howe.  Deborah Howe wrote the children's books Bunnicula and Teddy Bear's Scrapbook along with her husband James Howe in the late 1970s. She died of cancer at age 31 after Bunnicula was published. She graduated from Boston University and worked as a theater actress before becoming a writer.
Olga Seryabkina.  Olga Yurievna Seryabkina (Russian: Ольга Юрьевна Серябкина; born 12 April 1985) is a Russian singer–songwriter. She is a member of girl group Serebro which won the third place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.
Ned Lagin.  Ned Lagin (born March 17 1948) is an American artist photographer scientist composer and keyboardist.Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers and personal computers in real-time stage and studio music composition and performance.He is known for his electronic composition Seastones and performing with the Grateful Dead.
Eva Navarro.  Eva Navarro (born 1967) is a Spanish painter living in Madrid Spain. She has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her work is considered part of the Spanish New Figurative Art Movement. She mostly exhibits her work in Europe and the United States.
Kim Ljung.  Kim Ljung (born 17 October 1971) is a musician from Tønsberg Norway. He is best known as the bassist in Norwegian alternative rock band Seigmen and industrial band Zeromancer. He also appeared as guest vocalist on SubGud's Time Machine.
Chris Rene.  Christopher Chris Rene (previously René; born December 25 1982) is an American singer-songwriter musician and producer from Santa Cruz California. He had been in a band called Diversion and also had a solo career including the album Soul'd Out. Chris auditioned for the first season of The X Factor USA with one of his original compositions Young Homie and was one of the finalists during season one with L.A. Reid as his mentor.
Clark Kent (producer).  Clark Kent (born Rodolfo Franklin) is a hip hop DJ record producer and music executive of Panamanian descent . His crew of DJs is called The Supermen and his DJ moniker is derived from the name of Superman's alter ego.In the mid-1980s Clark Kent was rapper Dana Dane's DJ.In 1989 he produced the remix for Troop's hit song Spread My Wings. Clark scored his first street hit with the Junior M.A.F.I.A. song Player's Anthem which featured The Notorious B.I.G.
Elaine Jin.  Elaine Jin or known as Yanling Jin Elaine Kam (Chinese: 金燕玲) is a Taiwanese actress.She has been nominated five times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won two for her supporting roles in Love Unto Waste (Chinese: 地下情) (1986) and People's Hero (Chinese: 人民英雄) (1987). In 1994 Jin earned her first Golden Horse Film Award in supporting category for her performance in Edward Yang's A Confucian Confusion (Chinese: 獨立時代) (1994).
Tomas Tranströmer.  Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish: [ˈtʊːmas ˈjœsˈta ˈtrɑːnˈstrœmər]; born 15 April 1931) is a Swedish poet psychologist and translator. His poems capture the long Swedish winters the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension.
Georgina Spelvin.  Georgina Spelvin (born on March 1 1936) is the stage name of Michelle Graham a former American actress and pornographic performer who is best known as the star of the classic pornographic film The Devil in Miss Jones.
Matt Andersen.  Matt Andersen is a Canadian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter from Perth-Andover New Brunswick signed to True North Records. His musical career started in 2002 with the New Brunswick band Flat Top. In 2004 Andersen played at the East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs).
Momoka Ariyasu.  Momoka Ariyasu (有安 杏果 Ariyasu Momoka born March 15 1995) is a Japanese idol singer. She is known as a member of the all-girl musical group Momoiro Clover Z. Her Momoiro Clover Z signature color is Green.
Ferruccio Bortoluzzi.  Ferruccio Bortoluzzi (December 6 1920 – May 25 2007) was an Italian modern painter he was one of the founders of the Centro di Unità della Cultura L'Arco together with venetian artists and writers.
Tim Bogert.  John Voorhis Tim Bogert III (born August 27 1944 New York City) is an American musician. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School in his hometown in 1963. As a bass guitarist and vocalist he is best known for his bass solos and his work with Vanilla Fudge Cactus and the power trio; Beck Bogert & Appice.
Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer.  Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer (born December 4 1946) is a Spanish writer of Catalan descent. She is a member of the Ofèlia Dracs collective. Her work has been translated into German English Spanish Galician and Russian.
Marika Ninou.  Marika Ninou (Greek: Μαρίκα Νίνου) (1918 – 23 February 1957) was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer born Evangelia Atamian (Greek: Ευαγγελία Αταμιάν).
Giovanni Tuccari.  Giovanni Tuccari (1667–1743) was an Italian painter during the Baroque period active in Sicily. Tuccari was born in Messina. He was the son and pupil of Antonio Tuccari an obscure painter. He excelled as a battle painter. He died of the plague. He was responsible for the frescos in the Church of San Benedetto in Catania. Other examples of his work include four octagonal paintings in the sanctuary of the Church of S.
Marie Watt.  Marie Watt (born 1967) is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland Oregon. Part Seneca Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes.
Abe Walsh.  Abe Walsh (born March 30 1971 in Orange California) is an American author who has written extensively about his hunting fishing and back-country adventures. He has written for over 25 magazine titles and authored or ghost-written several hardcover books on the subject. He has also appeared on-camera on television hunting shows. Walsh is an accomplished and world-renowned big-game hunter.
Kevin Hufnagel.  Kevin Hufnagel is an American musician. He is known for his solo guitar works fronting the progressive instrumental rock/metal band Dysrhythmia and for being a member of Gorguts Vaura and Byla.
Focus....  Bernard Focus... Edwards Jr is an Atlanta-based Grammy Award–winning producer who first rose to fame when signed to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment. Since then he has produced tracks for Christina Aguilera Jennifer Lopez Beyoncé Knowles 50 Cent Busta Rhymes Bishop Lamont Tony Yayo Stat Quo Outlawz The Game Jay Rock amongst others.
Master of the Regular Canons' Altarpiece.  The Master of the Regular Canons' Altarpiece was a German painter active in the area around Erfurt during the fifteenth century. He is named for an altarpiece painted for the church of the regular canons in Erfurt dated to between 1450 and 1460; in addition one of his works is held by the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Rosemary Neering.  Rosemary Neering (born 1945 in Croydon England) is a Canadian author and journalist focusing on non-fiction books. At the age of two Neering moved to Canada with her parents.She workerd for a number of magazines including the British Columbia Magazine.Her 1992 book Down The Road won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Charles Biederman.  Charles Biederman born Karl Joseph Biederman (1906–2004) was an American abstract artist who lived in Chicago New York City and Paris before settling in Red Wing Minnesota.Born in Cleveland in 1906 to Czech immigrant parents Biederman studied at the Cleveland Art Institute before enrolling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). At SAIC Biederman received the prestigious Paul Trebeilcock Prize.
Janamanchi Seshadri Sarma.  Janamanchi Seshadri Sarma (Telugu: జనమంచి శేషాద్రి శర్మ) (1882–1950) was a Telugu poet from Cuddapah Andhra Pradesh.
Oneohtrix Point Never.  Oneohtrix Point Never is the recording name of Brooklyn-based experimental musician Daniel Lopatin. Lopatin's music has been described as gentle eddies of sound and like a cracked mirror refracting the sounds of the past.
Junzo Shono.  Junzō Shōno (庄野 潤三 Shōno Junzō 9 February 1921 - 21 September 2009) was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book Purusaido Shokei (Poolside Scene). Shōno's other award winning books include Seibutsu (Still Life) for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds) which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize and Eawase (Picture Cards) which took the Noma literary prize.
Patrick West.  Patrick West (born 1974 London) is a freelance writer based in the UK and Ireland. Born in London in 1974 he graduated from Manchester University in 1997 with an MA in Cultural History. He has written for The Times the New Statesman The Spectator the Times Literary Supplement The Irish Times The Daily Telegraph the Sunday Independent (Ireland) The Irish Post Living Marxism and The Catholic Herald.
Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens.  The Skalnaté Pleso Atlas of the Heavens (Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso 1950.0) is a set of 16 celestial charts covering the entire sky. It is named after the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia where it was produced. The first versions were published by the Czechoslovak Astronomical Society in 1948; later that year Sky Publishing Corporation acquired the copyright and began publication in the United States.
Pacha Man.  Pacha Man (born Călin Nicorici 21 July 1976 in Timişoara Romania) is a reggae musician. He is one of the first Romanian artists to pursue a career as a reggae artist and the first to release a professionally produced album in this genre. He is well known for his aggressive style and trademark Patois-Romanian mixture approach to songwriting.
Eduard Khil.  Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (Russian: Эдуард Анатольевич Хиль IPA: [ɛdu'art ənɐ'tolʲjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ xʲilʲ] (often transliterated as Edward Hill); 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012) was a Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the Russian SFSR.
Đoan Trang.  Cao Thị Đoan Trang (born February 4 1978 in Bình Dương Vietnam) is a contemporary Vietnamese pop/latin-influenced singer residing in Vietnam. She is generally called Đoan Trang.
Carla Kihlstedt.  Carla Kihlstedt is an American composer violinist vocalist and multi-instrumentalist originally from Lancaster Pennsylvania and currently working from a home studio on Cape Cod.She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (1997 now renamed Tin Hat) Rabbit Rabbit Sleepytime Gorilla Museum The Book of Knots and Causing a Tiger. Other musical projects include 2 Foot Yard Charming Hostess and Minamo (Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii).
Stan Slap.  Stan Slap is an American business author living in San Francisco. His first of a planned three-book series Bury My Heart at Conference Room B was published in 2010 by Penguin Books and reached The New York Times Bestseller List.
Carl Belew.  Carl Robert Belew (April 21 1931 in Salina Oklahoma – October 31 1990) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Belew recorded for Decca RCA Victor and MCA in the 1950s through 1970s charting 11 times on Hot Country Songs. He also wrote singles for Johnnie & Jack Eddy Arnold Jim Reeves and others.
Peter Tanfield.  Peter Tanfield (born 1961) is a British violinist.
Mark Cline.  Mark Cline is an American artist and entertainer. Inspired by monster and science fiction films he produces foam and fiberglass figures and fantasy characters for attractions and cities.Cline has described Foamhenge as his greatest achievement. He has also built hundreds of dinosaur statues including thirty for his own Dinosaur Kingdom and nineteen for Dinosaur Land (Virginia) in White Post Virginia the park that inspired him to sculpt.
Robin Mathy.  Robin Michele Mathy (born July 21 1957) is an academic and activist. She has graduate degrees in Sociology from Indiana University-Bloomington Social Work from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities International Relations from the University of Cambridge and Evidence-Based Health Care from the University of Oxford. She has published four books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters. Her first book was coauthored as an undergraduate with Frederick L. Whitam.
Frank Bidart.  Frank Bidart (born May 27 1939 in Bakersfield California) is an American academic and poet.
Charles Cohen.  Charles Cohen is a Philadelphia Pennsylvania area-based free jazz musician and composer. Creating music since 1971 his music is entirely improvisational and produced solely on a vintage Buchla Music Easel synthesizer an extremely rare integrated analog performance instrument made by synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla.
Allie X.  Alexandra Ashley Hughes better known by her stage name Allie X is a Canadian artist. She released the song Catch in February 2014 which received notice when Katy Perry posted the song on her Twitter calling it a spring jam.
Ahmad Darwich.  Ahmad Darwich (in Arabic أحمد درويش) (born in Lebanon on 15 May 1977) also known as Darwich is a Lebanese-Danish DJ songwriter and record producer. He is co-founder of the Danish Kashcow record label.
Vincenzo Spisanelli.  Vincenzo Spisanelli (1595 – 1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Bologna.Spisanelli was born at Orta San Giulio Piedmont. He was a pupil of Denis Calvaert in Bologna but was also active in Ferrara Imola Modena and in Lombardy.He survived the plague of 1630 but not his wife and he was afflicted with melancholy for the remainer of his life. He was prolific in the painting of altarpieces. His only son died soon after the father.
Anselmo Suárez y Romero.  Anselmo Suárez y Romero (1818–1878) was a renowned Cuban writer and novelist better known for the first novel about slavery in the Americas: Francisco.
Michael Phillippi.  Michael Phillippi (born c. 1975) is an American artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Rosie Taylor-Ritson.  Rosie Taylor-Ritson is an English actress best known for her role as 'Celia' in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. She lives in Brighton England and found out that she had got the lead part of Celia just as she was starting secondary school (Dorothy Stringer) after several callbacks. She also starred in Trace in 2008 playing 'George'.
Beth Orton.  Elizabeth Caroline Beth Orton (born 14 December 1970) is an English singer-songwriter known for her 'folktronica' sound which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid-1990s. However these were not Orton's first recordings. She had released a solo album Superpinkymandy in 1993. Since the album was only released in Japan it went largely unnoticed by international audiences.
Peter Skellern.  Peter Skellern (born 14 March 1947 Bury Lancashire) is an English singer-songwriter and pianist.
Anton Fier.  Anton Fier (born June 20 1956) is an American drummer composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland Ohio.Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge (with John Greaves) worked with Pere Ubu was briefly in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos.
Kaiaphas.  Valério Costa (born April 18th 1974 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is a former black metal vocalist and drummer lyricist and composer and is now producing electronic music. He is mostly known for his works while in the Norwegian black metal band Ancient.
Novita Dewi.  Novita Dewi Marpaung (born 15 November 1978) is an Indonesian singer who gained wide prominence after being the runner-up of the first season of X Factor Indonesia. She is known for her powerful vocals and skilled singing technics. Dewi is the daughter of legendary Batak singer Jack Marpaung. She started her music career in the mid-1990s through various singing competitions and festivals.
Mike Wieringo.  Michael Lance Mike Wieringo (June 24 1963 – August 12 2007) who sometimes signed his work under the name 'Ringo was an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash and Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four.
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.  Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school.Eichendorff is regarded as one of the most important German Romantics and his works have sustained high popularity in Germany from production to the present day.
Esther Ofarim.  Esther Ofarim (Hebrew: אסתר עופרים‎) (born June 13 1941) is an Israeli singer.
Dahvi Waller.  Dahvi Waller is a Canadian writer and television director.In 2003 and 2004 Waller was one of the directors for the reality TV show Switched Up and in 2005 she became one of the writers of the short lived drama series Commander in Chief. The following year she joined the crew of Desperate Housewives as a staff writer and for the third season of the show she joined Josh Senter and Jenna Bans as one of its story editors.
Trinidad James.  Nicholas Williams (born September 23 1987) better known by his stage name Trinidad James (also stylized as Trinidad Jame$) is a Trinidadian-born American rapper. He has signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings and is the CEO of his own record label Gold Gang Records.
Hukwe Zawose.  Hukwe Ubi Zawose (b. Dodoma Tanganyika 1938 or 1940; d. Bagamoyo Tanzania December 30 2003) was a prominent Tanzanian musician. He was a member of the Gogo ethnic group and played the ilimba a large lamellophone similar to the mbira as well as several other traditional instruments.
Carl Fredrik Engelstad.  Carl Johan Fredrik Engelstad (11 November 1915 – 1 October 1996) was a Norwegian writer playwright journalist translator and theatre director.
Norm Hacking.  Norm Hacking (August 1 1950 – November 25 2007) was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter.
Giorgione.  Giorgione (Italian: [dʒorˈdʒone]; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; c. 1477/8–1510) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice whose career was cut off by his death at a little over 30. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work.
Henri Matisse.  Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman printmaker and sculptor but is known primarily as a painter.
Pgeezy.  Pgeezy / Peterman (Deangelo Lamont Parker; November 27 1976 - December 17 2012) was an American rapper. He was the CEO of Trap Underground Music and then signed to Natalac Records in 2011. He became the first artist other than Natalac to have a full album/mix tape released on the Natalac Records Label.
Wallis Bird.  Wallis Bird (born 29 January 1982 Enniscorthy County Wexford Ireland) is an Irish musician. She released her third self-titled studio album in 2012.
Amos Luzzatto.  Amos Luzzatto (born Rome 3 June 1928) is an Italian writer and essayist of Jewish descent born in a family of ancient tradition (his mother's father Dante Lattes was one of the most important representatives of Jewish Italian culture in the 20th century; his father's great-great-grandfather Samuel David Luzzatto (Shadal) was teaching at the Rabbinical College in Padua and was an Italian representative of the Wissenschaft des Judentums).
Ronald Searle.  Ronald William Fordham Searle CBE RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was a British artist and satirical cartoonist. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series.
Jose Garcia Villa.  José García Villa (August 5 1908 – February 7 1997) was a Filipino poet literary critic short story writer and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973 as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the reversed consonance rime scheme in writing poetry as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially commas which made him known as the Comma Poet.
Harry O. Hoyt.  Harry O. Hoyt (6 August 1885 - 29 July 1961) was an American screenwriter and film director whose career began in the silent era. He graduated with a degree in literature from Yale University in 1910. His 1925 film The Lost World based on the book by Arthur Conan Doyle is notable as a pioneering effort in the use of stop-motion animation. He was a brother of actor Arthur Hoyt who appeared in The Lost World.
Deryl Dodd.  Deryl Dwaine Dodd (born April 12 1964) is an American Texas country music artist. Originally a regular on the Texas club circuit he moved to Nashville Tennessee soon finding work as a background vocalist and songwriter.
Stephen Fried.  Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist non-fiction author essayist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. His first book Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket) a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era was published in 1993.
Nella Martinetti.  Nella Martinetti (21 January 1946 – 29 July 2011) was a Swiss singer-songwriter affectionately nicknamed Bella Nella. She was born in Brissago Ticino Switzerland. In 1986 she became the first winner of the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song Bella Musica which she had composed herself.
Hans Wigren.  Hans Wigren (born 26 October 1940) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 25 films and television shows since 1962.
Nick Coler.  Nick Coler (born 10 April 1952) is an English musician producer composer and songwriter. He has been nominated for and won awards for songwriting and music production and has written produced and played on hit songs for diverse acts ranging from Goldie KLF and Alice Cooper to Girls Aloud Sugababes and Gabriella Cilmi.
Jon Ippolito.  Jon Ippolito is an artist educator new media scholar and former curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ippolito studied astrophysics and painting in the early 1980s then pursued Internet art in the 1990s. His works explore digitally induced collaboration and networking a theme that is prominent in his later scholarship.
Madge Tree.  Madge Tree was a British actress of the silent era.
Barbara Couper.  Barbara Couper (1903–1992) was a British film and television actress.
Andrea Brachfeld.  Andrea Brachfeld is an American jazz flautist.
Mark Adams (artist).  Mark Adams (born 1925 Fort Plain New York - January 24 2006) was an American artist.
Buddug Williams.  Buddug Williams is a Welsh actress best known for her roles in the long-running television soap Pobol y Cwm on S4C – first as the mother of Sabrina and Reg. At present she portrays Anti Marian the fearsome gossipy opinionated shop-keeping auntie of the hapless Denzil.
Cove Reber.  Cove Reber (born August 28 1985) is an American musician and singer-songwriter best known as the former lead vocalist for Saosin from early 2004 to July 21 2010. Reber is now focusing on a new project called Patriot.
Goran Dime.  Goran Dime is a Serbian tenor. He launched his career in 2004 when he also had his international debut. The specific color of his voice determined his path of a concert soloist. He broadened his repertoire of a classical opera singer in 2011 embarking on a new project Classic pop the first of a kind in ex-Yugoslavia.
Llwyd Owen.  Llwyd Owen is an award-winning Welsh-language fiction author born in Cardiff in 1977. He lives in Cardiff with his wife and daughters and works as a translator when not writing fiction.
Pierre Schaeffer bibliography.  The bibliography of Pierre Schaefferis a list of the fictional and nonfictional writings of the electroacoustic musician-theoretician and pioneer of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer.
Annie Pietri.  Annie Pietri (born 23 October 1956 in 14th arrondissement) is a French writer. Peitre had written the novel The orange trees of Versailles Delacorte Press/Random House (2004).
Robert Wegner.  Robert M. Wegner is a Polish fantasy writer winner of Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 2009 for his short-story We All are Meekhanees (pol. Wszyscy jesteśmy Meekhańczykami) and Sfinks Award in 2010 for short-story The Best You Can Buy (pol. Najlepsze jakie można kupić).He debut in 2002 in Science Fiction magazine with short-story The Last Flight of Night Cowboy (pol. Ostatni lot Nocnego Kowboja).
Jane Gallop.  Jane Anne Gallop (born May 4 1952) is an American professor who since 1992 has served as Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where she has taught since 2010.
Baba Sehgal.  Baba Sehgal is an Indian rapper film composer actor and playback singer known for his works in Indipop Telugu cinema Bollywood and Tamil cinema. Brought up in Lucknow he began his career in mid-1990s. He is credited as the first Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India.
Daryl Dragon.  Daryl Frank Dragon (born August 27 1942) is a keyboardist known as Captain in the successful 1970s pop musical duo Captain & Tennille with his wife Toni Tennille.Dragon was born into a musical family and is the son of conductor composer and arranger Carmen Dragon and the elder brother of Dennis Dragon a member of the 1960s pop combo The Dragons (which included Doug Dragon) and the 1980s surf band the Surf Punks.
Mickey Jack Cones.  Mickey Jack Cones (born in San Antonio TX) is an American record producer engineer session musician singer and songwriter. Raised in a musical family he is the grandson of Glenn Gray Orchestra singer Jane Cones and son of Jackie Cones of The Cones Sisters; Produced by Barry Beckett for RCA during the late 80’s. Cones moved to Nashville in 1996 to finish his BBA (with an emphasis in studio production) at Belmont University.
Frank Gibney.  Frank Bray Gibney (September 21 1924 Scranton Pennsylvania – April 9 2006 Santa Barbara California) was an American journalist editor writer and scholar. Correspondent of Time editor of Newsweek and Life he was the vice chairman of the Board of Editors at Encyclopædia Britannica and wrote or edited eleven books most notably about Japan.
Max Eider.  Max Eider (real name Peter Millson) is a guitarist and songwriter.He studied English Literature at University College Oxford graduating in Trinity Term 1980. He played guitar with Pat Fish (The Jazz Butcher) from June 1982 until 27 November 1986 when after an alcohol-fuelled altercation with Fish he left the band.
Alina Grosu.  Alina Grosu (Ukrainian: Аліна Ґросу; born in Chernivtsi Ukraine) is a Ukrainian child singer. She released her first studio album in 2000 and has released a total of four albums.Grosu was born in Chernivtsi Ukraine. She entered the music business after winning in a singing contest. The prize was to record a song in a studio where she met the singer Iryna Bilyk. They released four albums.
Henri Bernstein.  Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 Paris – 27 November 1953 Paris) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre. The far-right royalist Camelots du Roi youth organization of the Action française organized an anti-Semitic riot against a production of one of his plays in 1911. During the Second World War he fled to the United States and lived in New York at the Waldorf Astoria.
William Master (author).  William Master (1627–1684) was an English divine and writer. He was the son of the politician Sir William Master and the brother of John Master.
Sonya Kitchell.  Sonya D. Kitchell (born March 1 1989 in Ashfield MA) is an American singer-songwriter. Kitchell formed her first band and began writing music in 2001. In 2004 Sonya signed with Velour Records and was named the second Starbucks Hear Music Artist releasing her first international-selling record Words Came Back to Me on Velour Records. She has toured globally to Japan Europe and across the U.S.
Dumbfoundead.  Jonathan Park (Korean: 박성만 Park Sung Man) (February 18 1986) better known by his stage name Dumbfoundead or currently Parker is a Korean-American entertainer. He originates from the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles California.
Elisabeth Withers.  Elisabeth Withers is an American Neo-soul and R&B singer-songwriter.
Dani Siciliano.  Dani Siciliano is an American singer. She has worked with Matthew Herbert on several of his projects including the albums Around the House Bodily Functions and Scale. She has also released two solo albums Likes... and Slappers.
Jon Hiseman.  Jon Hiseman (born Philip John Hiseman 21 June 1944 in Woolwich London) is an English drummer recording engineer record producer and music publisher.
Skonk Nicholson.  James Mervyn Nicholson (6 February 1917 – 27 February 2011) better known as Skonk Nicholson was a retired rugby coach and school master at Maritzburg College. He is often credited with having trained large numbers of provincial and Springbok players and was an iconic figure of schoolboy rugby in Pietermaritzburg and indeed South Africa.
Jeff Nelson (musician).  Jeff Nelson (born 1962 in South Africa) is an American drummer and graphic designer. He is best known as the drummer for the Washington D.C. hardcore punk band Minor Threat. Nelson and friend Ian MacKaye formed their first band The Slinkees in 1979. Their next band was The Teen Idles. He also co-founded the independent record label Dischord Records along with MacKaye in 1980 whose first record was the Teen Idles. They continue to run Dischord together.
John Eliot Gardiner.  Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor.
Eileen McGann.  Eileen McGann is an Irish-Canadian folk singer songwriter and traditional Celtic musician. Her album Beyond The Storm was Juno Award-nominated in 2002. She has released seven solo CDs and has established an almost 30-year career touring across North America and Great Britain.
Till Gerhard.  Till Gerhard (born 1971) is a German artist based in Hamburg.
Jules Ernest Renoux.  Jules Alphonse Ernest Renoux (5 May 1863 – 9 June 1932) was a French painter working during the height of French Impressionism and the Belle Epoque.
Ian Thornley.  Ian Thornley (born July 21 1972) is a Canadian rock guitarist vocalist and songwriter. He is best known for his band Big Wreck as well as his solo project during the 2000s.
Bonnie Tyler.  Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer and songwriter. She was born in Skewen Wales and spent seven years performing in pubs and clubs around South Wales before being signed to RCA Records in 1975. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles Lost in France and More Than a Lover. Her 1978 single It's a Heartache was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic reaching number 4 in the UK and number 3 in the US.
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.  Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (born 1940) is an American graphic designer artist and educator whose work reflects her belief in the importance of feminist principles and user participation in graphic design. In 1990 she became the director of the Yale University Graduate Program in Graphic Design and the first woman to receive tenure at the Yale University School of Art.
Matt Mahurin.  Matt Mahurin (born January 31 1959 Santa Cruz California) is an American illustrator photographer and film director. Mahurin's illustrations appear in Time Newsweek Mother Jones Rolling Stone Esquire Forbes and The New York Times.Mahurin's work as a photo essayist has dealt with subjects such as homelessness people with AIDS the Texas prison system abortion clinics Nicaragua Haiti and Belfast.
James Vasanthan.  James Vasanthan is a popular Indian television (Tamil) anchor and a film music composer. For more than a decade he has worked as an anchor in popular Tamil satellite television channels like Sun TV Vijay TV and Makkal TV before turning into a film music composer in the Tamil Film Industry.
Jonas Karlström.  Jonas Karlström is a Swedish actor born 3 October 1978 in Karlskrona.
James Pollock (artist).  James Pollock (born 1943 South Dakota) is an American artist currently living in Pierre South Dakota. Pollock has been characterized as a South Dakota painter whose work is a bridge between the abstract and the concrete.
Natalia Germanou.  Natalia Germanou (Greek: Ναταλία Γερμανού; born in Athens Greece in June 22 1965) is a Greek lyricist television hostess radio producer DJ and journalist. Germanou has written lyrics for many popular Greek singers such as Anna Vissi Christos Dantis Elena Paparizou Sakis Rouvas Despina Vandi Mihalis Hatzigiannis Notis Sfakianakis Natasa Theodoridou Labis Livieratos Katy Garbi and many more.
John Nettleton (actor).  John Nettleton (born 5 February 1929) is an English actor best known for playing Sir Arnold Robinson Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980–84) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes Prime Minister (1985–88). Another political role for Nettleton was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the sitcom The New Statesman.
Leo Mol.  Leonid Molodoshanin known as Leo Mol OC OM (January 15 1915 – July 4 2009) was a Ukrainian Canadian stained glass artist and sculptor.
Daniel Bennett (saxophonist).  Daniel Bennett (born November 27 1979) is an American saxophonist who lives in Manhattan. Daniel Bennett is best known for his folk jazz music.
Beşir Ayvazoğlu.  Beşir Ayvazoğlu (born in Sivas Turkey in 1953) is a Turkish lyricist.
Alan Chang.  Alan Peijei Chang (born December 4 1979) is an American pianist and songwriter best known for his work with Michael Bublé. Originally from San Jose California he graduated from USC's Thornton School of Music majoring in jazz studies in 2002.Chang began his passion for jazz at Castillero Middle School. At the age of 13 Chang began accompanying nearby Pioneer High School with their daily musical rehearsals as well as a local dance studio.
Peter Parnall.  Peter Parnall (born May 23 1936) is an author and artist/illustrator best known for his work on books for younger readers. His work has earned him high praise and a number of awards. Some of his books have become collector items.
Francesco Vicentino.  Francesco Vicentino (active 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Milan and became a pupil of Cesare Bernazano. He painted for Santa Maria delle Grazie at Milan and other churches.
Fuyumi Shiraishi.  Fuyumi Shiraishi (白石冬美 Shiraishi Fuyumi born October 14 1941 in Beiping Reorganized National Government of China) is a Japanese voice actor.
Adam Muraszko.  Adam Muraszk (born Adam Potyka) also known as Baal and Baal Ravenlock is a Czech/Polish heavy metal musician. He was the drummer for Behemoth from 1991 to 1996. He also contributed with the band Hell-Born.
Bibian Norai.  Bibian Norai (born September 1 1967) is a Spanish pornographic actress. She won the 2003 FICEB Ninfa Award for Best Spanish Actress for The Fetish Garden.
Charles H. Wesley.  Charles Harris Wesley (December 2 1891 – August 16 1987) was an American historian educator minister and author. He published more than 15 books on African-American history served as president of Wilberforce University and founding president of Central State University both in Ohio.
Engels Kozlov.  Engels Vasilievich Kozlov (Russian: Э́нгельс Васи́льевич Козло́в; March 24 1926 Troitsko-Pechorsk Komi Republic USSR – November 20 2007 Saint Petersburg Russia) – Soviet Russian painter People's Artist of Russia lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his genre and portrait painting.
Berlinghiero Berlinghieri.  Berlinghiero Berlinghieri also known as Berlinghiero of Lucca (fl. 1228 – between 1236 and 1240) was an Italian painter of the early thirteenth century. He was the father of the painters Barone Berlinghieri Bonaventura Berlinghieri and Marco Berlinghieri.His actual name is unknown as he is known from the inscription Berlingerius me pinxit on the crucifix which is the basis of attributing other works to him.
George Barris (auto customizer).  George Barris (born November 20 1925) is an American designer and builder of many famous custom cars.
Kang Ji-young.  Kang Ji-young (born January 18 1994) is a South Korean idol singer is a former member of the Korean girl group Kara.
Mitch McVicker.  Mitch McVicker is a GMA Dove Award-winning Contemporary Christian Music singer-songwriter.
Manas Mukherjee.  Manas Mukherjee (also known as Manas Mukharji) was a renowned Bengali music director who composed several albums in Hindi. Mukherjee was also the parent of two well known Indian singers Shaan and Sagarika. He died in 1986.
Natalia Valevskaya (fashion designer).  Natalia Valevskaya born on (1978-06-10)10 June 1978 is a Russian Haute Couture fashion designer and art historian. She has been producing exclusive garments under the brand NATALIA VALEVSKAYA since 1998. Intil 2009 all her collections have been presented at the Moscow Fashion Week. Natalia has also been the designer of garments for the participants of several international beauty contests Russian music shows and festivals.
Sophie Delila.  Sophie Delila (born 7 August 1983) is a London-based French recording artist songwriter musician and producer currently signed to Universal Music.
Vanessa Campbell.  Vanessa Campbell (June 24 1953 - August 25 2002) was a cabaret blues jazz and rock singer and actress who appeared in a national tour of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Law & Order.She died after a brief illness in New York at age 49.
Simon Rogers.  Simon Rogers is an English musician and composer notable for his chart success both as a musician and as a producer as well as for his considerable portfolio of television soundtrack work.
Jason Bieler.  Jason Bieler (also often known simply as Jason) is a singer guitarist and songwriter who is most famous for playing with hard rock band Saigon Kick.He has also played in other bands including an early touring version of Talisman and Super TransAtlantic which also featured several other Saigon Kick members and Extreme bassist Pat Badger.Bieler released a solo album in 1998 titled Houston We Have a Problem on his own BVB records label.After the demise of Super TransAtlantic Bieler and his brother Aaron founded Bieler Bros. 
Daarken.  Daarken (Michael Lim) is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Jonathan Smith (novelist).  Jonathan Smith (born 1942) is an English novelist writer and teacher. A career English teacher he is best known for his novels and has written numerous radio plays.
Dionysios Solomos.  Dionysios Solomos (Greek: Διονύσιος Σολωμός; 8 April 1798 – 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían) of which the first two stanzas set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros became the Greek national anthem in 1865.
Humfrey Anger.  Joseph Humfrey Anger (3 June 1862 – 11 June 1913) was a Canadian organist pianist conductor composer and music educator of English birth. His compositional output consists mainly of church music and works for solo piano and organ. Some of his more well known works are A Concert Overture for organ (1895) the patriotic song Hail Canada (1911) and Tintamarre Morceau de Salon (1911) all of which were published by Whaley Royce & Co.
Mykhaylo Berkos.  Mykhailo Andrіyovich Berkos (Ukrainian: Михайло Андрійович Беркос 1861 Odessa – 1919 Kharkiv) was a Russian and Ukraine artist of Greek origin. He worked mainly in the genre of landscape art experienced a significant influence of European Impressionism. He painted in oils and watercolors. In his works he often turned to the subject of Ukrainian nature.
Hollie Cook.  Hollie Cook is an British singer who has recorded as a solo artist and is also part of the recent lineup of The Slits.
Marvin Sease.  Marvin Sease (February 16 1946 – February 8 2011) was an American blues and soul singer-songwriter known for his racy lyrics.
Candy Lo.  Candy Lo is a Canto- rock singer-songwriter and actress from Hong Kong. She has released nine studio albums over forty singles two compilations one live album and one EP with Sony Music to date. On 11 June she released her first EP on her new label WOW Music.
Wallace Tripp.  Wallace Whitney Tripp (born June 26 1940) is an American illustrator anthologist and author. He is known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor. He is one of several illustrators of the Amelia Bedelia series of children's stories.
Dudley Hardy.  Dudley Hardy RI ROI RBA RMS PS (b. Sheffield Yorkshire 15 January 1867 – d. London 11 August 1922) was an English painter and illustrator.Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy under whose influence and tutelage he first learned to draw and paint. In 1882 he attended the Düsseldorf Academy where he remained for three years.
Natalie Minardi Slater.  Natalie Minardi Slater is an American television soap opera writer. She was originally groomed by Kay Alden to be her successor on Y&R when she stepped down as Head Writer.
Richard Gall.  Richard Gall (1776–1801) was a Scottish poet.Gall the son of a notary was born at Linkhouse near Dunbar in December 1776. Having attended the parish school of Haddington he was apprenticed at the age of eleven to his maternal uncle a carpenter and builder. He afterwards became a printer's apprentice in Edinburgh and there he gave his leisure to study. He then became travelling clerk to a Mr. Ramsay in whose employment he remained till his death 10 May 1801.
John Hartung.  John Hartung (born 1947) is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the State University of New York. His BA is from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD is from Harvard University in anthropology. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology.He has also published some widely cited work in other fields notably some early pioneering research in human behavioral ecology on inheritance patterns and also a controversial paper in Skeptic (U.S.
Parviz Nouri.  Parviz Nouri (Persian: پرویز نوری; born May 1 1938) is an Iranian movie critic screen writer and director who has been involved in production of over 20 movies and television shows. He currently resides in the United States and lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife Soraya Shivai.
Levchenko Yaroslav.  Levchenko Yaroslav Yury (born 25 September 1987) is a Russian contemporary artist a member of the Artists Union of Russia Mural section also a member of the Russian Art Critics and Art history association AIS The Association embraces Russian national Section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA.
Michael S. Chernuchin.  Michael S. Chernuchin (born 1954) is an American television writer and producer. He has worked on the NBC crime dramas Law & Order and Brooklyn South. He has won a Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award and an Edgar Award.
Derek Brin.  Derek Brin is a multi-platinum award-winning music producer sound designer and mix engineer who founded Fierce Music Entertainment Inc. based in Toronto Los Angeles and the Caribbean. He is also CEO and creator of iCaribbeanTunes.com a major portal where the film television and video game industries can go to license music from the Caribbean. Brin whose father is from St.
Jun Mizusawa.  Jun Mizusawa (水沢潤 Mizusawa Jun born July 3 1966 in Yamaguchi Japan) is a Japanese voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the adult Princess Zelda and her alter ego Sheik in The Legend of Zelda series. Her real name is Keiko Uehara (上原 慶子 Uehara Keiko).
Bingyi.  Bingyi (Chinese: 黄冰逸) born in 1975 in Beijing is an emerging Chinese artist curator scholar architectural designer cultural critic and activist.
Llywarch ap Llywelyn.  Llywarch ap Llywelyn (fl. 1173–1220) was a medieval Welsh poet. He is also known by his bardic name Prydydd y Moch.Llywarch was a poet in the court of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and is known for a number of awdlau in praise of his lord. One of Llywarch's successors in the court of Gwynedd was the poet Dafydd Benfras.
Charlie Laine.  Charlie Laine (born January 31 1984) is an American pornographic actress and adult model originally from Marion Wisconsin.
John Martin Crawford (scholar).  John Martin Crawford (1845–1916) was an American physician and scholar who translated the Finnish epic Kalevala into English based on a previous German translation by Franz Anton Schiefner published in 1852 to be published for the first time in 1888.Apart from this very little is known about him.He is also credited with editing roles on a few other works: English translation of the 5 volume The industries of Russia published in 1893 English translation of Siberia and the Great Siberian Railway published in 1893
Billy Jack Saucier.  Billy Jack Saucier (January 21 1931 - October 21 1987) was an acclaimed Grand National Fiddler and a native of Dallas Texas.
Jill Bauman.  Jill Bauman is an American artist. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award five times and nominated for the Chesley Award several times. Her art has been exhibited at the Delaware Art Museum the Moore College of Art Art Students League of New York the NY Illustrators Society & and the Science Fiction Museum of Seattle.
Muddy Waters.  McKinley Morganfield (April 4 1913 – April 30 1983) known as Muddy Waters was an American blues musician. He is considered the father of modern Chicago blues and was a major inspiration for the British blues explosion of the 1960s.
Michael Morton (dramatist).  Michael Morton (1864–January 11 1931) was an English dramatist in the early Twentieth Century.
Megan Rochell.  Megan Rochell is an American contemporary R&B singer who was formerly signed to Def Jam Records.
Elizabeth Greenfield.  Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (1824–March 31 1876) dubbed The Black Swan was an African-American singer considered the best-known black concert artist of her time. She was noted by James M. Trotter for her remarkably sweet tones and wide vocal compass.
Benni Efrat.  Benni Efrat (born 1936) is an Israeli painter sculptor printmaker and filmmaker who was born in Beirut. He immigrated to Palestine in 1947. From 1959 to 1961 he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkel Streichman (1906–1993).From 1966 to 1976 he lived in London where he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
Monique (pornographic actress).  Monique is an African-American pornographic actress. She has performed in over 300 movies and she has directed the Monique's Sexaholics series. In 2002 Monique appeared in Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp which was the 2004 AVN Award winner for Top Selling Release of the Year.
Emi Morimoto.  Emi Morimoto (森本 絵美 Morimoto Emi) (September 13 1981) is a musician from Kyoto Japan and the drummer and backing vocalist of pop-punk group Shonen Knife. She joined Shonen Knife in 2010 after their previous drummer Etsuko Nakanishi left the band. Morimoto had just left the Kyoto-based experimental trio Ni Hao! when she unexpectedly received a call from Shonen Knife’s manager asking her to join.
Cissy Houston.  Emily Cissy Houston (née Drinkard; born September 30 1933) is an American soul gospel singer. She led a successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin and is now primarily a solo artist and has won two Grammy Awards for her work. She is the mother of Whitney Houston aunt of Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick and a cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price.
Kerry Louise.  Kerry Louise is the stage name of a British pornographic actress from Nottingham in the East Midlands.Louise began part-time glamour modeling in 2004 whilst continuing her day job in a bank. She eventually began modeling full-time and entered the adult industry in January 2009.
Jim Jennewein.  For the architect see Jim Jennewein (architect)	Jim Jennewein (born James Jennewein) is a screenwriter and writer. In 2008 he partnered with author Tom S. Parker and together they wrote their first novel Runewarriors: Shield of Odin which is based on Norse mythology. The Runewarriors series was continued with 2010's Sword of Doom and 2011's Ship of the Dead. He is a professor at CSU Northridge.[citation needed]
Marykate O'Neil.  Marykate O'Neil (born in Hudson Massachusetts) is an American indiepop singer-songwriter currently based in New York City. She is known for her quirky literate pop sensibilities.[citation needed] She recently released her fourth solo effort Underground (Nettwerk/71 Recordings) on February 3 2009 following 2002's self-titled album (which made it onto CMJ's 'Best of 2002' list) 2006’s 1-800-Bankrupt and 2008’s mkULTRA EP.
Wells Tower.  Wells Tower (born April 14 1973) is an American writer of short stories and non-fiction.
Tom Chatto.  Thomas Tom Chatto (1 September 1920 – 8 August 1982) was a British actor. He made some 28 appearances between 1957 and his death. Chatto appeared mostly in films including Oscar Wilde (1960) in which he played the Clerk of Arraigns. He had a minor role in the pilot episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969 in the episode My Late Lamented Friend and Partner.Born Thomas Chatto St John Sproule Chatto was also well-known for his role in the 1969 Guy Hamilton film Battle of Britain.
Chip E..  Irwin Larry Eberhart II known as Chip E. is an American DJ and record producer.
Angel Chang.  Angel Chang is an American fashion designer and early pioneer in the cross-over between fashion and technology. She received the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award and Cartier Women's Initiative Award in 2007. The revival of endangered traditional Chinese hand-craftsmanship translated into modern designs is the philosophy behind her current womenswear label Atelier ANGEL CHANG.
Michiaki Furuya.  Furuya Michiaki (古屋 道秋 Furuya Michiaki born July 13 1972) is a Japanese voice actor who voiced Yūto Kigai in the X/1999 anime television series.
Jeremy Dale (comics).  Jeremy Dale is an American comic book artist best known for his work on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and the 2008 Harvey Award-winning[citation needed] Popgun v.1 from Image Comics.
William Baldé.  Mohamed Guy William Baldé known as William Baldé is a singer-songwriter and composer born in Guinea. In 2008 he became famous with his album En corps étranger and his single Rayon de soleil number-one hit in France and Belgium.
Raimonds Pauls.  Raimonds Pauls (born January 12 1936 in Iļģuciems Riga Latvia) is a Latvian and Soviet composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia and the former Soviet Union.
San Win.  San Win (Burmese: ဆန်းဝင်း; 1905–1981) was a painter who is renowned in Burma as the first Burmese painter to embrace impressionism as his chief style of depiction. He is also well known as a devoted and tireless government official who presided over art programs in Burma.
Johnna Lee Cummings.  Johnna Lee Cummings is an American pop music singer.
Rachele Lynae.  Rachele Lynae Wurm (born 1988) better known by her stage name Rachele Lynae (pronounced /rəˈʃɛl lɨˈneɪ/) is an American country rock singer.Lynae released her self-titled debut album on April 22 2014 having released the new single Touch The Stars on February 18 2014.
Philippe Bühler.  Philippe Bühler (born 29 November 1981) aka Philippe Heithier (named after his mother's birth name) is a German singer songwriter dancer record producer and manager. He came to fame as a contestant on the second season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar the German version of Pop Idol. Bühler was eliminated in the top 3 after receiving 29.12 percent of the vote.Since the show Bühler has released two singles and is currently working on his first album.
Kathryn Jean Finlayson.  Kathryn Jean Finlayson is an artist from Salt Lake City Utah. She is primarily known for her surrealistic paintings which feature a diversity of styles and subject including fantastic conceptualization of landscapes and animals particularly horses. She stated  The ideas for my art come from dreams and imagination and sometimes from impressions of memories of childhood. Her media is primarily oil paint.Finlayson was born in Denver Colorado.
Lew Douglas.  Lew Douglas (August 25 1912 - November 11 1997) was an American composer arranger and conductor. He is most noted for three major compositions in the 1950s. In January 1953 Mr. Douglas had the #1 song Why Don't You Believe Me? sung by Joni James The #10 song Have You Heard? again by Joni James and the #13 song Pretend sung by Nat King Cole.
Keremcem.  Kerem Cem Dürük (born 28 December 1977 in Muğla Turkey) better known as Keremcem is a Turkish pop singer and actor. He also hosted the short-lived television show Keremcem ile söyle söyleyebilirsen on Star TV.
Jen Cass.  Jen Cass is an American singer-songwriter born in Detroit Michigan.
Eric D. Johnson.  Eric Donald Johnson (born June 7 1976) is an American singer-songwriter composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the leader of the influential folk-rock band Fruit Bats and for his frequent collaborations with bands such as The Shins Vetiver and Califone. He has also scored films most notably Our Idiot Brother and Smashed. In 2014 it was announced he would begin a new solo recording project called EDJ.
Riaad Moosa.  Riaad Moosa (Urdu: رياض موسی‎; born 18 June 1977) is an Indian-born South African comedian actor and doctor of Indian-Malay descent.
Slimmy.  Slimmy born Paulo Fernandes is a Portuguese singer/songwriter who combines various genres of rock especially electro rock. He has an irreverent visual look and an addictive musical style and has achieved mainstream success after an appearance on the Portuguese soap opera Morangos com Açúcar. His music has also appeared in one episode of CSI. His song Self Control has been featured on Sky Sports.
Angelo Pascal.  Angelo Pascal (Turin August 1858 – July 18 1888) was an Italian painter.
Francis Monkman.  Francis Monkman (born 9 June 1949 in Hampstead North London England) is an English rock classical and film score composer and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky.
Mona Abou Hamza.  Mona Abou Hamze (Arabic: منى أبو حمزة‎) also known as Mona Abu Hamze is a Lebanese TV presenter. notable for hosting a talk show called Talk of the Town on Murr Television . Mona won the Murex d'Or Award for best TV presenter. She also ranked fourteenth in Top 100 Sexiest Arab Women 2010 in fanoos.com.
Gavin Hamilton (artist).  Gavin Hamilton (1723 Lanarkshire – 4 January 1798 Rome) was a British (Scottish) neoclassical history painterwho is more widely remembered for his hunts for antiquities in the neighborhood of Rome. These roles in combination made him an arbiter of neoclassical taste.
Roger Hutchinson (writer).  Roger Hutchinson (born 1949) is a British author and journalist. Hutchinson was born at Farnworth near Bolton in Lancashire but lives on Raasay off the east coast of Skye.
Dorothea Celesia.  Dorothea Celesia (bap. 1738 died 1790) was a poet and playwright best known for Almida her translation of Voltaire's Tancrède (1760).She was the youngest child of David Mallet (ca. 1701–1765) playwright and poet and his first wife Susanna (d. 1742). She was educated at home and in 1758 she married Pietro Paolo Celesia (d. 1806) Ambassador to England (1755 to 1759). She moved with her husband to Genoa in 1759 and remained there until her death.
Kimberly Forsyth.  Kimberly Forsyth is a beauty queen from Cabot Arkansas who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Forsyth won the Miss Arkansas USA title in a state pageant held in Conway Arkansas in late 2005. It was her second attempt at the title having placed second runner-up in the previous year's event. Forsyth represented Arkansas in the nationally televised Miss USA 2006 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore Maryland in April 2006 but did not place. The pageant was won by Tara Conner of Kentucky.
David Bedford.  David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music.He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford and the grandson of the composer painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann.From 1969 to 1981 Bedford was Composer in Residence at Queen's College London. From 1968 to 1980 he taught music in a number of London secondary schools.
Gerard Donovan.  Gerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist photographer and poet living in Plymouth England working as a lecturer at the University of Plymouth.
Hayley Lever.  Hayley Lever (28 September 1876 - 6 December 1958) was an Australian-American painter etcher lecturer and art teacher.
Marcus Schmickler.  Marcus Schmickler (born November 15 1968 in Cologne) is a German composer musician and producer. He is also known under the pseudonym Pluramon.In 1968 he was born as the son of an industrial salesman and a baker's daughter in Cologne. Soon his parents moved to Kuerten where he met the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1991 after spending a year in London he started studying music in Cologne and became a member of the seminal collective Kontakta.
John Shebbeare.  John Shebbeare (1709–1788) was a British Tory political satirist.
Political career of Marcus Tullius Cicero.  The Political career of Marcus Tullius Cicero began in 75 BC when Marcus Tullius Cicero was elected to political office and ended in 43 BC when he was assassinated upon the orders of Mark Antony. Cicero a Roman statesman lawyer political theorist philosopher and Roman constitutionalist reached the height of Roman power the Consulship and played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
Alain Tasso.  Alain Tasso is a Lebanese-French poet painter and essayist born in Beirut on July 22 1962. An autodidact his prolific intense literary work is largely acclaimed by critics.
Clive Shakespeare.  Clive Richard Shakespeare (3 June 1947 – 15 February 2012) was an English-born Australian pop guitarist songwriter and producer. He was a co-founder of pop rock group Sherbet which had commercial success in the 1970s including their number-one single Summer Love in 1975. The majority of Sherbet's original songs were co-written by Shakespeare with fellow band member Garth Porter.
Michi Himeno.  Michi Himeno (姫野 美智 Himeno Michi) is a Japanese animation artist and character designer. Her most famous work is on the TV series Saint Seiya.
Greg Penny.  Greg Penny (born October 12 1955 in Hollywood California) is an American record producer recording engineer mixing engineer musician songwriter and artist best known for his work as a producer for Elton John and k.d. lang. He is currently the president of Flower Records and partner at Siwa Productions Tokyo.
Augusto Licata.  Augusto Licata (Rome August 31 1851- Naples 1942) was an Italian painter of Realist portraits and genre subjects.
Baby Lloyd Stallworth.  Lloyd Eugene Stallworth also known as Baby Lloyd (April 15 1941 - October 27 2002) was an American singer dancer songwriter musician choreographer and recording artist.He was a member of the R&B vocal group The Famous Flames on King Records from 1958 to 1967. Stallworth was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of The Famous Flames.
Steven Zevitas.  Steven Zevitas is an American curator writer and publisher. He is the founder of the artist journal New American Paintings and gallery OSP Gallery.
Elaine Shemilt.  Elaine Shemilt is an artist and researcher especially known as a fine art printmaker. Her work ranges across a wide variety of media. However hers is not a conventional approach to the medium. According to the art historian and theorist Alan Woods: Her work ranges across a wide variety of media. Initially it focused on installation the various printmaking media were used in an attempt to continue and develop the installations by other means.
Bud Blake.  Julian W. Blake (February 13 1918 - December 26 2005) better known as Bud Blake was an American cartoonist who created the popular long running comic strip Tiger about a group of suburban boyhood pals. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Tiger began May 3 1965. At its peak it was published internationally in some 400 newspapers.
Ann Eliza Bleecker.  Ann Eliza Bleecker (October 1752 – November 23 1783) was an American poet and correspondent. Following a New York upbringing Bleecker married John James Bleecker a New Rochelle lawyer in 1769. He encouraged her writings and helped her publish a periodical containing her works.The American Revolution saw John join the New York Militia while Ann fled with their two daughters. She continued to write and what remained of the family returned to Tomhannock following Burgoyne's surrender.
Idries Shah.  Idries Shah (16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996) (Persian: ادریس شاه‎ Urdu: ادریس شاه‎ Hindi: इदरीस शाह) also known as Idris Shah né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and by the pen name Arkon Daraul was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.Born in India the descendant of a family of Afghan nobles Shah grew up mainly in England.
Carl Craig.  Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs.
Tim Matthews.  Tim Matthews (born 4 April 1976 Oxfordshire England) is an English actor who began his career in Fuente Ovejuna at the National Theatre in London and after several other stage jobs found his first television appearance in a supporting role in the premiere episode of Five Children and It in 1991.From 2001 till 2007 he played the role of Liam McGuire in 53 episodes of Doctors.In HBO's Band of Brothers he portrayed Alex Penkala in seven episodes.
Dado (painter).  Dado (born as Miodrag Đurić 1933–2010) was a Yugoslavian-born artist who spent most of his life and creative career in France. He is particularly known as a painter but was also active as an engraver drawer book illustrator and sculptor.
Ben Shepherd.  Hunter Benedict Ben Shepherd (born September 20 1968) is an American musician best known for playing bass in the rock band Soundgarden since 1990.
Josje Huisman.  Josina Josje Huisman (born 16 February 1986 in Heusden) is a Dutch singer actress dancer host and the newest member of the girl group K3. She was chosen in the television show K2 Zoekt K3 in 2009.
Ras Midas.  Ras Midas (born in 1958 Clarendon Parish Jamaica) is a reggae artist and member of the Rastafari movement most famous for his album Rastaman in Exile. He went to the United Kingdom to live age 13. He began his career in music in 1968 and later enjoyed popularity with reggae audiences in France before relocating to the United States.
Hitonari Tsuji.  Hitonari Tsuji (辻 仁成 Tsuji Hitonari born October 4 1959) is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer composer and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Jinsei Tsuji an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his name. He debuted as a writer in 1989. His films include Hotoke (ほとけ) (2001) and Filament (フイラメント) (2001).
McCormack Easmon.  McCormack Charles Farrell Easmon OBE popularly known as M.C.F. Easmon or Charlie (11 April 1890 – 2 May 1972) was born in Accra in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) where his father John Farrell Easmon a prominent Creole doctor was working at the time.
Alessandro Verri.  Alessandro Verri (9 November 1741 – 23 September 1816) was an Italian author.Born in Milan into an aristocratic family as a young he participated in the Accademia dei Pugni founded together his brother Pietro Verri and their friends Cesare Beccaria Alfonso Longo Pietro Secchi Giambattista Biffi and Luigi Lambertenghi. Later he collaborated to the magazine Il Caffè. In this period he wrote the Saggio sulla Storia d'Italia (Essay on Italian History 1761-1766).
Dottie Rambo.  Dottie Rambo (March 2 1934 – May 11 2008) was an American gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy and multiple Dove Award-winning artist. Rambo along with husband Buck and daughter Reba formed the award-winning southern Gospel group The Rambos. She claimed she penned more than twenty-five hundred songs including her most notable He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need We Shall Behold Him and I Go To the Rock.In 2000 Rambo was awarded the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award.
Chris Moore (musician).  Christopher James Moore also known by his alias CDVR (an abbreviated styling of cadavre) is an American vocalist keyboardist and hip hop producer. He was born in Detroit Michigan on June 19 1990. Moore has performed in a number of post-hardcore and metalcore bands including Dead Like Me We Came as Romans and I See Stars. He is now concentrating on his stylistically diverse solo-project called CDVR. On August 4 2011 he released his debut EP titled Electronic Play.
Kahn Singh Nabha.  Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha (August 30 1861- November 24 1938) was a Sikh lexicographer and encyclopedist. His most influential work Mahan Kosh inspired generations of scholars after him. He also played a role in the Singh Sabha movement.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka.  Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzɔfja ˈkɔssak ˈʂt͡ʂut͡ska]; 10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded the wartime Polish organization Żegota set up to assist Polish Jews to escape the Holocaust. In 1943 she was arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp but survived the war.
Bones Howe.  Dayton Burr Bones Howe (born March 18 1933) is a Grammy-award-winning record producer and recording engineer associated with 1960s and 1970s hits mostly of the sunshine pop genre including most of the hits of The 5th Dimension and The Association as well as music supervision of several films. He was one of the first industry members to serve as both producer and engineer of the hit records on which he worked.
Big Youth.  Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949 Trenchtown Kingston Jamaica) better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth) is a Jamaican deejay mostly known for his work during the 1970s.He commented Deejays were closest to the people because there wasn't any kind of establishment control on the sound systems.
Al Foster.  Al Foster (born January 18 1943 in Richmond Virginia) is an American jazz drummer. Foster played with Miles Davis's large funk fusion group in the 1970s was one of the few people to have contact with Miles Davis during his retirement and was also part of his comeback album The Man with the Horn in 1981. He was the only musician to play in Davis's band for both periods.Foster has toured extensively with Herbie Hancock Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson.
Walter Anderson (English artist).  Walter Anderson (died 11 January 1903) was an English artist who was a painter lithographer and engraver. His paintings were made of still live landscapes and genre.
Ned Manning.  Ned Manning is an Australian playwright actor and teacher whose film credits include the lead role in Dead End Drive-In (1986) and an appearance in the teen film Looking for Alibrandi (2000). Manning's television credits include Bodyline The Shiralee Prisoner and Brides of Christ. His first major play was Us or Them and its production by Griffin Theatre Company marked the company's transition to being staffed by professional actors.
Heidi Brühl.  Heidi Rosemarie Brühl (30 January 1942 Gräfelfing Upper Bavaria – 8 June 1991 Starnberg) was a German singer and actress who came to prominence as a young teenager and had a prolific career in film and television. She was also a successful recording artist and is known for her participation in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
Rudolfo Nolli.  Cavaliere Rudolfo Nolli (1888–1963) was a sculptor and architect from Lombardy who during the first half of the 20th century worked mainly in Southeast Asia.He was the nephew of the sculptor Vittorio Novi from Lanzo d'Intelvi a village close to Lake Como in northern Italy.Around 1914 Novi created the marble decoration for the new Mahaiudthit Bridge in Bangkok and also did marble works for the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall.
Seaneen Molloy.  Seaneen Molloy (born in Belfast) is a Northern Irish blogger and activist based in London who writes on issues predominately related to mental illness. She is a columnist for BBC Ouch! the BBC disability website. She is also a regular contributor to One in Four magazine and has written for The Guardian and The Observer. Her blog the Secret Life of a Manic Depressive was adapted for BBC Radio 4 under the title Dos and Don'ts for the Mentally Interesting.
Ranidu Lankage.  Ranidu Lankage (Sinhala:රනිදු ලංකාගේ) is a Sinhalese R&B and hip hop artist who raised the international profile of Sinhalese RnB/pop. Lankage is the first Sinhalese artist to be played on BBC Radio 1[citation needed] and the creator of the first Sinhalese single to be played on MTV and channel V and Z music India. He is a graduate in Economics from Yale University.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter.  Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).
Nicolas Flagello.  Nicolas Flagello (March 15 1928 – March 16 1994) was an American composer and conductor of classical music.Flagello was born in New York City into a very musical family. His brother Ezio Flagello was a bass who sang at the Metropolitan Opera. One of his first music teachers was the composer Vittorio Giannini and he then studied at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1955 he went on to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome where he studied with Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Tim Walker.  Timothy Tim Walker (born 1970) is a British fashion photographer who regularly shoots for Vogue W Magazine and LOVE Magazine.
Mustafa Hassanali.  Mustafa Hassanali (born June 9 1980) is a Tanzanian fashion designer and a qualified doctor.[citation needed]Hassanali's collections have been shown widely throughout Africa and Italy.[citation needed] His work features detailed beadwork and embellishments.His work has been showcased at the Cape Town fashion week Vukani Fashion Awards in Pretoria Miss Ethiopia Beauty pageant Mediterranean Fashion Festival in Sicily Italy and Uganda and Kenya Fashion Week as well as signature shows in Tanzania.[citation needed]His work has been featured in several African magazines including The East African African Woman Kenyan Cosmopolitan and Bang Magazine. 
Erik Ohlsson (musician).  Erik Ohlsson (born July 2 1975 in Örebro Sweden) is the lead and rhythm guitarist of Swedish punk rock band Millencolin. He currently resides in Örebro Sweden. He designs most all of the band's artwork including their t-shirts logos cover artwork and their official homepage. Ohlsson edited and designed Millencolin's 1998 video Millencolin and the Hi-8 Adventures. He also works as a freelance graphic designer at Eckhouse Design.
Henri Rousseau.  Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; May 21 1844 – September 2 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his lifetime he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
Hugh Padgham.  Hugh Charles Padgham (born 15 February 1955 in Amersham Buckinghamshire) is an English record producer. He has won many awards including four Grammys with Producer of the Year (1985) and Engineer of the Year. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.
Kapitolina Rumiantseva.  Kapitolina Alexeevna Rumiantseva (Russian: Капитоли́на Алексе́евна Румя́нцева; December 16 1925 Leningrad USSR – August 8 2002 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad).
Steve Parry (musician).  Steve Parry (born Stephen John Parry 4 September 1958) Pontypool South Wales Valleys is a Welsh guitarist musician composer who was a founder member of the experimental rock band Hwyl Nofio.He founded and played with Neu Electrikk. He has recorded with Colin Potter of Nurse with Wound and played with Matt Johnson of the post punk band The The.
Albert Ludovici Sr..  Albert Johann Ludovici (3 September 1820 in Zittau Saxony – September 1894 in Vevey Switzerland) son of Henriette Amilie (née Wölher 1795–1826) and Johann August Ludovici (1789–1872).After living in Chemnitz until 1843 he moved to Paris where he studied at the Atelier Drölling and was a contemporary of the well-known artist Jean-Jacques Henner. He then moved to England living in Margate and started his career as a painter.
Sally Flynn.  Sally Flynn (born July 23 1946 in Ontario Oregon) is an American singer and musician (also known as Sally Hart) who was a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program.A graduate of Brigham Young University (BYU) she and BYU classmate Sandi Griffiths joined the The Lawrence Welk Show in 1968 as the singing act of Sandi & Salli.
Karyn Rochelle.  Karyn Rochelle (born in Wilmington North Carolina) is an American country music songwriter. Her credits include several hit singles by country music artists including I Wonder Red High Heels and Don't You Know You're Beautiful for Kellie Pickler as well as Georgia Rain and This Is Me You're Talking To for Trisha Yearwood. Georgia Rain also earned Rochelle a BMI award for being one of the most performed country songs of 2005.
Umberto Bindi.  Umberto Bindi (12 May 1932 - 24 May 2002) was an Italian singer-songwriter. He is especially known for the popular song he co-wrote with Gino PaoliIl Mio Mondo (You're My World) which he recorded in Italian in 1963. It was later performed by singers in English and other languages.
Max Sedgley.  Maxwell Cadien Sedgley known as Max Sedgley is a British producer and disc jockey currently signed to the independent record label Sunday Best (founded by Rob da Bank) and Jalapeno Records. He also records under the artist name Cadien. In 2004 Sedgley released his first single Happy a remix of which was later used by ITV as the theme music to their coverage of the Euro 2004 football tournament. It has also been used on adverts for Ambrosia Rice and Bacardi Rum.
Santa Rita Durão.  José de Santa Rita Durão (1722 – 1784) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of the Indianism in the literature of Brazil with his epic poem Caramuru.He is the correspondent patron of the 9th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Mike Johnson (bassist).  Mike Johnson (born 1965) is an American singer-songwriter guitarist producer and bass guitarist. He was born in Grants Pass Oregon and fronted Eugene Oregon punk band Snakepit from 1984 until their break up in 1989.He replaced Lou Barlow as bassist in Dinosaur Jr in 1991and played with the band live and on its recordings from 1991 to 1998.He was briefly married to from Juned's Leslie Hardy in 1994 and contributed to both the band's studio albums.
Thom Yorke.  Thomas Edward Thom Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist lyricist principal songwriter guitarist and pianist of the bands Radiohead and Atoms for Peace known for his falsetto singing style.
Ralf Brück.  Ralf Brueck (born 1966 Duesseldorf) is a German artist.Ralf Brueck is a younger exponent of the Düsseldorf School of Photography which has achieved worldwide renown through Andreas Gursky Candida Höfer Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff whose master student he became in 2002.From 1996 to 2003 he studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf.
Mal Webb.  Mal Webb (born 31 October 1966 Melbourne Australia) is a multi-instrumentalist and has performed in various groups in the Australian music scene.
Eileen Chang.  Eileen Chang (September 30 1920 – September 8 1995) also known as Zhang Ailing or Chang Ai-ling was one of the most influential modern Chinese writers. Her most famous works include Lust Caution and Love in a Fallen City.Chang is noted for her fiction writings that deal with the tensions between men and women in love and are considered by some scholars to be among the best Chinese literature of the period.
Ahmed Al-Gubbanchi.  Ahmed Hasan Ali Al-Gubbanchi is an Iraqi liberal Muslim intellectual born in Najaf in 1958 who focuses on developing a Civil Islam which is consistent with human rights justice and modern circumstances addressing the problems of traditional Islamic thought as he thinks that the literal interpretation of Quran leads to the incapability of Islam to get use of modern development and achievements which leads in turn to the end of Islam he sees every Islamic thought as a mere opinion on Islam and that the Islamic scripture had to comply with the historic situations of the ancient society of the prophet Mohammed therefore it can not be considered literally he considers Sharia alterable depending on the society time and place one of the evidence to support that is the Quran verses themselves whose orders have been changed at the time of the prophet which is called Naskh. 
Carly Rose Sonenclar.  Carly Rose Sonenclar (born April 20 1999) is an American singer and teen actress. In December 2012 she became the runner-up on the second season of the American version of the The X Factor.She began her acting career in 2006 soon making her Broadway debut in Les Miserables as Young Cosette. Among other stage roles she originated the role of Chloe (Alice's daughter) in the 2011 musical Wonderland on Broadway.
Gary Harrison.  Gary Harrison is an American songwriter.
Sigurd Lybeck.  Sigurd Lybeck (1895 Etnedal – 1975) was a Norwegian farmer and writer. He wrote several popular novels and stories mostly published as feuilletons in newspapers and magazines. His breakthrough was the series De giftegalne kaller i Oladalen published in Arbeidermagasinet in 1928. He is particularly remembered as the author of the cartoon Jens von Bustenskjold in Arbeidermagasinet (drawn by Anders Bjørgaard).
Phil McDermott.  Phil McDermott is a British actor. Before turning to acting he was a trainee priest a scrap metal worker a weighbridge operator and a carpenter. He is most famous for playing a regular character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He played the dim-witted odd-job man Trevor Short from 1989-1990.
John Guerin.  John Payne Guerin (October 31 1939 – January 5 2004) was an American drummer percussionist and session musician.
Dave Arneson.  David Lance Dave Arneson (October 1 1947 – April 7 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG) Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax in the early 1970s.
Joel Goldman.  Joel K. Goldman (born October 23 1952) is an American author and former trial attorney. He attended Shawnee Mission East High School where he participated in the school's debate team. and the University of Kansas as well as Moot Court He suffers from a tic disorder which he incorporated into one of his works the Jack Davis series.
Ray Condo.  Ray Condo (May 16 1950 – April 15 2004) born Ray Tremblay was a Canadian rockabilly singer saxophonist and guitarist.
Lucy Reed.  Lucy Reed (January 14 1921 in Marshfield Wisconsin - July 1 1998) was an American jazz singer noted on the Chicago jazz scene in the 1950s. In 1955 she performed with Bill Evans in New York City and Marx and Frigo in 1957. Her debut album This Is Lucy Reed was released in 1957.
Marcelo Adnet.  Marcelo França Adnet (born in Rio de Janeiro September 5 1981) is a Brazilian actor comedian and VJ. He has been on many TV shows: Adnet viaja (Adnet travels)(2012) Adnet ao vivo (Adnet live)(2011) and Comédia MTV (MTV Comedy)(2010-2012) and more.
Jimmy Edgar.  Jimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based electronic music artist signed to K7 Records. In his early years he was influenced by Jazz funk street beat and r&b. He began his musical pursuit by playing the drums in experimental bands and by making tape recordings. Most of these recordings consisting mainly of pitch bent tape loops cut edits field recordings and noise tracks were the beginning of his experimentation with the technical aspects of production.
Brandi Shearer.  Brandi Shearer (born June 5 1980) is an American singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Oregon.
Christopher Williams (Welsh artist).  Christopher David Williams (1873 – 1934) was a Welsh artist.
B.B. Seaton.  Harris Lloyd B.B. Seaton (born 3 September 1944 Kingston Jamaica) also known as Bibby is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer who was a member of The Gaylads The Astronauts Conscious Minds and The Messengers (along with Ken Boothe Lloyd Charmers and Busty Brown) and who has had a long solo career dating back to 1960.
Arnhild Skre.  Arnhild Johanna Skre (born 19 May 1952) is a Norwegian newspaper editor press historian and biographer.She was born in Bergen. She finished her secondary education in 1971 and the Nansen Academy in 1972. In 1977 she graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.mag. degree in social anthropology ethnology and history. In 1978 she studied at the University of Iceland. In 2003 she took the cand.philol.
John Viavattine.  John Viavattine (born March 21 1955) is an American professional woodwind performer and instrumental music teacher in Rochester New York at Spencerport High School.
A.J. Applegate.  A.J. Applegate (born September 23 1989) is an American pornographic actress.
Hilton Als.  Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic who writes for The New Yorker magazine.Als is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.His 1996 book The Women focuses on his mother who raised him in Brooklyn Dorothy Dean and Owen Dodson who was a mentor and lover of Als.In the book Als explores his identification of the confluence of his ethnicity gender and sexuality moving from identifying as a Negress and then an Auntie Man a Barbadian term for homosexuals. 
William Wright (author).  William Wright (born October 22 1930) is an American author editor and playwright. He is best known for his non fiction writing covering a wildly divergent list of subjects: from the April in Paris Ball to genetics and behavior to true crime and grand opera. The great Harvard naturalist and author E. O.
John Henry Twachtman.  John Henry Twachtman (August 4 1853 – August 8 1902) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation.
Fakhar Zaman.  Fakhar Zaman is the chairman of the Pakistan Academy of Letters.A leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the chairman of the World Punjabi Congress he has also been playing a notable role in politics to achieve his socio-political ideals.[citation needed]
Helen Ward (singer).  Helen Ward (born September 19 1913 New York City – died April 21 1998 Arlington Virginia) was an American singer. Her father had taught her piano and she appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC. She also worked as a staff musician at WNYC.Starting in 1934 she sang in Benny Goodman's first band and became one of the first popular swing girl singers as they were then called and among Goodman's most popular.
Bruce Barth.  Bruce Barth born September 7 1958 in Pasadena California is a jazz pianist. He has played the piano since the age of five. Barth's career had included major work with ensembles as well as solo work. Throughout his career he has played on the Enja Double-Time Fresh Sound and MAXJAZZ labels.
Rob Balder.  Robert T. Balder is a professional cartoonist singer/songwriter game designer and web entrepreneur. He graduated from Roanoke College with a major in English in 1993 and after a variety of jobs entered a seven-year career in IT starting as a Manager of Database Development which he left for his current career.
John Wilson (Canadian writer).  John Wilson (born Edinburgh Scotland 1951) is a Canadian author.
J-Son.  Julimar Santos Oliveira Neponuceno (born April 27 1985) better known by his stage name J-Son is a Brazilian-born Swedish rapper and songwriter. He came to Göteborg Sweden with his mother when he was 5 years old. He is signed to EMI Music Publishing.The Brazilian-Swedish J-Son started his career with 'Lookie Lookie' and 'Pretty Boy' 2008. In May 2009 he produced the hooks for Extacy 50 Cent ft. J-Son and Loser with Lil Wayne Tommy Lee Spark Dawg Tyga Joell Ortiz Smitty Sum 41.
Rockne S. O'Bannon.  Rockne S. O'Bannon is a television producer and writer. He is the creator of the science fiction film Alien Nation and the television series seaQuest DSV The Triangle Farscape Cult and Defiance.He is married with one daughter and two sons and resides in California.[citation needed]O'Bannon grew up the son of a gaffer he was surrounded by film from his birth. His father worked on various films through Warner Bros.
Bradley Joseph.  Bradley Joseph (born 1965) is an American composer arranger and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra quartet and solo piano while his musical style ranges from quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth.Active since 1983 Joseph has performed in front of more than a half million people around the world.
King Sounds.  Roy Livingstone Plummer (born c.1948) better known as King Sounds is a Jamaican reggae musician who released several albums from late 1970s onwards.
Sara Lumholdt.  Sara Helena Lumholdt (born 25 October 1984) is a Swedish pop singer and former member of the Swedish quartet A-Teens.
William Neill (poet).  For other persons named William Neill see William Neill.William Neill (22 February 1922 – 5 April 2010) was an Ayrshire-born poet who wrote in Scottish and Irish Gaelic Lowland Scots and English. He was a major contributing voice to the Scottish Renaissance.
Rob Hood.  Robert (Maxwell) Hood (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. though his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction fantasy and crime. He has published five young adult novels three collections of his short fiction an adult epic fantasy novel fifteen children's books and over 120 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas.
Martin Stenmarck.  Martin Olof Jon Stenmarck (born October 3 1972 in Täby Municipality Stockholm County) is a Swedish singer and voice actor. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with Las Vegas finishing 19th with 30 points.In 2006 he released his first single in Swedish 7milakliv which became one of the year's biggest hits in Sweden.
Jan Eggum.  Jan Eggum (born 8 December 1951 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter who has been active since 1975. He is often characterised as a face for the melancholy and the themes in his songs are often broken hearts loneliness and sorrow. Sometimes his lyrics have social criticism but he also shows more trivial and funny sides of himself.He started as a pub singer in London and made his living for two years writing songs in English.
Jonathan Slinger.  Jonathan Slinger (born 1972 Accrington) is an English actor. He trained at RADA graduating in 1994. From there he went to work at the Royal National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. He has also worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company including the Complete Works and This England: The Histories cycles playing Richard II Fluellen Richard Duke of York and Richard III.
Wouter Kellerman.  Wouter Kellerman (born 20 September 1961) is a South African flautist and music composer who has won two South African Music Awards (SAMA’s : the South African version of the Grammy Awards). Using his classical training as a foundation Kellerman has focused his attention on World and Roots music exploring the versatility of the instrument and fusing classical and contemporary sounds. Kellerman's albums were mixed by Grammy Award–winning sound engineer S.
Lee Jae-jin (musician).  Lee Jae-jin (Hangul: 이재진; hanja: 李在真;Japanese:イ•ジェジン born December 17 1991) is a South Korean musician and actor. He is a member of rock band F.T. Island where he serves as the bassist 2nd vocalist. He has also contributed to FT Island's body of work with several compositions of his own.
Johanna Lind.  Johanna Karin Lind Clausen (born 13 October 1971) became Miss Sweden in 1993 and represented her country at Miss Universe where she was placed 16th overall during the preliminary.
Perry Ellis.  Perry Edwin Ellis (March 3 1940 – May 30 1986) was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Ellis' influence on the fashion industry has been called a huge turning point as he introduced new patterns and proportions to a market which was dominated by more traditional men's clothing.
Deborah Drattell.  Deborah Drattell (born 1956) is an American composer. She was born in Brooklyn New York and started her career in music as a violinist. Her compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra of St. Luke's the Tanglewood and Caramoor Music Festivals and many other groups and venues. Renowned for her operas she rewrote the role of the villain in Nicholas and Alexandra Rasputin from baritone to tenor when Plácido Domingo expressed interest in the role.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.  Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy (Russian: Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й) (September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 – October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1875) was a Russian poet novelist and playwright considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866) Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868) and Tsar Boris ( 1870).
Andrea Syrtash.  Andrea Syrtash is a New-York based dating & relationship expert on-air personality and author.
Matthew White (atrocitologist).  Matthew White is an independent scholar and self-described atrocitologist. His work has received praise from scholarly quarters including from Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. His published works include The Great Big Book of Horrible Things (2011) an account of the 100 worst atrocities in world history. The book has been translated into Italian and Portuguese.
Robert Janás.  Robert Janás (born 30 April 1973) is a Czech Stuckist Photographer and poet. He founded The Prague Stuckists in 2004 and has curated shows of the group and held solo photography shows.He has two books of poems Blue Mist and Lamps of Emerald. He won the poetry prizes Dies Academicus in 1998 and Šrámkova Sobotka in 1999 and 2000. He has also written papers on 19th-century painting and contemporary art as well as articles in magazines including Art & Antiques.
J. P. Cormier.  J.P. (John Paul) Cormier is a Canadian bluegrass/Folk/Celtic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in London Ontario in 1969 and began playing guitar around age five. As a child he displayed an unusual ability to play a variety of instruments by ear and won a guitar contest at age nine.Mr. Cormier has stated that he learned to play guitar by listening to such noted country / bluegrass musicians as Chet Atkins and Doc Watson. Other instruments J.P.
Robert Irving III.  Robert Irving III (b. 1953) is an American pianist composer arranger and music educator.A native of Chicago Irving was one of a group of young Chicago musicians that in the late '70s and early '80s formed the nucleus of Miles Davis' recording and touring bands. Irving left the Davis band in 1989 and has gone on to a prolific career as touring musician composer arranger producer educator and interdisciplinary artist.
Madhu Balakrishnan.  Madhu Balakrishnan (Malayalam: മധു ബാലകൃഷ്ണന്‍; Tamil: மது பாலகிருஷ்ணன்; born 24 June 1974) is an Indian playback singer who sings in Malayalam Telugu Tamil and Kannada languages. Balakrishnan is from Tripunithura Cochin Kerala in India. He is a graded artist for All India Radio and Doordarshan. He has performed with major playback singers such as K.J. Yesudas Asha Bhosle Jayachandran M. G. Sreekumar K. S. Chitra Sujatha Mohan Madhuri and P. Susheela.
HA Schult.  HA Schult born Hans-Jürgen Schult on June 24 1939 in Parchim Mecklenburg is a German installation happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage. His best known works include the touring work Trash People and the Save The Beach.
Seo Min-woo.  Seo Min-woo (Hangul: 서민우) (born February 8 1985)is a South Korean idol Singer Actor promotional model and Dancer. He is a member of South Korean boy group 100% under the label of TOP Media as the leader and vocalist.
Nayan Ghosh.  Pandit Nayan Ghosh (born April 28 1956) is an Indian tabla and sitar player.
Michelangelo Faggioli.  Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitan dialect. A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy he was as the composer of the opera buffa La Cilla in 1706.
Pinchas Sadeh.  Pinchas Sadeh also Pinhas Sadeh (Hebrew: פנחס שדה‎ born in Lemberg Poland 1929 died January 30 1994 in Jerusalem Israel) was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.
Jimmy Fallon.  James Thomas Jimmy Fallon (born September 19 1974) is an American television host comedian actor singer musician and producer. He currently hosts The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon a late-night talk show that airs on NBC. Prior to that he appeared in several films and was best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2004 and the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014.
Ken Whaley.  Ken Whaley (born 5 November 1946 in Vienna died 8 May 2013 in London) was a rock music bass guitar player best known as a founding member of Help Yourself and Ducks Deluxe and as a member of Deke Leonard's Iceberg Man and The Tyla Gang. He also played with The Archers and The Green Ray.
Max Bennett (musician).  Max Bennett (born May 24 1928) is an American jazz bassist and session musician.Bennett grew up in Kansas City and Oskaloosa Iowa and went to college in Iowa. His first professional gig was with Herbie Fields in 1949 and following this he played with Georgie Auld Terry Gibbs and Charlie Ventura. He served in the Army during the Korean War from 1951–53 and then played with Stan Kenton before moving to Los Angeles.
Kostas.  Kostas Lazarides (Greek: Κώστας Λαζαρίδης; born April 14 1949) is a Greek-born American country music songwriter known professionally as Kostas. He has written for several country music artists including Dwight Yoakam Patty Loveless George Strait and Travis Tritt and has won eleven awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). In addition he recorded one album entitled XS in Moderation on Liberty Records in 1994.
Kay Thorpe.  Kay Thorpe (born 1935 in England UK) is a British author of over seventy-five romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1968. All her novels have also been published under Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Over a period of four decades she has produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage family class and love. Her forte is to encode the opposing reading within the classic Harlequin plot.
Leonard DeLonga.  Leonard DeLonga (1925 - December 4 1991) was an American sculptor painter and professor at Mount Holyoke College. He was best known as a metal sculptor specializing in welded steel and bronze.
Carol Lay.  Carol Lay (born 1952) is an American alternative cartoonist best known for her weekly comic strip Story Minute (later to evolve into the strip Way Lay) which ran for almost twenty years in such US papers as the LA Weekly the NY Press and on Salon. Lay has been drawing professionally for over 30 years. Based in Los Angeles Lay's strips and illustrations have appeared in Entertainment Weekly Mad Newsweek Worth Magazine The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker.
Charlotte Gilbertson.  Charlotte Gilbertson (b. November 11 1922 Boston Massachusetts) is an American painter and printmaker.
Igor Kornelyuk.  Igor Yevgenyevich Kornelyuk (Russian: Игорь Евгеньевич Корнелюк) born on November 16 1962 in Brest (Belarus) is a Soviet and Russian musician singer and composer.
Nathaniel Parker Willis.  Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20 1806 – January 20 1867) also known as N. P. Willis was an American author poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs.
Masahiko Shimada.  Masahiko Shimada (島田 雅彦 Shimada Masahiko born 13 March 1961) is a Japanese writer. He began his career as a novelist by describing himself as sayoku (left-wing). In his works he often refers to the Emperor and to the Japanese Imperial Family. Recently he began to write poems.
John Roman Baker.  John Roman Baker is a British poet playwright and novelist mainly associated with the work of Aputheatre (formerly Aids Positive Underground Theatre). Winner of the Brighton Festival award for Best Theatre in 1990 for his play 'The Ice Pick'. As a playwright his work is characterized by a focus on contemporary issues presented from a homosexual point of view.
Michael John Hunt.  Michael John Hunt is an English figurative painter and etcher.
Svetlana Martynchik.  Max Frei (Russian: Макс Фрай) is the pen name of Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Марты́нчик; Ukrainian: Світлана Юріївна Мартинчик) (born 1965 in Odessa Ukraine Soviet Union) a Russophone Ukrainian fantasy writer. Svetlana collaborates on her books with her spouse artist Igor Steopin. She writes in Russian and currently resides in Vilnus Lithuania while keeping Ukrainian citizenship.
Rosie Malek-Yonan.  Rosie Malek-Yonan (born July 4 1965) is an Assyrian actress author director public figure and activist.
Monique Brumby.  Monique Brumby (born 16 September 1974 Devonport) is an Australian Indie pop/rock singer-songwriter guitarist and producer. Her debut single Fool for You peaked into the top 40 in the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) ARIA Singles Charts and provided an ARIA Award for 'Best New Talent' in 1996.
Ally Burguieres.  Ally Burguieres (born November 21 1982) is a New Orleans-based American visual artist and inventor. She owns Gallery Burguieres at 736 Royal Street and Cocoally at 630 St Ann Street both in the New Orleans French Quarter. She also holds the patent on the Wish Dog.
David Wroblewski.  David Wroblewski (born 1959) is an American novelist whose first novel was The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
Joey Allen.  Joey Allen is best known as the lead guitarist from the American glam metal band Warrant.Allen was born as Joseph Alan Cagle on June 23 1964 in Fort Wayne Indiana but grew up in Irvine California. His father is a retired electronics executive while his mother worked for the Irvine Unified School District. He has two older sisters.Allen played in approximately 20 bands before joining Warrant.
David Readman.  David Readman (born 6 July 1970) is an English singer. Since 1994 he has been with the German-based band Pink Cream 69. He joined the French progressive metal band Adagio in 2000 but left the band in 2004. His solo album was released on 31 August 2007. In addition to being Pink Cream 69 vocalist he is also currently the singer on guitarist Alex Beyrodt's band Voodoo Circle.
Maurice Cloud.  Georges Maurice Cloud (October 13 1909–1973) was a French mid-20th-century artist born in Escoublac Brittany France. A Modernist Cubist painter he worked also in architecture and furniture design throughout the thirties.He did his schooling in Escoublac and La Baule and attended the Municipal Art School. In the late twenties Cloud enrolled in the Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris working part-time for architects as an intern and a draughtsman.
Corbinian Böhm.  Corbinian Böhm (born Munich August 7 1966) is a German painter installation artist and sculptor.
Aruna Sairam.  Aruna Sairam (also spelt Sayeeram Tamil: அருணா சாய்ராம்) is an eminent Carnatic music vocalist.She is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the Government of India.
John Zorn.  John Zorn (born September 2 1953) is an American avant-garde composer arranger producer saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer composer and producer across a variety of genres including jazz rock hardcore classical surf metal klezmer soundtrack ambient and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental.
Lydia Cleaver.  Lydia Cleaver is a harpist. She was introduced to the harp at Cass Technical High School in Detroit Michigan where she studied with Patricia Terry-Ross. She received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education Master of Music and Specialist degrees in Harp Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music where she studied with Dr. Lynne Aspnes. Lydia has performed with many orchestras and choral ensembles throughout the Midwest region of the United States.
Chisa Yokoyama.  Chisa Yokoyama (横山 智佐 Yokoyama Chisa born December 20 1969) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo. She is founder and head of her own voice company called Banbina after leaving Arts Vision. When she was a high school student she was an assistant of Jump Broadcasting Station of Weekly Shōnen Jump (1988–1996).
Paul Bernard (composer).  Paul Bernard (1827-1879) was a French composer.His best remembered work is the song Ça fait peur aux oiseaux from the operetta Bredouille to a libretto by Galoppe d'Onquaire (1805-1867).
Glenn Aitken (singer).  Glenn Aitken (born in New Zealand on 14 December 1970) also known as Glenn Finlay Aitken is a London-based New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist musician. In 2010 he released his debut studio album entitled Extraordinary Lives.
Jude Cole.  Jude Anthony Cole (born 18 June 1960) is an American manager record producer and singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Sussan Deyhim.  Sussan Deyhim is an Iranian composer vocalist performance artist and activist. She is internationally known for creating a unique sonic and vocal language imbued with a sense of ritual and the unknown. She was part of the national ballet company in Iran from the age of thirteen and she traveled all across Iran studying with master folk musicians and dancers.
Kenzie.  James Victor MacKenzie (born 6 January 1986 London England) better known as Kenzie or James Kenzie is a DJ and celebrity personal trainer formerly a member of 10-piece UK hip-hop group Blazin' Squad. He is now part of the pop supergroup 5th Story set up for The Big Reunion.
Colin Walker (cellist).  Colin Walker (born 8 July 1949) is an English cellist.Walker was born in Minchinhampton Gloucestershire. He was a cellist for the Electric Light Orchestra between 1972 and 1973 (Haines Guttenbacher and Petersdorff 2000).
Owen Pallett.  Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7 1979) is a Canadian composer violinist keyboardist and vocalist who performs solo as Owen Pallett or before 2010 under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds.On his Final Fantasy releases Pallett has collaborated with Leon Taheny who is credited as drummer and engineer.
Reg Lindsay.  Reginald John Lindsay OAM (7 July 1929 – 5 August 2008) was an Australian country music singer who won three Golden Guitar Awards and wrote more than five hundred songs in his fifty-year music career.
Beechi.  BeeChi (1913–1980) was a well-known humorist in the Kannada language. His real name was Rayasam Bheemasena Rao. He preferred to write his pen name bilingually as ಬೀchi. He was also known as Karnataka's George Bernard Shaw.
Hortense Gordon.  Hortense Mattice Gordon (24 November 1886 - 6 November 1961) born Hortense Crompton Mattice in Hamilton Ontario was a Canadian abstract artist who belonged to the Painters Eleven.
Gao Xiaosong.  Gao Xiaosong (born 1969) is a Chinese-American composer songwriter music producer director and Campus Folk representative.
Ian Kelsey.  Ian Kelsey (born 17 December 1966) is a British actor.
Purushottama Lal.  Purushottama Lal (August 28 1929 – November 3 2010) was an Indian poet essayist translator professor and publisher. He was the founder and publisher of Writers Workshop in Calcutta established in 1958.
Peter O'Donnell.  Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise a female action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent in 1978 his novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Joel Gomez.  Joel Gomez is an American comic book artist known for his work on books such as WildStorm Productions' The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs.
Don Weller (musician).  Don Weller (born on 19 December 1940 in Thornton Heath in the South London borough of Croydon) is a British jazz musician tenor saxophonist and composer.
Ed Mundell.  Ed Mundell is an American rock guitarist most who was the lead guitarist for stoner rock group Monster Magnet from 1992 to 2010 and as a founding member of New Jersey Stoner band The Atomic Bitchwax. His style is heavily influenced by psychedelic 70's rock such as Jimi Hendrix and Tommy Bolin.In 2011 it was announced that Mundell had formed a new project The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic whose debut album released January 2013.
Owusu-Ankomah.  Owusu-Ankomah (born 1956 in Sekondi) is a contemporary Ghanaian/German painter. His work addresses themes of identity and the body using his trademark motif of Adinkra symbolism.
Liv Mjönes.  Liv Anna Mjönes (born 18 September 1979) is a Swedish actress. In 1995 at the age of 16 she started studying dancing and acting. She graduated after four years of education at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2006. She is best known for her role as Frida in the Swedish lesbian film With Every Heartbeat.
Dick Termes.  Dick Termes is an American artist who uses a six point perspective system that he devised to create unique paintings on large spheres called Termespheres.
Buddy Cannon.  Buddy Cannon (born in Lexington Tennessee) is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Active since the late 1970s he is known primarily for his work as Kenny Chesney's record producer for which he won the Academy of Country Music's Producer of the Year award in 2006.Along with Bill Anderson and Jamey Johnson Cannon co-wrote George Strait's 2006 single Give It Away which won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year award.
Harry Bates (sculptor).  Harry Bates ARA (Stevenage 26 April 1850 – 30 January 1899 London) was an English sculptor. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1892 as A.R.A. and was an active if intermittent member of the Art Workers Guild. He was a central figure in the British movement known as the New Sculpture.
Mia Theodoratus.  Mia Theodoratus is an American harpist and arranger based in Brooklyn New York. She plays Rock Jazz and Celtic harp.
Fulvio Tomizza.  Fulvio Tomizza (26 January 1935 – 21 May 1999) was an Italian writer. He was born in Giurizzani in Istria (now in Croatia).In 1954 with the annexation of Zone B by Yugoslavia Tomizza moved to Trieste and his career as a writer took place there. Although he did write a trilogy about his native Istria.
Takuya (singer).  Takuya Asanuma (浅沼 拓也 Asanuma Takuya) known better by his stage name TAKUYA is a Japanese guitarist and record producer. He was formerly the second guitarist of Judy and Mary. He currently works as a solo artist under the name Takuya and also had a solo project called Robots which was dissolved in 2009.
Valentin Galochkin.  Valentin Andreevich Galochkin (Russian: Валенти́н Андре́евич Га́лочкин) (November 22 1928 – November 3 2006) was a prominent Soviet (Ukrainian Russian) sculptor.
Stevan Sremac.  Stevan Sremac (Cyrillic: Стеван Сремац pronounced [stɛ̌vaːn srɛ̌ːmat͡s]) (November 11 1855 Senta – August 13 1906 Sokobanja) was a Serbian realist and comedy writer. He is considered one of the best truly humorous Serbian writers.
Nabila Jamshed.  Nabila Jamshed is the author of the fantasy novel Wish Upon A Time - The Legendary Scimitar. Jamshed lives in New Delhi India and has graduated with a degree in political science from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women Delhi University. Wish Upon A Time was her debut novel and has received appreciation and attention from Indian media.
Guri Vesaas.  Guri Vesaas (born 1939) is a Norwegian writer and translator of children's books and former editor at the publishing house Samlaget. She was awarded the Brage Prize honorary award in 2007.She has translated more than 50 children's books into Norwegian using the pseudonym Hanna Midtbø after the farm Midtbø in Vinje where she grew up.Guri Vesaas is daughter of novelist Tarjei Vesaas and lyricist Halldis Moren Vesaas.
Giovanni Maria Zaffoni.  Giovanni Maria Zaffoni (c. 1500 – after 1570) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Northern Italy near his natal city of Pordenone.He is also known as Giovanni Maria Calderari or as il Calderari. He first trained with Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis known as il Pordenone and later with Pomponio Amalteo.He painted the frescoes on Scenes of the life of Christ and the Virgin for the Mantica chapel (1554-1555) in the Duomo of San Marco in Pordenone.
M. S. Subbulakshmi.  Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (Tamil: மதுரை சண்முகவடிவு சுப்புலட்சுமி Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi ? 16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) also known as M.S. was a renowned Carnatic vocalist.She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna India's highest civilian honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award often considered Asia's Nobel Prize in 1974 with the citation reading Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S.
Tim Prusmack.  Tim Prusmack (1962–2004) was an American artist. He specialized in pen-and-ink drawings of U.S. currency.
Gabbie Rae.  Gabbie Rae (born May 21 1998) is a pop rock singer born in New England raised in Myrtle Beach and who now calls both Atlanta and Los Angeles home. She has been working professionally since age 7 and loves to listen to and perform all styles of music. Her wide range of musical inspirations including Eva Cassidy Sista Otis Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin have helped develop her unique style & sound.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk.  Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8 1829 – December 18 1869) was an American composer and pianist best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his working career outside of the United States.
Killa Sin.  Killa Sin (born Jeryl Grant) is considered the best-known member of Killarmy and is regarded as one of the most skilled Wu-Tang Clan affiliates.
Samantha Cole.  Samantha Cole (October 19 1978) is an American dance-pop singer/songwriter and actress.
Zizi Possi.  Maria Izildinha Zizi Possi (Portuguese pronunciation: [ziˈzi ˈpɔsi] born March 28 1956) is a Brazilian singer from São Paulo the daughter of Italian immigrants.She is the mother of another famous Brazilian singer Luiza Possi. (born June 26 1984)
Robert Musil.  Robert Musil (German: [ˈmuːzɪl] or [ˈmuːsɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. However the novel has not been widely read both because of its delayed publication and intricate lengthy plot.
Nicholas J. Cull.  Nicholas J. Cull (born 1964) is a historian and the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
Brendan Croskerry.  Brendan Croskerry (born 24 July 1985 St. John's) is a Canadian singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Halifax Nova Scotia. “Superman is on Holidays” his first commercial release was featured on the international selling compilation albums Disco Estrella in 2007 and Supermodelo 2007. Both compilations reached number 1 in Spain enduring a total of 8 weeks in the number 1 spot.In 2008 he released his debut album Goodbye Harrier.
Kjell Samkopf.  Kjell Samkopf (born 6 June 1952 in Bærum Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums) and composer married 1993 to the dancer Mona Walderhaug (b. December 21 1956–).
Samuel Edger.  Samuel Edger (c.1823–1882) was a New Zealand non-denominational minister writer social reformer and community worker. He was born in East Grinstead Sussex England on c.1823. His daughter was Kate Edger.
Norman Cantor.  Norman Frank Cantor (19 November 1929 – 18 September 2004) was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. His textbook The Civilization of the Middle Ages first published in 1963 remains an all-time bestseller in the field.
Nouman Javaid.  Nouman Javaid (born 28 October 1982 in Lahore) is a Pakistani Actor and singer/musician. He started his career to take his fond to the peak of glory from his Music in Movie Jashnn. He has written composed and sung songs for Mahesh Bhatt’s film Jashnn. He is also the one of the music directors of the movie Yamla Pagla Deewana.
Tess Gerritsen.  Tess Gerritsen MD (born June 12 1953) is a Chinese-American novelist and retired physician. Her first name is really Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.
Zbyněk Drda.  Zbyněk Drda (born March 29 1987) is a Czech singer. In December 2006 Drda became the winner of the third edition of Česko hledá SuperStar.
Gayle Moran.  Gayle Moran is a vocalist keyboard player (piano organ and synthesizer) and songwriter. She was a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the mid-1970s appearing on Apocalypse (1974) and Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975).She later appeared on recordings by Return to Forever's 1977 album Musicmagic and the Chick Corea solo albums The Leprechaun (1975) My Spanish Heart (1976) The Mad Hatter (1978) Secret Agent (1978) and Touchstone (1982).
Lily Tembo.  Lily Tembo (November 20 1981 – September 14 2009) professionally known as Lily T was a Zambian musician radio presenter journalist and charity worker who had won national acclaim with her 2004 debut album Lily T. For this album she received two awards. Tembo had released two albums and was working on a third at the time of her death. Aside from singing she was known for presenting on the 5th FM Radio in Zambia working as a journalist and involvement in charity work.
Basil Coetzee.  Basil Manenberg Coetzee (2 February 1944 – 11 March 1998) was a South African musician perhaps best known as a saxophonist.Coetzee was born in District Six Cape Town South Africa. Mountain Records describes Coetzee thus: His distinctive raunchy tenor sound and the untiring commitment to his cultural roots made him one of the best known jazzmen to come out of South Africa. He earned the nickname Manenberg after the hugely successful collaboration with Dollar Brand in the late seventies.
Arvid Gram Paulsen.  Arvid Gram Paulsen (born 4 January 1922 - deceased 11 April 1963) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and trumpet) and composer.
François Bourassa (musician).  François Bourassa (born 1959 in Montreal) is a jazz pianist from Quebec. He is the son of Robert Bourassa.His music is influenced by pianists such as Thelonious Monk Brad Mehldau and Chick Corea as well as art music from the Classical and Romantic eras.
Nancy A. Collins.  Nancy A. Collins (born September 10 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books including the Swamp Thing series Jason Vs. Leatherface Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.Collins was born in McGehee Arkansas United States.
Orlando Gray Wales.  Orlando Gray Wales (also O.G. Wales) (1865–1933) was an American landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist who lived and painted in Allentown Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley region of the United States.
Monique Covét.  Monique Covét (born 14 July 1976 in Budapest Hungary) is a Hungarian pornographic actress and fetish model. From 1998 to 2001 she came to prominence as the star of several features for the Private Media Group mainly appearing in fetish-oriented films produced by the company's subsidiary Pirate label.
Gabriel Rivano.  Gabriel Rivano is an Argentine bandoneonist guitarist flutist and composer born in Buenos Aires in 1958.In 1990 Gabriel Rivano established the Gabriel Rivano Quinteto. For this ensemble he composed numerous pieces of chamber music and several concerts classified in the genres of classical music jazz and folk music.
Devon Lehr.  Devon Lehr is an American television writer and screenwriter. Lehr is represented by Creative Artists Agency.
Tom Rosenthal.  Thomas Alan Smith Tom Rosenthal (born 14 January 1988) is an English comedian film and television actor. He is the son of television sports presenter Jim Rosenthal.
Gardner Dozois.  Gardner Raymond Dozois (pronounced doe-zwah) (born July 23 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He is the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–present) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (1984 - 2004) garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He has also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25 2011.
Norman Hetherington.  Norman Frederick Hetherington OAM (29 May 1921 – 6 December 2010) was an Australian artist teacher cartoonist (known as Heth) puppeteer and puppet designer.He is best remembered today as the creator of the long-running Australian children's television show Mr. Squiggle and as the sole operator and voice of its star performer the Mr. Squiggle marionette.
K.S. Rhoads.  K.S. Rhoads (born August 7 1976) is an American musician singer-songwriter composer music-producer and performer.
Michael J. Merenda Jr..  Michael J. Merenda Jr. is a singer-songwriter with the American folk band the Mammals. He plays guitar banjo ukulele and percussion. He also has a solo career and performs with the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band.Merenda was raised in Durham New Hampshire. He is married to Ruth Ungar daughter of Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy.
Jan Inge Sørbø.  Jan Inge Sørbø (born 16 September 1954) is a Norwegian philologist author and poet.He was born at Bru in Rennesøy municipality in Rogaland and took the cand.philol. degree in the history of literature at the University of Bergen in 1982. He debuted as a poet in 1986 and has also written novels. He has a background in the media as journalist in Dagen from 1980 to 1987 and Stavanger Aftenblad from 1987 to 1989 and editor of Syn og Segn from 1993 to 1997.
France Jodoin.  France Jodoin (born 1961) is a Canadian contemporary artist known for her maritime scenes. Painted in a semi-abstract style her work is a modern interpretation of European Romanticism. Her work is found in Quebec museums and in galleries in Canada France and the United States.
Gayatri Iyer.  Gayatri Iyer (now Ganjawala) is an Indian playback singer primarily in Bollywood. She landed up with the part of Princess Anjuli in the West End of London musical production of M. M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions which opened in the summer of 2007.Gayatri married Kunal Ganjawala another successful Indian playback singer. She graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML) in 2001.
Den Harrow.  Den Harrow was an Italian new wave project fronted by Stefano Zandri (born June 4 1962 in Nova Milanese Italy) a fashion model from Milan Italy. The name Den Harrow was conceived by the project's producers Turatti and Chieregato who based it on the Italian word denaro (money). Stefano Zandri however uses the name Den Harrow as his stage name.
Georgette Sanchez.  Georgina Johanna Garcia Sanchez is a ballerina from the Philippines. From 1995 to 2002 she was a company dancer of the ballet company Ballet Philippines. She was invited by European choreographer and director Nicolas Musin to join the Abcdancecompany in St. Potten Austria where she has been featured since 2002.
Robert Burns.  Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Robbie Burns Rabbie Burns Scotland's favourite son the Ploughman Poet Robden of Solway Firth the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.
Enrique González Rojo Sr..  Enrique González Rojo (born Culiacán 1899 – died Mexico City May 9 1939) was a Mexican writer.
Armand Gregg.  Armand Gregg (1820–1897) was a German-born journalist with democratic beliefs. He was a member of the Baden Provisional Government in 1849. He was also of the First International and a member of the German Social Democratic Party in the 1870s.
Friedrich Wagenfeld.  Friedrich Wagenfeld (January 3 1810 – August 26 1846) was a German philologist and author born in Bremen.
Rick Coonce.  Erik Michael Coonce (August 1 1946 – February 25 2011) better known as Rick Coonce was the drummer for The Grass Roots a successful rock group that received heavy airplay on the radio from 1967 to 1972. Due to renewed interest in classic bands The Grass Roots and Coonce's driving drum beats are popular even into the new millennium.
Andrew Wildman.  Andrew Wildman (sometimes credited as Andy Wildman) is a British artist best known for his work in comics mainly for Marvel Comics. Wildman cut his teeth on Marvel UK's titles in the late 1980s including Galaxy Rangers Thundercats The Real Ghostbusters and perhaps most notably Transformers. His first strip work on Transformers came in #198 for the story Cold Comfort and Joy.
Lucio Piccolo.  Lucio Piccolo di Calanovella (October 27 1901 - May 26 1969) was an Italian poet.
Albert Cahen.  Albert Cahen d'Anvers (8 January 1846 Antwerp – 27 February 1903 La Turbie) was a French composer best known for light opera. He was a pupil of César Franck (composition) and Mme. Szarvady (pianoforte).
Des Kensel.  Des Kensel is the drummer of the stoner metal band High on Fire.In the early 1990s Des Kensel played drums for the New Haven CT band Mindwar.Des Kensel is married he also has a young son.
Joelle.  Joelle (also known as Joelle Amery missjoelley) (born between 1998-1999) is an English schoolgirl and pop singer from London England who first appeared live on UK national television on the Lorraine show at the age of 14 and subsequently appeared on ABC news in the United States. Joelle’s appearance followed the extensive press coverage which she received internationally in relation to pictures of her posing bald with her mother Michelle Grayson.
David Lopez (artist).  David López (born 1975 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish comic book artist.
Patrick Cave.  Patrick Cave (born October 1965) is a British novelist.
Hillary Lindsey.  Hillary Lindsey is an American singer-songwriter. She has written songs with or for several popular artists including Faith Hill Martina McBride Shakira Lady Antebellum Gary Allan Sara Evans Carrie Underwood Kellie Pickler Bon Jovi Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw. Lindsey won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song for Carrie Underwood's Jesus Take the Wheel.
Mike Pela.  Mike Pela is a Grammy Award winning music producer and mixer.
Katherine Bowling.  Katherine Bowling (born 1955 Washington D.C.) is a painter known for her layered landscape paintings that draw inspiration from nature in the Hudson Valley. She is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery New York.
Robert Lindemann.  Robert Lindemann (January 28 1884 in Paderborn Germany - October 1975) was a German-American clarinetist. Lindemann emigrated to the United States in September 1911 at the request of composer Gustav Mahler settling first in Minneapolis. He was the solo clarinetist for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for two years. He then moved to Philadelphia and performed as solo clarinetist in the Philadelphia Orchestra for four years from 1913 to 1917.
Michael Manring.  Michael Manring (born June 27 1960 in Annapolis) is an American bass guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area (Northern California).
Jean Merrill.  Jean Merrill (January 27 1923 – August 2 2012) was an American writer of children's books and editor known best for The Pushcart War a novel published in 1964. She died from cancer at her home in Randolph Vermont in 2012 aged 89.
Shawn Jones (musician).  Shawn Jones (born 1976 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma) is an American singer-songwriter and the founding member of the indie rock group The Lovely Sparrows.
Gottfried Kinkel.  Johann Gottfried Kinkel (11 August 1815 – 13 November 1882) was a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison in Spandau with the help of his friend Carl Schurz.
John E. Stith.  John E. Stith (born 1947 in Boulder Colorado) is an American science fiction and mystery author known for the scientific rigor he brings to adventure and mystery stories. Redshift Rendezvous a Nebula Award nominee is a murder mystery set aboard a space ship travelling through hyperspace where the speed of light is ten meters per second so relativistic effects occur at running speed. The solution respects the laws of physics.
Judith Hunt.  Judith A. Hunt originally from Washington State is an illustrator/painter/cartoonist/designer who has produced a diverse array of artwork for books magazines television comics videos and toys. She has worked as an art director and staff illustrator/designer for magazine companies. She currently illustrates educational texts and children's books from her studio in Kennebunk Maine and showcases her fine art in local art shows.
Harry Thumann.  Harry Thumann (28 February 1952 – 2001) was a German electronic composer record producer and sound engineer. He designed and built groundbreaking synthesizers and studio equipment from the early 1960s onwards.Born Harald Thumann in Germany he started out as a drummer while getting a thorough grounding in audio engineering in German broadcasting.
Fukuchi Genichiro.  Fukuchi Gen'ichirō (福地 源一郎 May 13 1841 - January 4 1906) was a Japanese critic and author also known under the pseudonym Fukuchi Ōchi (福地 桜痴).
Sarah-Jane Varley.  Sarah-Jane Varley is a British actress best known for playing Sarah Foster in the 1980s BBC drama Howards' Way. She also played Estella in the 1981 BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.
Baku Akae.  Baku Akae (赤江 瀑 April 22 1933 – June 8 2012) was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Shimonoseki Yamaguchi.His novel Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃 Oedipus' Sword) won the 1st Kadokawa Novel Award in 1974.In 1984 his novels Kaikyou (海峡 Straits) and Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills) won the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature.
Bo Brundin.  Bo Brundin (born 25 April 1937) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in 43 films and television shows between 1970 and 2002. He starred in the 1970 film A Baltic Tragedy which was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
Elena Fomicheva.  Elena Fomicheva (born April 11 1987) is a classical pianist soloist and accompanist.
Lee Falk.  Lee Falk born Leon Harrison Gross (April 28 1911 - March 13 1999) was an American writer theater director and producer best known as the creator of the popular comic strips The Phantom (1936-present) and Mandrake the Magician (1934-2013). At the height of their popularity these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day.
Jack Jevne.  Jack Jevne (25 January 1892 – 25 May 1972) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 58 films between 1919 and 1956. He was born in Provo Utah and died in Los Angeles California.
William of Luxi.  William of Luxi O.P. (fl. 1267-1275) also Guillelmus de Luxi or (Luci Lusci Luscy Lexi Lissi Lisi Lyssy) was born in the region of Burgundy France sometime during the first quarter of the thirteenth century. He was a Dominican friar who became regent master of Theology at the University of Paris and a noted biblical exegete and preacher.
John Daly-Peoples.  John Daly-Peoples is an Auckland based arts critic and correspondent. He is the arts writer for the weekly financial journal National Business Review.He has worked in a number of arts related areas as writer teacher consultant curator and administrator.
Doug Watkins.  Douglas Watkins (March 2 1934 – February 5 1962) was an American hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.
Paul Schenly.  Paul Schenly (born April 15 1948) is an American classical pianist. He is the head of the piano department at the Cleveland Institute of Music and is the founder and director of the summer music festival Pianofest in the Hamptons New York. He also serves as the artistic director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition.
Kat Dahlia.  Katriana Huguet (born July 29 1987) better known by her stage name Kat Dahlia is a Cuban-American recording artist from Miami Florida. Dhalia a singer-songwriter and rapper is known for her razor sharp lyrics and her unique aggressive flow. She released her debut single Gangsta in March 2013. Dahlia is set to release her debut studio album My Garden in May 2014 with Vested in Culture and Epic Records the latter of which she secured a recording contract with in 2012.
Rick Johnson (musician).  Richard Henry Rick Johnson (born on April 18 1980 in Muskegon Michigan) is an American musician who is best known as the bass player of Grand Rapids Michigan's Mustard Plug. He has also worked with Bomb The Music Industry! and released solo material as The Rick Johnson Rock And Roll Machine.
Titian Peale.  Titian Ramsay Peale (November 2 1799 – March 13 1885) was a noted American artist naturalist entomologist and photographer. He was the sixteenth child and youngest son of noted American naturalist Charles Willson Peale. He is sometimes referred to as Titian Ramsey Peale II to distinguish him from his older brother with the same name who was a favorite of their father and who died at age 18 in 1798.
Mark Greenstreet.  Mark Greenstreet (born 19 April 1960) is a British actor who first came to prominence in the 1985 BBC television serial Brat Farrar. First and foremost a stage actor Greenstreet played many of the great leading roles from the works of Shakespeare Chekhov and Ibsen to Orton Wilde and Coward in the UK and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.His most high profile screen role is probably the part of Mike Hardy in the BBC horseracing drama Trainer which was shown from 1991 to 1992.
Lucky Thompson.  Eli Lucky Thompson (June 16 1924 – July 30 2005) was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s Thompson (along with Steve Lacy) embraced the instrument earlier than Coltrane.
Akkarai Subhalakshmi.  Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi is a 21st-century violinist in the field of Carnatic music. She is the daughter of renowned violinist Akkarai Swaminathan.
Hani (producer).  Hani (born Hani Adnan Al-Bader) is an American producer and remixer from New York City whose restructuring of hits ranging from Michael Jackson to Alicia Keys have gone on to become club classics. He also scored a hit for himself as well: In 1999 he reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with Baby Wants To Ride. The track also peaked at No.
Dirk Serries.  Dirk Serries (born 1968) is a Belgian composer and ambient musician. He is best known as Vidna Obmana a pseudonym he used from 1984 until 2007.
Graham Gouldman.  Graham Keith Gouldman (born 10 May 1946) is an English songwriter and musician who is a long-time member of British band 10cc.
Louis Fles.  Levie Jacob Louis Fles (1872–1940) was a Dutch businessman activist and author. He was a member of the organizing committee of the 1928 Summer Olympics. Louis Fles is best known for writing and broadcasting against Zionism and organized religion. Fles was a strong supporter of Jewish assimilation and had a complex relationship with the Dutch Social Democratic Workers' Party.
Nesli.  Francesco Tarducci better known as Nesly Rice and more recently simply as Nesli (born Senigallia Italy 29 December 1980) is an Italian singer and music producer for Teste Mobili Records. He is the younger brother of Italian rapper Fabri Fibra.
Jaakko Löytty.  Jaakko Löytty (born 1955 Finland) is one of the most significant Finnish gospel musicians. Löytty spent his youth in Namibia with his parents who were missionaries for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.Löytty's musical influences can be found from American blues and also African music. He has composed two albums of music inspired by Senegalese music Pariisi-Dakar (1992) and Norsunmaitoa (1994).
John MacDougall Hay.  John MacDougall Hay (1880–1919) was a Scottish novelist best known for his work Gillespie.He was the father of George Campbell Hay the Scottish Gaelic poet.
Zohra Begum Kazi.  Dr. Zohra Begum Kazi (Bengali: জোহরা বেগম কাজী; October 15 1912 – November 7 2007) was a Bangladeshi physician. She was the first Bengali Muslim female doctor of India[citation needed].
Susana Harp.  Susana Harp Iturribarria (born April 8 1968) is a Mexican singer of traditional music.
Chilly Gonzales.  Chilly Gonzales (born Jason Charles Beck; 20 March 1972) is a Canadian musician who resided in Paris France for several years now in Cologne Germany. Though best known for his first MC and electro albums he is also a pianist producer and songwriter.He regularly collaborates with the Canadian musicians Peaches Mocky and Feist (who toured with him through Europe and Australia for the album 'Presidential Suite').
Chris Pérez.  Christopher Gilbert Chris Pérez (born August 14 1969) is an American guitarist songwriter and author best known as lead guitarist for the Tejano band Selena y Los Dinos. He married the frontwoman of the group Selena on April 2 1992. Pérez grew up in San Antonio Texas as one of two children of Gilbert Pérez and Carmen Medina. In 1986 he joined Shelly Lares' band. By the late 1980s Pérez was reputed among Tejano musicians for his guitar skills. This caught A.B.
Matthias Jabs.  Matthias Jabs (born October 25 1955) is a German guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead guitarist in the heavy metal band Scorpions. He has played on all Scorpions studio albums starting with Lovedrive (1979) to Sting in the Tail (2010). He has a music store MJ Guitars in Munich Germany.
Anna Russo.  Anna Russo was born in Naples Italy. Her debut as a writer partly came about after she received a major literary prize for travel writing: The Next Generation. As a result of the grant she lived for twelve years in southern France where she became close to the gypsies particularly two of the grand families of Reyes and Baliardo.
Kenji Sawada.  Kenji Sawada (沢田 研二 Sawada Kenji born June 25 1948; real surname written as 澤田) is a Japanese singer composer lyricist and actor best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed Julie (ジュリー Jurī) because of his self professed adoration of Julie Andrews he was born in Tsunoi Iwami (now part of Tottori) Tottori Prefecture Japan and raised in Sakyo-ku Kyoto at age 3.
Tarsame Singh Saini.  Tarsame Singh Saini aka Taz (Stereo Nation) born 23 May 1967 Coventry West Midlands United Kingdom) is a British singer composer and actor of Indian descent. He is the lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation which was formed in 1996. Formerly known as Johnny Zee he is credited with being the pioneer of cross-cultural Asian fusion music.
Maurice Baring.  Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters known as a dramatist poet novelist translator and essayist and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. During World War I Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force.
Roger Bennett (playwright).  Roger Bennett (1948 – 1997) was an Arrernte man from Central Australia an actor and a playwright. His best known works are Up the Ladder and Funerals and Circuses.His works dealt with his life experiences particularly the travelling boxing tents where his father Elley Bennett was a boxing champion during the 1940s and '50s.
Vladimir Lukov.  Vladimir Lukov (Bulgarian : Владимир Луков) (June 2 1949) is a Bulgarian poet. He is a descendant of the repatriated family Tsipas Greek Macedonia Agios Pandeleimon near Florina. He graduated Geography and Philosophy at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Since 1969 he has published poetry. His poems have been released in many Bulgarian and Macedonian literary magazines and anthologies.
Eddie Drennon.  Eddie Drennon (born Edward Allen Drennen 1940) is an American musician songwriter record producer and arranger. His range of musical genres has included R&B pop disco Latin music salsa jazz funk and charanga. He is best known for his transatlantic hit single Let's Do The Latin Hustle recorded in 1975 with his then backing group B.B.S. Unlimited. The track was written produced and arranged by Drennon.
Kay Cohen.  Kay Cohen (born Kathleen Siddall on 31 December 1952 in Levin New Zealand) is an Australian fashion designer and business woman based in Sydney Australia. Cohen has led a number of lingerie design brands most notably as Founder and Creative Director of Pleasure State and as General Manager and Creative Director of Elle Macpherson's Lingerie label Elle Macpherson Intimates also Cohen is known as the inventor of the Biofit uplift bra.
Martin Grech.  Martin Grech (born 1982) is a Maltese-English singer songwriter and musician from Aylesbury Buckinghamshire.
Touré.  Touré (born Touré Neblett; March 20 1971) is an American writer music journalist cultural critic and television personality. He is the host of Fuse's Hiphop Shop and On the Record and co-host of The Cycle on MSNBC. He was also a contributor to MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show and serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee.
Sergey Izgiyayev.  Sergey Davidovich Izgiyayev (Russian: Сергей Давидович Изгияев; Hebrew: איזגיאייב סרגיי‎; born 24 November 1922 — 27 July 1972) was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers the author of nine books of poetry and five plays the translator and creator of lyrics for more than thirty songs (nine of which were produced by Moscow's firm Melodiya on Gramophone records). He was of Mountain Jew descent.
Aqua (record producer).  Nicholas McCarrell (born April 6 1982) professionally known as Aqua is an American record producer and composer of film and television scores. As a record producer he has most notably worked with Roc-a-fella Records artists Jay-Z Kanye West and Beanie Sigel. His scoring credits include Entourage and George Lopez.
Michelle Belanger.  Michelle Belanger is an American author singer and prominent advocate of the vampire lifestyle community a self-described psychic vampire. She has authored several books on vampirism paranormal and occult research has appeared in television documentaries about magic and modern occultism and formed a club or coven for psychic vampires called House Kheperu. She has performed as a vocalist with Gothic music bands such as URN and Nox Arcana.
Gary Barlow.  Gary Barlow OBE (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer-songwriter pianist and record producer. He is frontman and lead vocalist of British pop-group Take That and served as head judge on series 8 9 and 10 of The X Factor UK. Barlow is one of Britain's most successful songwriters having written thirteen Number 1 singles and twenty three top 10 hits.
Linda Hopper.  Linda Elizabeth Hopper is the vocalist for the Atlanta Georgia-based rock group Magnapop. Her pop punk/power pop vocal style helped to define the band's sound and she has co-written their minor hit singles Slowly Slowly and Open the Door. Prior to the formation of Magnapop Hopper was a member of the Athens Georgia music scene in the early 1980s which included R.E.M. The B-52s and her own band Oh-OK.
Leland Sklar.  Leland Bruce Lee Sklar (born May 28 1947 in Milwaukee) is an American musician and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist Sklar has contributed to over 2000 albums as a session musician. He has collaborated with a number of well-known performers and recorded sound tracks to films and television shows.
Beverley Jackson.  Beverley Jackson is an American writer on Chinese culture and fashion. Her published works cover life in 1920s and 30s Shanghai the Chinese practice of foot binding and the system of Mandarin ranks. She has been a journalist photographer freelance writer lecturer and curator of Chinese textiles.
Alessandro Fei (painter).  Alessandro Fei (1543–1592) was an Italian painter active in Florence working in a Mannerist style. He was also called il Barbiere (the Barber). He participated in the Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with an oval canvas relating a Goldsmith Shop story. He also painted an altarpiece on the Flagellation of Christ for the Basilica church of Santa Croce in Florence.
Tim Flach.  Tim Flach Hon FRPS (born 1958 London United Kingdom) is a London based photographer artist and director with work in several major international public collections including the National Media Museum UK and the Swedish Museum of Natural History. He is best known for his highly conceptual images of animals... ...using principles of human portraiture… and a vocabulary of gestures and looks which seem to echo our own and play on our predispositions and sympathies.
Benjamin Kamins.  Benjamin Kamins (born December 13 1952) is an American bassoonist currently active and nationally recognized as both a teacher and performer. He spent his childhood in Los Angeles and currently resides in Houston.He began playing bassoon at age 11 motivated by his opinion at the time that it was the weirdest one.He attended Fairfax High School a school notable for producing musicians such as Herb Alpert the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Jackson 5.
Roger Rowland.  Roger Rowland is/was a British TV actor predominantly working in the 1970s and 1980s.His main role was as Bill North in the TV series Special Branch but his first TV appearance was in 1958 in Quatermass and the Pit as a journalist.Roger was married to the actress Anne Stallybrass from 1963 to 1972 when they divorced.
Ian Colquhoun (author).  Ian Colquhoun (/kəˈhuːn/ kə-HOON) is an author actor stuntman and Historian originally from Livingston in Scotland. He lost his legs and was almost killed in an unprovoked assault and arson attack whilst living in the Republic of Ireland in 2002 and now wears prosthetic legs. He gives voluntary lectures to physiotherapy students at an Edinburgh University about his condition.His autobiography Burnt - Surviving Against All the Odds - Beaten Burnt and Left for Dead.
Greg Egan.  Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer.
Dennis Murphy (Gospel musician).  Dennis Murphy (born October 24 1967 in Oceana West Virginia) is the drummer for the Kingdom Heirs.
Ni Ni.  Ni Ni (born August 8 1988) is a Chinese actress best known for her role as Yu Mo in the 2011 film The Flowers of War directed by Zhang Yimou.
Mark Singleton (actor).  Mark Singleton (1919–1986) was a British film and television actor.
Esad Samardžić.  Esad Eso Samardžić is a Bosnian businessman. He is best known as a Balkan music manager singer and concert organizer during the late 1980s and early 1990s who worked with top artists such as Halid Beslic Dino Merlin CECA and Halid Muslimovic.
David Crellin.  David Crellin (born 1961) is an English actor.Crellin who was born in Sheffield Yorkshire is known for roles in Emmerdale as Billy Hopwood BBC 2's BAFTA award-winning series The Cops as Alan Wakefield and Coronation Street as gangster Jimmy Clayton. He also starred as Jimmy Grainger in the first series of Waterloo Road on BBC One.Signed to British independent record label Everyday Records 2008 Crellin recorded a debut EP Innocent Bystander.
Sapardi Djoko Damono.  Sapardi Djoko Damono (born 20 March 1940 in Surakarta Central Java) is an Indonesian poet known for lyrical poems and who is widely regarded as the pioneer of lyrical poetry in Indonesia.
Conor Mccreedy.  Conor Matthew Mccreedy (born February 11 1987) is an artist entrepreneur philanthropist and conservationist born in South Africa. Mccreedy is the youngest artist in history to have a solo exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City. He supports several charities including the PAL- Protecting African Lions Foundation which he founded to conserve African lion populations. In 2012 a private collector paid USD $198000 for a Mccreedy painting entitled ‘’Secret Movements’’.
Walt Morey.  Walter Walt Morey (February 3 1907 in Hoquiam Washington USA – January 12 1992 in Wilsonville Oregon) was an award-winning author of numerous works of children's fiction set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska the places where Morey lived for all of his life.
Husain Lawai.  Husain Lawai (Urdu: حسین لوائی‎) Is a well-known financial personality in Pakistan. He is President and CEO of Summit Bank.
Willard Metcalf.  Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1 1858 – March 9 1925) was an American artist born in Lowell Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and later attended Académie Julian Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists.
Adolph Ernst Kroeger.  Adolph Ernst Kroeger (born Schwabstedt duchy of Schleswig 28 December 1837; died St. Louis Missouri 8 March 1882) was a translator and author who contributed significantly to the understanding of German literature in the United States.Kroeger was the son of a clergyman who came to this country with his family in 1848 and settled at Davenport Iowa. He was a Latin farmer and instructed his son in foreign languages and instilled in him a love for music poetry and philosophy.
Arturo Meza.  Arturo Meza (Tocumbo Michoacán December 12 1956) is a Mexican songwriter musician composer singer poet and writer. He is a prolific artist and inventor of musical instruments such as the teclaedro yeloguerlizet mezáfono and oglio. The base of his songs is folk music usually only his own voice and guitar. Meza is an independent and prolific artist and has published 32 albums always removed from the musical mainstream.
Sam Chegini.  Sam Chegini (Persian: سام چگینی) is an award winning Iranian artist born in Tehran in 1992 in an artistic family.In 2009 Sam joined VOP (Voice of Peace) a group that worked on reconstructing ancient Persian musical instruments sponsored by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and IAARA.
Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair.  Mavelikkara Velukutty Nair (Malayalam: മാവേലിക്കര വേലുക്കുട്ടി നായർ) was an Indian mridangam player.
Eric Rosse.  Eric Rosse is a record producer. He is best known for his work with singer Tori Amos particularly production of her albums Little Earthquakes and Grammy nominated Under the Pink. He also produced Anna Nalick's album Wreck of the Day and Lisa Marie Presley's debut album To Whom It May Concern. During the making of Lisa Marie's album he also produced Kristy Thirsk's debut Souvenir. Rosse has worked with Two Loons for Tea and Colette Baron-Reid collaborating on her 2001 debut album.
Ann Telnaes.  Ann Carolyn Telnaes (born 1960 in Stockholm Sweden) is an editorial cartoonist. Unlike many editorial cartoonists Telnaes does not draw for any one set newspaper and her cartoons are instead syndicated across the United States. In 2001 she became the second woman cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
John Linnell.  John Sidney Linnell (born June 12 1959 New York New York) is an American musician known primarily as one half of Brooklyn New York alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants. In addition to singing and songwriting he plays accordion baritone and bass saxophone clarinet and keyboards for the group.Linnell's lyrics are perhaps most well known for their inclusion of strange subject matter and word play.
Idris Phillips.  Idris Phillips (born January 1958) is a musician composer songwriter and music producer based in Nashville Tennessee U.S..In recent years he is best recognized for his work as a pianist guitarist and producer for Canadian singer-songwriter Dawud Wharnsby co-writing the songs War Eight Years Old and Let It Go on Wharnsby's 2007 album Out Seeing The Fields.
Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult.  Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult (born at Grenoble 1747; died at Paris 1824) was a French Roman Catholic bishop afterwards a political writer.
Susan Brown (actress).  Susan Brown (born 6 May 1946) is an English actress of the stage and screen.
Sigrid Holmwood.  Sigrid Holmwood (November 19 1978) is a British/Swedish artist and works in London. She was educated at The Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing University of Oxford (BFA 2000) and the Royal College of Art London (MA in Painting 2002). Her paintings are historical re-enactments of the work of a painter of peasant life referencing sixteenth century genre-painting and nineteenth century impressionism. She makes her own handmade paints according to historic recipes.
Roland Kluttig.  Roland Kluttig (born 1968 in Radeberg) is a German conductor.From 1986 to 1991 he studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He attended master classes with Sylvain Cambreling Peter Eötvös and John Eliot Gardiner. From 1992 to 1999 he was conductor of the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin. From 2000 to 2004 he served as music director and assistant to Lothar Zagrosek at the Stuttgart State Opera.
Davido.  David Adedeji Adeleke (born November 21 1992) better known by his stage name Davido is a Nigerian American recording artist performer and record producer. In 2011 he co-produced and released Dami Duro a song well-received throughout Nigeria. Along with his elder brother Adewale Adeleke Davido is the co-owner of HKN Music a record label home to Sina Rambo B. Red and DeeKay. He has produced for numerous artists including Naeto C Skales Tiwa Savage and Sauce Kid.
Jaibi.  Jaibi was the stage name of the American soul singer Joan Banks (February 6 1943 - September 4 1984).
Garik Martirosyan.  Garik Martirosyan (Armenian: Գարիկ Մարտիրոսյան Russian: Гарик Мартиросян) (born February 13 1974 in Yerevan Soviet Union) is a Moscow-based Armenian entertainer comedian TV host actor and singer. He's the co-producer and host of the Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel TNT. He is also one of 4 h hosts of Prozhektorperiskhilton broadcast on Channel One since 2008.
J. Edward Hungerford.  J. Edward Hungerford (25 February 1883 - 25 April 1964) was an American silent film screenwriter.He wrote the scripts for well over 50 films between 1912 and 1921 such as Youth's Endearing Charm in 1916.
Sammy Fain.  Sammy Fain born Samuel E. Feinberg (June 17 1902 – December 6 1989) was an American composer of popular music.
Colin Spaull.  Colin Spaull (born 1944) is a British actor noted for his television work.His credits include: Z-Cars (in which he played three characters between 1964 and 1969) Dixon of Dock Green Doctor Who (in the stories Revelation of the Daleks Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel) Boon Goodnight Sweetheart Inspector Morse The Bill (in which he has played seven characters between 1985 and 2003) Casualty and Holby City.
Max Bernstein.  Max Bernstein (May 12 1854 Fürth – March 5 1925 München) was a German art and theatre critic and author. He was the husband of Elsa Bernstein.
Hüdai Ülker.  Hüdai Ülker (Štip 1951) is an ethnically Turkish German writer who was born in Yugoslavia.
Kristin Sevaldsen.  Kristin Sevaldsen (born 10 January 1966 in Lillehammer Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone) composer and music producer.
Fernando De Luca.  Fernando De Luca (born in Rome in 1961) is an Italian harpsichordist teacher and composer.He studied harpsichord with Paola Bernardi.He is the most famous harpsichordist over the Internet very popular especially in the United Kingdom and United States of America due to his acclaimed efforts to perform and record for the first time in the history the Handel’s Complete Harpsichord Compositions.
Lazy Lester.  Lazy Lester (born Leslie Johnson June 20 1933) is an American blues musician who sings and plays the harmonica and guitar. His career spans the 1950s to the 2010s.Best known for regional hits recorded with Ernie Young's Nashville Tennessee based Excello label Lester also contributed to songs recorded by Excello label-mates including Slim Harpo Lightnin' Slim and Katie Webster.
Dimitar Nenov.  Dimitar Nenov (Bulgarian: Димитър Ненов; December 19 1901 in Razgrad – August 30 1953 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian classical pianist composer music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri (himself a student of Ferruccio Busoni).
Michael Monroe.  Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm (born on 17 June 1962 in Helsinki) best known by his stage name Michael Monroe is a Finnish rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks and has served as the frontman for all-star side projects such as Demolition 23. and Jerusalem Slim (with Steve Stevens).
Wayne Escoffery.  Wayne Escoffery (born 23 February 1975 in London England) is a jazz saxophonist based in New York City.
DJ Mam's.  Morad Mameri better known by his stage name DJ Mam's born in Marseille France in 1972 is a Marseille-based French DJ of Algerian descent. He is signed to Wagram music label.
Anastacia.  Anastacia Lyn Newkirk (born September 17 1968) better known mononymously as Anastacia is an American singer-songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful around the world outside the United States.Anastacia started her career in 1983 as a dancer for hire and made regular appearances from 1985 until 1992 on MTV's Club MTV. In 1990 she started her musical career as a backing vocalist.
Sigmund Jensen.  Sigmund Jensen (born 1968) is a Norwegian writer. He made his literary debut in 1995 with the short story collection Antikvarens datter. Among his novels are Hvite dverger. Svarte hull from 2002 and Tiberiusklippen from 2008.He was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 2004.
Louis Tomlinson.  Louis William Tomlinson (born Louis Troy Austin; 24 December 1991) is an English pop singer-songwriter footballer and actor known as a member of the boy band One Direction.Tomlinson began his career as an actor initially appearing in ITV drama Fat Friends as an extra. He also went on to appear in another ITV drama film If I Had You and the BBC drama Waterloo Road.
Elizabeth von Arnim.  Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941) born Mary Annette Beauchamp was an Australian-born British novelist. By marriage she became Gräfin (Countess) von Arnim-Schlagenthin and by a second marriage Countess Russell. Although known in her early life as Mary after the publication of her first book she was known to her readers eventually to her friends and finally even to her family as Elizabeth and she is now invariably referred to as Elizabeth von Arnim.
Suman Kalyanpur.  Suman Kalyanpur is an Indian singer. She was born on January 28 1937 in Dhaka British India. In 1943 her family moved to Mumbai where she received her musical training. She is married to Ramanand S. Kalyanpur.
Camille Dela Rosa.  Camille Jean Verdelaire D. Dela Rosa (29 July 1982 – present) is a painting visual artist who studied at the University of the Philippines Diliman - Voice Major Minor in Piano. She is also the daughter of the late painter Ibarra Y. Dela Rosa and Ethel Dimacuha a retired Humanities Professor of St. Scholastica's College Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Lyceum of the Philippines.
Nieves Mathews.  Nieves Hayat de Madariaga Archibald Mrs. Mathews (1917–2003) was an author of Scottish and Spanish parentage.
Rainer Maria Latzke.  Rainer Maria Latzke (born December 28 1950) is a German artist working in the field of trompe l'oeil and mural painting. He taught at the Utah State University and is founder of the Institute of Frescography. Latzke is Honorary Professor of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art of Fudan University and Master of the Beijing DeTao Masters Academy. Latzke is ranked by Artists Trade Union of Russia amongst the world-best artists of the last four centuries.
Big Dee Irwin.  DiFosco Dee T. Ervin Jr. (July 6 1932 - August 27 1995) usually known professionally as Big Dee Irwin was an American singer and songwriter whose biggest hit was a version of Swinging On A Star in 1963 recorded as a duet with Little Eva.
Colin McCahon.  Colin John McCahon (1 August 1919 Timaru New Zealand – 27 May 1987 Auckland) was a prominent New Zealand artist. During his life he also worked in art galleries and as a university lecturer. Some of McCahon's best-known works are wall-sized paintings with a dark background overlaid with religious texts in white and varying in size for example Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is 1958/59.
Jean Saunders.  Jean Saunders née Jean Innes (b. 8 February 1932 in London England - d. 3 August 2011 in Weston-super-Mare England) was a British writer of romance novels since 1974 she writes under her married and maiden name and also writes under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers Sally Blake and Rachel Moore.
Tonia (singer).  Tonia (born Arlette Antoine Dominicus 25 July 1947 Anderlecht) is a Belgian singer best known for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest.
Néstor Barron.  Néstor Barron was born in Buenos Aires Argentine. He is a writer poet and musician. He began his artistic activity very early with his first classical guitar concerts when he was 12 years old. Then he turned his musical course towards the rock and the pop music as a member of the MIA music cooperative (MIA is the Spanish acronym of Independent Argentine Musicians) when he was 16 years old together with Lito Vitale among others. At the same time he began to write.
Luke James.  'Luke James Boyd better known as Luke James is an American singer-songwriter. Born in New Orleans Louisiana James began his musical career singing background for R&B artist Tyrese and later writing songs for recording artists such as Chris Brown Britney Spears Keri Hilson and Justin Bieber. Under the management of record producer Danja James released his first mixtape #Luke in 2011.
Emilio Scanavino.  Emilio Scanavino (Genoa 28 February 1922 – Milan 28 November 1986) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
John Jakes.  John William Jakes (born March 31 1932) is an American writer best known for American historical fiction. He has used the pen name Jay Scotland.
Terry Jones (singer).  Teresa Terry Lea Lang Jones (born May 17 1970) is a founding member of Contemporary Christian music group Point of Grace. She announced her retirement from the group in late 2003 and officially left in early 2004. She has won 7 Dove Awards with Point of Grace.
Basilio Kaczurak.  Basilio Kaczurak (Василь Качурак) (born February 7 1919 in Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine died February 7 1987 in Buenos Aires Argentina) was a Ukrainian composer bandurist orchestra conductor and promoter of Ukrainian folk music in South America.Founder of Taras shevchenko bandurist capella (Тара́с Шевче́нко) June 6 1961 in the Argentine Republic driving interest and Ukrainian culture spreading throughout South America directing it with great success for 25 years.
Pucho Fernández.  Leopoldo Pucho Fernández II (September 2 1927 – July 29 2008) was a Cuban-Puerto Rican comedian. He was the son of veteran Cuban comedian Leopoldo Fernández known as Tres Patines.
Bonnie Burton.  Bonnie Burton (born July 12 1972) is a San Francisco-based author journalist comedian actress and show host. From 2003 to 2012 she worked as a Senior Editor for Star Wars.com and staff writer for Star Wars Insider magazine and was the Senior Editor of the Official Star Wars Blog.
José Luis Munuera.  José Luis Munuera (born 21 April 1972 in Lorca in the region of Murcia Spain) is a Spanish comics artist. Along with writer Jean-David Morvan he was in charge of the classic Spirou et Fantasio series from 2004 to 2008.Munuera kept close to the spirit of classic Spirou author Franquin's graphical style while bringing a touch of manga-inspired modernism.
Tom Grummett.  Thomas Tom Grummett (born 1959) is a Canadian comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work as penciller on titles such as The New Titans The Adventures of Superman Superboy Power Company Robin New Thunderbolts and Heroes.
Patrick Cox.  Patrick Cox is a Canadian–British fashion designer and an eponymous fashion label specializing in the creation of shoes leather goods and accessories. Cox is most noted for the use of unusual materials and a mixture of Avant-garde and traditional styles.Born 19 March 1963 in Edmonton Canada to a ballerina mother and linguist father Cox was educated locally except for periods when his father's work led the family to postings in Nigeria Chad and Cameroon.
Wally Voss.  Wally Voss was a North-American bass player born in July 1958. He was the bass player of Ft. Lauderdale local bands Pearl and later Front Runner then played live with Yngwie Malmsteen on the Trilogy tour. Later in 1987 he played the bass parts on the Out of the Sun album from Joey Tafolla. Wally Voss died from the Hodgkin's lymphoma in November 1992.
Ray Tabano.  Ray Tabano (aka Crazy Raymond) (born December 23 1946 in The Bronx New York U.S.) is a musician and founding member of Aerosmith. Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford in 1971.In addition to his original work with the band he helped maintain the band's office hangout and recording studio The Wherehouse throughout the 1970s. He started the band's fan club and line of merchandise designing and selling merchandise himself and writing the band's fan club newsletters.
John Lee (artist).  John Lee (active 1850-1870) was a pre-Raphaelite British painter; part of a group of Merseyside artists from the period which also included William Lindsay Windus and William Davis. The son of Liverpool merchants he lived in Rock Ferry before moving to London in 1866. His works were shown at the Liverpool Academy from 1859–67 and at the Royal Academy from 1863-67.
Cynthia Phelps.  Cynthia Phelps (born 1961 in Hollywood Los Angeles California) is an American violist whose versatile career involves work as a chamber musician solo artist and orchestral musician. Phelps is currently the Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic a position to which she was appointed in 1992. She is a former faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music and is currently a faculty member at the Juilliard School.
Ernst Jünger.  Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German writer and philosopher. In addition to his political essays novels and diaries he is well known for Storm of Steel an account of his experience during World War I.
Henry Raeburn.  Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter and Scotland's first significant portrait painter since the Union to remain based in Scotland. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.
Katy Gardner.  Katy Gardner (born 1964) is a British author best known for her novel Losing Gemma which was turned into a two-part miniseries for ITV1 in 2006.Gardner is a graduate of Cambridge University who undertook her doctoral research at the London School of Economics. As well the author of four novels being a writer of fiction she was for some years a Professor of Social Anthropology at Sussex University.In 2013 Gardner returned to the LSE as a Professor of Anthropology.
Capone (rapper).  Kiam Akasi Holley (born February 8 1976) better known by his stage name Capone is an American hip hop recording artist from Queens New York City. He is best known as one half of the East Coast hip hop duo Capone-N-Noreaga (C-N-N) alongside friend and fellow Queens-based rapper N.O.R.E.. He spent some time in jail after the release of C-N-N's debut album The War Report.
Gwilym R. Jones.  Gwilym Richard Jones (24 March 1903 – 29 July 1993) was an editor and poet and the first person to have received all three major literary awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The Eisteddfod is an event at which it is notoriously difficult to achieve an award without merit as the judges will often attribute no prize if they feel that the quality of the work submitted does not meet the standards required.
Samantha Strong.  Samantha Strong (born on June 9 1967 in Seattle Washington) is an American pornographic actress. She won the 1988 AVN Award for Best New Starlet and is an inductee in AVN Hall of Fame.
Mac Hyman.  Mac Hyman (born Mackenzie Hooks Hyman; August 25 1923 – July 17 1963) was an American fiction writer who is known for his best-selling novel No Time for Sergeants which was adapted into a popular Broadway play and a motion picture.
Anne Rice.  Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction Christian literature and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels The Vampire Chronicles revolving around the central character of Lestat.
Friedrich Hölderlin.  Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪsti.aːn ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn]; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
Whitney McVeigh.  Whitney McVeigh (1968) is an American artist. She was born in New York and moved to the UK in 1976.
Herb Rooney.  Herbert Louis Rooney was a record producer who was responsible for writing producing and singing bass on songs by the Exciters and for writing and producing the sample staple Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss.Between 1964 and the mid-1980s Rooney was married to Brenda Reid. They had one son Cory Rooney who played keyboard for Herb and Brenda when touring and has produced for the likes of Mariah Carey Mary J.
Christine Fan.  Christine Fan also known as Fan Fan (范范) (simplified Chinese: 范玮琪; traditional Chinese: 范瑋琪; pinyin: Fàn Wěiqí; Wade–Giles: Fan Wei-chi) was born March 18 1976. She is an American-born Taiwanese singer and actress. Ohio-born she studied at Pomona College and the Harvard Extension School. She hosted the variety show Bang Bang Tang (模范棒棒堂) on Channel [V] in Taiwan and has also starred in various commercials. On 1 November 2008 she held her first ticketed concert in Taipei.
Suleyman Rustam.  Suleyman Rustam (Azerbaijani: Süleyman Rüstəm; November 27 1906 - June 10 1989) is poet of the Soviet Azerbaijan playwright and a public figure. He is the poet of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960) laureate of the Stalin State Prize of the second degree (1950) Hero of Socialist Labour (1976) and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1940.
Wolf Howard.  Wolf Howard (born 7 April 1968) is an English artist poet and filmmaker living in Chatham Kent and was a founder member of the Stuckists art group. He is also a drummer who has played in garage and punk bands currently as a member of The Musicians of the British Empire (MBE's) with Billy Childish.
Jeffery Paul Chan.  Jeffery Paul Chan (陈耀光) (born 1942) is a Chinese American author. He is a professor of Asian American studies and English at San Francisco State University where he also received his masters degree and has taught for 38 years until his retirement.Chan was a co-founder of the Asian American studies department at SFSU and has twice served as first chair of the department.
Gene Stratton-Porter.  Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17 1863 – December 6 1924) was an American author amateur naturalist wildlife photographer and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages including Braille and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world.
Kana Uemura.  Kana Uemura (植村 花菜 Uemura Kana born 4 January 1983) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted in 2004. She is best known for her song Toilet no Kamisama an acoustic ballad about her grandmother which became a hit in 2010.
Chryso Stamatopoulou.  Chryso Stamatopoulou (in greek Χρυσώ Σταματοπούλου) is a Greek rock singer composer and musical theatre actress. She is mostly known for her two studio albums (San Anemos 2001 and Akatorthoto 2012) and her participation in the popular prime time live music show Amstel live which was broadcast on Greek TV channel Skai for three seasons. She is sister of Greek pop diva Mando (in greek Μαντώ).
Arthur Maia.  Arthur Maia (born April 9 1963) is a Brazilian composer and musician. Considered one of the best bass players in the world by professional critics Maia have played with many famous artists such as Djavan Gilberto Gil Marisa Monte Lulu Santos and Ney Matogrosso. His compositions usually presents a fusion of jazz funk swing music and reggae.
Peter Dubé.  Peter Dubé is a Canadian writer who has published novels short stories and essays. Originally from Montreal he earned an MA from Concordia University's Creative Writing Program.In addition to his own published work Dubé who is openly gay has also edited several anthologies of gay male literature.
Michael Cunningham.  Michael Cunningham (born November 6 1952) is an American writer. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.
Jessica Delfino.  Jessica Delfino (born June 8 1976 in Bridgeport Connecticut) is a controversial singer songwriter and comedian based in New York City. Her songs tend to ridicule taboos and typically include jokes about vaginas and other sexual or dark topics. In her act she plays an assortment of instruments including guitar flying V ukulele and a rape whistle. She is also an illustrator and attended Philadelphia's Art Institute as well as the University of Maine.
Raymond Salvatore Harmon.  Raymond Salvatore Harmon (born April 7 1974) is an American artist who works primarily as a painter.
JoAnne Lorenzana.  JoAnne or Joanne Geraldine O. Lorenzana (born on February 14) is a Filipina recording and performing artist songwriter and former model best known as an exponent of Original Pilipino Music in the mid-1980s to the 1990s. She is a graduate of the University of the Philippines.Lorenzana was discovered by Filipino composer-singer-manager Nonong 'Dero' Pedero in 1984 and soon took the young singer under his management employing her talent for commercial jingles.
Kimi Djabate.  Kimi Djabaté (born on January 20 1975 in Tabato Guinea-Bissau) is a Bissau-Guinean Afro-beat/blues musician. Based out of Lisbon Portugal he continues to be one of the contemporary links in a chain of West African music that extends back in time hundreds of years.
Lisa Steele.  Lisa Steele (born 1947 in Kansas City Missouri) is a Canadian artist a pioneer in video art educator curator and co-founder of V tape in Toronto. Born in the United States Steele moved to Canada in 1968 and is now a Canadian citizen. She has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s.
Ciro Adolfi.  Ciro Adolfi (1683–1758) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in and around Bergamo. He was born in Bergamo the younger brother of the painter Giacomo Adolfi and was initially taught by his father Benedetto Adolfi. He completed a number of fresco paintings in the churches and public buildings of Bergamo including a Four evangelists for the church of for Sant' Allesandro della Croce; a Deposition from the cross for Santa Maria della Grazie and a Decollation of St.
Sahib Shihab.  Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory; 23 June 1925 Savannah Georgia – 24 October 1989 Nashville Tennessee) was an American jazz saxophonist (baritone alto and soprano) and flautist.
Ratnakar Pai.  Pandit Ratnakar Pai (born in 1928) was a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
Dmitry Malikov.  Dmitry Yurievich Malikov (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Маликов) (born 29 January 1970) is a Russian composer singer and a recent record producer. He was also an actor in one movie.
Cary Brothers.  Cary Brothers is an American indie rock singer-songwriter originally from Nashville Tennessee. After moving to Los Angeles and becoming a regular performer at the influential Hotel Cafe venue Brothers first gained national attention with his song Blue Eyes on the Platinum-selling Grammy-winning Garden State soundtrack. As an independent artist he has since toured worldwide released two full length records and become one of the most-licensed artists in film and television.
Erica Johnson Debeljak.  Erica Johnson Debeljak (born 1961 San Francisco U.S.) is an American-Slovenian writer and translator an American expatriate living in Slovenia.
Gal Costa.  Gal Costa (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos on September 26 1945 in Salvador Bahia) is a Brazilian singer of popular music.
Edward Sagarin.  Edward Sagarin (September 18 1913 – June 10 1986) also known by his pen name Donald Webster Cory was an American professor of sociology and criminology at the City University of New York and a writer.
Nikolai Baskakov.  Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Баска́ков; May 8 1918 Astrakhan city Soviet Russia – October 14 1993 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) lived and worked in Leningrad regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his genre and portrait painting.
Duane Allen.  Duane David Allen (born April 29 1943) had formal training in both operatic and quartet singing before becoming a member of The Oak Ridge Boys in 1966. Allen is the lead singer for the quartet and is heard on the majority of their most successful songs.He was inducted in the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He attended East Texas State University graduating in 1966 there he was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.He is married to Norah Lee Allen.
Joan Blos.  Joan Winsor Blos (born December 9 1928) is an American writer teacher and advocate for children's literacy.For her 1979 historical novel A Gathering of Days Blos won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Booksand the Newbery Medal for the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.She was born in New York City.She lives in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Andy Hummel.  John Andrew Andy Hummel (January 26 1951 – July 19 2010) was an American songwriter bassist singer best known as the bass player of Big Star. He was born Jan 26 1951 in Valley Forge Pa. to John Vernon and Barbara Walker Hummel who was crowned Miss America in 1947. He was raised in Memphis Tennessee and graduated high school in 1969 from Memphis University School. He became good friends with Chris Bell during high school.
Eda Nemoede Casterton.  Eda Nemoede Casterton (1877–1969) was an American painter known specifically for her portrait miniatures in watercolor pastels and oil. She exhibited works at the Paris Salon and the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition of 1915 among others. Her works are at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.She lived in Wisconsin as a child Illinois during much of her active adult life and Montana and California in her later years.
Carl Potts.  Carl Potts (born November 12 1952 in Oakland California) is an American comic-book writer artist and editor best known for creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics.
Lennie Mace.  Lennie Mace (レニー・メイス Renī Meisu born 1965) is an American contemporary artist born in New York City.Mace is predominantly known for his drawings in ballpoint pen using them to create fine artwork and he is considered a pioneer of the medium.His imagination has also served commercial purposes appearing in print as illustrations and comic art.Art reviewers have referred to Mace as the da Vinci of doodlers and the ballpoint Picasso.Lennie Mace has resided in Japan since 1994.A hair salon in central Tokyo belonging to a Japanese patron doubles as the Lennie Mace VIEWseum displaying a collection of original artwork housed within an interior hand-crafted by the artist.He remains active in art communities of both America and Japan.
Colin McNaughton.  Colin McNaughton (born 1 May 1951) is a British writer and illustrator of over 70 children's books. He is also a poet focusing mainly on humorous children's poetry. He trained in graphic design at the Central School of Art and Design in London followed by an MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art. He lives in London.
Mio Takaki.  Mio Takaki (高樹 澪 Takaki Mio born December 31 1959) is a Japanese actress and singer.
Akihiro Kitada.  Akihiro Kitada (北田 暁大 Kitada Akihiro  born December 28 1971 in Japan) is a Japanese sociologist and an Associate Professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies University of Tokyo.He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2004. Before he took his current position in 2003 he was teaching at the University of Tsukuba.
Roger Sprung.  Roger Sprung (born August 29 1930 in New York City) is an American banjo player and teacher best known for introducing authentic bluegrass banjo picking styles to the folk music community in the north and for the eclectic manner in which he has adapted bluegrass banjo techniques to music of other genres.
Alexander DeLeon.  Alexander Michael DeLeon (born April 8 1989) is an American songwriter and lead singer for the Las Vegas pop rock band The Cab. Alex formed the band in high school with former member Cash Colligan. The Cab was signed to Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance in 2007 and released their debut album Whisper War in April 2008. In June 2011 The Cab parted ways with their label Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance and released their second album Symphony Soldier independently on August 23 2011.
Ahmad Bashir.  Ahmad Bashir (Urdu: احمد بشیر) (March 24 1923 – October 25 2011) was a writer journalist intellectual and film director from Pakistan. He was the father of leading television artiste Bushra Ansari and poet Neelam Bashir. Begum Parveen Atif also an Urdu short story writer is his sister and his wife Mehmooda was his partner from the 1947. He was a close friend of Urdu writers Mumtaz Mufti and Ibn-e-Insha.
Magne Lerø.  Magne Lerø (born 7 April 1954) is a Norwegian editor.He is the managing director of the company Mentor Medier and thereby editor-in-chief of publications such as Økonomisk Rapport Ny Tid and Ukeavisen Ledelse. A cand.theol. by education he also has a Master of Management degree from the Norwegian School of Management.
Eric Ungar.  Eric Ungar is an American saxophonist flautist and guitarist. He is perhaps best recognized as a founding member of the jazz fusion ensemble Alter Natives as well as his contributions to the group Hotel X. Ungar left the Alter Natives after the release of their second album Group Therapy causing the band to embrace a more progressive rock style.
Jean-François Millet.  Jean-François Millet (French: [milɛ]; October 4 1814 – January 20 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the movements of Realism and Naturalism.
Bobby Robinson (record producer).  Bobby Robinson (April 16 1917 – January 7 2011) was an American independent record producer and songwriter in New York most active from the 1950s through the mid-1980s. He produced hits by Wilbert Harrison The Shirelles Dave Baby Cortez Elmore James Lee Dorsey Gladys Knight & The Pips King Curtis Spoonie Gee Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Doug E. Fresh and Treacherous Three.
Zachary Richard.  Zachary Richard (/riːˈʃɑrd/ ree-SHARD) CM is a Cajun singer/songwriter and poet. His music is an innovative combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.
Hacken Lee.  Hacken Lee Hak Kan (born 6 December 1967) is a popular Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer and lyricist actor Master of Ceremonies and Association football sportscaster. In 1994 Hacken was crowned the title of Zero Defect Vocals alongside Jacky Cheung who was named Perfect Vocals the year before and is thought by many to be the 5th Heavenly King as well as the successor of the God of Songs Alan Tam.
Helen Atkinson-Wood.  Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedienne born in Cheadle Hulme Cheshire. Atkinson-Wood studied fine art at the Ruskin School Oxford University where she performed with Rowan Atkinson. She also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she met Ben Elton.[citation needed]
Joseph Malègue.  Joseph Malègue (8 December 1876 – 30 December 1940) was a French catholic novelist principally author of Augustin ou le Maître est là (fr) (1933) and Pierres noires. Les classes moyennes du Salut (fr). He was also a theologian and published some theological surveys as Pénombres about Faith and against Fideism. His first novel is following the French historian of spirituality Émile Goichot the most accurately linked to Modernism.
Shelley Harland.  Shelley Ann Harland-Wright (born as Shelley Ann Harland ca. 1979 Caterham Surrey) is an English-born pop singer-songwriter and producer. In 1997 she started her music career in New York and performed mononymously as Harland. By 2006 she was based in Australia and released material as Shelley Harland.
Irka Mateo.  Irka Mateo is a Dominican singer songwriter and world music artist. Her artistic career has been one of breaking boundaries and embracing people’s deepest humanity especially through their music.Her artistic sensibility incubated in Spain France Brazil Canada the United States and her native Dominican Republic. In the late 1970s and early 1980s she lived in Europe (Spain and France) where she immersed herself in the emerging world music scene.
Louise Andrews Kent.  Louise Andrews Kent (May 25 1886 – August 6 1969) was an American author. She was born in Brookline Massachusetts in 1886 and graduated from Simmons College School of Library Science in 1909 where she was president of her senior class and editor of the college paper. She became a newspaper columnist and author of children's books cookbooks.
Matt Finders.  Matt Finders (born February 12 1960) is an American trombonist based in Southern California. A former member of The Tonight Show Band he has played with various big bands and in major musical productions on Broadway. Though Finders has worked in many genres his primary focus is on jazz. He works on various projects in the Los Angeles area and has traveled as a clinician and guest artist to various schools around the nation.
Ty Dolla Sign.  Tyrone Griffin (born April 13 1985) better known by his stage name Ty Dolla Sign (stylized as Ty Dolla $ign or Ty$) is an American singer rapper and producer from Los Angeles California. He is currently signed to Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang Records and Atlantic Records.
Tito Lara.  Tito Lara (December 23 1932 – June 23 1987) was considered by many to be Puerto Rico's first television singing idol.
Butch Trucks.  Claude Hudson Butch Trucks (born May 11 1947) is an American drummer who is one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band. One of Trucks' first bands was local Jacksonville band The Vikings who made one 7-inch record in 1964. Another early band was The 31st of February which formed and broke up in 1968. This group's lineup eventually included both Duane Allman and Gregg Allman.
Vladimir Kostenko.  Vladimir Kostenko (Ukrainian Володимир Костенко Russian Владимир Костенко) (June 11 1903 – November 7 1967) was a Ukrainian-born American ballet dancer primarily remembered for his long association with the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.
Dylan Donkin.  Dylan Donkin is an American rock musician.
Lucinda Bassett.  Lucinda Redick Bassett is an American self-help author and motivational speaker and keynote presenter.
Kōji Wada.  Kōji Wada (和田 光司 Wada Kōji) (born January 24 1974) is a Japanese rock singer. He debuted in 1999 with his first single Butter-Fly the theme song of the anime Digimon Adventure. He is currently under the King Records (Japan) recording label.
Matthew Ashforde.  Matthew Ashforde is an English actor known for his appearances in EastEnders Press Gang and Is It Legal?.Ashforde started his professional acting career at the age of ten. He currently lives in North London with his wife and two sons.Ashforde played Sonia Fowler's lawyer Adam Childe in EastEnders in 2007. He also played the character of Darren in Is It Legal? the hotel porter in Mr.
Malcolm Burn.  Malcolm Burn (born October 4 1960) is a Canadian-born music producer recording engineer and musician. In 2001 the album Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris and produced by Burn won best folk album.
Eric Meadus.  Eric Meadus (1931–1970) was an English artist whose work was exhibited in the Royal Academy and Paris Salon.Meadus came from the 'Flower Roads' of Swaythling a council estate. He was born in Rigby Road Southampton but his family soon moved to Lobelia Road. He first exhibited in a mixed show at the City Art Gallery. L.S. Lowry met him in 1965 and encouraged him.
Alexander Karasyov.  Alexander Karasyov (Russian — Александр Владимирович Карасёв transl. Alexandr Vladimirovich Karasev) — Russian writer living in St. Petersburg Russia.
Josephine Paddock.  Josephine Paddock (April 18 1885 – 1964) was an American painter born in New York City. She earned a B.A. degree at Barnard College and studied at the Art Students League with Robert Henri Kenyon Cox William Merritt Chase and John Alexander.Her sister Ethel Louise Paddock born two years later and who also studied with Henri would also become a painter and a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Andre Dubus.  Andre Dubus II (August 11 1936 - February 24 1999) was an American short story writer essayist and autobiographer.
Sid Couchey.  Sid Couchey (May 24 1919 – March 11 2012) was an American comic book artist best known for his work on the Harvey Comics characters Richie Rich Little Lotta and Little Dot. His style is known for big friendly faces and a sharp sense of visual humor.Born in Cleveland Ohio Couchey enrolled in the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning a correspondence course out of Cleveland. He continued to practice his craft on the back of his school papers.
David Schafer.  David Schafer (born 1955) is an American visual artist and sound artist based in Los Angeles CA. He attended Kansas City Art Institute Missouri from 1973–75 received a B.A. from the University of Missouri Kansas City in 1979 and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Texas Austin in 1983.Schafer works across multiple platforms of production including collaborations with architects graphic designers voice actors digital engineers fabricators and sound studios.
Libby Sacer.  Libby Sacer also Libby Saker or Liberty Sacer born Jan Tamrat (1925–2013) was born in Ethiopia in 1925. Her father a Jewish Ethiopian named Tariku Tamrat in the archives of his community (Beta Israel) was mentioned as a labourer and craftsman but was fluent in more than 20 local dialects and sometimes worked as an interpreter. He died in an accident when his only child was five years old; this had a major impact on Sacer.
Alex Anderson (cartoonist).  Alexander Alex Anderson Jr. (September 5 1920 – October 22 2010) was an American cartoonist who created the characters of Rocky the Flying Squirrel Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right as well as Crusader Rabbit. He was not directly involved in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show however.
Jenn Ghetto.  Jenn Ghetto (real name Jennifer Hays) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who performs under the name S. She was a member of the now defunct band Carissa's Wierd.
Nate Kenyon.  Nate Kenyon is an American author of thrillers science fiction and horror novels and short fiction. His latest book Day One was released by Thomas Dunne Books on October 1 2013. Day One is about sentient machines taking over New York City.Kenyon's first novel Bloodstone (Five Star Publishing 2006; Leisure Books 2008) was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and was voted the Preditors and Editors Horror Novel of the Year for 2006.
Ian Scott (producer).  Ian (iRoK) Scott is an American record producer Songwriter. In 2006 Scott joined Mark Jackson to produce and license songs and underscore for hit MTV shows such as The Hills Laguna Beach The City Real World/Road Rules Challenge and many others. Later in 2006 Ian along with his partner Mark produced and co-wrote the hit single Yeah performed by famed Korean Artist Park Jeong-Ah. The song hit the top of Korean charts and launched Ian's career.
Siegfried Einstein.  Siegfried Einstein (30 November 1919 – 25 April 1983) was a German-Jewish poet novelist essayist and journalist.
Elisa Tavárez.  Elisa Tavárez (1879 - 1960) was a Puerto Rican pianist of international renown.
Anne Froelick.  Anne Froelick Taylor (December 8 1913 – January 26 2010) was an American screenwriter from 1941 to 1950 and later a playwright and novelist. Her screenwriting career ended when she was identified as a communist by two witnesses at a hearing before the HUAC.Anne Froelick was born in Hinsdale Massachusetts but her family moved to Princeton New Jersey when she was a child. She briefly attended Smith College before moving to New York City at the age of 19 to try to start an acting career.
DJ Disciple.  DJ Disciple (David Banks) is an American DJ and house music producer from Brooklyn New York.In 1994 his track On the Dancefloor peaked at #67 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2002 he hit number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with Caught Up. The track was featured in the Showtime television series Queer as Folk.
Rodney Morales.  Rodney Morales is an American fiction writer and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawaii.
Tommy Shaw.  Tommy Roland Shaw (born September 11 1953) is an American guitarist singer songwriter and performer best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx he has played with other groups including Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades and has released several solo albums.
Audrey Wood.  Audrey Wood is a children's author. She currently resides in Santa Barbara California
Harry Roesli.  Djauhar Zaharsjah Fachruddin Roesli (10 September 1951 – 11 December 2004) better known as Harry Roesli was an Indonesian singer-songwriter.
Sherrié Austin.  Sherrie Veronica Krenn (born 28 August 1970 Sydney Australia) known professionally as Sherrié Austin is an Australian actress and singer. Active as a singer since her teenage years Austin initially recorded as one half of the duo Colourhaus which also featured Phil Radford. After leaving Colourhaus she recorded one album in her native Australia before moving to the United States in pursuit of a singing career.
Marguerite Canal.  Marguerite Canal (29 January 1890 – 27 January 1978) was a French conductor music educator and composer. She was born in Toulouse into a musical family and her father introduced her to music and poetry. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire in 1911 and after completing her studies became a teacher at the Conservatoire in 1919. In 1917 she became the first woman in France to conduct an orchestra and won the Prix de Rome in 1920 with Don Juan. She died in Cepet near Toulouse.
Baby Dodds.  Warren Baby Dodds (December 24 1898 – February 14 1959) was a jazz drummer born in New Orleans Louisiana. Dodds was among the first drummers who improvised while performing to be recorded. He varied his drum patterns with accents and flourishes and he generally kept the beat with the bass drum while playing buzz rolls on the snare. Some of his early influences include Louis Cottrell Sr. Harry Zeno Henry Martin and Tubby Hall.
Oswald Walters Brierly.  Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817 - 14 December 1894) English marine painter who came of an old Cheshire family was born at Chester.
Paul Palnik.  Paul Palnik (born 1946) is a Jewish-American artist writer and educator.Born in Cleveland Ohio Palnik introduced kabbalistic spiritual themes into his cartoons in the 1980s and 1990s. His cartoons combine graphic design drawing poetry and literature. The images are pen and ink drawings and often rendered in minute detail. The cartoons are like a one page book dispensing wit wisdom and spiritual advice.
Billy Rich.  Eddie Wilbur (Billy) Rich is an electric bassist and blues musician. He is known for his association with Jimi Hendrix Buddy Miles and especially with Taj Mahal. He has been the bassist in Taj Mahal's Trio since 1972. Rich was born in Omaha Nebraska and is based out of Denver Colorado. On July 29 2004 Billy was inducted into the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame and is a member of the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame.
Rebecca Wells.  Rebecca Wells (born in 1952?) is an American author and theatre director who wrote the Ya-Ya Sisterhood series of books which includes Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Little Altars Everywhere and Ya-Yas in Bloom.
Jane Cunningham Croly.  Jane Cunningham Croly (December 19 1829 – December 23 1901) was an American author and journalist better known by her pseudonym Jennie June.
Paul Tansey.  Paul Tansey (1949 – 21 September 2008) was an Irish journalist and economics editor for The Irish Times.Tansey was a former deputy editor of the Sunday Tribune and assistant editor of The Irish Times before becoming the paper's economics editor. He was educated at Blackrock College Trinity College Dublin (TCD) where he edited Trinity News in 1970 and the London School of Economics (LSE).
Mira Calix.  Mira Calix is the stage name of Chantal Passamonte a British based artist signed to Warp Records. Although her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic in recent years she has incorporated classical instrumentation into her work for performance recording and installations.
Andrea Commodi.  Andrea Commodi (1560–1648) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period. Born in Florence but mostly active in Rome he was a pupil of the painter Cigoli. He painted frescoes in the sacristy of San Carlo ai Catinari and a Fall of the Angels now in the Accademia gallery in Florence. One of his pupils was a juvenile Pietro da Cortona who moved to Rome and became one of the towering figures of the Italian Baroque. Another pupil was Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi (1582–1659).
Owuor Arunga.  Owuor Arunga is a jazz trumpeter.He was born in Kisumu in Kenya and moved to New York in the early 2000s where he studied in The New School's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program. Some of the artist he’s played amongst or apprenticed with include Charlie Persip Candido Camero Billy Bang The Cadillacs Robert Glasper Louis Reyes Rivera Olu Dara Jimmy Owens and Chico Freeman. In 2005 he recorded with Ahmed Abdullah.
Gisele Jackson.  Gisele Jackson born in Baltimore Maryland is a globally acclaimed vocalist and house music diva known for international club hits including the Billboard charted # 2 Love Commandments (1997). The song was remixed by Danny Tenaglia and by Stonebridge and also found success in Europe reaching # 54 in the UK Singles Chart.She graduated from Howard University performed in tours for a few years with Ray Charles and Donna Summer and lived two decades in New York City.
Alexander Masters.  Alexander Masters is an author screenwriter and worker with the homeless. He lives in Cambridge United Kingdom.Masters is the son of authors Dexter Masters and Joan Brady. He was educated at Bedales School and took a first in physics from King's College London. He then went St Edmund's College Cambridge for a further degree in maths and then the beginnings of a PhD in the philosophy of quantum mechanics.
Jeanne DuPrau.  Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco California) is an American writer best known for The City of Ember a series of novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park California.
Nino Katamadze.  Nino Katamadze (Georgian: ნინო ქათამაძე) is a Georgian jazz singer and artist.
Slick Aguilar.  Mark Slick Aguilar (born 1954 in Florida) is an American guitarist. He has worked with a number of notable musicians but is probably best known as a member of Jefferson Starship. His son Mark Aguilar is an upcoming rapper from New Jersey.He played guitar with KC & the Sunshine Band and Wayne Cochran during the late 1970s before moving to the West Coast. It was there that he joined Buddy Miles' band and in 1982 he toured with David Crosby.
Kenneth Garrett.  Kenneth Garrett (September 23 1953) is an American photographer of archaeology who was born in Columbia Missouri and made 70 photos for National Geographic. In 1970 and 1972 he took a course in photojournalism at the University of Missouri and four years later went to University of Virginia where he got his bachelor's degree in anthropology. Currently he specializes in archaeology and paleontology.
Baek A-yeon.  Baek Ah Yeon (Hangul : 백아연 born on March 11 1993) is a South Korean solo singer who debuted in JYP Entertainment. She is known as the third finalist of South Korea's talent show K-pop Star Season 1.
Jason Taniguchi.  Jason Taniguchi is a writer and actor from Toronto Ontario Canada. His poems and short fiction appear in the collection Jason Taniguchi's Very Sensible Stories and Poems for Grown-ups from Kelp Queen Press. He has also both written for and appeared in the History Television series History Bites. Taniguchi is known for his one-man science fiction parody shows at Ad Astra for which he received the 2003 Prix Aurora Award in the category Fan (Other).
Julian Deda.  Julian Deda is Albanian comedian and actor. He was born in 15 September 1981 in Shkodër. He is son of famous Albanian actor Zef Deda
B D Ganapathy.  B D Ganapathy (Bācamāḍa Ḍevaiah Gaṇapati) was a noted writer scholar and journalist writing in English Kannada and Kodava takk covering religion anthropology and philosophy. He is particularly noted for his coverage of the Kodagu (Coorg) region and the Kodava ethno-linguistic group his own birthplace and community.Ganapathy was born in Besagoor village in Coorg in 1920.
Ji-li Jiang.  Ji-li Jiang was born in 1954 and is the author of the memoir Red Scarf Girl as well as The Magical Monkey King. She grew up and lived in Shanghai China in a large apartment with her family.
Ingelore Ebberfeld.  Ingelore Ebberfeld is a German sexologist and the author of several books on human sexuality especially on the erotic power of smell and touch. She has written that kissing originates from animals sniffing each other.
Jeff Mills.  Jeff Mills (born 18 June 1963 Detroit Michigan) is an American techno DJ and producer.
Jake Clemons.  Jake Clemons is a singer-songwriter an American musician and the nephew of E Street Band member Clarence Clemons his role model and mentor. He took over as the saxophonist for the band after Clarence Clemons died as part of a whole brass and saxophone ensemble. He played on the Wrecking Ball Tour with the band playing tenor and baritone saxophones and various percussion instruments and also singing backup vocals.
C. C. Catch.  C. C. Catch (born Caroline Catherine Müller 31 July 1964 in Oss Netherlands) is a Dutch-born German pop singer best known for being discovered by Dieter Bohlen.
Ewa Farna.  Ewa Farna (born 12 August 1993) is a Polish pop rock singer from the Czech Republic. Farna released three studio albums with Czech lyrics which sold platinum in the Czech Republic and were later re-recorded and released with Polish lyrics. Farna is the youngest commercially successful singer in the Czech Republic. In 2013 Farna was a judge on Czech&Slovak SuperStar and in 2014 she joined the judging panel on the fourth series of X Factor in Poland.
John Butler (musician).  John Charles Wiltshire-Butler (born 1 April 1975) or John Charles Butler is an Australian American musician songwriter record label owner and producer. He is the front man for the John Butler Trio a roots and jam band which formed in Fremantle Western Australia in 1998.The John Butler Trio has recorded five studio albums including three which have reached number-one on the Australian charts: Sunrise Over Sea Grand National and April Uprising.
George Chisholm (musician).  George Chisholm OBE (29 March 1915 – 6 December 1997) was a Scottish jazz trombonist. and Vocalist.Born in Glasgow to a family of musicians Chisholm's musical career began in the Glasgow Playhouse Orchestra.[citation needed] In the late 1930s he moved to London where he played in dance bands led by Bert Ambrose and Teddy Joyce.
Mandingo (pornographic actor).  Mandingo (born February 25 1975) is an American pornographic film actor. He also directs films for the studio West Coast Productions.One of his recent projects is called Mandingo Massacre. On April 12 2013 the New York Post published data obtained from Pornhub which revealed that Mandingo is the most searched male pornographic actor.
Harold Rubin.  Harold Rubin (born 13 May 1932) is a South African-born Israeli visual artist and free jazz clarinettist.
Zifou.  Faouzi Kojmane better known by his stage name Zifou (born in Sedan Ardennes France on 20 July 1992) is a French rapper of Moroccan origin signed to Universal Music France's Division AZ.He grew up in Roissy-en-Brie and in Pontault-Combault. He gained fame through his online postings in particular his May 2011 posting of Chicha toute la nuit.In July 2012 he released his debut official single C'est la hass on Universal Music France followed by On donne ça that featured Léa Castel.
Anthony DeStefano.  Anthony DeStefano (born 1965) is an American bestselling author of A Travel Guide to HeavenTen Prayers God Always Says Yes To Angels All Around Us and the children's books This Little Prayer of Mine Little Star (winner of the 2011 Mom's Choice Award) The Donkey that No One Could Ride and the gift book I Just Can't Take it Anymore.He has received many awards from religious organizations worldwide for his efforts to advance Christian beliefs in modern culture.[citation needed] In 2013 two new children's books by DeStefano will be published: A Travel Guide to Heaven- For Kids! and The Sheep that No One Could Find.
Byron Long.  Byron Long (born May 10 1969 in Inglewood California USA) is an American pornographic actor and director. It is speculated he is a distant cousin of Eddie Long although this has not been officially proven. He was inducted into the Urban X Awards Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2008 Long and talent agent Ron Ellis founded the production company Teaze World Entertainment. In 2010 Long was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
Sureshbabu Mane.  Sureshbabu Mane (1902– February 15 1953) was a prominent Hindustani classical music singer of Kirānā Gharānā in India. He was the son of a doyen of Kirana Gharana Ustad Abdul Karim Khan.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo.  Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; also spelled Arcimboldi) (1526 or 1527 – July 11 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits vegetables flowers fish and books.
Dave Pybus.  Dave Pybus (born 4 June 1970 in Heckmondwike West Yorkshire England) is an extreme metal musician best known as the former bass player of Cradle of Filth.Pybus's first band was called Anul Death (1988–91) which later changed its name to Darkened.From 1990-1994 Dave worked at Peaceville Records as a graphic designer.
Ludvík Kundera.  Ludvík Kundera (22 March 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Czech writer translator poet playwright editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007 he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic. In 2009 he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Award presented by the Charter 77 Foundation. Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera.
George Avakian.  George Avakian (Armenian: Գևորգ Ավագյան; Russian: Геворк Авакян; born March 15 1919) is an American record producer and executive known particularly for his work with Columbia Records and his production of albums by Louis Armstrong Miles Davis and other notable jazz musicians.Avakian was born in Armavir Russia to Armenian parents. His younger brother was the photographer and filmmaker Aram Avakian (1926–1987).
Georg Belwe.  Georg Belwe (1878–1954) was a German type designer typographer graphic artist and teacher.
Bronwyn Bancroft.  Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Australian artist notable for being amongst the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield New South Wales and trained in Canberra and Sydney Bancroft worked as a fashion designer and is an artist illustrator and arts administrator.In 1985 Bancroft established a shop called Designer Aboriginals selling fabrics made by Aboriginal artists including herself.
Joe McKinney (author).  Joe McKinney (born September 22 1968) is a San Antonio based author of several horror crime and science fiction novels. His works include the four part Dead World series the science fiction disaster tale Quarantined which was nominated for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a novel 2009 and the real crime novel Dodging Bullets. In 2012 McKinney's Flesh Eaters won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel of 2011.
John Corabi.  John Corabi is a heavy metal singer and guitarist who has worked with such bands as Angora The Scream Mötley Crüe Union and ESP (both with former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick) Ratt (as a guitarist) Twenty 4 Seven (with his then Ratt bandmate Bobby Blotzer) Zen Lunatic Brides of Destruction and Angel City Outlaws (with his then Ratt bandmates Robbie Crane and Bobby Blotzer and former Ratt guitarist Keri Kelli who he replaced in Ratt).
Simon Boswell.  Simon Boswell (born 15 October 1956) is a BAFTA nominated British film score composer conductor producer and musician with more than 90 credits to his name. He is known for combining mainly electronic elements with orchestral.
Nigel Balchin.  Nigel Balchin (3 December 1908 – 17 May 1970) was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls From the Air The Small Back Room (which popularised the terms boffin and backroom boys)[citation needed] and Mine Own Executioner.
Paulus Pontius.  Paulus Pontius (or Paulus Du Pont) (Mai 1603 – January 1658) was a well known Flemish engraver.
Bobèche (clown).  Antoine Mandelot better known as Bobèche was a French theatre clown similar to a Merry Andrew under the First Empire and the Restoration.He was the son of an upholsterer of the St. Antoine faubourg. He was closely associated with Auguste Guérin better known as Galimafré. These two comedians were very well known and performed at the Boulevard du Temple in Paris for twenty years at a time when theatres acrobat schools and all kinds of spectacles were very popular.
Mickey Brantford.  Mickey Brantford (1912–1984) was a British actor.
Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade.  Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (Marathi: विश्वनाथ काशिनाथ राजवाडे) (24 June 1863 – 31 December 1926) popularly known as Itihasacharya Rajwade was an eminent historian scholar writer commentator and orator from Maharashtra. He is considered to be the first in real sense to undertake an immense research of Maratha History by visiting hundreds of villages and historical places all over India and gathering thousands of genuine historical papers.
R. Couri Hay.  R. Couri Hay is a New York-based publicist and society columnist.
Emrah (singer).  Emrah İpek also known as Emrah (January 1 1971) is a Turkish singer and actor.Born in Ergani Diyarbakır Province he professionally entered the music world with his album Ağam Ağam already during his middle school time in 1984. With his performonce in the leading role of the movie Zavallılar (1984) he became known as Küçük Emrah (Little Emrah). The next year he released his second album Gülom and Yaralı which gained success.
Mat Zo.  Matan Mat Zo Zohar (born 30 April 1990) is a British electronic music producer composer and DJ. Zohar released his debut album Damage Control on the Anjunabeats label on 5 November 2013.
Jack Owens (blues singer).  Jack Owens (November 17 1904 – February 9 1997) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist from Bentonia Mississippi United States.
Vitaliy Nikolayevich Bubentsov.  Vitaliy Nikolayevich Bubentsov (Russian: Виталий Бубенцов; born February 12 1944 Murmansk) is a Russian artist working in the genres of portrait landscape still-life and thematic picture executed in various techniques. He is an honored artist of the Russian Federation a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia a member of the International Association of Visual Art AIAP UNESCO.
Maude Harcheb.  Maude Gabrielle Harcheb (born in Cannes on 1 July 1987) mostly known by her mononymous name Maude is a French singer and dancer who took part in season 5 of the popular French reality television series Les Anges de la téléréalité broadcast on NRJ 12 channel.
Matt Serletic.  Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records including Collective Soul Matchbox Twenty Cher Blessid Union of Souls Edwin McCain Stacie Orrico Taylor Hicks Rob Thomas and singer/songwriter Angie Aparo. Serletic will be working with American Idol Season 7 Winner David Cook on his second studio album. He also preceded Jason Flom as chairman of Virgin Records.
Joel Madden.  Joel Rueben Madden (born Joel Rueben Combs; March 11 1979) is the lead vocalist and front-man for the American pop punk band Good Charlotte as well as a record producer actor DJ and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Mo Kenney.  Mo Kenney (born 1990) is a Canadian singer/songwriter based in Waverley Nova Scotia. Catching the ear of noted Canadian rocker Joel Plaskett while still in school Kenney released her first album in 2012 which Plaskett produced. Kenney is known for her strong singing voice and engaging stage presence. Called Nova Scotia's rising star by The Scene magazine she has toured with Plaskett as well as with Ron Sexsmith.
Billy Bragg.  Stephen William Billy Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music punk rock and protest songs and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes.
Pierre Berton.  Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton CC OOnt (July 12 1920 – November 30 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction especially Canadiana and Canadian history and was a well-known television personality and journalist.An accomplished storyteller Berton was one of Canada's most prolific and popular authors. He wrote on popular culture Canadian history critiques of mainstream religion anthologies children's books and historical works for youth.
Noreen Motamed.  Noreen Motamed is a Persian painter.Daughter of Fereydoun Motamed she was born in Abadan Iran and attended primary and secondary school in Tehran and graduated in first place from University of Tehran with a B.A. degree in Arts. She continued her postgraduate studies and once again graduated in first place from Alzahra University with a Master of Arts degree with concentration in painting. She began painting as a professional artist in 1983.
Steve Garvey (musician).  Stephen Garvey (born 8 January 1958) is a musician who is known for being the bass guitarist of the punk band Buzzcocks forming part of the classic line-up of the group from 1977 to 1981 and again from 1989 to 1992.
Charles Grandmougin.  Charles-Jean Grandmougin (17 January 1850 – 28 April 1930) was a French poet and playwright. He lived in Paris. Two of his poems appeared in the third and final volume of Le Parnasse contemporain (1876). His poetry has been set as songs by composers including Fauré Chaminade Pierné and Bizet. He was more well known as a librettist and translator for operas and oratorios.
Garth Nix.  Garth Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels notably the Old Kingdom series The Seventh Tower series and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym to which he has responded I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However it is my real name.
Juan Emilio Viguié.  Juan Emilio Viguié (July 11 1891-September 1966) was a movie and documentary producer. A pioneer in the film industry of Puerto Rico he was the first Puerto Rican to produce commercially successful films in the island. In 1934 he produced and directed Romance Tropical the first Puerto Rican film with sound.Viguié produced films for Pathé Fox Film Corporation Movietone and MGM. He also produced many documentaries for the Puerto Rican and U.S. governments and private industries.
Lionello Bononi.  Lionello Bononi was an Italian of the Baroque period. He was the nephew and pupil of Carlo Bononi and active c. 1649. The excellent instruction of his uncle might have enabled him to arrive at celebrity in the art but his negligence and depravity of conduct prevented his ever going beyond mediocrity. His most creditable performances are two pictures he painted for trie chapel of the hospital of Santa Maria Novella representing The Visitation of the Virgin to St. Elizabeth and The Holy Family.
Donald H. Tuck.  Donald Henry Tuck (3 December 1922 – 11 October 2010) was a bibliographer of science fiction fantasy and weird fiction. His works were among the most extensive produced since the pioneering work of Everett F. Bleiler.Tuck was born in Launceston Tasmania but his family soon moved to Hobart where his father was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tasmania.From a young age Don was interested in all aspects of science.
Adrian Bamforth.  Adrian Bamforth is a British comic book artist who has worked for 2000 AD as well as producing work for British small press comics like FutureQuake.
Nita Strauss.  Nita Strauss is an American guitarist.
Uncle Am Stuart.  Ambrose Gaines Uncle Am Stuart (1853–1926) was an American Old-time fiddle player. After winning various fiddle contests across the Southern Appalachian region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Stuart made several recordings in June 1924 that would later prove influential in the development of early Country music.Stuart was born near Morristown Tennessee in 1853.
Steve Lambke.  Steve Lambke is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is a vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band Constantines and releases solo material under the name Baby Eagle.
Ivan Busic.  Ivan Busic Neto (born on February 15 1967 in São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian drummer who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin Ultraje a Rigor Taffo Supla and Eduardo Araújo. Almost all his works he worked with his brother Andria.
Shirley Collie Nelson.  Shirley Collie Nelson (March 16 1931 – January 27 2010) born Shirley Angelina Simpson was an American country music and rockabilly singer yodeler guitarist and songwriter. From 1963 to 1971 she was the second wife of country star Willie Nelson.
Josephine Bornebusch.  Leyla Jerrie Josephine Bornebusch (born 12 September 1981 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress who has done numerous films and television series in Sweden. She was an actor in the comedy show Playa del Sol on SVT1. She was also one of the regular hosts of Fredag Hela Veckan a Swedish version of Saturday Night Live. She is currently starring in Welcome to Sweden alongside Greg Poehler.
Paul McCoy.  Paul McCoy (born September 7 1981) is an American musician. He is the lead singer and main-songwriter of Louisiana post-grunge band 12 Stones.
Yurika Hino.  Yurika Hino (日野 由利加 Hino Yurika born January 16 1963 in Kanagawa Japan) real name Yukari Shimizu is a Japanese voice actress.
Ivan Graziani.  Ivan Graziani (6 October 1945 – 1 January 1997) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Ian Parker (singer-songwriter).  Ian Parker (born Ian James Parker 13 December 1976 Birmingham England) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist.Born in Birmingham he was brought up in nearby Stourbridge. Inspired by The Beatles he began playing guitar at the age of 8.
Yamini Reddy.  Yamini Reddy (born 1 September 1982) is Indian classical dancer a kuchipudi exponent.
Arvind Gokhale.  Arvind Gokhale (Devanagari: अरविंद गोखले) (1919 - 1992) was a Marathi writer of short stories. He hailed from Maharashtra India.
Heron Carvic.  Heron Carvic (21 January 1913 – 9 February 1980) was a British actor and writer who provided the voice for Gandalf in the BBC Radio version of The Hobbit and played Caiaphas the High Priest every time the play cycle The Man Born to be King was broadcast.As a writer he created the characters and wrote the first five books featuring retired art teacher Miss Emily D.
Jun Sadogawa.  Mutsumi Kawahito (川人 睦 Kawahito Mutsumi 1979 – August 13 2013) better known by his pen name Jun Sadogawa (佐渡川 準 Sadogawa Jun) was a Japanese manga author from Tone Ibaraki Japan. In 2000 he won an honorable mention in the 55th Weekly Shōnen Champion Newcomer Award sponsored by Akita Shoten for his work Twin Burner. His debut work Muteki Kanban Musume was published from 2002 to 2006. Sadogawa committed suicide by hanging on August 13 2013 at age 34.
Master of Castelsardo.  The Master of Castelsardo was an Italian painter active in Sardinia at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the sixteenth century. His name comes from a painting of the Madonna and Child currently in the cathedral of Castelsardo. His influence appears to be primarily Catalan and he perhaps started painting in Barcelona around 1490; some scholars have identified him with Gioacchino Cavaro though others dispute this. His other works included the retablos in the church of St.
Steve Abel.  Steve Abel (born January 1970) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and environmental activist. Abel contributed his song Hospice for Destitute Lovers to the art noir feature film Woodenhead (2003).
Jerry Only.  Jerry Only (born Gerrard Caiafa on April 21 1959) is an American musician well known as the bassist for the Misfits and later the vocalist as well. He is credited with creating the infamous hair style known as the devilock.
Dorianne Laux.  Dorianne Laux (born January 10 1952 Augusta Maine) is an American poet.
Ján Hollý.  Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785 Borský Mikuláš – 14 April 1849 Dobrá Voda) was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. His predecessors mostly wrote in various regional versions of Czech Slovakized Czech or Latin.
Bamil Gutierrez Collado.  Bamil Gutierrez Collado (born April 5 1969) also known as Bamil is a Puerto Rican singer songwriter ASCAP Member music arranger producer and publisher. He has been on television radio magazines and on a numbers of interviews with journalist like Nydia Laracuente Julio Victor Ramirez Hijo Gloriana Lugo Jeniffer Wiscovitch and Linda Mera. Bamil has penned songs for Latin Classical Country and Pop artists like Carolina Ghigliazza Francesca La Voz and Missy Guthrie.
Will Rahmer.  Will Rahmer is an American musician. Will Rahmer was the vocalist in the death metal band Incantation temporarily during mid-1990 before leaving to form Mortician with drummer Matt Sicher. Rahmer is the lyricist vocalist and bassist for Mortician and is heavily influenced by horror movies of which he is a collector having acquired over 500 films. Known for his extremely guttural vocals Rahmer is the co-founder of New York Death Militia and the founder of Redrum Records.
Rudy Rotta.  Rudy Rotta (born 14 October 1950) is an Italian blues guitarist who lives near Verona.
Donald Evans (Welsh poet).  Donald Evans (born 1940) is a Welsh poet who writes in the Welsh language.Evans comes from Talgarreg in Ceredigion. Between 1966 and 1972 he produced the periodical Y Cardi. He won the double of crown and chair twice once at the 1977 National Eisteddfod of Wales and again in 1980; he is one of only three poets to have achieved this double double.In 2006 Evans was awarded a Ph. D.
Denis Thériault.  Denis Thériault (born August 24 1959) is a Quebec writer. His first novel L'Iguane was published in 2001. It won that year's Prix Anne-Hébert and Prix Quebec-France/Jean-Hamelin and was the winning title in the 2007 edition of Le Combat des livres.His second novel Le Facteur émotif was published in 2004. Its English translation by Liedewy Hawke titled The Postman's Round was published in 2008.
Hajime Mizoguchi.  Hajime Mizoguchi (溝口 肇 Mizoguchi Hajime born April 23 1960 in Tokyo) is a Japanese cellist and composer.Mizoguchi started playing piano in 1963 at the age of 3 and the cello in 1971. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello.
Blaž Lenger.  Blaž Lenger (December 6 1919 - September 26 2006) was a famous performer of traditional folk songs from northern Croatia especially the region of Podravina.He was educated in the village of Podravske Sesvete. From early childhood he was oriented towards music thanks to his mother and father whose love of music influenced him greatly. As soon as he was old enough he started performing with the local musical group Vlašički.
Lloyd Alexander.  Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30 1924 – May 17 2007) was a widely influential American author of more than forty books primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion The High King was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. He won U.S.
Krazy (rapper).  Krazy born Michael Wilson is an American rapper from New Orleans Louisiana. He started in the group called Murder Inc. with Legend Man MC L a.k.a. L or L the Black Robin Hood and a female rapper called Alamo. Murder Inc. Released two independent albums Playin' for Keeps in 1995 and Let's Die 2-Gether in 1997 on Hard Head Records.
Paul Housberg.  Paul Housberg (born January 31 1953) is an American glass artist recognized for his use of fused and kiln formed glass as an architectural medium. He currently resides in Jamestown Rhode Island.
Martin Gumpert.  Martin S Gumpert (November 12 1897 - April 18 1955) was a Jewish German-born American physician and writer.In 1936 he went to America. In 1942 he became a US citizen. Gumpert provided the German author Thomas Mann with information about the course of the disease of syphilis. Mann used this information in writing his Faust novel Doktor Faustus: das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn erzählt von einem Freunde.
Gregório de Matos.  Gregório de Matos e Guerra (April 7 1636 — November 26 1696) was the most famous Colonial Brazilian Baroque poet. Although he wrote many lyrical and religious poems he was more well known by his satirical ones most of them frontally criticizing the Catholic Church rendering him the nickname Boca do Inferno (in English: Hell's Mouth).He is the patron of the 16th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Atle Bakken.  Atle Bakken (born 7 March 1970) is a composer performer and producer from Norway known on both sides of the Atlantic through his work with Stevie Wonder Sting Diana Ross Andy Summers Snoop Dogg Andraé Crouch and scoring credits such as the Fox/HBO award winning TV comedy series Martin starring Martin Lawrence.
Carlos Vierra.  Carlos Vierra (October 3 1876 – 1937) was an American painter illustrator and photographer of Portuguese descent.
Bill Lordan.  Bill Lordan (born May 22 1947) is a rock music drummer who has been in a number of bands such as The Mystics Gypsy Robin Trower Band and Sly & The Family Stone.
Maria Oakey Dewing.  Maria Oakey Dewing (October 27 1845 – December 13 1927) was an American painter known for her depiction of flowers. Her work was inspired by John La Farge and her love of gardening. She also made figure drawings and was a founding member of the Art Students League of New York. Dewing won bronze medals for two of her works at world expositions. She was married to artist Thomas Dewing.
Keshava Malagi.  Keshava Malagi is an Indian Kannada language writer of the post-Bandaya generation. He has published two novels Kunkuma bhoomi and Angada dhare and three short story collections Kadala terege dande Maagi moovattaidu and Vennela dorasani.
Jim Fergus.  Jim Fergus (born 1950) is an American author. He has a degree in English from Colorado College and has worked as a tennis teacher and full-time freelance writer. His first novel was One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over 250000 copies in the United States.
David Bischoff.  David F. Bischoff (born December 15 1951) is an American science fiction and television writer.
Romeo Pazzini.  Romeo Pazzini (Verucchio Forlì May 18 1855 - 1942) was an Italian sculptor painter and ceramic artist (ceramist).
Vicente Segrelles.  Vicente Segrelles (born 9 September 1940 in Barcelona) is a Spanish comic book artist and writer.Segrelles gained popularity in Europe for his painted comic book epic The Mercenary (El Mercenario) started in 1980. Set in a medieval fantasy world El Mercenario follows the adventures of a mercenary in his fight against evil.
Sachiko Kokubu.  Sachiko Kokubu (国分 佐智子 Kokubu Sachiko born 12 May 1976 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress and fashion model. She has starred several TV dramas and movies. She had the starring role in the 2004 horror film Tokyo Psycho.
Matilda Roalfe.  Matilda Roalfe was a British author bookshop owner The Atheistical Depot Edinburgh and publisher Matilda Roalfe & Company.
Valentin Bulgakov.  Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov (Russian: Валентин Фёдорович Булгаков; 25 November 1886 Kuznetsk Russian Empire – 22 September 1966 Yasnaya Polyana Tula Oblast Soviet Union) was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his biographer. He was director of a number of literary museums and was engaged in Tolstoyan pacifist and anti-communist activities. He was imprisoned by both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes and was a Nazi concentration camp survivor.
Ryan Beaver.  Ryan Beaver is an American country music singer-songwriter from Emory Texas. Born on March 17 1984 and growing up in East Texas Beaver moved South and began his musical career while he was attending Texas State University in San Marcos Texas. He currently lives in Austin Texas.
Michelle Branch.  Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch (born July 2 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. During the early 2000s she released two top-selling albums The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy with Santana for The Game of Love.In 2005 she formed the country music duo The Wreckers with friend and fellow musician Jessica Harp and produced the Grammy-nominated single Leave the Pieces. The Wreckers disbanded in 2007 to pursue their respective solo careers.
Yui Horie.  Yoshiko Horie (堀江 由子 Horie Yoshiko born September 20 1976) better known by her stage name Yui Horie (堀江 由衣 Horie Yui) is a Japanese singer and voice actress. She is sometimes affectionately nicknamed Hocchan (ほっちゃん Hocchan) by her Japanese fans. She hosts a radio show called Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago (堀江由衣の天使のたまご Yui Horie's Angel Eggs) and is the founding member of the singing group Aice5. She is also a member of the band Kurobara Hozonkai with the name YUIEL.
Ratheesh Vegha.  Ratheesh Vega (Malayalam: രതീഷ് വേഗ) is an composer singer musician who works in Malayalam Films. His debut as a film music composer was in the 2010 hit film Cocktail.
Stefano Pavesi.  Stefano Pavesi (22 January 1779 - 28 July 1850) was an Italian composer.Born in Casaletto Vaprio he is best known for his many operas. He died at Crema Lombardy in 1850.
Abdul Vas.  Abdul Vas (born 15 March 1981 in Maracay Venezuela) is a contemporary artist. He grew up living between Surinam Guyana and Belgium. After studies at EAVRA in Maracay and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam he lives and works in Amsterdam and Madrid. He has created handmade books and zines photographs collages drawings paintings and murals.Vas's work has been discussed and reviewed in Vice Rolling Stone Magazine ABC (newspaper) Esquire (magazine) and the New York Times.
Sepideh Raissadat.  Sepideh Raissadat (Persian: سپیده رئیس سادات‎) is a classical Persian music singer.
Ian Curteis.  Ian Bayley Curteis (born 1 May 1935 London) is a British television dramatist and former television director. In a career as a television dramatist from the late 1960s onwards Curteis wrote for many of the series of the day including The Onedin Line and Crown Court. In 1979 two television plays by Curteis were broadcast: Churchill and the Generals and Suez 1956.
Sol Seppy.  Sol Seppy is the creation of Sophie Michalitsianos in partnership with her long time love Alton Brammer.The Bells of 1 2 was released in 2006 in Europe only. She performed most of the instrumentation and produced the record herself.Classically trained in piano and 'cello Sophie was raised in her early life in England and Australia.
Helen Hart (author).  Helen Hart has been a published author since 1999. Represented by London literary agency Pollinger Ltd she has written a number of novels under pseudonyms for Scholastic Virgin Books OUP HarperCollins and a range of overseas publishers. Her work has been translated into many languages including Swedish Danish Japanese and Greek. One of her Young Adult novels written as Maya Snow was shortlisted for the Solihull Children's Book Award 2010.
Robin Jenkins.  Robin Jenkins OBE (11 September 1912 – 24 February 2005) was a Scottish writer of thirty published novels the most celebrated being The Cone Gatherers. He also published two collections of short stories.Robin Jenkins was born John Robin Jenkins in Flemington near Cambuslang in 1912; his father died when John was only seven years old and he and his three siblings were brought up by his mother in straitened circumstances.
Karl Ferdinand Adam.  Karl Ferdinand Adam (22 December 1806 – 23 December 1868) was a German composer cantor and music director.Adam was born in Constappel (now a part of Klipphausen Saxony). He moved to Leisnig where he served as cantor and music director. He composed popular choruses and quartets for men's voices as well as songs and piano pieces. He died in Leisnig.
Mark McCabe.  Mark McCabe (born May 1978) is an Irish station manager music producer radio DJ and singer songwriter. McCabe has mixed the opening sequence for events such as the Special Olympics in 2003 the 2005 and 2007 Saint Patrick's Festivals Skyfest released the second biggest-selling record in Ireland.
Stephen Longstreet.  Stephen Longstreet (1907–2002) was an American author. Born Chauncey (later Henri) Weiner (sometimes Wiener) on April 18th 1907 he is known as Stephen Longstreet from 1939. He die on February 20th 2002.The 1948 Broadway musical High Button Shoes was based on Longstreet's semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome.
Paul Sperry.  Paul E. Sperry is a conservative pundit author investigative journalist and Stanford University Hoover Institute media fellow. In the wake of the Fort Hood Shooting he gave an interview to Coast to Coast AM on November 7 2009 about his co-authored book Muslim Mafia.
Hamza Namira.  Hamza Namira (Arabic: حمزة نمرة‎ ; born November 1980 in Saudi Arabia) is an Egyptian singer songwriter and music producer. He was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia until the age of 12 when his parents returned to Egypt.
Léopold Aimon.  Pamphile Léopold François Aimon (4 October 1779 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue – 2 February 1866 Paris) was a French composer. His compositional output includes 10 operas some symphonies (only one of which survives) 2 bassoon concertos a cello concerto two cantatas several sacred vocal works more than 30 string quartets and other chamber music.
Jean-Christophe Valtat.  Jean-Christophe Valtat born 1968 is a French writer and teacher. He was educated at École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Bob DiPiero.  Bob DiPiero (born in Youngstown Ohio) is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S.
Dana International.  Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן‎) professionally known as Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל) born Yaron Cohen ירון כהן; February 2 1972) is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever. She is most famous for having won the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song Diva.
Stewart Francis.  Stewart Francis is a Canadian stand-up comedian actor and writer. In addition to his work in Canada and the USA he frequently tours in the UK and appears on British television. Both of Francis' parents are British.
Giulio Carmassi.  Giulio Carmassi (born February 21 1981) is an Italian composer producer video artist and multi instrumentalist.
Pier Angelo Basili.  Pier Angelo Basili (after 1550 – 1604) was an Italian painter of the 16th century Renaissance period. He was born in Gubbio after 1550 and trained with Felice Damiani and Cristoforo Roncalli. He painted in fresco for the cloister of Sant Tibaldo in Gubbio and an oil canvas of Christ preaching for the church of San Marziale. During 1601-1602 he painted frescoes alongside Federico Brunorino in the presbytery of the church of Santa Croce in Gubbio.
Charles Hubert Millevoye.  Charles Hubert Millevoye (24 December 1782 in Abbeville – 12 August 1816 in Paris) was a French poet several times honored by the Académie française. He was a transitional figure between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries as revealed in his Romantic poems.
John Craig Freeman.  John Craig Freeman (born February 16 1959) is a contemporary artist and a Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston.
José María Ramos Mejía.  José María Ramos Mejía (1849–1914) was a politician and historian of Argentina.
Ingrid Backlin.  Ingrid Michaelsson redirects here. For the New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter see: Ingrid MichaelsonIngrid Backlin (née Michaelsson) (born May 16 1920 in Stockholm died February 24 2013) was a Swedish actress. Backlin made her film acting debut in 1940 in Snurriga familjen by Ivar Johansson and would later participate in more than 30 films. She was married to actor Stig Järrel and is the mother of former Member of Parliament Henrik S. Järrel and Helen Åberg.
Erwin Strittmatter.  Erwin Strittmatter (14 August 1912 in Spremberg – 31 January 1994 in Schulzenhof near Dollgow/Stechlin) was a German writer. Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR.Strittmatter was born the son of a baker. After graduating from the Realgymnasium at the age of 17 he started an apprenticeship as a baker. Later he worked as baker waiter chauffeur zookeeper and unskilled laborer. In 1940 he volunteered to the Waffen-SS but was rejected.
Sama Dizayee.  Sama Ameen Dizayee (born 2 June 1988) is an Iraqi radio and television presenter.Dizayee was born and raised in Baghdad. She studied Computer Sciences in Erbil till late 2009 and then she moved to the United States of America to pursue her Political Science studies.
Nancy Richler.  Nancy Richler is a Canadian novelist. Born in Montreal Quebec in 1957 she spent much of her adult life and career in Vancouver British Columbia before returning to Montreal in the early 2010s.Richler published her first novel Throwaway Angels in 1996. The novel was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her 2003 novel Your Mouth Is Lovely won the 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2004 Adei Wizo Award.
Pete Shaw.  For the football player of the same name see Pete Shaw (American football).Pete Shaw (born 2 December 1966 in Isleworth London) is a British author broadcaster programmer and theatrical producer.
Henry Adams.  Henry Brooks Adams (February 16 1838 – March 27 1918) was an American historian and member of the Adams political family being descended from two U.S. Presidents.As a young Harvard graduate he was secretary to his father Charles Francis Adams Lincoln’s ambassador in London a posting that had much influence on the younger man both through experience of wartime diplomacy and absorption in English culture especially the works of John Stuart Mill.
Pierre M'Pelé.  Pierre Kilebou M'Pelé MD MPH PhD is an African public health personality HIV/AIDS and Tropical disease specialist and WHO Country Representative.Dr. M'Pelé received his doctorate in 1982 and has received several post-doctoral degrees which include degrees in Epidemiology Tropical disease Nutrition Leprology and Public Health.
Christian Braunmann Tullin.  Christian Braunmann Tullin (6 September 1728 – 21 January 1765) was a Norwegian businessman and poet born in Christiania. He was city manager for Christiania from 1763 and was also Chairman for the Board of Customs and Excise. He was regarded as one of Denmark-Norway's most important poetic talents by his contemporaries.His Samtlige Skrifter (Complete Writings) were issued in Copenhagen in 1770–1773 (three volumes). The first volume contained his poetry while the two others contained essays.
Louis Cottrell Jr..  Louis Albert Cottrell Jr. (March 7 1911 New Orleans - March 21 1978 New Orleans) was a Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist. He was the son of the influential drummer Louis Cottrell Sr. and grandfather of New Orleans jazz drummer Louis Cottrell. As leader of the Heritage Hall Jazz Band he performed at the famous Carnegie Hall in 1974.
Yuna Kagesaki.  Yuna Kagesaki (影崎 由那 Kagesaki Yuna) is a manga artist born on March 3 1973 best known for being the author of the manga Chibi Vampire.
Renato Abella.  Renato Abella is an American born musician based in New York who mainly functions as a composer/writer/recording artist. He has released two singles in the rock/Melodic rock genre featuring Dave Bickler vocals (Survivor) and Brad Gillis lead guitar (Night Ranger).In 2012 he was featured on 100.7 WHUD New York Hudson Valley Artist Spotlight Classic Rock Magazine Powerplay Rock and Metal Magazine and Fireworks Magazine.
Wumpscut:.  :wumpscut: (sometimes referred to as :w: :wumpscut:/Rudy R. Wumpscut) is an electro-industrial music project from Germany. It was founded in May 1991 by Bavarian disc jockey Rudolf Rudy Ratzinger (born June 3 1966).
Anton Goubau.  Anton Goubau (alternative spellings of surname: 'Goubaie' 'Goubeau' 'Goebouw' 'Goubouw' and 'Gebouw' alternative first names: 'Antonius' 'Antonie' 'Antoine' 'Anthonis' and ‘Antoni’) (1616 Antwerp - 1698 Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his genre paintings in the style of the Bamboccianti.
John Clare.  John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
Sebastian Ingrosso.  Sebastian Carmine Ingrosso (born 21 April 1983) is a Swedish DJ and electronic dance music producer. He was also member of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia together with friends Axwell and Steve Angello.Born in Nacka Stockholm Sweden Ingrosso grew up in Stockholm where he spent his teenage years in his choreographer father Vito Ingrosso's studio learning how to make music. His first official remix was released on Mega Records in 1999.
Johnny Speight.  Johnny Speight (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was a British television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms. He emerged in the mid-1950s. He wrote for radio comics Frankie Howerd Vic Oliver Arthur Askey and Cyril Fletcher. For television he wrote for The Arthur Haynes Show Morecambe & Wise and Peter Sellers. Then he began to write Till Death Us Do Part which included his most famous creation the controversial bigot Alf Garnett.
Wadada Leo Smith.  Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He was one of three finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers released on May 22 2012.
Véronique Jannot.  Véronique Jannot (born 7 May 1957) is a French actress and singer. She was born in Annecy Haute-Savoie.
Mark Lewis (storyteller).  Mark Lewis has a storied career that started in 1971. His career as a storyteller includes two emmys for his show world pictures. He has been on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and his voice can be heard on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland.Lewis organises storytelling workshops and has performed in several films and commercials for national audiences. He was a featured performer in the CBS hit Northern Exposure. Lewis has written four books.
Andy Edge.  Andy Edge is a marketing director at Park Resorts the holiday park company in Great Britain. He featured in the Undercover Boss television series broadcast on Channel 4 where he went undercover at several of the companies parks to discover the true state of affairs.Edge studied at De Montfort University before getting his first job at Dennis Publishing as a sales executive. Upon leaving there he moved to Kraft Foods as assistant brand manager in 1992.
Steve Weingart.  Steve Weingart born March 1966 in Dayton Ohio is a jazz-funk keyboard player based in Los Angeles California USA who has recorded and performed internationally with an array of well known musical artists.Amongst many other well-known musicians Weingart has performed live and/or recorded with Chaka Khan Steve Lukather Frank Gambale Robben Ford Scott Henderson Warren Hill Simon Phillips Tony MacAlpine Virgil Donati Marco Mendoza Dave Weckl Eric Marienthal Kenny Rankin Jimmy Earl Ernie Watts Alain Caron Michael Ruff Marilyn Scott Jimmy Haslip Terri Lyne Carrington Jason Scheff Keith Howland Tris Imboden John Patitucci Bunny Brunel Tom Brechtlein Carlitos Del Puerto Ray Parker Jr. Jeff Babko Frank Briggs Ric Fierabracci Joey Heredia Oskar Cartaya Dave Hooper Ronnie Guitterez and Mike Miller (guitarist).
Keith Fullerton Whitman.  Keith Fullerton Whitman (born May 29 1973) is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres including ambient music drill and bass and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases of which the best-known is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for Croatian). His works under the Hrvatski moniker mainly fell under the 'drill and bass' subgenre of IDM and were his main musical outlet in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Karin Dreijer Andersson.  Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson (born 7 April 1975) also known by her stage name Fever Ray is the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo The Knife formed with her brother Olof Dreijer. Andersson was previously the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Honey Is Cool. Andersson released her debut solo album under the name Fever Ray in 2009.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer.  Thomas Gabriel Fischer (born 19 July 1963) earlier known by his stage name of Tom G Warrior is a Swiss metal musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the death metal style of singing which resembles guttural growling.[citation needed] He led the groups Hellhammer and Celtic Frost and today is the front-man of the band Triptykon.
Gil Shaham.  Gil Shaham (born February 19 1971) is an Israeli-American violinist.
Till Lindemann.  Till Lindemann (born 4 January 1963) is a German musician actor and poet. He is most commonly recognized as the lead vocalist and frontman of the German industrial metal band Rammstein.
Quint Davis.  Quint Davis (born November 5 1947 in New Orleans Louisiana USA) is an American festival producer and director based in New Orleans. He is best known as the producer of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest) founded by George Wein. Davis has been involved in the production of the event from its start in 1970. He is the CEO of Festival Productions Inc. - New Orleans the company that produces the Jazz Fest.
Oderus Urungus.  Oderus Urungus was the fictitious stage persona of Canadian-American musician David Murray Dave Brockie (August 30 1963 – March 23 2014) lead vocalist of the metal band Gwar. The character of Oderus Urungus appeared as an intergalactic humanoid barbarian with devil horns and a meaty-looking face and carried a long sword named Unt Lick and a cuttlefish around his loins.Brockie portrayed Urungus from the band's beginning in 1982 until his death on March 23 2014.
Noelie McDonnell.  Noelie McDonnell is an Irish singer-songwriter from Tuam Co. Galway. His debut release was an EP entitled Downhome in 2004. His debut self-titled album released in 2005 was considered a hit and its opening song Stars was picked as Ian Dempsey's Song of the Week on Today FM radio programme The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show.In June 2008 McDonnell released his second album Beyond Hard Places.
Lansing Brown Jr..  Lansing Lansa Brown Jr. (August 24 1900 – February 16 1962) was an American photographer.Brown is often recalled for a tragic event on September 2 1934. Brown accidentally shot and killed his friend crooner Russ Columbo when an antique pistol discharged and the bullet ricocheted into Columbo's skull.After Columbo's death Brown was cleared of all charges but he remained deeply affected by the incident.Brown served in the military during World War II as a photography instructor.
Jody Stephens.  Jody Stephens (born October 4 1952; Memphis Tennessee) is an American drummer who has played in Big Star (with Alex Chilton of the Box Tops) and Golden Smog (with members of the Jayhawks and Soul Asylum). When not on tour with Big Star he works at Ardent Studios which is where Big Star has recorded all of their albums. After the deaths of Chris Bell in 1978 and both Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel in 2010 Stephens is the last surviving original member of the group.
Gunnar Björnstrand.  Gunnar Björnstrand (13 November 1909 – 26 May 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer and director Ingmar Bergman. Björnstrand was born Knut Gunnar Johanson in Stockholm as son of actor Oscar Johanson and Ella Mauléon. After his education at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school he made several appearances in theatre film and radio. Björnstrand's first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman was the 1941 theatre production of August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata.
Alexander Koroviakov.  Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Коровя́ков; November 16 1912 Berdskaya Orenburg Province Russian Empire – June 12 1993 Saint Petersburg Russia) – Soviet Russian painter and art teacher lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Fang Shu.  Fang Shu is a mainland Chinese film actress. For her performance in Sunrise Fang won Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress which adapted from Cao Yu's second play. Her most remembered role is Xiao Luobotou in Eternity in Flames (1964).
Michelle Moist.  Michelle Moist (born 4 November 1986 in London England) is a model pornographic actress DJ and Vocalist. She has appeared on adult websites and in adult magazines such as Escort. Michelle appears as a regular presenter on late night UK adult television channels such as Babestation TV and Babestation Xtreme.Michelle Moist began modelling in late 2007 whilst working a separate office job for an Internet Service Provider. In mid-2008 Michelle moved into adult modelling and later adult movies.
Tommy Duncan.  Thomas Elmer Duncan (January 11 1911–July 25 1967) better known as Tommy Duncan was a pioneering American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys. He recorded and toured with bandleader Bob Wills on and off into the early 1960s.
Charlotte Delbo.  Charlotte Delbo (10 August 1913 – 1 March 1985) was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
Alf Kjellin.  Alf Kjellin (28 February 1920 – 5 April 1988) was a Swedish film actor and director who also appeared on some television shows.He was well established as a film actor when he occasionally took on roles in television shows. For example in 1965 he prominently guest-starred as Stalag Luft Kommandant Col. Max Richter in the two part episode (30 and 31) P.O.W. of Twelve O'Clock High.
William Austin (actor).  William Austin (12 June 1884 – 15 June 1975) was an English character actor.
Sharon Bridgforth.  Sharon Bridgforth (born May 15 1958 in Chicago Illinois) is an American writer working in theater.
Raffaello Vanni.  Raffaello Vanni (1590-1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.He was born at Siena. He first trained with his father Francesco Vanni who died in 1610. He was afterwards sent to Rome and recommended to the care of Antonio Carracci. He became a follower of the style of Pietro da Cortona. He painted a Birth of the Virgin for Santa Maria della Pace. He also painted for Santa Maria del Popolo. A Marriage of S. Catharine by him is in the Pitti Palace and other pictures at Siena and Pisa.
Lonnie Liston Smith.  Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. (born December 28 1940) is an American jazz soul and funk musician who played with notable jazz artists such as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion / Quiet Storm / smooth jazz and acid jazz genres.
Rida Al Abdullah.  Rida Al Abdulla (also spelled Rida Al Abdallah Reda Al Abdullah) (Arabic: رضا العبد الله‎) is an Iraqi singer. He gained attention across the Arab world for his singles Bo'dak Habibi Qasawa Dhalim Min Trid Abousak Al Asabe3 Melih Wa Zad Ya Hali and many other hits including Weinkom Ya Arab (Where are the Arabs) which was a protest song against the war 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war.
Eric Church.  Kenneth Eric Church (born May 3 1977) known professionally as Eric Church is an American country music singer-songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records in 2005 he released a total a four studio albums for that label.
Mike McGear.  Peter Michael Mike McCartney (born 7 January 1944) known professionally as Mike McGear is a British performing artist and rock photographer and the younger brother of Paul McCartney. He attended the Liverpool Institute two years behind his brother.
Clint Ballard Jr..  Clint Ballard Jr. (May 24 1931 – December 23 2008) was an American songwriter. He wrote two Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. The first was Game of Love by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders in 1965. The second was the 1975 hit You're No Good by Linda Ronstadt (first sung by Dee Dee Warwick).
Ophélie Winter.  Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter (born 20 February 1974) is a French singer and actress.
Brasco.  Brasco is a French rapper originally from Guadeloupe. He is signed to the label O-VNEE Music.
Ulla Sjöblom.  Ulla Sjöblom (11 May 1927 – 3 August 1989) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1988.
Tatsuya Kato.  Tatsuya Kato (加藤 達也 Katō Tatsuya born July 28 1980) is a Japanese composer known for his soundtracks to many anime.
Neil Morris.  Neil Morris (born 12 March 1981) is an English singer-songwriter from the West Midlands. He is known for is fast-paced finger picking and self protagonistic and often humorous songs which sometimes refer to The Black Country where he was raised.
John Drinkwater (playwright).  John Drinkwater (1 June 1882 – 25 March 1937) was an English poet and dramatist.
Tom Salta.  Tom Salta from Norwalk CT USA is a recording artist and soundtrack composer. He has composed soundtracks for many popular video game titles including Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2 Cold Fear Red Steel and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Salta's score for Red Steel received an award for Best Original Score in IGN's Best of 2006 awards. Salta works in multimedia including film television advertising and most notably video games.
Peter C. Brinckerhoff.  Peter C. Brinckerhoff is an expert on nonprofit management award-winning author trainer and consultant. Throughout his career he has promoted the concept that a not-for-profit organization is a mission-based business in the business of doing its mission.
Derek McCulloch (comics).  Derek McCulloch is an author of graphic novels comics books for children and plays who was born in Ottawa in 1964 raised in Grande Prairie Alberta and lives in Oakland California.
Consuelo Duval.  Consuelo Dussauge Calzada (born January 11 1968) more commonly known by her stage name Consuelo Duval is a Mexican comedienne and actress of film television theatre and voice-over. She is known for her various comic characters such as the overbearingly abusive housewife Federica P. Luche from the sitcom La familia P. Luche the dim-witted cross-eyed receptionist Sisi and the amiable uncultured naca Nakaranda from La hora pico.
Gina Cerminara.  Gina Germinara (April 11 1914 – April 1984) was an American author in the fields of parapsychology spirituality and reincarnation. She was born in Milwaukee and received BA MA and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her years of research regarding Edgar Cayce led her to publish a book about reincarnation in 1950 titled Many Mansions. Her other books on reincarnation include The World Within Many Lives Many Loves and Insights for the Age of Aquarius.
Jett Pangan.  Jett Pangan (born Reginald Pangan on June 21 1968) is a Filipino singer and guitarist best known for fronting the Filipino rock bands The Dawn formed in 1985 and still active to date and the defunct Jett Pangan Group.
Caterina Tarabotti.  Caterina Tarabotti (active 1659) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period. She was born in Vicenza and a pupil of Alessandro Varotari and his sister Chiara. She practiced chiefly in Verona where she painted historical pictures.
Leeah D. Jackson.  Leeah Deneen Jackson (born January 26 1998) is an American teen actress. She is a teen actress singer and dancer with appearances in films and television series and more than 15 commercials. She played the role of Haley in The Shield TV series.
GoonRock.  David Jamahl Listenbee better known by his stage name GoonRock is an American producer songwriter and musician. Raised in Los Angeles California early in his career he focused on hip hop and sold beats to artists such as Dr. Dre Ne-Yo Kanye West and Juvenile. He later began incorporating club music.
Favorite (rapper).  Christoph Alex (born 1986) better known as Favorite is a German rapper. In 2011 his album Christoph Alex peaked at number 4 in the German charts.
Ivars Hirss.  Ivars Hirss (1931–1989) was an Latvia American painter.
Barry Stanton.  Barry Stanton (born 23 January 1941) is an Australian rock'n'roll musician. Discovered by fellow recording artist Johnny O'Keefe in 1958 Barry regularly performed on many Australian music programs such as Bandstand The Johnny O'Keefe Show Six O'Clock Rock Sing Sing Sing Saturday Date and Woody's Teen Time.He released six singles on Australian label Leedon Records the first being Don't Let Go in 1960.
Katherine V. Forrest.  Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939 in Windsor Ontario Canada) is an American writer.Forrest is best known for her nine novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as Miss Marple with k.d.
Majrooh Sultanpuri.  Majrooh Sultanpuri (1 October 1919 − 24 May 2000) was an Urdu poet lyricist and songwriter. He was one of the dominating musical forces in Indian Cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers' Movement.
Frank Dekkers.  Frank Dekkers (b. 1961 in Nijmegen) is a Dutch painter of landscapes. He studied painting and graphics at the Utrecht School of the Arts. His work is influenced by artist Kees Bol with whom he interned in 1984.Dekkers makes aquarels paintings and drawings on location and in particular near rivers. Based on his impressions he creates woodcuts litographs and large paintings in his studio.
Tomas Ledin.  Tomas Folke Jonas Ledin (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtʰʊmas ˈfɔlkɛ ˈjuːnas lɛˈdiːn] born 25 February 1952 in Rätan Sweden) is a Swedish singer songwriter guitarist and producer. He grew up in the town of Sandviken.Tomas Ledin started his career in 1972 when his first single Då ska jag spela was a big hit. Other successful songs followed: Blå blå känslor (1973) (covered by Björn Skifs) Knivhuggarrock (1975) Festen har börjat (1976) and I natt är jag din (1977).
Davi Sacer.  Davi Sacer stage name of Davi Amorim de Oliveira (Nova Iguaçu November 30 1975) is a brazilian Christian music singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He began his career in music at the age of eight when he became the lead singer of his older brother's band. His first album was Deus Não Falhará (God Won't Fail) released in 2008. Two years later he recorded the album Confio Em Ti (I Trust in Thee).
Jason Tait.  Jason Tait is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg Manitoba. He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. Tait has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots. He also played drums for the Painted Thin 1995 album Small Acts of Love and Rebellion.
Marc Roberts.  Marc Roberts is a singer-songwriter and radio broadcaster. He is originally from Crossmolina County Mayo and now based in Galway. Prior to 1997 he fronted his own band doing own original work and American country classics. In May of that year Roberts represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest with Mysterious Woman finishing in second place. His debut single reached number two on the Irish Singles Chart.
Yo Yo Honey Singh.  Honey Singh (born Hirdesh Singh on 15 March 1983 in Delhi) better known by his stage name Yo Yo Honey Singh is an Indian rapper music producer singer and film actor. He started as a session and recording artist and became a Bhangra producer. He has also begun to produce music for Bollywood films.
Terry Garland.  Terry Garland (born June 3 1953 Johnson City Tennessee United States) is an American blues guitarist songwriter and singer. Allmusic journalist Niles J. Frantz stated Garland is country blues interpreter who plays a National steel guitar often with a slide in the style of Bukka White and Fred McDowell.
Jerry Reed.  Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20 1937 – August 31 2008) known professionally as Jerry Reed was an American country music singer guitarist and songwriter as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included Guitar Man U.S. Male A Thing Called Love Alabama Wild Man Amos Moses When You're Hot You're Hot (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance) Ko-Ko Joe Lord Mr.
Yūko Nakamura.  Yūko Nakamura (中村優子 Nakamura Yūko) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for Strawberry Shortcakes.
Cat Glover.  Catherine Vernice Glover (aka Cat) born in Chicago IL is a professional choreographer dancer and singer.She originally hit the mainstream in television alongside her dance partner Patrick Allen in the duo known simply as Pat & Cat on the hit major talent show Star Search hosted by Ed McMahon (of The Tonight Show fame). Their act was the first to ever achieve a Perfect Score of Four Stars on the show.
Shūsei Tokuda.  Shūsei Tokuda (徳田 秋声 Tokuda Shūsei December 23 1871 – November 18 1943) was a Japanese author from Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture. Several of his novels were made into movies in Japan. A monument honoring Tokuda was erected near the summit of Mount Utatsu in 1947. The monument features writing authored by poet Murō Saisei and was designed by architect Yoshirō Taniguchi.
Yurika Akiyama.  Yurika Akiyama (秋山 ゆりか Akiyama Yurika) is a member of the Nice Girl Project! and former member of Hello! Pro Egg.
Ellen Brown.  Ellen Hodgson Brown (born September 15 1945)[citation needed] is an American author political candidate attorney public speaker and advocate of alternative medicine and financial reform most prominently public banking. Brown is the founder and president of the Public Banking Institute a nonpartisan think tank devoted to the creation of publicly run banks.
Stephen Partridge.  Stephen Partridge (born 1953) is a British video artist who studied under David Hall and his career as an artist academic and researcher helped to establish video as an art form in the UK.
Angie Sage.  Angie Sage (born 19 June 1952) is the author of the Septimus Heap series which includes Magyk Flyte Physik Queste Syren Darke and Fyre. She is also the illustrator and/or writer of many children's books and is the new writer of the Araminta Spook series.Angie Sage grew up in Thames Valley London and Kent. Her father was a publisher. He would bring home blank books that she would fill with pictures and stories.
Lu Chen (actress).  Lu Chen (born September 20 1987) is a Chinese actress. She is a contracted artist to the talent agency Cathay Media.
Oswald Achenbach.  Oswald Achenbach (2 February 1827 – 1 February 1905) was a German landscape painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.Born in Düsseldorf he received his art education from his brother Andreas Achenbach. His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of color which drew him to the Bay of Naples and the neighborhood of Rome. He also painted in the Bavarian Alps and Switzerland. From 1863 to 1872 he was professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf School.
Mustapha Adamu Animashaun.  Mustapha Adamu Animashaun (1885–1968) was a prominent Lagos Islamic leader in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also an author fortune teller publisher and political leader. He was involved in various progressive movements and controversial issues in the Islamic community in Lagos for most of the first half of the twentieth century when the Muslims then constituted about half of the Lagos population.
Risa Hayamizu.  Risa Hayamizu (早水 リサ Hayamizu Risa born February 28 1975 in Osaka Japan) also known as Lisa Hayamizu is a Japanese voice actress. She works for Arts Vision.
Charles Ying.  Charles Ying is a Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. After singing the theme song Do I Still Love You of the film Leaving me Loving you he was signed by Leon Lai of East Asia Record Production and became one of the new hotly promoted new artists in 2005.
Hazza.  Hazza (born 16 June 1990 in Ipswich Australia) is a singer and television presenter in China. His debut single Let Go (traditional Chinese:該走的都走吧; simplified Chinese:该走的都走吧; pinyin: gai zou de dou zou ba) was released on iTunes 8 August 2012 along with a music video that was shot in Australia. Let Go reached number 1 on the 'Guangzhou New Music Charts' (simplified Chinese:广州新音乐十大金曲排行). Hazza won Most Popular Internet Celebrity 2011 at the 56.com Short film awards ceremony in Beijing.
Akinobu Uraka.  Akinobu Uraka (有楽 彰展 Uraka Akinobu born September 22 1977 in Hyōgo Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating Tokyo Underground. Uraka won one of two grand prizes (the other winner being Diachiken Ise) at the 4th Enix 21st Century Manga Awards in 1997 for his work Yojō Mahō Shoriban. This story was later published in the February 1997 issue of Monthly G Fantasy. In 2002 Tokyo Underground was adapted into an anime TV series aired on TV Tokyo.
Steve Lieberman.  Steve Lieberman (born 1958) (also known as the Gangsta Rabbi) is a Jewish-American punk rock singer musician composer and producer residing in Freeport New York.
Tomasz Makowiecki.  Tomasz Makowiecki (born on 10 June 1983 in Gdynia) is a Polish musician singer and songwriter.
Peter Lely.  Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 30 November 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.
Martin Ragaway.  Martin Ragaway (29 January 1923 – 20 April 1989; Los Angeles California) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter.
Govert van der Leeuw.  Gabriel or Govert van der Leeuw (1645–1688) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Frank Perfitt.  Frank Perfitt was a British film actor.
Priya Suriyasena.  Priya Suriyasena is a Sri Lankan popular vocalist and lecturer in music who embarked his music career through the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) in 1972.
Lana Del Rey.  Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21 1986) known by her stage name Lana Del Rey is an American singer-songwriter. Del Rey started songwriting at the age of 18 and signed her first recording contract with 5 Points Records in 2007 releasing her first digital album Lana Del Ray in January 2010. Del Rey bought herself out of the contract with 5 Points Records in April 2010.
Mieka Pauley.  Mary Dominica Pauley (born October 22 1980) more commonly known as Mieka Pauley is an American singer-songwriter. In 2008 she won the grand prize in both Cosmopolitan's StarLaunch and the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Competition and she was nominated for a Boston Music Award. In 2005 she won the grand prize in the first Starbucks Emerging Artist competition.
Phyllis Green.  Phyllis Green is an artist whose practice involves sculpture video and installation art. Based in Santa Monica she has received grants from the Durfee Foundation City of Santa Monica Pollock-Krasner Foundation California Arts Council National Endowment for the Arts Canada Council and British Columbia Cultural Fund. In 1996 she was among the first to be awarded a C.O.L.A. grant by the City of Los Angeles.
Chris Tomson.  Christopher William Chris Tomson (born March 6 1984) is the drummer of New York based indie rock band Vampire Weekend.
David Edward Byrd.  David Edward Byrd (born April 4 1941) is an American graphic artist designer illustrator and painter.
Olivia Merilahti.  Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti (born 1982 Paris) is a Finnish- French singer and composer living in France. Her work has been compared to that of Björk whom she cites as a major influence.Having studied classical music in Helsinki Merilahti gravitated to rock music then jazz and electronic music. In 2004 during the writing of music from the movie Empire of the Wolves she met Dan Levy with whom she formed French indie rock band The Dø.
P. Leela.  Porayathu Leela (1934–2005) better known as P. Leela was a popular Indian playback singer. She was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.
Ditlev Blunck.  Ditlev Conrad Blunck (22 June 1798 – 7 January 1853) was a Danish painter associated with the Danish Golden Age during the first half of the 19th century.
Pete Quaife.  Peter Alexander Greenlaw Pete Quaife (31 December 1943 – 23 June 2010) was an English musician artist and author. He was a founding member and the original bass guitarist for The Kinks from 1963 until 1969.Quaife founded a group known as The Ravens in 1963 with brothers Ray and Dave Davies. Around late 1963/early 1964 they changed their name to The Kinks and hired Mick Avory as a drummer. The group scored several major international hits throughout the 1960s.
Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of Pisa.  The so-called Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of Pisa was an anonymous Italian painter active in Pisa in the first half of the thirteenth century. His most important painting is a Crucifixion painted on wood panel dating to sometime around 1230 and currently in the Museo nazionale di San Matteo.
Jon Eberson.  Jon Arild Eberson (born 6 January 1953 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz guitarist and composer son of jazz guitarist Leif Eberson (1925-1970) father of the keyboardist Marte Maaland Eberson and known from bands such as «Moose Loose» (1973–77) «Radka Toneff Quintet» (1975–80) and «Blow Out» (1977–78).
Lisa Lee Dark.  Lisa Lee Dark (born 16 April 1981 in Swansea Wales) is a Welsh opera singer and voice actress.
William Spencer (poet).  William Robert Spencer (9 January 1769 – 22/23 October 1834) was an English poet and wit from the Spencer family.He was the younger son of Lord Charles Spencer and his wife Mary Beauclerk. He was the grandson of Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough on his father's side and Vere Beauclerk 1st Baron Vere on his mother's.
Brandi Carlile.  Brandi M. Carlile (born June 1 1981) is an American alternative country and folk rock singer-songwriter. She has released several albums including The Story Give Up the Ghost and Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony which reached number 14 on the Top Rock Albums chart.
Liane Moriarty.  Liane Moriarty (born November 1966) is an Australian author. She is the sister of author Jaclyn Moriarty.
Karl Gottlieb von Windisch.  Karl Gottlieb von Windisch (Latin: Carolus Theophil Windisch Hungarian: Windisch (Vindis) Károly January 28 1725 Pressburg – March 30 1793 Pressburg) was a Hungarian German writer who produced a series of letters that were published as Briefe über den Schachspieler von Kempelen nebst drey Kupferstichen die diese berühmte Maschine vorstellen translated as Inanimate Reason; or a Circumstantial Account of That Astonishing Piece of Mechanism M.
John Gardner (British writer).  Not to be confused with John Gardner (American writer)John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist best known for his James Bond continuation novels but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain Professor Moriarty. Gardner an ex-Royal Marine commando worked for a period as an Anglican priest but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time.
Harold Cohen (artist).  Harold Cohen (born 1 May 1928) is a British-born artist who is noted as the creator of AARON a computer program designed to produce art autonomously.
Marty Phillips.  Marty Phillips of Crossett Arkansas USA is a gospel singer songwriter as well as editor of the Jeffress/Phillips Music Company. A composer of many songs he is most noted for What A Meeting In The Air.
Barry McCrea.  Barry McCrea (born October 15 1974) is an Irish writer and academic. He grew up in Dalkey Co. Dublin and was educated at the Jesuit Gonzaga College and Trinity College Dublin (1993–1997) where he studied French and Spanish literature. He received a Ph.D from Princeton University in 2004. He taught Comparative Literature at Yale University where he was appointed full professor in 2012.
Jo Lawry.  Jo Lawry is an Australian singer. Lawry has performed with many notable acts including Sting with whom she has recorded and toured. She provided backing and duet vocals on Sting's 2010 studio album Symphonicities and she appeared on-stage with him as a vocalist on the 2010 television special Live in Berlin.Lawry is featured in the documentary film 20 Feet from Stardom.Lawry's debut album I Want to Be Happy was released in 2008.
Alfred Isidore Romer.  Alfred Isidore Romer (16 Aprile 1832 – 24 January 1897) was a Belarusian Polish and Lithuanian painter sculptor carver and medalist participant of the January Uprising (1863) against the Russian Empire.
Little John (musician).  John McMorris (born 1970) better known as Little John is a Jamaican dancehall musician best known for his 1980s recordings.
Kamal Amin.  Kamal Amin Awad (Arabic: كمال أمين عوض‎) (born 1923 died 1979) was one of the most famous Egyptian artists of his time. He was one of the pioneers of graphic arts. The artist whose masterpieces and unique techniques impressed Egyptian modern art was born in Tanta in 1923. He was interested in teaching his students about the modern techniques applied by schools abroad.
Mike Vasas.  Michael Robert Vasas (born February 17 1982 in Dearborn Michigan United States) is an American singer multi-instrumentalist composer and music educator. He is the founder of the musical collective Grammy Hall Records and a member of the free improvisation group; The Early Minor Quintet.
Killian Wells.  Killian Wells (born November 13 1988) is a pop singer songwriter and record producer from New York City.
Ricky (musician).  Ricky (born October 20 year unknown) is a Japanese musician originally from Saitama Prefecture. He is known as the vocalist of bands Dasein and R*A*P and became the full time vocalist of Rider Chips in 2005.Ricky who claims to have the full name Ricky Astrovich Primakov also claims that he is an extraterrestrial specifically one from the planet Iscandar a planet from the Space Battleship Yamato metaseries.
Sharlee D'Angelo.  Sharlee D'Angelo (born Charles Petter Andreason) is the bassist for Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy as well as the Swedish stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars. Sharlee has also been in various bands in the past either as a studio session player or full member. Some of these include IllWill and Mercyful Fate as well as Dismember Sinergy Witchery. More recently he has been a part of The Night Flight Orchestra with Björn Strid of Soilwork.
John Coghlan (drummer).  John Robert Coghlan (19 September 1946 Dulwich London England) is a British musician best known as the drummer of the English rock band Status Quo during the 1970s.The son of a Glasgow-born father and a London born half-French mother Coghlan grew up in Dulwich and was educated at Kingsdale Comprehensive school until leaving school at 15 to begin an apprenticeship as a mechanic.
Edwin Markham.  Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham April 23 1852 – March 7 1940) was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.
Lol Coxhill.  George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) generally known as Lol Coxhill was an English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur. He played the soprano or sopranino saxophone.
Deborah Crombie.  Deborah Crombie (née Darden) (born June 6 1952) is an American author of the Duncan Kinkaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom. Crombie was raised in Richardson Texas and has lived in the United Kingdom. She now lives in McKinney Texas.Crombie studied biology at Austin College and was a writing student of Warren Norwood at Tarrant County College.
Kim Won-il.  Kim Won-il (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) born 1942 is a South Korean writer.
David Box.  Harold David Box (August 11 1943 – October 23 1964) known professionally as simply David Box was an American rock musician in the early 60s. Box was influenced by fellow Texan Buddy Holly and even took his place as singer of his group The Crickets for a short time after his death. Box also collaborated with Roy Orbison and found local success with his group The Ravens. Box died on tour in a plane crash in 1964 at the age of 21 coincidentally in a similar manner to Holly.
Léopold Flameng.  Léopold Flameng (Brussels 22 November 1831 – September 1911) was a French engraver illustrator and painter.
Sunitha Sarathy.  Sunitha Sarathy (Tamil: சுனிதா சாரதி) is an Indian vocalist and performer in both Indian contemporary and Western Classical Music genres. She is also a Gospel Singer who performs in various Church choirs.
Girolamo Riminaldi.  Girolamo Riminaldi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Orazio and practised in Pisa in the early part of the 17th century. He survived his brother who died in 1631 and completed his Orazio's last work.
Sandra Brown.  Sandra Lynn Brown (born 12 March 1948 in Waco Texas) is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan Laura Jordan and Erin St. Claire.
William Jackson of Masham.  William Jackson (born 9 January 1815 in Masham Yorkshire England; died 15 April 1866 in Bradford England) was an English organist and composer. A self-taught musician he became organist at Masham in 1832. He won first prize in the Huddersfield Glee Club in 1840. In 1852 he established a music business and became organist of St. John's Church at Bradford. Later he took the organ at Horton Chapel was conductor of Bradford Choral Union and chorusmaster of Bradford Festivals.
Bob Dylan.  Bob Dylan (/ˈdɪlən/; born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24 1941) is an American musician singer-songwriter artist and writer. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest.
Freya Wilson.  Freya Wilson (born 1999) is a British child actress.
Fred Cole.  Fred Cole is the singer guitarist and songwriter of the band Pierced Arrows and formerly Dead Moon.
Elliot Levey.  Elliot Levey is an English actor.Best known for the role of Francesco Pazzi in Da Vinci's Demons and work at the National Theatre.
Lockett Pundt.  Lockett James Pundt IV (born October 7 1982) is an American musician guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of Atlanta-based indie rock group Deerhunter. Pundt joined Deerhunter in 2005 as a guitarist. He is also the best friend of Deerhunter vocalist Bradford Cox. He also releases solo material under the name Lotus Plaza. His debut album as Lotus Plaza The Floodlight Collective was released March 23 2009 on CD and vinyl.
William Rishanger.  William Rishanger (born 1250) nicknamed Chronigraphus was an English annalist and Benedictine monk of St. Albans.
Brij Bhushan Kabra.  Brij Bhushan Kabra (born 1937) is an Indian musician who popularized the guitar as an instrument in Indian classical music.Kabra was born in 1937 to Goverdhanlal Kabra in Jodhpur where he spent his youth. He was interested in sports and listened to Indian classical music but did not intend to become a musician and trained as a geologist. During a visit to Kolkata he discovered the Hawaiian lap slide guitar and convinced his father to let learn it by promising to only play classical music.
Chen Liping.  Chen Liping (Chinese: 陈莉萍 born 22 August 1965) is a Singaporean actress.Official website: http://tieba.baidu.com/photo/g?kw=%25B3%25C2%25C0%25F2%25C6%25BC
Takuo Kawamura.  Takuo Kawamura (川村拓央 Kawamura Takuo) (born July 4 1975) is a male Japanese voice actor from Saitama Japan.
Hans Orifice.  Hans Orifice is a drummer best known as a member of GWAR. Born Jim Thomson in Alexandria Virginia he first took the name Hans Sphincter and assumed his current name in 1987. Thomson left due to touring commitments with his main band the Alter Natives who released three albums on SST Records. Richmond drummer Rob Mosby of the Richmond Virginia punk group White Cross then joined GWAR until 1989. Hans Orifice returned briefly in 1989 after Mosby left the group.
Drew Correa.  Andrews Correa (born February 22 1984) professionally known as Drew Correa is a Brazilian-born American music producer from Miami Florida. Born in Florianópolis Correa moved to the United States at the age of four and began his career in the hip hop industry at the age of 16 when he worked as a disc jockey.
Michael Kimmelman.  Michael Kimmelman is an American author critic columnist and pianist. He is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has written on issues of public housing public space infrastructure community development and social responsibility. In March 2014 he was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize for his insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York's architectural environment that is journalism at its finest.
Joseph Opala.  Joseph A.
George Hayter.  Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871) was a notable English painter specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Queen Victoria appreciated his merits and appointed Hayter her Principal Painter in Ordinary and also awarded him a Knighthood 1841.
Kris Allen.  Kristopher Neil Kris Allen (born June 21 1985) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Conway Arkansas and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol he self-released a 2007 album entitled Brand New Shoes.Allen's Idol coronation song No Boundaries and his version of Heartless both charted within the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. Allen's post-Idol self-titled album was released on November 17 2009 by 19 Recordings and Jive Records.
Cool C.  Christopher Roney (born December 15 1969 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) known by the stage name Cool C is an American rapper whose musical career peaked in the late 1980s. He is perhaps best known today for the notoriety surrounding his involvement in the murder of a Philadelphia Police officer in a bank robbery in January 1996. He is currently incarcerated in a Pennsylvania state prison awaiting execution. He was to have been put to death on March 9 2006 but his execution has been stayed.
Josh Wolf (comedian).  Josh Wolf is an American stand-up comedian actor and writer. He has written for a number of sitcoms including All of Us and Cuts. He is best known for his regular appearances on the round table of E!'s late night talk show Chelsea Lately.
Natalia (Spanish singer).  Natalia Rodríguez Gallego usually known as Natalia (born 11 December 1982) is a Spanish singer. She was a contestant on the successful Spanish TV show Operación Triunfo in 2001 where she finished 14th.In 2002 she released her album No soy un ángel (I'm Not an Angel) produced by British dance producers Xenomania and the first single off the album Vas a volverme loca a cover version of Charlotte NIelsen's hit You Got Me Going Crazy.In 2003 Natalia released Besa mi piel (Kiss My Skin).
Robert Bridges.  Robert Seymour Bridges OM (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.
Blinky Blink.  Blinky Blink is a rapper and member of the New York-based hip-hop group Harlem World.
National Olympiad of Informatics.  The National Olympiad of Informatics (Romanian: Olimpiada Naţională de Informatică) is the most important Romanian competition in Informatics. The best Romanian students get to this contest from every county of Romania. These students are the best at the Olimpiada Judeţeană de Informatică which takes place in every county.
Mihai Timofti.  Mihai Timofti - Master of Arts (born September 19 1948) is a director actor and musician from Chisinau.In 1965 he started his activity in the popular theatre Contemporanul (Art Director was the playwright Mr G.Timofte) where he appeared for the first time on the stage performing the leading part in the comedy of Mr G.Timofte The Dreams and Troubles.In 1967 he graduated from the E.Coca Musical School (now it is the Ch.
Inna Zhelannaya.  Inna Yurievna Zhelannaya (Инна Юрьевна Желанная February 20 1965 Moscow) is a Russian singer-songwriter best known as a frontwoman of the folk band Farlanders (1994-2004).
Andrew Collins (broadcaster).  Andrew Collins (born 4 March 1965) is the creator and writer of Radio 4 sitcom Mr Blue Sky. His TV writing work includes EastEnders and the sitcoms Grass (which he co-wrote with Simon Day) and Not Going Out (which he initially co-wrote with Lee Mack). He has also worked as a music TV and film critic.
Peter Wolf.  Peter Wolf (born Peter W. Blankfield; March 7 1946) is an American rhythm and blues soul and rock and roll musician best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983; and for a successful solo career with writing partner Will Jennings.
Basta (Noggano).  Basta (Russian Баста) aka Noggano (real name Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Vakulenko Russian: Василий Михайлович Вакуленко is a Russian rapper and RJ from Rostov-on-Don. Born April 20 1980 in Rostov-on-Don in army officer's family. Studied at the musical college but didn't graduate it. He is married and has two children.
Doug Marlette.  Douglas Nigel Doug Marlette (December 6 1949 – July 10 2007) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist who at the time of his death had also published two novels and was finding his voice in writing long-length fiction. His popular comic strip Kudzu distributed by Universal Press Syndicate from 1981 to 2007 was adapted into a musical comedy.Born in Greensboro North Carolina Marlette was raised in Durham North Carolina; Laurel Mississippi and Sanford Florida.Marlette began his cartooning career while a student at Seminole Community College where he worked on the student newspaper. 
Jeff DaRosa.  Jeffrey DaRosa (born July 31 1982) is a rock multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in Watertown Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) and Somerville Massachusetts (a city just north of Boston) DaRosa later moved to New York where he joined The Exit. He married Michelle Nolan of Straylight Run on October 8 2006 and also tours with them as a backup musician.On November 26 2007 an announcement was made that DaRosa would be joining Boston's Dropkick Murphys after Marc Orrell left the band.
Reb Spikes.  Benjamin Franklin Reb Spikes (October 31 1888 – February 24 1982 was an American jazz saxophonist and entrepreneur. His composition with his brother John Someday Sweetheart has become an often-recorded jazz standard.
Terry Knight.  Terry Knight (April 9 1943 – November 1 2004) born Richard Terrance Knapp was an American rock and roll music producer promoter singer songwriter and radio personality who enjoyed some success in radio modest success as a singer but phenomenal success as the original manager-producer for Grand Funk Railroad and the producer for Bloodrock.
Michael E. Arth.  Michael E. Arth is an American artist home/landscape/urban designer public policy analyst advocate for the homeless futurist documentary filmmaker and author. He was a 2010 candidate for governor of Florida. Also in 2010 he wrote Democracy and the Common Wealth: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Special Interests.
Michelle Joseph.  Michelle Joseph is a British actress.
Jimmy B. Bedford.  Jimmy B. Bedford (June 10 1927–1990) was the former head of the University of Alaska Fairbanks journalism department. He is also the author of Around the World on a Nickel (1967). There is a Jimmy B. Bedford Memorial Scholarship set up in his honor. He was presented with the Howard Rock Award in 1977.As a professor of journalism and photography he was supportive of native Alaska writers: he wrote the foreword for the autobiography of Emily Ivanoff Brown (Ticasuk).
Miru Kim.  Miru Kim is an artist photographer illustrator and arts events coordinator who has explored documented and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations tunnels the Croton aqueduct Paris catacombs factories hospitals and shipyards. Kim's Naked City Spleen series of photographs include images of herself nude in these settings. For her new series called The Pig That Therefore I Am she has visited industrial hog farms and immersed herself amongst the pigs.
Ryo Kimura.  Ryo Kimura (木村 了 Kimura Ryou born September 23 1988) is a Japanese actor who debuted in 2002. His first movie was Moonlight Jellyfish in which he co-starred with Tatsuya Fujiwara. He played the role of Michio a mentally challenged 15-year-old boy diagnosed with an incurable skin disease called XP (Xeroderma Pigmentosum).
Padmanath Gohain Baruah.  Padmanath Gohain Baruah (Assamese: পদ্মনাথ গোহাঞি বৰুৱা; 1871-1946) was the first president of Asam Sahitya Sabha and a prominent name in the early part of modern Assamese literature. He was a novelist poet dramatist of excellence analyst and a though provoking writer. Considering his towering personality and profound knowledge he is regarded as the Pitamaha (great grandfather) in Assamese literary world.
Chris Abrahams.  Christopher Robert Lionel Abrahams (born 9 April 1961 in New Zealand) is a Sydney-based pianist best known for his jazz work.Abrahams has been a member of the Benders Laughing Clowns The Sparklers and The Necks. He has recorded several solo albums as well as collaborations with Melanie Oxley from the Sparklers.
Maryse Dubuc.  Maryse Dubuc (born 21 October 1977) is a Canadian comics writer known particularly for The Bellybuttons which she created with her husband artist Marc Delafontaine (Delaf).
Eric Redd.  Eric Redd is an American recording artist songwriter and dancer. He has parlayed his initial success as a teen-age regular on Soul Train into a four-decade career that includes the 2010 club hit “Breathe and a lead vocalist with the classic rock band California Transit Authority (CTA).
Jason Hill (singer).  Jason Staehler Hill is the lead singer lead guitarist multi instrumentalist and producer/engineer/mixer for the band Louis XIV/Atlantic Records. He produced and engineered all of the Louis XIV music.
Brian Bromberg.  Brian Bromberg (born December 5 1960 in Tucson Arizona) is an American jazz bassist and record producer who performs on both electric and acoustic instruments. Though he tends to gravitate towards the genre of smooth jazz Bromberg has released some straight-ahead jazz records in which he performs with a trio and has even ventured into more rock oriented jazz fusion territory as of late. His innovative and technically demanding style of playing extends to both electric and upright bass.
David Grossman.  David Grossman (Hebrew: דויד גרוסמן‎; born January 25 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and have won numerous prizes. He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip met with acclaim abroad but sparked controversy at home.
Tiburzio Baldini.  Fra Tiburzio Baldini (early 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bologna and painted for the churches and convents at Brescia including a Marriage of the Virgin with St. Joseph and the Murder of the Innocents in Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Robert White (guitarist).  Robert Willie White (November 19 1936 – October 27 1994) was an African-American soul musician one of the guitarists for Motown's in-house studio band the Funk Brothers White is best known for performing the guitar riff on The Temptations' number-one hit single My Girl but played the guitar on many successful Motown records including Can I Get a Witness by Marvin Gaye You Keep Me Hangin' On by The Supremes My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder Something About You by the Four Tops and It's a Shame by The Spinners.Oscar Moore and Wes Montgomery were among White's influences. 
R. Gopal.  R. Gopal also known as Nakkeran Gopal (born: 10 April 1959) is a journalist from Tamil Nadu India and the editor and publisher of Tamil magazine (biweekly) Nakkeran. He has also the author of several controversial books. He has been jailed for withholding information about sandal wood smuggler Veerappan during Jayalalitha's chief ministership. He is a supporter of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Maluca Mala.  Natalie Ann Yepez better known by her stage name Maluca grew up in Washington Heights Manhattan. Raised on a steady diet of bachata cumbia merengue and mambo as well as hip-hop and other club music Maluca's music has been described as experimental tropical punk ghetto tech and hip-house.
Dan Landrum.  Dan Landrum (born 1961 in Kennett Missouri) is an American hammered dulcimer player residing in Chattanooga Tennessee.He was discovered busking in front of the Tennessee Aquarium and is a featured member of Yanni's touring orchestra.
Roman Madrolle.  Roman Madrolle was born in France on 16 April 1980. He released his debut album in 2009. Any Place But Home mirrors Roman’s life experiences: his family and early age expatriation are strong influences in his work.
Carlo Paolo Agazzi.  Carlo Paolo Agazzi or Carlo Agazzi (1870 - Milan December 5 1922 was an Italian painter of landscapes and still-lifes in oil and water-colors. He was also mae engravings in monocolor acquaforte.
R. D. Fitzgerald.  For the botanist see Robert D. FitzGerald (1830-1892)Robert David FitzGerald III AM OBE (22 February 1902 – 24 May 1987) was an Australian poet.
Taalam Acey.  Taalam Acey (born September 16 1970) is an American spoken-word artist. He began pursuing the art in 1997 after visiting a poetry reading upon the invitation of a friend. At that point in his life Acey was a full-time lecturer in senior level accounting at Rutgers University and a principal partner in a small business consulting firm. In 1999 Acey left Rutgers University to become a full-time performance poet.
Emma Shapplin.  Emma Shapplin (born Crystêle Madeleine Joliton on 19 May 1974 in the Paris suburb of Savigny-le-Temple) is a French operatic coloratura soprano.
Lili Kraus.  Lili Kraus (Hungarian: Kraus Lili April 3 1903 – November 6 1986) was a Hungarian-born pianist.
Patrick Carlin (writer).  Patrick Carlin Jr.
Emanuel Mohn.  Emanuel Meyer Mohn (15 February 1842 – 26 April 1891) was a Norwegian educator known for writing about and illustrating mountains in Norway.He was born in Bergen to Albert Henrik Mohn (1811–1894) and Ida Neumann (1814–1864). He was a brother of Henrik and Jakob Mohn and on the maternal side he was a grandson of bishop Jacob Neumann. He did not marry.
Nellie Stockbridge.  Nellie Stockbridge (ca. 1868 – May 22 1965) was an early Idaho frontier mining district photographer. Her career spanned over 60 years. She was the oldest living member of the Zonta International club for advancement of women when she died in 1965.
Peter Lord.  Peter Lord CBE (born November 4 1953) is a British film producer director and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit. He also directed The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
Edmund Wyly Grier.  Sir Edmund Wyly Grier RCA (November 26 1862 – December 7 1957) was a Canadian portrait painter.He studied in London at the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros in Rome at the Scuola Libera del Nudo and in Paris at the Académie Julian under Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. He exhibited from 1886 to 1895 at the Royal Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy. In 1891 he returned to Canada to stay opening a portrait studio in Toronto.
Tony Allen (comedian).  Tony Allen (born 4 March 1945) is an English comedian and writer. Best known as one of the original alternative comedians Tony Allen's artistic career had taken many radical turns before he temporarily abandoned his Speakers' Corner Full-Frontal Anarchy Platform in May 1979 for the stage of London's Comedy Store. Two months later he founded Alternative Cabaret with Alexei Sayle and ran a regular Alt Cab Club night in the back bar of the Elgin pub on Ladbroke Grove.
Gaetano Capocci.  Gaetano Capocci (16 October 1811 – 11 January 1898) was a composer organist and maestro.Capocci was born in Rome. As a boy he studied the organ under Sante Pascoli organist of St. Peter's Basilica Rome and he completed his musical studies under Valentino Fioravanti and Francesco Cianciarelli. In 1831 he was granted a diploma as organist by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and in 1833 he received a diploma in the art of composition.
Ted Kirkpatrick.  Ted Kirkpatrick (born 1960) is an American heavy metal drummer best known for his work with the American Christian metal band Tourniquet.
Minute Taker.  Ben McGarvey known under the stage name of Minute Taker is an English singer-songwriter music producer and multi-instrumentalist whose style has been described as folktronica. To date he has released 2 albums; Too Busy Framing (2008) and Last Things (2013). McGarvey is also a member of Manchester-based folk-pop band The Spiels.
Michael Snow.  Michael Snow CC (born December 10 1929) is a Canadian artist working in painting sculpture video films photography holography drawing books and music.
Erik Truffaz.  Érik Truffaz (Chêne-Bougeries 3 April 1960) is a Swiss-born French-nationality jazz trumpeter infusing elements of hip hop rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. He signed with the French EMI label in 1996. Truffaz gained international attention with his second album on Blue Note The Dawn produced together with Patrick Muller Marcello Giuliani and Mark Erbetta.
Sharam.  Sharam Tayebi (Persian: شهرام طیبی‎) better known as Sharam (born 12 Jan 1970 in Tehran Iran) is an Iranian-American progressive house DJ and producer forming one half of the Grammy award-winning duo Deep Dish. On October 28 2009 DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll with Ultra Records artist Sharam placing #73.
Stein Morten Lier.  Stein Morten Lier (born 3 June 1967) is a Norwegian crime novelist.He is a son of police chief Leif A. Lier. Documentaric and semi-documentaric books include En reisende i drap (2002) Illusjonen som brast (2006) and Rikets tilstand (2007). Crime fiction releases include Catch (2004) Mafiya (2005) Bizniz (2006) and Øye for øye (2008).
VaShawn Mitchell.  VaShawn Mitchell is an American gospel singer and songwriter. A fan of Gospel music Mitchell began working with mentor Lonnie Hunter at St. Mark Baptist Church and at the age of 20 Mitchell's musical leadership skills were noticed by Bishop Larry Trotter and he was hired as the Minister of Music at Chicago's Sweet Holy Spirit Church.As minister of music he was responsible for every aspect of the department.
Irv Novick.  Irv Novick (April 11 1916 – October 15 2004) was an American comic book artist who worked almost continuously from 1939 until the 1990s.
Goddred Gylby.  Goddred Gylby (fl. 1561) was an English translator. A son of Anthony Gilby he translated translated Cicero's Epistle to Quintus London 1561 and John Calvin's Admonition against Judicial Astrology (no date).
Jaime Chik.  Jaime Chik Mei-chun (Chinese: 戚美珍 born 5 January 1962) is a Hong Kong TVB actress. Chik met Hong Kong actor Michael Miu in 1981 while shooting for the TVB television drama You Only Live Twice. The couple married in 1990 and since have two children: daughter Phoebe Miu (born 1991) and son Murphy Miu (born 1993).
James Wilson Morrice.  James Wilson Morrice (August 10 1865 – January 23 1924) was a significant Canadian landscape painter. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris France where he lived for most of his career. James Morrice Street in New Bordeaux Ahuntsic-Cartierville Montreal is named in his memory.
Simone Battle.  Simone Sherise Battle is an American actress and singer from Los Angeles California. She was a finalist on The X Factor (U.S.) in 2011. She is the second child out of three to Donna Morgan and Anthhony Battle. She has a sister Joyeux and Brother Elliott.
Jacob Philipp Hackert.  Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg who did most of his work in Italy.Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He trained with his father Philipp (a portraitist and painter of animals) and his uncle before going to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1758.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.  Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় Bôngkim Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae) (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali writer poet and journalist. He was the composer of India's national song Vande Mataram originally a Bengali and Sanskrit stotra personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring the activists during the Indian Freedom Movement.
Eskmo.  Brendan Angelides better known by his stage name Eskmo is an American electronic music producer. His career has touched many genres of electronic music. He has released music on record labels such as Ninja Tune Planet Mu and Warp Records as well as founding and releasing on his own label Ancestor. A significant work of his is the song Cloudlight which had its own music video starring himself.
Nick Foster.  Nick Foster is a BAFTA-winning British TV composer and music producer who has worked extensively over the past fifteen years. He is best known for composing music for television shows in the UK and US such as The Cube the Derren Brown programmes The Job Rocket's Island Penn & Teller and Let's Dance For Comic Relief and for commercials (with Soundtree Music).
Chris Richardson.  Christopher Michael Chris Richardson (born February 19 1984) is an American singer-songwriter who was the fifth-place finalist on the sixth season of American Idol.
Montrose Jonas Moses.  Montrose Jonas Moses (September 2 1878 – March 29 1934) was an American author born in New York where he graduated from the City College in 1899. In the main his compositions were directed towards children's literature; however he composed some books for adults as well. Between 1900 and 1910 he was connected editorially with or was a contributor to various periodicals: the Literary Digest the Reader the Independent the Book News Monthly.
Rachel Marley.  Rachel Claire Marley (born 26 April 1990 in Sydney Australia) is an Australian singer and actress. She is the daughter of Grant Marley and Kathy Marley. Marley graduated St Vincent's College Potts Point in Sydney and studies at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore.Marley grew up in Sydney and was inspired to become a singer from a young age. Her first major role came in The Sound of Music as Marta.
Feodor Gladkov.  Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov (Russian: Фёдор Васильевич Гладков) was a Soviet Socialist realist writer born on June 21 [O.S. June 9] 1883 in Chernavka Saratov gubernia to a family of Old Believers. He died on December 20 1958 in Moscow. Gladkov joined a Communist group in 1904 and in 1905 went to Tiflis (now Tbilisi) and was arrested there for revolutionary activities. He was sentenced to three years' exile. He then moved to Novorossiisk.
Hugo Birger.  Hugo Birger (born Hugo Birger Peterson) (12 January 1854 – 17 June 1887) was a Swedish painter.Born in Stockholm his father was printmaker S. A. Peterson. Birger studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts from 1870 to 1877. In 1877 he was awarded with the Royal medal for his painting Syndafallet. It was praised for its strong colors and shininess.Birger moved to Paris in 1877 and spent the summer of 1878 in Barbizon with Carl Larsson and Carl Skånberg.
Jamie Wyeth.  James Browning Wyeth (born July 6 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township Pennsylvania son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania portraying its people animals and landscape.
Randall Jahnson.  Randall Jahnson is an American writer director and producer. His works include Dudes The Doors The Mask of Zorro Sunset Strip and episodes of the HBO TV series Tales from the Crypt. Jahnson also directed music videos for Stan Ridgway Henry Rollins Black Flag and Minutemen. In the 1987 he launched the independent record label Blue Yonder Sounds in Los Angeles.
Ronnie Prophet.  Ronald Lawrence Victor Prophet (born 26 December 1937 in Hawkesbury Ontario) is a Canadian-born country musician and comedy performer.In his childhood Ronnie Prophet lived in Calumet Quebec and began performing at local venues in his youth. His successful musical career in the United States began in the mid-1960s.
William Hart-Smith.  William Hart-Smith (23 November 1911 – 15 April 1990) was a New Zealand/Australian poet who was born in Tunbridge Wells Kent England. His family moved to New Zealand in 1924. He had about seven years of formal schooling in England Scotland and New Zealand before getting work at 15. His first job was as a radio mechanic. In 1936 he emigrated to Australia working in commercial radio and then the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
José Augusto.  José Augusto (born José Augusto Cougil on August 16 1953 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer. He sings love balladas and romantic music in general both in Portuguese and Spanish languages. His song Mi Historia Entre Tus Dedos (My History Between Your Fingers)	peaked at #33 and #17 in the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks and Latin Pop Airplay respectively.
Édouard Joseph Dantan.  Édouard Joseph Dantan (Paris 26 August 1848 – 7 July 1897) was a French painter in the classical tradition. He was widely recognized in his day although he was subsequently eclipsed by painters with more modern styles.
J. Courtney Sullivan.  Julie Courtney Sullivan (born 1982) better known as J. Courtney Sullivan is an American novelist and former writer for The New York Times.
Peter Baumann.  Peter Baumann (born January 29 1953) formed the core line-up of the pioneering German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976 while still touring with the band and embarked on a solo career in 1977.Since the early 2000s Baumann has devoted his time to studying and promoting initiatives in science and philosophy that shed light on the human condition.
Deborah Martin.  Deborah Martin (born June 9 1961) is a contemporary American Realist Painter Fine Art photographer and curator. A site-specific artist her work eulogizes the abandoned habitats and domestic landscapes of small town America.
Dorothea Mitchell.  Dorothea Mitchell (1877–1976) was a lumberjack and co-founder of the Port Arthur Amateur Film Society which produced A Race For Ties Canada's first amateur feature film.
Jack McTamney.  John Jack McTamney (born April 10 1963) is an American singer songwriter and performer. Born in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia PA and the youngest of 6 children he has a career spanning over two decades performing both solo and in groups such as the Jack McTamney Band and The Tonebenders.
Henry Fielding.  Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.Aside from his literary achievements he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force the Bow Street Runners using his authority as a magistrate.His younger sister Sarah also became a successful writer.
Kevin Saunderson.  Kevin Saunderson (born Kevin Maurice Saunderson September 5 1964 Brooklyn New York) is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Belleville Michigan a suburb of Detroit where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students Derrick May and Juan Atkins. Saunderson with Atkins and May (often called the Belleville Three) is considered to be one of the originators of techno specifically Detroit techno.
Jon Peter Lewis.  Jon Peter Lewis (born November 7 1979 Lincoln Nebraska) is an American singer and songwriter and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol. He was frequently referred to by the judges and Ryan Seacrest as JPL.Lewis later formed a duo titled Midas Whale with a friend Ryan Hayes and appeared on the fourth season of The Voice.
Scott Reed (comics).  Scott Reed (born 1970) is an American illustrator comic book artist and author from Reedsville Ohio. His earliest comic work as a writer and inker appeared in Silverwolf Comics (Greater Mercury Comics) Eradicators in 1990. In 1993 he worked on-staff as an inker for Malibu Comics until 1996 when he was hired by Dark Horse Comics to provide inks for Godzilla and G.I. Joe Extreme comic book mini-series.
Mike Morgan (musician).  Mike Morgan (born November 30 1959 Dallas Texas) is an American Texas and electric blues musician. He has released thirteen albums to date on various record labels including Rounder Black Top and Severn Records. The majority of his releases have featured his long standing backing band The Crawl. Morgan has played alongside Darrell Nulisch Lee McBee Gary Primich and Randy McAllister.
Ann Gale.  Ann Gale (born 1966) is an American figurative painter based in Seattle Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings which consist of an accumulation of small color patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time. Some of her main influences include Lucian Freud Alberto Giacometti and Antonio López García.Gale works from live models and her process is lengthy.
M. William Phelps.  M. William Phelps is an American crime writer investigative journalist and television personality.
Nick Hodgson.  Nicholas James David Hodgson (born 20 October 1977) is a drummer backing vocalist and lyricist formerly of English indie band Kaiser Chiefs. He attended St. Mary's Menston with Nick Baines and Simon Rix. He then went onto Trinity & All Saints University College in Horsforth Leeds. There he studied media. He later met Ricky Wilson and Andrew White (Whitey) at a mod night called Move On Up at The Underground in Leeds.
Liu Hao.  Liu Hao (simplified Chinese: 刘浩; traditional Chinese: 劉浩; pinyin: Líu Hào; born 1968 in Shanghai) is a Chinese filmmaker. He first rose to prominence in the early to mid-2000s.
Nelson DeCastro.  Nelson Faro DeCastro known professionally as Nelson (born February 17 1969) is an American comic book artist known for his airbrushed cover art and his interior penciling inking and coloring work. He is also a writer and teacher. Nelson's career began in the early 1990s doing cover work and publishing his creator-owned work for Dark Horse Comics before becoming a frequent artist for Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Christa Collins.  Christa Collins (born Christa Larson in Iowa United States on 4 July 1979) is an American singer and dancer. Christa starred as a child in Disney productions. She is presently a singer-songwriter and the front woman for the rock'n roll band Woolly Bandits. She is also a designer for limited edition hair accessories and feather fascinators. She also participated in the first season of the American The X Factor making it to the judges' houses before being eliminated.
FuntCase.  James Hazell better known by his stage name FuntCase is an English dubstep and drum and bass producer and DJ from Bournemouth England. Hazell first released drum and bass under the alias DJ Dose in 2007 and in 2009 released his first single under the name FuntCase.In 2010 he was signed to Flux Pavilion and Doctor P's record label Circus Records while also releasing music under the alias Haze.
William Parker (musician).  William Parker (born January 10 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist multi-instrumentalist poet and composer.
Bill Pritchard.  This article is about the British singer-songwriter. For the Canadian socialist politician see William Arthur Pritchard.Bill Pritchard is a British singer-songwriter instrumentalist (guitars keyboards) musical arranger and producer. Despite being little known in his native country he has achieved considerable recognition in France and elsewhere.
Jarle Aambø.  Jarle Alex Aambø (born 1960) is a Norwegian sports official. In 2013 NRK published the claim by Adresseavisen's sport commentator (Kjetil Kroksæter) that Aambø had been forced to resign as leader of Olympiatoppen.Since 2004 he is the leader of Olympiatoppen. He has his education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.He resides in Fjellhamar Norway.
Lo Wei.  Lo Wei (sometimes spelled Lo Wai 12 December 1918 – 20 January 1996) was a famous Hong Kong film director and film actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury and Jackie Chan in New Fist of Fury.After Lee's death it was Lo who gave Jackie Chan his first shot at the big time as part of the wave of Bruceploitation.
Carlo Grua.  Carlo Luigi Grua (c. 1700 – 11 April 1773) was an Italian composer who is best known for his position as Kapellmeister for the Electoral Court at the German city of Mannheim.Born in Milan he was raised to the position in 1733 by Elector Karl III Philip and held the position until his death.His compositions during his tenure included sacred works oratorios and opera.Grua died in Mannheim in 1773.
Domenico Maria Muratori.  Domenico Maria Muratori (1662–1744) was an Italian painter of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century specializing in altarpieces.Muratori was born in Vendrana in the Budrio commune. He was a Bolognese painter who studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli. His wife Teresa Scannabecchi was also a painter. They met in the studio of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole where she was also a student. Muratori specialized in religious-themed works.
Guy Marchand.  Guy Marchand (born 22 May 1937) is a French actor musician and singer. He is best known for his role as the main character in the French police procedural series Nestor Burma.
Claudia Moscovici.  Claudia Moscovici(born June 1 1969) is a Romanian-American novelist and art/literary critic.
Major Harris (singer).  Major Harris III (February 9 1947 – November 9 2012) was an American R&B singer associated with the Philadelphia soul sound and The Delfonics (early 1970s–1974).
Helen M. Knowlton.  Helen M. Knowlton (1832-1918) was an American artist art instructor and author. She taught in Boston from 1871 until the mid-1910s when she was in her 70s. Her instructor and later employer William Morris Hunt was the subject of a portrait she made and several books; She is considered his principal biographer.
Jeremy Fisher.  Jeremy Fisher (born Jeremy Binns December 15 1976 Hamilton Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Fisher is based in Ottawa Ontario and was previously based on Vancouver Island B.C. Montreal Quebec and in Seattle Washington U.S.A.. Fisher's work is heavily influenced by folk and blues music and his songs feature accompaniment by acoustic guitar slide guitar and harmonica.
Tony Marchant (playwright).  For other persons named Tony Marchant see Tony Marchant (disambiguation)Tony Marchant (born 11 July 1959 East London) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Lucky Ones and Raspberry. In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television.
Kaede Matsushima.  Kaede Matsushima (松島かえで Matsushima Kaede) is a Japanese model actress and adult video (AV) performer who has had a long career as a top AV Idol. She was described as a Japanese superstar at Allmovie.
María Izquierdo.  María Izquierdo (October 30 1902 San Juan de los Lagos – December 2 1955 Mexico City) was a Mexican painter. She was born María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez in San Juan de los Lagos in the state of Jalisco;. After her father died when she was five years old she lived with her grandparents and aunt afterward in small towns of Aguascalientes Torreón and Saltillo. Both her grandma and aunt were devoted Catholics and much of her upbringing revolved around daily Catholic traditions.
Jerry Posin.  Jerry Miles Posin (born May 3 1951) is an American drummer known for his contributions to Steppenwolf in the late 1970s. During this time he penned at least two songs heard at Steppenwolf concerts It's Alright and Sinsemilla now available only on bootleg recordings. He later was the drummer for Blues Image and the Kent Henry Band.
Michael Koretzky.  Michael Koretzky is an American journalist editor and writer.Koretzky attended the University of Florida in the early 1980s where he worked at the Independent Florida Alligator UF's student-run newspaper. After several attempts he was selected to become the editor in chief in 1987 of the country's largest student-run newspaper.He has worked at several publications including the Sun-Sentinel in Florida and XS.
Željko Bebek.  Želimir Željko Bebek also known simply as Bebek (born 16 December 1945) is a Bosnian singer very popular throughout former Yugoslav republics and entire region. He is most notable for being the lead vocalist of former Yugoslav rock band Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1984. He also has a successful career as a solo artist.
Geneva Mercer.  Geneva Mercer (January 27 1889 – March 2 1984) was an American artist from Alabama. Best known as a sculptor she was also an accomplished painter in her later years. Although most of her early work with Italian sculptor Giuseppe Moretti was done under his name her best known individual works include Joyous Boy Pied Piper the Flimp Fountain and several Julia Tutwiler sculptures located at the Alabama Department of Archives and History University of Alabama and University of Montevallo.
Emily West.  Emily Nemmers (born July 9 1981) is an American country music artist who records under the name Emily West. Signed to Capitol Records Nashville she debuted on Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2008 with the single Rocks in Your Shoes. This song peaked at No. 39 early in the year and is the first single from a self-titled EP. She entered the country charts a second time with Blue Sky a duet with Keith Urban in 2010.
Meem Hay Latifi.  Meem Hay Latifi (Urdu: محمد حسن لطیفی) (b. 11 December 1905 – 23 May 1959) was a renowned poet and journalist of Urdu. He was born in Ludhiana. He got degree in solo journalism from England. After his return to Ludhiana he started taking part in the independence struggle of India. After partition he came Lahore where he died about twelve years later.His following couplet is very famous[citation needed]:وابستہ میری یاد سے کچھ تلخیاں بھی تھیںاچھا کیا جو مجھ کو فراموش کردیا
Jeff Andrus.  Jeffery Hughes Jeff Andrus (/ˈændrəs/; March 19 1947 – March 27 2011) is an American author best known for having written The Proverb (2004) adapting Pope John Paul II's 1960 play The Jeweler's Shop Doc (1971) As Summers Die and the Tracer Family mystery fiction series.
Thomas Oldham Barlow.  Thomas Oldham Barlow RA (4 August 1824 – 24 December 1889) was an English mezzotint engraver. His prints helped to popularise the works of painters like John Phillip and Sir John Everett Millais.
Eugene Record.  Eugene Booker Record (December 23 1940 – July 22 2005) was the American lead vocalist of the Chicago Illinois based vocal group The Chi-Lites during the 1960s and 1970s.He was born in Chicago. He also released three solo albums (entitled The Eugene Record Trying to Get to You and Welcome to My Fantasy) via the Warner Music Group before rejoining the Chi-Lites in 1980. In 1979 he had a disco hit called Magnetism'.
Huggy Leaver.  Huggy Leaver (born Hugh Leaver) sometimes credited as Huggy Lever is a British actor and former vocalist of The Plastix an early UK Punk band.He has appeared in Trial and Retribution Birds of a Feather A Touch of Frost and Black Books.
Xavier Caféïne.  Xavier Caféïne is a French-Canadian rock singer and musician from the province of Québec. He is a former member of the band Caféïne.In August 2006 he released his first album (Gisèle) as a solo artist. He played most of the instruments on his album but received helped from Michel Langevin on the drum for a few songs.
Elinor Freer.  Elinor Freer is an American pianist from Montana who has performed in the United States Europe and China. During her European tour she gave performances at the Concertgebouw and also participated at the Rotterdam's Valery Gergiev Festival. She also recorded numerous original works for Dutch Radio including her performance at the International Musicians’ Seminar held at Prussia Cove and her performance at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow.
Susanna Drury.  Susanna Drury later Susanna Warter (c. 1698 – c. 1770) was an Irish painter. Though little is known of her life or work she was very influential in the development of Irish landscape painting. She is chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim which brought international attention to the site.
D. J. Coffman.  D. J. Coffman (born January 17 1976) is an American cartoonist. He is best known as the creator of the Hero by Night comic book series and the webcomic Yirmumah. Coffman also has done work on the Monkey Man comic series with writer Brian Lynch that included a webcomic on Kevin Smith's MoviePoopShoot.com.
John Glassco.  John Glassco (December 15 1909 – January 29 1981) was a Canadian poet memoirist and novelist. Glassco will be remembered for his brilliant autobiography his elegant classical poems and for his translations. He is also remembered by some for his erotica.
Nikola Marinov.  Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev (Bulgarian: Никола Маринов Абаджиев) was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and Giacomo Grosso.
Lemmo Rossi-Scotti.  Count Lemmo Rossi-Scotti (Perugia 1848 - ) was an Italian painter mainly of battle scenes in a late-Romantic style.
Jessie Maye Smith.  Jessie Maye Smith also known as The Bird Lady of Tarrant County was a self-taught ornithologist made famous by a series of newspaper articles entitled Birds and Watchers which she published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1953–1975.
Paul Chaat Smith.  Paul Chaat Smith is a noted Comanche author and an associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian. He writes and lectures frequently on American Indian art and politics.
Josh Neufeld.  Josh Neufeld (born August 9 1967) is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina international travel and finance as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone. He is the writer/artist of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge and the illustrator of The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media.
Thomas Abate.  Thomas Joseph Abate III (born August 20 1978 in Lawrence Massachusetts) also known as Poverty is a hip-hop artist and actor from the New England area. He was living in a homeless shelter in Maine when he produced a demo that was eventually picked up by Artistdirect records the offshoot of Interscope Records chief Ted Field. However plans to release his album Rise from Ruin foundered in the wake of problems at the label.
David Tavaré.  David Tavaré (born on December 20 1984) is a Spanish singer and House Music DJ .
Sydney Curnow Vosper.  Sydney Curnow Vosper RWS RWA (29 October 1866 – 10 July 1942) was a painter and etcher of landscapes and figure subjects. His later work has a close association with Wales and Brittany. His most famous work is Salem (1908) which shows an old woman in the Welsh national costume with Welsh hat and shawl attending a congregation at Salem Chapel Cefncymerau.
Danny Seraphine.  Daniel Peter Danny Seraphine (born August 28 1948) is an American drummer record producer theatrical producer and film producer. He is best known for being the original drummer and founding member of the rock group Chicago a tenure which lasted from February 1967 (February 1967) to May 1990 (May 1990).
Andrzej Bart.  Andrzej Bart (born 1951 in Wrocław Poland) is a Polish novelist screenwriter and film director.He is called the Polish Thomas Pynchon because he prefers people talk about his books and films but leave him alone.
John West (singer).  John West (born May 11 1983) is an American singer–songwriter R&B recording artist and rapper.
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska.  Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska née Kossak (24 November 1891 – 9 July 1945) was a Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and queen of lyrical poetry of Poland's interwar period. Fluent in French English and German she married three times and lived the life of a world traveller.
Dunken Francis Mullet.  Dunken Francis Mullett (born 23 April 1964 in Battersea London England) recording as Dunken Francis is an English Musician author and martial artist.
Raffaello Bertieri.  Raffaello Bertieri (1875–1941) was a publisher graphic designer and type designer from Florence Italy. Bertieri began working as a printer's apprentice in 1886 and by 1902 was an editor in Milan. He began publishing Il Risorgimento Grafico (Renaissance of the Graphic Arts) even before founding his own printing and publishing house Bertieri & Vanesetti which gained notoriety by publishing the works of Gabriele d'Annunzio and renown for its edition of L'arte di G B Bodoni.
Rehan Azmi.  Rehan Azmi (born 1958 in Karachi) is a noted writer of Nohas a poet and Song writer of Pakistan. His contributions and sincerity got him into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1997 for being the 7th speediest writers of poetry in this world
Bernard Wright.  Bernard Wright (born November 16 1963) is an American funk and jazz keyboardist and singer who began his career as a session musician and later released several solo albums in the 1980s.Wright was born in Jamaica Queens New York. He attended the Fiorello Laguardia High School of Music & the Performing Arts in New York. Classmates included writer Carl Hancock Rux gospel recording artist Desiree Coleman Jackson and rappers Slick Rick and Dana Dane.
Kumar Vishwas.  Kumar Vishwas is a Hindi poet a professor of Hindi literature and politician. He is the Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Amethi.
George Courtney Benson.  George Courtney Benson (1886 - 1960) was an Australian painter muralist and cartoonist and an official war artist during World War I.
Dorothy Gilman.  Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25 1923 – February 2 2012) was an American espionage and mystery fiction writer. She was best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Emily Pollifax her heroine became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the local garden club.
Kherington Payne.  Kherington Payne is an American dancer and actress who came to prominence as a Top 10 Finalist in Season 4 of the hit reality-dance show So You Think You Can Dance and in a role in the 2009 reinvention of the movie Fame. She's been a principal dancer for Katy Perry and was a lead cast member on E! reality docu-drama The Dance Scene. Payne was also briefly a member of the third line-up of the girl group The Pussycat Dolls. She was a choreographer on the YouTube show Dance Showdown.
Roxy Jezel.  Roxy Jezel (born 5 June 1982 in London England) is a former British pornographic actress.
Edward Benlowes.  Edward Benlowes (July 12 1603 – December 18 1676) was an English poet.
Nicole Scherzinger.  Nicole Scherzinger (/niˈkoʊl ˈʃɜrzɪŋər/ ni-KOHL SHUR-zing-ər born Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente; June 29 1978) is an American recording artist actress and television personality. Following her departure from Eden's Crush she auditioned for the burlesque inspired recording group The Pussycat Dolls and she subsequently signed a contract with Interscope Records. The group's debut album PCD (2005) and its follow-up Doll Domination (2008) both set records for girl groups.
Eduardo Cuitiño.  Eduardo Cuitiño Bosio (Montevideo January 28 1974) is a Uruguayan writer/author and mathematician known for his investigations and essays on two historic figures: Carlos Gardel and Jack the Ripper.
Domenico Bettini.  Domenico Bettini (Florence 1644- Bologna 1705) was an Italian painter of the Baroque mainly depicting still-life subjects.
Georgia Gibbs.  Georgia Gibbs (August 17 1919 – December 9 2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens Gibbs first achieved acclaim (and notoriety) in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of radio and television variety and comedy programs.
Julie London.  Julie London (September 26 1926 – October 18 2000) was an American jazz and pop singer and actress. She was noted for her smoky sensual voice and languid demeanor.
Dave Verellen.  Dave Verellen is an American singer. He grew up in Tacoma Washington and was the vocalist for the mathcore band Botch. He has since gone on to play drums for the folk-country band Roy with his brother Ben Verellen (of Harkonen). In 2008 he formed a band Narrows with members of Some Girls and These Arms Are Snakes.Verellen recorded backing vocals for the Canadian noise rock band KEN mode's 2013 album Entrench.
Fursaxa.  Fursaxa is a USA-based acid folk or freak folk project led by Tara Burke of Pennsylvania.. Her home-recordings feature acoustic guitar simple Casio electronic keyboards accordion dulcimer and her heavily overdubbed vocals on a 4-track recorder.She has been making music since childhood. Her music has been compared to Nico's solo work and is often categorized among New Weird America artists.
Annibale Orgas.  Annibale Orgas (c.1585–1629) was an Italian composer. He was first a boy soprano at the Collegium Germanicum then 1607-1610 trained to be a deacon at the Seminario Romano. He returned to the Collegium as maestro di cappellain Rome and then in 1619 left Italy to take up the post of maestro di cappella at Wawel Cathedral Kraków.
Eric Norstad.  Eric Norstad was an award-winning potter and architect who worked primarily on the west coast of the United States.
Christian Andreu.  Christian Roger Andreu (born November 15 1976) is a French musician who is the guitarist of Gojira and was the guitarist for Familha Artús.
Jacques Laudy.  Jacques Laudy (7 April 1907 – 28 July 1993) was a Belgian comics artist who contributed to the early issues of the weekly Tintin magazine.Jacques Laudy was born in Schaarbeek in 1907 as the son of the painter Jean Laudy. He worked mainly as a painter illustrator and comics artist. Laudy started his career as an artist for Bravo magazine that like Spirou magazine was one of the leading Belgian comics publications before and during World War II.
Murray Favro.  Murray Favro (born December 24 1940) is a Canadian sculptor who lives in London Ontario. His work that includes drawing sculpture performance and installation often incorporating slide and film projections lighting effects computer and electronic technology. He is associated with London Regionalism.
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh.  Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (born 1978) is a musician and singer from County Kerry Ireland. She is the lead singer from the traditional music group Danú. Her name is pronounced MWI-ren Nick OWL-eve.
Janki Ballabh Shastri.  Acharya Janki Ballabh Shastri (February 5 1916 – April 7 2011) was an Indian Hindi poet writer and critic. He declined to accept Padma Shri in 2010 stating his disciples deserved much more than Shri. He also refused the Padmashri in 1994.
Luke Redfield.  Luke Redfield is an American indie folk musician. He was raised in rural Minnesota and Nebraska and has since lived in Alaska Colorado and Austin Texas where he currently resides. His music evokes a sense of place and has earned comparisons to Iron & Wine Bonnie Prince Billy and Bright Eyes.
Arnold Kemp.  Arnold Kemp is an American artist that works in painting print sculpture and poetry. Kemp received a BA/BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and an MFA from Stanford University. From 1991 to 2006 Kemp lived and worked in San Francisco CA where he showed works independently and was a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More recently he was chair of the MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art PNCA in Portland Oregon.
Haroon Rashid (chemist).  Haroon Rashid is an academic in chemistry and is Vice-Chancellor at the University of Peshawar.He has published 21 research papers in international journals and secured research funds of over 52 million PKR of which provided for the establishment of a Nuclear Medicine Research Laboratory at the University of Peshawar.
Feri Lawid.  Feri Lawid (born Widjaya Bong Feri Lawid January 1 1981 Jakarta Indonesia) is an Indonesian Musician. Feri is a bassist working with guitarist Dean Sim pianist Timothy Toh and singer Irma Seleman.Feri has been the bassist for band FVE Project since the group's formation in 2011.Feri is currently studying at Berklee College of Music top producer and award winning scholarship student.
Mathew Knowles.  Mathew Knowles (born January 9 1952) is an American music executive businessman record producer and manager. He is the father of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles and former manager of Beyoncé Kelly Rowland Michelle Williams LeToya Luckett LaTavia Roberson and Destiny's Child.
Howie Beck.  Howie Beck is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer based in Toronto. His debut album 1997's Pop and Crash was recorded at home while Beck recovered from mononucleosis.Beck began to attract attention outside of Canada with 1999's Hollow. Around this time some of Beck's songs made appearances in prime-time TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer Queer as Folk and Felicity.
Steve McNiven.  Steven Steve McNiven is a Canadian comic book artist. He first gained prominence on CrossGen's Meridian before moving onto books such as Ultimate Secret New Avengers and Civil War.
Mike Lerner.  Mike Lerner is an American metal guitarist best known for his work with Behold... The Arctopus.
Gösta Knutsson.  Gösta Lars August Knutsson (original surname Johansson; 12 October 1908 Stockholm – 4 April 1973) was a Swedish radio producer and writer of a popular series of children's books about the cat Pelle Svanslös.Gösta Knutsson was born in a middle-class family in Stockholm and came to the University of Uppsala as a student remaining in Uppsala for the rest of his life. After completing an M.A.
Carson Chamberlain.  Carson Chamberlain (born in Berea Kentucky) is an American songwriter record producer and steel guitarist who works mainly in the field of country music.He worked as a bandleader and steel guitarist for Keith Whitley until Whitley died in 1989. Afterward he worked as a touring manager for Alan Jackson and Clint Black. Chamberlain became an A&R director at Mercury Nashville in 1994 but later retired from that position.
Dudley Klute.  Dudley Klute (born December 10) is an American vocalist and songwriter noted for his work with the Belgian New Wave band Kid Montana in the 1980s and his subsequent collaborations with Stephin Merritt's The Magnetic Fields (he was a guest singer on 69 Love Songs) LD Beghtol and other musicians. Additionally he was one-third of the live-only performance ensemble The Three Terrors along with Merritt and Beghtol. Klute lives in Manhattan.
William Ernest Bowman.  William Ernest Bowman (30 September 1911 Scarborough - 1 January 1985) was an engineer and writer best remembered for his 1956 book The Ascent of Rum Doodle a satire on the world of mountaineering literature inspired by Bill Tilman and his 1937 account of the Nanda Devi expedition. Bowman's work was a send-up of the rather pompous British expedition book style fashionable in the 1930s through to the 1950s.Bill Bowman was the eldest of a family of three boys.
John Frederick Demartini.  Dr. John Fredrick Demartini (born November 25 1954) is a former Chiropractor and current American researcher best selling author international educator and public speaker in human behavior.
Anders Lundström.  Anders Lundström (born in Stöde Sundsvall Municipality on 11 October 1977) is a Swedish songwriter and record producer. He is also a country recording artist who has released in January 2013 an album Stay True with the stage name MAV. At various times earlier in his career he was also known as A.L. Sweet Lucka and during his Rednex days (2006-2008) as Maverick.
Barbara Kanam.  Barbara Kanam (born September 27 1973) is an award-winning Congolese singer-songwriter music producer and actress.
Hodgy Beats.  Gerard Damien Long (born November 9 1990) better known by his stage name Hodgy Beats is an American rapper and producer. He is a member of the hip hop collective OFWGKTA as well as the duo MellowHype with Left Brain and MellowHigh with Domo Genesis.
Kenny Dorham.  McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham (August 30 1924 – December 5 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter singer and composer born in Fairfield Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians but he never received the kind of attention or public recognition from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did.
Joe Eszterhas.  József A. Joe Eszterhas (Hungarian: Eszterhas József; pronounced [ˈjoːʒɛf ˈɛstɛrhɒʃ]; born November 23 1944) is a Hungarian-American writer offspring of the aristocratic House of Esterházy. He has worked on 16 films that have grossed approximately one billion dollars. He has also written several non-fiction books including an autobiography entitled Hollywood Animal.
Georges Seurat.  Georges-Pierre Seurat (French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism. It is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.
Francesco Campora.  Francesco Campora (Rivarolo January 16 1693 – Genoa December 19 1763) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque.
Bobbi Eden.  Bobbi Eden (born 4 January 1980 in The Hague Zuid-Holland Netherlands) is a Dutch pornographic actress and international magazine model.Eden was the runner-up for the Dutch Penthouse Pet of the Year. She had also modeled for magazines including Club Men Only and Soho.She appeared with Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten in the video for his single Watch Out.
Vicko Milatović.  Miroslav Vicko Milatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав-Вицко Милатовић) is a Serbian musician best known as the drummer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.
Sebastian Wurth.  Sebastian Wurth (Born on 21 July 1994 in Wipperfürth North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer and was a participant in season 8 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar making it to the Top 5.
Paolo Antonio Paderna.  Paolo Antonio Paderna (1649–1708) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Bologna he was a pupil of the painter Guercino then of Carlo Cignani.
Pierre Trottier.  Pierre Trottier (March 21 1925 – April 9 2010) was a Canadian novelist. He won the Prix David in 1960. He was born and died in Montreal Quebec.
Cliff Richards.  Cliff Richards (born 1964 Belo Horizonte Brazil) is a comic book artist.
Ruwaida al-Mahrouqi.  Ruwaida al-Mahrouqi (in Arabic رويدا المحروقي) is an Emarati artist from Abu Dhabi. She is signed to Rotana Records.Since she was young she has been fascinated by the artistic world. At the age of 6 years old she started learning to play the piano. Two years later before she even was 8 years old she participated in a contest. She won the first place and got a gold award. Later on for her college studies Ruwaida chose to study audiovisual and theater directing.
Carlos Pinto Coelho.  Carlos Pinto Coelho (18 April 1944 – 15 December 2010) was a Portuguese journalist writer photographer and media personality.
Chris Galletta.  Chris Galletta (born 1981) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 2013 coming-of-age film The Kings of Summer.
Giorgio van Straten.  Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer editor translator and manager of arts organizations. In 2000 he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. That same year he won four literary prizes for Il mio nome a memoria published in English as My Name A Living Memory (2003).From 1985 to 2002 Van Straten was the chairman of the Orchestra of Tuscany. From 2002 to 2005 he was general director of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Kay Boyle.  Kay Boyle (February 19 1902 – December 27 1992) was an American writer educator and political activist.
Marty Balin.  Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald; January 30 1942) is an American musician. He is best known as the founder and one of the lead singers of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off Jefferson Starship.Balin’s distinctive voice style and memorable songs include Billboard top chart hits; Miracles Hearts Atlanta Lady Count On Me Runaway and album radio film and television soundtrack classics Comin’ Back to Me Today and Volunteers.
Amy Yamazaki.  Amy Yamazaki is a British actress best known for her portrayal of Charlotte Lau in the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
Enjott Schneider.  Enjott Schneider (born Norbert Jürgen Schneider 25 May 1950 in Weil am Rhein) is a German businessman composer musicologist and music educator. He is best known as the chairman of the board of the German collecting society GEMA.As a composer he is known for his film work having won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Film Score in 1990 the Filmband in Gold in 1991 and the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2007 the latter for his work on March of Millions.
Giovanni Battista Maganza.  Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513–1586) was a late Renaissance Italian painter and poet from Vicenza mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. He was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio. His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter. Fontana cites Lanzi and Zanetti as Maganza's dates of birth and death as 1509 and 1589 Giovanni De Mio was one of his pupils.
Judith Guest.  Judith Guest (born March 29 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959).
Lillebjørn Nilsen.  Bjørn Lillebjørn Falk Nilsen (born 21 December 1950 in Oslo) is a prominent Norwegian singer-songwriter and folk musician. He is also considered somewhat the leading voice of Oslo thanks to numerous classic songs about the city from the 1970s and up. He also makes up the Norwegian supergroup Gitarkameratene with Jan Eggum Halvdan Sivertsen and Øystein Sunde.In 1987 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.Nilsen has collaborated with his friend and idol Pete Seeger on numerous occasions.
Edith Øberg.  Edith Justine Øberg (Lysekil (Sweden) october 5 1895 – Oslo september 21 1968) was a Norwegian novelist. She was born in Lysekil Sweden and grew up in Kristiania Norway. She was married to writer Hans Christian Lyche. She studied languages and music and made her debut as a singer in 1915. She made her literary debut in 1916 with the novel Pr. korrespondance. Her first major recognition came with her third novel: Boblen (1921).
Derek Ware (actor).  Derek Ware (born 27 February 1938) is an English actor and stuntman active from the late 1950s through the 1990s. He is best known as a stuntman and fight arranger for the early seasons of Doctor Who although he also worked on EastEnders Z-Cars and other British productions.
Greg Miller (poet).  David Gregory Miller (born 1957) is a poet from America. He has written four books of poetry. He has been working as an English language teacher at Millsaps College in Mississippi. Miller's poems have published in several literary magazines.
Wiz Khalifa.  Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8 1987) better known by the stage name Wiz Khalifa is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He released his debut album Show and Prove in 2006 and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007. His Eurodance-influenced single Say Yeah received urban radio airplay charting on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Tracks charts in 2008.Khalifa parted with Warner Bros. and released his second album Deal or No Deal in November 2009.
Graeme Clark (musician).  Graeme Clark is a musician song-writer and record producer. He came to prominence as bass player founder member and song-writer from the famous pop/soul band Wet Wet Wet - the band he formed with friends and fellow band members Neil Mitchell Tommy Cunningham and Marti Pellow whilst attending Clydebank High School.The band signed to Polygram Records in 1985 and their debut single - “Wishing I was Lucky” was an immediate hit along with the album “Popped In Souled Out”.
Helie Lee.  Helie Lee (born August 29 1964) is a Korean American writer and university lecturer who has also made a documentary film.
Joan Murray.  Joan Murray (born August 6 1945) is an American poet writer playwright and editor. She is best known for her narrative poems and her book-length novel-in-verse Queen of the Mist. In 1999 her collection Looking for the Parade won the National Poetry Series Open Competition.
Biagio Marin.  I wanted to be the voice of my island nothing elseThe sea was for me the word of otherness the most pure and most immediate incarnation of DivinityBiagio Marin (1891–1985) was an Italian poet best known from his poems in the Venetian-Friulian dialect which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he has never obeyed rhetoric or poetics. He only uses a few hundred words for his poems.
Julie Freeman.  Julie Freeman (born 1972 Halton UK) is an artist her work spans visual audio and digital art forms and explores the relationship between science nature and how humans interact with it.
Atsuko Tanaka (artist).  Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子 Tanaka Atsuko; February 10 1932 - December 3 2005) was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist.
Alioune Mbaye Nder.  Alioune Mbaye Nder (born 1969 Dakar Senegal) is a Senegalese singer. Nder takes his name from the n'der the drum favoured by his griot father.
Alberto Moravia.  Alberto Moravia (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto moˈraːvja]; November 28 1907 – September 26 1990) born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality social alienation and existentialism.He is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (published in 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist) the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) by Bernardo Bertolucci.
John V. Van Sickle.  John V. Van Sickle was a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and Wabash College. He was the author of Freedom in Jeopardy.
Victorio C. Edades.  Victorio C. Edades (December 23 1895 – March 7 1985) is a Filipino painter who was the leader of the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns who engaged their classical compatriots in heated debate over the nature and function of art. He was named a National Artist in 1976.
Delaney Bramlett.  Delaine Alvin Delaney Bramlett (July 1 1939 – December 27 2008) was an American singer songwriter musician and producer. Bramlett's five-decade career reached peaks in creativity performance and notoriety in partnership with his then-wife Bonnie Bramlett in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and rock superstars dubbed Delaney & Bonnie & Friends.
Marilyn Chambers.  Marilyn Chambers (April 22 1952 – April 12 2009) was an American pornographic film actress exotic dancer model actress and vice-presidential candidate. She was best known for her 1972 hardcore film debut Behind the Green Door and her 1980 pornographic film Insatiable. She was voted #6 on the list of Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time by AVN and ranked as one of Playboy's Top 100 Sex Stars of the Century in 1999.
Danny Sugerman.  Daniel Stephen Danny Sugerman (October 11 1954 – January 5 2005) was the second manager of the Los Angeles-based rock band The Doors and wrote several books about Jim Morrison and The Doors including No One Here Gets Out Alive (co-authored with Jerry Hopkins) and the autobiography Wonderland Avenue. Sugerman began working with The Doors when he was 12 years old starting out answering their fan mail.
Camillo Filippi.  Camillo Filippi (died 1574) was an Italian painter who flourished about the middle of the 16th century.
K. C. Porter.  KC Porter (born June 27 1962 Karl Cameron Porter) is an American record producer songwriter musician and singer. For nearly three decades in the entertainment industry Porter has earned numerous Grammy nominations and 3 Grammys and Latin Grammys.
Davey Havok.  David Paden Marchand (born November 20 1975) best known by his stage name Davey Havok is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI and the electronic music band Blaqk Audio.Havok is an outspoken advocate of the straight edge lifestyle and veganism.
Yōsui Inoue.  Yōsui Inoue (井上 陽水 Inoue Yōsui) (born August 30 1948) is a Japanese singer lyricist composer guitarist and record producer who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone eccentric lyrics and dark sunglasses which he always wears.Under the stage name Andre Candre Inoue debuted in 1969 and released a single Candre Mandre by CBS Sony Records. After he changed his stage name and signed onto Polydor he recorded the first studio album Danzetsu in 1971.
Robert Bero.  Robert Bero (1941–2007) was an American artist and print maker who won critical acclaim for his detailed depictions of trees and landscapes. Best known for his etchings and woodcuts Bero also worked in pen and ink crayon pastel pencil water color and collage. He served on the faculties of the State Universities of New York at Potsdam and at Purchase Ramapo College in New Jersey and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov.  Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov (Chechen: Автoрхан КIант Iабдурахьман ) (c. 1908/10 - April 24 1997) was an acclaimed historian who worked primarily in the fields of Soviet history and History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
J. Ingo.  J. Ingo (lived c1800) was a Tyneside born son of a farmer from near Benwell Newcastle.He wrote Sonnet To Thomas Thompson on his late address to J. Howard.Of this sonnet Thomas Thompson was to remark that it was The best piece of poetry these knights of the quill produced.Nothing more appears to be known of this man or his life not even his Christian name.
Loeiz Herrieu.  Loeiz Herrieu or Louis Henrio (1879 Lanester then in Caudan - 22 May 1953 Auray) was a Breton historian who wrote in his native language of Breton vannetais. The son of a farmer he was nicknamed Er Barh Labourér (the peasant bard).
J.R. Rotem.  Jonathan Reuven Rotem (born 1 September 1975) is an American record producer publisher and songwriter.
Wise Intelligent.  Timothy Grimes better known by his stage name Wise Intelligent is an American hip hop musician from Trenton New Jersey. He is a member of Poor Righteous Teachers. He released The Talented Timothy Taylor in 2007. His third solo studio album The Unconkable Djezuz Djonez was released in 2011. He was chosen by Complex magazine as one of the 50 Most Slept-On Rappers of All Time in 2012.
Lippo Vanni.  Lippo Vanni was a 14th century Italian who was active in his native Siena.A miniaturist who painted for the Spedale in 1344 his name first appears on the Guild in 1355. In 1352 he executed a Coronation of the Virgin for the Biccherna. In 1359 together with Nello Betti he executed some work in the Palazzo Pubblico and in 1372 he painted an Annunciation for the cloisters of San Domenico at Siena portions of which work still exist.
Robert Valentine (composer).  Robert Valentine (c. 1671 – 26 May 1747) also known as Roberto Valentini and Roberto Valentino was an English composer recorder player oboist and violinist who moved to Rome and became a naturalised Italian. He is noted for his large number of compositions for the recorder.
Sarbari Roy Choudhury.  Sarbari Roy Chowdhury (21 January 1933 – 21 February 2012) was an Indian artist.Chowdhury was born in Ulpur East Bengal (now Bangladesh) into a Zamindari family and graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft Kolkata in 1956. He later studied under the sculptors Prodosh Dasgupta and Sankho Chaudhuri at the M.S. University Baroda.
David Elliot Cohen.  David Elliot Cohen is an American author and publisher who has over a 30-year span created more than 70 photography books. He is probably best known for the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 series of photography books that he co-created with Rick Smolan.Cohen created four New York Times bestsellers: A Day in the Life of America (1986) A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union (1987) Christmas in America (1988) and America 24/7 (2003).
Ğabdulla Tuqay.  Ğabdulla Tuqay (April 26 [O.S. April 14] 1886 - April 15 [O.S. April 2] 1913) was a Tatar poet a classic of the Tatar literature a critic and a publisher. Tuqay is often referred as the founder of the modern Tatar literature and the modern Tatar literary language which replaced Old Tatar language in literature.
Jan Cox (painter).  Jan Cox (27 August 1919 - 7 October 1980) was a painter who spent the largest part of his creative life in the United States and Belgium. He was born in The Hague.
Troy Tate.  Troy Tate is a musician and record producer who was a member of several bands including The Teardrop Explodes and Fashion as well as working as a solo artist for which he is best known for the single Love Is ...
Michael P. Heeney.  Michael P. Heeney is an American country music songwriter. He has co-written singles for several country music recording artists including hit singles for Brooks & Dunn (God Must Be Busy) Eric Church (Love Your Love the Most and Drink in My Hand) George Jones (Still Doin' Time) Tracy Byrd (Ten Rounds with José Cuervo) and Reba McEntire (Have I Got a Deal for You)
João Bosco.  João Bosco de Freitas Mucci better known as João Bosco (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒoãw ˈbosku]) is a noted Brazilian singer-songwriter with a distinctive style as a guitarist.
Little G.  Little G (Gina Chrisanthopolous) is a rapper actor dancer and community activist from Melbourne Victoria. She is of Aboriginal and Greek descent.Little G has performed at the Big Day Out Songlines Music Festival and the Royal Melbourne Show and appeared in plays such as Scratchin' and DiaTribe and presented a hip-hop showcase for National Indigenous Television.
Maestro Reverendo.  Maestro Reverendo (born Ángel Muñoz-Alonso; 1955 - 7 September 2012) was a Spanish musician and composer.He was born and died in Madrid where he started playing the piano at the school of Escolapios; he earned the nickname Reverendo (Reverend) when he worked as an organist in the church of San Antón.
John Schlitt.  John William Schlitt (born February 3 1950 in Lincoln Illinois) is known for his career as the lead singer of Christian rock band Petra from 1986 until the band's retirement in late 2005. Prior to joining Petra in 1986 Schlitt was the vocalist for Head East.
Michel Houellebecq.  Michel Houellebecq (French: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956) is a controversial and award-winning French author filmmaker and poet. Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft he published his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les Particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Plateforme in 2001.
Mark Medlock.  Mark Medlock (born 9 July 1978 in Frankfurt Hesse) is a German singer and the winner of the season 4 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) the German version of Pop Idol.
Colin Quinn.  Colin Edward Quinn (born June 6 1959) is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He is best known for his five-year stint on Saturday Night Live (1995–2000) as the sidekick on the late 80s MTV gameshow Remote Control and as the host of the Comedy Central series Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.
John Weaver (artist).  John Barney Weaver (March 28 1920 – April 10 2012) was a sculptor from Anaconda Montana. He was known for creating a statue of Charles Marion Russell at the National Statuary Hall Collection and three busts of Chester W. Nimitz for the United States Navy.
Frank Scoblete.  Frank Scoblete (born 1947) is an American author who has written both under his own name and King Scobe about casino gambling. Referred to by the Washington Post as a widely published authority on casino games his books include Beat the Craps out of the Casinos Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution and Beat the One-Armed Bandits.
Johnny Zell.  Johnny Zell (born November 24 1947) is an American musician best known as a trumpeter from The Lawrence Welk Show a musical variety-show television series.
Riyoko Ikeda.  Riyoko Ikeda (池田 理代子 Ikeda Riyoko born December 18 1947 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s being best known for The Rose of Versailles.
Anne Fortier.  Anne Fortier is a Danish / Canadian writer who has lived in the US and Canada since 2002. She was born to mother Birgit Malling Eriksen. Fortier submitted her first manuscript for publication at the age of 13.
Maria Firmina dos Reis.  Maria Firmina dos Reis (October 11 1825 – November 11 1917) was a Brazilian abolitionist and author. Her novel Úrsula (1859) was a depiction of life for Afro-Brazilians under slavery.
David Brazier.  David Brazier is a British author and psychotherapist known for his writings on Zen Buddhism and psychotherapy. He is the leader of the Amida Order.
Peace 586.  Peace 586 is an American Christian hip-hop producer and MC whose career has spanned the period from the 1980s to the present. A beatmaker who also has rapped he's made a mark with his signature sample-based production style and down-to-earth lyrical content—best known for expressing his Christian faith as it relates to life here now as well as that to be gained. His name is derived from the month and year that he became a Christian: May 1986.
Masako Jō.  Masako Jō (城 雅子 Jō Masako born October 12 1978 in Nagasaki) is a Japanese voice actor who works for 81 Produce.
Paolo Tarditi.  Paolo Tarditi (ca. 1580–1661) was an Italian baroque composer and organist active in Rome. He substited violin and cornet for the soprano voices in two of his choral works
William Wilberforce Newton.  William Wilberforce Newton (4 November 1843 - 1914 ) was an American Episcopalian divine and author.
Doc McKinney.  Martin McKinney (born August 27 1971) is a Canadian-born American raised record producer and songwriter. Professionally referred to as Doc McKinney was formerly one half of the former duet (now solo act) Esthero alongside Jenny Bea Englishman. His work with Toronto artist The Weeknd whose McKinney-produced mixtapes House of Balloons and Thursday. were freely released in 2011 was met with widespread critical acclaim. He began working with major artists such as Drake.
Kathryn Tickell.  Kathryn Tickell (born 8 June 1967) is an English player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. She has recorded over a dozen albums and toured widely.
MC Eiht.  Aaron Tyler (born May 22 1967) better known by his stage name MC Eiht is an American hip hop recording artist from Compton California. His stage name was partly inspired by the numeral in KRS-One's name. He chose Eiht for its links to hood culture including Olde English 800 (8 Ball) and .38 caliber firearms. He is the de facto leader of West Coast hip hop group Compton's Most Wanted which also included fellow Compton-based rappers Boom Bam MC Chill DJ Mike T and DJ Slip.
Gian Marco Zignago.  Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver (born in Lima Peru on August 17 1970) is a Peruvian singer-songwriter. He has won the Latin Grammy Award to the Best Singer-Songwriter Album three times. First in 2005 for his Album Resucitar in 2011 for his Album Días Nuevos and in 2012 for his Album 20 Años.
Danielle White.  Danielle Marie White (born February 2 1992 in Cincinnati Ohio) is an American singer songwriter and occasional actress who was raised in Bradenton Florida. In 2003 White appeared on the reality television series American Juniors and won the opportunity to become a member of the pop group of the same name.
Graham Higgins.  Graham Higgins (born 1953) is a British writer and artist designer and lecturer.
Dax Pierson.  Dax Pierson is an American multi-instrumentalist. He is a member of Subtle and 13 & God. He has contributed for underground hip hop musicians such as Themselves Odd Nosdam and Jel.
Robin Clark (pop singer).  Robin Clark (born Sharon Ilo Hershiser on September 21 1949 in Tuscaloosa Alabama) is an American pop singer who released four singles on Capitol Records in 1961 and 1962 and was at one time the youngest artist signed to a major record label in the United States.
George Paston.  Emily Morse Symonds (1860 - 12 September 1936) known as an author by her pen name George Paston was a British author and literary critic.
Joan Didion.  Joan Didion (born December 5 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
Aaron Dugan.  Aaron Dugan is a guitarist composer and songwriter originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania who resides in Brooklyn NY. Dugan has performed and recorded with a wide variety of musicians and producers including Roots Tonic Matisyahu Trevor Hall Bootsy Collins Amy Carrigan John Zorn Maya Dunietz Chris Tunkel Mark Guiliana and Bill Laswell.
Joey Elwood.  Joey Elwood is one of the co-founders of Gotee Records along with the other Gotee Brothers Toby McKeehan and Todd Collins. The record label was created when after failing to find a label willing to sign the group Out of Eden Elwood McKeehan and Collins decided to produce Lovin' the Day on their own.
Sarah Corina.  Sarah Corina is a bass guitarist who started playing when she was 14 years old in Leicester playing in local bands before joining The Bomb Party as an original member. The Bomb Party enjoyed an amount of critical success appearing in Sounds (magazine) Melody Maker and the NME. They regularly toured the UK and Germany including supporting The Fall and Stiff Little Fingers at the 'WDR1 Rocknacht' in 1989.
Andy Burrows.  Andrew William Burrows (born 30 June 1979) is an English musician. He was the drummer in the band Razorlight from 2004 to 2009 and has been drummer with We Are Scientists since 2009. He has also released music with I Am Arrows and with Tom Smith from Editors under the moniker Smith & Burrows. More recently he has released music under his own name including the 2012 singles Keep On Moving On and Because I Know That I Can. His solo album Company was released 22 October 2012.
Byron Williams (columnist).  Byron Williams is an American columnist author and pastor.Rev. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist who deals extensively with politics morality race and culture. He lives in Oakland California and leads a non-denominational community church in Berkeley CA. Williams was originally hired by the Oakland Tribune to provide content on morality but within a few years he received his own column to explore his own interests.
Tetsu Shiratori.  Tetsu Shiratori (白鳥 哲 Shiratori Tetsu born March 21 1972 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor.
Angelo Garzio.  Angelo Charles Garzio (1922–2008) was an Italian-American educator ceramic artist and musician. He received four Fulbright Senior Lectureships during the course of his career and was Professor emeritus at Kansas State University at the time of his death. At the age of 70 Garzio acted as a U.S. State Department Cultural Arts Visiting Ceramic Lecturer to Santa Cruz and Sucre Bolivia.
Sandra María Esteves.  Sandra María Esteves is an American poet and graphic artist. She was born and raised in the Bronx New York and is one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement. She has published numerous collections of poetry and has conducted literary programs at organizations including the New York City Board of Education the Caribbean Cultural Center and El Museo del Barrio. She lives in New York City.
Naomi Zaizen.  Naomi Zaizen (財前 直見 Zaizen Naomi born 10 January 1966 in Ōita Ōita) is a Japanese actress.
Peter Powell (disc jockey).  Peter Powell (born Peter James Barnard-Powell 24 March 1951 Birmingham England) is an English former disc jockey popular on BBC Radio 1 in the late 1970s and 1980s who has a second career in talent management.
Red McKelvie.  Red McKelvie is a New Zealand singer-songwriter-instrumentalist and session musician who has been described as Australasia's greatest pop guitarist.He has appeared on albums by Richard Clapton (including the Australian hit Girls On The Avenue) and The Flying Circus in Australia and Hello Sailor Dave Dobbyn's DD Smash Al Hunter and Glen Moffatt in New Zealand.McKelvie's early forays in the music scene were as lead guitarist for such Auckland New Zealand bands as The Chelsea Beats The Dark Ages and The Avengers but it was upon his arrival in Sydney Australia in 1967 that he became a much in-demand sideman and session player.Sydney bands in which McKelvie featured included The Starving Wild Dogs alongside future Blackfeather pianist Paul Wyld and Quill before he joined The Flying Circus and greatly influenced their flirtation with country music.Despite the first single from The Flying Circus's Prepared In Peace LP being McKelvie's Israel McKelvie was sacked from the band for confusing the band's direction.McKelvie released singles as a solo artist and as leader of The Third Union Band and was lead guitarist on the first two Richard Clapton albums including playing all the multilayered electric guitar on the Australian number two hit Girls On The Avenue.He returned to New Zealand in 1975 where he became a highly sought after session musician performed on Television New Zealand's primetime That's Country show and produced recordings for the country's queen of country music Patsy Riggir.Bands McKelvie played with in Auckland New Zealand in the 1970s to the 1990s included Cruise Lane with New Zealand's jingles king Murray Grindlay and Dragon songwriter Paul Hewson the Al Hunter Band the Glen Moffatt Band and his own Cajun combo Mumbo Gumbo.McKelvie returned to his home town of Christchurch in 1997 and in 2007 finally released his debut solo album Ridin' On Trains - Songs of New Zealand and Australia. 
Ben Bailey.  Benjamin Ray Ben Bailey (born October 30 1970) is an American comedian licensed taxi cab driver and Emmy Award winning former game show host and executive producer for Discovery Channel's Cash Cab in New York City.
Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar.  Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar (born January 27 1963 in Maharashtra India) is a North Indian classical singer. She has received training in Agra as well as Gwalior-Atrauli gharanas. Endowed with a rich voice Arati's performances are marked by her command over both the rhythm and the melody.
Skeets McDonald.  Enos William McDonald (October 1 1915–March 31 1968) better known as Skeets McDonald was an American country and rockabilly musician popular during the 1950s and 60s. Best known for the Slim Willet-penned song Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes McDonald was a devoted honky tonk singer and songwriter whose work helped to bridge the gap between country and rock and roll.
Carly Smithson.  Carly Smithson (born September 12 1983 as Carly Sarah Hennessy) is an Irish soul/pop rock singer-songwriter and actress who was the sixth place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2001 Smithson released her first studio album for MCA Records called Ultimate High. Smithson was dropped from the record label in 2002.
Kiko Zambianchi.  Kiko Zambianchi (born Francisco José Zambianchi in Ribeirão Preto) is a Brazilian composer and singer.
Robin Davey.  Robin Davey (born 29 December 1975 St Austell Cornwall England) is an English musician record producer musical director and photographer.
Carla Morrow.  Carla Morrow is an American artist specializing in watercolor fantasy dragons. She is also known as The Dragon Lady.
Luna (singer).  Park Sun-Young (Hangul: 박선영)(Hanja: 朴善英) better known by her stage name Luna (Hangul: 루나) born on August 12 1993 is a South Korean singer dancer and model. She is best known for being the main vocalist and lead dancer of the quintet K-pop girl band f(x) under the label of S.M. Entertainment in South Korea and Avex Trax in Japan.
Noel Murphy (musician).  Noel Murphy (born 27 November 1943) is an Irish folk musician actor and entertainer. His family moved to Dublin when he was seven years old. At school he was a keen actor and played drums.In 1962 he moved to England to work in various jobs and began to visit folk clubs in London where he would often sing floor spots as an unpaid support act. In 1964 he began his career as a professional singer and became the first resident singer at the renowned Les Cousins club.
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff.  Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff (born 1957) is an American author. She has written both fiction and nonfiction children's literature and adult books. She wrote the instructional book The ABCs of Writing for Children which was a Writer's Digest Book Club selection.
Milton A. Rothman.  Milton A. Rothman (November 30 1919 – October 6 2001) was a United States nuclear physicist and college professor.He was also an active science fiction fan and a co-founder of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society. An occasional author as well he published stories usually with the pseudonym Lee Gregor.
Mary Ramsey.  Mary Ramsey (born 24 December 1963 in Washington D.C.) a resident of Buffalo New York is a member of folk rock duo John & Mary and lead singer for alternative rock band 10000 Maniacs.
Giulio Caporali.  Giulio Caporali (Perugia active 1540) was an Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance. He was the son and pupil of Giovanni Battista also known as Bitti and perhaps erroneously as Benedetto and who was a painter at Perugia and a pupil of Perugino. Giulio was an architect of the Panicale Cathedral.
Arthur Rice.  Arthur Rice (born December 27 1962 in Asheville North Carolina) is the lead singer for the Kingdom Heirs. He has been with the Kingdom Heirs since 1995.
Tim Downs.  Tim Downs is an American author best known for his Bug Man series of novels featuring forensic entomologist Dr. Nick Polchak. The series includes the books Like Flies To A Corpse later renamed Shoofly Pie (2003) Chop Shop (2004) First the Dead (2007) Less Than Dead (2008) Ends of the Earth (2009) as well as a new release entitled Nick of Time (2011).In addition Downs is the author of the novels Plague Maker (2006) Head Game (2007) and Wonders Never Cease (2010).
Ian Svenonius.  Ian Folke Svenonius is an American musician notable as the singer of various Washington D.C.-based bands including Nation of Ulysses The Make-Up Weird War and Chain and The Gang. Between his numerous projects Svenonius has released more than 15 full-length albums and more than 20 singles EPs and splits. Svenonius is also a published author and an online talk show host.Svenonius' career has been characterized by antics and theatrics.
Jen Storer.  Jen Storer (born 1961) is an Australian children's author. Many of her works have been short-listed for major Australian awards such as the Prime Minister's Literary Awards the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and the Aurealis Awards. Her works feature strong female characters humour adventure and occasionally elements of horror.
Dorothy Napangardi.  Dorothy Napangardi (born early 1950s – 1 June 2013) was a Warlpiri speaking contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Tanami Desert and who worked in Alice Springs.
Federico Barocci.  Federico Barocci (c. 1526 Urbino – 1612 Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen. His work was highly esteemed and influential and foreshadows the Baroque of Rubens.
Michael Edwards (fragrance expert).  Michael Anthony Edwards (10 December 1943) is a British fragrance expert author and founding editor of Fragrances of the World the largest guide to perfume classification. His lectures and writings including the book Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances pioneered critical scholarship on the history of perfumery while his fragrance wheel marked a major innovation in perfume retail. He resides in Australia France and the United States.
Urs Fischer.  Urs Fischer (born 1973) is a Swiss-born neo-Dada sculptor living in New York.
Umanji.  Umanji (c. 1968 – 26 February 2008) born Maruti Johannes Nkuna was a South African musician and singer-songwriter.
Wang Zhiliang.  Wang Zhiliang (Chinese: 王智量; pinyin: Wáng Zhìliàng; born June 1928) is a Chinese-Australian translator who had been honored by the Government of the Russian Federation. Wang rendered a great number of Russian literary works into Chinese for almost five decades including 30 novels.He is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelists Ivan Turgenev and Alesksandr Pushkin.
Marshall Terrill.  Marshall Terrill (born December 17 1963 in Texarkana Texas) is an American author and journalist. He is noted for biographies on Steve McQueen Elvis Presley and Pete Maravich.
Archan Nair.  Archan Nair is a visual artist and illustrator based in New Delhi India. Known for his specialization in digital art and mixed media some of Archan's clients include brands like Sony and Nike.
Gary Langan.  Garry M Langan (born 19 April 1956 in Surrey) is an English audio engineer and record producer.
David Sandström.  David Sandström (born January 2 1975) is the drummer for hardcore punk group Refused. After Refused broke up David and the other members of Refused worked on a project entitled TEXT and released one album. Then David went on to do solo work. In 2008 he formed the hardcore punk band AC4 with Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén playing bass guitar.
Matthew O'Brien.  Matthew Matt O'Brien (born in Washington D.C.) is an American author and journalist who is best known for penning the nonfiction book Beneath the Neon about homeless people living underground in the Las Vegas Valley. He has lived in Las Vegas since 1997.
Jack Dangers.  Jack Dangers (born John Stephen Corrigan 15 November 1965) is an electronic musician DJ producer and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto. He lives in San Francisco.
Tyler Glenn.  Tyler Glenn (b. November 28 1983) is the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the American alternative rock band Neon Trees.
Paula Darwish.  Paula Darwish is a British folk music singer and musician and founder and member of The Country and Eastern Band. Darwish is best known for her interpretations of Turkish and Kurdish folk songs.
John Bollinger.  John A. Bollinger (born 1950) is an American author financial analyst contributor to the field of technical analysis and the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book Bollinger on Bollinger Bands John Bollinger McGraw Hill 2002 ISBN 978-0-07-137368-5 has been translated into eleven languages. He has published The ’’Capital Growth Letter’’ which provides technical analysis of the financial markets since 1987.
Glen Ballard.  Basil Glen Ballard Jr. (born May 1 1953) is an American songwriter lyricist and record producer. He is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (1995) which won Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year amongst others and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. He was involved in the recording and writing of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bad.
Benkt-Åke Benktsson.  Benkt-Åke Benktsson (6 January 1907 – 8 January 1957) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Halmstad Sweden and died in Malmö Sweden.
Don Edwards (cowboy singer).  Don Edwards (born March 20 1939 in Boonton New Jersey) is a cowboy singer and guitarist who performs Western music. He has recorded several albums two of which Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress.
Reed Irvine.  Reed Irvine (September 29 1922 – November 16 2004) was an economist who founded the media watchdog organization Accuracy in Media and remained its head for 35 years. Irvine was motivated by his early perception that established news media from the dominant television news media to large city newspaper reporting was colored and biased in favor of a socialist perspective.
Jordan Andrews.  Jordan Andrews (born 15 June 1986) is a Welsh composer musician and producer. After graduating from the Academy of Contemporary Music he started his own commercial recording studio in Cardiff Ripefruit Recordings where he has worked with some of the city’s most exciting talent.Jordan worked with his brother director & film maker Ryan Andrews on a number of recent projects including the film Elfie Hopkins where Andrews is credited as Film Score Composer.
Apostolos Doxiadis.  Apostolos K. Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Κ. Δοξιάδης; born 1953) is a Greek writer. He is best known for his international bestsellers Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (2000) and Logicomix (2009).
Gary Morris.  Gary Gwyn Morris (born December 7 1948) is an American country music artist who charted a string of countrypolitan-styled hit songs throughout the 1980s.Morris is known for the 1983 ballad The Wind Beneath My Wings although his credits include more than twenty-five other chart singles on the Billboard country charts including five No. 1 hits. He has also released nine studio albums with his 1983 album Why Lady Why having earned a gold certification from the RIAA.
L. Sprague de Camp.  Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27 1907 – November 6 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years he wrote over 100 books including novels and notable works of non-fiction including biographies of other important fantasy authors. He was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday of science fiction from the late 1930s through the late 1940s.
Frankie Valli.  Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio; May 3 1934) is an American popular singer most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is well known for his unusually powerful falsetto voice.Valli scored 29 Top 40 hits with The Four Seasons one Top 40 hit under The Four Seasons' alias 'The Wonder Who?' and nine Top 40 hits as a solo artist.
Tofusquirrel.  Tofusquirrel (Elizabeth Siegel born November 1 1983) is an American poster artist and illustrator residing in the city of Boston. She received a BFA in Illustration and Animation at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2006.[citation needed]She is known for creating psychedelic creepy-cute detailed posters for New England Comics and musicians such as MC Chris Slick Rick Math the Band and Harry and the Potters.
Albert Valentine (actor).  Albert Valentine is a British actor. He made his first appearance in the 2005 Doctor Who episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances as Jamie.His next appearance was in 2006 when he played the boy in New Tricks (episode Wicca Work).
Gummibär.  Gummibär is an international multi-lingual character and virtual band who is known for performing the Gummy bear-related series of songs on various albums including I Am Your Gummy Bear and La La Love to Dance. It is most notable for the song and video I'm A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song).
NoViolet Bulawayo.  NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele born 12 October 1981 in Tsholotsho) is a Zimbabwean author and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2012–2014).
Kiyomi Asai.  Kiyomi Asai (浅井 清己 Asai Kiyomi born April 12 1974) in Tokyo is a Japanese voice actress. She is affiliated with D-Color. She is one half of the voice actress duo UYAMUYA alongside Kozue Yoshizumi her co-star in the web anime Ayumayu Gekijou where the duo voiced Ayu Daikuuji and Mayu Tamano respectively.
Frank Nicotero.  Frank Joseph Nicotero (born March 4 1969 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American comedian widely known as the host of the syndicated comedy game show Street Smarts.
Carlo Dossi.  Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi (born March 27 1849 in Zenevredo; died November 19 1910 Cardina Como) was an Italian writer politician and diplomat. He belonged to the Scapigliati.In 1892 he became a diplomat in Colombia where he married Carlotta Borsani with whom he had three children. He came to Athens in 1895 there developing an appreciation for archeology.He was an atheist.Dossi was a politician.
Bart Willoughby.  Bart Willoughby (born 12 September 1960) is an Indigenous Australian musician noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae with Indigenous Australian musical influences and for his contribution to growth of Indigenous music in Australia.A Pitjantjatjara man of the Mirning dreaming his totem is the whale. He is Kuthatha through his father and Mirning through his mother.
Willem Duyn.  Wilhelmus Jacobus Duyn (31 March 1937 – 4 December 2004) was a Dutch singer actor and entertainer. Under the stage name Big Mouth he was one of the members of the Dutch music group Mouth & MacNeal.
Amanda Brown (musician).  Amanda Gabrielle Brown (born 17 November 1965) is an Australian composer classically trained musician singer and songwriter renowned for her role as the violinist of the band The Go-Betweens and more recently a session musician and soundtrack composer.
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro.  Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March 1846 - 23 January 1905) was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration caricatures sculpture and ceramics designs and is considered the first Portuguese comics creator.
Kim Gura.  Kim Hyun-dong(Hangul: 김현동 born October 3 1970) better known as his stage name Kim GuRa (Korean: 김구라) is a Korean MC comedian and radio host.
Gyan Evans.  Gyan Evans (born ca. 1960 Geelong) who performs as Gyan (pronounced 'Ghee-ahn') is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer. She began her musical career in the Sydney band Haiku before winning the 1986 grand final in the local version of the TV talent quest Star Search. This led to a recording contract with Warner which resulted in her October 1989 debut self-titled album.
Bellerofonte Castaldi.  Bellerofonte Castaldi (Modena ca. 1581 – Modena 27 September 1649) was an Italian composer poet and lutenist. His tabulatures are more complex than for example Kapsberger.Castaldi wrote male parts in his songs for tenors as he was opposed to the practice of castrati or male falsettists singing female parts in cantatas. In the preface to his collection Primo mazzetto he writes that it is laughable that a man with the voice of a woman should set about proposing to his mistress.
Mandy Cho.  Mandy Cho Man-Lei (born 2 September 1982 in Sacramento County California) is a Hong Kong beauty contestant and television personality.Cho studied in San Francisco United States. She went to Hong Kong in 2003 and competed in the 2003 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. A favorite at the start of the competition she made it into the semifinals and won the Perfect Team Award. Then in August she competed in the finals and beat favorites like Selena Li Rabee'a Yeung and Carrie Lee for the title.
Hugh McCrae.  Hugh Raymond McCrae (4 October 1876 - 17 February 1958) was an Australian writer.McCrae was born in Melbourne the son of the Australian author George Gordon McCrae. Originally he trained as an architect but later took up writing and acting settling eventually in Sydney and later in the New South Wales town of Camden.
Stephen Soucy.  Stephen Soucy (born February 27 1969) is an American writer and director of film. He was born in Albany New York and studied at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Southern California. Stephen is currently based in Los Angeles and New York City.Soucy's film career began in 2011 when he wrote and directed the short film Slant.
Pål Johan Karlsen.  Pål Johan Karlsen (27 June 1975) is a Norwegian writer editor and psychologist. He reports on recent findings in social science psychology and neuroscience for Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. Affiliated with the University of Tromsø he has been an editor at the Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association since 2007.
John DeFrancesco.  Papa John DeFrancesco (born September 12 1940) is an American jazz organist and vocalist and father of Joey DeFrancesco and Johnny DeFrancesco.
Marty Brown (singer).  Dennis Marty Brown (born July 25 1965 in Maceo Kentucky) is an American country music artist. Active between 1991 and 1996 he has released four studio albums and has charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Bajone.  Nenad Bajić Bajone (born 31 March 1958) is a Serbian singer and child entertainer. He graduated at Stomatology Faculty in Belgrade. However he dedicated himself to music and in 1980 he became the youngest member of group Union of compositors of Yugoslavia and Union of jazz musicians. He recorded three singles and five albums. Since 1995 every spring he held a series of concerts for children in Belgrade's Sava Centar. He had his last performance in 1998 after which he semi-retired.
Gavin O'Keefe.  Gavin L. O'Keefe is a book illustrator and designer.
George Kenner.  George Kenner (November 1 1888 - July 10 1971) was a German artist. He made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a German civilian prisoner of war in Great Britain and the Isle of Man.
Thornton Wilder.  Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17 1897 – December 7 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
Annemarie Roelofs.  Annemarie Roelofs (born 1955) also spelt Anne-Marie Roelofs and Anne Marie Roelofs is a Dutch trombone player and violinist and is a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She is a member of several musical groups and has performed in the Netherlands and England.
Mauro Refosco.  Mauro Refosco is a Brazilian percussionist based in New York City. Since 2011 he is best known as the recording and touring percussionist for the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Refosco is also a member of the supergroup Atoms for Peace and the forró band Forro in the Dark.
Jonathan Arons.  Jonathan Arons is a New York City based freelance trombonist actor singer and dancer who has made a number of appearances on television most notably for his trombone dance in which he plays his trombone and then dances energetically (whilst still holding his trombone).He had graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a BM in Jazz Performance and has a degree in Biochemistry from Oberlin College.He is a first degree black belt in shotokan karate.He plays on the Dave Holland Big Band Grammy winning album Overtime.[citation needed]
Mark Matlock.  Mark Matlock (born 1969) is the founder and president of WisdomWorks Ministries. He is an ordained minister and youth pastor who lives in Dallas. He coauthored the book Dirty Faith with Audio Adrenaline. He also wrote Freshman: The College Student's Guide to Developing Wisdom.
Torch (rapper).  Frederik Hahn (born September 29 1971 in Heidelberg) better known by his stage name Torch is a German rapper with Haitian roots. He is also known as DJ Haitian Star. He was among the first German rappers who began rapping in German in the mid-1980s in Heidelberg laying the foundation for the success of German hip hop music. In 1985 Afrika Bambaataa named him king of the first German chapter of the Zulu Nation and also gave him the title: Overlord of Sound & Culture.
Chris Vrenna.  Chris Vrenna (born February 23 1967) is an American musician Grammy-winning producer engineer remixer songwriter programmer and founder of the electronic band Tweaker. Vrenna also played drums for the industrial/rock band Nine Inch Nails from 1989 until 1997. Vrenna was also the keyboardist and drummer of the American rock band Marilyn Manson from 2007 until late 2011.
Guido Guidi.  Guido Guidi is an Italian comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work on Transformers comics.
Envy (English rapper).  Nicola Varley (born 9 April 1987) known as Envy is an English rapper/MC.Envy has been writing songs for over 5 years. At first being compared to other female artists around she carved out her own niche in the predominantly male British Grime Scene. She first began to make waves when she made several show-stealing appearances on 'The City Is Ours Music Mixtapes' from Manchester.
Zakaria Tamer.  Zakaria Tamer (Arabic: زكريا تامر‎) also transliterated Zakariya Tamir (strict transliteration Zakariyyā Tāmir) (born January 2 1931 in Damascus Syria) is an influential master of the Arabic-language short story. He is one of the most important and widely read and translated short story writers in the Arab world as well as being the foremost author of children’s stories in Arabic.
Kayoko Shibata.  Kayoko Shibata (柴田 かよこ Shibata Kayoko born February 21 1980 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress singer and model. She is best known for her roles as Mariko in the movie Ju-on and as Matsuri Tatsumi/GoPink in the tokusatsu Super Sentai television series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive in which she was credited as Monika Sakaguchi (坂口 望二香 Sakaguchi Monika).
Ravi Shankar.  Ravi Shankar (IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) his name often preceded by the title Pandit was an Indian musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century as well as a composer of Hindustani classical music. Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan.
Fady Andraos.  Fady Andraos (born October 21 1981) is a Lebanese singer and actor of Palestinian and Lebanese origins. He debuted on television when he appeared on the Arab edition of Star Academy 3 in December 2005 and remained until the semi-finals.He later went on to star in his own sitcom Fadi w Radi (Fadi and Radi) which aired on Lebanese Broadcasting Company.
Ian McLagan.  Ian William Patrick Mac McLagan (/ˈiən məkˈlæɡən/; born 12 May 1945 West Middlesex Hospital Isleworth Middlesex) is an English keyboard instrumentalist best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces. He has also collaborated with The Rolling Stones and has been leading his own band since the late 1970s.
Lilla Maldura.  Lilla Maldura (fl. 1876–1887) was a painter mostly of interior often church but also exterior landscapes in oil and watercolor.She was born in Naples of an Italian father and a Spanish mother studied under professor Federico Maldarelli and later watercolor under professor Francesco Mancini. She often exhibited at the Promotrice of Naples. Among her works are: The Interior of the Chapel of the Immacolata in the church of the Gerolamini She also exhibited in London.
Camillo Cortellini.  Camillo Cortellini (24 January 1561–1630) was an Italian composer singer and violinist.Cortellini was born in Bologna son of the composer Gaspare the viola Cortellini and following his father's profession Camillo was nicknamed violino. His musical education was received first from his father who was employed at the Concerto Palatino della Signoria di Bologna and then from Alfonso Ganassi.On 26 February 1577 Camillo succeeded his father in the Concerto della Signoria.
Wang Yan (actress).  Wang Yan (born February 11 1974 in Qingdao Shandong China) is a Chinese actress.
Jeff Koons.  Jeffrey Jeff Koons (born January 21 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York Pennsylvania.His works have sold for substantial sums of money including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist.
Frank Paton.  Frank Paton (1855–1909) was an English artist of the Victorian and Edwardian eras best known for his paintings of animals and scenes of rural life. He was a successful artist during his lifetime and could even count Queen Victoria as an admirer of his work. His most famous compositions Fairest of Them All and Puss in Boots (1880) have adorned many a wall in the form of plates and posters.
Aniff Akinola.  Aniff Akinola is a DJ from Manchester.
Lucía Lapiedra.  Lucía Lapiedra (born Miriam Sanchez on January 31 1981 in Vallecas Madrid Spain) is a former Spanish pornographic actress who has been called the Queen of Porn.
Sheik Mahaboob Subhani.  Sheik Mahaboob Subhani is an Indian classical music nagaswaram artist. He performs with his wife Kaleeshabi Mahaboob also a nagaswaram artist.
Robert DeLong.  Robert Charles Edward DeLong (born February 18 1986) is an American electronic musician from Bothell Washington. With a background in drums and influences from a number of indie rock bands DeLong's primary genres include house electronica EDM and moombahton. He has released two albums on Glassnote Records: an EP Global Concepts in 2012 and Just Movement in 2013. His single Global Concepts reached #33 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in early 2013.
Mark Z. Danielewski.  Mark Z. Danielewski born March 5 1966 in New York City New York is an American author best known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000). Danielewski's work is characterized by experimental choices in form such as intricate and multi-layered narratives typographical variation and inconsistent page layouts otherwise known as visual writing or Ergodic literature.
Rose Tang.  Rose Tang (Chinese: 唐罗丝; pinyin: Táng Luōsi) Mandarin: [tʰɑ̌ŋ lwɔ́sɨ] is the pseudonym of an ambiguously-gendered semi-fictional artistic personality based on Taiwanese-born architect biologist and zoologist Zheng Guoyang which is under the art direction of French-born founder of the island6 Arts Center Thomas Charvériat.
Henrik Maarud.  Henrik Maarud (born 4 April 1983 in Nes Norway) is a Norwegian drummer. He plays in the blues-rock band The Grand together with his older brother the guitarist & vocalist Amund Maarud.
Jane Froman.  Jane Froman (November 10 1907 – April 22 1980) was an American singer and actress. During her thirty-year career Froman performed on stage radio and television despite chronic injuries that she sustained from a 1943 plane crash. The 1952 film With a Song in My Heart is based on her life.
Yvonne Yung.  Yvonne Yung Hung (born 17 September 1968) is a Hong Kong actress.
E. Lockhart.  Emily Jenkins who also writes under the name E. Lockhart is a writer of children's picture books young adult novels and adult fiction.Her first novel as E. Lockhart The Boyfriend List was published in 2005 and has been followed by three sequels The Boy Book (2006) The Treasure Map of Boys (2009) and Real Live Boyfriends (2010).These four novels are also known as the Ruby Oliver novels based on their central protagonist.
Pat Hanly.  James Patrick Pat Hanly (2 August 1932 – 20 September 2004) was a painter born in Palmerston North New Zealand. Hanly was educated in Palmerston North but was withdrawn from secondary school before matriculating. Hanly's parents had organised a hairdressing apprenticeship for him. During this time Hanly took night classes and then enrolled as a non diploma student at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.
Patty Brard.  Patty Brard (born Petula Louise Brard in Sorong New Guinea/Indonesia on March 25 1955) is a famous Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) entertainer. She is a TV personality and a singer notable as a member of the girl group Luv'. For three decades she has often hit the headlines of the tabloid press.In the late 1970s Luv' scored a string of international hit records such as You're the Greatest Lover Trojan Horse Casanova and Ooh Yes I Do. The group reunited in 2005.
Milne Ramsey.  Milne Ramsey (1847–1915) was an American artist who painted still lifes landscapes and nautical scenes. Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and under Léon Bonnat in Paris. His artwork was exhibited during his lifetime at the Paris Salon and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Ramsey spent the high point of his career in France but returned to Philadelphia during the last years of his life.
Ali Matthews.  Ali Matthews is a Canadian Contemporary Christian musician and songwriter from Stratford Ontario Canada.
John Welwood.  John Welwood is an American clinical psychologist psychotherapist teacher and author known for integrating psychological and spiritual concepts. He has been the Director of the East/West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and is an associate editor of Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. A prominent figure in transpersonal psychology he is a pioneer in integrating Western psychology and Eastern wisdom.
Richard Albrecht.  Richard Albrecht (born 1950 in Manchester Lancashire England) is an actor writer producer and director. His work include all facets of British theatrical life. Theatre film television commercials corporates voice-over and narration.Trained at the E15 Acting School (1967–70) then went into repertory theatre at Oldham Lincoln Birmingham Nottingham Newcastle Leicester Greenwich Colchester Salisbury and Cheltenham.
Elinor Glyn.  Elinor Glyn née Sutherland (b. 17 October 1864 – d. 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction which was considered scandalous for its time. She popularized the concept of It. Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards she had tremendous influence on early 20th century popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow in particular.
Jack Ketchum.  Dallas Mayr (born in Livingston New Jersey on November 10 1946) better known by his pseudonym Jack Ketchum is an American author. He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film including The Girl Next Door and Red. In 2011 Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre.Ketchum lives in New York City.
Lyndall Bass.  Lyndall Bass (born July 5 1952) is an American realist painter and teacher who primarily paints still lifes flower paintings and symbolist figure paintings. She lives and works in Santa Fe New Mexico. She is the designer of the 2010 penny known as the Union Shield Penny.
Tiny Vipers.  Tiny Vipers (born 1983) is the stage name of Jesy Fortino an American acoustic musician from Seattle Washington.Life on Earth was released on July 7 2009 on Sub Pop. Luckyhorse Industries released a limited edition 180 gram double vinyl on November 16 2009 which included a bonus track Audrey's Well.On January 20 2012 it was announced that Fortino would be releasing a collaborative album with Grouper under the name Mirrorring entitled Foreign Body on March 19 2012.
Cordelia Strube.  Cordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist.Raised in Montreal Quebec Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play Mortal she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel Alex & Zee in 1994. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Rachel Goodrich.  Rachel Goodrich is an American musician from Miami Florida.
Angie Brown.  Angie Brown (born 13 June 1963) is a British singer-songwriter from Brixton South London.Brown is most well known as the featured vocalist on Bizarre Inc's two hits I'm Gonna Get You (1992) and Took My Love (1993) and as the featured vocalist on Motiv8's top ten UK track from 1994 Rockin' for Myself.
Alex Beard.  Alex Beard (born 1970) is an American artist born in New York City who is now based out of New Orleans. His work ranges from simple and representational to abstract. He frequently draws and paints African wildlife using his unique gestural style.
Kraus (musician).  Kraus (also known as Pat Kraus formerly known as Prince Kraus) is a New Zealand experimental musician and composer. The New Zealand Listener called him a national treasure and one of the most quietly important and interesting people making music in New Zealand.His music crosses the boundaries of electronic music post-rock no wave space folk noise pop punk rock and martian stomp.
Muzzy Marcellino.  Maurice Muzzy Marcellino (November 27 1912 – June 11 1997) was an American singer and musician known primarily for his clear melodious style of whistling.Marcellino's whistling was featured in many TV and movie soundtracks such as The Mickey Mouse Club and Lassie.
Yaho Kitabatake.  Yaho Kitabatake (北畠 八穂 Kitabatake Yaho 5 October 1903 - 18 March 1982) was a poet and children's fiction writer in Shōwa period Japan.
David Balfe.  David Balfe (born 2 October 1958 Carlisle Cumberland) is most notable for playing keyboards with The Teardrop Explodes founding the Zoo and Food independent record labels signing Blur and for being the subject of their first number one hit Country House.
Grace Llewellyn.  Grace Llewellyn is an American educator author and publisher. Her work in the fields of youth liberation unschooling and homeschooling is widely-regarded. She is the founder of Lowry House Publishers and founder/director of Not Back To School Camp.
Ksenya Stepanycheva.  Ksenya Viktorovna Stepanycheva (Russian: Ксения Викторовна Степанычева 1978) is a Russian playwright.Ksenya Stepanycheva was born in the city of Saratov on the 4th of November 1978 into the family of a military serviceman. She lived with her father in military garrisons in Germany Ukraine and the subarctic region.
Taran (Jazz musician).  Taran (Ukrainian: Євген Taran Êvhen Taran; born Evgeny Aleksandrovitch Taran September 27 1966) is a Ukrainian-born guitarist producer DJ and graphic artist. He is noted as the first Ukrainian underground musician to have an official record release in the West (Mod and Mini and Space Age was released on critically acclaimed German nu-jazz label Compost Records in 1996).
Yasmin Levy.  Yasmin Levy (Hebrew: יסמין לוי‎) born on December 23 1975 in Jerusalem is an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music.
Eli Fara.  Eli Fara (born 21 May 1967) is a popular Albanian folk singer from Korçë. She received the honor of being named Merited Artist of Albania by the Albanian government prior to 1996 and is one of Albanian's best known singers.
Violeta Parra.  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer songwriter folklorist ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She set the basis for Chilean' New Song the Nueva canción chilena a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music which would absorb and extend its influence far beyond Chile. In 2011 Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her titled Violeta Went to Heaven.
Wilhelm Hertz.  Professor Dr Wilhelm Ritter von Hertz (September 24 1835 - January 7 1902) was a German writer. He was born in Stuttgart.
Jun Murakami.  Jun Murakami (村上 淳 Murakami Jun born July 23 1973) is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami.
Dina Carroll.  Dina Carroll (born Geraldine Carroll 21 August 1968 Newmarket England) is a British singer of Scottish and African American heritage who had a string of hits during the 1990s as well as two platinum albums.
Divine Brown.  This article is about the R&B/Soul singer. For the former prostitute associated with the 1995 Hugh Grant scandal see Estella Marie Thompson.Divine Brown (born September 9 1974) previously known as Divine Earth Essence is a Canadian Juno Award Winning R&B and Soul singer and theatre performer.She is currently signed to Universal Music Canada.
Mighty Mo Rodgers.  Mighty Mo Rodgers (born July 24 1942) is an American electric blues musician singer songwriter and record producer who has released six albums to date. He has been influenced by the work of Aretha Franklin Bobby Bland Eddie Boyd Jimmy Reed Otis Redding Sam & Dave and Willie Dixon.Bonnie Riatt noted that Mo Rodgers' music is a breath of fresh air in the blues/R&B world. He combines sly social commentary with a great funky sound...I love his voice. He's a welcome original.
Clara Montalba.  Clara Federica Montalba RWS (1842–1929) was a British artist chiefly known for her watercolour paintings of Venice. She was the eldest of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba all of whom achieved considerable artistic success though Clara was arguably the most accomplished and best-known of the four. Between 1879 and 1889 she exhibited her work at the Grosvenor Gallery London.
Brian Cole.  Brian Cole (September 8 1942 – August 2 1972) was the bass guitar player and one of the founding members of the 1960s folk rock band The Association.Cole died in Los Angeles California of a heroin overdose at the age of 29. He had three sons Jordan Chandler and Brant. Jordan Cole is now a member of The Association providing keyboards guitar vocals and drums. Brant Cole is a drummer for the Los Angeles based band The Blackout Trust.
George Horne Russell.  George Horne Russell (April 18 1861 – June 25 1933) was a Canadian painter.Born in Banff Aberdeenshire Scotland he studied at the Alberdeen School of Art and the South Kensington School of Art. In 1889 he moved to Canada settling in Montreal. From 1922 to 1926 he was the president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Mariangelo Accorso.  Mariangelo Accorso (Latin: Accursio or Accursius; 1489 or 1490 – 1544 or 1546) was an Italian writer and critic.
Skrillex.  Sonny John Moore (born January 15 1988) better known by his stage name Skrillex is an American electronic musician and singer-songwriter. Growing up in Northeast Los Angeles and in Northern California Sonny Moore joined the American post-hardcore band From First to Last as the lead singer in 2004 and recorded two studio albums with the band (Dear Diary My Teen Angst Has a Body Count 2004 and Heroine 2006) before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007.
Matty B.  Matthew Barrett also known by the stage name Matty B is a former Australian rapper now employed as a miner in Western Australia's mining industry.
Lena Anderssen.  Lena Anderssen is a Faroese-Canadian singer-songwriter with four albums to her name. Her latest album Letters From The Faroes was chosen as Album Of The Year on The Faroe Islands where Lena was born. Although the lyrics to her songs are all written in English she is also fluent in both Faroese and Danish. Lena is known for her intimate and intense live performances as well as having several of her song's featured in TV-series like 90210 Scrubs Felicity Nikita Alias and Miami Social.
Degen Kasper.  Degen Elizabeth Ellen Kasper (born August 1 1989) is a beauty queen from Anchorage Alaska who has competed in Miss Teen USA. Kasper was crowned Miss Alaska Teen USA 2006 on November 4 2005. Her sister titleholder is Noelle Meyer Miss Alaska USA 2006. On August 15 2006 she competed against 50 other girls for the title of Miss Teen USA 2006 in Palm Springs California but did not place. The winner of the pageant was Katie Blair of Montana.
Agim Sulaj.  Agim Sulaj is an Albanian famous painter born on 6 September 1960 in Tirana Albania living in Rimini Italia from 1990 having the Italian citizenship.
Johnny Van Zant.  John Roy Johnny Van Zant (born February 27 1959) is an American musician and the current lead vocalist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and .38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant.Van Zant performed during the 1970s with his 1st band The Austin Nickels Band. They later changed their name to The Johnny Van Zant Band releasing their debut solo album No More Dirty Deals in 1980.
Markus Zusak.  Markus Frank Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger (US title I Am the Messenger) two novels for young adults which have been international bestsellers. He won the annual Margaret Edwards Award in 2014 for his contribution to young-adult literature published in the US.
Akiko Futaba.  Akiko Futaba (二葉 あき子 Futaba Akiko born Yoshie Kato (加藤 芳江); February 2 1915 – August 16 2011) was a Japanese popular music (ryūkōka) singer. At of the end of World War II she was one of the most popular female singers in Japan competing with Hamako Watanabe and Noriko Awaya. In addition she took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen one of Japan's most famous annual musical television shows ten times.
Julia Parton.  Julia Margaret Parton (born July 4 1964) is an American bondage model B-movie actress television sitcom bit player and former pornographic actress. She is purportedly a distant cousin of Dolly Parton which she has used in self-promotion.
Jeroen Paul Thesseling.  Jeroen Paul Thesseling is a Dutch fretless bass player most famous for his work in the Dutch band Pestilence and German band Obscura. He is currently working on several studio projects.
Adi Ulmansky.  Adi Ulmansky (Hebrew: עדי אולמנסקי‎) is a producer/singer/rapper originally from Jerusalem Israel.Her first public appearance was in 2007 on the prime-time television show Kokhav Nolad (Israeli version of Pop Idol and American Idol) and has since made several TV appearances and released several music videos to Israeli music TV channel Music 24 and MTV Israel including collaborations with leading directors like Vania Heymann.
Nadine Blacklock.  Nadine Blacklock (1953–1998) was a nature photographer best known for her detailed nature photography of the Lake Superior area. She was married to Craig Blacklock a well-known photographer in his own right. She died in a car accident on Highway 61 near Two Harbors Minnesota.The Blacklock Nature Sanctuary was founded in 1994 by Nadine Blacklock along with her husband Craig Blacklock as well as Les and Fran Blacklock.
Daniel Ridgway Knight.  Daniel Ridgway Knight (March 15 1839 - March 9 1924) was an American artist born at Chambersburg Pennsylvania. He was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts Paris under Gleyre and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872 he lived in France having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine. He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success.
Corrina Sephora Mensoff.  Corrina Sephora Mensoff (born November 4 1971 in Alstead New Hampshire) is a visual artist who specializes in metal work sculpture and mixed media in Atlanta Georgia in the United States. Her artwork uses depiction of boats and ships as a metaphor and story telling tool. She also incorporates other media such as printmaking paper collage and animation.
Jon Auer.  Jonathan Paul Jon Auer (born September 29 1969) is an American musician who co-founded the power pop band The Posies along with Ken Stringfellow. Auer and Stringfellow have also been a part of the rejuvenated Big Star.Auer was a founding member of Sky Cries Mary.
Baba Ali.  Baba Ali (Persian: بابا علی‎; born Ali Ardekani; October 29. 1975) is an Iranian-born American comedian games developer businessman and actor.
William Burt (writer).  William Burt (23 August 1778 – 1 September 1826) was an English miscellaneous writer son of Joseph Burt of Plymouth. He was educated at Exeter grammar school and afterwards articled to a banker and solicitor at Bridgwater. Finally he practised at Plymouth as a solicitor until his death on 1 September 1826. He edited the Plymouth and Dock Telegraph for several years.
Bartolo Ceru.  Bartolo Ceru (active Venice died circa 1660) was an Italian painter mainly of quadratura. He trained under Maffeo Verona. Some of his paintings were engraved and tinted in aquaforte by Marco Boschini.
Osamu Kitajima.  Osamu Kitajima also known by the pseudonym Justin Heathcliff is a Japanese musician producer composer and multi‑instrumentalist.
Christopher Paul Stelling.  Christopher Paul Stelling (born 19 February 1982) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist currently based in Brooklyn New York. Stelling was born in Daytona Beach Florida and has also resided in Colorado Washington Massachusetts and North Carolina. He has released two official albums 2012's Songs of Praise and Scorn and 2013's False Cities. He has toured the United States extensively and has also toured Europe.
Tineke Postma.  Tineke Postma (Heerenveen August 31 1978) in is a Dutch saxophonist.
Karl Philipp Moritz.  Karl Philipp Moritz (Hamelin September 15 1756 – Berlin June 26 1793) was a German author editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang late enlightenment and classicist periods influencing early German Romanticism as well. He led a life as a hatter's apprentice teacher journalist literary critic professor of art and linguistics and member of both of Berlin's academies.
Lyrica Anderson.  Lyrica Anderson is a songwriter and singer.
Taz Alexander.  Taz Alexander is a British singer who has toured with Juno Reactor Alpha-X and Sin e among others. She currently resides in London England.
Giovanni Battista Vanni.  Giovanni Battista Vanni (c. 1599 – 27 July 1660) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period.
Leonor Rivera.  Leonor Rivera Kipping (11 April 1867 – 28 August 1893) was the childhood sweetheart and “lover by correspondence” of Philippine national hero José Rizal. Rivera was the “greatest influence” in preventing Rizal from falling in love with other women while Rizal was traveling outside the Philippines. Rivera's romantic relationship with Rizal lasted for eight years. She was immortalized by Rizal as the character María Clara in the Spanish-language novel Noli Me Tangere.
Bridget Wishart.  Bridget Wishart (born 25 February 1962) is an English vocalist musician and performance artist who performed with Hawkwind from 1989 to 1991 appearing on the albums Space Bandits Palace Springs California Brainstorm and Take Me to Your Future and among others the Nottingham 1990 video.She obtained BA in Fine Art from Newport Art School (now part of the University of Wales Newport) and an MFA from Reading University.
Beauty Sharma Barua.  Beauty Sharma Barua (Assamese: বিউটি শর্মা বৰুৱা born on June 18 1951) is a singer from Assam India. She is one of the best-known and most respected Assamese Folk Music Indian Classical Music Ghazal and Bhajan singers of Assam. More popularly known as The Melody Queen of Assam and Beauty Baideu she has recorded over a thousand songs for All India Radio Doordarshan Albums and others. She has sung songs in over six regional Indian languages though primarily in Assamese and Hindi.
Chris Pennie.  Chris Pennie (born on May 31 1977) is the former drummer for the progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria and former drummer and co-founder of mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Danny Felice.  Danny Felice is a Gibraltarian guitarist. He is one of the two guitarists in the Gibraltarian Flamenco Metal band Breed 77. Felice is one of the original members and founders of Breed 77. He plays a mixture of flamenco guitar electric guitar and mandolin creating a unique sound for the band. Being a native Gibraltarian Felice is naturally bilingual in English and Spanish and uses this ability when singing as backing vocals in some songs. He also speaks Llanito when among other Gibraltarians.
Bonnie Mark.  Bonnie Mark is an American television writer and producer. She has worked on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue and the NBC crime dramas Third Watch and Homicide: Life on the Street. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on Homicide.
Kiki Vidis.  Kiki Vidis (born May 15 1989 in Queensland Australia) is an Australian pornographic actress. She began her career in pornography in 2008 at the age of 18.
Humphrey Ker.  David Humphrey Rivers Ker (/kɑː/; born October 11 1982) is an Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning British actor writer and comedian formerly of the sketch comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls.
Benoît Régent.  Benoît Régent (19 August 1953 - 21 October 1994) was a French motion-picture actor.He was born in Nantes. He died in Zürich Switzerland.
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay.  Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সঞ্জীবচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় Sanjeeb Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae) (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali writer poet and journalist. He was the elder brother of Bankim Chandra ChattopadhyaySanjib Chandra was born to an orthodox Brahmin family at Kanthalpara North 24 Parganas. He was educated at Hooghly Mohsin College founded by famous Bengali philanthropist Muhammad Mohsin and Presidency College Calcutta.
Mikhail Zagoskin.  Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Загоскин) (July 25 1789 – July 5 1852) was a Russian writer of social comedies and historical novels.Zagoskin was born in the village of Ramzay in Penza Oblast. He began his official career as a librarian then became part of the management of the Imperial Theatres and lastly served as director of the Moscow Armory Museum. In the 1810s and 20s he published a series of comedies.
Ingrid Baxter.  Ingrid Baxter is a conceptual artist and was co-president with Iain Baxter& of the conceptual art practice and business N.E. Thing Co. which was legally founded in 1966. When N.E. Thing Co. dissolved in 1978 Baxter went on to pursue a Master of Education degree from the University of British Columbia in 1981 and later founded Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre in Deep Cove North Vancouver which she currently operates.
Bob Haozous.  Bob Haozous is a Chiricahua Apache sculptor from Santa Fe New Mexico. He is enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe.
Jane Roberts.  Jane Roberts (May 8 1929 – September 5 1984) was an American author poet self-proclaimed psychic and spirit medium who claimed to channel an energy personality who called himself Seth. Her publication of the Seth texts known as the Seth Material established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena.
Marv Wolfman.  Marvin Arthur Marv Wolfman (born May 13 1946) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on Marvel Comics The Tomb of Dracula for which he and artist Gene Colan created the vampire-slayer Blade and DC Comics' The New Teen Titans.
Dan Sultan.  Dan Sultan is an Australian singer and songwriter. Sultan plays what he calls country soul rock'n'roll.
Marshall Goodman.  Marshall Goodman (born January 31 1971) known professionally as Ras MG (also known as MG Field Marshall Field or Fields) is an American drummer songwriter and producer.
Ahmad Ali El Zein.  Ahmad Ali El Zein (born 1955) is an Arabic novelist and journalist from Lebanon.
Bill Jemas.  Bill Jemas is an American media entrepreneur writer and editor. He is a former vice president of Marvel Comics and a founding partner at 360ep a media management firm.
Gökhan Kırdar.  Gökhan Kırdar born on June 2 1970 in Aydın is a Turkish musician and film score composer.He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul to study architecture in 1988. However he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack released in 1993. Then he released two highly successful albums titled Serseri Mayın and Tutunamadım. During this period his single Yerine Sevemem became a hit and even shadowed the name of its creator.
Rodrigo Moynihan.  Rodrigo Moynihan (17 October 1910 – 6 November 1990) was an English painter.
Jozef van Wissem.  Jozef van Wissem (born 1962) is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn. In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival. An incessantly touring musician van Wissem studied lute in New York with Patrick O'Brien.
Artemis Cooper.  The Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Beevor (born 22 April 1953) is a British writer known as Artemis Cooper.She is the only daughter of the second Viscount Norwich and his first wife Anne (née Clifford) and a granddaughter of Lady Diana Cooper. She has a brother the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper and a half-sister Allegra Huston the only child of Lord Norwich and Enrica Soma Huston the estranged wife of American film director John Huston.
Joseph Pisani.  Joseph Pisani (born 1971) is an American artist and abstract painter living in Switzerland.
Matt Bowden.  Matt Starboy Bowden is a rock musician and activist from New Zealand. Previously known as the Godfather of the legal highs industry he is credited with creating party pills and successfully lobbying in New Zealand for a change in drug policy towards a regulated supply of psychoactive substances.
Ralph Fletcher.  Ralph Fletcher (born March 17 1953) is a writer of children's picture books young-adult fiction and poetry as well as an educational consultant who has also written books for both children and professional educators on the craft of writing.
Andy LeMaster.  Andy LeMaster is an American singer-songwriter and producer/engineer from Athens Georgia. His primary band was Now It's Overhead.
Toma Zdravkov.  Toma Zdravkov (Bulgarian: Тома Здравков) (born on 24 May 1987 in Pazardzhik Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian singer most known by winning Music Idol the Bulgarian version of the British hit show Pop Idol.
Alvah Chapman Jr..  Alvah Herman Chapman Jr. (March 21 1921 – December 25 2008) was an American newspaper publisher who served at the helm of The Miami Herald and as chairman of the Knight Ridder newspaper division.
Robert Cray.  Robert Cray (born August 1 1953 Columbus Georgia United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner he has led his own band as well as an acclaimed solo career.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude.  Christo (born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff Bulgarian: Христо Явашев June 13 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon June 13 1935 – November 18 2009) were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo Yavacheff is Bulgarian born and Jeanne-Claude was born in Morocco.
Juvenal.  Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis known in English as Juvenal (/ˈdʒuːvənəl/) was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD author of the Satires.
Judy Henske.  Judith A. Judy Henske (born 20 December 1936 Chippewa Falls Wisconsin) is an American singer and songwriter once known as the Queen of the Beatniks.
Kim Hu-ran.  Kim Hu-ran is a Korean poet.
Cynthia Ozick.  Cynthia Ozick (born April 17 1928) is an American-Jewish short story writer novelist and essayist.
Robert M. Pirsig.  Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6 1928) is an American writer and philosopher and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991).
Gina Hiraizumi.  Gina Hiraizumi (born November 20 1980 in Torrance CA) is an American actress and singer. Her father is a third generation Japanese American and her mother is from Japan. She is Yonsei or part of the fourth generation Nikkei.Her early TV acting roles include City Guys Port Charles and Quintuplets. Her film credits include Day of Independence Hot Spot and Only the Brave.
Floor Jansen.  Floor Jansen (pronounced [flɔr ˈjɑnsɛn]; born 21 February 1981 in Goirle) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is a classically trained dramatic soprano and sings in the styles of rock and heavy metal such as symphonic progressive and power metal. She also has the versatility to sing operatic and belt as well as growls aggressive and harsh vocals.
Quốc Trung.  Nguyễn Quốc Trung (born Thái Bình 1966) is a Vietnamese musician and judge on Vietnam Idol. He is son of the classical singer Trung Kiên. Trung is married to singer Thanh Lam and the couple have two children though the couple announced a divorce in 2001.
Adam Faith.  Terence Terry Nelhams-Wright known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940 – 8 March 2003) was a British teen idol singer actor and financial journalist. He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original songs regularly.
Leo A. Marzolo.  Leo Aurelio Marzolo (February 22 1887 – March 1964) was a restorer of paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago and was also a painter. He was born in Martinez California United States.He studied at the Chicago Gallery Association and the Palette and Chisel Academy. His work is in the State Museum at Springfield Illinois.Marzolo may have restored the Madonna of Bogotá painted by Raphael Sanzio of Urbino circa 1517.
Minfong Ho.  Minfong Ho is an award-winning Chinese-American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries. Despite being fiction her stories are always set against the backdrop of real events such as the student movement in Thailand in the 1970s and the Cambodian refugee problem with the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime at the turn of 1970s and 1980s.
Sophia Santi.  Sophia Santi (born December 6 1981) formerly known as Natalia Cruze is a Canadian pornographic actress and director.
Peter Bussian.  Peter Bussian is an independent filmmaker photographer and visual media consultant who is known mainly for his work with refugees and other international development issues. He has received awards for his photographs from the International Photography Awards (Lucies) and Interaction.Bussian has held several photographic exhibitions including The Afghans: Pictures of Resilience 2001 - 2011 which was exhibited at Gallery 169 and Sharq Gallery both in Los Angeles.
Judy Carter.  Judy Carter (November 10 1950 – Present) is an American comedian who built on her successful career in stand-up comedy to become a motivational humorist speaking coach bestselling author of numerous books and the owner of Comedy Workshop Productions.
Tony Buzan.  Anthony Tony Peter Buzan (/ˈbuːzən/; born 2 June 1942) is an English author and educational consultant. He is a proponent of the techniques of mind mapping and mental literacy.
Mike Kinsella.  Mike Kinsella (born March 4 1977) is one of three musicians in his family (brother Tim Kinsella and cousin Nate Kinsella) involved in many Illinois-based bands (Cap'n Jazz Owls Joan of Arc The One Up Downstairs American Football and Owen). He was first recognized in the music scene in Cap'n Jazz formed by his brother Tim in 1989 while at the age of 12. In 2001 Kinsella began his current solo project Owen in which he performs vocals guitar bass drums keyboards loops etc.
Ian Simmonds.  Ian Simmonds Juryman (born 1966) is a Welsh-born electronica and jazz musician whose music oscillates between more acoustic works of nu jazz or downtempo and heavily produced electronica as Juryman the sound is interwoven with hip hop textures.Ian Simmonds is certainly one of a few talents to successfully breach the chasm that keeps DJ culture from more tangible organic realms.His complex musical landscapes are often accompanied by his deep calm voice making poetic political and social statements at the same time. 
Jean Echenoz.  Jean Echenoz (born 26 December 1947 in Orange Vaucluse France) is a French writer. Son of a psychiatrist Echenoz studied in Rodez Digne-les-Bains Lyon Aix-en-Provence Marseille and Paris where he has lived since 1970. He published his first book Le méridien de Greenwich in 1979.
Luna Takamura.  Luna Takamura or Runa Takamura (高村ルナ Takamura Runa) (September 18 1952 in Kobe – March 6 2004 in Honolulu) was a J-pop singer actress and dancer of Japanese and German descent.Takamura was a member of Golden Half (ゴールデンハーフ Gōruden Hāfu) a musical group promoted by Watanabe Productions composed of young women of mixed Japanese and foreign ancestry who sang and go-go danced on the Fuji TV show BEAT POP. Golden Half made their debut in September 1970 and split in 1974.
Richie Cannata.  Richie Cannata (born March 3 1949) is an American music producer multi-instrumentalist and studio owner. He is most notable for playing saxophone in the Billy Joel band alongside Doug Stegmeyer and Liberty DeVitto. After leaving the band in 1981 he opened Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove New York.
Wes Wilson.  Wes Wilson (born July 15 1937) is an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters. Best-known for designing posters for Bill Graham of the The Fillmore in San Francisco he invented a style that is now synonymous with the peace movement psychedelic era and the 1960s. In particular he is known for inventing and popularizing a psychedelic font around 1966 that made the letters look like they were moving or melting. It was very common by the 1970s.
Omara Portuondo.  Omara Portuondo Peláez (born 29 October 1930 in Havana) is a Cuban singer and dancer whose career has spanned over half a century. She was one of the original members of the Cuarteto d'Aida and has performed with Ignacio Piñeiro Orquesta Anacaona Orquesta Aragón Nat King Cole Adalberto Álvarez Los Van Van the Buena Vista ensemble Pupy Pedroso Chucho Valdés and Juan Formell.
Bob Lodge.  Bob Lodge (1940–2008) live in Washington state USA. He created many puzzles and contests for GAMES Magazine. Lodge often placed many layers of red herrings within his creations for puzzlers to decipher. Over the years he made several acrostic puzzles and other challenges including elements from U.S. geography presidential history stamp collecting and mathematical brain teasers.
Stephanie Cheng.  Stephanie Cheng (born 10 October 1984) is a female cantopop singer in Hong Kong introduced by Go East Music (consolidated with Universal Music in 2003). She was born in Hong Kong and studied at Heep Yunn College and the Australian International School. After her graduation she began modeling jobs until she was invited to be a singer.
Katarina Mazetti.  Katarina Mazetti (born 29 April 1944 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She made her debut as a writer in 1988 with the picture book Här kommer tjocka släkten!. She worked as a producer and presenter at Sveriges Radio between 1989–2004.
Helio Alves.  Helio Alves (born São Paulo 1966) is a jazz pianist and son of pianists. He is equally at home in both Brazilian and Jazz idioms and a highly sought after virtuoso.He moved to Boston Massachusetts at 18 and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He stayed in Boston until age 24 when he moved to New York City on advice from a friend.
John Silk Deckard.  John Silk Deckard (1938 — 1994) was an American artist from Erie Pennsylvania. He worked in a number of media including drawing painting printmaking and sculpture.
Phill Jupitus.  Phillip Christopher Jupitus (/ˈdʒuːpɪtəs/; born 25 June 1962) is an English stand-up and improv comedian actor performance poet cartoonist and podcaster best known for his role as a team captain on BBC music panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks since its 1996 inception.He also appears regularly as a guest on several other panel shows including QI and BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Darren Hayes.  Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States. It spawned the singles I Want You To the Moon and Back and Australian and US No. 1 Truly Madly Deeply. The duo followed the success of their debut album with Affirmation (1999) which provided additional hits such as US No.
D Prosper.  D. (Derick) Prosper began his career as a poet on the NPS(National Slam Poetry) National Poetry Slam circuit. After winning several regional competitions and featuring on 1994 Providence Poetry Slam Team. D.Prosper was the youngest Poet featured on the tour. He ranked 4th in the nation @ the NPS finals in Asheville North Carolina. Prosper was also featured in respected publication Fast Folk Music Magazine. He eventually earned a coveted spot on the 1994 Lollapalooza Tour D.
Ludwig Pfau.  About this sound Karl Ludwig Pfau (August 25 1821 – April 12 1894) was a German poet journalist and revolutionary. He was born in Heilbronn and died aged 72 in Stuttgart.
Pentti Glan.  Pentti Glan a.k.a. Pentti “Whitey” Glan is a Finnish drummer born on July 8 1946 and best known for his work with Alice Cooper.
Erik Hokkanen.  Erik Hokkanen (born in Clearwater Florida) is a fiddler guitar player and composer living in Austin Texas. Erik is known for performing and composing an array of musical styles including gypsy music western swing surf rock rock music rockabilly bluegrass music and classical. He moves effortlessly among instruments often playing violin while an electric guitar hangs down his back.
George Edward Wade.  George Edward Wade (1853-February 5 1933) British sculptor born in London. He was largely self-taught as an artist and is best remembered for his statues of royalty and politicians.In 1929 Wade had two works dedicated in London to Catherine and William Booth. He was the first General of the Salvation Army and she was the Army Mother. Mrs.
Adam F.  Adam F or Adam Fenton (born 8 February 1972 Liverpool England) is an English producer and DJ who has worked across various genres. He is also the co-founder of the prominent drum and bass label Breakbeat Kaos along with DJ Fresh.
Jason V Brock.  Jason V Brock (born March 1 1970) is an American author artist editor and director. He is the CEO and co-founder (with his wife Sunni) of JaSunni Productions LLC whose documentary films include the controversial Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man The AckerMonster Chronicles! and Image Reflection Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic. He is also the author of Totems and Taboos a compilation of his poetry and artwork and an editor along with William F.
Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev.  Alexander Ponomarev (b. 1957 Kiev Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian artist and a French officer of the Order For merits in literature and art.
Richard Harwood.  Richard Harwood is also the assumed name of National Front member Richard Verrall.Richard Craig Harwood (born 8 August 1979) is a British cellist.
Amy Lowell.  Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9 1874 – May 12 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
Maria Peszek.  Maria Peszek (born September 9 1973) is a Polish singer songwriter and actress. She embarked on a professional acting career in the early 1990s and went on to appear in over 40 stage plays as well as a number of feature films and television series. In 2005 Peszek released her debut album critically acclaimed Miasto mania followed by controversial works Maria Awaria in 2008 and Jezus Maria Peszek in 2012.
Brooks Williams.  Brooks Williams (born November 10 1958) is an American acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter. His style combines roots jazz blues classical and folk. He has released some albums consisting of contemporary folk music and some consisting of instrumental guitar music. Most recently his albums have featured blues music.He tours extensively both in the US and the UK.
Baby Boy da Prince.  Lawrence Cennett better known by his stage name Baby Boy da Prince is a rapper from New Orleans. His rap career began at the age of 16 opening for No Limit Records in his hometown. He was first signed to the Take Fo' Record label in 2002 with his debut album Like Dat. The name Baby Boy was given to him by his manager Melvin and he has always called himself Da Prince. Baby Boy da Prince is the brother of rappers Choppa and Brittany Ni'Cole (Lil' Brittany).
Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort.  Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (1793–1861) was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours. The French King Louis-Philippe commissioned seveal of his works.
Neal Lawson.  Neal Lawson (born March 21 1963) is a British political commentator.Lawson was born in Lewisham and brought up in 1960s/70s in Bexleyheath. He became interested in politics through his father who was a printer in Fleet Street and joined the Labour Party at 16.
Errol Kennedy.  Errol Kennedy (born June 9 1953 in Montego Bay Jamaica) is a British musician (drummer singer) songwriter composer producer and original member of the British soul funk and pop band Imagination.
Lolly Pop.  Lolly Pop is an on-stage personae of vocalist/performer Brooke R. Aldridge as directed by British composer Ricardo Autobahn and Minneapolis songwriter/producer Monte Moir (The Time).
Ye Qianyu.  Ye Qianyu (or Yeh Ch'ien-yü; 31 March 1907 – 5 May 1995) was a Chinese painter and pioneering manhua artist. In 1928 he cofounded Shanghai Manhua one of the earliest and most influential manhua magazines and created Mr. Wang one of China's most famous comic strips.Ye was also a master of traditional Chinese painting and served as the head of the Department of Chinese Painting of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Giovanni Angelo Borroni.  Giovanni Angelo Borroni (1684–1772) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic periods active mainly in Milan and Cremona. He was born in Cremona and died in Milan. He was the pupil of the painter Angelo Massarotti and afterwards of Robert Le Longe. On leaving those masters he was patronized by the noble family of Crivelli and was employed some years in ornamenting their palace. He painted several pictures for the churches at Cremona and Milan.
Elizabeth Charleston.  Elizabeth Charleston was a San Francisco native who painted impressionist flower and landscape paintings. Charleston began painting at the age of 50 while recovering from an automobile accident.
James Byrd (guitarist).  James Byrd is a guitarist from Kirkland WA who came to prominence in the metal scene in the mid-1980s with the band Fifth Angel considered a pioneer of the early Power Metal movement.
Arnaud Ducret.  Arnaud Ducret (born 6 December 1978) is a French actor and comedian.
Nigel Griggs.  Nigel Griggs (born 18 August 1949 Hatfield England) is a musician who played bass guitar in Split Enz. He is the brother of Paul Griggs from the 1970s vocal group Guys 'n' Dolls. A professional musician since 1963 Nigel Griggs played in a number of bands notably The Cortinas and Octopus 1963–1971 with his brother Paul Carmen and Steve Hillage's Khan.
Tony Camin.  Tony Camin is an American standup comedian and television writer living in New York City.
Mary J. A. Wurm.  Mary J. A. Wurm (1860–1938) was an English composer.
Item Idem.  Cyril Duval who works under the name Item Idem is a fashion designer and artist. He won the 2007 Great Indoors Award for designing the Bernhard Willhelm store in Tokyo.
Suphala.  Suphala is a tabla artist composer and producer. She is a protégé of tabla players Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain and is based in New York City.
Andy Samberg.  David Andrew Andy Samberg (born August 18 1978) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American actor comedian writer and member of the comedy group The Lonely Island. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live (2005–2012) where he and his fellow group members have been credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts he starred in the comical short films and music videos with other members of the SNL cast.
David Lohr.  David Lohr (born 1975) is an American journalist. Lohr has written about and interviewed many of the world's most notorious criminals. Previously he was senior investigative crime writer for the former CourtTV’s Crime Library and Discovery Channel where he headed the Criminal Report at Investigation Discovery and reported on true crime cases in the news.
Pino Donaggio.  Giuseppe Pino Donaggio (born 24 October 1941) is an Italian composer.Born in Burano (an island of Venice) into a family of musicians Donaggio began studying violin at the age of ten first at the Benedetto Marcello conservatory in Venice followed by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. At the age of 14 he made his solo debut in a Vivaldi concert for Italian radio then went on to play for both the I Solisti Veneti and the Solisti di Milano.
Leif Husebye.  Leif Husebye (29 April 1926 – 9 August 2009) was a Norwegian sailor sports journalist and newspaper editor.In his younger days he was an active sport sailor. He competed in the snipe class and a bronze medal in the European Championships and a sixth place in the World Championships were his foremost results.
Gokulanada Gitiswami.  Gokulananda Singha was born on 26 November 1886 at the Village of Madhabpur of Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh. Gokuladanda could not pursue his studies much he could study only up to 8th standard because of some adverse circumstances but his burning desire of acquiring knowledge remained with him which later on encouraged him to set up a school. He came over India later on and settled at Tripura.
Shmuel Breban.  Shmuel Breban is a non-professional American stand-up comedian known for his sharp and unconventional style blending logic and absurdity often through misdirection. He is fond of the use of comic devices such as the one-liner and the Paraprosdokian.
William Whitehead (Canadian writer).  William Frederick (Bill) Whitehead (born 1931) is a Canadian writer actor and filmmaker best known as a writer of radio and television documentaries and as the former partner of the late Canadian writer Timothy Findley.He studied biology and theatre arts at the University of Saskatchewan receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 and a Master of Arts degree in 1955. He moved to Ontario in 1957 to become an actor and producer.
Shaena Lambert.  Shaena Lambert is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Born in Vancouver she has lived in Toronto New York and the Okanagan Valley. She currently lives in Vancouver with her husband political consultant Bob Penner. They have two children.Lambert's writing has appeared in many prominent periodicals and literary journals including Ploughshares Zoetrope: All-Story Toronto Life and The Walrus.
Smooth (singer).  Juanita Stokes currently known as Needa S. (formerly Smooth) (born 1971) is an American singer rapper and actress. She is the daughter of actress Irene Stokes and younger sister of music executive Chris Stokes.
Wu Yue (actor).  Wu Yue (born 25 April 1976) is a Chinese actor best known for playing heroes in various films and television series. Some of his more notable roles in television include: Chen Zhen in Huo Yuanjia and Jingwu Yingxiong Chen Zhen (2001); Di Yun in Lian Cheng Jue (2004); Yan Qing in Langzi Yan Qing (2004); Zhang San in Zuixia Zhang San (2006); Xia Shijie in Fankang Zhi Zhenxin Yingxiong (2008); Sun Wukong in Journey to the West (2011).
J. M. Gates.  The Reverend J.M. Gates (July 14 1884 – August 18 1945) was an American Christian preacher and Gospel music singer.
Tobias Cole.  Tobias Martin Piers Trevor Cole (born 7 August 1971) is an Australian countertenor and leading artist with Opera Australia.
Marjorie Cotton.  Marjorie Cotton Isherwood best known by the name Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003) was the first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales Australia. She initiated programs that are the basis of services to children in Australian public libraries today.
Li Chen (artist).  Li Chen is the Wade-Giles transcription; Li Zhen is the Pinyin transcription.Li Chen or Li Zhen (李真) is a sculptor who was born in 1963 in Yunlin Taiwan.When Li Chen was first starting out and accepting projects from Buddhist shrines to produce traditional Buddha statues he studied the Buddhist and Taoist classics. However the richness of his creative thinking led to him giving up that work and in the 1990s he began to focus on a career in art.
Harry Allen (musician).  Harry Allen (b. October 12 1966) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Washington D.C.. Early on he was recognized in high school as an exceptional talent being able to uncannily play tunes such as Body and Soul in the style of legendary tenor players Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster Flip Phillips or Sam Donahue. He is a traditionalist in the manner of Scott Hamilton he is best known for his work with John Colianni Keith Ingham John Pizzarelli and Bucky Pizzarelli.
Zehra Deović.  Zehra Deović (born 1938) is a Bosnian sevdalinka singer and was one of the leading female singers of the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia along with Silvana Armenulić Nada Mamula and Beba Selimović.She lives and works in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. She started working at Radio Sarajevo in 1960.
Subaru Shibutani.  Subaru Shibutani (渋谷 すばる Shibutani Subaru born September 22 1981) is a Japanese idol singer actor and lyricist. He is also the main vocalist of Japanese male idol group Kanjani Eight which debuted with modern enka. Shibutani was already a singer in his own right before the group's debut immensely popular among Johnny's Jr. fans as the top Kansai Jr. of his time. His image color in the group is red.
Rosemary Sutcliff.  Rosemary Sutcliff CBE (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was a British novelist best known for children's books especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends. Although she was primarily a children's author the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults.
Matt Hyde.  Matt Hyde is an American producer engineer mixer and musician.From 1982-1985 he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. While still at Berklee (1984) he started to get experience in Pyramid recording studio in Boston. After graduating he toured with several different bands playing guitar and keyboards.When he'd had enough of life on the road[citation needed] Hyde began working at recording studios first in Boston and from 1989 in Los Angeles.
Bano Qudsia.  Bano Qudsia (Punjabi Urdu: بانو قدسیه‎) (born 1928) is a writer intellectual playwright and spiritualist from Pakistan who writes Urdu novels and short stories. She is best known for her novel Raja Gidh and has written for television and stage in both the Urdu and Punjabi languages. Her play Aadhi Baat has been called a classic.
Jimmy Santos.  Jimmy Santos is an Afro-Uruguayan popular vocalist of candombe jazz and rock. Jimmy has lived in Argentina since 1976 and is part of the black population in Argentina. He also plays the drums. In 1977 he joined Raíces. He has a good relationship with Andrés Calamaro the Argentine singer guitarist and pianist and works with him.
Alan Booth.  Alan Booth (1946-1993) was a well-known English travel writer who wrote two insightful books on his journeys by foot through the Japanese countryside. The better-known of the two The Roads to Sata (published in 1985) is about his travels (in 1977) from the northernmost cape in Hokkaidō (Cape Soya) to the southern tip of Kyūshū in Cape Sata. His second book Looking for the Lost was published posthumously in 1995.Booth was born in London and studied drama at the University of Birmingham.
Ric Parnell.  Richard Ric J. Parnell (born 13 August 1951 London) is an English rock drummer. Although notable for his work in the band Atomic Rooster he probably best known for his role as the ill-fated drummer Mick Shrimpton in the film This is Spinal Tap.
Louis Figuier.  Louis Figuier (1819-1894) was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. He became Doctor of Medicine (1841) agrégé of pharmacology chemistry (1844-1853) and physics and gained his PhD in (1850). Figuier was appointed professor at L'Ecole de Pharmacie of Paris after leaving Montpellier.
Linda Lewis.  Linda Lewis (born Linda Ann Fredericks 27 September 1950 West Ham Essex) is an English vocalist songwriter and guitarist. Lewis is the oldest of six children three of whom also had singing careers.
Yuri Leonidovich Nesterenko.  Yuri Leonidovich Nesterenko (Russian: Юрий Леонидович Нестеренко) born on October 9 1972 is a Russian writer.
Jonathon W. G. Wills.  Jonathan W. G. Wills is a Scottish journalist.
Thomas Banks Maclachlan.  T. Banks Maclachlan (1865–1952) was born in Glasgow in 1865. His father was John Maclachlan a clothier and his mother was Agnes Jameson. He was educated at George Watson's College Glasgow and at Edinburgh University where he attended Professor David Masson's English Literature class. He joined the Institute of Journalists in 1890. He married Jessie Gilchrist Dunlop on 21 July 1893 at Edinburgh and apparently emigrated with his 81 year old wife to Australia in February 1949.
Andreu Buenafuente.  Andreu Buenafuente (Reus Catalonia 24 January 1965) is a Spanish late night show host and founder of the group El Terrat. He has worked in TV3 Antena 3 and laSexta. He has also worked on the radio and published several books with his monologues.
The Quiett.  The Quiett (Hangul: 더콰이엇) born as Shin Dong Gab (Hangul: 신동갑) is a South Korean rapper and a producer. He arrived at the Korean hip hop scene back in 2003 at the young age of 16. He debuted with his first mixtape which was christened Music and was released back in 2005. From the time since he stepped into the Korean hip hop industry The Quiett has collaborated with many other artists in the field of specialism such as Dok2 Dumbfoundead Crucial Star Jerry. K Kebee and many more.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff.  Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer visual artist and curator based in Stockholm Sweden. His main tools are recording devices (camera tape deck radar sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity frequency architectural space and paranormal electronic interference.
Fred Coury.  Fred Coury (born October 20 1967 in Johnson City New York) is best known as the drummer for the glam metal band Cinderella. Coury lists Neil Peart Peter Criss Bobby Blotzer Eric Carr Tommy Lee and Tommy Aldridge as his drumming inspirations.
Pete Miser.  Peter Ho is an Asian American Hip Hop rapper and producer living in New York City who performs under the name Pete Miser.
Filippo Costaggini.  Filippo Costaggini (1839–1904) was an artist from Rome Italy who worked in the United States Capitol. He and Constantino Brumidi both trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and he came to the United States in 1870. In addition to working in the United States Capitol Costaggini was well known for decorating churches. He decorated the parlor ceiling and walls of the Billmeyer House in York Pennsylvania.
Samantha King.  Samantha King (born March 27 1985) is a performer recording artist and songwriter who has performed throughout North America and the Caribbean.Specifically known for her powerful and melodic voice she has been performing since her early teens. Although she specializes in performing country music she has also performed rock blues and folk music.
Mariquita Jenny Moberly.  Mariquita Jenny Moberly RI BWS NSA (born Mariquita Jenny Phillips Deptford London in 1855; died 1 November 1937) was an English artist working in oil and watercolour.She studied in Germany and under Carolus-Duran in Paris. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and the New Watercolour Society. She lived in Epsom and later Mitcham.In March 2013 a number of her watercolour paintings in private possession of a variety of subjects were shown in the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow.
Johann Gottfried Donati.  Johann Gottfried Donati (Leipzig 1706 – Greiz 1782) was a German Baroque composer. Donati's father and grandfather were organ-builders in Saxony. He was organist in Greiz for 50 years and a friend of organ-builder Gottfried Silbermann.
Rafael López (illustrator and artist).  Rafael López (born August 8 1961 in Mexico City Mexico) is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. A children’s book illustrator he won the 2010 Pura Belpré Award with his illustrations for Book Fiesta! three Pura Belpré honors for illustration in 2014 2012 and 2004 and two Américas Book Awards. In 2012 he was chosen by the Library of Congress to create the National Book Festival Poster and was a featured book festival speaker again in 2013.
Giovanni Urbinati.  Giovanni Urbinati (aka Gio) is an Italian ceramist and sculptor. He currently lives in Rimini Italy and he has been exhibited both in Italy and abroad.
Wahbi al-Hariri.  Wahbi al-Hariri-Rifai Arabic: وهبي الحريري آلرفاعي‎ (1914-August 16 1994) was a Syrian American artist who has often been called the last of the classicists. As an artist he was remarkably prolific in the last years of his life despite a protracted and painful struggle with terminal cancer. He was also an accomplished architect archaeologist and author.
Allen Helbig.  Allen Helbig (born December 3 1964) is a contemporary American artist graphic designer illustrator animator photographer body painter and web designer. During his career as an art director for Warner Bros. he illustrated and art directed many children's books and video games based on the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters.He art directed Chuck Jones' book Daffy Duck for President.
Andrew Shonfield.  Sir Andrew Shonfield (10 August 1917–23 January 1981) was a British economist best known for writing Modern Capitalism (1966) a book that documented the rise of long-term planning in postwar Europe. Shonfield's argument that planning allows public authority to control and direct private enterprise without taking ownership of it as the socialists proposed have made him one of the better-known advocates of a mixed economy.Shonfield also worked as a journalist.
Daryl Cagle.  Daryl Cagle (born 1956) is an American editorial cartoonist the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of Cagle Cartoons Inc. a newspaper syndicate.Cagle worked with The Muppets from 1979 through 1993. He drew a daily editorial cartoon panel titled TRUE! for Tribune Media Services in 1995 and went on to draw local editorial cartoons for Hawaii's Midweek newspaper.
Henry Scott Tuke.  Henry Scott Tuke RA RWS (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929) was an English visual artist; primarily a painter but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style and he is probably best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men.He was born into a Quaker family in Lawrence Street in York. He was the second son of Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895) and Maria Strickney (1826–1917).
Edwin Justus Mayer.  Edwin Justus Mayer (8 November 1896 – 11 September 1960) was an American screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 47 films between 1927 and 1958.He was born and died in New York New York. He is the grandfather of film director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.Edwin Justus Mayer worked on many screenplays. But he is famous today for working with Ernst Lubitsch. He worked with Lubitsch on To Be or Not to Be (1942) and A Royal Scandal (1945).
Elsa Pinilla Osuna.  Elsa Pinilla Osuna (born October 2 1985 in Madrid) is a Spanish singer-songwriter and actress.She is the first of three children of María Osuna and the record producer Pablo Pinilla. She has studied several performing arts mainly ballet piano playing singing and acting.From an early age she has taken part in several TV advertisements and fashion shows. In 1999 she won the El Corte Inglés 'Photographic Model' contest.
Pierre Paulin.  Pierre Paulin (9 July 1927 - 13 June 2009) was a French furniture designer and interior designer. His uncle Georges Paulin was a part-time automobile designer and invented the mechanical retractible hardtop. He was later executed by the Nazi's in 1941 as a hero of the French Resistance. After failing his Baccalauréat he trained to become a ceramist in Vallaurius on the French Rivera and then as a stone-carver in Burgundy.
Kenneth Roberts (author).  Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8 1885 – July 21 1957) was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928 and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk Maine Roberts specialized in Regionalist historical fiction. He often wrote about his native state and its terrain also depicting other upper New England states and scenes.
Ramanichandran.  Ramanichandran (Tamil: ரமணிசந்திரன்) is a prolific Tamil romance novelist and presently the best-selling author in the Tamil language.She has written 158 novels most of which first appeared serialized in magazines like Kumudam and Aval Vikatan and were later brought out in book format by Arunodhayam. Some of her famous novels are ValaiOsaiMayangugiral oru madhu Venmayil ethanai nirangal Adivazhai.
Frank Varela.  Frank Varela is a graphic designer born to a family of Cuban political exiles. A UCLA graduate Varela has designed and art directed for properties such as The X-Files and ER. He specializes in corporate identity and logo design. His award-winning logos have appeared in various graphic design books and publications including the book CONCEPTiCONS. Frank Varela is the package designer of Man-Bat a fictional character in the DC Universe who first appeared in Detective Comics #400.
Stic.man.  Khnum Muata ”STIC” Ibomu or Clayton Gavin better known by his stage name stic.man is an American rapper activist and author known for his work as one half of the Political hip-hop duo Dead Prez with M-1.
Chris Standring.  Chris Standring (born 1960 in Buckinghamshire England) is a British-born soul jazz guitarist known for his heavy use of 1970s-style musical nuances. Before launching his own solo career with his 1998 album Velvet Standring represented a third of the band SolarSystem a one-shot project that combined elements of jazz and hip-hop.His Hipsway was co-produced with Rodney Lee in 2000. Groovalicious followed in 2003 then Soul Express in 2006.
Stuart Duncan.  Stuart Duncan (born April 14 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle mandolin guitar and banjo.Duncan was born in Quantico Virginia and raised in Santa Paula California where he played in the school band. He is married with three children.Duncan has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985. He also works as a session musician and has played with numerous well known performers including George Strait Dolly Parton Reba McEntire and Barbra Streisand.
Manning O'Brine.  Padraig Manning O'Brine (1913–1974) was an Irish thriller writer and screenplay writer. Throughout his writing career all of his novels have concerned fictional secret agents and his works could therefore be considered spy fiction. He began with a series of about eight books about Michael the O'Kelly. He then wrote three books that were more realistic in nature than the O'Kelly books and received a certain amount of critical praise. These books are: Crambo Mills and No Earth for Foxes.
Meg Rosoff.  Meg Rosoff (born 1956) is an American writer based in London United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now (Puffin 2004) which won the Guardian Prize Printz Award and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel Just In Case (Penguin 2006) won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K.
Ana Milenković.  Ana Milenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Миленковић born April 19 1980 Belgrade Serbia former SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer and a member of the girlband Beauty Queens.
Pat Mills.  Pat Mills is a British comics writer and editor who along with John Wagner revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. He has been called the godfather of British comics.His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.
Rachel Crow.  Rachel Kelly Crow (born January 23 1998) is an American singer actress and comedian from Mead Colorado. Crow participated in the first season of the U.S. version of The X Factor in 2011 and she finished in 5th place overall. After being eliminated from The X Factor Crow met with Disney for possible roles in future Disney productions. She's appeared on many TV shows including BrainSurge Inside Edition Big Time Rush Figure It Out and The Wendy Williams Show.
Sonny Moorman.  Cyril Sonny Moorman (born 1955) is an American power Blues guitarist from Cincinnati Ohio. His style is sometimes compared to that of the Duane Allman Jimi Hendrix Eric Clapton Lonnie Mack Gov't Mule and occasionally Warren Haynes.[citation needed] Moorman's parents owned a nightclub called the Half-Way Inn located half way between Hamilton Ohio and Middletown Ohio on Ohio State Route 4 where he was able to watch musicians who played there such as Lonnie Mack from an early age.
Holly Miranda.  Holly Miranda is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Besides being trained in piano Holly is a self-taught guitar and trumpet player. In 2001 she recorded High Above The City a 20-track solo album available only at shows. In the fall of 2003 Holly met and teamed up with Alex Lipsen producer and keys player. The project evolved into The Jealous Girlfriends a four piece band based in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
Joe Arroyo.  Álvaro José Arroyo González (also known as Joe Arroyo or El Joe; 1 November 1955 – 26 July 2011) was a Colombian salsa and tropical music singer composer and songwriter. Considered one of the greatest performers of Caribbean music in his country.
Alexander Markov.  Alexander Markov is a Russian American violinist who has received awards from the Paganini International Violin Competition (gold medal) and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is known for his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin particularly for his interpretation of the left-hand pizzicato section of the 24th Caprice. A film of Markov playing the Caprices was directed by Bruno Monsaingeon.
June Rae Wood.  June Rae Wood is an American author. One of her books The Man Who Loved Clowns won the Mark Twain Award and William Allen White Award in 1995.
Jean-Pierre Kalfon.  Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born October 30 1938 in Paris France) is a French film and television actor.
Wil Klass.  Wil Klass (born Wilert P Klass) is a US-born writer photographer and traveler. He's authored all or part of several travel guidebooks including the 1990s backpacker classic Asia Overland co-authored with Mark Elliott. His other travel content work includes writing for U.S.
Anne-Cath. Vestly.  Anne-Cath. Vestly (15 February 1920 – 15 December 2008) was a Norwegian author of children’s literature whose stature in Norwegian society can somewhat be compared to Sweden's famous children's book author Astrid Lindgren among Swedish people.
Franceska Jaimes.  Franceska Jaimes (born September 20 1985 in Bogotá Colombia) is a Colombian pornographic actress and is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for April 2011.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.  Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (March 4 1951 — November 5 1982) was a South Korean-born American novelist and artist best known for her 1982 novel Dictee.
So Young-en.  Seo Yeong-en (서영은) (born May 18 1943) is a Korean writer.
Tom Birdseye.  Tom Birdseye (born Thomas Birdseye 1951) is an American children's author. He is best known for writing books such as Attack of the Mutant Underwear Just Call Me Stupid and Tarantula Shoes. He signs his name with an eye at the end.
Vicente Manansala.  Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22 1910 - August 22 1981) was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator.Manansala was born in Macabebe Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930 he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949 Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Banff and Montreal Canada.
Wynonie Harris.  Wynonie Harris (August 24 1915 – June 14 1969) born in Omaha Nebraska was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs featuring humorous often ribald lyrics. With fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952 Harris is generally considered one of rock and roll's forerunners influencing Elvis Presley among others.[citation needed] He was the subject of a 1994 biography by Tony Collins.
Steve Lieber.  Steve Lieber (born May 19 1967) is an American comic book illustrator known for his work on books such as Detective Comics and Hawkman and the critically acclaimed miniseries Whiteout which was adapted into a 2009 feature film starring Kate Beckinsale. His other works include the Eisner Award-winning sequel Whiteout: Melt and the thrillers Shooters and Underground.
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé.  For other members of the family see Aubert de Gaspé.Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé (30 October 1786 – 29 January 1871) was a French Canadian writer and seigneur.
Julien Civange.  Julien Civange is a musician composer lyricist and producer. He was born in Paris France.DJ at age 10 on the French underground radio Carbone 14 then musical reporter for the major French magazines radio and TV stations Julien Civange leaves the world of media at the age of 17 with a significant experience of the entertainment world.
Giovanni Barrella.  Giovanni Barrella (30 November 1884 – 23 September 1967) was an Italian film actor writer and painter.
Opaque (rapper).  Morten Aasdahl Eliassen (born 25 September 1976) also known as stage name Opaque or the alias Mae is a Norwegian rapper from Furuset in Oslo.He is signed to Tommy Tee's record label Tee Productions and released the album Gourmet Garbage in 2001.In 2011 he appeared under the alias Mae (Morten Aasdahl Eliassen) on Jesse Jones debut album 12 blokker 1 vei inn.
Ulf Palme.  Ulf Palme (18 October 1920 – 12 May 1993) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Stockholm and died in Ingarö Sweden.
Emily Poeschl.  Emily Elizabeth Poeschl (born September 4 1984) is a beauty queen from Lincoln Nebraska who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Poeschl was crowned Miss Nebraska USA 2006 on October 9 2005 in Norfolk Nebraska. This was her second attempt at the title having placed in the top six in 2004.
Kem Nunn.  Kem Nunn (born 1948) is an American fiction novelist surfer magazine and television writer from California. His novels have been described as surf-noir for their dark themes political overtones and surf settings. He is the author of five novels including his seminal surf novel Tapping the Source.He has collaborated with producer David Milch on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood.
Rob Bochnik.  Rob Bochnik (born 1973) is a musician audio engineer singer and songwriter. He is guitarist with The Frames The Swell Season The Butcher Shop Quartet and records as a solo artist. He has worked on several projects as an audio engineer including the Once soundtrack and Set List The Frames' 2003 live album.
Bic Runga.  Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM (born 13 January 1976 in Christchurch New Zealand) recording as Bic Runga is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first solo album Drive (1997) debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts.Runga has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history. She has also found success internationally in Australia Ireland and to some extent in the UK.[citation needed]
Eduardo Arranz-Bravo.  Eduardo Arranz-Bravo is a Spanish painter born in Barcelona Spain in 1941.
Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk.  Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk (10 June 1903–14 April 1997) was a poet polemicist pagan and pretender to the Polish throne.
Greg Brown (folk musician).  Greg Brown (born Gregory Dane Brown July 2 1949)[citation needed] is an American folk musician from Iowa.
Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne.  Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne (born 1688 in Lyon died 1771 in Paris) was a French art critic of the 19th century.
James Crumley.  James Arthur Crumley (October 12 1939 – September 17 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as one of modern crime writing's best practitioners who was a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson.
Antonio Circignani.  Antonio Circignani (1560–1620) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance (Mannerism) period and early Baroque. Born in Pomarance he is known also as Antonio Pomarancio. He was the son of the painter Niccolò Circignani and with his father who died in 1588 he worked in Rome. He was featured in the Vite published by Giovanni Baglione.One of his most famous paintings Wedding of the Virgin is found in the Saint Mary of Angels Basilica in Assisi Italy.
Vitas.  Vitas (/ˈviːtɑːs/; Russian: Витас) is the stage name of Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachov (Ukrainian: Віталій Владасовіч Грачов) a Ukrainian singer singing mainly in Russian language and songwriter.Known for his high falsetto voice and a vocal range of 5 octaves he has been given the nickname Prince of the Dolphin Voice in China. His music is often difficult to categorize incorporating elements of techno dance classical jazz and folk music. His 2000 song Opera No.
Victor LaValle.  Victor LaValle (born February 3 1972) is an American author who was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens New York. He is the author of a short-story collection Slapboxing with Jesus and three novels The Ecstatic Big Machine and The Devil in Silver. LaValle writes fiction primarily though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ Essence Magazine The Fader and The Washington Post among others.Slapboxing with Jesus was published in 1999 by Vintage Books.
Burt Bacharach.  Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ˈbækəræk/ BAK-ə-rak; born May 12 1928) is an American singer–songwriter composer record producer and pianist.
Jock Truman.  Jock Truman (1920-2011) was an art dealer and collector in the twentieth-century arts scene in New York City. He was known as an art collector and dealer who worked at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York NY. From 1976 to 1979 he also owned the commercial art gallery bearing his name the Truman Gallery. Processing of his personal papers at the Archives of American Art suggests that his longtime companion was Eric Green.
Albert Houthuesen.  Albert Houthuesen (3 October 1903 Amsterdam – 20 October 1979 London) was a Dutch-born British artist. Houthuesen was born in Amsterdam; his father was Jean Charles Pierre Houthuesen a painter and musician. In 1912 following the death of his father he came to London; he became naturalized in 1922. He took art classes at Saint Martin's School of Art while working for a furniture maker and in an architect's office.
Giulio Variboba.  Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba; 1725 – 1788) was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language.
Paul Korda.  Paul Korda (born Paul Kunstler in 1948 Singapore Malaysia) is an English songwriter singer musician and actor. He has been writing and performing music since the 1960s. His songs have been covered by myriad artists such as Roger Daltrey Dave Edmunds Frankie Valli and Love Sculpture.
Lloyd Roberts.  Lloyd Mooseman Roberts was an American heavy metal punk and rap bassist. He is best remembered for his tenure in the band Body Count. He also played with Iggy Pop including Beat 'Em Up as a member of The Trolls. He was killed in a random shooting in front of a hardware store in South Central Los Angeles on 22 February 2001.
Belinda Peregrín.  Belinda Peregrín Schüll (born August 15 1989) better known as Belinda is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. She also has Spanish citizenship after being born in Madrid Spain but has lived in Mexico since the age of 4. She started her career in 2000 at the age of 10 when she was cast in the lead role in the Mexican children's telenovela ¡Amigos X Siempre!.
Mooky the Clown.  Laci Endresz Jr. (born 28 July 1974)[citation needed] is an English circus performer who performs as the circus clown Mooky the Clown.
Harlan Ellison.  Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1700 short stories novellas screenplays comic book scripts teleplays essays a wide range of criticism covering literature film television and print media. He was editor and anthologist for two ground-breaking science fiction anthologies Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again Dangerous Visions (1972).
Petra Hultgren.  Petra Cecilia Alexandra Hultgren (born 21 April 1972 in Värmdö Stockholm County) is a Swedish actress.She was crowned as Miss Sweden in 1995 and won the Miss Photogenic award at Miss Universe 1995.Hultgren currently stars in the Swedish series Andra Avenyn.
Sean Keith.  Sean Keith is a drummer singer songwriter guitarist and pastor at Lifegate Church in Omaha Nebraska. His style has been compared to Chris Tomlin Paul Baloche Hillsong United Gateway Worship and Aaron Shust.
Vangie Tang.  Vangie Tang Wing-chi (Chinese: 鄧穎芝 born 22 May 1985) is a Hong Kong singer. She is a top 8 finalist of the 22nd annual New Talent Singing Awards in 2003. She is signed to Sony Music of Hong Kong since 2004.She entered the 2003 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship - Hong Kong Regional Finals and became a top 8 finalist.
Michael Lista.  Michael Lista (born September 1 1983) is a Canadian poet. He is the author of Bloom a book of poems about Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin. He writes a monthly column on poetry for The National Post and lives in Toronto.
Amanda Fahy.  Amanda Fahy born in London on April 20 1985 is a British actress most famous for her role as Shannon Parks in the BBC children's series Grange Hill.Amanda joined the long running CBBC show in 2001 leaving the series in 2004.She appeared in The Bill as Nikki McGrath in 2004 and a year later appeared in the Channel 4 made for TV drama Ahead of the Class about the notorious murder of head teacher Philip Lawrence.Amanda decided to take a break from acting when in June 2007 she gave birth to a baby daughter.In 2008 she decided not to return to a career in acting giving birth to a second child in 2009.
Josephine Johnson.  Josephine Winslow Johnson (June 20 1910 – February 27 1990) was an American novelist poet and essayist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel Now in November. Shortly thereafter she published Winter Orchard a collection of short stories that had previously appeared in Atlantic Monthly Vanity Fair The St. Louis Review and Hound & Horn. Of these stories Dark won an O. Henry Award in 1934 and John the Six won an O.
Claudio Valenzuela.  Claudio Valenzuela (born June 10 1969 in Santiago Chile) is a guitarist singer and composer. He is most known as the lead-singer and guitarist of Chilean rock band Lucybell. Formed in 1991 Valenzuela is the only original member and the main composer of the band as the line-up shifted over the years. Lucybell has released 7 studio albums.In 2009 Claudio Valenzuela released his first solo album Gemini.
Julian Osgood Field.  Julian Osgood Field (1852–1925) was an American socialite and writer. He was born on 23 April 1852 son of Maunsell Bradhurst Field (1822–75) who was an official of the US Treasury under Lincoln and Julia Field (née Stanton). Educated in England he lived largely in London and Paris and became an intimate of the future King Edward VII of Great Britain. Field used the pseudonym X.L. (or Sigma) to write decadent horror fiction.
Pierangelo Bertoli.  Pierangelo Bertoli (November 5 1942 - October 7 2002) was an Italian singer-songwriter and poet. Close to libertarian communist issues his works told mainly about environment laïcité antimilitarism and social issues regarding marginalized and rebellious people.
Wes Carroll.  Wes Carroll (born September 27 1970) is one of the pioneering practitioners of vocal percussion in contemporary a cappella music.
John Koethe.  John Koethe (born December 25 1945) is an American poet and essayist. Originally from San Diego California he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Mister Lies.  Mister Lies is a musical project started in 2012 by American electronic musician producer and multimedia artist Nick Zanca (born November 19 1992 raised in New Canaan Connecticut) The project named after a small character in Tony Kushner's play Angels In America was established when Zanca moved to Chicago Illinois to attend school at Columbia College Chicago in pursuit of a playwriting degree and started making music in his dorm room with Ableton.His debut release the Hidden Neighbors EP was self-released anonymously on his Bandcamp account in February 2012. 
Robert Parsons (composer).  Robert Parsons (ca. 1535 – January 1571/2) was an English composer.Although little is known about the life of Robert Parsons it is likely that in his youth he was a choir boy as until 1561 he was an assistant to Richard Bower Master of the Children Choristers of the Chapel Royal.Parsons was appointed Gentleman of the Chapel Royal on 17 October 1563. His work consisted of a number of sacred and secular vocal compositions including his Ave Maria as well as some instrumental pieces.
Leo Rutman.  Leo Rutman is an American author and playwright. His novels are generally set in New York City during the twentieth century.Rutman has received playwriting awards from Yale University Brandeis University and Columbia University. His published and produced plays include They Got Jack Jesus is a Junkie and Where is Che Guevara?.
La Toya Jackson.  La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29 1956) is an American singer-songwriter musician author television personality actress businesswoman philanthropist activist and former model. She is the fifth child of the Jackson family. She maintained a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s and returned to music in 2004 with her Billboard charting songs Just Wanna Dance and Free the World. An EP called Starting Over was released on June 21 2011.
Paul Gégauff.  Paul Gégauff (1922–1983) was a French screenwriter actor and director. He collaborated with director Claude Chabrol on 14 films. Among his films are Les Biches Plein Soleil and the autobiographical Une Partie de Plaisir. In 1962 he and René Clement received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America as the screenwriters for Plein Soleil which was named Best Foreign Language Film.His first marriage to film producer and actress Danièle Gégauff ended in divorce.
Ned McGowan.  Ned McGowan (born 1970) is an American composer and flutist based in Amsterdam.“McGowan’s music strives for an idiom in which various musics – American popular European classical and avant-garde Carnatic a fascination with proportionally intricate rhythms the use of microtones in the search for new subtleties of melody – and many others rub against each other and generate new meanings.” - musicologist Bob Gilmore.
Patrick Marnham.  Patrick Marnham is an English writer journalist and biographer. He is primarily known for his biographies where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera Georges Simenon Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. As a journalist he has written for Private Eye The Independent and The Spectator among others. He served as Literary Editor of The Spectator and Paris correspondent of The Independent. His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Marsh Biography Award.
Noh Hong-chul.  Noh Hong-chul (Korean: 노홍철 Hanja: 盧弘喆; born 31 March 1979) is a South Korean entertainer and entrepreneur.
Charles Stepney.  Charles Stepney (March 26 1931–May 17 1976) was a producer arranger songwriter and musician famous for his Orchestral Psychedelic soul sound with Chicago's Cadet/Chess records in the 1960s/1970s and afterwards with Earth Wind & Fire.
Jiří Traxler.  Jiří George Traxler (March 12 1912 – August 7 2011) was a Czech Canadian jazz and swing pianist composer lyricist and arranger. He is considered a founder and co-creator of the swing music era in the Czechoslovakia. Traxler was the last surviving collaborator of the renowned Czech pre-war composer Jaroslav Ježek. In 1951 he emigrated to Canada and lived with his wife Jarmila in Edmonton until his death in the summer of 2011.
Claire Duhamel.  Claire Duhamel (September 6 1925 – February 7 2014) was a French film and stage actress whose credits included Stolen Kisses in 1968 and Bed and Board in 1970. She died pm February 7 2014 at the age of 88.
Ajdar.  Ajdar Anık better known as Ajdar (born in Mardin Turkey on 10 February 1973) is a Turkish mechanical engineer who thinks he is a singer and songwriter. He is well known by his bad voice and his abysmal songs.He graduated from Trakya University in mechanical engineering and worked in the domain for eight years. He launched a singing career by gaining fame by taking part in the selection rounds for in 2006 and creating controversy with the jury who said he could never be a pop singer.
Mabel Alvarez.  Mabel Alvarez (November 28 1891 – March 13 1985) was an American painter. Her works often introspective and spiritual in nature and her style is considered a contributing factor to the Southern California Modernism and California Impressionism movement.
Paul Adam (French novelist).  Paul Adam (December 7 1862 – January 2 1920) was a French novelist. He was born and died in Paris.Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series La Force was published first during 1899. Together with Jean Moréas he co-wrote Les Demoiselles Goubert which was a novel that marked the transition between Naturalism and Symbolism in French literature.
Andrew Schneider.  Andrew Schneider is an American screenwriter and television producer whose credits include writing for The Sopranos Northern Exposure and Alien Nation. He frequently co-writes episodes with his wife Diane Frolov. In 1992 Schneider won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his work on the Northern Exposure episode Seoul Mates. The award was shared with Frolov as they co-wrote the episode.
Natalee Caple.  Natalee Caple (born 1970 in Montreal) is a Canadian author of novels and poetry who is based at the University of Calgary where she is working on a PhD.As a published author her latest publication Mackerel Sky has enjoyed American distribution. Caple has also appeared throughout Canada at events such as the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival.
Jet Black.  Jet Black (born Brian John Duffy 26 August 1938 Ilford Essex) is an English drummer and founder member of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers.
Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović.  Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović (born 24 March 1953) is a Slovene poet essayist writer editor and potter.Zagoričnik was born in Kranj in 1953. She studied Comparative literature and Slavistics at the University of Ljubljana and from 1978 to 2003 lived in London where she attended Art school and worked as a potter and artist. In 2009 she received the Rožanc Award for her collection of essays Konci in kraji (Bits and Places). She also writes for children.
George Pratt (artist).  George Pratt (b. October 13 1960 in Beaumont Texas) is an American painter and illustrator known for his work in the comic book field.
Caroline Carver (actor).  Caroline Carver is an English actress. Best known for the roles of many British television/films including Ingrid in The Aryan Couple and Sandy in My First Wedding and Princess Jessica in the TV film The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns. She is married to actor Kenny Doughty.
Rebeca Pous Del Toro.  Rebeca Pous Del Toro (born November 1 1978 in Barcelona Spain) is a pop-eurodance singer producer songwriter and actress.
Sir Nolan.  Nolan Lambroza better known as Sir Nolan is a songwriter and record producer based in Los Angeles. He works frequently with songwriting/production team The Messengers. He has worked with notable artists such as Justin Bieber Lil Wayne Ludacris Pitbull Chris Brown The Wanted Christina Aguilera Cody Simpson Karmin and many more.
Henry Madin.  Henry Madin (Verdun 7 October 1698 - Versailles 3 February 1748) was a French composer at the Chapelle royale.Madin's parents had left Ireland in the early 1690s with the wild geese and settled in Verdun.
Jonathan Philbin Bowman.  Jonathan Philbin Bowman (6 January 1969 – 3 March 2000) was an Irish journalist and radio broadcaster.
Guido Monte.  Guido Monte (born 1962) is an Italian writer and poet. In his recent works he employs linguistic blending in the search for meaningful and archetypal relations between distant cultures.His works and translations have been published by international magazines (as Words without Borders Swans Commentary and Ars Interpres). On his blending experiments he uses also Japanese Sanskrit Sheng and languages of ethnic groups in Kenya.
Marie-France (actress).  Marie-France (Marie-France Plumer born 7 February 1943) is a French actress known mainly for her roles as a child.
Kid Loco.  Jean-Yves Prieur aka Kid Loco is a French electronic musician DJ remixer and producer. He was born on June 16 1964 in Antony Hauts-de-Seine France. Allmusic considers his style to be similar to Air and Dimitri from Paris.
Joe Bob Briggs.  John Irving Bloom (born January 27 1953) who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs is a syndicated American film critic writer and comic performer.
Irving Shulman.  Irving Shulman (May 21 1913 – March 23 1995) was an American author and screenwriter whose works were adapted into movies. His books included The Amboy Dukes Cry Tough and The Square Trap all of which were adapted into movies.Shulman wrote the early film treatment for Rebel Without a Cause. Stewart Stern did the screenplay based on the story concepts of Shulman and director Nicholas Ray.
Paula Kelley.  Paula Kelley is an American indie pop singer-songwriter and orchestral arranger/composer from Boston Massachusetts. She began her musical career in the 1990s with the band Drop Nineteens before leaving them in 1994 to start her own career in songwriting.
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner.  Vladimir Pozner (Russian Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер Paris January 5 1905- ibidem February 19 1992) was a French writer and translator of Russian descent.Pozner studied in Leningrad and Paris and he started working as translator and journalist. Some of his novels were books based on war activity and French Resistance his works also show his opinions against fascism and nuclear weapons.
Elmo Shropshire.  Elmo Shropshire D.V.M. (born October 26 1936) better known by his stage name Dr. Elmo is a singer of comedy songs most notably Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. He originally recorded the song in 1979 with his then-wife Patsy. He re-recorded it solo in 1992 for the album Dr. Elmo's Twisted Christmas and again in 2000 for the album Up Your Chimney. He also recorded two albums of year-round songs: Dr. Elmo's Twisted Tunes (1993) and Love Death and Taxes (2000).
Baldassare Croce.  Baldassare Croce (Bologna 1558–November 8 1628) was an Italian painter active during the late-Mannerist period active mainly in and around Rome.
Calyssa Davidson.  Calyssa Rae Davidson (born December 27 1989) is an award-winning American violinist. She is the daughter of Emmy Award winning actor Doug Davidson and Emmy Award nominated actress Cindy Fisher.
Misako Konno.  Misako Konno (紺野 美沙子 Konno Misako) born Misako Shinoda (篠田 美佐子 Shinoda Misako born September 18 1960) is a Japanese actress and essayist.Her maiden name is Misako Satō (佐藤美佐子 Satō Misako).
Moniruddin Khan.  Moniruddin Khan (Bengali: মনিরুদ্দিন খান born August 1974) is a writer from India.
Adriano González León.  Adriano González León (Valera Trujillo State 1931 - Caracas 12 January 2008)was a Venezuelan writer who is known in his country for the novel País Portátil (1968) widely regarded as the premier Venezuelan novel of the latter half of the 20th century[citation needed] and for his many years of hosting a television program dedicated to promoting literary appreciation among the general public.González León studied at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas.
Shah Wali.  Ustad Shah Wali (Pashto: شاہ ولی) is a renowned musician from Afghanistan. He was born in 1952 in Tagab Kapisa Province of Afghanistan.Shah Wali is an ethnic Pashtun who has sung more than 300 songs in Pashto Persian and Urdu. His father was a businessman and had nothing to do with music. It was on his own account that Shah Wali carved a name for himself in this line. Before his migration to Pakistan Shah Wali had already sung more than 250 songs for Afghanistan Television.
Sujatha Rangarajan.  Sujatha (3 May 1935 – 27 February 2008) was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan author of over 100 novels 250 short stories ten books on science ten stage plays and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan Kumudam and Kalki.
Paul Osborn.  Paul Osborn (September 4 1901 – May 12 1988) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the screen adaptation of East of Eden as well as South Pacific The Yearling The World of Suzie Wong and Sayonara.
Alan Pizzarelli.  Alan Pizzarelli (born 1950) is an American poet songwriter and musician. He was born of an Italian-American family in Newark New Jersey and raised in the first ward’s Little Italy.Pizzarelli performs music under the name BoneYard The Poet Ghoul as well as BoneYard & the Elegant Skulls
Jiz Lee.  Jiz Lee is the stage name of an American pornographic actor whom Steve Javors of AVN Magazine has called “one of the major stars of the ‘queer porn’ set”.
Rhys Brydydd.  Rhys Brydydd (fl. mid-15th century) was a Welsh language poet from Tir Iarll Glamorgan south Wales.Only four of his compositions survive all of them cywyddau.He was either the brother or father of Gwilym Tew and the father of the poet Rhisiart ap Rhys.
Jos Lussenburg.  Johannes Jos Lussenburg (Enkhuizen 20 November 1889 – Nunspeet 28 July 1975) was a Dutch painter and musician.Lussenburg was a self-taught painter. Originally he was a professional musician: he was music-teacher at several music schools played the violin and was conductor of several choirs.
Amy Sky.  Amy Sky (born on 24 September 1960 in Toronto Ontario Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter record producer theatre actress and television host. Sky started classical music lessons at the age of five and plays piano guitar cello and recorder.She has a degree from the University of Toronto in music theory and composition.
Alexander Acha.  Alexander Acha Alemán (born January 25 1985 in Mexico City Distrito Federal) is a Latin Grammy winning Mexican singer-songwriter. The son of Mexican pop singer Emmanuel Alexander Acha is also a pianist and a Berklee College of Music alum. He was raised as a devout Roman Catholic and he still attends the Mass at the Church. His debut album Voy (2008) reached gold status in his native country with Te Amo being his first single. On November 5 2009 he won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist.
Rufus Travis Amis.  Rufus Amis (February 13 1912 – January 12 2007) was an American entrepreneur who served as co-founder and CEO of Aero Design and Engineering Company. The company built one of the first twin engine planes for private use in the USA the Aero Commander. An Aero Commander later became distinguished as the smallest plane ever designated Air Force One when President Dwight Eisenhower began using one in 1956.
Tom Hodges (comics).  Thomas David Hodges (born April 5 1972 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American artist who worked on many Star Wars webcomics as well as Star Wars Insider article The Mandalorians: People and Culture written by Karen Traviss and notable for featuring visual reference on the first female Mandalorian.
Just Blaze.  Justin Smith (born January 8 1978) better known as Just Blaze is an American hip hop record producer from Paterson New Jersey. Blaze is also the CEO of Fort Knocks Entertainment. He is most well known for producing Jay-Z songs on the albums The Blueprint The Blueprint 2 and The Black Album. His production can also be found on Eminem's 2010 album Recovery. Blaze appears in the video for the third single from Recovery entitled No Love which he also produced.
Lola Tash.  Lola Tash (born September 4 1993) is a Canadian actress. She portrays Gisela Calicos on Connor Undercover. She starred as Chideh in the movie The Wild Girl as Robin on Rookie Blue Vicky in Reviving Ophelia and also guest starred as Vicky on The Latest Buzz as well as many television commercials.She portrayed Natalia on Reign. She portrayed Molly Maxwell in Molly Maxwell. She also portrays Sloane Daniels on Republic of Doyle.
Kevin Curran (writer).  Kevin Curran is an American television comedy writer. He has written for Late Night with David Letterman Married...with Children and The Simpsons. He was also the voice of Buck the Dog on Married...with Children (except for several episodes in which Buck was voiced by Cheech Marin).
Kim Tribble.  Kim Chadwick Tribble (born in Muscle Shoals Alabama) is an American country music songwriter.Active since the mid-1990s he has written for David Lee Murphy Montgomery Gentry Doug Stone and others. Two songs written by Tribble Guys Do It All the Time by Mindy McCready and I Can Still Feel You by Collin Raye have made number 1 on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Arkie Shibley.  Jesse Lee Arkie Shibley (born Jesse Lee Shibley 21 September 1914 Van Buren Arkansas - d. September 1975 Van Buren Arkansas) was a country singer who recorded the original version of Hot Rod Race in 1950.
Giovanni Francesco Venturini.  Giovanni Francesco Venturini (1650–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving it is probable that he was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi. He etched several plates from the works of Italian masters among them the following : A set of Plates; after Polidoro da Caravaggio.Diana and her Nymphs; after Domenichino.The Pulpit of S. Peter's; after Bernini.A partial bird's-eye View of Rome.
Sharman Apt Russell.  Sharman Apt Russell (born 1954) is a nature and science writer based in New Mexico United States. Her topics include living in place public lands grazing archaeology flowers butterflies hunger and Pantheism. Russell was born at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in 1954 was raised in Phoenix Arizona and settled in southern New Mexico in 1981. Russell is the daughter of test pilot Milburn G.
Chris Giarrusso.  Chris Giarrusso is a graphic novel author/illustrator best known for the all-ages series G-Man at Image Comics and Mini Marvels at Marvel Comics.
David Goodis.  David Loeb Goodis (March 2 1917 – January 7 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his prolific output of short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre. A native of Philadelphia Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years. Yet throughout his life he maintained a deep identification with the city of his birth Philadelphia.
Alfred J. Wiggin.  Alfred James Wiggin or A.J. Wiggin (1823–1883) was an artist in Massachusetts in the 19th century. He lived in Gloucester and Boston. Examples of his work are in the collections of the Cape Ann Museum; Historic New England; Lafayette College; Peabody Essex Museum; Sandy Bay Historical Society.
Luis Germán Cajiga.  Luis Germán Cajiga is Puerto Rican painter. He was born in 1934 in the municipality of Quebradillas Puerto Rico.
John Elsum.  John Elsum (fl. 1700-1705) was an English author.Elsum was the author of a collection of 'Epigrams upon the Paintings of the most eminent Masters Antient and Modern with Reflexions upon the several Schools of Painting by J. E. Esq.' (8vo London 1700). The similarity of the initials has caused this work to be sometimes ascribed wrongly to John Evelyn. Some of the epigrams are translations from Michael Siloa's 'De Romana Pictura et Sculptura'.
Dario Bellezza.  Dario Bellezza (September 5 1944 – March 31 1996) was an Italian gay poet author and playwright. He won the Viareggio Gatto and Montale prizes.
John Henry Middleton.  John Henry Middleton (1846–1896) was an archaeologist and a museum director.
Symeon Cosburn.  Symeon Cosburn is an accomplished jazz singer born in London England. He is best known for his modernised jazz music and cover of the Stranglers song “Golden Brown.”Symeon released a thirteen-track album entitled “Breakfast with the Blues” during 2006 primarily devoted to his mother who died of a terminal illness. The album is produced by Ian Shaw.During February 2007 he began work on his second album.
Jocelyne Béroard.  Jocelyne Béroard is a Martinican singer and songwriter born in 1954. She is one of the lead singers of the compas music and zouk band Kassav' and as a solo artist helped popularize zouk a music created by KASSAV. The main members are from Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Jean Louis De Esque.  Jean Louis De Esque was an author and poet. Several of his works were published under Connoisseur's Press in Jersey City New Jersey. He also wrote under the pseudonym Stewart.
Mona Seilitz.  Mona Seilitz (January 16 1943 in Malmö Sweden – April 2 2008 in Malmö) was a Swedish film and television actress and entertainer. She was considered to be a veteran of both Swedish dramatic and comedic television.Seilitz also did vocal work for a number of Swedish language cartoons.
Jonathan Elias.  Jonathan Elias (born 1956) is a U.S. composer and record producer known for his movie soundtracks production for several pop and rock acts and his award-winning advertising music.
Rachel Feinstein.  Rachel Feinstein (born May 25 1971) is an American artist who specializes in sculpture. She is best known for baroque fantasy-inspired sculptures like the The Snow Queen” which was drawn from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. There have been over two dozen group and solo showings of her work in the United States Europe and Asia. She is married to painter John Currin. In 2011 the New York Times described them as the ruling power couple in today’s art world.
Tom Vaughn (musician).  Father Tom Vaughn was an American Jazz pianist and Episcopalian priest.
Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider.  Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider (1739 Gera - 1810) was a German satirical writer. Bretschneider led a bohemian life served in the army and held various political posts. Later he was bibliothecary at Lemberg. He was closely linked to the writers of the enlightenment especially Friedrich Nicolai. Bretschneider composed besides satirical writings Almanach der Heiligen auf das Jahr 1788 Wallers Leben und Sitten and the comic epic Graf Esau.
Leonie Swann.  Leonie Swann (b. 1975 Dachau near Munich Germany) is the nom de plume of a German crime writer. She studied philosophy psychology and English literature in Munich and now lives in Berlin.
Bill Pitman.  William Keith Bill Pitman (born February 12 1920) is an American guitarist and session musician.As a first-call studio musician working in Los Angeles Pitman played on some of the most celebrated and influential records of the rock and roll era. His mastery of the guitar placed him in high demand for popular music recordings television programs and film scores.
David G. Williams.  David G. Williams is a comic book illustrator painter and sculptor living in Adelaide South Australia.Beginning in comic book illustration in the mid-nineties David has forged a successful career as a comic artist on impressive titles such as Wolverine Catwoman Shadow of the Bat R.E.B.E.L.S. and The Phantom.
Saba Anglana.  Saba Anglana is a Somali-Italian actress and international singer.
Nick Laird.  Nicholas Nick Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet.He was born and grew up in Cookstown County Tyrone.
Sarah Blackwood.  Sarah Blackwood (born 6 May 1971 Halifax West Yorkshire England) is an English recording artist. She came to prominence as the lead singer of Dubstar and as Client B in Client.
Talena Atfield.  Talena A. L. Atfield (born January 14 1983) is a Canadian bass guitar player best known as a former member of Kittie.
Svetlana Makarovič.  Svetlana Makarovič (born 1939) is a Slovenian writer of prose poetry children's books and picture books and is also an actress illustrator and chanteuse. She has been called The First Lady of Slovenian poetry. She is also noted for borrowing from Slovenian folklore to tell stories of rebellious and independent women. She is well-known adult and youth author.
Jack Frost (musician).  Jack Frost (real name John Dempsey born July 4 1968 in Jersey City NJ) is the guitarist/founder of the heavy metal band Seven Witches and also a part of The Bronx Casket Company. Frost is also known for playing guitar on Savatage's tour in support of Poets and Madmen in 2001 and 2002 before being dismissed from the band for unspecified reasons. He is currently touring in Anthrax vocalist Joey Belladonna's backing band.
Elliot Ngok.  Elliot Ngok Wah better known as Yueh Hua is a former Shaw Brothers actor and veteran TVB actor.
Clive Barker.  Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author film director video game designer and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.
John Densmore.  John Paul Densmore (born December 1 1944) is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of the rock group The Doors.
Bill Meredith.  William Stevens Meredith (1960 – Lake Worth Florida) is an American music and sports writer journalist drummer percussionist and singer.
Merry Shannon.  Merry Shannon is an American author. She writes lesbian romance/adventure novels and short stories published by Bold Strokes Books.
Ed Sams.  Ed Sams is an American author and educator.
Robert Kozyra.  Robert Tadeusz Kozyra (born 1968) between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.
Ryan Cohan.  Ryan Cohan (born 6 June 1971) is a jazz pianist and composer. His style is a blend of world rhythms traditional jazz and classical.
Wesley Schultz.  Wesley Keith Schultz (born December 30 1982) is the guitarist and lead vocalist for the American folk rock band The Lumineers.
Graham Ord.  Graham Ord born March 22 1961 is an English musician and songwriter. He has garnered respect internationally as a fine musician and engaging communicator. His live performances are always passionate and compelling leaving audiences wanting more. Graham performed with the Wesley Brothers in the U.K. before embarking on his solo career.Graham was born in Colchester Essex into a musical family and began song writing as early as 5 years old.
Harold Brainsby.  Harold Kingsford Brainsby (5 December 1910 – 1975) was an English-New Zealand sports figure of the early to mid-1930s.A native of Birmingham Brainsby competed for New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games where he won the bronze medal in the triple jump.
Jay Caselberg.  Jay Caselberg is an Australian science fiction/mystery/fantasy fiction/horror/ author. As of January 2012 he has published six novels and multiple short stories under his own name (one novel as J.A. Caselberg). He has also written under the pseudonym James A. Hartley.
Joan Abelove.  Joan Abelove (born 1945) is an American writer of young adult novels. She attended Barnard College and has a PhD in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York. She spent two years in the jungles of Peru as part of her doctoral research and used the experience as background for her first novel Go and Come Back (1998).
Tom Whitecloud.  Thomas St. Germain Whitecloud II (8 October 1914 — 1972) was a Chippewa writer and doctor. One of the founding members of the Association of American Indian Physicians he innovated several techniques in spine surgery.[citation needed]He was born in New York but his father divorced and remarried and he was raised on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation near Woodruff Wisconsin. Whitecloud studied in New Mexico and California receiving his degree in medicine from Tulane University.
Ceri Jackson.  Ceri Jackson is a British actress who was active on television and in films from 1981 to 1994. She is the daughter of producer T. Leslie Jackson and the sister of fellow producer Paul Jackson.On television she has appeared in Happy Families and Anna Lee; the latter was her most recent screen appearance. She has also appeared in three films Danny the Champion of the World Champions and The Missionary.
Schäffer the Darklord.  Mark Shaffer (born November 14)[citation needed] better known by his stage name Schaffer the Darklord (STD) is in American nerdcore hip hop artist from New York City. He combines dark metal themes with hip hop music to create a unique and often comedic style of music. He has cited his main musical influences to be Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys and MCA of the Beastie Boys.
Jim Starlin.  James P. Jim Starlin (born October 9) is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s he is best known for cosmic tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos Drax the Destroyer Gamora and Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu.
Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry.  Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry (Telugu: మొక్కపాటి నరసింహశాస్త్రి) (1892–1973) was an Indian Telugu language novelist.His major work was the humorous novel Barrister Parvateesam.
Trevor Reid.  Trevor Reid was a British actor. Born on 25 January 1908 in Liverpool Lancashire England UK. He acted in 47 films from 1938-1965. He died on 19 April 1965 (age 57) in London.
Sasha Strunin.  Aleksandra Strunin or Alexandra Strunin (Russian: Александра Струнина; born 27 October 1989 in St. Petersburg) formerly known as Sasha Strunin – Polish singer of Russian descent. From 2005 to 2009 she was a member of The Jet Set.
Robert H. Jackson (photographer).  Robert Bob Hill W. Jackson (born April 8 1934) is an American photographer. In 1964 Jackson then of the Dallas Times-Herald was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his photograph of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.Jackson was riding in a media car convertible of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade through Dealey Plaza and had just used up the film in the camera he was using just prior to reaching the plaza.
Konstantin Meladze.  Konstantin Shotayevich Meladze (Russian: Константин Шотаевич Меладзе Georgian: კონსტანტინე მელაძე; born 11 May 1963 in Batumi) is a composer and producer of Georgian descent. He is the older brother of singer Valery Meladze and co-founder and co-producer of the Russian/Ukrainian girl group Nu Virgos (Russian: ВИА Гра).
Ross Golan.  Ross Golan (born April 8 1980) is a multi-platinum selling songwriter from the north suburbs of Chicago. He studied music at the University of Southern California and has since released songs with artists including Keith Urban Maroon 5 Nicki Minaj Cee Lo Green Lady Antebellum Justin Bieber Demi Lovato Icona Pop Big Sean Travis Barker Skylar Grey Emblem3 and Prince Royce amongst many others. He's had multiple record deals as an artist as well.
Junior Reid.  Delroy Junior Reid (born 6 June 1963) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician best known for the songs One Blood and This Is Why I'm Hot as well as being the man that was the lead vocalist for Black Uhuru on three albums Brutal Positive and Black Uhuru Live in New York.
Dave Mackintosh.  Dave Mackintosh is the drummer for the British power metal band DragonForce. Mackintosh also appeared on power metal band Power Quest's debut album Wings of Forever and The Power Cosmic and Atlantis Ascendant albums by the symphonic black metal band Bal-Sagoth.He is influenced by Neil Peart Mercury Caronia Mike Portnoy Tommy Aldridge Charlie Benante Ingo Schwichtenberg Nicko McBrain Jonny Maudling and Vinnie Paul.
Stephen Robson (artist).  Stephen Robson is a British artist and printmaker.
Chris Loco.  Chris Crowhurst (Born 1st August 1985) better known by his stage name Chris Loco is an English record producer and songwriter.After several years of DJing and learning to produce Loco signed a publishing deal with Sony ATV in 2011 after his work with a then undiscovered Emeli Sande attracted their attention.
Yves Klein.  Yves Klein (French: [iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of Performance art and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of Minimal art as well as Pop art.
Jerry Harrison.  Jeremiah Griffin Jerry Harrison (born February 21 1949) is an American songwriter musician and producer. He achieved fame as the keyboardist and guitarist for pioneering new wave band Talking Heads and as an original member of The Modern Lovers.
Sharon Anderson (singer).  Sharon Lenore Anderson is a Canadian country music singer. During the late 1980s Anderson was a member of country group Trinity Lane who charted three singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1988. In 1991 she signed to Capitol Nashville and released her solo debut album The Bottom Line the same year. The album produced two singles that charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Tom Ranier.  Tom Ranier (born Thomas John Ranier July 13 1949 Chicago Ill.) is an American instrumentalist who primarily plays piano but also saxophones and clarinet (Multireedist). As a jazz artist he has recorded widely under his own name and as a sideman for Warner Bros. Concord Records and several other labels.
Dinah Lee.  Dinah Lee is the stage name of New Zealand-born singer Diane Marie Jacobs (born 19 August 1943) who performed 1960s pop and then adult contemporary music. Her debut single from early 1964 Don't You Know Yockomo? achieved No. 1 chart success in New Zealand and in the Australian cities Brisbane and Melbourne. It was followed in September by her cover version of Jackie Wilson's Reet Petite which also reached No. 1 in New Zealand and peaked at No. 6 in Melbourne.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir.  Nuala Ní Chonchúir (born 14 January 1970) is an Irish writer and poet.
Brendan Kelly (musician).  Brendan Kelly (born September 8 1976) is the bassist/vocalist of Chicago-based punk band The Lawrence Arms as well as guitarist/lead vocalist in The Falcon and Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds. Kelly's former bands include Slapstick and The Broadways. He is known for his raspy vocals drunken demeanor and onstage witticisms.Kelly also appeared on The Daily Show in a correspondent piece by Ed Helms entitled The Clash in which he criticized Michale Graves for being a Republican.
Ron Bloore.  Ronald Langley (Ron) Bloore CM FRSC (May 29 1925 – September 4 2009) is a Canadian abstract artist and teacher. He was a member of the Regina Five which included Ken Lochhead Art McKay Ted Godwin and Doug Morton.
Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells.  Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells (born October 13 1958) is an American free jazz bassist (bass guitar and electric upright bass) composer and conceptualist. He is one of the founding members of the improvising band Machine Gun which featured Thomas Chapin. Resident in Stockholm Sweden since 1985 he has been active internationally as a promoter of improvised and experimental music performing and recording extensively.
Packie Russell.  Patrick (Pakie) Russell (1920 in Doonagore Doolin – 4 September 1977) was a stonecutter and a well known Irish traditional concertina player and storyteller out of Doolin County Clare Ireland.
Johanna Senfter.  Johanna Senfter ( 27 November 1879; 11 August 1961) was a German composer.Johanna Senfter was born and died in Oppenheim. From 1895 she studied composition under Iwan Knorr violin under Adolf Rebner piano under Karl Friedberg and organ at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. This gave her a considerable amount of musical training when in 1908 she became a student of Max Reger in Leipzig.
Wai Ka-fai.  Wai Ka-Fai is a Hong Kong screenwriter producer film director and former TV director and producer.Wai is best known for his frequent collaborations with Johnnie To another former TV turned film director and producer. In 1996 they formed Milkyway Image which is now one of the most successful independent film studios in Hong Kong.
Algernon Blackwood.  Algernon Henry Blackwood CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century.
Bobby Aitken.  Bobby Aitken is a Cuban-born Jamaican guitarist and singer who had a string of hits in Jamaica in the 1960s and led the band The Carib Beats.
PT Walkley.  PT Walkley is a New York City-based singer/songwriter and composer for film and television. He and his live band have opened for Weezer (at Hammerstein Ballroom) and Coldplay (at Madison Square Garden) and have played top-tier music festivals like All Points West. He released his first LP as a solo artist Mr. Macy Wakes Alone in January 2009 and includes contributions from acclaimed artists such as Larry Campbell David Campbell and Sean Lennon.
August Stradal.  August Stradal (17 May 1860 Teplice Bohemia – 13 March 1930 Krásná Lípa) was a Bohemian pianist and music teacher. A student of Anton Bruckner he made solo piano arrangements of that composer's symphonies 1 2 5 6 and 8. His pianistic credentials included studies with both Theodor Leschetizky and Franz Liszt. He received the Czechoslovak State Award in 1928.
Rick Hunolt.  Richard Edward Rick Hunolt (born July 1 1963) is an American heavy metal guitarist.He is best known for being the longtime guitarist in thrash metal band Exodus. He joined the band in 1983 replacing Mike Maung who had been hired to replace original guitarist Kirk Hammett who left to join Metallica. He subsequently performed on all their albums in the 1980s and 1990s sharing leads with original member Gary Holt (together known as the H-team) until the band's hiatus in 1993.
Jerry Dumas.  Jerry Dumas (born 1930) is an American cartoonist best known for his Sam and Silo comic strip. Dumas is also a writer and essayist and a columnist for the Greenwich Time.
David Lee Roth.  David Lee Roth (born October 10 1954) is an American rock vocalist songwriter actor author and former radio personality. In 2007 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Roth is best known as the original (1974–1985) and current (2006–present) lead singer of the Southern California-based hard rock band Van Halen. He is also known as a successful solo artist releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum records.
Daryl Hawk.  Daryl Hawk is a documentary photographer and owner of Hawk Photography based out of Wilton Connecticut. He travels to some of the most remote places around the world taking photographs for magazines and presentations. He has appeared on the Today Show showing his work. Daryl Hawk is a member of the Explorers Club based out of New York City as well as the Royal Geographical Society. He has carried the Explorers Club flag to Bhutan which is one of the club's greatest privileges.
Tao Hong (actress born 1972).  Tao Hong (Chinese: 陶虹; pinyin: Táo Hóng; born January 15 1972) is a Chinese actress wife of Chinese actor Xu Zheng.
Desmond Williams.  Desmond Williams is an American electronica musician as well as a record producer and was the chief sound engineer for the Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. Born in Jamaica and raised in Montclair New Jersey Williams has been known for his remixing and producing style.
Sarah Britten.  Sarah Jane Britten (born 31 August 1974) is a South African writer blogger lipstick artist and communication strategist.
Francisco Azuela.  Francisco Azuela Espinoza (born March 8 1948 in Leon State of Guanajuato Mexico) is a writer and poet. He served as a diplomat in the Mexican Embassy in Costa Rica and later in Honduras (1973–1983). During those years The Honduran government awarded him the Order of the Liberator of Central-America Francisco Morazán and in 1981 the Honduran Academy of Language nominated him for the Cervantes International Literature award.
Dick Wagner.  Dick Wagner (born December 14 1942 in Oelwein Iowa) is an American rock music guitarist songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper Lou Reed and KISS. He also fronted his own Michigan-based bands the Frost and the Bossmen.
Fay Helm.  Fay Helm (1909 – 2003) was an American film actress. Born in Bakersfield California she appeared in about 65 films between 1936 and 1946.
Hilary Barta.  Hilary Barta (born June 17 1957) is an American comic book writer and artist.
Milly Childers.  Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866 – 1922) known as Milly was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century.She was the daughter of Hugh Culling Eardley Childers a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers's early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890.
Ulysses Owens.  Ulysses Owens Jr. (born December 6 1982 Jacksonville Florida United States) is an American multi Grammy Award winning drummer and percussionist known for his work with bassist Christian McBride and singer Kurt Elling as well as Wynton Marsalis Mulgrew Miller Nicholas Payton Benny Golson and Maceo Parker. He is active on both the New York and international jazz scene as a sideman and band leader. He has also been named a rising star in the Downbeat Critic's Poll.
Finn Jor.  Finn Bartol Horgen Jor (born 20 January 1929) is a Norwegian journalist and writer.He was born in Kristiania as a son of Sverre A. Jor (1902–1962) and Ambjørg M. Horgen (1902–1970). He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1954 with a mag.art. degree in the history of ideas with a thesis on Søren Kierkegaard and was hired as a journalist in Morgenposten in 1955. He left in 1961 after a rather unsuccessful editorial attempt to emphasize cultural topics in the newspaper.
Marianne Aminoff.  Marianne Aminoff (21 September 1916 – 14 April 1984) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Uddevalla Sweden and died in Stockholm.
Dave Schulz (artist).  Dave Schulz (born Buffalo New York) is an American keyboardist songwriter producer and recording artist well known for his world tours in the late 90s with his fellow Buffalonians The Goo Goo Dolls. A well-established session and touring musician in Los Angeles Schulz released Connect his debut as a singer/songwriter in 2009.
John Adikes Bond.  John Adikes Bond is an author attorney poker player political activist and real estate developer born in Jamaica New York January 14 1955. He grew up in Massapequa and Port Washington New York before moving to South Florida in 1972. He currently resides between Dania Beach Florida and Andros Island the Bahamas.
Yao Xueyin.  Yao Xueyin (Chinese: 姚雪垠; pinyin: Yáo Xuěyín; 10 October 1910 – 29 April 1999) was a Chinese novelist who was a member of China Writers Association. Yao was a member of the 5th 6th 7 th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.Yao used his fortune posthumously to institute the Yao Xueyin Historical Novel Prize (姚雪垠长篇历史小说奖).
Håkan Serner.  John Gunnar Håkan Serner (1 September 1933 in Malmö – 25 October 1984 in Stockholm) was a Swedish actor. He was nephew to Frank Heller and stepfather to Malin Gjörup.In 1977 he received the award for Best Actor at the 13th Guldbagge Awards for his roles in the films The Man on the Roof (1976) and Bang! (1977). He committed suicide on 25 October 1984.
Sammie Rhodes.  Sammie Rhodes is an American pornographic actress.
Harry Nilsson.  Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15 1941 – January 15 1994) usually credited as Nilsson was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. He is known for the hit singles Everybody's Talkin' (1969) Without You (1971) and Coconut (1972). Nilsson also wrote the song “One” made famous by the rock band Three Dog Night.
Sam Winder.  Sam Winder is an American artist. Born in Salt Lake City in 1991 and grew up in Portland Oregon.
Juan Fernando Cobo.  Juan Fernando Cobo Agudelo (born August 27 1959 in Cali Colombia) is a Colombian painter illustrator sculptor and cultural promoter one of the most notable artists of his native region Valle del Cauca.
Pietro Pajetta.  Pietro Pajetta (Serravalle of Vittorio Veneto March 22 1845- Padua April 10 1911) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects.
Olga Nunes.  Olga Nunes (born January 1 1979) is a Canadian-born pianist singer and composer based in San Francisco California.
Yahzarah.  Dana Nicole Williams (born June 24 1980) is an American singer more commonly known by her stage name Yahzarah or Purple St. James.Yahzarah rose to fame when she became a back-up singer for Erykah Badu in 2000. In 2000 Yahzarah signed to Keo Music Records released her first album Hear Me. In 2002 Yahzarah signed a recording contract with Three Keys Music and released her second album Blackstar in September 2003. The album featured the singles Wishing Blackstar and One Day.
Chris Coady.  Chris Coady (born June 5 1978) is an American Record Producer/Mixing Engineer who is best known for his work with Yeah Yeah Yeahs TV on the Radio Grizzly Bear Beach House Blonde Redhead and others.Since moving to New York City in 2001 Coady has produced several records that have been featured in Underground scene including one of 2010's most critically acclaimed albums Teen Dream by the indie rock duo Beach House.
Kiran Ahluwalia.  Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer who publicly performs her own musical arrangements of ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals or poems. Kiran Ahluwalia won the 'Newcomer' category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) - announced May 1 2009 - the new 'world music' awards organised by the UK-based magazine Songlines.
Kayo Matsuo.  Kayo Matsuo (松尾 嘉代 Matsuo Kayo born March 17 1943 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress. She retired from acting following the Kobe earthquake.[citation needed]
Andy Bobrow.  Andy Bobrow is an American television writer and producer known for his work on Community. He was previously a writer for Malcolm in the Middle and created a mockumentary called The Old Negro Space Program. He currently voices Owly on the Love Me Cat Show.
Gustaw Lewita.  Gustaw Lewita (1855-1889) was a pianist from Płock Poland. He attended the Vienna Conservatory and graduated with distinction before heading to Paris. There he became a member of the orchestra of the Pas de Loup concerts. In 1882 he became a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory. He later gave concerts to Archduke Franz Karl in Vienna and to the Emperor of Brazil during his later American tour.
Amile Waters.  Amile Waters (born April 25 1985 in Mayari Cuba) is a Head Sports Editor/Columnist Radio Personality and an avid painter of the Dark Metal arts. Waters is also a former American pornographic and Indie film actress. Amile has been referenced as the Multimedia Hippie and Team Hippie President. She is bisexual.
Paul Amorese.  Paul Amorese (born June 6 1979) is an American drummer and percussionist from Rochester New York. He has performed and toured with a variety of musical groups including Bacci the WMDs The Commuters Jack Dishel and Only Son Visible from Space Bryan Scary Hypnotic Clambake Boutros Boutros and goodbyemotel. He also works as a session drummer and is currently based out of Brooklyn NY.
Ruth Paley.  Ruth Paley is an English historian and author.She has worked at the Public Record Office in Kew London where she has written several books. She is currently working for the History of Parliament Trust on the House of Lords from 1660-1832.
Irwin Corey.  Professor Irwin Corey (born July 29 1914) is an American comic film actor and activist often billed as The World's Foremost Authority. He introduced his unscripted improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the well-known San Francisco club the hungry i.Lenny Bruce once described Corey as one of the most brilliant comedians of all time.
Roisin Conaty.  Roisin Conaty (born 26 March 1979) is an English comedian.
Jim Smallman.  Jim Smallman (born 11 May 1978 in Leicestershire England) is a stand-up comedian radio presenter and voice-over artist. Smallman attended school in Hinckley and went on to De Montfort University graduating with a First-class Honours degree in English Literature.
Masaki Aiba.  Masaki Aiba (相葉 雅紀 Aiba Masaki) (born December 24 1982) is a Japanese idol singer actor television personality and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi.Aiba began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 13.
Abdurrahman Bahir Efendi (Arabzade).  Abdurrahman Bahir Efendi was a composer of vocal and instrumental Turkish classical music. Bahir Efendi rose to prominence during the reign of Ahmet III.
Jeanloup Sieff.  Jeanloup Sieff (November 30 1933 – September 20 2000) was a French photographer born of Polish parents in Paris France. He is famous for his portraits of politicians famous artists landscapes as well as for his nudes and use of wide-angle lens. He worked mainly in black and white and for the fashion.
S. R. Crockett.  Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914) who published under the name S. R. Crockett was a Scottish novelist.
Khin Hnin Yu.  Khin Hnin Yu (ခင်နှင်းယု pronounced: [kʰɪ̀ɴ n̥ɪ́ɴ jṵ]; 7 September 1925 – 21 January 2003) was a two-time Myanmar National Literature Award winner and is considered one of the most influential Burmese women writers. Her stories are known for their realistic portrayals of life in post-World War II Burma (now Myanmar). Distinguished women writers who have also been an ever-present force in Burmese literary history include Kyi Aye Khin Hnin Yu and San San Nweh.
Danny K.  Danny K (full name Daniel Koppel born 8 September 1977) is a South African singer songwriter and actor. He holds a B.A. degree from the Wits University. He has produced some chart topping hits and award winning albums. He was nominated multiple times for the SAMA and has won 4 times.
James MacArdell.  James MacArdell (1729?–1765) was an Irish engraver of mezzotints.
Jim Fifield.  James G. Jim Fifield was President/CEO of EMI from 1988 to 1998.
David Peaston.  David Peaston (March 13 1957 – February 1 2012) was an American R&B and gospel singer who in 1990 won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. He was mostly known for the singles Two Wrongs (Don't Make it Right) and Can I? the latter of which was originally recorded by Eddie Kendricks.
Pauline Auzou.  Pauline Auzou (March 24 1775 – May 15 1835) was a French painter and art instructor who exhibited at the Paris Salon and was commissioned to make paintings of Napoleon and his wife Marie Louise Duchess of Parma.
Eric Bransby Williams.  Eric Bransby Williams (1900–1994) was a British actor. He was the son of Bransby Williams.
Gulubhai Jasdanwalla.  Gulubhai Jasdanwalla was a Hindustani Classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana and one of the foremost disciples of Gharana founder Utd. Alladiya Khan.
Joe Rosenthal (sculptor).  Joe Rosenthal is a Canadian sculptor. He was born in 1921 in Romania. He emigrated to Canada in 1927. From 1942-45 he served in the Canadian Armed Forces. He studied at the Ontario College of Art. He has travelled and sketched in the Northwest Territories Mexico Cuba England the Netherlands France Italy Spain Greece Jordan Israel and Egypt. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and the Ontario Society of Arts.
Jakwob.  James Edward Jacob (born 28 March 1989) better known by his stage name Jakwob is a British music producer and DJ.
Shirley du Boulay.  Shirley du Boulay is an author and biographer resident in Oxford.Educated at Downe House School and the Royal College of Music she embarked on a career with the BBC in 1954 initially as a studio manager then becoming a programme producer of Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour'. She moved to television and specialized in religious programming.She resigned from the BBC in 1978 and started to work as an author.
Alexander Pushkin.  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr sʲɪˈrɡʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn] ; 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow.
Elsa Respighi.  Elsa Respighi (née Olivieri-Sangiacomo) (24 March 1894 – 17 March 1996) was an Italian composer. She was the wife and former pupil of Ottorino Respighi.
Aitor Porres.  Aitor Rodrigo Porres (born October 6 1977) is a Spanish musician and is the bassist for the progressive metal band Relative Silence.Born in Bilbao Vizcaya Porress started to play bass in a friends' band when he was 17 years old giving his first concert three months later. About year and a half later he joined his first serious band WarCry.
Rolf Aamot.  Rolf Aamot (born in Bergen on September 28 1934) is a Norwegian painter film director photographer and tonal-image composer. Since the 1950s Aamot has been a pioneer within the field of electronic painting exploring the emerging technology as it combines with the traditional arts of painting music film theatre and ballet.
Samar Samir Mezghanni.  Samar Samir Mezghanni (Arabic: سمر سمير المزغني) is young Tunisian female writer. She was born on 27 August 1988.
George Arthur Bloom.  George Arthur Bloom is a screenwriter known for his work on Nelvana television titles such as The Magic School Bus and Cyberchase. He also wrote the pilots for The Transformers and My Little Pony. In 1980 he was a scriptwriter for Disney's The Last Flight of Noah's Ark. Bloom wrote GoodTimes Home Video's 1994 animated film Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle.
Neil Tetkowski.  Neil Tetkowski (born 1955) is an artist curator educator writer philosopher and political activist. Born in Buffalo New York Tetkowski lives in New York City and is the Director of University Galleries at Kean University in Union New Jersey.
Al Mahmud.  Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud (Bengali: আল মাহমুদ) (born 11 July 1936) commonly known as Al Mahmud is a Bangladeshi Poet novelist short-story writer. He is considered as one of the greatest Bengali poets emerged in 20th century.
Agatha Christie.  Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist short story writer and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and Tuppence.
Oscar Nilsson.  Oscar Nilsson (born 1 December 1988) is a Swedish drummer.
Rocky George.  Leonard F. George (born January 9 1965 in Culver City California) best known by his stage name Rocky George is an American heavy metal virtuoso guitarist who has been a member of several notable musical acts including Suicidal Tendencies where he was their lead guitarist from 1984 to their first breakup in 1995. After Suicidal Tendencies George played with 40 Cycle Hum and Cro-Mags and in 2003 he joined Fishbone. George was also a member of a local punk rock band called Pap Smear.
Joe Madureira.  Joe Madureira (often called Joe Mad) is a comic book writer/artist and game developer best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men and his creator-owned comic book Battle Chasers.Madureira's style combines Western comic book influences with aspects of Japanese manga and has been credited for helping the latter influence the American comic book industry.
Torrey Salter.  Torrey Salter (born July 15 1988) is a Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter pianist and guitarist from Birmingham Alabama. He began writing music at the age of 17 after being encouraged by his family and friends and influenced by Hillsong United and Desperation Band.
Jessica Darlin.  Jessica Darlin (born March 22 1976 in Wilmington Delaware) is an American former pornographic actress.
Susan Hale.  Susan Hale (December 5 1833 – September 17 1910) was an American author traveler and artist.
Ibn-e-Safi.  Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (Urdu: ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد) a best-selling and prolific fiction writer novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabian expression which literally means Son of Safi where the word Safi means chaste or righteous.
William R. Bradshaw.  William Richard Bradshaw (1851–1927) was an Irish-born American author editor and lecturer who served as president of the New York Anti-Vivisection Society. He is known best for his science fiction-type novel The Goddess of Atvatabar.
Francesco Uttini.  Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini (1723 Bologna – 25 October 1795) was an Italian composer and conductor who was active mostly in Sweden.He is best remembered today as a composer of operas in both the Italian and Swedish languages and for his five symphonies.
Francesco Rognoni Taeggio.  Francesco Rognoni [of] Taeggio (born in Milan second half of the 16th century – died after 1626) was an Italian composer. He was the son of Riccardo Rognoni and brother of Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio both prominent Italian composers and musicians. He was active in Milan but had connections with royalty from as far abroad as Archduke Charles of Austria and King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland. Rognoni was a Papal Knight and hereditary Palatine Count.
Mike Ratledge.  Michael Roland Mike Ratledge (born 1943) is a British musician. Ratledge was part of the Canterbury scene and a long-time member of Soft Machine.
Jin Dinghan.  Jin Dinghan (simplified Chinese: 金鼎汉; traditional Chinese: 金鼎漢; pinyin: Jīn Dǐnghàn; born 1930) is a Chinese translator and professor.He is one of the foremost translators of Hindi literature. For his contributions to the introduction of Hindi literature to foreign readers he was honored with the World Hindi Language Honorary Award in 1993 and the Dr. George Grierson Award in 2001.
Yi Sang-hwa.  Yi Sang-hwa (Hangul: 이상화; also transliterated as Lee Sang-hwa) (1901-1943) was a Korean nationalist poet active in the resistance to Japanese rule.
Anya Bajdavletova.  Anna Dmitrievna Baĭdavletova (Russian: Анна Дмитриевна Байдавлетова born November 26 1992 in Stavropol) better known as Anya Bajdavletova is a Russian musician best known as the drummer and vocalist of Russian Pop-Rock band Ranetki Girls. She is ex-member of the band Nine Lives She replaced the group's former drummer Valerie Kozlova in fall 2008.
Urszula Dudziak.  Urszula Bogumiła Dudziak-Urbaniak (born 22 October 1943) is a leading Polish jazz vocalist. She has worked with artists such as Krzysztof Komeda Michał Urbaniak (her ex-husband) Gil Evans Archie Shepp and Lester Bowie. Her 1970s song Papaya gained widespread popularity in Asia and Latin America in 2007.
Jo Blankenburg.  Jo Blankenburg (born March 18 1972) is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising.
Michael Landy.  Michael Landy RA (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001) in which he destroyed all his possessions and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008 Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Antonio Licata.  Antonio Licata (January 3 1810 - June 27 1892) was an Italian painter mainly of sacred subjects and portraits.
Chris Morris (satirist).  Christopher Morris (born 15 June 1962) is an English satirist writer director actor voice actor and producer known for his black humour surrealism and controversial subject matter. He has been hailed for his uncompromising moralistic drive by the British Film Institute. His tendency to avoid the media spotlight has seen him become one of the more enigmatic figures in British comedy.Morris was born in Bristol and grew up in Huntingdonshire the son of a village GP.
Magnus Takvam.  Magnus Takvam (born 1952) is a Norwegian journalist.He is currently employed as a news analyst in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation appearing on the evening news Dagsrevyen and the radio news magazine Dagsnytt Atten. He was employed in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1983.Magnus Takvam is the son of poet Marie Takvam.
Morgan Nicholls.  Morgan Daniel Nicholls is an English musician member of Senseless Things and best known for performing with Gorillaz The Streets Muse and most recently Lily Allen. He released one solo album under the name Morgan.
François de Troy.  François de Troy (1645 – 21 November 1730) was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Bernard Seigal.  Bernard R. Buddy Blue Seigal (December 30 1957 – April 2 2006) was a San Diego musician music critic and writer who performed and often wrote under his stage name Buddy Blue. He was a founding member of The Beat Farmers a Southern California rock band that blended country roots music and rock 'n' roll.
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli.  Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14 1824 – June 29 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists.
Paul C.  Paul C. McKasty (September 20 1964 – July 17 1989) better known as Paul C was an East coast hip hop producer and engineer in the 1980s. McKasty was of Polish descent.
Jem (singer).  Jemma Griffiths (born 18 May 1975) known by her stage name Jem is a Welsh singer songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Penarth Wales she began songwriting at an early age. After graduating university in 1996 she worked as a DJ as well as co-founder of record label Marine Parade in Brighton.
Margarita Balliana.  Margarita Balliana (fl. 1680) was a Renaissance woman of letters from Casale Monferrato in north-west Italy. She received a good education in philosophy and history and is described by Gioseffantonio Morano as ‘illustrious for the fineness of her talents’. She published various poems in Latin and in Italian and was praised by Stefano Guazzo the most prominent writer of Renaissance Casale and by Fulgenzio Alghisi the historian of Monferrato. She married Federico Prato a senator of Monferrato.
Bill Rechin.  William J. Rechin (August 20 1930 – May 21 2011) better known as Bill Rechin was an American cartoonist who created the comic strips Out of Bounds and Crock.Born in Buffalo New York Rechin studied art at the Buffalo's Albright Academy of Art where he met his wife Trish. He drew his first strip Pluribus in 1970. In 1975 Rechin Don Wilder (1934–2008) and Brant Parker launched Crock a strip depicting the French Foreign Legion.
Jimmy LaFave.  Jimmy LaFave (born July 12 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point Texas. After moving to Stillwater Oklahoma LaFave crafted a musical style called Red Dirt music and became a disciple of the state's most famous folk musician: Woody Guthrie. LaFave is an Advisory Board member and regular performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.
Israel Tanenbaum.  Israel Tanenbaum-Rivera (born March 7 1961) is a Puerto Rican pianist record producer composer arranger and audio engineer who has produced more than 50 albums and participated in over 100 recordings.
Scott Fitzgerald (singer).  Scott Fitzgerald (born William McPhail 28 April 1948) is a singer and musical actor who experienced international music chart success in the 1970s and later represented the UK at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.
Flora Karimova.  Flora Alakbar gizi Karimova (Azerbaijani: Flora Ələkbər qızı Kərimova; July 23 1941 Baku) is an Azerbaijani popular music singer and People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
Gillian Attard.  Gillian Attard S.Ġ. (born 3 February 1983) is a Maltese actress singer television personality and Vocal Coach.
Echo (producer).  Paul Irizarry known artistically as Echo is a Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican reggaeton producer/songwriter.
Craig Adams (musician).  Craig David Adams (born 4 April 1962 in Otley West Yorkshire) is a British musician bass guitarist and songwriter. Over his career he has worked with a variety of rock bands while also being part of a touring crew. Brought up in Leeds Adams left school to pursue a career in music. He initially played keyboards in a local band the Expelairs who released a handful of singles. He left the five-piece due to musical differences and took up bass.
Barbara Mandrell.  Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25 1948) is an American country music singer. She is known for a series of Top 10 hits and TV shows in the 1970s and 1980s that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of that period. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.She was the first performer to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award twice. She was the only female to do so until Taylor Swift equaled her.
Michael Dubruiel.  Michael Dubruiel (November 16 1958 – February 3 2009) was a Roman Catholic author and speaker. Born in Keene New Hampshire Dubruiel served for four years in the U.S. Army before studying for a BA in philosophy from the now-closed St. Meinrad College and an MA in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University.
Bill Medley.  William Thomas Bill Medley (born September 19 1940 Los Angeles California) is an American singer and songwriter best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers.Medley met his singing partner Bobby Hatfield while attending California State University Long Beach. The pair began singing as a duo in 1962. Their first single was Little Latin Lupe Lu; their first hit was You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' produced by Phil Spector in 1964.
Dimitris Mitropanos.  Dimitris Mitropanos (Greek: Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος) (2 April 1948 – 17 April 2012) was a Greek singer. He was renowned for his mastery of Laïkó a Greek music style.
Arbo Valdma.  Arbo Valdma (born 20 February 1942 in Pärnu) is an Estonian pianist and music pedagogue. He is a professor of piano at the University of Music in Cologne (Germany). He received his musical education at the Music Academy in Tallinn (Estonia) under Bruno Lukk (himself a student of Arthur Schnabel and Paul Hindemith) and later with Nina Emelyanova (a former student of Samuel Feinberg) at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (Masters and Doctorate degrees).
Yves Tanguy.  Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5 1900 – January 15 1955) known as Yves Tanguy was a French surrealist painter.
Charles Fraser (artist).  Charles Fraser an artist born at Charleston in 1782 studied law but afterwards devoted himself to art. In 1825 he painted the portrait of Lafayette. His talent was very diversified and in 1857 at an exhibition of his works at Charleston there were shown 313 miniatures and 139 landscapes and other pieces by him. He was also a frequent orator in Charleston. For instance he delivered the dedication address at Magnolia Cemetery (Charleston South Carolina) in 1850.
Charles Rosin.  Charles Scott Rosin is an screenwriter and producer who has written for television since the late 1970s.
Sonya Sones.  Sonya Sones is an American poet and author. She has written four young adult novels in verse as well as a novel in verse for adults and a picture book.
Shantell Martin.  Shantell Martin (born October 1 1980) is a British visual artist best known for her stream-of-consciousness drawings and light projections. Martin lives and works in New York
Gloria Nord.  Gloria Nord (August 2 1922 – December 30 2009) born Gloria Nordskog was an American roller skater ice skater and pin-up girl who became known as Sonja Henie on wheels and the Sonja Henie of the roller rinks. Nord was reportedly adored by millions in the 1940s and 1950s for her balletic finesse and theatrical flamboyance.
Jade Jones (singer).  Jade Jones (born 12 February 1979) is an English R&B singer turned chef. He is best known as being the former lead singer of the band Damage.After leaving Damage Jones joined CherryBlackStone who appeared in Channel 4's Bo in the USA. In 2006 he participated and went on to win the Channel 4 reality show The Games.Jones left CherryBlackStone in 2008 following the birth of his son and became a full-time trainee chef.
Alex Ebert.  Alexander Michael Tahquitz Alex Ebert (born May 12 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. He is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American bands Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. On January 12 2014 Ebert won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his musical contributions to the film All Is Lost.
Louis Betts.  Louis Betts (October 5 1873 – 1961) was an American portrait painter.
Diamanda Galás.  Diamanda Galás (born 1955) is an American avant-garde composer vocalist pianist organist performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as capable of the most unnerving vocal terror with her three and a half octave vocal range. Her works largely concentrate on the topics of AIDS mental illness despair injustice condemnation and loss of dignity.
Frederick Exley.  Frederick Earl Fred Exley (March 28 1929 – June 17 1992) was an American writer best known as the author of the fictional memoir A Fan's Notes.
Lobo (musician).  Roland Kent LaVoie better known by the stage name Lobo (born July 31 1943) is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including Me and You and a Dog Named Boo I'd Love You to Want Me and Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend.
Enrique Graf.  Enrique Graf is a Uruguayan born American naturalized musician.
Ken Kensei.  Ken Kensei (ケン・ケンセイ Ken Kensei) (born 1954) is a Japanese actor who is known for various cameo appearances on numerous movies.
Crystal Gayle.  Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb on January 9 1951) is an award-winning American country music singer. Best known for her 1977 country-pop crossover hit song Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue she accumulated 20 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s (18 on Billboard and 2 on Cashbox) with six albums certified Gold by the RIAA. Crystal Gayle became the first female artist in country music history to reach Platinum sales with her 1977 album We Must Believe in Magic.
Leslie Grace.  Leslie Grace Martínez (born January 7 1995) better known as Leslie Grace is a singer-songwriter.
Armando Gama.  Armando António Capelo Diniz da Gama (born April 1 1954 in Luanda Angola) is a Portuguese singer-songwriter and baritone opera singer whose physical trademark for decades has been his shoulder-length jet black hair.Gama grew up in a colonial family in Angola and lived there until the age of 17. Upon moving to Portugal in 1971 he scored the first of many #1 hits on the Portuguese music charts.
Paul Fregosi.  Paul Fregosi (Sydney Australia) born in Marseilles and educated in Britain wrote the widely praised Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War 1792-1815 and Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries.Paul Fregosi had four children: Edward Eva Lindsey and his youngest Isabelle.He died in Brazil on January 31 2001. His body was buried next to that of his wife in St Remy de Provence France.
Rodrigo Orrego.  Rodrigo Orrego was born in Santiago de Chile. He studied musical history and voice at the Universidad Católica de Chile and graduated afterwards with Prof.
Mira Mihelič.  Mira Mihelič also known as Mira Kramer Puc (14 July 1912 - 4 September 1985) was a Slovene writer and translator.
Mille Petrozza.  Miland Mille Petrozza (born December 18 1966) is a German (of Italian- from Calabria descent) guitarist and singer. He is best known for being the lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Kreator (which he started playing in as Tormentor in 1984).
Farrah Franklin.  Farrah Franklin (born May 3 1981) is an American singer and actress. She is a former member of Destiny's Child who replaced LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett alongside with Michelle Williams.
Linda Medley.  Linda Medley (born May 17 1964 in Stockton California) is an American comic book author and illustrator known for her Castle Waiting series of comic books and graphic novels.
Maryline Desbiolles.  Maryline Desbiolles is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina 1999 for Anchise.
Jōji Kamio.  Jōji Kamio (神尾 丈治 Kamio Jōji) is a male Japanese author who has written many erotic novels based from adult Japanese visual novels. He has been writing such novels since 2001. He has notably written novels for the past four visual novels by Hooksoft: Orange Pocket Like Life _Summer and HoneyComing.
Valentina Giovagnini.  Valentina Giovagnini (6 April 1980 – 2 January 2009) was an Italian pop singer active between 2001 and 2009. She was born in Arezzo Italy.She made her first appearance at the Sanremo Music Festival (Youth Section) in 2002 coming second with the song Il passo silenzioso della neve.Her first solo album Creatura nuda (Nude Creature) uses unusual typical Celtic instruments: whistle musette de cour uilleann pipes and others.
Edward McCrorie.  Edward McCrorie is a Professor Emeritus of English at Providence College in Providence RI. He is the author of four collections of poetry and three verse translations of epics by Virgil and Homer. He was educated in local schools in Rhode Island and spent two and one half years at Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Warwick Neck RI. From 1955 to 1959 he served with the U.S. Navy as an aircraft electrician visiting ports in England and Greece.
Juan García Esquivel.  Juan García Esquivel (January 20 1918 – January 3 2002) often simply known as Esquivel! was a Mexican band leader pianist and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elements of lounge music and jazz with Latin flavors.
Vin Choi.  Vin Choi Kay-Chun (born 23 May 1984) is a Hong Kong actor under TVB.
Louis Grabu.  Louis Grabu Grabut Grabue or Grebus (fl. 1665 – 1690 died after 1693) was a Catalan-born French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England.While he was probably born in Catalonia – he was later referred to as 'Lodovicus Grabeu of Shalon in Catalunnia' – details of his early life are lacking. Sometime in his youth he moved to Paris where he was most likely trained by Lully.
Anton Koslov Mayr.  Anton Koslov Mayr is a Russian–American photographer and author.Koslov studied film and philosophy at NYU and Harvard and holds a Ph.D. from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Koslov-Mayr is known for his photography and worked on film projects with American artists Richard Dailey Hilton McConnico and independent New York film Mark Boswell.
Anna Savva.  Anna Savva is an actress who has appeared in many British TV shows since 1985.She has had roles in Minder Prime Suspect and Planespotting.She was also a puppeteer in Little Shop of Horrors.Most recently she played Anna Pappas in EastEnders.
Francesco Andreini (painter).  Francesco Andreini (1697–1751) was a Rococo era painter from Cesena Italy.
Dmitry Maevsky.  Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Мае́вский; May 17 1917 Petrograd Russian Empire – July 23 1992 Saint Petersburg Russia) – Soviet Russian painter lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his lyrical landscapes.
Bappi Lahiri.  Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri (born 27 November 1952) is a music director in the Indian film industry. He popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s and 90s with filmi soundtracks like Disco Dancer Namak Halaal Dance Dance Commando Gang Leader and Sharaabi among others.Bappi Lahiri joined BJP in 2014. He was declared a BJP candidate from Srirampur in West Bengal for the Indian general election 2014.
Marcia Griffiths.  Marcia Llyneth Griffiths (born 23 November 1949) is a successful female singer also called the Queen of Reggae. One reviewer described her noting she is known primarily for her strong smooth-as-mousse love songs and captivating live performances.
Grant Hutchison.  Grant Hutchison is a Scottish drummer and percussionist. He is best known as the drummer of the indie rock band Frightened Rabbit with whom he has recorded four studio albums.Initially a solo project for his brother Scott Grant joined Frightened Rabbit in 2004 with the duo recording the band's debut album Sing the Greys (2006). Grant has performed on each of the band's releases to date and contributed to the songwriting process of the band's fourth studio album Pedestrian Verse (2013).
Russell Wong.  Russell Girard Wong (王盛德 pinyin: Wáng Shèngdé; born March 1 1963) is an American actor as well as the brother of actor/model Michael Wong.
Roberto Drummond.  Roberto Francis Drummond (Ferros Minas Gerais December 21 1933 — Belo Horizonte June 21 2002) was a Brazilian journalist and writer.
Judy Rifka.  Judy Rifka (born 1945) an American artist first emerged in the 1970s as a painter and video artist and is associated with Colab Tribeca the Lower East Side arts scene of that period and such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat Rene Ricard John Ahearn Richard Mock Ron Gorchov Becky Howland Keith Haring Matthew Geller Joseph Nechvatal Bruce Nauman Elizabeth Murray Jenny Holzer Cookie Mueller Richard Prince Kiki Smith Lynne Tillman David Wojnarowicz and Ruth Root.
Tracy Spencer.  Louise Tracy Freeman (born 5 January 1967) better known as Tracy Spencer is a British Italo disco singer and actress. Born in London she is best known for the song Run to Me that won the 1986 Festivalbar and that ranked first at the Italian hit parade. She was also one half of the Italo disco duo Marx & Spencer together with David Marx.
Sibel Tüzün.  Sibel Tüzün (born 29 September 1971 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish pop/rock/jazz singer.
Kathinka Zitz-Halein.  Kathinka Zitz (née Halein; November 4 1801 – March 8 1877) was a German writer. On June 3 1837 she married a distant relative the prominent Mainz attorney and 1848 revolutionary Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz. They lived together for two years.
Tomasz Wróblewski.  Tomasz Wróblewski (born 2 June 1980 in Warsaw Poland) stage name Orion is a Polish extreme metal musician best known for being the bassist and backing vocalist for black-death metal band Behemoth. Since 1997 he also is a member of symphonic black metal band Vesania as a lead vocalist and guitarist. In 2002 Orion became bassist of doom metal band Neolithic and was a member of the group till 2006 when they were disbanded. In 2003 he joined Behemoth as session bassist.
Đặng Thân.  Đặng Thân is a notable bilingual poet fiction writer and essayist based in Vietnam.In the feature article Demilitarized Zone: Report From Literary Vietnam the New York-based Poets & Writers wrote of Than: In the literary circles he runs in Dang is praised for his idiosyncratic prose and rebellious style.He is of course highly appreciated by the Vietnamese elite. There he is regarded the typical figure of Post-Doi Moi Literature.
Alexander Tucker (musician).  Alexander Tucker is an English musician from Kent who writes records and performs alone and in collaboration with a varied array of artists.
Bobby Pearce (designer).  Bobby Pearce is a Tony Award nominated American costume designer for stage film and television.
Müslüm Gürses.  Müslüm Gürses (pronounced [mysˈlym ɟyɾˈses] (7 May 1953 – 3 March 2013) born Müslüm Akbaş and called Müslüm Baba (literally: Papa Müslüm) was a popular Turkish arabesk singer and actor.
Fred D'Aguiar.  Fred D'Aguiar (born 2 February 1960) is a British-Guyanese poet novelist and playwright. He is currently Professor of English at Virginia Tech.
Alexander Weygers.  Alexander George (Alex) Weygers (October 12 1901–July 23 1989) was a polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor painter print maker blacksmith carpenter United States Marine philosopher Aerospace engineer and author.
Harlan Hubbard.  Harlan Hubbard (January 4 1900 - January 16 1988) was an American artist and author who lived a simple life that Henry David Thoreau only experimented with.
Krishna Chaitanya (lyricist).  Krishna Chaitanya is a Telugu lyricist. He mainly works as a lyricist for the Telugu film industry.
Jeff Wootton.  Jeffrey Wootton (born 12 May 1988) is an English guitarist and composer from Manchester.
Trevor Lock.  Trevor Lock (born 2 September 1973) is an English comedian actor and playwright. He is noted for the circuitous and surreal nature of his stand-up comedy.
Shinji Miyazaki.  Shinji Miyazaki (宮崎慎二 Miyazaki Shinji born October 7 1956) is a Japanese composer and arranger and also a J-Pop Singer. He was born in Kobe and lived in a variety of areas on the island of Shikoku for much of his childhood. He developed a taste for pop music which eventually led him to study musical arrangement and piano instruction at a music conservatory.
Mor Katzir.  Mor Katzir (born August 23 1980) is an Israeli model from Haifa Israel. She has posed for ads for Cole Haan Ann Taylor Costume National and Missoni and in catalogs for Saks JCrew H&M and Nordstroms. Her most notable editorial work includes the covers of L'Officiel Elle (France) and D (Italy). She has also appeared in V The Face Another and German Vogue.
Raffaëla Paton.  Raffaëla Paton (born June 1 1983 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer of Surinamese descent and the winner of the 2006 Dutch talent show Idols. Raffaëla recently participated in the Netherlands national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan with her entry Chocolatte.
Rod Hart.  Rod Hart was a one-hit wonder who scored a minor hit single in 1977 C.B. Savage which charted on both the Billboard magazine pop and country charts. The song was a gay-themed takeoff on the citizens band radio fad and featured a smokey (highway patrolman) pretending to be a gay truck driver over the CB radio; the patrolman's masquerade distracts the lead trucker in a convoy who is listening to him allowing the highway patrol to bust the 5-truck convoy for speeding.
Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck.  Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck (1567-ca.1637) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Marcia Warren.  Marcia Warren (born 26 November 1943) is an English stage film and television actress. On stage she appeared in Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati and The Sea (2008) at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Arnold Lanni.  Arnold David Lanni (born 4 May 1956) is a Canadian record producer and former member of Frozen Ghost and Sheriff. He wrote Sheriff's most successful song When I'm with You.
Pam Ayres.  Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is an English poet comedian songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes. Her 1975 appearance on the television talent show Opportunity Knocks led to a variety of appearances on TV and radio shows a one-woman touring stage show and performing before the Queen.
An Nanba.  An Nanba (南波杏 Nanba An) also known as Ann Nanba is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress who has had a long and prolific career during which she has won multiple awards. At the beginning of 2009 the DMM and Amazon sites both listed more than 250 DVDs available under her name. She retired from AV work in 2008.
Sanjeev Abhyankar.  Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Mewati Gharana.He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1999 for his song Suno Re Bhaila in the Hindi film Godmother
Şadi Üçüncü.  Şadi Üçüncü (1948 Turkey – 2004 Germany) was a Turkish-German writer. After high school and university in Istanbul Ücüncü moved to Germany in 1974 where he received a doctorate in business administration.
Ken Stringfellow.  Kenneth Stuart Stringfellow (born October 30 1968) is an American singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist arranger and producer. Best known for his work with The Posies R.E.M. and the re-formed Big Star Stringfellow's discography includes more than 200 albums.
DJ Dougal.  DJ Dougal (real name Paul Arnold Clarke Born 1975) is a British UK Hardcore and happy hardcore artist and DJ.He first became involved with the dance music scene at the age of 15 while setting up sound systems for some of the first acid house parties as part of work experience assignment to a music shop.His style is a mix of euphoric hardcore with uplifting vocals.
George Passantino.  George Passantino (1922–2004) was an American artist teacher and author. He studied under Robert Ward Johnson Howard Trafton and Frank J. Reilly. He taught at the Famous Artists School in Westport Connecticut at the Art Students League and at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan Connecticut.
Michael Gitlin.  Michael Gitlin (born 1943 in Cape Town South Africa) is a contemporary sculptor.
Belinda Jones (writer).  Belinda Jones (born 20 December 1967) is an English writer.
Gregg McCrary.  Gregg O. McCrary is a former FBI agent an expert witness and consultant an author and an adjunct forensic psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale and at Marymount University in Arlington Virginia.
John Fawcett (of Bolton).  John Fawcett (of Bolton) (8 December 1789 – 26 October 1867) began in life as a shoemaker but taught himself to be a musician. In 1825 Fawcett moved to Bolton in Lancashire and became an organist choir leader and composer.
Mr. Collipark.  Michael Crooms better known by his stage name Mr. Collipark and also known as DJ Smurf is a hip hop producer and the president of his own Atlanta-based record label Collipark Music which was started in 1999.The name Collipark was derived from the city College Park Georgia. Crooms is credited as playing a major role in the career of the Ying Yang Twins Soulja Boy Taurus Hurricane Chris V.I.C. Vistoso Bosses and more.In 2007 Mr. Collipark won BMI's Songwriter of the Year award.
Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos.  Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos (May 9 1638 – August 6 1711) commonly referred to as Gregorio Vasquez was a Colombian painter including the Quitenian Miguel de Santiago was one of the leading artist in the Latin American Baroque movement which extended from the mid 17th to the late 18th century in the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
Bert Wynne.  Bert Wynne (1886-1971) was a British actor and film director.
Ahmad Zakii Anwar.  Ahmad Zakii Anwar (born 1955 in Johor state Malaysia) is one of the most well-known artist in Malaysia.
Kohei Murakami.  Kohei Murakami (村上 幸平 Murakami Kōhei June 1 1976–) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University's business school. He is known for his portrayal of Masato Kusaka/Kamen Rider Kaixa in Kamen Rider 555 and as Yuji Nakajo/Hikomaro/Giza/Hikaru in Cutie Honey: The Live. He also had a regular role as Kent Kiba/Dimensional Investigator Kent in Jikuu Keisatsu Wecker D-02.
Master of the Assisi Choirbooks.  The Master of the Assisi Choirbooks was an Italian manuscript illuminator active during the last quarter of the thirteenth century. Umbrian or Roman in origin he is associated with work done for the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi; he seems to have known Cimabue's work for that church and his work also indicates the influence of both the Master of the San Lorenzo Choirbooks and the Master of the Deruta-Salerno Missals.
Betty Ann Grove.  Betty Ann Grove is an American actress and singer. A petite redhead with a powerful voice she recorded in the 1950s. In 1950 she debuted on Broadway in the 1948 original production of Kiss Me Kate playing Lois Lane/Bianca a lead role that was originated by Lisa Kirk (who she replaced). She appeared on Broadway in three other shows as well: The 1968 original production of George M!; the 1979 original production of I Remember Mama; and the 1983 revival of On Your Toes.
Max Graham.  Max Graham is a Canadian DJ composer and producer of dance music . He is most famous for his hits “Sun in the Winter” and “Nothing Else Matters” His Cycles CD Series/Radio show as well as his remix of the classic song “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes. Graham can be found touring the world on a regular basis. He presently runs the trance and progressive label Re*Brand Records and resides in Montreal.
Mohammad Nouri (singer).  Mohammad Nouri (Persian: محمد نوری ‎) (December 22 1929 – July 31 2010) was one of the foremost folk and pop singers in Iran.Early in his career Nouri enjoyed some degree of popularity among chore orchestral music lovers. His tunes were often serious and thought-provoking hardly palatable though for the young and old pop music lovers who admired stage and special event performers such as Viguen and a host of others.
Bronzino.  Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17 1503 – November 23 1572) usually known as Il Bronzino or Agnolo Bronzino (mistaken attempts also have been made in the past to assert his name was Agnolo Tori and even Angelo (Agnolo) Allori) was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet Bronzino in all probability refers to his relatively dark skin.
Benny Prasad.  Benny Prasad is an instrumental guitarist from India. He designed the Bentar which is the World's First Bongo Guitar. He also holds the World Record for being the fastest man ever to visit all 245 countries in the world.He has traveled all around the world performing to audiences. He has performed before presidents and parliaments before the crowds of 2007 military world games 2006 FIFA world cup and the 2004 olympic games.
John Arthur Martinez.  John Arthur Martinez (born June 10 1961 in Austin Texas) is an American country music artist. Martinez finished in second place on the first season of the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. In 2004 Martinez released a studio album for Dualtone Records which produced one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
George Blackall Simonds.  George Blackall Simonds (6 October 1843 – 16 December 1929) was an English sculptor and director of H & G Simonds Brewery in Reading in the English county of Berkshire.George was the second son of George Simonds Senior of Reading director of the H & G Simonds and his wife Mary Anne the daughter of William Boulger of Bradfield. His grandfather was Reading brewing and banking entrepreneur William Blackall Simonds.
Friedrich von Sallet.  Friedrich von Sallet (20 April 1812 – 21 February 1843) was a German writer most notable for his political and religion-critiquing poems.
Ray Bradbury.  Raymond Douglas Ray Bradbury (August 22 1920 – June 5 2012) was an American fantasy science fiction horror and mystery fiction writer. He was an autodidact. He is best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951) Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.
Steve Nelson (vibraphonist).  Steve Nelson (born 1954 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American vibraphonist and has been a member of Dave Holland's Quintet and Big Band for over a decade. He graduated from Rutgers University with both Master's and Bachelor's degrees in music and his teaching activities have included a position at Princeton University. He has appeared at concerts and festivals worldwide and has made recordings as the leader of his own group.
Mike Mignola.  Michael Joseph Mike Mignola (/ˌmɪnˈjoʊlə/; born September 16 1960) is an American comic book artist and writer who created the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book The Amazing Screw-On Head.
Lydia Murdock.  Lydia Murdock is an American pop singer. She is best known for her answer song for Michael Jackson's Billie Jean known as Superstar where she portrayed Billie Jean saying that she's mad as hell in the song's lyrics. The song was a hit in Canada and the United Kingdom in 1983.In a November 1983 edition of the British music magazine NME it stated that Superstar was the latest in a long line of replies destined to be forgotten.
CL Smooth.  CL Smooth (born Corey Brent Penn Sr. October 8 1968 New Rochelle New York) is an American rapper. He is best known as the vocal half of the hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.After the pair split in 1995 Pete Rock whose work with CL had garnered him a reputation as one of the most acclaimed producers in hip-hop went on to produce (and remix) tracks for dozens of marquee-name and/or well-respected acts and to release a batch of solo and instrumental albums. C.L.
Mal Waldron.  Malcolm Earl Mal Waldron (August 16 1925 – December 2 2002) was an American jazz pianist composer and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950 after graduating from university. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus Jackie McLean John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy among others.
Anjelika Akbar.  Anjelika Akbar (born 1969 in Karaganda Kazakhstan) is a Turkish composer and pianist of Uzbek descent.She was born Anjelika Rosenbaum Akbar to a family of a Jewish musician-philosopher father and an Uzbek musician mother. She could play the piano and read music at the age of 25. Akbar began taking private piano lessons when she became 3 years old.
Danica Novgorodoff.  Danica Novgorodoff (born September 8 1980) is a graphic novelist painter illustrator graphic designer and writer from Louisville Kentuckywho currently lives in Brooklyn NY.
Anna Netrebko.  Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко born 18 September 1971) is a Russian operatic soprano. She now holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and currently resides in New York City.
Hilary Cunningham Scharper.  Hilary Cunningham Scharper (born November 21 1961) is a novelist and associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Toronto. Scharper’s fiction academic writing teaching and research focus on cultural approaches to Nature.
E. Simms Campbell.  Elmer Simms Campbell (January 2 1906 – January 27 1971) was an American cartoonist who signed his work E. Simms Campbell. He was the first African-American cartoonist published in nationally distributed slick magazines and he was the creator of Esky the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire.
Carolyn Parton.  Carolyn Parton (b. 1964) is a South African artist living and working in Cape Town. She is particularly interested in the impact of artists and their art making on the environment. Many of her works are made using spent and discarded paint tubes from other artists which are then recycled into new images. Parton's work addresses both the waste generated in traditional painting and the environmental impact of the paint itself.
Constantinos Christoforou.  'Constantinos Christoforou' is a popular Cypriot singer who belongs to the team of MINOS-EMI Greece (Universal Group) with big hits for many years now in Greece and in Cyprus. Many of his albums have become gold or platinum and his music has a great appeal on people. It is estimated that he has sold more than 300000 copies so far in Greece and Cyprus. Many of his songs have rocked the airplay charts of the biggest radio stations in the country.
Sakuzō Yoshino.  Sakuzō Yoshino (吉野 作造 Yoshino Sakuzō January 29 1878–March 18 1933) was a Japanese academic historian author and professor of political science.This Japanese author active as a political thinker in the Taishō period. He is best known for his formulation of the theory of Minponshugi or politics of the people.Yoshino graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1904. In 1906 he went to China as a private tutor for the son of Yuan Shikai the then dominant Chinese politician.
Francisco Luque.  Francisco Luque Palma (Santaella Spain 1948) is a Spanish sculptor.
Alexander Jablokov.  Alexander Jablokov (born 1956) is an American writer and novelist. He worked for years as a communications engineer in Boston before becoming a full-time writer in 1988; however he later took a day job as a marketing executive.
Angelo Starr.  Angelo Starr is an American singer musician and record producer.Upon the death of his brother Edwin Starr in 2003 Angelo stepped in to front The Team the band that had toured with Edwin. Together Starr and The Team have continued touring. Prior to that Starr had worked as a audio engineer with the UK hip hop label Kold Sweat Records.Starr also contributes as a singer in The AllStars Collective.
Wanting Qu.  Wanting Qu simply known as Wanting (born October 10 1983) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and pianist based in Vancouver.
Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen Viscount of Porto Seguro.  Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen Viscount of Porto Seguro (February 17 1816 — June 26 1878) was a Brazilian military diplomat and historian. He is the patron of the 39th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Max Jacob.  Max Jacob (French: [maks ʒakɔb]; 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet painter writer and critic.
Philip Taylor Kramer.  Philip Taylor Kramer (July 12 1952 – February 12 1995) was a bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly during the 1970s. After this he obtained a night school degree in aerospace engineering he worked on the MX missile guidance system for a contractor of the US Department of Defense and later in the computer industry on fractal compression facial recognition systems and advanced communications. His disappearance on February 12 1995 caused a mystery lasting for years.
Abigail Garner.  Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with LGBT parents.Garner is the creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com a website for LGBT families.
Amado de la Cueva.  Amado de la Cueva (b. Guadalajara Jalisco May 6 1891 – d. Guadalajara Jalisco April 1 1926) was a Mexican painter.De la Cueva studied in Rome. After his return to Mexico in September 1922 he painted amongst others together with Diego Rivera his murals at the Secretaría de Educación Pública. On October 16 1923 he returned to his home town where he painted the murals at Universidad de Guadalajara's assembly hall together with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Carlos Orozco after 1925.
Clancy Philbrick.  Clarence Hunt Philbrick (born April 24 1986 in Providence Rhode Island) (commonly known as Clancy) is an Americancontemporary artist whose work includes painting photography sculpture street art and literature. Philbrick has lived and exhibited in Connecticut New York New Zealand San Francisco Lake Tahoe Denver and Aspen CO where he currently lives and works.Clancy was raised in the sea-side town of Stonington CT.
Charles Spearin.  Charles Spearin is a musician from Toronto Ontario. Currently touring as a multi-instrumentalist with Feist in support of her album Metals Charles is a founding member of Do Make Say Think KC Accidental and Broken Social Scene and also contributes to Valley of the Giants. He is best known for composing and performing in very broad ranges of musical genres.His solo album The Happiness Project is a concept album and was released on February 14 2009 on the Arts & Crafts Label.
Justin Levinson.  Justin Levinson is a singer/songwriter from Vermont.
Bobby Blotzer.  Robert John Blotzer better known as Bobby Blotzer and nicknamed Blotz (born on October 22 1958 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is a drummer most famous for playing drums for glam metal band Ratt. He attended Torrance High School in Torrance California along with his Ratt bandmate Juan Croucier.
Erica Campbell.  Erica Rose Campbell (born May 12 1981 in Deerfield New Hampshire) is a former American glamour model bondage model and actress.
Dino Campana.  Dino Campana (20 August 1885 – 1 March 1932) was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry the Canti orfici (Orphic Songs) as well as his wild and erratic personality including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo. He is often seen as an Italian example of a poète maudit.
Van McCoy.  Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6 1940 – July 6 1979) professionally known as Van McCoy. was an accomplished musician record producer arranger songwriter and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song The Hustle.
Vjekoslav Šutej.  Vjekoslav Šutej (31 July 1951 – 2 December 2009) was a prominent Croatian orchestral conductor.
Don Webb (writer).  Don Webb (born 1960) is an American science fiction and mystery writer and former High Priest of the Temple of Set.
Paul Sellers.  Paul Sellers was born in 1950 and apprenticed in the UK in 1965. He moved to the US in 1984 and quickly became noted for his ability in traditional woodworking. He has taught thousands of people in the craft of woodworking. He teaches in the US and the UK for the New Legacy School of Woodworking. Sellers is author to Working Wood which was published in 2011.
Wyclef Jean.  Wyclef Jeanelle Jean (/ˈwaɪklɪf ˈʒɑːn/; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [wajklɛf ʒã]; born October 17 1969) is an American hip hop recording artist musician actor and politician. At age nine[citation needed] Jean moved to the USA with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees.
Budd Albright.  Budd Albright (born August 18 1936) is an American actor singer stunt man and sportsman.
Ealy Mays.  Ealy Mays (born January 15 1959) is a Paris-based African-American contemporary artist. His work has been exhibited in Mexico’s Galeria Clava Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre Mexico’s annual José Clemente Orozco Art competition and New York’s Guggenheim museum to name a few. Legendary painter Henry O. Tanner was the first African American to exhibit at the Louvre in 1897.
Vera Manuel.  Vera Manuel (1949–2010) was Secwepemc-Ktunaxa daughter of cultural leader Marceline Paul and political leader George Manuel Sr born in 1949. She grew up on the Neskonlith Reservation in the interior of British Columbia and lived for many years in Vancouver Canada where she died in January 2010. She worked as a playwright poet writer healer and educator in diverse communities across North America.
Wilma Lee Cooper.  Wilma Lee Leary (February 7 1921 – September 13 2011) known professionally as Wilma Lee Cooper was an American bluegrass-based country music entertainer.
James Thackara.  James Thackara (born December 7 1944) is an American writer who has lived in the United Kingdom since 1971. He has published three novels – America’s Children (1984) Ahab’s Daughter (1989) and The Book of Kings (1999).
Morris (singer).  Marius Iancu better known by his stage name Morris (born in Roman Romania on 9 September 1976) is a Romanian singer and DJ specializing in pop music house and electro sounds. He is signed to the Romanian Roton record label.
Tim Donahue (drummer).  Timothy Robert Donahue (born August 30 1966) is an American drummer.
Howard Hendricks.  Howard G. Hendricks (April 5 1924 – February 20 2013) was a longtime professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and speaker for Promise Keepers. Upon his graduation from Dallas Hendricks accepted the pastorate at Calvary Independent Presbyterian Church (now Calvary Bible Church) in Fort Worth Texas. An opening on the seminary staff led Hendricks to begin teaching twice per week in the fall of 1951. After one year on staff Hendricks resigned his post to pursue a doctorate at Yale University.
Mark Fax.  Mark Oakland Fax (15 June 1911 - 2 January 1974) was a composer and a professor of music.
Gerard Unger.  Gerard Unger (born January 22 1942 Arnhem) is a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963–67 and subsequently worked at Total Design Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975 he established himself as an independent developer. He lives and works in Bussum Netherlands.
Bill Ransom.  Bill Ransom is a science fiction writer born in Puyallup Washington in 1945.
Henry Louis Gates.  Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr. (born September 16 1950) is an American literary critic educator scholar writer and editor. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching research and development of academic institutions to study black culture.
Lawnie Wallace.  Lawnie Wallace is a Canadian country music singer. Wallace recorded one studio album for MCA Canada 1995's Thought I Was Dreaming. Four singles from the album charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada including the number 8-peaking title track.
Richard Olmsted.  For the early Connecticut settler see Richard Olmsted (settler)Richard Olmsted is an American artist living in Bellingham Washington. Raised in Mount Vernon Washington Olmsted is best known for his pencil drawings. Olmsted has had showings at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles (with Chet Zar and Lola) Mutiny Tattoo in Bellingham The Wayward Cafe in Seattle WA and the B Gallery at Western Washington University.
Susanna Kearsley.  Susanna Kearsley (born in Brantford Ontario) is a Canadian novelist.She studied politics and international development and has worked as museum curator.Her novel Mariana (1995) won the Catherine Cookson Literary Prize.
Brad Adkins.  Brad Adkins (born 1973 in Kalispell Montana) is a self-taught American artist and curator currently residing in Portland Oregon. In 2002 Chas Bowie of The Portland Mercury declared Adkins the poster boy of low-rent artwork. Also in 2002 D.K.
Anni Blomqvist.  Anni Viktoria Karlsson (7 October 1909 in Vårdö Åland Islands Finland - 26 June 1990 in Vårdö Åland Islands Finland) was a Finland-Swedish novelist.
Kelly Kay.  Kelly Kay (her real surname is Kershaw) is a naturally large breasted model from Liverpool. She was discovered by the Daily Sport in 2004 and began her career in magazines in October 2004. She made a DVD in 2004 entitled Alone with Kelly Kay where she performed sexual acts.
Faye Wong.  Faye Wong (born 8 August 1969) is a Chinese-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to in the media as a diva (Chinese: 天后; literally Heavenly Queen). Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong (王靖雯). Born in Beijing she moved to British Hong Kong in 1987 and came to public attention in the early 1990s by singing ballads in Cantonese.
Jenteal.  Jenteal (born June 26 1976) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress.She had a brief appearance in the Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn movie Made where she played the role of an erotic dancer and was credited under the name Reanna Rossi. Jenteal also appeared in an episode of the TV comedy program The Man Show and two episodes of Playboy TV's The Helmetcam Show. She has at some time been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment.
Scott Herren.  Guillermo Scott Herren is a producer who has been based in Atlanta Barcelona and New York. Herren releases music under the aliases Prefuse 73 Delarosa & Asora Ahmad Szabo and Piano Overlord and is also part of the groups Savath y Savalas Sons of the Morning Risil and Diamond Watch Wrists.
Marissa Mishelle.  Marissa Mishelle (born Marissa Leigh Dubowy on October 9 1989 in Phoenix Arizona) is an American singer songwriter and actress. She has appeared on MTV's My Super Sweet 16 and My Super Sweet 16 Presents Exiled. She was the lead singer for the band Defy Tomorrow but left to become a solo artist. She has performed on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour and Edge Fest. Marissa is currently a member of the band Minus Ned based in LA.
Cecile Abish.  Cecile Abish (b. New York NY 1930) is an American artist known primarily for her works in sculpture and photography. Her works have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and internationally such as the Newark College of Engineering the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna to name a few. Her husband the writer Walter Abish wrote The Shape of Absence in 1990 based on her work.
Sei Hiraizumi.  Sei Hiraizumi (平泉 成 Hiraizumi Sei born on June 2 1944 in the former Nukata Aichi) is a Japanese actor.Hiraizumi starred as Koichi Matsudo in L: Change the WorLd. and he also starred in Osaka Tough Guys.
B. P. Loughridge.  Billy Paul Loughridge (born April 19 1935) is a cardiovascular surgeon author and health care consultant in Tulsa Oklahoma. He is currently the president of Modern Medical Wisdom a free website dedicated to providing unbiased information on medical issues. He practiced cardiovascular surgery in Tulsa Oklahoma from 1967 until 1998. During this period he performed more than 10000 surgeries.
Juan Carlos Colombres.  Juan Carlos Colombres (born January 19 1923) is an Argentine caricaturist and humorist whose work has illustrated articles and editorials in a number of the nation's leading periodicals. His contributions appear under the byline of Landrú.
Marshall Cook.  Marshall Cook born June 16 1982 is an American actor director writer producer editor and visual effects artist.He was born and raised in Santa Rosa California.By the time Marshall turned four he had already performed in two plays at the Santa Rosa Junior College. He started directing shorts at age nine with his father's Hi-8 camcorder and VCR - The same year he started playing football.
María Isabel.  María Isabel (born 4 January 1995) is a Spanish singer who won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song Antes Muerta que Sencilla.
David Wenzel.  David T. Wenzel (born November 22 1950) is an illustrator and children's book artist. He is best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
May de Sousa.  May De Sousa (November 6 1884 – August 8 1948) was an American singer and a Broadway actress.
Gyula Czimra.  Gyula Czimra (Budapest1901- Budapest1966) was a Hungarian painter with works in the collection of Hungarian National Gallery the Tornyai Museum of Hódmezővásárhely the Rákospalota Museum and the Kiscell Museum.
Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín.  Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín (born August 10 1926) is a Paraguayan composer and violinist.He is known for compositions such as Soul and Violin Night Whistle Go Albirroja Go - the most popular song dedicated to the Paraguayan football team - and several symphonic poems. In addition to his musical career he took a Bachelor's degree in journalism at the National University of Asunción.
Dave Rude.  Dave Rude (born June 14 1978 in Oakland California) is the second guitarist of hard rock band Tesla joining them in 2006. He also fronts his own rock act Dave Rude Band where he sings and plays guitar.Rude started playing guitar when he was 9 and his main musical influences included Guns N' Roses Slash Stevie Ray Vaughan Joe Perry Mike Campbell and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Rupinder Gill.  Rupinder Gill is a Canadian writer. She is a former television publicist for Alliance Atlantis and BBC Canada. Her first book On the Outside Looking Indian is a humorous memoir about her childhood as the child of Indian immigrants in a small Canadian town. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for HumourHer book garnered attention before its release because the popular website Reddit featured the book's spoof back cover recommendation from Oprah Winfrey.
Jeffrey Solow.  Jeffrey Solow (born January 3 1949) is an American cello virtuoso and the immediate past president of the American String Teachers Association and president of the Violoncello Society Inc. of New York.
Gordon S. Haight.  Gordon Sherman Haight (6 Feb 1901 in Muskegon Michigan – 28 Dec 1985 in Woodbridge CT) was an American professor of English at Yale University from 1950 to 1968.
Murray A. Wiener.  Murray A. Weiner (1909 – ?) was a polar explorer and photographer.
Brian Kuh.  Brian Kuh /ˈkuː/ is a competitive gamer and video game world record holder. He was interviewed in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
Colin Murphy (comedian).  Colin Murphy is an Irish comedian. He was born in Belfast Northern Ireland and now lives in the south of the city. He is best known for his television work hosting and co-writing The Blizzard of Odd The Unbelievable Truth and as resident panelist on The Panel for RTÉ and The Blame Game for BBC Northern Ireland.He has also acted in the film Divorcing Jack with Rachel Griffiths and David Thewlis.
Travis Elborough.  Travis Elborough is the author of The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With the Routemaster (Granta Books 2005) The Long-Player Goodbye: The Album From vinyl To iPod And Back Again (Sceptre 2008) and Wish You Were Here - England on Sea (Sceptre 2010). He reviews for The Guardian and has contributed to New Statesman The Sunday Times Zembla and The Oldie.Also see Travis Elborough on the vinyl LP The Guardian July 5th 2008Travis Elborough an interview with Chickfactor magazine
Mark Tinley.  Mark Ty-Wharton (born Mark Tinley; 18 March 1963) is a British music technologist informal logician and public speaker who specialises in presentations using sound art.He is best known for his work as a guitarist programmer sound engineer and record producer with Adamski Duran Duran TV Mania Gary Numan Glenn Gregory The Dandy Warhols and others.In 1982 he formed the band Peeping Toms with Shaun Morris and left several months later when they found a bass player; the band has continued to play in various configurations for over two decades. 
Snehan.  Snehan (Tamil: சினேகன் born Sivaselvam on 23 June 1978) is a Tamil poet lyricist Actor Motivational Speaker. Debuted in the film Putham Pudhiya Poove he has written lyrics for more than 2500 songs. He has won many awards including Tamil Nadu Government Award for two times. Snehan has also acted in two Tamil films.
Masato Kitano.  Masato Kitano (北野 正人 Kitano Masato born October 24 1974 in Osaka Prefecture) is the songwriter of J-Pop group Day After Tomorrow. He debuted as Strobe in 2006.
Mona Kent.  Mona Kent (1909-1990) was a prolific American writer of radio and television scripts. She created several radio soap operas and is especially noted for having written every episode of Portia Faces Life which was broadcast on a number of different radio stations from 1940 to 1951. She contributed to the television science-fiction show Captain Video and His Video Rangers as well as numerous other adaptions and original stories for radio and television.
Cathy Leung.  Cathy Yu-Yan Leung is a female Cantopop Singer and Hostess.
Shane Alexander (musician).  Shane Alexander is a contemporary American singer-songwriter and musician. Alexander was born in San Diego California raised in Pennsylvania and Maryland and is currently residing in Southern California.Alexander’s songs range from dark and stirring to subtle and romantic and are centered around evocative vocals and complex soulful guitar playing.
Karl Taro Greenfeld.  Karl Taro Greenfeld (born 1964 in Kobe Japan) is a journalist and author known primarily for his articles on life in modern Asia and both his fiction and non-fiction in The Paris Review.
Charlotte Savary.  Charlotte Savary is a French female singer and songwriter. She lives in Paris and participates in different projects from electro-pop to trip-hop or folk. These projects are Felipecha and Wax Tailor. She also was a singer in a band called Clover (currently non-existing band).
Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann.  Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815 – 1893) was a German artist who studied at the Munich Academy under Julius Schnorr Heinrich Maria von Hess and Clemens von Zimmermann. At first active as portrait painter he was appointed a royal painter of the Grand Duke of Baden and dedicated himself to depicting Bavarian and Swabian peasant life. His paintings are displayed at Victoria and Albert Museum London at Neue Pinakothek Munich and in many other museums.
Grace Ruiz.  Grace Ruiz starred in The Chase (BBC 2006) as Daisy Williams.She is the daughter of Yvonne Francas who is the sister of Gaynor Faye meaning that Grace plays her real life Auntie's daughter in BBC1 drama The Chase.
Brendan Kennelly.  Brendan Kennelly (born 1936) is an Irish poet and novelist. Until 2005 he was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin. He is father to one daughter Doodle Kennelly.
Bill Evans.  William John Evans known as Bill Evans (pronunciation: /ˈɛvəns/ August 16 1929 – September 15 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time and is considered by some to have been the most influential post-World War II jazz pianist.
Carrie Weaver.  Not to be confused with Kerry Weaver a character from the TV series ER.Carrie Weaver is an American author of contemporary romance novels.
Riho Sibul.  Riho Sibul born 26 June 1958 is an Estonian singer and guitarist of rock band Ultima Thule.
Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha.  Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha (1900–1986; Irish pronunciation: [mʲiːˈhaːl̪ˠ oː ʃʊˈxɾˠuː]) and Pádraig (An Seabhac) Ó Siochfhradha were brothers who were writers teachers and Irish language storytellers from County Kerry Ireland.Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha wrote a number of comic short stories set in the Gaeltacht notably An Corp ('The Body') which is part of the national curriculum's Irish course at Junior Certificate level.
Kavka Shishido.  Yuna Shishido (宍戸佑名 Shishido Yūna born June 23 1985) known by the stage name Kavka Shishido (シシド・カフカ Shishido Kafuka) is a Japanese drummer and vocalist. Originally a member of the rock band The News she debuted as a solo musician in 2012 and released her debut album Kavkanize in 2013. She prominently plays the drums in all of her promotions.Shishido was given the name Kavka for her stage name by copy editor Junpei Watanabe. Shishido always wore black reminding him of a crow.
Michael C. Ford.  Michael C. Ford is a poet playwright editor and recording artist.
Henry Bellamann.  Heinrich Hauer Bellamann (April 28 1882 – June 16 1945) was an American novelist poet and music educator. He is best known as the author of the novel Kings Row.
Victor Bockris.  Victor Bockris (born 1949) is an English-born U.S.-based author primarily of biographies of artists writers and musicians. He has written about Lou Reed (and The Velvet Underground) Andy Warhol Keith Richards William S. Burroughs Terry Southern Blondie Patti Smith and Muhammad Ali. He also helped write the autobiographies of John Cale and Bebe Buell.Bockris was born in Sussex England in 1949; his family moved to Pennsylvania when he was four years old.
Alexander Geringas.  Alex Geringas (born March 2 1971 in Moscow) is a music producer songwriter and composer based in Los Angeles USA.
David Lee Miller.  David Lee Miller (born 1951) is a noted scholar of English Renaissance Literature currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina at Columbia.
Charles Lamy.  For the 19th-century politician see Charles Lamy (New York).Charles Lamy (28 August 1857 – 15 June 1940) was a French actor. He was often cast to play aristocratic characters.Lamy was born in Lyon France and died in Orléans in 1940.
Han Han.  Han Han (born September 23 1982) is a Chinese professional rally driver best-selling author singer creator of Party One(App magazine) and China's most popular blogger—indeed possibly the most popular blogger in the world. He has published five novels to date and is represented by the Hong Kong based Peony Literary Agency. He is also involved in music production. In May 2010 Han Han was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Sylvia Day.  Sylvia June Day (born March 11 1973) is a Japanese American writer of romance novels. She also writes under the pseudonyms S.J. Day and Livia Dare.
Vijay Koparkar.  Vidyadhar Koparkar (born 1962) is a Hindustani classical singer.
De Villiers Graaff.  Sir De Villiers Graaff 2nd Baronet (8 December 1913 - 4 October 1999) (first name De Villiers surname Graaff) known as Div Graaff was a South African politician who succeeded his father Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff 1st Baronet to his baronetcy in 1931.
Desmond Chute.  Desmond Macready Chute (1895–1962) was an English poet and artist who became a Catholic priest in 1927. He was born in Bristol where his father James Macready Chute (1856-1912) ran the dynastic family theatre.
WILDLIFE!.  Wildlife! is the alias of Swiss DJ music producer and sound artist Samuel Riot (born Samuel Reinhard on September 10 1980 in Bern Switzerland). He first came to public attention for his musical productions on Terry Lynn's debut album Kingstonlogic 2.0.
Fred Beaver.  Fred Beaver (2 July 1911 – 18 August 1980) was a prominent Muscogee Creek-Seminole painter and muralist from Oklahoma.
Ray Smith (rockabilly singer).  Ray Smith (October 30 1934 – November 29 1979) was an American rockabilly musician.Smith recorded for Vee-Jay Records Tollie Records Smash Records and Sun Records during his career and had a hit with the song Rockin' Little Angel in 1960 on Judd Records. Rockin' Little Angel took a portion of its melody from the 1844 song Buffalo Gals. The record sold over one million copies earning a gold disc.
David Bishop.  David James Bishop (born 27 September 1966) is a New Zealand screenwriter and author. He was a UK comics editor during the 1990s running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000.He has since become a prolific author and received his first drama scriptwriting credit when BBC Radio 4 broadcast his radio play Island Blue: Ronald in June 2006.
Lim Tze Peng.  Lim Tze Peng (Chinese: 林子平; pinyin: Lín Zǐpíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Tsí-pîng) is a Singaporean artist who is a teacher by training and profession. He was awarded a Cultural Medallion in 2003 in recognition of his contribution to the country's art and culture.
Thomas Rockwell.  Thomas Rhodes Rockwell (born March 12 1933) (son of the American artist Norman Rockwell) is the author of a number of books for young readers. He was the recipient of the Mark Twain Award the California Young Reader Medal and the Sequoyah Book Award for How to Eat Fried Worms which was made into a TV movie in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006. He lives in Poughkeepsie New York.Rockwell grew up in Arlington Vermont.
Garin Wolf.  Garin Wolf is an American television writer and playwright.
Heidi Foss.  Heidi Foss is a Canadian actor comedian and writer.
Steve James (blues musician).  Steve James (born July 15 1950 Manhattan New York City United States) is an American folk blues musician. A multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter James operates in the fields of acoustic and folk blues. Without the benefit of promotion from a major record label James has secured his fan base from consistent touring.
Jacques Benoit.  Jacques Benoit (born 22 June 1955) is a French painter.
Manolo Carrasco.  Manolo Carrasco is a pianist and conductor. He is the author of Real Escuela Andaluza de Arte Ecuestre's music.[citation needed] He has recorded a few albums and is also a developer and performer on tours around Japan China the US Europe and Spain.
Young Sid.  Sidney Diamond (born 7 July 1986) best known by his stage name Young Sid is a New Zealand rapper and member of hip-hop group Smashproof. His 2007 debut album The Truth was named the Urban Album of the Year at the 2008 Māori Music Awards.
Jason Benoit.  Jason Benoit is a country music artist from Newfoundland Canada. His first single This Is What It Feels Like was released on September 10 2013 by Sky Hit Records a label under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc. This Is What It Feels Like was originally released as a dance/electronic pop song by Armin van Buuren (featuring Trevor Guthrie).The single peaked on the Billboard Canada Country chart at number 46.
Cary Peppermint.  Cary Peppermint (born 1970) is a New York-based conceptual new media performance and environmental artist. Peppermint was born in Rome Georgia in 1970 and received in M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1997. Peppermint has conducted a series of Dadaist and Fluxus inspired digital networked performances via his website RestlessCulture an ongoing post-cinema living documentary database.
Stuart MacLeod (musician).  Stuart MacLeod (born 10 April 1977) from Scottish/English heritage is the guitarist and backup singer of the Australian band Eskimo Joe. He lives in South Fremantle Western Australia. When he was seven he lived next door to Kavyen Temperley and they have been best friends for years. Temperley and MacLeod both attended John Curtin Senior High School. MacLeod then went onto to study Engineering/Commerce at the University of Western Australia.
Robert Lowry (writer).  Robert James Collas Lowry (28 March 1919 — 5 December 1994) was an American novelist short story writer illustrator and independent press publisher.Lowry was born in Cincinnati Ohio. He was a literary wunderkind who began writing at the age of eight; within a year he had stories published in the Cincinnati Times Star newspaper. He graduated from Withrow High School in 1937 after which he entered the University of Cincinnati.
Miki Satō.  Miki Satō (佐藤 美貴 Satō Miki) born April 15 1980 in Fukushima Prefecture is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in the musical Bleach.
Jamie O'Neill.  Jamie O'Neill (born 1962 in Dún Laoghaire Ireland) is an Irish author. His critically acclaimed novel At Swim Two Boys (2001) earned him the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel and frequent praise as the natural successor to James Joyce Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett.
Reanimator (producer).  Reanimator is an alternative hip hop producer from Chicago Illinois.
Abel Stevens.  Abel Stevens (1815–1897) was an American clergyman editor and author known for his books on Methodist religious history. He wrote History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America an early history of the church that is frequently referenced in historical works and A Compendious History of American Methodism.
Jean Rouaud.  Jean Rouaud (born December 13 1952) is a French author who was born in Campbon Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory (French: Les Champs d'honneur) won the Prix Goncourt.
Yaşar Kurt.  Yaşar Kurt (Armenian: Յաշար Կուրթ b.August 16 1968 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish-Armenian rock artist.
Song Joohee.  Song Joohee (ko:송주희; born on March 21 1990) known credited by her stage name Alice is a South Korean singer and dancer. She is best known as the main vocalist of the girl group Hello Venus and one of its dancers as well as the visual. Alice debuted on June 13 2010 as a solo singer with the stage name 'Ora'. Two years later she debuted on May 9 2012 together with Hello Venus members.
Problem (rapper).  Jason Martin (born May 8 1985) better known by his stage name Problem is an American rapper. He has released nine mixtapes in his career with the most recent being The Separation which was released on June 13 2013. His debut retail project an EP named Understand Me was released on December 10 2013. He is best known for his single Like Whaaat and for featuring on E-40's Function
Paul Oakenfold.  Paul Mark Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963) is an English record producer and trance DJ.
Piers Baron (musician).  Piers Baron (born 29 October 1983) is a UK born Los Angeles-based award winning Film Score Composer Record Producer and Musician. He is best known for pioneering the use of Original Music in Action Sports films. His other work includes Drum and Bass Song Writing and DJing. His best known original soundtracks include Flip Skateboards Extremely Sorry Skateboarding Movie Volcom Snowboard movie 9191 and Nike Snowboarding's Never Not Part 2.
Hugh Reinagle.  Hugh Reinagle (born in Philadelphia c. 1790; died near New Orleans in May 1834) was an American painter.
Girolamo Santo.  Girolamo Santo (also called il Sordo or Girolamo da Padova) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in the 16th century. In Padua he painted the facade of the Cornaro Palace several frescoes in S. Francesco and with Bernardo Parentino scenes from the life of St. Benedict in S. Giustina. A curious picture of a genealogical tree in the Santo is also ascribed to him. He was still living in 1546.
Billy Collins.  Billy Collins (born William James Collins; March 22 1941) is an American poet appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute Florida. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006.
Hugh Reginald Haweis.  Reverend Hugh Reginald Haweis (April 3 1838 – January 29 1901) was an English cleric and writer.
Áine Phillips.  Áine Phillips is a performance and visual artist living in the West of Ireland. She has been exhibiting multi-media installation and performance works internationally since the late 1980s. Major exhibitions have included Moving Image Gallery and The Kitchen New York National Review of Live Art Glasgow Irish Film Centre Dublin Live Art Festival  Arthouse Dublin EV+A Limerick and the Hugh Lane Dublin.
Karen Miller.  Karen Miller is an Australian writer.Miller was born in Vancouver Canada and moved to Australia at the age of two. After graduating from the Sydney University of Technology she moved to England for three years before moving back to Australia. Along with being a novelist she has written and directed plays for her local theatre group.In 2005 Miller's first novel was released entitled The Innocent Mage.
Brian d'Arcy James.  Brian d'Arcy James (born June 29 1968) is an American actor and musician.
Sheena Knowles.  Sheena Knowles is an author of children's books.Born in Geelong Victoria she currently lives in Victoria. She is the author of the Edward the Emu which was shortlisted for the 1989 Australian Children's Picture Book of the Year and Edwina the Emu.Sheena has previously worked for Diversitat - a local non-profit organisation as well as having a very successful career in advertising in the 1980s and 1990s.
Gian Francesco de Majo.  Gian Francesco de Majo (24 March 1732 - 17 November 1770) was an Italian composer. He is chiefly known for his more than 20 operas. He also composed a considerable amount of sacred works including oratorios cantatas and masses.
Faze (musician).  Chibuzor Oji better known by his stage name Faze is a Nigerian musician and actor. He is a member of the defunct Nigerian hip hop group Plantashun Boyz along with BlackFace Naija and TuFace (better known as 2face Idibia. The group split up in 2004 and each member of the group has gone on to launch successful solo careers.Faze is a best-selling Nigerian artist. His first album Faze Alone sold over one million copies while his second album Independent has sold over 3 million copies.
Rita Redshoes.  Rita Redshoes is a solo artist from Portugal. In 1996 she sang with her first band Atomic Bees releasing an album in 2000 entitled love.noises.and.kisses. In 2003 she was invited to sing with David Fonseca and shared with him the song “Hold Still” from Our Hearts Will Beat As One his second solo album. In 2008 she released her debut solo album Golden Era. In 2010 the band Snow Patrol invited her to perform the single Set the fire to the third bar in Rock in Rio Lisbon.
Blair Cunningham.  Blair Cunningham (born October 11 1957 Memphis Tennessee) is an African-American drummer who has played with Echo & The Bunnymen Haircut One Hundred John Foxx The Pretenders Paul McCartney Alison Moyet Sade Paul Rutherford the Indigo Girls Roxy Music Tina Turner Lionel Richie Mick Jagger Ray Davis Andy Taylor Marius Müller-Westernhagen Kevin Rowland and The Big Dish.
Dimebag Darrell.  Darrell Lance Abbott (August 20 1966 – December 8 2004) also known as Diamond Darrell and Dimebag Darrell was an American musician virtuoso guitarist best known for being the founding member of the bands Pantera and Damageplan alongside his brother Vinnie Paul. Abbott also contributed to the record Rebel Meets Rebel a collaboration between Pantera and David Allan Coe.
Angelo Arciglione.  Angelo Arciglione (born in Acri 1982) is an Italian pianist.
Daisuke Nakamura.  Daisuke Nakamura (中村太亮 Nakamura Daisuke born 21 September 1985 in Chiba prefecture Japan) is a Japanese voice actor and actor. Daisuke is probably most known for the roles as: Colonello (Reborn!) and Yamato Akitsuki (Suzuka).
Ani Zonneveld.  Ani Zonneveld is a Malaysian-American singer songwriter activist and writer based in Los Angeles. She has released full albums of her own including Ummah Wake-Up One Islamic Hymns: Celebration of Life produced for other artists and participated in the writing of Grammy-winning songs.
Yū Kamonomiya.  Yū Kamonomiya (鴨ノ宮　ゆう Kamonomiya Yū born April 25) is a Japanese voice actress from Aomori Prefecture Japan. Among her voice roles are Miyuki Koshiki Kengo Miyazawa (grade school age) and Kyousuke Natsume (grade school age) in Little Busters!. She also voiced Ide Digurea in Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica The Black.
David Sanborn.  David Sanborn (born July 30 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975 but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.
Alan Blaikley.  Alan Blaikley (born 23 March 1940) is an English songwriter and composer.
Leilani Gaja.  Leilani Yoshika Gaja (我謝 美佳 レイラニ Gaja Yoshika Reirani born February 12 1985) is a Japanese model and actress from Tokyo. Her stage name in Japan is Yoshika Katou (加藤 美佳 Katō Yoshika) and is used in nearly all of her appearances in drama and film. Her father is half-Chinese half-Japanese and her mother is half-Hawaiian half-Japanese lending to her legal name Leilani (Hawaiian for 'heavenly lei') and making her half-Japanese.
Felicja Blumental.  Felicja Blumental (28 December 1908 – 31 December 1991) was a Polish--Brazilian pianist.Felicja Blumental was born in Warsaw Poland into a musical family daughter of a violinist. She began piano lessons at the age of five and made her debut at the age of ten. She studied at the National Conservatory in Warsaw taking piano lessons from Zbigniew Drzewiecki (who founded the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition) and composition lessons from the composer Karol Szymanowski.
Taisuke Yamamoto.  Taisuke Yamamoto (山本 泰輔 Yamamoto Taisuke born July 2 1976 Hiroshima) is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Takeru Takaishi (Digimon Adventure 02) Takeharu Shima (Gunparade Orchestra) and Nozomu Hikarigaoka (Daa! Daa! Daa!). He is also known for dubbing roles Terrance from South Park. He is currently employed with 81 Produce.
Titiek Puspa.  Sumarti (born 1 November 1937) better known by her stage name Titiek Puspa is an Indonesian singer and songwriter. Rolling Stone Indonesia has selected two of her songs as some of the best Indonesian songs of all time.
EES (rapper).  EES (also: eesy-ees/EeS/EeS Easy Eric Sell) is the stage name of Eric Sell a Namibian German Kwaito artist and rapper.Sell was born in Windhoek on 5 October 1983. He currently lives both in Windhoek Namibia's capital and Cologne Germany. His texts are written in a mixture of Afrikaans and English. He also makes frequent use of Namlish and Namibian German (Südwesterdeutsch) the German dialect spoken in Namibia and he popularised the term Nam-Slang for it.
Phil Minton.  Phil Minton (b. 2 November 1940 Torquay United Kingdom) is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. He even once participated in a Jimi Hendrix tribute project belting out the lyrics in particular over-the-top fashion.
Bijan Mortazavi.  Bijan Mortazavi (Persian: بیژن مرتضوی‎) born on November 16 1957 in Babol Iran is a popular Iranian violinist singer and songwriter.
Jeong Hyeong-don.  Jeong Hyeong-don (born February 7 1978 ) is a South Korean comedian and entertainer.
Deacon John Moore.  Deacon John Moore (born 23 June 1941 New Orleans Louisiana) better known as Deacon John is a blues rhythm and blues and rock and roll musician singer and bandleader.
Knez (singer).  Nenad Knežević (Montenegrin: Nenad Knežević) (born December 5 1967 in Cetinje Yugoslavia now Montenegro) widely known by his nickname/stagename Knez is a popular Montenegrin singer. Knez lives in Belgrade.
Devajyoti Ray.  Devajyoti Ray (Born in 1974) is an Indian painter and installation artist whose works attained significance in the post-liberalization phase of Indian economy. His works have been exhibited internationally and have been acquired by many art academies. Devajyoti Ray is primarily known for his particular genre of work called Pseudorealism which involves the use of offbeat colours and abstract shapes to arrive at an imagery which looks as comprehensible as real.
Barry Le Va.  Barry Le Va (born 1941 Long Beach California) is a contemporary American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California he works and lives in New York City. Le Va is among the leading figures of post-studio and process art of the late 1960s. His abstract sculptures installations drawings and editioned works are featured in major art collections around the world.
Zinny J. Zan.  Zinny J. Zan (born Bo Stagman in January 18 1964 and earlier known as Bosse Belsen) is a Swedish rock/glam metal singer who is the former lead-singer for Shotgun Messiah and is currently the founder and frontman for Zan Clan and reunited Easy Action.
Chris Cape.  Chris Cape is a South African born songwriter rapper multi-instrumentalist and music producer. Since relocating to London in September 2006 Cape has been heavily involved in the UK music industry as a session musician songwriter and performer. In addition to his solo work Cape joined the art-rock band Yearner Babies from 2008 to 2010 as bass player and songwriter playing festivals across the UK including Glastonbury and Secret Garden Party.
Daniel Wesley.  Daniel Wesley is a Canadian alternative rock musician from White Rock British Columbia.
Chas Licciardello.  Chas John Licciardello (born 10 May 1977) is an Australian comedian and member of satirical team The Chaser. Licciardello has appeared as a regular of CNNNN The Chaser's War on Everything and The Hamster Wheel.
Ilmari Hannikainen.  Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen (19 October 1892 Jyväskylä – 25 July 1955 Kuhmoinen) was a Finnish composer.Hannikainen was the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen both of whom were composers and of Tauno Hannikainen who was a conductor.
Stephen Briggs.  Stephen Briggs (born 1951) is a British writer of subsidiary works and merchandise surrounding Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy Discworld. The Streets of Ankh-Morpork the first Discworld map was co-designed by Briggs and Pratchett and painted by Stephen Player in 1993.
Dilermando Reis.  Dilermando Reis (born Dilermando dos Santos Reis on September 22 1916 - January 2 1977) was a Brazilian musician composer acoustic guitarist and music teacher. He once had Juscelino Kubitschek the former Brazilian president as a student.
Melissa Mathison.  Melissa Marie Mathison (born June 3 1950) is an American film and television screenwriter.
Gillian Flynn.  Gillian Flynn (born 1971) is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Flynn has published three novels: Sharp Objects (2006) Dark Places (2009) and Gone Girl (2012).
Kyle Falconer.  Kyle Francis Falconer (born 6 June 1987 Dundee Scotland) is the lead vocalist of The View. Along with the other band members Falconer hails from the Dryburgh district of Dundee. He shares songwriting responsibilities with bass guitarist Kieren Webster.
Bubba Sparxxx.  Warren Anderson Mathis (born March 6 1977) better known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx is an American hip hop recording artist from Troup County Georgia. He is perhaps best known for his singles Deliverance Ugly and Ms. New Booty the latter of which features the Ying Yang Twins and peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Dan Colen.  Daniel Colen (born 1979 New Jersey) is an artist based in New York. His work consists of painted sculptures appropriating low-cultural ephemera graffiti-inspired paintings of text executed in paint and installations.
Sheree Fitch.  Sheree Fitch (born December 3 1956) is a Canadian children's author. Though she was born in Ottawa Ontario and grew up in Moncton New Brunswick she spent many of her adult years in Halifax Nova Scotia. She earned a B.A. from St. Thomas University Fredericton New Brunswick and an M.A. from Acadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia. She was a frequent guest on CBC's Peter Gzowski morning show. She now divides her time between Washington D.C. and Nova Scotia.
Valeriya.  Valeriya (Russian: Валерия) is a stage name of Alla Yurievna Perfilova (Russian: Алла Юрьевна Перфилова born April 17 1968 in Atkarsk) a Russian singer.
Thomas Newton Allen.  Thomas Newton Allen (born 1839) was a lawyer in Lexington Kentucky. He moved to Olympia Washington c1889 where he was a clerk and then a lawyer. He was friend to the state governor John H. McGraw.
Arthur Hall Smith.  Arthur Hall Smith is an American painter.
Gi Hyeong-do.  Ki Hyongdo (the author's preferred name according the Korean Government) was a modern Korean poet. His posthumously-published collection of poems The Black Leaf in My Mouth (입 속의 검은 잎) has gone through more than 65 printings in the two decades since his death.
Camillo Ballini.  Camillo Ballini was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He trained with Palma il Giovane in Venice and was employed with him in the decoration of the Ducal Palace with historical paintings during the 1570s including the passageway between the Sala del Maggior Consiglio to the Sala dello Scrutinio. He also helped fresco the exterior facades of palaces.
Ólafur Arnalds.  Ólafur Arnalds (born 3 November 1986) is a BAFTA winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and edgy beats crossing-over from ambient/electronic to pop. Ólafur was a drummer of hardcore/metal bands Fighting Shit and Celestine as well as others.Ólafur's cousin Ólöf Arnalds is also a well known singer/songwriter.
Roberta Donnay.  Roberta Donnay (born August 10 1966 Washington D.C.) is an award-winning singer and songwriter jazz vocalist composer and band leader produced by Orrin Keepnews. Donnay grew up in the Washington D.C. area and learned to sing from the radio. She is a practicing Buddhist.She began singing professionally at 16 wandering Europe with a knapsack and borrowing guitars on-site. Moving to San Francisco she sang with Dick Oxtot's Golden Age Jazz Band followed by Tom Keats and His Tom Kats.
Yugabharathi.  Yugabharathi is a Tamil poet and lyricist. His birth name was Prem Kumar and he was known as Kumar by his family and friends. During the early 90's when he began writing poems for magazines he started using the pen name Yugabharathi in honour of the great Tamil poet Subramanya Bharathi commonly known as Mahakavi Bharithiyar.Debuting in the film Aanandham with lyrics for the song Pallankuzhiyin vattam parthaen has become a successful lyricist penning more than 1000 songs.
Anita Lerche.  Anita Lerche (Punjabi: ਅਨੀਤਾ ਲਿਆਕੇ) is a singer-songwriter composer and actress from Denmark. With the release of her album Heer from Denmark in November 2006 she became the first non-Asian woman from the west to create a solo album in Punjabi. Apart from singing in Punjabi she has sung in a total of sixteen different languages.
George G. Watson.  George G. Watson (13 October 1927 - 2 August 2013) was a Fellow at St. John's College at Cambridge University.
Jay Maisel.  Jay Maisel (born January 18 1931 Brooklyn New York) is an American photographer.
Justin Connolly.  Justin Connolly (born London 1933) is a British composer and teacher.He was educated at Westminster School and then briefly studied law at the Middle Temple before deciding on a career in music. He studied with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music graduating with a BMus degree and then travelled to Yale University in the USA on a Harkness Fellowship in the late 60s where he studied with Mel Powell. He then briefly taught at Yale before returning to the UK.
Thanassis Stephopoulos.  Thanassis Stephopoulos (Greek: Θανάσης Στεφόπουλος 1 June 1928 - 29 December 2012) was one of Greece's most important 20th-century painters teachers and philosophers of art. He was famous for his works representing a genre of painting which he had introduced the abstract landscape painting. He was a one of the most important representatives of the so-called Modern Greek art.
Joe Meek.  Robert George Joe Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter.His best-remembered hit is the Tornados' Telstar (1962) which became the first record by a British group to reach No.1 in the US Hot 100.
Giuseppe Sartori.  Giuseppe Sartori (1863 Venice - 1922 Padova) was an Italian painter painting mainly land and seascapes both urban vedute and rural.
Mizz Beats.  Mizz Beats (real name Iman Yanée Tonge-Grant) is a female Pop R&B Hip-Hop producer and DJ from London. She has collaborated with other famous artists such as Lady Sovereign Dizzee Rascal and Roots Manuva. She also forms one third of production trio '8Beat' along with her cousin and long-time friend. Mizz Beats grew up in a musical environment as her dad was a bass player and her grandfather Titus Tonge was a guitarist and vocalist of 70's psychedelic rock band African People.
Breuk Iversen.  Breuk Iversen (born July 25 1964) is a designer and writer. Iversen was nicknamed the Mayor of Williamsburg Brooklyn one of the liveliest and largest art communities in the world. He is famous for his production with Jan McLaughlin at the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery of the Salon des Refuses: the Offal Project a site-specific exhibit that explored issues of economy aesthetics politics and popular culture through society's by-products.
Paul Ritter (actor).  Paul Ritter is a British stage and screen actor.Ritter has had roles in Quantum of Solace Son of Rambow Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Nowhere Boy The Eagle and the 2007 television serial Instinct.He has also appeared in the comedy drama Pulling the ITV1 thriller Vera and the Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner. He played Pistol in Henry IV Part II in BBC 2's cycle of Shakespeare's history plays The Hollow Crown.
Frances Nero.  Frances Nero (born Willie Frances Peak March 13 1943) is an American soul and jazz singer. She recorded for Motown after winning their 1965 talent contest and had a UK hit single in 1991 with Footsteps Following Me.
Adam Siegel.  Adam Siegel (born March 9 1969) is a singer-songwriter guitarist bassist producer actor and graphic designer (he has provided artwork and design for several releases by L.A. groups) from Venice California United States.
George L. Fox (clown).  George L. Fox (July 3 1825–October 24 1877) was an American actor and dancer who became known for his clown roles and who based the characterisations on his inspiration Joseph Grimaldi.
Smoky Dawson.  Smoky Dawson AM MBE (19 March 1913 – 13 February 2008) born as Hebert Henry Brown was an Australian country music performer and legendary entertainer. He was widely touted as Australia's first singing cowboy complete with yodel in the style of Gene Autry: Dawson had an extraordinary long and prolific career releasing his first single in 1941 and his last album in 2005 aged 92 making him the worlds oldest recording artist (although now surassed by the forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn).
Tiz Zaqyah.  Tiz Zaqyah (born October 25 1988) is a Malaysia actress model and singer. She debuted in 2006 and since then has starred in dramas telemovies television and magazine advertisements and movies. She is best known for playing the role of Nur Amina in the hit 2009 drama Nur Kasih with Remy Ishak Fizz Fairuz and Sharifah Sofia.
Saffron Taylor.  Saffron Taylor (born 9 May 1982 in Warwick England) is a British Latex fashion model best known for her latex fashion glamour and pin-up modelling. After an extensive campaign by readers of the fetish website Deep Down and Kinky she was voted the UK's favourite fetish model for 2011. Living in London UK she has been featured on websites such as Playboy and described as one of the UK's top latex fetish models by Latex Wiki.
Marco Calderini.  Marco Calderini (Turin 1850 -Turin 1944) was an Italian painter mainly of land- and cityscapes (vedute) in a Romantic style.He studied at the Accademia Albertina of Turin under Gamba Gastaldi and Fontanesi. He published a laudatory biography of Fontanesi. He exhibited routinely at the Promotrice of Turin from 1870 to 1928. He was a member of the Superior Council of Public Education. He wrote art criticisms and was a lithographer.
Shenaaz Nanji.  Shenaaz Nanji (born 1954 Mombasa Kenya) is an Indian Canadian children's and young adult author. She currently lives in Calgary Alberta Canada.
Rod Stewart.  Roderick David Rod Stewart CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time having sold over 100 million records worldwide.In the UK he has had six consecutive number one albums and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10 six of which gained the number one position.
Ryū Murakami.  Ryū Murakami (村上 龍 Murakami Ryū born February 19 1952 in Sasebo Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker.
Ivan Tišov.  Ivan Tišov (8 February 1870 – 20 September 1928) was a Croatian painter. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich bringing back ideas from the Munich Secession movement to Zagreb. He is best known for his work in public and government buildings in Zagreb and paintings in churches in his native Slavonia in north-east Croatia.
John Connolly (musician).  John Connolly was born on October 21 1968 in New Jersey. Connolly was drummer for the band Piece Dogs. He then joined Sevendust for rhythm guitar and has recorded with the band on all their releases to date. Connolly is also one of the primary songwriters for Sevendust. He is known for his fire designed custom made Les Paul guitar designed by Epiphone but has since switched to Dean Guitars.
Anders Remmer.  Anders Remmer is a Danish electronic musician producer and film composer. He was born and raised in Denmark.Now he is one of the key figures in the electronic community of Copenhagen.
Lee Seong-bok.  Lee Seong-bok (Hangul: 이성복) is a South Korean poet known for his imaginative and multi-layered poetry.
Stoya.  Stoya (born June 15 1986) is an American pornographic actress writer and model.
Mary Oliver.  Mary Oliver (born September 10 1935) is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as far and away [America's] best-selling poet.
Evan Smith.  Evan Smith (born April 20 1966) is an American journalist. He is the CEO and editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune.
Juliet Marillier.  Juliet Marillier (born 27 July 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy focusing predominantly on historical fantasy. She was educated at the University of Otago where she graduated with a BA and a Bachelor of Music (honors). Marillier taught music at the high school and university levels and has also served as a choral conductor and opera singer. In 2009 Marillier was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Avrom Yanovsky.  Avrom Yanovsky (1911–1979) was a Canadian editorial cartoonist. His cartoons were printed as early as the 1930s.[1] Most of his cartoons were printed in Canadian Tribune. He also illustrated left wing publications like the screenplay for Eight Men Speak. His works have been shown in galleries in Ontario.
Irina Baldina.  Irina Mikhailovna Baldina (Russian: Ири́на Миха́йловна Ба́лдина; May 18 1922 Moscow Soviet Russia – January 15 2009 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Joe Porcaro.  Joseph (Joe) Porcaro (born April 29 1930 in Hartford Connecticut currently residing in Los Angeles California) is an American jazz drummer percussionist and educator.His three sons were all musicians in the band Toto: keyboardist Steve Porcaro bassist Mike Porcaro and late drummer Jeff Porcaro. Joe guested on every Toto album from Turn Back through Kingdom of Desire including Toto IV. He also has a daughter Joleen Porcaro Duddy.
Siddharth Kara.  Siddharth Kara is an author activist and one of the world's foremost experts on modern day slavery and human trafficking. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and also a Visiting Scientist on Forced Labor at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sutinder Singh Noor.  Sutinder Singh Noor (October 51940 - February 9 2011) was an eminent Punjabi poet and critic. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004 for his book of criticism Kavita di Bhoomika. He is better known for his criticism. A former head of the Department of Punjabi Delhi University and editor of Punjabi Akademi journal Samdarshi Noor was well known in Punjab's literary circles.
Parvati Kumari.  Parvati Kumari is an Indian classical singer. She is popular for her sufi music.
Nikolai Karonin-Petropavlovsky.  Nikolai Elpidiforovich Karonin-Petropavlovsky (Russian: Никола́й Елпидифо́рович Каронин-Петропа́вловский) (October 17 1853 – May 24 1892) was a Russian writer essayist and political activist. His real name was Nikolai Petropavlovsky; his pen name was S. Karonin. A number of later Russian sources refer to him as Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky.
Jonathan Chevreau.  Jonathan Chevreau is a Canadian journalist and author.
Jack Mackenroth.  Jack Mackenroth (born April 29 1969) is an American swimmer model and fashion designer who competed in the fourth season of American reality show Project Runway. Mackenroth was the first openly HIV-positive contestant in the show's history.
Shlomi Shabat.  Shlomi Shabat (Hebrew: שלומי שבת; born August 30 1954) is an Israeli vocalist who sings in the Mizrahi style.
Dick Hyman.  Richard Dick Hyman (born March 8 1927 New York City) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50-year career he has functioned as a pianist organist arranger music director and increasingly as a composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in well over 100 albums recorded under his own name and many more in support of other artists.
Yang Pei-An.  Yang Pei-An (traditional Chinese: 楊培安; simplified Chinese: 杨培安; pinyin: Yáng Péi'ān; Wade–Giles: Yang Peian born June 5 1971 in Kaohsiung Taiwan) also known as Roger Yang is a Taiwanese rock singer known for breaking out as an undiscovered talent at the age of 35 in the Taiwanese music industry with the hit song I Believe (我相信) that established his powerhouse octave-jumping vocal skills leading him to be dubbed as the Iron Lung Prince (鐵肺王子) by the Taiwanese media and the Treble God (高音之神) by his fans. 
Mika Singh.  Mika Singh is a singer composer performer and songwriter.
Paul Winter.  Paul Winter (born August 31 1939 in Altoona Pennsylvania) is an American saxophonist (alto and soprano saxophone) and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee.
Dmitry Vodennikov.  Dmitry Vodennikov (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Воде́нников) (born 22 December 1968) is a Russian poet and essayist.In 2002 he was named as one of the ten best living Russian poets in a poll of 110 leading Russian poets and critics being one of just two poets under 35 in the top ten. Some critics name him as perhaps the best known poet of his generation while others claim that he recites his poems better than he writes them.
DJ Honda.  Katsuhiro Honda (本田勝裕 Hōnda Katsuhiro born 1965) better known as DJ Honda is a Japanese hip hop DJ turntablist music producer CEO clothing line designer and entrepreneur.
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi.  Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Viterbo 15 February 1587 - Rome 21 September 1625) was an Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period active in Spain alongside his master Giovanni Battista Crescenzi. He was born at Viterbo he traveled to Spain with his teacher to help paint and build the Pantheon at the Escorial. He adopted the style of Cristofano Roncalli.
Jayant Kaikini.  Dr.Jayant Kaikini (or Jayanta Kāykiṇi Kannada: ಜಯಂತ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿ) (born 24 January 1955) is an Indian poet short stories author and a lyricist working in Kannada cinema.
Adolf Jahr.  Adolf Jahr (23 June 1893 – 19 April 1964) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1925 and 1962.
Mumzy Stranger.  Muhammad Mumith Ahmed (Bengali: মুহাম্মদ মুমিথ আহমেদ; born 18 January 1984) better known by his stage name Mumzy Stranger is an English MC singer-songwriter and record producer. He made his mainstream recording debut in the summer of 2009 with his debut single One More Dance which topped the UK Asian Charts as did the follow-up singles Showgirl and Fly With Me.
Sam Gross.  Sam Gross (b. August 7 1933) is an American gag cartoonist.Born in Bronx New York City Gross began cartooning in 1962. His cartoons have appeared in numerous magazines including Cosmopolitan Esquire Good Housekeeping Harvard Business Review and The New Yorker. He was cartoon editor for National Lampoon and Parents Magazine.
Machiko Tezuka.  Machiko Tezuka (手束真知子 Tezuka Machiko) (born 25 February 1986) is a Japanese idol and member of SDN48. She has previously had careers as a gravure idol/bikini model under the stage name Ourei Harada (原田 桜怜 Harada Ōrei) and Eiko Maeda (前田 栄子 Maeda Eiko) as a member of idol group SKE48.
Rei Okamoto.  Rei Okamoto (岡本玲 Okamoto Rei born June 18 1991 in Wakayama Wakayama) is Japanese model and actress who stars as Mia Amagishi in Akai Ito. She also appears in the NHK Asadora Jun to Ai (2012).
Gwyneth Herbert.  Gwyneth Herbert (born 1981) is a British singer-songwriter and pianist initially known for her interpretation of jazz and swing standards and now established as a writer of original compositions. She lives in Hackney London.Herbert performs with a band comprising: Al Cherry (guitars); Sam Burgess (bass); David Price (percussion); Steve Holness (piano).
Moyra Davey.  Moyra Davey (born 1958) is a Canadian born artist who began her career in the early 1980s. Her work in photography video and writing often explores familiar objects encouraging viewers to consider the details of everyday life that are generally overlooked. In this respect her works have been singled out for their meditative effect and her ability to slow things down focusing on process and change.
Ottavio Barsanti.  Ottavio Barsanti (c.1826–23 May 1884) was a New Zealand missionary priest and writer born in Pietrasanta Italy c.1826.
Jean Bedford.  Jean Bedford (born 4 February 1946) is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction but who has also written novels and short stories as well as nonfiction. She is also an editor and journalist and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.
Lee Hoesung.  Lee Hoesung is a Zainichi Korean novelist in Japan. In 1972 he became the first ethnic Korean to win the Akutagawa Prize. Other representative works of his include Mihatenu Yume (見果てぬ夢; Unfulfilled Dream) and Hyakunenno tabibitotachi (百年の旅人たち; Travellers of a Hundred Years).
Jay Williams (author).  Jay Williams (May 31 1914 – July 12 1978) was an American author born in Buffalo New York the son of Max and Lillian Jacobson. He cited the experience of growing up as the son of a vaudeville show producer as leading him to pursue his acting career as early as college.
Gabriel Huiban.  Liviu Gabriel Huiban is a Romanian songwriter keyboardist arranger and composer of numerous scores for the advertising industry radio television and motion pictures. In 10 years of activity he had been writing for more than 60 artists renowned or beginners assembling a 400 song portfolio from which 50 reached Top 15 charts.[citation needed] He established an enduring collaboration in Romania with the music band DJ Project.
Youddiph.  Masha Katz (Russian: Маша Кац also known as Youddiph Russian: Юдифь literally Judith full name Maria Lvovna Katz Russian: Мария Львовна Кац; 23 January 1973 Moscow) is a Russian singer. She is most known for representing Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 held in Dublin. It was the first Russian performance in this contest ever.
Manuel Neri.  Manuel Neri (born April 12 1930) is an American sculptor painter and printmaker and a notable member of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Sally Read.  Sally Read is a British poet and former psychiatric nurse. She shared the Eric Gregory Award in 2001. She was raised atheist but on 14 December 2010 she was received into the Catholic Church.
John Metcalf (composer).  John Metcalf MBE (born 1946) is a British and Canadian composer. He has worked in many forms including large-scale operas choral and orchestral works and chamber music both instrumental and vocal. His music is tonal and is often rhythmically complex with much use of polyrhythms.
Billy L. Sullivan.  Billy L. Sullivan (born May 24 1980) is an American actor.
Zhang Chu.  Zhang Chu (Chinese: 张楚; pinyin: Zhāng Chǔ born November 11 1968) is a Chinese musician who was born in Xi'an Shaanxi.Lauded by many as the most lonesome singer-poet Zhang Chu has remained a prominent figure on Chinese rock scene despite not releasing a new album since 1997. In fact his lyrics continues to be quoted frequently by a whole new generation of Chinese youth to this day though few seem to truly grasp its meaning.
Kenji Maruyama.  Kenji Maruyama (丸山 健二 Maruyama Kenji born December 23 1943) is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels Summer’s Passage (夏の流れ Natsu no nagare) in 1966 at the age of 23 becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23 following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo.
Tomio Aoki.  Tomio Aoki (青木 富夫 Aoki Tomio October 7 1923 in Yokohama Japan – January 24 2004 in Setagaya Tokyo Japan) aka Tokkan Kozō (突貫小僧) was a Japanese film actor.Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy Tokkan kozo gave Aoki his nickname. I Was Born But... (1932) Passing Fancy (1933) and An Inn in Tokyo (1935) were three other Ozu films in which Aoki had notable roles.
Johnny Polygon.  John Armour (born May 15 1984) better known by his stage name Johnny Polygon is an American hip hop recording artist from Tulsa Oklahoma. He has released music independently and also under DJ Green Lantern’s Invasion Music Group label. After releasing several self-released albums and relocating to Los Angeles in 2008 Polygon met Lantern who then offered him a deal and a chance to record music together in his New York City studio.
Raymond Lam.  Raymond Lam (born 8 December 1979) is a Chinese actor and singer from Hong Kong. He is contracted to the television station TVB and EEG's Music Plus label.
John Edward Williams.  John Edward Williams (August 29 1922 - March 3 1994) was an American author editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Stoner (1965) and Augustus (1972).The latter won a U.S. National Book Award.
Jonathan Safran Foer.  Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21 1977) is an American writer. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009 he published a work of nonfiction titled Eating Animals. While Foer's works have been released to widespread critical acclaim he remains a somewhat polarizing figure among contemporary critics and academics attracting in equal measure both passionate praise and criticism.
Paul Weller.  Paul Weller (born 25 May 1958) is a British musician and singer-songwriter. Starting with the band The Jam (1976–82) Weller went on to branch out musically to a more soulful style with The Style Council (1983–89). In 1991 he established himself as a successful solo artist and remains a respected singer lyricist and guitarist.Despite widespread critical recognition Weller has remained a national rather than an international star and much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture.
Paul Jefferson.  Paul Jefferson (born August 15 1961 in Woodside California) is an American country music artist. Jefferson has released one studio album on Almo Sounds; he also charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. His highest charting single Check Please co-written with singer songwriter Jon Michaels peaked at No. 50 in 1996.As a songwriter Jefferson has had his songs recorded by Keith Urban Little Texas and Buddy Jewell among others.
Angel Faith.  Angel Marie Faith (Burbank January 8 1988) known by the stage name Angel is a former American pop/R&B singer and songwriter She was originally from the now defunct girl group No Secrets where she sang half of the lead vocals. then went on to pursue a successful solo career.
John Wort Hannam.  John Wort Hannam is a Canadian folk musician from Fort Macleod Alberta. He was born in Jersey Channel Islands. John Wort Hannam is known for his story telling through music. Themes which are central to his music include life in Western Canada and the human experience as seen through the eyes of simple working folk. John was a full-time public school teacher until 2000.
Gita Mehta.  Gita Mehta (born in 1943) is an Indian writer and was born in Delhi in a well-known Oriya family. She is the daughter of Biju Patnaik an Indian independence activist and a Chief Minister in post-independence Odisha then known as Orissa. Her younger brother Naveen Patnaik has been the Chief Minister of Odisha since 2000.
Ji-Yeon Yuh.  Ji-Yeon Yuh is a reporter writer editor and professor in Asian American history and Asian diasporas at the Northwestern University. Since 2005 Yuh is the director of Program in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University.Yuh is a co-founder and National Spokesperson of the organization the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea.
Władysław Reymont.  Władysław Stanisław Reymont (May 7 1867 – December 5 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
K. V. Akshara.  K.V. Akshara is a directorplaywright and writer in the Kannada language. He is the son of the writer K.V. Subbanna. He is a prominent figure in contemporary Kannada theatre.Akshara presently heads Ninasam the theatre group and cultural complex in Heggodu Karnataka founded by his father. He is also the treasurer of Ninasam society.
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.  Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is an Irish musician. As a pianist composer recording artist and academic he holds the Professorship of Music at the Irish World Music Academy of Music and Dance which he founded at the University of Limerick. His sons are known as Irish pop group size2shoes and his former wife is Irish chant singer Nóirín Ní Riain with whom he has collaborated. He was awarded an honorary D.Mus from the National University of Ireland at his alma mater University College Cork in 2004.
Richard Siken.  Richard Siken is an American poet author of the collection Crush which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. He is the editor of spork literary magazine. Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and his book Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry in 2005 and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle.
Tensnake.  Marco Niemerski known professionally as Tensnake (born 1975) is a German DJ and producer from Hamburg best known for his 2010 track Coma Cat which appeared on at least 15 compilations that year.Coma Cat reached number 85 on the UK Singles Chart number 11 on the UK Indie Chart and number 17 on the UK Dance Chart.
George Formby Sr..  George Formby (4 October 1875 – 8 February 1921) born James Lawler Booth was an English comedian and musician. He was a star in Edwardian music halls singing and clowning in a sardonic style that influenced the young Charlie Chaplin. Formby was plagued by ill-health and suffered from tuberculosis but despite this was one of the highest paid entertainers of his day. His son was the popular comedian and ukulele player who also used the stage name George Formby.
Bernard Krainis.  Bernard Krainis was a musician and co-founder of New York Pro Musica. He played recorder and studied with Erich Katz.Bernard Krainis a noted recorder player and a founding member of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua and the Aston Magna Foundation for Music two pioneering ensembles for the performance of early music on period instruments died on Aug. 18 2000 at his home in Great Barrington Mass. He was 75.The cause of death was cancer his family said.Mr.
Hilde Marie Kjersem.  Hilde Marie Kjersem (born 27 April 1981 in Ålesund Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer known for her own bands and releases and ccollaborations with musicians like Jon Eberson Jørgen Munkeby Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen and Jarle Bernhoft.
Sarah Connor (singer).  Sarah Terenzi (born as Sarah Marianne Corina Lewe on June 13 1980) better known by her stage name Sarah Connor is a German singer songwriter and television personality. Connor debuted in 2001 under the guidance of artist manager George Glueck and became the first solo act to ever have four consecutive chart-topping hits on the German Singles Chart.
Julian Sitkovetsky.  Julian (Yulian) Sitkovetsky (7 November 1925 – 23 February 1958) was a Russian-Ukrainian violinist.
Michael Breault.  Michael Breault (born May 28 1958 in Central Falls Rhode Island) is a game designer and editor and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.
Carolina la O.  Carolina Ovalle Arango known to fans as Carolina la O (born on April 12 1979 in Manizales Colombia) is a Colombian Salsa and Tropical music singer. Carolina la O made her live debut at the age of six singing a traditional song called Campesina Santandereana at her elementary school. After she graduated from a local university holding a management degree
Priya Himesh.  Priya Himesh (also credited as Priya Hemesh) is an Indian multilingual Playback singer for the feature films. She sings predominantly in Kannada Telugu Tamil and Malayalam language movies.Priya is the recipient of Filmfare Awards South for her Telugu song Ringa Ringa in the film Aarya 2.
Vincent Zhao.  Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo (born 10 April 1972) sometimes credited as Vincent Chiu or Chiu Man-cheuk is a Chinese actor and martial artist. Zhao is best known playing the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung in the Once Upon a Time in China film and television series.
Mick Jones (Foreigner).  Michael Leslie Mick Jones (born 27 December 1944) is an English guitarist songwriter and record producer best known as the founding member of the rock band Foreigner. Prior to Foreigner he was in the band Spooky Tooth.
Lindsey Pollard.  Lindsey Pollard is an animator from Victoria British Columbia Canada now residing in Los Angeles California. Her work as a director on the children's Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo garnered three Pulcinella awards two Emmy nominations and a 2007 Emmy win. In 1994 she received The Grand Prize Norman McLaren Award and won Best Animation in the Montreal World Film Festival for her student film The Chain Letter.
Candy Apples.  Candy Apples (born October 3 1976 in Inglewood California USA) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. Candy is married to Bill Nance.
Joelistics.  Joelistics (Joel Ma) is an MC Producer and Multi-Instrumentalist of the Melbourne-based Australian Hip Hop group TZU.
Ottokar Domma.  Ottokar Domma (pseudonym; properly Otto Häuser) (20 May 1924 Karlovy Vary Czechoslovakia – 15 July 2007 Woltersdorf) was a German journalist and writer specialising in satire. He was most famous for his series on adventures of a fictional East German schoolboy named Ottokar Domma.
Henriette Paalzow.  Henriette von Paalzow née Wach (1788 Berlin - 30 October 1847 Berlin) was a German historical novelist.Henriette Wach was the sister of the painter Karl Wilhelm Wach. She married a Prussian officer Major Paalzow in 1816 though the marriage was dissolved in 1821. Her historical novels were compared to those of Walter Scott.
Matthew Crosby.  Matthew Crosby (born 12 February 1980) is a British comedian and writer. He is best known as one third of the sketch team Pappy's. He began his comedy career in 2004 and has since performed stand-up and sketch comedy all over the world. He was a semi-finalist for the BBC New Act 2005.
Jack B. Sowards.  Jack B. Sowards (March 18 1929 – July 8 2007) was an American screenwriter who wrote the story and screenplay for the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Where Silence Has Lease.
Ariel Schrag.  Ariel Schrag (born December 29 1979) is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an unusually early age for her autobiographical comics.
Crooked I.  Dominick Wickliffe better known by his stage name Crooked I is an American rapper from Long Beach California. He is a member of the hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse with other members Joe Budden Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9. Slaughterhouse is currently signed to Shady Records. Crooked I is currently CEO of his own record labels Dynasty Entertainment and C.O.B. Digital as well as Senior Vice President of Treacherous Records.
Tina Parol.  Tina Parol is a singer/songwriter from New York signed to Universal Motown Records. Her first single Who's Got Your Money was released on April 7 2009 on iTunes. It was released for radio airplay on May 19 2009 and reached #35 on the Billboard Pop Songs charts.
George Tuska.  George Tuska (April 26 1916 – October 16 2009) who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay for and his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters.
Andrei Diev.  Andrei Borisovich Diev (Russian: Андрей Борисович Диев) born July 7 1958 Minsk (Belorussia) - Russian pianist Meritorious Artist (1995).
Ryan Stiles.  Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22 1959) is an American actor comedian director and voice actor whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his career and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the role of Lewis Kiniski on The Drew Carey Show. He plays Herb Melnick on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men and was a performer on the show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.
Tamara Johnson-George.  Tamara Taj Johnson-George (born April 29 1971) is a singer actress and author. Best known as one-third of the singing group SWV she was also a contestant on Survivor: Tocantins.
Jonathan Rand.  Jonathan Rand is an American writer whose plays have been performed over 14000 times in all 50 states and in 49 countries and are ranked among the most produced in North American high schools. His plays are published and licensed by Playscripts Inc.
Andy Runton.  Andy Runton is the creator of the graphic novel series Owly first published in 2005 by Top Shelf. Before he worked on Owly he was a graphic designer. His artwork is a reflection of his affection for wildlife. Andy currently resides in Atlanta GA. In 2005 Runton won the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent. His work was also nominated for Best Publication for a Younger Audience in Eisner Awards the same year which he won in 2006.
Wilson Yip.  Wilson Yip also known as Yip Wai-Shun (Chinese: 葉偉信) is a Hong Kong actor filmmaker and screenwriter. His films include Bio Zombie The White Dragon SPL: Sha Po Lang Dragon Tiger Gate Flash Point Ip Man and Ip Man 2.
Zdravko Zupan.  Zdravko Zupan (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Зупан born February 7 1950 in Zagreb) is a Yugoslav comic-book creator and historian.He is known best for his comics such as Tom & Jerry Zuzuko Munja Mickey Mouse Goofy and Ellsworth.Zupan is also considered as the most important historian of Serbian and Yugoslav comics. He lives in Belgrade.
Freddie White.  Freddie White born in September 1951 Cobh Ireland is an Irish singer-songwriter.
Katy B.  Kathleen Anne Brien (born 8 May 1989) better known as Katy B is an English singer and songwriter and a graduate of the BRIT School. She is a dubstep R&B funky house and UK garage singer and has also performed under the name Baby Katy. She released her first single with the label Rinse in 2010. The same year she completed a degree in Popular Music at Goldsmiths University of London. She was nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize.
Binh Danh.  Binh Danh (born 9 October 1977) is a Vietnamese-born photographer and artist. He immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1979.Danh was educated at San José State University and in 2002 studied Asian American studies and achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. At the age of 25 Danh was one of the youngest artists to be invited into Stanford University's Master of Fine Arts program.
Dominique Dalcan.  Dominique Dalcan (a.k.a. Snooze) is a French electronic musician and film composer.He was born in 1964 in Beirut Lebanon.He collaborated with French musician Hector Zazou on his Sahara Blue album alongside Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Kanata Irei.  DANIEL Irei (伊礼彼方 Irei ) is a Japanese actor musician and fashion model. He was born February 3 1982 in Argentina as Daniel Irei (ダニエル 伊礼) but uses the stage name Kanata. This comes from his grandfather on his father's side who gave him a Japanese name because he did not like his given name. He is half-Okinawan and half-Chilean. He was brought up in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture Japan since he was 6.
Thierry Wasser.  Thierry Wasser is a contemporary perfumer who as of 2008 was appointed as the in-house perfumer of Guerlain. Prior to this he worked under the fragrance firms Firmenich and Givaudan.After attaining his Federal Diploma of Botany at age twenty Wasser attended the Givaudan perfumery school and was promoted to perfumer at twenty four after a period of apprenticeship. He joined Firmenich in 1993.
Dick King-Smith.  Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE Hon.MEd (27 March 1922 – 4 January 2011) was a prolific English writer of children's books primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983) or Babe the Gallant Pig in the US It was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) and translations have been published in fifteen languages.
François Forster.  François Forster (22 August 1790 - 27 June 1872) was a French engraver.
Ivar de Graaf.  Ivar de Graaf (born 20 August 1973) is the founder and drummer of the Dutch progressive metal band Kingfisher Sky but best known as the former drummer of the popular Dutch rock/metal band Within Temptation.
Jean-Marc Dalpé.  Jean Marc Dalpé (born 21 February 1957 in Ottawa Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature.Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa graduating in 1973. In 1979 he obtained graduate diploma from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec. He subsequently worked with several Franco-Ontarian theatre companies including as a co-founder of Ottawa's Théâtre de la Vieille 17 in 1979.
Rob. A!.  Rob. A! (born Robert Lamont Allen) is an American Singer-songwriter and Producer. He is popular for layering soulful vocals on top of rhythmic Pop tracks a unique vocal background and arrangement comprised through his special engineering style. He is also popular for his freestyle songwriting approach that gave him the nickname “The Jay-Z of R&B”.He got his break as a songwriter in early 2008 when he collaborated with Andre Merritt Chris Brown and Brian Kennedy.
Demon (musician).  Jeremie Mondon known by his stage name Demon is a French artist and producer of electronic music born in 1977 in Paris. His music comes under the genre known as French touch.
Sierra Noble.  Sierra Dawn Sky Noble (born February 20 1990) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddle player. Her first album was instrumental she played a traditional fiddle and followed up with a vocal album in 2008. She has won numerous musical awards and has opened for famous rock stars like Bon Jovi. She is also an active philanthropist.
Rani Dhavan Shankardass.  Rani Dhavan Shankardass is a renowned Indian social historian and global expert on prison reform. She is the Secretary General of Penal Reform and Justice Association (PRAJA) and the President of Penal Reform International.
Jean-François Fieuzal.  Jean-François Fieuzal or Fieusacq (end of the 1710s - 16 February 1769 Brussels) stage name Durancy was a French actor-director. He headed the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels during the 1750s. His daughter acted for a long time at the Comédie-Française and the Opéra de Paris.
Kat Williams.  Kat Williams born Katrina Williams (February 24 1964) is an American Emmy Award-nominated blues singer. She is most noted for her soulful and blues textures. Born in New York she started singing at a very young age. Throughout her career she made very memorable appearances on television and through radio. She was a finalist on America's Got Talent where she made it through to the Las Vegas rounds. Williams also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Alice Cooper.  Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier February 4 1948) is an American rock singer songwriter and musician whose career spans five decades.
Erene.  Erene (/iːriːniː/; born September 3 1992 in Keene) is an American singer-songwriter.
Seyhan Kurt.  Seyhan Kurt is a French-Turkish poet writer and sociologist.
Laurence Bagley.  Laurence Cyril Bagley (20 October 1922 – 22 October 1983) was an artist born in Southampton United Kingdom. Best known for his marine and aviation paintings he was also a writer and illustrator.
Alexander Afinogenov.  Alexander Nikolayevich Afinogenov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Афиноге́нов) (4 April [O.S. 22 March] 1904 Skopin - 29 October 1941 Moscow) was a Russian playwright.
Bent Sæther.  Bent Sæther (born 18 February 1969 in Oslo Norway) is the bass guitarist and lead vocalist of the Norwegian psychedelic rock band Motorpsycho from the start in 1989.
Sukhwinder Singh.  Sukhwinder Singh is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing Chaiyya Chaiyya for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se.. was composed by A. R. Rahman written by Gulzar and sung in duet with Sapna Awasthi. It was also featured in the musical Bombay Dreams and in remixed arrangements in the titles and credits segments of Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man.
Stephen Johns (music producer).  Stephen Johns is a British classical music producer. He is currently the Artistic Direct at the Royal College of Music in London England. Johns has won numerous awards including three Grammy Awards.
Jeffrey Perry (British actor).  Jeffrey Perry was a British stage and screen actor. Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama he worked extensively for the Royal Exchange in Manchester. He may be best known to television audiences as Mr. Tumnus in the 1988 version of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe which was part of the BBC's Chronicles of Narnia TV miniseries.In the 2000s Perry's work included performances at the Mill at Sonning. In the summer of 2008 he played Mr. Mole in Love's a Luxury.
A.L. Steiner.  A.L. Steiner (born 1967) is an American multimedia artist. Her solo and collaborative art projects use constructions of photography video installation collage and performance. Steiner's art incorporates queer and eco-feminist elements. She is a lecturer and author; a member of Chicks on Speed; and a co-curator of the initiative Ridykeulos at the Roski School of Art and Design University of Southern California where she is a visiting assistant professor.
Jack Elliott Myers.  Jack Elliott Myers (November 29 1941 – November 23 2009) was an American poet and educator. He was Texas Poet Laureate in 2003 and served on the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas for more than 30 years. He was director of creative writing at SMU from 2001 through 2009. Myers co-founded The Writer's Garret a nonprofit literary center in Dallas with his wife Thea Temple.
Deniz Koyu.  Deniz Koyu (born as Deniz Akcakoyunlu in Bochum Germany) is a Turkish DJ and electronic dance music producer who specializes in progressive house and electro house. He has received worldwide support from acclaimed DJs such as Avicii Swedish House Mafia Tiësto Dada Life and Fedde le Grand and was named an EDM artist to watch in 2012 by MTV. Getting into EDM(at age 18) he previously enjoyed pop music and indie pop.
Andrew Dabb.  Andrew Dabb (born in Ogden Utah; currently residing in Los Angeles) is an American writer working in the field of television movies and graphic novels.
John Roderick (musician).  John Roderick is an American musician writer and podcaster. Born in Seattle Washington he grew up in Anchorage Alaska where as a young man he worked as a sluice box mucker for a gold mining operation in the area. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist in the band The Long Winters and was formerly a touring member of the band Harvey Danger.
Patrick White.  Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an English-born Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death he published 12 novels three short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour florid prose shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique.
Pedro Knight.  Pedro Knight Caraballo (September 30 1921 – February 3 2007) was a Cuban-American musician and the husband and manager of singer Celia Cruz.
Randy Jackson.  Randall Darius Randy Jackson (born June 23 1956) is an American bassist former television music competition judge singer record producer entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known from his former work as a judge on American Idol and executive producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. Jackson is currently a mentor on American Idol and has won a Grammy Award as a producer.
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu.  Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (Telugu: ద్వారం వెంకటస్వామి నాయుడు)(b. 8 November 1893 to d. 25 November 1964) was one of the most important carnatic music violinists of the 20th century. Naidu was partially blind. He played at the National Physical Laboratory auditorium New Delhi in 1952 to raise funds for the Blind Relief Association.
Anton Schütz.  Anton Friedrich Josef Schütz (April 19 1894 in Berndorf (Rhine-Province/Kingdom of Prussia/German Empire) – October 6 1977 in New- York USA) was a German-American artist and founder of the New York Graphic Society. Examples of his work can be found in the Smithsonian and the Uffizi.
George Baker (musician).  George Baker (born Johannes Bouwens 8 December 1944) is a Dutch singer and songwriter best known for his global hit Paloma Blanca. He was the lead singer of the pop musical ensemble George Baker Selection. He is now a solo artist.
Aldemaro Romero.  Aldemaro Romero (March 12 1928 – September 15 2007) was a Venezuelan pianist composer arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia Carabobo State.
Kim Nekroman.  Kim Nekroman is the bassist and lead singer for the psychobilly band Nekromantix and the lead guitarist of HorrorPops. He is married to Patricia Day lead singer and bassist for HorrorPops. He is from Denmark and worked for the Danish Navy as a submarine radio operator for eight years before beginning his music career.He plays the upright bass (coffinbass) that he custom made from an actual childs-size coffin.
Florent Schmitt.  Florent Schmitt (28 September 1870 – 17 August 1958) was a French composer.
John Arcudi.  John Arcudi is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Mask and B.P.R.D. and his series Major Bummer.
Matthew Chojnacki.  Matthew Chojnacki (born January 4 1975) is an American writer on film music and record collecting. He also works for Hugo Boss where he is vice-president of finance.His books include Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute a collection of vinyl single record sleeves from the 1980s coupled with original commentary from over 125 musicians graphic designers and photographers.
Thomas Furlong (artist).  Thomas (Tomas) Furlong (1886-1952) was a Scotch Irish American artist and teacher.
AraabMuzik.  Abraham Orellana (born June 16 1989) professionally known as AraabMuzik is an American record producer. He is originally from Providence Rhode Island. He first rose to fame after showcasing his skills of making live beats and instrumentals on an MPC drum machine via the internet.
Sandy Lam.  Sandy Lam (born April 26 1966) also known as Lam Yik Lin is a Chinese singer who sings in Cantonese Mandarin English and Japanese.
Sarah Joseph (author).  Sarah Joseph (born 1946) is a novelist and short story writer in Malayalam. She won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Aalahayude Penmakkal (Daughters of God the Father). She also received the Vayalar Award for the same novel. Sarah has been at the forefront of the feminist movement in Kerala and is the founder of Manushi (organisation of thinking women). She and Madhavikutty are considered among the leading women writers in Malayalam.
Marek Grechuta.  Marek Grechuta (December 10 1945 Zamość Poland - October 9 2006 Kraków Poland) was a Polish singer songwriter composer and lyricist.
Yuya Takaki.  Yuya Takaki (高木 雄也 Takaki Yuya born March 26 1990) is a Japanese singer actor and member of the J-pop group Hey! Say! JUMP. He is currently under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Ibaraki Osaka and resides in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
Reggie Knighton.  Reggie Knighton is a singer songwriter and lead guitarist from Biloxi Mississippi who relocated to Los Angeles California at an early age and grew up there.
Helga Thomas.  Helga Amalia Thomas (July 8 1891 – July 6 1988) was a Swedish film actress.Thomas was born in Skog parish in Västernorrland County. She had a career in German film during the silent era between 1923 and 1930. She died in Stockholm in 1988.
Masami Suzuki.  Masami Suzuki (鈴木 真仁 Suzuki Masami born July 14 1972) is a Japanese voice actress from Chigasaki. She is currently affiliated with Aoni Production.
Jullan Kindahl.  Jullan Kindahl (12 April 1885 – 18 April 1979) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 33 films between 1923 and 1962.
Aleksander Denstad With.  Aleksander Denstad With (born 30 June 1987 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian who won season 4 of the TV show Idol in May 2006 becoming the youngest person ever to win the competition.Aleksander released his first album titled 'Coming Home' on 23 October 2006. The album was a major success and peaked at #4 on the Top 40 Norwegian Albums Chart upon release.
Malcolm Cherry.  Malcolm Cherry was a British actor born 17 May 1878 in Liverpool Lancashire England died 13 April 1925 aged 46 in London England.
Laurie Walker (artist).  Laurie Walker (1962 - February 11 2011) was a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who produced large scale installations merging mythology and scientific references. She was widely exhibited in Canadian art museums and galleries and discussed in numerous articles and monographs from 1987 to the early 2000s.
Paul Iribe.  Paul Iribe ( June 18 1883 – September 21 1935) was a French illustrator and designer in the decorative arts.
Rockie Charles.  Alfred Charles Merrick (November 14 1942 – March 21 2010) known professionally as Rockie Charles was an American Blues singer songwriter and guitarist from New Orleans. He was described as the President of Soul.
Wu Fei.  Wu Fei (Chinese: 吴非; pinyin: :Wú Fēi b. May 12 1977) is a composer performer and improviser from Beijing China. She mainly performs on the ancient Chinese zither called guzheng and also sings and plays the piano.Wu Fei was born in Beijing. She studied composition at the China Conservatory of Music and Mills College in the United States.
Helena Klakocar.  Helena Klakocar (born 1958) is a Croatian and Dutch alternative cartoonist known for her autobiographical social and political observations.
Shiro Kishibe.  Shirō Kishibe (岸部 四郎 Kishibe Shirō born 7 June 1949) is a Japanese actor from Kyoto.He played the role of Sandy in Monkey. Before becoming an actor Kishibe was a guitarist and vocalist of a Japanese band called The Tigers.
Michael Haneke.  Michael Haneke (pronounced [ˈmɪçaːʔeːl ˈhaːnəkə]; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Caché Funny Games The White Ribbon and Amour. His films often document the discontent and estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work.
Endre Szász.  Endre Szász (7 January 1926 - 18 August 2003) was a Hungarian graphic artist printmaker illustrator muralist and ceramics decorator. He described himself as a Folk Surrealist.
Roscoe Mitchell.  Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3 1940 in Chicago Illinois) is an African-American composer jazz instrumentalist and educator mostly known for being a technically superb — if idiosyncratic — saxophonist. He has been called one of the key figures in avant-garde jazz who has been at the forefront of modern music for the past thirty years. He continues to be a major figure. He has even been called a super musician and the New York Times has mentioned that he qualifies as an iconoclast.
Willie Dennis.  Willie Dennis (née William DeBerardinis January 10 1926 Philadelphia Pennsylvania – July 8 1965 New York City) was an American jazz trombonist known as a big band musician but who was also an influential bebop soloist. He died in an automobile accident in New York in 1965.
Gerald Fagan.  Gerald Richard Fagan OOnt (born September 19 1939) is considered one of Canada's premier choral conductors. He is currently Conductor and Artistic Director of Fanshawe Chorus London The Gerald Fagan Singers and the Concert Players Orchestra. He has been married to Marlene Fagan since 1961. They have five children; Leslie Louise Judy Jennifer and Jonathon.
Lex Plotnikoff.  Alexey Plotnikov (Russian: Алексей Плотников) better known under stage name Lex Plotnikoff is the Russian composer and guitar player founder of progressive metal band Mechanical Poet. He is also known as music composer of game soundtracks and painter/graphic designer whose original style and dazzling technique became one of the most noted Mechanical Poet trademarks. Lex is endorsed by Schecter guitars.
Cia Berg.  Cia Berg (born 2 December 1963) now known as Cia Soro is a Swedish television presenter and singer. She was at one time the lead singer of the Swedish rock band Whale who released the single Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe.
Girolamo Mattioli.  Girolamo Mattioli (lived 1577) was an Italian painter and engraver of the late-Baroque period active in Bologna.He was a pupil of Lorenzo Sabbatini who also became a follower of the Caracci. His works were distributed among different patrons particularly in that of the noble family of Zani.
Gabriela Gunčíková.  Gabriela Gunčíková (born 27 June 1993 in Kroměříž) is a Czech Český slavík-winning singer. She was a finalist in the second season of SuperStar and won the New Artist award at the 2011 Český slavík awards.
Richard Anthony Jay.  Richard Anthony Jay (born 1972) is a British composer songwriter and producer.
Mercer Mayer.  Mercer Mayer (born December 30 1943) is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles (see his bibliography for a list). Mayer is probably best known for his Little Critter and Little Monster series of books.Mayer was born in Little Rock Arkansas. His father was in the United States Navy so the family moved many times during his childhood before settling in Honolulu Hawaii.
DJ Nelson.  Nelson Díaz Martinez (born on April 7 1972 in San Juan Puerto Rico) known artistically as DJ Nelson is a DJ/producer who played a significant role in the development and popularization of reggaeton. He first made a name for himself as part of the Noise a club-centered collective that was spawned in 1992. The Noise—composed of DJs MCs producers and club coordinators—hosted a long-lasting series of club nights in San Juan that were vital to the development and popularization of reggaeton.
Foji Gill.  Foji (Punjabi: ਫ਼ੋਜੀ foji) (full name Manjit Singh Gill born in Coventry) is a Birmingham based Punjabi singer writer and producer.First rising to fame in 2010 with hits such as Dafa Hoja and Bruah Foji has continued with a number of successful releases and has featured in the top 3 of the Official Asian Download Chart for longer than any other bhangra artist (12 weeks).
William Rulofson.  William Herman Rulofson (September 27 1826 – November 2 1878) was a Canadian-American photographer who along with his partner H. W. Bradley was considered one of the leading photographers in the city of San Francisco California. He was also the brother of Edward H. Rulloff a notorious murderer who was hanged for his crime in 1871.
Roch Thériault.  Roch Moïse Thériault (May 16 1947 – February 26 2011) was the leader of a small religious group based near Burnt River Ontario Canada. Between 1977 and 1989 had as many as 12 adults and 22 children followers. He had 26 children when he died fathering the other 4 during visits in prison from some of his wives. He used all of the nine women as concubines and may have fathered most of the children in the group.He was arrested for assault in 1989 and convicted of murder in 1993.
Robbie Gennet.  Robbie Gennet is a piano player a songwriter and an entertainer amongst other things.Gennet has published music that is difficult to categorize. He has released 7 CDs and 6 cassettes but a majority of his song catalog has yet to go on record. He has gone on tour with several well-known bands such as Saigon Kick Seven Mary Three Everclear and was the front man for The Robbie Gennet Band.
Leslie Fish.  Leslie Fish is a filk musician author and anarchist political activist.
Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird.  Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird fl. 1670 was an Irish poet.A son of Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird Diarmaid was a member of the Clann Mac an Bhaird and one of the last classically trained bardic file (poet). He appears to have lived in what is now County Monaghan though he clearly had associations with Clandeboye as a poem he addressed to Cormac Ó Neill is preserved in Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe.
Karl Christian Agthe.  Karl Christian Agthe (16 June 1762 – 27 November 1797) was a German organist and composer.Born in Hettstedt Agthe served as court organist to Frederick Albrecht Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg. Among his compositions are six Singspiele a ballet and piano sonatas. He died in Ballenstedt; a son Albrecht Agthe was a music teacher.
Jon Siren.  Jon Siren co-founder and drummer of the band Mankind Is Obsolete has been a drummer or keyboardist in many other industrial bands including Psyclon Nine Dismantled and System Syn.
Hugh Mundell.  Hugh Mundell (June 14 1962 – October 14 1983) was a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter.
Victor Barbeau.  Victor Barbeau OC GOQ (18 August 1896 – 19 July 1994) was a Quebec writer and academic.Born in Montreal Quebec Barbeau was educated at Collège Sainte-Marie Université Laval and University of Paris. From 1925 to 1963 he was a Professor at HEC Montréal.He was a founding member of the Académie canadienne française (today Académie des lettres du Québec) and was its President from 1944 to 1947.In 1970 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Jackson Berkey.  Jackson Berkey is an American composer pianist and singer best known for his work with Mannheim Steamroller which he co-founded with Chip Davis in 1974.
Marta Hegemann.  Marta Hegemann (1894–1970) was a German artist. She was married to fellow artist Anton Räderscheidt (October 11 1892 – March 8 1970).Hegemann was a leading artist of the Cologne avant-garde during the 1920s. She was a practitioner of her own blend of magic realism. A selection of her work is on public display in the Museum Ludwig Cologne.
Soraya Titawasira.  Soraya Titawasira (Thai: โสรญา ฐิตะวชิระ) better known by her Ring name Smile The Star 8 is a Thai singer and actress. She is under contract with GMM Grammy record label Exact. She became famous for the television program The Star.
Tom Close.  Tom Close born Thomas Buyombo is a Rwandan R&B Afrobeat and dancehall singer and professional medical doctor. A ChimpReports reviewer in 2013 described him as the king of Afrobeat and dancehall in Rwanda.
Conrad Aiken.  Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5 1889 – August 17 1973) was an American novelist and poet whose work includes poetry short stories novels a play and an autobiography.
Zu Hai.  Zu Hai (Chinese: 祖海; pinyin: Zǔ Haǐ born May 10 1976) is a Chinese singer.
Lillian Berlin.  Lillian Berlin was the lead singer/guitarist for St. Louis punk rock band Living Things.
Dirk Schlächter.  Dirk Schlächter (born 15 February 1965 in Bad Nauheim Germany) is the bassist of the power metal band Gamma Ray.
Jeremy Stover.  Jeremy Stover is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Stover has written singles for Emerson Drive Lonestar Sarah Buxton Jack Ingram and others.His first number 1 single as a songwriter was Wherever You Are which was also the first number 1 single for Big Machine Records.Stover is best known for his work with Justin Moore whom he helped sign with Big Machine's Valory imprint.
Luís Geraldes.  Luís Pereira Geraldes (born May 15 1957) is a contemporary metaphysical Portuguese artist.He is more widely known for his oil painting[citation needed] although he has produced a vast amount of sculpture and drawing. His art can be labelled as metaphysical or spiritual. He has also produced a lengthy mural in Sydney which is on public display in the suburb of Petersham.
Georgette Seabrooke.  Georgette Seabrooke (aka Georgette Seabrooke Powell; August 2 1916 – December 27 2011) was an American muralist artist illustrator art therapist non-profit chief executive and educator.
Vitaliano Brancati.  Vitaliano Brancati (July 24 1907 – September 25 1954) was an Italian writer. He was born in Pachino and died in Turin. In 1950 he won the Bagutta Prize.
Martín Caparrós.  Martín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires Argentina on May 29 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in journalism was with the now defunct daily Noticias. In 1976 Caparrós fled to exile following the military coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla.
Harper Marshall.  Harper Page Marshall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Hermione Granger in the video games of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She also provided the voice for Malice: A Kat's Tale.
John McDermott (singer).  John Charles McDermott (born 25 March 1955) is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song Danny Boy. Born in Glasgow Scotland John moved with his family to Willowdale Ontario Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family his only formal musical training was at St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto Ontario in 1971 and 1972.
John Roberts (Tremeirchion clergyman).  John Roberts (1775 – 25 July 1829) was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer.
Geoffrey O'Hara.  Geoffrey O'Hara (February 2 1882 – January 31 1967) was a Canadian American composer singer and music professor.O'Hara was born in Chatham Ontario Canada. He initially planned a military career. O'Hara entered the prestigious Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario at age 18 and he trained with the 1st Hussars. He had to abandon his military career upon the death of his father Robert O'Hara.He moved to the USA in 1904 the same year he began performing in Vaudeville.
Revel Cooper.  Revel Ronald Cooper (c. 1934 – 1983) was an Indigenous Australian artist.
General Trees.  General Trees (born Amos Edwards Drews Land Kingston Jamaica c.1960) was one of the most popular Jamaican dancehall deejays of the 1980s best known for his hits in the latter half of the decade.
Kamil Mikulčík.  Kamil Mikulčík (November 18 1977) is a Slovak singer and actor who was the Slovakia entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with Nela Pocisková. The song Leť tmou was chosen after a national final. They were the first singers to represent Slovakia at the contest since the Eurovision Song Contest 1998. However it failed to reach the final.He is a singer of a vocal group Fragile.
Jostein Nyhamar.  Jostein Nyhamar (23 September 1922 – 30 July 1993) was a Norwegian magazine editor biographer and politician for the Labour Party. Jostein Nyhamar was born in Nedre Eiker. He edited the weekly magazine Aktuell from 1959 to 1974 and Forbrukerrapporten from 1974 to 1986. He has written a biography of Einar Gerhardsen as well as volume six of the series Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge which covers the history of the Norwegian labour movement from 1965 to 1990.
J-Flexx.  James Anderson better known as J-Flexx is a former artist/producer of Death Row Records.
Kaye Gibbons.  Kaye Gibbons (born May 10 1960) is an American novelist. Her 1987 debut Ellen Foster received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the The Louis D. Rubin Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Yemane Baria.  Yemane Ghebremichael (commonly known as Yemane Baria) was a well-known Eritrean songwriter composer and singer. Not confined to musical pursuits he was also heavily involved in Eritrean politics. He died of natural causes in 1997.
Wataru Yoshizumi.  Wataru Yoshizumi (吉住渉 Yoshizumi Wataru) is a Japanese manga artist. She was born as Mari Nakai (中井 真里 Nakai Mari) on June 18 1963 in Tokyo Japan. She graduated with a degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University.Yoshizumi started her career as a Japanese manga artist while working as an office lady. Her debut manga was a yomikiri (short story) called Radical Romance that was published in 1984 in the summer issue of Ribon Original.
Ian Livingstone (composer).  Ian Livingstone (born July 4 1969 in London) is a British video game film and TV music composer.Livingstone began his professional career as session musician engineer and midi programmer recording and touring Europe with a number of successful bands.After taking a music degree at Salford University Ian began scoring video game soundtracks such as “Starlancer” “Lego Harry Potter” “Star Trek: Invasion”.
Antonieta Rivas Mercado.  María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos (b. Mexico City April 28 1900 - d. Paris February 11 1931) was a Mexican intellectual writer feminist and arts patron.
Tyler Carter.  Derek Tyler Carter (a god among men) (born December 30 1991) is an American musician from Atlanta Georgia. He and Michael Bohn previously shared vocal duties in both A Path Less Traveled and Woe Is Me. Both of them are currently in Issues. He has also been featured as a guest in a variety of songs by other artists.
Roland Vernon.  Roland Vernon is an English writer. He has published novels biographies of musicians and Star in the East a biography of the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. His début novel A Dark Enchantment won the Daily Mail First Novel Award. His second novel The Maestro’s Voice was published in 2010 and a third novel The Good Wife's Castle in April 2012
Ilan Rubin.  Ilan Rubin (born July 7 1988) is a American multi-instrumentalist who is known primarily for playing drums with bands such as Lostprophets Nine Inch Nails Angels & Airwaves and Paramore. He also has his own solo project called The New Regime.
Anne Klein.  Anne Klein (August 3 1923 – March 19 1974) was an American fashion designer who founded her own women's sportswear and apparel label.
Emílio Santiago.  Emílio Vitalino Santiago (6 December 1946 – 20 March 2013) known as Emílio Santiago was a Brazilian singer.
Michail Svetlev (tenor).  Michail Svetlev is an internationally-acclaimed opera tenor born 6 March 1943 in Sofia Bulgaria.He is known for his interpretations of leading tenor roles in French Italian German and Russian operas and an extensive repertoire of Neapolitan and Italian songs.
Cornelis Ketel.  Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 – 8 August 1616) was a Dutch Mannerist painter active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581 and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century now known essentially as a portrait-painter though he was also a poet and orator and from 1595 began to sculpt as well.According to Ketel's biography written by his contemporary Karel van Mander he seems to have wanted to concentrate on the most prestigious of the hierarchy of genres history painting which included mythological subjects but after he left France he is known almost entirely as a portrait-painter. 
Chris DuBois.  Chris DuBois is a songwriter and music publisher based out of Nashville TN. Chris began his music career as ASCAP Director of Membership in 1993. He left ASCAP in 1999 to form Sea Gayle Music with business partners Brad Paisley and Frank Rogers. Since that time Sea Gayle has become one of the most successful independent publishing companies in all of music. In 2010 and 2011 Sea Gayle was named ASCAP Country Publisher of the Year.
Giovanni Battista Leonetti.  Giovanni Battista Leonetti was an Italian engraver. He worked in Rome at the commencement of the 19th century and died before 1830. He engraved works by Guercino and Francesco Gessi.
Aizat Amdan.  Muhammad Aizat Amdan (born January 21 1989 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia) or commercially known as Aizat Amdan is a Malaysian singer-songwriter.Aizat began his music career as a contestant in the reality TV singing contest Akademi Fantasia 5 or better known by its abbreviation AF.Aizat is well known for inducing creative sounds and lyrical prose within his songs.
Katie Richmond.  Katie Richmond is an English model and hostess of a television show on the Men & Motors network.She got her start in modelling at the age of 19 as a Page 3 girl in The Sun and she also appeared in The Daily Star. She turned down an offer from Playboy magazine to be their Millennium Bunny.
Ahmed Karahisari.  Ahmed Karahisari (1468–1566) (Turkish: Ahmed Şemseddin Karahisârî) (Ottoman Turkish: احمد شمس ا لدين قراهسارى) was an Ottoman calligrapher.
Magic Dick.  Richard Magic Dick Salwitz (born May 13 1945) is an American musician and the harmonica player for The J. Geils Band. In addition to the harmonica Salwitz plays the trumpet (the first instrument he learned) and saxophone.
Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi.  Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi (Bosnian: Muhamed Hevaija Uskufija Bosnevi Turkish: Mehmet Hevayi Uskufi born c. 1600 in Dobrinja near Tuzla died after 1651) was a Bosniak poet and writer of Aljamiado literature. Uskufi is noted as the author of the first Bosnian-Turkish dictionary in 1632; Magbuli ’ari one of the earliest dictionaries of the Bosnian language and in the South Slavic languages as a whole. A hand-copy dating from 1798 is currently kept at the City Archive of Sarajevo.
Buddy Cage.  Buddy Cage (born February 18 1946 in Toronto Canada) is an American pedal steel guitarist best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage.Popular both as a performer and session musician he has played with many bands and recording artists including Anne Murray Bob Dylan Brewer & Shipley David Bromberg and the Zen Tricksters.
Sarah Crompton.  Sarah Crompton (1802 – 13 May 1881) was an English children's writer.Sarah Crompton was born in Birmingham the daughter of J. W. Crompton a merchant. She died in Birmingham.
Bill Day (cartoonist).  Bill Day is an American cartoonist best known for his syndicated editorial cartoons. Day has won numerous industry awards and has also been involved in controversy over his opposition to the National Rifle Association and advocacy of gun control and over his reuse of his own previously drawn material.
Dagny Lind.  Dagny Lind (7 November 1902 – 13 January 1992) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 15 films between 1923 and 1977.
Tom Gaebel.  Tom Gaebel is a German singer and leader of a big band named after himself. He changed the spelling of his last name avoiding the umlaut to give it an international sheen. In addition to singing and arranging music Gaebel writes lyrics in English.Tom Gaebel was born on 13 January 1975 in Gelsenkirchen North Rhine-Westphalia Germany into a musical family. His younger brother Denis Gäbel plays tenor saxophone in the Tom Gaebel big band.
Burl Barer.  Burl Barer (born 1947 Walla Walla Washington) is an American author literary historian and radio host. He is best known for his writings about the character Simon Templar.
R. K. Shekhar.  Rajagopala Kulasekara Shekhar (21 June 1933 - 30 September 1976 born to Mudaliar Tamil family in Tiruvallur Tamil Nadu) was an Indian music composer who worked mainly for Malayalam movies. He composed music for 52 films (23 in Malayalam with 127 songs) and was the music conductor for more than 100 films. He is best known as the father of music composer A. R. Rahman.His debut song as a music director was Chotta Muthal Chudala Vare (from cradle to grave) which was a big hit in Kerala.
Sholom Secunda.  Sholom Secunda (4 September [O.S. 23 August] 1894 Aleksandriya Russian Empire – 13 June 1974 New York) was an American composer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.
Ernest William Christmas.  Ernest William Christmas (1863–1918) was an Australian painter. He was born near Adelaide South Australia in 1863 and studied art in Adelaide Sydney and in London. He painted widely in England exhibiting in the early years of the century at the Royal Academy the Royal Institute of Oil Painters the Royal Society of British Artists the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and in the provinces. He was elected to the British Royal British Academy in 1909.
Abeozen.  François Eliès born Fañch Eliès and better known by the pseudonym Abeozen (1896 Saint-Sauveur Finistère - 1963 La Baule) was a Breton nationalist novelist and dramatist who wrote in the Breton language. Abeozen was also a noted scholar of the Welsh language.Abeozen started contributing to the Breton literary journal Gwalarn in 1925. He worked as a teacher in Saint-Brieuc from 1927 to 1940 and founded the local branch of the communist Secours Rouge organization.
Drew Hayden Taylor.  Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is a Canadian playwright author and journalist.
Bob Gordon (saxophonist).  Bob Gordon (11 June 1928–28 August 1955) was an American cool jazz baritone saxophonist born in St. Louis Missouri best known as a sideman for musicians like Stan Kenton Shelly Manne Chet Baker Maynard Ferguson trombonist Herbie Harper and tenor saxophonist Jack Montrose among others.Bob Gordon died in a car accident on his way to playing at a Pete Rugolo concert in San Diego. His friend and fellow saxophonist Jack Montrose wrote:
Shayne Carter.  Shayne Carter (born July 1964 in Dunedin New Zealand) is best known for being the Straitjacket Fits' principal singer/songwriting/guitarist in the late 80s/early 90s and later on a founding member of Dimmer. Carter comes from a musical family. He was born to a Caucasian mother and a Māori father who was adopted by a Pakeha family.
Cassidy Haley.  Cassidy Hugaert Haley (born June 17 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and clothing designer based in Los Angeles.
Lyrics Born.  Tom Shimura better known by his stage name Lyrics Born (formerly Asia Born) is a Japanese-Italian/Jewish-American rapper and producer. He is also one half of the group Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker.
Dennis Linde.  Dennis Linde (March 18 1943 – December 22 2006) was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country music.He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit Burning Love. Presley performed the song live a few times but often had trouble with the lyrics and soon pulled it from his playlist although he did perform it during his famous show Aloha from Hawaii.
Don Ho.  Donald Tai Loy Don Ho (simplified Chinese: 何大来; traditional Chinese: 何大來; pinyin: Hé Dàlái; August 13 1930 – April 14 2007) was a Hawaiian and traditional pop musician singer and entertainer. He is best known for the song Tiny Bubbles.
Roger Medearis.  Roger Medearis (March 6 1920 – July 5 2001) was an American Regionalist painter.
Sandra Bowden.  Sandra Bowden (born 1943) is an artist and painter from New York and was president from 1993 to 2007 of Christians in the Visual Arts.
Diljaan.  Diljaan is an Indian singer. Diljaan qualified for the Pakistani and Indian reality show Sur Kshetra losing to Pakistani singer Nabeel Shaukat Ali.
Gerry Joly.  Gérald Gerry Joly (b. Hawkesbury Ontario – d. 2008-12-29 at age 74 Gatineau Quebec) was a Franco-Ontarian country music singer-songwriter. Joly's career began in the late 1950s giving small concerts in both English and French throughout Ontario. In 1969 he wrote and composed Mile After Mile a song which featured on his first LP Gerry Joly Duo - Live at the Belle Claire (1970). The song is best known through Orval Prophet's 1971 cover which topped the Canadian RPM country charts.
E. Wayne Abercrombie.  E. Wayne Abercrombie (born 30 August 1938 Atlanta) is an American conductor and a Professor Emeritus of Music and Director of Choral Programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Abercrombie studied at Emory University and Westminster Choir College earning the B.M. (Voice) and M.M. (Conducting) degrees at the latter as a student of Julius Herford Nicholas Harsanyi and Warren Martin. In 1974 he received the D. Mus.
Leila Hoffman.  Leila Hoffman (née Rothstein) (born 1934 in Hackney) is an English comedian actress and writer.
Sascha Konietzko.  Sascha Konietzko (born 21 June 1961) also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K is a German musician and producer. He is the founder frontman and anchor of industrial band KMFDM. Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock. Keyboard Magazine wrote of him You won't find a more imaginative or effective keyboardist on the hard-core scene.
Capitol K.  Capitol K is the name under which Kristian Craig Robinson works as a musician combining electronica found sounds and indie-pop.
Signe Wilkinson.  Signe Wilkinson (born July 25 1959 in Wichita Falls Texas) is an editorial cartoonist best known for her work at the Philadelphia Daily News. Wilkinson is the first female cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1992) and was once named the Pennsylvania state vegetable substitute by the former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 1994-1995.
Aurélie Resch.  Aurélie Resch is an author travel writer and filmmaker from Toronto Canada.
Fallen Fruit.  Fallen Fruit is an artists' collaboration based in Los Angeles originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013 David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.
Eddy Grant.  Edmond Montague Eddy Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese British musician. The Allmusic journalist Jo-Ann Greene noted: Eddy Grant stands among an elite group of artists as one who has not just merely moved successfully across the musical spectrum but has actually been at the forefront of genres and even created one of his own. From pop star to reggae radical musical entrepreneur to the inventor of ringbang the artist has cut a swath through the world of music and made it his own.
Nick Warburton.  Nick Warburton (born 1947) was a primary school teacher for ten years before deciding to become a full-time writer. He writes plays for stage television and radio and scripts for television series including Doctors Holby City and EastEnders. He has been part of the regular writing team on Holby City since 2001. His radio plays On Mardle Fen are one of the few recurring series on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play strand.
Sei Ashina.  Sei Ashina (芦名 星 Ashina Sei) (born Igarashi Aya on November 22 1983) is a Japanese actress best known for her role in Kamen Rider Hibiki. She is also known for her role as The Mistress in the 2006 film Silk.
Mollie Hardwick.  Mollie Greenhalgh Hardwick (7 March 1916 – 13 December 2003) was an English author who was best known for writing books that accompanied the TV series Upstairs Downstairs.As well as writing many Upstairs Downstairs Thomas & Sarah and The Duchess of Duke Street novels she was also the creator of the Doran Fairweather novels and wrote three Juliet Bravo books. Hardwick also wrote many books and plays based around the Sherlock Holmes novels.
John Jorgenson.  John Jorgenson (born July 6 1956 in Madison Wisconsin) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin mandocello Dobro pedal steel piano upright bass clarinet bassoon and saxophone.
Leopold Wenzel.  Léopold de Wenzel (23 January 1847 – 21 August 1923) also known as Leopold Wenzel was an Italian conductor and composer.Born in Naples Wenzel spent most of his career working in London with the exception of some years spent in Paris. Wenzel was appointed as musical director music arranger and ballet composer at the Empire Theatre of Varieties in London in 1889 where he wrote and arranged numerous ballets. Later he conducted at the Gaiety Theatre London until 1913.
Christine Fellows.  Christine Fellows (born 1968) is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg Manitoba.
Claus Norreen.  Claus Norreen (born 5 June 1970 Charlottenlund Denmark) is a Danish musician and record producer known for being a part of the band Aqua which sold around 33 million records.
Craig Leon.  Craig Leon (born 7 January 1952) is an American born record producer composer and arranger currently living in England. Leon was instrumental in launching the careers of many recording artists including The Ramones and Blondie.
Infamous (producer).  Marco Rodriguez-Diaz better known by his stage name Infamous or DJ Infamous is an American DJ and record producer from Miami Florida. Infamous was a founding member of The-Allies Dj Crew and is perhaps best known for his work with American rapper Lil Wayne. A former 3 time world champion DJ and multi-instrumentalist Infamous has produced songs for prominent recording artists suchas Drake Nelly Fat Joe The Game Lupe Fiasco and Travis McCoy among others.
Mike Will Made It.  Michael Len Williams II (born March 23 1989) professionally known as Mike WiLL Made It or Mike WiLL is an American record producer from Atlanta Georgia. He is perhaps best known for producing trap beats for several Southern hip hop artists and has also produced the hit singles Mercy by GOOD Music No Lie by 2 Chainz Bandz a Make Her Dance by Juicy J Pour It Up by Rihanna Love Me by Lil Wayne Body Party by Ciara and We Can't Stop by Miley Cyrus.
Jack Purvis (actor).  Jack Purvis (13 July 1937 – 21 November 1997) was a British film actor. Purvis was a dwarf and thus was mainly cast in roles requiring actors of short stature.
Noodle (Gorillaz).  Noodle (born 31 October 1990) is a fictional Japanese musician and member of the virtual band Gorillaz. She provides the guitar as well as some main and backing vocals for the band. Noodle has been voiced by the likes of Japanese actress Haruka Kuroda singer-songwriter Miho Hatori of trip-hop group Cibo Matto Talking Heads bassist Tina Weymouth and solo musician Rosie Walker aka Roses Gabor. Like all other band members of Gorillaz she was created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
Ed Byrne (comedian).  Edward Cathal Ed Byrne (born 16 April 1972) is an Irish stand-up comedian voice over artist and actor. He has presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just for Laughs and is a guest on television panel games. As an actor he played the title character in the ITV2 adaptation of the pantomime Aladdin.
Jannat.  Jannat Mahid (Arabic: جنات مهيد‎) (born January 6 1986) known by her stage name Jannat is one of the youngest female Arab artists to have graced the Middle East music scene. Her talent for singing was revealed early when she attracted attention of her parents at age 5 repeating songs of Umm Kulthum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab.
Daniel Herman (publisher).  Daniel Herman (born March 2 1957) is an American attorney and the founder of Hermes Press a comic book publication company based in New Castle Pennsylvania.
Chuck Sklar.  Chuck Sklar is an American comedian film and television writer and television producer. He is known for comedy writing on various shows including The Chris Rock Show The Man Show and Weekends at the D.L.[citation needed] In 2012 Sklar and Chris Rock produced a pilot featuring San Francisco comedian W. Kamau Bell launching the FX television network show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.
Marie Déa.  Marie Déa (born Odette Alice Marie Deupès 17 May 1912 - 1 March 1992) was a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1939 to 1983.
Cat Power.  Charlyn Marie Marshall (born January 21 1972) also known as Chan Marshall or by her stage name Cat Power is an American singer-songwriter musician and occasional actress and model.
Joseph Skipsey.  Joseph Skipsey (1832 – 1903) was a Northumberland born poet and songwriter in the middle and late 19th century. His best known work is arguably The Hartley Calamity about the Hartley Colliery Disaster a devastating mining accident in Hartley Northumberland England in 1862 in which 220 lives were lost.He was known as The Pitman Poet.
Jacobo Timerman.  Jacobo Timerman (6 January 1923 – 11 November 1999) born in the Soviet Union was an Argentine publisher journalist and author who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression. An estimated 15000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel.
Lodewijk Bruckman.  Lodewijk Karel Loki Bruckman (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈloːdəˌʋɛik ˈkaːrəl ˈbrʏkmɑn]; 14 August 1903 – 24 April 1995) was a Dutch magic realist painter. He lived and worked in the Netherlands the United States and Mexico. Museum de Oude Wolden in the village of Bellingwolde has a permanent exhibition of his paintings.
Glenn Danzig.  Glenn Danzig (born Glenn Allen Anzalone; June 23 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Lodi New Jersey. He is a founder of bands the Misfits Samhain and Danzig. He owns the Evilive record label as well as Verotik an adult-oriented comic book publishing company.Having begun in the mid-1970s Danzig's musical career has encompassed a number of genres through the years including punk rock heavy metal industrial blues and classical music.
Mary Stallings.  Mary Stallings (born August 16 1939) is an American jazz vocalist and mother of R&B soul singer Adriana Evans.
Craig Luebben.  Craig Luebben (died August 9 2009) was an American rock climber and author. A climber since the early 80s Luebben wrote a number of climbing-oriented books designed the Big Bro wide-crack climbing protection device and was a senior contributing editor for Climbing Magazine.Craig was a 5.12 climber in that he could likely onsight any 5.12 on the planet.
Carolyn Haines.  Carolyn Haines (sometimes credited as Caroline Burnes and Lizzie Hart) (born May 12 1953 in Hattiesburg Mississippi) is a prolific mystery author and former journalist specializing in mysteries set in the Mississippi Delta.
Carel Fabritius.  Carel Fabritius (bapt. 27 February 1622 – 12 October 1654) was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils.
R. Tait McKenzie.  Robert Tait McKenzie (sometimes written MacKenzie) (May 26 1867 – April 28 1938) was a Canadian-born sculptor doctor soldier physical educator athlete and Scouter. Born in Ramsay Township Lanark County Ontario Canada he resided in several cities including Montreal and Philadelphia before finally residing at the Mill of Kintail in Almonte Lanark County Ontario Canada.
Jay Diggins.  Jay Diggins (born 17 September 1974) is an English singer-songwriter. He is best known for his work with John Parish and for turning down an opportunity to appear on the hit BBC One show The Voice.
Len Norris.  Leonard Matheson Norris better known as Len Norris (1913 in London England - 1997 in Langley British Columbia Canada) was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the Canadian newspaper Vancouver Sun from 1950 to 1988. Called by Walt Kelly the creator of Pogo the best in the business Norris' cartoons skewered the foibles of British Columbia politics and social mores with a barbed pencil.
Sonny Sharrock.  Warren Harding Sonny Sharrock (August 27 1940 – May 26 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock with whom he sometimes recorded and performed.One of few guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s Sharrock was known for his incisive heavily chorded attack his highly-amplified bursts of wild feedback and for his use of saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar.
Dave Chappelle.  David Khari Webber Dave Chappelle (/ʃəˈpɛl/ born August 24 1973) is an American comedian screenwriter television and film producer and actor. After beginning his film career in 1993 as Ahchoo in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights he landed minor roles in box office hits including The Nutty Professor Con Air and Blue Streak.
Daniel Fathers.  Daniel Fathers (born 23 March 1966) is an English actor known for portraying Brown Cessario in the film Camp Rock and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam alongside American actress Demi Lovato. And he has played a little role in the popular series of Heartland (Season 3 episode 1). He is also the host of Canada's Greatest Know-It-All. Fathers also starred as philanthropist Calvin Baker in Canadian TV show Murdoch Mysteries.
Giovanni Paolo Cervetto.  Giovanni Paolo Cervetto (died 1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was very active in his native Genoa. He was pupil of Valerio Castelli and his works were difficult to separate from his master. He died young likely from the Bubonic Plague that afflicted Genoa in 1657.
Carolina Wallin Pérez.  Carolina Wallin Pérez (born in Mellerud Sweden on 4 August 1982) is a Swedish pop and jazz singer.She started in 2005 contributing vocals to the song I Won't Stay in the studio album Never Die! by the band Monster & Maskiners. Pérez became known through her music site on Myspace and was signed to Family Tree Music (a label distributed by Sony Music). She debuted in 2009 with the album Pärlor och svin with covers of Kent songs.
Salomon Gessner.  Solomon Gessner (1 April 1730 – 2 March 1788) was a Swiss painter and poet. His writing suited the taste of his time though by some more recent standards it is “insipidly sweet and monotonously melodious.” As a painter he represented the conventional classical landscape.
Sebastian Bach.  Sebastian Philip Bierk (born April 3 1968) known professionally as Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. Since his departure from Skid Row he has had many television roles acted in Broadway plays and leads a successful solo career.
Seagram (rapper).  Seagram Miller (1970 – July 31 1996) was an American rapper from Oakland California.Miller released two albums in his lifetime: The hard-edged and violent The Dark Roads and the more typically laid-back west coast style Reality Check. 1997's Souls on Ice was released posthumously after Miller's death. Miller was shot to death on July 31 1996. He is interred in the Oakland Bay Area.
You Kikkawa.  You Kikkawa (吉川 友 Kikkawa Yū born May 1 1992 in Ibaraki Prefecture) is a Japanese pop singer and former member of Hello! Project.
Nasi (singer).  Nasi (born Marcos Valadão Rodolfo; January 26 1962) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter former vocalist of Ira!. He is also a soccer commentator for RedeTV! since 2008.
Adrienne Vittadini.  Adrienne Vittadini (b. 1945 Budapest) is a renowned American fashion designer. When she was 12 her family fled Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. In 1979 she started what would become a multi-million dollar fashion business as a hobby. The brand name Adrienne Vittadini is synonymous with designs that have a Euro-American point of view. She uses vibrant colors and prints and she is known for her clothing handbags swimsuits shoes eyewear and perfumes.
Alison Baird.  Alison Baird is the author of The Hidden World The Wolves of Woden The Dragon's Egg and White as the Waves. She was honored by the Canadian Children's Book Centre is a Silver Birch Award regional winner and she was a finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. She lives in Oakville Ontario.She also wrote the Willowmere Chronicles a series of three books about a revenant (a person who has been reincarnated) named Clair Norton.
Art Blakey.  Arthur Art Blakey (October 11 1919 – October 16 1990) known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader.Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach Blakey was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician; his brand of bluesy funky hard bop was and continues to be influential on mainstream jazz.
John Feldmann.  John William Feldmann (born June 29 1967) is an American musician and producer. He has produced and co-written songs accounting for sales of more than 34 million albums worldwide—2 million alone in 2011 and 2012—and is also the lead singer/guitarist of the band Goldfinger. He is known as an animal rights advocate.
Ryan Shuck.  Ryan Christopher Shuck (born April 11 1973 in Taft California) better known as Ryan Shuck is an American singer songwriter guitarist composer producer and entrepreneur. He has been a founding member of the successful industrial rock band Orgy. As of now he is the leader of the electronic rock / indietronic / dance project Julien-K and the guitarist and backing vocalist of Dead By Sunrise the alternative rock side project of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington.
Karl Hübner.  Karl Wilhelm Hübner (1814–1879) was a German genre painter. He was born at Königsberg and was a pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy.Hübner's works were especially popular in the Netherlands and in North America where he was received with enthusiasm in 1874.
Miryo.  Jo Mi-hye (Hangul: 조미혜; born November 2 1981) better known by her stage name Miryo (미료) is a South Korean rapper who is part of the Korean girl group Brown Eyed Girls. The stage name Miryo comes from her childhood nickname Jomiryo which is the name of a Korean seasoning.
Alejandro Mario Yllanes.  Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–1960) was an Aymara painter and printmaker from Bolivia. He disappeared from the public spotlight in 1946 after he was awarded but did not claim the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jenny Mastoraki.  Jenny Mastoraki (Greek: Τζένη Μαστοράκη) (b. Athens 1949) is a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens.She belongs to the Genia tou 70 a group of Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi.
Alan Hollinghurst.  Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist poet short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.
Marabel Morgan.  Marabel Morgan (25 June 1937-) is an American author of self-help books for married women including The Total Woman (1973) Total Joy (1983) The Total Woman Cookbook (1980) and The Electric Woman (1986). The Total Woman sold more than ten million copies and was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1974.
Ksenia Sitnik.  Ksenia Mikhailovna Sitnik (Belarusian: Ксенія Міхайлаўна Сітнік; Russian: Ксения Михайловна Ситник); born on 15 May 1995 in Mazyr Belarus) sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik or Xenia Sitnik is a Belarusian child singer. She represented her home country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 which she won with the self-penned song My Vmeste (We Are Together).
Vilhelms Purvītis.  Vilhelms Purvītis (3 March 1872 in Zaube Latvia – 14 January 1945 in Bad Nauheim Germany) was a landscape painter and educator who founded the Latvian Academy of Art and was its rector from 1919 to 1934.Purvītis studied painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg Russia from 1890 to 1897 primarily under Arkhip Kuindzhi graduating with the Grand Gold Medal. From 1898 to 1901 his paintings were exhibited in Berlin Munich Paris and Lyon to great acclaim.
Carl-Axel Elfving.  Carl-Axel Elfving (12 January 1920 – 12 January 1988) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows between 1947 and 1986.
Barb Morrison.  Barb Morrison (born Barbara Jean Morrison on May 22 1967) is an American recording artist Top 5 Billboard dance chart songwriter and Gold record producer best known as producer for numerous artists such as Blondie Rufus Wainwright L.P. and as one half of the production duo Super Buddha.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.  Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23 1814 – February 1 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer.
Count Ossie.  Count Ossie born Oswald Williams (1926 St. Thomas Jamaica - 18 October 1976) was a Jamaican drummer and band leader.
Joacim Cans.  Joacim Cans (born 19 February 1970 in Mora Sweden) is the lead singer of HammerFall a Swedish power metal band. He is the only member aside from founder and guitarist Oscar Dronjak to appear on all of the band's albums.He has attended Musicians Institute in Hollywood.He released his first solo album titled Beyond the Gates in 2004.Cans participated with a choir team in the Swedish television program Körslaget (the Swedish version of Clash of the Choirs) in 2008.
Kevin McKay (musician).  Kevin McKay (born 24 May) is a Scottish DJ electronic musician record label owner and record producer now based in London.
Makyo (comics).  Pierre Fournier (born July 16 1952) is a French comics writer and comics artist working under the pen name Makyo. He is best known as the initial author of the series Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche and La Balade au Bout du monde.
Shailendra Singh (singer).  Shailendra Singh (born 4 October 1952) is an Indian playback singer. He sang several Hindi songs during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
William S. Burroughs Jr..  William Seward Burroughs III (July 21 1947 – March 3 1981) was an American novelist also known as William S. Burroughs Jr. and Billy Burroughs. He bears the name of both his father and his great grandfather William Seward Burroughs I the original inventor of the Burroughs adding machine. He wrote three novels two of which were published as Speed (1970) and Kentucky Ham (1973).
Emil Petaja.  Emil Petaja (12 April 1915 – 17 August 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. He was the author of 13 published novels nearly 150 short stories numerous poems and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Though he wrote science fiction fantasy horror stories detective fiction and poetry Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of weird fiction. Petaja was also a small press publisher.
Dywane Thomas Jr..  Dywane Thomas Jr. (born August 6 1990) is an American bassist and experimental musician. He is known for his presence on YouTube with various bass cover videos and session work performing with Grammy Award-winning R&B artist Ne-Yo on his fourth studio album. He is a native of Memphis Tennessee.
Giovanni Stefano Robatto.  Giovanni Stefano Robatto (1649–1733) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Savona. He studied at Rome under Carlo Maratti. He was employed painting for churches in Genoa among his works a St. Francis receiving the Stigmata for the church of the Cappucini. He afterwords abandoned himself to a fatal passion for gaming and his later works are hasty and careless.
Rory Kaplan.  Rory Kaplan is an American keyboardist sound engineer executive producer equipment manager music supervisor musical director and record producer. He is best known for playing keyboards on Michael Jackson's debut concert tour Bad.Soon after high school he started out as Chick Corea's keyboard technician and synthesizer programmer. Being on tour with Corea for years he also worked with jazz greats Stanley Clarke Herbie Hancock and The Crusaders.
Viktor Likhonosov.  Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Лихоно́сов April 30 1936 Topki Kemerovo Oblast Soviet Union) is a Soviet Russian writer laureate of the Russian State Prize (1988) the International Mikhail Sholokhov prize and the first Yasnaya Polyana Prize (2003).
Akeboshi.  Yoshio Akeboshi (明星嘉男 Akeboshi Yoshio) more commonly known as Akeboshi is a Japanese pop and folk singer. He is mainly known for the song Wind which was used in the hit anime series Naruto. His surname means bright star while his given name means fine man.Akeboshi was born on July 1 1978 in Yokohama. He learned to play the piano when he was three years old later learning to play the guitar. He studied music in Liverpool and his time there has heavily influenced his music.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel.  Jean-Benoît Dunckel (b.
Rebecca Valadez.  Rebecca Valadez is a Latina singer actress and former member of the Tejano group Mazz. She performed on the group's 2002 Latin Grammy award-winning album Siempre Humilde. Her solo album Rebecca Valadez under AMI Records Latin was nominated as Best Tejano Album for the 2006 Grammy Awards. Valadez was a backup singer on Janet Jackson's 1998-1999 Velvet Rope concert tour and played the lead role in matinee performances of the 2000 musical Selena Forever.
Randy Matthews.  Randy Matthews (born 1950) is a Christian singer-songwriter guitarist and pioneer of Jesus music. He was born into a family with at least five ordained ministers including his father Monty a founding member of the Jordanaires. When Randy was in high school in Lamar Mo. he sang in a quartet called The Zionaires which was also founded by his father. This quartet performed regionally and sang in quartet competitions.
Deodat del Monte.  Deodat del Monte or Deodatus Delmont (alternative names: Dieudonné Delmont Deodaat del Monte Deodati del Monte Dieudonne van der Monte Deodati del Mont and Deodati Dermond) (March 1582 Sint-Truiden - † 24 November 1644 Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter architect engineer astronomer and art dealer.
Jason Sears.  Jason Kemper Sears (23 January 1968 – 31 January 2006) was an American punk rock vocalist from Santa Barbara California best known for his work with Rich Kids on LSD (RKL) from 1982 to their first breakup in 1990 and again from 1993 to 2006. He was also a nationally ranked snowboarder at one time and sponsored by Barfoot snowboarding team.Sears was one of many singers to contribute to the album Strait Up made in memory of Lynn Strait the late lead singer of the band Snot.
The Cadillac Man.  The Cadillac Man is the pen name of a homeless white American writer who lives under the railroad viaduct in Astoria Queens New York City. His book Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets describes his experiences living on the streets. His notebooks have been excerpted in Esquire Magazine and his writings on street life have appeared in The New York Times. A 2006 documentary about him has appeared in 14 film festivals.
Barry Perowne.  Barry Perowne born in the New Forest area of Wiltshire England was a pseudonym of the British writer Philip Atkey (25 June 1908 – 24 December 1985) best known for his crime fiction. Another pseudonym he used was Pat Merriman and he also published books under his own name. By agreement with the E W Hornung Estate he continued the A. J. Raffles series after its creator E. W.
Lawrence Durrell.  Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist poet dramatist and travel writer though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship though more accurately he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962.
Tsubasa Akimoto.  Tsubasa Akimoto (秋本 翼 Akimoto Tsubasa born September 29 1974) is a Japanese Gravure idol and actress
Big Page.  Jeffrey Page Kyei (born May 11 1988) better known by his stage name Big Page is a Canadian recording artist from the Jane and Finch neighborhood of Toronto. Big Page is affiliated with Smoke & Mirrors Records Inc. He rose to prominence in 2007 when his song Ballin' Is My Hobby became popular in his hometown. The video for the remix of the song featured New York rapper Mims and aired on MuchMusic.
Christina Rossetti.  Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic devotional and children's poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market her love poem Remember and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
Phil Ochs.  Philip David Phil Ochs (/ˈoʊks/; December 19 1940 – April 9 1976) was an American protest singer (or as he preferred a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit sardonic humor earnest humanism political activism insightful and alliterative lyrics and distinctive voice.
Joe Cole (roadie).  Joe Cole (April 10 1961 – December 19 1991) was an American author writer actor and roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. Cole's father was actor Dennis Cole by his first wife Sally Bergeron.Cole also worked as a roadie for Hole filming the group's 1991 tour performances and appeared in several films including Raymond Pettibon's The Book of Manson where he also has a cinematography credit. He is noted for his friendship with singer Henry Rollins.
Jaya Thyagarajan.  Jaya Thyagarajan (born at Chennai Tamil Nadu India) is a traditional Indian artist noted for her Tanjore Paintings. Jaya was born in Madras State where Tanjore paintings originated.
Abe Cunningham.  Abe Cunningham (born July 27 1973) is an American musician best known as the drummer of the alternative metal band Deftones.
Arjun Kumar Sengupta.  Arjun Kumar Sengupta (10 June 1937 – 26 September 2010) was a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha from 2006 until his death. In addition to being a Parliamentarian he was one of India's most noted economists and led a multifaceted career as an academician and economic policy administrator.
JJ DeCeglie.  Jeremy Joseph (JJ) DeCeglie (born c. 1981) is an Australian underground novelist from Fremantle Western Australia.His work includes the novels the sea is not yet full (2005) and Damned Good (2010) which was published by Fontaine Press.
Llef o'r Nant.  John Jones (known as Llef o'r Nant (1782/87 – 12 February 1863) was a Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton.  Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels most notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.
Ezechiel Saad.  Ezechiel Saad (born August 29 1943 Argentina) is a writer painter and graphic designer lecturer and cultural entertainer naturalized French in 1990. He specialized in the interpretation of the I Ching or Book of Changes and published four books from 1989.
Alfonso Wong.  Alfonso Wong (Chinese: 王家禧 born 1924) is a popular Hong Kong manhua artist. In 1962 using his eldest son's name Wong Chak (王澤) as a pen-name he created one of the longest running comic strip Old Master Q. He is also referred to as Alphonso Wong.
David Rodriguez (singer-songwriter).  David Rodriguez (born on January 1 1952) is a folk music singer-songwriter performer and poet.
Al Viola.  Alfred Viola (June 16 1919 – February 21 2007) was an American jazz guitarist who worked with Frank Sinatra for 25 years and also played the mandolin on the soundtrack of the film The Godfather.
Hermann von Schmid.  Hermann von Schmid (1815–1880) was a German novelist and dramatist born at Weizenkirchen Austria and educated at Munich. In 1870 he became manager of the Gärtnerthor Theatre in Munich and resigned the position after a few years. His plays collected in 1853 include several historical dramas such as Karl Stuart and Columbus but his greater success was in portraying peasant life as in Die Z'widerwurz'n (1878) and Der Tatzelwurm (1880).
Christ. (musician).  Christopher Horne known on-stage as christ. is a Scottish musician. He disclaims any religious meaning in the stage name; he describes it as short for his full name and the full stop or period as indicating that status as an abbreviation.[citation needed]christ. performs as a solo electronic music artist and his music is often likened to that of the (also Scottish) electronic group Boards of Canada.
Anne Pincus.  Anne Pincus (born Melbourne 1961) is an Australian painter and sculptor who has been living in Munich Germany since 1994.Pincus studied Visual Art at the Monash University Gippsland campus from 1978 to 1983. Her Graduate Diploma in Religious Education from the La Trobe University she received in 1992. In 1994 she moved to Germany. She participated in many group and solo exhibitions.
Frank Rosolino.  Frank Rosolino (August 20 1926 – November 26 1978) was an American jazz trombonist.
Anna-Kajsa Norman.  Anna-Kajsa Norman (1820–1903) known as Spel-Stina or Spelstina (Playing Stina) was a Swedish folk musician a spelman (violinist) and a composer.
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski.  Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski (27 May 1876 – 3 January 1945) was a Polish writer journalist traveler globetrotter explorer anti-communist university professor a member of the French Academy political activist. He is best known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil War a war in which he took part.
Christia Sylf.  Christia Sylf was the pseudonym of Christiane Léonie Adélaïde Richard born 28 September 1924 in Paris died on 28 November 1980 in Entrevaux (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). She was a French writer of the fantastique.
Joe Haggerty.  Joe Haggerty is the drummer for Pegboy and is known for his dense energetic relentless and varied drumming style. In the mid-1980s he was the drummer for the Chicago punk band Bloodsport. In 1987 three of the members of Bloodsport including Haggerty went on to join a re-formed version of the Effigies.
Charles A. Spano Jr..  Charles A. Spano Jr. (born 1948) sometimes bylined without his middle initial is an American writer who co-wrote one of the first original novels based on the universe of the Star Trek television series. Spock Messiah! co-authored by Theodore R. Cogswell and Spano Jr.
E. R. Jackman.  Edwin Russell (E.R.) Jackman (1894–1967) was an American agricultural expert from Oregon. He helped form the Oregon Seed Growers' League and the Oregon Wheat League. In 1964 he joined Reub Long to write The Oregon Desert which is still a very popular book forty years after its original publication. Jackman's professional papers and photograph collection are maintained in the Oregon State University archives.
Roy Phillips (musician).  Roy Godfrey Phillips (born 5 May 1941 Parkstone Poole Dorset) is a British musician. He was a member of The Soundtracks (a backing group of The Dowlands) The Saints and The Peddlers. He now lives in New Zealand.
Justin Sandercoe.  Justin Sandercoe born in 1976 is a guitarist songwriter performer producer and educator who grew up in Tasmania and who has been based in London England since 1996.
Sharleen Spiteri.  Sharleen Eugene Spiteri (born 7 November 1967) is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter and the lead singer of the rock band Texas. Texas began their career in 1986 and shot to fame in 1989 with their top ten single with her brother in law as lead guitarist I Don't Want a Lover released from Southside (1989).
Manolis Xexakis.  Manolis Xexakis (Greek: Μανόλης Ξεξάκης) (b. Rethymnon Crete 1948) is a Greek poet and prose writer. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Thessaloniki. He has worked as a journalist teacher and also in advertising.
William Hussey (writer).  William Hussey is an English author who lives in Skegness Lincolnshire. As a child William loved horror comics which inspired his writings today. His father owns a ghost train in Skegness.
Steinar Raknes.  Steinar Raknes (born 22 March 1975 in Midsund Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and composer and the younger brother of Jazz singer and pianist Eldbjørg Raknes. He is considered to be one of the most talented double bass players of his generation in Norway and is known from collaborations with the like of Chick Corea Michael Brecker Bobby McFerrin Ola Kvernberg and Hallgeir Pedersen.
Orezi.  Esegine Allen (born March 28 1986) better known by his stage name Orezi is a Nigerian musician from Delta State. He rose to prominence with his song Rihanna in 2013.
Nianell.  Nianell born Sonia Aletta Nel in Omaruru Namibia is a South African singer pianist guitarist and composer. After growing up in Windhoek Nianell graduated with a 3 year diploma in light music from Pretoria Technikon in South Africa and has also studied classical music at Trinity College in London UK and the University of South Africa.She has a four-octave vocal range and her songs have been described as including elements of Folk Pop R&B Country Classic and even Celtic music.
Milton Glaser.  Milton Glaser (born June 26 1929 in New York City) is an American graphic designer best known for the I ♥ NY logo his Bob Dylan poster the DC bullet logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005 and the Brooklyn Brewery logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.
John B.  John B (born John Bryn Williams 1977 Maidenhead Berkshire England) is an English DJ and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing and wild hair and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks.John B ranked #76 in DJ Magazine 's 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll announced on 27 October 2010.
Kamini (musician).  Kamini Zantoko (born December 8 1979;[citation needed] his surname of Congolese origin means defense) is a French rapper. In 2006 his songs and music videos about rural French life became an Internet phenomenon.[citation needed]
Yukiji Asaoka.  Yukiji Asaoka (朝丘 雪路 Asaoka Yukiji born July 23 1935) is a Japanese singer and an actress from Chūō Tokyo. She is the daughter of the famous Japanese painter of shin hanga style prints Shinsui Itō and her second and present husband is actor Masahiko Tsugawa.Asaoka was in the Takarazuka Revue from 1952 to 1955.
Dominique Sirop.  Dominique Sirop (born January 1956) is a French fashion designer and grand couturier.
Freeman Thorpe.  Freeman Thorp (1844–1922) born in Geneva Ohio was an American painter who painted portraits of many notable people such as Abraham Lincoln James Garfield William McKinley Grover Cleveland Ulysses Grant Simon Cameron Salmon Chase Robert Smith Horace Greeley Walter Forward and Robert E. Lee.
Will Bernard.  Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader from the San Francisco Bay Area now living in Brooklyn New York. He has led the Will Bernard Band Will Bernard Trio Will Bernard 4-tet and Motherbug.Bernard's first major touring and recording was with Peter Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble. In the mid-1990s he joined guitarists Charlie Hunter and John Schott as T.J. Kirk. The band's name originally James T. Kirk tributed James Brown Thelonious Monk and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
DJ Craze.  DJ Craze (November 19 1977) born Aristh Delgado is a Nicaraguan American DJ who plays hip hop Miami bass trap breaks dubstep drum and bass and practices turntablism. He is the only solo DJ in history to claim the DMC World DJ Championships trophy three times consecutively (1998–2000).
Andreas Varady.  Andreas Varady (born 24 July 1997) is a Slovak jazz guitarist managed by Quincy Jones. Regarded as a child prodigy he is influenced by Django Reinhardt Wes Montgomery and George Benson and has been performing internationally since the age of thirteen.
Mark Tribe.  Mark Tribe (born 1966 San Francisco CA) is an American artist. He is the founder of Rhizome a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York City. Tribe is the son of Carolyn Ricarda (Kreye) and Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe.In 2013 he was appointed chair of the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Horacio Altuna.  Horacio Altuna (born November 24 1941 Córdoba) is an Argentine comics artist.
Roger Peyrefitte.  Roger Peyrefitte (17 August 1907 – 5 November 2000) was a French diplomat writer of bestseller novels and gossipy non-fiction and a defender of gay rights.
John Doyle (musician).  John Doyle (b. 1971 in Dublin Ireland) is an Irish musician and songwriter. For four years he served as acoustic guitarist with the Irish-American band Solas. He is now an active solo artist.
Akagündüz Kutbay.  Aka Gündüz Kutbay (August 17 1934 Istanbul - August 27 1979 Istanbul) a leading Turkish ney (oblique rim-blown reed flute) player of the 1960s and 1970s was known for his traditional sound deep tones (dem sesleri) and interest in jazz Tibetan Indian and other world musics.Kutbay was a staff musician for many years at Radio Istanbul where he considered himself a follower of Ulvi Erguner (Director of Turkish Music) and Ulvi's father the noted Süleyman Erguner (Dede).
José María Rivarola Matto.  Jose Maria Rivarola Matto was born in Asunción Paraguay 18 December 1917 son of Octaviano Rivarola Bogarín and Victoriana Matto.He died in Asunción Paraguay on 13 September 1998.
Murray Lachlan Young.  Murray Lachlan Young is a British performance poet whose humorous work enjoyed a spectacular but brief vogue during the mid-1990s. He was the first poet to be given a £1 million record deal when he signed to EMI amid a blaze of publicity in 1996. He released one album Vice And Verse.Young was born in the United States to a Scottish father and an English mother.
Robert Nixon (comics).  Robert Nixon (7 July 1939 – 22 October 2002) was an artist who worked on several British comics.Bob was born in South Bank Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire on July 7 1939. He was the fifth of six children born to Arthur Nixon and Phylis Thompson. Robert's mother Phylis worked as a housewife while his father worked locally as a steelworker.
A. L. Kennedy.  Alison Louise A. L. Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scottish writer of novels short stories and non-fiction. She is known for her characteristically dark tone a blending of realism and fantasy and for her serious approach to her work. She contributes columns and reviews to UK and European newspapers.
Arsenio Rodríguez.  Arsenio Rodríguez (born Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull Güira de Macurijes 31 August 1911 – Los Angeles 31 December 1970) was a Cuban musician composer and bandleader.He played the tres (Cuban string instrument) in son-based music and tumbadora or conga in folkloric rumba. In the 1940s and 50s Rodríguez reorganized the son conjunto ('son group') and developed the son montuno the basic template of modern-day salsa.
Nan Chauncy.  Nan Chauncy (28 May 1900 – 1 May 1970) was a British-born Australian author of children's books.
Stacy Lee.  Stacy Lee is a singer-songwriter based in St. George Utah.
Daniel Johns.  Daniel Paul Johns (born 22 April 1979) is an Australian musician singer and songwriter. Best known as the former front man of the rock band Silverchair Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and in 2007 he was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone's list of The 25 Most Under-rated Guitarists.
Yūto Tonokawa.  Yūto Tonokawa (都乃河 勇人 Tonokawa Yūto born January 25) (pseudonym) is a Japanese scenario writer originally from Saitama Japan working for the visual novel developing company Key under Visual Art's. He began working with Key on their sixth game Little Busters! and wrote the scenarios for two of the main heroines: Komari Kamikita and Yuiko Kurugaya. Tonokawa also wrote the scenario for Sasami Sasasegawa in Little Busters! Ecstasy.
Maurice Manning (poet).  Maurice Manning (born 1966 in Danville Kentucky) is an American poet. His first collection of poems Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award chosen by W.S. Merwin.
Gordon Brewster.  Gordon Brewster (26 September 1889 – 16 June 1946) was an editorial cartoonist for the Irish Independent group of newspapers.He was educated at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. His father W. T. Brewster was general manager of the Irish Independent and Gordon joined the paper as a staff artist in 1906. He drew cartoons mainly on money matters for the daily paper and had a regular cartoon called This That and the Other for the Sunday Independent.
Virginia Lanier.  Virginia Rudd Lanier ((1930-10-28)October 28 1930 - October 27 2003(2003-10-27)) was an American mystery fiction writer author of a series featuring bloodhound trainer Jo Beth Siddon.
Olia Tira.  Olia Tira also known by her stage name FLUX LIGHT (born 1 August 1988 in Potsdam East Germany) is a German-born Moldovan singer.
Karel Plíhal.  Karel Plíhal (born August 23 1958 in Přerov) is a Czech folk and jazz musician singer songwriter and record producer.He graduated from the Industrial College of Engineering and then worked as a designer and boilerman in the Olomouc theatre finally becoming a singer (even though he had no formal musical education). He has played the guitar since he was 15 year old. First he played in various underground country-swing bands in Olomouc: Hučka Falešní hráči and Plíharmonyje.
Jessie Rogers.  Jessie Rogers (born August 8 1993) is a Brazilian Internet celebrity and former pornographic actress.
Zeebra.  Zeebra (ジブラ Jibura born April 2 1971) real name Hideyuki Yokoi (横井英之) is a Japanese hip hop artist who made his first appearance in 1995. Zeebra is a former member of the hip-hop group King Giddra which also included DJ Oasis and K Dub Shine and the older brother of fellow hip-hop artist SPHERE of INFLUENCE.
Jørgen Mathisen.  Jørgen Mathisen (born 27 December 1984 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet) the younger brother of Martin Mathisen (b. 1978) and known from different bands and a series of recordings with musician like Marc Lohr Per Zanussi Steinar Raknes Eirik Hegdal Gard Nilssen and Kjetil Møster.
Tsvi Misinai.  Tsvi Jekhorin Misinai (Hebrew: צבי מסיני‎; born 15 April 1946) is an Israeli researcher author historian computer scientist and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Israeli software industry he now spends most of his time researching and documenting the common Hebrew roots shared by world Jewry and the Palestinians (including Arab citizens of Israel).
Natalia Gordienko.  Natalia Gordienko sometimes spelled as Natalia Gordienco (Ukrainian: Наталя Гордієнко born December 11 1987 in Chişinău) is a professional dancer and singer of Ukrainian ancestry from Moldova.
Eric Stuer.  Eric Stuer (April 1953 in Stamford CT USA – June 6 2008) was an American percussionist.Stuer was exposed to a wide variety of music and art at an early age by his family who enjoyed an active artistic lifestyle in the New York City area. He moved with his parents to Houston in 1957 and began formal study of percussion in 1962 first with big band drummer Jack Dudney and after several years from Houston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Hap Fulghum.
Jan Steckel.  Jan Steckel M.D.
Lillian Tindyebwa.  Lillian Tindyebwa is a Ugandan writer living in Uganda. She is the author of numerous books notably the novel Recipe of disaster published in 1994 as part of the fountain youth series. She is a founder member of FEMRITE. From 2009 she was a member of jury committee of the Burt Award for African Literature under by Children’s Book Project for Tanzania sponsored by CODE Canada. She also assisted in training the participating writers in Creative writing skills.
Kate Jacobs.  Kate Jacobs (born January 11 1959 Alexandria Virginia United States) is an American singer-songwriter.
Tone Partljič.  Tone Partljič (born 5 August 1940) is a Slovene writer playwright and politician. Between 1990 and 2004 he was a member of the Slovenian National Assembly from 1994 as a member of the LDS party. He was also president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 1983 and 1987.Partljič was born in Maribor and grew up in Pesnica pri Mariboru.
Barbara Erskine.  Barbara Erskine (born 10 August 1944 in Nottingham) is an English novelist.
David Crouse.  David Crouse (born 1971 in Boston Massachusetts) is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of short stories Copy Cats.
Hanson Puthuff.  Hanson Duvall Puthuff (August 21 1875 – May 12 1972) was a landscape painter and muralist born in Waverly Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist painting billboards while painting landscapes in his leisure. In 1926 he abandoned commercial art and devote full time to fine art and exhibitions.
Živko Čingo.  Živko Čingo (also spelt Zivko Cingo and Zhivko Chingo) (13 August 1935 - 1987) Macedonian writer born in Velgosti near Ohrid.
Milein Cosman.  Milein Cosman (born 1921) is an artist who specializes in studies of musicians in action such as Britten Stravinsky and Furtwaengler. She has lived most of her adult life in London.
Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.  Gayaka Sarvabhauma Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu (1883–1951) is a Carnatic vocalist. He is better known as a Guru producing maestros like M.Balamuralikrishna and many more renowned musicians.
John Pory.  John Pory (1572–1636) was an English government administrator traveller and author of the Jacobean and Caroline eras; he is widely considered to have been the first news correspondent in English-language journalism.
DJ Slip.  DJ Slip (born Terry K. Allen 1972) is a producer and member of the Compton Gangsta rap groups Compton's Most Wanted and N.O.T.R.
Richard P. Condie.  Richard P. Condie (July 5 1898 – December 22 1985) was the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City Utah from 1957 to 1974.Condie was a graduate of Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1923 and the New England Conservatory of Music in 1928. He became assistant conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1937. He taught at the McCune School of Music in Salt Lake City at BYU in Provo Utah Utah State University in Logan Utah and at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Paul Carrack.  Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer songwriter and musician who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands.
Kate Rogers.  Kate Rogers is the cousin of Grand Central Records head Mark Rae. She was born just outside Toronto Canada and as a child studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music.She later attended Fashion Design College and during this period she recorded her first song at Grand Central's studio entitled Fine.
DJ Hatcha.  Terry Leonard known professionally as DJ Hatcha or just Hatcha is a South London producer and DJ notable for his seminal work in the musical genre dubstep. He had a regular show on the prominent pirate radio station Rinse FM in the early 2000s before bringing dubstep to a wider audience with his regular show on mainstream radio station Kiss FM. He is acclaimed for his volumes of the Tempa Records mix cd series Dubstep Allstars.
Spike Milligan.  Spike Milligan KBE (born Terence Alan Milligan; 16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a comedian writer musician poet playwright soldier and actor of Irish parentage dual English/Irish nationality. His early life was spent in British India where he was born but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom.He claimed his right to Irish citizenship (as a child of an Irish citizen) after the British government declared him stateless.
Ryūsuke Ōbayashi.  Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (大林 隆介 Ōbayashi Ryūsuke born March 13 1946 in Fukuoka Fukuoka Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese voice actor. Some of his best known roles include Soun Tendo in Ranma ½ and Captain Kiichi Goto in Patlabor. He was formerly credited as Ryūnosuke Ōbayashi (大林　隆之介 Ōbayashi Ryūnosuke) and his real name is Shōchi Ōbayashi (大林　昌一 Ōbayashi Shōichi). He is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce.
Amanda Hocking.  Amanda Hocking (born July 12 1984) is an American writer of paranormal romance young-adult fiction.
Liv Heløe.  Liv Heløe (born 3 February 1963) is a Norwegian actress and writer. Working as a professional actor from the age of 11 playing several significant parts on film and in the theatre in both classical and contemporary drama she made her debut as a writer in 1994 with Negressen performed at Det Norske Teatret and on Norwegian national television. In 2006 she received the Ibsen Prize a prize for Norwegian playwrights for her plays Lise L and I dag og i morgen.
Jaheim.  Jaheim Hoagland (born May 26 1978) is an American R&B singer and former rapper better known by his stage name of Jaheim. He was signed by Naughty by Nature's Kaygee to Divine Mill Records in 2000 and released his debut album Ghetto Love in 2001. His second effort Still Ghetto (2002) contains the hit Put That Woman First (2003) both of which achieved platinum success. Jaheim's third album Ghetto Classics was released on February 14 2006 debuting at number one on the U.S.
Viktor Mirolyubov.  Viktor Sergeevich Mirolyubov (Russian: Виктор Серге́евич Миролюбов January 22 1860 Moscow Russian Empire – October 26 1939 Leningrad USSR) was a Russian opera singer (who performed as V.Mirov) journalist editor and publisher best known for his work as a head of Zhurnal dlya vsekh (Journal for Everyone 1898–1906) which he bought out and turned into one of the leading literary Russian magazines.
Even Steven Levee.  Even Steven Levee born Steven Louis Levee is an American musician bass player recording engineer record producer and nightclub concert promoter. He is best known for his work with such bands as Lifeforce ZRS Brad Factor:10 The Slashtones The Freak Parade and his production work with Hedi Barbara Lee George MC Magic D and Gun Hill.
Diskjokke.  Diskjokke (also spelled diskJokke) is the stage name of Joachim Dyrdahl the Norwegian disc jockey and record producer.
P. J. Plauger.  Phillip James Plauger (born January 13 1944 Petersburg West Virginia) is an author and entrepreneur. He has written and co-written articles and books about programming style software tools and the C programming language.He founded Whitesmiths the first company to sell a C compiler and Unix-like operating system (Idris). He has since been involved in C and C++ standardization and is now the president of Dinkumware.
Frank Fontsere.  Frank Fontsere (born September 2 1967) is a professional drummer from Marietta Georgia. He is known mostly for his work in rap/metal group Stuck Mojo (1996–2000) and heavy metal group Fozzy (1999–2005 2009–present). He has also been a member of Agent Cooper (2004 2005) The Duke (2005) and Primer 55 (2007).
Gerald Clarke (artist).  Gerald Clarke is a sculptor installation and conceptual artist from the Cahuillia Band of Mission Indians. His work often reflects on and questions current issues in Native America and the United States as well as his personal life....through art I can come to an understanding of myself my community and the world around me. - Gerald Clarke
Syd Miller (cartoonist).  Syd Miller (1901-1983) was an Australian comic book writer artist and illustrator best known for his cartoon creation Chesty Bond for the Australian clothing company Bonds.
Keith Palmer (singer).  Keith Palmer (June 23 1957– June 13 1996) was an American country music artist. In 1991 Palmer released an album for Epic Records which produced two singles: Don't Throw Me in the Briarpatch and Forgotten but Not Gone both of which entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. He also co-wrote Reba McEntire's 1991 single For My Broken Heart.
Wax Tailor.  Jean-Christophe Le Saoût (born 19 July 1975 in Vernon Eure) better known by the stage name Wax Tailor is a French trip hop/hip hop producer. He has released four studio albums collaborating with a great number of artists and has also released a number of EPs in France.
Shawn Z..  Shawn Z. (born on February 27 in Northeast Pennsylvania) is an American Folk Rock/Americana singer and guitarist. He is a member of the Americana Music Association.
Domenico de Benedettis.  Domenico de Benedettis (c. 1610-1678) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Piedimonte d'Alise. He was sent when young to Naples where he apprenticed with Fabrizio Santafede and afterward in Rome worked under Guido Reni. On his return to Naples he was patronized by the king and he painted the vault of the church of Santa Maria Donna Regina Nuova with scenes from the life of the Virgin.
Bill Tung.  Bill Tung Biu (Chinese: 董驃) (March 30 1933 in Hong Kong — February 22 2006) was a Hong Kong actor and horse racing commentator. Tung started off as a horse jockey with his family racing horse stable. He was then recruited to become a horse racing commentator. Due to his fame he was invited to act in many movies from 1949 to 1996 many of them with Jackie Chan during the 1980s and 1990s.
Richard Roeper.  Richard E. Roeper (born October 17 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with the late Roger Ebert from 2000–2008 as the late Gene Siskel's successor.
Sunil Edirisinghe.  Patikirige Sunil Jayapreethi Edirisinghe (Sinhala:සුනිල් එදිරිසිංහ) (born December 19 1949 in Colombo Sri Lanka) is a critically acclaimed Sri Lankan classical musician.Edirisinghe won the presidential award for playback singing in 1983 for Maya Miringuva Pirunu Lo Thale from Adhishtanaya. He was awarded the Swarna Sankha Award for playback singing in 1988 for Thurulaka Hurathal from Mangala Thagga and in 1990 for Walakulak Gena Muwa Karamu from Saharave Sihinaya.
John Escreet.  John Escreet (born 18 August 1984 Doncaster England) is an English jazz pianist and composer currently residing in Brooklyn New York.
Seison Maeda.  Seison Maeda (前田 青邨 Maeda Seison January 27 1885 – October 29 1977) was the pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Maeda Renzō. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary Japanese painters and one of the leaders of the Nihonga movement.
Karin Schubert.  Karin Schubert (born 26 November 1944 in Hamburg Germany) is a German actress. She appeared in film roles in the 1970s before becoming a pornographic actress in the 1980s.
Miguel Joyal.  Miguel Joyal is a Canadian sculptor who lives in Winnipeg.He created the bronze statue of Canadian Métis leader Louis Riel at the Manitoba Legislative Building (which replaced an earlier statue by Marcien Lemay and Etienne Gaboury) but he has also created sculptures from snow for Winnipeg's annual winter Festival du Voyageur and even from Styrofoam.Works
Iollan Mac an Leagha.  Iollan Mac an Leagha (fl. c.1462-1473) was an Gaelic author and scribe.Iollan or Uilliam Mac an Leagha was a member of 15th-century Irish scribal family. Among his children were Connla Eóghan and Maoleachloinn (fl. 1487) all of whom worked as scribes throughout Ireland in the late 15th century.
Ruth E. McKee.  Ruth Eleanor McKee was a writer and served as the United States consul at Tokyo beginning in 1958. She is known for the 1941 Doubleday novel Christopher Strange about California in the last half of the 19th century. Other works include the 1936 Under One Roof and the 1934 The Lord's Anointed.
Felix Holzmann.  Felix Holzmann (born 8 July 1921 – 13 August 2002) was a Czech actor comedian and screenwriter who is best known for his specific humor and his look.
Jules Maidoff.  Jules Maidoff is an American artist. He was born in 1933 New York City. Since 1973 has lived and worked in Tuscany between Florence and Pian di Sco' near Arezzo.
Brandon Cronenberg.  Brandon Cronenberg (born circa 1980) is a Canadian writer and film director. He is the son of Carolyn (Zeifman) and acclaimed director David Cronenberg.He initially considered himself to be a book nerd growing up who was interested in becoming a writer painter or musician. He came to realize that film contained all those elements and attended film school.His first feature film Antiviral debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
Katsuni.  Katsuni (born April 9 1979 in Lyon France) is a former French pornographic actress.
François Rebel.  For Rebel's father also a composer see Jean-Féry RebelFrançois Rebel (19 June 1701 – 7 November 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Paris the son of the leading composer Jean-Féry Rebel he was a child prodigy who became a violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera at the age of 13. As a composer he is best known for his close collaboration with François Francoeur (see that page for further details of their works).
Brianna Taylor.  Brianna Taylor (born May 30 1987) is a reality show personality singer and songwriter having appeared on both the fifth season of American Idol and The Real World: Hollywood the twentieth season of MTV's long-running reality television series The Real World. In 2008 she released her debut self-titled EP Brianna Taylor on Chamberlain Records; according to that label's website she is now signed to Universal Music.
Joe Sumner.  Joseph Joe Sumner (born 23 November 1976) is the son of actress Frances Tomelty and singer/actor/activist Sting. He is the lead singer and bass player in the UK band Fiction Plane.Sumner created a band with schoolmates Dan Brown (bass) and Olly Taylor (drums).
Nadezhda Shteinmiller.  Nadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller (Russian: Наде́жда Па́вловна Штейнми́ллер; February 16 1915 Petrograd Russian Empire – 1991 Leningrad USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter graphic artist art teacher Scenographer and Stage designer who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Malak Karsh.  Malak Karsh OC (March 1 1915 – November 8 2001) was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage brother of Yousuf Karsh who is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region.Born in Mardin Ottoman Empire he emigrated to Canada in 1937 and went to work with his brother.
Smokey Robinson.  William Smokey Robinson Jr. (born February 19 1940) is an American R&B and Pop singer-songwriter record producer and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group The Miracles for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer.
B.A.S.K.O..  B.A.S.K.O. (born Robert Miller) is an American rapper entrepreneur and fashion mogul from Rochester New York with roots in South Carolina. He is widely known for his musical contributions to film and television including songs featured in Transformers (Ain't No Game) I Think I Love My Wife (Ain't No Game) The Love Guru (Big Boi) CSI OC Making The Band From G’s To Gents Pimp My Ride The Hills and Melrose Place.The acronym B.A.S.K.O. stands for Black American Still Kicking On.
Jericho Brown.  Jericho Brown is an American poet. In 2011 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
Lucius Varius Rufus.  Lucius Varius Rufus (c. 74 – 14 BC) was a Roman poet of the Augustan age.He was the friend of Virgil after whose death he and Plotius Tucca prepared the Aeneid for publication and of Horace for whom he and Virgil obtained an introduction to Maecenas. Horace speaks of him as a master of epic and the only poet capable of celebrating the achievements of Vipsanius Agrippa (Odes i. 6); Virgil (under the name of Lycidas Ecl. ix.
Antonello da Messina.  Antonello da Messina properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio (c. 1430 – February 1479) was an Italian painter from Messina Sicily active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting although there is no documentary evidence that he ever travelled beyond Italy. Giorgio Vasari mistakenly credited him with the introduction of oil-painting into Italy.
Aleksandar Simić (composer).  Aleksandar Simić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Симић pronounced [alɛ̌ksaːndar sǐːmitɕ]; born January 22 1973 in Belgrade Serbia) is a Serbian composer.He is the composer of Portrait of Marshal Zhukov commemorating 50 years of victory over fascism and he composed the anthem for Belgrade's 2009 University Games.
Vlad Topalov.  Vladislav Mikhailovich Topalov (born 25 October 1985) better known like just Vlad Topalov is a singer dancer and actor born in Moscow Russia. He is most famous for his singing career when he rose to fame as the blond-haired member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006. Since then Topalov has pursued a solo career.
Jim Hodder (musician).  Jim Hodder (December 17 1947 – June 5 1990) was an American drummer best known as an early member of Steely Dan. After leading the group The Bead Game Hodder joined the formative lineup of Steely Dan and appeared on their first three albums. He left the group in 1974 and worked as a session musician before his 1990 death.
Peter Appleyard.  Peter Appleyard OC (26 August 1928 – 17 July 2013) was a British–born Canadian jazz vibraphonist percussionist and composer. He spent most of his life living and performing in the city of Toronto where for many years he was a popular performer in the city's nightclubs and hotels. He also played and recorded with many of the city's orchestras and been featured on Canadian television and radio programs.
Alain Soral.  Alain Bonnet de Soral a.k.a. Alain Soral (French: [alɛ̃ sɔʁal]; born October 2 1958) is a Franco-Swiss essayist and film maker as well as being the author of several polemical essays. He is the brother of the actress Agnès Soral. Soral lives in the French Basque Country. Since June 2004 he has been a boxing coach.
Harry Bernstein.  Harry Louis Bernstein (May 30 1910 – June 3 2011) was a British-born American writer whose first published book The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive alcoholic father Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish neighbors encountered growing up in a Cheshire mill town (Stockport now part of Greater Manchester) in northwest England; the loss of Jews and Christians from the community in World War I; and the Romeo and Juliet-like romance experienced by his sister Lily and her Christian boyfriend. 
Dianne Quander.  Dianne Quander is an American songwriter best known for writing the song “Caught Up In The Rapture” which was recorded by Anita Baker. She also contributed to the songwriting of various R&B hits including “Flame of Love” (Jean Carne) and “Sweet Control” (Jon Lucien).
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (born 1985) is an African-American and Iranian artist and freelance illustrator originally from Oklahoma.Her work featuring President Barack Obama was included in the book Art For Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change which was edited by artist Shepard Fairey.In 2012 Fazlalizadeh gained notoriety when she began to use street art to speak out against street harassment of women.Fazlalzadeh is primarily an oil painter.
Todd Phillips (musician).  Todd Phillips (born April 21 1953) is an American double bassist. He has appeared on many innovative as well as traditional acoustic instrumental and bluegrass recordings made since the mid-1970s. A two-time Grammy Award winner and founding member of the original David Grisman Quintet Phillips has made a career of consistently performing and recording with acoustic music artists.
Ben l'Oncle Soul.  Ben l'Oncle Soul (born Benjamin Duterde in 1984) is a French soul singer and songwriter.After graduating in 2004 he started singing in a gospel group called Fitiavana. He often wears a bow tie like Uncle Ben from Uncle Ben's Rice. His friends called him l'Oncle Ben but he decided to change it in 2009 shortly before the release of his first maxi single Soul Wash to avoid copyright problems.
Edward FitzGerald (poet).  Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms with that of his own publications anthologies such as Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse and most reference books up until about the 1960s.
Henry Van Der Lyn.  Henry Van Der Lyn or Henry Vanderlyn (hen'ree văn'durlin) (April 24 1784 – October 1 1865) was a 19th-century American lawyer from Oxford New York.
Leon Thomas III.  Leon G. Thomas III (born August 1 1993) is an American actor producer songwriter and singer who is signed to Columbia Records/Rostrum Records. He is best known for playing Andre Harris on the Nickelodeon series Victorious.
Dennis Taylor (singer).  Dennis Taylor (born in Brooklyn New York) is a soul singer and performer best known in the UK.As a child Dennis was singing as part of a church choir in Brooklyn at the age of 7 but later moved to Virginia and signed up to the US Air Force at 18 with whom he served for six years. Taylor then returned to New York and following his earlier success in a talent competition was able to secure a minor recording contract although he failed to garner any wide-scale success.
Peter McDonald (critic).  Peter McDonald (born 1962 in Belfast) is an author university lecturer and critic.
Reggie Lucas.  Reginald Grant Reggie Lucas (born February 25 1953) is an American musician songwriter and record producer. Lucas is best known for producing the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album his production work with percussionist Mtume and for playing with the Miles Davis electric band of the first half of the 1970s.
Packard Jennings.  Packard Jennings is an American artist (b. 1970) who appropriates pop culture symbols and references to create new meaning using a variety of media including printmaking sculpture animation video and pamphleteering. In his early career he modified billboards a common practice of culture jammers. He is affiliated with Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles and Analix Forever in Geneva.
Charlotte (singer).  Charlotte Kelly is a British R&B and dance singer and songwriter. She is of mixed English/Caribbean descent.
Don Mescall.  Don Mescall is a singer and songwriter from Co. Limerick in Ireland.
Kim Kibum.  Kim Ki-bum (Hangul: 김기범 Hanja: 金起範) sometimes mononymously credited as Kibum (born August 21 1987) is a South Korean actor and singer. After going through two years of artist training under the leadership S.M. Entertainment Kim made his television debut in the Korean television drama April Kiss in 2004. Kim is best known as a member of the K-pop group Super Junior; the group made its official debut in November 2005.
Keti Chomata.  Aikaterine Keti Chomata (Greek: Αικατερίνη (Καίτη) Χωματά pronounced [ekateˈrini ˈceti xomaˈta]; October 24 1946 - October 24 2010) was a Greek musician and actor.
Tom Astor.  Tom Astor (born February 27 1943) is a German singer and composer. He is noted for his extensive country and western recordings. He has worked with Charlie McCoy.
Jessie Chandler.  Jessie Chandler (born August 16 1968) is an American author of mystery and humorous caper fiction most of which is about lesbian protagonists. Her work includes Bingo Barge Murder: A Shay O'Hanlon Caper (2011) Hide and Snake Murder (2012) and the forthcoming Pickle in the Middle Murder (2013). Chandler has presented talks about the craft of writing serves as a mentor to many up-and-coming writers and is a contributing member of The Golden Crown Literary Society.
Lori Wilde.  Laurie Blalock Vanzura(born Texas USA) is an American author of contemporary romance novels first under the pseudonym Laura Anthony and now as Lori Wilde.
Mahesh Mahadevan.  Mahesh Mahadevan was an Indian film composer in the 1990s. Over the last decade of the 20th century Mahesh composed more than 250 popular advertising jingles including the extremely popular Regaul Blue jingle. He also composed the music for six very successful multi-language motion pictures.
Vieux Farka Touré.  Boureima Vieux Farka Touré is a Malian singer and guitarist. He is the son of Grammy-winning Malian musician Ali Farka Touré.
Bill Curbishley.  Bill Curbishley (born 13 March 1942 London) is a music and film producer and band manager best known for his work with English rock groups The Who and Judas Priest as well as artists Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
Sylvain Luc.  Sylvain Luc (born 1965 in Bayonne France) is a French jazz musician (guitar). His musicality his great sense of improvisation and his virtuosity and unique technical abilities with the guitar have earned him high (but discrete) praises from all around the world including from many musicians he has played with.He is very regularly on tour but very rarely makes appearances in high profile jazz festivals.
Veniero Colasanti.  Veniero Colasanti (21 July 1910 – 3 June 1996) was an Italian costume designer set decorator and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film El Cid.During the 1960s and 1970s he also worked for the Salzburg Festivals where he designed the settings for Il rappresentazione die anima e di corpo Der Rosenkavalier and Jedermann in cooperation with John Moore.
Gerda Gattel.  Gerda Gattel (October 28 1908–May 14 1993) was a comic book creator who worked as a letterer and later as a proofreader most notably for DC Comics. Gattel worked as a letterer in the production department of Marvel Comics' predecessor Timely Comics from 1947–1952. Throughout the balance of the 1950s she worked in other production capacities including proofreader and production manager.
Alan Lee (illustrator).  Alan Lee (born 20 August 1947) is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. He was born in Middlesex England and studied at the Ealing School of Art.
Giuseppe Boschetto.  Giuseppe Boschetto (1841–1918) was an Italian painter active mainly in Naples painting often ancient Roman subjects a thematic often characterized as Pompeian or perhaps more aptly Neo-Pompeian.He exhibited at the 1880 Turin exhibition a painting depicting Santa Lucia in Naples. At the 1883 Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti of Rome he exhibited The Death of Socrates. Like Camillo Miola he applied Realism to historical painting.
Maripily Rivera.  Maripily Rivera is a Puerto Rican actress model and TV personality from Ponce Puerto Rico.
Richard Stirling.  Richard Stirling is a British writer and actor who has appeared on film television and the West End and American stage. He has written arts features for many newspapers and magazines and drew attention for his 2009 play Seven Other Children penned as a response to Caryl Churchill's controversial play Seven Jewish Children.
David J. Young.  Dave Young is a keyboardist composer recording artist. He is most well known for producing the soundtracks to the Sega CD video games Sonic CD Ecco: The Tides of Time and The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin.
Henri Lavorel.  Henri-Albert-Sylvestre Lavorel was born on 5 July 1914 in Annecy Haute-Savoie and died in a car accident on 7 January 1955 in Versailles. He was married to the English actress Madeleine Carroll from 1946 to 1949.He worked as a producer writer and director most notably on Le Voyage en Amérique (1951) (writer producer director) and C'est arrivé à Paris (1953) (producer director).
Pietro Sassi.  Pietro Sassi (1834 -1905 ) was an Italian painter.He was born and resident in Rome where he painted genre and both urban and rural vedute paintings. Le Sponde del Lago di Garda in Tyrol were exhibited at the 1880 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Turin while two landscapes where exhibited in the next year in Milan.
Bjørn Vassnes.  Bjørn Roar Vassnes (born 1951) is a Norwegian musician and writer.He started the folk rock group Erter Kjøtt og Flesk with Jens Harald Eilertsen in Tromsø in 1972 and was the guitar player for the band. After one LP in 1973 the band dissolved. In Bergen in 1979 he started the ska-inspired band Nøkken with Turid Pedersen.He has later made a career as a popular conveyor of natural sciences.
Javi Mota.  Javi Mota (born Javier Mota Garcia in Motril Granada Spain on 28 May 1984) is a Spanish singer actor dancer and model.
Tracy Ip.  Tracy Ip Chui Chui (simplified Chinese: 叶翠翠; traditional Chinese: 葉翠翠; Mandarin Pinyin: Yé Cuìcuì; Jyutping: Jip6 Ceoi3 Ceoi3; born 10 September 1981 in Hong Kong with family roots in Shanghai) was Miss Hong Kong 2005.
Richard Winkler.  Richard Winkler (June 26 1969) is a Swedish painter and sculptor.
Kohndo.  Kohndo (also known as Doc Odnok full name Kohndo Assogba) is a French rapper and producer born on June 17 1975 in Saint-Cloud a suburb of Paris. Kohndo is known as one of the best lyricist in french rap. He gained recognition as a rapper during the 1990s as a part of the influential rap group La Cliqua.
Juan Cole.  John Ricardo I. Juan Cole (born October 23 1952) is an American scholar public intellectual and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs he has appeared in print and on television and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian.
John Hillaby.  John Hillaby (July 24 1917 – October 10 1996) was a British travel writer and explorer.Hillaby was the son of a Yorkshire printer. He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School Leeds. He embarked on a career in journalism interrupted by service in the Second World War. After the war he worked for the Manchester Guardian the New York Times and the New Scientist.In 1949 he published his first book Within the Stream.
Lisa Faye Beatty.  Lisa Faye Beatty (October 15 1964 – November 25 2011) was best known for involvement in the band 7 Year Bitch. She replaced the guitarist Roisin Dunne in 1997. The band later broke up the same year. She was killed in a traffic collision in November 2011.
Gerald Rawlinson.  Gerald Rawlinson (1904-1975) was a British actor.
Starkillers.  Nick Terranova (born December 21 1977) better known by his stage name Starkillers is an American DJ and producer. He’s had 12 Beatport No. 1’s which include the tracks Discoteka Scream For The Pills Shake Me Rock Me Cantina and Funk Phenomena. In 2011 he produced the track 'Pressure' with Alex Kenji and Nadia Ali which sold more than 500000 copies and gained Gold Record status. The tracks Funk Phenomena and Bitch Ass Tricks feature in Beatport’s top 25 all-time selling records.
Uli Waas.  Uli Waas (born 1949 Donauwörth) is a German writer and illustrator. She has illustrated several school and children's books.
Håkon Austbø.  Håkon Austbø (born October 22 1948) is a Norwegian classical pianist born in Kongsberg. He is also a professor at the Amsterdam conservatory.Among Austbø's recordings are works by Olivier Messiaen Claude Debussy Alexander Scriabin (complete piano sonatas) Erik Satie Johannes Brahms Leoš Janáček (complete works for piano) and Edvard Grieg (complete Lyric Pieces).
Alan Duff.  Alan Duff MBE (born 26 October 1950 Rotorua New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist. He is most well known as the author of the novel Once Were Warriors (1990) which was made into a film of the same name in 1994.
Scotty McCreery.  Scott Cooke Scotty McCreery (born October 9 1993) is an American country music singer. He won the tenth season of American Idol on May 25 2011. His debut studio album Clear as Day was released in October 2011 and was certified platinum in the United States. The album includes the top 20 country songs I Love You This Big and The Trouble with Girls. McCreery released a Christmas album Christmas with Scotty McCreery in October 2012 and it has been certified gold.
Marion Rice Hart.  Marion Rice Hart (1891 London–July 2 1990 Berkeley Calif) was a U.S. sportswoman and author.Hart was one of six children of Isaac Rice.Hart was the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a masters in geology from Columbia University.As an aviator Hart made seven solo flights across the Atlantic Ocean and was awarded the 1975 Harmon Trophy[citation needed].
Mark Hamilton (guitarist).  Mark Hamilton is a British lead guitarist who plays for UK rock band Quench (ICC Records). He has also played for Warner Bros’ Top 40 artist Doug Walker and features on Doug’s debut album Fear Together (2009) (produced by Danton Supple – producer of Coldplay’s X&Y etc.) as well as ex Dum Dums frontman Josh Doyle in the USA Vicky Beeching and Martyn Layzell (Survivor Records).
Ángel Iturriaga Barco.  Ángel Iturriaga Barco (Logroño 1974) is a Spanish writer and historian author of the Diccionario de jugadores del FC Barcelona (2010) the Diccionario de técnicos y directivos del FC Barcelona (2011) and the Diccionario de jugadores de la selección española de fútbol (2013).In October 2013 he published biographical novel Paulino (Edicions Saldonar) with David Valero. The two authors bring up the figure of Paulino Alcántara known for his 369 goals in 257 games.
Vasily Helmersen.  Vasily Vasilievich Helmersen (sometimes spelled as Gelmersen Russian: Василий Васильевич Гельмерсен)(August 23 1873 – December 9 1937) was a Russian artist and book illustrator. He is known mostly for his illustrations to Eugene Onegin.
Ferdinando Fuga.  Ferdinando Fuga (1699–1782) was an Italian architect whose main works were realized in Rome and Naples in the Baroque style.
Clay Aiken.  Clayton Holmes Clay Aiken (born November 30 1978) is an American singer–songwriter television personality actor author educator and activist who began his rise to fame placing second on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. He and the 2003 Winner Ruben Studdard were both offered recording contracts by RCA Records and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released in October 2003.
John Agnello.  John Agnello (born c. 1959) is a producer recording engineer and mixer who has been involved with many albums throughout the last 25 years. Most recently John has been involved with Kurt Vile Sonic Youth Sweet Apple Dinosaur Jr. Thurston Moore and Jemina Pearl to name a few.
Georges Altman.  Georges Altman (May 21 1901–1960) was a French journalist and resistance fighter. During the second world war he was involved in the Franc-Tireur organisation. Post-war he was involved in setting up the left-wing party Rassemblement démocratique révolutionnaire.
Porter Blanchard.  Porter George Blanchard (1886 – 1973) was an American silversmith living and working in Pacoima California. He is considered to be part of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Murray Silverstein.  Murray Silverstein (born September 19 1943) co-authored the book A Pattern Language. At that time he taught architecture courses at the University of California and subsequently taught at the University of Washington. He had also written several articles on pattern languages. As a young designer he worked for noted California architect Richard Neutra.In 2006 a collection of his poetry entitled Any Old Wolf was published by Sixteen Rivers Press.
Ray Fenwick.  Raymond John Fenwick (born 1946) is an English guitarist and session musician best known for replacing Steve Howe in The Syndicats and as the lead guitarist of Ian Gillan's post Deep Purple solo project the Ian Gillan Band.
Bubbler Ranx.  Bubbler Ranx is a Caribbean rapper and singer who most notably took the Peter Andre song Mysterious Girl to #2 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1996 (it made #53 without Ranx) and then to #1 in March 2004.
M. L. Forman.  M. L. Forman is an American writer who lives in southern Utah. He is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Adventurers Wanted of which the first four of a proposed seven books have been published the fifth being expected in late 2014. The series is published by Shadow Mountain Publishing which has also published novels like Leven Thumps by Obert Skye Fablehaven by Brandon Mull and The 13th Reality by James Dashner.
Damien Robitaille.  Damien Robitaille (born 1981) is a Franco-Ontarian musician from the village of Lafontaine Ontario which is located in the Georgian Bay area two hours north-west of Toronto.Robitaille started his music career at a young age when he started playing the piano when he was eight years old and later in his childhood he learned to play such instruments as the trumpet guitar and violin. Later on Robitaille attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo to study classical music.
Boris Zhitkov.  Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov (Russian: Бори́с Степа́нович Житко́в) (11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1882 — 19 October 1938) was a Russian author mainly of children's books.
Bertha Harris.  Bertha Harris (December 17 1937 – May 22 2005) was an American lesbian novelist. Born in Fayetteville North Carolina she moved to New York City in the 1960s. She is highly regarded by critics and admirers but her novels are less familiar to the broader public.
Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov.  Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov [Russian: Михаил Ларионович Михайлов] (1829 Orenburg - 1865 Siberia) was a Russian author.
Domenico Olivieri.  Domenico Olivieri an Italian painter was born at Turin in 1679. He particularly excelled in painting droll scenes fairs and merry-makings in imitation of the style of Peter van Laer in which he displayed infinite humour and a talent for caricature. In the gallery of the court of Turin were two of his best pictures in one of which he has represented a fair with an immense assemblage of figures of quack-doctors and groups of peasants sporting or quarrelling.
Jean-Jacques Burnel.  Jean-Jacques JJ Burnel (born 21 February 1952 London) is a Franco-English musician producer and songwriter best known as the bass guitarist and current lead vocalist with the British rock band The Stranglers.
Mark Lanegan.  Mark William Lanegan (born November 25 1964) is an American alternative rock musician and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Ellensburg Washington Lanegan began his musical career in 1984 forming the grunge band Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner Van Conner and Mark Pickerel. During his time in the band Lanegan also started a low-key solo career and released his first solo studio album The Winding Sheet in 1990.
Susannah McCorkle.  Susannah McCorkle (January 1 1946 – May 19 2001) was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil.  Lucía Sánchez Saornil (December 13 1895 – June 2 1970) was a Spanish poet militant anarchist and feminist. She is best known as one of the founders of Mujeres Libres and served in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista (SIA).
Annie Baker.  Annie Baker (born 1981) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright.
François Schuiten.  Baron François Schuiten (born 26 April 1956) is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the series Les Cités Obscures.
Lee Miller.  Elizabeth Lee Miller Lady Penrose (April 23 1907 – July 21 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie New York in 1907 she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War she became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue covering events such as the London Blitz the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
Orhan Kemal.  Orhan Kemal (15 September 1914 Ceyhan Adana – 2 June 1970 Sofia Bulgaria) is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that tells the stories of the poor in Turkey.He is the son of Abdülkadir Kemali Bey who was a Member of Parliament and Minister and Azime Hanım who was an intellectual secondary school graduate.
Mark Riebling.  Mark Riebling is a U.S. historian essayist and policy analyst. He has written on national security the history of ideas and Vatican foreign policy during Cold War and Second World War and is the author of Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA.
Alex Szilasi.  Alex Szilasi (born in Parma in 1968) is a Hungarian-Italian pianist. He graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1993 where his professors were Ferenc Rados Sándor Falvai and Péter Solymos. Szilasi gave his first recital in 1977 in Budapest. He has been a regular participant at international music festivals and has given concerts in England Germany France Italy Switzerland Austria Turkey Russia USA South Korea Canada and Poland.
Laurie Toby Edison.  Laurie Toby Edison (born 1942) is an internationally exhibited portrait photographer. Her three suites of photographs include a series of nude environmental portraits of fat women (Women En Large) a series of nude environmental portraits of a very diverse cross-section of men (Familiar Men) and a series of clothed environmental portraits of women living in Japan (Women of Japan).
Frank Howard Clark.  Frank Howard Clark (1888 – January 19 1962) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 100 films between 1913 and 1946.He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles California.
René Schützenberger.  René Schützenberger (Mulhouse July 29 1860 Paris December 31 1916) also known as René-Paul Schutzenberger was a French painter.
Lívia Rév.  Lívia Rév (born 1916) is a classical concert pianist. Rév was born in Budapest Hungary. She started her studies with Margit Varro and Klara Mathe. Aged nine she won the Grand Prix des Enfants Prodiges. Aged twelve she performed with an orchestra.
David Campiti.  David Campiti (born May 9 1958) is an American comic book writer talent agent and co-founder of Innovation Publishing. As CEO of Glass House Graphics Campiti oversees an international studio/agency of illustrators writers painters and digital designers producing artwork for such clients as Marvel Comics DC Comics Dark Horse Comics TokyoPop Del Rey Manga Reader's Digest books and Scholastic Books as well as Disney DreamWorks Hasbro Del Rey St. Martins Press and many others.
Michael Thomas Ford.  Michael Thomas Ford (born October 1 1968) is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his My Queer Life series of humorous essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer Looking for It Full Circle Changing Tides and What We Remember.
Ernest Ranglin.  Ernest Ranglin OD (born 19 June 1932) is a Jamaican guitarist and composer who established his career while working as a session guitarist and music director for various Jamaican record labels including Studio One and Island Records. Ranglin played guitar on many early ska recordings and helped create the rhythmic guitar style that defined the form. Ranglin has worked with Theophilus Beckford Jimmy Cliff Monty Alexander Prince Buster The Skatalites Bob Marley and the Eric Deans Orchestra.
Lauren Montgomery.  Lauren Montgomery (born May 1980) is an American film animation director and storyboard artist. She is noted for her storyboard work for animated television and DVD movie features. She directed the Wonder Woman animated film of the same name Green Lantern: First Flight Superman/Batman: Apocalypse Justice League: Doom and co-directed with Sam Liu on Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Batman:Year One.
Vipin Patwa.  Vipin Patwa is a music director and composer who composes music for Bollywood. He is one of the emerging music directors of Hindi films for the present generation.
Pat Ingoldsby.  Pat Ingoldsby (born 1942) is an Irish poet. He has hosted children's TV shows written plays for the stage and for radio published books of short stories and been a newspaper columnist. Since the mid-1990s he has withdrawn from the mass media and is most widely known for his collections of poetry and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin (usually on Westmoreland Street or College Green).
Irene Tomaszewski.  Irene Tomaszewski or Irena Tomaszewska is a Polish-Canadian writer and journalist.Born in a Soviet gulag to Polish parents in 1942 Tomaszewski and her mother were evacuated from the Soviet Union. After six years in an East Africa refugee camp the family were reunited. In 1949 they immigrated to Canada.Irene Tomaszewski was a founding president of the Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies.
Jørgen Roed.  Jørgen Roed (13 January 1808 – 8 August 1888) Danish portrait and genre painter associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting was born in Ringsted to Peder Jørgensen Roed and wife Ellen Hansdatter.
Cait O'Riordan.  Caitlín O'Riordan (born 4 January 1965) is a Nigerian-born musician of Irish and Scottish descent. She played bass guitar for the British-Irish punk/folk band The Pogues from 1983 to 1986. She later played with Elvis Costello her husband from 1986 to 2002 as well as several other projects.O'Riordan was born in Nigeria to Irish and Scottish parents who moved to London in 1967 when the Nigerian Civil War broke out.
Raymond Andrews.  Raymond Andrews (June 6 1934-November 25 1991) was an African-American novelist.
Ivar Kåge.  Ivar Kåge (21 February 1881 – 21 April 1951) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 53 films between 1913 and 1949.
Richard Estes.  For the wildebeest expert see Richard Despard Estes.Richard Estes (born May 14 1932 Kewanee Illinois) is an American artist best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective clean and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s with such painters as John Baeder Ralph Goings Chuck Close and Duane Hanson.
Emanuele Tovo.  Emanuele Tovo (Turin 19th century) was an Italian painter mainly a prolific creator of portrait miniatures for the House of Savoy but also of larger portraits and landscapes.
Roy Lichtenstein.  Roy Fox Lichtenstein (pronounced /ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/; October 27 1923 – September 29 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s along with Andy Warhol Jasper Johns and James Rosenquist among others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody.
Gizem Saka.  Gizem Saka (born April 9 1978 Istanbul) is a contemporary Turkish artist and an economist. She teaches Business Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Art Markets at Harvard University.
Michael Poulsen.  Michael Poulsen (born April 1 1975) is a Danish vocalist and guitarist. He is currently the singer and main songwriter of the band Volbeat.
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira.  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira better known as Simone is a Brazilian singer and a major performer of Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) who has recorded more than 31 albums.
William Seaman.  William Seaman (1925 – December 6 1997) was an American photographer. He won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Photography citing Wheels of Death a dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street. He was photographer for the Minneapolis Star from 1945 to 1982.He died in Minneapolis of natural causes.
Picaflor de los Andes.  Víctor Alberto Gil Mallma (1930; Huancayo - July 14 1975; Lima) better known as Picaflor de Los Andes was a Peruvian folk singer. In his childhood he worked as a driver painter construction worker and bricklayer. He sold approximately 80000 copies of the single Corazón mañoso in 1960 thereby becoming a cultural icon and obtaining the name Picaflor de los Andes.He died on July 14 1975 in the district of La Oroya; there were more than 100000 people at his burial.
Dorsey Dixon.  Dorsey Murdock Dixon (October 14 1897 Darlington South Carolina – April 18 1968 Plant City Florida) was an American old-time and country music songwriter and musician. He was also a millworker who spent much of his life working in textile mills in North and South Carolina.
Alicia Svigals.  Alicia Svigals is an American violinist and composer is a founder of the Grammy-winning band The Klezmatics and is considered by many to be the world's foremost living klezmer fiddler.[citation needed]
Devender Singh.  Devender Singh (born 6 November 1947) is a contemporary Indian artist (painter) from Punjab.
Gordon Lish.  Gordon Jay Lish (born 1934 in Hewlett New York) is an American writer. As a literary editor he championed many American authors particularly Raymond Carver Barry Hannah Amy Hempel Rick Bass and Richard Ford.
Harald Johnsen.  Harald Gill Johnsen (born 19 March 1970 – deceased 24 July 2011) was a Norwegian Jazz musician (double bass) known for his contributions in bands like Køhn/Johansen Sextet and Tord Gustavsen Trio and a series of recordings with such as Sonny Simmons Sigurd Køhn Nils Olav Johansen Jan Erik Kongshaug Frode Barth Per Oddvar Johansen and Ditlef Eckhoff.
Quincy Coleman (singer).  Quincy Coleman (born 1972) is a song writer guitarist and vocalist.
Nadia Barentin.  Nadia Barentin (17 October 1936 Paris France – 22 March 2011) was a French actress known for theater and film roles including Les Blessures assassines in 2000.She was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for Monsieur Klebs et Rosalie in 1993.
Ronald D. Moore.  Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series for which he won a Peabody Award.
Ludwig Berger (composer).  Carl Ludwig Heinrich Berger (18 April 1777 – 16 February 1839) was a German pianist composer and piano teacher. He was born in Berlin and spent his youth in Templin and Frankfurt where he studied both flute and piano. Later he studied composition with J. A. Gürrlich in Berlin. He became friendly with the composer Clementi and visited him in Russia where he stayed for eight years. While in Russia he married but was widowed in less than a year.
Trae tha Truth.  Frazier Othel Thompson (born July 3 1980) better known by his stage name Trae tha Truth or simply Trae is an American rapper from Houston Texas. He is a part of the underground rap collective Screwed Up Click. Trae Z-Ro and Dougie D are the founding members of the group Guerilla Maab.
Andie Tong.  Andie Tong is a comic book artist known for his work on books such as Spectacular Spider-Man UK The Batman Strikes! and Tangent: Superman's Reign.
Seichō Matsumoto.  Seichō Matsumoto (松本 清張 Matsumoto Seichō December 21 1909 – August 4 1992) was a Japanese writer. Seichō's works created a new tradition of Japanese crime fiction. Dispensing with formulaic plot devices such as puzzles Seichō incorporated elements of human psychology and ordinary life. In particular his works often reflect a wider social context and postwar nihilism that expanded the scope and further darkened the atmosphere of the genre.
Sébastien Tellier.  Sébastien Tellier (French: [tɛlje]; born 30 November 1974) is a French singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently signed to Record Makers a French independent record label. He sings in English French and Italian.
Datta Raghunath Kavthekar.  Dattatreya Raghunath Kavthekar ((Devanagari: दत्तात्रेय रघुनाथ कवठेकर) (1901 – 1979) was a Marathi novelist from Maharashtra India.
U-Niq.  Anthony Pengel (born July 10 1976) better known as U-Niq is a Dutch rapper from Rotterdam.
Kimberly Jaraj.  Kimberly Jaraj (born 1986 in London United Kingdom) is a British actress.
Taylor Davis (violinist).  Taylor Davis is an American violinist arranger and composer best known for her covers of music from video games featured on her YouTube channel ViolinTay. She also features performances of her own arrangements of music from films and musicals and has begun releasing original music.During 2012 Davis released two albums and an assortment of singles. The first album Gaming Fantasy features tunes from various video games arranged by Davis for violin.
Bent Jædig.  Bent Jædig (28 September 1935 – 9 June 2004) was a Danish jazz musician. He played tenor saxophone and flute.Born and raised in Copenhagen Bent Jædig first studied clarinette before playing saxophone. Late 1950s he went to Germany and led a band with trombonist Rudi Fuesers later joint another band with trombonist Peter Herbolzheimer in Munich.
Veronica (singer).  Veronica (born Veronica Vazquez July 24 1974 in the Bronx New York) is a dance music singer and theatrical actress. Along with singers Ultra Nate Deborah Cox she is considered to be one of the divas of the 1990s club music scene. She also is one of the few Latinas to become a successful artist in the English-language dance music genre.
Kandi Barbour.  Kandi Barbour (1956) was an American adult model pornographic actress and exotic dancer. She was very popular with audiences in the 1970s and 1980s and quit the industry in 1984. In 2009 she was inducted into the Pioneers branch of the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) Hall of Fame.
Ross McLean (civil servant).  John Ross McLean the 11th of 12 children of a Northern Manitoba minister and farmer was born in the small prairie village of Ethelbert in 1905. He became a Canadian journalist and civil servant. In the latter role he served as the Commissioner of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1940s having previously been instrumental in the foundation of the Board the previous decade.
Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier.  Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier (1819–1879.) was a Puerto Rican poet.
Masaharu Iwata.  Masaharu Iwata (岩田匡治 Iwata Masaharu born October 26 1966) is a Japanese video game composer. After graduating from high school where his musical projects included composing on a synthesizer and playing in a cover band he joined Bothtec as a composer. He composed the soundtrack to several games there beginning with 1987's Bakusou Buggy Ippatsu Yarou and after the company was merged into Quest he left to become a freelance composer.
Ulrike Müller.  Ulrike Müller is an artist born in Brixlegg Austria in 1971. Mülller's practice has been described as addressing contemporary feminist and Genderqueer concerns extending from the feminist movements of the 1970s and onward. She has used text sculpture video performance painting and drawing among other mediums in her work.Ulrike Müller studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Austria and graduated in 1996.
Nie Yuan.  Nie Yuan (born March 17 1978) is a Chinese actor.
Cash Out.  John-Michael Hakim Gibson (born August 15 1990) better known by his stage name Cash Out (stylised as Ca$h Out) is an American rapper originally from Columbus Georgia and later raised in Atlanta Georgia.
Jesse Marsh.  Jesse Marsh (July 27 1907 – April 28 1966) was a comic book artist and animator. His main claim to fame is his work on the early Tarzan and related books for Western Publishing that saw print through Dell Comics and later Gold Key Comics. He was the first artist to produce original Tarzan comic books. Up to that time all Tarzan comics were reprints from the newspaper strips.
Mohammed Abdel Wahab.  Mohammed Abdel Wahab (Arabic: محمد عبد الوهاب‎) also transliterated Mohammed Abd el-Wahaab (March 13 1902 – May 4 1991) was a prominent 20th-century Arab Egyptian singer and composer. He composed the Ya Beladi (also known as Libya Libya Libya) the National anthem of Libya used by the Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969 and again by the post-Gaddafi transitional government in 2011.
Cameron McGlinchey.  Cameron McGlinchey is the former drummer of the Australian band Rogue Traders. He originally was just part of the live band and then joined as an official member in 2005. He was a member of Maeder and has previously toured with NoKTuRNL and former Young Talent Time singer Natalie Miller. McGlinchey left the Rogue Traders in 2008. Since he left the band he has started going around for the Whitelion ROAR program.
Sarah Brightman.  Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover lyric soprano actress songwriter and dancer. She has sung in many languages including English Spanish French Latin German Italian Russian Mandarin Chinese Japanese Catalan and Occitan.Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer.
Richard Bunger Evans.  Richard Bunger Evans also known as Richard Bunger (born 1942) is an American composer and pianist who worked with John Cage and subsequently wrote the classic book on John Cage The Well-Prepared Piano. Evans has composed and performed music for opera and musical theatre piano art songs prepared piano choral music string orchestra and chamber music. Evans continues to compose and perform in these various genres and is highly respected as an accompanist to singers.
John Hubbard (artist).  John Hubbard (born 1931) is an American painter who lives and works in England. He won the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1996.
Joe (singer).  Joseph Lewis Thomas (born July 5 1973) better known by his stage name Joe is an American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer.
David Letterman.  David Michael Letterman (born April 12 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show Late Show with David Letterman broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. In 1996 David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Ugo Riccarelli.  Ugo Riccarelli (3 December 1954 – 21 July 2013) was an Italian novelist and short story writer.Born in Turin Riccarelli read philosophy at the University of Turin. He won the Selezione Campiello Prize 1998 for Un uomo che forse si chiamava Schulz and the 2004 Strega Prize for his novel Il dolore perfetto (The Perfect Pain).
Victoria Hochberg.  Victoria Greene Hochberg is an American film television director and writer.She directed episodes of Doogie Howser M.D. The Trials of Rosie O'Neill Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman Touched by an Angel Models Inc. Melrose Place Central Park West Ally McBeal Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Sex and the City Cold Feet Tucker The Chris Isaak Show State of Grace Kitchen Confidential Ghost Whisperer Notes from the Underbelly and Reaper.
Isabella Leong.  Luisa Isabella Nolasco da Silva (born 23 June 1988) better known as Isabella Leong is a Hong Kong-based Macanese actress and former singer.
Milo de Angelis.  Milo De Angelis (born 1951) is an Italian language poet. He is the author of several books of poetry as well as a volume of stories and one of essays. He has also published translations of several modern French authors and Greek classics.He was born in Milan in 1951.His first collection of poetry was entitled Somiglianze (1976).
Thomas Atkinson (poet).  Thomas Atkinson (1801?–1833) was a Scottish poet and miscellaneous writer.Atkinson was a native of Glasgow where he carried on business as a bookseller. He published under his own editorship the ‘Sextuple Alliance’ and the ‘Chameleon’ and also a weekly periodical the ‘Ant.’ After the passing of the Reform Bill he became a candidate in the liberal interest for the representation of the Stirling burghs in parliament but was unsuccessful.
David Wright (poet).  David John Murray Wright (23 February 1920 – 28 August 1994) was an author and an acclaimed South African-born poet.
Hiroko Yamashita (actress).  Hiroko Yamashita (山下裕子; Kobe 20 June 1963) is a Japanese television actress.She acted in Brother Beat and several other Japanese TV dramas.
Zakaria Paliashvili.  Zakaria Paliashvili (Georgian: ზაქარია ფალიაშვილი) (1871-1933) was a Georgian composer. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music.As a young boy he sang in a choir and learned to play the organ in the St. Mary Catholic Church of Kutaisi. His first tutor was his brother Ivan who later became a conductor. Paliashvili moved to Tbilisi in 1887 as a chorister in the St.
Gino Marinuzzi.  Gino Marinuzzi (24 March 1882 – 17 August 1945) was an Italian conductor and composer particularly associated with the operas of Wagner and the Italian repertory. Marinuzzi was born and studied in Palermo and began his career there as well conducting the local premieres of Tristan und Isolde in 1909 and Parsifal in 1914.
Jeton Kelmendi.  Jeton Kelmendi (born 1978 in Peć SFR Yugoslavia) is an Albanian journalist poet translator and political analyst.
Barry Hughart.  Barry Hughart (born March 13 1934 in Peoria Illinois) is an American author of fantasy novels.
Doug Aitken.  Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist.
Brandon Chang.  Brandon Chang (Chinese: 張卓楠; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Zhúonán; born 28 December 1982 in Toronto Canada) is a popular Taiwanese artist. By his late-teens he became the apprentice of Michelle Yeoh (an internationally acclaimed superstar) before returning to Taiwan to pursue his entertainment career.
Colin Wyatt.  Colin Wyatt (born 1939) worked from 1957 to 1980 for IPC Magazines as an illustrator of children's comics.
Steve Parkin (musician).  Stephen R. Parkin (born 29 April) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. Originally from United Kingdom he was raised in Perth. He has been in various bands including Autopilot and Basement Birds. He co-wrote material for Eskimo Joe's 2009 album Inshalla which peaked at number one on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Albums Chart. One of the tracks Foreign Land won 'Most Played Australian Work' at the APRA Awards of 2010.
Fefe Dobson.  Felicia Lily Fefe Dobson (born February 28 1985) is a Canadian songwriter and recording artist. Born in Toronto Canada her career began when Jive Records attempted to develop her as a popular musician which Dobson refused Dobson then sang for Island/Def Jam in which the executives contracted her.Her self-titled debut album earned her two Juno Award nominations. Her second album Sunday Love was not released and she was terminated from her recording company.
Suzanne Enoch.  Suzanne Enoch (born California) is an American author of best-selling contemporary and historical Regency romance novels.Enoch began writing down her own stories when she was a child. She graduated from the University of California Irvine with a degree in English. Her first attempts at writing were in the romantic fantasy genre but she soon began writing Regency romances. Her first novel The Black Duke's Prize was published by Avon in 1995.
Alexia Portal.  Alexia Portal is a French actress best known for her role as Béatrice Romand's son's girlfriend in the 1998 film Autumn Tale.
Steven Brust.  Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies which included Emma Bull Pamela Dean Will Shetterly Nate Bucklin Kara Dalkey and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship.He is best known for his novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos.
Omar Ali-Shah.  Omar Ali-Shah (Hindi: ओमर अली शाह Urdu: عمر علی شاہ‎) was a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi Sufism who lived from 1922 to 2005. He wrote a number of books on the subject and was head of a large number of Sufi groups particularly in Latin America Europe and Canada.
Teresa Brewer.  Teresa Brewer (May 7 1931 – October 17 2007) was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country jazz R&B musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s recording nearly 600 songs.
Elizabeth Rose (musician).  Elizabeth Maniscalco better known by her stage name Elizabeth Rose is an Australian Electronica DJ / producer and singer-songwriter. Her first single Ready was released in January 2012 to good reviews with Radar Music marking her as one of the 20 Aussie Indie Bands to Watch in 2012.
Marko Martin.  Marko Martin (born in Tallinn 1975) is an Estonian pianist trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama teaching at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He is a member of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians and the Eduard Tubin Society.
Louis Davis.  Louis Davis (May 1860 – 1941) was an English watercolourist book illustrator and stained-glass artist. He was active in the Arts and Crafts Movement and Nikolaus Pevsner referred to him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Aleksey Apukhtin.  Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Апу́хтин IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐˈpuxtʲɪn] ) (November 27 [O.S. November 15] 1840 Bolkhov – August 29 [O.S. August 17] 1893 St. Petersburg) was a Russian poet writer and critic.
Lawrence Block.  Lawrence Block (born June 24 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.
Robert Paltock.  Robert Paltock (1697–1767) was an English novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins a Cornish Man (1751).Paltock was admired by Walter Scott Coleridge and Charles Lamb.The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins is somewhat on the same plan as Robinson Crusoe the special feature being the gawry or flying woman whom hero discovered on his island and married. John W.
Warren Wolf (musician).  Warren Wolf Jr. (born November 10 1979) is an American jazz vibraphonist from Baltimore Maryland.Under the tutelage of his father Warren Wolf Sr. Warren began his music studies at age three learning the vibraphone marimba drums and piano. A classically trained musician he attended the Peabody Institute’s preparatory program for eight years.
Ann Cleeves.  Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is a British crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger the richest crime-writing prize in the world for her novel Raven Black.The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series Vera and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series Shetland.
Paul Humphreys.  Paul David Humphreys (born 27 February 1960 in London) is a British musician and songwriter who serves as the keyboardist backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). The pairing of Humphreys and co-founder Andy McCluskey remains the group's most recognized visual identifier with both being regarded as pioneers of electronic music in the United Kingdom.
Robert Lips.  Robert Lips; 21 August 1912 – 3 March 1983) was a Swiss cartoonist. His best known as the creator of the cartoon character Globi forGlobus.
Miho Hatori.  Miho Hatori (羽鳥 美保 Hatori Miho b. 5 April Tokyo Japan) is a singer songwriter and musician. She is primarily known as the vocalist of the New York City group Cibo Matto. She is also known for her work with virtual band Gorillaz as she is the first person to provide the voice of animated member Noodle.
Felice Damiani.  Felice Damiani or Felice da Gubbio (1530-1608) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism period.
Mohombi.  Mohombi Nzasi Moupondo (born 17 October 1986) known professionally as Mohombi is a Swedish-Congolese R&B singer-songwriter and dancer. He grew up in Kista near Stockholm. Mohombi is RedOne's first signing to 2101 Records in joint venture with Universal Music Group. From 2004 to 2008 Mohombi was part of the Swedish hip hop group Avalon with his brother Djo Moupondo. Mohombi released his debut solo single Bumpy Ride in August 2010.
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.  Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (May 18 1907 in Reims France - December 31 1943 in Paris) was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder (with René Daumal Roger Vailland and Josef Šíma) of the artistic group and magazine Le Grand Jeu. The group associated with surrealists was excommunicated from the movement by André Breton. Gilbert-Lecomte experimented with drugs in particular morphine for both artistic and sociological reasons.
Guido Vedovato.  Guido Vedovato (30 June 1961 in Vicenza Italy) Italian naïve painter and sculpture.Vedovato is one of the best-known Naïve artists. He was born in Vicenza northern part of Italy. He lives and works in Quinto Vicentino. He graduated as an economist and had no artist scholar background. Yugoslavian Naïve art had a big effect on his works. It made him to start painting at the end of the 1970s.
Millicent Armstrong.  Millicent Sylvia Armstrong (1 May 1888 – 18 Nov 1973) was an Australian playwright and farmer who wrote primarily about the experiences of country life in early 20th century Australia.
Jessica Bangkok.  Jessica Bangkok (born December 19 1980) is an American pornographic actress. Although her stage name suggests she is Thai she has stated that her father is from the Philippines and her mother is from Guam.In 2011 Complex magazine ranked her at #38 in their list of “The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time.”
Libby Roderick.  Libby Roderick is an American singer/songwriter recording artist poet activist and teacher. The global impact of her song How Could Anyone has been featured on CNN in Readers Digest and in the Associated Press. She was born and raised in Anchorage Alaska where she still lives part of the time.
J-five.  Jonathan Kovacs (1983 Los Angeles) known as J-five is an American singer.
Sharon Gannon.  Sharon Gannon (born 4 July 1951 in Washington D.C.) is a yoga teacher animal rights advocate musician author dancer/choreographer and painter. Along with David Life she is the co-founder of the Jivamukti Yoga Method which contributed to the exponential rise in popularity of yoga in the west during the late 20th century.
Frank Sheldon Anthony.  Frank Sheldon Anthony (13 December 1891–13 January 1927) was a New Zealand seaman farmer short-story writer and novelist. He was born in Matawhero East Coast New Zealand on 13 December 1891.
Tanya Boeva.  Tanya Boeva (Bulgarian:Таня Боева; born November 3 1973) is a Bulgarian pop singer. She is signed to Bulgarian record label Ara Music
Harvey Gates.  Harvey Gates (January 19 1894 – November 4 1948) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 216 films between 1913 and 1948.He was born in Hawaii and died in Los Angeles California.
James Phelan (literary scholar).  James Phelan (born 1951) is an American writer literary scholar and Distinguished University Professor Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He joined the faculty of Ohio State in 1977 after earning his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Paul Vathis.  Paul Vathis (October 18 1925 – December 10 2002) was an American photojournalist. He was a photographer for the Associated Press for 56 years.
Denis Calvaert.  Denis (or Denys) Calvaert (1540 – 16 April 1619) was a Flemish painter born at Antwerp who lived in Italy for most of his life where he was known as Dionisio Fiammingo or simply Il Fiammingo (the Fleming). Calvaert was a profound student of architecture anatomy and history his works are characterized by their advanced composition and colouring.
Ewen Henderson (artist).  James Ewen Henderson (3 January 1934–2000) was an English ceramic artist. Born at Cheddleton Hospital in Staffordshire he was the second son and younger child of David Henderson (c.1900–1953) doctor of medicine and (Beatrice) Mary Stewart (c.1905–1956) teacher and administrator both of whom were Scottish. He was brought up unconventionally and rather unhappily in a large mental hospital near Leek where his father was resident GP.
Muztar Abbasi.  Allama Muztar Abbasi (Born 1931 in Murree - Died 26 February 2004 in Islamabad) was a Pakistani Muslim scholar belonged to the Dhund Abbasi tribe of the Murree Hills and Rawalpindi District. He was a patron of Esperanto language in Pakistan. He was patron in chief Pakistan Esperanto Association (PakEsA). He translated the Quran into Esperanto and wrote a biography of Muhammad and several other books in Esperanto and Urdu.
Priscila Uppal.  Priscila Uppal (born 1974 Ottawa) is a Canadian poet novelist and playwright. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993 and currently teaches literature and creative writing at York University in Toronto. In 2007 her book of poetry Ontological Necessities was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Robert Davi.  Robert John Davi (born June 26 1953) is an American actor singer writer and director. Over the course of his acting career Davi has performed in more than 130 films. He has played such roles as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard the opera-singing heavy Jake Fratelli in The Goonies Hans Zarba in Son of the Pink Panther and Al Torres in Showgirls.
Whitley Stokes.  Whitley Stokes CSI CIE (28 February 1830 – 13 April 1909) was an Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar.
Garrison Hawk.  Garrison Hawk (also known as Hawkman born 23 October 1978) is a Jamaican singer and dancehall artist. He is best known for his work on Tricky’s 2001 album Blowback. Tricky praised the collaboration telling Billboard magazine Hawk is my partner musically.
Akiko Kawase (actor).  Akiko Kawase (川瀬 晶子 Kawase Akiko born June 29 1980) is a Japanese voice actor.She was born in Tokyo.
Alejandro Carrión.  Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992) was a poet novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina (1959) the short story book La manzana dañada (1983) and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym Juan Sin Cielo. In 1956 he founded along with Pedro Jorge Vera the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador.
Panteleimon Romanov.  Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov (Russian: Пантелеймон Серге́евич Романов; July 24 1884 – April 8 1938) was a Russian/Soviet writer.
Marina Schiptjenko.  Anna Marina Schiptjenko (born on July 27 1965 in Malmö Sweden) is the only female member of the Swedish electronic pop group Bodies Without Organs (now known as BWO). Her mother is Swedish but her father was a Ukrainian refugee from the Soviet Union thus her Ukrainian surname.She started her music career in the eighties joining the synthpop band Page. The group stopped producing material in the nineties. She was asked by Alexander Bard to join Vacuum.
Nigel Tourneur.  Nigel Tourneur was the pseudonym of a fin de siecle writer who is best known for his work Hidden Witchery a collection of seven short stories and a short prose drama. Set in the indeterminate past these sensually charged stories are concerned with obsessive love often given a macabre or supernatural twist.In an advertisement the author writes: . . .
Pavel Leonov.  Leonov Pavel Petrovich (Russian: Павел Петрович Леонов; 20 December 1920 – 25 March 2011) was a leading naive artist of the Soviet period.
Tomasz Halicki.  Tomasz Halicki (born December 18 1976) is a Polish musician. Halicki has played with such bands as Stygmat Via Mistica Diseased and Dead Infection. He currently plays in Abused Majesty Hermh Evil Machine and Vader.Halicki was endorsed by GMR Bass Guitars. He currently uses BlakHart guitars. His equipment includes Sansamp RBI Ampeg Gallien Krueger amplifiers and effects.
Alice Könitz.  Alice Könitz (born 1970 Essen Germany) is an artist based in Los Angeles.
Eva Simons.  Eva Simons (born April 27 1984) is a Dutch singer-songwriter and a former member of the disbanded Dutch girl group Raffish. Eva Simons is known for her vocals in collaboration with many artists such as Afrojack LMFAO Sidney Samson and will.i.am with whom she had a UK Number 1 single with This Is Love.
Albert Capraro.  Albert Capraro (born May 20 1943) is an American fashion designer. He is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and worked for Lilly Dache and Oscar de la Renta before starting his own business in 1974. His clients have included Betty Ford Susan Ford Barbara Walters Cristina Ferrare Polly Bergen Tawny Little Phyllis George and Anne Armstrong.
Sebastian Spreng.  Sebastian Spreng (born April 6 1956) is an Argentine-American visual artist and music journalist.
Papa John Creach.  Papa John Creach (born John Henry Creach; May 28 1917 – February 22 1994) was an American blues violinist who played for Jefferson Airplane (1970–1975) Hot Tuna Jefferson Starship Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation the San Francisco All-Stars (1979–1984) The Dinosaurs (1982–1989) and Steve Taylor. Creach recorded a number of solo albums and was a frequent guest at Grateful Dead and Charlie Daniels Band concerts.
Katharine Barker.  Katharine Barker (born 10 March 1941 in Sedbergh Yorkshire) is an English actress. She played Dolly Skillbeck in Emmerdale Farm from 1977 until 1980 when Jean Rogers took over the role. She also had a starring role in Hay Fever by the Oxford Stage Company.Katharine Barker was married to Michael Pennington from October 1964 – 1967 and they had one child.
Esad Ribić.  Esad T. Ribić (born 1972) is a Croatian comic book artist known for his work on various titles for Marvel Comics including Loki Silver Surfer: Requiem and Sub-Mariner: The Depths.
Achiam.  Achiam (born Ahiam Shoshany; February 10 1916 – March 26 2005) was a Franco-Israeli sculptor who worked around Paris after 1947. His work consists largely of direct carvings in stone and wood—very plain pure forms mostly figurative.
William Trevor.  William Trevor KBE (born 24 May 1928) is an Irish novelist playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.A member of Aosdána Trevor has resided in Devon South West England since the 1950s. Over the course of his long career he has written several novels and hundreds of short stories for which he is best known.
Skoota Warner.  Skoota Warner is an American musician and was the former drummer from rock band Ra. Skoota is an all-around musician that can go from ballads to rock funk to R&B pop to Hip-hop jazz to blues and back with precision and ease. He is the consummate professional whose ability to adapt to any music genre has earned him a place of honor on numerous stages. His solo album will be released mid-2014.
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy.  Nedunuri Krishnamurthy (born 10 October 1927) is a famous Indian Carnatic vocalist. His tonal quality and Continuity are his special assets.
Adam Darski.  Adam Michał Darski (born 10 June 1977 in Gdynia) also known by his stage name Nergal is a Polish musician and television personality best known for being the frontman for black/death metal band Behemoth.
Connie Converse.  Elizabeth Eaton Connie Converse (1924-?) was a singer-songwriter who was active in New York City in the 1950s. She disappeared in 1974 after writing goodbye letters to her friends and family and has not been heard from since. Her music has recently been rediscovered from tape recordings and an album How Sad How Lovely was released in March 2009.
Belinda Sinclair.  Belinda Sinclair (born 16 September 1950) is a British actress known for several recurring television roles.She was born in London trained as an actress with the Arts Educational Schools London and had early success on the stage. In the original stage run of The Rocky Horror Show after the actress portraying Janet Julie Covington was badly injured in an accident and had to leave the production. Sinclair took over the role and is featured on the original cast recording.
Kālidāsa.  Kālidāsa (servant of Kali Sanskrit: कालिदास) was a Classical Sanskrit writer widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. His floruit cannot be dated with precision but most likely falls within the 5th century AD.His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Hindu Puranas and Hindu philosophy.
Kevin Ryan (charity executive).  Kevin Ryan (born 1967) is the president and CEO of Covenant House International one of the largest charities in North and Central America serving homeless trafficked and sexually exploited youth.Along with former New York Times reporter Tina Kelley he is the co-author of the national best seller Almost Home: Helping Kids from Homelessness to Hope which chronicles the struggles and triumphs of six homeless teenagers as they face exploitation addiction human trafficking and pregnancy.He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post where his blog on human trafficking and children’s welfare is a staple of the Impact Section. 
Andres Molinary.  Andres Molinary (1847–1915) was an artist art teacher restorer and photographer who painted for most of his career in New Orleans Louisiana. His works were prominently displayed in New Orleans during his career with exhibitions at the Southern Art Union the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition and the Artists' Association of New Orleans. At the time of his death the Delgado Museum of Art sponsored a retrospective exhibition of his works.
Fonzi Thornton.  Fonzi Thornton is an American singer song writer/producer stage performer and radio personality.Thornton has provided background vocals on albums by artists which include Aretha Franklin Luther Vandross Diana Ross Ray Charles Chic Sheena Easton Mariah Carey David Bowie Michael Jackson Robert Palmer Air Supply Natalie Cole The B-52's R.
Ramkumar Mishra.  Ramkumar Mishra is an Indian tabla player. He belongs to Banaras Gharana.
Fosco Tricca.  Fosco Tricca (March 2 1856 - 1918 ) was an Italian painter.
Nicolas Carone.  Nicolas Carone (June 4 1917 – July 15 2010) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline Conrad Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
Sheena Blackhall.  Sheena Blackhall is a poet novelist short story writer illustrator traditional story teller and singer.Author of over 100 poetry pamphlets 12 short story collections 4 novels and 2 televised plays for children The Nicht Bus and The Broken Hert.
Aino Malmberg.  Aino Emma Wilhelmina Malmberg née Perenius (February 24 1865 – February 3 1933) was a Finnish writer and politician.Malmberg was born in Hollola to Pastor John Perenius and Edla Olivia Björkstén. She took her matriculation examination in 1884 and graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1886.
Mark Matejka.  Mark Sparky Matejka (Born January 2 in Houston Texas) is an American Southern rock guitarist. He is probably best known as a guitarist in Lynyrd Skynyrd. He joined the band in 2006 replacing Hughie Thomasson who had left to reform Outlaws. He first played with Skynyrd on their Christmas Time Again album in 2000 and was credited with guitar and vocals.Prior to joining Lynyrd Skynyrd Matejka was a member of Hot Apple Pie a country music band.
Yuri (Korean singer).  Cha Hyun-ok (Korean: 차현옥; born December 24 1976) known by her stage name Yuri (Korean: 유리) is a South Korean pop singer. Debuting as a singer with Cool (쿨) she formed Girl Friends with best friend Chae Rina after the group's breakup in 2005. Yuri has since regrouped with Cool.
John Paulding (sculptor).  John Paulding (April 5 1883 – 1935) was an American sculptor best remembered for his World War I memorials. Paulding was born in Darke County Ohio.He studied sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago and was to remain in Chicago until his death at an early age in 1935.At least two of his World War I memorials became very popular and casts of them can be found in many places throughout the United States.
Angelo Torres.  Angelo Torres (b. April 14 1932 in Santurce Puerto Rico) is an American cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has appeared in many comic books as well as a long-running regular slot in Mad.
Felix Aderca.  Felix Aderca or F. Aderca (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈfeliks aˈderka]; born Froim-Zelig (Froim-Zeilic) Aderca also known as Zelicu Froim Adercu or Froim Aderca; March 13 1891 – December 12 1962) was a Romanian novelist playwright poet journalist and critic noted as a representative of rebellious modernism in the context of Romanian literature.
Thomas Hal Phillips.  Thomas Hal Phillips (October 11 1922 – April 3 2007) was an American actor and screenwriter.
Layah Jane.  Layah Jane is a soul-folk singer from Toronto Ontario Canada. She and her sister were raised by a psychotherapist/singer-songwriter father and a poet mother who teaches writing.She took piano lessons as a child and attended the Toronto Waldorf School.
Balawan.  I Wayan Balawan (born September 9 1973 in Bali) better known by the single name Balawan is an Indonesian guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as a Batuan Ethnic Fusion guitarist and his ability to play double neck guitar. Balawan has developed the 8 Fingers Touch Style technique which also known as the Touch-Tapping Style. He is often regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in Indonesia. He is also called The Magic Finger guitarist among the musician community in the world.
Sissela Kyle.  Sissela Maria Kyle (born 17 March 1957 in Örgryte Gothenburg Sweden) is a Swedish actress and comedian.Kyle is the second cousin of the British singer Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
Irwin Thomas.  Irwin Thomas (born 6 January 1971) is an Australian singer and guitarist who was formerly known as Jack Jones as the lead vocalist in the 1990s Australian band Southern Sons. Jones toured with John Farnham during his Chain Reaction tour in 1990/91 as Bass Guitarist and was also featured on the album of the same nameJones was previously married to New Zealand born Australian actress Rebecca Gibney during 1992-95 which ended in divorce.
Brock Manhunter.  Larry Storch better known as Brock Manhunter (born June 26 1966) is a former LAPD homicide detective co-author of a book about serial killers with famed FBI profiler John E. Douglas. He now works as a consultant most notably for the television show Criminal Minds. Manhunter also collaborated with Douglas on the book Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives. Manhunter retired from LAPD in 2005 and currently hosts his own Internet radio show.
Dale Daniel.  Lisa Dale Daniel is an American country music artist. She has recorded one studio album Luck of Our Own. Daniel is the daughter of songwriter Naomi Martin whose credits include the Grammy nominated Let's Take the Long Way Around the World by Ronnie Milsap and My Eyes Can Only See as Far as You by Charley Pride.
Jérôme Badini.  Jérôme Badini is a French saxophonist composer and founder of the electro-sax style. Jazz producer at Radio France since 2010.
Irina Dobrekova.  Irina Mikhailovna Dobrekova (Russian: Ири́на Миха́йловна Добряко́ва; February 16 1931 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russian painter Graphic artist living and working in Saint Petersburg a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Andrea Wulf.  Andrea Wulf (born 1972 in New Delhi India) is a historian and writer lives in Britain and has written books newspaper articles and book reviews. Her book The Brother Gardeners published in April 2008 was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. She studied design history at The Royal College of Art London and is also a popular public speaker delivering lectures in the UK and USA.
Tasha Voux.  Tasha Voux (born January 13 1958 in Brooklyn New York United States) is a former pornographic actress. She appeared in over 180 movies during the 1980s and 90s. In 2009 she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
Helge Lien.  Helge Lien (born 23 April 1975) is a renowned Norwegian Jazz pianist composer and band leader. He has in recent years also developed a passion for photography and digital processing of images and has passion for powerful melancholy dynamics and detail.
Lemuel Wilmarth.  Lemuel Everett Wilmarth (November 11 1835 – July 27 1918) was an American painter. He was a founder of the Art Students League of New York and a member of the National Academy of Design. He was professor in charge of the schools of the National Academy of Design in Manhattan from 1870 to 1890. He was among America's most respected teachers of art during the later nineteenth century.
Jared Mezzocchi.  Jared Mezzocchi is an American multimedia theater director and theatrical designer. In recognition of his work with the HERE Arts Center in New York City Mezzocchi became the first projection designer to receive a Princess Grace Award in theater. In 2011 Mezzocchi won Best Original Playwright award at the New Hampshire Theater Awards for his adaptation and direction of THE LOST WORLD at Andy's Summer Playhouse.
William Tucci.  William (Billy) Tucci (born 13 August 1966 New York New York) is an illustrator writer and filmmaker best known among American comic book audiences for his creator-owned title and character Shi. Tucci is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology located in New York New York.
Josiah Wolf.  Josiah Wolf is an indie rock musician from Cincinnati Ohio.
Jack Rush.  Jack Rush (born February 3 1966 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American non-fiction writer screenwriter and actor who has appeared in tv shows films and stage plays since the early 1980s. Since then he has resided in Los Angeles California and coached and directed actors in a variety of media.
Salvador Dalí.  Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11 1904 – January 23 1989) known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi]) was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres Spain.Dalí was a skilled draftsman best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.
Nazeem Hussain.  Nazeem Hussain (born 21 April 1986) is an Australian comedian actor and radio presenter of Sri Lankan descent. He is best known as one half of comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet along with Aamer Rahman and creator and star of comedy show Legally Brown.
Eric Hoffer.  Eric Hoffer (July 25 1902 – May 21 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book The True Believer published in 1951 was widely recognized as a classic receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.
Klaus Janson.  Klaus Janson (born January 23 1952) is a German-born American comic book artist working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies. While he is best known as an inker Janson has frequently worked as a penciller and colorist.
Trey Lorenz.  Trey Lorenz (born Lloyd Lorenz Smith; January 19 1969) is an American singer and songwriter. He was born in Florence South Carolina and is a graduate of Wilson High School.
Junnosuke Taguchi.  Junnosuke Taguchi (田口 淳之介 Taguchi Junnosuke born November 29 1985) in Sagamihara Kanagawa Japan) is a Japanese idol singer radio host actor and a member of KAT-TUN.He joined the talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1999 and officially debuted as part of KAT-TUN in 2006. Apart from activities as a member of KAT-TUN he has acted in the film Mohōhan' alongside SMAP's leader Masahiro Nakai and appeared in several dramas most notably hit drama Legal High.
Ericka Yancey.  Ericka Yancey is an American R&B singer who signed to RCA Records in 1996. Her debut album Ericka was slated to be released in 1997 but was ultimately shelved after her lead singles So Good and Wait a While failed to make an entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and underperformed on the US R&B charts. In 1998 she recorded a duet with R&B singer TQ.
Asbjørn Aarnes.  Asbjørn Aarnes (20 December 1923 – 8 January 2013) was a Norwegian literary historian.
Fani Badayuni.  Fani Badayuni born Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1961) (Urdu شوکت علی خان فانی بدایونی ) was a noted Urdu poet. He was the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town.
Del Kathryn Barton.  Del Kathryn Barton (born 1972) is an Australian artist who won the 2008 and 2013 Archibald Prizes.
Inge Morath.  About this sound Ingeborg Inge Morath (May 27 1923 – January 30 2002) was an Austrian-born photographer. In 1953 she joined the Magnum Photos Agency founded by top photographers in Paris and became a full photographer with them in 1955. In 1955 she published her first collection of photographs a total of 30 monographs during her lifetime. Morath was also the third and last wife of playwright Arthur Miller; their daughter is screenwriter/director Rebecca Miller.
U-God.  Lamont Jody Hawkins (born November 11 1970) better known as U-God (short for Universal God) is an American rapper and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He has been with the group since its inception and is known for having a deep rhythmic flow that can alternate between being gruff or smooth.
Bhavadhaarini.  Bhavadhaarini Anantaraman (born July 25 1980) is a Carnatic musician. She is a senior disciple of D. K. Pattammal. She has performed in all major sabhas in India and has presented her concerts in many destinations around the world. She has received multiple awards and honours and has released more than 50 commercial albums.Bhavadhaarini was born to Nalini Anantaraman and S.Anantaraman. Her mother was her first guru.
Thomas Blackburn (poet).  Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn (10 February 1916 – 13 August 1977) was a British poet.
Art Mooney.  Art Mooney (4 February 1911 Brooklyn New York – 1993 Florida) was an American popular bandleader. His biggest hits were I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover and Baby Face in 1948 and Nuttin' For Christmas with Barry Gordon in 1955.
Åke Edwardson.  Åke Edwardson (born March 10 1953 in Eksjö Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for best crime novel.
Colby O'Donis.  Colby O'Donis (born Colby O'Donis Colón; March 14 1989) is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter guitarist producer and actor. In 2008 he released his debut album Colby O and his single What You Got featuring Akon reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. He was featured on Just Dance by Lady Gaga which spent almost twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ailsa Piper.  Ailsa Piper (born 1959 in Western Australia) is an Australian writer director and performer. She worked as an actress in theatre in Perth Sydney and Melbourne from the early 1980s until 2000. She made her first appearance on TV in 1984 in Man of Letters but is best known for playing Ruth Wilkinson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1996 until 1999. She reprised the role in a cameo for the series 20th anniversary in 2005.
Philip Roth.  Philip Milton Roth (born March 19 1933) is an American novelist.He first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye Columbus an irreverent and humorous portrait of American-Jewish life for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Leslie Patricelli.  Leslie Patricelli is the American writer of the books Blankie and Big Little. Leslie Patricelli grew up in Seattle Washington close to Pine Lake. At college Leslie Patricelli majored in Communications at the University of Washington. She became an advertising copywriter after college then became a ski instructor in Italy. Leslie Patricelli is also an illustrator for children. She created and animated Rover the Dog for Windows XP help.
Mort Rosenblum.  Mort Rosenblum is an American author editor and journalist.
Raul Cristian.  Raul Cristian (born October 18 1973 in Satu Mare Romania) is an ex-pornographic actor director and producer of pornographic movies. Usually credited under the name Raul Cristian he is also working under another pseudonym: Chris Rolie. Raul Cristian entered the adult business as a performer shooting his first scene when he was 20 in Budapest Hungary.
Usha Uthup.  Usha Uthup (Tamil: உஷா உதுப்Bengali: ঊষা উথুপ) (born November 7 1947) is a popular Indian pop jazz and playback singer. She is well known for popular hits in the late 1960s 1970s and 1980s.
Amlan Das Gupta.  Amlan Das Gupta is Professor of English Jadavpur University Kolkata.He is a noted scholar of Classical and Biblical Studies English Renaissance literature and an authority on Miltonic studies in India having numerous publications to his credit. He earned his B.A.(Hons.) from Presidency College of the University of Calcutta and went on to pursue the M.A. at Jadavpur University. He received an M. Phil. from Oxford University and did his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University.
Jane O'Leary.  Jane O'Leary (born 1946) is an American musician and composer who lives and composes in Ireland.
Jami Sieber.  Jami Sieber is an American cellist vocalist and composer. She has received several positive reviews for her work. She plays acoustic cello and electric cello.Sieber began to learn the cello at age seven. Growing up in classical music she played as part of the cello section of Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony (GTCYS) in Minneapolis. She moved to Seattle in 1977 and then met Charlie Murphy in 1979.
Diane Duane.  Diane Duane (born May 18 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.
Macromantics.  Macromantics is the stage name used by the Melbourne-based hip hop artist Romy Hoffman.
Albert Meserlin.  Albert B. Meserlin Jr. (May 26 1920 – March 29 2009) was staff photographer to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. With the passing of British Staff Sergeant Susan Hibbert Mr. Meserlin was believed to be the last surviving witness to the German surrender ceremony at the end of World War II.As staff photographer he also caught the surrender ceremony on camera.
Bhaskar Chandavarkar.  Bhaskar Chandavarkar (16 March 1936 – 26 July 2009) was an Indian sitar player academic and film and theatre composer who worked with well-known directors of Indian cinema like Mrinal Sen Girish Karnad Aparna Sen K. G.
Stephen Windwalker.  Stephen Windwalker a pen name is an American author of fiction and nonfiction books articles and stories. His 2008 book on the Amazon Kindle The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle sold over 55000 copies and appeared continuously in Amazon's Kindle bestseller list throughout most of 2008.
Victoria Forester.  Victoria Forester is a Canadian author and a successful screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novel The Girl Who Could Fly.
Diego Boneta.  Diego Andrés González Boneta (born November 29 1990) is a Mexican singer and actor. He is best known for playing Rocco in the Mexican soap opera Rebelde and on CW's 90210. He recorded his self-titled debut album with his first single Responde in 2005 and a Brazilian version for the album with songs in Portuguese was recorded in 2006. At the moment the album was released in Mexico Brazil and Chile. He appeared as Alex Santiago in the ABC Family series of Pretty Little Liars.
Nick Oliveri.  Nick Steven Oliveri (born October 21 1971) is an American musician from Palm Desert California. He plays bass guitar acoustic guitar electric guitar and is a vocalist.He is most widely known as a bassist with Kyuss Queens of the Stone Age and Dwarves and has also performed with the reunited Kyuss under the names Kyuss Lives! and Vista Chino.As a bandleader his main project is Mondo Generator a punk/metal hybrid that he formed in 1997.
Edgar Lee Masters.  Edgar Lee Masters (August 23 1868 – March 5 1950) was an American poet biographer and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology The New Star Chamber and Other Essays Songs and Satires The Great Valley The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale The Spleen Mark Twain: A Portrait Lincoln: The Man and Illinois Poems.
Françoise Sagan.  Françoise Sagan (French: [sagɑ̃]; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright novelist and screenwriter. Hailed as a charming little monster by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager.
Whitney Stevens.  Whitney Stevens (born August 25 1987 in Panama) is a retired American pornographic actress. Originally from Panama she was raised in Palm Springs California USA and has been active since September 2006 to the present day. She has thus far appeared in over 200 pornographic movies.Stevens made her debut in an inter-racial scene with her sister Britney Stevens and Sledge in 2006's I Was Tight Yesterday 5. She claims she entered porn at her sister's prompting saying It was her idea.
Mos Def.  Dante Terrell Smith (born December 11 1973) better known by the stage names Mos Def /ˈmoʊs ˈdɛf/ and Yasiin Bey /jæˈsiːn ˈbeɪ/ is an American actor and hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn New York City New York. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli he formed the duo Black Star which released the album Black Star in 1998.
A. M. Homes.  Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18 1961 Washington D.C.) is an American writer. She is best known for her controversial novels and unusual stories most notably The End of Alice (1996) a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She has also written a memoir The Mistress's Daughter (2007). Her most recent novel May We Be Forgiven was published by Viking Books on September 27 2012.
Patricia Johanson.  Patricia Johanson (Born September 8 1940 New York City)Patricia Johanson is known for her large-scale art projects that create aesthetic and practical habitats for humans and wildlife. She designs her functional art projects created with and in the natural landscape to solve infrastructure and environmental problems but also to reconnect city-dwellers with nature and with the history of a place.
Marco Calliari.  Marco Calliari is a singer-songwriter born in Quebec from Italian parents. He began his career in 1989 in forming the thrash metal group Anonymus alongside Carlos Araya and brothers Daniel and Oscar Souto. Since 2003 he pursued a solo career that has so far released three albums: Che la vita Mia dolce vita and Al faro est.With his first album Che la vita Calliari found a way to reconnect with his parents' country of origin.
Dijon Prioleau.  Dijon Prioleau (born December 19 1992) known as Dijon is an American gospel singer.
Alessandro Tiarini.  Alessandro Tiarini (March 20 1577 – February 8 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
Daniel Kandi.  Daniel Kandi (born November 29 1983) is a Danish trance producer and DJ currently living in Aalborg. Kandi entered the trance scene with the release of Breathe in 2006 on the successful Anjunabeats label. In 2010 he was ranked #77 in DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ Poll.
Erling Persson.  Erling Persson (21 January 1917 – 28 October 2002) was the founder of H&M (Hennes&Mauritz).
José Sanchis Grau.  José Sanchis Grau (19 June 1932 – 2 August 2011) was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and Robín Robot (1972).
John Mecray.  John Marcy Mecray (born February 13 1937) is an American realist painter best known for his marine art.
Jake Owen.  Joshua Ryan Jake Owen (born August 28 1981) is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records Nashville in 2006 he released his debut album Startin' with Me that year. The album produced three singles all of which reached Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: Yee Haw Startin' with Me and Something About a Woman. A second album 2009's Easy Does It has accounted for three more singles: Don't Think I Can't Love You Eight Second Ride and Tell Me.
Linus Suryadi AG.  Linus Suryadi Agustinus commonly known Linus Suryadi AG or Linus Suryadi AGN was born in Trimulyo Sleman on 3 March 1951 and died in Yogyakarta on 30 July 1999 at the age of 48.Linus Suryadi studied at IKIP Sanata Dharma and began publishing poems and essays while still in his late teens. He studied English in college but left before completion and worked on various newspapers and magazines in Yogyakarta.
L. R. Eswari.  Lourde-Mary Rajeswari Eswari (L. R. Eswari) (Tamil: எல். ஆர். ஈஸ்வரி Telugu: ఎల్ ఆర్ ఈశ్వరి) is a veteran playback singer of the Tamil movie and Telugu movie industries. She also sang in other languages like Kannada Malayalam Tulu and English.She has won Kalaimamani the Tamil Nadu's state award for her contributions to the film industry.
Mary Travers.  Mary Allin Travers (November 9 1936 – September 16 2009) was an American singer-songwriter and member of the folk music group Peter Paul and Mary along with Peter Yarrow and Noel (Paul) Stookey. Peter Paul and Mary were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.Unlike most folk musicians who were a part of the early 1960s Greenwich Village music scene Travers grew up in that New York City neighborhood.
Roberta Helmer.  Roberta Helmer (b. July 19 in Dayton Ohio U.S.A.) under her pseudonym Christina Skye is the best-selling American author of more than twenty-two historical and contemporary romance novels many of which have appeared on the USAToday bestseller list and the Publishers Weekly bestseller list. Her books have been translated into eight languages. Under her own name Helmer has written five non-fiction books about Chinese art and culture.
Cass Pennant.  Carol Cass Pennant (born 3 March 1958) is an English writer and former football hooligan.
Gösta Bernhard.  Gösta Bernhard (26 September 1910 – 4 January 1986) was a Swedish actor film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 35 films between 1936 and 1975. He also directed 17 films between 1947 and 1975.He was born in Västervik Kalmar län Sweden and died in Stockholm Sweden.
Tony Rohr.  Tony Rohr (born 1940) is a British actor.
Claus Zundel.  Claus Zundel (aka The Brave) is a German composer songwriter producer and pianist. He has created several worldwide successful musical projects most notable Sacred Spirit and B-Tribe (sold 20 million. copies combined) as well as more Indie projects such as Moroccan Spirit Classical Spirit Divine Works Ancient Spirit and his latest project Tango Jointz.
Braulio Dueño Colón.  Braulio Dueño Colón (March 26 1854 – April 4 1934) was a Puerto Rican musician and composer.
Frieda Blell.  Frieda Blell (4 September 1874 Brandenburg - 5 March 1951 Gauting) was a German landscape painter.
Ian Scott (pornographic actor).  Ian Scott (born 6 February 1973 in France) is a French pornographic actor and director from 1996–2010. He's also known by aliases Yann Scott Yann Nickeur Yannick and G Gam. He has performed in almost 500 films and directed three .
John Wilkes.  John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical journalist and politician.He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute he fought for the right of his voters—rather than the House of Commons—to determine their representatives. In 1768 angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the St George's Fields Massacre.
Sid Fleischman.  Albert Sidney Fleischman (March 16 1920 – March 17 2010) or Sid Fleischman was an American author of children's books screenplays novels for adults and nonfiction books about magic. His works for children are known for their humor imagery zesty plotting and exploration of the byways of American history. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S.
Suze DeMarchi.  Suze DeMarchi (born 14 February 1964) is an Australian singer/songwriter best known for fronting the band Baby Animals (1989–1994).
Esin Afşar.  Esin Afşar born Sinanoğlu (1936 Bari - November 14 2011 İstanbul) was a well-known Turkish singer and stage actress.
Claudio Oyarzo.  Claudio Andres Oyarzo Muñoz (born 5 November 1979) is a Swedish metal musician. He currently lives in Gothenburg and he plays guitar with the melodic rock act Minora from Gothenburg and the bass with the Gothenburg-Stockholm metal band The Resistance.
Brian Borcherdt.  Brian Borcherdt (born August 31 1976) is a Canadian musician who has been both a solo artist and a member of Burnt Black Trephines Hot Carl Loves The Ladies By Divine Right Holy Fuck Lids and Dusted. As a teenager growing up in Yarmouth Nova Scotia he founded independent music collective and record label Dependent Music.
Miriam Davenport.  Miriam Davenport or Miriam Davenport Ebel (June 6 1915 – September 13 1999) was an American painter and sculptor who played an important role helping European Jews and intellectuals escape the Holocaust during World War II.
Mary Mattingly.  Mary Mattingly (born 1978) is an American visual artist living and working in New York. She was born in Rockville Connecticut in 1978. She has studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon. She is the recipient of a Yale University School of Art Fellowship.
Muirs.  Muirs is a musician from New Zealand.Muirs began his music career in Auckland at the age of 19 with his ambient trap album Trap Chapel. Influenced by a wide range of electronic musicians such as Boards of Canada and Portishead Muirs combines ambient triphop vibe with an Americanised Rap tradition stemming back from the works of the now disbanded 1017 Brick Squad Records members Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame.
Giuseppe Crastoni.  Giuseppe Crastoni or Gioseffo Crastone or Crastona (Pavia 1674 -1718) was an Italian painter mainly active as a landscape painter.
Singuila.  Bedaya Singuila N'Garoest better known as Singuila (born September 19 1977 in Suresnes France) is a French singer of Congolese and Central African descent. Singuila means thank you in Sango a main language spoken in Central African Republic.He released his debut album in late 2004 entitled On ne vit qu'une fois (literally We only live once) produced by Secteur Ä a famous French rap label.
Carmen Rasmusen.  Carmen Rasmusen Herbert (born March 25 1985 in Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian-American country music artist who ranked sixth on the second season of American Idol in 2003. Rasmusen also plays piano and guitar.
Neil Gaiman.  Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (/ˈɡeɪmən/; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction novels comic books graphic novels audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust American Gods Coraline and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards including the Hugo Nebula and Bram Stoker awards as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals.
Jack Cunningham (screenwriter).  Jack Cunningham (April 1 1882 – October 4 1941) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 132 films between 1913 and 1939.He was born in Ionia Iowa and died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Santa Monica California.
Banana Yoshimoto.  Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな Yoshimoto Banana) (born July 24 1964) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子 Yoshimoto Mahoko). She writes her name in hiragana.
Paul Delvaux.  Paul Delvaux (French: [dɛlvo]; 23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter associated with Surrealism famous for his paintings of female nudes.
Gail Ryan.  Gail Ryan (born 11 January 1939) is an award-winning film and television hairdresser.
Dean Trippe.  Dean Trippe (born 1980) is a United States-based comic book artist and illustrator. Trippe graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Sequential Art in 2003.Trippe's early published work includes contributions to several comic anthologies including You Ain't No Dancer and the 2005 FLUKE Anthology as well as coloring for various publishers including Viper Comics' The Middleman and Oni Press's Ghost Projekt.
Homer Banks.  Homer Banks (August 2 1941 – April 3 2003) was an African-American songwriter singer and record producer best known for his songs for Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the songs he wrote have become contemporary classics.
Martin Lee (singer).  Martin Lee (born 26 November 1949) is a singer-songwriter best known as a member of the British pop group Brotherhood of Man.
Matthew Savoca.  Matthew Savoca (born June 16 1982) is an American novelist poet and short story writer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Gary Richrath.  Gary Dean Richrath (born October 18 1949 in Peoria Illinois) is an American guitarist best known as a member of the band REO Speedwagon from 1970 until 1989.
Keni Thomas.  Keni Thomas is an American country music singer and former United States Army Ranger. Thomas was a member of Task Force Ranger as a part of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia and served in the Battle of Mogadishu. Thomas works as a motivational speaker drawing from this experience as a US Ranger. As a country singer Thomas has recorded several independently-released albums.
Mari Iijima.  Mari Iijima (飯島 真理 Iijima Mari born May 18 1963 in Tsuchiura Ibaraki Japan) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who has released over 20 original albums to date. She writes and produces most of her own music is a multi-instrumentalist and is an accomplished piano player. After being signed to JVC Victor in 1982 Mari first became known for her voice-acting role as Lynn Minmay in the anime Macross.
John Stuart Ingle.  John Stuart Ingle (1933 - October 30 2010) was an American contemporary realist artist known for his meticulously rendered watercolor paintings typically still lifes. Some criticism has characterized Ingle's work as a kind of magic realism.
Kenneth Price.  Kenneth Price (February 16 1935 – February 24 2012) was an American ceramic artist and printmaker. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956. He continued his studies at Chouinard Art Institute in 1957 and received an MFA degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1959.
Jaden Michaels.  Jaden Michaels is an American singer songwriter and musician. In her career as a songwriter she has collaborated with some of Pop music's biggest stars including Jennifer Lopez Demi Lovato Carly Rae Jepsen Jessica Mauboy Robin Thicke Jordin Sparks Lea Michele and Naya Rivera.
Leon Hale.  Leon Hale is an author and award winning columnist for the Houston Chronicle. He moved to The Chronicle after writing a column in the Houston Post for 32 years.Hale is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters a literary group in Austin which recognized the writer with the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career.
Slim Jim Phantom.  James McDonnell (born March 21 1961) known by the stage name Slim Jim Phantom is the drummer for Stray Cats. Alongside band mates Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker he spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s.Phantom currently plays in the band Kat Men with Imelda May guitarist Darrel Higham.
Dhiruben Patel.  Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel (Gujarati: ધીરુબેન પટેલ Hindi: धीरुबेन पटेल); born May 25 1926 in Vadodara) is a Gujarati novelist playwright negotiator and translator who won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his novel Agantuk.She is a former President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and one of her play Bhavni Bhavai has been filmed. Her works include Aandhali Gali; Shimalanan Phool; Waansno Ankur Javal Atitrag Anusandhan and Aagantuk.
Steinar.  Steinar Baldursson known by the mononym Steinar (born 1995) is a singer and songwriter currently unsigned outside of Iceland.Steinar was born in Grafarvogur a district of Reykjavík. He studied at Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík high school but after two years of studying he transferred to The Commercial College of Iceland where he currently studies.
Lennon Murphy.  Lennon Anne Murphy is a singer-songwriter out of Hendersonville Tennessee United States.
Lee Thornburg.  Lee Thornburg is a trumpeter who has played with many artists and also has been a member of Supertramp and Tower of Power. Thornburg also played with Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders in the 1970s.
Avraham Oz.  Avraham Oz (born May 23 1944) is an Israeli associate professor of Theatre and Hebrew and Comparative literature at the University of Haifa a translator of plays operas and poetry into Hebrew and a peace activist. He specializes in English theatre and drama Shakespeare political theatre and Theatre theory.
Carolyn Abraham.  Carolyn Abraham is a Canadian freelance journalist and author. She was born in 1968 in London England and moved to Canada in 1972 with her parents and three older siblings. She grew up in St. Catharines Ontario. and Mississauga Ontario.Abraham graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Carleton University in 1991 and worked for the Ottawa Citizen from 1991 to 1997. She later worked for The Globe and Mail as the senior medical reporter from February 1998 to January 2012.
Sherry Kean.  Sherry Kean (born Sherry Huffman) is a former Canadian pop and country singer who had a Canadian Top 40 hit in 1984 with I Want You Back.
Dino Saluzzi.  Timoteo Dino Saluzzi (born May 20 1935 in Campo Santo (Ingenio San Isidro) Salta Province) is an Argentine musician. The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi and father of the guitarist José Maria Saluzzi.
Charles Marion Russell.  Charles Marion Russell (March 19 1864 – October 24 1926) also known as C. M. Russell Charlie Russell and Kid Russell was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2000 paintings of cowboys Indians and landscapes set in the Western United States and in Alberta Canada in addition to bronze sculptures. Known as 'the cowboy artist' Russell was also a storyteller and author. The C. M.
Derrick Pierce.  Derrick Pierce (born March 1 1974) in Massachusetts USA is an adult entertainer and radio talk show personality. He began his career in pornographic adult films in approximately 2005. As a child he moved to Southern California with his mother and grew up in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley.
Eiko Koike.  Eiko Koike (小池 栄子 Koike Eiko born November 20 1980 in Tokyo) is a Japanese idol and actress.
Jeffrey Foucault.  Jeffrey Foucault is a singer-songwriter from Whitewater Wisconsin. His 2001 debut album Miles from the Lightning won much praise from critics and helped to kick-start a career of tours across the United States Canada and Europe. Along the way he has played with such artists as Greg Brown Gillian Welch Todd Snider Chris Smither and Rosanne Cash.
Linda Wong (pornographic actress).  Linda Wong (September 13 1951 – December 17 1987) was a pornographic actress and one of the first Asians to become a star in the adult film industry. In 1998 she was added to the XRCO Hall of Fame.In 2011 Complex magazine ranked her at #25 in their list of “The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time.”
Junior Tucker.  Leslie Tucker known as Junior Tucker (born 1966 Trenchtown Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer who started his career in secular music but who now sings Christian music. His hits included Happy and his own composition Don't Test.
Tuomo Lassila.  Tuomo Lassila (born 1965) is a Finnish musician best known as the former drummer founder member and co-songwriter of the power metal band Stratovarius and currently the drummer and percussionist for the Finnish metal band Conquest.
John Hoyle.  John Hoyle (d. 1797?) was author of a dictionary of musical terms titled Dictionarium Musica [sic]; being a complete Dictionary or Treasury of Music London 1770; republished with a new title in 1790 and 1791. The work was pronounced short and incomplete by the Critical Review for February 1791. Hoyle is said to have died in 1797.
James Francis Courage.  James Francis Courage (9 February 1903–5 October 1963) was a New Zealand novelist short-story writer poet and bookseller. He was born in Christchurch Northern Canterbury New Zealand on 9 February 1903.
Future (rapper).  Nayvadius Cash (born Nayvadius D. Wilburn November 20 1983) better known by his stage name Future is an American hip hop recording artist from the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia. After releasing a series of moderately successful mixtapes between 2010 and 2011 Future signed a major label deal with Epic Records and fellow American rapper Rocko's A1 Recordings which helped launch his own label imprint Freebandz.
Averil Leimon.  Averil Leimon pioneered the application of psychological findings to the embryonic field of coaching. She is an author executive coach leadership psychologist and was one of the first UK-based psychologists qualified in the academic field of positive psychology. Leimon is the joint editor of The Essential Coaching Series from academic publisher Routledge and is co-author of Essential Business Coaching and Coaching Women to Lead.
Wilhelm Bauberger.  Wilhelm Bauberger (March 3 1809 Tannhausen - February 8 1883) was a German novelist author of Die Beatushöhle.
Traxamillion.  Traxamillion is a hip hop producer from San Jose California.He has become one of the most watched producers in the industry with hits such as Keak da Sneak's Super Hyphy and Dem Hoodstarz Grown Man Remix. His first album The Slapp Addict was a compilation of Bay Area hyphy artists. The Slapp Addict was released August 22 2006. Traxamillion has also released a mixtape called The Slapp Addict Mixtape which features mainstream artists as well as local Bay Area artists.
Sonny Black.  For the German rapper who uses Sonny Black as a pseudonym see Bushido (rapper) for the American mafioso see Dominick Napolitano.Bill Boazman redirects hereSonny Black is a leading acoustic guitarist based in the UK who plays blues rags and original compositions usually fingerstyle or slide. Sonny Black is a pseudonym adopted when he began the first Sonny Black's Blues Band.
Farrukh Beg.  Farrukh Beg (ca. 1545 – ca. 1615) was a Persian born Mughal painter who served in the court of Mirza Muhammad Hakim before working directly for Mughal Emperor Akbar. He was greatly influenced by Persian style of paintings and remained conservative all along. He was greatly admired by Mughal emperor Jahangir as well. He worked in four royal courts in his lifetime.
Andrew Strong.  Andrew Strong (born 14 November 1973) is an Irish singer and the son of Irish musician and singing coach Robert (Rob) Strong. He grew up in Omagh Co Tyrone (where his father lived while performing with showbands) and Naas Co Kildare. He starred as Deco Cuffe in the 1991 cult film The Commitments based on the book by Roddy Doyle having been cast at only 16 years of age with a voice sounding much older. In 1991 he was nominated for a Grammy Award as a member of The Commitments. R.E.M.
Chris Montez.  Chris Montez (born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez on January 17 1943) is an American singer.
Andrew Colville (writer).  Andrew Colville is an American screenwriter. He has worked on the AMC drama Mad Men for which he won a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award. Following that he was a writer on the critically acclaimed but short-lived Fox TV series Lone Star. After the cancellation of Lone Star he became a writer and co-producer on the first season of The CW action series Nikita (2010–11) and served as a writer/producer in its second season (2011–12).
Salvator Rosa.  Salvator Rosa (1615 – March 15 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter poet and printmaker active in Naples Rome and Florence. As a painter he is best known as an unorthodox and extravagant and a perpetual rebel proto-Romantic.
Joe South.  Joe South (February 28 1940 – September 5 2012) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Best known for his songwriting South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for Games People Play and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for Rose Garden.
Carl Carlton.  Carl Carlton (born May 21 1952 Detroit Michigan) is an American R&B soul and funk singer and songwriter best known for his hits Everlasting Love and She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built She's Stacked).
Yasunori Masutani.  Yasunori Masutani (増谷 康紀 Masutani Yasunori born July 5 1961 in Sapporo Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production.
Hamish Stuart.  James Hamish Stuart (born 8 October 1949 Glasgow Scotland) is a guitarist bassist singer composer and record producer.
Ryan Zoghlin.  Ryan Zoghlin is an artist and photographer.
Lil Wyte.  Patrick Lanshaw (born October 6 1982) better known by his stage name Lil Wyte is an American rapper from Memphis Tennessee. He is a member of the rap collective Hypnotize Minds and owner of the independent label Wyte Music.
Benny Ekman.  Benny Ekman (born 1955 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish artist. He emigrated to Australia with his family in 1958. The family returned to Huddinge in 1969. In 1991 he moved to Västervik on the south-east coast of Sweden. Ekman paints mainly in acrylics but also uses other techniques in his art. His first exhibition was on the Summer Salon in Västervik in 1996 and since then he has had several separate exhibitions and exhibitions with others.
Carlo Jachino.  Carlo Jachino (1887–1971) was a prominent Italian composer of the 20th century. Born in Sanremo on February 3 1887 he studied in Leipzieg under Hugo Riemann. Jachino's 3-act opera Giocondo and his King won a national competition in (1922) and was premiered in 1922 at the Dal Verme theater in Milan in 1924. In 1928 his Second Quartet shared the second prize with Alfredo Casella at an internal competition in Philadelphia. He was a proponent of dodecaphonic or 12-tone music.
Dudley Foster.  Dudley Foster (7 August 1924 – 8 January 1973) was an English actor most notable on TV.Foster was born in Brighouse West Riding of Yorkshire.
Bruce Degen.  Bruce Degen (born June 14 1945) is an American illustrator and writer with over forty children's books to his credit.He may be known best for illustrating the The Magic School Bus series written by Joanna Cole. He has collaborated with writers Nancy White Charstrom on the Jesse Bear books and Jane Yolen on the Commander Toad series.
Gunnar Wærness.  Gunnar Wærness (born 1971) is a Norwegian poet. He made his literary début in 1999 with the poetry collection Kongesplint for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. Among his other poetry collections are Takk from 2002 and Hverdag from 2006.
Ruth Lorenzo.  Ruth Lorenzo Pascual better known as Ruth Lorenzo (born 10 November 1982) is a Spanish singer and composer best known for coming fifth in the fifth series of the British TV talent show The X Factor in 2008. Artists such as Auryn and Dannii Minogue have included compositions of her in their albums.Her debut single Burn entered the Spanish Singles Charts and reached number 16 when she released the single on 27 June 2011.
Chafil Cheucarama.  Chafil Cheucarama M. is a Wounaan artist and illustrator from Darién Province Panama.
Henri Marchand.  Henri Marchand was a French-American sculptor known for his detailed museum dioramas.
Vittorio Bigari.  Vittorio Bigari (Bologna 1692–1776) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque.
Richard J. Denning.  Richard John Denning (born 11 August 1967) is an English author of historical novels and fantasy novels. Currently he has published seven novels.
Margot Ruddock.  Marguerite (Margot) Ruddock (1907-1951) who used the stage name Margot Collis was an Irish actress poet and singer. She had a relationship with W. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah Sweet Dancer (1970).Yeats edited her poems for publication but it is not clear how much change he made to them.
Sket One.  Sket One (Andrew Yasgar) grew up in New Haven Connecticut where he started his art in 1986 as hip-hop swept the country.
Sanam Marvi.  Sanam Marvi (Urdu: صنم ماروی‎ Sindhi صنم ماروي) (born 1986) is a Pakistani folk and sufi singer. She sings in Punjabi and Sindhi languages.
Ib Melchior.  Ib Jørgen Melchior (born September 17 1917) is a novelist short-story writer film producer film director and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies most of them released by American International Pictures. He was born in Copenhagen Denmark.
Jan Jones (novelist).  Jan Jones (born 1955) is a British former software engineer now a writer of romantic fiction and short stories. Her debut novel Stage By Stage was published in July 2005 and won the Romantic Novelists' Association Joan Hessayon Award the same year.
Jessica Taylor.  Jessica Taylor (born 23 June 1980) is an English singer glamour model television personality dancer best known for being a member of the Brit Award-winning pop group Liberty X from 2001 to 2008 and again in 2013 for a one-off reunion.
Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh.  Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh (Pleiku 1961) is a fashion designer from Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. A director of the Vietnam Fashion Design Institute (FADIN) in Ho Chi Minh City she is leading figure in Vietnam's new fashion industry. She specialises in hybridising traditional designs with modern clothing. Her work has been shown abroad and at a Tokyo fashion fair in 1997 she became the first Vietnamese designer to be awarded an international prize.
Oki (musician).  Oki Kano (加納 沖 Kanō Oki) known professionally as OKI is an Ainu Japanese musician from Kanagawa Prefecture. He studied industrial arts at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. His father Bikki Sunazawa was a renowned wood sculptor. Oki uses the tonkori an Ainu stringed instrument in his performances and mixes traditional Ainu music with reggae dub and other styles of world music. He also plays guitar and traditional Ainu percussion instruments.
Alicia Leeke.  Alicia Leeke is an American painter and artist working and residing in Columbia South Carolina. She is best known for her post-impressionistic style and incorporation of Fauvism. Her artwork is distinctive for its dry brush painting technique gentle distortion of linear perspective and use of thick line and brush strokes.
Miki Howard.  Alicia Michelle Miki Howard (born September 30 1960) is an American R&B/jazz singer and actress who had a string of Top 10 hit songs in the late-1980s and early-1990s including Baby Be Mine Come Share My Love and Love Under New Management. Ain't Nobody Like You and Ain't Nuthin' in the World both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B Singles chart.
Ginger Johnson.  George Folunsho Ginger Johnson (1916 – 15 July 1975) was a Nigerian percussionist and bandleader who was a prominent musician in London from the 1950s to the early 1970s. He led Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers and recorded and performed with Edmundo Ros and The Rolling Stones among many others.
Martin Nievera.  Martin Ramon Razon Nievera (born February 5 1962 Manila Philippines) is a Filipino-American singer songwriter and actor. He is one of the main hosts of musical variety show ASAP on ABS-CBN.In March 2012 he was announced as one of the four celebrity judges of The X Factor Philippines which aired on ABS-CBN by the 2nd quarter of 2012.Martin Nieverra who had 18 platinum 5 double platinum 3 triple platinum and 1 quadruple platinum albums in his entire career.
Roy Acuff.  Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15 1903 – November 23 1992) was an American country music singer fiddler and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and hoedown format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff began his music career in the 1930s and gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group the Smoky Mountain Boys.
Marianna Bottini.  Marianna Bottini née Motroni-Andreozzi (7 November 1802 – 25 January 1858) was an Italian composer and harp teacher. She was born in Lucca daughter of the nobleman Sebastiano Motroni-Andreozzi and his wife Eleonora Flekestein.She studied counterpoint with Domenico Quilici and was admitted to the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna in 1820 as an 'honorary master composer'. In 1823 she married the Marquis Lorenzo Bottini a prominent political figure.
Dave Schools.  David Allen Schools (born December 11 1964) known as Dave Schools is a critically acclaimed bass player and founding member of American rock band Widespread Panic (Panic). He is also an accomplished producer songwriter and journalist with articles published in a wide variety of music magazines.
Saladin Ahmed.  Saladin Ahmed (born 1975) is an Arab-American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award and the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. His fiction has been published in book anthologies and magazines such as Strange Horizons Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show Clockwork Phoenix 2 and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Paddy O'Brien (musician and author).  Paddy O'Brien (born September 13 1945) is an Irish accordion player and memoirist author of The Road from Castlebarnagh: Growing Up In Irish Music and creator of the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Traditional Music the first published oral collection of Irish traditional music.
Mike Pont.  Mike Pont is a singer who has sung for several bands including Hotshot Trouble The Mike Pont Band Danger Danger and the Gangsters Of Love. He sang for the band Hotshot both before and after singing for Danger Danger. The 1983 pre-Danger Danger incarnation of the new wave cover band Hotshot also featured then future Danger Danger members Bruno Ravel and Steve West.
Lotti Golden.  Lotti Golden (born November 27 1950) is an American singer-songwriter record producer poet and artist. A cult icon of the late 1960s Golden is best known for her 1969 debut album Motor-Cycle on Atlantic Records which captured women's liberation and motorcycle soul in one psychedelic swoop.Winner of the ASCAP Pop Award for songwriting and RIAA certified Gold and Platinum awards as a writer/producer Golden has written and produced Top 5 hits in the US and abroad.
Alan Barnes (musician).  Alan Barnes (born 23 July 1959 in Altrincham England) is an English jazz musician.
Joachim Wtewael.  Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael (also spelled Uytewael) (1566 – 1 August 1638) was a Dutch Mannerist painter and draughtsman.
Reginaldo Rossi.  Reginaldo Rodrigues dos Santos (14 February 1944 – 20 December 2013) better known by his stage name Reginaldo Rossi was a Brazilian musician and singer-songwriter. He was known as the King of Brega (Portuguese: Rei do brega).
Cao Wenxuan.  Cao Wenxuan (simplified Chinese: 曹文轩; traditional Chinese: 曹文軒; pinyin: Cáo Wénxuān; born January 1954) is a Chinese novelist he is best known for writing children's literature. Cao is now the vice president of Beijing Writers Association. He also a professor and doctorial tutor in Peking University. His novels have been translated into English French Japanese and Korean.
Vito Nikolić.  Vitomir Vito Nikolić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Витомир Вито Николић) (April 27 1934 – September 10 1994) was a Montenegrin poet and journalist.
DJ Cobra.  Andrew Bagg (Born June 8 1981) better known by his stage name DJ Cobra is an open format deejay.
Giovanni Maria Cecchi.  Giovanni Maria Cecchi (1518–1587) was an Italian poet playwright writer and notary devoted to the Medici family.Cecchi was born in Florence Italy. His plays were often classically inspired although some were derived from current events.Cecchi wrote among other things the Contents of Magistrates of Florence (1562) and an institutional history of the Florentine State a treatise on local history. He also composed farces and other comedies on religious subjects.
Mitzie Collins.  Mitzie Collins is an interpreter of traditional British and American vocal and instrumental music.She has arranged many songs including Genesse County Waltzes. Collins is a renowned player of both the dulcimer and other instruments. She plays traditional music for the hammered dulcimer. Some of her many CDs include Ornaments—Music for Christmas Be Thou My Vision—Favorite Hymns for Dulcimer and St.
Cosimo Ulivelli.  Cosimo Ulivelli (1625–1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painter Baldassare Franceschini. He painted frescoes along the top of the wall of the nave of the church the Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
Iain Rattray.  Iain Rattray is a British actor.He appeared in The Bill Howards' Way Chancer Casualty Boon Minder Grange Hill London's Burning Doctor Who Between the Lines and the TV MiniSeries Wild Justice Jack the Ripper.
Roi Heenok.  Henoc Beauséjour (born November 18 1973) known by his stage name 'Roi Heenok' is a French rapper producer and entrepreneur of Haitian descent from Montreal Canada.Roi Heenok has achieved notoriety in France and the french rap market since 2004 as a result of his successful use of Internet marketing. An avant-gardist who always commands his crowd Roi Heenok was the first viral video star at a time when YouTube & DailyMotion were only starting to be used as branding tools.
Tauba Auerbach.  Tauba Auerbach (born 1981 San Francisco California ) is a visual artist working across many disciplines including painting artists' books photography and sculpture. Her work operat[es] in the gap between Conceptual Art abstraction and graphic art. She lives and works in New York.
Andy Roberts (musician).  Andrew Andy Roberts (born 12 June 1946 Harrow Middlesex) is an English musician.He gained a violin scholarship to Felsted School. He then attended Liverpool University. He has played with The Liverpool Scene Plainsong The Scaffold Roy Harper Chris Spedding Hank Wangford Kevin Ayers Vivian Stanshall and Grimms.
Simon Andersson.  Simon Andersson (born 18 December 1980) is a Swedish bass player guitarist vocalist music programmer songwriter and record producer best known for his work as a bass player in progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. He currently plays bass in the progressive metal band Darkwater.
Mastiksoul.  Mastiksoul (born Fernando Figueira) is an Angola DJ and producer. He has released several songs that rated highly on music charts and was nominated for a Beatport Music Award in 2009.
Noriyuki Higashiyama.  Noriyuki Higashiyama (東山 紀之 Higashiyama Noriyuki born September 30 1966 in Kawasaki Kanagawa Japan) is a singer actor and member of the Japanese pop idol group Shonentai. On October 24 2010 he got married to actress Yoshino Kimura.
Ford Pier.  Ford Pier (born 1970) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He was born in Boston Massachusetts. He resides in Vancouver. In addition to his solo albums he has been a member of Jr. Gone Wild and D.O.A. and has appeared as a guest musician on albums by Carolyn Mark Martin Tielli Showbusiness Giants Veda Hille Rheostatics John Mann and Neko Case.
Rob Mills.  Rob Mills (born 21 June 1982) is an Australian singer best known as one of the finalists from Australian Idol Season 1. He was a co-host on the late-night quiz show The Mint as well as a regular singer on the game show The Singing Bee both on the Nine Network. Until August 2009 Mills starred as Fiyero in the Melbourne production of the musical Wicked and continued the role when it moved to Sydney on 5 September 2009. Mills is the host of Network Ten's revamped Young Talent Time.
Fred Carillo.  Fred Carillo (1926–2005) was a Filipino comic book artist.
Kristy Lee Cook.  Kristy Lee Cook (born January 18 1984) is an American country singer who was born in Seattle Washington and was the seventh place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005 Cook released her first album called Devoted. In June 2008 Cook signed to 19 Recordings and Arista Nashville. She released her post-Idol album Why Wait on September 16 2008. This album has produced her first chart single 15 Minutes of Shame a Top 30 hit on the Billboard country charts.
Ty England.  Gary Tyler Ty England (born December 5 1963) is an American country music singer and guitarist. Initially a member of Garth Brooks' band England began his solo career in 1995 recording a self-titled debut album on RCA Records. A second album Two Ways to Fall followed in 1996. Three years later he recorded Highways & Dance Halls under the name Tyler England on Capitol Records and Alive and Well and Livin' the Dream came in 2007 on the independent Triple T label.
Charu Nivedita.  Charu Nivedita is a Tamil writer.He began writing at young age and since then has traversed the road less travelled for over 35 years. He lives in Chennai. He introduced the literary genre Autofiction in India. He is best known for his transgressive works that are appreciated and criticized in equal measure. He writes columns in many leading English Dailies like Deccan Chronicle Asian Age etc. He is well known in Kerala through his writings.
Charles Newman (music producer).  Charles Richard Newman (born January 16 1967) is an American music producer recording engineer composer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the co-founder of New York City's Mother West Records and Studios The Deli Magazine and the band PLEASE who enjoyed minor success when their single Here It Comes Again was featured on the soundtrack to the film Empire Records.
Helen Cornelius.  Helen Cornelius (b. Helen Lorene Johnson Dec. 6 1941 Monroe City Missouri) is an American country singer-songwriter and actress best remembered for a series of hit duets with Jim Ed Brown many of which reached the U.S. country singles top ten during the late 1970s and early '80s.
Gran Bel Fisher.  Gran Bel Fisher (born Jesse Littleton) is an American singer-songwriter from Sabina Ohio. He was previously in the country music boy band Marshall Dyllon. His debut release titled Full Moon Cigarette was released on July 18 2006. Fisher has also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip where he performed Crash and Burn.
Unk.  Anthony Platt (born December 28 1982) commonly known by his stage name Unk is an American DJ and rapper. He began spinning records in 1998 and after meeting DJ Jelly and DJ Montay joined their DJ entourage the Southern Style DJs. They performed for high school parties proms pep rallies and other events around the state of Georgia. In 2000 Big Oomp signed Unk to his label Big Oomp Records. Some of his recent work has been featured on the 2K Sports NBA 2K9 game.
Richy Peña.  Richy Peña (born Richard Peña; October 27 1984) is a music producer in the U.S.
Jack Sendak.  Jack Sendak (July 20 1923 – February 3 1995) was a children's literature author. He is the brother of Maurice Sendak and the son of Philip Sendak. He served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War and later worked for Emerson Radio and Television and the U.S. Postal Service. Two of his books Circus Girl (1957) and The Happy Rain (1956) were illustrated by Maurice. His 1971 book The Magic Tears won the Children's Book Showcase award.
Dana Dane.  Dana McLeese (born 1965) better known by his stage name Dana Dane is an American hip hop recording artist known for performance of humorous lyrics and for his fashion sense.
Eugénio de Andrade.  Eugénio de Andrade was the pseudonym of José Fontinhas GOSE GCM (19 January 1923 – 13 June 2005) a Portuguese poet.José Fontinhas was born at Póvoa de Atalaia Fundão. He is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry. He died in Porto.
Vikenty Veresaev.  Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev (Russian: Вике́нтий Вике́нтьевич Вереса́ев) (January 16 1867 – June 3 1945) was a Russian writer and medical doctor. His real last name was Smidovich.
Curley Weaver.  Curley James Weaver (March 25 1906 - September 20 1962) was an American blues musician also known as Slim Gordon.
Mark Karan.  Mark Karan is an American guitarist and singer best known for his longterm work with Bob Weir & RatDog. He also leads the band Jemimah Puddleduck.
Bill Fawcett (writer).  Bill Fawcett (born 1947) is an American editor author and historian. Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro write mystery novels together under the pen name Quinn Fawcett. Fawcett is also a field historian for the Navy SEAL museum in Fort Pierce Florida and has co-authored work on the US Navy Seals in Vietnam.
Luc Tuymans.  Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today. His signature figurative paintings transform mediated film television and print sources into examinations of history and memory.
Milan Đ. Milićević.  Milan Djakov Milićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Ђаков Милићевић; June 4 1831 - November 17 1908) was one of the founders of the Association of Writers of Serbia.Milan Đakov Milićević was a Serbian geographical ethnographical and historical writer and novelist; author of stories studies sketches of special Serbian interest. He left a most detailed account of his time.
A. J. M. Smith.  Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8 1902 – November 21 1980) was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets – the Montreal Group which included Leon Edel Leo Kennedy A. M. Klein and F. R. Scott -- who distinguished themselves by their modernism in a culture still rigidly rooted in Victorianism.
Rod Barry.  Rod Barry (also: Rob deBaer Rod Berry Rod) is the stage name of a pornographic actor from the United States who has been credited in more than 150 pornographic films and internet-based shows since entering the industry in 1996. Most of Barry's appearances have been in the gay pornography genre but he has also appeared in bisexual transsexual and heterosexual videos.Barry has also worked as a model and dancer. He currently lives in Brooklyn New York.
H. Jay Dinshah.  Hom Jay Dinshah (November 2 1933 – June 8 2000) was founder and president of the American Vegan Society and editor of its publication Ahimsa magazine (1960–2000).
Baccio Ciarpi.  Baccio Ciarpi (1574–1654) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerism and early-Baroque style. Born in Barga in Tuscany he was active in Rome and Florence. He is best known for having mentored briefly Pietro da Cortona. He painted a number of canvases including a Madonna del Rosario and Crucifixion with Saints for the Pieve di Santa Maria in Barga. In Rome there are paintings by him in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini San Silvestro in Capite and Santa Lucia in Selci.
Teremoana Rapley.  Teremoana Rapley (born 1973) is a New Zealand singer MC and television presenter best known for her work in the 1990s with Upper Hutt Posse and Moana and the Moahunters. Teremoana describes herself as having voluntarily pulled out of mainstream media with her music after realising that the industry is based on looks and not artistry.
Vasily Aksyonov.  Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐˈksʲɵnəf]; August 20 1932 – July 6 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn (Ожог Ozhog from 1975) and Generations of Winter (Московская сага Moskovskaya Saga from 1992) a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.
Giorgia Fumanti.  Giorgia Fumanti (born February 22 1975) is an Italian soprano (operatic pop / crossover) composer producer and arranger now based in Montreal Quebec Canada. Her music is best compared to that of Andrea Bocelli Sarah Brightman and Enya. Her debut EMI album From My Heart reached the top 20 on the Billboard Crossover Chart. She has sold over 1.2 million copies of her albums so far.
Bernard Sumner.  Bernard Edward Sumner (born 4 January 1956) also known as Bernard Dickin Bernard Dicken and Bernard Albrecht is an English musician singer and songwriter. He is the founder member of Joy Division and the lead vocalist and guitarist of New Order.He has also recorded with Johnny Marr as Electronic and was the lead vocalist of the band.
Noa James.  Noa James (Born Jamie Wilson) is a West Coast rapper based in the Inland Empire. James is currently signed to independent label Black Cloud Music.
Matt de la Peña.  Matthew de la Peña is an American writer of children's books who specializes in novels for young adults.
Stuart Pearson Wright.  Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975 Northampton) is an English portrait artist winner of the BP Portrait Award.
Karen Orlando.  Karen Orlando (born 1968 on Long Island New York) is a Christian singer. As of January 9 2007 Orlando is an ordained Pastor in the Christian faith.
John Byrom.  John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS (29 February 1692 – 26 September 1763) was an English poet the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He is most remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake salute the happy morn which was supposedly a Christmas gift for his daughter.
Edmund Bordeaux Szekely.  Edmond Bordeaux Szekely (1905–1979) was a Hungarian philologist/linguist philosopher psychologist and natural living experimenter.
Ice Prince.  Panshak Zamani (born October 30 1986) better known by his stage name Ice Prince is a Nigerian hip hop recording artist best known for winning the 2009 Hennessy Artistry as well as for his song Oleku. He won the Best International Act Africa award at the 2013 BET Awards. Ice Prince is currently signed to Chocolate City.
Lee O'Connor.  Lee O'Connor is a British illustrator and comics artist. He has produced the art for Seer Confessional and Vurt.
Sam Fogarino.  Samuel Joseph Fogarino (born August 9 1968 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is the drummer of New York City band Interpol. He has played in bands such as The Holy Terrors Gus The Wahoos Napoleon Solo The Ton-ups and The Last Night.Fogarino began to play the drums at the age of 13. In the early 1990s Fogarino played with the South Florida act The Holy Terrors as part of a music scene that also produced Marilyn Manson Jack Off Jill Saigon Kick and The Mavericks.
Toby Gad.  Tobias Toby Gad is a Los Angeles-based hit producer and songwriter from Germany perhaps best known for co-writing Fergie's Grammy nominated hit song Big Girls Don't Cry as well as co-writing and producing Beyoncé's worldwide #1 hit If I Were a Boy and The Veronicas multi-platinum #1 Untouched.
Kika Markham.  Erika S.L Kika Markham (born 1940) is an English actress.Markham was born in Macclesfield Cheshire. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has led a long career in the cinema television and theatre as an actress.
Mbulelo Mzamane.  Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane (28 July 1948 – 16 February 2014) was a South African author poet and academic. He was described by the late President Nelson Mandela as a “visionary leader and one of South Africa’s greatest intellectuals”.
Gunter Gabriel.  Gunter Gabriel (11 June 1942 in Bünde/Westfalen as Günter Caspelherr) is a German singer musician and composer.Gabriel became famous in Germany as singer of Schlager songs. Gabriel has four children. He married four times. Gabriel lives in Hamburg-Harburg.Gabriel published Wer einmal tief im Keller saß. Erinnerungen eines Rebellen with Oliver Flesch in 2009 (ISBN 978-3941378179).
Amund Svensson.  Amund Svensson is a Norwegian musician and composer.He is the co-founder and the main composer of the band The Kovenant for which he plays guitars and keyboards as well as write orchestrations. He is also involved in his own long abandoned side project Painstation and has created remixes and orchestrations for Theatre of Tragedy Mortiis and Deathstars.
Rhett Reese.  Rhett Reese is an American film producer television producer and screenwriter. As a screenwriter his credits include Clifford's Really Big Movie Cruel Intentions 3 Dinosaur and Monsters Inc.. He has collaborated with Paul Wernick writing the films Zombieland and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Together they also created the reality series The Joe Schmo Show.
Alessandro Speranza.  Alessandro Speranza (1728 - 17 November 1797) was an Italian composer. His opera I due Figaro was very popular during his lifetime and enjoyed revivals in Italy after his death well into the 19th century; including at La Scala in 1840 with Raffaele Scalese in the title role.
Joel Cummins.  Joel Nathan Cummins (born January 12 1975 in La Grange Illinois) is an American musician and founding member/keyboardist for progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee.Cummins tours full-time with Umphrey's McGee playing a range of shows each year including New Year's performances at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and festival appearances at Bonnaroo Summer Camp 10000 Lakes Festival and Langerado.
Ihara Saikaku.  Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴 1642 – September 9 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the floating world genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).Born as Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五) the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka he first studied haikai poetry under Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin School of poetry which emphasized comic linked verse.
Eimear Quinn.  Eimear Quinn (Irish: Eimear Ní Chuinn IPA: [ˈɪmʲəɾˠ ˈnʲiː ˈxiːn̪ʲ]; born 1973)[citation needed] is an Irish singer. She sang The Voice which was the winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.
Jin Bora.  Jin Bora (Hangul: 진보라) (born November 14 1987) is an Korean jazz pianist Composer Music Arranger and CF Model.
Houcine Camara.  Houcine Camara or just Houcine (born in Nancy on 19 August 1980) is a French singer.
New Born (musician).  Sammy Stanford Jr commonly known by his stage name New Born is an American rapper who was active in the mid 1990s. His only known single Falling in Love peaked at #97 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1993. A full-length album never materialized.
Luca Giordano.  Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative he worked successfully in Naples and Rome Florence and Venice before spending a decade in Spain.
Jordán Bruno Genta.  Jordán Bruno Genta (1909–1974) was an Argentine writer and educator widely considered the ideologue of the Argentine extreme right-wing.In his youth Genta actively campaigned against several attempts at education reform fearing that the changes would dilute the influence of Catholic teachings.
Vickery Turner.  Vickery Turner (3 April 1945 in Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey – 4 April 2006) was a British actress playwright author and stage director.She started out on stage and her first breakthrough role was in the first production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie opposite Vanessa Redgrave.
Sidney Nolan.  Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM AC (22 April 1917 – 28 November 1992) was one of Australia's best-known painters and printmakers.
Sanford Kwinter.  Sanford Kwinter is a Canadian-born New York-based writer and architectural theorist and a co-founder of the influential Zone Books publishers. Kwinter currently serves as Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Lilian Oldland.  Lilian Oldland (7 February 1903 – October 1984) was a British actress who appeared in more than twenty films between 1925 and 1935. Born in Gloucester in 1903 she made her film debut in The Secret Kingdom and was soon cast as a regular in the Bindle Series of films. In 1930 she changed her name to Mary Newland and was credited as that thereafter. She made her last film The Silent Passenger in 1935. She was married to the actor Reginald Denham.
Jim Blackley.  James David Blackley (born 1927 in Edinburgh) is a world renowned jazz focused drumkit teacher.His students have gone on to play or record with such renowned musicians as Count Basie Dizzy Gillespie John Coltrane Herbie Hancock Paul McCartney Sting and Annie Lennox to name but a few.His first publication Syncopated Rolls for the Modern Drummer has been called a “Musical Gem” by Elvin Jones.
Robert Roberthin.  Robert Roberthin (3 March 1600 in Saalfeld (now Zalewo in Poland) – 17 April 1648 in Königsberg) was a German Baroque poet. He wrote under his own name as well as the anagram Berrintho.
Meg White.  Megan Martha Meg White (born December 10 1974) is an American drummer from Detroit best known for her work in the Detroit rock duo The White Stripes with her former husband Jack White to whom she was married from 1996 to 2000. The pair were divorced before the White Stripes broke through to international fame. She married guitarist Jackson Smith son of musicians Patti Smith and Fred Sonic Smith in 2009. They are now divorced.
Kelly Marie.  Kelly Marie (born Jacqueline McKinnon 16 October 1957 Paisley Renfrewshire) is a Scottish disco singer. Her most notable hit was Feels Like I'm in Love a #1 hit in the UK in 1980.
Winifred Harris.  Winifred Harris (1880–1972) was a British actress with a substantial career in America. She appeared in New York plays beginning in 1914 and acted in numerous plays up to 1934. She left Broadway plays for films though she had begun her film career in the silent era.
Lou Briel.  Lou Briel (born in Santurce Puerto Rico on October 19 1962) is a Puerto Rican singer composer comedian producer pianist and host among other things.
Eve Graham.  Eve Graham (born Evelyn May Beatson on 19 April 1943) is a Scottish singer who found fame in the early 1970s with the pop group The New Seekers.
Justin Jeffre.  Justin Paul Jeffre (born on February 25 1973) is an American pop singer and politician. A long-time resident and vocal supporter of Cincinnati Jeffre is probably best known as a member of the multi-platinum selling boy band 98 Degrees.Before shooting to super stardom Jeffre was a student at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati. It was there that he first became friends with Nick Lachey. The two would later team up with Drew Lachey and Jeff Timmons to form 98 Degrees.
Laurent Binet.  Laurent Binet (born July 19 1972) is a French writer.The son of a historian Laurent Binet was born in Paris. He graduated from the University of Paris with a degree in Literature. He teaches French in a Parisian suburb and also at the University of Saint-Denis. Binet was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his first novel HHhH.
Denys Graham.  Denys Graham was a Welsh actor who appeared in the later series of Rumpole of the Bailey as his many daughtered colleague Percy Hoskins. He also played a range of other roles on stage and screen.He was educated at New College Oxford and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Cornelis Pietersz Bega.  Cornelis Pietersz Bega or Cornelis Pietersz Begijn (1631/1632 – 27 August 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.Bega was born lived and worked in Haarlem and was the son of sculptor and goldsmith Pieter Jansz. Begijn. His mother Maria was the illegitimate daughter of the Haarlem painter Cornelis van Haarlem. He assumed the name Bega when he started working professionally.
Dick Heckstall-Smith.  Dick Heckstall-Smith (16 September 1934 – 17 December 2004) was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most influential English blues rock and jazz fusion bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
Maurice Rocco.  Maurice Rocco born Maurice Rockhold (1915 – March 24 1976) was an African-American pianist singer actor and composer known for playing boogie-woogie piano and his disdain for using a piano bench. He was a top nightclub and theater draw in the 1940s and made several film appearances. He toured the United States Canada and Europe before becoming a fixture in Bangkok Thailand where he was murdered.
Eddie Campbell.  Eddie Campbell (born 10 August 1955) is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell (written by Alan Moore) Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants and Bacchus (aka Deadface) a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.
Giovanni Battista Zelotti.  Giovanni Battista Zelotti (1526 – 28 August 1578) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance active in Venice and her mainland territories. He appears to have been born in Verona then part of the Venetian mainland and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio as well as perhaps Titian. Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati.
Ilyas Malayev.  Ilyas Malayev (January 12 1936 – May 2 2008) (Russian: Ильяс Малаев Uzbek: Илёс Маллаев ) was an Uzbekistani musician and poet.Malayev was born in Mary (then in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic now in Turkmenistan) to Efraim and Yelizaveta Malayev a Bukharian Jewish family and raised in the Uzbek town of Katta-Kurgan near Bukhara. He learned to play the tar and the tanbur (both lute-like instruments) as well as the violin and immersed himself in the shashmaqam genre.
Cedric Myton.  Cedric Myton born 1947 in Old Harbor Jamaica is a Reggae musician and Rastafarian. Myton played with Prince Lincoln Thompson in The Tartans in the early 1970s until they apparently fell out. Myton claims to have been one of the backing harmony vocals on Prince Lincoln's Humanity album recorded in 1975 but he is not acknowledged as being so. He then joined up with Ashanti Roy as The Congos.
Titti Sjöblom.  Titti Sjöblom born 29 August 1949 in Stockholm is a Swedish female singer. She is the daughter of Alice Babs.She participated at Melodifestivalen 1974 with the song Fröken Ur-sång ending up at the fourth place. Her first dinner shows and folk park tours occurred Charlie Norman and Lennie Norman during the mid-1970s.
Paul Arditti.  Paul Arditti is a British sound designer working mainly in the UK and the US. He specialises in designing sound systems and sound scores for theatre. He has won awards for his work on both musicals and plays including a Tony Award an Olivier Award a Drama Desk Award and a BroadwayWorld.com Fans' Choice Award for Billy Elliot the Musical.
Sid Wilson.  Sidney George Wilson (born March 15 1978) also known as Ratboy or DJ Starscream #0 (or 0) is an American disc jockey known as the turntablist of the Grammy Award winning band Slipknot. At age 37 he is the youngest member of the band.
Michaela Dornonville de la Cour.  Maria Susanna Michaela Dornonville de la Cour also known simply as Michaela De la Cour or De la Cour is best known as a singer in the Swedish pop music group Army of Lovers.
Chitra Fernando.  Chitra Fernando (1935–1998) was a female writer and critic from Sri Lanka.Born in Kalutara a town in southern Sri Lanka Chitra Fernando was educated at Visakha Vidyalaya a Buddhist school for girls in Bandarawela at Balika Maha Vidyalaya Kalutara and at the University of Ceylon Peradeniya which she entered with an Exhibition in History. There her teachers included Professor E. F. C. Ludowyk Dr H. A. Passe Mr Doric de Souza and Mr Robin Mayhead.
Wayne Federman.  Wayne Federman (born June 22 1959) is an American comedian actor author comedy writer and musician. He is noted for his numerous comedy appearances in clubs theaters and on television; his biography of Pistol Pete Maravich; and his supporting comedic acting roles in The X-Files The Larry Sanders Show Curb Your Enthusiasm Legally Blonde 50 First Dates The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Step Brothers.
Marcello Musto.  Marcello Musto (1976) is a Visiting Professor of Political Theory at York University.
John Galt (novelist).  John Galt (2 May 1779 – 11 April 1839) was a Scottish novelist entrepreneur and political and social commentator. Because he was the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution he has been called the first political novelist in the English language. He was the father of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt of Montreal.
Ron Kersey.  Tyrone Garfield Ron (Have Mercy) Kersey (April 7 1949 – January 25 2005) was an American keyboardist songwriter producer and arranger most known for writing the music to Disco Inferno by The Trammps.Kersey was born in Philadelphia PA and served in the US Air Force. He was a member of the disco band The Trammps and received a Grammy Award for the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever which included Disco Inferno. He was also a member of MFSB and The Salsoul Orchestra.
Jacob Kasher.  Jacob Kasher Hindlin professionally known as Jacob Kasher is an American rapper musician and songwriter.He is co-signed between Dr.
Dave Hunt (musician).  Dave Hunt is a British heavy metal vocalist. He was born in Solihull West Midlands England. He currently is the vocalist of both Benediction and grindcore/black metal band Anaal Nathrakh (using the name V.I.T.R.I.O.L.). He was also singer for Mistress under the pseudonym Dave Cunt up until their split in March 2008.Notably Dave Hunt's lyrics for his main band Anaal Nathrakh are never released or published in album liner notes.
Jason Molina.  Jason Andrew Molina (December 30 1973 – March 16 2013) was an American musician and singer-songwriter originally from Lorain Ohio. He came to prominence performing and recording as Songs: Ohia both in solo projects and with a rotating cast of musicians. Since 2003 he had recorded either under his own name or with a stable line-up of band members as the Magnolia Electric Co.
William Davis (artist).  William Davis (1812–1873) was an Irish artist and part of a group of Liverpool based artists who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style of painting. He was born in Dublin received his artistic education there and begun his career as a portrait painter. He moved to Liverpool in 1842 and began to exhibit in the Liverpool Academy. In 1851 he started to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Originally painting still lives in 1853 he began producing landscapes.
Noize MC.  Noize MC (real name Ivan Aleksandrovich Alekseev Russian: Иван Александрович Алексеев) is a Russian singer and actor.
Jamie Suzanne.  Jamie Suzanne (pseudonym) wrote every book in the Sweet Valley Kids series and the Sweet Valley Twins and Friends series. Jamie Suzanne is the pen name used by multiple ghost-writers of the Sweet Valley Kids and Sweet Valley Twins book series. The pseudonym is a combination of the names of Francine Pascal’s daughters.It is claimed that she was born in Iowa in 1955 to a small farming family and that she has two sisters and one brother.
Supot Anawatkochakorn.  Supot Anawatkochakorn (Thai: สุพจน์ อนวัชกชกร born May 11 1972) or Supot A is a Thai comics artist most known for his fantasy comics Apaimanee Saga published by NED Comics's Boom from 2001 to 2006. In 2007 he began his current ongoing series the next part of Apaimanee Saga called The Pirates Dawn serialized in NED Comics's Boom.
Kazys Morkūnas.  Kazys Morkūnas (c. 1925-2014) was a Lithuanian stained glass artist. He is considered a master of the form.He was a student of Stasys Ušinskas and along with fellow pupil Algimantas Stoskus they began creating new methods that incorporated thick panels of glass which have been adopted by other artists.His 1960 work Morning incorporated a special mirror glass and was the first stained glass work to incorporate a nude from folklore.
Woodie Blackman.  Francis Woodbine Blackman (21 September 1922 – 6 July 2010) was a Caribbean author former secretary of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus a member of the Dalkeith Methodist Church and a retired consultant of the Canadian Training Aid Programme.
Lloyd deMause.  Lloyd deMause pronounced de-Moss (born September 19 1931 in Detroit Michigan) is an American social thinker known for his work in the field of psychohistory. He did graduate work in political science at Columbia University and later trained as a lay psychoanalyst which is defined as a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree. He is the founder of The Journal of Psychohistory.
Lidell Townsell.  Lidell Townsell is a former house-music artist from Chicago Illinois. He originally released numerous singles on the Trax and D.J. International labels. He released one album Harmony on Mercury/PolyGram Records as Lidell Townsell in 1992. Two singles from the album were hits in the US Get with U and Nu Nu; the latter featured the duo M.T.F. whose members were singer Martell and emcee Silk E (no relation to Sylk-E. Fyne).
Pressha.  Pressha is an American R&B singer.His first single the 1995 single Put Ya Thang Down; then as a member of the Southsyde B.O.I.Z. he released Get Ready Here It Comes (Choo Choo). His only album was a 1998 effort released on LaFace Records which spawned the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 top forty hit Splackavellie.
Aaron Gwyn.  Aaron Gwyn is an American short story author novelist and English professor.He received a B.A. from East Central University and an M.A. from Oklahoma State University. His Ph.D. in English was awarded by the University of Denver.
Vicious (rapper).  Quame Riley better known as Vicious or Li'l Vicious is a Jamaican-American rapper and reggae artist. He is perhaps best known for his single Nika which peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles. Discovered by Donavon Thomas and Doug E. Fresh at a talent show at the age of 14 Freaks a Dancehall tune beat-boxed entirely by Doug E. and vocalized mainly by his protégé a Brooklyn-born Jamaican teenage newcomer named Vicious.
Ermocrate Bucchi.  Ermocrate Bucchi (1842 – 1885) was an Italian painter mainly of still lifes with flowers.
Gail Gaymer Martin.  Gail Gaymer Martin is a Christian speaker and an American novelist living in a Detroit Michigan suburb.
Jessa Anderson.  Jessica Nicole Jessa Anderson (born September 4 1985 née Fausch) is an American Christian singer-songwriter. In 2011 Anderson released the album entitled Not Myself Anymore her first full length studio album that was with the record label BEC Recordings. In 2014 Anderson released her independent label release Whole.
Jack Smith (artist).  Jack Smith (18 June 1928 – 11 June 2011) was a British realist and later abstract artist.
Xavier Herbert.  Xavier Herbert (15 May 1901 – 10 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975). He is considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known for short story collections and his autobiography Disturbing Element.Herbert was born Alfred Jackson in Geraldton Western Australia in 1901 the illegitimate son of Amy Victoria Scammell and Benjamin Francis Herbert a Welsh-born engine driver.
Beltoon.  Momin Khan Beltoon is an Afghan singer from Kabul Province Afghanistan. Beltoon was born in Chakari village of Khaki Jabbar District Kabul. However he spent most of his life in Logar Province of Afghanistan.Beltoon mostly sings in Persian and Pashto languages. His style of music reflects the Kharabat style of Kabul.
Andrew Wyatt.  Andrew Wyatt is an American musician and producer. Born and raised in Manhattan he has played in New York bands such as The A.M. and Black Beetle. He is currently the vocalist in the Swedish electronic pop band Miike Snow. Wyatt has worked extensively with other artists writing and/or producing songs with Carl Barat Bruno Mars Mark Ronson Dragons of Zynth Coco Sumner and others.
Gary Brooker.  Gary Brooker MBE (born 29 May 1945) is an English singer songwriter pianist and founder and lead singer of the rock band Procol Harum. Brooker was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 14 June 2003 in recognition of his charitable services.
Emma Anderson.  Emma Anderson (born Wimbledon London 10 June 1967) is an English musician. She is best known for being a songwriter guitarist and singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band Lush. As a keen music fan she used to write a fanzine called Alphabet Soup with school friend Miki Berenyi whom she met at Queen's College London in 1982 when she was fourteen years old. Her first band which she joined in 1986 was The Rover Girls (which featured Chris P.
Rose O'Neill.  Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25 1874 – April 6 1944) was an American illustrator artist and writer who created the popular comic characters Kewpies. After the growing popularity of O'Neill's Kewpie cartoons upon their publication in 1909 the characters were made into bisque dolls in 1912 by a German toy company and later in composition material and celluloid.
Sherryl Woods.  Sherryl Woods (born July 23 1944 in Arlington Virginia United States) is an American writer of over 110 romance and mystery novels since 1982. She also signed her novels as Alexandra Kirk and Suzanne Sherrill.
Jia Hongsheng.  Jia Hongsheng (simplified Chinese: 贾宏声; traditional Chinese: 賈宏聲; pinyin: Jiǎ Hóngshēng; 19 March 1967 – 5 July 2010) was a Chinese actor who became known in the late 1980s and early 1990s for roles in movies like The Case of the Silver Snake (1988) Good Morning Beijing (1991) A Woman from North Shaanxi (1993) and Weekend Lover (1995).
Toya Nash.  Toya Nash is an American actress recording artist and entertainment host. She has appeared in films television theater and made her debut on the music scene with the release of her first soul EP called Him.... Toya also founded her own acting and voice coaching company called Coach Your Craft.
George Pettit.  George Pettit (born on October 2 1982 in Grimsby Ontario) is a Canadian musician best known as the former lead vocalist of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.
Jerry Mercer.  Gerald Jerry Mercer (born April 27 1939 in Newfoundland) is a Canadian rock drummer best known for his work with the groups Mashmakhan and April Wine.
Steele (rapper).  Steele (birth name Darrell A. Yates Jr.) is an American rapper famous as half of the underground rap duo Smif-N-Wessun and as a member of Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik. Steele and Smif-N-Wessun partner Tek made their debut on Black Moon's classic 1993 album Enta Da Stage on the tracks Black Smif-N-Wessun and U Da Man. The duo was signed to Buckshot's Duck Down management and released their debut single Bucktown in 1994 followed by their debut album Dah Shinin' in early 1995.
Sumiko Hidaka.  Sumiko Hidaka (日高澄子 Hidaka Sumiko 5 March 1923 – 1 August 2002) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in over 30 films between 1948 and 1985.
Brandee Younger.  Brandee Younger (born July 1 on Long Island) is an American harpist.
Johnny Nicholas.  Johnny Nicholas (born 1948) is an American blues musician. He is most noted for being a member of the Grammy Award winning group Asleep at the Wheel.
Manuel Azadigian.  Manuel Azadigian (October 15 1901 – September 17 1924) was an American painter and sculptor.
Norman Lindsay.  Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist sculptor writer editorial cartoonist scale modeler and an accomplished amateur boxer. He was born in Creswick Victoria. Lindsay was the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843–1915) and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848–1932) daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams Wesleyen missionary. from Creswick.
Uno Svenningsson.  Uno Svenningsson born 1 July 1959 in Hagelstorp Sweden is a Swedish pop singer and guitarist who has been active in music since the late 1970s.He was the singer in the pop group Freda' in the early 1980s and early 1990s and the group had hit songs like Vindarna and Det gör mig så lycklig.Since 1994 Svenningsson has been a solo artist.
Purandara Dasa.  Purandara Dāsa (Kannada: ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ) (1484–1564) (also spelt Purandaradasa) is one of the most prominent composers of Carnatic music and is widely regarded as the Grandfather of Carnatic Music. Purandara Dasa addressed social issues in addition to worship in his compositions a practice emulated by his younger contemporary Kanakadasa. Purandara Dasa's Carnatic music compositions are mostly in Kannada; some are in Sanskrit.
Jonna Doolittle Hoppes.  Jonna Doolittle Hoppes (born Jonna Doolittle; 1950) is an American author whose works include oral histories and biographies. The granddaughter of aviation pioneer and United States Air Force General Jimmy Doolittle she is an enthusiastic speaker and represents the Doolittle family at events throughout the world.Hoppes' works celebrate the veterans and civilians who defended their countries and document their stories that would otherwise be lost.
Chinoy (musician).  Mauricio Castillo Moya (born 1982) known as Chinoy is a Chilean singer-songwriter. He has released two solo albums. Chinoy's androgynous voice tortured lyrics and stormy guitar technique have been compared to Bob Dylan by the Chilean media and his style has been described as trova Indie Folk and folk punk.
Ana Stanić.  Ana Stanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Станић born December 8 1975 in Niš SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer songwriter composer and film producer.
Dasun Madushan.  Dasun Madushan( born 02 January 1996) is a Sri Lankan singer. He finished in first place on the fifth season of Sirasa Superstar an idol program in Sri Lanka on the lines of American Idol. He is the youngest ten millionaire of Sri Lankan reality history which he received when he won the Superstar season 5 - The Next Voice on grand final at Sirasa Stein Studios on 15 June 2013.He is a student of Prince of Wales' College Moratuwa.
John Rivas.  John Rivas (born August 9 1964) is an award winning and well known Graphic Designer & Publicist and also the creator of BONZZO The Comic Strip. He has over 30 years of professional experience on the Graphic Arts & Advertising fields with a BA in Graphic Arts - Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico and various instructor certifications and accreditations in Graphic Design Digital Photography and Operating Systems.
Lorraine Davidson.  Lorraine Davidson is a British journalist. She has worked as an STV political correspondent as a BBC political correspondent and for the Labour Party in Scotland. She also worked at the Daily Mirror and is currently working for the Scottish edition of The Times.Davidson also wrote a biography of former Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell.Former partner of Tom McCabe MSP and wife of David Martin MEP.
Andrea Camassei.  Andrea Camassei (November 1602–1649) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver who was mainly active in Rome under the patronage of the Barberini.
Mo Ostin.  Mo Ostin (born March 27 1927) is an American record executive who has worked for several companies including Verve Reprise Records Warner Bros. Records and DreamWorks. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 by Paul Simon Neil Young and Lorne Michaels.
Gülben Ergen.  Gülben Ergen (pronounced [ˈɟylben ˈeɾɡen]; born August 25 1972) also known as Gülben Ergen Erdoğan is a Turkish singer and occasional actress. She was born in Kadıköy Istanbul Turkey and has acted in films and on television. Her most famous role is probably that of Melek in Dadı the Turkish version of The Nanny. She was named Miss Cinema 1987 and later she started her singing career.
Matt Fox (musician).  Matt Fox (born Matthew Ian Fox April 28 1973 Smithtown New York) is an American musician founding member and a current lead guitarist for the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud and his side project Zombie Apocalypse.Fox writes the most of the Shai Hulud's musical and lyrical output. He has also played guitar in many other rock bands like Planet X The Murrychesstoes The One Eyed Kings Unwillful Demise S.F.B and Bingo Mut.
John Warner (comics).  John Warner (born December 3 1952) is an American comic book writer and editor known for his stories of horror and the supernatural.Warner's most prolific period in the comic book field was from 1973–1979. During that time he wrote many issues of Gold Key Comics' Dark Shadows as well as assorted fill-ins for Marvel Comics DC Comics and Warren Publishing.
Jeanette Winterson.  Jeanette Winterson OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British writer broadcaster and activist.
Vyvienne Long.  Vyvienne Long is a musician from Co. Dublin Ireland. A classically trained cellist from the College of Music Dublin and the Escola de Musica in Barcelona she also sings and plays piano and writes music for her quintet which comprises 2 cellos piano doublebass and drums.After touring for many years with Damien Rice she released an EP entitled Birdtalk in 2006.
Guy Dynevor Thornton.  Guy Dynevor Thornton (1872–1934) was a notable New Zealand evangelist army chaplain and writer. He was born in Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire England in 1872.
Gaetano Alemani.  Gaetano Alemani (or Alamanni; 1728- December 14 1782) was an Italian painter active mainly in Bologna in the architectural and ornamental painting (quadratura) for the decoration of churches and theatres.
Bill Bauer (poet).  William Alfred (Bill) Bauer (May 10 1932 - June 12 2010) was an American-Canadian writer. Born in Portland Maine and raised in Auburn he moved to New Brunswick in 1965 to accept a professorship at the University of New Brunswick.Bauer was educated at Amherst College Wesleyan University and the University of North Carolina. He married writer Nancy Bauer in 1956.
Lev Bogomolets.  Lev Konstantinovich Bogomolets (Russian: Лев Константинович Богомолец; January 11 1911 Biysk Russian Empire — July 10 2009 Saint Petersburg Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad Union of Artists) who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his landscape paintings.
Konrad Hagius.  Konrad Hagius also Conrad von Hagen (Rinteln c. 1550-1616) was a German composer.He studied in Königsberg then by 1586 was in Düsseldorf in the service of John William Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Then at the Heidelberg court.
Luis Chaves.  Luis Chaves (born in 1969) is a Costa Rican poet considered one of the leading figures in contemporary Costa Rican poetry.
Danny!.  Danny Swain better known by his mononymous stage name Danny! (/ˈdæniˈ/ dan-EE) is an American recording artist and record producer from Columbia South Carolina.Danny! is a former student of the Savannah College of Art & Design; he often wears an oxford shirt and pinstriped necktie and has gained notoriety for prank-calling celebrities.
Kinoshita Rigen.  Kinoshita Rigen (木下 利玄 1 January 1886 - 15 February 1925) was the pen-name of Japanese author Viscount Kinoshita Toshiharu noted for his tanka poetry active in Meiji period and Taishō period Japan.
Gero von Wilpert.  Professor Dr. Gero von Wilpert (13 March 1933 – 24 December 2009) was a German author and professor for German Literature at the University of Sydney. Wilpert was born in Tartu (Dorpat) Estonia. Like all Baltic Germans he was forced to leave Estonia after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the takeover of the country by the Soviet Union (1939–40). From 1953 to 1957 he studied at the University of Heidelberg where he was at times a docent.
Karen Ranney.  Karen Ranney is an American author of historical romance novels.
Lisa S..  Lisa S. (born as Lisa Selesner on May 26 1975) is an American model actress and Channel V veejay and an international model based in Hong Kong.She was born in Monaco to Gary a Jewish/Catholic American father who is currently the president of Caesars Palace and to Peggy a Jewish American mother but grew up in New York where she was talent-scouted to be a model at age 14.S grew up in the United States. She began modeling at age 14.
Alison MacCallum.  Alison MacCallum (born 7 April 1951) also written Alison McCallum is an Australian rock singer from the late 1960s and 1970s. Her two studio albums are Fresh Water (March 1972) and Excuse Me (October 1975). In March 1972 she issued her most successful charting single Superman which peaked at No. 12 on Go-Set's National Top 40. In August that year MacCallum provided lead vocals for the Labor Party's campaign theme song It's Time for the 1972 election.
Duncan Macpherson.  Duncan Ian Macpherson CM (September 20 1924 in Toronto – May 3 1993 in Beaverton Ontario) was a Canadian editorial cartoonist. He drew for the Montreal Standard (starting 1948) and for Maclean's he illustrated the writings of Gregory Clark and Robert Thomas Allen. He is most famous for his work with the Toronto Star; from 1958 until 1993.
Ronald Grimshaw.  Ronald Grimshaw (1905 – 1982) was an artist. He was born in Oswaldtwistle Lancashire and trained at the Royal College of Art studying stained glass. He also worked with pottery. He taught at Bolton College of Art and Lancaster School of Art where he stayed until retirement. Many of Grimshaw's talented students went to the Royal College of Art.
Friedrich Hagedorn.  Friedrich Hagedorn (1814–1889) was a German painter who was active in Brazil. After twenty years of residence in the country he then returned to Germany his homeland. His production was relatively plentiful and always attentive to the discovery of new landscapes. He was born and died in Germany.
Sven Berlin.  Sven Berlin (14 September 1911 – 14 December 1999) was a British painter fiction writer and sculptor. He is now best known for his controversial fictionalised autobiography The Dark Monarch which was withdrawn just weeks after publication in 1962 following legal action and has now been republished becoming the theme of an exhibition in the Tate St Ives in autumn 2009.
Eleni Mandell.  Eleni Mandell (born in Los Angeles California) is an American singer-songwriter. Since 2000 she has published albums through Zedtone Records in Toronto Ontario which in 2012 began licensing her releases to Yep Roc in the United States and Make My Day in Europe. She is also a member of folk supergroup The Living Sisters with Inara George and Becky Stark.Mandell attended punk and underground rock shows while growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
John L. Parker Jr..  John L. Parker Jr. (born 1947) is an American writer and the author of the cult classic novel Once A Runner and the more recently published Again to Carthage. Both books feature the struggles of Quenton Cassidy a middle-distance runner.Cassidy a passionate obsessive runner is first introduced in Once A Runner published in 1978. Thirty years later Parker follows the career of Cassidy in a second book Again to Carthage published in late 2007.
Aba Bayefsky.  Aba Bayefsky CM (April 7 1923 – May 5 2001) was a Canadian artist and teacher.He was born in Toronto the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother he studied at the Central Technical School. During his teens he attended classes at the Children’s Art Centre of the Art Gallery of Ontario where he was encouraged by such artists as Arthur Lismer Erma Sutcliffe Dorothy Medhurst and A. Y. Jackson.
Stephen Peter Llewellyn.  Stephen Peter Llewellyn (18 July 1913–14 November 1960) was a New Zealand soldier historian journalist and novelist. He was born in Hereford Herefordshire England on 18 July 1913.
Asa Martin.  Asa F. Martin (June 25 1900 – August 15 1979) was an American old time musician singer and guitarist who made many recordings during the 1920s and '30s and was closely associated with renowned fiddle player Doc Roberts for whom he played rhythm guitar. In turn Roberts frequently played mandolin on Martin's recordings; Roberts' son James also sang duets with Martin under the name Doc Roberts Trio.
Edmond Kiraz.  Edmond Kiraz (born Kirazian August 25 1923) is a French cartoonist and illustrator.
Amery Smith.  Amery AWOL Smith (born August 3 1964) is a drummer from Los Angeles California. He is best known for playing drums in the Venice punk band Suicidal Tendencies.
Barbara Bray.  Barbara Bray (née Jacobs; 24 November 1924 in Paddington London - 25 February 2010) was an English translator and critic.An identical twin (her sister Olive Classe is also a translator) she was educated at Girton College Cambridge where she read English with papers in French and Italian. Bray became a script editor in 1953 for the BBC Third Programme commissioning and translating European twentieth-century avant-garde writing for the network.
Hans Magnus Ryan.  Hans Magnus Ryan alias Snah (born December 31 1969 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian rock musician (guitar & vocals) known as front figure of the band Motorpsycho.
George Saunders.  George Saunders (born December 2 1958) is an American writer of short stories essays novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker Harper's McSweeney's and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column American Psyche to the weekend magazine of The Guardian until October 2008.A professor at Syracuse University Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994 1996 2000 and 2004 and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997.
Sebastian (Danish musician).  Knud Torben Christensen better known by his stage name Sebastian was born as on December 19 1949. He is a Danish singer guitarist and composer. Starting as a musician in the late 1960s he is still active and very popular. So far his career has spanned four decades.Having worked in the folk genre he has become one of the most prominent pop/rock musicians in Denmark and has scored numerous films and plays. Since the 1990s he has primarily worked with Danish musicals with great success.
U.P. Wilson.  U.P. Wilson (September 4 1934 – September 22 2004) was an African American electric blues guitarist and singer who performed Texas blues. He recorded five albums for JSP Records the first being Boogie Boy! The Texas Guitar Tornado Returns! and was known for playing a style of deep Southern soul blues that was gospel inflected.
John D. Harvey.  John D. Harvey (born June 3 1968 in Boston Massachusetts) is a horror novelist screenwriter and freelance writer. He holds a bachelors degrees in both creative writing and journalism. He currently lives in Rhode Island.
Katsuhiko Takahashi.  Katsuhiko Takahashi (高橋 克彦 Takahashi Katsuhiko born 6 August 1947) is a Japanese writer of mystery horror science fiction and historical fiction. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan.
Gwen Stefani.  Gwen Renée Stefani (/stəˈfɑːni/; born October 3 1969) is an American singer-songwriter fashion designer and actress. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band No Doubt. During the band's hiatus Stefani recorded Love. Angel. Music. Baby. her first solo studio album in 2004. Inspired by music of the 1980s the album was a success with sales of over seven million copies. The album's third single Hollaback Girl was the first US digital download to sell one million copies.
Sonny Lester.  Sonny Lester (born November 15 1924) is a Grammy-award winning music producer from New York City. He started his career as a musician in a big band jazz ensemble before being drafted into the U.S. Army. During the war he earned a Purple Heart and worked under Henry Kissinger who was an intelligence officer at time. Lester's recordings have been distributed over a number of labels including Blue Note Records United Artists Capitol Records Denon and CBS Records.
Chandradhar Barua.  Chandradhar Barua (Assamese: চন্দ্ৰধৰ বৰুৱা) (15 October 1874 – 26 October 1961) was an eminent writer poet dramatist & lyricist from Assam of Jonaki Era the age of romanticism of Assamese literature. Barua was born at Dergaon Golaghat Assam in 15 October 1878. He was second president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1918 held at Goalpara.
Wu Ziniu.  Wu Ziniu (born November 3 1953) is a Chinese film director and a member of the Fifth Generation film movement a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Unlike his better-known contemporaries Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige who made their names with historical dramas Wu Ziniu is best known for his early war films.
Julie Roberts.  Julie Roberts (born February 1 1979) is an American country music singer. Signed to Mercury Nashville in 2003 Roberts made her debut with the single Break Down Here in February 2004 a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and the first track from her self-titled debut album. A second album for Mercury Men & Mascara followed in 2006.
Laila Dalseth.  Laila Dalseth (born 6 November 1940 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer known for numerous recordings and international cooperation and regarded as one of the leading Norwegian Jazz singers.
Mirela.  Mirela Cabero (born July 31 1990 born in Aranjuez Spain) is a Spanish singer. Mirela has participated in various musical contests since she was a child.
Beatriz Luengo.  Beatriz Luengo is a Spanish singer songwriter actress dancer and entrepreneur. She gained international recognition by portraying Lola Fernández in the Antena 3 series One Step Forward (Spanish: Un paso adelante) and its spin–off musical group UPA Dance.
Keiji Inai.  Keiji Inai (井内 啓二 Inai Keiji born March 17 1976) is a Japanese composer arranger and orchestrator best known for his work for video games and anime. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine.
Meriva M. Carpenter.  Meriva M. Carpenter born April 28 1802 in Ellington Connecticut was a noted nineteenth century painter of landscapes and miniature portraits.
Max Miller (jazz musician).  Max Miller (Born Edward Maxwell Miller November 17 1911 – November 13 1985) was an American jazz pianist and vibraphone player.Oral historian Studs Terkel called him The Angry Man of Jazz saying that he demanded rather than coaxed certain sounds from his instruments. Record producer John H. Hammond referring to his vibes playing called him an Astonishing artist second only to Lionel Hampton in proficiency.
Alfredo Da Silva.  Alfredo Da Silva (born February 20 1935) is a painter graphic artist and photographer known for his abstract expressionism. He came to international prominence in 1959.
Herb Pomeroy.  Irving Herbert Herb Pomeroy III (April 15 1930 Gloucester Massachusetts – August 11 2007) was an influential swing and bebop jazz trumpeter and educator. He played with musicians such as Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton as well as his own jazz bands for over half a century.
René de Girardin.  René Louis de Girardin (February 25 1735 – 1808) Marquis of Vauvray was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's last pupil. He created the first French landscape garden at Ermenonville. It was inspired by Rousseau's ideas. De Girardin was the author of De la composition des paysages (1777) which strongly influenced the style of the modern French landscape garden. Girardin was descended from the old Florentine Gherardini family.
Sinibaldo de Mas.  Sinibaldo de Mas i Sans (1809 Barcelona – 1868 Madrid) was a known Spanish government diplomat to Asia during the 19th century. An adventurer and a poet he introduced photography in the Philippines in 1841. He was also a Spanish ambassador to Macau. He was also a supporter of Iberian Federalism having proposed a combined flag.
Natsuyo Ishinoda.  Natsuyo Ishinoda (石野田奈津代 Ishinoda Natsuyo born April 28 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Kōzu-shima in the Izu Islands in Tokyo. She released her debut album Himawari in 1999. Her 2009 single Haru Sora is her most successful single reaching number 39 on Oricon's singles charts.
Dušan Čater.  Dušan Čater (born 1968) is a Slovene writer editor and translator. He has published six novels two of which have also been translated and published in Croatian.Čater was born in Celje in 1968. He studied journalism and sociology at the University of Ljubljana and works as a freelance writer and translator.
Spkilla.  Edwin Almonte better known by his stage name SPK and SPKilla is a Dominican-American record producer and DJ. As a youngster SPK’s exposure to various forms of music ignited the spark that he would eventually kindle into a creative flame. Hip hop pioneers Run DMC LL Cool J N.W.A EPMD Eric B & Rakim Big Daddy Kane Kool G Rap and Beastie Boys were in constant play in his home along with The Police and Metallica.
Meredith Averill.  Meredith Averill is an American television writer and producer. Born in Pottsville Pennsylvania Averill graduated from New York University with a degree in screenwriting. After writing for Life on Mars and Happy Town Averill joined the crew of The Good Wife as a writer and producer. Averill is the creator and executive producer of The CW science fiction teen drama Star-Crossed.
Charlie Chaplin (singer).  Richard Patrick Bennett OD better known by the stage name Charlie Chaplin is a Jamaican dancehall and ragga deejay and singer. It was common for Jamaican deejays of the era to name themselves after film stars or characters. Bennett however had been nicknamed after the comedian since his youth. His career began in 1980 when he began working with U-Roy's Stur-Gav Hi-Fi collective.
Nicki French.  Nicola Nicki S. French (born 26 September 1964 Carlisle Cumberland England) is an English singer and dancer. She is best known for her 1995 dance cover version of Total Eclipse of the Heart and for representing the United Kingdom in 2000 at Eurovision in Stockholm.
Patrick O'Hearn.  Patrick O'Hearn (born September 6 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist musician composer and recording artist. While his musical repertoire spans a diverse range of music he is an acclaimed new-age artist in his solo career. To date in his career he has released 13 solo albums.
Miguel Chevalier.  Miguel Chevalier (born 1959) is a French digital artist known internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual art.
Dor Daniel.  Dor Daniel (in Hebrew דור דניאל ) born in Hod HaSharon Israel on August 29 1982 is an Israeli singer songwriter and composer.
Guram Dochanashvili.  Guram Dochanashvili (Georgian: გურამ დოჩანაშვილი) (born March 26 1939) is a Georgian prose writer a historian by profession who has been popular for his short stories since the 1970s.
John G. McDowell.  John Guy McDowell (February 25 1794 Chemung then in Tioga County New York – January 1 1866 Chemung now in Chemung County New York) was an American politician from New York.
Charles Codman.  Charles Codman (1800 − September 11 1842) was a noted American painter. Codman who lived his entire life in Portland Maine was known for his landscape and marine paintings.
Julia Ettie Crane.  Julia Ettie Crane (May 19 1855–1923) also known as Julia Etta Crane was an American music educator and the first person to set up a school the Crane School of Music specifically for the training of public school music teachers. She is among the most important figures in the history of American music education.Crane was inducted into the Music Educators Hall of Fame in 1986.
Michael J. McCann.  Michael J. McCann is a Canadian author of crime fiction and supernatural fiction. His Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series is set in the fictional city of Glendale Maryland while his supernatural fiction is set in eastern Ontario. He is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada.
Billy Bob Buttons.  Billy Bob Buttons (born 25 September 1970) the pen name of Edward Hugh Trayer is a British-born children and young adult novelist. He is the author of nine books to date: Felicity Brady and the Wizard's Bookshop (Galibrath's Will Articulus Quest Incantus Gothmog Glumweedy's Devil and Crowl's Creepers) The Gullfoss LegendsTor Assassin Hunter Tor Wolf Rising and I Think I Murdered Miss.
Oscar Byström (actor).  This article is about the actor. For the Swedish composer see Oscar Byström (composer).Oscar Byström (31 December 1857 – 4 June 1938) was a Swedish actor. His career in film started with a small role in Gösta Berlings saga (1924). He was married to actress Constance Ericsson-Behrens.
Ray Coulthard.  Raymond Coulthard (born 1968 in Chester Cheshire England) is an English actor best known for his roles as Alasdair Sinclair in the popular ITV soap opera Emmerdale and restaurant manager James Schofield in Hotel Babylon.
Nathaniel Rich (novelist).  Nathaniel Rich (born March 5 1980) is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of the 2013 novel Odds Against Tomorrow the 2008 novel The Mayor's Tongue and the 2005 nonfiction book San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present. Rich has written essays and criticism for The New York Review of Books Vanity Fair The New York Times Magazine Harper's Magazine Rolling Stone and Slate.Rich is an alumnus of Yale University where he studied literature.
Laney Stewart.  Laney Stewart (born January 10 1966) is an American songwriter music producer musician music publisher music executive manager and youth mentor.He was born Philip Lane Stewart II in the South Side suburbs of Chicago Illinois. Laney has penned produced and published hits for some of the biggest names in R&B hip hop and pop music over the past three decades.
William Buelow Gould.  William Buelow Gould (1801 – 11 December 1853) was an English and Van Diemonian (Tasmanian) painter. He was transported to Australia as a convict in 1827 after which he would become one of the most important early artists in the colony despite never really separating himself from his life of crime. Gould's life in Van Diemen's Land was the subject of the award winning historical fiction novel Gould's Book of Fish centring around Gould's production of the Sketchbook of fishes.
Ethel Romig Fuller.  Ethel Romig Fuller (February 26 1883 – December 13 1965) was Oregon's third Poet Laureate (1957–1965) and the state's first female Poet Laureate. She was also editor of The Oregonian's poetry section from the early 1930s to the late 1950s.
Paul Young.  Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands 'Kat Kool & The Kool Cats' Streetband and Q-Tips his following solo success turned him into a 1980s teen idol. He is famous for such hit singles as Love of the Common People Wherever I Lay My Hat Come Back and Stay Everytime You Go Away and Oh Girl. His debut album No Parlez turned him into a household name.
Francisco Canaro.  Francisco Canaro (November 26 1888 – December 14 1964) was an Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader.His parents Italians emigrated to Uruguay and later - when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old they emigrated to Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo Uruguay in 1888. As a young man and found work in a factory where an empty oil can would in his skilled hands become his first violin.
Van Morrison.  Van Morrison OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.
Vlas Doroshevich.  Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich (Russian: Влас Миха́йлович Дороше́вич) born April 17 1864 – died February 22 1922 was one of Russia's most popular and widely read journalists and a novelist essayist drama critic and short story writer.
Patrick Swift.  Patrick Swift (1927–1983) was an Irish painter who worked in Dublin London and Algarve in southern Portugal where he is buried in the town of Porches.
Jasmine You.  Jasmine You (March 8 1979[citation needed] – August 9 2009) was a Japanese musician best known as original bassist of the symphonic metal band Versailles. In 1998 Jasmine You (then going by Yuu) entered the visual kei music scene after joining Jakura who managed to become somewhat successful before disbanding in 2003. In 2006 he was invited by his long-time friend Hizaki to join his solo project.
Michael Harwood (musician).  Michael Stewart Harwood (born December 12 1975) is a producer composer and the former guitarist for the band Ultra.
Sándor Brodszky.  Sándor Brodszky (Tóalmás 1819 - Budapest 1901) was a Hungarian painter whose works are featured in the Hungarian National Gallery.
Eli-Eri Moura.  Eli-Eri Moura (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛli ˈɛɾi ˈmowɾɐ] born March 30 1963 in Campina Grande Paraíba) is a Brazilian composer conductor and music theorist.
Nissa Quanstrom.  Nissa Quanstrom (born 1974) is an American photo stylistHer work has appeared in New York Times Magazine Interview Magazine Esquire Magazine and City Magazine.
Tinashé.  Tinashé (born 4 April 1984) is a Zimbabwe-born British singer-songwriter known for his synth-pop sound and his African influences.
Myra Taylor (jazz singer).  Myra Taylor (February 24 1917 – December 9 2011) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. She began performing as a teenager and continued performing into her nineties.
Cynthia Elbaum.  Cynthia Elbaum (March 19 1966 – December 22 1994) was an American photojournalist killed in Chechnya.Cynthia Elbaum who grew up in Ashfield Massachusetts graduated from Smith College with a major in Russian studies.
Tamotsu Nishiwaki.  Tamotsu Nishiwaki (西脇保 Nishiwaki Tamotsu) is a Japanese voice actor.
Grasshopper (musician).  Grasshopper (born Sean Thomas Mackowiak May 25 1967) is an American musician with the band Mercury Rev. He has also appeared with Rev side-project Harmony Rockets his own band Grasshopper and the Golden Crickets and as a guest musician on numerous other recordings.
April Lee.  April Lee is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games Collectible card games and PC games.
Cherry Vanilla.  Cherry Vanilla (born Kathleen Dorritie on October 16 1943) is an American singer-songwriter publicist and actress. After working as an actress in Andy Warhol's Pork she worked as a publicist for David Bowie before becoming a rock singer. She subsequently became a publicist for Vangelis.
Eric J. Miller.  Eric J. Miller (born June 9 1951 in Fort Erie Ontario) is Bahen–Tanenbaum Professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto. His main research areas include microsimulation modelling methods analysis of transportation - land use interactions development and applications of disaggregate travel choice models transportation energy/emissions modelling analysis of transit demand and operations.
Joseph Spence (musician).  Joseph Spence (August 3 1910 - March 18 1984) was a Bahamian guitarist and singer. He is well known for his vocalizations and humming while performing on guitar. Several American musicians including Taj Mahal The Grateful Dead Ry Cooder Catfish Keith Woody Mann and Olu Dara in addition to the British guitarist John Renbourn were influenced by and have recorded variations of his arrangements of gospel and Bahamian songs.
Alcione Sortica.  Alcione Sortica Cachoeira do Sul State of (Rio Grande do Sul) December 17 1935 is a Brazilian novelist. The author is official member and consul of Poets of World and also academic of Castro Alves Academy for Arts Sciences and Literature.
Parivesh - Tilak Bam Malla.  Tilak Bam Malla (Nepali: तिलक बम मल्ल) (born in 1975 December 7 Baglung) better known by his stage name Parivesh (Nepali: परिवेश) is a Nepali folk pop singer. He rose to fame with the release of his album Parivesh Vol.
Tor Atle Andersen.  Tor Atle Andersen is the drummer for the Norwegian progressive metal/power metal band Communic.
Gertrude Friedberg.  Gertrude Tonkonogy Friedberg (died September 17 1989 aged 81) was an American playwright and author.Friedberg's first appearance in paperback was in 1959 in the book Short Story 2 which featured stories from her and other authors including Michael Rumaker.
Cataldo Amodei.  Cataldo Amodei (c. 1650 – c. 1695) was an Italian Baroque musician. He was born in Sciacca and in 1685 was ordained as a priest; in the same year he became maestro di cappella at the church of San Paolo Maggiore Naples. His compositions are religious in function and include oratorios motets and cantatas.
Paul Peterson.  Paul Peterson also known as St. Paul Peterson is a musician best known for his memberships in the bands The Family and The Time and the single Intimacy. Born in Minneapolis Minnesota Peterson was the youngest son in a musical family. He was discovered by Prince in 1983 and groomed to replace Monte Moir as keyboardist of R&B band The Time.
Michael Atkinson (musician).  'Michael Atkinson' is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs and also contributed to the soundtrack of the film A Street to Die. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and popular police drama Blue Heelers.
Freydoon Rassouli.  Rassouli (born November 18 1943 in Isfahan Iran) is an Iranian-Born American abstract surrealist painter. He was raised in a home decorated with murals and intricate floral designs. Inspired and encouraged by an uncle who was a Sufi mystic he began painting and learning the poetry of Hafiz and Rumi from early age.
Annie Holland.  Annabel Annie Holland (born August 26 1965) was the bass guitarist for the Britpop band Elastica.The quietest and perhaps most enigmatic of the group Holland had an Elastica song named in her honour. Annie was written by Donna Matthews and her friend Jane Oliver and is about going down to Brighton to visit Holland which is where she spent most of the time when the band were not working.Holland left the band after the Féile Festival on 6 August 1995.
Earl Gaines.  Earl Gaines (August 19 1935 – December 31 2009) was an American soul blues and electric blues singer. Born in Decatur Alabama he sang lead vocals on the hit single It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day) credited to Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers before undertaking a low-key solo career. In the latter capacity he had minor success with The Best of Luck to You (1966) and Hymn Number 5 (1973). Noted as the best R&B singer from Nashville Gaines was also known for his lengthy career.
Rainer Ptacek.  Rainer Ptacek (a.k.a. Rainer) (June 7 1951 – November 12 1997) was a Tucson Arizona based guitarist and singer-songwriter. His guitar technique which incorporated slide finger-picking tape loops and electronic manipulation earned him admiration of some notable musicians such as Robert Plant and Billy Gibbons.
Alex Luna.  Alex Luna (born Alexander Tyshchenko March 2 1986) is a Ukrainian countertenor singer.
Bruce Winn.  Bruce M. Winn (born 1959) is an American ceramic artist.Winn grew up in Connecticut. At the age of six he saw a pottery demonstration and knew that was what he wanted to do. He received his BFA at the Artisanry Boston University in 1983 studying with Richard Hirsh and Christopher Gustin. In 1988 Winn received his MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art studying with Graham Marks.
Avishai Cohen (trumpeter).  Avishai Cohen Is a New York City-based jazz musician originally from Tel Aviv Israel.
Olivera Katarina.  Olivera Katarina (Serbian: Оливера Катарина; née Petrović (Петровић); born 5 March 1940) also previously known as Olivera Vučo (Оливера Вучо) and Olivera Šakić (Оливера Шакић) is a Serbian actress singer and writer.
Aone Beats.  William Alfred better known as Aone is a record producer from New York City signed to Rick Ross' label Maybach Music Group. He became active in the music industry in 2008 and is best known for his work with urban music artists such as Juicy J Birdman Young Buck The Outlawz Rick Ross Wale Young Jeezy D Block Meek Mill and others. His major influences in producing come from Just Blaze Drumma Boy and Dr. Dre.
Henrik Janson.  Henrik Janson (born March 11 1961) is a Swedish music arranger guitarist record producer and songwriter. Founding a band at thirteen in 1974 Janson today works with both domestic and international artists.
Joe Duplantier.  Joseph Duplantier (born October 19 1976) is a French musician who is the guitarist and vocalist of Gojira and was the bassist for Cavalera Conspiracy.
Norbert Kristof.  Norbert Kristof (born 1980) is a Hungarian indie singer songwriter and guitarist from Miskolc Hungary. He has a unique and deep voice with a melancholic vibe.
Andy Dunlop.  Andy Dunlop (born Andrew Dunlop 16 March 1972 Lenzie East Dunbartonshire Scotland) is a Scottish musician who is the lead guitarist of Scottish indie band Travis.
Ana Fischel.  Ana Fischel is an English Children’s book author artist and jewellery designer currently residing in Spain.
Klaus Nordling.  Klaus Nordling (May 29 1910 - November 19 1986) was a Finnish American writer-artist for American comic books. He is best known for his work on the 1940s masked-crimefighter feature Lady Luck and as co-creator of the Marvel Comics superhero the Thin Man. Some of the early Nordling's pen names are Fred Nordley F. Klaus Ed Norris and Clyde North.
Eve Pollard.  Evelyn Eve Pollard Lady Lloyd OBE (born 25 December 1945 London) is an English author journalist and a former editor of several tabloid newspapers.
Donna Levin.  Donna Levin (born September 4 1954) is a San Francisco-based author editor and writing teacher. She has published the novels Extraordinary Means (Arbor House 1987) and California Street (Simon and Schuster 1990). Born in Oakland California Levin graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in theater arts and earned a J.D.
Tim O'Brien (author).  William Timothy Tim O'Brien (born October 1 1946) is an American novelist best known for his work of fiction The Things They Carried a critically acclaimed collection of semi-autobiographical inter-related short-stories inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War. In addition he is known for his work Going After Cacciato also written about wartime Vietnam.
Carol Welsman.  Carol Welsman (born September 29 1960 in Toronto) is a Canadian jazz vocalist and pianist. She is the granddaughter of conductor/composer Frank Welsman and the sister of composer John Welsman. She has been nominated 5 times for the Juno Award.
Craig W. Chenery.  Craig W. Chenery (born Sept 1974) is a British born award winning author and screenwriter with a particular interest in the zombie horror comedy and special effects genres. Chenery is also a songwriter improvisor and voice-over actor.
Chris Salvatore.  Chris Salvatore (born May 22 1985) is an American actor singer-songwriter model and gay-rights activist. He is currently sitting at #41 on AfterElton's top 50 gay celebrities.
Stefano Fabri.  Stefano Fabri (c.1670 – 1755) was an Italian composer. He succeeded Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657-1743) as maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. On his death he was succeeded by Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778).
Nicole David.  Nicole David is a soca music artist from Saint Lucia. She is referred to as St. Lucia's Queen of Soca and was a member of soca band DN5. She is now a member of the big band Spectacle as their lead vocalist.
James Gandhi.  James Gandhi (born 8 September 1993) is a British actor and writer who attends Regent's Park College Oxford
Shannon Stephens.  Shannon Stephens is an American singer-songwriter from Seattle Washington. She has released three solo albums an EP entitled How I Got Away (1999) and also has exclusive tracks featured on both Asthmatic Kitty Records Samplers. You can also find her on a bonus track of Denison Witmer's 2002 release titled Philadelphia Songs on Burnt Toast Vinyl (US). Shannon Stephens once led the Holland Michigan band Marzuki that featured Sufjan Stevens on the guitar drums and recorder.
Sarah Selecky.  Sarah Selecky is a Canadian writer whose debut short story collection This Cake Is for the Party was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in 2010.Raised in the Hanmer area of Greater Sudbury she graduated from Trent University. She attended the University of Victoria's undergraduate writing program briefly before returning to Toronto to pursue her writing career.
Lord Flea.  Lord Flea was the stage name of Norman Byfield Thomas (1931/32 or 1933/34 – 18 May 1959) a Jamaican mento musician credited with helping start the calypso craze in U.S. With his band The Calypsonians Flea toured America throughout the late 1950s and released an album on the Capitol label. The band also performed in two calypso-related films.
Krystal Harris.  Krystal Marie Harris[citation needed] (born November 7 1981 in Anderson Indiana) is a singer-songwriter/instrumentalist who primarily plays the piano. Krystal has been singing since she was just 18 months old and began playing the piano at 3 years of age. She also plays the drums and the flute. She graduated in 1999 from Anderson High School in Anderson Indiana at the age of 17.
Jeff Chiba Stearns.  Jeff Chiba Stearns is a Canadian independent animation and documentary filmmaker who works in traditional and computer-based techniques.
Dick Ket.  Dick Ket (October 10 1902 – September 15 1940) was a Dutch magic realist painter noted for his still lifes and self-portraits.
Bunk Johnson.  Willie Gary Bunk Johnson (December 27 1879 - July 7 1949) was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s.Bunk gave the year of his birth as 1879 although there is speculation that he may have actually been younger by as much as a decade.
Vincenzo Cecere.  Vincenzo Cecere (Aversa 1897 - 1955) was an Italian painter active in a Realist style.
Beverley Randell.  Beverley Randell MNZM (born 1931) is a New Zealand children's author whose work has been published by 16 publishers in several languages. Born in Wellington she studied English and History at Victoria University College before becoming a teacher. In 1955 her first story John the Mouse who Learned to Read was published and has sold around 267000 copies. Over the years she wrote hundreds of stories many aimed at children with limited reading skills but also books aimed at adults.
Mark Hill (musician).  Mark Leslie Hill (born 22 December 1972 Cwmbran Wales) is a Welsh musician songwriter and record producer. He rose to fame as one half of the Artful Dodger and co-writer and producer of Craig David's multi platinum album Born To Do It.Since he began releasing music in 1997 Hill has achieved four Ivor Novello Awards a number one album two number one singles and over 10 million records sales worldwide.
Bryan Willis Hamilton.  Bryan Hamilton (born 21 September 1983) is an American music producer composer writer singer rapperand poet. Hamilton is also a full-time monk/missionary and initiated as a disciple of Guru Prasad Swami (ISKCON). Bryan was given the spiritual name of Bhagavan Narada in late 2012.
Bonnie Holiday.  Bonnie Holiday was a former American pornographic actress who worked during the 1970s and early 1980s.Holiday worked as a stripper[citation needed] and started out making loops. She then graduated to feature films with Alex de Renzy's Lady Freaks (1973) which also featured Annette Haven whom she introduced to the porn industry and took as a lover. Holiday and Haven allegedly lived in a ménage à trois with Holiday's husband.
Jesse Belvin.  Jesse Lorenzo Belvin (December 15 1932 – February 6 1960) was an American R&B singer pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s whose success was cut short by his death in a car crash aged 27.
Zan Abeyratne.  Suzanne Zan Abeyratne or simply Zan is an Australian-raised singer born in London. Known for her beautifully soulful voice Zan came to prominence as one of the female lead vocalists of the 1980s Australian band I'm Talking which included the equally powerful vocal skills of Kate Ceberano.Along with her twin sister Sherine (a member of Big Pig) Zan supplied her power-house backing vocals to Models INXS U2 and toured the world with other bands.
Ed Lincoln.  Ed Lincoln (Eduardo Lincoln Barbosa de Sabóia; May 31 1932 – July 16 2012) was a Brazilian musician composer and arranger known for a wide variety of styles.
Chris Taylor (Christian rock musician).  Chris Taylor is an American singer-songwriter based in San Antonio Texas. He is the former lead singer of Love Coma and later a solo performer.Taylor's 2000 album Worthless Pursuit of Things on the Earth was nominated as Rock Album of the Year for the 2001 Dove Awards.
Ricardo Ainslie.  Ricardo Ainslie is a native of Mexico City Mexico. His work is highly interdisciplinary in character which explains his formal affiliations with the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies the Center for Mexican American Studies and the American Studies programs at the University of Texas at Austin where he is also a professor in the department of Educational Psychology. He holds dual US and Mexican citizenship.
Emancipator (musician).  Douglas Appling (born 1987 New York City) better known by his stage name Emancipator is an American trip hop producer based in Portland Oregon. His debut album Soon It Will Be Cold Enough was released in 2006.Appling's song Wolf Drawn was featured in the trailer for Toby Dawson - Lost and Found an upcoming documentary on the Olympic medal winning mogul skier Toby Dawson.
Courtney Love.  Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison July 9 1964) is an American singer-songwriter musician actress and artist. The daughter of psychotherapist Linda Carroll and writer and ex-Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison Love began her career as an actress in her early twenties landing roles in Alex Cox's cult films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987) and later rose to international prominence as frontwoman of alternative rock band Hole which she formed in 1989.
Uri Fink.  Uri Fink (Hebrew: אורי פינק born 18 September 1963 in Israel) is an Israeli comic book artist and writer and creator of the comics series Zbeng!. Fink is considered to be one of Israel's leading comic book artists.
Otto Singer.  Otto Singer (July 26 1833 – January 3 1894) was a German musician also active in the USA.Singer was born in Sora Saxony. He was educated in Dresden and later in Leipzig until 1865 and after a short residence in Weimar with Franz Liszt went to New York in 1869.In 1873 he went to Cincinnati as assistant musical director under Theodore Thomas of the first May Musical Festival in that year.
Joe Louis Walker.  Joe Louis Walker also known as JLW (born December 25 1949) is an American musician best known as an electric blues guitarist singer songwriter and producer. His knowledge of blues history is revealed by his use of older material and playing styles.
Tim Aymar.  Tim Aymar is an American heavy metal singer/songwriter who resides in Florida. He is best known for singing with Philadelphia based progressive metal band Pharaoh as well as his work with Chuck Schuldiner in Control Denied.
Pauline Kamusewu.  Pauline Kamusewu also known as just Pauline (born 3 November 1982 in Harare Zimbabwe) is a Swedish soul singer/song-writer of Zimbabwean and Italian descent. In 2003 she won the Rockbjörnen award for Best Swedish Newcomer. She competed in the second heat of Melodifestivalen 2010 in Sandviken with the song Sucker For Love but was knocked out in the duels by Crucified Barbara.
Kurumi Inui.  Kurumi Inui (乾 くるみ Inui Kurumi born 1963) is a novelist and mystery writer from Shizuoka Prefecture Japan. He is a graduate of Shizuoka University where he studied science and math. In 1998 his debut work J no shinwa won the 4th Mephisto Award. Because of his feminine-sounding name he is often mistakenly thought to be a woman.[citation needed] His work is distinguished by its slightly warped style.[citation needed] His most important work is Initiation Love.[citation needed]
Matt Pryor (musician).  Matt Pryor is an American musician who lives in Lawrence Kansas.
Steve Hardin.  Steve Hardin is an American songwriter keyboardist and harmonica and clavinet player. He is probably best known as the writer of top-ten country hits I Love My Truck (#10 Glen Campbell) and Breakin' Down (#10 Waylon Jennings) although his diverse career has included performing tours with Point Blank Glen Campbell and Steppenwolf; a seven-year gig in a south Florida Reggae band; and a solo CD with backup vocals by Gretchen Wilson.
Charles Hamilton (rapper).  Charles Eddie-Lee Hamilton Jr. (born November 10 1987) simply known as Charles Hamilton is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer from Harlem New York City New York. His popularity began to flourish after being featured on the cover of the Freshmen 09' XXL.
Donald N. Levine.  Donald Nathan Levine (born 1931) is an American sociologist educator social theorist and writer. He is a central figure in Ethiopian Studies.
Michael Albert.  Michael Albert (born April 8 1947) is an American activist economist speaker and writer. During the 1960s he was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He is co-editor of ZNet and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist and favors participatory planning as an alternative.
Diane Ray.  Diane Ray (1 September 1942 Gastonia North Carolina) is an American pop and rock and roll singer of the early 1960s. She is best known for her 1963 hit single Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard. Without any further chart presence Ray remains a one-hit wonder.
Leigh Harline.  Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26 1907 – December 10 1969) was an Academy Award-winning film composer and songwriter. He was known for his musical sophistication that was uniquely Harline-esque by weaving rich tapestries of mood-setting underscores and penning memorable melodies for animated shorts and features.
Maximilian Schmidt.  Maximilian Schmidt (25 February 1832 Eschlkam – 8 December 1919 Munich) was a German novelist and humorist.
Teresa Giménez Barbat.  María Teresa Giménez Barbat (born in 1955 in Barcelona Spain) is a Spanish anthropologist writer and politician. She is advocates secular humanism rationalist universalism and scepticism. She writes in two languages Spanish and Catalan. She is member of Spanish political party Union Progress and Democracy (UPyD) and has participated in non-nationalist movements before in Catalonia.
Ken Roberts (author).  Ken Roberts (born 1946) is a Canadian librarian and children's writer who lives in Brantford Ontario.
Jin Tielin.  Jin Tielin (simplified Chinese: 金铁霖; traditional Chinese: 金鐵霖; pinyin: Jīn Tiĕlín; born June 21 1940) is a Chinese musician and artist. His disciples include Peng Liyuan Li Guyi Dong Wenhua Tang Can Song Zuying Zhang Ye Li Danyang Yan Weiwen Liu Bin Lv Jihong Dai Yuqiang Zhang Yan Zu Hai Wang Lida Chen Lili Chang Sisi Zhu Zhiwen Leon Lai and Li Jiaxin.
Clarence Carter.  Clarence George Carter (born January 14 1936) is an American blues and soul singer musician songwriter and record producer. His most successful records included Slip Away Back Door Santa (both 1968) Patches (1970) and Strokin' (1985).
Boh Runga.  Boh Runga 1969/1970 (age 43–44) is a New Zealand recording artist and was the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar. Boh is the older sister of Bic Runga and Pearl Runga who are also musicians.
Anna Huntington Stanley.  Anna Huntington Stanley (April 20 1864 - 1907) was an American Impressionist artist. She was born on April 20 1864 in Yellow Springs Ohio to Anna Maria Wright and General David Sloan Stanley US Army. She died in 1907.Her works are found in numerous institutional collections including The Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Frankie Ballard.  Frank Robert Frankie Ballard IV (born December 16 1982) is an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has released one album each for Reprise Records and Warner Bros. Records and has charted three singles on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Gopala Mishra.  Gopala Mishra (B. 1400's) was sixteenth century Vaishnava poet and scholar from Kamrup. Gopala Mishra was disciple and colleague of Damodara Deva.
Marie-Elizabeth Cléry.  Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (or Mme Duverge-Cléry) née Du Verger or Du Verge (b. 1761 d. after 1795) was a French harpist and composer. She was probably born in Paris and became a harpist in the court of Marie-Antoinette. After her marriage to Jean-Baptiste Cant-Hanet dit Cléry she published three sonatas for harp accompanied by violin Trois Sonates pour La Harpe ou Piano-forte avec Accompagnement de Violon (1785).
William Carrick.  William Carrick (Russian: Вильям Андреевич Каррик) (31 December 1827 – 11 November 1878) was a Scottish-Russian artist and photographer. The son of a timber merchant Andrew Carrick (died 1860) and Jessie née Lauder he was born in Edinburgh on 23 December 1827. Only a few weeks old the Carrick family took William with them to the port of Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland.
Sofia Tarasova.  Sofia Tarasova (Ukrainian: Софія Тарасова; born 31 March 2001) is a Ukrainian child singer and actress. Tarasova represented her country at the 2013 Junior Eurovision Song Contest coming 2nd with 121 points.
Walker Calhoun.  Walker Calhoun (born May 13 1918; died March 28 2012) was a Cherokee musician dancer and teacher.Calhoun was the youngest of 12 children born to Sally Ann Calhoun and Morgan Calhoun. His father died when Calhoun was nine.At the age of 12 Calhoun attended a boarding school in Cherokee North Carolina where he learned the English language. During World War II he was drafted and served as a combat engineer in Germany.
Jake E. Lee.  Jakey Lou Williams (born February 15 1957 in Fairmont West Virginia USA) commonly known as Jake E. Lee is an American guitarist best known for playing in Ozzy Osbourne band during the mid-1980s and later in Badlands with Ray Gillen. He is currently the member for his own band Red Dragon Cartel. Their first album was released on February 2014 which entered at #69 on USA's Billboard Album Charts.
R. P. Patnaik.  Ravindra Prasad Patnaik is a South Indian music composer with about 60 films to his credits in three south Indian languages (Telugu Tamil and Kannada).Patnaik had entered the film industry with a desire to become a film director and began first as a music director. It was after cinematographer-turned-director Teja gave him a break that Patnaik made his directorial debut with the 2008 film Andamaina Manasulo. As of March 2013 he was finishing his fourth Telugu language film Thulasidhalam.
Eamon McLoughlin.  Eamon McLoughlin is a British musician who plays fiddle viola mandolin and cello and was a founding member of the American bluegrass band The Greencards. He currently lives and works in Nashville Tennessee as a freelance session musician and performing live with MCA Recording Artist Josh Turner. He has appeared as a session musician for acts including Kim Richey Robert Earl Keen Caroline Herring and Jimmie Dale Gilmore Matthew Perryman Jones Matthew Ryan and others.
Kaveh Nabatian.  Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and musician.
Pete Parkkonen (singer).  Pete Eemeli Parkkonen (born in Pihtipudas on 8 February 1990) is a Finnish singer singing in both Finnish and English. He took part in the Finnish Idol competition in its fourth season finishing third. After Idol he launched a solo career releasing albums The First Album in 2009 that topped the Finnish Albums Chart followed by I'm an Accident in 2010.
David Bradley (novelist).  David Henry Bradley Jr. (born 1950 in Bedford Pennsylvania) is the author of South Street and the The Chaneysville Incident which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982.
David H. Greene.  David Herbert Greene (November 4 1913 – July 9 2008) was an author and professor at Harvard University Boston University The College of New Rochelle the U.S. Naval Academy and New York University where he was chairman of the English Department. He was the official biographer of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge and worked on the original version of the game show Password as a 'word authority'.He was born in Cambridge Massachusetts to Herbert Greene and Annie Roche.
Rod Keenan.  Rod Keenan an American milliner was born in Great Bend Kansas on July 3 1968. He is the creator of a handcrafted men's headwear collection that is marketed under his label Rod Keenan New York.
Hajj Nematollah.  Hajj Nematollah (Persian: حاجی نعمت‌الله‎ 1871 – February 28 1919) was an influential mystic and religious leader of the Persianate Qajar Empire. He was born in Jeyhounabad Iran and is considered one of the greatest leaders and mystics in Kurdish and Ahl-e Haqq history. Two of his most famous works of poetry and history are Furqān al-Akhbar (aka The Firkan) and Ḥaqq al-Ḥaqāyiq yā Shāhnāmah-ʾi Ḥaqīqat.
Jacques Thébault.  Jacques Thébault is a French comedian and voice actor. He has dubbed for or been the voice artist for Robert Conrad Steve McQueen Patrick McGoohan Bill Cosby Roy Scheider Lucky Luke (before Antoine de Caunes) Jeremy Brett from Sherlock Holmes for Granada One of the voice overs in Amélie.
Emanuel Bachrach-Barée.  Emanuel Bachrach-Barée (11 April 1863 - 20 April 1943) was a German painter.
Carl G. von Iwonski.  Carl G. von Iwonski (1830–1912) was a painter born in Germany who became a naturalized American citizen. He was artistically active in San Antonio and New Braunfels and best known for his portraits of Texas pioneers.
Jim Sheppard.  Jim Sheppard (born May 8 1961) is an American musician.He is the bassist and founding member of the progressive metal band Nevermore and its predecessor Sanctuary.He and singer Warrel Dane are certified chefs and formerly owned a restaurant in Seattle.
Hiroki Suzuki (1985).  Hiroki Suzuki (鈴木 拡樹 Suzuki Hiroki June 4 1985 –) is a Japanese actor and singer from Osaka Prefecture represented by Junes Acting & Modeling. His debut acting roles were as Reira in the live action adaptation of the Fuuma no Kojirou manga and Shun Kisaragi in the live action adaptation of the Here is Greenwood manga.
Alice E. Gillington.  Alice Elizabeth Gillington (1863 – 22 May 1934) was a British author poet and journalist. She published works under the names Alice E. Gillington Betty Gillington and The Romany Rawny. Gillington published early works of poetry with her sister May Byron before moving into a caravan and living with local Gypsy folk. She joined the Gypsy Lore Society and went on to publish books about Gypsies collections of their folklore folk songs and singing games.
Jessa Zaragoza.  Richelle Ann Loyola (born January 31 1978) better known by her stage name Jessa Zaragoza is a Filipino singer and actress.
Randall Atcheson.  Randall Atcheson is an American concert pianist.
Sam McPheeters.  Sam McPheeters (born 1969 Lorain Ohio) is an American artist journalist novelist and performer. Raised in Albany New York he became a published author at age 12 with Travelers' Tales a collection of regional folklore. In 1985 McPheeters grew active with the hardcore punk scene producing several fanzines and organizing local concerts. After moving to New York City in 1987 he co-founded Born Against in 1989 and the Vermiform Records label in 1990.
Bianca Shomburg.  Bianca Shomburg (born 17 September 1974 Hiddenhausen North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer best known for her participation in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest. In 1996 Shomburg took part in the international TV talent contest European Soundmix Show which she won as a result obtaining a recording contract with producer Harold Faltermeyer and releasing her first single I Believe In Love.
Lorna Bennett.  Lorna Bennett (born 7 June 1952 Newton Saint Elizabeth Parish Jamaica) is a reggae singer who twice topped the Jamaican singles chart in the early 1970s and who is best remembered for her reggae version of Breakfast in Bed.
Sonny Boy Williamson II.  Alex Miller (possibly December 5 1912 – May 25 1965) known professionally as Sonny Boy Williamson was an American blues harmonica player singer and songwriter from Mississippi. He is acknowledged as one of the most charismatic and influential blues musicians with considerable prowess on the harmonica and highly creative songwriting skills. He recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s and had a direct influence on later blues and rock performers.
Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr.  Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr (born 1936) is a Norwegian physician and writer. She made her literary début in 1987 with the text collection Palimpsest for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. She published the poetry collection Kjærlighetsfuge in 1991.
Francesco Caccianemici.  Francesco Caccianemici (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Bologna and trained under Primaticcio whom he accompanied to work for the Court of King Francis I of France at Fontainebleau. He also worked there with Il Rosso.
Leconte de Lisle.  Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (French: [ʃaʁl maʁi ʁəne ləkɔ̃t də lil]; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is mainly known as a writer by his family name Leconte de Lisle.
Jobst Harrich.  Jobst Harrich (baptized 30 September 1579 — buried 11 April 1617) was a German painter best known as a copyist of Albrecht Dürer born and dead in Nuremberg.
Janet Arnold.  Janet Arnold (October 6 1932 – November 2 1998) was a British clothing historian costume designer teacher conservator and author.She funded the Janet Arnold Award to further in-depth study of Western dress administered by the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Noura Rahal.  Noura Rahal (Arabic: نورا رحال‎) is a popular Lebanese/Syrian singer from Damascus who has also had brief acting stints.Noura Rahal was born to a Lebanese father and Syrian mother in Syria. She made her debut in 2001 with her first two singles Salemly 'A Albak (Give me your heart) and Shoflak Hall (Find a solution) which weren't successful and she couldn't shine with fame until her 2006 breakthrough single Kollo 3adi (It's the same) an Egyptian song which led her to success.
Clinton Cerejo.  Clinton Cerejo is an Indian singer. His range of work includes playback singing vocal arrangements musical arrangements background scores music programming production. His unique style and musical enthusiasm has attracted various collaborations with many leading Indian composers.
Carlos Morel.  Carlos Morel (12 February 1813 – 10 September 1894) was a prominent Argentine painter in the nineteenth century known as the first truly Argentine painter.
Bebe Cool.  Bebe Cool (born 1 September 1977) (real name Moses Ssali) is a ragga musician from Uganda. He started his career around 1997 in Nairobi Kenya but a few years later he moved back to his native country. Together with Redsan and his compatriot Chameleone Bebe Cool was one of the first artists affiliated with Ogopa DJs a production house and record label in Kenya.Two of his popular singles are Fitina and Mambo Mingi.
Wang Xiaoshuai.  Wang Xiaoshuai (simplified Chinese: 王小帅; traditional Chinese: 王小帥; pinyin: Wáng Xiăoshuài; born May 22 1966 in Shanghai) is a Chinese film director screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China.Many of Wang's works are known for their sensitive portrayal of teens and youths most notable in films such as Beijing Bicycle So Close to Paradise Drifters and Shanghai Dreams.
Alan Banks (musician).  Alan Banks is an internationally renowned Australian guitarist.
Christopher Rule.  Christopher Rule (23 November 1894 – April 1983) was an American comic book artist active from the 1940s through at least 1960 and best known as the first regular Marvel Comics inker for comics artist Jack Kirby during the period fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Fred LeBlanc.  Fred LeBlanc is the lead singer/drummer for the New Orleans-based rock band Cowboy Mouth and a freelance songwriter record producer short story author and acoustic performer. Known for his maniacal performance style and described as a short muscular guy with a heavy brow and piercingly intelligent eyes LeBlanc has been called one of the more instantly recognizable figures in contemporary Louisiana music.
Karl Shapiro.  Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10 1913 – May 14 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
Pamela Wynne.  Pamela Wynne is the pseudonym of Winifred Mary Scott née Watson (1879 – 29 January 1959) a British writer of over 60 romantic novels from 1923 until her death in 1959.
Lauren Evans.  Lauren Evans is an American singer-songwriter responsible for penning hits by Alexandra Burke and Jordin Sparks.
M. T. Kelly.  Milton Terrence Kelly (born 30 November 1946) is a Canadian novelist poet and playwright.Born in Toronto Ontario Kelly attended Parkdale Collgeiate Institute York University and the University of Toronto. His first novel I Do Remember The Fall (1977) was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. This book was followed by two novels from Black Moss Press followed: The More Loving One and The Ruined Season'.
Allan Clarke (singer).  Harold Allan Clarke (5 April 1942 Salford Lancashire England) is a retired English rock singer who was one of the founding members of The Hollies. He retired from performing in 1999.
Ronald Gow.  Ronald Gow (1 November 1897 – 27 April 1993) was an English dramatist best known for Love on the Dole (1934).Born in Heaton Moor Stockport Cheshire the son of a bank manager Gow attended Altrincham County High School. After training as a chemist he returned to his old school as a teacher.
Jane Yardley.  Jane Yardley is an English author raised in a village in 1960s Essex (where most of her novels are set). She went to university in London and gained a Ph.D. degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. Although living in London she spends much of her time travelling around the world co-ordinating medical trials for a small Japanese pharmaceutical company indeed she says that her first novel Painting Ruby Tuesday (2003) was written on aeroplanes.
Brian Teasley.  Brian Teasley is an American musician from Alabama. He is a founding member of Man or Astro-man? (Birdstuff) The Boster (Seth Gregg) & Servotron (Z4-OBX). Brian has also recorded and performed with the CauseyWay ShannonWright Japancakes Tyro Watts The Mono Men Har Mar Superstar the Vue and The Polyphonic Spree. He is also the head writer for the (now defunct?) Chunklet Magazine.In 2007 he appeared as drummer on St.
Angela Steinmüller.  Angela Steinmüller (born 15 April 1941 in Schmalkalden) is a German mathematician and science fiction author. Together with her husband Karlheinz Steinmüller she has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms.
Roger Clegg.  Roger Clegg is the President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. Prior to joining the CEO Clegg served in a variety of capacities within both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations including a position as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in both adminsistrations Assistant to the Solicitor General Associate Deputy Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy. He is a graduate of Rice University and Yale University.
Ivor Forbes Guest.  Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD (born 14 April 1920) worked professionally as a lawyer but is best known as a historian for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years (1970–93) and has been a Vice President since 1993 and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust.
Ian Mortimer (historian).  Ian James Forrester Mortimer (born 22 September 1967) is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in 2010.
Joy Whitlock.  Joy Whitlock (born August 13 1980) is a Christian musician and songwriter who has recently appeared in the Contemporary Christian market. Her songs primarily consist of a Folk/Indie blend. She has recorded and released one EP The Fake EP released in 2005 and one full-length album God and a Girl released September 16 2008 both on Ardent Records out of Memphis.
Narayana Gowda.  T. A. Narayana Gowda is the president of the pro-Kannada organization Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) based in Karnataka India.In the kannada chaluvali (Kannada movement) vacuum created after the death of A N Krishna Rao Gowda started KRV together with Janagere Venkataramaiah.
Wendy Froud.  Wendy Froud born Wendy Midener in Detroit is an American doll-artist sculptor and puppet-maker best known for her work creating Yoda for the 1980 film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and creatures for the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Her work is featured in three books for children paired with stories by fantasy author Terri Windling: A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale The Winter Child and The Faeries of Spring Cottage.
John Wulp.  John Wulp (born May 31 1928) is an American scenic designer producer director and artist.
Hanz On.  Anthony Messado (born July 24 1974) better known by the stage name Hanz On or Hannibal The Great is an American rapper and an affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan. He released his solo debut Out Of Chef's Kitchen in 2010 and has since co-founded a record label called Hanz On Music. He is closely tied to another affiliate named Carlton Fisk.
Dave Buxton.  Dave Buxton (born on April 2 1952) is an English jazz pianist and composer. He currently plays in his band the Dave Buxton Trio. Between 1986 and 1990 he performed with and wrote for Andy Sheppard.
Wendy and Richard Pini.  Wendy Pini née Fletcher (born June 4 1951 San Francisco California) and Richard Pini (born July 19 1950 New Haven Connecticut) are the husband-and-wife team responsible for creating the well-known Elfquest series of comics graphic novels and prose works. They are also known as WaRP (as in Warp Graphics).
Frank Westerman.  Frank Martin Westerman (born 13 November 1964) is a Dutch writer and a former journalist. He studied tropical agricultural engineering at Wageningen University and worked as a news correspondent for de Volkskrant in Belgrade and NRC Handelsblad in Moscow. He is currently a full-time writer of non-fiction books among which are The Republic of Grain (1999) Engineers of the Soul (2002) and Ararat (2007).
Haruka Ishida.  Haruka Ishida (石田 晴香 Ishida Haruka born December 2 1993 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese singer a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is in AKB48's Team B.
Park Gyu-ri.  Park Gyuri (born on May 21 1988 in Seoul) is a South Korean idol singer known for being the leader of girl group Kara formed by DSP Media in 2007.
Michael Kulas.  Michael Kulas is a Canadian singer songwriter and music producer who was a member of the English rock band James between 1997 and 2001.
Kendra Spotswood.  Kendra Spotswood is an American soul singer and is considered to be one of the most underrated singers of the girl group era. She is known best for her collaboration with Van McCoy her membership of The Shirelles and her song You're Gonna Make Me Love You a favorite on the UK Northern soul scene which she recorded under the name Sandi Sheldon.
Cicely Margaret Escott.  Cicely Margaret Escott (9 July 1908–15 August 1977) was a New Zealand novelist drama teacher and poet. She was born in Eltham Kent England on 9 July 1908.
Elżbieta Dmoch.  Elżbieta Dmoch (born September 29 1951) is a Polish singer and flautist a member of the band 2 Plus 1.
João Albasini.  The Albasini dam in Louis Trichardt Limpopo Province was named after João Albasini (1813–1888). Albasini was born to an Italian family but according to tradition born in Portugal on a ship leaving for Africa – hence the Portuguese form of his first name. A passionate tradesman and big game hunter Albasini came to Lourenço Marques in 1831. He revolutionised trade in the Lowveld more than a decade before the first settlers from European descent arrived there.
Mark Feldman.  Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago) is an American jazz violinist.Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980 and in Nashville Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. Feldman often works with John Zorn Sylvie Courvoisier John Abercrombie The Masada String Trio Dave Douglas Uri Caine and Billy Hart. He has played on recordings by Michael Brecker Lee Konitz Joe Lovano and Chris Potter.
Christie Repasy.  Christie Repasy (born December 19 1958) is an American floral artist from Maywood California. She is best known for her Victorian style and floral-painted furniture.
Ismail Marzuki.  Ismail Marzuki (also known as Bang Ma'ing; 11 May 1914 – 25 May 1958) was an Indonesian composer songwriter and musician who wrote between 202 and 240 songs between 1931 and 1958 including numerous popular patriotic songs. Among his best-known works are Gugur Bunga and Rayuan Pulau Kelapa. In 1968 he was honoured with the creation of the well-known Taman Ismail Marzuki (the Ismail Marzuki Park often called TIM) which is a cultural centre in Menteng in central Jakarta.
Conrad Bernier.  Conrad Bernier (b. Quebec City 9 May 1904 d. Washington DC 7 Nov 1988) was a French-Canadian organist composer and teacher.
Vijay Sardeshmukh.  Pandit Vijay Sardeshmukh (born 23 June 1952) is a noted Indian classical vocalist and disciple of Kumar Gandharva He is an honored guru for post graduation studies in Pune University. He has been a recipient of many awards.
Wang Yuqing.  Tan Chooi Leong or better known as Wang Yuqing (Chinese: 王昱青) is a Singaporean actor.
Jeff Irwin.  Jeff Irwin (a.k.a. the Yeti born September 12 1977) is an East Nashville Tennessee based multi-instrumentalist. He has performed with Griffin House Cerys Matthews (formerly of Catatonia) Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken Mat Kearney Taylor Sorensen & the Trigger Code and many others including the Counting Crows.
Wayne Toups.  Wayne Toups (born October 2 1958 in Crowley Louisiana) is one of the most commercially successful American Cajun singers. He is also a songwriter. Wayne Toups has been granted numerous awards and honors throughout his career including 2010 Festivals Acadiens et Créoles dedicated in his name Offbeat Magazine Album of the Year recipient. Member of The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame Gulf Coast Hall of Fame and Cajun French Music Hall of Fame 55th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee.
George Gladir.  George Gladir (September 27 1925 – April 3 2013) was an American writer for comic books. Primarily known as a scripter for Archie Comics he co-created that publisher's character Sabrina the Teenage Witch with artist Dan DeCarlo.
Slim Aarons.  Slim Aarons born George Allen Aarons (October 29 1916 Manhattan - May 29 2006 Montrose New York) was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites jet-setters and celebrities.
Seymour Blicker.  Seymour Blicker (born 1940) is a playwright screenwriter and novelist from Quebec.He was born in Montreal.He wrote the screenplay for the film The Kid (1997).
Edson Cordeiro.  Edson Cordeiro (born February 9 1967) is a sopranist countertenor and pop and jazz singer.
Frieda Inescort.  Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman 29 June 1901 Edinburgh – 26 February 1976 Woodland Hills Los Angeles California) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever. She played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape.
Nela Martínez.  Nela Martínez Espinosa (November 24 1912 – July 30 2004) was an Ecuadorian communist political militant activist and writer.
D Hwang.  Hwang Ildong (born 1969) known as “D Hwang” is a South Korean sculptor and painter.
Janardhan Mitta.  Pandit Janardhan Mitta is a sitar player and Hindustani classical musician. He has had a presence in the Chennai film industry over the last 40 years and is also a noted musician in concert music.
Odón Betanzos Palacios.  Odón Betanzos Palacios (born in September 16 1925 – died in September 24 2007) was a Spanish poet novelist literary critic and professor in New York-based since 1956 up his death in 2007. Odón Betanzos was also a tenured member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española which is a Director and Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy the Guatemalan Filipino Chilean Colombian and Nicaraguan Language and the Hispanic Society of America.
Pramatha Chaudhuri.  Pramathanath Chaudhuri (Bengali: প্রমথনাথ চৌধুরী) (7 August 1868 – 2 September 1946) known as Pramatha Chaudhuri alias Birbal is an exceptionally illuminating persona in modern Bengali literature. It is astounding how he kept hold of his uniqueness in all-pervasive era of Rabindranath Tagore. As the editor of Sabuj Patra (Green Leaves1914) and the mentor of the group that gathered around this journal Chaudhuri left a lasting legacy to the literature of Bengal.
Resurrector.  Resurrector (born Grant McDonald Chambers May 10 1971 in New Haven CT) is an electronic music producer best known as founder of Colorado/San Francisco Dub Hop band Heavyweight Dub Champion. He is the co-producer of both Heavyweight Dub Champion studio albums and is main creator of the band's philosophical ideology defined by the Last Champion Manifesto a booklet included with the 2002 album Survival Guide For The End of Time.
Parveen Sultana.  Begum Parveen Sultana (Assamese: বেগম পাৰৱীন চুলতানা) (born 10 July 1950) is an Assamese Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana.She was awarded the Padma Shri (1976) Padma Bhushan (2014) by the Government of India and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 1999 given by Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy of Music Dance and Drama.
David Spicer (writer).  David Spicer is a writer perhaps best known for his BBC Radio 4 comedy series: Double Income No Kids Yet (18 episodes 2001-2003) Three Off the Tee (12 episodes 2005-2006) Me and Joe (2008 an afternoon play) 28 Minutes to Save the NHS (4 episodes 2002)He has written for a number of games shows and panel shows including: Win My Wage (2007) That'll Test 'Em (2006) Nobody Likes a Smartass (2003) No Win No Fee (2001) RTFP (short-lived Radio 4 panel game 1998 co-written with Steve Gribbin) Quizland (BBC 7 a 21-part quiz series for children from 4 to 6 years old) Hot Gas (script editor)He has written for a number of comedy TV series including: Comedy Lab (1999) Give Your Mate a Break (1999) Armstrong and Miller (1997) Saturday Live (1996) Barrymore (1991)He may also be the author of the play Superheroes based on the protest group Fathers for Justice.
Tensei Kono.  Tensei Kono (河野 典生 Kōno Tensei January 27 1935 – January 29 2012) is a Japanese science fiction writer. Among other works he has written Triceratops (トリケラトプス) which has been collected in The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell.
Mickey Newbury.  Milton Sims Mickey Newbury Jr. (May 19 1940 - September 29 2002) was an American songwriter a critically acclaimed recording artist and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Ge Wang.  Ge Wang is a Chinese American musician and computer scientist known for developing the ChucK audio programming language as a graduate student advised by Perry Cook and for being co-founder and chief technology officer of Smule a company making iPhone and iPad music apps. He also helped create the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and later its Stanford counterpart as well as the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra.
Catherine Cookson.  Dame Catherine Cookson DBE (27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was an English author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist with sales topping 100 million while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in South Tyneside North East England the setting for her novels.
Ryan Winn.  Ryan Winn is an American comic book artist and inker residing in Orange County CA. He frequently contributes artwork for DC Comics.
Alan Moore (drummer).  Alan Moore (born 1947 Birmingham Warwickshire) is a former British musician who is best known as the third official drummer of the heavy metal band Judas Priest who played on their second album Sad Wings of Destiny (1976).Moore was already active in the Birmingham rock blues folk and country scene and played with numerous bands including The Young Casuals The Other Lot The Outer Light Gabriel Oak Glad Stallion Tendency Jones and Pendulum. He was first approached by guitarist K.
Duncan James (Australian singer).  For British singer and member of band Blue see Duncan JamesDuncan James is an Australian singer born in Brisbane Australia who was signed to BMG and is best known for his single The Speed of Life from the same titled album.
Adam Cvijanovic.  Adam Cvijanovic is a painter based in New York City who was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. He paints in large-scale format often using Tyvek sheeting as a substrate which allows his work to be easily installed at multiple locations. His work is concerned with exposing the historical and enduring hubris of American culture painting forms that depict the search for and physical manifestation of American power and success on a monumental scale.
Chris Stout.  Chris Stout (born 1976) is a fiddle/violin player from Shetland now based in Glasgow. Stout grew up in Fair Isle a small Shetland island and lived there until 8 years of age before moving to Sandwick on the Shetland mainland then on to Glasgow in the 1990s.Stout has studied under prominent Shetland fiddlers including Willie Hunter and Arthur Scott Robertson and is adept at a variety of violin styles drawing on a range of influences from folk jazz electronica and classical.
Will (comics).  Willy Maltaite (30 October 1927 in Anthée (now a part of Onhaye) Belgium - 18 February 2000) known by the pseudonym Will was a comics creator and comics artist in the Franco-Belgian tradition.
Kei Tanaka.  Kei Tanaka (田中圭 Tanaka Kei born 10 July 1984 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor.
Arthur Delaney.  Arthur McEvoy Delaney (born 9 December 1927 Clifford Street Chorlton upon Medlock Manchester - died 17 April 1987 (Manchester Royal Infirmary) was an English painter whose scenes of Manchester life were influenced by those of L. S. Lowry gaining some popularity since his death.He is alleged to be the illegitimate son of comedian Frank Randle (born Arthur McEvoy).
Raymond E. Feist.  Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond E. Gonzales III 1945) is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.
John Richardson (drummer).  John Louis Richardson (born May 13 1964 in Champaign Illinois) is an American drummer who has worked in rock and alt-country with such artists as 2012 CMA Song of the Year nominee Will Hoge Gin Blossoms Badfinger and Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett. He is also owner of Drum Farm Studio in Menomonie Wisconsin.
Kesarin Chaichalermpol.  Kesarin Chaichalermpol (Thai: เกศรินทร์ ชัยเฉลิมพล; RTGS: Ketsarin Chaichaloemphon) is a Thai actress who has acted under a number of stage names particularly Nong Natt (น้องแนท) and Natt Chanapa.
Mike Roberts (mixer).  Mike Roberts (born August 3 1992) is an American mixing engineer.
Razia Butt.  Razia Butt (Urdu رضیہ بٹ) was a Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. Her novels typically have strong female protagonists and have been dramatised in movies and television plays.
Joe Barrucco.  Joe Barrucco born in Montreal Quebec Canada is both a music producer and sound designer
Francis Crump.  Francis Crump (1711-1800s) was a London silversmith producing mostly hollowware. He was apprenticed to Gabriel Sleath (1674–1756) who objected to Huguenot goldsmiths working in England and on 23 November 1753 entered into a partnership with him.A marriage licence was issued on 19 May 1741 to Francis Crump of St. Foster's City of London silversmith bachelor 30 and Hester Dolling of the parish aforesaid spinster 21 ; at Compton.
Pearce Quigley.  Pearce Quigley (born in Salford Lancashire England) is an English actor of the stage and screen.
Karen Taylor-Good.  Karen Taylor-Good (born Karen Berke in El Paso Texas) is an American singer-songwriter. Taylor-Good and her then-husband Bill Taylor started the Mesa Records label in 1982. Her first single Diamond in the Rough reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart early that year. Taylor-Good was nominated for Best New Female Vocalist at the 1984 Academy of Country Music Awards.
Beppe Fenoglio.  Beppe Fenoglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbɛppe feˈnɔʎʎo]; born Giuseppe Fenoglio 1 March 1922 Alba (CN) - 18 February 1963 Turin) was an Italian writer.
Hans Ulrik.  Hans Ulrik (born 28 September 1965 in Copenhagen Denmark) is a Danish jazz saxophonist composer and has several recordings as band leader with the like of Gary Peacock Adam Nussbaum Niels Lan Doky Audun Kleive Marilyn Mazur John Scofield and Steve Swallow.
Cesare Vecellio.  Cesare Vecellio (c. 1530 – c. 1601) was an Italian engraver and painter of the Renaissance active in Venice. He was the cousin of the painter Titian. Like Titian he was born at Cadore in the Veneto. He accompanied Titian to Augsburg in 1548 and seems to have worked as his assistant. Many of Cesare's pictures were ascribed perhaps knowingly to Titian. In the Milan Pinacoteca there is a small Trinity by Cesare. He died at Venice.
Erik Wolpaw.  Erik Wolpaw is an American video game writer. Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek were the two writers behind the now-defunct Old Man Murray video game commentary web site. As of March 2013 he works for Valve Corporation in Bellevue Washington.
Roy Z.  Roy Z is a guitarist songwriter and producer best known for his work with Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) Halford and Judas Priest. He also is the founder of Tribe of Gypsies a Latin influenced hard rock band.
Juliette Benzoni.  Juliette Benzoni (born October 30 1920) is a French novelist. She is best known for her novels with historical and love themes and for her Catherine (book series) (fr) of novels which was made into a television series in 1986.
Choʻlpon.  Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli (Uzbek: Abdulhamid Sulaymon Oʻgʻli Абдулҳамид Сулаймон ўғли) (1897 - 4 October 1938) most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon (sometimes spelled Cholpán) was an Uzbek poet playwright novelist and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century and was the first person to translate William Shakespeare’s plays into the Uzbek language.The word Choʻlpon means a morning star in Uzbek.
Sevda Alakbarzadeh.  Sevda Alekperzadeh (Azerbaijani: Sevda Ələkbərzadə; born on July 4 1977 in Baku Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani female singer.Sevda's grandfather – Abulgasan Alekperzade is a national writer of Azerbaijan and author of the first Azerbaijani novel written in the Soviet period. Her father Chingiz Alekperzade was a journalist and writer.
Torgeir Vassvik.  Torgeir Vassvik (born 1962 in Gamvik) is a Norwegian Sami musician and composer. Vassvik combines yoik and overtone singing with drumming traditional instruments and nature sounds.
Virginia Berresford.  Virginia Berresford (born in 1902 in New Rochelle New York - 1995 Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts) was a painter printmaker and an art gallery owner. Her works are exhibited in major galleries.
Nicolas Saudray.  Nicolas Saudray (born 1942) is a French novelist. Born in Normandy he worked in the French civil service as an economist. He was also an administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.He is best known for his novel La maison des prophètes which won the Prix Méditerranée as well as the Prix Lange from the Académie française. It was translated into English under the title The House of the Prophets.
Terry Oldfield.  Terence Oldfield (born 12 August 1949) is an English composer and brother to music composers and performers Sally and Mike Oldfield.
Bergljot Hobæk Haff.  Bergljot Hobæk Haff (born 1 May 1925) is a Norwegian novel writer. Upon completing her education she traveled to Denmark and taught there for 24 years before returning to Oslo. She made her debut with the novel Raset in 1956. Her books are translated into languages as English French Dutch Spanish Italian Swedish and Lithuanian.
Davide Toffolo.  Davide Toffolo (January 17 1965 Pordenone Italy) is an Italian author of comics books including graphic non-fiction works and musician.
Pete Marriott.  Pete Marriott (born Peter Andres Marriott-Singh) is an American music producer and musician. Marriott was born in East Flatbush Brooklyn New York. He currently resides in Seattle Washington.
Giuseppe Cambini.  Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (Livorno 13 February? 1746–Netherlands? 1810s? or Paris? 1825?) was an Italian composer and violinist.Born in Livorno it is likely that Cambini studied violin with Filippo Manfredi; the only evidence for this is however Cambini's own unreliable account which also claims inaccurately that he worked with Luigi Boccherini and Pietro Nardini and was a friend of Joseph Haydn.
Lyall Watson.  Lyall Watson (12 April 1939 – 25 June 2008) was a South African botanist zoologist biologist anthropologist ethologist and author of many new age books among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with coining the Hundredth Monkey phenomenon (an idea that has since been discredited) in his 1979 book Lifetide.
Eckhart Tolle.  Eckhart Tolle (/ˈɛkɑrt ˈtɒlə/ EK-art TO-lə; German pronunciation: [ˈɛkaʁt ˈtɔlə] born Ulrich Leonard Tolle on February 16 1948) is a German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. In 2011 he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world.
DJ Abilities.  Gregory Maxx Keltgen (born 1979) better known by his stage name DJ Abilities is a Minnesota-based underground hip hop producer and DJ affiliated with Rhymesayers Entertainment. With his emcee partner the late Eyedea he formed the group known as Eyedea & Abilities.
Ayano Yamane.  Ayano Yamane (やまね あやの or 山根 綾乃 Yamane Ayano) is a Japanese manga artist known for specializing in yaoi manga. She debuted as a professional manga artist in 1996 and since then has published several yaoi series and illustrated many light novels. Ayano Yamane is known for her humour and detailed art. She is one of the top selling yaoi manga artist in Japan. Her most successful work is the Finder Series.
Beauford Delaney.  Beauford Delaney (December 30 1901 – March 26 1979) was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beauford's younger brother Joseph was also a noted painter.
James H. Lincoln.  James H. Lincoln (August 26 1916 – July 23 2011) was a Detroit City councilman Juvenile Justice Court judge and author residing in Harbor Beach Michigan.
Sokratis Malamas.  Sokratis Malamas (Greek: Σωκράτης Μάλαμας) (b. September 29 1957) is a Greek singer and songwriter.
Chris Braide.  Christopher Chris Braide is an English singer songwriter record producer published by BMG Chrysalis and based in Los Angeles. He is professionally represented by McDaniel Entertainment.Producer songwriter and Ivor Novello ASCAP and Billboard award winner Christopher Braide has achieved considerable success as a songwriter and producer in the UK and the US.
Patricia Finney.  Patricia Finney (born 1958) is an English author and journalist. She is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in History. She has written under the pen names P. F. Chisholm and Grace Cavendish.Her first novel A Shadow of Gulls published when she was 18 won the 1977 David Higham Award for Best First Novel of the year.In the same year BBC Radio 3 presented her play The Flood.
Bruce Stewart (scriptwriter).  Bruce Stewart (b. 1925 d.September 29 2005(2005-09-29)) was a scriptwriter best known for his scripts for television. Originally from New Zealand he lived for several years in Australia working in the theatre before moving to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. There he worked on many projects for both the BBC and ITV notably Out of the Unknown and Timeslip.
Franz Kline.  Franz Jozef Kline (May 23 1910 – May 13 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the abstract expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania and attended Girard College an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys. He attended Boston University and later taught at a number of institutions including Black Mountain College in North Carolina and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Ragini Trivedi.  Ragini Trivedi (born March 22 1960) is Indian classical musician performing on vichitra veena sitar and jal tarang. Daughter of the vichitra veena virtuoso Lalmani Misra she is an exponent of Misrabani and is the creator of digital notation system Ome Swarlipi.
James Ensor.  James Sidney Edouard Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
Dave Walker.  David Walker (born 25 January 1945 in Walsall Staffordshire England) is a singer and guitarist for a number of bands; notably Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac. He shortened his name to Dave Walker.
Patrick Tirano.  Patrick Darroles Tirano best known simply as Pat Tirano is a Filipino musician sound engineer and producer. He plays music with numerous acts in the Philippine music scene including Monkeyspank Archipelago Soaked in Scissors and TOI. As a producer his most notable works include albums by Sponge Cola Mayonnaise cover me quick/!  and Pupil's Beautiful Machines album for which he was nominated as Producer of the Year in the 2006 NU Rock Awards.
Israel Zangwill.  Israel Zangwill (January 21 1864 – August 1 1926) was a British humorist and writer.
Jody Porter.  Jody Porter is an American musician. He is the guitarist of Grammy Award-nominated power pop band Fountains of Wayne. The band has released four major label albums including Welcome Interstate Managers on Virgin Records in 2003 an RIAA-certified Gold LP. The album spawned the hugely popular U.S. Top 40 hit and number 1 music video Stacy's Mom.
Francis Upritchard.  Francis Upritchard (born 1976) is a New Zealand born artist living in London. Upritchard represented New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Mark D.  Mark D born Mark Randall is a British artist and punk musician (guitarist and songwriter). He is also associated with the Stuckist group of artists.
Josh Bray.  Josh Bray is a folk blues singer-songwriter born in Devon currently living in London. His debut album Whisky And Wool will be released on March 7 2011 on NewTide Records. His track 'The River Song' was featured recently in a TV advert for Jack Wills.
Rik Simpson.  Rik Simpson (aka Rikademus) is a British Grammy Award-winning record producer sound engineer musician and songwriter. He is most recently recognised for his production work with Coldplay on A Rush Of Blood To The Head Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and Mylo Xyloto. He has also gained critical acclaim for his work with Jay-Z Portishead Kasabian Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and PJ Harvey amongst others.
Austin Kelly.  Austin Kelly was the bandleader of the All-Ireland Irish Orchestra a traditional Irish musical group based out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The band's recordings were broadcast on the WTEL radio station in Philadelphia which helped inspire the modern Irish music scene in the city.
Cherry Potter.  Cherry Potter is a film writer cultural commentator and psychotherapist.Cherry Potter has an MA in film and television from the Royal College of Art.[citation needed]As a television writer Cherry Potter contributed to the hospital-based drama series Angels.[citation needed] She has worked as a freelance script writer for film television and the theatre.
Nathaniel James Clarkson.  NJC (born Nathaniel James Clarkson 1978 Ipswich) is a British music producer.
John Leslie Barford.  John Leslie Barford (1886–1937) was an English Uranian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Philebus. According to Timothy D'Arch Smith he was a doctor in the Merchant Navy. His works which were privately printed include Ladslove Lyrics (1918) Young Things (1921) Fantasies (1923) and Whimsies (1934).
Maria Elektrine von Freyberg.  Maria Elektrine Freifrau von Freyberg born at Strassburg in 1797 was the daughter and pupil of Johann Stuntz a painter of landscapes under whose tuition she gave proof of great ability. She visited France and Italy and stayed at Rome some time. Her paintings of historical scenes are distinguished for a tender touch and she was not less successful in portraiture and landscape painting. One of her best works is a Holy Family. The Birth of St.
Sameer Gupta.  Sameer Gupta (b. July 1 1976) is a San Francisco-based jazz percussionist tabla player and composer. He is the founder of the jazz ensemble The Supplicants and drummer for the Marc Cary Focus Trio. He has also worked with vidyA Kosmic Renaissance Grachan Moncur III Victor Goines Vincent Gardner Sekou Sundiata Sonny Simmons Marcus Shelby Calvin Keys Richard Howell Dayna Stephens and Julian Lage.The Jazz Observer called his playing kinetic bass-heavy and tender.
Nancy Varian Berberick.  Nancy Varian Berberick (born 1951) is an American fantasy author well known for her work in the Dragonlance series.
Andre Vincent.  Andre Vincent (born in Penge England) is a stand-up comedian writer and actor. A situational comic Vincent is known for his observations about health matters including his experiences with diabetes cancer and kidney surgery.
Lyn-Z.  Lindsey Ann Way (née Ballato; born May 21 1976)[citation needed] commonly known as Lyn-Z is a Scottish[citation needed] musician. She is best known for being the bassist in the American band Mindless Self Indulgence.
Daniel Kelaart.  Daniel Kelaart (born January 6 1986) is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer. Daniel is the frontman of the pop rock band Remission Theory however has also launched a career as an independent record producer where he has produced engineered mixed or written tracks for various bands such as For Our Hero The Paperkites Simple Plan Antiskeptic Declan Sykes Michael Paynter Have You Seen This Boy Hometown Dylan Joel and Delamare.
Mario Reading.  Mario Reading is a British author.Reading was born in Dorset and educated at Rugby School and at the University of East Anglia where he studied Comparative Literature under Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.His novels include The Music-Makers and the bestselling Antichrist Trilogy (which has sold more than a million copies in 38 countries) and comprises The Nostradamus Prophecies The Mayan Codex and The Third Antichrist.He is a member of Mensa and the ultra high IQ organisation The International Society For Philosophical Enquiry [ISPE].
Mr Sufian.  Soufiane Boumeftah better known by his stage name Mr Sufian (born October 25 1994) a Moroccan pop and R&B singer and songwriter from Tangier.
Timz.  Tommy Hanna known by his stage name Timz is an Iraqi-American rapper best known for his song Iraq. His debut album is entitled Open for Business.Born in San Diego California to Iraqi parents from Baghdad Iraq he has gained recognition through the political messages in his music.
Angelo Pietrasanta.  Angelo Pietrasanta (1837 –1876) was an Italian painter mainly of historical canvases.He was born in Codogno and died in Milan. He was a pupil of Francesco Hayez. He was a resident of Milan. In 1879 he sent to the Exhibition of Parma an oil canvas depicting Lucrezia Borgia che d'accordo col fratello Duca Valentino avvelena l'anfora preparata pel marito duca d'Aragona.
Peter Wildoer.  Karl Peter Wildoer is a Swedish drummer in the bands Darkane Electrocution 250 & Grimmark. He has also drummed for the bands Armageddon Majestic Pestilence Silver Seraph Arch Enemy Time Requiem Soilwork Gardens of Obscurity and Dawn of Oblivion amongst others. He has been tagged to perform sessions drums on Old Man's Child's latest album Slaves of the World. He is the drummer/harsh vocalist of the James LaBrie solo record Static Impulse.
Matt Friction.  Matthew Bell better known as Matt Friction is an American musician singer and songwriter.Friction's music career began in 1998 as lead singer and songwriter of the band Silent Friction. He later moved on to establish power pop band The Pink Spiders with Bob Ferrari and Jon Decious. During a brief hiatus in 2009 Friction formed two new bands Matt Friction & the Cheap Shots and The Dozen Dimes both releasing individual material.
Holly Hartman.  Holly Hartman is an American writer of children's literature who is best known for her book Grandpa's Secret Potion published in 1996. She currently teaches classes at Northern Oklahoma College and is the director of the Presbyterian Preschool in Stillwater Oklahoma.
Chosen Effect.  Chosen Effect also known by the name T-Effect is an American singer rapper songwriter record producer musician DJ dancer and actor. Once signed to Sony Records his professional entertainment career started at the very young age of just 8 years old.
Jia Yinghua.  Jia Yinghua (simplified Chinese: 贾英华; traditional Chinese: 賈英華; pinyin: Jiǎ Yīnghuá) was a writer researcher of the late Qing Dynasty Vice President of the Biography Society of China commissioner of National Commission of the Chinese Writers’ Association President of China’s Electrical Power Writers’ Association.
David Uosikkinen.  David Uosikkinen (born February 11 1956 in Cheltenham Pennsylvania U.S.) is an American drummer and Internet content manager best known for being a founding member of rock band The Hooters.
Rob Dougan.  Rob Dougan (/rɒb duːɡən/; born 1969) is an Australian composer known for his genre-blending music. Mixing elements of orchestral music trip hop and bluesy vocals his work is tangentially relatable to electronic music. He was known primarily for his breakthrough 1995 single Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Variation) further popularised by 1999's The Matrix soundtrack. Clubbed to Death was re-released on his debut album Furious Angels in 2002 seven years after its initial release.
Simone Saback.  Simone Saback (born 25 February 1956 in Jacobina Bahia Brazil) is a Brazilian composer singer writer poet and journalist.
Frank Sherwin (artist).  Frank Sherwin was born in Derby and studied at the Derby School of Art and then in Chelsea London at the Heatherleys School of Fine Art.He specialised in watercolours but is remembered for the railway posters which promoted travel to holiday destinations around Britain and were very much part of the railways in the days of steam. He did posters for GWR LMS LNER & British Rail.During the war he was an advisor to the War Office on the camouflage of air fields.
Jean Guidoni.  Jean Guidoni (3 May 1952 in Toulon Var) is a French singer and songwriter.
Greg Drudy.  Greg Drudy is an American musician primarily known for playing drums in several indie rock and screamo bands in the 1990s and 2000s. Drudy started his career on drums practicing with the defunct band Quid Pro Quo in a Tampa warehouse next door to fellow warehouse owners Cannibal Corpse and Brutality. Drudy was the drummer for the bands Southpaw and Saetia and was the original drummer for the band Interpol. He left Interpol in 2000 and was replaced by Sam Fogarino.
Esprit Barthet.  Esprit Barthet (1919–1999) was an artist born in Valletta Malta on 6 October 1919. Son of Camillo and Guzeppina Grixti.He started art studies in Valletta at the Government School of Arts. He went to Rome where he attended the Regia Accademia di Belle Arti and later to England at the Academy of Arts in Bath. In the early 1950s he started experimenting with cubism and the abstract.
Neville Peat.  Neville Peat (born 1947 Dunedin) is a New Zealand author and photographer based at Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula. He specialises in topics about natural history notably that of southern New Zealand and New Zealand's sub-antarctic islands.
Vic Damone.  Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12 1928) is an American singer and entertainer.
Joseph LeBoit.  Joseph Milton LeBoit (Nov. 22 1907-July 5 2002) was an American graphic artist and later psychoanalyst active in leftist politics.
Harrison Craig.  Harrison Craig (born 7 September 1994) is an Australian singer who won the second series of the The Voice. Craig who lives in Melbourne was coached in the program by British singer Seal. Craig has had three songs on the ARIA Singles Chart top 10 with his cover of Unchained Melody reaching No. 2 and his original song More Than a Dream at No. 3. His debut album titled More Than a Dream was released on 25 June 2013 and reached number 1 on the iTunes chart.
Trackademicks.  Trackademicks is an American Hip-Hop artist. He was born and raised in Alameda California and is also part of the San Francisco-Bay Area music collective the Honor Roll Crew.
Bob Schreck.  Bob Schreck (born February 2 1955) is an American comic book writer and editor known for his work for publishers including Marvel Comics Dark Horse Comics Oni Press DC Comics and Legendary Comics.
Paul Speckmann.  Paul Speckmann (born on September 28 1963) is an American bassist and singer from Chicago Illinois. He currently lives in Uherské Hradiště Czech Republic. His first band was War Cry founded in 1982. In 1983 he started the band Master as a death metal band. Due to internal problems it was put on hold and Speckmann started another band called Death Strike for which he recorded one demo. which was later released on Nuclear Blast with additional tracks as an album..
John Williamson (singer).  John Robert Williamson AM (born 1 November 1945 in Kerang Victoria) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson has released over forty albums ten videos five DVDs and two lyric books. His top 10 albums on the ARIA Charts are Mallee Boy (1986) Boomerang Cafe (1988) Warrigal (No. 1 1989) Pipe Dream (1997) The Way It Is (1999) True Blue Two (compilation 2003) and Hillbilly Road (2008).
DJ Head.  DJ Head (born Kevin Bell) is a Grammy Award Winning hip-hop producer and DJ from Detroit Michigan. He is known for producing and co-producing songs for Eminem. DJ Head was raised in Detroit. He is a graduate from Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak Michigan (class of 1989) and Michigan State University Alumni (Bachelor Degree in Telecommunications).
Harold Adamson.  Harold Adamson (December 10 1906 – August 17 1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s.
Alan Pasqua.  Alan Pasqua (born June 28 1952 in New Jersey) is a jazz pianist educator and composer. He co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music most notably as a founding member keyboardist and songwriter of the 1980s hard rock band Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music. His album Standards with drummer Peter Erskine was nominated for a Grammy award.
Oh Sangwon.  Oh Sangwon (Hangul: 오상원) was a South Korean writer and journalist.
A-Love.  A-Love is a female Australian-based MC from Melbourne. Her debut album Ace of Hearts was nominated 'Best Urban Release' in the ARIA Music Awards of 2008.
Cy Curnin.  Cy Curnin (born Cyril John Curnin 12 December 1957 Wimbledon England) is a singer/songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist for the new wave music group The Fixx. As a songwriter he has co-written over a dozen songs that have appeared on the Billboard charts. He is also known for his solo career with three albums to date Mayfly in 2005 The Returning Sun in 2007 and Solar Minimum in 2009.
Rynn Berry.  Rynn Berry (January 31 1945 - January 9 2014) was an American author of books about the history of vegetarianism and vegetarianism in world religions. He wrote a chapter on the history of the raw food movement for Becoming Raw: The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets principally written by Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina. He also co-authored with Chris Abreu-Suzuki an annual Vegan Guide to New York City the first exclusively vegetarian guidebook.
Ai Otsuka.  Ai Otsuka (大塚 愛 Ōtsuka Ai born September 9 1982) is a Japanese pop singer songwriter and actress from Suminoe-ku Osaka Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit Sakuranbo which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks.A piano player since age four Otsuka composes and co-produces her own songs as well as writes her own lyrics.
Jeremy Horn (singer).  Jeremy Horn is a contemporary Christian music artist songwriter and guitarist.
Rabindranath Tagore.  Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali pronunciation: [rəˈbindrəˈnɑt ˈtɑɡɔr] ) also written Rabīndranātha Thākura (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; pronounced: [rəˈbindrəˈnɑtə ˈtɑkʊrə]) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) sobriquet Gurudev was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its profoundly sensitive fresh and beautiful verse he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
Boyan Chowdhury.  Boyan Uddin Chowdhury (Bengali: বয়ান উদ্দিন চৌধুরী; born 19 December 1979) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist of rock band The Zutons. In July 2007 he left the band due to musical differences. He later formed a new band called The Venus Fury and has also been involved in musical theatre.
R. Carlos Nakai.  Raymond Carlos Nakai (born April 16 1946) is a Native American flautist of Navajo/Ute heritage.
Tak Matsumoto.  Takahiro Tak Matsumoto (松本 孝弘 Matsumoto Takahiro born on March 27 1961 in Toyonaka Osaka) is a Grammy Award-winning Japanese guitarist producer arranger composer singer and songwriter. In addition to guitarist and lead composer for the hard rock band B'z he has also had a successful solo career. He ranked first in a 2011 poll on who the Japanese people thought was the best guitarist to represent Japan.
Keith O'Conner Murphy.  Keith O'Conner Murphy (Keith Murphy) is an American songwriter singer and recording artist. His contributions to the Rockabilly genre of Rock and Roll music were recognized in 2002 when he was honored as an inductee into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Tan Onuma.  Tan Onuma (小沼 丹 Onuma Tan September 9 1918 - November 8 1996) was a noted Japanese author. Onuma received his degree in English literature from Waseda University in 1942 and in 1958 became a Waseda professor in the Faculty of Letters. He received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for Kaichūdokei and in 1989 was named a member of the Japan Art Academy.
Johnny Ferreira.  Joao Manuel Ferreira or more popularly known as Johnny Ferreira (born on August 11 1957) is Canadian-Portuguese saxophonist songwriter producer and horn arranger who plays in rock and roll blues and swing genres.
Martin Boddey.  Martin Boddey (16 April 1907 – 24 October 1975) was a British film and television actor.He was a founder member of the Lord's Taverners charity.Started acting well into middle age often portraying irritable authority figures such as policeofficers or magistrates.
Stanley Tong.  Stanley Tong (Chinese: 唐季禮; pinyin: Táng Jìlǐ); is a Hong Kong film director producer action choreographer screenwriter entrepreneur and philanthropist. Tong started his film career in 1979 by working behind the scenes. Since then he had worked for different film companies and TV channels. In 1990 Tong directed his first self-funding film Stone Age Warriors（魔域飞龙）.
Jamie Saft.  Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist composer sound engineer and producer living in upstate NY. Saft was born in Flushing Queens New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn Bobby Previte Merzbow and many others. He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us.
Adam Maxwell.  Adam Maxwell (born October 24 1976) is an English writer. He has a degree in English Studies and a Masters degree in Creative Writing.
Shikaripura Harihareshwara.  Shikharipura Harihareshwara (Kannada: ಶಿಕಾರಿಪುರ ಹರಿಹರೇಶ್ವರ) (1936 – July 23 2010) was a Kannada writer. He served as the chief editor of 'Amerikannada' a bimonthly magazine in Kannada. In 1999 he was among the recipients of the Rajyothsava award constituted by Government of Karnataka. He was widely known for the literary work he did residing in United States of America.
Alessandro Lionardi.  Alessandro Lionardi or Leonardi was an Italian poet from Padova active in the mid-16th century. He was a doctor of law and author of an important treatise on poetry and rhetoric the Dialogi (Italian: dialoghi or dialogues). He is the author of the texts of Alfonso Ferrabosco's five-voice madrigals Vidi pianger madonna and Come dal ciel seren rugiada sole.
Eric Monster Millikin.  Eric Millikin also known as Eric Monster Millikin is an American artist humorist and blogger; formerly a human anatomy lab embalmer and dissectionist. He is known for his pioneering work in Internet art and webcomics and for his controversial semi-autobiographical artwork with political romantic and horror themes.Millikin began posting comics and art on the internet using CompuServe in the 1980s and began publishing on the World Wide Web as early as the fall of 1995.
Helene Liebmann.  Hélène Liebmann née Riese (1796 – after 1835) was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. A child prodigy she made her debut before age 13 and published her Piano Sonata when she was 15. She married around 1814 and may have moved with her husband to Vienna and then London. She was present at a Clara Wieck (Schumann) concert in 1835.
Sayaka Kanda.  Sayaka Kanda (神田 沙也加 Kanda Sayaka born October 1 1986 in Setagaya Tokyo) is a Japanese actress and singer. She is the daughter of pop singer Seiko Matsuda and actor Masaki Kanda.
Michelle Heaton.  Michelle Christine Heaton (born 19 July 1979) is a British pop singer actress television personality personal trainer and glamour model. Heaton was a member of the pop group Liberty X from 2001 until they announced their split in 2007: they reformed one year later for a small gig.
Albert Nofi.  Albert A. Nofi (born January 6 1944) is an American military historian defense analyst and designer of board and computer wargaming systems.
Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski.  Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski (Polish pronunciation: [ɛuˈɡɛɲuʂ ˈɡɛnɔ mauˈkɔfski]; 5 September 1942) is a Polish artist and painter professor of UWM in Olsztyn founder of artistic groups and associations modern art exhibition organizer and art popularizer. He is known for his speed painting happenings and actions in which he invites people to paint together. In 2005 in Belchatow he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24-hour-long-painting performance.
Ken Blackburn (actor).  Ken Blackburn ONZM (born 1935) is a New Zealand actor and writer. He has worked in film television radio and theatre in the UK New Zealand and Australia since the 1970s.Blackburn was born in Bristol United Kingdom and completed his education in New Zealand. In an acting career dominated by New Zealand productions he is best known internationally for his roles in Xena: Warrior Princess and Farscape. In New Zealand he is remembered as the boss in popular Roger Hall sitcom Gliding On.
David R. Prentice.  David R. Prentice (born December 22 1943) is an American artist.Prentice was born in Hartford Connecticut and studied at the Art School of the University of Hartford from 1962 to 1964 after which he worked as a studio assistant to Jasper Johns Robert Motherwell Helen Frankenthaler Alexander Liberman and Malcolm Morley.Prentice is an accomplished and internationally known landscape painter.
Ivan Roudyk.  Ivan Roudyk (Russian: Иван Рудык) (born 1976 in Novosibirsk Russia Soviet Union) is a popular Russian House DJ.
Alison Gold.  Alison Gold (born May 9 2002) is an American pop singer.
Adam of Ross.  Adam of Ross was an Irish Cistercian monk who fl. 1279.An Anglo-Irish native of New Ross County Wexford Adam is believed to have been a member of the Cistercian monastery at Dunbrody County Wexford. He was the author of a translation into French of the Vision of St. Paul. He was a severe moralist encouraging the use of French in Ireland for religious purposes. Adam wrote his translations for the benefit of his brothers in religion specifically on how to avoid going to Hell.
Maurice Baquoy.  Maurice Baquoy a French engraver was born about 1680 and worked in Paris from 1710 to 1740. He engraved a set of vignettes for the 'Histoire de France' by Gabriel Daniel from the designs of Boucher. We have also by him a set of landscapes and views and a naval combat after P. D. Martin the younger — one of the four large battle-pieces after Martin engraved at Paris for the Czar Peter the Great. Baquoy died in 1747.
Miodrag B. Protić.  Miodrag B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Б. Протић) (Vrnjačka Banja 10 May 1922) is one of the most popular Serbian painters of the second half of the 20th century art critic theorist and historian of art of the 20th century in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Caroline Leakey.  Caroline Woolmer Leakey (8 March 1827 – 12 July 1881) was an English writer whose poetry and only novel (The Broad Arrow) were influenced and based on her experience living in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) for five years between 1848 and 1853.
John Noble (painter).  John ('Wichita Bill') Noble was born in 1874 to an upper-middle-class family that had emigrated from England. He was a noted post-impressionist painter of cowboys sunrises and seascapes. He wore a five-gallon hat called himself the first white child born in Wichita.He often advised prospective customers not to buy his paintings.
Xu Jinglei.  Xu Jinglei (born April 16 1974) is a Chinese actress film director and editor. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1997. Along with Zhao Wei Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi the mainland Chinese media considers her one of the Four Dan actresses (Chinese: 四大花旦).
Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Aziz.  Mohamed Mahmoud AbdelAziz (Arabic: محمد محمود عبد العزيز‎) commonly known as Mohamed AbdelAziz (Arabic: محمد عبد العزيز‎) is a producer and young Egyptian actor.
Hari Om Sharan.  Param Bhakt (Supreme Devotee) Shri Hari Om Sharan ( Hindi: हरिओम शरण ) (26 September 1932 – 17 December 2007) was a legendary Hindu devotional singer and lyricist. He devoted most of his career in singing devotional songs in praise of Bhagwan Ram and Hanuman. He was blessed with renown as a Bhajan singer in the 1970s with his albums like Premanjali Pushpanjai and Data Ek Ram.
Ralph Goings.  Ralph Goings (May 9 1928 in Corning California) is an American painter closely associated with the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands pick-up trucks and California banks portrayed in a deliberately objective manner.
Mark Wood (pornographic actor).  Mark Wood (born June 6 1968) is an American pornographic film actor and director. With his wife Francesca Le he owns the production company LeWood Productions for which they work as directors and as performers. The company was first distributed by Exquisite Multimedia and Juicy Entertainment then from 2012 it joined the Evil Angel roster.
Masami Iwasaki.  Masami Iwasaki (岩崎 征実 Iwasaki Masami born October 25 1971) is a Japanese voice actor. Most but not all of his roles are minions or ruffians.
Sammy Winward.  Samantha Kate Sammy Winward (born 12 October 1985 Bolton Greater Manchester) is an English actress singer and model. She is best known for playing Katie Addyman in the soap opera Emmerdale.
Chuckie (DJ).  Chuckie born Clyde Sergio Narain (Paramaribo Suriname on 25 June 1978) is a Dutch DJ and producer.Of Surinamese descent Chuckie travels all over the world but lives in Aruba with his wife and son.Chuckie is a producer of what has been called the dirty house scene a cultural movement centered on lively urban club events featuring dancing bright lights and interactive stage elements.
Jonathan Cainer.  Jonathan Cainer (born 18 December 1957) writes astrological predictions six days a week for the Daily Mail. He also writes forecasts for three Australian newspapers the Sydney Daily Telegraph the Melbourne Herald Sun and the Perth Sunday Times. Cainer's predictions are also published in Hello the Auckland Sunday News the Botswana Echo and Misty Magazine (Japan).
Ted Greene.  Theodore Ted Greene (September 26 1946 – July 23 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist music columnist and music educator active in Encino California.
Jadakiss.  Jason Phillips (born May 27 1975) better known as Jadakiss is an American rapper. He is a member of the group The LOX. (a member of the hip hop collective Ruff Ryders) Jadakiss is one of the three owners of the imprint known as D-Block Records. In early 2007 Jadakiss signed to Roc-a-Fella Records / Def Jam Records. Jadakiss has also released three studio albums with the most recent being The Last Kiss (2009).
Steve Knightley.  Steve Knightley (born 1954 in Southampton England) is a singer-songwriter musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.
Napoleone Sommaruga.  Napoleone Sommaruga (1848-1906) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy painting mainly sacred subjects.He was born in Milan he exhibits in 1872 in Milan a painting depicting: Choir of Gothic Chapel; Chapel of the Passion in the church of San Marco in Milan; Chapel of St Jerome in the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio in Milan; Interior of the Duomo of Milan and Sacristy of the Canons;Sacristy of the Duomo; Interior of the Church of Sant'Alessandro of Milan are two paintings exhibited in 1881 at the Brera Academy. 
David Freiberg.  David Freiberg (born August 24 1938) is an American musician. He has contributed vocals keyboards bass guitar guitar viola and percussion to Quicksilver Messenger Service Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
J-Roc (record producer).  Jerome Harmon better known as J-Roc is a pop R&B and hip hop producer from Fort Worth Texas. He frequently collaborates with Timbaland. Jerome Harmon has produced for artists such as Beyoncé Justin Timberlake Jay-Z Chris Brown Keri Hilson Ashlee Simpson Mario Nelly Furtado Jamie Foxx and Chris Cornell.
James Fleming (author).  James R. Fleming born (London) 26 February 1944 is an English author (related to spy author Ian Fleming and travel writer Peter Fleming).He has written two historical novels Thomas Gage and The Temple Of Optimism and three thrillers Cold Blood White Blood and Rising Blood that feature the Scottish/Russian character Charlie Doig.
Bernd Glemser.  Bernd Glemser (born 1962 Dürbheim) is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikhochschule.He has recorded major pieces by Rachmaninoff Prokofiev Schumann Scriabin and Tchaikovsky as well as pieces by Liszt Tausig Godowski and Busoni.In 2003 Glemser was decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.His recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was featured in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3.
Gene Clark.  Harold Eugene Gene Clark (November 17 1944 – May 24 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band The Byrds. Clark was The Byrds' dominant songwriter between 1964 and early 1966 penning most of the band's best-known originals from this period including I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better She Don't Care About Time Set You Free This Time and Eight Miles High.
Oh Takbeon.  Oh Takbeon (Hangul: 오탁번) is a South Korean writer poet and critic.
Carol Ryrie Brink.  Carol Ryrie Brink (December 28 1895 – August 15 1981) was an American author of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
Nagasamy Ramachandran.  Nagasamy Ramachandran (born 1975) is a contemporary artist born in Paramakudi Madurai Tamil Nadu Received his bachelor’s degree (distinction) and masters degree in painting and printmaking from the Government College of Fine Arts Chennai University of Madras in 1999. To enhance his technical skill he undertook a course on Care of museum objects at Chennai Museum in 2005.
Isao Kimura.  Isao Kimura (木村 功 Kimura Isao July 22 1923 – June 4 1981) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog (1949) as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable role was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai Katsushiro.He died of esophageal cancer.
Jacques Rabelais.  Jacques Rabelais (c. 1547 – c. 1622) was a minor French Renaissance writer and scholar. Known mostly for his ties to grandfather François Rabelais Jacques wrote several essays and one book that chronicled the history of other literature.
W. H. Conn.  William H. Conn (1895–1973) was an Irish cartoonist illustrator watercolourist and poster artist. The son of a lithographer he was educated at the Ulster Provincial School now Friends' School Lisburn. From 1936 he was a staff artist for the Belfast Telegraph and its sports sister paper Ireland's Saturday Night creating a regular strip The Doings of Larry O'Hooligan for the latter.
Tomotaka Okamoto.  Tomotaka Okamoto (岡本 知高 Okamoto Tomotaka born December 3 1976) is a Japanese sopranist.He graduated from Conservatoire Francis Poulenc with a first place award. He often dresses in a unique manner when he performs.Tomotaka Okamoto was born December 3 1976 in Kouchi Japan. He is a “sopranista” a male who has a female soprano vocal range voice.
Anton Chekhov.  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов pronounced [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈt͡ɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Terumi Niki.  Terumi Niki (二木 てるみ Niki Terumi born 11 May 1949) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Since a child she has been a member of the Japanese Theatrical Company Gekidan Wakakusa of which she has joined in 1953. She played the young girl Otoyo in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965).
William Matthew Scott.  William Matthew Scott (born Leeds 30 September 1893; d. Herne Bay 7 May 1964) pen name Will Scott was a British author of stories and books for adults and children published from 1920 to 1965. Towards the end of his life he was best known for The Cherrys series written for children and published between 1952 and 1965.
Thomas M. King.  Thomas Mulvihill King S.J. (born May 9 1929 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania died June 23 2009 in Washington D.C.) was a professor of theology at Georgetown University. King entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 after completing undergraduate studies in English at the University of Pittsburgh. As a Jesuit he undertook further studies at Fordham University and Woodstock College and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1964.
Darryl Jones.  Darryl Jones (born December 11 1961) also known as The Munch is an American musician. Jones began his notable career as a session bassist where he gained the experience and confidence to play with some of the most highly regarded recording artists in jazz blues and rock music. Most recently he has been best known in his role as bassist for The Rolling Stones since Bill Wyman's departure in 1993.
Blak Jak.  Jafari Eady (born 1983) better known by his stage name Blak Jak is an American rapper from Decatur Georgia. His major label debut Place Your Bets was released in October 2006.
Dominic Brown.  Dominic Dom Brown (born 14 June 1972) is a London-based guitarist and singer-songwriter who has worked with many popular musicians including Duran Duran Elton John Lionel Richie and Take That. He has also done both studio and live recordings with Justin Timberlake Liam Gallagher and the Sugababes along with many others.
Stefanie Schneider.  Stefanie Schneider (born 1968 in Cuxhaven) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider's photographic work exploits the distinctive appearance of expired Polaroid instant film. Her photographs are enlarged by hand in her Berlin laboratory. Random visual artifacts can be found in the resulting imagery a consequence of deterioration of the chemicals and film involved.
Ray Johnson.  Raymond Edward Ray Johnson (October 16 1927 – January 13 1995) known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art.
Charles Juliet.  Charles Juliet born on 30 September 1934 in Jujurieux in Ain is a French poet playwright and novelist. He won the 2013 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie. His works have been translated into German Spanish Italian English Polish Japanese Vietnamese Turkish Korean Chinese etc...
Santiago Dobles.  Santiago Dobles is a Venezuelan guitarist songwriter producer and son of Venezuelan symphonic composer Gustavo Dobles. He is best known as the founding member of tech-prog-fusion metal band Aghora (band). He has produced with Dan Escuariza and Neil Kernon. Kernon produced Formless cd. Dan did the self-titled debut cd.
Robert Forster (musician).  Robert Derwent Garth Forster (born 29 June 1957) is an Australian singer-songwriter guitarist and music critic. In December 1977 he co-founded an indie rock group The Go-Betweens with fellow musician Grant McLennan. In 1980 Lindy Morrison joined the group on drums and backing vocals and by 1981 Forster and Morrison were also lovers. In 1988 Streets of Your Town co-written by McLennan and Forster became the band's biggest chart hit in both Australia and the United Kingdom.
Lily Leung.  Lily Leung (梁舜燕) is an actress in Hong Kong. She acted for ATVas well as TVB then She is a veteran actress having acted for many years. She as an actress has publicly supported organizations that cure heart disease as her husband has had risk of heart disease.
Robert Rental.  Robert Rental was the stage name of Robert Donnachie (1952–2000) a British pioneer of the post-punk DIY industrial electronic music scene in the United Kingdom.
Ayumi Shibata.  Ayumi Shibata (柴田 あゆみ Shibata Ayumi) (born February 22 1984) is a Japanese female singer. She is a member of Melon Kinenbi an all-girl J-pop group which is part of the Hello! Project. She joined the group Tanpopo with Morning Musume members Asami Konno and Risa Niigaki in 2002 until the group went into an indefinite hiatus after releasing one single.
Julie Sokolow.  Julie Sokolow (born April 3 1987) is an American lo-fi singer-songwriter writer and independent filmmaker. She was raised in Holmdel Township New Jersey and currently resides in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. At nineteen she released a lo-fi indie album “Something About Violins” through Western Vinyl that achieved acclaim from Pitchfork Wire and The Washington Post.
Andrzej Sapkowski.  Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈandʐɛj sapˈkɔfskʲi]; born 21 June 1948 in Łódź) is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.In 2012 Sapkowski was awarded the medal Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
Wynonna Judd.  Wynonna Ellen Judd (/waɪˈnoʊnə/; born Christina Claire Ciminella; May 30 1964) is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the singular name Wynonna. Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother Naomi in the country music duo The Judds. The duo released seven albums on Curb Records in addition to charting 26 singles of which 14 were number one hits.After The Judds disbanded in 1991 Wynonna began a solo career also on Curb.
Stacy Levy.  Stacy Levy (born 1960) is a sculptor who works in sculptural media suggestive of ecological natural patterns and processes such as water flows. Her studio is based in rural Pennsylvania but she works on projects around the world.
Tim Cowlishaw.  William Timothy Cowlishaw (/ˈkaʊlɨʃɔː/; born March 31 1955 in Dallas Texas) is an American sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk show Around the Horn and formerly the lead reporter for the ESPN2 racing show NASCAR Now.
Jenny Joseph.  Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is an English poet.
Nina Nesbitt.  Nina Lindberg Nesbitt (born 11 July 1994) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from EdinburghShe is best known for her biggest hit single Stay Out which peaked at number twenty one on the UK Singles Chart in April 2013 becoming her first top forty single.
Joel Plaskett.  Joel Plaskett (born April 18 1975) is a Canadian rock musician originally from Lunenburg Nova Scotia. Steadily transforming himself through the first decade of the 21st century from an admired regional musician to a nationally adored icon Plaskett is comfortable playing in an eclectic array of genres from blues and reggae and folk to rock and country and pop.Plaskett is based in Dartmouth and his songwriting frequently contains allusions to his home city.
Derek Pellicci.  Derek Allan Pellicci (born 18 February 1953 in London England) is an English-Australian pop music drummer. He is best known as a founding member of Little River Band. Pellicci currently lives in Melbourne with his wife Anne and son Joel.
Laurel Kenner.  Laurel Kenner (born in California in 1954) is founder of Glassery a retailer of plastic-free glass products for the home and principal of Latimer Trading Co. a financial trading firm in New York City.Her commentaries on financial markets have appeared on CNBC Money worldlyinvestor.com and TheStreet.com.
Madeleine Ferron.  Madeleine Ferron (July 24 1922 – February 27 2010) was a Canadian writer. She was born in Trois-Rivières Quebec.She began her early studies with the Sisters of Saint Anne continuing at the Université de Montréal and Université Laval. She married Robert Cliche a lawyer in 1945.A writer and novelist she also worked as a government commissioner and radio show host.
2 Pistols.  Jeremy Lemont Saunders (born June 11 1983) better known by his stage name 2 Pistols is an American rapper. He hails from Tarpon Springs Florida.
Huguette Duflos.  Huguette Duflos (24 August 1887 Limoges – 12 April 1982 Paris) was a French stage and film actress.
Jackie Diamond Hyman.  Jackie Diamond Hyman (b. April 3 1949 in Menard Texas USA) is an American writer and former Associated Press reporter and columnist. Since 1982 she has written more than ninety novels in genres including romance horror fantasy and mystery under the pen names Jacqueline Diamond Jacqueline Topaz Jacqueline Jade Jackie Hyman and Jackie Diamond Hyman.
Vanessa Mdee.  Vanessa Hau Mdee (June 7 1988) also referred to as Vee Money is a Tanzanian recording artist songwriter youth activist TV and radio host. Vee Money is popularly known for being the first ever Tanzanian MTV VJ. She was born in Arusha Tanzania and first garnered recognition for being the first MTV VJ from Tanzania. She later rose to prominence as a Radio and TV host hosting Epic Bongo Star Search and DUME CHALLENGE both on ITV Tanzania before signing to B'Hits Music Group in late 2012.
Monk Boudreaux.  Monk Boudreaux (born Joseph Pierre Boudreaux; 1941 in New Orleans Louisiana United States) is the Big Chief of the Golden Eagles a Mardi Gras Indian tribe. He is widely known for his long-time collaboration with Big Chief Bo Dollis in The Wild Magnolias.
Freedom Williams.  Frederick Brandon Williams (born February 13 1966) better known by his stage name Freedom Williams is an American hip hop and dance music performer who gained fame as the lead vocalist on C+C Music Factory's biggest hits.
Jim Shapiro (drummer).  James Gordon Jim Shapiro (born March 19 1965) is an American rock musician.Shapiro is the brother of singer/guitarist Nina Gordon. He graduated from Yale University in 1987. Shapiro was the original drummer in the band Veruca Salt and co-wrote the track Number One Blind on their first album American Thighs (1994). In 1997 he left the band after their second full-length album Eight Arms to Hold You was completed.
Yubya.  Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa Litunga Yubya I was a High Chief or King of Barotseland in Zambia Africa one of the sacred Lozi chiefs.
Gregg Karukas.  Gregory Harry Gregg Karukas (born May 18 1956) is a Grammy winning smooth jazz keyboardist producer and pianist originally from the Washington D.C.-Bowie Maryland area.
Fruitbat.  This article is about the musician. Fruitbat is more commonly used in reference to Megabats which feed on fruit and nectar.Fruitbat (born Leslie George Carter 12 December 1958 in London) is the stage name of the English musician most famous for his part in Carter USM. As well as his official birthday he also celebrates a second birthday like the Queen and Paddington Bear[1] on 12 February. Fruitbat says his second birthday was given to him in 1992 by Smash Hits.
Cecil Payne.  Cecil Payne (December 14 1922 – November 27 2007) was a jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn NY. Payne also played the alto saxophone and flute. He played with other prominent jazz musicians in particular Dizzy Gillespie and Randy Weston in addition to his solo work as bandleader.
Rosa Passos.  Rosa Passos (born April 13 1952) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist born in Bahia State Brazil.Passos began playing piano at age thirteen but after listening to Dorival Caymmi and João Gilberto she abandoned the instrument to become a singer. In the late 1960s Passos began appearing on television and at music festivals. In 1972 she submitted the song Mutilados under a pseudonym to the Globo Network's Festival Universitario and won the competition's first prize.
Scott Shaw (artist).  Scott Shaw (often spelled Scott Shaw!) is a United States cartoonist and animator and historian of comics. He is also an conductor of the concert band at Mary Institute and Country Day School. Among Scott's comic-book work is Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones (for Marvel Comics and Harvey Comics) Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (for DC Comics) and Simpsons Comics (for Bongo Comics). He was also the first artist for the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comic.
Cyril Jordan.  Cyril Jordan (born August 31 1948 in San Francisco California) is a guitarist and founding member of San Francisco cult band the Flamin' Groovies. They are best remembered for their influential 1976 album Shake Some Action.
Elena Frolova.  Elena Borisovna Frolova (Russian: Елена Борисовна Фролова born 1 October 1969 in Riga) is a Russian singer-songwriter composer and poet. She is author and performer of songs based on poems by many Russian poets of twentieth century including Marina Tsvetaeva Sophia Parnok Joseph Brodsky Anna Barkova Andrei Belyi Varlam Shalamov Maria Petrovykh Veniamin Blazhenny Bulat Okudzhava and many others as well as her own poetry.
Vijay Yesudas.  Vijay Yesudas is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in the South Indian film industry.
Big Joe Turner.  Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr. May 18 1911 – November 24 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City Missouri United States. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus Rock and roll would have never happened without him. While he had his greatest fame during the 1950s with his rock and roll recordings particularly Shake Rattle and Roll Turner's career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s.
Guillermo Fernández-Shaw.  Guillermo Fernández-Shaw Iturralde (26 February 1893 - 17 August 1965) was a Spanish poet and journalist. He is particularly known as a writer of libretti primarily for zarzuelas. With Federico Romero he wrote the libretti for two of the best-known zarzuelas of the 20th century Doña Francisquita by Amadeo Vives and Luisa Fernanda by Federico Moreno Torroba.
Brittney Skye.  Brittney Skye (born November 5 1977) is an American pornographic actress and director.
Thomas Shapiro.  Thomas M. Shapiro is a professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brandeis University and is the author The Hidden Cost of Being African American and the co-author of Black Wealth/White Wealth. Shapiro's current professional titles include the Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and the Director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy. The primary areas of focus for Shapiro's research and publications are racial inequality and public policy.
Kelly Nickels.  Kelly Nickels (born January 5 1962) is a bassist who has played in various bands including Sweet Pain Faster Pussycat and L.A. Guns.He started his career as a roadie/light man for Hotshot which was an early incarnation of the band Danger Danger and later was the band led by Mike Pont the second Danger Danger vocalist.He was replaced in Sweet Pain by Victor Prestin.
William Falconer.  William Falconer (21 February 1732 – December 1769) was a Scottish poet.Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh where he was born became a sailor and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel the career and fate of which are described in his poem The Shipwreck (1762) a work of genuine though unequal talent. The efforts which Falconer made to improve the poem in the subsequent edition which followed the first were not entirely successful.
Nabin Bhattarai.  Nabin K. Bhattarai (Nepali: नबीन के. भट्टराई; born March 14 1974) is a Nepali singer songwriter and composer. He started his musical career in 1990 with a band named The Steel Wheels as a vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the band. Later he broke up with the band to start his solo career. Nabin was able to capture the attention of many Nepali music-lovers with his first released song Aankhama Timilai in his first album Raharai Raharma.
Sandy Wilson.  Sandy Wilson (born 19 May 1924) is an English composer and lyricist best known for his musical The Boy Friend (1953).
Jack Wu.  Jack Wu (born 23 August 1977) is a television actor and host from Hong Kong working for TVB.
Gustave Henry Mosler.  Gustave Henry Mosler (June 16 1875 – August 17 1906) was a United States painter.He was a pupil of his father Henry Mosler and of Léon Bonnat exhibited at the Salon in Paris receiving a medal for his De Profundis in 1891; his portrait of Governor J. W. Stewart is in the State House Montpelier Vermont and his Empty Cradle is in the Toledo Art Club.He died in Margaretville New York.[citation needed]
Benjamin Yeo.  Benjamin Yeo (born 1985) is a Singaporean composer who is notable internationally for his original wind band works. His music education started at the age of 7 and he played the trumpet in his secondary school and junior college. Being very active in the local band scene he has guest-performed for many tertiary groups as well as guest-conducted many ensembles in Singapore.
Hal Lester.  Hal Lester is an American jazz and rock lead guitarist.
Joey Huffman.  Joey Huffman is an American musician. Primarily known as a keyboard and organ player Huffman has performed with many artists both in the studio and live. He was a member of Witness Drivin' N Cryin' and the Georgia Satellites. His album credits include Bowling for Soup's A Hangover You Don't Deserve and Miranda Lambert's Kerosene. He has also toured with Matchbox Twenty (1998) Soul Asylum (1993–1997). in 2008 he performed live with Lynyrd Skynyrd filling-in for Billy Powell.
Kami (musician).  Ukyō Kamimura (神村右狂 Kamimura Ukyō February 1 1972 – June 21 1999) better known by his stage name Kami was a Japanese musician best known as drummer for the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer. He died on June 21 1999 in his sleep of a subarachnoid hemorrhage at the age of 27.
Dave Spitz.  Dave The Beast Spitz (born February 22 1958 in New York) is a musician best known for having played bass guitar for the heavy metal group Black Sabbath from 1985 to 1987 appearing on the albums Seventh Star and being credited for (but not playing on) The Eternal Idol.
Édith Canat de Chizy.  Edith Canat de Chizy (born 26 March 1950) is a French composer. She was born in Lyon and studied art archeology and philosophy at the Sorbonne University and then music at the Paris Conservatoire with Maurice Ohana and Ivo Malec.
Mary Hopper.  Mary Hopper is an American choral conductor and music minister. She is on the faculty of the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and is president-elect of the American Choral Directors Association.At Wheaton where she has been on faculty since 1979 she directs the Men's Glee Club and Women's Chorale and oversees all performance studies programs and faculty. She has had both journal articles and book chapters on choral music published.Hopper studied at the University of Iowa with Don V.
Mochipet.  David Wang better known by his stage name Mochipet is a Taiwanese American record producer. His recordings have been released on multiple record labels such as Death$ucker Peace Off and Violent Turd. He is also the owner of Daly City Records.
Mohammad-Amin Riahi.  Mohammad-Amin Riahi (1 June 1923 Khoy - 15 May 2009 Tehran) (Persian: محمدامین ریاحی‎) was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature a historian writer and statesman. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda Dictionary and Encyclopædia Iranica he was the author and editor of several well-known scholarly books. Mohammad-Amin Riahi received his PHD on Persian literature from Tehran Universityunder the supervision of Badiozzaman Forouzanfar.
Andrés Garcia de Quiñones.  Andrés Garcia de Quiñones (1709–1784) was a Spanish architect of the Baroque period active in Salamanca.
Alfred R. Gaul.  Alfred Robert Gaul (30 April 1837 — 13 September 1913) was an English composer and conductor.Gaul was born in Norwich and spent much of his professional life in Birmingham where he was Master of Music at St Augustine's Church Edgbaston the first Birmingham church to have a surpliced choir. Previously he was Organist at St. John's Church Ladywood.
Svein Jarvoll.  Svein Jarvoll (born 1946) is a Norwegian poet novelist short story writer translator and essayist. He made his literary début in 1984 with the poetry collection Thanatos. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2001.
Max Pemberton.  Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular British novelist working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. He was educated at St Albans School Merchant Taylors' School and Caius College Cambridge. A clubman journalist and dandy (Lord Northcliffe admired his 'fancy vests') he frequented both Fleet Street and The Savage Club.Pemberton was the editor of boys' magazine Chums in 1892–1893 during its heyday.
Christian Hayes.  Christian David Hayes (born 10 June 1964 in Westminster London) also known as Bic Hayes is an English rock guitarist singer and songwriter.
Abraham Quintanilla Jr..  Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr. (born February 20 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is the father of singer Selena who was murdered on March 31 1995 by Yolanda Saldívar.
James Valentine (musician).  James Burgon Valentine (born October 5 1978) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. He is also a guitarist for the indie pop band JJAMZ.
Ciccio Busacca.  Francesco Busacca better known as Cicciu or Ciccio Busacca (1925–1989) was born in Paternò Province of Catania. He was one of the best known Sicilian ballad singers. Playwright and composer Dario Fo wrote Ci ragiono e canto N.3 for him.
Omar Franco.  Omar Franco Dominican singer and composer was born a June 11 in the town of Castañuelas in the province of Monte Cristi Dominican Republic but spends most of his childhood reaching adulthood in the city of La Vega.
Batem.  Luc Collin best known by the pen name Batem (born 6 April 1960 in Kamina Belgian Congo) is a Belgian comics artist best known as the artist successor of André Franquin of the series Marsupilami.
Phil Lanzon.  Phil Lanzon (born 23 March 1950) is the keyboardist for British progressive rock group Uriah Heep since 1986.Lanzon has worked with diverse performers of distinction in the rock and roll community. Both as a session musician and sideman he has also played for Grand Prix Grant & Forsyth John Lawton (former Uriah Heep-member) Mick Ronson Chris Spedding Sweet Paddy Goes to Holyhead and Tarracco.
Brigitte Lin.  Brigitte Lin (Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá) or Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia (born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies. She retired in 1994 although she had a minor role in the 1998 film Bishonen.
Fabio Treves.  Fabio Treves (born 27 November 1949) is an Italian blues musician. Treves's nickname is il Puma di Lambrate (Lambrate's Cougar) mimicking the British bluesman John Mayall known as the Manchester's Lion. Lambrate is the quarter of Milan where Treves grew up.
Mick Betancourt.  Mick Betancourt (born 1974) is an American writer and comedian who has written scripts for several television shows on major networks. Betancourt was born in Chicago and currently lives in Los Angeles. He sold his first television show to CBS Television at age 30 and has since written on Breakout KingsThe Black Donnellys Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Detroit 187. Recently he directed his first short film which was well received at independent film festivals.
Amanda Brown (singer).  Amanda Leah Brown (born June 4 1985) is an American singer-songwriter dancer and actress from New York City. She was a contestant on the third season of NBC’s The Voice and finished in the top five on the show.
Richard Baker (game designer).  Richard Baker (full name L. Richard Baker III) is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.
Matt Warburton.  Matt Warburton (born 1978) is an American television writer.
Sushil Kumar Dhara.  Sushil Kumar Dhara (Bengali: সুশীল কুমার ধাড়া) (2 March 1911 – 28 January 2011) was a revolutionary in British India and a political leader after Indian independence in 1947.Dhara was born on 2 March 1911 in Tikarampur (near Tamluk) in Mahisadal in the present Purba Medinipur district. He was involved in political activities from his school days. Dhara was entrusted the portfolios of war and home in Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar (Tamralipta National Government) formed during the `42 movement.
Norah Jones.  Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30 1979) is an American singer-songwriter musician and actress. She is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones. She is Anoushka Shankar's half-sister.In 2002 she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away with Me a fusion of country music and pop with elements of jazz which was certified diamond album selling over 26 million copies.
Robin Schulz.  Robin Schulz (born 28 April 1987) is a German electronic DJ and producer. In 2014 he remixed the song Waves by Dutch hip hop artist Mr. Probz. The song charted in many European countries leading to international recognition.
David Campbell (Australian musician).  David Joseph Campbell (born 6 August 1973 in South Australia) is an Australian singer stage performer and television presenter. He has performed and recorded many different genres of music from rock to classics. He is the son of singer Jimmy Barnes.
50 Tyson.  Antonio Henderson Davis (born 1993) better known by his stage name 50 Tyson is an American autistic rapper from Minneapolis Minnesota North Side Zone. In 2009 he gained popularity through videos of himself rapping which he uploaded to the video sharing website YouTube. Later he signed to Hudson Records a label started by former NBA player Troy Hudson.
Ed Yen.  Ed Yen (嚴子貿) is a Taiwanese music producer music executive entrepreneur singer-songwriter audio engineer theater designer film score commercial composer A&R manager and vocal coach.
Mark Watters.  Mark Watters is a six-time Emmy Award winning American composer of music for film and television. He currently lives in Chatsworth with his wife Vanessa.
Charlie Black.  Charlie Black (born November 23 1949 in Cheverly Maryland) is an American country music songwriter.
Autry Inman.  Robert Autry Inman (January 6 1929 – September 6 1988) was an American country and rockabilly musician.
Akriti Kakkar.  Akriti Kakkar is an Indian singer.Her self titled Personal (non Bollywood playback album) Akriti Released April 2010 under Sony Music India. Songs were composed by Shankar Mahadevan & Akriti KakarTrack Listing -1) Mehrmaa Ve2) Gazab3) Chhoone Do4) Na Re Na Na Re5) Dil Vi Deewana 6) Taabiz (Marhale)7) Chal Kaheen Sang
Maurice Achener.  Maurice Achener (1881–1963) was a French illustrator painter and print maker.
Sarah Morris.  Sarah Morris (born 1967) is a British artist. Since the mid-1990s Morris has exhibited internationally.Morris was born in England in 1967. She attended Brown University Cambridge University and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. In 1999–2000 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; in 2001 she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation painting award. Morris was married to Liam Gillick; they divorced in 2012.
Marcel Cellier.  Marcel Cellier (29 October 1925 - 13 December 2013) was a Swiss organist ethnomusicologist and music producer internationally known for his Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares project presenting Bulgarian traditional music and his work with Gheorghe Zamfir.Founder of the Disques Cellier recording label.
Ken Dodd.  Kenneth Arthur Ken Dodd OBE (born 8 November 1927) is an English comedian singer-songwriter and actor he is clearly identified by his trademark frizzy hair and protruding teeth his red white and blue tickling stick and his upbeat greeting of How tickled I am! as well as his send-off Lots and lots of happiness!.
Jo Kyung-ran.  Jo Kyung Ran (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer.
Julio de Diego.  Julio de Diego (1900 - 1979) was a Spanish-born painter.
Ken Kempster.  Ken Kempster (born September 18 1975 in Halifax Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician.Kempster has played drums in the Canadian punk rock bands wedontdomuch Shovlhead Swell Prod. The Showbusiness Giants (1993–1997) The Hanson Brothers (1993–1997) and NoMeansNo (1993–1997 serving as second drummer for live concerts and occasional studio work.)
Tony Tuff.  Tony Tuff (born Winston Anthony Morris c. 1955 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer who was a member of The African Brothers in the late 1960s and 1970s before embarking on a solo career.
Numa Pompilio Llona.  Numa Pompilio Llona (March 5 1832 – April 5 1907) was an Ecuadorian poet journalist educator diplomat and philosopher.Numa Pompilio Llona was widely read in his time but today he is mostly forgotten.
Albano Carrisi.  Albano Carrisi (born 20 May 1943) better known as Al Bano is an Italian singer actor and winemaker.
Paul McCartney.  Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and composer. With John Lennon George Harrison and Ringo Starr he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles widely regarded as one of the most popular and influential acts in the history of rock music; his songwriting partnership with Lennon is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century.
Steve Lang.  Steve Lang (born March 24 1949 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian musician best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984. Lang replaced then-bassist Jim Clench in 1976. When April Wine reformed in 1993 Steve Lang was not amongst the line-up.Steve Lang is also the father of Canadian musician Erin Lang.
Herbert R. Axelrod.  Herbert Richard Axelrod (b. June 7 1927 in Bayonne New Jersey) is a tropical fish expert publisher of pet books and entrepreneur. In 1998 he donated four Stradivari instruments — two violins a viola and a cello — to the Smithsonian Institution.
Luca Desiato.  Luca Desiato (Rome November 13 1941) is an Italian journalist and writer.He lived for some years in Latin America where it is dedicated among other things to theological studies. He currently lives and works in Rome.
Hans Dieter Aigner.  Hans Dieter Aigner (b. 1958 in Linz) is an Austrian artist and writer.
Donovan Strain.  Donovan Strain is a stand-up comedian and skateboarder living in Los Angeles CA.
Erol Günaydın.  Erol Günaydın (April 16 1933 – October 15 2012) was a Turkish theater and film actor as well as a renowned showman famous particularly for his portrayal of Nasreddin Hoca and his performances in the traditional Turkish meddah (one man shows). In 1955 was played in Haldun Dormen Pocket Theater The priest ran away from a professional actor began his career with the game.
Scram Jones.  Marc Shemer better known by his stage name Scram Jones is a producer DJ and emcee from New Rochelle New York. He has produced music for the Wu-Tang Clan Mariah Carey Jae Millz Saigon and Lloyd Banks. As an emcee he has been featured alongside Nas Saigon Styles P Kool G Rap and Immortal Technique. He has also been featured in The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype column.
Andy Lee (comedian).  Andrew Thomas Lee (born 24 May 1981) is an Australian comedian and musician. He usually works alongside Hamish Blake as part of the comedy duo Hamish & Andy.
Bruce Haack.  Bruce Clinton Haack About this sound listen (May 4 1931–September 26 1988) was a musician and composer and a pioneer within the realm of electronic music. He was born in Alberta Canada.
Steven Sykes (artist).  Steven Sykes (born Steven Barry Sykes; 30 August 1914 – 22 January 1999) was a British artist known for his Gethsemane Chapel in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. He was active in the British desert camouflage unit in the second world war and was responsible for the dummy railhead at Misheifa and for the effective camouflage and large-scale military deception in the defence of Tobruk in 1942.
Doric Germain.  Doric Germain (born 1946 in Lac-Sainte-Thérèse Ontario) is a Canadian writer and university professor.Educated at the University of Ottawa and Université Laval he briefly taught high school before publishing his first novel in 1980. He is currently a professor of French literature at Laurentian University's Université de Hearst.
Annabel Teh Gallop.  Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop is the Head Curator for Indonesian and Malay in the department of the South and Southeast Asia section at the British Library London. She was also one of the Editorial board members of the journal 'Indonesia and the Malay World' based at SOAS University of London; Committee member of the Association of South East Asian Studies in the UK (ASEASUK).
Tan Jing.  Tan Jing (simplified Chinese: 谭晶; traditional Chinese: 譚晶; pinyin: Tán Jīng) (born September 11 1977) is a solo singer in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the People’s Liberation Army and a first class national actress. Her music blends bel canto Chinese national music (Guoyue) and popular singing styles.
Anthony Gildès.  Anthony Gildès (1856–1941) was a French actor.
Nao Nagasawa.  Nao Nagasawa (長澤 奈央 Nagasawa Nao born January 5 1984) is a Japanese actress a voice actress and a former singer and model. She was one of the leaders of girl'sBOX activities along with Kayo Aiko and DRM (formerly dream) member Hasebe Yu. The three formed a pop group known as Kingyo in July 2007.She has since released a best album and girlsBOX-related album in March 2008.
Ville Tietäväinen.  Ville Tietäväinen is a Finnish graphic designer illustrator and comic artist. His first comic book Linnut ja meret was published in 2003. Tietäväinen graduated as an architect but he has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer since the 1990s.Probably the most influential work by Tietäväinen is the Invisible Hands (Finnish: Näkymättömät kädet) comic book released in 2011. The book was the winner of Finnish Graphic Novel Finlandia Prize in the year 2011.
Marz Lovejoy.  Marz Lovejoy is a 22 year-old hip-hop artist from Los Angeles. To date she has released one commercial EP entitled “This Little Light Of Mine.”
Joe Pullum.  Joe Pullum (December 25 1905 — January 7 1964) was an American blues singer and songwriter.
Suezan Aikins.  Suezan Aikins RCA (born 1952) is a Canadian printmaker painter and sculptor living in Nova Scotia.
Vera Chino.  Vera Chino Ely (born June 27 1943) is a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo New Mexico. She is the youngest daughter of Marie Z. Chino who was well known for her excellent fine-line pottery. Very little information has been published on Vera. She learned pottery making from her mother and in the late 1970s she worked with Marie doing fine-line painting on some of her pots.In 1979 she participated in the “One Space: Three Visions” exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum.
Mate Dolenc.  Mate Dolenc (born 5 October 1945) is a Slovene writer and translator. He writes novels collections of short stories children's books travelogues and articles.Dolenc was born in Ljubljana in 1945. He started studying comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana but never completed his studies. He worked at Mladina for a few years in the early 1970s. Since 1973 he works as a free-lance writer. He has written over thirty books several screenplays and numerous articles.
Jhumpa Lahiri.  Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11 1967) is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and her first novel The Namesake (2003) was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname (or in Bengali her Daak naam) Jhumpa. Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities appointed by U.S.
Alejandro Tapia y Rivera.  Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (November 12 1826 – July 19 1882) was a Puerto Rican poet dramaturg essayist and writer. Tapia is considered to be the father of Puerto Rican literature and as the person who has contributed the most to the cultural advancement of Puerto Rico's literature. In addition to his writing he was also a fervent abolitionist and a women's rights advocate.
John Sykes.  John James Sykes (born 29 July 1959) is an English rock guitarist vocalist and songwriter who has played with Streetfighter Tygers of Pan Tang John Sloman's Badlands Thin Lizzy Whitesnake and Blue Murder. Sykes co-wrote the majority of the songs on Whitesnake's 1987 self-titled album with David Coverdale. Sykes is also a successful solo artist.
Torsten Stenzel.  Torsten Stenzel is a successful German musician songwriter composer and producer for more than 22 years. Classically trained from an early age his roots are within the field of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). His interest for music first started at age 5 when he received piano lessons by academic piano teacher Andre Terebesi.
Ariana (pornographic actress).  Ariana (born November 3 1958) is an American former pornographic actress.
William Kirk Dickson.  William Kirk Dickson (1860 Edinburgh – 1949) was a Scottish advocate librarian and writer. He was Keeper of the Advocates' Library from 1906–25 and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland from 1925–31.
T. Davis Bunn.  T. Davis Bunn (1952) is an American author.Bunn grew up in North Carolina. He became an international financial expert and worked in Europe Africa and the Middle East. Bunn and his wife live in Oxford now. He is Novelist in residence at the Regent's Park College of Oxford University.Bunn is writer of historical fiction and legal thrillers in which Christian faith plays a big part. He has written novels together with Canadian author Janette Oke and others with his wife Isabella.
Diane Flacks.  Diane Flacks is a Canadian comedic actress screenwriter and playwright.She has co-written and starred in numerous television series including The Broad Side P.R. Behind the Scenes and Listen Missy. She has also written for The Kids in the Hall and acted in Walter Ego and Moose TV.
Laurits Tuxen.  Laurits Tuxen (9 December 1853 – 21 November 1927) was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Jacob Eisenberg (musician).  Jacob Eisenberg (1898–1964) was an American pianist teacher and author of books and articles on the piano. He was married to Ruth Brewer Eisenberg Ivory of the piano duo Ebony and Ivory.
Leslie Glass (author).  Leslie Glass is an American novelist playwright and journalist.
Walter Stern (director).  Walter Stern is an English music video film director.
Éric Charden.  Éric Charden (born Jacques Puissant; 15 October 1942 – 29 April 2012) was a French singer and songwriter most famous for his collaboration with Annie Gautrat alias Stone with whom he formed Stone et Charden.Éric Charden was born in Haïphong Vietnam during World War II.
Alexander M. Phillips.  Alexander Moore Phillips (1907–1991) was an American short story writer and novelist. He also worked as a topographical draftsman for a title insurance company. Phillips served in the U. S. Army from April 1942 spending time in Egypt and Palestine. His short stories appeared in pulp magazines including Amazing Stories Wonder Stories and Unknown. His novel The Mislaid Charm was published by Prime Press in 1947. He served as President of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.
Todd Carey.  Todd Carey is an American musician and singer-songwriter currently signed to Blaster Records. April 16th 2014 saw the release of the Nintendo single. The Nintendo music video followed shortly thereafter and garnered over 175K views on YouTube in the first month. Born and raised near Chicago Illinois he later relocated to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California for a degree in music.
Louis Nelson Delisle.  Big Eye Louis Nelson Delisle (28 January 1885 – 20 August 1949) was an early twentieth-century Dixieland jazz clarinetist in New Orleans Louisiana. He also played string bass banjo and accordion professionally on occasion.
Dawn Langstroth.  Dawn Langstroth (born April 16 1979) is a Toronto-based singer/songwriter and painter. She has released two EPs self-titled Dawn Langstroth and No Mercy and released her debut album Highwire in 2009. Langstroth is the daughter of singer Anne Murray and former CBC television producer Bill Langstroth (Singalong Jubilee).
Kevin Grandia.  Kevin Eelko Grandia (born 1974) is a Canadian writer researcher blogger and digital campaigner/activist working mainly on environmental energy and social justice issues. He was named a Green Hero by Rolling Stone in 2013.He is the former editor of the website DeSmogBlog.
Cvetka Bevc.  Cvetka Bevc (born 29 October 1960) is a Slovene writer and poet.Bevc was born in Slovenj Gradec in 1960. She studied musicology and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and also attended post-graduate study at University College Cork. She worked as an editor at a music journal for young people (Glasbena mladina) and at the national broadcasting house and the Slovene Writers' Association. She writes poetry prose radio plays and children's stories.
Suzie Miller.  Suzie Miller is an Australian-born playwright. She is based in London.
Neil Yates.  Neil Yates (born in Stockport Cheshire 1970) is a British jazz and folk musician.
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco.  Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (October 12 1908 in Guayaquil — May 1 1993 in Quito) — born Alfredo Pareja y Diez Canseco — was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist essayist journalist historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil (Group of Guayaquil).
Rick Hall.  Roe Erister Rick Hall (born January 31 1932) is an American record producer songwriter music publisher and musician who is best known as the owner and proprietor of the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama.
Ama Ata Aidoo.  Professor Ama Ata Aidoo née Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1940 Saltpond) is a Ghanaian author poet playwright and academic who is also a former Minister of Education in the Ghana government.
Victor Bailey (musician).  Victor Bailey (born March 27 1960 in Philadelphia) is an American bass guitar player. He was the bass player for Weather Report during their final years from 1982 to 1986 and launched a solo career in 1988.Bailey attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston after being disqualified from naval service due to asthma.
Oscar Fetrás.  Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 Hamburg – 10 January 1931 Hamburg) was a German composer of popular dance music military marches piano pieces and arrangements.He had over 200 compositions to his name. His best known work is his waltz Mondnacht auf der Alster Op. 60 which is still immensely popular to the present day.
Jesús Blasco.  Jesús Blasco (November 3 1919 – October 21 1995) was a Spanish author and artist of comic books whose career covered most of the conventional history of comic strips. He worked extensively in British comics in the 1960s and 1970s.
Russell Smith (writer).  Russell Claude Smith (born August 2 1963 in Johannesburg South Africa) is a Canadian writer and newspaper columnist. Smith's novels and short stories are mostly set in Toronto where he lives.
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.  Nicholas Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (born 5 March 1955) is a British writer. He trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and then a non-fiction writer. His second book Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man was published in 2006 (by Viking in the UK: ISBN 0-670-91082-1 and by Harvard University Press in the US: ISBN 978-0-674-02439-7).
Chris Finn.  Chris Finn is a Canadian stand-up comedian and comedy writer.Finn was raised in Ottawa Ontario. He has written for several television shows including This Hour Has 22 Minutes Talking to Americans The Rick Mercer Report and Corner Gas. He has won three Gemini Awards and a 2001 Canadian Comedy Award as a writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Sarah Quintrell.  Sarah Quintrell is a British actress. She plays Sinéad in the BBC TV sitcom Carrie and Barry. She trained at Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre from 2000 to 2003.
Tadeusz Hollender.  Tadeusz Hollender (1910–1943) was a Polish poet translator and humorist. During World War II he wrote satirical articles and poems in underground press for that he was arrested by the German Gestapo and executed in May in the infamous prison Pawiak.
Wyatt Townley.  Wyatt Townley is an American poet author and yoga instructor honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015).
Lay Low.  Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir (born September 10 1982 in London England) better known by her stage name Lay Low is an Icelandic artist and singer.
George Orwell.  Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) known by his pen name George Orwell was an English novelist essayist journalist and critic.
David Waxman.  David Waxman is a DJ remixer and producer.
Pat Bullard.  Patrick Pat Bullard (born February 6 1959) is a Canadian television writer and comedian. Born in Mississauga Ontario Bullard wrote for such sitcoms as Roseanne Reba Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place and Grace Under Fire. He has made guest appearances on Reba The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and other shows.He hosted four game shows: Baloney Hold Everything Love Connection (1998–1999) and Card Sharks (2001); as well as his eponymous talk show The Pat Bullard Show (1996).
Vera Stanley Alder.  Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder (29 October 1898 - 26 May 1984) was a portrait painter and mystic. She wrote several books and pamphlets on self-help and spirituality. She founded the World Guardian Fellowship.
Hany Kauam.  Hany Kauam (born October 11 1980) is a Latin pop singer from Venezuela. He was a contestant in the reality show Fama Sudor y Lágrimas and after leaving the show he was signed on to Cenit Records.
Buddy Williams (country musician).  Harold Buddy Williams ( 1918–1986 ) was an Australian country musician singer and songwriter known as The Yodelling Jackaroo. Williams was the first Australian to record country music in Australia three years after the New Zealander Tex Morton made his first recording in Australia. Buddy Williams recorded his own songs about life and times in the Australian bush. It was with Buddy Williams that the Bush Ballad was first born.
Peter James (writer).  Peter James (born 22 August 1948) is an international bestselling British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton the son of Cornelia James the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. Cornelia was a Jewish refugee from Vienna who came to England in 1938.
Neil Portnow.  Neil R. Portnow (born 1948 New York City) is the current president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). Portnow was formerly the vice-president of the West Coast division of Jive Records.
Giulio Cesare Begni.  Giulio Cesare Begni (early 17th century) was an Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period born in Pesaro but also active in Venice and Udine. He was a pupil of Antonio Cimatori (Visacci) in Urbino.
Trina Broussard.  Trina Broussard (born October 8 1969) is a R&B singer and songwriter. Trina Broussard began career in 1997 when she covered Minnie Riperton's song Inside My Love£. A year later in 1998 Broussard signed a record contract with Jermaine Dupri's label So So Def later leave after first album was stalled. In 2002 Broussard released her first album Inside My Love on Motown/Universal Records with singles Sailing and Love You So Much.
Lovefoxxx.  Luísa Hanae Matsushita (born February 25 1984) better known by her stage name Lovefoxxx is the Brazilian lead singer of indie band Cansei de Ser Sexy.
Georges Brassens.  Georges Brassens (French: [ʒɔʁʒ bʁasɛ̃s]; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
Mick Mars.  Mick Mars (born Robert Alan Deal on May 4 1951 or 1955) is the lead guitarist for American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.
Cherubino Kirchmayr.  Cherubino Kirchmayr (1848-1903) was an Italian painter. He was born in Venice and studied in the Accademia di Belle Arti of that city where for two years he was also adjunct professor of elements of figure painting. He mainly dedicated himself to Genre painting and portraits and among his works are Ragazzaglia and Chioggiotti. Among his portraits are those of the Albrizzi family the Countess Anima Morosini the Hoyos family and Don Carlos pretender to the Spanish throne.
Sian Charlesworth.  Sian Charlesworth (born 17 January 1987 in Bolton) is an English singer and member of girl group Parade.
Tae Okajima.  Tae Okajima (岡嶋 妙 Okajima Tae born October 2 in Kagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Kenyu Office. She is also known as Soyogi Tōno for her roles in visual novels and OVAs.
Scott McAllister.  Scott McAllister (born 1969) is an American composer and clarinetist.Born in Vero Beach Florida McAllister received a PhD from Rice University. He is particularly noted for his pieces featuring clarinet including Black Dog (based on hard rock particularly the music of Led Zeppelin) X Concerto and Freebirds. Scott currently teaches at Baylor University in Waco TX.
Riccardo Barthelemy.  Riccardo Barthelemy also Richard and Barthélemy (1869 Smyrna – 1937) was an Italian composer and pianist.Barthelemy studied in San Pietro a Majella conservatory in Naples. His compositions included songs and stage works. He worked as a pianist with famous opera singer Enrico Caruso.In 1912 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Marcia trionfale olimpica (Olympic Triumphal March).
Vera Day.  Vera Day (Born August 4 1935 in London) is a British film and television actress.
Fernando Pasarin.  Fernando Pasarin is a Spanish comic book artist.
Kimya Dawson.  Kimya Dawson (born November 17 1972) is an American singer-songwriter best known as a solo performer and as one half of The Moldy Peaches. In Swahili Kimya (كيميا) means silence or silent.
The Mulgray Twins.  The Mulgray Twins are the authors of a series of crime novels featuring undercover Customs investigator D.J. Smith and her sidekick a trained sniffer-cat called Gorgonzola. Their novels are quirky and gently humorous.
Machiko Kyō.  Machiko Kyō (京 マチ子 Kyō Machiko) (born March 25 1924) is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She rose to extraordinary domestic praise in Japan for her work in two of the greatest Japanese films of the 20th century Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu.Machiko trained to be a dancer before entering films in 1949. The following year she would achieve international fame as the female lead in Akira Kurosawa's classic film Rashomon.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others less sensational subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
Nico (Romanian singer).  Nicoleta Matei known by her stage name Nico is a Romanian singer. She represented Romania along with Vlad in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.
Stephen Chan Chi Wan.  Stephen Chan Chi Wan born 1958 is the chief executive officer of Commercial Radio Hong Kong and was the general manager of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). On December 9 2011 Chan announced his resignation as GM effective April 2012.
Christopher Matthew.  Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew (born 8 May 1939) is a British writer and broadcaster. He is best known as the author of Now We Are Sixty inspired by the poems of A. A. Milne in the book Now We Are Six and as the chronicler of the life and times of the hapless hero Simon Crisp in Diary of a Somebody.
Sarah Armstrong.  Sarah Armstrong (born 1968) is an Australian journalist and novelist. Over an eight-year period she worked for the ABC on radio programs including AM PM and The World Today where she won a Walkley Award. In 2005 her first novel Salt Rain won the Dobbie Encouragement Award and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
James Rosenquist.  James Rosenquist (born November 29 1933) is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Stanisław Wyspiański.  Stanisław Wyspiański (pronounced ['staˈɲiswaf vɨˈspjaɲskʲi]; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright painter and poet as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer he created a series of symbolic national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement. Wyspiański was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artists of his time in Poland under the foreign partitions.
Koharu Kusumi.  Koharu Kusumi (久住 小春 Kusumi Koharu born July 15 1992 in Washima (now part of Nagaoka) Niigata Japan) is a J-pop singer actor television personality essayist and model. From 2005 to 2009 she was a member of the Hello! Project group Morning Musume from 2005 to 2009 the only seventh generation member.
Lyubov Sirota.  Lyubov Sirota (Ukrainian: Любов Макарівна Сирота; born June 21 1956 in Irtyshesk Pavlodar Province Kazakhstan) is a Ukrainian poet writer playwright journalist and translator. As a former inhabitant of the city of Pripyat and an eyewitness (and victim) of the Chernobyl disaster she has devoted a great part of her creative output to the 1986 catastrophe. She writes in both Ukrainian and Russian and also translates from Ukrainian into Russian and vice-versa.
Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson.  Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson (1867 – 15 June 1937) was a Swedish silent film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1913 and 1933.
David Lafuente.  David Lafuente is a Spanish-born comic book artist known for his work on books such as Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man. He currently resides in London.
Charles Ignace Adélard Gill.  Charles Ignace Adélard Gill (21 October 1871 – 16 October 1918) was a Canadian artist specialising in poetry and painting. He also worked under the alternate names Clairon and Léon Duval.He was born at Sorel Quebec to Charles-Ignace Gill and Marie-Rosalie Delphire Sénécal. After studies at Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal Collège de Nicolet and Collège Saint-Laurent he worked in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts.
DJ Tonka.  DJ Tonka (born June 24 1973 in Mainz Germany; real name Thomas-René Gerlach) is an electronic music artist. He is also known as Tonka Chip Tunes and Thomastic.
Pete McKee.  Pete McKee (born 1966) is a painter and commercial artist from Sheffield England. He is a cartoonist for the Sheffield Telegraph’s sports section. He has exhibited regularly around the north of England. Using bright colours his larger than life often humorous characters inhabit a world of working men's clubs bingo halls and family trips to the seaside.
Desiree West.  Desiree West is a retired pornographic actress.West began her adult film career in 1973 as one of the first African-American porn stars. She retired from the adult film business in 1980 although she appeared in films sporadically during the early 1980s.During her career West generally was relegated to secondary roles.
Bertram Heribertson.  Bertram Heribertson (born 11 November 1955) is a Swedish actor and director known for his work in film television and on stage.He is noted for his lead role in the Swedish television series Tre Kronor as Reine one of the series' main characters. He has appeared on stage in such performances as Christina Gottfridsson's Hamlätt a comedic retelling of Hamlet and the Ystad Portrait Theatre's Sitt still i båten which takes place on an actual ship anchored in a fiord.
Gordon Craig (actor).  Gordon Craig was a British actor.
Blackout Movement.  Winston BlackOut Thomas better known by his stage name BlackOut or DJ BlackOut founder & CEO of BlackOut Movement is an American Grammy Nominated record producer engineer and composer. Blackout is signed to Nicki Minaj's recording company.
Betty Jean Robinson.  Betty Jean Robinson (born Betty Jean Rhodes; June 17 1933 –) is a Christian music singer and songwriter.
Piers Anthony.  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934 in Oxford England) is an English American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for every letter of the alphabet from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.
Carolyn Leigh.  Carolyn Leigh (August 21 1926 – November 19 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway movies and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman of the pop standards Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come. With Johnny Richards she wrote the million-seller Young at Heart for the film of the same name starring Frank Sinatra.
Hugh Sykes Davies.  Hugh Sykes Davies (1909 – 1984) was an English poet novelist and communist who was one of a small group of 1930s British surrealists. Davies was born in Yorkshire to a Methodist minister and his wife. He went to Kingswood School Bath and studied at Cambridge where he co-edited a student magazine called Experiment with William Empson. He spent some time in Paris during the 1930s.
Juan Bautista Rivarola Matto.  Juan Bautista Rivarola Matto (1933 - October 14 1999) was a Paraguayan journalist narrator essayist and playwright who made a great contribution to the culture is spite of living in the times of the dictatorial government in Paraguay time in which there was hardly any activity related to the literature.
Kalyan Mukherjea.  Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea (1943–2010) was an authority on Indian classical music particularly the Senia Shahjahanpur Gharana (school) of Sarod. He was also a mathematician.
Cecília Meireles.  Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (Rio de Janeiro 1901–1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil though she combatted the word poetess because of gender discrimination. She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s visiting the United States Mexico Argentina Uruguay and Chile.
Yihye Haybi.  Yihye Haybi (1911-1977) was a Yemenite-born Israeli photographer. At a time when there were no local photographers in Yemen Haybi photographed the Jewish community to which he belonged Europeans he encountered at the Italian medical clinic where he worked members of the Muslim population and even the royal family. His photographs offer unique historical and ethnographic glimpses of Sana’a at this time including the illicit documentation of current events.
Shaun Parkes.  Shaun Parkes (born 9 February 1973) is an English actor.
Erik Daniel Shein (author).  Erik Daniel Shein (born November 18 1966 as Erik Daniel Stoops) is an American writer herpetologist and film producer. In 2003 he founded Arkwatch Holdings LLC which produces novels children’s books animation and live action motion pictures.
Alex Randolph.  Alexander Randolph (4 May 1922 – 28 April 2004) was a designer of board games. Randolph's game creations include TwixT Breakthru Inkognito (with Leo Colovini) Raj Ricochet Robot and Enchanted Forest (with Michael Matschoss).
Howard Swanson.  Howard Swanson (1907 – November 12 1978) was an American composer. Swanson studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was then taught by Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He received fellowships awards and prizes. His preference was for linear construction and lyrical works with subtle tonal centers. He was born in Atlanta Georgia and died in New York City.Many African-American composers have been lauded for the high quality of their song writing.
Bartolommeo Ardy.  Bartolommeo Ardy (Saluzzo 1821- July 1 1887) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapse of the Piedmont and Alpine regions. Later he became active in maiolica painting.
Jana McCall.  Jana McCall is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist from the Pacific Northwest. She played bass guitar in the short lived all-girl band Dickless. After Dickless she worked briefly with Mark Pickerel (formerly of Screaming Trees) and the band Ruby Doe. Her solo career spanned 1998 to 2002 during which she released two albums; the eponymous Jana McCall and Slumber.
Sara Pennypacker.  Sara Pennypacker (born in Massachusetts) is an author of children's literature. She has received many awards for her books including the Christopher Award for Clementines's Letter and the Golden Kite Award for Pierre In Love.She has written fourteen children's books including Summer of the Gypsy Moths and those in the Clementine and Stuart' series. Ms. Pennypacker travels widely to speak about literacy and to encourage reading and writing.
Juan Francisco Amancio González y Escobar.  Juan Francisco Amancio González y Escobar was a Roman Catholic priest responsible for the spiritual colonization of the Christians in Chaco.
Carli Tornehave.  Carli Tornehave born 26 August 1932 in Stockholm is a Swedish singer and actor.He has participated at Melodifestivalen six times; in 1962 her performed Anneli and När min vän in 1963 he performed Twist till menuett and En gång i Stockholm. The song En gång i Stockholm won the contest but Monica Zetterlund was appointed to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in London. In 1966 he performed Monte Carlo and Härliga söndag ending on third and 8th place.
Kary Ng.  Kary Ng (born 9 June 1986) is a pop rock singer in Hong Kong. She studied at the Canadian International School of Hong Kong.
Mike Einziger.  Michael Aaron Mike Einziger (born June 21 1976) is an American Grammy-nominated musician known as the co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus. Einziger is widely known as an innovator and enthusiast of the use of pedalboard guitar effects during live concerts and was voted #41 in Total Guitar's top 100 guitarists of all time in 2002.
Pier Francesco Battistelli.  Pier Francesco Battistelli (17th century) was an Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period mainly in his hometown of Bologna as well as Parma. He painted quadratura.
Bruno Capinan.  Bruno Capinan is a Brazilian born singer songwriter actor and poet (Born in Salvador-Bahia-Brazil on October 18 1981) migrated to Canada at age 20 currently residing the city of Toronto. He released his debut album Gozo in 2010 receiving positive reviews.
Nick Hurst.  Nick Hurst is an English writer who in 2012 published his first book Sugong: The Life of a Shaolin Grandmaster.Hurst was born and grew up in London where he began Shaolin kung fu. Having gained a black belt he gave up a job in advertising and went to train with his grandmaster Sugong in Malaysia aged 30.He was faced with a daunting prospect as his grandmaster had a reputation as an extremely short-tempered man with fearsome martial arts capabilities and a background of run-ins with gangsters.
Hendrick ter Brugghen.  Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen (or Terbrugghen) (1588 – 1 November 1629) was a Dutch painter and a leading member of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio — the so-called Dutch Caravaggisti. Along with Gerrit van Hondhorst and Dirck van Baburen Ter Brugghen was one of the most important Dutch painters to have been influenced by Caravaggio.
Fred Lonberg-Holm.  Fred Lonberg-Holm (born 1962) is an American cellist based in Chicago. He relocated from New York City to Chicago in 1995.Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert works. As a session musician and arranger he is credited on many rock pop and country records.
DJ Abdel.  Lamriq Abdel better known as DJ Abdel (born in Saint-Pierre-les-Nemours Seine et Marne France) is a French DJ of Moroccan origin and producer playing hip hop funk and contemporary R&B on major French radio stations.DJ Abdel became known through his musical participation in the French Canal+ television show Nulle Part Ailleurs as a member of its band. He joined Dee Nasty and the dance troupe Black Blanc Beur (also known as B3) in touring.
Ludovico Passini.  Ludovico Passini (Vienna Austria 1832 - Venice November 5 1902) was an Austrian-Italian painter mostly of water-colors.He initially enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but then transferred to Trieste and then to Venice where he was mentored by the water color painter Karl Werner. He followed Werner to Rome and there Passini painted vedute of the region.
Gary Dontzig.  Gary Dontzig is an American television producer screenwriter and actor. In 1991 he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
Trond Sverre Hansen.  Trond Sverre Hansen (born 27 January 1964 in Narvik Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums). He is the son of jazz trombonist Viggo Hansen and is considered one of the most prominent Norwegian drummers in the bebop genre.
David Steinberg.  David Steinberg (born August 9 1942) is a Canadian comedian actor writer director and author. At the height of his popularity during the late 1960s and early 1970s he was one of the best-known comics in the United States. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson more than 130 times (second only to Bob Hope in number of appearances) and served as guest host 12 times the youngest person ever to guest-host.
Jang Jung-il.  Jang Jung-il (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a Korean poet and novelist.
Yuri Katz.  Yuri Katz (also credited as Yurri Katz and Yuri Kattz) is a Ukraine-born American musician arranger and music producer.Katz worked on different recording projects by DJ Felli Fel[citation needed] Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone (engineer mixing) Howard McCrary[citation needed] Ya Boy[citation needed] BooSkills and others.Born on July 15 1973 to a musician mother.
Matt Sorum.  Matthew William Sorum (born November 19 1960) is an American drummer and percussionist. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses with whom he recorded three studio albums and as a member of the supergroup Velvet Revolver. Sorum is currently a member of the touring project Kings of Chaos and is a former member of both The Cult and Y Kant Tori Read.
Mike Moran (music producer).  Michael (Mike) Moran (born 4 March 1948 Leeds West Yorkshire England) is a keyboard musician songwriter and record producer.
Carol Fran.  Carol Fran (born October 23 1933) is an African American soul blues singer pianist and songwriter. Fran is best known for her string of single releases in the 1950s and 1960s and her later musical association with her husband Clarence Hollimon. She has released five solo albums since 1992 her final collaboration with Hollimon being on JSP Records.
Ruth Sahanaya.  Ruth Sahanaya (born 1 September 1966 in Bandung West Java) is an Indonesian pop singer. She rose to fame in the late 1980s and is perhaps best known for her hit song Kaulah Segalanya. She has toured internationally been the Indonesian representative at many music festivals and has received multiple awards. Having previously recorded under the Indonesian label PT Aquarius Musikindo she signed with Sony Music in the early 2000s (decade).
William Gray Beyer.  William Gray Beyer was an American writer of science fiction and mystery.
Martin Flanagan (journalist).  Martin Joseph Flanagan (born 1955 in Launceston Tasmania) is an Australian journalist who writes a column in the sports section of the Saturday Age newspaper. He also writes opinion pieces some of which include examinations of Australian culture and the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.Flanagan has written thirteen books including The Game in Time of War on Australian rules football.
Junji Takada.  Junji Takada (高田純次 Takada Junji born January 21 1947 in Chōfu Tokyo) also known by the nicknames Jun chan (純ちゃん) Uncle Jun (純じい Jun jī) and TJ is a Japanese actor and comedian.
Philippe Ragueneau.  Philippe Ragueneau (19 November 1917 – 22 October 2003) was a French journalist and writer. He was born in Orléans (Loiret) and died in Gordes (Vaucluse). Ragueneau was a hero of World War II a and friend of the General Charles de Gaulle.[citation needed]
David Diamond (screenwriter).  David Diamond is an American screenwriter. His film credits include The Family Man Old Dogs When in Rome Evolution and the television film Minutemen. Frequently collaborates with David Weissman.
Adlan Cruz.  Adlan Cruz (pronounced cruise) (born on November 28 1968 in Bayamón Puerto Rico) is a Christian Puerto Rican pianist composer and producer.Cruz began playing the piano by ear at the age of three. He released his first album in 1989.A graduate of the Hartt School in Connecticut his studies were financed with a scholarship given to him by former Puerto Rico Governor philanthropist and pianist Luis A.
Bashar al-Shatti.  Bashar al-Shatti: (Arabic):(بشار الشطي) also known as Basharno Beesho and Maystro was born 22 September 1982 in Kuwait. Al-Shatti is a singer songwriter and actor and plays piano and guitar. He began his career as an orchestra chorale member.
Bruce Sterling.  Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14 1954) is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.
Joe Rush.  Joe Rush (born 1960) influenced by the film Mad Max and Judge Dredd comics was the co-originator of the travelling multi media art group Eat my face an underground art collective who specialised in building large scale installations out of waste material. Throughout the eighties he built techno-industrial sculptures at parties and festivals and then travelled across both Western and Eastern Europe to continue the work.
Walter Roland.  Walter Roland was an American blues boogie-woogie and jazz pianist guitarist and singer noted for his association with Lucille Bogan Josh White and Sonny Scott. Music journalist Gérard Herzhaft stated that Roland was a great piano player... as comfortable in boogie-woogies as in slow blues. Roland - with his manner of playing and his singing - was direct and rural Herzhaft added.
Hayashi Akira.  Hayashi Akira (林 韑 February 10 1800 – October 12 1859) (also known as Hayashi Fukusai) was an Edo period scholar-diplomat serving the Tokugawa Shogunate in a variety of roles similar to those performed by serial Hayashi clan neo-Confucianists since the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the hereditary Daigaku-no-kami descendant of Hayashi Razan the first head of the Tokugawa bakufu's neo-Confucian academy in Edo the Shōhei-kō (Yushima Seidō).
Dhina.  Dhina (also credited as Dheena)(Tamil: தினா; born on 15 January 1966) is an Indian film composer and television series composer from Tamil Nadu India.
Alcante.  Alcante pen name of Didier Swysen (Belgium 21 November 1970) is a Belgian comics writer best known for his series Pandora Box.
Frederick Hollyer.  Frederick Hollyer (17 June 1838 - 21 November 1933) was an English photographer and engraver known for his photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings particularly those of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for portraits of literary and artistic figures of late Victorian and Edwardian London.
Sana Krasikov.  Sana Krasikov (born Ukraine) is a writer living in the United States.
Mel Galley.  Mel Galley (March 8 1948 – July 1 2008) was an English guitarist and a former member of the Hard rock bands Whitesnake Trapeze Finders Keepers and Phenomena. He was born in Cannock Staffordshire England. While a member of Whitesnake he badly injured his arm in an accident at a fairground in Germany and had to leave the band as he was unable to play guitar because of nerve damage as a result of incompetent surgery.
Andrea Echeverri.  Andrea Echeverri (born September 13 1965) is a Colombian rock/pop singer and guitarist. She is the lead singer in Aterciopelados where she also plays the acoustic guitar. Echeverri has long captivated audiences with her potently melodic brand of feminism.[citation needed] In March 2005 her debut solo album Andrea Echeverri was released by Nacional Records a label focused on promoting the best in Latin alternative music. Andrea is of Basque descent.
Forrest Wilson.  Robert Forrest Wilson (January 20 1883 – May 9 1942) was an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1942 for his biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Philadelphia: Lippincott 1941).Wilson was born in Warren Ohio. After the First World War he lived in Paris for some time a period which he details in his book Paris On Parade
John Fforde.  John Standish Fforde was a British economist who was active in the Bank of England between 1957 and 1984. As Chief Cashier between 1966 and 1970 his signature appeared on British Bank Notes.
John McCrea (musician).  John McCrea (born June 25 1964) is a founding member of the band Cake which originated in Sacramento California. He sings and is the primary lyricist for the band in addition to playing rhythm acoustic guitar vibraslap and piano. McCrea also programs drums and does mixing work while he and the rest of the band have produced all of their albums.
Nikki Williams.  Nikki Williams is a South African singer-songwriter.
Kenny Håkansson.  Kenny Håkansson is the bassist of the highly influential Swedish rock and roll band the Hellacopters. The Hellacopters were founded by Håkansson's childhood friend Nicke Andersson as a side project to his role as a drummer in the heavy metal band Entombed considered to be founders of death 'n' roll.
Vivian Jones (singer).  Vivian Jones (born 1957) is a Jamaican-born British reggae singer who performed with several bands in the 1970s before recording as a solo artist from 1980.
David Goldschmid.  David Goldschmid (sometimes credited as Dave Goldschmid) is an American television writer and producer currently writing for the daytime drama General Hospital.
David Lloyd (musician).  David Lloyd is an English singer musician songwriter currently living in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Richard Fung.  Richard Fung (born 1954) is a video artist who currently lives and works in Toronto Ontario. He was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and is openly gay.
Eddy Duchin.  Edwin Frank Eddy Duchin (April 1 1909 – February 9 1951) was a popular American pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s famous for his engaging onstage personality his elegant piano style and his fight against leukemia.
Mya Diamond.  Mya Diamond (born 11 April 1981) is a Hungarian pornographic actress and nude model who starred in the movie Porn Wars.
Frank Birch.  Frank Birch (????−1982) was an English actor. He was the first of two actors to portray knackerman Jeff Mallock in the British television series All Creatures Great and Small.
George Coleman.  George Edward Coleman (born March 8 1935) is an American hard bop saxophonist bandleader and composer known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.
Tommaso da Modena.  Tommaso da Modena also known as Tommaso Baffini (1326 – 1379) was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century.
Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina.  Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina (August 28 1815 - March 29 1890) was an Italian journalist patriot and politician.Considered one of the greatest journalists of the 19th century and a pioneer of modern journalism he is mostly remembered for his war correspondence. He wrote for many Italian papers and contributed to the press in France Great Britain and Belgium. He was also a prolific novelist mainly focused on religious themes.
Philippe Vasset.  Philippe Vasset (born 1972) is a French novelist and journalist. He is the editor in chief of the investigative newsletters Africa Energy Intelligence and Intelligence Online published by Indigo Publications press group. He worked as a corporate detective in the US before becoming a journalist and in 1993 won the prize of Best Young Writer awarded by the French daily Le Monde. Following his debut ScriptGenerator©®™ (2004) he has already written a second novel.
Théodore Lack.  Théodore Lack (September 3 1846 Quimper - November 25 1921 Paris) was a French pianist and composer. He studied under Antoine François Marmontel and François Bazin.
Nicolas Eekman.  Nicolas Mathieu Eekman (9 August 1889 – 13 November 1973) known as Nico Eekman Nic Eekman and Ekma was a Belgian figurative painter of Flemish descent.He illustrated many books notably The Destinies by Alfred de Vigny (1933) Beer‐Drinker's Tales by Charles Deulin (1945) Tyl Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster (1946) and Culotte the Donkey by Henri Bosco (1950). He is also notable for his drawings watercolours and engravings.
Riku Sanjo.  Riku Sanjo (三条 陸 Sanjō Riku born October 3 1964) is a Japanese manga writer (gensakusha). He has worked as both a story writer for manga and anime. He graduated from Meiji University.
Lonesome Sundown.  Cornelius Green (December 12 1928 – April 23 1995) known professionally as Lonesome Sundown was an American blues musician best known for his recordings for Excello Records in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Peter Kotuľa.  Peter Kotuľa (born 11 March 1982 in Bratislava Slovakia) is a Slovakian musician and a major artist. He was in the finals of Slovensko hľadá SuperStar (Slovakia is searching for a SuperStar) in 2005 and immediately following released a very successful album entitled Poď so mnou on Sony BMG. He also tried unsuccessfully to represent Slovakia in Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song Cesty sú stratené
Madison Reed.  Madison Reed was an American cabaret and ragtime performer who worked with Eubie Blake among others.
Micky Green.  Michaela Maree Gehrmann (born 28 June 1984) who performs as Micky Green is an Australian-born blues and pop singer-songwriter. Green left home at 18-years-old to work in modelling but has mainly concentrated on her music career. At the age of 21 Green relocated to Paris France. Her debut album White T-Shirt was released there on 27 August 2007 which peaked at No. 12 on the French Albums Chart. Her second album Honky Tonk appeared on 18 January 2010 and reached the top 40.
Cheo Feliciano.  José Luis Feliciano Vega (July 3 1935 – April 17 2014) better known as Cheo Feliciano was a Puerto Rican composer and singer of salsa and bolero music.
Ryūsuke Hikawa.  Ryūsuke Hikawa (氷川竜介 Hikawa Ryūsuke) (born 1958 in Himeji) is a Japanese anime critic and writer. He has hosted the TV program Anime Maestro (アニメマエストロ) on NHK and the Totte Oki A-News anime news program on Animax.
Premik Russell Tubbs.  Premik Russell Tubbs is an American saxophonist songwriter producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Tomo Virk.  Tomo Virk (born 31 May 1960) is a Slovene literary historian and essayist.Virk was born in Ljubljana in 1960. He studied Comparative literature and German language at the University of Ljubljana and works as a lecturer at the University. He was head of the Jury for the Kresnik Award between 2004 and 2007. In 1996 he received the Rožanc Award for his book of literary essays Ujetniki bolečine (Prisoners of Pain).
Rakel Liekki.  Tiina-Rakel Liekki (born September 20 1979 in Suonenjoki) is a Finnish artist freelance journalist writer director and producer and former pornographic actress.Liekki is one of the best-known Finnish adult filmmakers and was dubbed the apostle of porn in an article by City. In 2002 Liekki performed in Rakelin ja Lassin Panokoulu sex guidance videos together with Lassi Lindqvist as part of PornoStara television show on MoonTV channel. She had previously tested sex toys in the same show.
Konstantin Fofanov.  Konstantin Mikhailovich Fofanov (Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Фо́фанов IPA: [kənstɐnˈtʲin mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈfofənəf] ; May 30 1862 – May 30 1911) was a Russian poet.
Dougie Brimson.  Dougie Brimson (born 1959) is an English author and screenwriter.
Teri Holbrook.  Teri Peitso-Holbrook (Atlanta Native) is an American mystery writer living in Atlanta with her husband and two children. She is the author of four mysteries and has been nominated for several literary awards. She currently teaches at Georgia State University and is pursuing multimodal and digital writing.
Ingrid Sala Santamaria.  Ingrid Sala Santamaria is a Filipina pianist.
Sukhwinder Panchhi.  Sukhwinder Panchhi (or Sukhwinder Singh Sandhu) is a Punjabi singer–songwriter.
Abdur Rahman Chughtai.  Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897–1975) was a painter and intellectual from Pakistan who created his own unique distinctive painting style influenced by Mughal art miniature painting Art Nouveau and Islamic art traditions. He is considered'the first significant modern Muslim artist from South Asia' and the national artist of Pakistan. He was given the title of Khan Bahadur in 1934 awarded Pakistan's Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 1960 and the Presidential medal for Pride of Performance in 1968.
Ferenc Juhász (poet).  Ferenc Juhász (born 16 August 1928 in Biatorbágy Hungary) is a Hungarian poet and Golden Wreath laureate (1992). He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.Ferenc Juhász published his first poem in 1946. In 1949 he published his first book of poems The Winged Foal.His poems including The boy changed into a stag clamors at the gate of secrets have been widely translated.
Lee Hyo-seok.  Lee Hyo-seok (February 23 1907 – May 1942) (Hangul: 이효석) was a South Korean writer.
Steve Kelley (cartoonist).  Steve Kelley is a syndicated editorial cartoonist comic strip creator comedian and writer. Until 2012 he was the staff editorial cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He is also the co-creator of the syndicated comic strip Dustin.Born in Virginia Kelley was an honors graduate of Dartmouth College in 1981 where he drew cartoons for both the Daily Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Review. He began his professional career in 1981 at the San Diego Union Tribune.
Juan Luis Carrera.  Juan Luis Carrera is a former musician turned musician manager. As a musician Carrera was the bassist for the Dischord Records band The Warmers and has also played with bands like Lungfish Lois Junk Man Ran and The Junction.
Arvède Barine.  Arvède Barine (1840-1908) was a French writer and historian. Arvède Barine was the pseudonym of Mme. Charles Vincens born Louise-Cécile Bouffé on 17 November 1840. She mostly wrote on the subject of women but she also wrote about travel the political issues of the day and the fantastic literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann. She died on 14 November 1908.
Li-Young Lee.  Li-Young Lee (李立揚 pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta Indonesia to Chinese parents. His maternal grandfather was Yuan Shikai China's first Republican President who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China relocated his family to Indonesia where he helped found Gamaliel University. His father was exiled and spent 19 months in an Indonesian prison camp in Macau.
Candace Bushnell.  Candace Bushnell (born December 1 1958) is an American novelist and television producer based in New York City. Raised in Connecticut she wrote a column for the New York Observer from 1994 to 1996 which was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and two subsequent movies.
Kris Chetan Ramlu.  Kris Chetan Ramlu (Hindi: चेतन रामलु Telugu: చేతన రంలు ) is a New Zealand musician sometimes known by the stage name Cheats. Though his main instrument is the tabla (a pair of tuned hand drums from India) Chetan plays many other percussion instruments. His biggest musical influence is Ustad Zakir Hussain a virtuoso percussionist whose name is synonymous with the tabla. Chetan plays Vhatkar Tabla and Meinl Percussion.
Max Brooks.  Maximillian Michael Max Brooks (born May 22 1972) is an American horror author and screenwriter. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Brooks' writing focuses on zombie stories. Brooks is also a television and voice-over actor.
Vladimir Denissenkov.  Vladimir Denissenkov was born in Chernovtsy (former USSR now Ukraine) on March 30 1956. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1979. He won with the nomination of best accordionist in a world competition of ethnic and traditional music held in 1981 in Caracas Venezuela.
Niki de Saint Phalle.  Niki de Saint Phalle born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor painter and film maker.
Randy Chestnut.  Randall Jay Chestnut is an American comedian writer and actor. He is noted for his wide-ranging subject matter physicality and sarcasm. Among other topics he often focuses on American politics.
Nanabhoy Palkhivala.  Nanabhoy Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala (January 16 1920 – December 11 2002) was an Indian jurist and economist.
Stephen H. Axilrod.  Stephen H. Axilrod is an American author who spent 30-plus years from 1952 to 1986 as a bureaucrat within the US Federal Reserve System before spending another 2 plus decades working in private markets in the U.S. and as a consultant to various developing and transitional countries abroad on monetary policy questions and related market and debt management issues.
Penélope Nova.  Penélope Contrim Nova (Salvador 19 August 1973) was an MTV Brazil VJ. She's a daughter of Marcelo Nova.
Trevor Grundy.  Trevor Grundy (born 1940 in London England) is a journalist and author of the books Memoir of a Fascist Childhood and Farmer at War.
Luis Beza.  Luis Beza (born January 2 1985 in Santa Ana California) was the trumpet player for third-wave ska band Suburban Legends. He joined the band in Summer 2005 after the departure of Aaron Bertram replacing him on trumpet. In July 2005 Luis started a hip-hop side-project called Lyricle Miracle with fellow Suburban Legends band member Derek Lee Rock and Jack Bartlett.
David F. Case.  David F. Case (born 1937) is an American writer of short stories and novelist.
Neil Baldwin.  Neil Baldwin is the author of a variety of books on various topics related to history and culture and a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Montclair State University.Baldwin earned a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Modern American Poetry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the editor of The Niagara Magazine between 1974 and 1982 and worked in fundraising for the New York Public Library between 1984 and 1989.
Alexandru Ciucurencu.  Alexandru Ciucurencu (Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru t͡ʃjukuˈrenku]; 1903–1977) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter. A collection of Ciucurencu's paintings can be seen in Dr. Frasier Crane's apartment in the sitom Frasier in the episode The Guilt Trippers (#9.23 around 11 minutes). A book of his paintings can also be seen on his bookshelf (First Do No Harm Season 6 Episode 05; around 20:50s)
Günther Krupkat.  Günther Krupkat (5 July 1905 Berlin – 14 April 1990 Berlin) was a German fiction writer known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany.
Damn Kids.  Stéphane Deschênes (born June 14 1992) better known by his stage name Damn Kids is a Canadian electronic music producer and performer based in Toronto Ontario. Damn Kids produces a variety of genres that are mainly categorized under electronica bass music and trap. Along with original productions Damn Kids has also remixed artists such as Pleasurekraft Mark Knight and Green Velvet.
Khaled Mouzanar.  Khaled Mouzanar (born on September 27 1974) is a Lebanese music composer songwriter and producer. He has composed music scores for several films including After ShaveCaramel and Where Do We Go Now?. In 2008 he recorded Les Champs Arides his first solo album as a singer and songwriter. His work is rooted in various music genres including classical jazz Mediterranean and oriental melodies. His compositions are also influenced by Brazilian choro and Argentinian tango.
Olivia Hetreed.  Olivia Hetreed is a British screenwriter and editor and the current president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In 2003 she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel Girl with a Pearl Earring into the film of the same name. Hetreed has also been credited as the screenwriter for productions based on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer Emily Brontë and Caroline Lawrence.
Marcelo D2.  Marcelo D2 (born Marcelo Maldonado Peixoto November 5 1967 in Rio De Janeiro) is a Brazilian rapper.
Bengü Erden.  Bengü Erden (pronounced [benˈɟy eɾˈden]; born 23 April 1979 İzmir) is a Turkish Pop music singer.
Zoogz Rift.  Zoogz Rift (born Robert Pawlikowski; July 10 1953 – March 22 2011) was a musician painter and professional wrestling personality.
Ubermorgen.  UBERMORGEN.COM is a Swiss–Austrian–American artist duo founded in 1995 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. They live and work in Vienna Basel and S-chanf near St.
Erich Büttner (painter).  Erich Büttner (7 October 1889 - 7 September 1936) was a German painter. From 1906 to 1911 he studied at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin.In 1908 he became a member of Berlin Secession.
Veronika (singer).  Veronika (publicly capitalized as VERONIKA) is a singer and songwriter. She began her music career in 2012 and her single Ain’t Russian Doll received regular airplay throughout the United States including reaching No.1 on YouTube charts after receiving more than two million hits in less than one month. The video also received airplay on MTV.com.
Gopalakrishna Adiga.  Mogeri Gopalakrishna Adiga (1918–1992) was one of the major figures in modern Kannada poetry. He is known as the pioneer of New style poetry.
Henry Mosler.  Henry Mosler (June 6 1841 - April 21 1920) was a professional painter wood engraver sketch artist and illustrator who documented American life including colonial themes Civil War illustrations and portraits of men and women of society.
Vicente Botín.  Vicente Botín writer and journalist. He was born in Burgos (Spain) and studied Journalism Politics and Sociology in Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Vicente Botín started in Press mostly about International Politics specially Latin America. In 1971 he travelled across the whole continent as on-the-scene reporter for different broadcast Media and from Chile he was one the first Spanish journalist enterviwed President Salvador Allende.In 1972 he started in Televisión Española (TVE).
Aengus Finnan.  Aengus Finnan (born on January 31 1972 in Dublin Ireland) is a Canadian folk musician who grew up in Ontario Canada. In 2003 he was awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal for his humanitarian and cultural work in Canada
Alix Perez.  Alix Perez is the stage name of Alix Depauw a drum and bass DJ and producer originally from Charleroi Belgium. Currently based in North London his music is sometimes characterised as liquid funk amongst other labels and released on labels such as Liquid V Bassbin Creative Source Horizons Progress Brigand Shogun Audio Fokuz and Soul:R.
Joe Shaw (actor).  Joe Shaw (born 15 November 1972 in London) is an English actor.He is probably most well known for his role as officer Dominic McAllister in the ITV drama series Bad Girls and his minor role in the film Junk. He is the son of actor Martin Shaw.
Johnny Russell (singer).  John Bright Johnny Russell (January 23 1940 – July 3 2001) was an American country singer songwriter and comedian best known for his song Act Naturally which was made famous by Buck Owens who recorded it in 1963 and The Beatles in 1965. His songs have been recorded by Burl Ives Jim Reeves Jerry Garcia Dolly Parton Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.  Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists. Though his reputation has since declined he was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as 'an art made of reason passion and will.'
Suze Randall.  Susan Suze E Randall (born 18 May 1946 in Worcester) is an English model photographer and pornographer. She has been one of the world's leading erotic photographers for more than 35 years.Suze was the first female staff photographer for both Playboy and Hustler. She is the one of the early female porn film directors making Kiss and Tell in 1980.
Daniel Arsenault.  Daniel Arsenault is an American photographer who specializes in photos of urban settings in Manhattan New York City. His most common technique is to take photographs with a film camera and then manipulate the images digitally to make them appear more gritty.Arsenault studied art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California.
Hugh Prestwood.  Hugh Prestwood (born in El Paso Texas) is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in country music. His first hit as a songwriter was Hard Time for Lovers which was recorded in 1978 by Judy Collins. Prestwood also wrote Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart a Number One for Randy Travis in 1990 and a song for which Prestwood received the Robert J.
George Henry Weiss.  George Henry Weiss (1898–1946) was an American poet writer and novelist. His science fiction stories and poetry appeared under the pseudonym Francis Flagg in the magazines Amazing Stories Astounding Tales of Wonder Weird Tales and others. His novel The Night People was published by Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. in 1947.
Anselmo Canneri.  Anselmo Canerio (active 1552-1575) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Verona. He worked with the young Paolo Veronese at the Villa Soranzo near Treviso in 1552 and subsequently is recorded painting at Castelfranco Vicenza and Verona.
Stefan Grabiński.  Stefan Grabiński (26 February 1887 Kamionka Strumiłowa - 12 November 1936 Lwów) was a Polish writer of fantastic literature and horror stories. He is sometimes referred to as the Polish Poe or Polish Lovecraft although his works are often surrealistic or explicitly erotic in a way that sets him apart from both.
BluRum13.  James Sobers (born May 13 1974) a.k.a. BluRum13 (alternate spellings include Blu Rum 13 BluRum 13 and Blurum 13) is an American rapper (MC/emcee) and producer under the pseudonym Killa Platypus. Originally from New York City he spent most of his formative years in Washington D.C.
Anusheh Anadil.  Anusheh Anadil is a Bangladeshi musician. She used to be the lead vocalist of the folk band Bangla. She now works independently and with her band 'Bahok'.
Kip Winger.  Charles Frederick Kip Winger (born June 21 1961) is an American rock musician both a member of the glam metal band Winger and a solo artist.
Lucile Saint-Simon.  Lucile Saint-Simon (born October 19 1932) is a French actress from the Paris suburb of Corbeil-Essonnes. She appeared in such feature films as Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) The Hands of Orlac (1962) La donnaccia (Italian 1965). In 2011 the LA Times called her a forgotten actress.
Maestro Harrell.  Maestro Harrell (born July 29 1991) is an American singer recording artist dancer and actor who starred on the HBO original series The Wire as Randy Wagstaff. He currently plays Malik on the ABC comedy Suburgatory.
Pietro Marzorati.  Pietro Marzorati (Milan 1829 - Milan 1895) was an Italian painter mainly painting land- and sea-scapes.
Mervyn Wall.  Mervyn Wall (1908–1997) is an Irish writer who was born in Dublin. Wall attended Belvedere College and worked as a civil servant. His wife Frances Feehan was a music critic. Wall published novels short stories and plays and wrote for a short-lived literary magazine Ireland Today. Wall wrote two humorous fantasy novels The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey aboutthe misadventures of a monk in Dark Ages Ireland. The Fursey novels have been highly praised in North America. E. F.
Niccolò Fabi.  Niccolò Fabi (born 16 May 1968) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to national fame after competing in the Newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1997 receiving the Mia Martini Critics' Award for his entry Capelli. As of 2012 he has released seven studio albums and a greatest hits album in Italy as well as two compilation albums for the Hispanic market. During his career Fabi also received two Lunezia Awards for the album La cura del tempo and for the song Costruire.
Leopoldo Alas.  Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901) also known as Clarín was an Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo.Alas spent his childhood living in León and Guadalajara until he moved to Oviedo in 1865. There he studied Bachillerato (high school) and began his law studies.
Heinz Hajek-Halke.  Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898–1983) was a German experimental photographer who co-founded the Fotoform group with Otto Steinert.Heinz Hajek-Halke born in Berlin in 1898 spent part of his childhood in Argentina.He worked as a photo editor press photographer and commercial artist concentrating almost from the start on montage techniques.
Lynn Breedlove.  Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) (born in Oakland California) is an American trans man musician writer and performer.Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco dyke punk band Tribe 8. The band's first single Pigbitch was released on Harp records run by Gina Harp in 1991.
Graeme Connors.  Graeme Connors (born in Mackay Queensland) is an Australian country music singer songwriter and performer. He is best known for the hits A Little Further North and Let The Canefields Burn. Throughout his music career Graeme has released over fourteen albums and to date has received fourteen Golden Guitar awards among other prestige Australian country music awards. He wrote the lyrics for the Paralympic Anthem.
Kurt Thomas (composer).  Kurt Thomas (25 May 1904 – 31 March 1973) was a German composer conductor and music educator.He was born in Tönning and died in Bad Oeynhausen.In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Kantate zur Olympiade 1936 (Olympic Cantata 1936).From 1939 to 1945 he was in Frankfurt director of the Musisches Gymnasium (High school with main courses in music).
Roger Doucet.  Roger Doucet CM (21 April 1919 – 19 July 1981) was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem O Canada on televised games of the Montreal Canadiens Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Expos during the 1970s. He was particularly known for his bilingual version of the anthem which began in French and ended in English in recognition of the two languages of Canada.
Andreas Johnson.  Andreas Johnson (born Jon Erik Andreas Johnson on 22 March 1970 in Bjärred Sweden) is a Swedish pop/rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Joan Miró.  Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
Abella Anderson.  Abella Anderson (born May 16 1988) is a Cuban-American spokesmodel and former pornographic actress.
Fortesa Hoti (singer).  Fortesa Hoti (born 6 May 1991 in Köniz Switzerland) is a Swiss singer of Kosovar-Albanian descent.
Philip Palmer.  Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter. Originally from Port Talbot Wales he studied English at Jesus College Oxford matriculating in 1979.
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay.  Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (October 24 1894 – July 29 1987) was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Darbhanga Bihar India.
Larry Garrison.  Larry Garrison is President of SilverCreek Entertainment in Los Angeles. He is an executive producer in film and television a journalist an author an actor and a publicist who works with magazine shows print and radio. His company has produced and brokered news stories for ABC News NBC News and other news media organizations.
Hisashi Inoue.  Inoue Hisashi (井上 ひさし Inoue Hisashi 16 November 1934 – 9 April 2010) was a leading Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction. From 1961-1986 he used the pen name of Uchiyama Hisashi.
Judy Boucher.  Judy Boucher (born in St. Vincent in the Caribbean) is a reggae and R&B singer. Her first solo song Dreaming of a Little Island was a hit in the reggae charts in 1985 and she is best known for her international hit single Can't Be With You Tonight which reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1987.
Dora Marsden.  Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 – 13 December 1960) was an English anarcho-feminist suffragette editor of literary journals and philosopher of language. Beginning her career as an activist in the Women's Social and Political Union Marsden eventually broke off from the suffragist organization in order to found a journal that would provide a space for more radical voices in the movement.
Greg Cohen.  Greg Cohen is a jazz bassist. Best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada quartet; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman[citation needed] and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar album. Cohen has also often played traditional jazz including work with Ken Peplowski Kenny Davern and the filmmaker/clarinettist Woody Allen. He has worked with many musicians including Tom Waits David Byrne and Elvis Costello.
D Glenn.  D Glenn is an internationally published photographer. His work has been published in Jet magazine and Hip Hop Weekly.
Susanne Thorson.  Susanne Thorson (born 12 June 1981) is a Swedish actress.
Vinnie Ream.  Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie (September 25 1847 – January 12 1914) was an American sculptor. Her most famous work was the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
Huey (rapper).  Lawrence Franks Jr. (born January 1 1989) better known by his stage name Huey is an American rapper from St. Louis Missouri. He is signed to Jive Records and is best known for his 2007 debut single Pop Lock & Drop It.
Dan Tullis Jr..  Dan Tullis Jr. often credited as Dan Tullis (born July 8 1951) is an American actor most notable for his role as Officer Dan on the sitcom Married... with Children. He has also appeared in other shows such as The District Home Improvement 227 and Rachel Gunn R.N.. He is the radio and television spokesman for SelectQuote a life insurance company. Tullis identifies himself by name at the start of each ad so as to avoid confusion with Dennis Haysbert the spokesman for Allstate.
Brian Tichy.  Brian Tichy (born August 18 1968 in Denville New Jersey) is an American musician best known as having been drummer for Whitesnake Billy Idol Foreigner and Ozzy Osbourne. He was the drummer of Whitesnake from 2010 to 2013. Tichy began playing drums at age eight and started playing guitar at age 12. His earliest influences include Kiss with Peter Criss as his main influence Led Zeppelin Iron Maiden with Nicko McBrain Aerosmith AC/DC and Van Halen.
Ed Decter.  Edward I. Ed Decter (born May 19 1959) is an American film director film producer and screenwriter.His credits include There's Something About Mary The Santa Clause 3 The Santa Clause 2 The New Guy The Lizzie McGuire Movie and television series Boy Meets World and In Plain Sight.He frequently collaborates with fellow producer and writer John J. Strauss.Decter graduated from Wesleyan University in 1979.
Gilbert O'Sullivan.  Gilbert O'Sullivan (born 1 December 1946) is an Irish singer-songwriter best known for his early 1970s hits Alone Again (Naturally) Clair and Get Down. The music magazine Record Mirror voted him the No. 1 UK male singer of 1972.Worldwide he has charted 16 top 40 records including six number one songs the first of which was 1970's Nothing Rhymed (for further information see Gilbert O'Sullivan discography).
John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols.  John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols (1859–1939) known as Bowyer Nichols was an English poet. He became a trustee of the Wallace Collection. The poet Robert Nichols was his son.
Alexander Perls.  Alexander Perls (born May 11 1976) is an American musician and record producer.
Malcolm Lowry.  Clarence Malcolm Lowry (28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his novel 1947 Under the Volcano which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
Terry Chimes.  Terrence Terry Chimes (born 5 July 1956 Stepney London) is an English musician best known as the original drummer of punk rock group The Clash. He originally played with them from July 1976 to November 1976 January 1977 to April 1977 and again from May 1982 to February 1983. He later drummed for Hanoi Rocks in 1985 before the band broke up that same year.
Skyler Jett.  Skyler Jett is a singer who has worked with many top musicians such as Stevie Wonder Whitney Houston Aretha Franklin. He also was briefly the lead singer in The Commodores touring with them around the world.
Eden White.  Eden White (born 1970) is a New York singer/songwriter. She is the daughter of Janice White and Dr. Allen White both from Massachusetts. After graduating from Barnstable High School she attended Tufts University near her home in Boston Mass. In 1993 she started touring clubs in New York city and earned a cult following.
Yukie Kawamura.  Yukie Kawamura (川村 ゆきえ Kawamura Yukie born January 23 1986) is a Japanese gravure idol tarento and actress signed to Japan Art.
Chris Pinnick.  Chris Pinnick is an American guitarist and songwriter probably best known for his work with the band Chicago from 1980-1986.Pinnick was born in Van Nuys California and took up the guitar at the age of seven. An early example of his professional guitar work can be heard on Herb Alpert's single Rise which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1979.After interim guitarist Donnie Dacus left Chicago in late 1979 Pinnick was hired as a session musician for the album Chicago XIV.
Brose Partington.  Brose Partington is an Indianapolis-based kinetic sculptor. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1998 and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Herron School of Art & Design in 2004. His artworks have been shown in numerous cities across the United States including New York Chicago Miami and Los Angeles in European galleries and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia.
Thomas Blackshear.  Thomas Blackshear is an African-American artist many of whose paintings adorn Evangelical churches. He is also a sculptor and a designer of ornaments often of African American themes.Blackshear designed illustrations for numerous postage stamps issued by the United States Postal Service (USPS) including four in the Black Heritage stamp series: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Scott # 2249 issued February 20 1987 James W.
James Victore.  James Victore (born in 1962 in the city of Mountain Home Idaho) is an American art director designer and author. In 2010 Victore's monograph Victore or Who Died and Made You Boss? was published by Abrams Books. In 2010 and 2012 Victore's work exhibited in The Museum of Modern Art. He has won numerous awards and accolades for his racy and unique posters.
Bergen (singer).  Bergen is one of the most successful Turkish singers and a pioneer in the Turkish arabesque genre. When she was 17 she quit her job at a Turkish post office so that she could pursue her dream of performing on stage. Her personal life was influential in her gloomy sound and led to her success. Her husband threw nitric acid on her face resulting in blindness in her right eye. Despite this she continued singing and chose to cover the blind eye with her long hair.
Donnie Iris.  Donnie Iris (born Dominic Ierace on February 28 1943) is an American rock musician known for his work with the Jaggerz and Wild Cherry during the 1970s and for his solo albums since the 1980s with his backing band the Cruisers.
Mai Gotō (actress).  Mai Gotō (後藤麻衣 Gotō Mai) (born October 16 1975) is a Japanese actress and gravure idol.
Joseph Bonomi the Younger.  Joseph Bonomi the Younger (9 October 1796 – 3 March 1878) was an English sculptor artist Egyptologist and museum curator.
Antonio Lotti.  Antonio Lotti (ca. 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian Baroque composer.Lotti was born in Venice although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time. In 1682 Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica Venice's principal church.
Jens Tvedt.  Jens Tvedt (1857 – 1935) was a Norwegian novelist and writer of short stories. He was born in Kvinnherad. He made his literary debut in 1885 with the short story collection Inn i Fjordane. In his stories he often depicts everyday life of farmers from Western Norway. A bust of Tvedt sculptured by Ståle Kyllingstad was unveiled in Stavanger in 1932. He was biographized by Arne Espeland in 1959.
Tyler Pursel.  Tyler Pursel is an American songwriter producer and instrumentalist. He has served as long-time touring keyboardist and occasional guitarist for Gym Class Heroes and in 2011 received writing credit on The Papercut Chronicles II. He also arranged and produced the music for LadybiRdS 2007 release Regional Community Theater and played keyboards on the 2008 release by Grace Gale Stronger Faster Science.
Ian Robinson (author).  Ian Robinson (born 1937) is a British literary critic and English professor. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School Retford and Downing College Cambridge (he earned firsts in both parts of the English Tripos) where he was a pupil of F. R. Leavis.
Walter Morrison.  Walter Junie Morrison is a musician and producer born in Dayton Ohio. Morrison was a producer writer keyboardist and vocalist for the funk band the Ohio Players in the early 70s where he wrote and produced their first major hits Pain Pleasure Ecstasy and Funky Worm (1971-1972).
Abigail Heyman.  Abigail Heyman (August 1 1942 - May 28 2013) was an American feminist and photojournalist known for her 1974 book Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal.Heyman was born in Danbury Connecticut to real estate developer Lazarus Heyman and Annette Heyman. She attended Sarah Lawrence College graduating in 1964 and embarked on a career as a photographer.
Pompeo Landulfo.  Pompeo Landulfo (after 1567–1627) was an Italian painter active mainly in Naples. He was born in Maddaloni near Caserta Italy.He was a pupil or follower of Giovanni Bernardo Lama and appears to have worked under Silvestro Buono. He may have collaborated with Buono in his Annunciation at Piano di Sorrento or other works. Under Lama he may have worked on the Christ and the Doctors found at National Museum of Capodimonte and a painting of the Pentecost found in Spirito Santo in Sant'Antimo.
Michael Vincent (composer).  Michael Vincent (born in Victoria British Columbia in 1976) is a Canadian Contemporary classical music composer situated in Toronto Ontario. He is noted for his innovative works which combine electronic and traditional instrumentation as well as his work with spoken word which includes a full-length opera Generation X with text by the Canadian Author Douglas Coupland.
David Greenwalt.  David Greenwalt (born October 16 1949) is an American screenwriter director and producer.He was the co-executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and co-creator of its spinoff Angel. He is also co-creator of the short-lived cult television show Profit. He recently co-created the NBC supernatural drama Grimm.
Jesús Helguera.  Jesús Helguera (May 28 1910 – December 5 1971) was a Mexican painter. Among his most famous works are La Leyenda de los Volcanes La Leyenda Popocapetl & Ixtaccihuatl Hidalgo Rompiendo las Cadenas El Aguila y la Serpiente and Juan Diego y la Virgen de Guadalupe.
Thomas Warton.  Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian critic and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father Thomas Warton the elder. His most famous poem remains The Pleasures of Melancholy a representative work of the Graveyard poets.
Erika Fox.  Erika Fox (born 3 October 1936) is a British music educator and composer. She was born in Vienna and emigrated to England as a refugee in 1939. She grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home and studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Stevens and later with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Harrison Birtwistle.
Yu Jim-yuen.  Yu Jim-yuen (September 5 1905 – September 8 1997) (Chinese: 于占元; Mandarin Pinyin: Yú Zhānyuán; Jyutping: jyu1 zim1 jyun4) was the master of the China Drama Academy one of the main Peking Opera Schools in Hong Kong from which Jackie Chan Sammo Hung Yuen Biao Yuen Qiu Yuen Wah and Corey Yuen received their training. He was also the father of early wuxia actress Yu So Chow who appeared in more than 150 movies but his only film was The Old Master (師父出馬) in 1979 as Wen Ren-yang.
Reece Mastin.  Reece Mastin (born 24 November 1994) is a British-Australian singer-songwriter notable for being the winner of the third series of The X Factor (Australia) in 2011. Mastin subsequently signed with Sony Music Australia. His debut single Good Night reached number one in Australia and New Zealand and became Sony Music Australia's fastest selling digital single. Mastin's self-titled debut album debuted at number two on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified double platinum.
Kevin Closs.  Kevin Closs is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Manitowaning Ontario. Born in Sault Ste. Marie in 1963 Closs was raised on Manitoulin Island and currently lives in Onaping Falls. An independent recording artist since 1989 he works both as a solo performer and with his rock band The Nobs.Closs is best known for his song Erica a Canadian Top 40 hit in 1994. He has also toured as a supporting musician in Charlie Major's band.
Erwin Dressel.  Erwin Dressel (10 June 1909 in Berlin – December 1972 in Berlin) was a German composer and pianist.Following the success of his incidental music for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Dressel wrote many operas for the Deutsche Staatsoper. He also arranged music for the radio concertized as a pianist and wrote orchestral music including four symphonies; as well as concertos for various instruments (including one for two saxophones).
Carole Facal.  Carole Facal is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec. She writes and performs mainly in French under the stage name Caracol.
Dragana Mirković.  Dragana Mirković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Мирковић pronounced [drǎɡana mǐːrkɔ̝v̞it͡ɕ]; born 18 January 1968) is a Serbian pop-folk singer. She is very popular in ex-Yugoslavia Bulgaria Romania Greece and Turkey. Mirković is arguably one of the most successful artists from the former Yugoslavia along with Bosnian singer Lepa Brena.
Cierra Ramirez.  Cierra Alexa Ramirez (born March 9 1995) is an American actress and singer. She stars as one of the main characters in the ABC Family series The Fosters as Mariana.
George Papp.  George Edward Papp (January 20 1916 - August 8 1989) was an American comic book artist. Best known as one of the principal artists on the long-running Superboy feature for DC Comics Papp also co-created the Green Arrow character with Mort Weisinger and co-created Congorilla along with writer Whitney Ellsworth.Papp began his comic book career with the occasional feature and cartoon in early issues of the Superman family of comics.
Nikki Benz.  Nikki Benz (born December 11 1981) is a Canadian pornographic actress and Penthouse Pet who was selected the 2011 Pet of the Year.
Cevin Soling.  Cevin Daniel Soling (pronounced KEV-in SO-ling) (b. August 5 1966) is an American writer filmmaker philosopher musician music producer and artist. He is known for his Rumpleville book series his bands The Neanderthal Spongecake and The Love Kills Theory his film work including A Hole in the Head Boris the Dog and his writings and essays. In 2009 he appeared on The Colbert Report to talk about his documentary The War on Kids.
Fiona McDonald.  Fiona McDonald (born 1965) is a New Zealand pop singer and television personality.
Vernon Burch.  Vernon Darrell Burch (born 1957) is an American R&B/soul singer and guitarist.
Milo Aukerman.  Milo Aukerman (born January 1 1963) is an American singer songwriter and research biochemist. Aukerman is most widely known for being the lead singer of the early Los Angeles area punk rock band the Descendents a group widely considered to be pioneers of modern pop punk[citation needed] . While not an original member he joined after their first single (Ride the Wild b/w It's a Hectic World).
Sage Francis.  Paul Sage Francis (born November 18 1976) is a hip hop artist from Providence Rhode Island. He is a founder of Strange Famous Records.
Giuseppe Romani.  Giuseppe Romani (c. 1654 – 1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era.There are very few information available about the life of this artist born in Como Italy although many paintings of his still survive. It is not sure if Romani can be identified with the Joseph Romani an Italian artist active in Madrid described by Antonio Palomino in his An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters sculptors and architects.
Cesare Calense.  Cesare Calense (active c. 1590) was a native of the province of Lecce in the kingdom of Naples Italy. He painted a Deposition for the church of St John the Baptist in Naples.
Edward Charles.  Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri Isola de Capri 1898) better known by the pen name Edward Charles was an English author educator social advocate and sexologist.His most famous writings are The Sexual Impulse Mens Gods Those Thoughtful People Sand & the Blue Moss Apple Pie Bed Indian Patchwork (with Mary Charles a pseudonym for his wife Dorothy Mary Chance) Portrait of the Artist's Children and Idle Hands.
Essi Moh.  Essi Moh is an Algerian singer a songwriter and a guitar player.Moh's name refers to the old Algerian saying Dar Essi moh edkhoul ou rouh which means : Essi Moh’s place you can enter it and leave it whenever you want!.The same way the home of Moh was then an open place for an average citizen to enjoy Moh’s music intends to be a common experience for everyone to enjoy regardless of their origin background social class religion sex or any other distinction.Moh started his career as guitarist for several artists from various musical spheres (Reggae Soul Chanson Française (French Popular Music) Blues Gnawi (sub-Saharan African Berber and Sufi mixture)…).He performed in different venues such as the New Morning Casino de Paris Cabaret Sauvage….In 2010 with a growing experience behind him Moh decided to undertake a solo career and with the help of his friend Karim Kiared (Songwriter) and recorded EP Zenjabil. 
Arkady Gornfeld.  Arkady Georgievich Gornfeld (Russian: Арка́дий Гео́ргиевич Го́рнфельд IPA: [ɐrˈkadʲɪj ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈɡornfʲɪlʲt] ; 1867–1941) was a prominent Russian essayist literary critic and translator best known for a feud with dissident poet Osip Mandelstam.
Anaís.  Anaís (born Anaís Martínez on June 22 1984[citation needed] in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic) is a singer. She was the winner of the second season of Objetivo Fama a Puerto Rican reality-show-contest that airs on Univision Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico and on the Telefutura network in the United States mainland and is widely considered to be the most successful winner of Objetivo Fama.
Caravaggio.  Michelangelo Merisi (or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571? – 18 July? 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome Naples Malta and Sicily between 1592 (1595?) and 1610.
Daniel Dociu.  Daniel Dociu is a video game art director and concept artist. He is the chief art director for NCsoft North America and also works for its subsidiary ArenaNet.Dociu was born in Cluj Romania. He obtained his master's degree in industrial design at the Fine Arts Academy in Cluj in 1982. Throughout the decade he taught at the academy as an assistant professor and later worked as a graphic designer in Athens Greece a product designer and a freelance artist.
Paul D. Carter.  Paul D. Carter (born 1980) is an Australian teacher and author. In 2012 he won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for his first novel Eleven Seasons.
Arsi Nami.  Arsalan Nami (Persian: ارسلان نامی‎) (born May 21 1984 in Shiraz) better known as Arsi Nami is a Persian-Swedish singer songwriter and Music Therapy scholar living in Los Angeles California.
D. P. Moran.  David Patrick Moran (22 March 1869 – 31 January 1936) better known as simply D. P. Moran was an Irish journalist activist and cultural-political theorist known as the principal advocate of a specifically Gaelic Catholic Irish nationalism during the early 20th century.
Bruce Zimmerman.  Bruce Zimmerman (born 11 June 1952) in California is a U.S. novelist screenwriter and television producer. Among the television series which Zimmerman has worked on are Desperate Housewives CSI: NY K-Ville The District Judging Amy Reunion So Weird and Street Time.
Elliot Richardson (musician).  Elliot Richardson is an American music producer mixer songwriter and multi instrumentalist. His productions have gone on to be Televised; charted on the top 40 Billboard charts; and have received worldwide radio airplay. His productions have been used and played on Grey's Anatomy One Tree Hill Ghost Whisper MTV Real World and other various Television shows. Currently he is residing in the greater Nashville area and is continuing his work with nationally known up and coming artists.
James Kottak.  James Kottak (born December 26 1962 Louisville Kentucky) is an American drummer for the heavy metal band Scorpions of Germany which he joined in 1996.Prior to joining Scorpions Kottak was a drummer for The Bob Brickley Band Nut House Mister Charlie Buster Brown Montrose Kingdom Come Wild Horses the McAuley Schenker Group Warrant and Ashba. In February 1997 he helped Dio on their US tour by replacing Vinny Appice for four or five shows when Vinny Appice had pneumonia.
Murakami Namiroku.  Murakami Namiroku (村上浪六 December 18 1865 – December 1 1944) was a Japanese novelist and writer who specialized in popular fiction featuring chivalric gangsters. He was the grandfather of Otoya Yamaguchi.[citation needed]
Jan van Oort.  Jan van Oort (Amsterdam 13 April 1921 – Arnhem 29 November 2006) was a Dutch children's book writer and comic strip cartoonist working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu. He is known for his creation of Paulus the woodgnome.
Tracy Byrd.  Tracy Lynn Byrd (born December 17 1966) is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1993 Byrd broke through on the country music scene that year with his single Holdin' Heaven which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Although he did not land a second Number One until 2002's Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo Byrd has charted more than thirty hit singles in his career including eleven additional Top Ten hits.
Lane Twitchell.  Lane Twitchell (b. 1967 in Salt Lake City Utah) is a contemporary visual artist. He lives and works in Brooklyn New York.Twitchell was raised in Ogden. The beginnings of his project addressed his Mormon upbringing drawing from the American religion's history mythology and iconography. This aspect of the artist's work has expanded as he has sought to address the larger realm of American religious fundamentalism. His working method involves the use of folded and cut paper.
José Torres Martino.  José Antonio Torres Martinó (1916 – 22 April 2011) was a Puerto Rican painter artist journalist and writer. Martino founded or expanded many of Puerto Rico's major media artistic and journalism organizations. He was known for abstract paintings many of which were inspired by the southern coast of Puerto Rico near the city of Ponce.
Gregg Foreman.  Gregg Foreman is an American musician and DJ born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Foreman gained recognition originally as the front man of The Delta 72 a band that channeled post punk rock sensibilities with 1960s British Invasion R&B to create a frenetic and honest style. His live gigs with The Delta 72 have been characterized by his onstage energetic performances and James Brown-like moves.
Boban Simonovski.  Boban Bobi Simonovski (Cyrillic: Бобан (Боби) Симоновски) (born 10 December 1989 in Skopje) is a Macedonian musician.
Jordie Albiston.  Jordie Albiston (born 30 September 1961) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne one of three or four children. She studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a PhD in Literature. Her first collection of poems Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award received runner-up in the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize.
Blood Raw.  Bruce Falson (born April 17 1975) better known by his stage name Blood Raw is an American rapper. He comes from Panama City Florida. He was also part of the rap-group U.S.D.A. before he left Corporate Thugz Entertainment in 2010.He recently signed a new deal with Indie Powerhouse Big Cat Records.His debut album My Life: The True Testimony peaked at number five on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart also reaching number 29 on the Billboard 200.
Geneviève Duboscq.  Genevieve Duboscq (born april 9 1933) is a French author who wrote the best selling My Longest Night - A twelve-year-old heroine's stirring account of D-Day and after.
Chris Haskett.  Chris Haskett (born 1962 in Washington D.C.) is an American guitarist. He was a member of the Rollins Band from 1986 to 1997 and again for the band's reunion in 2006. He has also recorded or performed with David Bowie Foetus Pigface The Cassandra Complex Tool and others.Haskett has recorded several solo instrumental albums of both acoustic and electric guitar music and is currently working on two more due in 2010.
Shazz.  Shazz (born Didier Delesalle 1967) is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the alias for Soul house and Jazz.Shazz is one of the first artists signed to the label Fnac Music Dance Division. He collaborated with Ludovic Navarre (Saint Germain) under the name L'n'S and with Laurent Garnier under the name ChoiceShazz has also produced music in this musical genre and has been releasing records for French musical labels since 1992.
Harold LeDoux.  Harold Anthony LeDoux (born 1926) is an artist best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip Judge Parker. He worked in the realistic style associated with Stan Drake Leonard Starr et al.While in the Merchant Marine during World War II LeDoux saved enough money to be able to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Arriving in New York City he began contributing to the Famous Funnies comic books.
Barry Cryer.  Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935) is a British writer and comedian. Cryer has written for many noted performers including Dave Allen Stanley Baxter Jack Benny Rory Bremner George Burns Jasper Carrott Tommy Cooper Les Dawson Dick Emery Kenny Everett Bruce Forsyth David Frost Bob Hope Frankie Howerd Richard Pryor Spike Milligan Mike Yarwood The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.Cryer also wrote episodes for the Doctor in the House British television comedy series.
Lars Eighner.  Lars Eighner (born November 25 1948) is the author of Travels with Lizbeth a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s; the included essay On Dumpster Diving which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title My Daily Dives in the Dumpster; Pawn to Queen Four a novel; Lavender Blue: How to Write and Sell Gay Men's Erotica also published as Elements of Arousal (an early edition includes an introduction by noted erotica author John Preston); Gay Cosmos a work of gay theory; and numerous short works of gay men's erotica collected under various titles.Lars Eighner was born Laurence Vail Eighner in Corpus Christi Texas the son of Alice Elizabeth Vail Eighner (later Harlow) and Lawrence Clifton Eighner and the grandson of the Texas poets Alice Ewing Vail (The Big Thicket) and John Arthur Vail (John Vail Ballads). 
Clyde Robert Bulla.  Clyde Robert Bulla(b. January 9 1914 near King City Missouri United States d. May 23 2007 Warrensburg Missouri) was the author of over fifty books for children. His first book The Donkey Cart was published in 1946. His autobiography A Grain of Wheat: A Writer Begins was published in 1985. The book referred to an essay he wrote in 1924 for the St. Joseph Gazette in which he tied with 100 others for third-place to write about a grain of wheat.
Pavel Kunaver.  Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) was a Slovene pedagogue writer of popular science books geography history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy in Slovenia.He won the Levstik Award in 1981 for his book Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah (The Story and Truth About the Stars).
Asa Baber.  Asa Baber (June 19 1936 – June 16 2003) was an American author former Marine and columnist for Playboy. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago Baber was involved in several incidents of petty mischief before his grandmother arranged for him to attend the Lawrenceville Academy a prestigious boarding school in New Jersey. Baber went on to Princeton University where he joined the United States Marine Corps Platoon Leader Corps.
Pietro Giovanni Abbati.  Pietro Giovanni Abbati (in English Peter John Abbati) (1683-1745) was an Italian set designer painter and engraver.Abbati was born in Parma. He was active in the cities of Turin Parma Bologna and Vienna. Pupil of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena Abbati published several works in 1707. He devoted himself mainly to landscape painting and engraving. He died in Parma in 1745.
Ion Țuculescu.  Ion Ţuculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon t͡sukuˈlesku]; 19 May 1910 – 27 July 1962) was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously when in the spring of 1965 a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II European modern artists.
Petros Christo.  Petros Christodoulidis (Greek: Πέτρος Χριστοδουλίδης) born March 4 1975 in Greece is the current bass player of the Power metal band Firewind. He has also played in Breaking Silence. He is the owner of Emerald Cafe named after the Thin Lizzy song in his home town Thessaloniki.
Kieron Connolly.  Kieron Connolly(born March 14th 1961) is an Irish novelist. His novels 'Water Sign' 'There is a House' and 'Harold' have dealt with subjects as diverse as romance bereavement and addiction. Although everything about the author seems rooted in Dublin: his novels accent comparisons with Brendan Behan and Beckett etc. his place of birth is Thurles County Tipperary. Connolly first came to public attention when his play 'Tuesday' was produced in the late 1990s.
Gene L. Coon.  Gene L. Coon (January 7 1924 – July 8 1973) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best remembered for his work on the original Star Trek series.
Justin Storms.  Justin Storms (born 1981 in Corpus Christi Texas) is an American artist and musician.
Leiji Matsumoto.  Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士 Matsumoto Reiji born Akira Matsumoto (松本晟) January 25 1938 in Kurume Fukuoka Japan) is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki is also known as a manga artist.
Audrey Penn.  Audrey Penn is an American author of children's books. She is best known for writing the book The Kissing Hand.
Mathilde Santing.  Mathilde Santing (born Mathilde Eleveld 24 October 1958) is a Dutch singer .Santing was born in Amstelveen The Netherlands.
Francisco Avitia.  Francisco Avitia Tapia (13 May 1915 – 29 June 1995) commonly known as El Charro Avitia was a Mexican singer and actor. His best known songs are Maquina 501 and Caballo alazán lucero.He also acted in films such as Primero soy mexicano (1950) and El zurdo (1965). Avitia died on June 30 1995 in Mexico City. He currently has family in the Northern Hemisphere in countries Mexico and the United States.
Johnny Wakelin.  Johnny Wakelin (born 1939 Brighton Sussex England) is an English Pye Records recording artist.
Peter White (musician).  Peter White (born September 20 1954) is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion guitarist. He also plays the accordion and the piano. He is known for his 20 year collaboration with Al Stewart. His brother Danny White was one of the original members who formed the UK based band Matt Bianco.
Chi Li.  Chi Li (1957 - ) born in Xiantao Hubei Province of China is a contemporary female Chinese writer. She graduated from department of Chinese literature at Wuhan University in 1986.
Miss Shanel.  Miss Shanel born Ruth Nirere is a Rwandan singer and actress.
Maria Laina.  Maria Laina (Greek: Μαρία Λαϊνά) (b. Patras 1947) is an award winning Greek poet.
Siddharth Katragadda.  Siddharth Katragadda is a poet writer artist and filmmaker of Indian origin.
Francis Chapin.  Francis W. Chapin (February 14 1899–February 23 1965) was an American artist. His works included both watercolors and oil paintings of landscapes and portraits.He was born in Bristolville Ohio. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta in 1921. A year later he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago where he spent six years and won the Bryan Lathrop Fellowship in his last year.
Yunyu.  Yunyu is an Australian musician originally from Singapore now living in New South Wales. Her music is mostly played on keyboards and pianoforte. Occasionally when looking for variety she will play the Guzheng.Yunyu won Australia’s Triple J Unearthed in 2002.
Maria Darling.  Maria Darling is an English voice actress who regularly provides character voices for children's television programmes in the UK and the US as well as videogames such as the Professor Layton series and the UK versions of the Ape Escape franchise.
Bud Spangler.  Robert Bud Spangler (December 7 1938 – January 16 2014) was an American jazz percussionist composer radio broadcaster music producer and concert organizer. He began his music career in the Detroit music scene of the 1960s engineering for R&B blues and funk-oriented bands and working as a drummer for jazz groups.
Nikolai Zlatovratsky.  Nikolai Nikolaievich Zlatovratsky (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Златовра́тский) (December 26 1845 – December 23 1911) was a Russian writer.
Eirik Stubø.  Eirik Aasan Stubø (born 16 June 1965 in Narvik Norway) is a Norwegian stage producer and theatre director son of Jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943-1986) and Grete Karin Aasan Stubø (b. 1943) and brother of Jazz guitarist Håvard and Jazz singer Kjersti Stubø.
Edith Bliss.  Edith Bliss (28 September 1959 – 3 May 2012) was an Australian singer and television presenter.She was born Eda Bliss in Brisbane Queensland and studied at the University of Queensland before moving to Sydney in 1979. There she initially worked as manager of an upmarket shoe store. In 1979 she reportedly accompanied a friend to provide moral support at a singing audition and she was asked to also audition. She did and won a contract with ATV Northern Publishing.
Marie Miller.  Marie Miller is a Modern Folk singer-songwriter who often blends a mesh of modern folk pop and country. Earlier in her career her song Cold charted on Christian music charts.
Regina Russell.  Regina Russell is a film producer director television presenter and retired actress.
Greg Tribbett.  Greg Tribbett (born November 7 1968) is the guitarist and backing vocalist for American band Mudvayne and the former guitarist for Hellyeah. He has been with Mudvayne since their inception in 1996. He has named Randy Rhoads as the guitarist who most influenced him. He plays Gibson V's Gibson Les Pauls Ibanez S-series Ibanez Artists ARX300 and Legator V's which he currently endorses.
Giovanni Bartolena.  Giovanni Bartolena (Livorno June 24 1886 - Livorno February 16 1942) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes but also of landscapes with animals.
Holly Near.  Holly Near (born June 6 1949 in Ukiah California) is an American singer-songwriter actor teacher and activist.
Bizan Kawakami.  Bizan Kawakami (川上 眉山 Kawakami Bizan March 5 1869 – June 15 1908) was a Japanese novelist of Meiji era. His real name was Akira Kawakami (川上 亮 Kawakami Akira). Born in Osaka Prefecture he dropped out of school of liberal arts in Tokyo University and joined Ken'yusha. After struggling with the rise of naturalist literature yet remaining a popular author until his death he died by suicide at age 40.Aozora Bunko has a digitalized collection of his works.
Paolo Conte.  Paolo Conte (born January 6 1937) is an Italian singer pianist composer and lawyer notable for his grainy resonant voice his colourful and dreamy compositions (evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds as well as of jazz music South American atmospheres and of French-language singers like Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens)[citation needed] and his wistful sometimes melancholic lyrics.
Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany.  Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany (1753 – 24 March 1821) was a French writer.Madame d’Abany was born at Rouen. Her marriage with the violent-tempered officer d’Abany was not happy. After the separation from her husband she settled down in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Dennis Frederiksen.  Dennis Hardy Fergie Frederiksen (May 15 1951 – January 18 2014) was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion Angel LeRoux and Toto as well as providing backing vocals for Survivor. He contributed to hit singles in three consecutive years all with different bands: Survivor's American Heartbeat in 1982 LeRoux's Carrie's Gone in 1983 and Toto's Stranger in Town in 1984.
Joe Higgs.  Joe Higgs (born Joseph Benjamin Higgs 3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson. He was a popular artist in Jamaica for four decades and is also known for his work tutoring younger musicians including Bob Marley and the Wailers and Jimmy Cliff.
Nancy Stahl.  Nancy Stahl is an American illustrator.Stahl was an inductee into the Illustrators Hall of Fame by the Society of Illustrators in 2012.
Clayton James Cubitt.  Clayton James Cubitt a.k.a. Siege is an American photographer filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn. He is known for applying an arrestingly controlled and sleek sense of style to art portrait erotic and fashion photography. He has been described as one of a new breed of photographers no longer content to draw a distinction between the worlds of fashion art and porn.[citation needed]
Hideyuki Kikuchi.  Hideyuki Kikuchi (菊地 秀行 Kikuchi Hideyuki born September 25 1949) is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works including the Vampire Hunter D series Darkside Blues and Wicked City. He has been compared to both Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft.
MC Kash.  Roushan Illahi known by his stage name MC Kash is a rapper/emcee from Kashmir. He took his name from his home province Kashmir. He considers himself a street poet.
Tim Madison.  Tim Madison (better known as Vadge Moore) is an American musician and author best known as the drummer of punk band The Dwarves. He currently is one of two members in Chthonic Force a noise/industrial band based in Atlanta Georgia. He also is a co founder of Neither/Neither World and played in Phoenix Thunderstone. In 2009 he released his first book Chthonic: Prose & Theory.
Auguste Defauconpret.  Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret (1767 Lille – 1843) was a French man of letters.Initially a lawyer Defauconpret relocated to England where he wrote some now forgotten novels. However he became well known for his translations into French of English-language novels particularly those of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper although he modified the text of The Last of the Mohicans to be more favorable to the French.
Philippe Doumenc.  Philippe Doumenc (born 21 April 1934) is a French novelist. His first novel Les Comptoirs du Sud won the 1989 Prix Renaudot.He is the grandson of Aimé Doumenc (1880-1948).
Loïc Le Ribault.  Loïc Le Ribault (1947–2006) was a French geologist and essayist.
Daniel Pinchbeck.  Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York's East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is a co-founder of Evolver a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich an online magazine centered around spirituality philosophy and activism.
Elizabeth Geertruida Agatha Dyson.  Elizabeth Geertruida Agatha Dyson (15 January 1897–17 October 1951) was a New Zealand journalist and magazine editor. She was born in Ginneken Netherlands on 15 January 1897.
Shoko Nakagawa.  Shoko Nakagawa (中川 翔子 Nakagawa Shōko born May 5 1985 in Tokyo) is a tarento (media personality) actress voice actress illustrator and singer. She is best known as the presenter of Pokémon Sunday. She is the daughter of Katsuhiko Nakagawa a celebrity in Japan in the 1980s.She is represented by the Watanabe Entertainment talent agency. Her nickname is Shokotan (しょこたん). (In the blog by Mika Kaneda who appeared with her on Ōsama no Brunch she is called Shokotasu).
Miriam Young.  Miriam Young (1913–1974) was an American children's book writer. Of her more than thirty published works books include Miss Suzy and Witch's Garden. She has also written many adult books.
Arthur Hugh Clough.  Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) (1 January 1819 – 13 November 1861) was an English poet an educationalist and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough who became principal of Newnham College Cambridge.
Thomas P. Kelley.  Thomas Patrick Kelley (1910 – 1982) was a Canadian author notable for three books on the infamous Black Donnellys of Lucan Ontario.Born at Campbellford Ontario he journeyed with his father's medicine show then boxed professionally. In 1937 (age 27) he began his prolific pulp writing career with a sale to Weird Tales. He wrote many stories for Uncanny Tales a Canadian pulp magazine. He was the author of some two-dozen paperback books largely of the true-crime variety.
Gesina ter Borch.  Gesina ter Borch (1633–1690) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose work mostly consists of watercolour paintings in albums.
Franz Hessel.  Franz Hessel (1880–1941) was a German writer and translator. With Walter Benjamin he produced a German translation of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.Hessel's parents Fanny and Heinrich Hessel came to Berlin in 1880 and joined the Lutheran church (having been born Jewish).
Mousumi Bhowmik.  Moushumi Bhowmik (Bengali: মৌসুমী ভৌমিক; born 1964) is an Indian Bengali singer and songwriter. Her songs are usually considered to belong to the modern song type. Her albums including Ekhono golpo lekho (এখনো গল্প লেখো) and Ami ghor bahir kori enjoy great popularity in Bengali-speaking areas of India and in Bangladesh.
Mai Neng Moua.  Mai Neng Moua (Laos 1974–) is a Hmong writer and a founder of the Paj Ntaub Voice a Hmong literary magazine. She is also the editor of the first anthology of Hmong American writers Bamboo Among the Oaks. She resides in Minnesota.When Moua was diagnosed with endstage renal disease as a junior at St. Olaf College she searched for inspiration and comfort in writing by her fellow Hmong-Americans.
Leif Borthen.  Leif Borthen (25 January 1911 Trondheim – 9 June 1979 Ibiza) was a Norwegian journalist and author.
Ernest Kaʻai.  Ernest Kaʻai (1881–1961) was considered by many to have been the foremost ukulele authority of his time cited by some as being Hawaii's Greatest Ukulele Player. Kaʻai who was born in Honolulu Hawaii was said to have been the first musician to play a complete melody with chords.
Christian Wallumrød.  Christian Wallumrød (born 26 April 1971 in Kongsberg Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano organ and electronic keyboards) and composer and is considered one of the most prominent musicians of the younger Norwegian generation known from releases with his own Christian Wallumrød Ensemble on the German label ECM Records while regularly touring and appearing in festivals in Norway elsewhere in Scandinavia and Europe and in the US.
Asbjørn Blokkum Flø.  Asbjørn Blokkum Flø (born 6 May 1973 in Volda) is a Norwegian composer musician and sound artist.He studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Lasse Thoresen Asbjørn Schaathun and Ivar Frounberg.
Martin Walker (actor).  Martin Walker (1901–1955) was a British film actor. Walker appeared in films for over thirty years from 1922 onwards largely in supporting roles but occasionally as a lead such as in Help Yourself (1932). He also wrote and directed a short film Hide and Seek in 1922. Walker's final film appearance was The Belles of St. Trinian's in 1954.
Alec Sokolow.  Alec Sokolow is an American film writer who has worked on such projects as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen Toy Story Money Talks and Garfield: The Movie.
Ewa Gargulinska.  Ewa Gargulinska (born 27 August 1941 in Krakow Poland) is a Polish painter. She is known for her Romantic Expressionist work. Gargulinska was a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts in New York USA from 1982 to 1983 and Central Saint Martins London England from 1984 to 2011. Gargulinska currently lives and works in London England.
Eubie Blake.  James Hubert Blake (February 7 1887 – February 12 1983) better known as Eubie Blake was an American composer lyricist and pianist of ragtime jazz and popular music. In 1921 Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans.
Lauren Grodstein.  Lauren Grodstein (born November 19 1975) is an American novelist and educator at Rutgers University of Camden in New Jersey known for her use of male viewpoint characters. Her novel Girls Dinner Club made the New York Public Library “Book for the Teen Age” list in 2006.
Lizz Tayler.  Lizz Tayler (born June 9 1990 in Phoenix Arizona) is an American pornographic actress and adult model.
Sarah Walker (Australian author).  Sarah Walker (born 1965) is an Australian author and screenwriter best known for writing and script producing episodes of Home and Away and All Saints. She has also written novels including The Year of Freaking Out and worked as a journalist and actor appearing in Man of Flowers (1983).
Michal Na'aman.  Michal Na'aman (born November 19 1951) is an Israeli artist.
Syience.  Reginald Reggie Perry better known as Syience is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter record producer and musician from Flint MI. He has worked with a number of recognizable and respected artists including Beyoncé Cheryl Cole Jay-Z John Legend Mary J. Blige Ne-Yo and more. Syience won two Grammys for his work on Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains and Ne-Yo's Because of You.
Emma Sandys.  Emma Sandys (born Mary Ann Emma Sands) (Norwich 1843 – November 1877 Norwich) was a 19th-century English painter.Sandys was born in Norwich where her father Anthony Sands (1806–1883) gave her some early lessons. She worked in portraits in both oil and chalk often in medieval or period dress. Her earliest dated painting is marked 1863 and she exhibited her works in both London and Norwich between 1867 and 1874.
Richard Evans (artist).  Richard Evans (born 1976) also known as Dick Evans is a sculpture installation and film artist who lives and works in New York. His work is concerned with the individual's subjective relationship to materials geography and structure.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour.  Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire Rousseau Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.
Claire Nielson.  Claire Nielson (born 1937) is a Scottish actress primarily known for her television roles. On television she played the wife of the belligerent American guest Mr. Hamilton in the Waldorf Salad episode of Fawlty Towers. Other TV credits include: Upstairs Downstairs Monarch of the Glen The Brothers The Two Ronnies Z-Cars and Taggart.
Taboo (rapper).  Jaime Luis Gómez (born July 14 1975) better known by his stage name Taboo is an American singer actor and rapper best known as a member of the group The Black Eyed Peas.
Purbayan Chatterjee.  Purbayan Chatterjee (Bengali পূর্বায়ণ চট্টোপাধ্যায়; born in Kolkata 12 September 1976) is an Indian sitar player and composer who lives in Kolkata India. He is noted for amalgamating traditional Indian classical music with contemporary world music genres.
Martin Flavin.  Martin Archer Flavin (November 2 1883 – December 27 1967) was an American playwright and novelist.He was awarded the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Journey in the Dark.Flavin was born in San Francisco California and died in Carmel California.Flavin was a Sigma Chi at the University of Chicago which he attended from 1903 to 1905.
David Hughes (novelist).  David Hughes (27 July 1930 – 11 April 2005) was an English novelist. His best known work included The Pork Butcher (Schocken 1985) and But for Bunter published as The Joke of the Century (Taplinger 1986) in the United States.Born in Alton Hampshire He went to school at Eggar's Grammar School Alton and King's College School Wimbledon.
Fern Kinney.  Fern Kinney is an American R&B and disco singer who is best remembered for her releases Groove Me and Together We Are Beautiful.
Rip Taylor.  Charles Elmer Rip Taylor Jr. (born January 13 1935) is an American actor and comedian.
Mark Simmonds (saxophonist).  Mark Simmonds is an Australian jazz tenor saxophonist composer and leader of the group The Freeboppers. Born in Christchurch New Zealand in 1955 he moved to Sydney Australia when he was 10 years old.
James S. Sutterlin.  James S. Sutterlin (born March 15 1922) is an author an academic and a former officer at the United States Department of State with rank equivalent to an Assistant Secretary of State who also spent 13 years working in various capacities for the Secretariat of the United Nations.
Jocelyn Golden.  Jocelyn Golden wrote Learning To Be Me - My Twenty-Three-Year Battle with Bulimia (ISBN 1583484825) in October 2005. It has gained attention as being one of the most in-depth accounts of extreme bulimia. Her battle from the age of 13 involved two surgeries including losing her large intestine. Today she writes and speaks on the subject of bulimia and related issues.
John Romeril.  John Henry Romeril (born 26 October 1945) is a contemporary Australian playwright.John Romeril was born and grew up in Melbourne where he attended Monash University. His first plays I Don't Know Who To Feel Sorry For (1969) and Chicago Chicago (1970) were written while he was still a student. Since then he has written over forty works including Mrs Thally F (1971) The Floating World (1975) and The Kelly Dance (1984).
Sain (musician).  Sain real name Kieran Church (born August 19 1978) is a British electronic music artist producer & DJ. Sain currently runs the record label 3Bass through whom he releases his music. Sain is also one half of the techno duo Identical Dogs and has worked with many other musicians from the largely underground and unsigned music scene. Having studied Chemistry at University of Oxford kieran released his first tracks as Sain in 2001.
Alberto Mazzucato.  Alberto Mazzucato (28 July 1813 – 31 December 1877) was an Italian composer music teacher and writer.Mazzucato was born in Udine. Trained at the Padua Conservatory he composed eight operas between 1834 and 1843 of which his most successful was Esmeralda (1838). He also contributed music to the pastiche La vergine di Kermo (1870) which also contained music by Carlo Pedrotti Antonio Cagnoni Federico Ricci Amilcare Ponchielli and Giovanni Pacini.
Alan Hewitt (musician).  Alan Hewitt (musician) is an American composer producer recording and performing artist. He currently serves as keyboardist for the Moody Blues band.Hewitt was born in Michigan and attended Berklee College of Music. Hewitt served as a producer for over half a decade alongside Maurice White of Earth Wind and Fire (EWF) with the Greatest Hits album going platinum in 2000.
Édouard Bourdet.  Édouard Bourdet (26 October 1887 – 17 January 1945) was a French playwright.Bourdet was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye France and died in Paris.He was married to the poet Catherine Pozzi; their son was Claude Bourdet.
Beatrix Potter.  Beatrix Potter (born Helen Beatrix Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author illustrator natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a wealthy Unitarian family Potter along with her younger brother Walter Bertram (1872–1918) grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.
Aino Laos.  Aino Laos (also known as Gudrun Laos or Laos) is a singer songwriter and record producer from England. She sang two songs by Dieter Bohlen (That's What Love Is All About; Highway To Freedom) that were released on the soundtrack of German television series Die Stadtindianer in 1994.
Lesley Choyce.  Lesley Choyce (born 21 March 1951) is a Canadian author of novels non-fiction children's books and poetry.Born in Riverside Township New Jersey he was educated at Rutgers University CUNY Graduate Center and Montclair State University. He emigrated to Canada in 1979 and lives in East Lawrencetown Nova Scotia.Choyce is a part-time instructor at Dalhousie University host of the television series Choyce Words and Off the Page and Founding Director of Pottersfield Press.Novelist and poet.
Marga Scheide.  Marga Scheide (born Margareth Scheide on February 15 1954 in Amsterdam Netherlands) is a Dutch former model and a singer. She is a member of the girl group Luv'.Alongside her Luv' colleagues Patty Brard and José Hoebee she scored a string of international hit songs such as You're the Greatest Lover Trojan Horse Casanova and Ooh Yes I Do. She was the only member to be involved in all the group's line-ups.
Andy Park (comics).  Andy Park (born July 3 1975) is a Korean-American comic book artist illustrator and concept artist.
David Simon.  David Simon (born 1960) is an American author journalist and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years (1982–95) and wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991) and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) with Ed Burns. The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99) on which Simon served as a writer and producer.
Michael Gustavius Payne.  Michael Gustavius Payne (born 1969) is a Welsh figurative painter. He paints primarily in oils and is influenced by mythological themes within a contemporary context. During his early exhibiting career he was known as Michael Payne before he began using his full name. Since late 2012 he has dropped his first name and now uses the shorter Gustavius Payne.
Zeng Yi.  Zeng Yi (Chinese: 曾毅; pinyin: Zēng Yì; born November 6 1979) is a Chinese singer. He sings in Mandarin Chinese as well as English and he is a member of the Chinese popular music duo Phoenix Legend along with Yangwei Linghua.
Yangji Lee.  Yangji Lee (March 15 1955–May 22 1992) was a second-generation Zainichi Korean Japanese novelist born in Nishikatsura Yamanashi Japan. When she was in grade school her parents acquired Japanese citizenship and her nationality became Japanese at that time.In 1982 while studying at Seoul National University Lee published her work Nabi Taryong in the literary magazine Gunzou and her career as a writer began.
Bertrice Small.  Bertrice Small (born December 9 1937 in Manhattan New York New York is an American New York Times bestselling writer of historical and erotic romance novels. Bertrice lives on Long Island New York with her husband George Small. She is a member of The Authors Guild Romance Writers of America PAN and PASIC.
Gacian Reyneau.  Gacian Reyneau (fl. 1398–1429) was a Burgundian composer at the court of Martin of Aragon. His sole surviving attributed work the rondeau Va t'en mon cuer is one of the later works in the 1350-1420 span of the Codex Chantilly written in the then modern simpler style. An edition of the rondeau is found in Willi Apel Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae Vol.53 1970. Several recordings have been made.
Catherine DeVrye.  Catherine DeVrye is a Canadian born Australian author of 7 best selling non fiction books[citation needed] and a former Australian Executive Woman of the Year winner.[citation needed]In addition to her writing the former IBM executive also speaks internationally on customer service managing change & turning obstacles to opportunities to follow your dream.[citation needed]
Peter Handke.  Peter Handke (German: [ˈhantkə]; born 6 December 1942) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work though considered controversial by critics and scholars alike has been awarded numerous European literary prizes.
Quetzatl.  Esiris Kayab Lyons also known as Quetzatl is an American electronic musician and record producer. His music has charted extensively on College Radio Top Tens and is featured in Independent Films Documentaries and Television Programs. Relying heavily upon improvisation and taking an avant-garde approach his music has been described as an alien blend of disrupted electro and bleep led techno.
Pietro Antonio Bernabei.  Pietro Antonio Bernabei M.D. (born 13 March 1948) is an Italian painter notable for his concept of bioarte. A native of Florence Pietro Antonio Bernabei has since 1990 focused his artistic research on life's biological image and its functional aspects searching for cross-references which unite and disunite art and life sciences. To define his artistic work he introduced in 2000 the idea of bioarte (the Italian word corresponds to BioArt in English).
Becca Stevens.  Becca Stevens is an American jazz pop and folk singer and guitarist. Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling listed her as one of his five favorite jazz vocalists and music critic Ted Gioia identified her album Weightless (2011) as one of the one hundred best albums of 2011.She has collaborated with pianists Brad Mehldau and Taylor Eigsti. Stevens leads the Becca Stevens Band with Liam Robinson on accordion and keyboards Chris Tordini on bass and Jordan Perlson on drums and percussion.
MeeK.  MeeK (birth name Stephane-Franck Pascal; born 16 February 1971 in Montmorency near Paris France) is a Franco-English Alternative pop singer-songwriter musician and producer.
Geling Yan.  Geling Yan (simplified Chinese: 严歌苓; traditional Chinese: 嚴歌苓; pinyin: Yán Gēlíng; born 1958) is a famous Chinese writer author of several novels short stories and screenplays. Much of her work has been adapted for film. She is currently represented by the Hong Kong based Peony Literary Agency.
Richard Lyons (musician).  Richard Pastor Dick Seeland Lyons (born 1963) is one of the members in Negativland. His personas in the band include Dick Vaughn 5-time Cali Award winner; auto trivia expertDick Goodbody and Pastor Richard Seeland an ordained minister. The Vaughn character waskilled off in a fictional plane crash. Lyons traveled with the band during its True or False tour doing a mid-show version of Pastor Dick's Treehouse.
Eric André.  Eric André (born April 4 1983) is an American actor comedian and television host. He is the creator and star of The Eric André Show which airs on the Adult Swim lineup of the Cartoon Network. He co-starred as Mark on the short-lived ABC comedy series Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 and guest-starred on 2 Broke Girls as Deke Max's love interest and fellow pastry student.His father is Haitian and his mother is Jewish.
Eddie Kamae.  Eddie Kamae (born 4 August 1927) is one of the founding members of Sons of Hawaii. He is a 'ukulele virtuoso singer composer film producer and primary proponent of theHawaiian Cultural Renaissance.
Yoshio Inaba.  Yoshio Inaba (稲葉 義男 Inaba Yoshio July 15 1920–April 20 1998) was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
Ivan Kral.  Ivan Král (born 12 May 1948 in Prague) is a Grammy Award-winning Czech-born American composer filmmaker record producer and singer. He works across many genres including punk rock jazz soul country and film scores.
Stefan Nadelman.  Stefan Nadelman is an award winning director and animator.
José Ignacio García Hamilton.  José Ignacio García Hamilton (1 November 1943 – 17 June 2009) was an Argentine writer noted historian lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Radical Civic Union representing Tucumán Province.
Pritam Singh Kasad.  Pritam Singh Sahni or Kasad was a Punjabi poet from New Delhi India who lived from 1924-2008. Kasad was very active in the Punjabi Kavi circles. He has authored more than 20 books of Punjabi poetry. Apart from that he was a very talented playwright.His family moved from Gah Pakistan during Partition of India in 1947. He struggled to support his family and settle in new place. Still he found time to write and also go to various cities to participate all over India.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright.  Sarah Blakley-Cartwright (born March 11 1988 Los Angeles California) is an American author. She wrote the novel Red Riding Hood to accompany the Warner Brothers release which debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Peggy Carlisle.  Peggy Carlisle was a British actress.
Eric Culberson.  Eric Culberson is an American blues guitarist and singer/songwriter from Savannah Georgia. His music has been reviewed by Living Blues Real Blues Magazine and Blues Reveu magazines.
Ensi (rapper).  Ensi (born Jari Ivan Vella on 13 December 1985) is an Italian rapper proficient in freestyle. He won the first edition of the program MTV Spit in 2012.
Shela (Japanese singer).  Megumi Oizumi (大泉めぐみ Oizumi Megumi) also known as shela is a Japanese Pop singer and actress made a debut under avex trax label. Before her career started shela was the lead vocalist and saxophonist of the three member band FBI from 1997 to 1998. In 1999 she signed with avex trax and embarked on a solo career. In 2004 she joined the band sunny-side up and split with the original line-up in 2005. As of 2009 shela has made her comeback currently signed to the indie label Rosso Records.
Don Cisco.  Francisco Soto better known by his stage name Don Cisco (originally Cisco the Frisco Mac) is a Mexican American rapper and producer.
Art Shay.  Art Shay is an American photographer and writer. Born in 1922 he grew up in the Bronx and then served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II during which he flew 52 bomber missions. Shay joined the staff of Life magazine as a writer and quickly became a Chicago-based freelance photographer for Life Time Sports Illustrated and other national publications. He photographed seven US Presidents and many major figures of the 20th century.
Sareh Nouri.  Sareh Nouri (born July 25 1979) is a Persian-American fashion designer known for couture wedding gowns and bridal sashes.
Fredrik Gunnarsson.  Fredrik Gunnarsson (born Hans Göte Fredrik Gunnarsson September 4 1965 in Oxelösund) is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing the character Svartman in a series of television films based on the Kurt Wallander novels by Henning Mankell. He has also worked at the Malmö City Theatre and had a small cameo role in an episode of the British Wallander series.
Wax (singer).  Cho Hye-ri (Hangul: 조혜리; born May 31 1976) who goes by the stage name WAX (Hangul: 왁스) is a South Korean singer and actress. She graduated from the department of postmodernism music at Kyung Hee University. She was the lead vocalist of the band Dog in 1998 and then went solo as Wax in 2000. She has released nine albums and digital single albums. Aside from singing she made her acting debut in 2007.
Said Akl.  Said Akl (Arabic: سعيد عقل‎ also transliterated Saïd Akl Said Aql and Saeed Akl (born July 4 1912) is a Lebanese poet writer playwright and language reformer. He is considered one of the most important modern Lebanese poets. He is also a staunch advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and the Lebanese language designing a Latin-based Lebanese alphabet made up of 37 letters. His writings include poetry and prose both in Lebanese dialect and in classical Arabic language.
Sab the Artist.  Musab 'Sab the Artist' Saad is an American recording artist rapper song writer record producer and music executive from Minneapolis Minnesota currently residing in Las Vegas Nevada.
Litzy.  Litzy Vanya Domínguez Balderas (better known as Litzy) is a Dominican actress and singer. She is known for having been in the Mexican singing group Jeans and for her (always protagonist) roles in Telenovelas: Televisa's DKDA Sueños de Juventude; Telemundo's Daniela Amarte Asi and Una Maid en Manhattan; Venevisión-with-Univisión's Pecadora; and Azteca [Mexico] TV's Quiéreme Tonto retitled simply Quiéreme.
Geddy Lee.  Geddy Lee Weinrib (born Gary Lee Weinrib July 29 1953) known professionally as Geddy Lee is a Canadian musician and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist bassist and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones.
Klayton.  Scott Albert known as Klayton is a multi-instrumentalist musician formerly of New York City and currently of Detroit Michigan who has led several cult status underground bands and has performed under a variety of stage names since the early 1990s. He is best known for his current project Celldweller which has been widely successful.
Robert Normann.  Robert Uno Normann (born 27 June 1916 in Sundløkka in the former Borge kommune now Fredrikstad deceased 20 May 1998 in Sarpsborg Norway) was a Norwegian guitarist and is considered one of the jazz guitar pioneers.
Danilo Kiš.  Danilo Kiš (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Киш; 22 February 1935 – 15 October 1989) was a Serbian and Yugoslavian novelist short story writer and poet who wrote in Serbo-Croatian member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Kiš was influenced by Bruno Schulz Vladimir Nabokov Jorge Luis Borges and Ivo Andrić among other authors. His most famous works include A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.
Alex Lee.  Alex Lee (born 16 March 1970 Bristol) is an English musician composer and musical director. He has played guitar and keyboards for Goldfrapp Suede Placebo Marina & The Diamonds Strangelove and The Blue Aeroplanes amongst others.
Tomioka Tessai.  Tomioka Tessai (富岡 鉄斎 27 January 1837 – 31 December 1924) was the pseudonym for a painter and calligrapher in imperial Japan. He is regarded as the last major artist in the Bunjinga tradition and one of the first major artists of the Nihonga style. His real name was Yusuke which he later changed to Hyakuren.
Bill Chinnock.  Bill Chinnock (November 12 1947 – March 7 2007) also referred to as Billy Chinnock was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in Newark New Jersey Chinnock grew up in the nearby Essex County communities of East Orange and Millburn. He was a prominent member of the Jersey Shore music scene during the late 1960s leading bands that included future members of the E Street Band.
Yōji Ueda.  Not to be confused with almost similarly named voice actor Yūji Ueda.Yōji Ueda (上田 燿司 Ueda Yōji born August 7 1971 in Hyōgo Japan) is a Japanese voice actor formerly affiliated with Mausu Promotion and currently affiliated with Mediarte. His name was Yōji Ueda (上田 陽司 Ueda Yōji) until April 1 2008.
Johnny Horton.  For other meanings see Johnny Horton (disambiguation).John Gale Johnny Horton (April 30 1925 – November 5 1960) was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk so-called saga songs which began the historical ballad craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Nicholas Megalis.  Nicholas Megalis (born April 8 1989) is an American singer-songwriter artist and comedian. He is best-known for his musical posts on Vine.
Alice Munro.  Alice Ann Munro (/ˈælɨs ˌæn mʌnˈroʊ/ née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian author writing in English. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to embed more than announce reveal more than parade.Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario.
Gen Urobuchi.  Gen Urobuchi (虚淵 玄 Urobuchi Gen born December 20 1972) is a Japanese writer for visual novels light novels and anime. He is known for his dark style nihilistic themes and tragic plot twists earning him the fan nickname Urobutcher. Some of his more popular works include the 2003 visual novel Saya no Uta the 2011 anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica and the light novel Fate/Zero as well as the head writer of the 2013–2014 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Gaim. He currently works at Nitroplus.
Herbert Horatio Spencer Westmacott.  Herbert Horatio Spencer Westmacott (1885–1960) was a notable New Zealand farmer soldier and memoirist. He was born in Christchurch New Zealand in 1885.
Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao.  Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao (Telugu: కోలాచలం శ్రీనివాసరావు) (March 13 1854 - June 23 1919) was a noted dramatist from Bellary. A pleader and a non-professional theatre practitioner from Bellary Srinivasa Rao belonged to the family of Mallinatha Suri the world-famous writer acclaimed as Vyakyatha Shiromani. Srinivasa Rao became famous after publishing the English translation of Prapancha Nataka Charitra (The Dramatic History of the World) (Vanivilasa Press Bellary) in 1908.
Nicholas Payton.  Nicholas Payton (born September 26 1973) is a trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award winner from New Orleans Louisiana. He is also a prolific and provocative writer who comments on a multitude of subjects including music race politics and life in America.
Chris Hutchinson (poet).  Chris Hutchinson (born Montreal on 2 Aug 1972) is a Canadian poet. He is the author of Unfamiliar Weather (2005 The Muses' Company) and Other People's Lives (2009 Brick Books). He won the Earle Birney Prize for his poem Disclosure.Hutchinson holds a B.F.A. from the University of Victoria Writing Program and an M.F.A. from Arizona State University.
Anissa Kate.  Anissa Kate (born 7 May 1987) is the stage name of a French-born pornographic actress and director. She made her adult film debut in September 2011 starring in the film Ultimate French Girls 3.
Ahmed Pervez.  Ahmed Parvez [ Urdu: احمد پروىز (1926] Rawalpindi Pakistan - 1979) was a Pakistani modernist painter whose work was marked with energy. He was member of The Lahore Group in Pakistan and founder member of the Pakistan Group in London.
Erika Miyoshi.  Erika Miyoshi (三好 絵梨香 Miyoshi Erika born November 8 1984 in Sapporo Hokkaidō Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese pop singer and former member of the Hello! Project-associated trio v-u-den.
Kris Ruhs.  Kris Ruhs (New York March 7 1952) is an American painter and sculptor. He also works on drawing graphic arts jewelry ceramics and furniture designs.
Elvir Mekić.  Elvir Mekić (Macedonian: Елвир Мекиќ) (born 15 October 1981) is a Macedonian-born Bosniak musician. He gained popularity after performing his single Opasno with Maja Sazdanovska at Ohrid Fest in 2007. He went on to release a second and third single from his debut album Opasno titled Ušte Te Ima and Nekade Posle Dva respectively. Mekić also competed in the 2008 Macedonian Eurovision qualifier Skopje Fest 2008 with the song Armija.
Herbert Asbury.  Herbert Asbury (September 1 1889 – February 24 1963) was an American journalist and writer who is best known for his true crime books detailing crime during the 19th and early 20th century such as Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld and The Gangs of New York. The Gangs of New York was later adapted for film as Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002).
Dee Dee Bridgewater.  Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27 1950) is an American jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Mark Breeze.  For the Welsh rugby union player see Marc Breeze.Mark Breeze (real name Mark Brady born 1970) also known as DJ Breeze is a UK Hardcore producer based in the United Kingdom. He is most known for his songs Let's Fly and Jump A Little Higher and frequently contributes DJ mixes to hardcore compilation series such as the Clubland X-Treme Hardcore series.He is mostly known in combination with Darren Styles or Styles.
Parijat (writer).  Parijat (Nepali: पारिजात) was a Nepali writer. Her real name was Bishnu Kumari Waiba (Waiba is a subgroup of Tamang) but she wrote under the pen name Parijat (Parijat is a night-flowering fragrant jasmine flower). Her most acclaimed publication is Siris Ko Phul (The Blue Mimosa) which has also been adapted in the literature curriculum of some colleges in some English-speaking countries.
Bob Mintzer.  Bob Mintzer is a jazz saxophonist composer arranger and big band leader based in Los Angeles California.Bob Mintzer born January 27 1953 and a native of New Rochelle New York is what's known as a triple threat musician. He is equally active in the areas of performance composing/arranging and music education.
Richard Fariña.  Richard George Fariña (March 8 1937 – April 30 1966) was an American writer and folksinger.
Jo Anderton.  Jo Anderton is a writer of fantasy horror and other types of speculative fiction. She has been a finalist for three Aurealis Awards – best Young Adult short story (for Dragon Bones) best Science Fiction short story (for Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden) and Best Fantasy Novel (for Debris).
Teitur Lassen.  Teitur (IPA: [ˈtaitʊɹ]; born Teitur Lassen 1977 in Hoyvík) is a Faroese musician singer-songwriter and producer based on the Faroe Islands. He is a winner of multiple Danish Music Awards and has toured globally since his debut release Poetry & Aeroplanes in 2003.Since 2001 he has dedicated himself to playing and writing music in English full-time and has released six studio albums as a solo artist.
Rudolph de Cordova.  Rudolph de Cordova (1860–1941) was a Jamaican-born British writer screenwriter and actor. He was married to the writer Alicia Ramsey and collaborated with her on several plays. Cordova was born in Kingston the son of a prominent merchant. He went to London to study medicine in the 1880s but soon abandoned his studies in order to become an actor. His brother was the actor and film director Leander de Cordova.
Caio Fonseca.  Caio Fonseca (born 1959) is an American painter.
Mark J. Feist.  Mark J. Feist (born 1970 in Melbourne Australia) is a multi-platinum producer/songwriter who has contributed to the sale of over 25 million records worldwide. Feist currently resides in Los Angeles California.
Mona Gustafsson.  Mona Gustafsson born 9 August 1956 in Halmstad Sweden is a Swedish singer songwriter guitarist.Earlier she used to sing with Leif Bloms but as the band was disestablished on 31 December 1995 she established another dansband in 1996 Mona G:s orkester which was disestablished in January 2009 and she started a country music career.
Tsai Chin (actress).  Tsai Chin also known by her Chinese name Zhou Caiqin is an actress director teacher and author best known in America for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film The Joy Luck Club. The third daughter of the legendary Peking opera actor and singer Zhou Xinfang Tsai Chin was the first Chinese student trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and later earned a Masters Degree at Tufts University in Boston Massachusetts. Her career spans more than five decades and three continents.
Kristian Niemann.  Kristian Niemann is a guitarist and is or has been in bands such as Therion Lithium and Demonoid. He studied jazz at Musicians Institute. His style of playing mostly centers around legato sweep picking and he sometimes uses two-handed tapping to play extremely fast shreds. In 1996 his song Industrial Type Thang was featured in JSR Records' compilation Hottest Unknown Guitarists. He is also brother of Johan Niemann.
Deborahe Glasgow.  Deborahe Glasgow (1965 – 25 January 1994) was an English Lovers rock singer of Guyanese parentage who was active from the late 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. Though Glasgow released only one album in her lifetime 1989's Deborahe Glasgow she began releasing singles in her adolescence. She is perhaps best known for her duet with Shabba Ranks on a song initially released as Champion Lover on her eponymous album but recut by Ranks as Mr. Loverman in 1990.
Jim Kelly (author).  Jim Kelly is an author and journalist. Kelly won the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library award in 2006.As of 2013 Kelly has written eleven crime novels including the award-winning[citation needed] The Water Clock featuring fictional journalist Philip Dryden based in the Cambridgeshire area of Great Britain. His new series based on Detective Inspector Peter Shaw is based on the North Norfolk coast and in the port of Lynn.
Poomani.  Poomani (Tamil: பூமணி) (born 1947) is a Tamil writer from Kovilpatti in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
DJ Riddler.  DJ Riddler (born Richie Pangilinan in Chicago Illinois) is an American dance DJ producer and remixer on New York City's WKTU 103.5FM WHTZ 100.3FM and on KKHH Hot 95.7 FM in Houston. He became the first Asian-American and Filipino-American mixshow DJ to be on commercial radio in Houston Austin San Antonio and New York City. DJ Riddler is also part of the group MYNT who had several hits including How Did You Know Stay and Still Not Sorry.
Seemab Akbarabadi.  Seemab Akbarabadi (Urdu: سیماب اکبرآبادی‎) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui (Urdu: عاشق حسین صدیقی‎) on 5 June 1882 – died 31 January 1951 was an acclaimed Urdu poet from India.
Jean-Baptiste Puech.  Jean-Baptiste Puech is a French actor.
Lindsey Buckingham.  Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3 1949) is an American musician singer and songwriter best known as guitarist and male vocalist of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to present day. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac Buckingham has also released six solo albums and three live albums. As a bandmate of Fleetwood Mac he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Alex Pennie.  Alexander Gregor Pennie (born 14 December 1985) was previously in Welsh band The Automatic where he provided backing vocals as well as playing synthesizers and keyboards for the act. Pennie left The Automatic in late 2007.
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere.  Ezzedine Choukri Fishere (Arabic:عز الدين شكري فشير) (born 1966 in Kuwait City) is an Egyptian novelist diplomat and academic.
Björn Gustafsson (born 1934).  Björn Herman Leonard Gustafsson (born 30 November 1934) is a Swedish actor. He was born in Stockholm and has appeared in 93 films and television shows since 1956. He starred in the 1965 film Love 65 which was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
Stephen Finer.  Stephen Finer is a London based artist active since the 1980s.
Wang Hao (singer).  Wang Hao (born May 17 1987 in Dalian Liaoning) is Chinese pop singer and occasional actor popular for his good singing skill with high key is the captain of the Chinese boy band M.I.C.. His English stage name is Phibian.
Lajos Gulácsy.  Lajos Gulácsy (Budapest 1882 - Budapest 1932) is a Hungarian painter with works collected by the Hungarian National Gallery.
Ronnie Landfield.  Ronnie Landfield (born January 9 1947 in The Bronx New York) is an American abstract painter.
Erica Kennedy.  Erica Kennedy (March 24 1970 – June 13 2012) was an African-American author blogger news correspondent fashion journalist and singer. Her 2004 novel Bling became a New York Times bestseller. In 2010 she was named to the list of 100 most influential African-Americans as published by Ebony Magazine and known as the Ebony Power 100.
Angela Desveaux.  Angela Desveaux is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Montreal Quebec whose style blends a diverse mix of pop rock and country influences.
Sarojini Vaidya.  Sarojini Shankar Vaidya (Devanagari: सरोजिनी शंकर वैद्य) (June 15 1933 - August 3 2007) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.She was born on June 15 1933 in Aklujkar family in Akluj Maharashtra. She wrote critical books and biographies. She served for some years as the Head of Marathi department of Mumbai University and as a manager of Maharashtra state's Marathi Vikas Samstha.She was married to poet and critic Shankar Vaidya.
André Bauchant.  André Bauchant (April 24 1873 – August 12 1958) was a French 'naïve' painter whose compositions were often informed by mythology and Classical History. He had originally worked as a market gardener until 1914 after his father before serving in World War I. During the military service his drawing skills were noticed and he was trained as a mapmaker.After demobilization in 1919 he started his painter career.Bauchant was born in Château-Renault Indre-et-Loire.
Hugo Simberg.  Hugo Gerhard Simberg (24 June 1873 - 12 July 1917) was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist.
Jean M. Redmann.  Jean M. Redmann (born June 9 1955 in Mississippi USA) is an American novelist best known for her mystery series featuring New Orleans private investigator Micky Knight.Main themes of Redmann's novels are the protagonist's troubled childhood and how it affects her adult life discrimination based on sexual orientation and alcoholism.
James McCreet.  James McCreet (born 22 December 1971) is a British writer the author of a series of Victorian detective thrillers set in 1840s London. His works are known for their fast-paced historically accurate and complex plotlines featuring the same core characters.
Wang Guangyi.  Wang Guangyi (in Chinese:王广义 born 1957) is a Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989 and for his Great Criticism series of paintings which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising.[citation needed]
Cristoforo Rosa.  Cristoforo Rosa (?? in Brescia – 1576 in Brescia) was an Italian painter of quadratura (illusionistic ceiling painting) of the Renaissance period.In 1569 with his brother Stefano Rosa painted the entry ceilings for the Library of St. Mark's in Venice. He died during the plague in Brescia.Rosa's son Pietro became a pupil of Titian.
Charlton Laird.  Charlton Grant Laird (1901–1984) was an American linguist lexicographer novelist and essayist. Laird created the 1971 edition of the Webster's New World Thesaurus that became the standardized edition still used today. During his lifetime he was probably best known for his language studies: books textbooks and reference works elucidating the English language for the layman along with his numerous contributions to dictionaries and thesauruses.
Leah Luv.  Leah Luv (born July 28 1984) is the stage name of a retired American pornographic actress and director.
Breda Smolnikar.  Breda Smolnikar (born 19 January 1941) is a Slovene writer who has also published under the pseudonym Gospa. She writes for adults and young readers.Smolnikar was born in Herceg Novi in 1941. After the outbreak of the Second World War the family moved to Slovenia. She studied textile engineering and worked in the textile industry for a number of years.
Diane Carey.  Diane L. Carey-Brodeur (b. October 2 1954) is an American fiction writer publishing under the pseudonym of Lydia Gregory Diane Carey and D. L. Carey.
Jami Tobey.  Jami Tobey (born 1974) is an American contemporary painter.
Misfit (songwriter).  Misfit (also known as Miss Pitt) is a South Korean songwriter lyricist and artist. She is one of the studio artists at S.M. Entertainment headquarters in Seoul. Misfit has penned the lyrics of songs for various SM Town artists including BoA TRAX Super Junior Shinee f(x) and Exo.
Moses Chayyim Catalan.  Moses Chayyim Catalan (b. Padua Italy d. 1661 Padua) was an Italian poet. A son of the physician Abraham Catalan he was rabbi in his native town and died there at an advanced age in 1661. It was to him that the first letters of Isaac Vita Cantarini whose teacher he was were addressed. His Metzaref ha-Sekel a rhetorical pamphlet on man has never been published.
Corneliu Baba.  Corneliu Baba (Romanian pronunciation: [korˈnelju ˈbaba]; November 18 1906 Craiova – December 28 1997) was a Romanian painter primarily a portraitist but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.
Kelley Jones.  Kelley Jones (born July 23 1962 in Sacramento California) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on The Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.
Negro Dollar.  Negro Dollar (born July 24 1989 in Comodoro Rivadavia Argentina) is an Argentine rapper/composer who is the first Crunk Argentine artist.
Sebastian Rogers.  Sebastian Rogers has lived in many different countries and seen so much at such a young age. Sebastian brings his amazing talents to the table from the worldwide journey into life and sound. As one of the god fathers of Acid Techno his reputation on the internet is massive!Sebastian has been producing for 12 years. Creating elements no one has ever heard of putting sounds and frequencies together to make a unique sound.
Mississippi Joe Callicott.  Mississippi Joe Callicott (October 10 1899 – 1969) was a United States Delta blues singer and guitarist.Callicott was born in Nesbit Mississippi United States. His Love Me Baby Blues has been covered by various artists e.g. (under the title of France Chance) by Ry Cooder. Arhoolie Records recorded Callicott commercially in the mid-1960s. Some of his 1967 recordings (recorded by the music historian George Mitchell) were re-released in 2003 on the Fat Possum record label.
Derek Turner (journalist).  Derek Turner (born 1964 in Dublin Republic of Ireland) is a freelance journalist. In the early 1980s he served in the Irish Navy and moved to England in 1988.Derek Turner was editor of Right Now! magazine from 1995 until its demise in December 2006. He is now editor of The Quarterly Review and was a contributing editor to AlternativeRight.com an online magazine which sought to forge a new intellectual right-wing.Turner's writings have been translated into 12 languages.
Kevin Martin (British musician).  Kevin Martin is a London-based British musician record producer and journalist often known under his recording alias The Bug. He moved to London around 1990 and he has been active for over a decade in the genres of dub jazzcore industrial hip hop dancehall and dubstep.His projects include GOD Techno Animal Ice Curse of the Golden Vampire Pressure and most recently King Midas Sound.
Vijay Siva.  N. Vijay Siva (born 29 March 1967) is an eminent Carnatic music vocalist. He is a disciple of the late D. K. Jayaraman.
Mister You.  Younes Latifi (in Arabic يونس لطيفي) (French pronunciation: ​[junɛs latiˈfi]; born 5 February 1984) better known by his stage name Mister You (French pronunciation: ​[mis.tœʁˈju]) is a French rapper of Moroccan origin and known for his freestyles and big collaborations with other rap and urban artists.
Trish Doan.  Trish Doan (born May 9 1985 in Gwangju South Korea) is the bassist of the all-woman band Kittie. She joined in August 2005 along with Tara McLeod. Doan is a niece of Sudbury Ontario MPP Rick Bartolucci. In addition to bass she has also played guitar since the age of 13.
Pablo Ruiz (singer).  Pablo Maximiliano Miguel Coronel Vidoz also known as Pablito Ruiz and later Pablo Ruiz born on September 4 1975 in Buenos Aires Argentina. Besides being a singer he is an actor and dancer.
DJ Green Lantern.  James D'Agostino (born 1975) better known by his stage name DJ Green Lantern is a DJ and hip hop music producer from Rochester New York. In 2002 D'Agostino was signed by Eminem to become the official DJ for Shady Records after DJ Head stepped down for undisclosed reasons. D'Agostino left the label in 2005 due to a dispute with Shady Records rapper 50 Cent.
Zachary Jorgenson.  Zachary Jorgenson is an American glass artist working primarily in the lampworked murrinediscipline. He creates images at the torch building one component at a time stretching them down to sizeand melting them all together to create a larger image. These murrine can take from days to months tocomplete depending on their complexity. Jorgenson is among a small handful of people currently working in thishighly specialized glassworking technique.
Fátima Miranda.  Fátima Miranda is a Spanish singer and researcher born in Salamanca. She has a bachelor's degree in history of art with a specialization in modern art. As a singer her compositions touch several genres like Mongol Song or Indian Dhrupad. She has investigated the human voice and created exclusive voice techniques classified by tonality and register.
Tony Brown (record producer).  Tony Brown (born December 11 1946 in Greensboro North Carolina grew up in Walkertown) is an American record producer and pianist known primarily for his work in country music.
Véronique Olmi.  Véronique Olmi is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella Bord de Mer. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a dozen plays and half a dozen novels.
Marc-Aurèle Fortin.  Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14 1888 – March 2 1970) was a Québécois painter.Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose Quebec. He studied art in Montreal. He worked at the Montreal Post Office and at an Edmonton bank. He studied art abroad. He was known for painting watercolour landscapes of the St. Lawrence Valley. He travelled around the St. Lawrence Valley by bicycle.
John Glover (artist).  John Glover (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English/Australian artist in what is known as the early colonial period of Australian art. In Australia he has been dubbed the father of Australian landscape painting.
René Brô.  René Brô (November 21 1930 - December 6 1986) was a French artist.
Martin Freeland.  Martin Freeland also known as Man With No Name M.W.N.N. or Mr Techno Techno Techno is a British Goa trance artist (record producer and DJ) and one of the defining artists of the genre. Originally a techno record producer Freeland changed style at the beginning of the 1990s.
Aaron Robinson (composer).  Aaron Robinson is an American composer conductor and musicologist. He is the author of Does God Sing? – A Musical Journey. He created the musical work Black Nativity – In Concert: A Gospel Celebration. He also served as conductor and musical director in the PBS documentary On This Island. In 2013 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for composing Maine Public Broadcasting Network's Maine Arts series theme music.
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas.  Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 – 28 March 1626 or 27 March 1625) was a chronicler historian and writer of the Spanish Golden Age author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales (General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West Indies) better known in Spanish as Décadas and considered one of the best works written on the conquest of the Americas.He was Chief Chronicler of Castile and the Americas during the reigns of Philip II and Philip III. 
Ron Hightower.  Ronald Ron Hightower (born January 25 1966 in Los Angeles California) is an African American adult-mainstream director who began his career as a pornographic actor. He has also directed music videos for various hip-hop recording artists particularly rappers.
K (Indian musician).  Krishna Kumar better known by his stage name K is an Indian composer singer-songwriter and music director based in Chennai Tamil Nadu. Primarily scoring music for films newcomer K has worked on multiple short films as well as several full length feature films in the Tamil film industry.
J.J. Goldberg.  J. J. Goldberg (Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg) is Editor-at-Large of the newspaper The Forward where he served as editor in chief for seven years (2000-2007). He served in the past as U.S.
James Rhodes (pianist).  James Rhodes (born 6 March 1975 in London) is a British classical pianist.
Bob Babbitt.  Bob Babbitt (born Robert Kreinar; November 26 1937 – July 16 2012) was an Hungarian-American bassist most famous for his work as a member of Motown Records' studio band the Funk Brothers from 1966–1972 as well as his tenure as part of MFSB for Philadelphia International Records afterwards. Also in 1968–1970 with Mike Campbell Ray Monette and Andrew Smith he formed the band Scorpion. Babbitt traded off sessions with original Motown bassist James Jamerson.
Domenico Ammirato.  Domenico Ammirato (1833–1883) was an Italian painter mainly of seascapes in his native Naples.He trained at the Neapolitan Institute of Fine Arts following the example of Gabriele Smargiassi. He became professor of painting at the International Institute of Naples. Among his works are:Un chiaro dì luna a PosillipoLa marina piccola di SorrentoSorrento da CapodimonteVeduta di BagnoloVeduta di Posillipo↑
Amaan Ali Khan.  Amaan Ali Khan (Hindi: अमान अली खान; IAST: Amān Alī Khān) (born 1977) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Khan is the son of Amjad Ali Khan and often performs with his younger brother Ayaan Ali Khan with whom he hosted the music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma.
Marcia Snyder.  Marcia Snyder (sometimes spelled Snider) was a comic book artist and newspaper cartoonist who worked for the Binder Studio Timely Comics Fawcett Comics and Fiction House during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Around the time she started working for Timely she lived in Greenwich Village with her girlfriend Mickey.
Max Stalling.  Max Stalling is a Texas country music singer/songwriter. Stalling was born in Uvalde Texas and moved to Crystal City before attending kindergarten through high school in Carrizo Springs. He studied at Texas A&M University where he earned a masters degree in Food Science. Stalling entered the corporate world following college and eventually moved to Dallas working in product development for Frito-Lay.
Martin Terefe.  Martin Terefe (born 1969 Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish record producer and songwriter now living and working in London who has produced Grammy Brit and Juno award -winning albums with artists like Jason Mraz James Morrison and KT Tunstall. He is also a member of the group Apparatjik.
Philippe Druillet.  Philippe Druillet (French: [dʁɥijɛ]; born June 28 1944) is a French comics artist and creator and an innovator in visual design.
Vangjush Mio.  Vangjush Mio (3 March 1891 – 30 December 1959) was an Albanian impressionist painter. He was the brother of the Albanian film director and actor Socrat Mio.
Freddie Stevenson.  Freddie Stevenson (born 9 March 1980 in Hereford England) is a singer-songwriter from Edinburgh.
Mir (South Korean singer).  Bang Cheol Yong (Korean: 방철용; born March 10 1991) better known by his stage name Mir (Korean: 미르) is a South Korean rapper dancer actor model MC and member of the boy group MBLAQ currently signed to J. Tune Entertainment.In 2012 Bang partnered with fellow MBLAQ member G.O with whom he had collaborated previously for drama soundtracks.
Miranda Cooper.  Miranda Eleanor De Fonbrune Cooper (born 1975) is a British singer songwriter record producer dancer and television presenter. Miranda Cooper has worked in the music industry since 1996 when she gained her first record deal. She worked as a professional dancer for artists such as Dannii Minogue before going into television presenting.In 1997 Cooper met Brian Higgins the founder of Kent-based songwriting and production team Xenomania.
D. R. Bendre.  Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (31 January 1896 – 21 October 1981) was amongst the most famous of Kannada poets of the Navodaya Period. Praised as varakavi literally 'gifted poet' he was the second person among eight recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India. He wrote under the pen-name of Ambikatanayadatta (Datta Child of Ambika). He also held the title Karnataka kula Thilaka (The light of the Kannada Nation) conferred by Udupi Adamaru Math.
Madison Young.  Madison Young born Tina Butcher is an American pornographic actress director published writer sexual educator and founder of Femina Potens Art Gallery a nonprofit art gallery and performance space that serves the LGBTQ and Kink communities.Madison Young has been featured for her work in feminist pornography as well as a queer activist by such magazines as Bitch Magazine Curve Magazine on the cover of the sex worker activist magazine Spread.
Martin Rushent.  Martin Rushent (11 July 1948 – 4 June 2011) was an English record producer best known for his work with The Human League The Stranglers and The Buzzcocks.
Pops Fernandez.  Maria Cielito Lukban Fernandez (Quezon City 12 December 1966) also known as Pops Fernandez is a Filipino singer entertainer entrepreneur TV host and actress. She is dubbed the Concert Queen.
Marie NDiaye.  Marie NDiaye (born June 4 1967 in Pithiviers Loiret) is a French novelist and playwright. She published her first novel Quant au riche avenir when she was only 17 and she won the Prix Femina in 2001 for her novel Rosie Carpe. Her play Papa doit manger has been taken into the repertoire of the Comédie française.
Adeva.  Adeva (born Patricia Daniels) is a female African American house-music and contemporary R&B artist from Paterson New Jersey United States the youngest of six children. She had a string of successful hits in the late 1980s to early 1990s including Warning (UK #17) I Thank You (UK #17) and Respect (UK #17).
Denny Wright.  Denys Justin Wright (6 May 1924 – 8 February 1992) better known as Denny Wright was a jazz and skiffle guitarist who performed with Stephane Grappelli Lonnie Donegan Johnny Duncan (bluegrass musician) Digby Fairweather Ella Fitzgerald Billy Eckstine Fapy Lafertin Russ Conway and many other musicians including young rising stars such as Bireli Lagrene and Nigel Kennedy.A session musician for many years he frequently acted as arranger and fixer for recording sessions.
André Mare.  Charles André Mare (1885–1932) French painter and designer and founder of the Company of French Art (la Compagnie des Arts Français) in 1919.As a soldier in the French Army in World War I Mare led the development of military camouflage painting artillery using Cubism techniques to deceive the eye. His ink and watercolour painting Le canon de 280 camouflé (The Camouflaged 280 Gun) shows the close interplay of abstract art and military application at that time.
Taewoon.  Woo Taewoon (hangul 우태운 born May 11 1990) is a South Korean pop idol rapper and leader of Speed. His birth name is Woo Jiseok (hangul 우지석) he is the older brother of Zico - a member of Block B.
Butterford Wong.  Butterford Wong (Chinese: 黃黃油福特; born 2 December 1987) is a Canto-Pop singer from Hong Kong.
J. Craig Thorpe.  J. Craig Thorpe (born 1948) is a modern American commercial and landscape artist. Much of his work depicts trains and the rail transport industry in the Western United States and Alaska. He has advocated greater use of rail transport especially in contrast with automobiles and has served as a director of the rail advocacy group All Aboard Washington. Thorpe was commissioned to paint an image celebrating the 2006 centennial of King Street Station in Seattle Washington.
Wayne Grady (author).  Wayne Grady (born 1948 in Windsor Ontario) is a Canadian writer editor and translator. He is the author of fourteen books of nonfiction the translator of more than a dozen novels from the French and the editor of many literary anthologies of fiction and nonfiction.
Blackie Lawless.  Blackie Lawless (born Steven Edward Duren on September 4 1956) is an American songwriter and musician best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist (formerly bassist) for the heavy metal band W.A.S.P.
Lulu Santos.  Lulu Santos stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos (Rio de Janeiro May 4 1953) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist.
Jim Ottaviani.  Jim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists features biographical stories about Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Niels Bohr and several stories about physicist Richard Feynman. He is also a librarian and has worked as a nuclear engineer.
Akala (rapper).  Akala (born Kingslee James Daley 1 December 1983) is an English rapper poet and journalist. Originally from Kentish Town London his older sister is rapper/vocalist Ms. Dynamite. In 2006 he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards.
Stass Shpanin.  Stass Shpanin is an American contemporary visual artist. After numerous international awards and solo art exhibits including Israel Russia Italy Azerbaijan England France and the U.S. he was included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Youngest Professional Artist (to have his paintings purchased and displayed by museums galleries and private collections) 2002.
Trezza Azzopardi.  Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a British writer.She was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an MA in Film and Television studies from the University of Derby. Her first novel The Hiding Place was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000 (a significant accomplishment since first novels are not often shortlisted for the Booker).
Billy Graham (comics).  Billy Graham (July 1 1935-1999) was an African-American comic-book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics series Luke Cage Hero for Hire and the Jungle Action feature Black Panther.
Captain Sensible.  Raymond Ian Burns (born 24 April 1954) known by the stage name Captain Sensible is a singer songwriter and guitarist. Sensible co-founded the punk rock band The Damned originally playing bass before switching to guitar. He embarked on a solo alternative pop career during the 1980s following a UK number one hit with his cover of Happy Talk. Sensible's signature headwear is a red beret.
Scott Walker (singer).  Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel; January 9 1943) is an American-born singer-songwriter composer and record producer. He is noted for his distinctive baritone voice and for the unorthodox career path which has taken him from 1960s pop icon to 21st century avant-garde musician.
Corey Lowery.  Corey Lowery (born February 23) is a hard rock bassist and vocalist previously of the bands Still Rain Stuck Mojo Switched and Stereomud. Lowery currently plays bass and provides backing vocals in the band Eye Empire. Eye Empire was previously known as Violent Plan. Before Violent Plan Corey was playing with Dark New Day from 2004 to 2008. Corey Lowery has two brothers Clint and Dustin who have played in different bands over the years. He is married to his wife Lisa.
Thomas Strønen.  Thomas Strønen (born 7 December 1972 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) and composer known from more than 60 albums and cooperations with internationally acclaimed musicians worldwide including Iain Ballamy Arve Henriksen Mats Eilertsen Ashley Slater Eivind Aarset Christian Fennesz Nils Petter Molvaer Bobo Stenson John Taylor Tore Brunborg Morten Qvenild Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Sidsel Endresen Bugge Wesseltoft Tomasz Stanko Koichi Makigami Ernst Reijseger Nils-Olav Johansen and Stian Carstensen.
Yam Kim-fai.  Yam Kim Fai (Chinese: 任劍輝 29 December 1912 – 29 November 1989) also known as Ren Jianhui was a renowned Cantonese opera actress in China and Hong Kong.She was most notable for her unique ability to sing in the lower register. That her opera voice was indistinguishable from a male one allowed her to play either male or female roles though she usually performed male ones.
RuPaul.  RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17 1960) best known mononymously as RuPaul is an American actor drag queen model author and recording artist who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs films and musical albums. Previously he was a fixture on the Atlanta and New York City club scenes.
Howard Benson.  Howard Benson is an American music producer.
Wyatt Earp (DJ).  Wyatt Earp or DJ Wyatt Earp is a USA house DJ producer musician Beatport LLC. Member and private record label owner. Wyatt Earp (AK Wyatt Jenkins) was a DJ at nightclubs and Raves in the U.S. He was based out of Denver Colorado. In Denver he was a resident DJ at Rock Island The Church 1082 Broadway Beta Nightclub 2AM Funky Buddha Lounge Vinyl Amerika and others.
Rina Kawaei.  Rina Kawaei (川栄 李奈 Kawaei Rina born February 12 1995 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is currently in Team A. She is also in a group called Anrire with AKB48 members Anna Iriyama and Rena Katō; they were featured in Rino Sashihara's single Ikujinashi Masquerade.
Clarence Horatius Miller.  Clarence Horatius Big Miller (October 18 1922 – June 9 1992) was a Sioux City Iowa-born American blues singer. By 1949 Big began singing with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and became a feature performer with the Jay McShann Orchestra. In 1954 after five years with Jay McShann Miller joined the Fletcher Henderson Reunion Orchestra. It was with the Henderson Orchestra that Big did his first recording and it was in this period that his career really began to take off.
Norman Bedard.  Norman Joseph Bédard (born July 30 1962) also known by the former stage names Norman Iceberg and Norman Joseph is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Hugh Lambert.  Hugh Lambert (27 May 1944 – December 2005) was an Irish journalist. He began his career with the Evening Press and Sunday Press in 1962 as sub-editor. From 1971 to 1980 he was a film critic for the Sunday Press when he became production editor of the paper. He was appointed editor of The Irish Press in 1987. The paper ceased publication on 25 May 1995. Until his death after a short illness he worked with The Irish Times in charge of production on special reports.
BBC Soundcrew.  The BBC Soundcrew was created in 2000 to help develop the North American South Asian/Desi Music scene. Created by Johney Brar (DJ JoN-E) and Gurjit Bolina (MC LoudMouTH) BBC Soundcrew was created to advance the Desi Night Life scene across North America. Based in Toronto Canada.
Steve Brodner.  Steve Brodner (born 1954 in Brooklyn New York) is an American satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications for a quarter century. A regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1993 Brodner's illustration work and art journalism has appeared in most major magazines and newspapers in the United States such as Rolling Stone The New York Times Esquire Time Newsweek Spy Playboy Mother Jones Harper's The Los Angeles Times The Nation The Village Voice and Slate.
Luigi Rossi.  Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore a small town near Foggia in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an early age he went to Naples. There he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque who was organist of the Santa Casa dell’Annunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy.
Thomas Dellert Dellacroix.  Thomas Dellert-Bergh also known as Thomas Dellacroix and Tommy Dollar (born 12 July 1953) is a Swedish multimedia artist painter actor singer songwriter poet film maker director photographer theater costume designer and set designer.As a contemporary visual artist he has had over 100 International exhibitions during the last 30 years.
Charles Corm.  Charles Corm (1894-1963) was a Lebanese writer businessman and philanthropist. He is considered to be the leader of the Phoenicianism movement in Lebanon which ignited a surge of nationalism that led to Lebanon's independence. In a country torn by sectarian conflicts Corm's intention was to find a common root shared by all Lebanese beyond their religious beliefs (the Phoenicians were pagans).
Doris Piserchia.  Doris Piserchia (born October 11 1928 in Fairmont West Virginia) is a science fiction writer who was born and raised in West Virginia. She served in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1954 and after that received her Master's in educational psychology. She did not begin publishing until 1966. Her stories have an interest in aliens and have been termed darkly comic by admirers. Despite her military experience age and preference for older SF she is often associated with the New Wave.
Lajos Tihanyi.  Lajos Tihanyi (29 October 1885- 11 June 1938) was a Hungarian painter and lithographer who achieved international renown working outside his country primarily in Paris France. After emigrating in 1919 he never returned to Hungary even on a visit.Born in Budapest as a young man Tihanyi was part of the Neoimpressionists or Neos and later the influential avant-garde group of painters called The Eight (A Nyolcak) founded in 1909 in Hungary.
Laurent de Brunhoff.  Laurent de Brunhoff (born August 30 1925 Paris France) is an author and illustrator known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books created by his father Jean de Brunhoff.The children’s classic Babar began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff told her young sons Laurent and Mathieu in 1930 when they were five and four years old respectively.
Angelo Maria Amorevoli.  Angelo Maria Amorevoli (Venice 16 September 1716 - Dresden 15 November 1798) was a leading Italian tenor in Baroque opera.
Arisa Komiya.  Arisa Komiya (小宮 有紗 Komiya Arisa born February 5 1994 in Tochigi Tochigi Japan) is a Japanese actress and gravure idol known for starring as Yoko Usami/Yellow Buster in the 2012 Super Sentai series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. She is currently affiliated with Box Corporation.
Espen Lind.  Espen Lind (born 13 May 1971) is a Norwegian record producer songwriter singer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one half of the production team Espionage. Espen is set to be a mentor on the Norwegian version of The Voice 2013.
Liz Pichon.  Liz Pichon is an illustrator and a children's writer from Great Britain. She* 1999: National Parenting Publications Award (U.S.A.) by Twilight Rhymes Moonlight Verse. 2004: Silver Award Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (0-5 years) by My Big Brother Boris. 2008: Finalist of the Red House Children's Book Award and the Stockport Schools Book Award by The Three Horrid Pigs And The Big Friendly Wolf. 2011: Roald Dahl Funny Prize (7-14 years) by The genial World of Tom Gates.
Jessica Sanchez.  Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez (born August 4 1995) is a Filipino-American singer originally from Chula Vista California. She was the runner-up on the eleventh season of the reality show American Idol and is currently signed to 19 Recordings and Interscope Records. Prior to appearing on American Idol Sanchez competed in the first season of America's Got Talent at the age of 11.
Panos Karan.  Panos Karan (born 1982) is a classical pianist of Greek origin. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Sulamita Aronovsky. He made his professional debut performance at the Southbank Centre at the age of 19. Other performances have included the Hermitage Theatre Konzerthaus Vienna St Martin-in-the-Fields St John's Smith Square Athens Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall. He was laureate at the 2004 José Iturbi International Piano Competition in Valencia Spain.
Michel Langevin.  Michel Away Langevin (born May 30 1963) is a founding member and drummer for the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod. He has been a constant member of the band since its formation in 1982. Langevin is credited with the creation of the mythology of the post-apocalyptic vampire lord Voivod about which the band originally coalesced and is largely responsible for its continuing science fiction themes.Langevin is also a graphic design artist.
Mary Augusta Ward.  Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; (11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
Catriona Sturton.  Catriona Sturton (born June 8 1976) is an Ottawa Ontario–based singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has had a prolific career performing in bands such as Plumtree and collaborating with artists like Joel Plaskett Al Tuck the late Dutchy Mason the Mighty Popo and members of Sloan and Blue Rodeo. She is currently working on a solo project.
John Ajvide Lindqvist.  John Ajvide Lindqvist (Swedish pronunciation: [jɔn ˈajˌvidɛ ˈlɪŋˌkvɪst]; born 2 December 1968 in Blackeberg Sweden) is a Swedish writer mostly of horror novels and short stories.
C. J. Cherryh.  Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1 1942) better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh is a United States science fiction and fantasy author. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s including the Hugo Award winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988) both set in her Alliance-Union universe.Cherryh (pronounced Cherry) appended a silent h to her real name because her first editor Donald A.
Peter McLaughlin.  Peter McLaughlin (born 1956) is an Irish academic historian and educator who is the current Headmaster of The Doon School. Before joining Doon in 2009 he served as Headmaster of Douai School and Principal of British International School in Cairo and Casterton School in Cumbria United Kingdom.
Dallas Smith (singer).  Dallas Smith (born December 4 1977) is a Canadian rock and country singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist for alternative rock band Default. He is currently signed to 604 Records/Universal Music Canada and released his solo debut country album Jumped Right In on May 22 2012. The album has since sold over 100000 digital singles and generated five singles on the Canadian Hot 100.
Bryan Leung.  Bryan Leung Ka-yan (born 20 January 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor and director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films. He is affectionately known as Beardy due to his trademark facial hair. He also has characteristic hyper-extendable fingers which can be observed when he has his palms open and his fingers outstretched.
Rick Swann.  Rick Swann (born October 10 1989) is a Northern Irish musician/producer primarily based in the Jazz genre & highly regarded as one of Irelands finest trumpet players. Rick has been featured on numerous high profile bills on stages ranging from London's 'Royal Albert Hall' to Belfast's 'Odyssey Arena'.
William Jeffrey Prowse.  William Jeffrey Prowse often known as Jeff Prowse (6 May 1839 – 17 April 1870) was an English journalist poet humorist and lyricist. An only child born in Torquay Devon he resided with his uncle shipbroker John Sparke Prowse in Greenwich following the death of his father in 1844 when Prowse aged eight and inherited from his mother Marianne Jeffrey - who contributed to the annuals and published a volume of poems - her literary skills. His mother would die in 1850.
Susan Shaw.  Susan Shaw (29 August 1929 – 27 November 1978) was an English actress.Shaw began her film career in 1946 when she was signed to a contract by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation and trained at their charm school.
Raymond Sarif Easmon.  Raymond Sarif Easmon (15 January 1913–1997) was a prominent Sierra Leonean doctor known for his literary work and political agitation.
Kevin Liles.  Kevin Liles (born February 27 1968 in Baltimore Maryland USA) is an American record executive. He graduated from Woodlawn High School.Liles was president of Def Jam Recordings and executive vice president of The Island Def Jam Music Group from 1999 to 2004.
Warrel Dane.  Warrel Dane (born March 7 1961) was the lead singer of the progressive metal band Nevermore. He is now the singer of the metal band Sanctuary who have recently reformed. A natural baritone Dane was trained for five years as an opera singer and utilizes a very broad vocal range (between five and six octaves according to Warrel's teacher though these claims have never been backed) spanning from notes as low as the G♯ below low C or G♯1 to notes as high as the B♭ below soprano C or B♭5.
Michael North (professor).  Michael North is an American literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California Los Angeles.
Jake Rodenhouse.  Jake Rodenhouse is a record producer and multi-instrumentalist and the founder of Perfect Sound Studios. He was also a member of the band The City Drive. He currently resides in Hollywood California.Between 2002 and 2004 Jake combined efforts with Dave Drago to operate the Hopewell Recording Studio in Canandaigua New York; a foray self described as a project studio. It recorded artists predominantly from the Rochester area.
Sheila Dhar.  Sheila Dhar (1929 – 26 July 2001) was an Indian author and singer.
Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen.  Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen plays the drums percussion and keys for the Norwegian rock band Heroes & Zeros. He also sings the backing vocals for the band.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the African Mahler.
Lil Picard.  Lil Picard (b.
James Dashner.  James Smith Dashner is an American author of many children's fantasy series and adult books including The 13th Reality series and the Jimmy Fincher Saga. Dashner also wrote the first book of the Infinity Ring series and it is anticipated that he will write the last book as well. Dashner's novel The Journal of Curious Letters was chosen for a 2008 Borders Original Voices pick. He has been published by Cedar Fort Inc.
Saketharaman.  Saketharaman (born on Nov 241982) is a performing musician of Carnatic music in India. He is a disciple of Lalgudi Jayaraman. He is an 'A 'grade All India Radio artist.
Paul Shapiro (artist).  Paul Shapiro (b. 1939) is an American Abstract Expressionist and landscape painter.New Mexican author Jon Carver writes of Shapiro's work: Paul’s interest in art and his commitment to painting is unassailable and extends to the depths of his being.
Agnes Maule Machar.  Agnes Maule Machar (23 January 1837 — 24 January 1927) was a Canadian author.Machar was born and educated in Kingston Ontario. She was the daughter of John Machar.
Li Chi-Tak.  Li Chi-Tak (利志達) (b. June 24 1965) is a Hong Kong comic artist.
Steven Ybarra.  Steven A. Ybarra (born September 4) is an American pop-contemporary and Christian singer songwriter and worship leader from San Diego California United States. Ybarra has released a total of seven CDs five with his former band which began as Liquid Groove and then changed its name to 34Below. In 2009 he released his first CD (Love Love Love) as a solo artist and released his second CD Best Days in 2011. In 2011 he signed with Universal Music Group.
Costel Busuioc.  Costel Busuioc (born 21 October 1974 Goruni Tomeşti Iaşi) is a Romanian tenor
Taryn Simon.  Taryn Simon (born February 4 1975) is an American artist. Simon’s artistic medium consists of three equal elements: photography text and graphic design. Her work investigates the impossibility of absolute understanding and the ambiguities between text and image. She is a graduate of Brown University and a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow.
Fausto Zonaro.  Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter best known for his Realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire.
Paul Mellia.  Paul Mellia is a UK airbrush artist and is the only artist officially licensed to copy Marvel characters.Born in Essex England in 1954 Paul began drawing comic book characters at the age of 4. He is also dyslexic. He has said I couldn't read the stories because the words were jumping around so it didn't tell me the story. I wanted to draw it to make it look more real to me.Mellia returned to the UK to establish his studio in London after working in Los Angeles with Disney and Marvel.
Arshak Fetvadjian.  Arshak Abrahmi Fetvadjian (Armenian: Արշակ Աբրահամի Ֆեթվաճյան; October 1 1866 – October 10 1947) was an Armenian artist painter and designer. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of the architectural monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani and for designing the currency and postage stamps of the first Republic of Armenia (1918–1920).
Suling Wang.  Suling Wang (Chinese: 王淑鈴) born in Taiwan in 1968 is an internationally recognized painter and contemporary artist known predominantly for her large scale abstract works. She currently lives and works in London UK.
Ivor Cutler.  Ivor Cutler (15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006) was a Scottish poet songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme and later for Andy Kershaw's programme. He appeared in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film in 1967 and on Neil Innes' television programmes. Cutler also wrote books for children and adults and was a teacher at A. S.
Stuart Mitchell.  Stuart Mitchell (born 21 December 1965) is a Scottish pianist and composer best known for his Seven Wonders Suite (2001). The Seven Wonders Suite has been recorded by The Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mario Klemens. A performance of part of the suite was performed in The Dvorak Hall in Prague in 2005.
William Simmes.  William Simmes (c. 1575 – c. 1625) was an English Renaissance composer and musician who was in service to the Earl of Dorset in 1608.
Hugh Mendes.  Hugh Mendes (b.11 November 1955) is a contemporary British artist.He was born in the British Military Hospital in Hostert Germany where his mother was a nurse and his father was serving as a code-breaker. Mendes was graduated from Chelsea School of Art with a BA in painting in 1978 and from City and Guilds of London Art School with an MA in painting in 2001.Mendes is known for his paintings of obituaries taken from newspapers.
Patricia Wasley.  Patricia Wasley EdD is the Chief Executive Officer at Teaching Channel and is responsible for setting the educational direction of the website. Prior to joining Teaching Channel Dr. Wasley was dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2012. Wasley has conducted a variety of research on student voice teacher education and whole-school reform.
Florence LaRue.  Florence LaRue (born 4 February 1944) is an American actress humanitarian and Grammy award-winning singer. She is best known as the original female lead singer of The 5th Dimension.
RoopeK.  Roope Kinnunen is a Finnish rapper and record producer. He frequently uses stage names such as RPK Koksukoo and RoopeK.
Llew Summers.  Llew Summers (born 1947) is a sculptor based in Christchurch New Zealand known for his distinctive sculptures of the human form.He began producing public sculptures after finishing a four year farming apprenticeship in the early 1970 and gave his first exhibition in 1971. His sculpture of 14 Stations of the Cross installed at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament created a controversy due to the depiction of a naked figure of Jesus at his crucifixion.
Brad Divens.  Brad Divens is an American rock musician. He was the bassist and lead vocalist for Souls at Zero formerly known as Wrathchild America. His vocal style often draws comparisons to James Hetfield (Metallica). Previously Brad played guitar with the Maryland band Kix on their Cool Kids album.He has since worked as Front of House's sound engineer for acts such as Linkin Park Cyndi Lauper Slayer garbage and most recently HIM.
Carina Round.  Carina Round is a British singer-songwriter from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England.
Juan Francisco Ordóñez.  Juan Francisco Ordóñez (born 4 October 1961) is a guitarist from Santo Domingo Dominican Republic. He is considered an innovator of Dominican guitar language through a fusion of blues rock and jazz with his particular style.
Joseph Kastein.  Josef (later Joseph) Kastein really Julius Katzenstein (October 6 1890 Bremen - June 13 1946 Haifa) was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berlin in 1931 (translated into English Hebrew and Dutch).According to Douglas Reed Josef Kastein was a A most zealous Zionist historian...
Kim Goody.  Kim Goody (born 19 February 1954 in London) is an English actress composer singer and song writer. One of her earliest stints as a singer was providing backing vocals on Dave Davies' 1983 album Chosen People.She has starred in television shows such as Play Away and No. 73. In 1990 she competed in A Song For Europe to chose the UK song for The Eurovison Song Contest with the song Sentimental Again. She came third. Sandi Shaw later went on to record the song.
Alma Zohar.  Alma Zohar (Hebrew: עלמה זהר‎) (born June 6 1977) is a critically acclaimed Israeli musician and singer. Zohar began pursuing music as a career somewhat later than most of her peers. It was only at age 25 after divorcing her husband that Zohar decided to seriously pursue her childhood dreams and become a singer. She initially worked with a reggae band which recorded in English but abandoned the project.
Zakaria Abdulla.  Zakaria Abdulla (Kurdish: Zekeriya) is a Kurdish pop music star. He is one of most popular artists in Middle east.[citation needed] He is best known for his pop music which combines Kurdish melodies with various popular music styles.
Shinsuke Sato.  Shinsuke Sato (佐藤 信介 Satō Shinsuke born 1970) is a Japanese film director screenplay writer and video game designer.
Tara Smith (hair stylist).  Tara Smith is a professional hair stylist. Smith released her own line of natural and organic hair products in October 2008.
Fluxion (electronic musician).  Fluxion' is a pseudonym of Konstantinos Soublis (born 1973) a Greek electronic musician.
Denniz Pop.  Dag Krister Volle (26 April 1963 – 30 August 1998) better known under the artistic name Denniz Pop (stylized Denniz PoP) was a Swedish DJ music producer and songwriter.Volle began as a DJ in the 1980s started producing remixed records and later original releases producing Dr. Alban's single Hello Afrika in 1990. With Tom Talomaa he started the Cheiron Studios on Kungsholmen in Stockholm in 1991 and the next year recruited Max Martin (Martin Sandberg) to the studio.
Gustave Tassell.  Gustave Tassell (born February 4 1926) was an American fashion designer born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.Tassell studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Moving to New York City he worked in the advertising and display department for Hattie Carnegie who was well known in the fashion design world for both custom-made and ready-to-wear clothes. Later he designed custom clothes in Philadelphia.
James Lambdin.  James Reid Lambdin (May 10 1807 – 1889) was an American born artist famous for many of his portraits of U.S. Presidents.
Howard Wandrei.  Howard Elmer Wandrei (September 24 1909 – September 5 1956) was a US artist and writer. He wrote over 200 stories that appeared in the magazines Weird Tales. Astounding Esquire Black Mask and others. He wrote under his own name and as by Robert Coley and H.W. Guernsey. Wandrei is better remembered for his illustrations many of which were included in the books of his brother Donald Wandrei.
Reuben 'Bonyx' Armstrong.  Reuben Daniel Armstrong (born March 29 1980 in Shawnee Mission Kansas) better known by his stage name Bonyx and RUBONYX is an American producer and R&B artist. Best known for his production working with independent artists Tech N9ne and Skatterman & Snug Brim. He produced Skatterman & Snug Brim's single Block Party which charted #24 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart.
Patrick D. Smith.  Patrick Davis Smith (October 8 1927 – January 26 2014) was an American author. His work was nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize and five times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1999.
Jeff Allen.  Jeff Allen (born Jeffrey Allen 23 April 1946 Matlock Derbyshire) is an English rock and blues session drummer. Allen is best known for his work with East of Eden Babe Ruth Snowy White Bonnie Tyler Mick Taylor and Van Morrison. He is not to be confused although in many listings often is with the similarly named former drummer with the British glam rock outfit Hello whose brother is Ultravox's Chris Cross.
Emanuele Cavalli.  Emanuele Cavalli (b. 1904-d. 1981) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola Romana (Roman School). He was also a renowned photographer who experimented with new techniques since the 1930s.
Kalakkad S. Ramanarayana Iyer.  Kalakkad Subbiah Ramanarayanan Iyer (Tamil: காலக்காடு ராமநாராயண அய்யர்) (10 October 1910 – 1992) was a Carnatic musician and composer born in Kalakkad Tirunelveli District Tamil Nadu India. He was also awarded the Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu marking his dedication and service.
Hemen Majumdar.  Hemendra Majumdar was an Indian painter. His popular painting is Lady with Lamp depicting loneliness of a woman (Not to be confused with Woman With the Lamp by another famous Indian painter Sawlaram Haldankar). In 2002 there was a huge uproar when his painting was stolen and found with an art dealer.
Warren Hill (musician).  Warren Hill (born on April 15 1966 in Toronto Ontario Canada is a Canadian smooth jazz and adult contemporary musician. A graduate of Berklee College in Boston Massachusetts Hill performed at his own graduation day in 1988 where he caught the attention of record producer Russ Titelman who helped him sign a record deal with RCA Records in 1991 and Hill released his debut album Kiss Under the Moon that year.
Paulo Alexandre.  Paulo Alexandre born in Vouzela Portugal on February 16 1931 is a Portuguese singer.Paulo started his artistic career in 1954 on National Radio. Togeather with António Sala they start Rossil records Vinho Verde gained two gold discs in 1978 and 1979 before also being a big hit in Brazil also going gold.In 2010 Paulo published the book Duas Vidas numa Só subtitle Entre Cifrões e Canções which includes accounts of his artistic career and also his successful career as a banker.
Seth Avett.  Timothy Seth Avett (born July 30 1980) is one of the lead singers and founding members of the folk-rock band The Avett Brothers. Avett sings and plays guitar drums and piano for the band based out of Concord North Carolina. In 2008 their album The Second Gleam reached the number ten spot on Billboard.com's Top Independent Albums chart and stayed there for three weeks.
Franz Gareis.  Franz Gareis (1775–1803) a painter born at Marienthal studied at Dresden under Casanova. He afterwards went to Rome where by his picture of Orpheus in the Lower World he gained a considerable reputation but unfortunately he died at Rome at the early age of twenty-seven.
Mr. Cheeks.  Mr. Cheeks (born Terrance Darren Kelly; March 28 1971) is a Grammy Award winning rapper best known for his work with the musical group Lost Boyz and his career as a solo artist.
Bettina Jonic.  Bettina Jonic is a theatre artist singer dancer writer poet director and the founder of London's Actors Work Group.
Helen Walsh.  Helen Walsh (born 1977 in Warrington near Liverpool) is an English writer. To date she has written four novels: Brass (2005) Once Upon a Time in England (2008) Go to Sleep (2011) - all of which have been published by Canongate Press - and The Lemon Grove (2014) published by Tinder Press.
Giorgio Nadali.  Giorgio Nadali born in Milan (Italy) March 15 1962 is an Italian writer and journalist.
Chris Geith.  Chris Geith is american a composer and arranger of contemporary jazz and New Age music. His band The Chris Geith Group signed with Jive Records in Asia in 2001. The band has been no. 1 in the contemporary jazz Jazz Fusion and Contemporary Urban/ R&B charts on MP3.com. In 1995 Keyboard Magazine awarded him the top spot for his composition “Sunrise Hunter” at their 20th Anniversary Keyboard Competition.
Norman Loftis.  Norman Loftis is a poet novelist and filmmaker whose work has focused on the African-American experience including his own upbringing in Chicago's South Side.His first book of poems Exiles and Voyages was published in 1970 and was dedicated To my first friend W.H.
Benoît Audran the Younger.  Benoït Audran called the Younger to distinguish him from his uncle was born in Paris in 1698 and died there in 1772. He was the son and pupil of Jean Audran and engraved in the same manner as his father. He engraved prints after Paolo Veronese Poussin Natoire Lancret Watteau and other French artists.
Mason Williams.  Mason Williams (born August 24 1938) is an American guitarist and composer best known for his instrumental Classical Gas. He is also a comedy writer known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and Saturday Night Live. He is also an eclectic poet and lyricist who has published several books.
Arkas.  Arkas (Greek: Αρκάς) is a Greek comics artist that started his work in the early 80s. His comics have a unique style combining humor and sometimes deep philosophical questions. The structure of the stories is very simple with each volume having individual strips which follow some general plot guidelines.
Liam Tyson.  Liam Sean Skin Tyson (born 7 September 1969 in Liverpool) is an English guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Cast.Tyson's first band Pyramid Dream gigged regularly around Liverpool in the late 80's and early 90's. The band released one cassette album and appeared on compilation LP One Summer In Liverpool. In 1991 the band toured Russia as part of a cultural exchange tour organised by Liverpool City Council.
John Urquhart Cameron.  John Urquhart Cameron (born 1943) is a distinguished academic and social reformer and a former parish minister of the Church of Scotland. He met and married the Anglo-Swedish skier Jill Sjoberg when he was a marketing executive with GlaxoSmithKline in London and they have a daughter Clare and a son Alex.
Steve Vaus.  Steve Vaus who also records under the name Buck Howdy is known for his children recordings. He is also known for his Christmas recordings including The Stars Come Out for Christmas series for Carols by Candlelight a 24 year San Diego tradition and for his political recordings such as a TSA pat-down protest song Joan B. Kroc-commissioned Hiroshima commemoration song and a pro-impeachment Clinton-era song.
Louis Ehlert.  Louis Ehlert (23 January 1825 Königsberg – 4 January 1884 Wiesbaden) was a German composer and music critic.Ehlert entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1845 where he studied under Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. In 1850 he moved to Berlin where he was a critic and teacher. From 1869 until 1871 he taught at the Schule des höheren Klavierspiels founded by Carl Tausig.
Steven Reigns.  Steven Reigns (born 1975) is an American poet artist and activist.
Víctor Trujillo.  Víctor Trujillo (b. July 30 1961) is a Mexican host comedian and political commentator. He is best known for his character Brozo el Payaso Tenebroso (Brozo the Creepy Clown) a green-haired unkempt obscene and aggressive clown (an anti-clown).Trujillo was born in Mexico City.
YTCracker.  Bryce Case Jr. (b. August 23 1982) otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced whitey cracker) is a former cracker most known for defacing the webpages of several federal and municipal government websites in the United States as well as several in private industry at the age of 17. Case later became known for his work as a Nerdcore hip hop artist.
Touch Sunnix.  Touch Sunnix or Touch Sreynich Touch Srey Nich Touch Sunnich (Khmer: ទូច ស៊ុននិច;Born on 1980) is a famous Cambodian singer from Phnom Penh Cambodia.She has been singing from an early age growing into a mature legendary Cambodian singer. Her voice is very smooth and harmonious. Her work embodies many key themes in Cambodian culture such as folk stories traditional Cambodian dancing freedom and democracy.
Siobhan Owen.  Siobhan Owen is a soprano and harpist from Adelaide Australia. Owen was born on 4 October 1993 in North Wales and lived in the small Anglesey village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch before moving to Australia with her family in November 1995. Owen regularly performs at Festivals concerts and recitals around Australia. She favours classical and Celtic/folk songs but also sings jazz on occasion.
Jeff Penalty.  Jeff Penalty (b. Jeff Alulis) is a writer filmmaker and musician known mainly for his documentary work and his position as a former lead singer of Dead Kennedys.
John Gould (Canadian writer).  John Gould is a Canadian short story writer from Victoria British Columbia. He has published two books of short fiction The Kingdom of Heaven: 88 Palm-of-the-Hand Stories in 1996 and Kilter: 55 fictions in 2003. Kilter was nominated for the Giller Prize.Gould currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He is also a member of the fiction editorial board at The Malahat Review a respected Canadian literary journal.
Es'kia Mphahlele.  Es'kia Mphahlele (17 December 1919 – 27 October 2008) was a South African writer educationist artist and activist. He was born Ezekiel Mphahlele but changed his name to Es'kia in 1977. He is celebrated as the Father of Afrikan Humanism. He was one of the founding figures of modern African literature. His journey from childhood in the slums of Pretoria to literary icon was an odyssey both intellectually and politically.
Natasha Williams (actress).  Natasha Williams ( born Roselyn Agatha Williams; 18 July 1971 in Trelawny Jamaica) is a British-based Jamaican actress. Williams is known for playing the role of PC Delia French in the long running ITV drama The Bill. She also played the role of a pharmacist in Gridlock an episode of Doctor Who that was broadcast on 14 April 2007 and appeared in Powers in 2004.
Marcus Mastin.  Marcus J. Mastin (born August 20 1975) is an American author. His books include the thriller Don't Pay the Ferryman (based on the 1982 song by Chris DeBurgh) and its sequel Don't Fear the Reaper (named likewise for (Don't Fear) the Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult).
Tony Palacios.  Tony Palacios is the lead guitarist of the Christian hard rock band Guardian. Palacios joined the band in 1989 and has remained with them since releasing nine studio albums including three in Spanish.In 1998 Palacios released his first instrumental guitar solo album entitled Epic Tales of Whoa! on Cadence Records. The album was assembled over a ten-year period and received critical acclaim from the metal community.
Alycia Bellamy.  Alycia Bellamy (also known as Ly$$i) is an American Singer Actress and Model. She is best known as the friend and neighbor of Angela and Vanessa Simmons appearing as a series regular on the first season of MTV's Daddy's Girls. As a singer Alycia has worked with Justin Timberlake NE-YO Frank Ocean Dream Tricky Stuart and will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas.
Ariel Pink.  Ariel Pink (born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg; June 24 1978) is a Los Angeles-based recording artist.
Zelda Fitzgerald.  Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24 1900 – March 10 1948) born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery Alabama was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Brent Hinds.  Brent Hinds (born January 16 1974) is an American guitarist/singer best known as a member of the Atlanta Georgia metal band Mastodon in which he shares guitar duties with Bill Kelliher and vocal duties with Troy Sanders and Brann Dailor.Hinds is also lead guitarist/singer for the surfabilly band Fiend Without a Face and is involved in other projects including classic rock bands The Blood Vessels West End Motel Four Hour Fogger The Last of the Blue Eyed Devils and Giraffe Tongue Orchestra.
Bill Gibb.  Bill Gibb was a Scottish fashion designer who became renowned in the 1960s and 70s for his unusual and flattering designs.
Nicholas Moore.  Nicholas Moore (16 November 1918 – 26 January 1986) was an English poet associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s whose reputation stood as high as Dylan Thomas’s. He later dropped out of the literary world.
Tim Gane.  Tim Gane (born 12 July 1964) is the leader of the rock band Stereolab.Born in Barking England he started his musical career as a purveyor of harsh noise in the early 1980s under the alias Unkommuniti releasing self-financed cassettes on Black Dwarf Wreckordings along with fellow Unkommuniti members Kallous Boys and other noise projects. Tim was a key member of McCarthy from 1985-1990.
Jean-Paul Clébert.  Jean-Paul Clébert (born 23 February 1926 in Paris and died on 21 September 2011 in Oppède) was a French writer.
Rehab Bassam.  Rehab Bassam https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/t1/c1.243.565.565/s160x160/559897_488071014585282_739628954_n.jpgRehab Arch (Arabic: رحاب بسام‎) is an Moroccan blogger who rose to fame in 2008 when Dar al Shorouk one of the most prominent Moroccan publishing houses published a collection of her blog posts in book form. She is an active blogger since November 2004.
Leoncio Lara.  Leoncio Lara “Bon” Ricardo Jacob (best known as Leoncio Lara 'Bon') is a Mexican composer and former rock band member. He best known for his scores in Mexican motion pictures. His notable works include Top Cat: The Movie La Leyenda de La Llorona El Americano: The Movie and Rudo y Cursi. He was a member and principal songwriter of his former band Bon y los Enemigos del Silencio.
Shinobu Otowa.  Shinobu Otowa (音羽しのぶ Otowa Shinobu born March 16 1977) is a Japanese enka singer.She was born as Chieko Yoshimura (吉村智恵子 Yoshimura Chieko) in Shimonoseki Yamaguchi.
Cyrus M. Running.  Cyrus M. Running (1913-1976) was an American regionally distinguished painter. A student of Grant Wood he is sometimes considered a regionalist. Much of his art focuses on themes common to Minnesota or Norway. He was a member of the faculty of Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota for many years.
A. Y. Campbell.  Archibald Young Campbell (1885–1958) was a classical scholar translator and published poet of the 1920s and 1930s.
Atsuko Enomoto.  Atsuko Enomoto (榎本温子 Enomoto Atsuko born November 1 1979 in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer and voice actress who works for 81 Produce (transferred from I'm Enterprise on September 1 2005). Her debut role was Yukino Miyazawa from Kare Kano.
Barrett Tillman.  Barrett Tillman (born 1948) is an American author who specializes in naval and aviation topics in addition to fiction and technical writing.Tillman's most influential book to date is On Yankee Station (1987) written with John B. Nichols. A critical appraisal of naval aviation in the Vietnam War it was added to the US Air Force and Marine Corps professional reading lists and became a reality check for various Navy and Marine squadrons.
Omar Akram.  Omar Akram is a Grammy Award-winning Afghan-American recording artist composer and pianist.
Peter Catalanotto.  Peter Catalanotto (born 1959) is an American book illustrator.
My Summer As A Salvation Soldier.  Þórir Georg Jónsson better known by his pseudonym My Summer As A Salvation Soldier is an Icelandic singer-songwriter also known by the mononym Þórir. His first album I Belive In This was released in 2004 (as Þórir) it was recorded in just over two days. This was followed up by Anarchists Are Hopeless Romantics in 2005 (as My Summer As A Salvation Soldier). Both records were released on the 12 Tónar label. His third album entitled Activism was released in 2008.
Maurice Dodd.  Maurice Dodd (October 25 1922 - December 31 2005) was an English writer and cartoonist most notable for his years spent working on The Perishers comic strip published in The Daily Mirror.
Nozomi Sasaki (voice actress).  Nozomi Sasaki (ささき のぞみ Sasaki Nozomi born February 19 1983) is a Japanese voice actress from Kanagawa Prefecture Japan.For her stage name she has adopted the hiragana rendering ささき のぞみ instead of the original kanji representation (佐々木望) of her birth name Sasaki Nozomi. (This combination of kanji characters is also used for rendering the name of Nozomu Sasaki an unrelated male voice actor and she shares the same name as Nozomi Sasaki a model which would be too close.)
Pascal Kleiman.  Pascal Kleiman was born in Toulouse France on April 19 1968.He started in the world of music from the explosion of French free radio during the 1980s.
Stephanie Dosen.  Stephanie Dosen (born 12 May) is an American singer-songwriter and knitwear designer and a member of the band Snowbird. She was raised in Wisconsin. Her songs have been featured on the soundtracks of Dawson's Creek NUMB3RS and Party of Five.Dosen got her start in 1994 with the band Virus an ambient techno group whose debut album Analogue was considered groundbreaking in the Christian trance music scene. In 2002 Dosen released her first solo album Ghosts Mice & Vagabonds.
Jalil Zaland.  Ustad Jalil Zaland (Persian: جلیل زلاند‎) (also spelled as Ustad Zoland & استاد زولاند) (c. 1935 – 30 April 2009) is a veteran singer of Afghanistan's golden music era. He is also a poet and music composer.He is the father of Farid Zaland Shala Zaland Soheila Zaland Wahid Zaland Mina Zaland Mirwais Zaland and Mahmood Zaland. He was one of the early teachers of Ahmad Wali.
Philippe Le Sueur Mourant.  Philippe Le Sueur Mourant (1848 - 21 August 1918) was a Jersey writer who wrote in Jèrriais and French.He was born in St Saviour in 1848 and spent most of his early life working in agriculture in Newfoundland and Lorient. He returned to Jersey in 1880 and launched a series of stories in La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey which took the form of letters supposedly written by Bram Bilo a naïve and self-important ex-Centenier from St Ouen.
Sammy Adams.  Samuel Adams Wisner (born August 14 1987) better known as Sammy Adams is an American rapper from Boston Massachusetts.
Magni Ásgeirsson.  Guðmundur Magni Ásgeirsson (born December 1 1978 in Egilsstaðir Iceland) is a singer songwriter and musician. He is also currently the frontman for the Icelandic pop band Á Móti Sól. Outside of Iceland he is most famous for being a contestant on the CBS reality show Rock Star: Supernova.
Cristina D'Avena.  Cristina D'Avena (born July 6 1964 in Bologna) is an Italian singer and actress. She sings for television and animation series and has recorded numerous albums selling nearly 6 million copies.D'Avena is well-known in Italy for performing theme songs to hundreds of Italian dubs of Japanese and American animated TV series. In all she has sung nearly 700 songs including theme songs for Sailor Moon Wedding Peach Pokémon Ace o Nerae! Touch Ai Shite Knight Attack No.
Robin Guthrie.  Robin Guthrie (born 4 January 1962) is a musician best known as co-founder of the Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has played guitar bass guitar keyboards drums and other musical instruments in addition to programming sampling and sound processing. Guthrie also works extensively as a producer and engineer.
Bryan Mantia.  Bryan Brain Mantia (born February 4 1963 in Cupertino California) is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands such as Primus Guns N' Roses Praxis and Godflesh and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits Serj Tankian Bill Laswell Bootsy Collins and Buckethead. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.
Ron van den Beuken.  Ron van den Beuken (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɔn vɐn dɛm ˈbøː.kə(n)]; born 10 April 1970 in Horst) is a Dutch DJ and record producer.
David Roback.  David Roback (born April 4 1958) is a guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the duo Mazzy Star.Roback grew up in Los Angeles and attended Palisades High School graduating in 1975. He was a classmate and neighbor of John Hoffs the brother of Susanna Hoffs who would eventually become the lead singer of the all-girl band The Bangles.
Eromo Egbejule.  Eromo Egbejule (born 23 October 23 1990) is a Nigerian writer journalist and media entrepreneur. He hails from Koko in Delta State in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. He is known for his controversial investigative pieces and harsh art reviews.
Soren Anders.  Soren Anders (born John T Fischer) is an American composer singer record producer and instrumentalist from southern Illinois. He is the creator of the multi-award winning band Shimmerplanet.
Saitō Ryokuu.  Saitō Masaru (斎藤 賢 24 January 1868 – 13 April 1904) better known by his pen name Saitō Ryokuu (斎藤 緑雨) was a Japanese author and critic who lived during the Meiji Era.
Jeffrey Gaines.  Jeffrey Gaines is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in Harrisburg Pennsylvania he was signed to the Chrysalis Records label in 1990 and released his debut album Jeffrey Gaines in 1992.
Rami Jaffee.  Rami Jaffee born March 11 1969 in Los Angeles is best known as the keyboardist of The Wallflowers and work for several bands and artists including Foo Fighters Pete Yorn Soul Asylum Pearl Jam Stone Sour Joseph Arthur and Coheed and Cambria.
Julius Epstein (pianist).  Julius Epstein (7 August 1832 – 3 March 1926) was a Croatian Jewish pianist. Epstein was born in Zagreb Croatia. He was married to Amalija (née Mautner) Epstein with whom he had a son Richard notable Zagreb pianist and music pedagogue.Epstein was a pupil at Agram of the choir-director Vatroslav Lichtenegger and in Vienna of Johann Rufinatscha (composition) and Anton Halm (pianoforte).
Peter Wienk.  Peter Wienk (Amsterdam the Netherlands 11 September 1920 - IJsselstein the Netherlands 16 August 2010) was a Dutch illustrator and painter.
Anil Menon.  Anil Menon is a leading Indian writer of speculative fiction as well as an eminent computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms; his research addressed the mathematical foundations of replicator systems majorization and reconstruction of probabilistic databases in collaboration with Professors Kishan Mehrotra Chilukuri Mohan and Sanjay Ranka.
Bassem Feghali.  Bassem Feghali (in Arabic باسم فغالي) is a Lebanese comedian singer and drag queen.[citation needed]
Peter Thorup.  Peter Eiberg Thorup (14 December 1948 - 3 August 2007) was a Danish guitarist singer composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark and he was known outside his own country when in the late 1960s he met Alexis Korner and the two formed the bands New Church The Beefeaters Collective Consciousness Society aka CCS and later Snape.
William E. Duff.  William Duff is the American author of the 1999 book A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals.He is a former FBI counterintelligence specialist. He is a graduate of University of the South and Baylor School.
John Martin Leahy.  John Martin Leahy (1886–1967) was an American short story writer novelist and artist. He wrote and illustrated weird stories that appeared in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales and Science and Invention. His novel Drome was published by Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. in 1952.
Curtis Richa.  Curtis Richa (born Curtis Richardson on November 6) is an American multi-gold and platinum songwriter producer and A&R. Curtis Richa is the CEO of his own company Eagle Note LLC and is also signed to Metronumm Musikk Publishing. He's the one founding members of the successful production team THE CONGLOMERATE (aka The Conglomm).In total Curtis Richa is responsible for having written and/or produced albums that have sold in the excess of 26 million records worldwide.
John Jantsch.  John Jantsch is an author speaker and marketing consultant who specializes in assisting small businesses. He is the author of Duct Tape Marketing The Referral Engine and The Commitment Engine.
Gustavo Mancinelli.  Gustavo Mancinelli (Rome 1842 - 1906) was an Italian painter who made portraits and depicted many Orientalist subjects.
Miloš Karadaglić.  Miloš Karadaglić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Милош Карадаглић born 1983) sometimes just his mononym Miloš is an award-winning classical guitarist and exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist from Montenegro.
Ruby Winters.  Ruby Winters is an American female soul singer whose records made the singles charts in both the US and UK in the 1960s and 1970s.
Natasha Rhodes.  Natasha Rhodes is a British-born author best known for her contemporary fantasy book series Dante's Girl starring supernatural crime-fighter Kayla Steele. She has also written many film novelizations of popular blockbuster movies such as Blade: Trinity and the Final Destination series of movies as well as original books based on films such as the Nightmare On Elm Street series.
Timotheus (aulist).  Timotheus (Greek: Τιμόθεος) was a famous aulos player from Thebes who flourished in Macedon during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. He later accompanied Alexander in his campaigns. After his death a story about the effect of his music on Alexander became a familiar reference point in literature on the power of music to manipulate emotion.
Dillon Cooper.  Dillon Cooper is an American rapper from Brooklyn New York.
Dobrica Erić.  Dobrica Erić (Serbian Cyrillic: Добрица Ерић; born August 22 1936) is a Serbian writer and poet.He is the author of numerous novels five books of romantic poetry 23 poetry books 5 theatre dramas and over 40 children's books. He is a deserved creator of the city of Belgrade. His first book of poetry was published in 1959. His works have been translated into numerous languages. He lives and works in Belgrade and Gruža.
Jones Very.  Jones Very (August 28 1813 – May 8 1880) was an American poet essayist clergymen and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. He was known as a scholar of William Shakespeare and many of his poems were Shakespearean sonnets.
Chris Goss.  Christopher Ryan Goss born August 17 1958 is an American record producer and musician.
Ken Landgraf.  Ken Landgraf (born 1950) is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator. Having worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics the major publishers of the superhero genre of comic books Ken pioneered independent comic book publishing in the 1970s and 80s. Collectors of rare “underground” comic book art know Landgraf best for iconoclastic masterworks like the series Rock Comics Starfighters and New York City Outlaws.
Steve Alexander (drummer).  Steve Alexander (born 20 November 1962) is a Welsh drummer. Starting out with the Irish band Shook Up! he earned a living as a session drummer working regularly in London's recording studios on film TV and commercial sessions and playing with the BBC Radio Orchestra. He became a permanent member of Brother Beyond following the departure of Eg White in 1986.
Vivienne de Watteville.  Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville (1900-1957) was a British travel writer and adventurer author of two books based on her experiences in East Africa in the 1920s Out in the Blue (1927) and Speak to the Earth (1935). She is best remembered for taking charge of and continuing an expedition in the Congo and Uganda at the age of 24 when her father the only other European on the safari was killed by a lion.
Lil Duval.  Lil Duval (born Roland Powell; 1977) is an American stand-up comedian. In 2005 he was a semifinalist on BET's comedy competition series Coming to the Stage. Duval is a series regular to the MTV2 shows Guy Code and Hip Hop Squares. Beginning in July 2013 he hosts the viral video show Ain't That America on MTV2.
Frederic Warde.  Frederic Warde (1894—1939) was a printer type designer and typographic designer.
Greg Gilmore.  Greg Gilmore (born January 3 1962 in France) is a musician in Seattle Washington and co-founder of the recording label First World Music.
Toyoko Yamasaki.  Toyoko Yamasaki (山崎 豊子 Yamasaki Toyoko real name Sugimoto Toyoko; 3 November 1924 – 29 September 2013) was a Japanese novelist.A native of Osaka Yamasaki worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating from Kyoto Women's University in Japanese literature. She published her first story Noren (1957) a story of a kelp trader based on the experiences of her family's business.
James Byron Huggins.  James Byron Huggins (born January 1 1959) is a U.S. writer.
Kristara Barrington.  Kristara Barrington (born November 22 1965) is a former pornographic actress of Korean-European ancestry. Her appearance allowed her to switch between playing Asian and European roles.Barrington was born in New Orleans Louisiana to an American father and a Korean mother. She lived in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles.In a San Diego Tribune interview on October 11 1985 Barrington told the San Diego Union-Tribune: I don't feel like a prostitute. I'm an actress I am paid for a job.
Ron Ron.  Ronald White better known by his stage name Ron Ron is an American rapper and director and former affiliate of Universal Music Group.
Jean Davy.  Jean Davy ( October 15 1911 – February 5 2001) was a French film stage voice actor.
Pamela Duncan Edwards.  Pamela Duncan Edwards is a British born children's author who now lives in the US. She has published over forty picture books for children both in America and Britain.
John Landry.  John Landry (born December 22 1969 in Montreal Quebec Quebec) is a Canadian country music artist. Landry's debut album Forever Took Too Long was released in 1999 by Spin Records. Its first two singles There You Were and Bit by Bit both reached the Top 10 of the Canadian Country Singles chart. Landry was nominated for a 2000 Juno Award for Best Country Male Artist.Landry entertained on the country stage at the 2003 Palmer Rapids Twin Festival in Ontario.
Edward Meneeley.  Edward Meneeley (b. December 17 1927 in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania United States - d. December 29 2012 in Weatherly Pennsylvania) was an American artist who created paintings sculptures and prints.
John Edgar Browning.  John Edgar Browning is an American author and editor known for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in both movies and literature.Browning is considered an expert on vampires specializing in the Dracula figure in film literature television and popular culture. His works expound upon Dracula horror vampires the supernatural the un-dead Bram Stoker gothic and cultural theory.
Stanley Myers.  Stanley Myers (6 October 1930 – 9 November 1993) was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. He also wrote the guitar piece Cavatina.
Tom Hedden.  Tom Hedden is an American score composer the former music director at NFL Films and the current National Football League Director of Music Administration.
Caesar Rodriguez.  Caesar Rodriguez is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry.
Lalo Schifrin.  Lalo Schifrin (born June 21 1932) is an Argentine pianist composer arranger and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores such as the Theme from Mission: Impossible. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations. Schifrin associated with the jazz music genre is also noted for work with Clint Eastwood in the late 1960s 1970s and 1980s particularly the Dirty Harry films.
Amiraddin Masud Nakhchivani.  Amiraddin Masud Nakhchivani (Azerbaijani: Əmirəddin Məsud Naxçıvani) – was an architect of the twelfth century and a representative of the Architectural school of Nakhchivan.Amiraddin Masud Nakhchivani lived in a palace of the Eldiguzids and was the follower of the architectural style of Ajami Nakhchivani. He constructed both religious and public buildings. He also had poetical abilities too.
Mariko Gotō.  Mariko Gotō (後藤 まりこ Gotō Mariko) (born February 22 in Osaka) is a Japanese singer lyricist composer and actress. Her career started in the early 2000s with the band Usagi (うさぎ) where she served as vocalist and guitarist. After it broke up in 2003 she joined punk jazz group Midori together with Usagi's bassist Yoshifumi Kuwano. Midori released three full-length albums five EPs and a single.
Emel Mathlouthi.  Emel Mathlouthi (Arabic: آمال المثلوثي) is a Tunisian singer-songwriter best known for her protest songs Ya Tounes Ya Meskina (Poor Tunisia) and Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free) which became anthems for the Tunisian revolution and the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
John Bowers (writer).  John Bowers is an American writer.Bowers was raised in Johnson City Tennessee during the Great Depression and World War II era. He graduated from Science Hill High School in 1947 and from the University of Tennessee in 1952. From there he attended the Handy Writers Colony in Marshall Illinois founded by Lowney Turner Handy and her husband Harry Handy along with her student the best-selling novelist James Jones.
Mark Evanier.  Mark Stephen Evanier (pronounced ev-uh-near; born March 2 1952) is an American comic book and television writer particularly known for his work on the Garfield cartoon and on the Groo the Wanderer comic book. He is also known for his columns and blogs and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography Kirby: King of Comics.
Lolita Pille.  Lolita Pille (born August 27 1982) is a French author best known for her two novels: Paris 75016: Hell's Diary and Bubble Gum.
Haruka Fukuhara.  Haruka Fukuhara (福原 遥 Fukuhara Haruka born August 28 1998 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese actress singer and model.
Dany Bédar.  Dany Bédar is a francophone Québécois singer from Val-d'Or in Abitibi-Témiscamingue Quebec CanadaHe moved to Montreal at age 19. In 1993 he was the bass player of the group Sex Solution with Gaeboche aka Richard Gibouleau (percussions) Karl Coderre (guitar and voice). He plays every instrument except drums. In 1999 the members of the group La Chicane asked him to join them as a bass player.
Buddy Buie.  Buddy Buie is a songwriter producer and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison The Classics IV and The Atlanta Rhythm Section.
Cazuza.  Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto better known as Cazuza (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈzuzɐ]; 4 April 1958 – 7 July 1990) was a Brazilian composer and singer born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas Renato Russo and Os Mutantes Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music. In 9 years of career he sold more than 5 million albums and achieved 11 number one singles and 18 Top 10 singles in Brazil.
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi.  Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (Urdu: احمد ندیم قاسمی‎) born Ahmad Shah Awan(Urdu: احمد شاہ اعوان‎) on 20 November 1916 – died 10 July 2006 was an Urdu and English language Pakistani poet journalist literary critic dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry fiction criticism journalism and art and was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature.
Giovanni Stefano Marucelli.  Giovanni Stefano Marucelli (1586 - c. 1646) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period active in Tuscany including Florence and Pisa.His name is also written as Maruscelli Maruscielli or Marscelli. Born in Florence around 1600 he became a pupil of Andrea Boscoli in Pisa. His masterpiece is the Abraham and the angels (1628) in the apse of the Duomo di Pisa.
Randa Jarrar.  Randa Jarrar (born 1978 in Chicago) is a Palestinian-American novelist short story writer and translator.
Adam Leonard (singer-songwriter).  Adam Leonard is an English singer-songwriter working mainly in the folk psychedelic and electronic music fields. His style is often described as lo-fi and the subject matter of his songs somewhat unconventional. Since his debut album 'How Music Sounds' in 2003 he has released many EPs albums and mini-albums on various small labels. Live performances which have so far been limited to the UK (Manchester London and Northern Ireland) are as intriguing as they are rare.
Madhavapeddi Satyam.  Madhavapeddi Satyam (Telugu: మాధవపెద్ది సత్యం; 11 March 1922 – 18 December 2000) was a renowned Telugu singer and stage-actor from the state of Andhra Pradesh India. He entered into films as a singer-actor in Y.V. Rao's Tamil-Hindi Biligual movie Ramadas in the year 1946. He played the role of Kabir. However he became more popular as a playback singer thanks to his booming voice. His voice suited artists like S. V. Ranga Rao Relangi and Ramana Reddy.
Madhushree.  Madhushree (born Sujata Bhattacharya) is an Indian singer who sings in Hindi Tamil Telugu and Kannada films. A familiar voice in A. R. Rahman's compositions Madhushree hails from a musically inclined family having previously been trained in classical and western styles music. Her father wanted her to be a classical singer Madhushree joined the Rabindra Bharati University and completed her masters but her desire was always to be a playback singer.
Sebastian Karlsson (singer).  Sebastian Karlsson or Sebastian (born 2 January 1985 in Morgongåva) is a Swedish singer and performer best known for his participation in Idol 2005 where he came in second place after Agnes Carlsson.
Kevin Denney.  Kevin Denney (born January 27 1978 in Monticello Kentucky) is an American country music artist. Signed to Lyric Street Records in 2001 he made his debut on the country music scene with the release of his self-titled album (2001's Kevin Denney) which produced three chart singles including That's Just Jessie a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
Eli Clare.  Eli Clare is a writer speaker activist and teacher in Vermont who addresses disability gender race class and sexuality in his work. He has cerebral palsy and identifies as genderqueer and as a trans man. He has a B.A. in Women's Studies from Mills College and a M.F.A. from Goddard College.
Magome Togoshi.  Magome Togoshi (戸越まごめ Togoshi Magome) is a Japanese video game composer for visual novel studios. He began work as a music arranger in 1999 where he started working for the visual novel studio Key under Visual Art's to produce music for Kanon. Between then and 2006 Togoshi composed music for four more titles by Key along with other games produced by game brands also under Visual Art's. In October 2006 Togoshi resigned from Key and Visual Art's.
KC Groves.  Katherine KC Groves (born March 14 1971) is an American mandolin player and singer specializing in old-time music and bluegrass. She grew up in Dearborn Michigan and lives now in Lyons Colorado. Coming from a musical family her father is a singer and a country yodeler she had piano lessons at the age of six though she hated them. In the early 1990s she began playing guitar writing songs and learning mandolin.
Najib Amhali.  Najib Amhali (born April 4 1971) is a Moroccan-born Dutch stand-up comedian and actor.Najib Amhali was born in Nador. He has gained popularity partly because of his flawless command of Dutch and ability to show the Dutch how the life of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the Netherlands can be. 'Als Marokkaan kom ik graag bij de mensen thuis.' (As a Moroccan I like to visit people in their homes).
Anders Magnus.  Anders Magnus (born 10 April 1952) is a Norwegian journalist and television presenter.He was born in Oslo and took the cand.mag. degree in 1976. He was hired in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in 1978 and after tenures in Bergens Tidende from 1982 to 1992 and TV 2 from 1992 to 1998 he returned to NRK in 1998. He served as their correspondent covering all of Africa from 1998 to 2002 later as their correspondent to China from 2010.
Svetoslav Vitkov.  Svetoslav Emilov Vitkov (Bulgarian: Светослав Емилов Витков) is a Bulgarian singer karate instructor and songwriter best known for his work with Hipodil.
Trish Shields.  Trish Shields is a Canadian poet and novelist.Born in Canada Shields grew up in Europe before returning to live in Toronto Ontario.Shields is the British Columbia chairperson for the Canadian Poetry Association and an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets Canada Cuba Literary Alliance and Canadian Federation of Poets. Her first book Soul Speak was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.She lives on Vancouver Island with her spouse and children.
Milan Petrović.  Milan Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Петровић born September 23 1976 in Belgrade SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian keyboard player songwriter and composer.
Frankie Gavin (musician).  Frankie Gavin is a fiddle player of traditional Irish music.
Eunhyuk.  Lee Hyuk-jae (born 4 April 1986) better known by his stage name Eunhyuk (Korean: 은혁; Chinese: 銀赫; Japanese: ウニョク) is a South Korean singer-songwriter dancer rapper actor and MC. He is famously known for being the main dancer of the K-pop mega boy band Super Junior and their subgroups Super Junior-T and Super Junior-H.
Amanda Fraser (artist).  Amanda Fraser is an Australian artist painter draughtsperson and printmaker.
Sara Seale.  A.D.L. MacPherson (died October 30 1978) was a British writer of over 45 romance novels as Sara Seale from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands.
Rahima Naz.  Rahima Naz (Urdu: رحیمہ ناز‎) (February 14 1986 -) is an Urdu and Khowar (Chitrali) language poet of Khot Valley Tehsil Torkhow District Chitral Khyber Pakhtun khwa Pakistan.Rahima Naz started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry Lala-e-Kuhsaar to great acclaim in 2011.
Natacha Michel.  Natacha Michel is a French political activist militant and writer born in 1941. She has published a dozen novels and a growing body of literary criticism.Michel was program director at the College International de Philosophie (1995–2001). She is the daughter of French film director and screenwriter André Michel.
Robert Davidson (poet).  Robert Davidson (1778- 6 April 1855) was a Scottish poet and labourer whose writings give a rare glimpse into the life of the rural labouring poor at the beginning of the 19th century. He was born at Lempitlaw in the historic County of Roxburgh (the modern Scottish Borders) later moving to the village of Morebattle. Despite the harsh existence of agricultural labour and having to support a family Davidson managed to publish three collections of poems during his lifetime.
David X. Cohen.  David Samuel Cohen (born July 13 1966) better-known by his professional name David X. Cohen is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and he is the head writer and executive producer of Futurama.
Don Grusin.  Don Grusin (born April 22 1941 Denver Colorado United States) is an American songwriter producer and keyboardist. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado and for a period of his life taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as well as at Foothill College California before deciding to enter the music business full-time.He is the younger brother of Dave Grusin.
Edward Yang.  Edward Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨德昌; traditional Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6 1947 – June 29 2007) along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi (A One and a Two).
Jim Owen (singer-songwriter).  Jim Owen (born April 21 1941 in Robards Kentucky) is an American singer-songwriter. When he was eight years old Owen saw Hank Williams Sr sing and from that time he became completely fascinated by the star and his music. After completing his education he worked variously as a journalist and as a golf coach until 1969 when with Mel Tillis’ help he relocated to Nashville Tennessee to work as a songwriter.Over the next few years several artists had chart hits with his songs.
Marianne Denicourt.  Marianne Denicourt (14 May 1966 in Paris) is a French actress who has appeared in about 50 film and television productions between 1986 and 2009.She studied under Patrice Chéreau in 1985-86 at the Ecole du théâtre des Amandiers in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Ruthie Morris.  Ruth Mary Ruthie Morris (born March 5 1964) is the guitarist for the Atlanta Georgia-based rock group Magnapop. Her pop punk/power pop guitar style helped to define the band's sound and she has co-written their minor hit singles Slowly Slowly and Open the Door.
Fred Cress.  Frederick Harold Cress AM (10 July 1938 – 14 October 2009) was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard.Cress was born in Poona India but went to England with his parents in 1948 when he was ten. He was educated at the Birmingham College of Art in England and migrated to Australia in 1962 as a ten pound Pom meaning that he only had to pay ten pound for his fare to Australia.
Frederic Henry Hedge.  Frederic Henry Hedge (December 12 1805 – August 21 1890) was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club originally called Hedge's Club and active in the development of Transcendentalism. He was one of the foremost scholars of German literature in the United States.
K-Solo.  K-Solo (born Kevin Madison on April 17 1968) is an American rapper from Central Islip New York who along with EPMD Redman Das EFX and Keith Murray was part of the Hit Squad in 1990s.
Alfred Thomas Agate.  Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14 1812 in Sparta New York – January 5 1846 Washington D.C.) was a noted American artist painter and miniaturist.Agate lived in New York from 1831 to 1838. He studied with his brother Frederick Styles Agate a portrait and historical painter.
Eugène Delacroix.  Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (French: [ø.ʒɛn də.la.kʁwa]; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.
Robert Mizzell.  Robert Mizzell (born 21 July 1971 in Shreveport Louisiana) was raised on the shores of Lake Bistineau near Shreveport. Robert's early musical influences came from his parents who both performed in a Church Gospel group and later they played the Bars / Lounges in and around Shreveport. When he was 17 Robert moved to Connecticut where he worked with his father in the painting / decorating business. He then joined the US army where he served for a number of years.
Leko (DJ).  Leko (born February 23 1974) is an American EDM Producer and DJ based in Baltimore Maryland.Leko began his production career in 2008 after having been a club DJ since 1992. His first spotlight release was a remake of the club anthem Dominator by Human Resource on Crux Records. 2009 was highlighted by the release of the Conscious Mind EP on his label Tharsis Records which was featured by Sony Creative Software in a remix contest on their AcidPlanet.com platform.
Mélanie Coste.  Mélanie Coste (born March 31 1976) is a French pornographic actress.
Olia Lialina.  Olia Lialina (born in Moscow) is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator.
Donald Pippin (opera director).  Donald Pippin (Zebulon North Carolina 1925) is an American pianist and founder of Pocket Opera.Pippin was educated at Harvard University and began his musical career as an accompanist at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York City. In 1952 he moved to San Francisco. He was also involved with new music in California recording with Harry Partch.
Mohammad Fouad.  Mohamed Fouad Abd El Hamid Hassan (Arabic: محمد فؤاد عبد الحميد حسن ; born December 20 1961) is an Egyptian singer actor and songwriter.
Bryn Haworth.  Bryn Haworth (born 29 July 1948) is a British Christian singer-songwriter guitarist and pioneer of Jesus music in mainstream rock. Born in Blackburn Lancashire UK he has released some twenty-two albums and several singles since the 1970s as well as guesting as guitarist on many other albums by rock and folk artists. He continues to tour in the UK appearing mostly at smaller venues Christian centres and at prisons. He has also appeared three times at the UK Greenbelt festival.
William Bell (author).  William E. Bell (born 1945 in Toronto Canada) is a Canadian author of young adult fiction. He has been an innovator in literature for young adults in Canada and many of his novels are read in high school English courses. He lives in Orillia Ontario.
Justin Broadrick.  Justin Karl Michael Broadrick (born 15 August 1969 Birmingham England) is a British singer songwriter guitarist and drummer. He was briefly in the English grindcore band Napalm Death when he was a teenager in the mid-80s writing and recording guitar for Side One of the Napalm Death's debut album Scum. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.
Kate Moira Ryan.  Kate Moira Ryan is an American playwright.Among the plays Ryan has worked on are Leaving Queens; The Beebo Brinker Chronicles an adaptation of three books by Ann Bannon; Caveweller; and Bass for Picasso.Ryan was the co-writer of comedian Judy Gold's one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother. It is based on a series of interviews with more than 50 Jewish mothers in the United States.
Blues Saraceno.  Blues Saraceno (born October 17 1971) is an American rock guitarist composer and music producer currently residing in Los Angeles California. He was discovered by Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine at the age of 16 which assisted him in releasing instrumental recordings on an independent basis. Saraceno's high profile as a gifted guitar virtuoso and musician opened the doors to an early career as a first-call guitar sideman and session musician.
Jonathan Linsley.  Jonathan Linsley (born 17 January 1956) is an English actor who made his professional debut in 1980. He appeared on television in Last of the Summer Wine as Crusher Milburn (1984–87) and his recent film roles include Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Ogilvey aboard the ship Flying Dutchman (2006–07).
Victor Brox.  Victor Brox (born May 1940 Ashton-under-Lyne Lancashire) is a British blues musician from Manchester England.He has been described by Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner as their favourite white blues singer.Brox plays a variety of musical instruments including horns keyboards and guitar as well as performing vocals.Though continuing to perform with the Victor Brox Blues Train he is most widely known for his performance as Caiaphas on the original recording of Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and for his collaborations.He has worked with: Eric Clapton Hendrix Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan of Deep Purple Charlie Mingus Memphis Slim Dr. 
Paul Strand.  Paul Strand (October 16 1890 – March 31 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work spanning six decades covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas Europe and Africa.
Jason Rowe.  Jason Rowe who formerly recorded under the name Jai is a British pop and soul singer currently residing in Bristol England.
Thomas Killigrew.  Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England.
Will Shade.  Will Shade (February 5 1898 – September 18 1966) was an African American Memphis blues musician best known for his leadership of the Memphis Jug Band. Shade was commonly called Son Brimmer a nickname from his grandmother Annie Brimmer because son is short for grandson. The name apparently stuck when other members of the band noticed that the sun bothered him and he used the brim of a hat to shade his eyes.
AnNa R..  Andrea Neuenhofen (née Rosenbaum born 25 December 1969) better known by her stage name AnNa R. is a German singer and songwriter who provides the lead vocals for German pop group Gleis 8. She was previously the main vocalist of Rosenstolz a German pop duo that was active between 1991 and 2012 and had chart hits in Germany Austria and Switzerland.
Yukari Mizuno.  Yukari Mizuno (水野友加里 Mizuno Yukari born October 5 1986 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress who appeared in movies such as Ice Memory Director! and The sign man falling in love.
Gary Hughes.  Gary Hughes (born 5 July 1967 Manchester) is an English hard rock singer songwriter and musician. Apart from his work as a solo artist Gary Hughes is the front man and main songwriter of Hard Rock/Melodic Rock band Ten. He has also worked as a producer and songwriter for Bob Catley's first three solo albums as well as Hugo's first album and has appeared on Vinny Burns' The Journey solo album and on the Ayreonauts Only album by the band Ayreon.
Jan Erik Kongshaug.  Jan Erik Kongshaug (born 4 July 1944 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) sound engineering and composer the son of guitarist John Kongshaug.
Georg Malmstén.  Georg Malmstén (27 June 1902 Helsinki- 25 May 1981 Helsinki) was a Finnish singer musician composer orchestra conductor and actor. He was one of the most prolific entertainers in Finland of his time producing over 800 records in numerous genres. In late 1930s owning a record company he made about half of his releases under the pseudonym Matti Reima.
Todd Nauck.  Todd Nauck is an American comic book artist and writer. Nauck is most notable for his work on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Young Justice and his own creation Wildguard.
Debora Iyall.  Debora Kay Iyall (Cowlitz pronunciation: [ˈʌɪalwahawa];[citation needed] born 29 April 1954) professional name “Debora Iyall” /ˈaɪ.ɑːl/ a Cowlitz Native American is an artist and was lead singer for the new wave band Romeo Void. Debora got her surname from her family adopting their ancestor Iyallwahawa's first name written at the time as Ayiel.[citation needed]She was born in 1954 in Soap Lake Washington but grew up in Fresno California.
Ingrid Storholmen.  Ingrid Storholmen (born 22 May 1976 in Verdal Norway) is a Norwegian poet and literary critic.She made her literary debut in 2001 with the poetry collection Krypskyttarloven. Among her other collections are Siriboka from 2007 and Tsjernobylfortellinger from 2009. She was awarded Sultprisen in 2010.
June Millington.  June Millington (born April 14 1948 Manila Philippines) is a Filipino American guitarist songwriter producer and instructor who is perhaps best known for being a co-founder and lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Fanny which was active from 1970-1974. Millington was once described by Guitar Player magazine as the hottest female guitarist in the music industry. Millington is the co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA) in Goshen Massachusetts.
Ricky Nelson.  Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8 1940 – December 31 1985) — known as Ricky Nelson later also as Rick Nelson — was an American actor musician and singer-songwriter. He starred alongside his family in the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–66) as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959).
Emily Haines.  Emily Haines (born ~1974) is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer keyboardist and co-songwriter of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist she has performed under her own name and under the moniker Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. Haines possesses a soprano vocal range.
Anne Marit Godal.  Anne Marit Godal (born 20 November 1972) is a Norwegian encyclopedist.She studied political science at the University of Oslo and has had positions in the Norwegian Labour Party and No to the EU. On 1 April 2011 she became editor of Norsk nettleksikon the successor of Store norske leksikon Store medisinske leksikon and Norsk biografisk leksikon.
Akiko Suwanai.  Akiko Suwanai (諏訪内 晶子 Suwanai Akiko) (born February 7 1972) is a Japanese classical violinist.She was the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990.
Aaron Richmond.  Aaron Richmond (born October 28 1895 Salem Massachusetts - d. April 21 1965 Boston Massachusetts) was an American performing arts manager pianist impresario and educator based in Boston Massachusetts who managed the careers of numerous classical musicians and founded Celebrity Series of Boston a performing arts presenting organization that still operates today.
Axel Alonso.  Axel Alonso is an American comic book creator known primarily as an editor at DC Comics from 1994 to 2000 and at Marvel Comics from 2000 to the present. At DC he edited a number of books published under their Vertigo line such as Doom Patrol Animal Man Hellblazer Preacher and 100 Bullets. As Senior Editor at Marvel Comics he edited Spider-Man and X-Men related books before ascending to Vice President Executive Editor in 2010 and Editor-in-Chief in January 2011 replacing Joe Quesada.
Jeff Stinco.  Jean-François Jeff Stinco (born August 22 1978) is a French-Canadian and half Italian musician who is best known as the lead guitarist for pop punk band Simple Plan.
Andamiro (singer).  Andamiro (Hangul: 안다미로) is a South Korean pop singer who debuted in 2012 under Trophy Entertainment.
Sándor Liezen-Mayer.  Sándor Liezen-Mayer or German: Alexander von Liezen-Mayer (24 January 1839 – 19 February 1898 Munich) was a Hungarian painter.He was born in Győr and attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. From 1862 he was a student of Carl von Piloty. In 1867 he left the Academy in order to work as a portrait painter.
Henry Haven Windsor.  Henry Haven Windsor (November 13 1859 – May 11 1924) American author magazine editor and publisher was the founder and first editor of Popular Mechanics. He was succeeded as editor by his son Henry Haven Windsor Jr (1898-1965). According to a brief biography published by Press Club of Chicago in 1922 Windsor was born in a log cabin near Mitchell Iowa the son of Rev. William D. D. Windsor and Harriet Butler (Holmes) Windsor.
Anirudh Ravichander.  Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990) is an Indian film composer and singer. He made his debut in the Tamil film 3 directed by Aishwarya R. Dhanush. The song Why This Kolaveri Di that Anirudh had composed for the Tamil film 3 went viral on YouTube and has tracked more than 72 million views.
Shane Filan.  Shane Steven Filan (born 5 July 1979) is an Irish singer and songwriter. He was one of the lead singers of Irish boy band Westlife until the group disbanded in 2012. After Westlife disbanded it was announced that Filan would release his debut solo album in 2013.
Jesse McReynolds.  Jesse Lester McReynolds (born July 9 1929 in Coeburn Virginia) is an American bluegrass musician. He is known for his innovative crosspicking and split-string styles of mandolin playing and has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1964.
Steven Downes.  Steven Downes (born 22 November 1961) is a British sports journalist television producer and a contributing writer for the Sunday Herald.
Arthur Lismer.  Arthur Lismer CC (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven.
Bow Wow (rapper).  Shad Gregory Moss (born March 9 1987) better known by his stage name Bow Wow (formerly Lil' Bow Wow) is an American rapper actor and television host. As Lil' Bow Wow he released his first album Beware of Dog in 2000 at age 13 which was followed by Doggy Bag 2001. In 2003 Bow Wow released his third album Unleashed which was the first album released without using Lil' in his name.Bow Wow made his first movie appearance in All About the Benjamins in 2002 as a cameo.
Iain Matthews.  Iain Matthews (born 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald in Scunthorpe Lincolnshire England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald then as the 1960s progressed as Ian Matthews.
William Greene Turner.  William Greene Turner (October 21 1833 – 1917) was an American sculptor.
Applejaxx.  Ernest Owens (born October 3 1982 in Fayetteville North Carolina) better known as Applejaxx is a Christian hip hop artist from North Carolina.
Laurel Aitken.  Lorenzo Aitken (April 22 1927 – July 17 2005) better known by the stage name Laurel Aitken was an influential Caribbean singer and one of the pioneers of Jamaican ska music. He is often referred to as the Godfather of Ska.
Maddy Prior.  Madelaine Edith Maddy Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk singer best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.
Onorio Marinari.  Onorio Marinari (1627 – January 5 1715) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence. His father Sigismondo di Pietro Marinari was also a painter and he trained with his cousin Carlo Dolci later being also influenced by Simone Pignoni and Francesco Furini. His fresco in the Palazzo Capponi Florence is dated 1707. In 1674 he published his illustrated Fabbrica ed uso dell' Annulo Astronomico. Bartolomeo Bimbi was one of his pupils.
Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao.  Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao (died 1988) was a Telugu author who is best remembered as the composer of the National Pledge of India.
Clare Bowditch.  Clare Bowditch (born 1975) is an Australian musician occasional actor (Offspring Channel 10) and the founder of the love-project Big Hearted Business (www.bigheartedbusiness.com) which aims to teach creative people about business and business people about creativity in ways that make sense. She won an ARIA Award in 2006 (Best Female) and was nominated for a Logie Award for her work on Channel 10′s “Offspring” TV show in 2012.
Jack Jones (novelist).  Jack Jones CBE (24 November 1884 – 7 May 1970) was a Welsh miner Trade Union Official politician novelist and playwright.
Yukiko Kashiwagi.  Yukiko Kashiwagi (柏木 由紀子 Kashiwagi Yukiko born December 24 1947) is a Japanese actress and the wife of Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto from 1971 until his death in 1985. In the 1970s Kashiwagi retired from her career as an actress and instead presented a series of welfare performances with her husband in children's homes and nursing homes and on Japanese television.
Helen Desha Beamer.  Helen Desha Beamer (1882–1952) was a coloratura soprano of Hawaiian ancestry. She was a musician hula dancer and composer of songs in the Hawaiian language. Her descendents have also become accomplished artists in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 1928 her duet of the Hawaiian Wedding Song with Sam Kapu on Columbia Records was the first commercial recording of the Charles E. King composition . She was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1995.
Medo Pucić.  Medo Pucić also known as Orsat Pucić (Italian: Orsatto Pozza; March 12 1821 - June 30 1882) was a writer and politician from Dubrovnik at the time in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Dalmatia who was the first Catholic native of Dubrovnik to declare himself a Serb believing that the religion was irrelevant for ethnic affiliation contrary to the common practice in Ragusa and in line with Pan-Slavic ideas of Pavel Jozef Šafárik and others. He is the brother of Niko Pucić.
Marcus Schössow.  Marcus Schössow (born October 28 1985) is a Swedish DJ and electronic music producer.
Richard Wilson (painter).  Richard Wilson RA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential British landscape painter who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the 'most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country' In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy.
Ransom Wilson.  Ransom Wilson is an American flutist and conductor. Studying at the Juilliard School in New York City he formed a close friendship with Jean-Pierre Rampal.
Tor Saglie.  Tor Saglie (born 13 September 1949) is a Norwegian civil servant. He was educated at the University of Oslo graduating in 1976 with a cand.polit. degree in political science. He was the director (head of administration) of the University of Oslo from 1991 to 2003 and permanent under-secretary of state (departementsråd) in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development from 2003 to 2006. In 2006 he was appointed the first Labour and Welfare Director i.e.
Kåre Prytz.  Kåre Prytz (1926 – 1994) was a Norwegian journalist and novelist.He was born in Ålen belonging to the Prytz family based around Røros.He wrote several novels mainly revolving around the Norse travels to Vinland and East Greenland. He received the prize Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1972.
Yōsuke Yamashita.  Yōsuke Yamashita (山下 洋輔 Yamashita Yōsuke born February 26 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese jazz pianist composer essayist and writer. He is praised by critics for his unique piano style which is influenced by free jazz modal jazz and soul jazz.Since the late 1980s Yamashita's main group has consisted of Cecil McBee (bass) Pheeroan akLaff (drums) and often Joe Lovano (saxophone).
Atanas Kolev (rapper).  Atanas Kolev (Bulgarian: Атанас Колев born 21 December 1996) better known by his stage name Nasko is a Bulgarian rapper and basketball player from the Bulgarian city of Varna. He is a finalist of X Factor Bulgaria in 2013. He currently plays for Cherno More Varna.
Vsevolod Meyerhold.  Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Russian: Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold) (9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director actor and theatrical producer. His provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern international theatre.
Djelal Kadir.  Djelal Kadir (born 1946 in a shepherds’ village on the island of Cyprus) is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University University Park where he teaches literatures of the Americas modernism postmodernism world literature and classical and modern theory and where he has been the recipient of departmental teaching awards and the College Distinguished Service Medal.
Margie Bowes.  Margie Bowes (born March 18 1941) is an American country music singer popular in the late 1950s. She had a top 10 country hit Poor Old Heartsick Me in 1959. She was briefly married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers.
Bitty McLean.  Bitty McLean (born 8 August 1972 Birmingham England) is a British/Jamaican reggae lovers rock and ragga musician. He is best known for his three UK Top 10 hits in 1993 and 1994 including his debut offering It Keeps Rainin' (Tears from My Eyes).
Benoit Pioulard.  Thomas Meluch (born August 4 1984) is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist writer and photographer best known by his pseudonym Benoît Pioulard.
Hong Huifang.  Ang Hwee Fang (born 7 January 1960) better known as Hong Huifang is a Singaporean television actress and a contracted artiste under MediaCorp. She is best known for playing supporting roles in many Chinese-language television dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. She is married to Zheng Geping (Tay Kok Peng) a fellow MediaCorp artiste.
William Willet.  William Willet (November 1 1869 – March 29 1921) was an American portrait painter muralist stained glass designer studio owner and writer. An early proponent of the Gothic Revival and active in the Early School of American stained glass he founded the Willet Stained Glass and Decorating Company a stained glass studio with his wife and partner Anne Lee Willet in protest against the opalescent pictorial windows which were the rage at the turn of the twentieth century.
Alexandru Hrisoverghi.  Alexandru Hrisoverghi (February 27 1811 – March 9 1837) was a Moldavian Romanian-language poet and translator whose work was influenced by Romanticism. The author of few lyrical works he was foremost noted for his association with political and intellectual figures such as Mihail Kogălniceanu Costache Negruzzi Vasile Cârlova and Grigore Crupenschi.
Mark Peddle.  Mark Peddle is a musician from downtown St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador Canada. He played both electric and acoustic bass guitar on Mary Barry's 2007 album Red Eye Tonight. He also appeared as a guest performer on the album People Get Ready by Kelly-Ann Evans and Janet Cull in 2008. He performed bass as backup for the Ladies of Jazz in 2008 and again in 2009.
Sonome.  Shiba Sonome (1664–1726 斯波 園女) was a Japanese zen poet. She was an acquaintance and friend of Matsuo Bashō and their correspondence is a treasure of zen and haiku history.Sonome was known for her poetry which possessed a frank and immediate sense of purpose.Enlace:Haiku
Anson Hu.  Hu Yan Bin (born 4 July 1983) is a Chinese pop singer singer-songwriter music director and record producer.
Millard Sheets.  Millard Owen Sheets (June 24 1907 – March 31 1989) was an American painter and a representative of the California School of Painting later a teacher and educational director and architect of more than 50 branch banks in Southern California.
Lawrence Miles.  Lawrence Miles (born March 15 1972 in Middlesex) is a science fiction author known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (for both the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series) and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. He is also co-author (with Tat Wood) of the About Time series of Doctor Who critiques.
Philippe Dean.  Philippe Dean (born January 3 1969) is a French pornographic actor who appeared in straight pornographic films. He was an active performer from 1995 until 2006 when he retired from making pornography. In 1997 he won a Hot d'Or award for Best European Actor - Newcomer.[citation needed]
Brian Posehn.  Brian Edmund Posehn (born July 6 1966) is an American actor voice actor musician writer and comedian known for his roles as Jim Kuback on The WB's Mission Hill and Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.
Chizuko Ueno.  Chizuko Ueno (上野千鶴子 Ueno Chizuko  born July 12 1948 in Kanazawa Ishikawa Prefecture) is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's best-known feminist.
Cass Phang.  Cass Phang (Chinese: 彭羚 born 2 February 1969) is a retired Cantopop singer from Hong Kong affiliated with EMI in 1993–1998 and since then with Sony Music Entertainment. She was born in Hong Kong studied at Munsang College and a high school in Australia. In September 1998 she married Hong Kong actor and pop singer Jan Lamb a member of musical rap duo DJSofthard. She gave birth to two daughters in 2000 and 2004.
Jason Sherman.  Jason Sherman (born July 28 1962 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985 Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly which produced what a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990.
Émile Cohl.  Émile Cohl (January 4 1857 Paris – January 20 1938) born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement cartoonist and animator called The Father of the Animated Cartoon and The Oldest Parisian.
Sonia Jones.  Sonia Jones is a singer who is recognised for her session touring and soundtrack performances. Her session work has included pop acts of the 1970s and 80s. She sang the title track for the film Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Georgie Fame.  Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell 26 June 1943) is an English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician who had a string of 1960s hits is still a popular performer often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.Fame is the only British pop star to have achieved three number one hits with his only Top 10 chart entries: Yeh Yeh in 1964 Getaway in 1966 and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde in 1967.
Rick Barrio Dill.  Rick Barrio Dill is an American musician. He has performed engineered and produced under the names Rick Dill Keylow D RBD and Rick Barrio Dill. Currently he is an active member of the band Vintage Trouble. He has also been a member of 2nd Day Crush and The Ty Taylor Review. Barrio Dill is also a frequent freelance contributing writer for Recording Magazine. He lives in Los Angeles.
Demetri Betts.  Demetri Betts (born April 26 1973) is an American singer-songwriter musician author dancer inspirational speaker philanthropist model and former Rave and club promoter.He has maintained a career that began in 1997. During these years Demetri Betts has published 5 music albums 2 book series a magazine and started the help organization New Chance International. He also created a name for himself with numerous help videos for teenagers on YouTube.
Timmy T.  Timmy T (born Timothy Torres in Fresno California on September 21 1967) is a freestyle performer and musician. He is best known for his 1991 Billboard Hot 100 #1 single One More Try.Although the freestyle has been quite popular in New York and Miami Timmy T was one of the most successful singers in freestyle that came from California.Timmy T started out in the 1980s in small rap groups in Fresno but felt that he would rather do dance music.
Stefanie Ridel.  Stefanie Jill Ridel (born May 17 1973) is an American singer songwriter and actress. She was a member of the girl group Wild Orchid and was a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders. She is best known for her involvement with Wild Orchid with Stacy Ferguson who would later become known by her stage name Fergie.
Celeda.  Celeda (real name Victoria Sharpe) is an African-American dance music singer and drag performer born in Chicago Illinois. She began having hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in the late 1990s beginning with Music Is the Answer (Dancin' & Prancin') a collaboration with DJ and producer Danny Tenaglia that peaked at number 15 in 1998.
Michal Martychowiec.  Michał Martychowiec (born August 17 1987 in Lublin) is a Polish visual artist who lives and works in London United Kingdom and Berlin Germany.
Amy Shearn.  Amy Shearn (born 1979) is an American author of fiction essays poetry and humor.
Bunmi Mojekwu.  Bunmi Adaeze Mojekwu is a British actress of Nigerian descent. She is best known for playing Mercy Olubunmi in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Raymond Souplex.  Raymond Souplex (June 1 1901–November 22 1972) was a French actor and singer.
Jeff Kurtenacker.  Jeff Kurtenacker (born 1976-09-07) is a music composer for video games television radio and film. He was co-composer on the major release Pirates of the Burning Sea by Flying Labs Software released in January 2008 and worked on World of Warcraft and Warcraft 3 as a choral arranger and copyist. He currently lives in Southern California working as lead composer for Carbine Studios a division of NCsoft on their upcoming video game WildStar.
Lisa Wray.  Lisa Wray is a Pennsylvania-based artist and one of the early pioneers of visual graphic media arts. Her works can be viewed as tradigital art and metaphysical art. Wray graduated from the Hussian School of Art Philadelphia in 1979 where she studied commercial and fine art. She was a freelance artist in the late 1980s and owned a print shop. Wray created some of the artwork in a series called the Renaissance of Metaphysical Imagery as early as 1978.
Giuseppe Dessì.  Giuseppe Dessì (1909-1977) was an Italian novelist short-story writer and playwright from Sardinia. His novel Paese d'ombre won the 1972 Strega Prize and was translated into English as The forests of Norbio.Dessì grew up in Villacidro in Sardinia but later moved to Rome.
Patrik Jensen.  Patrik Jensen (Linköping Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist who formed the Swedish thrash metal musical group The Haunted in 1996 with Adrian Erlandsson. He was formerly a member of Seance and Satanic Slaughter and is also a founding member and sole music/lyric writer of Witchery. He is sometimes just referred to as Jensen.Jensen received his first guitar when he was seven years old but started playing when he was sixteen years old.
Aki Takajo.  Aki Takajo (高城 亜樹 Takajō Aki born October 3 1991 in Tokyo) is a Japanese idol singer who is a member of the girl groups AKB48 and JKT48. She auditioned for AKB48's sixth generation and was promoted to member of Team A. Her talent agency is Watanabe Productions. She is also a member of the sub-unit French Kiss. She is a concurrent member of AKB48's Team B and JKT48's Team J.
Moti Lal Kemmu.  Moti Lal Kemmu (Kashmiri: मोती लाल क्यमू (Devanagari) موتی لال کیمو (Nastaleeq)) (1933- ) is an important contemporary playwright from Kashmir. He was born in Srinigar and attended Jammu and Kashmir University. His plays include Nagar UdasTeen Asangati Aikanki (1968) Lal Drayas Lol Re (1972) Trunove (1970) Tshai (1973) Natak Truche (1980) Tota Tol Aina (1985).Several of his plays have also been translated and produced in Hindi.
Cathy Lesurf.  Cathy Lesurf born 1953 is a British folk music singer-songwriter who was brought up in Stevenage Hertfordshire. She has been a member of bands in the 1970s such as Oyster Ceilidh Band Fiddler's Dram and The Albion Band. She released a solo album Surface in 1985. She created and ran the World in 1 County festival from 2002 to 2007. In November 2009 she released the solo single This Christmas which was written by her husband David Wilson.
Richard Bruning.  Richard Bruning (born February 7 1953) is an American graphic designer and comics creator who blogs as Apple computer devotee iSensei and working as a freelance designer and writer.
Waldemar Bonsels.  Waldemar Bonsels (21 February 1880 in Ahrensburg – 31 July 1952 in Ambach (de)) was a German writer of children's books.Waldemar Bonsels wrote only one children's book in the strict sense Die Biene Maja (Maya the Bee). People in the sky (Himmelsvolk) is not a proper children's book but has a much deeper mystical layer showing the unity of all creation and its relationship to God.
Adrian Oxaal.  Adrian Oxaal (born March 20 1965) is an American-born English musician and music educator best known for being the lead guitarist in James between 1997 and 2002. He has also played with the bands Sharkboy and Goat.
Humza Arshad.  Humza Mohammed Arshad (Urdu: حمزه محمد ارشد‎; born 3 June 1985) is an English actor comedian and writer of Pakistani descent. He is best known for his web series Diary of a Bad Man.
Yank Barry.  Yank Barry (born Gerald Barry Falovich) is a musician businessman and philanthropist.He is the founder and CEO of VitaPro which makes textured vegetable protein for use as a meat substitute. Barry co-founded the Global Village Champions Foundation with Muhammad Ali.
Denys Wortman.  Denys Wortman (May 2 1887 – September 20 1958) was a painter cartoonist and comic strip creator. His work was the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 2011. From 1924 to 1954 he drew the comic strip Metropolitan Movies which ran in the New York World and was syndicated nationwide.
Minamoto no Shigeyuki.  Minamoto no Shigeyuki (Japanese: 源 重之) (died 1000) was an early Heian waka poet and nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu. His remaining works include a poetry collection known as the Shigeyukishū (重之集).
Yuri Rytkheu.  Yuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu (Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Рытхэ́у 8 March 1930 – 14 May 2008) was a Chukchi writer who wrote in both his native Chukchi and in Russian. He is considered to be the father of Chukchi literature.[citation needed]
Bruce Timm.  Bruce Walter Timm (born on February 8 1961) is an American character designer animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise the DC animated universe.
Jan Trefulka.  Jan Trefulka (15 May 1929 – 22 November 2012) was a Czech writer translator literary critic and publicist.
Mega Banton.  Mega Banton (born Garth Williams 1973) is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who came to prominence in the early 1990s.
Paul Taylor (DJ).  Paul Taylor (born 5 August 1957) is a British techno and house DJ whose career began in 1974.
Jerry Cantrell.  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18 1966 in Tacoma Washington) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter best known for his work with the rock band Alice in Chains as lead guitarist backing and co-lead vocalist main songwriter and co-lyricist. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects and is part of Alice in Chains' harmonizing dual-vocal style.
Knut Steen.  Knut Steen (19 November 1924 – 22 September 2011) was a Norwegian sculptor. Steen was born in Oslo but lived in Italy from 1973 until his death in September 2011. Steen is perhaps best known for his work on the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in conjunction with the Danish sculptor Per Palle Storm. In 2000 he was commissioned to create a statue of King Olav V of Norway which became the subject of great controversy.
Luther Saxon.  Luther Saxon was an American tenor who appeared in the role of Joe in the 1943 Broadway musical Carmen Jones. He also appears in the original cast album (Decca DL 9021) recorded in 1955.
Sandy Powell (costume designer).  Sandy Powell OBE (born 7 April 1960) is a British costume designer who has been nominated ten times for the Academy Award . She won the Oscar in 1999 for the film Shakespeare in Love in 2005 for The Aviator and in 2010 for The Young Victoria. She has received nine BAFTA nominations winning in 1999 for Velvet Goldmine and 2010 for The Young Victoria.
Alice French.  Alice French (March 19 1850 – January 9 1934) better known as Octave Thanet was an American novelist and short fiction writer.
Clement Gordon Watson.  Clement Gordon Watson (1912–1945) was a notable New Zealand communist journalist and soldier. He was born in Mangaweka Wanganui New Zealand in 1912.
Pavel Sedláček (musician).  Pavel Sedláček (born July 4 1941 in Prague Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia today Czech Republic) is a Czech rock and roll singer songwriter and guitarist. When he was 15 played Rock Around the Clock on the show for amateur musicians. From 1962 he collaborated with theatre Semafor. At the same time he recorded the song Život je pes (in Czech Life is a dog) which became his first hit. In 1968 he attended Czech Technical University in Prague.
Vinia Mojica.  Vinia Mojica is an American singer-songwriter from Queens New York best known for her collaborations with the Native Tongues collective and other hip hop artists.Her recording career began in 1989 with the song Acknowledge Your Own History from the Jungle Brothers' 1989 album Done By the Forces of Nature.
Krista Siegfrids.  Kristin Krista Siegfrids (born 4 December 1985 in Kaskinen) is a Finnish singer. She represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with her entry Marry Me. Siegfrids' debut album named Ding Dong! was released in May 2013.
Anders Osterlind.  Anders Osterlind a French painter was born in Lépaud (Creuse) on June 12 1887. He died in Paris on January 5 1960. He was the son of the painter Allan Österlind and the father of watercolorist Nanic Osterlind.During his youth Osterlind was close to the impressionist movement through Armand Guillaume and the aging Auguste Renoir whom he assisted. He was close to the Fauvism artists at their peak.
Dewa Budjana.  I Dewa Gede Budjana or Dewa Budjana (pronounced [ˈdewa buˈdʒana]; born August 30 1963 in Waikabubak) is an Indonesian guitarist songwriter and composer. He is the lead guitarist and songwriter of the band Gigi. Budjana’s style changed dramatically to jazz as he got to know John McLaughlin Pat Metheny Jeff Beck John Abercrombie Chick Corea and Weather Report. In his early experience he established a band called Squirrell which was popular in the local community.
Mina Aoe.  Shizuko Ihara (井原 静子 Ihara Shizuko 7 May 1941 – 2 July 2000) professionally known as Mina Aoe (青江 三奈 Aoe Mina) was a Japanese female enka singer who had a series of popular hits in the late 1960s and continued charting late into her career.With her distinctive husky voice she acquired the nickname Queen of the Blues. She appeared 18 times on the annual Kōhaku Uta Gassen show. After her death a memorial to Aoe was established in the Isezakichō shopping area in Yokohama.[citation needed]
Amil (rapper).  Amil Kahala Whitehead (born September 19 1978) more commonly known by her stage name Amil is an American female rapper singer and songwriter from New York City. She was prominent in the late 1990s as a Jay-Z protégé most notably on the single Can I Get A... from the Rush Hour soundtrack.
Jace Everett.  Jace Everett (born May 27 1972) is an American country music singer. Signed to Epic Records in 2005 he released his debut single That's the Kind of Love I'm In in 2005 which peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. He also co-wrote Josh Turner's Number One single Your Man. His song Bad Things is the theme for the HBO series True Blood and peaked No. 2 in Norway in 2009.
Catharine Dixon.  Catharine Dixon (born 1927) is a Canadian journalist and author of non-fiction books.A resident of Elliot Lake Ontario for almost fifty years in the 1970s Dixon worked as a reporter for the Sault Star newspaper in Sault Ste. Marie. The author of several short stories her 1996 book The Power and the Promise is a historical reference for the city of Elliot Lake.
Giovanni Hidalgo.  Giovanni Hidalgo a.k.a. Mañenguito (born November 22 1963) is an educator percussionist and recording artist in the genre' of Latin jazz.
Rhianna Pratchett.  Rhianna Pratchett (born December 30 1976) is an English video game scriptwriter narrative designer and journalist. Rhianna has worked on titles such as Eidos/Square Enix's Tomb Raider reboot Sony’s PS3 epic Heavenly Sword Codemasters' Overlord fantasy game series and EA's Mirror’s Edge.
Shari Ulrich.  Sharon (Shari) Ulrich (born 17 October 1951) is a Canadian musician-songwriter. She has won a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year and has acted as a television host actor film composer and songwriting educator. As a multi-instrumentalist she plays violin mandolin guitar piano and dulcimer.Born in San Rafael California Ulrich moved to British Columbia in the early 1970s.
Sylvie Lewis.  Sylvie Lewis is a folk musician from London England. She moved to the United States in 1995 and studied at the Berklee College of Music. After graduation she relocated to Los Angeles in 1998 where she quit music to become a teacher. Two years later.
David Wolfenberger.  David Wolfenberger (born April 19 1969 in Tuscola Illinois) is a singer-songwriter from Cincinnati Ohio. Former frontman for The Marshwiggles and Thom Scarecrow Wolfenberger has three solo CDs to date; Tales From Thom Scarecrow and World of the Satisfy'n Place on Blue Jordan Records and more recently in 2006 on Fundamental Records Portrait of Narcissus. Wolfenberger also toured and recorded as a member of Mark Olson and Victoria Williams' Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers.
Ruggedman.  Michael Stephens stage name Ruggedman born on September 20 (year unidentified) in Ohafia Abia State is a Nigerian rapper.
George Messo.  George Messo (born April 10 1969) is an expatriate English poet and translator who was born in rural Lincolnshire near the town of Barton-Upon-Humber. He moved to Trabzon Turkey in 1998 and has since lived in Oman and Saudi Arabia. He was the editor of Near East Review from 2001 to 2007. Messo is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Christian Biegai.  Christian Biegai (born 14 December 1974) is an award winning film composer sound designer and saxophonist. He studied music at the Berlin University of the Arts the Royal College of Music in London and at Rutgers University in New Jersey United States.He has written film scores for feature films documentaries TV drama and animated films. Whistle (2002) directed by Duncan Jones was shown at festivals around the world including several broadcasts on Film Four.
Roxy Reynolds.  Roxy Reynolds (born December 28 1983) is an American pornographic actress rapper and glamour model of African American descent.
Shiga Lin.  Shiga Lin (連詩雅) is a Hong Kong singer and actress. Lin is currently signed to the Warner Music Group Hong Kong.
Robert Görl.  Robert Görl (born June 15 1955 in Munich) is a German musician best known for his work with Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.) and for his solo recordings particularly Night Full Of Tension and Darling Don't Leave Me.
E.T. Webster.  Errol E.T. Webster (born c. 1945) is a Jamaican reggae singer active since the 1960s but best known for his roots reggae releases since the 1980s.
Nancy Fichman.  Nancy Fichman is an American film and television writer having worked on series such as Nurse Jackie and Damages. She also wrote the 2005 made-for-television movie The Dead Will Tell. She often works with her writing partner Jennifer Hoppe-House. The pair have two screenplays currently in development Lost Girls and The Allegation.
Jade-Blue Eclipse.  Jade Blue Eclipse is a former San Francisco-based performance artist/contortionist/acrobat born in Nagasaki Japan. Following unsuccessful green card applications and her younger brother's continued health problems her mother and brother returned to Japan from San Francisco California when she was thirteen. She stayed behind. She supported herself as a bicycle messenger stripper and prostitute. She has appeared in a number of pornographic films such as Asianatrix and Kung Fu Girls.
Jonathan Knight.  Jonathan Rashleigh Knight (born November 29 1968) is an American singer. Knight is part of the Boy band New Kids on the Block. The band also includes Donnie Wahlberg Joey McIntyre Danny Wood and Jonathan's younger brother Jordan. He is the oldest member of the group and was the first to leave the group in 1994 prior to their official disbanding.
Khady Black.  Khadyja Fofana (born June 21 1980 in Koidu Town Sierra Leone) better known by her stage name Khady Black is a Sierra Leonean rastafarian and Roots reggae musician. She is Sierra Leone's first international female reggae artist [2]. Khady Black sings mainly in English Krio and in her native Mandinka language. Because of her style of singing many refer to Black as a social activist whose songs address key issues affecting Sierra Leone’s youth and in particular women.
Muhammed Metha.  Muhammed Metha (Mu Metha) is a Tamil poet and songwriter. He was born in Madurai in 1945. He popularised modern poetry (Pudukavithai) in the 1970s and has written more than 30 books including novels short stories and essays. His awards include the Bharathidasan Award from the state government of Tamil Nadu. He is also credited with 400 songs for movies.Metha was a professor for 35 years at Presidency College Chennai.
John Sadler (historian).  John Sadler is a British historian specialising in the Anglo-Scottish Border conflicts during the Middle Ages. Sadler is a regular contributor to military and historical journals and has published a number of books on the subject. He has taught and tutored history as well.
James Galanos.  James Galanos ([gulAn´Os]) is an American fashion designer and is one the world's foremost 20th century couturiers.
Jeffrey Lau.  Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai (simplified Chinese: 刘镇伟; traditional Chinese: 劉鎮偉; pinyin: Liú Zhènwěi) is a Hong Kong film director screenwriter actor and producer. He was born on August 2 1952. Liu Zhenwei is famous for writing and directing mo lei tau comedies. His comedies include the A Chinese Odyssey duology (with Stephen Chow) and Chinese Odyssey 2002 the latter which was voted Best 2002 Film by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
Richard Himber.  Richard Himber (20 February 1900 - 11 December 1966) was an American bandleader composer violinist magician and practical joker.
Kyoji Yamamoto.  Kyoji Yamamoto (山本 恭司 Yamamoto Kyōji born March 23 1956 in Matsue Shimane Japan) is a Japanese musician singer-songwriter and record producer who is the leader of the hard rock/metal bands Bow Wow (known as Vow Wow for a period of time) and Wild Flag. He is known for his skillful guitar playing and was one of the first hard rock guitarist to use the tapping technique.
Stephen F. Cohen.  Stephen Frand Cohen (born 1938) is an American scholar of Russian studies. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country's relationship with the United States.
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tommaso.  Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (1414 – 1465) was an Italian painter.
Nasser Zahedi.  Nasser Zahedi (born 20 May 1961 in Qom Iran) is a German Doctor of Medicine Author Translator and Photographer from Iran.
Rob Young (writer).  Rob Young is a British music author journalist and current editor-at-large of The Wire a British based experimental music magazine.Rob Young has contributed to various publications including The Guardian Gramophone The Independent On Sunday Uncut Frieze and Jazz Times.
John Crome.  John Crome (December 22 1768 – April 22 1821) was an English landscape artist of the Romantic era one of the principal artists of the Norwich School art movement. He is also known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his son John Berney Crome who was also a well-known artist.Crome became the founder of the Norwich School of painters of which John Sell Cotman is another famous member. He worked in watercolour and oil. His oil paintings number in excess of 300.
Paul Neal.  Paul Neal is a British comics writer. He has worked for Fleetway Publishing on Judge Dredd Megazine and the long running science fiction anthology 2000 AD in the late 1990s. Much of his work was created in collaboration with the artist Marc Wigmore. He later went on to co-own and manage The Hive chain on comic shops on the south coast of England.
Terry Urban.  Terry Urban is an American DJ and mixtape composer. He currently resides in New York City and is originally from Cleveland. He is a former semi-pro skate boarder and graffiti artist.
Andrejs Grants.  Andrejs Grants (born March 7 1955 in Riga) is a Latvian photographer and teacher. He studied at the Latvian State University (1973–78) worked in the “Ogre” photo studio (1978–1988). From 1979 he is a teacher at the House of Technical Innovation in Riga where he gained his reputation as an influential photography teacher of many Latvian contemporary photographers film-makers and artists such as Ritums Ivanovs Arnis Balcus and Gints Berzins.
Gioacchino Vitelli.  Gioacchino Vitelli (Torre del Greco born circa 1785) was an Italian painter of portraits and sacred subjects. In 1814 he painted a copy of Andrea Sabatini's Adoration of Magi for the Duomo di Salerno.
Sheren Tang.  Not to be confused with Shermon Tang.Sheren Tang Shui-man is a famous Hong Kong television actress who is known for not signing a long-term contract with TVB preferring to work on a per-drama contract with the TV station. She is most famous for her roles in the mega-hit TVB drama series like War and Beauty La Femme Desperado The Family Link Rosy Business  No Regrets and Beauty at War. She moved over to rival station ATV in 1996 and returned to TVB in 2000.
Sarah Micklem.  Sarah Micklem is the author of the best-selling fantasy novel Firethorn. She has also worked as a graphic designer and spent fourteen years working for Time Warner designing for a children's magazine in New York City. She wrote Firethorn while working as the art director for the magazine. The second part of the trilogy is titled Wildfire. She is the second daughter of three children of a schoolteacher father and an activist mother.
Lorenzo Costa.  Lorenzo Costa (1460 – March 5 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
Tahsan Rahman Khan.  Tahsan Rahman Khan (Bengali: তাহসান রহমান খান; born 18 October 1979 Bikrampur) is a Bangladeshi musician actor TV actor and model.
David Michelinie.  David Michelinie (born May 6 1948) is an American comic book writer.
Vic Chesnutt.  James Victor Vic Chesnutt (November 12 1964 – December 25 2009) was an American singer-songwriter from Athens Georgia. His first album Little was released in 1990 but his breakthrough to commercial success didn't come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation a tribute album of mainstream artists covering his songs.Chesnutt released 17 albums during his career including two produced by Michael Stipe and a 1996 release on Capitol Records About to Choke.
Antonio Sacchi.  Antonio Sacchi (died 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Como and studied in Rome where he died in 1694.
Alicia Rio.  Alicia Rio is a pornographic film actress.
Michel Verne.  Michel Jean Pierre Verne (August 3 1861 – March 5 1925) was a writer and the son of Jules Verne.Michel was born in Paris. Because of his wayward behaviour he was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony for six months in 1876. By the age of 19 he caused a scandal by eloping with an actress despite his famous father's objections.
Fred Hembeck.  Fred Hembeck (born January 30 1953) is an American cartoonist best known for his parodies of characters from major American comic book publishers. His work has frequently been published by the firms whose characters he spoofs. His characters are always drawn with curlicues at the elbows and knees. He often portrays himself as a character in his own work in the role of interviewer of various comic book characters.
Robert Kirkman.  Robert Kirkman (born November 30 1978) is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics in addition to Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders.
Jean-Daniel Cadinot.  Jean Daniel Cadinot (February 10 1944 – April 23 2008) was a French photographer director and producer of gay pornographic films.
Bill Leen.  Bill Leen (born March 1 1962) is a bass player from Tempe Arizona. He is a member of the band Gin Blossoms which he co-founded in 1987 with his longtime friend Doug Hopkins.Leen graduated from McClintock High School in Tempe then studied English and philosophy at Arizona State University leaving during his junior year to devote his energies to music.
Suga-T.  Tenina Stevens better known by her stage name Suga-T is an American rapper from Vallejo California. She is a founding member of The Click a rap group that also includes her brothers E-40 and D-Shot and her cousin B-Legit. The Click released their debut album Down and Dirty in 1992 through E-40's Sick Wid It Records after which all four member released solo projects with Suga-T's debut album It's All Good being released in 1993.
Justin Vernon.  Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30 1981) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter and producer. He is best known as the primary songwriter and frontman of indie folk band Bon Iver. Vernon is also a member of the bands Volcano Choir The Shouting Matches and Gayngs.
Ranjit Kaur.  Ranjit Kaur (Punjabi: ਰਣਜੀਤ ਕੌਰ; also spelled as Ranjeet Kaur) is a noted Punjabi singer of Indian Punjab. She is known for her duets with Muhammad Sadiq a noted Punjabi singer and politician. She did many Punjabi films as a playback singer and some as a side-actress.
Debra Webb.  Debra Webb is an American author of romantic suspense novels.
Kripp Johnson.  Kripp Johnson (born Corinthian Johnson 16 May 1936 Cambridge Massachusetts US died 22 June 1990) was a singer for The Del-Vikings from 1956 to the 1980s. He died in 1990.
Robert Dickson (writer).  Robert Dickson (July 23 1944 – March 19 2007) was a Canadian poet translator and academic. Born and raised in Erin Ontario he spent much of his life and career living in Sudbury.He studied French language and literature at the University of Toronto and Université Laval receiving his doctorate in 1972 and spent his academic career as a professor for le Département d'études françaises et de traduction (Department of French Studies and Translation) at Laurentian University in Sudbury.
Simeon Simev.  Simeon or Simyon Simev (born on May 30 1949 in Štip) is a poet essayist and journalist in the Republic of Macedonia.
John Fedevich.  John Fedevich (born in Massillon Ohio) is an American drummer and actor. Born and raised in Massillon OH Fedevich currently lives and works in Las Vegas NV.John Fedevich acted in the movie Almost Famous playing the character of Ed Vallencourt the Stillwater band drummer. He later acted in the movies Vanilla Sky (2001) and Shopgirl (2005).
Thomas Berge.  Thomas Berge pseudonym of Chiel Ottink (born on 25 January 1990 in Enschede) is a Dutch singer.
Andy Cherry.  Andrew Paul Andy Cherry (born March 16 1986 in Bloomington Indiana) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Bloomington Indiana and Charlotte North Carolina. In 2012 Cherry released the album entitled Nothing Left to Fear his first full length studio album with Essential record label. To create the album Cherry partnered with award winning producer Jason Ingram of One Sonic Society. Cherry had the No.
Grand Puba.  Maxwell Dixon (born March 4 1966) is an American emcee best known as a member of the group Brand Nubian from New Rochelle New York.
Chinelo Okparanta.  Chinelo Okparanta is a Nigerian-American writer. Born and raised in Port Harcourt Nigeria she emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 10.She was educated at Pennsylvania State University Rutgers University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Nina Gordon.  Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon (born November 14 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She's perhaps best known for being vocalist and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt co-founded by her in Chicago Illinois in 1993 alongside Louise Post. She left the band in 1998 due to creative differences pursuing a solo career and releasing two albums Tonight and the Rest of My Life (2000) and Bleeding Heart Graffiti (2006). As of 2013 Gordon is back in Veruca Salt.
Cyril Neville.  Cyril Garrett Neville (born October 10 1948) is a percussionist and vocalist who first came to prominence as a member of his brother Art Neville's funky New Orleans-based band The Meters. He joined Art in the Neville Brothers band upon the dissolution of the Meters. He has appeared on recordings by Bob Dylan Robbie Robertson Edie Brickell Willie Nelson Dr.
Melissa Manchester.  Melissa Manchester (born February 15 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television in films and on stage.
Willem Boshoff.  Willem Boshoff (born 1951) is a South African artist known primarily for his conceptual installations. He is one of South Africa's foremost contemporary artists and regularly exhibits nationally and internationally.Born in Johannesburg Boshoff trained as a teacher at the Johannesburg College of Art before pursuing a diploma in fine art with an emphasis on printmaking in 1980; he received a master's degree in sculpture from Technikon Witwatersrand in 1984.
Carl Carlton (German musician).  Carl Carlton (born Karl Walter Ahlerich Buskohl 20 April 1955 Ihrhove East Frisia Germany) is a German rock musician guitarist composer and producer who has played in top international bands and with many well-known musicians. His collaboration with Robert Palmer culminated in the Grammy nominated album Drive which was released in 2003. In 2005 Carlton joined Eric Burdon and the Animals. The collaboration resulted in the Grammy nominated album Soul of a Man which was released in 2006.
Ali Akbar (designer).  Ali Akbar (born November 21 1974 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian art director and photographer.
Henrik Vibskov.  Henrik Vibskov (born 1972) is a Danish fashion designer. Vibskov has a fashion label under his own name and also designs accessories. He also does interior design and is active as a musician. His work is considered part of the New Nordic Movement a term to describe 21st century design in various media as practiced by designers from Northern European countries.
Juan Gómez-Jurado.  Juan Gómez-Jurado (Born 16 December 1977 in Madrid Spain) is an award-winning Spanish journalist and bestselling author. Currently he is a columnist in La Voz de Galicia and ABC distributed in Spain and he participates in several radio and TV programs. Translated into 42 languages Gómez-Jurado is one of the most successful contemporary Spanish authors of all time along with New York Times bestselling authors Javier Sierra and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Youn In-wan.  Youn In-wan (윤인완 Yun In-hwan born July 27 1976) is a South Korean manhwa writer. In Japan he is known for his work Blade of the Phantom Master. Prior to that he worked on the manhwa Island (아일랜드) with illustrator Yang Kyung-il. After the publication of the seventh and last volume of Island he wrote a novel The Island in which he described the past of the characters in his manhwa.
Sophia Montecarlo.  Swirtty Mae Nibley (born on March 1 1986) better known by her screen name Sophia Montecarlo. Sophia used to be a contestant on the reality television Born Diva.
Toshiyuki Horie.  Toshiyuki Horie (堀江 敏幸 Horie Toshiyuki born January 3 1964) is a Japanese author and translator.Horie was born in Gifu Prefecture and studied at Waseda University where he now is a professor of creative writing.
Howe Gelb.  Howe Gelb is an American singer-songwriter musician and record producer based in Tucson Arizona.
Masafumi Takada.  Masafumi Takada (高田 雅史 Takada Masafumi born August 2 1970) is a Japanese video game music composer. Some of his most notable works are the soundtracks for killer7 God Hand and No More Heroes. Takada often partners up with composer and guitar player Jun Fukuda and has worked on multiple projects for video game producer Goichi Suda.
Andy Taylor (guitarist).  Andrew Arthur Andy Taylor (born 16 February 1961 Cullercoats Tyne and Wear England) is an English guitarist singer songwriter and record producer best known as a former member of both Duran Duran and The Power Station.He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist and served as a guitarist songwriter and record producer for the likes of Robert Palmer Rod Stewart The Almighty Thunder Love and Money Mark Shaw Then Jerico C. C.
Adam Messinger.  Adam Messy Messinger is a Grammy Award winning Canadian songwriter producer and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Los Angeles California. Besides his solo work he is part of the writing and production duo The Messengers along with Nasri Atweh.
Tetsuya Ishida.  Tetsuya Ishida (石田 徹也 Ishida Tetsuya) was a Japanese painter best known for his surreal portrayal of an ordinary Japanese life. He committed suicide in 2005. He killed himself by jumping off a train.
Barry Humphries.  John Barry Humphries AO CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian satirist artist and author. Humphries is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer a star of London's West End musical theatre an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter.
Carl Albert (musician).  Carl Spencer Albert (1962–1995) simply known as Carl Albert was an American musician the lead singer of the band Vicious Rumors from late 1986 until 1995. He was a 1975 graduate of Columbia Elementary School in Columbia Tuolumne County California and a 1979 graduate of Sonora High School Sonora California also in Tuolumne County.
Brendon Urie.  Brendon Boyd Urie (born April 12 1987) is an American singer-songwriter musician guitarist and pianist best known as the lead vocalist of Panic! at the Disco. He also plays drums bass guitar accordion organ cello violin and trumpet.
Riwia Brown.  Riwia Brown is a playwright and the award winning screenwriter of the cult classic movie Once Were Warriors (1994) from New Zealand. The Once Were Warriors screenplay adapted from the book of the same name by Alan Duff gained Brown the Best Screenplay award at the 1994 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. Brown has written for theatre television and films. Brown is from a creative family. Her brother Apirana Taylor is a poet story-teller and musician.
Alex Ligertwood.  Alexander John Alex Ligertwood is a Scottish singer guitarist and drummer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Santana (1979–1983 1984–1985 1987 1989–1991 1992–1994) on hits such as All I Ever Wanted You Know That I Love You Winning and Hold On.
Bobby Caldwell.  Bobby Caldwell (born August 15 1951) is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who despite a prolific musical output over his 30-year career is still best known for his 1978 hit single What You Won't Do for Love.
Ralph Horsley.  Ralph Horsley is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Mark Budz.  Mark Budz is an American science fiction writer. Budz was born on November 1 1960 in Cherry Hill New Jersey into a family that traveled prodigiously. In the late 1980s Mark moved to Oregon to become a full-time writer. Although he began by writing short stories his novels such as Clade and Crache have been nominated for major awards.
Irene Lindh.  Irene Lindh (born 13 October 1945) is a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2004.Lindh was born in Stockholm and studied at the Dramatens elevskola from 1964 to 1967. She is best known to international audiences for her role as Jenny Hultin in the Swedish television crime series Arne Dahl: Misterioso.
Ashwin Batish.  Ashwin Kumar Batish Hindi: अशविन कुमार बातिश(born 1951 in Bombay India) is a sitar and tabla player best known for rekindling interest in the sitar among young Indians.
The Nightwatchman.  The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of American musician Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine Street Sweeper Social Club and former Audioslave). Morello began performing as the Nightwatchman in 2003 as an outlet for his political views while he was playing apolitical music with Audioslave.
Héctor el Father.  Héctor Delgado Román (born in Carolina Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican former reggaeton artist and producer formerly known by the artistic names Héctor El Father and Hector El Bambino. He announced his retirement in 2008 but had a series of Farewell Concerts that went until May 2010. He rose to fame as a member of the duo Héctor & Tito. As a producer Delgado has worked with several reggaeton producers as well as Emilio Estefan.
Joel Hoekstra.  Joel Hoekstra is an American guitarist currently in the band Night Ranger. The son of classical musicians he started out playing cello and piano at a young age but it was hearing Angus Young that inspired him to start guitar. He was raised in Chicago and he has lived in New York City for over 13 years. When not touring with Night Ranger he performs as a guitarist in the Broadway musical Rock of Ages.
Diane Charlemagne.  Diane Charlemagne (born 2 February 1964) is a British vocalist who has provided vocals for many major dance music hits.
Brenda Reid.  Brenda Reid (born 1945) was the lead singer of the group The Exciters and is best known for her lead vocals in the (U.S. #4) single Tell Him. Brenda was married to fellow band member Herb Rooney.
Nick Heyward.  Nick Heyward (born 20 May 1961 Beckenham Kent) is an English singer songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the frontman of the early 1980s band Haircut One Hundred and also had a briefly successful solo career after he left the band in 1983.
Joshua Bartholomew.  Bartholomew (born Joshua Bartholomew; July 30 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer.Bartholomew was born in Pembroke Ontario and raised on military bases throughout Canada including CFB Petawawa CFB Valcartier and CFB Borden.
Malcolm Kendrick.  Malcolm Kendrick is a Scottish doctor and author of The Great Cholesterol Con (2008). He graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1981 has been a general practitioner for over 25 years and has worked with the European Society of Cardiology.The Great Cholesterol Con documents what the author perceived as the misguided use of statins in primary care.
Jean-Paul Aron.  Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 - 20 August 1988) was a French writer philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes which was published in 1984. Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault in the early 1950s before a falling out over a lover. He was like Foucault an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease.
Tad Kubler.  Tad Kubler is an American guitarist known for his work with Lifter Puller Song of Zarathustra and most-notably The Hold Steady. He grew up in Janesville Wisconsin and currently lives in Brooklyn New York.
Abdul Rauf Rufi.  Professor Abdul Rauf Rufi (Urdu: عبد الرؤف روفی‎) is a Naat Khawan from Pakistan. He has released many albums of Naats. He known for his naats Meeta Meetha Hai Mere and Shah-e-Madina.
Don Gehman.  Don Gehman is an American record producer best known for his work in the 1980s with John Mellencamp.Gehman grew up in Lancaster Pennsylvania and played bass in a local rock band. During the early 1970s Gehman worked as a live sound engineer for well-known acts of the era including James Brown Loggins & Messina Blood Sweat & Tears Chicago and Crosby Stills Nash & Young before transitioning to studio work on the advice of Stephen Stills.
Nithyasree Mahadevan.  Dr. Nithyasree Mahadevan (born August 25 1973) also previously referred to as S. Nithyashri is an eminent Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. Mahadevan has performed in all major sabhas in India and has presented her concerts in many destinations around the world. She has received multiple awards and honours and has released more than 500 albums
Kazuo Nakamura.  Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor (born Vancouver October 13 1926; died Toronto April 9 2002) and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s.
Louis René Vialy.  Louis-René Vialy (1680 - 17 February 1770) also spelled Vially Viali or Viallis was a French painter.
Latch Key Kid.  Gavin Heaney (born July 18 1976) (professionally known as Latch Key Kid) is an American singer-songwriter from Manhattan Beach California. His albums include the self-titled Latch Key Kid released on September 21 2005 Miracle Mile released on January 23 2008 All Becomes One released on January 22 2009 and Live & Acoustic released on October 19 2009.
Barton Rubenstein.  Barton Rubenstein (born 1962) is a modernist American sculptor. Rubenstein has focused most of his artistic efforts on themes related to water and kinetics.
Louise Labé.  Louise Labé (c. 1520 or 1522 Lyon – April 25 1566 Parcieux) also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker) was a female French poet of the Renaissance born at Lyon the daughter of a rich ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wife Etiennette Roybet. A recent book has argued that the poetry ascribed to her was a feminist creation of a number of French male poets of the Renaissance (see below).
Shauna Cross.  Shauna Cross is an American screenwriter novelist and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym Maggie Mayhem and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel Derby Girl a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009 she wrote a film adaption of the novel Whip It which was directed by Drew Barrymore and released in 2009. She was named one of Variety's 10 Screenwriters to Watch in 2008.
Jules Buckley.  Jules Buckley (Aylesbury 8 January 1980) is an English arranger conductor and composer. Since August 2013 Buckley is chief-conductor of the Metropole Orkest.Composer orchestrator and conductor Jules Buckley is musical pioneer who pushes the boundaries of contemporary genres. In 2004 he founded the Heritage Orchestra together with Chris Wheeler.
Rajendra Banhatti.  Rajendra Banhatti (Devanagari: राजेन्द्र बनहट्टी) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Pune in 2002.
John Goodwin Lyman.  John Goodwin Lyman (29 September 1886 — 26 May 1967) was an American-born Canadian modernist painter active largely in Montreal. In the 1930s he did much to promote modern art in Canada founding the Contemporary Art Society in 1939. Stylistically he opposed both the Group of Seven and the Canadian Group of Painters painting in a more refined style influenced by the School of Paris.
Maestro Curtis.  Maestro Curtis also known as Maestro Brian is an American musician composer arranger educator author and sound alchemist (sound healing).
Johann Peter Cavallo.  Johann Peter Cavallo was an organist pianist and composer of Italian origin born and raised in Munich in 1819 and died after 1863. He settled in Paris around 1842 where he was organist in the churches of St. Vincent de Paul St. Germain-des-Prés and St. Nicolas des Champs between 1851 and 1863.
Dubravka Ugrešić.  Dubravka Ugrešić (born 27 March 1949) is a European writer. She was born in Croatia (Yugoslavia) and lives in the Netherlands.
John H. Howard.  John H Howard (born 1940) is a British painter and illustrator. He graduated from Camberwell School of Art. He started his career in London and moved to New York where he began illustrating for advertisingbook publishers and magazines. His clients include Global Crossing andHewlett Packard. He has won awards from the Society of IllustratorsNYC and the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles.(SILA). He has taught at the Pratt Institute.
Iman Crosson.  Iman Crosson (born March 27 1982) is an American actor impressionist and YouTube personality and is known for his impersonations of U.S. President Barack Obama and rapper Drake.
Igor Moukhin.  Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin (Russian: И́горь Влади́мирович Му́хин; born 19 November 1961) is a Soviet and Russian photographer.
Jonathon Welch.  Dr Jonathon Charles Welch AM (born 5 October 1958) is an Australian choral conductor opera singer and voice teacher. As a singer Welch has been a tenor for the Victoria State Opera Lyric Opera of Queensland and Opera Australia. During 2006 Welch established The Choir of Hard Knocks comprising homeless and disadvantaged singers from Melbourne.
Ginny Owens.  Virginia Ginny Leigh Owens (born April 22 1975) is a blind Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter. Owens had three albums chart on Billboard albums charts in the late 1990s and 2000s. She is best known for the song If You Want me To.
Constance DeFotis.  Constance DeFotis (born 1952) is a singer conductor and musical teacher currently the resident Director of Choral Activities at the University of Connecticut. She has taught at University of Chicago Harvard University The College of William and Mary the Knabenchor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale in Berlin Vassar College Lake Forest College Wellesley College and DePaul University.DeFotis is known for her interpretations of new music especially by new German composers.
Barry Andrews (musician).  Barry Andrews (born 12 September 1956 West Norwood London) is a vocalist and keyboardist. He is a former member of the bands XTC and League of Gentlemen with Robert Fripp and was co-founder of Shriekback. He has collaborated with Brian Eno on several projects most recently guesting on keyboards for the 2005 album Another Day On Earth.
Glenn Sutton.  Glenn Sutton (September 28 1937 - April 17 2007) was a country music songwriter and producer.
Oscar Alpers.  Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers (28 January 1867 – 21 November 1927) was a New Zealand teacher journalist writer poet lawyer and judge. He was born in Copenhagen Denmark on 28 January 1867. He was educated at Napier High School.
Tulisa Contostavlos.  Tula Paulinea Tulisa Contostavlos (Greek:Τούλα Παυλίνα Κοντόσταυλος; born 13 July 1988) sometimes known simply as Tulisa is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for being a member of the now defunct Camden-based hip hop/R&B/grime group N-Dubz with her cousin Dappy and their friend Fazer. N-Dubz formed in 2000 and released three studio albums before announcing their indefinite hiatus in 2011.During 2011 to 2012 she participated as a judge on the The X Factor.
Dorothy Masuka.  Dorothy Masuka is a jazz singer who was born in Bulawayo Southern Rhodesia in 1935 then called Southern Rhodesia. She was the fourth of seven children and her mother was Zulu while her father was a Zambian hotel chef. Still she attended a Catholic school deemed good by the standards of education allowed blacks. Her family moved to South Africa when she was twelve due to her health.
William Peter Blatty.  William Peter Blatty (born January 7 1928) is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist written in 1971 is his most well-known novel; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film for which he won an Academy Award. He also wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III: Legion.His most recent works include the novels Elsewhere (2009) Dimiter (2010) and Crazy (2010).
Mike Stern.  Mike Stern (born January 10 1953) is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood Sweat & Tears he landed a gig with drummer Billy Cobham and then broke through with trumpeter Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983 and again in 1985. Following that he launched a solo career releasing more than a dozen albums. He was hailed as the Best Jazz Guitarist of 1993 by Guitar Player magazine and in 2009 was listed on Down Beat's list of 75 best jazz guitar players.
Jon Rose.  Jon Rose is an Australian violinist born in the UK in 1951. Rose began playing violin at age 7 after winning a music scholarship to King's School in Rochester. For over 35 years Rose has been at the sharp end of new improvised and experimental music and media. A polymath he is at much at home creating large environmental multi-media works as he is playing the violin on a concert stage.
Henri Goetz.  Henri Bernard Goetz (September 29 1909 – August 12 1989) was a French American Surrealist painter and engraver. He is known for his artwork as well as for inventing the carborundum printmaking process. His work is represented in more than 100 galleries worldwide.
Will Richardson.  Will Richardson is the author of the highly ranked and read edublog Weblogg-ed and author of the book Blogs Wikis Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Richardson is also active on the web he has both a Twitter and YouTube channel. Richardson is now an independent presenter and owner of Connective Learning LLC. He promotes the implementation of Read/Write technologies in K-12 classrooms.
Heyran Khanim.  Heyran khanim was an Azerbaijani poet who lived in the first half of the 19th century.
Mark Ulriksen.  Mark Ulriksen (born 1957) is an award winning American painter and magazine illustrator.
Chen Xiao.  Chen Xiao (born July 5 1987) is a Chinese television and film actor.
Khaled (musician).  Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (Arabic: خالد حاج ابراهيم‎ born 29 February 1960) better known as Khaled is an Algerian raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Sidi El Houari in Oran Province of Algeria. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic for Young Man Khaled as opposed to the traditionalist Sheikh elders) and has become the most internationally famous Algerian singer in the Arab world and across many continents.
Washboard Willie.  Washboard Willie (July 24 1909 – August 24 1991) was an American Detroit blues musician who specialised in playing the washboard. He recorded tracks including A Fool On a Mule in the Middle of The Road plus Cherry Red Blues and worked variously with Eddie Guitar Burns Baby Boy Warren and Boogie Woogie Red.
Otto Griebel.  Otto Griebel (31 March 1895 – 7 March 1972) was a German painter. In 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo and his paintings were branded as degenerate art. His painting Child at a Table was one of the artworks found in the 2012 Munich artworks discovery.
Katherine Collins.  Katherine Shannon Collins (born Arnold Alexander Saba Jr. in 1947 in Vancouver British Columbia) formerly Arn Saba is a Canadian cartoonist writer media personality stage performer and composer.
Maria Tipo.  Maria Tipo (born in 23 December 1931) is an Italian pianist.
Chinmaya M. Rao.  Chinmaya M.Rao (born May 22 1982 in Honagodu Sagar taluk Shimoga district) is a significant figure in the world of music. Though born in a family of agriculturists Rao showed love for music and literature throughout his childhood. He received formal education in music from Shreemati of Sagar and completed his junior studies in Carnatic vocal. When he joined BBM course in Shimoga he became a disciple of Vidwan H.S. Nagaraj and completed his senior studies in Carnatic vocal music.
Gabrielle Roy.  Gabrielle Roy CC FRSC (March 22 1909 – July 13 1983) was a French Canadian author.
Tatum Reed.  Tatum Reed is an American pornographic actress and adult movie producer. She has created an internet presence that meshes her adult film career with blogging fashion and lifestyle reviews.
Sheila Surban.  Sheila Surban (born Sheila Jane Y. Surban December 9 1985 in Iligan City Philippines) is a singer and songwriter from the Philippines.
Allan Vache.  Allan Vache (born 16 December 1953 in Rahway New Jersey) is an American jazz clarinetist and brother of the noted jazz cornetist Warren Vache.Vache played with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band of San Antonio Texas for 17 years and was a regular on the Riverwalk - Live from the Landing radio show on Public Radio International which featured the Cullum band. He also performed with Cullum on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.
Byron Preiss.  Byron Preiss (11 April 1953 – July 9 2005) was an American writer editor and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications and later of ibooks Inc.
Gary Powell (musician).  Gary Armstrong Powell (born 11 November 1969) is a British drummer. He is primarily the drummer for The Libertines as well as doing the same for the band formed by his bandmate Carl Barat after the Libertines split Dirty Pretty Things and Guyanese artist Eddy Grant. He also played with the New York Dolls for their 2004 reunion shows.He joined The Libertines in 2001 after being introduced to the frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty by their then-manager Banny Poostchi.
Yesung.  Kim Jong-woon (Hangul: 김종운; hanja: 金鐘雲; born 24 August 1984) better known by his stage name Yesung (Hangul: 예성; hanja: 藝聲) is a South Korean singer Musical Actor and radio DJ. He is best known as a member of the K-pop boy band Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-K.R.Y. and Super Junior-H and He is a member of the group S.M. The Ballad. He is one of the three main vocalists of Super Junior.
Simon Fraser (comics).  Simon Fraser is a British comics artist and writer best known for his work on Nikolai Dante a series he created with writer Robbie Morrison in 2000 AD.
Jean Sutton.  Eugenia Geneva (Jean) Sutton (born Eugenia Geneva Hensen) is an author of science fiction who was born on 5 July 1917. She was married to Jefferson Howard Sutton (1913–1979) with whom she wrote several science fiction novels for older children (juveniles). She wrote from 1950 till 1975 assisting her husband on several titles and from 1967 als named as co-author.
Victor Sanz.  Victor Sanz (born October 13 1973) is an American country music artist. He has released two studio albums both on independent labels: Destination Unknown in 2000 on Gramac and Hey Country in 2005 on his own West Coast Independent Records. These albums have produced three chart singles on the Billboard country charts. His highest-peaking single Tell Me What You Wanna Do reached No. 60 in 2004.
Jiří Jelínek (trumpeter).  Jiří Jelínek (6 July 1922 – 16 October 1984) was a Czech painter illustrator jazz trumpeter and popular singer one of the music legends of the Semafor Theatre in 1960s. His hoarse singing voice - similar to Louis Armstrong's - earned him the nickname The Czech Satchmo.
Mike Westhues.  Michael ”Mike” David Westhues (January 22 1949 Moberly Missouri – February 17 2013 Espoo Finland) was an American-born Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist.In 1971 Westhues set off to see the world ending up in Finland where he was extremely active in the Finnish music scene working with such groups as the Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam its lead vocalist Jim Pembroke and Finnish blues artist Dave Lindholm.
Ulla-Lena Lundberg.  Ulla-Lena Lundberg (born 14 July 1947 Kökar Åland) is a Finland-Swedish author living in Porvoo Finland. Her Swedish language books have been translated into several languages including Finnish Danish German Russian and Dutch.
Mort Drucker.  Mort Drucker (born March 22 1929) is an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in Mad where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and television series. Some sources list his birth date as March 22 and others as March 29.In a 1985 Tonight Show appearance when Johnny Carson asked Michael J. Fox When did you really know you'd made it in show business? Fox replied When Mort Drucker drew my head.
Burro Banton.  Burro Banton (born Donovan Spalding 27 December 1956 Kingston Jamaica) is a dancehall reggae deejay popular in the mid-1980s and 1990s.He is most famous for his anthem Boom Wah Dis which was recorded on the Steely & Clevie riddim called Street Sweeper. Burro emerged during the mid-1980s at the beginning of the digital dancehall craze started by King Jammy that also featured artists like Cutty Ranks.
Yōko Matsuyama.  Yōko Matsuyama (松山 容子 Matsuyama Yōko born 30 November 1937 in Matsuyama Ehime Japan) is a Japanese actress best known for her work in the Crimson Bat series.
Normie Rowe.  Norman John Normie Rowe AM (born 1 February 1947) was a solo performer of Australian pop music in the 1960s and an actor of theatre and soap opera for which he remains best known as Doug Morrell in (Sons and Daughters). As a singer he was credited for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence. Many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Nat Kipner and later by Pat Aulton house producers for the Sunshine Records label.
Luther Campbell.  Luther Roderick Campbell (born December 22 1960 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach Florida) also known as Luke Skyywalker Solo Luke Uncle Luke or Luke is a record label owner rap performer (taking the non-rapping role of promoter) and actor.
Tommaso Campana.  Tommaso Campana (active 1620-1640) was an Italian painter active during the Baroque mainly in his native Bologna. He was originally a pupil of the Carracci but afterwards followed the style of Guido Reni. In the church of San Michele in Bosco at Bologna he painted Scenes from the life of St. Cecilia.
Steve Remote.  Steve Remote is an American recording engineer mixing engineer music producer recording studio designer and studio owner from Queens New York. He is the founder and chief engineer of Aura Sonic a mobile and location production company in New York. He has worked on 17 Grammy Award nominated albums three of which have won.
Preeti Kaur.  Preeti Kaur (Nepali: प्रिती कौर; born April 26 1981) is a Nepali singer born to Indian Sikh parents in Kathmandu Nepal. She has won the Shikhar Beat Contest as the best vocalist and also has helped her band win many accolades. She has released several songs with other artists and also as a solo act.She has performed in various events and concerts.
Simone Cristicchi.  Simone Christicchi (born 5 February 1977 in Rome) is an Italian singer and composer.
Andrew Rayel.  Andrei Rață (born July 21 1992) is a Moldovan trance producer and DJ known under his artist name Andrew Rayel. Andrew Rayel has been creating electronic dance music since the age of 13 and combines it with a mix of classical sounds. He has gained popularity during the last few years because of his distinctive style of trance. He uses chopped vocals pianos strings combined with powerful saws and synths.
Bobby Digital (Jamaican producer).  This article is about the Jamaican reggae producer for the American hip hop producer see: RZA Bobby Bobby Digital Dixon (born in Kingston Jamaica) is an influential Jamaican reggae and dancehall producer. He was given his nickname Bobby Digital because King Jammy whom he worked with in the mid-1980s had begun experimenting with digital rhythms at around the same time. He owns the Digital B label and among the artists with hits on the label are Shabba Ranks and Sizzla.
Dušan Petrič.  Dušan Petrič (1916 - 1964) was a Slovene painter and graphic designer who won the Levstik Award in 1951 for his illustrations for Kaj je videl Mižek Figa (What Mižek Figa Saw). He also designed a number of political and other posters in the period immediately after the Second World War.
Marc Beeson.  Marc Beeson (born December 20 1954 in Champaign Illinois) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Beeson has co-written several singles which have reached the Hot Country Songs charts.Beeson moved to Nashville Tennessee in 1990.
Carter Beauford.  Carter Anthony Beauford (born November 2 1957 in Charlottesville Virginia) is an American drummer percussionist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band. He is known for his ability to adapt to a variety of genres and both his ambidextrous and his open hand drumming styles. He plays the drums and sings backing vocals in the band. Beauford was ranked by a Rolling Stone magazine reader's poll in 2010 as the tenth greatest drummer of all time.
Ins Choi.  Ins Choi is a Canadian actor and playwright best known for his Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated 2011 play Kim's Convenience.Born in South Korea and raised in Toronto Ontario Choi is a graduate of the theatre program at York University.
Seven Factor.  Seven Factor (born April 11 1979) is an American Musician  and producer best known as the founding member of the industrial band Human Factors Lab.
Chris Mills (musician).  Chris Mills is an American singer-songwriter. In the 1990s and early 2000s he established himself as a mainstay on the independent Chicago folk and alternative country scene before moving to Brooklyn in 2003.After playing in a high-school speed metal band with Rob Lloyd named Crystal Meth Death Mills turned his attention to country and folk music. Mills released his first EPs in 1996 and 1997 and signed to Chicago indie label Sugar Free Records in 1998.
C. C. Saint-Clair.  C.C. Saint-Clair is an Australian author who was born of French parents in Casablanca Morocco. Saint-Clair has written seven paperback novels ebooks two erotic adult tales and two screenplay adaptations of her novels since 2001. Her novel Far From Maddy came in second at the Rhode Island International Film Festival LGBT screenplay competition in 2005 and in the quarter-finals (out of 3369 entries) at the international Scriptapalooza competition in August 2006.
Paul Corkett.  Paul Corkett is a British record producer engineer and arranger.
Prolyfic.  Prolyfic (born David Lemar Ewing Jr. in Chicago IL) is an American Hip-Hop record producer and Songwriter best known for his work with the Grammy Award Winning hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco.
Cormac McCarthy.  Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20 1933) is an American novelist playwright and screenwriter. He has written ten novels spanning the Southern Gothic Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road (2006). His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. For All the Pretty Horses (1992) he won both the U.S.
Lam Truong.  Lam Trường (born 14 October 1974) is a Vietnamese singer. He burst onto the scene in 1998 with a song titled Tinh Thoi Xot Xa (trans. Love Stops Hurting) and has been a regular on the Top Ten Lan Song Xanh (a Vietnamese hit song program). He has also been in several movies and TV series. He is also an actor in a movie called Ngoi nha Hanh Phuc (Vietnamese version of Korean drama Full House).
René Vierne.  René Vierne (1878–1918) was a French organist and composer.
Geoff Muldaur.  Geoff Muldaur (born August 12 1943 Pelham New York United States) is an American founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band of Cambridge Massachusetts; a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days; and an accomplished solo guitarist singer songwriter composer and arranger.
Guy Barker.  Guy Barker (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Barker was born in Chiswick London the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Holly Dodson.  Holly Dodson is a Canadian electronic pop singer-songwriter composer and music producer who is a co-founding member and current front-woman of synthpop trio Parallels.
Piano Red.  William Willie Lee Perryman (October 19 1911 – July 25 1985) usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood was an American blues musician the first to hit the pop music charts. He was a self-taught pianist who played in the barrelhouse blues style (a loud percussive type of blues piano suitable for noisy bars or taverns).
Paul Newton (DJ).  Paul Newton is an electronic dance music DJ and producer from Liverpool. He was a member of Neve who had a #70 hit with a remix of Y-Traxx's Mystery Land and a member of Point4 who wrote the Lisa Scott-Lee songs Lately and Too Far Gone which made #6 and #11 on the UK Singles Chart.
Elizabeth Buchan.  Elizabeth Buchan née Oakleigh-Walker (born 21 May 1948) is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985. In 1994 her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and she was elected its eighteenth Chairman (1995–1997). Her novel Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman (2001) has been made into a television film for CBS.
Punathil Kunjabdulla.  Punathil Kunjabdulla (born 1940) is a well-known Malayalam language novelist and short-story writer from Kerala state South India. He is a medical doctor by profession. Kunjabdulla is a modernist in Malayalam literature. His novel Smarakasilakal (Memorial Stones) won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award (Malayalam) in 1980.
Debbie Kruger.  Debbie Kruger (born 14 August 1962 Sydney New South Wales Australia) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer she wrote Songwriters Speak in August 2005 which contains interviews with 45 Australian and New Zealand songwriters about their craft. Kruger was the Sydney correspondent for weekly entertainment newspaper Variety for three years with the moniker of Krug.
Alphonso Lisk-Carew.  Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew (1887-1969) was active as a photographer in Sierre Leone from around 1905 to 1920-1925.
Assia Djebar.  Assia Djebar (Arabic: آسيا جبار‎) is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born 4 August 1936) an Algerian novelist translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women and she is noted for her feminist stance.
Nikki Sudden.  Nikki Sudden (19 July 1956–26 March 2006) was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He co-founded the post-punk band Swell Maps with his brother Epic Soundtracks while attending Solihull School in Solihull.
Asia Cruise.  Asia Nalani Vernimo (born February 11 1990) better known by her stage name Asia Cruise is an American R&B singer signed to Hitz Committee/Jive Records.
Louise Wener.  Louise Jane Wener (born 30 July 1966 Gants Hill London) is an English writer and songwriter formerly of the band Sleeper. Sleeper recorded three full length albums: Smart The It Girl and Pleased to Meet You. After the band split in 1998 Wener began a writing career and has written four novels: Goodnight Steve McQueen The Big Blind (aka The Perfect Play) The Half Life of Stars and Worldwide Adventures In Love.
Bill Ham.  Bill Ham (born Billy Mack Ham in 1937) is a Texas music impresario best known as manager producer and image-maker of the blues-rock band ZZ Top. Ham also gained prominence in the country music world by discovering and managing multi-platinum singer-songwriter Clint Black and founding some of the most successful country music publishing companies. For several years in the 1990s Ham's companies published a majority of the top-10 country music singles.
Nancy Williams Watt.  Nancy Williams Watt is an American television writer. She was born in Brooklyn NY on June 9 1948 to Associated Press editor Edward Williams and newswoman Sheila O'Brien Williams Barnes
Dajim.  Dajim (Thai: ดาจิม) real name Suwitcha Suphawira (Thai: สุวิชชา สุภาวีระ) (born January 15 1977) is a Thai hip hop singer and rap artist.
Josef Gassler.  Josef Gassler was an Austrian Expressionist painter. He was born in Austerlitz Moravia on March 6 1893 and died in Vienna on April 27 1978. After early success at the Wiener Kunstakademie where he received several awards including the Prix de Rome the artist was later impeded in mid-career by the outbreak of war.
Mina Liccione.  Mina Liccione (Born Christina M Liccione) is an American hybrid artist whose two passions are rhythm and comedy. Liccione is an award winning performing artist – comedian tap dancer choreographer and arts educator.
John MacLachlan Gray.  John MacLachlan Gray OC (né John Howard Gray) (born 26 September 1946) is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage TV film radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC TV's The Journal as well as an author speaker and social critic on cultural-political issues.
Una Baines.  Una Baines (born April 1957 Manchester Lancashire England) was best known as the keyboard player in the first line-up of British post-punk/new wave band The Fall. Her strong feminist ideals shaped the band's early political stance and she remains one of the very few Fall members other than frontman Mark E. Smith to have contributed lyrics to Fall songs.
June Berry.  June Berry RWS RE (born 1924) is a British artist originally from Melbourne Derbyshire United Kingdom. June Berry studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art London. She has had nineteen solo exhibitions including a retrospective at the Bankside Gallery London in 2002. Her paintings have been exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London since 1952. June Berry was Vice-President of the Royal Watercolour Society from 2001 to 2004.
Jorge Volpi.  Jorge Luis Volpi Escalante (born July 10 1968) is a Mexican author best known for his 1999 novel En busca de Klingsor.
Janet Ågren.  Janet Ågren (born 6 April 1949) is a Swedish former actress of mostly Italian exploitation films.
Patty Loveless.  Patty Loveless (born Patty Lee Ramey January 4 1957) is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first (self-titled) album Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the neotraditional country movement although she has also recorded albums in the country pop and bluegrass genres.Loveless was born in Pikeville Kentucky and was raised in Elkhorn City Kentucky and Louisville Kentucky and rose to stardom thanks to her blend of honky tonk and country-rock not to mention a plaintive emotional ballad style. 
Peter Baltes.  Peter Baltes (born April 4 1958 in Solingen North Rhine-Westphalia Germany) is a German hard rock and heavy metal musician. He is a member of the German heavy metal group Accept which he played as bassist with on 15 albums selling more than 17 million records around the world. He joined them in 1978 after Dieter Rubach left the band and also made minor contributions as a lead vocalist with Accept on their early albums and on the album Predator of 1996.
Jan Kaus.  Jan Kaus (born January 22 1971 Aegviidu Estonia) is an Estonian writer.
Vanessa R. Williams.  Vanessa R. Williams who records as just Vanessa Williams (born November 28 1960 in Baton Rouge Louisiana) is an American gospel music singer.After working as a public school art teacher for many years she signed with Light Records and Bajada Records. Her debut album Vanessa was released in 2002 and made the top ten of Billboard magazine's gospel albums chart. Her follow-up album Here I Go Again was released in 2004.
Phil Leslie.  Phil L. Leslie (March 11 1909 St. Louis Missouri - September 23 1988) was an American comedy writer. His first career since he was good at math was keeping books for a local bank in St. Louis but he began pursuing a career in writing. In 1938 he and his wife Helen took their four children (Anne Jane Sue and Phil Jr.) by train to Hollywood California in the hopes of making it big.
Tomcraft.  Tomcraft (born Thomas Brückner 12 June 1975) is a German DJ and producer. He specializes in progressive house and progressive trance music and is better known for having created the tracks Loneliness and Prosac working alongside Eniac.Tomcraft began working as a DJ in Munich in 1994 shifting between techno and the emerging progressive trance style. The following year he released his first track This Is No House.
Ercole Ramazzani.  Ercole Ramazzani was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.He was born at Rocca Contrada (modern Arcevia then part of the Papal States) and was a follower of the styles of Pietro Perugino and Raphael. He is asserted to have been still alive in 1588.
Lucinda Williams.  Lucinda Williams (born January 26 1953) is an American rock folk blues and country music singer and songwriter.She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio the media or the public. In 1988 she released her self-titled album Lucinda Williams.
Zerna Sharp.  Zerna Addis Sharp (August 12 1889 – June 17 1981) was a US author writer and teacher. She became known for creating the Dick and Jane beginning readers and many other readers for children. Sharp noted the reduced reading ability of children during her travels and urged a new reading format for primers. She suggested that primers introduce a word at a time to new readers and the Dick and Jane primers adhered to this format.
Alessandro della Via.  Alessandro della Via was an Italian engraver. He resided at Venice c. 1730. He engraved several portraits and a plate representing the Virgin and Infant Christ with St. Sebastian and other Saints after Paolo Veronese.
Mo Rocca.  Maurice Alberto Mo Rocca (born January 28 1969) is an American humorist journalist and actor. He is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and the host and creator of My Grandmother's Ravioli on Cooking Channel.
Bartolomeo Cittadella.  Bartolomeo Cittadella (1636–1704) a painter of the Venetian school who according to Guarienti flourished at Vicenza in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He wrought with great rapidity and Lanzi says there are a multitude of his works at Vicenza in which he imitated the styles of Paolo Veronese and the younger Palma. Probably from this fact he did not acquire much distinction.
Adam Elliot.  Adam Elliot (born 2 January 1972 in Berwick Victoria Australia) is an independent Australian stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary and Max. Elliot calls himself an auteur filmmaker and each of his films have a bittersweet nature to them.
Paul Teng.  Paul Teng Ping Ya (born 6 Mach 1955) is a Dutch comic book writer and artist. He writs and draws mainly realistic historical comics.
Murray Schisgal.  Murray Schisgal (born November 25 1926) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Peter Penry-Jones.  Peter David Penry-Jones (1938-2009) was a Welsh actor.
Humphrey Carpenter.  Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer writer and radio broadcaster.
Yianna Katsoulos.  Yianna Katsoulos (born September 16 1960 in Florida) is a 1980s pop singer (with Greek parents) and who had her singing career in France. Her works were recorded in French-language. She remains famous for her 1986 single Les autres sont jaloux which was a top thirty hit in France ; however her next five singles did not achieve the same success. Katsoulos was also occasional host TV on FR3.In 2011 she released a new single Fais-moi l'amour comme un français.
Hayashi Ryūkō.  Hayashi Ryūkō (林 榴岡 1681 – December 11 1758) was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period. He was a member of the Hayashi clan of Confucian scholars.
Canuto Borelli.  Canuto Borelli (January 19 1852 - 1928) was an Italian lawyer and painter mainly of landscapes and portraits.
Philip V. Francis.  Philip V. Francis (5 November 1964 – 4 March 2008) was a tabla player composer and Ghazal singer from Kerala India. He died at the age of 43 in a bike accident leaving his wife and son.
Angie Debo.  Angie Elbertha Debo (January 30 1890 – February 21 1988) was an American historian who wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Native American and Oklahoma history. After a long career marked by difficulties (ascribed both to her gender and to the controversial content of some of her books) she was acclaimed as Oklahoma's greatest historian and acknowledged as an authority on Native American history a visionary and a historical heroine in her own right.
Pasquale Liotta Cristaldi.  Pasquale Liotta Cristaldi (1850-1909) was an Italian painter.
Goddy Leye.  Goddy Leye (24 November 1965 Mbouda Cameroon – 19 February 2011 Bonendale Cameroon) was a Cameroonian artist and intellectual.His work is focused on videos installations conceptual art and theoretical contributions. He is the founder of the art centre ArtBakery in Bonendale Cameroon and he was the curator and promoter of site-specific art and international projects. His role was central in the cultural and art scene in Cameroon and at the international level.
Mark Rutherford (composer).  Mark Joseph Rutherford is a classically trained British musician composer and producer. He has worked with and for some of the world’s most prominent producers directors artists and writers including Peter Gabriel Steve Levine William Orbit Goldie Mike Oldfield Simon Beaufoy John Woo Tony Cinciripini Bille Eltringham and John Hughes.Although Rutherford has worked extensively in the music industry he now mainly composes and produces music for films and video games.
Abdullah Abu Sayeed.  Abdullah Abu Sayeed (Bengali: আবদুল্লাহ আবু সাইয়ীদ; born 25 July 1939) is a Bangladeshi writer television presenter organizer and activist. He is currently the Chairman of Bishwa Sahitya Kendra a non-profit organization that promotes the study of literature reading habits and progressive ideas.
Laxma Goud.  Kalal Laxma Goud was born on August 21 1940 and is an Indian painter printmaker and draughtsman. He works in variety of mediums including etching gouache pastel sculpture and glass painting. He is best known for his early drawings that depict eroticism in a rural context and also for the originality and quality of his etchings and aquatints.
Neil Harbisson.  Neil Harbisson (born 27 July 1982) is a Catalan-raised British-born contemporary artist musician and cyborg activist best known for his self-extended ability to hear colours and to perceive colours outside the ability of human vision. He is the first person in the world to have an antenna osseointegrated in his skull.The inclusion of the cyborg antenna on his passport photo has been claimed by some to be official recognition of Harbisson as a cyborg.
Benedict of Soracte.  Benedict of Soracte (Benedict of St. Andrew) was a tenth-century Italian chronicler a monk at the monastery on Mount Soracte. The Catholic Encyclopedia article on Ecclesiastical Annals dates his chronicle to 968 but notes that it unfortunately is filled with legends.
Agostinho dos Santos.  Agostinho dos Santos was a Brazilian singer and composer of Bossa Nova MPB and Rock and Roll active from the early 1950s until his premature death in an airplane accident in 1973. Dos Santos is best known today for lending his voice to the soundtrack of the classic 1959 film Orfeu Negro. He is also credited with playing a role in the development of the careers of other important Bossa Nova artists such as João Gilberto and Milton Nascimento.
Yousef (Joe) Sweid.  Yousef Sweid (Hebrew: יוסף סוויד‎ Arabic: يوسف سويد‎) is an Israeli actor and dancer.
Ernst Josephson.  Ernst Josephson (16 April 1851 Stockholm Sweden – 22 November 1906) was a Swedish painter from a prominent Jewish family whose main work was done on portraits and paintings of folk life.He did his art studies in Italy France and the Netherlands among others and is reputed to have said at the age of 20: I will become Sweden's Rembrandt or die.However his life was marred by illness.
Giovanni Mossi.  Giovanni Mossi (born c. 1680? in Rome?; died 1742 in Rome) was an Italian baroque composer.
Susan Warner.  Susan Bogert Warner (July 11 1819 – March 17 1885) was an American evangelical writer of religious fiction children's fiction and theological works.
Vincenzo da Via Anfossi.  Vincenzo da Via Anfossi is an Italian rapper born and living in Milan Italy.
Dal Richards.  Dallas Murray Dal Richards CM OBC (born in Vancouver British Columbia 5 January 1918) is a Canadian big band leader known as the King of Swing. He graduated from Magee Secondary School in 1937.His saxophone and clarinet were first heard in the Sandy DeSantis and Stan Paton bands. On 1 May 1940 Richards his 11-piece band and a then-unknown 13-year-old Juliette were booked to replace Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen Canada's leading dance band at the time.
Jay Wud.  [1]Jay Wud (b. August 1 1983 in Beirut) is a Lebanese guitarist singer songwriter & producer. His music incorporates a wide variety of genres including blues metal and a healthy dose of straight-up rock'n'roll. Following the success of Jay Wud's debut album New blood (2010)  the versatile musician returned to the spotlight with his sophomore studio effort False Utopia (2012) making him one of the Middle East's most exciting artist.
Einar Iversen.  Einar «Pastor'n» Iversen (born 27 July 1930 in Mandal Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano) and composer the son of a «pastor» and went into jazz after the world war II ended. Through more than sixty years he has played with everyone in Norwegian jazz.
Nazan Bekiroğlu.  Nazan Bekiroğlu is a Turkish novelist.
Nick Raggett.  Nick Raggett (born 17 March 1966) is an English television and theatre actor.
Ken Edwards.  Ken Edwards (born in Gibraltar 1950) is a poet editor writer and musician who has lived in England since 1968. He is associated with The British Poetry Revival.Edwards ran Reality Studios a magazine that helped introduce the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets to a British readership. He now runs the literary press Reality Street.
Linda George.  Linda George (born 1964) is an ethnic Assyrian singer who resides in the United States Of America. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian language.
Charlie Vox.  Charlie Vox (born Charlene Gilliam) is an American multi-gold and platinum songwriter recording artist singer and producer. She is the lead singer of the band Random Ax of Charlie.Charlie Vox has written and produced on singles and albums that have collectively sold in the excess of 8 million records worldwide. Charlie Vox's credits include Rihanna (Final Goodbye) and Melanie Fiona (Monday Morning).
Jabir Novruz.  Jabir Novruz (birth name Jabir Mirzebey oglu Novruzov) (1933–2002) was a representative of literature the national poet honored art worker of Azerbaijan. Jabir Novruz is one of the brilliant pages of poetry and literature of the twentieth century. The rich heritage and traditions of his works with the demands of modern literary trends combined organic way. The poet's works have been translated into various languages and has been published.
Margaret Tait.  Margaret Caroline Tait (11 November 1918 – 16 April 1999) was a Scottish film maker and poet.
Walter Millis.  Walter Millis (March 16 1899 – March 17 1968) was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic's study of demilitarization in 1954.
Gregory Monro.  Grégory Monro (born September 10 1975) sometimes also in French sources Gregory Monro is a French actor and director.He lives in Paris and works for French English and American production films companies. He recently purchased Calamity Jane's Letters to my daughter and obtained the photo album of her daughter Jean McCormick. He has written a biography Calamity Jane. Mémoires de l'Ouest and provided material for an exhibition on Jane at the Post Office Museum in Paris.
Larry Graham.  Larry Graham Jr. (born August 14 1946) is an American bass guitar player both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station. He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass although he himself refers to the technique as Thumpin' and Pluckin'.
Dawn Best.  Dawn Marie Best-Eshleman (born October 12 1981[citation needed]) is an American artist and author best known for her work in the Archie Comics version of Sonic the Hedgehog. She is currently Founder and President of Gloryhound Network an online resource of publications and tutorials for aspiring artists and writers.
Willie P. Bennett.  William Patrick Willie P. Bennett (26 October 1951 – 15 February 2008) was a Canadian folk-music singer and song writer harmonica player and mandolinist.
Ian Carr-Harris.  Ian Carr-Harris (born 1941) is a Canadian artist living in Toronto. In addition to exhibiting internationally Carr-Harris is a professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
Carla van Raay.  Carla van Raay (born 1938) is an Australian author. Born in Tilburg Netherlands she and her family moved to Australia when she was young. Her father obtained work as a gardener at a convent school in Kew run by the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus founded in early 19th-century France. Through this employment he was able to have her enrolled as a student at the school. After graduation she joined the Sisters who ran the school.
The White Rabbit (book).  The White Rabbit is a 1953 non-fiction book by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. Its title comes from the codename of F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas.
Fumio Watanabe.  Fumio Watanabe (渡辺文雄 Watanabe Fumio October 31 1929 – August 4 2004) was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.
Andrew Festing.  Andrew Festing MBE PPRP (born in 1941) is a well known portrait painter and fellow and former president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Athena (Andreadis).  Athena Andreadis (artist name: Athena) is an Anglo-Greek musician singer and songwriter born in London. In 2008 she was featured in a British television documentary.
Peter Ledger.  Peter Ledger (25 October 1945 – 18 November 1994) was an Australian commercial airbrush artist and illustrator.
Giovanni Battista Crema.  Giovanni Battista Crema (Ferrara 1883 – Rome 1964) was an Italian painter.
Sergio Vega (bassist).  Sergio Vega is an American musician. He is the bassist of post-hardcore band Quicksand which originated in New York City in 1990. In 1995 Quicksand disbanded although they reunited again in 1997 to tour with Deftones. After this tour the band desired to write a follow-up to their last album Manic Compression although tensions between bandmates caused the band to split up again until June 2012 when another reunion was announced.
Sulakshana Pandit.  Sulakshana Pratap Narain Pandit is a Filmfare Award winning playback singer and actor. Her brothers are the composing duo Jatin Lalit and her younger sister is Vijeta Pandit who achieved fame with her debut movie Love Story. Her uncle is the accomplished classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj.
John Warne.  John Warne is an American musician who has been active in the Christian rock scene since 1996. He is best known for being the bassist for the Christian rock band Relient K as well as being a founding member of the Christian punk band Ace Troubleshooter. His hometown is Minneapolis Minnesota and currently lives in Denver Colorado.
Samuel Heilman.  Samuel Heilman is a professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York who focuses on social ethnography of contemporary Jewish Orthodox movements.
Renáta Göncz.  Renáta Göncz (born 16 May 1991) is a lyric soprano opera singer founding member of the Moltopera Company and regular partner of Kayamar.
Gil Grand.  Gil Grand (born Gilles Lagrandeur on January 8 1968 in Sudbury Ontario Canada) is a country music singer best known for his hit Famous First Words. Active since 1998 he has released three studio albums to date: 1998's Famous First Words 2002's Burnin′ and 2006's Somebody's Someone. He has charted several singles on the Canadian country singles charts as well including the top ten hit Famous First Words.
Lawrence Carmichael Earle.  Lawrence Carmichael Earle was an American painter. Born on 11/11/1845 in New York City Lawrence lived in Grand Rapids Michigan as a child for 11 or 12 years (from 1856 until about 1868) when he left for formal art instruction. In 1897 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
John Hayter.  John Hayter (1800–1895) was an English portrait painter. He was the second son of the miniaturist Charles Hayter and brother of Sir George Hayter also a portaitist. He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1815 and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in the same year. He also exhibited work at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists.
Sallie Bingham.  Sallie Bingham (born January 22 1937) is an American author playwright poet teacher feminist activist and philanthropist.Sallie Bingham’s first novel was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961. It was followed by four collections of short stories; her latest published by Sarabande Books in October 2011 is titled Mending: New and Selected Stories.
Chris Stamey.  Christopher Charles Chris Stamey (born December 6 1954 in Chapel Hill North Carolina) is an American musician singer songwriter and record producer. After a brief time playing with Alex Chilton as well as Mitch Easter under the name Sneakers Stamey formed The dB's with Peter Holsapple.
Brett Beavers.  Brett Beavers born in Waco Texas is an American country music songwriter and producer and the co-author of the book Something Worth Leaving Behind.
Moshe Kasher.  Moshe Kasher (born July 6 1979) is an American stand-up comedian writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area. He is the author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict Criminal Mental Patient and Then Turned 16.In 2009 iTunes named Kasher Best New Comic and his comedy album Everyone You Know Is Going to Die and Then You Are! was ranked one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes that same year.
Jessica Garlick.  Jessica Julie Anne Garlick (born 1981 Derby Derbyshire England) is a Welsh pop singer.Garlick made her first steps into showbusiness when she was 16. At that age she won the Welsh final of the TV talent show Star For A Night. The same year she also featured in Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music. She was the highest placed British entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest of the 2000s coming joint third in the 2002 contest.
Kid Capri.  Kid Capri is the stage name of David Anthony Love Jr. (born February 7 1967) an American DJ and rapper.
Charles Burnham (musician).  Charles Burnham (born 1950; also known as Charlie Burnham) is an American violinist and composer. He has a unique highly imaginative style that crosses genres including bluegrass delta punkfree jazz blues classical and chamber jazz. He often performs with a wah-wah pedal. He initially became renowned for his work on James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey album. The musicians on that album later performed and recorded as Odyssey the Band sometimes known as The Odyssey Band.
Daniel Horne.  Daniel Horne is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Johnny Keyser.  Johnny Keyser (born August 24 1988) is an American singer songwriter composer and recording artist born in Pompano Beach Florida. He was a member of the top 40 on American Idol during Season 12. Before competing in American Idol he recorded a seven song EP called From Where I Stand released May 16 2012.
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov.  Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Решетников) (September 17 [O.S. September 5] 1841 – March 21 [O.S. March 9] 1871) was a Russian author. In his short 29 ½ years he published to critical acclaim a number of novels dealing with the plight of the lower classes.
Jonny Trunk.  Jonny Trunk born Jonathan Benton-Hughes (United Kingdom) is a writer broadcaster and DJ as well as the owner and founder of Trunk Records.
Kevin Spencer (musician).  Kevin Spencer (born December 22 1973) is a Canadian musician-writer-producer.He began his career in music as a member of the Hamilton Ontario pop band The Misunderstood one of the 1996 CFNY New Music Search Finalists.
Haruki Mizuno.  Haruki Mizuno (水野はるき Mizuno Haruki) is a popular Japanese AV gravure idol and mainstream media celebrity.
Mikheil Javakhishvili.  Mikheil Javakhishvili (Georgian: მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი; other surname: Adamashvili ადამაშვილი) (November 8 1880 – September 30 1937) was a Georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers. His first story appeared in 1903 but then the writer lapsed into a long pause before returning to writing in the early 1920s.
Mickey Jupp.  Michael 'Mickey' Jupp (born 6 March 1944 in Worthing Sussex) is an English musician and songwriter mainly associated with the Southend music scene.Jupp played in several Southend bands after leaving art college in 1962 and was in the R&B group the Orioles (1963 – late 1965) which included Mo Witham (guitar vocals) and Bob Clouter (drums) but the band were never recorded.After a break from music Jupp formed Legend in 1968 who were signed to Bell Records.
Ernesto Tamayo.  Ernesto Tamayo was the first prize winner of the 1995 NGWS in New Milford Connecticut.[citation needed] He has toured extensively throughout North and South America and Europe.
Angelo Maria Bandini.  Angelo Maria Bandini (25 September 1726 – 1803) was an Italian author and librarian born in Florence.Having been left an orphan in his infancy he was supported by his uncle Giuseppe Bandini a lawyer of some note. He received his education among the Jesuits and showed a special inclination for the study of antiquities. In 1747 he undertook a journey to Vienna in company with the bishop of Volterra for whom he acted in the capacity of secretary.
Tessa Seymour.  Tessa Seymour (born June 9 1993) is an American cellist.Seymour was born in Berkeley California to Norwegian and Russian parents. She started learning to play the cello at the age of six.
Leonida Nikolai Giovannelli.  Baron Leonida Nikolai Giovannelli was an Italian-born Manx writer and cultural activist publishing actively between the 1950s and 1980s.Giovannelli was born in 1906 and was brought up on his family's estate in Abruzzo Italy before taking up a role in the Royal Italian Navy and then the Italian Embassy in London. He married an English woman but upon the beginning of World War II he was interned as an enemy alien in Palace Camp and then Metropole Camp in Douglas on the Isle of Man.
Dennis Law (film director).  Dennis Law Sau-yiu (born 1963) is a Hong Kong film producer screenwriter and director. He is the former chairman and executive director of Milkyway Image and a founder of its subsidiary company Point of View Movie Production Co. Ltd. Films directed by Law include teen comedies such as The Unusual Youth and Love @ First Note and martial arts action films that include Fatal Contact and Fatal Move.
Harry Harrison (writer).  Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12 1925 – August 15 2012) was an American science fiction (SF) author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.Aldiss called him a constant peer and great family friend.
Simon Clark (novelist).  Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster England. One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids.Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award. In 2001 he won the British Fantasy awards for best short story Goblin City Lights and the aforementioned The Night of the Triffids.He is also the author of the Doctor Who novella The Dalek Factor.
Kenneth Lim.  Kenneth Lim is an American freelance portrait photographer based in Hong Kong. Lim was the official photographer for the 2nd Annual HK International Comedy Festival 2008. Lim graduated from Brown University.
Tim Vesely.  Tim Vesely (born 10 December 1963) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist for the indie rock band Rheostatics in which he shared vocal duties with bandmates Dave Bidini and Martin Tielli. Vesely wrote much of the band's conventionally pop and rock-oriented material including both of the band's most successful singles Claire and Bad Time to Be Poor.Vesely announced his departure from the Rheostatics on 8 September 2006.
Silvester Harding.  Silvester Harding (also Sylvester) (25 July 1745 – 12 August 1809) was an English artist and publisher.
Martika.  Marta Marrero (born May 18 1969) known as Martika is an American singer-songwriter who released two internationally successful albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s selling over four million copies worldwide.[citation needed]
Eric Wilson (bassist).  Eric John Wilson (born February 21 1970) is the former bass player for Sublime (1988–1996) and also bassist for Long Beach Dub Allstars (1997–2002). He was the bassist for the band Long Beach Shortbus which was composed of several members of Long Beach Dub Allstars and Sublime. Since 2009 Wilson has been the bassist for Sublime with Rome a new version of Sublime of which he was formerly a member.
DeVante Swing.  DeVante Swing is an American record producer singer rapper and songwriter. Swing rose to fame in the 1990s as the founding member of the trendsetting R&B group Jodeci one of the more popular R&B acts of its time.
Aaron Shust.  Aaron Michael Shust (born October 31 1975 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Contemporary Christian Music artist on the Centricity Music label. Shust was named the songwriter of the year at the GMA Dove Awards of 2007 and his song My Savior My God received the Song of the Year award.
Mick Barr.  Mick Barr is an American avant-garde metal guitarist. Notable for his relentless speed and agility on his instrument he is most well known for being one half of the band Orthrelm currently signed to Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings label.Some of Barr's other projects have included Crom-tech and a duo with drummer Zach Hill from Hella as well as appearances with Quix*o*tic and The Flying Luttenbachers.
Hiroshi Nagano.  Hiroshi Nagano (長野 博 Nagano Hiroshi) is a pop singer actor and member of V6 a Japanese boy band formed in 1995 under the management of Johnny & Associates and it's half part 20th Century. He is among the first who joined Johnny & Associates in 1986 at age of 14. He quit Johnny's Jr on 1990 to continue his studies and re-join on mid of 1992.
Buju Banton.  Buju Banton (born Mark Anthony Myrie 15 July 1973) is a Jamaican dancehall ragga and reggae musician. Banton has recorded pop and dance songs as well as songs dealing with sociopolitical topics.He released early dancehall singles in 1991 but came to prominence in 1992 with two albums including Mr. Mention which became the best-selling album in Jamaican history upon its release. Banton signed with major label Mercury Records and released Voice of Jamaica the following year.
Ray Mantilla.  Raymond Mantilla (b. June 22 1934 in New York City New York) is an American jazz drummer. He has played as a session musician and toured with some of the most significant jazz musicians of his time. Mantilla has been bandleader of his own ensembles and was a founding member of the percussion ensemble M'Boom with Max Roach.
John Moen.  John Moen is a musician and member of The Decemberists Boston Spaceships and Perhapst. He sings plays the drums banjo the melodica occasionally the keyboard and dances around with a floor tom.[citation needed] Moen has played the drums since he was 15 years old.Prior to joining The Decemberists John played with over 20 bands including singer-songwriter Elliott Smith The Jicks Cavemanish Boys The Dharma Bums The Minus 5 (sometimes) and the Maroons.
J. H. B. Peel.  John Hugh Brignal Peel (1913-1983) was a British journalist author and poet writing as J. H. B. Peel about farming and the countryside.His father was the comedian Gillie Potter. From the 1960s he wrote a fortnightly essay Country Talk for the Daily Telegraph. He wrote and narrated radio and television programmes. He was also awarded Book of the Year on two occasions by The Sunday Times.
Johann Heinrich Merck.  Johann Heinrich Merck (April 11 1741 – June 27 1791) German author and critic was born at Darmstadt a few days after the death of his father a chemist.He studied law at Gießen and in 1767 was given an appointment in the paymaster's department at Darmstadt and a year later himself became paymaster.
Mark Lemhouse.  Mark Lemhouse is an American musician producer and graphic designer known for releasing several solo albums on Yellow Dog Records as well as designing album covers for musicians such as Black Francis.
Matthias Frings.  Matthias Frings (born April 14 1953) is a German journalist TV presenter and writer. He was born in Aachen and spent his childhood there. He pursued English studies German studies and linguistics at RWTH Aachen University. In 1974 Frings was a founding member of the gay student group Aachener Printenschwestern. After completing his university studies Frings became a resident of Berlin. In the late 1970s he was a member of theater group Zan Pollo.
John Bauer (illustrator).  John Bauer (4 June 1882 – 20 November 1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator best known for his illustrations of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls). Princess Tuvstarr and the Fishpond (named after Carex cespitosa) painted in 1913 is perhaps Bauer's most notable work.
Nat Fein.  Nathaniel Fein (August 7 1914 – September 26 2000) was a photographer for the New York Herald Tribune for thirty-three years. Fein is known for photographing Babe Ruth at the end of his life winning the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph The Babe Bows Out.
Roger Caillois.  Roger Caillois (French: [ʁɔʒe kajwa]; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism sociology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games play as well as the sacred. He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges Pablo Neruda Miguel Ángel Asturias to the French public. After his death the Roger Caillois French Literary Prize was named after him in 1991.
David Cox (artist).  David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism.
James Hayward.  James Hayward is the pen name of James Nice (born 6 January 1966 in Essex) English writer on military modern art and post-punk musical history.He was educated at the University of Glasgow prior to working in publishing and as a solicitor.Books by James Hayward include The Bodies on the Beach (1999) Shingle Street (2002) Myths and Legends of the First World War (2003) Myths and Legends of the Second World War (2004) and Double Agent Snow - The True Story of Arthur Owens Hitler's Chief Spy in England (2013).As James Hayward he has also written liner notes for several audiobook CDs including Artists' Rifles 1914-18 Memorial Tablet (Siegfried Sassoon) Oh! It's a Lovely War (4 volumes) British War Broadcasting 1938-1946 RAF Bomber Command at War (2 volumes) The Battle of Britain D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Futurism & Dada Reviewed Voices of Dada Surrealism Reviewed Musica Futurista Cocteau Satie & Les Six Bauhaus Reviewed Wyndham Lewis: The Enemy Speaks and FuturliederAs James Nice he made the 2006 documentary film Shadowplayers a history of the Factory Records label and wrote the 2010 book Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records. 
Kavana (singer).  Kavana (born Anthony Kavanagh 4 November 1977) is a British singer and actor. In 2014 he became part of the supergroup 5th Story who are taking part in the second series of The Big Reunion.
Rajesh Kumar (writer).  Rajesh Kumar is an extremely prolific Tamil novel writer most famous for his crime detective and science fiction stories. Since publishing his first short story Seventh Test Tube in Kalkandu magazine in 1968 he has written over 1500 short novels and over 2000 short stories.Many of his detective novels feature the recurring characters Vivek and Rubella.
Bo Hansson.  Bo Hansson (April 10 1943 – April 23 2010) was a Swedish musician best known for his four instrumental albums released in the 1970s.
Laurent Naouri.  Laurent Naouri Chevalier L.H. (born May 23 1964) is a French bass-baritone. Initially beginning his education at the École Centrale de Lyon Naouri decided to concentrate on opera in 1986 and continued his musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.Naouri was born in Paris.
Attilio Pusterla.  Attilio Pusterla (Milan Italy 1862 – Woodcliff United States 1941) was an Italian painter.
Brent Gallaher.  Brent Christopher Gallaher (born May 13 1969 in Cumberland Maryland) is an American saxophonist.He is the son of Linda (Swearingen) Gallaher and Christopher S. Gallaher. His father was a professor of music at Frostburg State University. The Gallaher family moved to Morehead KY in 1972 when Christopher was hired by the Morehead State University. Brent spent his childhood in the small college town.Being the son of a musician Brent began studying music at an early age.
Nina Li (actress).  Nina Li (born December 31 1961 in Shanghai) also known by her Chinese name Li Chi or Li Zhi (Chinese: 利智; pinyin: Lì Zhì) is a retired Hong Kong actress. She is married to Chinese action superstar Jet Li. They have two daughters together Jane and Jada.
James Robert Ford.  James R Ford is a contemporary British mixed media and installation artist.
Andrés Barbero.  Andrés Barbero (1877 in Asunción – 1951 in Buenos Aires) was a Paraguayan scientist and botanist.
John Botvid.  John Botvid (12 September 1889 – 20 February 1964) was a Swedish actor and comedian. He was born as John Botvid Börjesson and appeared in over a hundred films between 1917 and 1955. He often worked with fellow comedians Thor Modéen and Nils Poppe. His children were film actors Rolf Botvid and Gerd Botvid.
Johann Matthias Kager.  Johann Matthias Kager (1566–1634) was a German historical painter.
Annie Ryan.  Annie Ryan (born Dorisanne Willingham July 7 1947) is a stage and screen actor model singer and vocal coach. She is the CEO of AR Vocal Coach in Toronto Canada.
Giovanni Velluti (pianist).  Giovanni Velluti (January 20 1969) is an Italian pianist pupil of Rodolfo Caporali and Aldo Mantia.He inherited from his teachers (who were pupils of A. Rendano e W.
Ossip Zadkine.  Ossip Zadkine (Russian: Осип Цадкин; July 14 1890 – November 25 1967) was a Belarusian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor but also produced paintings and lithographs.
Clarence Garlow.  Clarence Garlow (February 27 1911 – July 24 1986) was an American R&B jump blues Texas blues and cajun guitarist singer and songwriter. He is best known for his recording of the song Bon Ton Roula which was a hit single on the US Billboard R&B chart in 1950. One commentator noted the track as a rhythm and blues laced-zydeco song that helped introduce the Louisiana music form to a national audience.
Dhananjay Keer.  Anant Vithal known by his alias Dhananjay Keer (1913–1984) was an Indian writer who wrote biographies of Bal Gangadhar Tilak Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Jyotiba Phule Shahu IV and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.Keer was born in Ratnagiri on April 23 1913. K. N. Jadhav writes that the revolutionary atmosphere in Ratnagiri in the early 1920s had a great influence on him. He migrated to Mumbai in 1938 to work with the Education Committee of the city's Municipal Corporation.
Arthur William Dunn.  Arthur William Dunn (1868- ? ) was an American educator born at Galesburg Ill. and educated at Knox College and the University of Chicago. He began his career as instructor in English and lecturer in sociology at the University of Cincinnati (1896–98). He was also extension lecturer from 1896 to 1900 and from the latter year until 1910 headed the department of history and civics in the Shortridge High School Indianapolis.
Akino (singer).  Akino Kawamitsu (川満 愛希信 Kawamitsu Akino) better known by her stage name AKINO is an American-born Japanese pop singer from Utah and Mesa Arizona.
Dann Huff.  Dann Huff (born November 15 1960) is an American musician session musician singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award in 2006 and 2009 at the Academy of Country Music. He is the father of singer/songwriter Ashlyne Huff.
Edwin Thumboo.  Edwin Nadason Thumboo B.B.M. (born 22 November 1933) is an award-winning Singaporean poet and academic who is regarded as one of the pioneers of English literature in Singapore.Thumboo graduated in English from the University of Malaya in 1956. Although he applied for a position at the university he was rejected as few locals held academic posts at that time.
Gunnar Heiberg.  Gunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg (18 November 1857 – 22 February 1929) was a Norwegian poet playwright journalist and theatre critic.
Harold Briercliffe.  Harold Briercliffe (1910-1994) was a Rochdale born author of a series of cycle touring guides. These were a spin-off from the magazine Cycling (a magazine now published as Cycling Weekly).
Rappin' 4-Tay.  Anthony Forté (born March 2 1968) better known by his stage name Rappin' 4-Tay is an American rapper from the Fillmore District of San Francisco California.
Glen Payne.  Glen Payne (October 20 1926 - October 15 1999) served more than 50 years as a Southern gospel music singer. At age 17 in 1944 Glen joined the Stamps-Baxter Quartet. He was also a member of the Lester Stamps Quartet The Stamps All-Stars and The Stamps-Ozark Quartet. In 1956 he joined The Weatherford Quartet which featured Glen Earl & Lily Fern Weatherford Armond Morales and George Younce. Younce was later replaced by Henry Slaughter.
Lynn LeMay.  Lynn LeMay (born in Tacoma Washington) is an American pornographic actress. In Fall 2006 she founded the adult production company LeMayzing Pictures.
Andrew Porter (music critic).  Andrew Porter born 26 August 1928 in Cape Town South Africa is a British music critic scholar organist and opera director. He studied organ at University College Oxford University in the late nineteen-forties then began writing music criticism for various London newspapers including The Times and The Daily Telegraph. In 1953 he joined The Financial Times where he served as the lead critic until 1972.
Chihiro Hara.  Chihiro Hara (原千尋 Hara Chihiro) is a multiple award-winning Japanese adult video (AV) performer.
Dionne Bromfield.  Dionne Julia Bromfield (born 1 February 1996 in London) is a British soul singer-songwriter and TV presenter. Bromfield's debut album Introducing Dionne Bromfield was released in 2009 by Amy Winehouse's Lioness Records label. She first came to public attention after performing on the British TV show Strictly Come Dancing with Amy Winehouse on backing vocals. She is known for being one of the presenters on Friday Download.
Marion Eames.  Marion Eames (5 February 1921 – 3 April 2007) was a Welsh novelist.Marion was born in Birkenhead Cheshire of Welsh parents but was brought up at Dolgellau from the age of 4 where she attended Dr Williams's School. A talented musician (she played the harp and piano) she graduated from Guildhall College London. Marion worked as a librarian in Dolgellau then at Aberystwyth University before becoming a radio producer with the BBC in Cardiff.
G. N. Balasubramaniam.  G. N. Balasubramaniam (Tamil: ஜி.என்.பாலசுப்பிரமணியம்) (6 Jan 1910 – 1 May 1965) popularly known as GNB was a vocalist in the Carnatic tradition. He innovated the art through emphasis on laya control & reducing the gamakas which eventually made Carnatic music appeal to the lay and the learned alike.
Laura Knight.  Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils watercolours etching engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative realist tradition who embraced English Impressionism. During her long career Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. In 1929 she was created a Dame and in 1936 became the first woman elected to the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1768.
Mack Harrell.  Mack Kendree Harrell Jr. (8 October 1909 Celeste Texas — 29 January 1960 Dallas Texas) was an American operatic and concert baritone vocalist who was regarded as one of the greatest American-born lieder singers of his generation.
Richard Brautigan.  Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30 1935 – ca. September 16 1984) was an American novelist poet and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy parody and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America.
Tony Richards.  Tony Richards (born Anthony Richard Orlando)[citation needed] is an American musician and drummer. He was the original drummer of shock metal band W.A.S.P. from 1982 till 1984.Richards played for various bands in his early career before relocating to the Los Angeles CA area from Phoenix AZ in 1980. He began making a name for himself as one of the hottest drummers in the LA heavy metal scene with a band called Dante Fox later to become known as Great White.
Damien Hirst.  Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned and is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List.
Samuelle.  Samuelle Prater known simply as Samuelle is an American R&B singer who is a former member of the R&B group Club Nouveau. He released his first and only solo album entitled Living in Black Paradise on October 30 1990 on Atlantic Records which reached number 37 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. He is best known for the hit song So You Like What You See.
Gwen McCrae.  Gwen McCrae (née Mosley December 21 1943 Pensacola Florida United States) is an American singer best known for her 1975 hit Rockin' Chair.
Sogdiana Fedorinskaya.  Sogdiana (Russian: Согдиана) sometimes with the last name Fedorinskaya (Федоринская) born as Oksana Vladimirovna Nechitaylo (Нечитайло Оксана Владимировна) is an Uzbek singer and actress born February 17 1984 in Tashkent.
Philippe Russo.  Philippe Russo is a French singer-songwriter (born on 4 October 1961 Paris). He had a hit between 1986 and early 1987 in France with his single Magie noire devoted to the discothèques which peaked at #10 on the SNEP Singles Chart. Then he published several singles until 1991 but they were unsuccessful and failed to reach the chart. Therefore Russo can be deemed as a one-hit wonder. He was the guitar of Marc Lavoine during this one's last concert tour.
Pan Head.  Pan Head (born Anthony Johnson 1966 Saint Mary Parish Jamaica died October 1993 Spanish Town) was a ragga/dancehall deejay.
Miyuki Nakajima.  Miyuki Nakajima (中島 みゆき Nakajima Miyuki) (born February 23 1952 Sapporo Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and radio personality. She has released 37 studio albums 40 singles 2 live albums and multiple compilations as of May 2013. Her sales have been estimated at more than 21 million copies.In the mid-1970s Nakajima signed to Canyon Records and launched her recording career with her debut single Azami Jō no Rarabai (アザミ嬢のララバイ).
Barbecue Bob.  Robert Hicks better known as Barbecue Bob (September 11 1902 – October 21 1931) was an early American Piedmont blues musician. His nickname came from the fact that he was a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two extant photographs of Bob show him playing his guitar while wearing a full length white apron and cook's hat.
Margaret Moncrieff.  Margaret Moncrieff (6 February 1921 – 12 November 2008) was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School series.She was also professor of cello at the Royal College of Music. Her father was Lord Moncrieff.In 1957 she married Alexander Kelly (1929–1996) a pianist composer and former head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
Judy Craig.  Judy Craig (born August 6 1946 New York United States) is the lead singer of the girl group The Chiffons. She left the group in 1969 but returned in 1992 after the death of Barbara Lee. Fronted by Judy Craig Mann along with her daughter and niece The Chiffons resurfaced in 2009 and continue to tour and perform select dates in North America and Europe.
Ralph Rucci.  Ralph Rucci is an American fashion designer and artist. He is known in particular for Chado Ralph Rucci a luxury clothing and accessories line. Rucci's clothing designs have appeared in a number of major exhibitions and he has won some significant fashion-industry awards. He is the subject of a recent documentary and he and his clothing have received positive critical response in the fashion press.
Minóy.  Minóy was the pseudonym of the electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (October 30 1951 - March 19 2010). He was a major figure in the DIY noise music and homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. He released over 100 compositions.
Berta Behrens.  Bertha Behrens (7 September 1850 – 9 September 1912) was a German novelist who used the pen name W. Heimburg. She completed Das Eulenhaus a posthumous novel by Marlitt in the Gartenlaube in which periodical most of her novels appeared.
Will Pfeifer.  Wil Pfeifer (born 1967) is an American comic book writer.
Mallary Hope.  Mallary Hope Whitener (born in Dalton Georgia) is an American country music singer-songwriter. She released her debut single Love Lives On in July 2009 followed by an EP of the same name on August 4 2009. Both this song and its followup Blossom in the Dust have made the Hot Country Songs charts.
Charles Jenkins (musician).  Charles Jenkins is a musician based in Melbourne Victoria Australia. He was a member of Icecream Hands has released three solo albums and is a member of Charles Jenkins and the Zhivagos in 2014.
Bojan Šarčević.  Bojan Šarčević (pronounced [bɔ̌jan ʃǎːrtʃɛv̞itɕ]; born 1974) is a Bosnian-French visual artist. His work includes video installations site-responsive architectural interventions photographic collage more or less abstract sculpture and printed publications.
David Diao.  David Diao (born 1943) is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City.
Peter Missing.  Peter Missing (born Peter Colangelo November 26 1953) is a New York City artist poet musician and activist who relocated to Berlin in 1993.
Karin Tabke.  Karin Tabke is an American author. Born in Miami Florida she now lives in Northern California.
Caterina Davinio.  Caterina Davinio (born November 25 1957 Foggia) is an Italian poet novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art net.art video art. She was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.
Boris Mikhailov (photographer).  Boris Andreyevich Mikhailov (Бори́с Андрі́йович Миха́йлов born August 25 1938) is a fine art photographer who has been described as one of the most important artists to have emerged from the former USSR.
Séraphine Louis.  Séraphine Louis known as Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine of Senlis) (1864–1942) was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images both in colour and in replicative designs are sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness.
Santiago Jiménez Jr..  Santiago Jiménez Jr. (aka Santiago Henriquez Jiménez) (born April 8 1944) is a folk musician who has won a National Heritage Fellowship in 2000 for lifetime achievement in traditional Tex-Mex/folk music. His father Santiago Jiménez Sr. was a pioneer of conjunto music. His older brother Leonardo Flaco Jiménez is considered by many the greatest Tejano accordionist ever certainly the most famous.
Lawrence Ah Mon.  Lawrence Ah Mon or Lawrence Lau Kwok Cheong (劉國昌) (born 1949) is a Hong Kong film director. His films are notable for their lurid exploration of the problems of the poor in modern Hong Kong such as Gangs (1986) Spacked Out (2000) Gimme Gimme (2001) and City Without Baseball (2008).
The Worlds Freshest (Dj.Fresh).  This page is about the American R&B producer. For the British producer see DJ Fresh.Dj.Fresh (born Baltimore Maryland) also known as The Worlds Freshest is an American hip hop producer based in Oakland California. He has won a number of producing and Deejaying awards and in 2006 began releasing his The Tonite Show series of albums which have featured artists such as Yukmouth and Raekwon. He has also released a number of mixtapes and has produced albums for other artists.
Drake Tungsten.  Drake Tungsten was the pseudonym that singer/songwriter Britt Daniel performed under from 1994 to 1996 as a solo artist.
Charles Lloyd-Pack.  Charles Lloyd-Pack (10 October 1902 – 22 December 1983) was a British film television and stage actor.He was born in London. He was seen in several horror films produced by the Hammer Studios including Dracula The Man Who Could Cheat Death The Revenge of Frankenstein and The Reptile and Quatermass 2 the film version of the 1955 BBC TV serial.
Giacomo Anziani.  Giacomo Anziani (Ravenna 1681 - 1723) was an Italian architect painter and engraver active in a late-baroque style.
Simonetta Greggio.  Simonetta Greggio is an Italian novelist who writes in French.
Giuseppe Barbaglia.  Giuseppe Barbaglia (1841 – 1910) was an Italian painter.He was born in Milan. At the age of twenty due to a romantic entanglement he was forced to leave Milan and during his travels he developed gangrene of the leg requiring amputation. He returned to Milan and trained under Giuseppe Bertini.
Nirupama Dutt.  Nirupama Dutt born in 1955 is an Indian poet journalist and translator. She writes poems in Punjabi and sometimes transcreates them in English. A senior journalist with thirty years of experience she has worked with leading Indian newspapers and journals. She has published one volume of poems – Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi (A Stream Somewhat Dark) – for which she was awarded the Delhi Punjabi Akademi Award in 2000.
Gareth Williams (composer).  Gareth Patrick Williams (born 1977) is an award winning Irish composer working as the first composer in residence for Scottish Opera. His work spans from opera to chamber music and has been described as 'heart-stoppingly beautiful' and 'deeply moving'
Adrian Poynton.  Adrian Poynton is a British screenwriter playwright stand up comedian and actor. He attended John Taylor High School in the early 1990s.He is the creator and writer of BBC Three sitcom White Van Man starring Will Mellor Georgia Moffett and Clive Mantle. It began screening in March 2011 becoming the highest rated launch ever for a sitcom on BBC3. A second season was broadcast from 23 February 2012 with Poynton once again writing all the scripts.
Jean-Pierre Darras.  Jean-Pierre Darras (1927–1999) was a French actor.
Marsha Jordan.  Marsha Jordan was an American actress active during the Golden Age of Sexploitation films in the 1960s and early 1970s. She was known as the Queen of Soft Core.
David Michael Kennedy.  David Michael Kennedy (born August 16 1950) is a photographer living and working in New Mexico USA.
Stanley Manly.  Stanley Manly (born 1959) is a pseudonym for British author Neil Nixon. His first novel - Raiders of the Low Forehead - was issued in 1999 by Attack! Books a division of Creation Books dedicated to a style characterised as 'avant pulp.' Other authors published by the same imprint included Steven Wells and Tony White.
Larry Abramson.  Larry Abramson (1954) is a South-African born Israeli artist.
Luke Stricklin.  Luke Stricklin (born December 21 1982) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is from Arkadelphia Arkansas. He has a single American by God's Amazing Grace which he originally recorded in Baghdad Iraq with J.R. Schultz and Nick Brown. It tells of their experiences fighting in the Iraq War. Stricklin signed with Pacific-Time Records.
Michael Vescera.  Michael Vescera is an American heavy metal singer for various bands and projects like Loudness (Soldier of Fortune On the Prowl Live at the Budokan) Obsession(Marshall Law Scarred for Life Methods of Madness Carnival of Lies Order of Chaos) Yngwie Malmsteen (The Seventh Sign Magnum Opus) Dr. Sin (Dr. Sin II) Roland Grapow (Kaleidoscope) or his own band MVP (Mike Vescera Project).
Victoria Galvan.  Victoria Galvan (born 1986) is a Mexican American singer and musician from Corpus Christi Texas. She performs in the Tejano style as part of the ensemble Victoria y Sus Chikos (Victoria and Her Boys). She records on the Hacienda Records label.Galvan is one of the few female Tejano vocalists to play the accordion herself as well as being the lead vocalist. She prefers and plays a Gabbanelli accordion.
Tengiz Amirejibi.  Tengiz (Gizi) Amirejibi (Georgian: თენგიზ (გიზი) ამირეჯიბი) (30 September 1927 Tbilisi – 9 March 2013) was a Georgian pianist best known for his interpretations of Chopin.
Florence Klotz.  Florence Klotz (October 28 1920 – November 1 2006) was an American costume designer on Broadway and film.
Kevin Martin (American musician).  Kevin Martin (born April 9 1969 in Elgin Illinois) is an American hard rock singer who is best known as lead vocalist of the band Candlebox. He also provides lead vocals for the bands The Gracious Few and The Hiwatts.
Deuce 7.  Deuce 7 (a.k.a. Deuce Seven Twenty Seven 27) is the pseudonym of an American artist based in Minneapolis Minnesota.[citation needed]
Yoo Jae-yong.  Yoo Jae-yong (born June 6 1936) is a South Korean novelist known for his faithfulness to traditional forms and emphasis on steadfast characters.
Jason Reed.  Jason JR Reed (also known by the name of his signature character Lee) is an American actor and musician originally from Corvallis Oregon. He grew up in Las Vegas NV where he graduated from Bonanza High School. He is best known for his association with the comedy rock band Tenacious D.
Art Chantry.  Arthur Samuel Wilbur Chantry II (born April 9 1954 in Seattle) is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he did for bands from the Pacific Northwest such as Nirvana Hole and The Sonics. He is also notable for his work in logo design. Chantry designed the cover for Some People Can't Surf which was written by Julie Lasky.Chantry advocates a low-tech approach to design that is informed by the history of the field.
Iván Joy.  Iván Manuel García de la Noceda Joy (December 3 1975 San Juan Puerto Rico) known artistically as Ivan Joy is the musical producer in the Latin American urban genre. In 2000 he established his label Diamond Music which is already 11 years in the process of distribution and creation of music products.
YolanDa Brown.  YolanDa Brown born to Jamaican parents in Barking London England (4 October 1982) is a British saxophonist and composer.A past student of Bancroft's School Beal High School and the University of Kent Kent Business School in Canterbury England and the University of Oviedo in Asturias Spain.
Hassan Shamaizadeh.  Hassan Shamaizadeh (Persian: حسن شماعی زاده‎) is a Persian singer songwriter composer arranger saxophonist and pianist.
Le Castle Vania.  Le Castle Vania is an electronic dance music project created by Atlanta-based DJ Dylan Eiland.
Yves Deruyter.  Yves Deruyter is a Belgian DJ and artist famous for his work on Bonzai Records.
Bella Hardy.  Arwen Arabella Hardy known as Bella Hardy is a contemporary folk musician singer and songwriter from Edale in Derbyshire UK. She performed in various line-ups as a teenager including The Pack and Ola and reached the final of the BBC Young Folk Awards in 2004 but it was the release of her debut solo album Night Visiting in 2007 which garnered her recognition at the forefront of modern folk music.
Lanny Barby.  Lanny Barby (born 29 August 1981 in Montreal Quebec)
Bobby Grubic.  Bobby Bosko Grubic (a.k.a. Bobby G) (born in Sisak Croatia January 8 1972) is a Croatian American songwriter/composer singer and award winning music and independent director and producer. He graduated from Nashville's nationally recognized Middle Tennessee State University Recording Industry and TV Production program.He is a NATAS Midsouth and two-time Southeast Emmy Award winner as director/producer/editor for TV commercial spots and has added numerous Telly Awards to his collection.
Eden Brent.  Eden Brent (born 16 Nov 1965 in Greenville Mississippi is an award-winning American musician on the independent Yellow Dog Records label. A blues pianist and vocalist she combines boogie-woogie with elements of blues jazz soul gospel and pop. Her vocal style has been compared to Bessie Smith Memphis Minnie and Aretha Franklin.
Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti.  Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti was a Puerto Rican architect from Ponce Puerto Rico. He was an expositor of the Neoclassicism and Art Nouveau architectural styles doing most of his work in his hometown of Ponce. Today Alfredo Wiechers' city residence located in the Ponce Historic Zone and which he designed himself is home to the Puerto Rico Museum of Architecture.
Akira Kushida.  Akira Kushida (串田 アキラ Kushida Akira born October 17 1948 in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese vocalist who is well known for his work in the soundtracks for anime and tokusatsu productions most notably Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan Kinnikuman and Uchuu Keiji Gavan. His nickname from his fans is Kussy (クッシー Kusshī). His real given name is Akira (晃 Akira).
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva.  Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (Cyrillic Ҳалима Худойбердиева also romanized as Halima Khudoiberdieva or Hudoyberdieva) (born May 17 1947) is a noted Uzbek poet whose themes at different times of her career have dealt with Uzbek nationhood and history liberation movements and feminism. She has been awarded the title People's Poet of Uzbekistan.
Barry Vercoe.  Barry Vercoe is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer. He completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand in Music and Mathematics and went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan USA in Music Composition. In 1968 Vercoe's research in Digital Audio Processing paved the way for the subsequent evolution of digital musical composition. In 1971 he joined the faculty at MIT and established the Experimental Music facility in 1973.
Eightcubed.  Eightcubed is a Canadian experimental electronic music performer and producer from Toronto. His debut album Simple Dance was released in 2006 by Abstract Core Records. In 2008 Heart Invaders was released with a music video directed by computer animator Dan Swan and nationally aired on MuchMusic throughout 2008 to 2011.
Antonia García de Videgain.  Antonia García (April 8 1850 - June 25 1924) was a famous Spanish singer and actress. Her birth and death both occurred in Cadiz and Madrid Spain.
Robert Cottingham.  Robert Cottingham (born 1935 in Brooklyn New York) is considered to be one of most important original photorealist painters. Cottingham's work focuses on items associated as Americana. He studied art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. His first solo show was in 1971 at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York. In 1990 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician and became a full Academician in 1994.
Airi Taira.  Taira Airi (平愛梨 Taira Airi born December 12 1984) is a Japanese actress that graduated from the Horikoshi High School. She debuted in 1999 by winning the DA PUMP's ISSA's Sister Role Grand Prix for the movie Dream Maker. She played a lead role in the live action movie of 20th century boys as the character Kanna. Taira's parents are from the Amami Islands.
Audie Pitre.  Audie Thomas Pitre (October 5 1970 – January 23 1997) was an American bass guitarist. He also added back-up vocals in Acid Bath (1991–1997) and formed another band known as Shrüm (or simply SHRUM) (1995). Pitre formed Shrüm with the idea to have two bass players himself and Joseph J. Fontenot to create a heavy low-end bass sound with Tomas Viator on electronic drums and Scott Leger on vocals.
Edward Page Mitchell.  Edward Page Mitchell (Bath Maine March 24 1852 – New London Connecticut 1927) was an American editorial and short story writer for The Sun a daily newspaper in New York City. He became that newspaper's editor in 1897 succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell retired in 1926 a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Decades after his death Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre.
Elli Mücke.  Elli Mücke (born 1981 [1] or 1978 [2]) is a German singer.In 2003 she was a member of polish pop group Ich Troje. Her song (with Michał Wiśniewski) Liebe macht spaß was in German Eurovision 2003.
Bruce Guthro.  Bruce Guthro (born August 31 1961) is a Canadian singer / songwriter from Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Guthro has recorded as a solo artist and in 1998 joined the Scottish folk rock band Runrig whilst still pursuing his solo career. Guthro has received several ECMA's (East Coast Music Awards) and has hosted the Canadian TV show Songwriters Circle on which guests included Alan Doyle from the Canadian Band Great Big Sea.
Theodor Coccius.  Theodor Coccius (8 March 1824 – 24 October 1897) was a German pianist and pedadogue.Coccius was born in Knauthain near Leipzig in 1824. He was a pupil of Sigismond Thalberg.He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1864 for the rest of his life alongside Ignaz Moscheles and Carl Reinecke.
Uli Lenz.  Uli Lenz (b. March 10 1955) is a German composer pianist and producer creating music in the modern jazz genre.
Zana Muhsen.  Zana Muhsen (born 1965 in Birmingham England) is an English author known for her book Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery and its follow-up A Promise to Nadia. The books narrate the experiences that she and her sister Nadia (born 1966) went through after they were sold into marriage by their father Muthanna Muhsen a Yemeni émigré.
Tej Hundal.  Tej Hundal (born Tej Singh Hundal) is a singer-songwriter. His Debut Album was called Punjabiaan Da Raaj which is released on 9 August 2012 which was Composed & Produced by Ravi Bal (UK). This album was released on MovieBox (United Kingdom) Music Waves (Canada) & Goyal Music (India)The forthcoming Single called Deewana wil be releasing worldwide on (RBP Global) on 26/09/13. Music By: Ravi Bal.
Richard Gannaway.  Richard Gannaway is a composer producer recording artist (vocals stringed instruments) who founded the world music group Aomusic (also known as AO) which features Miriam Stockley of the acclaimed Karl Jenkins' Adiemus project. Gannaway established the AO trademark and founded Aomusic's indie label Arcturian Gate in 1994 through which his little known literary works are also published.
Harriet Powers.  Harriet Powers (October 29 1837 – January 1 1910) was an African-American slave folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia. She used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends Bible stories and astronomical events on her quilts. Only two of her quilts have survived: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. Her quilts are considered among the finest examples of nineteenth-century Southern quilting.
Matthew Hays.  Matthew Hays is a Canadian film critic writer film festival programmer and academic. He won a Lambda Literary Award for his 2007 book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers.Hays teaches film studies journalism and communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal and has reviewed films for the Montreal Mirror.
Wretch 32.  Jermaine Scott Sinclair (born 9 March 1985) better known by his stage name Wretch 32 (three-two) is an English rapper and former Grime MC from Tottenham London where he grew up the son of a local reggae DJ in the Tiverton Estate. He was a member of the grime collective Combination Chain Gang before forming The Movement with Scorcher Ghetts and Mercston.
Zilla (rapper).  Victor Gurrola Jr. better known by his stage name Zilla (formerly VG Skillz and then V-Zilla) is an underground rapper and producer from Houston Texas. He is known for his unique style of rap which combines East Coast hip hop with his Native Southern Hip Hop. In 2010 Zilla became a member of hip hop supergroup; Army of the Pharaohs founded by Jedi Mind Tricks frontman Vinnie Paz.Coming out of Houston V-Zilla got his start posting music online.
Albert Henry Payne.  Albert Henry Payne (born in London on 14 December 1812; died in Leipzig on 7 May 1902) was a steel engraver painter and illustrator. He was English but lived in Leipzig from 1839 onward.
Skerik.  Skerik (born Eric Walton) is an American saxophonist from Seattle Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone often with electronics and loops Skerik is a pioneer in a playing style that has been dubbed saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critters Buggin Garage a Trois and Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet. He is also an original member of both Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Frog Brigade and has toured with and played with numerous others in a variety of genres.
Britta Phillips.  Britta Phillips (born June 11 1963 Boyne City Michigan) is an American musician songwriter actress and voice actor. She is perhaps best known as the singing voice of the title character of the 1980s animated series Jem; and as a member of the bands Luna and as one half of the duo Dean and Britta both with her husband Dean Wareham. Her acting credits include the 1988 film Satisfaction.
Doc Neeson.  Bernard Patrick Doc Neeson OAM (born 4 January 1947 in Belfast Northern Ireland) is an Australian singer and musician best known as the lead singer for the Australian hard rock band The Angels.
Paul César Helleu.  Paul César Helleu (17 December 1859 – 23 March 1927) was a French oil painter pastel artist drypoint etcher and designer best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Époque. He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. He was also the father of Jean Helleu and the grandfather of Jacques Helleu both artistic directors for Parfums Chanel.
Tom Langan.  This article is about the American television producer and writer. For the Gaelic footballer please see Tommy LanganTom Langan is an American producer and writer. He additionally has performed in acting roles.
Jack Denton.  Jack Denton was a British actor and film director of the silent era.
William G. Borchert.  William (Bill) G. Borchert (b.?) is an American screenwriter who wrote the script for the 1989 film My Name is Bill W. based on the true story of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson.In 2005 he published a book about Bill Wilson's wife Lois called The Lois Wilson Story: When Love is Not Enough. A TV-movie with the same title based on the book was released in 2010. Borchert is also a director of Stepping Stones Foundation the home of the Wilsons in New York.
Pratibha Ray.  Pratibha Ray is an Indian academic and writer. She was born on 21 January 1943 at Alabol a remote village in the Balikuda area of Jagatsinghpur district formerly part of Cuttack district of Orissa state.She was the first woman to win the Moortidevi Award in 1991.She is an eminent fiction writer in contemporary India. She writes novels and short stories in her mother tongue Oriya.
Bill Wolfgramm.  Bill Wolfgramm aka Bill Wolfgramme was a musician specialising in lap steel guitar and popular Hawaiian music. He was born in the island kingdom of Tonga and is also of German descent. He is the former leader of Bill Wolfgramm & His Islanders a popular island band in New Zealand that played regularly at the Orange Ballroom a historic dance venue in Auckland.
Gary LeVox.  Gary LeVox (born Gary Wayne Vernon Jr. July 10 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known as the lead vocalist of American country trio Rascal Flatts. His stage surname (LeVox) literally means The Voice a name he lifted from the studio-console label for his lead-vocal track.LeVox was born in Columbus Ohio. He worked at Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities in downtown Columbus.
JoWonder.  JoWOnder (born Joanna Woodward) is a visual artist performer and animator from a generation of British animators who came to international prominence in the 1990s. In 2008 she founded the organisation 'British Women Artists'.
Jeff Harnar.  Jeff Harnar is an American New York-based cabaret singer and recording artist with an unusually smooth baritone voice and a fondness for the Broadway musical repertoire.Jeff Harnar was born in Manhattan Beach California on July 27 1959. His family moved during his childhood to Dearborn Michigan; Riverside Connecticut; and to Kenilworth Illinois. He attended New Trier East High School in Winnetka Illinois and Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas.
John Bush Jones.  John Bush Jones (born August 1940) is an American author and retired theatre critic educator and theatre director. He was born in Chicago and received an undergraduate degree in Speech (Theatre) with Distinction from Northwestern University in 1962. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern In 1970. He reviewed drama for the Kansas City Star and taught English at the University of Kansas before joining the faculty at Brandeis University in 1978 in the Theater Arts Department.
Ben Dolnick.  Ben Dolnick (born 1982) is an American fiction writer and author of the novels Zoology (2007) You Know Who You Are (2011) and At the Bottom of Everything: A Novel (2013).
Asami Sugiura.  Asami Sugiura (杉浦 亜紗美 Sugiura Asami) who has also performed under the name Asami (亜紗美) is an award-winning Japanese model actress and former AV Idol.
Francesco Morandini.  Francesco Morandini (c. 1544–1597) was an Italian painter active in Florence working in a Mannerist style. He was also called il Poppi after his native town. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Borghini and later he was Giorgio Vasari's assistant for many years. He participated in the Vincenzo Borghini and Giorgio Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with two canvases: one relating a Alexander and Campaspe (1571) and the other depicting a Foundry (1572).
Giulio Mazzoni.  Giulio Mazzoni (1525–1618) was an Italian painter and stuccoist active during the Renaissance period. He was born in Piacenza but studied in Rome under Daniele da Volterra and was active about the year 1568. He helped decorate the Palazzo Spada. He also painted a canvas of the Four Evangelists for the Cathedral of Piacenza.
Jon Bogdanove.  Jon Bogdanove is an American comic book artist and writer. He is best known for his work on Power Pack Superman: The Man of Steel and for creating the character Steel with writer Louise Simonson in 1993.
Sydney Box.  Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940 he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.He produced and co-wrote the screenplay with his then wife Muriel Box for The Seventh Veil (1945) which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay. The couple were then hired by the Rank Organisation to run Gainsborough Studios.
Yei Myint.  MPP Yei Myint (Burmese: ရဲမြင့် pronounced: [jɛ́ mjɪ̰ɴ]; also spelled Ye Myint; born 1953) is a Burmese artist. He was born in 1953 in Myingyan and studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Mandalay. Yei Myint is a student of Win Pe who taught at this school. He was one of two Burmese artists who participated in the 1999 Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards. He is one of the most recognized artists in Myanmar.
Ole Lie Singdahlsen.  Ole Christopher Lie Singdahlsen (1877 – 1926) was a Norwegian civil servant and writer.He was born in Larvik. He debuted in 1901 with the work Ada. Notable later works include stories from Hallingdal: Hallinger (1915) Fjeldfolk (1917) and Folket fra Aslegaard (1918) and stories from life as a civil servant: Medaljen (1921) and Kolleger (1923)
Finis L. Bates.  Finis Langdon Bates ( August 22 1848 – November 29 1923 ) was a Memphis Tennessee lawyer and author of The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth (1907). In this 309-page book Bates claimed that John Wilkes Booth the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was not killed by Union Army Soldiers on April 26 1865 but successfully eluded capture altogether and lived for many years thereafter under a series of assumed names notably John St. Helen and David E. George.
David Siu.  David Siu Chung Hang (Chinese: 邵仲衡; born February 24 1964) is a former Hong Kong TVB actor. He is best known for his role as Ting How-hai (丁孝蟹) in the 1992 TVB series The Greed of Man. He entered TVB in 1987 and starred in a number TV series including Behind Silk Curtains A Trial of Lifetime Bet On Fate The Greed of Man The Link and Remembrance. In 1994 he turned to work for ATV and devoted himself to running a 4-wheel drive conversion shop in Hong Kong.
Cathryn Bradshaw.  Cathryn Bradshaw (born in Blackpool) is an English actress perhaps best known for her role in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Joyce Omondi.  Joyce Omondi is an award winning Kenyan Gospel Singer.
Bryan Termulo.  Bryan Termulo (born March 8 1988 in Bocaue Bulacan Philippines) is a singer from the Philippines who was the runner-up in Pinoy Pop Superstar Year 3. He is best known for singing the theme song of Filipino TV series Walang Hanggan entitled Dadalhin and 100 Days to Heaven's Bihag. He then gained the title Prince of Teleserye Themesongs.
Rydel Lynch.  Rydel Mary Lynch (born August 9 1993) is an American television actress singer dancer and musician. She is one of the founding members of the pop rock band R5 formed with her brothers Riker Rocky and Ross and family friend/drummer Ellington Ratliff.
Marsia Alexander-Clarke.  Marsia Alexander-Clarke is an American video installation artist.
Edward Leeson.  Edward Liam Bea Gregory-Leeson (born 25 April 1986 in High Wycombe Buckinghamshire) is an English musician performer writer and curator.Previously the lead singer for Larrikin Love in which he performed under the stage name Edward Larrikin he currently performs with Sunless '97 under the stage name Edward Eke.Leeson is the son of filmmaker and War Child founder Bill Leeson.
Roberto Vilar.  Roberto Vilar Fernández (born 1971) is a Spanish comedian television presenter and actor.Vilar started his television career as part of the comedy duo of Os Tonechos a sketch show on the late-night variety show Luar.
Leon Bosch.  Leon Bosch is a double bassist known for his expressive bel canto style. Whilst currently holding the post of principal double bass of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields he is also known as a chamber musician recitalist concerto soloist teacher and program consultant.
Pierrette Fleutiaux.  Pierrette Fleutiaux is a French writer. Her awards include the 1985 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Métamorphoses de la reine and winner of the 1990 Prix Femina for Nous sommes éternels.
Leonard Mapfumo.  Leonard Mapfumo (born January 30 1983) is an urban grooves/hip-hop artist from Harare Zimbabwe. Active on the national hip-hop scene since 2002 he has gained recognition as one of the fathers of Zimbabwean urban sounds with four number one hits on the national charts.
Adam Hills.  Adam Hills (born 10 July 1970) is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known in Australia for his role hosting the music trivia show Spicks and Specks and the talk show Adam Hills Tonight and in Britain for hosting The Last Leg.
Masolino da Panicale.  Masolino da Panicale (nickname of Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini; c. 1383 – c. 1447) was an Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (1424–1428).
Anthony LaMarca.  Anthony LaMarca is a drummer singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Primary Records.Native to Youngstown Ohio LaMarca took part in the local music scene. Promptly upon graduating from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2009 LaMarca joined St. Vincent as drummer and toured extensively in support of her Actor release. Annie Clark (of St. Vincent) is quoted saying: Anthony LaMarca is [a] boy wonder boy genius.
John Templeton (opera singer).  John Templeton (1802 – 1886) was a British opera singer. A tenor he sang at the first English productions of Mozart's operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute and was acknowledged to be the greatest musical artist of his time.
Sammie.  Sammie Lee Bush Jr. (born March 1 1987) better known by Sammie and Leigh Bush is an American R&B singer. He is best known for his hit I Like It (1999) from his debut album From the Bottom to the Top (2000). He returned with his second studio album Sammie in 2006. He is currently finishing his third album Coming of Age under his own label StarCamp Entertainment which is partnered with Twenty Two Recordings/EMI which was released in 2013.
Johnny Vidacovich.  Johnny Vidacovich is a contemporary jazz drummer from New Orleans Louisiana. Playing since the early 1970s with the quartet Astral Project (which includes James Singleton Tony Dagradi and Steve Masakowski) he has become widely renowned as a prominent and sought after New Orleans musician as well as contributing to New Orleans cultural heritage.
Ruth Frances Long.  Ruth Frances Long also known as R. F. Long (20 April 1971) is an Irish author who writes in the fantasy and romance genres. She is the author of the young adult novel The Treachery of Beautiful Things and is working on a new YA series set in Dublin and further afield and featuring Irish folklore fairies angels and demons.
Issui Ogawa.  Issui Ogawa (小川 一水 Ogawa Issui born 1975) is a Seiun and Hayakawa Award winning writer of more than a dozen novels. His stories are often sociological in nature dealing with issues like disaster and democracy.
Pierre de Boissat.  Pierre de Boissat (1603 in Vienne Isère – 28 March 1662) was a soldier writer poet and translator.Knight and Count Palatine Boissat began his career in the military. He was one of the first members of the Académie française and first to occupy the Academy's seat 31 in 1634. Boissat translated Les fables d'Esope Phrygien illustrées de Discours moraux philosophiques et politiques published in 1633 by his friend Jean Baudouin used by Jean de La Fontaine.
Wilfred Shine.  Wilfred Shine (1863-1939) was a British actor. He was the father of Bill Shine.
Brendan B. Brown.  Brendan B. Brown (born October 11 1973) is an American musician from Northport New York.
Guan Liang.  Guan Liang (Chinese: 关良; 1900–1986) courtesy name Lianggong (良公) was a Chinese painter. He was an important representative of the first generation of oil painters in China and was known for blending Western and Chinese art styles.
Alice Albinia.  Alice Albinia (born London 1976) is an English journalist and author whose first book Empires of the Indus won several awards. Albinia read English Literature at Cambridge University and South Asian History at SOAS. In between she worked for two years in Delhi as a journalist and editor. She was one of the three Judges for the 2008 Jerwood Awards. Her newest novel Leela's Book was published in January 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Torun Eriksen.  Torun Eriksen (born 8 January 1977 in Lunde Telemark Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz singer whose musical talents first came to prominence as a music student at high school in Norway. From the age of six she sang in various gospel choirs and by the age of 19 had become a featured soloist. With a background steeped in soul jazz pop and through her choral experience she began writing her first compositions. A major influence was the world of jazz standards via the Real Book.
Manuel Aston.  Manuel 'Manny' Aston (born 1961) is an Australian playwright and author. He lives in Sydney Australia with his wife and three children.He has also written for the popular Australian sitcom Hey Dad. He currently teaches in TAFE and colleges around Sydney.
Meghan Daum.  Meghan Daum (born: 1970 in California) is an American author essayist and journalist. Although she was born in California Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.Daum spent much of her twenties in New York City. In 1999 she moved to Lincoln Nebraska and the experience became the catalyst for her 2003 novel The Quality of Life Report.
J (singer).  Chung Jae Young (born May 2 1977) better known by her stage name J is a Korean R&B/Soul singer-songwriter who is known for her uniquely soft and smooth voice.
Brendan Bowyer.  Brendan Bowyer (born 12 October 1938 in Waterford Ireland) is an Irish Showband singer best known for fronting The Royal Showband and The Big Eight and who had five number one hits in Ireland. He is also renowned for having The Beatles open for him at a concert in 1962 at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and being regarded as one of the first headlining Elvis impersonators.
Selim Al Deen.  Selim Al-Deen (Bengali: সেলিম আল-দীন; 18 August 1949 – 14 January 2008) was a Bangladeshi playwright and theatre artist. He was the founder chairperson of the Department of Drama and Dramatics at Jahangirnagar University Bangladesh. He died on January 14 2008 in Dhaka after a cardiac failure. In the post-Tagore era his contribution to Bengali drama is considered matchless. He is also considered as one of the pioneers of street theatre in Bangladesh.
Yılmaz Onay.  Yılmaz Onay (born April 20 1937 in Gaziantep Turkey) is a Turkish author theatre director and translator.He translated plays which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht stories novels books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published.
Tami Hoag.  Tami Hoag (born Tami Mikkelson on January 20 1959) is an American novelist best known for her work in the romance and thriller genres. More than 22 million copies of her books are in print.
Antonie Waterloo.  Antonie Waterloo (1609–1690) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Chris Volz.  Chris Volz is an American alternative metal/hard rock singer/songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist of the band Flaw and former lead vocalist of Five Bolt Main. In 2007 Chris Volz released a solo album through the independent record label Rock Ridge Music titled Redemption. The collective projects of Volz have sold around 750000 units in the United States. (Most of which with Flaw)On November 16 2009 Flaw independently released Home Grown Studio Sessions.
Mike Marshall (musician).  Mike Marshall (born Michael James Marshall July 17 1957 New Castle Pennsylvania is an American mandolin player and multi-instrumentalist who grew up in central Florida and now lives in Oakland California. Marshall has been a part of New Acoustic Music since the early 1980s. He has performed and recorded with many musicians in a variety of styles including bluegrass classical jazz and Brazilian music.
Caterina Caselli.  Caterina Caselli (born on 10 April 1946 in Modena) is an Italian record producer and former singer and actress.In 1966 she debuted in the Sanremo Festival with Nessuno mi può giudicare a song discarded by Adriano Celentano scoring a notable success. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.
Rokas Zubovas.  Rokas Zubovas is a Lithuanian pianist. Still a student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music Zubovas won the VI Inter-Republical Čiurlionis competition ex-aequo with Moldovan pianist Ina Chatipova. He continued his studies in Switzerland and the USA where he was a teacher at Chicago's Saint Xavier University's Department of Music starting from 1994 a position he combined with the first stages of his international concert career.
Stephen Hickman.  Stephen Hickman (born April 9 1949) is an award-winning American artist illustrator sculptor and author. He is best known for his work in science fiction and fantasy with over 350 book and magazine covers to his credit. His efforts have brought an extra dimension to the stories of Robert A. Heinlein H. P. Lovecraft J. R. R. Tolkien Anne McCaffrey and Andre Norton.
Juan Vicente Torrealba.  Juan Vicente Torrealba is a Venezuelan harpist and composer of popular music.
Paweł Kubisz.  Paweł Kubisz (12 May 1907 – 19 August 1968) was a Polish poet writer journalist and activist one of the most important poets from the Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.
Ian McDonald (British author).  For several other people called Ian McDonald or a similar spelling see Ian McDonald (disambiguation).Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology postcyberpunk settings and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.
Joan Morgan.  Joan Morgan (1 February 1905 – 22 July 2004) was a British actress.Born in Forest Hill London UK she was the daughter of Evelyn Morgan and the film director Sidney Morgan. Morgan died at age 99 in Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire UK in 2004.
Maia Lee.  Maia Lee (Chinese: 李芝瑛; pinyin: Li Zhīyīng; born January 31 1983) is a Singaporean singer and television artiste.
Zac Harmon.  Zac Harmon is an American blues musician from Jackson Mississippi. Harmon is signed to Toronto's NorthernBlues Music.Harmon moved to Los Angeles in 1980 in the pursuit of a career in music. He worked as a studio musician and later built himself to become a writer/producer.
Nic Dalton.  Nic Dalton (born 14 November 1964) is an Australian musician best known as the bass guitarist for American band The Lemonheads at the height of their popularity. In Australia he runs the record label Half A Cow and has been a long-time member of the bands The Plunderers Sneeze and Godstar with Tom Morgan and Nic Dalton and his Gloomchasers as well playing with Ratcat and The Hummingbirds.
Lee Sheung-ching.  Lee Sheung-ching (born 1981) sometimes credited as Shing-Cheung Lee or Sheung Ching Lee is a Hong Kong film and television actor; he is also a former playwright.
Chelsea Wolfe.  Chelsea Wolfe is an American singer-songwriter from Sacramento California currently based in Los Angeles. She is known for her specific brand of drone-metal-art-folk characterized by experimental guitar playing hazy vocals and surreal soundscapes.Wolfe debuted with her album The Grime and The Glow (2010) released on an independent label Pendu Sound Recording followed by Apokalypsis (2011) which gained her recognition from indie critics as well as an underground following.
Anthony Neilson.  Anthony Neilson (born 1967 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright and director commonly associated with the in-yer-face theatre movement and is known for his collaborative way of writing and workshopping his plays. His work is characterised by the exploration of sex and violence. He began his career at the Finborough Theatre London.
Mahmoud Saeed.  Mahmoud Saeed (born 1939) is an Iraqi-born American award-winning novelist.Born in Mosul Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper “Fata Al-Iraq Newspaper” in 1956. He published a collection of short stories “Port Saeed and other stories” in 1957.
Atsuko Sakuraba.  Atsuko Sakuraba (桜庭 あつこ sakuraba atsuko real name Akiko Kanari (金成 亜希子 kanari akiko) born on (1976-03-29)March 29 1976) is a Japanese gravure idol tarento actress and one-time mixed martial arts fighter.Sakuraba has appeared in several photobooks films and TV series. She also participated in the MMA tournament ReMix World Cup 2000.
Mako (voice actress).  Mako (sometimes stylised MAKO) is a mononym of Japanese female voice actress/ singer Mako Sakurai (桜井 真子 Sakurai Mako born (1986-10-07)October 7 1986 in Tokyo Japan) is a member of the band Bon-Bon Blanco in which her prominent role is as the maraca player. She has also performed in a Japanese television drama called Meido in Akihabara. She is affiliated with I'm Enterprise.
Beverly Barton.  Beverly Marie Beaver (née Inman; December 23 1946 – April 21 2011) better known as Beverly Barton was an American author known for her romantic suspense novels. She has written over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular The Protectors series for Harlequin Enterprises–owned Silhouette’s Intimate Moments lines. Her first book Yankee Lover was published in July 1990 by Harlequin’s imprint Silhouette Desire.
Tommy Tabermann.  Tommy Tabermann (3 December 1947 Ekenäs – 2 July 2010 Helsinki) was a Finnish contemporary poet and politician radio personality and journalist. Since 1998 and until 2006 he was known to Finnish audiences for his witty role as team captain in the weekly Saturday night television show Uutisvuoto the Finnish version of Have I Got News For You opposite the bestselling author Jari Tervo.
Jay Chattaway.  Jay Chattaway (born July 8 1946) is an American composer of film and television scores. He is mainly known for his work as composer for several Star Trek television series: Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. The simple flute melody he composed for the TNG episode The Inner Light has been re-arranged for full orchestra and remains his best-known and most popular singular work.
Pietro Castrucci.  Pietro Castrucci (1679 – 7 March 1752) was an Italian violinist and composer.Castrucci was born in Rome where he studied with Arcangelo Corelli; in 1715 he settled in London where he became known as one of the finest virtuoso violinists of his generation. By 1718 he had become leader of the opera orchestra of George Frideric Handel a position which he held until 1737 when he was succeeded by the younger John Clegg.
Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio.  Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio (14th century) was an Italian painter active in Siena.He is also called Giacomo di Mino. He appears to be a follower of Simone Martini. He was the contemporary of Lippo Vanni and Luca Thome being in 1373 appointed to value one of latter's pictures. His name appears in the Sienese records from 1362 to 1389. In 1367 he aided Bartolo di Maestro Fredi at the Siena cathedral.
Alain Dister.  ←≤–Alain Dister (1941–2008) formerly Alain Sicard de Sailly was a renowned French Rock n Roll photographer being one of the first European photographers to join the music in Height Ashbury California in the mid-60s.
Denys Bouliane.  Denys Bouliane (born May 8 1955 in Grand-Mère Quebec) is a Canadian composer and conductor.
Han Sanping.  Han Sanping (born 1953) is a Chinese film producer and distributor. He is the chairman of China Film Group Corporation which has been hailed as one of the largest distributors and exporters of Chinese films. Han has also co-produced with established film directors such as Peter Chan Chen Kaige Stephen Chow and Johnnie To.Han has produced over 300 films as well as more than 100 television series since the 1980s.
Master of the Berswordt Altar.  The Master of the Berswordt Altar (sometimes called the Master of the Crucifixion in the Marienkirche at Dortmund) was a German painter active in the area around Dortmund during the 14th and 15th centuries. A number of works around Westphalia including one in Bielefeld are attributed to him.
Jim Pavelec.  James Pavelec is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Lee Kelly.  Lee Kelly (b. 1932) is an American sculptor. His work is well-known throughout the West Coast of the United States with more than 30 sculptures on display between Eugene Oregon and Vancouver Washington. Kelly has been called Oregon's sculptor.
Hushang Irani.  Hushang Irani (Persian: هوشنگ ایرانی‎) (born 1925 Hamedan – died 1973) was an Iranian poet translator critics journalist and painter. He is one of the pioneers of The New Poetry in Iran.
Louis Grell.  Louis Frederick Grell (November 30 1887 - November 21 1960) was an American figure composition and portrait artist based in the Tree Studio resident artist colony in Chicago Illinois USA. He received his formal training in Europe from 1900 through 1915 and later became art professor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1922 and at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1922 to 1934.
Nathaniel Willemse.  Nathaniel Willemse often known simply as Nathaniel is an Australian singer-songwriter most notable for finishing sixth on the fourth series of The X Factor Australia. In 2013 he signed a recording contract with DNA Songs' label through Sony Music Australia and released the single You which peaked at number four on the ARIA Singles Chart.
Sidney Bechet.  Sidney Bechet (May 14 1897 – May 14 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist clarinetist and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong) and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist.
Ken Elias.  Ken Elias is one of Wales’ leading artists. Born in 1944 into a working-class family in Glynneath his childhood was formed during the 1950s. He attended art school in the 1960s during the height of the Pop Art movement in the UK.
Oya Baydar.  Oya Baydar (born 1940) is a Turkish sociologist and writer. For a long time she was involved in socialist politics.
José Alfredo Lorente.  José Alfredo Lorente Castillo (born January 27 1994 in Mayagüez Puerto Rico) better known as José Alfredo is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. Today his popularity has been increasing in Puerto Rico Spain Argentina México Venezuela and Brazil. He has become a singer of promise for the country's artistic class.
Dave Bassett (songwriter).  Dave Bassett is an American songwriter and record producer with many charting singles and two ASCAP Pop awards. Since March 2011 he is signed to EMI Music Publishing for an international co-publishing deal. Bassett is best known for writing songs for rock groups like Saliva Halestorm Sevendust 10 Years and Skillet. He has written songs also for Josh Groban Lisa Loeb and Kris Allen.
Marjan Rožanc.  Marjan Rožanc (21 November 1930 – 18 September 1990) was a Slovenian author playwright and journalist. He is mostly known for his essays and is considered one of the foremost essayists in the Slovene language along with Ivan Cankar Jože Javoršek and Drago Jančar and as a great master of style.He was born in a working-class suborb of Polje in Ljubljana Slovenia (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
Daniel Gray (singer).  Daniel Gray (born June 1 1988) is an American singer songwriter actor writer and designer. He came to public attention with the release of his third album and first independent label release Invictus in July 2009. His single Lost & Found leaked in the summer of 2009. Soon after he began a 2009 summer promotional tour.
Matt Embree.  Matthew Embree is a singer and guitarist best known as the front-man of the Rx Bandits. Also he played lead guitar/vocals for The Sound of Animals Fighting in which he was known as The Walrus. He produced their last album The Ocean and the Sun.In 2008 he released Waxwane his first solo album under the name Love You Moon. He is also in other acts such as Coke vs.
Rich O'Toole.  Rich O'Toole is a singer/songwriter from Houston Texas. In early 2007 O'Toole released his debut album Seventeen. Americana Music Times then called Texas Music Times named Seventeen the Best Album of 2006 That No One Told You About.O'Toole released his second album In a Minute or 2 on October 21 2008. Both of these albums were produced by Mack Damon.In 2011 he signed with Average Joe's Entertainment.
Patrick Kennedy (British actor).  Patrick Kennedy (born 26 August 1977) is an English actor in over 16 films and television shows. He recently booked a lead series regular role on HBO's new series The Money opposite Brendan Gleeson and Nathan Lane. Kennedy recurred on Boardwalk Empire and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Edward Seago.  Edward Brian (Ted) Seago RBA ARWS RWS (31 March 1910 – 19 January 1974) was an English artist who painted in both oils and watercolours.
Jane Eaton Hamilton.  Jane Eaton Hamilton (born July 19 1954) is a Canadian short story writer visual artist poet and photographer.
Aonghas MacNeacail.  Aonghas MacNeacail (born 1942) nickname Aonghas dubh or Black Angus) is a contemporary writer in the Scottish Gaelic language. Born and brought up in the Isle of Skye he was registered at birth as Angus Nicolson but has changed his official name to his native Gaelic.
Huseyngulu Sarabski.  Huseyngulu Sarabski (Azerbaijani: Hüseynqulu Sarabski) born Hüseynqulu Malik oğlu Rzayev (20 March 1879 Baku – 16 February 1945 Baku) was an Azerbaijani opera singer (tenor) composer playwright stage actor theatre director and musician (tar).
Piotr Paleczny.  Piotr Paleczny (b. May 10 1946 in Rybnik Poland) is a Polish classical pianist winner of the 3rd prize of the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1970.He was the member of the jury at The Sendai International Music Competition in Japan in May 2010.In 2011 he is invited to be in the jury of the Prix AmadèO de Piano 2011.He teaches piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and has been a professor at the university since 1998.
Gaetano Palazzi.  Gaetano Palazzi (Bologna 1832-1892) was an Italian painter.He was a resident of Bologna. He exhibited in 1883 at Rome two paintings: L'asso di briscola and La Nonna e la nipotino; at the 1886 Exhibition of Milan he submitted another canvas entitled lI Carnevale; and at the Exhibition Nazionale di Bologna two canvases depicting intimate family and carnaval scenes.
Alex MacLean.  Alex S. MacLean (born 1947) is an American photographic artist who is best known for his aerial photographs.
Ellis Marsalis Jr..  Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (born November 14 1934) is an American jazz pianist. Active since the late 1940s Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and '90s as the patriarch of a musical family with sons Branford Marsalis and Wynton Marsalis rising to international acclaim. He can usually be seen performing on Fridays at Snug Harbor jazz bistro in New Orleans.
Eugen Ciucă.  Eugen Ciucă (Romanian: [e.uˈd͡ʒen t͡ʃjukə]; 27 February 1913 – 26 September 2005) was a contemporary Romanian-American artist known for his monumental sculptures vivid paintings and drawings of delicate feminine figures. He spent the most successful years of his career in Italy where he created many works inspired by the Divine Comedy and its author Dante Alighieri. Ciucă's art has been displayed in nearly 100 exhibitions across Europe and the USA.
Victoria Acosta.  Victoria Acosta (born c. 1992) is a versatile singer from San Antonio Texas. She is known for the song Could This Be Love and as a 2013 contestant on American Idol.
Kodō Nomura.  Kodō Nomura (野村 胡堂 Nomura Kodō 15 October 1882 - 14 April 1963) was the pen-name of Nomura Osakazu (野村長一) a novelist and music critic in Shōwa period Japan. He also used the pen-name Araebisu for his music criticism. He is famous for his creation of the fictional detective Zenigata Heiji.
John Eric Holmes.  John Eric Holmes M.D. (February 16 1930 – March 20 2010) was an associate professor of neurology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine an author and promoter of fantasy role-playing games a noted fan and enthusiast of Edgar Rice Burroughs and an American writer of non-fiction fantasy and science fiction. His writings appeared under his full name and under variants such as Eric Holmes and J. Eric Holmes.
Macy Chan.  Macy Chan (Chinese: 陳美詩 born 22 February 1983) is a Hong Kong actress working for TVB.
Travis Smith (musician).  Travis Smith (born April 29 1982 in Bainbridge Georgia) is the former drummer in the metal band Trivium. He was with Trivium since forming the band in 2000. Travis is best known for his very fast footwork and intricate rhythms on the toms a skill that has been noted several times by music magazines such as Revolver and Modern Drummer as well as by other media. In Metal Hammer's Golden Gods Awards 2006 Travis received the Best Drummer in the Universe award.
Roosevelt Sykes.  Roosevelt Sykes (January 31 1906 – July 17 1983) was an American blues musician also known as The Honeydripper. He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player whose rollicking thundering boogie-woogie was highly influential.
Junior Sanchez.  Junior Sanchez is an American record producer DJ artist and remixer. His remixing and production skills are in demand by artists including Madonna Gorrilaz Daft Punk Placebo Shakira Les Rythmes Digitales and Róisín Murphy. Junior Sanchez has produced albums and tracks for Katy Perry Ima Robot Morningwood Mýa Princess Superstar Bush and Good Charlotte.
Sonya Noskowiak.  Sonya Noskowiak (25 November 1900 - 28 April 1975) was an American photographer and member of the famous San Francisco photography collective Group f/64 that included Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
Sputnik (singer).  Knut T. Storbukås (born 23 April 1943) more commonly known by his stage name Sputnik is a musician and truck driver from Bostrak in the village of Tørdal which is in the municipality of Drangedal Telemark. His most well known songs are Skilles Johanne (English: Separating from Johanne) og Lukk opp din hjertedør Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In).In only a few years Storbukås sold more than one million cassettes and set records in a series of places where he performed.
Eyolf Dale.  Eyolf Dale (born 5 March 1985 in Skien Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (piano) and composer residing in Oslo.
Matt McJunkins.  Matt McJunkins is a studio and touring bass player as well as a co-founder of The Beta Machine who currently resides in Los Angeles California. He has played bass in A Perfect Circle Puscifer Ashes Divide Carina Round and Thirty Seconds to Mars. He also sings backup vocals in all of these bands and plays some keyboard and guitar for Puscifer.
Priscilla Ahn.  Priscilla Ahn (born Priscilla Natalie Hartranft; March 9 1984) is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who released her single “Dream” from her debut album A Good Day produced by Joey Waronker for EMI's Blue Note Records in 2008.
Hossein Dehlavi.  Hossein Dehlavi (Persian: حسین دهلوی‎) is a famous Persian composer.
Fletcher Sibthorp.  Fletcher Sibthorp (born 7 March 1967) is a British artist based in London England. He is predominantly known for his large-scale figurative pieces mostly in oil and usually depicting movement in the form of dance; ranging from contemporary dance through to classical ballet and flamenco. His work is housed in both private and corporate collections mostly in the United Kingdom and Japan.
Della Purves.  Della Purves (6 July 1945 – 17 January 2008) was a British botanical artist.She was born in 1945 in Paisley Scotland and two years later moved to Edinburgh with her family where she attended St. Margaret's School and later studied agricultural biology and seed classification.
John Taylor (jazz).  John Taylor (born 25 September 1942 Manchester) is a British jazz pianist; he has occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesiser. He is one of Europe's most celebrated jazz pianists and composers[citation needed].
Nega Mezlekia.  Nega Mezlekia (Amharic: ነጋ መዝለክአ; born 1958) is an Ethiopian writer who writes in English. His first language is the Amharic language but since the 1980s he has lived in Canada so speaks and writes in English.Nega was born in Jijiga the oldest son of Mezlekia a bureaucrat in the Imperial government. Although initially supporting the revolution that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie he grew strongly critical of the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Cutie Mui.  Cutie Mui Siu Wai (born on April 17 1966) is a Hong Kong actress and television host associated with Television Broadcasts Limited. Her notable roles include Sek Mei in Virtues of Harmony and Loose Head Zhi in Justice Of Life.Her older sister is TVB producer Mui Siu-ching. In the mid-nineties Mui had a long-term relationship with fellow TVB actor Savio Tsang.
Camila Bordonaba.  Camila Bordonaba Roldán (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈmila βorðoˈnaβa]; born September 4 1984 in El Palomar Buenos Aires Argentina) (nicknamed Cami or Cato) is an Argentine actress singer-songwriter producer dancer musician director and former occasional model. She is best known for her roles in Chiquititas Rebelde Way Son de Fierro and Atracción x4 and as a member of Argentine band Erreway.
Seaforth Mackenzie (author).  Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie (Pen name: Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie) (25 September 1913 – 19 January 1955) was an Australian poet and novelist.He was born in South Perth and grew up in Pinjarra Western Australia attended Guildford Grammar School and died by accidental drowning in Tallong Creek near Goulburn New South Wales.
Tony LeMans.  Tony LeMans was a singer and songwriter associated with Prince and signed to Prince's Paisley Park Records.
Steve Spiro.  Steve Spiro is a British musician. He started his musical career as a record producer and remixer working with artists including the Pet Shop Boys Talk Talk The Farm and Imagination. Spiro then went on to work with Paul McCartney's keyboard player Paul Wickens together they created the BBC theme tune for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 which was picked up by EMI & and went on to be a UK hit.
David A. Stewart.  David Allan Dave Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician songwriter and record producer best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart to avoid confusion with other musicians named Dave Stewart. He won Best British Producer at the 1986 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards.
Suroor Barabankvi.  Suroor Barabankvi (1930 - 1980) (Urdu: سرور بارہ بنکوی ) was an Urdu poet and lyricist from Barabanki Uttar Pradesh India. His real name was Syed Saeed ur Rehman but he wrote under the takhallus (pen name/ nom de plume) of Suroor meaning exhilatration often implying a state of 'making glad' such as that caused through inebriation.He was also a film maker and made various films including Akhri Station.He died in 1980 at Karachi Pakistan.
Eugene Ehrlich.  Eugene Ehrlich (21 May 1922 – 5 April 2008) was a lexicographer and author.He was a member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University where he taught in the Department of General Studies. A reading specialist he prepared generations of adult students for the rigors of university work after years of absence from any academic setting.
Pill (rapper).  Tyrone Rivers better known by his stage name Pill is an American rapper from Atlanta Georgia.
Cary Ann Hearst.  Cary Ann Hearst is a folk/roots-rock musical artist from South Carolina USA. She performs as a solo act as well as with her husband Michael Trent in the band Shovels & Rope. Hearst's influences are rooted in the soulful gritty sounds of Townes Van Zandt Bob Dylan and Loretta Lynn among others.
Sergey Nagovitsyn.  Sergey Borisovich Nagovitsyn (Russian: Серге́й Борисович Наговицын; b. 22 July 1968 Perm RSFSR USSR - d. 21 December 1999 Perm Russia) was a Russian singer composer and author of Russian chanson style songs.
Alec Powers.  Alec Powers (also performed as Alec Shields Alex Powers) is a model and actor in gay pornography starting in 1992. He has starred in over 50 films.His roles were in films that later won at least five well known awards not counting nominations including AVN awards Probie awards (Men in Video) and Grabby awards.
Sergio Amidei.  Sergio Amidei (30 October 1904 – 14 April 1981) was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement. Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica. He was nominated for four Academy Awards: in 1946 for Rome Open City in 1947 for Shoeshine in 1949 for Paisà and in 1961 for Il generale della Rovere. In 1963 he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Jinder.  Jinder (born 19 April 1981 in Oxfordshire England) is an English singer/songwriter and formerly a Gibson endorsed guitarist. He is best known for his folk-and-country-influenced solo work and his brief tenure as frontman of harmony-driven trio The Mercurymen. A musician from an early age he turned his attention from piano to guitar at the age of 12 and began his career in songwriting in his early teens.
Ed Earl Repp.  Ed Earl Repp (1901–1979) was an American writer screenwriter and novelist. His stories appeared in several of the early pulp magazines including Air Wonder Stories Science Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories. After World War II he began working as a screenwriter for several western movies
Sarah E. Wright.  Sarah Elizabeth Wright (December 9 1928 – September 13 2009) was an American writer. Her novel This Child's Gonna Live published in 1969 was acclaimed by critics and was among the first to focus on the confluence of race class and sex. The New York Times named it outstanding book of 1969 and it was called a small masterpiece.
Gyoshū Hayami.  Gyoshū Hayami (速水 御舟 Hayami Gyoshū August 2 1894 - March 20 1935) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style active during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His real name was Eiichi Maita. Gyoshū was born in the plebeian downtown district of Asakusa in Tokyo. He studied traditional painting techniques as an apprentice to Matsumoto Fuko from the age of 15.
John Foulger.  John Foulger (1960–2006) was an established landscape and seascape painter specialising in oils and acrylics. Before becoming a professional artist he was employed by a firm of art dealers in London.Exhibitor at the Royal Society of British Artists; Royal Society of Marine Artists: New English Arts Club; National Society of Painters Sculptors and Printmakers; United Society of Artists.
Elisa Rego.  Elisa Pérez Rego better known in music world simply as Elisa Rego is a singer songwriter and radio host. She was born in Sao Paulo city Brazil on 21 May 1964. Since her youth she has been based in Caracas city Venezuela.
Greg Errico.  Greg Errico (born September 1 1948 San Francisco California) is an American musician and record producer best known for being the drummer for the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone. Errico was the original drummer for the band and the first to quit it in 1971 because of the band's continuing turmoil.Errico toured with jazz-fusion group Weather Report in 1973 but never recorded with the group.
Ashok Anjum.  Ashok Anjum (born 15 September 1966) is a Hindi author of comedic poetry (hasya kavi). He was born into a Brahmin family at Village Dawthala district Aligarh Uttar Pradesh.His father Mr. Jagdish Prasad Sharma worked at Harduaganj Thermal Power Station Kasimpur Power Housedistrict Aligarh.
Susan McClary.  Susan Kaye McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a musicologist associated with the New Musicology. Noted for her work combining musicology and a feminist music criticism McClary is Professor of Musicology at Case Western Reserve University.
Alberto Terrile.  Alberto Terrile (Genoa Italy March 11 1961) is an Italian-born photographer. Mostly known in France Italy and the US for his work-in-progress about angels he is also active in publishing theatre music cinema and advertising. He specialises in black-and-white portraits for which he has won several prizes; his most acclaimed works include live performances of Corrado Rustici Dee Dee Bridgewater and Ute Lemper.
Jyoti Guptara.  Jyoti Guptara (born 22 November 1988) is a young novelist of British and Indian heritage best known as co-author of the Insanity Saga (writing together with twin brother Suresh Guptara).
Steve Jones (musician).  Stephen Philip Steve Jones (born 3 September 1955) is an English rock guitarist singer and actor best known as guitarist and founding member of punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
Dayton Duncan.  Dayton Duncan (born 1949) was the writer and co-producer of The National Parks: America's Best Idea documentary produced by Ken Burns and has also been involved for many years with other series directed by Burns including The Civil War Horatio's Drive Baseball and Jazz. For the 12-hour series The West about the history of the American West broadcast in 1996 Duncan was the co-writer and consulting producer.
Andrew W.K..  Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9 1979 in Palo Alto California) better known by his stagename Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist entertainer motivational speaker and music producer. He was the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.As a musician he is known for his singles Party Hard and We Want Fun.
Lisa Bund.  Lisa Bund (born Anna-Lisa Bund; 31 May 1988 in Frankfurt am Main Germany) is a German pop singer songwriter radio host actor and reality television star. She is best known for achieving third place in the fifth season of German casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Germany Seeks the Superstar aka German Idol). Lisa Bund released her first album Born Again in 2007. The first single was Learn to Love You.
Runme Shaw.  Tan Sri Dr Runme Shaw K.St.J (Chinese: 邵仁枚; pinyin: Shào Rénméi; 1 January 1901 – 2 March 1985) was the chairman and founder of the Shaw Organisation of Singapore.
Mary Hooper (author).  Mary Ann Harriet Margaret Hooper (1829–1904) was an English writer known particularly for her cookbooks besides novels and children's books.
Ambrose Field.  Ambrose Field is a British Composer.Field’s music is characterised by lush harmonic sound worlds and evocative vocal textures. It connects both ancient and contemporary approaches to composition often drawing inspiration from visual cultures. The influence of medieval forms and process is audible in his current music yet this is combined with a sound world informed by spectralism room acoustics and the possibilities offered by live electronics.
Nikhil Seetharam.  Nikhil Seetharam professionally known as Nikhil is a Grammy winning Canadian composer as well as a hip-hop and R&B producer.
Noelle Scaggs.  Noelle Scaggs is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. For ten years she served as front-woman for soul band The Rebirth and has also collaborated as a composer or vocalist with artists such as The Black Eyed Peas Dilated Peoples Quantic Mayer Hawthorne Defari and Damion Marley.In 2008 she became a co-lead singer and songwriter for soul band Fitz and The Tantrums and is featured on their 2010 album Pickin' Up the Pieces which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.
Nalin Vilochan Sharma.  Professor Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma (1916–1961) was a professor of Hindi Literature in University of Patna. He started the Nakenwad movement in Hindi literature. He was the son of Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma and was born in a family of Bhumihar Brahmin scholars and pursued the same path of scholarship becoming the professor of Hindi Literature in University of Patna.
Charlie Mars.  Charlie Mars is a vocalist guitarist and singer-songwriter from Mississippi. Mars has performed at Austin City Limits and South by Southwest. Mars was featured in Esquire Magazine's Songwriting Challenge which he says was his brainchild.
Andy Marvel.  Andy Marvel (born Andrew Michael Saidenberg July 2 1958 New York City) is an American songwriter and music producer based out of New York City. He has written songs for Celine Dion Diana King Jessica Simpson and Colleen Fitzpatrick.His songs including Shy Guy With You and Treat Her Like a Lady have appeared on albums that have sold over 70 million copies world wide.
Masood Rana.  Masood Rana (Urdu: مسعود رانا) (June 9 1938 - October 4 1995) was a Pakistani playback singer. He began his singing career in 1962 with the film Inqalab and became one of the top male singers in both Urdu and Punjabi films for more than three decades. He sang in the highest number of films and was a busy film singer until his death in 1995.
Denez Prigent.  Denez Prigent (IPA: [ˈdẽːnes ˈpriːʒẽn(t)]; born 17 February 1966 in Santec Finistère) is a French (Breton) folk singer-songwriter of the gwerz and kan ha diskan styles of Breton music. From his debut at the age of 16 he was known for singing traditional songs a cappella and has moved on to singing his own songs with techno music accompaniments. He has performed in France as well as internationally and has recorded four studio albums and a live album.
James Deen.  Bryan Matthew Sevilla (born February 7 1986) better known by his stage name James Deen in reference to the popular actor James Dean is an American pornographic actor and director. He entered the porn industry in 2004 at the age of 18. He has gained attention due to his lack of resemblance to stereotypical male actors in the pornography industry.
Andrea McArdle.  Andrea McArdle (born November 5 1963) is an American singer and actress best known for playing Annie in the Broadway musical Annie.
Kittie Bruneau.  Kittie Bruneau RCA is a Canadian painter and printmaker living in Quebec.
Henry Vestine.  Henry Charles Vestine (December 25 1944 – October 20 1997) a.k.a. The Sunflower was an American guitar player known mainly as a member of the band Canned Heat. He was with the group from its start in 1966 to July 1969. In later years he played in local bands but occasionally returned to Canned Heat for a few tours and recordings.In 2003 Vestine was ranked 77th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Sophie Trudeau.  Sophie Trudeau is a Canadian musician. She is best known for being a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and co-founder with Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. She also plays in a number of other bands including Valley of the Giants and The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary.
Bjarne Fiskum.  Bjarne Ivar Fiskum (born 27 August 1939 in Harran Grong Nord-Trøndelag Norway) is a Norwegian violinist conductor and composer and the son of the orchestra leader Ottar Fiskum.
Steve McDonald (Celtic music).  Steve McDonald (born 9 September 1950) is a New Zealand composer singer and instrumentalist. He performed in several rock bands including Human Instinct before embarking on a solo career. He has composed musical scores for television shows and documentaries.
Frank Lowe.  Frank Lowe (June 24 1943 – September 19 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.
Peter John Allan.  Peter John Allan (June 6 1825 – October 21 1848) was a Canadian poet.
Terry Kiely.  Terry Kiely (born September 1975 in Richmond Surrey) is an English actor best known for his role in the Sky One series Dream Team where he played the popular character Karl Fletcher for eight years despite initially only signing up for six episodes. Kiely quit the show three times but returned each time after struggling to find alternative roles.
Monica Nielsen.  Monica Nielsen (born 30 November 1937) is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1947.
Bjørgulv Braanen.  Bjørgulv Braanen (born 14 November 1956) is editor-in-chief of the Norwegian daily newspaper Klassekampen.Braanen is educated as a welder in addition to have studied history at university. He is former chairman of Red Youth and journalist in Klassekampen (1984-1990) and Dagens Næringsliv (1990-2000). In 2000 he returned to Klassekampen and has been editor-in-chief since 2002.
Owen O'Neill.  Owen O'Neill is a Northern Irish writer actor director and comedian.
Joan Weldon.  Joan Weldon (born as Joan Louise Welton on August 5 1930 San Francisco California) is an American film and television actress. She began her career singing in the San Francisco Grand Opera Company chorus. Later she became a contract actress with Warner Bros. where she remained until her contract ended in 1954. Her most prominent film was the cult thriller Them!Weldon had a brief television career in the 1950s.
Bernard Vaughan (actor).  Bernard Vaughan was a British actor of the silent era.
Betty McGlown.  Betty McGlown-Travis (June 30 1941 – January 12 2008) was an African-American singer a member of The Primettes later known as The Supremes.In 1959 McGlown started dating future Temptations member Paul Williams who was then singing with the Primes. Around the same time the Primes' booking agent and manager Milton Jenkins was scouting the Detroit neighborhoods looking for girls to become part of the Primes' sister act.
Edwin Torres (judge).  Edwin Torres (born January 7 1931) is a New York state supreme court judge and author.
Michael Miu.  Michael Miu Kiu-wai (born 18 June 1958) is a Hong Kong actor. He was considered as one of the most popular young actors of the 1980s and along with Tony Leung Andy Lau Felix Wong and Kent Tong he was a member of TVB's Five Tigers. Miu's trade mark role was as the dashing and suave wuxia Knight-errant although he is perhaps best known for the villainous Yeung Hong in the 1983 TV drama The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
Hamish MacDonald (author).  Hamish MacDonald is the author of four novels and an independent publisher who hand-binds all his books. He was born in Canada and lives in Scotland. In 1999 MacDonald wrote and self-published his first novel. DoubleZero a Y2K-themed novel was well received on the underground ‘zine community in Toronto being Broken Pencil magazine's Spring 2000 Book of the Issue and was sold in major bookstores across Canada.
Ignaz Aurelius Fessler.  Ignaz Aurelius Fessler aka Feßler (Hungarian: Fessler Ignác Aurél; May 18 1756 – December 15 1839) was a Hungarian ecclesiastic politician historian and freemason.
Gabriel Fernández Ledesma.  Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (May 30 1900 - August 26 1983) was a Mexican painter printmaker sculptor graphic artist writer and teacher. He began his career working with artist Roberto Montenegro then moved into publishing and education. His work was recognized with two Guggenheim Fellowships the José Guadalupe Posada medal and membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Vidoe Podgorec.  Vidoe Podgorec (Macedonian: Видое Подгорец; 8 June 1934 - 14 April 1997) is a Macedonian writer and poet. He was born in Kolešino near Strumica and lived in Skopje. He wrote for children and adults and published a great number of poems stories and novels.One of his most famous novels is The White Gypsy (Белото циганче).
Matthew Specktor.  Matthew Specktor is an American writer whose debut novel That Summertime Sound was published in August 2009.
Adolf Dietrich.  Adolf Dietrich (November 9 1877 – June 4 1957) was a Swiss labourer and as one of the most renowned naïve artists one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century.
Lee Townsend.  Lee Townsend is an American independent music producer curator artist manager and co-owner of Songline/Tone Field Productions specializing in recordings of singer-songwriters bands contemporary composers improvising musicians and cross-cultural musical collaborations.
Lee Marrs.  Lee Marrs (born September 5 1945) is an American comic book writer animator and one of the first women underground comix creators. She is best known for her comic book series The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge Girl Blimp which lasted from 1973 to 1978.
Hans Reffert.  Hans Reffert (born 1946 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German musician composer and artist.Although possibly best known for his work with Guru Guru Reffert has been involved with a number of ensembles including Flute & Voice Zauberfinger Sanfte Liebe and Schrammel & Slide. Reffert studied guitar with Sigi Schwab and flute and composition in Mannheim.
William Larson.  William Larson (born 1942 North Tonawanda NY) is an American Photographer who has influenced the photographic world with conceptual pieces that examine the role of technology in art.
Philippe Besson.  Philippe Besson (born January 29 1967 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Charente) is a French writer.
Kevin James.  Kevin George Knipfing (born April 26 1965) better known by his stage name Kevin James is an American actor comedian writer and producer. James is widely known for playing Doug Heffernan on the hit CBS sitcom The King of Queens. James is also known for his lead roles in the comedy films I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Paul Blart: Mall Cop Grown Ups Zookeeper and Here Comes the Boom.
Eli Holzman.  Eli Holzman (born March 30 1974) is a creator–developer writer and producer best known for creating or serving as Executive Producer on a number of blockbuster reality-based television series such as Project Runway Project Greenlight Beauty and the Geek Models of the Runway and Undercover Boss. He is the former head of Miramax Television Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films and is currently president of Studio Lambert in the United States.
Cecilia Yip.  Cecilia Yip Tung (Chinese: 葉童; born 8 March 1963) is a Hong Kong actress whose work is known throughout Asia especially in Mainland China Hong Kong and Taiwan. She began her acting career in 1982 with Nomad for which she was nominated for The Best Newcomer of The Year Award. She won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress in 1984. Yip has starred in 45 feature length films receiving various nominations and awards.
King Girado.  Filbert B. Girado Jr. (born April 14 1979) better known by his stage name King is a Filipino singer musician model and actor. He graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from Far Eastern University. He is Popular for his hit songs Maybe Bat 'di Mo Pagbigyan and Will You wait for Me from his albums Solo and The reason I exist under Star Records.
Petar Georgiev-Kalica.  Petar Georgiev-Kalica (Macedonian: Петар Георгиев-Калица) (born November 19 1951 in Bitola) is a Macedonian composer and songwriter. He had first contacts with music in Secondary music school in Bitola. During his music education he was a member of many music bands in his native town Bitola. His first major success was in 1989 when he participated in the Macedonian music festival Valandovo as a songwriter of the song Ako odam vo Bitola (If I go to Bitola) performed by Oktet Makedonija.
Valerie Carter.  Valerie Carter (born Valerie Gail Zakian Carter on February 5 1953) to James J and Dorothy Carter is an American singer-songwriter.
James Billmaier.  James Billmaier (May 10 1955) is an American technology businessman inventor and author.
Héctor Tobar.  Héctor Tobar (born 1963 Los Angeles) is a Los Angeles author and journalist whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States.
Kevin Wilkinson.  Kevin Wilkinson (11 June 1958 - 17 July 1999) was a musician based in Swindon Wiltshire England.
Walter Satterlee.  Walter Satterlee (January 18 1844 - May 28 1908) was an American figure and genre painter.
Phineas Selig.  Phineas Selig (1856–1941) was a notable New Zealand journalist newspaper editor and manager sports administrator. He was born in Melbourne Victoria Australia in 1856.
Murray Head.  Murray Seafield Saint-George Head (born 5 March 1946) is an English actor and singer most recognized for his international hit songs Superstar (from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar) and One Night in Bangkok (the 1984 hit from the musical Chess which topped the charts in various countries) and for his 1975 album Say It Ain't So.
Molly Kazan.  Molly Kazan (December 16 1906 – December 14 1963) was an American dramatist and playwright.Kazan was born Mary Day Thacher in Orange New Jersey the daughter of Emma Cecelia (née Erkenbrecher) and Alfred Beaumont Thacher a lawyer and the granddaughter of Elizabeth (Day) and classicist and college administrator Thomas Anthony Thacher. Her uncle was lawyer Thomas Thacher.
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin.  Pierre-Antoine Baudouin the son of Michel Baudouin an engraver of little note (who died in 1754) was born in Paris in 1723. He was a pupil and imitator of Boucher whose younger daughter he married in 1758 and through whose influence he was elected an Academician in 1763 as a miniature painter on which occasion he presented his drawing of 'Hyperides pleading the cause of Phryne before the Areopagus' now in the Louvre.
Tomoji Abe.  Tomoji Abe (阿部 知二 Abe Tomoji 26 June 1903 – 23 April 1973) was a Japanese novelist social critic humanist and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature.
Alfred Hedenstierna.  Karl Joseph Alfred Hedenstierna (1852-1906) was a Swedish author.
Moa Kikuchi.  Moa Kikuchi (菊地 最愛 Kikuchi Moa born July 4 1999) is a Japanese idol singer and model. She is represented by the talent agency Amuse Inc.. She is a member of the girl group Sakura Gakuin and the heavy metal group Babymetal.
Ciara.  Ciara Princess Harris (born October 25 1985) known mononymously as Ciara (pronounced /siːˈɛrə/ see-ERR-ə) is an American recording artist dancer actress and fashion model. Born in Austin Texas she traveled around the world during her childhood eventually moving to Atlanta Georgia where she joined the girl group Hearsay; however the group disbanded after having differences. It was at this time Ciara was noticed for her songwriting. In 2002 Ciara met music producer Jazze Pha.
Wolfgang Harich.  Wolfgang Harich (3 December 1923 – 21 March 1995) was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany.A deserter from the German army in World War II and a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Harich became a professor of philosophy at Humboldt University in 1949. He was arrested in 1956 and sentenced to eight years in prison for the establishment of a conspiratorial counterrevolutionary group. He was released in 1964 and rehabilitated in 1990.
Jaine Fenn.  Jaine Fenn is a British science fiction author.Fenn studied linguistics and astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire where she became the president of PSiFA (the local student Science Fiction society) from 1984-1985. She also helped organised Shoestringcons and edited their newsletter/fanzine Hypo-Space for a period.
Cam'ron.  Cameron Ezike Giles (born February 4 1976) better known by his stage name Cam'ron (formerly Killa Cam) is an American rapper and actor from Harlem New York City New York. He is the de facto leader of East Coast hip hop groups The Diplomats (also known as Dipset) and The U.N. (Us Now).
Kenichi Ōkuma.  Kenichi Ōkuma (大熊謙一) - also known as Kenichi Okuma Kenichi Ohkuma Kenichi Ookuma or Ken-ichi Ookuma - is a Japanese video game music composer sound designer and musician.
Andy Diagram.  Andy Diagram (born London 1959) is a British musician and trumpet player. He has worked with the instrument in a variety bands and contexts ranging from pop and rock to experimental jazz art rock and dance music. He is best known for his work with James (having been a member from 1989 to 1992 during the band's popular peak in the UK and rejoining for the ongoing band reformation in 2007) with Spaceheads and with the Pere Ubu singer David Thomas.
Rahi Chakraborty.  Rahi Chakraborty (Hindi: राही चक्रवर्ती) is an Indian singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and music producer.He shot to fame as the 1st runners up in MTV India's music show Mtv Rock OnAn alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune his songs deal with teen angst spirituality and political issues and he is best known for his compositions and vocal presence. In 2013 he studied and performed at A.R.Rahman's KM Music Conservatory Chennai.
Dandy Sakano.  Dandy Sakano (ダンディ坂野) (born Kenichi Sakano in Kaga Ishikawa Prefecture Japan on January 16 1967) is a Japanese comedian best known for his flamboyant clothing and Gets catch phrase.A former noodle shop owner Sakano began his comedy career in 1996. His career took off in 2003 after he featured in an advert for one of Japan's biggest pizza chains after which he appeared on chat shows and his catchphrase became known all over Japan.
Loy Mendonsa.  Loy Mendonsa is an Indian musician and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio which consist of himself Shankar Mahadevan and Ehsaan Noorani. Before becoming a music composer he played piano and keyboards for famous Indian music composers such as A. R. Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan.
Daiki Nakamura.  Daiki Nakamura (中村 大樹 Nakamura Daiki born December 15 1962 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor and member of 81 Produce.
Indira Weis.  Verena Weis (born September 30 1979 Groß-Gerau Hesse Germany) is a German singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the R&B/Pop group Bro'Sis. She is currently working on a solo career.
Christopher Bram.  Christopher Bram (born 1952) is an American author.Bram grew up in Virginia Beach Virginia (outside Norfolk) where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in English). He moved to New York City in 1978.His nine novels range in subject matter from gay life in the 1970s to the career of a Victorian musical clairvoyant to the frantic world of theater people in contemporary New York.
Karl Engel.  For the footballer with the same name see Karl Engel (Footballer)Karl Engel (Birsfelden June 1 1923 - Chernex September 2 2006) was a Swiss pianist.In 1952 Engel was awarded the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition. Throughout his concert career he cultivated the art song repertory and worked extensively on works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann.
Jim Shooter.  James Shooter (born September 27 1951) is an American writer occasional fill-in artist editor and publisher for various comic books. He started professionally in the medium at the age of 14 and he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics' ninth editor-in-chief and his work as editor in chief of Valiant Comics.
Chris Brochu.  Chris Brochu is an American actor and singer. He is known for his acting in Lemonade Mouth and was formerly the lead singer/songwriter for the band Fall Into Faith. Brochu was in the movies Soul Surfer where he played Timmy and in Lemonade Mouth where he played the rude and popular lead singer of the band Mudslide Crush. His name was Ray Beech. He sang And the Crowd Goes and Don't Ya Wish U Were Us? along with his friend Scott Picket (played by Nick Roux).
Alan Abelson.  Alan Abelson (October 12 1925 – May 9 2013) was a veteran financial journalist and longtime writer of the influential Up and Down Wall Street column in Barron's Magazine. He was editor of Barron's from 1981 until 1992. Abelson's columns have sometimes spawned controversy and even lawsuits. While working for Barron's he was responsible for editing the Investment News & Views section and writing corporate and industry features.
Vincent L. Berry.  Vincent Le’Carl Berry II (born August 1 1985) is an American singer-songwriter composer and record producer. Founder of Press Play Inc. a Los Angeles-based entertainment company that produces content through artist development and song composition. He was born in Detroit Michigan. He currently resides in Los Angeles. College: Morehouse College Major: Business Administration Concentration: AccountingBerry has written/produced for Bryan-Michael Cox J.
David Aleksander Sjølie.  David Aleksander Sjølie (born 7 May 1988 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz guitarist engaged to Anja Eline Skybakmoen known from bands like Mopti
Steve Gregory.  Steve Gregory (born 1945) is an English jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor alto soprano and baritone saxophone as well as the flute. Steve Gregory was born in London. At St. Paul's School he learned guitar and piano and played clarinet in the school orchestra. He turned down a place at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music to become a professional musician.
Aden Gillett.  John Aden Gillett (born 8 November 1958) is a British actor best known for playing the role of Jack Maddox on the popular BBC series The House of Eliott.Gillet was born in the city of Aden Yemen from which he got his name. Schooling included Elizabeth College GuernseyAden trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has received a number of awards and honors for his work including the Tree Prize the Sir Emile Littler Prize the Vanbrugh Prize and the Radio Prize.
Tommy Smith (saxophonist).  Tommy Smith (born 27 April 1967 in Edinburgh Scotland) is a jazz saxophonist composer and educator. The jazz critic Richard Cook said of him Of the generation which emerged in the mid-80s he might be the most outstandingly talented.
Ngonidzashe Kambarami.  Ngonidzashe Kambarami popularly known as Ngonie is a Zimbabwean musician who has produced three albums to date Ndinoimba. Angu Mashoko and idenderedzwa. His debut song Ndiwe Chete launched his music career in 2002 leading to the release of his first album.
Seeta Qasemi.  Seeta Qasemie (سيتا قاسمى; born 6 April 1983 in Kabul Afghanistan) also known as Seeta Qasemi is an Afghan singer/songwriter. She entered the Afghan music scene in 2008. She sings both in Pashto and Dari and lives in Germany.
Jamie Lee Thurston.  Jamie Lee Thurston (born in Montpelier Vermont) is an American country music singer. He was raised in Waterbury Vermont and performed with his father starting at age 15. After moving to Los Angeles California he moved again to Nashville Tennessee in 1999.In 2003 he released the album I Just Wanna Do My Thing via View 2. The album included the single It Can All Be Gone which peaked at number 59 on the Hot Country Songs charts. He later signed to Warner Bros.
Anne Waldman.  Anne Waldman (born April 2 1945) is an American poet.Since the 1960s Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer performer collaborator professor editor scholar and cultural/political activist. She has also been connected to the Beat poets.
Marcus Strickland.  Marcus Strickland (born 1979 in Gainesville Florida) is a jazz soprano alto and tenor saxophonist who grew up in Miami Florida who currently lives in New York.
Acharya Buddharakkhita.  Acharya Buddharakkhita (1922- 2013) was a Buddhist monk prolific writer who established the Maha Bodhi Society of Bangalore and its sister bodies. He was born in Imphal Manipur in 1922. In 1942 he took part in Quit India Movement.He joined Indian defence services after his graduation from Institute of Engineering Technology Calcutta. He participated in the World War II after which he resigned to find truth and freedom. He became a monk in 1948.
Emanuele Barbella.  Emanuele Barbella (1718-1777) was a Neapolitan composer and violinist.
Alonso Mayo.  Alonso Mayo (born December 30 1978) is a Peruvian film director and screenwriter best known for his independent film The Story of Luke. He has won a Student Academy Award (for Wednesday Afternoon).
Samuel Boyce.  Samuel Boyce (died 1775) was an English engraver and poet.
Tolga Safer.  Tolga Safer (born June 26 1982) is a British actor who is best known for playing Igor Karkaroff's Aide in the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Mustis.  Mustis may also refer to the ancient Roman city of Musti (Tunisia).Mustis the pseudonym of Øyvind Johan Mustaparta born 10 September 1979[citation needed] who is a Norwegian keyboardist best known for his work in the symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir as well as the black/thrash metal band Susperia. Mustis joined Dimmu Borgir in 1998 and contributed to their atmosphere with his melodic keyboard parts.
David G. Walker.  David G Walker is a British pianist singer and composer (born 1946) based in London and sometime Victoria Australia known for his distinctive performances of rock and roll classics original songs and church worship songs.
John R. Musick.  John Roy Musick (February 28 1849 – April 14 1901) was an American historical author and poet best known for his Columbian Historical Novels.
Thomas Ligotti.  Thomas Ligotti (born July 9 1953) is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings while unique in style have been notedTemplate:By whom? as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been describedTemplate:By whom? as works of philosophical horror often written as philosophical novels with a darker undertone which is similar to gothic fiction.
Morgane Tschiember.  Morgane Tschiember is a French artist. She was born in Brest France in 1976 and currently lives and works in Paris France.
James Likeness.  James Likeness is an American graphic designer and musician from Hawaii. He first gained prominence as the bass player and backing vocalist for the Florida-based indie rock band Copeland who formed in 2001. After leaving the band in 2007 to pursue a career in graphic design Likeness went on to become the designer for Florida non-profit To Write Love on Her Arms.Likeness also does freelance graphic design under the company name TiredChildren.
Suzy Bogguss.  Susan Kay Suzy Bogguss (born December 30 1956) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Bogguss began her career in the early 1980s as a solo singer.
Mitsuo Nakamura.  Mitsuo Nakamura (中村 光夫 Nakamura Mitsuo 5 February 1911 – 12 July 1988) was the pen-name of a writer of biographies and stage-plays and a literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Koba Ichirō.
Taruho Inagaki.  Taruho Inagaki (稲垣 足穂 Inagaki Taruho December 26 1900 - October 25 1977) was a Japanese writer.
Clara Lin.  Clara Lin full name Clara Lin Yanyi (Simplified Chinese: 林彦伊) together with Alyssa Tan is the winner of the Best of the Best Image and Styling award in the prestigious Artistes and Repertoire Challenge 2006-2007 held by Virtuoso Arts.She was awarded a contract to work with an Artistes and Repertoire team to produce and market a music album.
Somerville and Ross.  Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin writing under the name Martin Ross) were an Anglo-Irish writing team perhaps most famous for their series of books that were made into the TV series The Irish R.M..
Konstantin Soukhovetski.  Konstantin Alekseyevich Soukhovetski (born January 19 1981) was born into a family of artists and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory where his special subjects also included composition and acting. He then studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City gaining his bachelor's degree in 2003 with the Anton Rubenstein Prize as an outstanding pianist.
Larry Knechtel.  Lawrence William Larry Knechtel (August 4 1940 – August 20 2009) was an American keyboard player and bassist best known as a member of The Wrecking Crew a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon & Garfunkel Duane Eddy The Beach Boys The Mamas & the Papas The Monkees The Partridge Family The Doors and Elvis Presley and as a member of the 1970s band Bread.
Kevin Nealon.  Kevin Nealon (/ˈniːlən/; born November 18 1953) is an American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995 acting in several of the Happy Madison films for playing Doug Wilson on the Showtime series Weeds and providing the voice of the title character Glenn Martin on Glenn Martin DDS.
Scott Corbett.  W. Scott Corbett (July 27 1913 – March 6 2006) was an American novelist and educator. Beginning 1950 he wrote five adult novels then began writing books for children. He retired from teaching in 1965 to write full time. His best known book is The Lemonade Trick a novel for children. One of his books entitled The Reluctant Landlord (1950) was made into the 1951 film Love Nest. He wrote his first children's book Susie Sneakers in 1956.
Alisa Mizuki.  Alisa Mizuki (観月 ありさ Mizuki Arisa born December 5 1976) is a Japanese actress singer and model. Mizuki is represented by the talent agency Vision Factory. Born in Nerima Tokyo to a Japanese father and Japanese-American mother Mizuki began modelling for magazines and appearing in commercials at the age of 4. She first appeared in television series in 1983 but made her official acting debut in 1991 in the Fuji TV drama Mō Dare mo Aisanai.
George Thompson (traveller).  George Thompson was the author of a two-volume travelogue describing Travels and Adventures in South Africa in the years 1823–24. He had arrived at the Cape Colony in about 1818 and became a successful merchant in Cape Town. He travelled widely in southern Africa for purposes principally of expanding his company’s business amongst the 1820 settlers of the Eastern Cape and elsewhere. He undertook an expedition to Kuruman and to the Augrabies Falls on the Orange River.
Kelly Oxford.  Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author screenwriter social media blogger and microblogger and stay-at-home mom. Oxford initially gained recognition through her Twitter feed which currently has over 500000 followers on which she shares her satirical observations on life pop culture and parenting.
Simon Tam (musician).  Simon Tam (born March 30 1981) is an American musician author record producer and activist.He is best known as the founder of the Portland-based Asian American dance-rock band The Slants.
Arthur McIntyre (artist).  Arthur McIntyre (31 October 1945 – 26 October 2003) was an Australian artist and art critic. He was born in Katoomba New South Wales.McIntyre's early inspiration as an artist was the popular Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program Argonauts Club. As member Atropos 30 McIntyre would send in his drawings to the Argonauts program on a regular basis and the program's art critic Jeffrey Smart would be an ongoing source of encouragement.
Shoji Kameda.  Shoji Kameda is a fourth-generation Japanese American musician and composer and leading player of North American taiko.He is a founder and member of On Ensemble a contemporary taiko quartetand a member of the jazz fusion group Hiroshima.
Galway Kinnell.  Galway Kinnell (born February 1 1927) is an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetryand split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are St. Francis and the Sow and After Making Love We Hear Footsteps.
Herman Fowlkes Jr..  Herman Fowlkes Jr. (September 21 1919 – April 3 1993) was an American jazz musician and educator from Chicago Illinois.
Antonio Brilla.  Antonio Brilla (Savona 22 September 1813 – Savona 8 February 1891) was a prolific Italian sculptor and ceramic artist mainly active in Liguria. He travelled in 1838 to Florence to study masterworks where he met Giovanni Duprè and Lorenzo Bartolini. He returned to Savona to establish a studio. Two of Antonio's sons also were artists.
Rajat Dholakia.  Rajat Dholakia is an Indian music composer.
Risa Itō.  Risa Itō (伊藤 理佐 Itō Risa born 6 September 1969) also romanized as Risa Itou is a Japanese manga artist. She won the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Oi Pītan!! and the 2006 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Short Story Award for One Woman Two Cats Oi Piitan!! and Onna no Mado. Her manga Oruchuban Ebichu (Ebichu Minds the House) was adapted by Gainax as an anime television series.
Andrew Fleming.  Andrew Fleming (born March 14 1963) is an American film and television director and screenwriter. He directed and wrote or co-wrote the films Bad Dreams Threesome The Craft Dick Nancy Drew Hamlet 2 and Barefoot. He also directed without writing the 2003 film The In-Laws. He has also directed episodes of the television series Arrested Development and Grosse Pointe among others.He studied filmmaking at New York University film school.
Apple Hong.  Apple Hong (Chinese: 洪乙心; pinyin: Hóng Yǐxīn born 31 October 1978) is a Malaysian actress and singer. She is a Singaporean permanent resident.
Idris Muhammad.  Idris Muhammad (born Leo Morris on 13 November 1939 in New Orleans Louisiana; Arabic: إدريس محمد‎) is an American jazz drummer who has recorded extensively with a host of artists including Ahmad Jamal Grant Green Grover Washington Hank Crawford Gene Ammons and Houston Person.He changed his name in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. He is known for his funky playing style.
Unit (Cristian Fleming).  Unit is an electronic musician based in New York City. Unit began releasing electronic music officially at the age of 25 although he had musical involvement for many years prior playing bass guitar at 17 and began working on electronic music at the age of 18. Unit has toured at various venues in Europe [1].
Charles Nordhoff.  Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1 1887 - April 10 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler.
Glaydah Namukasa.  Glaydah Namukasa is a Ugandan writer and midwife. She is the author of two novels Voice of a dream and Deadly Ambition. She is a member of FEMRITE the Ugandan Women Writer's Association and is currently (2014) its Chairperson. She is one of the 39 African writers announced as part of the Africa 39 project unveiled by Rainbow Hay festival and bloomsbury at the London book fair 2014. It is a list of 39 of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most promising writers under the age of 40.
Horst P. Horst.  Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann (August 14 1906 – November 18 1999) who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion photographer.
Elinor Bellingham-Smith.  Elinor Bellingham-Smith (28 December 1906 – 4 November 1988) was a British painter of landscapes and still life. Her paintings are in the collections of Tate Museums Sheffield Government Art Collection Arts Council Collection and other museums and galleries.
Tim Gorman.  Tim Gorman is a producer composer arranger & keyboardist born and based in San Francisco. He has worked as a session musician from the 1980s until the present his most notable collaborations being with Duane Eddy Paul Kantner The Rolling Stones and The Who.Gorman took part in the recording of The Who's It's Hard and the subsequent tour in 1982.His work with Paul Kantner goes back to the KBC Band in 1985-1987. He then took part in the Jefferson Airplane reunion in 1989.
Raci Şaşmaz.  Raci Şaşmaz (born 30 October 1973 in Elazig) is a Turkish film producer writer and actor.Necati Şaşmaz is his brother.
Anatoli Krastev.  Anatoli Kratsev - (Bulgarian: Анато́ли Кръс́тев (September 6 1947) is a prominent Bulgarian cellist and pedagogue. He is widely considered to be one of the most important Bulgarian performers. Since 2008 he has been Vice-rector of the National Academy of Music Pancho Vladigerov in Sofia.
Maia Sharp.  Maia Sharp is an American singer and songwriter. In addition to her solo career she has written songs for and collaborated with several country and pop musicians including Cher Trisha Yearwood Terri Clark Bonnie Raitt Edwin McCain and Art Garfunkel.
Pearl Luke.  Pearl Luke (born 21 March 1958) is a Canadian novelist.Born in Peace River Alberta Luke attended University of Calgary and earned first a BA and then an MA in English Literature.
Junaid Khan (singer).  Junaid Khan born Junaid Khan Niazi (Urdu: جنید خان‎ on 2 November 1981 in Karachi) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter actor. He is a lead in singer in the band Call. He is best known for his roles as Adam in Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu and Daniyal in Kadoorat.In 2012 Junaid Khan was nominated for Best TV Actor of 2012 Lux Style Award.
Burcu Güneş.  Burcu Güneş (born August 12 1975 İzmir) is a Turkish singer.
Starofash.  Heidi Solberg Tveitan (born May 31 1972) is a Norwegian musician and singer currently known for her solo project Starofash (also known as Star of Ash). Tveitan was formerly half of the experimental band Peccatum where she performed vocals keyboards and synths and wrote the majority of lyrics under the name Ihriel. She is the wife of Ihsahn of the black metal band Emperor with whom she runs the production company Mnemosyne Productions as a music producer and manager.
Shabana Rehman Gaarder.  Shabana Rehman Gaarder (Urdu: شبانه رحمان) (born 14 July 1976 in Karachi Pakistan) is a Norwegian stand-up comedian writer and columnist.
Steve Currie.  Steve Currie (19 May 1947 – 28 April 1981) was born in Grimsby North East Lincolnshire England. He was best known as the bass player and long-term member of the English glam rock band T. Rex.Whilst still at Grimsby tech college Currie played with local Grimsby group The Rumble Band. He joined T.
Barbara Astman.  Barbara Astman RCA is a Canadian artist who specializes in a hybrid of photography and new media; often using her own body as object and subject merging art and technology.
Brian Ralph.  Brian Ralph (born 1973) is a U.S. alternative cartoonist. His illustrations have appeared in Wired and the New York Post. His debut graphic novel Cave-In was nominated for three Harvey Awards one Eisner Award and listed as one of the Comics Journal's five best comics of 1999.[citation needed] His second graphic novel Climbing Out was awarded a Xeric Grant in 2001. His third graphic novel Daybreak was published by Drawn and Quarterly in September 2011.
Fred Hartley.  Fred Hartley (1905–1980) was a Scottish pianist conductor and composer of light music best known for his waltz Rouge et Noir. He sometimes composed music under the pseudonym Iris Taylor.Hartley was born in Dundee in 1905 where he attended Harris Academy. He later attained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He made his first public broadcast as a solo pianist in 1925 and in 1931 went on to form his Novelty Quintet which regularly made broadcasts on the BBC.
Michal David.  Michal David (born Vladimír Štancl 14 July 1960 Prague) is a Czech pop-singer songwriter and producer.
Vince Dantona.  Vince Dantona (April 2 1949 – February 27 2012) was an American ventriloquist.
Jan Nepomucen Głowacki.  Jan Nepomucen Głowacki (1802 – July 28 1847) was a Polish realist painter of the Romantic era regarded as the most outstanding landscape painter of the early 19th century in Poland under the foreign partitions. Głowacki studied painting at the Kraków School of Fine Arts and later at the academies of Prague and Vienna as well as Rome and Munich. He returned to Kraków in 1828 and became a teacher of painting and drawing.
Michelle Moran.  Michelle Moran (born August 11 1980) is an American novelist. She was born in California's San Fernando Valley. She took an interest in writing from an early age purchasing Writer's Market and submitting her stories and novellas to publishers from the time she was twelve. When she was accepted into Pomona College she took as many classes as possible in British Literature particularly Milton Chaucer and the Bard. She majored in English while she was there.
J.D. Fortune.  J.D. Fortune (born Jason Dean Bennison on September 1 1973) is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. He was the winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS and fronted INXS until August 2011.
Antonio Cimatori.  Antonio Cimatori called Il Visacci (c 1550-1623) was an Italian painter and draughtsman.
Jean Rikhoff.  Jean Rikhoff (born 1928) is an American author and editor. She is best known for two trilogies that she wrote: the Timble Trilogy made up of Dear Ones All Voyage In Voyage Out and Rites of Passage and the trilogy of the North Country consisting of Buttes Landing One of the Raymonds and The Sweetwater. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship a Eugene Saxton fellowship in creative writing (1958) and two State University of New York creative writing fellowships.
Mixmaster Morris.  Mixmaster Morris (born Morris Gould 1965) is an English ambient DJ and underground musician. Relating specifically to ambient music Morris stated It's exactly what you need if you have a busy and stressful life.
William Mecum.  Will Mecum is the lead guitarist for the rock band Karma To Burn. During K2B's seven-year absence he also played guitar for instrumental band Treasure Cat. He also played drums in the band Admiral prior to joining Karma To Burn. He currently resides in West Virginia.
Shahrdad Rohani.  Shahrdad Rohani(Persian: شهرداد روحانی) is an Iranian composer violinist/pianist and conductor.
Andrea Sacchi.  Andrea Sacchi (30 November 1599 – 21 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri the sculptors Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy and the contemporary biographer Giovanni Bellori.
Seth Lakeman.  Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English folk singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar but also plays the viola and banjo. Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize Lakeman has belonged to several musical ensembles including one with his two brothers fellow folk musicians Sam Lakeman and Sean Lakeman but has most recently established himself as a solo act.
H. W. Bradley.  Henry William Bradley (1813–1891) was an American photographer. He and his partner William Rulofson were active in San Francisco California and were responsible for photographs of many notable Californians.Bradley was born in Wilmington North Carolina and spent his youth in New Orleans Louisiana.
Lenny Pickett.  Lenny Pickett (b. Las Cruces New Mexico April 10 1954) is an American saxophonist flutist clarinetist composer arranger music director and teacher. He was a member of the Tower of Power Horns from 1972 until 1981 and since 1985 has been the tenor saxophone soloist with the Saturday Night Live band. He has served as the Saturday Night Live band's musical director since 1995.
Vittorio Matteo Corcos.  Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Livorno 4 October 1859 - Florence 1933) was an ItalyItalian painter known for his portraits. Many of his Genre works depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women in moments of repose and recreation.
Václav Švejcar.  Václav Švejcar (1962–2008) was a Czech artist and author of meditative images.
Hazel Townson.  Hazel Townson (12 April 1928 – 11 October 2010) was an English children's-literature author. She had over fifty books published from 1975 onwards including in countries such as the Netherlands Spain France and Japan.
Michael Huey (artist).  Michael Huey (born September 21 1964) is an American contemporary artist based in Vienna Austria. He often employs found photography and archival resources to create new photographic images objects installations and videos. His work has been shown in Vienna Berlin Rome London and New York and written about in Art in America Artforum and The New Yorker.
Ernie Kovacs.  Ernie Kovacs (January 23 1919 – January 13 1962) was an American comedian actor and writer.Kovacs' uninhibited often ad-libbed and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident.
Charles Sheeler.  Charles Sheeler (July 16 1883 – May 7 1965) was an American painter and commercial photographer. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century.
Thomas Pridgen.  Thomas Armon Pridgen (born November 23 1983 in Alameda County California) is an American drummer best known for his role as the drummer of The Mars Volta from October 31 2006 until October 23 2009. He is currently the drummer for his own project The Memorials as well as the Los Angeles-based crossover band Suicidal Tendencies. On 14 May 2013 it was officially announced via Twitter that Thomas Pridgen would be joining the California hardcore band Trash Talk.
Jim Hanna (writer).  Jim Hanna is an American comedy writer. He has written for Dennis Miller Live for which he shared a 1994 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program.
Emma Biggs.  Emma Biggs (born 1956) is a London-based mosaic artist and author of a number of standard textbooks on contemporary mosaic practice. Having recently completed a large public art project — Made in England — based on the visual culture and ideology of the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent (in the north of England) her work has become increasingly concerned with the ceramic industry and its social history. As a fine artist Emma Biggs makes abstract paintings with her husband Matthew Collings.
Ezekiel Honig.  Ezekiel Honig a New York City native is a musician and label manager for Microcosm Music and Anticipate Recordings. He is a well-known figure in the electronic music community.Ezekiel Honig usually follows a strict production code on all of his songs. He uses 'found-sound' and warm melodies.Having put out two successful albums in the past Technology Is Lonely and People Places & Things Ezekiel collaborated with fellow friend and musician Morgan Packard on Early Morning Migration.
Andrea Terzi.  Andrea Terzi (Monreale near Palermo Sicily) November 10 1842 - Rome 1918) was an Italian painter and engraver.Born to a poor family as a boy he briefly studied under Giuseppe Patania. After the age of 19 years he studied painting with abbot Domenico Benedetto Gravina and was called to work for two years in the Duomo of Monreale.
Bill Price (record producer).  Bill Price is a producer and engineer who has worked with The Clash The Sex Pistols Guns N' Roses The Jesus and Mary Chain The Nymphs The Waterboys Mott the Hoople and Simon Townshend (Pete Townshend's younger brother).He has contributed to documentaries about The Clash such as Westway To The World.
Dilemn.  Dilemn whose real name is Gauvain Fargeot is a French electro music producer born in 1981 in Toulouse (south of France).
Yael Bartana.  Yael Bartana (born 1970 Kfar Yehezkel Israel) is an Israeli video artist who lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv.
Kevin James Maher.  Kevin Kevvy Mental Maher is a Canadian musician film composer remix artist and music producer most notable for his work in Fake Shark - Real Zombie! as lead vocalist and programmer.
Christopher Mims.  Christopher Mims is the science and technology correspondent for Quartz. He has been an editor at Scientific American [1] Technology Review Smithsonian and Grist. He was also a producer at Small Mammal where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate Popular Science and Nature.Christopher Mims [2] was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012. Before that he blogged about the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist.
Victor di Suvero.  Victor di Suvero is an American poet investment manager and entrepreneur. Born in 1927 in Turin Italy he grew up in China where his father had been stationed in the Italian Diplomatic Service. He came to San Francisco early in 1941 with his family as anti-fascist political refugees.
René Romano.  René Romano (born March 6 1974) is a Guatemalan radio and Internet writer by the PSRA UFC NBA NFL MLB.Romano is a Senior Editor columnist and web creator who managed the Editorial desk for FOX DEPORTES from 2008 to late 2011.
Arif Mirzayev.  Arif Abdulla oglu Mirzayev (born April 10 1944) is a Soviet Russian Azerbaijani composer organist and pianist Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan (2011).He is the founder of religious-memorial organ and polyphony music of Azerbaijan and also sacrificial music of ancient Islam. He is the master of polistylistics of the modern music. He was nominated for the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2000 and 2002 in the sphere of arts.
Luke Chrisinger.  Luke Chrisinger is a Vermont based musician who has reportedly recorded 100 albums. Collections of his work have been released digitally by the Prague based label Amdiscs. His music has been described as shoegaze and indie by Dan Bolles of Seven Days. In addition to his solo recording he was the frontman for the indie-rock band Giant Travel Avant Garde.
Janet Murray.  Janet Murray is a professor in the School of Literature Media and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1999 she was a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT where she taught humanities and led advanced interactive design projects since 1971.
Frederick Tennyson.  Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 Louth Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 Kensington) was an English poet.
Tede.  For the acronym TEDE see Total effective dose equivalentJacek Graniecki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjat͡sɛk ɡraˈɲɛt͡skʲi]) known professionally as Tede (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɛdɛ]) and DJ Buhh (Polish pronunciation: [ˈdid͡ʐɛj ˈbux]) is a Polish rapper. Also known as Tas De Fleia TDF Tedeusz Tedzik Tedunio Tedzio Chory Pastor. He began his career in the band 1 kHz (Ein Killa Hertz).
Matthew Ridley Corbet.  Matthew Ridley Corbet (20 May 1850 –– 25 June 1902) was a Victorian neoclassical painter.
Gary Smulyan.  Gary Smulyan (born on April 4 1956 in Bethpage New York) is a jazz musician who plays baritone saxophone. He studied at Hofstra University before working with Woody Herman. He currently leads a trio with bassist Ray Drummond and drummer Kenny Washington.Smulyan is also the current baritone saxophonist with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and played with its previous incarnation the Mel Lewis Big Band.
Katman.  Nikos Katelis (Greek: Νίκος Κατέλης) better known by his stage name Katman is known in Greece for appearing in various trash TV shows including the show hosted by Annita Pania called Je T'Aime where he was a performer of satirical songs.
France Podrekar.  France Podrekar sometimes referred to as Fran Podrekar (10 October 1887 - 1964) was a Slovene painter known for his caricatures and illustrations.Podrekar was born in Ljubljana in 1887. In 1906 he went to study painting in Prague and after two semesters continued his studies in Munich for a further six semesters between 1907 and 1910 and in Vienna from 1911 to 1912. He worked as an art teacher in Ljubljana and then as an art restorer.
Johann Christian Fiedler.  Johann Christian Fiedler born at Pirna in 1697 was a painter of portraits who studied in Paris under Rigaud and Largillière. As court-painter at Darmstadt where he died in 1765 he executed the portraits of a number of distinguished personages. Among his productions in the Gallery of that town are The Burial of Christ The Seasons some portraits among which is the artist himself and some fruit and fish pieces.
Helen Longworth.  Helen Longworth (born 1976 Preston) is a British actor. She has appeared in many radio plays including playing Zofia in two series of On Mardle Fen Susie Dean in The Good Companions and Marina in Pericles. Also A Song For Edmond Shakespeare (2005) and The Pattern of Painful Adventures (2008) both fictional treatments of the life of William Shakespeare. Appearances in Hollyoaks Heartbeat and Emmerdale.
Miyake Setsurei.  Miyake Setsurei (三宅 雪嶺 July 7 1860 - November 26 1945) was a famous philosopher and author from Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo's Department of Philosophy in 1883. He helped found the Society for Political Education and its magazine Nihonjin (Japanese People). In 1907 the Nihonjin Magazine was renamed Nihon Oyobi Nihonjin (Japan and The Japanese People).
Guy Trédaniel.  Guy Trédaniel is a French publisher who founded in 1974 Editions Guy Trédaniel a printing company based in Paris France.
Georg Witkowski.  Georg Witkowski (September 11 1863 Berlin - September 11 1939 Amsterdam) was a German literary historian.
Jennifer Batten.  Jennifer Batten (born November 29 1957) is an American guitarist who has worked as a session musician and solo artist.
Mandisi Arnold Shindo.  Mandisi Arnold Shindo (b. 1989 stage name Dr Disi) is a South African actor writer director voice and dance performer and the founder of the Iselwa Lesizwe Theatre Company. He began pursuing his passion for theatre at age 11 in primary school and since then has dedicated his life to the arts and to helping young people gain the skills for a tertiary level education.
Alex Di Gregorio.  Alessandro Di Gregorio commonly known as Alex Di Gregorio (born in Parma Italy on June 20 1962) is an Italian editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on Italian national domestic and foreign policy from a progressive perspective.
Ted Grossbart.  Ted Grossbart Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and the author of Skin Deep: A Mind/Body Program for Healthy Skin. Grossbart was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Boston University.
Aurelio Lomi.  Aurelio Lomi (1556–1622) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods active mainly in his native town of Pisa Tuscany. He may have initially been trained by his father Giovanni Battista Lomi but soon he worked under the painters Bronzino then Lodovico Cardi (known as Cigoli). He painted in Pisa Florence Rome and Genoa. He painted a St. Jerome (1595) for the Duomo of Pisa. In addition he painted frescoes of San Frediano and San Stefano.
Rikrok.  Ricardo George Ducent (born 17 June 1972) better known by his stage name Rikrok is an English Jamaican singer most famous for featuring on Shaggy's 2001 single It Wasn't Me .
Eric Douglas Saumarez 7th Baron de Saumarez.  Eric Douglas Saumarez 7th Baron de Saumarez (13 August 1956 – present) is a British hereditary peer.
Katie Armiger.  Kaitlyn Michelle Katie Armiger (born June 23 1991) is a country artist from Sugar Land Texas. She was first inspired to pursue country music after winning a Houston Texas city-wide competition for young country singers. To date Armiger has released four albums for Cold River Records and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
R. D. Low.  Robert Duncan Low (25 August 1895 Dundee - 13 December 1980) was a Scottish comics writer and editor. Employed by D. C. Thomson & Co. he was responsible for their line of comics and as a writer co-created Oor Wullie and The Broons with artist Dudley D. Watkins.The son of Robert Brown Low a jute mill mechanic and Maggie Wilson Low he joined DC Thomson as a journalist and rose to become managing editor in charge of the children's publications department.
Vincent Villafranca.  Vincent Villafranca (b. January 25 1969) is an American sculptor. He creates bronze sculptures ranging from traditional wildlife imagery to futuristic science-fiction-based imagery.
David Black (photographer).  David Black (born in Baltimore Maryland in 1980) is an American photographer and director noted for his work with musicians such as Daft Punk Cat Power Pharrell Williams and The Roots.
Papa San.  Tyrone Thompson better known as Papa San is a Jamaican reggae dancehall and gospel singer.
Elizabeth Fraser.  Elizabeth Davidson Fraser (born 29 August 1963) is a Scottish singer best known as the vocalist for the alternative rock group Cocteau Twins. Fraser has a soprano vocal range. She is as well known for her perfectionism and reclusive nature as she is for her voice.
Matjaž Schmidt.  Matjaž Schmidt (7 February 1948 – 29 September 2010) was a Slovene artist and illustrator best known for his children's books illustrations and comic strips.Schmidt was born in Ljubljana in 1948. He started studying architecture and in 1968 switched to the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana where he specialized in illustration. He was married to Jelka Godec Schmidt who is also an illustrator. In 2009 he won the Levstik Award for lifetime achievement in illustration.
Majk Spirit.  Majk Spirit (born Michal Dušička Bratislava Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak male rapper and member of the group H16. The winner of the MTV Europe Music Awards for the Best Czech and Slovak Act category in 2012 released his debut album Nový človek in 2011 earning also the Best New Artist award at the 2011's Slávik annual music poll. Prior to that he released two studio albums such as Kvalitný materiál (2006) and Čísla nepustia (2008) with the H16 band.
Phew (singer).  Phew (September 12 1959 - ) is a Japanese singer working in the areas of rock and jazz avant-garde. Since 1980 she has worked with musicians such as Holger Czukay Jaki Liebezeit Jah Wobble Bill Laswell Anton Fier Buckethead Nicky Skopelitis Ryuichi Sakamoto Alexander Hacke and Jim O'Rourke. She was founder of punk rock group Aunt Sally before. Phew's CD Five Finger Discount is ranked 32nd in The Wire (magazine) top 50 records of 2010.
Gvido Birolla.  Gvido Birolla (12 June 1881 – 29 May 1963) was a Slovene painter illustrator and caricaturist known for his political caricatures published in satirical newspapers of the time and his book illustrations.Birolla was born in Trieste in 1881. His father was an Italian from Pazin and his mother a Slovene from Škofja Loka. After his father's death in 1884 his mother moved back to Škofja Loka where Gvido grew up. He studied in Ljubljana and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
DJ BoBo.  Peter René Cipiriano Baumann (born January 5 1968) better known as DJ BoBo is a Swiss singer songwriter dancer and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 11 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format.
Del McCoury.  Delano Floyd McCoury (born February 1 1939 in York Pennsylvania) is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury who play mandolin and banjo respectively. In June 2010 he received a National Heritage Fellowship lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2011 he was elected into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
Jack Nisbet.  Jack Nisbet is a teacher naturalist and writer who lives in Spokane Washington with his wife and two children. He grew up in North Carolina graduated from Stanford University and moved to Stevens County Washington in 1971 where he wrote a column for The Chewelah Independent.
Rene Romero Schuler.  René Jenette Romero Schuler is an American painter and is one of the most important and well-collected contemporary artists to emerge out of the Midwest in the last decade. Whether on canvas paper or three-dimensional sculpture Romero Schuler studies the relationship between what is immediately apparent at the surface and what exists beneath. Romero Schuler has taught painting at the Illinois Institute of Art and Chicago City Colleges and has lectured at Northwestern University.
Masoud (musician).  Masoud (birth name Masoud Fouladi Moghaddam Born May 22 1985) is an Iranian trance music producer Artist and DJ lives in Bandar-e Anzali Iran he is known for leading Trance music artist community in Iran.[citation needed]
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (book).  Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (or The Diary of a Lost Girl) is a book by the German author Margarete Böhme (1867-1939). It purportedly tells the true-life story of Thymian a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. When first published in 1905 the book was said to be a genuine diary though speculation quickly arose as to its authorship.Due in part to its sensational subject matter the book proved extremely popular.
Jennifer Brown.  Jennifer Brown (born February 18 1972) is a Swedish singer. She was born in Hjällbo northeast of Gothenburg Sweden. She has recorded four albums and one EP.
Paul Chambers.  Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22 1935 – January 4 1969) was a jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time intonation and virtuosic improvisations. He was also known for his bowed solos.
Seán Mac Réamoinn.  Seán Mac Réamoinn (27 November 1921 – 7 January 2007) was an Irish journalist and broadcaster. He took a deep interest in Irish culture and language and religious affairs.Mac Réamoinn was born in Birmingham the third child of James and Wilhelmina Redmond. His father was from Boolavogue County Wexford and the family returned to Ireland two years after his birth. He was educated in Clonmel CBS and by the Jesuits in Galway before attending University College Galway.
Toygar Işıklı.  Toygar Işıklı is a Turkish composer producer and singer.
Marshall Drew.  Marshall Drew (born January 11 1984) is an American folk rock singer-songwriter from Clarksdale Mississippi. He released his independent debut album A Million Different Shades in 2009.
Anton Funtek.  Anton Funtek (30 October 1862 – 21 October 1932) was a Slovene writer poet editor and translator.Funtek was born in Ljubljana that was then part of the Austrian Empire now the capital of Slovenia. He trained as a teacher and worked in Litija and Šentvid pri Stični before going to a Technical college in Vienna. He then worked as a secondary school teacher in Ljubljana until his retirement in 1925.
Ivonne Guzmán.  Ivonne Guzmán (born September 10 1984 in Bogotá Colombia) is a Colombian singer-songwriter composer and actress. She is best known for being a member of Argentine all-female band Bandana. She also acted Inés in Argentine version of theatre musical Hairspray.
Mélissa Nkonda.  Mélissa Nkonda born November 6 1990 in Saint-Saulve Nord France is a French singer.She is known for having participated in season 7 of the French reality show Nouvelle Star in 2009. In 2010 she won a contest called Je veux signer chez AZ (I want to sign with AZ) organized by the French record label AZ. It was at the end of the contest that she signed a contract with that label.
Preeti Shenoy.  Preeti Shenoy is an Indian author. Listed among the Forbes List of the 100 most influential celebrities of India (2013 edition ) Shenoy has varied interests ranging from photography and yoga to sociology. After a brief stay in the UK Shenoy who is married and a mother to two children currently resides in Bangalore. Her latest book The One You Cannot Have (published by Westland Ltd) released in November and has been gathering enthusiastic positive reviews from readers.
Bob Herdman.  Bob Mortimer Herdman (born March 8 1966) is a Christian musician songwriter and producer more known for being a member of the band Audio Adrenaline.
Tom Rush.  Tom Rush (born February 8 1941) is an American folk and blues singer songwriter musician and recording artist.
Bill Atwood (musician).  Bill Atwood is an American trumpet and flugelhorn player and is best known for his work with Van Morrison and his band The Caledonia Soul Orchestra.Atwood has worked with bands and musicians such as The Sir Douglas Quintet It's a Beautiful Day Boz Scaggs (Moments) Cold Blood Buddy Miles Grateful Dead (Wake of the Flood Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel) Van Morrison and The Caledonia Soul Orchestra (Hard Nose the Highway It's Too Late to Stop Now) and Sons of the San Joaquin (Horses Cattle and Coyotes).
Kyle Massey.  Kyle Orlando Massey (born August 28 1991) is an American actor dancer singer comedian rapper and magician from Atlanta Georgia. He is perhaps best known for starring in the Disney Channel sitcoms That's So Raven and its spin-off Cory in the House in which he played Cory Baxter. Massey starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Life Is Ruff. Massey has released several rap songs for Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records.
Mark Howard (producer).  Mark Howard (born June 8 1964 in Manchester England) is a Canadian record producer engineer and mixer. He has worked with many artists including Bob Dylan Tom Waits Lucinda Williams Willie Nelson Marianne Faithfull Emmylou Harris U2 Peter Gabriel R.E.M. Neil Young and The Neville Brothers.
Dave Hoover.  David Harold Hoover (May 14 1955 – September 4 2011) was an American comic book artist and animator most notable for his art on DC Comics' The Wanderers and Starman and Marvel Comics' Captain America.
Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind.  Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind (June 10 1901 Weilheim - April 17 1970 Tutzing) was a German writer journalist and translator.Süskind was editorial journalist for politics with Süddeutsche Zeitung. Along with his own works he translated books into German e.g. works of Tania Blixen or Herman Melville.Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind is the father of author Patrick Süskind (Perfume) and was a school day friend of Erika and Klaus Mann.
Barry Rogers.  Barry Rogers (May 22 1935 - April 18 1991) was a salsa musician and jazz fusion trombonist.Born Barron W. Rogers in The Bronx he descended from Polish Jews who came to New York City via London and was raised in Spanish Harlem.
Titia Ex.  Titia Ex is a Dutch conceptual artist. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
Muhammad Alif bin Mohd Satar.  Muhammad Alif bin Mohd Satar (born September 22 1990) or professionally known as Alif Satar is a Malaysian singer TV Host and contestant of the reality television series One in a Million which airs on 8TV in Malaysia.
Giovanna Marini.  Giovanna Marini anagraphically Giovanna Salviucci in Marini (Rome 19 January 1937) is an Italian singer-songwriter and researcher of ethnomusicology.
Doug Williams (comedian).  Doug Williams is a comedian writer and actor from Montgomery Alabama.
Sascha Altman DuBrul.  Sascha Altman DuBrul aka Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter (born 1974) is an American activist writer farmer and punk rock musician known as the bass player of the classic 90s ska-punk band Choking Victim. He is the co-founder of The Icarus Project an international radical community support network and media project which is actively redefining the language and culture of mental health and illness.
Yūji Machi.  Yūji Machi (真地 勇志 Machi Yūji born August 8 1962 in Kawasaki Kanagawa) is a Japanese voice actor who is the voice of Ultraman Tiga as well as the voices of Appule and Daizu in Dragon Ball Z. His real name is Shōji Tanabe (田辺 修治 Tanabe Shōji) and he works for Aoni Production.He is also the Japanese voice of Tommy Oliver in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie.
Coleridge and opium.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772–25 July 1834) was an English poet critic and philosopher who was along with his friend William Wordsworth one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the prose Biographia Literaria.Coleridge was widely known to have been a regular user of opium as a relaxant analgesic antidepressant and treatment for numerous health concerns.
Dick Martin (comedian).  Thomas Richard Dick Martin (January 30 1922 – May 24 2008) was an American comedian and director best known for his role as the cohost of the sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.
Peter Tomasi.  Peter J. Tomasi is an American comic book editor and writer best known for his work for DC Comics. As an editor he oversaw numerous books featuring the Justice League including books starring various members of that team such as Batman Aquaman Martian Manhunter Green Lantern and the Flash.
Kyle Bruckmann.  Kyle Bruckmann (born 1971) is an American composer and oboist based in San Francisco California.Getting his musical start playing in industrial and hardcore bands Bruckmann then studied oboe with Robert Atherholt at Rice University. He earned his masters at the University of Michigan (MM 1996) under Harry Sargous and contemporary improvisor Ed Sarath.His musical aesthetic varies widely from traditional Western classical to free jazz electronic music and post-punk rock.
John Brewster Jr..  John Brewster Jr. (May 30 or May 31 1766 – 1854) was a prolific deaf itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England families especially their children.
Mohammad Esfahani.  Mohammad Mehdi Vaezi Esfahani aka Mohammad Esfahani is an Iranian doctor singer and composer of pop and traditional.He graduated from The Medical University of Iran in 1997 while learning Iranian music from the Iranian singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and his best studentAli Jahandar.[citation needed]
Freddie Wadling.  Freddie Wadling (born August 2 1951 in Gothenburg Sweden) is a Swedish singer actor and opera writer whose over 30-year musical career spans from punk to classical ballads.
Keith Taylor (author).  Keith John Taylor (born 26 December 1946) is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.
Jim Ankan Deka.  Jim Ankan Deka (Assamese: জিম অংকন ডেকা; born June 1 1980) is an Assamese musician documentary film maker photographer and director of Bangalore based organisation and music school Eastern Fare Music Foundation. He is the first Assamese to open a music institute and a production house in Bangalore India.
Jim Stafford.  James Wayne Jim Stafford (born January 16 1944 Eloise Florida) is an American comedian musician and singer-songwriter. While prominent in the 1970s for his records Swamp Witch Under The Scotsman's Kilt Spiders & Snakes My Girl Bill and Wildwood Weed Stafford has headlined at his own theater in Branson Missouri since 1990. Stafford is self-taught on guitar fiddle piano banjo organ and harmonica.Stafford was raised in Winter Haven Florida.
Meike Ziervogel.  Meike Ziervogel is a German writer and publisher. Originally from Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany she moved to London in 1986 to study Arabic at SOAS. She had stints in journalism with Reuters and AFP before founding Peirene Press in 2008. Her first novel Magda was published in April 2013.
Edward Vernon Utterson.  Edward Vernon Utterson (1775/1776 – 14 July 1856) was a British lawyer literary antiquary collector and editor. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club a member of the Athenaeum Club Camden Society and Royal Society of Arts Recorder of Chichester and a Trustee of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club.
Sriram Parthasarathy.  Sriram Parthasarathy is an award-winning Tamil playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil. He is also an accomplished Carnatic Classical singer and a talented Veena player who is well versed with complete classical knowledge. He is more famous among the classical sections and can be more often heard in regular classical concerts.Sriram Parthasarathy is a disciple of Neyveli Santhanagopalan.He has recorded several singles and released them in the classical genre.
Jim Matt.  Jim Matt (born January 18 1964 in Englehart Ontario Canada) is a country music singer. Matt was signed to Little Dog Records in 1993 and released his album All My Wild Oats in 1995. The album was also released in the United States on Mercury Records. The album produced three chart singles on the Canadian RPM country charts; however no singles charted in the United States.He is currently based in Sudbury Ontario where he married jazz singer Sarah Craig in July 2011.
Joe Bouchard.  Joseph Joe Bouchard (born November 9 1948) is an American guitarist and bassist. He was the bassist for Blue Öyster Cult during their most successful period.
Muro (DJ).  Takayoshi Murota (室田 隆義 Murota Takayoshi born March 25 1970 in Kawaguchi Saitama Prefecture) known better as MURO is an active Japanese hip hop producer and DJ. In 1987 DJ Krush Microphone Pager TWIGY and others formed the KRUSH POSSE a crew of rappers and Dj's. During this time he excelled at DJing hip-hop and began producing hip-hop beats. His solo debut appeared 1993.
Michael McGinley.  Michael McGinley (born 1852 in Donegal Ireland) was an Irish song writer famous for the songs The Hills of Glenswilly and An Emigrant's Farewell written as he travelled on the ship The Invercardill to New Zealand in 1878. He is the older brother of Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich an Irish language writer.
Fate Marable.  Fate Marable (2 December 1890 – 16 January 1947) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.Marable was born in Paducah Kentucky and learned piano from his mother. At age 17 he began playing on the steam boats plying the Mississippi River. He soon became bandleader for boats on the Streckfus Line which ran several paddlewheelers which held dances and excursions along the river from New Orleans Louisiana to Minneapolis Minnesota.
Minako Honda.  Minako Honda (本田 美奈子 Honda Minako born Minako Kudō (工藤 美奈子 Kudō Minako) July 31 1967 – November 6 2005) was a Japanese idol pop-star and musical singer. She became famous and popular as Japan's Madonna because of her sexy fashion and live performances in the mid to late 1980s.She was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia on January 5 2005. At 4:38 A.M. on November 6 2005 Honda died at the Juntendo University Hospital in Bunkyō Tokyo officially from acute myelogenous leukemia.
J. D. Crowe.  James Dee Crowe (August 27 1937 in Lexington Kentucky) is an American banjo player and bluegrass band leader. He first became known during his four-year stint with Jimmy Martin in the 1950s.
Rory Ridley-Duff.  Rory Ridley-Duff (born 6 March 1962) is a British educator author and composer. His work as an educator is focused on human relationship issues and governance in cooperatives and social enterprises. His has written four books two focussed on cooperative and social enterprise issues and two on interpersonal relationship dynamics framed from a gender studies perspective.
Homer Flynn.  Homer Flynn (born Homer Flynn III Shreveport Louisiana 1945) is a spokesman for the avant garde music and visual arts group The Residents and their management group the Cryptic Corporation. Cryptic was formed by Flynn along with Hardy Fox John Kennedy and Jay Clem in the early 1970s. He is also rumored (although he denies it) to be the founding member and lead singer of The Residents.
Charles Shere.  Charles Shere (b. Berkeley California August 20 1935) is an American composer. He studied composition briefly with Robert Erickson and Luciano Berio but was largely self-taught. His music was primarily in unconventional notations and open form through the 1970s and early 1980s but turned to more conventional forms (though not expression) thereafter.
Pedro Winter.  Pedro Winter (born Pierre Winter; April 21 1975) also known as Busy P is a French DJ music producer record label owner and artist manager. Winter managed Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008 and currently manages Cassius and artists on Ed Banger Records a label that he owns and runs.
Maya Ford.  Maya Anne Ford (born January 8 1979 in Oakland California) is the bass player of rock band The Donnas.
Taana Gardner.  Taana Gardner is an American disco and post-disco singer who found her success through West End Records from 1979 to the present day. She is also a former member of the Aural Exciters.
Jan Józef Lipski.  Jan Józef Lipski (26 May 1926 Warsaw – 10 September 1991 Kraków) was a Polish critic literature historian and politician. As a soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Editor of collected works by Jan Kasprowicz Benedykt Chmielowski and Gabriela Zapolska.
Féfé.  Samuël Adebiyi better known by his stage name Féfé (or Fe² or Féniksi) (born in Clichy Hauts-de-Seine France on 18 January 1976) is a French singer and rapper originating from Nigeria.
Holly One.  Holly One (April 12 1965 - September 8 2006) was the most frequently used alias of Italian porn star Oliviero Migliore who was foremost known for his short stature (about 120 cm).He settled in Spain in the 1980s and started to perform in shows at night clubs in Ibiza. He was discovered by Juani de Lucía the owner of Barcelona night club Bagdad and became a protagonist of erotic spectacles staged at the place. He made his hardcore debut with Pequeño pero Matón in 1997.
Philip Reeve.  Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.
Elizabeth Haldane.  Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862 – 1937) was an eminent public figure author biographer philosopher suffragist nursing administrator and social welfare worker. She was the sister of Richard Burdon Haldane 1st Viscount Haldane and John Scott Haldane and became the first female Justice of the Peace in Scotland in 1920. She was made a Companion of Honour in 1918.
Grant Bond.  Grant Bond is a comic book artist writer and award-winning editorial cartoonist living in Kansas City Kansas.
Lê Phổ.  Lê Phổ (2 August 1907 - 12 December 2001) was a Vietnamese painter. In 1932 he earned a scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon returning to Vietnam he taught at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi. In 1937 he came back to Paris where he resided until the time of his death - one of four EBAI graduates who made a career in Paris including Mai Trung Thứ Vũ Cao Đàm and woman painter Lê Thị Lựu.
Jonathan Morgan (director).  Jonathan Morgan (born Scott Gallegos on February 5 1966) is a former actor and current director of pornographic films. He has directed for studios including Wicked Pictures where he made films such as Inside Porn.
Tracy Nakayama.  Tracy Nakayama (born 1974) is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles California and was born in Honolulu Hawaii.
Glenn Goins.  Glenn Lamont Goins (January 2 1954 – July 29 1978) also known as Glen Goins was a singer and guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic in the mid-1970s. Goins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His first (known) recordings were as part of the group The Bags. They released a single in 1972: It's Heavy b/w Don't Mess With My Baby.
Scott Swan.  Scott Swan (born January 1970) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Paul Jean Clays.  Paul Jean Clays (27 November 1819 – 10 February 1900) Belgian artist was born at Bruges and died at Brussels.In 1851 he made his debut at the Paris Salon and while he tried to stay in the mainstream his art was heralded by those who were looking for a change to more realism.In 1852 he married Marie-Isaure (d. 1860) the daughter of the director of the Brussels Observatory and moved to Antwerp where he lived from 1852 to 1856; it was during this period that his fortunes began to improve.
Kranti Trivedi.  Kranti Trivedi is the author of over 45 Hindi titles Kranti Trivedi was one of the most prolific Hindi language writers of the past century.
Jack Dishel.  Jack Dishel is an American singer-songwriter who performs under the band name Only Son. Dishel was previously frontman of the New York City band Stipplicon' and lead guitarist for The Moldy Peaches.
Yolanda Kondonassis.  Yolanda Kondonassis (born 1963) is an American classical harpist. She is one of the world's foremost classical harpists.She first began playing the piano then switched to harp at age nine. She studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan then at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Ivan Cankar.  Ivan Cankar (About this sound pronunciation ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer playwright essayist poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.
Henry Threadgill.  Henry Threadgill (born February 15 1944 in Chicago Illinois) is an American composer saxophonist and flautist who came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating a range of non-jazz genres. He studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago co-majoring in piano and flute along with composition. He studied piano with Gail Quillman and composition with Stella Roberts.
Fear of a Brown Planet.  Fear of a Brown Planet are an Australian stand-up comedy duo consisting of Aamer Rahman (born 17 October 1982) and Nazeem Hussain (born 21 April 1984).
Antonia Pozzi.  Antonia Pozzi (13 February 1912 – 3 December 1938) was an Italian poet.
Mikhail Zoshchenko.  Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Зо́щенко Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Зощенко; August 10 [O.S. July 29] 1895 – July 22 1958) was a Soviet author and satirist.
James Ervan Parker.  James Ervan Parker (born December 21 1942 in La Habra California) is an American Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Huntsville Alabama Sub-chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Parker lives in Madison Alabama his home since 1985.
Girolamo di Tiziano.  Girolamo di Tiziano (from having been a scholar of Titian and an assistant to him in some of his less important works) also known as Girolamo Dante or Girolamo Dente flourished at Venice from 1550 to 1580. It is said that in copying the originals of his master he attained so high a degree of excellence that such of his pieces as were retouched by Titian bid defiance often to the judgment of the most expert connoisseurs.
John Banting.  John Banting (1902–1972) was an English artist and writer.Born in London and educated at Emanuel School Banting was initially attracted to vorticism and associated with the Bloomsbury Group before becoming interested in surrealism in Paris in the 1930s. Moving to Rye East Sussex in the 1950s he died in Hastings.
Ralf Sander.  Ralf Volker Sander (born 15. December 1963 ) is an international active sculptor. His bestknown works include Lady Bird Transformation(mirage) a public sculpture for Busan Cinema Center South Korea commissioned in 2011 and erected in August 2012. The memorial for Martin Heinrich Klaprothwas erected on the campus of Technische Universität Berlin 25.06.1996.
Carolyn Parkhurst.  Carolyn Parkhurst (born January 18 1971 Manchester New Hampshire) is an American author who has published three books. Her first the 2003 best-seller The Dogs of Babel also known as Lorelei's Secret in the UK was a New York Times Notable Book and on the New York Times Best Seller List.She followed that effort with the New York Times bestselling Lost and Found in June 2006 and The Nobodies Album in June 2010.
A.F. Cross.  Albert Francis Cross (1863–1940) wrote under the pen name of A. F. Cross. He was a noted poet playwright journalist and author and the founder of several theatres and newspapers in the English Midlands area.His most popular works include several books of verses and poetry specifically Songs and Sonnets Virginia and Charnwood Poems inspired by a series of walks through Charnwood Forest. Charnwood Poems was published in 1928.
Frederick Lloyd.  Frederick Lloyd (1880–1949) was a British film actor. His most notable appearances include Doctor Watson in the 1932 film The Hound of the Baskervilles and Mr. Grimwig in Oliver Twist.Lloyd was married to actress Auriol Lee from 1911 to 1922.
Stein Urheim.  Stein Urheim (born 1979 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) and composer known from cooperations with Gabriel Fliflet and Mari Kvien Brunvoll.
Malena Pichot.  Malena Male Pichot (born July 6 1982) is an Argentine stand-up comedian actress screenwriter and internet celebrity. She is the cousin of Argentine rugby legend Agustín Pichot.Pichot rose to fame in 2008 when she uploaded a video to YouTube after breaking up with her boyfriend entitled La Loca de Mierda (roughly translated The Fucking Crazy Woman).
Shakila.  Shakila (Persian: شکیلا‎) (born May 3 1962 Tehran) is a Persian vocalist and master of classical Persian music.She studied both Persian classical music (from maestro Mahmoud Karimi) and western classical music. In 2005 Shakila was awarded by Persian Academy Awards International for her modern Classical Performances. Shakila is the youngest child of her family. When she was only nine she was invited to a television show which caught the attention of producers.
Monique Wittig.  Monique Wittig (July 13 1935 – January 3 2003) was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase heterosexual contract. She published her first novel L'Opoponax in 1964. Her second novel Les Guérillères (1969) was a landmark in lesbian feminism.
Sebastian Schneider.  Sebastian Schneider is a German Argentine guitar player multi-instrumentalist singer composer and musical producer born on July 28 1982.He is an artist which begins to rise to prominence on the new Argentine and Latin American rock scene.
Tulika Ganguly.  Tulika Ganguly (born 25 August 1987) is an Indian singer who works in Bollywood films as well as reality shows. She was doing her graduation in political Science from Gargi College of Delhi University New Delhi when she decided to participate in Indian Idol Season 4.
Ren Yexiang.  Ren Yexiang (Chinese: 任冶湘; Pinyin: Rén Yěxiāng; born 1961) is a Chinese actress of the 1980s.
Ima (singer).  Marie-Andrée Bergeron better known by her stage name Ima (sometimes stylized as IMA) is a Quebec Canada singer born in 1978. She has released 6 albums and has had many singles the most famous being Baïla in 2002. She also acted in the 2-season Quebec TV series Casino.
Takayuki Tatsumi.  Takayuki Tatsumi (巽 孝之 Tatsumi Takayuki born May 15 1955) is a Japanese scholar. He is a Professor at Keio University where he has taught literary theory and American literature since 1989.As an avid science fiction fan he authored many books and essays on science fiction. He received Nihon SF Taisho prize in 2000 for Nihon SF ronsōshi.
Zakhar Bron.  Zakhar Bron (Russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон [zɐxˈar nuˈximɔwitʃ ˈbrɔn]; born 17 December 1947 in Oral Kazakhstan) is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish descent.
Carol Richards.  Carol Swiedler (Stage name Carol Richards or Carole Richards) (born 6 June 1922 in Harvard Illinois died in Vero Beach Florida March 16 2007) was an American singer radio and television performer remembered for her duet with Bing Crosby on the hit single Silver Bells.At the start of her career in her early 20s Carol Richards won a Bob Hope talent contest moved to Hollywood and appeared on numerous TV showsincluding I Love Lucy Name That Tune The Saturday Night Review and variety shows hosted by Ralph Edwards Dennis Day Pinky Lee Edgar Bergen and Ezio Pinza. 
Aleksandr Bushkov.  Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bushkov (born April 5 1956) is a best-selling Russian author who has written books in the genres of science fiction crime fiction popular history and non-fiction. In his belletristic published in literary and popular journals Bushkov has been critical of conventional academic approaches in fields such as history and evolutionary biology.
Marcia Muller.  Marcia Muller (born September 28 1944) is an American author of fictional mystery and thriller novels.Muller has written many novels featuring her Sharon McCone female private detective character. Vanishing Point won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. Muller had been nominated for the Shamus Award four times previously.In 2005 Muller was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master award.
Blaine Yorgason.  Blaine M. Yorgason (born 1942) is a Latter-day Saint novelist who has also written biographies.Yorgason was born in Sanpete County Utah. He graduated from Brigham Young High School and then served an LDS mission primarily in Chicago. Yorgason has a bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University (BYU).
Eugénie Buffet.  Eugénie Buffet (1866–1934) was a French singer who rose to fame in France just prior to World War I. She has been called one of the first if not the first performer of the chanson réaliste (realist song) genre. She became a national sensation in France performing in the fashionable cafés-concerts of Paris as well as embarking on both national and international tours.
Shane McCarthy.  Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.
Jacklyn Wu.  Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien (born 3 July 1968) is a Taiwanese actress and singer who started her career in Hong Kong. She is best known to Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) where she played the second of three sisters.
Philip Street.  Philip Street (born 1959) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator who lives in Toronto. He lived in Blyth Ontario during his childhood and studied English at St. Michael's College in Toronto as well as classical animation at Sheridan College.
Kathleen Flinn.  Kathleen Flinn is an American writer and journalist best known for the 2007 New York Times bestseller The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry (Viking/Penguin). The book was the first to provide an in-depth look of attending and graduating from the famed Paris culinary school Le Cordon Bleu.
Phil Hester (comics).  Phil Hester (born 1966 in Iowa) is an American comic book artist penciller and writer.
Thomas Jesty.  Thomas Jesty (born 1990/1991) is a treble and Head Quirister at the Winchester College Chapel Choir and BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2004. Both he and Harry Sever (the 2003 winner) had solos on the December 2004 album Hear My Prayer. They also took part in the United Kingdom's biggest fundraising concert in aid of the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.Jesty plays the violin and the piano and enjoys juggling. His first and only film appearance is as a choir boy in Batman Begins.
Willy Vlautin.  Willy Vlautin (born 1967) is an American author and the lead singer and songwriter of Portland Oregon band Richmond Fontaine. Born and raised in Reno Nevada he has released nine studio albums since the late nineties with his band while he has written four novels: The Motel Life Northline Lean on Pete and The Free.
Kiera Gormley.  Kiera Gormley is a model from Belfast in Northern Ireland. She caught the eye of Mario Testino leading to shoots for Vogue UK and Italy ID Burberry Aquascutum Aveda and Jaeger.Gormley is represented by Storm Model Management in London Marilyn agency in New York and Paris and Women Model Management Milan.Gormley has worked for Gaultier Dior Lanvin Vivienne Westwood Hermes Paul Smith Burberry Maison Martin Margiela Biba Giorgio Armani and many more.
Laura Myntti.  Laura Myntti (born 1962 Minnesota) is an American artist noted for her paintings etchings and in situ drawings; she also works with found objects mosaics and photo collage. Her artwork is widely exhibited and her collections are held in a variety of museums.
Marie Ferrarella.  Marie Ferrarella née Rydzynski (b. March 28 in West Germany) is a popular and prolific American writer of over 272 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella which have been translated into at least seven languages. She has also written under the names Marie Nicole Marie Michael and Marie Charles.
Graeme C.A. Wood.  Graeme C.A. Wood is a Canadian journalist who has written for The New Yorker The American Scholar The New Republic Bloomberg Businessweek The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. He is a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly.
M. L. R. Karthikeyan.  MLR Karthikeyan (November 30 1982 in Chennai Tamil Nadu India) is an Indian play back singer. He has lent his voice in Tamil Telugu and Kannada films.Karthikeyan studied at Sir M. Venkatasubba Rao school in Theagaraya Nagar Chennai. During his schooling he was inspired by Devi Sri Prasad to sing in inter-school cultural competitions. He was later the main singer in the school band which took part in many competitions.
Javed Akhtar.  Javed Akhtar (Hindustani: जावेद अख्तर جاوید اختر ; born 17 January 1945) is a poet lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Akhtar is a mainstream writer and some of his most successful work was carried out with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed between 1971 to 1982.
Frederick Oxby.  Frederick Oxby (born 6 February 1987 in London) is an actor most famous for playing Young Robert in the film A Dog Of Flanders (1999).He used to be part of a Belgian band called Ducttape playing bass and singing. The band split up and he now is studying Philosophy and History at Sheffield University. Frederick has more recently been heavily involved in the Sheffield nightlife as a DJ sound technician and drummer in the jazz funk band Lazy Tree Surgeons.
David Caspe.  David Caspe (born October 20 1978 in Chicago Illinois) is an American film and television writer. He is the creator of the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.
Hasse Fröberg.  Hasse Fröberg (born on January 4 1964) is a Swedish guitarist composer and vocalist with a warm voice high pitch and a fairly clear Swedish accent when singing in English. Hasse Fröberg fronted a handful of hard rock bands before joining prog rockers The Flower Kings as a full-time member.
Arthur Byron.  Arthur Byron (1872-1943) was an American actor the son of actors Kate Crehan and Oliver Doud Byron. He played a mixture of British and American roles in films. He was a nephew of the stage actress Ada Rehan his mother's sister.
Steven Epstein (music producer).  Steven Epstein an American producer of classical music received a B.Sc. in Music education from Hofstra University in 1973.Over the years Epstein has worked with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma Wynton Marsalis Plácido Domingo Isaac Stern Itzhak Perlman Murray Perahia Emanuel Ax Bobby McFerrin and groups such as Juilliard String Quartet Tokyo String Quartet Fine Arts Quartet Punch Brothers.
John Skipp.  John Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor as well as a songwriter screenwriter film director and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow. He worked as editor-in-chief of both Fungasm Press and Ravenous Shadows.
Tony Williams (English musician).  Anthony Tony Williams (born 19 August 1947 in Durham City England) is an English musician who plays bass guitar in the folk rock/rock band Stealers Wheel and who also played with Jethro Tull.
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu.  Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (pronounced [jaːˈkup kadˈɾi kaˈɾaosmanoːɫu]) (March 27 1889 in Cairo - December 13 1974 in Ankara) was a Turkish novelist journalist diplomat and senator.
Ruth Arion.  Ruth Arion (17 June 1912 – 15 November 1988) was a German-Israeli painter and enamel artist and one of the founders of Ein Hod Artists’ Village. Her works reflect her experiences as she moved from place to place in the Land of Israel from the 1930s through the 1990s.
Sarwat Nazir.  Sarwat Nazir is a fiction writer novelist screen writer playwrighter. She is best known for her screen play Main Abdul Qadir Hoon and Umm-e-Kulsoom.
Cecil Brower.  Cecil Lee Brower (November 28 1914–November 21 1965) was a classically trained American jazz violinist who became an architect of Western swing in the 1930s. Perhaps the greatest swing fiddler he could improvise as well as double shuffle and created his own style which became the benchmark for his contemporaries. Brower played in many Western bands including his own and was a renowned Nashville session musician.
Lavinia Derwent.  Lavinia Derwent was the pen name of Scottish author and broadcaster Elizabeth Dodd MBE (1909 - 1989).She was born in an isolated farmhouse in the Cheviot hills some seven miles from Jedburgh. She began making up stories about animals at an early age. Her most famous creation was Tammy Troot who entranced generations of children. She also wrote a best-selling book about an island called Sula which later featured in a film.
T. K. Murthy.  T. K. Murthy (born 13 August 1924) is an Indian mridangam player.
Shivram Mahadev Paranjape.  Shivram Mahadev Paranjape (Devanagari: शिवराम महादेव परांजपे) (1864–1929) was an eminent Marathi writer scholar orator journalist and freedom fighter from Maharashtra. He created unrest among the people of Maharashtrian against British rule through his popular weekly Kaal (meaning 'Times' in Marathi) from 1898 to 1908.
Keiron Self.  Keiron Self (born 1971 in Newport Wales) is a Welsh actor and writer most famous for playing Roger Bailey Jnr in the BBC sitcom My Family. His other acting credits include Casualty Lucky Bag and playing PC Claude Cox in the sitcom High Hopes. He has also provided the voice of Police Chief Llunos in the BBC radio production of Aberystwyth Mon Amour. His writing credits include the 2000 sketch show TV To Go Lucky Bag The Story of Tracy Beaker and the 2001 sketch show Velvet Soup.
Rob Gretton.  Robert Gretton known as Rob Gretton (15 January 1953 – 15 May 1999) was the manager of Joy Division and New Order. He was partner in and co-director of Factory Records and a founding partner of The Haçienda.
O.C. (rapper).  Omar Credle (born May 13 1971 in Brooklyn New York) known by his stage name O.C. is an American rapper and former D.I.T.C. member who has been involved with several renowned Underground Hip-Hop groups and also released many solo albums.
Jim Howick.  James Jim Howick (born 14 May 1979) is a British actor.
Red Simpson.  Red Simpson (born March 6 1934) is an American country singer-songwriter best known for his trucker-themed songs.
Al Madrigal.  Alessandro Liborio Al Madrigal (born July 4 1971) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is a regular correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He previously co-starred in the CBS prime-time situation comedies Gary Unmarried with Jay Mohr and Welcome to The Captain with Fran Kranz. He is a regular sketch performer on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and has also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He is now starring on NBC's About A Boy which premiered in February 2014.
Cho Kyuhyun.  Cho Kyu-hyun (Hangul: 조규현; hanja: 曺圭賢) was born on 3 February 1988 mononymously credited as Kyuhyun (Hangul: 규현). He is a South Korean Singer Musical theatre actor radio DJ and MC. He is best known as a member and maknae or the youngest member of K-pop boy band Super Junior and its sub-groups Super Junior-M and Super Junior-K.R.Y. and He is a former member of the South Korean group S.M. The Ballad. He is one of the three main vocalists of Super Junior.
Luthea Salom.  Luthea Salom is a Spanish indie folk singer-songwriter based in New York City. She has released four albums. Her most recent CD The Little Things We Do was released on October 8th 2013 by Subterfuge Records reaching number one on iTunes Spain (Alternative) with her single Hey! Wake Up. Her work has been shortlisted for the Grammy Awards and she was a finalist for Rolling Stone Magazine contest Termómetro RS with her song Tomorrow.
Matteo Lovatti the younger.  Matteo Lovatti the younger (Rome 1861 – after 1909) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects.
Paul Simon (UK musician).  Paul Simon is a British drummer born in Halifax Calderdale West Yorkshire who played with different punk and new wave artists like Ian North Radio Stars John Foxx and Glen Matlock. He is the brother of Robin Ultravox and Magazine guitarist with whom formed Ajanta Music an experimental band in the 1990s.
Martin Stosch.  Martin Stosch (born 30 July 1990 in Landshut Germany) is a German singer and the runner-up of the fourth season of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) the German version of Pop Idol.
Crystallia.  Crystallia Riga (Greek: Κρυσταλλία Ρήγα) (born in Piraeus Greece) better known as simply Crystallia (sometimes spelled Krystallia) is a Greek singer pianist and musician.
Nora Miao.  Nora Miao (Chinese: 苗可秀; pinyin: Miáo Kěxiù Cantonese: Miu Ho-Sau Chinese: 陳詠憫; pinyin: Chén Yǒng-Mǐn) born February 8 1952 is a Hong Kong actress who appeared in many kung-fu films in the 1970s. She was contracted to Golden Harvest and spent her time making films in Hong Kong and in Taiwan where she starred in several romance movies.Miao worked well with Ko Chuen Hsiung and was paired with him in several movies. She played opposite both Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
N. Rajam.  N. Rajam (born 1938) is an Indian violinist who performs Hindustani classical music. She remained Professor of Music at Banaras Hindu University eventually became Chair of the department and the Dean of the college.She was awarded the 2012 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour in the performing arts conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy for Music Dance and Drama.
Keith Ferguson (musician).  Keith Ferguson (July 23 1946 – April 29 1997) was an American bass guitarist best remembered as a member of the blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds based in Austin Texas. Ferguson received several awards for his musicianship.
Wallace Berman.  Wallace Berman (February 18 1926 – February 18 1976) was an American visual and assemblage artist. He has been called the father of assemblage art and a crucial figure in the history of postwar California art.
Jay Dee Daugherty.  Jay Dee Daugherty (born March 22 1952) is an American drummer and songwriter most known for his work with Patti Smith. As a member of the Patti Smith Group he has been nominated twice to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu.  Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu (18 January 1972 – 1 June 2009) was a Turkish harpist and university lecturer for piano and harp. She was aboard Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro Brazil to Paris France which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009.
Jason Craig.  Jason Craig (born June 26 1974 Eglin Air Force Base in Niceville FL) is an American comic book artist
John Law (musician).  John Law is a British jazz pianist and composer born in London to British and Austrian parents.
Frank Hampson.  Frank Hampson (21 December 1918 – 8 July 1985) was a British illustrator best known as the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the boys' comic the Eagle to which he contributed from 1950 to 1961. He wrote and drew Dan Dare's Venus and Red Moon stories plus a complete storyline for Operation Saturn. However Hampson drew only part of the Saturn story and his script was altered when he passed the strip to assistants.
Kenny Scharf.  Kenny Scharf (born 1958) is an American painter who lives in Brooklyn New York. He received his B.F.A. in 1980 with a major in painting at the School of Visual Arts located in Manhattan New York City. Scharf's works consist of painting pop culture icons in a science fiction setting such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons. He is most well-known for his work in the 80s interdisciplinary art scene.
Joey Comeau.  Joey Comeau (born September 26 1980) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for writing the text of the webcomic A Softer World and for his novels Lockpick Pornography and Overqualified.
Nate Sallie.  Nate Allen Sallie (Born: October 28 1976) is an American singer-songwriter recording artist multi-instrumentalist and concert performer signed with Curb Records. He is best known for his masterful pop melodies transparent lyrics numerous radio hits as a solo artist and frontman for Grammy Nominated band NewSong.
Dave Lawson (musician).  Dave Lawson (born David Lawson 25 April 1945 Hampshire England)[citation needed] is an English keyboardist and contemporary composer who in the 1970s was a member of UK progressive rock band Greenslade.
François Borne.  François Borne (1840–1920) sometimes spelled Bourne was a French flautist playing with the orchestra of Le Grand Théatre de Bordeaux (Bordeaux Opera House) composer and professor at Conservatoire de Musique de Toulouse (High School for Music in Toulouse). He is recognized for technical improvements to the flute. Furthermore he is remembered today for his composition Fantasie Brillante on Themes from Bizet's Carmen which is a staple of the Romantic flute repertoire.
Olga Albizu.  Olga Albizu Rosaly (1924–2005) was an abstract expressionist painter from Ponce Puerto Rico.
Daniel Minter.  Daniel Minter (born 1963) is an African-American artist who works in paint and sculpture. Born in the small rural community of Ellaville Georgia Minter is a graduate of The Art Institute of Atlanta and is a professional illustrator arts educator painter and sculptor. He created the new Kwanzaa stamp issued in 2004. Minter now lives in Portland Maine where he continues his creative work and assists with The Underground Railroad of which he is a board member.
Mitsuko Mito.  Mitsuko Mito (水戸光子 Mito Mitsuko 23 March 1919 – 5 April 1981) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1935 and 1973.
Ashfaq Ahmed.  Ashfaq Ahmed (Urdu: اشفاق احمد ‎; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a writer playwright broadcaster intellectual and spiritualist from Pakistan. Ashfaq Ahmed authored more than twenty books in Urdu. His works included novels short stories and plays for television and radio.He was awarded President’s Pride of Performance and Sitara-i-Imtiaz for meritorious services in the field of literature and broadcasting.
Delmore Schwartz.  Delmore Schwartz (December 8 1913 – July 11 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.
Toni Tennille.  Cathryn Antoinette Toni Tennille (born May 8 1940) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her husband Daryl Dragon. Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband including solo albums and session work. Tennille has a contralto vocal range.
Anatoly Marienhof.  Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof or Mariengof (Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Мариенго́ф; 6 July (24 June O.S.) 1897 – 24 June 1962) was a Russian poet novelist and playwright. He was one of the leading figures of Imaginism. Now he is mostly remembered for his memoirs that depict Russian literary life of the 1920s and his friendship with Sergei Yesenin.
Alexis Lavigne.  Alexis Lavigne was a French tailor and inventor. Alexis Lavigne invented the couture mannequin and the supple measuring tape.In 1841 he established Guerre-Lavigne which became ESMOD the first fashion school in the world. In 1847 he invented the soft metric ribbon and took ESMOD internationally by publishing his cutting methods books in German and English.In the International Exhibition in 1849 he displayed the first of his Bust Mannequins.
Akram Aylisli.  Akram Najaf oglu Naibov (Azerbaijani: Naibov Əkrəm Nəcəf oğlu) better known by his pen name Akram Aylisli (Əkrəm Əylisli born December 1 1937) is an Azerbaijani writer novelist and former member of parliament. His works have been translated from his native Azerbaijani into a number of languages in the former Soviet Union and around the world.
Reiner Stach.  Reiner Stach (born 1951) is a German author biographer of Franz Kafka publisher and publicist. Stach lives and works as a freelancer in Berlin. He has received literary awards and published several works including two of three volumes of a biographic trilogy about Franz Kafka.
Ui Miyazaki.  Ui Miyazaki (宮崎羽衣 Miyazaki Ui born August 23 1981 in Tokyo city) is a female Japanese voice actor and singer from Tokyo Japan.
Domonique Simone.  Domonique Simone (born in Valdosta Georgia on June 18 1971) is an African-American adult actress. At the age of 17 Simone won a scholarship to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. At the age of 18 in 1989 she answered an ad for figure modeling and soon found herself shooting for pornographic magazines like Hustler and Players.Simone is noted for being one of the top black starlets in the business starring in more than 200 movies during the 1990s.
Simon Le Duc.  Simon Le Duc (Paris 15 January 1742- 22 January 1777) was a French violinist soloist at the Concert Spirituel music publisher and composer. His younger brother Pierre Le Duc (1755–1818) was also a violinist. It is not clear which of the two brothers was mentioned by mention of the violinist Le Duc in the letters of Mozart.
Joseph Gandy.  Joseph Michael Gandy (1771–1843) was an English artist visionary architect and architectural theorist most noted for his imaginative paintings depicting Sir John Soane's architectural designs. He worked extensively with Soane both as draughtsman and creative partner from 1798 until 1809 when he (ultimately unsuccessfully) set up his own practice.Gandy built little in his career having a reputation as a difficult individual to deal with.
Chung King-fai.  Chung King-fai SBS is a Hong Kong actor and pioneer of contemporary performing art. He is also a director TV producer programme host and performing arts educator. He is the founder and president of the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies Art Form Panels of the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department Chairman of Exploration Theatre and Art Director of Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne.  Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne (1763–1800) was a French writer and translator.
Tamayo Akiyama.  Tamayo Akiyama (秋山 たまよ Akiyama Tamayo) (born November 28 1966 in Ōsaka) a Japanese shōjo manga author and artist. She was a former member of CLAMP.Akiyama has also done illustrations for three novels (Kyokutō Shōnen and Komaranu mae no kami da nomi by Kobayashi Megumi and Watashi no Kare wa Hamster by Edō Kei) and illustrations for a CD (Psycho Sound Machine Drama by Ohara Mariko).
Karima Francis.  Karima Francis is a Blackpool-born singer-songwriter.She is currently based in Manchester. She was named by The Observer as the number 1 act to watch in 2009. After performing at In The City in Manchester she was signed by the independent record company Kitchenware Records. She signed with Vertigo Records a division of Mercury Music Group in 2011.She released her first album The Author on 23 March 2009 to mixed reviews.
Ashlyn Gere.  Ashlyn Gere is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress who performed in both heterosexual and lesbian films. She is also an actress in mainstream film and television.
Brian Turner (American poet).  Brian Turner (born 1967) is an American poet essayist and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection Here Bullet (Alice James Books) the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. His second collection shortlisted for the 2010 T.S.
Manju Kak.  Manju Kak is a writer and film-maker. She is an author critic an art and cultural historian. She has also been a volunteer engaged in development issues and women’s organizations.
William Spencer Bagdatopoulos.  William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1884–1965) was a painter and commercial artist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is known for his Orientalist renditions of people and monuments in the East.
DJ Méndez.  Leopoldo Méndez Alcayaga is a Chilean-Swedish DJ singer and producer known by his stage name Méndez formerly DJ Méndez. He won the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica Awards for Best Southwest New Artist.
Willie Brown (musician).  Willie Lee Brown (August 6 1900 – December 30 1952) was an influential blues guitar player and vocalist. He partnered with other notable blues musicians such as Son House and Charlie Patton and had a great influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Brown is considered one of the main pioneering musicians of the Delta blues genre.Born in Clarksdale Mississippi he learned the guitar as a teenager.
Richard Cocks.  Richard Cocks (1566–1624) was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado Japan between 1613 and 1623 from its creation and lasting to its closure due to bankruptcy.During his time in Japan he wrote a very detailed diary relating the history of the trading post the situation of Japan at the time and the activities of English merchants in Japan among whom was also the English pilot and samurai retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu William Adams.
Carmela Remigio.  Carmela Remigio (born 1973 in Pescara) is an Italian lyric soprano singer.
Bryn Merrick.  Bryn Merrick (born 12 October 1958 in Barry Glamorgan South Wales) is a musician who was a member of Cardiff-based punk band Victimize and who later joined The Damned between 1983 and 1989. He recorded the bass for albums Phantasmagoria and Anything. He replaced Paul Gray in 1983 when Paul went to UFO. His first release with The Damned was single Thanks for the Night b/w Nasty.Now playing with The Shamones Ramones tribute and extensively touring the UK.
Margaret Yarde.  Margaret Yarde (2 April 1878 – 11 March 1944) was a British film actress.Yarde was born in Dartmouth Devon England and died in London at age 65.
Mindy Newell.  Mindy Newell (born October 24 1953) is an American comic book writer and editor.
Bob Nastanovich.  Robert Bob Nastanovich (born August 27 1967 in Rochester New York) is an American musician and member of the indie rock band Pavement as well as former member of the Silver Jews Ectoslavia and Pale Horse Riders.
Salvador Garmendia.  Salvador Garmendia Graterón (11 June 1928 Barquisimeto – 13 May 2001 Caracas) was a notable Venezuelan author awarded in 1972 with the National Prize for Literature. In 1989 received the Juan Rulfo Prize for Tan desnuda como una piedra.
Rachel Roxxx.  Rachel Roxxx (born March 2 1983 in San Antonio Texas) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Sarah Spencer.  Sarah Spencer (born in Ocala Florida) is an American singer songwriter and pianist.
Hiroko Taguchi.  Hiroko Taguchi (田口宏子 Taguchi Hiroko born March 29 1974) is a Japanese voice actress from Kanagawa Prefecture who is attached to Haikyo. She sometimes goes by several pseudonyms including Sakura Takatsuki (鷹月さくら Takatsuki Sakura) Rika Fujiwara (藤原理加 Fujiwara Rika) Momiji Akizuki (秋月もみじ Akizuki Momiji) and Kōri Natsuno (夏野こおり Natsuno Kōri).
Dannie Richmond.  Dannie Richmond (December 15 1931 – March 15 1988) was an American drummer who was best known among jazz fans for his work with Charles Mingus and among pop fans for his work with Joe Cocker Elton John and Mark-Almond.Richmond was born in New York City New York and started playing tenor saxophone at the age of thirteen; he went on to play R&B with the Paul Williams band in 1955.His career took off when he took up the drums though through the formation of what was to be a 21-year association with Charles Mingus.Dannie became Mingus's equivalent to Harry Carney in the Ellington band an indispensable ingredient of 'the Mingus sound' and a close friend as well.That association continued after Mingus' death when Richmond became the first musical director of the group Mingus Dynasty in 1980.
Megan Alatini.  Megan Bronwinne Alatini (born 29 September 1976) is a South African born New Zealand pop singer actress and television personality. She rose to fame in New Zealand on the reality television series Popstars. She went on to become a member in the girl group TrueBliss. She is also known for portraying the part of Java in the popular sci-fi series The Tribe. Later she gained more exposure appearing as a judge on New Zealand Idol.
Anne Ross.  Anne Ross (born 17 March 1985 in Dersum Lower Saxony) is a German singer.She was a member of the German pop girl group Preluders. After Preluders disbanded she and Manel Filali teamed up to form the duo Milk & Honey.
Fausto Amodei.  Fausto Amodei is an Italian folk singer-songwriter and musicologist. He was born in 1934 in Turin.
Naoki Yanagi.  Naoki Yanagi (矢薙 直樹 Yanagi Naoki born Tomoki Yanagi (柳 知樹 Yanagi Tomoki) November 1 1972) is a Japanese male voice actor who was born in Tokyo.
Antonio Triva.  Antonio Triva (1626-c. 1669]) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period.He was born in Reggio Emilia and studied under Guercino in Bologna. Painted in Rome Reggio and Piacenza. He visited Venice taking with him his sister and assistant Flaminia. He was invited to the court of the Elector of Bavaria and died in Munich. He painted as well with his left hand as with his right and was a good etcher. Four etchings by him with the following titles: Susanna and the Elders.
Sheikh Haikel.  Sheikh Haikel (born Sheikh Haikel Sheikh Salim Arabic: شيخ هيكل شيخ سليم‎ Šayḫ Haykal Šayḫ Salīm October 10 1975) is a Singaporean rapper actor and radio personality. He won talent competition Asia Bagus in 1991. He has performed on the radio the stage the big screen and on television and has produced three studio albums and one single track album to date.
Mustansar Hussain Tarar.  Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Urdu: مستنصر حسين تارڑ‎; Mustanṣar Ḥusẹ̄n Tāraṙ) (born 1st March 1939) is a Pakistani author actor former radio show host and compere.
Luís de Sttau Monteiro.  Luís Infante de Lacerda Sttau Monteiro (April 3 1926 – July 23 1993) was a Portuguese writer novelist and playwright a man to whom the only sacred thing was to be free as the wind.
Carlo Bolognini.  Carlo Bolognini (1678–1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was mentioned in the Abecedario Pittorico of Padre Orlandi was born at Bologna in 1678 ( though Zani says 1662) and was first a pupil of Mauro Aldrovaridini then worked with Giulio Trogli. He excelled in painting quadratura and was much employed at Vienna.
Ian Monroe.  Ian Monroe (born 1972) is an artist based in London. Monroe was born in Cooperstown New York and spent his childhood in Reston Virginia a planned community 25 miles outside of Washington D.C.. Monroe received his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995. He went on to complete an MA (again in visual art) from Goldsmiths College London in 2002. The main work he exhibited at his MA show Canyon Recreated was bought by Charles Saatchi.
Marguerite Young.  Marguerite Vivian Young (August 26 1908 – November 17 1995) was a American poet novelist biographer and critic. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh My Darling. In her later years she was known for teaching creative writing and as a mentor to young authors. She was a respected literary figure as well as a cherished Greenwich Village eccentric.
Walter M. Baumhofer.  Walter Martin Baumhofer (November 1 1904 - September 23 1987) was an American illustrator notable for his cover paintings seen on the pulp magazines of Street & Smith and other publishers.Baumhofer was born and grew up in Brooklyn where his father was a clerk at a local coffee company and then in 1918 janitor at an apartment building a situation which enabled the family to live rent free.
Jorge Medina Vidal.  Jorge Medina Vidal (born 1925 in Montevideo; died 2008) is a Uruguayan poet educator and literary critic.He received his diploma at the Department of Humanities and Sciences of the Universidad de la República. As a member of that school and of the Artigas Institute for Teachers he taught at the secondary level.
Frederick Culley.  Frederick Culley (1879–1942) was a British film actor. He was best remembered as the kindly Dr. Sutton in The Four Feathers (1939).
Ezra Stoller.  Ezra Stoller (16 May 1915 – 29 October 2004) was an American architectural photographer.Stoller was born in Chicago. His interest in photography began while he was an architecture student at New York University when he began making lantern slides and photographs of architectural models drawings and sculpture.
Oliver Nelson.  Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4 1932 – October 28 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist clarinetist arranger and composer.
John Montague (poet).  John Montague (born 28 February 1929) is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He is one of the best known Irish contemporary poets. In 1998 he became the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry (virtually Ireland's poet laureate).
Michel Delpech.  Jean-Michel Delpech (born in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine France) on 26 January 1946)  known as Michel Delpech is a French singer-songwriter.
Quran Pender.  Quran Lonn Pender (born January 4 1979 Jamaica Queens New York) (a.k.a. Storm P) is an African American actor and rapper best known for his role as Todd Anderson in the 2004 movie The Cookout and the 2011 made-for-TV sequel The Cookout 2.
Margaret Hillert.  Margaret Hillert (born January 22 1920) is an American author and poet. Hillert is known primarily for her children's literature having written over eighty books for beginning readers. A retired first grade teacher she currently resides in southeast Michigan. Hillert is best known for her Dear Dragon series which pairs tales of a young boy and his pet dragon with instructional notes word lists and activities to promote reading skills.
Martin Troakes.  Martin Troakes is a British actor who has played Roy Hutchinson in Tiger Bay Ian Williams in Holby City Terry Kerns in The Bill Security Guard in Ultimate Force Jim Cullimore in Heartbeat Glen Priddy in Dalziel and Pascoe Gordon Bayliss in Doctors and Joe Walsh in New Tricks.
Mark Salzman.  Mark Joseph Salzman (born December 3 1959 in Greenwich Connecticut) is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s.Salzman grew up in Ridgefield Conn. the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father. He studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University.
Leslie Harvey.  Leslie Cameron Les Harvey (13 September 1944 – 3 May 1972) was a guitarist in several Scottish bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s most notably Stone the Crows. He was the brother of Alex Harvey.Harvey was born in Govan Glasgow Scotland. In the 1960s he was asked to join The Animals by Alan Price but chose to stay with his brother in the Alex Harvey Soul Band. He later joined the ill-fated Blues Council another Scottish band.
Ayşe Hatun Önal.  Ayşe Hatun Önal (born July 29 1978) is a Turkish model actress singer and Miss Turkey 1999 who represented her country in the 49th Miss World 1999 in London England.
Tara Lyn Hart.  Tara Lyn Hart born April 11 1978 in Roblin Manitoba Canada is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter.
Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig.  Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig or Laidcend mac Baíth Bandaig (died 661) was a monastic scholar at Cluain Ferta Mo-Lua (Clonfert-Mulloe Co. Laois).He is the ascribed author of the earliest surviving example of a lorica or breastplate a term applied to a genre of charm-prayers derived from the Pauline conception of life as an armed struggle. In this work protection is asked for all 70-odd body parts by invoking the heavenly powers. The best known lorica is St.
Samuel Austin (artist).  Samuel Austin (died 1834) was an English water-colour painter.Austin was a native of Liverpool. He commenced life as a banker's clerk but eventually gave up a good position in order to devote himself entirely to the art in which he had excelled as an amateur and of which he was enthusiastically fond.
Joe Gibbs (record producer).  Joe Gibbs born Joel A. Gibson (14 October 1942 — 22 February 2008) was a Jamaican reggae producer.
Buddy Richard.  Ricardo Roberto Toro Lavín also known as Buddy Richard (September 21 1943 Graneros) is a Chilean singer-songwriter known for his ballads.He began performing as part of the Nueva ola (New wave). He first recorded in 1962 recording his own songs and singing in Spanish. He signed to Caracol and released his first single Balada de la tristeza which became a hit in the summer of 1963.
Marcus Belgrave.  Marcus Belgrave (born June 12 1936) is a jazz trumpet player from Detroit born in Chester Pennsylvania. He has recorded with a variety of famous musicians bandleaders and record labels since the 1950s.Belgrave was tutored by Clifford Brown before joining the Ray Charles touring band.
Kim Weston.  Kim Weston (born December 20 1939) is an American soul singer and Motown alumna. In the 1960s Weston scored hits with the songs Love Me All the Way and Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) and with her duet with Marvin Gaye It Takes Two.
Elfyn Lewis.  Elfyn Lewis (born 1969) is a Welsh painter who won the National Eisteddfod of Wales Gold Medal for fine art in 2009 and the Welsh Artist of the Year prize in 2010. Lewis was born in Porthmadog Gwynedd and studied at the University of Central Lancashire Preston before gaining an MA in Fine Art from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 1998.
Titus Turner.  Titus Turner (May 1 1933 – September 13 1984) was an American R&B and East Coast blues singer and songwriter. His best remembered recordings were We Told You Not To Marry and Sound-Off plus he wrote Leave My Kitten Alone and Tell Me Why.
Markos Vamvakaris.  Márkos Vamvakáris (Greek: Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης; born May 10 1905 in Ano Syros or Ánō Khōra on Syros Island; died February 8 1972 in Athens Greece) was a rebetiko musician. He is universally referred to by rebetiko writers and fans simply by his first name Márkos. The great significance of Vamvakaris for the rebetiko is also reflected by his nickname: the patriarch of the rebetiko.
George K. Simon.  George K. Simon (born February 1 1948) is a bestselling author and frequent weblog contributor. His wife Dr. Sherry Simon is also a professional living and working in Little Rock.
Leonid Yanush.  Leonid Borisovich Yanush (Russian: Леонид Борисович Януш; 13 December 1897 — 8 June 1978) was a painter from Leningrad a representative of classic Russian landscapers.«I think that every man who considers himself well-bred and cultural has to be involved in some kind of art or at least be interested in arts» — L. B. Yanush painter scientist tutor.
William VerMeulen.  William VerMeulen is an American horn player. He has been Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony Orchestra since 1990. Before joining the HSO he was a member of the Columbus Symphony Honolulu Symphony and Kansas City Philharmonic. He is Professor of Horn at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston Texas. In addition he maintains an active solo and chamber music career with appearances at Music@Menlo and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Harry Mudie.  Harry A. Mudie (born 1940 in Spanish Town Jamaica) is a Jamaican record producer.
Blind John Davis.  Blind John Davis (December 7 1913 — October 12 1985) was an African-American blues jazz and boogie-woogie pianist and singer. He is best remembered for his recordings including A Little Every Day and Everybody's Boogie.
Donato Mascagni.  Donato Mascagni (1579–1636) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Florence Volterra Rome Mugello and Salzburg. He was a pupil of Jacopo Ligozzi. He is also known as Fra or Frate Arsenio because he joined the Servite monastery in 1605. He however obtained special dispensation through cardinal Gerolamo Bernerio to move to Florence and become a priest in 1609. His income from painting was used to support his family. After much travelling he returned to Florence in 1630.
Bryan Thao Worra.  Bryan Thao Worra (born January 1 1973) is a Laotian American writer. His books include On The Other Side Of The Eye Touching Detonations Winter Ink Barrow and The Tuk Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Cluster Bombs. He is the first Laotian American to receive a Fellowship in Literature from the United States government's National Endowment for the Arts. He received the Asian Pacific Leadership Award from the State Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans for Leadership in the Arts in 2009.
Alessandro Nunziati.  Alessandro Nunziati better known by his stage name Lord Vampyr (born September 16 1972) is an Italian musician and writer famous for being the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires as well as one of its founding members.
Loy Allen Bowlin.  Loy Allen Bowlin (1909–1995) also known as The Original Rhinestone Cowboy was an outsider artist from McComb Mississippi. His artwork largely included bejeweling his clothing Cadillac home and even his dentures with thousands of rhinestones.
Marc Caldwell.  Marc Caldwell has been involved within the large Glasgow Alternative scene since the early 2000's branching to the Republic of Ireland. He was involved with several Punk and Industrial bands notably 'The Proclaimers kiss Brits''The Fingerbangers' 'DarkDeath' and 'Pterodactyl Wizardry'.
Jimmy Diggs.  Jimmy Diggs (born September 2 1955) is an American television screenwriter best known for writing the stories for a combined seven episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. This is more episodes than any other freelance writer in the 40+ year history of the Star Trek franchise.A Vietnam veteran Diggs was a security guard for a Hollywood studio when Renegade producer Nicholas Corea who knew Diggs also wrote science fiction asked him for a story pitch.
Lauren Belfer.  Lauren Belfer is an American author from Buffalo New York where she attended the Buffalo Seminary graduating in 1971. The school would later serve as basis for the girls boarding-school depicted in her debut novel City of Light about Buffalo NY during the Pan-American Exposition.At Swarthmore College she majored in Medieval Studies.
Hilary Pritchard.  Hilary Pritchard (1942–1996) was a British film and television actress. Television roles included parts in The Avengers episode Take Over and Are You Being Served?.Hilary also appeared as the dumb blonde in live comedy sketches in the TV consumer programme That's Life.
Tony Hunt (artist).  Tony Hunt (born 1942) is a Canadian First Nations artist of Kwakwaka'wakw ancestry noted for his work carving totem poles.He was born in 1942 at the Kwakwaka'wakw community of Alert Bay British Columbia. He received early training from his maternal grandfather Mungo Martin. He is also a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt.After Martin's death in 1962 Hunt became assistant carver to his father Henry Hunt at Thunderbird Park in Victoria B.C.
Thurzday.  Yannick “Thurz” Koffi is a solo artist from Inglewood Los Angeles. He is a descendent of both the Ivory Coast and Belize taking his moniker from his last name Koffi which translates in Ghana’s native language of Akan to boy born on Friday.
Ménélik.  Ménélik now MNLK (Albert Tjamag born on 10 September 1970 in Yaoundé Cameroon) is a French rapper.
Bao Guo'an.  Bao Guo'an (born June 1946) is a Chinese actor and professor in the Central Academy of Drama. Best known for his role as Cao Cao in the 1994 television series Romance of the Three Kingdoms Bao won two Best Actor awards at the 1995 Golden Eagle Awards and Flying Apsaras Awards. Bao was also a delegate in the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2003.
Ash King.  Ash King (born Ashutosh Ganguly (Bengali: আশুতোষ গাঙ্গুলী) is a Singer of Bengali origin based in London. He made his playback singing debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6.His first Bollywood break was with A. R. Rahman on the film Delhi-6 which he recorded at Rahman's personal studio.
M. K. Wren.  Martha Kay Renfroe (born 1938) is an Oregon writer author of mystery and science fiction under the penname M.K. Wren. Renfroe was born in Amarillo Texas. Her work includes the Conan Flagg mystery series and the post-apocalyptic novel A Gift Upon the Shore set along the Oregon coast.
Stephen Manes.  Stephen Manes (born January 8 1949) is the author of the 2011 nonfiction book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet. Its subject the workings of a ballet company marked a significant departure for an author best known for his journalism on technology and his books for children.Manes wrote the Digital Tools column that appeared in every issue of Forbes from August 1998 until February 2007 when he announced a six-month break after his review of Windows Vista.
Gwen Shamblin.  Gwen Shamblin is an American Christian non-fiction author and founder of The Weigh Down Workshop and Remnant Fellowship Church. The most distinctive aspect of her writing is its combination of weight loss programs with Christianity. She is married and has two children.
Hiroshi Minami.  Hiroshi Minami (南 廣 March 15 1928 - March 4 1989) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in Branded to Kill as Gihei Kasuga: formerly a ranked hitman who lost his nerve and took to drinking. After introducing Hanada to Yabuhara he joins the former in a dangerous chauffeur mission. His nerves get the better of him and he experiences a short-lived mental breakdown.He also featured in Atout coeur à Tokyo pour O.S.S. 117 (1966).
Michele Pace del Campidoglio.  Michele Pace del Campidoglio (1610-1670) was an Italian painter of fruit and flowers.Pace del Campidoglio was born in Rome in 1610. He was a scholar of Fioravanti and was called 'Di Campidoglio' from an office he held in the Campidoglio or Capitol at Rome. There was a fine picture by him in the collection of John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim and many others are to be found in England. He died in 1670.
Alfred of Malmesbury.  Alfred (or Aelfric) (died 999) abbot of Malmesbury England and afterwards (in 990) bishop of Crediton was a writer of some celebrity in the tenth century. He composed a book titled De Naturis Rerum and is said to have written a history of his abbey. Some also have attributed to him a Life of Aldhelm.
Jean Cousin (composer).  Jean Escatefer dit Cousin (before 1425 – after 1474) was a French or Flemish singer and composer of the Burgundian School and a member of the royal chapel from about 1461.
Jan Erik Lindqvist.  Jan Erik Lindqvist (25 July 1920 – 23 October 1988) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows between 1942 and 1988.
Chris Faust.  Christopher C. Faust (born 1955 in Fort Riley Kansas) is a prolific landscape photographer in St. Paul Minnesota. He holds a degree in biology from St. Cloud State University and an MS in Educational Media from St. Cloud State University.He is best known for his panoramic photographs of landscapes. From 1990 to 1996 he created a series of black-and-white images of new suburban development especially in Minnesota USA.
Len Barry.  Len Barry (born Leonard Borisoff June 12 1942 West Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States) is a retired American vocalist songwriter and record producer.
Cello Dias.  Marcelo Dias better known as Cello Dias is the bassist of Against All Will and the former bassist of Soulfly.
Ryutarou Akimoto.  Ryutarou Akimoto (秋元 龍太朗 Akimoto Ryūtarō born March 13 1995) is a Japanese actor and model. He is part of Evergreen Entertainment and has appeared several times in Japanese movies and TV dramas. He received a Junon Super Boy Photogenic Award.
Fernand Mourlot.  Fernand Mourlot (5 April 1895 - 4 December 1988) son of Jules Mourlot was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot.
Ian Jorgensen.  Ian Francis Jorgensen (also known as Blink) is a Wellington-based events manager editor and photographer.
Troy CLE.  Troy Tompkins known as Troy CLE is an American fiction writer from East Orange New Jersey. He is the author of The Marvelous Effect the first book in The Marvelous World Saga. The book follows young African-American protagonist Louis Proof. The book was released by Simon & Schuster and Random House on May 22 2007. In which he received a six figure book deal.[citation needed] Troy is a graduate of Seton Hall Preparatory School and New York University (NYU).
Gerrit Kinkel.  Gerrit Kinkel (born December 27 1984) is an Austrian composer record producer recording engineer and performer.
Sarthak Kalyani.  Sarthak Kalyani (Hindi: सार्थक कल्याणी) is an Indian child singer who comes from Central India.
Konstantin Vorobyov.  Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov (Константи′н Дми′триевич Воробьё′в September 24 1919 Kursk region Soviet Russia - March 2 1975 Vilnius Lithuania (then USSR) was a Russian Soviet writer a War hero and a major proponent of the 'lieutenants' prose' sub-genre in the Soviet War literature.
Richard Russell (XL Recordings).  Richard Russell is the owner of British record label XL Recordings.
Sam Prekop.  Sam Prekop (born October 18 1962) is a rock/pop musician in the band The Sea and Cake. He also has released three solo albums. Prekop first gained recognition in the band Shrimp Boat from 1988 to 1993. Many artists have performed in the Sam Prekop band such as Chad Taylor Josh Abrams Jim O'Rourke and Archer Prewitt. His father is the photographer Martin Prekop. He has two brothers the furniture designer Hank Prekop and the painter Zak Prekop.
Cristoforo Coriolano.  Cristoforo Coriolano (born 1540) was a German engraver of the Renaissance.He was born in Nuremberg. He moved to Italy and changed his name from Lederer for that of Coriolano. He engraved on wood. In the Life of Marcantonio Raimondi the biographer Vasari assured that his Maestro Cristofano after achieving some success in Venice engraved on wood the portraits of the painters sculptors and architects after Vasari's designs for his Lives of the Painters first published in 1568.
Deanna C. C. Peluso.  Deanna C. C. Peluso (born 1980) is a Canadian musician composer music educator author and researcher currently residing in Los Angeles CA and Vancouver B.C.. She is the Project Manager for the artistic learning research group MODAL Research at Simon Fraser University as well as the Project Coordinator for RYME - Research For Youth Music and Education (since 2009) and also is a research collaborator on the SSHRC funded research projects.
Shawty Redd.  Shawty Redd (born Demetrius Stewart) is an American record producer rapper and songwriter. In November 2007 he gained fame when he produced Sensual Seduction the first single from multi-platinum rapper Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin'. In addition to being a hit it marked the official mainstream acceptance of this young producer’s return to a more complex Hip-Hop sound one which borrows from other genres and utilizes a full spectrum of instrumentation.
Sven Väth.  Sven Väth (born 26 October 1964) is a German DJ/producer in the electronic music scene since 1981; playing for over 32 years. His single “Electrica Salsa” under the alias OFF launched his career in 1986.
Brenda Asnicar.  Brenda Daniela Asnicar Mendoza (born October 17 1991) know professionally as Brenda Asnicar is an Argentine actress dancer and singer. She's mostly known for her role in the hugely successful telenovela Patito Feo as Antonella Lamas Bernardi. In 2013 she starred as Juana Carbajal one of the protagonists in the Colombian series Cumbia Ninja filmed in Bogotá for Fox.
Rebecca Brandewyne.  Rebecca Brandewyne née Wadsworth (born March 4 1955 in Knoxville Tennessee United States) is an American bestselling writer of romance novels. Brandewyne has been published in multiple languages in over 60 countries.
Hema Upadhyay.  Hema Upadhyay (born 1972 in Baroda India) is an Indian artist who has lived and worked in Mumbai India since 1998. She uses photography and sculptural installations to explore notions of dislocation and nostalgia.
Julia de Burgos.  Julia de Burgos (February 17 1914 – July 6 1953) is considered by many to be the greatest poet born in Puerto Rico along with Gabriela Mistral another one of the greatest female poets of Latin America. As an advocate of Puerto Rican independence she served as Secretary General of the Daughters of Freedom the women's branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She was also an ardent civil rights activist for women and African/Afro-Caribbean writers.
Van Thanh Rudd.  Van Thanh Rudd (born 1973) is an Australian artist activist and the nephew of Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. His artworks have created controversies due to their left-wing political content. Rudd is also a member of Socialist Alternative. He was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and contested the seat of Lalor in the 2010 federal election against Prime Minister Julia Gillard through the RSP an unregistered party.
Raquel Olmedo.  Raquel Olmedo (pronounced: [raˈkel olˈmeðo]) (born Siomara Anicia Orama Leal on December 30 1937 in Caibarién Las Villas Cuba) is an actress and at one time singer. She started her career in her native Cuba before moving to Mexico in 1959 at the start of Fidel Castro's regime's rule of Cuba.
Dan Dugmore.  Daniel Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing steel guitar.Dugmore was raised in Pasadena California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers he learned to play steel guitar after Flying Burrito Brothers member Sneaky Pete Kleinow sold him one. Dugmore then joined John Stewart's road band and then Linda Ronstadt's; he also played for several James Taylor albums.
Julius Rolshoven.  Julius Rolshoven (1858–1930) was a well-traveled American painter with work firmly in the academic tradition.
Dale Thompson.  Dale Thompson (born 1963) is an American singer musician and song writer. In 1983 he and his brother Troy created the Christian metal band Bride (at the time known as Matrix). Dale and Troy are the only original members still in the band.
Edward Davies (Celtic).  Edward Celtic Davies (7 June 1756 – 7 January 1831) was a Welsh writer and Anglican clergyman whose most influential work examined the origins of Celtic languages and the meaning of Celtic mythology. It became part of the 19th-century recovery and reinvention of druidic tradition.Born in Llanfaredd Radnorshire Davies attended Christ College Brecon (alongside his friend the historian Theophilus Jones).
Kid Harpoon.  Kid Harpoon (born Tom Hull 20 April 1982 Chatham Kent England) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.
Tilla Valstad.  Mathilde Georgine Tilla Valstad (1871 – 1957) was a Norwegian teacher novelist and journalist. She was born in Tønsberg as the daughter of ship owner Johan Henrik Christiansen and Mathilde Georgine Hvistendahl and was married to painter and teacher Otto Valstad in 1893. Their home in Hvalstad was a cultural centre and has later been made into a museum a part of Asker Museum.
Deborah Serani.  Deborah Serani (January 31 1961) is an American psychologist and author whose clinical specialty is depression a condition she has experienced since early childhood. She is an adjunct professor at Adelphi University [2]. Serani has published academic articles on the subject of depression and trauma [3] [4] [5] as well as the award-winning book Living with Depression [6] and Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers. [7]
Debbie Viguié.  Debbie Viguié (born 1973) is an American author known for co-writing the Wicked series with Nancy Holder.
Enrique Martinez Celaya.  Enrique Martínez Celaya (born 9 June 1964) is a Cuban American artist whose work consists of paintings sculpture photography poetry and prose presented in contexts he calls Environments. His artistic project pushes the boundaries and limits of art literature philosophy and religion.
Laszlo Gardony.  Laszlo Gardony is an American jazz pianist / composer born in Hungary who has released ten albums and leads his own trio.
Ángel Mislan.  Ángel Mislan (March 1 1862 – February 1 1911) was a composer of Puerto Rican Danzas.
Daniele Pantano.  Daniele Pantano (born February 10 1976) is a poet literary translator editor and scholar. He was born in Langenthal Switzerland of Sicilian and German parentage. Pantano holds degrees in philosophy literature and creative writing. His poems have been translated into several languages including Albanian Arabic Bulgarian German Kurdish and Persian.
Lee Hoi-chuen.  Lee Hoi-Chuen (4 February 1901 – 7 February 1965) was a Hong Kong Cantonese opera singer and film actor. He was the father of Bruce Lee.Lee Hoi-chuen and his wife Grace Ho were in San Francisco in 1940 when Bruce Lee was born on a one-year U.S. tour with the Cantonese Opera Company.
Claude Gray.  Claude Gray (born January 26 1932 in Henderson Texas) is an American country music singer-songwriter and guitar picker best known for his 1960 hit Family Bible which has been covered by many different artists.
Paul Brodie.  Paul Brodie OC (April 10 1934 – November 19 2007) was a Canadian saxophonist pupil of Marcel Mule. In 1994 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada Canada's highest civilian honour for having shown true mastery of his art through his ability to reach all ages with his music.Since 1960 he performed over 3000 concerts in Canada U.S.A. Mexico France England India Singapore Hong Kong the Philippines Israel Australia China Italy Scotland Russia and Argentina (1998).
Anand Kabra.  Anand Kabra is an Indian fashion designer. He is known for his sari designs.
Glen Baxter (cartoonist).  Glen Baxter (born 4 March 1944) nicknamed Colonel Baxter is an English cartoonist noted for his absurdist drawings and an overall effect often resembling literary nonsense.Born in Leeds Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images and their corresponding captions employ art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references.
Cyril J. Mockridge.  Cyril J. Mockridge (August 6 1896 - January 18 1979) was an English film and television composer who composed the scores for such films as Cheaper by the Dozen Grand Canary Danger - Love at Work In the Meantime Darling Wake Up and Dream Nightmare Alley and Road House.
Don Rich.  Donald Eugene Ulrich best known by the stage name Don Rich (August 15 1941 - July 17 1974) was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler and a member of the Buckaroos the backing band of country singer Buck Owens.
Christian Barbier.  Christian Barbier (28 June 1924 – 3 November 2009) was a French film and television actor.Barbier was born at Courcelles Belgium. During his career (1964 to 1997) he specialized in drama rather than comedy. In film he held several leading roles but is especially distinguished in auxiliary roles depicting more limited characters. He is especially remembered for his first-class performance in Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969.
Pierre Bernard (comedian).  This is about the American comedian and graphic designer. For the French graphic designer see Pierre Bernard (Grapus). For other persons known as Pierre Bernard go to Pierre Bernard (disambiguation).Pierre Bernard Jr. is a graphic designer and comedian most notable for his work on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Conan.
Michelle Kennedy Hogan.  Michelle Kennedy Hogan (née Michelle Louise Kennedy July 12 1972) is an American blogger and author.
Cynthia McQuillin.  Cynthia McQuillin (July 25 1953 – January 14 2006) was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area. Her songs touched the usual filk topics of science fiction fantasy and cats but also feminism love Paganism and Sizeism.Her life partner and frequent musical collaborator was the filk singer James Robinson who was then known as Dr. Jane Robinson.
David F. Shamoon.  David F. Shamoon is a Canadian screenwriter best known for his screenplay In Darkness. Directed by Agnieszka Holland the film was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012.
George Hayduke (author).  George Hayduke is believed to be a pen-name based on the character George Washington Hayduke III created by Edward Abbey in his 1975 book The Monkey Wrench Gang and 1990 book Hayduke Lives. Often in collaboration with perhaps equally pseudonymous co-author M. Nelson Chunder Hayduke has authored numerous guides to pranks and practical jokes primarily intended for vengeance.
Wayne Fontana.  Wayne Fontana (born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis 28 October 1945) is an English rock/pop singer best known for the 1965 hit Game of Love with the Mindbenders.
Carlos Meglia.  Carlos Meglia (December 11 1957 – August 15 2008) was a comic book artist and penciller born in the city of Quilmes Argentina. One of his best-known creations is the Cybersix series done in partnership with Carlos Trillo. Meglia died on August 15 2008 at the age of 50.
Derib.  Derib (born Claude de Ribaupierre on August 8 1944 in La Tour-de-Peilz Switzerland) is a Swiss francophone comics creator one of the most famous in Europe who started his professional career at Peyo's studio. He is probably best known for his Western comics such as the children's comic Yakari and the more mature works Buddy Longway and Celui-qui-est-né-deux-fois (He-who-was-born-twice).
Yoshiya Minami.  Yoshiya Minami (南佳也 Minami Yoshiya) is a male pornographic actor from Japan.
John Hallet.  John Hallet is a British actor probably best known for his role as Barney in the 1970s television drama Survivors.Other TV credits include: Z-Cars The Regiment as regular Pte Hodge Oil Strike North All Creatures Great and Small Call Me Mister and the uncompleted Doctor Who serial Shada.
Trevor Baxendale.  Trevor Baxendale is a novelist who has penned several Doctor Who tie-in novels and audio dramas.
Le Youth.  Wes James better known by his stage name Le Youth is an American electronic musician DJ and producer. He is known for combining R&B with 90's house music. James was raised in Ohio and currently resides in Los Angeles CA.
Roland Khoury.  Roland Khoury (Arabic: رولان خوري‎) (1930—1988) was a Syrian painter.
Benny Gallagher.  Bernard Joseph Benny Gallagher (born 10 June 1945 Largs Ayrshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist most famous as half of the popular duo Gallagher and Lyle.
Edward Duyker.  Edward Duyker (born 21 March 1955) is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne Victoria.Edward Duyker's books include several ethno-histories — Tribal Guerrillas (1987) The Dutch in Australia (1987) and Of the Star and the Key: Mauritius Mauritians and Australia (1988) — and numerous books dealing with early Australian exploration among them critically acclaimed biographies of Daniel Solander Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne Jacques Labillardière and François Péron.
Kazuko Hosoki.  Kazuko Hosoki (細木 数子 Hosoki Kazuko born April 4 1938 in Tokyo) is a Japanese fortune teller as well as the author of over 100 books. Hosoki appeared frequently on the original Iron Chef where she would serve as one of the four celebrity judges that would determine the outcome of each match.
Maria Flook.  Maria Flook a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award recipient is the author of the nonfiction books My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance (Pantheon 1998) and New York Times Best Seller Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod (Broadway Books 2003).
John Boyes (musician).  John Boyes (born 31 August 1966) is a progressive rock guitarist and a commercial editorial and advertising photographer. His musical career began when he replaced the original guitarist Jim Harris in the band Freefall in 1990 continuing with Rook[citation needed] and most recently contributing to former Freefall band-mate songwriter and producer Jem Godfrey's progressive band Frost* on the formative recordings for their first album Milliontown.
Gary Gibson (author).  Gary Gibson (born in 1965) is a science fiction author from Glasgow Scotland.
TC (musician).  TC (also known as Tommy Boy) is the stage name of drum and bass producer singer and Bristol DJ Tom Casswell. He left school and started making music inspired by the sounds of the Bristol scene and the music and atmosphere of St. Paul's the area of Bristol where he grew up.His debut album Evolution was released in 2007 on D-Style Recordings. TC also presented the latest edition of Watch The Ride a compilation CD released several times a year.
Atsuko Hashimoto.  Atsuko Hashimoto is a jazz musician from Osaka Japan who plays Hammond B-3 electronic organ and has performed in Japan and the United States. To date she has recorded five albums of organ trio and organ quartet jazz.
Megan Joy.  Megan Joy (born September 18 1985 as Megan Joy Knudsen) formerly known as Megan Joy Corkrey is an American singer-songwriter and actress from Sandy Utah who was the ninth place finalist on the eighth season of American Idol. With funding by her fans through Kickstarter Joy was able to compose her self-titled debut EP. Backers of the project received the EP on April 27 2012. Joy released her debut album Megan Joy on April 25 2012.
Rudolph Lexow.  Rudolph Lexow (January 10 1823 Tönning Schleswig-Holstein – July 16 1909 New York City) was a German-American writer and editor.
Netsky (musician).  Boris Daenen (Dutch: [boːrɪs daːnən]; born 22 March 1989) better known as Netsky (pronounced: Net-sky /ˈnɛtskaɪ/) is a Belgian drum and bass producer. The name Netsky is based on the computer virus of the same name.
Sherif Sonbol.  Sherif Sonbol (born December 6 1956 in Egypt) is a photographer specializing in architecture scenic fine arts and photojournalism.
Émile Stern.  Émile Stern (28 April 1913 – 14 January 1997) was a French composer pianist and conductor. He was born in Paris. Together with his writing partner Eddy Marnay they wrote one of the winning songs for the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest: Un jour un enfant. He wrote the scores for Claude Berri's film Mazel Tov ou le Mariage.
Mah Laqa Bai.  Mah Laqa Bai born as Chanda Bibi and sometimes referred to as Mah Laqa Chanda (7 April 1768 – 1824) was an Indian 18th century Urdu poet courtesan and philanthropist based in Hyderabad. In 1824 she became the first female poet to have a diwan (collection of poems) of her work a compilation of Urdu Ghazals named Gulzar-e-Mahlaqa published posthumously. She lived in a period when Dakhini (a version of Urdu) was making its transition into the highly Persianized Urdu.
Larissa Loyva.  Larissa Loyva is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Based in Vancouver she has released material and performed as a solo artist under the stage name Kellarissa as well as with the bands P:ano and The Choir Practice.She released Flamingo her debut album as Kellarissa in 2008 on Mint Records. On Flamingo she performs songs in both English and Finnish. She announced in August 2010 that she was at work on her second album tentatively titled Moon of Neptune.
Jim Anderson (sound engineer).  Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer for acoustic music in the recording radio television and film industries.
Montague Summers.  Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches vampires and werewolves in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation published in 1928 of the notorious 15th-century witch hunter's manual the Malleus Maleficarum.
Don Butterfield.  Don Butterfield (April 1 1923 – November 27 2006) was an American jazz and classical tuba player.
Lu Wenfu.  Lu Wenfu（Chinese: 陆文夫 March 23 1927 - July 9 2005） is a contemporary Chinese writer. He was interested in literature from an early age and devoted all his life into it. He worked for many years as journalist and a magazine editor and served as president of the Jiangsu Writers' Association (zh:江蘇作家協會 江苏作家协会) and vice president of the Chinese Writers' Association (zh:中國作家協會 中国作家协会).
Patrick Galvin.  Patrick Galvin (15 August 1927 – 10 May 2011) was an Irish poet singer playwright and prose and screen writer born in Cork's inner city.
Seth Meyers.  Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28 1973) is an American actor voice actor screenwriter producer television host and comedian. He is a former head writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live and hosted its news parody segment Weekend Update. Meyers currently hosts the talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers which premiered on Monday February 24 2014 on NBC.
John Pinette.  John Paul Pinette (/pɨˈnɛt/ pə-NET; March 23 1964 – April 5 2014) was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television. Besides stand-up Pinette did impressions of The Chipmunks Elvis Presley Gollum from The Lord of the Rings Hervé Villechaize (Tattoo from Fantasy Island) an Ewok actor Marlon Brando (notably Brando's role in The Godfather) as well as various ethnic accents.
Cleeve Horne.  Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne OC O.Ont RCA OSA SSC CPA (January 9 1912 – July 5 1998) was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor.
Ann Catley.  Ann Catley (1745–1789) also known as Ann Lascelles was an English singer and actress. She took the name Lascelles from Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Lascelles (1744–1799) with whom she had a long relationship but to whom she was never married.
Edith Södergran.  Edith Irene Södergran (4 April 1892 – 24 June 1923) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet. She was one of the first modernists within Swedish-language literature and her influences came from French Symbolism German expressionism and Russian futurism. At the age of 24 she released her first collection of poetry entitled Dikter (Poems). Södergran died at the age of 31 having contracted tuberculosis as a teenager and did not live to experience the world wide appreciation of her poetry.
Srečko Kosovel.  Srečko Kosovel (About this sound pronunciation ) (18 March 1904 – 26 May 1926) was a post–First World War Slovene poet now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region a political poet resisting forced Italianization of the Slovene areas annexed by Italy an expressionist a dadaist a satirist and as a voice of international socialism using avant-garde constructivist forms.
Kenny Laguna.  Kenneth Benjamin Kenny Laguna (born January 30 1954) is an American songwriter and record producer best known for his work with Joan Jett.He was born in Greenwich Village New York City and started playing piano at high school dances from the age of twelve.
Dodo Marmarosa.  Michael Dodo Marmarosa (December 12 1925 – September 17 2002) was an American bebop pianist.
Hugo Kaun.  Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (March 21 1863 – April 2 1932) was a German composer conductor and music teacher.Kaun was born in Berlin and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 (or 1887) he left Germany for the United States and settled in Milwaukee which was home to a well-established German immigrant community .
Cecil Leeson.  Cecil Leeson (16 Dec 1902 North Dakota – 17 April 1989) a musician and teacher was widely credited with establishing the saxophone as a legitimate concert instrument.In 1937 Mr. Leeson was the first saxophonist to play at Town Hall in New York City. He was also one of the first saxophonists to appear as a soloist with major American symphony orchestras.
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.  Anne-Louis Girodet (also given as Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Triosson Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson) (January 5 1767 – December 9 1824) was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings. Girodet is remembered for his precise and clear style and for his paintings of members of the Napoleonic family.
Alannah Currie.  Alannah Currie (born Alannah Joy Currie 20 September 1957 Auckland New Zealand) is a musician and artist best known as a former member of the UK pop group Thompson Twins.
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh.  Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani (Persian: محمد علی جمالزاده اصفهانی‎) (January 13 1892 Isfahan Iran – November 8 1997 Geneva Switzerland) was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century best known for his unique style of humour. In view of his vast influence over Persian short-story writing he is often referred to as the father of this genre in Iran.
Frank Warner (folklorist).  Francis M. Frank Warner (April 5 1903 – February 27 1978) was an American folk song collector singer musician and YMCA executive.
Dave Graney.  David John Dave Graney is an Australian rock musician and singer-songwriter and author from Melbourne. Since 1978 Graney is generally accompanied by drummer Clare Moore.
Casimir Zagourski.  Casimir Zagourski (in Polish Kazimierz Zagórski) (1883–1944) was a pioneering photographer of Central African peoples and customs.Zagourski was born in Zhytomyr in 1883. He was of Polish ethnicity from the noble Clan of Ostoja. He served in the Imperial Russian Air Force until 1917 rising to the rank of colonel and in the Polish military during 1920.He emigrated from Europe in 1924 and settled in Léopoldville (Belgian Congo) gallicizing his name and opening a photographic studio.
J. D. Frazer.  J. D. Frazer (born 1969) pen name Illiad is the artist and writer of the webcomic User Friendly. The strip debuted in November 1997 and is considered to be one of the first major webcomics. It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet service provider and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers self-styled geeks and other technophiles.
Hangama.  Hangama (Persian: هنگامه) is a popular singer from Afghanistan. She is born as Zohra in 1962 in Kabul. When she became a singer her mother chose the name Hangama for her. She currently lives an exile in Toronto Canada where she continues her music career. Before her emigration from Afghanistan in the early 1980s she was counted as one of the most popular female singers of the country.
Rainer Hersch.  Rainer Hersch is a British conductor actor writer and stand-up comedian known for his comical take on classical music. He has toured in more than 30 countries and has broadcast extensively principally for the BBC. His radio series include All Classical Music Explained (BBC Radio 4 1997); Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective (BBC Radio 3 1999) and All the Right Notes Not Necessarily in the Right Order (BBC Radio 4 2003 and 2006).
Lackluster.  Lackluster is the main stage name of Esa Juhani Ruoho (born October 26 1978) who has also recorded as Esa Ruoho Can'o'Lard Kökö and the Köks and XLLV. Lackluster is formerly known as the chiptune musician Distance part of the demoscene groups Orange Monotonik Calodox The Digital Artists The Planet of Leather Moomins (TPOLM) FLO and Satori.
Katie Gold.  Katie Gold is an American pornographic actress.Gold’s initial career in the adult film industry lasted from 1997 to early 1999. She returned to the industry in 2003 as a contract girl for JM Productions.
Richard Hamblyn.  Richard Hamblyn (born 1965) is a British environmental writer and historian.
John Maubray.  John Maubray (1700–1732) was a Scottish physician who practised in London as an early teacher of midwives.
Jorge Castillo (chef).  Jorge G. Castillo is a Cuban-American chef and television personality. Born in Cayo la Rosa near Bauta Cuba Castillo came to the United States in the Mariel Boatlift of 1980). Castillo is a member of the Three Guys From Miami a group that promotes Cuban culture and cuisine throughout the United States and Canada.
Raimond Valgre.  Raimond Valgre (born Raimond Tiisel; 7 October 1913 – 31 December 1949) was an Estonian composer and musician whose songs have become some of the most well known in Estonia. During World War II he was a member of the orchestra of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Red Army and as a result of his service on the Eastern Front he became an alcoholic after the war. His music was banned in 1948 by the Soviet authorities.
Colin Bateman.  Colin Bateman (known mononymously as Bateman) is a novelist screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor County Down Northern Ireland.
Murs (rapper).  Nick Carter (born March 16 1978) better known by his stage name Murs is an American rapper.
Per-Axel Arosenius.  Per-Axel Daniel Rank Arosenius (7 November 1920 – 21 March 1981) was a Swedish film and television actor of mostly supporting parts. His most prominent film role was that of Soviet defector Boris Kusenov in the thriller film Topaz (1969) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Daniela Benedini.  Daniela Benedini (born May 24 1972 in Desio Italy) is an Italian contemporary painter and decorator who is specialized in the use of the Trompe l'oeil.
Marguerite Pierry.  Marguerite Pierry (26 December 1887 Paris – 20 January 1963 Paris) was a French actress.
Matt Cavotta.  Matt Cavotta is an American artist and writer. His artwork is focused on the fantasy genre with notable contributions to popular games such as Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons.
Shae (Indonesian singer).  Sheryl Gething more known with her stage name Shae is an Indonesian singer. She was born to an Australian father and Indonesian mother from Riau.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.  Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (born September 26 1934) is an American writer. Her writings are mostly focused on the ethnic diversity of the United States. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Farewell to Manzanar which details her own experiences as a Japanese American in World War II internment camps.
Yoshinori Sunahara.  Yoshinori Sunahara (砂原 良徳 Sunahara Yoshinori born September 13 1969) is a Japanese producer and DJ. He was a member of the techno group Denki Groove.
Kate Forsyth.  Kate Forsyth is an Australian author. She is best known for her historical novel Bitter Greens which interweaves a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of the woman who first told the tale the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force.Forsyth is also the author of several children's books including The Gypsy Crown The Puzzle Ring The Starthorn Tree The Wildkin's Curse The Starkin Crown and Dragon Gold.
Alexandre Hogue.  Alexandre Hogue (February 22 1898 – July 22 1994) was an American artist active during the 1930s through the 1960s. He is a realist painter associated with the Dallas Nine; the majority of his works focus on Southwestern and Midwestern landscapes during the Dust Bowl.
Nestor Redondo.  Nestor Redondo (May 4 1928 – September 30 1995) was a comic-book artist best known for his work for DC Comics Marvel Comics and other American publishers in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Jeff Schroeder.  Jeffrey Kim Schroeder (born February 4 1974 in Los Angeles California) is an American rock musician who became a guitarist with the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins (replacing co founder James Iha) in 2007. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA where he specializes in Asian American Literature Francophone Literature and Critical Theory.
Soichiro Watase.  Soichiro Watase (渡瀬 草一郎 Watase Sōichirō) who was born in 1978 is a Japanese author from Yokohama city Kanagawa prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Honshū Japan. He made his debut with the novel Onmyo no Miyako (陰陽ノ京 Onmyō no Miyako) in 2000 winning Gold in the 7th Dengeki Novel Prize. In 2004 he stood on a platform for one year in Nishogakusha University (二松学舎大学 Nishō Gakusha Daigaku) from which he graduated.
Bobby Kimball.  Robert Troy Bobby Kimball (born March 29 1947) is an American singer best known as the original and longtime frontman of the rock band Toto.
Kikuoka Kuri.  Kikuoka Kuri (菊岡 久利 March 8 1909-April 22 1970) was the pen-name of a Japanese author of poetry and novels active in Showa period Japan. His real name was Takagi Michinokuo.
Chezidek.  Chezidek (born Desbert Johnson 20 June 1973 Saint Ann Parish Jamaica) is a roots reggae singer. He is known for his hit singles Call Pon Dem (featured in GTA IV) Can't Hear Must Feel Inna Di Road and Leave De Trees.
Cyprian Ekwensi.  Cyprian Ekwensi MFR (26 September 1921 – 4 November 2007) was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.
Cesare Bertolotti.  Cesare Bertolotti (Brescia September 19 1854 - Brescia June 25 1932) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes.
Muhamad Salih Dilan.  Dilan (in Kurdish: محه‌مه‌د ساڵح دیلان) is regarded as one of the most influential Kurdish Poets and one of the greatest maqam singers of his time. He was one of the few early poets that brought a revolution in Kurdish poetry and literature in the 20th century.
Ilaria Graziano.  Ilaria Graziano (also known as ILA born 1985 in Naples IT) EU is a European singer. She gained popularity with the release of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the subsequent original soundtrack written by composer Yoko Kanno.Graziano started playing violin and singing at a very young age. In 1997 she first joined Europe's female pop group Salsaruba.
Suzanne Goodwin.  Suzanne Goodwin née Suzanne Ebel (27 September 1916 – 28 February 2008) was a British writer of over 40 romantic novels and was translated into some 15 languages. Under her maiden name she wrote contemporary romances and British guides under her married name historical romances she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1964 her novel Journey from Yesterday won the Romantic Novel of the Year Awardawarded by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Soyogi Tōno.  Soyogi Tōno (遠野そよぎ Tōno Soyogi born October 2) is a Japanese voice actress primarily for visual novels and hentai OVAs. This is a pseudonym of Tae Okajima.
Adam Mansbach.  Adam Mansbach is an American author and has previously been a visiting writer and professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009-2011). Mansbach wrote the children's book for adults Go the Fuck to Sleep. Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005 and The End of the Jews (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).
Kristina Olsson.  Kristina Olsson (born 1956) is an Australian writer journalist and teacher. She studied journalism at the University of Queensland and went on to write for The Australian The Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail the Sydney Sunday Telegraph and Griffith Review.Her first novel In One Skin was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001. This was followed by the biography Kilroy Was Here which told the story of Debbie Kilroy.
Seo Kyung-seok.  Seo Kyung-seok (Hangul: 서경석 hanja: 徐昊辰 ; born on February 15 1972) is a South Korean comedian and show host. He is currently a cast member of the variety show Real Men.
Peter M. Shane.  Peter Milo Shane (born 1952) is a law professor and writer. His best-known scholarly work focuses mainly on two subjects. The first is separation of powers law especially law and the presidency. His work often explores what he calls an institutional conception of the rule of law in a separation of powers regime.
Winifred Ann Lutz.  Winifred Ann Lutz (born 1942) is an American sculptor fiber artist and environmental artist known for her site-integrated installations and handmade paper-making. She is recognized as a key innovator in the field of hand papermaking as art form.She graduated from Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in 1965 where she triple majored in Sculpture Ceramics and Printmaking.
Ralph McInerny.  Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24 1929 – January 29 2010) was an American author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. McInerny was a Roman Catholic and the creator of the popular Father Dowling Mysteries books. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin Matthew FitzRalph Ernan Mackey Edward Mackin and Monica Quill. He died of esophageal cancer on January 29 2010.
Feargal Sharkey.  Sean Feargal Sharkey (born 13 August 1958) is a singer from Northern Ireland who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones. Since moving away from performing in the early 1990s he has performed various roles supporting the UK's commercial music industry winning several awards and honours for his work in that area.
Bruce Mitchell (drummer).  Bruce Mitchell (born in Didsbury Manchester England 6 June 1940) is a jazz drummer who plays regularly with Vini Reilly in the Durutti Column.
Tina Marsh.  Tina Marsh (January 18 1954 - June 16 2009) was a jazz vocalist and composer based in Austin Texas. Marsh was the creative director of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (or CO2) a large jazz ensemble which she founded in 1980. In 2000 the Austin Chronicle inducted Marsh into its Texas Music Hall of Fame. In 2008 the Austin Critics Table inducted Marsh into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. C.
Dave Hernandez.  Dave Hernandez is a musician best known for playing guitar and bass in the American indie band The Shins for the first year of its existence rejoining the band in 2003 before finally leaving it once again later on.Hernandez met Shins frontman James Mercer when both lived in Albuquerque playing in underground bands in the early/mid 1990s.
Joseph B. McCormick.  Joseph B. McCormick is the author of Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC.
Mississippi Slim (country singer).  Carbel Lee Ausborn (1923-1970's) better known by his stage name Mississippi Slim was a hillbilly singer who had a radio show on Tupelo's WELO during the later 1940s.Ausborn was born in Smithville Mississippi. According to Peter Guralnick he had taken up guitar at the age of 13 to pursue a career in music. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers Hank Williams Ernest Tubb and Ausborn's cousin Rod Brasfield a then prominent country comedian who toured with Hank Williams.
Vince Sorrenti.  Vince Sorrenti (born 25 March 1961 in Sydney New South Wales) is one of Australia’s best known and leading comic entertainers a respected and successful Australian stand-up comedian from Punchbowl New South Wales. He is of Italian heritage. Sorrenti performs at many functions and events such as the AFL Grand Final Breakfast.
Andy Chambers.  Andy Chambers is a British author and game designer best known for his work for Games Workshop.
Rex McDougall.  Rex McDougall was a British stage and film actor.
Eduardo Brito.  Eduardo Brito (January 22 1906 – January 5 1946) was a Dominican Baritone singer. He was world renowned for his voice and took to the stage in many countries performing operas and zarzuelas. The main hall of the Dominican National Theater is named after Brito.
Kim Carnes.  Kim Carnes (born July 20 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner noted for her distinctive raspy vocal style which has drawn comparisons to Rod Stewart. She had her first solo top-ten hit with a cover version of More Love in 1980 and later achieved international success with her album Mistaken Identity which reached #1 in the USA in 1981 and yielded the international hit Bette Davis Eyes.
Gustave Geffroy.  Gustave Geffroy (1 June 1855 – 4 April 1926) was a French journalist art critic historian and novelist. He was one of the ten founding members of the literary organization Académie Goncourt in 1900.Geffroy is noted as one of the earliest historians of the Impressionist art movement. He knew and championed Monet whom he met in 1886 in Belle-Île-en-Mer while travelling for research on prisons of the Second Empire.
Kim Yarbrough.  Kim Yarbrough is an American singer and actress.
Åsa Elzén.  Åsa Elzén is an artist whose work is informed by feminist theory intersectionality and post-colonialism. Elzén was born in Sweden in 1972 and currently lives and works in Berlin. She is a member of the self-declared feminist separatist group the YES! Association and has worked on collaborative projects with Sonia Hedstrand Ylva Elzén as well as Brian Manning Delaney.
Cornelia Dahlgren.  Cornelia Dahlgren is a Swedish singer songwriter and producer known by the stage name Cornelia. She runs her own independent label called Camp Mozart. Cornelia participated in the first season of Swedish Idol 2004 however dropped out of the show in the final stages as she did not consider the manufactured approach to the music true to what she was about.
Günter Raphael.  Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin Raphael is the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig but illness and the rise of Fascism - he was declared a half-Jew - made this difficult for him. For surviving the Nazis while managing his illness he was awarded the Franz-Liszt award in 1948.
Lionel Cartwright.  Lionel Burke Cartwright (born February 10 1960) is an American country music artist. Between 1988 and 1992 Cartwright charted twelve singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts including a Number One single in 1991's Leap of Faith. He also charted in the Top Ten on the same chart with Give Me His Last Chance I Watched It All (On My Radio) and My Heart Is Set on You. Cartwright has also released three studio albums all on MCA Records.
T. R. Subba Rao.  T. R. Subba Rao (1920–1984) (Taluku Ramaswami Subba Rao (Kannada: ತಳುಕು ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಸುಬ್ಬ ರಾವ್) popularly known as TaRaSu) was a novelist and a scholar in Kannada language. He is considered as a harbinger of the Navya movement of Kannada literature. He is well known for his novels like Durgashtamana which won him the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1985.
Toshiaki Karasawa.  Toshiaki Karasawa (唐沢 寿明 Karasawa Toshiaki born June 3 1963) (real name Kiyoshi Karasawa (唐澤 潔 Karasawa Kiyoshi)) is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He made his theatrical debut in the play Voice Review Stay Gold (ボーイズレビュー・ステイゴールド Bōizu Rebyū Sutei Gōrudo) in 1987. He specialises in theatrical action sequences such as swordplay and fighting.
Lorenzo Lotto.  Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480–c.1557) was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions represent a transitional stage to the first Florentine and Roman Mannerists of the 16th century.
P. C. Hodgell.  Patricia Pat Christine Hodgell (born March 16 1951) is an American fantasy writer artist and professor. She has won several awards for her works.
John Doman Turner.  John Doman Turner (c. 1873 – 3 January 1938) was a British painter and member of the Camden Town Group.Born in Streatham Turner received artistic training by correspondence from Spencer Gore while working as a stockbroker's clerk. This correspondence still exists and has been used by subsequent artists for example Esther Freud in her novel The Sea House.His works include the Walberswick Scroll of the Suffolk village of Walberswick.
Vida Chenoweth.  Vida Chenoweth (born 1929 in Enid Oklahoma) was the first professional solo classical marimbist an ethnomusicologist and a linguist.Credited with being the first to perform polyphonic music on the marimba and for doing for the marimba what Pablo Casals did for the cello and Andrés Segovia did for the guitar she made her solo debut in Chicago in 1956 followed by a successful recital in New York.
Edward Hodges Baily.  Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS (10 March 1788 – 22 May 1867) - (sometimes misspelled Bailey) was an English sculptor who was born in Downend in Bristol.
Juana Inés de la Cruz.  Sister (Spanish: Sor) Juana Inés de la Cruz O.S.H. (English: Joan Agnes of the Cross) (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695)was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school and Hieronymite nun of New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire she is considered today both a Mexican writer and a contributor to the Spanish Golden Age and she stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican literature in the Spanish language.
Martin Page.  Martin George Page (born 23 September 1959) is a professional musician. He is a singer-songwriter and bass player.
Ruth Brooks Flippen.  Ruth Brooks Flippen (1921-1981) was an American screenwriter and television writer.
Eric Hutchinson.  Eric Hutchinson (born September 8 1980) is an American singer-songwriter. He signed with Madonna's Maverick Records but the label shut down before his album was released. Hutchinson recorded and released the album Sounds Like This on his own. The album won praise from gossip blogger Perez Hilton which sent it to the top ten on the iTunes Store where it peaked at number five in September 2007 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The album was picked up by Warner Bros.
Smith Ballew.  Smith Ballew (real name Sykes Ballew) (January 21 1902 – May 2 1984) was an American actor sophisticated singer orchestra leader and a western singing star.He was born in Palestine Texas. He attended high school in Sherman and college at Austin College and the University of Texas. He began his singing career on the radio and in the 1930s became one of the earliest of the singing cowboys on the movie screen.
Malena Ernman.  Sara Magdalena Malena Ernman (born November 4 1970 Uppsala Sweden) is a Swedish opera singer (coloratura mezzo-soprano). Ernman is a versatile artist in her field who outside the world of opera and operettas also has performed chansons cabaret jazz appeared in musicals and she is a performer who's declared that she's very much attracted to the attributes of varité theatre and small intimate stage rooms. Ernman represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow Russia.
Johnny Ringo (musician).  Johnny Ringo (born Bradley Miller 1961 Jones Town Kingston Jamaica died Kingston 1 July 2005) was a reggae/dancehall deejay active from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
Siiri Nordin.  Siiri Nordin (born 15 October 1980 in Helsinki) is a Finnish singer. She was the lead singer of the now defunct Finnish rock band Killer. In 2003 Nordin had a hit on her own with the song Sydämeni osuman sai included on the soundtrack of the movie Helmiä ja sikoja. The song is a cover version of the Gene Pitney hit song Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart.In 2004 Nordin took a break from music and receded to boat carpenting.
Alexsander Freitas.  Alexsander Freitas is an Italian Brazilian pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines. He worked as a personal-trainer in Los Angeles before competing in bodybuilding contests. In 2008 he started doing more photo-shoots and solo videos and in 2009 he shot his very first sex movie for Mustang Studios. In 2010 Raging Stallion Studios started shooting with him and he appeared in the studio's biggest movies that year.
Sharon Solwitz.  Sharon Solwitz is a fiction writer and professor based in Chicago Illinois. She is the author of the short story collection Blood and Milk and the novel Bloody Mary both of which were published by Sarabande Books. Tom Perotta and Heidi Pitlor selected her story Alive for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2012. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991 and teaches creative writing at Purdue University.
Katrine Boorman.  Katrine Boorman (born 1958) is an English actress noted for her portrayal of the character Igrayne in the Arthurian legend film Excalibur directed by her father John Boorman. Her younger brother Charley Boorman also played Mordred who was her grandson formed from the union of her daughter Morgana le Fay and son King Arthur.She also had a supporting role in Boorman's Hope and Glory which Charley also appeared in.
Din Mehmeti.  Din Mehmeti (1932 – 12 November 2010) was an Albanian poet from Kosovo. He was among the best-known classical representatives of contemporary verse in Kosovo.
Joan Comas Pausas.  Joan Comas Pausas (Vilafranca del Penedès 25th June 1913 – 3rd April 2009) was a Spanish painter menswear trader and technical architect.
Thomas T. Dahl.  Thomas Tellevik Dahl (born 7 September 1973) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) music educator and composer known from a series recordings among others within bands like Krøyt & Dingobats.
Keely Wee.  Keely Wee (Chinese: 阮诗凯; pinyin: Ruǎn Shīkǎi; born 13 November 1990) is a Singaporean singer. She attended Victoria Junior College and was also the female champion and runner up of the Campus SuperStar Season 2 (2007) competition losing to Shawn Tok by just a point. She scored the highest for her performance of the song Pingchang Xin (平常心) and received 25.5 out of 30 points from the three judges.
Chandrakala A. Hate.  Dr. Chandrakala Anandrao Hate M.A. Ph.D. (1903–1990) (née Murkute) was a prominent author feminist social worker and professor in Bombay India.
Steve Conte.  Steve Conte (born September 23) is an American singer and rock musician and lead singer of the band The Contes along with his brother John Conte both formerly members of the band Crown Jewels. He is perhaps more popularly known for his collaborations with composer Yoko Kanno as well as being former lead guitarist of the New York Dolls.
Jim Garstang.  Jim Garstang was the pianist for the Cathedral Quartet from 1972 through 1973. He also played piano briefly for the Dixie Echoes and Plainsmen quartets.
Busy (musician).  Bradford Keith Johnson Jr. (born March 22 1984) is an electronic musician from Maryland known by the stage name Busy.
Yahya Hawwa.  Yayha Hawwa (يحيى حوى; born 1976) is a Syrian singer and a Qāriʾ (Qu'ran reciter). He is known for his songs on the Syrian Revolution. His songs mainly focus on human rights human issues and political issues faith and spirituality. He is also well known for the 2008 hit song Hayati kulluha lillah (in Arabic حياتي كلها لله meaning My whole life is for God).
Buck 65.  Richard Terfry (born March 4 1972) better known by his stage name Buck 65 is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues country rock folk and avant-garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host hosting the weekday Radio 2 Drive show on CBC Radio 2 since September 2 2008. In addition he once hosted a weekday program on CBC Radio 3's web radio station.
Christopher Kelen.  Professor Christopher (Kit) Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian academic writer and artist currently residing in Macao China. He is the younger son of Hungarian-born Australian soldier author playwright and journalist Stephen (Istvan) Kelen OAM (1912-2003) and the younger brother of Australian poet Stephen K. Kelen (b. 1956). Professor Kelen is the author of nine volumes of poetry and two novels.
Fred Mitchell (artist).  Madison Fred Mitchell (November 24 1923 – May 21 2013) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
Frank Schilling.  Frank Schilling (born in 1970) is a Cayman Islands based Internet-investor and the founder of Uniregistry Corp. A global top-level domain name registry operator. Schilling has been a long time participant in the evolution of the commercial domain name space. His registry domain marketplace operation and assorted name-holdings are estimated to be valued in the vicinity of $500 million.
Ajit Verman.  Ajit Varman (Hindi: अजीत वर्मन sometimes also credited as Ajit Verman) born Ajit Singh Varman on 26 March 1947 is an Indian film music composer. He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of Satyajit Ray Mrinal Sen Pankaj Mullick and Salil Chowdhury in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as well as Shankar Jaikishan and Laxmikant Pyarelal in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction.
Bryant Clifford Meyer.  Bryant Clifford Meyer (sometimes credited as Clifford Meyer BC Meyer Cliff Meyer or Bryant C Meyer) is a keyboardist guitarist and vocalist best known for his tenure with Los Angeles California-based post-metal band Isis. He was with the band since its debut full-length Celestial in 2000. Previously he was a formative member of Boston-based rock band The Gersch.
Mildred Noble.  Mildred Millie Noble (July 13 1921 – January 19 2008) was an American writer and Native American activist. Noble helped to found the Boston Indian Council which is now known as the North American Indian Center of Boston.Noble was the author of Sweet Grass: Lives of Contemporary Native Women which was published in 1997.
Shyla Foxxx.  Shyla Foxxx (born December 21 1972 in Chicago Illinois) is a pornographic actress of Puerto Rican descent.Foxxx was profiled along with pornographic actresses Devon and Coral Sands on the show Entertainment Tonight February 8 1999. She was profiled on the Spanish-language news program Noticias May 10 1999. Shyla was interviewed by KPIX Eyewitness News At Five June 17 1997 in an expose on pornography.
John Benitez.  John Benitez (born November 7 1957) better known as Jellybean Benitez or Jellybean is an American drummer guitarist songwriter DJ remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent. Benitez has produced and remixed artists such as Madonna Whitney Houston Michael Jackson and the Pointer Sisters.
Mia Smith.  Mia Smith (born 13 May 1994) is a British teenage actress.
Mr. Capone-E.  Mr. Capone-E or Fahd Azam is a former gang member and Pakistani American. Mr. Capone-E was released from prison in 1998 and decided to become a rapper. Mr. Capone- E established his own record label Hi-Power Entertainment. and later signed to Thump Records where he released his later works including his 2003 album Dedicated 2 the Oldies in which he interpolated songs like Angel Baby by Rosie & the Originals. Mr.
Shelby Dressel.  Shelby Kathleen Dressel (born October 25 1990 ) is an American Country Singer-Songwriter from Avon Park Florida who made the top 46 on the ninth season of American Idol. In describing Dressel's ambitions Rachel Pleasant Chambliss of Lakeland Florida's The Ledger wrote At 19 Shelby Dressel still has a lot of things to figure out. Singing isn't one of them.
Michel Tabachnik.  Michel Tabachnik (born 10 November1942) is a Swiss conductor and composer.
Lin Yongjian.  Yongjian Lin (Chinese: 林永健; pinyin: lín yǒng jiàn) (born 14 February 1969) [1] is a Chinese actor known for his comedy Renvovation 装修 on 2005 CCTV's Chinese New Year celebration and co-starred in 2010 TV series Before the Dawn 黎明之前 as Zhongshu Tan. He received award in Best actor in 5th National Drama Festival in China in 2005.Lin Yongjian graduated from P.R.C Academy of Drama in 1990 has been a successful stage actor at Guang-Zhou soldiers' Drama Troupe after graduation.
Erin Soros.  Erin Soros is a Canadian author of short stories. She was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal in 2001 and the Commonwealth Prize for the Short Story in 2006. Her fiction has been published widely in such journals as the Indiana Review and the Iowa Review. She is a two-time finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Prize and a winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's highest literary award.One of her essays was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2005.She holds an M.A.
Bored Nothing.  Fergus Miller also known by the stage and performing name Bored Nothing is an Australian musician.
Lee Dong-ha.  Lee Dong-ha (born December 1 1942) is a South Korean novelist.
Russ Columbo.  Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo (January 14 1908 – September 2 1934) known as Russ Columbo was an American singer violinist and actor most famous for his signature tune You Call It Madness But I Call It Love his compositions Prisoner of Love and Too Beautiful For Words and the legend surrounding his early death.
Bill Woodrow.  Bill Woodrow R.A. (born 1 November 1948) is a British sculptor.
Hilary Alexander.  Hilary Alexander OBE is a British journalist and the Fashion Director of The Daily Telegraph.Alexander was born in New Zealand and is a passionate traveller long distance walker gardener and cat-lover.
Venedikt Yerofeyev.  Venedict Vasilyevich Yerofeyev or Erofeev or Erofeyev (Russian: Венеди́кт Васи́льевич Ерофе́ев) (24 October 1938 – 11 May 1990) was a Russian writer.
Grieves.  Benjamin Laub (born February 23 1984[citation needed]) better known by his stage name Grieves is an American hip hop recording artist based in Seattle Washington. Born in Chicago Illinois he lived in Colorado San Diego and New York. He is signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment.
Manna Dey.  Prabodh Chandra Dey (Bengali: প্রবোধ চন্দ্র দে) (1 May 1919 − 24 October 2013) known by his stage name Manna Dey was an Indian playback singer. He debuted in the film Tamanna in 1942 and went on to record more than 4000 songs from 1942 to 2013. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1971 the Padma Bhushan in 2005 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2007.Dey sang in all the major regional Indian languages though primarily in Hindi and Bengali.
Lino Selvatico.  Lino Selvatico (Padua July 9 1872- Roncade Province of Treviso 1924) was an Italian painter.
Noémi-Noire Oursel.  Noémi-Noire Oursel (15 October 1847 Rouen - unknown date 20th century) was a French librarian and biographer.
Peter Worthington.  Peter John Vickers Worthington (February 16 1927 – May 12 2013) was a Canadian journalist. A foreign correspondent with the Toronto Telegram newspaper from 1956 Worthington was an eyewitness to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 and can be seen in photographs of the event. He remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971. Worthington was the founding editor of the Toronto Sun newspaper which was created by former Telegram employees upon that newspaper's demise.
David Conover.  David Conover (June 26 1919 - December 21 1983) was an author and documentary photographer who is credited with discovering Marilyn Monroe while taking photos for Yank magazine. While attached to the U.S. Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit his commanding officer was future U.S.
Hugh Arnold.  Hugh Arnold (1872–1915) was born in Wimbledon the son of a solicitor. Arnold was educated at the Slade School of Fine Art before attending the London County Council (LCC) Central School of Arts and Crafts where he studied under Christopher Whall from 1989 to 1903. He designed stained glass windows for James Powell & Sons and also did some independent work. While an officer in the Northumberland Fusiliers Arnold died on active service at Gallipoli in 1915.Some of Arnold's works were: St.
Fran Krsto Frankopan.  Fran Krsto Frankopan (Hungarian: Frangepán Ferenc Kristóf; 1643–1671) was a Croatian baroque poet nobleman and politician in the 17th century. He is remembered primarily for his involvement in the failed Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy.
Nor Aini Shariff.  Nor Aini Shariff is a Malaysian fashion designer and founder of the JARUMAS label.
Rō Takenaka.  Rō Takenaka (竹中労 Takenaka Rō born Tsutomu May 30 1930 – May 19 1991) was a Japanese reporter anarchist and critic born in Tokyo. He was the son of the artist and activist Eitarō Takenaka. Expelled from the Russian language department of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies he went on to write about various subjects in the worlds of politics and culture under the pseudonyms Yumeno Kyōtarō Kenka Takenaka and Hankotsu-no-Reporter (literally: Rebellious Reporter) among others.
La Yegros.  La Yegros (born in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a singer-songwriter.
Andrew Morris (musician).  Andrew Morris is a musician from Brisbane Queensland. He is a former member of Palladium and is part of The Wilson Pickers performs in a duo with Danny Widdicombe and has a solo career. In 2008 he won (with Widdicombe) the Grant McLennan Memorial Scholarship.
Babe Stovall.  Jewell Stovall better known as Babe Stovall (October 14 1907 – September 21 1974) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist.Stovall was born in Tylertown Mississippi United States in 1907 the youngest of eleven children (thus his nickname Babe). He learned to play the guitar by the age of eight and his guitar playing style was influenced by Tommy Johnson whom he had met in Mississippi around 1930.
Peter Kostic.  Peter Kostic is an Australian drummer best known as a member of Regurgitator and prolific black metal band Nazxul. He has also been a member of Hard-Ons Front End Loader Kryptonics Dead Boss and Vicious Hairy Mary.
Brian T. Fitch.  Brian T. Fitch is a French-Canadian non-fiction author professor of French in Toronto at Trinity College. He was nominated for a 2000 Governor General's Award for À l'ombre de la littérature and a 2004 Governor General's Award for Le langage de la pensée et l’écriture : Humboldt Valéry Beckett.
Peter Kenna.  Peter Joseph Kenna (18 March 1930 – 29 November 1987) was an Australian playwright radio actor and screenwriter.
Christian Howes (American).  For the English/Irish musician see Christian Howes (English/Irish)Christian Howes (born 21 February 1972 Rocky River Ohio) is an American musician teacher and composer. He is an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music. His artistic collaborators have included Les Paul and Greg Osby and his sponsors have included Yamaha.The 2009 Down Beat Critics' Poll ranked Howes at #2 under “Rising Stars/Violin”. The Minneapolis-St.
Balsac the Jaws of Death.  Balsac the Jaws of Death is the rhythm guitarist in the rock band Gwar. He appears as a humanoid creature with a face resembling a bear-trap. Balsac is usually portrayed wielding a giant battleaxe.
Jean Michel Jarre.  Jean Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948 in Lyon) is a French composer performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic ambient and New Age genres and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights laser displays and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents and trained on the piano.
Freya Bardell.  Freya Bardell is an ecological designer and artist based in Los Angeles California. She works with Greenmeme and is a design consultant for Rana Creek which are innovative environmentally oriented companies based in California. Her work is part of a growing movement known as Sustainable design that seeks to integrate new technologies and ecological systems to design architecture and landscaping environments.
Renee Richards (pornographic actress).  Renee Richards (born 30 September 1984 in Birmingham England) is a pornographic actress.Renee worked as stripper for two years and was a drama student before starting her career in adult films. She has since appeared in a range of hardcore pornographic films and adult websites such as Television X and Red Hot TV. Richards won the Actress of the Year award at the 2008 UK Adult Film and Television Awards.[citation needed]
Ayaka Kimura.  Ayaka Kimura (木村 絢香) (born October 30 1981 in Kobe Hyōgo Prefecture Japan) currently known by her stage name as Ayaka Nagate (長手 絢香) is an actress currently signed to Tristone Entertainment. Before her debut as an actress she was the sole remaining member of Japanese pop idol girl group Coconuts Musume within Hello! Project.
Ossian Brown.  Ossian Brown is an English musician and artist.Brown is notable for being a full-time member of the music groups Coil and Cyclobe.Ossian Brown's first book Haunted Air was published in 2010 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom with an introduction by David Lynch and an afterword by Geoff Cox.
Paul Faivre.  Paul Faivre (3 March 1886 – 5 March 1973) was a French actor.
Roger Argente.  Roger Argente (born 1962 Neath Wales) is Principal Bass Trombone for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and is Head of Brass at the Trinity College of Music London.
Houshang Ostovar.  Houshang Ostovar (Persian: هوشنگ استوار) (also transcribed as Hoochang Ostovar) is a Persian symphonic music composer and Instructor.
Tiziano Pagan De Paganis.  Tiziano Pagan De Paganis (Verona 1858- Bologna 1932) was an Italian painter mainly of landcapes and genre subjects. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna where in 1876 he was awarded a diploma for ornamentation. At the 1878 Milan exposition he displayed the two landscapes: Le due torri Asinelli e Garisenda and Il Foro romano. In 1881 at Florence he exhibited Fra due battute d'aspetto and Una lezione meritata. He remained a resident of Bologna.
Valentine Cameron Prinsep.  Valentine Cameron Prinsep RA (Calcutta 14 February 1838 – 11 November 1904 London) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school. He is often known as Val Prinsep.
Rob Swire.  Robert Swire-Thompson (born 5 November 1982) is an Australian record producer singer-songwriter guitarist keyboardist and DJ. Swire is best known as the lead singer and producer of Australian drum and bass/electronic rock band Pendulum and as the producer and DJ in the electronic dance music duo Knife Party. Originally from Perth Western Australia he relocated to the United Kingdom in 2003 with fellow Pendulum co-founders Gareth McGrillen and Paul El Hornet Harding.
Basel Rajoub.  Basel Rajoub (Arabic: باسل رجوب‎) is a Syrian musician composer and saxophone player. He was born in Aleppo in 1981 and started his musical career performing on trumpet before joining Aleppo's conservatory where he studied eastern and European classical music as well as jazz. Basel's music has hints of jazz mixed with eastern rhythms in addition to piano and brass. He recently performed with the Syrian singer Lena Chamamyan and they won the Radio Monte Carlo award in September 2006.
James Justinian Morier.  James Justinian Morier (1780 – 19 March 1849) was a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about Qajar dynasty Iran most famously for the Hajji Baba series.
Rebecca Foon.  Rebecca Foon also credited as Beckie Foon is a Canadian cellist from Montreal Quebec. Foon currently records under the alias Saltland and is a member and co-founder of the critically acclaimed and award winning modern chamber ensemble Esmerine.Foon moved to Montreal from East side Vancouver when she was 17 and has been a member of several groups associated with the post rock experimental and chamber music scene of Montreal including Set Fire to Flames and A Silver Mt. Zion.
Johann Anton de Peters.  Johann Anton de Peters a painter and etcher was born at Cologne in 1725 and studied in Paris under Greuze. He was raised to the rank of a noble by the king of France and appointed court painter by the Danish king Christian IV as well as by Prince Charles of Lorraine. The Revolution drove him back to his native country where he lived in poverty and died at Cologne in 1795. There are by him:
Jermaine Dupri.  Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (born September 23 1972) known as Jermaine Dupri or JD is an American record producer songwriter and rapper.
Miracle (rapper).  Samson Andah better known by his stage name Miracle is an Australian rapper based in Sydney. He is best known for his song Better Dayz which is a rap cover of Pete Murray's song of the same name.
Kerri Hoskins.  Kerri Hoskins Branson (born February 20 1970 in Cambridge Minnesota) is a former glamour model and video game actress. She currently works as an artist and photographer. Her work can be found at http://kerriann.me
Madame de La Fayette.  Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693) better known as Madame de La Fayette was a French writer the author of La Princesse de Clèves France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Deen (singer).  Deen (born Fuad Backović 12 April 1982 in Sarajevo) is a popular singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. His stage name is Deen.
Kamran Abbasi.  Kamran Abbasi is a British Pakistani doctor medical editor and cricket writer. He is editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dr. Abbasi used to be the acting editor of the British Medical Journal and editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.In addition he is a cricket writer and blogger for wisden website Cricinfo.com with a particular expertise in Pakistani cricket and the politics of cricket.
William M. Packard.  William M. Packard (September 2 1933 – November 3 2002) was an American poet playwright and novelist who was founder and editor of the New York Quarterly a poetry magazine.
Maria Valtorta.  Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet considered by many to be a mystic. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported reputed personal conversations with and dictations from Jesus Christ.In her youth Valtorta travelled around Italy due to her father's military career. Her father eventually settled in Viareggio.
Mary Wells.  Mary Esther Wells (May 13 1943 – July 26 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.
Gerard Quintana.  Gerard Quintana Rodeja (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒəˈɾart kinˈtanə]) (born 27 November 1964 in Girona Catalonia Spain) is a Catalan singer songwriter poet writer actor and radio and TV personality. He first came to prominence in 1986-2001 as the lead singer of the Catalan rock/pop group Sopa de Cabra. Since the dissolution of the band in 2001 he has pursued a very successful solo career.
Blackstratblues.  Blackstratblues is a solo project of Warren Mendonsa who is a guitarist composer and record producer. He is the nephew of Indian musician and celebrated Bollywood composer Loy Mendonsa of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy fame.
W.W.E. Ross.  William Wrightson Eustace Ross (June 14 1894 – August 26 1966) was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetry and later the first to write surrealist verse both of which have led some to call him the first modern Canadian poet.
Angela Lambert.  Angela Lambert (née Angela Maria Helps) (14 April 1940 – 26 September 2007) was a British journalist art critic and author best known for the novel A Rather English Marriage and her novel Kiss and Kin won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.
Scot Project.  Scot Project (born Frank Zenker 29 May 1973 Frankfurt Germany) is a German hard trance DJ and producer. He also produces musical pieces under aliases such as Arome and TOCS.
Shirley Manson.  Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish musician and actress best known internationally as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh and the United States to record with Garbage; she now lives and works in Los Angeles.
William Elliott (writer).  William Elliott (27 April 1788 – February 1863) was a South Carolina writer of non-fiction.
Nils Janson.  Nils Janson (May 10 1978) is a Swedish jazz composer and trumpet player. He has recorded two solo albums entitled Debut and Excavation who both received good reviews in Swedish press.Nils Janson is living in Stockholm where he is a leading member of the local jazz community. He is also active in pop rock and Latin music playing horns with such acts as Mando Diao Calle Real Hello Saferide and Vincent.
Don Raye.  Don Raye (March 16 1909 – January 29 1985) born Donald MacRae Wilhoite Jr. in Washington D.C. was an American vaudevillian and songwriter best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar The House of Blue Lights Just for a Thrill and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.While known for such wordy novelty numbers he also wrote the lyrics to You Don't Know What Love Is a simple poetic lament of unusual power.
Álvaro Mutis.  Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25 1923 – September 22 2013) was an award-winning Colombian poet novelist and essayist and author of the compendium The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. He was awarded the 2002 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Kathi Appelt.  Kathi Appelt is an American children's writer and writing teacher.
Gary K. Wolf.  Gary K. Wolf (born January 24 1941 in Earlville Illinois)is an American author and humorist.
Jenny Lumet.  Jenny Lumet (born 2 February 1967) is an American actress and screenwriter noted for her award-winning screenplay for Rachel Getting Married.
Kevin Breit.  Kevin Breit is a guitar player from McKerrow Ontario. His group The Sisters Euclid has been a fixture at the Orbit Room in Toronto for the past 13 years. Breit has worked as a session musician with a variety of musicians including The Miller Stain Limit Norah Jones Michael Kaeshammer Celine Dion Marc Jordan Molly Johnson Harry Manx Holly Cole Roseanne Cash Serena Ryder the Rankins and Hugh Laurie. He also performs as a solo artist and as a member of the folk group Folkalarm.
Umberto Boccioni.  Umberto Boccioni (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto botˈtʃoːni]; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death.
Sharnael Wolverton.  Sharnael Wolverton is an American author minister and television host.She was born in Montana but currently resides in Louisiana. She ministers internationally as the founder of Swiftfire Ministries International. Her books include Keys to Third Heaven  The Seers Handbook and Spiritual Reflections of a Montana Girl in a Louisiana State. Her television show is called Swiftfire with Sharnael Wolverton.
Antonia Fraser.  Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser DBE (born 27 August 1932) née Pakenham is a British author of history novels biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of Harold Pinter (1930–2008) the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature and prior to her husband's death was also known as Antonia Pinter.
Betty Lambert.  Betty Lambert born Elizabeth Minnie Lee (August 23 1933 – November 4 1983) was a Canadian writer.Lambert was born in Calgary Canada to Christopher and Bessie Lee (née Cooper) the oldest of three daughters.She graduated from the University of British Columbia Vancouver in 1957.She married Frank Lambert in 1952. They were divorced in 1962.
Ericka Walker.  Ericka Walker (born June 16 1981 in Hartford Wisconsin) is an American artist and printmaker. She lives and works in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada.
Ralph Willis (blues musician).  Ralph Willis (1910 – June 11 1957) was an American Piedmont and country blues singer guitarist and songwriter. Some of his Savoy records were released under pseudonyms such as Alabama Slim Washboard Pete and Sleepy Joe.
Jean-Baptiste Santerre.  Jean-Baptiste Santerre (23 March 1658 – November 21 1717) was a French painter.
Jason Bone.  Jason Jay Bone was one of the three original members of Canadian pop Punk band Cauterize. He played bass with them for all 12 years that the band was together. Jay played Bass for T.O.E. After mixing Kessel Run's debut album with Jesse Smith he produced The Organ Thieves' debut EP in March 2009 and is now working on their debut full length album. Along with Jesse Smith he co-owns the Oshawa-based recording studio The Boom Cave.
Eliza Keil.  Samoan born Eliza Keil started out singing with her brothers in the popular New Zealand rock & roll group the Keil Isles and would later become a solo artist in her own right with a string of TV appearances and a part in a film.
Edmond-Édouard Lapeyre.  Edmond-Édouard Lapeyre (born 1880 in Reims died 1960 in Paris) was a French painter and illustrator .
Liam Sharp.  Liam Roger Sharp (born 2 May 1968) is a British comic book artist writer and publisher.
Phakirappa Gurubasappa Halakatti.  Dr. Phakirappa Gurubasappa Halakatti is a Kannada writer. He was born in Dharawad. He studied at the Basel Mission High School Dharawad and then at St. Xaviour's College Bombay. He obtained his B.A. and L.L.B. degrees from the University of Bombay. However he started his legal practice in Bijapur. He was an important public figure serving in several different capacities. He was an educationist and a vocal supporter of social reformation.
Vlaho Getaldić.  Vlaho Getaldić (also Biagio Ghetaldi; 22 December 1788 - 27 October 1872) was a Dalmatian writer translator and politician from Dubrovnik.Born in the Republic of Dubrovnik (in the city of Dubrovnik itself) he was the grand-nephew of the renowned Marin Getaldić and descendant of Gundulić family through his mother's line. He was member and president of the Council Reign of Dalmatia based in the city of Zadar which consisted of eight individuals. Getaldić married Ana Božidarević.
Yovan Nagwetch.  Yovan Nagwetch is a Canadian songwriter musician and activist living in Finland.
Fuse ODG.  Nana Richard Abiona known by his stage name Fuse ODG is a British musician of Ghanaian descent. He is best known for his 2013 single Antenna which peaked to number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. Born in London and raised in Ghana Fuse returned to London for his secondary education where he attended the Archbishop Lanfranc School. Growing up in Mitcham South London.
Alexander Serafimovich.  Alexander Serafimovich (born Alexander Serafimovich Popov; Russian: Алекса́ндр Серафимо́вич Попо́в; O.S. January 7 (N.S. January 19) 1863 – January 19 1949) was a Russian/Soviet writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
J. P. Donleavy.  James Patrick Donleavy (born 23 April 1926) is an Irish American novelist and playwright. His first novel is The Ginger Man. Another novel A Fairy Tale of New York provided the title of the famous song Fairytale of New York.
Ryota Ozawa.  Ryota Ozawa (小澤 亮太 Ozawa Ryōta born January 25 1988) is a Japanese actor best known for his role as Captain Marvelous in the 2011 Super Sentai series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Ozawa is currently affiliated with Horipro.
Giovanni Verga.  Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (Verismo) writer best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily and especially for the short story (and later play) Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree).
Greg Thompson (music executive).  Greg Thompson is an American record executive. Well known for his role at EMI Records where he has played a critical role in the development of artists such as Katy Perry Coldplay Norah Jones and many others. Previously Thompson worked at Island Def Jam The Island Def Jam Music Group and Chrysalis Records. Greg is currently the Executive Vice President of Capitol Music Group.
NERVO (duo).  Miriam Nervo and Olivia Nervo are Australian musicians and songwriters better known by their stage name NERVO. After signing with Sony/ATV Music Publishing at 18 years of age the twins pursued careers as songwriting partners co-writing the Grammy Award-winning single When Love Takes Over performed by David Guetta and Kelly Rowland.
Ayal Adler.  Ayal Adler (Hebrew: אייל אדלר; born in Jerusalem) is a musician composerand a lecturer in theory and composition.
Richard Jackson (choreographer).  Richard Richy Jackson (born March 15 1979 in the San Francisco Bay Area) is a dancer creative director and choreographer best known for his work with Lady Gaga.
George Kirby.  George Kirby (June 8 1923 – September 30 1995) was an American comedian singer and actor.
Lala Karmela.  Lala known in Indonesia as Lala Karmela is the singer-songwriter from Indonesia and the Philippines.
Phil Roy.  Phil Roy (born 1959 Philadelphia) is an American musician singer and songwriter.
Roscoe Dash.  Jeffery Johnson Jr. (born April 2 1990) better known by his stage name Roscoe Dash is an American rapper and singer.
Amina Annabi.  Amina Annabi (Arabic: أمينة العنابي Amina Al-Annabi) (born 5 March 1962 Carthage Tunisia) is a French-Tunisian singer-songwriter and actress most famous for finishing second in the tied 1991 Eurovision Song Contest held in Rome. Amina finished second after a countback scoring equal 146 points alongside Carola from Sweden.
Tony Velasquez.  Antonio Tony Velasquez (29 October 1910 - 1997) is a Filipino illustrator regarded as the Father of Tagalog comics and as the pioneer and founding father of the Philippine comics industry. He was the creator of Kenkoy an “iconic Philippine comic strip character”.
Byron Hill.  Byron Hill (born December 12 1953) is an American songwriter from Winston-Salem North Carolina. Working professionally in Nashville TN for more than thirty years his songs have been recorded by over 650 Country and Pop artists.
Gordon Donaldson (journalist).  Archibald Gordon Clark Donaldson (18 August 1926 – June 2001) was a Scottish-Canadian author and journalist. He appeared on television and also produced television programming.
Ann Hampton Callaway.  Ann Hampton Callaway (born May 30 1958) is a multiplatinum-selling singer composer lyricist pianist and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny writing songs for Barbra Streisand and starring in the Broadway musical Swing!.
Musiq Soulchild.  Musiq Soulchild or Musiq (/ˈmjuːsɪk/; born Taalib Johnson on September 16 1977) is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter whose style blends contemporary R&B soul funk alternative blues jazz some gospel influences and hip hop.
Lillian Evanti.  Lillian Evanti (August 12 1890 – December 6 1967) was an African-American opera singer.
Lera Loeb.  Lera Loeb née Valeriya Sorokina (Ukrainian: Валерiя Сорокіна) is a Ukrainian-born fashion writer and publicist. Originally from Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Loeb married American music producer Steve Loeb. She is now based in New York City and writes the popular blog Fashion Addict Diary.She revealed in 2009 that she was what is commonly known as a mail-order bride.
Shishir Parkhie.  Shishir Parkhie born on 7 November 1967 at Nagpur in the state of Mahashtra India is a singer music composer and a live show performer.Shishir has been performing live Ghazal concerts at various places worldwide. Shishir uses various forms of music ranging from Ghazals Bhajans Sugam Sangeet Hindi Film Songs to regional music. Several audio cassettes / ACD's / VCDs in various categories have been released by reputed music companies.
Alex Saviuk.  Alex Saviuk (born August 17 1952) is an American comic book artist primarily known for his work on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
El Presidente (musician).  Esa aka El Presidente born Francesco Cellamaro (Reggio Calabria 1 October 1972) is an Italian rapper and beatmaker of Calabrian origins. l Presidente has been active since the early stages of the Italian hip hop movement in the early 1990s and predominantly discusses Politics and Society in his music.
Brandun DeShay.  Brandun DeShay (born May 10 1990 in Chicago) stylized as brandUn DeShay is an American rapper and producer. He has produced for all four of his releases.
Charles Goldner.  Charles Goldner was an Austrian-born actor who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Vienna Austria on 7 December 1900 he made his screen debut in the 1940 film Room for Two and went on to appear in Brighton Rock No Orchids for Miss Blandish Bond Street and The Captain's Paradise. He starred in the 1954 Broadway musical The Girl in Pink Tights. He died on 15 April 1955 in London England.
Frank Owen (author).  Frank Owen is a United States author novelist and anthologist. He wrote 10 novels in the 1930s under the pseudonym Roswell Williams a name which is sometimes erroneously listed as his real name. Owen is best known for his oriental fantasy short stories many of which appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Owen also co-wrote several children's collections with his wife Ethel Owen.
Linda Cajio.  Linda Cajio (born August 3 1953) was a US writer of over 30 romance novels. She started writing contemporary romances in 1986 for Loveswept and she also wrote historical romances for Kensington and Zebra. She was nominee from Romantic Times Magazine to Best Harlequin American in 1997 and to Series Romantic Fantary in 1999.
Ambrose Bebb.  William Ambrose Bebb (4 July 1894 – 27 April 1955) was a Welsh author and politician.Ambrose Bebb was the son of diarist Edward Hughes Bebb and the father of noted Welsh rugby international Dewi Bebb. The family came from Cardiganshire.A co-founder of Plaid Cymru Bebb took a keen interest in politics and was inclined towards fascism influenced by Charles Maurras of the Action Française movement.
Peter Hammill.  Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter and a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities his main instruments are guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings and occasionally for other artists.
Ed Pegg Jr..  Ed Pegg Jr. is an expert on mathematical puzzles and is a self-described recreational mathematician. He creates puzzles for the Mathematical Association of America online at Ed Pegg Jr.'s Math Games. His puzzles have also been used by Will Shortz on the puzzle segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. In 2000 he left NORAD to join Wolfram Research where he collaborated on A New Kind of Science (NKS). In 2004 he started assisting Eric W. Weisstein at Wolfram MathWorld.
Michèle Torr.  Michèle Torr (born Michelle Cléberte Tort) 7 April 1947 in Pertuis Vaucluse is a French singer and author best known in non-Francophone countries for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1966 and 1977.
Li Wenjun.  Li Wenjun (Chinese: 李文俊; pinyin: Lǐ Wénjùn; born 1930) is a Chinese translator and proser. Li is now the vice chairman of Translators Association of China and the director of Literature and Art Translation Committee. He is also a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.He is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the American novelists William Faulkner and Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Jun Kusanagi.  Jun Kusanagi / June Kusanagi (草凪純 Kusanagi Jun born June 5 1978) is a Japanese model and AV idol famous for her metric G-cup-sized bust. She has been called one of Japan's most prolific and popular photo model/AV stars.
Phil Gascoine.  Phil Gascoine (8 June 1934 – August 2007) was a British comics artist best known for his work in girls' comics such as Jinty and Bunty and in boys' comics such as Battle Action for which he drew The Sarge.
Carlo Zecchi.  Carlo Zecchi (8 July 1903 – 31 August 1984) was an Italian pianist music teacher and conductor. Zecchi was born in Rome. In Berlin he learned piano from Ferruccio Busoni and Artur Schnabel. He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome and in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed performer of Domenico Scarlatti Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Claude Debussy works and of Romantic music. He died in Salzburg.
Anand Giridharadas.  Anand Giridharadas is an American author and newspaper columnist.Raised in Shaker Heights Ohio in Paris and in Maryland he studied politics and history at the universities of Michigan Oxford and Harvard. After graduating from college he moved to Mumbai in 2003 where he worked as a consultant for the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In 2005 he became a journalist covering India for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.
Silvestro Durante.  Silvestro Durante (died 1672) was an Italian church musician and composer.Durante was a student of the composer Giacomo Carissimi. From 1645–1662 he was maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome although in December 1637 he was already referred to as the maestro of church music at the Basilica and in 1664 he was still called maestro di capella.Some of Durante's works are in the Düben collection in the Uppsala University Library.
Floriano Ferramola.  Floriano or Fioravante Ferramola (c. 1478 - 3 July 1528) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Brescia.
Paul Frankeur.  Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
Judith Merril.  Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21 1923 – September 12 1997) who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945 was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer editor and political activist and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles.Although Judith Merril's first paid writing was in other genres in her first few years of writing published science fiction she wrote her three novels (all but the first in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth) and some stories.
Jesse Campbell (singer).  Jesse Campbell is an American R&B singer. He was a member of Team Christina in the second season of the American television talent show The Voice.
Hossam Ramzy.  Hossam Ramzy (born in Cairo Egypt) is an Egyptian percussionist and composer. He has worked with Western artists like Jimmy Page and Robert Plant as well as with Arabic music artists like Rachid Taha and Khaled.
Giuseppe Arrighi.  Giuseppe Arrighi (Volterra 1642- Volterra 1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Norman Wisdom.  Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom OBE (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. Wisdom gained a celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries particularly in Albania where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator Enver Hoxha to be shown.
Constance Stokes.  Constance Stokes (née Parkin 1906–1991) was a modernist Australian painter working in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School until 1929 winning a scholarship to continue her study at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Although Stokes painted few works in the 1930s her paintings and drawings were exhibited from the 1940s onwards.
Helge Engelke.  Helge Engelke is a German guitar player composer and producer most celebrated for his guitar work in the hard rock bands Fair Warning and Dreamtide. He has also employed his considerable guitar talents in acclaimed “studio work” and has guested on various artists albums/CD’s including vocals and guitars for his friend Zeno Roth. Herr Engelke was born on September 24 1961 in Hanover Germany.
Amvrosii Metlynsky.  Amvrosii Metlynsky (Ukrainian: Амвросій Метлинський; 1814 Sary Poltava region - 29 July 1870 Yalta) was a Ukrainian poet ethnographer and professor and publisher.Metlynsky was a professor of Russian Literature at Kharkiv University from 1843–49 and again from 1854–58. From 1849–54 he was a professor at Kiev University. During the 1830s the city of Kharkiv became the center of Ukrainian Romanticism.
Anisuzzaman.  Anisuzzaman (born 18 February 1937 in Calcutta) is an eminent academic of Bengali literature.
Jerry Ordway.  Jeremiah Jerry Ordway (born November 28 1957) is an American writer penciller inker and painter of comic books.He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles including the continuity-redefining Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985–1986) his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986–1993 and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel The Power of Shazam! (1994) and writing the on-going monthly series from 1995–1999.
Nancy Asire.  Nancy Asire (born 1945) is an American fantasy and science fiction author best known for her Twilight's Kingdoms fantasy trilogy and her contributions to the shared universe series Heroes in Hell Sword of Knowledge and Merovingen Nights.
Col Buchanan.  Col Buchanan (born 1973 Lisburn Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish fantasy writer. His first two books are Farlander and Stands a Shadow.He lives in Lancaster England.
Keith Carter (comedian).  Keith Carter is an award winning Liverpool-based comedian writer and actor best known for his comic creation Nige a caricature of a scallie from Merseyside cited by Sir Jeremy Isaacs as being instrumental in helping Liverpool's successful 2007 Capital of Culture bid.Carter has been described as not just a stand-up with a dressing-up box he makes his characters live by his bearing his gestures and by his voice.
Doudou Masta.  Mamadou Doumbia (born February 26 1971 in Vitry-sur-Seine) is a French hip-hop artist and actor.
Anne Murray (gentlewoman).  Anne Murray (26 April 1755 - 10 March 1849) was an author in Upper Canada the wife of Chief Justice William Dummer Powell.She was born in Wells Norfolk England to Dr. John Murray and Mary Boyles the daughter of a customs collector. Her father was born in Scotland and became a surgeon in the Royal Navy. In 1751 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh and retired on half-pay from the Navy in order to establish himself with a private medical practice at Wells and then Norwich.
Mihal Grameno.  Mihal Grameno (January 13 1871 – February 5 1931) was an Albanian rilindas politician writer freedom fighter and journalist.
Sophie Duniam.  Sophie Duniam (born 15 March 1987 in London England) is a British actress dancer and model. Along with her twin sister Polly Duniam she gained fame in the BBC series Home Farm Twins portraying Helen Moore one of the twins in the title.She grew up in Cromer Norfolk with a love of dancing and singing that stems from her dance instructor mother. This helped both sisters gain a yearlong contract with We Will Rock You. Both twins have been touring with the Pet Shop Boys on an 18 month contract
Akhenaton (rapper).  Philippe Fragione better known by his stage name Akhenaton (born September 17 1968 in Marseille) is a French rapper and producer of French hip hop. He has also worked under the aliases Chill AKH Sentenza and Spectre.
Yadé Kara.  Yadé Kara (Çayırlı 1965) is a Turkish-German writer.Born in Eastern Anatolia she grew up in West Berlin. She studied English and German studies and also drama at the Schiller Theater. She has worked as an actress teacher and journalist in cities like London Istanbul or Hong Kong and published several articles for radio and television.Her first novel Selam Berlin (2003) won the Deutschen Bücherpreis and the Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis in 2004.
Paolo Agostino.  Paolo Agostino (or Agostini; Augustinus in Latin; c. 1583 – 1629) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino according to the dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses.
Serge Garant.  Serge Garant OC (September 22 1929 – November 1 1986) was a Canadian composer conductor professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966 he cofounded with Jean Papineau-Couture Maryvonne Kendergi Wilfrid Pelletier and Hugh Davidson the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1979 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.The Prix Serge-Garant was created in his honor by the Fondation Émile Nelligan.
Julie Gold.  Julie Gold (born February 3 1956 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a New York singer-songwriter. She is best known for Bette Midler's version of her musical composition From a Distance which won Gold the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1991. That song has since received close to four million airplays. It has been recited into the Congressional Record (by Senator Barbara Boxer). It has been recorded internationally and translated into many languages.
Robert Rimmer.  Robert Henry Rimmer (March 14 1917 – Quincy Massachusetts August 1 2001) was the author of several books most notably The Harrad Experiment which was made into a film in 1973.The recurring theme in all or almost all of Rimmer's writing was a criticism of the assumption of monogamy as a societal norm. All the protagonists in his novels discover that they are happier in arrangements which would nowadays be called polyamorous or polyfidelitous.
Anna Szarmach.  Ania Szarmach ( 12 February 1978 Starogard Gdański Poland) – also known as Sharmi – Polish jazz and pop singer composer and song writer. She is graduate of University of Music in Katowice. In 2011 she was nominated to Fryderyk music award.
Han Suyin.  Han Suyin (simplified Chinese: 韩素音; traditional Chinese: 韓素音; pinyin: Hán Sùyīn; 12 September 1916 or 1917 – 2 November 2012) was the pen name of Elizabeth Comber born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (Chinese: 周光瑚; pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú). She was a China-born Eurasian a physician and author of books in English and French on modern China novels set in East and Southeast Asia and autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China.
Briony Scott.  Briony Scott is the Principal of Wenona School located in North Sydney.Briony Scott is the daughter of Dr Carl Edmonds OAM and his wife Cindy (Cynthia). She was born in the UK when Dr Edmonds was working there. Dr Edmonds was the Officer in Charge Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine and is considered to be the world's premier diving medical expert.
Tarun Vijay.  Tarun Vijay (born in 1961) is an Indian author social worker famous freelance journalist and parliamentarian. He was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) weekly in Hindi Panchajanya from 1986 to February 2008 and is a columnist of the newspaper The Times of India. He also writes for the Daily Pioneer. He is currently working as the director of the [Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (DSMRF).
Susaye Greene.  Susaye Greene (born September 13 1949) is an American singer best known for being the last official member to join Motown girl group The Supremes remaining in the group during its final years of existence from 1976 to 1977.
Shellie Morris.  Shellie Morris is an Australian (Aboriginal) indigenous singer/songwriter who plays a mix of contemporary folk music and contemporary acoustic ballads.
Shelly Colvin.  Shelly Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her song 'Holding Steady' was featured in the 2008 Feature Film The Lucky Ones with Tim Robbins and Rachel McAdams Her debut album Up the Hickory Down the Pine will be released in May 2012.
Adrian Dannatt.  Adrian Dannatt is the son of architect Trevor Dannatt he was educated at Westminster School and St Chad's College. While at school he was the child star of the London Weekend Television series Just William (1977) based on the novels of author Richmal Crompton. He has since worked as an artist art critic writer editor and journalist.
Evgenia Baykova.  Evgenia Vasilievna Baykova (Russian: Евге́ния Васи́льевна Байко́ва; November 22 1907 Saint-Petersburg Russian Empire – 1997 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Harry Mazer.  Harry Mazer (born May 31 1925 in New York City) is an American author of books for children and young adults acclaimed for his “realistic” novels. He has written twenty-two novels including The Solid Gold Kid The Island Keeper Heroes Don't Run and Snow Bound which was adapted as an NBC after school special as well as one work of poetry and a few short stories.After attending the Bronx High School of Science Mazer served in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1943–45.
Ille Toktash.  Ille Toktash (Russian: Илья́ Семёнович Тукта́ш Chuvash: Илле Тукташ) (29 July 1907 Bolshiye Toktashi village Alikovsky District Chuvash Republic – 20 Jan 1957) was a Chuvash writer and poet. He was a USSR Union of Writers member (1934).
Odd Eidem.  Odd Eidem (23 October 1913 Kristiania – 10 June 1988) was a Norwegian writer journalist and literary critic. He was an active member of the political movement Mot Dag in the 1930s.Eidem was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1978 for the flaneries Cruise.
Jason Donovan.  Jason Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989 with UK sales of over 1.5 million copies. He has had four UK No. 1 singles one of which was Especially for You his 1988 duet with Kylie Minogue.
Louise Simard (author).  Louise Simard (b. 1950) is a Quebec writer.She was born in Montreal and grew up in Mont-Laurier Quebec. As of 2010 she was living in Stoke in the Eastern Townships.Simard earned a Master's degree and Doctorate in French studies from the Université de Sherbrooke.In 1992 her book La très noble demoiselle was nominated for a Governor General's Award for French language fiction.
Termanology.  Daniel Carrillo (born in October 8 1982) better known as Termanology is a rapper from Lawrence Massachusetts. He first came to wide attention with the 2006 single Watch How It Go Down. A solo album Politics As Usual was released in 2008. He has made a number of collaborative albums such as 1982 (released in 2010) and is known also for his prolific mixtape output.
Sten Elfström.  Sten Gustav Axelsson Elfström (born 18 August 1942 in Solna Sweden) is a Swedish actor. He educated at Gothenburg Theatre Academy.
Michel Etcheverry.  Michel Etcheverry (1919–1999) was a French actor.
Aaron Dworkin.  Aaron Paul Dworkin (September 11 1970) is an American violinist and music educator.
Amedeo Benedetti (writer).  Amedeo Benedetti (born September 22 1954 Fivizzano - Tuscany) is an Italian scholar and writer.
Crispin Gray.  Crispin Gray (John Orion) was previously the guitarist and songwriter in Daisy Chainsaw currently with Queen Adreena and The Dogbones.
Cœur de pirate.  Béatrice Martin (born September 22 1989) better known by her stage name Cœur de pirate (French: heart of a pirate) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A francophone from Montreal she sings mostly in French and has been credited with bringing la chanson française to a whole new generation of Quebec youth.
Anya Reiss.  Anya Reiss (born 1991 in London) is an award-winning British playwright.A graduate of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme she had her first play Spur of the Moment staged there in the Upstairs Jerwood Theatre in July 2010 directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Emi Kobayashi.  Emi Kobayashi (小林 恵美 Kobayashi Emi born January 1 1983) is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo and belongs to the show-business production Suns Entertainment. She belonged to Yellow Cab before 2004. She portrayed the hostess who became a nun named Saori in Lion-Maru G.
Torquato Accetto.  Torquato Accetto (1590/98 to 1640) was an Italian writer in the first half of the 17th century born in Naples He is particularly remembered for his book on conformity and hypocrisy titled Della dissimulazione onesta.
Brian Azzarello.  Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland Ohio August 11 1962) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. In 2011 he became the writer of DC's relaunched Wonder Woman series.
Harold O'Neal.  Harold O'Neal (born March 27 1981) is a Tanzanian - American jazz pianist composer public speaker record producer actor martial artist and Bboy.
John Avison.  John Henry Patrick Avison CM (April 25 1915 – November 30 1983) was a Canadian conductor and pianist. From 1938 to 1980 he was the founding conductor of the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. He was a longtime member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) and was married to VSO violinist Angelina Avison.
Jean Ferrat.  Jean Ferrat (born Jean Tenenbaum 26 December 1930 – 13 March 2010) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry particularly that of Louis Aragon.
Janet Evanovich.  Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider; April 22 1943) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum a lingerie buyer from Trenton New Jersey who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists.
Dennis Smith (firefighter).  Dennis E. Smith is a retired firefighter writer and president of a financial services company for emergency services personnel. He is best known for writing the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82 a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse during the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Smith served for 18 years as a New York City Firefighter from 1963 to 1981 and is an advocate for firefighters in the United States.
Paul Jacobs (organist).  Paul Jacobs (b. 1977) is an American organist.Paul Jacobs began piano lessons at age five and organ lessons at age 12 in his hometown of Washington Pennsylvania. At age 15 he was appointed head organist of Immaculate Conception Church a parish of over 3500 families.
Derek Walcott.  Derek Alton Walcott OBE OCC (born 23 January 1930) is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of poetry at the University of Essex.
Lafcadio Hearn.  Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜrn/; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904) known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲) was an international writer known best for his books about Japan especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city.
Cecil Holmes (director).  Cecil William Holmes (23 June 1921 – 24 August 1994) was a New Zealand-born film director and writer. He was born in Waipukurau Hawke's Bay New Zealand. He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and British Royal Navy during World War II before turning to filmmaking.
Skylar Laine.  Skylar Laine (born Skylar Laine Harden; February 1 1994) is an American singer from Brandon Mississippi. She placed fifth on the eleventh season of American Idol.
James Merrick.  James Merrick (1720–1769) was an English poet and scholar; M.A. Trinity College Oxford 1742: fellow 1745: ordained but lived in college. It is said that [h]e entered into holy orders but never could engage in parochial duty from being subject to excessive pains in his head.
Faith Evans.  Faith Renée Evans (born June 10 1973) is an American singer-songwriter record producer occasional actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey Evans relocated to Los Angeles in 1993 for a career in the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B.
Animal Prufrock.  Animal Prufrock (born in 1975) is an openly lesbian and transgender singer-songwriter. S/he is best known for being the co-creator of the band Bitch and Animal.Following the hiatus of Bitch and Animal s/he wrote a musical based on the Hothead Paisan comics by Diane DiMassa which was performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. They are the Musical Director for CASA an afterschool children's arts program in San Francisco.
Sandy Rothman.  Sandy Rothman (born 30 January 1946 Miami Florida) is a San Francisco Bay Area bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and record producer who plays mandolin dobro and banjo and was a friend and colleague of Grateful Dead bandleader Jerry Garcia and a member of the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band.
Jacob Moon.  Jacob Moon is a solo Canadian folk singer/songwriter and guitarist based in Hamilton Ontario Canada. Jacob has an extensive repertoire of songs with seven albums to his credit. Jacob Moon's albums are independently produced and distributed but he has been signed with Steve Bell's independent Signpost Music label from 2004 to 2010.
Gary Simmons (artist).  Gary Simmons (born April 14 1964) is an American artist from New York City. Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture he creates works that address personal and collective experiences of race and class. He is best known for his “erasure drawings” in which he draws in white chalk on slate-painted panels or walls then smudges them with his hands – a technique that renders their imagery ghostly.
Maksimilijan Vanka.  Maksimilijan Vanka (October 11 1889 – February 2 1963) also known as Maxo Vanka was a Croatian-American artist.
Hila Lulu Lin.  Hila Lulu Lin is an Israeli painter.
Darius Rafat.  Darius Justin Rafat (born 13 December 1977) is a Canadian music producer composer bandleader music agent and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the music agency and production firm Fat Music London.
Vivien Yeo.  Vivien Yeo (Chinese: 楊秀惠; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iûⁿ Siù-hūi) born 20 July 1984 in Johor Bahru Malaysia is a Malaysian born Chinese actress currently under contract to the TVB in Hong Kong.
Malia Scotch Marmo.  Malia Scotch Marmo is an American screenwriter. She wrote the screenplays for Lasse Hallström's first American film Once Around Steven Spielberg's Hook Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Madeline and co-adapted (with David Koepp) Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park into Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.
Sarah Orne Jewett.  Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3 1849 – June 24 1909) was an American novelist short story writer and poet best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
Ralf Illenberger.  Ralf Illenberger (born December 20 1956 in Stuttgart) is a German Grammy-nominated New Age guitarist.
Lynne Koplitz.  Lynne Koplitz is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Koplitz was host of Telepictures' nationally syndicated dating show Change of Heart guest host on NBC's Later co-host of the Food Network's How to Boil Water and co-host of Sony Pictures syndicated talk show Life and Style. Her stand-up has appeared on a number of Comedy Central specials including Premium Blend.
Pat Ha.  Pat Ha Man Jing (Chinese: 夏文汐 Pinying: xià wén xī) (born 21 November 1965) is a Hong Kong actress.She was nominated as Best Actress at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards (1986) for her role in My Name Ain't Suzie.
Nassos Daphnis.  Nassos Daphnis (born July 23 1914 Krokeai Greece – died November 23 2010 Provincetown Massachusetts U.S.) was a Greek born American abstract painter and tree peony breeder. Originally a florist he brought the sensitivity he cultivated in that profession as well as a profound sense of natural geometry to his new discipline painting.As a painter Daphnis was considered to have worked in the Hard-edge and Geometric abstraction style looking back towards the opus of Piet Mondrian.
Bleuette Bernon.  Bleuette Bernon was a French film actress who appeared in five films made by Georges Méliès around the turn of the 20th century. The earliest films made before 1900 were usually without plot and had a runtime of just a few minutes. However Méliès evolved the genre of the fictional motion picture and Bernon became one of the earliest character actors in movies. In 1899 she played the title character in Méliès's Jeanne d'Arc and Cinderella in Cendrillon.
Lucie Lady Duff-Gordon.  This article is about the mid-19th century author; you may be looking for the early 20th century fashion designer Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon.Lucie Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869) was an English writer. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt and Letters from the Cape.
Noriko Iriyama.  Noriko Iriyama (入山 法子) (born 1 August 1985 in the former Urawa Saitama) is a Japanese actress and model. She has starred several TV dramas such as Haken no Hinkaku (2007). She graduated from Kyoritsu Women's University in 2008.
Ben Peyton.  Ben Peyton (born 1977) is a British actor who played PC Ben Hayward in The Bill from 2000-2002. He has also starred in the films Bridget Jones's Diary and Nine Lives. His other television credits include Band of Brothers Emmerdale (as Andrew Cusan - 2006) Holby City and Doctor Who in 2010. His recent stage work includes Art as Serge and Journey's End as Stanhope both at the Electric Theatre in Guildford.
Tom Riley (actor).  Tom Riley (born 5 April 1981 in Maidstone Kent) is an English film television and theatre actor.
Jeevan Kang.  Jeevan Kang is an Indian comic artist.
Mohsen Subhi.  Mohsen Subhi (Arabic: محسن صبحي‎ also Mohsen Subhi Khalil AbdelHamid Ataya) (October 4 1963–August 2 2009) was a Palestinian composer of classical Arabic music and arranger of modern Palestinian music and folk song.A master oud player and percussionist Subhi was born in Ramallah Palestine on October 4 1963 where he established himself as a young musician composer performer and teacher.
Andrew Marlton.  Andrew Marlton is a Walkley Award winning Australian cartoonist. Up until early 2014 he was the in-house cartoonist for Crikey a prominent Australian politics and news website where he produced his work under the pseudonym First Dog on the Moon.In early 2014 Marlton announced he would be leaving Crikey to take up a position at The Guardian Australia.
Giovanni Alberti.  Giovanni Alberti (Rome 1558-1601) was an Italian painter known for his perspective painting (quadratura). He was also a poet and writer about art critic.
Johan Fredrik Höckert.  Johan Fredrik Höckert (26 August 1826 – 16 September 1866) was a well-known Swedish artist from Jönköping known for his colorful dramatic oil paintings depicting historical events. He is one of the most famous nineteenth-century painters in Sweden and one of the painters most often associated with Swedish national romanticism.Höckert studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts from 1844 to 1845 and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1846 to 1849.
Una Isabel Carter.  Una Isabel Carter (20 August 1890–14 October 1954) was a New Zealand cooking teacher demonstrator and writer. She was born in Upper Tutaenui Wanganui New Zealand on 20 August 1890.
Allen Bukoff.  Allen Bukoff (born June 20 1951) is an artist and social psychologist in Birmingham Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Kent State in 1984. Bukoff has belonged to the Fluxus art movement since the 1980s.
Manny Albam.  Manny Albam (June 24 1922 in Samana Dominican Republic – October 2 2001 in Croton-on-Hudson New York USA) was a jazz baritone saxophone player who eventually became a composer arranger producer and educator. He was well known for his association with United Artists-Solid State Records.
David Hughes (musician).  David Alan Hughes (born April 25 1960) is an English keyboardist who played in different new wave bands and later became successful making music for films.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela.  Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala the Finnish national epic (illustration below). His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallen to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.
Leung Man-tao.  Leung Man-tao (born 26 December 1970) is a Hong Kong writer critic and host.
Janice Cruz.  Janice Cruz Brooks is the songwriter lead singer and guitar player for Brooklyn-based Indie Rock trio Dark Room and Indie Pop/Rock band Kill the Moonlight. She is a Berklee trained vocal coach (Adam Lazzara from Taking Back Sunday Chantal Claret from Morningwood Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack John Balicanta from Lola Ray to name a few). She is also the dialog/music editor sound designer and music director for the Nick Jr.
Sylvia Juncosa.  Sylvia Juncosa is an American punk and metal guitarist singer songwriter and keyboardist from Los Angeles. Noted primarily for her guitar work during the 1980s she was among relatively few women with established aggressive rock guitar credibility. She released four solo albums and three album with her band To Damascus after starting her career as a keyboard player in The Leaving Trains. She was also a member of the band SWA with ex-Black Flag bass player Chuck Dukowski.
Muneshine.  Rob Bakker better known by his stage name Muneshine is a Canadian underground hip hop artist.
Jack Hayes.  Jack J. Hayes (February 8 1919 – August 24 2011) was an American composer and orchestrator.He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964 and for The Color Purple in 1985.
Seamus Malin.  Seamus Malin (born September 3 1940 in Dublin Ireland) is an Irish former journalist for ESPN. Malin most often commentates on soccer events such as the UEFA Champions League and World Cup. He also worked with the NASL's Boston Minutemen and New York Cosmos. He also called World Cup matches for NBC ABC and Turner Network Television plus matches on CBS when the network had NASL rights.
Alexander Ablesimov.  Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Они́симович Абле́симов IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐˈnʲisʲɪməvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐˈblʲesʲɪməf] ; September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1742 — 1783) was a Russian opera librettist poet dramatist satirist and journalist.
Naushad.  Naushad Ali (Hindi: नौशाद अली Urdu: نوشاد علی‎; 25 December 1919 – 5 May 2006) was an Indian musician. He was one of the foremost music directors for Hindi films and is particularly known for popularising the use of classical music in films.His first film as an independent music director was Prem Nagar in 1940. His first musical success film was Rattan (1944) following it up with 35 silver jubilee hits 12 golden jubilee and 3 diamond jubilee mega successes.
Charles Phillip Brown.  Charles Philip Brown (November 10 1798 – December 12 1884) was a Telugu writer and an Englishman by descent. He worked as an official in Cuddapah and Rajahmundry during the British rule in India.
Sara Sant'Ambrogio.  Sara Sant'Ambrogio is an American cellist best known as a member of the Eroica Trio.She was born in Boston and began her studies with her father John Sant'Ambrogio principal cellist with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. She was invited to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 16. Three years later Leonard Rose invited her to study at the Juilliard School of Music.
Peter Gill (FGTH drummer).  Peter Gill (born 8 March 1964 Liverpool England) known by the nickname Pedro or Ped was the drummer with 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH).Gill started out as a guitarist but decided to switch instruments because his hands were too small.[citation needed]FGTH enjoyed huge success in 1984 but had split by 1987 and then re-formed in 2004. Gill also formed Ltd.
Joshua Harris (pastor).  Joshua Eugene Harris (born December 30 1974 in Dayton Ohio) is an American pastor and author perhaps most widely known as the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997) in which he explains what he believes to be the biblical approach to dating and relationships.He is currently senior pastor of Covenant Life Church the founding church of Sovereign Grace Ministries in Gaithersburg Maryland.He is the first of seven children born to Gregg and Sono Harris pioneers in the Christian homeschooling movement. 
Diana Jones (singer-songwriter).  Diana Jones is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee. Jones's career gained wider critical acclaim in 2006 with the release of her album My Remembrance of You. The album made a number of critics end-of-the-year best of lists. The Chicago Tribune rated the album as the best country recording of 2006 and described Jones as an Americana gem whose sound rides an old-timey vibe that never sounds fussy ...
William Lee Miller.  William Lee Miller (April 21 1926 – May 27 2012) was an American journalist academic and historian who taught in the University of Virginia's religious studies department for 17 years and remained affiliated with the University after his 1999 retirement.
Paul Buchignani.  Paul Buchignani (pronounced boo-kin-ya-nee) (Born August 28 1967) is an American drummer who came into musical prominence for his work with The Afghan Whigs on the Black Love album and subsequent tour. Buchignani graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis TN in 1989. Buchignani played drums for local favorite Neighborhood Texture Jam and worked for a law office before making the transition to full-time musician.
Naitō Jōsō.  Naitō Jōsō (内藤 丈草 1662 – March 29 1704) was one of the principal disciples of Bashō and himself also a respected haiku writer in the Genroku period of Japan. Originally he was a samurai from Owari but he had to leave military service due to ill health. Taking up the literary life he became a devout disciple of Bashō and when the Master died in 1694 Naito mourned him for a full three years and remained his devout follower for the rest of his life.
Lesléa Newman.  Lesléa Newman born in 1955 in Brooklyn New York is an American author and editor. She is Jewish a feminist and lesbian.She has written and edited 57 books and anthologies. She has written about such topics as being a Jew body image and eating disorders lesbianism gay parenting and her gender role as a femme. Her best-known work is the controversial Heather Has Two Mommies.
Assia (singer).  Assia (born on November 1 1973 in Algiers) is an Algerian-born French singer with Kabyle origins. Her albums mixed French variety rhythm and blues and Oriental music. She had great success with her hit singles Elle est à toi and Là-bas.
David Henry Hwang.  David Henry Hwang (simplified Chinese: 黄哲伦; traditional Chinese: 黃哲倫; pinyin: Huáng Zhélún; born August 11 1957 in Los Angeles) is an American playwright librettist and screenwriter. Hilton Als of the New Yorker has described him as the most successful Chinese-American playwright this country has produced.
James Ursini.  James Ursini (born May 10 1947) is an American writer living in Los Angeles and an English teacher at John Marshall High School. He received his Master's Degree in Theater Arts and a Doctorate in Film in 1975 from UCLA.
Axel Stordahl.  Axel Stordahl (August 8 1913 – August 30 1963) was an arranger who was active from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his work with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s at Columbia Records. With his sophisticated orchestrations Stordahl is credited with helping to bring pop arranging into the modern age.
Jack Landron.  Jack Landron is an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger songwriter and actor. Because he had gone by Jackie Washington earlier in his career he is often confused with the Canadian Jackie Washington (1919–2009) who was a blues and jazz performer (nor is either to be confused with the fictional female Jackie Washington played by Jenifer Lewis in the 1999 mockumentary TV-film Jackie's Back).
Lev Leshchenko.  Lev Valerjanovich Leshchenko (Russian: Лев Валерианович Лещенко; born 1 February 1942) is a renowned Russian singer who was best known for his rendition of Den Pobedy and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song Do svidanja Moskva.
Arthur Koestler.  Arthur Koestler CBE (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and apart from his early school years was educated in Austria. In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany until disillusioned by Stalinism he resigned in 1938. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon an anti-totalitarian work which gained him international fame.
Kajal Bandyopadhyay.  Kajal Bandyopadhyay (born February 13 1954) is a Bangladeshi poet writer and translator. He teaches English literature at the University of Dhaka. Bandyopadhyay graduated and postgraduated from the University of Dhaka and completed his Ph.d. from Jadavpur University Calcutta on Wole Soyinka.As a Marxist poet Bandyopadhyay vividly portrays the “lives of toiling masses particularly their problems social conflicts intrigues and inner complexes” with poignant poetic expressions.
Settimia Caccini.  Settimia Caccini (6 October 1591 – ca. 1638 Italy) was an Italian composer and singer. She was the youngest daughter of composer Giulio Caccini and singer Lucia Gagnolanti. Her mother died when she was very young. She was the sister of Francesca Caccini also a composer and singer and Pompeo Caccini a singer. Due to the level of musical talent in her family Settimia started her musical education at an early age going on to be a successful singer and composer in her own right.
Anthony Crane.  Anthony Crane (born March 28 in Hartford Connecticut) is a pornographic actor.
Ernest Crichlow.  Ernest Crichlow (June 19 1914 – November 10 2005) was an African-American social realist artist.
Joey Tempest.  Joey Tempest (born Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson; 19 August 1963) is the vocalist and main songwriter in the Swedish rock band Europe. He has written hits like The Final Countdown Rock the Night and Superstitious.
Julie Fowlis.  Julie Fowlis (born 1979) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
Philip Harper (trumpeter).  Philip Harper (born May 10 1965 in Baltimore Maryland) is a jazz trumpeter. Harper grew up in Atlanta and studied music there. He later worked with The Jazz Messengers and Charles Mingus' big band. He also signed with Verve Records and produced four albums for them.Harper played from 1988 to 1993 in The Harper Brothers alongside brother Winard Harper.
Colin Amey.  Colin Amey (born Dunnville Ontario) is a Canadian country music artist. Amey has released three studio albums which include 1998's Colin Amey 2000's What My Heart Don't Know and 2006's Getaway. Two of Amey's singles reached the Top 20 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada I Wish She Was Mine and What My Heart Don't Know.
Brad Paisley.  Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28 1972) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references.Paisley was the 2008 CMA and ACM Male Vocalist of the Year winner. Starting with the release of his 1999 album Who Needs Pictures Paisley has recorded nine studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label with all of his albums certified gold or higher by the RIAA.
Randy Boudreaux.  Randy Boudreaux is a producer and songwriter of country music.
Amy Taubin.  Amy Taubin (born 10 September 1939) is an American film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment. She has also written regularly for The Village Voice The Millennium Film Journal and Artforum and is formerly curator of video and film at the non-profit experimental performance space The Kitchen.
Elba Lightfoot.  Elba Lightfoot (b. 1910) was an African-American artist known for her work on the WPA murals at Harlem Hospital. Together with Charles Alston and Augusta Savage who had experienced discrimination in her artistic career she founded the Harlem Artists' Guild to work towards equality in WPA art programs in New York. Elba Lightfoot appears in a group photograph of the artists of the WPA Art Center at 306 W.
Nikki Flores.  Nikki Flores (born October 17 1988) is an American R&B and pop singer pianist and songwriter.
Ziyoda Qobilova.  Ziyoda O’tkirovna Qobilova (Uzbek: Ziyoda O’tkirovna Qobilova Зиёда Ўткировна Қобилова) (born 7 January 1989) most commonly known by her stage name Ziyoda is a popular Uzbek singer and actress. She sings in Uzbek Hindi and Persian. She has also become famous outside of Uzbekistan thanks to a cover of Ruslana's song Wild Dances. Ziyoda has also acted in a number of Uzbek drama films.
Jan Michael Looking Wolf.  Jan Michael Looking Wolf (born 1966) is a Kalapuya Native American flute player from Grand Ronde Oregon. With 47 National Award recognitions Looking Wolf performs across the country sharing flute songs tribal stories and the message of One Heart. Jan Michael's latest projects showcase his vocals and song writing abilities. In 2010 he released two cds by separate record labels.
Jessica Sweet.  Jessica Sweet (born September 24 1985 in California USA) is an American pornographic actress since around 2003.Sweet an X-Play contract star was cast by Jeff Mullen of All Media Play to star in the title role of the adult series Britney Rears.
Hugo (musician).  Hugo Chakrabongse Levy (born 6 August 1981) known under the mononym Hugo (Thai name: Chulachak Chakrabongse; จุลจักร จักรพงษ์) son of Narisa Chakrabongse and his British father is a singer-songwriter. Based in New York City and signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label his musical style has been dubbed by Roc Nation as gangsta-rock. He is best known for his bluegrass cover of Jay-Z's 99 Problems and his debut album Old Tyme Religion was released on May 10 2011.
Damiano Mazza.  Damiano Mazza was an Italian Renaissance artist active during the 16th century. He lived in the Venetian city of Padua 40 km west of Venice. It is known that he studied under the esteemed artist Titian.
Ari Hoogenboom.  Ari Arthur Hoogenboom (born 1927) is professor emeritus of history at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York. He is a scholar of the Gilded Age particularly in the life and Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.Hoogenboom grew up in the Queens borough of New York City and graduated from Atlantic Union College where he met and married his wife Olive with whom he would go on to co-author several books.
Elisabetta de Gambarini.  Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765) was an English composer singer organist and harpsichordist of the 18th century born in London of an Italian father Charles Gambarini.She took part as a soprano in Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus at 1 April 1747. She left two books of harpsichord works published in 1748 : Opus 1 : Six sets of lessons for the harpsichord in three movements Opus 2 : Lessons for the harpsichord intermixed with Italian and English songs; in one movement only.
Lemon Hanazawa.  Lemon Hanazawa (華沢レモン Hanazawa Lemon) aka Remon Hanazawa is a Japanese pink film actress who has also performed in adult videos (AV). She has appeared in award-winning pink films such as Lunch Box (2004) and Molester's Train: Sensitive Fingers (2007). She was named Best New Actress for her work in this genre in 2004 and Best Actress second place in 2005 at the Pink Grand Prix.
Raj Patel.  Raj Patel (born 1972) is a British-born American academic journalist activist and writer who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe South Africa and the United States for extended periods. He is best known for his 2008 book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. His most recent book is The Value of Nothing which was on The New York Times best-seller list during February 2010. He has been referred to as the rock star of social justice writing.
Marc Ribot.  Marc Ribot (/ˈriːboʊ/;born May 21 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His work has touched on many styles including no wave free jazz rock and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians most notably Tom Waits Elvis Costello Vinicio Capossela and composer John Zorn.
Enrique Larreta.  Enrique Rodríguez Larreta (March 4 1875 — July 6 1961) was an Argentine writer academic diplomat and art collector.
Ezra Schabas.  Ezra Schabas CM OOnt (born April 24 1924) is a Canadian musician educator and author who lives in Toronto Ontario. He has been active in Canada's musical life since 1952 when he emigrated from Cleveland with his wife Ann Schabas and two sons William and Richard.
Branden Steineckert.  Branden Steineckert (born April 21 1978) is the drummer for the punk rock band Rancid. He was previously the drummer of The Used but it was announced on September 12 2006 that he was no longer a part of the band.
Christophe Moehrlen.  Christophe Moehrlen (20 January 1800 – 28 February 1871) pen name: Christoph Irenius was a Swiss French Protestant pastor of German origin schoolteacher and author of children's literature.
Tadayoshi Okura.  Tadayoshi Okura (大倉 忠義 Ōkura Tadayoshi born May 16 1985) is a Japanese idol singer actor and radio host. He is also a member and the drummer of Japanese male idol group Kanjani Eight which is under the management of Johnny & Associates. His image color in the group is green.
Yoshikazu Mera.  Yoshikazu Mera (米良 美一 Mera Yoshikazu) born May 21 1971 in Miyazaki Japan is a Japanese countertenor. His range is three and a half octaves.Originally wanting to become a pop singer Mera now primarily sings classical music from the West but also classical Japanese music. He appears frequently as a soloist with the Bach Collegium Japan which under its conductor Masaaki Suzuki performs Baroque music.
Qiu Ying.  Qiu Ying (Chinese: 仇英; pinyin: Qiú Yīng; Wade–Giles: Ch'iu Ying; 1494? – 1552) was a Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique.Qiu Ying's courtesy name was Shifu (实父) and his pseudonym was Shizhou (十洲). He was born to a peasant family in Taicang (太仓 - now Jiangsu Province) and studied painting under Zhou Chen in Suzhou. Though Suzhou's Wu School encouraged painting in ink washes Qiu Ying also painted in the green-and-blue style.
Roni Duani.  Roni Duani (Hebrew: רוני דואני‎; born Liron Duani on March 10 1986 in Rishon LeZion Israel) is a pop singer. Although she is best known for her music career she has also been a television actress children's television show host and fashion model. She is often compared to the American recording artist Britney Spears.
William Hamilton (Jacobite poet).  William Hamilton (1704–1754) was a Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement.
Matias Faldbakken.  Matias Faldbakken (born 1973 in Hobro Denmark) is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken and brother of film director Stefan Faldbakken.
Alysson Paradis.  Alysson Paradis (born Alison Paradis May 29 1983)[citation needed] is a French actress. She is the younger sister of French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis.
Jency Anthony.  Jency Anthony is a popular South Indian film playback singer who has worked with the film composers like Ilayaraaja in Tamil films.She is married to Gregory Thomas a businessman. They have two children namely Nithin (son/elder) and Nubiya (daughter/younger). She hails from a well reputed family of musicians and hence music came into her life at a very young age. She was introduced to the Tamil movie industry in the song Vaanathu Poonkili in the movie Thiripurasundari scored by Ilayaraja.
Art Sinsabaugh.  Art Sinsabaugh is an American photographer.
Klaus Moje.  Klaus Moje (born in 1936) is a German born Australian kilnformed glass artist and educator. Moje was the founding workshop head of the Australian National University (ANU) School of Art Glass Workshop in Canberra Australia.
Brian Bolland.  Brian Bolland (born 1951) is a British comics artist. Best known in the UK as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry and in 1982 produced the artwork on Camelot 3000 (with author Mike W.
Kim Yong-taik.  Kim Yong Taik (Hangul: 김용택) is a modern South Korean poet.
Kay V.  Kay V (born Kushaal Virdi on December 24 1988) is an underground Indian music producer & rapper. Kay remixed the song Bullet from Hollywood Undead's second studio album American Tragedy. It is featured as an iTunes bonus track in band's remix album American Tragedy Redux
Ricardo Rossel.  Ricardo Rossel Sirot (Lima 12 May 1841 – Barranco 6 December 1909) was a Peruvian author poet politician scholar and entrepreneur and the founder of the Club Literario de Lima.
Yūji Kishi.  Yūji Kishi (born 岸 祐二 Kishi Yūji September 28 1970) is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He started his acting debut in the 1996 Super Sentai series Gekisou Sentai Carranger as Red Racer. Since then he has become a very prominent voice actor in both Anime and video games. He is more prominently known as the main voice actor for Ken Masters in the Street Fighter series of video games produced by Capcom.
Roberto Mamani Mamani.  Mamani Mamani is an Aymaran artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymaran indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been exhibited around the world including shows in Washington D.C. Tokyo Munich and London.Mamani Mamani's paintings draw upon his Aymaran heritage and include colorfully stylized images of indigenous mothers condors suns and moons among other themes.
John J. O'Connor (artist).  John Jerome O’Connor (born 1972) is an American artist known for his large-scale labor-intensive abstract works on paper. In his work O'Connor transforms information through idiosyncratic processes creating equally idiosyncratic abstract shapes forms and patterns. He is represented by Pierogi gallery in Brooklyn NY and Martin Asbaek Projects in Copenhagen Denmark. He lives and works in New York City.
Cary Burkett.  Cary Burkett is an American radio broadcaster and former comic book writer best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Nemesis with artist Dan Spiegle.
Kazunari Ninomiya.  Kazunari Ninomiya (二宮 和也 Ninomiya Kazunari born June 17 1983) often called Nino (ニノ) is a Japanese idol singer songwriter actor voice actor and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to movie audiences for his portrayal as Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima.Ninomiya began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 13.
Anna Katharina Valayil.  Anna Katharina Valayil is an Indian playback singer who has sung songs in Malayalam andTamil. She came into the music field by singing jingles in Ads. She got noticed after singing Appangalembadum for the Malayalam movie Ustad Hotel.
Sebastian Fronda.  Sebastian Fronda (born November 3 1981 Hökåsen Västerås) is a Swedish hip-hop artist. He released his first studio album in 2004 and toured Sweden in summer 2006. He then took a time-out from doing live performances to work on his next album Fridlysta Frekvenser. The first single from that album was released on April 11 2007.
Robert Wallace (Edinburgh MP).  Robert Wallace (1831–1899) was a Scottish writer who had a remarkably varied career as a classics teacher minister university professor newspaper editor barrister and finally a member of parliament. He was born on 24 June 1831 at Kincaple near St. Andrews Fife and was the second son of Jasper Wallace a gardener and Elizabeth Archibald. He was educated at the Geddes Institution Culross Fife and at the University of St. Andrews where he graduated M.A. in 1853.
Antonio Palella.  Antonio Palella (8 October 1692 San Giovanni a Teduccio – 7 March 1761 Naples) was an Italian composer and harpsichordist.
Reg King.  Reg King (5 February 1945 Paddington West London - 8 October 2010 Belvedere Kent) was an English singer and songwriter most famous for being the solo and lead singer with The Boys and The Action. He died of cancer aged 65 in October 2010.
K.Maro.  Cyril Kamar (in Arabic سيريل قمر) (born January 31 1980 in Beirut Lebanon) better known by his stage name K.Maro sometimes also K'Maro is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter and producer of Lebanese origin. He sings in French and in English. He is also founder / owner and CEO of K.Pone.Inc Music Group an entertainment company and K.Pone.Inc record label with signing of a host of well-known artists.In 2002 K.Maro released an album entitled I am à l'ancienne only in Canada.
Colin Upton.  Colin Upton (born April 2 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist and artist who was born in Winnipeg Manitoba and grew up in Vancouver British Columbia. Many of his comics are self-published in the minicomic format although he has also had his work issued by commercial publishers such as Fantagraphics Books and included in anthology collections such as Drippytown Comics & Stories.
MC Tee.  Touré Embden (born 1966) known by the stage name MC Tee is a Haitian-American emcee and co-founder (with DJ Kurtis Mantronik) of the 1980s old school hip hop and electro funk group Mantronix.
Robert M. Rucker.  Robert Mansfield Rucker (born Chicago Illinois raised in Miami Florida) is a jazz drummer music teacher and composer.Rucker has recorded and performed with many notable artists such as Wynton Marsalis Marcus Roberts Wes Anderson Wycliff Gordon Herb Harris Scotty Barnhart Phillip Harper Eric Lewis Stephon Harris Eddie Henderson Sam and Dave Steve Marley and Dead Prez. He has also produced music for Sony Pictures and performs with a jazz band called SwingSet Quintet.
Adam Barta.  Adam Steven Barta (born September 21 1979) known professionally as Adam Barta is an actor Billboard Top 20 club dance musician and singer-songwriter from Bronx New York. He gained notoriety for his chart topping music videos on the LOGO network most notably claiming the title of the Number 1 Ultimate Sexiest Music Video on their Click List Countdown for Standing in the Rain.
DJ Skudero.  DJ Skudero (born Marc Escudero Gonzálvez 6 March 1976) is a Spanish mákina DJ and producer who gained prominence in the mid-to-late-1990s with several top ten singles in Spain.
Ellen Elizabeth Ellis.  Ellen Elizabeth Ellis (3 May 1829–17 April 1895) was a New Zealand feminist and writer. She was born in Great Tangley Manor Surrey England on 3 May 1829.
Franzl Lang.  Franz Franzl Lang (born December 28 1930) known as the Yodelking (German: Jodlerkönig) is a famous yodeler from BavariaLang also sings and plays the guitar and the accordion; he has further authored several books on yodeling. Lang's genre is German folk music; he typically sings in Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions and its inhabitants. He inevitably breaks into yodeling at some point within each song.
Yas Taalat.  Yas Taalat is a recording artist and song writer born in Sudbury now based in Toronto. He is the co-founder and lead singer of the popular gold selling status band Project Wyze and currently the successful hip hop group Dead Celebrity Status. Yas had been making music and performing since the early age of 13 and toured with hip hop group Public Enemy by the time he was 14 years of age.
S. Ali Raza.  S. Ali Raza (1922 – 1 November 2007) was an Indian film screenwriter and director associated with writing the script for hit films such as Aan Andaz Mother India Reshma Aur Shera Raja Jani and Dus Numbri.In 1968 he won the Filmfare award as the best dialogue writer for Saraswatichandra. In 1975 he directed a film titled Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye.He was married to actress Nimmi who appeared in Aan for which he had written the dialogues.
Janet Pressley.  Janet Pressley is an American singer-songwriter from Cincinnati Ohio who founded the Blue Jordan Coffeehouse which later became Blue Jordan Records. She has released two full length records on the label; Late Last Night and A Deeper State Of Blue. She also released a special EP entitled Songs To Sing In A Cathedral At Advent in 2005.
Archie Scott Gobber.  Archie Scott Gobber (born 1965 Warrensburg Missouri) is an artist currently living and working in Kansas City Missouri who is known for eye-catching works that employ clever wordplay as a vehicle for social and political commentary.Gobber is represented by DOLPHIN in Kansas City MO and Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas TX. His work consists of works on paper paintings and sculptural installations.
Tommy Hall (American musician).  Tommy Hall (born September 15 1943) is an electric jug player from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators.A special aspect of The Elevators' sound came from Tommy Hall's innovative electric jug. The jug a crock-jug with a microphone held up to it while it was being blown sounded somewhat like a cross between a minimoog and cuica drum. In contrast to traditional musical jug technique Hall did not blow into the jug to produce a tuba-like sound.
Dito Montiel.  Orlandito Montiel (born July 26 1965) better known as Dito Montiel is an American author screenwriter film director and musician.
Violeta Tarasovienė.  Violeta Riaubiškytė-Tarasovienė (born 25 August 1974) is a famous Lithuanian singer and show host. She used to be the co-host of a Lithuanian music show Penktadienio muzikos šou (Friday Music Show) alongside Edmundas Kučinskas and also and the co-host of a music show Padainuokim! (Let's Sing!) alongside her husband Vilius Tarasovas. She was married to Robertas Merzvinskas and had a daughter Elinga with him however she divorced him at the age of 25.
Oswaldo Guayasamín.  Oswaldo Guayasamín (July 6 1919 Quito Ecuador – March 10 1999 Baltimore Maryland United States) was an Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor of Quechua and Mestizo heritage.
Nick LaRocca.  Dominic James Nick LaRocca (April 11 1889 – February 22 1961) was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time Tiger Rag. He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording Livery Stable Blues in 1917.
Martin Delray.  Michael Ray Martin (born September 29 1949 in Texarkana Arkansas) is an American country music artist known professionally as Martin Delray. He worked as a songwriter in the 1980s with his writing credits including Old Fashioned Love by The Kendalls. Delray's first single release was Temptation in 1985 on the Compleat label credited to Mike Martin.He recorded two albums on the Atlantic Records label: 1991's Get Rhythm and 1992's What Kind of Man.
Gilbert Stuart.  Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart; December 3 1755 – July 9 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island.Gilbert Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists. His best known work the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum was begun in 1796 and never finished; Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $100 each.
Chris Nieratko.  Chris Nieratko (born February 19 1976) is an American humorist and author. Nieratko is a past editor of Big Brother Magazine and currently reviews pornographic films for Vice magazine as well as being the author of the related Skinema book. He also appeared on MTV's Jackass.
Brian May.  Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician singer songwriter and astrophysicist who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He uses a home-built guitar called the Red Special.
Zarema.  Zarema (Turkish: Zarema Halilova Ukrainian: Зарема Халилова) is a Turkish singer songwriter record producer model and actress.
Erick Wujcik.  Erick A. Wujcik (January 26 1951 – June 7 2008) was an American designer of both pen-and-paper and computer role-playing games and co-founder of Palladium Books.
Sung Chan-gyeong.  Sung Chan-gyeong (Hangul: 오정희) was a modern South Korean poet.
Gerardo Velez.  Gerardo Jerry Velez (born August 15 1947) is a Puerto Rican musician. Best known for performing with American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Festival in August 1969 Velez is a veteran percussionist and drummer who has performed with many artists covering a number of different genres of music. He is also a common member of jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra.
Mike City.  Mike City (born Michael Flowers in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Flowers is also the founder and CEO of Unsung Entertainment Inc. He is currently working on a personal album titled Mike City a/k/a Mikey Day Sing-a-Long Volume I. He is also a member of Iota Phi Theta fraternity a predominantly African-American national fraternity. He was initiated at Alpha Epsilon Chapter at North Carolina Central University in Spring 1988.
Hermann Kant.  Hermann Kant (born June 14 1926) is a German writer born in Hamburg noted for his writings during the time of East Germany. He won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1967.
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.  Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (30 January 1886 – 7 January 1950) commonly known as Castelao was a Galician politician writer painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism; promoting Galician identity and culture and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós. He was also one of the founders and president of the Galicianist Party.
John Townsend Trowbridge.  John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18 1827 – February 12 1916) was an American author born in Ogden New York USA to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His papers are located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.
Julián Elfenbein.  Eduardo Julián Elfenbein Kaufmann better known as Julián Elfenbein (born in Santiago Chile in July 24 1972) is a Chilean journalist radio broadcaster and television presenter.
Anodajay.  Steve Jolin better known as Anodajay is a rapper from Rouyn-Noranda Quebec in Canada.Discovering hip hop at the age of twelve and from the age of sixteen became more involved in it along with his other main interest basketball. He worked as a physical education teacher at D'Iberville school for several years before pursuing music as a full-time career.He released his first album in 2003 and his latest ET7ERA was released in 2010.
Kuvempu.  Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (Kannada: ಕುಪ್ಪಳ್ಳಿ ವೆಂಕಟಪ್ಪ ಪುಟ್ಟಪ್ಪ ; December 29 1904 – November 11 1994) widely known by the pen name Kuvempu (ಕುವೆಂಪು) or by the abbreviation K. V. Puttappa was a Kannada writer and poet widely regarded as the greatest poet of 20th century Kannada literature. He is the first among eight recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada. Puttappa wrote all his literary works using the pen name Kuvempu.He is the second - after M.
Ken Lopez.  Ken Lopez (born September 4) is a letterer and logo designer for the comic book industry. A pioneer of computer lettering Lopez designed the fonts for DC Comics's in-house lettering unit and is currently DC's art director for lettering and its cover editor.
Fionn Regan.  Fionn Regan (born 1981) is an Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Bray Regan came to prominence with the release of his debut studio album The End of History in 2006. He had been releasing extended plays for six years prior to the album's release on independent record labels. Regan's second studio album The Shadow of an Empire was released in 2010 to positive reviews and his third studio album 100 Acres of Sycamore was released in 2011.
Chou Chuan-huing.  Steve Chou Chuan-huing (Chinese: 周傳雄; pinyin: Zhōu Chuánxióng) is a Taiwanese composer and singer. He was born in Taiwan on 7thJune 1969. He is the youngest of three children including an older sister and older brother.
RJ Tolson.  R.J. Tolson (born 15 May 1993) is a nationally recognized American author of fantasy and CEO. Tolson is currently touring around the United States at different venues while appearing on several featured networks such as NBC CBS ABC and Fox. 2012 saw the release of his first novel 'Zephyr the West Wind: Final Edition' a finalist in the both Beverly Hills Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Book Awards.
Arzu Ece.  Arzu Ece Otyam (born as Arzu Özkaraman) (born 1963 in Istanbul) is a Turkish singer best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1989 and 1995. Ece is scene surname and real one was Özkaraman.
Gogo (Canadian musician).  Paul Roland Gogo (born April 24 1965) known as Gogo is a Canadian rock-and-roll keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist best known for being the keyboardist of the Canadian rock band Trooper. His career has also included stints with rock vocalist Paul Laine.He was featured in the 2008 documentary film Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie.
Mike Dringenberg.  Mike Dringenberg (born c. 1965) is a German/American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics/Vertigo's Sandman series with writer Neil Gaiman.
Gloria González.  Gloria González (born Gloria González Pérez on April 6) is a Puerto Rican composer with an extensive repertoire of pop and salsa songs.
Giorgio Lucchesi.  Giorgio Lucchesi (Lucca 1855 – 1941) was an Italian painter. While initially he painted mainly painting figures and landscapes; after the 1880s he began to paint still-lives but later of game and then of rural agricultural scenes.
Too Short.  Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28 1966) better known by the stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort) is an American rapper producer and actor. He is best known for his hit songs like The Ghetto and Blow the Whistle.Too Short is credited as being one of the pioneer rappers of West Coast hip hop. Many of his rap lyrics are about pimping drug use and other sexually-related or explicit/vulgar topics.
Martin Crilly.  Martin Crilly (born 1969) is a writer born in Newry County Down Northern Ireland.In 2002 he published The Cream of Irish Industry Commerce and Government a directory of the Top 5000 companies in Ireland.
Giovanni Massiccio.  Giovanni Massiccio (fl. 1620s) was an Italian composer who featured in Ghirlanda sacra 1625.
E. R. Punshon.  Ernest Robertson Punshon (1872–1956) was an English novelist and literary critic of the early 20th century. He also wrote under the pseudonym Robertson Halket. Primarily writing on crime and deduction he enjoyed some literary success in the 1930s and 1940s. Today he is remembered in the main as the creator of Police Constable Bobby Owen the protagonist of many of Punshon's novels. He reviewed many of Agatha Christie's novels for The Guardian on their first publication.
Goran Simić (poet).  Goran Simic a Bosnian poet is recognized internationally for his works of poetry essays short stories and theatre.Goran Simić was born in Vlasenica Bosnia in 1952 and has written eleven volumes of poetry drama and short fiction including Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford 1997) ; his work has been translated into nine languages and has been published and performed in several European countries.
Marc Chapiteau.  Marc Chapiteau (17 August 1946) is a French actor.
Arturo Pagliai.  Arturo Pagliai (1852–1896) was an Italian painter often painting seascapes and vedute of port scenes. Later in life he began to paint studies of women.He was a resident mainly of Livorno. He exhibited frequently at the Promotrice of Florence.
Jeannie Seely.  Jeannie Seely (born Marilyn Jeanne Seely July 6 1940 in Titusville Pennsylvania) is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star. She is best known for her 1966 Grammy award-winning Country hit Don't Touch Me which peaked at No. 2 on the country charts.Seely has produced numerous country hits from the 60s into the mid-70s including duets with Jack Greene like 1969's I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You.
Woody Shaw.  Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24 1944 – May 10 1989) was an American virtuoso trumpeter flugelhornist cornetist composer and band leader described by NPR Music as the last great trumpet innovator.Shaw is regarded as one of the great jazz band leaders and innovators of his generation. Born with a photographic memory and perfect pitch he was considered to have been generations ahead of his time.
Andrew Neiderman.  Andrew Neiderman (born 1940) is an American novelist. In 1987 he became the ghost writer for V. C. Andrews following her death in 1986. He formerly taught English at Fallsburg Jr./Sr. High School in upstate New York. Neiderman is married to the former model Diane Wilson. They have two children Melissa a teacher in Rancho Mirage California and Erik a jet pilot.
Chinghiz Aitmatov.  Chyngyz Aitmatov (Kyrgyz: Чыңгыз Айтматов [tʃɯŋˈʁɯs ɑjtˈmɑtəf]; Russian: Чинги́з Тореку́лович Айтма́тов) (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He is the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature.
Hélène Ségara.  Hélène Ségara (French pronunciation: ​[elɛn seɡaʁa]; born Hélène Aurore Alice Rizzo on 26 February 1971 in Six-Fours-les-Plages Var) is a French female singer who came to prominence playing the role of Esmeralda in the French musical Notre Dame de Paris.
Hira Devi Waiba.  Hira Devi Waiba was a Nepali folk singer from Darjeeling India. She came from a family of musicians from Ambootia Tea Estate near Kurseong and is hailed as the pioneer of Nepali folk songs in India.She has sung nearly 300 folk songs during her musical career spanning 40 years. Her singing career began when she recorded three songs in Kurseong for Radio Nepal in 1966. She worked as an announcer at the All India Radio station in Kurseong from 1963 to 1965.
Al Jourgensen.  Alain David Al Jourgensen (born October 9 1958) is an Cuban-American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen Alien Jourgensen Hypo Luxa (his alias as a music producer) Dog Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan. He is a member and/or founder of several industrial rock bands performing as a singer guitarist or keyboard player.
Jenny Lou Carson.  Jenny Lou Carson (January 13 1915–December 16 1978) born Virginia Lucille Overstake was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit. From 1945 to 1955 she was one of the most prolific songwriters in country music.
Owen Bradley.  Owen Bradley (October 21 1915 – January 7 1998) was an American record producer who along with Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson was one of the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly.
Fiorella Terenzi.  Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian-born astrophysicist author and recording artist who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from far-away galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States.Described by Time magazine as a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna Dr. Terenzi has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G.
Shingo Tsurumi.  Shingo Tsurumi (鶴見 辰吾 Tsurumi Shingo born December 29 1964 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor.
Arild Rypdal.  Arild Rypdal (born 1934) is a Norwegian author pilot and engineer. He is famous for his MI6 stories from England. He commonly uses many characters in a story without having a clear main character.[citation needed]
David Shilling.  David Shilling (born 27 June 1956) is an English milliner sculpturer fashion and interior designer synonymous with designing extravagant hats and clothing displayed on Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot.
Trento Longaretti.  Trento Longaretti is an Italian painter born in 1916 in the comune of Treviglio in the Province of Bergamo.He undertook his high school studies in Milan then from 1931 to 1939 he studied at the Accademia di Brera where he was a student of Aldo Carpi and during which he first exhibited his works in 1936.
Margaret Barton.  Margaret Barton (born 27 May 1926 Finsbury Park London) is a British actress. She is best known for her role in the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter in which she played Beryl a girl who works in the railway station cafe.
Nat Powers.  Nat Powers (born Nathaniel Jeffrey on June 4 1986) is a British lyricist song writer record producer and poet from Leicester who has become one of the first British musicians to work with hip-hop figures such as Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC Spice One and form relationships with a majority of the iconic Death Row Records roster. He was also the first Brit to ever be mentored by multi-platinum rapper and producer Sam Sneed.
Shafin Ahmed.  Shafin Ahmed (Bengali: শাফিন আহমেদ; born February 14) is a Bangladeshi singer and composer. He is a member of the musical group named Miles. He is also a well known singer in West Bengal India.
Hilary Howard.  Hilary Ren Howard is an American actress writer editor and screenwriter best known for her work in the film Kaaterskill Falls (2001).
Sam Lee (actor).  Sam Lee Chan-sam (born 27 September 1975) is a Hong Kong actor. He started his film career when he was first spotted by director Fruit Chan who cast him in Made in Hong Kong. Since his debut Lee has been working hard on many films. In 1999 he made thirteen films in that year alone. He appeared in a Japanese film Ping Pong as one of the contestants in the movie.
Chang Dai-chien.  Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (May 10 1899 – April 2 1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua (traditionalist) painter by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. Chang is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.
Mansour Seck.  Mansour Seck is a blind Senegalese singer and musician born in Podor in the north of the country. Best known for his collaboration with lifelong friend Baaba Maal he has also toured and released several solo albums.
Minh Hằng.  Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng (born 22 June 1987 in Bình Thạnh) is a Vietnamese singer and actress. With dancer Atanas Georgiev Malamov she won Strictly Come Dancing Vietnam Series III.She has voiced for Jewel in the Vietnamese dub of American 3D-Animated film Rio.
Jean François Campos.  Jean François Campos (born 1966 in Aix-en-Provence France) is a French photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and museums such as the International Center of Photography in New York as well as the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris.
Andon Zako Çajupi.  Andon Zako Çajupi (27 March 1866 – 11 July 1930) was a leading Albanian rilindas poet and playwright writer that actively participated in the Albanian National Awakening.
Ismo Alanko.  Ismo Kullervo Alanko (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈismo ˈɑlɑŋko]) (born November 12 1960 in Helsinki) is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands most famously Hassisen Kone Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö as well as a successful solo artist.Alanko is known for his versatility and interest in different musical styles.
Works of Louis Davis.  This is a list of the stained glass works of Louis Davis (1860–1941).Of Davis' legacy it was said:His colour and design satisfy the sense of beauty and the actual craftsmanship will always be a wonder to those who understand the art of glass-making.
Sebastiaan Bremer.  Sebastiaan Bremer (born 27 June 1970 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch artist who lives and works in New York City.Bremer turns photographs found or snapped of himself and his family into trippy dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of an eye. He invents a poetic braille made up of text personal symbols and ghostly shapes that when integrated with their complex grounds disappear again buried in a sea of suspended dots.
Nenad Antanasijević.  Nenad Antanasijević ANTANAS (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Антанасијевић АНТАНАС) is a Serbian Multimedial Artist and Vintage Synthesizers Designer most notable as first drums player of the band Piloti.With Piloti he released albums Piloti and Dvadeset godina in the former Yugoslavia in the 1981s and 1982s. 1979s and 1980s was sound engineer for live concert tours of bands RIBLJA ČORBA and GENERACIJA 5.
Alex Lacasse.  Alex Lacasse is a pop music artist from Ottawa Ontario Canada. He attends Sir Wilfrid Laurier high school in Ottawa. Alex has a Youtube channel with covers of many current Hip hop and Pop songs.
Jill Thompson.  Jill Thompson (born November 20 1966) is an American comic book writer and illustrator who has also worked for stage film and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman characters and her own Scary Godmother series she has also worked on The Invisibles Swamp Thing and Wonder Woman.
Liana Isakadze.  Liana Isakadze (Georgian: ლიანა ისაკაძე Russian: Лиана Александровна Исакадзе German: Liana Isakadse) (born August 2 1946) is a Georgian violinist.
Hadda Brooks.  Hadda Brooks (October 29 1916 – November 21 2002) was an American pianist vocalist and composer. Her first single Swingin' the Boogie which she composed was issued in 1945. She was billed as Queen of the Boogie. Highlights of her life included singing at Hawaii's official statehood ceremony in 1959 and being asked for a private audience with Pope Pius XII.
Vincent Starrett.  Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (/ˈstɛərˌət/; October 26 1886 – January 5 1974) known as Vincent Starrett was an American writer and newspaperman.
Angelica Sin.  Angelica Sin (born April 9 1974) is the stage name of a pornographic actress. Sin has acted in more than 250 productions including the AVN Award-winning The New Devil in Miss Jones. As with many other adult actresses she has wrestled in the Women's Extreme Wrestling federation.
David Hyerle.  David Hyerle is an author and creator of a thought-organization methodology called Thinking Maps that is popular in public schools in the United States.
Jonathan Saul Kane.  Jonathan Saul Kane is an English DJ musician - releasing material since 1989 as Depth Charge and The Octagon Man amongst others. He is also the owner of the record labels DC Recordings and Electron Industries.He is well known for his pioneering use of samples particularly from cult films in the martial arts spaghetti western and pornographic genres.. He has also made tracks celebrating his favourite football team (Brazil on the 1990 single Goal) and player (on the 1998 single Romário).
María Esther Vázquez.  María Esther Vázquez (born 1937) is an Argentine writer and journalist. She was assistant and girlfriend of Jorge Luis Borges.
Leonard Feather.  Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist composer and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
Eugenia Yuan.  Eugenia Yuan (born Eugenia Yuen Lai-Kei) is an actress.
Jules Maxwell.  Jules Maxwell (born October 28 1965 in Bangor Northern Ireland) is a songwriter and composer who is best known as composer for the 1998 Oscar nominated short Dance Lexie Dance. His composition work for dance theatre draws upon minimalism and is often recorded incorporating strong melodic montages of sampled sound influenced by the work of Gavin Bryars. He lives in London.
Dazzer Scott.  Dazzer Scott AKA Daz Longknife born on June 25 in Alberta. He is the drummer of the Canadian punk rock band Die Mannequin. Dazzer lived in Calgary Alberta when he was a child. In January 2004 he relocated to Toronto Ontario Canada where he joined the glam rock band The Glad Yeah . Dazzer then formed The State Of Things in 2007 with Christian McFadden and Dave Vasey and then joined Die Mannequin in 2009.
Michael McCullers.  Michael McCullers (born 1971) is an American comedy film screenwriter.A native of Indian Springs Village Alabama McCullers is a former writer on Saturday Night Live and is best known for co-writing the script for two Austin Powers movies Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember with Mike Myers. He is the writer and director of the 2008 comedy Baby Mama starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.
Enda Walsh.  Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright.
Bloeme Evers-Emden.  Bloeme Evers-Emden (born 26 July 1926 Amsterdam) is a Dutch Jewish teacher and child psychologist who extensively researched the phenomenon of hidden children during World War II and wrote four books on the subject in the 1990s. Her interest in the topic grew out of her own experiences during World War II when she was forced to go into hiding from the Nazis and was subsequently arrested and deported to Auschwitz on the last transport leaving the Westerbork transit camp on 3 September 1944.
Zucchero Fornaciari.  Adelmo Fornaciari (Italian pronunciation: [aˈdɛlmo fornaˈtʃari]; born 25 September 1955) more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero /ˈtsukkero/ is an Italian rock singer and Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. His music is largely inspired by gospel soul and rock music and alternates between ballads and more rhythmic boogie-like pieces.Zucchero is the Italian word for sugar.
Michael Farrar-Bell.  Michael C. Farrar-Bell (1911–1993) was an stained glass and postage stamp designer. He designed pub signs then became known as a stained glass designer[citation needed] as the head of Clayton and Bell which had been one of the most prolific workshops of English stained glass during the latter half of the 19th century.
Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari.  Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari (6 May 1824 – 27 March 1885) was an Italian composer conductor organist and pianist. He is best known for his operas of which his most popular were Pipelè (1855) and Il Menestrello (1859).Born in Genoa Ferrari studied in his native city and in Milan. He performed widely as a concert organist and pianist. In 1852 he was highly active as a conductor in Amsterdam after which he worked as the director of singing at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
Johnnie Bassett.  Johnnie Alexander Bassett (October 9 1935 – August 4 2012) was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band and released seven albums in his lifetime. He cited Billy Butler Tiny Grimes Albert King B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences.
Dito Godwin.  Dito Godwin (born 1955) is an American multi-platinum award winning record producer Executive and Musician best known for his production works with Mötley Crüe Peter Criss and Ace Frehley of Kiss Great White Circus and more recently No Doubt Kevin Carlberg The Stick People and Kristy Lee Cook of American Idol.Godwin started his career in New York as a musician touring with names like Black Sabbath before turning to the administrative and production roles he has worked in for over 25 years in the industry. 
Pete Dello.  Pete Dello (born Peter Blumsom 1942 Oxford) is a 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter and now music teacher.
Sayuri Yamauchi.  Sayuri Yamauchi (山内 小百合 Yamauchi Sayuri May 28 1956 – March 6 2012) also known by the stage name Sayuri (紗ゆり) was a Japanese voice actress. Yamauchi voiced Itchy and Maude Flan­ders on the Japan­ese dub of The Simpsons por­tray­ing Itchy once again in The Simpsons Movie (2007). Sayuri was formerly affiliated with Kyu Production and affiliated with Aigumi at the time of her death. On March 6 2012 Yamauchi died of cancer and was 55 years old at the time of her death.
Top Topham.  Anthony Top Topham (born 3 July 1947 Southall Middlesex) is an English musician and artist. He is best known as a blues guitarist and also for being the first lead guitarist of The Yardbirds.
Jonas Lie.  This page is about Jonas Lie the novelist. For his grandson the NS minister see Jonas Lie (government minister); for the artist see Jonas Lie (painter) Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (Norwegian: [liː]; 6 November 1833 – 5 June 1908) was a Norwegian novelist poet and playwright who is considered to have been one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature together with Henrik Ibsen Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland.
Vince Camuto.  Vince Camuto (born c. 1950) is an American women’s footwear designer who is known for co-founding the women's fashion brand Nine West. As of 2013 he is CEO/Chief Creative Officer of the fashion company Camuto Group
Saikat Ghosh.  Saikat Ghosh (Bengali: সৈকত ঘোষSaikat Ghosh) (January 17 1990 – Present) a Bengali poet and writer.
Tokuyoshi Kawashima.  Tokuyoshi Kawashima (川島 得愛 Kawashima Tokuyoshi born February 8 1973 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce.
Vernie Bennett.  Vernett Vernie Bennett (born 17 May 1971) is an English singer. She is a founding member of R&B girl group Eternal of which her sister Easther Bennett is also a member.
Theodor Hagen (music critic).  Theodor Hagen [often spelled Theodore Hagen] (15 April 1823 Hamburg Germany - 27 December 1871 New York City) was a writer on musical topics in Germany and the United States. He was a member of the local Communist League in Hamburg Germany and took part in the publication and distribution of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-ökonomische Revue.
Netta Muskett.  Netta Muskett (born 1887 in Sevenoaks Kent England - d. 1963 in Putney) was a British writer of more than 60 romance novels from 1927 to 1963 she also wrote under the pseudonym Anne Hill. She continued writing until the day of her death and her last novel Cloudbreak was published posthumously. Her novels are translated to several languages including: Spanish French Portuguese Finnish Swedish and Danish.
Rob L. Wagner.  Rob L. Wagner (روب واقنر) (b. 1954) is an American journalist covering Middle East issues particularly political and social topics in Saudi Arabia. In 2012 he was named managing editor of the Arab News an English language daily newspaper based in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. He previously served as managing editor of the Saudi Gazette a competitor of the Arab News. Wagner was also the top editor of Construction Week magazine in Dubai and is the author of numerous history books.
Sarah Brendel.  Sarah Brendel is a Folk/Pop singer from Dresden Germany. She has achieved success in Germany and internationally releasing an album with Franklin Tennessee-based Inpop Records in 2005. Her song Be With You spent two weeks on the German singles chart in 2002 and peaked at No. 86. She is part of the Zeichen der Zeit (Sign of the Times) project alongside artists such as Xavier Naidoo and Yvonne Catterfeld. This project proved to be her break after it landed on top 10 German album charts.
William Gardiner (composer).  William Gardiner (15 March 1770 - 16 No­vem­ber 1853) was an English composer who is best known for his hymns. He published two collections of his works: Sac­red Melodies (1808) and Music and Friends (1836).Gardiner was born in Leicester.
Madeleine Mitchell.  Madeleine Mitchell is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries in a wide repertoire. She has also been a member of The Fires of London and the Michael Nyman Band.
Alice Schille.  Alice Schille (1869–1955) was an American watercolorist and painter.Schille was born in Columbus Ohio and attended the Columbus Art School beginning in 1891 and studied at the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship under William Merritt Chase. There she studied figure drawing with Kenyon Cox. In 1894 she went to Europe and remained there until 1900 in 1903 studying at the Académie Colarossi in Paris later traveling extensively in the United States Morocco Egypt and abroad.
Rex Davis.  Rex Davis (1890 – ?) was a British actor.
Darren Barrett.  Darren Barrett is a Canadian jazz musician who won the 1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and teaches at Berklee College of Music.
Duncan Rouleau.  Duncan Rouleau is an American comic book writer and artist and is a part of the Man of Action Studios collective of creators (along with Joe Casey Joe Kelly Steven T. Seagle) who created the series Ben 10 currently airing on Cartoon Network.
DJ Red.  DJ Red is a drum and bass DJ and record producer from London/Southampton UK and owner of Stealth Recordings. Since 1995 he has recorded over 75 Drum & Bass single releases and has been prominent on labels such as Stealth Recordings Under Fire True Playaz Trouble On Vinyl and Renegade Hardware. During his time as a producer he has gained two number-one selling singles in the genre with Enta The Dragon and Ride.
Bob Skeat.  Bob Skeat is an English bass guitarist best known for his work with rock band Wishbone Ash.
Dickey Lee.  Royden Dickey Lipscomb (born 21 September 1936) known professionally as Dickey Lee (sometimes misspelled Dickie Lee or Dicky Lee) is an American pop/country singer and songwriter best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs Patches and Laurie (Strange Things Happen).
Willi Dreesen.  Willi Dreesen (February 16 1928 – January 5 2013) was a Swiss painter and sculptor.
Scott MacGillivray.  Scott MacGillivray (born 1957) is an American non-fiction author specializing in motion picture history.His book Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward revised and expanded in 2009 chronicles the later films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Some of his other books are The Soundies Book: A Revised and Expanded Guide (2007 co-authored with Ted Okuda) Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven (2005 co-authored with Jan MacGillivray) and Castle Films: A Hobbyist's Guide (2004).
Jamie Zubairi.  Jamie Zubairi is an actor artist and voice-over from the United Kingdom.
Claudia Dain.  Claudia Dain is an American author of romance novels. She is a two-time Rita finalist and a USA Today Bestselling author.
Frank Fowler (artist).  Frank Fowler (July 12 1852 - August 18 1910) was an American figure and portrait painter born in Brooklyn New York. He studied painting in Europe at Florence Italy for two years under Edwin White and for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris and under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts.He assisted Duran on the fresco of Marie de Médicis in the Luxembourg.
Pink (singer).  Alecia Beth Moore Hart (born September 8 1979) better known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk) is an American singer-songwriter actress and model. Originally a member of the girl group Choice she began her solo career with the 2000 single There You Go which was also included on her debut album Can't Take Me Home released later that year. The R&B album went on to be certified double-platinum in the United States.
Daniel Johnston.  Daniel Dale Johnston (born January 22 1961) is an American singer songwriter musician and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2005 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller Texas.
Olaf D. Thommessen.  Olaf Dobloug Thommessen (7 November 1906 – 1966) was a Norwegian bookseller.
Dan O'Mahony.  Dan O'Mahony (born October 2 1967) is a musician writer and political activist from Orange County California USA. He is currently the West Coast Chairman of the .99 Advocacy Fund and Point nine nine.
Ana Tijoux.  Anamaría Merino Tijoux (born 1977) commonly known by her stage name Ana Tijoux or Anita Tijoux is a French-Chilean musician. She became famous in Latin America as the female MC of hip-hop group Makiza during the late 1990s. In 2006 she crossed over to the mainstream of Latin pop after her collaboration with Mexican songstress Julieta Venegas in the radio hit Eres para mí.
Natalia Przybysz.  Natalia Przybysz (born on September 1 1983 in Warsaw) also known as Natu or N'Talia is a Polish R&B singer. She is a member of the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio Video ZPAV).Natalia Przybysz was one of the founding members of the popular Polish music group Sistars together with her sister Paulina from 2001 to 2006 briefly in 2011 and from 2012 to 2013. Since 2008 she has performed solo as Natu and recorded three studio albums.
Ercole Setti.  Ercole Setti (c.1530–1618) was an Italian engraver of the late-Renaissance period. Setti was born in Modena. His pen and ink drawings show a fine draughtsmanship without requiring cross-hatching.
Johannes Frederik Hulk.  Johannes Frederik Hulk Sr. (January 9 1829 – June 12 1911) was a Dutch painter draftsman photographer and owner of a paint supplies store.
Nell Cole Graves.  Nell Cole Graves (1908 – February 17 1997) was an American potter and the first female potter in the Seagrove North Carolina pottery tradition. Cole was a prolific potter with many current day Seagrove potters claiming her as an influence. She was the daughter of J.B. Cole and a sister to Waymon Cole. She married Philmore Graves and owned Graves Candle Shop as well as J.B.
Giovanni Francesco Fara.  Giovanni Francesco Fara (February 4 1543 - 1591) was a Sardinian historian geographer and clergyman who wrote in Latin.
Gerhard von Graevenitz.  Gerhard von Graevenitz (born September 19 1934 Schilde Prignitz/Mark Brandenburg; died August 20 1983 near Habkern/Traubachtal in Switzerland) was a German kinetic artist co-founding member of the Nouvelle Tendance and member of the op-art movement. He also belonged to the international circle of the Zero-Group. He is seen as one of the uncompromising representatives of the constructive-concrete art of the younger generation (since 1958).
Q. D. Leavis.  Queenie Dorothy Leavis (7 December 1906 – 17 March 1981) née Roth was an English literary critic and essayist.Born in Edmonton England she wrote about the historical sociology of reading and the development of the English the European and the American novel. She paid particular attention to the writings of Jane Austen George Eliot Herman Melville the Brontës Edith Wharton and Charles Dickens.Much of her work was published collaboratively with her husband F. R. Leavis.
Gary Moncher.  Gary Moncher was Patten University's third president in office and the first male president. He was appointed by Bebe Patten and the institution's board of directors and succeeded Priscilla C. Benham after seventeen years of service fifty-six years after the establishment of the organization. He resigned as president in June 2012.
Sayoko Hagiwara.  Sayoko Hagiwara (萩原 佐代子 Hagiwara Sayoko December 1 1962-) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo.
Ayşe Kulin.  Ayşe Kulin (born 1941 in İstanbul) is a Turkish contemporary novelist and columnist.
Viktor Király.  Viktor Király (New York 29 March 1984 – ) is a Hungarian pop singer. In 2008 he became the fourth winner of Megasztár show's. He participated two times in the Hungarian national selection in A Dal to the Eurovision Song Contest; in 2012 with his twin brother and sister as The Kiralys performing the song Untried and in 2014 as a solo artist with Running Out Of Time.
Sole (hip hop artist).  James Timothy Tim Holland Jr. (born September 25 1977) better known by his stage name Sole is an American underground hip hop artist from Portland Maine. He is one of eight co-founders of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of the groups Northern Exposure Live Poets Deep Puddle Dynamics So-Called Artists Da Babylonianz Sole and the Skyrider Band and Waco Boyz.
Gary Baker (songwriter).  Gary Baker (born September 8 1952 in Niagara Falls New York) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
J. R. Orci.  Jorge Richard J.R. Orci is a Mexican-American and Cuban American television writer and producer.
Holly Woods.  Anne Elizabeth Holly Woods is an American rock singer whose notable works include five platinum albums by the rock band Toronto.
Jaspreet Jasz.  Jaspreet Jasz (born Jaspreet Singh Kohli on 6 February 1985 in New Delhi India) is an Indian singer whose songs have been featured in Hindi and Telugu movies as well as advertisement jingles. He won recognition through the music reality television series Indian Idol.
Michael Marshall (singer).  Michael Marshall also known and credited as Mike Marshall and Mike Meezy was the lead singer of the 1980s R&B group Timex Social Club. In 1986 he had taken an offer to join Run DMC's Raising Hell Tour before he left the group. He was often confused as the lead singer of Club Nouveau when in fact Marshall never sang with that group.
DJ A-Tron.  Aaron Williams (born April 10 1993) best known as DJ A-Tron is an American DJ radio host web personality event producer entrepreneur and marketing executive. He was referred to by the LA Weekly as The Twerk King. His business portfolio also includes a creative marketing and branding agency management company as well as an online Jewelry store The Work Shop.
Mehboob (singer).  Mehboob (Malayalam: മെഹ്ബൂബ്; 1925–1981) was an Indian musician and playback singer. He was one of the most successful playback singers in Malayalam film industry during the 1950s and early 1960s with a good number of hit songs in his kitty.
Roni Margulies.  Roni Margulies (born May 5 1955 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish poet author translator and political activist resident in London.
David Boyd (author).  David Boyd (born March 7 1951) is a Canadian author residing in St. Stephen New Brunswick. He is a retired English and Media teacher at Appleby College. Boyd is also a historical fiction novelist and volume one of his two volume WWII novel titled The Reflecting Man was published in July 2013; volume two is due in 2015. As a playwright Boyd adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth to create Macbeth: A Multimedia Event (1995) and Julius Caesar to create Caesar: A Multimedia Event (2005).
Luis Damón.  Luis Damón is an American singer. In 1996 released his debut album titled Solo (Alone) and was nominated the following year for a Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical New Artist of the Year. In 1998 Damón recorded a duet with Puerto-Rican American singer Olga Tañón Para Estar Contigo (To be With You) which peaked at number 30 in the Billboard Latin Songs chart.
Red Foley.  Clyde Julian Foley (June 17 1910 – September 19 1968) known professionally as Red Foley was an American singer musician and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II.For more than two decades Foley was one of the biggest stars of the genre selling more than 25 million records. His 1951 hit Peace in the Valley was among the first million-selling gospel records.
Harry Philbrick.  Harry Philbrick was born in 1958 in Providence Rhode Island USA. In 1996 he was appointed director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum where he had served as Director of Education.
Donald Lowrie.  Donald Lowrie (died June 5 1925) was an American newspaper writer and author. He became a well-known advocate of prison reform work upon the release of his book My Life in Prison in which he reflects on his ten-year incarceration in San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco California.
Nate Dogg.  Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (August 19 1969 – March 15 2011) better known by his stage name Nate Dogg was an American rapper singer and actor. He was noted for his membership in rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre Eminem Warren G Tupac Shakur Westside Connection and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums G-Funk Classics Vol.
William Anderson (American writer).  William Anderson (born 1952) is an American author historian and lecturer. He is a specialist in the subject of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her times.His interest in American frontier began after reading Little House on the Prairie.
Léon Germain Pelouse.  Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1 1838 – July 31st1891) was a French painter born in Pierrelaye (Val-d'oise France). He was a self taught artist. At sixteen he began working as traveling salesman realising his first painting when he was twenty as he was serving in the French army as a conscript. He really began professional painting at twenty-seven exposing his first work Les Environs de Précy (Near Précy) at the Salon de Paris of 1865. Despite severe criticism he continued painting.
Gene Rondo.  Winston Lara (28 May 1943 – 12 June 1994) better known by his stage name Gene Rondo was a Jamaican reggae singer. After first recording as part of the duo Gene & Roy in Jamaica he relocated to London where he continued to record until the 1980s including several album releases in the 1970s both solo and as a member of The Undivided. He was sometimes credited as Gene Laro or Winston Laro.
Brooke Banner.  Brooke Banner (born September 28 1983) is an American pornographic actress and nude model.
Murray Davies.  Murray Davies is a Welsh author and journalist.
Jane Wilson-Howarth.  Jane Wilson-Howarth (born 1954) is a British physician lecturer and author. She has written three travel health guides two travel narratives and innumerable articles and scientific papers.
Sanford Faulkner.  Colonel Sanford C.
Ludwig Thoma.  Ludwig Thoma (January 21 1867 Oberammergau – August 26 1921 Rottach) was a German author publisher and editor who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of everyday Bavarian life.After graduation from the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl) he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg then Law until 1893 in Munich and Erlangen.
Chintaman Vinayak Joshi.  Chintaman Vinayak Joshi (Devanagari: चिंतामण विनायक जोशी) (1892–1963) was a Marathi humorist and a researcher in Pali literature. He hailed from Maharashtra India.
Noh Cheonmyeong.  Noh Cheongmyeong (Hangul: 노천명) was an early-modern South Korean Poet.
MC Trouble.  LaTasha Sheron Rogers (July 30 1970 – June 4 1991) better known as MC Trouble was a rap artist and the first female rapper signed to Motown Records.MC Trouble had a minor hit with the song (I Wanna) Make You Mine featuring The Good Girls released May 25 1990. Make You Mine peaked at #15 on the Billboard Magazine's Hot Rap Songs charts. The title track of her debut album Gotta Get a Grip was released as a second single on September 14 1990.
Betty Fussell.  Betty Harper Fussell (born July 28 1927) is an award-winning American writer and is the author of eleven books ranging from biography to cookbooks food history and memoir. Over the last 50 years her essays on food travel and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times The New Yorker The Los Angeles Times Saveur Vogue Food & Wine Metropolitan Home and Gastronomica.
Semion Rotnitsky.  Semion Aronovich Rotnitsky (Russian: Семён Аронович Ротницкий; December 28 1915 Minsk Russian Empire — 2004 Saint Petersburg Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter Honored Art worker of Tatar Republic a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists) who lived and worked in Leningrad.Rotnitsky is regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his portrait paintings.
Melissa O'Neil.  Melissa Crystal O'Neil (born July 12 1988) is a Canadian singer who was the winner of the third season of Canadian Idol in 2005. She was the first Canadian female winner.
Cyprien Katsaris.  Cyprien Katsaris (Greek: Κυπριανός Κατσαρής; born 1951) is a French-Cypriot pianist teacher and composer. He was born on 5 May 1951 in Marseilles France.
Gilbert Sorrentino.  Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27 1929 – May 18 2006) was an American novelist short story writer poet literary critic professor and editor.In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature.
Marc Hempel.  Marc Hempel (born May 25 1957) is an American cartoonist/comics artist best known for his work on The Sandman with Neil Gaiman.
Bill Anderson (singer).  James William Bill Anderson III (born November 1 1937) is an American country music singer songwriter and television personality. He has released more than 40 studio albums and has reached No. 1 on the country charts seven times: Mama Sang a Song (1962) Still (1963) I Get the Fever (1966) For Loving You (with Jan Howard 1967) My Life (Throw It Away If I Want To) (1969) World of Make Believe (1974) and Sometimes (with Mary Lou Turner 1976).
Søren Nils Eichberg.  Søren Nils Eichberg (born 1973) is a German/Danish composer. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra's history.He studied piano composition and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen and Cologne.After winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Composers in Brussels in 2001 he mostly concentrated on composition.
Monika Herzig.  Monika Herzig is a German-born pianist composer and performing/recording artist. After receiving a scholarship in 1987 from the pedagogical institute in Weingarten Germany for a one-year exchange program at the University of Alabama she moved to the United States in August 1988.
Joe Hill Louis.  Joe Hill Louis (September 23 1921 – August 5 1957) born Lester Hill was an American singer guitarist harmonica player and one-man band. He is significant along with fellow Memphis bluesman Doctor Ross as one of only a small number of one-man blues bands to have recorded commercially in the 1950s and as a session musician for Sun Records.
Toshiro Sasaki.  Toshiro Sasaki (佐左木 俊郎 Sasaki Toshirō) (April 14 1900 – March 13 1933) was a Japanese author in the early 19th century. Most of his works have been published through the Aozora Bunko project.
Francesca Magliani.  Francesca Magliani was an Italian painter born on July 8 1845 in Palermo Sicily.
Sahar Delijani.  Sahar Delijani (Persian: سحر دلیجانی‎; born 1983) is an Iranian author. Her debut novel Children of the Jacaranda Tree has been published in more than 75 countries and translated into 27 languages.
Rita Coolidge.  Rita Coolidge(born May 1 1945) is an American recording artist and songwriter. During the 1970s and 1980s she charted hits on Billboard's pop country adult contemporary and jazz charts and won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician Kris Kristofferson.
Joseph Ahrens.  Joseph Ahrens (April 17 1904 Sommersell – December 21 1997 Berlin) was a German composer and organist.Ahrens received early training in organ and choral music and studied at the Berlin Staatlich Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik from 1925 to 1928 under Alfred Sittard Max Seiffert and Wilhelm Middelschulte. In 1928 he became a docent at the school.
Peter Moore (travel author).  Peter Moore (born 18 July 1962) is an Australian travel writer.Moore who was born in Sydney claims to have visited 99 countries. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in London. He has published many books that re-tell tales of his travels. He is a Vespa enthusiast and his 2005 book Vroom with a View and 2007 book Vroom by the Sea feature trips through Italy taken on vintage Italian motorscooters.
Damon Marks.  Damon Marks is an Italian American professional rock and roll guitarist songwriter record producer and philanthropist.
Adrian Borland.  Adrian Borland (6 December 1957 – 26 April 1999) was an English singer songwriter guitarist and record producer best known as the lead singer of post-punk band The Sound (1979–87). Following a substantial solo career spanning five albums he succumbed to the symptoms of schizoid-affective disorder and committed suicide in April 1999.
Mitch Easter.  Mitch Easter is a musician songwriter and record producer. Frequently associated with the jangle pop style of guitar music Easter is known as producer of R.E.M.'s early albums from 1981 through 1984 and as frontman of the 1980s band Let's Active.
Pietro di Donato.  Pietro Di Donato (April 3 1911–January 19 1992) was an American writer and bricklayer best known for his novel Christ in Concrete which recounts the life and times of his bricklayer father Geremio who was killed in 1923 in a building collapse.
Lydia Chukovskaya.  Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская IPA: [ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə t͡ɕʊˈkofskəjə] ; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 8 1996) was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.
Sophie Lothaire.  Marguerite-Louise Odiot de Montroty stage name Sophie Lothaire (born in 1732 in Paris) was a French dancer actress and director who spent her whole career at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.She began as a figurative dancer from 1753 to 1772 under the name of Mlle Sophie before becoming an actress until 1775.
William Roussel.  Meyhna'ch (born William Roussel on February 17 1976) who also goes under the alias Melancholic Lord of Torments is the man behind the one-man bands Mütiilation and Satanicum Tenebrae.Meyhna'ch was once a member of the notorious French circle Les Légions Noires the Black Legions. He contributed to projects from 1994 to 1996 when he was expelled for undisclosed reasons; it has been suggested (and rumors abound) that drug addiction was the problem but this may be difficult to verify as with many matters relating to the Black Legions. 
Blaine Capatch.  Blaine Capatch (born September 19 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and writer who is best known for hosting Season 2 of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks.Capatch was born in York Pennsylvania to Jean and Harold Capatch. He grew up in the small town of Dallastown Pennsylvania where his father owned and operated a barber shop. He is a 1983 graduate of Dallastown Area High School. After high school he attended York College of Pennsylvania.
Ilyas Afandiyev.  Ilyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev (Azerbaijani: Əfəndiyev İlyas Məhəmməd oğlu) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer member of Azerbaijan Union of Writers (1940) Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1960) laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan (1972) and People’s Writer of Azerbaijan (1979).
Tim Cohen.  Tim Cohen is a San Francisco based musician and visual artist. He has played in a variety of acts including The Fresh & Onlys Black Fiction 3 Leafs Amocoma Sonny & The Sunsets Hattattak The Latter and The Forest Fires Collective. He also releases solo albums first as Feller Quentin then under his own name and more recently Magic Trick. He has been recognized as a figurehead in San Francisco's independent garage and psychedelic rock music scenes.
Bruce Welch.  Bruce Welch OBE (born 2 November 1941 Bognor Regis Sussex England) is an English guitarist songwriter producer and singer best known as a member of The Shadows.
Power Chan.  Power Chan Kwok-pong is an actor in Hong Kong. He has appeared in numerous TVB drama series as well as films. He dated cantopop singer and actress Mimi Lo for 7 years before marrying her on December 2 2009.
James William Govett.  James William Govet was a Landscape Painter and Portrait Artist in the Impressionist style in watercolor and oils. Born in 1910 in a small suburb or Melbourne Australia at Hawthorn. Govet's family was often on the move because his father Alexander was a State Savings Bank Branch Manager. While working as a bank clerk at the State Bank James studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne and later at the Max Meldrum School from 1930 to 1939.
Tony Laureano.  Tony Laureano is a heavy metal drummer originally from Puerto Rico. He has been playing for a number of metal bands (either as a full band member or a session drummer) including Dimmu Borgir Nile Angelcorpse Malevolent Creation God Dethroned Acheron Aurora Borealis Belphegor Nachtmystium 1349 and Brujeria.
Mark Victor.  Mark Victor is a screenwriter. He co-wrote Poltergeist (1982) Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) Marked for Death (1990) and Cool World (1992).
Alma Galarza.  Alma Galarza Flores is a Puerto Rican vocalist best known for her work with Danny Rivera in albums Controversia Ofrenda and Mi Canción Es Paz. She comes from a family of musicians. One of her biggest inspirations was her aunt singer Nardy Flores who died at a very young age.
Oliver Cheatham.  Oliver Cheatham (February 24 1948 – November 29 2013) was an American R&B singer who is best remembered for his 1983 hit Get Down Saturday Night. He also appeared on the 2003 single Make Luv by Italian DJ Room 5 which reached #1 on the UK Charts.
Rebop Kwaku Baah.  Anthony Rebop Kwaku Baah (13 February 1944 – 12 January 1983) was a Ghanaian percussionist perhaps best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.
Darío Escobar.  Darío Escobar (born 1971 Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan conceptual artist one of the most recognized artist of the Central American region. His work is characterized by the investigation of formal and conceptual aspects of objects and their function in visual arts.
Harold Bradley.  Harold Bradley (born January 2 1926) is an American country and pop guitarist.
Louise Moillon.  Louise Moillon (1610–1696) was a French painter in the Baroque era. She became known as one of the best still life painters during her time. She worked for King Charles I of England as well as the French nobility.
Dodie Bellamy.  Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist nonfiction author journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper Kathy Acker and Eileen Myles. She is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling.
Thollem McDonas.  Thollem McDonas is an American pianist improviser composer singer-songwriter touring performer musical educator and social critic. His musical compositions and performances have ranged from classical and free jazz to experimental and punk rock. He has toured North America and Europe since 2006 performing solo works and collaborating with an array of musicians dancers dance companies and filmmakers.
DAIM.  DAIM (German pronunciation: [daːiːm] like the coin dime; born 1971 in Lüneburg as Mirko Reisser) is a German Graffiti-Artist lives and works in Hamburg. He is particularly known for his large-size 3D-style graffiti works. This has become known as his trademark. For his technically sophisticated style he obtained the reputation of being one of the best graffiti-artists in the world.
Denise Coffey.  Denise Coffey (born 12 December 1936 Aldershot Hampshire) is an English actress director and playwright.After training at the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art Coffey began a career in repertory at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh then moved to the Palladium Theatre there. She later worked for the BBC as a radio interviewer before appearing in London's West End.Coffey has had a few supporting film roles.
Hamuera Tamahau Mahupuku.  Hamuera Tamahau Mahupuku (c.1842 – 14 January 1904) was a New Zealand tribal leader runholder assessor and newspaper proprietor. Of Māori descent he identified with the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi. He was born in the Wairarapa New Zealand in c.1842.
Rena Matsui.  Rena Matsui (松井 玲奈 Matsui Rena born July 27 1991 in Toyohashi Aichi) is a member of the Japanese idol girl group SKE48. She originally joined as a member of SKE48's Team S but on April 2013 she became the leader of team E. She has participated in the main lineup of not only SKE48 but also AKB48 singles. She is considered by many fans as one half of the center duo of SKE48 along with Jurina Matsui.[citation needed]
Jon Carin.  Jon Carin (born October 21 1964 in New York City New York) is a producer artist and musician best known for his association with Pink Floyd and more specifically its guitarist David Gilmour and former member Roger Waters over the last twenty-seven years. In the early 1980s he gained fame as the frontman for the new wave band Industry.
Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse.  Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse (1829–1910) was a French neoclassisist painter and engraver.
Sarkodie (rapper).  Sarkodie (also referred to as Obidi Pon Bidi) is a Ghanaian hip hop recording artist entertainer and brand ambassador. In 2012 he won the BET Awards for Best International Act Africa. Many Ghanaians recognize him as one of the leading Hip hop and Hip Life artists in the country. He is considered one of the major proponents of the Azonto genre and dance. Sarkodie the fourth of five children was born on July 10 1985 to his mother Emma Maame Aggrey a single parent and raised in Tema.
Ricardo Villalobos.  Ricardo Villalobos (born 1970) is a Chilean-German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno scene.Villalobos was born in Santiago Chile in 1970. In 1973 he moved to Germany with his family to escape the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet who had seized power that year.When Ricardo was around 10 or 11 he started to play conga and bongos.
Sylvan Muldoon.  Sylvan Muldoon (February 18 1903 – October 1969) was an American writer on the subject of Astral projection a paranormal or occult term which usually refers to a consciously induced out-of-body experience or OBE. He claimed to have his first OBE when he was just 12 years old and often in a state of catalepsy. The experiences continued into his adult life.
Dara Ó Conaola.  Dara Ó Conaola is an Irish writer who writes in Irish. His first book Mo Chathair Ghriobháin established him as an important contemporary writer in the language. Night Ructions (translated by Gabriel Rosenstock into English) was launched at the 1990 Sunday Times Festival of Literature Hay-on-Wye Wales. In 2001 his novella Misiún ar Muir/Sea Mission was reissued. It had been staged at An Taibhdhearc as part of the Galway Arts Festival in 1992 and at the Expo ‘92 in Spain.
Martin Drew.  Martin Drew (11 February 1944 – 29 July 2010) was an English jazz drummer who played with Ronnie Scott (1927–1996) and Oscar Peterson (1925–2007).
Felix Hanemann.  Felix Hanemann (born May 1 1953 in New Orleans Louisiana) is an American singer and musician.
Eric Whelpton.  (George) Eric Whelpton (1894–1981) was the son of the Revd George Whelpton minister of Trinity Methodist church Abingdon.
Nicholas Furlong.  Nicholas Furlong (born 1929) is an Irish farmer journalist author and historian from County Wexford.
Dan Diaz.  Dan Diaz (born March 20 1985) is an American TV/Film/Video Game composer multi-instrumentalist producer and recording engineer from Southern California. He has composed music for the Electronic Arts video games Skate 3 and Skate 2 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and Skate It for the Wii.
Swede Mason.  Swede Mason is a musician and video editor who gained fame for the mashup Buttery Biscuit Base which was released in the United Kingdom and reached number 37 in the UK Singles Chart. The associated YouTube video gained over 7 million views and was described by The Guardian as a masterpiece of editing. Swede Mason claims the video took him around a year to complete.He is also famous for a mashup of Jeremy Clarkson beatboxing which has had almost 3 million views on youtube.
John Ness Beck.  John Ness Beck (November 11 1930 - June 25 1987) was a composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his very popular and accessible settings of traditional Sacred music. Beck was a conductor and arranger of international renown. His works are highly celebrated and performed by high school college church community and professional choirs across the globe today.
Catherine Feeny.  Catherine Feeny (born 1976) is an American singer/songwriter based in Portland Oregon.She grew up in Norristown Pennsylvania studied in Washington D.C. and finally relocated to Los Angeles where she started seriously writing her own songs. Her first album Catherine Feeny was produced by fellow singer/songwriter Joe Purdy and was released in the UK in January 2003.
Brad Shepherd.  Bradley Mark Brad Shepherd (born 1 February 1961 in Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian rock musician. Shepherd is a guitarist singer-songwriter and harmonica player; he has performed with several bands especially the Hoodoo Gurus.
Élisabeth de Haulteterre.  Élisabeth de Haulteterre (Hotteterre) (fl. 1737–1768) was a French composer and violinist. Despite the similarity of the name she did not come from La Couture the home of the Hotteterre family including Jacques Martin Hotteterre and is probably not related.She was known as a concert violinist playing Jean-Marie Leclair's sonatas at the Concert Spirituel in 1737. Her married name was Levésque.
Anne Murray.  Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born June 20 1945) known professionally as Anne Murray is a Canadian singer in pop country and adult contemporary music whose albums have sold over 54 million copies worldwide as of 2012.Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs Snowbird (1970).
Mikako Ichikawa.  Mikako Ichikawa (Ichikawa Mikako 市川実日子 born 13 June 1978) is a Japanese actress and model from Tokyo Japan. She was working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine Olive under an exclusive contract. She appeared in the movies Blue Cutie Honey and Memories of Matsuko. For her role in Blue she won the award for Best Actress at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.
The Mighty Hannibal.  James Timothy Shaw (August 9 1939 – January 30 2014) known as The Mighty Hannibal was an American R&B soul and funk singer songwriter and record producer. Known for his showmanship and outlandish costumes often incorporating a pink turban several of his songs carried social or political themes. His biggest hit was Hymn No.5 a commentary on the effects of the Vietnam War on servicemen which was banned on radio.
Stanley Roberts (screenwriter).  Stanley Roberts (1916-1982) was an American screenwriter.He was nominated for an Academy Award.
Van Darkholme.  Van Darkholme (born October 4 1972) is a Vietnamese American pornographic actor director as well as an artist and photographer.Darkholme is among the few Asian American men working in Western gay porn as a director and actor and is of Vietnamese descent. Much of his work as a director and actor contains bondage and particularly shibari the Japanese art of rope bondage a specialty within BDSM cultures.
Mat Walerian.  Mat Walerian (July 2 1984) born Mateusz Jan Walerian is jazz saxophonist and woodwind player (alto saxophone bass clarinet soprano clarinet flute) composer and bandleader who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music.
Martine Locke.  Martine Locke is an Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist. She has performed in the US and Australia touring with Ani DiFranco The Cowboy Junkies Arlo Guthrie and Luka Bloom.[citation needed]In 1996 Locke started an acoustic duo called The Velvet Janes with Rose Farrow. They have released four albums on Locke's record label Passionfruit Produce selling 80000 copies to date[citation needed].
Pluto Shervington.  Pluto Shervington also known as Pluto (born Leighton Shervington 13 August 1950 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae musician singer engineer and producer.
Dennis Armitage.  Dennis Armitage (28 May 1928 – 5 November 2005) was a British pianist saxophonist and painter living in Switzerland. He was born in Leeds.
Alex Lozupone.  Alex Lozupone is a New York City based jazz and rock musician and film director. As a musician he is a member of Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel and has played with Percy Jones and Stephen Moses. As a director and cinematographer he shoots mainly music shows in New York City and has put up videos for artists such as Pet Bottle Ningen Weasel Walter Gato Loco 24-7 Spyz and Melvin Van Peebles as well as readings by Samuel Delany.
William Glackens.  William James Glackens (March 13 1870 – May 22 1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American art. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His dark-hued vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist.
Humayun Azad.  Humayun Azad (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আজাদ; 28 April 1947 – 11 August 2004) was a Bangladeshi author poet scholar and linguist. He wrote more than seventy titles. In 2012 the Government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously.
Khalid Abdulrahman.  Khalid Abdulrahman AdDosari (Arabic: خالد عبدالرحمن الدوسري ‎) (born April 22 1965 in Riyadh Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi singer musician and songwriter. He is nicknamed makhawi al-layl (مخاوي الليل) which means the friend of night. He regarded the night as his close friend because he used to stay up late writing poems in the night silence. He is one of the region’s most popular vocalists[citation needed] alongside Mohammed Abdu Abdul Majid Abdullah and Rashed Al-Majed.
Miss Jojo.  Miss Jojo born Josiane Uwineza also known as Iman Uwineza is a Rwandan R&B singer. Her music blends R&B and traditional Rwandan musical elements.
Putu Wijaya.  I Gusti Ngurah Putu Wijaya (born April 11 1944) better known simply as Putu Wijaya was born in Tabanan Bali.
Byron Lee.  Byron Lee OJ CD born Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee (27 June 1935 - 4 November 2008) was a Jamaican musician record producer and entrepreneur best known for his work as leader of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires.
Corrina Repp.  Corrina Repp is a vocalist guitarist songwriter and maker of quiet music based in Portland Oregon. Her albums I Take On Your Days (2001) and It's Only the Future (2004) were released on Hush Records while The Absent and the Distant (2006) was released on Mark Kozelek's personal label Caldo Verde.
Mike Sturgis.  Mike Sturgis is an American drummer having played for the band 21 Guns and later with Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith in Psycho Motel where he played on both State of Mind (1996) and Welcome to the World (1997) albums. He was also the drummer for Wishbone Ash between 1995 and 1997 and drummer for Asia between 1994 and 2001.Sturgis began drumming at the age of ten and from 1982 to 1986 attended the University of Miami where he received a degree in music.
Christoph Haberland.  Christoph Haberland (Latvian: Kristofs Hāberlands) was a Baltic German architect chief architect of Riga and is considered one of the brightest masters of classicism architecture in Latvian history.
David Dyment.  David Dyment is a Canadian author and academic based in Ottawa Ontario.His most recent publication is Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship published by Dundurn Press in 2010. The book was honoured by the Toronto Library Foundation at the 2011 Book Lover's Ball as one of under 60 celebrated recent Canadian books. In May 2011 the book was listed on Quill and Quire's bestseller list for non-fiction politics.
Pasquale Ottini.  Pasquale Ottini (c. 1570–1630) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period active mainly in Verona. He was apprenticed to Felice Brusasorci.
Kevin O'Dwyer (silversmith).  Kevin O' Dwyer is an internationally exhibited artist whose works embrace the fields of design metalworking and sculpture. He creates primarily in silver.He began his training in 1979 with jeweller Harriet Dreissigger and continued his studies with silversmiths William Frederick and Heikki Seppa.
Ibtisam Lutfi.  Ibtisam Lutfi (Arabic: ابتسام لطفي‎) is a blind Saudi singer. She was born Khayriyyah Qurban (Arabic: خيرية قربان‎) in Saudi Arabia and is one of the first female singers of that country. She began her career singing at wedding feasts in the city of Jiddah in the 1960s and over the next two decades she became famous in her native country as well as in Egypt. She retired from singing in the mid-1980s due to her mother's death.
Rex Reed.  Rex Taylor Reed (born October 2 1938) is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column On the Town with Rex Reed for The New York Observer.
David Bendeth.  David Bendeth (born 17 June 1954) is a multi-platinum award-winning record producer. He was born in London England and then moved to Toronto as a teenager.
Jessy Serrata.  Jessy Serrata (November 2 1953—) is an American Tejano musician and vocalist. His nickname is Mr. Iron Throat. Jessy was born in Knox City Texas to Matias and Agapita Serrata. He has appeared on over 17 albums. His daughter Brandy Bee Serrata is also a vocalist.Although he is best known for his voice Jessy also plays bass guitar. His music career began with Agapito Zuniga (a.k.a. El Rey de la Cumbia).
Teru Miyamoto.  Teru Miyamoto (宮本 輝 Miyamoto Teru born March 6 1947) is a Japanese author.
Dean Howard (musician).  Dean Howard (born 7 May 1961 Greenwich London) is a guitarist who was part of Ian Gillan's backing band on the Deep Purple frontman's U.S. solo tour in August and September 2006. Dean was working with Toby Jepson (ex Little Angels) and is now with Air Race.
Chris Weston.  Chris Weston is a British comics artist who has worked both in the US and UK comics industries.
Charlie Mason (lyricist).  Charlie Mason is an American lyricist whose credits include Top 40 singles by Monrose (Hit 'N' Run/Germany) Billiam (Beautiful Ones/UK) What's Up (If I Told You Once/Sweden) DCX (Poor Romeo/Finland) and Birgit Õigemeel (Homme/Estonia).Mason got his start as a lyricist working with German vocalist-musician Dirk Homuth on songs for an alt-pop group which Homuth named Almost Charlie so that although his friend is unable to play any instrument more complicated than a toaster he could still be represented in some way. 
Mort Leav.  Mortimer Leav (July 9 1916 New York City New York – September 21 2005) was an American artist best known as co-creator of the influential comic-book character the Heap and for his advertising art which included some of the earliest TV commercial storyboards — among them for Procter & Gamble's venerable Charmin bathroom-tissue character the grocer Mr. Whipple.
Jim Wilson (guitar player).  Jim Wilson (born James Wilson Delaware) is an American guitarist in the band Mother Superior and previously in the Rollins Band. He is a professional musician known for his soulful vocals and powerful blues-rock guitar work.[citation needed] He also plays guitar and bass with Daniel Lanois. Wilson hails from Delaware but currently resides in Los Angeles California.
Joseph O'Neill (1886–1953).  Joseph O'Neill was an Irish novelist.O'Neill claimed later in his life that he was born in the Aran Islands County Galway Ireland in 1886 but he was in fact born in the inland Galway town of Tuam preferring as a writer the perceived romance of being born in the [Gaelic] speaking islands. He became a school inspector and subsequently Secretary of the Department of Education in the newly formed Irish Free State.
Kumiko Takeda.  Kumiko Takeda (武田 久美子 Takeda Kumiko) born August 12 1968 in Shizuoka Japan is a Japanese actress.
Kōgyo Tsukioka.  Tsukioka Kōgyo (月岡 耕漁) sometimes called Sakamaki Kōgyo (坂巻 耕漁) (April 18 1869 - February 25 1927) was a Japanese artist of the Meiji period. He was a student and adopted son of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and also studied with Ogata Gekkō. Although Kōgyo sometimes painted other subjects for most of his career he made pictures of Japanese noh theatre either as large-scale paintings or colored woodblock prints. Many of the latter were published in series and sold as multi-volume sets.
Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five).  Michael George Smith (6 December 1943 – 28 February 2008)was an English singer songwriter and music producer.In the 1960s Smith was the lead vocalist and keyboard player for the Dave Clark Five. The band was a leading unit in the British Invasion of the United States and were the Beatles' main British rivals before the emergence of the Rolling Stones.
Max Alexander (comedian).  Michael Drelich better known by the stage name Max Alexander is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared numerous times on The Tonight Show.
Sermstyle.  Sermstyle (South Shields England born Jamie Michael Robert Sanderson born November 24 1987) is a songwriter record producer remixer who currently lives and works from Newcastle upon Tyne. He has records with artists Wiz Khalifa Young Buck Claude Kelly Kendrick Lamar Bei Maejor Mistah F.A.B. Lil Chuckee Kid Ink Ca$his Stat Quo Yung Berg 40 cal Vado Hot Rod Wretch 32 and Wiley.
William Sharp (lithographer).  London painter William Sharp (1803–1875) is credited for the introduction of chromolithography to America in 1840.He had worked for the lithographer Charles Hullmandel in London and on his arrival in Boston in 1840 went into partnership with Francis Michelin who had also been employed by Hullmandel. Michelin went on to establish his own company in New York in around 1844.
Manon Gropius.  Alma Manon Gropius (October 5 1916 – April 22 1935) was the daughter of the architect Walter Gropius and the composer and diarist Alma Mahler and the stepdaughter of the novelist and poet Franz Werfel. She is a Randfigur (peripheral person) whose importance lies in her key relationships to major figures: a muse who inspired the composer Alban Berg as well as Werfel and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Elias Canetti.
Charles de La Buissière.  Charles de La Buissière (1768–1808) was a French actor.
Tone Hulbækmo.  Tone Hulbækmo (born 27 September 1957) is a Norwegian singer and musician married to the traditionsl folk flutist Hans Fredrik Jacobsen and the mother of Jazz drummer and vibraphonist Hans Hulbækmo.
Bryan MacLean.  Bryan Andrew MacLean (September 25 1946 – December 25 1998) was an American singer guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with the influential rock band Love. His famous compositions for Love include Alone Again Or Old Man and Orange Skies.
Sneed B. Collard III.  Sneed Body Collard III (born November 7 1959) is an award-winning American author.On November 4 2006 Collard received the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award which is presented annually to an author or illustrator whose total body of work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children. The winner is selected by a committee of the Children's Book Guild of Washington D.C. a professional organization of authors illustrators and children's literature specialists.In 2006 Collard also received the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award for his science book The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands.Collard has written more than 65 books for young people including Shep—Our Most Loyal Dog Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials and Dog Sense.His articles have appeared in Environmental Action The Humanist Florida Wildlife Islands Cricket and Highlights for Children.
Ken Ford (violinist).  Ken Ford (born November 14 1968) is an American jazz violinist. Growing up Ford began as a classical violinist with prominent orchestra positions in his youth and is a sought-after musician whose electric violin has also graced the tracks of hit artists ranging from R&B neo soul contemporary jazz and more.
Sallyann Amdur Sack.  Sallyann Amdur Sack is an American genealogist and psychologist and editor of Avotaynu Magazine a journal of Jewish Genealogy and scholarship. Sack is the only genealogist listed in Jewish Women in America. She was instrumental in founding the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (currently chairperson of the board) Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (founding president) International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and Avotaynu.
Eldbjørg Raknes.  Eldbjørg Raknes (born 9 February 1970 in Midsund Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz vocalist known for her a cappella vocal performances innovative improvised vocals and electronic effects. She has collaborated with musicians such as Jon Balke Anders Jormin Bendik Hofseth Christian Wallumrød Arve Henriksen Ketil Bjørnstad and Ståle Storløkken. She is the sister of the bassist Steinar Raknes.
John Molo.  John Molo (born 1953 Bethesda Maryland) is an American rock and jazz drummer and percussionist. He has played with a variety of bands combos and soloists including Bruce Hornsby and the Range The Other Ones Phil Lesh and Friends Delaney Bramlett John Fogerty Keller Williams Mike Watt Paul Kelly David Nelson Jemimah Puddleduck and Modereko.
Serge de Gastyne.  Serge Benoist de Gastyne (July 27 1930 – July 24 1992) was a French American composer and pianist born in Paris France. After fighting with the French Resistance forces in World War II he came to the United States and attended the University of Portland (Oregon) where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. He took further studies at the Eastman School of Music and also at the University of Maryland where he was awarded Master of Music and Doctor of Music Arts degrees.
Arunabh Sarkar.  Arunabh Sarkar (born May 29 1941) is a Bangladeshi poet Columnist Literary Editor & a Freedom Fighter.Born at tangail Bangladesh. He received the Bangla Academy Award 2009 for poetry. Bangla Academy Award is the most prestigious and highst Award for Poetry in Bangladesh. Arunabh also received Tangail Sahitya Sangsad Poetry Award for 2007. He has three collection of Poems : Nagare Baul Keu Kichhui Jane Na and Narira Fere Na.
Bill Persky.  Bill Persky (born 1931) is an American Emmy Award-winning director screenwriter producer and actor for television. With his long-time collaborator Sam Denoff he wrote and created the television show That Girl starring Marlo Thomas. Their writing collaboration on episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show resulted in some of the show's most popular episodes. In 1977 he directed for the situation comedy Busting Loose.
Chris Badami.  Chris Badami is an American musician music producer and sound engineer.Badami has recorded and produced hundreds of acts since the early 1990s. Chris got his start in the music industry as an active player and studio musician in the New York/New Jersey area. While performing in recording studios his love of technology began. From there Chris began working at top recording studios in the area and completed two college degrees in percussion and music technology from NYU (A.S.
Fergie (singer).  Fergie Duhamel (born Stacy Ann Ferguson; March 27 1975) is an American singer songwriter fashion designer television host and actress. She is the female vocalist for the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas with whom she has achieved chart success worldwide. Her debut solo album The Dutchess (2006) spawned five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles three of which went to number one.Ferguson was a member of the children's television series Kids Incorporated and the girl group Wild Orchid.
Sheena Easton.  Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr; 27 April 1959) is a Scottish/American international recording artist and stage and TV/film actress. Easton first came into the public eye as the focus of an episode in the first British reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.In the UK Easton became the third UK female solo artist ever to top the US Hot 100 following Petula Clark and Lulu.
Kaori Takahashi (actress).  Kaori Takahashi (高橋かおり Takahashi Kaori; born August 29 1975 in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Big Kuntry King.  Sean Merrett (born c. 1978) better known by his stage name Big Kuntry King is an American hip hop recording artist from Atlanta Georgia. He's a member of southern hip hop group P$C along with longtime friend and fellow Atlanta rapper T.I.. He is currently signed to Grand Hustle and Atlantic Records and is also the founder of his own record label Bread Box Muzic. His debut studio album My Turn to Eat was released September 30 2008.
Webbie.  Webster Gradney Jr. (born September 6 1985) who performs under the mononym Webbie is an American rapper from Baton Rouge Louisiana. He was signed to the independent Trill Entertainment label from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he came into the hip hop scene with Gimme That featuring Bun B. His songs Bad Bitch and Swerve were featured on Gangsta Musik his 2003 group album with Lil Boosie and in the 2005 movie Hustle & Flow.
Ashis Nandy.  Ashis Nandy (Bengali: আশীষ নন্দী) (born 1937) is an Indian political psychologist a social theorist and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist his body of work covers a variety of topics including public conscience mass violence and dialogues of civilizations.He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years.
ShellZ Zhu.  ShellZ Zhu is a Chinese model and actress.
Stéphane Pompougnac.  Stéphane Pompougnac (born 1968) is a French house DJ and record producer.
Bryan Buchan.  Mister Bryan Buchan (born 1945) is a Canadian-Scottish author of children's stories. Born in Aberdeen Scotland Buchan studied at the University of Toronto. From 1968 until 2011 Buchan taught in Richmond Hill Ontario at Bayview Secondary School. He retired from professional teaching prior to the start of 2011-2012 school year. In Bayview Secondary School he displays great knowledge of other European languages as well as Vietnamese.
Hervé Yamguen.  Herve Yamguen (1971 Douala) is a Cameroonian painter and sculptor.Autodidact he launched himself in painting sculpture and he discovered a passion for the writing which enables him to wonder about its daily live. He currently works on plays. He grew in Douala where he lives and works in one of the most popular districts of the city New Bell. It is this environment which nourishes the imaginary of Hervé whose plastic work turns around the face the body and the place of it in the world.
Michael Kaluta.  Michael William Kaluta sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta or Michael Wm. Kaluta (born August 25 1947) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his acclaimed 1970s adaptation of the pulp magazine hero The Shadow with writer Dennis O'Neil.
Lars Eriksson (musician).  Lars Eriksson (born Lars Erik Ludvig Eriksson in Karlskoga Sweden on 1 April 1980) is a Swedish singer-songwriter who became famous for his participation in Sweden's Idol 2008.
Sagat (rapper).  Faustin Lenon better known by his stage name Sagat is an American rapper. Sagat also works as a producer under another alias Jump Chico Slamm (or Jump Chico Slamm).He had a minor hit in 1994 with Why Is It? (Funk Dat). The song was originally titled Fuk Dat but was changed to gain radio airplay. It was run frequently on MTV and its video was featured on Beavis & Butthead.[citation needed]In 1994 he produced a follow up single Luvstuff. Luvstuff was remixed by Armand Van Helden.
Leopold Staff.  Leopold Staff (November 14 1878 – May 31 1957) was a Polish poet; one of the greatest artists of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Polish PEN Club.
Manuel Antônio de Almeida.  Manuel Antônio de Almeida (November 17 1831 — November 28 1861) was a Brazilian satirical writer medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memoirs of a Police Sergeant written under the pen name Um Brasileiro (English: A Brazilian). He is the patron of the 28th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Virginio Simonelli.  Virginio Simonelli also known as Virginio (born 31 January 1985 in Fondi Lazio Italy) is an Italian pop singer.In 2010 Virginio took part in the 10th edition of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi in which he became winner.
Jonathan Seet.  Jonathan Seet (born November 23 1969) is a Singaporean-born Canadian singer-songwriter composer and producer.Seet was born in Singapore to a Singaporean father and an Irish mother[citation needed] who emigrated to Canada shortly after he was born. He currently resides in Toronto Ontario and has lived in Oxford and London UK.
Jerry Capehart.  Jerry Capehart (August 22 1928 – June 7 1998) was a songwriter and music manager. Capehart co-wrote the famous rock 'n' roll songs Summertime Blues and C'mon Everybody with Eddie Cochran whom he also managed. One of his most-recorded songs Turn Around Look at Me was a chart hit for Glen Campbell (his first) the Lettermen and the Vogues. He died in Nashville Tennessee.
Yoshiaki Manabe.  Yoshiaki Manabe (真鍋 吉明 Manabe Yoshiaki) is the lead guitarist for the Japanese rock band The Pillows. As a mixing engineer Manabe has worked on albums by The Pillows and The Stereo Future. He enjoys reading in his free time and is an enormous fan of Bob Marley. He also has his own signature guitar made by Sago New Material Guitars.
Katharine McPhee.  Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25 1984) is an American pop singer songwriter and actress. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006 eventually finishing as the runner-up.Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30 2007 and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 selling 381000 copies (as of December 2010). The album's first single Over It was a Pop Top 30 hit and was certified gold in 2008.
Patrick Tse.  Patrick Tse Yin (Chinese: 謝賢 born 9 August 1936 in Guangzhou) is a Hong Kong actor producer screenwriter and director in Hong Kong cinema.
Michelle Yim.  Michelle Yim Wai-ling (Chinese: 嚴惠玲; born September 2 1955) also known by her Chinese stage name Mai Suet (Chinese: 米雪) is a Hong Kong actress. She graduated from St. Rose of Lima's College and Shaw Brothers' Training School.
Shaun Murphy (singer).  Shaun Murphy (born Cheryl Murphy in Omaha Nebraska United States) is an American R&B singer songwriter best known for her powerhouse singing style. Her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records.
Max Sharam.  Max Sharam (born Leanne Maree Sharam 1969 Benalla Victoria) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist and singer-songwriter. In the mid-1990s Sharam had three top 40 hit singles Coma Be Firm and Lay Down from her top 10 album A Million Year Girl (1995). She received eight nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 and won Best Cover Art with Dominic O'Brien for the album.
Ava Rose.  Ava Rose (born February 9 1986 in Sutton Alaska U.S.) is an American former pornographic actress who entered the industry in 2006 at the age of 20. She is the older sister of Mia Rose.
Jewell (singer).  Jewell (aka Ju-L born Jewell Caples later Jewell Peyton[citation needed]) is an R&B singer who was signed to Death Row Records from 1992-1996. She was working part-time - though still unsigned - for IV Life Records. She had a video and charting hit Woman to Woman that reached 72nd on the Billboard Hot 100. She is best known for singing choruses to many classic West Coast rap hits such as Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice and Dr. Dre's Let Me Ride.
Lizzie Grey.  Lizzie Grey is the stage name of Stephen Perry a professional musician. He is perhaps best known for his membership as a guitarist in the heavy metal band London and for co-writing the Mötley Crüe song Public Enemy #1.
Xan Palay.  Xan Palay (born Alexandra Palay on June 10 1970) is an installation art sculptor based in Columbus Ohio.Xan Palay was born in Cleveland Ohio. She produces art in a number of media including sculpture sound video installation art and fiber. Often her art is interactive or involve viewer participation.Palay has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and Arts Midwest. In 2000 she was awarded an Artists Project grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
Kurt Maloo.  Kurt Maloo (born Kurt Meier on April 16 1953 in Zurich Switzerland) is a Swiss singer-songwriter composer and record producer. He first achieved international success in 1986 as the singer and front man of the pop-jazz duo Double with the hit single “The Captain of Her Heart”.
Ng Hui.  Ng Hui (Chinese: 黄慧; pinyin: Huáng Huì born July 22 1979) is a Singaporean Chinese television actress.
Ville Laihiala.  Ville Laihiala (born June 13 1973 in Oulu Finland) is the current vocalist and guitarist of the Finnish Gothic metal group Poisonblack. He was also the frontman for Sentenced from 1996 (when he replaced their former bassist and vocalist Taneli Jarva) until the group ended their career in 2005. When joining Sentenced he was soon accepted by fans.
Jimmie Spheeris.  Jimmie Spheeris (November 5 1949 – July 4 1984) was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels. He was of Greek descent. He was brother of film director and producer Penelope Spheeris and cousin of musician Chris Spheeris and film director Costa Gavras.
Dirk von Lowtzow.  Dirk von Lowtzow (born March 21 1971) is a German musician. He has been the singer and guitarist with German rock band Tocotronic since 1994. Since 2001 he has also been active with the German electronic music project Phantom/Ghost. In 1997 he took part in the compilation disc Musik für junge Leute by various artists with the song Charlotte which refers to a L'Âge d'or-employee by that name.
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi.  Vaikom Vijayalakshmi is a playback singer from Kerala India. She is an expert in a rare musical instrument called Gayatriveena. She won special jury mention for her much appreciated work in the movie Celluloid. She was born blind in Vaikom on October 7 1981 and later on moved to Chennai.She was blessed with the gift of voice but deprived of the pleasures of vision.
Gianna Manzini.  Gianna Manzini (Pistoia March 24 1896 – Rome August 31 1974) was an Italian writer whose Ritratto in piedi won her the Premio Campiello in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical portrait of her father a noted Italian anarchist. After several banishments for his political activities her anarchist father was exiled to the small hilltop town of Cutigliano in 1921 fifteen miles northwest of Pistoia where he would die of a heart attack in 1925 after being chased by fascist hoodlums.
Kathie Sullivan.  Kathie Sullivan (born May 31 1953) is an American-born singer who appeared on television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1976 to 1982.
Miko Marks.  Miko Marks is an American country singer. She was born in Mississippi but grew up in Flint Michigan. She later moved to San Francisco. Marks was named Best New Country Artist at the 2006 New Music Weekly Awards.
George Lam.  George Lam Chi Cheung (born October 12 1947) also known professionally by his surname Lam is a Hong Kong-based veteran Cantopop singer and actor of Xinhui area origin. [1] Lam studied at the Diocesan Boys' School in Kowloon Hong Kong. He lived in England where he studied at Dover College and the United States (in Oakland California) for many years before returning to Hong Kong.Lam was the lead singer for a band called Jade until he went solo with his first English album Lam in 1976.
Giuseppe Fraschieri.  Giuseppe Fraschieri (Savona 1808 – Sestri Ponente Genoa 1886) was an Italian painter.
Francesco Malcom.  Francesco Malcom (born November 27 1971) is a pornographic actor.
Baku Yumemakura.  Baku Yumemakura (夢枕 獏 Yumemakura Baku born 1951 in Odawara Kanagawa) is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles.
Nic Cester.  Nicholas John Nic Cester (born 6 July 1979) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist known for being the frontman in rock band Jet. Cester is also a founder of the supergroup The Wrights. Jet's track Are You Gonna Be My Girl written by Cester and bandmate Cameron Muncey has won APRA Awards for 'Most Performed Australian Work Overseas' in 2006 and 2007.
Louis Asher.  Louis Asher originally Julius Ludwig Asher (1804–1878) was a German artist.
Melesina Trench.  Melesina Trench (née Chenevix previously St George; 22 March 1768 – 27 May 1827) was an Irish writer poet and diarist. During her lifetime she was known more for her beauty than her writing and it wasn't until her son Richard Chenevix Trench published her diaries posthumously in 1861 that her work received notice.
That 1 Guy.  Mike Silverman better known as That 1 Guy is an American musician based in Las Vegas Nevada. He frequently performs and records as a one-man band singing and using a variety of homemade musical instruments.
Maynard Dixon.  Maynard Dixon (January 24 1875 – November 11 1946) was a 20th-century American artist whose body of work focused on the American West. He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange.
Sanjivani (singer).  Sanjivani Bhelande(born 26 January) better known by her first name as Sanjeevani is the first ever winner of a talent show in the history of Indian television to have got a bollywood playback singing break. In 1995 she won the Zee TV voice talent hunt show Sa Re Ga Ma.
John Walters (priest and poet).  John Walters (11 June 1760 – 28 June 1789) was a Welsh Anglican priest and poet.
Julie Homi.  Julie Homi born in London England and raised in the American midwest is a classically-trained pianist/keyboardist who has toured with Robert Palmer Martin Page Maria Muldaur Angela Bofill Kalani Tracy Chapman Shirley Bassey Peter Cetera Holly Near and Yanni for whom she performed during his Dare to Dream Yanni Live the Symphony Concerts 1993 and 1994 concert tours and appears on the Yanni Live at the Acropolis video and CD.
François Chesnais.  François Chesnais is a French economist and scholar.
Cosimo Matassa.  Cosimo Matassa (born April 13 1926 New Orleans Louisiana United States) is a Sicilian-American recording engineer and studio owner responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings.At the age of 18 Matassa opened the J&M Recording Studio at the back of his family’s shop on Rampart Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1945. In 1955 he moved to the larger Cosimo Recording Studio.
Jana Jordan.  Jana Jordan (born March 9 1986 in San Antonio Texas) is an American adult model and pornographic actress who was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for August 2007.
Towa Carson.  Towa Carson (actual name Birgit Rose-Marie Anlert née Carlsson ) born on 31 March 1936 in Eskilstuna Sweden is a Swedish schlager singer. She debuted in 1954 and had the most success in the 1950s and 1960s when she recorded many duets with Lasse Lönndahl.
Clemence Dane.  Clemence Dane was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965) an English novelist and playwright.
Raf Riley.  Rafael Greifer better known by his stage name Raf Riley is a record producer and rapper from North London. He is a member of ExR alongside Etta Bond and is signed to Odd Child Recordings and has released on Diplo's Mad Decent label. Riley is also known for his comedy production; alongside Reuben Dangerman Dangoor Riley is one half of The Grand Spectacular. Their 2010 single Being A Dickhead's Cool became a viral video receiving over nine million YouTube views.
Le'Greg O. Harrison.  Le'Greg O. Harrison (born June 9 1984) is an American marketing executive and the co-founder and chief executive officer of The Board Administration alongside Roc Nation and Maybach Music Group recording artist Wale Folarin. He previously did work for Apple Bottoms Live Mechanics and Nuvo.
Zaheer Ahmed.  Zaheer Ahmed (Urdu: ظہیر احمد) is a Pakistani writer who began his career by writing short stories for children. After his own teacher Mazhar Kaleem's health began failing Ahmed took over writing the Imran Series along with Safder Shaheen Irshad Al Asar Jaferi Ali Hasan Gilani and Khalid Noor under the aegis of Arslaan Publications.
Paul Morley.  Paul Morley (born 26 March 1957) is an English music journalist. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983 and has since written for a wide range of publications. He has also been a band manager and promoter as well as a television presenter.
Åke Claesson.  Åke Claesson (2 July 1889 – 29 May 1967) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 64 films between 1925 and 1962.
Stacey Fox.  Stacey Fox (born June 21 1965 in Ithaca New York) is an American transdisciplinary artist and master percussionist.
D. W. Wilson.  D. W. Wilson (David William) (born 1985) is a Canadian author born in Cranbrook British Columbia. He is the author of the short story collection Once You Break A Knuckle published under Penguin Books Ltd in Canada and Bloomsbury in the UK. It had positive press from Canadian and UK media sources including CBC News The Globe and Mail and The Guardian.Wilson studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia (MA 2010; PhD 2013).
Smita Bellur.  Smita Bellur is a renowned Hindustani classical vocalist and Sufi singer. She belongs to Jaipur -Kirana gharana.
Caroline Henderson.  Caroline Henderson (born 28 February 1962) is a Danish–Swedish pop and jazz singer. She moved to Copenhagen from Sweden in 1983 and spent her youth singing in various jazz bands. Her breakthrough was in 1989 as part of pop group Ray Dee Ohh.
Serafino de' Serafini.  Serafino de' Serafini (1323-1393) was an Italian painter active in Modena in the late 14th century.
Keith Jarrett.  Keith Jarrett (born May 8 1945) is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz jazz fusion and classical music.
Howard Cruse.  Howard Cruse (born May 2 1944) is an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics. Cruse was raised in Springville Alabama the son of a preacher and a homemaker. His earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school. His work later appeared in Fooey and Sick.
Jimmy Rogers.  Jimmy Rogers (June 3 1924 – December 19 1997) was a Chicago blues singer guitarist and harmonica player best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s. He also had solo hits on the R&B chart with That's All Right in 1950 and Walking By Myself in 1954.He withdrew from the music industry at the end of the 1950s only returning to recording and touring in the 1970s.
Allan Holdsworth.  Allan Holdsworth (born 6 August 1946) is an English guitarist and composer.
Gary Lachman.  Gary Lachman (born December 24 1955 Bayonne New Jersey United States) is an American writer and musician. Lachman is best known to readers of mysticism and the occult in the numerous articles and books he has published. He is additionally known by his stage name as Gary Valentine to musical fans as one of the founders and bassist for the Alternative rock/New Wave band Blondie.
George Eliot.  Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian) known by her pen name George Eliot was an English novelist journalist translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Carmen Marai.  Carmen Marai is the nom de plume of Carmen María Bassa Rodríguez a Chilean poet and novelist.
Rik Schaffer.  Rik Schaffer is an American composer for games film and television. He has worked on over 110 game titles 4 major album releases and dozens of commercials. He formed Womb Music in 1996 after being in the music industry as a member of several national acts such as Tomorrow's Child and Engines of Aggression.
Geo Bogza.  Geo Bogza (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe.o ˈboɡza]; born Gheorghe Bogza; February 6 1908-September 14 1993) was a Romanian avant-garde theorist poet and journalist known for his left-wing and communist political convictions. As a young man in the interwar period he was known as a rebel and was one of the most influential Romanian Surrealists.
Wayne Marshall (ethnomusicologist).  Wayne Marshall ( ) is an American ethnomusicologist college professor.His scholarship focuses on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas and their circulation in the wider world with particular attention to digital technologies. He is currently writing a book on music networked media and transnational youth culture.
Lucy Schwartz.  Lucy Nicole Schwartz (born December 7 1989) is an American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles California. She received attention for a song she wrote and sang with Landon Pigg for the motion picture Shrek Forever After a romantic love song titled Darling I Do.
Ole Hallesby.  Ole Kristian Hallesby (5 August 1879 – 22 November 1961) was an influential conservative Norwegian Lutheran pietist who taught at the Free Faculty of Theology from 1909 to 1952.An outspoken opponent of the Nazi occupation of Norway he was arrested and detained at Grini concentration camp for two years (until the end of the war).During a razzia in November 1948 it was revealed that the already-imprisoned Nazi agents Gard Holtskog Sten Blom Westberg and Hans Johann Krijom were about to fabricate a document which probably was supposed to tie Hallesby to the Nazis.Hallesby wrote 67 books mostly on theology and ethics but is known for devotional writings.
Dominique Dussault.  Dominique Dussault is a French singer.She represented Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with the song Marlène. With 5 points she came in 8th position.
Frida Kahlo.  Frida Kahlo de Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón; July 6 1907 – July 13 1954) was a Mexican painter who is best known for her self-portraits.Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City in her home known as the Blue House. She gave her birth date as July 7 1910 but her birth certificate shows July 6 1907.
Jade Snow Wong.  Jade Snow Wong (Chinese: 黃玉雪; pinyin: Huáng Yùxuě) (January 21 1922 – 16 March 2006) was a Chinese American ceramic artist and author of two memoirs. She was given the English name of Constance also being known as Connie Wong Ong.
Hisham Abdulrahman.  Hisham Abdulrahman Al Howaish (Arabic: هشام عبد الرحمن الهويش‎) is a Saudi singer and actor. He won the title of the second edition of the Arab version of Star Academy in 2005.Hisham Abdulrahman was born on 7 March 1980 in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. He has eight sisters and seven brothers.In 2006 Hisham starred in Rotana's comedy-drama film Keif al-Hal? Saudi Arabia's first big-budget film produced by Ayman Halawani.
Ralph Fletcher Seymour.  Ralph Fletcher Seymour (March 18 1876 – January 1 1966) was an American artist author and publisher of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Though long based in Chicago he was also noted for his work in the American Southwest; he studied wrote about and portrayed the Native American cultures of the region.
Wayne Laugesen.  Wayne Laugesen is an American columnist video producer gun rights advocate and editorial page editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette procured in 2012 by conservative Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Angélla Christie.  Angélla Christie (born in Los Angeles California) is a gospel saxophonist.Christie has released seven albums and did a 40-city national tour in 2000. Her 1998 album Hymn & I reached the 24th spot on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums. Her 2008 album The Breath of Life reached the 9th spot on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz and 31st spot on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums.
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky.  Binyamin L. Jolkovsky is the founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish World Review a conservative news website. Jolkovsky is a rabbinical school graduate and a former correspondent for Yated Ne'eman an Israeli daily. He also has written for The Wall Street Journal.
Cat Stevens.  Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948) commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens is a British singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist humanitarian and education philanthropist. He is a prominent convert to Islam. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were both certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA.
Gerbrand Bakker (novelist).  Gerbrand Bakker (born 28 April 1962) is a Dutch writer. He won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Twin the English translation of his novel Boven is het stil and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Detour the English translation of his novel De omweg.
Natty.  Natty is a songwriter singer and musician from Finsbury Park North London.
Federico A. Cordero.  Federico A. Cordero (August 18 1928-October 9 2012) was a world-renowned guitarist of classical music.
Kostja Gatnik.  Kostja Gatnik (born 11 September 1945) is a Slovene artist graphic designer and illustrator best known for his illustrations in children's books.Gatnik was born in Ljubljana in 1945. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He works as a painter graphic designer illustrator and photographer. He has illustrated over 60 books published cartoons and designed puppets and theatre costumes.In 2010 he won the Grand Prešeren Award for his lifetime achievemnts in the fine arts.
Alfredo Rodríguez (pianist born 1985).  Alfredo Rodríguez (born October 7 1985) is a Cuban composer and Cuban Jazz Pianist. He was trained at Manuel Saumell Conservatory then at the Amadeo Roldan Music Conservatory as well as the Instituto Superior de Arte.
Akanksha Sharma.  Akanksha Sharma (born April 1997) is an Indian singer.
Ava Barber.  Ava Barber (born June 28 1954) is an American country music singer and performer. She is best remembered for having performed on The Lawrence Welk Show throughout much of the 1970s and early 1980s.She is also known as a recording artist her best-known hit being the song Bucket to the South which peaked at No. 13 on the Hot Country Songs list in 1978. She has done many reunion specials on PBS for The Lawrence Welk Show over the past number of years.
C. W. Ceram.  C. W. Ceram (January 20 1915 – April 12 1972) was the pseudonym of German journalist and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek known for his popular works about archaeology. He chose to write under a pseudonym to distance himself from his earlier work as a propagandist for the Third Reich.Ceram was born in Berlin. During World War II he was a member of the Propagandatruppe. His works from that period include Wir hielten Narvik 1941 and Rote Spiegel - überall am Feind.
Yu Chenghui.  Yu Chenghui (born 16 August 1939) sometimes credited as Yue Sing-wai is a Chinese actor action director and martial artist.
Benjamin Barton (filmmaker).  Benjamin Brent Barton (born April 30 1977) is an American independent film actor and screenwriter. His credits include The Curse of Blanchard Hill and Dark Measures and he had a bit part in the 2002 film Charly.
Steven Schend.  Steven E. Schend is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR throughout the 1990s.
SupaStishun.  Maurice Harris (born March 4 1975) better known by his stage name Maurice SupaStishun is an American rapper record producer Motion Picture music video director commercial director and founder of Plutonium Music N Films. SupaStishun was born in Atlanta Georgia.
Uhm Jung-hwa.  Uhm Jung-hwa (born August 17 1969) is a South Korean Korean pop singer and actress. Uhm began her career as a chorus member of MBC one of the three major South Korean broadcasting companies in 1987 To 1990.
Petre M. Andreevski.  Petre Mito Andreevski (Macedonian: Петре Мито Андреевски) (June 25 1934 – September 25 2006) was a famous Macedonian poet novelist short story writer and playwright.He was born in 1934 in the village of Sloeštica Demir Hisar. Attended elementary school in his native village high school in Bitola studied at the Faculty of Philosophy (now Philology) in Skopje. Worked as an editor with the Macedonian National Television. He was also an editor of the periodical Razgledi.
Frederic Manning.  Frederic Manning (22 July 1882 – 22 February 1935) was an Australian poet and novelist.
Satya Mohan Joshi.  Satyamohan Joshi (Born 1920) is a Nepali writer and scholar. Joshi is famous for his research on the history and culture of Nepal.He is now working as the chancellor of Nepal Bhasa Academy.
Karen Narasaki.  Karen K. Narasaki is an American civil rights leader and human rights activist. She is the former president and executive director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC). AAJC is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit civil rights organization whose mission is to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through advocacy public policy public education and litigation. Prior to her post at AAJC she served as the Washington D.C.
Eriko Watanabe.  Eriko Watanabe (渡辺 えり子 Watanabe Eriko born 5 January 1955 in Yamagata Yamagata Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress. In 2007 she changed her stage name to Eri Watanabe. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 21st Hochi Film Awards for Shall We Dance?.
Blaqstarr.  Charles Smith (born September 1985) better known as Blaqstarr or DJ Blaqstarr is a Baltimore Maryland area rapper singer producer and DJ. He is best known for his work with M.I.A..
Natasha Thomas.  Natasha Thomas (born September 27 1986 in Roskilde) is a Danish pop singer-songwriter.
Steve Grossman (saxophonist).  Steve Grossman (born January 18 1951 in New York City) is an American jazz fusion and hard bop saxophonist.Grossman was notably Wayne Shorter's replacement in Miles Davis' jazz-fusion band. Then from 1971 to 1973 he was in Elvin Jones's band. In the late 1970s he was part of the Stone Alliance trio with Don Alias and Gene Perla. The group released four albums during this period including one featuring Brazilian trumpeter Márcio Montarroyos.
Tore Svennberg.  Olof Teodor Tore Svennberg (28 February 1858 – 8 May 1941) was a Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades.
Dick Sprang.  Richard W. Dick Sprang (July 28 1915 - May 10 2000) was an American comic book artist and penciller best known for his work on the superhero Batman during the period fans and historians call Golden Age of Comic Books. Sprang was responsible for the 1950 redesign of the Batmobile and the original design of the Riddler who has appeared in film television and other media adaptations.
Giuseppe Mango.  Mango stage name of Giuseppe (Pino) Mango (6 November 1954) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He is known for his style which fuses pop folk world music the frequent use of odd time signatures and for his high vocal range.
Kid Rad.  Kid Rad is a British music artist record producer and entrepreneur. He is most noted for his work with British singer/ songwriter Just Jack as well as American rappers Masta Ace and Shade Sheist. He also holds the record for being the first British rap artist to perform live on BBC Radio 2.His musical style is highly eclectic and is best described as a blend of Hip Hop Electronica House and DnB.
BeBe Winans.  Benjamin BeBe Winans (born 17 September 1962) is a gospel and R&B singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family most members of which are also gospel artists.
Dave Peverett.  David Jack Peverett or Lonesome Dave (16 April 1943 in Dulwich South East London - 7 February 2000 in Orlando Florida) was a British musician. He is best known as the original singer and rhythm guitarist of Foghat which he founded following his tenure in Savoy Brown.
Scott Heim.  Scott Heim (born 1966) is an American novelist from Hutchinson Kansas currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel Mysterious Skin was published in 1995.
Egil Børre Johnsen.  Egil Børre Johnsen (born 1936 in Oslo) is a Norwegian writer. He was the recipient of the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 2006.
Gaël Aymon.  Gaël Aymon is an author screenwriter film director and producer born in Paris France.Having attended the acting schools of Les Cours Florent and the Studio Pygmalion Gael Aymon first embarks on a career in acting and directing.He has worked as a producer and distributor for the cinema and theatre.He was first published as a children's author in 2010.
Mia Carruthers.  Mia Carruthers (born March 30 1991) is one of the main cast members of MTV's Taking the Stage. She is a singer-songwriter.Carruthers and her family moved from West Chester Township to Cincinnati so that Mia could enroll at the School for Creative and Performing Arts (S.C.P.A.) as a freshman majoring in music. Since then she has performed at coffeehouses in the local area. She plays several instruments: the guitar alto saxophone and the piano. Carruthers comes from a musical family.
James Franklin Kay.  James Franklin Kay (born May 18 1948) is the Joe R. Engle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics and Dean of Academic Affairs at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Ruth Ozeki.  Ruth Ozeki (born March 12 1956) is a Canadian-American novelist filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She worked in commercial television and media production for over a decade and made several independent films before turning to writing fiction.
Lee Ranaldo.  Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3 1956) is an American musician singer-songwriter guitarist writer visual artist and record producer best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004 Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its Greatest Guitarists of All Time list. In May 2012 Spin published a staff selected top 100 list ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
Matt Grabe.  Matt Grabe (born 1985 in Phoenix AZ) is a record producer based out of Los Angeles California. After graduating high school Matt studied audio engineering at The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. Upon finishing his studies he became a member (guitar/piano) of Equal Vision Records artist Alive In Wild Paint.
Adam Oehlenschläger.  Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (14 November 1779 – 20 January 1850) was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature.
Émile Moreau (writer).  Émile Moreau (1877–1959) was a French playwright and screenwriter. In co-operation with Victorien Sardou he wrote the plays Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) and Cleopatre (the basis for the 1917 film Cleopatra). He also wrote the play Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth and the script for its film adaptation. He was one of the co-founders of the Indian bookstore chain A H Wheeler & Co.
Judith Martin.  Judith Martin (née Perlman born September 13 1938) better known by the pen name Miss Manners is an American journalist author and etiquette authority. Martin's uncle was economist and labor historian Selig Perlman.
Peter Brunette.  Peter Brunette (September 18 1943 – June 16 2010) was a film critic and film historian. He was the author of several books including biographies of Italian directors Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. Brunette’s last completed work was a book about Austrian director Michael Haneke published in February 2010.
Glynis Jones.  Glynis Jones was a composer musician and member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She joined the Workshop in 1973. In 1976 she produced the album Out of This World on which some of her material appears. Her compositions also feature on the album The Radiophonic Workshop.Currently living in West London
Shae Jones.  Shae Jones is an American R&B singer born on July 27 1978 in Kansas City Missouri. She was discovered in the late 1990s by R&B star Montell Jordan who liked the fact that her voice did not sound like other voices.After signing with Uptown Records Jones' recorded her debut album Talk Show in 1998 and it had its official release on January 26 1999. The album's lead single Talk Show Shhh! peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at 88.
René Lacaille.  René Lacaille is a Réunionnais accordionist currently based in France. He was born into a musical family and taught himself to play the accordion at age 7 while on tour with his father. He has been described as a neo-traditionalist and plays in the séga style among others.
Julissa (singer).  Julissa Arce Rivera (born January 13 1976) commonly known simply as Julissa is a Puerto Rican Christian singer.
Doug Timm.  Douglas Vernon Timm (June 14 1960 – July 21 1989) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many music scores both in television and motion picture films. In a career which was cut short by a tragic event he composed music for a variety of both television productions as well as motion pictures.
Charlie Major.  Charlie Major (born December 31 1954) is a Canadian country music artist. He has recorded six studio albums and released more than twenty singles.
Tom Johnston (musician).  Charles Thomas Tom Johnston (born August 15 1948) is an American musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist known principally as a founder guitarist vocalist and songwriter for the Grammy Award winning rock group The Doobie Brothers as well as for his own solo career. His off-and-on career with The Doobie Brothers spans more than 40 years during which time the band exhibited numerous successful styles.
Gordon Anderson (author).  Gordon L. Anderson is an American philosopher and the author of Philosophy of the United States and Secretary General of Professors World Peace Academy. He is a graduate of Claremont where he earned a doctorate in philosophy of religion.
Charles Whittenberg.  Charles Whittenberg (July 6 1927 St. Louis Missouri - d. August 22 1984 Hartford Connecticut) was an American composer and holder of two Guggenheim Fellowships.He was born in St. Louis and graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1948. A New York resident from 1950 his music has been performed with increasing frequency in major musical centers of the US and Europe.
Vadivelu.  Vadivelu is an Indian film actor comedian and playback singer. Since the 1990s he has acted mainly as a comedian in Tamil films and is renowned for his slapstick comedies. Vadivelu has won the Filmfare Award for Best Comedian – Tamil five times for his works in Chandramukhi (2005) Imsai Arasan 23m Pulikesi (2006) Pokkiri (2007) Villu (2008) and Aadhavan (2009).
Heinrich Adam.  Heinrich Adam (1787 in Nördlingen – 15 February 1862 in Munich) was a German painter.
Tristan D.  Tristan D (born Tristan Dorian 7 March 1988 Brighton) is a British Trance DJ and EDM music producer from Brighton England.
Lawrence Sanders.  Lawrence Sanders (March 15 1920 – February 7 1998) was an American novelist and short story writer.Lawrence Sanders was born in Brooklyn in New York City. After public school he attended Wabash College where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then returned to New York and worked at Macy's Department Store. In 1943 he joined the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1946. Sanders was a former magazine editorial writer and later turned to full-time fiction writing.
John Bernard (actor).  John Bernard (Portsmouth England 1756– London November 29 1828) was an English actor and biographer. He was the author of Retrospections of the Stage (1830) and Retrospections of America 1797-1811. He acted in a number of plays with Mary Ann Duff.
Bill Moring.  Bill Moring is an American jazz bassist.Bill Moring was born in 1958 in Fort Wayne Indiana. After attending Indiana State University for a year Moring began touring with jazz groups through Indianapolis and Cincinnati and working with acclaimed jazz musicians such as Claude Sifferlen and Steve Allee.
Yuri Komuro.  Yuri Komuro (小室友里 Komuro Yuri) (born July 28 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress author and former AV idol. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s and in her dominant period from 1996 to 1999 was called The AV Queen.
Poli Genova.  Poli Plamenova Genova (born February 10 1987 in Sofia Bulgaria) is a singer that represented her nation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany. Genova performed her entry Na inat (Out of Spite) in the second semifinal.
Chieli Minucci.  Chieli Minucci (born in April 17 1958 in Huntington New York) is an American adult contemporary smooth jazz guitarist composer music producer and arranger of Italian descent.Minucci was born in New York City and is primarily known as the leader of the Grammy-nominated contemporary jazz group Special EFX.
D. Jeffrey Mims.  D. Jeffrey Mims (born 1954) is a painter educator lecturer and muralist working in the classical realist tradition. Mims was born in North Carolina USA. In 1976 he was awarded an Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation grant to copy masterworks in museums in England France and Italy.
April O'Neil (pornographic actress).  April O’Neil (born April 7 1987 in Phoenix Arizona) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Eugene Savage.  Eugene Francis Savage (1883—1978) was an American painter and sculptor known for his murals in the manner made official under the Works Projects Administration. He also is known for his work on the Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn New York.
Hubert Willis.  Hubert Willis (1876-1933) was a British actor. He was best known for his recurring role as Doctor Watson in a series of silent Sherlock Holmes films co-starring with Eille Norwood.
Shuli Rand.  Shalom Shuli Rand (also spelled Shuly; Hebrew: שולי רנד‎) is an Israeli film actor writer and singer. He is a Haredi Jew and is best known in the English-speaking world for his acting his role as the protagonist in Ushpizin (2005) as well as being the writer of the movie.
Adolf Behrman.  Abraham Adolf Behrman (Berman also spelled Behrmann July 13 1876 – August 1943) was a Jewish-Polish-born painter of interwar Poland best known for his outdoor paintings of Jewish Shtetl life as well as landscapes and group portraits. He spent most of his life in Łódź and died during the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto in the Holocaust.
Ken the 390.  Takeshi Sakuma (佐久間健 Sakuma Takeshi born June 17 1981) aka Ken the 390 is a Japanese hip hop and R&B singer/rapper. He is an artist of the Rhythm Zone label owned by the Avex Group.
Ayumi Oka (actress).  Ayumi Oka (岡あゆみ Oka Ayumi born September 18 1983 in Tsu Mie Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Sarah Jory.  Sarah Jory (born Sarah Elizabeth Jory 20 November 1969 Reading Berkshire England) is an English musician and vocalist.
Jerry Adler (harmonica player).  Hilliard Gerald (Jerry) Adler (October 30 1918 – March 13 2010) was a harmonica player whose performances have been used in numerous film soundtracks. Adler was born in Baltimore and early in his childhood mastered the harmonica winning a local talent contest sponsored by the Baltimore Evening Sun at age 13.
Juice Newton.  Judy Kay Juice Newton (born February 18 1952) is an American pop and country singer songwriter and guitarist. To date Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983) as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively). She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit including Juice Quiet Lies and her first Greatest Hits album.
Andrzej Kozakiewicz.  Andrzej Kozak Kozakiewicz (born 6 July 1966 in Piła). Master of politology co-founder of Pidżama Porno Strachy na Lachy and Świat Czarownic where he plays on the guitar. Married has a son named Mikołaj.
Vikram Seth.  Vikram Seth (born on 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novel and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri Pravasi Bharatiya Samman WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
Rod Price.  Rod Price (born Roderick Michael Price 22 November 1947 Willesden North London United Kingdom — died 22 March 2005 Wilton New Hampshire United States) was an English guitarist who was best known for his work with the rock band Foghat. He was known as 'The Magician Of Slide' and 'Slide King Of Rock And Roll' due to his slide guitar playing.
Roy Hamilton.  . .Roy Hamilton (April 16 1929 – July 20 1969) was an American singer who achieved major success in the US R&B and pop charts in the 1950s. He is best known for his recordings of You'll Never Walk Alone Unchained Melody and You Can Have Her.
Eric Parnes.  Eric Parnes (also known as Eric Esmail Parnes) (Persian: اریک اسماعیل پارنسی) (born 1979) is an American Iranian contemporary artist based in New York City. His work consists of mixed media sculptures paintings photography and installation art. He uses well-known logos and corporate branding in his art in order to examine Middle Eastern culture and its relationship to globalization.
M. A. R. Barker.  Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (born Phillip Barker November 3 1929 – March 16 2012) was a professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who created one of the first roleplaying games Empire of the Petal Throne and wrote several fantasy/science fantasy novels based in his associated world setting of Tékumel.
Einar Örn Benediktsson.  Einar Örn Benediktsson often billed as Einar Örn (born 29 October 1962) is an Icelandic popular music singer trumpet player and politician best known as a former member of the Sugarcubes. Since 2010 he has served as a member of the Reykjavík City Council.
Chris Murrell.  Chris Murrell is an American jazz and gospel singer who has toured as the featured vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra and has made appearances with the Roger Humphries Big Band.Besides being a wonderful person Tony Bennett says of Chris Murrell he has his own sound.[citation needed]
Jane Thynne.  Jane Thynne (born 5 April 1961) is a British novelist journalist and broadcaster.
Kim Krizan.  Kim Krizan (born November 1 1961) is an American writer and actress best known for originating the characters in the Before series with her writing on Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Adapted Screenplay) and a Writers Guild Award. Both Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) were based on characters she created with Richard Linklater.
Fredrik Mikkelsen.  Fredrik Mikkelsen (born 24 October 1981 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian musician and composer playing both the traditional and lap steel guitar within a series of generes like jazz blues and folk living in Copenhagen since 2008.
Annie Payson Call.  Annie Payson Call (1853-1940) was a Waltham author. She wrote several books and published articles in Ladies' Home Journal. Many articles are reprinted in her book Nerves and Common Sense.The common theme of her work is mental health.
Gregg Armen.  Gregg Armen (born Gregg Armen Injejikian) is a multi-instrumentalist best known as the former bassist for political punk rock electronica band Intro5pect. Gregg was in the band from December 2003 to September 2008 went on several North American and European tours with the band and contributed to the 2007 Intro5pect record Realpolitik!.
Aline Kominsky-Crumb.  Aline Kominsky-Crumb (born Aline Goldsmith; August 1 1948) is an American underground comics artist.
P. J. Kavanagh.  Patrick Joseph Kavanagh (born 6 January 1931) [not to be confused with the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh] is an English poet lecturer actor broadcaster and columnist. His father was the ITMA scriptwriter Ted Kavanagh.PJ Kavanagh first worked as a Butlin's Redcoat then as a newsreader for Radiodiffusion Francaise in Paris. He attended acting classes but was called up for his National Service and was wounded in the Korean War.
Hwang Sok-yong.  Hwang Sok-yong (born January 4 1943) is a South Korean novelist.
Liz Holliday.  Liz Holliday is a British editor and writer of science fiction and mystery.
Ásmundur Sveinsson.  Ásmundur Sveinsson was an Icelandic sculptor was born at Kolsstadir in West Iceland on May 20 1893 and died in Reykjavík on December 9 1982.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛpolo]; March 5 1696 – March 27 1770) also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific and worked not only in Italy but also in Germany and Spain.Successful from the beginning of his career he has been described by Michael Levey as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe as well as its most able craftsman.
Chris Sligh.  Charles Christopher Chris Sligh (born July 20 1978) is an American singer; songwriter and producer who was a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol finishing in tenth place. He also starred in October Baby.
Lena Meyer-Landrut.  Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut (born 23 May 1991) known professionally as Lena (pronounced [ˈleːna]) is a German singer-songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo Norway and won the contest with the song Satellite. With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo (Our Star for Oslo) Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German singles chart.
Alan Watt (author).  Alan Watt is a Canadian author comedian actor lecturer and screenwriter.
Fresh Caesar.  Courtney Smith better known by his stage name Fresh Caesar is an American rapper song writer and entrepreneur. The artist Fresh Caesar first emerged on the hip hop scene in the 2009 release of Big Von presents Kaz Kyzah: Gofessional 2. In less than 2 years since his first appearance Fresh Caeasar has released 2 highly successful Mixtapes; The Breakthrough Vol.
Gustave Rives.  Bernard Auguste Rives known as Gustave Rives (1858–1926) was a French architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who designed residential institutional and commercial buildings in France in a style described as “opulent eclecticism.” He organized many popular auto and aeronautical shows in Paris before the First World War.
Arnold McCuller.  Arnold Rufus McCuller is an American vocalist songwriter and record producer born and raised in Cleveland Ohio. He is active as a solo artist and session musician but is perhaps best known for his work as a touring back-up singer with artists such as James Taylor Phil Collins Beck Bonnie Raitt and Todd Rundgren.
Papi Sanchez.  Robert De Leon Sanchez more known as Papi Sanchez (born 18 September 1975 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic) is a merengue singer and rapper. In 2004 he had an international hit with the song Enamorame which reached the top ten in francophone countries. The next year he released a cover of Nelly's song Dilema.
Rhys Bobridge.  Rhys Bobridge also known as Rhys is an Australian pop singer dancer and make-up artist based in Sydney New South Wales.
Caitlin Cary.  Caitlin Cary (born October 28 1968) is an alt-country musician from Seville Ohio.
J. J. Howard.  J.J. Howard is an American author of young adult fiction. Her debut novel That Time I Joined the Circus was published by Scholastic Point in April 2013.
Michel Herr.  Michel Herr (born 16 February 1949 Brussels) is a Belgian pianist composer and arranger active in the fields of jazz and film music.Since the seventies he has been active on the European Jazz scene. He appeared on numerous jazz albums as a pianist and arranger.Since 1984 he regularly played piano and keyboards with harmonica player Toots Thielemans.
James Copland.  James Copland (3 February 1834–9 November 1902) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister doctor and writer. He was born in Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland on 3 February 1834 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1864.
Trinity (musician).  Trinity aka Junior Brammer (b. Wade Brammer 1954 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae deejay and producer whose career began in the mid-1970s and continued into the 1990s.
Sune Rose Wagner.  Sune Rose Wagner (born October 7 1973 Sønderborg Denmark) is the songwriter guitarist and vocalist for noise pop duo The Raveonettes. Previously he was part of the band Psyched Up Janis with whom he recorded three albums.
William Cubley.  William Harold Cubley (9 October 1816 – 1896) was an English painter of landscapes and portraits in the tradition of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He studied with Sir William Beechey and was an important early influence on Sir William Nicholson and William Caparne.
Robert Chappell.  Robert Chappell (born 1952) is an American cinematographer writer and director.
Emily Holton.  Emily Holton (Born 1980 in Hamilton Ontario) is a Canadian writer and artist.
Stuart David.  Stuart David is a Scottish musician songwriter and novelist. He co-founded the band Belle & Sebastian (1996–2000) and then went on to front Looper (1998–present). He is the author of the novels Nalda Said and The Peacock Manifesto published by I.M.P. Fiction in 1999 and 2001. His third novel A Peacock's Tale was published by Barcelona Review in 2011.
Lauren Alaina.  Lauren Alaina (born Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth; November 8 1994) is an American country singer from Rossville Georgia. Alaina was the runner-up on the tenth season of American Idol. Her debut studio album Wildflower was released on October 11 2011.
Sam Stone.  Sam Stone is a British author of gothic horror and fantasy fiction and is the commissioning editor of Telos Publishing imprint Telos Moonrise. Stone's debut novel Gabriele Caccini (authored as Paigan Stone) won the silver award for best horror novel 2007 with ForeWord in the USA. She was shortlisted for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards for her second novel Futile Flame.
Gustave Doyen.  Gustave Doyen (Festieux 1837 - ?) was a French painter working during 19th and 20th centuries in France. He was trained by William Bouguereau and exhibited his paintings in the Salon de Paris.
Jeffrey Wickham.  Jeffrey Wickham (born 5 August 1933) is a British film and television actor. He is the father of the actress Saskia Wickham.
Yuko Sasamoto.  Yūko Sasamoto (笹本 優子 Sasamoto Yūko born January 30 1973) is a Japanese voice actress.
Bob Boykin.  Bob Boykin is an American musician session musician composer and producer best known as a guitarist. He has recorded with producers such as Quincy Jones Teo Macero (produced: Miles Davis Robert Palmer Billie Holiday) and dozens of artists notably Pam Tillis Dr. Hook Eddie Van Halen Meat Loaf John Schneider Kenny Rogers Gary Puckett Brenda Lee Dolly Parton and Liza Minnelli.
Gao Xingjian.  Gao Xingjian (Chinese: 高行健; Mandarin: [káu ɕĭŋ tɕiɛ̂n]; born January 4 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist playwright and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco) screenwriter stage director and a celebrated painter.
Zoran Ferić.  Zoran Ferić (born 2 June 1961 in Zagreb Croatia) is a Croatian writer and columnist who resides in Zagreb. He has attended the Ivan Goran Kovačić Elementary School in the city's wealthy neighborhood of Šalata and graduated in croatistics at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. He has written three novels and two collections of short stories. For his literary work he has received the Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Prize in 2000 and the Jutarnji list Award in 2001.
Leonaert Bramer.  Leonaert Bramer (24 December 1596 – 10 February 1674 (buried)) was a Dutch painter known primarily for genre religious and history paintings. Very prolific as a painter and draftsman he is noted especially for nocturnal scenes which show a penchant for exotic details of costume and setting.He also painted frescos—a rarity north of the Alps—which have not survived as well as murals on canvas few of which are extant.
Tito Simon.  Tito Simon (born Keith Foster 1948 St Mary's Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer and producer.Simon appeared with Dandy Livingstone as one half of Sugar & Dandy. He had solo success with tunes such as This Monday Morning Feeling which he wrote and produced. The song reached #45 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1975.
Yuan Ch'iung-ch'iung.  Yuan Ch'iung-ch'iung (Chinese: 袁瓊瓊; pinyin: Yuan Qiongqiong) (born November 25 1950) is a Taiwanese writer. Yuan wrote poetry fiction essays screenplays and television scripts during the Boudoir literature period for women. Boudoir literature is a form of writing that focuses on issues of women.Some of the issues that Yuan focused on are: women's role in family and the workplace and their anxieties romantic relationships and aspirations.
Lynsey de Paul.  Lynsey de Paul (born 11 June 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. Allmusic journalist Craig Harris stated that one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England de Paul has had an illustrious career.
Bijan (designer).  Bijan Pakzad (/biˌʒæn ˈpɑːkzɑːd/; Persian: بیژن پاکزاد‎ Persian pronunciation: [biːˈʒæn pækˈzæd]) generally known simply as bijan (4 April 1940 or 1944 – 16 April 2011)was an Iranian designer of menswear and fragrances.
Lanie Lane.  Lanie Lane (born 11 February 1987) is the stage name of Lanier Stefanie Myra Johnston an Australian blues-jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist. In October 2011 her debut album To the Horses peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Lane supported the album with a headlining tour of Australia. She undertook her second international tour in late 2011.
Ben Forster (actor).  Ben Forster (born April 24 1981) is a British actor and singer. He won ITV's Superstar competition in 2012. As a result Forster played the lead role of Jesus in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in its 2012 arena tour. Forster returned to the role at the end of May to tour Australia through 2013 and will again for the North American tour.
Giulio Cesare Milani.  Giulio Cesare Milani (c. 1621–1678) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.He was born in Bologna where he was a pupil of Simone Cantarini and Flaminio Torre. He painted a Marriage of the Virgin for the church of San Giuseppe; a Sant' Antonio di Padova for the church of Santa Maria del Castello; and a Holy Family with St. John for the church of the Servi.
Hiro Takahashi.  Hiro Takahashi (高橋 ひろ Takahashi Hiro August 10 1964 - November 4 2005) born as Hiroyuki Takahashi (高橋 裕幸 Takahashi Hiroyuki) was a Japanese singer lyricist and composer.
Dorothy Carrington.  Frederica Dorothy Violet Carrington Lady Rose MBE (6 June 1910 – 26 January 2002) was an expatriate British writer domiciled for over half her life in Corsica. She was one of the twentieth century's leading scholars on the island's culture and history about which she wrote numerous books and articles.
Charli Robinson.  Sharlene Marie Zeta Robinson known professionally as Charli Robinson and previously as Charli Delaney (born March 8 1980 in Newcastle New South Wales Australia) is an Australian singer actress radio presenter and children's performer.
Ira Black (musician).  Ira Black (born March 23 1971) is an American heavy metal guitarist and songwriter. Black has played in over 60 bands since the early 1980s and is best known for his work with Metal Church Vicious Rumors Heathen and Lizzy Borden. Black has been a strict vegan for 20 years. While in LA County jail in 2009 on a traffic violation Black garnered national media attention by going on a 10-day hunger strike when he was refused vegan meals.
Vuokko Nurmesniemi.  Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi (born 12 February 1930 in Helsinki) is a Finnish textile designer. She is best known for her work as one of the two leading designers of the Marimekko company. Her signature striped Jokapoika shirt helped to make the company's name.
Antonio Viviani.  Antonio Viviani (1560–1620) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance and early Baroque.He was also called il Sordo de Urbino (the mute of Urbino) because of his self-absorption while painting frescoes. He was born in Urbino and there became a follower of Federigo Barocci said to have been his uncle.
Hywel ap Syr Mathew.  Hywel ap Syr Mathew (died 1581) was a Welsh poet genealogist and soldier.He originated from Radnorshire in the valley of the River Teme at Llanfair Waterdine.
Delroy Wilson.  Delroy George Wilson CD (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995) was a Jamaican ska rocksteady and reggae singer regarded as Jamaica's first child star.
Goldy McJohn.  John Raymond Goadsby (born May 2 1945) known as Goldy McJohn is a Canadian keyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf. Originally a classically trained pianist he was a pioneer in the early use of the electronic organ (Hammond B3) in heavy metal.
Sandy Williams.  Sandy Williams (born Alexander Balos Williams) (October 24 1906 – March 25 1991) was an American jazz trombonist born in Summerville South Carolina perhaps best known for playing with the premier big bands of his day especially the Chick Webb orchestra. Williams also recorded extensively with Ella Fitzgerald.
Cheech Marin.  Richard Anthony Cheech Marin (born July 13 1946) is an American comedian actor voice actor and writer of Mexican origin who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong and as Don Johnson's partner Insp. Joe Dominguez on Nash Bridges.
Judith Hill.  Judith Glory Hill is an American singer and songwriter born in Los Angeles California. Her voice is distinctive soulful and has an earthy quality that makes it unique. She has provided backing vocals for such artists as the late Michael Jackson Stevie Wonder Elton John and Josh Groban. In 2009 Hill was chosen as Michael Jackson's duet partner for the song I Just Can't Stop Loving You during his This Is It concert tour.
Kipper (musician).  Kipper (born Mark Eldridge) is a Grammy winning Guitarist keyboardist and music producer known mostly from his cooperation with Gary Numan and Sting.Kipper had his own band One Nation. After releasing 2 albums with One Nation he joined the Gary Numan band playing guitar. After realizing his own music was going in a similar direction as Kipper's previous work Numan asked him to co-produce his 1992 LP Machine and Soul.
Vix Brownford.  Vincent Xavier Vix Brownford (Late 1930s [need date] – April 29 1989) was a jazz piano musician and composer born in Kingston Jamaica.
Nelo Risi.  Nelo Risi (born 1920 in Milan) is an Italian poet film director translator and screenwriter brother of cinematographer Fernando Risi and director Dino Risi.Born in Milan he graduated in medicine as his brother Dino then with the outbreak of the Second World War he fought on the Russian front and was interned in Switzerland. He started his poetical production in 1941 with the collection Le opere e i giorni.
John Rector (writer).  John Rector is a prize winning short story writer and author of the novels THE COLD KISS (optioned for a feature film now in development) and THE GROVE. He lives in Omaha Nebraska. The rights for his novels have been sold in North America the United Kingdom Germany and the Netherlands among others.
Deon Estus.  Deon Estus (born Jeffery Deon Estus 1956 Detroit Michigan) is an American bassist and singer best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on the latter's first two subsequent solo projects.
Winta.  Winta Efrem (born 20 March 1984) is a Norwegian R&B and soul musician from Oslo. She grew up in Oslo Norway. Winta has been interested in music since she was a child.Winta's debut album was released May 2004. From 2002-2004 she made three music videos for the singles Emotions Hot Romance (Rok With You) and I Want U all directed by Norwegian video director Ray Kay.
Pavel Bobek.  Pavel Bobek (16 September 1937 − 20 November 2013) was a Czech singer.
Ioan A. Bassarabescu.  Ioan Alecu Bassarabescu (commonly rendered I. A. Bassarabescu; December 17 1870 - March 27 1952) was a Romanian comedic writer civil servant and politician who served one term (1926-1927) in the Senate of Romania. His work mainly in prose form is remembered as an accomplished and noteworthy contribution to Romanian literature capturing the dreary life of provincial clerks in the early 20th century.
Johnny Borrell.  Johnny Borrell (born Jonathan Edward Borrell 4 April 1980) is an English guitarist and singer currently the frontman of the band Razorlight.
Carah Faye Charnow.  Carah Faye Charnow (born August 3 1984 in Santa Barbara California) is an American singer and songwriter. She is currently the female vocalist of the band Shiny Toy Guns (2004–2008 2011–present) with whom she scored a Grammy nomination and is also currently the frontwoman/vocalist of the band Versant. After leaving the band in 2008 she officially returned as a vocalist for Shiny Toy Guns in February 2011.
Cindy Walker.  Cindy Walker (July 20 1918 – March 23 2006) was a prolific American songwriter as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists.She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting often tailoring particular songs to specific recording artists. She produced a large body of songs that have been described as “direct honest and unpretentious”.
Michiel de Swaen.  Michiel de Swaen (Dutch pronunciation: [mɪˈçiˑl də ˈzβ̞aˑn]; born in Dunkirk on 20 January 1654 – died in Dunkirk on 3 May 1707) was a surgeon and a rederijker from the Southern Netherlands.
Anthony M. Jones.  Anthony M. Jones (born March 31 1982) is a music producer/songwriter for EMI Music Publishing. He has produced for artists and groups such as R. Kelly Mary J. Blige Keri Hilson and Neverest.The single About Us which he produced for Neverest recently won a SOCAN No. 1 Song Award. The video reached #1 on the MuchMore video countdown. This is his second successful single to be released in Canada. The first was Last Time by George Nozuka
Herbert Dreilich.  Herbert Dreilich (December 5 1942 – December 12 2004) was a German-language rock musician. He was an early pioneer in and an important contributor to German-language Rock music. An accomplished singer songwriter and acoustic guitarist he was best known as lead singer for the group Karat.
Skepta.  Joseph Junior Adenuga (born 19 September 1982) better known by his stage name Skepta is an English rapper grime artist MC songwriter record producer and recording artist with African roots from Nigeria. Adenuga began rapping while co-founding the independent grime collective Boy Better Know in 2006. His main style of music consists of grime while fused with British hip hop.
Mahdyar Aghajani.  Mahdyar Aghajani (Persian: مهدیار آقاجانی‎; January 22 1989) is a musician record producer and film composer born and raised in Tehran Iran. He brought up the standard of Iranian underground music using Persian traditional instruments (such as oud santoor daf tombak ney kamancheh and qanoon) in electronic and hip hop music.
Eugene Linden (author).  Eugene Linden is an American author of several non-fiction books (science technology the environment and humanity's relationship with nature).
Pete Sandoval.  Pete Sandoval (born May 21 1963) is a Salvadoran-born American death metal drummer. He plays Sabian cymbals and Evans heads. His first significant stint as a drummer was for the grindcore band Terrorizer formed in 1986 where he began to demonstrate some of his talent.
Ángel Lozada.  Ángel Luis Lozada Novalés (Ángel Lozada) is a Puerto Rican novelist activist educator and scholar.
Steve Oda.  Steve Oda (born July 20 1946 in Toronto Canada) is a sarod player composer and teacher of the Hindustani classical music.A Canadian of Japanese ancestry Steve Oda began his musical education at the age of seven learning to play slide guitar and then jazz guitar. His love of creativity through musical expression led him to the classic music of North India and the sarode.
Gustaf Dalstrom.  Gustaf Dalstrom was a widely known American artist who from 1927 served as president of the elite group entitledChicago Society of Artists. During the Great Depression he contributed several mural paintings to public schools and post offices through the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture (later called The Treasury Section of Fine Arts). One of his murals that can still be viewed today is The Great Indian Council - 1833.
Peter Diamond (illustrator).  Peter Diamond is a Canadian visual artist and illustrator in Vienna Austria. He creates surreal symbolistic drawings in mixed media. His artwork has been commissioned for album covers posters apparel and editorial illustration.
David Fury.  David Fury (born 5 March 1959) is an American television writer and producer.
Ronnie Scott.  Ronnie Scott (28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
Marianna Shirinyan.  Marianna Shirinyan (Մարիաննա Շիրինյան) is Armenian-Danish musician prizewinner of various musical contests.
Lisa Ho.  Lisa Ho (born 1960) is an Australian fashion designer born in Albury on the New South Wales and Victorian border. She is married to Philip Smouha.
Brotha Lynch Hung.  Kevin Danell Mann (born January 10 1969) better known by his stage name Brotha Lynch Hung is an American rapper and record producer from Sacramento California. Since the release of his debut EP 24 Deep in 1993 Brotha Lynch Hung has sold 1.4 million CDs independently and has been described as an innovator of horrorcore and one of the forefathers of the genre.
Jon Bon Jovi.  John Francis Bongiovi Jr. (born March 2 1962) known as Jon Bon Jovi is an American musician singer-songwriter record producer philanthropist and actor best known as the founder and frontman of rock band Bon Jovi which was formed in 1983. During his career he has released two solo albums and eleven studio albums with his band which to date have sold over 130 million albums worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Shigeru Joshima.  Shigeru Joshima (城島 茂 Jōshima Shigeru born November 17 1970) is a Japanese musician and actor. He is the leader and main guitarist of Tokio a Johnny & Associates musical group.
Winifred Watson.  Winifred Eileen Watson (20 October 1906 - 5 August 2002) was an English writer. She is best known for her novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day which was adapted into a major motion picture of the same name.
Lawrence Hill.  For the suburb of Bracknell in the UK see Lawrence Hill Bracknell Forest for the inner city area of Bristol UK see Lawrence Hill Bristol.Lawrence Hill (born 1957) is a Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes.In 2013 Hill was selected to deliver that year's Massey Lecture on the theme Blood: The Stuff of Life.
Kathryn Evans.  Kathryn Evans is a British stage actress. She trained at the Royal Ballet School and Arts Educational.She is best known for being the final actress in London to play the lead role of Eva in the original production of Evita. She later appeared in many West End Theatre shows including Anything Goes in 1989-90 as Erma Aspects of Love in 1993-94 as Rose Vibert Mack & Mabel in 1995 and The Fix in 1997.She played Norma Desmond in the West End revival of Sunset Boulevard.
Curt Sampson.  Curt Sampson (born 1952) is an American non-fiction writer and freelance journalist. He is best known for his 1996 biography and New York Times Best Seller Hogan published in 1996 the story of one of the most complex and notable athletes of the 20th century and his New York Times bestseller The Masters: Golf Money and Power in Augusta Georgia published in 1998.
Dino Cazares.  Dino Cazares born in El Centro California is a Mexican-American musician and the guitarist for Los Angeles-based industrial metal group Fear Factory. He also plays in the metal bands Divine Heresy and Asesino. He also popularized the use of digital modeling processors for guitars in metal music. Cazares was a founding member of super-group Brujeria.
Dougie Young.  Dougie Young was a singer and songwriter from South West Queensland. Young had a white father and a Gurnu mother.Earlier in his life he worked as a stockman during which he learnt the guitar and started writing songs. A riding accident later ended his working as a stockman. In 1963 or 64 Jeremy Beckett an anthropologist made field recordings of Young many of which were released in 1965 as an ep called Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards (Wattle).
Bo Yang.  Boyang (simplified Chinese: 柏杨; traditional Chinese: 柏楊; pinyin: Bóyáng; 7 March 1920 – 29 April 2008) also sometimes called Bai Yang was a Chinese poet essayist and historian based in Taiwan. He is also regarded as a social critic. His pen name is found in most sources as Boyang although this is often misconstrued in romanisation as the personal name Bo Yang. According to his own memoir the exact date of his birthday was unknown even to himself.
D. R. Nagaraj.  D. R. Nagaraj (1954-1998) was a thinker writer in Kannada and English languages.He won sahitya akademi award for his work sahitya kathana. His most notable work is the anthology of essays on the Indian Dalit Movement Flaming Feet. The title article Flaming Feet talks about the varied philosophies of Gandhi and Ambedkar on the question of Dalit oppression and tries to find their underlying unity.
Khaprumama Parvatkar.  Khaprumama Parvatkar (1879–1953) was a musician from Goa India who played the ghumat.He was a gifted taal and laya maestro with the honorary title of Layabhaskar (laya= rhythm bhaskar = Sun)Though not very well known amongst the masses classical musicians of his time critically acclaimed his authority over rhythm and Indian classical percussion instruments.
Maurice Bolyer.  Maurice Bolyer (December 1 1920 – August 18 1978) born Maurice Beaulieu was a composer and musician known as “Canada's King of the Banjo”.Bolyer was born in Edmundston New Brunswick Canada. Although proficient in a variety of string instruments and piano he is best known for his work on the banjo an instrument that Bolyer took up in his late teens.Beginning in the 1940s Bolyer appeared regularly on Canadian radio stations CKCW (Moncton New Brunswick) and CKNX (Wingham Ontario).
Hal Gordon.  Hal Gordon (1894–1946) was a British film actor. A character actor he appeared in over 90 films in both comic and straight roles.He started off as a lawyer's clerk but finding it dull he decided on the stage making his music hall debut in 1912. He toured England and South Africa in pantomime and comedy before entering films in 1928 his first being Adam's Apple.
Julie Cox.  Julie Cox (born 24 April 1973) is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as Princess Irulan in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and its 2003 sequel Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
Ivan Marchuk.  Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Марчук) (born May 12 1936 in Moskalivka) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses. Marchuk invented a unique way of painting his pictures which he calls dabbing-on thus creating an unusual effect of luminescence of his works.
Yasmin Lucas.  Laís Yasmin Lucas Gontijo (Cuiabá 16 December 1990) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
Muttonheads.  Jérôme Tissot better known by his stage name Muttonheads (born 3 May 1976) is a French DJ and producer of French electronic music described as French Touch (French house music) with funk and Italo disco.
Juhan Liiv.  Juhan Liiv (30 April [O.S. 18 April] 1864 in Alatskivi – 1 December [O.S. 18 November] 1913) in Kavastu-Koosa) is one of Estonia's most famous poets.
Patrick Minges.  Patrick Neal Minges is an American author and historian specializing in the cultural interactions among Native Americans and Africans. With several books to his credit Minges continues to write and teach.
Dick Ayers.  Richard Dick Ayers (born April 28 1924) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt.
Paul Kalkbrenner.  Paul Kalkbrenner (German pronunciation: [paʊl ˈkalkbrɛnɐ]) (born 1977 in Leipzig Germany) is a German live act producer of electronic music and actor from Berlin. Because he breaks down his tracks into elements that are reassembled onstage Kalkbrenner is considered a live act as opposed to a DJ. He is most known for his single “Sky and Sand” which sold over 200000 copies went platinum and was highly charted in countries such as Belgium and Germany.
Clemente Rebora.  Clemente Rebora (6 January 1885 – 1 November 1957) was a poet from Milan Italy. From 1913 to 1922 he wrote anonymous Songs and lyrics. Previously an atheist he had a spiritual crisis in 1928 and became a devout Catholic. In 1930 he entered a seminary; in 1936 he became a Rosminian priest. After this his work became religious in orientation but his work is popular beyond Catholic circles for its treatment of metaphysics and physics.
William Wycherley.  William Wycherley (c. 1640 – 31 December 1715) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
Sunmi.  Lee Sunmi (Hangul: 이선미; Hanja: 李宣美; born May 2 1992) commonly known by her stage name as Sunmi or Mimi is a South Korean idol singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Wonder Girls which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2007.
Yutaka Higuchi (musician).  Yutaka Higuchi (桶口 豊 Higuchi Yutaka born January 24 1967 in Takasaki Gunma) nicknamed U-ta is a Japanese musician. Known as the bassist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. He is the younger brother of Toll Yagami Buck-Tick's drummer.
Bruce Rowland (drummer).  Bruce Rowland (born 22 May 1941) is an English rock drummer best known for his memberships of The Grease Band and folk rock band Fairport Convention. He is also a prolific session musician.
Panchito Alba.  Panchito Alba (born Alfonso D. Tagle Sr.; February 25 1925 – December 18 1995) was a FAMAS award-winning Filipino film actor who almost exclusively appeared in comedy roles. He was billed as either Panchito Alba or simply Panchito. Known for his swarthy looks and a prominent big nose which was often the target of ridicule. Panchito frequently appeared as a comedic foil to Dolphy where the two are best friends in real life.
Ulric Guttinguer.  Ulric Guttinguer (31 January 1785? – 21 September 1866) was a French novelist. He was born in Rouen.
Yasmin K..  Yasmin K. (born Yasmin Knoch 27 September 1986 in Soufrière) also performs using the name Y-ass is a German pop singer. She is most known for appearing in 2001 on the second season of Popstars.Knoch is the daughter of Oliver Bendt founder of Goombay Dance Band. Her mother is from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Knoch grew up in Hamburg. After completing her abitur she took lessons in singing piano and guitar. She began performing in shows with her father's band.
Myron Butler.  Myron Butler (born November 4) is a Grammy award winning record producer singer-songwriter music director vocalist organist and pianist. Most notably he is known as the leader of the gospel choir Myron Butler & Levi. Since 1997 he's worked as a vocal director and backup singer for several notable artists to include Kirk Franklin Marvin Sapp Smokie Norful Donald Lawrence and Yolanda Adams.
Girolamo Buratti.  Girolamo Buratti (active 1580) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in his native Ascoli Piceno. He painted the Presepio at the church of the Carita in Ascoli.
Joshua Ferris.  Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace told in the first-person plural (Revealed at the end of the book to have been written in second-person plural). It takes place in a fictitious Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom.Joshua Ferris graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and Philosophy in 1996.
Stephanie Robison.  Stephanie Robison (born August 5 1976) is the professional name of Stephanie Robison Baggs a sculpture artist based in Portland Oregon.
Suzanne Stephens.  Suzanne Stephens (born 28 July 1946) is an American clarinetist resident in Germany described as an outstanding performer and tireless promoter of the clarinet and basset horn (Hoeprich 2008 218).
Von Smith.  Vaughn Lee Von Smith (born June 15 1986) is an American singer and internet personality. Smith gained success via his YouTube videos. These garnered national attention which led to an appearance on The View in February 2007. He soon signed a recording contract with Kon Live Distribution. In 2009 he auditioned for the eighth season of American Idol getting into the Top 36.
Kawabata Makoto.  Kawabata Makoto (河端 一) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and soul collective Acid Mothers Temple.
Ted McCall.  Edwin Reid (Ted) McCall (born 1901 in Chatham Ontario died 1975) was a Canadian journalist and a comic strip and comic book writer. He was best known for creating the first comic strip based on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Men of the Mounted for the Toronto Evening Telegram and the war hero Freelance for Anglo-American Publishing.McCall was one of four children of Alexander McCall. He was married to Elise Donaldson (1899–1976) and had one son Ted Jr.
Reidar Thomassen.  Reidar Thomassen pseudonym Richard Macker (born 18 June 1936) is a Norwegian writer.
Morris Rosenfeld.  Morris Rosenfeld (Moshe Jacob Alter) (December 28 1862 in Stare Boksze in Russian Poland government of Suwałki – June 22 1923 in New York) was a Yiddish poet.His work sheds light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops.He was educated at Boksha Suwałki and Warsaw.
Lorenzo Piani.  Lorenzo Piani (born Lorenzo Piattoni 27 September 1955 Giulianova Province of Teramo Italy) is a popular contemporary Italian singer-songwriter.
Jose Mari Chan.  Jose Mari Chan (born March 11 1945) is a Chinese Filipino singer songwriter and businessman in the sugar industry. He was born in Iloilo City on March 11 1945. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1967. He is married to Mary Ann Ansaldo and has five children. He is currently the chairman and CEO of BISCOM Inc. and A. Chan Sugar Corporation. He is also the chairman and president of Signature Music Inc.
Tim Sköld.  Tim Sköld (born December 14 1966) is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist who in addition to producing solo work has also collaborated with multiple musical groups including Shotgun Messiah KMFDM Marilyn Manson and Motionless in White.
Ammar Malik.  Ammar Malik (born June 22 1987) is a professional songwriter. He has co-written several modern pop songs most notably Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger and Gym Class Heroes' Stereo Hearts which have both been certified multi-platinum by the RIAA. He tied for 17th place in Songtrust’s publication of the top 20 songwriters of 2011.
Vittoria Risi.  Tiziana Zennaro best known as Vittoria Risi (born 3 November 1978) is an Italian pornographic actress and television personality.
John Webber.  John Webber Muyundo RA (London 6 October 1751 – 29 May 1793 London) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia Hawaii and Alaska.
Neecia Majolly.  Neecia Majolly is a leading Indian concert pianist conductor singer teacher and composer.
Maxwell Bodenheim.  Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26 1892 – February 6 1954) was an American poet and novelist who was known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Mark Saul.  Mark Saul is a Celtic fusion musician from Melbourne Australia. He plays Bagpipes wooden flute and tin whistle in addition to creating the electronic aspects of his music.In the early 1990s Saul played as a civilian member of the Grade One Victoria Police Pipe Band. In 1993 he left the band to pursue other creative interests including forming the original band One with two people who shared his interest in combining traditional and modern music.
Ron Franscell.  Ron Franscell (born January 29 1957 and raised in Casper Wyoming) is an American journalist novelist and true crime writer best known for the true account The Darkest Night about the 1973 crimes against two childhood friends in the small community where Franscell grew up.
Étienne Daho.  Étienne Daho (pronounced: [e.tjɛn da.o]) (born January 14 1956 in Oran Algeria) is a French singer songwriter and record producer. He has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.
Tsutomu Yamazaki.  Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努 Yamazaki Tsutomu born December 2 1936) is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark.
Mr. B. (Mark Braun).  Mr. B. (born Mark Lincoln Braun 1957) is an American boogie woogie pianist.
Saree Makdisi.  Saree Makdisi (born 1964) is an American literary critic of Palestinian and Lebanese descent specializing in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature. He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. Makdisi currently holds the title of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA.
Rich Buckler.  Rich Buckler (born February 6 1949) is an American comic book artist and penciller best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four in the mid-1970s and with writer Doug Moench co-creating the character Deathlok in Astonishing Tales #25. Buckler has drawn virtually every major character at Marvel and DC often as a cover artist.
Pat Boyette.  Pat Boyette (July 27 1923 San Antonio Texas – January 14 2000) was an American broadcasting personality and news producer and later a comic book artist best known for two decades of work for Charlton Comics where he co-created the character the Peacemaker. He sometimes used the pen names Sam Swell Bruce Lovelace and Alexander Barnes.
Brad Caleb Kane.  Bradley Caleb Kane (born September 29 1973) is a singer actor and writer.
Darren Cullen.  Darren Cullen is a London based professional graffiti artist who is commonly known by the tag name SER. Cullen emerged as an artist from the British graffiti art scene in the early 1980s.
Ellie Greenwich.  Eleanor Louise Ellie Greenwich (October 23 1940 – August 26 2009) was an American pop music singer songwriter and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote Be My Baby Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Da Doo Ron Ron Leader of the Pack Do Wah Diddy Diddy and River Deep Mountain High among others.
Andrea da Bologna.  Andrea da Bologna was a follower of Vitale. A painting by him representing 'The Virgin and Child' signed De Bononia natus Andreas fatus a.d. MCCCLXXII is in the church Del Sacramento at Pansola near Macerata. Another example of this painter is in a convent at Fermo but Bologna does not possess any work by him.
Drago Došen.  Drago Došen (Serbian: Драго Дошен) is a Serbian artist. His paintings and drawings link him to the early 1970s generation of Belgrade painters who turned toward a fundamental experience of nature reinstating the subject theme in their paintings.Drago Došen was born in Bosnia in 1943.
Charles Annandale.  Charles Annandale (1843–1915) was a Scottish editor primarily of reference books.
Tori Sparks.  Tori Sparks (born December 5 1983) is an American singer-songwriter known for her unconventional lyrics and her blending of folk rock and blues influences. She based in Barcelona Spain having recently relocated from Nashville TN. Sparks has released five recordings: Tidewaters Rivers + Roads Under This Yellow Sun The Scorpion in the Story and Until Morning/Come Out of the Dark.
Gina Ferris Wilkins.  Gina Ferris Wilkins née Vaughan (born December 20 1954 in Little Rock Arkansas USA) is a best-selling American author of over 85 romance novels. She writes novels as Gina Ferris Gina Wilkins and Gina Ferris Wilkins.
Hani Shaker.  Hany Shaker (Arabic: هانى شاكر‎ IPA: [ˈhæːni ˈʃæːkeɾ]; born in Cairo on December 21 1952) is an Egyptian singer actor and composer. He has over 461 songs in the hearts of his lovers. His first public appearance was when he sang with Abd El Halim Hafez Choral Group in Sora then he showed up in the movie Sayed Darwish as Sayed darwish when he was young.
Stuart MacRae (composer).  Stuart MacRae (born 12 August 1976) is a British composer.
Robert Bisset.  Robert Bisset (c. 1759 – 14 May 1805) was a Scottish writer best known as the biographer of Edmund Burke and of Joseph Addison Richard Steele and other contributors to The Spectator.
Sam Glanzman.  Sam J. Glanzman (born December 5 1924) is an American comic-book artist best known for his Charlton Comics series Hercules about the mythological Greek demigod; his biographical war stories about his service aboard the U.S.S. Stevens for DC Comics and Marvel Comics; and the Charlton Comics Fightin' Army feature The Lonely War of Willy Schultz a Vietnam-era serial about a German-American U.S. Army captain during World War II.
Béla Kontuly.  Béla Kontuly (b. Miskolc 1904 - d. Budapest 1983) was a Hungarian painter and art teacher.
Craig Rosevear.  Craig Rosie Gary Rosevear is an Australian drummer from Newcastle who joined hard rock group The Screaming Jets from 1993 to 2000. From 2001 to 2003 he relocated to the United States and was a member of American band Cinderglass. By 2003 he had returned to Australia and set up a music school in Newcastle focusing on drumming and percussion. His portrait Rock and role model by Peter Sesselmann was entered for the 2009 Archibald Prize.
David Macey.  David Macey (October 5 1949 – October 7 2011) was an English translator and intellectual historian of the French left. He translated around sixty books from French to English and wrote biographical studies of Jacques Lacan Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon.
Chris Rock.  Christopher Julius Chris Rock III (born February 7 1965) is an American comedian actor screenwriter television producer film producer and director.After working as a standup comic and appearing in small film roles Rock came to wider prominence as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. He went on to more prominent film roles as well as a series of acclaimed comedy specials for HBO.He was voted as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central.
Sven Regener.  Sven Regener born January 1 1961 in Bremen is a German musician and writer living in Berlin. In 1982 he recorded his first LP with the band Zatopek and in 1984 he joined Neue Liebe.[citation needed] In 1985 he founded the Berlin band Element of Crime together with Jakob Friderichs.
Antje Paarlberg.  Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeester (16 February 1808 - 28 October 1885) is known as the inspiration for the novel So Big. Chicago area author Edna Ferber used South Holland Illinois its pioneers and onion farms as background for her 1924 novel about an ambitious widow in a Midwestern Dutch American farming community. The resilience of Antje Wagemeester Paarlberg a widowed immigrant and determined pioneer was allegedly the inspiration for the main character Selina Peake DeJong.
Glaiza de Castro.  Glaiza Castro Galura (born January 21 1988 in Valenzuela City Philippines) better known as Glaiza De Castro is a Filipina actress and singer. She has been a contract artist of GMA Network since 2006.After beginning her career in GMA in 2001 she transferred to its rival network ABS-CBN where she played mostly minor and supporting roles before returning to GMA in 2006.
Yuriko Hanabusa.  Yuriko Hanabusa (英百合子 Hanabusa Yuriko  7 March 1900 – 7 February 1970) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1921 and 1966.
Hugo Nicolson.  Hugo Nicolson is a record producer and engineer who has worked on records for artists including Primal Scream Embrace David Holmes Shack and Julian Cope.Nicolson started working as a tape op at the Townhouse Studios and progressed to being an engineer and producer on a number of well-known albums. Hugo played a key role on Primal Scream's Screamadelica album working closely with Andrew Weatherall as Co-producer and engineer helping to remix the original recordings made by the band.
Kim Massie.  Kim Massie is an African-American blues and soul singer who performs mostly in her native St. Louis Missouri.Though her earliest musical experiences were schooled in the gospel choirs of East St. Louis Illinois she has had no formal training as a vocalist.She spent her formative years in the Cleveland Ohio area returning to St. Louis in 1999 to pursue her dreams of performing as a vocalist.She was discovered when she sat in with the great St.
John Blennerhassett Martin.  John Blennerhassett Martin (September 5 1797 - October 27 1857) was an American painter engraver and lithographer.Martin was born in Bandon County Cork Ireland but emigrated at age 18 to the United States in 1815. He initially lived and studied engraving in New York City then in 1816 moved to Richmond Virginia where he lived and worked. Martin painted a series of portraits of Chief Justice John Marshall as well as a notable portrait of James Armistead. He died in Richmond in 1857.
Samuel McDonald Martin.  Samuel McDonald Martin (c.1810–22 September 1848) was a New Zealand land claimant magistrate journalist and writer. He was born in Kilmuir Skye Scotland in c.1810.
Claude Dubois.  Claude André Dubois (born 24 April 1947 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.Dubois was an early star of the francophone musical Starmania.
Alfons Schilling.  Alfons Schilling (20 May 1934 – 19 June 2013) was a Swiss painter.
Hossein Zenderoudi.  Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (born 1937 Tehran) is a renowned Iranian painter and sculptor known especially as a pioneer of Iranian modern art. His work Tchaar Bagh was sold at Christi's International auction in Dubai for $1.6 million.
Maida Parlow French.  Maida Parlow French was a Canadian author and artist. Her works include Boughs Bend Over (1943) All This to Keep (1947) and the autobiographical Apples Don't Just Grow (1954). In 1967 she wrote Kathleen Parlow: A Portrait a biography of her cousin Kathleen Parlow.
Onno Tunç.  Ohannes Tunçboyacı (a.k.a. Onno Tunç) (Armenian: Օհաննես Թունչբոյաջյան) was a leading Turkish musician working mainly as a composer and an arranger. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double bass contributing to the albums of several musicians. He was the elder brother of musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan.
Mike Watt.  Michael David Mike Watt (born December 20 1957) is an American bassist singer and songwriter.He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen Dos and Firehose; as of 2003 he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects.CMJ New Music called Watt a seminal post-punk bass player. In November 2008 Watt received the Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award presented by Flea.
Tristan Pfaff.  Tristan Pfaff (born 1985) is a French pianist trained at the Paris Conservatory under Michel Béroff. He is most prominate for is Franz Liszt Album on iTunes
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande.  Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (August 10 1860 – September 19 1936) was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music (The north Indian variety of Indian classical music) an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions.
Michael V. Smith.  Michael V. Smith is a Canadian novelist poet and filmmaker originally from Cornwall Ontario and now living in Vancouver British Columbia. His debut novel Cumberland was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2002. He has also been a nominee for the Journey Prize and the inaugural winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Grant and has published a book of poetry What You Can't Have.Smith openly gay is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program.
Beckett Bould.  Beckett Bould (28 September 1880 – 25 September 1970) was a British actor.
Yara.  Carla Nazih Berkachi (Arabic: كارلا نزيه البرقاشي‎) (born June 1 1983) commonly known as Yara (Arabic: يارا‎) is a female Lebanese pop singer. Yara started her musical career with the ballad Hob Kbeer. in 2006 Yara joined Fadel Shakir in a duet called khedni ma'ak which was written by Tarek Abou Jaoudeh.In 2009 she joined Jean-Marie Riachi for the album Belaaks with the song Shefto min biid (I Saw Him) in Lebanese dialect.
Ragheb Alama.  Ragheb Subhi Alama (Arabic: راغب صبحي علامة‎ born June 7 1962) is a Lebanese singer composer television personality and philanthropist.
Alice Tzeng.  Alice Tzeng (simplified Chinese: 曾恺玹; traditional Chinese: 曾愷玹; pinyin: Zēng Kǎixuán; Wade–Giles: Tseng Kai-Xuan) was born on 22 April 1984. She is a Taiwanese Golden Horse Award nominated actress.
Tiffany Jenkins.  Tiffany Jenkins is a sociologist cultural commentator and writer and is Culture Editor for the journal Sociology Compass. In 2010 her book Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority was published which looks at the influences at play on the controversy over human remains in museum collections. She is the editor of the book 'Political Culture Soft Interventions and Nation Building' and writing 'Keeping Their Marbles' on the repatriation debate.
Ashot Melkonian.  Ashot Melkonian (Armenian: Աշոտ Մելքոնյան; 1 March 1930 – 9 December 2009) was an Armenian artist associated with Neorealistic artistic style and Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia. He mainly devoted himself to landscape and portraits painting as well as murals. He is one of the founders of Neorealism in Armenian art. Art critic Shahen Khachatrian referred to Melkonian as an artist of the generation of the 1960s that provided a new impetus to the development of Armenian art.
George Craig (musician).  George Craig (born 11 July 1990) is the English lead singer of the British band One Night Only and a model for Burberry.
Knut Anders Sørum.  Knut Anders Sørum is a Norwegian singer from Østre Toten.
Edmund Hodgson Smart.  Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942) was a nineteenth and twentieth-century British painter most noted for his portraits of world leaders. He was born in Alnwick England. He studied art at the Antwerp Academy in Belgium at the Académie Julian in Paris and under Sir Hubert von Herkomer in England.His painting Dawn (1907) was given to the Smithsonian Institution by the artist and is in their public collection.
Jahar Dasgupta.  Jahar Dasgupta (born 1942) is an eminent and contemporary painter from 21st century India.
John Goetchius.  John JG Goetchius is an American keyboardist best known for his work with Boston ska-core band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
DJ Encore.  DJ Encore (born Andreas Bang Hemmeth; 1979 in Copenhagen Denmark) is a Danish songwriter and producer who is the best known for the song I See Right Through to You featuring Engelina which served as the theme to Big Brother Denmark in 2001.He has been at the top of the radio airplay charts in Denmark US UK Sweden Norway Finland Brazil and France with different projects.
William Corbett (composer).  William Corbett (1680 – 7 March 1748) was an English composer violinist and concert performer. The Director of New Theater (Lincoln's Inn Fields London) from 1700 Corbett was appointed orchestra director of King's Theatre The Haymarket in 1705 and became a member of the Royal Orchestra in 1709.In 1716 he was appointed Director of the King's Band. From 1715 to 1726 Corbett lived in Italy returning to London in 1727.
Cyril M. Kornbluth.  Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2 1923 – March 21 1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names including Cecil Corwin S. D. Gottesman Edward J. Bellin Kenneth Falconer Walter C. Davies Simon Eisner Jordan Park Arthur Cooke Paul Dennis Lavond and Scott Mariner.
Louisa May Alcott.  Louisa May Alcott (November 29 1832 – March 6 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau.
Gerald Fielding.  Gerald Fielding (1910 – 1956) was a British actor.
Liset Alea.  Liset Alea is a Cuban-American singer composer and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Paris best known as a solo artist and lead singer in Nouvelle Vague.
Agustus Montrose.  Agustus Horatio Montrose (1830–1899) was an English novelist and playwright operating in the northeast of London in the mid to late 19th century. He is especially notable for one novel (see Lilies In December) and several plays although he wrote 22 known pieces and there is a possibility that more were created unknown to the scholars who study him. He is considered influential to many later 19th and 20th century authors including Joseph Conrad.
G. Anand.  Gedela Ananda Rao popularly abbreviated as G. Anand or called as Swaramadhuri is a Telugu singer. His troupe 'Swara Madhuri' performed all over the world. He has given performances more than 6500.
Steve Harris (musician).  Stephen Percy Steve Harris (born 12 March 1956) is an English musician and songwriter known as the bassist occasional keyboardist backing vocalist primary songwriter and founder of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
Jonas Alber.  Jonas Alber (born March 11 1969) is a German conductor and violinist based in Berlin. He was appointed general music director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig in 1998 becoming Germany’s youngest conductor to hold such a position at the time.
Russell Kelly.  Russell Earl Kelly is an American Christian theologian apologist author speaker and blogger. He is a pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church Washington Georgia. He writes nonfictional theological books. Russell is best known for evangelizing and debating why tithing 10% to one's church is not a Christian obligation. His conclusion places him in company with Christian leaders including John F. MacArthur J. Vernon McGee and C. I.
Dominique Hourani.  Dominique Hourani (Arabic: دومينيك حوراني‎) is a Lebanese recording artist actress beauty queen and former top model and considered one of the sexiest beauty and elegance idols in the Arab world.Hourani is the daughter of well-known prominent Lebanese writer archeologist and historian Dr. Youssef Hourany. She holds a Masters degree of Business Administration and Bachelors degree in Psychology and Business Marketing from the Lebanese American University.
Oren Lyons.  Oren R. Lyons Jr. (born 1930) is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Once a college lacrosse player Lyons is now a recognized advocate of indigenous rights.
Barbara Kesel.  Barbara Randall Kesel is an American writer and editor of comic books; her bibliography includes work for DC Comics Marvel Comics Crossgen Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics.
Paolo Veronese.  Paolo Caliari known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. With Titian who was at least a generation older and Tintoretto ten years older he was one of the great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento or 16th-century late Renaissance.
Matthew Williamson.  Matthew Williamson is an English fashion designer.
Hirotsu Ryurō.  Hirotsu Ryūrō (広津 柳浪 15 July 1861 - 25 October 1928) was the pen-name of a novelist in Meiji period Japan. He is credited with the creation of the genre in Japanese literature of tragic novel (悲惨小説 hisan shōsetsu). His real name was Hirotsu Naoto.
Kayo Shekoni.  Kayode Maria Söderberg Shekoni (born 17 April 1964 in Järfälla Municipality) better known as Kayo Shekoni or just Kayo is a Swedish pop/dance singer TV personality and actress of Nigerian descent.
Jean Cooke.  Jean Cooke RA (1927-2008) was an English painter of still lifes landscapes portraits and figures. She was a lecturer at the Royal Academy and regularly exhibited her works including the summer Royal Academy exhibitions. She was commissioned to make portraits by Lincoln College and St Hilda's College Oxford. Her works are in the National Gallery Tate and the Royal Academy collections. In the beginning of her marriage she signed her works Jean Bratby.
Elizabeth Cotten.  Elizabeth Libba Cotten (January 5 1893 – June 29 1987) was an American blues and folk musician singer and songwriter.A self-taught left-handed guitarist Cotten developed her own original style. Her approach involved using a right-handed guitar (usually in standard tuning) not re-strung for left-handed playing essentially holding a right-handed guitar upside down. This position required her to play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.
Matt King (comedian).  Matt King (born 31 January 1968) is an English actor comedian and writer. He is best known for his role as self-absorbed musician Super Hans in the British sitcom Peep Show.
Danja (record producer).  Floyd Nathaniel Hills (born February 22 1982) professionally known as Danja /ˈdɑːndʒə/ is an American record producer. He hails from Virginia Beach Virginia. He has produced songs for several acts and artists such as Britney Spears Usher Keri Hilson T.I. Nelly Furtado Kevin Cossom Ciara Timbaland Madonna J. Cole Kanye West Whitney Houston Missy Elliott Justin Timberlake JoJo Joe Jonas Simple Plan The Clutch Pink T-Pain Diddy Björk and Duran Duran.
Kōichi Iijima.  Kōichi Iijima (飯島耕一 Iijima Kōichi February 25 1930- October 14 2013) was a Japanese poet novelist and translator. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy.Born in Okayama City Iijima graduated from the French Literature Department of Tokyo University. While in university he established together with among others Isamu Kurita the magazine Cahier.
Tiana Xiao.  Tiana Xiao is a J-Pop singer of American nationality and Chinese descent.
Antoni Tàpies.  Antoni Tàpies i Puig 1st Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ˈtapi.əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish Catalan painter sculptor and art theorist who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.
Doctor P.  Doctor P is the stage name of the English dubstep producer and DJ Shaun Brockhurst (born 9 April 1986). Shaun has also produced drum and bass under the aliases Sounds Destructive (with Zachary Kemp currently known as Trolley Snatcha) Slum Dogz (with DJ Swan-E and Krafty MC) and DJ Picto (or simply Picto).
Camilla Lundén.  Camilla Lundén (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films and television shows since 1987.
Daniel Pennac.  Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni born 1944 in Casablanca Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école.After studying in Nice he became a teacher. He began to write for children and then wrote his book series “La Saga Malaussène” that tells the story of Benjamin Malaussène a scapegoat and his family in Belleville Paris.
David Verrey.  David Verrey is a British television film and stage actor.
James Carter (musician).  James Carter (born January 3 1969) is an American jazz musician.
Mario Faustinelli.  Mario Faustinelli (November 8 1924 – July 31 2006) was an Italian comic book artist and editor. Faustinelli was born in Venice in 1924. After the end of World War II Faustinelli along with artists Hugo Pratt Ivo Pavone and Dino Battaglia moved to Argentina in search of work; they became known as the Venice Group. In 1945 Faustinelli along with Pratt and Alberto Ongaro created the character Asso di Picche (Ace of Spades).
Clarence Young.  Clarence Young was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for series of books for boys the most well-known being the Motor Boys series.The following series were published under the name Clarence Young:Jack Ranger—6 volumes (1907–1911)Motor Boys—22 volumes (1906–1924)--The first ten were illustrated by Charles Nuttall—Volumes 1 2 and 8 ghostwritten by Howard R.
Jim Williams (composer).  Jim Williams is a British TV and Film composer and guitarist. In 2007 he was nominated along with co-composer John Lunn for an Ivor Novello Award for the music for Hotel Babylon.Credits include: Auf Wiedersehen Pet Hotel Babylon Harley Street Under the Greenwood Tree Heartless Wanted The Gift Lock Stock Outlaws Sorted Minder (TV series) 2009 .
Gwyn Cready.  Gwyn Cready (born January 17 1962) is an American author of romance novels.
Ross Millard.  Ross Millard (22 July 1982 in Sunderland) is a guitarist and vocalist in UK act The Futureheads. The band released their debut album The Futureheads in September 2004 which included the hit singles Hounds Of Love Decent Days & Nights and Meantime.
Joe Becker (musician).  Joseph Christopher Becker Jr. (born June 23 1976 in Chicago Illinois) is a guitarist composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Shwayze.  Shwayze is the stage name of Aaron Smith (born May 29 1985) an American rapper.His first single Buzzin' peaked at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100. His second single Corona and Lime has reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and #3 in the US iTunes Store. Shwayze's self-titled debut album which Cisco Adler co-wrote was released on August 19 2008.
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán.  Luis Nicolás Rivera-Pagán (* December 5 1942 in San Juan de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico) is the Henry Winters Luce Professor Emeritus of Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Laurence Yep.  Laurence Michael Yep (Chinese: 葉祥添; pinyin: Yè Xiángtiān; born June 14 1948) is a prolific Chinese-American writer best known for children's books. In 2005 he received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his career contribution to American children's literature.
Augustus Jules Bouvier.  Augustus Jules Bouvier (1827–1881) was one of the first artists known to have exhibited at the British Institution. His entry into the exhibit was a picture entitled The Fish Market in Boulogne.
Maggie Kingsley.  Maggie Kingsley is the pseudonym of Margaret Gray a Scottish-born writer of Mills & Boon medical romances. Apart from one book - For Jodie's Sake - all of her medical romances are set in Scotland. In 2008 she also had A Baby For Eve published which is set in Cornwall and part of the Brides Of Penhally Bay series.
Max Picard.  Max Picard (June 5 1888 in Schopfheim – October 3 1965 in Sorengo Switzerland) was a Swiss writer important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply Platonic sensibility in the 20th century.
Johnny Vicious.  Johnny Vicious (born John Coles) is an American house DJ producer and remixer.
Jimmy Page.  James Patrick Jimmy Page OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician songwriter and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and leader of the rock band Led Zeppelin.Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and by the mid-1960s he had become the most sought-after session guitarist in England. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968.
Alexandre Herculano.  Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (March 28 1810 – September 13 1877) was a Portuguese novelist and historian.
Barlas Erinç.  Barlas Erinç (Turkish: Barlas) is a Turkish musician rock singer and song writer. He was born in Ankara Turkey. He studied Business Administration and is a graduate of Gazi University in Ankara.His first band AXE was a heavy metal band performing in Ankara in the 80s. Their concerts in Ankara and in Istanbul were huge success. He was not only the lead singer of the band but also writing the music and the lyrics.
Carri Mundane.  Carri Munden is an English fashion designer. Born as Carri Munden she is also credited as Carri Munden and CassettePlaya her fashion label. She currently works and lives in London.
Dale McGowan.  Dale McGowan (born February 28 1963) is an American author speaker and philanthropist who has written and edited several books related to atheism particularly parenting without religion.
Kenneth Gilbert.  Kenneth Gilbert OC (born in Montreal December 16 1931) is a Canadian harpsichordist organist musicologist and music educator. Gilbert studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal under Yvonne Hubert (piano) and Gabriel Cusson (harmony and counterpoint). He also studied the organ privately with Conrad Letendre in Montréal.
Jesus Redondo.  Jesús Redondo Román (born 8 August 1934 Valladolid Spain) is a Spanish comic artist who has been published in many countries including Spain the UK the Netherlands Sweden and the USA.
Numa Sadoul.  Numa Sadoul (born 1947 Brazzaville French Equatorial Africa (now Republic of Congo)) is a French writer actor and director who has been a resident of France since 1966.As a student Sadoul interviewed and befriended the famous Belgian comic artist Hergé famous for his Adventures of Tintin—an unexpected coup as Hergé gave few interviews.
Ronald Hayman.  Ronald Hayman (born 4 May 1932) is a British critic dramatist and writer best known for his biographies.
Mark Kosower.  Mark Kosower is an internationally renowned American cellist. He is Principal Cello of the Cleveland Orchestra and is on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Peter Brookesmith.  Peter Brookesmith is an English writer on paranormal topics especially the belief in UFOs. He has appeared often in the Fortean Times as well as speaking at their UnConvention.
Jennifer Brown (author).  Jennifer Brown is an American author best known for her debut novel Hate List which was released on September 1 2009.
Shen Jiawei.  Shen Jiawei (born 1948) is a Chinese Australian painter. He is a winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize.
Bryan-Michael Cox.  Bryan-Michael Cox (born December 1 1977) is an American songwriter and record producer. In 2009 Cox was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
Mala Rodríguez.  María Rodríguez Garrido also known as La Mala La Mala María or Mala Rodríguez (Mala Spanish for bad) is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish hip hop singer.
Johann Christoph Jordan.  Johann Christoph Jordan or Johann Christoph de Jordan was an author who published in 1745 (or 1720) in Latin the history of Slavic Peoples De Originibus Slavicis.
Neal Morse.  Neal Morse (born August 2 1960 in Van Nuys California) is an American singer multi-instrumentalist bandleader and progressive rock composer based in Nashville Tennessee. In 1995 he formed the progressive rock band Spock's Beard with his brother Alan and released an album which was moderately successful. In 1999 he joined former Dream Theater co-founder Mike Portnoy Flower Kings' Roine Stolt and Marillion's Pete Trewavas to form the supergroup Transatlantic.
Lisa Schwarzbaum.  Lisa Schwarzbaum (born 1952) is an American film critic.
Piotr Karpienia.  Piotr Karpienia is a Polish singer-songwriter who rose to fame after being the runner-up on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent. He is currently signed to Warner Music Poland. His debut album titled Mój świat was released on 15 May 2012.
Matt Cohen (writer).  Matthew (Matt) Cohen (30 December 1942 – 2 December 1999) was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam.Cohen was born in Kingston Ontario the son of Morris Cohen and Beatrice Sohn and grew up in Ottawa.
Julia Childs (playwright).  Julia Childs (born 1962 in St. Albans) is a British playwright who has won first and second place awards internationally.Her debut play Home Sweet Soweto Home won first prize in the BBC African Performance competition. Professor Wole Soyinka awarded Childs joint-second place in African Performance 2010 with The Coffin Factory. Both plays were produced by BBC and broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Giovanni Segantini.  Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century and his paintings were collected by major museums. In later life he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature. He was active in Switzerland for most of his life.
Aidan Higgins.  Aidan Higgins (born 3 March 1927) is an Irish writer. He has written short stories travel pieces radio drama and novels. Among his published works are Langrishe Go Down (1966) Balcony of Europe (1972) and a more recent biographical work Dog Days (1998). His writing is characterised by non-conventional foreign settings and a stream of consciousness narrative mode.
Sidney Skolsky.  Sidney Skolsky (2 May 1905 - 3 May 1983) was an American writer best known as a Hollywood gossip columnist. He ranked with Hedda Hopper (with whom he shared a birthday) and Louella Parsons as the premier Hollywood gossip columnists of the first three decades of the sound picture era. A radio personality in addition to having his own syndicated newspaper column Skolsky also was a screenwriter and movie producer who occasionally acted in the radio and in the movies.
Courtney Adams.  Courtney Adams (born June 5 1981 in Houston Texas) is an artist based in Hamburg Germany. His style is flat but a multi-dimensional style of painting called “Cubo-Expressionistic Primitivism” ( a mixture of French Cubism German Expressionism and African Primitivism) in which he filed a copyright with the Library of Congress in the United States of America in 2002. His works are usually done in acrylic paint to produce a “factory made” look.
Bülent Tekin.  Bülent Tekin (15 February 1954) Kurdish poet and writer citizen of Turkey. Born in Mardin he studied Chemical Engineering at Istanbul State Academy of Engineering and Architecture and he graduated from the Construction Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University (Gaziantep Campus).
Vybz Kartel.  Adidja Azim Palmer (born 7 January 1976) better known as Vybz Kartel is a Jamaican dancehall and reggae artist songwriter businessman and convicted murderer. His singles include Clarks Romping Shop Poor People Tell You SaySummertimeDancehall Hero Like Christmas and Pon Di Floor.
Jill Gibson.  Jill Gibson (born June 18 1942) is an American singer songwriter photographer painter and sculptor. She is mostly known for her collaboration work with Jan & Dean and for having once briefly been a member of the successful 1960s rock group The Mamas & the Papas. She was also one of the main photographers at the historic Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie.  Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (c. 1730 – November 26 1791) French man of letters was born at Lamothe (Haute-Marne).
Karen Essex.  Karen Essex is a historical novelist a screenwriter and journalist.
Margaret Yorke.  Margaret Yorke (30 January 1924 – 17 November 2012) was an English crime fiction writer real name Margaret Beda Nicholson (née Larminie). She had changed to the Yorke pen name to avoid readers' confusion with a similarly named published family member.
Freddy Wexler.  Freddy Wexler is an American record producer songwriter and entrepreneur. His songs have been recorded by prominent artists including Lil Wayne Shakira Akon Enrique Iglesias Demi Lovato Selena Gomez Bridgit Mendler Aloe Blacc and Avicii. He is also founder and CEO of The Brain LLC.[citation needed]
Gavriil Troyepolsky.  Gavriil Nikolayevich Troyepolsky (or Troepolsky) (Russian: Гавриил Николаевич Троепольский) (O.S. 16 November (N.S. 29 November) 1905 Novospasovka Tambov Governorate – 30 June 1995 Voronezh) was a Soviet writer best known for his novel White Bim Black Ear. The novel White Bim Black Ear was published in English by name Beem by Harper & Row in 1978.
Tatyana Alyoshina.  Tatiana Aleshina (Russian: Татьяна Владимировна Алёшина born 3 July 1961 Nizhyn) is a Russian composer singer-songwriter theater artist and poet. She is a music director of the St. Petersburg Demmeni Marionette Theatre the oldest professional puppet theatre in Russia. She is a member of Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.
Duncan Arsenault.  Duncan Charles Arsenault (born August 28 1974 in Worcester Massachusetts U.S.) is a multi-instrumentalist and the drummer for the American rock band The Curtain Society Sam James Big Eyed Rabbit The Curtis Mayflower Beg Scream & Shout! and Scott Ricciuti & Pistol Whipped . His solo electronic music project has been featured on the CBS television program NCIS and The Young and the Restless. In December of 2012 Duncan released an album as The Marshall Pass called Phantom Train.
Olga Kosakiewicz.  Olga Kosakiewicz (Ukrainian: Ольга Козакевич born 6 November 1915 Kiev – 1983) was a student of Simone de Beauvoir who joined the circle of de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in the autumn of 1935 when she was 19.
Mark Zug.  Mark Zug is an artist and illustrator who is known for his work with the Septimus Heap series and Harlan Ellison's adaption of I Robot. He has illustrated many collectible card games including Magic: The Gathering and Dune as well as books and magazines. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Voltaire (musician).  Aurelio Voltaire Hernández (born January 25 1967 in Havana Cuba) and professionally known by the mononym Voltaire is a popular Cuban-American dark cabaret musician. His stage name is his given middle name which he shares with the famous French Enlightenment writer François-Marie Arouet.Recently he has been using Aurelio Voltaire as his stage name for quote I got tired of there being other people releasing albums as Voltaire.
Andy Kent.  Andy Kent is the bass player for Australian rock band You Am I.
Jonathan Bergmann.  Jonathan Bergmann is a chemistry teacher and one of the developers of the flipped classroom model of teaching along with fellow chemistry teacher Aaron Sams. Although already noted for his teaching  Bergmann decided to flip what students did in his classes watching video lectures at home and doing exercises (homework) in class under supervision.
Ernest Martin Hennings.  Ernest Martin Hennings (1886–1956) was an American artist and member of the Taos Society of Artists.
Jackie French Koller.  Jackie French Koller (born 1948) is an American author of picture books chapter books and novels for children and young adults. She lives and writes in western Massachusetts.Koller is also an accomplished painter. Her interest in art inspired her to open The Little Black Dog Gallery in Westfield Massachusetts.Koller's young-adult novel If I Had One Wish was adapted into a Disney Channel Original Movie under the title You Wish!.
John Forté.  John Forté (born January 30 1975) is a Grammy-nominated American recording artist composer music producer educator and activist. He achieved fame while writing producing and performing with the celebrated hip hop group The Fugees during the 1990s and has released four solo albums including his most recent effort Water Light Sound released in September 2011.
Steve Earle.  Stephen Fain Steve Earle (/ˈɜrl/) (born January 17 1955) is an American singer-songwriter record producer author and actor. Earle grew up near San Antonio Texas and began learning the guitar at age 11. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 13 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards.
Kokane.  Kokane also known as Jerry B. Long Jr. (born 1969) is a rapper from Pomona California best known for his co-appearances on Dr. Dre's album 2001 and the work on G-funk album Funk Upon A Rhyme and his backup work with Snoop Dogg in Tha Last Meal album who signed him to Dogghouse Records bringing a renewed sense of promise to Kokane's long-running career. He is the son of Motown composer Jerry Long Sr..
René Berg.  René Berg (Born Ian Bruce 24 February 1956 – 28 July 2003) was an English musician vocalist guitarist and songwriter who recorded and performed in a number of bands starting in the late 70's until his death in 2003. His notable bands included Idle Flowers Soho Vultures René Berg Band along with appearances in Hanoi Rocks Herman Brood Band and Jim Penfold's The Killers (1986) (previously known as The Hollywood Killers).
Allan Vainola.  Allan Vainola (born 11 March 1965 as Allan Annus in Tartu) also known as Al Vainola is an Estonian singer guitarist and composer. He is best known as the lead singer of the bands Sõpruse Puiestee Metro Luminal Alumiinium Sinu Sädelev Sõber and the guitarist in Vennaskond.Vainola has also written music for several stageplays (e.g. Ronja Huck Daamide õnn ja Mort surma õpilane and songs (e.g.
Mamani Keïta.  Assitan Keïta popularly known as Mamani Keïta (Bamako 20 October 1965) is a singer and musician from Mali. Mamani literally means grandmother.She was raised speaking Bambara and was a backup singer for Salif Keïta. She is best known in English speaking countries for her album with Marc Minelli Electro Bamako. She is credited on four tracks of the soundtrack album of the French animated film Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages (2005).
Biddy Rockman Napaljarri.  Biddy Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1940) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She has been painting since 1986 and her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Robert Liebmann.  Robert Liebmann (1890-1945) was a German screenwriter.
Charles Cottet.  Charles Cottet (1863–1925) French painter was born at Le Puy-en-Velay and died in Paris. A famed post-impressionist Cottet is known for his dark evocative painting of rural Brittany and seascapes. He led a school of painters known as the Bande noire or Nubians group (for the somber palette they used in contrast to the brighter post-impressionist paintings) and was friends with such artists as Auguste Rodin.
Tegan Bennett Daylight.  Tegan Bennett Daylight was born in Sydney in 1969 and is the author of Bombora (1996) and What Falls Away (2001). Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002 she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”. Her latest book Safety is published by Random House.
Martin Johnson (musician).  Martin Bennett Johnson is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. In addition to being a songwriter and producer he is the frontman of the pop rock band Boys Like Girls. He has written and produced for various artists including Taylor Swift Avril Lavigne Daughtry Jason Derulo Christina Perri Gavin Degraw Hot Chelle Rae and many more.
Johann Wilhelm Cordes.  Johann Wilhelm Cordes a landscape painter was born at Lübeck in 1824 and died in 1869 at Weimar where he was professor at the school of arts. A 'Park in Winter' and 'Hunting the Wild Game' are two of his productions. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Bobby Henderson (musician).  Bobby Henderson was an American jazz musician who also performed under the name Jody Bolden. He recorded a pair of sides with Vanguard Records in the late 1950s.Henderson was briefly engaged to Billie Holiday in 1934. He spent much of his career playing solo.
Gulab Khandelwal.  Gulab Khandelwal is an Indian poet born in the town of Navalgarh Rajasthan (India) on 21 February 1924. He has written poetry in different forms such as LyricsSonnets Rubais (Quatrains) Dohas (Couplets) Odes Elegies Lyrical Ballads Epics Poetic Dramas Ghazals Masnavietc. with equal feleicity. He has even introduced some of these forms into Hindi Literature and apart from Hindi has also written poetry in Urdu and English.
Susannah Melvoin.  Susannah Melvoin (born January 26 1964) is an American vocalist and songwriter best known for her association with Prince in the mid-1980s. Coming from a musical family Melvoin is the twin sister of musician Wendy Melvoin sister of Jonathan Melvoin (touring keyboardist with The Smashing Pumpkins) and daughter of jazz pianist (and former NARAS president) Michael Melvoin.
Joshua Borkovsky.  Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky is an Israeli artist.
Tony Flynn (musician).  Tony Flynn is a rock guitarist best known for his stints with Steppenwolf and an unauthorized 1980 reunion of Deep Purple. He was originally hired to play with Steppenwolf in 1977 to fill in for Kent Henry and found himself called upon multiple times until 1980 at which point John Kay and Jerry Edmonton won back the exclusive rights to the Steppenwolf name.
Tamao Satō.  Tamao Satō (さとう 珠緒 Satō Tamao born 佐藤 珠緒 January 2 1974) is a Japanese actress voice actress television personality and model from Funabashi Chiba perhaps best known for her role as Momo Maruo in the 1995 Super Sentai series Chōriki Sentai Ohranger as well as co-hosting O-Sama Brunch a Tokyo Broadcasting System Saturday morning show. She is affiliated with Petite Smile talent agency.
Lara Scandar.  Lara Scandar (Arabic:لارا اسكندر) is an American-born Arabic singer. Her father is Egyptian while her mother is Italian. She and her family moved from the USA to Cairo Egypt when she was a child. She was a semi-finalist on the Lebanese reality talent competition Star Academy during the 6th season representing Egypt in 2009. Her debut album is named About A Girl.
Adam MacDougall (musician).  Adam MacDougall was born in August 1974 in New York City New York. MacDougall is the keyboardist who replaced Rob Clores in The Black Crowes in time to record Warpaint in July 2007. Previously he was a member of The Ben Taylor Band and Furslide and he has also toured with Macy Gray and Patti Rothberg.
George Mikes.  George Mikes (15 February 1912 – 30 August 1987) was a Hungarian-born British author best known for his humorous commentaries on various countries.
Luís Miguel Rocha.  Luís Miguel Rocha (born 1976) is a Portuguese author television writer and producer.
Volodymyr Harbuz.  Volodymyr Harbuz (Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Гарбуз Russian: Владимир Васильевич Гарбуз; b.
Antonio Graceffo.  Antonio Graceffo (born September 6 1967) is a martial arts and adventure author living in Asia. He is also the host of the web TV show Martial Arts Odyssey which traces his ongoing journey through Asia learning martial arts in various countries. Graceffo is credited for revitalizing the lost Khmer art of Bokator by being the first to report on it.
Nora Dean.  Nora Dean (born 1952) is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for her 1970 hit Barbwire who later recorded as a gospel artist.
Cardiak.  Carl McCormick better known as Cardiak is a music producer from Willingboro New Jersey. He embarked on the music industry in 2008 and is best known for working with urban music artists such as Ace Hood Joe Budden 50 Cent Lloyd Banks Freeway DJ Khaled Rick Ross Trina Red Cafe Lil Boosie Wale Fabolous and D Block.
Roman Heart.  Roman Heart or Linc Madison (birth name unknown) is an American gay pornographic film actor.Under the name Linc Madison he gave his first adult film performance in the 2004 movie Flesh after which he signed a contract as an exclusive for the gay pornographic studio Falcon Entertainment.Heart often appears as the bottom in sex scenes.Heart is the cover model in the big budget 2005 production Cross Country produced and directed by Chris Steele also for Falcon Studios.
Alexander Brome.  Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet.
Fabian Andre.  Fabian Andre (January 8 1910 – March 30 1960) was an American composer best known for cowriting the music of Dream a Little Dream of Me with Wilbur Schwandt in 1931. Popular in its time the song was revived in 1968 when covered by The Mamas & the Papas although this version had the bridge (middle eight) in the wrong key. Andre died in Mexico City in 1960.
Thekra.  Thekra Mohammed Abdullah Al Dali (Arabic: ذكرى محمد عبدالله الدالي‎‎; September 16 1966 – November 28 2003) better known as Thekra (Arabic: ذكرى‎ also spelled Thikra Zekra or Zikra) was a Tunisian singer. The word Thekra is Arabic for a memory or memorial.
Joy Sarkar.  Joy Sarkar (Bengali: জয় সরকার) is a Kolkata-based Bengali music director and songwriter.
Ernesto Gastaldi.  Ernesto Gastaldi (born 10 September 1934) is an Italian screen writer.Born in Graglia province of Biella Italy he has written under the pseudonyms Julian Berry Julyan Perry and Ernst Gasthaus.He has collaborated with Mario Bava Lucio Fulci Riccardo Freda Tonino Valerii Sergio Martino and Sergio Leone; as such he can be regarded as a chief architect of the giallo and Spaghetti Western film.The 1973 Italian western comedy film My Name Is Nobody (also known as Mio nome è Nessuno and Lonesome Gun) is based on his story and his script.
Luigi Gregori.  Luigi Gregori (1819-1896) was an Italian artist who worked at the Vatican and served as artist in residence and professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Mozhdah Jamalzadah.  Mozhdah Jamalzadah often referred to as Mozhdah is an Afghan-Canadian singer model.
B. Dolan.  B. Dolan (born 1981) is an American rapper spoken word artist and activist based in Providence Rhode Island.
Knight Owl.  Knightowl (b.Ramon Corona) is a Chicano Rap artist that has recorded since 1993. Knightowl raps in Caló (Chicano) although English is the most prominent language in his raps. In 2000 Knightowl was joined by chicano rapper Lil' One for the Hollow Point collaborative which released The Little & The Owl album. He is considered one of the West Coast's top Chicano gangsta rappers. In 2004 he changed his name to Mr. Knightowl.
Anton Jones.  Anton Jones is a popular Sri Lankan musician. He was a major figure in Sinhala baila and had several hits that include Mini Gawuma and Uyala Pihala. Jones had released 37 cassettes and eight CDs and often tackled contemporary events in his songs. His most recent album Sebe Siddhi discussed the effects of the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka.
Florence Griswold.  Florence Ann Griswold (December 25 1850 – December 6 1937) was a resident of Old Lyme Connecticut USA who became the nucleus of the Old Lyme Art Colony in the early 20th century. Her home has since been made into the Florence Griswold Museum.
Candace Robb.  Candace Robb (born 1950) is an English historical novelist with works set in medieval England. She has also written under the pen name Emma Campion. Robb has read and researched medieval history for many years having studied for a Ph.D. in Medieval and Anglo-Saxon literature. She divides her time between Seattle and the UK frequently spending time in Scotland and York to research her books.
Omid Jame.  Omid Jame (born November 25 1990) is an Iranian songwriter composer arranger singer.
Larry Harlow (salsa).  Larry Harlow (born March 20 1939 in Brooklyn New York as Lawrence Ira Kahn) is an American salsa music performer composer and producer. He was born into a musical American family of Jewish descent.
Naná Vasconcelos.  Naná Vasconcelos (born Recife Brazil August 2 1944) is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist vocalist and berimbau player most notable for his works with Pat Metheny Don Cherry Egberto Gismonti and Gato Barbieri. Beginning from 1967 he joined many artists' works as a percussionist. Among his many collaborations he contributed to four Jon Hassell albums from 1976 to 1980 (including Possible Musics by B.
Florbela Espanca.  Florbela Espanca (Portuguese pronunciation: [floɾˈbɛlɐ (ɨ)ʃˈpɐ̃kɐ]; birth name Flor Bela de Alma da Conceição) Portuguese poet (Vila Viçosa December 8 1894 – Matosinhos December 8 1930). Precursor of the feminist movement in Portugal she had a tumultuous and eventful life that shaped her love erotic and feminine writings.
Annette Tucker.  Annette Tucker is a composer lyricist teacher writer arranger and producer. Her songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra Nancy Sinatra Sonny and Cher Tom Jones The Jackson Five Maureen McGovern Nana Mouskouri Ricky Nelson The Knickerbockers The Electric Prunes The Ventures The American Breed The Brady Bunch Roy Rogers and The Chocolate Watchband as well as used for TV shows and movies.
Nitin kumar gupta.  Nitin Kumar Gupta is a music director in the Hindi (or Bollywood) film industry. He has won the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival Award for his work in Road to Sangam. Nitin Kumar Gupta's debut film song was in 2009. His YouTube page has over 3 million views.
Keef Trouble.  Keef Trouble (born Keith Trussell 1949 Greenwich London) is an English composer singer and musician.
Richard Nanes.  Richard Nanes (born 1941 in Philadelphia died of cancer October 8 2009) was an American businessman and dilettante composer and pianist. He was president and co-owner of Nanes Finishing and Assembly Corporation in Newark NJ for over 30 years. He received seven consecutive International Angel Awards from the Excellence in Media Foundation.Nanes’ works include four symphonies various concerted works for piano or violin 5 string quartets and numerous piano pieces.
Hilda Rix Nicholas.  Hilda Rix Nicholas (née Rix later Hilda Rix Wright 1 September 1884 – 3 August 1961) was an Australian artist. Hilda Rix was born in the Victorian city of Ballarat. Her father was an education administrator and poet while her mother was a musician and artist. She studied under leading member of the Heidelberg School Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to 1905.
Vicente Fernández.  Vicente Chente Fernández Gómez (born February 17 1940) is a Mexican singer actor and film producer.Nicknamed as El Rey de la Cancion Ranchera (The King of Ranchera Music) throughout the Hispanosphere Fernández started his career singing for tips on the street and has since become a cultural icon recording more than 50 albums and contributing to more than 30 films.
Brian Ralston.  Brian Ralston (born April 12 1974) is a composer and musician living in Los Angeles CA. Ralston is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the USC Thornton School of Music Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program. Brian's latest film was the 20th Century Fox inspirational sports film Crooked Arrows starring Brandon Routh directed by Steve Rash.
Ho Che Anderson.  Ho Che Anderson born 1969 in London is a cartoonist and comics artist primarily affiliated with Fantagraphics publishers.
Josh Greenfeld.  Josh Greenfeld (born 1928) is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky which earned them an Academy Award nomination and its star Art Carney the Oscar itself for Best Actor.
Jon Connor.  Jon Kevin Freeman Jr. (born April 13 1985) is an American rapper and producer better known by his stage name Jon Connor. Jon Connor has released various mixtapes during his career including the Jay-Z inspired The Blue Album and the Eminem inspired The People's Rapper LP. He also released his debut studio album Unconscious State independently on July 2 2013. During October 2013 Connor revealed during the year's BET Hip Hop Awards that he had signed to Dr.
Vita Chambers.  Vita Chambers (born June 10 1993) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
Valerie Martínez.  Valerie Martínez (born 1961) is an American poet teacher translator playwright librettist editor and collaborative artist. Her most recent book of poetry Each and Her (winner of the 2011 Arizona Book Award) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize the William Carlos Williams Award the National Book Critics Circle Award and other awards.
Raheem DeVaughn.  Raheem DeVaughn (born May 5 1975) is an American singer and songwriter. His debut album The Love Experience (2005) reached No. 46 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It featured the singles Guess Who Loves You More and You. His second album Love Behind the Melody was released in January 2008. It features the singles Woman and Customer.DeVaughn was nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards for the single Woman.
Diane Messina Stanley.  Diane Messina Stanley (Chatsworth CA) is an American television writer and producer.
Glen Hardin.  Glen Dee Hardin (born April 18 1939) is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such notable artists as Elvis Presley Emmylou Harris John Denver and Ricky Nelson.
Emanuele Brugnoli.  Emanuele Brugnoli (Bologna 1859 – 1944) was an Italian painter mainly of vedute of cityscapes of Venice and Northern Italy.
Mic Geronimo.  Mic Geronimo (born Michael McDermon on September 14 1973 in Queens New York) is an American hip-hop rapper who was acquainted with Irv Gotti of Murder Inc.. Gotti and his brother met Mic Geronimo at a Queens high school talent show and Mic agreed to record a single (Shit's Real which would become a classic underground hit).
Richard Neville (writer).  Richard Neville (born 15 December 1941) is an Australian author and self-described futurist who came to fame as a co-editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was involved with the Sydney Push libertarians at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the early 1960s during the production of the Sydney-based Oz magazine.
Teebs.  Mtendere Mandowa better known by his stage name Teebs is an American electronic producer and artist from Chino Hills California.
Naomi Tani.  Naomi Tani (谷ナオミ Tani Naomi) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno films with an S&M theme during the 1970s.
Jen Green.  Jen Green (born 1955) is a British author of non-fiction books for children and adults. She has written over 300 titles.
Ahmet Ağaoğlu.  Ahmet Ağaoğlu also known as Ahmed bey Agayev (Azerbaijani: Əhməd bəy Ağayev; 1869–1939) was a prominent Azerbaijani and Turkish publicist and journalist. He was recognized as one of the founders of pan-Turkism.Ahmed Agaoglu was born to a Shia Muslim family in the town of Shusha Azerbaijan then controlled by the Russian Empire.
Shary Flenniken.  Shary Flenniken (born 1950) is an American editor-writer-illustrator and underground cartoonist. After joining the burgeoning underground comics movement in the early 1970s she became a prominent contributor to National Lampoon and was one of the editors of the magazine for two years. Her best-known creation is Trots and Bonnie a light-hearted satire of the adult world through the eyes of a precocious girl and her talking dog.
Andy Newell.  Andy Newell is an American composer sound designer and sound supervisor currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
DJ Kayper.  Kaajal Bakrania (born 6 August 1983) better known by her stage name Kayper is a DJ Producer and Radio Presenter from the United KingdomKayper began djing at the young age of 12 before playing in bars and clubs around South London in 1998 at the young age of 15. She currently works as a DJ around the world and lives in London Kayper was the first ever female winner of The Daily Telegraph Student DJ of the Year (2003).
François Buloz.  François Buloz (1803–1877) was a French littérateur magazine editor and theater administrator.He was born in Vulbens Haute-Savoie near Geneva and died in Paris.Originally employed as a chemist and then as a printer and proofreader he became the editor of the Revue des deux Mondes in 1831.
Lacey Conner.  Lacey Conner (also known as Lacey Sculls since getting married in 2013) is an American musician singer songwriter and reality television TV personality. She is best known for her character on the hit TV show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and Rock of Love: Charm School (with Sharon Osbourne.
Lee Muddy Baker.  Lee Muddy Baker (born 16 November 1969) is a UK-based singer-songwriter producer performer vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
Jim Holliday.  Jim Holliday (1948 – December 15 2004) was an American pornographic film director critic and historian. He was a founder and previously the honorary historian of the X-Rated Critics Organization.Holliday was also a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Elbridge Streeter Brooks.  Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1846–1902) was an American author editor and critic. He is chiefly remembered as an author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction for children much of it on historical or patriotic subjects. His byline for most of his writing was Elbridge S. Brooks.
Mischa Berlinski.  Mischa Berlinski (born 1973 New York) is an American author. His first novel Fieldwork was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. In 2008 Berlinski won a $50000 Whiting Writer's Award given to writers showing early promise in their careers.
Jim Collins (singer).  Jim Collins (born June 19 1956 in Nacogdoches Texas) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1985 and 1998 Collins released three studio albums. He also charted seven singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. His highest charting single The Next Step peaked at No.
Giovanni Battista Lama.  Giovanni Battista Lama (1673–1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Naples. Along with Paolo de Matteis he was pupil to the painters Luca Giordano. He painted historical canvases.Note: He should not be confused with a fellow Neapolitan painter of the previous generation Giovanni Bernardo Lama (1508–1579).
Audrey Hollander.  Audrey Hollander (born November 4 1979 in Louisville Kentucky) is an American pornographic actress.Her first scene was in the film More Dirty Debutantes 268 with Ed Powers. As of November 2013 she has appeared in over 400 productions and is credited as co-director for the Mehmet and Audrey Destroy the World series of films. She won the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2006. Hollander and MS created their own porn production called Supercore distributed by Mach2 Entertainment.
Felipe Suau.  Felipe Suau (born 1991) is a Chilean electronic music producer and DJ. He is well known for his work in the electronic house and avantpop genres. His debut single Bubble Thing was released in 2011 via Cuantech Records (independent label). His second work Gummy Bear Dance was released on 23 Jan 2012 (free internet license) for free download.
Csézy.  Csézy real name Erzsébet Csézi (born on October 9 1979 in Mezőkövesd) is a Hungarian pop singer.On February 8 2008 she was chosen to represent Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade with her song Szívverés. She finished last in the second semi-final on May 22 with just six points.
Michelangelo Maestri.  Michelangelo Maestri was an Italian artist of the 18th century who died in Rome in 1812. His finest compositions are based on motifs from antique frescos discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum and from designs by Raphael or his pupil Giulio Romano. His work became very popular and often purchased by European travelers during their Grand Tour.
Franz Koch (writer).  Franz Koch (Attnang Oberösterreich 21 March 1888 - Tübingen 29 December 1969) was a German literary historian and scholar of Goethe and Schiller. He was compromised by his association with National Socialism.
Rob Arnold.  Rob Arnold (born January 3 1980) was the lead guitarist of the metal band Chimaira and later the rhythm guitarist of the death metal band Six Feet Under. In an interview [1] with Roadrunner Records he named Kirk Hammett Dimebag Darrell Abbott Dave Mustaine Marty Friedman and Kerry King as being influential to his playing style.
Joseph Hart (entertainer).  Joseph Hart (1861–1921) was an American vaudevillian entertainer manager producer and songwriter.
Jim Warren (artist).  Jim Warren (born November 24 1949 in Long Beach California) is an American artist best known for record album and book cover illustrations. He has worked in surrealistic fantasy since about 1969.Warren has illustrated over two hundred book covers for such authors as Arthur C. Clarke Robin Cook and Clive Barker. He also produced album cover illustrations for Prince and Alice Cooper and movie posters for Phantasm Night of the Living Dead (the remake) Waxwork and others.
Gabriel Weston.  Gabriel Jessie Corfield Weston (born 15 July 1970 in London) is an English surgeon and author. Her memoir entitled Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story was published in February 2009. It was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award in September 2009 and won the PEN/J Ackerley Award for Autobiography in May 2010.
Mark Teppo.  Mark Teppo (born May 21 1968) is an American author of contemporary fantasy and Science fiction. His work is strongly peppered with references to occult concepts most commonly those of Hermeticism and Alchemy.
Jeanne Robinson.  Jeanne Robinson (March 30 1948 – May 30 2010) was an American-born Canadian choreographer dancer teacher and co-writer of three award-winning science-fiction novels The Stardance Saga.
Wang Leehom.  Wang Leehom (born May 17 1976) sometimes also credited as Leehom Wang is a Chinese-American singer-songwriter record producer actor and film director. He is currently based in Taiwan. Formally trained at the Eastman School of Music Williams College and Berklee College of Music his musical style is known for fusing Chinese elements (such as Beijing opera traditional styles of ethnic minorities Chinese classical orchestra) with hip-hop and R&B.
Hans Christian Andersen.  Hans Christian Andersen (Danish: [ˈhanˀs ˈkʁæsdjan ˈɑnɐsn̩]; often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; April 2 1805 – August 4 1875) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays travelogues novels and poems Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales.
Walenty Pytel.  Walenty Pytel is a Polish-born contemporary artist based in the United Kingdom recognised as a leading metal sculptor of birds and beasts. His creations are often inspired by nature and his artworks include the Jubilee Fountain in New Palace Yard Westminster a piece titled Take Off which is located at Birmingham Airport and Europe’s largest (in 1979) metalwork sculpture The Fossor at the headquarters of J. C. Bamford in Rocester Staffordshire.
Jovit Baldivino.  Jovit Baldivino (born October 16 1993) is the Filipino male singer. He is best known as the winner of first season of Pilipinas Got Talent.
Chandra Davis.  Chandra Davis (born January 2 1978 in Detroit Michigan) aka London Charles and Deelishis is an American model and was a reality show contestant. She is best known as the winner of VH1's hit reality TV show Flavor of Love 2.
Billy Davis Jr..  Billy Davis Jr. (born June 26 1938; St. Louis Missouri) is an American musician best known as a member of The 5th Dimension. Along with his wife Marilyn McCoo he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with I Hope We Get to Love in Time Your Love and You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show). Davis and McCoo were married in 1969 and were the main entertainers of a television program The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. Show in 1977.
Sylvia Nasar.  Sylvia Nasar (Uzbek: Зулфия Назар; born 17 August 1947) is a German-born American journalist best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash A Beautiful Mind.
Sophia Amoruso.  Sophia Amoruso is the founder and owner of Nasty Gal named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine in 2012. Nasty Gal sells clothing shoes and accessories for young women.
Master of the Altarpiece of the Ten Commandments.  The Master of the Altarpiece of the Ten Commandments (German: Meister der Zehngebotetafel) was a German painter active in the region of Göttingen at the beginning of the fifteenth century. His name is derived from a portable altarpiece depicting the Ten Commandments which is believed to have at one time stood in the chapel of the Sacred Heart in Göttingen constructed in 1319.
Alfred Mazure.  Alfred Leonardus Mazure (8 September 1914 – 16 February 1974) was a Dutch cartoonist writer and filmmaker.
Ian Lake.  Ian Lake (January 26 1935 in Quorn Leicestershire – August 12 2004 in London England) was a pianist and composer who taught for many years at the Royal College of Music in London.The son of working-class parents he was educated at Trent College after winning a scholarship. After leaving school he joined the army to undertake his National Service playing the clarinet and viola in an army band. He subsequently entered the Royal College of Music on another scholarship.
Frank Marino.  Francesco Antonio Frank Marino (born November 20 1954 in Montreal Quebec) is the guitarist and leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.
Ewn Garabandal.  Ewn Garabandal (born May 29 1978) is a Lombard novelist best known for his novel Feha Gìbuss e il Libro della Profezia (Feha Gìbuss and the Book of Prophecy) a fantasy book about angels and demons originally published in hardcover in 2007 (Mursia Milan).
Bertha Lum.  Bertha Boynton Lum (1869 – 1954) was an American artist known for helping to make the Japanese and Chinese woodblock print known outside of Asia.
Stefan Bolesław Poradowski.  Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski (born August 16 1902 in Wloclawek died. July 9 1967 in Poznań) was a Polish composer.
Damien LeRoy.  Damien LeRoy sometimes known professionally as DJ Ammo (also simply as Ammo) is an American disc jockey and music producer from Los Angeles California. He has co-produced The Time (Dirty Bit) along with three other songs from The Black Eyed Peas' sixth studio album The Beginning and 4th of July (Fireworks) by Kelis. DJ Ammo has produced the song Touch the Sky by Sean Paul which was included in his fifth studio album Tomahawk Technique.
Chowdiah.  Tirumakudalu Chowdiah (Kannada: ಸಂಗೀತ ರತ್ನ ತಿರುಮಕೂಡಲು ಚೌಡಯ್ಯ) (1895 - 19 January 1967) was a violin maestro from India in the Carnatic classical tradition.
Adrian Saxe.  Adrian Saxe is an American ceramic artist who was born in Glendale California in 1943. He lives and works in Los Angeles California.
Martin J. Weber.  Martin J. Weber (March 7 1905 – June 9 2007) was the inventor of the graphic arts technique known as posterization.
Molly Bee.  Molly Bee (August 18 1939 – February 7 2009) born Mollie Gene Beachboard was an American country music singer famous for her 1952 recording of the early perennial I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and as Pinky Lee's sidekick on The Pinky Lee Show. Bee was also well known in the 1950s in Los Angeles California as a regular on Hometown Jamboree a local television program featuring Tennessee Ernie Ford later the host of NBC's The Ford Show.
Charles Lockwood (author).  Charles Lockwood (August 31 1948 – March 28 2012) was an American writer and consultant on green business strategies. Born in Washington D.C. Lockwood received a Bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1970.
Christian Hejnal.  Christian Hejnal – Addams (born June 3 1969) is an American visual effects producer and the guitarist and occasional vocalist of the Los Angeles-based rock band Scarling.
Ingo Schulze.  Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years and until German reunification was an assistant director (dramatic arts advisor) at the State Theatre in Altenburg 45 km south of Leipzig for two years. After sleeping through the events of the night of November 9 1989 Schultze started a newspaper with friends. He was encouraged to write.
Maxim Reality.  Keith Palmer (born 21 March 1967 Peterborough Northamptonshire England) known by his stage name Maxim Reality or simply Maxim is a British musician known for being a member with rave and electronic rock band The Prodigy.
Scott Cain.  Scott Cain (born 2 April 1981) is the winner of the third Australian Popstars competition in 2002.In his earlier years he was a member of a band named Funkapation who released the album Peanut Butter Brick in 2000. In the same year Funkapation competed in the Hastings Valley Battle of the Bands earning Scott the award for Best Vocalist. He first entered the charts with his version of Stevie Wonder's Superstition which was featured on a Popstars Final 7 compilation single that peaked at #7.
David McKenna (writer).  David McKenna (born August 14 1968) is an American screenwriter and producer. He worked as executive producer of E-Ring. He used the screen name Zachary Long for Bully.
George Tokoro.  George Tokoro (所ジョージ Tokoro Jōji) (January 26 1955 - ) is the stage name of Japanese tarento singer-songwriter comedian Master of Ceremonies and essayist Takayuki Haga (芳賀 隆之 Haga Takayuki). Born in Tokorozawa Saitama he attended Takushoku University's Commercial Science class.
Jeremy Blachman.  Jeremy Blachman (born 1979) a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School is a journalist and the author of Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel.
Hamsika Iyer.  Hamsika Iyer is an Indian singer based in Mumbai—born in Pune and brought up in Mumbai. She studied at the SIES college of Arts and Science in Sion. She is a regular voice with ad world jingles Marathi tele-serials and has sung songs in Kannada Tamil Hindi Malayalam and Bengali movies.
John McCusker.  John McCusker (born 15 May 1973) is a Scottish folk musician record producer and composer. An accomplished fiddle player he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby. He has served as producer and arranger for artists in a range of genres and also has several solo albums to his credit.
Karen Tweed.  Karen Tweed (born 1963 Willesden) is a piano accordionist from London England.
Henry Roth.  Henry Roth (February 8 1906 – October 13 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Rodolfo Escalera.  Rodolfo Rudy Escalera also known as Rodolfo Escalera Vizcaíno (June 1 1929 – January 25 2000) was a Mexican-American artist. Among other works he created collectible plates for the 1984 Summer Olympics which became The Official Gift of the 1984 Olympics. Escalera also created a collectible plate for the 1986 World cup hosted in Mexico. Escalera's primary medium was oils on canvas.
Warren Vache.  Warren Vaché (born February 21 1951) is a jazz trumpeter cornetist and flugelhornist born in Rahway New Jersey. He came from a musical family as his father was a bassist. In 1976 he released his first album. He has often worked with Scott Hamilton and has some popularity among swing audiences.
Arvell Jones.  Arvell Jones (whose earliest work is billed Arvell Malcolm Jones) (born September 5) is an American comic book illustrator best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for DC Comics and its imprint Milestone Media.
Linda Brava.  Linda Magdalena Lampenius Cullberg better known by her maiden name Linda Lampenius and international stage name Linda Brava (born 26 February 1970) is a Finnish classical concert violinist and recording artist.
Svein Christiansen.  Svein «Chriko» Christiansen (born 6 August 1941 in Kolbotn Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) known from a number of recordings and central on the Oslo Jazz scene.
Rebecca Bradley.  Rebecca Bradley is a Canadian novelist and archaeologist with a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She was selected for the gift-child Berg Science Seminars program while living in Vancouver B.C.
Daniel de Bourg.  Daniel de Bourg is an English pop singer songwriter former dancer and model. In 2007 he was a finalist on the fourth UK series of The X Factor.
Richard Marggraf Turley.  Richard Marggraf Turley (born 2 August 1970) is a British author and literary critic. In 2013 he was appointed Professor for Engagement with the Public Imagination at Aberystwyth University. He works in the university's Department of English and Creative Writing.
Jeanne Hines.  Jeanne Hines (born 1922 in West Virginia) is an American writer of gothic novels as her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal.
Ego Lemos.  Ego Lemos is a permaculturist and singer-songwriter from East Timor who sings in his native tongue Tetum. His song Balibo (featured in the 2009 film Balibo) was awarded best original song composed for the screen at the 2009 Screen Music Awards and a 2009 APRA Award for best song in a film. His debut solo album produced by Michael Hohnen was released in 2009.
Douglas Brinkley.  Douglas Brinkley (born December 14 1960) is an American author professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy. Brinkley is the history commentator for CBS News and a contributing editor to the magazines Vanity Fair and American Heritage. A public spokesperson on conservation issues Brinkley serves as an editor at Audubon Magazine. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007.
Jeannine Haffner.  Jeannine Haffner is a singer and songwriter who is credited with writing the song Yes We Can which is a folk rock song inspired by Barack Obama's speech following his win in the North Carolina primary on May 6 2008.The lyrics to this version of ‘Yes We Can’ are a rallying cry to all people to come together for the good of the country and the world. These lyrics can be found at www.thejsband.com (4).
A. S. Kline.  A. S. Kline known as Tony Kline (born 1947) is a British poet and translator living in England.He graduated with a degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester and was Chief Information Officer (Systems Director) of a large UK Company before dedicating himself to his literary work and interests. His work consists of translations of poetry; critical works biographical history with poetry as a central theme; and his own original poetry.
Edmund Norén.  Edmund Emil Norén (27 August 1902 – 1983) was a Norwegian media executive and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Drøbak as a son of gardener Emil Johan Norén (1872–1930) and Ingeborg Andersen (1879–1941). He married a tailor's daughter in 1930.His education was middle school. He started as an office clerk in Christiania Portland Cementfabrik in 1920. He started working for the labour movement as manager of Bergens Arbeiderblad in 1927 and went on to Fremtiden.
Chao Yat.  Chao Yat (草日 21 May 1968-) is a Hong Kong comics artist his comics first appeared in Ming Pao in 1991.Subsequent works appeared in Sing Pao Oriental Daily and Hong Kong Economic Times.Since then his published comics include Sam's Manhua Series and Leung's Saga Series.
Rocco Castoro.  Rocco Castoro (born 1982) is an American editor and writer. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Journalism. After serving as an Associate Editor at Satellite Magazine he joined VICE Magazine in 2006 as an editorial intern and was appointed editor-in-chief in March 2011. He also hosts and produces a wide variety of video content.
Shabazz the Disciple.  Shabazz the Disciple or Scientific Shabazz is a rapper from the Red Hook Houses of Red Hook Brooklyn. He is an original member of the Sunz of Man and Da Last Future.
Stephan Sinding.  Stephan Abel Sinding (4 August 1846 – 23 January 1922) was a Norwegian-Danish sculptor. He moved to Copenhagen in 1883 and had his breakthrough the same year. In 1890 he obtained Danish citizenship. In 1910 he settled in Paris where he lived and worked until his death in 1922.
Colin Butts.  Colin Butts is an English writer and author mainly in popularist youth orientated works.Butts founded Tuesday Morning Publishing to publish his own novel Is Harry On the Boat? in 1997 and sold 20000 copies from his garage. It was then taken on by Orion Publishing and went on to become a six-figure best seller. The book was made into a film giving Danny Dyer his first lead role after a 15-year-old Lily Allen read it and showed it to her mother film producer Alison Owen of Ruby Films.
Malene Birger.  Malene Birger is a Danish fashion designer. MTV Europe has crowned her the Queen of Fashion in Copenhagen[citation needed] and international trend magazine Wear Global has nominated her boutique in Copenhagen as one of the world's finest in terms of design and decor.[citation needed]
Salique (singer).  Salique (Bengali: সালিক; born 28 March 1990) is an English singer-songwriter and fitness model.
Baby Washington.  Justine Washington (born November 13 1940) usually credited as Baby Washington but credited on some early records as Jeanette (Baby) Washington is an American soul music vocalist who had 16 rhythm and blues chart entries in 15 years most of them during the 1960s. Her biggest hit That's How Heartaches Are Made in 1963 also entered the US Top 40.
Freddie Gorman.  Freddie Gorman (born Frederick Cortez Gorman April 11 1939 – June 13 2006) was an American musician and record producer most famous as a singer songwriter for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a native of Detroit Michigan. Best known for being a member of the Motown quartet The Originals. Freddie Gorman was also a vital unsung component of the Motown label's formative development (as a mailman) co-writing the labels first #1 pop hit Please Mr.
Rona Randall.  Rona Shambrook née Green (b. 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead Cheshire England) was a British writer of over 50 gothic romance novels and some non-fiction books under the pseudonym of Rona Randall from 1942 to 2001. She also used her married name Rona Shambrook and the pseudonym of Virginia Standage. In 1970 her novel Broken Tapestry won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Winston David Ward.  Winston David Ward (born 20 July 1964) also known as W. David Ward is an English-Canadian artist and writer.
RaeLynn.  Racheal Lynn Woodward (born May 4 1994) better known as RaeLynn is an American singer-songwriter who finished third on Blake Shelton’s team on the second season of The Voice.
Judy Kang.  Judy Kang is a Canadian violinist. She began her career at the age of 4 in her native Edmonton Canada and has since toured across the globe as soloist with a multitude of orchestras and ensembles.At age 11 she began to study on a full scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music and at just 17 she graduated with a Bachelor in Music. At age 19 she was granted the Lily Foldes Scholarship from the Juilliard School where she graduated with a Masters Degree.
Erik Skogstrøm.  Erik Fillip Skogstrøm (born 15 May 1926) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Glemmen and became a journalist in Fredriksstad Blad in 1947. He was promoted to editor-in-chief in 1971 and remained so until 1991. Skogstrøm chaired the regional Norwegian Union of Journalists chapter from 1955 to 1964 and the regional Association of Editors chapter from 1977 to 1980. He has been a board member of Høyres Pressebyrå and Norpress and a deputy board member of the Norwegian News Agency.
James Jones (author).  James Jones (November 6 1921 – May 9 1977) was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. He won the 1952 National Book Award for his first published novel From Here to Eternity which was adapted for the big screen immediately and made into television series a generation later.
Alex White (musician).  Alex White is a multi-instrumentalist who along with brother Tom forms the nucleus of Brighton band The Electric Soft Parade. Alex also plays drums in Brakes and is a deliveryman for Yodel.
Adira.  Siti Adira Suhaimi (born September 19 1991) known widely by her stage name Adira is a Malaysian singer. She is the runner-up of the eighth season of Astro's television reality program Akademi Fantasia. She also known as Queen of Soundtrack.
Chaka Khan.  Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23 1953) is an American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned four decades beginning in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. Often dubbed the Queen of Funk Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide
Tony Kishman.  Tony Kishman is an American vocalist bassist pianist & guitarist most noted for his work with Wishbone Ash and the musical Beatlemania.
Geir Langslet.  Geir Langslet (born 9 October 1956 in Horten Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (piano) and band leader raised in Fredrikstad.
Mohammed Haddad.  Mohammad Haddad (Arabic: محمد حداد‎) (born 2 October 1975) is a Bahraini composer and music critic. He is an active artist in the music scene of Bahrain and a leading composer in the film scores of Bahraini films. He is best known for his work on the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed Bahraini motion picture A Bahraini Tale.
Patrick Alexandroni.  Patrick Alexandroni (1962–2008) was a French actor rapper and television producer.
Marguerite Olagnier.  Marguerite Olagnier (née Joly) (1844–1906) was a French singer and composer who sang at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris and became director of the Théâtre de l'Oratorio. Olagnier composed Le Saïs an exotic opera which was staged in Paris in December 1881. She also wrote two other operas which were never performed and a selection of songs.
Mike Alexander (musician).  Michael Mike Alexander (22 June 1977 – 5 October 2009) was a Jamaican-British musician who served as the bassist of English thrash metal group Evile. On 5 October 2009 Alexander died while on tour in Luleå Sweden due to a pulmonary embolism a blood clot on the lungs. Evile unveiled a memorial site to Alexander on 25 October 2009.
Rich Harrison.  Rich Harrison (born in 1978) is an American record producer and songwriter from Washington D.C. specializing in R&B and hip hop music. The winner of a Grammy Award Harrison is well known for producing songs such as Get Right (by Jennifer Lopez) 1 Thing (by Amerie) and Crazy in Love performed by Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z.
Barry Mitterhoff.  Barry Mitterhoff is a musician who plays mandolin. He is a former member of Skyline and Silk City and current member of Hot Tuna.Mitterhoff is also known as a Film score producer contributing to film soundtracks including You've Got Mail and O Brother Where Art Thou?. His work on the latter film unfortunately ended on the cutting room floor.
San Serac.  San Serac is a one-man disco music group performed by Nat Rabb. San Serac’s music combines esoteric philosophical lyrics with electronic music reminiscent of '80s Prince Pet Shop Boys or Cameo. San Serac has released three full-length albums and a 3 CD single on Frog Man Jake Records and a 12 on Output Recordings.In 2006 San Serac performed at North East Sticks Together. In 2007 he completed a full United States tour with Junior Boys and also played tours in the U.S.
Eirik Hegdal.  Eirik Hegdal (born 3 October 1973 in Gjøvik Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone) composer arranger and music teacher known from the band «Dingobats» (1995-2005) and as leader of «Trondheim Jazz Orchestra» (from 2002).
William Blum.  William Blum (born 1933) is an American author historian and critic of United States foreign policy. He worked in a computer related position at the United States Department of State in the mid-1960s. Initially an anti-communist with dreams of becoming a foreign service officer he became disillusioned by the Vietnam War. He lives in Washington DC.
Jean Bruller.  Jean Marcel Bruller (26 February 1902 – 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure and Yvonne Paraf. During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the Resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.Several of his novels have fantasy or science fiction themes.
Harry Sacksioni.  Harry Sacksioni (born 23 October 1950 in Amsterdam) is a composer and guitar virtuoso of Dutch origin. The peak of his fame was during the 1970s to 1990s. Famous works of this period include Meta Sequoia Vensters and Elixer along with re-arrangements of existing pieces such as Anji (Davy Graham) Scarborough Fair (arr. Paul Simon) and I Wish (Stevie Wonder).
John Gary.  For the U.S. politician of the same name see John G. GaryJohn Gary (born John Gary Strader; November 29 1932 — January 4 1998) was an American singer recording artist television host and performer on the musical stage.
Saša Novak Radulović.  Saša Novak Radulović - Sale (Zagreb 22 December 1964) is a Croatian guitarist. He is the former guitarist and producer from the band Psihomodo pop.
Bebe Rexha.  Bleta Rexha (born August 30 1989) known as Bebe Rexha is an American singer-songwriter known for being the lead vocalist of the American band Black Cards created by Pete Wentz and for co-writing the number-one Billboard Hot 100 hit The Monster by Eminem featuring Rihanna.
Raymond Knister.  John Raymond Knister (27 May 1899 – 29 Aug 1932) was a Canadian poet novelist story writer columnist and reviewer known primarily for his realistic narratives set in rural Canada ... Knister was a highly respected member of the Canadian literary community during the 1920s and early 1930s and recent criticism has acknowledged him as a pioneer in establishing a distinctively modern voice in Canadian literature.
Atsushi Kisaichi.  Atsushi Kisaichi (私市 淳 Kisaichi Atsushi born February 23 1971) is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Tokyo and represented by Aoni Production.
Dan DeCarlo.  Daniel S. DeCarlo (December 12 1919 – December 18 2001) was an American cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher's house style. As well he is the generally recognized creator of the characters Sabrina the Teenage Witch Josie and the Pussycats (with the lead character named for his wife) and Cheryl Blossom.
Sonia Melchett.  Sonia Melchett (now Sinclair) is a London socialite and author. Formerly wed to Julian Edward Alfred Mond 3rd Baron Melchett she wed the writer Andrew Sinclair after her husband's death. In addition to writing her own books she is mentioned in several books by Andrew Barrow and one by Douglas Sutherland.
Flora Martirosian.  Flora Martirosian (Armenian: Ֆլորա Մարտիրոսյան) (February 5 1957 - November 20 2012) was an Armenian folk singer founder Artists for Peace Foundation and initiator of the cultural movement Never Again.
Robert Koehler.  Robert Koehler (November 28 1850 - April 23 1917) was a German-born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America.
Sydney Forest.  Sydney Forest is an American composer and musician. Her music has been featured in several films notably Ghibli Studio's English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service.
Jeff Pezzati.  Jeffrey Neal Jeff Pezzati is the lead singer for the popular Chicago punk band Naked Raygun. From 1983 to 1985 he was also the bass player for the internationally known band Big Black. In 1980 Jeff Pezzati was a member of a suburban cover band Condor when he was asked to audition for Naked Raygun (then known as Negro Commando) by the founders Santiago Durango and Jeff's brother Marco Pezzati.
Hermione von Preuschen.  Hermione von Preuschen (Darmstadt 1854 - Lichtenrade near Berlin or Rome Italy 1918) was a German painter and author. She is also referred by the names Erminia Preuschen Hermine von Preuschen and Hermine Preuschen. She worked for many years in Italy but also traveled extensively.
V. Harikrishna.  V. Harikrishna is an Indian music director and singer in the Kannada film industry and has won three consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Music for Gaalipata in 2008 Raaj The Showman in 2009 and Jackie in 2010. He is the son-in-law of music director G. K. Venkatesh.
Nathan Van Cleave.  Van Cleave (born Nathan Lange Van Cleave) (May 8 1910 – July 3 1970) was a composer and orchestrator for film television and radio. He usually used Van as his first name.
Frank Fernández (writer).  Frank Fernández (born 1930) is a Cuban anarchist author. He is an exiled member of the Movimiento Libertario Cubano and was the editor of its periodical Guángara Libertaria.
Kristin Cast.  Kristin F. Cast (born November 4 1986) is the coauthor of the House of Night series for young adults with her mother P.C. Cast.She graduated from Broken Arrow Senior High in 2005.In November 2008 Variety reported that producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah S. Chechik had obtained an option to acquire the motion picture rights in the House of Night series.On October 8 2010 it was announced that Kristin was working on her first solo novel.
Timaya.  Enetimi Alfred Odom (born November 29 1977) better known by his stage name Timaya is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He hails from Odi Bayelsa State and is the founder of South South hip hop group Dem Mama Soldiers. His solo career began in 2006 with the release of Dem Mama which was met with rave reviews and also appeared on his debut album True Story released the following year. His second album Gift and Grace was released in 2008.
Liam O'Flaherty.  Liam O'Flaherty (Irish: Liam Ó Flaithearta; 28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish literary renaissance. Like his brother Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty (also a writer) he was involved for a time in left-wing politics.
Cathy Caruth.  Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University and is appointed in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. She taught previously at Yale and at Emory University where she helped build the Department of Comparative Literature. She received her Ph.D.
Veikko Törmänen.  Veikko Johannes Törmänen (born 7 June 1945 Kuusamo) is a Finnish artist who paints and makes graphic art. His works were displayed for the first time in a solo exhibition in Oulu Finland in 1972. Törmänen paints abstract works and makes installations. He has collaborated with architects and has made many public works since 1979. His works combine various techniques and materials.In the 1970s Törmänen painted gouache and water colour works based on a close study of objects.
Anbumani Ramadoss.  Anbumani Ramadoss had been the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India from May 2004 till he resigned his post in April 2009 and is a member of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha. He belongs to the Pattali Makkal Katchi party. Born on 9 October 1968 in Pondicherry Anbumani Ramadoss was a student of Madras Medical College and is a doctor by Profession. Ramadoss is also the PMK President and is the leader of the Pasumai Thayagam (Green Motherland) movement.
Helge Simonnes.  Helge Simonnes (born 21 December 1955) is a Norwegian editor.He is the current editor-in-chief of Vårt Land and has been the chair of the Norwegian Press Association and the Norwegian Media Businesses' Association. A siv.øk. by education he has also minored in political science and law.He hails from Vanylven.
Nancy Wilson (rock musician).  Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson (born March 16 1954) is an American musician singer songwriter actress and producer. She and her older sister Ann are the core of the rock band Heart.
Billy Squier.  William Haislip Billy Squier (born May 12 1950) is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the classic song The Stroke from his 1981 Triple Platinum breakout album release Don't Say No.Other hits include In the Dark Rock Me Tonite Lonely Is the Night Everybody Wants You and Emotions in Motion.
Lillie McCloud.  Lillie Arlene Nicole Jade McCloud (born December 7 1958 in Rochester New York) commonly known by her former stage name Nicole McCloud is an American dance and R&B singer. She has recorded four studio albums What About Me (1986) Jam Packed (1988) (aka Rock the House) Love Town (1998) and So What? (2002). Her single Don't You Want My Love became an international hit. Other US singles include Runnin' Away and Search'n.
Jon B..  Jon B. (born Jonathan David Buck November 11 1974) is an American R&B singer and songwriter.
Keith Perry (musician).  Keith Perry is an American country music and Christian music artist. He has recorded three albums for the Curb Records label.Perry began playing mandolin and fiddle at an early age; by age 14 he toured with country music artist Mel Street and later became a member of the Revival Spirits a gospel music group. He later worked as a paramedic and coal miner before moving to Nashville Tennessee in 1987.
Kafani.  Amir Ashad better known by his stage name Kafani is an American rapper from Oakland. He is one half of the Oakland-based rap group Babyface Assassins. He is also signed to Thizz Nation a subdivision of the late Mac Dre's label Thizz Entertainment.
Vincent La Gambina.  Vincent La Gambina was born in Sicily in 1909 and immigrated to the United States in 1920. He was orphaned soon after arriving and he turned to painting to support himself.He sold his first painting to Fiorello La Guardia at the age of 15.He painted Manhattan's Union Square and Greenwich Village areas throughout his life as well as Coney Island Washington Square the Bronx Zoo and seascapes.
Jacques Jouvenal.  Jacques Jouvenal 	(March 8 1829 Pinache Germany - March 8 1905 Washington D.C.) was an American sculptor.He was the child of French Huguenots who fled Southern France for Pinache Germany to avoid persecution. Birth records render his name as Johan Jacob with his parents are listed as Franz Jouvenal and Susanna Giraud. He immigrated to the United States in June 1853.He married Mary Houser on August 17 1853 in New York City.They moved to Washington D.C.
Miss Platnum.  Miss Platnum (born Ruth Maria Renner in 1980) formerly known as Platnum is a Romanian-German singer songwriter and musician currently signed to Four Music.
Michel Dard.  Michel Dard is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina 1973 for Juan Maldonne.
Fady Maalouf.  Fady Maalouf (Arabic: فادي معلوف‎ pronounced Fādī Maʿlūf) (born on April 20 1979 in Zahlé Lebanon) is a Lebanese-German pop singer. He is known as runner up of the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar the German version of Pop Idol. He has released three albums to date Blessed (2008) Into the Light (2010) and City of Gold (2012).
Eugene O'Curry.  Eugene O'Curry (Irish: Eoghan Ó Comhraí 20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862) was an Irish philologist and antiquary.
Robert Westerby.  Robert Westerby (born 3 July 1909 in England died 16 November 1968 in California United States) was an author of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television. Westerby's 1937 novel Wide Boys Never Work was a story of the criminal underworld before the Second World War and was made into a 1956 film Soho Incident (UK title) or Spin a Dark Web (US title) and was the earliest published use of the word wide boy.
Ted Leonard.  Theodore Michael Ted Leonard (born September 22 1971) is an American vocalist and guitarist best known as the lead singer for the progressive rock band Enchant. He has also provided lead vocals for Thought Chamber and as of 2011 Spock's Beard.Leonard's influences include Paul Rodgers Doug Pinnick/King's X Jellyfish Steve Walsh/Kansas Yes Rush Tears for Fears Neal Morse Steve Perry and Queensrÿche.
Johann Wilhelm Hertel.  Johann Wilhelm Hertel (9 October 1727 – 14 June 1789) was a German composer harpsichord and violin player.He was born in Eisenach into a family of musicians. His father Johann Christian Hertel (1697-1754) was Konzertmeister (from 1733) and director of music at the Eisenach court while his grandfather Jakob Christian Hertel (ca. 1667-ca. 1726) had been Kapellmeister in Oettingen and later Merseburg.
Dan Young.  Dan Young (1899–1970) was a British comedian and film actor. He featured in a number of Mancunian Films productions often appearing with Frank Randle.
Nicholas Davies (journalist).  Nicholas Davies also known as Nick Davies is a journalist and author formerly foreign editor at the Daily Mirror. He was closely associated with Robert Maxwell and was the centre of considerable UK media attention in 1991 after he was accused in Seymour Hersh's book The Samson Option of involvement in Israeli arms deals and of passing the location of Mordechai Vanunu to Mossad.
Ruth Roche (comics).  Ruth Ann Roche (1921-1983) also credited as R. A. Roche and Rod Roche was a writer and editor in the Golden Age of Comic Books. She was also the business partner of Jerry Iger.
Ulpian Fulwell.  Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6 – 1584/5/6) was an English Renaissance theatre playwright satirist and poet.He became a rector of Naunton in 1570 and a member of St. Mary Hall Oxford in 1578.One of his works Like Will to Like has been analyzed in a study exploring the themes of morality and vices in relation to the devil. The play has been further credited as being influential in a later play Grim the Collier of Croydon.
Padmanath Bhattacharya Vidya Vinod.  Padmanath Bhattacharya Vidya Vinod (1868-1938) was noted twentieth-century historian. His works generally centered around ancient region of Kamarupa.
Darrell Banks.  Darrell Banks (born Darrell Eubanks) (July 25 1937 – February 24 1970) was an American soul singer.Born in Mansfield Ohio Banks grew up in Buffalo New York and learned to sing in gospel churches before choosing a career in secular music. He signed with Solid Hitbound Productions/Revilot Records who released his 1966 single Open the Door to Your Heart (which curiously is legally named Baby Walk Right In) written by Donnie Elbert.
Levon Manaseryan.  Levon Manaseryan (Armenian: Լևոն Մանասերյան June 3 1925) is an Armenian artist and university professor.
Sky Ferreira.  Sky Tonia Ferreira (born July 8 1992) is an American singer-songwriter model and actress. As a teenager Ferreira began uploading videos on Myspace of herself singing songs she had written which led to her discovery by producers Bloodshy & Avant and an eventual recording contract with Parlophone in 2009. She released her first extended play As If in 2011 which combined elements of electropop and dance music.
Michele Cortegiani.  Michele Cortegiani (Palermo February 8 1857 - Tunisia 1928) was an Italian painter mainly of seascapes of his native Sicily and later Tunisia and of female portraits and genre subjects.
Dapo Fagbenle.  Daps (Oladapo Fagbenle/ Dapo Fagbenle) is an entertainer entrepreneur music video director and former NCAA athlete.[citation needed] He is best known for producing music videos for high profile recording artists such as Snoop Dogg Akon N-Dubz Jedward Dionne Bromfield Tinchy Stryder Mohombi and Rizzle Kicks.[citation needed]
Ashley Parker Angel.  Ashley Parker Angel (born August 1 1981) is an American singer songwriter and actor who rose to fame with the boyband O-Town.
John Rawlings.  John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a Condé Nast Publications fashion photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rawlings left a significant body of work including 200 Vogue magazine and Glamour magazine covers to his credit and 30000 photos in archive maintained by curator Kohle Yohannan.Rawlings was in the elite circle of top Vogue photographers Irving Penn Horst P. Horst George Hoyningen-Huene and George Platt Lynes.
Jamini Roy.  Shri Jamini Roy (Bengali: যামিনী রায়; 11 April 1887 – 24 April 1972) was an Indian painter. He was honored with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1955. He was one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore whose contribution to the emergence of modern art in India remains unquestionable.
Trini Triggs.  Trini Triggs (born August 8 1965 in Natchitoches Louisiana) is an American country music artist. In 1998 he released a self-titled album for MCG/Curb Records; produced by Chuck Howard and Anthony Smith the album produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts that year. Triggs also charted a fourth single in 2004 on Asylum-Curb.
Austin Gibbs.  Austin Gibbs is an American musician. He was born in Houston TX on December 17 1986 and spent much of his childhood in Southern California. After a move to Mesa AZ in 2001 he began playing live shows with a group of friends and collectively they were known as Austin Gibbs and The States.
Harald Dahlstrøm.  Harald Dahlstrøm (born 2 March 1961 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano and Hammond B3 organ) known for participation on a series of records from collaborations with musicians like Kenneth Sivertsen and Dance with a Stranger and as band leader for his own lineups.
Josef Wallnig.  Josef Wallnig is an Austrian conductor.
Marky.  Marky (real name Marcus D. Plater born December 7 1988) is a rap/hip-hop artist from Washington D.C. signed under SRC Records/Universal Republic.
V. V. Ravi.  Vadakkanchery Veeraraghava Ravi is an Indian classical music violinist. As an enterprising instrumentalist and violinist he has conducted concerts along with his brother V.V. Subrahmaniam and toured several nations including Malaysia Indonesia Singapore Hong Kong Japan U.S.A. Canada and England.
Jesse B. Aikin.  Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900) was a shape note singing master and compiler of the shape note tunebook The Christian Minstrel. He was born in Chester County Pennsylvania and lived on a farm in Hatfield Pennsylvania. Aikin a member of the Church of the Brethren was the first to successfully produce a song book (The Christian Minstrel) with a seven-shape note system in 1846.
Slim Gaillard.  Bulee Slim Gaillard (January 4 1916 – February 26 1991) also known as McVouty was an American jazz singer songwriter pianist and guitarist noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called Vout. (In addition to speaking eight other languages Gaillard wrote a dictionary for his own constructed language.)
Ronyoung Kim.  Ronyoung Kim (March 28 1926 – February 1987) aka Kim Ronyoung was the pen name of Gloria Hahn a Korean American writer.
Giulio Romano Vercelli.  Giulio Romano Vercelli (1871–1951) was an Italian painter.
Brian Viglione.  Brian Viglione (born May 16 1979 in Greenville New Hampshire) is the drummer for The Dresden Dolls and Violent Femmes. He was also a prominent member of New York City's cabaret punk orchestra The World/Inferno Friendship Society (having toured written and recorded with them in 2008-2009). Known for his energetic and expressive drumming style Viglione has often aligned himself with groups who incorporate eclectic musical styles and theatrical elements.
Hit-Boy.  Chauncey Hollis (born May 21 1987) better known by his stage name Hit-Boy is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer from Fontana California. In May 2011 Hollis had signed a deal with Kanye West's GOOD Music production wing known as Very G.O.O.D. Beats and left the label after his contract expired in June 2013. In December 2012 it was revealed he had signed a recording contract with Interscope Records and subsequently founded his own record label imprint Hits Since '87.
Marcos Curiel.  Marcos Curiel (born September 9 1974) is the guitarist of rock bands P.O.D. The Accident Experiment and Daylight Division. Curiel was born in San Diego California in 1974 and is of Mexican descent. He grew up in the neighboring city of Chula Vista where he graduated from Bonita Vista High School in 1992. Curiel started P.O.D. that year along with friend Noah Wuv Bernardo. The band started building a strong local fanbase releasing several albums independently.
Gorō Masaki.  Gorō Masaki (柾 悟郎 Masaki Gorō born 1957 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese science fiction writer whose career began in 1986. His most famous work is Venus City(ヴィーナス・シティ 1992). In 1993 he won the Seiun Award for Japanese novel. He also won the 1993 Nihon SF Taisho Award.
Mike Cotton (musician).  Michael Edward Mike Cotton (born (1939-08-12) 12 August 1939) is an English jazz and R&B trumpeter flugelhornist harmonicist vocalist and bandleader born in Tottenham North London. He is best known for leading his band under the names The Mike Cotton Jazzmen and The Mike Cotton Sound.
Jernade Miah.  Jernade Miah (Bengali: জুনায়েদ মিয়া; born 6 September 1991) is an English singer-songwriter and dancer who is signed to 2Point9 Records.
Jim James.  James Edward Olliges Jr. (born April 27 1978) professionally known as Jim James or Yim Yames is the lead vocalist guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
Hatty Keane.  Harriet Elizabeth Hatty Keane (born 1 December 1994 in Salford Greater Manchester) is an English R&B and pop singer. In January 2011 she came second in the under-18 category of Open Mic UK at the age of 16. She sang to BGM and Future Music shortly afterwards. In June 2011 she performed alongside Tinchy Stryder at Live Fest at the O2 in London and in November 2011 performed at the O2 as support for Ed Sheeran and Wretch 32.
Jagadish Gupta.  Jagadish Gupta (Bengali: জগদীশ গুপ্ত) (July 1886 - 15 April 1957) was an Indian poet novelist and short story writer. Known for his realistic view of life strange character portrayal and unique narrative style he was one of the major exponents of modern Bengali literature.Born as Jagadish Chandra Sengupta in Kushtia Bengal Presidency he studied in Calcutta and later took up work as a ‘job-typist’ at the Judge’s Court in Seuri.
Randolph Hokanson.  Randolph Hokanson (born 1916) is an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington Seattle.He is noted for his recordings of Bach Schubert Beethoven Chopin Liszt and Mendelssohn and has given over 100 performances including the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas.Hokanson studied on scholarship with Harold Samuel Myra Hess and Carl Friedberg.
Jaco Pastorius.  John Francis Anthony Pastorius III (December 1 1951 – September 21 1987) known as Jaco Pastorius was an influential American jazz musician composer and electric bass player. He is best known for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1981 as well as work with artists including Joni Mitchell and his own solo projects.His playing was known for its highly technical latin-influenced 16th-note funk lyrical soloing on fretless bass and innovative use of harmonics.
Arthur Johnston (composer).  Arthur Johnston (January 10 1898 – May 1 1954) was a composer known for such works as “Mandy Make Up Your Mind” Pennies From Heaven and many others. He worked for a time with Irving Berlin Johnny Burke Sam Coslow and Bing Crosby.Johnston and Burke were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936 for Pennies From Heaven.
Christianne Meneses Jacobs.  Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born March 28 1971) is a Nicaraguan American writer editor and teacher. She is also publisher of Iguana a Spanish-language magazine for children.
Mohamed Fawzi (artist).  Mohamed Fawzi (Arabic: محمد فوزي‎ born Mohammed Fawzi Aabas Elhaw 1918–1966) was an Egyptian composer and singer. He composed the music for Kassaman the Algerian national anthem.He was born in Tanta Egypt.
Cynthia Hopkins.  Cynthia Hopkins is an American performance artist composer and musician. She has written composed and performed five works of performance art at a number of theaters around the world including St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis Minnesota. She has also self-produced five full-length albums and is the recipient of a Bessie Award two Obie Awards the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Charles Paris.  Charles S. Paris (September 25 1911 – March 19 1994) was a comic book artist who predominantly worked as an inker mainly for DC Comics.
Thomas Handforth.  Thomas Scofield Handforth (1897–1948) was an American artist and etcher. He wrote and illustrated the children's picture book Mei Li based on personal experience in China and won the 1939 Caldecott Medal for illustration.Mei Li is about a girl who escapes her traditional life in the Chinese countryside to visit a Chinese New Year fair. It has been reissued since 1938 and Thomas Handforth's magnificent drawings of China in the 1930s are still animated and compelling.
Posie Graeme-Evans.  Posie Graeme-Evans (b. Rosemary Graeme-Evans in Nottingham England) spent her childhood travelling between Europe Asia and Australia. Having worked extensively in the Australian film and television industries as an editor director writer and producer/executive producer Posie is now a full-time novelist (see below).
Amos Lee.  Amos Lee (born Ryan Anthony Massaro; June 22 1977) is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk rock and soul. He was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English. After working as a schoolteacher and bartender he began to pursue a career in music. His manager submitted a demo recording to Blue Note Records which resulted in a recording contract and an association with singer Norah Jones.
Harry Chapin.  Harry Forster Chapin (December 7 1942 – July 16 1981) was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs including Taxi W*O*L*D Sniper Flowers Are Red and the No. 1 hit Cat's in the Cradle. Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger; he was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. In 1987 Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work.
Shania Junianatha.  Shania Junianatha (born June 27 1998 in Semarang City) is a member of the Indonesian idol group JKT48.
Jack White.  Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis; July 9 1975) often credited as Jack White III is an American musician singer-songwriter record producer multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. He is best known as the vocalist guitarist and pianist of the White Stripes which disbanded February 2011. On April 24 2012 White released his debut solo album Blunderbuss which received wide critical acclaim.He is ranked No. 70 on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Gaitana (singer).  Gaita-Lurdes Essami (Ukrainian: Гайта-Лурдес Ессамі Haita-Lurdes Essami) better known under stage name Gaitana (Ukrainian: Ґайтана) born on 29 September 1979 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter of Ukrainian and Congolese descent. Her music combines elements of jazz funk soul and folk music. Gaitana represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan.
Rupert Lee.  Rupert Lee (1887 - 1959) was an English painter sculptor and printmaker. He was one of the organisers of the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936.Lee was born in Bombay in 1887. In 1911 Lee entered the Slade School of Art where he became friendly with Robert Gibbings and Paul Nash. Soon after leaving the Slade he was employed by Edward Gordon Craig to be his musical director at his theatre school in Italy but the position was cut short by the outbreak of the First World War.
Roger Alan Wade.  Roger Alan Wade is an American singer-songwriter. He is the cousin of Johnny Knoxville.
Nick Mason.  Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born 27 January 1944) is an English musician and composer best known as the drummer of Pink Floyd. He is the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965. Despite solely writing only a few Pink Floyd songs Mason has co-written some of Pink Floyd's most popular compositions such as Echoes and Time.Mason is the only Pink Floyd member to be featured on every one of their albums.
Simon Scott (drummer).  Simon Scott (born 3 March 1971) is an English drummer electronic musician and was the former drummer in Slowdive and Lowgold.Scott has also collaborated with James Blackshaw Machinefabriek Nils Frahm Isan Rafael Anton Irisarri Marcus Fischer and is also a part time live member of Seattle band The Sight Below in Between with Taylor Deupree on the us [12k] experimental record label.
Charles Mingus.  Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22 1922 – January 5 1979) was a highly influential American jazz double bassist composer and bandleader. Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third Stream free jazz and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz.
Louie Torrellas.  Louie Joseph Torrellas (born July 19 1987) is an American media personality Emmy awarded actor comedian producer writer and entrepreneur. Notable films and video games featuring Louie include Jumper Sponk Blood and Bone the popular Rockstar Games Bully and Grand Theft Auto. His recent production “To Be Friends” was awarded the festival prize for best cinematography at the Boston Film Festival.
Peter Zizka.  Peter Zizka (born December 16 1961) is a German conceptual artist and designer.
Chris Townson.  Chris Townson (24 July 1947 – 10 February 2008) was a musician illustrator and social worker. He was a founding member of the 1960s rock group John's Children and a member of several other bands including Jook Jet and Radio Stars. He replaced The Who's Keith Moon on drums on a 1967 UK tour after Moon had injured himself and he jammed with Jimi Hendrix at the Speakeasy rock club in London.
Natalie Cressman.  Natalie Cressman is an American jazz trombonist and vocalist.
Aleš Čar.  Aleš Čar (born 6 March 1971) is a Slovene writer editor and translator. He has published a number of novels and short stories. He works as editor in the culture section of the Slovene daily Dnevnik.Čar was born in Idrija in the Goriška region in western Slovenia in 1971. He studied comparative literature and sociology at the University of Ljubljana and works as an editor in Ljubljana.
John Gascoigne.  John Gascoigne (fl. 1381) was an English lawyer and author.
Thomas Nelson Page.  Thomas Nelson Page (April 23 1853 – November 1 1922) was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson including the important period of World War I.
Mark L. Van Name.  Mark L. Van Name is an American science fiction writer and technology consultant. As of 2009 Van Name lives in North Carolina.
Alex Elena.  Alex Elena is an Italian-born drummer producer and songwriter His production credits include: Lily Allen Evan Dando Alice Smith Tarka Cordell Sun Rai Michelle Shaprow Ruby Friedman Kori Whiters Alice Temple Imani Coppola Topher Mohr Louis Eliot of Kinky Machine and many others.As a drummer Alex has also recorded alongside world-class producers like Shep Pettibone (Madonna Afrika Bambaataa Janet Jackson) Godfrey Diamond (Aerosmith Gloria Gaynor) Jack Endino (Nirvana) Youth (U2 The Verve PJ Harvey) Phil Vinal (Elastica) Curt Frasca (Avril Lavigne Madonna) and John Sickett (Phish).Most recently Elena produced and mixed the album Tarka and Friends featuring artists such as Lily Allen Evan Dando Citizen CopeAlice Temple and Imani Coppola.He also shot the video for Lovely New York by Evan Dando.
Kalyanamalla.  Kalyanamalla was a 16th-century Indian poet and writer of erotic literature. He was the author of the sex manual Ananga Ranga. Kalyanamalla was from Kalinga and belonged to the Brahmin caste.
Pulstate.  Pulstate is the alias of trance music producer Desmond Mallon. Hailing from Ireland Desmond has produced numerous tracks which have gained support from the worlds biggest DJs including Armin van Buuren and Tiesto. His most famous tracks to date are 'Lost Forever' 'Wicked 'Swag' 'Somnia' 'Siriya' and most recently 'The Joker'. Desmond is known to use chopped up samples of different sounds in his tracks combined with his trademark melodies making him easily identifiable.
Kriss Turner.  Kriss Turner is an American screenwriter and producer.Turner has written and produced episodes for the television series Sister Sister Living Single The Bernie Mac Show Cosby Everybody Hates Chris Whoopi and Sherri.Turner also the wrote the feature film Something New.She was featured on CNN's two-night series Black in America where she discussed the idea of being a single African American woman who is successful in a male-dominated field.
Kaiser Haq.  Kaiser Hamidul Haq (Bengali: কায়সার হক born 7 December 1950) is a Bangladeshi poet translator essayist critic and academic. Kaiser Haq is one of the few Bangladeshis who excel in creative writings in English. He is a professor of English at the University of Dhaka. In the liberation war of Bangladesh he fought against Pakistani Army as a freshly commissioned subaltern in command of a company.
Mary Ann Acevedo.  Mary Ann Acevedo Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeɾi ˈan aseˈβeðo]); (born June 23 1987) better known as Mary Ann is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. She is known for being a contestant on the third season of Objetivo Fama (2006) and the first season of Idol Puerto Rico (2011). After her stint on Objetivo Fama Acevedo was the first contestant of that season to release an album.
Paul Shipton.  Paul Shipton (born 1963) is an award-winning children's author.He was born in Manchester and attended Emmanuel College Cambridge and Manchester University. After completing two Masters' degrees (in Classics and Philosophy) he taught English in Istanbul for a year. After returning to the UK he taught English as a foreign language for several years and it was around this time that he published his first book Zargon Zoo (1991).
Richard Nibley.  Fred Richard Nibley (April 29 1913 – September 22 1979) was an American violinist composer and educator. He is often cited as an expert on the influence of music on behavior.Richard spent many years as a professor at Snow College in Ephraim Utah.
Teodor Runsiö.  Teodor Erik Zeron Runsiö (born 28 July 1995) is a Swedish child actor well known for his role as Lasse in LasseMajas detektivbyrå. He has also played among Micke in the 2006 film Kidz in da Hood.
Milo Keynes.  William Milo Keynes MD FRCS (/ˈkeɪnz/ KAYNZ; 9 August 1924 – 18 February 2009) was a British doctor and author.Keynes was the third son of Sir Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Darwin daughter of Sir George Darwin. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin and a nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. He was the brother of Richard Quentin and Stephen.He published a collection of essays on his uncle and a biography of his uncle's wife Lydia Lopokova.
Pierre Audouin.  Pierre Audouin (1768-1822) was a French engraver and pupil of Beauvarlet.Audouin was born in Paris where he lived and worked his whole life. He engraved for the ' Musée Français' published by Laurent which included several of works of the Italian and Dutch masters. The following are some of his works:Jupiter and Antiope; after Correggio.La belle Jardiniere; after Raphael. The two portraits called Raphael and his Fencingmaster; ascribed to Raphael. The Entombment of Christ; after Caravaggio.
Big Scoob.  Not to be confused with Big Scoob a New York City-based emcee who recorded with such artists as Big Daddy Kane and Jay-Z.Stewart D. Ashby Jr. better known by his stage name Big Scoob is an American rapper from Kansas City Missouri who records for Strange Music.
Dick Manning.  Dick Manning (June 12 1912 – April 11 1991) was a Russian-born American songwriter best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.Manning was born in Gomel and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music.
Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy.  Hugo Jesús Jamioy Juagibioy (born 1971) is a Colombian poet and storyteller. He is an indigenous person from Colombia who belongs to the Kamëntsa people.
Becky Hill.  Becky Hill (born 14 February 1994) is a singer/songwriter from Bewdley Worcestershire. She rose to prominence after appearing on the first series of The Voice UK auditioning with Ordinary People written by will.i.am. She joined Jessie J's team and reached the semi-final of the competition.
Christine Berrie.  Christine Berrie is a Scottish illustrator and artist based in Glasgow. She is known for her industrial-themed illustrations including such objects as wall plates gas meters dials buttons and switches control boxes electrical objects machinery and appliances.Berrie who has been active since 2003 received her Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication from Glasgow School of Art and her Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art in London.
Giulio Trogli.  Giulio Trogli (1613–1685) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was initially a pupil of Francesco Gessi in Bologna. Giulio Trogli devoting himself to quadratura under Agostino Mitelli and published a work entitled  Paradossi della Prospettiva and from then on took the nickname of il Paradosso (the Paradox).
Patrick Monahan.  Patrick Thomas Pat Monahan (born February 28 1969) is an American singer-songwriter musician and actor best known as the lead vocalist for the band Train. He has collaborated with multiple artists and has recorded a solo album Last of Seven. He is favorably compared to female contemporaries due to his higher almost effeminate vocal range.
YG (rapper).  Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson (born March 9 1990) is an American rapper better known by the stage name YG (an initialism for Young Gangsta). In 2009 he released his debut single Toot It and Boot It featuring Ty Dolla Sign which peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100. The singles success resulted in him signing to Def Jam Recordings. In the following years YG released various mixtapes such as The Real 4Fingaz and Just Re'd Up 2 among others.
Alan Plater.  Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Shion Tsuji.  Shion Tsuji (辻詩音 Tsuji Shion) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song Sky Chord (Otona ni Naru Kimi e) which was used as the 18th ending theme song for the anime Bleach.
Lil Zane.  Zane Copeland Jr. (born July 11 1982) better known as Lil' Zane is a rapper & actor born in Yonkers New York and raised in Atlanta Georgia. He is best known for his debut album Young World: The Future released in 2000 which featured the single Callin' Me featuring 112.
Akiko Noma.  Akiko Noma (野間 亜紀子 born February 13th 1980) best known as Akko is the bassist back-up vocalist and lyricist of GO!GO!7188. She has also released two solo albums under her maiden name Akiko Hamada (浜田 亜紀子). She sings writes lyrics and composes music. In GO!GO!7188 she seems to be the most outspoken member; she does most of the talking during their interviews and live shows.
Rachel Fuller.  Rachel Fuller (born 24 July 1973) is a British musician. She is a successful independent pop music artist a composer and occasional collaborator with rock musician and partner Pete Townshend.
Jean Little.  Jean Little is a Canadian author born on January 2 1932. Her work has mainly consisted of children's literature but she has also written two autobiographies: Little by Little and Stars Come Out Within. Little has been partially blind since birth as a result of scars on her cornea and is frequently accompanied by a guide dog.
Elvis Pompilio.  Elvis Pompilio (born 1961) is a Belgian fashion designer who specialises in hats. He was born in Liège to a family of Italian origin.Pompilio entered business in 1987 with a workshop in Brussels where he produced designs for use in fashion shows by marques such as Dior and Valentino. In 1990 he opened a retail store in central Brussels. He later opened a store in Antwerp followed by branches in Paris and London.
Mike E. Clark.  Mike Earl Clark is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit Michigan. Clark is best known for his work with Insane Clown Posse for which he has produced nine studio albums. Clark has produced solo material for members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope in addition to contributing production to artists signed to the Psychopathic Records label founded by Insane Clown Posse.
Matt Ellis (singer songwriter).  Matt Ellis (born 28 December 1973) is a folk/ rock genre singer-songwriter who became an indie identity of critical acclaim in his hometown of Sydney Australia.
Draga Matković.  Draga Matković (also known as Draga Matković-von Auerhann; 4 November 1907 – 29 July 2013) was a contemporary German classical pianist of Croatian origin.
Youssoupha.  Youssoupha Mabiki better known by his mononym Youssoupha (French pronunciation: ​[jusuˈfa]; born in Kinshasa on 29 August 1979) is a French rapper of Congolese origin.He was born to a Congolese father and a Senegalese mother. His father was the musician and Congo-Kinshasa political figure Tabu Ley Rochereau. After passing his childhood in Congo-Kinshasa at 10 he moved to France to live with relatives in Beziers then Osny Cergy and Sartrouville.
Chor Boogie.  Chor Boogie (born Jason Lamar Hailey ) is an American spray paint artist based in San Francisco California.
Cedric Brooks.  Cedric Im Brooks (1943 – 3 May 2013) was a Jamaican saxophonist and flautist known for his solo recordings and as a member of The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari The Sound Dimensions The Light of Saba and The Skatalites.
Veronica Hart.  Jane Esther Hamilton (born October 27 1956) is an American former pornographic film actress and current pornographic film director who performed under the stage name Veronica Hart during the 1980s. She is sometimes credited as Jane Hamilton V. Hart Veronica Heart Victoria Holt Kathryn Stanleigh Randee Styles or just Veronica. Hart is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Nancy Mowll Mathews.  Nancy Mowll Mathews (born in Baltimore) is an American art historian curator and author. She was the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art from 1988 to 2010.
Peter Hollins.  Peter Hollins (1 May 1800 – 16 August 1886) was an English sculptor.He was born on 1 May 1800 in Great Hampton Street Birmingham the fourth surviving son of the sculptor and architect William Hollins. Several members of his family were involved in artistic pursuits including a cousin John Hollins the son of a Birmingham glass painter who found success as a painter of portraits and historical subjects in London.
SonReal.  Aaron Hoffman (born August 16 1985) better known by his stage name SonReal is a Vancouver-based Canadian hip hop and alternative artist signed to the Blackbox Recordings indie record label. He has released multiple free online albums in addition to the Juno Nominated commercial release The Closers with Toronto's Rich Kidd.
Zhang Yibai.  Zhang Yibai (simplified Chinese: 张一白; traditional Chinese: 張一白) (born 1963 Chongqing China) is a Chinese film director.
J-vibe.  J-vibe (born Jose Jimenez Jr in East Los Angeles California) is a composer and record producer that is known for his prolific original compositions. He is an important part of the underground West Coast rap and dance scene. He has also been a computer software programmer since he was 13 years old.J-vibe's ability to compose music in a large range of styles is one of his best known traits.
Lindsay Pagano.  Lindsay Pagano (born June 22 1986 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American singer who until 2003 was signed to Warner Brothers Records. She toured with Dream Street and Aaron Carter for several months. She also performed for the governor of California along with The Eagles and The Backstreet Boys.She is mostly known for her 2001 song Everything U R which was originally on an AOL commercial before being the theme song for the WB show Maybe It's Me. She was signed to represent Reebok.
Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra.  Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra (July 10 1616 – February 2 1668) was a Spanish Baroque painter sculptor and poet.
Mani (bass guitarist).  Gary Manny Mani Mounfield (born 16 November 1962 in Crumpsall Manchester) is an English rock bassist best known for being a member of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream. He has a distinctive playing style that combines a fast moving rock style with a dance rhythm or dub groove. During the first album of The Stone Roses period Mounfield became synonymous with a Rickenbacker 4005 Jackson Pollock-influenced paint splattered bass guitar.
Alison Levine.  Alison Levine (born April 5 1966) is an American mountain climber sportswoman explorer and entrepreneur. She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010 at age 44 she completed the Last Degree Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mt. Everest having fallen only 200 feet short in her previous attempt in 2002 as part of the 1st American Women’s Everest Expedition.
Ken Marschall.  Ken Marschall (born October 28 1950) is an American painter and illustrator notable for his paintings of famous ocean liners such as the RMS Titanic RMS Lusitania and the HMHS Britannic. His paintings have been used in many books about the Titanic most notably his depictions of the sinking of which no photographs that could be used were taken.He has served as consultant to many documentaries about the Titanic including James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss (in which he also appeared as J.
Gene Dalby.  Gene Dalby (born 1957) is a Norwegian poet.Among his poetry collections are Linedanser på piggtråd from 1979 and Øm ulv from 1990. He published the books Frostknuter in 1982 and Den tatoverte tungen in 1987.He was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1985.
Roger Ludvigsen.  Roger Ludvigsen (born 28 July 1965 in Alta) is a Sami guitarist percussionist and composer from Kautokeino.In the 1970s he was part of Ivnniguin the country's first Sami-language rock band.
Odhise Paskali.  Odhise Paskali (22 December 1903 – 13 September 1985) is one of the most acclaimed Albanian sculptors. For his contribution he was awarded the People's Artist of Albania award.
Rob Hill (producer).  Rob Hill is a music producer and engineer as well as a songwriter and musician based in Los Angeles California.Rob's production credits include: Everlast (musician) Korn Soul Assassins Xzibit Wu-Tang Clan Cypress Hill Queen Jackson Browne the Cars R.E.M. Zayra Alvarez Northern State Fuel (band) Skinhead  Rob Aston Psycho Realm Tim Armstrong Molotov (band) Depswa Tourettes (band) Transplants (band) and many more...Rob Hill worked with Elliot Scheiner on a 5.1 remix of the great R.E.M. 
Ilya Bolotowsky.  Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1 1907 – November 22 1981) was a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work a search for philosophical order through visual expression embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
H. R. Locke.  Henry Robinson Locke (1856 - 1927)was an American photographer in the 19th century who photographed the Wild West. He ran a studio in Deadwood South Dakota. He photographed the Black Hills area Deadwood Crow Indians farmers miners railroads but also Calamity Jane (1885) and the Little Big Horn battlefield (1894).
Rick Geary.  Rick Geary (born 1946 in Kansas City Missouri) is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
Aud Talle.  Aud Talle (1944 – 16 August 2011) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.She graduated as mag.art. (PhD equivalent) from the University of Oslo and as fil. dr. from Stockholm University. She was a research assistant at the University of Bergen from 1975 to 1977 lector at Stockholm University from 1990 to 1995 and professor at the University of Oslo from 1995.
Jamey Blaze.  Jamey Blaze also known by his stage name Hiimwaterdragon is an American musician music producer and singer-songwriter.
Diana Pang.  Diana Pang is a Hong Kong dancer and actress born on 10 November 1972 in Changsha Hunan.She was a member of Beijing Ballet Troupe for three years (1990). Her family moved to the USA in 1990 and she entered the Dance Faculty of Juilliard School New York City to study ballet. She won Miss China USA.She moved to Mainland China and starred in a Canadian film Chinese Chocolate (1994) then moved to Hong Kong with her debut film being Wong Jing's 1995 The Saint of the Gamblers.
Curtis Counce.  Curtis Counce (January 23 1926 – July 31 1963) was an American hard bop and West Coast jazz double bassist.
Ary Toledo.  Ary Christoni de Toledo Piza (born August 22 1937) commonly known as Ary Toledo is a Brazilian humorist singer lyricist and actor.
Andy Simpkins.  Andy Simpkins (April 29 1932 - June 2 1999) was an American jazz bassist. Born Andrew Simpkins in Richmond Indiana he first became known as a member of the group The Three Sounds with which he performed from 1956 to 1968. After that until 1974 he was a member of pianist George Shearing's group and from 1979 to 1989 toured with singer Sarah Vaughan.
Barbro Lindgren.  Barbro Lindgren (born 18 March 1937) is a Swedish writer of children's books. For her lasting contribution as a children's writer Lindgren was a finalist for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Ten years later she won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The biggest cash prize in children's and young-adult literature it rewards a writer illustrator oral storyteller or reading promoter for its entire body of work.
Bert Gabriëls.  Bert Gabriëls (1973) is a Belgian stand-up comedian with his own award-winning television show. Though he started his career with an atypical background (Master in Law and Anthropology and Philosophy) he quickly discovered his passion for the performing arts and enrolled at the Academy of Dramatic Arts of Maastricht where he learned to be a director.
Peter Oliva.  Peter Oliva is a Canadian novelist who lives in Calgary Alberta.His first novel Drowning in Darkness (1993) won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and was shortlisted for a Bressani Prize. The book is set in the Crowsnest Pass of southern Alberta and in Calabria Italy.
Jeremias Gotthelf.  Albert Bitzius (October 4 1797 – October 22 1854) was a Swiss novelist best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf.
Elliott Schwartz.  Elliott Schwartz (born January 19 1936) is an American composer. A graduate of Columbia University he was Beckwith Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College joining the faculty in 1964. In 2006 the Library of Congress acquired his papers to make them part of their permanent collection.
Rusdi Genest.  Rusdi Genest (RCA) (1939 in Sherbrooke Quebec) is a Quebec sculptor known for his symbolic surrealistic art bronzes by lost-wax casting process and for his hand-pressed mural reliefs in fine art papermaking. He was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2013.
Hu Ge (actor).  Hu Ge (born 20 September 1982 in Shanghai China) is a Chinese actor and singer. While he was studying at the Shanghai Theater Academy he was invited to play the leading role Li Xiaoyao in the 2004 television series Chinese Paladin and is still best known by this classic role of his. In September 2012 he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 31st Hundred Flowers Awards for his role as Lin Juemin in Chinese historical film 1911.
Jessica Hall (British actress).  Jessica Hall is an English actress.
Vijay Iyer.  Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist composer bandleader producer electronic musician and writer based in New York City USA. He became a professor of music at Harvard University in early 2014.
Bubbi Morthens.  Bubbi Morthens (born June 6 1956 in Reykjavík Iceland) is an Icelandic singer and songwriter. His given name is Ásbjörn Kristinsson Morthens called Bubbi as it is a common affectionate form of Ásbjörn. Besides a lengthy solo career he has been a member of numerous Icelandic bands notably Utangarðsmenn Egó Das Kapital MX-21 and G.C.D. He is one of the bestselling Icelandic musicians of all time but he has received little attention outside of the country.
Ben Faulks.  Ben Faulks is an actor and writer from Cornwall best known for his role as Mr Bloom in the CBeebies children's television show Mr Bloom's Nursery. He was born on 13 March 1979 in Truro.Faulks was educated at Bretton Hall School of Dance & Drama (now part of the University of Leeds) where he earned a degree in theatre acting.
Farrah Yousef.  Farrah Yousef (Arabic: فرح يوسف‎) (born July 20 1989) is a Syrian singer who was the first runner-up on the second season of the television program Arab Idol in 2013.
Philip Bynoe.  Three-time Grammy nominee and Emmy Award-winning bassist Philip Earl Bynoe is a prolific recording and touring musician.
Gesang Martohartono.  Gesang Martohartono (1 October 1917 – 20 May 2010) was a renowned Indonesian singer-songwriter from central Java. He is the composer of the Bengawan Solo a tune which has become famous throughout Indonesia Japan much of Asia and some other countries. The song is almost synonymous with the kroncong style of Javanese music. Martohartono was most commonly known simply as Gesang.Gesang was born in the central Javanese city of Surakarta (Solo).
Jacques Lanzmann.  Jacques Lanzmann (4 May 1927 Bois-Colombes Hauts-de-Seine – 21 June 2006 Paris) was a French writer scriptwriter and lyric writer. He was the brother of Claude Lanzmann.
Rupert Gregson-Williams.  Rupert Gregson-Williams (born 1966 England) is an award winning British film score composer.
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano.  Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (b. Mexico City 1894/1897? – d. Mexico City March 27 1971) was a Mexican painter known for his “melancholy” depiction of Mexico rather than the more dominant political or festive one of the Mexican muralism movement. This is especially true of his “white stage” which is marked by cold colors and tragic scenes focusing on human figures which are skeletal or ghost-like. His work influenced Mexican films such as La perla.
Hitomi Takahashi (singer).  Hitomi Takahashi (高橋 瞳 Takahashi Hitomi born April 8 1989) is a Japanese pop rock singer from Shiogama Miyagi. With her first single Bokutachi no Yukue released in 2005 she became the third artist in History of Japan to top the charts with a debut single.
Betty Guy.  Betty Guy is a 20th-21st century American artist most notable for her work in watercolor landscapes.
Alice Gore King.  Alice Gore King (July 17 1914 - May 26 2007) was a women’s rights entrepreneur educator writer artist and a native New Yorker. Alice grew up and spent much of her life working in New York City where she became the chairman of the Remedial Reading Department and later assistant head of the prestigious Brearley School an all girls private school on the Upper East Side.
Patrick H. Adkins.  Patrick H. Adkins (born 1948) is an American fantasy author and editor best known for his mythological fantasies.In addition to his writing he has worked as a bookseller small press publisher 'slush pile' reader for Galaxy magazine medical and technical editor and writer freelance writer story doctor ghost writer editor-in-chief of a multimedia publishing company and software expert. Together with fellow science fiction fan John H.
Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle.  Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle (Devanagari: नागनाथ लालूजीराव कोत्तापल्ले) is an educationist and Marathi writer from Maharashtra India. Currently he is the vice chancellor of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University whose seat is in Aurangabad Maharashtra. He is elected as a president of 86th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan scheduled to be held at Chiplun.
Mario Escudero.  Mario Escudero Valero Jiménez Valverde (October 11 1928 – November 19 2004) was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s.
Destini Beard.  Destini Beard is an American singer and songwriter based out of Pennsylvania. She works mostly in Alternative and New Age music and is best known for her work with the group Midnight Syndicate. Her father Ed Beard Jr. is a world-famous Fantasy Artist and provides the cover art for Destini's works.
Beth Schacter.  Beth Schacter is an American film director screenwriter and journalist. She is best kown for her debut feature Normal Adolescent Behavior which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007. Schacter studied screenwriting at Columbia University where she was a Film Foundation Scholar and Hearst Award winner. She graduated with an MFA.
Nacci Alberto.  Alberto Nacci was born in Trapani in 1957. A projectual musician boasting long experience in the field of jazz during the recent years he has moved onto boundary territories: he works for art dance theatre videoart.
Clara van Wel.  Clara van Wel (born 5 August 1997) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter best known for winning series two of New Zealand's Got Talent.
John Home.  John Home FRSE (13 September 1722 – 4 September 1808) was a Scottish minister and writer.
Dorothy Mackie Low.  Lois Dorothea Low née Pilkington (b. 15 July 1916 in Edinburgh Scotland UK - d. 8 November 2002 in Hampshire England UK) was a British writer of romance novels from 1962 to 1983 under different pseudonyms Dorothy Mackie Low Lois Paxton and Zoë Cass.She was elected the fifth Chairman (1969–1971) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and also was a former Vice-President.
Peter Wishart (composer).  Peter Charles Arthur Wishart (25 June 1921 – 14 August 1984) was an English composer. Wishart was born in Crowborough. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1947-1948 and taught at the Guildhall School of Music Birmingham University King's College London and Reading University where he was Professor of Music from 1977. His compositions include several neo-classical operas orchestral and chamber pieces and a large amount of church music.
Jon de Mello.  Jon de Mello born in Honolulu HI and raised in Waikiki Hawaii is an American record producer manager composer artist very famous for producing Israel IZ Kamakawiwoʻole.
Tragedy Khadafi.  Percy Chapman IV (born August 13 1971 in Queens New York USA) known by his stage name Tragedy Khadafi and formerly known as Intelligent Hoodlum is an American rapper and producer who hails from the Queensbridge Housing Projects in Queens New York who helped spawn other hip hop artists such as Nas Cormega Mobb Deep Capone-N-Noreaga and many others both through production and influence.
Elaine Bradley.  Elaine Bradley (born October 19 1984) is the drummer for the American rock band Neon Trees.
Rolf Brem.  Rolf Brem (12 February 1926 – 11 April 2014) was a Swiss sculptor illustrator and graphic artist. He worked in Meggen close to Lake Lucerne.
Arthur Henry Neumann.  Arthur Henry Neumann (12 June 1850 – 29 May 1907) was a British explorer hunter soldier farmer and travel writer famous for his exploits in Equatorial East Africa. In 1898 he published Elephant Hunting In East Equatorial Africa.
Hyun Jin-geon.  Hyun Jin-geon (August 9 1900 – April 25 1943) (Hangul: 현진건) was a South Korean writer
Khushwant Singh.  Khushwant Singh (February 2 1915 – March 20 2014) was an Indian novelist lawyer politician and journalist. An Indo-Anglian writer Singh was best known for his trenchant secularism his humor and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as the editor of several literary and news magazines as well as two newspapers through the 1970s and 1980s.
Claude France.  Claude France (March 9 1893 – January 3 1928)born in Emden Germany; was a German-born French actress.
Jack Wall (composer).  Jack Wall (born 1964 in Phoenixville Pennsylvania) is an American video game music composer. He has worked on video game music for over 20 games including the Myst franchise Splinter Cell Jade Empire Mass Effect and Call of Duty. Wall earned a degree in civil engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and after a brief stint working in civil engineering transitioned into music production.
Belladonna (actress).  Belladonna (born Michelle Anne Sinclair on May 21 1981) is an American former pornographic actress and producer.
Efrat Natan.  Efrat Nathan is an Israeli artist.
Brian Rudman.  Brian Rudman is a journalist and regular editorial contributor to The New Zealand Herald New Zealand's largest daily newspaper. He has his own column 'Rudman's City' where he mainly focuses on issues relating to Auckland (New Zealand's largest city) its growth public projects policies and politicians. He is also active in related events and public discussions.Rudman's views are often controversial and comparatively blunt.
Ronnie Shakes.  Ronnie Shakes (born Ronald Michael Sakele; 21 February 1947–16 May 1987) was a stand up comedian who made seven appearances on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1984 to 1987. Shakes died at age 40 of a heart attack while jogging.
Batu Siharulidze.  Batu Siharulidze (born in the Republic of Georgia 7 May 1960) is an American artist most widely known for his abstract figurative sculptures. He now lives in Boston Massachusetts where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Boston University.
Kaori Moriwaka.  Kaori Moriwaka (森若香織 Moriwaka Kaori born December 11 1963 in Sapporo Hokkaido) is a singer-songwriter and actress. She was in the band The Go-Bang's and Ram Jam World; more recently she portrayed Ikuko Tsukino in the live-action TV series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. She also wrote songs and played the guitar as a back musician for Japanese girl band Chee's.
Edvard Kocbek.  Edvard Kocbek (About this sound pronunciation ) (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian poet writer essayist translator member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered as one of the best authors who have written in Slovene and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.
John Kellette.  John Kellette (June 1873 – August 7 1922) was an American songwriter. Kellette's most famous composition was I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles introduced in the musical revue The Passing Show of 1918 which he wrote with James Brockman James Kendis and Nat Vincent. He also worked as a film director and acted in the films A Child of the Wild and Mercy on a Crutch.
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.  Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer son of Miami musician and teacher Dr. Ruth W. Greenfield. The majority of his work is shot in large format.He has photographed Orson Welles Alfred Hitchcock Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford George H. W. Bush George W. Bush Barack Obama Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sonia Sotomayor Sandra Day O'Connor Madeleine Albright Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton.
William Henry Hitchener.  William Henry Hitchener is a British author.He had two book] published in 1813 St. Leonard’s Forest Vol 1.2 (London Chapple 1813 ISBN 3-628-47673-9) and The Tower of Ravenwold Vol 1.2 (London Chapple 1813 ISBN 3-628-47674-7). Both books are travel books.
Elsa Fraenkel.  Elsa Fraenkel née Rothschild (1892–1975) was a German–born British sculptor raised in Heidelberg Germany.
Ryo Kawakita.  Ryo Kawakita (川北 亮 Kawakita Ryō born December 13 1978) also known as Maximum the Ryo (マキシマムザ亮君 Makishimamu Za Ryō-kun) is the guitarist songwriter and singer of Japanese metal band Maximum the Hormone.
Hanns Georgi.  Hanns Georgi (September 21 1901 – October 23 1989) was a German painter printmaker and book illustrator.
Matan Cohen.  Matan Cohen (born February 8 1982) is an Israeli musician best known for his work as the guitarist for successful groove/metalcore band Betzefer and the recently reunited melodic death metal band Nail Within. Cohen is also a frequent collaborator of comedy punk rock act Bo La'Bar featuring his Nail Within co-members Evil Haim and Useless ID members Ishay Berger and Jonathan Harpak.
Francesco Sozzi.  Francesco Sozzi (26 October 1732 - 1795) was an Italian painter considered the most graceful painter of Palermitan rococo.He was the son of Olivo Sozzi and the brother-in-law of Vito D'Anna.
Anna Rose Kessler Moore.  Anna Rose (born August 6) also known by the name Menaga Miss is an American pop rock singer songwriter and actress.
George Faulkner Wetherbee.  George Faulkner Wetherbee R.I. R.O.I. (Cincinnati 1851–1920) was a notable painter. He lived for most of his life in England. Born in Cincinnati his early talent was evident and he was sent to Europe to study in art schools at Antwerp then London. He then lived in various countries on the continent of Europe and frequently visited the West Indies to paint there.
Zvonko Bogdan.  Zvonko Bogdan (Cyrillic: Звонко Богдан; born January 5 1942) is an eminent performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia Croatia Hungary and Romania best known for singing about the Bunjevci. Apart from being famous as a singer he is also a composer painter and harness racer.
David Biespiel.  David Biespiel (born February 18 1964) is an American poet who was born in Tulsa Oklahoma raised in Houston Texas and educated at Boston University University of Maryland and Stanford University. He is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland Oregon an independent literary studio.
András Fáy.  András Fáy (30 May 1786 – 26 July 1864) Slovak: Andrej Fáy was a Hungarian author lawyer politician and businessman.
Tiennick Kerevel.  Tiennick Kerevel (born February 27 1956 in the city of Kinshasa Congo) is a French painter. He lives and works in Marseille since the 1980s where he teaches drawing and painting in his studio.He was appointed Official Painter of the French Air Force in 2008. He has received several awards including the French Air force Staff Award in 2011.
Columpa Bobb.  Columpa C. Bobb (born 1971) is a Canadian photographer actress playwright poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing writing plays and teaching for 20 years.She has written over a dozen plays that have been produced across Canada and overseas including Jumping Mouse (co-written with Marion deVries) a play for young audiences was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award and a James Buller Award.
Hiromi Yanagihara.  Hiromi Yanagihara (柳原 尋美 Yanagihara Hiromi October 19 1979 – July 16 1999) was a founding member of Hello! Project J-pop group Country Musume. She joined Country Musume in 1999 along with Rinne Toda and Azusa Kobayashi. On July 16 1999 Yanagihara was killed in a car accident one week before the group's first release Futari no Hokkaidou on July 23 1999. She is the only Hello! Project member past or present to die.
Elín Ortíz.  Elín Ortíz (born December 14 1934 in Ponce) is a Puerto Rican actor comedian and producer.
Alan Wilder.  Alan Charles Wilder (born 1 June 1959) is a British musician formerly of Depeche Mode in which his role as a musician and producer was pivotal. His current musical project is called Recoil started as a side project to Depeche Mode. When he left the latter in 1995 it became Wilder's primary project. Wilder has also provided production and remixing services to the bands Nitzer Ebb and Curve.He is a classically trained musician and renowned contemporary music producer.
Fergus Hall.  Fergus Hall is a Scottish artist whose work has been exhibited at among other venues the Portal Gallery in London.
Werner Haas (pianist).  Werner Haas (March 3 1931 – October 11 1976) was a German classical pianist. He was known for his performances of early 20th century compositions particularly those of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. He had a wide repertoire that also included works by Frédéric Chopin Ludwig van Beethoven Sergei Prokofiev Dmitry Kabalevsky and the complete works for piano and orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.He was born in Stuttgart Germany and attended the Stuttgart Academy of Music.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun.  Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13 1926 – October 9 2003) was an American academic and prolific feminist author of both important academic studies and popular mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.
Chad Sweeney.  Chad Sweeney (born 1970) is an American poet translator and editor.
Patrick Heron (author).  Patrick Heron (2 February 1952 – 2 January 2014) was an Irish author born and raised in Dublin Ireland. He became interested in bible prophecy concerning the end times around 1996.His first book Apocalypse Soon was published in 1997 and became a bestseller in Ireland. Heron believed his book The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse is the first ever book proving who built the pyramids and why.
Shiho Kawaragi.  Shiho Kawaragi (河原木 志穂 Kawaragi Shiho born April 29 1976 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Kenyu-Office. When voicing adult games and hentai OVAs she is also known as Kaname Yuzuki (柚木かなめ Yuzuki Kaname) She is currently married since March 2012.
Jeremiah Meyer.  Jeremiah Meyer RA (born Jeremias Majer; 1735–1789) was an 18th-century English miniature painter. He was Painter in Miniatures and Enamels to King George III. He was one of the founder members of the Royal Academy.
Anne-Sophie Mutter.  Anne-Sophie Mutter (born June 29 1963) is a German violinist. Supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan she has built a strong reputation for championing contemporary music with several works being composed specially for her including by Henri Dutilleux Krzysztof Penderecki Witold Lutosławski Wolfgang Rihm André Previn and Sofia Gubaidulina.
D. Iacobescu.  D. Iacobescu or Dumitru Iacobescu (Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru jakoˈbesku]; born Armand Iacobsohn; 1893 – October 9 1913) was a Romanian Symbolist poet. His literary activity only lasted about two years between his high school graduation and his death from tuberculosis but made him a critically acclaimed presence inside Romania's Symbolist movement. Much of Iacobescu's work remained unpublished during his lifetime and survived as autographed notebooks.
Frédéric Samuel Cordey.  Frédéric Samuel Cordey (1854 - 1911) was a French landscape painter who was a part of the Impressionist movement. He was a close friend of Auguste Renoir and had a personal fortune that allowed him to work according to his taste regardless of the publicity and support provided by art dealers.
Paul Höffer.  Paul Höffer (21 December 1895 – 31 August 1949) was a German composer.He was born in Barmen and died in Berlin.In 1936 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Olympischer Schwur (Olympic Vow). His works also include a solo violin sonata (Op. 18 1931).
Luke Morley.  Luke Morley (born 19 June 1960 in Camberwell London England) is the lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the rock band The Union. From 1989 to 2009 (with a break from 1999–2002) he was the guitarist chief songwriter and producer for the hard rock band Thunder. Previous to that he was a member of 1980s group Terraplane who subsequently became Thunder.
Emil Isac.  Emil Isac (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈmil iˈsak]; May 27 1886 – March 25 1954) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian poet dramatist short story writer and critic. Noted as one of the pioneers of Symbolism and modernist literature in his native region of Transylvania he was in tandem one of the leading young voices of the Symbolist movement in the neighboring Kingdom of Romania.
Peter Martin (jazz pianist).  Peter Martin (born 1970) is an American jazz pianist. He was born in St. Louis Missouri and currently resides there. He has released two albums on the Max Jazz label Something Unexpected (2001) and In The P.M. (2005).
Eduardo Muñoz Bachs.  Eduardo Munoz Bachs (1937–2001) was a Cuban poster artist. He was born on April 12 1937 in Valencia Spain but moved to Cuba with his parents in 1941. In 1960 with no formal training in graphic design he made the first poster for the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) that was founded shortly after the Cuban revolution to produce and promote Cuban films.The association with ICAIC lasted for a lifetime and Bachs made over 2000 movie posters for them.
Natalie Fox.  Natalie Guilar better known by her pen name Natalie Fox was a popular writer of 26 romance novels from 1991 to 2002. In 1997 she won the Preston Citizen's book of the year award for Passion With Intent and since then her books have been translated into many languages.
Archie Bell (singer).  Archie Lee Bell (born September 1 1944 Henderson Texas United States) is an African-American solo singer and former lead singer of Archie Bell & the Drells.
Michelangelo Falvetti.  Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692) was an Italian Baroque composer as well as a Catholic priest. Falvetti was born in Melicuccà in Calabria Southern Italy on December 29 1642 but spent most of his life and musical career in Sicily. In 1670 he became Maestro di cappella in Palermo and in 1679 founded the 'Unione dei Musici' in that city. In or around 1682 he moved to Messina where he was named Maestro di Cappella del Senato di Messina. Falvetti died in Messina in 1692.
Didier Lefèvre.  Didier Lefèvre was a French photojournalist who was born on 19 December 1957 and died on 29 January 2007. His photos have appeared in many French magazines including L'Express and Éditions Ouest France.He was best known for co-authoring the book The Photographer which recounts his travels with a Médecins Sans Frontières mission into war torn Afghanistan.
Kat DeLuna.  Kathleen Kat Emperatriz DeLuna (born November 17 1987) is an American R&B singer-songwriter recording artist and dancer. Born in The Bronx to Dominican parents DeLuna began pursuing a career as a singer when she was a teenager. After signing with Epic Records she released her debut single Whine Up in 2007. The single went on to become a commercial success entering the Top 40 in numerous countries and topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Brad Wright.  Brad Wright is a Canadian television producer screenwriter and actor. He is best known as the creator or co-creator of the television series Stargate SG-1 (with Jonathan Glassner) Stargate Atlantis (with Robert C. Cooper) and Stargate Universe (also with Cooper). He was born in Toronto Ontario Canada.Before the inception of the Stargate franchise he served as the co-executive producer and a writer of The Outer Limits.
Eileen Napaltjarri.  Eileen Napaltjarri (born 1956) is a Pintupi-speaking indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Eileen Napaltjarri also known as Anyima Napaltjarri or Nanyuma Napaltjarri began painting for Papunya Tula artists' cooperative in 1996. She was named as one of Australian Art Collector magazine's 50 Most Collectible artists in 2008; her works are held by the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Sara Gran.  Sara Gran (born 1971) is an American author.
Lou Schuler.  Lou Schuler (born January 23 1957 in St. Louis Missouri) is a fitness journalist and author or coauthor of several books on men's health and exercise.
Paul Neebe.  Paul Neebe is an American classical trumpeter who performs widely as a soloist orchestral musician and chamber player. He currently serves as principal trumpet of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra Wintergreen Festival Orchestra and the Charlottesville University Symphony Orchestra in Virginia.
Holly Ross.  Holly Ross was the guitarist and lead vocalist from Angelica; an all-female punk rock band from Lancaster England.Her singing was described as soft as butter Lancastrian tones.Since the split of Angelica in 2002 Ross concentrated on her personal life and career until returning to music in 2006 with a new band formed with husband David Blackwell called The Lovely Eggs.
Loren Singer.  For the JAG character see Lieutenant Loren Singer USN (JAGC).Loren Adelson Singer (5 March 1923 Buffalo New York – 19 December 2009 Valhalla New York) was an American novelist known best for his 1970 political thriller The Parallax View which was made as a successful 1974 movie of the same name.Singer was born in Buffalo New York on March 5 1923. After he completed high school he enlisted with the United States Army.
Abul Bashar.  Abul Bashar (Bengali: আবুল বাশার) is a popular Bengali writer from the state of West Bengal in India. He was born in 1951 in Hamarpur in Murshidabad district.Bashar is known for his Left-leaning stance and secularism (needs source).
Richard Hunt (artist).  Richard Hunt (born 1951) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly Kwakiutl) nation of coastal British Columbia.He was born in 1951 at Alert Bay B.C. but has lived most of his life in Victoria B.C. On his father's side he is a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt.
Dezarie.  Dezarie is a female roots reggae singer born in St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands. She received Atlanta's Best New Female Reggae Artist award in 2001 before returning to St. Croix. She works closely with Midnite. She currently has four albums available. They are entitled Fya (I Grade Records) Gracious Mama Africa Eaze The Pain and her most recent is entitled The Fourth Book.
Mista Grimm.  Rojai Trawick better known as Mista Grimm is a rapper formerly signed to Epic Records' sub-label 550 Music. Grimm's first release was the 1993 single Indo Smoke featuring Warren G and Nate Dogg from the Poetic Justice soundtrack. The following year Grimm released a single entitled Situation: Grimm that appeared on the Higher Learning soundtrack.
Sarat Chandra Goswami.  Sarat Chandra Goswami (Assamese: শৰত্‍ চন্দ্ৰ গোস্বামী; 1887-1944) was an prominent writer of Assam who basically enriched the Assamese literature with his short stories. Goswami was a founder member of Asam Sahitya Sabha and elected as a Secretary of the Sabha for the first time. He continued in the same post from 1920 to 1927.
David Mahler.  David Mahler is a hammered dulcimer player from Texas United States.Mahler won first place in the 2004 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield Kansas. (Mahler is the youngest national champion in the history of this competition.)
Barbara Leonie Picard.  Barbara Leonie Picard (17 December 1917 – 15 December 2011) was a British writer of children's books known best for historical fiction and for retellings of ancient myths and medieval legends. Her works were meticulously researched. She also wrote original fairy tales. Three of her books were commended runners up for the annual British Carnegie Medal one collection of her fairy tales and two historical novels.
Fisher Tull.  Fisher Aubrey Tull Jr. (September 23 1934–August 23 1994) known professionally as Fisher A. Tull aka Mickey Tull was an American composer arranger educator administrator and trumpeter.
Deborah Chester.  Deborah Chester (born 1957) is an American author of over 35 books primarily science fiction and fantasy novels. She currently holds the John Crain Presidential Professorship at the University of Oklahoma teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses on writing style and structure in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.Chester began her career penning romance novels but eventually moved into a variety of genres including adult fiction science fiction and fantasy.
Gian Barbarona.  Gian Karl G. Barbarona (born December 3 1993) is a young Filipino singer who was the 1st runner-up (2nd Honor) on the first season of ABS-CBN's Little Big Star.
Adeline Hayden Coffin.  Adeline Hayden Coffin (born June 20 1863) was a German-born British actress. Her birth name was Adeline de Leuw. She first married the composer Alberto Randegger from whom she divorce in 1892 then the actor Hayden Coffin.
Jonah Jones.  Jonah Jones (born Robert Elliott Jones; December 31 1909 – April 29 2000) was a jazz trumpeter who created concise versions of jazz and swing and jazz standards that appealed to a mass audience. In the jazz community it can be argued that he might be best appreciated for his work with Stuff Smith. He was sometimes referred to as King Louis II a reference to Louis Armstrong. Jones started playing alto saxophone at the age of 12 in the Booker T.
Cootie Williams.  Charles Melvin Cootie Williams (July 10 1911 – September 15 1985) was an American jazz jump blues and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
David Buckley.  David Buckley (born in London on 7 June 1976) is a British film score composer.Buckley is best known for working with composer Harry Gregson-Williams including work on the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots.
J. D. Allen III.  J.D. Allen III (born December 11 1972 Detroit Michigan) is a jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.
José Trajano Mera.  José Trajano Mera Iturralde (Ambato 1862 - Guayaquil 1919) was an Ecuadorian poet playwright and diplomat from a literary family with a cultural lineage. His father was the writer Juan Leon Mera who wrote Ecuador's first novel Cumanda and the text of the Ecuadorian National Anthem.He earned a degree in jurisprudence from the Central University of Ecuador. He died in Guayaquil in 1919 while holding the position of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
Terry Scales.  Terry Scales (born 1933 in Rotherhithe South London) is a painter and writer. The River Thames and the Docklands are major influences upon his work.
Brenda Best.  Brenda Best is a Nashville based singer songwriter entertainer; She is an ASCAP award winning songwriter 2011 as well as a four-times NIMA winner (Nashville Independent Music Awards) 2012-2013. She is an active member of The Country Music Association (CMA) and The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and a voting member of The Grammys (NARAS).
Michael Stöckigt.  Michael Stöckigt (born 1957) is a German composer and pianist. His father is the famous East German pianist Siegfried Stöckigt. In 1973 Michael Stöckigt became a master student in composition of Günter Kochan at the Berlin College of Music Hanns Eisler. He was awarded in Australia Austria (International Composition Competition 1981) and Italy. Today he is a docent in Berlin and at the University of Music and Theatre in Rostock. As a pianist he performed in France Syria and the Netherlands.
Anthony Saidy.  Anthony Saidy (born May 16 1937) is an International Master of chess. He has played many times in the U.S. Chess Championship. He won the 1960 Canadian Open Chess Championship. He is the author of several chess books including The Battle of Chess Ideas and The World of Chess (with Norman Lessing).
Simon Evans (writer).  Simon Evans (10 August 1895 – 9 August 1940) a postman with the GPO (now Royal Mail) for most of his short life also developed a reputation in the 1930s as a writer and broadcaster on country life particularly in and around rural South Shropshire. He had five books published by Heath Cranton Ltd within a seven-year span (1931–38) before his death in 1940.
David Cantine.  David Cantine (1939 – ) is a Canadian painter best known for consistently painting pictures using the same composition for the last forty years of his career.Cantine was born in Jackson Michigan and went to school at the University of Iowa earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 and a Master of Arts degree in 1964.
Kieran Goss.  Kieran Goss is an Irish contemporary singer-songwriter.
Leslie Smith III.  Leslie Smith III (born 1985 in Silver Spring Maryland) is a contemporary African American visual artist. He currently lives and works in Madison Wisconsin.
Kōji Tsujitani.  Kōji Tsujitani (辻谷 耕史 Tsujitani Kōji born April 26 1962 in Kodaira Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor credited for voicing many anime and video game characters. Tsujitani is formerly affiliated with Sigma Seven. He is currently married with Kumiko Watanabe
Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson.  Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson (28 June 1955 – 21 November 2008) was a Norwegian poet children's writer and translator born in Iceland.He made his literary debut in 1973 with the poetry collection Manus. Among his children's books are Pelle Parafins Bøljeband: Serum serum (1981) and Håkon Håkonsson (1990). He died in November 2008.
Benita Farmer.  Benita Farmer (born September 26 1975 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American gospel singer songwriter musician and instructor. She is the founder of the group Benita Farmer & New Journey.
Alexander Tolstoy.  Alexander Tolstoy (born July 1 1969 in Lidingö Stockholm County) is a Swedish actor. Tolstoy is best known for his role as Philip Gripenhielm in the TV series Nya tider (1999–2000). Alexander is younger brother to the actress Sophie Tolstoy.
Mathur Krishnamurthy.  Mathoor Krishnamurthy was a Kannada writer and former Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Bangalore. He was also instrumental in establishing the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London. He was a Padma Shri awardee. He died on 6 October 2011 at the age of 82.
George Lowe.  George Edward Lowe (born November 10 1958) is an American voice actor/comedian. He is perhaps best known for his role as the voice of Space Ghost on the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast a role which he played for all 110 episodes spanning fourteen years before the series ended in 2008 along with its spin-off Cartoon Planet.
Joshua Bryant.  Joshua Josh Bryant (born Emmett A. Bryant on May 30 1939 in Portsmouth Virginia) is an actor and author. He has starred guest-starred and appeared in dozens of television shows and motion pictures. He is most often recognized as Scully from M*A*S*H. He also had a guest performance on the television classic Little House on the Prairie playing Ms. Eva Beadle's boyfriend-turned-husband Adam Simms.
Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen.  Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen (9 July 1903 – 7 January 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor who was killed during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.His father Ingolf Ingebrethsen was a long-time editor of the newspaper Flekkefjordsposten. After the German invasion of Norway the newspaper showed an uncooperative attitude towards the authorities.
Hilda D. Oakeley.  Hilda Diana Oakeley (12 October 1867 - 7 October 1950) was a British philosopher educationalist and author. She was the daughter of Sir Evelyn Oakeley. She was president of the Aristotelian Society.
Wreckless Eric.  Eric Goulden (born 18 May 1954 Newhaven East Sussex England) known as Wreckless Eric is an English rock and roll/new wave singer-songwriter best known for his 1977 single (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release the song was included in Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time. It was also acclaimed as one of the top 40 singles of the alternative era 1975–2000.
Mike DeStefano.  Mike DeStefano (November 29 1966 – March 6 2011) was an American stand-up comedian. He used material from his heroin addiction which began at age 15 and his recovery in brutally honest profanity-laced routines. He also was a drug counselor to others.
Leck (rapper).  Leck also styled L.E.C.K. and also known by his birth name Fouad (born in Vitry-sur-Seine France on 23 September 1988) is a French hip hop artist and rapper of Moroccan origin signed to Believe Recordings.
Roberto Calasso.  Roberto Calasso (born 30 May 1941 in Florence) is an Italian writer and publisher.
Chris Evans (author).  Chris Evans' born in Toronto Canada and currently residing in New York United States is a fantasy author. His debut book A Darkness Forged in Fire was the first book of the Iron Elves Trilogy.
György Galántai.  György Galántai (born June 17 1941) is a Hungarian neo-avant-garde and fluxus artist organizer of the events of the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár which run from 1970 to 1973 and founder of the Artpool Art Research Center Budapest.
Luigi Waites.  Luigi Waites (July 10 1927 – April 6 2010) was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist from Omaha Nebraska. He performed weekly gigs in the Omaha area both solo and with ensembles such as Luigi Inc. He served the Omaha music community for over 60 years. He toured Europe twice and performed with jazz legends such as Sarah Vaughan Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. Luigi Inc has shared the stage with Jean-Luc Ponty James Brown and Dizzy Gillespie.
Derrick Wright.  Derrick Wright (born 1928) is a British author specializing in military history and particularly battles in the Pacific against the Japanese in World War II. He grew up in Teesside an area in the North East of England which was repeatedly bombed by German forces during the war. After completing his National Service in the British Army during the late 1940s he went on to become an ultrasonics engineer. After his retirement he was able to fully indulge his fascination in World War II.
Tamas Dobozy.  Tamas Dobozy is a Canadian writer and current teacher at Laurier University. He won the 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize worth CA$25000 for his book of short stories Siege 13 which was also shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General's Awards.
Véronique Béliveau.  Véronique Béliveau (born January 24 1955 in Montreal Quebec) originally Nicole Monique is a Canadian actress and pop/rock singer who was nominated for a 1987 Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year. Her first full-length album was Prends-moi comme je suis in 1977. Her first English language album was Borderline in 1987 which was released under the single name Veronique.
Sindee Coxx.  Sindee Coxx (born in Long Island USA) is a pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 1995 doing only girl–girl scenes at first but later expanded into boy–girl where she began expanding into interracial videos. In 2000 Coxx married AVN Hall of Fame cameraman Barry Wood and as of December 2003 she was pregnant.
Ary Scheffer.  Ary Scheffer (10 February 1795 – 15 June 1858) was a Dutch - French Romantic painter.
Bjørn Kjellemyr.  Bjørn Kjellemyr (born 4 December 1950 in Bamble Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (double bass) known from a variety of musical contexts like Terje Rypdal & The Chasers Joe Henderson Bob Berg Chet Baker Art Farmer Pat Metheny Mike Stern Dag Arnesen Knut Riisnæs Jon Eberson Bugge Wesseltoft Audun Kleive Jon Balke Jan Gunnar Hoff and Ketil Bjørnstad.
Grafh.  Grafh born Philip Bernard is an American rapper from the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens New York. He has released a collection of mixtapes and an album Autografh which was released through EMI Records/Virgin Records. He is currently an independent artist.Grafh has also been supported by several well-known artists including Drake Trinidad James and Raekwon.
Brannen Temple.  Brannen Temple is an American drummer who is best known as a drummer for acts like Eric Burdon Robben Ford and currently Lizz Wright.He started playing drums at the age of 10 soon to play in school jazz bands.Since the early 1990s Temple is an accomplished session drummer and played on records by Chris Duarte Patrice Rushen Chris Smither Abra Moore Stephen Bruton Jody Watley Alejandro Escovedo amongst others.
Jane Assimakopoulos.  Jane A. Assimakopoulos is an American-born writer and translator who lives in Ioannina Greece.
Jacqueline Deaner.  Jacqueline Nicole Deaner (born 1979) is model and beauty pageant title-holder from El Paso Texas. Jackie was crowned Miss New Mexico USA 2005 in late 2004. It was her first attempt at this title and 4th attempt at a state title (she previously competed in the equivalent Miss Texas USA pageant).Jackie placed in the Top 12 at the 2000 Miss Texas USA pageant and also competed in the state's '01 and '02 competitions.
Gary P. Nunn.  Gary P. Nunn is an American country music singer and songwriter. One of his most famous songs is London Homesick Blues which has been used as the theme song for the popular television show Austin City Limits for two decades. Nunn is also considered the father of the progressive country scene that started in Austin in the early '70s.
Thomas von Nathusius.  Thomas von Nathusius (Althaldensleben 1866 – Stettin 1904) was a German landscape and animal painter. The youngest son of Heinrich von Nathusius he was grandson to Johann Gottlob Nathusius nephew to Hermann von Nathusius and first cousin to the portrait painter Susanne von Nathusius. His paintings of animals were used to illustrate a four-volume atlas of the races and forms of domesticated animals in collaboration with his brother Simon von Nathusius.
Nitin Sawhney.  Nitin Sawhney (born 1964) is a British Indian musician producer and composer. His work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism politics and spirituality. Sawhney is also active in the promotion of arts and cultural matters and is a patron of numerous film festivals venues and educational institutions.
Julie Plec.  Julie Plec (born May 26 1972) is an American television producer and writer known for her work on the CW television series The Vampire Diaries which she co-created with Kevin Williamson and its spin-off The Originals.
Syam Sudhakar.  Syam Sudhakar (born October 16 1983) is a poet from Kerala India. He writes poems in Malayalam his native language. His poems have been translated into English and Tamil. His first publication was the anthology Earpam (Damp). This was followed by Syam Sudhakar Kavithaikal (Poems of Syam Sudhakar) translated into Tamil by the Tamil writer Yuma Vasuki. He has also published a number of poems and articles in leading magazines and journals both in India and abroad.
Jamie Lenman.  Jamie Edward Lenman (born 9 November 1982) is an English musician and illustrator best known as the lead singer and guitar player in the British alternative rock trio Reuben which he fronted between 1998 and 2008. He was a founding member of the band along with bassist Jon Pearce and was also the main songwriter for the band. He released a solo album on 4 November 2013.
Chris Jay.  Chris Jay is a musician songwriter producer screenwriter journalist and actor best known as the frontman and founder of the rock band Army of Freshmen.
Nina Ramsby.  Nina Ramsby born 1972[citation needed] is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician from Stockholm. During the 1990s she was the vocalist and guitarist for the alternative rock band Salt She was also part of the bands Baxter and Grand Tone Music.In 2006 Ramsby released an album titled Jazzen with Martin Hederos on Amigo. The album peaked at No. 36 on the Swedish Sverigetopplistan chart. In 2008 she released Du Har Blivit Stor Nu on Moserobie.
Robyn Young.  Robyn Young (born in Oxford in September 1975) is an English author of historical fiction. She is most widely known for her Brethren trilogy set in the Middle Ages. Her books have been published in more than 15 languages.
Anna Couani.  Anna Couani (born 6 April 1948) is a contemporary Australian poet and teacher.Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney then took an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Technology Sydney. Since the 70s she has participated in feminist activism small press publishing and has taught art English and ESL at secondary schools. A concern with marginalised aspects of women's lives runs throughout her writing.
Domenico Mustafà.  Domenico Mustafà (16 April 1829 - 17 March 1912) was an Italian castrato singer composer and choir director. He was born in the comune of Sellano province of Perugia.Domenico Mustafà was a famous soprano castrato with the Cappella Sistina in the Vatican. He was particularly admired for his performances of Handelian music. At his prime Mustafà possessed a voice of superior strength and beauty and he mastered the thrills and coloraturas to the utmost perfection.
José Leite de Vasconcelos.  José Leite de Vasconcelos Cardoso Pereira de Melo (7 July 1858 – 17 May 1941) was a Portuguese ethnographer archaeologist and prolific author who wrote extensively on Portuguese philology and prehistory. He was the founder and the first director of the Portuguese National Museum of Archaeology.
Sharon Shannon.  Sharon Shannon (born 12 November 1968 in Ruan County Clare) is an Irish musician. She is best known for her work with the accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 album Sharon Shannon is the best selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there. Beginning with Irish folk music her work demonstrates a wide-ranging number of musical influences including reggae cajun music Portuguese music and French Canadian music.
Frank McComb.  Frank McComb (born July 15 1970 Cleveland Ohio U.S.) is a soul singer and keyboardist. Often compared to Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder McComb has collaborated with many renowned recording artists including Prince Chaka Khan Teddy Pendergrass Gerald Levert and Teena Marie.
Ray Sanders (singer).  Raymon Sanders (born October 1 1935 in St. Johns Kentucky) is an American country music artist. Between 1960 and 1980 he charted fourteen times on the Hot Country Songs charts with singles released by Liberty Imperial and United Artists labels. He also sang backing vocals for Ray Price.Sanders was originally a disc jockey in Elizabethtown Kentucky and later a performer at the Lincoln Jamboree and Renfro Valley Barn Dance.
Maria José Dupré.  Maria José Dupré also known as Sra Leandro Dupré (1905 - 15 May 1984) was one of the most popular and prolific Brazilian writers of the 1940s and 1950s.
Gordon Haskell.  Gordon Haskell (born 27 April 1946 in Verwood England) is a Pop Rock & Blues music vocalist songwriter and bassist. He first gained recognition as a member of the British band Les Fleur de Lys. He sang on one of the songs of King Crimson's second album then played bass and sang on their third album.
John Jesnor Lindsay.  John Jesnor Lindsay (born 1939) is a Scottish former photographer who turned to the more lucrative trade of making blue movies during the late 60s and all the way through the 70s. A former student of the Glasgow School of Art Lindsay had begun his career as a photojournalist with limited financial success.
John Engelbert.  John Engelbert (born John Henrik Lars Engelbert May 19 1982) is a Swedish songwriter singer and guitarist in the rock duo Johnossi. He was formerly a tour guitarist in Håkan Hellström's band.Engelbert's guitar sound is based on running an acoustic guitar through effects pedals and electric guitar amplifiers.
Bai T. Moore.  Bai Tamia Johnson Moore (12 October 1916 – 10 January 1988) commonly known by his pen-name Bai T. Moore was a Liberian poet novelist folklorist and essayist. He also held various cultural educational and tourism posts both for the Liberian government and for UNESCO and was the founder of Liberia's National Cultural Center. He is best known for his novella Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968) the tale of a crime passionel in a traditional Liberian setting.
Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan.  Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan is a Māori writer. She was born in Northland New Zealand and lived in Europe and Asia before permanently settling in Sydney Australia.Her first published work Opening Doors a collection of poetry was published in 1979 by Mana Publications (Suva Fiji).
Chise Nakamura.  Chise Nakamura (中村 知世 Nakamura Chise September 11 1986) is a Japanese actress and gravure idol from Fukuoka Fukuoka.
Les Smith.  Les 'Lecter' Smith is an English keyboard player. He originally worked with neo-prog band Ship of Fools and did session work on keyboards for the British band Anathema on their 1996 album Eternity before joining extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. During his time in Cradle of Filth (1997–1999) his stage persona consisted of wearing a custom Vicar Priest top black leather trousers and goth make-up.
Tommy Heath.  Thomas Allen Tommy Heath (born March 31 1947) is the lead singer rhythm guitarist and occasional keyboardist of Tommy Tutone a 1980s rock band most famous for their top 5 hit 867-5309/Jenny. A common misconception is that Tommy Tutone is the name of the lead singer; it is the name of the band. The name of the band developed from the original name Tommy and the Tu-tones to merely Tommy Tutone. He left the band after the release of their third album 1983's National Emotion.
Yuji Hayami.  Yuji Hayami (早見 裕司 Hayami Yūji born 1961) is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer.
Mary Michael Shelley.  Mary Shelley (born 1950 Doylestown Pa) is an American folk artist with no formal visual art training. Her art work has variously been described as naïve primitive or self-taught. She graduated from Cornell University in 1972 with a degree in English and Creative Writing and has lived her entire adult life in Ithaca NY.
Ray Trickett.  Ray Trickett is a British actor.
Clayton Rawson.  Clayton Rawson (1906–1971) was an American mystery writer editor and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of stage magic and feature as their fictional detective The Great Merlini a professional magician who runs a shop selling magic supplies. He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo who appears as a principal character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini.
Barbara Morrison.  Barbara Morrison (born 10 September 1952) is an American singer of jazz music. Barbara Morrison Januszkiewicz is a jazz visual painter see Barb Januszkiewicz.
Gary Forrester.  Gary Forrester (born 3 July 1946 in the United States) is a New Zealand-Australian musician composer novelist poet short-story writer memoirist and academic.
Dawn Richard (singer).  Dawn Angeliqué Richard known professionally as Dawn Richard (born August 5 1983) is an American singer-songwriter. Richard started her career after auditioning for Making the Band 3 in 2004 During this time Richard became a member of American girl band Danity Kane from 2005 to 2009 and in 2010 joined Diddy-Dirty Money with label head Sean Diddy Combs and Kalenna Harper until they disbanded in 2011.In 2011 following her departure from Bad Boy Records Richard launched her solo career.
Berthold Landauer.  Berthold Landauer (sometimes given as Berchtold) (fl. 1396 d. 1430/1432) was a German painter active in Nuremberg. His name is first mentioned in civic registers tax lists and municipal accounts in 1396. In that year he was accepted as a citizen taking a civic oath under the title of painter. Tax registers of the St.
Guido Ubaldo Abbatini.  Guido Ubaldo Abbatini (1600–1656) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome and Usigni.He was a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Cesari and later worked under Pietro da Cortona. He frequently painted in fresco. He was born in Città di Castello and died in Rome. He painted the ceiling of the chapel of Santa Theresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Chan Romero.  Robert Lee Chan Romero (born July 7 1941 Billings Montana) is an American rock and roll performer and contemporary of Ritchie Valens best known for his seminal 1959 hit Hippy Hippy Shake.
Vahan Malezian.  Vahan Malezian (Armenian Վահան Մալեզեան) (Born Sulina Romania 1871 - died Nice France 1966) was an Armenian writer translator poet and social activist.
Helen von Kolnitz Hyer.  Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (December 30 1896 – November 14 1983) was an American poet. She was named by Governor John C. West as the second South Carolina Poet Laureate from 1974 to 1983.
Lauri Porra.  Lauri Porra (born December 13 1977) is a Finnish bassist and composer. Best known for his work in Stratovarius and Sinergy. Lauri Porra is a fourth generation musician He is the great grandson of the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He started to study music at age 6 when he started to play cello in a local music school.
Aim (musician).  Aim (born Andrew Turner) is a British musician DJ and producer who was born in Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria. Aim's sound is a blend of funky electronic music and hip hop beats a sound which typified the Grand Central Records label.
Wayne White (artist).  Wayne White (born Chattanooga Tennessee USA 1957) is an American artist art director puppeteer set designer animator cartoonist and illustrator.
Luis Bonilla.  Luis Bonilla (born Luis Diego Bonilla October 12 1965 Los Angeles Ca.) is an American Afro-Cuban and jazz trombonist born in Los Angeles California of Costa Rican descent. He is a Grammy Award- winning performer composer and Music Professor about whom the New York Times has described as the artist who explodes the usual musical structures of both Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz.
Jill Emery.  Jill Emery (born 1962) is an American artist and former musician based in Los Angeles California. Best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Hole from 1990 until 1992 Emery left the band after the subsequent tour for the band's debut album Pretty on the Inside (1991) and was replaced by Kristen Pfaff in 1993.
Jesse Beery.  Professor Jesse Beery (June 13 1861 - February 1945) was an American horse trainer and writer. He claimed he could train any horse horses that ran away horses that pulled too hard horses that were spooked too easily and horses that refused to be shoed. His best-known work was Prof. Beery's Mail Course in Horsemanship and sold widely through mail-order ads placed in various equine magazines.
Chris Núñez.  Chris Adam Núñez (born April 11 1973) is an American tattoo artist. He is the owner of Handcrafted Tattoo And Art Gallery a tattoo shop located in Miami Florida and current judge on Spike's reality competition Ink Master in which tattoo artists compete in challenges assessing their tattoo and related artistic skills. Previously Núñez was one of the featured tattoo artists on TLC's reality television program Miami Ink.Núñez who is of Cuban origin received his first tattoo at age 16.
Elisa Martin.  Elisa C. Martin (born 3 August 1972) is a Spanish singer. She has served as a vocalist in several European power metal bands including Dark Moor and Dreamaker.
Jonny Chops.  Jonathan Henrich better known as Jonny Chops (born February 12 1986) is a rock musician from Havertown Pennsylvania. He is most famous for his role as the current drummer of Wednesday 13. He has also played in several other bands including Anti-Product Trashlight Vision and a few local bands including Divided Sky and Copper Mine.
Karel Velebný.  Karel Velebný (17 March 1931 Prague - 7 March 1989 Prague) was a Czech jazz musician composer arranger actor writer and music pedagogue. Velebný was one of the founders and pioneers of modern Czech jazz in the second half of the 20th century.
Carlo Palazzi.  Carlo Palazzi is quite possibly the first Italian designer to license his name in America. The English-based company Jaeger licensed Palazzi for an exclusive American line in the mid 1960s. Since then he was licensed in Japan Switzerland Germany and Brazil.
Monsieur Adi.  Monsieur Adi is a French electronic musician producer and remixer. He first became noticed in 2010 for creating official remixes for British pop singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding and has since created official remixes for Beyoncé Lana Del Rey Bastille Laura Mvula and others. In 2012 he released his Fire Fire Fire EP which features the song Last Stand in collaboration with British pop singer/songwriter Gary Go.
Chris Castle.  Chris Castle (born January 29 1976 in Sandusky Ohio) is a folk/Americana singer-songwriter. Cleveland Magazine has described his writing as an authentic connection to the world-weary soul of American roots music while The New London Day's Rick Koster calls Castle a visionary songwriter and a tunesmith of almost scary vision narrative acumen and hooky instinct.
Corey J. Hodges.  Corey James Hodges (born December 14 1970 in St. Petersburg Florida) is an African-American preacher and a columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune Newspaper. He is a regular host of the television program This week in the Word [1] which airs weekly on Utah's KTMW. Hodges is currently the pastor of New Pilgrim Baptist Church [2] a multicultural Christian fellowship in Salt Lake City Utah that has membership from over 30 different nations and holds weekly services in both English and Spanish.
Mr. Magico.  Mr. Magico is a character and former member on shock rock band Gwar.It is known that original Death Piggy guitarist Russ Bahorsky's character in the original Gwar lineup was named Mr. Magico. However it is known for sure if he actually played an instrument for the band. It is believed that his replacement in Death Piggy Steve Douglas played guitar as Jaws of Death in the initial Gwar lineup joined by Oderus Urungus on second guitar and BalSac (Chris Bopst) on bass.
Lorissa McComas.  Lorissa McComas (Columbus Ohio November 26 1970 – Waverly Virginia November 3 2009) was an American lingerie nude and softcore model.
Chandrarathna Bandara.  Chandrarathna Bandara is a prominent novelist in Sri Lanka who won the prestigious National Literary award for his work in 1991. His passion during his earlier work was to investigate the social cultural and political dimensions of Sri Lanka. He was educated at Dharmaraja College Kandy.
Mickie Most.  Mickie Most (20 June 1938 – 30 May 2003) was an English record producer with a string of hit singles with acts such as The Animals Arrows Herman's Hermits Donovan Lulu Suzi Quatro Hot Chocolate and the Jeff Beck Group often issued on his own RAK Records label.
David G. Hartwell.  David Geddes Hartwell (born July 10 1941) is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet (1971–73) Berkley Putnam (1973–78) Pocket (where he founded the Timescape imprint 1980–85 and created the Pocket Books Star Trek publishing line) and Tor Books (where he spearheaded Tor's Canadian publishing initiative at CAN-CON in Ottawa and was also influential in bringing many Australian writers to the US market 1984-date) and has published numerous anthologies.
Nanak Singh.  Nanak Singh (4 July 1897 – 28 December 1971) born Hans Raj was a poet songwriter and novelist in the Punjabi language. His writing in support of India's independence movement led the British to arrest him. He published several novels which won him literary acclaim.
Anna Dumitriu.  Anna Dumitriu is a visual and performance artist based in Brighton England specialising in bioart. Her installations interventions and performances use digital biological and traditional media including bacteria digital projections and embroidery working with diverse audiences.Dumitriu's work is at the forefront of art and science collaborative practice particularly working with microbiology robotics artificial life technology and art/science ethics.
Charles Livingston Bull.  Charles Livingston Bull (May 1874 - 1932) was an American illustrator. Bull studied taxidermy in Rochester New York and is known for his illustration of wildlife.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue.  Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 – 16 November 1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
Szymon Czechowicz.  Szymon Czechowicz (July 1689 – 21 July 1775) was a prominent Polish painter of the Baroque considered one of the most accomplished painters of 18th century sacral painting in Poland. He specialized in sublime effigies of painted figures. His establishment of a school of painting gives him a great influence on Polish art.
Judy Francesconi.  Judy Francesconi (born May 11 1957) is an American photographer who concentrates on black-and-white fine art photography of lesbian women.She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in journalism. She is most noted for her black-and-white and sepia photography featuring beautiful (lipstick lesbian) women. Her images have appeared in galleries books on CDs postcards greeting cards posters and in advertising.
Colin Dexter.  Norman Colin Dexter OBE (born 29 September 1930) is an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.
Kirsten Reynolds.  Kirsten Reynolds is a British artist who makes works using a wide variety of media. She often works with sound and light and uses electronics video and found objects to make artworks. Her practice also encompasses drawing painting sculpture collage and print-making.
Martin Meissonnier.  Martin Meissonnier is a French journalist producer director and composer. Formerly a journalist for Libération he has made a specialty of discovering new types of music.
Yūna Inamura.  Yūna Inamura (稲村 優奈 Inamura Yūna born July 11 1982) is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with Asai Production.[citation needed] She was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and grew up in Nakano Tokyo.
Robert Natkin.  Robert Natkin (November 7 1930 – April 20 2010) was an American born abstract painter whose work is associated with Abstract expressionism Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.He was born in Chicago and from the early 1950s he created paintings which are represented in the permanent collections of major museums as well as in corporate and private collections. His work has been exhibited in leading galleries in the U.S. Europe and Japan.
Mary Chandler.  Mary Chandler (1687–1745) was an English poet. George Crabb writes that she left several poems ‘the most esteemed of which was her “Bath”’.
Jazz Gillum.  William McKinley Gillum (September 11 1904 – March 29 1966) known as Jazz Gillum was an American blues harmonica player. He was born in Indianola Mississippi. After running away from home at the age of seven Gillum spent the next few years in Charleston Mississippi working and playing for tips on local street corners. He moved to Chicago Illinois in 1923 meeting up with the guitarist Big Bill Broonzy.
Émile Chambon.  Émile François Chambon (10 January 1905 – 28 October 1993) was a Swiss painter and illustrator.
Giovanni Stefano Verdura.  Giovanni Stefano Verdura was a 17th-century Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Genoa and later in the Piedmont. He was a disciple of the Genoese painter Domenico Fiasella. He died of the plague in 1657.
Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff.  Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff is a Dove Award winning singer-songwriter who serves as the senior worship leader at the largest and fastest growing church in the United States Lakewood Church in Houston Texas.
Paula DeAnda.  Paula Dacia DeAnda (born November 3 1989) is an American pop singer-songwriter and actress. She first came to prominence with her first single Doing Too Much which became a hit in the Southwest. She then got the opportunity to audition for Clive Davis who signed her to Arista Records on the spot. Her debut album Paula DeAnda was released in 2006 and contained the Billboard Hot 100 top twenty song Walk Away (Remember Me).
Timothy Hutchings.  Timothy Hutchings (born 1974) is an American visual artist living and working in New York City. He uses a diverse range of media ranging from video to sculpture to drawing. Hutchings has exhibited work internationally notably at P.S.1/MOMA and the New Museum in New York City Western Bridge in Seattle the Centro de Arte de Salamanca and Museo de Arte Contemporane in Spain and the Borusan Cultural Center in Istanbul.
Peavy Wagner.  Peter Peavy Wagner (born 22 December 1964) is a German heavy metal musician. He is best known for being singer and bassist of the band Rage.
Marty Casey.  Martin Xavier Marty Casey (born September 26 1973)is an American rock musician who is the lead singer primary songwriter and second guitarist of the band Lovehammers.After years of building a strong local following in Chicago Illinois and the Midwest Casey achieved international fame on the first season of the reality show Rock Star: INXS. Casey made it to the final two of the competition finishing as the runner-up to winner J.D. Fortune.
Gidget Gein.  Bradley Mark Brad Stewart (September 11 1969 – October 8 2008) known by his stage name Gidget Gein was an American musician and artist. He was the second bassist and co-founder of the alternative metal band Marilyn Manson. His stage name references and dichotomies serial killer Ed Gein and the fictional 1960s surfer girl Gidget.
Brett James.  Brett James Cornelius (born June 5 1968) is an American singer songwriter and record producer. Signed to Career Records (a division of Arista Nashville) as a solo artist in 1995 James charted three singles and released a self-titled debut album that year. He returned to Arista as a recording artist in 2002 releasing two more singles.Since the early 2000s James has become known primarily as a songwriter for other country and pop music artists.
Mike Errico.  Mike Errico is an American singer-songwriter composer producer and music supervisor whose acclaimed releases include Wander Away Songs from Lift Pictures of the Big Vacation Tonight I Drink You All Skimming and All In.
Hilarie Sidney.  Hilarie Sidney is a musician most famously recognized as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo. She was previously married to Apples in Stereo frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder Robert Schneider. Their divorce became publicly acknowledged in 2004.
Leonhard Lechner.  Leon(h)ard Lechner (ca. 1553 – 9 September 1606) was a German composer and music editor who worked with Orlando de Lassus.
Frank Stout (artist).  Frank Stout (February 17 1926 – April 13 2012) was an American figurative artist associated with post-abstract expressionist realism.He is best known for his psychologically penetrating witty and deeply compassionate portraits of individuals and large groups and soulful landscapes executed with a painterly technique.He is also known for flowing figure sculpture in a variety of media and his pastel drawings.He lived in Vermont and Tuscany.
James Forbes (artist).  James Forbes (1749–1819) was a British artist and writer.Born in London to a Scots family Forbes travelled to India in 1765 as a writer for the British East India Company and was resident there until 1784. He was a prolific writer and artist and filled 52000 manuscript pages with notes and sketches concerning all aspects of Indian life its wildlife flora and architecture. In 1781 he visited the Taj Mahal and became one of the first Europeans to draw it.
Mark Janicello.  Mark Janicello (born November 3 1962 in Brooklyn New York) is an American singer actor painter and author.
Paul Yee.  Paul Yee (born 1 October 1956) is a Chinese-Canadian historian and writer. He is the author of many books for children including Teach Me to Fly Skyfighter The Curses of Third Uncle Dead Man's Gold and Ghost Train — winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for English language children's literature.
Brandon Bird.  Brandon Bird is an artist. He was born in 1980 in Carmichael California a suburb of Sacramento. He attended University of California Santa Cruz and was an artist-in-residence from 2004-2006 at Risley Residential College at Cornell University.
Hong Chen.  Hong Chen (Chinese: 洪辰 also known as Cindy Hong) is a Chinese singer who finished as the runner-up in 2011 Super Girl television singing contest.
Ken Kuhlken.  Ken Kuhlken was born and grew up in San Diego played semi-pro baseball in Tijuana and attended San Diego State University first as a philosophy and then as an English major.
Togrul Narimanbekov.  Togrul Farman oglu Narimanbekov (Azerbaijani: Toğrul Fərman oğlu Nərimanbəyov Russian: Тогрул Нариманбеков; August 7 1930 – June 2 2013) was one of the prominent modern Azerbaijani artists.Narimbanbeyov was born in Baku. His father Farman Narimanbeyov who hailed from Shusha studied in Toulouse; in 1929 he came back to Baku and participated in the construction of Mingachevir Hydro Power Plant but in the 1930s was sentenced to imprisonment.
Paul Desmond.  Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld; November 25 1924 – May 30 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit Take Five.
Vincent Mason.  Vincent Lamont Mason Jr. (born 24 March 1970) is a rapper producer DJ and one third of hip hop group De La Soul. Mason is also known as Maseo P.A. Pasemaster Mase and Plug Three.
Annette Humpe.  Annette Humpe (born October 28 1950 in Hagen North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German songwriter pop singer and record producer. Her band Ideal was one of the most important and seminal representatives of the Neue Deutsche Welle. In 2004 she returned as a singer with the project Ich + Ich after a longer break.
Fred Uhlman.  Fred Uhlman (19 January 1901 – 11 April 1985) was a German-English writer painter and lawyer of Jewish origin.
MeiMei Kuo.  MeiMei Kuo(Chinese: 郭婕祈; pinyin: Guo Jie Qi) is an actress and a member of Taiwanese girl band Hey Girl (formerly Hei Se Hui Mei Mei). Her birth name is Kuo Chieh Chi (Chinese: 郭婕祈; pinyin: Guō Jiéqǐ) MeiMei is the younger sister of Ulzzang model JieJie.
Ellis (singer-songwriter).  Ellis Delaney (aka Ellis Bergeron Mary Grace Bergeron born Mary Grace Ellis circa 1976) is an American singer-songwriter based in Minneapolis Minnesota. She performs under the name Ellis having found early on that her last name is frequently mispronounced. Her music is generally described as folk/indie acoustic. She tours often around the US generally playing small venues and folk festivals and was a featured performer on the radio variety show Prairie Home Companion on June 1 2013.
Donald Weber.  Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in Jewish American literature and film studies. He is the Lucia Ruth and Elizabeth Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Mount Holyoke College.
Ha Seong-ran.  Ha Seong-nan (born 1967) (Hangul: 하성란)' is a South Korean writer.
Stevo Teodosievski.  Stevo Teodosievski (Macedonian: Стево Теодосиевски) (April 16 1924 - April 9 1997) was born in Kočani. He was a Macedonian artist music educator and humanist. After a childhood in his hometown he spent his youth in Belgrade returning to Kocani after WWII. Stevo Teodosievski died in Skopje on April 9 1997.In the 1950s he was a truck driver while pursuing professional photography in Skopje where he began to make money as a musician.
Julie-Anne Derome.  Julie-Anne Derome is a Canadian violinist who was born in Montreal Canada.
Nicola Barker.  Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer.She was born in Ely Cambridgeshire England.Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations and has a fondness for bleak isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island.
Professor RJ Ross.  Professor RJ Ross is a smooth jazz and classic R&B singer and pianist. His debut solo album Face To Face was released by Music Force Media Group in 2008.
Christopher Morris (photographer).  Christopher Morris (born California 1958) is an American photojournalist best known for his war photographs.Most of Morris' work has concentrated on war. Some of the wars he photographed were the US invasion of Iraq the drug war in Colombia the Persian Gulf war the wars in Afghanistan Somalia Yugoslavia and Chechnya − more than 18 foreign conflicts. He documented the presidency of George W.
Rachel Blumberg.  Rachel Blumberg is an American drummer and singer best known for her tenure as the drummer for the indie rock band The Decemberists. Blumberg was a member of many Portland Oregon-based indie bands including Sissyface Boycrazy Norfolk & Western The Minders (briefly) and M. Ward's backing band.She spent most of 2007 lending her drumming and singing talents to the touring Omaha indie band Bright Eyes on the Four Winds and Cassadaga tour.
Helal Hafiz.  Helal Hafiz (Bengali: হেলাল হাফিজ born 7 October 1948) is a Bangladeshi poet. He is considered a true representative of the poets of his generation. He studied at Netrokona Datta High School Netrokona College and University of Dhaka. His first collection of poems: Je Jale Agun Jwale published in 1986 was the best-selling Bengali book in Ekushey Book Fair of the year.
Brent Mydland.  Brent Mydland (October 21 1952 – July 26 1990) was an American keyboardist best known as the fourth keyboardist to play with the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years longer than any other keyboardist in the band.
Junko Mihara.  Junko Mihara (三原 じゅん子 Mihara Junko born September 13 1964 in Itabashi Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese politician former singer and actress.She ran in House of Councillors election in 2010 as a proportional candidate of Liberal Democratic Party and won.
Arthur Golden.  Arthur Golden (born December 6 1956) is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes.  Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (June 19 1884–July 9 1974) was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier and died in Saint-Jeannet.In addition to numerous early paintings Ribemont-Dessaignes wrote plays poetry manifestos and opera librettos. He contributed to the Dada (and later surrealist) periodical Literature.
Alfred Breitman.  Alfred Breitman is an Italian artist of Jewish origin born in the late 1950s. He has put on shows and performances in Italy and abroad covering pop art conceptualism video installations land art comic book design advertising and photography as well as painting and traditional engraving.
Nathanael West.  Nathanael West born Nathan Weinstein (October 17 1903 – December 22 1940) was an American author screenwriter and satirist.
Paul Matavire.  Paul Matavire was a blind Zimbabwean musician and songwriter born in Maranda Mwenezi District. He rose to prominence in the 1980s when he joined the Jairos Jiri Band based in Bulawayo at the Jairos Jiri Rehabilitation Centre. He was then elected to lead the Jairo Jiri Band as one of Zimbabwe's finest musicians to emerge after the country gained independence from Britain in 1980. He died at the age 44 in 2005 at his farm in Rutenga Masvingo.
Winston Francis.  Winston Francis (born 1948) aka King Cool is a Jamaican singer whose career began in the 1960s.
Ralph R. Doubleday.  Ralph R. Doubleday was a renowned rodeo photographer in the United States. Rodeo historian and promoter Foghorn Clancy said Doubleday was the undisputed World's Champion Rodeo Photographer. His work is featured at the Dickinson Museum Center including the museum's Guide to the Ralph R. Doubleday Rodeo Photographs and the traveling exhibit Doubleday's Cowgirls: Women in Rodeo.Doubleday traveled the U.S. for 40 years photographing rodeos and making picture postcards.
The Flexican.  Thomás Goethals better known by his stage name The Flexican (Mexico City October 11 1983) is a Dutch DJ. He is a member of Dutch rap group Flinke Namen.
Oley Speaks.  Oley Speaks (June 28 1874 – August 7 1948) was an accomplished composer and songwriter who was born in Canal Winchester Franklin County Ohio. The Canal Winchester Area Historical Society Museum has exhibits about the life of Oley Speaks including original sheet music written by him.
Naughty Boy.  Shahid Khan (born 13 March 1985) often credited by his artist and production name Naughty Boy is a British DJ songwriter record producer and musician. In 2012 Khan signed a three-year publishing deal with Sony ATV as well as a recording contract to release one album under Virgin EMI Records.
En Esch.  En Esch a.k.a. Nicklaus Schandelmaier or Klaus Schandelmaier is a contemporary musician and has been a member of the bands KMFDM Pigface and Slick Idiot.
Kate Voegele.  Kate Elizabeth Voegele (/ˈvoʊ.ɡəl/; born December 8 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She made her musical debut in 2003 with the release of her The Other Side extended play. She performed numerous local live shows to promote the album and toured with artists such as John Mayer. In 2005 she released her second extended play Louder Than Words. Both had local success and helped raise awareness of Voegele as an artist.
Mark Heard.  John Mark Heard (December 16 1951 – August 16 1992) was an American record producer folk rock singer and songwriter originally from Macon Georgia United States. Heard released 16 albums and produced and performed with many other artists as well such as Sam Phillips (a.k.a. Leslie Phillips) Pierce Pettis Phil Keaggy Vigilantes of Love Peter Buck of R.E.M. (who co-produced VOL's album Killing Floor with Heard) John Austin The Choir Randy Stonehill and Michael Been of The Call.
Bobby van Jaarsveld.  Bobby van Jaarsveld is a South African Afrikaans language pop singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known for his hit song Spieëltjie and his role in the South-African box office hit movie Liefling - Die Movie.
DCUP.  Duncan MacLennan better known by his stage name DCUP is an Australian music producer DJ and remixer.
Julius Zeyer.  Julius Zeyer (April 26 1841 – January 29 1901) was a Czech prose writer poet and playwright.
Dwight Benton.  Dwight Benton (New York City September 9 1834 – April 7 1903) was an American painter and writer who resided for decades in Rome.He learned painting in the United States painting landscapes and cityscapes of the midwest. He became an expatriate and painted watercolor landscapes including of the Protestant Cemetery in Rome but also vedute of the Sabina or the areas around Olevano and Subiaco. He also painted Veduta dell'Isola di Capri. he published a journal entitled The Roman World.
Ingrid Vetlesen.  Ingrid Vetlesen (born 22 September 1981 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian soprano.
John Jordan (poet).  John Jordan (1930–1988) was an Irish poet and short-story writer.
Otto Julius Bierbaum.  Otto Julius Bierbaum (28 June 1865 – 1 February 1910) was a German writer.Bierbaum was born in Grünberg Silesia. After studying in Leipzig he became a journalist and editor for the journals Die freie Bühne Pan and Die Insel. His literary work was varied.
Colin Meloy.  Colin Patrick Henry Meloy (born October 5 1974) is the lead singer and songwriter for the Portland Oregon indie folk rock band The Decemberists. In addition to vocals he performs with an acoustic guitar 12-string acoustic guitar electric guitar bouzouki harmonica and percussion.
Tom Verlaine.  Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller December 13 1949) is a singer songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.
John Dolmayan.  John Dolmayan (born on July 15 1973) is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American songwriter and drummer. He is best known as the drummer of System of a Down. Dolmayan is also the drummer for the band Indicator and former drummer for Scars on Broadway.
Max Allan Collins.  Max Allan Collins (born March 3 1948) is an American mystery writer. He has written novels screenplays comic books comic strips trading cards short stories movie novelizations and historical fiction. He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition (which was developed into a film in 2002) created the comic book private eye Ms. Tree and took over writing the Dick Tracy comic strip from creator Chester Gould and one of the Batman comic books for a time.
Rhys Meirion.  Rhys Meirion was born in Porthmadog Gwynedd and is a Welsh opera and concert singer. He worked as a primary school headteacher at Ysgol Pentrecelyn near Ruthin before leaving in 1997 to study opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He is one of ‘The Three Welsh Tenors’ and his album with Bryn Terfel “Benedictus” was nominated for a Classical Brit Award in 2006.
Mark Northfield.  Mark Northfield is a musician based in London.
Michael Grimm (musician).  Michael Joseph Grimm (born December 30 1979) is an American singer/songwriter and winner of the fifth season of America's Got Talent.
Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath.  Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775 Lübeck – 25 February 1844 Hamburg) was a portrait painter miniaturist and lithographer.
Georgia May Foote.  Georgia May Foote (born 11 February 1991) is an English actress. She played Alison Simmons in the school drama series Grange Hill. She currently appears in Coronation Street as Katy Armstrong.
DJ Semtex.  DJ Semtex (b. Manchester) is a disc jockey and presenter for BBC Radio 1Xtra digital radio station presenting the flagship hip-hop show Friday Nights from 22:00-02:00.
David Jackson (rock musician).  David Nicholas George Jackson (born 15 April 1947) nicknamed Jaxon is an English progressive rock saxophonist flautist and composer. He is best known for his work with the band Van der Graaf Generator and his work in Music and Disability. He has worked with artists including Peter Gabriel Keith Tippett and Howard Moody.
Onofrio Avellino.  Onofrio Avellino (c. 1674-17 April 1741) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Naples Giulio died in Ferrara or Rome where he painted for the last twenty years of his life. He initially trained under Luca Giordano but in 1692 when the former left to work in Madrid he entered the studio of the Neapolitan Francesco Solimena. He painted a Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints in Glory for the church of the Carmelitani in Sorrento.
Kate Parry.  Kate Blakk Kate Parry (born 29 April 1979 in Sydney) is an Australian musical theatre performer noted for her character acting four octave mezzosoprano singing voice her voice-over work and recording work country.Parry started her career at the age of two as one of the original Play School Toy children and was the face of AIM toothpaste throughout the US at the age of four. As she discovered her voice she was sought out by the Walt Disney Co.
Thomas C. Thornton.  Thomas C. Thornton (12 October 1794 - 22 March 1860) was an American Methodist minister and educator. Thornton was president of Centenary College of Louisiana from 1841 to 1844. He was also author of a proslavery tract An Inquiry into the History of Slavery published in 1841.
Lee Jamieson.  Lee Jamieson (born 14 December 1977) is an English author journalist and lecturer.
Horatio Walker.  Horatio Walker (May 12 1858 – September 27 1938) was a respected and commercially successful Canadian painter. He worked in oils and watercolors often depicting scenes of rural life in Canada. He was highly influenced by the French Barbizon school of painting.
Qui Nguyen.  Qui Nguyen (born in El Dorado AR) is a Vietnamese American playwright and fight director.
Sioen.  Frederik Sioen (born July 14 1979) better known by his stage name Sioen is a Belgian singer and songwriter.
Seth Abramson.  Seth Abramson (born October 31 1976 Concord Massachusetts) is an American poet editor literary critic and freelance journalist.
Dwayne McDuffie.  Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20 1962 – February 21 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television known for creating the animated television series Static Shock writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10 and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone Media.McDuffie earned three Eisner Award nominations for his work in comics.
Merz (musician).  Merz (born Conrad Ewart Lambert in Dorset England) is an English multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter. He has released four albums.
Avi Peretz (singer).  Avi Peretz (in Hebrew אבי פרץ) sometimes transliterated Avi Perez (born in 9 December 1966) is an Israeli singer of Jewish Mizrahi music (in Hebrew מוזיקה מזרחית i.e. Muziqa mizrahit meaning Oriental music).
Anson Funderburgh.  Anson Funderburgh (born James Anson Funderburgh November 14 1954 Plano Texas United States) is an American blues guitar player and bandleader of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets since 1978. Their style incorporates both Chicago blues and Texas blues.
John Davis (sculptor).  John Davis (16 September 1936 – 17 October 1999) was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art.
Emani Sankara Sastry.  Emani Sankara Sastry (b: September 23 1922 - d: 1987) was a renowned Veena player of Carnatic music.
Erica Jong.  Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry and particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
Sarah Snook.  Sarah Snook (born 1987) is a stage television and film actress from Adelaide South Australia.
Deborah Turner Harris.  Deborah Turner Harris (born 1951 in Pennsylvania) is an American fantasy author best known for her collaborations with Katherine Kurtz. She lives in Scotland and is married to Scottish author Robert J. Harris.
Vannadhasan.  Vannadaasan aka Kalyanji is a popular poet in Tamil Modern literature. He lives in Tirunelveli. He writes short stories and non fiction articles under the name Vannadhasan. He writes poems under the name Kalyanji. His real name is S. Kalayanasundaram. He is son of Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran. He wrote Akam puram in a popular Tamil weekly
Harun Tekin.  Sami Harun Tekin (born 28 June 1977 in Ankara Turkey) is a Turkish singer musician and poet. He is one of the founding members and the vocalist of the Turkish rock band Mor ve ötesi.
Richie Londres.  Richie Londres (born in London England) is an English musician hip hop record producer lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist & illustrator and owns Altered Beats Records. Londres has worked with Deftones and Cypress Hill on various projects. Londres is active in three groups as the founding member & producer of Sol Invicto Cultura Londres and Okujira. He is also known for remixing various artists published by Universal Records.
John Regan.  John Regan is an American rapper from Baltimore Maryland.
Leone Ginzburg.  Leone Ginzburg (Italian: [leˈone ˈɡintsburɡ]; 4 April 1909 – 5 February 1944) was an Italian editor writer journalist and teacher as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.
Maeve Kelly.  Maeve Kelly (born 1930) is an Irish writer.
Tom Lloyd.  Tom Lloyd (born 1979) is a British novelist. He is the author of the Twilight Reign series.
AnonymousCulture.  AnonymousCulture is an American rapper and songwriter from Dallas Texas.
Alexei Mateevici.  Alexe (or Alexei) Mateevici (March 27 1888 – August 24 1917) was one of the most prominent Romanian poets in Bessarabia.
Douglass Wallop.  John Douglass Wallop III (8 March 1920 – 1 April 1985) was an American novelist and playwright.
Konstantin Kinchev.  Konstantin Kinchev (Panfiloff) (Russian: Константин Кинчев(Панфилов)) (born December 25 1958) is a Russian rock singer musician frontman and the main songwriter for the Russian rock/hard rock band Alisa.Born Konstantin Evgenievich Panfilov in Moscow Soviet Union he took his grandfather's surname for his stage name Kostya Kinchev. When Kinchev was a 15-year-old teenager he heard heavy metal band Black Sabbath for the first time in his life.
Joey Stann.  Joey Stann is an accomplished saxophonist who has worked as a sideman and has recorded with a long list of rock and roll luminaries. Stann performs primarily both on the tenor and baritone saxophone but has contributed backing vocals and played the synthesizer while recording with them in the studio. A New York native he is recognized for his lifelong association with Southside Johnny and band: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Stann originally joined the band in 1980.
Al-ssadiq Al-raddi.  Al-ssadiq Al-raddi (Arabic: الصادق الرضي‎; born January 1969) is a Sudanese writer and poet who was born in Omdurman Sudan.
O-Jay.  Olaf Jeglitza (born 15 February 1965) also known by his stage name O-Jay is a German rapper songwriter and music producer. He is best known as the lead rapper for the Eurodance group Real McCoy.
Matthew Stone.  Matthew Stone (born 1982 in London United Kingdom) is a London based artist. He is part of South-London art collective !WOWOW!. Stone lives and works in London.He graduated from Camberwell College of Arts London in 2004.Matthew Stone stages performances photographs and films.
Mr. Lee Grant.  Bogdan Kominowski (April 22 1945) is a New Zealand pop star. As well as his birth name he is also known by the stage name Mr. Lee Grant. He has had a successful singing and acting career - starring in stage shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar Elvis the Musical TV shows and the James Bond movie A View To A Kill.
Hammatt Billings.  Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (1818–1874) was an artist and architect from Boston Massachusetts.Among his works are the original illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin (both the initial printingand an expanded 1853 edition)the National Monument to the Forefathers the Civil War monument in Concord Mass. and the 19th-century granite canopy (since replaced) for the Plymouth Rock memorial.
Faye HeavyShield.  Faye HeavyShield is a Kainai-Blood sculptor and installation artist. She is known for her repetitive use of objects and writing to create large scale often minimalist site-specific installations.
Si Begg.  Si Begg (born 1972) is electronic dance music DJ musician and record producer Simon Begg from Leicester England.His music combines elements of Experimental Downtempo Breakbeat Ambient Drum and bass Turntablism and Jazz. Begg grew up in Leamington Spa and moved to London in 1991.
Ryo Mizuno.  Ryo Mizuno (水野 良 Mizuno Ryō born July 13 1963) is a Japanese author and game designer. Mizuno created Record of Lodoss War Rune Soldier Sword World RPG and Starship Operators. He was also involved with the Galaxy Angel manga. Mizuno recently worked on Tri-Ace and Square Enix's action-RPG Infinite Undiscovery. He has shown talent in both dramatic and humorous genres. He was one of the founding members of Group SNE
Joe Davis (music publisher).  Joseph M. Joe Davis (October 6 1896 – September 3 1978) was an American music producer publisher and promoter in jazz rhythm and blues and pop music.
Greg Carmichael.  Greg Carmichael (born January 1 1953) is a long standing member of contemporary jazz group Acoustic Alchemy.
Ali Rahbari.  Ali (Alexander) Rahbari (Persian: علی رهبری‎) is an Iranian (Persian) composer and conductor who has worked with more than 120 European orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Eugene Palmer.  Eugene Palmer (born 1955) is a Jamaican-born British artist. His work uses archival records photographs and contemporary media imagery as basis for his paintings. Palmer has had a long association with art curators and exhibitors Eddie Chambers and Keith Piper (artist) and is recognised as one of the leading Black artists working in Britain. He currently lives and works in London.
Joe Simpson (artist).  Joe Simpson (born 4 May 1984) is an English figurative painter based in London. His work draws influences from cinematography to create frozen scenes detached from a wider context. His work has been shown internationally including venues such as the The National Portrait Gallery The Royal Albert Hall House of Commons Air Gallery The Hospital (Covent Gardens) and Manchester Art Gallery.In 2009 Simpson’s first major exhibition ‘Almost There’ launched.
Stephen Dale Petit.  Stephen Dale Petit (born 19 April 1969) is an American-born guitarist singer songwriter and New Blues musician.Petit’s blues guitar experience started at a young age in California and continued through drug addiction alcoholism homelessness and subsequent recovery.
Norris Embry.  Norris Embry (January 14 1921 – February 17 1981) was an American neo-expressionist artist born in Louisville Kentucky.He grew up in East Orange New Jersey outside New York City and Evanston Illinois in the Chicago area attending public schools through high school. Later he studied at St. John's College in Annapolis Maryland and the Art Institute in Chicago.
Giovanni Angelo Canini.  Giovanni Angelo Canini (1609–1666) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He is also known as Giovanni Agnolo Canini or Giannangiolo. He was born at Rome one of three brothers sons of a stonemason named Vincenzo all of whom became artists. The elder brother was a painter; while the younger brother Marcantonio a sculptor. He was first the pupil of Domenichino as a child and traveled with him to Naples. There he worked with Antonio Barbalonga.
Raphael Saadiq.  Raphael Saadiq /səˈdiːk/ (born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14 1966) is an American singer songwriter musician guitarist and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for old school R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC Joss Stone D'Angelo Mary J.
Lester Bowie.  Lester Bowie (October 11 1941–November 8 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Dana Reason.  Dana Reason is a Canadian pianist and composer. She has been featured on National Public Radio (USA) the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio Canada.
Brett Gurewitz.  Brett W. Gurewitz (born May 12 1962) nicknamed Mr. Brett is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records (which has handled many Bad Religion releases) and sister-labels ANTI- Burning Heart Records Fat Possum Records and Hellcat Records. He has produced albums for Bad Religion as well as Epitaph Records labelmates NOFX Rancid and Pennywise among others.
Epaksa.  Epaksa (Korean: 이박사 李博士) is a South Korean Techno-trot singer. Born October 5 1954 in Gyeonggi-do his birth name is Lee Yong-Seok (Korean: 이용석). Techno-trot (Korean: 테크노 뽕짝) is a fusion genre of music which was popular in 1990s and early 2000s and was well known as speedy tempo.
Anthony Shaffer (writer).  Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 1926 – 6 November 2001) was an English playwright screenwriter novelist barrister and advertising executive.
Ida Pinto-Sezzi.  Ida Pinto-Sezzi (born Florence 1852) was an Italian painter.
John Lefelhocz.  John Lefelhocz (lěf-ä-hōlts)(born 1967 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American conceptual artist primarily known for his works in the textile arts specifically quilts. He attended Ohio University (in Athens Ohio). Since college he has owned and operated Cycle Path Bicycle Shop in Athens while establishing himself as an artist. His art has gained higher recognition since the late 1990s. This can be attributed to inclusion in several Quilt Nationals.
Jerome Xavier DuBois.  Jerome Xavier DuBois (Chinese: 杜杰; pinyin: dùjíe) is the first[citation needed] Canadian-born Taiwanese mandopop singer and songwriter. Like Aska Yang (Chinese: 楊宗緯) and Yoga Lin (Chinese: 林宥嘉) DuBois made his international debut on CTVs One Million Star (Chinese: 超級星光大道).
Bernie Worrell.  George Bernard Bernie Worrell Jr. (born April 19 1944) is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Mercedes Odina.  Mercedes Odina (born 11 October 1959 in Barcelona Spain) is a Spanish journalist author film director and Culture Manager.
Devon Lee.  Devon Lee (born August 8 1975) is an American pornographic actress. She began appearing in adult films in around 2005 while at the age of about 30 and she has since appeared in over 300 movies. She has also been a feature dancer since about 1998.She married porn actor Marcus London on January 14 2007 in Las Vegas after they had been dating for around eight months.
Dhruba Hazarika.  Dhruba Hazarika (Assamese: ধ্ৰুৱ হাজৰিকা) (born 1956) is an Indian novelist who writes in English and hails from Assam. He is the author of A Bow String Winter. He lives in Guwahati.
Helidon Xhixha.  Helidon Xhixha is an artist born in 1970 in Durrës Albania. He lives and works in Milan and Dubai.
Seton Daunt.  Seton Daunt is a guitar player and songwriter best known as lead guitarist for the British rock band Fiction Plane.
Kathleen Parlow.  Kathleen Parlow (September 20 1890 Fort Calgary Alberta — August 19 1963 near Toronto Ontario) was a child prodigy with her outstanding technique with a violin which earned her the nickname The lady of the golden bow. Although she left Canada at the age of four and did not permanently return until 1940 Parlow was sometimes billed as The Canadian Violinist.
Jerry DeWitt.  Jerry DeWitt is an American author and public speaker and a prominent member of the American atheism movement. He is a former pastor of two evangelical churches who publicly deconverted to atheism in 2011. DeWitt is the former executive director of Recovering From Religion a group which helps people find their way after a loss of faith.
Jatin Das (painter).  Jatin Das (Oriya: ଯତୀନ ଦାସ)(born 1941) is an Indian painter and sculptor.
Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum.  Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (4 August 1899 – 1978) was a noted 20th-century poet in three languages: Urdu Punjabi and Persian. Tabassum (or Tabussum) was the pen name by which he was universally known.He is best known for his many poems written for children as the creator of the Tot Batot character and as the translator of many poetical works from Urdu and Persian into Punjabi.
David L. Hough.  David L. Hough (born 1937) is an American writer on motorcycle rider safety education and training. He has been or currently is a columnist for Motorcycle Consumer News Sound RIDER! and BMW Owners News magazines and has several published books. He has won the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Excellence in Motorcycle Journalism award twice.He has also designed a rider skills course for sidecar riders.
Kurupt.  Ricardo Emmanuel Brown (born November 23 1972) better known by his stage name Kurupt is an American rapper actor and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records. He is a member of the rap group Tha Dogg Pound and is mostly known for his work with Death Row Records. He is also a member of the hip-hop supergroup The HRSMN.
Hittman.  Brian Bailey (born 1974) better known by his stage name Hittman is an American rapper. Hittman joined Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment in 1998 and although he has released a solo album Hittmanic Verses Hittman is best known for his contributions to Dr. Dre's multi-platinum selling album 2001 with appearances on 10 of the album's 22 tracks. This makes him the most represented of 2001's more than twenty guest artists.
Shahram Shabpareh.  Shahram Shabpareh (Persian: شهرام شب پره‎) (born March 11 1948 in Tehran) is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter.
Christian Chamorel.  Christian Chamorel (born in Lausanne 1979) is a Swiss pianist.He was trained at Lausanne Munich and Zürich's Conservatories graduating in 2004 and 2006; while a student he was prized by the Yamaha Leenaards and Kiefer Hablitzel foundations. He has performed through Western Europe since.
Duncan Barrett.  Duncan Barrett is a writer and editor who specialises in biography and memoir. He was born in Islington London in 1983 and went to City of London School from 1994 to 2001 before studying English at Jesus College Cambridge where he served as Film Editor of student newspaper Varsity. He is the author of Star Trek: The Human Frontier co-written with his mother Michele Barrett and published by Polity Press in 2000.
Pier Francesco Mola.  Pier Francesco Mola called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque mainly active around Rome.
Oliver Fartach-Naini.  Oliver Fartach-Naini (born 1964) is a German guitarist living in Australia where he teaches at the Elder Conservatorium of Music University of Adelaide.
Bob Ezrin.  Robert Alan Bob Ezrin (born March 25 1949) is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist best known for his work with Lou Reed Alice Cooper Kiss Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel. As of 2010 Ezrin's career in music had spanned four decades and his production work continued into the 21st century with acts such as Deftones and Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Oswald Bruce Cooper.  Oswald Bruce Cooper (13 March 1879 - 17 December 1940) was an American type designer lettering artist graphic designer and teacher of these trades.
Philly Joe Jones.  Joseph Rudolph Philly Joe Jones (July 15 1923 – August 30 1985) was a Philadelphia-born American jazz drummer known as the drummer for the first Great Miles Davis Quintet. He was often confused with another influential jazz drummer Jo Jones. The two died only a few days apart.
Nora O'Connor.  Nora O’Connor is a Chicago-based musician whose vocal talents are the secret weapon behind some of the city’s best performances and recordings. For much of 2013 O'Connor toured internationally as a singer in Iron and Wine and she continues to record and perform with longtime collaborator Andrew Bird.
Doug Powell (musician apologist).  Doug Powell (born Douglas William Powell 9 October 1965 in Concord Massachusetts) is an American musician Christian apologist author graphic designer and programmer.
Alberto Valdivia Baselli.  Alberto Augusto Valdivia Baselli (Lima February 24 1977) is a Peruvian poet essayist literary scholar and specialist in Peruvian culture.
Angharad James.  Angharad James (1677–1749) was a farmer a harpist and a poet.
Gerardo Núñez.  Gerardo Núñez Díaz (born 1961) is a Spanish guitarist and composer. His roots lie in flamenco but he has also ventured into fusion with other genres especially jazz.
Ettore Cercone.  Ettore Cercone (Messina November 21 1850- Sorrento September 12 1896) was an Italian painter mainly of female figures seascapes. and orientalist subjects.He was an officer of the Italian Royal Navy but retired to dedicate himself to painting.
Andrew Kennaway Henderson.  Andrew Kennaway Henderson (25 May 1879 – 17 January 1960) was a New Zealand clerk illustrator cartoonist editor and pacifist. He was born in London England. He was imprisoned twice as a conscientious objector in the War and drew numerous cartoons from a socialist point of view.
Connie Cato.  Connie Cato (born March 30 1955) is a country music singer. Signed to Capitol Records Cato released three albums in the 1970s and several singles including the top twenty hit Hurt in 1975. She stopped recording in the early 1980s.
Teoman (singer).  Fazlı Teoman Yakupoğlu (born on 20 November 1967 in Istanbul Turkey ) using the stage name Teoman is a popular Turkish acoustic rock singer and song-writer. His biggest hits include Paramparça (All In Pieces) Senden Önce Senden Sonra (Before You After You) 17 and Papatya (Daisy). On Papatya Turkish female rock singer Özlem Tekin features as backing vocals.
Scotti Hill.  Scotti Hill (born Scott Lawrence Mulvehill on May 31 1964 in Manhasset New York) is one of the guitarists in the band Skid Row.He was also in the band Ozone Monday with singer Shawn McCabe current Skid Row members guitarist Dave The Snake Sabo and bassist Rachel Bolan and former Skid Row drummer Rob Affuso.
Lovemore Majaivana.  Lovemore Majaivana Tshuma (born 1954) commonly known as Lovemore Majaivana is a Zimbabwean musician arguably the most popular Ndebele singer and by far the most prominent to have come out of Bulawayo. He earned the stage name 'Majaivana' (which means good dancer) for his exceptional dancing.
Aldir Blanc.  Aldir Blanc (born Aldir Blanc Mendes on September 2 1946) is a famous Brazilian author of crônicas (journalistic vignettes chronicles) and lyricist. He co-composed many songs with singer-songwriter João Bosco guitarist Guinga and others.Elis Regina recorded several of his songs most notably O bêbado e a equilibrista.
Astrid Chan.  Astrid Chan (born July 8 1969 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong actress and host.
Francis Fuller the Younger.  Francis Fuller the younger (1670–1706) was an English medical writer.Fuller was the second son of Francis Fuller nonconformist divine and his wife Bridget. He was born at Bristol and entered at St. John's College Cambridge in 1687. He graduated B.A. at Cambridge in 1691 and M.A. in 1704. He had severe hypochondriasis following his too vigorous external treatment of an attack of itch.
Mark Balderas.  Mark Henry Balderas born September 10 1959 in Encino California was the keyboard player for the rock band Human Drama from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 2005.
JME (rapper).  Jamie Adenuga (born 4 May 1985 in Hackney London) better known by his stage name JME is an English grime artist with African roots from Nigeria. He is the co-founder of the crew and label Boy Better Know. Adenuga was previously part of the grime crew Meridian along with his brother Joseph Adenuga (also known as Skepta). As well as working with Boy Better Know Adenuga now focuses mainly on his own solo ambitions.
Jim Gérald.  Jim Gérald (4 July 1889 – 2 July 1958) was a French actor.Gérald was born Gérald Ernest Cuénod in Paris and died in Paris in 1958.
Arj Barker.  Arjan Singh (born August 12 1974) known by the stage name Arj Barker is an American stand-up comedian and actor from San Anselmo California. He has toured in the United States Australia New Zealand and Europe. He was born to an engineer father and artist mother and is half-Indian half-European. His father is of Sikh heritage.
Thomas Attwood Walmisley.  Thomas Attwood Walmisley (21 January 1814 – 17 January 1856) was an English composer and organist.
Johann Gottlob von Quandt.  Johann Gottlob von Quandt (9 April 1787 – 19 June 1859) was a German artist art scholar and collector. Von Quandt was born at Leipzig. He had met and corresponded with Goethe. Some of his own works are exhibited in the Tower of Fresken at the town of Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach near Dresden. He died in Dresden.Gottlob von Quandt never received any formal education. He did however study under people like Johann Friedrich Rochlitz C. de Renty and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
Kazuki Kosakai.  Kazuki Kosakai (小堺一機 Kosakai Kazuki) (January 3 1956 - ) is a Japanese comedian and actor from Ichikawa Chiba. He is attached to Asaikikaku.
Margi Preus.  Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She was a runner-up for the 2011 Newbery Medal and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.She graduated from Binghamton University.She teaches at The College of St. Scholastica University of Minnesota Duluth.She lives in Duluth Minnesota.
Burton Frasher.  Burton Frasher (July 25 1888 - April 24 1955) was a California photographer and publisher of Mid-Century Modern ephemera. Burton Frasher was considered America's Southwest most prolific photographer at Mid-Century. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West have been widely reproduced.After years of traveling while working in the fruit packing industry he and his wife Josephine opened a photo shop in La Verne California in 1914.
Killa Tay.  Killa Tay is an American rapper from Fresno California.
Joe Stilgoe.  Joe Stilgoe (born 29 May 1979) is a British singer pianist and songwriter.
Norman Evans.  Norman Evans (11 June 1901 – 25 November 1962) was a variety and radio performer born in Rochdale Lancashire England.Evans was discovered by fellow Rochdale entertainer Gracie Fields. The act for which he is best remembered was Over the Garden Wall in which he played Fanny Fairbottom a toothless hatchet-faced Lancastrian housewife gossiping over a garden wall The routine was the inspiration for Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough's later Cissie and Ada characters.
Prapanchan.  Prapanchan (Tamil: பிரபஞ்சன்) is the pseudonym of S. Vaidyalingam (Tamil: சாரங்கபாணி வைத்தியலிங்கம் b. 27 April 1945) a Tamil writer and critic from Pondicherry India.
Caroline Finkel.  Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London. Her book Osman's Dream History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 was published by John Murray in England in 2005 and by Basic Books in the United States (ISBN 0-465-02396-7). A Greek translation appeared in 2007 Dutch in 2008 and Russian in 2010.
Patrick Corbin (dancer).  Patrick Corbin (born Potomac Maryland) is an American dancer and founder of CorbinDances.
Carolyn Franklin.  Carolyn Ann Franklin (May 13 1944 – April 25 1988) was an American singer and songwriter daughter of prominent preacher C. L. Franklin and younger sister of musician Aretha Franklin.
Ian Bairnson.  Ian Bairnson (born 3 August 1953 Lerwick Shetland Isles Scotland) is a Scottish musician famous for being one of the core members of The Alan Parsons Project. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has played saxophone and keyboards although he is best known as a guitarist.
Luis Cobos.  Luis Cobos is a Spanish composer conductor and musician. He is chairman of the management entity performers (AIE) and the Chairman of the Board of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. He was married to the singer Ángel (Spanish singer).
Marc Antoine (musician).  Marc Antoine (born 28 May 1963 in Paris France) is a jazz fusion guitarist. Marc currently resides in Madrid Spain. His guitar play style is based on Roma music.
Jon Kral.  Jon Kral (born 1946) is a photographer born in Florida and presently living in Boone North Carolina. He is best known for his documentary photography of Florida's dying breed of cowboys in the 1999 book Cracker: Florida's Enduring Cowboys. Kral worked for 32 years as a photographer for The Miami Herald in Miami Florida.On the web: http://www.kralphoto.com.
Enella Benedict.  Enella Benedict (December 21 1858 – April 6 1942) was an American realism and landscape painter. She taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a founder and director for nearly 50 years for the Art School at the Hull House.
Gil Ofarim.  Gil Doron Reichstadt Ofarim (born 13 August 1982 in Munich Bavaria) is a German singer songwriter and occasional actor. He is currently also known as the lead singer of the bands Zoo Army and Acht.
Bruno Vogel.  Bruno Vogel (1898–1987) was a German pacifist and writer.
Aleksander Fredro.  Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic verse (Zemsta) and in prose (Damy i Huzary) as well as fables belong to the canon of Polish literature.
Rosela Gjylbegu.  Rosela Gjylbegu (pronounced [ɾɔsɛːla ɟylbɛːɡʊ]; born 13 March 1987 in Shkodër Albania) is an Albanian singer.
Chris Chaney.  Christopher A. Chaney (born June 14 1970) is an American musician. He is best known as the current bassist of alternative rock band Jane's Addiction and as a member of Alanis Morissette's touring and recording band for seven years. Chaney is also a member of Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders and Camp Freddy.
W. F. Morris.  Walter Frederick Morris (31 May 1892–1975) was an English novelist best known for his mystery novel Bretherton (1929) set in World War I. Critic A.C. Ward praised this as an adventure-mystery war-novel with an admirably ingenious and leak-proof plot.
Gongchan.  Gong Chan Shik (Hangul: 공찬식; hanja: 孔燦植; born August 14 1993) better known by his stage name Gongchan is a South Korean idol and the maknae of boy band B1A4. He made a debut on the stage of MBC Show! Music Core on April 23 2011. He has been part of four mini albums and two official Korean albums and one official Japanese album.
Delkash.  Delkash (Persian: دلکش‎) Esmat Bagherpour Baboli (Persian: عصمت باقرپور بابلی‎) born in Babol (February 26 1924 – September 1 2004) was an Iranian diva and actress with a rare and unique voice and vocal range.
Hassan Poladi.  Hassan Poladi (also referred to as Hassan Foladi) was the writer of The Hazaras a book about Hazara people. Poladi was born in Agil-i-Hussani Alamdar Road Quetta a second Generation Hazara in Quetta. He grew up and got his early education from local schools and colleges and did his BSc (Honors) from University of Sind. He later got admission to university of Philippines Manila and did his MA.
Umar Kayam.  Umar Kayam was an Indonesian sociologist and writer born in Ngawi East Java on April 30 1932 and died on March 16 2002. He began his education at Hollands Inlands School (HIS) Mangkunegoro Surakarta where his father also taught. He continued his education at MULO(Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs) then also continued studying language at a high school in Yogyakarta until 1951.He graduated from the Faculty of Education at Gadjah Mada University (1955) received a M.A.
P. P. Ramachandran.  P. P. Ramachandran is a Malayalam poet. His poems are collected in two books Kanekkane (Thrissur: Current Books) and Rantay Murichathu (Cut into Two) (Thrissur: Current Books).He is a high school teacher in A.V.High School ponnani.He is living in vattamkulam a small town in malappuram district.His collection Kanekkane has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for poetry in the year 2003. [1]
Harlem Yu.  Harlem Yu (traditional Chinese: 庾澄慶; simplified Chinese: 庾澄庆; pinyin: Yú Chéngqìng; born 28 July 1961) is a Chinese-Taiwanese Golden Melody Award-winning singer-songwriter. He was the first artist to experiment with the style of R&B and rap in Chinese music. He has released 15 studio albums. His contribution to the Asian music industry has earned him the reputation of 'God of Pop Music'. Apart from music Yu also hosts television variety shows.
Bill Plympton.  Bill Plympton (born April 30 1946) is an American animator graphic designer cartoonist director screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts Guard Dog Guide Dog Hot Dog and Horn Dog.
Edna Buchanan.  Edna Buchanan (born March 16 1938 or 1939) is an American journalist and writer best known for her crime mystery novels.
Bernard Grebanier.  Bernard Grebanier (March 8 1903 – March 1977) was an American drama historian critic writer and poet most notable for his studies of the works of William Shakespeare.Grebanier was a professor of English at Brooklyn College from 1926 until 1964.
Adrian Aeschbacher.  Adrian Aeschbacher (10 May 1912 in Langenthal Switzerland – 9 November 2002 in Zurich) was a Swiss classical pianist.His father was Carl Aeschbacher. His youth was spent at Trogen where his father was professor of piano at the Conservatoire and his father was his instructor from the age of four to sixteen. His teachers were Emil Frey (at the Zürich Conservatory) and Volkmar Andreae.
Tom Barman.  Thomas Andrew Barman normally known as Tom Barman (born 1 January 1972) is a Belgian musician and film director.Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in Brussels but didn't finish his studies because he wished to pursue a career in music.In 1989 he began by forming the rock band Deus in Antwerp. Although he had chosen music over his interest in film his experience aided him in directing his own music videos for Deus and he made a short film in 1996 titled Turnpike.
Alexei Eriomin.  Alexei Grigorievich Eriomin (Russian: Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Ерё́мин; March 17 1919 – June 11 1998) - Russian Soviet realist painter People's Artist of the Russian Federation who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad).
Judge Dread.  Alexander Minto Hughes (2 May 1945 – 13 March 1998) better known as Judge Dread was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica and the BBC has banned more of his songs than any other recording artist due to his frequent use of sexual innuendo and double entendres.
Eve von Bibra.  Eve Sarah von Bibra (born 27 June 1966) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. From 1986 to 1991 she was a member of the pop group Chantoozies as one of four female lead vocalists. She co-wrote their hit Wanna Be Up which peaked in the top 10 on the ARIA Singles Chart in July 1988. Von Bibra acted in the 2006 movie Kenny playing Jackie – a flight attendant and the title character's love interest.
Matt Wilson (musician).  Matt Wilson is a singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Trip Shakespeare. While Wilson was an English concentrator at Harvard he met John Munson and Elaine Harris and formed the band Trip Shakespeare. After the breakup he was a drummer for a Minneapolis band called Polara.
Marek Pająk.  Marek Pająk (born November 26 1977) is a Polish musician and guitarist. In 2010 he joined death metal band Vader.Pająk was endorsed by Ibanez guitars. He currently uses Schecter Guitars and DL David Laboga Cabinets.
Alesha Dixon.  Alesha Anjanette Dixon (born 7 October 1978) is an English singer dancer rapper model and television presenter. She found fame in the all-female R&B/garage trio Mis-Teeq; however the trio separated in 2005 and Dixon continued pursuing her music career as a solo artist signing to Polydor Records.
David Glen Eisley.  David Glen Eisley (born September 5 1952) is an American rock singer and actor.Eisley was born in Los Angeles California and is the son of actor Anthony Eisley and Judith Tubbs Eisley; both parents are deceased. While in high school he played drums for the band Mammoth an Iron Butterfly cover band. He is most well known for being the lead singer for the AOR bands Sorcery (1980-1983) Giuffria (1983–1988) and Dirty White Boy (1988–1991).
Cheryl Lanham.  Cheryl Arguile née Lanham (b. November 10 1948 in Richwood West Virginia USA) is an American writer under her maiden name Cheryl Lanham and under the pseudonyms Sarah Temple and Emily Brightwell.
V. S. Pargaonkar.  V. S. Pargaonkar (Devanagari: वि. शं. पारगावकर) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.He wrote twenty-five books including novels and collections of his short stories critiques and essays.
Robert Vattier.  Robert Vattier (2 October 1906 – 9 December 1982) was a French actor.
Ignace Dubus-Bonnel.  Ignace Dubus-Bonnel (born in Lille France) was a Parisian craftsman who most notably was the first to get a patent for a method of creating and weaving glass threads the predecessor of fiberglass in 1836.
Rafael Ríos Rey.  Rafael Ríos Rey (28 July 1911 - April 1980) was a Puerto Rican muralist. He is credited with being the first Puerto Rican muralist whose work received international recognition.
James Fearnley.  James Fearnley (born 9 October 1954 Worsley) is an English musician. He plays accordion in the folk/punk band The Pogues.
AnaROBIK.  anaROBIK is the name given to an electropop computer-generated female vocalist created by British programmer Robert Hedin and accompanied by American multi-instrumentalist Bobby Trempealeau of Minneapolis Minnesota.ana as the character is called was created using Zero-G Ltd's Vocaloid software and specifically the Lola voice.
David Ellis Dickerson.  David Ellis Dickerson is an American author humorist and contributor to National Public Radio's This American Life. He is creator of the Web series Greeting Card Emergency where he writes greeting cards for unusual situations.
Danielle Licari.  Danielle Licari (born 11 November 1943) is a French singer who was active in the 1960s and 1970s. She's now remembered in France as a backing vocalist in chanson.
Shin Won-ho.  Shin Won-ho (신원호) is a South Korean actor member and Face of The Group of Cross Gene who is best known for his role as Kang Kyung-joon in KBS Big
Jon Coffelt.  Johnny Lee Coffelt born (May 16 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints sculpts sews makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.
Bear McCreary.  'Bear' McCreary (born February 17 1979) is an American composer and musician living in Los Angeles California. He is best known for his work on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series and for the TV series The Walking Dead. McCreary won an Emmy for his main title of Da Vinci's Demons.
Al B. Romano.  Al B. Romano born April 23 1965 in Yonkers New York is a musician. At age 14 he was taught guitar by Leslie West of Mountain.
Eiki Matayoshi.  Eiki Matayoshi (又吉栄喜 born July 15 1947) is a contemporary Japanese writer from Okinawa Japan.His novels are always set in the Okinawa archipelago and he is considered one of the most important contemporary novelists from Okinawa.One of his earliest novels Jōji ga shasatsu shita inoshishi (ジョージが射殺した猪 - The Wild Boar that George Shot) published in 1978 became very famous for being inspired by a true controversial story.
JB Baretsky.  JB Baretsky (born June 9 1987) is a Popular Jazz singer-songwriter from Long Island New York. He records and performs classic standards from the Great American Songbook covers of contemporary music and original material. He has gained accolades and a growing fan base without having yet released an official album. His album Less Is More is projected for release in 2013.
Nanette Lepore.  Nanette Lepore (born in 1964 in Youngstown Ohio) is a well-known fashion designer based in New York City. New York magazine has said that her gypsy-influenced designs are feminine and youthful. The looks are full of bold colors and bright prints with ruffles and lace that manage to look good-time-girly but not overly frilly.
Clive Turnbull.  Stanley Clive Perry Turnbull (22 December 1906 – 25 May 1975) was an Australian author and journalist.He was born in Glenorchy in Tasmania. He joined The Mercury newspaper as a reporter in 1922 and then moved to Melbourne where he worked on The Herald. He is best known for his book Black War that examined the extermination of Indigenous Australians in Tasmania. He also wrote a series of biographies.
Deborah Copaken Kogan.  Deborah Copaken Kogan (born March 11 1966) is an American author and photojournalist.
Qin Yi.  Qin Yi (born January 31 1922) is a Chinese film and drama actress famous for her stage performances during the 1940s. Her husband is Jin Yan who was known as the China film emperor in the 1930s and 40s. She is considered one of the four great drama actresses in 1940s China (四大名旦) along with Bai Yang Shu Xiuwen and Zhang Ruifang.
Anne Bishop.  Anne Bishop is an American fantasy writer. Her most noted work is The Black Jewels Trilogy. She lives in upstate New York. She won the Crawford Award in 2000 for the first three novels in her The Black Jewels series: Daughter of the Blood Heir to the Shadows and Queen of the Darkness.
Alfredo Aceto.  Alfredo Aceto (born 1991) is a visual artist based in Switzerland. Aceto was born in Turin Italy.He studied fine arts at ECAL. His practice is defined by constant narration and humor. Alfredo Aceto works on the paradox of immortality and its impossibility. His work has been shown at institutions and galleries such as Museo del Novecento Blancpain Art Contemporain and Luce Gallery.
Beth Taylor.  Beth Taylor (born October 14 1954 in New Orleans Louisiana) is an American author public relations practitioner and journalist who has worked as a television sportscaster newscaster producer and director as well as a general assignment reporter in both print and broadcast mediums. Taylor became Mississippi's first female television sportscaster when hired by WDAM-TV (an NBC affiliate) in Laurel-Hattiesburg Mississippi.
SunMin.  SunMin (Hangul: 선민 Katakana: ソンミン born August 4 1987) is a South Korean singer who speaks and sings in Korean Japanese and English. She debuted in 2006 with the single Keep Holding You a collaboration with the Japanese R&B singer Toshinobu Kubota. Her career was initially focused on the Japanese market but her work became focused on Korea from 2009 to 2010. She also contributed to the OSTs of Korean dramas Master of Study and Gloria (2010 TV series).
Stanisław Szukalski.  Stanisław Szukalski (December 13 1893 – May 19 1987) was a Polish-born painter and sculptor who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. He also developed the pseudoscientific-historical theory of Zermatism positing that all human culture was derived from post-deluge Easter Island and that mankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of Yeti (Yetinsyny) the offspring of Yeti and humans. He illustrated this theory in his works.
Scott Ottaway.  Scott Ottaway (born c.1972) is an English drummer and percussionist. He is the drummer for veteran Merseybeat band The Searchers replacing Eddie Rothe in February 2010.
Sharon Louden.  Sharon Louden (born 1964) is an American artist known for her whimsical use of the line. Her paintings drawings animations sculpture and installations are often centered around lines or linear abstractions and their implied or actual movement. Through her work she creates what she calls anthropomorphic individuals. Although abstract and formal she feels they have human-like aspects within their minimal state made of simple line and gesture.
Giovanni Antonio Rigatti.  Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613 – 24 October 1648) was an Italian composer and choirmaster of the early Baroque period.Rigatti received his musical training as a choirboy at St. Mark's Basilica in 1621 as well as in one of the conservatories of Venice. He also received training to become a priest. From September 1635 to March 1637 he was kapellmeister in the Udine Cathedral. In 1639 he worked at the Conservatory of the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.
Fabian Varesi.  Fabian Varesi (Necros) is the keyboardist and main composer of the Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires. He also performs backing vocals for the band along with Zimon Lijoi and Gabriel Valerio. He joined the band in 1997. Fabian can also play the electric and bass guitars but his skill in them is not strong enough to be on stage so when composing he often only plays long enough to get the idea to the player who will take it to the stage.
Slim Newton.  Ralph Ernest Slim Newton (born 22 October 1932) is a country music singer-songwriter. In June 1972 he issued an extended play The Redback on the Toilet Seat which peaked at No. 3 on the Go-Set National Top 40 Singles Chart and sold over 100000 copies. In 1973 Newton won a Golden Guitar Trophy at the inaugural Country Music Awards of Australia for Top Selling Record for the EP.
Zhu Shenghao.  Zhu Shenghao (Chinese: 朱生豪; pinyin: Zhū Shēngháo) (February 2 1912 - December 26 1944) was a Chinese translator. Born in Jiaxing Zhejiang Province of China he was among the first few in China who translated the works of William Shakespeare's into Chinese language. His translations are well respected by domestic and overseas scholars.He was married to Song Qingru (Chinese: 宋清如) in Shanghai on May 1 1942. He died on December 26 1944 due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 32.
Frank Shifreen.  Frank Shifreen (born February 29 1948) is an American artist curator and teacher. Shifreen played a significant part in the art movement of New York City in the early 1980s organizing massive artist-run shows that brought thousands of people to Gowanus Brooklyn. Since then he has organized socially conscious art exhibitions across the United States and abroad including From the Ashes a massive exhibition organized in the aftermath of 9/11.
Shahyar Ghanbari.  Shahyar Ghanbari (Persian: شهیار قنبری‎ also spelled as Shahyar born 28 July 1950 in Tehran) is an Iranian lyricist songwriter and singer of Persian pop music.Shahyar is the son of Hamid Ghanbari; Iranian actor dubber and singer. He writes and sings in Persian English and French. His songs typically feature Love Solitude and nostalgia.
Peter Sempel.  Peter Sempel is a film maker and photographer.
Endy Chow.  Endy Chow Kwok Yin is a Hong Kong singer & composer. His family immigrated to New Zealand when he was 13 and went to Japan to further his studies when he was 19. Endy married a Korean girl he met while studying in Japan and together they have two daughters.At 15 he formed a band with friends (including current members of Climax) naming it Zarahn after the band's first guitar teacher. Thereafter Zarahn composed more than 100 songs.
Daniel H. Wilson.  Daniel H. Wilson (born March 6 1978) is a New York Times best selling author television host and robotics engineer. Wilson is a contributing editor to Popular Mechanics magazine called the Resident Roboticist. He currently resides in Portland Oregon. His most recent novel published on June 5 2012 is Amped.
Criolo.  Criolo (São Paulo September 5 1975) is a Brazilian singer of rap and soul real name Kleber Cavalcante Gomes. With a career starting in 1989 he was originally known in Brazil as the creator of Rinha dos MC's but has recently gained worldwide attention for his solo work and in particular the album Nó Na Orelha.
Bleubird.  Jacques Bruna (born 1982) better known by his stage name Bleubird is an American rapper originally from Fort Lauderdale Florida.
Gary Wright.  Gary Malcolm Wright (born April 26 1943) is an American singer songwriter and musician best known for his 1976 hit songs Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive and for his role in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock and pop music. Wright's breakthrough album The Dream Weaver (1975) came after he had spent seven years in London as alternately a member of the British heavy rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records.
Tony Webster (screenwriter).  Tony Webster (d. 26 June 1987; Hollywood Los Angeles California) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter.
Larry Berrio.  Larry Berrio (born Larry Barriault on June 18 1968 in Sudbury Ontario Canada) is a Canadian country music singer. Berrio's debut album RPM was released in March 2009 by 306 Records. The album was produced and recorded with Gil Grand and Brady Seals together with band members from Jason Aldean's band in Nashville. He was the featured artist online CMT from July 13 to 26 2009.
Can Yücel.  Can Yücel (1926 İstanbul - August 16 1999 Datça) was a Turkish poet noted for his use of colloquial language.
Lydia Denker.  Lydia Denker (born 25 December 1982 in Germany) is a singer songwriter from Melbourne Victoria Australia. Lydia grew up in the town of Neidermittlau. When she was eight she moved to Melbourne.She released her first single Real to Me in 2000 followed by One Perfect Day in 2004 which charted at #35 on the ARIA charts. In 2012 Denker released her EP Voices along with the single Voices (In Your Head) which was also remixed by DJ Argonaut in 2013.
John Boswell.  John Eastburn Boswell (March 20 1947 – December 24 1994) was a prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of religion and homosexuality specifically Christianity and homosexuality.Born in Boston Massachusetts Boswell studied at the College of William & Mary where he converted to Roman Catholicism. His first book The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century appeared in 1977.
Loren Spears.  Loren Spears is an educator essayist artist and two-term Tribal Councilwoman of the Narragansett Tribe in Charlestown Rhode Island where she currently resides. She is a graduate of Chariho Regional High School. Loren has taught for over two decades including 12 years in the Newport Public School system working with at-risk children.
Charles Maclaren.  Charles Maclaren FRSE FGS (7 October 1782 – 10 September 1866) was a Scottish journalist and geologist. He co-founded The Scotsman newspaper and edited the 6th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
K. P. Narayana Pisharody.  K.P. Narayana Pisharody (കെ.പി.നാരായണ പിഷാരോടി) (August 23 1909 – March 20 2004) was a Sanskrit scholar teacher and writer of Kerala India. He was born on August 23 in 1909 in Kodikkunnu near Pattambi in Palakkad district to Puthisseri Pasupathi Namboothiri and Narayani Pisharasyar. He learned Sanskrit from the renowned scholars Punnasseri Nambi Neelakanta Sharma of Pattambi and Attoor Krishna Pisharody.
Dan Hurlin.  Dan Hurlin is an American puppeteer and performance artist.
George Birkbeck Norman Hill.  George Birkbeck Norman Hill (7 June 1835 – 24 February 1903) English editor and author.
Hyakuzō Kurata.  Hyakuzō Kurata (倉田 百三 Kurata Hyakuzō 23 February 1891 - 12 February 1943) was a Japanese essayist and playwright on religious subjects that was active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
Giorgio Vasari.  Giorgio Vasari (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzari]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter architect writer and historian most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters Sculptors and Architects considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
Milt Herth.  Milton Milt Herth (November 3 1902 – June 18 1989) was an American jazz organist known for his work on the Hammond organ soon after it was introduced in 1935. Herth's work is available from his recordings of the 1930s and 1940s.
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.  Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842) also known as Madame Lebrun was a French painter and is recognized as the most important female painter of the 18th century.Her style is generally considered Rococo and shows interest in the subject of neoclassical painting. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassist however in that she creates mostly portraits in Neoclassical dress rather than the History painting.
John Buscema.  John Buscema born Giovanni Natale Buscema (December 11 1927 – January 10 2002) was an American comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate.
Bowie Wu.  Bowie Wu Fung is a Hong Kong actor and director with family roots in Guangdong China. A matinee idol in the 1950s and 1960s he began his acting career in 1953 becoming an overnight success with his debut film Mens' Hearts. In his long career he has starred opposite many of Hong Kong cinema's leading ladies of particular note being his many collaborations with Josephine Siao in 1960s musicals. Roles for which he earned the nickname the Dance King for his dancing skills.
Asuka Fujimori.  Asuka Fujimori Katakana:アスカ・フジモリ Hiragana: あすか ・ふじもり Kanji:藤森明日香(Fujimori Asuka) (Tokyo 1978) is an alleged Japanese female novelist who writes in the French language. Many of the her works include political satire and crime fiction. Her satirical stories in particular generally take place in twisted fictional settings where she blends her acerbic narrative with grotesque black comedy.
Marion Peck.  Marion Peck (born October 3 1963 Manila the Philippines) is a pop surrealist painter based in the United States.
Josey Scott.  Josey Scott (born Joseph Scott Sappington May 3 is the former lead vocalist of Post-grunge/hard rock band Saliva. In addition to Saliva Scott co-wrote and performed Hero (which was used as one of the theme songs to the 2002 film Spider-Man) with Chad Kroeger of Nickelback.
Hanne Hukkelberg.  Hanne Hukkelberg (born 17 April 1979) is a singer-songwriter from Kongsberg Norway.Hukkelberg started singing and playing instruments at the age of 3. In her youth she was a vocalist covering genres such as jazz rock and free jazz and was also a member of the influential doom metal band Funeral in high school in which she contributed vocals on their second album In Fields of Pestilent Grief. She earned her degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
Maria Vidal.  Maria Vidal (born Maria Elena Fernandez-Vidal on August 1 1960) is an American singer-songwriter who had one hit single with the song Body Rock (#48 on the Hot 100) (the theme song to the film Body Rock) in 1984; it also reached #8 on the US dance charts #5 in South Africa and #11 in the UK.
Sean T.  Sean Miguel Thompson better known by his stage name Sean T is an American rapper and record producer from East Palo Alto California. Throughout his career both as a rapper and a producer he has released seven solo albums two albums with his group Murder One Gangstas and has worked with some of California's top rappers including E-40 C-Bo and 3X Krazy.
Jules Deelder.  Julius Anton (Jules) Deelder (born 24 November 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch poet and writer. His poems cover topics such as life in the city of Rotterdam drug use and jazz. He is well-known in the Netherlands for his live performances and appearances in Dutch popular media. He collaborated with musicians and bands such as Herman Brood Benjamin Herman and Bas van Lier to record and perform his poetry.
Vlada Divljan.  Vladimir Vlada Divljan (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Дивљан) is a Serbian singer and songwriter. He is known as the frontman for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Idoli one of the bands which initiated the Yugoslav New Wave on the music and cultural scene of the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s as well as for his solo works.
David Barr Kirtley.  David Barr Kirtley (born 1977) is an American short story writer and the co-host of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
Atsushi Sakurai.  Atsushi Sakurai (櫻井 敦司 Sakurai Atsushi born March 7 1966 in Fujioka Gunma Japan) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He has been the vocalist for the rock band Buck-Tick since 1985 previously being their drummer from 1983. He was also a member of Schwein with Hisashi Imai (Buck-Tick) Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM) and Raymond Watts (PIG).
Alexander Brener.  Alexander Davidovich Brener (Russian: Александр Бренер) born 1957 in Alma-Ata is a Russian-Jewish performance artist a self-described political activist.
Lakshmi Raj Sharma.  Lakshmi Raj Sharma (Hindi: लक्ष्मी राज शर्मा) (born 1954) is an Indian author novelist and academician. He teaches English literature and literary theory. He is currently a Professor at the Department of English and Modern European Languages at the University of Allahabad Allahabad. Recently his novel The Tailor's Needle was published. A few other books are also to his credit. He is also an active blogger.
Philipp Grot Johann.  Philipp Grot Johann (also Philipp Grotjohann) (born June 27 1841 Stettin (Szczecin); died October 26 1892 Düsseldorf) was one of the most prominent German illustrators of his time. He illustrated numerous editions of world-class literature but is probably best known for his illustrations of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Carsten Bo Eriksen.  Carsten Bo Eriksen alias MBD73 (born 2 October 1973 in Copenhagen Denmark) is a Danish 21st-century composer and artist.
John Ringo.  John Ringo (born March 22 1963) is an American science fiction and military fiction author. He has had several New York Times best sellers. His books range from straightforward science fiction to a mix of military and political thrillers. To date he has over three million copies of his books in print and his works have been translated into seven different languages.
Mike McMahon (comics).  Michael (known as Mike or Mick) McMahon is a British comics artist best known for his work on 2000 AD characters such as Judge Dredd Sláine and ABC Warriors and the mini-series The Last American.His influences include Victor de la Fuente Hugo Pratt Gino d'Antonio Don Lawrence Joe Colquhoun and Harvey Kurtzman.
Daisy Dee.  Desiree Rollocks (also known as Daisy Dee born September 4 1970) is Dutch singer actress and TV host especially well known in the German-speaking world.
Vivienne Tam.  Vivienne Tam (Chinese: 譚燕玉; pinyin: Tán Yànyù) is a fashion designer based in New York City. She was born in Guangzhou China and moved to Hong Kong at the age of three. She attended the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.Tam's fashion brand is named after her and is inspired by Chinese culture design and modern fashion; East meets West. The theme of her first collection was EAST WIND CODE.Her shops can be found in most major cities around the world.
Pappo.  Norberto Aníbal Napolitano aka Pappo was an Argentine rock musician (La Paternal Ciudad de Buenos Aires Argentina 10 March 1950 – Luján Buenos Aires Province 24 February 2005).
Dan Vado.  Dan Vado (born September 9 1959) is a comic book publisher and writer and a fixture of the independent comics community. Vado is the owner president and publisher of Slave Labor Graphics.
María Chacón.  María Chacón (born María Fernanda Chacón Romo July 10 1991) is a Mexican actress and singer who gained fame after appearing in Código F.A.M.A.. She was born in Baja California.
Nina Selivanova.  Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova (1886 – Died November 7 1953) was a noted author lecturer and translator.
Alison Van Pelt.  Alison Van Pelt (born September 16 1963 Los Angeles) is an American painter. Trained in Los Angeles and Florence Van Pelt is established as a contemporary artist whose work is informed by expressionism minimalism and pop art.
Andy Sneap.  Andrew Ian Sneap (born 18 July 1969 in Belper Derbyshire ) is an English record producer recording engineer mixer guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for producing and mixing many acclaimed heavy metal albums.
David Brewerton.  David Brewerton (born February 25 1943) is an English author and journalist. He was born in London England which is still his home city. He was educated in the East End of London at Coopers' Company School.
Jesse Freidin.  Jesse Evan Freidin (born 1981 in Boston MA) is a fine art dog photographer using traditional film-based processes. He is best known for creating a series of photos of dogs dressed in costumes like those worn by Lady Gaga. This 'Doggie Gaga Project' was an overnight international media sensation and was linked online on hundreds of sites including Entertainment Weekly MTV TMZ and The Sundance Channel. The project was also featured on ABC’s Live! With Regis & Kelly.
Leo Sidran.  Leo Sidran is a musician composer performer and producer whose credits include producing the Oscar-winning soundtrack for the movie The Motorcycle Diaries.Sidran began his career in music early. Having learned to play the drums from funk-jazz percussionist Clyde Stubblefield he toured as a teenager with veteran rock star Steve Miller. The Steve Miller Band recorded Sidran's songs before he had graduated from high school.
JS Clayden.  JS Clayden (born Jonathan Seth Clayden on 24 March 1971 in London England) is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as the frontman of the band Pitchshifter. He moved to several towns in the United Kingdom settling in Nottingham England for a number of years before emigrating to Los Angeles California. He's also the brother of Pitchshifter's bassist Mark Clayden.
Yumi Nakashima.  Yumi Nakashima (中島優美 Nakashima Yumi born December 1 1979) is a Japanese vocalist guitarist singer-songwriter. She is a guitarist vocalist and composer of Japanese rock band GO!GO!7188 under the name; Yuu (ユウ). She is also a songwriter composer guitarist and vocalist of her side band Chirinuruwowaka. On March 1 2004 she released solo album Ten no Mikaku under the name; Yuu (ゆう).
Dick McBride (poet).  Richard William Dick McBride (May 8 1928 – August 28 2012) was an American beat poet playwright and novelist. He worked at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers from 1954 to 1969.
Aleah Chapin.  Aleah Chapin (born March 11 1986) is an American painter who won the BP Portrait Award in 2012.
Gor Sujyan.  Gor Sujyan (Armenian: Գոռ Սուջյան born 25 July 1987) is an Armenian rock singer and lead singer of the Armenian rock band Dorians. Gor will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö Sweden with the song Lonely Planet.
Renée Morisset.  Renée Morisset OC CQ (June 13 1928 – May 3 2009) was a Canadian pianist. She and her husband Victor Bouchard were one of the foremost piano duo in Canadian classical music.
Francisque Millet.  Francisque Millet (1642 Antwerp – 1679 Paris) also known as Jean-François Milée or Millet I was a Flemish-French landscape painter of the Baroque era.
Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk.  Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk (born 28 September 1957 Kjeldebotn Ballangen Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) and music pedagog. Known from a series of concerts festival performances and records with the likes of DumDum Boys Thorgeir Stubø Frode Alnæs Palle Mikkelborg Terje Bjørklund Vigleik Storaas Bjørn Alterhaug Nils Petter Molvær Knut Riisnæs John Pål Inderberg Sondre Meisfjord Jan Gunnar Hoff Kjersti Stubø and Henning Sommerro.
Sharon Hayes (artist).  Sharon Hayes is an American multimedia artist. She came to prominence as an artist and an activist during the East Village scene in the early '90s. She primarily works with video installation and performance as her medium. Using multimedia she appropriates rearranges and remixes in order to revitalize spirits of dissent. An exhibition of Hayes's work entitled There's So Much I Want to Say to You was shown at the Whitney Museum in the summer of 2012.
Dave Keuning.  David Dave Brent Keuning (born March 28 1976) is the guitarist for the American rock band The Killers.
Jug Suraiya.  Jug Suraiya is a prominent Indian journalist author and columnist. He is best known as a satirist and columnist. Suraiya is a former editorial opinion editor and associate editor of the Times of India.He is Delhi-based and schooled at La Martiniere Calcutta.
Michael Aaron Dennis.  Michael Aaron Dennis is an American author. He received a doctorate in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University (1991). Conducted a postdoctoral fellowships at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and the UCSD. Dennis has contributed over two dozen articles to the online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica including the entry on Wikipedia.
Nacho Vidal.  Ignacio Jordà González aka Nacho Vidal (born 30 December 1973) is a Spanish pornographic actor director producer writer and camera operator.
Maria Zambaco.  Maria Zambaco (29 April 1843 London – 14 July 1914 Paris) born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti (sometimes spelled Maria Tepsithia Kassavetti or referred to as Mary) was an artist and model favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites.
Mickey G..  Mickey G. (born November 9 1959 in Los Angeles California United States) is a pornographic actor. He began appearing in adult films in around 1994 and has since appeared in over 550 movies.
Doug Stegmeyer.  Douglas Alan Doug Stegmeyer (December 23 1951 — August 25 1995) was an American musician who was best known as the bassist and back-up vocalist for Billy Joel.
Neal Shusterman.  Neal Shusterman (born November 12 1962) is a popular and successful American author of Young Adult literature.
Isaac Hayes III.  Isaac Lee Hayes III also known as Ike Dirty (born June 10 1975) is a record producer and voice-over actor who currently resides in Atlanta Georgia. He is the son of the late soul musician and actor Isaac Hayes who died in 2008. Hayes operates a production company called Chartcontrol and a publishing company called IKE Father IKE Son Music. He is most known for producing the Lil Scrappy song Money In The Bank and the Ying Yang Twins song Drop.
Coo Coo Cal.  Calvin Bellamy better known as Coo Coo Cal is an American rapper. He is perhaps best known for his number-one rap single My Projects.Coo Coo Cal's first album Walkin' Dead was released independently in 1999. The album got him noticed by Tommy Boy Records who signed Cal to a recording contract. Tommy Boy released Cal's second album Disturbed on September 18 2001. The album spawned Cal's most successful single to date My Projects which topped the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart.
Memphis Willie B..  Memphis Willie B. (November 4 1911 – October 5 1993) was an American Memphis blues guitarist harmonica player singer and songwriter.He was known for his work with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters the Memphis Jug Band and his resurgence in the 1960s after years away from the music industry. He recorded The Stuff Is Here and Stop Cryin' Blues.
M. Craig Barnes.  M. Craig Barnes (born 1955 or 1956) is an American Presbyterian Church clergyman author and in 2013 was installed as president of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Raoul Schrott.  Raoul Schrott (born 17 January 1964) is an Austrian poet writer literary critic translator and broadcast personality.Schrott was raised in Tunis where his father served as an Austrian sales representative. Raoul attended the universities of Norwich Paris Berlin and Innsbruck. He completed a thesis on Dada 1921 – 1922 in Tirol. He translated Homer's wrtitings into colloquial German. In 2008 he was appointed Visiting professor by the Free University Berlin. He lives in Austria.
Annabel Linquist.  Annabel (Bel) Linquist is an American artist entrepreneur musician and producer. Bel is the creator of Book Report a New York Times featured startup that became popular by circulating a reincarnated series of Summer Guides that started as an underground Vanity Fair project. Linquist is also known for her work with Sony Ericsson's global promotional campaign for the Xperia Arc helping to win a prestigious Webby Award in the Integrated Mobile Experience category in London and New York.
Antony Gormley.  Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998 Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool and Event Horizon a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007 around Madison Square in New York City in 2010 and in São Paulo in 2012.
Eric Brittingham.  Eric Brittingham (born May 8 1960 in Salisbury Maryland) is an American bass guitarist most famous for playing in the band Cinderella.
Koen Vanmechelen.  Koen Vanmechelen (born Sint-Truiden August 26 1965) is a Belgian multi- and transdisciplinary artist who began his career in the early nineties. He is one of the most prolific and prominent contemporary artists in Belgium.
Suraj Sanim.  Suraj Sanim is an Indian screen writer. He has written screenplays dialoges and stories of many Hindi and Punjabi films like Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh (1999) Sukhmani: Hope for Life (2010).
Walter Jackson (singer).  Walter Jackson (March 19 1938 – June 20 1983) was an American soul ballad singer who had a string of hits on the US R&B chart between the mid-1960s and early 1980s. His biggest successes included It's All Over in 1964 It's An Uphill Climb To The Bottom in 1966 and Feelings a cover of the Morris Albert pop hit in 1976.
Rafael Peñas Cruz.  Rafael Peñas Cruz (b. March 1 1964 in Spain) has been a novelist since 2004. He was born in Pozoblanco in Cordoba in Spain.
Fernando Egozcue.  Fernando Egozcue (Buenos Aires 1959) is an Argentinian guitarist and composer.
Gisselle.  Gisselle Ortíz Cáceres known simply as Gisselle (born March 28 1969 in New York City U.S.) is a Puerto Rican Merengue singer.
Richard Standing.  Richard Standing is a British actor born in Yorkshire in 1969 who has appeared on the TV series Holby City Coronation Street and The Grand. He played the part of Danny Hargreaves in Coronation Street from 1999-2001.
Maki Nomiya.  Maki Nomiya (野宮真貴 Nomiya Maki born March 12 1960 in Kushiro Hokkaido) is a Japanese singer and musician. She released her first solo album in 1981 and worked through the 1980s as the lead vocalist of the New Wave band Portable Rock (ja). In 1991 she became the lead singer of the band Pizzicato Five. When the group disbanded in 2001 she embarked on a solo career.
Richard Holmes (biographer).  Richard Holmes OBE FRSL FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
Vishalakshi Dakshinamurthy.  Vishalakshi Dakshinamurthy (Kannada: ವಿಶಾಲಾಕ್ಷಿ ದಕ್ಷಿಣಾಮೂರ್ತಿ) is a notable Kannada Writer/novelist. She is also a recipient of Aryabhata Award for her literary contribution to Kannada novel and cinema.She has a 64 novels to her credit. Most of her novels were ran as soaps for poupular magazines like Sudha Taranga. Her novels are based on family values and traditions of Karnataka.
Dave Douglas (trumpeter).  Dave Douglas (born March 24 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer whose music derives from many non-jazz musical styles including classical music folk music from European countries and klezmer. He has been a member of the experimental big band Orange Then Blue. Douglas is currently the director of the Festival of New Trumpet Music which is held annually in New York City.Since 1993 Douglas has recorded more than twenty albums as a bandleader.
Donna Summer.  LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31 1948 – May 17 2012) known by her stage name Donna Sommer later Donna Summer was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach #1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period.
Dan Regan.  Dan Regan was the trombone player for the Southern California-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish. He joined the band in 1994 and retired in October 2013. Regan has also played trombone in The Littlest Man Band with Scott Klopfenstein (formerly of Reel Big Fish) and currently has a hip-hop side project under the alias Black Casper.
Janine Burke.  Janine Burke (born 2 March 1952 in Melbourne Australia) is an author art historian biographer and award-winning novelist. She also curates exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. Currently Dr Burke is Adjunct Lecturer School of Languages Literatures Cultures and Linguistics Monash University and Honorary Senior Fellow Victorian College of the Arts the University of Melbourne.
Paul Murry.  Paul Murry (November 25 1911 – August 4 1989) was an American cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his Disney comics which appeared in Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 to 1984.Like many Disney comic book artists Murry started his career working at the Walt Disney Studios. During his time there he was an assistant to legendary animator Fred Moore.
Samantha Ryan.  Samantha Ryan (born March 3 1978 in Kansas) is an American pornographic actress.
Tim Allen.  Timothy Alan Dick (born June 13 1953) known professionally as Tim Allen is an American comedian actor voice-over artist and entertainer. He is known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement. He is also known for his starring roles in several popular films including the Toy Story film series (as the voice of Buzz Lightyear) The Santa Clause film series and Galaxy Quest. Since 2011 he has starred as Mike Baxter in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing.
Jeff Duff.  Geoff Jeff Stephen Duff or Duffo (born 1956) is one of Australia's most eccentric performers; he began his musical career in Melbourne in 1971 as lead singer of jazz-rock fusion band Kush and later fronted various self-named groups. Duff relocated to London in 1978 as the waif-like androgynous oddball Duffo. His single Give Me Back Me Brain peaked in the top 100 on the United Kingdom (UK) mainstream charts in 1979.
Alison Castle.  Alison Castle is an American photographer and book editor who most prominently worked on The Stanley Kubrick Archives for Taschen She is also the editor of Linda McCartney's Life in Photography Some Like It Hot and Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made all published by TASCHEN.She studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University and received her graduate degree in photography and film from the New York University/International Center of Photography masters program. 
Shripad Hegde.  Pandit Shripad Hegde (Kannada: ಶ್ರೀಪಾದ ಹೆಗಡೆ ) is an Hindustani Classical Vocalist (born on 1 January 1957) who hails from Kampli of Uttara Kannada District is on the staff of All India Radio Dharwad since 1987.
Benjamin Bradley (pornographic actor).  Benjamin Bradley is an American pornographic film actor and who appears in magazines. Bradley was a spokes model for Ginch Gonch underwear.
Courtney Johnson (musician).  Courtney Johnson (December 20 1939 - June 6 1996) was an American banjo player best known for his work as an original member of the band New Grass Revival. Influenced by Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys Johnson is often considered to be an inventor of the newgrass style of banjo playing polished and improved later on by such personalities as Béla Fleck Alison Brown Scott Vestal of Sam Bush Band and Jens Krüger of Krüger Brothers.
Luke Mejares.  Michael Luke Mejares (born June 26 1975 in Tagbilaran Bohol Philippines) is a Filipino singer-songwriter.
Carman (singer).  Carmelo Domenic Licciardello (born January 19 1956) known by his stage name Carman is a contemporary Christian music artist and evangelist.
Matt Hyde (British producer).  Matthew Paul Hyde is a British record producer mix engineer and musician. In 2008 he provided mix engineering with Colin Richardson on Slipknot's Grammy Award-nominated albums All Hope Is Gone and 9.0: Live. His studio is based in London.
Andrzej Dobber.  Andrzej Dobber (born May 28 1961 in Więcbork Poland) is an operatic baritone.Andrzej Dobber studied singing under Prof. Helena Lazarska at the Academy of Music in Krakow and continued his training at the Nuremberg Conservatory. He came second in both the 1983 International Dvorák Competition in Karlsbad and in the 1986 Ada Sari Competition for the Vocal Arts in Poland.
David Hare (playwright).  Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright screenwriter and theatre and film director.
Muriel Segal.  Muriel Segal is an English author and journalist.She was born in London but educated in New York Sydney and Paris. She worked on a farm in New Zealand and while there became a foreign correspondent and also a founder of the Women's Press Club.
Cary Lu.  Cary Lu (December 4 1945 – September 23 1997) was a writer specialising on the Apple Macintosh platform.
Andrea Renzullo.  Andrea Renzullo (born on 2 March 1996 in Sundern North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer and was a participant who finished fourth in season 4 of Das Supertalent.
Omar Hakim.  Omar Hakim (born February 12 1959 in New York City USA) is an American jazz jazz fusion and pop music drummer. Hakim credits jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri with giving him his first break in 1980; Hakim appeared in a video with Mainieri called The Jazz Life and began working with singer Carly Simon through Mainieri.
Thérèse Albert.  Madame Albert (c. 1805-1846) was a French actress whose maiden name was Therese Vernet.
Tim Knol.  Tim Knol (born September 12 1989 in Hoorn) is a Dutch singer-songwriter.
Ektor.  Ektor Rivera (born as Héctor Rivera Alicea on February 11 in Bayamón Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer host actor and painter more known for being one of the finalists of the first season of reality/talent show Objetivo Fama.
Mayumi Gojo.  Mayumi Gojo (五條 真由美 Gojō Mayumi born February 12 1972) is a Japanese singer from Ibaraki Prefecture. She formerly worked under Hyper Voice Managements. Currently she is affiliated with the Love&Light talent management agency. Gojo is known for her theme song performances for anime series such as Ojamajo Doremi Pretty Cure and Yumeiro Patissiere. She has performed as part of Project.R and also provides backup chorus for other artists.
Matthew Dear.  Matthew Dear (born April 4 1979 Kingsville Texas United States) is an American music producer DJ and electronic avant-pop artist.
Michalis Kouinelis.  Michalis Kouinelis (Greek: Μιχάλης Κουϊνέλης born March 1979 in Alexandroupoli Greece) also known as Methysos or Meth is a Greek hip hop singer member of the hip hop group Stavento.
Mohinder Pratap Chand.  Mohinder Pratap Chand is an Urdu writer and poet of India who has promoted Urdu language and literature in India. In Kurukshetra University (India) he initiated the Bazm-e-Adab (a literary body) and introduced the study of Urdu in the University Curriculum where he taught Urdu as Teacher In-charge for 26 years. He is the author of over one dozen Urdu and Hindi books both in poetry and prose including children's literature in Urdu.
Sara Tavares.  Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares (born February 1 1978) is a Portuguese singer composer guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon Portugal where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent she composes African Portuguese and North American influenced world music. She composes in Portuguese and Portuguese-based creole languages.
Tamar Kaprelian.  Tamar Kaprelian (Armenian: Թամար Գաբրելեան) is an Armenian American musician and singer. She is best known for her single New Day and for winning the OneRepublic Apologize Cover Contest in March 2008.
Erik Brann.  Erik Keith Brann (August 11 1950 – July 25 2003) born Rick Davis and also known as Erik Braunn was an American guitarist with the 1960s acid rock band Iron Butterfly. He is featured on the band's greatest hit the 17-minute In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968) recorded when he was 17.A Boston Massachusetts native and a violinist Brann was accepted as a child into the prodigy program at the Boston Symphony Orchestra but was soon lured away to become a rock guitarist joining Iron Butterfly at 16.
Richard Croft (tenor).  Richard Croft is an American opera singer who is often characterized as a lyric tenor or Mozart tenor.Richard Croft debuted in the United States (including at the Metropolitan Opera the Houston Grand Opera the Washington Opera and Dallas) by singing the major roles of Mozart and Rossini before being invited on the leading international stages (Salzburg Festival Paris Opera Staatsoper Berlin Zurich Opera Glyndebourne Festival Theater an der Wien among others).Richard Croft is Professor of Voice at the University of North Texas College of Music since 2004.His brother Dwayne Croft is an operatic baritone. 
Terry Denton.  Terry Denton (born 1950) is an Australian illustrator and author. The second youngest of five boys he was born and grew up in Melbourne Victoria. Denton now lives in Mornington Victoria.Denton has written and illustrated more than 30 of his own books and illustrated numerous others for many notable Australian authors.
Tommyknocker (producer).  Tommaso Marra (born January 20 1977 in Rome Italy) best known as Tommyknocker is a Hardcore producer and DJ.
Demas Nwoko.  Demas Nwoko (born 1935) is a Nigerian artist protean designer and architect. As an artist he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate the African subject matters in most of his works. In the 1960s he was a member of the Mbari club of Ibadan a committee of burgeoning Nigerian and foreign artists. He was also a lecturer at the University of Ibadan.
Giuseppe Puricelli.  Giuseppe Puricelli (Gallarate Lombardy 1825 - Casirate d'Adda 1894) was an Italian painter in oil and watercolor mainly of landscapes and outdoor and countryside genre scenes.He was a resident of Milan much of his life. At 1872 in Milan he Cascinale and a canvas of a Girl at Work. In 1877 at the Exposition of Naples he displayed Water and Bread; in 1880 at Turin Va il pensiero come l'altalena; and in 1881 at Milan he displayed Una stalla and Alla memoria del figlio.
Kim Chi-ha.  Kim Ji-ha (Korean: 김지하 1941-) is a Korean poet and playwright.
Sara Martins.  Sara Martins (born 19 August 1977 in Faro Portugal) is a French-Portuguese actress.She is known in France for her roles on television and in film and theatre. In 2011 she appeared as Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey alongside Ben Miller in the first and second series and Kris Marshall in the third series in the joint British-French crime comedy-drama Death in Paradise which is filmed in Guadeloupe a French overseas department.
Agnes Pihlava.  Agnieszka Agnes Pihlava (born Polish: Agnieszka Ćwiklińska; born on March 19 1980 in Leszno Poland ) is a singer who rose to popularity after placing fourth in Idols Finland 2 the Finnish version of Pop Idol. She is currently living in Hartola Finland
Emilio Salgari.  Emilio Salgari (Italian pronunciation: [eˈmiljo salˈɡari] but often erroneously pronounced [ˈsalɡari]; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.For over a century his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures. In Italy his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante. Today he is still among the 40 most translated Italian authors.
Vesa Ranta.  Vesa Ranta is a Finnish drummer. He was one of the original members of the band Sentenced. and has formed a new band named The Man Eating Tree. He is also a fine art photographer and owner of the Nuclear Nightclub live music club and bar in downtown Oulu.
Ed McGuinness.  Edward Ed McGuinness is an American comic book artist and penciller best known for his work on books such as Superman Superman/Batman Deadpool and Hulk. His pencil work is frequently inked by Dexter Vines and as such their cover work is known to carry the stylized signature EdEx. McGuinness frequent collaborator writer Jeph Loeb had characterized McGuinness' art style as incorporating elements of artists Jack Kirby and Arthur Adams.
Joe Boyd.  Joe Boyd (born August 5 1942) is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned Witchseason production company and Hannibal Records. Boyd has played a crucial role in the recording careers of Pink Floyd Fairport Convention Sandy Denny Richard Thompson Nick Drake The Incredible String Band Vashti Bunyan John and Beverley Martyn Maria Muldaur Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Muzsikás.
Jonathan Berger.  Jonathan Berger (born New York 1954) is an American composer. His works include orchestral chamber vocal choral and electro-acoustic music. He has been commissioned by several chamber ensembles and has enjoyed commissions and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts the Bourges Festival Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Chamber Music America. Berger’s recent commissions include a violin concerto a piano trio and his fourth string quartet.
Keiko Terada.  Keiko Terada (寺田恵子 Terada Keiko born 27 July 1963) is a Japanese rock singer. She was co-founder and lead singer of the successful Japanese female hard rock and heavy metal band Show-Ya from 1982 to 1991 before going solo. On her solo albums she expanded from hard rock and heavy metal to blues pop and soul. Terada's trademark for many years was a fake rose tattoo she wore above her right breast.
Franziska von Reitzenstein.  Franziska Freifrau von Reitzenstein née von Nyss alias Franz von Nemmersdorf (September 19 1834 – June 4 1896) was a German novelist.
Drag-On.  Mel Jason Smalls (born January 4 1979) better known by his stage name Drag-On is an American hip hop recording artist and actor from the Bronx borough of New York City. Drag-On is perhaps best known as an original member of the Ruff Ryders Entertainment imprint where he released his 2000 debut album Opposite of H2O.
Waise Lee.  Waise Lee Chi-hung (born 19 December 1959) is a Hong Kong film and television actor best known for playing the roles of villains and antagonists in various films.
Lucy Gordon (writer).  Lucy Gordon is the pseudonym used by Christine Sparks Fiorotto a popular British writer of more than 75 romance novels. She began working on a British women's magazine but since 1984 she published her romance novels in Silhouette Books and now also in Mills & Boon (or Harlequin Enterprises in USA).
Chad Henry.  Chad Henry (October 9 1946-) is an American composer actor lyricist playwright and author. He has written over twenty shows that premiere in his home state Washington.
Cameron Carpenter.  Cameron Carpenter (born April 18 1981 as Taylor Cameron Carpenter) is an American organist known for his virtuosity showmanship technique and arrangements for the organ.
Tommy Ambrose.  Tommy Ambrose (born Thomas Ambrose 19 October 1939 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.He was a gospel music singer in his youth performing on radio stations such as CFRB and CKEY and at Youth for Christ events. In adulthood he adopted mainstream musical styles and subject matter and was featured in national television programmes such as CBC's Cross-Canada Hit Parade in the late 1950s and into the 1960s.
Neako.  Neako Bailey (born April 23 1986) better known by the stage name Neako is an American rapper producer and songwriter. He released his debut album The Rubix Cube: Red Edition in 2007 on his own imprint World Team Olympics (currently LVLYSL). He was signed to Taylor Gang Records and Gramercy Records in 2011 subsequently leaving the former in 2012. He released the mixtape The Number 23 as a free download in October 3 2011.
Andy Summers.  Andrew James Andy Summers (born 31 December 1942) is an English multi-instrumentalist born in Poulton-le-Fylde Lancashire England. Best known as the guitarist for rock band The Police he has also recorded twelve solo albums collaborated with many other artists toured extensively under his own name published several books and composed several film scores. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Summers as the eighty fifth greatest guitarist of all time.
Mateo Romero (artist).  Mateo Romero (born 1966) is a Native American painter. He was born in Berkeley California and is a member of the Cochiti Pueblo.
Joe Copcutt.  Joe Copcutt (born August 2 1988 from London England) is an English metal bassist. He is a founding member of ZOAX and bassist of AxeWound.
Frank Chiaramonte.  Francisco Frank Chiaramonte (June 5 1942 – January 1983) was a Cuban-American comic book artist best known as an inker for DC Comics and Marvel Comics from 1972 to 1982.
Annabel Maule.  Annabel Maule (born 1922) is a British film and television actress.
Zedd (musician).  Anton Zaslavski (born 2 September 1989) known primarily by his stage name Zedd is a Russian-German musician electronic music producer and DJ. He primarily produces in the electro house genre but has branched out drawing influences from progressive house dubstep and classical music. Zedd grew up and began his career in Kaiserslautern Germany.
Maggie Reilly.  Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956) is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. Most notably she performed lead vocals on Oldfield's songs Family Man and Moonlight Shadow international hits in the early 1980s.
Paul Timman.  Paul Patterson Timman (born September 26 1972) is an American tattoo artist and award winning dinnerware designer. Paul's tribal designs hand painted tattoo work in movies and celebrity clients have made him one of the giants in the industry called the 'Rembrandt of Sunset Strip' by the Wall Street Journal. Timman's work has been featured in tattoo magazines in the USA and internationally including: Inked (magazine) Tattoo Magazine and Skin Art.
Barry Oakley.  Barry Kingham Oakley (born 24 February 1931) is an Australian writer.
Tristan Boyer Binns.  Tristan Boyer Binns is a children's non-fiction author and photographer who writes for five- to sixteen-year-olds. She is currently an Iyengar yoga teacher. Tristan now lives in the U.S.A. and is married with two children Her books cross many subjects such as history science and biography.
Darrell Sweet (musician).  Darrell Antony Sweet (16 May 1947 – 30 April 1999) was a drummer for the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth. He was a co-founder of Nazareth which was formed in 1968.
Eldon Hoke.  El Duce redirects here. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was known as Il Duce.Eldon Wayne Hoke (March 23 1958 — April 19 1997) was an American musician. Nicknamed El Duce he was best known as the drummer and lead singer of the self-described rape rock band The Mentors. He was part of other acts including The Screamers before that.
Glyn Johns.  Glyn Thomas Johns (born 15 February 1942 Epsom Surrey) is an English musician recording engineer and record producer.
Dany (comics).  Dany pseudonym for Daniel Henrotin (born 28 January 1943) is a Belgian comic book artist best known for Olivier Rameau and Ça vous intéresse?.
Gerald Eckert.  Gerald Eckert (born 27 December 1960) is a German composer cellist and painter. He currently lives in Eckernförde.
Ivar Medaas.  Ivar Medaas (April 9 1938 – January 7 2005) was a Norwegian folksinger and fiddle player. He is best known for his 1963 song Dar Kjem Dampen written by Ragnvald Hammer.
Jenny Scheinman.  Jenny Scheinman is an accomplished violinist. Renowned as a jazz violinist she has credits with artists in many genres. She has collaborated and played with Linda Perry Norah Jones Nels Cline Lou Reed Ani Difranco Bruce Cockburn Aretha Franklin Lucinda Williams Bono Bill Frisell the Hot Club of San Francisco and Allison Miller. She has produced several critically acclaimed CDs of her own including 12 Songs named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2005 by the New York Times.
Christopher Myers.  Christopher Myers is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. In 1998 Myers won a Caldecott Honor for his illustrations in Harlem. The following year he wrote and illustrated Black Cat a book that received a Coretta Scott King Award (2000). In addition to writing and illustrating his own stories Myers often illustrates books written by his father award-winning author Walter Dean Myers.Christopher's books also include lies and other tall tales.
Yan Bingliang.  Yan Bingliang (Chinese: 严丙量; pinyin: Yán Bǐngliàng) is a Singaporean actor. A veteran actor he entered the entertainment industry in 1984 after finishing SBC's 5th drama training course. He is known by his own generation for his role in Neighbours the longest running drama in SBC/TCS/MediaCorp history and for playing villains. He left MediaCorp at the end of 2010 citing health reasons. Outside the entertainment industry Yan is also a real estate agent.
Sharon Shinn.  Sharon Shinn (born 1957) is an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. Her works include the Shifting Circles Series the Samaria Series the Twelve Houses Series and a rewriting of Jane Eyre Jenna Starborn. She works as a journalist in St. Louis Missouri and is a graduate of Northwestern University.Shinn is a die-hard St. Louis Cardinals and St.
George Canyon.  George Canyon (born Frederick George Lays; August 22 1970) is a Canadian country music singer. He was runner up Nashville Star 2 in 2004. He grew up in Fox Brook Pictou County Nova Scotia and later lived in Hopewell Nova Scotia (where he still owns land) before he moved west. He currently lives in High River Alberta. He also holds an appointment in the Canadian Forces as the Colonel Commandant of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
Felix Schlag.  Felix Oscar Schlag (September 4 1891 – March 9 1974) was the designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004.He was born to Karl and Teresa Schlag in Frankfurt Germany and moved to the United States in 1929. As a teenager Schlag served in the German army of World War I.On April 21 1938 Schlag's design for the Jefferson nickel was selected by Nellie Tayloe Ross Director of the United States Mint.
A. E. W. Mason.  Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich London – 22 November 1948 London) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers.
Vaughan King.  Vaughan King (born 1982) is an English singer-songwriter for punk/blues bands 'NED' and 'Dirt Diggers'. He is currently living in Camden London.In late 2007 he formed a band that went by the name of Vaughan King and his Riff Raff. The band originally consisted of two cellists a double bass player and the customary instrumentation of drums and guitars. However after turning to a more blues inspired set the band separated.
Alexander Druzhinin.  Alexander Vasilyevich Druzhinin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Дружи́нин) (October 20 1824 – January 31 1864) was a Russian writer translator and magazine editor.
Valeria Lynch.  María Cristina Lancelotti (January 7 1952 Buenos Aires) better known by her stage name Valeria Lynch is an Argentine singer and actress.
Nigar Rafibeyli.  Nigar Khudadat qizi Rafibeyli (Azerbaijani: Nigar Xudadat qızı Rəfibəyli) (1913–1981 Baku) was Azerbaijani writer and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. She was the mother of Anar Rzayev novel and short-story writer and wife of famous writer and poet Rasul Rza.
Giacomo del Po.  Giacomo del Pó (1654 – 15 November 1726) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Palermo (other sources say Rome or Naples) the son of Pietro del Po.He first trained under his father but afterwards by Nicolas Poussin. He was admitted to the Roman Accademia di San Luca. He was chiefly occupied in decorating the mansions of the Neapolitan nobility with emblematical and allegorical subjects.
Serhii Vasylkivsky.  Sergei Ivanovich Vasilkovsky (Russian: Серге́й Иванович Васильковский Ukrainian: Сергій Іванович Васильківський pronounced [sɛrˈɦij ʋɑsɪlʲˈkiʋsʲkɪj]; October 19 1854 Izium — October 7 1917 Kharkiv) was one of the most prolific Ukrainian artists of the pre-revolutionary period and an expert on Ukrainian ornamentation and folk art.
Keiko Takahashi.  Keiko Takahashi (高橋惠子 Takahashi Keiko born January 22 1955 in Shibecha Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese actress. Prior to marrying director Banmei Takahashi in 1982 she went by her maiden name Keiko Sekine (関根恵子). She debuted in the 1970 film High School Student Blues which included topless scenes of the 15-year-old actress. Her second film おさな妻 earned her the Golden Arrow Award for Newcomer of the Year.
Ed Thigpen.  Edmund Leonard Ed Thigpen (December 28 1930 – January 13 2010) was an American jazz drummer best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965. Thigpen also performed with the Billy Taylor trio from 1956 to 1959.
Wang Jian (Qing dynasty).  Wang Jian (simplified Chinese: 王鉴; traditional Chinese: 王鑒; pinyin: Wáng Jiàn; Wade–Giles: Wang Jian); ca. 1598-1677 was a Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).Wang was born in Taicang in the Jiangsu province. His style name was 'Xuanzhao' (玄照) and his pseudonyms were 'Xiangbi' (湘碧) and 'Ranxiang anzhu' (染香庵主). Wang's precise color style of painting was influenced by Dong Yuan.
Patrick Grant (designer).  Patrick Grant (born 1 May 1972) is a British fashion designer and creative director of bespoke tailors Norton & Sons of Savile Row. After taking over Norton in 2005 he has been credited with rejuvenating the once ailing business. He relaunched E. Tautz & Sons as a ready to wear label in 2009 for which he was awarded the Menswear Designer award at the British Fashion Awards in 2010.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley.  Rosemary Ellen Guiley is an American researcher and writer on topics related to spirituality the occult and paranormal. A prolific writer she has written more than 45 books including ten encyclopedias.
Ivan Varichev.  Ivan Mikhailovich Varichev (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Ва́ричев; January 15 1924 Nizhnaya Loshikha Smolensk Province of the USSR) - Russian Soviet realist painter People's Artist of the Russian Federation who live and work in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad).
Józef Śliwiński.  Józef Śliwiński (b. Warsaw 15 December 1865; d. 1930) was a Polish classical pianist one of the outstanding interpreters of the poetic and romantic repertoire especially Chopin and Schumann. He was taught by Theodor Leschetizky and Anton Rubinstein. For many years he was professor of piano at the Riga Conservatory. He lived in Warsaw from 1918.A man of aristocratic bearing Śliwiński studied with Leschetizky in Vienna for four years before going on to have lessons from Rubinstein in St.
Sami Garam.  Sami Garam (born 31 October 1967 in Helsinki) is a Finnish cook and writer of Hungarian descent.The son of Károly and Sirkka Garam (née Saarikoski). Sami Garam's mother Sirkka Garam is a sister of the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski. Sami Garam's main profession is cooking and he has worked as chef in many restaurants receiving high acclaim for his food.
Scott Campbell (musician).  Scott Campbell (born March 17 1958) is an American musician composer and actor.
Nojus (musician).  Darius Mileris (born 5 April 1972) known by his stage name Nojus is a Lithuanian musician from Dublin Ireland. Prior to starting his solo career he was the songwriter lead singer and guitarist of the folk rock music band Airija. After Airija disbanded in 2000 Mileris continued to record and produce albums performing as a solo artist under name Nojus.Mileris has released five albums with Airija and eight albums to date.
Janne Wirman.  Janne Viljami Warman Warman (born 26 April 1979) is a Finnish musician; he is the keyboardist for the bands Children of Bodom and Warmen.
Sophie Calle.  Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer photographer installation artist and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives.
Sam Hamm.  Sam Hamm (born November 19 1955) is an American screenwriter. Hamm is perhaps best known for writing the screenplay for Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns. As a result of his work he was invited to write for the Batman feature in Detective Comics. The result was Batman: Blind Justice which introduced Bruce Wayne's mentor Henri Ducard who later appeared in Batman Begins. Hamm's other screen credits include Never Cry Wolf and Monkeybone.
Little Roy.  Little Roy (born Earl Lowe 1953 Witfield Town Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist.
Left Boy.  Ferdinand Sarnitz (born December 17 1988) known by his stage name Left Boy is an Austrian rapper singer and producer from Vienna Austria.
Herman Yau.  Herman Yau Lai-To (Chinese: 邱禮濤) born 1961 in Hong Kong is a film director actor cinematographer scriptwriter and film producer.
Salvatore Allegra.  Salvatore Allegra (1898–1993) was an Italian composer.Allegra was born in Palermo.
Gyula Zilahy.  Gyula Zilahy (January 22 1859 Zilah – May 16 1938 Budapest) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He co-directed several films with Alexander Korda in 1914-1915 including Korda's first film Watchhouse in the Carpathians. Gyula Zilahy was born on January 22 1859 in Zilah and his career began in 1876. From 1880 to 1884 he worked in Cluj-Napoca then in Debrecen (1885-1887) Szeged (1888).
Michael Tapper.  Michael Tapper is a member of Los Angeles band Fool's Gold. He was a member of the indie-rock band We Are Scientists with Keith Murray and Chris Cain until November 2007. He played the drums for the band and assisted with backing vocals.
Dan Fitzsimons.  Dan Fitzsimons (born February 26 1969) is an American screenwriter who has written a miniseries and two television movies. He co-wrote the miniseries Blackout (2012) and wrote the TV movie Desolation Canyon (2006). He received the story credit for Ring of Death (2008) and was an associate producer for the horror film The Season (2008) which was an official selection at Screamfest 2008. Raised in Janesville WI and attended Joseph A. Craig High School.
Donald Alarie.  Donald Alarie (born 1945 Montreal) is a writer from Quebec.He graduated from University of Montreal in 1971 and worked as a teacher for the school Cégep de Joliette from 1971 to 1997. He has written for several publications: Moebius Liberté Le Sabord Combats Estuaire Brèves littéraires XYZ La poésie au Québec.
B. A. Robertson.  B. A. Robertson (born Brian Alexander Robertson 12 September 1948 Glasgow) is a Scottish musician actor composer and songwriter.
George Burns 2nd Baron Inverclyde.  George Arbuthnot Burns Second Baron Inverclyde (17 September 1861 – 8 October 1905) was the owner of a Scottish shipping company. Burns was the elder son of John Burns First Baron Inverclyde (24 June 1829 - 12 February 1901).The Burns' fleet of ships amounted to over 100 vessels trading between the Clyde Ireland Liverpool and the Scottish Highlands.
Toyan.  Toyan aka Ranking Toyan (born Byron Letts died 1991) was a Jamaican reggae deejay active since the mid-1970s and best known for his early 1980s recordings.
Natalia Podolskaya.  Natalia Podolskaya (Natalla Padolskaja Belarusian: Натальля Падольская Russian: Наталья Подольская born May 20 1982) is a Belarusian singer that performed for Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest on May 21 2005 and was ranked No. 15. In 2008 she became a Russian citizen.
Sipan Shiraz.  Sipan Shiraz (Armenian: Սիփան Շիրազ) (1967 Yerevan - June 25 1997 Yerevan) was an Armenian poet sculptor and painter.
Ian Underwood.  Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player perhaps best known for his work with Frank Zappa.
Camomile Hixon.  Camomile Hixon is a pop artist based in Manhattan whose primary medium is glitter and paint on canvas. She is also the artist behind the worldwide interactive search for the Missing Unicorn covered by the Los Angeles Times. Hixon creates glitter environments and super-sized three-dimensional flower installations using cellophane.
Michael Paynter.  Michael Paynter (born 29 January 1986) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Paynter has released five singles Closer A Victim Song Love the Fall How Sweet It Is and Weary Stars. Paynter competed in the second season of The Voice Australia after being dropped from his record label and successfully made the Top 16 but did not advance to the Top 12.
Spensha Baker.  Spensha Baker is an American singer from Hampton Virginia who recently released her album Outloud!.She began her singing career as a contestant on Star Search in 2004 in a competition. Spensha Baker is a young talented artist whose style varies from strong gospel to soft R&B. Her recent album is called Outloud! In a recent interview she said “I named my album Outloud! because that is the way I live my life: Openly. I want to succeed and fail out loud.
Jon Foreman.  Jonathan Mark Foreman (born October 22 1976) is the lead singer guitarist main songwriter and co-founder of the decorated alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and bassist Tim Foreman (Jon's brother).Foreman was born in San Bernardino County California but his family moved to Massachusetts and Virginia Beach during his childhood. There he became fast friends with Todd Cooper who encouraged him to learn guitar.
Leon Koudelak.  Leon Koudelak is a Czech classical guitarist.He has toured internationally in most parts of Europe Asia and the Americas. He inspired the composer Michael Buchrainer to write guitar music. In addition to his concert career he co-founded the Liechtenstein Guitar Festival (Ligita) the Asia International Guitar Festival (AIGF) in Bangkok and the Pattaya International Guitar Festival.
Ardashes Harutiunian.  Ardashes Harutiunian (Արտաշէս Յարութիւնեան also used pen-names Manishak Ban Shahen-Garo and Garo 1873 Malkara near Rodosto Ottoman Empire - 16 August 1915) was an Ottoman Armenian poet a self-educated translator from French and literary critic who became one of the most outstanding intellectuals of his period.Since 1912 he lived in İstanbul where he worked as a teacher and contributed to Western Armenian newspapers.
Julieta Sciancalepore.  Julieta Sciancalepore (born June 6 1987) is an Argentine dancer from Concepción del Uruguay Entre Ríos Argentina who became known for being on the Argentine version of Bailando por un Sueño 2011.
Patrick Sweany.  Patrick Sweany (born April 1974) is a blues-rock musician from Massillon Ohio.
Karl Story.  Karl Story is an American comic book artist specializing in inking. He is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios.Over a career of almost two decades he has worked on books such as Nightwing Batman Star Trek: Debt of Honor Aliens versus Predator X-Men Wildstorm Summer Special Terra Obscura Tom Strong Ocean The American Way and Midnighter as well as many others.
Jean Leloup.  Jean Leclerc (born May 14 1961) is a Québécois singer-songwriter and author from Quebec Canada. He is popularly known as Jean Leloup (which he likes to translate to John the Wolf in English) a stage name he kept using until 2006 when he temporarily changed his name to Jean Leclerc only to resurrect his wolf character in August 2008. He is known for his colourful personality and unique musical style in the francophone rock community.
Nana (rapper).  Nana Kwame Abrokwa (born on 5 October 1968) is a Ghanaian born German rapper and DJ performing under the pseudonyms Nana or Darkman / Nana. Nana is not an actual first name but a Ghanaian title of nobility. His most important achievement came in the second half of the 1990s when his style was characterized as euro-rap.
William Orbit.  William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright 15 December 1956) is an English musician composer and record producer. In the early 1980s he formed synthpop act Torch Song with Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. In 1987 he released the first of his Strange Cargo album series containing ambient music.Towards the end of the 1990s Orbit started to work with bigger name artists producing songs on Ray of Light and Music by Madonna 13 and Think Tank by Blur and Saints and Sinners by All Saints.
Kissy Sell Out.  Kissy Sell Out born Thomas Bisdee on 18 June 1984 in Colchester Essex England is an English DJ producer and graphic designer. Kissy Sell Out gained notability in 2006 for his eccentric electro productions and energetic DJ style.
Régis Loisel.  Régis Loisel (born 4 December 1951) is a French comics writer and artist best known for the long-running series La Quête de l'oiseau du temps written by Serge Le Tendre.He worked with Walt Disney Studios on the animated films Atlantis and Mulan.
Jah Paul Jo.  Jah Paul Jo is a guitarist bass player singer and producer best known for creating the novelty band Dread Zeppelin. From 1983 to 1988 Jah Paul Jo as Severs Ramsey was the singer/bass player in The Prime Movers.
Catherine Coulter.  Jean Catherine Coulter (born December 26 1942) is an American author of romantic suspense thrillers and historical romances who currently resides in northern California.
Max Gaines.  Maxwell Charles Gaines (c. 1894 - August 20 1947) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book. Born Maxwell Ginsburg or Maxwell Ginzberg he was also known as Max Gaines M.C. Gaines and Charlie Gaines.In 1933 Gaines devised the first four-color saddle-stitched newsprint pamphlet a precursor to the color-comics format that became the standard for the American comic book industry.
Missy Monroe.  Missy Monroe (born August 22 1984 in Las Vegas Nevada) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. In 2006 Monroe made her directorial debut with Big Tit Whores.Monroe is also known for her ability to perform female ejaculation.
Andre Thierry.  Andre Thierry is a Grammy-nominated (2012 Best Regional Roots Music Album) Zydeco musician. He leads the band Zydeco Magic.Andre was born in Richmond California on July 9 1979 to Olivia “Tee” Guillory originally from Basile Louisiana and Gregory Thierry originally from Jennings Louisiana.
Carol Rich.  Carol Rich (born Anne-Lyse Caille 15 February 1962 Villorsonnens Fribourg) is a Swiss singer best known for her participation in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest.
Howard Scott Warshaw.  Howard Scott Warshaw (born July 30 1957) also known as HSW and The Silicon Valley Therapist is an American psychotherapist and former game designer who is best known for his work at Atari in the early 1980s. There he designed and programmed the games Yars' Revenge Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial all for the Atari 2600 video game console. He has also written two books as well as produced and directed three documentaries.
George Kohlrieser.  George A. Kohlrieser is an American-born clinical and organizational psychologist author speaker and consultant.
Bryson Graham.  Bryson Macrae Graham (September 1952 – 6 December 1993) was an English rock drummer most notable as a member of both Spooky Tooth and Girl and as a session musician.
Harry Owens.  Harry Owens (18 April 1902 – 12 December 1986) was an American composer bandleader and songwriter best known for his song Sweet Leilani.
James Lawrence Isherwood.  James Lawrence Isherwood (7 April 1917 – 9 June 1989) was an English artist born in Wigan Lancashire.Isherwood was a prolific impressionist/expressionist painter.He is known for his Wigan Style and Wigan figure paintings. These together with his London scenes Wigan street scenes are his most sought after works.Isherwood was a friend of the artist L. S. Lowry who purchased his Woman with Black Cat and displayed it at his home.
Ndre Mjeda.  Ndre Mjeda (November 20 1866 – August 1 1937) was an Albanian poet. He was influenced by the Jesuit writer Anton Xanoni and the Franciscan poet Leonardo De Martino.
Samiha Ayverdi.  Samiha Ayverdi (25 November 1905 – 22 March 1993) was a Turkish writer and Sufi mystic. She is the sister of architect and historian Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi.Samiha Ayverdi was born in İstanbul to Fatma Meliha Hanim and İsmail Hakkı Bey an Ottoman military official. She studied at Süleymaniye Kız Numune Mektebi and among other things learned French and read about philosophy and Islamic mysticism.
Kevin Ceballo.  Kevin Ceballo (born October 12 1977) is a singer of Salsa music of Puerto Rican descent.
Brian Fechino.  Brian Fechino is an American guitarist most known for being a member of the Pat McGee Band; for his own instrumental music being a studio musician and for being a music producer.
Fran Lebowitz.  Frances Ann Fran Lebowitz (born October 27 1950) is an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.
Kathleen Winter.  Kathleen Winter (born February 25 1960) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.
John Dollar.  John Dollar (born 1961 in Georgia) is an American artist best known for his contributions to a number of RPG settings during the mid 90s.
Thomas Hanzon.  Thomas Hanzon (born 20 June 1962) is a Swedish actor and stage actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. He was born in 1962 in Stockholm Sweden. He worked with Ingemar Bergman in both movies and on stage. He has two children with Swedish actress Lena Endre and is now engaged to Åsa Hultman and living in Stockholm.
Samantha Fox (pornographic actress).  Samantha Fox (born December 3 1951 New York City) is the stage name of Stasia Therese Angela Micula an American pornographic actress. She appeared in more than 100 pornographic films between 1977 and 1984. In 2003 she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.She was indicted in Utah in 1985 as part of a dial-a-porn phone sex operation by federal prosecutors.
Gustav Lange.  Gustav Lange (13 August 1830 – 20 July 1889) was a German composer.He was born in Schwerstedt near Erfurt Prussian Saxony in 1830. He produced a large number of works most of which were light and popular. The piano solos Edelweiss (Op. 31) and Blumenlied (Op. 39) alternatively known as Flower Song in English are perhaps two of his best-known works today.He died in Wernigerode in 1889.
Prideaux John Selby.  Prideaux John Selby (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist botanist and natural history artist.
Phil Beer.  Phil Beer (born 12 May 1953 Exminster Devon) is an English multi-instrumentalist composer producer and one half of English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.
Ironing Board Sam.  Ironing Board Sam (born 1939) is an American electric blues keyboardist singer and songwriter who has released a small number of singles and albums. Despite having several lows in his musical career it has spanned over fifty years and he released a new album in 2012. I'll tell you one thing it's the blues stated Ironing Board Sam.
Robert Del Naja.  Robert Del Naja (pron. /ˈrɒbə(r)t dɛl ˈnaʒa/; born 21 January 1966) also known as 3D is an English artist musician singer and songwriter. Initially gaining notoriety as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective known as The Wild Bunch Del Naja went on to become a founding member of the band Massive Attack with whom he is still active.
Hisashi Okuyama.  Hisashi Okuyama (born 1941 in Japan) is a Japanese poet who has lived in France since the 1970s.
Ray Dolan.  Ray Dolan was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist. He began his career in the early 1970 by playing folk clubs in Dublin with James Connolly as a duo contributing to the success of the Universal Folk Centre at Parnell Square. In 1973 they were involved in the five-member band Heir. The two musicians also participated in the final Anne Byrne album Come by the Hills published in 1974 and containing a cover of the Dolan's song Constantly Changing.
Joy Coghill.  Joy Coghill O.C. (born 1926) is a Canadian actress director and writer.She and Myra Benson founded Canada's first professional touring children's theatre Holiday Theatre in 1953. In 1994 Coghill founded Western Gold a theatre company for senior professional actors in Vancouver. She holds honorary degrees from SFU and UBC. She has been married to Jack Thorne since 1955.Her best-known work is Song of This Place a play about the Canadian artist Emily Carr.
Bob Cranford.  Bob Cranford was a vocalist and harmonica player for the late 1920s and early 1930s string band The Red Fox Chasers.
Jean-Claude Richard.  Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1727 – 25 November 1791) was a French painter and engraver. He was born and died in Paris.
Dennis Cooley.  Dennis Cooley (born August 27 1944) is a Canadian author of poetry and criticism a retired university professor and a vital figure in the evolution of the prairie long poem. He was raised by his parents on a farm near the small city of Estevan Saskatchewan in Canada and currently resides in Winnipeg Manitoba. He is currently married to his wife Diane and is the father of two daughters Megan and Dana.
Julian Firth.  Julian Firth (born 8 January 1961) is an English actor best known for his roles as troubled inmate Davis in the cinematic version of the film Scum and as Brother Jerome in the long-running television series Cadfael.Firth was educated at Elmlea Primary Clifton College and in the sixth form at Bristol Grammar School. He was 18 when he appeared in Scum (1979) although he had not appeared in the banned original version two years earlier in 1977 which was made for BBC transmission.
William Gilmore Simms.  William Gilmore Simms (April 17 1806 – June 11 1870) was a poet novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He is still known among literary scholars as a major force in antebellum Southern literature.
Peter Aston.  Peter Aston (5 October 1938 - 13 September 2013) was an English composer academic and conductor perhaps best known for his choral works. Born in Birmingham he studied at Birmingham School of Music and the University of York.
Shlomo Zemach.  Shlomo Zemach (Hebrew: שלמה צמח‎; born 2 June 1887 died 6 November 1974) was a Polish-born Israeli author agriculturalist and early Zionist pioneer.
Bob Dolman.  Bob Dolman (born October 28 1949) is a Canadian screenwriter actor director and producer.His work in television includes SCTV SCTV Network 90 and WKRP in Cincinnati. Among his film credits are the screenplays for Willow and Far and Away as well as The Banger Sisters and How to Eat Fried Worms both of which he also directed.Bob was married at one time to actress Andrea Martin.
Friederike Kempner.  Friederike Kempner (June 25 1836 - February 23 1904) was a German-Jewish poet.Kempner was born in Opatów Prussian Province of Posen (today Poland). Early in life she developed an interest in general humanitarian questions and especially in hygiene and urgently advocated the introduction of morgues and crematories and the abolition of solitary confinement. Some years before her death she was stricken with blindness.
Arthur Wallis Mills.  Arthur Wallis Mills (often abbreviated A. Wallis Mills as well as A. W. Mills) (1878–1940) was a British artist. As well as traditional art forms Mills also produced artwork and occasional cartoons for Punch Magazine The Strand Magazine The Humourist The Black and White Illustrated Budget and The Royal Magazine in the United Kingdom as well as The Wanganui Chronicle in New Zealand.
Friedrich Gorenstein.  Friedrich Naumovich Gorenstein (Russian: Фридрих Наумович Горенштейн) or Fridrikh Gorenshtein was a Russian author and screenwriter. His works primarily deal with Stalinism anti-Semitism and the philosophical-religious view of a peaceful coexistence between Jews and Christians.
Bruce Cockburn.  Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC (/ˈkoʊbərn/ KOH-bərn; born May 27 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011 and his musical career spans over 40 years. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll. Just as his musical style has varied through the years his song lyrics have dealt with a broad range of topics.
Guy Morgan (writer).  Guy Morgan (1908–1964) was a British screenwriter. He was a POW during World War II after which he wrote his first novel The Captive Heart which he sold to Ealing launching his career.
Jon Cowherd.  Jon Cowherd is an American pianist composer arranger and producer. Cowherd is most well known for his partnership with jazz drummer Brian Blade with whom he co-founded the Brian Blade Fellowship. When not recording and touring with the Fellowship Cowherd works extensively with a broad array of players and singers from the jazz pop and rock worlds.
Jenny Bannister.  Jenny Bannister is an Australian fashion designer based in Melbourne.
Kjetil Manheim.  Kjetil Esten Haraldsson Manheim (born November 27 1968) was the drummer for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. During this time he went by the stage name Manheim.
John William Boone.  John William Blind Boone (May 17 1864 – October 4 1927) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime music.
Paulina Gretzky.  Paulina Mary Jean Gretzky (born December 19 1988) is an American model pop singer and celebutante. She is the eldest of Wayne Gretzky's and Janet Jones' five children the niece of Keith Gretzky and Brent Gretzky and the granddaughter of Walter Gretzky.
Virgil Finlay.  Virgil Finlay (July 23 1914 – January 18 1971) was an American pulp fantasy science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called part of the pulp magazine history . . .
Don Kikas.  Don Kikas born Emílio Camilo da Costa is an Angolan singer from the city of Sumbe in the southern Angolan province of Cuanza Sul.
Kōzō Murashita.  Kōzō Murashita (村下孝蔵 Murashita Kōzō February 28 1953—June 24 1999) was a singer-songwriter who was born in Minamata City Kumamoto Prefecture Japan. He died of a stroke during a rehearsal in 1999.
David Faber (printmaker).  David L. Faber (born 1950) is an American master printer and is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at Wake Forest University.Some of his most notable works include: Aberdeen Headlands a monotype print Holstein Poetry-Cantenary Curve an intaglio print Three Dances of the Poet an intaglio print Prairie Pedigree an intaglio print Saint Anna of Silos and Air a lithograph and The Red Holstein Factor an intaglio plaster cast monoprint.
Billy Bush (record producer).  Billy Bush is an American musician audio engineer and record producer best known as the sound engineer and live tech for the Madison Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the co-producer of albums Help Wanted by Eric Avery and Heart Burns by Tom Gabel.
Charles W. Bartlett.  Charles William Bartlett (1 June 1860 – 16 April 1940) was an English painter and printmaker who settled in Hawaii.
Xabi Aburruzaga.  Xabi Aburruzaga (born 1978 in Portugalete Euskadi Spain) is a Basque musician and composer who is a master of the Trikitixa the diatonic accordion.[citation needed]
Debra Arlyn.  Debra Irene Arlyn (born February 27 1986) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter from Oregon. Her musical style is a blend of pop adult contemporary jazz and R&B with compositions based around the piano and themes based around love and relationships. She is noted for having a powerful voice. She has independently released three albums and one EP.
Lorna Lewis (actress).  Lorna Lewis was an American actress who moved to the UK in the 1970s. She remains best known for her role as Pet Simpson in two series of the BBC television drama Survivors between 1976 and 1977. Her other television work includes: The Wild Wild West Doomwatch mixed Blessings and Maelstrom.She retired from acting in the late Eighties and entered the priesthood having been ordained as a Deacon Curate in 2003 in the parish of Wye in Kent England. Lorna Lewis died on June 1 2013.
Adam Gopnik.  Adam Gopnik (born August 24 1956) is an American writer essayist and commentator. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker—to which he has contributed non-fiction fiction memoir and criticism—and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon an account of five years that Gopnik his wife Martha and son Luke spent in the French capital.
Patti Kim (writer).  Patti Kim (born 1970) is a Korean American writer a Diane Cleaver fellow and the author of the award winning novel A Cab Called Reliable.
Harold Septimus Power.  Harold Septimus Power (31 December 1877 – 3 January 1951) was a New Zealand-born Australian artist who was an official war artist for Australia in World War I.
Mulla Idriz Gjilani.  Mulla Idriz Gjilani was an Albanian patriot a Muslim preacher master orator and freedom fighter. He was born in the village of Velekinca in Gjilan Ottoman Empire (now Gjilan Kosovo). The Gjilani family who have inhabited his birth region for centuries give their name to the town of Gjilani in Kosovo.He took the first lessons in mejtep of Cernica and graduated in 1911 to continue the high school in madrasah of “Atik” in Gjilan. After a long break he graduated in 1926 .
Laura Salverson.  Laura Goodman Salverson (née Goodman) (December 9 1890 – July 13 1970) was a Canadian author.She was born in Winnipeg Manitoba the daughter of Lárus Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir who immigrated to Winnipeg in 1887 from Grundir in Bolungarvík Iceland. She married George Salverson in 1913.
George Miksch Sutton.  George Miksch Sutton (May 16 1898 Bethany Nebraska – December 7 1982) was an American ornithologist and bird artist. He published numerous technical papers in ornithology as well as more popular works illustrated with his own art. His early artistic work was inspired and tutored by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. In 1931 he was the first ornithologist to find the eggs of the Harris's Sparrow one of the last North American birds to have its nest and eggs described.
Monika Kruse.  Monika Kruse (born 23 July 1971 in Berlin) is one of Germany´s most successful Techno- DJ Music producer and Record Label owners.[citation needed]
Sandie Shaw.  Sandie Shaw (born 26 February 1947) is an English pop singer who was one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s. In 1967 she was the first British act to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She has been described as the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s.She announced her retirement from music in April 2013.
Cliff Carlisle.  Cliff Carlisle (May 6 1903 – April 5 1983) was an American country and blues singer. Carlisle was a yodeler and was a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music.
Nathan Connolly.  Nathan Connolly (born 20 January 1981) is a Northern Irish musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
Sergey Andreevsky.  Sergey Arkadievich Andreevsky (Сергей Аркадьевич Андреевский December 29 1847 Alexandrovka village Yekaterinoslav Governorate Russian Empire) – November 9 1918 Petrograd Soviet Russia) was a Russian writer poet literary critic and lawyer best known for his The Book About Death (Kniga o smerti) published posthumously in 1922. As a literary critic Andreevsky is credited with being the first to positively review Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Yuko Takayama.  Yuko Takayama (高山 侑子 Takayama Yūko born October 13 1992 in Niigata Prefecture) is a Japanese actress known for her role as Rinko Daimon in the 2012 Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Wizard. She is affiliated with Stardust Promotion.
Andrea Goldsmith.  Andrea Goldsmith (born 24 March 1950) is an Australian writer and novelist.
Roger Chapman.  Roger Chapman (born Roger Maxwell Chapman on 8 April 1942 in Leicester) also known as Chappo is an English rock vocalist. He is best known as a member of the progressive rock band Family which he joined along with Charlie Whitney in 1966 and also the rock R&B band Streetwalkers formed in 1974. His idiosyncratic brand of showmanship when performing and vocal vibrato led him to become a cult figure on the British rock scene.
Khan Shushinski.  Khan Shushinski (Azerbaijani: Xan Şuşinski) born Isfandiyar Aslan oglu Javanshir (20 August 1901 Shusha – 18 March 1979 Baku) was an Azerbaijani khananda folk singer.
Josh Gabriel.  Josh Gabriel is an electronic dance music DJ and producer formerly of Gabriel & Dresden with Dave Dresden.
Stephen White (author).  Stephen Walsh White (born 1951) is an author of psychological thriller fiction best known for his Dr. Alan Gregory series.
John Hughes (Irish musician).  John Hughes (Irish: Seán Ó hAodha) (born 23 June 1950) is an Irish musician and manager best known for his management of The Corrs.
Sol Bi.  Solbi (Korean: 솔비 率悲 born 30 September 1983) is a South Korean singer and actress who débuted as a member of mixed group Typhoon in 2006.
Fernão Lopes de Castanheda.  Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (Santarém c. 1500 – 1559 in Coimbra) was a Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance.His History of the discovery and conquest of India full of geographic and ethnographic objective information was widely translated throughout Europe.
Count Prince Miller.  Count Prince Miller (born Clarence Linberg Miller in Saint Mary Parish Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born British-based actor and musician.
Sonia Baby.  Sonia Baby is a Spanish pornographic actress who currently resides in Barcelona.
Ramona Fradon.  Ramona Fradon (born October 1 1926) is an American comic book and comic strip artist known for her work illustrating Aquaman and Brenda Starr and co-creating the superhero Metamorpho. Her career began in 1950.
Trevor Dunn.  Trevor Roy Dunn (born January 30 1968) is an American composer bass guitarist and double bassist.Dunn came to prominence in the 1990s with the experimental band Mr. Bungle. He has since worked in an array of musical styles notably with singer and Mr. Bungle co-founder Mike Patton; with saxophonist/composer John Zorn; brief collaboration with Secret Chiefs 3 and with his own avant-garde jazz/rock ensamble Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant and later with rock driven group MadLove.
Nornagest.  Régis Lant[citation needed] (aka Nornagest born 10 June 1977[citation needed]) is a Belgian black metal vocalist best known for his vocal works on albums such as Tetra Karcist and Pentagrammaton by Enthroned and Absu's latest self-titled release.His career started in the Belgian metal band Heresia.
Martin Emond.  Martin Emond (New Zealand 1969 - Los Angeles California United States March 5 2004) also known under the pseudonyms Martin Fuckin Emond Martyfuck Martywood Mickey Martin and MFE was a New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter.Emond's work is said to be reminiscent of rock n' roll tattoos and classic sign art and characterised by darkly sardonic humour.
King Stitt.  Winston Sparkes (17 September 1940 – 31 January 2012) better known as King Stitt was a Jamaican pioneer DJ.
Wyldfyer.  Wyldfyer is a music producer initially known for his production for his promo album (from Jay-Z) The Black Album: Classik. After receiving rave reviews and street buzz from Atlanta (his current home) to Philadelphia (his home town) Wyldfyer's album became legendary. Because of that he was discovered by Saint Nick formerly of So So Def where he worked on Time and Time Again a song that appears on Missy Elliott's The Cook Book. From there Wyldfyer was introduced to L.E.S.
Auguste Hüssener.  Auguste Hüssener (1789 – 13 February 1877) was a German engraver and miniature painter.Hüssener was born in Szczecin and was a pupil of the engraver Ludwig Buchhorn. In 1814 she became a professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts and worked since 1824 entrusted with the leadership of the Academic School engraving. At the annual exhibitions of the Academy Hüssener regularly presented works from 1828 to 1860.
Valerie Lilley.  Valerie Lilley (born 14 April 1939) is a Northern Irish actress who has played many television roles on dramas such as Doctors and Grange Hill. Lilley currently appears on Channel 4's serial drama Shameless.Lilley trained with Joan Littlewood’s Arts Workshop in London during the early sixties and received an early boost which included appearing alongside Stephen Rea. She spent many years as a stage actress throughout the UK.
Bill Sevesi.  Bill Sevesi QSM (born Wilfred Jeffs) is a musician and master of the steel guitar who helped popularise Hawaiian style music in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.Tongan born Sevesi has composed more than 200 songs with over 20 albums to his credit during a career spanning six decades.He began playing the Hawaiian Steel Guitar in 1936 and in later years his band 'Wilfred Jeffs and the Islanders' became 'Bill Sevesi and the Islanders.' He has performed all over the Pacific Islands New Zealand Australia and United States.He has recorded some classic favourites such as Bye Bye Baby Goodbye (1958) as well as recording artists such as Daphne Walker The Yandall Sisters and Annie Crummer. 
Christopher Fry.  Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas notably The Lady's Not for Burning which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.
Dale Carnegie.  Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (spelled Carnagey until c. 1922) (November 24 1888 – November 1 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement salesmanship corporate training public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) a massive bestseller that remains popular today.
Vicente Aleixandre.  Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26 1898 – December 14 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He was part of the Generation of '27. He died in Madrid in 1984.Aleixandre's early poetry which he wrote mostly in free verse is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness.
Rivers Cadet.  Rivers Cadet (1 March 1892 – 1 November 1968) was a French actor.Cadet was born in Paris. He was the borhter of Fernand Rivers.
Lynn Anderson.  Lynn Rene Anderson (born September 26 1947) is a multi-award-winning American country music singer known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s most notably her country-pop worldwide mega-hit (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden. She has charted 11 No. 1 18 Top-10 and more than 50 Top-40 hits. Helped by her crossover appeal and regular exposure on national television Anderson was one of the most popular and successful country singers of the 1970s.
Jerry Spinelli.  Jerry Spinelli (born February 1 1942)is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for Maniac Magee and Wringer.Jerry Spinelli was born in Norristown Pennsylvania and currently resides in Phoenixville PA. At the age of sixteen his love of sports inspired him to compose a poem about a recent football victory which his father published it in the local newspaper without his knowledge.
Andrew Bell (artist).  Andrew Bell (born on October 27 1978 in Guildford England) is a British-born American artist and founder of Dead Zebra Inc. He specializes in creating collectible designer toys. Bell also works in a variety of other mediums from illustrations and paintings to sculptures. Much of his work is brought together by a sense of humor that often belies a more serious and sombre message. His company and toys have been featured in publications such as the New York Times.
Patrick Lee Hammond.  Patrick Lee Hammond (born April 11 1947) is an American bassist singer songwriter and producer. Born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. He has recorded on several labels worked with a wide range of recording artists. His work on Live Ananda with Krishna Das received a Grammy Award Nomination in 2013.
Desireé Bassett.  Desirée Apolonio Bassett (born September 11 1992) is an American rock music guitarist and recording artist. Considered a child prodigy she has performed alongside mainline performers such as Sammy Hagar Ted Nugent Living Colour Barry Goudreau the Marshall Tucker Band and members of the Allman Brothers Band. She was named Best Musician by Talent America in 2005 has released two studio albums and has performed on both coasts of the United States.
Arnold Belkin.  Arnold Belkin (December 9 1930 – July 3 1992) was a Canadian-born Mexican painter credited for continuing the Mexican muralism tradition at a time when many Mexican painters were shifting away from it. Born and raised in western Canada he trained as an artist there but was not drawn to traditional Canadian art. Instead he was inspired by images of Diego Rivera’s work in a magazine to move to Mexico when he was only eighteen.
Donato Bramante.  Donato Bramante (1444 – 11 March 1514) was an Italian architect who introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Alexander VI appointed him to build a sanctuary that allegedly marked the spot where Peter was crucified.
Wang Yumei.  Wang Yumei (Chinese: 王玉梅 born 1934 in Jinan Shandong) is a Chinese actress who has won a Golden Eagle Award a Golden Rooster Award and a Hundred Flowers Award.
Joe Marshall (musician).  Joe Marshall is a jazz drummer.In the early 1940s he played with Milt Larkin's band as well as with the Duke Ellington and Jimmie Lunceford orchestras.In 1952 Marshall played with a New York-based quintet led by Ben Webster with Harold Baker Cyril Hines and Bill Pemberton. In 1960 he appeared on Al Sears' Swing's the Thing with Don Abney Wally Richardson and Wendell Marshall.Marshall is cited by Bernard Purdie as one of his influences.
Roderic Dunkerley.  Roderic Dunkerley (1884 – May 1966) born in Ealing West London son of William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham). The novelist Elsie J. Oxenham was his sister as was Erica Oxenham the biographer of their father who gives brief details of his early life within the pages of those biographies.
John Pardee.  John Pardee is an American screenwriter and television producer currently working as executive producer for Desperate Housewives.During the 1990s Pardee wrote episodes of several television series including the cartoon Doug the short lived sitcoms Charlie Hoover Thunder Alley and The Crew and Cybill Shepherd's sitcom Cybill. On The Crew and Cybill he also served as producer.
Giacomo Trécourt.  Giacomo Trécourt (1812 – 1882) was an Italian painter.
Kool G Rap.  Nathaniel Thomas Wilson (born July 20 1968) better known by his stage name Kool G Rap (or simply G Rap and originally Kool Genius of Rap) is an American rapper. He hails from the Corona neighborhood of Queens New York City. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew.
Michael Burks.  Michael Burks (July 30 1957 – May 6 2012) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks I Smell Smoke and Hard Come Easy Go and variously worked with Johnnie Taylor O. V. Wright and Marquise Knox. He was the son of the bassist Frederick Burks.The Allmusic journalist Tim Sheridan once noted ...
J. Kates.  James George Jim Kates (born 1945 in White Plains New York) is an American poet and literary translator.
Huoratron.  Huoratron is the brainchild of electronic music producer Aku Raski who started it as a musical project in 2003 and then adopted the name himself.His sinister vision has taken form in just a few releases: Some material for Finnish label New Judas including the proactively aggressive Prevenge EP containing angry blip-fest “$$ Troopers” and “Corporate Occult” a slice of electro-house gone horribly awry.
Ishtiaq Ahmad (fiction writer).  Ishtiaq Ahmad (or Ishtiaq Ahmed or اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ اﺤﻤﺩ in Urdu) is primarily a fiction writer from Lahore Pakistan (originally from Jhang Pakistan) famous for his spy detective novels in the Urdu language and is the author of the highest number of novels (his 773rd novel is published by Atlantis Publications in April 2011) by any author in any language throughout the world.[citation needed] He started by writing short stories for children and then wrote his first novel in 1973.
Harold Meltzer.  Harold Meltzer (born 1966 in Brooklyn) is an American composer.
Andy Creeggan.  Andrew Burnett Andy Creeggan (born July 4 1971 in Scarborough Ontario Canada) is the former piano player percussionist and occasional guitarist for the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies from 1990–95. He is also a member of the trio The Brothers Creeggan and a solo artist having released three albums.
Ingrid Michaelson.  Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson (born December 8 1979) is a New York-based American indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows including The Vampire Diaries Scrubs Body of Proof Bones Grey's Anatomy The Big C In Plain Sight and One Tree Hill as well as in Old Navy's fall 2007 Fair Isle and Opel's/Vauxhall's Meriva 2010 advertising campaigns.
Ronnie Montrose.  Ronald Douglas Ronnie Montrose (29 November 1947 – 3 March 2012) was an American rock guitarist who led a number of his own bands as well as performed and did session work with a variety of musicians including Sammy Hagar Herbie Hancock Van Morrison The Beau Brummels Boz Scaggs Beaver & Krause Gary Wright Tony Williams The Neville Brothers Dan Hartman Marc Bonilla Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter.
Alec Seward.  Alec Seward (March 16 1902 – May 11 1972) was an American Piedmont and country blues singer guitarist and songwriter. Some of his records were released under pseudonyms such as Guitar Slim Blues Servant Boy King Blues and Georgia Slim. His best remembered recordings were Creepin' Blues and Some People Say.
Don Partridge.  Donald Eric Partridge (27 October 1941 – 21 September 2010) was an English singer and songwriter known as the king of the buskers. He performed from the early 1960s as a busker and one-man band and achieved unexpected commercial success in the UK in the late 1960s with the songs Rosie and Blue Eyes.
Johannes Vermeer.  Johannes Jan or Johan Vermeer (Dutch: [joˈɦɑnəs jɑn vərˈmeːr]; 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime.
Bob Flanigan (singer).  Robert L. Bob Flanigan (August 22 1926 – May 15 2011) was an American tenor vocalist and founding member of The Four Freshmen a jazz vocal group. The Four Freshmen originated in early 1948 when brothers Ross and Don Barbour then at Butler University's Arthur Jordan Conservatory in Indianapolis Indiana formed a barbershop quartet called Hal's Harmonizers. Flanigan was a cousin of the Barbours and joined The Harmonizers beginning on September 20 1948 becoming their lead vocalist.
Bangladesh (record producer).  Shondrae Crawford better known by his stage names Bangladesh and Mr. Bangladesh is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer disc jockey (DJ) and rapper who was born and raised in Des Moines Iowa and now lives in Atlanta Georgia.
Tõnis Mägi.  Tõnis Mägi (born 18 November 1948 in Tallinn) is an Estonian singer guitarist composer and actor. He is one of the most influential and remarkable names in the Estonian rock music for the past 40 years.He grew up in a musical family music became interesting in his early childhood. While attending in the Tallinn 22nd High School (now Jakob Westholm Gymnasium) he started performing as the choir's soloist in the early grades.
Fuyukichi Maki.  Fuyukichi Maki (牧冬吉 Fuyukichi Maki November 28 1930 – June 27 1998) was a Japanese actor. He worked in TV and film from 1951 to 1997. He played the role of the Iga ninja Tombei the Mist (Kiri no Tonbei) in the Edo period historical drama TV series The Samurai. This series became a surprise hit in Australia in 1965 and was the first Japanese TV series shown in that country.
Agim Zajmi.  Agim Zajmi (28 November 1936 – 3 November 2013) was an Albanian painter. For his contribution to painting he received the People's Artist of Albania medal.
Apollonio Buonfratelli.  Apollonio Buonfratelli (16th century) was an Italian miniature painter of the Renaissance active in Florence.
Jim Crace.  James Jim Crace (born 1 March 1946) is an award-winning English writer. His novels include Quarantine which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998 and Harvest which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
Valentyn Rechmedin.  Valentyn Ostapovych Rechmedin (Ukrainian: Валентин Остапович Речмедін) 12 February 1916 – 6 June 1986 was a Ukrainian journalist and writer.He grew up in the village of Andrushivka in present Pohrebyschenskyi Raion Vinnytsia Oblast (province) where his father was a teacher.After studies at Uman Cooperative Technicum (Уманський кооперативний технікум) he started his career as a journalist in 1934 at Molodyi Bilshovyk (Молодий Бiльшовик) in Vinnytsia.
Cole Vosbury.  Allen Cole Vosbury (born April 24 1991) known simply as Cole Vosbury is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his appearance on Season 5 of the NBC singing competition The Voice as a member of CeeLo Green's team and later Blake Shelton's team. During his time on The Voice six of Vosbury's singles charted on the Billboard charts.
McLord Magrao.  McLord Magrão (Born Ricardo Bombine Pimentel) is a BRIT Award and Mercury Music Prize nominated multi-instrumentalist best known as the former guitarist for the indie rock band Guillemots. He lives in London but is originally from São Paulo in Brazil.He is known for his use of unusual instruments most notably using electric power drills on his guitar and playing the typewriter and a giant clothes peg percussively.
Marc Costanzo.  Marc Costanzo (born August 1 1972) is a record executive record producer artist and songwriter from Toronto Ontario Canada. Born in Montreal he relocated with his family to Toronto in the early '90s. He is the lead vocalist and producer of the alternative band Len and wrote the hit single Steal My Sunshine.
Michel Nastorg.  Michel Nastorg (1914–1984) was a French actor.
Michael Gruber (artist).  Michael Gruber (born 1965 in Mallersdorf Germany) is a German painter installation artist and sculptor.
Submerged (DJ).  Submerged (alias of Kurt Gluck) is a Brooklyn-based DJ bassist founder of Ohm Resistance and co-founder of Obliterati American avant garde drum and bass and experimental music labels and a prolific multi-genre electronic music producer first notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning bassist and producer Bill Laswell in creating drum and bass - jazz fusion projects including their band Method of Defiance and The Blood of Heroes.In drum and bass Submerged has pushed the boundaries of the genre beyond dance music through jagged free-form breakbeat structures historic fusion collaborations with non-drum and bass musicians including Bill Laswell Pharoah Sanders Buckethead and others and on confrontational artwork.Submerged performs onstage as a DJ and as a bassist and is a member of avant garde bands incorporating drum and bass beats and live sound manipulation such groups including Painkiller and Bill Laswell's project Method of Defiance. 
Outsider (rapper).  Shin Ok-cheol (Hangul: 신옥철; born 21 March 1983) better known by his stage name Outsider (Hangul: 아웃사이더) is a South Korean rapper. He is known for his speed-rapping and is able to rap 21 syllables per second. After a conflict between Outsider and MC Sniper's label Sniper Sound in July 2013 Outsider left the label and signed with ASSA.
Evgenia Tur.  Evgenia Tur (Russian: Евге́ния Тур) (August 24 1815 – March 27 1892) was a Russian writer critic journalist and publisher. Her birth name was Elizaveta Vasilyevna Sukhovo-Kobylina. Her full married name was Countess Elizaveta Vasilyevna Salias De Tournemire. The playwright Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin was her brother.
Peter Bradley Adams.  Peter Bradley Adams is a folk-pop Americana singer-songwriter from Birmingham Alabama.
Francis George Fowler.  Francis George Fowler (1871–1918) familiarly known as F.G. Fowler was an English writer on English language grammar and usage.Born in Tunbridge Wells F. G. Fowler was educated at Peterhouse Cambridge. He lived on Guernsey in the Channel Islands. He and his older brother Henry Watson Fowler wrote The King's English together an influential book which was published in 1906.
Pé de Chumbo.  Pé de Chumbo is a master of Capoeira Angola an Afro-Brazilian martial art and a student of João Pequeno's. This mestre is one of the few capoeira angola mestres who carry on the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola (CECA) school created by Mestre Pastinha. He has academies in Brazil and in Europe - including several academies in Sweden Portugal Mexico City Germany and the United States.
Lille Bror Söderlundh.  Bror Axel (Lille Bror) Söderlundh (21 May 1912 – 23 August 1957) was a Swedish composer and singer. He composed music for many Swedish films. He also wrote classical music including the Concertino for Oboe and Strings which has been performed by the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.He was born in 1912 in Kristinehamn.
Baby Tate.  Baby Tate (January 28 1916 – August 17 1972) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist who in a sporadic career spanning five decades worked variously with guitarists Blind Boy Fuller and Pink Anderson as well as harmonica player Peg Leg Sam. His playing style was influenced by Blind Blake Buddy Moss Blind Boy Fuller Josh White and Willie Walker and to some extent Lightnin' Hopkins.
Supanat Chalermchaichareonkij.  Supanat Chalermchaichareonkij (Thai: ศุภณัฐ เฉลิมชัยเจริญกิจ; RTGS: Suphanat Chaloemchaicharoenkit) (born on 31 July 1986) is Thai singer actor and the winner of UBC Academy Fantasia season 2 in 2005.
Luther Tucker.  For the publisher see The Genesee FarmerLuther Tucker (January 20 1936 – June 18 1993) was an American blues guitarist.While soft spoken and shy Tucker made his presence known through his unique and clearly recognizable guitar style. Tucker helped to define the music known as Chicago Blues but played everything from blues to soul rock jazz and gospel when given the chance.
A.D.O.R..  A.D.O.R. born Eddie Castellanos is a U.S. hip hop artist whose work includes the Pete Rock-produced hit Let It All Hang Out (Atlantic 1992) and One for the Trouble (Atlantic 1994) produced by Marley Marl. The latter has been sampled extensively in later songs most famously Fatboy Slim's 1998 remix of Renegade Master by Roger Wildchild MacKenzie.
Raja Narayan Deb.  Raja Narayan Deb is an Indian composer working in the Bollywood and Bengali film industries.
Grandmaster Slice.  Grandmaster Slice is an American hip-hop musician whose album Electric Slide (Shall We Dance) helped popularize the electric slide dance.Slice was born in South Boston Virginia and attended Halifax County High School. Slide's collaboration with Scratchmaster Chuck T. (Charles Fulp) included the underground rap hit Thinking of You which led to Slice's being signed by Jive Records. Their album The Electric Slide (Shall We Dance) came out in 1991.
Zheng Zhenyao.  Zheng Zhenyao (Chinese: 郑振瑶; pinyin: Zhèng Zhènyáo) is a Chinese film and television actress. Zheng started her career in the thearter stage but shot fame for middle aged lady in Sparkling Red Star (1974). For her performance in My Memories of Old Beijing (1982) Zheng won Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2004 she won Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for Shanghai Story.
Erin Lordan.  Erin Lordan (8 November 1963 - 26 February 2005) was a British singer who had hits in the UK with BBG Bamboo Ascension and Shut Up and Dance.
Roberto Bolaño.  Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish: [roˈβerto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos] About this sound audio ) (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist short-story writer poet and essayist.
Huang Qishan.  Huang Qishan (Chinese: 黄绮珊; born March 23 1968) is a Chinese recording artist and musician. She is also known as Susan Huang and Huang Ma (Mother Huang). Some refer to her as the Chinese Mariah Carey and the Chinese Whitney Houston. She is even known by some to be the no.
Berthold Imhoff.  Count Berthold von Imhoff (1868-1939) was an artist known for his religious murals and paintings.
Nathan Johnson (musician).  Nathan Tyler Johnson is a film composer songwriter and music producer.He was born in Washington D.C. in 1976 and grew up in Colorado. After living in England in the mid-2000s Johnson relocated to the East coast of the U.S. where he launched a live touring project with his band The Cinematic Underground.
Kinnda.  For other uses see KindaKinnda Hamid better known as Kinnda (born in 1982) is a Swedish artist and songwriter. Kinnda is also known as Kee Hamid or just Kee[citation needed]
Victoria Hart.  Victoria Hart (born 25 November 1988) is a California-born English jazz-pop singer.
Gottfried Helnwein.  Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian born Austrian-Irish fine artist painter photographer installation and performance artist.
Hikaru Yamamoto.  Hikaru Yamamoto (山本 ひかる Yamamoto Hikaru) is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. After winning the Amuse Ohimesama Audition she was signed onto the Amuse Inc. talent agency. She starred as the female lead in Kamen Rider W in 2009-2010.
Haynes King.  Haynes King (December 1831 – 17 May 1904) was an English genre painter.
Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld.  Prolific author of several series of mysteries as Monica Ferris Mary Monica Pulver Margaret Frazer Al and Mary Kuhfeld. Some of her series are out of print. but the latest in Monica Ferris Needlecraft Mysteries And Then You Dye is to be published Dec. 4 2012
Overweight Pooch.  Overweight Pooch (born Shatonya Davis) is a female rapper called after her childhood nickname.
Glasses Malone.  Charles Phillip Ivory Penniman (born December 10 1979) better known by his stage name Glasses Malone is an American rapper from Los Angeles California.
Ceridwen Dovey.  Ceridwen Dovey (born 1980) is a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author.
Brian Johnson.  Brian Johnson (born 5 October 1947) is an English singer and lyricist.
Kevin McMahon (musician).  Kevin Michael McMahon (born September 21 1953 in Cleveland Ohio) is a musician singer and songwriter for the long-standing bands Lucky Pierre and Prick.McMahon began recording with his new wave group Lucky Pierre in 1974 releasing a number of vinyl singles though 1981. Lucky Pierre initially consisted of: John Guciardo- Lead Guitar Brian Dempsey- Drums Dennis DeVito- Bass and McMahon on Guitar & Lead Vocals. In 1976 Tom Lash joined the band on bass guitar and DeVito moved to guitar.
Crucial Star.  Park Se Yoon(Hangul:박 세 윤) or as most commonly known as Crucial Star (Hangul:크루셜 스타) is a South Korean rapper composer lyricist and a producer. At the age of 17 he performed with Libra Twins a band popular in the Korean hip hop industry and he later moved on to try an open-audition and won landing himself with a deal with a Korean hip hop label Soul Company. At the beginning of 2012 he released a free digital single which highlights the aftermath of disbandment of Soul Company.
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah.  Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992) was a Bengali poet. Shahidullah was noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. He is considered one of the leading Bengali poets of 1970s.Shahidullah was the husband of writer Taslima Nasrin. He died as a result of drug abuse.In the popular culture of Bangladesh Shahidullah's most well known contribution is the song Bhalo Achi Bhalo Theko popular ever since it was written.
Axl Hazarika.  Axl Hazarika is a new-age music composer musician producer film-maker hailing from Guwahati Assam. He is the first industrial/avant-garde artist from Northeast India.Axl Hazarika made his official VEVO debut on 27 June 2013 with the exclusive release of the music video of his hit Indian song ‘Hum Badal Gaye’.
Anita Rinaldi.  Anita Rinaldi (born Anita Skultéty on October 26 1974 in Dunaújváros Hungary) is a former pornographic actress and film director. She is a producer and casting agent and runs her own production agency Touch Me Agency.She was active as a performer from 1993 (around 19 years old) to 1999 and as a director from 1997 to 2008.She was the Penthouse magazine Pet of the Month for March 1998.She married pornographic actor and director Paul Thomas in 2001 after he divorced his longtime second wife.
Ben Jones (musician).  Ben Jones (born 14 November 1982) is an English singer songwriter musician and producer living in Maidstone Kent and was a founder member of The Lovedays. and The Rifle Volunteers. He has released two completely solo albums as well as the Carters England and Rifle Volunteers and the 2 albums he recorded with The Lovedays.
Tohpati.  Tohpati Ario Hutomo (born 25 July 1971 in Jakarta Indonesia) is an Indonesian jazz guitarist and songwriter. He is known as one of the most famous jazz guitarists in Indonesia. He has collaborated with many Indonesian musicians such as Glenn Fredly Indro Arie Ayunir and Shakila. Many of his work has traditional culture elements as he always try to combine both modern and traditional Indonesian music on his albums.
Julio Cesar Badillo.  Julio Cesar Badillo (born December 6 1966) in Brooklyn New York is an American-born musician who made his residence in Puerto Rico since childhood. He is a bassist keyboardist sound and recording engineer music design professor stage actor and musical director among other things.
Brian McNeill.  Brian McNeill (born 6 April 1950 Falkirk Scotland) is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist songwriter record producer and musical director. He was a founding member of The Battlefield Band which combined traditional Celtic melodies and new material.
Thornton Jenkins Hains.  Thornton Jenkins Hains (1866-1953) was a popular American sea novelist best known today for his role in the murder of William Annis. Hains later used the pen name Mayn Clew Garnett.Hains' father was General Peter Conover Hains a prestigious engineering officer who participated in the draining of the Washington Tidal Basin and the construction of the Panama Canal. Hains' maternal grandfather Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins served in the War of 1812.
Devin Cuddy.  Devin Cuddy is a Canadian singer-songwriter who fronts the Devin Cuddy Band.
Mya Rose.  Mya Rose Gill (stage name Mya Rose formerly Mya Rose Wilkins) is an indie folk-alternative artist born September 4 1979 . She has spent the last 13 years gigging around the world from huge stages to street corners from Korea to England California to North Carolina. Her music is described as 'soulful vocals backed by rockin' folk with a hint of country'.
Isaac Goldberg.  Isaac Goldberg (1887-July 14 1938) was an American journalist author critic translator editor publisher and lecturer. Born in Boston he studied at Harvard University and received a BA degree in 1910 a MA degree in 1911 and a PhD in 1912. He traveled to Europe as a journalist during World War I writing for the Boston Evening Transcript. He wrote biographies of H. L. Mencken Havelock Ellis W. S.
Ray Mehlbaum.  Ray Mehlbaum is an American rock drummer and currently the drummer for Killing Bees.
Cazwell.  Luke Caswell better known as Cazwell is an American rapper and songwriter. His work focuses on gay and bisexual urban themes and content and his music and videos are frequently played on Logo a US cable channel geared towards the gay lesbian bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. He has released two studio albums—Get Into It in 2006 and Watch My Mouth in 2009—and a number of EPs music videos and popular singles.
Syful Islam.  Mohammad Syful Islam (Bengali: সাইফুল ইসলাম born 12 August 1946 in Meherpur Kushtia) is an award winning Bangladeshi artist.
Leroy Foster (musician).  Baby Face Leroy Foster (February 1 1923 - May 26 1958) was an American blues singer drummer and guitarist active in Chicago from the mid-1940s until the late 1950s. He was a significant figure in the development of the post-war electric Chicago blues sound most notably as a member of the Muddy Waters band during its formative years.
Devon Allman.  Devon Allman (born August 10 1972) is a vocalist guitarist keyboardist and songwriter. He is also the founder and bandleader of Honeytribe (also known as Devon Allman's Honeytribe). In addition to creating two albums and leading multiple tours across North America and Europe with Honeytribe Devon has also contributed to several other musical recordings including Vargas Blues Band and the A Song for My Father compilation album.
Supriya Chaudhuri.  Supriya Chaudhuri (Bengali: সুপ্রিয়া চৌধুরী) is an Indian scholar of English literature. She is Professor Emeritus at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.
Kim Sin-yong.  Kim Sin Yong (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea or Hangul: 김신용) overcame a childhood of privation to become a famous South Korean writer.
Futurebound.  Brendan Collins is a DJ and producer from Liverpool. He is a member of Matrix & Futurebound who had three UK top 30 hits (see below) and founded the record label Viper Recordings.
David Meltzer.  David Meltzer (born February 17 1937) is an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described him as one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians. Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960.
Tim Hamilton (pornographic actor).  Tim Hamilton (April 13 1982 Prerov Moravia Czech Republic) is a Czech porn actor and model in gay pornography.
Sarah Weeks.  Sarah Weeks (born March 18 1955) is an American writer of children's books perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which in 2007 won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award.
Trine Rein.  Trine Rein is an American-Norwegian singer who belongs to the exclusive group of Norwegian artists who have sold more than a million records. Trine was born in San Francisco in 1970.
Pauline Donalda.  Pauline Donalda OC (March 5 1882 – October 22 1970) was a Canadian operatic soprano.Born Pauline Lightstone in Montreal Quebec she studied music at Royal Victoria College. In 1902 she studied in Paris and made her debut in 1904 in Nice. In 1922 she opened a studio in Paris and became a teacher. In 1937 she opened a studio in Montreal and in 1942 she founded the Opera Guild of Montreal.
Kevin Valentine.  Kevin Valentine is an American rock drummer who is best known for being a member of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers. Valentine played drums on all of the band's early albums during the 1980s. Valentine has recorded as a member of Breathless The Innocent Godz Rosie Shadow King The Lou Gramm Band and Neverland.He also performed (on a session basis) on the Kiss albums Psycho Circus and Revenge playing on all tracks bar one on Psycho Circus.
Juan Díaz Canales.  Juan Díaz Canales (born 1972) is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director known as the co-creator of Blacksad.
Emmanuel Roblès.  Emmanuel Roblès (4 May 1914 in Oran French Algeria – 22 February 1995 in Boulogne Hauts-de-Seine) was an Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. He was one of many influential pied-noir of his time.
Marguerite Moreno.  Marguerite Moreno (15 September 1871 Paris - 14 July 1948 Touzac Lot) was a French stage and film actress.Born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau she married the writer Marcel Schwob on 12 September 1900 in England whom she had met in 1895. In 1905 he died of pneumonia while Marguerite was away on tour.
Mary Teresa Enright.  Mary Teresa Enright (22 July 1880–21 January 1966) was a New Zealand teacher journalist and community worker. She was born in Charleston West Coast New Zealand on 22 July 1880.
Rex Smith.  Rex Smith (born September 19 1955 Jacksonville Florida) is an American actor and singer. Smith debuted in the Broadway play Grease in 1978. He is noted for his role as Jesse Mach in the 1985 television series Street Hawk as well as being a singer and stage actor. During the late 1970s Smith was popular as a teen idol. Because of his good looks he was featured regularly in 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat. He also had a gold Top 10 single You Take My Breath Away in 1979.
Aneek Dhar.  Aneek Dhar (Hindi: अनीक धरBengali: অনীক ধর) (born in 26 April 1990) was in a Bengali Hindu family in Kolkata West Bengalhe is an Indian singer who won the regional spin off singing competition Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and won Zee TV Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 at the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 Grand Finale on 13 October 2007 by receiving 3.65 crore votes from India as well as from overseas.He came out with his first solo album named Khwaishein in 2008 which received huge response from music lovers all over the world. 
Della Reese.  Delloreese Patricia Early known professionally as Della Reese (born July 6 1931) is an American actress singer game show panelist of the 1970s one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister. She started her career in the 1950s as a gospel pop and jazz singer scoring a hit with her 1959 single Don't You Know?. In the late 1960s she had hosted her own talk show Della which ran for 197 episodes.
Yu Xiaohui.  Yu Xiaohui (Chinese: 余小惠; pinyin: Yú Xiǎohuì; born 1949) is a Chinese novelist. Yu is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and China Writers Association. Yu shared the Mao Dun Literature Prize with his husband Sun Li in 1991.
Sunny Wong.  Sunny Wong Kwok-wing is a Hong Kong choreographer from the 1980s to the present. He has been in the dancing industry for over 20 years. He then started Sunny Wong Dance School in 2007 in order to train new age dancers. As the principal of the school he put much effort on organizing courses for the teenagers and kids.
John Russell (screenwriter).  John Russell (born 1885 Davenport Iowa died 6 March 1956 Santa Monica CA) was an author and screenwriter.He wrote for the New York City News Association news agency and then for the New York Tribune. The Pagan was based on one of his stories and he wrote the screenplay for Beau Geste.
Martin Sexton.  Martin Sexton (born March 2 1966) is an American singer-songwriter and producer originally from Syracuse New York.
Chéri Herouard.  Chéri Hérouard (1881 - 1961) was a French illustrator who was most famously known for his forty-five-year work for French society magazine La Vie Parisienne. Born as Chéri-Louis-Marie-Aime Haumé in Rocroi on January 6 1881 Hérouard's father died in a hunting accident just before his birth. His mother remarried to a Hérouard who was a descendant of the doctor of Louis XIII and Cheri took the new name. Hérouard married Henriette Tabillon on August 17 1903.
Antonio López García.  Antonio López García (born 6 January 1936) is a Spanish painter and sculptor known for his realistic style. He is criticized by some art critics for neo-academism but praised by others like Robert Hughes who consider him a master realist. His style sometimes is deemed hyperrealistic. His painting was the subject of the film El Sol del Membrillo by Victor Erice in 1992.
Kaiji Kawaguchi.  Kaiji Kawaguchi (川口 開治 or かわぐち かいじ Kawaguchi Kaiji born July 27 1948) is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He received the Kodansha Manga Award three times for Actor in 1987 for The Silent Service in 1990 and for Zipang in 2002. He has also received the Shogakukan Manga Award for A Spirit of the Sun in 2006.
Kendra Jade Rossi.  Kendra Jade Rossi is an American model actress and former adult film star. Rossi appeared on the VH1 reality television series Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew. and Sober House. During these shows Rossi was treated for sex addiction and alcoholism by Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Anastasia Barzee.  Anastasia Barzee is a celebrated Broadway Film and Television actress. She is a graduate of Frost School of Music at The University of Miami. Along with fellow Miami grads the Grammy Award nominated Matt Pierson (Producer) and Grammy Winner Gil Goldstein (Arrangements) she has recorded a critically acclaimed a solo album The Dimming of the Day of eclectic contemporary standards which was released on September 27 2011 on Ghostlight Records.
Edan (musician).  Edan Portnoy better known mononymously as Edan is an American alternative hip hop artist from Rockville Maryland. He is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music.
Georg Johannesen.  Georg Johannesen (22 February 1931 – 24 December 2005) was a Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric.He was born in Bergen. His dissertation was on the spring motif in the poetry of Olaf Bull. He drowned while on vacation in Egypt.Georg Johannesen also had a brief career as a lecturer in Scandinavian literature at the University of Bergen from 1978 to 1987.
Jeff Jensen.  Jeff Jensen is a comic book writer who did the bulk of his work in the 1990s. In 2012 he won an Eisner Award for his 2011 book The Green River Killer.
Zenaida Manfugás.  Zenaida Manfugás (February 22 1932 - May 2 2012) was a Cuban born American naturalized pianist considered to be one of the best Cuban pianists in history.
Greg Benson.  Gregory Charles Benson (born January 23 1968) is an American comedian actor and director. His production company Mediocre Films creates comedic short films generally for YouTube. He is a frequent director for The Guild.
Walt Whitman.  Walter Walt Whitman (/ˈwɪtmən/; May 31 1819 – March 26 1892) was an American poet essayist and journalist. A humanist he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon often called the father of free verse.
Rebecca Skloot.  Rebecca L. Skloot /ˈskluːt/ is a freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine. Her first book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) was one of the best-selling new books of 2010 staying on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 2 years eventually reaching #1 and optioned to be made into a movie by Oprah Winfrey.
Ernestine Panckoucke.  Ernestine Panckoucke née Désormeaux aka Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke (1784-1860) was a talented French botanical illustrator and flower painter and considered one of Redouté's most gifted students. She described herself as a 'translator of Goethe's poems pupil of Redouté and designer of Chaumeton's Flore Médicale' published by her husband Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke (1780-1844). She illustrated this work with Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840).
Michael Leviton.  Michael Leviton is a singer-songwriter and ukulele player from Brooklyn New York. His album My Favorite Place to Drown was released on Smith Street and Ace Fu Records in 2006. He toured with They Might Be Giants in 2006 and is closely involved with other underground New York musicians frequently performing throughout the area. In February 2007 Leviton began offering ukulele lessons.
Giovanni d'Asciano.  Giovanni d'Asciano a pupil of Barna of Siena is said to have completed the frescoes left unfinished by that master at San Gimignano Tuscany. At Asciano his birthplace there is a work by Giovanni similar in style to the works of Barna. This painter flourished about 1380.
Kitarō.  Kitarō (喜多郎 born February 4 1953) is a Japanese recording artist composer record producer and arranger who is regarded as a pioneer of New Age music. He is the winner of a Grammy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Ross Daly.  Ross Daly (born 29 September 1952 in King's Lynn Norfolk) is a world musician who specializes in music of the Cretan lyra. Although of Irish descent he has been living on the island of Crete for over 35 years.
Kim Gannon.  James Kimball Kim Gannon (November 18 1900 – April 29 1974) was an American songwriter more commonly a lyricist than a composer.
Bob Stinson.  Robert Neil Bob Stinson (December 17 1959 – February 18 1995) was a founding member and lead guitarist of the American rock band The Replacements.
Autumn Day in Kui Prefecture.  Autumn Day in Kui Prefecture is a poem by 8th-century Chinese poet Du Fu. According to Alfreda Murck the full title of this poem (in translation) is Autumn Day in Kui Prefecture A Song Submitted to Supervisor Zheng and Advisor Li in One Hundred Rhymes.
Micki Grant.  Micki Grant (born June 30 1941) is an American singer (soprano) actress writer and composer. She performed in Having Our Say (as Sadie Delaney) Tambourines to Glory and Jericho-Jim Crow The Gingham Dog Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope and has received three Tony Award nominations for her writing. In the early 1960s she appeared off-Broadway in Jean Genet's The Blacks (with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson) and in Brecht on Brecht in which she sang (among other things) Pirate Jenny.
David Charles Abell.  David Charles Abell (born 1958) is a British American orchestral conductor active in symphonic music opera and musical theatre. Known for his television appearances worldwide as conductor of the Les Misérables 10th and 25th Anniversary concerts he is recognised as an authoritative interpreter of the musicals of Stephen Sondheim.
Blake Riley.  Blake Riley is an American former pornographic actor who appeared in gay and bisexual pornographic films and magazines.
Barbara Weir.  Barbara (originally Florrie) Weir (born c. 1945) is an Australian Aboriginal artist and politician. One of the Stolen Generations she was removed from her aboriginal family and raised in a series of foster homes. After becoming reunited with her mother in the 1960s and divorced in 1977 Weir eventually returned to her family territory of Utopia 300 kilometres (190 mi) northeast of Alice Springs.
Natalia Jiménez.  Natalia Jiménez Sarmiento (Born December 29 1981 in Madrid Spain) is a Spanish singer. She was the lead singer of the Spanish pop band La 5a Estacion.
Chad Hayes (writer).  Chad Hayes (born April 21 1961) is an American writer and twin brother of Carey Hayes.Chad Hayes was born in Portland Oregon. Chad and his brother Carey have written several movies together such as the 2005 remake of House of Wax and the planned remake of The Blob in 2011. As an actor he also known for The Conjuring (2013) and The Reaping (2007). He and Carey also starred in Doublemint gum commercials in their childhood. He has two children: Dylan and Hannah.
Genervie Kam Shi Ling.  Genervie Kam Shi Ling (born 24 May 1980) known professionally as Genervie Kam (in Chinese: 甘诗琳 Kam Shi Ling) is internationally known[citation needed] as a Malaysian violinist pianist music director and arranger.[citation needed] Genervie began her studies after she turned three years old when she received her first piano lesson from Yamaha School and with her mother Penny Kam’s support six years later she started studying the violin with her dad’s friend Andrew Chye.[citation needed]In addition to her native Chinese (Cantonese & Hokkien) she is fluent in both English and Malay.[citation needed]
Maria Shkapskaya.  Maria Mikhailovna Shkapskaya (Russian: Мария Михайловна Шкапская; October 15 1891 – September 7 1952) was a Russian/Soviet poet and journalist.
James Powell (author).  James Powell (born 1932) is a Canadian author of mystery and humorous short stories. Many of his 130 stories have been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He has been nominated twice for the Crime Writers of Canada Award for the Best Short Story and in 1989 won the Ellery Queen Readers' Award for the story A Dirge for Clowntown featuring Inspector Bozo of the Clowntown Police.
Angela White.  Angela White (born 4 March 1985) is an Australian pornographic actress. White was still in high school when she began her career in pornography in 2003 just after her 18th birthday.
Reynold Brown.  Reynold Brown (October 18 1917 – August 24 1991) was a prolific American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters.He attended Alhambra High School and refined his drawing under his teacher Lester Bonar. A talented artist Brown met Hal Forrest who hired him to ghost draw the comic strip Tailspin Tommy from 1936-1937. Norman Rockwell's sister was a teacher at Alhambra High and Brown later met Rockwell who advised him to leave cartooning if he wanted to be an illustrator.
Clementino Ocampos.  Clementino Ocampos (San Lorenzo Paraguay November 14 1913 - January 4 2001) was a Paraguayan composer and poet. His parents were Justiniano Ocampos and Telesfora Melgarejo.
Howard Jacobson.  Howard Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a Man Booker Prize-winning British author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.
John Zewizz.  John Zewizz (real name John McSweeney) is an American industrial music performer. Since the late 1970s Zewizz has recorded hundreds of cassettes LPs vinyl and CD releases. He has also worked as a video director magazine publisher and record label owner (Inner-X-Musick).
Ataol Behramoğlu.  Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13 1942 in Çatalca Istanbul Province Turkey) is a prominent Turkish poet author and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
Yūji Koseki.  Yūji Koseki (古関 裕而 Koseki Yūji August 11 1909 – August 18 1989) was a Japanese ryūkōka gunka march fight song and film score composer. His real name was also Yūji Koseki but its kanji was 古關 勇治.Koseki entered Nippon Columbia in 1930. He composed Hanshin Tigers' song Rokko Oroshi in 1936. His famous military song titled Roei no Uta (露営の歌 lit. The Song of The Camp) was released in 1937. Famous songs composed by him included The Bells of Nagasaki and Mothra's song.
Jon Culshaw.  Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Oldham Lancashire) is an English impressionist and comedian. He was educated at St Bede's RC High School Ormskirk and St John Rigby College Wigan.He is known for his work on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two's Dead Ringers ITV's 2DTV BBC One's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson and his contributions to BBC Radio 1 particularly on The Chris Moyles Show. He also appeared in ITV's Heartbeat on 26 November 2006.
Philippe Vandevelde.  Philippe Vandevelde working under the pseudonym Tome (born February 24 1957 in Brussels) is a comics script writer. He is known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda. More recently he has collaborated with Ralph Meyer on Berceuse assassine and with Marc Hardy on Feux.
Peter Corlett.  Peter Corlett (born 1944) is an Australian sculptor known for his full-figure sculptures cast in bronze especially his memorial works.Corlett studied sculpture at RMIT University Melbourne from 1961 to 1964. In 1975 he was awarded a special projects grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Between 1977 and 1980 he was artist in residence at Exeter University and Exeter College of Art in the United Kingdom.
Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel.  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (c. 1685 – 1764) was a German composer and organist elder son of Johann Pachelbel.Born in Erfurt near Eisenach (probably in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti) Pachelbel studied with his father. The first printed reference to either Pachelbel is in Johann Mattheson's Ehrenpforte.
Ian Thomas (dressmaker).  Ian Thomas (died 2 June 1993) was a British dress designer who worked for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
DJ Sender.  Sender (real name Eugene Ievtukhov born June 28 1984 Luhansk Ukraine) is a Ukrainian DJ music producer song writer and singer owner of Send Records and its sublabels founder of DJFM radio station.
Esther Rochon.  Esther Rochon (née Blackburn) (born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian science fiction writer.Born in Quebec City Quebec the daughter of a scriptwriter and a composer (Maurice Blackburn) at the age of 16 she won the Governor General First Prize for a short story in the Young Author's contest of Radio Canada. Rochon studied Mathematics at the Université de Montréal.She has won the Quebec Science Fiction Fantasy Grand Prix four times.
Spider Loc.  Curtis Norvell Williams (born January 21 1979 in Compton California) more commonly known as Spider Loc is an American rapper and actor. He is currently signed to G-Unit Records. Loc is also the CEO of G-Unit West.
Gary Eck.  Gary Eck is an Australian comedian and actor.
Son House.  Eddie James Son House Jr. (March 21 1902 – October 19 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music as a preacher and for a few years also as a church pastor he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive vocal power and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom.
Ali Mustafayev.  Ali Mustafayev Mustafa oglu (Azerbaijani: Alı Mustafayev Mustafa oğlu) (April 14 1952 – November 20 1991) was an Azerbaijani journalist and reporter during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Peter Goffin.  Peter Goffin F.R.S.A. (28 February 1906 - 22 March 1974) was an English set and costume designer and stage manager known for his work with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Paul Laine.  Paul Robert Laine is a Canadian musician who has worked with several rock bands during the course of his career. He began his professional career as a solo artist then was the singer of Danger Danger out of New York for eleven years then fronted his own band Shugaazer. Paul now has a new band called Darkhorse whose new album called 'Let It Ride' was released April 29th 2014.
Loscil.  loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan from Vancouver BC. The name Loscil is taken from the looping oscillator function (loscil) in Csound. Scott Morgan was also the drummer for the Vancouver indie band Destroyer.A self-released album titled A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies caught the attention of experimental music label Kranky who signed Morgan on to release his debut album Triple Point in 2001.
Kathy Barr.  Kathy Barr (née Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia; 4 June 1929 New York — 21 June 2008 Hollywood Florida) was an American vocalist who performed and recorded popular music jazz musical theater and operettas. Barr flourished during the 1950s in nightclubs television and radio. Barr was acclaimed for her soprano range and ability to sing pop jazz and classical. And according to print media she was a sexy green-eyed flaming redhead.
Mélanie Bonis.  Mélanie Hélène Bonis known as Mel Bonis (b. 4th arrondissement of Paris 21 January 1858 – d. Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) 18 March 1937) was a prolific French classical composer. She wrote more than 300 compositions including works for piano solo and four hands organ pieces chamber music mélodies choral music a mass and works for orchestra.
Penny Jordan.  Penny Halsall née Penelope Jones (24 November 1946 – 31 December 2011) better known by her pen name of Penny Jordan was a best-selling and prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels. She started writing regency romances as Caroline Courtney and wrote contemporary romances as Penny Jordan and historical romances as Annie Groves (her mother's maiden name). She had also signed novels as Melinda Wright and Lydia Hitchcock.
Ricky Williams (musician).  Ricky Williams (October 4 1956 – November 21 1992) also known as Ricky Tractor was an American musician based in San Francisco. He is best known as a vocalist and lyricist but also played drums and guitar. He was the original drummer for Crime (1976–77) the original singer for Flipper (1979) and The Sleepers (1977–81) and vocalist for Toiling Midgets (1981–83). He has been credited with giving Flipper their band name although he was fired before they made any recordings.
Donald Barthelme.  Donald Barthelme (April 7 1931 – July 23 1989) was an American author known for his playful postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post was managing editor of Location magazine director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962) co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch) and a professor at various universities.
Paul Hornschemeier.  Paul Hornschemeier (born 1977) is a cartoonist based in Evanston Illinois known for his thought-provoking explorations of the layered complexities of human life in his work.
Hu Xia.  Hu Xia (Chinese: 胡夏) is a Chinese singer. He was the winner of the sixth season of Taiwan's One Million Star in 2010.
Piers Faccini.  Piers Faccini (born Piers Damian G. Faccini; 1970) is an English singer painter and songwriter.
Avishay Hadari.  Avishay Hadari (hebr. אבישי הדרי; born 19 May 1976 in Tiberias Israel) is an Israeli artist award-winning theatre director painter set and graphic designer. After graduating in 1994 from Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Tel Aviv he then studied at The School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem where he became acquainted for the first time with the experimental Cricot 2 Theatre by the renown Polish art philosopher Tadeusz Kantor.
K. V. Narayanaswamy.  Palghat Kollengode Viswanatha Ramanarayanan (Malayalam:പാലക്കാട് കൊല്ലങ്കോട് വിശ്വനാഥ രാമനാരായണൻ) (November 15 1923 – April 1 2002) often referred to as KV Narayanaswamy was an Indian musician widely considered to be among the finest Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. He was described as the Gentle Perfect Knight of Carnatic music a phrase from Geoffrey Chaucer by V. K. Narayana Menon prominent art critic of India and recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
Séan McCann (musician).  Séan McCann The Shantyman (born May 22 1967 Carbonear Newfoundland and Labrador Canada) is a singer and musician (playing bodhran shakers tin whistle and guitar) in the band Great Big Sea. He announced plans to stop touring with the band at the end of December 2013.
Alberto Rossi.  Alberto Rossi (Turin 1858 - 1936) was an Italian painter mainly as a portrait but also as a landscape painter.He was a pupil at the Albertina Academy in Turin and later worked under Gaetone Perratoni-Armandi. In 1883 at the Exhibition of Milan he display Un Mulino. In 1884 at the Turin Exposition he exhibited his Portrait of a man and some landscapes his preferred subject.
Johannes Eick.  Johannes Eick (born 22 April 1964 in Eidsfoss Vestfold Norway) is a Norwegian bassist (double bass and electric bass guitar) the son of bassist and vibrafonist Jürgen Eick (b. 1937) and the older brother of musicians Trude Eick and Mathias Eick. As young he played in the band «Kix» with Elin Rosseland (1982–86) but are moust known from cooperations with Karin Krog John Surman Vigleik Storaas Christian Wallumrød Sidsel Endresen and Hans Mathisen.
Luke Perry (artist).  Luke Perry is an English artist known for his monumental sculptures most especially those celebrating the heritage of the Industrial Revolution particularly in the Black Country.
Devin Bronson.  Devin Bronson (born Seattle Washington May 15 1983) is one of the top touring and session guitarist in Los Angeles. Some of his credits include Avril Lavigne David Cook and Sebastian Bach. Bronson's versatility on stage and in the studio has risen him to success in a variety of musical platforms including musical director spokesperson and business entrepreneur.
Jo Baer.  Josephine Gail Jo Baer born Josephine Kleinberg August 7 1929 is an American painter whose works are associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery New York and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s she turned away from non-objective painting. Since then Baer has fused images symbols words and phrases in a non-narrative manner a mode of expression she once termed radical figuration.
Risako Sugaya.  Risako Sugaya (菅谷 梨沙子 Sugaya Risako born 4 April 1994 in Kanagawa Japan) is a Japanese pop singer idol and member of the musical group Berryz Kobo.
On Kawara.  On Kawara (河原 温 Kawara On born January 2 1933) is a Japanese conceptual artist living in New York City since 1965. He has shown in many solo and group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale in 1976.
Freddie Foxxx.  Freddie Foxxx (born James Campbell in 1969) also known as Bumpy Knuckles is an American rapper and music producer from Long Island New York.
Adam Chamberlain.  Adam Chamberlain (born January 8 1972) is an English author based in London. He was awarded the internal Shell/The Economist Writing Prize in 2003 for his essay Beyond Nature an investigation of mankind's relationship with the natural world and later lectured on the contents of that essay. He has since published short fiction in addition to work on plays and screenplays. Columbia & Britannia an alternate history anthology Adam Chamberlain edited with Brian A.
Julian Ritter.  Julian Ritter (September 19 1909 – March 4 2000) was an American painter of Polish-German descent who painted nudes and clowns and had an ill-fated Pacific voyage that nearly cost the lives of Ritter and his crew.Ritter's paintings were typically rich in color. His nudes celebrated the glamor and beauty of the female form. All of his figurative paintings expressed the humanness in his subjects.
Nina Wilcox Putnam.  Nina Wilcox Putnam (November 28 1888 – March 8 1962) was an American novelist screenwriter and playwright. She wrote more than 500 short stories around 1000 magazine articles and several books in addition to regular newspaper columns serials comic books and children's literature. Many of her stories were made into films including a story that was the basis for the 1932 film The Mummy starring Boris Karloff.
Paul Turner (bassist).  Paul Turner (born 11 March 1968 in Sunderland England) is a bassist. He is currently the bassist for the British group Jamiroquai.
Billy Hancock.  William C. Hancock Jr. (known as Billy Hancock) (born November 4 1946) is a singer guitarist bassist and multi-instrumental recording artist. He has made numerous recordings primarily in the rockabilly genre but also has a large body of recorded work in rock 'n' roll blues jazz rhythm & blues and country music. He performs live primarily in the Washington D.C. area but also plays regularly at European roots music festivals.
Bernie De Koven.  Bernard Louis Bernie De Koven or DeKoven (born October 15 1941) is an American game designer author lecturer and fun theorist. He is most notable for his book The Well Played Game for his contributions to the New Games Foundation his pioneering work in computer game design and for his long-running web site deepFUN.com.
Amity Gaige.  Amity Gaige (born 1972) is an American novelist.
John Mostyn (music manager).  John Mostyn is a prominent music industry figure in the West Midlands most notable for managing The Beat and later Fine Young Cannibals.Mostyn discovered Detroit based group Inner City who under his direction had the hits 'Big Fun' and 'Good Life'.Arguably Mostyn's most notable success was with Fine Young Cannibals whom he managed after The Beat separated.
Kean Cipriano.  Kean Edward Uson Cipriano (born 11 June 1987) better known as Kean Cipriano is a Filipino singer composer actor and musician. He is well known as the current vocalist of pop-rock band Callalily.
Cerrone.  Marc Cerrone (born 24 May 1952 Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris France) is a French disco drummer composer record producer and creator of major concert shows. Cerrone is considered as one of the most influential disco producers of the 70s and 80s in Europe.He has sold over 30 million records worldwide including over four million copies in France only and eight million copies of Supernature which is considered as his magnum opus.
Bill Hudson (singer).  William Louis Bill Hudson (born 17 October 1949) is an American musician and actor. He is best known for being in the band The Hudson Brothers.
Franck Avitabile.  Franck Avitabile (born 24 November 1971) is a jazz pianist who also has a master's degree in Discrete mathematics from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.Avitabile was born in Lyon France. At nine he began to study music at the Lyon Conservatoire including Bach Mozart and Debussy. At seventeen he became interested in jazz particularly Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. Later he became the only musician for whom Michel Petrucciani ever produced a record.
DJ Olive.  DJ Olive (also known as The Audio Janitor; born Gregor Asch) is an American disc jockey and turntablist. He is known for producing music generally in the electronic genre with strong influences of dub and free improvisation styles.DJ Olive is a member of We Lunchbox and Liminal. He has also collaborated with Kim Gordon Ikue Mori William Hooker Zeena Parkins Uri Caine Medeski Martin and Wood Dave Douglas and various others.
Helen Reimensnyder Martin.  Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868–1939) was an American author. She was born in Lancaster Pennsylvania studied at Swarthmore and at Radcliffe colleges; and married Frederic C. Martin in 1889. She became known for her stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch the shorter ones contributed to Leslie's the Century the Cosmopolitan the Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines.
Jukki Hanada.  Jukki Hanada (花田 十輝 Hanada Jukki) (born 1969) is a Japanese screenwriter.
Aurelio Buso.  Aurelio Buso (active c. 1520) was an Italian painter from Crema. He studied under Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze and assisted them in several of their works at Rome. He ornamented the palace of the noble family of Benzoni at Venice with friezes and other works in the style of Polidoro.
Charles Spaak.  Charles Spaak (25 May 1903 – 4 March 1975) was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s. He was the son of the dramatist and poet Paul Spaak the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak and the father of the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès Spaak.
Ronald Hardy.  Ronald Harold Hardy (16 November 1919 – October 1991) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel The Place of Jackals was published in 1954 to acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during World War II in the writing of this novel. A review in Time magazine claimed that the novel establishes him as Graham Greene's No. 1 disciple. Hardy won the 1962 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his fifth novel Act of Destruction.
François le Métel de Boisrobert.  François le Métel de Boisrobert (1 August 1592 – 30 March 1662) was a French poet playwright and courtier.
Harnam Folk Dance Ensemble.  HARNAM The Folk Dance Ensemble Harnam (also The Representative Ensemble of The Łódź Voivodeship; in Polish: Zespół Tańca Ludowego Harnam) – is the eldest folk ensemble in Poland. It was established in 1947 by Jadwiga Hryniewiecka. Harnam meets in the Ludwik Geyer’s White Factory in Łódź.
Jean Ferry.  Jean Levy known as Jean Ferry (1906 – 1974) was a French writer and follower of the 'pataphysical tradition'.
Rabih Jaber.  Rabih Jaber (in Arabic ربيع جابر) (full name Rabih Mahmoud Jaber born on 5 August 1987 in Lebanon) also known by his mononym as Rabih is a Swedish singer of Lebanese origin. He was former participant of Swedish Idol 2009 and finished seventh. Rabih Jaber and Eddie Razaz yet another Idol participant became a duo pop boy band as Rebound! in 2010 with a number of hits on the Swedish charts. After split-up of the band in April 2011 Rabih Jaber is continuing as a solo singer.
Leopold Sánchez.  Leopoldo Sánchez (born 1948) is a Spanish comic book artist.
Bunjūrō Nakayama.  Bunjūrō Nakayama (中山 文十郎 Nakayama Bunjūrō born June 15 1964) is a Japanese author best known for his creation of Mahoromatic.
Mary Louise McLaughlin.  Mary Louise McLaughlin (September 29 1847 – January 19 1939) was an American ceramic painter and studio potter from Cincinnati Ohio and the main local competitor of Maria Longworth Nichols Storer who founded Rookwood Pottery. Like Storer McLaughlin was one of the originators of the art pottery movement that swept the United States.
Oleg Eremeev.  Oleg Arcadievich Eremeev (Russian: Олег Аркадьевич Еремеев; September 28 1922 Petrograd Soviet Russia) is a Soviet Russian painter People's Artist of the Russian Federation a head of the Repin Institute of Arts (1990-2001) a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad Union of Artists) who live and worke in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his genre and portrait paintings.
John Maggard.  John Slo Maggard is an American musician and the bassist of Winthrop Massachusetts metalcore band Unearth.
Douglas Miles.  Douglas Miles is a San Carlos Apache-Akimel O'odham painter printmaker and photographer from Arizona who founded Apache Skateboards and Apache Skate Team.
Pietro Paolo Baldinacci.  Pietro Paolo Baldinacci (active first half of 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Gubbio.
Jerolim Miše.  Jerolim Miše (1890–1970) was a Croatian painter teacher and art critic. He painted portraits still lifes and landscapes of his native Dalmatia. A member of the Group of Three Group of Four and the Independent Group of Artists.In addition to being an exhibiting artist Jerolim Miše taught and encouraged other artists for over 60 years wrote articles and critiqued visual arts. As both a painter and a critic he made an enormous contribution to modern art in Croatia.
Edward T. Lowe Jr..  Edward T. Lowe Jr. also known as E.T. Lowe Jr. E.C. Lowe Edmund T. Lowe Edward T. Lowe and Edward Lowe (29 June 1880 in Nashville Tennessee USA – 17 April 1973 in Los Angeles California USA) was an American film writer producer and editor. He wrote once 120 films between years 1913-1947 produced 18 films and directed one: The Losing Game (1915). He had two children Elizabeth Alden Lowe and Edythe Helen Lowe.
Dan Smith (Bastille).  Daniel Campbell Dan Smith (born 14 July 1986) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and is the lead vocalist producer songwriter and founder of the band Bastille.
Superpitcher.  Aksel Schaufler better known by his stage name Superpitcher is a German producer affiliated with Cologne's Kompakt music label.
Robert Petway.  Robert Petway (October 18 1907 – May 1978) was an African-American blues singer and guitarist.Very little is known about Robert Petway. His birthplace is usually speculated to have been at or near J.F. Sligh Farm near Yazoo City Mississippi birthplace of his close friend and fellow bluesman Tommy McClennan although some recent research suggests that Petway may have been born at Gee's Bend Alabama.
Nadezhda Teffi.  Nadezhda Teffi known simply as Teffi (Russian: Наде́жда Тэ́ффи) (21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872 Saint Petersburg - 6 October 1952 Paris) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая); after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satiricon magazine.
Mounir Troudi.  Mounir Troudi (منير الطرودي) (b. 1960) is a jazz and Sufi music singer from Tunisia.Mounir grew up in El Kef and he received his diploma on Arabic music in 1998. He made his debut with Fadhel Jaziri and his show Hadhra in 1994 and in the early 2000s he formed Nagouz. He has also appeared in several albums with jazz trumpet player Erik Truffaz. In 2010 he released his album Tawassol.
Ragnar Þórhallsson.  Ragnar Þórhallsson (born 6 March 1987) is an Icelandic musician. He is lead vocalist and guitarist along with Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir of the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and Men.
Mac Mall.  Mac Mall (born Jamal Rocker in Vallejo California) is a West Coast rapper who became known in the mid/late 1990s as one of the local artists putting the Bay Area on the hip hop map. Mac Mall was signed to Young Black Brotha Records.One of Mac Mall's first singles was a song called Ghetto Theme which had a music video directed by Tupac Shakur in 1994. He was also longtime friends with Mac Dre who was his mentor early on in his career.
Anna Gmeyner.  Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an exiled German and Austrian author playwright and scriptwriter who is now best known for her novel Manja (1939). She also wrote under the names Anna Reiner and Anna Morduch. Her daughter was the children's writer Eva Ibbotson.
Jet Li.  Li Lianjie ([lì ljǎntɕjɛ̌]; born 26 April 1963) better known by his English stage name Jet Li is a Chinese film actor film producer martial artist and wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.After three years of intensive training with Wu Bin Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team.
Lisa Fischer.  Lisa Fischer (born December 1 1958) is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter. She rose to fame in 1991 with her debut album So Intense which produced the Grammy Award–winning hit single How Can I Ease the Pain. Known for her wide high-reaching vocal range Fischer has been recognized as one of the most successful session vocalists of the era.
Francesco Zucco.  Francesco Zucco (c.1570 – May 3 1627) was an Italian painter. Zucco was born in Bergamo. The year of his birth is uncertain but is known to be no later than 1575. Zucco studied art for a time in Cremona before returning to Bergamo; there he associated with painters such as Giovanni Paolo Cavagna and Enea Salmeggia.
Janrae Frank.  Janrae Frank was an American journalist writer and editor known primarily for her work in science fiction and fantasy. She wrote extensively on the subject of women and feminism in speculative fiction.Her first published short story Wolves of Nakesht appeared in the 1980 World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Amazons! (edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson).
Kostas Mountakis.  Kostas Mountakis (Greek: Κώστας Μουντάκης a.k.a. Μουντόκωστας) (10 February 1926 Alfa in Mylopotamos Crete – 31 January 1991) was a Greek musician who popularized the traditional music of the island of Crete primarily with the lyra the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra. His parents came from the village Kallikratis in Sfakia Crete.
Joachim Garraud.  Joachim Garraud (born September 27 1968 in Nantes) is a French DJ but he is also a remixer and producer.
Ram Rider.  Ram Rider (RAM RIDER 矢崎俊輔 (Shunsuke Yasaki) and/or Sato Katsuya) is a Japanese music producer musician remixer DJ.
Nancy Holt.  Nancy Holt (April 5 1938 – February 8 2014) was an American artist most known for her public sculpture installation art and land art. Throughout her career Holt also produced works in other mediums including film photography and writing artist’s books.
Thomas Wijck.  Thomas Wijck (also Thomas Wijk or Thomas Wyck; 1616–1677) was a Dutch painter of port views and genre paintings.
J. D. Carpenter.  J. D. David Carpenter is a poet and novelist who lives in Prince Edward County Ontario.Carpenter was born in 1948 and grew up in Toronto Canada. He attended York University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 and Queen's University where he received a Bachelor of Education degree in 1972. He first worked as a journalist for Daily Racing Form and as a freelance writer.
Jonathan Harvey (playwright).  Jonathan Harvey (born 13 June 1968) is an English playwright whose work has earned multiple awards. He is also a former secondary school English teacher.
Eric Thiman.  Eric Harding Thiman (12 September 1900 – 13 February 1975) was an English composer and organist. Thiman was born in Ashford Kent. Largely self-taught he was awarded an FRCO in 1921. From 1930 he was Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music and later from 1956 to 1962 was Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of London.
Lisa Bevill.  Lisa Bevill (born June 24 1961 in Asheville North Carolina) is an American Contemporary Christian musician best known for Christian radio hits such as No Condemnation Only a Saviour and Hold On. Her latest album When The Healing Comes was released on March 1 2008 and she has begun songwriting for her next album.
Georg Årlin.  Georg Adolf Wilhelm Årlin (30 December 1916 – 27 June 1992) was a Swedish film actor who appeared in 50 films between 1940 and 1988.Born in Rödeby a southern Sweden locality in Blekinge County's Karlskrona Municipality Georg Årlin died in Lövestad at the age of 75.
Rajalakshmi.  Rajalakshmi (June 2 1930 - January 18 1965) was a Malayalam writer and poet in India. She was born at Cherpulassery Palakkad; her father was Marath Achutha Menon and mother was Kutty Malu Amma. Professionally she was a lecturer in Physics and worked in many NSS Colleges including the one at Ottappalam. As a notable writer she won the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award in 1960 for her work Oru Vazhiyum Kure Nizhalukalum (A Path and a Few Shadows).
Ginger Lynn.  Ginger Lynn (born Ginger Lynn Allen; December 14 1962) is an American pornographic model prominent in 1980s videos. She also had occasional roles in low-budget B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest porn stars of all time. After ending her adult-entertainment career she began using her full name of Ginger Lynn Allen and found work in a variety of B-movies. She had a late career comeback to the adult industry and made a brief series of movies.
Richard Wright (author).  Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4 1908 – November 28 1960) was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels short stories poems and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes especially those involving the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. His work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century.
Benny Carter.  Bennett Lester Benny Carter (August 8 1907 – July 12 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist clarinetist trumpeter composer arranger and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958 he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.
Alex Reymundo.  Alex Reymundo is a Mexican-American comedian and actor who was featured on the 2007 ALMA Awards.He was born and raised in Acapulco Mexico until he and his family moved to the United States and lived in Texas from the age of two to twenty-two. He lived in Kentucky for seven years. Reymundo is married and has two children a boy and a girl.Reymundo had a one-hour special that aired on Comedy Central in 2007 called Alex Reymundo Hick-Spanic: Live in Albuquerque.
Charles Oliver (actor).  Charles Oliver was a British film actor. He appeared in the Will Hay film Ask a Policeman as the local squire who oversees a smuggling empire.
Amy Weber.  Amy Marie Weber is an American actress model film producer former professional wrestling valet and singer who is best known for her time as a WWE Diva for World Wrestling Entertainment under the SmackDown! brand. Weber recently released an album Let it Rain the titular single for which stayed in the US Billboard Chart for over a month. It was also was released internationally via Dauman Music and Republic Digital and climbed to number 6 in the UK Singles Chart.
Allen Adler.  Allen Adler (December 25 1916 – January 30 1964) was an American writer also involved in theater in various ways. With Irving Block he wrote the story for the screenplay for Forbidden Planet based on Shakespeare's The Tempest but was a victim of the Second Red Scare and was blacklisted from the film industry.
Angela Pulvirenti.  Angela Ange Pulvirenti is an Australian writer television presenter producer and media personality. In 2005 she was the producer and host of the entertainment interview show Backstage Pass and continues to be involved in Australian radio with recent appearances on 2UE and 4MMM.
Fathi Hassan.  Fathi Hassan (Arabic: فتحي حسن‎) (born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born artist known for his installations involving the written word. He lives and works in Italy.
Dominique Mainard.  Dominique Mainard is a French translator of English novels short story writer and novelist. She was born in Paris France in 1967 and grew up in the region of Lyon and spent five years in the United States. She won the 2009 Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) for her novel Pour vous (For You). Mainard spent 2005 - 2006 as a resident of the Randell Cottage Writers' Trust in Wellington New Zealand.
Don Winslow.  Don Winslow is an American author most recognized for his crime and mystery novels. Many of his books are set in California. He has published a series of five novels that have a private investigator named Neal Carey as their main character. Savages has attracted critical acclaim with the New York Times describing it as a startling bid for attention.He has written the screenplays for Savages Satori and other adaptations of his novels with screenwriter/producer Shane Salerno.
Craig Porteils.  Craig Porteils (born in Australia) is a music producer mixer audio engineer musical composer songwriter lyricist guitarist and former performer based out of Sydney Australia.
Patrick Keeler.  Patrick Keeler is an American rock music drummer from Cincinnati who best known for playing in The Greenhornes and The Raconteurs. He plays with both traditional and matched grips.
Norman Rockwell.  Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3 1894 – November 8 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.
Petar Omčikus.  Petar Omčikus (French: Pierre Omcikous; Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Омчикус) Sušak October 6 1926) is a Serbian painter and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts who lives and works in Paris France.
Yuri Mitsui.  Yuri Mitsui (Japanese: 三井ゆり Mitsui Yuri) (August 25 1968) is a Japanese actress and model. She is also a race car driver. She was born in Chiba Prefecture Japan.
Mary Ann Shadd.  Mary Ann Shadd Cary (October 9 1823 – June 5 1893) was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist journalist publisher teacher and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.Shadd Cary was an abolitionist who became the first female African American newspaper editor in North America when she edited the Provincial Freeman in 1853.
Gerhard Herm.  Gerhard Herm (born 26 April 1931 in Crailsheim Württemberg Germany) is a German journalist and writer.He studied at the Werner Friedmann Institute and received a grant from the Fulbright Program to study in the USA. In connection with his studies Herm was given a position as a journalist at Tagesschau television. Later he switched to WDR and published his first book in 1964. During his time in television he participated in the production of forty documentary programmes.
Spencer Gore (artist).  Spencer Frederick Gore (26 May 1878 – 27 March 1914) was a British painter of landscapes music-hall scenes and interiors usually with single figures. He was the first president of the Camden Town Group and was influenced by the Post-Impressionists.
Art Spander.  Arthur Melvin Spander is an award-winning American sports writer. Through 7/21/08 he was a columnist for the Oakland Tribune/MediaNews and the American columnist for the Scotland Sunday Herald and the London-based Daily Telegraph.
Carlos Villalobos.  Carlos Jonathan Villalobos Jr. is an American composer studio musician recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist.
Kevin Aviance.  Kevin Aviance (born Eric Snead on June 22 1968 in Richmond Virginia) is an American female impressionist Club/Dance musician and fashion designer and nightclub personality. He is a very popular personality in New York City's gay scene and has performed throughout North America Europe and Asia. He is a member of the House of Aviance a local gay performer's group. He is known for his trademark phrase Work. Fierce. Over.
Santiago Martínez Delgado.  Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906–1954) was a Colombian painter sculptor art historian and writer. He established a reputation as a prominent muralist during the 1940s and is also known for his watercolors oil paintings illustrations and woodcarvings.Martínez attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Ruth VanSickle Ford. In 1933 he was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts for his mural at the Century of Progress International Exhibition in Chicago.
Mark Frith (musician).  Mark Frith is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and currently the lead singer of the band The Troubadours.
Joseph Ginat.  Joseph Ginat (Hebrew: יוסף גינת‎March 6 1936 – 2009) was an Israeli anthropologist author political advisor and soldier.
Robert J. Harris (writer).  Robert J. Harris (Bob) is a Scottish academic and author of children's fantasies and historical novels best known for his collaborations with Jane Yolen. He also designed the fantasy board game Talisman. Recently Bob released his sequel to Talisman Mythgardia. He lives in Scotland and is married to American author Deborah Turner Harris.
John Bryant Lane.  John Bryant Lane (1788–1863) was an English painter.
Ralna English.  Ralna Eve English is an American-born singer (born June 19 1942 Haskell Texas) who gained fame as half of the husband-and-wife singing duo of Guy & Ralna with then-husband Guy Hovis both of whom were featured performers on The Lawrence Welk Show.She was reared in Lubbock where as a teenager won a local battle of the bands competition with her group Ralna and the Ad-Libs. One of her competitors was legendary rock star Buddy Holly a Lubbock native.
Stefano Caselli.  Stefano Caselli (born February 21 1978) is an Italian comic book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics title Avengers: The Initiative the mini-series Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways and Secret Warriors. He was one of the pencillers of The Amazing Spider-Man starting with issue #651 and now he is working on Avengers starting with issue #14 of August 2013.
Princess Nukata.  Princess Nukata (額田王 Nukata no Ōkimi c. 630–690 CE) (also known as Princess Nukada) was a Japanese poet of the Asuka period. The daughter of Princess Kagami Nukata became Emperor Temmu's favorite wife and bore him a daughter Princess Tōchi (who would become Emperor Kōbun's consort). A legend claims that she later became consort to Emperor Tenji Emperor Temmu's elder brother but there is no evidence to support this claim.
Kim Heungsou.  Kim Heungsou(in Hangul:김흥수 in Hanja:金興洙 November 17 1919 ~ ) is a Korean painter whose another title is Picasso of Korea. Jang soo hyun his partner and executive curator of Kim Heungsou museum died of ovarian cancer in November 2012.
Danny Thompson.  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman.
Henry Mendez.  Henry Méndez (full name Henry Antonio Méndez Reynoso) (born in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic) is a Dominican / Spanish singer songwriter and record producer of reggaeton rap Latin house and dance now based in Spain. He is known for solo hits and collaborations with various artists.
Alan Warner.  Alan Warner (born 1964) a Scottish novelist grew up in Connel near Oban.He is the author of six novels: the acclaimed Morvern Callar (1995) winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; These Demented Lands (1997) winner of the Encore Award; The Sopranos (1998) winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award; The Man Who Walks (2002) an imaginative and surreal black comedy; The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven (2006) and The Stars in the Bright Sky (2010) a sequel to The Sopranos.
Kacper Sikora.  Kacper Sikora (born 7 January 1992) is a Polish singer who won the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent in November 2011. As the winner he received PLN300000.
Russell Cook (musician).  Russell Cook is a hammered dulcimer builder and player from Oklahoma United States.Russell won first place in the 1981 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield Kansas. Cook built his first dulcimer in 1979 and has gone on to build hammered dulcimers. He originally operated under the name Wood 'N Strings. In 1991 he merged with Mark and Steve Tindle to form Master Works which is now located in Bennington Oklahoma.
Plastic Bertrand.  Plastic Bertrand (born Roger Allen François Jouret 24 February 1954 Brussels) is a Belgian musician songwriter producer editor and television presenter best known for the 1978 international hit single Ça plane pour moi.
Takako Uehara.  Takako Uehara (上原 多香子 Uehara Takako) (born January 14 1983) is a Jpop singer actress and former radio host. She is a member of the group Speed. Uehara was born in Okinawa Japan.Her first solo single My First Love was released in January 1999 and was produced by Ryuichi Kawamura (of Luna Sea).My First Love was the beginning of a prosperous collaboration between Uehara and Kawamura.The single sold over 500000 copies.
Sigurd Raschèr.  Sigurd Manfred Raschèr (pronounced 'Rah-sher') (15 May 1907 – 25 February 2001) was an American saxophonist of German birth. He became an important figure in the development of the 20th century repertoire for the classical saxophone.
Chubby Carrier.  Roy Chubby Carrier is an American zydeco musician. He is the leader of Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band.Carrier's father and grandfather both played zydeco music and his cousins recorded under the name The Carrier Brothers. He was taught to play accordion by his father Roy Carrier Sr. and played with his father's band at age 12 first on accordion and then on drums.
Jan Gunnar Hoff.  Jan Gunnar Hoff (born 22 October 1958 in Bodø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (piano) Composer Arranger and Professor living in Bodø known from cooperations with great Jazz musicians like Pat Metheny Chick Corea Lars Danielsson John Surman Karin Krog Maria Joao Marilyn Mazur Anders Jormin Arve Henriksen Per Jørgensen Alex Acuna Mike Stern Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk Per Mathisen Arild Andersen Nils Petter Molvær Ståle Storløkken Audun Kleive and Mathias Eick.
Mary Louisa Molesworth.  Mary Louisa Molesworth née Stewart (29 May 1839 – 20 January 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. Her first novels for adult readers Lover and Husband (1869) to Cicely (1874) appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham. Her name occasionally appears in print as M. L. S. Molesworth.
Fad Gadget.  Francis John Frank Tovey known also by his stage name Fad Gadget (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002) was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music. As Fad Gadget his music was characterized by a use of synthesizers in conjunction with sounds of found objects including drills and electric razors.
Domenico Dragonetti.  Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti (April 7 1763 – April 16 1846) was an Italian double bass virtuoso and composer. He stayed for thirty years in his hometown of Venice Italy and worked at the Opera Buffa at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in Vicenza. By that time he had become notable throughout Europe and had turned down several opportunities including offers from the Tsar of Russia.
Alex Templeton-Ward.  Alex Templeton-Ward (born 9 June 1983 Carlisle Cumbria) is an English artist and musician. Templeton-Ward was the key writer behind visionary psychedelic outfits The Beat Maras and Black Coral Groove. He was a one time member of Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences where he provided vocals bass sampling synthesizers and has writing credits. Templeton-Ward was editor of Livemusic between 2010–12.
Brad Delson.  Bradford Phillip Brad Delson (born December 1 1977) is an American musician best known as the guitarist and one of the founding members of the Grammy Award winning rock band Linkin Park. He is also the A&R Representative for Machine Shop Recordings.
Steve Perry (musician).  Stephen Ray Pereira (born January 22 1949) known professionally as Steve Perry is an American singer-songwriter record producer and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987 and 1995 to 1998.
Jez Williams.  Jeremy Francis Jez Williams (born 18 February 1970) is the guitarist/songwriter of Doves. He was born in Manchester England and he is also the twin brother of bandmate Andy. Before their incarnation as Doves the three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub.His earlier bands include Metro Trinity whose first EP called Die Young was released in 1987 on Cafetieria Records based in Hulme Manchester.
Alastair King.  Alastair King (born 1967) is a British composer perhaps best known for his music for film and television.He studied music at Bath College of Higher Education graduating in 1991.
Giovanni Antonio Capello.  Giovanni Antonio Capello (Brescia 1699–1741) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active mainly in Brescia.
Vash Young.  Vash Young was an American author of motivational and self-improvement books with a popular following during the Great Depression. (His first name was Vashni but throughout his life he seems to have preferred Vash.) His writings especially his last book Fortunes for All reveal much of his early life.
Alisha (singer).  Alisha Ann Itkin (born April 16 1968) from Brooklyn New York is an American freestyle and dance-pop singer who had several club hits in the 1980s and 1990s.
Sybil Arundale.  Sybil Arundale (20 June 1879 – 5 September 1965) was an English stage and film actress born Sybil Kelly.From age 11 Arundale appeared with her sister Grace in music halls where they were billed as The Sisters Arundale. An early dramatic role in 1898 was Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream and later as Rosalind in As You Like It. She appeared with the Birmingham Repertory Company where she performed in Ibsen’s The Pillars of Society and The Wild Duck.
Shinkichi Hashimoto.  ×Shinkichi Hashimoto (橋本 進吉 Hashimoto Shinkichi December 24 1882 - January 30 1945) was a Japanese linguist born in Tsuruga Fukui Prefecture Japan.
Nicole Barber-Lane.  Nicole Barber-Lane is an English actress best known for playing Myra McQueen in the long-running teen soap Hollyoaks.Before working in Hollyoaks Barber-Lane appeared in Emmerdale Bodies The Cops and in a Yorkshire Building Society commercial. She has featured in Woman Red and NOW magazines. Barber-Lane has also appeared in theatres such as The Dance House Theatre The Courtyard Theatre and The Robert Powell Theatre.
Haki Stërmilli.  Haki Stërmilli (1895–1953) was an Albanian writer and journalist. His works dealt mostly with issues related to the rights of the Albanian communities outside Albania republicanism emancipation of women and feminism. His best-known work is the novel Sikur të isha djalë (English: If I were a Boy).
Shin Seung-hun.  Shin Seung Hun (Hangul: 신승훈; hanja: 申昇勳) was born on 21 March 1968. He is a South Korean ballad singer whose popularity peaked in the 1990s. He is remembered as one of the most important figures in South Korean pop music scene.The newest single is For Our Dreams which he composed and performed. It was released in January 2009 and was used by Korean Air to commemorate its 40th Anniversary. Both Korean and English versions have been released.
Edmund Hockridge.  Edmund James Arthur Hockridge (9 August 1919 – 15 March 2009) was a Canadian baritone and actor who had an active performance career in musicals operas concerts plays and on radio. According to his obituary in The Guardian his life could have provided the storyline for one of the musicals he starred in.
Hafez Nazeri.  Hafez Nazeri (حافظ ناظری) is an Iranian composer of Kurdish descent. He is the son of musician Shahram Nazeri.
Deyan Nedelchev.  Deyan Nedelchev is a Bulgarian pop singer showman and composer. He has issued 11 albums and 9 maxi singles including projects with his colleagues some with his brother Boyko. He won the Grand-prix at the Golden Orpheus international festival in 1993 at the contest for new Bulgarian pop songs with the song'Dedication'.
Thomas Mann.  Paul Thomas Mann ([paʊ̯l toːmas man]; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist short story writer social critic philanthropist essayist and 1929 Nobel laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Goethe Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
Heather Beck.  Heather Beck is a Canadian author and screenwriter who began writing professionally at the age of sixteen. Her first book was published when she was only nineteen years old. Since then she has written eleven well-reviewed books which have sold in six continents.Heather received an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree from university where she specialized in English and studied an array of disciplines.
Gene MacLellan.  Gene MacLellan (February 2 1938 – January 19 1995) was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Prince Edward Island.Among his notable compositions were Snowbird made famous by Anne Murray Put Your Hand in the Hand The Call Pages of Time and Thorn in My Shoe. Elvis Presley Joan Baez and Bing Crosby were among the many artists who recorded MacLellan's songs.MacLellan was born in Val-d'Or Quebec and grew up in Toronto Ontario.
Jane McAdam Freud.  Jane McAdam Freud is winner of the 2014 European Trebbia Awards for artistic achievement. The daughter of Katherine Margaret McAdam and Lucian Freud Jane was born on 24 February 1958 in London England. She is the great-grand daughter of Sigmund Freud. McAdam Freud is a Sculptor working with installation and digital media.
Jim Jonsin.  James Scheffer professionally known as Jim Jonsin is an American record producer songwriter record executive and entrepreneur. Jonsin has collaborated with numerous elite hip hop pop R&B and rock artists including BeyoncéKelly Rowland Usher Lil Wayne Kid Cudi Eminem Yelawolf Nelly T.I. Danity Kane and Jamie Foxx to name a few and won a Grammy in 2009 for Best Rap Song for Lil Wayne's Lollipop.
Kaz Cooke.  Kaz Cooke (born 1962) is an Australian author and cartoonist. Her books include Real Gorgeous Up the Duff (also published under different titles outside of Australia) Kidwrangling Girl Stuff and Living with Crazy Buttocks which won the 2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.In 2008 Cooke won the Australian Publishers Association's General Non-fiction Book of the Year for Girl Stuff.
Vlado Meller.  Vlado Meller is an audio mastering engineer currently mastering at Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston South Carolina. Vlado masters across multiple genres of music with credits on rock hip-hop pop jazz metal dance opera Broadway and classical albums.
Hansjörg Göritz.  Hansjörg Göritz (born 5 June 1959) is a German architect professor author and designer associated with pure and minimalist architecture that emphasizes place space light and material. For his early works he was awarded one of the most prestigious architecture awards in Germany in 1996 the Promotional Award Baukunst to the Kunstpreis Berlin by the Academy of Arts Berlin. In 2012 he was recognized as an Affiliated Fellow to the American Academy in Rome.
Yann Tomita.  Yann Tomita (ヤン富田 Tomita Yann born October 17 1952) is a Japanese musician composer record producer writer and steelpan player based in Tokyo. In Japan during the 1980s and 1990s he pioneered various music genres including hip hop dub acid jazz exotica and electronic music. He is also the first professional Japanese steelpan player and the president of the Audio Science Lab (ディオ・サイエンス・ラボ Dio Sainsu Rabo) record label which he founded.
Anthony C. George.  Anthony Conrad George (born January 7 1938) is a Grenadian artist known for being the designer of the Grenadian National Flag.He resides in both London England and in mainland Grenada where he grew up from the age of 10.A prolific artist in 1973 George entered a national design contest preparing for the Independence of Grenada in 1974.
Stanley William Hayter.  Stanley William Hayter CBE (December 27 1901 – May 4 1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century in 1927 Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris. Since his death in 1988 it has been known as Atelier Contrepoint.
Farhang Sharif.  Farhang Sharif (Persian: فرهنگ شریف) born 1931 in Amol is a well-known Iranian musician and renowned tar player.
Grace Jones.  Beverly Grace Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican singer actress and model. She was born in Spanish Town Jamaica and raised by her grandparents. When she was thirteen she and her siblings moved to her parents' home in Syracuse New York. Jones started out as a model initially in New York state then in Paris working for Yves St.
Adrian Willaert.  Adrian Willaert (c. 1490 – 7 December 1562) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School. He was one of the most representative members of the generation of northern composers who moved to Italy and transplanted the polyphonic Franco-Flemish style there.
Runa Laila.  Runa Laila (Sylheti: रुना लैला Bengali: রুনা লায়লা; Urdu: رُونا ليليٰ‎) is a Bangladeshi singer who started her career from Pakistan film industry and sings in Ghazals also. She made a pair with singer Ahmed Rushdi after replacing Mala. She also has done playbacks for movies in Bangladesh India and Pakistani film industries during late 60s 70s and the early 80's. Her best known number is Dama Dam Mast Qalandar.
Rafe Champion.  Rafe Champion (born July 1945) is an Australian writer. He was born in the Australian state of Tasmania and grew up on a farm in the northern part of that state near Irishtown. He studied agricultural science at the University of Tasmania in Hobart then went to the University of Adelaide for postgraduate study before moving to Sydney.Champion's main interest is in bringing to wider attention the works of the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper and the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
Hiroki Kikuta.  Hiroki Kikuta (菊田 裕樹 Kikuta Hiroki born August 29 1962) is a Japanese video game composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana Seiken Densetsu 3 Sōkaigi and Koudelka for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen.
Anthony Drewe.  Anthony Drewe is a British lyricist and book writer for Broadway and West End musicals. He is best known for his collaborations with George Stiles.
Gurpreet Ghuggi.  Gurpreet Ghuggi (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਘੁੱਗੀ) (born July 19 1971) is an Indian stand-up comedian who also work as actor in Tv soap operas Bollywood and Punjabi cinema.
Taichirō Hirokawa.  Taichirō Hirokawa (広川 太一郎 Hirokawa Taichirō February 15 1940 – March 3 2008) was a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He was born in Tokyo on February 15 1940 and died on March 3 2008 in Shibuya from cancer. His death was announced at the beginning of the 2nd Seiyu Awards.
Richard Bennett (guitarist).  Richard Bennett (born July 22 1951) is an American guitarist sideman session musician and record producer. As a touring sideman he performed with Neil Diamond for 17 years and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session player he has worked with artists ranging from Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand to Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill. He has produced Grammy award winning artists like Steve Earle Emmylou Harris and Marty Stuart.
Natalie Arras Tepper.  Natalie Arras Tepper (1888-1950) was an American painter of New York State scenes.
Zacharie Astruc.  Zacharie Astruc (1833 in Angers – 1907 in Paris) was a French sculptor painter poet and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900. As an art critic writing primarily between 1859–1872 he was a strong defender of Courbet and was one of the first to recognize the talent of Manet.
Dieter Zechlin.  Dieter Zechlin (October 30 1926 – March 16 2012) was a German pianist. He was one of East Germany's most prominent pianists throughout the 1950-80s. In 1959 he received the Art Prize of the GDR and in 1961 the National Prize of the GDR.Zechlin was born in Goslar. He was married to the composer Ruth Zechlin and was later married to the pianist Susanne Grützmann. He died aged 85 in Potsdam.
Andy Kerr (musician).  Andy Kerr is a Canadian-born musician originally from British Columbia and currently residing in Amsterdam the Netherlands. Kerr is best known as the former guitarist frequent vocalist and co-songwriter in the progressive punk rock/punk jazz band NoMeansNo. He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist and his current group is Two Pin Din.
Steve Schapiro.  Steve Schapiro (born 1934 in New York) is an American photographer.He is known for his photos of key moments of the Civil Rights Movement such as the March on Washington or the Selma to Montgomery March.He is also known for his portraits of celebrities and movie stills most importantly The Godfather and Taxi Driver.
Anaya Music.  Anaya Music (born Tania Mara Botelho) is a National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences member and ASCAP award-winning Brazilian musician composer and new age instrumentalist.
Anton Colander.  Anton Colander (1590 Weißenfels – 1621 Dresden) was a German (Electoral Saxon) composer and organist.He was a childhood friend of Heinrich Schütz studying law in Leipzig with Schütz's brother Benjamin from 1610.In 1616 he was appointed to the post of organist at the Dresden court and began taking composition classes with Schütz. He was followed as organist by Johann Klemm Kaspar Kittel and Matthias Weckmann.
Bill Applebaum.  Bill Applebaum (born February 4 1954 in Cleveland Ohio United States) is an American actor and writer. He started working on stage in Chicago at The Second City Theater where he helped start the Second City ETC Theater in 1984. He has worked in hundreds of commercials tv shows films and on stage. In addition to writing TV pilots for Second City he wrote on The Carol Burnett Show and for the television version of the film Nothing In Common..
Paul Sykes (singer).  Paul Sykes (1937–1994) was an American folksinger best known for live performances in the early 1960s at The Ice House a folk music club in Pasadena California and as a member of folk trio The Randy Sparks Three. He also performed at The Troubadour (Los Angeles). He was a prize-winning Whippet enthusiast in Coronado California throughout the 1960s.
Rocky Gray.  William Rocky Gray (born July 2 1974 in Jacksonville Arkansas U.S.) is a drummer and guitarist who has been part of the Arkansas metal scene since the early 1990s. He has an extensive career as a musician and is best known as the lead guitarist for Living Sacrifice and the drummer for We Are the Fallen. He also plays drums for Soul Embraced Mourningside and Machina and he is the former drummer for Evanescence.
Samuel Ferguson.  Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 – 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet barrister antiquarian artist and public servant. Perhaps the most important Ulster-Scot poet of the 19th century because of his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history he can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Irish Literary Revival.
Bob Cranshaw.  Melbourne R. Bob Cranshaw (born December 10 1932 in Evanston Illinois) is an American jazz bassist. His career spans the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw has been in Rollins's working band on and off for almost five decades starting with the 1962 album The Bridge.
Jerry Haymes.  Jerry Haymes born August 30 1940 in Vernon Texas raised in Clovis New Mexico has contributed to the body of rock 'n roll for over 50 years. Even before graduating from Clovis High Jerry was recording at the famed Norman Petty Studios a foreshadow of his career to come. Graduation from Clovis High School led Jerry to attended Abilene Christian University Southern Methodist University Midwest University and Kilgore College.
Harry Muskee.  Harry Cuby Muskee (10 June 1941 – 26 September 2011) was the singer of the blues band Cuby + Blizzards which he co-founded with Eelco Gelling.Muskee was born in Assen and died in Rolde aged 70.
Sjur Miljeteig.  Sjur Miljeteig (born 4 January 1974) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (trumpet) composer and author married October 20 2007 to the actress Ane Dahl Torp (1975) and they are residing in Oslo with their two children a boy (2010) and a girl (2012). He is known for his performances of Miles-music in a band including Håvard Wiik Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Peder Kjellsby.
Junkie XL.  Tom Holkenborg (born December 8 1967) better known as Junkie XL or occasionally JXL is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist producer and engineer. He uses the name JXL in cases where the term “Junkie” might cause offense. Says Holkenborg of his name “I called myself Junkie XL from the point of view that once you’re completely overworked you never want to go there again. The ‘XL’ stands for expanding limits; broadening up your vision.”
Tamara Jaber.  Tamara Jaber (born 13 August 1982) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter who rose to fame as a member of pop group Scandal'us. She is also a former member of pop duo Scarlett Belle.
Érica García.  Érica García born April 6 in Buenos Aires Argentina is a composer singer and an actress of Argentinian-American descent. She has been nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2000 for Best Female Rock Artist for her popular tune Vete Destino. She directs her own Academy http://experimentacionvocal.blogspot.com.ar/
Steven St. Croix.  Steven St. Croix (b. 1968 Los Angeles California) is a pornographic actor and director.He has been in more than 1000 films and has won multiple AVN awards. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2005.In 1996 St. Croix became the first man to sign a contract with one of the adult industry's largest video production companies Vivid Video. Shortly thereafter he generated notable media attention when Vivid president Steven Hirsch took out a one million dollar insurance policy on St.
Briar Grace-Smith.  Briar Grace-Smith is a playwright and screenwriter from New Zealand. Her first major play Ngā Pou Wahine earned her the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award (1995). Her play Purapurawhetū won Best New Zealand Play at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. In 2000 she received the Arts Foundation Laureate Award. In 2003 she was the Writer in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the screenwriter of the New Zealand feature film Strength of Water (2009).
Pablo Sciuto.  Pablo Sciuto is a Uruguayan musician and composer born in the city of Montevideo with nine released albums where he combines rhythms like “Indie Pop” Jazz Bossa Nova and Candombe with an electronic sound. He’s created a very particular style and has positioned himself in the wave of new creators of Rio de La Plata.
Sergio Cammariere.  Sergio Cammariere (born November 15 1960 in Crotone Italy) is an Italian jazz singer/songwriter. He has released seven albums.
Roberto Manzin.  Roberto Manzin (born 8 July 1966) is a London-based alto tenor and soprano saxophones clarinet EWI piano player and composer.
Valete.  Valete is a Portuguese language political hip hop artist named Keidje Lima that has enjoyed some critical success in his home country of Portugal.
Lipa Schmeltzer.  Elazar Lipa Schmeltzer is an American Hasidic singer and composer. He is a headliner within Hasidic and Haredi communities worldwide and has been called the Jewish Elvis and the Lady Gaga of Hasidic music. Schmeltzer has released 10 solo albums as of 2011. In 2008 he was named to the Forward 50 of most influential Jews.
Fred Cockerham.  Fred Cockerham (3 November 1905 - July 8 1980) was a fiddle and banjo player of American folk music.Cockerham was one of the seven children of Elias and Betty Jane Cockerham in North Carolina. He was one of the most accomplished of all the Round Peak North Carolina musicians but is most commonly known as the banjo accompanist to Tommy Jarrell.
Sebastiano Galeotti.  Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active in Florence Genoa Parma Piacenza Codogno Lodi Cremona Milan Vicenza Bergamo and Turin. Born in Florence he was a pupil of the painter Alessandro Gherardini Felice Torelli and Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. He collaborated with Giovanni Domenico Ferretti or Natali of Cremona in some projects and among his pupils were Vincenzo Meucci.
Bobby Andonov.  Bobby Andonov (Macedonian Боби Андонов) (born 28 August 1994) is a Australian singer song-writer and producer.
Stromae.  Paul Van Haver better known as Stromae (stʁɔmaj) (born 12 March 1985) is a Belgian singer-songwriter. He has established himself in both hip hop and electronic music genres. Stromae came to wide public attention with his song Alors on danse which became a number one in several European countries.
Sheila Mullen (artist).  Sheila Mullen is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was born on 24 January 1942 in Glasgow Scotland. She grew up near Auchtermuchty Fife Scotland. She attended the Glasgow School of Art and started painting professionally in 1978. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Leeds Art Gallery and the Duke of Buccleuch among others. In 2010 she was the subject of a monograph by Ann Matheson The Bairns O Adam: The Paintings of Sheila Mullen.
Miguel de Cervantes.  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish: [miˈɣel de θerˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist poet and playwright.His magnum opus Don Quixote considered to be the first modern European novel is a classic of Western literature and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes (the language of Cervantes).
Darvish Khan.  Darvish Khan (Persian: درویش‌خان ‎ Gholam Hossein Darvish; 1872 – 22 November 1926) was a Persian classical musician and a tar player.
Stephen Underwood.  Stephen Underwood (born on December 13 1975 in Bakersfield California) is an American drummer who has worked with several artists and musicians. He is best known for being drummer and vocalist for the Southern Gospel quartet The Lighthouse Boys.
Clare Chambers.  Clare Chambers (born 1966) is a British novelist of different genres. In 1999 her novel Learning to Swim won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Dan Wool.  Originally from St.
Shripad Narayan Pendse.  Shripad Narayan Pendse (January 5 1913 – March 24 2007) was a writer of several Marathi novels.
Adam Levine.  Adam Noah Levine (born March 18 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and musician widely known as the lead vocalist of pop rock band Maroon 5.Born and raised in Los Angeles California Levine began his musical career in 1994 when he co-founded alternative rock band Kara's Flowers of which he was the lead vocalist and guitarist. After the commercial failure of their only album The Fourth World the band split up. Later he reformed the band and a fifth member was added to form Maroon 5.
Joseph Ducreux.  Joseph Baron Ducreux (June 26 1735 – July 24 1802) was a French portrait painter pastelist miniaturist and engraver who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France and resumed his career after the French Revolution. His less formal portraits show an interest in expanding the range of facial expressions beyond those of official portraiture.
Simon Vestdijk.  Simon Vestdijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsimɔn ˈvɛs̬dɛi̯k]; October 17 1898 – March 23 1971) was a Dutch writer.Born in the small town of Harlingen Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam but turned to literature after a few years as a doctor. He became one of the most important 20th-century writers in the Netherlands. His prolificness as a novelist was legendary but he was at least as important as an essayist on e.g. literature art music and religion.
Dave Thorpe.  Dave Thorpe (born 1954) is a British writer who is best known for his work on Captain Britain.
R. J. Mendenhall.  R.J. Mendenhall (1828 – ?) American born businessman was very active in the Minnesota business world of the late 19th century.
Carlos Jean.  Carlos Jean Arriaga (born 15 February 1973) is a Spanish DJ and record producer. He is the co-founder of the group Najwajean and has been a producer for some of the most important Spanish and Latin-American artists of the 2000s earning seven Latin Grammy nominations.
Tom Chapman.  Tom Louis Chapman (born 15 May 1972 Chevreuse France) is a Franco-English musician producer and songwriter best known as the current bass guitarist with English rock band New Order.
Peter Bardens.  Peter Skiving Bardens (19 June 1945 – 22 January 2002) was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ piano synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer. Bardens worked alongside Rod Stewart Mick Fleetwood and Van Morrison and recorded solo albums.
Brody Stevens.  Brody Stevens (born Steven James Brody; May 22 1970) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Eric Newby.  George Eric Newby CBE MC (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006) was an English travel author. Newby's best known works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush The Last Grain Race and Round Ireland in Low Gear.
Susan King (novelist).  Susan King née Longhi (b. 1951 in New York USA) is an American writer of historical romance novels as Susan King Sarah Gabriel and Susan Fraser King. King's work has been translated into five languages and she has received awards from Romantic Times Magazine as well as a RITA Award nomination from the Romance Writers of America.
Nil Karaibrahimgil.  Nil Karaibrahimgil Erener (born 17 October 1976 in Ankara Turkey) also popularly known simply as Nil (Turkish for the Nile) is a well known Turkish singer and songwriter mostly noted for her distinct lyrics. Nil's passion and admiration for music stems from her father Suavi Karaibrahimgil who is also a musician although he is not currently active in the Turkish music industry.
Allison Burnett.  Allison Burnett is an American screenwriter film director and novelist.
Sally Lutyens.  Sally Speare Lutyens (October 31 1927–July 22 2005) was a composer author and librettist from Falmouth Maine at the time of her death. She also resided in Portland and Manset Maine Weston MA and Reading PA. Her notable works include First Light: An Oratorio (as composer and librettist) A Pocket Full of Wry (as author) Auguste (as composer and librettist) and The Light Princess (as composer and librettist).
Pieter Nooten.  Pieter Nooten (born 22 January 1961 in Oss) is a Dutch musician and composer best known for his work with Clan of Xymox.
Andrew Scott (drummer).  Andrew Walter Gibson Scott (born November 15 1967) is a Canadian musician born in Ottawa Ontario and currently living in Toronto Ontario. His first bands include No Damn Fears Oreo Reversed and Blackpool from Halifax Nova Scotia. Currently he is a drummer with the Toronto-based band Sloan. He also plays guitar with the band usually on songs he has written. Three of his songs 500 Up People of the Sky and I've Gotta Try have been released by Sloan as singles.
Elie Rajaonarison.  Elie Rajaonarison (November 15 1951 - November 27 2010) was a poet artist professor and civil servant from Madagascar. Considered the standard-bearer for modern Malagasy poetry Rajaonarison's published poetry anthologies earned him international recognition and have been translated into French and English.
Toni Blum.  Audrey Anthony Toni Blum (c. January 12 1918 - 1972 or 1973) was an American comic book writer active during the 1930s and 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books known for her work with Quality Comics and other publishers and as one of the first female comics professionals in what was then an almost entirely male industry.Known professionally as Toni Blum she was the daughter of comics artist Alex Blum and the wife of comics artist Bill Bossert. She was also known as Audrey Anthony Blossert.
Tim Harrod.  Tim Harrod (born May 25 1968) is an American comedy writer. He has written for The Onion the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.Born in Lynnfield Massachusetts the son of Ronald and Susan Harrod (later Anderson) Tim had a financially stable childhood offset by psychological hardship.
Roswell Rudd.  Roswell Rudd (born Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. in Sharon Connecticut on November 17 1935) is a Grammy Award-nominated American jazz trombonist and composer.Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including dixieland which he performed while in college) and other genres of music he is known primarily for his work in free and avant-garde jazz. Since 1962 Rudd has worked extensively with saxophonist Archie Shepp.
Moira Bertram.  Moira Bertram (1929 - ?) was an Australian comic book artist and illustrator.
Dick Roberts.  Charles Dick Roberts (October 9 1897 - November 1 1966) was a professional banjo and guitar player.Roberts was born in Virginia. He substituted for Harper Goff with the Firehouse Five Plus Two when the latter had to leave the band because of his increasing engagements with Walt Disney's cartoon and movie productions. Roberts also founded and led The Banjo Kings an American banjo band with Red Roundtree.He also appeared in the movie Banjo On My Knee (1936).
McKendree Long.  McKendree Long (1888-1976) was an American minister and painter.Educated at Horner Military Academy in Oxford and at Davidson College he went on to attend classes at the Art Students League in New York. Upon winning a scholarship for study in Europe he travelled there learning an academic style of portrait painting. He returned to the United States working as a professional portraitist in New York and North Carolina.
Peter Callesen.  Peter Callesen (born in Copenhagen in 1967) is a Danish artist and author. Callesen is renowned for his talent in combining the minimalism of a big crisp white sheet of paper with the complexity of meticulously cut and folded paper and uses the two to build out some aesthetically pleasing compositions. Particularly noteworthy are his works where the remains of the cut and folded objects are literally shadows of the objects former self.
Tommaso Luini.  Tommaso Luini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome during 1620-1644. Follower of Caravaggio and called Il Caravaggino. Died at the age of 35.
Yves Henry.  Yves Henry (born 1959) is a French pianist.He debuted at 13 performing Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. A graduate from the Conservatoire de Paris (where he teaches nowadays) he was the first Western European pianist to win the Robert Schumann Competition (1981) and was subsequently prized at the Casadesus Competition (1985). He has performed and recorded at an international level.
Barbara Lady Stephen.  Barbara Lady Stephen (1872–1945) was an English educational writer and Florence Nightingale's cousin.She was born Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore Smith (later Shore Nightingale). Margaret studied History at Girton College Cambridge 1891–1894. In 1904 she married Harry Lushington Stephen later Sir Harry Stephen (1860–1945). In India with her husband 1904–1913 she founded the Women Graduates Union in Calcutta for the benefit of professional women coming to India.
Margaret Mayo (Children's author).  Margaret Mayo née Margaret Mary Cumming (born May 10 1935 in London England) is a British writer of children's literature and folktales since 1974.
Alex Law.  Alex Law is a Hong Kong film director writer and producer. He is variously credited as Law Kai Yui Law Kai-Yui and Alex Kai Yui.Law was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School Hong Kong matriculating in 1971. Law collaborated with Mabel Cheung on many of her most famous films including the Migration Trilogy: Illegal Immigrant (1985) An Autumn's Tale (1987) and Eight Taels of Gold (1989). He also wrote the screenplay for Cheung's The Soong Sisters (1997).
Amber Lily.  Amber Lily Solberg (born on January 18 1997) better known as simply Amber Lily is an American singer actress and dancer from San Francisco California. She was featured on Radio Disney's Next Big Thing or N.B.T..
Mark Wadlow.  Mark Wadlow (born 1962) is an English screenwriter known for his partnership with Peter Morgan and his work on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
Teresa Carpenter.  Teresa Carpenter is a Pulitzer prize winning bestselling American author. She was born in Independence Missouri and lives with her husband Steven Levy (senior staff writer Wired magazine and the author of Hackers) in New York's Greenwich Village.[citation needed]
Joanna St. Claire.  Joanna St. Claire is a singer songwriter composer and music producer born in the state of California and active in Los Angeles. Joanna St. Claire's projects fall into several categories. As a rock artist she toured with the Lee Daniels Band in the United States and Canada. She was the lead singer and songwriter for several alternative-rock bands that she founded including Autobahn Vienna and The Big Picture.
Envy (American rapper).  Envy is a hip-hop performer/songwriter/engineer whose music has appeared in numerous movies and television programs. His notable singles include Stagga Dance (2011) and Ringtone (2008). Envy's singles have charted on Billboard as well as RadioWave.
Robert Willms.  Robert Byron Willms (born 1969) is a Canadian sculptor and teacher best known for creating assembled abstract steel sculptures.
Matt Allison (record producer).  Matt Allison is a record producer from Chicago Illinois. He is also the owner of the Chicago recording studio Atlas.
David Gascoyne.  David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.
Anwaar Ahmad.  Anwaar Ahmad (b. 11 June 1947 Multan) is an Urdu Short Story writer Scholar and Academician from Pakistan. He has been associated with Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan and Government College University Faisalabad as a Teacher Researcher Departmental Head (Urdu) for over 35 years.
Elizabeth Gilbert.  Elizabeth M. Gilbert (born July 18 1969) is an American author essayist short story writer biographer novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir Eat Pray Love which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and was also made into a film by the same name in 2010.
Jaime Robbie Reyne.  Jaime Robbie JR Reyne (born 11 May 1985) is an Australian singer/songwriter and actor.
Benny Williams.  Benjamin Horace “Benny” Williams (b. March 28 1931 – October 11 2007) was an American bluegrass musician. A multi-instrumentalist he sang and played fiddle guitar banjo autoharp and mandolin.
Steve Gustafson.  Steve Gustafson (born on 10 April 1957 in Seville Spain) is the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band 10000 Maniacs. He and Dennis Drew are the only remaining founding members of the group.In 2011 Gustafson performed on a new EP and a 30-city 30th anniversary tour.
Moisés Torrealba.  Moisés Torrealba (born January 5 1978) is a Venezuelan musician.
LaWanda Page.  LaWanda Page (October 19 1920 – September 14 2002) born Alberta Peal was an American actress and comedienne best known for her role as Aunt Esther in the 1970s TV sitcom Sanford and Son. She later reprised the role in Sanford Arms and Sanford.
Aslyn.  Heather Aslyn Mitchell Nash (born September 21 1980) is an American pop singer and songwriter from Atlanta Georgia. She has released two full-length albums Lemon Love and The Dandelion Sessions as well as a 4-disc EP. She is also the sister of three members of the band Georgia.
El-Amin Q'Drae.  el-Amin Q'Drae.
Bruce Molsky.  Bruce C. Molsky (born 1955 New York City) is an American fiddler banjo player guitarist and singer. He primarily performs old-time music of the Appalachian region.Molsky was born in 1955 at New York Infirmary in Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx.
Andreas Hagen.  Andreas Hagen (9 February 1924 – 29 September 2011) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Våler Hedmark. He was a journalist in Østlendingen from 1954 to 1957 and Nationen from 1957 to 1968 before becoming editor-in-chief of Østlendingen from 1968 to 1994. He chaired Pressens Faglige Utvalg from 1965 to 1984 and the Norwegian Press Association from 1984 to 1987. He died in September 2011 in Elverum.
Zoë (singer).  Zoë (born Zoë Pollock 19 January 1969 Peckham London) is a British pop singer and songwriter who had brief success in 1991 with two hit singles Sunshine on a Rainy Day which climbed to #4 on the UK Singles Chart and Lightning which reached #37 (and spent three weeks in the UK Top 40). Zoë has released two solo albums and five singles.
Danny Wright (pianist).  Danny Wright is an American pianist who has sold over six million albums since his debut in 1986. He has been named twice by Billboard Magazine as a Top 10 artist in the new age music genre with three of his albums in Billboard's Top 10 New Age Albums for three consecutive years. Over the years Wright’s repertoire has also encompassed Classical Broadway Easy Listening Christian Adult Contemporary and solo piano music
Ladi Geisler.  Miloslav Ladislav Ladi Geisler (27 November 1927 – 19 November 2011) was a German musician who established a high profile in the post-war German music scene. Best known for his work with pop musicians Bert Kaempfert James Last and Freddy Quinn Geisler developed the distinctive “Knack-Bass” percussive bass sound that helped popularize the Bert Kaempfert Orchestra. He later released numerous records under his own name.
S. Kalyanaraman.  S. Kalyanaraman (2 June 1930 - 9 January 1994) popularly known as SKR was a vocalist in the Carnatic tradition. Hailing from a famed musical family where his great-grandfather was Komal Muthu Bhagavathar and his grand uncle was the celebrated vocalist Madirimangalam Natesa Iyer S.Kalyanaraman became one of the foremost disciples of G. N. Balasubramaniam and established himself as an original musician in his own right.
Tadanobu Tsunoda.  Tadanobu Tsunoda (角田忠信 Tsunoda Tadanobu) is a Japanese author most known for his ideas regarding the Japanese brain. According to Tsunoda's theory the Japanese people use their brains in a unique way different from western brains. The Japanese brain argues Tsunoda hears or processes music using the left hemisphere where western brains use the opposite or right hemisphere to process music.[citation needed]
Sharan Rani Backliwal.  Sharan Rani Backliwal (nee Mathur) (9 April 1929 – 8 April 2008) was an Indian classical instrumentalist and music scholar best known for her expertise with the sarod.Her private collection of 370 musical instruments ranging from the 15th to the 19th century are now part of the Sharan Rani Backliwal Gallery of Musical Instruments at the National Museum New Delhi.
Bruce McAllister.  Bruce McAllister (born in 1946) is an American author of fantasy science fiction poetry and non-fiction. He is known primarily for his short fiction. Over the years his short stories have appeared in the major fantasy and science fiction magazines theme anthologies college readers and year's best anthologies including Best American Short Stories 2007 guest-edited by Stephen King.
Lyn Paul.  Lyn Paul (born Lynda Susan Belcher 16 February 1949 Wythenshawe Manchester England) is an English pop singer and actress. She came to fame as a member of the international chart-topping pop group The New Seekers in the early 1970s. She has more recently found success and critical acclaim starring in the long-running West End musical Blood Brothers.
Hellmut Hattler.  Hellmut Hattler (born 12 April 1952 in Ulm Germany) is a German jazz and bass player. Hattler took much of his influence from Jimi Hendrix. As a child he learned to play the violin and in the 1960s played the guitar. Joining Peter Wolbrandt's band marked the debut of his changeover to the bass.
Custer LaRue.  Custer LaRue is a soprano vocalist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Halina Tam.  Halina Tam Siu-Wan also known as May (born 6 September 1972) is a model singer and actress. She is best known for her role in Legend of the Demigods and The Gentle Crackdown with co-star Wayne Lai.
Cliff Bruner.  Cliff Bruner (né Clifton Lafayette Bruner; 25 April 1915 – 25 August 2000) was a fiddler and bandleader of the western swing era of the 1930s. Bruner's music combined elements of traditional string band music improvisation blues folk and popular melodies of the times.
Mike Vensel.  Mike Vensel is an American fashion designer known for his minimalist aesthetic and use of traditional natural materials. Each collection explores natural cultural and architectural elements and creates a fusion between organic design evolution and futuristic ideas of a second skin.
Pio Caglieri.  Pio Caglieri (born 1848) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes in his native Piedmont.Caglieri resided in Turin and is described as a pupil of Antonio Fontanesi. While his primary employment was as a captain of infantry he was and avid painter of small landscapes. He also practiced lithography. At the Promotrice of Turin in 1870 he exhibited Un Ricordo del Canavese.
F. Van Wyck Mason.  Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11 1901 – August 28 1978 Bermuda) was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 78 published novels many of which were best sellers and well received.
Henkka Seppälä.  Henri Henkka T. Blacksmith Seppälä (Born June 7 1980) is the bassist of the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. Henkka is responsible for backing vocals both on studio and live.Henkka is a very common nickname for Henri and seppä means blacksmith in English. The reason he has a T. in the middle of his name is his nickname being Torso.
Mark Katzman.  Mark Katzman (born 1951) is an American author. He has contributed to two artist's books (works of art realized in the form of a book). His novel-in-letters I Russian Bride was published in June 2011. Katzman also contributes articles and interviews to web and print publications.
John Havan.  John Havan was born in Paris France in 1933. His Vietnamese father a Sorbonne graduate in law became Finance Minister under the administration of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. His British mother enrolled at the London School of Art eventually became a painter who used Chinese calligraphy as a base for her brush-and-ink drawings of Vietnamese scenes. At home the family spoke French.Havan was educated in England won a scholarship to St.
Mikhail Alekseyev (writer).  Mikhail Nikolayevich Alekseyev (Михаи′л Никола′евич Алексе′ев May 6 1918 Monastyrskoye village Saratov Governorate Soviet Russia - May 21 2007 Moscow Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet writer and editor best known for his epic novels about the Great Patriotic War (Soldiers 1951 1959) and the life of Soviet peasantry (Unweeping Willow 1970-1974 brought him the USSR State Prize in 1976).
Sophia McDougall.  Sophia McDougall (born 1979) is a British novelist playwright and poet.
Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar.  Gajānan Digambar Mādgulkar (October 1 1919 – December 14 1977) was a Marāthi poet lyricist writer and actor from India. He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma (गदिमा). He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969.
King Louie Bankston.  King Louie Bankston (born Louis Paul Bankston ) is a prolific rock and roll musician from Harahan Louisiana. Associated early on with garage punk Louis abandoned the genre in 1998 and has focused on Louisiana swamp pop boogie woogie boogie rock and occasionally power pop. He is best known for his work in The Royal Pendletons The Persuaders The Exploding Hearts and The King Louie One Man Band. Louis is a decorated elder statesman in the world of underground rock 'n' roll.
Sean Delaney (musician).  Prentice John Delaney Jr. (January 8 1945 - April 13 2003) better known as Sean Delaney was an American musician producer road manager and songwriter best known for his work with the rock band KISS from the early 1970s until the early 1980s. He is largely credited with developing their choreography onstage and co-wrote many songs with Paul Stanley including Mr.
Peter Wolf Toth.  Peter Wolf Toth (born December 1947) is a Hungarian-born sculptor who immigrated to the United States and settled in Akron Ohio. He later studied art at the University of Akron. He created a series of sculptures called Trail of the Whispering Giants to honor Native Americans. Overall he has created more than 74 sculptures including at least one in each state of the United States and in several Provinces and territories of Canada.
Richard Vobes.  Richard Vobes is an entertainer actor independent film maker writer and award winning podcaster. He has produced close to 3000 audio podcasts since January 2005. He has worked in both the corporate and broadcast sector. He trained in mime was self-taught in various circus skills and experienced in both 16mm film and video production.
Theodore Carpenter.  Theodore Wingie Carpenter (April 15 1898–July 21 1975) was a jazz trumpet player singer and band leader active from the 1920s through the 1960s.Carpenter lost his left arm as the result of an accident during his early teens with the amputation performed by a noted surgeon who was an uncle of jazz musician Doc Cheatham. Sometime later he took up the trumpet and by 1920 he was working in traveling carnival shows and in 1921 he toured with Herbert's Minstrel Band.
Arinn Dembo.  Arinn Dembo born (1970-02-03) February 3 1970 is an American author currently living and writing in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. Dembo is best known for her work with Vancouver-based Kerberos Productions where she is lead writer and has worked on the background fiction for the Sword of the Stars series and Fort Zombie.She attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1990 and frequently participates in the Workshop's annual Write-a-thon charity to raise money to cover its costs.
Papa Bue.  Arne Papa Bue Jensen (8 May 1930 – 2 November 2011) known as Papa Bue was a Danish trombonist and bandleader chiefly associated with the Dixieland jazz revival style of which he was considered an important proponent. He founded and led the Viking Jazz Band which was active from 1956.
Ahmet Uzungöl.  Ahmet Uzungöl was a Turkish composer. Also known as “Ahmet Hafız”. Uzungöl took an interest in music at a young age and learned the maqams by listening to the various masters of Turkish music. He continued the tradition of gazels as a recording artist of this form. Uzungöl also performed ilahis called “Çifte” in Urfa.
Mose Allison.  Mose John Allison Jr. (born November 11 1927) is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.
Marina Ripa Di Meana.  Marina Ripa Di Meana (born Maria Elide Punturieri and previously known as Marina Lante della Rovere; born 21 October 1941) is an Italian writer actress director stylist and TV personality.She is probably best known for her first two autobiographical books I miei primi quarant'anni (1984) and La più bella del reame (1988) which became bestsellers and generated two successful movies with the same titles both starring Carol Alt.
Otto Knows.  Otto Jettman (born 6 May 1989) better known by his stage name Otto Knows is a Swedish DJ and music producer who has had a number of hits in Sweden Belgium and the Netherlands and has collaborated with a number of artists including Britney Spears Avicii Sebastian Ingrosso Alesso and has made remixes for ATB Imogen Heap and others.
Brendan I. Koerner.  Brendan I. Koerner (born 21 September 1974) is an American book author and has been a contributing editor or columnist for Wired magazine The New York Times Slate magazine and others. His books include Now the Hell Will Start (2008) and The Skies Belong to Us (2013).
Chihiro Onitsuka.  Chihiro Onitsuka (鬼束 ちひろ Onitsuka Chihiro) (born October 30 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 2000 Onitsuka released her debut single Shine and gained a recognition with its follow-up Gekkou which became a hit. Insomnia her first studio album released in following year topped the Japanese Oricon chart and sold more than a million copies.
Anthony Hamilton (musician).  Anthony Cornelius Hamilton (born January 28 1971 Charlotte North Carolina.) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer who rose to fame with his platinum-selling second studio album Comin' from Where I'm From (2003) which featured the title track single Comin' from Where I'm From and the follow-up Charlene. He is also known for the song Freedom from the soundtrack album of Django Unchained cowritten and sung as a duo with indie soul singer Elayna Boynton.
Susanna Wallumrød.  Susanna Karolina Wallumrød (born 23 June 1979 in Kongsberg Norway) is a Norwegian vocalist known for her beautiful low key original songs. She is the sister of the drummer Fredrik Wallumrød and the pianist Christian Wallumrød cousin of the pianist David Wallumrød and is married to the music producer Helge Sten better known as Deathprod.
Francesco Quaini.  Francesco Quaini (1611–1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Born in Bologna he started as a pupil of the renowned quadratura master Agostino Mitelli. Working together with Marcantonio Franceschini In Bologna Francesco painted in several public buildings including the decoration of the Sala Farnese in the Palazzo Publico. He died at Bologna. His son Luigi Quaini also painted quadratura. Marcantonio Chiarini was one of his pupils.
Guy LeBlanc.  Guy LeBlanc (born October 16 1960) is a Canadian keyboardist and composer. He leads his own progressive-rock band - Nathan Mahl and has been a member of the British progressive band Camel since 2000. He produces and releases his own solo as well as Nathan Mahl's discs and has appeared as guest keyboardist on several other releases.
Thomas Hettche.  Thomas Hettche (born November 30 1964 in Treis Hesse) is a German author. His novel What We Are Made Of was published in Britain in July 2008.
Simone Peterzano.  Simone Peterzano (c. 1540 - c. 1596) was an Italian painter of the later Mannerism native of Bergamo. He is mostly known as the master of Caravaggio.He was a pupil of Titian in Venice Peterzano debuted in Milan with the counterfaçade frescoes in San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore (1573) influenced by Veronese and Tintoretto. In the same year he painted two canvasses with Histories of Sts. Paul and Barnabas for the church of San Barnaba also in Milan.
Stefano Pilati.  Stefano Pilati (born 1965 in Milan) is an Italian fashion designer. From 2002 until 2012 he was the head designer of the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent. In late 2012 he left and became creative director of AGNONA and head of design at Ermenegildo Zegna.
Vince Clarke.  Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin; 3 July 1960) is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been a member of a number of groups including Depeche Mode Yazoo The Assembly and Erasure.
Skendrowell Syiemlieh.  Skendrowell Syiemlieh (died 2008) was a Khasi folk and Gospel singer. He was a master musician and an accomplished artist of the folk instrument duitara. He was also the first playback singer for the first Khasi film U Manik Raitong. He was the recipient of many awards like the best vocalist award in 1975 and also the U Tirot Sing Award for Arts and Literature in 1991. He was actively associated with the All India Radio Shillong since 1962.
Gabriel Laderman.  Gabriel Laderman (December 26 1929 – March 10 2011) was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s.He studied with a number of leading American painters including Hofmann de Kooning and Rothko.
Antonio Catalani (Romano).  Antonio Catalani (also called il Romano) (c. 1596 - 1666 ) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods.He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil of Francesco Albani. He painted several pictures for the churches at Bologna although he was more employed on cabinet pictures for the private collections. He painted the patron Saints of the city in four niches for the church of La Madonna del Grado in Bologna and a St.
Cybèle Varela.  Cybèle Varela (born 1943 Petrópolis) is a Brazilian mixed-media artist. She is a painter video artist and photographer.
Ishmon Bracey.  Ishmon Bracey (January 9 1901 – February 12 1970) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Mississippi considered one of the most important early delta blues performers. With Tommy Johnson he was the center of a small Jackson Mississippi group of blues musicians in the 1920s. His name is incorrectly spelled Ishman on almost all of his records and in most older sources.
Ken Tobias.  Kenneth Wayne Paul Tobias (born July 25 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is noted for penning a chart-topping hit for The Bells and for several top-selling recordings of his own.
Araminta de Clermont.  Araminta de Clermont (born 1971) is a British photographer currently living and working in London although she spent nearly ten years living in Cape Town. Her work explores rites of passage and the visual currencies of group identification and is particularly concerned with highlighting the art forms and self-expression of her often marginalized subjects. She is perhaps best known for her bodies of work exploring the relationship between person and environment in South Africa.
Charles Tunnicliffe.  Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe R.A. (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey.
Dilip P. Gaonkar.  Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (born 1945) is an Associate Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture and the Director of Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University. He is also the Director of Center for Transcultural Studies an independent scholarly research network concerned with global issues[citation needed].
Peter Schuyff.  Peter Schuyff (b. 1958 Baarn Netherlands) is an internationally exhibited Dutch born American painter and sculptor. He was raised in Canada and was schooled in art at the Vancouver School of Art.During the nineteen eighties Schuyff moved to Manhattan's East Village and along with artists such as Ashley Bickerton became part of the Neo-Geo movement in art.
Jill Ciment.  Jill Ciment is an American writer.
Mira Awad.  Mīrā ’Anwar ‘Awaḍ (Arabic: ميرا أنور عوض‎ /Mīrā ’Anwar ʕawaḍ/ – Hebrew: מירה אנואר עווד‎ /Mira Anwar Awad/ Bulgarian: Мира Ануар Ауад born June 11 1975) is an Israeli Arab singer actress and songwriter.In 2009 she represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest along with Jewish Israeli singer Achinoam Nini singing There Must Be Another Way. She was the first Arab Israeli to represent Israel at Eurovision singing the first Israeli Eurovision song with Arabic lyrics.
Martha Berry (artist).  Martha Berry is a Cherokee beadwork artist who has been highly influential in reviving traditional Cherokee and Southeastern beadwork particularly techniques from the pre-Removal period.
Akira the Don.  Akira The Don (real name Adam Narkiewicz) is an independent British musician. Born in West Bromwich and raised in North Wales in recent years he has lived in Hackney East London.His music and production traverses the boundaries between Pop Hip-Hop Indie and Dance. He lists influences including Ice Cube Adam Ant Morrissey Big Bang Leonard Cohen Crispy Ambulance and the Wu Tang Clan.
Miuna Saito.  Miuna Saito (斉藤美海 Saito Miuna born February 12 1987 in Shizuoka Japan) is a Japanese pop singer was former member of Country Musume from mid-2003 until she graduated from the group on January 28 2007 and played for Gatas Brilhantes H.P.
Francesco Bassano the Younger.  Francesco Bassano the Younger (January 26 1549 – July 4 1592) also called Francesco Giambattista da Ponte or Francesco da Ponte the Younger was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.He was born at Bassano del Grappa near Venice the eldest son of Jacopo Bassano and grandson of Francesco da Ponte the Elder. He studied with his father and worked in the Bassano family workshop along with his three brothers including Giambattista and Girolamo.
Josip Murn.  Josip Murn also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov (4 March 1879 – 18 June 1901) was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar Oton Župančič and Dragotin Kette he was regarded as one of the beginners of modernism in Slovene literature. After France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek Murn was probably the most influential Slovene poet of the last two centuries.[citation needed]
Mylo.  Myles MacInnes (born 10 May 1978 Broadford Isle of Skye Scotland) better known by the stage name Mylo is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer.
Antonio Lopez (illustrator).  Antonio Lopez (February 11 1943 – March 17 1987) was a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue Harper's Bazaar Elle Interview and The New York Times. Several books collecting his illustrations have been published. In his obituary the New York Times called him a major fashion illustrator. He generally signed his works as Antonio.
Paul Chapman (actor).  Paul Chapman (born 1939) is a British actor who made his acting debut in 1964 in the TV series Curtain of Fear. He was born in Hampstead London in 1939 and is the brother of British playwright John Chapman and the nephew of actor Edward Chapman (best known as Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale in Norman Wisdom's films of the 1950s and 1960s)Since graduating from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in the early 1960s Chapman has had an extensive career on stage and on screen.
Santo Zago.  Santo Zago (active 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Venice was a follower of Titian. He painted Tobit and the Angel for the church of Santa Caterina.
Anthony Lun.  Anthony Lun is a Hong Kong songwriter arranger musical director and singer who sings in Cantonese Mandarin Japanese and English.Anthony Lun is a graduate of La Salle College Hong Kong Santa Clara University (Bachelor of Arts) and University of Michigan (trained in Masters in Music). Upon returning to Hong Kong in 1986 Anthony released an album Anthony Lun's Composition Collection.
Mutsumi Fukuma.  Mutsumi Fukuma (福麻 むつ美 Fukuma Mutsumi born January 11 1961 in Takarazuka Hyogo Japan) is an actress and singer.
Luciana Savignano.  Luciana Savignano (born 30 November 1943) is an Italian ballet dancer.
Madhava Gudi.  Madhav Gudi (Kannada:ಮಾಧವ ಗುಡಿ Devanagari:माधव गुडि) (1941 – 22 April 2011) was a Hindustani classical vocalist specialising in Khayal and light forms.
Garth Christian.  Garth Christian was an English nature writer editor teacher and conservationist.
Rodney Jackson.  Rodney K Jackson (born March 4 1967) aka R.K. Jackson is the publisher and founder of The People's Urban Beat Report (The PUB Report) and music producer/ keyboardist for Urban Tracks Productions and the dance music group Kopatechnic.
Michael Williamson (photographer).  Michael Williamson b. 1957 is an American photojournalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes. With writer Dale Maharidge he is co-author of the book And Their Children After Them which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1990. That book and another written with Maharidge Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass were produced while both men were on the staff of the Sacramento Bee.
Jessie Willcox Smith.  Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6 1863 – May 3 1935) was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century Collier's Weekly Leslie's Weekly Harper's McClure's Scribners and the Ladies' Home Journal.
Diana E. H. Russell.  Diana E. H. Russell (born 6 November 1938) is a feminist writer and activist. Born and raised in Cape Town South Africa she moved to England in 1957 and then to the United States in 1961. For the past 25 years she has been engaged in research on sexual violence against women and girls. She has written numerous books and articles on rape (including marital rape) femicide incest misogynist murders of women and pornography. For her book The Secret Trauma she was co-recipient of the 1986 C.
Jules Dalou.  Aimé-Jules Dalou (Paris 31 December 1838 – 15 April 1902 Paris) was a French sculptor recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France admired for his perceptiveness execution and unpretentious realism.
Veronika Bromová.  Veronika Bromova born on 12 August 1966 in Prague is a Czech new-media artist focussing on computer manipulating picture by program Photoshop. She lives and works in Prague. She is working with genre themes feminism pedophilia and mystery she has exhibited in Europe and the United States. She has received grants and awards- Czech Grammy for the best CD cover including the International Studio Program in New York 1998.
Hanne Krogh.  Hanne Krogh (born Hanne Krogh Sundbø 24 January 1956 in Haugesund) is a Norwegian singer and actress also one half of the duo that won the Eurovision Song Contest 1985.She recorded her first album in 1970 when she was 14 and has been a fixture in Norwegian popular music since then. In 1971 she won the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection the Melodi Grand Prix with the pop-ballad Lykken er... (Happiness Is...).
Kyle Kinane.  Kyle Christian Kinane (born December 23 1976) is an American stand-up comedian originally from Addison Illinois.
Evan Copley.  Dr. Evan Copley is an American academic and musician who has published several theory textbooks including Harmony: Baroque to Contemporary. Dr. Copley's numerous compositions include symphonic choral band keyboard and chamber music works. In February1990 his Ninth Symphony was premiéred and in 1986 the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast Dr. Copley's motet In Thee O God Do I Put My Trust on 350 radio stations and 40 television stations.
Randy Blythe.  David Randall Randy Blythe (born February 21 1971) is the vocalist and lyricist of American groove metal band Lamb of God and side-project band Halo of Locusts. He also performed guest vocals for Cannabis Corpse Overkill and Gojira. He is known as D. Randall Blythe on Lamb of God's albums.
Brian Weske.  Brian Weske (1932–2001) was a British film and television actor.
Nan Agle.  Nan Hayden Agle (April 13 1905 – February 14 2006) was an American author of children's books. She was born in Baltimore Maryland to Charles Swett Hayden and Emily Spencer Hayden. She was a granddaughter of the chief editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun Edward Spencer. She married Harold H. Cecil in 1925 and married John Agle in 1947.
Harshdeep Kaur.  Harshdeep Kaur (Punjabi: ਹਰਸ਼ਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ) is an Indian playback singer known for her Sufi songs. After winning the titles in two talent reality shows Kaur established herself as a lead singer in Bollywood soundtracks.
Rina Aiuchi.  Rina Aiuchi (愛内 里菜 Aiuchi Rina) born July 31 1980 in Higashiōsaka Osaka Japan is a retired female Japanese popular music singer. She wrote her own lyrics to her songs and self-produced in the last few years before retirement. She was previously affiliated with the Giza Studio recording label.
Sonja Herholdt.  Sonja Herholdt is an Afrikaner singer-songwriter and actress.
J. A. Cuddon.  John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (June 2 1928 – March 12 1996) was an English author dictionary writer and school teacher. Known best for his Dictionary of Literary Terms (published in several editions) Cuddon also produced the large Dictionary of Sport and Games as well as several novels plays travel books and other published works. Cuddon also edited two important anthologies of supernatural fiction - The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories and The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (both 1984).
John Lloyd Taylor.  John Lloyd J.T. Taylor (born March 23 1982) is an American musician. Not to be confused with the bassist of Duran Duran who shares the same name he is best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for the popular pop rock band the Jonas Brothers. He is also in the band formally known as Bulldozer now known as Ocean Grove consisting of himself and the rest of the Jonas Brothers' band: Greg Garbowsky Ryan Liestman (formerly) and Jack Lawless.
Tiffany Taylor (pornographic actress).  Tiffany Taylor (born December 6 1980) is an American pornographic actress of Pakistani and French descent.
Buddy Greco.  Buddy Greco (born August 14 1926) is an American singer and pianist.
Shimaki Kensaku.  Shimaki Kensaku (島木 健作 7 September 1903 – 17 August 1945) was the pen-name of Asakura Kikuo (朝倉 菊雄) a Japanese author active during the Shōwa period in Japan.
René Dif.  René Dif (born 17 October 1967 in Frederiksberg Denmark) is a Danish singer and actor best known as the male vocalist in the Danish pop-dance group Aqua.
Sumie Sakai (voice actress).  Sumie Sakai (坂井 寿美江 Sumie Sakai born April 6 1945) in Tokyo is a Japanese actress and voice actress who works for Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. Her real name is Sumie Fujino (藤野 寿美江 Fujino Sumie).[citation needed]She was formerly credited as Sumie Sakai (坂井 すみ江 Sakai Sumie).
Jay Ferguson (Canadian musician).  For other men with the same name see the list at Jay Ferguson.Jay Ferguson (born October 14 1968) is a member of the Canadian rock band Sloan. He is the only member in Sloan who comes from Halifax Nova Scotia.When he was twelve years old he was given a job at a secondhand record store by George Zimmerman. Before Sloan he was in a band with Chris Murphy called Kearney Lake Road. In 1991 Ferguson and Murphy started Sloan along with Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott.
India.Arie.  India.Arie (born India Arie Simpson; October 3 1975) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter musician and record producer. She has sold over 3.3 million records in the US and 10 million worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards from her 21 nominations including Best R&B Album.
Mr. Lif.  Jeffrey Haynes (born 11 December 1977) better known by his stage name Mr. Lif is an American hip hop artist from Boston Massachusetts. Often noted for his political lyrics he has released two studio albums on Definitive Jux and one on Bloodbot Tactical Enterprises. Mr. Lif is also a member of the hip hop group The Perceptionists with long-time friends and collaborators Akrobatik and DJ Fakts One.
George Sumner Huntington.  Dr. George Sumner Huntington (March 21 1861-January 5 1927) was a medical doctor a researcher into comparative anatomy and a college professor. For thirty-five years he was a professor of anatomy at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.He had attended the college he taught at and graduated in 1884 with honors winning 1st place in both the Harsen prize for Clinical Reports and for Proficiency in Examination.
Christer Björkman.  Christer Samuel Björkman (born 25 August 1957 in Borås Sweden) is a Swedish singer. He was a hairdresser and had a hair-salon in Borås. He started his career by recording a song called Våga och vinn which was produced by Bruno Glenmark in the mid-1980s.He won Melodifestivalen 1992 with I morgon är en annan dag and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992. He finished second last Sweden's worst result at the contest since 1977.
Josh Lacey.  Josh Lacey (born 1968 in London) is a British writer. He has written several children’s books and one book for adults God is Brazilian a biography of Charles Miller the man who introduced football to Brazil.
Seany B (artist).  Seany B is a singer/songwriter/MC/producer/DJ from Melbourne Australia who is best known for featuring on TV Rock's 2006 hit Flaunt It which topped the ARIA Charts for 5 weeks and went on to win two ARIA Awards for Best Dance Single as well as Highest Selling Single in 2006 as well as featured on Vanessa Amorosi's Mr Mysterious which peaked at #4 in 2010 and was certified platinum. He has toured America and Europe
C.V. France.  Charles V. France (30 June 1868 Bradford West Riding of Yorkshire – 13 April 1949 Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire) usually credited as C. V. France was a British actor.
Shannon Hoon.  Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26 1967 – October 21 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was the frontman and lead singer of the band Blind Melon until his death from a cocaine overdose in 1995.
Yuvna Kim.  Yuvna Kim is a Mauritian born London based fashion designer model and TV entertainment journalist.
Danny Koker.  Danny Koker (December 17 1933 – February 17 2008) was the baritone vocalist and the pianist with the Cathedral Quartet from 1963 through 1969. He was also pianist and vocalist for the Weatherfords and the Foggy River Boys. Koker also owned a television station in Las Vegas.He was the father of Danny The Count Koker from the reality TV show Counting Cars.
Connie Chan.  Connie Chan Po-chu was born in 1946 to impoverished parents one of at least nine siblings in Guangdong China. To increase their children's chances of survival Chan's birth parents gave away some of their youngest to other families. As a result Chan was adopted by Chan Fei-nung and his wife Kung Fan-hung who were renowned Cantonese opera stars.
Arnold Felix Graves.  Arnold Felix Graves (17 November 1847 - 24 May 1930) was an Irish poet songwriter and novelist who played a leading role in developing technical education in Ireland.
Abdul Matin (language activist).  Abdul Matin (Bengali: আব্দুল মতিন; born December 3 1926) is a language activist of the Bengali Language Movement that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) to make Bengali one of the state language of Pakistan. He is one of the leading student leader and organizer of the movement. His contribution to the movement has been hailed by the other activists and students as he was popularly known as Rashtrabhasha Matin meaning Matin for state language.[citation needed]
Steve Wickham.  Steve Wickham is an Irish musician described by Mike Scott as the world's greatest rock fiddle player and by New Musical Express as a fiddling legend. Originally from Marino Dublin but calling Sligo home Wickham played violin on the classic U2 song Sunday Bloody Sunday as well as recordings by Elvis Costello the Hothouse Flowers Sinéad O'Connor and World Party. He is a long-standing member of The Waterboys.
Manuel Ocampo.  Manuel Ocampo (born 1965) is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references contain cartoonish elements and draw inspiration from punk subculture.
Lauren Phoenix.  Lauren Phoenix (born May 13 1979 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian former pornographic actress.
Laura McPhee.  Laura McPhee (born New York City 1958) is a Boston-based photographer.She is the daughter of award-winning author John McPhee and photographer Pryde Brown. Her siblings are novelists Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee architectural historian Sarah McPhee and Joan Sullivan founding principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters.McPhee considers her lifework is to look at and understand the language of a place.
Patrick Ryan (author).  Patrick Eugene Ryan (born 1965) who has also written under the name P. E. Ryan is an American novelist and short story writer. His books include Send Me In Mike We Trust Gemini Bites and Saints of Augustine.
Rocky Dawuni.  Rocky Dawuni is a Reggae artist singer and songwriter from Ghana in West Africa. He first appeared on the music scene in 1996 with The Movement; which was released on Aquarian Records. A video of What Goes Around rose on the Reggae Video Chart in January 1997. Rocky wrote arranged and produced tracks on the 1998 release album entitled 'Crusade' which was put out on Aquarian and Who Dun It Records.
Rose Tremain.  Rose Tremain CBE (born 2 August 1943) is an award-winning English author and current Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.
Burton Armus.  Burton Armus is an American actor writer and television producer. Armus' Hollywood career began as an NYPD detective assigned to the 48th Squad in the Bronx when he was picked by the late Telly Savalas to act as a technical adviser on the Kojak series. He also acted in two of the episodes. Following his retirement from the police department he moved to Los Angeles and became a successful writer and producer. He is now retired from this second career.
Julie Suedo.  Julie Suedo (1901–1978) was a British actress. She played a succession of glamorous roles in the 1920s and 1930s usually in supporting roles.
Richard Hough.  Richard Alexander Hough (pronounced how) (15 May 1922 - 7 October 1999) was a British author and historian specializing in maritime history.
Sonny Fortune.  Sonny Fortune (born (1939-05-19)19 May 1939 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a U.S. jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He also plays soprano saxophone tenor saxophone baritone saxophone and clarinet.
Charles L. Kimball.  Charles L. Kimball (dates of birth and death unknown) was an American film editor and writer. Active in Hollywood from 1932 on high-profile RKO Radio Pictures projects and a few short subjects from 1934 onwards he worked almost exclusively on Mexican projects. Kimball was active until 1964. He was awarded the Mexican Ariel Award in 1951 for his editing work on In the Palm of Your Hand and nominated for another the following year.
Stan Gooch.  Stan Gooch (born 1932 in Lewisham London died 13 September 2010) was a British psychologist and author who is probably best known as the proponent of a hybrid-origin theory of human evolution.
Monica Furlong.  Monica Furlong (17 January 1930 – 14 January 2003) was a British author journalist and activist. She was born at Kenton near Harrow north-west of London and died at Umberleigh in Devon. An obituary called her the Church of England's most influential and creative layperson of the post-war period.Many of Furlong’s books reflected a deep interest in religion and spirituality.
Fairfax Harrison.  Fairfax Harrison (full name Reginald Fairfax Harrison: March 13 1869 – February 2 1938) was an American lawyer businessman and writer. The son of the secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis Harrison studied law at Yale University and Columbia University before becoming a lawyer for the Southern Railway Company in 1896. By 1906 he was Southern's vice-president of finance and in 1907 he helped secure funding to keep the company solvent.
Carit Etlar.  Carit Etlar the better-known pen name of Carl Brosbøll (August 7 1816 - May 9 1900) was a Danish author known mostly for his 1853 book Gjøngehøvdingen about the eponymous Svend Poulsen Gønge.
Spar Street.  Spar Street is an award-winning artist who has created artworks for royalty business leaders heads of state multi-national corporations global peace organizations spiritual teachers best-selling authors and celebrities. He specializes in painting large canvases in mixed media with a high emphasis on sensuality color and movement. Before becoming a successful artist Street excelled as a world-class ski champion and entrepreneur.
Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal.  Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal was a member of Jawaharlal Nehru's family and an Indian writer. Sahgal's father grew up in Nehru's childhood home. Without this influential though tangential association it is doubtful her memoir would have more than routine interest. Sahgal was an active participant in India's struggle for independence but her emotionless story proves her a flawed observer unable or unwilling to convey any feeling for the characters or events she witnessed.
Niel van der Watt.  Niel van der Watt (born Gerhardus Daniel van der Watt on 28 December 1962 in Pretoria) is a South African composer. Well known for his choral compositions he has also established himself as a leading composer of chamber music.
Carrie Brown (author).  Carrie Brown (born May 29 1959) is an American novelist. She is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. Her sixth novel The Last First Day will be published by Pantheon Books in September 2013.
Jason Everman.  Jason Mark Everman (born October 16 1967 in Kodiak Alaska) is an American musician who played with Nirvana and Soundgarden.
Gene Harris.  Gene Harris (September 1 1933 Benton Harbor Michigan – January 16 2000) was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.From 1956 to 1970 he played in The Three Sounds trio with bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy.
Gilbert Lévy.  Gilbert Levy ( ) is a French actor and voice actor best known for voice work in the French version of The Simpsons animated sitcom starting with the fifth season.the voices of Moe Lenny Willie Frink Cletus etc. He is also notable for dubbing over the roles of Jimbo Jimmy Mr. Mackey etc. in the French dub of the animated sitcom South Park. He has also voiced Harvey Bullock in Batman: The Animated Series and the Chief in T.U.F.F. Puppy among others.
Rigo Tovar.  Rigoberto Tovar García (March 29 1946 – March 27 2005) was a Mexican singer best known as Rigo Tovar. Famous for his cumbias Tovar infused traditional Mexican and Latin music with modern instruments like the electric guitar and synthesizer and popular styles such as rock and soul music.Tovar was born and raised in Matamoros Tamaulipas Mexico. After moving to Houston Texas his musical career began to take off in the early 1970s.
Sreten Stojanović.  Sreten Stojanović (1898–1960) was one of the most prominent Bosnian and Serbian sculptors of the 20th century.
Jermaine Rogers.  Jermaine Rogers (born October 14 1972 in Houston Texas) is an artist and designer in the field of modern rock/pop poster art also known as 'gigposter' art as well as serigraph and fine art production. Rogers began his career in Houston Texas as a member of the 1990s Texas poster-art scene which featured fellow artists Frank Kozik Uncle Charlie and Lindsey Kuhn.
Lawrence Chandler.  Lawrence Chandler is an American-born composer musician and sound artist living in London. He studied with La Monte Young Pauline Oliveros at The Juilliard School and Goldsmiths College. He was a founder member of Bowery Electric and has worked for Philip Glass. Recent works include Music for Rock Ensemble commissioned by The Labèques for 50 Years of Minimalism at Kings Place and The Tuning of the World a 24-hour sustained tone piece.
Ben Weaver.  Ben Weaver is an American singer-songwriter (born 1980). He has a distinctive voice that is often likened to that of Tom Waits and critics regularly compare his songwriting to that of Leonard Cohen.Weaver was born in Eugene Oregon but grew up mostly in St. Paul Minnesota. He has a worldwide following though his popularity is strongest in his native Midwest of the United States.Weaver grew up in a musical household and always expected to make music his life.
Luciano Caruso.  Luciano Caruso (born July 19 1957 in Turin Italy) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.In 1973 he moved to Vittorio Veneto to attend the music institute Toti Dal Monte in Pieve di Soligo and afterwards the school Dizzy Gillespie in Bassano del Grappa.He attended several workshops with Renato Geremia(1977)Gary Burton(1984) and Steve Lacy(1994).He has played with musicians such as: Eddi Busnello Nello Da Pont Giovanni Maier Gianluigi Trovesi Carlo Actis Dato Giorgio Pacorig Daniele Cavallanti Michele Rabbia Massimo De Mattia Daniele Dagaro Achille Succi Ermes Ghirardini Lauro Rossi Romano Todesco and U.T.Gandhi.In 1992 he along with drummer Nello Da Pont started Progetto Exit. 
Kevin Dockery (author).  Kevin Dockery is an American fiction and nonfiction author and military historian. He is best known for his work detailing the history and weapons of the Navy SEALs. He served in the US Army on the President's Guard and as an armorer. Since retiring from the Army he has worked as a curator for the SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce Florida an historian a game designer and as a lecturer.
Luigi Morgari.  Luigi Morgari (Turin 1857-) was an Italian painter. Luigi was born to a family of painters. His father Paolo Emilio Morgari the Elder (1815-1882) was the brother of a prominent painter and professor of the Accademia Albertina in Turin: Rodolfo Morgari. Luigi's sister Beatrice Morgari (1858-) was also a painter. Luigi had three children Emilia (1882-) Paolo Emilio (1883-) and Carlo (1888-).
Carolina Bucci.  Carolina Bucci (born 1976) is an Italian jewellery designer whose creations are synonymous with a modern and effortless sense of luxury. [1]Her jewellery is a vibrant re-invention of her family’s rich heritage and it has redefined what fine jewellery can be and how it should be worn. Born in Florence Italy she lives between London UK and New York USA.
Kirsty McGee.  Kirsty McGee (born 1972) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Manchester. She is well known within the British Folk scene although her music references Americana Blues Jazz and Rockabilly genres and is influenced by the style of the Beatnik subculture. Her lyrics are typically deeply personal and introspective and deal with a variety of subjects from politics to storytelling.
Madeline Harper.  Madeline Harper was one pseudonym used by the United States writing team formed by Madeline Porter and Shannon Harper. They have been writing since 1977 when their first book a Gothic romance was published as Elizabeth Habersham. They also signed their novels as Anna James.
Shane Oakley.  Shane Oakley is a British illustrator and comic book artist from Stoke-on-Trent England.
Tony Rey.  Tony Bruno Rey is a guitarist/writer/producer/arranger who has worked with bands including Saraya the Mike Pont Band Danger Danger Billy Joel Enrique Iglesias Joan Jett & the Black Hearts Kathie Lee Taylor Dayne Anastacia and Rihanna.In Danger Danger he replaced guitarist Al Pitrelli and was replaced by guitarist Andy Timmons.
Margit Sandemo.  Margit Sandemo (née Underdal born 23 April 1924) is a Norwegian-Swedish historical fantasy author. She has been the best-selling author in the Nordic Countries since the 1980s when her novel series of 47 books The Legend of the Ice People was published. She has also written many other book series such as Häxmästaren and Legenden om Ljusets rike.Typical features for works of Margit Sandemo are among other things history fantasy romance suspense and supernatural phenomena.
Willye Dennis.  Willye F. Clayton Dennis (March 14 1926 – March 9 2012) was a librarian civil rights activist and Florida state legislator. She was the first African American Chief of Children's Services for the Jacksonville Public Library System. She received many honors for her community service during her lifetime.
Ieuan Brydydd Hir.  Ieuan Brydydd Hir (fl. 1450 – 1485) was a Welsh language poet from Ardudwy in Meirionnydd north-west Wales. Hir sang on mainly religious subjects. 13 poems accepted as his work are extant although a number of others are attributed to him.
Nicky Blackmarket.  Nicky Blackmarket (born Nicholas Andersson-Gylden) is a British Drum and Bass DJ and record producer. Nicky Blackmarket is one of Drum and Bass' most well known DJs and is regarded as one of the pivotal figures in the early Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass scene.
Christopher Louis McIntosh Johnson.  Christopher Louis McIntosh Johnson (June 12 1931 – 14 December 2012) was a journalist and economist.
Ivy Lee (actress).  Ivy Lee (Chinese: 李锦梅; pinyin: Lǐ Jǐnméi; born 16 July 1973) is a Singaporean actress formerly contracted to MediaCorp.
Julia Feldman.  Julia Feldman (Hebrew: יוליה פלדמן‎ born June 22 1979 in Samara Soviet Union) is an Israeli jazz vocalist composer and educator. Her singing combines elements of multiple jazz genres free improvisation and modern classical music.
Kesington Kross.  Kesington Kross (better known by his stage name KES) is an American singer-songwriter and producer from Los Angeles California.
Farogh Naseem.  Barrister Dr. Mohammad Farogh Naseem is a leading constitutional lawyer from Pakistan. He is the youngest but the most qualified lawyer to hold the office of Advocate General of Sindh[1].
Nicholas M. Baines.  Nicholas Matthew Peanut Baines born 21 March 1978 is the keyboardist of the English indie-rock band Kaiser Chiefs.In an interview for Austin City Limits 2005 festival DVD extras disc Baines said he got the nickname peanut at school when aged 10 or 11 he drew a picture of himself and his head looked like a peanut.He also plays guitar; and said in the same interview that he has played music for most of my life.
Chantal Juillet.  Chantal Juillet OC CQ (born December 19 1960 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian violinist.Born in Montreal Quebec Canada Juillet won all the major Canadian music competitions in her category by the age of 16 and was launched into international renown when she received First Prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York City. In 1979 she was awarded the Prix d'Europe.
Lars Horntveth.  Lars Horntveth (born 10 March 1980 in Tønsberg Norway) is a Norwegian musician (saxophones clarinet percussion and guitar) band leader and composer. He is best known as a key member of the bands Jaga Jazzist and The National Bank together with his brother Martin Horntveth.
Coppé.  Coppé (pronounced Co-pa'y often also typed Coppe') is a Japanese electronic music singer-songwriter and music producer. She has released fifteen solo albums on her self-owned Mango + Sweetrice label.
John Valentine Haidt.  John Valentine Haidt (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and lay Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.
Tomas Andersson Wij.  Tomas Andersson Wij (often abbreviated by fans as TAW) (born Tomas Per Andersson on February 6 1972 in Stockholm Sweden and (raised in the south suburbs Fruängen and Sköndal) is a Swedish singer and songwriter but also working as a journalist.
Roque Baños.  Roque Baños López (born 1968) is a Spanish music composer whose place of birth is Jumilla a municipality in the major Spanish city of Murcia. Baños graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1995 and has since scored both Spanish and English-language films. He has received numerous awards for his compositional work including the Spanish Goya Award for Best Original Score in both 2008 and 2009.
Elizabeth Jordan.  Elizabeth Garver Jordan (May 9 1865 – February 24 1947) was an American journalist author editor and suffragist now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis and for her relationship with Henry James especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913.
Ottaviano Dandini.  Ottaviano Dandini was the son of Pietro Dandini and painted history in the style of his father. Some fresco paintings in the cloister of San Spirito a picture of several Saints in San Lorenzo and his works in the church of the Magdalene at Pescia evince the respectability of his talent. He afterward entered the Society of Jesus and died about 1750.
Claire Holley.  Claire Chamblin Holley is an American folk singer-songwriter from Mississippi. She has released six albums written for TV Hollywood musicals and museums. Claire tours nationwide is a wife and mom and makes her home in Los Angeles California.
Alexander Ardakov.  Alexander Ardakov (Russian: Александр Ардаков) (born in Samara Russia formerly Kuybyshev) is a Russian professional pianist graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and prizewinner at the Viotti International competition in Italy (1984). Between 1981 and 1991 he played with the Moscow State Philharmonia.
Betye Saar.  Betye Irene Saar (July 30 1926 in Los Angeles California) is an American artist known for her work in the field of assemblage. Saar was a part of the black arts movement in the 1970s challenging myths and stereotypes. In the 1990s her work was politicized while she continued to challenge the negative ideas of African Americans.
Leroy Cooper (musician).  Leroy Hog Cooper (August 31 1928-January 15 2009) was a jazz and R&B baritone saxophonist most known for his 20-year association some of the time as musical director/bandleader with Ray Charles.From 1948 to 1951 Cooper toured with Ernie Fields' territory band.A childhood friend of David Fathead Newman in 1954 the two played together in the sax section backing Lowell Fulson on his first single for Chess Records Reconsider Baby.In 1957 Newman recommended Cooper to Charles who joined Charles' band the same summer as bassist Edgar Willis both musicians staying on with Charles for some twenty years.Cooper also played recorded or toured with Lightnin' Hopkins Clarence Gatemouth Brown Lowell Fulson the Righteous Brothers Dr. 
Smokie Norful.  Rev. W.R. Smokie Norful Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist best known for his 2002 album I Need You Now and his 2004 release Nothing Without You which won a Grammy at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album in 2004.
Martin Horntveth.  Martin Horntveth (born 20 September 1977 in Tønsberg Norway) is a Norwegian musician (mainly the drums) composer and electronica artist best known as the drummer of Jaga Jazzist and The National Bank.
Lee Eun-sang.  Lee Eun-sang (October 22 1903 – September 18 1982) was a Korean poet and historian. He was dedicated to the revival and modernization of sijo a form of Korean poetry.
Pedro Yanowitz.  Peter Yanowitz (born September 13 1967 Chicago Illinois United States) also known as Pedro Yanowitz is an American musician songwriter and visual artist. Yanowitz was the original drummer of The Wallflowers and for Natalie Merchant on her first three solo records Tigerlily Ophelia and Live in Concert. He also played drums for Money Mark the Black Sabbath tribute band Hand of Doom with Melissa Auf der Maur and with Nina Nastasia on her album Dogs.
Riri Kōda.  Riri Kōda (倖田李梨 Kōda Riri) aka Riri Kouda Kiri Kōda Miri Kōda (倖田美梨 Kōda Miri) and Miki Iwashita (岩下美季 Iwashita Miki) is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress.
Mario Trejo.  Mario Trejo (13 January 1926 – 14 May 2012) was an Argentine poet playwright screenwriter and journalist.
Peter Lovesey.  Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936) also known by his pen name Peter Lear is a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb a Victorian-era police detective based in London and Peter Diamond a modern-day police detective in Bath.
Pierre Lantier.  Pierre Lantier (30 April 1910 – 4 April 1998) was a composer and pianist and the husband of fellow composer Paule Maurice.Born in Marseilles Lantier was affiliated with the Paris Conservatory; and in 1937 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome composition scholarship (a prize he shared with Victor Serventi). One of his most widely known works is a Sicilienne for alto saxophone and piano.
Thad Stem Jr..  Thaddeus Stem Jr. (1916–1980) of Oxford North Carolina was a poet author and newspaper columnist. His work frequently appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer and The Pilot (Southern Pines N.C.). He also wrote or co-wrote 16 books. The major works including: The Animal Fair (1960) Entries from Oxford (1971) Senator Sam Ervin's Best Stories (1973) and Thad Stem's Ark (1979). He was honored with the North Carolina Award for Literature in 1974.
Al Taliaferro.  Charles Alfred Taliaferro (August 29 1905 – February 3 1969) known simply as Al Taliaferro was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate. Many of his strips were written by Bob Karp.He is best known for his work on the Donald Duck comic strip but he started his career lettering the Mickey Mouse strips (March 1931 – July 1932) and drew the Bucky Bug comics in 1932 as well as Silly Symphonies pages from 1932 to 1939.
Anthony Bailey (author).  Anthony Bailey (born 1933 in Portsmouth) is a British writer and art historian. He was evacuated to Dayton Ohio in 1940 during World War II. For many years he was a writer for the New Yorker magazine.He lives on Mersea Island near Colchester Essex with his wife Margot. They have four daughters: Liz Annie Katie and Rachel.
Stewart Lerman.  Stewart Lerman is a Bronx born New York-based Grammy winning music producer recording engineer who has worked with The Roches Antony and the Johnsons Jules Shear Marshall Crenshaw Crash Test Dummies Elvis Costello Nellie McKay Loudon Wainwright III Black 47 David Johansen David Byrne Willie Nile Soulive Darden Smith Sophie B. Hawkins Sufjan Stevens St. Vincent Regina Specktor Carl Hancock Rux and 36 episodes of Boardwalk Empire among others.
Jiří Pehe.  Jiří Pehe (born 26 August 1955)  is a Czech political analyst and writer.Pehe was born in Rokycany (western Bohemia) in the Czech Republic. He studied law and philosophy at Charles University in Prague where he earned a Magister's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1980. In September 1981 he fled Czechoslovakia through Yugoslavia to Italy.After a short stay in a refugee camp near Rome he arrived with his wife in New York in the US.
Jamie Belman.  Jamie Belman (born 14 September 1985) is an English actor best known for his work in television series Emmerdale playing Michael Conway.
Atsuro Watabe.  Atsuro Watabe (渡部 篤郎 Watabe Atsurō born 5 May 1968) is a Japanese actor.
Henry Hall (bandleader).  Henry Hall (2 May 1898 – 28 October 1989) was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s through to the 1960s.
Khristo Poshtakov.  Khristo Poshtakov (Bulgarian: Христо Пощаков) (b. September 22 1944) is a Bulgarian short story author and novelist.
Fred Jackson Jr..  Fred Jackson Jr. (born about 1945) is a jazz fusion saxophonist and flautist who has recorded with Bobby Hutcherson Earth Wind & Fire Jimmy Smith Horace Silver and Solomon Burke among others.
Robert Elis.  Robert Elis (3 February 1812 – 19 August 1875; sometimes spelt Ellis) professionally known by his bardic name Cynddelw (after a 12th-century poet of the same name) was a Welsh language poet editor and lexicographer born at Tyn y Meini Bryndreiniog Pen-y-Bont-Fawr in the old county of Montgomeryshire Mid Wales.He was also a Baptist minister: from 1836 to 1840 at Llanelian-yn-Rhos and Llanddulas Denbighshire; from 1838-1840 Glyn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley; from 1847 to 1862 at Tredegar Monmouthshire; and from 1862 until his death in 1875 at Caernarfon.His poem Yr Adgyfodiad was published in 1849 whilst he was a minister at Tredegar in the Sirhowy Valley. 
Jordan Sonnenblick.  Jordan Sonnenblick (born July 4 1969) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He is a graduate of New York City's Stuyvesant High School (1987) and of the University of Pennsylvania.
Eduardo Oropeza.  Eduardo Oropeza (1947 – September 11 2003) is a contemporary artist.A native of California's Silicon Valley and longtime resident of east Los Angeles Oropeza began his academic training with Social Studies. After taking an art course he ultimately changed major and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from San Jose State. He follows this with postgraduate work at San Jose San Diego State at Long Beach and Palomar College.
Danielle Peck.  Danielle Marie Peck (born September 14 1978 in Jacksonville North Carolina) is an American country music artist. Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2005 Peck released her self-titled debut album which produced the Top 30 country hits I Don't Findin' a Good Man and Isn't That Everything. A fourth single Bad for Me charted in mid-2007.
Christian Wargo.  Christian Wargo (born May 3 1981) is the current lead vocalist in Poor Moon. He currently plays bass guitar and sings vocals as a member of Fleet Foxes and plays guitar and sings vocals with Crystal Skulls. He is a former of Danielson Famile and David Bazan's Pedro the Lion.Before joining Crystal Skulls in 2004 Wargo was in a band called Scientific he released the album From the Nest of Idea in 2002 with the record label Burnt Toast Vinyl.
Nathaniel Stern.  Nathaniel Stern (born 1977) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media including interactive art public art interventions installation video art net.art and printmaking. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Aline Valangin.  Aline Valangin was a Swiss writer pianist and psychoanalyst. In Zurich she was follower of Carl Jung and became a psychoanalyst. With Vladimir Rosenbaum (1894–1984 her husband from 1917 to 1940) at Comologno she helped and played host to migrants as Ignazio Silone Ernst Toller and Kurt Tucholsky. In 1931 she loved Silone read his masterpiece Fontamara and helped him to publish it.
Pat Badger.  Pat Badger (born Patrick John Badger July 22 1967 Boston Massachusetts) is the bassist in the band Extreme. He is also a former member of Daemon In The Pink Super Trans Atlantic and Tribe of Judah.He sang backing vocals on both Dweezil Zappa's album Confessions and the Danger Danger album Screw It! along with his Extreme bandmates Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt.
Kevin Moore.  Kevin Moore (born May 26 1967) is a keyboardist vocalist and composer and founder of the Chroma Key music project. He is also a former member of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater co-founder of the progressive rock supergroup O.S.I. and has composed film soundtracks. Throughout his career he has become known for his emotional music and lyrics nomadic tendencies and use of spoken word samples.Moore started his music career in progressive metal band Dream Theater.
Bryn Davies (musician).  Bryn Davies (born August 22 1976) is an American bassist cellist and occasional pianist. She grew up in Livermore California. In 1997 she majored in Jazz Performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts. There she met mandolin player Billy Bright and guitarist Brian Smith with whom she formed the Two High String Band.
Leon Battista Alberti.  Leon Battista Alberti (February 14 1404 – April 20 1472) was an Italian author artist architect poet priest linguist philosopher cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.
Kim Paffenroth.  Kim Paffenroth is a religious scholar professor and contemporary American horror author best known for his Bram Stoker Award-winning book Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth.
AlKabli.  AbdelKarim AlKabli (Arabic: عبد الكريم الكابلي‎) is a Sudanese singer poet composer songwriter and humanitarian known for his songs with themes of love passion nationalism Sudanese culture and folklore.
Steven Weissman.  Steven Weissman (b. June 4 1968 in California) is an award-winning alternative cartoonist best known for his offbeat and bizarre explorations of childhood friendships (not to mention competitiveness and mutual enmity). He has been published by Alternative Comics and Fantagraphics and has had his work translated into French and Japanese.
Ron Garney.  Ron Garney is a comic book writer/artist known for his work on books such as JLAThe Amazing Spider-Man Silver Surfer Hulk Daredevil and Captain America.
George Watsky.  George Virden Watsky (born September 15 1986) is an American rapper and poet from San Francisco California. Watsky performs slam poetry and was featured on Season 6 of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. Watsky’s talents began to receive national and international acclaim in 2006 when he was the Youth Speaks Grand Slam Poetry Champion and was also named Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam Champion.
Alec Stevens.  Alec Preston Stevens (born 22 February 1965) is a professional author illustrator and musician.
Count Basie.  William James Count Basie (August 21 1904 – April 26 1984) was an American jazz pianist organist bandleader and composer. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank New Jersey. By 16 he increasingly played jazz piano at parties resorts and other venues.
Kevin Kerr (actor).  Kevin Kerr (born 1968 Vancouver) is a Canadian playwright actor director and founding member of Electric Company Theatre. From 2007 to 2010 he was Lee Playwright in Residence at University of Alberta.He was born in Vancouver and grew up in Kamloops British Columbia.
Frédéric Nérac.  Frédéric Nérac (1960 – declared dead 21 October 2005) is a French journalist reported missing in Iraq from 22 March 2003. On 21 October 2005 he was officially declared dead though no body has been found.Frédéric Nérac was covering the Invasion of Iraq for the UK-based ITN television network as an independent journalist as opposed to journalists embedded with US or UK military units. On 22 March 2003 in Bassora two vehicles of ITN were taken in a cross-fire between US and Iraqi forces.
Rebecca Hammond Lard.  Rebecca Hammond Lard (born Rebecca Hammond; March 7 1772 – September 28 1855) is called by some critics the first poet in Indiana. Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early people in Indiana and the colonists in Vermont.Lard's works are mainly religious and meditative in tone but draw their inspiration in part from the Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil. She is best known for Indiana's first book of poetryOn the Banks of the Ohio a poem she is believed to have written.
Asuka Fukuda.  Asuka Fukuda (福田 明日香 Fukuda Asuka) (born December 17 1984) is a Japanese pop singer and she was a member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume from 1997 until April 18 1999.
Manana Doijashvili.  Manana Doijashvili (Georgian: მანანა დოიჯაშვილი) is a Georgian pianist.She was trained at the Tbilisi State Conservatory under Tengiz Amiredjibi. She was prized at the 1970 Enescu (Bucharest) and 1974 Smetana (Plzeň) competitions and ranked 6th at the inaugural edition of the Sydney Competition. Doidjashvili is the rector of the Tbilisi State Conservatory and the founder of the Tbilisi International Piano Competition.
Armstrong Sperry.  Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7 1897 – April 26 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography often set on sailing ships and stories of boys from Polynesia Asia and indigenous American cultures. He is best known for his 1941 Newbery Medal-winning book Call It Courage.
Bernardo Martorana.  Bernardo Martorana (Palermo April 25 1846 - after 1891 ) was an Italian painter active in Sicily painting historical and landscape subjects.He studied mainly engraving and acquaforte under Aloisio Juvara at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples. He was known for his ability detailing the bony anataomy. He exhibited L'Alfa e l'Omega in 1883 at the Mostra Italo-Spagnuola held at Berlin. At the 1875 Promotrice Salvator Rosa of Naples he displayed La donna emancipata.
Poison Ivy (musician).  Kristy Marlana Wallace (born February 20 1953) known as Poison Ivy or Poison Ivy Rorschach is a guitarist songwriter arranger producer and occasional vocalist who co-founded the American garage punk band The Cramps.
Nikolay Kun.  Nikolay Kun (Russian: Никола́й Альбе́ртович Кун 21 May 1877 – 28 October 1940) was a Russian historian writer and educator. He is best known for his book Greek Myths and Legends (Legendy i Mify Drevnei Gretsii) which was extremely popular with readers in the Soviet Union.First published in 1914 it has been republished many times since and translated into a number of European languages.
Richard Harding Davis.  Richard Harding Davis (April 18 1864 – April 11 1916) was a journalist and writer of fiction and drama known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War the Second Boer War and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine.
Edward McKendree Bounds.  Edward McKendree Bounds (August 15 1835 – August 24 1913) prominently known as E.M. Bounds was an American author attorney and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds' books were published before he died. After his death Rev.
John Patrick Gillese.  John Patrick Gillese (March 7 1920 – 23 October 1999) was an Irish-born Canadian author whose prolific career spanned six decades from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.
Lucinda Coxon.  Lucinda Coxon is a playwright and screenwriter.
Matsutarō Kawaguchi.  Matsutarō Kawaguchi (川口 松太郎 Kawaguchi Matsutarō 1 October 1899 – 9 June 1985) was a Japanese novelist playwright and movie producer active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Pamela McNeill.  Pamela NcNeill is an American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Winona Minnesota. She studied classical music for 16 years and formed her first rock and roll band playing throughout the Midwest at the age of 16. McNeill has written songs for many artists such as Wynona Judd and has contributed vocals keyboards and piano for many various artist tribute CDs including ABBA Willie Nelson Martina McBride and Michael W. Smith produced by her husband Dugan McNeill.
Ulf Eklund.  Ulf Eklund (born 23 April 1951) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 25 films and television shows since 1980.
Scott McClanahan.  Scott McClanahan (born June 24 1978) is an American writer and filmmaker. He lives in Beckley West Virginia and is the author of six books: Stories (2008) Stories II (2009) Stories V! (2011) The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1 (2012) Crapalachia (2013) and Hill William (2013).
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg.  Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 – 8 January 1874) was a noted French writer ethnographer historian and archaeologist. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies travelling extensively in the region. His writings publications and recovery of historical documents contributed much to knowledge of the region's languages writing history and culture particularly those of the Maya and Aztec.
Demoz.  Demoz is an underground rapper from Philadelphia Pennsylvania who is also a member of hip hop supergroup Army of the Pharaohs.
Dirk Mai.  Dirk Mai is an American photographer currently working for Cliché Magazine.From May 3-August 31 2008 photographs of Mai were on display in The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh PA). Deemed an 'Uberstar'--along with designer Rami Kashou internet celebrity Cory Kennedy model/designer Audrey Kitching journalist Rose Apodaca and writer/actor Clint Catalyst—Mai was hand-picked by sculptor/visual artist Glenn Kaino to represent his 21st Century take on Andy Warhol's Superstars.
David Mathison.  David Mathison is an author blogger speaker entrepreneur new media activist and event producer. He is best known for his book Be The Media an encyclopedic guide to how individuals organizations and non-profits can use new media platforms to become content creators and distributors and reach audiences previously reserved for giant corporations.
Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov.  Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov (Russian: Алексе́й Ви́кторович Ивано́в; born November 23 1969) is a Russian writer.Ivanov was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) into a family of shipbuilding engineers. In 1971 the family moved to Perm where he grew up. In 1987 he entered Ural State University as a journalism student.
Luko Zore.  Luko Zore (January 15 1846 – November 26 1906) was a Serbian Catholic philologist and Slavist from Dubrovnik. He was one of the leaders of the opposition to Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy in Dubrovnik and a member of the Serb Catholic movement in Dubrovnik. Later in life he lived in Montenegro.
Gore Vidal.  Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ˌɡɔr vɨˈdɑːl/; born Eugene Louis Vidal October 3 1925 – July 31 2012) was an American writer known for his essays novels screenplays and Broadway plays. As a well-known public intellectual he was known for his patrician manner and witty aphorisms. Vidal's grandfather was the U.S. Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma.A lifelong Democrat Gore ran for political office twice and was a seasoned political commentator.
Leon Bibb (musician).  Leon Bibb (born February 7 1922) is an American folk singer and actor who grew up in Kentucky studied voice in New York and worked on Broadway. His career began when he became a featured soloist of the Louisville Municipal College glee club as a student. He has lived in Vancouver British Columbia in Canada since 1969.Bibb was born in Louisville Kentucky and was one of the performers at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. He also had his own NBC television talk show.
Colm Wilkinson.  Colm Wilkinson (born 5 June 1944) also known as C. T.
Stephen Birnbaum.  Stephen Birnbaum (circa 1937 – December 20 1991) was an American writer journalist and commentator best known for travel commentary and guide books. In addition to print media he worked in television and radio including appearances on three major U.S. commercial broadcast networks.
Smug Roberts.  Andy Robert Wilkinson (born 1960) better known by his stage name of Smug Roberts is an English stand up comedian and actor. Born in Harpurhey Wilkinson attended North Manchester High for Boys before taking various jobs such as a relief pub landlord and the coach of a football team in Toronto.
Sam Wu.  Sam Wu is an American photographer of the 1950s and 1960s. Wu worked for adult magazines such as Playboy and Modern Man. He photographed Playboy centerfolds of Rusty Fisher Pat Sheehan and Christa Speck. He also filmed Pat Sheehan's centerfold and Tania Velia movie pics.
Bituin Escalante.  Bituin Escalante (born April 23 1977) better known as Bituin is a Filipina singer and host. She is a well-known Philippine Diva and a power-belter. She first gained popularity during the 2000 Metropop Song Festival with her interpretation of the song Paano Na written by Arnold Reyes making the song the festival's second prize winner.
Jamie Brittain.  Jamie Brittain (born 14 August 1985 in Edinburgh Scotland) is a Scottish TV writer and actor. Along with his father Bryan Elsley he co-created the E4 teen drama Skins . On 1 April 2011 Brittain announced that he would be leaving the show but he will be returning for the final seventh series.
David Thrussell.  David Thrussell is an Australian musician and a prolific composer of a wide range of genres. He is known for being a founding member of the dark ambient and IDM outfits Snog and Soma as well as his work under the moniker Black Lung.
Moussa Sene Absa.  Moussa Sene Absa Moussa Sène Absaor Moussa Sène Absa (proper name: Moussa Sène) is a Senegalese film director editor producer screenwriter painter and songwriter. He was born in 1958 in Tableau Ferraille a suburb of Dakar (Senegal) to a Serer family.
Glenn Gregory.  Glenn Gregory (born Glenn Peter Gregory 16 May 1958 Sheffield England) is an English musician. A founding member of Heaven 17 he was partly responsible for hit records such as Temptation.Gregory had known the founding members of The Human League for many years. He had been singing and playing bass in bands with Ian Craig Marsh since 1973.
Donald Rawe.  Donald Rawe Cornish publisher dramatist novelist and poet. Born in Padstow in 1930 he has lived most of his life near the northern coast. He became a member of Gorseth Kernow in 1970 under the Bardic name of Scryfer Lanwednoc ('Writer of Padstow').
Cakes da Killa.  Rashard Bradshaw better known as Cakes da Killa is an American rapper based in New Jersey. He is an emerging artist in the LGBT hip hop genre along with fellow artists such as Le1f Mykki Blanco and House of Ladosha. He has recently gained popularity through media interest in LGBT figures and themes in hip hop having been recently written about in a Pitchfork article about said movement. In May 2013 Bradshaw completed his Bachelor's degree at Montclair State University.
Émile Gaudreault.  Émile Gaudreault (born 1964 in Jonquière Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter whose credits include the films Louis 19 le roi des ondes Nuit de noces Mambo Italiano Surviving My Mother and De père en flic.He is openly gay.
Gwen John.  Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although she was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother Augustus John her reputation has grown steadily since her death.
Rhap Salazar.  Rhap Salazar (born February 3 1996) is a Filipino singer/songwriter and recently now a movie actor. He has tied for first place in the 2010 Awit Awards in the category “Best Performance by a New Male Recording Artist He has won two awards at the 13th World Championships of Performing Arts both the Junior Grand Champion Performer of the World and the Junior Grand Champion Solo Vocalist of the World.He appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show aged 12.
Donna Cruz.  Donna Cruz (born February 14 1977) is a Filipina recording artist and entertainer. She emerged as the biggest multimedia superstar in the 1990s becoming successful as a recording artist actress product endorser and television presenter. She is related to the Cruz clan in Philippine showbiz which includes uncle Tirso Cruz III cousins Sheryl Sunshine Geneva Rayver and Rodjun Cruz.
Barbra Ring.  Barbra Ring (1870–1955) was a Norwegian novelist short story writer children's writer biographer literary critic and theatre critic. She made her literary début in 1904 with the girl's novel Babbens Dagbog. Her children's books about Peik and other characters achieved great popularity. Her first novel for adults was Jomfruen published in 1914. She was the granddaughter of Hanna Winsnes and the mother of actress and stage producer Gerda Ring.
Alicia Paz.  Alicia Paz (born 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from UC Berkeley École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art London.Alicia Paz's works are paintings that are as much portraits as they are landscapes combining references that range from erudite painting or the history of the painted image to citations of advertising images or comics.
George Canseco.  George Masangkay Canseco was born 23 April 1934 in Naic Cavite Philippines and died 19 November 2004 in Manila Philippines). Canseco was a nationally acclaimed composer of numerous popular Filipino classics.
Marc Levy.  Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist. Levy was born in Boulogne-Billancourt Hauts-de-Seine. At the age of 18 he joined the French Red Cross where he spent six years. In parallel he studied management and computers at Paris-Dauphine University.In 1983 he created a company specializing in computer graphics in France and the United States. In 1989 he lost majority control of the group and resigned starting again from scratch.
Pio Ricci.  Pio Ricci (Florence 1850 - August 21 1919) was an Italian painter mainly of genre and costume genre works.
Lewis Gilbert (actor).  Lewis Gilbert was a British actor of the silent era.
Wendy Williams (actress).  Wendy Williams (born 7 November 1934) is a British actress.She is best known for her work on television with credits including: Danger Man Z-Cars The Regiment The Pallisers Thriller Doctor Who (in the serial The Ark in Space) Survivors Poldark Tenko and The Darling Buds of May. She had a long running role in Crossroads as Mrs. Banks.
Horace Henderson.  Horace W. Henderson (November 22 1904 – August 29 1988) the younger brother of Fletcher Henderson was an American jazz pianist organist arranger and bandleader.Born in Cuthbert Georgia while later attending Wilberforce University he formed a band called the Collegians which included Benny Carter and Rex Stewart. This band was later known as the Horace Henderson Orchestra and then as the Dixie Stompers.
Sophia Vossou.  Sophia Vossou (Σοφία Βόσσου born 5 December 1961) is a Greek singer best known abroad for representing Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 where she was placed 13th with the song I Anixi.
Abdoulaye Mamani.  Abdoulaye Mamani (1932–1993) was a Nigerien poet novelist and trade unionist.
Irwin Shaw.  Irwin Shaw (February 27 1913 – May 16 1984) was a prolific American playwright screenwriter novelist and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.
John Harris (artist).  John Harris (born 29 July 1948 in London England) is a British painter and illustrator best known for working in the science fiction genre. His paintings have been used on book covers for many science fiction authors including Isaac Asimov Frederik Pohl Ben Bova Orson Scott Card and Jack Vance.
Douglas Sadownick.  Douglas Sadownick is a gay American writer and psychologist.
Kitty (rapper).  Kathryn-Leigh Beckwith (born February 25 1993) better known by her stage name Kitty (formerly Kitty Pryde) is a American hip hop recording artist from Daytona Beach Florida. While serving as a member of Jokers in Trousers a comedy hip hop group she received recognition from fellow American rapper Riff Raff. Together the duo collaborated on a single Orion's Belt in June 2012 which became a viral success with over two million views.She was a clerk at Claire's in Daytona Beach.
Willie Johnson (guitarist).  Willie Johnson (March 4 1923 – February 26 1995) was an American electric blues guitarist. He is best known as the principal guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band from 1948 to 1953. His raucous distorted guitar playing features on Howlin' Wolf's Memphis recordings of 1951–3 including the hit song How Many More Years (recorded May 1951). His early use of distortion marks him out as one of the pioneers of the electric guitar.
Doug Elliott (musician).  Douglas Robert Elliott is a Canadian musician best known for his work in the alternative rock group Odds. He was an accomplished skier growing up in the Rockie Mountain city of Jasper Alberta. At the age of 13 he took up the bass guitar in school band and was playing professionally in local bands by the age of 15.
Porsche Lynn.  Porsche Lynn (born in St. Johns Michigan U.S.) is the stage name of an American exotic dancer and pornographic actress. She chose her stage name from the Porsche car company after seeing one of their cars during a drive to one of her earliest film shoots; she added Lynn to it as it fit well.
Oliver O'Connor Barrett.  Oliver O'Connor Barrett (born January 17 1908 in Eltham London England; died July 1989 in Cwm Prysor Trawsfynydd Wales) was a British sculptor painter graphic artist educator poet and composer. Most of his adult career and recognition was in the United States.
Keith Moon.  Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English musician best known as the drummer of the English rock group the Who. He was noted for his unique drumming style and his eccentric often self-destructive behaviour. In 2011 Moon was voted the second-greatest drummer in history by a Rolling Stone readers' poll.
Benjamin Grosvenor.  Benjamin Grosvenor (born 8 July 1992) is a classical pianist from the United Kingdom. He won the piano section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004 competition. In 2010 he joined BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme which he completed in 2012.
Dan Gordon (animator).  Dan Gordon (died 1969) was an American storyboard artist and film director best known for his work at both Famous Studios and Hanna-Barbera Productions. Gordon was one of Famous' first directors and he wrote and directed several Popeye the Sailor and Superman cartoons.
Jean Kemm.  Jean Kemm (1874–1939) was a French stage and theater actor and film director.
Pedro de Merelim.  Pedro de Merelim was a pseudonym of the Portuguese historian and ethnographer Joaquim Gomes da Cunha (1913 in São Pedro de Merelim Portugal – 2002 in Angra do Heroísmo Azores).He was born in the civil parish of São Pedro de Merelim in the municipality of Braga.He signed-on with the Corpo Expedicionário (Expeditionary Corp) that travelled to the archipelago during the Second World War and later settled in Angra do Heroísmo where he became an important investigator into works of history and local traditions/culture publishing several volumes on these themes.
John Crewes.  John Crewes (15 July 1847–29 December 1925) was a New Zealand bible Christian minister social worker and journalist. He was born in Grampound Cornwall England on 15 July 1847.Crewes unsuccessfully contested the 1884 election in the Christchurch North electorate against Julius Vogel. At the 1887 election Crewes contested the Sydenham electorate against Richard Molesworth Taylor.
Luigi Agricola.  Luigi Agricola was an Italy Italian painter of the late 18th and early 19th century active in Rome Italy He also worked with jewelry. He painted a St. Michael the Archangel for the Academy of St Luke in Rome where he was a professor. He painted an altarpiece of St Elizabeth Queen of Portugal for the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi. Another painter by the same name (1667-1712) originally from Ratisbon was active in landscape painting in the mid-17th century settling down in Venice.
Linda Liao.  Linda Liao Pei Ling (Chinese: 廖佩伶; pinyin: Liào Pèi Líng now known as 廖語晴; born May 24 1981) is a Taiwanese singer actress MTV Mandarin VJ and professional gamer. She went to Queen's University in Kingston Ontario Canada.
Murphy Anderson.  Murphy Anderson (born July 9 1926) is an American comic book artist known as one of the premier inkers of his era who has worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He has worked on such characters as Hawkman Batgirl Zatanna and the Spectre as well as on the Buck Rogers daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to PS the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army.
Jacques-Eugène Feyen.  Jacques-Eugène Feyen (1815 in Bey-sur-Seille Meurthe-et-Moselle – 1908) was a French painter.
Minmini.  Minmini is a South Indian film playback singer. She is remembered especially for the song Chinna Chinna Aasai from Roja the debut work of film composer A. R. Rahman. Though she is from Kerala most of her memorable songs are in Tamil most of them composed by Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman. Her hit Malayalam songs include Souparnikamritha from Kizhakkunarum Pakshi Oonjal Urangi and Neelaraavi from Kudumbasametham.
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (born Pål Waaktaar Gamst 6 September 1961) is a Norwegian musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the main songwriter and guitarist in the Norwegian pop band A-ha. He has written or co-written most of the band's biggest hits including The Sun Always Shines on T.V. Hunting High and Low Take on Me the James Bond theme The Living Daylights and the ballad Summer Moved On. In addition Waaktaar-Savoy is also a painter.
Brett Booth.  Brett Booth is an American comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Backlash a character he co-created with Jim Lee at the Wildstorm Studios.
Stefano Tonchi.  Stefano Tonchi (born 10 October 1959 Florence Italy) is the editor of W magazine. He was previously editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Having previously worked at Esquire and L'Uomo Vogue Tonchi's editorial roots are in what he calls niche publications he revealed in a 2007 interview in 032c magazine.
Dion DiMucci.  Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18 1939) better known mononymously as Dion is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop pop oldies music rock and R&B styles—and most recently straight blues. He was one of the most popular American rock and roll performers of the pre-British Invasion era. He had more than a dozen Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 60s.
Jo-El Sonnier.  Jo-El Sonnier (/ʒoʊˌɛl sɒnˈjeɪ/; born October 2 1946 in Rayne Louisiana) is an American singer-songwriter and accordionist who performs country music and Cajun music. Originally signed to Mercury Nashville Records Sonnier charted several minor singles on the Billboard country charts in the late 1970s. By the late 1980s he had signed to RCA Records breaking through with the Top Ten hits No More One More Time and a cover of Richard Thompson's Tear Stained Letter.
Salamat Sadikova.  Salamat Sadikova (Kyrgyz: Саламат Садыкова; Arabic: سلامات صاديقوف‎; also Sadykova and Sadicova; born 28 September 1956 in Kyzyl Jol village Batken Kyrgyzstan) is a folk singer and the head of the coordinating council for the El-Ene (Mother Nation) Party in Kyrgyzstan. Widely regarded as a national treasure she is often referred to by the sobriquet The Voice of Kyrgyzstan which is also the name of one of her albums.
Michael David Kwan.  Michael David Kwan (1934–2001) is the author of Things That Must Not Be Forgotten which has won the Kiriyama Prize as well as three other books.He was also an accomplished translator of Chinese literature into English.
Axel Zwingenberger.  Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7 1955 Hamburg Germany) is a blues and boogie-woogie pianist and songwriter. He is considered one of the finest boogie-woogie music masters in the world.
Alexander Bard.  Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish writer songwriter record producer and religious and political activist.
Jet Lowe.  John T. Jet Lowe is an American photographer. He is one of the photographers employed by the U.S. National Park Service on the Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record projects and is now supervisor of engineering photography for HAER. Industrial Eye: Photographs by Jet Lowe from the Historic American Engineering Record was published in 1986 by the Preservation Press.
Sandra Muente.  Sandra Muente Bayona (born November 13 1990) is a Peruvian-Mexican singer. She began her career in the music reality TV show Latin American Idol where she reach the third place. Since then she has appeared in various TV shows in Perú.
Richard Bulliet.  Richard W. Bulliet is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions the history of technology and the history of the role of animals in human society.
Daniele Vidal.  Danièle Vidal(born June 27 1952) is a French singer. She is best known in Japan for her career in the early 1970s.
Dominica Leoni.  Dominica Leoni (born 29 February 1980 near Prague Czechoslovakia) is a Czech former pornographic actress. She appeared in over 260 adult films between 1999 and 2007.
Gordie Johnson.  Gordie Johnson (born ca. 1964/5) is a Canadian musician best known as the front man for the reggae-rock band Big Sugar and later southern rock band Grady. He is also the bassist for blues rock band Wide Mouth Mason.
Nazeel Azami.  Nazeel Azami (Bengali: নাজিল আজামি; born August 1981) is an English singer-songwriter of spiritual music.
Da Hool.  Frank Tomiczek (born December 30 1968) better known as Da Hool is a German DJ and producer. It was in Bottrop that he first honed his skills as a DJ and by 1990 was an acclaimed performer in his native country.
Noel Hogan.  Noel Anthony Hogan (born 25 December 1971 Moyross Limerick Ireland) is the current guitarist and working co-songwriter on some of the recent tracks with The Cranberries.With The Cranberries on hiatus from 2003–2009 Hogan turned to focus on his own music. He began working with programmer Matt Vaughan who had already done work on unreleased Cranberries songs and Dolores O'Riordan's solo material. Mono Band was born with Noel as the sole band member.
Claire Martin (author).  Claire Martin CC OQ FRSC (born April 18 1914) is the pseudonym of the Canadian writer Claire Montreuil.Born in Quebec City Quebec she was educated at the Ursuline convent and by the Dames de la Congrégation. From 1945 to 1972 she lived in Ottawa and was a writer in residence at the University of Ottawa. From 1972 to 1982 she lived in France before returning to Quebec.In 2014 she turned 100 on the 18 of April.
KB (rapper).  Kevin Elijah Burgess better known by his stage name KB is an American Christian hip hop artist from St. Petersburg Florida. He is the leader of the hip-hop group HGA and was signed as a solo artist to Reach Records in 2010. He is also a member of the Reach Records-based hip-hop collective 116 Clique. After releasing a mixtape in 2011 entitled Who Is KB? his debut album Weight & Glory was released on July 17 2012 to critical acclaim.
Måns Herngren.  Måns Herngren (born 20 April 1965 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor but mostly a director. Almost all of his films are done together with his old friend Hannes Holm. He is the older brother to actor and comedian Felix Herngren.Måns Herngren was married to Lena Philipsson from 1993 to 2002. He was married to former high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist but their divorce was announced early 2011 http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/klick/article12581945.ab
Takako Okamura.  Takako Okamura (岡村孝子 Okamura Takako born January 29 1962) is a Japanese singer. She had her debut in 1982 as part of the folk duo Aming (あみん amin) with the single Matsu-wa that became a success in Japan. The duo disbanded in 1984 and Okamura started a successful solo career in 1985. By 2006 she had released 15 original albums and 30 singles. She put her solo career on hold and reformed the duo Aming in 2007 for its 25th anniversary.
Dominic Behan.  Dominic Behan (Irish: Doiminic Ó Beacháin; 22 October 1928 – 3 August 1989) was an Irish songwriter short story writer novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed socialist and Irish Republican. Born into a literary family Dominic Behan was one of the most influential Irish songwriters of the 20th century.
Rob Pope.  Robert Pope is an American musician.
Carl McCoy.  Carl McCoy (born 18 January 1963 Lambeth London England) is the frontman for gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim.
Cristóvão Tezza.  Cristóvão Tezza (born 1952) is a Brazilian novelist and university professor.
Hugo Charteris.  Hugo Francis Guy Charteris MC (11 December 1922 – 20 December 1970) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. Charteris wrote nine novels 17 television screenplays and numerous children's books and short stories.
Kim Boekbinder.  Kim Boekbinder is a Canadian-born musician who performs under the alias The Impossible Girl which is also the title of her debut solo album released in 2010.A longtime proponent of direct-to-fan marketing and social media Boekbinder gained publicity for her take on touring/show-booking via a Kickstarter campaign.In early 2012 Kim Boekbinder launched Mission Control a fundraising platform to finance the development of her second full length album.
Rina Akiyama.  Rina Akiyama (秋山 莉奈 Akiyama Rina born 26 September 1985) is a Japanese actress gravure idol and tarento from Tokyo. Her most notable appearances are in two Kamen Rider Series namely Kamen Rider Agito and Kamen Rider Den-O. She also has a cameo appearance in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in which she is featured in a poster on one of the levels.
Norman Doidge.  Norman Doidge MD FRCP(C) is a Canadian-born psychiatrist psychoanalyst and author of The Brain That Changes Itself (2007). The Brain That Changes Itself describes some of the latest developments in neuroscience and became a New York Times and international bestseller.
Bill Aron.  Bill Aron is an American photographer known for his photographs of Jewish communities around the world.
John Boyne.  John Boyne (born 30 April 1971 in Ireland) is an Irish novelist. He is the author of eight novels for adults and four novels for younger readers. His novels are published in 46 languages.
Alexandre Dechet.  (Hyppolyte) Louis Alexandre Dechet (alternatively spelled Dechez; Lyon 20 January 1801 - Lier 18 October 1830) was a French actor and is regarded the author of the lyrics of the Brabançonne the Belgian national anthem. His pseudonym was Jenneval possibly named after the drama Jenneval ou le Barnevelt français (1769) of Louis Sébastien Mercier.Dechet worked in Ajaccio Marseille and in 1826 at the Paris Odéon. Via Lille he finally came to Brussels where he played at La Monnaie.
Marcus Bertilsson.  Marcus skägget Bertilsson is a Swedish guitar player born 23 January 1986.
Renato Zanella.  Renato Zanella an Italian ballet dancer choreographer and director was born in Verona on June 6 1961.
Kate More.  Kate More (born July 13 1978 in Zuid-Beijerland Netherlands) is an pornographic film actress.
Misako Rocks!.  Misako Takashima (known professionally as Misako Rocks!) is a Japanese comic strip artist and writer/illustrator of children's books known for her illustrations in the column Savage Love and other features in The Onion and for her appearance in the BBC documentary Story of Drawing.
Catherine Tharp Altvater.  Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984) was an American oil painter and watercolorist. Her watercolor paintings hang in the Museum of Modern Art and many other museums. Altvater was the first woman to hold office in the American Watercolor Society.She was born in Little Rock Arkansas in 1907. She was married to Wellington Scott and Fredrick Lang Altvater. She lived in the Hudson River Valley New York and Long Island New York most of her professional life.
Rachel Osler.  Rachel Osler is one of the lead singers in pop group The Dunnes. She was also a member of Maggs and Trish from 2009 until the group split in 2013.
Roland Everett Jayne.  Roland Everett Jayne (1886–1937) was a Methodist clergyman and biographer. He is noted for two biographies: Jonas Hanway: Philanthropist Politician and Author (1929) and The Story of John Pounds Founder of Ragged Schools (1925). He served as Methodist Minister in Portsmouth.
Andrew Findon.  Andrew (Andy) Findon is an English woodwind player. He was educated at Harrow County School and The Royal College of Music.He has been baritone saxophone and flute player in the Michael Nyman Band since 1980 and is also a member of The Home Service and Acoustic Earth.He is a Pearl Flutes International Artist and endorsee of Forestone reeds.
Olivier Rolin.  Olivier Rolin (born 14 May 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer.He won the Prix Femina in 1994 for his novel Port-Soudan.His brother Jean is also a writer and journalist.
Richard Sohl.  Richard Arthur Sohl (May 26 1953 – June 3 1990) was an American pianist songwriter and arranger best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group. He also played with Iggy Pop Nina Hagen and Elliott Murphy. He died on June 3 1990 of a heart attack while vacationing in Cherry Grove Fire Island New York.Sohl was nicknamed DNV by Lenny Kaye who thought that he resembled Tadzio the beautiful Polish boy from Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice played by Björn Andresen.
Graham Bell (artist).  Frank Graham Bell (21 November 1910 – 9 August 1943) known as Graham was a painter of portraits landscapes and still-life and a founder member of the realist Euston Road School. He was also a journalist and writer on art and the artist. Born in South Africa he spent most of his career in Britain (1931-1943) where he died in a flying accident during World War II.
Walter Micallef.  Walter Micallef (born 24 October 1955) is a leading Maltese singer songwriter born in the central Maltese town of Birkirkara. He has composed well over a hundred songs in Maltese.
Laurie Halse Anderson.  Laurie Halse Anderson (born October 23 1961) is an American writer best known for children's and young-adult novels. She received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 for her contribution to young adult literature.First recognized for her novel Speak published in 1999 Anderson gained recognition for her artistic dealings with tough topics embedded with honesty.
Sully Erna.  Salvatore Paul Sully Erna (born February 7 1968) is an American vocalist and primary songwriter for the American rock band Godsmack. He is also a guitarist drummer and pianist performing these both on albums and during live shows. Sully Erna has been ranked in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader (No. 47).
Anthony Lant.  Antony Antton Lant is an English drummer best known for his time with British thrash metal band Venom. He was the band's drummer 2000-2009 and recorded three albums with them. He is also the brother of lead singer Cronos.He left Venom in order to concentrate on his groove metal band DEF CON ONE.(www.reverbnation.com/defconone). He was also a part of the metal band Dryll together with former Venom guitarist Jeffrey Dunn.
Kenneth Schermerhorn.  Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn (/ˈskɜrmərhɔrn/ SKUR-mər-horn; November 20 1929 – April 18 2005) was an American composer and orchestra conductor most notably for the Nashville Symphony.
Sayuri Kokushō.  Sayuri Kokushō (国生さゆり or 國生さゆり Kokusho Sayuri born December 22 1966 in Kanoya Kagoshima Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actor singer and tarento. She was an original member of Onyanko Club. She works for the talent management firm Sony Music Artists. Her debut single Valentine Kiss is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan.
Iwan Fals.  Iwan Fals (born Virgiawan Listanto; September 3 1961 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian singer–songwriter. In 2002 Time magazine named him as a Great Asian Hero.
Philip Gibbs.  Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Two of his siblings were also writers A. Hamilton Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton as was his own son Anthony. Gibbs was a Roman Catholic.The son of a civil servant Gibbs was born in Kensington London his name then being registered as Philip Amande Thomas.
Dr Cryme.  Dr Cryme is the stage name of Darlington Kwasi Agyekum a Ghanaian rapper and early proponent of the Ghanaian twipop genre. Dr Cryme has also performed as a TV presenter and is CEO of Twipop Recordz.Agyekum was born in Tema and began making music in his early school days. He study at the Datus School and then attended ASUTECH in Cape Coast and Sotech in Somanya before earning a certificate in broadcast journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
Costas Andreou.  Costas Andreou (Greek: Κώστας Ανδρέου) is a musician from Athens Greece. He processes the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass in real time creating multi-level soundscapes. The organic instrument sound is processed with analog and digital effects and looped in real time using various live looping techniques and a number of delay feedback tape and loop devices.
Randolph Stow.  Julian Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was an Australian writer.
Francisca Josefa de la Concepción.  Mother Francisca Josefa de la Concepción O.S.C. was a Criolla nun and mystic in the region of New Spain which later became Colombia. The first recorded woman writer of Colombia her devotional and autobiographical writings were published posthumously.
Helge Andreas Norbakken.  Helge Andreas Norbakken (born 1965 in Tromsø Norway) is a Norwegian musician with drums and percussion as principal instruments married to Dagrun Hjelleset Norbakken (b. 1969) and known for his collaborations with artists such as Mari Boine Jon Balke (MNO/Bathagraf/Siwan) Kari Bremnes Maria Joao Karl Seglem Becaye Aw Miki N´Doye Jovan Pavlovic and Anne Wylie.
Arthur Ganson.  Arthur Ganson is a renowned kinetic sculptor. He makes mechanical art demonstrations and Rube Goldberg machines with existential themes. His moving sculptures have been exhibited at a number of science museums and art galleries. Ganson's work appeals to viewers of all ages and has been featured in an animated children's television show.
Melissa Bradshaw.  Melissa Bradshaw is a writer and journalist based in London. Bradshaw is known primarily for her work in music.
Angel (pornographic actress).  Angel also known as Jennifer James and Brandee is a former pornographic actress.
Henning Kraggerud.  Henning Kraggerud (born 23 June 1973 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian Musician (violin & viola) and composer. He has established himself as one of Scandinavia's most outstanding international soloists.
Henry Kitchell Webster.  Henry Kitchell Webster (September 7 1875 – December 8 1932) was an American author who lived in Evanston Illinois. He wrote novels and short stories on themes ranging from mystery to family drama to science fiction. He first achieved moderate recognition in 1899 when he co-wrote The Short Line War with fellow Illinois author Samuel Merwin with whom he later collaborated to write one of his more famous works Calumet K (1901).
Chase Rice.  Chase Rice (born September 19 1986) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Rice has released two albums Country as Me and Dirt Road Communion and co-wrote the number one single performed by Florida Georgia Line Cruise. He released his second 6 song EP titled Ready Set Roll featuring the single Ready Set Roll on October 15 2013. He was a contestant on Survivor: Nicaragua where he was the runner-up to Jud Fabio Birza.
Vương Trung Hiếu.  Vương Trung Hiếu (1959) is a Vietnamese fiction writer journalist translator and interdisciplinary scholar.. He is the author of more than two hundred books (including genres: novel compilation and translation). His name is also his main pseudonym.
Nicolas Iljine.  Nicolas Iljine (born September 10 1944 Paris) is a French and Russian author editor curator and art consultant. Among his publications are the 2003 book Odessa Memories and he co-authored and edited Memories of Baku in 2013. Many of his books and exhibitions have involved the Russian and Western art of the 1920s-2010s including the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings. In 2006 Iljine was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship.
Simon Elwes.  Lt. Col. Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes better known as Simon Elwes RP RA KM (29 June 1902 – 6 August 1975) was an unofficial British war artist and society portrait painter whose patrons included kings queens statesmen sportsmen prominent social figures and many members of Britain's Royal Family. He was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Ian Cognito.  Ian Cognito is a British stand-up comedian. An iconoclastic performer Cognito has been compared to Lenny Bruce Bill Hicks and Jerry Sadowitz.Cognito has won a Time Out Award for comedy.Banned from more than a dozen comedy clubs because of his irascible behaviour Cognito delights in playing with audience's sensibilities.
Charlotte Painter.  Charlotte Painter (b. 1926 in Baton Rouge LA) is an American novelist and writer best known for her nonfiction photo essay Gifts of Age which profiles notable older women including Julia Child.Painter published her first short story in the New Yorker in 1955. Her first novel The Fortunes of Laurie Breaux (1961) won her a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in 1962. She earned her Masters in English from Stanford in 1966 and taught there until 1969.
Adrian Ivanițchi.  Adrian Ivaniţchi (born on September 15 1947 in Sighişoara Romania) is a Romanian folk musician and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of Coral one of the first Romanian beat music groups. He played with several popular Romanian pop/rock groups in the 1960s including Sideral and Sfinx.In his hometown Sighişoara he started 2 bands called Melody and Tarabostes in the late 1960- early 1970s.
AJ Michalka.  Amanda Joy AJ Michalka (born April 10 1991) often credited as AJ is an American actress singer-songwriter and musician. She was a model prior to becoming an actress and is best known as one-half of the duo 78violet (formerly Aly & AJ) with her sister Aly Michalka. AJ recorded the theme song and accompanying music video for the film Secretariat entitled It's Who You Are. She also issued a single and video called All I've Ever Needed from her 2013 film Grace Unplugged.
Hito Steyerl.  Hito Steyerl (born 1966 Munich) has produced a variety of work as a filmmaker and author in the field of essayist documentary video. Her principal topics of interest are media and the global circulation of images. In 2004 she participated in Manifesta 5 The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. She also participated in documenta 12 Kassel 2007 Shanghai biennial 2008 and Gwangju and Taipeh biennials 2010 and was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe.
Frank Catalano.  Frank Catalano is an American jazz musician living in Chicago Illinois.
Graeme Norgate.  Graeme Norgate (born 20 March 1971) is an English video game music composer who has composed music for a variety of video games developed by Rare. His first project at Rare was writing music for the Game Boy game Donkey Kong Land. He also contributed to the soundtracks of Blast Corps and GoldenEye 007.
Amit Trivedi.  Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer musician singer and lyricist working in Bollywood. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his critically acclaimed work in the more popular Dev.D (2009) which earned him several accolades including the 2010 National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Dev.D.
Royal Robertson.  Royal Robertson (21 October 1936 – 5 July 1997) also known as the self-proclaimed Prophet Royal Robertson was an American artist.
Ana Laura.  Ana Laura Chávez (born February 18 1986) commonly known as Ana Laura is an American singer of contemporary Christian-adult contemporary/pop music. She released a self-titled debut album in 2006 and had two hit singles on Christian radio (Water and Completely). She also contributed to the Christmas compilation Come Let Us Adore Him.
Paul Honeyford.  Paul Honeyford (born Manchester 1958) is an English biographer and writer who has worked on a number of music and sport related materials. His biography of Paul Weller's band The Jam ('The Modern World By Numbers') was the first such biography written in consultation with the band at a time when they were at the peak of their success. Other works include 'Michael Jackson: The Golden Touch' and 'Harrison Ford: A Biography'.
Brian Ritchie.  Brian Ritchie (born 21 November 1960) is the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes.In addition to his bass playing Ritchie is proficient at the shakuhachi a Japanese bamboo flute.
William Lorimer (scholar).  William Laughton Lorimer (1885-1967) was a Scottish scholar. Born at Strathmartine on the outskirts of Dundee he was educated at the High School of Dundee Fettes College and Trinity College Oxford. He is best known for the translation of the New Testament into Scots.Lorimer spent his professional life as a scholar of Ancient Greek at various universities ending his career as Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews.
Gahan Wilson.  Gahan Wilson (born February 8 1930 in Evanston Illinois) is an American author cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations. Since 1966 he has been married to the author Nancy Winters (née Nancy Dee Midyette).
Francesco Bissolo.  Francesco Bissolo (1470-72 - 20 April 1554) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance. He is also known as Pier Francesco Bissolo.He is described as a pupil of Giovanni Bellini. He painted a Christ exchanging crown of thorns for crown of gold with St. Catherine for the church of il Redentore now at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice and a Santa Giustina in Treviso cathedral.
Martin Atkins.  Martin Clive Atkins (born 3 August 1959 Coventry England) is an English drummer and session musician best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd (PiL) Ministry Nine Inch Nails Pigface and Killing Joke. Atkins is also an honorary board member of the Chicago based nonprofit organization Rock For Kids.
Rick Stitch.  Rick Stitch is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known as the singer for Ladyjack Hotel Diablo and Adler's Appetite.He has also played with First Born Unicorn The Other Side of Morning and Steady Ground. Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke was enlisted to produce Ladyjack's debut album.
Joe Nice.  Joe Nice is a dubstep DJ from Baltimore Maryland. Nice founded New York's irregular Dub War club night which has hosted performances by British dubstep artists such as Hatcha Youngsta Kode9 Mala and Loefah. He performs regularly in New York London (including at scene pillar DMZ) and elsewhere. He first heard dubstep in 2002 at the Baltimore venue Starscape and began playing it that same year. He has been praised for his charisma and stage presence.
Larry Moss (artist).  Lawrence “Larry” Charles Moss (born September 25 1970) is an American artist who works mainly with latex balloons.
Myra English.  Myra English (1933–2001) was a popular performer and celebrity in Hawaii USA known as The Champagne Lady of Hawaiian music. In 1968 she zoomed to the top of the local record chart with her hit Drinking Champagne. Written by Bill Mack it became her signature song.
Sam Costa.  Samuel Gabriel 'Sam' Costa (17 June 1910 - 23 September 1981) was a popular singer of the British dance band era and a voice actor on the show Much Binding in the Marsh. He was also a disc jockey for Radio Luxembourg and the BBC.
Ashley Bryan.  Ashley F. Bryan (born July 13 1923) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009.
Baby Zhang.  Zhang Hanyun (born 9 April 1989) also known as Baby Zhang or Kristy Zhang is a Chinese singer. At the age of 16 Kristy rose to fame as a runner-up of the singing contest Super Girl 2004.
Joseph F. Poland.  Joseph F. Poland (September 4 1892 – March 23 1962) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 136 films between 1913 and 1974.He was born in Waterbury Connecticut and died in Los Angeles California.
Jon Keeyes.  Jon Keeyes (born April 5 1969) is an American film director producer and screenwriter best known for his low-budget direct-to-video slasher films. He is a co-founder and principal of Texas-based independent film company Highland Myst Entertainment. He recently directed Living and Dying with Edward Furlong and Michael Madsen. and his most recent movie Fall Down Dead with Udo Kier David Carradine and Dominique Swain had a limited theatrical release in the U.S.
Håkon Gebhardt.  Håkon Gebhardt (born 21 June 1969 in Tromsø Norway) is a Norwegian musician & record producer living in Trondheim.
Tweety González.  Fabián A. González Amado (born 1963 in Buenos Aires Argentina) know with his stage name Tweety González is an Argentine musician and record producer. He is best known for his work as collaborator keyboardist for the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo.More commonly referred to as Tweety González he is mostly known for playing the keyboard with Soda Stereo and Fito Páez.
Reynaldo Armas.  Reynaldo Armas born in Los Guatacaros Santa María de Ipire Guárico State Venezuela August 4 1953 is a Venezuelan llanero singer and composer.
Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist).  Eugene Rousseau (born August 23 1932 in Blue Island Illinois) is an American classical saxophonist. He plays mainly the alto and soprano saxophones.He studied at the Paris conservatory on a Fulbright grant with Marcel Mule in 1962. Following his studies at theParis Conservatory he earned a doctorate degree at the University of Iowa where his principal teacher was Himie Voxman.
Cameron Potts.  Cameron Potts (born 10 November 1971 in Subiaco Western Australia) is a musician based in Melbourne. Since 1999 he has toured regularly to the United States Canada Europe Mexico Japan Taiwan China Malaysia Scandinavia and Iceland with both Ninetynine playing drums and Baseball playing violin.
Katherine Neville (author).  Katherine Neville (born April 4 1945) is an American author who writes adventure novels. Her novels include The Eight A Calculated Risk and The Magic Circle. In 2008 she released The Fire the sequel to The Eight.Katherine Neville was born in St. Louis Missouri.
Zep.  Zep (born December 15 1967) is the pseudonym of Philippe Chappuis a comics creator from Switzerland known for his series Titeuf a popular character in French-speaking countries and Tchô! the associated Franco-Belgian comics magazine.
Kesivan Naidoo.  Kesivan Dev Naidoo (born 25 June 1979) is a South African drummer who plays predominately jazz electronica and world music.
Isidor Torkar.  Isidor Torkar (born August 17 1960 in Slovenia) is a Swedish actor. He started his career in 1975 when he started as amateur actor at Skånska teatern in Landskrona where he was engaged until 1982 when he became a professional actor.
Christopher Hitchens.  Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author polemicist debater and journalist. Hitchens contributed to New Statesman The Nation The Atlantic The London Review of Books The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. He was the author co-author editor and co-editor of over thirty books including five collections of essays and concentrated on a range of subjects including politics literature and religion.
Graham Massey.  Graham Massey (born 4 August 1960 Manchester) was a member of experimental jazz rock group Biting Tongues once signed to Factory Records. By 1988 he was a founding member of the British band 808 State formed in Manchester England which by 1989 became the focus of his work and resulted in the demise of Biting Tongues. Originally a hip-hop group called Hit Squad Manchester 808 State shifted to an acid house sound recording their debut album Newbuild in 1988 under the new name 808 State.
Arjun Janya.  Arjun Janya (previously Arjun) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has predominantly scored music for Kannada films.
Jorge Negrete.  Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe neˈɣɾete]; 30 November 1911 – 5 December 1953) is considered one of the most popular Mexican singers and actors of all time.
Jaki Liebezeit.  Jaki Liebezeit (born 26 May 1938 in Dresden Germany) is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral.In the mid-1960s he was part of Manfred Schoof's quintet who were early exponents of European free jazz.He subsequently moved towards the new possibilities being opened by psychedelic music as a member of Can.
ArLynn Leiber Presser.  ArLynn Leiber Presser (born July 23 1960 in Chicago Illinois) is an American writer and former attorney known for writing under the name of Vivian Leiber. She initially wrote for confessional magazines such as True Story while still working within the legal field. Presser later left her practice and began writing romance novels regional histories and plays.
Pierre Christin.  Pierre Christin (born 27 July 1938) is a French comics creator and writer.
Nahreel.  Emmanuel Mkono (born 12 December 1989 Dar es Salaam) known by his stage name Nahreel is a Tanzanian record producer rapper and entrepreneur. He is the founder and current CEO of Nahreel Entertainment. Nahreel was co-founder and member of the music group Pah One. He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many rappers including Joh Makini Nikki wa pili Izzo Biznes Pah One G nako Nakaaya Roma and more recently Shrekeezy.
Sean Tyas.  Sean Tyas is an American-Swiss DJ and electronic music producer. The genre of his productions and DJ sets can be broadly categorized as trance.Sean's music receives regular airtime on radio shows such as Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance Above & Beyond's Trance Around the WorldTiesto Club Life and his own show Tytanium Sessions.
Griff Rhys Jones.  Griffith Griff Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian writer actor and television presenter best known for his work with his comedy partner Mel Smith.Jones came to national attention in the early 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alias Smith and Jones alongside Mel Smith.
Vidya Rao.  Vidya Rao is an Hindustani classical singer and writer. She is popular for her Thumri and Dadra. She wrote a book on the late Naina Devi Heart to Heart: Remembering Nainaji
Elena Torre.  Elena Torre (born October 30 1973) is an Italian writer.
Ook Chung.  Ook Chung born in Japan in 1963 is a Québécois writer. Chung was born to Korean parents in Japan and immigrated to Canada at the age of 2. He studied French literature at McGill and Concordia universities before obtaining his doctorate at McGill.
Mike Kellie.  Mike Kellie (born Michael Alexander Kellie 24 March 1947 Birmingham England) is an English drummer and best known as the sticksman for Spooky Tooth and later The Only Ones.
Ben Bledsoe.  Benjamin Frederick Ben Bledsoe (born May 11 1982) is an American pop singer formerly of the band Natural. He is currently an actor voice actor and solo singer living in Los Angeles California.
Luca Prodan.  Luca Prodan (17 May 1953 - 22 December 1987) was an Italian-Argentine musician.Born in Rome after the return of the Prodan family from China where his father had set up a prosperous business based on his expertise in ancient Chinese pottery which became untenable after the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. Prodan attended Gordonstoun School a private boarding school in Scotland and for some time drifted to Manchester and London.
Yury Olesha.  Yury Karlovich Olesha (Russian: Ю́рий Ка́рлович Оле́ша March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1899 – May 10 1960) was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing acts that superficially send pro-Communist messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading.
Stephen Dunn.  Stephen Dunn (born 1939) is an American poet and educator. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships Guggenheim Fellowship and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.
Ryo Nishikido.  Ryo Nishikido (錦戸亮 Nishikido Ryō born November 3 1984) is a Japanese idol singer actor and songwriter. He is a member of Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight and was also a member of Japanese male idol group NEWS both which are under the management of Johnny & Associates. His image color in Kanjani Eight is yellow while his image color in NEWS was blue.
Terry Rodgers.  Terry Rodgers (born September 11 1947) is an American figurative painter known for his large scale canvases that focus on portraying contemporary body politics. He was born in Newark New Jersey and raised in Washington D.C. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1969 with a major in Fine Arts.
Toni Amboaje.  Toni Amboaje is a Spanish singer who currently works for metal band Sauze which formed on early 2008.
Donald T. Phillips.  Donald T. Phillips (born March 10 1952) is a nonfiction writer. He has written or coauthored 20 books including a triloy on American leadership (Lincoln on Leadership The Founding Fathers on Leadership and Martin Luther King Jr. on Leadership).Phillips has also collaborated on books with several celebrities including: Norman Brinker Mike Krzyzewski Phil Mickelson Rudy Ruettiger Greg Norman Cal Ripken Jr. and Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez.
Harry Macdonough.  John Scantlebury Macdonald (May 30 1871 – September 26 1931) was a Canadian singer and recording executive. Under the pseudonym Harry Macdonough he was one of the most prolific and popular tenors during the formative years of recorded music.Macdonald was born in Hamilton Ontario Canada. His earliest recorded performances were for the Michigan Electric Company in Detroit which made phonograph cylinders for penny arcades.
Phil Lewis.  Phil Lewis is an English vocalist for the American glam metal band L.A. Guns He was born on January 9 1957 in London England. He has lived and worked in the U.S. since the 1980's but was privately educated at Royal Russell School in Surrey England. Prior to joining L.A. Guns Lewis also worked with Girl (which also featured Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen except near the end of Girl) New Torpedos and Tormé. While temporarily out of L.A.
Benjamin Franklin Bailey.  Benjamin Franklin Bailey (1875 – after 1944) was an eminent American electrical engineer. A native of Sheridan Michigan Benjamin Franklin Bailey studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and later held the positions of chief engineer of the Fairbanks Morse Electrical Manufacturing Company and Howell Electrical Motor Company director of Bailey Electrical Company and vice-president and director of the Fremont Motor Corporation.
David Arch.  David Arch is a British musician composer arranger and musical director.Official Site http://www.dave-arch.com/
Alexander C. Stuart.  Alexander C. Stuart (1831-1898) was a British-born American painter specializing in naval scenes. He grew up in Glasgow served in the British Army and immigrated to US around 1861. Since then lived and worked on the East Coast of the United States. In the US he served in the Marines and the Navy (Union) until 1866; since then he worked as an artist and illustrator.In the U.S. Stuart worked primarily on navy bases and shipyards near the Delaware River.
Kate Tsui.  Kate Tsui Tsz-shan (Chinese: 徐子珊) is the 2004 Miss Hong Kong pageant winner and currently a TVB actress.
Vance Bourjaily.  Vance Bourjaily (September 17 1922 – August 31 2010) was an American novelist playwright journalist and essayist.
Johann Friedrich Doles.  Johann Friedrich Doles (23 April 1715 – 8 February 1797) was a German composer and pupil of J.S. Bach.Doles was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg. He attended the University of Leipzig. He was Kantor at the Leipzig Thomasschule conducting the Thomanerchor from 1756 to 1789; in that year (1789) he directed the performance of Bach's motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied that reportedly made such a deep impression on Mozart.
Ian Dury.  Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English rock and roll singer-songwriter bandleader artist and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He is best known as the lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
B-Tight.  Robert Edward Davis (born 28 December 1979) better known by his stage name B-Tight is a Gangsta rapper who grew up in Berlin Germany.
Stephanie Ashworth.  Stephanie Ashworth (born 1974 Melbourne Australia) is the bassist for Australian band Something for Kate and as of May 2013 is married to the band's frontman Paul Dempsey.
Bernard Fanning.  Bernard Fanning (born 15 August 1969) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010.Born and raised in Toowong Brisbane Fanning was taught the piano by his mother at an early age. At the age of 12 while attending St. Joseph's College Gregory Terrace Fanning began writing music and upon graduating from St.
Armand Dutertre.  Armand Dutertre (1854–1932) was a French actor.
Salman Rushdie.  Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari) احمد سلمان رشدی (Nastaʿlīq); /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian British novelist and essayist. His second novel Midnight's Children (1981) won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent.
Balázs Pándi.  Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer. He worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares Otto Von Schirach (under the alias 666 Cent) Last Step To Live and Shave in L.A. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for Blood Of Heroes project. Since 2009 he is the live drummer of Merzbow they also made three live records together.
Natalie Gioia.  Natalie Gioia is a Pop & Dance vocalist based in Kiev Ukraine. Natalie grew up in the small town of Russia Armavir. At the age of 16 Natalie decided to try herself as a vocalist. Later when she reached 20 she was invited as a solo singer by one of the most world famous show producer to Japan's tour with show ballet Bourgeois. Tunisia was the next step in her career.
Gerta Ital.  Gerta Maria Luise Karoline Ital (1894 – 1988) was a German-born actress who entered a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery late in life. She was born in Hanover. She was the first western woman allowed to stay in a zen monastery (in 1963). She studied with Eugen Herrigel from 1953 to 1955. She was also in contact with Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle.
Karl Graedener.  Karl Graedener (14 January 1812 – 10 June 1883) was a German composer.
Cledus Maggard & the Citizen's Band.  Jay Huguely (born September 21 1940; died December 13 2008 in Valencia California) was a stage actor advertising executive and television writer/executive who enjoyed a brief run of popularity as a novelty recording artist in the 1970s.Recording as Cledus Maggard & the Citizen's Band Huguely - working at the time for Leslie Advertising in Greenville South Carolina - enjoyed his one and only hit in 1976 with The White Knight. Released during the wave of popularity of the citizens' band radio the song is about a semitrailer truck driver victimized by a Georgia highway patrolman's speed trap. 
Chris Traynor.  Chris Traynor (born June 22 1973 in Long Island New York) is an American guitarist bassist and studio musician. He has played with Orange 9mm Helmet Bush Rival Schools and Gavin Rossdale.Chris has performed live with the British rock band Blur recorded bass and guitars on Katy Perry's Use Your Love with producer Junior Sanchez and recorded guitars for Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac producer Dave Stewart and Pharrell of N*E*R*D.
Shigehiko Hasumi.  Shigehiko Hasumi (also styled Shiguehiko or Shiguéhiko) (蓮實 重彦 Hasumi Shigehiko) (born 29 April 1936 in Roppongi Tokyo) is a film critic and an academic researcher on French literature from Japan. He was president of the University of Tokyo from 1997 to 2001.
Mams Taylor.  Mams Taylor is a British singer song writer and producer of Persian descent.His song LA Girls featuring Joel Madden of Good Charlotte was featured on the MTV show The Hills. In addition to Taylor the music video for LA Girls also stars UFC champion Quinton Jackson Mila Kunis and Carmen Electra.A later single of Taylor's called Girls Gotta Girlfriend featured Snoop Dogg and Bobby Valentinewas inspired by the openness about female bisexuality in Hollywood.
Tom Clancy (singer).  Thomas John Tom Clancy (29 October 1924 – 7 November 1990) was a member of the Irish folk singing group The Clancy Brothers. He had the most powerful voice of the brothers and had previously been an actor in numerous stage productions appearing with Orson Welles in King Lear.
Murugabhoopathy.  Murugaboopathy (Tamil: .ச.முருகபூபதி) (born 29 April 1971)is a Yuvapuraskar award winning playwright from tamilnadu. His elder brothers are the Tamil short-story writers Tamilselvan and Konangi a postmodern Tamil writer. He grew up in Naagalapuram and Nenmeni Mettupatti and he currently lives in Kovilpatti Tamil Nadu.
Kate Havnevik.  Kate Havnevik is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. Her debut album the critically acclaimed electronica-infused Melankton was released in March 2006 on iTunes and April 2006 (on physical CD) in Norway only before being licensed internationally to Universal Republic USA later. Havnevik had a string of song placements in big US TV-series such as Grey's Anatomy West WIng OC InJustice Windfall etc...
Leona Machálková.  Leona Machálková (born 24 May 1967) is a Czech singer. She had a starring role in the musical Monte Cristo which premiered in 2000 and became the most expensive Czech musical. She went on to star in the 2003 version of the Czech musical Dracula. The launch of her 2005 album Voda Divoká was attended by former president Václav Havel.
Alicja Majewska.  Alicja Majewska (born May 30 1948) is a Polish singer. From 1971 to 1974 she was a member of the band Partita as vocalist. In 1975 she received the main award at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. She was awarded a Grand Prix at the 1980 festival in Rostock and was honored in Havana (1985). She received the Gloria Artis medal.
Nicky Lee.  Nicky Lee is the pen name of Li Chung Ping (李崇萍) a popular manhua author in Taiwan. She writes primarily for the teenage girl market specializing in comedy drama and romance.Lee works as one of the main staff artists for Taiwan's Tong Li Comics.
Jeanne Mackin.  Jeanne Mackin is an American author and a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. Her published novels include The Sweet By and By (novel) Dreams of Empire The Queen’s War and The Frenchwoman. She recently published a trilogy of mysteries with New American Library writing as Anna Maclean. The mysteries were also translated and published in Japan.
Kâzım Koyuncu.  Kâzım Koyuncu (November 7 1971 in a village of Hopa Artvin Province Turkey – June 25 2005 in Istanbul Turkey) was a Turkish singer-songwriter and activist of Lazish ethnicity.Koyuncu recorded songs in a number of languages spoken along the northeastern Black Sea coast of Turkey as well as the language of Laz. He was the founder and singer of Zuğaşi Berepe (The Children of the Sea) a folk rock group founded in 1993.
Rafiq Shinwari.  Mohammad Rafiq Shinwari (Pashto: محمد رفیق شینواری‎) was a singer and composer of Pashto music. Though he also tried his luck with Pashto poetry and wrote a few poems as well but it was his compositions for early Pashto movies that earned him a big name in this field. A disciple of Hazrat Abdul Sattar Bacha he was brought to Bacha's abode by his mother as a child in late 1940s from Nangarhar Afghanistan.
David Ireland (artist).  David Kenneth Ireland (August 25 1930 - May 17 2009) was an American artist and co-founder of the Capp Street Project artist residency.Born in Bellingham Washington he studied Printmaking and Industrial Arts at California College of Arts and Crafts prior to joining the Army in the early 1950s. After leaving the Army Ireland traveled Europe extensively working as an illustrator and eventually traveled to Africa to lead safaris.
Horace Pippin.  Horace Pippin (February 22 1888 – July 6 1946) was a self-taught African-American painter. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.
Yu Namiki.  Yu Namiki (並木 優 Namiki Yu) is a Japanese AV idol who debuted in 2008 while appearing in videos produced by the Kuki Inc.In March 2008 Namiki's AV debut was released from Kuki Inc. She announced her retirement in February 2009 but she restarted again in that October.
Hank Ketcham.  Henry King Ketcham (March 14 1920 – June 1 2001) better known as Hank Ketcham was an American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip writing and drawing it from 1951 to 1994 when he retired from drawing the daily cartoon and took up painting full time in his home studio. In 1953 he received the Reuben Award for the strip which continues today in the hands of other artists.
José Hoebee.  José Hoebee (born 29 March 1954 in Best North Brabant Netherlands) is a Dutch pop female singer. She is part of Luv' (the most famous girl group from the Netherlands in the late 1970s and early 1980s that scored hits in a dozen countries). In late 1981 she went solo and was successful in her homeland and in the Flanders region of Belgium between 1982 and 1985. She formed an occasional duo known as Bonnie & José with Bonnie St. Claire to record Dutch cover versions of some of ABBA's songs.
Lincoln Mayorga.  Lincoln Mayorga (born 28 March 1937) is an American pianist arranger conductor and composer who has worked in rock and roll pop jazz and classical music.
Péter Zsoldos.  Péter Zsoldos (April 20 1930 – September 26 1997) was a Hungarian science fiction author who largely wrote about themes common in US/UK science fiction like space travel and robots. His best known work is probably Ellenpont which translates as Counterpoint. The book explores the attempts of artificial intelligences abandoned by Man to uncover their origins and ultimately to rediscover mankind.
Tony Sales.  Tony Fox Sales (born September 26 1951) is an American rock musician. A bass guitarist Sales and his brother Hunt Sales played with Todd Rundgren and Iggy Pop and Tin Machine with David Bowie.
Tom Thacker (musician).  Thomas Arnold Tom Thacker (born April 11 1977) is the lead guitarist and lead singer for Canadian punk rock group Gob as well as a producer. Thacker formed Gob with Theo Goutzinakis in 1993. In 2006 he was hired as Sum 41's touring guitarist but became an official band member in 2009 making him the current lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Sum 41.Thacker has been in films Going the Distance and Sharp as Marbles. He is also a vegetarian. He was born in Langley BC Canada.
Ad Achkar.  Ad Achkar (born August 17 1988 in rural Beirut Lebanon) is a Lebanese fine-art photographer and artist. He graduated at USEK Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik with highest possible academic degree for his senior project 'God bless our homes'.Following an open call in April 2011 for a competition of young Arabic photographers he joined the competition together with 150 other emerging photographers.Fifteen photographers were chosen to be part of an exhibition in Dubai.
Gleb Uspensky.  Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky (Russian: Глеб Ива́нович Успе́нский; October 25 1843 – April 6 1902) was a Russian writer and a prominent figure of the Narodnik movement.
Legz Diamond.  Rich Murrell is an American guitarist and singer from Detroit Michigan better known as Legz Diamond. A former member of the rock band Coup Detroit Murrell is best known as an affiliate of the hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse for which he has provided production work and served as an announcer on their concert and wrestling tours. In 2013 Murrell signed with Psychopathic Records.
Nahim Marun.  Nahim Marun is a Brazilian pianist. He was awarded “The Soloist of the Year 1995” by the São Paulo Critics of Art Association and he was nominee for “The Best Pianist of 1999” by the São Paulo State Government as a result of his intense musical activities in Brazil and abroad.
Kim Jae-duc.  Kim Jae-duc (born August 7 1979) is a Korean singer choreographer and rapper formerly from the group Sechs Kies now working under Kiss Entertainment. During Sechs Kies he was choreographer along with fellow Sechs Kies member Lee Jae-jin. They both created the dane moves for most of Sechs Kies music videos. He is known by his Busan accent. His nickname was Ducky as a reference to his name Duc by adding K and Y to the end.
Dumisani Maraire.  Abraham Dumisani Maraire (27 December 1944 – 25 November 1999) known to friends as Dumi was a master performer of the mbira a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. He specialized in the form of mbira called nyunga nyunga as well as the Zimbabwean marimba. He introduced Zimbabwean music to North America initiating a flourishing of Zimbabwean music in the Pacific Northwest that continues to spread in the 21st century.
Rishi Kumaar.  Rishi Kumaar (Tamil: ரிஷி குமார்; born in 1975 is a Singaporean artiste. He was the second runner-up of Vasantham Star 2005 (Singapore Indian Idol Competition) organized by MediaCorp Vasantham.Shabir emerged the eventual winner that year.Kumaar is a graduate from the Asian Academy Of Film & Television in Delhi.
Hélène Rollès.  Hélène Rollès (December 20 1966 Le Mans) is a French actress and singer primarily known for her major role in the TV sitcom Helen and the boys (Hélène et les Garçons) alongside Sébastien Roch.
Narayan Singh Bhati.  Narayan Singh Bhati (1930–2004) was a prominent writer in Rajasthani language.
John McBain (musician).  John McBain (born John Paul McBain on April 23 1965) was a guitarist for Monster Magnet Wellwater Conspiracy his solo work and has contributed to The Desert Sessions McBain hails from New Jersey.
Vitaly Pushnitsky.  Vitaly Pushnitsky (Russian: Вита́лий Ю́рьевич Пушни́цкий; born 7 July 1967 Leningrad USSR) is a Russian artist based in Saint-Petersburg Russia. He is internationally recognized as a painter sculptor graphic artist and as a creator of installations art objects and multimedia. He is considered one of Russia's leading contemporary artists.
Jörg Breu the Elder.  Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475 – 1537) of Augsburg was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver. He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02 such as the Melk Altar (1502). He returned to Augsburg in 1502 where he became a master. He travelled to Italy twice in ca. 1508 and in 1514/15. After his death in 1537 his son Jörg Breu the Younger continued to lead his Augsburg workshop until his own death 10 years later.
Tank (Taiwanese singer).  Lü Jianzhong (born 6 February 1982) better known by his stage name Tank is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. He is currently signed to HIM International Music. His debut album Fighting (生存之道; Fighting The Law of Surviving) was released on February 23 2006. His latest album The 3rd Round was released on May 31 2009.
Jeffrey Osborne.  Jeffrey Linton Osborne (born March 9 1948) is an American funk R&B musician singer-songwriter lyricist and lead singer of the band L.T.D..
Kotomi Aoki.  Kotomi Aoki (青木 琴美 Aoki Kotomi born January 7 1980) is a Japanese manga artist. She currently resides in Matsuyama Ehime Japan. She received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu.
Tina Russell.  Tina Russell (September 23 1948 – May 18 1981) was the stage name of an adult film actress active in New York City between about 1970 and 1975. She also performed in some of the earliest live sex shows to appear in New York in the early 1970s (the shows actually featured simulated sex).Tina Russell was born Linda Marie Mintzer in Williamsport Pennsylvania to John H. and Margaret Ditzler Mintzer. She grew up in Williamsport and graduated from high school there in 1966.
Leo Friedlander.  Leo Friedlander (July 6 1890 - October 24 1966) was an American sculptor who has made several prominent works. Friedlander studied at the Art Students League in New York City the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Brussels and Paris and the American Academy in Rome. He was an assistant to the sculptor Paul Manship and taught at the American Academy in Rome and at New York University where he headed the sculpture department. He was also president of the National Sculpture Society.
Dawn Acton.  Dawn Jean Acton (born 15 March 1977 in Ashton-under-Lyne Greater Manchester) is an English actress and DJ most notable for playing Tracy Barlow in the long-running British soap Coronation Street for periods between 1988 and 1999.As a child she attended Stamford High School in Ashton-under-Lyne Lancs.For a short period she worked at Manchester Met radio where she once interviewed The Doves. She currently resides in Dukinfield Greater Manchester.
Roddy Frame.  Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Scotland. He was the founder of the 1980s indie band Aztec Camera and has undertaken a solo career since the dissolution of the band. In November 2013 journalist Brian Donaldson described Frame as: Aztec Camera wunderkind-turned-elder statesman of intelligent melodic wistful Scotpop.
Greg Trooper.  Greg Trooper (born January 13 1956) is a singer-songwriter whose songs have been recorded by many artists including Steve Earle Billy Bragg and Vince Gill.
Ray Blackston.  Ray Blackston is an award-winning Christian novelist. He quit his stock-broking business in 2000 and started writing Christian fiction. He has written six novels; the first three were part of a series which started with his debut Flabbergasted (2003). His most recent novel was The Trial of Alex Lord released in May 2011.
Arthur Conley.  Arthur Lee Conley (January 4 1946 – November 17 2003) was a U.S. soul singer best known for the 1967 hit Sweet Soul Music.
James O'Loghlin.  James O'Loghlin (born 1966 in Melbourne) is an Australian television and radio presenter. He works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Local Radio evening program in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
Duncan Sheik.  Duncan Scott Sheik (born November 18 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Initially finding success as a singer most notably for his 1996 debut single Barely Breathing he later expanded to compositions for motion pictures and the Broadway stage such as the successful musical Spring Awakening. Sheik practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of the US branch of the worldwide Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.
Amber Rowley.  Amber Alejo Rowley Davis (born July 29 1985 Mesa Arizona) simply known as Amber is a Filipino-American singer.
Jerry Eubanks.  Jerry Eubanks (born March 9 1950) is an American musician best known as the original saxophonist keyboardist and flutist for the The Marshall Tucker Band.
Lisa McClowry.  Lisa McClowry is an American singer-songwriter from Chicago Illinois. She cites her musical influences as Ella Fitzgerald Ann Wilson (Heart) and Steve Perry. Having performed on more than 25 albums her singing style intertwines soul jazz rock and pop.
Gerina Dunwich.  Gerina Dunwich (born December 27 1959 Illinois United States) is a professional astrologer occult historian and New Age author best known for her books on Wicca and various occult subjects. She is also involved in paranormal research and is the founder of the Paranormal Animal Research Group which investigates cases of alleged hauntings by animal spirits.Her first newspaper article was published in October 1976.
Dominique Dupuis.  Dominique Dupuis (born 1987) is a Canadian celtic music violinist.Born at 1987 in Canada at Memramcook New Brunswick she has played violin from the age of nine when she performed on stage at the Pays de la Sagouine in Bouctouche. At 12 she performed during the opening ceremonies of the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette.
Ian Maynard.  Ian Maynard is the bass guitarist of the band Fastlane. He is also the vocalist guitarist bassist and drummer of the band Compliance.
Janez Stanič.  Janez Stanič (4 January 1937 – 28 October 1996) was a Slovene journalist and translator. He was considered one of the best socio-political analysits of his generation and was often outspoken and critical of the Soviet regime.Stanič was born in Ljubljana in 1937. He studied Slovene and Russian at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1961. He worked for the newspaper Delo first as their Moscow correspondent and later as an editor.
Kendell Geers.  Kendell Geers is a South African conceptual artist.
Tom Kristensen (author).  Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian writer best known for his books in the thriller genre.Born in 1955 Kristensen has a career that includes banking industrial management and international financial consultancy.His first book En kule (A Killing) was published in 2001.He received the Riverton Prize in 2006.
Alviero Martini.  Alviero Martini (born 1950) is an Italian fashion designer who was born in Cuneo and is known for the 1A Classe range of clothing and accessories including watches that is characterised by a map motif.He is currently designing ALV (Andare Lontano Viaggiando) collections of handbags apparel and accessories with a passport stamps motif.
Kayt Burgess.  Kayt Burgess is a Canadian writer who won the Three-Day Novel Contest in 2011 for her debut novel Heidegger Stairwell. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2012 the novel was subsequently a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 ReLit Award in the novels category.
Jonah Bokaer.  Jonah Bokaer is a choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a short lifetime to expanding live performance through choreography digital media cross-disciplinary collaborations and social enterprise in the United States and internationally.
James Finn Garner.  James Finn Garner is an American writer and satirist based in Chicago. He is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Politically Correct Holiday Stories Apocalypse Wow Once Upon A More Enlightened Time and May 2007 Recut Madness (www.jamesfinngarner.com)Garner graduated from the University of Michigan where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Garner's first book has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S.
Ashley Renee.  Ashley Renee (born May 22 1964) is a producer director bondage model and pornographic actress. She has appeared in many bondage magazines and centerfolds for popular men's magazines including Penthouse HustlerHigh Society and Score .She has starred in fetish films for over 20 years.She was typically cast in the submissive role for a majority of her bondage films.Born and raised in Los Angeles she is of Italian and Russian ancestry.
Elisha Abas.  Elisha Abas Israeli born Concert Pianist was the lifelong student of Pnina Salzman (herself a student of Alfred Cortot) and mentee of Artur Rubinstein. La Roma National Italian Newspaper commented on a performance in Naples Italy saying “he is the most refined and interesting pianists of our generation … his “playing is the perfect marriage of exuberant musicality restrained with the right dose of rationalism that is rich with colors and shades.
Milo (musician).  Rory Ferreira better known by his stage name Milo (often stylized as milo) is an American hip hop musician from Wisconsin. He has collaborated with Busdriver and Open Mike Eagle among others. He is currently signed to Hellfyre Club.
Christopher Benfey.  Christopher Benfey (born 28 October 1954) is an American literary critic and Emily Dickinson scholar. He is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.
Alec Ounsworth.  Alec Ounsworth (born December 1 1977) is an American singer songwriter guitarist and frontman of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He is also a member of The Pelican Picnic and Flashy Python. Alec's first solo album Mo Beauty was released October 20 2009 on Anti- Records.
Robert Zimmermann (painter).  August Robert Zimmermann a landscape painter was born at Zittau in 1815. Among his pictures are The Innthal near Kufstcin and a Waterfall both dated 1863. He died at Munich in 1864. He was the brother of painters Albert Richard and Max Zimmermann.
Ramón Ayala.  Ramón Ayala (born December 8 1945 in Monterrey Nuevo León México) is a Mexican musician composer and songwriter of Norteño and Conjunto music. Known as the King of the Accordion Ayala has recorded over 105 albums for which he has received four Grammy Awards. Additionally Ayala has been featured in thirteen movies. A legend of norteño music Ayala is one of the most recognized and best-selling artists of this genre of Mexican music breaking many sales records along the way.
Philip Sendak.  Philip Sendak (September 15 1894 – June 1970) was a children's literature author. He is best known as the father of Caldecott Medal winner Maurice Sendak and children's author Jack Sendak.
Joyce Mekeel.  Joyce Mekeel (1931 New Haven CT-Dec. 29 1997) was a composer and harpsichordist. She was a member of Sigma Alpha Iota.Mekeel studied at the Paris Conservatory and Yale her teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Earl Kim. Later she studied anthropology and begun sculpting. She taught at the New England Conservatory and Boston University.
Erik Madigan Heck.  Erik Madigan Heck (born September 9 1983) is an American photographer a U.S. correspondent for A Magazine and the founder editor of Nomenus Quarterly. He is also the youngest person to photograph Neiman Marcus' prestigious Art of Fashion campaign which he shot in 2012.In its April 2011 issue Photo District News magazine named Heck one of the 30 “new and emerging photographers to watch.”Heck was born in Excelsior Minnesota.
Odd Steinar Albrigtsen.  Odd Steinar Albrigtsen (born 10 January 1985 in Tromsø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) and composer known from playing in bands like Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and «Hijack».
Laurent Véronnez.  Laurent Véronnez (born 10 December 1977) or is sometimes referred to by L-vee for short. Is a Belgium-based progressive trance music artist. He has created more than 500 tracks for more than 35 projects. His work is most notable under his alias Airwave.
T-Nutty.  T-Nutty aka The Flowmastermouth or The Last of the Flo Heakinz is an American rapper from Sacramento California. He has appeared on albums such as Tech N9ne's Misery Loves Kompany and K.O.D..
Pierre Guédron.  Pierre Guédron (born in Châteaudun ca. 1570 – died in Paris ca. 1620) was a French singer and composer known for writing Airs de cour (including Cessés mortels de soupirer).[citation needed]Guédron's Est-ce Mars (1613) was especially popular and is known in versions by Sweelinck (keyboard) Scheidt (5 part strings) and Vallet (4 lutes of different sizes).
Abdul Rashid Khan.  Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan (born 19 August 1908) is a vocalist of Hindustani music genre. he belongs to the musical tradition of Miya Tansen. Apart from khayal he sings dhrupad dhamar and thumri with equal versatility.
Claude Phillips.  Sir Claude Phillips (29 January 1846 – 9 August 1924) was an English writer art historian and critic for the Daily Telegraph Manchester Guardian and other publications during the late 19th century. He was the first keeper of the Wallace Collection at Hertford House writing its first catalogue and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service.
Jim Dewar.  James Dewar (12 October 1942 – 16 May 2002) was a Scottish musician best known as the bassist and vocalist for the Robin Trower Band and Stone The Crows the latter having its beginnings as the resident band at the legendary Burns Howff in Glasgow.
Totó la Momposina.  Sonia Bazanta Vides better known as Totó la Momposina is a Colombian singer of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent. She was born in the northern Colombian town of Talaigua Nuevo near Mompox in the Bolívar Department but she released her 1993 album La Candela Viva on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label.
Matthew Dent (designer).  Matthew Dent (born in 1981 in Bangor Wales) is a British graphic designer. His designs were selected for the new reverse sides of seven coins of the pound sterling after a competition open to the public by the Royal Mint on 2 April 2008.Dent studied art at Coleg Menai and graduated in graphic design from the University of Brighton.The competition was to re-design the reverses of all circulation British coins (except the two pound coin which had only been introduced eleven years earlier).
James Turnbull.  James Turnbull is an Australian free software and open source author security specialist and software developer. He lives in Brooklyn New York where he is VP Services at Docker. Prior to that he was VP of Engineering at Venmo. He was also VP of Technology Operations for open source start-up Puppet Labs.
Destra Garcia.  Destra Garcia (born 10 November 1977 in Laventille Trinidad and Tobago) is a Soca singer and songwriter based in Trinidad and Tobago. Destra is noted for her high energy performances harmonious vocal skill and eccentric fashion style[citation needed]
Bill Vazan.  Bill Vazan is a Canadian artist born in Toronto Ontario in 1933. He studied Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. In 1970 he graduated with a B.A. from Sir George Williams University now Concordia University in Montreal Quebec. He currently lives and works in Montreal. Since 1982 he has taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Vazan is internationally known for his land art creations sculpture painting and photography.
Sheryfa Luna.  Sheryfa Luna (born Chérifa Babouche; 25 January 1989) is a French R&B singer born to an Algerian father and a French mother.She won the fourth series of the French edition of popular Popstars in October 2007.Her self-titled debut album peaked at No. 3 in France and was certified Gold there.She has released three singles: Quelque part (Somewhere) and Il avait les mots (He Had the Words) which both went to No.
John D'Agata.  John D’Agata (born in 1975 on Cape Cod Massachusetts) is an American essayist. He received MFAs in both poetry and nonfiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Jimmy Crespo.  Jimmy Crespo (born July 5 1954 in Brooklyn New York) is an American guitarist. He was the lead guitarist & member for the hard rock band Aerosmith from 1979 until 1984. Crespo co-wrote Rock in a Hard Place with Steven Tyler. Crespo has also performed or recorded with Rod Stewart Billy Squier Meat Loaf Stevie Nicks Robert Fleischman Rough Cutt Renegade Flame and others.
Peter Cheyney.  Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) — known as Peter Cheyney — was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is the author of hard-boiled short stories and novels in the American style most famously a series of ten novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution which starting in 1953 were adapted into a series of French movies all starring Eddie Constantine.
Inge King.  Inge King is an important sculptor working in Australia. She has received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is Forward Surge (1974) at the Melbourne Arts Centre. She became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in January 1984.
Froilan Calayag.  Froilan Calayag (born October 15 1982) is a Filipino visual artist in painting. As “The Prince of Dark Fairy Tales” Calayag is well known for his surrealist cartoon-like figures and creatures as subjects of his works presenting them with often colorful and playful settings.
Dani Woodward.  Dani Woodward (born March 7 1984) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress.
Luigi Ugolini.  Luigi Ugolini (June 25 1891 – June 22 1980) was an Italian writer. He is best known for his series of fictionalized biographies of Italian leaders in art and science and for a volume of work that immortalizes traditions values and ways of life of Tuscany and Florence. Ugolini left an early career as a lawyer to write and his literary works many of which are inducted as scholastic required reading in Italian schools earned a worldwide reputation and several prestigious literary awards.
Sadhbh Béan Ó Mailchonaire.  Sadhbh Ó Mailchonaire Ban Ollamh Síol Muireadaigh 1441-47.The Annals of Connacht sub anno 1447 record her death as follows:Sadb daughter of Uilliam Mac Branain wife of Mailin O Mailchonaire died after a victory over the world and the Devil.
Nina Conti.  Nina M. Conti (born 5 June 1974) is an English actress comedian and ventriloquist. Among many characters her primary on-stage puppet sidekicks are a white-haired Scottish grandmother named Granny and a deadpan and somewhat sinister monkey named Monk.
Hiroko Kasahara.  Hiroko Kasahara (笠原 弘子 Kasahara Hiroko born February 19 1970 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer. She sang the ending theme song of the PlayStation 2 role-playing video game Shadow Hearts titled Ending Theme ~ Shadow Hearts and the ending theme of the PC and PlayStation 2 visual novel Ever 17: The Out of Infinity titled Aqua Stripe
Il Lee.  Il Lee (Korean: 이일) is a Korean American contemporary artist.He was born in South Korea and has been living in America since the mid-1970s.Il Lee is best known for his ballpoint pen artwork; large-scale abstract imagery on paper and canvas.He also creates artwork in a similar vein utilizing acrylic and oil paint on canvas.Exhibitions of Il Lee's artwork have been held in Seoul Paris and numerous cities around the United States.The New York Times has described Lee's ballpoint artwork as deceptively casual; sweeping rhythmical abstractions in blue.
Rie Kanda.  Rie Kanda (神田 理江 Kanda Rie born June 16 1978 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese Voice acting in Japan voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce.Also known under the name(s):Asamiya Saki Saitou Aiko Saeki Ami Suzuki Mari Tokiwa Misaki Mimura Sakiko Mimura Shoko
Berthold Kohler.  Berthold Kohler (born 29 December 1961 in Marktredwitz)[citation needed] is a German journalist and one of the five publishers of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Kohler was born in Nairobi.[citation needed] After the study of political science at the University of Bamberg and the London School of Economics in 1989 he started working at the political editorship of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Clare Grogan.  Claire Patricia Grogan (born 17 March 1962) is a Scottish actress and singer sometimes credited as C.P. Grogan. She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images and for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf.
Barry W. Blaustein.  Barry W. Blaustein is an American comedy writer best known for his writing on Saturday Night Live and What's Alan Watching? and the screenplays for Coming to America and The Nutty Professor all written in collaboration with David Sheffield.
Treach.  Anthony Criss (born December 2 1970) better known by his stage name Treach is an American rapper and actor. He is best known as the lead rapper of the hip hop group Naughty by Nature.
A. J. Masters.  Arthur John A. J. Masters (born in Walden New York) is an American country music singer. He charted eight singles on Hot Country Songs between 1985 and 1987 also writing singles for John Berry Faith Hill and Jennifer Hanson.
Robert A. Heinlein.  Robert Anson Heinlein (/ˈhaɪnlaɪn/ HYN-lyn; July 7 1907 – May 8 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the dean of science fiction writers he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time.
Jowe Head.  Jowe Head (born Stephen Bird) is a British bass guitarist singer and visual artist who was a member of Swell Maps before joining the Television Personalities. He has also released a large amount of material as a solo artist and as leader of groups such as Househunters and Palookas.
Steve Drake.  Steve Drake (born April 3 1954) is a pornographic actor and director. He has performed in over 800 movies since the 1980s and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999.
Frederic Whitaker.  Frederic Whitaker (1891-1980) was an award-winning American designer painter and author.
Adibah Noor.  Adibah Noor is a Malaysian artiste. She is a singer actress emcee voiceover and ad talent. She has been in showbiz for 17 years.
Rahul Dasgupta.  Rahul Dasgupta or Rahul Da (14 January 1943 – 19 November 2012) was an independent Indian film director. He was a graduate in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune India. Besides all this he also made documentaries and advertisements. His last days were spent at the FTII with film students while writing and sharing his experiences.
Takeru Shibaki.  Takeru Shibaki (柴木 丈瑠 Shibaki Takeru born June 27 1982) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He is best known for his role as Kai Samezu/GaoBlue in the Super Sentai series Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger.
Tariq Ali.  Tariq Ali (Punjabi Urdu: طارق علی‎; born 21 October 1943) is a British Pakistani writer journalist and filmmaker.
Lisa Coleman (musician).  Lisa Coleman (born August 17 1960) is an American Emmy Award winning musician and composer. Coleman plays piano and keyboards. She was a member of Prince's backing band The Revolution from 1980 to 1986. She is currently one half of the musical duo Wendy & Lisa formed with Wendy Melvoin in 1986.
Jon Hellesnes.  Jon Hellesnes (born 16 September 1939) is a Norwegian philosopher novelist and essayist.He was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Tromsø in 1985. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Haru M. Reischauer.  Haru Matsukata Reischauer (ハル・松方・ライシャワー Haru Matsukata Raishawā (1915 Tokyo – 1998 California)) was a writer and wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1961–1965) Edwin O. Reischauer. She was a granddaughter of Matsukata Masayoshi a prime minister in the Meiji era known for his liberal policies over financial affairs. She was a sister of Tane Matsukata founder of the Nishimachi International School in Tokyo.
David Owen (Brutus).  David Owen (?December 1796 - 16 January 1866 known by the pseudonym Brutus was a Welsh satirical writer editor and preacher.He was born in Llanpumsaint Carmarthenshire where he was brought up as a Congregationalist. Thereafter he spent periods of time in other parts working as a schoolmaster.
France Koblar.  France Koblar (29 November 1889 – 11 January 1975) was a Slovene literary historian editor and translator.Koblar was born in Železniki in what was then Austria-Hungary and is now in Slovenia. He studied Slavic languages and Latin at Vienna. He worked as a secondary school teacher at the Poljane Grammar School in Ljubljana from 1919 till 1945 and became a professor of dramaturgy and history of theatre at the newly founded Ljubljana Theatre Academy in 1946 where he worked until 1970.
Dieter Moebius.  Dieter Moebius (born 1944 in Switzerland) is a German/Swiss experimental/krautrock/ambient/electronic musician.Moebius studied art in Brussels and Berlin and met there Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream). They founded a band Kluster in 1969. After the departure of Schnitzler they changed their name to Cluster.
Leland Martin.  Leland Martin (born February 20 1957 Success Missouri) is an American country singer. Martin was one of nine children; his grandmother and father were both country singers. He held jobs as a truck driver house painter and in a sawmill before signing with Rival Records who issued his debut album in 1998. Follow-up albums appeared in 2002 2005 and 2008.
DJ Sava.  Constantin Sava (born 3 April 1973 in Buzău) known simply as DJ Sava is a Romanian electronic musician DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. He started mixing in the early 1990s and eventually became the official resident DJ of a local club called No Limit. Ten years later DJ Sava went on a small promotional tour of the Romanian seaside clubs; in 2005 he signed a management contract with a small record label which promoted his first two singles: Gone Away and Remember.
Valie Export.  Valie Export (often written as 'VALIE EXPORT') (born May 17 1940 in Linz as Waltraud Lehner later Waltraud Höllinger) is an Austrian artist.
Yeşim Ağaoğlu.  Yeşim Ağaoğlu (born January 21 1966 in Istanbul Turkey). Her family comes from Shusha city of Karabagh region of Azerbaijan. Yeşim Ağaoğlu is a multidisciplinary artist and a poet works with various mediums especially concentrating on installation photography and video. Ağaoğlu is one of the active artists in today's international art scene. The most important thing for her in art is being interactive.
Maurice Sendak.  Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10 1928 – May 8 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are first published in 1963.Born to Jewish-Polish parents his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Besides Where the Wild Things Are Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There and illustrated Little Bear.
Alfred Wolmark.  Alfred Wolmark (1877 Warsaw - 6 January 1961 London) was a painter and decorative artist. He was a pioneer of the New Movement in Art.Wolmark was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw. He emigrated to London and became a British citizen in 1894.
Michael Morales (musician).  Michael Morales (born April 25 1963) is an American musician most known for the Top 40-charting songs Who Do You Give Your Love To? (#15 Billboard Hot 100) and a cover version of The Romantics' What I Like About You (#28 Billboard Hot 100).
Vicki Pettersson.  Vicki Pettersson is an American author known for her Signs of the Zodiac urban fantasy series and Celestial Blues trilogy both set in modern day Las Vegas. The Zodiac series follows casino heiress Joanna Archer who discovers on her 25th birthday that she has superpowers. The Celestial Blues features a P.I. angel and a rockabilly reporter who join forces to fight crime in a noir/paranormal hybrid fiction. As of 2013 she is actively writing straight thrillers.
Cassie Edwards.  Cassie Edwards is a best-selling American author of over 100 historical romance novels. She has been published by Dorchester Publishing Signet Books Kensington Publishing and Harlequin.
Tetsurō Oda.  Tetsurō Oda (織田 哲郎 Oda Tetsurō born March 11 1958) is a Japanese composer record producer and singer-songwriter.In the late 1980s Oda gained prominence as a songwriter. He composed over 50 top-ten hit singles on the Japanese Oricon chart during the 1990s including 12 of which have sold over 1 million copies. At the commercial peak of successful career Oda produced a string of popular hit songs with artists like Zard Wands Deen and Field of View.
Mark Weston.  Mark Weston (born July 26 1953) is an American journalist writer and speaker as well as the author of four books including Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan’s Greatest Men and Women (Kodansha 1999) a work the Los Angeles Times called a superb new book” and Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present (Wiley 2008) which Britain’s New Statesman praised as “always intelligent.”
Karibasavaiah.  Karibasavaiah (1959 – 3 February 2012) was an Indian actor who appeared in Kannada cinema and a theatre personality. He has acted in over 120 films. He died on 3 February 2012 after a road traffic accident in Bangalore.He made his debut in the movie Undo Hodha Kondu Hodha. Some of his memorable films are Kotreshi Kanasu Janumada Jodi Galate Aliyandru Mungarina Minchu Yaarige Salute Sambala Police Story 2 and Ullasa Utsaha.
DeScribe.  Shneur Hasofer (Hebrew: שניאור הסופר‎) better known by his stage name DeScribe (Hasofer is Hebrew for the scribe) is an Australian singer-songwriter. His music combines elements of Pop Dance and Reggae.
Murcof.  Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona.Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000 he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006 Corona lives in Barcelona Spain.
John French (musician).  John Stephen French (born September 29th 1948) is an American drummer and musician. He played on Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and on various other Beefheart recordings: Beefheart dubbed him Drumbo. During the Trout Mask Replica sessions French transcribed the musical ideas Beefheart played for him on piano for the rest of the band.
Jeanne Willis.  Jeanne Willis (born St Alban's England) is an author of several children's books including The Monster Bed (1986) the Dr. Xargle's Book of... series (1988–2004) and Shamanka (2007). Willis lives in London England with her husband and two children.
Mark Mangold.  Mark Mangold is an American pop singer-songwriter and keyboardist best known as a member of the band Touch. As a songwriter Mangold's songs have been performed by Michael Bolton Cher and Jordin Sparks.
Chaim Koppelman.  Chaim Koppelman (November 17 1920 – December 6 2009) was an American artist art educator and Aesthetic Realism consultant. Best known as a printmaker he also produced sculpture paintings and drawings. A member of the National Academy of Design since 1978 he was president of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) which presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
Sophia Churney.  Sophia Churney is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for her work with the band Ooberman as well as their side acts Symphonika The Magic Theatre and Ooberon. Her brother was the late musical performer Russell Churney.She spent some time as a Psychology teacher at West Kirby Grammar School on the Wirral leaving in 2006.
Yoriko Shono.  Yoriko Shono (笙野 頼子 Shono Yoriko) born 16 March 1956 is a Japanese writer who describes her writing as 'avant-pop'.
Atom Ellis.  Atom Ellis (born April 8 1966) is a bass guitarist from San Francisco California. Atom was a founding member of the Thrash Funk band Psychefunkapus from 1986-1992 and a member of the San Francisco band Dieselhed from 1993-2000. During and after his tenure with Dieselhed he also performed as a regular sideman for Link Wray from 1996-2003.
Todd Stauffer.  Todd Stauffer is co-founder and publisher of the Jackson Free Press in Jackson Mississippi and author of 40 nonfiction books on a variety of computer-related topics. He lives with his partner journalist and editor Donna Ladd.Stauffer and Ladd started the Jackson Free Press in 2002. They took the name from The Mississippi Free Press a now-defunct investigative civil rights newspaper from the 1960s.
Stevie J.  Stevie J (born Steven Jordan on November 2 1971) is an American musician singer record producer and songwriter born in Buffalo New York.
Dan Monti.  Dan Monti also known by his stage name Del Rey Brewer is a musician composer producer and engineer who has worked with such bands as Metallica Slayer and Guns N' Roses. The bulk of his work however has been in conjunction with Buckethead with whom he has also toured as a bassist.
Lillian Zuckerman.  Lillian Zuckerman (September 16 1916 – October 11 2004) was an American actress. She was born in Baltimore Maryland and died in Miami Florida.
Steve Ellis (comics).  Steve Ellis is an American comic book artist and illustrator who has worked for Wizards of the Coast DC Comics Wildstorm White Wolf Moonstone Books and Marvel Comics.
Gabe Saporta.  Gabriel Eduardo Gabe Saporta (born October 11 1979) is an Uruguayan musician he is the lead singer and primary creative force behind the synthpop band Cobra Starship. He was previously the lead singer bassist and lyricist for the pop punk band Midtown.Cobra Starship is signed to the Decaydance record label. The band Cobra Starship released their second album ¡Viva La Cobra! on October 23 2007.
Cashis.  Ramone Johnson better known by his stage name Cashis (stylized as Ca$his) is an American rapper who was born and raised in Chicago but moved to Irvine California. He was most notably featured on the Shady Records album Eminem Presents: The Re-Up with Eminem and the record label and released The County Hound EP in 2007. In August 2011 on his mixtape Roof Top Vol. 1 in the intro Cashis revealed that he was leaving Shady Records but is remaining with Bogish Brand Entertainment.
Danielia Cotton.  Danielia Cotton (born September 24 1967) is an American rock singer songwriter and guitarist from Hopewell New Jersey. Danielia comes from a musical family. She is the daughter of jazz vocalist Wenonah Brooks and the niece of jazz vocalists Jeannie Brooks and Carol Brooks-Meyners. She is married to Sam Roberts a New York-based attorney with Legal Aid.
Ann Biderman.  Ann Biderman (born August 15 1951) is an American film and television writer. She is the creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed NBC/TNT series Southland and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series for an episode of NYPD Blue.
Carleton Elliott.  Carleton Weir Elliott (15 March 1928 Welland Ontario - 24 August 2003 Fredericton New Brunswick) was a Canadian composer theorist choir conductor and music educator.He studied at Mount Allison University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 1951. He earned a Master of Music from California's University of Redlands in 1959.
Sonny Rhodes.  Sonny Rhodes (born Clarence Edward Smith November 3 1940 Smithville Texas) is an American blues singer and lap steel guitar player. He has recorded over two hundred songs. I'm what you call a self-proclaimed Disciple of the Blues! said Rhodes about his years playing and singing for fans of blues around the world. He has been nominated fifteen times for the Blues Music Awards and won the Instrumentalist-Other category in 2011.
Bruce Watson (songwriter).  Bruce Morrisby Watson (born 2 December 1956 Terang) is an Australian singer-songwriter satirist public servant and children’s entertainer. Watson's satires are often politically in nature. His style is generally contemporary folk music he also writes and performs children's songs conventional folk-country music and political songs.
Calvin Frazier.  Calvin H. Frazier (February 16 1915 – September 23 1972) was an American Detroit blues and country blues guitarist singer and songwriter. Despite leaving a fragmented recording history both as a singer and guitarist Frazier was an associate of Robert Johnson and recorded alongside Johnny Shines Sampson Pittman T.J. Fowler Alberta Adams Jimmy Milner Baby Boy Warren Boogie Woogie Red and latterly Washboard Willie.
Aneka.  Aneka /əˈniːkə/ (born Mary Sandeman 20 November 1954) is a Scottish singer.In 1981 she hit number one in the UK Singles Chart with her song Japanese Boy. She was well known for the Oriental image she adopted for the song. After her brief foray into pop she reverted to her real name and established herself as an accomplished singer of Scottish traditional music.
Jesper Bodilsen.  Jesper Bodilsen (born 5 January 1970 in Aarhus Denmark) is a Danish Jazz musician (double bass).
Michael Pärt.  Michael Pärt sometimes spelled Michael Paert (born 17 August 1977 in Tallinn Estonia; Estonian pronunciation: [ˈpær̺t]) is a music producer and co-founded and chairs Arvo Pärt Centre. He is the son of classical composer Arvo Pärt.
Paul Stewart (writer).  Paul Stewart (born June 1955) is a writer of children's books best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series which are written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell. Paul Stewart lives in the British seaside city of Brighton with his wife and children.
Amandititita.  Amandititita is a Mexican singer and songwriter of cumbia. She is the daughter of Rodrigo Gonzalez a noted musician.She came to public attention in 2007 as a performer of what she called 'AnarCumbia' a style said to be entirely urban and a blend of rock reggae rap and traditional Mexican cumbia.
Georges Dessommes.  Georges Dessommes (New Orleans 1855-Burbank California 1929) was an American French language writer.He was Édouard Dessommes' youngest brother and he moved to Paris with his family in 1860 escaping from American Civil War. In 1870 he came back to New Orleans and his poems were first published in Comptes-rendus de l'Athénée louisianais or Carillon. He was a main editor in Charles Bleton's publication Petit Journal.
Alex Jacke.  Alex Jacke was born and raised in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles CA. The singer and songwriter realized his passion for music as a child when he fell in love with 90's R&B and Hip Hop. Jacke’s music influences also include soul funk gospel rock and pop music. Self-taught on the piano he began composing songs by middle school.
Anne Bean.  Anne Bean (born 1950) is a Zambian-born London based internationally known installation and performance artist whose work is managed by Artsadmin. She lives in Limehouse in the East End of London.
Victor Davis Hanson.  Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5 1953) is an American military historian columnist former classics professor and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and other media outlets.
Scott Z. Burns.  Scott Z. Burns (born 1962) is an American screenwriter producer and director. Burns has written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) The Informant! (2009) and Contagion (2011) all of which feature Matt Damon. His films The Informant! Contagion and Side Effects were directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Jenő Medveczky.  Jenő Medveczky was a Hungarian painter significant to Hungarian neo-classic painting.
Pierre Van Dormael.  Pierre Van Dormael (24 May 1952 – 3 September 2008) born in Brussels Uccle was a Belgian musician and composer. In 1988 he played with the James Baldwin Project with a.o. David Linx and Deborah Brown (vocalists) Slide Hampton (trombone) Diederik Wissels (piano) Bob Stewart (tuba) and Michel Hatzigeorgiou (bass). Van Dormael was also a member of Nasa Na Band a jazz band known as the precursor of Aka Moon.
Farida Khanum.  Farida Khanum (born 1935) is a Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab. The Times of India has called her Malika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal).In 2005 she was awarded the Hilal-e-Imtiaz Pakistan's second highest civilian honour by President Pervez Musharraf.[citation needed]Her official page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FaridaKhanumOfficial
Jr. (singer).  Park Jin Young (Hangul: 박진영 ; Hanja: 朴珍憐 ; born September 22 1994) commonly known by his stage name Jr. is a South Korean singer and member of the hip-hop group Got7 under JYP Entertainment. On May 19 2012 the music video for Bounce was released and the duo debuted their promotions for Bounce on M! Countdown on May 24 2012.
Wang Shuo.  Wang Shuo (Chinese: 王朔; pinyin: Wáng Shuò born August 23 1958) is a Chinese author director actor and cultural icon. He has written over 20 novels television series and movies. His work has been translated into Japanese French English Italian and many other languages. He has enormous cultural status in China and has become a nationally celebrated author.
Trixie Smith.  Trixie Smith (1895 – September 21 1943) was an African-American blues singer recording artist vaudeville entertainer and actress. She made four dozen recordings.
Francesco Albani.  Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active in Bologna (1591–1600) Rome (1600–1609) Bologna (1609) Viterbo (1609–1610) Bologna (1610) Rome (1610–1617) Bologna (1618–1660) Mantova (1621–1622) Roma (1623–1625) and Florence (1633).
Lori Borgman.  Lori Borgman (born in Lincoln Nebraska) is a nationally-distributed columnist author of four books and speaker addressing family matters from a humorous point of view. A graduate of Center High School in Kansas City Missouri she also attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism.Borgman landed a columnist spot with The Indianapolis Star in 1991.
Linh Chi.  Nguyễn Tài Lương known by the name Linh Chi (born 1921) is a Vietnamese artist He specialised in silk paintings and he used the theme of Vietnam's ethnic minorities in many of his works.
Richard Wilson (sculptor).  Richard Wilson (born 24 May 1953) is a British sculptor installation artist and musician.Born in Islington London he studied at the London College of Printing Hornsey College of Art and Reading University.
Xavier Leroux.  Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (October 11 1863 – February 2 1919) was a French composer.Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion. From 1896 he taught harmony there.
George Shepherd (artist).  George Sidney Shepherd (1784–1862) was a British draughtsman and watercolour painter. At one time George Shepherd and George Sidney Shepherd were thought to be two different people; it is now believed that they are one and the same person.
Scoop DeVille.  Elijah Blue Molina better known by his stage name Scoop DeVille is an American Record Producer musician rapper and singer-songwriter. DeVille has produced records for Snoop Dogg Kendrick LamarDr. Dre Travis Barker 50 Cent Busta Rhymes Baby Bash Frost Fat Joe Mibbs Vince Staples Jonwayne and several others.
Esther Newport.  Sister Esther Newport S.P. (1901–1986) was an American painter sculptor and art educator who founded the Catholic Art Association and served as the founding editor of the Christian Social Art Quarterly. She was born Catherine Newport in Clinton Indiana to parents Edward and Cora Sams Newport. Newport entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1918 at the age of 17 taking the religious name Sister Esther.
Alfred Augustus Grace.  Alfred Augustus Grace (1867–18 March 1942) was a New Zealand teacher journalist and writer. He was born in Auckland Auckland New Zealand on 1867.
Rudi Protrudi.  Rudi Action Protrudi (born December 15 1952) is an American rock musician songwriter record producer artist and actor best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the rock and roll band The Fuzztones.RudiProtrudi was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Camp Hill Pennsylvania.
Gregory Anderson (screenwriter).  Gregory Ramon Anderson is a Tallahassee Florida native who graduated from FAMU in 1994. He co-founded Rainforest Films with fellow FAMU graduates Rob Hardy and Will Packer in 1994 working as a script writer film producer and fill-in actor. Rainforest Films has independently produced three feature films including Chocolate City Trois and Pandora's Box. Anderson wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Stomp the Yard.
Jimmy Rushing.  James Andrew Rushing (August 26 1901 – June 8 1972) known as Jimmy Rushing was an American blues shouter balladeer and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City Oklahoma United States best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.Rushing was known as Mr. Five by Five and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others—the lyrics describing Rushing's rotund build: he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide.
Phil Free.  Phil Clancey known as Phil Free is a British musician and artist most well known as guitarist for anarcho punk band Crass.
M. K. Ramachandran.  M. K. Ramachandran is a writer from Thrissur Kerala. In 2005 he won the Kerala Sahithya Academy award for his first book Uttarakhandilude Kailas Mansarovar Yatra. His other books are Thapobhoomi Utharkhand and Adi Kailas Yathra.
Caroline Tillette.  Caroline Tillette (born 16 July 1988 in Paris) is a French-Swiss actress.She attended classes at Cours Florent. After several short films she made an appearance in Plus belle la vie in 2008 playing Pauline the daughter of a mafia Don. In 2009 she joined LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Drama) and had a role in Gainsbourg vie héroïque directed by Joann Sfar. In 2011 she played Albertine Simonet in the television movie À la recherche du temps perdu directed by Nina Companeez.
Dionisio Boldo.  Dionisio Boldo (Active 1604) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Brescia. He trained with Giulio Clovio. He specialized in painting miniature watercolor paintings.
Ulf Larsson.  Ulf Sigfrid Larsson (1 July 1956 – 28 September 2009) better known as Uffe Larsson was a Swedish actor revue artist comedian and stage director.Ulf Larsson was born in Bromma Stockholm in 1956. As of the early 1980s he appeared in numerous television shows and stage productions. In the 1980s he also became well known by children in the Bröderna Olsson (Olsson brothers) and in Kusiner i kubik (cousins cubed) and told stories in Pratmakarna (the talkers).
Jason Ringenberg.  Jason Ringenberg (born November 22 1958 in Kewanee Illinois) is an American musician and lead singer of Jason & the Scorchers. He is also a songwriter and guitarist.The band had several minor hits including Golden Ball and Chain and a blistering rock version of Bob Dylan's Absolutely Sweet Marie.Ringenberg was especially influential in the mid-1980s when the indie country/rock fusion movement was at its height.
Lonnie Szoke.  Lonnie Szoke (born February 9 1978) is a Canadian musician songwriter and record producer born and raised in Brantford Ontario.
Hovhannes Hintliyan.  Hovhannes Hintliyan (Born Üsküdar Ottoman Turkey 1866 - Died Istanbul March 16 1950) was an Armenian teacher pedagogue publisher and educator. He was the founder of Nor Tbrots (New School) a prestigious Armenian school in the Pangalti district of Constantinople.
Monteiro Lobato.  This article is about the Brazilian writer. For the place in São Paulo Brazil named after him see Monteiro Lobato São Paulo.José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato (born in Taubaté on April 18 1882 – July 4 1948) was one of Brazil's most influential writers mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (Yellow Woodpecker Farm) but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction a translator and an art critic.
John Altman (author).  John Altman (born October 8 1969) is an American thriller writer.He is also a musician and a Harvard graduate. In 2000 his debut novel A Gathering of Spies was published. His most recent novel was The Watchmen published in 2004. His books have been published in the United States the United Kingdom Italy Japan Poland and the Netherlands.He lives in New York City.
Shadia Mansour.  Shadia Mansour (Arabic: شادية منصور‎ Shādiyah Manṣūr born 1985) also known as the first lady of Arabic hip hop is a British-born Palestinian singer and MC who sings and raps in Arabic and English. Much of her music focuses on Middle East politics.
Rob Cavallo.  Rob Cavallo is a music producer musician and chairman of Warner Bros. Records. He has worked with various artists throughout his career including Linkin Park Green Day Eric Clapton the Goo Goo Dolls the Dave Matthews Band Kid Rock Alanis Morissette Black Sabbath Phil Collins Paramore and Meatloaf. He is also a multiple Grammy winner.Cavallo plays multiple instruments and has professional credits for his bass keyboard organ piano guitar and percussion work.
Gail Godwin.  Gail Kathleen Godwin (born June 18 1937) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work two collections of short stories thirteen novels three of which were finalists for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List. She has also published two volumes of her journals under the title The Making of a Writer.
Farhad Darya.  Farhad Darya Nashir (Pashto: فرهاد دریا‎; Persian: فرهاد دریا‎; born September 22 1962) is an Afghan singer composer and music producer. He serves as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) National Goodwill Ambassador for Afghanistan and is involved in charitable organizations such as Music Village and others. He has earned affection for not only his music but also patriotism. He has a fan base that stretches from his native Afghanistan to parts of Central Asia Tajikistan and Iran.
James Davis (musician).  James Davis is the British house and techno music producer and DJ born in Portsmouth England. As well as a solo artist James is also one half of the act Grafiti.
Arimasa Osawa.  Arimasa Osawa (大沢在昌 Ōsawa Arimasa born 8 March 1956) is a Japanese writer of hardboiled and thriller. He served as the 12th President of the Mystery Writers of Japan from 2005 to 2009.
Calvin Wiggett.  Calvin Wiggett (born July 14 1966 in Regina Saskatchewan) is a Canadian country music singer. Wiggett recorded one studio album for Royalty Records 1995's Made for Each Other. This album produced four chart singles for him on the Canadian country music charts of which the highest was the No. 13-peaking Love Music Loves to Dance.
Edgar Church.  Edgar Church (November 28 1888 – 1978) was a comics collector and artist who worked independently and eventually for the telephone company in Colorado illustrating commercial telephone book advertisements precursors to Yellow Pages advertisements.Church kept thousands of miscellaneous periodicals in his Colorado home to use as references for his art. From these magazines he would clip images which he would store in one of hundreds of labeled boxes.
Madlib.  Otis Jackson Jr. (born October 24 1973) known professionally as Madlib is an American DJ multi-instrumentalist rapper and music producer. Known under many pseudonyms he is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed hip hop producers of the 2000s and has collaborated with different hip hop artists including MF DOOM (as Madvillain) and the late J Dilla (as Jaylib).
Nancy Garden.  Nancy Garden (born May 15 1938) is an American writer of fiction for children and young adults best known for the lesbian novel Annie on My Mind. She received the 2003 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association recognizing her lifetime contribution in writing for teens citing Annie alone.
Inger Berggren.  Inger Berggren (born 23 February 1934 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer who began singing in Thore Swanerud's orchestra and later sang with Thore Ehrling Simon Brehm and Göte Wilhelmsson. Her biggest hits were Sol och vår and Elisabeth serenad both in 1962. She is mother to the actress Gunilla Röör.Berggren represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 in Luxembourg with the song Sol och vår which was placed seventh.
Hotaru Akane.  Hotaru Akane (紅音 ほたる Akane Hotaru) aka Anna Akizuki (秋月 杏奈 Akizuki Anna) and Hotaru (ほたる) is a Japanese actress HIV/AIDS activist and a former AV idol. She is active in many media formats in Japan including mainstream theatrical film and is a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation in adult videos (AV) earned Akane the title Shiofuki Queen. She retired from AV work in 2008.
Scipione Angelini.  Scipione Angelini (1661–1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period best known for still-lifes. He was born and active in Ascoli.
Hulburd Steel.  Hulburd Steel was a turn of the 19th/20th-century American artist. Born in New York City he preferred to paint marine or harbor views in oil. His signed paintings are rarely on the market although his 'New York Harbor' raised far more than expected when auctioned in 2001.
Ulrich Schnauss.  Ulrich Schnauss (born 1977) is a German electronic musician and producer based in London.
Darren Warren.  Darren Warren is an American country music singer and songwriter from Mayfield Kentucky United States.
Choi Sungmin.  Choi Sungmin (hangul 최성민 born December 7 1995) is a South Korean Idol lead dancer rapper and the youngest member of Coed School and the sub-unit SPEED.
May Kassab.  May Kassab (Arabic: مي كساب‎) (born December 8 1981) is a popular female singer from Egypt. She is signed to Rotana the biggest Record company in the Middle East.
Andrew Clements.  Andrew Clements (born May 29 1949) is an American author of children's books. Clements grew up in Camden New Jersey and Springfield Illinois United States. As a child he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and hiking and water skiing and his evenings reading books.
Dikran Chökürian.  Dikran Chökürian (1884 Gümüşhane Ottoman Empire - 1915) was an Armenian writer and teacher editor of Vostan (in Armenian language Ոստան The Capital City) newspaper a victim of Armenian Genocide.He finished the Berberian College of Constantinople in 1907 then worked as a teacher in Armenian schools. Chokurian became known in 1910 when he published his novels in a separate book named Hayreni dzayner (in Armenian Հայրենի Ձայներ).
Luke Scheybeler.  Luke Scheybeler is a British designer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and former creative director of the cycling clothing brand Rapha. In 2011 he launched The Collarbone an iPad photography magazine focusing on pro-cycling with photographer Camille Mcmillan. In 2012 was appointed as a design consultant for the cycling team Garmin-Sharp.
Qiu Miaojin.  Chiu Miao-Chin (Qiu Miaojin) (Chinese: 邱妙津; May 29 1969 – June 25 1995) was a Taiwanese novelist. Her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on queer literature in Taiwan.
The Dogg.  Martin Morocky (born 31 March 1983) known by his stage name as The Dogg is a Namibian multi-award winning musician. He is one of the most outstanding artists in Namibia and is considered one of the pioneers of Namibia's kwaito genre. His debut album Shimaliw' Osatana released in 2004 was Namibia's first full-length kwaito album.
G. Devarajan.  Paravoor Govindan Devarajan (Malayalam: പരവൂര്‍ ഗോവിന്ദന്‍ ദേവരാജന്‍) popularly known as G. Devarajan or Devarajan master was a Malayalam music composer died on March 15 2006 in Chennai at the age of 81.He has scored music for more than three hundred Malayalam films many dramas twenty Tamil and four Kannada movies. Many of his compositions remain ever green classics in Malayalam. Besides his music in the Tamil film 'Annai Velankanni' has received many accolades.
Syed Abdul Malik.  Syed Abdul Malik (Assamese: চৈয়দ আব্দুল মালিক; 1919–2000) was a notable writer of Assamese literature from the village of Nahoroni in Golaghat. He was a president of Asam Sahitya Sabha. Malik received many exalted prizes including Padmashri Padma Bhusan Sahitya Akademi Award Sankar Dev Award Xahityacharyya etc.
Byron Allen.  Byron Allen Folks better known professionally as just Byron Allen (born April 22 1961 in Detroit Michigan) is an American comedian and television producer who founded and is the chairman and chief executive officer of U.S. television production company Entertainment Studios.
Igiaba Scego.  Igiaba Scego is an Italian writer (born Rome 20 March 1974) of Somali origin.
Abhijeet Sawant.  Abhijeet Sawant (Marathi: अभिजीत सावंत) (born 7 October 1981) is an Indian playback singer. He is the winner of Indian Idol (Season 1). He was the first runner up of Clinic All Clear - Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar and came at third place in Asian Idol.
Xia Gang.  Xia Gang (Chinese: 夏钢) (born 1953) is a Chinese film director. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy Xia is a member of the so-called Fifth Generation though unlike his classmates Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige he did not gain prominence until relatively later in the late 1980s.Like his contemporary Huang Jianxin Xia's works have focused on modern urban relationships and particularly marriage and love.
Alan Collins (sculptor).  Alan Collins (born 1928) is an English-born sculptor noted for his work at Guildford Cathedral. After continuing his career in England Collins moved to the United States and continued working there as an artist and for more than 20 years as a professor of art at Seventh-day Adventist universities.Collins work has primarily focused on evocative Biblical stories told in outdoor sculptures which has been described as 24-hour 365-days-a-year silent sermons.
Abdul Hameed Adam.  Abdul Hameed Adam (Urdu: عبد الحمید عدم‎ born Abdul Hameed Urdu: عبد الحمید‎) on April 10 1910 is an author and poet. He is largely quotable poet in the Urdu world.[citation needed] He died on 10 March 1981.
Dick Rivers.  Dick Rivers (born Hervé Fornieri 24 April 1945 Nice France) is a French singer and actor who has been performing since the early 1960s. He was an important figure in introducing rock and roll music in France. He is known for being an admirer of Elvis Presley who highly influenced both his singing and looks.
Kazuya Kamenashi.  Kazuya Kamenashi (亀梨 和也 Kamenashi Kazuya born February 23 1986) is a Japanese idol singer–songwriter actor television personality producer radio host and occasional model. Born and raised in Edogawa Tokyo he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates at the age of 12.He was drafted as a member and co-lead vocalist of the popular J-pop group KAT-TUN in 2001.
Adam Cheng.  Adam Cheng Siu-chow (born February 24 1947) is a Hong Kong TVB actor and Cantopop singer.
Andrew Carroll.  Andrew Carroll (born September 27 1969) is an American author editor activist and historian. He is best known as the author of the 1999 New York Times best-selling Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the 2001 New York Times best-selling book War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars which was later turned into an episode of the television program American Experience.
Robin Amos.  Robin Amos is an American keyboardist and founding member of the band Cul de Sac. His first band was The Girls a punk band that Amos founded in the late seventies with George Condo Mark Dagley and Daved Hild. He continued to explore that band's sound with his next band Shut Up which he formed with guitarist Glenn Jones.
Jordi Nopca.  Jordi Nopca (Barcelona 1983) is a Catalan journalist writer and translater. He is a current editor of Ara newspaper and the editor-in-chief of Ara Llegim.
Long John Hunter.  Long John Hunter (born July 13 1931) is an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He has released seven albums in his own name and in his later years found critical acknowledgement outside of his homeland. Hunter's best known tracks are El Paso Rock and Alligators Around My Door the latter of which Hunter co-wrote with Bruce Iglauer.
Craig Morgan.  Craig Morgan Greer (born July 17 1964) known professionally as Craig Morgan is an American country music artist. A veteran of the United States Army Morgan began his musical career in 2000 on Atlantic Records releasing his self-titled debut album for that label before the closure of its Nashville division in 2000. In 2002 Morgan signed to the independent Broken Bow Records on which he released three studio albums: 2003's I Love It 2005's My Kind of Livin' and 2006's Little Bit of Life.
Bruce Pennington.  Bruce Pennington (born 10 May 1944 in Somerset) is a British painter perhaps best known for his science fiction and fantasy novel cover art. Pennington's works have largely featured on the covers of novels of the likes of Isaac Asimov Clark Ashton Smith and Robert A. Heinlein adopting both science fiction and fantastical themes.
Chika Unigwe.  Chika Nina Unigwe (Enugu 1974) is a Nigerian-born author and she writes in English and Dutch.
Buckshot (rapper).  Buckshot (born Kenyatta Blake on November 19 1974 in Brooklyn New York) is an American rapper known for being the leader of the hip-hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik and the group Black Moon. He has released one solo album three with producer 9th Wonder one with KRS-ONE four albums with Black Moon and four albums with the Boot Camp Clik.
Sally Beamish.  Sally Beamish (born 26 August 1956) is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber vocal choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in the field of music theatre film and television as well as composing for children and for her local community.
Penny Ford.  Penny Ford (also known as Pennye Ford born June 11 1964) is an American singer from Cincinnati Ohio. Ford is the daughter of veteran record company executive and producer Gene Redd Sr. and evangelist/pastor Carolyn Ford-Griffith (now deceased). She is also the younger half-sister of singer Sharon Redd.
William Carlos Williams.  William Carlos Williams (September 17 1883 – March 4 1963) was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician but excelled at both.
Lisa Albert.  Lisa Albert is an American television writer and producer. She has worked in both capacities on the AMC drama series Mad Men and has won a WGA Award for her work on the show.
Marion Mainwaring.  Marion Mainwaring (born 1922) is an American writer translator and critic. Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel The Buccaneers published in 1993. She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton. A novelist in her own right she wrote the novel Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea (1954) parodying nine famous fictional detectives and Murder at Midyears (1953).
Tripp Eisen.  Tripp Eisen (born Tod Rex Salvador June 29 1965 in Pen Argyl Pennsylvania) also known Tripp Rex Eisen or Rex Eisen is an American musician best known as the former guitarist of the industrial metal band Static-X. He is a former member of Dope Murderdolls Ace Frehley tribute band Fractured Mirror Roughhouse (formerly Teeze) and local East Coast bands such as The Right Ego and Lovesick.Beside his music career Eisen has expressed an interest in politics.
Roswell George Mills.  Roswell George Mills (1896 - 1966) was a Canadian journalist poet and magazine publisher.
Arupa Kalita Patangia.  Template:Infobox writer Arupa Patangia KalitaArupa Kalita Patangia (aka Arupa Patangia Kalita Assamese: অৰূপা কলিতা পতংগীয়া) is an Assamese novelists and short story writer and known for her fiction writing in Assamese. Her literary awards include: the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad award the Katha Prize and the Prabina Saikia Award.
Chris Mann (singer).  Christopher Michael Chris Mann (born May 5 1982) is a classically trained American singer-songwriter from Wichita Kansas.He came in fourth on the second season of NBC's television singing competition The Voice in 2012. Mann came in first on Team Christina Aguilera and represented her in the final round.
Poncie Ponce.  Poncie Ponce (born Ponciano Hernandez; April 10 1933 – July 19 2013) was an American actor musician and stand-up comedian. Born in Maui Hawaii he moved to Los Angeles where from 1959–1963 he played the role of cab driver Kazuo Kim in the Warner Bros. detective series Hawaiian Eye on the American Broadcasting Company television network. In 1961 Ponce was at the forefront of a growing national interest in martial arts when he opened a karate studio in North Hollywood.
Stiv Bators.  Stiv Bators (born Steven John Bator; October 22 1949 – June 4 1990) was an American punk rockvocalist and guitarist from Youngstown Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church.
Brädi.  Kari Olavi Kapa Härkönen better known by his stage name Brädi (born on 9 April 1979) is a Finnish hip hop artist. Brädi (pronounced Braddy) has sung in Finnish language and in English (the latter mostly under the name Brad Spitt) in bands and solo.
William Foulkes.  William Foulkes (died 1691) was a seventeenth-century Welsh cleric and writer.
André Levinson.  André Yacovlev Levinson Андрей (Андрэ) Яковлевич Левинсон; Andrey Yakovl'evich Levinson (November 1 1887 St. Petersburg - December 3 1933 Paris) was a French dance journalist.
Camille (singer).  Camille Dalmais better known by her mononym Camille (born in March 10 1978 in Paris France) is a French singer songwriter and occasional actress.
Daisuke Ryu.  Daisuke Ryu (Japanese: 隆大介) is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo Japan on 14 February 1957. He won the Japanese best new actor Blue ribbon award for his performance as the great warlord Oda Nobunaga in Akira Kurosawa's movie Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior).
Mir Emad Hassani.  Mir Emad (born Emad al-Molk Qazvini Hasani (Persian: میرعماد حسنی قزوینی)‎ 1554 – August 15 1615) is perhaps the most celebrated Persian calligrapher. It is believed that the Nasta'liq style reached its highest elegance in Mir Emad's works. These are amongst the finest specimens of Nasta'liq calligraphy and are kept in several museums in the world.
Simon Jones (musician).  Simon Jones (born Simon Robin David Jones 29 May 1972 Liverpool England) is an English bass player. He played bass and provided occasional backing vocals for the English band The Verve.
Manning Whiley.  Manning Whiley (1915–1975) was a British actor.
Johnny Handle.  Johnny Handle is an English folk musician and singer/songwriter. Starting as a skiffle player in 1957 he soon crossed into folk music both as a soloist and as a member of The High Level Ranters. His repertoire is heavily influenced by the traditional music of North East England and in particular songs about coal mining. In 1958 with Louis Killen he founded the Folksong and Ballad Club in the Bridge Hotel Newcastle.He plays accordion keyboards banjo whistle and the Northumbrian pipes.
Jah Lloyd.  Jah Lloyd aka Jah Lion The Black Lion of Judah and Jah Ali (born Patrick Lloyd Francis 29 August 1947 died 5 June 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer deejay and producer.
Dick Francis.  Richard Stanley Dick Francis CBE FRSL (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre around horse racing in England.After wartime service in the RAF Francis became a full-time jump-jockey winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt.
Alexander Devoe.  Alexander DeVoe is a multiple award winning producer and director known for making erotic movies. He is credited with directing over 100 movies in addition to appearances.
Altaf Shaikh.  Altaf Ahmed Shaikh (Sindhi: الطاف احمد شيخ) is a retired Marine Engineer and a renowned Sindhi scholar professor and travel writer from Pakistan. He is the associate professor of Naval engineering and Marine engineering at Pakistan Naval Academy. His first book on travel was Munhnjo Saagar Munhnjo Sahil which was published in 1971 and won the Pakistan Writers Guild Award.
Jay Foreman (comedian).  Jay Foreman (born 4 October 1984) is a British musical comedian based in London. His brother is the musician and beatboxer Beardyman. They have collaborated on stage several times.Jay began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005 at the University of York. A lot of his live performances at University were filmed by York Student Television and made available online gaining him a wide audience.
Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy.  Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) was an English essayist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonyms E Ellis Ellis Ethelmer and Ignota. She was baptised on 15 December 1833 in Eccles Lancashire. She was the daughter of Revd Joseph Wolstenholme who died around 1843. Her mother Elizabeth had already died and she was brought up by her stepmother Mary (née Lord). Deprived of an adequate education she became an ardent feminist and vigorous campaigner.
John Galpine.  John Galpine (died 1806) was a British botanical author.Galpine was the author of 'Synoptical Compend of the British Flora' was elected an associate of the Linnean Society 20 February 1798; the preface to his work above cited was dated Blandford 1 January 1806 and he died before 24 May of the same year. After his death three enlarged editions were printed by a London bookseller dated respectively 1819 1829 1834.
Wong Yuk-long.  Wong Jan-lung (born 1950) better known by his pseudonym Wong Yuk-long or Tony Wong is a Hong Kong manhua artist publisher and actor who wrote and created Little Rascals (later re-titled Oriental Heroes) and Weapons of the Gods. He also wrote adaptations of Louis Cha's novels such as The Return of the Condor Heroes (retitled as Legendary Couples) Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and Ode to Gallantry.
Riley Breckenridge.  James Riley Breckenridge (born January 5 1975) is the drummer for Post-hardcore band Thrice. He plays C & C Custom Drums and uses Vic Firth drumsticks Zildjian cymbals Remo drumheads with Drum Workshop hardware and pedals.
Gerald Ross.  Gerald Ross (born September 26 1954 Detroit) is a musician specializing in American Roots Music - Swing Early Jazz Western Swing Hawaiian Ragtime and Blues. Playing the guitar lap steel guitar and ukulele he has performed throughout the USA and Europe and has recorded six solo CDs. Ross currently tours as a solo act playing and teaching ukulele and steel guitar at festivals and music camps.
DJ Kentaro.  Kentaro Okamoto (born c.1982) better known as DJ Kentaro is a hip hop DJ from Japan. He won third place in the Technics category of the DMC World DJ Final in 2001 and won it in 2002 at the age of 20. In doing so he became one of the first ever Asians to win the DMC World DJ Final receiving the highest score in DMC history in the process.He was signed to independent record label Ninja Tune and released a Solid Steel DJ mix album in September 2005 entitled On The Wheels of Solid Steel.
Juris Māters.  Juris Māters (or Māteru Juris) (11 March 1845 Cilde parish - 4 February 1885 Jelgava) was a Latvian writer and journalist.
Susan Patron.  Susan Patron (born 1948) is an American author of children's books. In 2007 she won the Newbery Award for The Higher Power of Lucky. Patron's first children's book Burgoo Stew was published in 1990.
Milo Dor.  Milo Dor (born 7 March 1923 as Milutin Doroslovac in Budapest; died 5 December 2005 in Vienna) was a writer and translator. He described himself as an Austrian Viennese and European of Serbian heritage.
Panayis Lyras.  Panayis Lyras is an American classical pianist.Lyras was born in Greece in 1953. At age six he attended the Athens Conservatoire and emigrated with his family to America in 1966. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School.
Marcus Brigstocke.  Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian actor and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy television radio and in 2010-2011 musical theatre. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4 having frequently appeared on several of its shows. Brigstocke also had a small role in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Love Actually as Mike a radio DJ who interviews Billy Mack (played by Bill Nighy).
Alan MacDonald (writer).  Alan MacDonald (born in 1958 in Watford) is a children's writer living in Nottingham England.
Jah Shaka.  Jah Shaka has been operating a South East London-based roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rastafarian term for God and that of a Zulu warrior Shaka Zulu.
Stacks (rapper).  Yannique De Lisle Barker (born January 25 1985) better known by his stage name Stack$ is an American hip hop musician from Miami who grew up in Washington D.C. Stack$ earned his name from a Miami rapper Brisco referring to his ill songwriting skills and multi-dimensional personality. His father managed Sly & the Family Stone and Peaches & Herb while co-producing “Midnight Train to Georgia” with his partner Tony Camillo.
Tanner Mayes.  Tanner Mayes (born May 31 1989) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Ron White.  Ronald Dee Ron White (born December 18 1956) is an American stand up comedian and actor best known as a charter member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. He is the author of the book I Had the Right to Remain Silent But I Didn't Have the Ability (Dutton 2006 ISBN 978-0-525-94961-9) which appeared on the New York Times best seller list.
Gordon Giltrap.  Gordon Giltrap (born 6 April 1948 Brenchley Kent) is an English acoustic and electric guitarist and composer whose musical styles cross several genres including folk blues folk rock pop classical and rock.Giltrap started to learn the guitar at the age of twelve.
Hitomi Shiraishi.  Hitomi Shiraishi (白石ひとみ Shiraishi Hitomi) is a former Japanese model adult video (AV) actress and a movie and TV actress from the 1990s who has been called the eternal porn queen. She has been described as one of the most popular AV actresses of [the] 1990s. After retiring from performing she went on to a second career as a movie screenwriter under the name Yukie Ochiai (落合雪恵).
Alejandro Carnicero.  Alejandro Carnicero (Íscar 1693 - Madrid 1756) was a Spanish sculptor of the Baroque period. He belongs to the Castilian school following the style of Gregorio Fernández. His artistic language evolved from the 17th century models to a more rococo and gentle style.He studied in Salamanca with José de Larra Domínguez. He mainly worked in Central and Northern Spain.
Anita Álvarez de Williams.  Anita Álvarez de Williams (born in Calexico California in 1931) is an American anthropologist photographer and historian.Her work has been of great importance to understand the past of Baja California and the borderlands area. She has published The Cocopah People (1974) Travelers among the Cucapa (1975) and Primeros pobladores de la Baja California. Introducción a la antropología de la península (1975) among several books and academic journals both in Mexico and the United States.
Mark Barkan.  Mark Barkan is a songwriter and producer. He was also a musical director for the television show The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.
Richard Clapton.  Richard Clapton (born 18 May ca. 1949) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from Sydney New South Wales. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are Girls on the Avenue (1975) and I Am an Island (1982). His top 20 albums on the related Albums Chart are Goodbye Tiger (1977) Hearts on the Nightline (1979) The Great Escape (1982) and The Very Best of Richard Clapton (1982). As a producer he worked on the second INXS album Underneath the Colours (1981).
Rob Brown (saxophonist).  Rob Brown (born February 27 1962) is an American free jazz saxophonist and composer.
Gurazada Apparao.  Gurazada Venkata Apparao (Telugu: గురజాడ అప్పారావు; 1862–1915) About this sound pronunciation (also often transliterated as 'Gurajada') was a Telugu poet and writer of Andhra Pradesh India. He wrote the first Telugu play Kanyasulkam which is often considered the greatest play in the Telugu language. Gurajada Apparao was an influential social reformer of his age and was lauded as Mahakavi meaning the great poet.
Jalo Walamies.  Jalo Walamies (born June 1 1975 in Jyväskylä Finland) is a Finnish musician and songwriter. Walamies' music has numerous influences including country folk 1970s rock and artists such Tom Petty Bob Dylan Roger McGuinn Jeff Lynne and Francis Rossi. His lyrical influences include Kari Peitsamo J. Karjalainen Pauli Hanhiniemi Juice Leskinen and Edu Kettunen. Walamies' third studio album Tuolla jossain kaukana was released in 2007.
Judy Kelly.  Judy Kelly (1 November 1913 – 22 October 1991) was an Australian-born British actress.
M.A. Yewdale.  M.A. Yewdale (1908–2000) was an early 20th-century West Coast Canadian pioneer and heritage artist who created prolifically with a bold and colourful palate. Producing an expansive array of several hundred artworks during her lifetime M.A. Mer Yewdale preferred to live a life of modesty and reclusiveness.
Gary M Dobbs.  Born in 1965 Gary M. Dobbs (Gary Martin Dobbs) is a British writer and actor. As a writer using the pen name Jack Martin he is responsible for a string of popular westerns for Robert Hale's Black Horse Western imprint. These include 'Arkansas Smith' 'The Ballad of Delta Rose' and 'The Afterlife of Slim McCord'.As Gary M. Dobbs he has written the popular series of mysteries featuring the character of Granny Smith - described as Miss Marple on steroids.
Jonathan Kemp (writer).  Jonathan Kemp (born 1967) is an English writer. He has published one novel London Triptych and one short story collection Twentysix to date.He won the Authors' Club First Novel Award in 2011 for London Triptych. The book was republished in North America by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013.Originally from Manchester Kemp teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Birkbeck University of London. He is openly gay.
Florence Marly.  Florence Marly (1919–1978) was a Czech-born French film actress. During the Second World War Marly moved to neutral Argentina with her Jewish husband the film director Pierre Chenal where she appeared in several films. After moving to Hollywood she starred in Tokyo Joe (1949) alongside Humphrey Bogart.
Thomas D.  Thomas D. (born Thomas Dürr 30 December 1968 in Ditzingen near Stuttgart Germany) is a rapper in the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier. He frequently works on solo projects.
Franco Califano.  Franco Califano (14 September 1938 – 30 March 2013) was an Italian lyricist composer singer-songwriter author and actor. During his career Califano has sold about 20 million records.
Senad Hadžimusić Teno.  Senad Hadžimusić (born 28 September 1957) is a Bosnian musician songwriter and poet best known as the founder mastermind songwriter producer singer and guitarist of the Sarajevo alternative industrial band SCH. With SCH his band-alterego Teno has authored performed produced and recorded 11 official albums.
Orlando Marin.  Orlando Marin is an American band leader and timbales player born in the Bronx New York in 1935. He formed his first band Eddie Palmieri and his Orchestra in 1951-52 with himself as director and Eddie Palmieri as musical director and later on the piano. He is of Puerto Rican descent.
Billy Murcia.  Billy Murcia (October 9 1951 – November 6 1972) born in Bogotá Colombia and raised in Jackson Heights New York USA was the original drummer for the New York Dolls.Billy Murcia and Sylvain Sylvain both attended Quintano's School for Young Professionals in the late sixties. It was at Quintano's that they met Johnny Thunders also a student there. They made their musical debut in 1967 in a band called The Pox. They owned and co-managed a clothing business called Truth and Soul.
Jennifer Weiner.  Jennifer Weiner (born March 28 1970) is an American writer television producer and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Yukiko Haneda.  Yukiko Haneda (羽根田 征子 Haneda Yukiko born January 11 1966 in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer.
Rupert Hine.  Rupert Neville Hine (born 1947 in London) is an English musician songwriter and record producer having produced albums for artists including Kevin Ayers Tina Turner Howard Jones Saga The Fixx Bob Geldof Thompson Twins Stevie Nicks Chris de Burgh Suzanne Vega Rush Underworld Duncan Sheik Formula and Eleanor McEvoy. In addition Hine has recorded eleven albums including ones billed under his own name the pseudo-band name Thinkman and with the group Quantum Jump.
Angelina Valentine.  Angelina Valentine (born September 19 1986) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Rick Bogart.  Rick Bogart (10 February 1951 – ) is a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and piano but he eventually focused solely on clarinet and later added vocals. He also composed throughout his career for clarinet. Rick Bogart worked in New Orleans during the heyday of the French Quarter during the mid 1970s within the first five blocks of Bourbon Street. At that time there were fifteen full-time Jazz bands along those blocks.
Brian Hood.  Brian Hood is an American record producer and owner of 456 Recording Studio in Nashville TN. He is the former and original drummer of Solid State Records band MyChildren MyBride.
Kay Ryan.  Kay Ryan (born September 21 1945) is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.
Andres Levin.  Andrés Levin ( ) is a Venezuelan-born American record producer band leader film maker recording engineer and philanthropist. Levin won a Grammy award in 2009 for his production of the In The Heights Cast Recording. His Grammy nominated Latin fusion band Yerba Buena was founded along with Cuban-American singer Cucu Diamantes.Levin has been called the master-chef of urban fusion by the Los Angeles Times.
Seika Hosokawa.  Seika Hosokawa (細川聖可 Hosokawa Seika born 24 September 1979 in Kochi Japan) is a Japanese voice actress.
Jonathan Savoie.  Jonathan Savoie is a Tokyo-based commercial and editorial photographer who specializes in a travel photography minimalist architecture and urban landscapes. He is known for his use of vibrant colors combined with detailed and often complex subject matter to create photographs that demand acute attention to detail. His work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler Frame Interior Design Casa Brutus GQ Italy and Casa Vogue.
Rod Usher.  Roderick Macleod Usher (born 1946) is an Australian author living in Spain.
Zillah & Totte.  Zillah & Totte is a Swedish ventriloquist act consisting of Cecilia Zillah Andrén and her puppet monkey Totte. Zillah was the winner of the first season of Sweden's got Talent in 2007 and received the 1000000 SEK prize. The following year she won the gold medal in the World Championships of Performing Arts and was awarded the title of Grand Champion of the World in the Variety class.
Doris Boyd.  Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield Boyd (20 November 1888 – 13 June 1960) (née Gough) was an Australian artist active as a painter and ceramicist. She married Merric Boyd a potter and painter. The Boyd family artistic dynasty includes painters sculptors architects and other arts professionals commencing with Doris Boyd's father-in-law Arthur Merric Boyd; and Merric Boyd's brothers Penleigh a landscape artist and Martin a writer. Merric Boyd's sister was painter Helen Read.
Mannix Joyce.  Mannix Joyce (Irish: Mainchín Seoighe 1924 – 3 July 2006) was an Irish local historian and writer known particularly for his publications on County Limerick.He was born in Tankardstown Kilmallock County Limerick. In 1941 he started work with Limerick County Council where he remained all his life mainly in the position of Information Officer.
Nasty Suicide.  Nasty Suicide (born Jan-Markus Stenfors on 27 February 1963) is the ex-rhythm lead guitarist and one of the founding members of Hanoi Rocks between 1979–1985. Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band that combined elements of punk glam rock rock and roll and blues. Before his tenure in Hanoi Rocks Suicide played guitar in a Finnish punk band called Briard in the late 1970s. Suicide replaced Andy McCoy in Briard after McCoy joined Pelle Miljoona Oy.
Cecil McBee.  Cecil McBee (born May 19 1935) is an American post-bop jazz bassist one of the most influential in the history of jazz. McBee has recorded as a leader only a handful of times since the 1970s but has contributed as a sideman to a number of jazz albums.
Corinne Bailey Rae.  Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Jacqueline Bailey on 26 February 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds West Yorkshire. Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics Sound of 2006. She released her debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006 and became the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one.
Sabrina Carpenter.  Sabrina Carpenter (born May 11 1999) is an American child actress/singer who will co-star as rebellious Maya Hart in Disney Channel series Girl Meets World debuting in 2014 opposite titular character Rowan Blanchard. She is signed to Hollywood Records.
Max Barry.  Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is a contemporary Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics including writing marketing and politics. When he published his first novel Syrup he spelled his name Maxx but subsequently has used Max.Barry is also the creator of NationStates a game created to help advertise Jennifer Government and is the owner of the website 'Tales of Corporate Oppression'.
Matthew Koma.  Matthew Koma (born June 2 1987) is an American musician and singer-songwriter born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island New York. Inspired by Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen Koma started his music career in punk rock later transitioning into a mixture of genres ranging from pop and hip-hop to EDM. Koma's early collaborations include work with Hardwell Zedd Sebastian Ingrosso Alesso Tiesto and Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic.
Bahinabai Chaudhari.  Bahinabai Chaudhari (Devanagari: बहिणाबाई चौधरी) (1880 – 3 December 1951) was a noted Marathi poet from Maharashtra India.
Augustin Heckel.  Augustin Heckel (1690 – 1770) was a painter watch case engraver and draughtsman. He was born in Augsburg Germany in a family of goldsmiths. As a young man he came to London and made his career in England. He died on 20 August 1770 in Richmond Surrey (now in London) where he had retired in 1746. He had a second skill as a flower painter in watercolours and gouache and published two books of flower etchings of his own designs The Lady's drawing book in 1755 and The Florist in 1759.
Leon Adams.  Leon David Adams (February 1 1905 – September 14 1995) was an American journalist publicist historian and co-founder of the Wine Institute. In 1958 Adams book Commonsense Book of Wine was published which sought to bring table wine into everyday life in the United States. His book Wines of America published in 1973 is considered the most thorough work on the subject specifically regarding the California wine industry.
Rakesh Chaurasia.  Rakesh Chaurasia is an Indian composer and flautist who plays the Indian bamboo flute. He is the nephew and child prodigy of flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia. He is one of his uncle's most accomplished disciples.
Anthony Mascolo.  Anthony Mascolo (UK) is an award-winning hairdresser and International Creative Director of TIGI. He has led a Creative Team for over 30 years and demonstrated his ideas and techniques to hairdressers around the globe.Anthony Mascolo has won the title British Hairdresser of the Year three times.
Jasmin Wagner.  Jasmin Wagner ([jasˈmiːn ˈʋaːɡnɐ] born 20 April 1980) better known as Blümchen [ˈblyːmçən] is a multi-platinum selling pop and dance music singer aspiring actress and model/spokeswoman. Although she releases her English albums under the name Blossom her German stage name Blümchen actually translates to floret or small flower. She is also known as Denim Girl performing the song Are You Ready For Some Darkness? on the Alpha Motherfuckers - A Tribute to Turbonegro album.
Yurin (actress).  Chiaki Naitou (内藤 千晶 Naitou Chiaki born June 18 1981 in Kure Hiroshima Japan) known better by her stage name Yurin (ゆりん) is a Japanese voice actress actress and singer.
Paul Shambroom.  Paul Shambroom (born Teaneck New Jersey 1956) is an American photographer and graduate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design whose work explores power in its various forms. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation.He is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and Rocket Gallery in London.
Oforia.  Ofer Dikovsky (Hebrew: עופר דיקובסקי‎) better known by his stage name Oforia (in Hebrew: אופוריה‎) is an electronic music artist and music producer from Israel and one of Israel's longest standing electronic music artists. He has been active internationally creating the first form of the dominant Israeli electronic sound. Because of his work he is considered one of the inventors of the genre in Israel.
W. E. Blackhurst.  Warren Elmer Tweard Blackhurst was an author and a lifelong resident of the Cass community who centered on the culture of eastern West Virginia where the higher elevations supported northern pine forests. Riders of the Flood which he is arguably the most well-known of Blackhurst's books for it centers on the world of the late 19th to early 20th-century logging industry in eastern West Virginia through the Greenbrier River and its tributaries.
Marilyn Moore.  Marilyn Moore was an American jazz singer of the 1950s. Born in Oklahoma City she is best known for her 1957 album Moody Marilyn Moore released on Bethlehem Records. Her vocal style was almost an exact replica of Billie Holiday's and according to jazz critic Will Friedwald Holiday and Moore became friends. She was the first wife of saxophonist Al Cohn (who played on Moody Marilyn Moore) and the mother of guitarist Joe Cohn.
Nancy Kress.  Nancy Kress (born January 20 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain which was later expanded into a novel with the same title.
Jana Mashonee.  Jana Maria Mashonee born Jana Maria Sampson better known by her stage name Jana (1980-) is an American singer songwriter actress author and philanthropist. She is Lumbee and Tuscarora originally from Robeson County North Carolina currently residing in New York City. She is currently releasing her music through Miss Molly Records available on iTunes and Amazon.
Luisa Peluffo.  Luisa Peluffo (born August 20 1941 Buenos Aires Argentina) is an Argentine writer and journalist.In 1977 she took up residence in San Carlos de Bariloche in the province of Río Negro Argentina. Her residence in Patagonia is reflected in her writing particularly in Me voy a vivir al sur one of her most popular books. There she shares the experience to move from her urban life in Buenos Aires to the extreme south of her country.
Antonino Bonaccorsi.  Antonino Bonaccorsi also called il Chiaro (Acireale Sicily June 1826 – 1897) was an Italian painter.
Bobby Bland.  Robert Calvin Bobby Bland (January 27 1930 – June 23 2013) né Brooks also known professionally as Bobby Blue Bland was an American singer of blues and soul.Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. He was described as among the great storytellers of blues and soul music...
Mihai Nechita.  Mihai Nechita-Burculet (b. 5 February 1949 Sarca Romania) is a Romanian painter.He studied Plastic Arts at the Art Academy of Iaşi History of Arts at the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy of Bucharest. His professors include: Dan Hatmanu Dimitrie Gavrilean and Victor Mihailescu-Craiu. Since 1977 he is active as a drawing and art history teacher in Târgu Ocna Bacǎu.
Alan Tam.  Alan Tam Wing-lun MH is a Hong Kong Cantopop English pop singer and actor. He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. Today he is still active in the music and film industry releasing new albums on a regular basis. Since the late 1980s he has served as a mentor for the cantopop music industry earning the nickname the Principal or Principal Tam.
John Ford Coley.  John Ford Coley (born October 13 1948) is an American singer classically trained pianist guitarist actor and author most known for his partnership in the musical duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.
Soul Khan.  Noah Weston better known as Soul Khan (born April 18 1985) is an American songwriter rapper and retired battle rapper. Born in West Hollywood and raised in Woodland Hills California he currently resides in Brooklyn New York City.
David Blatner.  David Blatner is a writer and speaker specializing in desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Blatner has written 15 books about various subjects with over a half-million books in print including Spectrums The Joy of Pi The Flying Book Judaism For Dummies and Silicon Mirage: The Art and Science of Virtual Reality.
Scott O. Brown.  Scott O. Brown (born 1975) is an American writer letterer publisher editor and production manager. Scott has been responsible for publishing top-tier creators like Amin Amat Mal Jones Drew Gilbert Antony Johnston Steven Grant and Jamie Delano. During Cyberosia's history he oversaw the development of the supernatural pulp thriller Frightening Curves the critically acclaimed short story collection Aporiatica along with Overtime and Rosemary's Backpack.
Antoine Michel Filhol.  Antoine Michel Filhol a French engraver born in Paris in 1759 was instructed by F. D. Née. He was very successful in depicting landscapes and published several works on art among which the most noted is the Musée Français 1804-15. He died in Paris in 1812.
Jimmy Cooper (musician).  Jimmy Cooper (1907–1977) was a hammered dulcimer player from Scotland.Cooper was born in Coatbridge Scotland near Glasgow. He started to play the dulcimer around age twelve and gained a lot of experience by playing in dance halls and busking in the early 1920s. Over the course of his life he worked at various jobs including driving buses driving an ambulance for a children's home and running a dance band.
Soren Mounir.  Soren Régis Mounir (born 31 July) is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter drummer keyboardist record producer and radio commentator; also known as the artist Dorian Gray.
Maysa Leak.  Maysa Leak (born August 17 1966) is an American jazz singer better known by her mononym Maysa. She is well known by fans of smooth jazz both for her solo work and for her work with the British band Incognito.
Paul Giovanni.  Paul Giovanni (1933 – June 17 1990) was an American playwright actor director singer and musician. New Yorker Giovanni is best known for writing the music for the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man. The soundtrack which was eventually released by itself in 2002 incorporates folk song a setting of a poem by Robert Burns and new material composed by Giovanni who also contributed some lyrics.
Carey Blyton.  Carey Blyton (14 March 1932 – 13 July 2002) was a British composer and writer best known for his song Bananas In Pyjamas (1969) which later (1992) became an Australian children's television series and for his work on Doctor Who.Blyton a nephew of children's author Enid Blyton showed a talent for science from an early age and did not switch to music until he contracted polio and as he was recovering began taking piano lessons in 1948 at the age of sixteen.
Ari Borovoy.  Ari Borovoy (born May 29 1979 in Mexico City) is a founding member of the Latin music children's group La Onda Vaselina which evolved into the successful Latin pop group OV7.
Lunice.  Lunice Fermin Pierre II (born 1988) better known by his stage name Lunice is a producer and DJ from Montréal Canada. Lunice and Hudson Mohawke form the production duo TNGHT.
Robert Levin (writer).  Robert Levin (born January 20 1939 New York New York) is an American writer of fiction and essays.The author of When Pacino’s Hot I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary The Drill Press he is also the co-author and coeditor respectively of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the 1960s: Music & Politics (with John Sinclair (poet)John Sinclair) World Publishing and Giants of Black Music (with Pauline Rivelli) Da Capo Press.In addition his fiction and essays have appeared in a number of collections including: Twenty-Minute Fandangoes and Forever Changes (Random House) Best of Nuvein Fiction the Word Riot 2003 Anthology Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind and ...Musings on a Manic Reality.His comedic short story “When Pacino’s Hot I’m Hot” was a storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story of 2004.A staunch and sometimes bellicose defender of the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s Levin wrote for The Village Voice (where his regular column played a significant role in establishing an audience for Cecil Taylor) Rolling Stone Down Beat Metronome American Record Guide and Jazz & Pop Magazine (of which he was Jazz Editor).His article in The Village Voice “200000 Invisible Men”—in which he questioned the tactics and ultimate value of the 1963 March on Washington—drew letters to the editor for the better part of a year and was quoted and discussed in a Norman Mailer Esquire Magazine column. 
Jean Carles.  Jean Carles (1892–1966) was a French perfumer who worked in Roure (now part of Givaudan) in the early 20th century. He was the founder of the Roure Perfumery School and served as its first director in 1946.Jean Carles was also the mentor of many great perfumers including Monique Schlienger and Jacques Polge.Despite being completely anosmic near the end of his life Carles continued his work as a perfumer with his condition only known by his son Marcel Carles.
Isabella Smith Andrews.  Isabella Smith Andrews (2 November 1905 – 19 June 1990) was a New Zealand writer. She was born in Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland on 2 November 1905.
Soko (singer).  Stéphanie Sokolinski better known by her stage name Soko (sometimes stylized as SoKo) is a French singer and actress.
Charles Billich.  Charles (Carlo) Billich (born 1934) was named Artist of the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Apani B.  Apani B Fly is an American hip hop emcee.In 1996 her first 12-inch single “Estragen” was independently released and shortly followed up by several high-profile guest appearances on projects with Organized Konfusion Mos Def & Talib Kweli and Pharoahe Monch. Her first full length album Rhyme-Related (as a member of Polyrhythm Addicts) was released in 1999.She was featured in multiple magazines including Vibe The Source and XXL and opened for acts such as the Fugees and Brand Nubian.
Mickey Petralia.  Mickey Petralia is a producer engineer mixer represented by Next Wave Management. Mickey produced all of the music on the Grammy winning Emmy-nominated hit HBO series Flight of the Conchords
Brian Maes.  Brian Maes is a musician who was born in Lynn Massachusetts on August 8 1956. He graduated from Lynn Classical High School in 1974 and from Berklee College of Music in 1979.
Hilary (musician).  Hilary Blake known professionally as Hilary was a singer/songwriter/performer from Los Angeles. She was born in 1950 and died in July 2007.
Nicolai Frahm.  Nicolai Frahm (born 17 January 1975) is a contemporary art collector advisor and the co-founder of an art museum with free admission for all—Dairy Art Centre in London.
Suzi Brent.  Suzi Brent is an emergency medical dispatcher for London Ambulance Service and is the author of the blog Nee Naw. She currently lives in London.
Ernest Hare.  Ernest Dudley Hare (5 December 1900 Highgate London - 1981 London) was an English stage and film actor.
Donato Lovreglio.  Donato Lovreglio (6 December 1841 in Bari – May 1907 in Naples) was an Italian flautist and composer mainly of music for his own instrument and other woodwinds. He was a native of Bari and later moved to Naples where he died. Among his compositions are numerous concert fantasies and arrangements of themes from a number of Giuseppe Verdi's operas including Simon Boccanegra Don Carlos and La traviata.
T. Brinda.  Thanjavur Brinda (1912-1996) was one of the representatives of the Veenai Dhanammal school of Carnatic Music. She was primarily a vocalist although she also played the Veenai. She is affectionately referred to as 'Brindamma' by her fans.
Édouard de Pomiane.  Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane sometimes Édouard Pozerski (Paris 20 April 1875 – Paris 26 January 1964) was a French scientist radio broadcaster and food writer.His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863 changed their name from Pozerski to de Pomiane and became French citizens.De Pomiane worked as a physician at the Institut Pasteur in Paris where he gave Félix d'Herelle a place to work on bacteriophages.His best known works that have been translated into English are Cooking in Ten Minutes and Cooking with Pomiane. 
Garry Shider.  Garry Marshall Shider (July 24 1953 – June 16 2010) was an American musician and guitarist. He was musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
James Iha.  James Yoshinobu Iha (井葉吉伸 Iha Yoshinobu) (Born March 26 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and for his electric musical projects of recent years most notably being a permanent fixture of A Perfect Circle.
Vladimir Lichutin.  Vladimir Vladimirovich Lichutin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Личу́тин born March 13 1940 in Mezen Mezensky District Arkhangelsk Oblast USSR) is a Soviet/Russian novelist a major proponent of the so-called derevenschiki movement of the late 20th century literature best known for his Raskol (1990-1996) epic. Most of Lichutin's novels and novelets are based on the life of real people of the coastal White Sea areas of his native Pomorje region.
Sheldon Oberman.  Sheldon Oberman (May 20 1949 – March 26 2004) was an award-winning Canadian children's writer who lived in Winnipeg Manitoba.Born in Winnipeg Oberman (known to friends as Obie) grew up in the city's North End. After graduating from St. Johns High School he studied literature first at the University of Winnipeg and then at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Pete Droge.  Pete Droge (born March 11 1969 in Seattle Washington) is an American alternative/folk rock musician from Vashon Island (he grew up Bainbridge Island) in Washington State's Puget Sound.
Vivian Campbell.  Vivian Patrick Campbell (born 25 August 1962) is a Northern Irish rock guitarist who is a member of Def Leppard and was a member of Thin Lizzy from May 2010 to November 2011. Prior to joining Def Leppard in April 1992 he had been a member of Whitesnake Sweet Savage Trinity Riverdogs and Shadow King. He first rose to prominence in 1982 as the guitarist of the band Dio.
Leonardo Corona.  Leonardo Corona (1561–1605) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Venice. Born in Murano. For the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice he painted an Annunciation; while for Santo Stefano he painted an Assumption. He is said to have been a pupil of the elder Titian and completed some of his canvases after the master's death. His pupils included Santo Peranda and Baldasarre Anna.
Geir Ivarsøy.  Geir Ivarsøy (June 27 1957 – March 9 2006) was the lead programmer at Opera Software. He and Jon von Tetzchner were part of a research group at the Norwegian state phone company (now known as Telenor) where they developed browsing software called MultiTorg Opera.
Benito Jacovitti.  Benito Jacovitti (March 19 1923 - December 3 1997) was an Italian comic artist.Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli Molise. He was still a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the village's streets. The son of a railwayman Benito entered Macerata's art school at age 11 graduating to Firenze's art institute five years later.
Pernilla Karlsson.  Pernilla Karlsson (11 June 1990) is a Finnish singer. She was born in Swedish-speaking minority in Siuntio in Southern Finland. Karlsson represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with her entry När jag blundar. The song finished 12th in the first semi-final and failed to qualify for the Eurovision final.
Lafayette Bunnell.  Lafayette Houghton Bunnell was an American physician explorer author and explorer. He is most well known for his involvement with the Mariposa Battalion the first non-Indians to enter Yosemite Valley. Bunnell led the battalion members in a vote to name the valley and for this reason he is often credited as the person who named Yosemite. Bunnell was not otherwise important on a from a national perspective.
Master Hugo.  Master Hugo (fl. c.1130-c.1150) was a Romanesque lay artist. His documented career at Bury St Edmunds Abbey spans from before 1136 to after 1148. He is most famous for illuminating the first volume of the Bury Bible which have led to a general acknowledgement of Master Hugo as the gifted innovator of the main line of English Romanesque art.
Bruno Coulais.  Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French composer most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He recently composed the score for the animated film The Secret of Kells released 12 March 2010.
Christine Anu.  Christine Anu (born 15 March 1970) Australian pop singer and actress. She gained popularity with the release of her song My Island Home and has won several ARIA Music Awards.
Olzhas Suleimenov.  Olzhas Omaruli Suleimenov (Kazakh: Олжас Омарұлы Сүлейменов; Russian: Олжа́с Ома́рович Сулейме́нов) is a Soviet poet Kazakhstani politician and Soviet anti-nuclear activist.
Achille Mollica.  Achille Mollica (1832-1885) was an Italian painter of both canvases and ceramics.
Bane Bojanić.  Bane Bojanić (Serbian: Бане Бојанић) is a popular Serbian singer. He is the son of famed singer Miloš Bojanić and the older brother of singer Mikica Bojanić. Bane was widely known for the hits Pola vino pola voda and Samo pijan mogu da prebolim.Bane lived in Detroit Michigan in the United States and owned a trucking company. He moved back to Serbia by 2008.
Henrik Ibsen.  Henrik Johan Ibsen (Norwegian: [ˈhɛnɾɪk ˈɪpsən]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright theatre director and poet. He is often referred to as the father of realism and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand Peer Gynt An Enemy of the People Emperor and Galilean A Doll's House Hedda Gabler Ghosts The Wild Duck Rosmersholm and The Master Builder.
Justine Harun-Mahdavi.  Justine Harun-Mahdavi (Haas born 11 June 1945 in Morbach Germany) is a German woman who lived in Iran between 1968 and 1979. She is the writer of the recently published book Not without My Husband.Her memoir Not Without My Husband describes her life with her Persian (Iranian) husband and two children in Iran.
Raymond K. Wong.  Raymond Kin Wong (Chinese: 黄健 pinyin: Huáng Jiàn) (born September 30 1966) is an American actor and writer.He is the author of the award-winning novel The Pacific Between. He was also named as one of Pittsburgh Magazine's 25 Most Beautiful People in 2007.
Tommaso Landolfi.  Tommaso Landolfi (9 August 1908 Pico – 8 July 1979 Rome) was an Italian author translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels sometimes on the border of speculative fiction science fiction and realism place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers. He won a number of awards including the prestigious Strega Prize.
Roshan Ara Begum.  Roshan Ara Begum (1917 - December 6 1982) was a Hindustani classical vocalist. In Pakistan she is revered as Mallika-e-Mauseeqi (Queen of Music). As the daughter of Ustad Abdul Haqq Khan Roshan Ara linked through her cousin Ustad Abdul Karim Khan to Kirana Gharana.
Marion Roach.  Marion Roach is a contemporary non-fiction writer whose work spans many fields of research.Her first book Another Name for Madness is a memoir that describes with her mother's experience with Alzheimer's and the family problems that arose because of it.
Raúl Andrade Moscoso.  Raúl Andrade Moscoso (October 4 1905-September 10 1983) was an Ecuadorian journalist and playwright.Andrade traveled throughout Mexico and Colombia where he worked as a journalist for El Tiempo (Bogota Colombia) and published his book La internacional negra en Colombia (The Black International in Colombia) a collection of articles on the crisis in Colombia. He represented the Ecuadorian government in a number of countries.
Melody (Spanish singer).  Melodía Ruiz Gutiérrez (born October 12 1990 in Dos Hermanas Spain) better known in the Spanish music world as Melody is a pop singer. Some close relatives used to belong to a music group named Los Quillos. She has sold a combined 10 million copies of her albums worldwide.
Arianna Huffington.  Arianna Huffington (née Stassinopoulou; born Αριάννα Στασινοπούλου July 15 1950) is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known for her news website The Huffington Post. At one time a liberal Democrat she later became a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s after which she re-adopted liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s.
Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn.  Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn (fl. 1480) was a Welsh poet of the late mediaeval period.Ieuan was born at Caer-Gai near Llanuwchllyn Merioneth (present-day Gwynedd) and was the son of two notable poets: Tudur Penllyn and Gwerful Fychan.
Remady.  Marc Würgler better known by his stage name Remady (born on 12 December 1977) is a Swiss music producer from Zürich.His beginnings was under the name Player & Remady also known as Remady P&R. He later started to simply be called Remady and it is under this name that he achieved his first commercially successful album: No Superstar (the album) which featured singles Give me a Sign (earned him an NRJ music award) Save Your Heart No Superstar and Do It on my Own.
Marlies Dekkers.  Marlies Dekkers (Oosterhout 29 November 1965) is a Dutch fashion designer known for her lingerie line Undressed.
Jason Hartman.  For the long-distance runner see Jason HartmannJason Hartman is a singer-songwriter and the 2009 co-winner of season 5 of the Idols (South Africa). After a malfunction occurred with the text lines in the finals it was decided that even though Jason was the official winner of Idols the title would be shared between him and the runner up Sasha Lee Davids.
Alexandra Burke.  Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke (born 25 August 1988) is a British recording artist and songwriter. Burke was exposed to music from an early age with her mother being the lead singer of Soul II Soul. Burke rose to fame after winning the fifth series of British television series The X Factor in 2008 becoming the first of two winners to be mentored by Cheryl Cole. Burke currently stands as one of the most successful winners of The X Factor.
Edwin La Dell.  Edwin La Dell was a British printmaker lithographer illustrator and painter active during the 1940s 1950s and 1960s.
Boussouar El Maghnaoui.  Boussouar El Maghnaoui (born 1955 in Oujda Morocco) is an Algerian Raï singer-songwriter.
Kegham Parseghian.  Kegham Parseghian (Գեղամ Բարսեղեան) (born 1883 Constantinople Ottoman Turkey - died 1915 Ayaş Ottoman Turkey) was a famed Armenian writer columnist publicist teacher editor and journalist.
Jamie Borthwick.  Jamie Borthwick (born 23 June 1994 Barking)[citation needed] is an English actor.
James Gordon Stuart Grant.  James Gordon Stuart Grant (c.1834–27 February 1902) was a New Zealand demagogue journalist and eccentric. He was born in Glenlivet Banffshire Scotland on c.1834.
S. L. Bhyrappa.  Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa (Kannada: ಸಂತೇಶಿವರ ಲಿಂಗಣ್ಣಯ್ಯ ಭೈರಪ್ಪ) (born August 20 1931) is a Kannada novelist whose works are immensely popular both within and beyond Karnataka. Bhyrappa is widely regarded as one of India's foremost modern-day writers. His novels are unique in terms of theme structure and characterization. He has been among the top selling authors of Kannada language.
Jamilah Kolocotronis.  Linda Jamilah Kolocotronis is an American Muslim writer and former educator in American Islamic schools. Of Greek origin she converted to Islam at the age of 23 and she has published several Islamic fiction novels as well as her doctoral dissertation. Kolocotronis changed her first name to Jamilah when she became Muslim in 1980 and took her husband’s last name Jitmoud when she married. Kolocotronis has six sons and three grandchildren.
Narelle Autio.  Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke with whom she often collaborates.
Shannon Magrane.  Shannon Renee Magrane (born October 21 1995) is an American singer from Tampa Florida who finished in eleventh place on the eleventh season of American Idol.
Diana Cage.  Diana Cage (born 1969) is an American lesbian author essayist radio personality cultural critic and performer. Her work examines sexuality feminism and LGBT issues.
Pier Paolo Pasolini.  Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaolo pazoˈlini]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director poet writer and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet journalist philosopher novelist playwright filmmaker newspaper and magazine columnist actor painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.
Basti Vaman Shenoy.  Basti Vaman Madhav Shenoy (Konkani: बस्ती वामन माधव शेणै (Devanagari) ಬಸ್ತಿ ವಾಮನ ಮಾಧವ ಶೆಣೈ (Kannada); born on 6 November 1934) is a noted Konkani Activist popularly known as Vishwa Konkani Sardar (World Konkani Leader) and is the founder of World Konkani Centre in Mangalore.
Lizzie Fitch.  Lizzie Fitch (born 1981 Bloomington Indiana) is an American artist who works in the mediums of sculpture video performance and installation art. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Her long-term collaborator is Ryan Trecartin; their critically acclaimed videos including the series Any Ever (2010) have been widely exhibited internationally.
Felipe Pinglo Alva.  Felipe Pinglo Alva (July 18 1899 - May 13 1936) known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla was an influential and prolific poet and songwriter best known for his often covered El Plebeyo (The Commoner). In Peru and Latin America Pinglo's name is most often associated with the Peruvian vals criollo which is a uniquely Peruvian music characterized by the 3/4 time elaborate guitar work and lyrics about lost love or the Lima of yesteryear.
Barry Appleby.  Barry Appleby (August 30 1909 – March 11 1996) was a British cartoonist famous for creating The Gambols for the Daily Express. The strip premiered on March 16 1950. The script was written by his wife Dobs and was based on their own lives.Appleby's father E J. Appleby was in the 1940s the editor of Autocar a leading British motor magazine and one to which Appleby himself contributed his first illustration in 1931.
Richard Cobb.  Richard Charles Cobb (20 May 1917 – 15 January 1996) was a British historian and essayist and professor at the University of Oxford. He was the author of numerous influential works about the history of France particularly the French Revolution. Cobb meticulously researched the Revolutionary era from a ground-level view sometimes described as history from below.
Nicke Andersson.  Nicke Andersson (also known as Nick Royale) born 1 August 1972 is a singer guitarist drummer songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammy award winning rock band The Hellacopters as well as the former drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed. He has also done work as a producer as well as artwork for most the bands he has been involved with.
Al Pitrelli.  Al Pitrelli (born September 26 1962 in New York NY) is a guitarist best known for his work with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Megadeth Alice Cooper Joe Lynn Turner Asia and Savatage.
Faustino Oramas.  Faustino Oramas Osorío El Guayabero (4 June 1911 – 27 March 2007) was a Cuban singer tres guitarist and composer the last surviving member of the traditional Cuban trova. Most of his repertoire consisted of sons and guaracha-sons many with double entendres in the lyrics. One of his compositions was included in the Buena Vista Social Club album.
Stephen Holland (artist).  Stephen Holland (born 1941) is an American artist known for his portraits of athletes and celebrities. Holland's most famous paintings have been of Muhammad Ali. Together they have released numerous limited edition prints most of which are sold out.As a young painter Holland could not afford to hire live models. The images he found in boxing magazines became his subjects.
Bessie Cursons.  Bessie Cursons (born 8 June 1995)[citation needed] is an English actress from Portsmouth Hampshire. She reached the final of the first series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2007. Cursons currently stars in the children's comedy-drama My Phone Genie.
Mich Dulce.  Mich Dulce (born Michelle Dianne Lopez Dulce on May 8 1981) is a Filipina fashion designer milliner corsetiere actress and vocalist of bands Death By Tampon and Us-2 Evil-0.She graduated from the Poveda Learning Center in Quezon City (now St. Pedro Poveda College) and attended the Ateneo de Manila University where she earned a college degree in Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies: Management and Communications Track.
El Hortelano.  José Alfonso Morera Ortiz known by his art name El Hortelano (the horticulturist) is a painter. He was one of the main protagonists of the Movida Madrileña along with artists like Ouka Leele Ceesepe Guillermo Pérez Villalta film director Pedro Almodóvar singer Alaska and photographer Alberto García-Alix. El Hortelano has had many painting styles – a distorted figurative period a romantic period of orange tonalities and later lyricism and naturalism.
Barry Unsworth.  Barry Unsworth FRSL (10 August 1930 – 4 June 2012) was a British writer known for his historical fiction. He published 17 novels and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.
Sonia Gaskell.  Sonia Gaskell (14 April 1904 – 9 July 1974) was a Lithuanian-Dutch dancer choreographer dance teacher and dance director.
Yoo Jae-suk.  Yoo Jae-suk (Hangul: 유재석; or romanized Yu Jae-seok; born on August 14 1972) is a South Korean comedian and television comedy show host. Nicknamed the MC of the nation (국민 MC) a vote by South Korean netizens proclaimed him the most popular Korean comedian for five consecutive years beginning (2004-2008). He has hosted several variety television shows in South Korea including the popular programs Infinite Challenge and Running Man.
Renato Leduc.  Renato Leduc (November 16 1897 – August 2 1986) was a Mexican poet and journalist.
Pete Atkin.  Pete Atkin (born 22 August 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and radio producer notable for his 1970s musical collaborations with Clive James and for producing the BBC Radio 4 series This Sceptred Isle.
Mike Settle.  Mike Settle (b. March 20 1941 in Tulsa Oklahoma) is an American songwriter journalist broadcaster and singer. He is most famous for being a member of the Rock band Kenny Rogers & The First Edition between 1967 and 1970. While he was with the group he composed a number of songs including But You Know I Love You (a pop hit in 1969) as well as It's Gonna Be Better The Last Few Threads Of Love and Goodtime Liberator among many others.
Miroslav Feldman.  Dr. Miroslav Feldman (28 December 1899 – 30 May 1976) was Croatian Jewish poet and writer. Feldman was born in Virovitica on 28 December 1899. He studied medicine in Zagreb and Vienna. After graduation he returned to Croatia and worked as a physician in Virovitica Osijek Pakrac Sarajevo and Zagreb. During World War II he joined the Partisans where he helped organize the medical corps.Feldman was the president of the Croatian and Yugoslav PEN.
Tom Koch.  Tom Koch (born 1925 in Indiana) was a writer for Mad Magazine for 37 years.Koch was also one of the primary writers for radio performers Bob and Ray. It was this association that brought him to the attention of Mad when some of the show's scripts were reproduced in the magazine with caricatures of the star duo drawn by Mort Drucker.
Danny Mountain.  Danny Mountain (born 18 July 1984) is an English pornographic actor. He started his pornographic career around the age of 19. He has worked with Elegant Angel Wicked Pictures Digital Playground Penthouse New Sensations Brazzers and many other Adult Films production houses.
Stéphane Roux (comics).  Stéphane Roux is a French comic book artist who is known mostly in America for his cover work for Marvel DC and Semic comics. He has worked on such titles as Witchblade: Blood Oath scripted by Jean-Marc Lofficier as well as Sibilla (scripted by Jean-Marc Lainé) and Strangers in the Semic pocket and comics publications.
Lon Satton.  Lon Satton (born 1929 Philadelphia. U.S.) is an actor and composer mostly known in Britain.
Warren Miller (author).  Warren Miller (1921–1966) was an American writer. Although he gained some fame for his books dealing with issues of race as in The Cool World and The Siege of Harlem and for his more political books such as Looking for The General and Flush Times because of his early death due to lung cancer and his outspoken political views he has remained relatively unknown.
Onew.  Lee Jin-ki (Hangul: 이진기; Hanja: 李珍基; born December 14 1989) better known by his stage name Onew (Hangul: 온유) is a South Korean idol singer dancer lyricist presenter radio host MC and promotional model. He is a member of South Korean boy group SHINee under the label of SM Entertainment as the leader.
Robert Westerholt.  Robert Westerholt (born 2 January 1975 Waddinxveen South Holland Netherlands) is a Dutch musician known as the guitarist backing vocalist and co-founder of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. He also writes music for the band along with his partner and band vocalist Sharon den Adel. He used to work in human resource management before his career with Within Temptation.
Daniel Gran.  Daniel Gran (22 May 1694 – 16 April 1757) was a painter born in Vienna in 1694 who died at Sankt Pölten in 1757. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city. He was of some consideration in his time but his works are not known out of Austria and Germany today.
Vazha-Pshavela.  Vazha-Pshavela (Georgian: ვაჟა-ფშაველა) simply referred to as Vazha (Georgian: ვაჟა) (1861–1915) is a pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili (Georgian: ლუკა რაზიკაშვილი) a classic of the Georgian literature.Vazha-Pshavela literally means son from Pshavi in Georgian.
Giuseppe Mosca.  Giuseppe Mosca (Naples 1772 - Messina 1839) was an Italian opera composer the older brother of Luigi Mosca also an opera composer. He is mainly remembered as the original composer who used the libretto for L'Italiana in Algeri which later became famous in Rossini's setting.
Zona Gale.  Zona Gale (August 26 1874 – December 27 1938) was an American author and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
Zascha Moktan.  Zascha Moktan is a Nepalese-German singer pianist and guitarist.Zascha Moktan is a soul singer pianist and guitarist. Born to a Nepalese father and a German mother Moktan moved to Germany at the age of six. She moved from India via London — where she had her first music performances in a gospel choir — to Frankfurt Germany then to Berlin. She started playing the piano when she was eight years old and she later joined her school’s choir where she completed training in classical music.
Letterio Calapai.  Lettorio Calapai (1902–1993) was a realist painter and printmaker who took part in the Federal Arts Project organized by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Capapai's work can be found in the Fogg Art Museum and in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts which is where Calapai's parents took him when he was a boy.
Geir Rognø.  Geir Aimar Rognø (born 31 March 1963 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Musician (bass) known from the band «Hot Cargo» with the Bergen Guitarist Ole Thomsen.
N'dambi.  N'dambi is an American soul/jazz singer.
Kei Marimura.  Kei Marimura (真梨邑ケイ Marimura Kei) is a Japanese Jazz singer actress author gravure model and AV actress.
H. Beam Piper.  Henry Beam Piper (March 23 1904 – c. November 6 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of Paratime alternate history tales.He wrote under the name H. Beam Piper. Another source gives his name as Horace Beam Piper and a different date of death. His gravestone says Henry Beam Piper.
Philip Hoare.  Philip Hoare (born Patrick Moore 1958 Southampton) is the author of seven works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noël Coward: A Biography (1995) Wildes Last Stand: Decadence Conspiracy and the First World War (1997) Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000) and Englands Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005). Leviathan or The Whale (2008) won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Jo Ho.  Jo Ho (born 28 March 1977) is an English screenwriter and director of Chinese descent best known for creating the BBC series Spirit Warriors.She has been credited as the first Chinese person in the UK to have successfully created an original television drama series. Spirit Warriors is also the UK's first TV drama series to star a predominantly East Asian cast.
Randy Jackson (The Jacksons).  Steven Randall Randy Jackson (born October 29 1961) is an American singer and musician a former member of The Jacksons. Nicknamed Little Randy he is the youngest of the Jackson brothers and the second youngest of the nine Jackson whole siblings before sister Janet. Randy was only three when the Jackson 5 was formed and therefore was not an original member. While his brothers toured he honed his skills as a musician mastering piano.
K. A. Bedford.  Kenneth Adrian Bedford better known under the pseudonym of K. A. Bedford is an Australian writer of science fiction.
Koffi Olomide.  Antoine Christophe Agbepa Mumba also known as Koffi Olomide (Friday 13 July 1956) is a DR Congolese soukous singer dancer producer and composer. He is also known by a multitude of other names and aliases.
Alex Gaudino.  Alessandro Alfonso Fortunato Gaudino (born 23 January 1970) better known by his stage name Alex Gaudino is an Italian DJ and record producer.
Tobi Lark.  Tobi Lark (born 1941) is an American-born Canadian soul and gospel singer who also recorded under the names Bessie Watson and Tobi Legend. She had a top 40 hit in 1970 in Canada with We're All In This Together but elsewhere her best known record is Time Will Pass You By regarded as a classic of Northern soul which she recorded in 1968 under the name of Tobi Legend.
Tim Wynveen.  Tim Wynveen is a Canadian novelist. His 1997 debut novel Angel Falls won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He subsequently published Balloon in 1999 and Sweeter Life in 2003.Raised in Leamington Ontario he moved to Toronto in the 1970s to play music his first passion. He was the guitar player for a while with Edward Bear and later Chris De Burgh from Ireland.
John Bemrose.  John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist novelist poet and playwright.His arts reviews have appeared in Maclean's The Globe and Mail the National Post and on CBC Radio.Bemrose was born and raised in Paris Ontario where his father Fred Bemrose a 2009 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement remains the town historian.He graduated from the Victoria University in the University of Toronto in 1970 where he published early poems in Acta Victoriana.His debut novel The Island Walkers was published in 2003. 
Anna Swanson.  Anna Swanson is a Canadian poet.In May 2011 Swanson received a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for her debut poetry collection The Nights Also. In June she received the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry.
Valentina Naforniță.  Valentina Naforniță (born 1987) is a Romanian soprano opera singer born in Moldova. She is best known as the 2011 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.Naforniță was born in Glodeni Republic of Moldova. She graduated from the Ștefan Neaga Music College in Chişinău Moldova in 2006 and is in the Master of Arts programme under Eleonora Enăchescu at the Voice Department of the National University of Music in Bucharest. She performs with the Romanian National Opera.
Zena Marshall.  Zena Moyra Marshall (1 January 1926 – 10 July 2009) was a British actress of film and television.She attended St Mary's Ascot and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She worked with Ensa (the Entertainments National Service Association) during the Second World War.Marshall's film career began with a small role in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.
Stephen L. Hardin.  Stephen L. Hardin is an American historian and author who is an expert on the history of Texas.
W. W. Jacobs.  William Wymark Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. Although much of his work was humorous he is most famous for his horror story The Monkey's Paw.
Ricky Swallow.  Ricky Swallow is an Australian sculptor (born in San Remo Victoria in 1974) who lives and works in Los Angeles. He creates detailed pieces and installations in a variety of media often utilising objects of everyday life as well as the body (bones etc.). He first came to prominence in Australia when he won the Contempora 5 Prize in Melbourne at the age of 25 in 1999. He was later selected to be the Australian representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale with This Time Another Year.
John Verpoorten.  John Verpoorten (May 15 1940 – December 1977) was a comic book artist and editorial worker best known as Marvel Comics' production manager during the latter part of the Silver Age of Comic Books and afterward during a seminal period of Marvel's expansion from a small publishing concern to a multinational popular culture corporation.
Kate Cary.  Kate Cary (born 4 November 1967 in England) is one of the authors of the Warriors novel series a story about wild cats which she writes under the pen name of Erin Hunter. The other authors who also write the Warriors novel series under the pen name Erin Hunter are Cherith Baldry Victoria Holmes and Tui T. Sutherland. Kate Cary has also written the book Bloodline and its sequel Reckoning. Besides writing Warriors Kate Cary also has helped her partners write the Seekers books.
Wayne Wonder.  Wayne Wonder (born Von Wayne Charles 26 July 1972) is a Jamaican reggae fusion (specifically reggae/R&B) artist. While his early recordings were dancehall and reggae he later moved towards hip hop and rap.
Lady Starlight.  Colleen Martin (born December 23 1975) professionally known as Lady Starlight is an American musical performer. She has toured three times and is best known for her numerous collaborations with Lady Gaga.
Dougie Poynter.  Dougie Lee Poynter (born 30 November 1987 in Corringham Essex England) is an English musician and a guitarist songwriter and vocalist for the pop rock bandMcFly. He won the 11th season of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!
Visakha Wijeyeratne.  Visakha Wijeyeratne (née Bulankulame) (17 March 1935 – 13 April 1999) was a Sri Lankan artist painter sculptor writer and social worker. Her husband Tissa Wijeyeratne was a politician diplomat barrister and businessman.
Bobby Russell.  Bobby Russell (19 April 1940 Nashville Tennessee — 19 November 1992) was an American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973 he charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts including the crossover pop hit Saturday Morning Confusion. Russell was also married to singer and actress Vicki Lawrence from 1972 to 1974.
Narayan Pandit.  Narayan Pandit (Hindi: नारायण पण्डित) was the Brahmin author of the Sanskrit treatise called Hitopadesh one of the oldest collection of stories mainly animal fables in the world. The last lines of the book indicate the name of the author as Narayan Pandit:नारायणेन प्रचरतु रचितः संग्रहोsयं कथानाम्Narayan Pandit was the royal poet of Dhawalchandra the king of Bengal. The beginning and ending shlokas of the book indicate the deep faith of Narayan Pandit in lord Shiva.
Musine Kokalari.  Musine Kokalari (February 10 1917 Adana Turkey - August 14 1983) of Gjirokastër Albania was an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period. She was the founder of the Social-Democratic Party of Albania in 1943. Kokalari was the first female writer of Albania. After a short involvement in politics during World War II she was persecuted by the communist regime in Albania and not allowed to write anymore. She died in poverty and complete isolation.
Bill Withers.  William Harrison Bill Withers Jr. (born July 4 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded a number of major hits including Lean on Me Ain't No Sunshine Use Me Just the Two of Us Lovely Day and Grandma's Hands. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill.
Jo Dee Messina.  Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25 1970) is an American country music artist. She has charted six number one singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album.
Pitcheswara Rao Atluri.  Pitcheswara Rao Atluri (1925 – 1966) was an Indian writer and a prominent writer in the Telugu language.
Abd al Malik (rapper).  Abd al Malik born Régis Fayette-Mikano (Paris 14 March 1975) is a French rapper and spoken word artist of Congolese origin. He has also authored books in French language.
Jerry DeCaire.  Jerry DeCaire is a freelance comic artist. He is best known for his work on Punisher Thor and X-Men from Marvel Comics. His other publications include The Savage Sword of Conan Nick Fury: Agent of Shield Secret Defenders Marvel Comics Presents featuring Hawkeye and other associated reprinted publications. He has also illustrated Green Hornet for NOW Comics and Cisco Kid The Phantom and RPG werewolf and vampire stories for Moonstone Books.
Frankie Yankovic.  Frank John Frankie Yankovic (July 28 1915 in Davis West Virginia – October 14 1998 in New Port Richey Florida) was a Grammy Award-winning polka musician. Known as America's Polka King Yankovic was the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during a long and successful career.
Eve (entertainer).  Eve Jihan Jeffers (born November 10 1978) better known by her mononym Eve is an American Grammy Award-winning rapper songwriter record producer and actress. Her first three albums have sold over 8 million copies worldwide. She has also achieved success in fashion with her clothing line Fetish. She is the inaugural winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002 for the song Let Me Blow Ya Mind with Gwen Stefani.
Paulina Olowska.  Paulina Olowska (born 1976) is an artist from Poland. She studied in the US at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago the Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her works involving pop art graffiti and Soviet propaganda have been exhibited at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) the Stedelijk Museum's 2004 exhibit Time and Again the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005) and the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008).
George Karafotis.  George Karafotis is a Greek guitar player for the band Raven Lord. He also appears in other projects like Vermillion Days and Operation X . George was in the support band Vermillion Days who opened up for Sodom Tankard Flotsam & Jetsam Suicidal Angels & Crystal Tears. He is also featured in Ian Parry's promotional video for the Consortium Project album Species as the playback guitar artist.This video also features Casey Grillo (Kamelot) on drums.
Joe Craig.  Joe Craig (born 31 December 1981 in London) is an English writer children's novelist and musician.He is best known for the Jimmy Coates series of books which is sometimes compared to the work of Jack Heath (Six of Hearts) or Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider) and described in several reviews as The Bourne Identity for kids.
Maren Hassinger.  Maren Hassinger (born 1947) is an African-American artist. She is known for her sculpture and public art using natural and industrial materials. She works in sculpture installation performance and video.
DJ Anas.  Anas Tangi (born August 5 1980) better known by his stage name DJ Anas is an Italian record producer and DJ.He makes electronic music being one of the first few young deejays in Italy back in the 90's who made dance music using a Personal Computer only thanks to the use of a software called Tracker and VST. DJ Anas is signed artist to 3 recording labels from Italy Belgium and United States and he has performed in many clubs in Europe.
Suki Chui.  Suki Chui Suk-Man (Chinese: 徐淑敏; born 22 September 1984) is a Hong Kong actress affiliated with TVB up to 8 January 2014. She participated in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2006 and was awarded with the Tourism Ambassador Award. She married Kenny Wee on November 15 2009.
Mikal Sylten.  Mikal Peder Olaus Sylten (1873 – 1964) was a Norwegian writer.Originally a typographer from 1916 he published a periodical Nationalt Tidsskrift. It was staunchly anti-semitic and Sylten took up the swastika as a symbol in 1917 three years before Adolf Hitler chose to do so. He also published a pamphlet called Hvem er hvem i jødeverdenen Who's Who in the Jewish World in 1925. In it Sylten catalogued Jews or presumed Jews in Norway.
Antonio Negri (poet).  Antonio Negri (1881–1966) was an Italian poet best known for his works in Milanese language. He began writing in 1931 after retiring from work and relocating to Montevecchia in Brianza and was later a prolific author. One of his prominent works is On soldaa papà (A soldier father 1936) inspired by On papà soldaa (A father soldier 1935) by Giannino Sessa.
Manny Elias.  Manny Elias (born in 1953) is an Indian-born English drummer notable for being the original drummer with Tears for Fears during the 1980s.Originally a member of the rock band Interview from Bath Somerset. Elias began working with Tears For Fears in 1982 and drummed on the albums The Hurting and Songs From The Big Chair as well as participating in their subsequent tours.
Kealoha.  Kealoha (translation: The Love) is the first Poet Laureate of Hawaii and the first poet to perform at a Hawaii governor’s inauguration. He is an internationally acclaimed poet and storyteller who has performed throughout the world from the White House to ‘Iolani Palace and including hundreds of live venues. In 2010 he was honored as a National Slam Legend at the National Poetry Slam and was selected as a master artist for a National Endowment for the Arts program.
Susan Orlean.  Susan Orlean (born October 31 1955) is an American journalist. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992 and has contributed articles to Vogue Rolling Stone Esquire and Outside.
Natale Abbadia.  Natale Abbadia (March 11 1792 - December 25 1861) was an Italian composer harpsichordist and conductor. Born in Genoa Italy he studied music at the Genoa Conservatory. He taught singing in his native city and was a conductor at the Teatro Carlo Felice from 1831-1837. He later taught singing in Milan. One of his pupils was his daughter Luigia Abbadia who had a successful career as an opera singer. As a composer he wrote music for the theatre and for the church.
Dale Oliver.  Byron Dale Oliver (Born 1970) is an American music composer guitarist and producer. who is signed for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Formerly a backing guitarist for the American country music group BlackHawk Reba McEntire Steven Curtis Chapman and Geoff Moore and the Distance.
Solomon Eccles.  Solomon Eccles (1618–1683) also known as Solomon Eagle was an English composer.
Josh Garrels.  Josh Garrels is an American singer-songwriter.
Vanessa Olivarez.  Vanessa Denae Olivarez (born April 7 1981) in Sugar Land Texas) is an American singer songwriter and actor. She is the vocalist songwriter and autoharpist for the country bands Granville Automatic and Mama's Blue Dress has written songs for the country duo Sugarland and was in the Top 12 of the second season of the television series American Idol in 2003. Later that year she released a single The One which peaked at number nine on the Canadian charts.
Mark Brydon.  Mark Errington Brydon (born 22 December 1960) is an English bassist guitarist composer arranger recording engineer remix artist and producer best known as a member of the group Moloko.
Anita Rodriguez.  Anita Rodriguez (b. 1941 in Taos New Mexico) is a Hispanic American artist and painter. Her work incorporates Native American ceremonialism Mexican mysticism and Hispanic folk art as well as the Penitente art of New Mexico Native American dances and ceremonies and Catholic traditions. She has a work in the collection of the New Mexico Capitol Art Collection.
Rick Lees.  Richard Ian Rick Lees (born 21 December 1985 in Ashton-under-Lyne Greater Manchester England) is an English musician DJ and artist best known as the former bass guitarist of English indie rock band Twisted Wheel.Twisted Wheel and Rick have currently released one self-titled studio album (Twisted Wheel) which charted at 45th in the UK Albums Chart. They have also had three singles titled She's A Weapon Lucy The Castle and We Are Us.
Aina Hashimoto.  Aina Hashimoto (橋本 愛奈 Hashimoto Aina) born October 3 1992 is a Japanese singer and voice actress who joined girl J-pop band The Possible in August 2006. She left Hello! Pro Egg and Hello! Project as did the rest of the band in October 2007.
Dan Bejar.  Daniel Bejar (/ˈbeɪhɑr/; born October 4 1972) is an independent singer-songwriter from Vancouver Canada. He is renowned for his challenging and often cryptic lyrics and unorthodox vocals featured in many of his songs. Bejar has gained widespread popularity through his musical collaborations with Vancouver indie-rock band The New Pornographers but has released far more material as the frontman of his band Destroyer.
Dennis O'Driscoll.  Dennis O'Driscoll (1 January 1954 – 24 December 2012) was an Irish poet essayist critic and editor. Regarded as one of the best European poets of his time Eileen Battersby considers him the lyric equivalent of William Trevor and a better poet by far than Raymond Carver. Gerard Smyth regards him as one of poetry's true champions and certainly its most prodigious archivist.
Fred Frith.  Fred Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears Massacre and Skeleton Crew.
Mohammed Amer.  Mohammed Amer (Arabic: محمد عامر‎; born July 24 1981) is a Kuwaiti-born American stand-up comedian and writer of Palestinian descent. He is best known as one third of comedy trio Allah Made Me Funny.
Steve Parker (writer).  Steve Parker (born 1952) is a British children's science writer. He has written hundreds of books.
Shelagh Armstrong.  Shelagh Armstrong (born 1961 in Owen Sound Ontario) is a Canadian illustrator and was the recipient of the 1985 Will Davies award for excellence in illustration.Armstrong is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Ontario College of Art.
E. K. Brown.  Edward Killoran Brown (August 15 1905 – April 24 1951) who wrote as E.K. Brown was a Canadian professor and literary critic. He influenced Canadian literature primarily through his award-winning book On Canadian Poetry (1943) which established the standards of excellence and many of the subsequent directions of Canadian criticism. Northrop Frye called him the first critic to bring Canadian literature into its proper context.
Ulla Pirttijärvi.  Ulla Pirttijärvi is a Sami joik singer from the village of Angeli (Sami: Aŋŋel) Finland. She began her career with the music group Angelin Tytöt but left soon after to pursue a solo career. She performs traditional joik music with Western arrangements of contemporary instruments.
Gil Waugh.  Gil Waugh (born July 7 1959) is a Canadian science fiction author poet and musician. Gil Waugh writes in a readily identifiable style that combines hard science with near-future science fiction wrapped into fast moving multi-dimensional plots centered on crime based mysteries.
Jim Hall (musician).  James Stanley Hall (December 4 1930 – December 10 2013) was an American jazz guitarist composer and arranger.
Peter Gimbel.  Peter R. Gimbel (February 14 1927 - July 12 1987) was an American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist.Born in New York City Peter was the son of Bernard Gimbel and heir to the Gimbels department store chain. After serving in the United States Army occupation force in Japan in 1946-1947 he graduated from Yale University in 1951 earning degrees in both English and economics.
Jindra Dolanský.  Jindra Dolanský (born January 14 1964) is a Czech musician. He was the saxophone player backup vocalist and co-composer for the Czech avant garde punk rock group Už Jsme Doma from 1985–2001.In the early '80s Dolanský became a fixture in the music scene in Teplice Czech Republic a town bordering Germany. He was trained on the clarinet in his youth making him the only trained member of the original Už Jsme Doma lineup which he formed with six friends in 1985.
Dominic Howard.  Dominic James Howard (born 7 December 1977) is an English musician best known as the drummer percussionist and co-producer for the English rock band Muse. He also contributes to the synthesised and electronic-based elements found in their music.
Elizabeth J. Braswell.  Elizabeth J. Braswell (known as Liz Braswell) is an American author of young adult books. She is best known for the series The Nine Lives of Chloe King from which the cancelled 2011 TV show by the same name is based.
Kenneth Slowik.  Kenneth Slowik (b. 1954) is an American cellist viol player and conductor Curator of Musical Instrument Collection at the National Museum of American History and Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society. He took an interest in music and organology from an early age.
Raja and Radha Reddy.  Raja (born October 6 1943) and Radha Reddy (b. February 15 1955) are a dancing couple who are renowned as exponents of the South Indian dance form of Kuchipudi. They founded and run the Natya Tarangini Institute of Kuchipudi Dance in New Delhi. The duo are credited with having given Kuchipudi a new dimension without compromising on its traditional virtues and having taken it to a higher plane of performance.
Jan Pieńkowski.  Jan Michał Pieńkowski (born 5th August 1939) is a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator as writer and as designer of movable books. He has also designed for the theatre. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was U.K.
Edmund Keeley.  Edmund Leroy Mike Keeley (born February 5 1928 in Damascus) is an author translator and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a prize-winning novelist and a noted expert on Greek poets C. P. Cavafy George Seferis Odysseus Elytis and Yannis Ritsos and on post-Second World War Greek history.
Robert Sabatier.  Robert Sabatier (17 August 1923 – 28 June 2012) was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971 as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He is also the author of Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XVIIe siècleAmong his notable works is the autobiographical series of novels Roman d'Olivier about growing up in the streets of a poor quarter in Paris during the 1930s.
Jonny Xacto.  Jonny Xacto is a contemporary visual artist. He is notable for his stencil work which is often political. He was voted Best Street Artist of 2010 by the Riverfront Times in St Louis.
Henry Ulke.  Henry Ulke (January 29 1821–February 17 1910) was an American photographer and portrait painter.
Charles Pettigrew.  Charles Pettigrew (12 May 1963 – 6 April 2001) was an American singer.
Joseph Panny.  Joseph Panny (23 October 1796 – 7 September 1838) was an Austrian composer and violinist who lived primarily in Vienna. A contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven very few of his works remain in the active repertoire today.
Humberto Costantini.  Humberto Cacho Costantini (April 8 1924 – June 7 1987) was an Argentine writer and poet whose work is filled with the rich slang (porteño) of Buenos Aires. Except for his years of exile in Mexico his life was lived in and around Buenos Aires.Costantini was born and died in Buenos Aires the only child of Italian Jewish immigrants who lived in the barrio of Villa Pueyrredon. From his marriage to Nela Nur Fernandez he had three children: Violeta Ana and Daniel.
Meir Ariel.  Meir Ariel (Hebrew: מאיר אריאל‎) (March 2 1942 – July 18 1999) was an Israeli singer-songwriter.He was known as a man of words for his poetic use of the Hebrew language in his lyrics. His influences included Hebrew poets such as Natan Alterman S. Y. Agnon and Hayim Nahman Bialik and American singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan.
Nabyla Maan.  Nabyla Maan (Arabic : نبيلة معان ) is a young Moroccan singer-songwriter born on December 6 1987 in Fes Morocco.
Nictzin Dyalhis.  Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis (1873 – 1942) was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales.
MiChi.  Michiko Sellars (born 7 April 1985) known by her stage name MiChi is a Japanese-British pop singer. She began her career as an independent artist but later signed to Sony Music Entertainment.
J. Walter Ruben.  Jacob Walter Ruben (August 14 1899 – September 4 1942) was an American screenwriter film director and producer. He wrote for 35 films between 1926 and 1942. He also directed 19 films between 1931 and 1940. His great-grandson is actor Hutch Dano.He was born in New York City and died in Hollywood.
Mai Matsumuro.  Mai Matsumuro (松室 麻衣 Matsumuro Mai born June 10 1983) is a Japanese singer. She was one of the three original members and original lead singer of the J-pop band Dream also known as Dream/DRM.In July of 2002 she left the band to pursue a solo career. She is also known for writing the lyrics to the Japanese version of BoA's debut single ID; Peace B.In 2006 Matsumuro launched a solo career releasing digital singles.
Michael Doret.  Michael Doret is an award-winning designer lettering artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles California. He has created logos album covers magazine covers and art for major brands in media advertising and sports including Wreck-It Ralph the New York Knicks MLB Time Magazine Playboy Wired. TV Guide Kiss Capitol Records Columbia Records Walt Disney Imagineering and Universal Studios. He also designed American Eagle postage for the United States Postal Service.
T. Winter-Damon.  T. Winter-Damon (d.November 28 2008) was a writer of fiction poetry and non-fiction as well as an artist. His work has appeared in anthologies and in hundreds of international magazines and served as a creative influence for several notable filmmakers and rock musicians.[citation needed] Among other distinctions T.
ASAP Rocky.  Rakim Mayers (born October 3 1988) better known by his stage name ASAP Rocky (stylized as A$AP Rocky) is an American rapper from Harlem New York City. He is a member of the hip hop collective ASAP Mob from which he adopted his moniker. Rocky released his debut mixtape Live. Love. ASAP in 2011 to critical acclaim. The success of his mixtape led to a record deal with Polo Grounds Music RCA Records and Sony Music Entertainment. He subsequently recorded his 2013 debut album Long. Live.
John Sisko.  John Sisko (born May 22 1958) is an American realist sculptor currently living and working in Seattle in Washington State.
Emma Watkins.  Emma Watkins (born 21 September 1989 in Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian musician and member of the children's group The Wiggles.Watkins started ballet when she was four. She saw The Wiggles perform Irish dancing and later studied other styles of dance including Irish jazz hip hop tap and contemporary.
Flaka Krelani.  Flaka Krelani (born 28 June 1989) is an Albanian Kosovar singer.
Kung Fu Vampire.  Kung Fu Vampire is an American rapper from San Jose California and the vocalist of the musical group of the same name. He has toured or performed with Twiztid 2 Live Crew Tech N9ne Hopsin Insane Clown Posse Brotha Lynch Hung Tha Alkaholiks Digital Underground Kool Keith KRS-One Papa Roach and The Pharcyde in addition to collaborating with musicians such as Eddie Gale and Spice 1.
Gjoko Taneski.  Gjoko Taneski (Macedonian: Ѓоко Танески) (born 2 March 1977 in Ohrid SR Macedonia SFR Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian singer. He won the National final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 after which he represent Macedonia with the song Jas ja imam silata at Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
Paris Cullins.  Paris Cullins (born 1960) is an American comic-book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Blue Devil and Blue Beetle and Marvel Comics' Hyperkind.
Adriana Evans.  Adriana Evans (also known as Adriana Madera) is an American R&B soul singer-songwriter. She was born 1974 in San Francisco California. Her debut album entitled Adriana Evans was released in 1997 and peaked at #33 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Bob Young (musician).  Robert Keith Young (born 16 May 1945 in Basingstoke Hampshire England) is an English musician and author who became famous for being the unofficial fifth member of the rock band Status Quo.
Kim Petras.  Kim Petras (born 27 August 1992) is a German singer/songwriter who creates electronic dance pop music and various covers in an a cappella style. She has been the subject of extensive worldwide news media reporting of her gender transition medical history in the context of her young age.
Erik Scott.  Erik Scott is an American bass guitar player producer and songwriter. Scott played bass for the band Flo & Eddie in the 1970s as well as Alice Cooper in the 1980s for whom he also produced. In the 1990s he was one of the founding members of Sonia Dada which reached the number one position on the Australian music charts with their debut album.
Samuel Arnold (composer).  Samuel Arnold (10 August 1740 – 22 October 1802) was an English composer and organist.Arnold was born in London (his mother is said to have been Princess Amelia; his father was Thomas Arnold) and began writing music for the theatre in about 1764. A few years later he became director of music at the Marylebone Gardens for which much of his popular music was written. In 1777 he went to work for George Colman the Elder at the Little Theatre Haymarket.
Colonel Moutarde.  Colonel Moutarde (born 1968 Saint-Nazaire France) is a visual artist mostly known for her comic books and work in the advertising.
MayBee.  MayBee (Korean: 메이비; born 10 September 1979) is a South Korean singer-songwriter actress and radio presenter. She hosted KBS Cool FM's Pump Up the Volume radio show from 2006 to 2010.
Ivan Panaev.  Ivan Ivanovich Panaev (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Пана́ев; March 27 1812 – March 2 1862) was a Russian writer literary critic journalist and magazine publisher.
Judith Ortíz Cofer.  Judith Ortíz Cofer (born in 1952) is a Puerto Rican author. Her work spans a range of literary genres including poetry short stories autobiography essays and young-adult fiction.
Erica Simone Turnipseed.  Erica Simone Turnipseed is the author of Hunger. Her debut novel A Love Noire won the Atlanta Choice Award Author of the Year from the Atlanta Daily World. Complementing Turnipseed's first two novels is A Love Noire/Hunger: The Soundtrack.
Paula Cole.  Paula Cole (born April 5 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Her single Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997 and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
1.8.7.  1.8.7 is a pseudonym for Jordana LeSesne a musician and producer from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She became widely known in the mid-1990s as an American Drum and Bass producer. The Village Voice described her as being [w]idely regarded as the top U.S. drum'n'bass producer She has released of over 50 tracks which includes three full length albums several EPs and many remixes under the alias 1.8.7.
Ashley Coulter.  Ashley Coulter (born April 26 1983) is a Canadian singer and the sixth-place finalist in the 2006 season of Canadian Idol. She was born and raised in Emeryville Ontario (near Windsor) but currently lives in Toronto Ontario.
Suzy Lee.  Suzy Lee is an book illustrator and author. She designed the poster for the 2013 National Book Festival.
Mike Schleibaum.  Michael J. Schleibaum (born June 7 1977) is an accomplished guitarist musician composer and producer. He along with lead vocalist John Henry founded and currently plays in the melodic death metal band Darkest Hour. He also works with bands as a studio producer composes music for TV and film and writes his online advice column www.askthedude.net.
Jatasimhanandi.  Jatāsimhanandi (Sanskrit: जटासिंहनन्दि) also called Jatasimha Nandi or Jatila Muni (जटिलमुनि) was a Jain Sanskrit poet believed to have lived in the 6th-9th century CE period. He lived in the modern-day Indian state of Karnataka.Jatasimhanandi was the author of several kāvya poetic works including the adventure narrative of Varangacharita. Although it has not conclusively been established he may have been stylistically influenced by Aśvaghoṣa.
Lynden David Hall.  Lynden David Hall (7 May 1974 – 14 February 2006) was an award-winning English singer songwriter arranger and record producer who emerged during the late 1990s as part of the Nu soul movement.
Boyd Lee Dunlop.  Boyd Lee Dunlop (June 20 1926 – December 27 2013) was an American jazz pianist.
Christine Minier.  Christine Minier (born 1964 in Saint-Raphaël) is a French singer.In 1987 whilst working as a hairdresser Minier won the French National Final to represent France at the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche. She received 44 points placing France in 14th place. In spite of the poor result Minier didn’t regret anything and still considers Eurovision as a great experience.
Oliver Butterworth.  Oliver Butterworth (May 23 1915 – September 17 1990) was an American children's author and educator.
T. M. Soundararajan.  Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1922 - 25 May 2013) popularly known as TMS was a playback singer in the [KollywoodTamil film industry] for over six decades. He gave his voice to actors and thespians in the South Indian film industry such as M. G. Ramachandran Sivaji Ganesan N. T. Rama Rao Gemini Ganesan S. S. Rajendran Jaishankar Rajkumar and A. Nageswara Rao. He has sung over 20000 film songs from more than 5000 films.
Peter Kiesewetter.  Peter Kiesewetter (1 May 1945 – 4 December 2012) was a modern classical composer born in Marktheidenfeld Germany to Silesian parents.
Lorenzo Maitani.  Lorenzo Maitani (c. 1275–1330) was the Italian architect and sculptor primarily responsible for the construction and decoration of the façade of Orvieto Cathedral.Maitani established his reputation in Siena and was called to supervise the construction at Orvieto in 1308 when the unprecedented height and span of the cathedral's vaults and arches presented unforeseen difficulties.
John Case (astrologer).  John Case (c.1660–1700) was an English astrologer and quack doctor a writer on anatomy astrology and medicine.
Andy Albright.  Andy Spencer Albright was born April 16 1964 and is the Co-Founder President and Chief Executive officer of National Agents Alliance a motivational speaker and member of the Entrepreneurship Initiative’s advisory board at North Carolina State University (N.C. State). Albright is also the author of the books The 8 Steps to Success and Millionaire Maker Manual which primarily focus on leadership and personal growth.
Edgar Hubert.  Edgar Hubert (1906—1985) was a British abstract painter.
Victor Travers.  Victor Travers (1884 - 26 May 1948) was an English character actor of theatre and film known for his work in many of the Three Stooges films. He began his career in 1938 and performed until his death in 1948. Over his decade long-career he appeared in more than 80 films.
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman.  Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (commonly called H.N. Werkman; 29 April 1882 – 10 April 1945) was a Dutch artist typographer and printer.Werkman was born in Leens in the Dutch province of Groningen. In 1908 he established a printing and publishing house in Groningen that at its peak employed twenty workers.
Samar (singer).  Samar Mattar (Arabic: سمر مطر‎) (born in 1976) is a female singer from the United Arab Emirates.
Jessé Garon’.  Jessé Garon also known as Desaint-Henry (born Bruno Julien André Fumard; 1 August 1962 La Rochelle France) is a French artist scientist composer singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of blues country rock'n'roll and classical music. He is also a poet painter calligrapher and illuminator.
Mana (musician).  Mana is a Japanese musician and fashion designer best known for a role as leader and guitarist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer. His clothing label Moi-même-Moitié helped popularize Japan's Gothic Lolita fashion movement. Mana is currently working on his solo project Moi dix Mois.
Miroslav Vitouš.  Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist who is known for his extensive career in the USA.
Mary Dillon.  Mary Dillon (born 1964) is an Irish folk singer known for her work with the traditional band Déanta. She launched her solo career in 2010 with the release of an EP entitled Army Dreamers. She is the sister of singer Cara Dillon.
David Foster Wallace.  David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962 – September 12 2008) was an American novelist short story writer essayist professor of English at Illinois State University and professor of creative writing at Pomona College.
Mike Ladd.  Mike Ladd is a hip-hop artist and co-owner of the Likemadd label who resides in Paris France.
James Allen (highwayman).  James Allen (also known as George Walton Jonas Pierce James H. York Burley Grove etc.) was a Massachusetts resident and highwayman in the early 19th century.After a prolonged life of banditry Allen was eventually imprisoned in the Massachusetts State Prison. He died in prison and is remembered for delivering a death-bed confession to his warden one copy of which was bound in the author's skin. This copy of Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias Jonas Pierce alias James H.
Son Lux.  Ryan Lott better known by his stage name Son Lux is a post-rock and alternative hip hop musician based in New York City New York currently signed with Joyful Noise Recordings.
Heiko Julien.  Heiko Julien (born 1986) is an American poet short-story writer musician and Internet personality. He lives in Chicago Illinois. Julien 's stories poetry and essays have been published in n+1 Thought Catalog Pop Serial Shabby Doll House and The Lifted Brow. His work has been described as being preoccupied with memes media and online community.Julien has cited authors Mark Leyner Ben Brooks Tao Lin and blogger Steve Roggenbuck as central influences.
VovaZIL’Vova.  VovaZIL’Vova (Ukrainian: Вова зі Львова) born Volodymyr Parfeniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Парфенюк) 30 December 1983 is a Ukrainian hip hop and rap performer.
Gontier de Soignies.  Gontier de Soignies was a medieval trouvère and composer who was active from around 1180 to 1220.
Matija Ban.  Matija Ban (1818–1903) was a Serbo-Croatian poet dramatist and playwright born in the city of Dubrovnik who became known as one of the first Catholics from Dubrovnik who expressed a Serb nationality. He settled in Serbia in 1844 and engaged in various diplomatic missions in service of the Principality of Serbia.Ban was a strong advocate of Serbian unity and independence but was also a pan-Slavist. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term Yugoslav in a poem in 1835.
Denyse Alexander.  Denyse Alexander is a British film and television actress. She is married to Jack Gold.
Amen (rock musician).  Jussi Sydänmaa (born June 26 1972 in Espoo Finland) is a Finnish guitarist better known by his stage name Amen.He is one of the founding members of the Finnish metal band Lordi and is still playing in the band. Amen plays Gibson Les Paul Standard guitars. The municipality of Mäntsälä granted Amen with memorial Hard Rock Stone on June 26 2006.
Oleg Timofeyev.  Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev (Russian: Оле́г Вита́льевич Тимофе́ев Oleg Vital'evič Timofeev; born January 12 1963 in Moscow) is an American musicologist and musician of Russian origin specializing in lute and Russian guitar. He is best known for his pioneering work in the discovery promotion interpretation and authentic performance of the repertoire for the 19th- and 20th-century Russian seven-string guitar.
Tracy Negoshian.  Tracy Negoshian (born October 20 1981) is a designer of women's clothing. She is a native of Zephyrhills Florida.
Charles Dorman Robinson.  Charles Dorman Robinson (alternate: Charles Dormon Robinson; nickname: C.D.) (July 17 1847 - May 8 1933) was an American panorama cyclorama landscape and marine painter. He is known for his seascapes and landscapes of Northern California including over a hundred paintings of Yosemite Valley. He was known as the dean of Pacific Coast artists.
Konstantin Makovsky.  Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Russian: Константин Егорович Маковский; June 20 [O.S. July 2] 1839 —September 17 [O.S. September 30] 1915) was an influential Russian painter affiliated with the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers). Many of his historical paintings such as The Russian Bride's Attire (1889) showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of a Salon art.
Lee Yuksa.  Yi Won-rok (May 18 1904 – January 16 1944) better known by his pen name Lee Yuksa was a Korean poet and independence activist. As one of Korea's most famous poets he and his works symbolize the spirit of the Korean anti-Japanese resistance of the 1930s and 1940s.
Bill Crawford (comedian).  Bill Crawford is a comedian and radio personality best known for his work on The DVE Morning Show on WDVE in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania since January 2012. Crawford began doing standup in his native Pittsburgh in the early 2000s. In 2004 he was discovered by then-DVE Morning Show host Jim Krenn who invited him to become a regular guest on the show. As a result he became a bigger name in Pittsburgh and began touring with big-name comedians.
Diane DiMassa.  Diane DiMassa (born 1959) is an American feminist author and cartoonist. Her works include comics illustrations and a graphic novel. She is best known for the character Hothead Paisan Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist.
Said Atabekov.  Said Atabekov is an Uzbekistani artist in the fields of installation performance and video art and photography.
Hannah Tan.  Hannah Tan (born October 25 1981 in Penang) also known as Hannah T or Hannah Sarah Tan is a Malaysian singer-songwriter actress model and television personality. She is half-Chinese and half-Kelabit. She is married to Bryan Lee in year 2014.
Will Ferguson.  William Stener Will Ferguson (born October 12 1964) is a Canadian writer and novelist best known for his humorous observations on Canadian history and culture. His success as a writer can be attributed to an innate ability to view Canada much the same way an outsider would as described in his debut book the ironically named Why I Hate Canadians. Ferguson was born fourth of six children in the former fur trading post of Fort Vermilion Alberta approximately 800 km north of Edmonton.
Horia Brenciu.  Horia Brenciu (b. 27 August 1972 Brașov) is a Romanian singer television host actor successful entertainer and philanthropist.
Bryan J. L. Glass.  Bryan Jason Lee Glass is an American comic book writer known for his work on books such as The Mice Templar a creator-owned series that he publishes through Image Comics and for which he won two Harvey Awards. He has also written books for Marvel Comics including Thor: First Thunder and Valkyrie.
Ricky Laureano.  Ricky Laureano is a Puerto Rican musician most known for being the guitarist and one of the main songwriters of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega.
Lynn Isenberg.  Lynn Isenberg is an American author producer and screenwriter best known for her trilogy of comedy novels: “The Funeral Planner” “The Funeral Planner Goes to Washington” and “The Funeral Planner Goes Global.” Isenberg's novels inspired a digital series featuring singer-celebrity Joss Stone and actress Cynthia Gibb.
Jacques Seiler.  Jacques Seiler (1928–2004) was a French actor.
Angela Pan.  Pan Yin-tze (born June 5 1945 in Jiangsu China) better known as Angela Pan is a Chinese actress who starred in numerous films and soap operas in the 1970s–1980s.
Jonathan Fagerlund.  Jonathan Fagerlund sometimes just Jonathan is a Swedish singer born January 8 1991 in Jönköping Sweden. He has released two albums Flying and Welcome to My World and five singles. He is signed to Dreamline Music record label. He has also taken part in Melodifestivalen. Before his solo career he had taken part in a television series and was for a brief time a member of Streetwize an international boy band project based in Britain and Ireland.
Jesse Michaels.  Jesse Michaels is a songwriter vocalist guitarist and artist from Berkeley California. He is the son of the author Leonard Michaels. His lyrics deal with politics racism and general social issues.
Bernard Friedman.  Dr Bernard Friedman (1896 Pretoria South Africa - 1984 Johannesburg South Africa) was a surgeon politician author businessman and outstanding orator who co-founded the anti-apartheid Progressive Party (South Africa).
J. J. Jackson (singer).  Jerome Louis Jackson better known as J.J. Jackson is an American soul/R&B singer songwriter and arranger. His singing style is as a belter.Jackson started out as a songwriter and arranger for Brother Jack McDuff Jimmy Witherspoon and the Shangri-Las among others.
Earl Lindo.  Earl Wire Lindo (sometimes referred to as Wya) is a Jamaican reggae musician born 7 January 1953. He is a member of The Wailers and has collaborated with numerous reggae artists including Burning Spear.
Amber Sweeney.  Amber Sweeney is an American musician singer and song writer.
Nicole Bartelme.  Nicole Bartelme (born April 17 1967) is an American artist and a pioneer of The TriBeCa Film Festival in Manhattan New York City. Bartelme works in multiple genres including photography interior/set design poetry and sound. Bartelme received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Her studies included Illustration Film and Textiles.
George Weissbort.  George Weissbort (born 11 April 1928 in Brussels Belgium – 9 July 2013 in Wye Valley) was a Belgian–born British artist. He lived and painted in Wye Valley England.
Dan Clews.  Dan Clews (born March 21 1980) is a British born singer/songwriter from Sevenoaks Kent England.After spending years honing his craft on the UK’s live circuit Clews moved to Sweden and began collaborations with local artists. These collaborations resulted in two now sold-out releases with his backing band The Stars Above.This recording helped Clews to secure a publishing deal with George Martin Music. I was introduced to Dan Clews by a friend.
DJ Q.  DJ Q is a Huddersfield born DJ. Teamed with MC Bonez he is known for his commercial single You Wot!.
Neil Barrett (fashion designer).  Neil Barrett (born Neil Barrett Barber in 1965 in Devon England) is an English fashion designer based in Milan Italy. He gained his reputation and built his business around minimalist menswear.
K. S. Narasimhaswamy.  Dr. K. S. Narasimhaswamy (26 January 1915 – 27 December 2003) was a prominent Indian poet in the Kannada language. His most popular collection of poems Mysooru Mallige has seen more than thirty two reprints and sought as an ideal gift for newly married couples in Karnataka. Narasimhaswamy has been conferred many prestigious awards including Sahitya academy award and Kannada sahitya academy award.
Althea Wynne.  Althea Kathleen Wynne (6 October 1936 – 24 January 2012) also known by her married names of Dresman and Barrington Brown was an English sculptor and art teacher and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She specialized in creating large figurative work for gardens and public open spaces.
Sami Raatikainen.  Sami Raatikainen is a Finnish guitarist who plays for the German technical death metal band Necrophagist. He joined Necrophagist in 2006 after the departure of Christian Müenzner. He also plays guitar in the Finnish technical death metal band Codeon and performs guitar bass keyboard and drums for his solo project Radiance.
Barry Mitcalfe.  Barry Mitcalfe (1930–86) was a New Zealand poet editor and peace activist. Born 31 March 1930 in Wellington New Zealand Mitcalfe studied at Victoria University of Wellington where he received a Diploma in Education in 1962 and a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in 1963. In the 1960s and early 1970s he was a leader of the New Zealand movement against the Vietnam War and co-edited several booklets on the issue. After the war ended he became a leader of the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement.
Toy Caldwell.  Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. (November 13 1947 - February 25 1993) was the lead guitarist main songwriter and a founding member of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band. He was a member of the band from its formation up until 1983. In addition to his guitarist role he occasionally performed lead vocals for Marshall Tucker Band including on one of the band's best-known hits Can't You See.
Ron Obvious.  Ron Obvious (Ron Obvious Vermeulen) was a Vancouver based alternative-rock engineer producer and studio designer.After completing an electronics degree in Toronto He started working in the recording industry September 1976 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. Working as a technical assistant to John Vrtacic while also working in the dubbing room and assisting on recording sessions.
Richard Edwin Parris Jr..  Richard Edwin Parris Jr. was a member of the Alternative Metal Grunge Band Animal Bag.Richard Edwin Parris Jr. (July 13 1963 – March 9 2010) was born in Charlotte North Carolina attending Providence Day School before graduating from East Mecklenburg High School. He went on to attend Appalachian State University and UNC Charlotte.His first love being music he began to study it at a relatively young age and eventually in the 1990s traveled to Los Angeles as a member of the group Animal Bag.
Killer Mike.  Michael Render (born April 20 1975) better known by his stage name Killer Mike is an American hip hop recording artist and occasional actor from Atlanta Georgia. He is signed to Grind Time Official through the SMC/Fontana Distribution.
Jon Haward.  Jon Haward is a British comics artist. He has illustrated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Judge Dredd Sinister Dexter and Biker Mice from Mars among others.
Roger Ing.  Roger Ing (1933 – 22 July 2008) was a Chinese Canadian artist.Born in Canton China he emigrated to Regina Saskatchewan Canada in 1950 at the age of 18.Roger was well known as the owner of the New Utopia Cafe a popular gathering place for locals and artists in Regina’s North Central neighborhood.
Kurt Eichenwald.  Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28 1961) is a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a New York Times author of four books one of which The Informant was made into The Informant! a motion picture. He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast's business magazine Portfolio.
Tsugio Hattori.  Tsugio Hattori (1951 – August 10 1998) was an American abstract painter.
James Kelsey (sculptor).  James Edward Kelsey (born November 15 1964) is an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large stainless steel abstract curvilinear sculptures.
Eric Peters (painter).  Eric Peters (Born 3 October 1952 in Stolberg (Rhineland)Germany) is a German painter who now lives and works in Aachen.
Jong Hwa Park.  Jong Hwa Park (Hangul: 박종화) is a South Korean pianist. He was prized at the 1995 Queen Elisabeth Competition (5th) and the 1996 Concorso Busoni (4th) before being awarded the 1998 Paloma O'Shea Competition's 2nd prize. Among others he has performeed at the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid Amsterdam Concertgebouw Herkules-Saal and the Palais des Beaux Arts.
Walter Gay.  Walter Gay (January 22 1856 - July 15 1937) was an American painter born at Hingham Massachusetts. He married heiress Matilda E. Travers the daughter of William R. Travers a prominent New York City investor and co-founder of Saratoga Race Course. In 1876 the couple violed Walter Swinkels Paris France where Walter Gay became a pupil of Leon Bonnat.
Heinz Riegler.  Heinz Riegler is an Austrian born musician based in Brisbane Australia. Riegler’s career in Australia began after he relocated in 1993 following prolonged periods living and performing in Europe and the UK. As founder vocalist guitarist and principal songwriter of the ARIA Music Award - winning three-piece Not From There his work reached critical acclaim as well as a global audience.
Herbert Couf.  Herbert Herb Couf (February 15 1920 – July 8 2011 Michigan) was an American clarinetist saxophonist composer music store owner music instrument manufacturer executive and importer of music instruments. Couf had been the principal clarinetist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Paul Paray until the 1957 recession when the orchestra laid off several musicians.Couf subsequently opened a music store – The Royal Music Center – in Royal Oak Michigan just north of Detroit.
Kate Elsworth.  Kate Elsworth (born in Australia) is an Electronic Dance Music DJ vocalist and songwriter based in London. In 2009 she formed a dance band with her New York based co-producer and business partner DJ Exacta. She has worked musicians like Dirty South and Thomas Gold. In 2011 her single Alive co-produced by Dirty South & Thomas Gold received international attention. She has performed around the globe including nightclub gigs at Amnesia Ibiza.
Albert Servaes.  Albert Servaes (4 April 1883 – 19 April 1966) was a Belgian expressionist painter. He was part of the first Latem school of painting which focused on Mystical Realism but became a founder of Belgian expressionism later in life. He became known for his religious works typically showing the suffering of Jesus Christ which stirred controversy in the Roman Catholic Church. He also gained fame for his expressionist landscapes.
George Clayton.  George Clayton Jr. was an otherwise unknown American writer whose sole legacy appears to be Angelology: Remarks and Reflections Touching the Agency and Ministration of Holy Angels (New York: Henry Kernot 1851) with original illustrations and dedicated to a departed George C. Morgan.The book received a negative review in the Literary Gazette revealing nothing about its author.
Sophea Duch.  Sophea Duch (Khmer: ឌុច សុភា pronounced [soːpʰiaː duc]) is a popular Karaoke song artist. She was born in Phnom Penh Cambodia.
Bahador Kharazmi.  Amir Bahador Kharazmi (Persian: امیر بهادر خوارزمی‎ born May 7 1984) better known by his stage name Bahador Kharazmi is an Iranian Singer/Songwriter and Producer who started his career as an underground music producer after the Iranian Revolution in which music was pronounced Haram and all forms of popular music were banned.
Ed Robertson.  Lloyd Edward Elwyn Ed Robertson (born October 25 1970) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead singer guitarist and songwriter of the band Barenaked Ladies. He along with former member Steven Page founded the group in 1988. As of Page's departure in 2009 Robertson is the only continuous member of the band.
Celia Mara.  Célia Mara is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer who has lived since the 1990s in Vienna Austria and since 2003 also partly in Salvador Bahia.
Dominic Antonucci.  Dominic Antonucci is a ballet master and ex-principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB). He was raised in Akron Ohio having been born in nearby Athens. He first attended the Nan Klinger School of Dance from age eight and subsequently the School of American Ballet in New York City. Dominic joined American Ballet Theatre in 1991 and BRB in 1994 as a soloist where he was promoted to principal in 2003.He was appointed Ballet Master in 2009.
Albert Russo.  Albert Russo (born February 26 1943) is a Belgian bilingual (English and French) author of novels short stories essays and poems as well as a photographer. His main themes are fighting racism of all stripes and defending individual and collective rights including ethnic religious and gender rights.
Jeffrey Segal.  Jeffrey Segal (born 1 August 1920) is a British actor.He made his first screen appearance as an extra in the film Jud Süß (1934).From the early 1960s onwards he appeared in many British TV series notably Callan Z-Cars The Protectors Terry and June The Pallisers It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Dad's Army.
Simone Egeriis.  Simone Egeriis (born January 28 1992) better known as simply Simone is a Danish pop singer. She was born and raised in Slagelse Denmark. She is known in Denmark for winning the Danish TV talent show Scenen er din ('The Stage is Yours') in the category Junior Singing. She has since released three studio albums - her debut was called Vindens Farver or Colours of the Wind the song from Disney's Pocahontas with which she won Scenen er Din. She also plays the violin and the piano.
Matt Corby.  Matthew John Corby (born 7 November 1990) is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the runner-up on the fifth season of Australian Idol. He achieved his commercial breakthrough with his fourth EP Into the Flame which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart and by April 2012 was certified 5× Platinum by ARIA. His 2012 single Brother and his 2013 single Resolution both won ARIA Awards for Song of the Year.
Kuniyuki Takahashi.  Kuniyuki Takahashi (often best known simply as Kuni or Kuniyuki) is a Japanese DJ and music producer sound engineer from Sapporo Hokkaido Japan.He records under many different aliases including Forth Frr Hive Koss and used to be joint member of the group DRP (Deutsches Reichs Patent) along with other member Tomoyuki Murashige. His productions tend to fit mainly within the house music and techno styles of electronic music.
Hamid Arzulu.  Hamid Arzulu (Hamid Aliyev; b. May 15 1937) is an Azerbaijani poet writer translator dramatist scientist teacherdoctor of Philology. He lives in the city of Nakhchivan Azerbaijan.Hamid Arzulu is one of intellectual men who lives in Nakhchivan.
Jackson Rohm.  Jackson Rohm is an American country/pop musician. He was born in Jamestown New York and currently lives in Lakewood Ohio.
Bill Waiser.  William Andrew Bill WaiserB.A. M.A. Ph.D. (born 1953) is a Canadian author specializing in western and northern Canadian history.
John Moore (musician).  John Moore (born 23 December 1964) is a British musician best known for his work as the drummer in The Jesus and Mary Chain and as a member of Black Box Recorder.
Mark Lindsay.  Mark Lindsay (born March 9 1942) is an American musician best known as the lead singer for Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Gabriel Rodriguez (artist).  Gabriel Rodriguez is a Chilean comicbook artist known for his work on the horror series Locke & Key. In addition he has done the artwork for Subterranean Press's edition of Joe Hill's NOS4A2.
Arthur J. Rees.  Arthur John Rees (1872–1942) was an Australian mystery writer.Born in Melbourne he was for a short time on the staff of the Melbourne Age and later joined the staff of the New Zealand Herald.In his early twenties he went to England.His proficiency as a writer of crime-mystery stories is attested by Dorothy Sayers in the introduction to Great Short Stories of Detection Mystery and Horror 1928. Two of his stories were included in an American world-anthology of detective stories.
Flávio José.  Flávio José (born Flávio José Marcelino Remígio in Monteiro) is a Brazilian composer and singer.
Gustavo Corção.  Gustavo Corção Braga (17 December 1896 – 6 July 1978) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic writer.
Adam Lasus.  Adam Lasus (born September 2 1968 Mount Kisco NY) is an American musician and record producer.
David Oxley.  David Oxley (7 November 1920 – 30 October 1985) was an English actor who made many film and television appearances over a 35 year period. He is best known for portraying Sir Hugo Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and for the major role of Captain W. Stanley Moss in Ill Met by Moonlight (1957).
Chanchal Bharti.  Chanchal Bharti is an Indian sufi singer. She sings classical and semi-classical musical forms. She is a leading woman singers Qawwali.
Adam Latiff.  Adam Latiff (born March 24 1979) is a lead guitarist rhythm guitarist songwriter and vocalist for many bands most notable for Puddle of Mudd born in Orlando Florida started his career in progressive rock rockabilly and reggae bands such as Devereux S.W.A.T.T(Smoke Weed All The Time) and Drunk Horses Make Slow Gateways. Influenced by the Seattle 1990s bands started his own Nirvana tribute band called Heart Shaped Box which is seldom active.
Sherri DuPree.  Sherri DuPree Bemis (born December 3 1983 in Tyler Texas) is a singer-songwriter from Texas.
Rafael Albuquerque.  Rafael Albuquerque is an Eisner Award-winning Brazilian comic book creator primarily for his artwork on books such as DC Comics' Blue Beetle and as illustrator and co-creator of American Vampire. Though primarily a penciler and inker of interior comic art he has also done work as a cover artist colorist and writer.
Larry LaLonde.  Reid Laurence Larry LaLonde is an American musician best known as the guitarist for Primus since 1989. Previously he played guitar for Possessed Blind Illusion No Forcefield and the Frank Zappa tribute band Caca.
Stanley Pinker.  Stanley Pinker (1924 – 16 June 2012) was a South African painter and printmaker.
Miklós Malek (musician).  Miklos Malek (in Hungarian Ifj. Malek Miklós) (born in Budapest Hungary on 15 April 1975) is a Hungarian songwriter music producer and artist and television personality who is a resident of Los Angeles. He has produced for a number of renowned artists. He is also a judge and mentor in the Hungarian version of X-Faktor.
Teru (guitarist).  Teru (stylized as TERU) is a Japanese visual kei musician songwriter and artist. He is best known as guitarist for the symphonic metal band Versailles. Before Versailles he was previously in the band Aikaryu and supported his future bandmate Hizaki in his solo project and when they disbanded he and most of the other members formed Jupiter.
Maryam Jafari Aazarmaani.  Maryam Jafari Azarmani (or Aazarmaani) (Persian: مریم جعفری آذرمانی) is a poet critic and translator. She born in Tehran Iran in 1977.
Giovanni Francesco Surchi.  Giovanni Francesco Surchi (died c. 1590) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period active in Ferrara. He was also called il Dielai or il Dialai his father's nickname which derives from the Venetian exclamation of Dio l'ajuti or God help us. Giovanni Francesco the son of Zanobio who was a pupil of Dosso Dossi. Orlandi found him facile with figures and grotteschi and having a predilection for bizarre decoration.
Henric Holmberg.  Sven Martin Henric Holmberg (born January 4 1946 in Växjö) is a Swedish actor director and scriptwriter.
Yanik Silver.  Yanik Silver is an entrepreneur author and well-known digital marketing expert. Silver is the founder of Maverick Business Adventures an invitation-only club for high net worth and adventurous entrepreneurs.
James Matthews (writer).  James Matthews is a South African poet writer and publisher.He was detained by the apartheid government in 1976 and was denied a passport for 23 years.In 1987 he was elected as patron of the Congress of South African Writers and he established the first black-founded art gallery in South Africa and the first black-owned publishing house. In 2000 he founded the publishing house Realities.
Irving Phillips.  Irving Walter Phillips (November 29 1904 – October 28 2000) was a noted American cartoonist playwright television scriptwriter author illustrator and educator who is best remembered for his daily newspaper comic panel The Strange World of Mr. Mum.Born in Wilton Wisconsin Phillips began his career in show business as a violinist at the age of 17. He also played the saxophone and led his own orchestras.
Lova Boy.  Lova Boy is a recording artist and entrepreneur from Belize specializing in Punta rock music.
Pietro Amato.  Pietro Amato is a Montreal French horn player. He plays with three bands: Torngat Bell Orchestre and The Luyas. Amato is also involved with Arcade Fire providing studio contributions and occasional touring.In 2006 Bell Orchestre performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival and in 2007 Amato and company were nominated for a Juno Award for their work in Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light.
Howie Casey.  Howard William Howie Casey (born 12 July 1937) is a British rhythm and blues and rock saxophonist. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as a member of Derry and the Seniors the first rock and roll band from Liverpool to play clubs in Germany and later as leader of the renamed Howie Casey and the Seniors the first Liverpool group to record an LP. In the 1970s he was featured on several albums by and toured with Paul McCartney and Wings among others.
Gardner Fox.  Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20 1911 – December 24 1986) was an American writer best known for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote over 4000 comics stories.
Jacob Maris.  Jacob Maris (August 25 1837 The Hague - August 7 1899 Karlsbad) was a Dutch painter who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters.
Hollie Steel.  Hollie Steel (born on 10 July 1998) is a schoolgirl and performer from Accrington England. In 2009 at the age of ten she was one of ten finalists on the third series of the ITV reality show Britain's Got Talent.Her first audition drew mostly positive comments from all of the show's judges. In her second appearance during the semi-finals Steel forgot the words of her song. She received a second chance completing the song without a problem.
Mark Ellis (actor).  Mark Ellis is a Canadian actor and screenwriter. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the television series Flashpoint which aired on CBS CTV ION Television and networks around the world. The series was awarded the Academy Board of Directors Tribute for Outstanding and Enduring Contribution to Canadian Television in addition to a Canadian Screen Award (2013) and Gemini Award (2013) for Best Dramatic Series.
Abraham Ellstein.  Abraham Abe Ellstein (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם אײב עלשטײן Avrom Ellstein July 7 1907 New York - March 22 1963) was an American composer for Yiddish entertainments. Along with Shalom Secunda Joseph Rumshinsky and Alexander Olshanetsky Ellstein was one of the big four composers of his era in New York City's Yiddish Theater District scene.
Mayumi Asano.  Mayumi Asano (浅野まゆみ Asano Mayumi born on November 13 1969 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress who is currently part of Office Osawa.
CatchingYourClouds.  CatchingYourClouds (meaning chasing for your dreams despite when the world may tell you that they are impossible to achieve) is the alias of 20 year old pop-acoustic musician Drake Christopher Henning from Bryant Arkansas.Combining elements of modern day pop music with an upbeat acoustic guitar Henning has created a unique and catchy new sound that has appealed to a wide audience around the world including fans of Owl City The Ready Set Sleeping With Sirens and more.In two short years CatchingYourClouds has been present on many national tours including the 2012 Vans Warped Tour and has toured with acts such as Late Nite Reading Her Bright Skies and Ghost Town.
Liam O'Neil.  Liam O'Neil (born September 1980) is a Canadian musician who was the keyboardist and percussionist for Montreal-based band The Stills. He met the group's lead songwriter Dave Hamelin at school through a mutual friend. In 1996 the pair formed a ska band in which O'Neil played saxophone. He later spent 18 months away from Montreal while he played in a jazz trio on a cruise ship but he stayed in contact with the members of The Stills.
Sarah Pedinotti.  Sarah Pedinotti is an American songwriter and musician originally from Saratoga Springs NY. She is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Railbird. In March of 2011 Railbird toured to and from SXSW supporting their debut self-released album No One. Recorded mostly in Queens and partly in upstate NY No One is a conceptual album that took a year and a half to complete.
Dave Carpenter.  Dave Carpenter (November 4 1959 – June 24 2008) was an American bass player.After studying music at Ohio State University he launched his professional career by moving to New York. It was there that he first toured and recorded with artists such as Buddy Rich Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson.Dave Carpenter appeared on countless sessions and had dozens of television film themes and soundtracks to his recording credit.
Ross Lockridge Jr..  Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr. (April 25 1914 – March 6 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for Raintree County (1948) a widely praised novel which many readers and critics considered a contender for the Great American Novel.
Kim Scott.  Kim Scott (born 1957) is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of Western Australian Noongar people.
Onyeka Nwelue.  Onyeka Nwelue (born 31 January 1988) is a Nigerian writer filmmaker and cultural entrepreneur described by Channel O as 'an unalloyed genius' who divides his time between Paris France and Lagos Nigeria.
Fred Hammond.  For the New York politician see Fred W. Hammond.Fred Hammond (born December 27 1960) is a gospel singer bass guitar player and record producer.
Gyōi.  Gyōi (行 意 1177? - December 29 1217) son of Fujiwara no Motofusa was a Japanese poet and Buddhist monk of the late Heian early Kamakura periods. Also known as 山科僧正 he is a member of New Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
James Chirillo.  James Louis Chirillo (born May 2 1953 Waltham Massachusetts) is an American jazz guitarist jazz banjoist composer arranger and band leader. He grew up in Bellevue Washington and has been a resident of Teaneck New Jersey since 1993.
Imad Rahman.  Imad Rahman is a Pakistani American fiction writer whose first short story collection was published in 2004.
Myka 9.  Michael Troy better known by his stage name Myka 9 is a rapper and producer from Los Angeles California. He is a member of Freestyle Fellowship Haiku D'Etat and Magic Heart Genies. Known for years as Mikah 9 he changed the spelling to Myka Nyne with the release of A Work in Progress in 2003. Since Magic Heart Genies' album Heartifact in 2008 he has been credited as Myka 9.
Eyvind Johnson.  Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish writer and author. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art far-seeing in lands and ages in the service of freedom.Johnson was born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson in Svartbjörnsbyn village in Överluleå parish near the town of Boden in Norrbotten.
Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi.  Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi (or Villafranchi 1646–1699) was according to Robert Lamar Weaver the most productive and creative Italian comic librettist in the second half of the 17th century. He wrote the majority of comic works performed at the Villa Pratolino during the last quarter of the seventeenth century.
Bill Frisell.  William Richard Bill Frisell (born March 18 1951) is an American guitarist composer and arranger.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk classical music country music noise music and more. He is known for using an array of effects to create unique sounds from his instrument.
Rebecca Loebe.  Rebecca Loebe is an itinerant American folk/pop singer/songwriter based in Atlanta Georgia. She became a contestant on the NBC television show The Voice in April 2011.
Camillo Cabutti.  Camillo Cabutti or Camillo Filippo Cabutti (Bossolasco in Cuneo 1863 - Turin 1922) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes in an impressionist style.
David C. C. Watson.  David Charles Cunningham Watson (20 February 1920 – 12 January 2004) was an English teacher author and creationist born in Bharatpur India.
Siu Yam-yam.  Siu Yam-yam (Chinese: 邵音音; pinyin: Shào Yīnyīn born September 1945) is a Chinese actress. She is from Changsha Hunan. She has been active in the Hong Kong film industry since 1970.
Peter Buck.  Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6 1956) is an American rock musician who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of alternative rock band R.E.M.Throughout his career with R.E.M. (1980-2011) as well as during his subsequent solo career Buck has also been at various times an official member of numerous 'side project' groups.
Howard Lyon.  Howard Lyon is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Paul Maar.  Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist playwright translator and illustrator.
Vaikkath Pachu Moothathu.  Vaikathu Paramesvara Sivadvija popularly known as Vaikath Pachu Moothathu was a versatile scholar of erstwhile princely state of Travancore. A scholar of Ayurveda Sanskrit Malayalam and history pioneered in writing the first autobiography in Malayalam established the first institution for learning the traditional Indian medicine which developed to Government Ayurveda College Thiruvanathapuram in the later era. He was a well known Ayurveda Physician Poet Astrologer and writer.
Helen Carter.  Helen Myrl Carter (September 19 1927 – June 2 1998) was an American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter she performed with her mother and her younger sisters June Carter and Anita Carter as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters a pioneering all female country/folk music group. The group was also known as The Carter Family.
Alec Fraser.  Alec Fraser (1884–1956) was a British actor.
Marjorie Bates.  Marjorie Christine Bates R.A. (1882–1962) was born in Kings Newton near Melbourne Derbyshire. She was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and Paris and achieved a moderate living from her paintings.
Rob Williams (comics).  Rob Williams is a British comics writer working mainly for 2000 AD.
Dan Wells (author).  Dan Wells (born March 4 1977) is an American horror and science fiction author. A Utah native he currently resides in Stuttgart Germany.
Jacqueline Durran.  Jacqueline Durran is a British costume designer. She won the BAFTA award for Vera Drake. She received considerable attention for her work in Pride & Prejudice (2005 film) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Costume Design nomination and won a Satellite Award. She won an Academy Award for her work on Anna Karenina.
Rollergirl.  Nicole Safft (born 19 November 1975) professionally known as Rollergirl is a German singer with a number of successful tracks such as Dear Jessie (a loose cover of a Madonna song) and Luv U More the latter being a cover of a song by Sunscreem.
Harrison Bird Brown.  Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) was an American painter. He was born in Portland Maine and died in London England. He was known primarily for his painting of marine life and White Mountain landscapes. His work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1858 to 1875. His work is now shown at the Portland Museum of Art Colby College Museum of Art and Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Vladimir Sorokin.  Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин) (born 7 August 1955 in Bykovo Moscow Oblast) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist one of the most popular in modern Russian literature. Sorokin who lives in Moscow has been critical of the the Putin Regime.
Pongsak Rattanapong.  Pongsak Rattanapong (Thai: ปองศักดิ์ รัตนพงษ์) better known by his nickname Aof (อ๊อฟ) is a Thai singer and actor who gained popularity through the first season of the Thai reality show Academy Fantasia. He is known for his soft voice and sensitive songs.In 2009 Aof debuted in his musical Lom Haichai the Musical (The Breath) based on the songbook of Boyd Kosiyabong.
Neil Merryweather.  Neil Merryweather (born Robert Neilson Lillie on December 27 1945 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian rock singer bass player and songwriter. He has recorded and performed with musicians including Steve Miller Dave Mason Lita Ford Billy Joel Rick James and Wilson Pickett and released an extensive catalogue of albums.
Yura Hinata.  Yura Hinata (日向裕羅 Hinata Yura) is a Japanese voice actress.
William H. Poole.  Rev. William H. Poole. LL.D (d.1896) was a minister and prominent British Israelite known for his 1889 book called Anglo-Israel or the Saxon Race?: Proved to be the Lost Tribes of Israel.
Oksana Grigorieva.  Oksana Petrovna Grigorieva (Russian: Оксана Григорьева; born 23 February 1970) is a Russian pianist and singer-songwriter. She was born in Saransk Mordovia USSR and raised in Ukraine and Russia. She studied music in Moscow and completed conservatoire studies in Kazan before moving to London. After studying music at the Royal Academy of Music she moved to the United States with periods spent living in New York and Los Angeles California.
Herbert Boucher Dobbie.  Herbert Boucher Dobbie (13 February 1852–8 August 1940) was a New Zealand engineering draughtsman botanist stationmaster orchardist and writer. He was born in Hayes Middlesex England on 13 February 1852.
Zara Whites.  Zara Whites (born Esther Kooiman 8 November 1968) is a Dutch former pornographic film actress.Zara Whites dropped out of school at an early age and moved in with her boyfriend when she was 17. In her late teens she worked as a barmaid and at the age of 19 as a prostitute in a men's club.
Johan Christoffer Boklund.  Johan Christoffer Boklund (15 July 1817 – 9 December 1880) was a Swedish history genre and portrait painter from Kulla-Gunnarstorp in Scania. He was the son of a gardener. At the age of fifteen Boklund came to Lund where he worked on illustrations for Sven Nilsson's works on Scandinavian fauna (under the supervision of Magnus Körner). He then became a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where J. L.
George Catlin.  George Catlin (July 26 1796 – December 23 1872) was an American painter author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.
Arnold Böcklin.  Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a Swiss symbolist painter.
Shun Sugata.  Shun Sugata (菅田 俊 Sugata Shun born February 17 1955 in Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese actor.
Said Sonbol.  Said Sonbol (1929–2004) سعيد سنبلEgyptian writer and editorgraduated from Fouad I University's Chemistry Departmenthe would eventually become a journalist starting at the Wafd mouthpiece Al-Misri Sonbol became Al-Akhbar's first economic bureau chief in 1958 the paper's deputy editor-in-chief in 1961 its managing editor four years later then chairman of the board of directors and editor-in-chief in 1985 a position he held until 1992.Under Anwar El-Sadat he joined the Journalists' Syndicate rising to deputy chairman when Ibrahim Nafie was syndicate chief.Like all the great journalists of his generation his was a career studded by major scoops career breakthroughs and accolades. 
F. W. Harvey.  Frederick William Harvey DCM (26 March 1888 – 13 February 1957) often known as Will Harvey and dubbed the Laureate of Gloucestershire was an English poet broadcaster and solicitor whose poetry became popular during and after World War I.
Jack Molenschot.  Jack Molenschot is a trance music producer. One of his best known aliases is Freejack. He has worked with Dutch producer Ralph Barendse under the alias Cryo Culture.Mr. Molenschot has also been active in the remix side of producing. A mix he performed made its way onto Trance.nu's Surviving the Chills compilation in 2002.
Owen Biddle (musician).  Owen Biddle (born October 1 1977) is an American bass guitarist record producer and songwriter from Philadelphia known for his work with hip hop group The Roots On August 25 2011 he announced he was leaving The Roots to focus on his band Mister Barrington.Prior to joining the group Biddle was credited with production and writing on the Roots' Grammy-nominated album Game Theory. Other work includes multiple Grammy winning recordings with John Legend in 2011 Booker T.
David Thomson (historian).  David Thomson (1912–1970) was an English historian who wrote several books about British and European history.He was a Scholar of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge from 1931 to 1934 where he took First Class Honours in both parts of the Historical Tripos. He had a long association with the college and was subsequently a Research Fellow a Fellow and finally Master. He worked as a university lecturer in history and was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.
Ramón Stagnaro.  Ramón Stagnaro born in Peru is a guitarist who has toured or recorded with artists such as Diana Ross Celine Dion Pedro Eustache Alejandro Sanz Enrique Iglesias Raquel Bitton Nelly Furtado Andrea Bocelli Shahyar Ghanbari Vangelis Josh Groban Homayoun Shajarian and appears on Yanni's live concert video Tribute.
Charles W. Henderson.  Charles William Henderson (born August 26 1948) is a retired Marine Corps Warrant Officer and an author based in Colorado. Henderson is best known for his 2 biographies Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills and Silent Warrior about Marine Corps Sniper Carlos Hathcock.
Warren Harry.  Warren Harry (born Warren Philip Harry Aylesbury Buckinghamshire 1953) (also known as Warren Bacall) was a British songwriter and performer.
Chingy.  Howard Bailey Jr. (born March 9 1980) better known by his stage name Chingy is an American rapper and actor.Chingy grew up in the Walnut Park section of St. Louis and began rapping in earnest in his late teens. He toured as an opening act with Nelly in the summer of 2002 and then became a protégé of Ludacris who signed him to his newly formed Disturbing tha Peace (DTP) record label.
Ian MacKaye.  Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (/məˈkaɪ/; born April 16 1962) is an American singer songwriter guitarist musician label owner and producer.
Junior Murvin.  Junior Murvin (born Murvin Junior Smith circa 1946 – 2 December 2013) was a Jamaican reggae musician. He is best known for the single Police and Thieves produced by Lee Scratch Perry in 1976.
Cao Fang (singer).  For the emperor see Cao Fang.Cao Fang (曹方; formerly 曹芳; born May 6 1983 in Xishuangbanna Yunnan) is a Chinese indie pop singer/songwriter and melodica player. She sings in the Mandarin language. Her music style has drawn comparisons to The Cranberries and Faye Wong. Some of her songs show the influence of trip hop bossa nova and the music of China's ethnic minorities such as the Jino people whom she visited in Xishuangbanna as a child.In 1996 she went to Kunming to study.
Govert Flinck.  Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 – 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
Kaela Kimura.  Kaela Kimura (木村 カエラ Kimura Kaera) born Rie Kaela Kimura (木村 カエラ りえ Kimura Kaera Rie) (born October 24 1984) is a Japanese pop rock singer songwriter model and TV presenter.
Faron Young.  Faron Young (February 25 1932 – December 10 1996) was an American country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most successful and colorful stars. Hits including If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') and Live Fast Love Hard Die Young marked him as a honky-tonk singer in sound and personal style; and his chart-topping singles Hello Walls and It's Four in the Morning showed his versatility as a vocalist.
Jair Rodrigues.  Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira (Igarapava February 6 1939) is a Brazilian musician and singer a pioneer of the funk in the country. He is the father of Luciana Mello and Jair Oliveira who also followed in his footsteps and became musicians.Jair Rodrigues grew up in Nova Europa a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo where he lived until 1954.
Agneta Eckemyr.  Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr (born 2 July 1950 in Karlsborg) is a Swedish actress and model turned clothing designer.Initially a model her looks took her into film and television roles.
Grace Griffith.  Grace Griffith is a folk and celtic singer based in Washington DC. She has been honored with multiple Wammie awards by the Washington Area Music Association. In 1998 she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Claire Oboussier.  Claire Oboussier (born 1963 London) is an artist working in London.
Kanako Maeda.  Kanako Maeda (前田 夏菜子 Maeda Kanako) is a Japanese actress known for her appearances on the Super Sentai TV series Hikari Sentai Maskman Toei's eleventh entry of the series. She is known as Momoko (モモコ) in the series.
Wadsworth Jarrell.  Wadsworth Aikens Jarrell is an African-American painter sculptor and printmaker. Born in Albany Georgia he moved to Chicago Illinois where he attended the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation he became heavily involved in the local art scene and through his early work he explored the working life of blacks in Chicago and found influence in the sights and sounds of jazz music.
Jerry Saltz.  Jerry Saltz (born March 19 1951) is an American art critic. Since 2006 he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times.
Nicholas Clapp.  Nicholas Clapp is a Borrego Springs California based writer film-maker and amateur archaeologist. He has often been called the real Indiana Jones and he has received 70 film awards (including Emmys) and several films that he edited have received Academy Award nominations. He has two daughters Jennifer and Cristina.
Teresa Moure.  María Teresa Moure Pereiro (Born in 1969 Monforte de Lemos Spain) is a Galician writer. She lectures in Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has published essays novels children’s books and a play. She was awarded the Lueiro Rey Prize and the Arzobispo San Clemente Prize for her first novel A xeira das árbores (Sotelo Blanco 2004) and the Ramón Piñeiro Essay Prize for Outro idioma é posible (Galaxia 2005).
Carol Anthony.  Carol Anthony (born 1943) is an American artist. Anthony's paintings and monotypes are represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution the Carnegie Institute and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden among others. Her saying is A Place of Inner Stillness.In the past she has collaborated with her identical twin sister Elaine who was also an artist.
Babi Dewet.  Bárbara Babi Dewet (born December 30 1986) is a Brazilian novelist and author of the Sábado à Noite Trilogy. Originally a McFly FanFiction Babi started publishing her work independently after readers' requests and sold 1000 copies in less than a year. In 2011 her book was picked up by a Publisher Generale and is now set to become a Trilogy with the second volume slanted to be released in 2013.
Chuck Garric.  Chuck Garric is a rock bassist who has played with Turd The Druts L.A. Guns Dio and Eric Singer Project (ESP). The current bassist for Alice Cooper Chuck Garric has played Bass guitar for Billy Bob Thornton Cheap Trick Ted Nugent Don Felder and Journey at the Alice Cooper Christmas Pudding for the past three years.Turd released two records: Turd up the volume and Turdville U.S.A.. Chuck Garric and Jon Morris from Turd both played in Gene Loves Jezebel for a very short time.With L.A.
Gaëtan Roussel.  Gaëtan Roussel (born 13 October 1972 Rodez Aveyron) is a French singer songwriter and composer. Roussel is the former lead vocalist for the bands Louise Attaque and Tarmac.Roussel embarked on a solo career and began recording an album in 2009. He released the his debut solo album Ginger which was released on 15 March 2010. Ginger featured the lead single Help myself (Nous ne faisons que passer) and the second single Dis-moi encore que tu m’aimes.
Severina Vučković.  Severina Vučković (pronounced [sɛʋɛrǐːna ʋût͡ʃkɔʋit͡ɕ]; born 21 April 1972; best known by her stage name Severina) is a Croatian pop singer popular across the entire former Yugoslavia.
Mr. Magic.  John Mr. Magic Rivas (March 15 1956 – October 2 2009) was a prominent hip hop radio DJ.
Jess von der Ahe.  Jess von der Ahe (Santa Monica California in 1966) is an American contemporary artist living in New York.Von der Ahe received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in California in 1990 and since then has had 6 solo and 14 group exhibitions around the country. Collections of her work are owned by the Berkeley Art Museum and several private collectors including John Waters (filmmaker). Her work consists mainly of menstrual blood and gold leaf coated in resin against a white background.
Tarun Bhattacharya.  Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya is an Indian classical musician who plays the santoor a type of hammered dulcimer. He has learnt from Ravi Shankar
Toshimasa Shimamura.  Toshimasa Shimamura (島村 利正 Shimamura Toshimasa March 25 1912 - November 25 1981) was a noted Japanese author of fiction.Shimamura was born in Nagano Prefecture and in 1931 graduated from college with an English degree. His first book was published in 1941 and in 1943 his book 暁雲 became the first of his several candidates for the Akutagawa Prize. He founded a company in 1955 which went bankrupt in 1962 after which he took up writing full time.
Matthias Claudius.  Matthias Claudius (August 15 1740 – January 21 1815) was a German poet otherwise known by the penname of “Asmus”.
Yūko Andō (singer).  Yūko Andō (安藤 裕子 Andō Yūko) (born 9 May 1977) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former actress. She shares the same name as news anchor Yūko Andō with only difference being the character for Yū. Andō is part of the YS Corporation talent agency.
Charlie Wilson (singer).  Charles Kent Charlie Wilson (also known as Uncle Charlie born January 29 1953) is an American R&B singer-songwriter-producer and the former lead vocalist for The Gap Band. As a solo artist he has been nominated for seven Grammy awards and three NAACP Image Awards received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 he was named Billboard magazine's No. 1 Adult R&B Artist and his song There Goes My Baby was named the No.
Shai Linne.  Shai Linne is an American East Coast Christian rapper. Shai Linne has been collaborating with other Christian Rap artists and releasing studio albums since 2002. As of 2005 Shai Linne has recorded studio albums under the Lamp Mode Records label. Linne considered himself an atheist for most of his childhood and dates his conversion to 1999.
Anuj Rastogi.  Anuj Rastogi is a Toronto Canada based film composer producer musician spoken-word artist writer and live event producer. He is an active collaborator and founder of independent music label Omnesia Records.
Christian Finnegan.  Fletcher Christian Finnegan (born April 1 1973) better known as Christian Finnegan is an American stand-up comedian writer and actor based in New York City.
Anne Petrie.  Anne Petrie (born December 24 1946) is an award-winning broadcaster and was most known as the host of Canada Live and Coast to Coast on CBC Newsworld during its early years.Prior to that she was the primary news anchor and host of CBWT's 24Hours LateNight from October 1985 to July 1989.Anne came to Winnipeg from Vancouver where she hosted the local CBC Radio program 3's Company.Anne has authored four books on Vancouver: Ethnic Vancouver (ISBN 0888391595) Vancouver Secrets (ISBN 091949319X) More Vancouver Secrets (ISBN 0919493750) A guidebook to ethnic Vancouver : walking shopping and eating tours of the ethnic neighborhoods of Vancouver (ISBN 0888391595)One book on single-mothers — Gone to an Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers (ISBN 0771069715).Anne has also hosted Anne Petrie's Talk TV and Absolutely Canadian both on CBC Newsworld and The Moral Divide a co-production with VisionTV.
Bubba Kolb.  Franklin Dial Bubba Kolb (born 13 September 1940 Durant Oklahoma) is an American jazz pianist and trombonist who from 1975 to 1981 led a jazz trio The Bubba Kolb Trio in residence at the World Village Lounge at the Lake Buena Vista Village Florida. The trio backed major jazz artists appearing nightly as guests two-weeks each year-round.
Adolfo Luxúria Canibal.  Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (meaning Adolph Cannibal Lust) is the stage name of Adolfo Morais de Macedo. He was born in 1959 in Luanda Angola. Canibal is a Portuguese musician and lawyer known for his vocals in both the Portuguese rock band Mão Morta and French electronic noise band Mécanosphère.
Tom Hingley.  Tom Hingley (born 9 July 1965 Oxford England) is a musician best known as the lead vocalist of the English alternative rock band Inspiral Carpets.
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi.  Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi is a well-known Carnatic violinist vocalist and composer.
Curly Fox.  Arnim LeRoy Fox (November 9 1910 – November 10 1995) better known as Curly (or Curley) Fox was an American old-time and country fiddler singer and country musician.
José Bernal.  José Antonio Severino Bernal Muñoz (January 8 1925 – April 19 2010 known by his first name and by his paternal family name José Bernal) was a Cuban-American artist born in Santa Clara Cuba in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara) and became a naturalized U.S.A. citizen in 1980.Bernal's aesthetics stemmed from his Cuban birth and the experience of exile and renewal. His art has been described as modernist abstract and expressionist.
Rafael Rodríguez Padilla.  Rafael Rodríguez Padilla (January 23 1890 – January 24 1929) was a Guatemalan painter printmaker and sculptor. In 1920 he was cofounder and became the first director of the Guatemalan Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Academy of Fine Arts) which merged into the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas Rafael Rodríguez Padilla. Rodríguez studied sculpture under the Venezuelan Santiago González (1850–1909) in Guatemala.
Fernando Villalona.  Fernando Villalona the first artist named El Mayimbe (born in Loma de Cabrera Dajabón Province on May 7 1955 Ramón Fernando Villalona Évora) is a Dominican merengue singer that began singing in the early 1970s his popularity started to grow by the late 1970s and has not declined ever since.Fernando began singing at a very early age and became popular after participating in El Festival de la Voz an amateur TV talent show.
Dave Abbruzzese.  David James Abbruzzese (born May 17 1968) is an American musician who was the drummer for the American rock band Pearl Jam from 1991 to 1994. He replaced drummer Matt Chamberlain in 1991 shortly before the release of the band's debut album Ten. Abbruzzese played on the band's next two records Vs. and Vitalogy.
Bob Andy.  Bob Andy CD (born Keith Anderson 1944) is a Jamaican reggae vocalist and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of reggae's most influential songwriters.
Shane Evans.  Shane Evans (born April 26 1970) is an American musician. He was the original drummer for the rock band Collective Soul.
Hou Baolin.  Hou Baolin (traditional Chinese: 侯寶林; simplified Chinese: 侯宝林; Pinyin: Hóu Bǎolín; November 29 1917 – February 2 1993) was a Chinese xiangsheng performer. He was one of his generation's most popular and influential xiangsheng performers and was mentor to many later xiangsheng performers. His apprentices include Ma Ji and Shi Shengjie. He was the father of Hou Yaohua and Hou Yaowen.
France Daigle.  France Daigle (born 1953) is a Canadian author. Born and based in Moncton New Brunswick she has published six novels and three plays. She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the Chiac in her written dialogue.She was awarded the 1999 France-Acadie award for her novel Pas Pire and the 2002 Éloize award for Un fin passage. She has written three plays with the avant garde theatre company Moncton Sable.
David Hemenway.  David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has a B.A. (1966) and Ph.D.(1974) from Harvard University in economics. He is the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. He is also currently a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. Dr. Hemenway has written over 130 articles and five books in the fields of economics and public health.
Jeremy Smith (musician).  Jeremy Stuart Smith is an Australian rock musician; he was a founding member of Hunters & Collectors on French horn guitars keyboards programming and backing vocals (1981–1998). Smith worked on Ghostwriters's 1996 album Second Skin.
Antoine Arnauld (1616–1698).  Antoine Arnauld (1616–1698) was a French memoirist.
Mary Hansen.  Mary Therese Hansen (11 January 1966 – 9 December 2002) was an Australian-born guitarist and singer. She was a member of United Kingdom-based alternative music group Stereolab from 1992. As a member of that band Hansen recorded six studio albums from Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (August 1993) to Sound-Dust (August 2001).
Divna Ljubojević.  Divna Ljubojević (Serbian: Дивна Љубојевић) sometimes called by just her first name i.e. Divna is a Serbian singer and conductor of Orthodox Christian sacred music of various languages; she is a founder (along a group of her friends) the conductor and artistic director of the Melodi ensemble (Serbian: Мелоди (the) Melodists) a choir and studio for spiritual music.
Jay Mehler.  Jason Jay Mehler (born 8 September 1971) is a musician from Philadelphia United States. He played guitar in British rock band Kasabian from 2006 to 2012. He is now a touring member of Beady Eye having joined the band in 2013 after leaving Kasabian.
Howie Richmond.  Howard S. Howie Richmond (January 18 1918 – May 20 2012) was an American music publisher and music industry executive. He established The Richmond Organization (TRO) one of the largest independent music publishing organizations in the world and had a hand in commercialising and promoting many pop folk and rock songs since the 1940s.
Claudine Monteil.  Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer and women's rights specialist. She holds a Ph.D. based on study of Simone de Beauvoir's writings and life. Her mother Dr Josiane Serre was a chemist who became the director of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles. Her father is Fields Medal and Abel prize winning mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre.Monteil is one of the founders of the women's rights movement in 1970 along with being a specialist on Simone de Beauvoir.
Tatsuya Ueda.  Tatsuya Ueda (上田 竜也 Ueda Tatsuya born on October 4 1983) is a Japanese idol singer and actor from the Japanese idol group KAT-TUN. Born in Kanagawa in Japan he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1998. In March 2006 he debuted as a member of the Japanese boy band KAT-TUN and is under Johnny & Associates management.
David Fisher (architect).  David Fisher (born Haim David Fisher ca. 1949) is an Italian-Israeli architect based in Florence. He is known for designing the Dynamic Tower a rotating skyscraper proposed for construction in Dubai.
Luckyiam.  Tommy Woolfolk better known by his stage name Luckyiam is a rapper from Los Angeles California. He is a founding member of Living Legends. He is also a member of CMA and Mystik Journeymen.
Joe Iconis.  Joseph Peter Philip Iconis (born September 22 1981) is an American musical theatre writer.
Ion Valentin Anestin.  Ion Valentin Anestin (December 24 1900 – December 6 1963) was a Romanian graphic artist engraver painter sculptor journalist and dramatist. Noted as a caricaturist and art critic he was the father of Ion Nuni Anestin himself a visual artist and actor.
Amy Farina.  Amy Farina is a musician living in Washington D.C. She currently plays drums and sings in The Evens with Ian MacKaye. Previously she has played in The Warmers Mister Candy Eater Ted Leo & the Pharmacists and with Lois Maffeo. She and MacKaye welcomed their first child Carmine Francis Farina MacKaye on May 24 2008.
Wynona Carr.  Wynona Carr (August 23 1924 – May 12 1976) was an African-American gospel R&B and rock and roll singer-songwriter who recorded as Sister Wynona Carr when performing gospel material.
Francesco Gessi.  Francesco Gessi (20 January 1588 – 1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Bologna.Born to a noble family but his father noticed his attraction to the arts and placed him in the apprenticeship with Denys Calvaert. This did not last since he apparently disturbed the other pupils. He was more successful under the tutelage of Guido Reni. From there he obtained commissions to fresco in Ravenna Mantua and also the Capella del Tesoro in the Naples Cathedral.
Zeno Roth.  Zeno Roth (born 30 June 1956) is a German guitarist and songwriter playing in a fluent neoclassical/blues style. He is the younger brother of acclaimed guitarist Uli Jon Roth of Scorpions.Zeno Roth is also a poet and writer. Zeno's works span the fields of poetry philosophy humanism rock music and guitar aesthetics. He is though probably most famous for working at Cambrian Printers - arguably the most successful commercial printer in the UK.
Paul Baumgartner.  Paul Baumgartner (21 July 1903 – 19 October 1976) was a Swiss pianist.Born in Altstätten Switzerland he studied piano and composition with Walter Braunfels in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and with Eduard Erdmann in Köln where he subsequently taught.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi Urdu: نصرت فتح علی خان‎; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) a Pakistani musician was primarily a singer of Qawwali the devotional music of the Sufis. Considered one of the greatest voices ever recorded he possessed an extraordinary range of vocal abilities and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours.
Ramakrushna Nanda.  Ramakrushna Nanda (15 February 1906 – 28 October 1994) of Bairoi Cuttack Odisha India was an author of children's literature. He composed the song Ahe Dayamaya Biswa Bihari a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi at Sabarmati Ashram. This song was included in his Oriya language text book Sahitya Sopana.
Donald Grantham.  Donald Grantham (born 9 November 1947) is an American composer and music educator.Grantham was born in Duncan Oklahoma. After receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Oklahoma he went on to receive his MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. For two summers he studied under famed French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in France.
Beth Sorrentino.  Beth Sorrentino (born Elizabeth Sorrentino) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter from Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Echo Chernik.  Echo Chernik (born August 30 1973 as Heather McKinney) is an American Art Nouveau artist. Her motif is an art nouveau/jugendstil influenced style with elaborate decorative borders women (or pin-up girls) with flowing and entwining hair sometimes accompanied by elaborate typography.
Al Bennett.  Alvin S. Al Bennett (September 21 1926 – March 1989) from Joiner Arkansas was a record company executive who worked at Dot Records then Liberty Records. He was president of Liberty until 1968. At that time he founded Cream Records which absorbed Hi Records in 1977. Bennett is also known for lending his name to the character of Alvin from The Chipmunks.
Volkmar Weiss.  Volkmar Weiss (born 23 May 1944 in Zwickau Saxony) is a German scientist and writer primarily interested in the field of IQ research. He is mostly known for his controversial thesis that biological intelligence is fixed to social class and for co-founding the German Social Union. He was previously a member of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1990 to 1993.
Master Abdullah.  Master Abdullah (died January 31 1994) was a Pakistani film music composer.
Cristina Black.  Cristina Black is an American musician and writer. She regularly contributes to a number of publications in New York and Los Angeles. Her first album The Ditty Sessions was released in 2010 and her music has been featured on the TV series Parenthood.
Karl Hubbuch.  Karl Hubbuch (21 November 1891 – 26 December 1979) was a German painter printmaker and draftsman associated with the New Objectivity.Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe. From 1908 to 1912 he studied art at the Karlsruhe Academy where he formed friendships with fellow students Georg Scholz and Rudolf Schlichter. He continued his studies with Emil Orlik at the Berlin Museum of Arts and Crafts School until the First World War.
Pier Alessandro Paravia.  Pier Alessandro Paravia (July 15 1797 - March 18 1857) was an Italian writer scholar philanthropist and professor of Italian eloquence at the University of Turin.
Alexandra Rapaport.  Alexandra Rapaport (born 26 December 1971) is a Swedish film and stage actress born in Bromma. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from which she graduated in 1997.Her parents are both from Poland her father being a Polish Jew who emigrated to Sweden during World War II.
Dominik Smole.  Dominik Smole (24 August 1929 - 29 July 1992) was a Slovenian writer and playwright.
Gérard Presgurvic.  Gérard Presgurvic (born 1953) is a French popular composer. He was the author of 1980s pop hits Chacun fait c'qui lui plait and Marre de cette nana-là but is best known for the 2001 musical spectacle Roméo et Juliette de la haine à l'amour.
Charlie Gillingham.  Charlie Gillingham (born Charles Thomas Gillingham January 26 1960 Torrance California) is a keyboardist andi multi-instrumentalist best known for his performance on the Hammond B-3 organ accordion piano and keyboards for the band Counting Crows.
Elisa (Italian singer).  Elisa Toffoli (born December 19 1977 in Trieste) is an Italian singer-songwriter performing under the mononym Elisa. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop alternative rock electronica and trip hop. In Europe she is perhaps most recognised for the single Come Speak to Me while American audiences may recognise the song Dancing as featured in both the 2006 and 2007 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance.
Joan Chen.  Joan Chong Chen (Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 陈冲; traditional Chinese: 陳冲; pinyin: Chén Chōng; born April 26 1961) is a Chinese and American actress film director screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor.
Peter York.  Peter York real name Peter Wallis born 1944 is a British management consultant author and broadcaster most famous for co-authoring Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist for The Independent on Sunday GQ and Management Today and Associate of the media analysis and networking organisation Editorial Intelligence.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.  Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (born 1970) is an Indigenous Australian musician who sings in the Yolngu language. He was born in Galiwin'ku (Elcho Island) off the coast of Arnhem Land Northern Australia about 580 kilometres from Darwin. He is from the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu and his mother is from the Galpu nation. He was born blind has never learned Braille and does not have a guide dog or use a white cane.
Anastasia (artist).  Anastasia (flourished c 1400 Paris) was a French illuminator of manuscripts apparently specializing in the elaborate decorative borders that were increasingly fashionable and landscape backgrounds. By her day most manuscripts were produced in commercial workshops and many artists were women probably especially those specializing in borders which were often produced by a different artist from the main miniature image.
Matt Murphy (Canadian musician).  Matt Murphy is a Canadian musician and actor. He is perhaps best known as the vocalist and guitarist of 1990s band The Super Friendz.
Pèire Godolin.  Pèire Godolin whose name is often Frenchified to Pierre Goudouli or even Pierre Goudelin was born in 1580 in Toulouse where he died on the 10 September 1649 was an Occitan poet. He wrote in the Toulouse dialect.
Vice Cooler.  Vice Cooler is an American musician music video director and photographer.He has been recognized by people like High Places and Henry Rollins as an inspiration. Peaches has crowned him as the world's greatest performer.
Norbert Klatt.  Norbert Klatt (born 1949) is a German scholar of Buddhism and Christianity and publisher; founder of Norbert Klatt Verlag Göttingen.Klatt proposed Buddhist influence on some New Testament narratives (1982) particularly the conversion of Kassapa (Mahavagga 1.20.16) on Jesus walking on the water (Mark 6). From 1986 Klatt made investigations into the Life of Issa forgery of Nicolas Notovitch expanding his researchs to include Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claims of Jesus in India in 1988.
Magtymguly Pyragy.  Magtymguly Pyragy (Persian: مختوم‌قلی فراغی Makhtumqoli Faraghi; Turkmen: Magtymguly Pyragy) (1733–1797) was a Turkmen spiritual leader and philosophical poet who made significant efforts to secure independence[citation needed] and autonomy for his people in the 18th century.
Cheyenne McCray.  Cheyenne McCray (born 1965 in Miami Arizona USA) is an American author of romance novels including paranormal romance romantic suspense and urban fantasy. She has written several novels published by St. Martin’s Press and self-published e-books and paperbacks. Her work has also been featured in New York Times bestselling anthologies.
George Brettingham Sowerby II.  George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British naturalist illustrator and conchologist.Together with his father George Brettingham Sowerby I he published the Thesaurus Conchylorium and other illustrated works on molluscs.He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III also a malacologist.
Ayaan Ali Khan.  Ayaan Ali Khan (Hindi: अयान अली खान; IAST: Ayān Alī Khān) (born 5 September 1979) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Khan is the son of Amjad Ali Khan and often performs with his older brother Amaan Ali Khan with whom he hosted the music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma. He has also released solo albums and collaborations with brother and father.
Chris LeDoux.  Chris Ledoux (October 2 1948 – March 9 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums (many self-released) which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007. He was awarded one gold album certification from the RIAA and was nominated for a Grammy Award and the Academy of Country Music Music Pioneer Award.
Tracy Reese.  Tracy Reese (born February 12 1964) is an American fashion designer who specializes in women's ready-to-wear clothing accessories and home fashions such as linens. She is also a board member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America having been inducted in 2007.
Peter Banks.  For the keyboard player Peter Banks see the entry for the band After the Fire.Peter William Brockbanks (15 July 1947 – 7 March 2013 known as Peter Banks) was a British guitarist. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock bands Yes and Flash. The BBC's Danny Baker and Big George often called Banks The architect of progressive music.[citation needed]
Cathy Smith Bowers.  Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor. She teaches poetry in an M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. Bowers was named by Governor Bev Perdue as the sixth North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012. She has published five collections of poetry.
Andrea di Leone.  Andrea di Leone (1610–1685) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in his native city of Naples.He was a pupil of Belisario Corenzio and Salvator Rosa. When Corenzio left Naples Leone became his successor in his work for the palace of the Viceroy. He painted there several battle scenes but afterwards imitated Aniello Falcone in this line of work. There are several paintings by him in the cathedral and in San Paolo Maggiore at Milan. He died at Naples.
Fredrik Lundin.  Fredrik Lundin (born 7 April 1963) is a Danish jazz saxophonist composer and bandleader. Frank Lundin founded his own jazz quartet in 1981 and since then he has been one of the most expressive and used saxophoners in Danish jazz.Fredrik Lundin is currently the leader of the 11-piece Fredrik Lundin Overdrive which he founded in 2000.
Marika Papagika.  Marika Papagika (Greek: Μαρίκα Παπαγκίκα née Katsoris;[citation needed] September 1 1890 – August 2 1943) was a popular Greek singer in the early 20th century and one of the first Greek women singers to be heard on sound recordings.
Chaman Lal Chaman.  Chaman Lal Chaman is a London-based noted Panjabi poet lyricist and radio broadcaster. He is the writer of a popular Panjabi song saun da mahina sung by Jagjit Singh in 1979. He also writes in Urdu and Hindi.He wrote a Bhangra song for Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice starring Aishwarya Rai with music by Anu Malik and many songs and ghazals for Jagjit Singh and his wife Chitra Singh.
Widji Thukul.  Widji (sometimes Wiji) Thukul is an Indonesian poet born in 1963. His work is political often critical of the Indonesian government and the social conditions of the country. He has been missing since 1998.
Hadiqa Kiani.  Hadiqa Kiani (Urdu: حدیقہ کیانی‎) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and model.In 2013 Kiani became a judge on the Pakistani reality television show Pakistan Idol. Recently she has collaborated with the singer Atif Aslam.
John Hauser.  John Hauser (January 30 1859 – October 6 1913) was an American painter best known for his portraits of American Indians/Native Americans and depictions of various aspects of Indian life. He had academic training at art schools in Europe including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In the United States he became fascinated with Native Americans of the Southwest and West whom he painted for the rest of his life.
Julie Tan.  Julie Tan (born September 22 1992) is a Malaysian actress and model. She is known for starring as the female lead in That Girl in Pinafore.
Taebin.  Danny Im (Hangul: 대니 임) also known by his Korean name Tae Bin (태빈) is an American singer of Korean descent and the youngest member of the Korean hip hop group 1TYM. Born on May 6 1980 he debuted as lead vocalist of 1TYM in 1998. On June 12 2004 he released his first solo album under the name Taebin. He used the name Danny while he worked with 1TYM and was known for his smooth R&B vocals often performing with his friend and fellow K-pop artist Seven.
Joel Larson.  Joel Larson is a rock drummer and percussionist from California who first became known as a member of The Grass Roots a group he performed with from 1965 to 1966 and during the 1970s.
James Walsh (musician).  James Walsh (born 10 June 1980 Chorley Lancashire England) is an English singer songwriter guitarist pianist and frontman of the band Starsailor.In 2009 he started recording his first solo album working with American songwriter and singer Suzanne Vega and making his first film collaboration with Powder.Including his work with the band Starsailor he has sold over three million albums globally
Reg Meuross.  Reg Meuross is an English singer and songwriter based in Somerset England. Awarded Best Male Vocalist 2013 by Fatea he first emerged on the British acoustic music scene when he formed The Panic Brothers withcomedian Richard Morton their witty songs and warm demeanour wowed many an audienceat both home and abroad.
Tasis (rapper).  Markku Lauri Johannes Wettenranta better known by his stage name Tasis is a Finnish rapper. Besides being one of the founders of the record company Rähinä Records Tasis was also part of the group Kapasiteettiyksikkö together with Uniikki and Andu.
Bryan MacDonald.  Bryan MacDonald (born 1980) is an Irish playwright theatre director and journalist. Best known in Ireland for being the Dubliner's Diary columnist in The Evening Herald and theatre critic of The Daily Mail he has also contributed to RTÉ The Dubliner and Vanity Fair. MacDonald was born in Kilkenny Ireland. In 2004 MacDonald joined the crew of the HBO western drama television series Deadwood as a writer for the first season.
Tracy Dares.  Tracey Dares MacNeil is a pianist from Cape Breton Nova Scotia. She performed in Natalie MacMaster's band for several years including recording for MacMaster's mid-1990s albums My Roots are Showing No Boundaries and Fit as a Fiddle.She is married to piper Paul K. MacNeil and with him established the Castlebay Music online retail business specialising in Atlantic Canada music artists.
Steve Norman.  Steve Norman (born 25 March 1960 London) is an English musician who plays saxophone guitar percussion and other instruments for Spandau Ballet.
Nikola Zorić.  Nikola Nidža Zorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Ниџа Зорић) is a Serbian musician best known as the keyboardist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.
Melchior Feselen.  Melchior Feselen an historical painter of Passau lived at the same time as Altdorfer whose works he imitated with assiduity. Though he was inferior to that artist his paintings are rich in composition with a great number of figures highly finished and in a style quite peculiar to himself. He died at Ingolstadt in 1538. Among his paintings there are: Darmstadt. Gallery. The Crucifixion. Munich. Gallery.
Yaron Herman.  Yaron Herman (born 12 July 1981) is an Israeli jazz pianist now living in Paris France.
Frank Reyes.  Frank Reyes (born 1969) born Francisco López Reyes is one of the best known bachata artists famous throughout Latin America. He was born in the town of Tenares in Joba Arriba Dominican Republic. Reyes discovered his musical talent when he was a young boy. He and his brothers started their own musical group and had great singing talent.
Jeff Lorber.  Jeff Lorber (born November 4 1952 Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States) is an American Grammy Award-nominated keyboardist composer and record producer.Many of his songs were featured on The Weather Channel's Local On The 8s segments including appearances on the channel's compilation albums The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth Jazz and The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II.
Camilo Castelo Branco.  Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco1st Viscount de Correia Botelho (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐˈmilu kɐʃˈtɛlu ˈbɾɐ̃ku]; March 16 1825 – June 1 1890) was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century having produced over 260 books (mainly novels plays and essays). His writing is considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm bitterness and dark humour.
Herbert Jepson.  Herbert Jepson (June 6 1908 – July 2 1993) was an American artist and designer. He founded the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1945; among his students were the like of Larry Bell and Joe Goode. He was the father of poet Elena Karina Byrne.
Jimmy Ward (banjo player).  Jimmy Ward (Tullagha Kilfenora 1909 - Milltown Malbay 1987) was a well known Irish traditional banjo player and lilter out of Milltown Malbay County Clare Ireland.Ward originally played the flute piccolo and the whistle but changed to the banjo in the 1940s.Ward was one of the founders of the renewed Kilfenora Céilí Band in 1927.
Maria Dąbrowska.  Maria Dąbrowska ([dɔmˈbrɔfska]; 6 October 1889 – 19 May 1965) was a Polish writer novelist essayist journalist and playwright author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie (Nights and Days) written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes. The novel was made into a film by the same title in 1975 by Jerzy Antczak. Dąbrowska was awarded the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935.
Ken (musician).  Ken (born November 28 1968 in Maibara Shiga Japan) is a musician and singer-songwriter best known as guitarist of the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. He is also the leader vocalist and guitarist of Sons of All Pussys (also known as S.O.A.P.) and has released a solo album entitled In Physical. While in L'Arc-en-Ciel his name is stylized as ken.
Michael Bacon (musician).  Michael Bacon (born December 22 1949) is an American singer-songwriter musician and film score composer. He is the brother of actor Kevin Bacon.
Roger Pontare.  Fred Roger Pontare (born Johansson 17 October 1951 in Slagnäs Arjeplog Municipality Sweden) is a Swedish musician. He currently lives in Vingåker Södermanland County.He represented Sweden twice in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 (duet with Marie Bergman) with Stjärnorna and in 2000 with When Spirits Are Calling My Name placing 13th and 7th respectively.Roger Pontare is father to Viktor and Vincent Pontare.
Marcello Provenzale.  Marcello Provenzale (1575–1639) was an Italian painter. He was born at Cento. He was a pupil of the fellow painter from Cento Paolo Rossetti but is chiefly distinguished for his talents as a mosaicist. Giovanni Baglione describes several of his works at Rome executed under the direction of Paul V among which is the portrait of that pontiff. In conjunction with Rossetti he executed several mosaics in the Capella Clementina in St.
Barbara Pratt.  Barbara Pratt (formerly Pratt Wangersky) (born 1963) is a Canadian painter based in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's Newfoundland.Pratt grew up in the community of St. Catherine's in St. Mary's Bay Newfoundland. She attended Rothesay Netherwood School and graduated with a BA from Acadia University.Pratt's paintings are in various private public and corporate collections. She is currently represented by the Emma Butler Gallery in St.
Kasey Chambers.  Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976) is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of singer and musician Bill Chambers and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.
N. Mohanan.  N. Mohanan (April 27 1933–October 3 1999) wasa Malayalam–language short story writer and novelist from Kerala state South India. He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1998 for the novel Innalathe Mazha. He has published some ten collections of short stories including Ninte Katha (Enteyum) Dukhathinte Rathrikal Poojakkedukkatha Pookkal N. Mohanante Kathakal Sheshapathram Nunayude Kshanikathakal Thedi Snehathinte Vyakaranam Nishedha Rajyathile Rajavu and Orikkal.
Audre Lorde.  Audre Lorde (born Audrey Geraldine Lorde February 18 1934 – November 17 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer radical feminist womanist and civil rights activist.
Frank Wakefield.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield (born June 26 1934) is an innovative American mandolin player in the bluegrass music style. Wakefield is known for his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands including Red Allen Don Reno Jerry Garcia David Grisman The Stanley Brothers and the Greenbriar Boys.
Henri Dès.  Henri Dès (born in 1940 in Renens Vaud Switzerland as Henri Destraz)[citation needed] is a Swiss French-language children's singer and songwriter immensely popular in European Francophone countries. In 1970 he released his first album Retour. Dès also founded his own record label Disques Mary-Josée which he named after his wife.In 1969 he won the Sopot International Song Festival.He represented Switzerland in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Retour'. It was placed fourth.
Jon-Rae Fletcher.  Jon-Rae Fletcher is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded both as a solo artist and with a back-up band The River.
John Berryman.  John Allyn Berryman (October 25 1914 – January 7 1972) was an American poet and scholar born in McAlester Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry. His best-known work is The Dream Songs.
Tony Fruscella.  Tony Fruscella (February 4 1927 Orangeburg New York – August 14 1969 New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter. He died of liver cirrhosis in 1969.
Margaret Sidney.  Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of American author Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop (June 22 1844–August 2 1924). In addition to writing popular children's stories she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death. After they bought The Wayside country house together they worked hard to make it a center of literary life.
Jesse Aaron Richardson.  Jesse Aaron Richardson (born May 24 1986) is an American writer. He is known for creating the Rotten Apple series a series of stories taking place in several cites across the United States & world; exploiting the style of gritty violence crime and betrayal. Most known for the creation of the series' anti-hero the bounty hunter Benjamin Rex; taking the character all throughout the underground worlds of drugs cults hired killers wanted outlaws and more; throughout the city of New York.
Mick Quinn.  Mick Quinn (born Michael Milton Quinn 17 December 1969 in Cambridge) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as founding member of English rock band Supergrass. He formed the DB Band with bassist Paul Wilson formerly of Shake Appeal in 2010 and released début EP Stranger In The Alps on 17 September 2011. He also is a member of 60's garage/beat band the Beat Seeking Missiles.
Michael Gray (author).  Michael Gray (b. Bromborough Wirral 25 August 1946) is a British author who has written extensively about popular music.
Paula Fernandes.  Paula Fernandes de Souza (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈpawlɐ feʁˈnɐ̃dʒis]; born August 28 1984 in Sete Lagoas Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian singer songwriter and arranger. In a poll organized among readers of VIP magazine in 2011 she was named the 16th sexiest woman in the world. That same year she was one of the most accessed on Google Brazil.
Paula McLain.  Paula McLain (born 1965) is an American author best known for her novel The Paris Wife a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage which became a long-time New York Times bestseller. She has published two collections of poetry a memoir about growing up in the foster system and the novel A Ticket to Ride.
Jehangir Aziz Hayat.  Jehangir Aziz Hayat (Urdu: جہانگیر عزیز حیات) (born 5 June 1989) also known simply as Jehangir Aziz is an award winning Pakistani singer guitarist and composer.He released his début album Read Between the Lines in 2009 and is known for his track Pretend to Be which won three awards at the Indie Music Channel Awards 2012.Hayat belongs to a Pashtun family.
Samuel Lane.  Samuel Lane (1780–1859) was an English portrait-painter.
Catherine Ringer.  Catherine Ringer (born 18 October 1957 Suresnes France) is a French singer musician songwriter dancer choreographer and actress.Ringer started her professional career on stage in the late 1970s in productions with Michael Lonsdale's Théâtre de Recherche Musicale as well as musical and dance productions. In 1976 she met the Argentine dancer and choreographer Marcia Moretto with whom she studied and also performed in various venues in Paris.
Edwin Torres (poet).  Edwin Torres (born 1958) is a Nuyorican (New York-Puerto Rican) poet.
Ruth Grulkowski.  Ruth Catherine Grulkowski (December 9 1930 – June 24 2012) was a competitor in the gymnastics competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Julia Older.  Julia Older has written poetry essays fiction nonfiction and plays. Four of her eleven poetry books are book-length poems including Tales of the François Vase and the mythical journey of Hermaphroditus in America and Tahirih Unveiled based on the life of Persia's first women's rights activist.
Edward Wesson.  Edward Wesson (April 29 1910 – 1983) was an English watercolour artist.His work is known for its simplicity boldness and mastery of brushwork. He is remembered by many painters as a very encouraging teacher.He had one daughter Elizabeth Wesson.
Cesare Uva.  Cesare Uva (Avellino November 11 1824 – Naples February 16 1886) was an Italian painter.He was born in Avellino resident in Naples. He initially frequented the studio of Gabriele Smargiassi and then the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples.He painted landscapes Pompeian (Ancient Roman) themes and genre paintings he exhibited in Italy and elsewhere. Among his works are: The last day of Pompei; and The Waters of the Serino exhibited in Naples in 1877.
Shoji Tabuchi.  Shoji Tabuchi (田淵 章二 Tabuchi Shōji April 16 1944) is a Japanese American country music fiddler and singer who currently performs at his theater The Shoji Tabuchi Theatre in Branson Missouri.
J. Peter Schwalm.  J. Peter Schwalm (born 1970 Frankfurt am Main) is a German composer and music producer active in the fields of electronic music ambient radio drama film theatre and ballet. He is best known for his work with musician Brian Eno. He lives and works in Frankfurt.
Moran Mazor.  Moran Mazor (Hebrew: מורן מזור‎; born 17 May 1991) is an Israeli singer. Mazor rose to fame as the winner of the first series of the Israeli reality show Eyal Golan is Calling You in 2011.In 2013 Mazor won the Israeli national selection Kdam Eurovision 2013. She represented her country in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö Sweden with the song Rak bishvilo (Only for him).
Dido (singer).  Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (/ˈdaɪdoʊ/; born 25 December 1971) known as Dido is a British singer-songwriter. Dido attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999). The album sold over 21 million copies worldwide and won several awards; including the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act two NRJ Awards for Best New Act and Best Album and two Brit Awards for Best British Female and Best Album.
Kārlis Skalbe.  Kārlis Skalbe (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 — 1945 April 14) was a Latvian writer poet and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King of Fairytales' and his words Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (For Fatherland and Freedom) are inscribed on the Monument of Freedom in Riga.
Matt Morris (musician).  Matthew Burton Matt Morris (also known as Teo Bishop born May 9 1979) is an American pop artist songwriter and religion blogger. He is the son of country music star Gary Morris. He achieved early fame when he appeared on The Disney Channel television series The All-New Mickey Mouse Club A.K.A. MMC in the early 1990s where he was a cast member from 1991 to 1996 (Seasons 4–7).
Sam Butera.  Sam Butera (August 17 1927 – June 3 2009) was a tenor saxophone player best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R & B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub scene.
Jay Leno.  James Douglas Muir Jay Leno (/ˈlɛnoʊ/; born April 28 1950) is an American comedian actor writer producer and television host. Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009. Beginning in September 2009 Leno started a primetime talk show titled The Jay Leno Show which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time UTC-5) also on NBC.
Tal (singer).  Tal Benyerzi (born in Israel in 12 December 1989) professionally known by her mononym Tal is an Israeli-born French singer-songwriter and occasional dancer. She is currently signed to Warner Music France.
Master of San Martino alla Palma.  The Master of San Martino alla Palma (formerly called the Amico di Daddi) was a Florentine painter active during the first third of the fourteenth century. An immediate follower of Bernardo Daddi he is named for an altarpiece in the parish church of San Martino alla Palma. His chronology is uncertain; he has been linked with the Master of Saint Cecilia the Master of the Saint George Codex and Lippo di Benivieni among others.
Rami Fortis.  Rami Fortis (Hebrew: רמי פורטיס‎ born July 7 1954) or simply Fortis is an Israeli rock singer. Born in Tel Aviv Fortis became known as a pioneer of Israeli punk rock. His debut album Plonter released in 1978 was not a commercial success at the time though today it is considered an influential cult album. His fame in Israel came with the release of a Hebrew language album Sipurim Me'hakufsa (Tales from the Box) in 1988.
Masayuki Koga.  Masayuki Koga (born in Omuta City Japan) is a shakuhachi player and former member of the Ensemble Nipponia. He studied Kinko shakuhachi with Kiichi Koga his father and Tozan Ryu shakuhachi with Kazan Saka and teaches both schools. His students include Richard Marriott.He is the general director of the Japanese Music Institute of America located in San Francisco and Berkeley which he founded in 1981. Since 1995 the Institute has taught shakuhachi koto and taiko.
Craig Sharmat.  Craig Sharmat (born October 8 1957) is an American musician. He composes music for television and film and is an accomplished guitarist whose work has been noticed in the Smooth Jazz charts. He has scored a wide variety of reality TV shows TV animation television commercials and documentary movies. He has also played guitar on thousands of cues and backed up a number of commercial artists as guitarist and or arranger.
Gauri Deshpande.  Gauri Deshpande (Devanagari: गौरी देशपांडे) (February 11th 1942 – March 1st 2003) was a novelist short story writer and poet from Maharashtra India. She wrote in Marathi and English.She was born in Pune in 1942 to Irawati Karve and Dinkar Karve her father being one of the sons of Dhondo Keshav Karve. After finishing her high school education at Ahilyadevi School in Pune she attended Fergusson College also in Pune to receive an M.A. in English Literature.
Young Scooter.  Kenneth Edward Bailey (born March 28 1986) better known by his stage name Young Scooter is an American rapper from Atlanta GA who is affiliated with Freebandz and 1017 Brick Squad Records and signed to his own label Black Migo Gang. Scooter grew to prominence in 2012 after releasing a number of successful mixtapes and collaborating with notable rappers such as Gucci Mane Future Waka Flocka Flame and Chief Keef.
Anna Malikova.  Anna Malikova is an Uzbekistani pianist.
Mikiel Anton Vassalli.  Mikiel Anton Vassalli (March 5 1764 in Żebbuġ Malta - January 12 1829) was a Maltese writer a philosopher and a linguist who published important Maltese language books including a Maltese-Italian dictionary a Maltese grammar book the Maltese Gospels and towards the end of his life a book on Maltese proverbs.
Julius Schrader.  Julius Friedrich Antonio Schrader (16 June 1815 Berlin – 16 February 1900 Lichterfelde) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
MC40.  Xue Shi Ling (born 薛仕凌; pinyin: Xuē Shì Líng) also known as MC40 is a Taiwanese Canadian singer-rapper songwriter lyricist actor and a member of the Taiwanese hip hop band Da Mouth with DJ Chung Hua Harry and Aisa.MC40 usually writes most of Da Mouth's lyrics on the album and is considered one of the best and fastest rappers in Taiwan with his multi-language rapping ability.
John Lewis Krimmel.  John Lewis Krimmel (May 30 1786-July 15 1821) sometimes called the American Hogarth was America's first painter of genre scenes. Born in Germany he emigrated to Philadelphia in 1809 and soon became a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Initially influenced by Scotland's David Wilkie England's William Hogarth and America's Benjamin West he soon turned to direct observation of life for his genre scenes.
Andrew Sega.  Andrew Gregory Sega (born 20 May 1975) also known as Necros is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games. He is currently part of the group Iris and a live member of Stromkern and has his own recording label known as Diffusion Records.Sega's main solo project is known as The Alpha Conspiracy.
Fatin Shidqia.  Fatin Shidqia Lubis (born July 30 1996) better known as Fatin Shidqia or Fatin is an Indonesian singer and actress who won the first season of the Indonesian version of the The X Factor in May 2013 securing a 1 billion rupiahs recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia and released her debut single Aku Memilih Setia which debuted at number one on the iTunes Indonesia Album Chart.
Nessex.  Nester Lee (born September 29 1988 in Long Beach CA) better known by his stage name Nessex is an American electronic musician remix producer and DJ. Nessex has become popular mostly due to his eclectic style of music production especially pertaining to remixes. He's currently signed to Zombie Eater Industries as of January 2013. Nessex has recently gained renown for his work in the music industry by remixing some of the scenes most popular songs into heavier more intense dance music.
Deanna Summers.  Deanna (Dea) Summers is an American songwriter born in Mississippi. The family relocated to Memphis Tennessee in 1952 where she attended Kingsbury Jr. High School. She also attended Humes High School [1] before her family relocated to Dallas Texas. She has been an active member of BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) as both a songwriter and publisher affiliate since 1965. She is co-owner of Silicon Music Publishing and many of her compositions have been recorded by various artists.
Eraldo Bernocchi.  Eraldo Bernocchi (born c. 1963) is an Italian musician producer and sound designer.
Ulla Akselson.  Ulla Mariana Akselson (23 November 1924 – 20 February 2007) also known as Ulla Axelsson was a Swedish actress.
Uyen Linh.  Trần Nguyễn Uyên Linh (born December 31 1987) is a Vietnamese singer who won the third season of Vietnam Idol in 2010.
David Quinlan (film critic).  David Quinlan is an English film critic journalist film historian and author.Quinlan was the film critic for TV Times from 1972 to 2006. Other contributions to film periodicals include Films Illustrated Photoplay Films and Filming and Film Review.He co-edits the film review website PicturesThatTalk.com with Alan Frank.
Sagar Sen.  Sagar Sen (1932–1983) was a Bengali singer. He is primarily known as a Rabindrasangeet artiste although he had recorded a few Bengali modern songs as well.
Nick Duffy.  Nick Duffy (born Nicholas John Duffy on 24 June 1956 in Birmingham England) is a musician artist illustrator and filmmaker. Nick is the elder brother of singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy. They are both co-founders of the folk-pop group The Lilac Time. Nick is a multi-instrumentalist and has been a frequent contributor to Stephen's solo recordings. He also plays in other musical projects and has released solo recordings.
Jeffreys Lewis.  Jeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852–1926) was a British-born American actress whose career lasted long after her popularity as a leading lady had faded.
Patri Satish Kumar.  Patri Satish Kumar (born 3 August 1970; Vizianagaram Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian Carnatic musician and player of the mridangam. He is considered a stalwart in his field.
Bondy Chiu.  Bondy Hok Yee Chiu (Chinese: 趙學而; born 31 March 1972 in Hong Kong) is an actress and singer with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in Hong Kong. She is best known for her role as Lam Yuk Lo the long-running TVB series Virtues of Harmony. On 10/12 2008 her new album titled ting was released after a long break from the music industry. She speaks Cantonese Mandarin and English.
Carlo Allegretti.  Carlo Allegretti (16th-17th century) was an Italian painter mainly of sacred subjects.
Al Aarons.  Albert Al Aarons (born March 23 1932) is an American jazz trumpeter.
Samuel Linley.  Samuel Linley (1760 – December 1778) was the second son of Thomas Linley the elder and Mary Johnson one of 7 musical siblings born to that couple. He sang in his father's concerts 1774-5 and played the oboe. In 1778 he became a midshipman on HMS Thunderer aboard which he contracted the fever from which he died.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi.  Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Persian: محمود دولت‌آبادی‎) (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life drawn from personal experience.
Donnie Scantz.  Darnley Scantlebury known to most as Donnie Scantz is a music producer musician and songwriter. He is the founder of State of Emergency a music and extreme lifestyle allegiance dedicated to producing R&B Pop Hip-Hop and Rock. He is a two time Grammy Nominee and has worked with artists such as Aaliyah Toni Braxton Usher Ludacris J. Holiday Danity Kane and Chris Brown.
Huw Menai.  Huw Owen Williams (13 July 1886 Caernarvon – 28 June 1961) who wrote as Huw Menai was a Welsh poet a Welsh-language speaker who nevertheless wrote only in the English language. His poems were among the first classic works to be republished as a result of a 2004 incentive on the part of the Welsh Assembly Government.Huw Menai was educated at the Ragged School in Caernarvon. He married Anne Jones; they had 3 sons and 5 daughters.
Yves Sente.  Yves Sente (born 17 January 1964) is a Belgian comic book editor and author. He is known as writer for Blake and Mortimer and Thorgal.
Jasmine Villegas.  Jasmine Marie Villegas (born December 7 1993) also referred to simply as Jasmine V is an American R&B pop singer. After many years of pursuing a career in music she was signed to Sony Music at the age of 16.[citation needed]
Kelly Hoppe.  Kelly Mr. Chill Hoppe is a Canadian musician from Windsor Ontario.[citation needed] From 1994 to 2004 Hoppe was a member of Canadian blues rock band Big Sugar. He is currently a member of the roots[citation needed] band Mr. Chill and The Witnesses. In 2010 Hoppe rejoined Big Sugar.
Avner Cohen.  Avner Cohen is a writer historian and professor and is well known for his works on Israel's nuclear history and strategic policy. He is currently a Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Director of the Education Program and Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.Cohen received a B.A. in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 1975. He then studied at York University where he received an M.A.
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar.  Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is an Indian author. She is primarily known for her novels The Long Walk Home and The Taj Conspiracy.Someshwar is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. After graduating from IIM-C she worked in Hindustan Unilever where she was an area sales manager for Gujarat and Maharashtra. She later worked in other companies in marketing and advertising before starting her writing career.Someshwar's first novel Earning the Laundry Stripes was released in 2006.
Matt Zurbo.  Matt Zurbo is an Australian writer of children's literature and young-adult fiction.
Alix Kates Shulman.  Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17 1932) is an American writer of fiction memoirs and essays as well as one of the early radical feminist activists of feminism's Second Wave. She is best known for her bestselling debut Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf 1972) one of the first novels to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement (Oxford Companion to Women's Writing).
Jetpack (musician).  For other meanings see Jetpack (disambiguation).Jetpack is based in Southern California and is primarily musician Jetpack Dan or Daniel J. (real name: Dan J. Standiford) with Michael Kramer who drums and sings and co-produces. Jetpack composes records and performs the guitar dominated instrumental music known as surf or surf rock that was a music industry phenomenon of the early 1960s.
Chuck Cannon.  Marion Cletus Chuck Cannon Jr. (born in Greenville South Carolina) is an American country music songwriter. His compositions include hit singles for Toby Keith and John Michael Montgomery. Cannon has also received awards for Broadcast Music Incorporated as well as an Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year. He is the husband of singer Lari White.
Christopher Lloyd (screenwriter).  This article is about the screenwriter. Not to be confused with Christopher Lloyd the actor. For others see Christopher Lloyd (disambiguation).Christopher Lloyd is an American TV screenwriter and producer. Lloyd is co-executive producer of the TV series Modern Family which he produces with Steven Levitan. Prior to that Lloyd had an extensive career working for Paramount Television producing such series as Frasier.
Austin Tappan Wright.  Austin Tappan Wright (August 20 1883 – September 18 1931) was an American legal scholar and author best remembered for his major work of Utopian fiction Islandia. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright the brother of geographer John Kirtland Wright and the grandfather of editor Tappan Wright King.
Cate Harrington.  Cate Harrington (born August 14 1987) is a pornographic actress from Mansfield near Nottingham England. She has appeared in a range of hardcore pornographic films and adult websites such as Television X and Red Hot TV. Cate Harrington was named Female Performer of the Year at the UK Adult Film and Television Awards 2008.[citation needed]
Jean-Claude Michel.  Jean-Claude Michel (1925–1999) was a French actor.
Steven Malcolmson.  Steven Malcolmson (born 9 April 1983) – also known as Steve Malcolmson is a Scottish songwriter record producer originating from Glasgow Scotland.
Craig Marriner.  Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua New Zealand. His 2001 novel Stonedogs won a Montana New Zealand Book Award and in 2003 the film rights were sold to Australian production company Mushroom Pictures a film based on the book is currently in production. His second novel Southern Style was published in 2006. He is currently working on a third novel about a group of backpackers trekking through Europe during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Felicia Pearson.  Felicia Pearson (born May 18 1980 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American actress author and rapper. She is best known for playing a character of the same name Felicia Snoop Pearson on The Wire. She wrote a memoir titled Grace After Midnight detailing her troubled childhood and time spent in prison for second-degree murder.
Martin Camaj.  Martin Camaj (1925–1992) was an Albanian linguist writer and folklorist. He is regarded as one of the major authors of modern Albanian prose. His novel Rrathë is considered to be the first psychological novel in Albanian.
Ann Jungman.  Ann Jungman (born 1938) is an author of children's literature. She was born in Highgate North London and studied Law at Exeter University before training as a primary school teacher.
S. Sowmya.  S. Sowmya (born April 16 1969) (Tamil:ஸௌம்யா) is a Carnatic music singer and vainika. She learnt music initially from her father Dr. Srinivasan and later from Dr. S. Ramanathan and Smt.T. Muktha. In 1998 Sowmya co-founded Carnatica - an institution dedicated to classical music & dance instruction archival talent search and other related activities. She also co-authored the first comprehensive reference CD-ROM on Carnatic music Nadanubhava.
Jacobus Johannes Sieberhagen.  Jaco Sieberhagen (born 1961) is a South African sculptor. He usually creates sculptures of people and animals using wood metal and glass. His metal figures are almost always depicted in a silhouette style using laser-cutting techniques. The wood in his sculptures is usually found and collected driftwood. He describes the scenes he creates as landscapes of the mind.
Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac.  Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Стојановић Мокрањац Serbian pronunciation: [stêʋaːn stojǎːnoʋitɕ mokrǎːɲats]; 9 January 1856 – 28 September 1914) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856 Mokranjac studied music in Belgrade Munich Rome and Leipzig while in his twenties. Later he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian string quartet in which he played the cello.
Zvi Ribak.  Zvi Ribak (Zhitomer Ukraine 1910 - Israel 1994) was a Jewish painter.
Manus Lunny.  Manus Lunny (born 1962) is an Irish producer and multi-instrumentalist from County Donegal Ireland. He is the brother of multi-instrumentalist and producer Dónal Lunny.
Tom Sancton.  Thomas Alexander Sancton (a.k.a. Tom Tommy) is an American writer jazz clarinetist and educator. From 1992 to 2001 he was Paris bureau chief for TIME Magazine where worked for 22 years and has contributed to publications including Vanity Fair Fortune Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. His acclaimed memoir Song for My Fathers: a New Orleans Story in Black and White (2006) recounts his early life among traditional jazzmen in his native New Orleans.
Jordi Bonet.  Jordi Bonet (7 May 1932 – 25 December 1979) was a Catalan-born Canadian painter ceramist muralist and sculptor who worked principally in Quebec.
David Aldrich.  David Aldrich (November 4 1907 – September 13 2002) was an American artist and architect. The landscapes and cityscapes that he painted were not painted with literal realism but rather with freedom and spontaneity in an attempt to capture the essence of the scene.
Heinz von Lichberg.  Heinz von Lichberg real name Heinz von Eschwege (born 1890 in Marburg died March 14 1951 in Lübeck) was a German author and journalist remembered chiefly for his 1916 short story Lolita. It has been argued that Vladimir Nabokov based his 1955 novel of the same name on Lichberg's story.
Simone Bianchi (artist).  Simone Bianchi (born July 10 1972) is an Italian comic book illustrator painter graphic designer and art instructor known to Italian audiences for his work in comics CD covers music videos TV commercials and role-playing games and to American comic book readers for his work on comics such as Detective Comics Green Lantern and Wolverine.
Margarita Aliger.  Margarita Iosifovna Aliger (Russian: Маргари́та Ио́сифовна Алиге́р IPA: [mərɡɐˈrʲitə ɪˈosʲɪfəvnə ɐlʲɪˈɡʲer] ; October 7 [O.S. September 24] 1915 - August 1 1992) was a famous Soviet poet translator and journalist.
Heinz Heger.  Heinz Heger was the pen name used by Josef Kohout (1917 – 1994) an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor. Kohout had been imprisoned for his homosexuality which the German penal code's Paragraph 175 made criminal. He is known best as the author under the Heger pseudonym of the 1972 book Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel (The Men With the Pink Triangle) one of very few autobiographical accounts of the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi imprisonment.
Willi Sitte.  Willi Sitte (28 February 1921 – 8 June 2013) was a German painter who was for a long time the president of the East German association of visual artists.
Mineo Higashi.  Mineo Higashi (born 1938) is an Okinawan writer. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1971 for his novel An Okinawan Boy (Okinawa no shonen 1971). The novel's setting is from the city of Koza (later Okinawa City) in the 1950s where the main character grows up in a family whose business is to arrange meetings between American soldiers and Okinawian girls in the family's apartment.
Giovanni Lentini the Elder.  Giovanni Lentini the Elder (Trapani Sicily 1830 – 1898) was an Italian painter and scenographer.
Robert Delaunay.  Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others cofounded the Orphism art movement noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone.
Frédéric Pottecher.  Frédéric Pottecher (1905–2001) was a French actor and screenwriter.
Liana Bridges.  Liana Bridges is an actress best known for co-presenting Sooty & Co. with Matthew Corbett and Richard Cadell in 1998 and Sooty Heights with Richard Cadell from 1999-2000.When Sooty Heights ended her place as co-presenter was taken by Vicki Lee Taylor in the replacement series Sooty.She wrote a panto diary for BBC Cambridgeshire from 1 December 2003 to 11 January 2004.Bridges was appointed artistic director at Kingsway Hall in Dovercourt in December 2007.
Hannah Georgas.  Hannah Georgas (born 30 August 1983) is a Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter based in Vancouver British Columbia. She was nominated in the categories of Best New Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards and again at the 2013 Juno Awards for Songwriter of the Year and Best Alternative Album.
Ráv Thomas.  Ráv Thomas is a solo singer songwriter from Launceston Australia.
D-Naff.  Naftalie Shigwedha Amukwelele (born 1 January 1974) commonly known as D-Naff is a Namibian award-winning rapper/singer and a former street gangster. D-Naff sings inspirational religious music in the style of kwaito hip hop kizomba dancehall and afro-pop. D-Naff is also a motivational and inspirational speaker and has visited more than 15 schools in Namibia including the University of Namibia Windhoek College of Education Ongwediva College of Education and the Polytechnic of Namibia.
Tamaryn.  Tamaryn is a vocalist born in New Zealand and now living in New York. She has worked with longtime collaborator Rex John Shelverton (Portraits of Past The Audience Vue since 2008. Since 2011 Tamaryn has collaborated with several different artists on a vast array of multimedia projects.
Socalled.  Josh Dolgin better known by his stage name Socalled is a Canadian rapper and record producer known for his eclectic mix of hip hop klezmer and other styles such as drum & bass and folk music. A pianist and accordion player he has taught the latter at Klezfest London where he has also run workshops in hiphopkele.
Lugné-Poe.  Aurélien Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 – 19 June 1940) known by his stage-name and pen name Lugné-Poe was a French actor theatre director and scenic designer best known for his work at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre one of the first theatrical venues in France to provide a home for the artists of the symbolist movement at the end of the nineteenth century. Most notably Lugné-Poe introduced French audiences to the Scandinavian playwrights August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen.
Brace (singer).  Eddy Brace Rashid MacDonald shortened to Brace is a Dutch singer who collaborates with famous Dutch rapper Ali B who helped to bring Brace to stardom after their first musical collaboration on the hit single Moppie released in the summer of 2004.
Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal.  Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (October 13 1920 – March 15 2010) professionally known as Elaine Hamilton was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville Maryland. She was professionally admired by the influential French critic Michel Tapié de Céleyran and exhibited internationally in solo and multiple-artist exhibits in the United States Mexico South Asia Japan and throughout Europe.
Jean Holden.  Jean Holden a.k.a. Jean Holden-Hanna (born Norris Jean Ashley – February 2 1940) is an American jazz-contemporary singer and vocal coach described by many in the States of Ohio Michigan and Indiana as Toledo’s First Lady of Song.
Oscar Casares.  Oscar Casares (born May 7 1964) is an American writer and an associate professor of creative writing. He is the author of Brownsville: Stories and Amigoland. Casares teaches at the University of Texas at Austin where he is director of the Creative Writing Program.
Rebecca Rippy.  Rebecca Rippy (born 1977) is an American singer/songwriter most notably in the roots country and Americana genres. She was born to a musical family and grew up singing gospel music picking up a guitar and starting to write at 19 years of age. She has released two critically acclaimed records Secrets (2008) and Telling Stories (2009).
Ellis Credle.  Ellis Credle (1902–1998) was the author of a number of books for children and young adults some of which she also illustrated. Credle (which is pronounced cradle) is best known as the creator of the acclaimed children's book Down Down the Mountain (1934) and other stories set in the South.
Pietro Marone.  Pietro Marone (late 16th century) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance periods mainly active in Brescia and Mantua. He was the son of Pietro Marone the Elder a painter who was the mentor of Francesco Giugno. Pietro the Younger was also the nephew of Andrea Marone a Latin poet in the court of Pope Leo X.
Robert Bryan (poet).  Robert Bryan (1858 Llanarmon-yn-Iâl Wales - 5 May 1920 Cairo Egypt) was a Welsh poet composer and folklorist.
Tymee.  Tymee (born January 15 1986) formerly known as e.Via and Napper real name Lee Ok Joo is a South Korean rapper lyricist composer and pianist currently represented by Outsider's label ASSA Communication. She is known for being Korea's fastest female rapper.
Theodor von Schacht.  Theodor von Schacht (1748 in Strasbourg – 20 June 1823 in Regensburg) was a German composer.After his studies in Stuttgart and Wetzlar von Schacht arrived in Regensburg as a knight (Hofkavalier).
Friedrich Konrad Müller.  Friedrich Konrad Müller (born November 14 1823 Ummerstadt; † 26 April 1881 in Leipzig) was a German poet journalist and physician. He called himself Müller von der Werra.
Choi Siwon.  For the noted Korean Confucian official philosopher and poet of the late Unified Silla period see Choe Chiwon.Choi Si-won (Hangul: 최시원; hanja: 崔始源; born April 7 1986 officially registered on February 10 1987) known simply as Siwon (Hangul: 시원; hanja: 始源) is a South Korean recording artist actor and model. He is best known as a member of the K-pop boy band Super Junior and its Mandopop subgroup Super Junior-M.
Charles Boyle (poet).  Charles Boyle (born in Leeds in 1951) is a British poet. He has also published a novella 24 for 3 under the pseudonym Jennie Walker.Boyle read English at Cambridge taught in a Sheffield comprehensive and in Egypt and worked in publishing including several years at Faber and Faber.In 1980 he married painter Madeleine Strindberg.He is best known for writing The Age of Cardboard and String.
Agnes Carlsson.  Agnes Emilia Carlsson also known mononymously as Agnes (born 6 March 1988 in Vänersborg Sweden) is a Swedish recording artist. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005 the second season of the Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony Music through which she released her self-titled debut album Agnes and follow-up Stronger both of which topped the Swedish Top 60 Albums Chart.
Gui Boratto.  Gui Boratto (born 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian electronic music producer. In the 1990s he was a member of Sect.His album Chromophobia was awarded the title of Mixmag Album of the Month. Regarding why he chose the name Chromophobia Boratto said: The same meaning as monochromatism in architecture which means simplicity. That’s all. I don’t have a morbid fear of colors at all. But also I was ironic. My music is really colorful. He owns the record label D.O.C. distributed by Kompakt.
Texas Johnny Brown.  Texas Johnny Brown (February 22 1928 - July 1 2013) was an American blues guitarist songwriter and singer. He is best known for his composition Two Steps from the Blues and in a lengthy career variously worked with Joe Hinton Amos Milburn Ruth Brown Bobby Blue Bland Lavelle White Buddy Ace and Junior Parker.
Rian Malan.  Rian Malan (born 1954 in Johannesburg) is a South African author journalist documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. He first rose to prominence as the author of the memoir My Traitor's Heart which like the bulk of his work deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations. As a journalist he has written for major newspapers in South Africa Great Britain and the USA.
Clive Ashborn.  Clive Ashborn is an English actor. He is probably best known for appearing in V for Vendetta as Guy Fawkes. He graduated from Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in 2001. He also played the character Koleniko in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).
Twila Paris.  Twila Paris Wright (born December 28 1958) is a Contemporary Christian Music singer-songwriter author and pianist.
Benjamin Lebert.  Benjamin Lebert (born 9 January 1982) is a German writer. He was born in Freiburg. His first novel Crazy was published when Lebert was only 16 years old. The international bestseller about a handicapped teenage rebel has been licensed to 33 nations and was made into a feature film by Hans-Christian Schmid (see here) and has drawn comparisons to Jerome Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
Nidudavolu Venkatarao.  Nidudavolu Venkatarao (b: January 3 1903 - d: October 15 1982) is a famous Telugu writer and research scholar.
Nora Sumberg.  Nora Sumberg (born 1956) is an Australian landscape painter whose work has over time become increasingly lyrical abstract and atmospheric. Her art is characterized by intense floating swathes of colour impressionistic and ambiguous terrain and glowing multi-directional light sources. Examples of Sumberg's art are held in The National Gallery of Victoria The Queensland Art Gallery The Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Smorgan Collection.
Vernon Howe Bailey.  Vernon Howe Bailey (1874–October 27 1953) was an American artist born at Camden N. J.. At the age of 15 he became a student that the Pennsylvania Museum School of Art in Philadelphia. A year later one of his drawings of flowers was accepted for the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he later studied. In addition to these schools he also had the chance to study at Royal College of Art London; Academie de l’ecluse and Acadmie Bilouil Paris France.
Steven Pacey.  Steven Pacey (born 5 June 1957 in Leamington Spa Warwickshire) is an English actor best known for his role as Del Tarrant in the third and fourth seasons of the sci-fi series Blake's 7.Other notable television appearances include Heartbeat Lovejoy M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team Murder in Mind Pie in the Sky and Spooks.Pacey was nominated for an Olivier Award for the role of Bertie Wooster in the musical By Jeeves.
Judith Brown (sculptor).  Judith Brown (born December 17 1931 New York City; died May 11 1992 New York City) was a dancer and a sculptor who was drawn to images of the body in motion and its effect on the cloth surrounding it. She welded crushed automobile scrap metal into energetic moving torsos horses and flying draperies. One of the things that made Judy stand out as an artist was her ability to work in many different mediums. Some of this was by choice and sometimes it was by necessity.
9th Wonder.  Patrick Douthit (born January 15 1975 in Winston-Salem North Carolina) better known as 9th Wonder is a hip hop record producer record executive DJ lecturer and Rapper from Durham North Carolina U.S. He began his career as the main producer for the group Little Brother and has also worked with Mary J. Blige Jean Grae Wale Jay-Z Murs Drake Buckshot Chris Brown Destiny's Child J. Cole Kendrick Lamar Erykah Badu Ludacris Mac Miller David Banner and Lecrae.
Susie Shellenberger.  Susie Shellenberger is an American speaker author and magazine editor.
Brent Kutzle.  Brent Michael Kutzle (born August 3 1985) is an American musician born in Newport Beach California. Brent is best known for playing the bass guitar and cello for OneRepublic who are signed to Interscope Records. He has written and performed with various other musicians from both underground music scenes and mainstream acts including Beyoncé Cobra Starship Leona Lewis Kelly Clarkson ísland Vermeer Augustine Torrent This Allure Monarch Venus Infers and Jessica Dobson.
Jeff Stilson.  Jeff Stilson (born circa 1959) is an American stand-up comedian. He has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman The Tonight Show Comedy Central The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and is a regular guest on The Panel in Australia. He has also won two Emmy awards and received 14 nominations as a comedy writer and producer.
Michael Hedges.  Michael Alden Hedges (December 31 1953 – December 2 1997) was an American composer acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Jesmyn Ward.  Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award with her second novel Salvage the Bones a story about familial love and community covering the 10 days preceding Hurricane Katrina the day of the cyclone and the day after. An assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama Ward is currently working on a memoir.
Xiao Youmei.  Xiao Youmei (Chinese: 蕭友梅 1884-1940 styled as Sihe 思鹤 and Xueming 雪明; formerly transliterated Shio Yiu-mei) was a noted Chinese music educator and composer.
Ivan Ladislav Galeta.  Ivan Ladislav Galeta (9 May 1947 – 7 January 2014) was a Croatian multimedia artist cinematographer and film director.
José Luis Appleyard.  José Luis Appleyard (5 May 1927 – 1998) was a Paraguayan poet.
Wintter Watts.  Wintter (Haynes) Watts (Cincinnati Ohio March 14 1884 – Brooklyn New York November 1 1962) was an American composer of art songs.
Ivan Lavsky.  Ivan Ivanovich Lavsky (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ла́вский; August 23 1919 city of Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Soviet Republic – October 10 1977 Leningrad USSR) was a Russian-Soviet realist painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Kenny Loggins.  Kenneth Clark Kenny Loggins (born January 7 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for soft rock music beginning in the 1970s and later for writing and performing for movie soundtracks in the 1980s. Originally a part of the duo Loggins and Messina he became a solo artist and has written songs for other artists. Kenny Loggins also voiced as the disk jockey to Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos Rock Radio.
Islord.  A member of Killarmy was absent for most of the recording of their debut album Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars due to incarceration. A Five Percenter like all of Killarmy the first three letters of his name (I S L) are also the first three letters in of the religion they claim adherence to Islam. Therefore the name Islord is a fusion between the terms Islam and lord. Birth name Rodney Stevenson also known as Thief of Baghdad.
Joseph Kpobie.  Joseph Kpobie is a British actor. His best known performance came when he played Juley Smith in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders between 2002 and 2005. Joseph was brought back in the September of 2005 and was involved in his first big storyline when his character got involved in a romance with a much younger girl (Ruby Allen).Prior to Eastenders Kpobie had appeared in the BAFTA Award-winning Docu DramaThe Murder of Stephen Lawrence directed by Paul Greengrass playing Duwayne Brooks.
Anke Eißmann.  Anke Katrin Eißmann (born 1977 in Dillenburg) is a German illustrator and graphic designer known for her illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. She studied visual communication at Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the Colchester Institute in the United Kingdom. Eißmann has also made a number of short films. She is an art teacher at the Johanneum high school in Herborn.
Rob da Bank.  Robert John Gorham (born 24 June 1973 in Portsmouth) known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank is an English disc jockey. He presents a Friday-night/Saturday-morning show Rob da Bank on BBC Radio 1 from 5am-7am focused on promoting new left field music. Examples of artists featured on his show include Tipper Moloko and a host of unsigned acts. Until September 2006 he and Chris Coco were the presenters of the Blue Room on Radio 1.
Jean Garcia.  Jean Garcia (born August 22 1969) is a Filipina television and film actress who hails from Angeles City Pampanga.She is best known for her role as Madame Claudia Buenavista in the 2000 soap opera Pangako sa 'Yo and Alvoina Montenegro in the remake of Ina Kasusuklaman Ba Kita? a short-lived series which aired on GMA Network.
Rosanne Cash.  Rosanne Cash (born May 24 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Liberto Cash Distin.Although Cash is often classified as a country artist her music draws on many genres including folk pop rock and blues.
James Harman.  James Harman (born June 8 1946 Anniston Alabama United States) is an American blues harmonica player singer and songwriter. Music journalist Tony Russell described Harman as an amusing songwriter and an excellent unfussy blues harp player.
Kazuki Namioka.  Kazuki Namioka (波岡 一喜 Namioka Kazuki born August 2 1978) is a Japanese actor. He made his acting debut in the television series Pride. He appeared in Hiroshi Shinagawa's 2009 debut film Drop. He also co-starred with Koji Yakusho in Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins.
Kym Campbell.  Kym Campbell is an Australian singer-songwriter originally from Seattle Washington USA. Campbell writes and performs earthy stripped back music incorporating roots folk and reggae. Her music draws influences from Ben Harper Jack Johnson Jason Mraz and Bob Marley among other artists.
MMOTHS.  Jack Colleran (born May 1993) better known as MMOTHS is an Irish electronic musician.
Ayako Shiraishi.  Ayako Happy Endding Shiraishi (白石 文子 Shiraishi Ayako born April 13 1963) is a Japanese voice actress. She retired in 2002.
Angela Down.  Angela Down (born 15 June 1946) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC drama series Take Three Girls portraying Cockney art student Avril for the first season before being replaced in the second. She played a leading role as princess Maria in the 15-hour 1972 BBC version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Karen X. Tulchinsky.  Karen X. Tulchinsky is a Canadian novelist short story writer anthologist and screenwriter from Vancouver British Columbia. She is openly lesbian.
Khari Wynn.  Khari James Wynn (born November 23 1981) is an American guitarist and recording artist from Memphis Tennessee.He is best known for his work the jazz-rock genre as well as with American hip hop group Public Enemy.
Daisy Campbell.  Daisy Campbell was a British film actress of the silent era.
Myleene Klass.  Myleene Angela Klass (born 6 April 1978) is an English singer pianist media personality and model best known as a member of the now defunct pop band Hear'Say and released two studio albums and four singles with the group the first two of which reached number one on the UK singles chart. Klass has released two solo classical albums in 2003 and 2007.
Giovanni Battista Coriolano.  Giovanni Battista Coriolano (1590–1649) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period.He was almost certainly the son of the German transplant to Italy the engraver Cristoforo Coriolano. Giovanni Battista was born and died in Bologna. He studied painting under Giovanni Luigi Valesio but found little work painting in churches at Bologna. He painted a St. Nicholas and a St.
Benjamin Block.  Benjamin Block or Blok (1631–1690) was a seventeenth-century German - Hungarian Baroque painter who married the flower painter Anna Katharina Block. He is known for his portrait paintings.
Dominique Walter.  Dominique Walter (born Dominique Gruère May 22 1942) is a French singer. He was born in Paris and is the son of singer Michèle Arnaud.
Nancy Coolen.  Nancy Anna Francina Coolen known as Nance (born September 10 1973 in Asten North Brabant Netherlands) is a Dutch TV host who was previously the lead-singer of a Eurodance group called Twenty 4 Seven.At the age of 15 Nance was discovered in a discothèque by dance-producer Ruud van Rijen. He created the dance-act Twenty 4 Seven in which Nance performs along with rapper Tony Dawson-Harrison more commonly known by his stage name Captain Hollywood.
Kevin Skinner.  Patrick Kevin Skinner (born February 25 1974) better known as Kevin Skinner is an American country music singer from the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky. He was the winner of the fourth season of America's Got Talent.
Ronnie Gilbert.  Ronnie Gilbert (born September 7 1926) is an American folk singer. She was one of the original members of the Weavers with Pete Seeger Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman.
Rolf Köhler.  Rolf Köhler (May 24 1951 – September 16 2007) was a German singer musician and record producer. Köhler initially achieved commercial success performing under the pseudonym Marc de Ville in the 1970s. As Marc de Ville Köhler released a number of chart-topping singles including Annie (I Don't Wanna Talk About The Weather) Walking Alone In The Rain and California. Köhler performed with a diverse range of musicians including Marius Müller-Westernhagen and heavy metal band Saxon.
Carlos Balcells.  Carlos Balcells is a Filipino bass guitar player. Balcells is most notable for his work as bass guitarist for the rock band The Dawn. He joined the band during the late 1980s when their original bass player Clay Luna left for the United States. In 2003 Balcells was in turn replaced by Mon Legaspi bass player for Wolfgang.
Charles Berling.  Charles Berling is a French actor director scenario writer and producer born on April 30 1958 in Saint-Mandé in Val de Marne (France).
Hiroshi Kashiwagi.  Hiroshi Kashiwagi is a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) poet playwright and actor. For his writing and performance work on stage he is considered an early pioneer of Asian American theatre.
William Tabbert.  William “Bill” Tabbert (1919–1974) was an American actor and singer primarily remembered as Lieutenant Joseph Cable in the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific.
Lucas Cranach the Elder.  Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Ältere c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career and is known for his portraits both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm becoming a close friend of Martin Luther.
Carl Sonnenschein.  Carl Sonnenschein (July 15 1876 - February 20 1929) was a German writer the founder of the Catholic student movement in Germany.He was born in Düsseldorf and died in Berlin.The Catholic Fraternities in Germany (KV) created the annual Carl Sonnenschein prize to award outstanding scientific research in Germany.
Phyllis McGinley.  Phyllis McGinley (March 21 1905 – February 22 1978) was a Pulitzer Prize (1961) winning American author of children's books and poetry.
John Till.  John Till is a Canadian musician. Born in Stratford Ontario Till played in local bands until the early 1960s when he was picked to play in Ronnie Hawkins band The Hawks to replace previous members who had left to tour with Bob Dylan (see The Band). After touring with Hawkins the members of this band moved to New York City to try to establish themselves as musicians in the larger U.S. market.
Dan Ekborg.  Dan Ekborg (born November 23 1955) is a Swedish stage and film actor. He is the son of actor Lars Ekborg and older brother of actor Anders Ekborg.He has starred in many of the Swedish Jönssonligan films.
Alan Tew.  Alan Tew is a British composer and arranger.He got his start as the pianist/arranger for the Len Turner Band based in London in the 1950s.He is known as composer of library music including the theme songs for British TV programmes Doctor in the House called Bond Street Parade theme from Mother Makes Three. A track entitled The Big One was used in an episode of the British detective show Van der Valk.
Mike Lilly.  Mike Lilly is a comic book artist known for his work on books such as Annihilation Conquest Quasar Vampirella Nightwing Batman Detective Comics Marvel Knights Punisher Catwoman Green Lantern X-Men Unlimited and Dungeons & Dragons.
Mah Chonggi.  Mah Chonggii is a Korean poet.
Thomas Wilkins.  Thomas Wilkins (1625 or 1626 – 20 August 1699) was a Welsh cleric and antiquarian who collected Welsh manuscripts.
Robert Priest.  Robert Priest (born 1951) is a British born Canadian poet children's author and singer/songwriter. He has written ten books of poetry two children's novels 3 children's albums 4 CDs of songs and poems and has often opined on CBC radio's hit spoken word show Wordbeat under the alias Dr Poetry. He is well known for his aphorisms and his hit: Song Instead of a Kiss.
Didith Reyes.  Maria Helen Bella Avenila Santamaria (September 17 1949 – December 10 2008) better known as Didith Reyes was a Filipino actress and singer best known for recording a string of hit love ballads in the 1970s. Many music enthusiasts regard her as one of the Philippines' Jukebox Queens along with other singers popular during her time such as Claire dela Fuente Amapola (Maria Cabase) Eva Eugenio Leah Navarro and Imelda Papin.
Alan Diaz.  Alan Diaz (born 1947) is an American photographer who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photograph of the United States Border Patrol's BORTAC team's seizure of Elian Gonzalez.Diaz was born and raised in New York and moved to Cuba with his family in 1964. In Cuba Diaz became a teacher and studied photography with Cuban photographer Korda (Alberto Diaz Gutierrez). He moved to Miami in 1978 and became a photographer and English teacher.
Lila Garrett.  Lila Garrett (born November 21 1925 in New York City) is a television screenwriter and a radio host. She wrote for the sitcomsThe Second Hundred Years (co-wrote episodes 10 and 13 with Bernie Kahn)My Favorite MartianAll in the Familyand Bewitched.She co-wrote with Joseph L. McEveety Bernie Kahn and Stu Billett the 1971 Disney TV movie The Barefoot Executive.She hosts Connect the Dots on Pacifica Radio.
Gillian Riley.  Gillian Riley born in 1945 is an English food writer. She is a leading authority on the history of Italian cuisine. She wrote the Oxford Companion to Italian Food (2007) and edited and translated the work of Giacomo Castelvetro.
Akira Oze.  Akira Oze (尾瀬あきら Oze Akira born 26 July 1947 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut in 1971 under the penname Aguma Matsumoto (松本めぐむ) writing shōnen manga but he switched in the 1980s to seinen manga. He is best known for Natsuko's Sake which was adapted as a live-action television series. Oze won the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga for Hatsukoi Scandal and Tobe! Jinrui II.
Paul Hester.  Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands Split Enz and Crowded House.
Ludovic Bource.  Ludovic Bource (French pronunciation: ​[ly.do.vik buʁs]; born 19 August 1970 in Pontivy) is a French composer best known for his work in film scoring. He rose to international critical acclaim in 2011 for composing the Golden Globe and Academy Award winning score for The Artist.
Harry Ralston.  Harry Ralston is an American-born screenwriter director and producer.After working in advertising in New York and then as a journalist covering bullfights for the Mexico City News he moved to Los Angeles and wrote and directed the 2000 film The Last Man with Jeri Ryan in her first starring role and produced the 1999 Tamara Hernandez film Men Cry Bullets. Men Cry Bullets won SXSW and five other festivals and was released later that year.
Haley Scarnato.  Haley Suzanne Scarnato (born June 15 1982) is an American singer who was the 8th-place finalist on the sixth season of American Idol. Scarnato announced in an interview in November 2009 that her album Strongheart was scrapped after she left her management but that she is working on a new album and Strongheart was her old management's idea.
Markus Löffel.  Markus Löffel (27 November 1966 – 11 January 2006) also known as Mark Spoon and Spacy Trancer was a disc jockey musician and record producer from Frankfurt am Main Germany. His stage surname was a direct translation: Löffel is the German word for spoon. Together with Rolf Ellmer (Jam El Mar) he recorded under several monikers including Jam & Spoon Tokyo Ghetto Pussy and Storm.
Dasha (pornographic actress).  Dasha or Dascha born 1976 in Brno Czechoslovakia (present Czech Republic) is a Czech pornographic actress. She is known for her female ejaculation and anal sex scenes.[citation needed] She usually refrains from facials.
Jonny Blu.  Jonny Blu is a singer/songwriter who was born and raised in Los Angeles but made his professional debut into the music world in China.
Vic Johnson (musician).  Vic Johnson is a rock guitarist best known for playing guitar with The Busboys and later with Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas.
James Taylor.  James Vernon Taylor (born March 12 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single Fire and Rain and had his first No. 1 hit the following year with You've Got a Friend a recording of Carole King's classic song. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies.
Øystein B. Blix.  Øystein Bjørn Blix (born 5 November 1966 in Tromsø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (trombone) and sound designer central to the Tromsø Jazz scene and Head of Tromsø Jazzklubb from 2001.
Flip Grater.  Flip Grater (born 1981) is the stage name of singer-songwriter and author Clare Grater born in Christchurch New Zealand. She is known as an avid foodie and vegetarian spokesperson and writes books about touring the world and the recipes she collects on tour. In 2006 she started Maiden Records an independent NZ record label which has released Flip Grater’s work as well as albums from Urbantramper and The Unfaithful Ways.
Peter Steigerwald.  Peter Steigerwald is an American comic book artist primarily known for his work as a colorist and his work at Aspen Comics. He has also worked in inking writing and graphic design.
J. J. Lankes.  Julius John Lankes (1884–1960) was an illustrator a woodcut print artist author and college professor.
David Michaels (actor).  David Michaels was born in 1964 in Manchester. He is an English actor appearing on stage and television.He appeared in many stage productions including A Midsummer's Night Dream and toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company.Michaels appeared in the television series Heartbeat (as Dr. Neil Bolton).
Gabriel Salazar.  Gabriel Salazar Vergara (Santiago 31 January 1936) is a Chilean historian. He is known in Chile for his study of social history and interpretations of social movements particularly the recent student protests of 2006 and 2011-2012.He studied history sociology and philosophy at Universidad de Chile. Salazar used to be a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973. In that year he was tortured in Villa Grimaldi by the military.
Bardu Ali.  Bardu Ali (September 23 1906 – October 29 1981) was born in New Orleans Louisiana USA. He was an American jazz and rhythm and blues singer and guitarist and a musical promoter.He became master of ceremonies of the bands in which he worked early in his career – Napoleon Zyas's Leroy Tibbs' and Chick Webb's. He is credited with persuading Webb to hire Ella Fitzgerald.
Hamilton MacCarthy.  Hamilton Thomas Carlton Plantagenet MacCarthy OSA RCA (28 July 1846 – 24 October 1939) was one of the earliest masters of monumental bronze sculpture in Canada. He is known for his historical sculptures in particular his Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons at Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia (1904) as well as Samuel de Champlain overlooking Parliament Hill on Nepean Point Ottawa (1915) next to the National Gallery of Canada.
Murdoc Niccals.  Murdoc Alphonce Niccals is a fictional English musician and member of the virtual band Gorillaz. He provides bass and is the self-proclaimed leader of the band. He is voiced by Phil Cornwell and was created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
Donald Honig.  Donald Martin Honig (born 1931 in New York City) is a novelist historian and editor who mostly writes about baseball.While a member of the Bobo Newsom Memorial Society an informal group of writers Honig attempted to get Lawrence Ritter to write a sequel to The Glory of their Times. Ritter declined but gave Honig his blessing. Over the next 19 years Honig churned out 39 books about baseball. He wrote The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time with Ritter in 1981.
William Hargreaves.  William Hargreaves (1880–1941) was an English composer mainly of songs for the music hall.
Jama Omar Issa.  Aw Jama Omar Issa (Somali: Jaamac Cumar Ciise Arabic: جامع عمر عيسى‎) (c.1922 - 6 January 2014) was a Somali scholar historian and collector of oral literature of Somalia. He wrote the first authoritative study of Dervishes.
Joe Perry (musician).  Anthony Joseph Joe Perry (born September 10 1950) is the lead guitarist backing and occasional lead vocalist and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He was ranked 84th in the Rolling Stone's list The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
J. R. Eyerman.  J.R. Eyerman (9 October 1906 - 7 December 1985) was an American photographer and photojournalist. He was on staff for Life Magazine from 1942 to 1961. His work has also appeared in Time National Geographic and other publications.
Usta Gambar Karabakhi.  Usta Gambar Karabakhi (Azerbaijani: Usta Qəmbər Qarabağı; 1830s Shusha - 1905 Shusha) was an Azerbaijani ornamentalist painter author of impressive decorative paintings with egg tempera (plant and zoomorphic motifs) in the interior of the Palace of Shaki Khans in houses of Rustamov and Mehmandarov in Shusha and others.
William Moore Davis.  William Moore Davis (May 22 1829 – March 26 1920) was an American painter best known for his landscapes. A native of Long Island he spent most of his life near Port Jefferson and has been praised as the greatest painter of that village. A contemporary of the Hudson River School he was greatly influenced by fellow local painter William Sidney Mount.
Tim Hawkins.  Tim Hawkins is a Christian comedian songwriter and singer best known for parodying popular songs such as Carrie Underwood's Jesus Take The Wheel and The Candy Man along with stand-up material based on material such as marriage homeschooling and parenting. Hawkins has released five CDs and five DVDs of his material since 2002.
Sisaundra Lewis.  Sisaundra Lewis is an American singer songwriter and producer from Orlando Florida. She is currently taking part in season 6 of the US series The Voice as part of Team Blake Shelton.
Sita (singer).  Sita Maria Vermeulen (born 8 June 1980) known by the mononym Sita is a Dutch pop singer. She rose to fame in the early 2000s as part of pop group K-otic. After the band disbanded in 2003 she had a brief solo career before turning to television where she would be featured primarily on children's television and was a candidate on the Dutch Dancing With The Stars. Since 2009 she has been hosting the Dutch Disney Channel.
Hans H. Skei.  Hans H. Skei (born 20 August 1945) is a Norwegian editor and writer.He was born in Dønna and graduated as dr.philos. with the treatise The novelist as short story writer : a study of William Faulkner's short stories with special emphasis on the period 1928-1932 at the University of Oslo. He has been the editor-in-chief of Nordisk Tidskrift since 2002.
Lea Nikel.  Lea Nikel (Hebrew: לאה ניקל‎; born 1918 died 2005) was an Israeli abstract artist.
Hanako Oshima.  Hanako Oshima (大島花子 Ōshima Hanako born October 7 1973 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese singer and the daughter of actress Yukiko Kashiwagi and singer Kyu Sakamoto.
Jon Gibson (Christian musician).  Jon Robert Gibson is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Originally a blue-eyed soul singer he moved toward contemporary christian music. Gibson scored a number of hit singles in the 1990s including Jesus Loves Ya Love Comes Down and God Will Find You.
Leif (rapper).  Khalif Diouf better known by his stage name Le1f /liːf/ is an American rapper and producer from New York. He runs the hip hop label Camp & Street which is a subsidiary of Greedhead Music. He is well known for his unorthodox production styles and also for being an openly gay rapper. His latest EP titled Hey was released on March 11 2014 via Terrible Records.
Henry Edward Bedford.  Henry Edward Bedford (1860-1932) was an American painter and sculptor who designed the four-faced clock on top of the information booth located in Grand Central Terminal in New York City.As a painter Henry E. Bedford was best known for his studies of the Maine coast. The American Art Annual reported Bedford’s sudden demise on October 29 1932 on the train ride from Maine to Brooklyn.
Ge You.  Ge You (born April 19 1957) is an acclaimed Chinese actor. A native of Beijing he is considered by many to be one of the most recognizable acting personalities in China. His success with major comedy roles made him a well known name throughout China. Ge You won the Best Actor Award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for his role in the Zhang Yimou movie To Live.
Bob Welch (musician).  Robert Lawrence Bob Welch (August 31 1945 – June 7 2012) was an American musician. A former member of Fleetwood Mac Welch had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included Hot Love Cold World Ebony Eyes Precious Love and his signature Sentimental Lady.
Frans Molenaar.  Frans Molenaar (born 1940 Amsterdam) is a Dutch fashion designer.He studied to become a tailor in Amsterdam from 1955–1958. After his studies he did an internship with Charles Montaigne in Paris from 1959–1960 and worked for Gerard Pipart at Nina Ricci also in Paris from 1961–1964.In 1967 he started his own business Frans Molenaar Couture and he worked as an haute couture designer since.He initiated the fashion award Frans Molenaar prijs in 1995.
Llygad Gŵr.  Llygad Gŵr (fl. 1268) was a Welsh-language poet in the court of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.In his poems he envisions Wales as a single united nation with Llywelyn as its head and supreme power: “the true king of Wales.”
Phil Gladwin.  Phil Gladwin is a television writer and script editor. He was born in Grimsby in 1963.
Joseph Schull.  Joseph Schull (6 February 1906 – 19 May 1980) was a Canadian playwright and historian who wrote more than two dozen books and 200 plays for radio and television.Born in Watertown South Dakota he moved to Moose Jaw Saskatchewan in 1913. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University. In the 1930s he worked in advertising. During World War II he was an Intelligence and Information Officer with the Royal Canadian Navy. After the war he focused on his writing.
Shanell.  Shanell Lynn Woodgett (born November 15 1980) known simply as Shanell or SnL is an American singer-songwriter from Springfield Massachusetts. She is signed to Young Money Entertainment an imprint of Birdman's Republic Records-distributed Cash Money Records.
Herman Miller (writer).  Herman Miller (November 10 1919 – April 18 1999) was a Hollywood writer and producer.
Frans Luycx.  Frans Luycx or Luyckx Luycks Leuycx Leux Lux Luix Leic Laix Leix Lieix Löx Likh (before 17 April 1604 – 1 May 1668) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter at the imperial court of Emperor Ferdinand III in Vienna. He is most famous for his portraits of Emperor's family and court.
My Tam.  Phan Thị Mỹ Tâm (Da Nang 16 January 1981) whose stage name is Mỹ Tâm is a Vietnamese pop singer.Her best-known songs are Hoạ Mi Tóc Nâu (Brown-Haired Nightingale) and Ước Gì (I Wish). Other notable songs include Hát Với Dòng Sông (Sing with the River) Giấc mơ Tình Yêu (Love Dream) Dường như ta đã (We Seemed to Be...) Tóc Nâu Môi Trầm (Brown Hair Dark Lips) Tình Xót Xa Thôi (A Lament for Lost Love) Đường Xưa (Old Road) and Yêu Dại Khờ (Foolish Love).
Adam Chen.  Adam Chen (Chinese: 詹金泉; pinyin: Zhān Jīnquán; born 24 June 1976) is a Chinese Singaporean television and film actor.
Suhaimi Yusof.  Suhaimi Yusof (born 1969) is a Singaporean actor stand-up comedian entertainer and radio personality known for playing exaggerated Malay stereotype characters and for his spontaneity.
Paul Arma.  Paul Arma (Hungarian: Arma Pál aka Amrusz Pál; né Weisshaus Imre; 22 November 1905 in Budapest – 28 November 1987 in Paris) was a Hungarian-French pianist composer and ethnomusicologist.Arma studied under Béla Bartók from 1920 to 1924 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music after which time he toured Europe and America giving concerts and piano recitals. He left Hungary in 1930 eventually settling in Paris in 1933 where he became the piano soloist with Radio Paris.
Naëla.  Nataly Rivera best known as Naëla (born July 17 1990 Bogota Colombia) is a Colombian singer author and songwriter. She made her music debut as the opening act in the show that Mexican group Camila gave in Bogota in 2010. Followed this she released her debut single No Quiero Estar Sin Ti belongs to her debut album Naëla. On 2011 she released two new single of her album Esta Noche Mando Yo and Muero Por Amarte.
John Alexander Stewart (philosopher).  John Alexander Stewart (19 October 1846 – 27 December 1933) was a Scottish writer educator and philosopher. He was a university professor and classical lecturer at Christ Church Oxford from 1875 to 1883 White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford and professorial fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1897 to his retirement in 1927. Throughout his academic career he was an editor and author of works on Aristotle and considered one of the foremost experts on the subject.
Aki Maeda.  Aki Maeda (前田亜季 Maeda Aki born 11 July 1985 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda.She is perhaps best known in the west for her role as Noriko Nakagawa in the controversial 2000 film Battle Royale which she reprised for its sequel Battle Royale II: Requiem. She graduated from Hosei University in 2008.
Ed Viswanathan.  Ed Viswanathan a native of Kerala[citation needed] is the author of Am I A Hindu? an introductory book on Hinduism directed mainly at NRIs. Viswanathan works an electrical engineer in New Orleans.
Takuya Kimura.  Takuya Kimura (木村 拓哉 Kimura Takuya) (born November 13 1972) nicknamed Kimutaku (キムタク) is a Japanese singer and actor. He is also a member of the Japanese idol group SMAP.
Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil.  Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil (born 1971) is an Hindustani classical music vocalist. She belongs to the Gwalior gharana.
Richard Slaughter.  Richard Slaughter is a scholar and writer in the field of futures studies applied foresight and social innovation. He is the co-director of Foresight International and has guest edited the journals Futures and Foresight.
Howard V. Hendrix.  Howard Vincent Hendrix (born 1959) is an American scholar and science fiction writer. He is author of the novels Lightpaths and Standing Wave Better Angels Empty Cities of the Full Moon The Labyrinth Key and Spears of God. His early short stories are found in the ebook Mobius Highway.
Patrick Krief.  Patrick Krief is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. Krief is known as the guitarist for The Dears since 2004.In 2004 he appeared on MTV Canada's Project Moose Catch. He was a guest on Jonathan Ross's show in 2005. In 2006 he made appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman Last Call with Carson Daly and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In August 2007 Krief released his debut solo EP Take It Or Leave which was co-mixed by former Dears bandmate Murray Lightburn.
Kyoshi Takahama.  Kyoshi Takahama (高浜 虚子 Takahama Kyoshi 22 February 1874 – 8 April 1959) was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Takahama Kiyoshi (高浜清); Kyoshi was a pen name given to him by his mentor Masaoka Shiki.
Ralph Towner.  Ralph Towner (March 1 1940 Chehalis Washington) is an American multi-instrumentalist composer arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar classical guitar piano synthesizer percussion and trumpet.
Ilan Averbuch.  Ilan Averbuch (born 1953) is a sculptor born in Israel but educated in England and the United States.From 1977 to 1978 Averbuch attended Wimbledon School of Art in London and from 1979 to 1981 he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1982 he received the Rhodes Family Award and in 1985 the [D.A.A.D. award in Berlin Germany. He completed his art education from 1983 to 1985 studying at the Hunter College in New York.
George Marion Jr..  George Marion Jr. (30 August 1899 – 25 February 1968) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 106 films between 1920 and 1940.He was born in Boston Massachusetts and died in New York New York from a heart attack. His father was George F. Marion (1860-1945) a stage actor stage director and film actor who is best remembered as Greta Garbo's father Chris in the early sound classic Anna Christie (1930).
Mary Elizabeth Richmond.  Mary Elizabeth Richmond (1853–1949) was a New Zealand community leader teacher and writer. She was born in New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand in 1853.
Kathryn Stripling Byer.  Kathryn Stripling Byer (born 1944) also called Kay Byer is an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–2009 and was the first woman to hold the position.
Brenda Hunter.  Brenda J. Hunter is an American musician and composer best known as a hammered dulcimer player. She also plays Irish fiddle Celtic harp and classical piano with the latter influence evident in her particular style on the dulcimer and harp. She won the National Championship in 1995 at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield Kansas receiving as her prize a Masterworks hammered dulcimer built by Russell Cook.
Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana.  Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (3 July 1590 – 7 May 1662) was an Italian singer organist and composer. She entered a Camaldolese convent in Bologna in 1598. She was taught by her aunt Camilla Bombacci who was the convent organist and by Ottavio Vernizzi who was the unofficial music master. Vizzana's works are influenced by stile moderno (seconda prattica) music especially the works of Claudio Monteverdi.
Jeff Plate.  Jeff Plate (born March 26 1962 in Montour Falls NY) is a professional drummer and percussionist. He currently plays with the progressive rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He also worked with thrash metal band Metal Church until their 2009 disbanding although he is most remembered for his drumming for Savatage on their albums since Japan Live '94.
Bacil.  Martin Ivanič (born in Bratislava in June 2 1981) better known by his stage name Bacil is a Slovak rapper currently cooperating mainly with fellow Slovak rapper Rakby. He is a former member of the group Drvivá Menšina.
Paul Barrere.  Paul Barrere (born July 3 1948 Burbank California United States) is a current member of the band Little Feat founded in 1969 by Lowell George and Bill Payne having joined the band in 1972. Barrere has also recorded and performed with many notable musicians including Chicken Legs Blues Busters (featuring Catfish Hodge) Valerie Carter Helen Watson Chico Hamilton Bonnie Raitt Robert Palmer Eikichi Yazawa and Carly Simon.
Wakako Yamauchi.  Wakako Yamauchi (born 1924) is a Nisei Asian American female writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian American theatre.
Grenville Clark.  Grenville Clark (November 5 1882 – January 13 1967) was the writer of the book World Peace Through World Law.
Takanori Nishikawa.  Takanori Nishikawa (西川 貴教 Nishikawa Takanori born September 19 1970 in Yasu Shiga Prefecture Japan) is a renowned Japanese singer and actor. He performs as T.M.Revolution (TMR) which stands for Takanori Makes Revolution (貴教が革命を起こす Takanori ga kakumei o okosu) although the name stems from the famous 80s pop electronic band TM Network.
Morton Pennypacker.  Frank Knox Morton Pennypacker (1872 - 1956) was a collector of Long Island New York historical material and author of several books on Long Island history including George Washington's Spies the story of the Culper Ring.Born in Pennsylvania Pennypacker moved to New York City a little after the turn of the 20th century before moving to Southampton New York on Long Island.
Joshua Norton (artist).  Joshua Norton (b. December 10 1976) is an American artist print maker and designer. Norton is most well known for creating intensely colored woodcut prints (occasionally combining them with digital) and his graphic poster design. Born in Minnesota he earned his B.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2001 and his M.F.A. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009.
Evan-Burrows Fontaine.  Evan-Burrows Fontaine (October 3 1898 – December 27 1984) was an American Denishawn-trained interpretive dancer and actress whose career suffered after she became entangled in a breach of promise lawsuit with a member of one of America's wealthiest families.
Conradine Birgitte Dunker.  Conradine Birgitte Dunker (née Hansteen) (25 August 1780 – 1866) was a Norwegian socialite and writer.Born in Christiania she held a prominent spot in the social life of the capital city according to one encyclopedia. She was also involved in the Dramatic Society. Her memoars Gamle Dage : Erindringer og Tidsbilleder were published posthumously in 1871 and are seen as valuable sources on the 19th century cultural life.
Christian Hilfgott Brand.  Christian Hilfgott Brand who was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1695 and studied under Agricola left that town and settled in 1720 at Vienna where he became celebrated for his landscapes. He died at Vienna in 1756. The Belvedere has by him four pictures landscapes with figures of cattle.
Tommy Karevik.  Tommy Karevik (born November 1 1981 in Botkyrka Stockholm County Sweden) is a Swedish metal vocalist best known as the singer for metal bands Seventh Wonder and Kamelot.
Eileen Rodgers.  Eileen Rodgers (July 10 1930 – July 13 2003) was an American singer and Broadway performer.
Moris (singer).  Mauricio Moris Birabent (born November 19 1942) is an Argentine rock musician.
Kenny Wesley.  Kenny Wesley (also known as The Soulful Nerd) is a singer songwriter and classically-trained multi-instrumentalist based in Washington D.C. He is considered a lyric tenor with a vocal range spanning more than four octaves.
Edward M. Brecher.  Edward M. Brecher (1912–1989) was a well-known American science writer and book author best known for his contributions in addiction research human sexuality and for his advocacy of rights for people who choose to commit suicide.
Liao Zilan.  Liao Zilan (Chinese: 廖子岚; pinyin: Liào Zǐlán; born c. 1970) is an international concert circuit performer on the guzheng (Chinese zither). She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall and has toured Spain Italy France Holland Finland United States and Australia. She also participated at the WOMAD Recording Week in Bath Somerset.Liao began to learn the guzheng at the age of three when she lived in Guangzhou (Canton) Guangdong China.
Emmet Lavery.  Emmet Lavery (1902-1986) was an American playwright and screenwriter.He was born November 8 1902 in Poughkeepsie.He wrote the English libretto for Ernst Krenek's 1940 chamber opera Tarquin.1943 saw him writing for three films: He was one of the team of 22 writers collaborating on the film Forever and a Day. He adapted Gregor Ziemer's book Education For Death for Edward Dmytryk's film Hitler's Children. He wrote the American war film Behind the Rising Sun based on the 1941 book by James R.
Meinir Gwilym.  Meinir Elin Gwilym (born 31 March 1983) is a Welsh-language pop and folk singer. Raised in Llangristiolus Anglesey she released her first EP Smôcs Coffi a Fodca Rhad (translates into English as Smokes Coffee and Cheap Vodka) in 2002. Her website claims that she is amongst the best-selling Welsh language musicians in history.Gwilym worked as a radio presenter on the afternoon request show for Radio Cymru the BBC’s Welsh-language service alongside Dylan Wyn.
Bill Bruford.  William Scott Bill Bruford (born 17 May 1949 in Sevenoaks Kent) is an English drummer percussionist composer producer and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s including a stint as touring drummer for Genesis in 1976. Following his departure from Yes and at various times until 1997 Bruford was the drummer for progressive rock band King Crimson.
Michele Ritterman.  Michele Dee Klevens Ritterman Ph.D. (born November 18 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and family therapist who published Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy the first book on the systematic integration of family therapy and hypnotherapy. After receiving her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Temple University Ritterman is noted for her expertise regarding survivors of political torture and their families.
Knut Kristiansen.  Knut Kristiansen (born 14 April 1946 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Composer and Jazz musician (piano) known from Bergen Jazz life primarily for his many interpretations of the music of Thelonious Monk as orchestra leader his own bands with various number of musicians involved.
T'Melle.  T'Melle is an American R&B and Hip-hop singer Dancer and songwriter.
Tony Daniel.  Antonio Salvador Daniel AKA Tony S. Daniel is an American comic book writer and artist known for his work on various books for DC Comics including Teen Titans Flash: The Fastest Man Alive and Batman.
Jui Juis.  Suttipong Sutinrum (Thai: สุทธิพงศ์ สุทินรัมย์) is a Thai musician and singer known by the stage name Jui Juis (Thai: จุ๋ย จุ๋ยส์) One of the most successful by popular song such as บทที่ 1 (Lesson 1) The song peaked at No.1 on the FM SEED CHART TOP 20 on Radio station in 12 July 2009.
Llewelyn Lloyd (painter).  Llewelyn Lloyd (Livorno 1879 - 1949) was a British-Italian painter belonging to the Postmacchiaioli movement.
Cameron Findlay.  Cameron Findlay (performing under the alias Kontravoid) is a Canadian born electronic musician drummer composer and producer. Findlay was the founding member co-producer and co-writer for Canadian synthpop band Parallels which he left in 2011. His original composition of Dry Blood by Parallels was featured in the 2013 Oscar award winning short film Curfew.
Snowden Hodges.  H. Snowden Hodges (born April 25 1938) is a working artist and college professor in Honolulu Hawaii. He paints and draws in the contemporary realist style. Hodges has an extensive exhibition record in the United States Europe and Asia.
Osman Hadžić.  Osman Hadžić (born 9 September 1966) is a Bosnian folk singer.
Lutricia McNeal.  Lutricia McNeal (born November 27 1973 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma) is an American R&B/pop singer. She achieved worldwide success with her singles Ain't That Just the Way (UK: #6 Germany: #5 Sweden: #1) which sold two million copies worldwide Stranded (UK: #3 Sweden: #6) and Someone Loves You Honey (UK: #9).
Gu Hongzhong.  Gu Hongzhong (Chinese: 顾闳中; pinyin: Gù Hóngzhōng) (937–975) was a Chinese painter during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history.Gu was active until 960 CE and was most likely a court painter for the Southern Tang Emperor Li Yu. His most well-known work is the Night Revels of Han Xizai (韩熙载夜宴图). Gu's original no longer exists but the painting survives as a 12th-century remake during the subsequent Song Dynasty (960–1279).
Jim Garrison (theologian).  James Amon Jim Garrison is an American author theologian and founder of the State of the World Forum. He is President of Wisdom University.
Vladimir Dimitrov.  Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora (Bulgarian: Владимир Димитров — Майстора) (1 February 1882 - 29 September 1960) was a Bulgarian painter draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era. His portraits and compositions have expressive and vivid color idealistic quality of the image profound symbolic strength and originality.
Dax Riggs.  Dax David Riggs (born 15 October 1973 in Evansville Indiana United States) is an American musician from Houma Louisiana most well known for formerly fronting the sludge metal band Acid Bath in the 1990s. Dax has been a part of many projects since then including Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy & the Elephantmen. In 2007 he began releasing material under his own name. He currently resides in Lafayette Louisiana.
Georges Arvanitas.  Georges Arvanitas (June 13 1931 – September 25 2005) was a French jazz pianist and organist.
Mami Horikoshi.  Mami Horikoshi (堀越 真己 Horikoshi Mami born June 9 1960) is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with Office Osawa. She is originally from Fukushima Prefecture.
Ian Thomas (Canadian musician).  Ian Campbell Thomas (born 23 July 1950) is a singer songwriter actor and author. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dave Thomas. He was born in Hamilton Ontario Canada.
Nicolas Bergier.  Nicolas Bergier Avocat au Siège Présidial de Rheims lived in 17th-century Rheims and became interested in Roman roads there. Mentioning by chance his interest in the funding of Roman roads to Conde du Lis advisor to Louis XIII he found himself suddenly commanded by the king to undertake a study of all Roman roads. Five years later he published his Histoire des Grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain a two-volume work of over 1000 pages. There were many subsequent editions.
Jared Anderson (heavy metal musician).  Jared W. Anderson (December 28 1974 – October 14 2006) was an American death metal musician best known as the bassist and vocalist of Morbid Angel from 2001 to 2002 and Hate Eternal from 1998 to 2003.Jared Anderson formed his first band Internecine in December 1997 at the age of 22 and saw his six-year career interrupted in 2003 when he was forced to leave Hate Eternal as a result of struggles with a drug dependency.
Michael Duffy (American journalist).  Michael Duffy is an American journalist. He is Washington bureau chief and an executive editor for Time magazine. Duffy has been a reporter and editor at Time since 1985.
André Geraissati.  André Luiz Geraissati (7 September 1951) is a Brazilian musician.Andre’s path is one of the most emblematic within Brazilian instrumental music. Although working with music since the 60s Andre Geraissati became known in the mainstream at the end of the 70s with Grupo D'Alma. From 79 to 85 he was a part of this guitar trio which playing its own repertoire with strong Brazilian characteristics charmed audiences from all the world.
Owen Gruffydd.  Owen Gruffydd (1643-1730) was a Welsh poet partly noted for a lament on the decline of the Welsh language in the early 18th century.Not much is known about Owen Gruffydd's early life and career except that he was born in the parish of Llanystumdwy Caernarfonshire. It is likely that he lived much of his life there and in the outlying parishes. Gruffydd was a weaver by profession. He was however known more for his poetic gifts. He also earned a name as a genealogist.
Paolo Rivera.  Paolo Rivera is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book artist. He is known for illustrating the Mythos series of one-shots several issues of Spider-Man and his collaborations with writer Mark Waid and inker Joe Rivera on Daredevil. Although he began his career painting in oil he has since moved on to penciling inking and coloring (with some occasional sculpting).[citation needed]
Laura Caro.  Laura Isabel Caro Beltrán (born December 22 1983) is a Mexican singer songwriter actress and TV host. She has been part of one of the most successful musical reality TV shows in Latin America: La Academia. Best known for rose to prominence in 2013 with her first feature film Here Comes the Devil.
Ha Sebin.  Ha Sebin is a South Korean musician. He is the leader and lead guitarist of rock band Nemesis and joined EVE as a guitarist in 2003. He has composed and arranged for both bands and produced Nemesis' debut album 'la Rose de Versailles'. He also wrote all the music for the OST of the MBC drama miniseries 도로시를 찾아라.Ha Sebin's music style is a post-modern mix of classical music and modern rock styles.
Kyan Kuatois.  Kyan is a British singer-songwriter pianist and record producer.He released a 'bedroom album' called Conversations for free to fans in 2011. It received considerable attention and garnered much critical acclaim. He is currently working on new material and confirmed as support for London Grammar on their sold out UK tour-commencing 28th January 2014.
Luciano Soprani.  Luciano Soprani (1946–23 October 1999) was an Italian fashion designer known for his tailored colorful men's suits and silk evening gowns.
Pusha T.  Terrence Thornton (born May 14 1977) better known by his stage name Pusha T is an American hip hop recording artist from Virginia Beach Virginia. He is also known as one half of hip hop duo Clipse alongside his brother and fellow American rapper Gene No Malice Thornton. He is the co-founder and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Re-Up Records along with his aforementioned brother.
Farid al-Atrash.  Farid El-Atrache (Arabic: فريد الأطرش‎; October 19 1910 – December 26 1974) was a Syrian-Egyptian composer singer virtuoso oud player and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt in childhood Elattrache embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades — recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies. Sometimes referred to as King of the Oud he is one of the most important figures of 20th-century Arab music.
William Hazlitt (Unitarian minister).  William Hazlitt (18 April 1737 – 16 July 1820) was a Unitarian minister and author and the father of the Romantic essayist and social commentator of the same name. He was an important figure in eighteenth-century English and American Unitarianism and had a major influence on his son's work.
Kazimierz Gierżod.  Kazimierz Gierżod is a Polish pianist.Soon after graduating at Siena's Accademia Chigliana he won Gdańsk 1964 Festival of Young Musicians' 1st prize. An intercontinental career ensued. He has served as rector at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy (1987–94) where he holds a professorship.
Ken Moule.  Kenneth John Moule (June 26 1925 - January 27 1986) was an English jazz pianist best known as a composer and arranger.
Anne Aasheim.  Anne Aasheim (born 22 April 1962) is a Norwegian editor.She was born in Porsgrunn and started her journalist career in the neighboring city's largest newspaper Varden in the late 1970s. She worked in Dagen and Bergens Arbeiderblad before being hired in NRK Hordaland in 1988.She served as acting director of NRK P3 in Trondheim and NRK P2 in Oslo before being appointed as director of the local news post Østlandssendingen in 1997.
Nicolas Poussin.  Nicolas Poussin (French: [nikɔlɑ pusɛ̃]; 15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style although he spent most of his working life in Rome. His work is characterized by clarity logic and order and favors line over color.
Lord Melody.  Lord Melody (1926 – 26 September 1988) was a popular calypsonian best known for singles such as Boo Boo Man Creature From The Black Lagoon Shame & Scandal Jonah and the Bake Juanita and Rastaman Be Careful. Melody's career spanned some forty years from the beginnings of popular calypso music to his embrace of a reggae-influenced sound in the late 1970s.
Bjørn Gunnar Olsen.  Bjørn Gunnar Olsen (1942 – 1992) was a Norwegian journalist novelist playwright and biographer. He made his literary debut in 1967 with Ved skjulestedet. Among his novels are Hud over Damhauen from 1982 and Alfreds hus from 1986. He wrote a biography of Martin Tranmæl.He was awarded Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1972.
H. W. Griffiths.  Henry W. Griffiths Jr. (1916-1997) was a prominent Idaho railroad photographer who traveled throughout Idaho Montana Washington Utah and other Northwest states.Born and raised in Boise Idaho Hank Griffiths inherited his fondness of railroading from his uncle Fred Luff a pensioned brakeman. In the 1930s Griffiths began to record the railroad industry through black-and-white photography. His work has been published in Trains other magazines and many books.
Pandi Laço.  Pandi Laço (Born 21 March 1964 in Korçë) is an Albanian journalist songwriter presenter and scenarist. He is mostly known for his work in Albanian Eurovision songs where he wrote several of them. Pandi has worked with notable Albanian artists including Frederik Ndoci.
Matilda Joslyn Gage.  Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (March 24 1826 – March 18 1898) was a suffragist a Native American activist an abolitionist a freethinker and a prolific author who was born with a hatred of oppression.
Allen Collins.  Larkin Allen Collins Jr. (July 19 1952 – January 23 1990) was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and co-wrote many of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant. He was born in Jacksonville Florida.
Semion Abugov.  Semion Lvovich Abugov (Russian: Семён Львович Абугов) (December 30 1877 Berezino Minsk Governorate – May 3 1950 Leningrad) was a Jewish Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists professor of the Repin Institute of Arts regarded as one of the leading art educator of the Leningrad school of painting
Sohrab Pournazeri.  Sohrab Pournazeri (Persian: سهراب پور ناظری) is an Iranian musician virtuoso and composer born in 1982 in Kermanshah. He plays Kamancheh and tanbour.
Antzy Samiou.  Antzy Samiou (Greek: Άντζυ Σαμίου) was born Angeliki Samiou in March 7 in Piraeus Greece. She is a popular pop/folk singer and also a radio producer.
Jeremy Corbett.  Jeremy Corbett (born in Westport New Zealand) is a radio and television host and comedian from New Zealand. Corbett is the former breakfast co-host for More FM's Auckland broadcast a position he held since the mid-1990s finishing in November 2011. On television he appeared in Pulp Comedy and hosted the New Zealand edition of Deal or No Deal. He currently hosts 7 Days on TV3.
Henry de Montherlant.  Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (French: [mɔ̃tɛʁlɑ̃]; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist novelist and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.
Philip Dadson.  Philip Dadson is a New Zealand musician and artist who was in the foundation group for the Scratch Orchestra and founder of From Scratch. He was made an Arts Laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2001 and an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005.
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer).  François VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. His is a clear-eyed worldly view of human conduct that indulges in neither condemnation nor sentimentality. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs at a time when the royal court was oscillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.
Carolina Eyck.  Carolina Eyck born on December 26 1987 is a German musician specialising in playing the Theremin an electronic instrument. Her performances around the world have helped to promote the unusual music instrument.
Roscoe (rapper).  David Williams aka Scoe (born 1983) formally known by his stage name Roscoe is a rapper from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. His 2003 album Young Roscoe Philaphornia appeared on Billboard's Billboard 200 at #148. He is the younger brother of Kurupt member of Tha Dogg Pound.Scoe has recently re-signed with Priority Records through Doggystyle Records. On October 17 2013 Scoe released his most recent mixtape The Influence featuring guest appearances from Xzibit and Kendrick Lamar.
Helene Schmitz.  Helene Schmitz is an Swedish and American photographer.
Steve Balbi.  Steve Balbi played bass in the hit-making Australian band Noiseworks and was also in Electric Hippies along with fellow Noiseworks member Justin Stanley. Prior to Noiseworks he was in Rose Tattoo and prior to Rose Tattoo was in a band with his cousins called The Apaches. They performed 'Fox on the Run' on the TV Talent show 'Pot of Gold' in 1976.
Reem Acra.  Reem Acra (Arabic: ريم عكرة) is a fashion designer born in Lebanon and working in the United States. Several actresses have worn her dresses to important events.
Marlon Roudette.  Marlon McVey-Roudette (born 5 January 1983 in London) is a British/Vincentian musician. He is a former member of the band Mattafix. He is famous for his song New Age produced and co-written by hit-maker Guy Chambers and was an international hit for him and a number one in Austria Switzerland and Germany.
Robbie Bachman.  Robin Peter Kendall Robbie Bachman (born February 18 1953 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) is a drummer and the youngest brother of Canadian guitarist singer and songwriter Randy Bachman. He was the original drummer for both the Brave Belt and Bachman–Turner Overdrive bands. He is sometimes credited as Robin or Rob on the liner notes of Brave Belt and BTO albums. While growing up Bachman practiced the drums at home often playing along with his older brother Randy.
B. F. Shelton.  B. F. [Benjamin Frank] Shelton (January 1 1902 – February 28 1963) was an American singer and banjoist who recorded a number of songs for Victor Records at the Bristol Sessions in Bristol Tennessee on July 29 1927. Shelton traveled from Corbin Kentucky where he worked as a barber to Bristol for the sessions with gospel singer and preacher Alfred Karnes. Four of the recordings survive today Darling Cora Pretty Polly Oh Molly Dear and Cold Penitentiary Blues.
Roberto Aizenberg.  Roberto Aizenberg (nicknamed Bobby) (22 August 1922 – 16 February 1996) was an Argentine painter and sculptor. He was considered the best-known orthodox surrealist in Argentina.
Valerio Profondavalle.  Valerio Profondavalle (born 1533) was a Flemish historical painter of the Renaissance period born in Leuven but active in Italy. He lived for some time at Florence and afterwards settled at Milan. His daughter Prudenzia painted still-life and historical subjects. Their real name was Diependale and they belonged to a famous glass-painting family in Leuven of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Li Bingbing.  Li Bingbing (born 27 February 1973) is a Chinese actress and singer.
William Fruet.  William Fruet (born 1933 in Lethbridge Alberta) is a Canadian film and television director playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing with Donald Shebib the influential Canadian film Goin' Down the Road.His later screenwriting credits include Rip-Off Wedding in White Slipstream Death Weekend Spasms and Imaginary Playmate while his film directing credits include Wedding in White Death Weekend Spasms Search and Destroy Killer Party Cries in the Night and Bedroom Eyes.
George Rodrigue.  George Rodrigue (March 13 1944 – December 14 2013) was an American artist who was born in New Iberia Louisiana. In the late 1960s Rodrigue began painting Louisiana landscapes followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th century and early 20th century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana.
Schoolly D.  Jesse B. Weaver Jr. (born June 22 1962) better known by the stage name Schoolly D (sometimes spelled Schooly D) is an American rapper from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Alexey Nagayev.  Alexey Ivanovich Nagayev (Russian: Алексей Иванович Нагаев March 17 1704 Sertyakino-January 8 1781 Saint Petersburg) was a Russian hydrographer cartographer and an admiral (since 1769). Coming from scanty noble family he graduated from Petersburg Naval Academy and worked ibidem. During the Seven Years' War Nagayev headed the hydrographic expedition to the Prussian shores. He also compiled the first atlases of the Bering Sea and Baltic Sea (1752).
Frank Fenter.  Frank Fenter (February 25 1936 - July 21 1983) was a music industry executive.Fenter was the first Managing Director of Atlantic Records for Europe where he helped discover and get signed to Atlantic late-1960s British Invasion groups including Led Zeppelin and the progressive rock bands Yes and King Crimson. Frank Fenter was also instrumental in introducing and breaking Rhythm and Blues music across Europe with such artists as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave.
Cecile de Brunhoff.  Cecile de Brunhoff (née Sabouraud) (October 16 1903 – April 7 2003) was a French storyteller and the creator of the original Babar story. She was also a classically trained pianist.The Babar books began as a bedtime story de Brunhoff invented for her children Mathieu and Laurent when they were four and five years old respectively. She was trying to comfort Mathieu who was sick.
Julian Koster.  Julian Koster is an American underground musician and storyteller. A member of the Elephant 6 Collective he is the leader of The Music Tapes a member of Neutral Milk Hotel and a former member of Chocolate USA. He is also an influential and long time performer on the singing or Musical Saw. Koster has routinely staged highly unusual tours and created games for performance at secret locations and private homes.
Arthur Gershwin.  Arthur Gershwin (March 14 1900 – November 19 1981) was one of the four Gershwin family siblings of American musical fame. Although he was a composer he was not a professional musician and made his living as a stockbroker.He was born in New York City and was the third of the four Gershwins (Ira George Arthur and Frances).
Maria Dimitriadi.  Maria Dimitriadi (Greek: Μαρία Δημητριάδη) (1950 – January 6 2009) was a Greek singer. She was considered a total voice and one of the most renowned performers of the songs of Mikis Theodorakis and Thanos Mikroutsikos. Dimitiradi primarily connected with political left-wing songs during the Junta and Metapolitefsi era in Greece but she also experimented with other styles and genres of a more lyrical tone.
Miriam Coles Harris.  Miriam Coles Harris (born July 7 1834 in Dosoris Long Island died January 23 1925 in Pau France) was an American novelist. She wrote several novels a book of children's stories and two devotional books. She shunned publicity and wrote her first book anonymously causing the opposite of the desired effect in that several impostors claimed to be the author resulting in a literary furore and more attention than the real author ever foresaw.
Donatella Versace.  Donatella Versace (born 2 May 1955) is an Italian fashion designer and current Vice-President of the Versace Group as well as chief designer. She owns 20% of the entire stock market assets of Versace. Her brother Santo Versace owns 30% percent. Donatella's daughter Allegra Versace inherited 50% of the company stock after the death of Gianni Versace Donatella's brother and Versace's founder.
Thomas Bigelow Craig.  Thomas Bigelow Craig (1849–1924) was an American landscape painter from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He is known for his paintings depicting cows (and occasionally sheep) in summer environments. Craig's landscapes often featured meadows and streams. The animals in his earlier paintings did not take up a large part of the canvas compared to the surrounding landscapes; in his later paintings however the animals were drawn larger and became more important than the landscapes around them.
Lee Chi Ching.  Lee Chi Ching (Chinese: 李志清; pinyin: Lǐ Zhìqīng; born 1963) is a Hong Kong Manhua illustrator with the pen name [citation needed] (清兒). Lee began drawing comics and graphic novels in 1981. In 1992 he won an award for his watercolors at the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial and had his work housed at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. He is the first cartoonist from Hong Kong to have his work published in Japan.
Josh Clayton-Felt.  Josh Clayton-Felt (May 18 1967 – January 19 2000) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the alternative rock band School of Fish and later embarked on a solo career.
David Mazzucchelli.  David John Mazzucchelli (born September 21 1960) is an American comic book writer/artist known for his work on seminal superhero comic book storylines Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One as well as for graphic novels in other genres such as Asterios Polyp and City of Glass: The Graphic Novel. He is also an instructor who teaches comic book storytelling at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
Russ Miller.  Russ Miller is an American session drummer.As a Multi-Platinum recording artist he has played on multiple Grammy award winning recordings with combined sales of over 26 million copies. He has worked with over 50 international artists including Ray Charles The 5th Dimension Cher Natalie Cole Tina Turner Bobby Caldwell Andrea Bocelli Nelly Furtado The Psychedelic Furs Al Jarreau Hilary Duff Daniel Bedingfield and Meredith Brooks.
Earl Hofmann.  Earl Hofmann March 11 1928 -September 29 1992 painter sculptor educator. Hofmann was one of Baltimore's realist artists who studied with and assisted Jacques Maroger at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was a major part of the Baltimore art scene of the mid-20th century.
Paul Koehler.  Paul Adam Koehler (born September 9 1983) is a Canadian drummer in the band Silverstein. He is also involved in several business ventures most notably a clothing company named Liars! Manifesto.
Abbé François Blanchet.  Abbé François Blanchet (1707–1784) was a French littérateur or Intellectual. He spent his younger years in a Jesuit (Society of Jesus) order. Blanchet was the author of Apologues and Tales a highly esteemed work.
Violet Barclay.  Violet Barclay (November 5 1922 – February 26 2010) who also worked under the name Valerie Barclay and the married name Valerie Smith was an American illustrator best known as one of the pioneering female comic-book artists having started in the field during the 1930s and '40s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books.Born Violet Barclay she adopted Valerie in adulthood after actress Valerie Hobson though without filing for legal change of name.
Olvido García Valdés.  Olvido García Valdés (born December 2 1950) is a Spanish poet essayist translator and professor. She is married to the poet Miguel Casado.
Amie Comeaux.  Amie Noelle Comeaux (/ˈkoʊmoʊ/; December 4 1976 – December 21 1997) was an American country music singer who gained fame in her teens. Her debut album Moving Out was released on Polydor Records in 1994 and it produced the single Who's She to You a No. 64 on the Billboard country charts. Two posthumous albums A Very Special Angel and Memories Left Behind were issued in 1998 and 2007 respectively.
Toby Mott.  Toby Victor Mott (born 12 January 1964) is a British artist designer and sometime Punk historian known for his work with the Grey Organisation an artists' collective that was active in the 1980s and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico. More recently he has won acclaim for the Mott Collection an archive of UK punk rock and political ephemera that includes over 1000 posters flyers and fanzines.
Ellen Mary Clerke.  Ellen Mary Clerke (20 September 1840 – 2 March 1906) was an author journalist poet and popular science writer in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen County Cork in Ireland. She wrote for the London Tablet and also spent much time in Italy. Clerke also wrote for the Dublin Review.Agnes Mary Clerke also a writer on astronomy was her sister and they were the children of Judge's Registrar John William Clerke (c.1807-1890) and his wife Margaret (b.c1819).
Charity Brown.  Charity Brown (born Phyllis Boltz in Kitchener Ontario) is a Canadian film actress singer and voice artist for television animation shorts. She is one of Eastwood Collegiate Institute's notable alumni.
Eric Warren Singer.  Eric Warren Singer is a screenwriter. He and fellow screenwriter David O. Russell were nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for the 2013 film American Hustle but lost to Spike Jonze for Her.
Nicola Biondi.  Nicola Biondi (Capua October 7 1866 – Naples 1929) was an Italian painter.He studied at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples. His thematic was eclectic and included genre and portraits in peasant dress. He exhibited at the Promotrice of Naples depicting by nightlight: Una partita. In Rome he exhibited: Ultima prova. Among his pupils was Scarano Marcello.
Nawang Khechog.  Nawang Khechog (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་མཁས་མཆོག་ Wylie: Nga-dbang Mkhas-mchog; also known as Nawang Khechong) is a Tibetan flute player and composer.Nawang was born in Tibet but following the Chinese invasion of 1949/1950 his family moved to India where Nawang studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy.
Ross Valory.  Ross Lamont Valory (born February 2 1949 in San Francisco) is an American musician and the band Journey's noted bass player. He and Neal Schon are the only original members of the band still performing with the group. Aside from his termination from the group during the Raised on Radio album sessions and subsequent tour in 1986 Valory has played on all of Journey's albums.
Michael Wex.  Michael Wex (born September 12 1954) is a Canadian novelist playwright translator lecturer performer and author of books on language and literature. His specialty is Yiddish and his book Born to Kvetch was a surprise bestseller in 2005. Wex lives in Toronto with his wife Marilla and daughter Sabina.Michael Wex was born in Lethbridge Alberta Canada to a family of descendants of Rebbes of Ciechanów and Stryków. He has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan.
Allan Houser.  Allan Capron Houser or Haozous (June 30 1914—August 22 1994) a Chiricahua Apache sculptor painter and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.Houser's work can be found at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. and in numerous major museum collections throughout the North America Europe and Japan.
Henry Roosevelt Pressley.  Henry Roosevelt Pressley Sr. (1945–2005) was an African American blues and soul instrumentalist from Edgefield County South Carolina.He was born in the post-Depression era and prohibition during the onset of World War II and prior to the recognized inception of the American Civil Rights movement.
Clementine (musician).  Clemen Castro (born 10 December 1976) also known as Clementine is a singer-songwriter and music producer from the Philippines. He gained recognition in early 2000 as the guitarist/songwriter/vocalist of Philippine indie band Orange & Lemons. After the band's break up in 2007 Clementine formed his new band The Camerawalls and founded Lilystars Records - his own independent record label.
Honey Wilder.  Honey Wilder (born November 26 1950 in Texas) is an American former pornographic actress who was prolific in the 1980s appearing in over 90 films.She is associated with portraying seductresses and in particular for playing older women inappropriately seducing younger men. She also appeared in the Taboo series where she portrayed a mother who engages in an incestuous relationship with her son.She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Herman Taller.  Herman Taller (5 May 1906 - June 1984) was a Romanian-born American doctor who advocated weight loss based on a low-carbohydrate diet with polyunsaturated fats including safflower oil. He was the author of the controversial best selling book Calories Don't Count.The FDA charged that the 1961 book which cited a specific source of safflower oil capsules in the first printings existed solely to promote the sales of safflower oil capsules.
Maureen Tucker.  Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born August 26 1944 in Levittown New York) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group the Velvet Underground.
Rosita Vai.  Rosita Vai (born 4 June 1981) is a New Zealand R&B singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the second season of New Zealand Idol in 2005.Prior to her win Rosita managed to stay out of the 'bottom three' contestants for the entire competition.
Googoosh.  Faegheh Atashin (Persian: Fāeqe Ātaŝin - فائقه آتشین‎ Azerbaijani: Faiqə Atəşin born on 5 May 1950 in Tehran) also known by her stage name Googoosh (Persian: Guguŝ - گوگوش‎ Azerbaijani: Ququş) is an Iranian singer and actress. She is known for her contributions to Iranian pop music but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s.
Lun Gywe.  Lun Gywe (Burmese: လွန်းကြွယ် pronounced: [lʊ́ɴ dʑwɛ̀]; born 24 October 1930) is a Burmese painter who works in oil and watercolor. Outside of Myanmar his work has been exhibited often in solo shows in Japan the Republic of Korea the People's Republic of China Australia New York the Republic of Singapore.
Patrick Pye.  Patrick Pye (born 1929 in Winchester England) is a sculptor painter and stained glass artist resident in County Dublin.Major commissions can be seen all over Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána.[citation needed]He has been described as the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time.
Juanjo Guarnido.  Juanjo Guarnido is a Spanish illustrator and the co-author of the comic book series Blacksad.
Han Changhoon.  Han changhoon (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean author.
Horatio Clare.  Horatio Clare (born 1973) is an author and journalist. He worked at the BBC as a producer on Front Row (BBC Radio 4) Night Waves and The Verb (BBC Radio 3). He has written two memoirs Running for the Hills and Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope and a travel book A Single Swallow. He wrote and edited Sicily Through Writers' Eyes.
Terry McBride (musician).  Terry McBride (born September 16 1958 in Austin Texas) is an American country music artist. Between 1989 and 1994 and again from 2000 to 2002 McBride was the lead vocalist and bass guitarist in the band McBride & the Ride a country music group which recorded six studio albums and charted more than ten singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Master of Kirchdrauf.  The Kirchdrauf Master was an anonymous painter active between 1480 and 1490. His provisional name derives from an altarpiece he painted for the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Spišská Kapitula in the town of Kirchdrauf. He worked in the late Gothic style.
Alexander Baillie.  Alexander Baillie (born 6 January 1956) is an English cellist recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation. He is currently professor of cello at the Bremen Hochschule as well as at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Sarah Prince.  Sarah Prince Gill (1728-1761) was an American Christian prayer group leader and writer.The daughter of Thomas and Deborah Prince Sarah was born in 1728. Her father Thomas Prince was the pastor of Boston's Old South Meeting House during the Great Awakening. She never published during her lifetime but her Meditations were saved in the Boston Public Library and published recently in a volume with along with meditations of Sarah Edwards edited by Dorothy Baker.
Fred Saberhagen.  Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18 1930 – June 29 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F. novels.Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the vampires (including the famous Dracula) are the protagonists and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels.
Girolamo Donnini.  Girolamo Donnini (April 18 1681 – 1743) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period born in the town of Correggio. He was a pupil of the painters Francesco Stringa in Modena and then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna then traveled to Forlì to work with Carlo Cignani.He paints an Annunciation for the high altar in the Turin church of the Annunziata delle Orfanelle and a St. Joseph instructed by the angel for church of the Church of Corpus Domini in Bologna.
Elaine Rapp.  Elaine Rapp (born 27 October 1927) is an American sculptor educator and art therapist. She is known for her role in the resurgence of direct stone sculpture and especially for her international stone-carving workshops.
Sankarambadi Sundaraachari.  Shankarambadi Sundarachari (Telugu: శంకరంబాడి సుందరాచారి) was a renowned Telugu writer and poet. He gave the Telugu People their state anthem Maa Telugu Talliki Malleypu Danda.
Hussein Chalayan.  Hussein Chalayan MBE (/huːˌseɪn ˈʃʌləjɑːn/; given name Hüseyin Çağlayan Turkish: [hyseˌjin ʧaːlaˈjan]) (born 1970) is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer. He has won the British Designer of the Year twice (in 1999 and 2000) and was awarded the MBE in 2006.
Christian Hjelm.  Christian Hjelm originating from Vestbjerg Nordjylland Denmark is a Danish singer and guitar player who has developed a solo career and has released a number of singles and had his debut album Før Vi Blev Lette recorded at Studio-R in Copenhagen and released on 3 September 2012 on Playground Music record label.He is most famous for being the vocalist and guitar player for the Danish indie rock-band Figurines that has released four studio albums and 3 EPs.On 22 November 2008 Christian Hjelm gave a live concert in tribute to The Beatles' White Album and called his own concert The White Concert that included Martha My Dear from the Beatles. 
Yūichi Sasamoto.  Yūichi Sasamoto (born February 18 1963) is a Japanese science fiction writer who won Seiun Awards for Hoshi no Pilot 2:Suiseikari Ariel (novel series) and also for three non-fiction volumes Passport to the Universe. He also co-wrote the film Venus Wars with Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. His work Miniskirt Pirates was adapted into an anime television series in 2012.
Richard Landis.  Richard Landis is an American studio musician recording artist singer/songwriter and music producer. He has over 40 years of professional credits and chart success including a share of the 1994 CMA award for Album of the Year. At years end Billboard ranked Landis 18th of the top 25 producers in country music. Landis has production tenure with several acclaimed labels including Capitol Columbia and RCA.
Burhânettin Deran.  Burhânettin Deran (b. Ottoman Empire 1902 - d. Istanbul Turkey on 9 March 1965) was a Turkish composer and qanun performer. He is the father of painter Erol Deran. Born in 1902 he died on 9 March 1965 and is buried in the Kozlu Cemetery in Istanbul.
Crying Wind.  Linda Davison Stafford also known as Crying Wind April Knight and Gwendlelynn Lovequist is the author of several novels including Crying Wind and My Searching Heart which describe the experiences of a young Native American girl named Crying Wind and tell a story of Christian conversion. Under the pseudonym Gwendlelynn Lovequist she has written many love stories and romances for publications such as Writer's Digest.
Chyung Jinkyu.  Chyung JinKyu (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea or Hangul: 정진규) is a South Korean writer.
Beverly Gooden.  Beverly T. Gooden (born in Cleveland OH) is the author of the book Confessions of a Church Girl. Confessions was nominated for a 2007 AALAS Book Award and featured on BlackNews.com. She is a graduate of Hampton University in Hampton Virginia.
Doreen Southwood.  Doreen Southwood (born 1974) is a South African artist designer and boutique owner based in Cape Town. She works in a wide variety of media in her artwork producing sculptures objects prints film and more which she often bases on personal experiences and self exploration.
Ben Zabo.  Ben Zabo (born Arouna Moussa Coulibaly January 24 1979) is a Malian Afrobeat-musician from Bamako. He was born at Tominian in the Ségou Region. He released his self-titled debut album on the international record company Glitterhouse Records in 2012.
Mark Holden.  Mark Holden (born 27 April 1954) is an Australian singer actor television personality and now barrister. He was one of a panel of three judges on the television series Australian Idol and the first series of The X-Factor.
Forrest Hibbits.  Forrest Hibbits was a mid-century fine artist and watercolorist. He was born in Lompoc California on October 9 1905. He left the Hibbits family ranch to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts and graduated ca. 1927. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. Hibbits was married to fellow artist Marie Jaans (born in Belgium 1895 – died in Solvang 1984) whom he met in North Beach. He created a poster for the 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island in San Francisco.
Achille Graffigna.  Achille Graffigna (5 May 1816 San Martino dall'Argine - 19 July 1896 Padua) was an Italian composer and conductor. He composed a total of 18 operas two of which premiered at La Scala in Milan: La conquista di Granata (1839) and Ildegonda e Rizzardo (1841). Several of his operas premiered at the Teatro Regio di Torino as well where he was also active as a conductor.
J.Reu.  Jacob Reuben Marchand (born June 4 1987) is an American rapper based in Huntsville Alabama. He is better known for his stage name J.Reu. He Made his performance debut on the 2006 Best Buy Retail Road Show after creating the Christmas jingle for Best Buy TV and Radio 2006 winter ad campaign.
Kjersti Horn.  Kjersti Horn (born 30 June 1977) is a Norwegian theater director and storyboard writer the daughter of scenographer Per Kristian Horn (born 1941) and the actor theater director and politician for the Norwegian labourparty (AP) Ellen Horn (b. Stoesen in 1951) partner with Sound designer and composer Erik Hedin (born 1974 two children) and half sister of Jazz singer and actor Emilie Stoesen Christensen (born 1986). She was born with the bone disease spondylo-epyphyfyseal-dysplasi.
Aliagha Vahid.  Aliagha Vahid (Azerbaijani: Əliağa Vahid) born Aliagha Mammadqulu oglu Isgandarov (1895 Baku – 1 October 1965 Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet and Honoured Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943). He was known for reintroducing medieval ghazel style in Soviet Azerbaijani poetry.
Bria Valente.  Bria Valente (born Brenda Fuentes) is an American singer. A protégée of Prince Valente released her debut album Elixer as part of a three-album set with Prince's LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND on March 29 2009. The collection debuted at #2 on the top Billboard albums chart.Valente was born and raised in Minneapolis Minnesota. She stated in an interview with Tavis Smiley that she first met Prince at the age of 17 at Paisley Park Studios while working with keyboardist Morris Hayes.
Matt Rad.  Matt Radosevich also known as Matt Rad is an American record producer songwriter and musician. Over his career as a producer mixer and engineer he has worked with One Direction Demi Lovato Thirty Seconds to Mars All American Rejects Hot Chelle Rae Taking Back Sunday The Hives Chris Wallace Dredg and a number of other Pop and Rock artists.
Earl King.  This article is about the musical artist. For the Earl King convicted of murdering a ship's officer see Earl King Ernest Ramsay and Frank ConnerEarl King (February 7 1934 – April 17 2003) was an American singer guitarist and songwriter most active in blues music. A composer of well known standards such as Come On (covered by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan) and Professor Longhair's Big Chief he is an important figure in New Orleans R&B music.
Samala Sadasiva.  Samala Sadasiva (born 1928 – 7 August 2012) was a Telugu language poet and writer. He won Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2011.
Bridget O'Connor.  Bridget O'Connor (18 January 1961 – 22 September 2010) was a BAFTA-winning author playwright and screenwriter. She may be best known for the play The Flags and her posthumously Oscar-nominated adaptation with her husband Peter Straughan of the book Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for the film of the same name. She died in 2010 aged 49 from cancer. In 2012 she posthumously won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay along with her husband.
Didier Hernández.  Didier Hernández Fernández (born July 18 1979 in Havana) is a Cuban singer who was a member of the well known boy band Menudo. He was one of the last members of the group to join while the band was still named Menudo. He was the second member of Cuban descent after Ashley Ruiz (who he replaced).
Joe Raposo (bassist).  Joe Raposo is the bassist for the seminal California punk rock band Lagwagon and qa engineer lead at Zynga. He also played bass for a period of time for The Real Mckenzies and Mad Caddies. Additionally Raposo plays bass for the San Francisco based fusion group King City with fellow Lagwagon member Chris Rest as well as filling in on bass for several live shows with the Dwarves.
Helen Torr.  Helen Torr (1886–1967) was an early American Modernist painter. Torr worked alongside other artists namely her friend Georgia O'Keeffe and husband Arthur Dove to develop a characteristically American style of Modernism in the 1920s
Inara George.  Inara Maryland George (born July 4 1974) is an American singer-songwriter and musician one half of The Bird and the Bee a member of the band Merrick with Bryony Atkinson and a member of the trio The Living Sisters with Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark. Her 2006 solo album All Rise was a KCRW hit.
William Bliss Baker.  William Bliss Baker (November 27 1859 – November 20 1886) was an award-winning American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River school was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Bierstadt and de Haas. He later maintained studios in Clifton Park New York and New York City where he painted in oils and watercolors.
Denis Rodier.  Denis Rodier is a comic book illustrator; he has worked for multiple companies including DC Comics Milestone Media and Marvel Comics.In 1986 Denis Rodier began a career as an illustrator which would transform him two years later into a comic book artist. Among his first work for DC Comics was a Batman story published as a Bonus Book in Detective Comics #589 (August 1988). Rodier has worked on such world famous characters as Batman Captain America and Wonder Woman.
Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri.  Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri (Urdu: ابو الاثر حفیظ جالندھری‎) (born 14 January 1900 - died 21 December 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Pakistan.
Jack Goldstein.  Jack Goldstein (September 27 1945 – March 14 2003) was a Canadian born California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom.
Vangelis.  Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου [evˈaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsiu]; born 29 March 1943) professionally known as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɨs/) is a Greek composer of electronic progressive ambient jazz pop rock and orchestral music.
Mona Simpson.  Mona E. Simpson (born Mona Jandali June 14 1957) is an American author. She is a professor of English at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College. She won the Whiting Prize for her first novel Anywhere but Here (1986). It was a popular success and adapted as a film by the same name released in 1999. She then wrote a sequel for it The Lost Father in 1992.
Riccardo Zadra.  Riccardo Zadra is an Italian pianist. Zadra was awarded the 1988 Sydney Competition's 2nd prize. He has performed and recorded internationally since. He is the founder of the Accademia pianistica internazionale de Padova presided by Aldo Ciccolini and teaches at the Vicenza Conservatory.
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov.  Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов; August 21 1894 – August 20 1971) was a Soviet Russian painter watercolorist graphic artist illustrator art teacher and Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR who lived and worked in Leningrad.
Natasha Yi.  Natasha Yi (born March 25 1979) is an American model and actress. She was a former Barker's Beauty. She is known for her appearance in numerous commercials and campaigns for popular brands such as Nokia Regis Hair Salons Pepsi Marriott Hotels Timberland Target Bud Light Toyota Sony SBC and more.
David Pritchard (chess player).  David Brine Pritchard (19 October 1919 – 12 December 2005) was a British chess writer and indoor games consultant. He: gained pre-eminence as an indoor games and mind sports consultant a role that he in effect created.
Steve Sexton.  Steve Sexton is a Canadian composer arranger musical director producer and keyboardist. He served as Canadian singer Anne Murray's Musical Director for 25 years with responsibilities as her pianist conductor arranger and on occasion her producer.
DW (Dave) Drouillard.  DW (Dave) Drouillard (born March 23 1950 in Buffalo New York) is an American vocalist songwriter and musician.
Craig Borten.  Craig Borten is a screenwriter. Borten and fellow writer Melisa Wallack were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.
MC Sniper.  MC Sniper (엠씨 스나이퍼 born February 8 1979) is a South Korean male rapper. Recording artist and founder of underground hip-hop crew Buddha Baby MC Sniper is considered a controversial and relatively influential musician in South Korea. He debuted in 2002 with the album So Sniper... and immediately became recognized for acrid lyrics that challenged economic governmental and societal conditions - his backdrop: a powerful mixture of hip-hop and traditional Korean music.
André Robert de Nerciat.  André Robert de Nerciat (1739–1800) was a French novelist best known for his novel Le Diable au corps. Nerciat was born at Dijon the son of a royal official in Burgundy. He retired from the military in 1775 and worked as a writer of plays verse light music and pornographic novels while also serving as a secret agent of the French government across Europe. He may also have worked as a double agent as he was arrested by the French when they invaded Naples in 1798.
Glen Brown.  Glen Brown (born Glenmore Lloyd Brown Jamaica) also known as God Son and The Rhythm Master is a Jamaican singer musician and record producer working primarily in the genres of reggae and dub. He currently resides in New York.
Carmen Conde Abellán.  Carmen Conde Abellán (Cartagena August 15 1907 – Madrid January 8 1996) was a Spanish poet narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become number academic of the Real Academia Española where she delivered her induction speech on 1979.
Diomedes Matos.  Diomedes Matos is a Puerto Rican musician and master instrument maker who is most famous for building string instruments. He built his first guitar at age 12 and later studied and mastered construction techniques for several traditional stringed instruments including cuatros requintos classical guitars and the Puerto Rican tres. Matos' instruments are in great demand and he has won many awards and honors for his work.
Alana Grace.  Alana Grace is an American actress and singer-songwriter who is best known for her song Black Roses Red featured on the soundtrack of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She released her new album With One Word on Fragile Heart Records on April 10 2009.Alana Grace was born in Los Angeles California but moved with her family to Nashville Tennessee at the age of 6.
Otto and Vivika Heino.  Otto Heino (April 20 1915 - July 16 2009) and Vivika Heino (June 27 1910 - September 1 1995) were artists working in ceramics. They collaborated as a husband-and-wife team for thirty-five years signing their pots Vivika + Otto regardless of who actually made them.
Joshua Ledet.  Joshua Ledet (born April 9 1992) is an American singer from Westlake Louisiana. In 2012 he placed third in the eleventh season of American Idol. He is known for his soaring church-bred brand of old school soul music. On August 26 2013 he released an original song called Here to Die through YouTube which has been praised by Rolling Stone.
Carolyn Males.  Carolyn Males (born 1946) was an American writer and photographer. She wrote romance novels in collaboration under the pseudonyms Alyssa Howard Clare Richards and Clare Richmond from 1982 to 1993. She also collabored in non-fiction books and her articles has appeared in Reader's Digest Travel-Holiday Brides Parade Cosmopolitan Saturday Evening Post Odyssey Writer's Digest Newsday The Washington Post The Baltimore Sun and other publications.
Chris Meigh-Andrews.  Chris Meigh-Andrews is a video artist author and curator from Essex England whose work deals heavily with the theme of renewable energy. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Central Lancashire.
Harold Lord Varney.  Harold Lord Varney (1893–1984) was an American author.Varney was an editor at The Awakener and The American Mercury. He was a member of the IWW of which he wrote the account Revolt. Later he moved in the direction of fascism.After the war he was a contributor to American Opinion and headed a pro-Panama committee.
Adrian Crowley.  Adrian Crowley is a singer–songwriter from Galway based in Dublin and was born in Sliema Malta.To date much of his success has come in Ireland.Beginning his career at the age of 25 Crowley has released five albums with his debut A Strange Kind arriving in 1999. He followed this with When You Are Here You Are Family (2002) A Northern Country (2004) Long Distance Swimmer (2007) and Season of the Sparks (2009).
Brenda Webster.  Brenda Webster is an American writer critic and translator. She is the author of four novels including The Beheading Game (2006) and Vienna Triangle (2009) which appeared on bestseller lists in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times.
Ezkimo.  Mikko Mutenia better known by his stage name Ezkimo is a Finnish hip hop musician.
Edmund Warren Perry Jr..  Edmund Warren Perry Jr. is a writer of both creative and nonfiction work and a museum professional with expertise in American history popular culture and literature. Perry is the author of two published plays -- Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War published by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery 2009 and The Sitters published in The Best of the Strawberry One Acts Volume Four (2007).
Charlie Viracola.  Charles Charlie Viracola (born June 24 1963) is an American stand-up comedian from Los Angeles California. He is relatively well known among comedy fans in the United States Canada England and Europe.[citation needed] He was born to an engineer father and teacher mother and is 3/4 Italian 1/4-European and Native American Indian Mixed.Charlie Viracola has appeared on several television comedy shows since his 2001 appearance on Premium Blend.
Ikaika Kahoano.  Ikaika Kahoano (born May 15 1978) is an American singer. He was a finalist on the ABC television series Making the Band in 2000 which formed the boy band O-Town. Kahoano left the group to return home to his native Hawaii and was replaced by Dan Miller. Kahoano then moved to New York City and formed the boy band LMNT with Bryan Chan and Mike Miller also finalists from Making the Band. The group released the album All Sides in 2002.
Michael Ellsberg.  Michael Ellsberg is an American author blogger and public speaker. In 2011 he published The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late.
Francesca Cruz.  Francesca Cruz is an American actress and journalist.Born to Cuban parents and raised in South Florida began her entertainment career at the age of 12 studying theater and dance and later becoming a model. By 14 she had become the model host of Telemundo's celebrity game show La Feria de la Alegria.By the age of 19 Francesca was co-hosting the hip and avant music video program Onda Max aired internationally by the Univision Network.
Richey Edwards.  Richard James Edwards (born 22 December 1967 disappeared c. 1 February 1995 officially presumed dead 23 November 2008) was a Welsh musician who was lyricist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He was known for his politicized and intellectual songwriting which combined with an enigmatic and eloquent character has assured him cult status. Edwards vanished on 1 February 1995. He was declared presumed deceased in November 2008.
Victor Wood.  Victor Vic Wood (born February 1 1946 in Buhi Camarines Sur Philippines) is a singer actor and politician. His voice earned him various titles including Jukebox King and Plaka King.[citation needed]Before becoming a singer Wood starred in some productions of Sampaguita Pictures.He is a member of Iglesia Ni Cristo.
William H. Sumner.  William Hyslop Sumner (July 4 1780—1861) was the son of Governor Increase Sumner. He graduated from Harvard College in 1799 and practiced law. He served as a general in the Massachusetts militia. Sumner wrote The History of East Boston and died in 1861.
Jason Marsalis.  Jason Marsalis (born March 4 1977) is an American jazz drummer and member of the famous New Orleans Marsalis jazz musical family. He is the youngest son of Delores Ferdinand Marsalis and Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Thomas MacLean.  Thomas MacLean is an English born guitarist and bassist. He is best known for being the guitarist in the progressive metal/jazz fusion band To-Mera and for being the former bassist of the progressive metal band Haken.
Chuck Lukacs.  Chuck Lukacs is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Edan Everly.  Edan Donald Everly (born 1968) is a guitarist singer songwriter musician producer and relative to The Everly Brothers.
Yūya Uchida.  Yūya Uchida (内田 夕夜 Uchida Yūya born December 3 1965 in Misato Saitama) is a Japanese actor and voice actor who is a member of the Haiyuza Theatre Company.
Elizabeth Thompson.  Elizabeth Southerden Thompson Lady Butler (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings especially military battle scenes at the end of that tradition. She was married to Lieutenant General Sir William Butler and is still often referred to as Lady Butler.
Dann Hume.  Dann Hume (born Daniel Benjamin Cobbe 1 September 1987 Whangaparaoa New Zealand) is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Hume is the youngest of three brothers (with Peter Hume and Jon Hume) who make up the alternative rock band Evermore since 1999. Hume has co-written songs for Evermore such as Running Light Surrounding You and It's Too Late.
Mike Snider.  Mike Snider is a comedy writer whose work frequently appeared in Mad magazine from 1981–2006. Snider's byline appeared in 179 separate issues. This included 75 consecutive issues from 1997 to 2003 thanks to his long-running recurring feature Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds which predicted the likeliest versions of future demise for a variety of well-known personalities.
Chandra Courtney.  Chandra Courtney (née N. Chandrakantha) is a vocalist composer and teacher of Indian music.Chandra began her career as a child singing for local cultural organizations in Vijaywada. She then became a child artiste with All India Radio (Vijaywada).
Tony LaGundia.  Tony LaGundia is an American artist born in Grosse Pointe Michigan in 1971. When he was 28 years old he was injured in a ski accident shattering his right arm completely. He lost all function in the arm and was forced to find a career to accommodate his handicap. After working in bureaucratic jobs he began making art. LaGundia is credited with inventing leaky-edge abstraction whereby undiluted raw color shoots from within the edges of the rectangle rather than going beyond it.
Ninie Doniah.  Ninie Doniah is a Malagasy singer and composer of salegy music that originates from the northern coastal area of Madagascar including her birthplace of Nosy Be. She descends from a musical family: her grandmother was a celebrated singer of the traditional jijy vako-drazana antakarana.Doniah is commonly termed the Queen of Salegy in counterpoint to the King of Salegy superstar Jaojoby.
Wladimiro Politano.  Wladimiro Politano was born in February 19 1940 in Lago (Cosenza) Italy. Graduated in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and here he started his artistic development as a drawer painter and sculptor. He lived in Rome until 1966 when he moved to Caracas Venezuela. Seven years later he went to New York where he lived for ten years. During this period of time Politano participated in different public and private exhibitions in the United States Austria Japan Venezuela and Italy.
Willie Weeks.  Willie Weeks (born 1947) is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also gained notoriety touring with many of rock's heavyweights throughout his career. In 2006–2007 he was most visible as the chosen bassist for Eric Clapton's house band during his world tour with the Crossroads Guitar Festival.
Kenji Kawai.  Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次 Kawai Kenji) born April 23 1957 in Shinagawa Tokyo Tokyo is a Japanese music composer for motion pictures anime movies video games and televised programs. He has contributed to the musical scores for numerous films from Japan and other countries in Asia working in film genres as diverse as anime horror sci-fi and historical epic.
Joanna Denny.  Joanna Denny (died 2006) was a historian and author specialising in the court of Henry VIII of England. Her books include Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy and Anne Boleyn. Her books are usually considered to be sympathetic towards these women. She was published by Portrait Books an imprint of Piatkus. She is a descendant of Sir Anthony Denny Henry VIII's trusted servant. She died in 2006 shortly before the publication of her book on Anne Boleyn.
Jan Beneš (writer).  Jan Beneš (March 26 1936 – June 1 2007) was a Czech writer translator publicist and screenwriter. He was also using pseudonyms Milan Štěpka Bobisud Mihule Mojmír Čada Ing. Čada JAB JeBe Světlana and others. He is an author of many novels and several historical books. He was a political prisoner of Czechoslovak communist regime and a Green Beret volunteer. In 1969 after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia Beneš emigrated to United States.
Tim Wright (musician).  For UK musician and recording artist see Tim Wright (UK musician)Tim Wright (born 31 July 1967) alias CoLD SToRAGE is a Welsh video game music composer most known for his work in video game soundtracks such as Shadow of the Beast II & III Agony Lemmings Wipeout and Colony Wars.His first commercial works were created using the Commodore Amiga in the early 1990s and featured in computer games published by Psygnosis / Sony Computer Entertainment Studio Liverpool.Wright left Sony in 1997 to form Jester Interactive Limited with the key goal of developing music creation software for home consoles. 
William Lionel Wyllie.  William Lionel Wyllie (often simply W L Wyllie) (5 July 1851 – 6 April 1931) was a prolific English painter of maritime themes in both oils and watercolours.
Sam Ash (actor).  Samuel Howard Ash (August 28 1884 – October 20 1951) usually credited as Sam Ash was an American vaudeville performer singer and movie actor who appeared in minor roles in over 200 films including It's a Wonderful Life.
Murray Adaskin.  Murray Adaskin OC (March 28 1906 – May 6 2002) was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist composer conductor and teacher. After playing violin with a band he studied composition and became the director of the Music department of the University of Saskatchewan. Many of his compositions were written while in Victoria after his retirement.
Nappy Brown.  Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp (October 12 1929 – September 20 2008) better known by his stage name Nappy Brown was an American R&B singer. His hits include the 1955 Billboard chart #2 Don't Be Angry and Night Time Is the Right Time. His style is instantly recognizable; Brown used a wide vibrato melisma and distinctive extra syllables in particular li-li-li-li-li.
Richard Bivens.  Richard Bivens (born August 26 1979) is an American musician from Orange County California. He has performed as a solo artist and has been the frontman for Richard Bivens & Foreign Press and Regrets and Brunettes. He currently resides in Oakland California.
Diane Mantzaris.  Diane Mantzaris (born 1962) is an Australian artist known for her pioneering application of digital imaging to printmaking and for her unconventional approach to image making which is often both personal and political in content. Mantzaris pioneered the use of computers as a printmaking and art-making tool in the early to mid-1980s exhibiting widely nationally and throughout Asia in touring exhibitions to considerable acclaim.
William Basinski.  William Basinski (born 1958) is an avant-garde composer based in New York. He is also a clarinetist saxophonist sound artist and video artist. Basinski is best known for his four-volume album The Disintegration Loops (2002–2003) constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music.
John King (ukulelist).  John Robert King (John) (October 13 1953 – April 3 2009) was a ukulele player known for his interpretation of classical music.
Alex Nelson.  Alex Nelson (born March 22 1975) is an American singer/songwriter whose work is a blend of acoustic/electric guitar-driven indie rock/pop/electronica.
Yohanna Logan.  Yohanna Logan (born January 15 1975) is an American fashion designer.She was born in upstate New York. Later she moved to Manhattan and then Los Angeles to become a successful clothing designer and lead singer of the band Wow! Cougar an electro-rock band.Her clothing label is named Shawn which is also her nickname. The label is popular with bands such as Green Day No Doubt Red Hot Chili Peppers and P.J.
James Vanderbilt.  James Platten Vanderbilt (born November 1975) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for the films Zodiac White House Down The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Jon Schneck.  Jonathan Schneck is a guitarist for the band Relient K. He joined the band in January 2005 shortly after the release of their fourth full-length album Mmhmm. He was also a touring guitarist for Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline.
Ivan Khrutsky.  Ivan Fomich Khrutsky (Polish: Jan Chrucki; Russian: Иван Фомич Хруцкий; Belarusian: Іван Хруцкі; 1810-1885) was a Belarus-Russian painter known by his still lifes and portraits.He was born into a Polish family descended from szlachta of Leliwa coat of arms in the village of Ulla Vitebsk Governorate in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1827 Chrucki came to St. Petersburg and in 1830 entered the Imperial Academy of Arts.His first known works are dated 1832.
Ryōko Mitake.  Ryōko Mitake (美竹涼子 Mitake Ryōko) is a popular and multiple-award-winning Japanese AV idol. Throughout her career she alternated between the two AV studios Alice Japan and Max-A. At the end of her first year in AV Mitake was given two Best Actress awards in different AV ceremonies and at the end of her second year she was given an award as second best actress. After two and a half years in the industry Mitake retired to devote her time to her family.
Walter Sullivan (novelist).  Walter Laurence Sullivan (born in Nashville Tennessee on January 4 1924 died in Nashville on August 15 2006) was a southern novelist and literary critic. He published a number of works and was an English professor at Vanderbilt University for more than fifty years. He wrote chiefly about the literature the society and the values of the south. He was a founding charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Mylène Farmer.  Mylène Farmer (pronounced: [milɛn faʁmœʁ]; born Mylène Jeanne Gautier; [milɛn ɡotje]; born 12 September 1961) is a French recording artist songwriter occasional actress writer and entrepreneur. Born in Pierrefonds Quebec and raised in France.She has sold more than 30 million records and is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France. She holds the record for the most number one hits in the French charts with thirteen to date - eight of which were consecutive.
Ulrich von Hutten.  Ulrich von Hutten (21 April 1488 – 29 August 1523) was a German scholar poet and reformer. He was an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church and a bridge between the Renaissance humanists and the Lutheran Reformation. He was a leader of the Imperial Knights of the Holy Roman Empire.
Mike Levine (musician).  Michael Stephen Mike Levine (born June 1 1949) is the bassist and keyboardist for the Canadian power trio Triumph. As he did not sing lead on any of the band's music he was often perceived as being in the background. However he contributed much to the band by his bass and keyboard work as well as songwriting.
Rudy Larriva.  Rudolph Rudy Larriva (February 12 1916 – February 19 2010) was an American animator and director from the 1940s to the 1980s.Born in El Paso Texas Larriva worked at a number of lemonade studios including Format Films Filmation Walt Disney Productions but is best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons and UPA.Some of the productions he has worked on include the 1965-1967 Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies cartoons for Format Films Song of the South Mr.
Jason Clarke (writer).  Jason Clarke (born 26 October 1978 in New London Connecticut) is a writer and web developer living in Orono Maine. His first book Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man co-written with David T. Hardy was released in June 2004 and spent six weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list for Hardcover Nonfiction. The book is a critical analysis of the career and persona of acclaimed documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore.
Muma Gee.  Gift Iyumame Eke (née Uwame; born November 18 1978) professionally known as Muma Gee (do good Gift) is a Nigerian singer-songwriter actress businesswoman fashion designer and television personality. She was born raised and resides in Port Harcourt. Uwame's first taste of stardom came through her song Kade which became the title track of her first official album released in 2006.
Jo Giæver Tenfjord.  Johanne Jo Giæver Tenfjord (12 June 1918 – 13 August 2007) was a Norwegian librarian children's writer and translator.She was born in Kristiania and was sister of Knut T. Giæver. She made her literary debut in 1941 with the girl's book Valsesommer. She edited several literary anthologies for children including the ten-volume Mitt skattkammer from 1956 and the eight-volume Barndomslandet (1963–1965). She chaired the Broadcasting Council from 1974 to 1982.
Jim McNeely.  Jim McNeely (born May 18 1949) is a Grammy award-winning jazz pianist composer and arranger.[citation needed]
Philip Claypool.  Philip Claypool (born in Memphis Tennessee) is an American country music artist. Between 1995 and 1999 he recorded two studio albums for the Curb Records label (1995's A Circus Leaving Town and 1999's Perfect World) in addition to charting four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. His highest-charting single was a cover of Bad Company's 1975 hit Feel Like Makin' Love.
Talla 2XLC.  Talla 2XLC real name Andreas Tomalla is an electronic music producer and DJ whose work has spanned from industrial music to trance music.
Soshana Afroyim.  Soshana Afroyim (born 1 September 1927 Vienna Austria) is an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. She devoted her life to art and travelled around the world where she had many exhibitions. During her journeys she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature showing landscapes and portraits. Later her style developed towards abstract art strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.
Stephen Rucker.  Stephen Anthony Rucker (better known simply as Steve Rucker) (born October 7 1948) is an American composer.
Peeter Volkonski.  Peeter Volkonski (born 12 September 1954 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor rock-musician composer. He is a descendant of a princely Rurikid family and an influential art figure in Estonia.[citation needed]In 1990 Volkonski founded The Estonian Slave Keepers Party a musical project.Peeter Volkonski is a son of harpsichordist and composer prince Andrei Volkonsky and a great-great-great-grandson of prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky.
Martin Agricola.  See Agricola for several other people of the same name.Martin Agricola (6 January 1486 – 10 June 1556) was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.
Lucy Diakovska.  Ludmilla Lucy Diakovska (Bulgarian: Людмила Любомирова Дяковска Lyudmila Lyubomirova Dyakovska; born 2 April 1976) is a Bulgarian-born German singer-songwriter music producer dancer stage actress and television personality who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels the biggest-selling German girlband to date according to the German media.After a series of commercially successful releases with the group Diakovska released two singles and her solo album Lucylicious under her same-titled stage name in 2005. 
Lola Cueto.  María Dolores Velázquez Rivas better known as Lola Cueto (b. Azcapotzalco March 2 1897 – d. Mexico City January 24 1978) was a Mexican painter printmaker puppet designer and puppeteer. She is best known for her work in children’s theater creating sets puppets and theatre companies performing pieces for educational purposes. Cueto took her last name from husband Germán Cueto which whom she had two daughters one of which is noted playwright and puppeteer Mireya Cueto.
Curtis Lee.  Curtis Lee (born October 28 1939 Yuma Arizona U.S.) is an American singer of the early 1960s who twice over was one of the beneficiaries of 1961 productions by Phil Spector. These were Pretty Little Angel Eyes (U.S. #7) and Under the Moon of Love (U.S. #46).
Farhad Khalilov.  Farhad Gurban oglu Khalilov (Azerbaijani: Fərhad Qurban oğlu Xəlilov) – (born 26 November 1946 in Baku) is People's Artist of Azerbaijan chairman of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan.In 1961-1966 he studied at art school named after Azim Azimzade. Later he continued his education in Moscow at Stroganov State University and in 1969-1975 at Moscow State Institute of Polygraphy.
Muluken Melesse.  Muluken Melesse (born 1954) is an Ethiopian singer and drummer. He later abandoned his music career to involve himself in the Pentecostal Church.
Andrea Markò.  Andrea or Andras Markò (Vienna 1826 – 1895) was an Austrian-Italian painter mainly of landscapes. Like his brother the more famous landscape painter Károly Markó the Younger (Carlos Marko) he was active in Florence Italy.
Graham Jenkin.  Graham Jenkin (born Graham Keith Jenkin 17 May 1938) is an Australian poet historian composer and educator.Graham Jenkin was born in Adelaide and educated at various country schools and at Prince Alfred College Wattle Park Teachers College and the University of Adelaide. He spent two years working as a jackeroo on stations in northern South Australia.
Chloe Aridjis.  Chloe Aridjis is a London-based Mexican novelist and writer. Her 2009 novel Book of Clouds was published in eight countries and won the French Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. Her second novel Asunder was first published in May 2013 to unanimous acclaim in the UK. She is the eldest daughter of Mexican poet and diplomat Homero Aridjis and American Betty Ferber de Aridjis an environmental activist and translator.
Ahmed Jahanzeb.  Ahmed Jahanzeb Usmani (born May 28 1978) is a Pakistani pop singer and composer. Known as AJ he was born in Karachi Sindh Pakistan. Jahanzeb is one of the few singers of the country who have been trained in classical music and that is why he mostly sings soul stirring slow songs. Jahanzeb was trained under the guidance of Ustad Rais Khan who made him his shagird (pupil) in a ceremony called Rasm-e-Gandha Bandhi held at the Sheraton Hotel in 1988.
William Thomas McKinley.  William Thomas McKinley (born 9 December 1938 New Kensington Pennsylvania) is an American composer and jazz pianist. He has written more than 300 musical compositions many of which have been recorded by such ensembles as the London Symphony Orchestra the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony.
Evan Roth.  Evan Roth (born 1978) is a US artist who applies a hacker philosophy to an art practice that visualizes transient moments in public space online and in popular culture. In 2012 he was awarded a Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.
Terry Ronald.  Terry Maxwell Ronald is an English author singer songwriter and music producer.
Pat Boas.  Pat Boas is a contemporary artist living in Portland Oregon. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Portland State University where she currently teaches.
Robert Orton (audio engineer).  Robert Orton (born 15 May 1978) is a Grammy award-winning mixer. He has worked with many prominent artists including; Lady Gaga Carly Rae Jepsen Emeli Sandé Lana Del Rey Flo Rida Sean Kingston Kelis Ellie Goulding Owl City Sean Paul Enrique Iglesias Darren Hayes Robbie Williams Nicole Scherzinger Pixie Lott Lil Jon Usher Mary J. Blige Backstreet Boys The Police Pet Shop Boys t.A.T.u. among others.He has been nominated for a Grammy Award on several occasions.
Josephine Siao.  Josephine Siao Fong-Fong MBE is a Hong Kong film star who became popular as a child actress and continued her success as a mature actress winning numerous awards including Best Actress at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival (for Summer Snow). Since retiring from show business (partly due to her increasing deafness) she has become a writer and a psychologist known for her work against child abuse.
Nigel Tranter.  Nigel Tranter OBE (23 November 1909 – 9 January 2000) was a Scottish historian and author.
Quentin Elias.  Quentin Elias (10 May 1974 – 25 February 2014) was a French singer actor and model. Of Algerian heritage he was the original lead singer of the French boy band Alliage with Steven Gunnell Roman Lata Ares and Brian Torres from 1996 to 1999.
Riccardo Bacchelli.  Riccardo Bacchelli (Italian pronunciation: [rikˈkardo bakˈkɛlli]; Bologna 19 April 1891 – Monza 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize for literature.
Fredrik Johansson (musician).  Fredrik Johansson is a former member of melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity for almost six years. He joined in 1993 after the bands vocalist at the time Anders Fridén was fired and their rhythm guitarist Mikael Stanne took the vocalist role to solely focus on it leaving an empty rhythm guitarist spot which Fredrik took.
Jelena Jovčić.  Jelena Jovčić is a Serbian documentary filmmaker.
Marie Serneholt.  Marie Eleonor Serneholt (Swedish pronunciation: [maˈriː ˈsæːɳɛhɔlt]) (born 11 July 1983) is a Swedish singer model and former member of the Swedish pop band A-Teens. She was born in Stockholm daughter of musician Ronnie Serneholt.
Oliver Callan.  Oliver Callan (born 27 December 1980) is an Irish vocal and performance satirist and impressionist known for featuring on Nob Nation Green Tea and The Saturday Night Show. He rose to fame during the 2000s when his daily Nob Nation slots aired on RTÉ Radio.
Xie Na.  Xie Na ( simplified Chinese: 谢娜; pinyin: Xiè Nà) also named Nana was born on May 6 1980. She is a Chinese host singer and actress. She is famous for co-hosting the TV program Happy Camp (variety show) which airs on Hunan Satellite TV with fellow hosts He Jiong Li Weijia Du Haitao and Wu Xin. She graduated from Sichuan Normal University (Chinese:四川师范大学) where she majored in the performance department.
Kendall Phillips.  Kendall Phillips (born December 28 1988) is an American country singer-songwriter and actress. She is most recently known for being a 2010 and 2011 National Finalist in the Colgate Country Showdown and for being a contestant on the 2006 season of American Idol.In 2007 Phillips was featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul's Chicken Soup For the American Idol Soul.
Alex Katunich.  George Alex Katunich (born August 18 1976) is the former bassist of Incubus.Since high school Alex went by the stage name of Dirk Lance which was apparently taken from the credits of an anonymous 1970s porn flick. He stayed with Incubus on bass guitar for over 11 years until he left the band in 2003.
Stan Sakai.  Stan Sakai (スタン 坂井 born May 25 1953 in Kyoto Japan) is a third-generation Japanese American Cartoonist comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo.
Anna Bunina.  Anna Petrovna Bunina (Russian: А́нна Петро́вна Бу́нина IPA: [ˈannə pʲɪˈtrovnə ˈbunʲɪnə] ; January 18 1774 – December 16 1829) was a Russian poet. She was the first female Russian writer to make a living solely from literary work. She is an ancestor of Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin.
Ravi Shukla.  Ravi Shukla (born November 4 1983 in Kolkata West Bengal) is an Indian singer. He was the winner of the popular Indian television singing competition Star Voice of India. He was also a participant of the first seasons of Indian Idol and Star Voice of India.
Miguel Torga.  Miguel Torga pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha (São Martinho de Anta Sabrosa Vila Real district August 12 1907 – Coimbra January 17 1995) is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry short stories theater and a 16 volume diary.
Carla Emery.  Carla (Carlotta Louise Harshbarger) Emery DeLong (January 19 1939 – October 11 2005). Emery was born in Los Angeles where her parents had gone in search of employment after being displaced from their Washington State home by a crop failure.
Frank Waldman.  Frank Waldman (March 15 1919 – September 5 1990) was an American screenwriter who frequently worked with Blake Edwards and his brother Tom Waldman.Waldman was born in Chicago Illinois. He wrote for the documentary series This Is Tom Jones as well as episodes for I Dream of Jeannie McHale's Navy Bewitched Gilligan's Island The Greatest Show on Earth and The Judy Garland Show
James Miller (academic).  James Miller is an American writer and academic. He is known for writing about Michel Foucault philosophy as a way of life social movements popular culture intellectual history eighteenth century to the present; radical social theory and history of political philosophy. He currently teaches at The New School.
David Wilson (violinist).  David Wilson (September 22 1945 - ) is an American-born violinist and recording artist known for his stylized arrangements of popular music and original compositions.Wilson began his professional recording career in 1987 performing nightly in Beverly Hills California. Here he performed for Hollywood celebrities and political figures. Tina Sinatra took note of Wilson's music and recommended him to perform at a private event attended by Henry Mancini.
Alex P.  Alexander Alex Papaconstantinou (Greek: Άλεξ Παπακωνσταντίνου; born 29 December 1979 in Brännkyrka Sweden) is a Swedish songwriter and music producer of Greek origin. He has worked with a number of artists including Antique Elena Paparizou Anna Vissi Cameron Cartio and Sarbel. In 2011 Papaconstantinou adopted the production pseudonym Alex P and started collaborating with record producer RedOne co-writing and co-producing the Enrique Iglesias hit song I Like How It Feels.
Gunnel Fred.  Gunnel Fred (born 29 August 1955) is a Swedish film actress. She was born in Årsta Sweden.
Cem Erman.  Cem Erman born Süleyman Faik Durgun (born 1947 in Iskenderun in Turkey and died on 8 August 2011 in Adana) was a Turkish film actor. His father's side was originally from Mersin and his mother's side was from Halep. He had also two more brothers and sisters. He was the youngest in the family. In 2007 he married Sevim Demiroğlu. Shortly after their marriage they got divorced. And after a while they start having a relationship again and till his death the couple were together.
G. Love.  Garrett Dutton (born October 3 1972) better known as G. Love is the frontman for the band G. Love & Special Sauce.
Claudio Kron.  Cláudio José Lima Santos known as Claudio Kron (born June 1971) is a Brazilian percussionist dancer capoeirista and executive producer resident in England. He runs school workshops and promotes Brazilian arts in England Bulgaria France Netherlands and other countries teaching percussion dance and capoeira – a form of Brazilian martial arts.
Milk Ichigo.  Milk Ichigo (苺みるく Ichigo Milk) also often billed as Miruku Ichigo is an award-winning Japanese adult video (AV) actress who has had an exceptionally long career.
Buffy Sainte-Marie.  Buffy Sainte-Marie OC (born February 20 1941) is a Canadian-American Cree singer-songwriter musician composer visual artist educator pacifist and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Richard Evans (radio presenter).  Richard William Gilmour Evans (born 17 February 1958 in Swansea) is a Welsh journalist and Broadcaster. He was educated at Llanelli Boys Grammar Technical School and studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath before studying journalism at City University London. He trained as a Newspaper reporter on the South Wales Argus before joining Radio West in Bristol and then joining the BBC.
Pasquale Bona.  Pasquale Bona (Cerignola November 3 1808 – Milan December 2 1878) was an Italian composer. He studied music in Palermo. He composed a number of operas including one based on the Schiller play that would later inspire Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos. Bona later taught at the Conservatory in Milan where he counted among his pupils Amilcare Ponchielli Arrigo Boito Franco Faccio and Alfredo Catalani; he was also friends with Alessandro Manzoni.
Jeff Rouse (musician).  Jeff Rouse is an American musician who is best known as the bassist for both Alien Crime Syndicate and Duff McKagan's Loaded.
Ethel Sands.  Ethel Sands (6 July 1873 – 19 March 1962) was an American-born artist and hostess who lived in England from her early childhood. She studied art in Paris for several years under Eugène Carrière and it was there that she met Anna Hope Hudson (Nan) her life partner. Her works were influenced by the artist Edouard Vuillard and Walter Sickert and were generally of still lifes and interior scenes many of which are of Château d'Auppegard that she shared with Hudson in France.
Dray Skky.  Dray Skky is an American songwriter born in South Carolina and raised in Miami Florida.Nicknamed Skky by affiliates in the urban market she debut her vocal abilities on Trick Daddy's December 19 2006 album release Back By Thug Demand.
Richard Epp (actor).  Richard Epp (born in 1948 in Prince Albert Saskatchewan) is a Canadian playwright and actor.He studied at the University of Saskatchewan and University of Victoria. He has been a member of the Department of Theatre and Dramatic Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge Alberta since 1974. He has served as department chair and played a significant role in the development of drama programs and facilities at the University.
Elizabeth McCord.  Elizabeth McCord (January 30 1914 – April 18 2008) was an American modernist painter whose colorful biomorphic and architectural abstractions influenced the hard-edge movement of 1950s and were uniquely poised at the intersection of Southern California’s thriving mid-century art design and architecture scenes.
Aaron Allston.  Aaron Dale Allston (December 8 1960 – February 27 2014) was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara.
Osório Duque-Estrada.  Joaquim Osório Duque-Estrada (April 19 1870 — February 5 1927) was a Brazilian poet essayist journalist literary critic and professor. He is famous for writing in 1909 a poem that would become the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem in 1922.He occupied the 17th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1915 until his death in 1927.
Mikey Robins.  Mikel Mason Mikey Robins (born 8 December 1961) is an Australian media personality comedian and writer. He is best known for the satirical game show Good News Week which ran on the ABC and Network Ten between 1996 and 2000 and returned again when the series was resurrected in February 2008.
Teddy Wilson.  Theodore Shaw Teddy Wilson (November 24 1912 – July 31 1986) was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yanow as the definitive swing pianist Wilson's sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz including Louis Armstrong Lena Horne Benny Goodman Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. With Goodman he was one of the first black musicians to appear prominently with white musicians.
May Sweet.  May Sweet (Burmese: မေဆွိ; pronounced: [mè sʰwḭ]; born Swe Aye Myint (ဆွေအေးမြင့် [sʰwè ʔé mjɪ̰ɴ]) on 13 February 1962) is a Burmese singer and actress and considered one of the most commercially successful female singers in the history of Burmese pop music. She is most famous for her Burmese covers of Eurodisco and American rock and pop songs as well as classic Burmese songs from the pre- and post-war eras.
Magnus Uggla.  Per Allan Magnus Claësson Uggla (pronounced [pæːr ˈalːan ˈmaŋnɵs ˈklɑːsɔn ˈɵɡː.ˈla]; born June 18 1954 in Stockholm) is a Swedish artist composer actor and occasional radio host known for his satirical lyrics. Uggla was the lead singer of the hard rock band JUSO (later renamed Alexander Lucas) before going solo in the early 70's. Their influences were Black Sabbath The Groundhogs and Alice Cooper among others.
Dan McCafferty.  William Daniel Dan McCafferty (born 14 October 1946 Dunfermline Scotland) is a Scottish vocalist best known as the lead singer for the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth from its founding in 1968 to his retirement from touring with the band in 2013.
Nikolay Glazkov.  Nikolai Ivanovich Glazkov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Глазко́в IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɡlɐˈskof] ; January 30 1919 – October 1 1979) was a Soviet poet renowned for his uncanny and ironic verse his alcoholism and for jokingly coining the term samizdat which came to be internationally known.
Harold Warrender.  Harold Warrender (15 November 1903 – 6 May 1953) was a British film actor.His father was Sir George Warrender 7th Baronet.
F.M. Einheit.  Frank-Martin Strauß better known as F.M. Einheit and also known as Mufti (born 18 December 1958 in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor from Germany.While primarily known for his percussion work with the influential industrial group Einstürzende Neubauten he has also collaborated with KMFDM Goethes Erben and recorded several albums in collaboration with other musicians (such as Diamanda Galás Mona Mur Andreas Ammer Ulrike Haage) and solo.
Yaakov (Jack) Rosner.  Yaakov Jack Rosner (born 1902 in Munich - died 1950) was an Israeli artist.
James St. James.  James St. James (born James Clark August 1 1966) is an American television personality author celebutante frequent collaborator with Mathu Anderson and former Club Kid of the Manhattan club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.James St. James was notorious for a lifestyle of excess that included heavy drug use partying and bizarre costumes that first brought him to national attention as the subject of Club Kids television appearances and interviews.
Haitham Yousif.  Haitham Yousif (born Haitham Abed Yousif (Arabic: هيثم عبد يوسف‎ Syriac: ܗܝܬܡ ܥܒܕ ܝܘܣܦ) November 29 1969) is an Iraqi singer composer and songwriter. Born and raised in Baghdad Iraq. Referred to as the Prince of Love he is the most commercially successful and one of the most influential entertainers in Iraq.
Angiolino Romagnoli.  Angiolino or Angiolo Romagnoli (Borgo San Lorenzo 1850 – Florence 1896) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects. He was part of the Macchiaioli painters who convened at the Caffe Michelangiolo. He is known for his fresco decorations meant to imitate Renaissance tapestries.
Pritam Bhattacharjee.  Pritam Bhattacharjee is an Indian classical vocalist. He sings in Hindustani style of music.
Vlaho Bukovac.  Vlaho Bukovac (French: Blaise Bukovac Italian: Biagio Faggioni; 5 July 1855 Cavtat-23 April 1922 Prague) a Croatian painter. His life and work were eclectic for the artist pursued his career in a variety of locales and his style changed greatly over the course of that career. He is probably best known for his 1887 nude Une fleur (A Flower) which he created during his French period and which received attention in various reviews and publications during his lifetime.
David DeMaría.  David Jiménez Pinteño known as David DeMaría (born January 20 1976) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. David was born in Jerez de la Frontera in Cádiz Province Spain. His career started when he was 14 years old with the Spanish group Kelliam 71. He was with them for 6 years. His first solo album came when he was 19 years old.
Adolphus Hailstork.  Adolphus Hailstork (born Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III Rochester New York April 17 1941) is an American composer and educator. He grew up in Albany New York where he studied violin piano organ and voice.Hailstork received a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a doctorate in music composition from Michigan State University in 1971 studying with H. Owen Reed.
Erald Briscoe.  Erald Briscoe also known as Englishman is a British-born reggae musician who has recorded as a solo artist and has also played bass guitar in several bands including Ras Michael's Sons of Negus the Shango Band (with whom he also sings) and JFC.
Nanae Aoyama.  Nanae Aoyama (青山 七恵 Aoyama Nanae born January 20 1983) is a Japanese fiction writer. She studied at the University of Tsukuba Ibaraki Prefecture and later moved to Tokyo. Her literary debut was Mado no Akari (Light of Windows) in 2005 for which she won the Bungei Prize. Aoyama was awarded the 136th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2006) for her novel Hitori Biyori (ひとり日和 A Perfect Day to Be Alone).
The 45 King.  The 45 King (born Mark James October 1961) also known as 45 King started DJing in New Jersey in the mid-1980s. The nickname the 45 King came from his ability to make beats using obscure 45 RPM records.
Carl Weathersby.  Carl Weathersby (born Carlton Weathersby 24 February 1953 Jackson Mississippi) is an American electric blues vocalist guitarist and songwriter. Weathersby has worked most notably with Albert King and Billy Branch and is now a solo artist.Weathersby was also nominated in 1997 for a W.C. Handy Award for 'Best New Blues Artist'.
Jack Johnson (musician).  Jack Johnson (born May 18 1975) is an American folk rock singer-songwriter surfer filmmaker musician known for his work in the soft rock and acoustic genres. In 2001 he achieved commercial success after the release of his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. He has since released five more albums a number of EPs and surfing movies/soundtracks. He is also known for organizing an annual event the Kōkua Festival.
Irene Whittome.  Irene F. Whittome OC (born March 4 1942) is a Canadian multi-media artist.Born in Vancouver British Columbia she attended the Vancouver School of Art. She then spent five years studying printmaking at the Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of ArtsSince 1974 she has been a Professor of the visual arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University.In 2004 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Michael Wolff (journalist).  Michael Wolff (born August 27 1953) is an American author essayist and journalist. He currently writes a regular column for Vanity Fair magazine. His most recent book The Man Who Owns the News (2008) is a biography of Rupert Murdoch based on more than 50 hours of interviews with the media mogul.
Martijn Spierenburg.  Martijn Spierenburg (born 30 January 1975) is a composer and arranger. He is also keyboard player for the Dutch symphonic rock band Within Temptation.Spierenburg has written and arranged music for several (international) artists TV series and games.
Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov.  Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov (Russian: Константин Васильевич Иванов (Chuvash: Пăртта Кĕçтентинĕ); 27 May [O.S. 15 May] 1890 in Slakbash village Bashkiria – 26 March [O.S. 13 March] 1915 id.) was a Chuvash poet.
Dave Allen (English musician).  Dave Allen (born 23 December 1955) was the bass guitarist for the post-punk band Gang of Four. In 1981 he left Gang of Four to found Shriekback.He later founded World Domination Recordings and two of its bands The Elastic Purejoy and Low Pop Suicide (with Rick Boston). He appeared on several LPs and EPs with each of these bands though his ambitious plan to release a work of 20 volumes produced only three releases The Harvest and the Elastic Purejoy's The Clutter of Pop and Talk Radio.
Larry Parnes.  Laurence Maurice Larry Parnes (3 September 1929 - 4 August 1989) was an English pop manager and impresario. He was the first major British rock manager and his stable of singers included many of the most successful British rock singers of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Giacinto de Popoli.  Giacinto de Popoli (died 1682) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active near his natal city of Orta di Atella in the Province of Caserta. He was a pupil of Massimo Stanzioni.
Breon O'Casey.  Breon O'Casey (30 April 1928 – 22 May 2011) the son of playwright Sean O´Casey was a London-born and raised artist and craftsman closely associated with the St Ives School of painters and sculptors.Breon was educated at Dartington Hall School and following his National Service duty O'Casey attended the Anglo-French Art School a small school in St John's Wood London based on the French model.
David Markson.  David Markson (December 20 1927 – c. June 4 2010) was an American novelist born David Merrill Markson in Albany New York. He was the author of several postmodern novels including Springer's Progress Wittgenstein's Mistress and Reader's Block. His final book The Last Novel was published in 2007 and received a positive review in the New York Times which called it a real tour de force.Markson's work is characterized by an unconventional approach to narrative and plot.
Davy Knowles.  Davy Knowles (born 1987) is a Manx blues guitarist and singer. Knowles formerly of the blues-rock band Back Door Slam is now working as a solo artist under the name Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam. With Back Door Slam he played lead guitar and sang on their debut album Roll Away. After a split-up with bassist Adam Jones and drummer Ross Doyle Knowles released his first solo album Coming Up for Air on May 19 2009.
Erick Manana.  Erick Manana is an acoustic guitarist singer and songwriter from Madagascar. He often performs in a duo or as a solo artist singing in accompaniment to his acoustic guitar in the ba-gasy genre that gained prominence in the central highlands of Madagascar in the 1930s. He began to learn to play guitar and sing in the ba-gasy style from his grandfather at the age of five. In 1979 he left Madagascar to settle in France and currently lives in Bordeaux.
Jonathon Newby.  Jonathon Newby was the lead singer of Brazil until August 2007. Jonathon and his brother Nic are also 2 of the founding members of Brazil. On earlier Brazil recordings Jonathon played drums but eventually became the lead singer. Fans of Brazil know Jonathon for his use of obscure lyrics and interweaving themes.He has also been trained formally on the piano on which he wrote most of Brazil's songs.
Bill Jaaska.  William C. Bill Jaaska (June 22 1961 – November 9 2009) was an American comic book artist.
Raffaellino del Colle.  Raffaellino del Colle (1490–1566) was an Italian Mannerist painter active mostly in Umbria. He was born in Colle Borgo Sansepolcro Tuscany.He is also called Raffaellino della Colle. A pupil of Raphael whom he is held to have assisted in the Farnesina and the Vatican. After Raphael's death Raffaellino worked under Giulio Romano in the Sala di Constantino in the Vatican.
Gabriel Hanotaux.  Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian.
Mario Winans.  Mario Winans (born August 27 1974) is an American R&B singer songwriter music producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Giuseppe Oriolo.  Giuseppe Oriolo or Orioli (Mantua 17 July 1681 - Mantua 1750) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque.
Phil Mazo.  Phil Mazo (born June 13 1981) is a Jewish-American stand-up comedian. He has appeared on The Bob & Tom Show and his stand-up can be heard on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is also in a national television commercial for CarMax. His debut comedy album Pervert has appeared in the top 40 comedy albums on iTunes.
Anthony Troiano.  Anthony John Troiano (born 8 August 1988 in Melbourne Victoria Australia) is a drummer song writer multi-instrumentalist. Troiano was a former member of the Australian rock band Neon which released the 7 single Hello & Never Again in 2009 through an independent label Tangled Beat Records and many other successful releases.
Francesco Floriani.  Francesco Floriani a native of Udine who flourished in the 16th century was instructed by Pellegrino and displayed a great talent for portraiture. Many of his paintings were in the possession of the Emperor Maximilian II by whom he was employed. His Judith has great merit.
Barry Cowsill.  Barry Cowsill (September 14 1954 – August 29 2005) was an American musician and member of the musical group The Cowsills. He was born in Newport Rhode Island. The fifth of seven children Cowsill soon became the drummer (and later the bass guitar player) of his brothers' band playing popular tunes at local dance clubs. By the late 1960s the band expanded to include younger brother John (on drums) his mother Barbara older brother Paul and younger sister Susan.
Aimee Allen.  Aimee Allen is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles California. She is known for her vocals on the dance song Cooties made for the soundtrack of the 2007 version of the movie Hairspray. She was previously signed to Elektra Records and her album I'd Start a Revolution If I Could Get Up in the Morning featuring tracks produced by Mark Ronson and Don Gilmore was never released.
Tsai Chin (singer).  Tsai Chin (Chinese: 蔡琴; pinyin: Cài Qín; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai4 Ch'in2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhoà Khîm) is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan. Tsai sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien and is known for her naturally magnetic rich vocals and witty persona.
Jeff Burrows.  Jeffrey John Burrows (born August 19 1968 in Windsor Ontario) is the drummer and percussionist for Canadian rock band Crash Karma and The Tea Party. Jeff Burrows begun drumming at eleven years of age and professionally so since 1990 when he joined childhood friends Jeff Martin and Stuart Chatwood in forming The Tea Party. Burrows' style is influenced by jazz drummers including Buddy Rich Gene Krupa and Max Roach as well as rock drummers Neil Peart and Stewart Copeland.
Adam Nussbaum.  Adam Nussbaum is an American jazz musician.
Dan Smith (Listener).  Daniel Reuben Smith (born October 9 1978) is an American poet vocalist and songwriter for the spoken word rock band Listener. A member of the Hip-Hop group Deepspace5 Smith went by the name Listener but has not used this pseudonym since 2005.
Stéphanie Blake.  Stephanie Blake (born 1968 in Northfield Minnesota) is an author of children's stories living in Paris. She is published by l'école des loisirs. Her works have been translated into English Spanish Swedish Norwegian Korean Japanese Chinese and Italian.
Steve Jansen.  Steve Jansen (born Stephen Batt 1 December 1959 in Beckenham Kent England) is an English drummer percussionist singer and composer.
Caroline Costa.  Caroline Costa (born 9 May 1996) is a French singer and TV presenter.
Maggie Helwig.  Maggie Helwig (born 1961) is a Canadian poet novelist and social justice activist.
Blevin Blectum.  Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) is an electronic musician and multimedia composer.Blectum studied the violin during her youth. At Oberlin College she began making electronic music at the WOBC-FM studios. At Mills College she partnered with Kevin Blechdom to form Blectum from Blechdom a performance art / vocals laptops and samplers / electronica duo.
Donald Harrison.  Donald Harrison Jr. (born June 23 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist from New Orleans Louisiana.
Charles Griffes.  Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Elmira New York September 17 1884 – New York City April 8 1920) was an American composer for piano chamber ensembles and for voice.
Ana Voog.  Ana Clara Voog (born 18 April 1966) is a musician visual artist performance artist and writer from Minneapolis Minnesota. Voog is the former front woman of The Blue Up? a pop rock band from the Minneapolis area. On 22 August 1997 Voog began anacam the second webcam (after JenniCam) that lifecasted i.e. broadcast twenty-four hours a day live from a home.
Chafia Rochdi.  Zakia Bent Haj Boubaker Marrakchi better known by her stage names Chafia Rochdi and Nana (November 7 1910 – July 21 1998) was a Tunisian singer and actress.
Martina Krupičková.  Martina Krupičková (Czech pronounced [Kru-pich-kov-ah]) (born 15 September 1975) is a Czech artist who paints in the impressionist style.
Kim Dong-ryool.  Kim Dong-ryool (Hangul: 김동률; or spelled Kim Dong-ryul; born March 15 1974) is a South Korean pop singer-songwriter. He is a popular artist who composes arranges writes lyrics produces and performs his own music. He has been active since 1993.
James Horner.  James Roy Horner (born August 14 1953) is an American composer conductor and orchestrator of film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements. His score for the 1997 film Titanic remains the best selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time.Horner has scored over 100 films frequently collaborating with directors such as James Cameron Mel Gibson and Ron Howard.
Jules Chéret.  Jules Chéret (May 31 1836 – September 23 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster.
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier.  Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (male; 6 June 1743 – 17 August 1824) was a well-known French painter of historical subjects who was active before during and after the French Revolution.
Pete Fountain.  Pete Fountain (born Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr. July 3 1930) is an American clarinetist based in New Orleans. He has played jazz Dixieland and Creole music.
Alexander McCall Smith.  R. Alexander Sandy McCall Smith CBE FRSE (born 24 August 1948) is a Rhodesian-born British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late twentieth century McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction. He is most widely known as the creator of the The No.
Jan Hammer.  Jan Hammer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦamɛr]) (born 17 April 1948 in Prague then Czechoslovakia today the Czech Republic) is a composer pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s as well as his film scores for television and film including Miami Vice Theme and Crockett's Theme from the popular 1980s program Miami Vice.
Matthew Taylor (musician).  Matthew Taylor (born 1968 Miami Florida) is a musician and artist.Taylor was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1980s and early 1990s there he studied music composition and improvisation under John Corbett. He is a founding member of the indie rock band Bellini.
Josip Račić.  Josip Račić (22 March 1885 – 19 June 1908) was a Croatian painter in the early 20th century. Although he died very young (he was only 23) and his work was mostly created when a student he is one of the best known of the modern Croatian painters.
Faustina Maratti.  Faustina Maratti (c. 1679–1745) was an Italian Baroque poet and painter.
Robert Ingersoll Aitken.  Robert Ingersoll Aitken (May 8 1878 – January 3 1949) was an American sculptor.
Pablo Reinoso (designer).  Pablo Reinoso (born 1955 Buenos Aires Argentina) is an Argentine-French artist and designer who has been working in Paris France since 1979.
Andy Hilfiger.  Andy Hilfiger (Andrew Charles Hilfiger) is an American business man in the fashion industry and a musician. He is the creative director and namesake of Andrew Charles a rock 'n' roll inspired fashion line of which Steven Tyler is the face.Andy Hilfiger's first job was at 12 years when he began selling jeans in his brother Tommy Hilfiger's store. Andy’s other love is music and he has been playing bass guitar since he was a teen.
Aldo Palazzeschi.  Aldo Palazzeschi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo palatˈtseski]; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani an Italian novelist poet journalist and essayist.
Florian Schneider.  Florian Schneider-Esleben (born 7 April 1947 Kattenhorn Germany) is one of the founding members of electronic music band Kraftwerk. He left the band in November 2008.
John Porcellino.  John Porcellino (b. September 18 1968 in Chicago Illinois) is a popular creator of minicomics. Porcellino's self-published photocopied mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics is among the best-known and longest-running minicomics produced today begun when Porcellino was a teenager and still going strong.
Herman Matthews.  Herman Matthews (born December 28 1960 in Houston Texas) is an American drummer and composer. Matthews works as a session and touring musician most notably for Tower of Power Kenny Loggins and toured with Tom Jones for more than 7 years. He began playing drums at the age of seven and has been the backbone of world-class pop rock jazz soul R&B and funk bands for nearly thirty years.
David L. Lindsey.  David L. Lindsey is an American novelist working primarily in the mystery and crime fiction genres. He has published fourteen novels in a writing career spanning 29 years.
Pierre Bouvier.  Pierre Charles Bouvier (9 May 1979) is a French-Canadian musician and composer who is best known as the lead singer for pop punk band Simple Plan.
Bec Abbot.  Bec Abbot is a Canadian singer who performs and records Contemporary Christian music. Her album Shine Like Stars was nominated for the 2004 Juno Award for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year.
Machel Montano.  Machel Montano (born 24 November 1974) is a Trinidadian soca singer record producer and songwriter.He is the frontman of the popular soca band The HD Family and is noted for his high energy fast-paced and often unpredictable on-stage performances.
Illangelo.  Carlo Illangelo Montagnese (born July 29 1987) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian producer songwriter musician and mixing engineer from Toronto Ontario who came to fame as long-time collaborator of The Weeknd.
Dunya Mikhail.  Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad Iraq) is an Iraqi poet based in the United States.
Adrián Varela.  Adrián Eduardo Varela Avilés (born December 20 1983 in Culiacán Sinaloa Mexico) was a contestant of the fourth generation of popular Mexican reality show La Academia. He is the son of Isidro Varela and Dora Elvia Avilés. He has a younger sister Carolina. He is known to be a young person of strong and sensible character with a great voice that emphasizes it. He went to University of Sinaloa to major in Marketing. He is fluent in Spanish and English.
Takeo Kikuchi.  Takeo Kikuchi (菊池 武夫 Kikuchi Takeo born May 25 1939) is a famous Japanese industrial and fashion designer. He designs such things as spectacle frames and chronographs in addition to clothing.In 2004 he bowed out from designing his own self-named brand entrusting creative direction to Taishi Nobukuni a graduate of London's St.
Johnny Goudie.  John Charles Johnny Goudie (born October 14 1968 in Miami Florida United States) is a Cuban-American singer songwriter multi-instrumental musician record producer actor and podcaster based in Austin Texas. During a career that has spanned four decades he has received acclaim for his unique vocals and a constantly evolving musical style with its roots in classic rock.
Harmonica Shah.  Harmonica Shah (born Thaddeus Hall March 31 1946 Oakland California) is an American Detroit and electric blues harmonicist and singer. His playing was influenced by Junior Wells Jimmy Reed Little Walter Lazy Lester and Little Sonny.
Iyeoka Okoawo.  Iyeoka Okoawo (/iːˈjoʊkə/) is a Nigerian-American poet recording artist singer activist educator and TEDGlobal Fellow. Her music includes elements from soul R&B rock hip hop and jazz.
Wes Melcher.  Wes Melcher (born December 31 1977) is an author investor and businessman from the United States. Melcher is best known for writing the book “NetEASY Marketing”. He was also the previous owner of the horse Worldventurer.
Nine Moati.  Nine Moati (1938 in Tunis) is a French novelist with Tunisian-Jewish origins. Nine Moati is the sister of the French film director Serge Moati.Her greatest book success was the novel Les Belles de Tunis which was published in 1983.She has also created filmscripts like : Deux femmes à Paris (2000) Mon enfant ma mère (1981)↑
Tenille.  Tenille is a Canadian country music singer from Grande Prairie Alberta who is signed to Royalty Records. In 2011 at the age of 17 she was nominated for a Canadian Country Music Award for Female Artist of the Year.
Masayuki Miyata.  Masayuki Miyata (宮田 雅之 Miyata Masayuki) (1926–1997) was a Japanese kiri-e (papercutting) artist. In 1995 he was selected as the year's official artist for the United Nations. He created illustrations for modern publications of Japanese classic literature including Oku no Hosomichi The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. His most prominent work Red Fuji was produced and sold in 184 countries worldwide.
Karl Storck.  Karl Storck was a Hessian-born Romanian sculptor and art theorist.
Saya Saung.  In this Burmese name Saya is an honorific.Saya Saung (1898–1952) was an early Burmese watercolorist who adopted the Western style of painting and became famous in Burma for his landscape works. He is less known for his portraits about seven of which have surfaced in recent years.
Ned Evett.  Ned Evett (born May 9 1967) is an American guitarist singer and songwriter best known for playing a fretless glass-necked guitar.
Xiaoshenyang.  Shen He (born 7 May 1981) better known by his stage name Xiaoshenyang (Chinese: 小沈阳; pinyin: Xiǎoshěnyáng; literally Little Shenyang) is a Chinese actor. He was a student of Zhao Benshan and was an errenzhuan performer before joining the film and television industry.Xiaoshenyang became famous immediately in China after the 2009 CCTV New Year's Gala where he stole the thunder from Zhao playing an effeminate restaurant waiter in a skit. He also showed off his considerable vocal prowess.
Harry Burleigh.  Henry Harry Thacker Burleigh (December 2 1866 – September 12 1949) a baritone was an African-American classical composer arranger and professional singer. He was the first black composer to be instrumental in the development of a characteristically American music and he helped to make black music available to classically-trained artists both by introducing them to the music and by arranging the music in a more classical form.
Alex M.O.R.P.H..  Alex M.O.R.P.H. (born 24 December 1975 Alexander Mieling) is a German DJ and trance producer.
Octahvia.  Octahvia (sometimes credited as Octavia or Octah'via) is a female singer from New York City. While she would later have several hits as a featured vocalist for other artists she is perhaps best known under her own name for the 1986 R&B/dance hit 2 the Limit.
Clive Wilkins.  Clive Wilkins (born 25 June 1954) is a figurative painter from the United Kingdom.He works in the Northern European tradition of oil painting relying heavily on strong craft skills allied to a precise & studied drawing ability.
Wlad Godzich.  Wlad Godzich (born May 13 1945 in Germany raised in France) is a literary critic literary theorist translator and scholar. He is attributed with influencing the conceptualization of modern literary critical theory. He currently serves as Professor of general and comparative literature and critical studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Chris Dolan.  Chris Dolan (born 1957) is an award-winning novelist poet and playwright writes. He has written regularly for stage page screen and radio..
Juan Formell.  Juan Formell (August 2 1942 – May 1 2014) was a Cuban musician bassist composer and arranger best known as the director of Los Van Van Orchestra. He was a creator of popular danceable music and credited with bringing electronic instrumentation into the Cuban musical form.His professional activity started in 1957 as musician of cabarets orchestras radio and television. In 1959 he worked as bassist of Musical Band of Revolutionary Police. He died at the age of 71 in 2014.
Kaoru Mizuki.  Kaoru Mizuki (水木薫 Mizuki Kaoru) is a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 15th Yokohama Film Festival for Tsuge Yoshiharu World: Gensenkan Shujin.
Hanneke Cassel.  Hanneke Cassel (birthdate?) is an American folk violinist. She was raised in Oregon and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance at Berklee College of Music in 2000. Hanneke is the 1997 U.S.
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh.  Nguyễn Nhật Ánh (born on May 7 1955) is a Vietnamese author of incisive stories for both teenagers and adults. He also works as a teacher a poet and a correspondent. His works are enormous including approximately 24 short stories 2 novel series and some collections of poems. He is regarded as one of the most successful writer for teens. His most well-known novel Kính Vạn Hoa (Kaleidoscope) which contains 54 volumes has recently been made into 3 drama series of the same name.
Clarence Larkin.  Rev. Clarence Larkin (1850–1924) was an American Baptist pastor Bible teacher and author whose writings on Dispensationalism had a great impact on conservative Protestant visual culture in the 20th century. His intricate and influential charts provided readers with a visual strategy for mapping God's action in history and for interpreting complex biblical prophecies.
Jasmine Kara.  Jasmine Kara (born Jasmine Karolina Kara Khatib-Nia 23 June 1988) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Her breakthrough came in the summer of 2010 when she sang in Allsång på Skansen and at a concert held in connection with the Wedding of Victoria Crown Princess of Sweden and Daniel Westling. In 2011 she also participated in the musical contest Körslaget on TV4 but the choir she led was eliminated in the first round.
Francesca Chiara.  Francesca Chiara Casellati (born March 25 1972 in Padua Italy) is the singer and songwriter of the Italian band The LoveCrave.
Moira Kirland.  Moira Kirland (sometimes credited as Moira Dekker or Moira Kirland Dekker) is an American television writer and producer whose credits include Dark Angel The Dead Zone and Castle. She is currently serving as a writer on The CW superhero action series Arrow.
K. J. Stevens.  K.J. Stevens (born June 4 1973) is an American novelist and short story writer. His writing has appeared in The Adirondack Review Fluid Magazine Me Three Circle Magazine Cellar Door Prose Ax Temenos and BloodLotus. Pilgrims Bay Stevens first novel was released in 2007. Stevens' writing style has been described as minimalist. Ernest Hemingway J.D.
George H. Scithers.  George H. Scithers (May 14 1929 – April 19 2010) was a science fiction fan author and Hugo Award-winning editor.A long-time member of the World Science Fiction Society he published a fanzine starting in the 1950s wrote short stories and moved on to edit several prominent science fiction magazines as well as a number of anthologies. As editor emeritus of Weird Tales he lectured at the Library of Congress in 2008.
Johnson (rapper).  Marc Kwabena Johnson better known as Johnson (born in Svendborg Denmark in 1979) is a Danish rapper. Previously he was known as NiggerenISlæden (alias N.I.S.). Before his solo career he was a member of the band B.A.N.G.E.R.S. and J.A.Z. and has collaborated with many Danish hip hop artists.
Barry Cooper (musicologist).  Barry Cooper (born 1949) is an English musicologist composer organist Beethoven scholar and editor of the Beethoven Compendium.
Christina Goh.  Christina Goh is a French singer songwriter and poet.
Bob Bradley (composer).  Bob Bradley is a British composer producer singer and songwriter.
Nina Carter.  Nina Carter (born 4 October 1952) is an English former 1970s Page 3 girl and occasional singer. She currently runs an image consultancy and works as a life coach.
L.V. (singer).  Larry Sanders (born October 22 1954) better known by his stage name L.V. whose initials stand for Large Variety is an American Grammy Award winning R&B singer. He is best known for his collaboration with rapper Coolio on the 1995 hit single Gangsta's Paradise which won the duo a Grammy and has been featured on multiple soundtracks since then.
Rich Mullins (bassist).  Rich Mullins is the bassist of the alternative desert rock band Karma To Burn and the rock band Year Long Disaster both of which share the band mate Daniel Davies. He is known for his slouched gait whilst playing his bass. He currently resides in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles with the rest of his band mates.
Ermanno Corsi.  Ermanno Corsi (born 8 August 1939) is an Italian journalist and writer. He was born in Torre del Greco.He worked for the newspaper Il Tempo and Il Mattino and was a correspondent for  Il Giorno   Repubblica   Roma  and  Il Mondo  and  L'Europeo  amongst others.
Leon Lai.  Leon Lai Ming BBS MH (born 11 December 1966) is a mainland China-born Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. The media refer to Aaron Kwok Jacky Cheung Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王). He uses the stage name Li Ming or Lai Ming which literally means dawn.
Joel Crouse.  Joel Thomas Crouse (born June 14 1992) is an American country music singer.In 2011 Crouse signed with Show Dog-Universal Music and began touring with Toby Keith and The Band Perry. He released his debut single If You Want Some in February 2013. It received three-and-a-half stars from Taste of Country reviewer Billy Dukes who thought that Crouse sings with more confidence than 20 years provides most artists.
Cecil Humphreys.  Cecil Humphreys (1883–1947) was a British film actor.
Hao Lei.  Hao Lei (Chinese: 郝蕾) (born November 1 1978) is a Chinese actress. She was born in Tonghua Jilin. Hao first gained international prominence as Yu Hong the heroine in Lou Ye's 2006 film about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Summer Palace. In November 2010 she won a Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Chung Mong-hong's film The Fourth Portrait. Before that Hao had also starred in numerous television productions.
Duane Eddy.  Duane Eddy (born April 26 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood which were noted for their characteristically twangy sound including Rebel Rouser Peter Gunn and Because They're Young. He had sold 12 million records by 1963.He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008.
Cheryl Rainfield.  Cheryl Rainfield (born August 19 1972 in Toronto) is a Canadian author. She is an incest and ritual abuse survivor. She battled with abuse by reading numerous books and by writing and creating art during her early life which opened doors for her as an escape. She is an active feminist and homosexual. Her favourite pastime is reading. She is a passionate reader and enjoys writing and creating art.
Rockin' Squat.  Mathias Crochon (French pronunciation: ​[matjas kʁɔˈʃɔ̃]) better known as Rockin' Squat ([ʁɔkin ˈskwat]) is a French MC. He is the son of the actor Jean-Pierre Cassel and the brother of Vincent Cassel and Cécile Cassel. In the mid-80s he created the famous rap group Assassin (rap crew) becoming the first artist of this scene to mention politics and social problems in his records.
Kathleen Fuller.  Kathleen Fuller (born September 11 1967) is an American writer specializing in Christian and Amish romantic fiction. She was born in New Orleans Louisiana grew up in Little Rock Arkansas and currently resides in Geneva Ohio with her husband James Fuller and three children.As a stay-at-home mother of three Kathleen Fuller became enamored with Christian fiction. She decided to begin writing but found she needed quite a bit of work.
Chip Taylor.  James Wesley Voight (born March 21 1940) better known by the stage name Chip Taylor is an American songwriter noted for writing Angel of the Morning and Wild Thing. He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight and the uncle of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.
Lasso (musician).  Lasso (Andrés Vicente Lasso Uslar) is a Venezuelan singer / composer.
Prosper-Didier Deshayes.  Prosper-Didier Deshayes (mid 18th century – 1815) was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France. In 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française. By 1774 he had become an assistant (adjoint) at the Paris Opéra. His first opera La faut serment ou La matrone de Genoesse a comédie mêlée d'ariettes in two acts was first performed on 31 December 1785 at the Théâtre des Beaujolais in Paris and became a popular success.
Terry Slesser.  Terry Slesser (also known as Terry Wilson-Slesser born Terence Arthur Wilson) is a blues rock singer from Newcastle England. He is chiefly known for his role as vocalist in ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossoff's band Back Street Crawler renamed Crawler after Kossoff's death in 1976.
Bill Gunn (writer).  Bill Gunn (born William Harrison Gunn; July 15 1934 - April 5 1989) was an American playwright novelist actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival 1973. His drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.
Werrason.  Werrason real name Noël Ngiama Makanda born December 25 1965 in Moliambo a small village in Bandundu province in the Western Democratic Republic of Congo Kwilu District is a musician from the Democratic Republic of Congo and also leader of the band Wenge Maison Mère (WMM). By age eight Werrason was singing at his local church the Protestant Church of CBZO (Communauté Batiste du Zaire Ouest-Batism community of Western Zaire) Kinshasa.
Mirna Radulović.  Mirna Radulović (Serbian: Мирна Радуловић) is a Serbian singer-songwriter who rose to national media prominence as the winner of the second season of Prvi glas Srbije a Serbian music talent show similar to The Voice. She represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song Ljubav je svuda as a part of the girl group Moje 3.
William J. Craddock.  William J. Billy Craddock (July 16 1946 – March 16 2004) was an American author who published two novels in the early 1970s chronicling psychedelic and biker culture in California in the 1960s. Doubleday published Craddock's books Be Not Content: A Subterranean Journal in 1970 and Twilight Candelabra in 1972. Craddock has been called one of the seminal chroniclers of the psychedelic period along with Timothy Leary Alan Watts and Andrew Weil.
Kotoko (singer).  Kotoko (stylized as KOTOKO born January 19) is a Japanese J-pop singer from Sapporo Hokkaido. Kotoko began her singing career as a member of I've Sound in 2000 and was later signed to Rondorobe under Geneon from 2004 to 2010. Kotoko left Geneon in 2010 left I've Sound and signed to Warner Home Video in 2011. She composes and writes lyrics (for herself as well as other singers in I've Sound) for numerous other song collections.
Renzo Rossellini (composer).  Renzo Rossellini (2 February 1908 – 13 May 1982) was an Italian composer best known for his film scores.Born in Rome he was brother of director Roberto Rossellini and father of producer Franco Rossellini.
Butterfly Boucher.  Butterfly Giselle Grace Boucher /ˈbaʊtʃər/ (born 2 June 1979) is an Australian folk and adult alternative singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and record producer from Adelaide. From the age of 15-years-old she played bass guitar in her older sister Rebecca Boucher Burns (Becca)'s band Eat the Menu (later named The Mercy Bell) which issued a debut album Whoosh in 1996.
Xie Zhiliu.  Xie Zhiliu (Chinese: 谢稚柳; 1910–1997) formerly romanized as Hsieh Chih-liu was a leading traditional painter calligrapher and art connoisseur of modern China. He was a prominent member of the Shanghai School of art.
Mikill Pane.  Justin Smith Uzomba from Hackney London better known by his stage name Mikill Pane is an English rapper signed to Mercury Records. He is perhaps best known for his track Little Lady with Ed Sheeran which features on Ed's No. 5 Collaborations Project.
Kevin Burke (musician).  Kevin Burke is an Irish fiddler considered one of the top living Irish fiddlers. Born in London to parents from County Sligo in 1950 Burke took up the fiddle at the age of eight eventually acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style. In 1974 he moved to Ireland where he formed a duo with singer-songwriter Christy Moore a former member of the Irish band Planxty. In 1976 he became a member of the influential Irish traditional music group The Bothy Band.
Catherine Hubback.  Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 – 25 February 1877) was an English novelist and the eighth child and fourth daughter of Sir Francis Austen (1774-1865) and niece of Jane Austen. She began writing fiction to support herself and her three sons after her husband John Hubback was institutionalized with a breakdown. She had copies of some of her aunt's unfinished works and in 1850 remembering Austen's proposed plot she wrote The Younger Sister a completion of Jane Austen's The Watsons.
Bill Naughton.  William John Francis Naughton or Bill Naughton (12 June 1910 - 9 January 1992) was an Irish-born British playwright and author best known for his play Alfie.
Hanna Lindblad.  Hanna Lindblad born 13 October 1980 in Motala is a Swedish singer. After studying music at Hammar High School in Sandviken Lindblad went to Balettakademien in Gothenburg from which she graduated in 2000.She was nominated for a Guldmasken for her role in Saturday Night Fever. She participated in the second Semi-Final of Melodifestivalen 2010 in Sandviken where she achieved fifth place with her song Manipulated.
Mirah.  Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn September 17 1974 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American musician based in Brooklyn New York. She has released five albums under the K Records label.
Mirai Shida.  Mirai Shida (志田未来 Shida Mirai born May 10 1993) is a Japanese actress. She became recognized after her breakthrough role as Kazumi Kanda in Joō no Kyōshitsu leading her to more prominent roles such as Miki Ichinose in 14-year-old Mother. Currently she is one of the most active young actresses in Japan appearing in many dramas and commercials.
Hugo Rheinhold.  Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold (26 March 1853 – 2 October 1900) was a German sculptor arguably most famous for his Affe mit Schädel (Ape with Skull). His name is often misspelled Reinhold.
John Wesley (artist).  John Wesley was born in Los Angeles California on November 25 1928. He is a pop artist.After holding a series of odd jobs he began painting at the age of 22.
Shallum Asher Xavier.  Shallum Asher Xavier is a Pakistani guitarist composer and music producer. He has been recording professionally for 15 years and has played as a session musician and recorded with most of the renowned Pakistani mainstream artists including Ali Haider Najam Shiraz Zeb and Haniya Hadiqa Kiyani and Strings.In 2003 Xavier with Imran Momina formed the internationally acclaimed band Fuzön.
Joaquín Gallegos Lara.  Joaquín Gallegos Lara (April 9 1909 – November 16 1947) was an Ecuadorian social realist novelist short story writer poet and essayist.
John T. Snyder.  John T. Snyder is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Miriam Cani.  Miriam Cani (30 May 1985 in Elbasan) is an Albanian-German singer and television host. At the age of six she moved together with her family to Heidelberg Germany where she soon attained German citizenship along with the rest of her family. She was a member of the successful German pop girl group Preluders. She was a judge on The Voice of Albania for the first two seasons.
Tahar Djaout.  Tahar Djaout (January 11 1954 – June 2 1993) was an Algerian journalist poet and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group.
Zim Zum.  Timothy Michael Linton (born June 25 1969 in Chicago) more commonly known as Zim Zum is an American rock musician/songwriter and former guitarist for Life Sex & Death and Marilyn Manson (1996–1998). His current projects are Pleistoscene a solo project and The Pop Culture Suicides the latter being his main focus.
Stanley Matthew Mitruk.  Stanley Matthew Mitruk (January 22 1922 - December 10 2006) was an American artist who worked in the Modernist style. He worked in the Chicago area during the 1940s 50's and 60's.
Franklin B. Zimmerman.  Franklin Bershir Zimmerman (born 1923) is an American musicologist and conductor who has published extensively in the field of Baroque music and particularly on the English composer Henry Purcell. He is most known for his complete catalogue of Purcell's works considered one of the most crucial contributions to Purcell research. Each work in the catalogue is given a Z number which derives from Zimmerman's surname. Zimmerman was born in Wauneta Kansas and received his PhD.
Alain LeRoy Locke.  Alain Leroy Locke (September 13 1885 – June 9 1954) was an American writer philosopher educator and patron of the arts. In a popular publication The Black 100 Alain Locke ranks as the 36th most influential African American ever past or present.
Cheick Tidiane Seck.  Cheick Tidiane Seck (born December 11 1953) is a Malian musician arranger and composer. He has written for and played with world-famous African (Fela Kuti Mory Kanté Salif Keita Youssou N'Dour) and jazz (Hank Jones Dee Dee Bridgewater) bands as well as pop musician Damon Albarn (Rocket Juice & the Moon).
Charles Quef.  Charles Paul Florimond Quef (1 November 1873 Lille – 2 July 1931 Paris) was a French organist and composer.He studied at the conservatory in Lille and after absolving it he attended Paris Conservatory where he studied together with Charles-Marie Widor Louis Vierne and Alexandre Guilmant. From 1895 to 1898 he was organist of the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Batignolles and in 1898 organist of the Saint-Laurent church Paris.
Simon Bob Sinister.  In 1983 Simon Bob Sinister co-founded the Ugly Americans in Durham North Carolina along with Danny Hooligan Chris Eubank and Dan Adams. Adams soon left and was replaced by Jon McClain. This punk band's musical influences were diverse. After releasing The Dream Turns Sour Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed and Philadelphia Freedom the band broke up. In 1986 Simon Bob Sinister then joined the already established Corrosion of Conformity releasing the EP Technocracy.
Robison Wells.  Robison Wells (born April 1978) is an American novelist.
Amina Shah.  Amina Shah (born 31 October 1918) is a prominent anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales and was for many years the Chairperson of the College of Storytellers. She is the sister of the Sufi writers Idries Shah and Omar Ali-Shah and the daughter of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah. Her nephew is the travel writer and documentary filmmaker Tahir Shah; her nieces the writer and documentary filmmaker Saira Shah and Safia Shah.
Charles Umlauf.  Charles Umlauf (July 17 1911–1994) was an American sculptor and teacher who was born in South Haven Michigan.In 1929 he began three years of study with Albin Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago. He subsequently spent one year as an assistant to Lorado Taft at his Midway Studio before returning to the AIC where he remained until 1937.
Bokusui Wakayama.  Bokusui Wakayama (若山 牧水 Wakayama Bokusui August 24 1885–September 17 1928) was a Japanese author. Wakayama was a Naturalist tanka poet who was active at the beginning of the 20th century during the tanka revival started by Yosano Tekkan. He traveled all over Japan and Korea which at that time was under Imperial Japanese control composing many tankas about the places he visited. He also loved sake.
Avetik Isahakyan.  Avetik Isahakyan (Armenian: Ավետիք Իսահակյան; October 30 1875 – October 17 1957) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet writer and public activist.
Bunny Bleu.  Bunny Bleu (born June 1 1964) is an American pornographic actress.She was discovered by William Margold and entered the porn business in 1983 initially working as a fluff girl. She later found work in films and worked alongside notables such as Traci Lords and Christy Canyon. For more than a decade until well into her twenties she was still cast as a teenager due to her youthful appearance. During the 80s she often played the role of a naive cheerleader student or schoolgirl.
Melissa Ferrick.  Melissa Ferrick (born 1970) is an American singer-songwriter.
Jean-François Gautier.  Jean-François Gautier (Paris 1950) is a French writer.His book L'Univers existe-t-il? (Does the Universe exist?) points out the impossibility of creating a descriptive geometry of The Universe when there is no other frame (i.e. a frame or tableau beyond or outside of The Universe as so-posited) within which to describe it. How can the description of The Universe begin when one cannot get 'outside' The Universe as posited? If we posit The Universe we presume ourselves within it.
The Haxan Cloak.  Bobby Krlic (born 1985) known by his stage name The Haxan Cloak is a British musician and producer.
Thema (rapper).  Thema aka Emanuele Busnaghi (born February 13 1972) is an Italian rapper.
Hilary Weaver.  Hilary Weaver (born May 2 1991) is a singer-songwriter born in Toronto.
Dante Di Loreto.  Dante Di Loreto is an American producer best known for executive producing the 20th Century Fox series Glee.
Donyale Werle.  Donyale Werle is an award-winning scenic designer from Nashville Tennessee.
Alex Turner (musician).  Alexander David Alex Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He is the lead vocalist guitarist and principal songwriter of the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. Turner has also recorded with a side-project called The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo artist. Turner has a baritone vocal range.
Liu Baiyu.  born Liu YuzanLiu Baiyu (Chinese: 刘白羽; pinyin: Liú Báiyǔ; September 2 1916 – August 24 2005) born Liu Yuzan (Chinese: 刘玉赞; pinyin: Liú Yùzàn) in Beijing was a Chinese writer who took an orthodox Communist line on writing issues. He opposed Western bourgeois values influencing Chinese literature.
Philip Ardagh.  Philip Ardagh (born 11 September 1961 London) is an English children's author primarily known for the Eddie Dickens series of books. He has written more than 70 books including adult fiction and children's non-fiction. He is also a BBC Radio scriptwriter and presenter.During 2004 and 2005 Ardagh collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney and illustrator-animator Geoff Dunbar to create McCartney's first children's book High in the Clouds.
Dan Macaulay.  Dan Macaulay is a Contemporary Christian music recording artist and contemporary worship leader from Brantford Ontario Canada. He now resides in Williamsville New York. Some of his most well-known songs are: Amazing Hope Is Here (Joy To The World) From You For You Win With Love Live Like You're Free Listening (Light Of The World and Permanent.
Steve Pfauter.  Steve Pfauter (Humann) (born 1963 in Francisco California) is a musician and set dresser and one-time bassist for the Punk rock band The Vandals from 1980-1984. Steve was born to German immigrants and attended Los Alamitos High he joined The Vandals in 1980 and played bass guitar on their debut EP Peace Thru Vandalism. Steve has also played bass in the Los Angeles punk rock band Detox making two full-length albums which featured six songs he wrote while touring the US and Canada.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards.  Aimee-Ffion Edwards is a British actress from Newport Wales. She is best known for appearing in the television series Skins as a character called Sketch who is introduced at the beginning of series 2 as the stalker of Maxxie Oliver.
Virginia Woolf.  Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; nee Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.During the interwar period Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
Wylie Gustafson.  Wylie Galt Gustafson (born June 7 1961 Conrad Montana) is an American singer-songwriter who has toured nationally and internationally with his band Wylie & The Wild West. The band is known for its blend of cowboy traditional country folk and yodeling.
Ruby Altizer Roberts.  Ruby Altizer Roberts (April 22 1907–May 24 2004) was an author and the poet laureate of Virginia.
Kati Wolf.  Kati Wolf (born 24 September 1974 Szentendre) is a Hungarian singer and former airline purser. Wolf represented Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song What About My Dreams?.At the age of seven Wolf sang the title track for the popular Hungarian cartoon Vuk. Besides singing she also took piano and jazz dance classes.
Monika Maid.  Monika Maid (born in 1957) is a German singer/songwriter signed under A-team records. She has released two singles: 'Words like a dream' and 'Not a usual day'. She has also participated in the tribute album for the famous Irish singer/songwriter Chris de Burgh titled Everywhere Connections.
Amanda Dunbar.  Amanda Dunbar (born 1982) is a Texas-based artist who gained notoriety at an early age for her oil painting skills. Amanda Dunbar began painting in an after school art class at the age of 13. Her spontaneous and advanced works acquired significant interest immediately. Amanda is currently listed as a prodigy of the visual arts in the current textbooks for advanced university education entitled “Child Psychology” by John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.
Judy Fong Bates.  Judy Fong Bates is a Canadian author. Born in Kaiping Guangdong she immigrated to Canada with her mother in 1955 to reunite with her father in Allandale Ontario. The family subsequently moved to Acton Ontario where she spent her adolescence and she graduated from the University of Toronto.She is currently residing at a farm near Toronto.
Henri de Régnier.  Henri-François-Joseph de Régnier (28 December 1864 – 23 May 1936) was a French symbolist poet considered one of the most important of France during the early 20th century.
Stéphen Chauvet.  Stéphen-Charles Chauvet (1885 – 1950) more commonly known as Dr Stéphen Chauvet was the author of the first illustrated compendium of information about Easter Island L'Île de Pâques et ses mystères published in Paris in 1935.Chauvet never traveled to Easter Island and he derived much of his information from sources of mixed reliability. However his book remains an important work in particular because of the copious illustrations some of which show objects that no longer exist.
François-Antoine Chevrier.  François-Antoine (de) Chevrier (11 October 1721 Nancy – 26 June 1762 Rotterdam) was an acerbic French satirist and theatrical writer. Adolphe Van Bever defined him as the most satirical and the least sociable .
Lawren P. Harris.  Lawren Phillips Harris was a Canadian painter watercolourist draughtsman printmaker muralist and art educator. He was known for the highly precise style and disciplined execution of his war art portraits and abstractions. As an art educator and administrator at Mount Allison University Harris made a considerable contribution to the arts in the Atlantic provinces.Harris' earliest influence was his father Lawren S. Harris of the Group of Seven.
Katie Kitamura.  Katie Kitamura is an American novelist journalist and art critic. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Consortium.
Sebastian Bodinus.  Sebastian Bodinus (ca. 1700 – 19 March 1759) was a German composer about whom very little is known. Bodinus was born in the village of Bittstädt in Saxe-Gotha and trained as a violinist. It is known that in 1718 he entered the service of the Margrave Karl III of Baden-Durlach at the court in Karlsruhe. Bodinus worked elsewhere but always returned to Karlsruhe and was concertmaster there for two periods.
Makoto Koshinaka.  Makoto Koshinaka (越中睦 / 越中睦士 or Makoto born July 15 1980 in Moto Azabu Tokyo) is a Japanese singer songwriter actor and model activating both in Japan and in Thailand starting with the year 1999.
Owen Campbell.  Owen Campbell is an Australian blues singer/songwriter and guitarist. He was a finalist in the sixth series of the TV show Australia's Got Talent.
Leon Redbone.  Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian August 26 1949) is a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics.Recognized for his trademark Panama hat dark sunglasses and black tie Redbone first appeared on stage in Toronto Canada in the mid-1970s.Redbone has released approximately fifteen albums and earned a sizable cult following. His concerts blend performance comedy and skilled instrumentals.
Olivier de Serres.  Olivier de Serres (1539 – 1619) was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d'Agriculture (1600) was the text book of French agriculture in the 17th century.Serres was born at Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche.
Caspar Weinberger Jr..  Caspar Willard Weinberger Jr. (born 1947) is the son of U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Jane Weinberger. Born in San Francisco he studied Modern British History at Harvard College the same school where his father had been editor of the Harvard Crimson. He earned a B.A. in 1968.From 1968 to 1971 Weinberger was an AFTRA producer director and writer of documentary news films for NBCs San Francisco affiliate KRON-TV.
Tapan Chowdhury (singer).  Tapan Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi musician. He is a former member of the musical group Souls.
Dasari Subrahmanyam.  Dasari Subrahmanyam is a Telugu writer who is known for his serialized fantastic adventure stories published in Chandamama children’s magazine. His stories basically featured fantasies based in backdrop of ancient and/or medieval India as apparent from the place names appearing in the stories.
Jo Burt.  Jo Burt (born 1953) is an English rock and heavy metal bassist guitar player songwriter and vocalist. He is possibly best known for being the bassist for Black Sabbath during their 1987 tour in support of the album The Eternal Idol. He left the band after the tour ended.Jo Burt was also a founding member of Sector 27 with Tom Robinson - and a member of Virginia Wolf with Jason Bonham. Burt also appears on Freddie Mercury's solo album Mr.
Chester P.  Joey Coombes (born 21 June 1976) better known as Chester P is a rapper in the UK hip-hop scene. He was a founding member of Task Force Bury Crew and the M.U.D. Family. He and his brother Farma G are both sons of the late musician Peet Coombes.Chester P's name was taken from The Chester P. Hackenbush Trilogy which are a collection of graphic novels featured in an early eighties book with other graphic novels called Brainstorm written by Bryan Talbot
Henry Clarence Pitz.  Henry Clarence Pitz (June 16 1895 – November 26 1976) was an American artist illustrator editor author and teacher who wrote and illustrated over 190 books the best known of which is The Brandywine School.Pitz was born in Philadelphia in 1895. His father was a bookbinder who immigrated from Germany.
Kumar Bishwajit.  Kumar Bishwajit (born June 1) is a Bangladeshi singer and composer.
Phil Lynott.  Philip Parris Phil Lynott (/ˈlaɪnət/; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish singer and musician. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy in which he was the founding member principal songwriter lead vocalist and bassist. He later also found success as a solo artist.Growing up in Dublin in the 1960s Lynott fronted several bands as a lead vocalist most notably Skid Row alongside Gary Moore before learning the bass guitar and forming Thin Lizzy in 1969.
Lev Lvovich Kamenev.  Lev Lvovich Kamenev (Russian: Лев Льво́вич Ка́менев; 1834 according to other information in 1833 Rylsk Kursk Governorate – 26 January [O.S. 14 January] 1886 Savvinskaya sloboda Moscow Governorate) was a Russian landscape painter.
Devo Springsteen.  Devon Harris (born December 9 1977 in Columbus GA) better known as Devo Springsteen is a Grammy Award winning producer songwriter and entrepreneur. Springsteen launched the career of multi-platinum selling recording artist John Legend by signing him to Kanye West’s GOOD Music in 2003. Springsteen produced and co-wrote So High Live It Up and Refuge (When it’s Cold Outside) from Legend’s freshman album Get Lifted.
Dei Hamo.  Sanerivi Sagala better known by his stage name Dei Hamo is an award-winning New Zealand Hip hop artist producer and director. Dei Hamo which can be translated as 'The Samoan' has won various awards for his chart topping music and debut album First Edition released in 2005. He lives in Mangere Auckland.
Andrea White.  Andrea White is an American novelist and civic leader. She is the wife of Bill White the former Mayor of Houston Texas and the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Texas in 2010.
M. J. Rose.  M. J. Rose is an American author and book marketing executive.
Fritiof Billquist.  Fritiof Billquist (5 May 1901 – 21 April 1972) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1931 and 1969.
Meredith Andrews.  Meredith Frances Sooter (born January 19 1983 in Wilson North Carolina née Andrews) is a contemporary Christian music artist songwriter and worship leader. She has won two Dove Awards.
John Green (author).  John Michael Green (born August 24 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction YouTube video blogger (vlogger) and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel Looking for Alaska and his most recent novel The Fault in Our Stars debuted at number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012. In 2014 Green was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Chico Science.  Francisco de Assis França (March 13 1966 – February 2 1997) better known as Chico Science was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Beat cultural movement. He died in a car accident in 1997 in Recife Pernambuco at the age of 30.
Luke Vibert.  Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. Vibert began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers only later branching out into his own compositions. Vibert has recorded under several different aliases most notably Plug and Wagon Christ.
Richard Lynch (Welsh actor).  Richard Lynch (born 1965[citation needed]) is a Southern Welsh television and film actor best known for playing the character of Garry Monkin S4C's long-running Welsh-language soap Pobol y Cwm.Lynch is an alumnus of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen a Welsh Medium comprehensive school near Pontypridd.Lynch first came to prominence in the 1986 Karl Francis film Milwr Bychan playing young soldier Will Thomas.
Julie Matthews.  Julie Matthews is an award-winning singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and record producer. She has been a member of some of the most influential British folk duos and groups and is acknowledged internationally as a major songwriter with her work being covered by a wide range of artists and groups. Her music is often classified as English folk but contains strong American influences.
Francesco Simonini.  Francesco Simonini (Parma June 16 1686 – Venice or Florence after 1753) was an Italian painter.
Kitty Brown.  Kitty Brown was an American classic female blues singer. She sometimes used the pseudonyms of Bessie Williams (although she was not alone in using this name) Jane White Dixie Gray Rosa Green and Mazie Leroy. Brown was active as a recording artist from 1923 to the mid-1930s. Her best known tracks were I Wanna Jazz Some More and It's De-Lovely. Little is known of her life outside of her music.
Gaspar Núñez de Arce.  Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1834–1903) was a Spanish poet dramatist and statesman.He was born at Valladolid where he was educated for the priesthood. He had no vocation for the ecclesiastical state plunged into literature and produced a play entitled Amor y Orgullo which was acted at Toledo in 1849.
C. J. Ramone.  Christopher Joseph Ward (born October 8 1965) better known as C. J. Ramone is an American musician best known for working as the bassist (and sometimes the vocalist) of the punk rock group the Ramones from 1989 to 1996.
Polly Emery.  Polly Emery (1875-1958) was a British actress.
Bert Firman.  Bert Firman (3 February 1906 – 9 April 1999) was an English bandleader of the 1920s 30s and 40s.He was born as Herbert Feuerman in London. His mother was of Polish stock and his father was a professional musician who had settled in Britain from Austria-Hungary in the late 1880's. His three elder brothers were also musicians.
Lancelot William McCaskill.  Lancelot William McCaskill (8 May 1900–9 August 1985) was a New Zealand agricultural instructor lecturer conservationist and writer. He was born in Winchester Southern Canterbury New Zealand on 8 May 1900.
Angrej Ali.  Ali (born Angrej Ali Khan) is an Indian record producer musician and singer-songwriter. His 2008 album Ik Din was produced by Aman Hayer.
Billy Gibbons.  William Frederick Billy Gibbons (born December 16 1949) is an American musician producer and actor best known as the guitarist of the American rock band ZZ Top. He began his career in the Moving Sidewalks who recorded Flash (1968) and opened four dates for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top's First Album in 1971.
Claude Hopkins.  Claude Driskett Hopkins (August 24 1903 – February 19 1984) was an American jazz stride pianist and bandleader.
Hans Muelich.  Hans Muelich (1516 – 1573) was a German painter and woodcutter.
Tom Tomorrow.  Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of editorial cartoonist Dan Perkins. His weekly comic strip This Modern World which comments on current events appears regularly in over 90 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada as of 2006 as well as on CREDO Action and Daily Kos where he is its comics curator. His work has appeared in The New York Times The New Yorker Spin Mother Jones Esquire The Economist and The American Prospect.
Petronel Malan.  Petronel Malan (born 23 February 1976 in Pretoria South Africa) is a South African concert pianist.Grammy-nominated South African pianist Malan is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label Hänssler Classic based in Holzgerlingen near Stuttgart in Germany.
Josephine Lang.  Josephine Lang (March 14 1815 in Munich – December 2 1880 in Tübingen) was a German composer. Josephine Lang was the daughter of Theodor Lang a violinist and Regina Hitzelberger opera singer. Her mother taught young Josephine how to play piano and from age five it became apparent that Josephine was possessed with great potential as a composer. As early as age eleven Josephine started giving piano lessons herself.
Baruch Elron.  Baruch Elron (1934–2006) was an Israeli painter best known for his unique Fantastic Realist style rich in symbols and allegories.
Jörgen Sandström.  Jörgen Sandström of Stockholm Sweden provided vocals bass and guitar for Grave on their first three albums and played with Entombed (Bass/Backing Vocals) 1995-2004. He is currently involved with bands such as Krux (Guitar) Vicious Art (Bass/Backing Vocals) The Project Hate MCMXCIX (Vocals) and Torture Division (Vocals/Bass). He also did guest vocals on Nasum's Helvete and on Death Breath's Stinking up the Night.
Alfred Cortot.  Alfred Denis Cortot (26 September 1877 – 15 June 1962) was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.
Joey DeFrancesco.  Joey DeFrancesco (born April 10 1971) is an American jazz organist trumpeter and vocalist. He is a Grammy-nominated artist who has released more than 30 albums including recordings with jazz legends Miles Davis and Jimmy Smith.
Martha Cope.  Martha Cope is a British television actress. She has appeared in many popular British programmes including Doctors Men Behaving Badly Peak Practice and Family Affairs between 2002 and 2003 when she played Anna Gregory.More recently she has appeared in the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf in 2005 and in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Nowhere Place and 100.She is the daughter of actors Kenneth Cope and Renny Lister. She played Beverly Newton in an episode of Holby City airing 13 September 2011.
Cesar Zuiderwijk.  Cornelis Johannes Cesar Zuiderwijk (born 18 July 1948 The Hague Netherlands) is a Dutch drummer. He is best known as the drummer of the Dutch rock band Golden Earring a position he has held since 1970.
Walter Jackson Bate.  Walter Jackson Bate (May 23 1918 – July 26 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Keats and Samuel Johnson.Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.Bate was born in Mankato Minnesota.
Kuzebay Gerd.  Kuzma Pavlovich Chaynikov (Russian: Кузьма́ Па́влович Ча́йников IPA: [kʊzʲˈma ˈpavləvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈt͡ɕajnʲɪkəf] ) better known as Kuzebay Gerd (Russian: Кузеба́й Ге́рд IPA: [kʊzʲɪˈbaj ˈɡʲert] ; 14 January 1896 Bolshaya Dokya village - 1 November 1937 Sandarmokh) was an Udmurt poet a prose writer a playwright a public figure a nationalist.
Liang Wern Fook.  Dr Liang Wern Fook (Chinese: 梁文福; pinyin: Liáng Wénfú; born 1964 in Singapore) is a Singaporean writer musician and researcher in Chinese literature and pedagogy. He was one of the pioneer figures in the xinyao (Singaporean Chinese folk songs) movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
Christian August Lorentzen.  Christian August Lorentzen (10 August 1749 – 8 May 1828) was a Danish painter. He was the instructor of Martinus Rørbye.
Esmée Denters.  Esmée Denters (born 28 September 1988) is a Dutch singer-songwriter.Denters was born in Arnhem Gelderland. She started her career on video-sharing website YouTube where she covered songs by contemporary artists such as Justin Timberlake and Natasha Bedingfield.In 2008 she started her professional career after attracting the attention of Dutch media scouts and American pop singer Justin Timberlake.
Park Solhee.  Park Solhee (Hangul: 박솔희; born January 5 1990) is a South Korean writer. She is best known for her travel books Youth on the Railroad (청춘 내일로) and Complete Guide for Exchange Students (교환학생 완전정복; co-authored). She has gained recognition as the youngest professional travel writer among practical guidebook writers in South Korea. Park published her first book Youth on the Railroad in June 2011 when she was 21 years old.
George Hulse.  George Hulse (1927 - September 10 2001) was a British actor. Born in Liverpool England he later moved to Baltimore Maryland with his wife. He starred in several acclaimed John Waters films. He died 1 day before the September 11th attacks.
Brad Boatright.  Brad Boatright (born 1976) is an American musician record producer and mastering engineer based in Portland Oregon. Boatright is known for his work as a guitarist and vocalist in From Ashes Rise and The Cooters and as a mastering engineer at Audiosiege credited on recordings by Off! Sleep Noothgrush Pierced Arrows and more.On December 25 2011 he launched his own recording label Audiosiege Media which is a division of Moshpit Tragedy Records.
Renata Adler.  Renata Adler (born October 19 1938) is an American author journalist and film critic.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert.  Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18 1949 in Wilmington Delaware) is a French journalist and author. He worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and Le Point starting in 2000.[citation needed] In 2013 he wrote the scenario of a documentary about his relationship with the former president Nicolas Sarkozy secrets d’une présidence.
Andrew Skeet.  Andrew John Skeet (born 1969 in Croydon) is a British musician composer and music producer. He has written scores for television and film and worked with many well-known composers and artists as an arranger orchestrator and conductor.
Isaac Williams.  The Reverend Isaac Williams (1802–1865) was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement (or Tractarians) a student and disciple of John Keble and like the other members of the movement associated with Oxford University. A prolific writer Williams wrote poetry and prose including the well known Tract: On Reserve in Communicating Religious Knowledge.He was the son of a Welsh Chancery barrister who spent much of his time in London.
Joanna Jet.  Joanna Jet (born in London) is a British trans woman who is a pornographic actress model and director.Her first professional appearance was in the year 2000 when she featured in the DVDs Transsexual Beauty Queens 15 and Shemales at the Hard Rock Cafe both produced by Androgeny Productions.
Yambo Ouologuem.  Yambo Ouologuem (born August 22 1940) is a Malian writer. His first novel Le Devoir de Violence (English: Bound to Violence 1968) won the Prix Renaudot. He later published Lettre à la France nègre (1969) and Les mille et une bibles du sexe (1969) under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph. Le Devoir de Violence was initially well-received but critics later charged that Ouologuem had plagiarized passages from Graham Greene and other established authors.
Harvey Einbinder.  Dr. Harvey Einbinder (June 18 1926 - January 30 2013) an American physicist and amateur historian spent five years combing the Encyclopædia Britannica for flaws and found enough to fill a 390-page book called The Myth of the Britannica published by Grove Press in 1964.
Allen Eager.  Allen Eager (January 10 1927 – April 13 2003) was an American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist who also competed in auto racing and took part in LSD experiments.
Raffaello Gambogi.  Raffaello Gambogi (Livorno 1874 – 1943) was an Italian painter mainly of urban landscapes and genre scenes. In 1891 Gambogi obtained a scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence where he studied under Giovanni Fattori. Among his works L’uscita della messa was awarded the Florence Prize in 1896 All’ombra displayed at the Fine Arts Exposition adjacent to the Festa dell’Arte e dei Fiori in Florence. In 1898 Gambogi sent Cantire to the National Exposition of Fine Arts at Turin.
Wayne Lytle.  Wayne Lytle is the founder of Animusic an American musical computer animation company.He created the piece More Bells & Whistles at Cornell University in 1990 and composed Beyond The Walls in 1996.
Will Scheffer.  Will Scheffer is an American playwright and co-creator and executive producer of Big Love with longtime life-partner Mark V. Olsen.His writing credits include Big Love: In the Beginning Ellis Island Duck Town Easter (film) In the Gloaming The Pact and Citizen Baines.In 1997 Scheffer was honored with the Variety magazine One of the Rising Writers to Watch award. He has also taught and lectured at Bernard M.
Eddie Meduza.  Eddie Meduza (real name Errol Leonard Norstedt) (June 17 1948–January 17 2002) was a Swedish composer and musician working mainly in the rockabilly genre. Many of his songs were about alcohol women and cars often with obscene lyrics. Sometimes they were also politically oriented many aimed against the Swedish Government in power at the time Swedish Moderaterna/Centern/Folkpartiet and Swedish Social Democrats (Conservative respectively Labour-parties).
John Macleod (songwriter).  John Macleod (sometimes spelled McLeod) is a Canadian-born English songwriter and musician.
Raoul Hunter.  Raoul Hunter (born 18 June 1926 in Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard l'Islet Quebec Canada) is a sculptor and caricaturist.
Bernard Holman.  Bernard Holman (born in Woking Surrey England in 1941 and died in Dunedin New Zealand on September 11 1988) was an English-born artist who later emigrated to New Zealand to paint and teach.He graduated from the Kingston upon Thames School of Art in 1961 with a Diploma of Painting with Honours. Holman then spent several years teaching art in secondary schools before being made visiting lecturer to the art department at his old school and at various other centres in Norfolk.
Satyanath Bora.  Satyanath Bora (Assamese: সত্যনাথ বৰা; 1860–1925) was an Assamese grammarian essayist and music composer. He write sometimes in the pen name of Ejon Asomiya. Bora participated in India's freedom struggle and also associated with the Jonaki and Usha magazine. He is the author of Gitabali a book consisting of 28 modern Assamese song.
Zhang Yu (actress).  Zhang Yu is a mainland Chinese film actress. Zhang is the first actress won both of Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress for Romance on Lushan Mountain. She nominated Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress and Huabiao Award for Outstanding Actress for Ren Changxia (2005).
Dan Andrei Aldea.  Dan Andrei Aldea (born 9 March 1950 in Bucharest) is a Romanian rock multi-instrumentalist (guitars violin and keyboards mainly) and vocalist best known for his work with the band Sfinx but also for his solo career.He graduated from the Music Academy in Bucharest and is known as one of the best rock guitar players from Romania. Aldea has lived in Germany since 1981 after defecting.
Cecilia Gessa.  Cecilia Gessa (born November 22 1977 in Madrid Spain) is a Spanish actress and former pornographic actress best known as Celia Blanco.
Edward Hake.  Edward Hake (fl. 1579) English satirist was educated under John Hopkins the part-author of the metrical version of the Psalms.
Dana Levin (poet).  Dana Levin (born 1965) is a poet and teaches Creative Writing at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
Taro Yamaguchi.  Taro Yamaguchi (山口 太郎 Yamaguchi Tarō born 6 June 1970) is a Japanese voice actor.
Ronald Ringsrud.  Ronald Ringsrud is an emerald dealer and writer of recent acclaim. He is noted for the new book Emeralds A Passionate Guide which could be called an introduction to the world of colored stones through the examples of emeralds. This work draws on Ringsurd's decades of work in the emerald industry and includes the verifying element of a foreword written by John Koivula the Chief Gemologist at GIA.
Novala Takemoto.  Novala Takemoto (嶽本 野ばら Takemoto Nobara born January 26 1968) is a Japanese author and fashion designer. His real name is Toshiaki Takemoto (嶽本 稔明 Takemoto Toshiaki). His pen name is translatable as The Wild Rose.Known as the Lolitas' Bard he is a heterosexual man self-described as having the charisma of a young maiden. He has been one of the most active promoters of the Lolita lifestyle.
Jurij Hudolin.  Jurij Hudolin (born 29 May 1973) is a Slovene poet writer columnist and translator. He has published a number of poetry collections and novels and is known for the rich language he uses and a rebellious rejectionist stance towards the world.Hudolin was born in 1973 in Ljubljana.
Ronald Isley.  Ronald Isley (/ˈaɪzliː/; born May 21 1941) is an American recording artist songwriter record producer and occasional actor. Isley is better known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group the Isley Brothers.
James Singleton (musician).  James Singleton is an acoustic bassist composer and producer with an intimate and extensive affiliation with the New Orleans music scene. He is a member of the long-lived New Orleans-based jazz group Astral Project with Johnny Vidacovich Tony Dagradi and Steve Masakowski. He has been described as one the best and most sought after bassists in New Orleans.
Per Hillestad.  Per Hillestad (born 25 March 1959 in Øvre Årdal Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums) and record producer known as drummer in Lava and was contributing in releases by a-ha Vamp Jonas Fjeld Bjølsen Valsemølle and Marius Müller.
Meggan Mallone.  Meggan Mallone (born December 30 1986) is an American pornographic actress.
Mattheus Terwesten.  Mattheus Terwesten (1670–1757) was a Dutch painter of portraits architectural and historical themes. He was court painter to Frederick William I of Prussia and professor of the art academy in Berlin.
Lala Deen Dayal.  Lala Deen Dayal (Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਦੀਨ ਦਯਾਲ; 1844–1905) (also known as Raja Deen Dayal) was an Indian photographer. His career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer; eventually he set up studios in Indore Mumbai and Hyderbad.
José Asunción Silva.  José Asunción Silva (27 November 1865 in Bogotá – 23 May 1896 in Bogotá) was a Colombian poet. He is considered one of the founders of Spanish–American Modernism.
Joseph Dupont (violinist).  Henri-Joseph Dupont (13 January 1838 – 21 December 1899) was a Belgian violinist leader theatre director (manager) and conductor.
Elspeth Thompson.  Elspeth Thompson (26 June 1961 – 25 March 2010) was a British author and journalist. She studied History and History of Art at Trinity College Cambridge.She was the author of many books including A Tale of Two Gardens (2003) The London Gardener (2004) and The Wonderful Weekend Book (2008). She also presented a popular four-part series on trees for BBC Radio 4 and wrote on gardening and interiors for The Sunday Telegraph the Observer and the Guardian.
Marcelle Ferron.  Marcelle Ferron GOQ (January 29 1924 – November 19 2001) a Québécoise painter and stained glass artist was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene associated with the Automatistes.Jacques Ferron a Québécois writer is her elder brother while Madeleine Ferron also a writer is their sister.
Arab Shamilov.  Arab Shamilov (Kurdish: Erebê Şemo) (23 October 1897 – 1978) was a Kurdish novelist. He was born in the city of Kars in a Kurdish family in present-day north-eastern Turkey. During the World War I from 1914 to 1917 he served as an interpreter for the Russian army. Later on he became a member of the central committee of the Armenia's communist party. In 1931 he began working on the Kurdish literature at the Oriental Institute of Leningrad.
Roberto Chabet.  Roberto Bobby Chabet (March 29 1937 - April 30 2013) was an artist from the Philippines and widely acknowledged as the father of Philippine conceptual art.
Walter Goodman.  Walter Goodman (11 May 1838 – 20 August 1912) was an English painter illustrator and author.The son of English portrait painter Julia Salaman (1812–1906) and London linen draper and town councillor Louis Goodman (1811–1876) he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy in London where he was admitted as a student in 1851. Recent research has unearthed details of more than one hundred works by Goodman.
Bryan Burrough.  Bryan Burrough (born 13 August 1961 in Tennessee) is an American author and correspondent for Vanity Fair. He has written five books: Barbarians at the Gate (1990) Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra (1992) Dragonfly (1998) Public Enemies (2004) and The Big Rich (2009). Burrough was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Dallas Texas between 1983 and 1992. He has written for Vanity Fair since 1992.
Clarence Acox Jr..  Clarence Acox Jr. is an American band director and jazz drummer. He is a native of New Orleans and has been heard in a variety of settings in the Northwest.He is director of jazz bands at Garfield High School where he has taught since arriving from Southern University in New Orleans in 1971 initially hired to rejuvenate the school's marching bands.
John T. Bone.  John Bowen is a British-born and American pornographic movie director who uses the name John T. Bone. He is best known for directing two large gang bang movies: World's Biggest Gang Bang in 1995 starring Annabel Chong and World's Biggest Gang Bang II in 1996 starring Jasmin St. Claire.
Vladimir Mulyavin.  Vladimir Mulyavin (Russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Муля́вин; Belarusian: Уладзімір Мулявін (Uladzimir Muliavin); January 12 1941 Sverdlovsk — January 26 2003 Moscow) was a Belarusian rock musician and the founder of the folk-rock band Pesniary.
Han Bennink.  Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist.
Marc Wilkinson.  Marc Wilkinson (born in Paris France on 27 July 1929) is an Australian composer and conductor best known for his film scores most particularly Blood on Satan's Claw and music for the theatre most notably for Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun. For most of his life resident in the UK his approach has combined traditional techniques with elements of the avant-garde. Now retired from composition he currently lives in France.
Leslie Duxbury.  Leslie Duxbury (1926–2005) was a British newspaper sports writer and columnist born in Great Harwood Lancashire. He turned his attention to television and became a prolific writer on the top rated ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street finally retiring from the series in 1990.
Jerry Scheff.  Jerry Obern Scheff (born January 31 1941) is an American bassist best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the 1970s as a member of his TCB Band and his work on The Doors' final recordings.Scheff grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. After serving in the U.S. Navy he returned to California ending up in Los Angeles as a session musician.
Manny Lehman (disc jockey).  Manny Lehman is a house music DJ and producer.
Xavier Marquis.  Xavier Marquis Davis (born March 13 1984) better known by his stage name Xavier Marquis (pronounced /zeɪviːˈɛər/ zay-vee-ᴀɪʀ /mɑːˈkiː/ mar-ᴋᴇᴇ) is an American rapper singer songwriter and record producer from Minneapolis Minnesota.
Yōko Natsuki.  Yōko Natsuki (夏樹 陽子 Natsuki Yōko)is an actress born 24 October 1952 in Ise Mie Prefecture Japan. She started her career in the 1977 movie Karate for Life. One of her television roles was as Osono a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyōbanki: Abarenbō Shōgun. She also regularly appeared in Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi.
Carol Heifetz Neiman.  Carol Heifetz Neiman (1937–1990) was a woman artist who was a member of the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Ms Neiman was a surrealist and a xerox artist. She also created etchings and worked in pencil pastels and mixed media and was a painter.
Arnett Cobb.  Arnett Cleophus Cobb (August 10 1918 – March 24 1989) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist sometimes known as the Wild Man of the Tenor Sax because of his uninhibited stomping style. Cobb is credited with writing the words and music for the jazz standard Smooth Sailing (1951) which Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Decca on her album Lullabies of Birdland.
Oksana Pečeny.  Oksana Pečeny (born April 23 1983) is a Ukrainian violinist.
Lutz Kleveman.  Lutz Kleveman (born 1974) is a German investigative journalist and photographer and author of several books including The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia published in 2004. Kleveman's work often deals with the relationship between energy interests geopolitics and US foreign policy.
Emma Burstall.  Emma Burstall is an English author and journalist. She has published two novels and writes for The Guardian and Independent on Sunday.Burstall was educated at the elitist St Paul's Girls' School and studied English at Christ's College Cambridge University graduating in 1980. She began her career as a reporter on the Western Morning News later becoming a features editor of Woman and Family Circle.
Stas Piekha.  Stas Piekha formal name Stanislav Piatrasovich Piekha (Russian: Станислав Пятрасович Пье́ха) is a Russian popular singer and actor and the grandson of Edita Piekha.
Bantwal Vaikunta Baliga.  Bantwal Vaikunta Baliga (1895–1968) was a lawyer who played an active role in Indian governance and politics. He was actively involved in India’s struggle for freedom and worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi. He was elected as MLA and subsequently became Law Minister and Speaker of Mysore State Assembly. He died while he was the Speaker of Mysore State assembly. His term as Speaker spanned from March 1962 to June 1968.
Sinéad O'Carroll.  Sinéad Maria O'Carroll (born 14 May 1973 in Dublin Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter musician dancer and actress. She is best known as the oldest member of the girl group B*Witched.
Hezekiah Augur.  Hezekiah Augur (February 21 1791 – January 10 1858) was an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self-taught sculptor and unlike many other 19th Century sculptors did not travel to Europe but spent his entire career in New Haven.Augur was born in New Haven Connecticut. The son of a carpenter he learned his trade as a woodcarver carving table legs and other furniture ornament. Borrowing $2000 from his father he was invited to join a grocery store business venture.
Beverly Grigsby.  Beverly Grigsby née Pinsky (b. 11 January 1928) is an American composer musicologist and electronic/computer music pioneer.
Fyfe Ewing.  Fyfe Alexander Ewing (born c. 1 November 1970 in Larne Northern Ireland) is best known as the original drummer and founding member of rock band Therapy?.
Lenka.  Lenka (born Lenka Kripac; 19 March 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter of Czech origin known for her song The Show (produced by Stuart Brawley) from her self-titled album Lenka. Her latest song Everything at Once was used in the official Windows 8 TV Ad and in the Disney Movie Rewards commercial.
Kate Sedley.  Kate Sedley is the pen-name of Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman Clarke an English historical novelist. She was born in Bristol in 1926 and educated at The Red Maids' School Westbury-on-Trym. She is married and has a son and a daughter and three grandchildren. Her medieval historical whodunnits feature Roger the Chapman who has given up a monk's cell for the freedom of peddling his wares on the road.
Allen Varney.  Allen Varney (born 1958) is an American writer and game designer. Varney has produced numerous books role-playing game supplements technical manuals articles reviews columns and stories as well as the fantasy novel Cast of Fate (TSR 1996). Since the 1990s he has worked primarily in computer games.
Dario Chiazzolino.  Dario Chiazzolino (born February 8 1985) is an Italian jazz guitarist
Susan Weil.  Susan Weil (born 1930) is an American artist best known for her experimental three-dimensional paintings which combine figurative illustration with explorations of movement and space.Weil was born in New York. In the late 1940s she was involved in a relationship with Robert Rauschenberg. The two met while attending the Académie Julian in Paris and in 1948 both decided to attend Black Mountain College in North Carolina to study under Josef Albers.
Ghulam Dastagir Shaida.  Ghulam Dastagir Shaida ( Dari استاد غلام دستگیر شیدا ) Ustad Ghulam Dastagir (1916–1970) was an Afghan singer and musician. Ustad Shaida was born in the Kharabat neighborhood of Kabul home of Kabul musicians who sung in classical Indian tradition. Ustad Shaida is considered as one of the great Ustads of Afghan classical music along with Ustad Sarahang and Ustad Rahim Bakhsh.
Pavel Tsvetkov.  Pavel Chavdarov Tsvetkov (Bulgarian: Павел Чавдаров Цветков) (born March 23 1971) is a Bulgarian poet and writer best known for his Desperate Love Book of Poems and the essay Exules Suo Voluntate: Roots and Fruits of Bulgarian National Nihilism.
Maria Belakhova.  Maria Belakhova (Russian: Мария Андреевна Белахова 1903–1969) was a Russian writer and educator known for her work in children's literature and education in the Soviet Union mentorship of many of the country's prominent children's writers and her own works. She was editor of the Soviet magazine Children's Literature and the head of the national commission for children's literature.
Margaret Young.  Margaret Youngblood (born February 23 1891 - May 3 1969) better known by her stage name Margaret Young was an American singer and comedienne who was popular in the 1920s. Margaret Young was born in Inglewood California. Young is best known for her songs Hard Hearted Hannah Lovin' Sam The Sheik Of Alabam' and Way Down Yonder In New Orleans.
Deric Ruttan.  Deric J. Ruttan (born January 27 1972) is a Canadian country music artist from Bracebridge Ontario. Signed to Lyric Street Records in 2003 he made his chart debut on the U.S. and Canadian country music charts that year with the release of his single When You Come Around. His self-titled debut album was released that year producing a total of five singles on the Canadian country music charts. A second album titled First Time in a Long Time was released in April 2008.
Jill Wolfson.  Jill Wolfson is a journalist and young adult novel author. Her novels and articles concern children in the social welfare system and foster care. Her latest novel is about organ donation.
Lyrik.  Liran Shoshan better known by his stage name Lyrik (in Hebrew ליריק) is an Israeli music producer songwriter and singer born in Jerusalem Israel. He is founder of the production house Lyrik Productions. He has cooperated with renowned international DJs and producers like Tiësto Paul Oakenfold and was signed by their labels Black Hole and Perfecto. Lyrik has also worked with many Israeli artists most notably Sarit Hadad Michal Amdurski Assaf Gad Hanun and Yehonathan.
Tim Stoner.  Tim Stoner (born in Essex 1970) is an English painter. Growing up in London he attended Leyton Sixth Form College where one of his teachers was Kath Trotter. He trained at the Norwich School of Art & Design 1989-92 the Royal College of Art London (where in 1994 he graduated with an MA in Painting) and the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Visual Arts) in Amsterdam 1997-98.
Benzino.  Raymond Scott better known by his stage name Benzino is an American hip hop media executive and record producer. Since 2012 he has appeared on VH1 TV series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.
Jill Morrell.  Jill Morrell (born 1957) was the girlfriend of John McCarthy and was a tireless and effective campaigner for his release from kidnappers who held him in Lebanon for more than 5 years. Raised in Yorkshire she is a graduate of Hull University.Morrell kept McCarthy's name in the public domain with a campaign to free him called Friends of John McCarthy (FOJM).After McCarthy's release on 8 August 1991 the public hoped for a fairytale ending for their relationship.
Speed Webb.  Lawrence Arthur Speed Webb (18 July 1906 - 4 November 1994) was an American jazz drummer and territory band leader especially active in the late 1920s and early 1930s.Webb first began playing on violin and mellophone before switching to drums. By 1923 he was performing locally around Peru Indiana and in 1925 co-founded the Hoosier Melody Lads a cooperative band.
Roshni Mahtani.  Roshni Mahtani (born 1983) is a Singaporean entrepreneur and journalist. She is best known for launching the parenting website theAsianparent.com in 2008 family activity website Kidlander.sg in 2011 Kid's fashion store MissVanda in 2012 and Pregnancy portal pregnant.sg in 2013.
Jakob Meiland.  Jakob Meiland (Senftenberg 1542 - Hechingen 31 December 1577) was a German composer. His St. Matthew Passion follows the model of Johann Walter's first Lutheran passion historia (circa 1530) put has more elaborate choral numbers.
Rosemarie Ford.  Rosemarie Ford (born Rosemarie Poundford; 5 March 1962) is an English dancer actress and television presenter.
Damaris (singer).  Damaris Mallma Porras (born January 26 1986 in Huancayo) is a Peruvian folk singer. She is a representative of contemporary Andean music which consists of a mix of the traditional Indian language Quechua and modern pop music.
George Bell (editor).  George Bell (9 January 1809 – 4 February 1899) was a New Zealand newspaper proprietor and editor. He was born in Kingston upon Hull Yorkshire England on 9 January 1809.
Simon Keizer.  Simon Nicolaas (Simon) Keizer (Volendam born 16 May 1984) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Together with Nick Schilder he forms a duo called Nick & Simon.
Meaghan Jarensky.  Meaghan Jarensky Castaldi is a beauty queen from The Bronx New York who has competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant.
Kinichi Hagimoto.  Kinichi Hagimoto (萩本 欽一 Hagimoto Kin'ichi born May 7 1941) is a Japanese comedian.He is active as a stage performer emcee and manager of the amateur Ibaraki Golden Golds (ibaraki goruden gōruzu) of the Japanese Baseball Association (nippon yakyuu renmei).Born in the Taitō ward of Tōkyō Japan he graduated from Komagome High School and now belongs to the Asai Kikaku talent agency.He is called Kin-chan by fans and those within the entertainment industry.He is also known as Hagimō Kin etc.Amongst the many entertainers he has developed on his shows who are known as the Kinchan Family he is known as Taishō (The General).In the 1970s and 80s with acts like nande sō naru no! (Why does that happen?!) and physical comedy such as his distinctive Kinchan run (based on Hachiro Azuma) he blossomed into a polished professional.Many of his famous lines like dochira dake banzaai nashi yo are still heard today.Some comedic jargon such as ukeru (and yaya uke baka uke etc.) that have become common Japanese words are said to have originated from his variety show Kinchan No Don To Itte Miyō. 
C-Note (rapper).  C-Note is an American rapper from Texas active on the Houston screw scene. He was formerly a member of the Botany Boyz part of the Screwed Up Click scene first started by DJ Screw. His first album Third Coast Born was an underground success eventually reaching #67 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop albums chart. The album was revamped and re-released in 2000 and this also peaked at #91 on the same chart.
Jane C. Loudon.  Jane C. Webb Loudon (August 19 1807 – July 13 1858) was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She wrote before the term was invented and was discussed for a century as if she wrote Gothic fiction or fantasy or horror. She also created the first popular gardening manuals as opposed to specialist horticultural works and contributed to the work of her husband John Claudius Loudon.
Charlie Daniels.  Charles Edward Charlie Daniels (born October 28 1936) is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is perhaps best known for his number one country hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia and multiple other songs he has written and performed. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24 2008 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.
Fritz Spindler.  Fritz Spindler (Wurzbach 24 November 1817 – Niederlößnitz/Radebeul near Dresden 26 December 1905) was a German pianist and composer especially of works for the piano. His output of more than 400 opus numbers includes salon pieces chamber music symphonies and other large forms and over 300 piano pieces but is best remembered if at all today for a much-anthologized Sonatina.
William H. Fry.  William Henry Fry (ca. 1830 – 1929) was a wood carver and gilder of the Aesthetic Movement born in England. In the 1850s Fry moved to Cincinnati Ohio to work in a shop run by his father Henry Fry. In the 1870s the family began giving private instruction to Cincinnatians on woodcarving techniques. His father incidentally carved the throne of Queen Victoria. Many of his wood pieces can be viewed at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Arun Krishnan.  Arun Krishnan is an Indian writer based in New York. He is the author of The Loudest Firecracker published by Tranquebar Press a coming of age story set against the backdrop of communal tensions in urban India. He is also the host of the Learn Hindi from Bollywood Movies. India Style. podcast the number one rated Indian podcast on iTunes.
Gary Zukav.  Gary Zukav (born October 17 1942) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Beginning in 1998 he appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in The Seat of the Soul. His first book The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979) won a U.S. National Book Award.
Viktor Astafyev.  Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev (Russian: Ви́ктор Петро́вич Аста́фьев) (1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001) was a Soviet and Russian writer of short stories and novels.
Gigi Radics.  Georgina Gigi Radics (born 18 August 1996 in Salgótarján Hungary) is a Hungarian singer best known for participating in A Dal 2013 and 2014.
William So.  William So (Chinese: 蘇永康; So Wing Hong) is a Hong Kong actor and a cantopop singer. He began his musical career by participating the New Talent Singing Awards in 1985 and won the competition as the first runner up. His performance at that event earned him a record contract with Capital Artists. 1998 was the peak year for William So with his hit song Kiss More Sad More which is also the theme song for the popular TV Series Healing Hands.
Ryohei Chiba.  Ryohei Chiba (千葉涼平 Chiba Ryōhei) born November 18 1984 is a Japanese singer from Sapporo Japan. He rose to fame as a member of a Japanese pop group w-inds. as the group's back-up dancer back-up vocal and rapper.
Annibale Angelini.  Annibale Angelini (Perugia May 12 1812 – July 19 1884) was an Italian painter and scenographer.
Flaco Jiménez.  Leonardo Flaco Jiménez (born March 11 1939) is a Conjunto Tejano music accordionist from San Antonio Texas.
Michael John Fles.  Michael John Fles (born November 11 1936) known both as John Fles and Michael Fles is an American poet editor musician and film personality. Professor David James referred to him as the single most important promoter of underground film in Los Angeles California.
Irving Howe.  Irving Howe (/haʊ/; June 11 1920 – May 5 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
William Joseph Williams.  William Joseph Williams (November 17 1759 – November 30 1823) was an American painter. He was born in New York City the son of William Williams a painter born in Wales.
George Musser.  George Musser (born 1965) is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine in New York and the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory. He did his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and mathematics at Brown University and his graduate studies in planetary science at Cornell University where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
Sammo Hung.  Sammo Hung (born January 7 1952) also known as Hung Kam-bo (洪金寶) is a Hong Kong actor martial artist film producer and director known for his work in many martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a fight choreographer for amongst others Jackie Chan King Hu and John Woo.Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the vampire-like jiangshi genre.
Matt Bullen.  Matt Bullen (born Guildford Surrey 1969) is an English writer and polyamory advocate.
Stuart Braithwaite.  Stuart Leslie Braithwaite (born 10 May 1976) is a Scottish guitarist bassist drummer singer and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist of post rock band Mogwai with whom he has recorded eight studio albums.
Judy Martin (singer).  Eva Alaine Overstake ( July 23 1917 - November 17 1951) professionally known as Judy Martin was an American country music singer performing from the early 30's to the late 40's on the WLS-AM's National Barn Dance in Chicago. She was the second wife of Country Music Hall of Fame member Red Foley and is the grandmother of Christian country music singer Debby Boone.
Eamonn McCrystal.  Eamonn McCrystal (born June 1 1987) is an Irish pop tenor and TV/radio host based in Los Angeles California.
Scott Davie (pianist).  Scott Davie (born 1966) is an Australian concert pianist based in Sydney.
Risa Coda.  Risa Coda or Lisa Coda (倖田 梨紗 Kōda Risa) also known as Risa Koda and Risa Kouda (for softcore appearances) is an award-winning Japanese model and adult video (AV) actress.
Salvatore Farina.  Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 - 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens.Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature remaining there for the rest of his life.
Emma Boynet.  Emma Boynet (1891 – 1974) was a French pianist.Emma Boynet studied with Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatoire and remained closely associated with Philipp until his death.
Jim Florentine.  James Jim Florentine (born August 18 1964) is an American stand-up comedian actor writer and voice artist. He is best known for hosting That Metal Show on VH1 Classic dating Robin Quivers as well as performing Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher on Crank Yankers.Currently he is touring the country performing solo and with Don Jamieson and is part of The Killers of Comedy tour.
Matija Mažuranić.  Matija Mažuranić (Novi Vinodolski 1817– sanatorium in Feldhof near Graz April 17 1881) was a Croatian writer.Travelogue writer brother of more noted Ivan the writer of the well-known wpic Smrt Smail-age Čengića. He attended a German school in his native town where he was trained to became a blacksmith. Often he indulged into travels (Montenegro Serbia) and exceptionally in a few occasions to Bosnia.
Aminatta Forna.  Aminatta Forna (born 1964) is a Scottish-born British writer. She is the author of a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water and three novels Ancestor Stones (2006) The Memory of Love (2010) and The Hired Man (2013). Her novel The Memory of Love was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in 2011 and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
John Smith (comics).  John Smith (born 1967) is a British comics writer best known for his work on 2000 AD and Crisis. Smith's work is characterised by intricate sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult told in an elliptic fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs.
Elspeth Cameron.  Elspeth MacGregor Cameron (born 10 Jan 1943) is a Canadian writer known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Irving Layton and Earle Birney. Her biography of Hugh MacLennan Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life was nominated for a Governor General's Award. She has also published a volume of poetry.She currently lives in St. Catharines Ontario where she teaches English literature at Brock University.
Sterling Morrison.  Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. (August 29 1942 – August 30 1995) was one of the founding members of the rock group The Velvet Underground usually playing electric guitar occasionally bass guitar and singing backing vocals.
Bob Gregory.  Robert P. Gregory (October 20 1921 – December 5 2003) was an American comics artist and writer best known for writing and/or drawing hundreds of Gold Key comics starring the Walt Disney Pictures character Donald Duck.
Ron Slenzak.  Ron Slenzak (January 29 1948–) is an American photographer best known for photographing record album covers. Some of the album covers that he has photographed include Spitfire (Jefferson Starship) Huey Lewis and the News (their self-titled debut album) It Must Be Magic (Teena Marie) Dreams (Grace Slick) and Throwin' Down (Rick James).
Young Chris.  Young Chris (born Christopher F. Ries in 1983) is a Grammy nominated American rapper and songwriter. A member of Philadelphia rap duo Young Gunz formerly signed to Roc-A-Fella Records through Beanie Sigel’s State Property collective early success included the hit single Can't Stop Won't Stop. Signed in December 2010 as a solo artist to Universal Motown through producer/songwriter Rico Love’s label imprint Division1 Young Chris is currently working on his album release.
Ricki-Lee Coulter.  Ricki-Lee Dawn Coulter (born 10 November 1985) also known mononymously as Ricki-Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter television and radio presenter. She was born in Auckland New Zealand grew up on the Gold Coast Queensland and began performing at the age of 15. In 2004 she auditioned for the second season of Australian Idol and placed seventh in the finals round.
Zvest Apollonio.  Zvest Apollonio (Capodistria 15 May 1935 - Bertoki 25 March 2009) was a Slovenian painter and scenographer.
Eddie Solis.  Eddie Solis is a Los Angeles music industry professional musician and show promoter. He has worked in sales marketing and artist promotion at labels such as Century Media Priority Records Macey Lipman Marketing and SST Records where he worked with Black Flag. He is currently general manager at Southern Lord Records. Until 2010 he was booking manager of the Hollywood heavy rock venue The Relax Bar.
Jean-Marc Rochette.  Jean-Marc Rochette (born April 23 1956) is a French painter illustrator and comics creator.He is best known and recognized for the comic book series Edmond le Cochon and Le Transperceneige as well as for his illustrations of the literary classic Candide ou l'optimisme by Voltaire and Homer's Odyssey.
T. R. Mahalingam (flautist).  Tiruvidaimarudur Ramaswamy Mahalingam (November 6 1926—May 31 1986) affectionately known as Mali was a flautist who revolutionized the style of flute-playing in Carnatic music.
Perley Poore Sheehan.  Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati Ohio USA – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre California USA) was an American film writer novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown).
Adele Wong.  Adele Wong (born 8 March 1983) is a Singaporean actress singer writer and screenwriter.
Louis Salou.  Louis Vincent Goulven Salou (23 April 1902 – 12 October 1948) was a French stage and film actor.Louis was born in Oissel and died in Fontenay-aux-Roses.
Gustaf Wilhelm Palm.  Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (March 14 1810 – September 20 1890) was a Swedish landscape painter and professor.Palm was born near Kristianstad in southern Sweden. From 1828 he studied painting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Having finished his studies he travelled to Berlin in 1837 to receive treatment for an eye disease. He then traveled to Vienna staying there for three years before moving to Italy in 1840.
Steve Willaert.  Steve Willaert is a Belgian multi-faceted composer arranger musician and producer.
Makoto Sakurai (Japanese writer).  Makoto Sakurai (桜井 誠 Sakurai Makoto born February 15 1972) (autonym: Makoto Takata　高田誠) is a Japanese ultranationalist social activist and writer from Kitakyushu Fukuoka Prefecture. He is the leader of far-right activist group Zaitokukai known for its racist views and violent demonstrations.
RotFront (band).  RotFront (often with addition: Emigrantski Raggamuffin ) is a world music band from Berlin.
Nicholas Stoller.  Nicholas Stoller (born 19 March 1976) is an English–American screenwriter and director. He is known mainly for directing the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and its 2010 spin-off/sequel Get Him to the Greek.
David Scarpa.  David Scarpa is an American screenwriter. He was born in Fort Campbell Kentucky and raised in Tennessee and Connecticut before attending New York University's Film Program. His most famous works are the screenplays for films such as The Last Castle and the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. He currently resides in Los Angeles California.
Daniel Heath Justice.  Daniel Heath Justice is a U.S.-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an associate professor of First Nations studies.
Mariusz Adamski.  Mariusz 'Mike' Adamski (born January 10 1974) is a Polish aerial photographer who has flown many times with the Polish Air Force at Krzesiny Air Base. He is a graduate of the National Defense University in Warsaw Poland. Adamski's works have been published in books postage stamps important journals and aviation publications such as Aviation Week & Space Technology Air Forces Monthly and Flight International.
Sanjiv Chopra.  Sanjiv Chopra M.B.B.S M.A.C.P is an Indian-born American physician Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School Senior Consultant in Hepatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center accomplished author and expert on leadership.
Iain Cook.  Iain Cook (born 1974) is a Scottish guitarist composer and record producer who is currently a member of Glasgow-based synthpop trio Chvrches as well as the rock band The Unwinding Hours. He was the lead guitarist of now disbanded Scottish band Aereogramme. Cook has a career writing music for film and television and he has recently completed a remix/arrangement of the Biffy Clyro song Machines for a B-side of the 7 #1 Vinyl.In August 2009 Cook and Aereogramme vocalist Craig B.
Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev.  Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev (21 September 1883— 1934) - — one of the first Chechen writers and publicists the historian by traditions and folklore of the Chechen people.
Jack Zajac.  Jack Zajac is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “Romantic Surrealist tradition”.”To have a message or an emotional stimulation soaked up by an uncertainty of the Artist’s tool — color — shape — form — which are the punctuation of his message is a discouraging thing. This is the kind of anemia I’m trying to eliminate.”↑ ↑ ↑
Mungo Martin.  Chief Mungo Martin or Nakapenkem (lit. Potlatch chief ten times over) Datsa (lit. grandfather) was an important figure in Northwest Coast style art specifically that of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples. He was a major contributor to Kwakwaka'wakw art especially in the realm of wood sculpture and painting. He was also known as a singer and songwriter.
Smoke Fairies.  Smoke Fairies is a British dream-pop duo comprising Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies.
Alexander Zorich.  Alexander Zorich is the collective pen name of two Russo-Ukrainian writers; Yana Botsman and Dmitry Gordevsky. The two write in Russian in genres such as science fiction fantasy and alternate history as well as PC game scenarios.
C.H. Greenblatt.  Carl Harvey C.H. Greenblatt (born June 17 1972) is an American cartoon screenwriter producer and storyboard artist. He has worked on the hit TV series SpongeBob SquarePants and on the Cartoon Network's series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. He is best known as the creator of Chowder as well as the upcoming Bad Seeds which has started production over at Nickelodeon.
Dédé Fortin.  André Dédé Fortin (17 November 1962 – 8 May 2000) was a founding member frontman and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs formed in 1990.
Isabel C. Clarke.  Isabel C. Clarke (died 1951) was a Catholic novelist and biographer and author of over fifty books. She considered the novel to be a definite apostolate for its ability to bring the Catholic faith to those who are ignorant of it. Popular Catholic children's author Francis J. Finn called her the greatest living Catholic novelist.
Stann.  Stann is an alternative rock artist from Toronto Canada.
Gareth Russell (musician).  Gareth Russell is the bass guitarist for Idlewild joining the band in 2006 following the departure of Gavin Fox in 2005. Russell originally played bass in Astrid until their split and was also a member of The Reindeer Section.
Michael McMorrow.  Michael Sean McMorrow (born July 2 1973 in Bremerton Washington USA) is an American musician composer and producer and founding member of jam band Stolen Ogre.In addition to writing songs for the group McMorrow plays keyboards and acoustic guitar. Michael is a voting member of the Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Robert White (sculptor).  Robert Winthrop White (September 19 1921 – September 21 2002) was a highly respected American sculptor and educator who lived for much of his life in St. James Long Island New York. He was a grandson of the architect Stanford White.Born in New York in 1921 Robert White attended the Portsmouth Priory School (now Portsmouth Abbey School) in Rhode Island and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Vladimir Bobri.  Vladimir Bobri (Bobritsky) (Ukrainian: Володимир Бобрі [Бобрицький]; May 13 1898 Kharkiv Ukraine – November 3 1986 Rosendale New York) was an illustrator author composer educator and guitar historian. Celebrated for his prolific and innovative graphic design work in New York since the mid-1920s Bobri was also a founder of the New York Society of The Classic Guitar in 1936 and served as editor and art director of its magazine Guitar Review for nearly 40 years.
Hadaa Sendoo.  Hadaa Sendoo (Mongolian:Сэндоогийн Хадаа) born 1961 is an award-winning Mongolian poet and translator. He is founder and leading figure of the World Poetry Almanac[1]. His poems which have been translated into more than 30 languages have been included in The Best Mongolian Poetry[2].
Ashley Rindsberg.  Ashley Rindsberg is a South African-born American writer best known for his book of short fiction Tel Aviv Stories (2011) as well as for journalism and commentary for publications such as The Huffington Post The Daily Beast and Ynet.
Julian Hatton.  Julian Burroughs Hatton III is an American landscape abstract artist from New York City whose paintings have appeared in galleries in the United States and France. The New York Times described his painting style as vibrant playful semi-abstract landscapes while New York Sun art critic John Goodrich compared him to French painter Bonnard.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca.  Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 1600 – 25 May 1681) was a dramatist poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega he developed it further his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre.
S. J. Perelman.  Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1 1904 – October 17 1979) almost always known as S. J. Perelman was an American humorist author and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines including Judge as well as books scripts and screenplays.
Ali Ghorban Zadeh.  Ali Ghorban Zadeh is an Iranian actor. He became interested in acting at the age of 15. He started working in entertainment in animation and directed his first animated film at the age of 16. At the age of 19 he started acting in live action and directed yet another animation short film called Dokhtaram (My Daughter) at the age of 21 starring Iranian veteran actor Reza Kianian.
Sebastian LaMar Jones.  Sebastian La'Mar Jones (born October 22 1986) is an American record producer songwriter and DJ. Born in St. Louis Missouri United States his credits include charting at No. 1 on the Billboard Dance/Hot Club Play Chart and having one of the biggest dance records in the United States Belgium and Japan in 2011.
Balabhaskar.  Balabhaskar (born 10 July 1978) is an Indian violinist composer and record producer. He is best known for promoting fusion music in South India. Hailing from a musically affluent family he was introduced to the world of instrumental music at the age of three by his uncle Shri. B.Sasikumar a laureate in Carnatic music.
Sandeep Das.  Sandeep Das (born 1971)[citation needed] is an Indian Tabla player and composer. Nominated twice for the Grammy Award (2005 2009) he is considered one of the leading tabla artists.
Tsuneari Fukuda.  Tsuneari Fukuda (福田 恆存 Fukuda Tsuneari 1912 – 1994) was a Japanese dramatist translator and literary critic. In the 1950s he became known for his satirical play Kitty Typhoon and also The Man Who Stroked a Dragon. He was linked to Shingeki and in 1955 he did a production of Hamlet with Hiroshi Akutagawa son of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa playing the lead role. He also wrote a 1957 essay Directing Shakespeare which dealt with his views on the subject of directing Shakespearean plays.
John Watts (singer).  John Watts is a British musician and multimedia artist. He was born into a family of singers on 27 December 1954 in Frimley Surrey. Watts began his career as a mental health worker having studied clinical psychology before finding success as a musician with his band Fischer-Z. He currently lives and works in Brighton UK.
Molly Cramer.  Molly Cramer (June 25 1852 - January 18 1936) was a German flower landscape and portrait painter. Trained in the old Dutch tradition she turned to Impressionism in her later years.
Philip Clemo.  Philip Clemo is a British composer musician record producer sound artist filmmaker and artist described as one of contemporary music's most innovative artists.
Shōtarō Yasuoka.  Shōtarō Yasuoka (安岡 章太郎 Yasuoka Shōtarō May 30 1920 – January 26 2013) was a Japanese writer.
Doug MacLeod (musician).  Doug MacLeod (born April 21 1946 New York City United States) is an American storytelling bluesman. Although now associated with his home in Los Angeles he has lived and worked in North Carolina St. Louis Port Washington New York and Norfolk Virginia where he was stationed in the United States Navy.
Andrej Aćin.  Andrej Aćin is a Serbian director screenwriter and composer from Belgrade. In the 1990s he fronted the gothic rock band BAAL. From 1992 until 1995 he worked as the music editor at the Belgrade Art television station and in 1997 he was enrolled at the Belgrade Art Academy on the department for film and television directing.
Nathan Cavaleri.  Nathan Cavaleri (born 18 June 1982) is an Australian blues rock guitar virtuoso and former child actor.
Atiqul Haque Chowdhury.  Atiqul Haque Chowdhury (Bengali: আতিকুল হক চৌধুরী‎; 15 December 1930 – 17 June 2013) was a veteran media personality in Bangladesh. His contributions in Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Radio are enormous. Chowdhury's eventful career in media includes important roles at major organisations in Bangladesh. He began his career as a producer and programme organiser at Radio Pakistan Dhaka in 1960 later joining PTV Dhaka in 1965.
Håvard Gimse.  Håvard Gimse (born 15 September 1966) is a Norwegian classical pianist from Kongsvinger Norway and the brother of the cellist Øyvind Gimse. He has received the Griegprisen (1996) and the Steinway Award (1995). Gimse has done several recordings for Naim Audio Naxos Records Sony Classical Records Chandos Records and Simax.
Douglas Z. Doty.  Douglas Z. Doty (October 15 1874 – 20 February 1935) was an American screenwriter and editor.
Kari-Lynn Winters.  Kari Winters née Moore (born 1969) is a Canadian children's author and literacy researcher. She taught children's literature and drama at the University of British Columbia from 2004 to 2009. In January 2010 Winters assumed the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University (Ontario) and co-editor of Teaching and Learning.
Mark Trayle.  Mark Trayle is a California based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music improvisation installations and compositions for chamber ensembles. His work has been noted for its use of re-engineered consumer products and cultural artifacts as interfaces for electronic music performances and networked media installations.
Henry Slaughter.  Henry Thaxton Slaughter (born January 9 1927) is an American southern gospel pianist singer and songwriter. He has won five Dove Awards.Since the 1940s with such memorable groups as the Stamps-Ozark Quartet The Weatherford Quartet (1958–61) The Imperials (1964–66) and since the 1970s as Henry and Hazel Slaughter including numerous appearances with Bill Gaither the Gaither Praise Gatherings and the Gaither Homecoming series.
Judith Benhamou.  Judith Benhamou is a French journalist independent curator and author specializing in art and the art market. She is a weekly columnist for the French newspaper Les Échos and the magazine Le Point. Benhamou-Huet is the author of several books namely Art Business (2001) published in English with the title The Worth of Art followed in 2007 by Art Business (2) and The Worth of Art (2) books that analyze the principles of valuation in the contemporary art market.
José Luis García-López.  José Luis García-López (born March 26 1948) is a Spanish comic book artist who works in the United States of America mostly for DC Comics.
Filippo Lauri.  Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome.Born and active in Rome his story was featured in the biographies by Baldinucci. He first studied with his father Balthasar Lauwers (a Flemish landscape painter (Italianized as Lauri) and then with his elder brother Francesco Lauri. Afterwards he worked under his brother-in-law Angelo Caroselli. Filippo’s brother had been a pupil of Andrea Sacchi.
Robert Fitzpatrick.  Robert Fitzpatrick (July 2 1937 – October 23 2010) was born in San Antonio Texas brought up in New Jersey and ran away from home and went to New York at the age of 15 where he became an actor off-Broadway.He put himself through Princeton University and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps eventually serving as a Captain in Vietnam during that conflict.
Von LMO.  Von LMO (born Frankie Cavallo; March 10 1951) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist.
Jack Wilson (jazz pianist).  Jack Wilson (August 3 1936 – October 5 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Beefy (rapper).  Keith A. Moore (born December 15 1985) is a Nerdcore rapper from The Tri-Cities WA better known by the stage name Beefy.In 2005 Moore produced two independent EPs The Whitesican EP and nerd. He created animated music videos for the songs Whitesican and David's Sister (both from The Whitesican EP) which gave him notoriety after they appeared on Albino Blacksheep. In 2006 Moore in conjunction with Nerdy South Records released his first full-length album Tube Technology.
Carlos Ezquerra.  Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra (born 12 November 1947) is a Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and currently lives in Andorra. He is best known as the co-creator of Judge Dredd.
Flemming Jørgensen.  Flemming Bamse Duun Jørgensen (7 February 1947 – 1 January 2011) was a Danish pop singer and actor best known as lead singer of the band Bamses Venner (English: Teddy (Bear)'s Friends). During the recent years he also released some solo albums the latest being Tæt på (English: Close-up) from 2010.
Tom Frager.  Tom Frager (born 1 July 1977 in Dakar Senegal) is a French songwriter and performer in the group Gwayav' and is ten times a surfer winner in Guadeloupe. He is primarily known for his French hit Lady Melody which was number-one for four weeks.
Makoto (musician).  Makoto Shimizu (清水誠 Shimizu Makoto) (born in 1977 in Tokyo Japan) professionally known as Makoto (マコト Makoto) is a Japanese drum and bass musician DJ and actor. Among other distinctives of Makoto's musical style a heavy influence of 1970s-era soul funk and jazz fusion can be heard throughout the vast majority of his repertoire.
Richard Nelson (author).  Richard K. Nelson (born 1941) is a cultural anthropologist and writer whose work has focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and more generally the relationships between people and nature. He is the host to a public radio series called Encounters aired nationally.Nelson was born and raised in Wisconsin attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received his Ph.D. at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Diane Stanley.  Diane Stanley is an American children's author and illustrator.Stanley was born in Abilene Texas on December 27 1943. She earned her bachelor's degree from Trinity University and her M. A. in medical illustration from Johns Hopkins University College of Medicine. She has worked as a medical illustrator a graphic designer for Dell Publishing and an art director for G. P.
Joaquín Torres García.  Joaquín Torres García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was a Uruguayan plastic artist also known as the founder of Constructive Universalism. In 1978 most of his works were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro while a large exhibition of the artist's works was being held. His likeness is on the 1998 Uruguay 5 Pesos Uruguayos banknote.
Jane Carr (fashion designer).  Jane Carr is a British fashion designer specialising in hand-finished accessories for men and women. Carr established a reputation through showing at London Fashion Week Premiere Classe and Tranoi in Paris as well as Pitti Uomo in Florence. She trained at Central St Martins and graduated in 1999. After winning the International Wool Secretariat prize in 2000 she was hired by Donnatella Versace to work as the Head of Prints at Fashion House Versace for 4 years.
Yessengaly Raushanov.  Yessengaly Abdijapbarovich Raushanov (Kazakh: Есенғали Әбдіжаппарұлы Раушанов; October 5 1957 Khozheli Karakalpakstan) is a Kazakh poet.
Sertab Erener.  Sertab Erener (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈseɾtap eɾeˈneɾ]) (born 4 December 1964 in Istanbul) is a Turkish pop music singer and also a cross-over soprano with a vocal range that extends to high F. She is one of the most successful female Turkish pop singers in her homeland and is considered one of the divas of Turkish pop music.
Corinne Wasmuht.  Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is an artist based in Berlin.Wasmuht was born in Dortmund Germany. She makes paintings in oil paint on wooden boards using many coats of varnish to add to the brightness of the colours. Her images consist of layered fictional environments that reference abstract painting. The complexity of her latest work reveals that she uses a screenprinting technique with enamel paints that are oil-based instead of painting the work by hand.
J-Diggs.  Jamal Diggs better known by his stage name J-Diggs also Jay Digs or J-Diggs tha Rockstar is an American rapper and co-CEO of the late Mac Dre's Thizz Entertainment.
Rod Serling.  Rodman E. Rod Serling (December 25 1924 – June 28 1975) was an American screenwriter playwright television producer and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics both on and off the screen and helped form television industry standards.
Joe Rosenblatt.  Joseph Rosenblatt (born December 26 1933) is a Canadian poet who lives in Qualicum Beach British Columbia. He has won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry. He is also a talented artist whose line drawings paintings and sketches often illustrate his own and other poets’ books of poetry.
Malgudi Subha.  Malgudi Subha (also spelled as Malgadi Shuba) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs in Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and Hindi. In a career spanning for two decades she sang more than 3000 songs.She counts Usha Uthup among her rolemodels.She is a great fan of Kishore Kumar She began her career by providing vocals for ad jingles composed by A. R. Rahman Viji Manuel etc. She debuted as a playback singer through the film Nadodi Thendral with music by Ilayaraja.
Joe Beats.  Joe Beats (born Joe DelCarpini October 4 1977) is an American hip hop producer from Rhode Island. He is best known as the co-producer for the duo Non-Prophets. DelCarpini was born in Warwick Rhode Island.
T. C. McCarthy.  T.C. McCarthy is a science fiction author. His first novel Germline won the 2012 Compton Crook Award.
Jason Crew.  Jason Crew (born February 27 1982) is an American pornographic actor (porn star) who stars in gay and bisexual pornographic movies. Jason Crew is versatile and has the ability to penetrate himself anally with his own penis. He is now an exclusive for Raging Stallion.
Essie Pinola Parrish.  Essie Pinola Parrish (1902–1979) was the last Kashaya Pomo spiritual leader and an expert basketweaver.
James Lloyd (actor).  James Lloyd (born 10 January 1980 in London) is an English actor.He is most well known for the role of PC Steve Hunter in the ITV Police Drama The Bill. He previously appeared in the programme in 1989 as the son of Detective Constable Alfred Tosh Lines (who was played by James Lloyd's real father Kevin Lloyd) and would also become a production runner prior to his role. He is the nephew of the late ITN reporter Terry Lloyd and has a sister Poppy Lloyd.
Adam James (singer).  Adam James is an Indigenous Australian country singer from Moreton Bay. He is the host of Letterbox a TV series broadcast on Fox and NITV. James won a Deadly in 2008 for Best New Talent and was a finalist at the 2008 Toyota Star Maker Quest in Tamworth.
Ross Barbour (singer).  Ross Edwin Ross Barbour (December 31 1928 – August 20 2011) was an American singer with the vocal quartet The Four Freshmen. The Four Freshmen originated in early 1948 when brothers Ross and Don Barbour then at Butler University's Arthur Jordan Conservatory in Indianapolis Indiana formed a barbershop quartet called Hal's Harmonizers.
Jordan Pruitt.  Jordan Lynne Pruitt (born May 19 1991 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American recording artist. After recording a demo album in 2006 Pruitt was signed to Hollywood Records.Pruitt has released two albums the debut No Ordinary Girl (2007) followed by Permission to Fly (2008). Outside Looking In is taken from the debut album the song charted on the US Billboard 200.
Stephen Kline.  Stephen Kline (born 1943 Des Moines Iowa) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in acrylics and ink.
Esmi Talamantez.  Esmeralda Talamantez Mendoza is a Tejano singer who had a string of musical hits during the mid to late 1990s with her band Viento Loco.
Tim Richardson.  Tim Richardson author of Sweets: The History of Temptation is the world's first international confectionery historian. He also writes about gardens landscape and theatre and contributes to the Daily Telegraph Country Life The Idler House & Garden Garden Design Journal and Wallpaper. He lives in North London.He wrote and performed comedy at Oxford University in the 1980s in a revue group called The Seven Raymonds with Stewart Lee Richard Herring Emma Kennedy and Michael Cosgrave.
Michael Harmon.  Michael Harmon was born in 1969 and is the author of five books: Skate The Last Exit to Normal Chamber of Five A Kid From Southie and Brutal.
Tony Roberts (author).  Tony Roberts is the British author of the Casca series from 2006 onwards. His late mother was his unlikely route into becoming the author of Casca books. In 1986 she bought him the third book in the series after a shopping trip to the city of Bath. Although book 3 was not the best place to start it got him interested in collecting the rest of the series and over the next thirteen years without the help of the internet he gradually collected the 22 Casca books attributed to Barry Sadler.
Odd Winger.  Odd Winger (born 1923) is a Norwegian journalist novelist and children's writer. He made his literaty debut in 1953 with the novel Mot Land's End. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper Dagbladet from 1958. He was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1966.
Pauline Johnson (actress).  Pauline Johnson was a British film actress. Johnson was a leading lady of British films during the silent era.
Erin Lang.  Erin Lang (born May 11 1979) is a Canadian musician active mainly in Canada and England. Born in Montreal her father is Steve Lang bassist with 1970s Canadian rock band April Wine. Her mother Dale Lang was a puppeteer and make up artist. She grew up in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga and passed up university scholarships to pursue a career in music.
René Goscinny.  René Goscinny (French: [ʁəne ɡosini]; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comics editor and writer who is best known internationally for the comic book Astérix which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris (considered the series' golden age) and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.
James Augustus Suydam.  James Augustus Suydam (1819–1865) architect lawyer and artist; as an artist was considered one of the premier Luminism painters. He is widely known as an American landscape painter and one of the leading members of the Hudson River School.
Natasha Wheat.  Natasha Wheat is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in the United States.Her works have been described as situational constructions often transforming her audience into co-participants in the work.She is the founder of Portland Oregon based arts and urban farming project Project Grow an arts atelier for people with disabilities at the site of a factory. It began in 2008 as an intervention into sweatshop type labor at a factory where the people with disabilities were working.
Prasad Bidapa.  Prasad Bidapa (Kodava Takk:ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಬಿದ್ದಪ) is an Indian fashion designer who has specialised in training models for the Miss India beauty pageants. Many past beauty queens are his students. He hails from Kodagu.
Ale Möller.  Ale Möller (full name Arild Staffan Möller) (born March 26 1955) is a Swedish musician and composer.He was born and grew up in Scania in southern Sweden and started in music as a jazz trumpet player.
Christopher Maher.  Christopher Maher is a film and television actor as well as a chef.
Rick Guard.  Rick Guard is an English contemporary jazz singer and songwriter. He performs as a solo vocalist or with other live musicians from two piece up to an 18-piece bigband. Guard made his debut with Decca Records progressing to Roots Music Group and is one half of a successful songwriting partnership with Phil Rice. The pair are signed to Roots/Universal Publishing.
Abigail Reynolds.  Abigail Reynolds is an American author and physician. She is best known as the author of Jane Austen-inspired novels in the Pemberley Variations series as well as modern novels set on Cape Cod.
William L. Manly.  William Lewis Manly (April 6 1820 – February 5 1903) was an American pioneer of the mid-19th century. He was first a fur hunter a guide of Westward bound caravans a seeker of gold and then a farmer and writer in his later years. He wrote an autobiography first published with the title From Vermont to California then a second edition with the title Death Valley in '49 that tells of the Pioneer conquest of America's Far West in particular the 1848 California Gold Rush.
Travis Hunter.  A native of Florence South Carolina Travis Hunter is the author of seven novels of urban fiction. As an author songwriter motivational speaker and father Travis self-published his first novel The Hearts of Men in 2000 through his own company Jimrose Publishing House. After shopping that book during the 2000 Book Expo America in Chicago Hunter received an offer from Random House Inc. The Hearts of Men was re-released through their Strivers Row/Villard division in May 2001.
Roman Stolyar.  Roman Stolyar (b. December 6 1967) is a Russian composer piano improviser and educator.
Ravindra Jain.  Ravindra Jain (born 28 February 1944) is an Indian music composer and lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1985.
Ángel Sánchez (fashion designer).  Ángel Sánchez is a Venezuelann fashion designer.
Robert Goddard (novelist).  Robert William Goddard (b. 13 November 1954 Fareham Hampshire) is an English novelist.
Richard Isay.  Richard A. Isay (December 13 1934 – June 28 2012) was an American psychiatrist psychoanalyst author and gay activist. He was a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Isay is considered a pioneer who changed the way that psychoanalysts view homosexuality.
Jared Israel.  Jared Israel (born 1944) is an American writer and activist who edits the website The Emperor’s New Clothesand has been published in Arutz Sheva. He graduated from Harvard University where he was involved in student protests and also attended Columbia University.
Premasiri Khemadasa.  Kala Keerthi Dr.Premasiri Khemadasa (Sinhala: ආචාර්ය ප්‍රේමසිරි කේමදාස) (January 25 1937 – October 24 2008) also known as Khemadasa Master is one of the most influential composers in Sri Lankan music. Exploring the various styles of music around the world Khemadasa endeavored to develop a unique style of music. He combined Sinhala folk tunes Hindustani music Western music and many other streams of music in his compositions while adapting them to fit contemporary music.
János Wimpffen.  János L. Wimpffen (born 1950s Graz Austria) is an American motorsport historian and writer of Austro-Hungarian origin who specialises in sportscar racing; he is best known for his 1999 debut book Time and Two Seats which won multiple awards.He is a personal historian of the car collection for Bruce McCaw of McCaw Cellular Communications.He subsequently published a series of picture books to accompany Time and Two Seats despite being by a different publisher.
Maurice Tillieux.  Maurice Tillieux (7 August 1921 – 2 February 1978) was a Belgian writer and comic artist. He is regarded by many as a major figure of post-war Belgian comics.
Walter Launt Palmer.  Walter Launt Palmer (1854 Albany New York – 1932 Albany New York) was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer's father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor and their Palmer residence was frequented by his father's friends notably landscape painter Frederick E. Church. Church trained Palmer in landscape painting. Palmer's most notable works are winter landscape scenes a tradition he carried throughout his career.
Spragga Benz.  Carlton Errington Grant (born 30 May 1969) better known as Spragga Benz is a Jamaican dancehall deejay.
Lars Green.  Lars Green (born 30 November 1944) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1970.
Pomponio Amidano.  Giulio Cesare Amidano (c. 1560s – c. 1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance style. He was also known as Pomponio Amidano in part because he is either confused with or was a pupil of Pomponio Allegri; others claim he was a pupil of Francesco Mazzola (Parmigianino). Much of his biography is poorly documented. He is said to have been born in Parma and to have died there from the plague.
Al Ewing.  Al Ewing is a British comics writer who has mainly worked in the small press and for 2000 AD.
Lidia Ravera.  Lidia Ravera (born 6 February 1951 in Turin Piedmont) is an Italian writer journalist essayist and screenwriter.She became famous in 1976 for Porci con le ali co-written by Marco Lombardo Radice a novel dealing with the myths and ideals of the years around 1968.
Charles Tersolo.  Charles Tersolo (born 1974 in Rochester New Hampshire) is a Boston artist and member of the Copley Society of Art. He paints much of his works outdoors or en plein air in the tradition of Corot Monet and American Impressionists such as Childe Hassam.
Desmond Child.  Desmond Child (born John Charles Barrett October 28 1953) is an American musician professional songwriter and producer. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Billy Strayhorn.  William Thomas Billy Strayhorn (November 29 1915 – May 31 1967) was an American jazz composer pianist lyricist and arranger best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include Take the 'A' Train Chelsea Bridge and Lush Life.
Don Cook.  Don Kirby Cook (born May 25 1949 in San Antonio Texas) is an American record producer and songwriter whose work is mainly in the field of country music. Artists who recorded Cook's material include Barbara Mandrell John Conlee Mark Collie Wade Hayes and Brooks & Dunn. Cook's production work began in the early 1990s when he worked with Brooks & Dunn.
Bill Dixon.  Bill Dixon (October 5 1925 – June 16 2010) was an American musician composer visual artist and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in the free jazz movement. He played the trumpet flugelhorn and piano often using electronic delay and reverberation as part of his trumpet playing.
Albertina Walker.  Albertina Walker ((1929-08-29)August 29 1929 – October 8 2010(2010-10-08)) was an American gospel singer song writer actress and humanitarian. She was popularly referred to as the Queen of Gospel Music.
Soti Triantafyllou.  Soti Triantafyllou or Triantafillou (Greek: Σώτη Τριανταφύλλου) (b. Athens 1957)is a Greek writer and historian member of the modern generation of Greek writers. She is based in Athens and Paris.
Ron Cooper (artist).  Ron Cooper is a west-coast based American artist born in 1943 who started his career in the late ’60s in Los Angeles. He currently resides in Taos New Mexico. By 1973 he had already participated in numerous international solo and group shows with pieces in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum NY and LACMA. His work was exhibited at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla California May 13-July 1 1973.
Anton Schweitzer.  Anton Schweitzer (Coburg 6 June 1735 – Gotha 23 November 1787) was a German composer of operas who was affiliated with Abel Seyler's theatrical company.He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758 and then sent him to Italy (1764–66) and made him Kapellmeister.
Young Chop.  Tyree Pittman (born November 14 1993) professionally known as Young Chop is an American record producer. He hails from Chicago Illinois and is signed to Warner Bros. Records.
Nick Movshon.  Nick Movshon (born 1982) is a bass guitarist drummer and producer. He is best known for his work with British soul star Amy Winehouse and producer Mark Ronson. Movshon has played with groups such as Brooklyn art-rockers TV on the Radio the blues-rock duo The Black Keys Afrobeat ensemble Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra hip-hop group The Wu Tang Clan soul singer Charles Bradley mixed-soul group Menahan Street Band and soul-funk group Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.
Mallinātha Sūri.  Mallinātha Sūri was an eminent critic known for his commentaries on five mahakavyas (great compositions) of Sanskrit. During his times he is said to have received the titles of Mahamahopadyaya and Vyakhyana Chakravarti. He lived during the reigns of Racakonda king Singabhupala and Vijayanagara king Deva Raya I. Based on the evidence from the inscriptions it is estimated that he lived between 1350-1450 CE.
Seyid Azim Shirvani.  Seyid Azim Shirvani (Azerbaijani: Seyid Əzim Şirvani 1835–1888) Azerbaijani poet and enlightener. He got his first religious education in Iraq. After returning to motherland he refused his spiritual dignity and opened a private school. Seyid Azim Shirvani continued Fuzûlî’s traditions in his love-lyrical poems. In his satirical poems and fables Seyid Azim Shirvani ridiculed priesthood opposed backwardness and ignorance called to enlightenment and culture.
Martin Rázus.  Martin Rázus (pseudonym: Mrazák) (18 October 1888 Liptovský Mikuláš - 8 August 1937 Brezno) was a Slovak poet dramatist writer politician and evangelical priest
Tionna T. Smalls.  Tionna Tee Smalls (born September 16 1984) is an American author media personality relationship advisor youth advocate and star of VH1's reality television series What Chilli Wants. Smalls grew up in a two-parent household along with three sisters and was raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn New York. After completing her primary education Tionna attended the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan and studied Sociology at Stony Brook University.
Joel DiGregorio.  William Joel Taz DiGregorio (January 8 1944 – October 12 2011) was a longtime member and keyboardist for the Charlie Daniels Band. He was born and lived in Webster Massachusetts until 1962 when he went on the road. He was self-taught on the keyboards practicing from tunes by Elvis Presley Fats Domino and Little Richard following his attendance at a Ray Charles concert.
Phil Hay (screenwriter).  Phil Hay is an American screenwriter. His credits include Æon Flux Clash of the Titans R.I.P.D. and Ride Along. All of his film screenwriting work has been with writing partner Matt Manfredi. In 2002 Hay and Manfredi directed the film Bug with Manfredi being credited as the sole screenwriter of the film.
D. Balakrishna.  D. Balakrishna often referred to as Vidwan D. Balakrishna is a Carnatic veena player and son of noted veena player Doraiswamy Iyengar.
Abelardo Morell.  Abelardo (Abe) Morell (born 1948 in Havana Cuba) is a Boston-based photographer.
Sigrun Krokvik.  Sigrun Krokvik is the pen name of crime writer Sigrun Karin Christiansen (born 1932). She made her literary debut in 1972 with the thriller Bortreist på ubestemt tid. She published the novel Kikkeren in 1973. She was awarded the Riverton Prize in 1972 and was the first recipient of this prize.
Yutaka Ozaki.  Yutaka Ozaki (尾崎 豊 Ozaki Yutaka November 29 1965 – April 25 1992) was a popular Japanese musician.He is ranked at No. 23 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians by HMV.
Robert Joseph Greene.  Robert Joseph Greene (born January 11 1973) is a Canadian author of gay romance fiction best known for The Gay Icon Classics of the World a collection of gay-themed love stories from over 12 different countries. Each story represents a culture and a people. The book was listed by PFLAG Canada as a recommended book in their Books Worth Reading section.One of the short stories in the Gay Icon Classics collection is Halo's Golden Circle a tragic love story set in ancient Judea.
Suzanne McBain.  Suzanne McBain was a pornographic actress during the 1970s and 80s. She is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Michela Miti.  Michela Miti (born Michela Macaluso; June 12 1963) is an Italian actress and Television presenterIn the year 1979-80 hosted in Italy the first edition on a kid television show 321... contatto!.She became renown for her nude appearance in Italian sexy comedies. She acted in movies along with Alvaro Vitali and Renzo Montagnani.She appeared on the cover of adult magazine Playmen and Blitz.
Paul Claudel.  Paul Claudel (French: [pɔl klɔdɛl]; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet dramatist and diplomat and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas which often convey his devout Catholicism.
Dick de Groot.  Dick de Groot (born 1920) was born in Scheveningen a beach suburb of The Hague in the Netherlands. After the usual schooling that prepared him for the business world he decided to follow his old dream of being a painter. He studied five years at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and took post-graduate classes in sculpture.In 1959 de Groot came to America with his wife Hans and five children.
Rameshwar Pathak.  Rameshwar Pathak (1 March 1938 – 3 December 2010) was an acclaimed Indian Kamrupi Lokgeet singer from Assam. He also worked as a teacher in Arya Vidyapeeth Higher Secondary and Multipurpose School Guwahati from 1963 to 1996.
Matthew Zeiss.  Matthew Zeiss (born April 6 1987) is an American singer/songwriter from Long Island New York better known simply as Zeiss. Raised in Lindenhurst New York by a musically-orientated family. Zeiss began creating music at an early age.As a child he was highly influenced by artists such as Chuck Berry Muddy Waters Tom Jones Billy Joel and Elvis Presley spending hours studying and imitating their unique sound.
Michael Dahlquist.  Michael Dahlquist (December 22 1965 – July 14 2005) was a drummer in the Seattle band Silkworm.
Jean Webster.  Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster July 24 1876 – June 11 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually morally and socially but with enough humor snappy dialogue and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
Billy Duffy.  William Henry Billy Duffy (born 12 May 1961 Hulme Manchester) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the guitarist in The Cult.
Sting (musician).  Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951) better known by the stage name Sting is an English musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist activist actor and philanthropist.
Diana Lucas.  Diana Lucas (born December 6 1986 at Alenquer near Lisbon Portugal) is a Portuguese singer and actress.
Casual (rapper).  Jon Owens (born December 19 1975) known by his stage name Casual is an American rapper from Oakland California and one of the founding members of the alternative hip hop collective Hieroglyphics. After his debut album Fear Itself garnered both critical and commercial success Casual went on to become one of the most prominent and recognizable faces on the Hieroglyphics roster releasing five full-length LPs over the span of his twenty-year career.
Marjorie Noël.  Marjorie Noël (born Françoise Nivot; 25 December 1945 – 30 April 2000) was a French pop singer who had a brief career in the mid-1960s and is best known for her participation on behalf of Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Noël was born in Paris. Her first recordings were released in 1964 and the following year she was invited to represent Monaco in the tenth Eurovision Song Contest to take place in Naples Italy on 20 March.
Tariq Knight.  Tariq Knight (born 1984) is a British actor and magician. He is Mr. Knight alongside Max Somerset as The Sorcerer and Sophie Evans as Miss Evans in the BBC's The Sorcerer's Apprentice (CBBC). In the program he teaches the male sorcerees various magic tricks to perform to The Sorcerer.Tariq was also in Channel Four's Freaky and Trouble TV's Playing Tricks.
Willa Vasquez Serfaty.  Willa Vasquez Serfaty is a Gibraltarian artist.
Chuck Rainey.  Chuck Rainey (born Charles Walter Rainey III June 17 1940 Cleveland Ohio United States) is an American bass guitar session musician known for playing with many well-known American musicians and acts including Donald Byrd Steely Dan Quincy Jones and Aretha Franklin.
Julie Fader.  Julie Fader is a Canadian musician songwriter and visual artist best known as a keyboard player and backing vocalist for Sarah Harmer Chad VanGaalen and Great Lake Swimmers.
Kieran Sells.  Kieran Sells (born March 30 1984) is a production assistant on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! Sells who was born in Toronto Ontario Canada began his show business career by appearing as a child extra in many movies including John Carpenter's 1995 cult classic In the Mouth of Madness. He attended Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Jason Wade.  Jason Michael Wade (born July 5 1980 in Camarillo California) is the lead vocalist main songwriter and guitarist of the American alternative rock band Lifehouse.
Ethel M. Dell.  Ethel M. Dell (2 August 1881 – 19 September 1939) was a British writer of over 30 popular romance novels and several short stories from 1911 to 1939.
Chuck Perkins.  Chuck Perkins (born Charles Perkins; August 25 1965) is an American spoken word poet orator narrator and activist who infuses the rhythms and vernacular from the Crescent City into his musical spoken word pieces.
Dylan Dresdow.  Dylan Dresdow aka 3-D is an audio mixer. He has mixed songs for such artists as Prince Michael Jackson Madonna Usher Black Eyed Peas Nas Talib Kweli Britney Spears Ice Cube Redman The Wu Tang Clan Bone Thugs and Harmony Xzibit Missy Elliott Tweet Christina Aguilera The Game Ricky Martin Rihanna Hollywood Undead and Flo Rida.
Machito.  Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo February 16 1908?–April 19 1984) was an influential Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music. He was raised in Havana alongside the singer Graciela his foster sister.In New York City Machito formed the band the Afro-Cubans in 1940 and with Mario Bauzá as musical director brought together Cuban rhythms and big band arrangements in one group.
Johnny Rod.  Johnny Rod (born John Tumminello on December 8 1957) is an American bass guitar player. One of the early bands he was active in was King Kobra from 1983 to 1986. In 1986 he joined the heavy metal band W.A.S.P..Johnny Rod used both Fender (the Fender Precision bass is his all time favorite) and B.C. Rich basses during his career. His main bass with W.A.S.P. was a yellow B.C. Rich Ironbird bass. In 2010 he reunited with King Kobra.
Frederick Scott (designer).  Frederick Scott (14 July 1942 – 31 January 2001) was a British designer who was best known for creating the Supporto chair. The Supporto was designed in 1976 and released in 1979 and was complemented by other seating and tables in the Supporto range.
Malcolm David Kelley.  Malcolm David Kelley (born May 12 1992) is an American actor and a singer. He starred in the 2004 film You Got Served as Li'l Saint. He also appears in the television series Lost as the character Walt Lloyd. A regular cast member in the show's first season (2004–2005) he appeared only occasionally thereafter due to a dramatic growth spurt.
Dave Cooper.  David Charles Cooper (born 1967 Nova Scotia Canada) is a cartoonist commercial illustrator and a graphic designer who lives in Ottawa Canada. In addition to comics Cooper has worked extensively as a designer producer and creator in the field of animation. Several of his designs were used on Futurama notably various areas of the Planet Express office.Cooper became a published cartoonist in his teens creating science fiction comics stories for Barry Blair's Aircel Comics.
Brad Mangin.  Brad Mangin is a Bay Area freelance sports photographer. Mangin has done eight cover shots for Sports Illustrated. Mangin graduated from San Jose State in a degree in photojournalism.
Bernd Begemann.  Bernd Begemann (born 1963) is a contemporary German alt/pop singer-songwriter linked to the Hamburger Schule.
Elizabeth Coffin.  Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin (1850–1930) was an American artist educator and philanthropist who is known for her paintings of Nantucket Massachusetts. Well-educated and accomplished she was one of the New Woman of the 19th century who explored opportunities not traditionally available to women and contrary to the expectations for women in her day she never married.
Frances Yates.  Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE FBA (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English historian who focused on the study of the Renaissance. In an academic capacity she taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years and also wrote a number of seminal books on the subject of esoteric history.Yates was born to a middle-class family in Portsmouth and was largely self-educated before attaining a BA and MA in French at the University College London.
Sandu Florea.  Sandu Florea (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsandu ˈflore̯a]; born 28 June 1946) is a Romanian-American comic book and comic strip creator also known as an inker and book illustrator. A trained architect and a presence on the science fiction scene during the 1970s he became a professional in the comics genre with albums such as Galbar and was allegedly the only artist to have obtained a steady income in this way during the communist period.
Skibadee.  MC Skibadee real name Alfonso Skibatree Bondzie is a Drum and Bass MC musician from London.
Sean Michael Wilson.  Sean Michael Wilson is a comic book writer from Edinburgh Scotland who now lives and works in Japan.
John Hoyland.  John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.
Bonnie Raitt.  Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player. During the 1970s Raitt released a series of roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues rock folk and country. In the 1990s she had a major return to form with the release of her album Nick of Time after several years of critical acclaim but little commercial success.
Oswalt Kolle.  Oswalt Kolle (2 October 1928 Kiel – 24 September 2010 Amsterdam) was a German sex educator who became famous during the late 1960s and early 1970s for his numerous pioneering books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide. In his 1997 book Open to Both Sides he came out as bisexual.
Gerard Victory.  Gerard Victory (24 December 1921 – 14 March 1995) was a prolific Irish composer. He wrote over two hundred works across many genres and styles including tonal serial aleatoric and electroacoustic music.
KRK Ryden.  KRK Ryden (born March 4 1953) is an American visual artist. His surrealistic art style is reflective of his taste in cartoons and pulp art and his work is described as colorful and visually appealing reflections on discarded icons.
Finn Sletten.  Finn Sletten (born 11 August 1952 in Bodø Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums and percussions).
Zhang Jianya.  Zhang Jianya (Chinese: 张建亚) (born 1951) is a Chinese film director. As a graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy Zhang is a founding member of the so-called Fifth Generation a group that also includes in its numbers directors such as Zhang Yimou Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang.
Edward Maitland.  This article is about the 19th century writer. For the early military aviator see Edward Maitland (aviator); for the Scottish advocate and judge see Edward Maitland Lord Barcaple. Edward Maitland (27 October 1824 - 2 October 1897) was an English humanitarian writer.
Ronnie Lee Cunningham.  Ronnie Lee Cunningham is a keyboard player and singer and former member of the 1970s rock band LAW. In 1969 he joined a group called Brainchild. But before that he was band leader of a group called The Ronnie Lee Thing. He had even recorded his first single when he was 14 years of age.Cunningham was friends with LAW founding member Steve Acker and he joined LAW in 1973.
Sonja Aldén.  Sonja Aldén (born 20 December 1977 in St Albans England) is a Swedish singer mostly famous for her 2006 2007 and 2012 Melodifestivalen entries her friendship with Shirley Clamp and her songwriting for other artists. For example the hard rock/heavy metal band The Poodles who also participated in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2006. As a student she attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm.
Joan Aiken.  Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternate history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature.
Annie Griffiths.  Annie Griffiths is an American photographer and a founder of Ripple Effect.
Nancy Spero.  Nancy Spero (August 24 1926 – October 18 2009) was an American visual artist.
Chris Fryar.  Chris Fryar (born November 22 1970 in Birmingham Alabama) is an American drummer. He is a member of the Grammy Award winning group Zac Brown Band He has also worked with Oteil and the Peacemakers led by bassist Oteil Burbridge of the Allman Brothers Band Charles Neville Victor Wooten John Popper Steve Bailey David Hood Robert Moore and the Wildcats and the blues trio Gravy.Fryar has a music degree.
Barbro Oborg.  Barbro Christina Oborg Ljunggren (born July 3 1941 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. She is married to Sten Ljunggren.
Mike Jost.  Mike Jost (born 17 January 1979 in St. Louis Missouri) was the drummer for the band Helmet on the 2006 release Monochrome and the subsequent supporting tour. He left the band to attend to his duties as a new father. He was formerly the drummer in St. Louis-based bands Seven Adair LucaBrasi and Disturbing the Peace. Mike Jost's brother is Jerry Jost the guitarist for the St. Louis alternative-ska band The Urge.
Mala (Pakistani singer).  Naseem Nazli (Urdu: مالا; November 9 1939 – March 6 1990‎) popularly called Mala was a Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films. In the 1960s Mala had a hit pair with famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and they gave numerous hits to Pakistan film industry. She sang many super hit songs in almost two decades singing career in the 1960s and 1970s. Mala's career suffered with the arrival of Runa Laila in the film industry.
Ludwig von Hofmann.  Ludwig von Hofmann (August 17 1861 Darmstadt – August 23 1945 Pillnitz) was a German painter. His style was impressionist and he painted many paintings such as his well-known Rain in a mixture of impressionist and classical. He competed in the Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was also blind in one eye.
Keith Haring.  Keith Allen Haring (May 4 1958 – February 16 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth death sexuality and war. Haring's work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.
Sonny Flame.  Mihai Razvan Preda better known by his stage name Sonny Flame (born in Ploiesti Romania on 30 September 1986) is a reggae dance hall and R&B Romanian singer. He is signed by Red Clover Media.
Elizabeth Sican.  Elizabeth Sican literary critic was part of Jonathan Swift's triumfeminate along with Mary Barber and Constantia Grierson. Little is known of her apart from her participation in Swift's Dublin literary circle.
Josipa Lisac.  Josipa Lisac (pronounced [jɔ̌sipa lǐːsat͡s]) (born February 14 1950) is an eminent Croatian female singer.
Casey Darnell.  Casey Simon Darnell (born September 24 1978 in Lynchburg Virginia) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter. Darnell released the album entitled Coming Alive in 2011 which was his first full-length studio album. This was followed by the 2013 eponymously titled release Casey Darnell which both saw commercial successes via the Billboard charts. The last was generally well received by music critics.
Eddy Mitchell.  Claude Moine (born July 3 1942 Paris) better known by his stage name Eddy Mitchell is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks) taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville).
Pat Healy (actor).  Pat Healy (born September 14 1971) is an American film and television actor.Healy was born in Chicago Illinois. He played the lead character Craig in E.L. Katz’ dark comedy thriller Cheap Thrills and substantial central roles in Ti West's The Innkeepers Craig Zobel's Great World of Sound and Compliance (also directed by Zobel).
Sam Holland.  Samantha Sam Holland is a British sculptor.Holland studied Fine Art Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School gaining a first class degree. In 2001 became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.Her commissions include statues of the founder of The Football League William McGregor at Villa Park Birmingham Dick Evans at Moelfre Anglesey and the RNLI memorial sculpture outside the RNLI Headquarters in Poole Dorset.
John Howard (singer-songwriter).  John Howard (born Howard Michael Jones 9 April 1953) is an English singer-songwriter pianist and recording artist. With his February 1975 debut album Kid in a Big World (CBS Records) Howard emerged as a late voice of the glam-pop wave of the early 1970s. Across a musical career that has included two main periods of recording activity – 1974-84 and 2004–present – Howard has released 12 studio albums.
Eglė Janulevičiūtė.  Eglė Janulevičiūtė (born in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian classical pianist.She trained at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. In 1993 she moved to London to attend Guildhall School of Music and Drama and in 1996 moved to the United States. She has master's degree from Bowling Green State University and doctorate from University of California Santa Barbara. She is an Adjunct Professor at Westmont College.
H. G. Carrillo.  Herman Carrillo is a Cuban born writer and Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. Carrillo is generally referred to by his initials or more often “Hache” by his closer associates. Central to Carrillo's writing is the Cuban Immigrant experience in the United States.
Roger Welch.  William Roger Welch (February 10 1946) is an American conceptual artist installation artist and video artist.
Au Kin-yee.  Au Kin-Yee (simplified Chinese: 欧健儿; traditional Chinese: 歐健兒) is a Hong Kong screenwriter.She is a long-time screenwriter for films directed by Johnnie To and/or Wai Ka-Fai of Milkyway Image and frequently works alongside writers Wai Ka-Fai Yau Nai-Hoi and Yip Tin-Shing.
Joseph Schuster (composer).  Joseph Schuster (11 August 1748 – 24 July 1812) was a German composer.
Robert Roberts (butler).  Robert Roberts (1780 in Charleston South Carolina – 1860) was the author of The House Servant's Directory: A Monitor for Private Families. First published in 1827 the book was the first commercially published book written by an African American in the United States. The book was sufficiently popular that two later editions were printed. In 1825 he became the butler for Christopher Gore Governor and Senator from Massachusetts and remained in the position until Gore's death in 1827.
Girolamo Curti.  Girolamo Curti (1570–1631) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque specializing in quadratura.He was also called il Dentone.He was born to a poor family at Bologna and worked for cloth spinner till age 25. His first formal training was with the Cremonese painter Cesare Baglioni (no evident relation to Giovanni Baglione). He apparently quickly worked independently then rejoined his friend and fellow Bolognese and Baglione pupil Lionello Spada.
Aristide Maillol.  Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (French: [mɑjɔl]; December 8 1861 – September 27 1944) was a French sculptor painter and printmaker.
U. K. Kumaran.  U. K. Kumaran (Malayalam: യു.കെ. കുമാരന്‍; born May 11 1950) is a Malayalam-language novelist short story writer essayist and journalist from Kerala India. He is a recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
Paul Isola.  Paul Isola is a Gibraltarian musician and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist in the Flamenco metal band Breed 77.Isola was one of the original members and founders of the band. He also plays the djembe piano flamenco guitar and palmas.Being a native Gibraltarian Isola is naturally bilingual in English and Spanish and uses this ability to his advantage when writing songs.
Rune Klakegg.  Rune Klakegg (born 30 January 1958 in Skien Norway)is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer the older brother of guitarist Bjørn Klakegg and known from a number of recordings and jazz bands including Oslo 13 Cutting Edge Fuzzy Logic Out to Lunch and Søyr.
Nikki Ponte.  Nikki Ponte (Greek: Νίκη Πόντε; born 1 August 1991) is a Canadian-Greek singer who rose to fame in Greece and Cyprus through her participation in the third season of Greece's version of the singing competition The X Factor in which she placed third. While still participating in the show she signed with Sony Music Entertainment Greece and was one of six candidates who were selected to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.
Horacio Ferrer.  Horacio Ferrer (born 2 June 1933) is a Uruguayan poet broadcaster reciter and tango lyricist. He is particularly well known for the lyrics he wrote for Astor Piazzolla’s tangos such as Balada para un loco and Chiquilín de Bachín.
Tamurapan.  Tamurapan (たむらぱん) is a Japanese pop songwriter and singer. Her real name is Tamura Ayumi (田村歩美) was born in 1980 in Takayama Gifu Japan. The name Tamurapan is a combination of her surname: Tamura (田村) and the French word for rabbit: Lapin.During the first years of elementary school she lived in Taiwan for some time while she was still in elementary school she got her amateur radio license.
Lucien Pissarro.  Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a landscape painter printmaker wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France but thereafter was based in Britain.
Mélange Lavonne.  Mélange Lavonne is an American singer. She is an openly gay singer whose music is inspired by her sexual orientation. In 2007 she toured with the first LGBT tour group. Her first album The Movement was released in 2008.
Sergey Mavrin.  Sergey Konstantinovich Mavrin (Сергей Константинович Маврин) nicknamed Mavrick (Маврик) (born February 28 1963) is a Russian musician and composer who is credited as one of the best guitarists of Russian metal scene.
Don Conoscenti.  Don Conoscenti (born September 13 1955) is an American singer-songwriter record producer and multi-instrumentalist originally from Chicago Illinois. He started his musical career in middle school playing drums before receiving a guitar as a gift from a cousin for his 8th grade graduation. Conoscenti became known for his unique use of multiple and partial capos on the acoustic guitar releasing an instructional video Capo Abuse and Guitar Techniques in 2001.
Richard Maltby Sr..  Richard Eldridge Maltby Sr. (June 26 1914 – August 19 1991) was an American musician conductor arranger and bandleader most notable for his 1956 recording (Themes From) The Man With the Golden Arm. He was also the father of the Broadway lyricist and director Richard Maltby Jr.After studying briefly at Northwestern University's music school he left college to become a full time musician.
Dave Padden.  David James Padden (born February 13 1976) is the vocalist for Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator.
Asako Fujii.  Asako Fujii (藤井 あさこ Fujii Asako born August 3 1963 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce.
Alexander Harris (writer).  Alexander Harris (7 February 1805 – 1 February 1874) was a soldier teacher and author known for his early fictional accounts of convict life in Australia.He arrived in Sydney Australia in 1825 and returned to London England in 1841.He had numerous jobs including a soldier clerk a tutor and a timber-getter. He travelled mostly around the Hunter Region the Shoalhaven Illawarra and Bathurst in New South Wales. In 1851 he emigrated to the United States.
Bob Mould.  Robert Arthur “Bob” Mould (born October 16 1960) is an American musician principally known for his work as guitarist vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.
Ellei Johndro.  Ellei Johndro (Shadowscene) is an American born photographer musician and artist. Born in Maine and establishing herself in Los Angeles she was the first female to document the hipster culture alongside the likes of The Cobrasnake and Merlin Bronques. When The Los Angeles Times did a Sunday feature they referenced her as the new breed of club chronicler comparing her to the New York nightlife photographers of the 1960s.
William F. Nolan.  William Francis Nolan (born March 6 1928) is an American author who has written hundreds of stories in the science fiction fantasy and horror genres.
Alfred Neumann (writer).  Alfred Neumann (15 October 1895 Lautenburg Germany (Poland) – 3 October 1952 Lugano Switzerland) was a German writer of novels stories poems plays and films as well as a translator into German. He was a recipient of the Kleist Prize in 1926 and his writings were banned during the Third Reich. He became a US citizen after moving to Los Angeles in 1941 where he stayed until 1949. His work as a screenwriter included Conflict None Shall Escape and The Return of Monte Cristo.
Sidney Riesenberg.  Sidney Harry Riesenberg (1885 – 1971) was a landscape painter and illustrator from Chicago best known for his posters for the United States Marine Corps and the Liberty bond programs.
Catherine Porter.  Catherine Porter is an American singer songwriter and musician. She is a former member of The Brian May Band and has appeared in several musicals and films. To date Porter has released one album of solo material Something Good in 2002 and has also worked as a back-up singer for Queen Tony Hadley Edwin Starr Kiki Dee Paul Rodgers Sam Moore Mel B and Chaka Khan.
Troels Brun Folmann.  Troels Brun Folmann (born on January 10 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish composer specialised in epic orchestral music featured in TV shows trailers and video games such as the Tomb Raider series and commercial/trailers for films such as Spider-Man 3 X-Men: The Last Stand The Illusionist and 10000 BC and the fourth season of TV series America's Got Talent.
Haspop.  Hassan El-Hajjami (حسن الحجامي; born August 1 1977) better known by the stage name Haspop is a French-Moroccan artist who combines dance mime and acting. In solo performance and as a member of dancing group Pockemon Crew which he founded he has won several contests including standing as individual champion in France and Europe for Popping (2003 and 2004 respectively) and in 2004 world champion with the group.
Alexis Babini.  Alexis Babini is an American Pop recording artist.
Mina Fukui.  Mina Fukui (福井 未菜 Fukui Mina November 3 1984) is a Japanese actress tarento and model from Nabari Mie Prefecture. She works under the Horipro talent agency.
DJ Kool Herc.  Clive Campbell (born April 16 1955) also known as Kool Herc DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc is a Jamaican-born American DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music in the early 1970s in The Bronx New York City. His playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx and to the nascent popularity of disco in the 1970s.
Wang Gang (actor).  Wang Gang (born 1948) is a Chinese actor and host. He is best known for his role as Heshen a corrupt Qing Dynasty official favoured by the Qianlong Emperor in many television series. He first came to prominence in 1986 for hosting the CCTV New Year's Gala. Wang has also hosted the CCTV programme Friends since 2000. He won a Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for his performance in Liu the Hunchback Chancellor (宰相刘罗锅).
Richard Erdman (artist).  Richard Erdman (born May 20 1952) is an American artist. His family moved to Vermont when he was five. He was a two-time NCAA All-American skier at the University of Vermont. Erdman is the grandson of Charles R. Erdman Jr. former mayor of Princeton.
Jake Eckert.  Jake Eckert was born April 27 1976 in Chicago and at a young age moved to Atlanta Georgia where he grew up. Jake is currently known as the Guitarist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band out of New Orleans. Jake has performed around the world with the band since 2007. Before his time with the New Orleans music scene he began playing music in Atlanta GA as a kid. It was there he was introduced to the thriving Georgia live music scene.
Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier.  Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier (1883–1951) was a French caricaturist and illustrator.
Aman Sethi.  Aman Sethi (Hindi : अमन सेठी) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is known for his debut A Free Man a work of narrative reportage. Born in 1983 in Mumbai Sethi completed his schooling at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya Delhi. He went on to study chemistry at St. Stephen's College Delhi before moving on to study journalism at Asian College of Journalism Chennai and business journalism in 2008 at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Dean Young (poet).  [citation needed]Dean Young (born 1955) is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton Paul Éluard and the other French Surrealist poets. If neo-surrealism has a poetic corollary then it is him.
Sutton E. Griggs.  Sutton Elbert Griggs (June 19 1872 - January 2 1933) was an African-American author Baptist minister and social activist. He is best known for his novel Imperium in Imperio a utopian work that envisions a separate African-American state within the United States.
John Cairney (anatomist).  John Cairney (8 October 1898 – 5 August 1966) was a New Zealand anatomist medical superintendent and writer. He was born on 8 October 1898.
Vito Acconci.  Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24 1940) is an American designer landscape architect performance and installation artist.
Ernesto Serra.  Ernesto Serra (1860 - 1915) was an Italian genre landscape and portrait painter from Varallo Sesia Province of Vercelli in the Piemonte Region.
Armand Vaillancourt.  Armand J. R. Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor painter and performance artist born on September 3 1929 in the city of Black Lake Quebec Canada which is now a part of the city of Thetford Mines. He received his art training at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.In 1971 a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Vaillancourt Fountain often called Québec libre! was installed in San Francisco United States.
Redlight (musician).  Hugh Pescod better known as Redlight is a DJ record producer re-mixer and composer from Bristol England.
Robert Gordy.  Robert Louis Gordy (born in 1931 in Detroit Michigan) was the youngest child of Berry Gordy Sr. and Bertha Fuller and is best known as the youngest brother of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr.. Gordy is the father of Robert Louis Gordy Jr.He had a brief career as a recording artist having a minor hit in 1958 with the novelty song Everyone Was There co-written with his brother Berry under the stage name Bob Kayli.
Lila Karp.  Lila Karp (1933 – September 15 2008) was an activist writer teacher and feminist. She is known for her novel The Queen is in the Garbage[1] and is profiled in the book Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975[2]. She was among the second-wave feminists in New York in the 1960s and was a member of The Feminists. This group included such notables as Kate Millet Flo Kennedy Ti-Grace Atkinson and Margo Jefferson.
Wei Zi.  Wei Zi (Chinese: 巍子; pinyin: Wēi Zǐ; born January 1956) is a Chinese film and television actor.
RaVaughn.  RaVaughn is a Singer-Songwriter from California initially signed to Ne-Yo's imprint Compound University which includes artists such as Adrienne Bailon who later moved to Columbia Records in 2011. Influenced by artists like Mary J. Blige Aretha Franklin and Anita Baker Beyoncé Knowles and Nas. Ravaughn brings a unique twist to R&B mixing in pop and rock elements of her own.
Geir Bratland.  Geir Bratland (born July 29 1970 in Narvik Norway) is the former keyboardist for the Norwegian band Apoptygma Berzerk and session keyboardist for The Kovenant and Satyricon. He is currently a touring keyboardist for Dimmu Borgir under the stage name of Gerlioz and is a member of God Seed.
Ronald Malfi.  Ronald Malfi is an American novelist whose genres include horror thrillers mainstream and literary fiction. Malfi is also a musician and for a time he fronted the Baltimore-based alternative rock band Nellie Blide. He currently lives in Maryland.
Luigia Bozzini.  Luigia Bozzini or Candida Luigia Bozzini (19th century) was an Italian painter mainly in Piacenza and mainly depicting religious subjects. Her father Paolo Bozzini was also a painter. Among her works are a Madonna del Sacro Cuore di Gesù commissioned by the Bishop of Piacenza as a gift for Pope Pius IX who gave it as a gift to the Bishop of Jesi for the church of Castelplanio.
Michael Kumpfmüller.  Michael Kumpfmüller (born 21 July 1961 in Munich) is a German writer and former journalist.
Tomaž Šalamun.  Tomaž Šalamun is a leading name of the postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and internationally acclaimed absurdist Slovene poet whose books have been translated into twenty-one languages with nine of his thirty-nine books of poetry published in English. He has been called a poetic bridge between old European roots and America. Šalamun is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Ljubljana Slovenia and is married to the painter Metka Krašovec.
Qiu Zhijie.  Qiu Zhijie (邱志杰; born 1969) is a contemporary Chinese artist who works primarily in video and photography. Overall Qiu's work suggests the struggle between the forces of destiny and self-assertion. Other common themes are social fragmentation and transience.Qiu was born in 1969 in Fujian province. In 1992 he graduated from the printmaking department at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts Hangzhou.
Diane Chase.  Diane Chase is a Canadian country music artist. Chase has released three studio albums 2000's In the Middle of Something 2004's The Ride and 2009's Gettin' There. Her debut album produced two charting singles on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada of which the highest was the No. 11-peaking title track.
Ben Vautier.  Ben Vautier (born on July 18 1935 in Naples Italy) also known simply as Ben is a French artist.Vautier lives and works in Nice where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973. He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp the music of John Cage and joined the Fluxus artistic movement in the 1960s.In 1959 Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu.
Mika Seeger.  Mika Seeger is an American ceramic artist. Although not primarily a musical artist she did record a definitive version of Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts. She is the daughter of Pete Seeger a legendary American folk musician and filmmaker Toshi Seeger.
Robert S. McElvaine.  Robert S. McElvaine (born January 24 1947) is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi where he has taught for thirty-five years. He is the author of seven books and the editor of three.He is considered one of the world's leading historians of the Great Depression. His first two books on the Depression era have become standards in the field.
Jimmy Lewis (musician).  Jimmy Lewis was a United States soul musician songwriter and producer whose songs include Message to the Ladies That Won't Stop Me from Loving You and I Can't Leave You Alone. He has worked with Ray Charles and written songs for Z. Z. Hill.He was in the 1960s' line-up of Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters. Jimmy Lewis played bass on Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club.
Paul von Jankó.  Paul von Jankó (June 2 1856 – March 17 1919) was a Hungarian pianist and engineer.He first studied mathematics and music in Vienna where he was a pupil of H. Schmitt J. Krenn and Anton Bruckner. He then moved to Berlin where he during the years 1881 and 1882 studied mathematics at the city's University and piano with H. Erlich.
Kim Gordon.  Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28 1953 Rochester New York) is an American musician vocalist visual artist record producer video director fashion designer and actress. Gordon who started out as a visual artist rose to prominence as the bassist guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth which she formed with Thurston Moore in 1981.
Martin Wagner (artist).  Martin Wagner (born April 27 1966) is an artist cartoonist and filmmaker living in Austin Texas. He spent his childhood living overseas in such locales as Dubai United Arab Emirates and Singapore.A film major at the University of Texas at Austin Wagner began Hepcats as a comic strip in the college newspaper in 1987. Starting in 1989 he self-published it as a black and white comic book series.
Linus Klausenitzer.  Linus Klausenitzer is a German bass player best known for being a bassist for a German progressive death metal band Obscura. He is also plays bass in a German/Dutch progressive death metal band Noneuclid.
Freddie Fisher (musician).  Freddie Fisher (11 June 1904–28 March 1967) was an American musician leader of a band variously known simply as the Freddie Fisher Band Freddie Fisher and His Schnikelfritz Orchestra (The word schnikelfritz is an affectionate term of German origin for a mischievous little boy; comparable to scamp.) or Colonel Corn and His Band. The band which first made its name in Minnesota was essentially a novelty act influenced by such vaudeville performers as Clayton Jackson and Durante.
Zoe Whittall.  Zoe Whittall (born February 16 1976) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She has published three novels and three poetry collections. Her latest novel is Holding Still for as Long as Possible published by House of Anansi Press.
Charles Russell Hardman.  Charles Russell Hardman was an American artist from Florida. He painted works in U.S. Post Offices under a Treasury Department program. His Indians Receiving Gifts mural is at the Guntersville Post Office in Guntersville Alabama. His Episodes from the History of Florida (1940) oil on canvas was painted for the Miami Beach Branch Post Office.
Michel Gueranger.  Michel Guéranger was born November 14 1941 in Houilles Carrières-sur-Seine. After graduating from the 'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art' he devoted himself entirely to his passion for art.
Big Mama Thornton.  Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton (December 11 1926 – July 25 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog in 1952 which became her biggest hit. It spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B charts in 1953 and sold almost two million copies. However her success was overshadowed three years later when Elvis Presley recorded his more popular rendition of Hound Dog.
Aaron A. Brooks.  Aaron A. Brooks aka Aaron Kinsley-Brooks (born January 24 1964 in San Francisco CA) is an American musician drummer producer composer and co-founder of The Little Death along with Moby Laura Dawn and Daron Murphy. He is a founding member of the American alt rock band The Mars Bonfire (the band) and also plays drums for Moby Queen V and Leisure Cruise. Brooks has also been the drummer for Laura Dawn Duff McKagen and Circle Of Soul.
Philip Margo.  Philip Phil Margo (born April 1 1942 Brooklyn New York) is an American musician and author who along with his brother Mitch Margo is a member of The Tokens. They are best known for their hit recording of The Lion Sleeps Tonight which rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained there for three weeks in 1961. Other hits by The Tokens included Tonight I Fell In Love I Hear Trumpets Blow He's In Town and Portrait Of My Love. The Tokens are still recording and performing.
Rex Taylor.  Rex Taylor (1 November 1889 – 27 December 1968) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 84 films between 1916 and 1966. He was born in Iowa and died in San Pedro California.
Brigitte Fontaine.  Brigitte Fontaine born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles such melding rock and roll folk jazz electronica spoken word poetry and world rhythms.
Maitri (musician).  Maitri is a musician from Rotterdam Netherlands.
James Brody.  James Brody (July 13 1941 – April 11 2010) was an American composer born in Clearfield Pennsylvania. Frank J. Oteri of the American Music Center's New Music Box called Brody an important figure in the development of electronic music in the Midwest.He studied with Franz Kamin at Indiana University under the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis where he received a master's degree. Brody wrote the liner notes for the original Nonesuch LP of Iannis Xenakis – Electroacoustic Music.
Torch (American rapper).  Kevin Christopher Belnavis (born July 12 1982) better known by his stage name Torch is an American rapper signed to Maybach Music Group as part of the group Triple C's. He grew up in the Castle Hill area of the Bronx before moving to Florida as a teen.
Tony Ashton.  Tony Ashton (March 1 1946 Blackburn Lancashire – May 21 2001 London) was an English rock pianist keyboardist singer composer producer and artist.
Victor Ivanovich Nikitin.  Victor Ivanovich Nikitin(Russian: Виктор Иванович Никитин) was a Soviet tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble born in Syzran 12 February 1911 and died in Moscow 6 January 1994. He is notable for being the first Mr Kalinka and for being called Ambassador Kalinka by Erich Mückenberger after singing at the 1948 Berlin peace concert. He was buried at Pyatnitskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Alexander Dulov.  Alexander Andreevich Dulov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Ду́лов IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈduləf] ; May 15 1931 Moscow — November 15 2007) was a Russian poet songwriter bard and chemist.
Phranc.  Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb on August 28 1957 in Santa Monica California) is an American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades and is also known for her cardboard and kraft paper fine art.
Dan Lashley.  Dan Lashley is an independent film director writer and actor from Bowling Green Kentucky United States.
James Yorkston.  James Yorkston is a Scottish folk musician.
Hikaru Nishida.  Hikaru Nishida (西田 ひかる Nishida Hikaru born August 16 1972) is a Japanese J-pop singer and actress. She was born in Fujisawa Kanagawa Prefecture Japan and made her singing debut with the release of the single Fifteen on April 6 1988 named after her age at the time.Hikaru is well known for her ability to speak English. She was born in Kanagawa Prefecture but her family quickly moved to the United States where she attended Clairbourn School in San Gabriel California near Los Angeles.
Antônio Henrique Amaral.  Antonio Henrique Amaral is a present-day Brazilian painter and printmaker. He is most well known for his images artistic political critiques in the form of a series of paintings of bananas that have been mutilated by forks and ropes.
Vijaya Bhaskar.  Vijaya Bhaskar(1931–2002) (Kannada: ವಿಜಯಭಾಸ್ಕರ್) was an Indian music director and composer who composed music for several mainstream and experimental feature films in Kannada film industry. Scoring music for over 600 feature films Bhaskar worked in Tamil Telugu Malayalam Marathi Tulu and Konkani language films as well.
Arun Dravid.  Arun Dravid (born in 1943) is a Hindustani Classical Music singer of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana tradition. He is also a technocrat with a high profile professional career.
Wendy Melvoin.  Wendy Melvoin (born January 26 1964) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for her work with Prince as part of his backing band The Revolution and for her collaboration with Lisa Coleman as one half of the duo Wendy & Lisa.
Ulisse Cambi.  Ulisse Cambi (22 September 1807 – 7 April 1895) was an Italian sculptor active in Tuscany during the 19th century.
Vitaly Tulenev.  Vitaly Ivanovich Tulenev (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Тюле́нев; February 28 1937 Leningrad USSR – August 25 1998 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter watercolorist graphic artist art teacher Honored Artist of the Russian Federation lived and worked in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of the leading representatives of the left wing of the Leningrad school of painting.
Kōji Nakano.  Kōji Nakano (中野 孝次 Nakano Kōji 1 January 1925 – 16 July 2004) was a Japanese novelist translator of German literature and literary critic in Shōwa period Japan.
Alessandra Meskita.  Alessandra Meskita is a Brazilian fashion designer. Her fashion and lifestyle line MESKITA features ready to wear resort lingerie swimwear shoes and home accessories.
Brian McNaughton.  Brian McNaughton (23 September 1935 Red Bank New Jersey – 13 May 2004) was an American writer of horror and fantasy fiction who mixed sex satire and black humour. He also wrote thrillers.
Giovanni Lavezzari.  Giovanni Lavezzari (1817-1881) was an Italian painter. Born in Venice he was a resident of Florence where he became Professor of Perspective in the Academy of Fine Arts.
Nicola Roberts.  Nicola Maria Roberts (born 5 October 1985) is an English recording artist and entrepreneur. After auditioning and successfully completing the reality television series and competition Popstars The Rivals Roberts became part of girl-group Girls Aloud. Their debut single Sound of the Underground topped the UK Singles chart. This success helped them win the competition and they were later entered in Guinness World Records as the most successful reality television music-group.
Paul Thomas (bassist).  Paul Anthony Thomas (born October 5 1980 in Waldorf Maryland) is an American musician best known as the bass guitar player for the pop punk band Good Charlotte.
Mary Coustas.  Mary Coustas (born 16 September 1964) is an Australian actress comedian and television personality. Originally from Melbourne Coustas often performs as the character Effie a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian prone to malapropisms. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne majoring in performing arts and sub-majoring in journalism.Coustas won the Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Personality in 1993.
Suzan Bushnaq.  Suzan Bushnaq (born November 2 1963) (Arabic: سوزان بوشناق‎) is a Kuwaiti artist. Her paintings are principally impressionistic images related to women's vitality power and beauty.[citation needed]She is the daughter of artist Mohammed Bushnaq (born 1934) and she learned her art from him and at the Russian College of Art (1982–1989).
Steve Taylor (musician).  Steve Taylor is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the keyboardist for Oakland band Rogue Wave in addition to performing solo locally and internationally. He was born in the College Greens ghetto of Sacramento California where he attended Saint Ignatius Catholic School followed by a period at the Sacramento Waldorf School attending at the same time as Daniel Gorman of !!!.
Melissa Guillet.  Melissa Guillet (born February 27 1975) is a poet writer and illustrator. She runs Sacred Fools Press which publishes poetry anthologies chapbooks and blank art cards. She was a member of Doc Brown’s Travelling Poetry Troupe and has been behind the scenes at several large poetry events including the National Poetry Slam 2001 and IWPS 2005.
Adrienne Young.  Adrienne Adeana Young is a Charlottesville Virginia-based singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is founder and operator of AddieBelle Music which produces her recordings.
David W. Mack.  David W. Mack (born 1972) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his creator-owned series Kabuki and for co-creating with Joe Quesada the deaf Marvel Comics superhero Echo. Mack is known for his unique painted and collage-like work.
Edward Rutherfurd.  Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle (born 1948 in Salisbury England) known primarily as a writer of epic historical novels. His debut novel Sarum set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand year storyline.
Novalis.  Novalis (German: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2 1772 – March 25 1801) a poet author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
Tomasz Starzewski.  Tomasz Starzewski (born 1961) is a Polish British fashion designer the owner of a well known London couture house.The son of Polish parents who had emigrated to London in 1946 Starzewski's mother and grandmother both worked in fashion. He attended Emanuel School and St Martins College and had an ambition to be a designer from an early age.
Johan Lundbye.  Johan Thomas Lundbye (1 September 1818 - 25 April 1848) was a promising young Danish painter and graphic artist known for his animal and landscape paintings who died at the age of 29. He was artistically inspired by Niels Laurits Høyen's call to develop a Danish nationalistic art by exploring as motif the characteristic landscapes the historical buildings and monuments and the simple rural people of Denmark. He became one of his generation’s national romantic painters along with P.C.
Sammy Chand.  Sammy Chand is a record producer soundtrack composer artist and entrepreneur. He is also the founder of Rukus Avenue a South Asian record label based in Los Angeles CA.
Joanne Arnott.  Joanne Arnott (born 16 December 1960 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian Métis writer.She has conducted workshops across much of Canada and in Australia including a recent series at the Carnegie Centre sponsored by SFU and has written for the Literary Review of Canada. She received the Gerald Lampert Award for her 1991 collection of poetry Wiles of Girlhood.Arnott lives in British Columbia with her family.
Gregg Easterbrook.  Gregg Edmund Easterbrook (born March 3 1953) is an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season Easterbrook writes an eclectic column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback currently on ESPN.com. He has authored nine books (five nonfiction one of humor and three literary novels) and writes for op-ed pages magazines and journals.
Pepe Willberg.  Pertti ”Pepe” Willberg (formerly Toivo Pertti Uolevi Willberg born on 17 December 1946 in Turku) is a Finnish singer songwriter and quiz player. He started his musical career in the beginning of the 1960s playing the rhythm guitar in a Lauttasaari (Helsinki) based band called the Islanders. Since then he has performed e.g. as the leading singer of the bands Jormas and Pepe & Paradise.
Susie Moloney.  Susie Moloney (born February 27 1962 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian author of horror fiction. The film rights to her book A Dry Spell were purchased by Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1997 for a reported seven figures. Moloney was the first novelist to appear on the cover of Chatelaine magazine. She was also featured on the cover of Scarlett Magazine. Moloney has been compared to both Stephen King. Moloney was the winner of the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction.
Jeff Heisholt.  Jeffrey Thoralf Heisholt (born July 28 1975 in Thunder Bay Ontario) is a Canadian keyboardist vocalist songwriter and producer. In 1996 he formed Burt Neilson Band with whom he co-wrote and released four records toured Canada twenty times played more than 1000 shows and became a staple of the Canadian jamband community. Since 2004 he has played across the country with soul-rocker Peter Elkas and contributed to Elkas's second album the Charlie Sexton produced Wall of Fire.
Karen Meagher.  Karen Meagher is an English actress sometimes credited as Karen Meacher.Her first acting role was playing a skivvy in the 1979 television series The Mallens. This was followed by role playing teacher Miss Broom in the BBC's '80s children's programme Johnny Briggs.She also played Lou Beale in the EastEnders special Civvy Street a spin-off that was filmed in 1988 but set in 1942.Meagher is perhaps best known in Britain for the role of Ruth Beckett in the 1984 BBC nuclear war drama Threads.
Franz Eybl.  Franz Eybl (1 April 1806 - 29 April 1880) was an Austrian painter.
Miko Lim.  Miko Lim is an American fashion photographer.
Anne-Lie Rydé.  Anne-Lie Rydé (born 17 October 1956 in Stockholm) is a Swedish pop and rock singer. Rydé grew up on Lidingö but moved to Gothenburg in 1976. There she played with the Gothenburg-based band Extra from 1978 to 1983.
Roger Vincent.  Roger Vincent (1878–1959) was a French actor.
Simon Petrie.  Simon Petrie is a New Zealand born speculative fiction writer now based in Canberra Australia.
Vladimír Bystrov.  Vladimír Bystrov (August 7 1935 – June 1 2010) was a Czech journalist film critic commentator and translator.
Werner Tübke.  Werner Tübke (b. 30 July 1929 in Schönebeck Germany d. 27 May 2004 in Leipzig Germany) was a German painter best known for his monumental Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen.
Celinda Pink.  Celinda Pink (born 1957 in Birmingham Alabama) is a female country music singer. Between 1993 and 1995 she released two studio albums on Step One Records and three singles including her 1993 single Pack Your Lies and Go which peaked at No. 68 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.
Peter Johnston (negotiator).  Peter D. Johnston (born 1963) is an international negotiation expert whose results have been formally recognized by the US Government for their positive economic and social impact.
Ashley Pharoah.  Ashley Pharoah (born 13 September 1959) is a British Television co-creator/writer of the successful drama series Life on Mars which began on BBC One in 2006 and creator/writer of the family drama Wild at Heart which aired on ITV1 from 2006 through 2012.
Donray.  Donray (born Donald Arvin Ray July 29 1945) is a contemporary American artist in the style of Post-Modern Expressionism with elements of Surrealism Futurism and Fauvism.He is known for metaphorical imagery exploring the dynamic nature of life and the human desire for spiritual enlightenment and fulfillment.Donray subjects include figures objects and landscapes in motion and methods include acrylic on various media including Masonite paper canvas and drawings in charcoal conte crayon and color pastels. 
Ryan Kelly (comics).  Ryan Kelly (born January 29 1976) is an American comic book artist known for his work on books such as Lucifer and Local.
Metin Şentürk.  Metin Şentürk (born May 16 1966 in Fatih Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish pop singer.
Lauren Phillips.  Lauren Phillips is a Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Kelly in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. She also plays Sara in Welsh drama Caerdyddand Lauren in Rick and Carlos.
Aaron Krogman.  Aaron Krogman is a Canadian actor and singer-songwriter. He graduated from the Rosebud School of the Arts in 2008. That Christmas he acted in Rosebud Theatre's production of Christmas on the Air. In 2009 he portrayed Dylan Thomas in a theatrical adaptation of Thomas's short story A Child's Christmas in Wales at Rosebud Theatre. In Rosebud's 2010 production of The Secret Garden Krogman played the role of Doctor Craven.
Pauli Hanhiniemi.  Pauli Hanhiniemi (born in Alavus in 1964) is a Finnish singer songwriter (composer and lyricist) and musician. Starting his career in 1982 he formed the famous Finnish rock band Kolmas Nainen in 1982. After the break-up of the band in 1994 he formed Pauli Hanhiniemen Perunateatteri that performed until 2005. He later joined Hehkumo a band with more traditional sound.
Laird Barron.  Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an award winning author and poet much of whose work falls within the horror noir and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Olympia Washington.
May Agnes Fleming.  May Agnes Fleming (November 15 1840 - March 24 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction.She was born May Early in Carleton West Saint John New Brunswick. She married an engineer John W. Fleming in 1865.
Félix Leclerc.  Félix Leclerc OC GOQ (August 2 1914 – August 8 1988) was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter poet writer actor and Québécois political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20 1968. Leclerc was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for his songs Moi mes souliers (Me My Shoes) and Le tour de l'Île in 2006.
Cab Kaye.  Nii-lante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye better known as Cab Kaye (3 September 1921 London – 13 March 2000 Amsterdam) was an English-Ghanaian-Dutch jazz singer pianist bandleader entertainer drummer guitarist and songwriter who was influenced by Billie Holiday and often accompanied himself on piano with a graceful rhythmic style. He effortlessly combined blues bebop stride and scat with the music of his African and Ghanaian musical heritage.
Florence Mills.  Florence Mills born Florence Winfrey (January 25 1896 – November 1 1927) known as the Queen of Happiness was an African-American cabaret singer dancer and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence delicate voice and winsome wide-eyed beauty.
Amy Hart.  Amy Hart is a Chicago-born singer-songwriter who currently resides in Nashville. After performing as a blues musician at festivals she formed her first original music band Amy Hart and The Attack before creating Amy Hart and the Essential Trio in the late 1980s.Amy Hart's debut solo album Every Beat of My Heart was released in 2000 under the Paint Chip label after she moved to Nashville and re-released in 2001 by Orchard.
Domenico Fiasella.  Domenico Fiasella (12 August 1589 – 19 October 1669) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Genoa. He was nicknamed Il Sarzana after his birthplace.
Alyson Noël.  Alyson Noël is an American author from Orange County California.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/ˈdænti ˈɡeɪbriəl rəˈzɛti/; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet illustrator painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.
Yaqut al-Musta'simi.  Yaqut al-Musta'simi (also Yakut-i Musta'simi) (died 1298) was a well-known calligrapher and the Turkish or Ethiopian secretary of the last Abbasid caliph. He codified six basic calligraphic styles of the Arabic script. Naskh script was said to have been revealed and taught to the scribe in a vision. He developed Yakuti a handwriting named after him described as a thuluth of a particularly elegant and beautiful type. Supposedly he had copied the Qur'an more than a thousand times.
Antti Nurmesniemi.  Antti Nurmesniemi (30 August 1927 Hämeenlinna - 11 September 2003 Helsinki) was a Finnish designer. He is perhaps best known for his coffee pots and his interior design work.
Harriette Newell Woods Baker.  Harriette Newell Woods Baker (August 19 1815 – April 26 1893) was a prolific American author of books for children.
Scott Tixier.  Scott Tixier (born 26 February 1986 Montreuil France) is an award-winning French jazz violinist and a recording artist.He was born in Montreuil and studied classical violin at the conservatory in Paris. Following that he studied improvisation as a self-educated jazz musician and under Florin Niculescu then Malo Vallois.Scott Tixier has worked in many genres in the theater music scores Broadway Shows for Sony Pictures ARTE Creative Heineken Dos Equis and Fisher-Price.
Chuck Ruff (musician).  Chuck Ruff (May 25 1951 – October 14 2011) was an American rock drummer well known for his work with Edgar Winter on the popular instrumental Frankenstein.
Loong Kin Sang.  Loong Kim Sang (born 1944) is a famous Cantonese opera performer known as the legendary Yam Kim Fai's student & successor
Gregorio Prestopino.  Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984) was an American artist according to the art historian Irma B. Jaffe:one of the major American painters who refused to reject the image has devoted his career to depicting the human condition with a warmth tempered only by honesty.
Christophe Héral.  Christophe Héral (born 1960) is a French film and video game composer. He has composed music for video games such as Beyond Good & Evil The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Rayman Origins Rayman Legends and Beyond Good & Evil 2 which is currently unreleased.
Janet Leon.  Janet Ava Leon (born 19 October 1990 in Gothenburg Sweden) known professionally as Janet Leon is a Swedish singer of Persian descent. In 2003 she joined the pop girl group Play replacing member Faye Hamlin as the lead singer. In November 2012 Leon was officially confirmed as a contestant for Sweden's Melodifestivalen a songwriting competition.
Miwa Matsumoto.  Miwa Matsumoto (松本 美和 Matsumoto Miwa born December 15 1971 in Fukuoka Japan) is a Japanese voice actress.
Avet Terterian.  Avet Terterian (also Alfred Roubenovich Terterian or Terteryan) (July 29 1929 in Baku Azerbaijan – December 11 1994 in Yekaterinburg Russia) was an Armenian composer awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize. He was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli Konstantin Orbelyan and Tigran Mansuryan.
Luigi Paoletti Vinea.  Luigi Paoletti Vinea (active 1867-1890) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and vedute painted outdoors. Studied with Fattori.He was born in Florence. Among his works are Sul Mugnone alle Cascine Sulle rive del Calambrone Seravezza dal ponticino sul Rio grande; Paese presso Livorno; Porta Romana strada cencii Pianura Lonely Street Sull'Arno and In Casentino. Paoletti exhibited frequently at the Promotrice of Florence.
Mikey McCleary.  Michael McCleary better known as Mikey McCleary is a songwriter composer performer and producer living in Mumbai since 2007. He has worked on a large number of advertisements such as for brands like Levi's Coca-Cola Vodafone etc.
Karena Lam.  Karena Lam (Chinese language: 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; born 17 August 1978) is a Hong Kong based award-winning actress and singer born in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
Ira J. Deen.  Ira J. Deen (December 9 1874 – June 7 1952) was an American artist.Born in Mount Union Pennsylvania Deen moved with his family to Harrisburg in 1891 when he was 16 where he took a job painting city electric trolley cars for the Harrisburg Traction Co. Deen was known for his impressionist nature and landscape paintings of the Susquehanna River and other areas of Pennsylvania countryside.
Eric Benét.  Eric Benét Jordan (born October 15 1966) known professionally as Eric Benét is an American R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter who has received a total of four Grammy nominations to date for his musical work.
Robert Reeves (author).  Robert Reeves is an American novelist short fiction writer and literary critic. He is the founding director of the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing and Literature publisher of The Southampton Review and director of the Southampton Writers Conference.
Epic Mazur.  Epic Mazur (born Bret Mazur on August 31 1970) is an American vocalist rapper and record producer. He is best known as a founder and frontman of Crazy Town.
Daz Sampson.  Darren Daz Sampson (born in Stockport Greater Manchester England in 1974) is a British singer producer and broadcaster.Sampson was known for his commercial dance music often reworkings of older songs as a solo act (Daz Sampson DJ Daz) and as a member of various formations Bus Stop Rikki & Daz Barndance Boys and Uniting Nations enjoying popularity in Britain and in Europe.In 2006 he represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest with Teenage Life.
Einar Skjæraasen.  Einar Skjæraasen (1900–1966) was a Norwegian author and poet a longtime resident of Trysil.He was a parliamentary ballot candidate for the Liberal Party from the constituency Oslo in 1957.
Rainhard Fendrich.  Rainhard Jürgen Fendrich (born 27 February 1955 in Vienna) is an Austrian singer composer entertainer and actor. He is one of the most successful Austropop musicians and his songs are written in Viennese German. He is very popular in Austria but less so in other German-speaking countries. In non-German speaking countries he is little known. His song from 1990 I am from Austria (its lyrics except for the title are in Viennese German) is still popular in Austria.
T. J. Racer.  T.J. Racer (born Anthony Brehmer) is a bassist born in Milwaukee Wisconsin.Racer was the original bass player for glam metal band Nitro and appeared their first album O.F.R.. Racer appeared in their first two videos for the songs Freight Train and Long Way From Home. He played bass on Nitro singer Jim Gillette's solo album Proud To Be Loud along with Nitro guitarist Michael Angelo Batio. It was long-rumored that T.J.
Garry Knox Bennett.  Garry Knox Bennett (born October 8 1934 in Alameda California) is an American woodworker furniture maker metalworker and artist known for his whimsical inventive and unconventional uses of materials and designs in his work. His long-established workshop and studio is in Oakland California.
Les Reed (songwriter).  Les Reed O.B.E. (born Leslie David Reed 24 July 1935 Woking Surrey England) is an English songwriter arranger musician and light orchestra leader. His major songwriter partners were Gordon Mills Barry Mason and Geoff Stephens although he penned songs with many others such as Roger Greenaway Roger Cook and Johnny Worth. Allmusic noted that Reed's sixty or more major hits have earned numerous gold discs Ivor Novello awards and in 1982 the British Academy Gold Badge of Merit.
Kevin Mooney.  Kevin Paul Mooney (born 5 May 1962 Greenwich London England) is an English rock bassist and guitarist who has worked with Adam Ant Sinéad O'Connor and others.
Renz Baluyot.  Renz Baluyot (born on 1989 in Dammam Saudi Arabia) is a young contemporary Filipino artist whose regarded to be one of the emerging artists of his generation. He became a finalist in the 41st Shell National Students Art Competition. His paintings have been displayed for exhibit in various galleries all over the metro including Ayala Museum West Gallery Art Galileia Galerie Anna Now Gallery Tam-awan Village and in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila.
Tony MacAlpine.  Tony MacAlpine (born August 29 1960) is an American musician and composer. In a career spanning three decades and eleven studio albums he is best known as an instrumental rock solo guitarist although he has worked with many different bands and musicians in guest appearances and collaborations.
Larry Winget.  Larry Winget (born 1952) is a professional motivational speaker bestselling author and television personality. Winget markets himself as the trademarked 'Pitbull of Personal Development' and 'World's Only Irritational Speaker'.
Arnold Perl.  Arnold Perl (April 14 1914 – December 11 1971) was an American playwright screenwriter television producer and television writer. He had written for the television series The Big Story Naked City The Doctors and the Nurses East Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D. which he created with David Susskind. Perl also co-wrote the screenplay for Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) actor Ossie Davis' film directing debut.
Pollyana Papel.  Pollyana Papel (born July 20 1987 in Bebedouro São Paulo) is a Brazilian singer songwriter and actress best known for being a finalist on the first season of Ídolos Brazil (Brazilian Idol).
Diana Chang.  Diana Chang (born 1934) is a Chinese American novelist and poet. She is best known for her novel The Frontiers of Love one of the earliest novels by an Asian American woman. She is considered to be the first Chinese American (born in the States) to publish a novel in the States.
Veit Heinichen.  Veit Heinichen (Villingen-Schwenningen 1957) is a German novelist.Heinichen studied economics at Stuttgart University and then worked in publishing. In 1994 together with Arnulf Conradi chief reader at S. Fischer Verlag and Conradi's wife Elisabeth Ruge Heinichen was cofounder of Berlin Verlag. He remained a director until 1999.Heinichen writes noir novels that have the Commissario Proteo Laurenti as main character. As his protagonist he currently lives in Trieste.
David J.  David John Haskins (born April 24 1957 Northampton England) better known as David J is a British alternative rock musician producer and writer. He was the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets. He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films and also wrote and directed his own play Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick) in 2008 which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011 and The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse 2011.
Susan Tifft.  Susan Tifft (February 14 1951 — April 1 2010) was an American journalist author and educator.
Andrea True.  Andrea Marie Truden (July 26 1943 – November 7 2011) better known by her pseudonym Andrea True was an American pornographic actress and singer from the disco era. In addition to her given name she had multiple stage names including Inger Kissin Singe Low Sandra Lips Andrea Travis and Catherine Warren.As a singer she is best known for the 1976 disco tune More More More which peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the UK Singles Chart.
Pamela Britton (author).  Pamela Britton is an American author of romance novels. In addition to writing novels she is a freelance journalist for the Quarter Horse JQURNAL as well as a reporter for a local newspaper. Her non-fiction work is written under the name Pamela Britton-Baer.Official Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/pamelabrittonauthor
Paul Mac.  Paul Francis McDermott (born 17 September 1965) who performs as Paul Mac is an Australian electro-pop musician singer-songwriter producer and music re-mixer. He was classically trained at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Mac has formed various bands including Smash Mac Mac (1986–88) The Lab (1989–1998) Itch-E and Scratch-E (1991–present) Boo Boo Mace & Nutcase (1996–98) and The Dissociatives (2003–2005).
Nora Andy Napaltjarri.  Nora Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1957) is a Warlpiri– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. like her mother Entalura Nangala Nora has painted for Indigenous artists' cooperative Papunya Tula. Her work has been exhibited at the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti and is held by Artbank.
Philippe Dodard.  Philippe Dodard (born 1954) is a Haitian graphic artist and painter. Born in Port-au-Prince Dodard worked as an advertising illustrator. His works have been exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas.He received the first prize in drawing at the Junior Seminary of St-Martial's College in 1966. He studied at the PotoMitan Art School with Jean-Claude Tiga Garoute Patrick Vilaire and Frido Casimir. In 1973 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts.
Jean-Paul Mauric.  Jean-Paul Mauric (17 June 1933 Hyères Var – 5 January 1971 Marseille) was a French singer best known for his participation in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. Mauric studied at the Conservatoire de Toulon and after touring around Provence as an orchestra singer he obtained a record contract as a result of winning a talent contest at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris in 1957.
Adam Emory Albright.  Adam Emory Albright (1862–1957) was a painter of figures in landscapes. He was born in Monroe Wisconsin and spent his working life in Warrenville and the Chicago area. Albright studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (later the Art Institute of Chicago) and under Thomas Eakins but also in Europe during the nineteenth century.Albright began as a landscape painter but moved to strongly foregrounding individuals in most of his paintings. A particular interest for his paintings was children.
Sylvia Ratonel.  Sylvia Anne Ratonel (born June 14 1988) is a Singaporean singer and spokesmodel of Euro-Filipino descent. She is most popularly known as the first female finalist in Singapore Idol history as well as being the runner-up of the third season.
Little Buddy Doyle.  Little Buddy Doyle (March 20 1911 – unknown) was an American Memphis and country blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He was a working associate of Big Walter Horton and Hammie Nixon.Charlie Doyle was probably born in Forrest City Arkansas United States.
Craig Frost.  Craig Frost (born April 20 1948 Flint Michigan) is the keyboardist for Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band. However he is best known as keyboardist for 1970s hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad.Frost expanded Grand Funk's power trio musical style by adding another dimension to their music.
Jimmy Carl Black.  Jimmy Carl Black (February 1 1938 – November 1 2008) born James Carl Inkanish Jr. was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.
Leila Arab.  Leila (born Leila Arab) is an Iranian-born recording artist producer and DJ based in London England.She has worked with prominent European musicians such as Björk and has released music on Rephlex Records XL Recordings and Warp Records. She has also recorded experimental and rare music under the alias Grammatix (credited as Aliel Bara) and Little Miss Specta.
Constanza Romero.  Constanza Romero (born 1958) is an American artist and theater designer who lives in Seattle Washington. Romero's parents divorced in 1969 when she was 11. Her mother found a teaching job in Fresno California and moved there with Romero and her younger sister and two younger brothers. In 1972 her mother died of breast cancer and the four children went to live with a maternal aunt and uncle near Fresno.
John McLeod (composer).  John McLeod (b. 1934 ) is a contemporary Scottish composer.He was born in Aberdeen but is based in Edinburgh. He writes music in many media including film and television. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Sir Lennox Berkeley.His Clarinet Concerto was premiered at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh on 13 May 2007.
Martin Gerschwitz.  Martin Gerschwitz (*June 25 1952) is a German violinist keyboardist singer and composer.
Helmut Jederknüller.  Helmut Jederknüller is a Swedish musician most associated with the group known as Helmut Jederknüller mit seinem Super Stereo à Gogo Orchester that plays light music as played in 1967–1973. The band preserves the inheritance after artists like James Last Bert Kaempfert Frank Valdor Joe Loss and Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass.
Heinrich Heine.  Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet journalist essayist and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities.
Asuka Tanii.  Asuka Tanii (谷井 あすか Tanii Asuka) is a Japanese voice actress.She was born June 19 1978.
Alan Gussow.  Alan Gussow (1931–97) was an American artist teacher author and conservationist devoted to and inspired by the natural environment.
J-Live.  Jean-Jacques Cadet better known by his stage name J-Live is a rapper DJ and producer from New York.
Al Dexter.  Al Dexter (May 4 1905 – January 28 1984) was an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for Pistol Packin' Mama a 1944 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and later became a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters.
E.R. Frank.  E. R. Frank (born 1969) is an American fiction writer clinical social worker and psychotherapist. She won the Teen People Book Club NEXT Award for her first novel Life Is Funny which was published by DK Ink in 2000. Her 2003 novel America was made into a 2009 television movie starring Rosie O'Donnell and Philip Johnson.
Jo O'Meara.  Joanne Valda O'Meara (born 29 April 1979) is an English singer-songwriter television personality and actress. One of the lead singers of pop group S Club she launched a solo single after the group's split in 2003 which cut short the production of a proposed album following an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
Matthew Stiff.  Matthew William Tansley Stiff (born 13 December 1979 in Grimsby North East Lincolnshire) – also credited as Matt Stiff – is an English opera singer and former radio presenter best known as the bass singer with classical boyband G4.
Kristell Lowagie.  Kristell Lowagie (born 6 March 1980) is a Belgian singer and songwriter.
Little Nikki.  Nicole Shortland (born 5 March 1996) is a singer/songwriter from London. She is best known for her 2013 single Little Nikki Says which peaked to number 53 on the UK Singles Chart. She was also a member of SoundGirl.
Yurina Kumai.  Yurina Kumai (熊井 友理奈 Kumai Yurina born 3 August 1993 in Kanagawa Japan) is a Japanese pop singer currently performing in the all-girl group Berryz Kobo under Hello! Project. Kumai joined Hello! Project in 2002 after passing the Hello! Project Kids audition. She often is one of the lead singers in Berryz singles and she is the tallest member of Hello! Project at 176 cm.
Lillian Rogers Parks.  Lillian Rogers Parks (February 1 1897 – November 6 1997) was an American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.With the journalist Frances Spatz Leighton co-author of a number of White House memoirs Parks published My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House. The book covers a 50-year period in the life of domestic staff in the White House. It reports Parks's experiences as a seamstress and those of her mother 'Maggie' Rogers who served as a housemaid for thirty years.
Danièle Rochon.  Danièle Rochon is a Quebec painter born on the 8th of April 1946 in Ottawa (Canada). In 1992 she was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her art is present in numerous public collections throughout the world.
Javier Ramon Brito.  Javier Ramon Brito is a composer music healer and recording artist of Spiritual Healing Meditation New Age music. Brito who was born in Mexico and has lived in the United Kingdom and Thailand composes meditative music to nourish the soul facilitate sacred connections and attain spiritual joy. His music promotes spirituality and holistic wellbeing. Brito has been influenced by the teachings of Kinesiology Ayurveda alternative medicine and other holistic disciplines.
Stephen Etnier.  Stephen Morgan Etnier (September 11 1903 – November 7 1984) was an American realist painter painting for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism favoring industrial and working scenes but always imbued with atmospheric light. Geographically his career spanned the length of the eastern Atlantic and beyond.
Kate Horsley.  Kate Horsley (born 1952) is the pen name of Kate Parker an author of numerous works of historical fiction most of which are rooted in the Old West. Parker is a professor of English at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. She has a lifelong flirtation with Zen after reading Alan Watts.
Mariam Aslamazian.  Mariam Arshaki Aslamazian (October 20 1907 Bash-Shirak village near Alexandropol – 2006 Moscow) was a Soviet painter recognized as a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1965).
Schmidt (singer).  Elisa Schmidt (born February 14 1990) also known by the stage name SCHMIDT is a German pop and jazz singer.
Karthik (singer).  Karthik (born 7 November 1980) is an Indian playback singer. Karthik started his professional career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung in multiple languages including Malayalam Tamil Kannada Telugu Bengali and Hindi among others. Karthik is known for his versatility in the industry which gave him opportunity to sing a variety of songs.
Suzanne Arruda.  Suzanne Aruda is the author of the Jade del Cameron mystery series which follows the protagonist through her adventures on Safari in Africa.
Don Menza.  Don Menza (born April 22 1936) is an American saxophonist arranger composer session musician and jazz educator noted for his many contributions to American jazz and big band music.
Alyssa Anjelica James.  Alyssa Anjelica James (sometimes credited as AlyssA) is an American singer. She released her first full length album entitled Within in 2008.
Alexander Grin.  Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskii (better known by his pen name Aleksandr Grin Russian: Александр Грин IPA: [ɐlʲɪ'ksänd̪r ɡrʲin]  August 23 1880 – July 8 1932) was a Russian writer notable for his romantic novels and short stories mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor (Grin's fans often refer to this land as Grinlandia). Most of his writings deal with sea adventures and love.
Michelle Schmitt.  Michelle Schmitt (born in Detroit Michigan) is a singer/songwriter living and working in San Francisco California.
Reza Khodadadi.  Reza Khodadadi (Persian in رضا خدادادی born Ardabil)lives and works in Tehran. Iranian contemporary artist Academic painter sculptor & MuralistProfessor of Art was born in 1961 Ardebil Iran.Faculty member of Tehran University of Art.Expert of Association of Official in Art affairs Member of Iranian Association of Official Experts↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
Gotthold Gloger.  Gotthold Gloger (17 June 1924 – 16 October 2001) was a German writer and painter.
Kate Gilbert.  Kate Gilbert (1843-1916) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era and a member of the Williams family of painters.Kate was born Kate Elizabeth Ellen Gilbert-Williams on 17 December 1843 in London being the only child of the well-known Victorian landscape painter Arthur Gilbert and his first wife Elizabeth Williams. She became an artist like her father and exhibited one painting in 1885 at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists.
Giuseppe Pedretti.  Giuseppe Pedretti (1694–1770) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter Marcantonio Franceschini and his son Giacomo Franceschini.Pedretti painted lunettes in the nave for the church of Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna. He painted altarpieces in the church of the Immaculate Conception of Crevalcore. One of his pupils was the wax sculptor Anna Morandi Manzolini.
Speedy Noriega.  Angel Daniel Noriega (born July 17 1985) better known by his stage name Speedy Noriega or simply Speedy is an Award winning American Song Writer Record Producer and Rapper. In February 2007 his track produced with BoZ Smile Like That won first place in modernbeats.com beat contest modernbeats.com. The single was initially self-published on the Internet.
M. K. Indira.  M. K. Indira (Mandagadde Krishnarao Indira) (Kannada: ಮಂಡಗದ್ದೆ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾವ್ ಇಂದಿರ)(January 5 1917 – March 15 1994) was a well known novelist in the Kannada language. She has written novels like Phaniyamma which has won many awards. She started writing novels only after her age of forty-five.
Ruth Brown.  Ruth Brown (January 12 1928 – November 17 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as Queen of R&B noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s such as So Long Teardrops from My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean.For these contributions Atlantic became known as The house that Ruth built (alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium).Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s Brown used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. 
Janine Kitzen.  Janine Kitzen (born 1 March 1978 in Kerkrade The Netherlands) is a soprano singer in opera and musical theatre. Although she was born in a family with no real musical background Kitzen knew from an early age she wanted to build a career in singing. At the age of ten she sang her first public solo guided by André Rieu.Kitzen studied solo singing at the Maastricht Academy of Music.
LaKiesha Berri.  LaKiesha Berri (born 1974 Cincinnati Ohio) is an African-American R&B singer who scored a minor pop hit in 1997 in the U.S. and UK with Like This and Like That from The 6th Man soundtrack starring Marlon Wayans and Kadeem Hardison.
Cliff Robinson (artist).  Cliff Robinson is a British comic book artist probably best known for his cover work on 2000 AD and contributions to the Judge Dredd strip.
Dan McDaid.  Dan McDaid is a British comic book writer and artist.
Chalmers Alford.  Chalmers Edward Spanky Alford (May 22 1955 – March 24 2008) was an American three-time Grammy-winning jazz guitarist. Alford was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States. He was well known for his playing style and use of arpeggiations.
Nobunaga Shimazaki.  Nobunaga Shimazaki (島﨑 信長 Shimazaki Nobunaga  born December 6 1988) is a Japanese voice actor from Miyagi Prefecture Japan. He is affiliated with Aoni Production.
Woody Guthrie.  Woodrow Wilson Woody Guthrie (July 14 1912 – October 3 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political traditional and children's songs ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is This Land Is Your Land. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.
Tracy W. Bush.  Tracy W. Bush is an American video game music composer sound designer and a foley artist. He is known for composing music for the popular games Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos World of Warcraft StarCraft (all of which he also performed voice acting for) and StarCraft: Brood War and for sound design on Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
Salil Desai.  Salil Desai is an Indian novelist who writes murder mysteries. His debut novel 'The Body in the Back Seat' which was published in May 2011 was acclaimed as the best murder mystery by an Indian author so far by The Tribune. An alumnus of FTII and a former journalist he has also produced films held creative writing workshops and written a number of short stories.
Arash (singer).  Alex Arash Labaf (in Persian آرش لباف born 23 April 1977) is an Iranian-Swedish singer entertainer and producer.
Marian Wilkinson.  Marian Wilkinson is an Australian journalist and author. She was born in 1954 and grew up in Brisbane Queensland where she attended the University of Queensland. She was a co-founder of 4ZZZ-FM and has worked for the ABC's Four Corners The Australian The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She is the aunt of Cassandra Wilkinson who is a co-founder of FBi FM Sydney. In 1989 Wilkinson won a Walkley Award for best current affairs report.
Patrick Süskind.  Patrick Süskind (born 26 March 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter.
Anne-Marie Baiynd.  Anne-Marie Baiynd (January 11 1966) is an American author financial analyst technical analyst. Baiynd published her Market Positioning System (MPS) in 2011 to educate beginning day traders on the tools and techniques that have her listed in Traders At Work: World's Most Successful Traders Make Their Living in the Markets. Baiynd runs a day trading room where subscribers can follow her trades online and provides swing trading set-ups as well as trading education through her web site.
Christer Boustedt.  Christer Boustedt (21 March 1939 in Bromma – 4 September 1986 in Alfta Ovanåker Municipality) was a Swedish musician and actor. He was primarily a jazz musician playing the saxophone and contributed film music to many Swedish films.
Chuck Fenda.  Leshorn Whitehead (born June 15 1972) better known by his stage name Chuck Fenda is an Jamaican American reggae musician and deejay born in Brooklyn New York. Raised in Jamaica Fenda is also known as The Living Fire Poor People Defender and Chuck Fender. He has toured in both the United States and Jamaica. His songs include I Swear Poor People Cry and Better Days all of which are from his album Better Days.
John Scott Sherrill.  John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. He has written songs for such artists as John Anderson Brooks & Dunn Jimmy Buffett (Steamer) Johnny Lee George Strait Steve Wariner Patty Loveless Josh Turner Waylon Jennings Alison Krauss Peter Wolf Mick Jagger Michael McDonald and Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. He is the son of Christian writers John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
Sarah Harrison (journalist).  Sarah Harrison (born c. 1982) is a British journalist legal researcher and WikiLeaks section editor. She works with the WikiLeaks Legal Defense and is Julian Assange's closest adviser. Harrison accompanied National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on a high-profile flight from Hong Kong to Moscow while he was sought by the United States government.
Masachika Ichimura.  Masachika Ichimura (市村 正親 Ichimura Masachika born January 28 1949) is a Japanese actor and musical singer. He was born in Kawagoe Saitama. He is best known to Western anime fans as the original voice of Mewtwo. He is married to singer Ryoko Shinohara.
Minori Aoi.  Minori Aoi (葵 みのり Aoi Minor born March 28 1980) is a Japanese former AV idol.
Lindy Layton.  Belinda Kimberly Lindy Layton (born 7 December 1970) is an English singer. She was a founding member of and vocalist for Beats International. She has released a number of solo albums and singles and worked with other musicians more recently including Hardknox and Dub Pistols.
Dilnaz Akhmadieva.  Dilnaz Akhmadieva (Cyrillic: Дильназ Ахмадиева) is a Kazakhstani pop singer and actress of Uyghur origin born (November 20 1980) and raised in Almaty Kazakhstan. She was married to Ayaz Khan Behttani a Pakistani singer but the couple later on divorced.[citation needed]
H. W. Timperley.  Harold William Timperley (1890–1964) was an English author of local history and topographical studies the most notable of which was illustrated by L. S. Lowry. In later life he worked with his wife Edith Brill who later published her own books on the Cotswolds.
Philip Owens.  Philip Owens was an English poet and novelist of the 1920s and 1930s. He appears in the 1930 anthology European Caravan edited by Samuel Putnam which also introduced much of the world to Jacob Bronowski William Empson and Samuel Beckett. He was a frequent contributor to Jack Lindsay's literary journal The London Aphrodite. He is also the author of a novel Hobohemians and the editor of Bed and Sometimes Breaksfast: An Anthology of Landladies.
David Payne (artist).  David Payne (1843 – 1894) was a Scottish landscape painter.
Spencer Chamberlain.  Spencer Chamberlain (born January 4 1983) is an American musician best known as lead vocalist for the metalcore band Underoath. Before fronting Underoath Chamberlain was the vocalist for the band This Runs Through in which his brother Phil Chamberlain was the drummer. He is currently the vocalist in a new project called Sleepwave.
Leslie Mills.  Leslie Mills is an American singer songwriter record producer and actress.
Alexis Dubus.  Alexis Dubus is an English alternative comedian and actor.He is a member of the sketch troupe Cat Of The Week and host and promoter of Falling Down With Laughter comedy club in London Bridge voted London's Best Small Comedy Club in the 2008 Chortle AwardsHis 2008 show at the Edinburgh Fringe A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing won a Three Weeks Editors' Award as one of their Top 10 Fringe experiences.He is a regular on Live at the Electric and plays his iconic role of Marcel Lucont a French expert on love.
Stephen Greene (artist).  Stephen Greene (September 19 1917 – November 18 1999) was an American artist known for his abstract paintings and in the 1940s his social realist figure paintings. Stephen Greene was born in New York City and he attended the National Academy School of Art and then the Art Students League. He earned a BFA and a MA at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. He studied with Philip Guston with whom he remained friends until Guston's death in 1980.Mr.
Henry Wikoff.  Henry Wikoff (c. 1811–1884) was an American traveler and writer.Wikoff was born around 1811 the illegitimate son of a doctor. Nonetheless he inherited a sizable fortune which enabled him to travel extensively in Europe.
Rhythum D.  Rhythm D born David Weldon is a hip-hop producer from Los Angeles California. His beats usually were in the G-Funk style as pioneered by Dr. Dre in the early 1990s. He is best known for producing tracks on Eazy-E's It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa EP. Eazy says in the album cover Thanks to Rhythm D for goin' AWOL. He also produced extensively for rapper Paperboy and for other well-known artists such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony MC Ren and Snoop Dogg.
Marc Maron.  Marc David Maron (/ˈmærən/ MAR-ən; born September 27 1963) is an American stand-up comedian podcast host and actor.He has been host of The Marc Maron Show and co-host of both Morning Sedition and Breakroom Live all politically oriented shows produced by Air America Media. He hosted Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater for a year replacing Jon Stewart.
Jewel Akens.  Jewel Eugene Akens (September 12 1933 Houston Texas – March 1 2013 Inglewood California) was an American singer and record producer.
Art Davis.  Art Davis (December 5 1934 – July 29 2007) was a double-bassist known for his work with various seminal jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk John Coltrane Dizzy Gillespie McCoy Tyner and Max Roach.
Gösta Krantz.  Gösta Clarence Isidor Krantz (14 June 1925 – 26 December 2008) was a Swedish actor and revue artist.Gösta Krantz was born in Ektorp in Nacka south-east of Stockholm. He started off as a confectioner but in 1945 turned into acting after having participated in a popular revue named Vi som vill opp.
Ernest Elmore.  Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901–1957) was an English theatre producer and director and writer of crime and fantasy novels. He wrote his crime novels under the pseudonym John Bude.
Paul Walsham.  Paul Walsham is a Liverpool-based drummer who has played with bands including Ooberman Amsterdam and Barclay James Harvest featuring Les Holroyd. Walsham is currently touring with Hurts.
Rory Macdonald (musician).  Roderick (Rory) Macdonald (Scottish Gaelic: Ruaridh MacDhomhnaill; born 27 July 1949 Dornoch Sutherland) is the bassist of the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig as well as their primary songwriter with his younger brother Calum Macdonald. Rory tends to write the melody and Calum the lyrics.
Dave Stone.  Dave Stone is a British writer.
Antonio Pennacchi.  Antonio Pennacchi (born 26 January 1950) is an Italian writer.Born in Latina he won the 2010 Strega Prize for his novel Canale Mussolini.
Thomas Murray (artist).  Thomas Murray or Murrey (1663 – 1734) was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter.
Tom Chaplin.  Thomas Oliver Tom Chaplin (born 8 March 1979 in Hastings East Sussex England) is a singer-songwriter musician and composer best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of British alternative rock band Keane.
Lee Wen.  Lee Wen (Chinese: 李文; pinyin: Lǐ Wén) is a Singaporean performance artist on social identity themes and best known for his Yellow Man performances. Painting his own body with bright yellow poster paint he expresses an exaggerated symbol of his ethnic identity as a citizen of Singapore. He is also a member of The Artists Village (TAV) and part of the Black Market performance collective.Lee Wen studied in the now defunct Kim Keat Primary School and Raffles Institution.
Harry Sidebottom.  Harry Sidebottom is a British author and historian best known for his fiction series Warrior of Rome. He is currently working on a new series Throne of the Caesars. The first volume of which Iron and Rust will be published in 2014. He is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St. Benet's Hall and lecturer at Lincoln College Oxford.
Clara Ng.  Clara Ng (born 28 July 1973; née Clara Regina Juana last name pronounced [ŋ̍]) is an Indonesian writer who is known for both adult fiction and children's literature.During her childhood in Jakarta Ng enjoyed reading and read at an advanced rate. After finishing her primary and secondary education in Indonesia during which time she took up writing Ng went to the United States to study at Ohio State University.
Michael Woolson.  Michael Woolson is an acting coach author director and founder of the Michael Woolson Studio in Los Angeles California.
Shoko Sawada.  Shoko Sawada (沢田 聖子 Sawada Shōko born March 13 1962) is a Japanese singer-songwriter reporter and radio personality. Since the start of her professional singing career in 1980 Sawada has recorded over 27 studio albums.
Willy Bogner Jr..  Willy Bogner Jr. (born 23 January 1942) is a former alpine ski racer from West Germany and a renowned fashion designer and inheritor of the Bogner clothing brand originally set up as Willy-Bogner-Skivertrieb by his father Willy Bogner Sr..
Peter Hicks.  Peter Geoffrey Barry Hicks (born 1 February 1964) is a British historian and church musician.
Kim Myhr.  Kim Myhr (born 17 December 1981 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer in the field of experimental music.
Martyn Campbell.  Martyn Craig Campbell is an English bass guitarist from Liverpool England. He is best known for his work with Rain The Lightning Seeds Richard Ashcroft Wah! and Terry Hall. Campbell has been working with Pete Wylie and more recently (October 2007) touring with Shack.
Vic Briggs.  Victor Harvey Briggs III (born 14 February 1945 in Twickenham Middlesex England) is a former blues and rock musician best known as the lead guitarist with Eric Burdon and The Animals during the 1966-1968 period. Briggs currently plays classical Indian and Hawaiian music.
Temperamento.  Christian Estremera Ramos known as Temperamento is a Puerto Rican born Rap artist living in Providence Rhode Island.
Rebeka Bobanj.  Rebeka Bobanj (born June 5 1981 in Subotica) is a Hungarian dramatic coloratura soprano.
Christian Tămaș.  Christian Tămaş (born November 13 1964) is a Romanian writer translator essayist arts and humanities researcher.
Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari.  Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari (1598–1669) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Genoa.
Wayne Static.  Wayne Static (born Wayne Richard WellsNovember 4 1965in Muskegon Michigan USA) is an American musician and the former lead vocalist guitarist keyboardist and music sequencer for the industrial metal band Static-X. He released his first solo studio album Pighammer on October 4 2011.
Dave Richmond.  David 'Dave' Richmond (born 1940? Brighton Sussex) is a professional bass player best known as a founder member of the 1960s pop group Manfred Mann playing with the band in 1963. After leaving the band in 1963 Richmond became a session player working with amongst others Elton John Bread Hank Marvin and Serge Gainsbourg.
Chalie Boy.  Charles Williams (born October 13 1979) better known by his stage name Chalie Boy is a Southern rapper and singer who made his major-label debut in 2009 with the breakout hit single I Look Good. In 2010 Chalie Boy made headlines with his phenomenal 100+ lb. weight loss as he debuted the video Deja Blu.
Tony Corcoran.  Tony Corcoran spent thirty-eight years working in Guinness and has recently written The Goodness of Guinness a book which examines the brewery's operation and the working lives of the thousands of Dublin people who depended on Guinness for their livelihood.
Edward Cornell.  Edward Cornell (1944- ) was an early associate of Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival. He was the first managing director of the Festival's experimental wing The Other Stage where he directed No Place to Be Somebody the Festival's first Pulitzer Prize winner.
Lucien Métivet.  Lucien Métivet (Lucien Marie François Métivet) was a French poster artist cartoonist illustrator and author who achieved notoriety during the Belle Epoque. Best known for his 1893 poster of the chanteuse Eugénie Buffet he was also a popular cover artist for the Parisian humor magazine Le Rire and a frequent contributor of cartoons and illustrations to it and other magazines. He illustrated books by a number of prominent authors of the time and wrote at least two books of his own.
Estrellita Castro.  Estrella Castro Navarrete was a Spanish singer and actress born in Seville on 26 June 1908 and died in Madrid on 10 July 1983.
Dafnis Prieto.  Dafnis Prieto (born July 31 1974) is a Cuban-American bandleader composer drummer and educator. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
Ron Athey.  Ron Athey (born December 16 1961) is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally (especially in the UK and Europe). Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire sexuality and traumatic experience. Many of his works include aspects of S&M in order to confront preconceived ideas about the body in relation to masculinity and religious iconography.
Gaspare Traversi.  Gaspare Traversi (c. 1722 – 1 November 1770) was an Italian Rococo painter best known for his genre works. Active mostly in his native city of Naples he also painted throughout Italy including a stay in Parma.Gaspare appears to have been born to a Genoese merchant living in Naples. He appears to have been baptized on February 15 1722 in the church of Santa maria dell'Incoronatella in Naples under the name Gasparro Giovanni Battista Pascale Traversa. He trained under Francesco Solimena.
Jack Conroy.  John Wesley Conroy (December 5 1899 to February 28 1990) was a leftist American writer also known as a Worker-Writer best known for his contributions to “proletarian literature” fiction and nonfiction about the life of American workers during the early decades of the 20th century.
Jordan Young.  Jordan Young (born Jordan Alexander Young January 23 in Maryland) is a drummer and currently plays for Maryland rockers Cinder Road. Jordan started playing just like the rest of them every Sunday with the church band it wasn't until he joined jam band Injoy in 2005 that he started playing in the club scene. In 2007 he joined the nationally known Christian Rock group WILLET. He toured with them for a 6-month period before leaving for unknown reasons.
Park Sung-woo.  Park Sung-Woo (born July 7 1972) is a South Korean manhwa artist. He had his debut in 1993 in IQ Jump.
Wagner Lamounier.  Wagner Moura Lamounier is a Brazilian economist and musician who achieved fame for having been original vocalist of Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura and for having created and led the extreme metal band Sarcófago from 1985 until it disbanded in 2000.
Simon Drake (writer).  Simon Drake (born 1975) is a writer of science fiction and non-fiction.
Iestyn Davies.  Iestyn Davies (born 16 September 1979) is a British classical countertenor.
Ted Lewis (musician).  Theodore Leopold Friedman better known as Ted Lewis (June 6 1890 – August 25 1971) was an American entertainer bandleader singer and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz hokey comedy and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker Mr. Entertainment or Ted Is Everybody Happy? Lewis. Lewis died of lung failure in August 1971.
Lily Ho.  Lily Ho is a Hong Kong actress and former Miss Hong Kong contestant. She won the Tourism Ambassador Award. Her best-known role is Sammi in Pages of Treasures.
Roydel Johnson.  Roydel Anthony Johnson (born 12 April 1943) better known as Congo Ashanti Roy is a Jamaican reggae singer best known as a member of The Congos but who also recorded solo and as a member of Ras Michael's Sons of Negus.
Brian Browne.  Brian Browne (born March 16 1937) is a Canadian jazz pianist composer and recording artist.Born in Montreal Quebec Browne moved to Ottawa as a teenager and was playing professionally by the age of eighteen.
Mark Wakeling.  Mark Wakeling (born 11 October 1971) is a British actor and founder of The Actors Temple in London.
Antoniette Costa.  Antoniette Costa is a singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia and New York City who has collaborated with or performed alongside artists such as The Roots Jazmine Sullivan Bilal Eric Roberson and Carvin Haggins.
Tomos Prys.  Tomos Prys (c.1564–1634) was a Welsh soldier sailor and poet.He was the eldest son of Ellis Price MP of Plas Iolyn Denbighshire.He fought in the disastrous campaign in the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century under Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester and was also with the earl at Tilbury in the army that protected London from the Spanish Armada in 1588. He was also occupied as a buccaneer; at the end of the 16th century he bought a ship and went buccaneering on the Spanish coast.
Nikki Bohne.  Nicole Nikki Christine Bohne (pronounced Bonnie born 1987) is an American singer actress and dancer.
Tone Čufar.  Tone Čufar (14 November 1905 – 11 August 1942) was a Slovene writer a playwright and a poet.
Kirk Torrance.  Kirk Torrance is an actor and award-winning playwright from New Zealand best known for his role as Wayne Judd in Outrageous Fortune. He is also a former Commonwealth Games swimmer. His debut play Strata (2003) won Best New Playwright at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. He played the lead role of Holden in the New Zealand movie Stickmen (2001) and award-winning television drama Fish Skin Suit (2003).
Lucebert.  Lucebert (/ˈluːtʃɨbɛərt/; Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk; 15 September 1924 – 10 May 1994) was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement.He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute for Arts and Crafts in 1938 and took part in the first exhibition of the COBRA group at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1949.
Kev F. Sutherland.  Kev F. Sutherland (born 18 October 1961) is a Scottish comedian and comic strip creator. He has drawn for a variety of publications including The Beano. He has produced several shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including The Sitcom Trials and The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.
Darrin Verhagen.  Darrin Verhagen is an Australian-born composer of dark ambient and gothic music. He has adopted several different monikers for his recorded output depending on the genre including Shinjuku Thief Shinjuku Filth and Professor Richmann. . After his first album Bloody Tourist was released Verhagen founded Dorobo Records which he has continued to issue his music through.
Buck Owens.  Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12 1929 – March 25 2006) known professionally as Buck Owens was an American musician singer and songwriter who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos.
Jason Farol.  Jason Farol (born April 3 1989) Is an American singer from Torrance California who placed third in the American television series Duets alongside mentor Kelly Clarkson In August 2012 Farol was signed to Viva Records and released his debut Philippine album in October 2013.
Alle Farben.  Alle Farben (English All Colors) born July 5 1985 in Berlin as Frans Zimmer is a German DJ and producer.
Gopabandhu Das.  Gopabandhu Dash (1877–1928) known as Utkalamani (Gem of Odisha) was a social worker reformer political activist journalist poet and essayist.
Terenci Moix.  Terenci Moix (Catalan pronunciation: [təˈɾɛnsi ˈmoʃ]; real name Ramon Moix i Meseguer) (Barcelona 5 January 1942 - Barcelona 2 April de 2003) was a Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish and in Catalan. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix.He had a self-taught education. His first work La torre de los vicios capitales was published in 1968. Many of his early works criticised the values of his time especially the official morality of Francoism.
Peter Golfinopoulos.  Peter Golfinopoulos an American artist was born in Manhattan in 1928. Hispaintings are marked by a variety of highly individualistic modes.
Clancy Eccles.  Clancy Eccles (9 December 1940 Dean Pen St. Mary Jamaica – 30 June 2005 Spanish Town Jamaica) was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer songwriter arranger promoter record producer and talent scout. Known mostly for his early reggae works he brought a political dimension to this music. His house band was known as The Dynamites.
Caesar Hochstetter.  Caesar Hochstetter (also known by the pen name Caesar Ahrlsteller) was an organist and a composer arranger and critic of music from a talented Jewish family. Born 12 January 1863 in Ladenburg a suburb of Mannheim Germany - his date and place of death are unknown but he is thought to have disappeared during The Holocaust. Caesar Hochstetter was a friend and admirer of the well known composer Max Reger who dedicated Aquarellen Op. 25 and Five pittoresque Pieces for 4-hand Piano Op.
Dan Zanes.  Dan Zanes was a member of the popular 1980s band The Del Fuegos and is now the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends.
Sophie Howard.  Sophie Howard (born 24 February 1983) is an English glamour model from Southport England. She appeared regularly on Page 3 and in men's magazines such as Maxim Nuts and Loaded. In August 2005 Howard was voted 73rd in the FHM UK 100 Sexiest Women poll.[citation needed] In the 2006 poll she rose to 68th place.
Jon Smith.  Jon Smith (born 19 December 1975) is a British writer of fiction non-fiction screenplays and musical theatre.
Gustavo Cárdenas Ávila.  Gustavo Cárdenas Ávila also known as Jan (born in Celaya Guanajuato Mexico on April 30 1974) is a Mexican pop singer and actor who had a huge success as a pop-ballad singer in the 90s and later became an screen and stage actor.
Ed Rice.  Edward Ed Rice (October 23 1918 – August 8 2001) was an American author publisher photojournalist and painter best known as a close friend and biographer of Thomas Merton.
Derroll Adams.  Derroll Adams (November 27 1925 – February 6 2000) was an American folk musician.
Pascal Gabriel.  Pascal Gabriel is a Belgian-born musician based in London and France.
Ted Curson.  Theodore Ted Curson (June 3 1935 – November 4 2012) was an American jazz trumpeter. He is perhaps best known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus.Curson was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet. Curson's father however preferred that his son should become an alto saxophone player like Louis Jordan.
Hiroya Matsumoto.  Hiroya Matsumoto (松本 寛也 Matsumoto Hiroya born June 21 1986) is a Japanese actor from Akita Prefecture who works under the Avex Entertainment label. He is known for his portrayal of Tsubasa Ozu/MagiYellow (小津翼／マジイエロー Ozu Tsubasa/MajiIerō) in Mahou Sentai Magiranger and later Masato Jin/Beet Buster (陣 マサト Jin Masato/Bīto Basutā) in Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
Giulio Viotti.  Giulio Viotti (Casale Monferrato Alessandria 1845-Turin 1877) was an Italian painter mainly of orientalist and historic subjects.After first studying law he turned to art studying at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. he then went to Rome where he was a pupil of Andrea Castaldi. He was influenced by Mariano Fortuny the painter. In 1873 he won a medal in Vienna.
Lil Phat.  Melvin Vernell III (July 25 1992 – June 7 2012) better known by his stage name Lil Phat was an American rapper.
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.  Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (or G. B. Guadagnini; Giambattista Guadagnini); (June 23 1711 – September 18 1786) was an Italian luthier regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.
Jan van Munster.  Jan Nicolaas van Munster (born Gorinchem 3 July 1939) is a Dutch sculptor and installation artist whose work appears in many public places in the Netherlands and Germany.
Xenomania.  Xenomania is a British songwriting and production team founded by Brian Higgins and based in Kent England. Formed after Higgins met Miranda Cooper Xenomania has written and produced for renowned artists such as Cher Kylie Minogue Dannii Minogue Sophie Ellis-Bextor Pet Shop Boys The Saturdays and the Sugababes.
Yusef Lateef.  Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston October 9 1920 – December 23 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist composer and educator for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute he also played oboe and bassoon both rare in jazz and also used a number of non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute shanai shofar xun arghul and koto.
Thousand Hours.  Thousand Hours is a London UK-based electromantic blue-eyed soul music project featuring Paul Mansford. Paul is a multifaceted singer instrumentalist and songwriter whose energetic yet emotive performances employ live and looped vocals/EDM beats/synths and ambient Nord keyboard stylings.
Maria Theresa van Thielen.  Maria Theresia van Thielen (7 May 1640 – 1706) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Lone (musician).  Matt Cutler better known as Lone is a British electronic musician from Nottingham United Kingdom.
Alex Parks.  Alexandra Rebecca Parks (born 26 July 1984) is an English former singer-songwriter. Parks was entered into the BBC Television programme Fame Academy by her father. It was a show that she went on to win. Soon after winning Fame Academy she released her first album entitled Introduction which went double platinum in the United Kingdom and gold in several other European countries. In 2005 she released her second album Honesty. Parks parted with her label in 2006 Polydor by mutual consent.
Zoe Leonard.  Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited extensively since the late 1980s in institutions around the world and has been included in some of the most seminal exhibitions of recent decades including Documenta IX and Documenta XII as well as the 1993 and 1997 Whitney biennials.
Aril Brikha.  Aril Brikha (born 1976 in Tehran Iran) is one of the world leading Assyrian Techno musicians he is nominated for the Best Dance album in the Swedish National radio Gold Gala award in his adopted country of Sweden.
Bobby Darin.  Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14 1936 – December 20 1973) was an American singer songwriter and actor of film and television. He performed in a range of music genres including pop rock'n'roll jazz folk and country.He started as a songwriter for Connie Francis and recorded his own first million-seller Splish Splash in 1958. This was followed by Dream Lover Mack the Knife and Beyond the Sea which brought him world fame.
Johnny Western.  Johnny Western (born October 28 1934) is an American country singer-songwriter musician actor and radio show host. He is a member of the Western Music Association Hall of Fame and the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame.
Ramesan Blathur.  Ramesan Blathore is a Malayalam writer who lives in Kerala. He has won 5 awards for his novel Perum Aal published by DC Books.
Harlan Howard.  Harlan Perry Howard (September 8 1927 – March 3 2002) was a prolific American songwriter principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by a variety of different artists. Howard was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
Jeff Blando.  Jeff Blando Bland (born December 6 1964 in Flint Michigan) is an American guitarist who played for Michigan based cover band KODY LEE Left For Dead and Saigon Kick. He is currently the lead guitarist for Slaughter and Vince Neil.He has played with Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil both with his former Saigon Kick touring bandmate Phil Varone and with his Slaughter bandmate Dana Strum.
Marc Robillard.  Marc Robillard (born March 23 1974) is a Canadian musician composer and songwriter residing in Venice California. He is best known for his songs “So Much More” (featured on a nation-wide Sun Chips commercial) and Contagious (featured on MTV's Jersey Shore).
Jonathan Kozol.  Jonathan Kozol (born September 5 1936) is a non-fiction writer educator and activist best known for his books on public education in the United States.
Sarah Strohmeyer.  Sarah Strohmeyer is an award-winning American author of crime novels and of books about relations between men and women. She is best known for her Bubbles Yablonsky series about a hairdresser that is consistently drawn into solving various crimes and murders.
Alois Kottmann.  Alois Kottmann (* 1929 in Großauheim Hesse) is a German violinist music pedagogue university professor and patron.
Lucilla Andrews.  Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (20 November 1919 – 3 October 2006) was a British romantic novelist who wrote as Lucilla Andrews.She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital London during World War II.She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.As a writer of thirty-five novels over the period 1954–96 she specialised in hospital romances.
María Clara Alonso.  María Clara Alonso (born February 2 1990 in Rosario Argentina) is an Argentine actress singer and television hostess. She debuted as an actress in the 2007 Argentine remake of High School Musical′. Since 2007 she has acted in various Disney Channel programs in Latin America. She currently plays Angie in the Disney Channel Latin America Series Violetta.
Winky D.  Winky D (born Wallace Chirumiko in Harare) is a Zimbabwean reggae–dancehall artist known popularly as The Big Man (stylized as Di Bigman).Winky D a.k.a.
Martin Pakledinaz.  Martin Pakledinaz (September 1 1953 – July 8 2012) was an American costume designer for stage and film.He won his Tony Awards for designing the costumes for Thoroughly Modern Millie and the 2000 revival of Kiss Me Kate which also earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design.His most recent costume designs were for the Broadway shows Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012); Man and Boy (Revival 2011); Master Class (Revival 2011) and The Normal Heart.
Alexandra Govere.  Alexandra Govere is an American philanthropist singer songwriter record producer gymnast journalist and reality television personality. She first attracted media attention by being the first black female gymnast to represent Zimbabwe in artistic gymnastics at the September 1999 All Africa Games and later by co-founding the Kijana Project which provides relief for AIDS orphans. She later gained wide media attention as a cast member on the 2011 season of The Real World: San Diego.
Jimmy Skidmore.  James Richard Jimmy Skidmore (8 February 1916 in Manor Park –22 August 1998) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist born in London and father to tenor and soprano saxophonist Alan Skidmore. Perhaps best known for his work with George Shearing from 1950 to 1952 Jimmy Skidmore worked with a variety of other well-known jazz musicians including Humphrey Lyttelton Victor Feldman and Kenny Baker.
Asad Raza Sonu.  Asad Raza Suno (Urdu: اسد رضا سونو‎) is a Pakistani singer and reality programs competitor. He is best known for reality show Pakistan Idol. Asad eliminates and finishes Pakistan Idol at place 9th on March 9 2013. His elimination once again put a question of public voting's. Despite having no training in music he manage to maintain his position in series on top-est performer. His music influenced includes Muhammad Rafi Kishore Kumar and Najam Sheraz.
Steve Camp.  Steven J. Camp (born April 13 1955) is an American contemporary Christian music artist with an adult contemporary pop sound. He sold more than a million albums. He also has written or co-written 21 number one singles since his debut in 1978 as a solo artist. Today his popularity now continues mostly in his Christian writing addressing current trends and matters of Reformed Theology.
Michael Meredith.  Michael Meredith is an American independent film director screenwriter and producer. He frequently collaborates with German director Wim Wenders. Meredith is the son of the late former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and football commentator Don Meredith. He was the oldest of two children from Don Meredith's second marriage to the artist Cheryl King.
Sharon Kam.  Sharon Kam (born 11 August 1971 in Israel) is a classical clarinetist. Notably she won the ARD International Music Competition in 1992.; in 1991 she was also nominated for the Davidoff Prize.
Reina.  Reina (born 1978 in the Bronx New York City New York) is a female Dance-pop singer-songwriter.
Jon Bernad.  Jonathan Bernad (born 1983) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles California. He is the brother of film and television producer David Bernad. Bernad collaborates with artists strangers animals and cities making Life Art a process of weaving life with art. Arriving in Los Angeles for a summer job to feed Mike White’s French bulldogs Tootsie and Ginger he was not asked to leave and stayed for six years with White as his patron and Los Angeles his teacher.
Raphaella Spence.  Raphaella Beatrice Spence (born 1978 London England) is a photorealist painter based in Todi. She is represented by Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York City. Her works consist of high resolution digital camera images combined with freehand cityscape paintings.
Russell DaShiell.  Russell DaShiell (born July 23 1947) is an American guitarist who has recorded as a solo artist as well as playing in bands such as Crowfoot and the Don Harrison Band and with Harvey Mandel and Norman Greenbaum.
David R. Ferguson.  David R. Fergie Ferguson (born July 2 1962 in Nashville Davidson County Tennessee) began in the mid-1980s engineering Country Music recordings for Cowboy Jack Clement at Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa in Nashville Tennessee. Today Ferguson is best known for his works with Johnny Cash as sound engineer on the highly successful Grammy Award winning American Recordings albums produced by Rick Rubin in the 1990s and 2000s (decade).
Capitola Dickerson.  Capitola Leodra Dickerson also known as Cappie Dickerson (September 21 1913 – June 15 2012) was an American piano instructor in Summit New Jersey and graduate of the Juilliard School in Manhattan who was notable for teaching several generations of students. She was revered by local authorities for her volunteer service and civil rights contributions and community leadership. Some of her pupils have become renowned such as Tom Varner and Lawton C.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe.  Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20 1915 – October 9 1973) was an American singer songwriter guitarist and recording artist. A pioneer of twentieth-century music Tharpe attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings that were a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and rhythmic/early rock accompaniment. She became gospel music's first crossover artist and its first great recording star referred to later as the original soul sister.
Vladimir Chekalov.  Vladimir Fedorovich Chekalov (Russian: Влади́мир Фё́дорович Чека́лов; July 6 1922 a village of Novaya-Vyaltsevo Soligalich county of Kostroma Province Soviet Russia – 1992 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as representative of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his battle and genre paintings.
Samantha Moore.  Samantha Jo Moore (born December 28 1988) is a Canadian singer and songwriter whose songs have been recorded and re-cut by Miley Cyrus (“East Northumberland High” from Meet Miley Cyrus) as well as up and coming artists including Diana DeGarmo (“Then I Woke Up” “The Difference In Me” “‘Till You Want Me” “Boy Like You” from Blue Skies) and The Clique Girlz (“Then I Woke Up” “The Difference In Me” from Incredible and the EP Clique Girlz) and co-wrote “Falling Down Your Stare” from Hope 7's self-titled debut album. 
Hwang Tong-gyu.  Hwang Tong-gyu (born April 9 1938) is a Korean poet and critic.
Jeong Jun-ha.  Jeong Jun-ha (Korean: 정준하 Hanja: 鄭埻夏; born 18 March 1971) is a South Korean comedian and entertainer. His well-known motto is (Whether) gives love or not (he) always gives love Jeong Jun-ha (정주나 안정주나 늘정주는 정준하).
Jonny Wickersham.  Jonny 2 Bags Wickersham (born May 26 1968 [1]) is the current guitarist for the Californian punk rock band Social Distortion. He joined Social Distortion after the death of founding member and longtime friend Dennis Danell in February 2000. Previously he had been a guitarist for U.S.
Jeff Chapman (singer).  Jeff Chapman (born July 17 1969 in Brunswick Georgia) is the bass singer for the Kingdom Heirs. He has been a member of the group since 2002. He has previously traveled with Bob Wills The Sound The Anchormen and The Blackwoods.He has twice been nominated as favorite bass in the Singing News fan awards.Chapman has a wife Angie two sons Justin and Sean and daughter Taylor.
Chieko Aioi.  Reiko Komatsu (小松 礼子 Komatsu Reiko December 28 1934 – November 13 2013) professionally known as Chieko Aioi (相生 千恵子 Aioi Chieko) was a Japanese actress and voice actress.Aioi was born on December 28 1934 in Tokyo.In 2008 Aioi suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage which ended her acting career. She died of heart failure on November 13 2013 aged 78 in Tokyo.
Paddy Milner.  Paddy Milner (born 20 March 1980 Edinburgh Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.
Anton Ingolič.  Anton Ingolič (5 January 1907 – 11 March 1992) was a Slovene writer playwright and editor. He is best known for his novels and youth literature.Ingolič was born in Spodnja Polskava near Slovenska Bistrica in what was Austria-Hungary at the time and is now in eastern Slovenia. He went to the local school and completed his secondary education in Maribor before studying in Ljubljana and Paris. He worked as a secondary school Slovene and French language teacher in Ptuj Maribor and Ljubljana.
Rab Noakes.  Rab Noakes (born Robert Noakes 13 May 1947 St Andrews Fife Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.
Ivi Adamou.  Ivi Adamou (Greek: Ήβη Αδάμου pronounced [ˈivi aˈðamu]; born 24 November 1993) is a Greek Cypriot singer who rose to recognition in Greece and Cyprus following her participation in the second season of the Greek version of The X Factor where she was under the mentorship of Giorgos Theofanous. Adamou secured a recording contract with Sony Music Greece and released her debut extended play Kalokairi Stin Kardia which was certified gold.
Matthew Setzer.  Matthew Setzer is a musician composer and music technologist living in Los Angeles California. He is the guitarist for the gothic industrial band London After Midnight. In 2008 LAM played sold out shows in the US Europe and Mexico for the Un-American tour.Matthew received a Bachelor of Music in Composition/Technology from the University of Montana in Missoula (2005). He studied Composition with Charles Nichols.
Anton Armstrong.  Dr. Anton Armstrong is the conductor of the St. Olaf Choir as well as the Harry R. and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College of Northfield Minnesota in the USA. Armstrong became the fourth director of the St. Olaf Choir in 1990 continuing the tradition begun by the choir's founder F. Melius Christiansen in 1911 sustained and developed by his son Olaf C. Christiansen and strengthened and enhanced by Kenneth Jennings.
Mabel Cook Cole.  [The following (all ready there) paragraph (except for her dates...1880-1977) seems accurate-]Mabel Cook Cole (1846–1923) was a writer and anthropologist. She specialized in the study of ancient man and in studying the people of the Philippines. Her books include The Story of Primitive Man The Story of Man Savage Gentleman and Philippine Folk Tales.
Aga Zaryan.  Aga Zaryan (born Agnieszka Skrzypek January 17 1976) is an internationally recognized jazz vocalist of the new generation.Though (in jazz terms) young her tone and delivery carry the hallmarks of classical jazz for a modern audience and as such is part of a new wave of Polish jazz artists recognised on the international scene. She is known for her distinctive style and intimate approach to singing with a characteristic lightness of phrasing and warm slightly matte-toned voice.
Bruce Lynch.  Bruce Lynch born 1948 New Zealand is an electric and acoustic bassist producer and arranger.Arriving in the UK in the mid-1970s Lynch became a commercially successful and session musician touring extensively with Cat Stevens including Stevens's 1976 Earth Tour as a sideman to promote the album Majikat as well as appearing on six albums. He also recorded on two albums for Richard Thompson and an album with Rick Wakeman as well as on Kate Bush's debut album.
Mike Scala.  Michael Mike Scala (born December 2 1982) also known as Pizon is an Italian-American rapper record producer and lawyer. He is the son of actor Michael Scala (aka Mikey Shades Scala) who played Sally Gaga in Martin Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door?. The Pizon alias is derived from the Italian word paesano which literally translates to countryman.
Papa Dee.  David Christopher Daniel Wahlgren (born 13 July 1966) better known by the stage name Papa Dee is a Swedish rap ragga and dancehall musician. His most commercially successful track is his version of the Cat Stevens song The First Cut Is the Deepest.
Paul Hadol.  Paul Hadol (1835 in Remiremont - 1875 in Paris) was a French illustrator draftsman and caricaturist.Hadol collaborated with periodicals such as Le Gaulois Le Journal Amusant High Life Le Charivari Le Monde comique La Vie Parisienne and L'Eclipse (under his real name) and with Mailly and Baillard under the pseudonym White.
Howard Hodgkin.  Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (born 6 August 1932) is a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.
Jarmo Savolainen.  Jarmo Savolainen (24 May 1961 – 11 June 2009) was a Finnish jazz pianist and composer. He was born in Iisalmi Eastern Finland and first studied classical piano. He later turned his attention to jazz and studied at Berklee College of Music (starting in 1980).
IET (musician).  iET (born 1978 birthname Lisa Van Viegen) is a Dutch singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Born in the town of Rhenen to a musical family she began playing the Flugelhorn at age 9 and began writing songs at 14 in her native Dutch.
G. N. Devy.  Ganesh N. Devy (born 1950) formerly professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda a renowned literary critic and activist is founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh Gujarat and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions. He led the Linguistic Survey of India in 2010. He was educated at Shivaji University Kolhapur and the University of Leeds UK.
Maverick Sabre.  Maverick Sabre (born Michael Stafford; 12 July 1990) is an Irish-English singer-songwriter and rapper. Associated with genres such as R&B and folk Sabre is known for his eerie vocals and guitar playing. In January 2011 Sabre appeared on Professor Green's single Jungle which peaked at number 31 in the UK Singles Chart. His debut EP The Lost Words was released on 7 March 2011 with the single Look What I've Done preceding that release the week before.
Helene Schjerfbeck.  Helene Schjerfbeck (July 10 1862 – January 23 1946) was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes.
Seo Jeong-in.  Seo Jeong-in born December 20 1936 (Hangul: 서정인) is a South Korean writer.
Néstor Fabián.  (In creation) Under constructionNéstor Fabián was born on November 30 1938 in Buenos Aires Argentina. Having lost his biological family he was adopted. At the age of twelve he started working at a shoes factory to help his adoptive family.He is a famous tango singer and actor in Argentina.In 1961 he made his breakthrough as a singer in a t.v. program at Channel 7 Argentina named Luces de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires´lights). He sang a bolero with Mariano Moreno´s orchestra.
Xiang Xiang (singer).  Xiang Xiang (Chinese: 香香; pinyin: Xiāng Xiāng; born June 14 1984) is reportedly the most popular Internet pop star in China of 2005. Her birth name is Wang Jinmei (Chinese: 王瑾玫; pinyin: Wáng Jǐnméi).She is perhaps most famous for her song Song of Pig (猪之歌) the title track of her first solo album.Xiang Xiang is also known for remaking the song Mice Love Rice (老鼠爱大米; Lao Shu Ai Da Mi; by Yang Chengang) turning it into a hit on the Internet.
Alyn Shipton.  Alyn Shipton (born 24 November 1953) is an English jazz author presenter critic and jazz bassist.He became interested in jazz in his youth and formally studied cello but also played double bass in a school jazz band. After winning an open scholarship to read English at St Edmund Hall Oxford he ran the university jazz club. During that time he played with many guests who appeared there including George Melly.
James Carr (musician).  James Carr (June 13 1942 - January 7 2001) was an American rhythm and blues and soul singer. Born to a Baptist preacher's family in Coahoma Mississippi Carr began singing in church and was performing in gospel groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis Tennessee when he began recording in the mid-1960s for Goldwax Records a small Memphis based independent record label.
Julie Feeney.  Julie Feeney is an Irish composer singer song-writer record producer musician theatre artist orchestrator and educator from Galway Ireland. With a background as a professional choral singer she composes and self-produces instrumental and electronic music and songs with full orchestrations. Feeney is a three time nominee for the Meteor Choice Music Prize for 'Irish Album of the Year' winning in 2006 for debut album 13 songs.
Ian Kennedy (comics).  Ian Kennedy (born September 22 1932 Dundee Scotland) is a UK artist who worked initially for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd then later for Amalgamated Press
Elizabeth Fishel.  Elizabeth Fishel is a journalist and author. In 2000 Fishel published her fourth book profiling 10 of her classmates from the class of 1968 at Brearley School titled Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be the Women We Became.
Jacky June.  Jacky June (aka Jacke Jun né Jean-Jacques Junne 3 April 1924 Brussels — 28 September 2012 Braine-l'Alleud Belgium) was a Belgian jazz saxophonist clarinetist and bandleader.
Scott Turner (songwriter).  Scott Scotty Turner (born Graham Morrison Turnbull on 23 August 1931) was a Canadian composer producer musician and publisher who had an illustrious career in the music industry spanning over 50 years composing songs with Buddy Holly Audie Murphy Herb Alpert John Marascalco and many others.
Seán 'ac Dhonncha.  Seán 'ac Dhonncha (alternatively Seán 'ac onna (1919–1996) was a traditional Irish singer.Born in Carna Conamara Co. Galway he won a scholarship to Coláiste Éinde and qualified as a primary teacher in 1940. He taught in Co. Cavan from 1947 and later spent twenty five years as principal of Ahascragh national school. He was the first traditional singer to record with Gael Linn; won a gold medal at the 1953 Oireachtas; and was awarded the Gradam Shean-Nós Cois Life in 1995.
Rebeca Mauleon.  Rebeca Mauleón is an American pianist composer arranger and writer specializing in salsa and other Latin American and Afro-Caribbean music.
Suzanne Gitzi.  Suzanne Gitzi is a Canadian female country music singer. In 1993 Gitzi released her debut album Fallen Angel which featured four singles that charted on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks. Her second album 1996's Dressed in Black featured her highest charting single Judge and Jury which reached a peak of number 35 in March 1996. A self-titled album was released in 1997.
Lee Tim-sing.  Lee Tim-sing (born 1949) is a Hong Kong television producer director and writer. Lee joined Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in 1969 as a set decorator. He became a director in 1975 and was promoted to a producer a few years later.
Dorothea Grossman.  Dorothea Dottie Grossman (1937–2012) was an American poet active in Los Angeles where she lived for more than 30 years. Grossman wrote short often epigrammatic works such as her series of Henny Youngman poems which imagined mundane and humorous glimpses of the Jewish comedian Henny Youngman.
Chikezie.  Chikezie Ndubuisi Eze (born September 11 1985) is an American singer and the tenth place finalist on the seventh season of the television series American Idol.
Nobuteru Maeda.  Nobuteru Maeda (前田亘輝 Maeda Nobuteru born April 23 1965) is a Japanese male singer-songwriter from Atsugi Kanagawa. He is signed onto Sony Music Japan. He is also a leader of rock band Tube. He released the hits Sobani Iruyo and Try Boy Try Girl.
Steve West (Danger Danger).  Steve West born May 30 1964 is a drummer most famous for playing in the band Danger Danger. He has played on all of Danger Danger's albums to date.Before Danger Danger he was in the band Hotshot with original Danger Danger lead vocalist Mike Pont and Danger Danger bassist Bruno Ravel.He also guested as a backing vocalist on Warrant's Cherry Pie album.
Matt Masters.  Matt Masters (born March 23 1976) is a singer songwriter and guitarist from Calgary Alberta Canada. He began his career in 1998.In 2007 two of his songs were featured on the TV program Rabbit Fall (season 1 episode 5).In June 2008 Masters premiered an original country and western musical titled Don Coyote.
IO Tillett Wright.  iO Tillett Wright is an artist director photographer writer film maker activist and actor. Wright grew up in New York and was a professional film and television actor for 18 years.At 18 Wright founded a street art magazine Overspray in which she served as founding Editor in Chief until 2009.As an actor Wright appeared alongside Steve Buscemi Christian Slater Uma Thurman including a brief appearance on Sex And The City.
Matt DeVries.  Matthew DeVries (born January 28 1977) was the rhythm guitarist in the heavy metal band Chimaira and current bassist in the metal band Fear Factory. During his time with Chimaira he along with Rob Arnold (the lead guitarist) and Mark Hunter (the lead singer) wrote a large number of the band's songs.
Stanley Caine.  Stanley Caine (born Stanley Victor Micklewhite February 1936 - January 2013) was the younger brother of actor Michael Caine. He is noted for his role as Coco in the popular 1969 film The Italian Job which starred Michael.Caine had been diagnosed with Leukemia cancer in early 2008. He died in his sleep in January 2013 in London. He is survived by his brother Michael.
Jodi Cobb.  Jodi Cobb is an American photographer who was named White House Photographer of the Year and received Pictures of the Year awards from both the World Press and the National Press Photographers Association. Also she is known for her book called Geisha: The Life the Voices the Art which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was a winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Society of Media Photographers.
Peter Salett.  Peter Joseph Salett (born May 12 1969) is an American singer songwriter and composer. He is best known as a musician for his song Heart of Mine in the movie Keeping the Faith his song score for the 2006 film Down in the Valley and for co-writing the Dracula puppet musical finale A Taste for Love in the Judd Apatow produced film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Joseph Wolf.  Joseph Wolf (January 21 1820 – April 20 1899) was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and naturalists including David Livingstone Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates. Wolf depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art.
Lisa Mantchev.  Lisa Mantchev is an American author of fantasy novels and short stories. She is best known for her Théâtre Illuminata series a trilogy of young adult fantasy novels.Her book Eyes Like Stars the first in the Théâtre Illuminata series was nominated for the 2009 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. It was also nominated for the 2010 Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature.
Tsuyoshi Sekito.  Tsuyoshi Sekito (関戸 剛 Sekito Tsuyoshi born April 3 1963) is a Japanese video game composer arranger and musician who has been employed at Square Enix since 1995. As a composer he is best known for scoring the video games Brave Fencer Musashi (1998) and The Last Remnant (2008). He also plays the guitar in the rock bands The Black Mages and The Star Onions; both groups arrange and perform compositions from the Final Fantasy series.
Andrew Prokos.  Andrew Prokos (born 1971) is an award-winning American architectural and fine-art photographer.
Marcel Bouteron.  Marcel Bouteron (August 3 1877 – 1962) was a French librarian and French literature historian.He was member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.
Debbie Dadey.  Debra S. Dadey (born May 18 1959) is an American writer of more than 145 children's books[citation needed] including about 80 in the Bailey School Kids series for younger readers that she has co-written with Marcia Jones.Dadey was born in Morganfield Kentucky. She was a first grade teacher and librarian before becoming a full-time writer.
Pietro Paltronieri.  Pietro Paltronieri (1673–1741) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period active mainly in Rome Bologna and Vienna.
Caroline Harker.  Caroline Harker (born 1966) is an English stage and television actress the sister of actress Susannah Harker and the daughter of actors Polly Adams and Richard Owens.
Sebalter.  Sebastiano Paù-Lessi better known by his stage name Sebalter (stylised SEBalter) is a Swiss singer that will represent his country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark he will perform the song Hunter of Stars in the second semi-final on May 8 2014. Sebalter was born in Ticino.
Hiili Hiilesmaa.  Kai Hiili Hiilesmaa (born 1966) is the vocalist of the rock band The Skreppers former drummer of doom metal band KYPCK former keyboardist of rock band Daniel Lioneye as well as a respected producer from Finland. He has worked with several internationally recognized rock groups including his near 20 year association with Finnish band HIMHiilesmaa began producing music professionally in 1995 recording with such bands as HIM Amorphis and Apocalyptica.
Morten Skogstad.  Morten Skogstad (born 26 June 1962) is the drummer in the Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band Stage Dolls. He joined the band in 1993 replacing Steinar Krokstad.Skogstad was the drummer in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT from 1988 to 1989. During his tenure in TNT he used the stage name Kenneth Odiin.
Elise Aubert.  Elise Aubert (née Aars; 1837 – 1909) was a Norwegian novelist short-story writer and non-fiction writer. She was born in Lier and grew up in Alta and Lom; the daughter of priest Nils Frederik Julius Aars and Sofie Elisabeth Stabel. She was married to professor and government minister Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert.
Jerry Shirley.  Jerry Shirley (born 4 February 1952 Waltham Cross Hertfordshire) is an English rock drummer best known as a member of the band Humble Pie appearing on all their albums. He is also known for his work with Fastway Joey Molland from Badfinger David Gilmour Alexis Korner Billy Nicholls Syd Barrett John Entwistle Sammy Hagar and Benny Mardones
Joan Haslip.  Joan Haslip (1912–1994) was an author of historical books often focusing on European royalty. She was born in London and educated in London Paris and Florence. Her first book Out of Focus appeared in 1931; among her other notable publications are Lady Hester Stanhope (1934) and Parnell (1937). She also wrote for the London Mercury the Daily Mail and Evening News and the Illustrated London News.She also worked for the Italian section of the BBC from 1940 to 1944.
Shaan (singer).  Shaan (born Shantanu Mukherjee pronounced: Shantonu Mukharji on 30 September 1972) is an Indian playback singer more active in Hindi Bengali Urdu and Kannada films and a television host. He hosted the shows Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs Star Voice of India and STAR Voice of India 2. In Music Ka Maha Muqabla his team Shaan's Strikers finished as the runners up to Shankar Mahadevan’s team. He has also sung many Pakistani songs.
Robert Smith (musician).  Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician. He is the lead singer guitarist lyricist and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure and its only constant member since its formation in 1976.
Michael Raven.  Michael Raven (born 1969) is an American pornographic film director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.While he was working as a car salesman Raven met Sydnee Steele to whom he sold a new Miata. They married finding a common interest in pornography and Swinging and moved to Los Angeles California to turn their hobbies into careers. Their marriage lasted for ten years. He was married to pornographic actress Julia Ann later they divorced.
Elena Ferrante.  Elena Ferrante (born in Naples Italy) is an Italian novelist.Ferrante is the author of a half dozen novels the most celebrated of which is Days of Abandonment (originally published as I giorni dell'abbandono in 2002).
Lanna Commins.  Lanna Commins (born November 3 1983 in Bangkok Thailand) is a Thai singer. She is the daughter of an Australian father and Thai mother Soontaree Vechanont who is a notable folk singer in Thailand. She spent her early years in Malaysia and Australia before finally settling down in Chiang Mai Thailand. During her music career she has released three albums under the GMM Grammy record label.
František Muzika.  František Muzika was one of the important representatives of Czech avant-garde artists in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 20th century. He was a member of Devětsil since 1921 and Mánes since 1923.Muzika was a painter graphic designer stage designer illustrator editor and professor at the Academy of Arts and Industrial Design (UMPRUM) in Prague.
Paul Hoffman (business writer).  Paul Hoffman is a notable American business writer. He was born in Chicago and holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from the University of Chicago. As a reporter for New York Post he covered the New York courts for several years. His articles were also published in The New York Times Saturday Review Time The Nation and other journals.
Uģis Prauliņš.  Uģis Prauliņš (born 17 June 1957 Riga Latvia) is a Latvian composer whose choral work Missa Rigensis (Riga Mass) was recorded by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge the Riga Cathedral Boys Choir and has been performed in several locations around the world amongst those Canada France England.
Luis Perlotti.  Luis Perlotti (June 23 1890 — January 25 1969) was an Argentine sculptor.
Lily Maisky.  Lily Maisky (born July 28 1987 in Paris) is a classical pianist. She is the daughter of cellist Mischa Maisky.
Konrad Tuchscherer.  Konrad Tuchscherer (born February 16 1970 Neenah Wisconsin) is an educator scholar writer and public intellectual. Tuchscherer currently serves as the Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Cameroon and is Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at St. John's University (New York City).
Sylvia Robinson.  Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson (March 6 1936 – September 29 2011) was an American singer musician record producer and record label executive. She was best known for her work as founder/CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records. She is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the genre; Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang and The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Alan Grant (writer).  Alan Grant (born 1949) is a Scottish comic book writer known for writing Judge Dredd in 2000 AD as well as various Batman titles during the late 1980s 1990s and early 2000s. He is also the creator of the character Anarky.
Belo Zero.  Darnell Smith also known by his stage name Belo Zero or for short Belo is an American gangsta rapper and convicted murderer. He is a member of the Chicago-based rap group Do or Die.In 2006 he released his debut solo album The Truth. The album included the single So Exclusive featuring R&B singer Johnny P.In October 2007 Smith was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Raynard “B-Dog” Pinkston.
Nate Pyfer.  Nate Pyfer is an American record producer and songwriter/composer. He has produced albums for a wide variety of artists including The Moth & the Flame Parlor Hawk etc. Pyfer has collaborated with Kaskade and producer Finn Bjarnson on a number of projects including co-writing the GRAMMY nominated single Atmosphere on the GRAMMY nominated album of the same title. He also toured as a member of Joshua James' band during the late 2000s.
Franz Douskey.  Franz Douskey is an American writer. His work has been published in hundreds of magazines and anthologies including The Nation The New Yorker Rolling Stone Las Vegas Life Yankee The Georgia Review Baseball Diamonds and Yellow Silk. His first full length book of poetry Rowing Across the Dark was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1984.
Rual Yarbrough.  Rual Holt Yarbrough (January 13 1930 – September 21 2010) was an American five-string banjo player who worked with some of the most famous bluegrass musicians.
Iggy Pop.  Iggy Pop (/ˈɪɡi pɑːp/; born James Newell Osterberg Jr.; April 21 1947) is an American singer-songwriter musician and actor. Iggy's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years including pop hard rock jazz and blues. Pop became known as 'Iggy' in high school when he served as drummer for a local blues band The Iguanas.
Young Maylay.  Christopher Chris Bellard (born June 17 1979) also known by his stage name Young Maylay is an American West Coast rapper from Los Angeles. He is best known for providing the voice of Carl CJ Johnson in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Maurice Lindsay.  For the former Wigan Warriors Rugby League chairman see Maurice Lindsay (rugby league).Maurice Lindsay CBE (21 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was a Scottish broadcaster writer and poet. He was born in Glasgow.After serving in World War II he became a radio broadcaster also editing the 1946 anthology Modern Scottish Poetry and writing music criticism. He later was Programme Controller at Border Television.His Collected Poems (1974) drew on 12 published collections.
Blanche Lazzell.  Blanche Lazzell (October 10 1878 – June 1 1956) was an American painter printmaker and designer. Known especially for her white-line woodcuts she was an early modernist American artist bringing elements of Cubism and abstraction into her art.Born in a small farming community in West Virginia Lazzell traveled to Europe twice studying in Paris with French artists Albert Gleizes Fernand Léger and André Lhote.
Milica Ilic.  Mili Davies (née Milica Ilić Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Илић) (born 1981) is an Australian classical guitarist of Bosnian Serb descent she has produced two albums Rouge Guitar (2005) and Stir the Sky (2007). In 2002 she toured Australia and Asia backing José Carreras. As from 2008 Davies is based in London where she teaches guitar and is writing a book Guitar inTuition.
Byron Melcher.  Byron Melcher (1929–2012) was an executive with the Thomas Organ Company a concert organist and a recording artist on electronic organs and pipe organs.Melcher was a district manager for the Thomas and Vox lines in Texas. In 1968 he was promoted to manager of promotions for the Thomas Organ division and was a featured artist on the Thomas Company A Fair to Remember tour the next year which featured Dick Clark as MC. That summer he became head of publicity for Thomas.
Georgi Veselinov – Zograf.  Georgi Ivanov Veselinov - Zograf (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Веселинов - Зограф) was a Bulgarian National Revival painter public figure and deputy in the II and III National Assembly.
Josephine Alhanko.  Josephine Alhanko (born 24 April 1981 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish actress and former Miss Sweden titleholder. She is niece of the ballet dancer Anneli Alhanko.Alhanko became Sweden's 28th semifinalist at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant held on 23 July in Los Angeles California. She is the first Miss Sweden to place in nine years currently the longest absence in history.
John Barbata.  John Barbata (born April 1 1945) is an American drummer born in Passaic New Jersey and raised in San Luis Obispo California active especially in pop and rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s both as a band member and as a session drummer. Barbata has served as the drummer for The Turtles Crosby Stills Nash & Young Jefferson Airplane (for its final album and tour only) and Jefferson Starship (from 1974 to 1978).
Malathi Rao.  Malathi Rao (Kannada: ಮಾಲತಿ ರಾವ್) is an award winning Indian writer. She won the Central Sahitya Akademi award for her English language novel Disorderly Women in 2007.
Sun Daolin.  Sun Daolin (simplified Chinese: 孙道临; traditional Chinese: 孫道臨; pinyin: Sūn Dàolín) (December 18 1921 – December 28 2007) was a Chinese actor and film director.
Jonas Hellborg.  Jonas Hellborg (born 7 June 1958) is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin Ustad Sultan Khan Fazal Qureshi Bill Laswell Shawn Lane Jens Johansson Anders Johansson Michael Shrieve V. Selvaganesh Mattias IA Eklundh and Buckethead.
Maiysha.  Maiysha Kai (Born April 16 1978) is a Progressive/ Soul/ R & B/ recording artist. Her first album This Much is True was released August 26 2008. Produced by Scott Jacoby her first album features 12 all new tracks and a cover of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.
Z-Ro.  Joseph Wayne McVey (born January 19 1977) better known by his stage names Z-Ro and The Mo City Don is an American rapper from Houston Texas. He was named one of America's most underrated rappers by the New York Times.
Mircea Eliade.  Mircea Eliade (Romanian: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 9 [O.S. February 24] 1907 – April 22 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion fiction writer philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and sky has proved influential.
Patrick Fiori.  Patrick Fiori (born Patrick Jean-François Chouchayan on 23 September 1969 in Marseille France) is a French singer.
Donato Creti.  Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period active mostly in Bologna.Born in Cremona he moved to Bologna where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the Bolognese Marco Benefial in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures.
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan.  Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan (Urdu: فرخ فتح علی خان‎) (December 25 1952 – September 9 2003) was a member of a well-known family of Qawwali musicians. He was the younger brother of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan the son of Ustad Fateh Ali Khan the nephew of Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan and the father of Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Chen Chong Swee.  Chen Chong Swee (Chinese: 陈宗瑞; pinyin: Chén ZōngRuì) was a Singaporean watercolourist belonging to the pioneer generation of artists espousing the Nanyang-styled painting unique to Singapore at the turn of the 20th century. He was also one of the first artists in Singapore to use Chinese ink painting techniques to render scenery and figurative paintings of local and Southeast Asian themes. Born in Swatow Chen attended school at the Union High School in Swatow China and graduated in 1929.
Per Zanussi.  Per Zanussi (born 31 January 1977 in Oslo Norway) is an Italian-Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and composer known from several bands and releases such as with Hamid Drake Louis Moholo Paal Nilssen-Love Bobby Bradford Sabir Mateen Franklin Kiermyer Stephen O'Malley Axel Dörner Petter Wettre Fred Lonberg-Holm Bugge Wesseltoft Mats Gustafsson Kjetil Møster Kevin Norton Ivar Grydeland Ernesto Rodrigues Tetuzi Akiyama and Håvard Wiik.
Robin Laws.  Robin D. Laws (born October 14 1964 in Orillia Ontario Canada) is a writer and game designer who lives in Toronto Ontario Canada. He is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist.
Asa Singh Mastana.  Asa Singh Mastana (Punjabi: ਆਸਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਸਤਾਨਾ)(Surname- 'Blaggan') (1926–1999) was a Punjabi musician and singer best known for lending his voice to the hit Bollywood film Heer and singing jugni and Heer-genre of folk songs which recount the tales of Heer Ranjha by poet Waris Shah. He become popular in the 1940s by mid-1960s when state-run All India Radio started promoting folk musicians this made him along with Surinder Kaur and Kuldeep Manak singers of cult status.
John Dull.  John Dull is a New Jersey folk music artist and folk music promoter. He has been active since the late 1960s. He is a native of Rutherford New Jersey and a graduate of Duke University where he was a starter on the Duke University Football Team.Attending college during the political fire storm of the late 1960s had a huge impact on John's social consciousness.
Professor Elemental.  Paul Alborough more often known as Professor Elemental is a steampunk and chap hop musical artist. After being approached to do a concept album of hip-hop as it would sound in different time periods Emcee Elemental created the character of Professor Elemental. While the album never came to fruition the character stuck. Professor Elemental has since been seen performing as a solo act or in theatre acts such as Come Into My Parlour.
Jeffrey Luck Lucas.  Jeffrey Luck Lucas (born Donald Jeffrey Lucas 23 September 1962 in Gary Indiana) is an American musician. A singer/songwriter composer and arranger he is also a former and founding member of the seminal 1980's garage band The Morlocks as well as a formally trained composer and cellist.
Printers' International Specimen Exchange.  The Printers' International Specimen Exchange was an influential annual subscription publication for the technical education of the working printer that ran from 1880 to 1898. Conceived around the time of the Caxton Celebration of 1877 it was an ambitious expansion of a Specimens column then appearing in the Paper & Printing Trades Journal a widely read trade publication issued by London printers and publishers Field & Tuer and edited by Andrew White Tuer.
Mary Eileen Ahern.  Mary Eileen Ahern (October 1 1860-May 22 1938) was a librarian and leader of the modern library movement.She has been selected as one of the 100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century in the American Libraries list published in 1999. She was an important influencer and early organizer of libraries in America. Mary Ahern was a crusader for the value of public libraries in educating the public.
Shiamak Davar.  Shiamak Davar (born 19 October 1961) is an Indian choreographer noted as one of the first to bring contemporary jazz and western forms of dances to India. He was also the Director of Choreography for the Commonwealth Games Melbourne and Commonwealth Games Delhi. He recently choreographed the dance sequences for the movie Mission Impossible 4.Davar has choreographed several Indian actors and celebrities for film and stage for events like the IIFA Awards and the Filmfare Awards.
Mollie Skinner.  Mary Louisa (Mollie) Skinner (19 September 1876 – 25 May 1955) was an Australian Quaker nurse and writer. She wrote a memoir describing her experiences during the First World War. Mollie was the co-owner of a guesthouse in Darlington Western Australia where D. H. Lawrence stayed shortly after arriving in the country in 1922.
Sam Carr (musician).  Sam Carr (born Samuel Lee McCollum April 17 1926 - September 21 2009) was an American blues drummer best known as a member of The Jelly Roll Kings.Largely self-taught Carr is noted for his mimimalist three-piece drum kit consisting of a snare drum a bass and high hat cymbal.
Andrew McClurg.  Andrew J. McClurg is a professor of law holding the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law specializing in torts products liability privacy law and firearms policy. Although he has published a number of articles in his areas of practice he is also known as a legal humorist having written two legal humor books and having written a legal humor column for more than four years in the American Bar Association Journal.
Joey DeGraw.  Joseph Wayne DeGraw (born August 21 1973) is an American singer-songwriter musician voiceover actor & co-owner of The National Underground bar & record label and brother of famous singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw. His first commercial release was the 2009 album Say Something Strong.
Lloyd Pearson.  Lloyd Pearson (1897-1966) was a British actor born Lloyd Mawson Pearson on December 13 1897 in Cleckheaton near Bradford.He died on June 2 1966.
Butch Cassidy (singer).  Danny Elliott Means II or better known by his stage name Butch Cassidy is an American G-Funk/R&B singer/rapper cousin of Lil' ½ Dead and deceased rapper Nate Dogg who started to sing in the church choir with him. He recently collaborated with Damizza on the popular album Back B4 You're Lonely.
Thoman Burgkmair.  Thoman Burgkmair or Thomas Burgkmair (d.1523) was a German painter.
Sam Keith.  Sam Keith was an American author (1921–2003). His most notable work was the 1973 best seller One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey in which he edited the journals and photographs of his friend Richard Proenneke's solo experiences in Alaska. The book was reissued in 1999 and won a National Outdoor Book Award. Text from the book was used in the documentary seen on PBS ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS.
Chinmoy Guha.  Chinmoy Guha (born in September 1958 in Kolkata India) is a Professor and former Head of Department of English at the University of Calcutta a Bengali essayist and translator and a French-language scholar. He has been the vice-chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications Embassy of France New Delhi.
Alan White (Yes drummer).  Alan White (born 14 June 1949) is an English rock drummer known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes. White was also a member of the Plastic Ono Band playing live in 1969 at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival which was recorded and released three months later as Live Peace in Toronto 1969. In all White has appeared on over fifty albums with artists including John Lennon George Harrison Joe Cocker Ginger Baker and The Ventures.
Avicii.  Tim Bergling (born 8 September 1989) better known by his stage name Avicii (stylized as ɅVICII) is a Swedish DJ remixer and record producer. Avicii ranked 3rd on DJ Magazine's annual Top 100 DJs in 2011 2012 and 2013. He has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award for his work on Sunshine with David Guetta in 2012 and for his song Levels in 2013. His other hit singles are Wake Me Up and Hey Brother.
Casey Burns.  Casey Burns is an American born illustrator screen printer and rock poster artist. He was born in 1975 in Hendersonville North Carolina and was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina where he received a degree in journalism. He currently lives in Portland Oregon and is the Art Director at Bladen County Records.
James Byrne (musician).  James Byrne (Irish: An Beirneach January 1 1946 - November 7 2008) was an Irish farmer and fiddle playing icon from Donegal. He has been called one of Ireland's leading fiddle players.
Shearjashub Spooner.  Shearjashub Spooner (December 3 1809 in Brandon Vermont – March 14 1859 in Plainfield New Jersey) was an American physician and writer.After graduating as a physician in Middlebury in 1830 and New York City in 1835 he became a dentist in New York.He retired in 1858.
Spencer Wiggins.  Spencer Wiggins (born January 8 1942) is an American soul and gospel singer. He is an exponent of so-called deep soul and is considered one of the best kept secrets of soul music.
Benjamin Marshall.  For the American architect see Marshall and FoxBenjamin Marshall (14 October 1768 in Seagrave Leicestershire – 29 January 1835) was an English sporting and animal painter. He was a follower of George Stubbs and studied under Lemuel Abbott for a short period of time.
Sonya Isaacs.  Sonya Melissa Isaacs (born July 22 1974) is an American country and Christian music singer. Isaacs grew up near Morrow Ohio and graduated from Little Miami High School in 1992.She has released one album on Lyric Street Records and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Three were included on her self-titled debut album released in 2000. A fourth was a Christmas single included on the label's multi-artist collection No Wrapping Required: A Christmas Album.
Reena Bhardwaj.  Reena Bhardwaj is a British Indian singer songwriter and recording artist best known for her collaborations with AR Rahman and Nitin Sawhney. Versatile to genre and language her repertoire includes a variety of Indian Traditional Bollywood World and Popular styles sung in various Indian languages (Hindi Punjabi Bengali Tamil Telugu) and English.
Robert Morris (writer).  Robert Morris (1703 – 1754) born in Twickenham was one of the most influential 18th-century English writers on architecture. His patternbook plates have been identified as the principal design sources for several prominent houses of colonial America including Brandon (begun 1765) in Prince George County Virginia and Battersea (begun 1768) in Petersburg Virginia.
Scott M. Gimple.  Scott Milhouse Gimple is a writer for both comics and television.
Claude Audran the Elder.  Claude Audran the Elder was a French engraver.Audran the brother (or as some say the cousin) of Charles Audran was born in Paris in 1597. After receiving some instruction from Charles he moved to Lyons where he died in 1677. It is uncertain whether or not he visited Rome. His engravings which are signed either Claude Audran or Cl. Audran are executed in the manner of Cornelis Cort and F. Villamena. They are mostly portraits and allegories.
McCoy Tyner.  Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia Pennsylvania known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.
Wilhelm Herzog.  Wilhelm Herzog (12 January 1884 in Berlin - 4 April 1960) was a German historian of literature and culture dramatist encyclopedist and pacifist.
Bennie Green.  Bennie Green (April 16 1923 – March 23 1977) was an American jazz trombonist.Born in Chicago Illinois Green worked in the orchestras of Earl Hines and Charlie Ventura and recorded as bandleader through the 1950s and 1960s.
James Wilcox.  James Wilcox (born April 4 1949 in Hammond Louisiana) is an American novelist and a professor at LSU in Baton Rouge. James Wilcox worked at Random House and Doubleday in New York after graduating from Yale. Wilcox was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986.Wilcox is the author of nine comic novels mostly set in or featuring characters from the fictional town of Tula Springs Louisiana.
Eligio Pichardo.  Eligio Pichardo (1929–1984) was a painter from the Dominican Republic. He worked in Santo Domingo and New York City producing Expressionist and Abstract Expressionist works.
Robert Wyatt.  Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge 28 January 1945 Bristol) is an English musician and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.
Valucha deCastro.  Valucha deCastro (October 9 1930 – February 12 2007) was a Brazilian-born singer songwriter and artist. Born in Brazil's Minas Gerais state she grew up in Rio de Janeiro. she was one of the first students of Chicago Illinois's Old Town School of Folk Music and later a teacher of Brazilian folk music there. She recorded an album with the Old Town School's Frank Hamilton titled The World of Frank & Valucha in 1962.
M. Nasir.  Mohamad Nasir Mohamad or M. Nasir (born 4 July 1957 in Singapore) is a Singaporean-Malaysian poet singer-songwriter composer producer actor and film director.
Tom Anderson (fiddler).  Dr Tom (Tammy) Anderson MBE (1910-1991). Shetland fiddler teacher composer collector saver of tradition music was central to his being while his birthplace of Eshaness was a source of inspiration all his days.
Jean Giono.  Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
XLA (singer).  Joseph Achakji (born in Kingston Ontario on February 11 1981) and better known by his stage name XLA is a Canadian urban indie artist of Egyptian origin In 2006 he also established the independent music production and record label Les Disques XWide Tidals Inc. He sings mainly in French but also occasionally in English Spanish and Arabic. Besides vocals he plays guitar piano keyboards drums and tabla.
Mahipati.  Mahipati (1715 - 1790) was a Marathi language hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu sants who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in Maharashtra India.He worked for some time as a scribe for the village of Taharabad in Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra and also for a Mughal landlord.
Kevin Borg.  Kevin James Borg (born 9 June 1986 Floriana Malta) is a Maltese pop singer who lives and works in Sweden. Borg rose to musical fame as the winner of the fifth series of the Swedish singing competition Idol in 2008. He was the third male winner and the first in the show's history to be born outside of Sweden having moved there exactly one year before he was declared winner.
Daniel Lanois.  Daniel Lanois (/lænˈwɑː/ lan-WAH; born September 19 1951 in Hull Quebec) is a Canadian record producer guitarist vocalist and songwriter. Lanois has released several albums of his own work. However he is best known for producing albums for a wide variety of artists including Bob Dylan Neil Young Peter Gabriel Emmylou Harris Willie Nelson and Brandon Flowers. Lanois also collaborated with Brian Eno: most famously on producing several platinum albums for U2 including The Joshua Tree.
Hridoy Khan.  Hridoy Khan (Bengali: হৃদয় খান; born January 3) comes from a musical background. His father Ripon Khan is also a music composer of Bangladesh. Hridoy Khan's first album Hridoy Mix was released in 2008. Hridoy Khan is a Music composer in Bangladesh.
Lytton Strachey.  Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic.A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Carlo Brancaccio.  Carlo Brancaccio (Naples March 6 1861-1920) was an Italian painter active mainly in an Impressionist style.
Redmond A. Simonsen.  Redmond Askel Simonsen (June 18 1942–March 9 2005) was an American graphic artist and game designer best known for his work at the board wargame company Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Simonsen was considered an innovator in game information graphics and is credited with creating the term game designer.As art director at SPI Simonsen supervised the release of over 400 game titles and had game design or development credit for over twenty games.
Klaus Voormann.  Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German artist musician and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including the Beatles the Bee Gees Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer was his work with the band Trio including their worldwide hit Da Da Da.
Paula Lima.  Paula Lima (born in São Paulo 1970) is a Brazilian singer and composer whose music is influenced by bossa percussion samba Brazilian soul international funk music and one of judges of Brazilian Idol Ídolos Brazil (Season 3 and Season 4).Lima's career started a little by chance but she had been involved in different school festivals. In 1992 she joined her firs band the Unidade Móvel which later became Unidade Bop.
Robert Reed (author).  Robert David Reed (born October 9 1956 in Omaha Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an extraordinarily prolific genre short-fiction writer with Alone being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in Asimov's Fantasy & Science Fiction and Sci Fiction.
Lee Kohse.  Lee Kohse is a comic book writer/artist and creative/art director of Allegory.
Bing Slamet.  Ahmad Syech Albar (Arabic: أحمد شيخ البار‎ Aḥmad Šayḫ al-bār; 27 September 1927 – 17 December 1974) better known by his stage name Bing Slamet was an Indonesian singer songwriter comedian and actor. During his career he acted in 17 films and released dozens of albums. Shortly before his death he received a lifetime achievement award from the Governor of Jakarta. Three of his songs were chosen by Rolling Stone Indonesia as some of the best Indonesian songs of all time.
John Vincent (composer).  John Nathaniel Vincent Jr (May 17 1902 – January 21 1977) was an American composer conductor and music educator. He was born in Birmingham Alabama and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under Frederick Converse and George Chadwick graduating with a diploma in 1927. He continued his studies at George Peabody College where he earned a bachelors and a masters degree followed by doctoral studies at Harvard University from 1933–1935.
Tara Donovan.  Tara Donovan (b. 1969 New York) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn New York. She is known for site-specific installation art that utilizes everyday materials whose form is in keeping with generative art.
Trisha Clarke.  Trisha Clarke is a British actress best known for her role as barmaid Geneviève in the 1970s BBC drama series Secret Army. She also appeared as a Mutoid in the sci-fi drama Blake's 7.
Lois Mark Stalvey.  Lois Mark Stalvey (August 22 1925 – December 7 2004) was an American author educator and civil rights activist. She was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin and died in Sedona Arizona. A 1974 Time magazine feature on her writing reported that Stalvey wrote a remarkable chronicle of a white family's confrontation with inner-city schools and a harsh indictment of an educational system that is a disaster for most of its pupils.
Ana Laan.  Ana Serrano van der Laan (the complete name for Ana Laan) is a singer-songwriter born in Madrid Spain. She composes in English Spanish and Swedish with a smattering of French.
Toby Edward Rosenthal.  Toby Edward Rosenthal (15 March 1848 in New Haven Connecticut – 23 December 1917 in Munich) was an American painter.
Magnus Mills.  Magnus Mills is an English author of several novels and short stories.
Gabriela Zapolska.  Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921) known as Gabriela Zapolska was a Polish novelist playwright naturalist writer feuilletonist theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays 23 novels 177 short stories 252 works of journalism one film script and over 1500 letters.Zapolska received most recognition for her socio-satirical comedies. Among them Moralność pani Dulskiej (The Morality of Mrs.
Paul Raymond (musician).  Paul Martin Raymond (16 November 1945 St Albans Hertfordshire England) is an English keyboardist/guitarist.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder.  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (born May 11 1927) is an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: The Egypt Game The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm. Since 1964 Snyder has completed 43 books. She is most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies.
Daphne Clair.  Daphne Clair de Jong (b. 1939 in New Zealand) is a popular New Zealand writer of over 75 romance novels in Mills & Boon and other publishers since 1977 as Daphne Clair and Daphne de Jong and under the pseudonyms Laurey Bright Clair Lorel and Clarissa Garland and she also publishes poetry and articles.Daphne Clair de Jong was a founding member and first president of Feminists for Life New Zealand and wrote articles articulating its position in the seventies.
Wu Xiubo.  Wu Xiubo (Chinese: 吴秀波; pinyin: Wú Xiù Bō) (born 5 September 1968) is a Chinese actor musician and producer. He is perhaps most widely known as Xinjie Liu the protagonist in the TV series Before the Dawn for which he received several awards. Other prominent dramas in which he had a starring role include The Wedding Gown Sword & Spy To the Oak The Brotherhood Road May Say and Invincible Love. He is currently one of the highest paid actors on Chinese television.
Shel Horowitz.  Shel Horowitz is an American author international speaker columnist and marketing consultant. He has been an early and consistent popularizer of the idea that businesses can succeed by embracing principles of honesty integrity and environmental responsibility.
David Pescovitz.  David Pescovitz is a writer and journalist best known for his work on science technology and Internet culture. He is also a co-editor of Boing Boing and a research director with the Institute for the Future.
Nels Jensen.  Nels Jensen entered the music scene in 1998 with the Ska-punk band the Usual Suspects. After several years of performing and recording he decided to expand his knowledge to the other side of the glass. Nels entered Musician’s Institutes’ RIT program in 2004. Soon after Nels was lucky enough to assist the great Orlando Rashid (Jamie Foxx Ludacris T.I.) who had just finished up Jamie Foxx's multi-platinum record Unpredictable.
S. E. Cottam.  The Reverend Samuel Elsworth Cottam M.A. (1863-1943) was an English poet and priest.
Peter Mulvey.  Peter Mulvey is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at Marquette University he honed his performing skills while traveling in Dublin Ireland. He later spent several years in Boston where he frequently performed in the city's subway system.
Jean Lambert-Rucki.  Jean Lambert-Rucki (1888 – 1967) a Polish avant-garde artist sculptor and graphic artist was best known for his participation in the Cubist Surrealist and Art Deco movements. He exhibited at the 1913 Salon d'Automne in Paris; from1919 was represented by both Léonce Rosenberg at the Galerie de l’Effort Moderne and the art dealer Paul Guillaume.
Louis Eliot.  Louis Robert Eliot (born Plymouth England is an English singer songwriter and former guitarist of the now defunct bands Kinky Machine and Rialto. Rialto had three UK top 40 hits in the late Nineties: Monday Morning 5.19; Untouchable Dream Another Dream. Their biggest sales were in South East Asia notably South Korea where they displaced Celine Dion's My Love Will Go On from the number one spot with double Platinum album sales for Rialto.
Stephen Pearce.  Stephen Pearce (16 November 1819 – 31 January 1904) was a portrait and equestrian painter. Forty-four portraits which he painted are in the National Portrait Gallery in London which also contains two self-portraits.
John R. Carling.  John Carling was a writer of historical fiction novels. He is best known for his novel The Doomed City (1910).
Pierre Petitclair.  Pierre Petitclair (12 October 1813 - 15 August 1860) was one of the first native French Canadian writers. He wrote two popular plays of the 19th century La Donation (1842) and Une partie de campagne (1857) the latter notable for using rural québécois speech for the first time on stage. He also composed a number of poems throughout his life.He started out in studies of law but flourished as an artist while working as a copyist for the notary Archibald Campbell.
Maria Peale.  Maria Peale (1787–1866) was an American painter primarily of still-lifes. She was the daughter of James Peale and the sister of Margaretta Angelica Peale Sarah Miriam Peale and Anna Claypoole Peale but unlike her sisters she never pursued an artistic career. She only exhibited one painting a still-life of vegetables; currently unlocated it was shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1811.
Rale Micic.  Rale Mićić (Cyrillic:Рале Mићић) born October 9 1975 in Belgrade Serbia) is an Serbian jazz guitarist and composer in the United States.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to emerge from Serbia. Micic moved to United States in 1995 after receiving a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music where he studied with George Garzone John Thomas and Bob Brookmeyer.
Amy Alkon.  Amy Alkon (born March 8 1964) also known as the Advice Goddess writes a weekly advice column Ask the Advice Goddess which is published in over 100 newspapers within North America. While Alkon addresses a wide range of topics she primarily focuses on issues in intimate relationships. Her columns are notable for incorporating insights from evolutionary psychology.
Graeme Base.  Graeme Rowland Base (born 6 April 1958) is an author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book Animalia published in 1986 and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989.He was born in Amersham England but moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight and has lived there ever since.
Deric Wan.  Deric Wan Siu-lun is a Hong Kong actor singer and songwriter who has acted in many movies and TV series and released several music albums. He is most notable for his TV theme songs including a duet with Nadia Chan a reproduction of the song Yat saang ho kau (一生何求) and TVB series such as Looking Back in Anger and The Breaking Point. Wan has worked for TVB and CCTV. He currently works at STTV.
Giulio Cesare Angeli.  Giulio Cesare Angeli (c. 1570 - c. 1630) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque active mainly in Perugia and Bologna. Born in Perugia. He trained with Annibale Carracci. Among his works are at the Oratorio di Sant Agostino in Perugia. He helped train Stefano Amadei and Cesare Franchi.
Whanki Kim.  Kim Whanki also Kim Whan-ki or Kim Hwan-gi (1913 – 1974) was a pioneering abstract artist of Korea. Born February 27 1913 in the village of Eupdong-ri on the island of Anjwado Sinan County South Jeolla Province Kim died in New York City USA on July 25 1974.Kim belongs to the first generation of Korean Abstract artists mixing oriental concepts and ideals with abstraction. With refined and moderated formative expression based on Korean Lyricism he created his characteristic art world.
Farrukh Ahmad.  Farrukh Ahmad (Bengali-ফররুখ আহমদ) (1918–1974) was a poet and writer of Bangladesh. He is commonly known as the 'Poet of Muslim renaissance' as many of his poems emblem the spirit of resurrection particularly in the hearts of the down-trodden Muslims of the then Bengal.
Neon Park.  Neon Park (born Martin Muller December 28 1940–September 1 1993) was an American artist and illustrator best known for the images that have strongly defined covers for nearly every Little Feat album except for the band's self-titled first album. He also created the cover of Weasels Ripped My Flesh for Frank Zappa as well as covers and graphics for David Bowie Dr. John and the Beach Boys.
Judy Clay.  Judy Clay (September 12 1938 – July 19 2001) was an American soul and gospel singer who achieved greatest success as a member of two recording duos in the 1960s.
Robert Coupland Harding.  Robert Coupland Harding (19 October 1849–16 December 1916) was a New Zealand printer typographer and journalist. He was born in Wellington Wellington New Zealand on 19 October 1849.
Josh Osho.  Josh Osho is an English singer-songwriter from South London who was previously signed to Island Records.
Patrick Matthews.  Patrick Matthews (born 29 November 1975) is the former bass guitarist of Australian garage rock band The Vines and currently the bass guitarist of Youth Group. In 1994 Matthews founded The Vines with vocalist and lead guitarist Craig Nicholls. The two met while working at McDonald's in Sydney. Matthews stayed with the band for two albums Highly Evolved (2002)and Winning Days (2004).
Noel Osborne.  Noel Osborne is a Los Angeles based recording artist producer song writer actor and C.E.O of O entertainment group inc.[citation needed] Noel Osborne is best known[citation needed] for his work on the Bran Van 3000 album Rosé in which Noel is referred to as a quantum producer.
Melanie Kent Steinhardt.  Melanie Kent Steinhardt (May 26 1899 – January 17 1952) was a Bohemian American painter printmaker and ceramicist.
Peter Kuhfeld.  Peter Kuhfeld (born 4 March 1952) is an English figurative painter. He was born in Cheltenham and is married to the English figurative painter Cathryn Kuhfeld née Showan. They have two daughters who have often appeared in their paintings.
Niccolo Lamberti.  Niccolo Lamberti (late 14th century) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school active in 1382. He was a pupil of the Orcagna and painted in company with Jacopo (?) in the palace at Volterra a fresco representing the Annunciation with Saints.
Joseph Pach.  Joseph Pach (born January 8 1928 in Toronto Ontario Canada) is a Canadian violinist.
Nick Burd.  Nick Burd is an American award-winning novelist.
Ingvar Moe.  Ingvar Moe (11 December 1936 - 1 September 1993) was a Norwegian poet novelist and children's writer. He published over 20 books including short stories novels poetry and textbooks.
Miki Higashino.  Miki Higashino (東野美紀 Higashino Miki born January 1 1968) is a Japanese video game composer best known for her works in the Suikoden series.
Walt Groller.  Walt Groller (born February 12 1931 in Allentown Pennsylvania) is an American polka musician. He is generally considered one of the premier polka musicians in the world.
Jim Klein.  Jim Klein is a Los Angeles born Philadelphia-based Emmy-award winning composer music producer recording engineer and songwriter. Klein is best known as the producer and songwriter behind the influential Latin Freestyle group Pajama Party whose albums produced several hit singles. He is also a published author and is on the faculty of Drexel University's Music Industry program.
Isla Bevan.  Isla Bevan (1910-1976) was a British stage and film actress.
Henry B. Christian.  Henry B. Christian (1883–1953) was a painter who was born in Minneapolis Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and first visited Hawaii in 1908. He made frequent trips between Minnesota and Hawaii before settling in Honolulu. Christian was art director of Paradise of the Pacific 1908-10 1917–19 and 1922–38. He died in Honolulu on December 23 1953.
Rose Maddox.  Roselea Arbana Rose Maddox (August 15 1925 – April 15 1998) was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player who was the lead singer with the Maddox Brothers and Rose before a successful solo career. Her musical styles straddled hillbilly music rockabilly and gospel. She was noted for her reputation as a lusty firebrand and her colorful Western costumes; she was one of the earliest clients of the Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn.
Demo Castellon.  Demacio Demo Castellon is a Cuban American sound engineer who frequently collaborates with Timbaland.Castellon met and began dating Canadian recording artist Nelly Furtado in 2006 while the two were working on Furtado's third studio album Loose (2006). The couple became engaged in July 2007 and wed on July 19 2008.In 2000 Castellon studied Political Science at the University of Florida. He also attended Full Sail University in Winter Park Florida.
Philomena Begley.  Philomena Begley (born October 20 1942) is an Irish country music singer.
Grant Buist.  Grant Buist (born 1973) is a celebrated cartoonist and animator from Wellington New Zealand. He is notable for his comic strips Jitterati and Brunswick whose characters have been reproduced in many forms of cultural production including newspapers murals short films and theatre productions.
Christina Grand.  Christina Grand (born February 17) in New Jersey
Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin.  Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin (22 February 1871 – 30 January 1942) was a French composer. She was born in Saint Brieuc and died in Côtes-d'Armor.
Dale Kennington.  Dale Kennington (born 1935) is a Contemporary Artist working in the style of New American Realism.
Scott Murawski.  Scott Murawski (born October 21 1956 in Agawam Massachusetts) is an American multi-instrumentalist specializing on the electric guitar. He has achieved fame primarily on guitar with the American rock band Max Creek. He is also a proficient pianist bassist and drummer.Murawski is a long-time member of Phish bassist Mike Gordon's solo band and BK3 a trio led by Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and Bonnie Raitt bassist James Hutch Hutchinson.
Anthony Johnson (musician).  Roy Anthony Johnson (born 25 December 1957) better known simply as Anthony Johnson is a Jamaican reggae singer who was a member of the group Mystic I and is known for the 1980s hit song Gunshot.
Vaughan Penn.  Vaughan Penn is an American singer/songwriter from North Carolina who has had over 100 major television and film placements featuring 35 different songs on shows such as Grey's Anatomy Private Practice Boston Legal The Hills↑
Kashif (musician).  Kashif Saleem (born Michael Jones in 1959) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter record producer artist composer author director and educator.Kashif first taught himself to play a $3 song flute at age seven and later the piano in the basement of his church. At age 15 Kashif joined B. T. Express and performed on stages around the world. He studied Islam and changed his name from Michael Jones to Kashif which means discoverer and inventor.
Aleksandar Đuričić.  Aleksandar Đuričić (Cyrillic: Александар Ђуричић; Anglicised: Aleksandar Djuricic; also known as: Ash) (born on 1 October 1982 in Požarevac) is a young Serbian novelist and a playwright. Author of the novel Surf na crvenom talasu and play Marlon Monroe.
Kumi Miyasato.  Kumi Miyasato (宮里久美 Miyasato Kumi) is a Japanese pop singer and voice actor who was popular in her native Japan in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Joyzelle Joyner.  Joyzelle Joyner (August 27 1905 - November 30 1980) was an American actress and dancer. She appeared in at least thirty films between 1925 and 1935 gained some notoriety for her appearance in The Sign of the Cross.
Josh G Abrahams.  Josh G. Puretone Abrahams (born 1968 in Melbourne Victoria Australia) is an Australian musician who emerged from the underground dance music scene in the early 1990s. He has performed and recorded under the stage name Puretone and is also known as The Pagan and Bassliners.Abrahams is a composer producer bass guitarist and electronica/techno artist and has worked as a writer music director and producer on albums and film soundtracks and in television and theatre.
Thomas Andrew (photographer).  Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 - 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived in Samoa from 1891 until his death in 1939. Andrew took photographs that are of significant historical and cultural value including the recording on camera of key events in Samoa's colonial era such as the Mau movement the volcanic eruption of Mt Matavanu (1905–1911) and the funeral of writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
Vlatko Lozanoski.  Vlatko Lozanoski - Lozano (Macedonian: Влатко Лозаноски - Лозано) is a Macedonian singer from Kičevo - Republic of Macedonia. Together with Esma Redžepova he represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö Sweden.
Odean Pope.  Odean Pope (born October 24 1938 Ninety Six South Carolina) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Pope was raised in Philadelphia where he learned from Ray Bryant while young. Early in his career at Philadelphia’s Uptown Theater Pope played behind a number of noted rhythm and blues artists including James Brown Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.He played briefly in the 1960s with Jimmy McGriff and late in the 1960s he began working with Max Roach including on tours of Europe in 1967-68.
François Mulard.  François Henri Mulard (1769–1850) was a neoclassical French painter.He is known for painting the encounter of Persian envoy Mirza Mohammed Reza Qazvini with Napoleon at the Finckenstein Palace on 27 April 1807.
Ramit Sethi.  Ramit Singh Sethi is an American personal finance advisor and entrepreneur. Sethi is the author of the 2009 book on personal finance I Will Teach You To Be Rich a New York Times Bestseller and a co-founder of PBWorks a commercial wiki website.Sethi attended Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks CA[citation needed] and in 2004 he graduated from Stanford University in Science Technology Society with a minor in Psychology.
Maria Longworth Nichols Storer.  Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (March 20 1849 – April 30 1932) was the founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati Ohio United States a patron of fine art and the granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longworth (patriarch of the famous Longworth family).
Mario Duschenes.  Mario Duschenes CM LL.D. (27 October 1923 – 31 January 2009) was a Canadian flautist recorder player music educator and conductor.
George-Emmanuel Lazaridis.  George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (born 1978 Thessaloniki Greece) is a Greek classical pianist and composer.
Hans Adam Weissenkircher.  Hans Adam Weissenkircher (10 February 1646 – 16 January 1695) was an Austrian Baroque painter and court painter of the Prince Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg in Graz.
Sinibaldo Ibi.  Sinibaldo or Sinibaldi Ibi was an Italian painter active in the early 16th century. He probably resided at Gubbio and was a member of the Guild of Perugia in 1527. In 1507 he painted a Virgin and Child between SS. Sebastian and Tibaldo. for one of the altar pieces in the cathedral of Gubbio being then the companion of Orlando of Perugia. In the Gallery at Perugia is an Annunciation painted by him in 1528.
Anthony Anaxagorou.  Anthony Anaxagorou (born March 1983) is a poet and writer from North London.Anthony Anaxagorou began writing short stories and poems at the age of 14 influenced mainly by both hip-hop and folk music until in 2002 at the age of 17 he entered and won the London Mayors Poetry Slam with his poem Anthropos.
Katy Moffatt.  Katherine Louella Katy Moffatt (born November 19 1950) is an American musician lyricist composer vocalist. She is the sister of country singer-songwriter Hugh Moffatt.
Inkulab.  Makkal Pavalar Inkulab (also spelt Inquilab Inkulab or Ingulab) (Tamil: மக்கள் பாவலர் இன்குலாப்) is a rationalist Tamil poet/writer activist and Communist with Marxist Leninist inclination. He retired as a professor of Tamil at The New College Chennai Tamil Nadu. His birth name is Shahul Hameed and a known follower of Periyar.His poems espousing rationality have been critically acclaimed.
Claude Lombard.  Claude Lombard (born 1945 in Brussels) is a Belgian singer best known internationally for her participation in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest.
Kanichi Kurita.  Kanichi Kurita (栗田 貫一 Kurita Kan'ichi born March 3 1958) is a Japanese voice actor and comedian. His most famous role is Lupin the Third in the anime of the same name. He inherited the role from Yasuo Yamada after the latter's death in 1995 and his first role as Lupin was in the theatrical film Farewell to Nostradamus. He is still doing the voice of Lupin and has done seventeen films and yearly television specials.
Avril Coleridge-Taylor.  Gwendolyn Avril Coleridge-Taylor (8 March 1903 – 21 December 1998) was an English pianist conductor and composer.
Richie Faulkner.  Richard Ian Faulkner (born 1 January 1980) is an English guitarist.Faulkner was born in London. In the early stages of his career he played in bands such as Dirty Deeds Voodoo Six Ace Mafia and Lauren Harris' band. On 20 April 2011 he was appointed as the successor of K.K.
Simón Echeverría.  Simón Big Simon Echeverría Romero (born July 9 1972 in Santiago de Chile - died - July 31 2006) was a record producer best known for his work with Alejandro Sanz Amaral Celtas Cortos Nacho Vega Rosana Joaquín Sabina Mägo de Oz Luis Cobos Saratoga Los Pecos Sergio Dalma Sôber Stravaganzza Skizoo Dark Moor WarCry Ebony Ark Coilbox Dreamaker Silver Fist Miguel Bosé Terroristars Infernoise FreakMind etc.
Richard Templar.  Richard Templar is the pen name of a British author who has written several self-development books. He shares his path to success in a series of books in which 100 simple Rules are presented to achieve success: be it in business money or life in general. Rules are typically presented on two pages making the books easy to read and suitable for dipping into at random.The books contain the distinctive use of British English.
Cosimo Gamberucci.  Cosimo Gamberucci (1562-1621) a Florentine painter was a scholar of Battista Naldini. He did not attain to great celebrity in the art although some of his works in the churches at Florence particularly his picture of St. Peter curing the lame Man in San Pietro Maggiore just amount to respectability. He also painted easel pictures which are found in the collections at Florence.
Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen.  Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen (5 September 1915 - 21 April 1985) was a Norwegian poet and travel-writer.
Damon Scott.  Damon Scott (born 1979 in Salisbury) is a British male entertainer made famous for his appearance in the first series of the hit ITV variety talent show Britain's Got Talent. Although Damon has an extensive range of acts he is best known for his performances with monkey puppets earning him the nickname The Monkey Man which became the title of a BBC documentary based on Damon’s achievements.
Maud Allan.  For the American film actor see Maude Allen.Maud Allan (27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a pianist-turned-actor dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her famously impressionistic mood settings.
Markéta Irglová.  Markéta Irglová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmarkɛːta ˈɪrɡlovaː]) (born 28 February 1988 in Valašské Meziříčí Moravia in what was then Czechoslovakia but is now Czech Republic) is a Czech singer-songwriter musician and actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Falling Slowly at the 80th ceremony which was co-written with Glen Hansard.
Frederick George Hall-Jones.  Frederick George Hall-Jones (4 July 1891–28 January 1982) was a New Zealand lawyer historian and community leader. He was born in Scarborough Southern Canterbury New Zealand on 4 July 1891.
Steve Arrington.  Steve Arrington (born Steven Ralph Arrington March 5 1956) is an American singer songwriter drummer record producer engineer and minister who grew up in Dayton Ohio.
Wally Badarou.  Wally Badarou (born Waliou Jacques Daniel Isheola Badarou 22 March 1955) is a musician.
David Gewirtz.  David Allen Gewirtz is an American journalist author and U.S. policy advisor who has written more than 900 articles about technology competitiveness and national security policy. Gewirtz was featured on The History Channel television special The President's Book of Secrets which detailed secret information privy only to the President of the United States. He currently serves as director of the U.S.
Barış Akarsu.  Barış Akarsu (June 29 1979 – July 4 2007) was a Turkish rock musician and actor who rose to fame after winning the television series Akademi Türkiye (Academy Turkey) in July 2004. He released two studio albums in three years and was also acting in television series Yalancı Yarim (My Lying Lover) which aired on Star TV.On 29 June 2007 he was seriously injured in a car accident on his way back from a charity concert for children.
Kōji Ishizaka.  Kōji Ishizaka (石坂 浩二 Ishizaka Kōji born 20 June 1941 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor.Ishizaka studied at Keio University.He starred as Kindaichi in the 1970s series of Kindaichi films.
Asia Carrera.  Asia Carrera (born Jessica Steinhauser on August 6 1973) is an American former pornographic actress.
Davey Holmes.  Davey Holmes (born October 4 1969) is an American screenwriter producer and playwright.
Shiva (singer).  Louise Dean was a singer for the dance band Shiva (4 April 1971 – 18 June 1995). She died in a hit and run accident. She is known for the house songs Work It Out and Freedom the latter of which reached number 18 in the UK Singles Chart shortly after her death. The two founding members of the band were Gino Piscitelli and Paul Ross who both hailed from Huddersfield West Yorkshire. Piscitelli and Ross wrote the lyrics and music for Shiva whilst Dean sang the songs.
Orcagna.  Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – August 25 1368) better known as Orcagna was an Italian painter sculptor and architect active in Florence.
Henry Hallett.  Henry Hallett (1888-1952) was a British stage and film actor.
Giorgio Faletti.  Giorgio Faletti (born 25 November 1950) is an Italian writer actor and singer-songwriter. Born in Asti Piedmont he currently resides in Elba Island.
Greg Olsen (artist).  Greg Olsen (born 1958 in Idaho) is a prolific Latter-day Saint artist of the late 20th and early 21st century famous for his paintings Kings of Kings and O Jerusalem. Olsen's paintings are in at least 20 temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Many major corporations have his work as well as The Pentagon. Dozens of his paintings have been used in church periodicals.
Mic Looby.  Mic Looby is an Australian author and illustrator.A former guidebook writer for Lonely Planet his debut novel Paradise Updated – a satire about the inner workings of a guidebook company – was published in 2009 by Affirm Press. Looby is also a columnist with the Australian chapter of The Big Issue magazine and has illustrated three titles in the It's True! series of children's non-fiction books published by Allen & Unwin.
John Quincy Adams Ward.  John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29 1830 – May 1 1910) was an American sculptor who is most familiar for his over-lifesize standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall on Wall Street.
John M. Green.  John Martin Green (born 1953) is an Australian writer and publisher and the former executive director of an investment bank. He founded Pantera Press through which he published his first novel Nowhere Man. Green has also served as a partner in two law firms and has written for several publications such as The Age and The Australian.As of 2010 Green and his wife live in Sydney.
Dorothy Macardle.  Dorothy Macardle (2 February 1889 in Dundalk – 23 December 1958 in Drogheda) was an Irish writer novelist playwright and non-academic historian. Her book The Irish Republic is one of the more frequently cited narrative accounts of the Irish War of Independence and its aftermath particularly for its exposition of the anti-treaty viewpoint.
Arthur Wong.  Arthur Wong Ngok-Tai (Chinese: 黃岳泰) is a nine time Hong Kong Film Awards-winning cinematographer actor screenwriter film producer and film director.
Alfred Janes.  Alfred George Janes (30 June 1911 – 3 February 1999) was a Welsh artist who worked in Swansea and Croydon. He experimented with many forms but is best known for his meticulous still lifes and portraits.He is also remembered as one of The Kardomah Gang an informal group of young artists in Swansea that included the poets Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins and the composer Daniel Jones.
Juan F. Acosta.  Juan F. Acosta (May 27 1890 – 1968) was a Puerto Rican composer and music teacher.
Masami Hisamoto.  Masami Hisamoto (久本雅美 Hisamoto Masami) (July 9 1958 – ) is a Japanese comedian actress singer and tarento from Osaka Hirano Ward belonging to the Wahaha talent agency. She is also as of 2007 the head of the fine arts department of Soka Gakkai International.
Andrew Dawson (record producer).  Andrew Dawson (born March 12 1980) is an American music producer engineer mixer and songwriter based in Los Angeles California. Dawson is a three-time Grammy award winner and six-time Grammy nominee having won for his work as engineer and mixer on Kanye West's Late Registration (2005) Graduation (2007) and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2011) - each winning the Best Rap Album category. Dawson is also credited with additional production on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Shivnath Mishra.  Pandit Shivnath Mishra (b. October 12 1943) is an Indian sitarist and composer. He is an exponent of the Benares Gharana school of Hindustani classical music. He was formerly a lecturer and the Head of the Music Department at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University Varanasi. A 2011 ITV documentary described Pandit Shivnath along with his son Deobrat as 'household names on the Indian music scene'.
Mahiru Konno.  Mahiru Konno (紺野 まひる Konno Mahiru born April 12 1977 in Toyonaka Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese actress.
Jerry Lawson (musician).  Jerry Lawson (born 1944) is a lead singer producer musical arranger performer best known as the original lead singer of The Persuasions.Born as Jerome E. Lawson in Ft Lauderdale Florida he was raised in Apopka Florida. He currently resides in Scottsdale Arizona with his wife Julie.
Little Sammy Davis.  Little Sammy Davis (born November 28 1928) is an American blues musician based in New York's Hudson Valley. Although his musical career began in the 1940s he was not widely known until the mid-1990s when he began working in radio singing playing live on tour and recording studio albums.
Ernesto Rigamonti.  Ernesto Rigamonti (Milan 1864-1942) was an Italian painter.He resident in Milan. He exhibited in 1883 at Milan: Rosso di sera Bel dì si spera and Rustico; in 1884 at Turin Le frutta dell' orto. At the 1891 Exposition triennale of the Brera Academy he exhibited Interno studio dal vero and a landscape titled Il Gorgazzo a Poicenico.
Kedar Pandit.  Kedar Pandit (born 22 February 1967) is an Indian tabla player.
Ketaki Pimpalkhare.  Ketaki Pimpalkhare (25 September 1977) is an Indian painter. Pimpalkhare has exhibited solo and group in India and also internationally.
Linda Womack.  Linda Womack (née Cooke; born April 25 1953) also known as Zeriiya Zekkariyas is an American singer and songwriter.Womack is the daughter of Sam Cooke and with her husband Cecil Womack has had a successful recording career under the name Womack & Womack. Their first album Love Wars proved a critical hit on the Elektra label. Baby I'm Scared of You was a Top 40 R&B single. Other albums included Radio M.U.S.I.C.
Su Lian Tan.  Su Lian Tan (born 1964) is a renowned composer and flautist.[citation needed] Her works which tend to be regarded as avant-garde[citation needed] have been commissioned by the Takács Quartet Meridian Arts Ensemble and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She is currently on the faculty at Middlebury College where her students have included members of the band Dispatch.[citation needed]Born in Malaysia Tan was a child prodigy who began a professional career in music at the age of 14.
Peter Basquin.  Peter Basquin is an American pianist and a winner of the Montreal International Competition. He attended both Carleton College and Manhattan School of Music where his teachers were Dora Zaslavsky and William Nelson. He is chairman of the American Composers Orchestra and is Professor Emeritus at the Hunter College. He have solo appearances at the American and Boston Symphony Orchestras as well as Minnesota the Westchester Philharmonic and the Hunter Symphony.
Jim Page (singer).  Jim Page (born 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and social activist.
Momoko Ishikawa.  Momoko Ishikawa (石川 桃子 Ishikawa Momoko born July 16) is a Japanese voice actress from Hyogo Prefecture Japan and works for I'm Enterprise.
Gary S. Paxton.  Gary Sanford Paxton (born May 18 1939) is an American record producer and a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning songwriter and recording artist.
Amjad Adaileh.  Amjad Adaileh (Arabic: امجد عودة العضايلة‎) is a Jordanian politician and media figure. Born in 1962 in Kerak south of Jordan where he finished High School.
Kurt Schwitters.  Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover Germany.Schwitters worked in several genres and media including Dada Constructivism Surrealism poetry sound painting sculpture graphic design typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages called Merz Pictures.
Carla Brown.  Carla Brown (born March 11 1982 in Basildon Essex) is an English glamour model known for her topless and nude modelling and softcore pornography. Carla began her modelling career in 2001 with appearances on Page 3 of The Sun Daily Star and the Daily Sport tabloid newspapers. She then went on to appear in a large number of 'lads mags' including FHM Maxim Loaded Nuts Zoo Fast Car Max Power and Front magazine amongst others.Carla has also shot for Met-Art Perfect 10 and Playboy editions.
Paddy Casey.  Patrick Paddy Casey is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin. Casey was discovered by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by Dave Murphy. He was signed by Sony and was eventually taken in by U2's management company Principle Management.
Jan Griffier.  Jan Griffier (ca 1652–1718) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was active in England where he was admitted to the London Company of Painter-Stainers in 1677.
Maggie Laubser.  Maria Magdalena Laubser known as Maggie Laubser (14 April 1886 – 17 May 1973) was a South African painter and printmaker. She is generally considered along with Irma Stern to be responsible for the introduction of Expressionism to South Africa. Her work was initially met with derision by critics but has gained wide acceptance and now she is regarded as an exemplary and quintessentially South African artist.
Ferenc Máté.  Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungary) escaped Hungary after the revolution with his mother to Vancouver British Columbia. He has lived in British Columbia California New York Paris and Rome and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife painter and winemaker Candace Máté and their son Peter. For much of their first twenty years together Máté and his wife lived on sailboats traveling the world photographing and occasionally publishing books and calendars on sailboats.
Evelyn Cameron.  Evelyn Cameron (1868–1928) was a Terry Montana based photographer. British-born Cameron and her naturalist husband Ewen moved to Terry in the 19th century. Evelyn Cameron took startlingly clear pictures of everything: cowboys sheepherders weddings river crossings freight wagons people working badlands eagles coyotes and wolves.Cameron garnered national acclaim for the area through the work of former Time-Life Books editor Donna Lucey.
Malcolm MacDonald (composer).  Malcolm MacDonald (1916–1992) was a British composer. Probably his best-known work is the Cuban Rondo for clarinet and orchestra written in 1960.He contributed to The Gramophone journal.
Romare Bearden.  Romare Bearden (September 2 1911 – March 12 1988) was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons oils and collage. Born in Charlotte North Carolina Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South.
Agnieszka Włodarczyk.  Agnieszka Włodarczyk (born 13 December 1980 in Sławno) is a Polish actress and singer. As an actress she is best known for her roles in the movie Sara and a TV comedy series 13 Posterunek. In 2007 she released a debut album Nie dla oka.
Eric Wright (writer).  Eric Wright (born 4 May 1929) is a professor and Canadian writer of mystery novels.Wright was born on Kennington Park Road in South London England. He is the son of seamstress Caroline (Curnow) and carter Joseph Wright. Wright was born to a large poor family of ten children. After growing up in Lambeth he immigrated to Canada in 1951.He attended the University of Manitoba where he completed his B.A. (1957)and the University of Toronto where he received his M.A. (1963).
Ruby Amanfu.  Ruby Amanfu is a Grammy award nominated singer-songwriter and performer residing in Nashville Tennessee. She is best known for recording and touring with Jack White and a captivating and controversial performance at the 2013 Grammy Awards. She is currently releasing new music with a double single release as of October 15th 2013 consisting of the songs Bluff and Love Out Loud.
Harish Raghavendra.  Harish Raghavendra (born 7 January 1976) is an Indian vocalist and actor from Chennai India. He is the son of photographer P.V Raghavendran. Harish is best known for his songs like Hey Azhagiya Theeyee from Minnale Nirpadhuve Nadapadhuve from Barathi Devathayai Kanden from Kadhal Kondein Sakkarai Nilave from Youth Melliname Melliname from Shahjahan and Anbe Enn Anbe from Dhaam Dhoom. He has also acted in a few Tamil Movies.
Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter.  Jerzy Eleuter Szymonowicz Siemiginowski (ca. 1660 – ca. 1711) was a prominent Polish painter and engraver of the Baroque court painter of king John III Sobieski and a Polish–Lithuanian noble. He is considered one of the most accomplished painters of Classical Baroque in Poland who joined in his works classical theory with genuine motives.
Pierre Michel.  Pierre Michel (born 11 June 1942) is a professor of literature and a scholar specializing in the French writer Octave Mirbeau.Michel was born in Toulon the son of the historian Henri Michel.After defending his doctoral dissertation on the works of Octave Mirbeau at the University of Angers in 1992 Michel founded a year later the Société Octave Mirbeau a literary society he is currently presiding.
Gonzalo de la Torre.  Gonzalo de la Torre (born February 1 1977 in Mexico City Mexico) better known as Gonzalo is a Mexican American singer songwriter director and producer.Gonzalo received singer-songwriter of the year at the 2010 Los Angeles Music Awards and Billboard World Song Contest Honorable Mention.
Giacinto Marras.  Giacinto Marras (1810 at Naples — 1883) was a singer and musical composer.He studied music in Naples; came to England 1835; sang at and gave concerts with Giulia Grisi Luigi Lablache Michael William Balfe and others; visited Russia 1842 and Vienna and Naples later; was in Paris 1844; settled in England 1846; published songs and other works; sang in public; Institut d'après-midis musicales at his own house; visited India 1870-3 and the Riviera 1879; immense repertoire of oratorio opera and chamber music; as composer belongs to Italian school; published also Lezioni di Canto and Elementi Vocali 1850 valuable treatises on singing.
Arne Ruste.  Arne Ruste (born 1942) is a Norwegian poet essayist novelist and magazine editor. He made his literary debut in 1973 with the poetry collection Askeladd. He co-edited the magazine Poesi Magasin from 1983 to 1985. He was manager of The Norwegian Writers' Center from 1994 to 1999. Ruste was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1978.
Bob Andrews (guitarist).  Bob Derwood Andrews (born Robert Ian Andrews; 17 June 1959 Fulham London) is an English guitarist and former member of the punk rock band Generation X.His guitar playing in the English punk band Generation X is at par with some of the guitar greats of all time. At the age of 17 he was one of the few guitarists in punk that would wail his Strat solos over the frantic music that Generation X and the movement was known for.
Gary G-Wiz.  Gary Rinaldo (born May 3 1969) better known by the name Gary G-Wiz is an American record producer and composer. Most known for being a member of the hip hop production team The Bomb Squad G-Wiz is a longtime Public Enemy producer and contributed to many albums including: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black Greatest Misses Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age Autobiography of Mistachuck There's A Poison Goin On Revolverlution and How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?.
Nachman Fahrner.  Nachman Fahrner (born September 21 1972) is a contemporary religious Jewish musician in Israel. He is a convert to Judaism. Fahrner's main influences are Elvis Presley Django Reinhardt forties and fifties blues R&B and rockabilly. He received encouragement from Luther Allison and was a long-time friend of French Jazz-guitarist Patrick Saussois.
Lloyd Price.  Lloyd Price (born March 9 1933) is an American R&B vocalist. Known as Mr. Personality after the name of one of his biggest million-selling hits. His first recording Lawdy Miss Clawdy was a hit on Specialty Records in 1952 and although he continued to release records none were as popular until several years later when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Raymond Jones (composer).  Raymond Jones is a television composer who is best known for his work on Doctor Who.Jones's work on Doctor Who was during William Hartnell's era as the First Doctor in The Romans (Doctor Who) in 1965 but he also composed for three episodes of BBC television's Wodehouse Playhouse in 1975.
Oscar Roty.  Louis-Oscar Roty usually known as Oscar Roty (11 June 1846 – 23 March 1911) was one of the most celebrated medallists of the Art Nouveau period.
Romeo Castellucci.  Romeo Castellucci (1960 –) is an Italian theatre director playwright artist and designer. Since the 1980s he has been one part of the European theatrical avant-garde. He earned his diploma in set design and painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and founded along with his sister Claudia Castellucci and Chiara Guidi the Societas Raffaello Sanzio. Since then the company has released more than a dozen books and has received numerous awards and recognitions.
G. B. Singh.  G.B. Singh is the author of Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity a biography of Mahatma Gandhi and Gandhi Under Cross Examination.A Periodontist Singh served in the US Army as a Colonel one of a small number of Sikhs allowed to retain articles of faith grandfathered in after a change in policy in 1984 forbidding soldiers from exhibiting their religion with conspicuous clothing or style of hair or beard. He is one of the only Sikhs with a turban in the US army.
Clare Foster.  Clare Foster (born 1981) is a British actress who trained at Masters Performing Arts College. She has played numerous roles both on and off the West End and has also been seen as a regular PC Millie Brown in the ITV series The Bill. Foster recently appeared in the 2011 London revival production of Crazy for You which played at the Novello Theatre. She appeared in the Les Misérables film.
Tamihana Te Rauparaha.  Tamihana (born Katu) Te Rauparaha (1820s – October 1876) was a notable New Zealand Māori leader Christian evangelist writer and sheepfarmer and assessor. He was born in Pukearuhe Taranaki New Zealand the son of the great Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha and his fifth and senior wife Te Akau of Tuhourangi.In 1842 Tamihana worked as a missionary in the South Island easing fears of renewed conflict from his father's old enemies. The following year he married Ruta Te Kapu in Otaki.
Moomin (singer).  MOOMIN (むーみん)(born July 13 1972) is a Japanese reggae artist. Along with a number of colleagues he is responsible for the growth and popularity of Japan's reggae scene.He is originally from Chigasaki Kanagawa and is married with two children. He works at Overheat Studios and keeps his real name secret.Moomin first appeared on the reggae scene in 1992 and traveled to Jamaica the following year.
Catalina (pornographic actress).  Catalina (born July 1 1978 in Ventura County California) is an American former pornographic actress.
Mary Melfi.  Mary Melfi (born 1 July 1951) is a Canadian writer of Italian descent. A prolific poet novelist and playwright Melfi was born in Casacalenda a small mountain town south of Rome in 1951. At the age of six she immigrated with her family to Montreal Quebec where she attended the local English schools. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Concordia University and a Masters of Library Science from McGill University.
Menotti Lerro.  Menotti Lerro (born February 22 1980) is an Italian author. Writer of poetry aphorisms criticism novels and short stories Lerro has been the subject of a critical book by Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading entitled The Poetry of Menotti Lerro (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011) (paperback edition 2012).
Katie White.  Katie Rebecca White (born 18 January 1983) is a British musician most famous for her work with pop duo the Ting Tings. After some success with a girl group punk trio TKO supporting Steps and Atomic Kitten her father David White brought in Jules De Martino to write songs for TKO and Katie and Jules formed the Ting Tings.
Paul Roberts (musician).  Paul Roberts (born 31 December 1959 in Chiswick London) is an English singer who was the lead singer of The Stranglers between 1990 and 2006.
Greg Leskiw.  Gregory Leskiw (born 5 August 1947 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian guitarist best known for playing guitar with The Guess Who 1970-1972.
Michael Gallagher (Isis guitarist).  Michael Gallagher is an American guitarist best known for his work with post-metal band Isis. He joined them in 1999 for their debut LP Celestial having previously been a member of Cast Iron Hike. He has an ambient project known as MGR (Mustard Gas & Roses); under this moniker he has released two albums and scored one film.He plays a '78 Les Paul Custom which he bought on eBay through a Fryette Sig:x Amplifier.
Cecil W. Stoughton.  Cecil William Stoughton (January 18 1920 – November 3 2008) was an American photographer. Born in Oskaloosa Iowa Stoughton is best known for being President John F. Kennedy's photographer during his White House years.During World War II he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit.He was a captain in the United States Army Signal Corps when he was assigned to the White House Army Signal Agency.
Louise Hawes.  Louise Hawes is an American academic and author of more than a dozen novels and several short stories. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Mexico and The Women's University of Mississippi and as a John Grisham Visiting Writer at the University of Mississippi.
Doug Gillard.  Doug Gillard (born December 23 1965 in Sandusky Ohio) is a guitarist and songwriter from Cleveland Ohio who has performed with bands and artists such as Death Of Samantha Gem Cobra Verde Guided by Voices Nada Surf Bambi Kino Richard Buckner Children's Crusade Starvation Army Yuji Oniki My Dad is Dead The Mice Bill Fox Fence Lions Zest Of Yore Stewart Pack The Oranges Band Mascott Sally Crewe and The Sudden Moves and as a solo artist.
Vern Gosdin.  Vernon Vern Gosdin (August 5 1934 – April 28 2009) was an American country music singer. Known as The Voice he had 19 top-ten solo hits on the country music charts from 1977 through 1990. Three of these hits went to number one: I Can Tell By the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight) Set 'Em Up Joe and I'm Still Crazy.
Kid Sensation.  Steven Spence (born c. 1971) best known by his stage name Kid Sensation is an American rapper. Born and raised in Seattle Washington Spence made his debut as a guest rapper featured on Sir Mix-A-Lot's album Swass where he appeared on the tracks Rippin' and Square Dance RapSpence has sold over one million units during his hip hop career and has hosted hip-hop based shows such as Yo! MTV Raps and BET's Rap City.
Hatef Mokhtar.  Hatef Mokhtar (Persian:هاتف مختار) (born 11 May 1962) is an Afghan author currently living in Norway and is a Norwegian citizen. He is the founder and chief editor of The Oslo Times and a human-rights activist. He writes for several newspapers and magazines such as KL-Today Euractiv Daily SunMalaysia Today Khama Press Haama Daily groruddalen.noMalaysia Today and Burma Digest. He works towards the freedom of press and speech and for the promotion of peace.
Takaya Hashi.  Takaya Hashi (土師 孝也 Hashi Takaya born September 8 1952) is a veteran Japanese voice actor and actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. His real name is Takaya Katō (加藤 孝也 Katō Takaya).
Mônica Salmaso.  Mônica Salmaso (born on 27 February 1971 in São Paulo Brazil) is a Música Popular Brasileira singer.
Jason Ridge.  Jason Ridge (born on December 28 1974) is an American retired gay pornographic film actor with about 50 films (one bisexual porn video) and gay skin magazine model in his catalog. He announced his retirement from the pornographic industry in 2012.Ridge performed in scenes work for Hot House Entertainment. He launched his own porn company Ridgeline Films in 2007 releasing 3 critically and commercially successful films. Roman Heart starred in 'A Rising Star'.
Jo Mielziner.  Joseph Jo Mielziner (March 19 1901 in Paris - March 15 1976 in New York City) was an American theatrical scenic and lighting designer born in Paris France. He is the most successful set designer of the Golden era of Broadway and worked on both stage plays and musicals.
Dobie Gray.  Dobie Gray (July 26 1940 – December 6 2011) was an American singer and songwriter whose musical career spanned soul country pop and musical theater. His hit records included The 'In' Crowd in 1965 and Drift Away which was one of the biggest hits of 1973 sold over one million copies and remains a staple of radio airplay.
Joey Stec.  Joey Stec is an American songwriter singer guitarist producer and president of Sonic Past Music.
Eeki Mantere.  Erik Kristian ”Eeki” Mantere (January 25 1949 Helsinki – April 30 2007 Espoo) was a Finnish musician that became famous in the 1970s as Viktor Kalborrek soloist of the band Hullujussi. After Hullujussi disbanded in 1976 Mantere continued to perform as Viktor Kalborrek until the new millennium albeit mainly in restaurants department stores and TV programs. Playing a character that strongly resembled Kalborrek he acted in the Seppo Huunonen movie The Hair from 1974.
On Watanabe.  On Watanabe (渡辺 温 Watanabe On August 26 1902 - February 10 1930) was a Japanese author inspirational to upcoming Japanese authors.
Yuja Wang.  Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born February 10 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing began studying piano there at age six and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. By the age of 21 she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist giving recitals around the world. She has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon.
John Wright (musician).  John Wright (sometimes known as Mr. Right - born 1962 in Victoria British Columbia) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer keyboardist occasional vocalist and co-songwriter in the progressive punk rock/punk jazz band NoMeansNo as well as the lead singer and co-songwriter of the pop-punk group The Hanson Brothers. Both groups also feature Wright's older brother Rob and guitarist Tom Holliston.
Adam Gregory.  Adam Gregory (born July 12 1985) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 2000 he has recorded five studio albums to date including 2000's The Way I'm Made and 2002's Workin' on It both on Epic Records and a self-titled album in 2006 on Mensa Records. He has charted several singles on the Canadian country music charts including two singles which were also Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the United States.
Rinaldo dall'Arpa.  Rinaldo dall'Arpa (b. late 16th century – August 2 1603) was an Italian composer singer and harpist. He was a valuable member of Carlo Gesualdo's retinue and accompanied him to Ferrara on the occasion of Gesualdo's marriage in 1594. He may have remained in Ferrara as a member of the Este court until its dissolution in 1598. He wrote at least two keyboard pieces which survive.
Michael Cristofer.  Michael Ivan Cristofer (born January 22 1945) is an American playwright filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977.
Giacomo Orefice.  Giacomo Orefice (27 August 1865 – 22 December 1922) was an Italian composer.He was born in Vicenza. He studied under Busi and Mancinelli at the Liceo Bologna and later became professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory. He died in Milan in 1922.
Stephan Nance.  Stephan Nance (born 23 July 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Eugene Oregon. A self-described awkwardly charming vegan straight-edge queer alternative [folk rock] musician he was born in Eugene and raised outside city limits.
Eva Eastwood.  Eva Östlund better known by her stage name Eva Eastwood (born in Örebro Sweden on 25 September 1967) is a Swedish songwriter and singer who sings rockabilly and rock'n'roll songs.Although she was offered a contract in the United States in 1997 she chose to go back home and soon after formed the band The Major Keys and made releases crediting Eva Eastwood and the Major Keys through the small Tail Records label based in JönköpingIn 2005 she took part in Allsång på Skansen a sing-along TV show from Skansen performing Vårt liv i repris from her album En ny stil i stan proving to be a turning point in her career. 
Cayo Sila Godoy.  Cayo Sila Godoy is an accomplished classical guitarist from Paraguay.
Janne Westerlund.  Janne Westerlund (born 1973) is a Finnish musician songwriter and visual artist known from such Finnish groups as Circle (with the band since 2001) Pharaoh Overlord and Plain Ride. His main instrument is guitar but on his solo gigs he plays banjo as well. He sings and writes lyrics mainly in English. Westerlund’s career started in the beginning of 1990s in a small Finnish city called Hamina when he founded Sweetheart an experimental noise rock group with his friends.
Jocelyne François.  Jocelyne François (born 1933 in Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a French writer. She is the author of five lesbian novels and winner of the Prix Femina.
Mark Threadgold.  Mark Threadgold (born 1977) is a contemporary Australian painter. Threadgold lives and works in Melbourne. He won the 2008 Corangamarah Art Prize and was selected as a finalist in the Metro 5 Art Award Australia's richest art prize for Australian artist's under the age of 35 in 2005 2006 and 2007. His work is held in public collections in Australia and in private collections around the world. He has exhibited in selected group shows and solo exhibitions throughout Australia since 1998.
Friedrich August Bouterwek.  Friedrich August Bouterwek (or Buterweck) was a German artist who spent much of his life in Paris.
Lorentz Dietrichson.  Lorentz Henrik Segelcke Dietrichson (1 January 1834 Bergen - 1917) was a Norwegian poet and historian of art and literature.
William Elliott Whitmore.  William Elliott Whitmore (born May 11 1978 Iowa United States) is an American blues singer and musician from Lee County Iowa. He has recorded a number of albums released on Southern Records and now is a member of the Anti Records family. His act consists mostly of playing the banjo or guitar while singing though on occasion he performs a cappella.
Steuart Smith.  Steuart Smith is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist vocalist writer and producer currently working with American rock band the Eagles. Smith is from Arlington Virginia.
Tony Bowers.  Tony Bowers (born 31 October 1952 in England) is a musician based in Italy who has worked with many bands including Simply Red in the 1980s.He debuted with a blues band called Blind Eye (1971–1972) as second guitarist although he isn't considered a former member. After playing in other blues bands he joined Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias with whom he played bass on every released album and single.
Ray Reach.  Raymond Everett Reach Jr. (born August 3 1948) is an American pianist vocalist and educator residing in Birmingham Alabama now serving as Director of Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and President and CEO of Ray Reach Music and Magic City Music Productions. He is noted for his versatility and mastery of many diverse styles.
Nikolai Chekhov.  Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Николай Павлович Чехов; May 23 1858 – June 29 1889) was a Russian painter and the brother of Anton Chekhov.
Dharampreet.  Dharampreet (Punjabi: ਧਰਮਪ੍ਰੀਤ) is a well known Punjabi singer from East Punjab (India).
Aleen Leslie.  Aleen Leslie (February 5 1908 – February 2 2010) was a screenwriter playwright and novelist. She died in 2010 three days before her 102nd birthday.
Floyd Dixon.  For the American football player see Floyd Dixon (American football)Floyd Dixon (February 8 1929 – July 26 2006) was an American rhythm and blues pianist and singer.
Richard Witts.  Richard Dick Witts is a professional musicologist music historian and ex leader of 1980s band the Passage. He was born in Cleethorpes Lincolnshire England. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and briefly at Manchester University. During this time he was a member of the Hallé Orchestra as a percussionist.
Pietro Tonolo.  Pietro Tonolo (born May 30 1959) is an Italian jazz saxophone player and composer.
Günter Fruhtrunk.  Günter Fruhtrunk (May 1923 - December 12 1982) was a German painter and printmaker who is classified as a geometric abstract artist and whose work relates to Op Art. Fruhtrunk studied architecture at the 'Technische Hochschule' in Munich which he gave up after two semesters to join the army as a volunteer in the fall of 1941. In 1945 Fruhtrunk began to study privately under the painter and printmaker William Straube in Neufrach who was a student of Hölzel and Matisse.
Alexander Hall.  Alexander Hall (January 11 1894 Boston Massachusetts – July 30 1968 San Francisco California) was an American film director and theatre actor.
Seumas O'Sullivan.  Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan real name James Sullivan Starkey (17 July 1879 - 24 March 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the suburb of Rathgar.
Roy Harper.  Roy Harper (born 12 June 1941) is an English folk/rock singer songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since 1964. He has released 22 studio albums and 10 live albums.Musically American blues musician Lead Belly and folk singer Woody Guthrie were his earliest influences and in his teens jazz musician Miles Davis. Harper was also exposed to classical music in his childhood and has pointed to the influence of Jean Sibelius's Karelia Suite.
Girolamo da Santacroce.  Girolamo da Santacroce (c. 1480/85 – c. 1556) was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Venice and the Venetian mainland. He was a pupil of the painter Gentile Bellini. After Gentile's death Santacroce most likely worked as an assistant to another Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini.Girolamo da Santacroce should not be confused with Girolamo Santacroce (c. 1502 – c. 1537) the Neapolitan sculptor.
Quang Nhuong Huynh.  Quang Nhuong Huynh (August 22 1946—2001) is a Vietnamese author. He has written two books and has received several awards for his autobiographical work The Land I Lost. Huynh is credited as being the first Vietnamese author to write fiction and non-fiction in English.
Aleksandr Kuprin.  Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Купри́н) (7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1870 in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast – August 25 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer pilot explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel (1905). Other well-known works include Moloch (1896) Olesya (1898) Junior Captain Rybnikov (1906) Emerald (1907) and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) (which was made into a 1965 movie).
Billy Lee Brammer.  William Lee Brammer (April 21 1929 – February 11 1978) was an author journalist and political staffer in Texas and Washington D.C.. He is best known for his set of three linked novellas The Gay Place.
Suchen Christine Lim.  Suchen Christine Lim (born 1948) was born in Malaysia and had her early education at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) in Penang and Kedah. At the age of 14 she came to Singapore and continued her education at CHIJ Katong. She read literature at the National University of Singapore and graduated with a post-graduate diploma in applied linguistics.
Robert Adams (sculptor and designer).  Robert Adams (5 October 1917 – 5 April 1984) was an English sculptor and designer. Whilst not widely known outside of artistic circles he was nonetheless regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation.
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan.  Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (Macedonian: Јовица Тасевски - Етернијан pronounced [jovitsa tasevski eternijan]; born 25 July 1976 Skopje) is a renowned Macedonian poet essayist and literary critic.He won The Enchanting Poet Award for excellent contribution in poetry writing given by The Enchanting Verses Literary Review.
Riccardo Malipiero.  Riccardo Malipiero (24 July 1914 – 27 November 2003) was an Italian composer pianist and music educator. He was awarded the gold medal by the city of Milan in 1977 and by the city of Varese in 1984.Born in Milan Malipiero was the son of cellist Riccardo Malipiero. He studied piano at the Milan Conservatory where he graduated in 1932. He then studied music composition at the Turin Conservatory where he obtained a diploma in 1937.
Pat Boyack.  Pat Boyack (born June 26 1967 Price Utah United States) is an American electric blues guitarist and songwriter. Boyack performs modern electric blues and blues rock. He has released four albums since 1994 for both the Bullseye Blues and Doc Blues record labels.
Francis Heaney.  Francis Heaney is the author of the humor collection Holy Tango of Literature.
Tomoko Ishimura.  Tomoko Ishimura (石村 知子 Ishimura Tomoko born February 24 1972 in Zama Kanagawa) is a Japanese voice actress who works for 81 Produce. She was formerly credited as Mifuyu Hiiragi (柊 美冬 Hiiragi Mifuyu) and Kyoko Tsuruno (鶴野 恭子 Tsuruno Kyōko). She is the only actor to have played the role of Luna in the Sailor Moon musicals (in 1993-1994).
Stefan Lessard.  Stefan K Lessard (born June 4 1974) is an American musician most famous as the bassist for the Dave Matthews Band.
Gokulchandra Nag.  Gokulchandra Nag (Bengali: গোকুলচন্দ্র নাগ) (1895-1925) was a Bengali writer and artist best known as one of the founding members of the Kallol literary group and circle. In 1921 along with Dineshranjan Das Sunita Debi and Manindralal Basu he formed the predecessor of Kallol The Four Arts Club. He was himself adept at all of the four arts that the club propagated namely writing painting music and drama.
Bimi Ombale.  Bimi Ombale (21 July 1952- 29 April 2011 born Andre Bimi Ombale also known as Andre Bimi Bimi Ombale Mwana Wabi) was a Congolese singer drummer and song writer. He was a member of the band Zaiko Langa Langa from 1969 to1988.
Paul McLoone.  Paul McLoone (born 11 February 1967 in Derry Northern Ireland) is singer and radio presenter. He is currently the lead vocalist of Irish pop-punk band The Undertones having replaced Feargal Sharkey when the band reunited for a series of live appearances in 1999. He also hosts the weekday evening radio programme on Today FM broadcasting from Dublin.
Amy Cutler.  Amy Cutler is a contemporary artist born in Poughkeepsie New York in 1974. Cutler is an internationally known artist and is represented by the Leslie Tonkonow Gallery in New York City.
Arthur Watson Sparks.  Arthur Watson Sparks (1871–1919) was an American painter.He was born in Washington DC to Mary and Frederick Sparks a federal government clerk. He trained as an architect and also studied art in the evenings at the Corcoran Art School. In 1898 he won a design competition along with his collaborator J. Elfreth Watkins chief of buildings for the United States National Museum for a proposed Hall of American Inventions to be built at the 1900 Paris Expo.
Pekka Heino (singer).  Pekka Ansio Heino (born 6 January 1976) is a Finnish singer. He is currently the lead vocalist in melodic metal band Leverage and AOR band Brother Firetribe where he plays alongside Erno Emppu Vuorinen of Nightwish. Prior to this he played in a Finnish rock band called Cashmir with fellow Brother Firetribe member Tomppa Nikulainen.
Rick Burchett.  Rick Burchett (born March 9 1952) is an American comic book artist known for his work on such characters as Batman and Superman.
The PSM.  The PSM (born Paul Stanley-McKenzie) is a British drummer and producer.In 2005 he won the Young Drummer of The Year award and appeared on the Blue Peter performing and being interviewed by Matt Baker. In 2008 at the age of 19 he was appointed as the musical director for MOBO Award winning artist Jahaziel and later was selected to play drums and percussion for the newly formed Gorillaz Sound System touring globally in support of the album Plastic Beach.
Eddy Marnay.  Eddy Marnay the professional name of Edmond Bacri (Algiers 1920 – 3 January 2003) was a French songwriter. In his career he wrote more than 4000 songs including works for Édith Piaf and Céline Dion. He was joint winner as lyricist of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 for Un Jour Un Enfant sung by Frida Boccara. He also wrote the title song for Charlie Chaplin's 1957 film A King in New York.Céline Dion named one of her sons after him in 2010.
Jeremy Gable.  Jeremy Joseph Gable (born May 10 1982) is an American playwright living in Philadelphia.Gable was born in Lakenheath Suffolk England. He grew up in Post Falls Idaho. He is best known for plays American Way which made its premiere at Los Angeles' Blank Theatre the Flying Spaghetti Monster plays - which were covered by the official Flying Spaghetti Monster website - and 140: A Twitter Performance the first documented full-length fully original Twitter play.
Norm Fisher.  Norm Fisher (born 22 October 1963) is a Canadian bass guitar player. He is most famous as a member of Canadian rocker Bryan Adams' backing band. He has also performed with other musicians such as Burton Cummings Randy Bachman Powder Blues Band Long John Baldry Paul Dean (guitarist) and Colin James.
Tony Lee.  Tony Lee (born 30 June 1970) is a British comics writer screenwriter audio playwright and novelist.
Ron Dante.  Not to be confused with hypnotist Ronald Pellar aka Ronald Dante or Dr. Dante.Ron Dante (born Carmine Granito on August 22 1945 in Staten Island New York) is an American singer songwriter session vocalist and record producer. Dante is best known as the lead singer for the fictional cartoon band The Archies as well as the one-hit wonder group The Cuff Links. He is also well known as the Co-Producer of Barry Manilow's first nine albums.
Khasta Qasim.  Khasta Qasim (Azerbaijani: Xəstə Qasım: born 1684 — died 1760) – was an Iranian Azerbaijani poet of Azerbaijani literature. Khasta Qasim was one of the best Azerbaijani-language poets; he was also a mystic and philosopher in the era of the Afsharid dynasty (17th century) and popularly known as Dada and Gasim.Khasta Gasim was born about 1680 in the village of Tikmedash near Tabriz in one of the most educated families in Tabriz which is evident from the preserved poetic heritage of the poet.
Carl Brandt (composer).  Carl Edwin Brandt (15 August 1914 Sacramento California — 25 April 1991 Studio City California) was an American musician who was prolific as a composer and arranger for recording artists television and film. In television Brandt scored music for I Spy The Danny Thomas Show The Mod Squad and Eight is Enough. Of his many positions in Los Angeles Brandt was a staff composer/arranger for Warner Bros.
Dodo Watts.  Dodo Watts (1910–1990) was a British film actress. Her birth name was Dorothy Margaret Watts.
Young Dre the Truth.  Andre Terry usually known by his stage name Young Dre the Truth is a rap artist and actor from Los Angeles California best known for his collaborations with EA Games soundtracks on games like Fight Night Round 4 Madden 09 Madden 10 The Sims 3 NBA Live 09 and NBA Live 10.
Jim Dow.  Jim Dow (b. 1942 Boston Massachusetts) is an American photographer who specializes in photographing places not people. In the tradition of Walker Evans Dow examines both high and low - baseball stadiums universities court houses Americana private clubs in New York. His exquisitely detailed work is printed from 8x10 negatives and brings the richness of texture and light to the forefront.Dow photographs urban and rural architectural sites--from drive-in fruit stands to Gothic cathedrals.
Harry Becker.  Harry Becker (1865–1928) was a British painter draughtsman and printmaker from East Anglia.
Kate Lamont.  Kate Lamont (born 1962) is an Australian cook political aspirant and author.
Michael Karam.  Michael Ramzi Karam (born in London England on 1 May 1965) is an English-born author journalist and wine writer. He is notably the author of the award-winningWines of Lebanon
Foxes (singer).  Louisa Rose Allen (born 29 April 1989) better known by her stage name Foxes is a British singer and songwriter originally from Southampton and now based in London. She is best known for her featured vocals on Zedd's song Clarity which peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number one on the US Hot Dance Club Songs and Let Go for Tonight which entered the UK Singles Chart at number seven on 8 March 2014.
Oliver Daniel.  Oliver Daniel (November 24 1911 – December 30 1990) was an American arts administrator musicologist and composer.He worked as a music executive for CBS then took a job at BMI creating that organization's Concert Music Department in 1954. Also in 1954 he helped found the CRI (Composers Recordings Inc.) record label along with composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore.
Karl Friedrich Hermann.  Karl Friedrich Hermann (August 4 1804 – December 31 1855) was a German classical scholar and antiquary.
Pablo Elorza.  Pablo Elorza (born in Villa María Córdoba Argentina on June 10 1982) is a renowned bass player composer arranger author producer and educator.
John Waguespack.  John Waguespack (born July 29 1971) is an American-born artist and entrepreneur.
Herciana Matmuja.  Herciana Matmuja (born 1 February 1990) also known as Hersiana Matmuja or Hersi Matmuja is an Albanian singer best known for winning the 52nd edition of Festivali i Këngës. In 2014 she will represent Albania in Eurovision Song Contest to be held Copenhagen Denmark with the song One Night's Anger.
Daniel Boulanger.  Daniel Boulanger (Compiègne Oise 24 January 1922) is a French novelist playwright poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and has been a member of the Académie Goncourt since 1983.
Orville Tiamson.  Orville Tiamson is a Filipino painter musician and transmedia artist from Angono Rizal Philippines.
Jim Weatherly.  James Dexter Jim Weatherly (born March 17 1943) is an American singer-songwriter. Weatherly played quarterback at the University of Mississippi before choosing songwriting over a football career. Weatherly wrote songs that were performed by Ray Price Lynn Anderson Brenda Lee and Bob Luman but it is for the songs covered by Gladys Knight & the Pips that he is best known.
Drew Neumann.  Drew Neumann is a musician and composer of film and television scores. He created the soundtrack of the science fiction animated series Æon Flux and has composed music for many other shows including The Wild Thornberrys The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. He studied film animation and composition at the California Institute of the Arts where he graduated with a BFA (1982). He has been longtime friends with animator Peter Chung.
Roy Rogers (guitarist).  Roy Rogers (born July 28 1950 Redding California United States) is an American blues rock slide guitarist and record producer. He was named after the singing cowboy Roy Rogers. Rogers plays a variety of guitar styles related to the Delta blues but is most often recognized for his virtuoso slide work.
Syd Walker.  Syd Walker (born 22 March 1886 Salford Lancashire–died 13 January 1945 Hove Sussex) was a British actor.
G.C. Waldrep.  G.C. Waldrep (born 1968 South Boston Virginia as George Calvin Waldrep III) is an American poet and historian.
Michael Corcoran (musician).  Michael Thomas Corcoran (born December 9 1972) aka Backhouse Mike is a musician singer/songwriter composer sound designer musical arranger orchestrator and record producer.
Sam Kogan.  Sam Kogan (22 October 1946 - 11 November 2004) was a Russian actor director and theatre practitioner. He is best known for developing and establishing his own comprehensive acting technique The Science of Acting. He founded The Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts formerly The Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing and The School of the Science of Acting in London England in 1991. He also wrote the book The Science of Acting which was edited by his daughter Helen Kogan.
Louis Armstrong.  Louis Armstrong (August 4 1901 – July 6 1971) nicknamed Satchmo or Pops was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans Louisiana.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an inventive trumpet and cornet player Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.
T. Graham Brown.  Anthony T. Graham Brown (born October 30 1954 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American country music singer. Active since 1986 Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Three of these singles — Hell and High Water and Don't Go to Strangers from 1986 and Darlene from 1988 — reached Number One and eight more reached Top Ten.
Priscilla Renea.  Priscilla Renea Hamilton is an American singer and songwriter. She is signed to Capitol Records and her debut album Jukebox was released on December 1 2009 but failed to garner success. Her second album was expected to be released sometime in 2011 although no official release details have been announced. As a songwriter she has written for Demi Lovato Chris Brown Rihanna Selena Gomez The Saturdays Pitbull and Cheryl Cole.
Jabo Williams.  Jabo Williams was an African American boogie-woogie and blues pianist and songwriter. His total recorded output was a mere eight sides which included his two best-known stunningly primitive offerings Pratt City Blues and Jab's Blues (1932). Details of his life outside of music are scanty.
Lu Tin.  Lu Tin (လူတင် pronounced: [lù tɪ̀ɴ]; born 1930) is a Burmese watercolor artist.
Abdussalam Puthige.  Abdussalam Puthige is the Editor-in-Chief of Varthabharathi a Kannada daily newspaper that is published in the south Indian coastal city of Mangalore and Karnataka's capital Bangalore. The first issue of Vartha Bharathi hit the news stands on 29 August 2003 from Mangalore. The Bangalore edition was launched on 29 August 2006 at N.G.O.
Matt Hires.  Matt Hires (born August 5 1985) is an American singer-songwriter from Tampa Florida. Drawing inspiration from influences as disparate as The Band Sufjan Stevens Wilco and Ryan Adams Matt became the first artist to sign with F-Stop Music an imprint of Atlantic Records.
Sándor Falvai.  Sándor Falvai (born in Ózd 1949) is a Hungarian pianist.Falvai graduated in 1972 at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music where he was appointed a teacher after spending a year at the Moscow Conservatory. He has performed and recorded internationally and served as soloist for the Budapest Symphony Orchestra in concert tours.
Rie Tomosaka.  Rie Tomosaka (ともさか りえ Tomosaka Rie) is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi Tokyo born on October 12 1979 in Nagano-shi Nagano.She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997 she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo (さかともえり Sakatomo Eri).
Alfonso Aldiverti.  Alfonso Aldiverti (early 17th century) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period active mainly in Rovigo. He was born the son of a notary. He painted Scenes from the life of Christ for the church of Santa Maria della Neve including a Christ Condemned (1615). He also painted a St. Charles Borromeo for the church of San Bartolommeo in Rovigo.He trained under Domenico Stella in Rovigo.
Guy Trosper.  Guy Trosper (1911 – 1963) was an American screenwriter. He came to prominence in Hollywood because of his scripts for two baseball movies: The Stratton Story in 1949 a big hit for James Stewart and The Pride of St. Louis in 1952 for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
Walasse Ting.  Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉 October 13 1929 – May 17 2010) was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats birds and other animals. He was born in Shanghai in 1929. He left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong then settled in Paris in 1952.
Antonis Papadakis.  Antonis Papadakis or Kareklas (1893–1980) was a Cretan musician and famous for his superb lyra performance. He was born in Pervolia Rethymno and started playing the lyra since he was a kid. He is considered as one of the most important lyra performers of the early 20th century. When he started playing lyra the laouto was not yet established as an accompanying instrument of the lyre in Crete.
Toma Niger.  Toma Niger (Croatian: Toma Niger Mrčić Latin: Thoma Nigro or Nigris) (c. 1450 – c. 1532) was a Croatian humanist diplomat bishop of Skradin and at the end of his life he served as the bishop of Trogir. He committed most of his life to diplomacy trying to help crumbling Kingdom of Croatia against the Ottoman Empire.
Demon Kakka.  Demon Kakka (デーモン閣下 Dēmon Kakka born November 10 1962[citation needed]) previously known as Demon Kogure (デーモン小暮閣下 Dēmon Kogure Kakka) is a Japanese musician entertainer journalist and sumo commentator. He is the frontman of the heavy metal band Seikima-II and is known for always working entirely in character.
John C. Higgins.  John C. Higgins (April 28 1908 - July 2 1995) was an American screenwriter. During the 1930s and early 1940s the Winnipeg Canada-born scribe worked on mostly complex murder mystery films including the James Stewart film Murder Man (1935). During the late 1940s Higgins continued to pen thrillers including semidocumentary-style films including director Anthony Mann's He Walked By Night Raw Deal T-Men and Border Incident.
Janet Leahy.  Janet Leahy is an American television writer and producer. She has worked in both capacities on the AMC drama series Mad Men and won a WGA Award for her work on the show.
Keith Lowe (author).  Keith Lowe (born in London 1970) is a British author and historian. His first novel Tunnel Vision (2001 ISBN 0-09-941668-9) follows a man who is challenged to visit every station of the London Underground in a single day and was shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award.
Brooke Waggoner.  Brooke Waggoner is an American singer-songwriter from New Orleans Louisiana who resides in Nashville Tennessee.
Billy Preston.  William Everett Billy Preston (September 2 1946 – June 6 2006) was an American musician whose work included R&B rock soul funk and gospel.
André François.  André François (9 November 1915 – 11 April 2005) born André Farkas was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.
Fernando Denis.  José Luis González Sanjuan better known by the pen name Fernando Denis is a Colombian poet and author. He was born in Cienaga Magdalena Colombia in 1968.
Ken Takeuchi.  Ken Takeuchi (武内 健 Takeuchi Ken born February 20 1978) is a Japanese voice actor who works for Arts Vision.Takeuchi learned voice acting at the Institute of Japan Narration Act. In 2000 he debuted as a main character in the video game Photogenic and in 2003 he played one of the main characters Ranmaru Miura in Dear Boys (also known as Hoop Days).Takeuchi is also known for his roles as Keita Suminoe in Kiss×Sis and Lithuania in Hetalia: Axis Powers.
Jeremy Leven.  Jeremy Leven (born 1941) is an American screenwriter director producer and novelist. Born in South Bend Indiana Leven lives in Woodbridge Connecticut Nantucket and Paris.Leven was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis Maryland Harvard University the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School.
Ramy Ayach.  Ramy Ayach (Arabic: رامي عياش) (born Ramy Abu Ayach رامي ابوعياش on August 18 1980 in Baakleen Lebanon) is a songwriter composer and instrumentalist.
Silva Kaputikyan.  Sirvard Silva Kaputikyan (Armenian: Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան) (20 January 1919 – 25 August 2006) was a prominent Armenian poet writer academian and public activist. She is recognized as the leading poetess of Armenia.
Jitka Čvančarová.  Jitka Čvančarová is a Czech singer actress and model. She works mainly for television but since 2007 she began to appear also in films. She has four Thalia Award nominations.
Chris Van Allsburg.  Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985) both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was 1986 U.S.
Bobby Cole (musician).  Bobby Cole (September 8 1932 – December 19 1996) was an American musician known for his jazz singing and piano playing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger. He worked as a musical arranger for The Judy Garland Show hosted by Judy Garland and succeeded Mel Tormé.
Malika Pukhraj.  Malika Pukhraj (Urdu: ملكہ پکھراج ‎) (b1912 - 2004) was a highly popular Ghazal and folk singer of Pakistan. She was generally called as Malika meaning The Queen. She is extremely popular for her rendition of Hafeez Jalandhri's song Abhi to main jawan hoon (I am still youthful) which is enjoyed by millions not only in Pakistan but also in India.
Chet Raymo.  Chet Raymo (born September 17 1936 in Chattanooga Tennessee) is a noted writer educator and naturalist. He is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Stonehill College in Easton Massachusetts. His weekly newspaper column Science Musings appeared in the Boston Globe for twenty years. This is now a daily blog by him. Raymo espouses his Religious Naturalism in When God is Gone Everything is Holy – The Making of a Religious Naturalist and frequently in his blog.
Juggy D.  Jagwinder Singh Dhaliwal better known by his stage name Juggy D (born 19 November 1981) is a British Indian singer from Southall London England.
Nigel Parry.  Nigel Parry is a New York-based photographer of celebrities who started his career in London in 1987 and moved to New York in 1994. His work has been seen in magazine features such as Elle InStyle Vanity Fair Men's Health and Maxim. His clients further include major movie and music companies including 20th Century Fox Buena Vista Pictures Sony Music and Bad Boy Records. He is also ambassador for Operation Smile(Information mainly taken from the official website)
Michael Murphy (singer).  Michael Murphy (born Michael Sean D'Arcy Murphy on 4 September 1986 in Taupo New Zealand) is a singer and runner-up winner of the 2004 New Zealand Idol (NZ Idol). He was ultimately beaten by Ben Lummis who became his friend over the course of the contest.After NZ Idol Michael Murphy had signed to BMG records. Murphy's first single debuted at No. 1 and stayed a while at the top of radio charts. He gained a gold status for No Place to Land his debut album.
Doris Marie Leeper.  Doris Marie Leeper (1929 - 2000) was a sculptor and painter from New Smyrna Beach Florida. She was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1999. She was instrumental in the creation of the Canaveral National Seashore in 1975. She helped create the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 1982.
Paul Colman.  Paul Colman (born 22 August 1967) is a British–Australian pop-rock guitarist vocalist pianist and composer.Colman was born and brought up in London; his father is Australian and his mother is British. When he was seven years old his father left his successful life of theatre and music for a life of ministry back in Australia. His father was a long standing Associate Pastor at Melbourne's Crossway Baptist Church and a well known gospel singer.
Gordon Rigby.  Gordon Rigby (7 August 1897 – 11 July 1975) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 47 films between 1921 and 1948.He was born and died in Los Angeles.
Rudi Mahall.  Rudi Mahall (born 1966 in Nürnberg Germany) is a contemporary jazz bass clarinetist.While studying classical clarinet Mahall shifted towards contemporary music improvisation and jazz.He is or was a member of following bands:Avantgardeband Die Hartmann 8 Der Rote Bereich (initially comprehending Frank Möbus Marty Cook Jim Black und Henning Sievert) the Trio Tiefe töne für Augen und Ohren (with Sievert and Bill Elgart) Carlos Bicas Azul and Die Enttäuschung (amongst others with Axel Dörner Jan Roder). 
Oumou Sangaré.  Oumou Sangaré (born February 25 1968 in Bamako Mali) is a Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician sometimes referred to as The Songbird of Wassoulou. Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River where the music descends from age old traditional and cultural songs which is accompanied by a calabash. Sangaré's mother was the singer Aminata Diakité.
Tamao Hayashi.  Tamao Hayashi (林 玉緒 Hayashi Tamao born August 23 1962) is a Japanese voice actress.
Bjørn Eidsvåg.  Bjørn Eidsvåg (born 17 March 1954 in Sauda) is a Norwegian singer songwriter and ordained priest in the Lutheran Church of Norway. He is a graduate (cand. theol.) from the MF Norwegian School of Theology. He has released more than 25 albums since his 1976 debut and received the Norwegian music award the Spellemannsprisen at least three times.His list of good songs is very long. He is probably best known for his melancholic 1983 song Eg ser (I see).
Christiana Spens.  Christiana Spens (born July 22 1988) is a writer and illustrator. She attended the University of Cambridge where she read Philosophy followed by the University of St. Andrews for a Masters in Terrorism Studies and a PhD in International Relations. She is the author of The Wrecking Ball Death of a Ladies' Man and illustrated books The Socialite Manifesto and The Drone Age. She also writes for Studio International Art Wednesday and The Quietus on art literature and politics.
Rande Gail Brown.  Rande Gail Brown is an American writer translator and psychotherapist. She was one of the first women to graduate from Princeton University from which she holds a degree in East Asian Studies.Brown was formerly the Executive Director of the Tricycle Foundation publisher of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review America's leading Buddhist magazine. She is also president of East West Communications a company that facilitates cultural understanding between Japan and the United States.
Sandra Dallas.  Sandra Dallas is an award-winning American author of 10 novels and 7 non-fiction books. Previously she was an ex-reporter and bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine for the Denver region.
James LaBrie.  Kevin James LaBrie (born May 5 1963) is a Canadian vocalist and songwriter who is best known as the lead singer of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater.
Giulia Masucci Fava.  Giulia Masucci Fava or Giulia Masucci (Serino Province of Avellino 1858 – ) was an Italian painter; she was active mainly in Naples mainly in figure and genre painting.
Keith Hale.  Keith Hale (born 6 November 1950) is an English songwriter composer record producer performer and music teacher most notable for his work with Toyah Willcox Hawkwind and Ginger Baker.
Johann Heinrich Roos.  Johann Heinrich Roos (29 September 1631 Otterberg - 3 October 1685 Frankfurt) was a German Baroque era landscape painter and etcher.
Allegretto Nuzi.  Allegretto Nuzi (1315–1373) was an Italian painter.Nuzi was probably trained in Fabriano by local masters. His style has been characterized as Giottesque and Sienese. Nuzi primarily worked under commissions for churches producing religious-themed works.
William Harbutt Dawson.  William Harbutt Dawson (27 July 1860 - 7 March 1948) was a British author who wrote numerous books around the turn of the Twentieth Century. Dawson was educated at Berlin University and most of his works deal with Germany and various aspects of German social and political culture. However he also wrote on General John Lambert Liberal statesman Richard Cobden and poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold.
Shu Qi.  Shu Qi (born 16 April 1976) birth name Lin Li-Hui is a Taiwanese actress and model. She has also been credited as Hsu Chi and Shu Kei (Cantonese for Shu Qi) due to the different versions of the films she acted in.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia.  Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York and teaches at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut.
Miyuki Ono.  Miyuki Ono (小野みゆき) is a Japanese actress.
Pietro Auletta.  Pietro Antonio Auletta (1698–1771) was an Italian composer known mainly for his operas.
Maria Takagi.  Maria Takagi (高樹マリア Takagi Maria) is a Japanese TV and film actress and a former adult video (AV) star. Early in her career as a model she also used the names Yukiko Hara and Rika Inoue.
Gene DeWeese.  Thomas Eugene DeWeese (January 31 1934 – March 19 2012) was an American writer of science fiction best known for his Star Trek novels. He also wrote Gothic mystery and young adult fiction totalling more than 40 books in his career. He published as Gene DeWeese and Jean DeWeese; his pseudonyms as a collaborator included Thomas Stratton and Victoria Thomas.
Glòria Muñoz.  Glòria Muñoz (born 12 August 1949) is a Spanish painter and a professor of painting at the University of Barcelona.
Hiroki Gotō.  Hiroki Gotō (後藤 ヒロキ Gotō Hiroki born November 15 1985 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor who works for Across Entertainment. He has been voice acting since 2009. He has often performed voices for minor and guest roles as well as supporting character roles.[citation needed]
Sunil Kothari.  Dr. Sunil Kothari is a noted Indian dance historian scholar and critic. He is also former Uday Shankar Professor at Ravindra Bharti University Kolkata.He is the recipient of Padma Shri award. He also received Sangeet Natak Academi for overall contribution to the Indian classical dance.
Traa Daniels.  Mark Traa Daniels (born December 30 1970) is the bass guitarist of the San Diego California rock band P.O.D. He has been a member since 1994 and has performed on all of the band's official records. The band has released ten albums - Snuff the Punk Brown Payable on Death Live The Fundamental Elements of Southtown Satellite Payable on Death Testify Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years When Angels & Serpents Dance and Murdered Love.
Lena Nyman.  Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman (23 May 1944 – 4 February 2011) was a Swedish film and stage actress. Having had her first film roles in 1955 Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964) and got her breakthrough in his I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) where she in pseudo-documentary fashion played a character of the same name as herself and its sequel I Am Curious (Blue) (1968).
Howard Rumsey.  Howard Rumsey (born November 7 1917) is a Californian bassist primarily known for his leadership of the Los Angeles group the Lighthouse All-Stars in the 1950s.
Alice Pike Barney.  Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts.Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Bahá'í writer Laura Clifford Barney.
José Régio.  José Maria dos Reis Pereira better known by the pen name José Regio (Vila do Conde PortugalSeptember 17 1901 — December 22 1969 ) was a Portuguese writer which lived most of his life in Portalegre (1928 to 1967). He was the brother of Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira.In 1927 he founded the magazine Presença which would come to be cornerstone of the second modernism movement in Portugal of which he was the main ideologue.
Jason Whitehorn.  Jason Whitehorn (born January 19 1976) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Jason has been writing performing and releasing country music for almost a decade since his career began in early 2000. He is originally from just outside of Savannah Tennessee where he and Darryl Worley attended high school. He has performed with Darryl Worley Thrasher Shiver Bryan White David Allan Coe and has collaborated with others.
Candace Marie.  Candace Marie Celmer is an American actress and singer–songwriter. She released her debut album Becoming a Real Girl on February 24 2009 under record label Music da Foz.
Jonathan Fernandez.  Jonathan Fernandez is an American writer and producer. He wrote the film Rob The Mob starring Michael Pitt Nina Arianda Andy Garcia Ray Romano and directed by Raymond DeFellitta based on the true-life story of Thomas Uva and Rose Marie De TomaHis first film Crisis In The Kremlin was written for producer Roger Corman. He has written for Star Trek: Enterprise. He was the executive producer of the Kurt Russell film Breakdown which opened at number one at the box office.
Tyler Rix.  Tyler Rix (b Watford 2 January 1993) is a British classical saxophonist who appeared on the BBC's Classical Star competition aged 14. Rix plays the alto and soprano saxophones. Rix signed with Universal Music Group and his debut album Ascent was released in February 2009 reaching number one in the Classical Charts.Rix began playing the saxophone at the age of 9 in primary school lessons.
Georg Holtzendorff.  Count Georg Holtzendorff (also spelled Holzendorff) was a painter of Saxony specialist in landscapes figure subjects and cherubs who sought refuge in England in consequence of the Franco-Prussian War.
William Chan.  William Chan is a Hong Kong singer and a former member of the Cantopop group Sun Boy'z. In April 2008 it was announced by the EEG company that William will leave Sun Boy'z and pursue a solo career. The group disbanded six months after his departure.His debut solo album Will Power was released on September 5 2008. The first single off the album is called Taxi. It was then this song that William is given the nickname Taximan.
Jien.  Jien (慈円 17 May 1155 in Kyoto – 28 October 1225 in Omi (now Shiga)) was a Japanese poet historian and Buddhist monk.
Francisco de Zurbarán.  Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7 1598 – August 27 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks nuns and martyrs and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio owing to the forceful realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.
Stephen S. Sawyer.  Stephen Shelby Sawyer (born August 30 1952 in Paris KY U.S.) is an American commercial artist widely known for his interpretations of Jesus Christ as well as for his business Art For God. His work has been featured in many magazines over 400 newspapers such as the full front page of The New York Times and news shows such as The Today Show. Since 1995 Sawyer travels to several locations in America and occasionally other countries as a motivational speaker.
Louis Cheung.  Louis Cheung (born January 11 1980) is a Hong Kong Cantopop recording-artist songwriter and actor. He has written many songs for other famous cantopop singers such as Eason Chan Leo Ku Hacken Lee Eric Suen and Joey Yung. He is married to Kay Tse.Cheung is an alumnus of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Clifton E. Marsh.  Dr. Clifton E. Marsh (born August 10 1946 ) is an American author sociologist and educator. He has written a number of books that chronicle the history of various people of the African Diaspora.Dr. Marsh is best known for his examination of the Nation of Islam in The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in America. (Scarecrow Press Inc. 1996) The book follows in the tradition of C.
Alexander Chekhov.  Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Че́хов; August 22 1855 – May 29 1913) was a Russian novelist short story writer essayist and memoirist and the elder brother of Anton Chekhov.
Aaron Rossi.  Aaron Rossi is an American drummer most notable for his performance with industrial metal band Ministry and the heavy metal band Prong. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of the United States recognized Aaron for the first time at the 52nd Grammy Awards (2010) ceremony which was held at the Los Angeles' Staples Center.
40 Cal..  Calvin Alan Byrd better known as 40 Cal is an American rapper. He is a member of Harlem based Hip-Hop group The Diplomats.40 Cal made his first appearance on the self-titled theme song 40 Cal for the Dipset album Diplomatic Immunity 2. He took a part on MTV2's Fight Klub MC battles.
A.C. Kleinheider.  A.C. Kleinheider is an award-winning[citation needed] blogger working in Nashville Tennessee and amalgamating news on a state and national level. One of two full-time bloggers hired in a headline-making new media experiment by WKRN-TV Channel 2 in Nashville Kleinheider went on to edit Post Politics a branded political blog of NashvillePost.com. He also wrote a weekly political column for The City Paper Post Politics.In February 2011 Kleinheider joined the staff of Lt.
Atsushi Ōkubo.  Atsushi Ōkubo (大久保 篤 Ōkubo Atsushi) also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine on the manga series GetBackers. He also created artwork for various cards for the Lord of Vermillion game and some character designs in Bravely Default. Atsushi Ōkubo was not a model student and was more attracted to drawing than to learning.
Ron Goodwin.  Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 1925 – 8 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare Battle of Britain 633 Squadron and Operation Crossbow.Born in Plymouth Devon Goodwin learned to play the piano and trumpet from the age of five which allowed him to join the school band.
Rita Chiarelli.  Rita Chiarelli is a Canadian blues singer. She has been dubbed the goddess of Canadian blues by CBC Radio One's Shelagh Rogers.
Sami Moubayed.  Sami Moubayed (Arabic: سامي مبيض‎) is a Syrian historian specialized in pre-Baath Syria. In 2012–2013 he was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut Lebanon. In 2006-2012 Moubayed served as editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine. His articles on Middle East affairs have appeared in a variety of newspapers including al-Ahram Weekly al-Hayat Gulf News The Daily Star Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Asia Times.
Jean-Paul Dubois.  Jean-Paul Dubois (born in 1950 in Toulouse Haute-Garonne) is a French writer.He is the author of several novels and travel pieces and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His novel Une vie française published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007 is a saga of the French baby boom generation from the idealism of the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1990s. The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina.
Nate Walka.  Nathan L. Walker better known by his stage name Nate Walka is an American recording artist Grammy Award winning songwriter music producer and vocal producer based in Atlanta Georgia.
Jacques Boudet.  Jacques Boudet is a French stage and screen actor. He had great success in the 1980s with his appearance in Exercises in Style and is featured in the film The Names of Love (2010).In the cinema he is one of the actors regularly selected by Robert Guédiguian. He excels in composite roles such as his Duc de Guermantes in Un amour de Swann the brother of the character played by Philippe Noiret in Père et fils and the cynical politician with a southern French accent in L'Ivresse du pouvoir.
Barry Melton.  Barry The Fish Melton (born June 14 1947) is the co-founder (1965) and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded. He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock and also appeared as an outlaw in the neo-Western film Zachariah and other films in which Country Joe and the Fish appear. Melton is also a founding member of The Dinosaurs.
Art Baltazar.  Art Baltazar (born 1968) is an American comic book artist and writer who currently works for DC Comics.
Alma Duncan.  Alma Mary Duncan (October 1917 – December 15 2004) was a Canadian painter graphic artist and filmmaker.
Jack Gibbons.  Jack Gibbons (born 2 March 1962) is an English classical pianist and composer.
Charles Howe (writer).  Charles Howe (1661–1742) was an English devotional writer and courtier during the reigns of Charles II and James II of England and VII of Scotland.
Mike Conroy (writer).  Mike Conroy is an ex-comic book retailer best known for co-creating the Eagle Awards in 1976 with Richard Burton. In the mid-1990s Conroy concentrated on his freelance writing ultimately replacing Phil Hall as news editor of the trade magazine Comics International.Conroy also writes for Panini Eaglemoss and SFX among others primarily in his role as a comics historian.
Lee Seung-gi.  Lee Seung-gi (Hangul: 이승기; hanja: 李昇基; born: January 13 1987) is a South Korean singer actor and MC. Lee is well known as a member of the first season of weekend variety show 1 Night 2 Days from November 2007 to February 2012 and the MC of talk show Strong Heart from October 2009 to April 2012.
Richard Henders.  Richard Henders is a British actor.He is best known for his portrayal as Prince Rilian in the 1990 BBC adaptation of The Silver Chair. He has also appeared in dramas such as Pie in the Sky Foyle's War and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Henders played the role of Merry in the 2006 musical production of The Lord of the Rings in London. Henders currently lives in London.
Rosemary Pollock.  Rosemary Pollock (born 1944) is a British writer of romance novels. She is the daughter of romance writer and painter Ida Pollock (1908-2013) and Lieut Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock D.S.O. Royal Scots Fusilers (1888–1971).
Jean-Louis Scherrer.  Jean-Louis Scherrer (19 February 1935 Paris – 20 June 2013 Paris ) was a Parisian fashion designer and couturier. Although he had name recognition and was known for his work he is mainly noted for being the first couture designer to be sacked from their own-name label in 1992.
Mahalakshmi Iyer.  Mahalakshmi Iyer (Hindi: महालक्ष्मी अय्यर also Mahalaxmi Iyer) is an Indian playback singer best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung in many Indian languages including Hindi Tamil Telugu Marathi Bengali Gujarati Assamese Kannada and Malayalam.
Jan Peeters I.  Johannes (or Jan) Peeters (24 April 1624 – 1677) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in seascapes and shipwrecks known as Zeekens (small seascapes).
Steve Burns.  Steven Michael Steve Burns (born October 9 1973) is an American entertainer. He is best known as the original host of the long-running children's television program Blue's Clues and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his performance on the show in 2001.
Aaron Carter.  Aaron Charles Carter (born December 7 1987) is an American singer. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage audiences during the early-first decade of the 21st century.
Anne Hooper.  Anne Hooper (born 1941) is a British sex therapist and author who pioneered therapy groups for women with sex problems in the 1970s and 1980s and who wrote UK newspaper columns on the subject of human sexuality in the 1990s.
Paolo Rustichelli.  Paolo Rustichelli is an American-Italian eclectic smooth jazz rock-jazz progressive-rock Film score composer pianist and producer son of Oscar nominee Carlo Rustichelli .
Euan MacLeod.  Euan Macleod (born 1956) was born in Christchurch New Zealand in 1956 and moved to Sydney Australia in 1981 where he continues to live and work. He received a Certificate in Graphic Design from the Christchurch Technical Institute in 1975 and a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Canterbury in 1979. Macleod deals mostly with landscapes and the human presence within it.
Pelle Almqvist.  Howlin' Pelle Almqvist (born 29 May 1978) is the lead singer of Swedish garage rock band The Hives. Like the rest of the band Almqvist hails from Fagersta a small town in central Sweden with about 11000 residents.
Naomi Judd.  Naomi Judd (born January 11 1946) is an American country music singer songwriter and activist.
Robert Ellis Orrall.  Robert Ellis Orrall (born May 4 1955 in Winthrop Massachusetts) is an American singer songwriter and record producer. Signed to RCA Records in 1980 Orrall debuted that year with the album Fixation. His first Top 40 single was I Couldn't Say No a duet with Carlene Carter. By 1990 Orrall had found success as a songwriter having penned Number One singles for Shenandoah and Clay Walker.
Tom Herpich.  Thomas Herpich is an American artist who is best known for being a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time.
Oksana Mas.  Oksana Mas (Ukrainian: Оксана Мась; 1969) — Ukrainian artist. In 1986 she graduated from Ilyichevsk school of arts and then M.B. Grekov Odessa State Art School in 1992. Working as an artist in 2003 she earned a Bachelor of Philosophy at Odessa State University. As of 2011 she lived and worked in Spain Sweden and Ukraine.
Kate Fahy.  Katherine Kate Fahy is an English stage and film actress from Birmingham. She studied drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and then joined its Young Vic Theatre Company. Later on she joined the Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company where she met actor Jonathan Pryce. She made her theatre directorial debut on January 2010 with Wet Weather Cover a play written by Oliver Cotton.She and Pryce have three children: Patrick (born 1983) Gabriel (born 1986) and Phoebe (born 1990).
John Franklin Bardin.  John Franklin Bardin (November 30 1916 – July 9 1981) was an American crime writer best known for three novels he wrote between 1946 and 1948.
Peter Townsend Barlow.  Peter Townsend Barlow (July 21 1857 – May 9 1921) was an American jurist who served as a New York City Magistrate for nearly two decades.
Pete Briggs.  Pete Briggs (born 1904 date of death unknown) was an American jazz bass and tuba player.Briggs was born in Charleston South Carolina and was related to bandleader Arthur Briggs. He first played professionally in the early 1920s with the Jim Jam Jazzers and soon after played with the Lucky Boy Minstrels. In 1926 he moved to Chicago playing with Carroll Dickerson Jimmie Noone and Louis Armstrong with whom he recorded copiously.
Lijadu Sisters.  →The Lijadu Sisters Taiwo and Kehinde Lijadu are identical twin sisters from Nigeria who were an important music duet from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. They achieved success in Nigeria and had modest influence in the United States and Europe. They were notable for being a West African version of the Pointer Sisters who mixed Afrobeat sounds with jazz and disco according to one source. Since the late 1980s they retired from the music scene.
María Bibiana Benítez.  María Bibiana Benítez (December 10 1783 – April 18 1873) was Puerto Rico's first female poet and one of its first playwrights.
Kinya Kotani.  Kinya Kotani (コタニ キンヤ Kotani Kin'ya born July 16 1979) also known as KINYA is a male singer and actor from Saitama Prefecture Japan. His songs were made into theme songs for the anime Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and various songs for Gravitation.
Tadeusz Borowski.  Tadeusz Borowski (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛuʂ bɔˈrɔfskʲi]; 12 November 1922 – 1 July 1951) was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature and had much influence in Central European society.
Jacky Vincent.  Jacky Vincent (born January 23 1989 in Portsmouth England) is a musician and the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the band Falling In Reverse. Vincent moved to the United States at the age of 20 and lives in Las Vegas Nevada.
Kaka (singer).  Rajabu Willer better known as Kaka previously Little Kaka Lil' Kaka and Bigg Kaka (born in Allerød Denmark on 19 February 1991) is a Danish reggae dancehall and hip hop artist of Tanzanian. His name stylized as KAKA means brother in Kiswahili. At various times he was known as Little Kaka and Bigg Kaka before dropping the adjectives. In 2007 Kaka had his debut appearing on stage with Natasja Saad on her last shows in Copenhagen before she died in Jamaica.
Fritz Renold.  Fritz Renold (born February 27 1960) is a saxophonist composer bandleader teacher and festival director based in Aarau Switzerland.
Donya Feuer.  Donya Feuer (31 October 1934 – 6 November 2011) was an American dancer choreographer and a pioneer of modern dance. She was also a theater director and filmmaker and a long-time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman.
Xavier Gélin.  Xavier Gélin (1946–1999) was a French actor and film producer and son of Daniel Gelin.
Gregorio Pagani.  Gregorio Pagani (3 December 1558 – 1605) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist period active mainly in Florence. He was the son of the painter Francesco Pagani then became a pupil of Santi di Tito then entered the studio of Ludovico Cigoli. He painted the St. Helena finding the Cross for Santa Maria del Carmine which was lost in the fire at the church in 1771. He painted a Nativity for the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Among his pupils were Cristofano Allori and Matteo Rosselli.
Parov Stelar.  Marcus Füreder (born November 27 1974) better known by his stage name Parov Stelar is an Austrian musician and DJ. He performs with his band the Parov Stelar Band as well as a DJ worldwide. Parov Stelar is the head of Etage Noir Recordings.
Raul Midón.  Raúl Midón (born March 14 1966) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Mexico based in New York City. He combines his distinct voice strumming beats and vocal mouth trumpet sounds to create a one-man performance. His unique style shows influence of virtually every musical genre which came before him including jazz blues R&B and folk. Midón is blind from infancy.
Timothy J. Cooney.  Timothy J. Cooney is the author of the book Telling Right From Wrong. Cooney was not able to get his first two books published so in an attempt to legitimize his third book he submitted a falsified letter to Random House. They ultimately reversed their plan to publish the book after learning of the true origins of the letter. Telling Right From Wrong was later published by Prometheus Books.
E Reece.  Ebon Herndon is an American rapper-songwriter actor and model. He is commonly known by his stage name E Reece. Reece rose to fame in the mid-2000s when he signed a recording contract with Kajmere Sounds in 2005. Reece released his first studio album A New Breed in 2006 which spawned the singles Everything and Life Changes.
Little Axe.  Little Axe is the stage name of Skip McDonald (born Bernard Alexander 1949 Dayton Ohio) an American musician. McDonald played jazz doo-wop and gospel when young and relocated to New York City as a teenager with his band of friends called The Entertainers.Axe joined the group Wood Brass & Steel in 1973 with bass guitarist Doug Wimbish and drummer Harold Sargent. The group recorded two albums before their 1979 breakup.
Victor von Herzfeld.  Victor von Herzfeld (October 8 1856 Pozsony (Austria-Hungary) – February 20 1919 Budapest (Hungary)) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. He studied at the University of Vienna in law and at the Music Academy of Vienna music where he won first prize for both composition and violin playing. In 1884 he was awarded the Beethoven prize of the Society of the Friends of Music. He studied in Berlin with Eduard Grell and in 1886 went to Budapest as Professor in the Music Academy.
Eisuke Yoshiyuki.  Eisuke Yoshiyuki (吉行 エイスケ Yoshiyuki Eisuke May 10 1906 – July 8 1940) was a Japanese author.He was born in Okayama Prefecture. His son Yoshiyuki Junnosuke was also a noted author; and his daughter Kazuko Yoshiyuki a well-known actress. The 1997 NHK Asadora Aguri was based on Eisuke's life with his wife Aguri.
Bari Wood.  Bari Wood (b. December 31 1946) is an American author of science fiction crime and horror novels.
David First.  David First (born August 20 1953) is an American composer. His music most often deals with drones and interference beats the latter aligning his music with that of Alvin Lucier. He usually plays computer or guitar[citation needed] and has led the World Casio Quartet Joy Buzzers and The Notekillers which originally existed from 1977–81 and reformed in 2004.
Willy Holtzman.  Willy Holtzman (born 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations a Humanitas Prize a Writers Guild Award a Peabody Award as well as an HBO Award at the National Playwrights Conference.
Yuko Oshima.  Yuko Oshima (大島 優子 Ōshima Yūko born October 17 1988 in Tochigi Prefecture) is a member of Japanese idol girl group AKB48 of which she is the captain of Team K. She is also a member of the AKB48 subunit Not Yet. Outside of singles that involved rock-paper-scissors tournaments she has sung on the title tracks for all of AKB48's singles since Aitakatta in October 2006. She has placed among the top two for the annual AKB48 general elections from 2009-2013.
Louise Nevelson.  Louise Nevelson (September 23 1899 – April 17 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental monochromatic wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Czarist Russia she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century. Nevelson learned English at school as she spoke Yiddish at home. By the early 1930s she was attending art classes at the Art Students League of New York and in 1941 she had her first solo exhibition.
Krishna Sobti.  Krishna Sobti (Hindi: कृष्णा सोबती; born 18 February 1925) is a Hindi fiction writer and essayist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996 was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship the highest award of the Akademi.She is most known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani an unapologetic portrayal of a married woman's sexuality.
Dr. John.  Malcolm John Mac Rebennack Jr. (born November 21 1940) better known by the stage name Dr. John (also Dr. John Creaux or Dr.
Andrew Creighton.  Andrew Creighton is the President of VICE Media. He co-founded the UK division of VICE in the 2002 with Andy Capper. In 2011 Creighton became President of the international company which now has a value of 1.4 billion USD.
Sanchita Bhattyacharya.  Sanchita Bhattyacharya is an Indian singer. At 15 this makes her the oldest winner in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs history as well as the first female winner with public voting. She is currently on ZeeTV's serial Ek Se Badhkar Ek.
Johnny Ross.  Johnny Ross was a multi instrumentalist singer songwriter and founding member of Baby Huey & the Babysitters who died in 2006 as a result of appendicitis. He also hosted his own cable television show.
Alan Stivell.  Alan Stivell (born Alain Cochevelou January 6 1944 in Riom Auvergne France) is a Celtic musician and singer recording artist and master of the Celtic harp who from the early 1970s revived global interest in the Celtic (specifically Breton) harp and Celtic music as part of world music.
Brad Patton.  Brad Patton (born 7 August 1972) is a former gay pornographic actor Joel Mangs. He was born in Melbourne Australia and raised in Sweden. He was discovered by pornographic film director Chi Chi LaRue.
Steven A. LaChance.  Steven A. LaChance (born January 3 1965) is an author. His book The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House was published by Llewellyn Publications on September 1 2008.
Marina Abramović.  Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [marǐːna abrǎːmoʋitɕ]; born November 30 1946) is a Serbian-born artist based in New York a performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience the limits of the body and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades she has recently begun to describe herself as the grandmother of performance art.
Raisa Andriana.  Raisa Andriana (born June 6 1990) professionally known by her mononym Raisa is an Indonesian singer. Before becoming a soloist she is a former vocalist of Indonesian band Andante. Raisa released her first album on 2011 by Solid Records and Universal Music Indonesia. The album is produced by Asta Andoko Ramadhan Handy and Adrian Ario Seto.
Mike Bloom (musician).  Michael Evan Bloom (born April 5 1975 in Manhasset New York) is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has played with artists such as Rilo Kiley Jenny Lewis Rachael Yamagata Johnathan Rice Margot & the Nuclear So and So's and has been co-member of The Elected. Mike has been touring since 2010 and an active member in Julian Casablancas' (of The Strokes) band.
Rolf Leslie.  Rolf Leslie was a British actor.
Trent Gardner.  Trent Gardner is an American progressive rock musician and producer.
Ichirō Ōkouchi.  Ichirō Ōkouchi (大河内 一楼 Ōkouchi Ichirō born on 28 March 1968 in Sendai Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. He is a graduate of Waseda University School of Human Sciences.In 2006 Ōkouchi collaborated with director Gorō Taniguchi for composing the story and script of the Sunrise original production Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and its sequel Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 in 2008.
Philippe Swan.  Philippe Swan (born Philippe Colpaert on 18 March 1961 in Elisabethville) is a Belgian singer-songwriter. He had a success in 1989 with Dans ma rue.
Jennifer Metcalfe.  Jennifer Joanne Metcalfe (born 4 September 1983) is an English actress. She joined the cast of soap opera Hollyoaks in June 2006 playing Mercedes McQueen.
Andy Kubiszewski.  Andy Kubiszewski (born on September 30 1961) is an American musician songwriter remixer and producer. He has worked with bands Exotic Birds and Stabbing Westward contributed to several other bands and composed music for TV shows and films.
Ayumi Beppu.  Ayumi Beppu (別府 あゆみ Beppu Ayumi born June 14 1983) is a Japanese actress and tarento from Sakai Osaka Prefecture. She is chiefly known for her role as Houka Ozu/Magi Pink (小津 芳香／マジピンク Ozu Hōka/Maji Pinku) in Mahou Sentai Magiranger.
Christine Pountney.  Christine Pountney (born 1971) is a Canadian author. She has published three novels and has written for The Guardian the New York Times Magazine the Walrus Brick Magazine and Nuvo. Born in Vancouver British Columbia Pountney grew up in Montreal Quebec. She lived for six years in London England. She lives in Toronto with her partner Michael Winter and their son Leo. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto.
Francis Alÿs.  Francis Alÿs (born 1959 Antwerp) is a Belgian artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art architecture and social practice. After leaving behind his formal training as an architect and relocated to Mexico City he has created a diverse body of artwork that explores urbanity spatial justice and land-based poetics. Employing a broad range of media from painting to performance his works examine the tension between politics and poetics individual action and impotence.
John McNicholl.  John McNicholl is a Northern Irish country singer. He was born in Foreglen a small village in Derry.Johns first album Something Old Something New was released in 2004 and earned him the Best Newcomer award at the Irish World Awards. He also represented Ireland at the CMA Global Showcase in Nashville. Since then he has gone on to record a number of albums each earning him a following in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Billy Woods (rapper).  Billy Woods is an American alternative hip hop artist from New York City. He is the founder of the record label Backwoodz Studioz. He released History Will Absolve Me in 2012. Dour Candy his solo album entirely produced by Blockhead was released in 2013.
Taslima Nasrin.  Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন; also Taslima Nasreen born 25 August 1962) is a Bengali author and former physician who has lived in exile since 1994.
Gibson Byrd.  Decatur Gibson Byrd (February 1 1923 – April 14 2002) was an American painter as well as professor. His early works focused mostly on figurative paintings while his later work turned more towards landscape paintings.
Richard Dupont.  Richard Dupont (born 1968) is an American artist living in New York City. His multifaceted artistic practice includes installations sculptures drawings reliefs animations and prints. He received a BA from the Departments of Visual Art and Art and Archeology at Princeton University. His solo museum exhibitions include The Middlebury College Museum of Art (2011) The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (2008).
Louis-Albert Carvin.  Louis-Albert Carvin (1875–1951) was a French sculptor primarily an animalier.
Richard Paul Evans.  Richard Paul Evans (born October 11 1962 in Salt Lake City Utah) is an American author best known for writing The Christmas Box and more recently the Michael Vey series.
Maxim Kalashnikov.  Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Кучере́нко) (born December 21 1966) better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Макси́м Кала́шников) is a Russian patriotic writer publicist and political activist.His writings focus on praising the Soviet Union and its political and economic system from a Russian nationalist perspective criticizing the Russian government and discussing the perceived NATO (particularly American) threat to Russia and the likelihood that this antagonism will result in a nuclear war between Russia and NATO.Kucherenko was born in Ashgabat on December 21 1966 but spent much of his childhood in Odessa Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). 
Jason Koxvold.  Jason Koxvold (born in 1977 in Belgium) is a British artist and director based in New York City in the United States working in photography interactive media and film. Best known for his stark graphical large-format photographs depicting the topology of globalisation he works in 4x5 and 8x10 using Kodak film with lenses by Schneider Kreuznach and Nikkor.
Vasyl Zinkevych.  Vasyl Zinkevych (born May 1 1945) is a Soviet and Ukrainian singer actor. He was appointed a People's Artist of Ukraine in 1995 received the Ukrainian State Prize in 1994 and became a Hero of Ukraine in 2009.
Al Pike.  Al Pike (born 1961 in New York New York) is an American musician best known as the bassist of the hardcore punk band Reagan Youth as well as briefly being a member of Samhain.
Rudy Sarzo.  Rudy Sarzo (born November 18 1950) is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. Sarzo has played with many well known heavy metal and hard rock acts including Quiet Riot Ozzy Osbourne Whitesnake Manic Eden Dio Blue Öyster Cult and Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche
Lil' Eddie.  Edwin Serrano (born July 12 1988) better known by his stage name Lil' Eddie is an American R&B/Soul singer-songwriter.
Kerry Brown (musician).  Kerry Brown (born 1963) is a record producer movie soundtrack producer music editor composer and a musician. He was the drummer in Chicago alternative rock band Catherine in the 1990s. He was married to D'arcy Wretzky of The Smashing Pumpkins at that time and is now married to Stacey Sher. He played drums for the Smashing Pumpkins on the song Blew Away and he produced Starla & Plume for the album Pisces Iscariot.
Kunihiko Ryo.  Kunihiko Ryo (梁 邦彦 Ryō Kunihiko born January 1 1960 in Tokyo) is a Zainichi Korean composer arranger record producer and pianist. His Korean name is Yang Bang-Ean.
Gordon Mulrain.  Gordon Mulrain is a British session musician and music producer.
Umeko Ando.  Umeko Ando (安東 ウメ子 Andō Umeko November 20 1932 – July 15 2004) was an Ainu singer and mukkuri player. In addition to recording several albums often with Oki Kano she is featured posthumously on the Samurai Champloo soundtrack with her song Pekambe Uk (ペカンベ ウㇰ Wheat Harvesting Song). The episode that featured this song was dedicated in her memory.
Nana (deejay).  Nana (Nurul Hana) (born July 1 1983) is the former student of Akademi Fantasia 1 in Malaysia. Even though she did not win she became a successful Malaysiaian singer and actor. Nana was the 7th student to be voted out out of 12 students in the academy.She used to write a column called 'Bicara Nana' which means Nana's Discussion in Harian Metro on Sundays. Nana appeared in a Soy Talk advertisement and as of 2012 she was the product's ambassador.
The World Famous Tony Williams.  Antony Williams better known by his stage name The World Famous Tony Williams or simply Tony Williams is an American R&B and soul recording artist from Oklahoma City Oklahoma. A singer songwriter and record producer Williams is perhaps best known for his vocals on his first cousin Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout (2004) as well as subsequent albums from West.
Richard Drew (photographer).  Richard Drew is an Associated Press photo-journalist perhaps most notable for his photo The Falling Man which depicts a man falling from the World Trade Center towers following the September 11 2001 attacks. A British documentary The Falling Man about the photo premiered on the Discovery Times channel on September 10 2007.Drew was one of four press photographers present at the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Alfie Boe.  Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe (born 29 September 1973) known professionally initially as Alf or Alfred Boe and now as Alfie Boe is an English tenor.
Johnny Budz.  Johnny Budz (born in New Jersey) is an American DJ producer and remixer. He owns and operates a mobile DJ company Elite Sound Entertainment which provides entertainment for celebrity parties weddings Sweet 16s and other private events. He is heard weekly on XM's Channel 81 (BPM) and other radio stations. His show on AOL Radio has been rated #1 numerous times. He appears on Music Choice's TV channel 817 all weekend.
Kenny Craddock.  Kenny Craddock (18 April 1950 - 30 May 2002) was an instrumentalist composer and producer. Throughout his career he worked with artists including Ringo Starr Ginger Baker Billy Bragg Gerry Rafferty and Alan White.
Alicja Smietana.  Alicja Smietana (born 9 August 1983 in Krakow Poland) is a Polish Violinist currently based in London.
Luca Francesconi.  Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956 in Milan) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory then with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio.
Lizzie Graham.  Lizzie Graham (1844 - 1927) was a late nineteenth-century Puerto Rican soprano singer from Ponce Puerto Rico.
Asher Monroe.  Asher Monroe Book (born Sept 18 1988) known professionally as Asher Monroe is an American singer-songwriter dancer and actor. Born in Arlington a small county in the commonwealth of Virginia his career began at the age of 7 years old when he landed the role of Tiny Tea Cup in the first national tour of the Broadway Production of Beauty and The Beast.
Dyanna Lauren.  Dyanna Lauren (born March 18 1965 in Los Angeles California) is an American erotic dancer pornographic actress and director. She appeared in over 200 movies between 1989 and 2000; in the years since she has shifted away from acting and towards directing.Lauren was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 1995 and has been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment. She was the first guest to appear as a single guest on Playboy TV's The Helmetcam Show.
Murray Guy.  Murray Guy is a contemporary art gallery specializing in emerging and mid-career contemporary artists.Murray Guy Gallery is located in the Chelsea gallery district at 453 West 17th Street. It was founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy.
Tempa T.  Nicky Nyarko-Dei known by his stage name Tempa T is an English Grime MC originating from East London. He is well known for his 2009 single Next Hype which is considered an anthem of the UK underground scene. Due to this song Tempa T is particularly known for his excitable nature aggressive lyrics physique and the use of the phrases hype and par. He is featured on Hypest Hype by Chase & Status and has appeared in the British film Shank (2010) performing Next Hype.
Marco Paolini.  Marco Paolini (born March 5 1956) is an Italian stage actor theatre director dramaturge and author.
A+ (rapper).  Andre Levins also known as A+ (born August 29 1981Hempstead New York) is an American rapper. As a teenager he released albums in 1996 and in 1999.
Tohby Riddle.  Tohby Riddle is an Australian cartoonist and picture-book creator. In 2005 he became editor of The School Magazine in which his illustrations non-fiction pieces and poems appear regularly. In 2009 he won the Patricia Wrightson Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards with Ursula Dubosarsky for their book The Word Spy.
Yuri Kane.  Yuri Kane (born Yuri Vereschak on May 22 1975) is a Russian trance DJ and producer. He is best known for his song Right Back featuring British singer Kate Walsh which was chosen as the A State of Trance 2010 song of the year.
Shawna Kelly.  Shawna Kelly was born in the San Francisco Bay Area of CA U.S.A.. She earned her B. A. degree at the College of Creative Studies of the University of California Santa Barbara. Shawna Kelly is a fifth generation Californian writer and artist.Shawna is also a first cousin descendant of medal award-winning writer Bliss Carman. Bliss was awarded top writing honors in both the U.S. and Canada.
Vinnie Tortorich.  Vinnie Tortorich (born September 27 1962) is an author radio and podcast host fitness trainer and model based in Beverly Hills California.His career began in New Orleans Louisiana after he graduated from Tulane University where he studied on a football scholarship. He was a star athlete at Ascension Catholic High School in Donaldsonville Louisiana. He became a fitness trainer while living in New Orleans and hosted a radio show on WWWL.
David Winner (author).  David Winner is an English author and journalist. He lives in Kilburn London.His best-known books are Those Feet: An Intimate History of English Football (2005) and Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (2000).Brilliant Orange was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000. The book explains why the football players of the Netherlands play beautifully but lose their most important matches.
Lowell Lundstrom.  Lowell Lundstrom (1939-2012) was an American evangelist and musician.
Roger Karl.  Roger Karl (29 April 1882 - 4 May 1984) was a French actor.Karl was born Roger Trouvé in Bourges.
Oleksandr Konysky.  Oleksandr Yakovych Konysky (August 18 1836 – December 12 1900) – was a Ukrainian interpreter writer lexicographer pedagogue poet and civil activist of liberal direction. He had several pen names О. Return-freedom (Ukrainian: Верниволя) F. Gorovenko V. Burkun Perebendia О. Khutorianyn and others (around 150). He also was a professional lawyer and also is known as the author of the text of the Ukrainian spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine.
Yannis Philippakis.  Yannis Philippakis (born 23 April 1986) is the lead singer of the British indie rock band Foals.
Johnny Woods.  Johnny Woods (November 1 1917 – February 1 1990) was an American blues singer and harmonica player in the North Mississippi hill country blues style.Woods was born in a small Mississippi town called Looxahoma just west of Mississippi Highway 35. His harmonica playing first gained notoriety in the 1960s as a duet partner with fellow blues revival discovery guitarist/singer Mississippi Fred McDowell.
V. Madhusudhan Rao.  Veeramachineni Madhusudhan Rao (14 June 1923 – 11 January 2012) was an Indian film director producer and screenwriter known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema with many successful films such as Annapurna Zamindar Antastulu Aradhana Krishnaveni and Swati Kiranam. In 1965 He has received the National Film Award for directing Antastulu.Rao died on 11 January 2012 at the age of 89.
Zhang Jingchu.  Zhang Jingchu (born 2 February 1980) is a Chinese film actress. She graduated in Directing at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing.Zhang was brought up in a middle-working-class family in the countryside. She studied English in Beijing New Oriental Institute and is fluent in the language.She came into international prominence through director Gu Changwei's debut film Peacock which won the Silver Bear at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.
Bill Barrett (artist).  Bill Barrett (born December 21 1934) is an American sculptor painter and jeweller.He is considered a central figure in the second-generation of American metal sculptors and is internationally known for his abstract sculptures in steel aluminum and bronze.
Winslow Homer.  Winslow Homer (February 24 1836 – September 29 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.Largely self-taught Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium.
Sean Morey (comedian).  Sean Morey (born June 7 ) is an American stand-up comedian famous for songs such as The Man Song A Hairy Ass Dear Santa and others. Morey has made several TV appearances and is often referred to as The Godfather of Boston Comedy.
Jorge Oñate.  Jorge Oñate born March 31 1949 in the town of Los Robles La Paz near the city of Valledupar in northern Colombia is one of the most renown singers and composers of the vallenato musical genre. As of 2004 and since the beginning of his career in 1968 he has achieved 25 gold discs 7 platinum discs and 6 double platinum for his sales among other numerous musical accomplishments.
Jade Kwan.  Jade Kwan (born 31 July 1979) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer.
Yehuda Glantz.  Yehuda Julio Glantz (born on March 19 1958 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a musician composer singer songwriter and producer living in Jerusalem Israel. Glantz is a multi-instrumentalist playing on the Charango piano accordion siku pinkillu guitar flute cuatro and is also a percussionist. Yehuda has twice received the first place award in the klezmer Safed festival for his performance and compositions. In 2008 Yehuda founded the Regalim Festival in the City Center of Jerusalem.
John Silvester (writer).  John Silvester is an Australian journalist and crime writer. He has written for major Melbourne based newspapers such as The Age the Sunday Herald Sun and others. Silvester has also co-written a number of bestselling books with Andrew Rule based on crime in Melbourne. Some of their works formed the basis of the hit Australian TV series Underbelly.
Gina La Piana.  Gina La Piana (born 1980s) is a Latina actress and pop singer.
Iñaki Antón.  Iñaki Antón González (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈɲakj‿anˈtoŋ gonˈθaleθ]; August 3 1964) also known by his stage name Uoho is a Spanish musician songwriter and record producer. He was the lead guitarist of Platero y Tú and now is a member of Extremoduro and his solo project Inconscientes.
James White (author).  James White (7 April 1928 – 23 August 1999) was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending his early years in Canada. After a few years in the clothing industry he worked at Short Brothers Ltd. from 1965 until taking early retirement in 1984 as a result of diabetes.
Joe Schermie.  Joe Schermie (February 12 1946 - March 25 2002) was an American musician best known as the bass player for the 1970s American rock-pop group Three Dog Night.
Jeff Loomis.  Jeff Loomis (born September 14 1971) is an American musician best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore.
Tyeb Mehta.  Tayyabb Mehta (25 July 1925 – 2 July 2009) was a noted Indian painter. He was part of the noted Bombay Progressive Artists' Group which included greats like F.N. Souza S.H. Raza and M.F.
Masami Tsuchiya.  Masami Tsuchiya is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and guitarist in the group Ippu-Do. His subsequent output includes solo work and collaborations.
Daniel Martin Moore.  Daniel Martin Moore is an American singer and songwriter from Cold Spring Kentucky.
Luis Prieto (director).  Luis Prieto (born July 10 1970) is a Spanish-born film director and screenwriter.
Johnny Perrin.  Johnny Perrin is a punk rock musician from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. He is the former frontman of the Canadian ska band Grandpa's Army and former drummer of The Brat Attack. Perrin has appeared in the documentary film The Truth Is Disgusting as a former member of Grandpa's Army as well as a small role in the Dogme 95 film The Smokestack Wager.Currently Perrin drums for the band Up 'N' Atom and works for Long And McQuade.
Arthur Elmore Bostwick.  Arthur Elmore Bostwick (8 March 1860 in Litchfield Connecticut – 13 February 1942 in Oak Grove Missouri) was a United States librarian and author.
Johan Harstad.  Johan Harstad (born 10 February 1979) is a Norwegian novelist short story writer playwright and graphic designer. He currently lives in Oslo.
Badawi al-Jabal.  Badawi al-Jabal (Arabic: بدوي الجبل‎) (1905–1981) is the pen name of Muhammad Sulayman al-Ahmad (Arabic: محمد سليمان الأحمد‎) a Syrian poet of high reputation in the Arab world.
Robert Mangold.  Robert Mangold (born October 12 1937) is an American minimalist artist.
Brenda Shaughnessy.  Brenda Shaughnessy (born in Okinawa 1970) is an American poet.
Mark Robert Halper.  Mark Robert Halper (1965 San Francisco California) is a Los Angeles photographer noted for the striking human images in his commercial and fine art photography. He has worked in a wide range of specialties including portrait lifestyle celebrity architecture still life and fine art.
Shawn Pelton.  Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and percussionist.
Niclas Engelin.  Niclas Engelin (born 27 December 1972) is a Swedish heavy metal guitarist for In Flames Passenger & Engel. Engelin was the lead guitarist for Gardenian and has been in and out of In Flames on five different occasions.In 1997 he replaced Glenn Ljungström of In Flames who had just quit. In 1998 Niclas quit In Flames and the band's drummer Bjorn Gelotte took over his position as guitarist. Engelin came back to fill in for Jesper Strömblad four times since back in 1998 when he quit.
LaMont Johnson.  LaMont Johnson (October 1 1941 – October 21 1999) was an American jazz pianist who played in the hard bop and post-bop genres. He recorded extensively with Jackie McLean during the 1960s as well as with Ornette Coleman Kenny Burrell Bud Shank Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause among others.
Mario Levi.  Mario Levi (born 1957 in Istanbul is one of the most important modern novelists of Turkish literature.
José Argüelles.  José Argüelles born Joseph Anthony Arguelles (/ɑrˈɡweɪ.ɨs/; Rochester Minnesota January 24 1939 – March 23 2011) was an American New Age author and artist. He was the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. He held a Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago and taught at numerous colleges including Princeton University the University of California Davis the San Francisco Art Institute and Evergreen State College.
Cesare Bernazano.  Cesare Bernazano (active c. 1530) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Milan and painted still lifes with landscapes animals and fruit. The figures in his landscapes are generally painted by Cesare da Sesto.
Marion Bloem.  Marion Bloem (born 24 August 1952 in Arnhem the Netherlands) is a Dutch writer and film maker of Indo (mixed Dutch and Indonesian) descent best known as author of the literary acclaimed book Geen gewoon Indisch meisje (No Ordinary Indo Girl) and director of the 2008 feature film Ver van familie (Far from Family).Bloem is a second generation Indo immigrant born into a family of four children. Her parents Alexander and Jacqueline Bloem repatriated from Indonesia in 1950.
Beverly Hills (actress).  Beverley Hills (born 23 March 1966) is a British actress who has played Kate Warren in Backup Elaine Davies-Johnson in Brookside Liz Walton in Accused Monika Gaye in Peak Practice Shirley Slipman in The Bill Viv Kelly in Dalziel and Pascoe and she has also appeared in Casualty Holby City Silent Witness and Waking the Dead (TV series).
Petr Eben.  Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music organist and choirmaster.
Oskar Linnros.  Hans Oskar Kihlen Linnros (born August 15 1983 in Sundbyberg Sweden) is a Swedish musician. He was part of the alternative hip hop band Snook alongside Daniel Adams-Ray before going solo and releasing his solo studio debut album Vilja bli that reached #2 in the Swedish Albums Chart.
Xhevat Kelmendi.  Xhevat Kelmendi (born January 1955) is an Albanian Singer. Xhevat Kelmendi is from Peja and is one of the greatest 'serenata' (popular songs).
Yehuda Poliker.  Yehuda Poliker (Hebrew: יהודה פוליקר Greek: Λεωνίδας Πολικάρης; born December 25 1950) is an Israeli singer songwriter musician and painter.
Natalia Alaverdian.  Natalia Alaverdian is the fashion director for Harper's Bazaar Russia. She is also the creator of the A.W.A.K.E. fashion line.She was born in Moscow and raised in Belgium.
Kate Lesing.  Katarzyna Lesing(born 1972)also referred to simply as Kate Lesing is an is an Poland
Samuel Gotthold Lange.  Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 22 March 1711 in Halle (Saale); died 25 June 1781 in Beesenlaublingen Bernburg district) was a German poet.
Lynne Graham.  Lynne Graham (b. July 30 1956 in Northern Ireland) is a popular Northern Irish author of over 60 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1987.
Marianne Macdonald.  Marianne Macdonald (born July 9 1934 in Kenora Ontario) is a Canadian children's books author and novelist best known for her mystery series featuring London antiques bookstore owner and amateur investigator Dido Hoare.Main themes of the Dido Hoare novels are responsibility and trust the struggles of a single working mother and a complex and troubled father-daughter relationship.Marianne MacDonald seems to have vanished from public view.
Gaku Hamada.  Gaku Hamada (濱田岳 Hamada Gaku) (born Tokyo 28 June 1988) is a Japanese film and television actor.
Elizabeth Farrelly.  Elizabeth Margaret Farrelly is a Sydney-based author architecture critic essayist columnist and speaker who was born in New Zealand but later became an Australian citizen. She has contributed tocurrent debates about aesthetics design public art architecture urban environments society and politics including criticism of the treatment of Julian Assange.
Elisha Yaffe.  Elisha Yaffe is a comedian actor and writer. He has co-created webseries including Downers Grove Minor Stars and Remember When. He has appeared in commercials for Mike's Hard Lemonade Time Warner Cable Samsung Wendy's McDonald's Nintendo 3DS and Hanes. He has appeared in television shows including Mad Men Southland Up All Night The New Normal and CSI:NY and regularly voices the character of Jimmy Olsen and B'dg on DC Nation Shorts's Tales of Metropolis and Super-Pets.
Ben Mills.  Benjamin Collett Ben Mills (born 1 March 1980[citation needed] in Chatham Kent England) is a British singer who finished in third place on the third series of The X Factor in 2006.After the show Mills signed a five-album record deal with SonyBMG. His debut album Picture of You was released on 12 March 2007 the same date as the debut album from X Factor runner-up Ray Quinn.
Thomas Holm (musician).  Thomas Holm (born 1978) is a Danish singer-songwriter.Holm was born and raised in Kjellerup and was a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen when he began his musical career.He debuted with the single Nitten (The Short Straw) in 2009 and was also involved in the single Skrøbeligt fundament (Fragile Foundation) in support of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Z'EV.  Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser February 8 1951) is an American poet percussionist and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels.
Kamal-ol-molk.  Mohammad Ghaffari (1848 - 18 August 1940) better known as Kamal-ol-Molk (also Kamal-al-Molk) was an Iranian painter and part of the Ghaffari clan in Kashan.
Joseph Henry Sharp.  Joseph Henry Sharp (27 September 1859 – 29 August 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists of which he is considered the Spiritual Father. Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos New Mexico which he saw in 1893 with John Hauser when he visited in 1893. He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life as well as Western landscapes.
Emil Kazaz.  Emanuel Ghazazian known as Emil Kazaz is an American-Armenian figurative sculptor and painter born on January 14 1953 in Gyumri Armenia.He was awarded one of the 5 sculpture gold medals at the Florence Biennale in 2003.The Los Angeles Times commented on Kazaz work at an art exhibition One of the most striking pieces in this sprawling show is Emil Kazaz's Hang Horse.
Olivia Bee.  Olivia Bolles better known as Olivia Bee is an American photographer from Portland Oregon. At 14 her work was featured in an advertising campaign for Converse. Her work has also been used in campaigns for Nike and Fiat. She cites Ryan McGinley Annie Leibovitz and Nan Goldin as influences.
Ding Sheng.  Ding Sheng (丁晟) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Born in Qingdao Shandong his works include Little Big Soldier and the Police Story 2013 both films directed by him and starring Jackie Chan.
Alan Shacklock.  Alan Shacklock (born 20 June 1951) is an English musician composer arranger and recording producer who currently lives and works in Nashville Tennessee. His song The Mexican is considered influential in the early development of b-boying and hip-hop culture.
Luis Alberto del Paraná.  Luis Alberto del Paraná (1926–1974) was a Paraguayan singer and guitarist. During the fifties sixties and early seventies he traveled extensively around the globe with his group Los Paraguayos popularizing Paraguayan music. He is the best-selling Paraguayan musician ever.[citation needed]
Nick Holder.  Nick Holder is an underground hip-hop and house music deejay and producer from Toronto Canada.Holder began DJing in the early 1980s and soon became influenced by the Detroit techno scene and DJs such as Derrick May and Carl Craig.He owns records labels DNH Records (house) and Treehouse Records (hip-hop) and has been producing music since 1991. In this period he has produced over 60 records.
Elinor Darwin.  Elinor Mary Darwin (1871–1954) was an Irish born illustrator engraver and portrait painter. Her illustrations were included in several of her husband Bernard Darwin's books for children.
Orphy Robinson.  Orphy Robinson (born 13 October 1960) is a British vibraphonist and multi-instrumentalist who also plays the saxophone trumpet drums piano marimba and steel pans. He has written music for television film theatre opera and contemporary classical music. Robinson is from London UK and works across a variety of eclectic musical forms (jazz free jazz free improvisation jazz fusion and funk music).
Keraca Visulčeva.  Keraca Visulčeva (Висулчева )(1910–2004) was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist who was born in Nestram Ottoman Empire. Her family moved to Pomorie Bulgaria during the Balkan wars as many Macedonian immigrants did during the same period.
Simo Matavulj.  Simo Matavulj (Serbian: Симо Матавуљ 14 September 1852 – 20 February 1908) was a Serbian novelist a representative of lyric realism especially in short prose. He is best known for employing his skill in holding up to ridicule the peculiar foibles of the Dalmatian folk.
Tess Gaerthé.  Tess Gaerthé (born 21 August 1991 in Amsterdam The Netherlands) betterknown as just Tess was the Dutch representative at the 3rd Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005. Singing Stupid she finished in 7th place with 82 points.
Jan Baptist van Deynum.  Jan Baptist van Deynum or Duinen (1620–1668) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Deb Lyons.  Deb Lyons is a singer-songwriter from New York City. She is most associated with her work in Broadway and is well-recognized for her multiple performances in clubs such as The Bitter End and The Bottomline.Lyons has recorded with acclaimed composer Yuki Kajiura on the album Fiction as well as several songs (including the image theme) for Xenosaga II. Through remixes her voice has appeared in Xenosaga III also.
Jessie Baetz.  Jessie Baetz was a Canadian-American artist composer and pianist.She was a native of Toronto Canada where she studied and taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music now known as the Royal Conservatory of Music. She immigrated to New York where 1930s census records list her occupation as “painter” and her art was included in an exhibit at the Jumble Shop on West 8th Street.
Sergey Nikitin (musician).  Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin (Russian: Серге́й Яковлевич Никитин born March 8 1944) is a prominent Soviet and Russian bard composer and biophysicist. He performs both solo and in a duet with his wife Tatyana Nikitina all over Russia the former Soviet republics and other countries with significant Russian-speaking diaspora. Sergey Nikitin is also known as a composer and performer of songs for children.
Irving Schild.  Irving Schild (born 1931) is a Belgian commercial photographer who has worked for agencies and clients. He has been the primary photographer for MAD Magazine for the past four decades starting in 1965.
Howard Luedtke.  Howard Luedtke also known as Howard Guitar Luedtke is an American blues guitarist singer songwriter and musician. Luedtke is considered one of the best slide guitar players in the American midwest[citation needed] and currently tours with his band Howard Guitar Luedtke & Blue Max.Blue Max is a Chippewa Falls Wisconsin based blues-rock band that has been performing in the upper Midwest for the past two decades.
Linda Kitson.  Linda Kitson (born 17 Feb 1945) is a British artist. She is best known for her work as an official war artist during the Falklands Conflict.
Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya.  Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya M.A. (Telugu: మామిడిపూడి వెంకటరంగయ్య) (January 8 1889 – January 13 1982) was a multidisciplined person and financial and political scientist and historical writer of Andhra Pradesh India. He was recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1968 by Indian Government.
James Hook (composer).  James Hook (3 June 1746 – 1827) was an English composer and organist.
Danilo Montero.  Danilo Montero is a Costa Rican Contemporary Christian Music singer author and pastor.
Leah McGrath Goodman.  Leah McGrath Goodman is an American author and freelance journalist who has worked in New York and London.Goodman graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a Bachelors degree in journalism and political science and in 2010 was the recipient of a Scripps Howard Foundation fellowship in environmental journalism. She has contributed to publications and agencies such as Fortune The Financial Times The Wall Street Journal Condé Nast Portfolio the Associated Press Forbes and The Guardian.
Gilles Tréhin.  Gilles Tréhin (born 1972) is a French artist author and creator of the imaginary city of Urville. His book also titled Urville is based on his writings of the fictional city's history geography culture and economy and includes over 300 drawings of different districts of Urville all done by Trehin.Tréhin is an autistic savant who lives in Cagnes-sur-Mer near Nice in southeastern France.
Keiko Suzuka.  Keiko Suzuka (鈴鹿景子 Suzuka Keiko born 1955-11-21) is a Japanese actress. She starred in the 1976–1977 NHK daytime television series (asadora) Hi no Kuni ni and has had multiple guest-star roles in prime-time jidaigeki such as Mito Kōmon and Abarenbō Shōgun. She has also appeared as a voice actor in a 1982 production of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Keiko has also appeared in film.
Paolo Bianchi.  Paolo Bianchi was an Italian engraver of the Baroque chiefly employed in engraving portraits for the booksellers active c. the year 1670. He engraved some of the portraits for Priorato's History of Leopold among which are : Cardinal Flavio Chigi nephew of Pope Alexander VII and Luigi do Benevides Carillio.
Werner van den Valckert.  Werner van den Valckert (ca. 1585 - after 1635) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
Natalie Sleeth.  Natalie Allyn Sleeth (née Wakeley) (October 29 1930 – March 21 1992) was an American composer.Sleeth was born in Evanston Illinois. In 1934 she began to study the piano at the early age of four. In 1952 she received an Academic major in music theory and a BA in music theory at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She married a Professor of Homiletics Reverend Ronald E. Sleeth.
Shin Saburi.  Shin Saburi (佐分 利信 Saburi Shin; February 12 1909 in Utashinai Hokkaidō Japan – September 22 1982) was a Japanese film actor noted for his leading roles in a number of films by the director Yasujiro Ozu including Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) Tea Over Rice (1952) Equinox Flower (1958) and Late Autumn (1960). He also directed over a dozen films.
Zander Bleck.  Thomas Zander Bleck is an American singer songwriter signed to 2101 Records/Capitol. Zander's debut album Monument produced by superstar producer RedOne will be released in 2014 with his debut singles Temptation and Dirty Love Song due later in 2014.Zander Bleck was born and raised to humble beginnings in rural Hunterdon County New Jersey. His mother a school teacher his father a filmmaker local radio DJ and musician once signed in 1980 to Millennium/RCA Records.
Faiz Karizi.  Faiz Karizi (Persian: فيض كاريزي) (born 1953) is a popular Afghan singer. He is ranked as the most prolific folkloric singer of Afghanistan and has been referred to as that country’s “King of Folklore Music.” Now based out of Sweden he often tours Europe United States and most recently Australia for performances.
Russ Ballard.  Russell Glyn Russ Ballard (born 31 October 1945 Waltham Cross Hertfordshire England) is an English singer songwriter and musician.
Gary Freeman (sculptor).  Gary Freeman (1937-2014) is an American sculptor from Indianapolis Indiana. He is Professor Emeritus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and served as head of the Herron School of Art Sculpture Department for 33 years from 1968 until his retirement in 2001.Freeman was born in Wellington Kansas. He received his BFA in 1961 from the Kansas City Art Institute. He received his MFA in 1963 from Tulane University.
Diomedes Díaz.  Diomedes de Jesús Díaz Maestre (26 May 1957 – 22 December 2013) was a Colombian vallenato singer song-writer and composer. His nickname El Cacique de la Junta (the Chieftain of La Junta) was given to him by another vallenato singer Rafael Orozco Maestre to honor Díaz's birthplace.
Fereydoun Farrokhzad.  Fereydoun Farrokhzad (Persian: فریدون فرخزاد‎) (October 7 1938 - August 6 1992) was a legendary Iranian singer actor poet TV and radio host writer and opposition political figure. He is best known for his successful show Mikhakhe Noghrei. He was the brother of the acclaimed Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad and Pooran Farrokhzad.He was stabbed to death on 8 August 1992 at his home in Bonn Germany.
Irene Bridger.  Irene Bridger is a gospel musician from Twillingate Newfoundland and Labrador Canada. She has worked with audio engineer Dean Stairs. A Heart Full of Love was her first album. In 2005 she released her second album You. The title track from this album was written by Ada Jenkins a friend of Bridger. Bridger's album Living Prayer was nominated in the Inspirational Album of the Year category at the 2007 Covenant Awards.
Vesna Parun.  Vesna Parun (pronounced [v̞ê̞sna pâruːn]; 10 April 1922 – 25 October 2010) was a Croatian poet.After schooling in Zlarin Šibenik and Split she studied Romance languages and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb. From 1947 she was a free artist writing poetry essays criticism and children's literature. She translated works from Slovene German French and Bulgarian.
Tracii Guns.  Tracii Guns (born Tracy Richard Irving Ulrich on January 20 1966) is an American guitarist best known as the founder of glam metal group L.A. Guns as well as the supergroups Brides of Destruction and Contraband. He was also very briefly involved in the formation of the first lineup of Guns N' Roses but eventually left the group and was replaced by guitarist Slash.
Henrik Takkenberg.  Henrik Takkenberg (August 23 1967 – November 25 2006) was a lead singer songwriter composer and producer who developed a new musical style he named Flamenco Chill.
Boubacar Traoré.  Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes Mali) is a renowned singer songwriter and guitarist. Traoré also goes by the nickname Kar Kar the one who dribbles too much in Bambara a reference to his soccer playing: a nickname I got from playing soccer when I was young. People would yell 'Kari Kari' - dribble dribble - the name stuck with me.
Jalal Barzanji.  Jalal Barzanji (born 1953 in Arbil northern of Iraq) is a contemporary Kurdish poet and writer.He has served on the board of Writers' Union and was Executive Director of Ministry of Culture in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraqi-Kurdistan in 1996 due to an ongoing civil war in Kurdistan. He has been living in Canada since 1998 after escaping Iraq where he was tortured and imprisoned because of his writings from 1986 to 1989.
Ian Paul Cassidy.  Ian Paul Cassidy (born 4 November 1964 in Harrogate West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actor who has appeared mainly in American and Australian productions. In 2000 he played Cracker Bob in Highlander: Endgame and in 2001 he had a starring role in the drama series The Beast which was cancelled after five episodes. Cassidy first roles was in the 1980s when he participated in a number of Australian independent films. During the first years of the 1990s he appeared uncredited in U.S.
Masood Akhtar.  Masood Akhtar is popular Pakistani singer. He has fan base stretching from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pashtun areas of Balochistan (Pakistan) to southern parts of Afghanistan and has achieved much recognition. Masood sings in several languages: Pashto Urdu Hindko
Ole Petter Andreassen.  Ole Petter Andreassen (born 22 September 1970) is a Norwegian musician and producer from Flekkefjord Norway. He is also known under the stage names El Doom Ollis and Ztalin.Andreassen plays the guitar in the bands Thulsa Doom and The Cumshots the drums in Black Debbath and is the guitarist/vocalist in The Hillstone Halos El Doom & The Born Electric and the Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute band Young Fogertys.
Antonia Logue.  Antonia Logue is an Irish novelist from Park County Londonderry Northern Ireland. She grew up in Brussels and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University. Her first novel Shadow-Box won The Irish Times Literature Award for an Irish novel and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Ghulam Sakhi Hazara.  Ghulam Sakhi Hazara is a Hazara Australian artist. His work is a combination of Surrealism Realism and he recently invented his own style which is called as Hazaraism.Hazara left Afghanistan and arrived in Australia as a refugee in 2000 at the Port Hedland Detention Centre in Port Hedland Western Australia.
Alexander Savinov.  Alexander Ivanovich Savinov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Сави́нов July 17 1881 – February 25 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists regarded as one of the founder of the Leningrad School of painting.
Ann Sexton.  Ann Sexton (born Mary Ann Sexton February 5 1950) is an American soul singer who recorded mainly in the 1970s. Her biggest hit You're Gonna Miss Me reached the R&B chart in 1973.
Johnny O'Keefe.  John Michael O'Keefe known as Johnny O'Keefe (19 January 1935 – 6 October 1978) was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s. Some of his hits include Wild One (1958) Shout! and She's My Baby.
Damion Hall.  Damion Hall also known as Damion Crazy Legs Hall is an African-American R&B singer. He is a member of the new jack swing group Guy and is the brother of Guy member Aaron Hall. He has released one solo album Straight to the Point in 1994 which spawned one single Satisfy You featuring Chanté Moore. That song managed to reach #48 on the Billboard R&B charts. He is currently unsigned.
Giuseppe Tonelli.  Giuseppe Tonelli (1668–1732) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence. He studied under Tommaso Aldrovandini and Jacopo Chiavistelli. He worked alongside Giuseppe Nasini during 1696-1699 in frescoing the ceiling of second floor corridor of the Uffizi gallery facing the Arno. He painted quadratura for Sebastiano Ricci in the Pitti Palace.
Lise Thouin.  Lise Thouin (10 July 1950) is a French Canadian actress and writer. She is married to the director Jean-Claude Lord.
Teuta Kurti.  Teuta Kurti (born September 23 1987) is an Albanian Kosovar singer. She rose to fame after taking part in Ethet the Albanian version of Idols together with well-known singers Rona Nishliu and Vesa Luma.
Sorin Coliban.  Sorin Coliban (born in Bucharest ) is a Romanian opera singer with an international career. His voice range is bass–baritone. He is known for the volume and projection of his voice both of which help him to sing both bass and baritone roles. He is one of the few singers to have performed (in the contemporary opera Macbeth by Salvatore Sciarrino in Luzern in 2004) with two different voices in the same performance: bass-baritone and countertenor.
Tiffany Evans.  Tiffany Evans (born August 4 1992) is an American singer and occasional actress.
Will Champlin.  Will Champlin (born April 24 1983) is an American singer best known for his appearance on Season 5 of the NBC singing competition The Voice as part of Adam Levine's team. He finished in third place behind Jacquie Lee the runner-up and Tessanne Chin the winner of the season.
Andrew Bodnar.  Andrew Bodnar is an English bass player best known for his membership with Graham Parker and The Rumour in the late 1970s. He also played with Graham Parker on his solo albums from 1988 through the mid-1990s. Graham Parker and the Rumour reunited in 2011 to record a new album and tour.Bodnar played himself in the Judd Apatow film This Is 40 released in December 2012.
Pedro Vargas.  Pedro Vargas Mata (San Miguel Allende 29 April 1906 - Mexico City on 30 October 1989) was a Mexican singer and actor from the golden age of Mexican cinema. He was known as the Nightingale of the Americas.
Steven Graff.  Steven Lewis Graff is a pianist and teacher of music in New York City.
Jenia Lubich.  Jenia Lubich is a singer-songwriter from Saint Petersburg Russia who performs and writes in English Russian French and Spanish. Her work encompasses recording song-writing session performance live performance and TV performance.
Arthur Omre.  Arthur Omre (17 December 1887 Brunlanes – 16 August 1967) was a Norwegian novelist and writer of short stories.Omre hailed from Vestfold. With a background as sailor journalist constructor in the United States engineer in Oslo businessman and entrepreneur he went bankrupt in 1922.
Vernon March.  English sculptor Vernon March (1891–1930) is renowned for major monuments such as the National War Memorial of Canada in Ottawa Ontario the Samuel de Champlain Monument in Orillia Ontario and the War Memorial in Cape Town South Africa. Without the benefit of a formal education in the arts the prodigy was the youngest exhibitor at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Yngve Nordwall.  Yngve Nordwall (13 April 1908 – 23 January 1994) was a Swedish film actor and director.
Billy Name.  Billy Name (born William Linich February 22 1940 in Poughkeepsie New York) is an American photographer filmmaker and lighting designer. He was the archivist of the Warhol Factory from 1964 to 1970. His brief romance and subsequent friendship with Andy Warhol led to substantial collaboration on Warhol's work including his films paintings and sculpture. Linich became Billy Name among the coterie known as the Warhol Superstars.
Scott McMorrow.  Scott McMorrow is an American playwright and actor. McMorrow's plays have been translated into Italian and they have been produced extensively throughout the United States including Off-Off Broadway. His award-winning plays and poetry have been widely anthologized and McMorrow has published multiple books in the field of primary education.
Georges Perec.  Georges Perec (7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist filmmaker documentalist and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group.
Qamil Çami.  Qamil Izet Çami (1875–1933) was an Albanian rilindas poet and teacher. He and other rilindas from his area opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates in 1908 .
Junnosuke Yoshiyuki.  Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (吉行 淳之介 Yoshiyuki Junnosuke April 13 1924 – July 26 1994) was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer.
Alain Claessens.  Alain Claessens (1947–2004) was a French actor.
Sonny Muslim.  Sonny Muslim (born 1989) is a British actor best known for his performance The Story of Tracy Beaker where he played the character of Ryan.Muslim's career began back in 1998 into 1999 when he appeared in The Bill and Casualty respectively. Both of which he has reappeared in again as different characters.
Pietro de' Crescenzi.  Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1230/35 – c. 1320) Latin: Petrus de Crescentiis was a Bolognese jurist now remembered for his writings on horticulture and agriculture the Ruralia commoda. There are many variant spellings of his name.
Virgil Johnson (singer).  Virgil Lewis Johnson (December 29 1935 – February 24 2013) was an African American deejay formerly at radio station KDAV in Lubbock. He was the lead singer of The Velvets a 1950s and 1960s vocal quintet from Odessa also in West Texas. They are best remembered for their 1961 hit Tonight (Could Be the Night) which peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard pop charts.
Jeff Torrington.  Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland.His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. Swing Hammer Swing (1992) was set during the demolition of the old Gorbals. It took 30 years to write. The Devil's Carousel (1998) drew on the decline of a fictionalised version of the Rootes/Chrysler car plant at Linwood.
Astro (UB40).  Terence Wilson (born 24 June 1957 Birmingham England) is a musician rapper and toaster better known by his stage name Astro who was part of the English reggae band UB40 since it was founded in 1978 until he left the group in November 2013.In January 2014 Astro with other former UB40 members Ali Campbell and Mickey Virtue announced plans to reform and record under the UB40 name.The band released their new song Reggae Music as a free download in January 2014.In February with the current group known as UB40 and the newly formed group with Astro as a member both due to perform in Dubai on the same day the new group announced a name change to UB40 reunited.
Elizabeth Rider.  Elizabeth Rider is an English actress best known for her recurring role as DI Lynette Driver in the BBC soap opera Doctors which she has appeared in 2009 and often from 2010.
Ella Guru.  Ella Guru (born May 24 1966) is an American painter and musician living in London United Kingdom. She was a member of Mambo Taxi and the Voodoo Queens. In 1999 she became one of the founding members of the Stuckist art movement.
Michael McDonald (singer).  Michael McDonald (born February 12 1952) is an American singer and songwriter. McDonald is known for a soulful baritone singing style. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan. He became a member of The Doobie Brothers from 1976 to 1982 a period which resulted in several hit songs for the band. He has won five Grammy Awards.
Kristina Orbakaitė.  Kristina Orbakaitе (Russian: Кристина Орбакайте Lithuanian: Kristina Orbakaitė born 25 May 1971) better known as Kristina Orbakaite is a Lithuanian-Russian singer and actress. Her parents are Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva and Lithuanian circus performer Mykolas Orbakas.
Nicolai Houm.  Nicolai Houm (born 1974) is a Norwegian novelist.He is a grandson of literary critic Philip Houm and grew up at Jar except for some years in the United States. He studied at the writers' course at Telemark University College and later lived at Grønland Oslo before buying a small farm in Sylling.He made his novel debut with Knekk nakken min venn in 2004 and followed with the short story collection ''Alle barn er laget av ild in 2009 and the children's book Når alle sover in 2011.
Arthur Braverman.  Arthur Braverman is an American author and translator primarily translating from Japanese to English. A Zen Buddhist practitioner Braverman lived in Japan for seven years and studied at Antai-ji temple in 1969 training under Kosho Uchiyama. In 1978 he returned to the United States and studied classical Japanese at Columbia University. He lives in Ojai CA with his wife.
Doris Caesar.  Doris Porter Caesar (November 8 1892 – 1971) was an American sculptor best known for her portrayals of the nude female body.
Carole Lin.  Carole Lin (Chinese: 林晓佩) is a Singaporean actress.
Jan Miel.  Jan Miel (name variations: 'Jan Miele' 'Jan Bicke' 'Jan Bike' 'Cavaliere Giovanni Miele' 'Cavaliere Giovanni Milo' 'Cavaliere Giovanni della Vita' 'Petit Jean'; nicknames: 'Bieco' en 'Honingh-bie') (Beveren-Waas 1599 – Turin 1663) was a Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Italy where he formed part of the circle of genre painters influenced by Pieter van Laer who are referred to as 'Bamboccianti'.
M. M. Basheer.  M. M. Basheer is a Malayalam literary critic who has written more than 40 critical works on Malayalam poetry short story and novel. He worked as a Professor of Malayalam in the University of Calicut. In 2008 the Kerala Sahithya Academy published his work on short story titled Malayala Cherukatha Sahithya Charithram (History of Malayalam Short Story) in two volumes. He published his Ph.D. work on the poet Kumaranasan's manuscripts titled Kumaranashante Rachanashilpam.
Paul Geraghty.  Paul Geraghty (born 3 May 1959 in Durban South Africa) is a British based author and illustrator of children's picture books. He also writes teenage fiction and won the Young Africa Award for his first novel Pig.
Ferdous Wahid.  Ferdous Wahid is a Bangladeshi pop singer .
Paul Brickman.  Paul Brickman (April 23 1949) is an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago. He is best known for the film Risky Business where he served as director and screenwriter. His father Morrie Brickman created the comic strips Small Society 'Pic-trix' 'Crosscut' and 'Blue Chips'.Paul was raised in Highland Park Illinois. Even as a young child he could observe his father's massive drawing studio in their home.
Linda Mason.  Linda Mason is a makeup and visual artist famous since the 1970s for her creative and exciting use of color.
John W. R. Taylor.  John William Ransom Taylor (8 June 1922 - 12 December 1999) was a British aviation expert and editor. He edited Jane's All the World's Aircraft for three decades during the Cold War.
James Lavadour.  James Lavadour (born 1951) is a Walla Walla painter and printmaker. Co-Founder of the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts he is known for creating large panel sets of landscape paintings. I believe that a painting must stand up on its own without explanation. I think of myself as an abstract action painter. I just happen to see landscape in the abstract events of paint. - James Lavadour
Ofra Harnoy.  Ofra Harnoy CM (born January 31 1965 Hadera Israel) is a Canadian cellist.Harnoy moved with her family to Toronto in 1971. When she was six she began cello lessons with her father Jacob Harnoy. Her teachers included Vladimir Orloff William Pleeth Pierre Fournier Jacqueline du Pré and Mstislav Rostropovich.Harnoy made her professional debut as a soloist with an orchestra at age ten.
Will Elliott.  Will Elliott (born 1979) is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane Queensland.His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award (sponsored by ABC Books).
Daniel Norgren.  Daniel Norgren (born 1983 in Borås Sweden) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He’s working through a small indie label called Superpuma records and has been doing so since 2006.The debut album Kerosene Dreams was mainly recorded on home made instruments and was followed up by Outskirt in 2008. This album attracted a steady crowd of blues fans and also opened the doors and roads down south for touring Europe. In 2010 Horrifying Deatheating Bloodspider was released and opened the doors even wider.
Glenn Medeiros.  Glenn Alan Medeiros is an American singer and songwriter of Portuguese descent who achieved chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s.After his musical career he taught and is now vice-principal at the Maryknoll School a parochial school in his native Honolulu Hawaii.
Chris Eliopoulos.  Chris Eliopoulos (born September 30 1967) is an American cartoonist and letterer of comic books.
Brian Fair.  Brian Fair (born May 30 1975) is an American musician from Massachusetts best known as lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.
Laurien Berenson.  Laurien Berenson is an American writer of murder mystery and romance novels since 1983 in her earlier career she used the penname Laurien Blair. She is most noted for her Melanie Travis Mysteries series and her novels has been published in several languages.She is a winner of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and a four-time winner of the Maxwell Award (presented by the Dog Writers Association of America). She has been nominated for both the Agatha and Macavity awards.
Edward Latter.  Edward Gale Latter (born 29 February 1928) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Talat Aziz.  Talat Aziz (born 11th Nov 1956) is a popular ghazal singer from Hyderabad India.
Cahit Zarifoğlu.  Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu (b. 1 July 1940 Ankara – d. 7 June 1987 İstanbul) Turkish poet writer.
Matt Clark (writer).  Matt Clark (1967–1998) was a prolific short story writer and also the author of the novel Hook Man Speaks. He held an MFA from Louisiana State University and while a graduate student there he was a fiction editor of the New Delta Review. He became the director of the graduate writing program at LSU at the age of 29 and he died of liver and colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 31.
Bob Mackie.  Robert Gordon Bob Mackie (born March 24 1940) is an American fashion designer best known for his costuming for entertainment icons such as Carol Burnett Cher Barbara Eden Bette Midler Diana Ross Judy Garland Liza Minnelli Tina Turner Joan Rivers and Mitzi Gaynor. He was the costume designer for Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show during its entire 11 year run and designed the costumes for its spinoff Mama's Family and for the 1993 television adaptation of Gypsy.
John Kelsey (artist).  John Kelsey is an art critic gallery director and member of the New York and Paris-based artist collective Bernadette Corporation. He recently showed work at Born in the United States; lives and works in New York at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
David Day (historian).  David Day (born 1949 in Melbourne Victoria) is an Australian historian and author.
Glenmor.  Glenmor was the stage name of Emile Le Scanf (1931–1996) a Breton protest singer who sought to preserve the Breton language and adapt local traditions of folk singing to the radical culture of the 1960s and 70s. He is also known by the Breton name Milig Ar Skañv.
Louise Rennison.  Louise Rennison is an English author and comedian.She is the author of the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. This series records the exploits of a teenage girl Georgia Nicolson and her best friends the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels Angus Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers were portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Spencer Kane.  Spancer Kane (born October 26 1996) is an American singer actor speaker and songwriter.
Iqbal Suhail.  Iqbal Ahmed Khan was born in 1884 (11 Rabi' al-thani 1303 Hijri) in village Badheria Azamgarh and died on 7 November 1955. He was a famous Urdu poet writing under the takhallus or pen name Suhail Islamic scholar lawyer educationist and a politician. He was a member of the executive committee of the Azamgarh Muslim Education Society which manages Shibli National Post Graduate College and other institutions in Azamgarh Uttar Pradesh.
David Hine.  David Hine is an English comic book writer and artist known for his work on Silent War and The Bulletproof Coffin.
Mir-Jam.  Milica Jakovljević pen name Mir-Jam (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Јаковљевић Мир-Јам) was a Serbian writer whose many period novels have been successfully adapted to popular tv series starting in 2008.She was born on April 22 1887 in Jagodina. She lived in Kragujevac but moved to Belgrade after World War I. She worked as a journalist for Beogradske Novosti and later for Nedeljne Ilustracije. During this time she published many love stories and novels under the pseudonym Mir-Jam.
Rolando Chaparro.  Rolando Chaparro is a Paraguayan musician born in Asunción August 2 1965. Son of Rolando Chaparro (professional photographer) and Celia María Benítez (actress)
Deborah Porter.  Deborah Z Porter (born 1958) is non-profit director best known for founding the Boston Book Festival which she has run since 2009. She lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Chris Gaffney.  Chris Gaffney (October 3 1950 – April 17 2008) was an American singer and songwriter from the Southwest. His career both as a solo musician and as a member of several bands was as eclectic as his musical tastes. Although he never achieved widespread fame Gaffney who died at the age of 57 from liver cancer left his mark on country rock soul and other forms of American music.
Hedwig Courths-Mahler.  Hedwig Courths-Mahler [he:tviç kurts ma:ler] née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler (February 18 1867 Nebra/Unstrut – November 26 1950 Rottach-Egern Bavaria) was a German writer. She used the pseudonyms Relham H. Brand Gonda Haack Rose Bernd.
Jim Knipfel.  Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel) (born June 2 1965) is an American novelist autobiographer and journalist.A native of Wisconsin Knipfel who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa is the author of a series of critically acclaimed memoirs Slackjaw Quitting the Nairobi Trio and Ruining It for Everybody as well as two novels The Buzzing and Noogie's Time to Shine.
Babbu Maan.  Babbu Maan is a Punjabi singer-songwriter actor and film producer working and living in Mohali. He is the youngest of three children and was raised in the village Khant Maanpur in the Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab India. Maan's main target audience is the Punjabi-speaking population in India and across the Punjabi diaspora.
David Wood (actor).  David Wood OBE (born 21 February 1944 in Sutton Surrey England) is an actor and writer whom The Times called the National Children's Dramatist.
Ichirou Mizuki.  Toshio Hayakawa (早川 俊夫 Hayakawa Toshio born January 7 1948 in Setagaya Tokyo Japan) better known by his stage name Ichirou Mizuki (水木 一郎 Mizuki Ichirō) is a Japanese vocalist lyrist composer voice actor and actor best known for his work on theme songs for anime and tokusatsu. For over 40 years he has recorded over 1200 songs for Japanese film television video and video games.
Greg Behrendt.  Gregory Behrendt (born July 21 1963) is an American stand-up comedian and author. His work as a script consultant to the HBO sitcom Sex and the City starring Sarah Jessica Parker paved the way for co-authoring of the New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That Into You (2004) later adapted into a film by the same name. Apart from that he also hosted two short-lived talk shows The Greg Behrendt Show (2006) and Greg Behrendt's Wake Up Call (2009).
Timi Yuro.  Rosemary Timothy Yuro professionally known as Timi Yuro (August 4 1940 – March 30 2004) was an American singer and songwriter. Sometimes called the little girl with the big voice she is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era. According to one critic her deep strident almost masculine voice staggered delivery and the occasional sob created a compelling musical presence. Yuro possessed a contralto vocal range.
Willeke Alberti.  Willeke Alberti (3 February 1945 Amsterdam Netherlands) (real name: Willy Albertina Verbrugge) is a Dutch singer and actress the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti and Hendrika Geertruida Kuiper (1921-2011).
Allen Carr.  Allen Carr (2 September 1934 London – 29 November 2006 Benalmádena) was a British author of books about quitting smoking and other psychological dependencies including alcohol addiction. He quit smoking after 33 years as a hundred-a-day chain smoker.
Jerry Donahue.  Jerry Donahue (born September 24 1946 Manhattan New York City) is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.
Michael Robinson (Canadian artist).  Michael Robinson (1948–2010) was a Canadian artist and poet of Métis heritage who was noted for his investigation of Aboriginal spiritual and environmental themes.
Makoto Isshiki.  Makoto Isshiki (一色まこと Isshiki Makoto) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her series Piano no Mori which has been adapted as an anime movie and received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival. She won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Hanada Shōnen-shi which has also been adapted as both an anime television series and a live-action movie.
François Bazin.  François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin (pronounced: [fʁɑ̃.swa ba.zɛ̃]; 4 September 1816 in Marseille – 2 July 1878 in Paris) was a well-known French opera composer during the nineteenth century. His works are not widely performed today.[citation needed]
Kim Thayil.  Kim Thayil (born September 4 1960) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden which he cofounded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. Thayil was named 100th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
Carson Cole.  Carson Cole (born 1965) is a Canadian folk singer and lyricist.
Ernie Hawkins.  Ernie Hawkins (born Ernest Leroy Hawkins 1947 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American acoustic blues guitar player singer recording artist and educator who has a Ph.D. in phenomenological psychology.Hawkins like Stefan Grossman and Roy Book Binder studied with blues legend Reverend Gary Davis in New York City in 1965 and 1966. Over the years Hawkins learned a variety of styles including Piedmont blues Delta blues country blues ragtime and gospel.
Terry McMillan (musician).  Terry Lee McMillan (October 12 1953 in Lexington North Carolina – February 2 2007) was an American country musician who played harmonica and percussion. In 1973 he became a member of Eddy Raven's band in Nashville and worked with Raven until 1975. He then started working with Chet Atkins playing harmonica with his touring show. Later he toured with Jerry Reed and Jeannie C. Riley before becoming a very in-demand session musician.
Mark Coyne (musician).  Mark Coyne (born November 19 1962) is an American musician and one of the original members of the rock band The Flaming Lips. Coyne co-founded the group along with his brother Wayne in Norman Oklahoma in 1983. The original lineup of the Flaming Lips was Mark on lead vocals Wayne on guitar and Michael Ivins on bass. Mark left the band in 1985 (shortly after their self-titled debut EP was released) around the time of his wedding.
Chris Helme.  Chris Helme (born Christopher Alan Helme 22 July 1971 in Howden East Riding of Yorkshire) is an English singer-songwriter formerly the frontman of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band The Seahorses.
Stephanie Biddle.  Stephanie Biddle is a Canadian jazz musician.
Henry Worrall (artist).  Henry Worrall (1825-1902) was an American visual artist and musician in Ohio and Kansas in the 19th century. Born in Liverpool he moved to the U.S. in the 1830s working as a newsboy in New York and Cincinnati. In Ohio he taught guitar at the Ohio Female College and co-founded the Cincinnati Sketch Club.
Gabby La La.  Gabby La La (born Gabriel Lang on May 23 1979) is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (including sitar ukulele accordion theremin and toy piano) signed to Prawn Song Records. Her music is self described as fun unique crazy (and) kooky. La La's eccentric debut album Be Careful What You Wish For... is a collaboration with Les Claypool that though peculiar...
Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator).  Elizabeth Blackwell (1707–1758) was a famed Scottish botanical illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of A Curious Herbal published between 1737 and 1739. The book illustrated many odd-looking and unknown plants from the New World and was designed as a reference work on medicinal plants for the use of physicians and apothecaries.
Mark Freeman.  Mark Freeman (Sept. 27 1908 – Feb. 6 2003) was an Austrian-born American artist whose prints and paintings from the 1930s chronicle a seminal period of New York City’s architectural growth in a style that has been described (by Will Barnet) as a beautiful blend of the poetic and historical.
Sergey Aksakov.  Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov (Russian: Серге́й Тимофе́евич Акса́ков) (October 1 [O.S. September 20] 1791—May 12 [O.S. April 30] 1859) was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life as well as his books on hunting and fishing.
Sandra Djwa.  Sandra Djwa (April 16 1939) FRSC is a Canadian writer critic and cultural biographer. Originally from Newfoundland she moved to British Columbia where she obtained her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1968. In 1999 she was honored to deliver the Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture in honor of the department's 80th anniversary. She taught Canadian literature in the English department at Simon Fraser University from 1968 to 2005 when she retired as J.S.
Jakob Bettelheim.  Jacob Bettelheim German: Jakob Bettelheim (pseudonym: Karl Tellheim; October 24 (26) 1841 Vienna - July 13 1909 Berlin) a Jewish Austrian-German dramatist writer translator.He attained considerable prominence by his first attempt in the field of literature Elena Taceano a romance. This he followed with Intime Geschichten (novelettes) and a drama Nero written in collaboration with Von Schönthan in 1889.
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya.  Nadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya (Russian: Надежда Дмитриевна Хвощинская) May 20 1824 – June 8 1889 was a Russian novelist poet literary critic and translator. Her married name was Zayonchkovskaya. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Krestovsky. She later added alias to her pseudonym to avoid being confused with the writer Vsevolod Krestovsky.
Totti Bergh.  Theodor Christian Frølich Bergh known as Totti Bergh (born 5 December 1935 in Oslo - deceased 4 January 2012 in Oslo) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) known as the bandleader and publisher of several jazz records and the younger brother of the jazz journalist Johannes (Johs.) Bergh (1932–2001).
Dagon Taya.  Dagon Taya (Burmese: ဒဂုန်တာရာ; 10 May 1919 – 19 August 2013; also spelt Dagon Taryar) born Htay Myaing was a renowned Myanmar writer. He was born at Htai Ku Myit Tan Village (Mon) Kyaiklat Township Ayeyarwaddy Region on 10 May 1919. His parents were Ba Ohn and Phwa Shin. His other pen names were Myaing Thazin Maung Nan Nwe Saw Htut U Toe Maung Linn Htet Banya Thiha and U Dagon. He completed high school in 1937 and studied at Rangoon University from 1937 to 1940.
Johan Gielen.  Johan Gielen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoː.ɦɐn ˈʝi.lə(n)]) is a trance artist DJ and remixer. He was born on 23 February 1968 in the town of Mol Belgium. Gielen is an easily recognizable name in the Netherlands.
Mark E. Smith.  Mark Edward Smith (born 5 March 1957) is the lead singer lyricist frontman and only constant member of the English post-punk group The Fall.
Ross Jeffries.  Ross Jeffries is an American author writer and television personality featured on such programs as The Dr. Phil Show The Montel Williams Show The Jane Whitney Show and The Daily Show and a self-described speed seduction expert.Jeffries was profiled on Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.
Stefan Psenak.  Stefan Psenak (born 1969 in Joliette Quebec) is a Canadian poet playwright novelist and politician from Quebec. He won the Trillium Book Award in 1998 for Du chaos et de l'ordre des choses and was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 2001 for La beauté.He served on Gatineau City Council from 2009 to 2013 representing Aylmer District.
Harry Lampert.  Harry Lampert (November 3 1916 – November 13 2004) was an American cartoonist bridge book author and bridge teacher.Born in New York Lampert began cartooning when he was sixteen years old and worked for the legendary Max Fleischer inking and helping produce Betty Boop Popeye and Koko the Clown cartoons. While stationed at Drew Field in Tampa FL he created Droopy the Drew Field Mosquito which ran in the Drew Field Echoes from 1942-1944.
Xenia (singer).  Xenia Edith Martinez (born December 17 1994) known mononymously as Xenia is an American singer who came in second place on Blake Shelton’s team on the first season of The Voice.
Lee Tompkins.  Lee Tompkins (born April 17 1963 in Brooklyn New York) is a pencil artist.
Edward Luce.  Edward Luce is the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington DC.
Kamil Rustam.  Kamil Rustam is a French guitarist composer arranger songwriter and producer whose musical career has made known as a prolific musician in many different styles.Rustam was born in Amsterdam the Netherlands and moved at an early age to Paris France where he worked extensively for most of the top pop French artists earning the 1985 Les Victoires de la Musique for Producer of the Year with his fellow producing partners Manu Katché and Gabriel Yared.
Gregg Alf.  Gregg T. Alf (born 1957 in Los Angeles) is a prominent contemporary American violin maker based in Ann Arbor Michigan.Alf made his first violin in 1975. Later he spent 8 years in Cremona Italy where he graduated from the International Violin Making School and established a growing reputation for his work.In 1984 Gregg returned to the United States and together with Joseph Curtin founded the violin-making studios of Curtin & Alf.
Raymond Harry Brown.  Raymond Harry Brown (aka Ray Brown) (b. 1946) is an American composer arranger trumpet player and jazz educator. He has performed as trumpet player and arranged music for Stan Kenton (early 1970s) Bill Watrous Bill Berry Frank Capp – Nat Pierce (Juggernaut Big Band) and the Full Faith and Credit Big Band.Brown joined Kenton in September 1971 succeeding Gary Lee Pack [b.
Irina Saari.  Irina Saari (née Lahtinen born on 10 May 1975 in Kauhajoki) better known by her stage name Irina is a Finnish singer. Her style is pop and suomirock. She currently lives in Heinola.All of the songs on Irina's debut album were written by Toni Wirtanen of Apulanta except for the cover song Katujen kuningatar (Queen of the Streets). For some of the lyrics in the songs she is noted as a co-writer.
Edward Hornor Coates.  Edward Hornor Coates (November 12 1846 – December 23 1921) was a Philadelphia businessman financier and patron of the arts and sciences. He served as Director of the Mechanics National Bank in 1873 was chairman of the Committee on Instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1883 to 1890 and subsequently held the position of Academy president from 1890 to 1906. It was during his position as chairman that Mr.
Melky Goeslaw.  Melky Goeslaw (7 May 1947 – 20 December 2006) was an Indonesian singer and boxing manager. He is the father of songstress Melly Goeslaw. His song Pergi untuk Kembali was chosen by Rolling Stone Indonesia as the 117th-best Indonesian song of all time in 2009.
Adam Pete.  Adam Marian Pete (born in 1966 in Tarnowskze Poland) is a German painter and artist.
Paul Stanley.  Stanley Bert Eisen (born January 20 1952) better known by his stage name Paul Stanley is an American hard rock guitarist musician singer-songwriter and painter best known for being the rhythm guitarist co-lead vocalist and frontman of the rock band Kiss. He is of Jewish and German-Jewish ancestry; his mother was born in Berlin Germany. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's highest-charting hits. Stanley established the Starchild character for his Kiss persona.
James E. Kelly (artist).  James Edward Kelly (July 30 1855 – May 25 1933) was an American sculptor and illustrator who specialized in depicting people and events of American wars particularly the American Civil War.
M. M. Keeravani.  Koduri Keeravaani (Telugu: కొడూరి కీరవాణి) better known as M. M. Keeravaani under the alias Maragatha Mani (Tamil cinema) and M. M. Kreem (Bollywood) is an Indian film music composer and playback singer who works in Telugu Tamil Kannada Malayalam and Hindi cinema. In 1997 he has garnered the National Film Award for Best Music Direction. He has won eight Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards four Filmfare Awards South and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
Kenny Aaronson.  Kenny Aaronson (born April 14 1952 in Brooklyn New York) is an American bass guitar player.
Paula Rego.  Dame Paula Rego DBE (born 12 May 1935) is a painter born in Portugal although she is a naturalised British citizen. Rego studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and was soon exhibiting as one of the London Group with David Hockney and Frank Auerbach later becoming artist-in-residence at the National Gallery.
Joseph Delattre.  Joseph Delattre (20 August 1858 Déville-lès-Rouen – 6 August 1912) was a French painter of the Rouen School. He exhibited at the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition of 1880.
Longineu W. Parsons III.  Longineu W. LP Parsons III (born February 16 1980) is a French-born American rock musician. He is best known for being the former drummer for the American pop punk band Yellowcard.
Robert Palmer (singer).  Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for his sharp dress sense and distinctive voice and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums combining soul jazz rock pop reggae and blues.
Ronnie Barron.  Ronnie Barron (born Ronald Raymond Barrosse October 9 1943 Algiers New Orleans; died March 20 1997) was an American actor keyboardist organist and white soul singer during the 1970s. He was known for his work as a session musician for several artists as well as his collaborations with Dr.
Park Hyung-sik.  Park Hyung-sik (Hangul: 박형식; Hanja: 朴炯植; born on November 16 1991) better known by his stage name Hyung-sik is a member of the nine-member South Korean boyband ZE:A managed by Star Empire Entertainment. They debuted on January 7 2010 with the single Mazeltov. He is currently a cast member of the variety show Real Men.
Gerald Vizenor.  Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) (Anishinaabe) is a writer and scholar and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California Berkeley where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
M. F. Korn.  Michael F. Korn is an American authorwho writes horror and science fiction. He has written eleven novels and had over 220 story appearances in magazines worldwide. He lives in Louisiana.
Steve Kravac.  Steven B. Kravac (born June 17 1964) is a Canadian-born RIAA gold-accredited record producer recording engineer musician and composer. He is the owner of the music label Porterhouse Records and its sub-labels Porterhouse Prime Vinyl and Porterhouse 101.He has produced albums for MXPX as well as Pepper Less Than Jake and Tsunami Bomb among others. Known for achieving a polished radio friendly sound many of the acts he has worked with have enjoyed a moderate amount of commercial success.
Nick Cave.  Nicholas Edward Nick Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician songwriter author screenwriter composer and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds established in 1983 a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles.
Jacques Sadoul.  Jacques Sadoul (1934 – 18 January 2013) was a French novelist book editor and non-fiction author.His Histoire de la science fiction moderne (1973) was a major encouragement for the serious academic study of SF particularly among the East European peoples of that time because the book was seen as very respectable and it was European continental while almost everything else science-fictional was produced across the Lamanche and across the Atlantic.Sadoul was a well-known SF fan and magazine collector. 
Jacky Cheung.  Jacky Cheung (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer-songwriter and actor. The Chinese language media refers to him Aaron Kwok Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王) with more than 25 million records sold as of 2003.
Chris Bailey (musician).  Chris Bailey is the co-founder and singer of rock band The Saints. He was born in Nanyuki Kenya in 1957 to Irish parents. Bailey grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland until the age of seven when his family emigrated to Australia. The Saints were formed in Australia in 1974. Their first hit was in the UK with the classic punk anthem (I'm) Stranded.
Danilo Parra.  Danilo Parra (born in Ecuador on May 14) is a famous Ecuadorian singer with Colombian Italian and Spanish roots.
Rexanne Becnel.  Rexanne Becnel is an American romance novelist. She lives in New Orleans.
Chris Wood (jazz musician).  Christopher Barry Wood (born November 25 1969) is an American bass player best known for playing with the avant-garde jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood (MMW).
R.C. Bannon.  Dannie Shipley (born May 2 1945) is an American country music singer known professionally as R.C. Bannon. Active since 1977 Bannon has recorded for the Columbia and RCA labels. He was also married to singer Louise Mandrell from 1979 to 1991 and charted six duets with her in addition to twelve singles of his own.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.  Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (c.1695 – 29 December 1755) was a French author influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy Charles Perrault and various précieuse writers.Barbot de Villeneuve was born in La Rochelle. She is particularly noted for her La Belle et la Bête which is the oldest known variant of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
Virginia Astley.  Virginia Astley (born 26 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s. From the start of her songwriting career in 1980 Astley took her inspiration from many sources. Her classical training influenced her as did a desire to be experimental with her music. Although more popular in the Far East most notably Japan she remains a cult artist in her native England.
Robin Wagner (designer).  Robin Wagner (born August 31 1933) is an American scenic designer.Born Robin Samuel Anton Wagner in San Francisco he attended art school and started his career in theatres in that city with designs for Don Pasquale Amahl and the Night Visitors Tea and Sympathy and Waiting for Godot among others.
Alexandra Pigg.  Alexandra Pigg (born 1962 in Knotty Ash Liverpool) is a British actress who first came to prominence as Petra Taylor in the TV soap opera Brookside. Her best-known film appearances are as Elaine in Letter to Brezhnev (1985) for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award and as Bridget Baines in A Chorus of Disapproval (1988).
Marco Mazzi.  Marco Mazzi (born May 5 1980) is an Italian writer art theorist and photographer living and working in Tokyo Florence and Tirana. He worked as an editor in the publication of books of contemporary Japanese poetry such as The Other Voice the first Italian translation of Yoshimasu Gozo's poetry.
Robert Thomas (sculptor).  Robert Thomas (1 August 1926 – 11 May 1999) was a Welsh sculptor born in Cwmparc in the Rhondda Valley. He is best known for his work in bronze sculptures many of which are on public display. He was one of the members of the 'Rhondda Group'.
Demy (singer).  Dimitra Papadea (Greek: Δήμητρα Παπαδέα) also known as Demy is a Greek singer who is signed with Greek independent label Panik Records. At the 2012 MAD Video Music Awards she won the award for Best New Artist and 2 other awards. As was mentioned in her acceptance speech in 2011 she was watching the awards show on television and dreaming of one day winning one. One year later her dream became a reality. Demy along with The FaDe also performed on the 2012 awards show.
Lila Leslie.  Lila Leslie (1 January 1890 – 8 September 1940) was a British actress of the silent era. She appeared in 71 films between 1913 and 1933.She was born in Glasgow Scotland and died in Los Angeles California.
Leki.  Leki (born in Kinshasa Congo) is the first female urban/R&B-pop star to rise out of Belgium. She is known for many hits including Breakin' Out Spread my wings Over the Rainbow and Love me another day. She is also a TV presenter on VTM.Leki started at the early age of twelve laying down vocals for Technotronic.
Mauricio García Vega.  Mauricio Garcia Vega is a Mexican painter whose work has been recognized by various awards and membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. His work is mostly focus on urban landscapes often with dark themes and a chaotic feel. He works alone and with his brother Antonio García Vega. He currently lives and works in the Mexico City suburb of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.
Anthony John Clarke.  Anthony John Clarke is an Irish-born singer-songwriter for some time based in Liverpool but now living in the Scottish borders.
Herman Li.  Herman Li (Chinese: 李康敏 Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Kāng Mǐn; born October 3 1976) is a Hong Kong-born British musician and record producer. He is perhaps best known as one of two lead guitarists for the power metal band DragonForce.
Eliot Morris.  Eliot Morris is an American musician.
Marina Zurkow.  Marina Zurkow is an American visual artist based in New York who works with media technology animation and video. Her subject matter includes individual narratives environmental concerns and reflections on the relation between species or between humans animals plants and the weather. Her artworks have been seen in solo exhibitions at Diverseworks in Houston Texas and at FACT in Liverpool.
Salvador Cardenal.  Salvador de Jesús Cardenal Barquero (Mexico City Mexico October 6 1960 - March 8 2010 Managua Nicaragua) was a Nicaraguan singer-songwriter and was one of the most renown songwriters in Nicaragua and Central America also a poet painter and ecologist. Father of two children Salvador Joaquín & Guillermo Nicolas.
Jimmy Witherspoon.  Jimmy Witherspoon (August 8 1920 – September 18 1997) was an American jump blues singer.
Llawdden.  Llawdden (or Ieuan Llawdden) (fl. 1440-1480) was Welsh language poet and a priest.Llawdden composed poems to many prominent noble families.Perhaps Llawdden’s greatest claim to fame is his inauguration in the Eisteddfod held at Caerfyrddin attended by Dafydd ab Edmwnd. In 1451 at the Carmarthen Eisteddfod he accused Gruffudd ap Nicolas of being bribed to give the chair to Dafydd ab Edmwnd.
Nagaraja Rao Havaldar.  Dr. Nagaraja Rao Havaldar (Kannada: ನಾಗರಾಜ ರಾವ್ ಹವಲ್ದಾರ್) is a Hindustani Classical vocalist from Karnataka India.
Richard Ramirez (musician).  Richard Ramirez is an American noise music artist from Houston Texas recording and performing both as a solo artist and as part of several groups and Houston Noise Bands including Black Leather Jesus Priest in Shit An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter Oasis of Fear Last Rape and the static noise solo project Werewolf Jerusalem. He is notable for being one of the earliest American harsh noise artists[citation needed].
DJ Keoki.  Superstar DJ Keoki (born October 23 1966 as Keoki Franconi) is an electronic music among other genres DJ. Born in El Salvador and raised in Hawaii Keoki began advertising himself as superstar shortly after moving to New York City.
John McCurry.  John McCurry is an American musician and composer a guitarist songwriter and singer based in New York City. He has worked with many well-known musical artists including Cyndi Lauper Billy Joel David Bowie Alice Cooper John Waite Belinda Carlisle Julian Lennon Joss Stone Katy Perry The Jonas Brothers and Elliott Yamin.In 1983 McCurry played lead guitar in the band Cool It Reba. He was lead guitarist in Cyndi Lauper's touring band in the early 1980s.
Mark Kozelek.  Mark Kozelek (born January 24 1967) is an American singer-songwriter musician and record producer. He is best known as the vocalist and primary songwriter of both Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters.
Una Troy Walsh.  Una Troy Walsh (1913–1993) was an Irish novelist and playwright who wrote under the names Elizabeth Connor and Una Troy.Troy was born in Fermoy County Cork Ireland in 1913. She married (1931) Dr. Joe Walsh of Bonmahon who served as physician to the I.R.A. West Waterford Flying Column under Commandant George Lennon of Dungarvan. He is buried adjacent to the Republican Plot in Kilrossanty Co. Waterford.
Tricia Devereaux.  Tricia Devereaux (born January 12 1975 in Illinois U.S.) is the stage name of an American former award winning pornographic actress XRCO Hall of Fame inductee and co-owner of Evil Angel studios.
Albert Nikolayevitch Benois.  Albert Nikolayevitch Benois (Russian: Альберт Николаевич Бенуа) (March 14 1852 – May 16 1936) was a talented Russian water-colorist. The Benois family produced many talented artists over several generations. Albert was the elder son of architect Nicholas Benois brother of artist and theatrical designer Alexandre Benois uncle of the painter Zinaida Serebriakova and great-uncle of Sir Peter Ustinov.
Mawnia Al-Kuwaitia.  Mawnia Al-Kuwaitia (Arabic: مونيا‎) born August 31 1981 in Kuwait City is a singer actress television presenter. She has presented many programs for Kuwait TV and in 2008 released a single entitled Taraik Divorced with children Child Khaled.
Sophie Albou.  Sophie Albou (born 1967) is a Paris-born designer best known as the founder of the Paul & Joe clothing line. The daughter of Yvan and Nicole Haggiag a clothing company executive and designer respectively Albou was educated at the Sorbonne and the Institut Français de la Mode before going to work for the clothing company Azzedine Alaia in 1983.In 1990 she started a menswear company called Paul & Joe adding a womenswear line in 1995.
Red Peters.  Red Peters (a pseudonym for Boston-area comedian Douglas Stevens) is a musician and songwriter who has made five CDs. He is the host of The Red Peters Comedy Music Hour on Sirius XM and a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show.
Adam Mitchell (songwriter).  Adam Mitchell (born November 24 1944 in Glasgow Strathclyde Scotland) is a Canadian-referenced singer-songwriter most notable for writing French Waltz which was a hit for Nicolette Larson Dancing Round and Round which was a hit for Olivia Newton-John and for his later co-writing work with KISS.
Michael Coady (poet).  Michael Coady (born 1939) is an Irish poet and short story writer a local historian a photographer a genealogist a journalist and a lapsed trombone player (his own description) born in Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary Ireland where he continues to live.
Cyprian Norwid.  Cyprian Kamil Norwid a.k.a. Cyprian Konstanty Norwid (Polish pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɨprjan ˈnɔrvid]; 24 September 1821 – 23 May 1883) was a nationally esteemed Polish poet dramatist painter and sculptor. He was born in the Masovian village of Laskowo-Głuchy near Warsaw. One of his maternal ancestors was the Polish King John III Sobieski.Norwid is regarded as one of the second generation of romantics.
Francesco Civalli.  Francesco Civalli (Perugia 1660-1703) was an Italian painter of the Baroque active in Perugia. He was the pupil of Andrea Carlone but then trained with Giovanni Battista Gaulli in Rome. He frescoed ceilings in San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome.
William Henry Chandler.  William Henry Chandler (1854 – February 26 1928) was a prolific American pastel artist. His works include landscapes winter landscapes marine and seascapes still life fruit and fowl. Chandler was born in New York City. He was raised by deeply religious parents of the Christian faith. This would influence him his entire life as he was not only known for his art but also as a great humanitarian. Chandler's first job was in Chicago as a carver of cameos.
Al Johnson (musician).  Alfred Orlando Al Johnson (February 11 1948 – October 26 2013) was an American R&B singer writer arranger and producer.
Daniel Alexander Kessler.  Daniel Alexander Kessler (born 25 September 1974 London England) is the guitarist and backing vocalist for the New York City-based band Interpol. He was raised in the United States.It was Kessler's desire to play in a real band which made him approach Carlos Dengler with whom he attended a history class in New York University. Kessler knew lead singer Paul Banks from a summer program in Paris France and asked him to join the band when he ran into him in New York.
Fei Ye.  Fei Ye (菲野; born 1962) is a Chinese poet who was also involved in the Chinese democracy movement. Although often associated with the Misty Poets he considers himself of a younger generation and dismisses the label. Fei has published four underground books of poetry and translated two books of Russian poetry including the work of Osip Mandelstam. He lives in the United States after being exiled from China.
Adam Davies (author).  Adam Davies is an American author born in Louisville KY and currently resides in San Francisco CA.Adam Davies first appeared in print with The Frog King in 2002 and followed with Goodbye Lemon (2006) and Mine All Mine (2008). The Frog King has been adapted to film starring actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and scheduled for release in 2011.
Eric Kaplan.  Eric Kaplan (born February 23 1967) is an American television writer producer and story editor. His work has included shows such as Late Show with David Letterman Andy Richter Controls the Universe Malcolm in the Middle Futurama and The Simpsons. He currently works on The Big Bang Theory.
Eric Carle.  Eric Carle (born June 25 1929) is an American designer illustrator and writer of children's books. He is most famous for The Very Hungry Caterpillar a picture book with few words that has been translated into more than 58 languages and sold more than 38 million copies. Since it was published in 1969 he has illustrated more than 70 books most of which he also wrote and more than 125 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
Alex Prager.  Alex Prager (born November 1 1979) is an American art photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City. Her photographs primarily use staged sets and models to create film-like images. Her latest series Face in the Crowd debuted at Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art and opened at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles.
Anne-Pia Nygård.  Anne-Pia Nygård (born August 10 1977 in Sandane Gloppen) is a Norwegian writer. Her debut book was the 2009 autobiography What Nobody Sees (Det som ingen ser).
Manuel De La Mare.  Manuel De La Mare (born in 1979 in Barga Italy) is an Italian music producer and recording artist also known as Sara Galli After Tea and Combo. His music combines elements of Italo dance filtered and deep house techno beats and minimal melodies. Manuel launched his own labels - 303lovers and hotfingers - in 2007 alongside Alex Kenji and Luigi Rocca.
Mike Scully.  Michael Mike Scully (born October 2 1956) is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing. He was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college going on to work in a series of jobs.
Guy Magenta.  Guy Magenta (1927–1967) was a French composer.
Edward Storey.  Edward Storey (born 28th February 1930) is an English writer. He was born at Whittlesey which was then part of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire and the Fens have inspired some of his work.Before becoming a full-time writer in the late 1960s he worked in adult education for the Peterborough City Education Authority. His first volume of poetry (North Bank Night) was published in 1969.
Carmen Hart.  Carmen Hart (born March 12 1984) is a Native American former pornographic actress and international exotic dancer from North Carolina. She is a full-blooded member of the Lumbee tribe.
Veniamin Borisov.  Veniamin Ivanovich Borisov (Russian: Вениами́н Ива́нович Бори́сов; April 16 1935 Susanino Kostroma Oblast Russian SFSR) — a Soviet Russian painter a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation living and working in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Éva Farkas.  Éva Farkas (March 15 1960 Nagykanizsa) is a Hungarian tapestry artist.
Virgil Mihaiu.  Virgil Mihaiu (born June 28 1951 in Cluj Romania) is a Romanian writer jazz critic diplomat jazz aesthetics professor polyglot and performer. He was co-founder and the first director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon and served as minister-counselor at the Romanian embassy in Portugal.
Hans Jordaens.  Hans Jordaens the Elder (1555 – 1630) was a Flemish Baroque painter whose religious works are often confused with that of other painters with the same name.
Jazmine Sullivan.  Jazmine Marie Sullivan (born April 9 1987) is an American recording artist from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Her debut single Need U Bad produced by Missy Elliott reached number one on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart while her second single Bust Your Windows produced by Salaam Remi peaked at number four. Elements of r&b reggae dub pop jazz Neo soul and doo-wop can be heard in her work.
Giambattista Vico.  Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico (23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian political philosopher rhetorician historian and jurist. He criticised the expansion and development of rationalism and was an apologist of classical antiquity. Vico is best known for his magnum opus the Scienza Nuova of 1725 often published in English as New Science.Vico is a precursor of systemic and complexity thinking as opposed to Cartesian analysis and other kinds of reductionism.
MC Ren.  Lorenzo Jerald Patterson (born June 16 1969) better known by his stage name MC Ren is an American rapper from Compton California. He is the founder and owner of his own record label Villain Entertainment. His moniker is derived from the middle letters in his first name (Lorenzo).Ren began his career signed as a solo artist to Eazy E's Ruthless Records in early 1987 while still attending high school.
Zhang Xianzi.  Zhang Xianzi (simplified Chinese: 张弦子 Traditional Chinese: 張弦子; pinyin: Zhāng Xiánzǐ; born April 22 1986 in Guangxi China) is a Chinese singer. She is professionally known by her given name 弦子 (Xianzi) which translates to harp in English.
Franklin M. Reck.  Franklin M. Reck (November 29 1896 – October 15 1965) was an American author best known for his books for boys. He also wrote books and magazine articles about American transportation.
Pixie Lott.  Victoria Louise Pixie Lott (born 12 January 1991) is an English singer-songwriter dancer and actress. Her debut single Mama Do (Uh Oh Uh Oh) was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single Boys and Girls also topped the UK chart in September 2009.Lott's debut album Turn It Up was released in September 2009.
Baltasar Gracián.  Baltasar Gracián y Morales SJ (8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte near Calatayud (Aragon). His proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
Rich Ward.  Richard Park Rich Ward (born January 16 1969) is an American guitarist also known by his stage name The Duke. Ward is best known as a founding member of Stuck Mojo but he is also known as lead guitarist of heavy metal band Fozzy.
Danny Elfman.  Daniel Robert Danny Elfman (born May 29 1953) is an American composer record producer and actor. He is known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo from 1976 to 1995 and later for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme. He has scored the majority of his long-time friend Tim Burton's movies.Elfman re-entered the film industry in 1976 initially as an actor.
Denise Jones.  Denise Radon Masters Jones (born March 22 1969) is one-third of the Contemporary Christian music group Point of Grace. She has won 12 Dove Awards with Point of Grace.
Olga Tañón.  Olga Teresa Tañón Ortíz (born April 13 1967 in Santurce) is a Puerto Rican recording artist. Over the course of her career she has earned two Grammy Awards three Latin Grammy Awards and 29 Premio Lo Nuestro Awards.
Domenico Maria Bonavera.  Domenico Maria Bonavera (c. 1650– ??) was an Italian engraver. He was born in Bologna. He trained in engraving with his uncle Domenico Maria Canuti. His plates are chiefly etched and finished with the dry point. He engraved eighteen plates from the designs of Titian for a textbook of anatomy. He completed prints depicting: The Baptism of Christ after Albani; St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read St. Theresa with the Infant Jesus and a Martyrdom of St. Christiana after Canuti; a St.
Peter Lochran.  Peter Lochran (born 14 September 1955 in Queensland Australia) is an actor who remains best known for his role as Dr. Peter Holland in the television soap opera The Young Doctors. He also worked prior to acting as a radio station panel operator at 3AW in Melbourne Australia.After appearing in the series from 1979 to 1982 he moved to the United States where he continued his soap career with roles in Another World and Capitol.
Billy Gilman.  William Wendell Billy Gilman III (born May 24 1988) is an American country music artist. In 2000 at the age of 11 he debuted with the single One Voice a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country music charts and became the youngest singer to a Top 40 hit on the country music charts. An album of the same name was released later that year on Epic Records and was certified Double Platinum in the United States.
Guy Smith (writer).  Guy Smith (born November 17 1957 in Augusta GA) is a San Francisco based writer. Smith has published both fiction and non-fiction and bills himself as a writer songwriter and political provocateur. Smith describes a childhood that included simultaneously being a surfer and a working cowboy. His writing career began while working at Kennedy Space Center writing articles for trade press.
The Otwell Twins.  The Otwell Twins are an American singing duo made up of identical twin brothers Roger and David born August 2 1956 in Tulia Texas.
Loane.  Loane is a French singer-songwriter.
Mélanie Fazi.  Mélanie Fazi (born 29 November 1976) is a French novelist and translator specialising in fantasy fiction. As well as writing award-winning fiction of her own she has translated works by Lois McMaster Bujold Elizabeth Moon Poppy Z. Brite and Graham Joyce into French for Éditions Bragelonne a French publisher.
Zyrafete Gashi.  Zyrafete Gashi (14 August 1957 - 30 July 2013) simply known as Zyra was an Albanian Kosovar comedian. For over three decades active in the comedy stage Zyra was known for many of roles. The role she got her pseudonym from was Zyra an Albanian old-woman with old traditions Zet’hanja a police woman Tetka Dragica a Serbian Kosovar old-woman from Graçanica complaining about living with Albanians and many others.
Coady Willis.  Coady Willis is a drummer and a member of Big Business White Shit and The Melvins.Willis previously played in the bands Dead Low Tide Broadcast Oblivion and Murder City Devils before Big Business.Willis and Big Business bandmate Jared Warren both appear on the Melvins' albums (A) Senile Animal Nude with Boots and The Bride Screamed Murder and have officially been members of the band since moving to Los Angeles in January 2006.He also sometimes plays drums in the live incarnation of Dale Crover's side project Altamont (also his bandmate and fellow drummer in The Melvins).
Barbara Thornton.  Barbara Thornton (New Jersey January 6 1950 - Cologne Germany November 8 1998) was a singer musicologist and groundbreaking performer of medieval music. Thornton described as “one of the most eminent medieval voices of our time” (Neumann 1998) was educated at Sarah Lawrence College the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 1977 she founded the ensemble Sequentia with Benjamin Bagby in Basel.
Nathaniel Culverwell.  Nathaniel Culverwell (1619–1651) alternative spellings Nathanael or Culverwell) was an English author and theologian born in Middlesex. He was baptized on 14 January 1619 at the church of St. Margaret Moses where his father was rector. He was the second of six children of Richard and Margaret (Horton) Culverwell.A student (admitted 1633) and later a fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge he was associated with members of the Cambridge Platonists group.
Mario Santoro Woith.  Mario Santoro - Woith (born 1968 in Cuba) is an Italian photographer. He studied Visual Anthropology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” from 1988 to 1993. He is a Todi (Umbria) and New York City based artist. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections and institutions. His Italian background has given him a very specific approach to Art. In his words: “anachronistic and oneiric”.
Emily Zheng.  Candy Chen (陳斯亞 born January 3 1993) (also known as Emily Nina Candy 糖果 伊凌 or 斯亞) is a dancer actress host singer and a model. She is featured on the Taiwanese variety shows: Blackie's Teenage Club and Blackie Lollipop. Candy was a member of the Taiwanese girl group Hey Girl at 2010-2011. It was because her personal weibo has listed herself as without a management agent/agency. She is 1/8th Dutch.
Jon Spencer.  Jon Spencer is an American vocalist composer and guitarist. He has been involved in multiple musical acts such as Pussy Galore Boss Hog and The Blues Explosion.
Jim Jefferies (comedian).  Geoff James Nugent (born 14 February 1977) known professionally as Jim Jefferies (and previously Jim Jeffries) is an Australian stand-up comedian actor and writer.
Toni Halliday.  Antoinette Toni Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist lyricist and occasional guitarist of the alternative rock band Curve along with Dean Garcia.She was also a member of the bands Photofitz The Uncles State of Play and Scylla. Halliday released solo work as Toni Halliday and Chatelaine.
Jim Marshall (businessman).  James Charles Jim Marshall OBE (29 July 1923 – 5 April 2012) known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company Marshall Amplification has created kits used by some of the biggest names in rock producing amplifiers with an iconic status. In 2003 Marshall received an OBE honour for services to the music industry and to charity.
Shōsuke Tanihara.  Shōsuke Tanihara (谷原 章介 Tanihara Shōsuke born July 8 1972 in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actor probably best known outside of Japan for his portrayal of Riki Fudoh in Fudoh: The New Generation. Tanihara hosts Tokyo Twenty-Four Living Supported by FLET’S Hikari a podcast produced by TOKYO FM.
Jeannie Cho Lee.  Jeannie Cho Lee is a Hong Kong-based South Korean wine critic author journalist consultant wine educator and Master of Wine the first ethnic Asian to achieve this accreditation. She is 26th on Decanter's Power List 2011 a biennial who's who of the most influential personalities in the wine's world.
Mark Ronson.  Mark Daniel Ronson is an English musician DJ Singer and music producer.While his debut album Here Comes the Fuzz failed to make an impact on the charts his second album Version included three top-ten hits and won Ronson a Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist in 2008. His third studio album Record Collection was released on 27 September 2010.
Kika Mirylees.  Kika Mirylees (born Christina Kika Le Fleming Mirylees on 23 September 1953) is a South African-born British actress.
John Worsley (artist).  John Godfrey Bernard Worsley (16 February 1919 – 3 October 2000) was a prolific British artist and illustrator best known for his naval battle scenes and portraits of high-ranking officers and political figures. One of the very few active service artists of the Second World War Worsley was the only person to render contemporary sea-warfare in situ and the only official war artist captured by the Germans.
Norman Bogner.  Norman Bogner (November 13 1935 –) is a New York Times Bestselling- author whose range of work has included several novels such as Seventh Avenue The Deadliest Art To Die in Provence and The Madonna Complex as well as stage plays and movie and television scripts. His writing career spans nearly 50 years with his first novel In Spells No Longer Bound published in 1961 and his most recent novel 99 Sycamore Place published in 2009.
Gerald Levert.  Gerald Edward Levert (July 13 1966 – November 10 2006) was an American R&B singer songwriter and producer. He sang with his brother Sean Levert and friend Marc Gordon of the R&B trio LeVert. He was also a member of LSG an R&B supergroup comprising Keith Sweat Johnny Gill and Himself. His father Eddie Levert is the lead singer of the 1970s soul group The O'Jays.
Damon Johnson.  Damon Rogers Johnson (born July 13 1964) is an American guitarist vocalist and songwriter best known for his work with the hard rock band Brother Cane and as a guitarist for Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzy. He was also the lead guitarist and backup vocalist for country music group Whiskey Falls. Johnson was guitarist of the Alice Cooper band 2004 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2011.
Beverly Semmes.  Beverly Semmes is an American artist who works with sculpture textile video photography performance and large-scale installation. Born in Washington D.C. and currently residing in New York City she teaches sculpture at the Steinhart School of New York University and the Pratt Institute.
Robert Silverberg.  Robert Silverberg (born January 15 1935) is a prolific American author and editor best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame a Grand Master of SF.
Marc Leepson.  Marc Leepson (born June 20 1945 in Newark New Jersey) is an American journalist historian and author. His books include Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General (Palgrave/Macmillan 2011); Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington D.C. and Changed American History (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2007); Flag: An American Biography (Thomas Dunne Books/St.
Rajashree (novelist).  Rajashree is an Indian novelist and film-maker. She has been working in the Mumbai film industry after studying film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. She has written and directed a film The Rebel which won a National Award in the Best Short Fiction Film category at the 43rd National Film Awards. The jury presented the award for showing an adolescent's journey to maturity and his coming to terms with his mother. The film was screened at many film festivals.
Lise Lindbæk.  Lise Lindbæk (1 January 1905 – 13 March 1961) was a Norwegian freelance journalist and foreign correspondent and writer of several books. She is commonly regarded as Norway's first female war correspondent.
Rokusuke Ei.  Rokusuke Ei (永 六輔 Ei Rokusuke born April 10 1933) is a Japanese lyricist composer author essayist and TV personality. Ei wrote the lyrics to the song Sukiyaki which has been used in several English language films. He has also written the lyrics to the song Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo sung by Kyu Sakamoto in 1963. He is a graduate of Waseda University.
William Ludwig.  William Ludwig (May 16 1912 – February 7 1999) was an American screenwriter. He won with Sonya Levien an Oscar for Best Writing Story and Screenplay in 1955 for Interrupted Melody. Other notable works include the screenplay for the 1955 production of Oklahoma!.Ludwig graduated from Columbia University in 1932.
Dick Dillin.  Richard Allen Dick Dillin (December 17 1928 – March 1980) was an American comic book artist best known for an extraordinarily long 12-year run as the penciler of the DC Comics superhero-team series Justice League of America. He drew 115 issues from 1968 until his death.
David Clayton-Thomas.  David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett; 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist for the American band Blood Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition “Spinning Wheel was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall Of Fame.
Takuya Kirimoto.  Takuya Kirimoto (桐本 琢也 Kirimoto Takuya born July 27 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is attached to Aoni Production.
Boleslav Markevich.  Boleslav Mikhailovich Markevich (Russian: Болеслав Михайлович Маркевич; 1822 – November 6 (18) 1884) was a Russian writer essayist journalist and literary critic of Polish origin; author of a number of popular novels including: Marina of the Aluy Rog (1873) A Quarter of a Century Ago (1878) The Turning Point (1881) and The Void (1884 unfinished).
Rui En.  Lu Rui En (Chinese: 卢瑞恩; pinyin: Ruì'ēn; born 29 January 1981) better known by the stage name Rui En (瑞恩) is a Singaporean singer-actress currently based in Singapore.Rui En was talent-spotted after appearing in a SingTel's popular SingTel hi!Card commercial as the iconic running girl in 2001. She was offered a general management contract by Artiste Networks a section of Hype Records. In 2002 Rui En debuted her acting career in Singapore with her first drama titled No Problem!.
John Prescott Knight.  John Prescott Knight (1803–1881) was an English portrait painter.
Rhydian Roberts.  Rhydian James Roberts (born 14 February 1983) known as Rhydian is a Welsh singer musical theatre actor and television presenter. He rose to fame after finishing as runner-up on the fourth series of The X Factor in 2007.Of his five studio albums the first went platinum and composer Karl Jenkins co-produced his second.
Randyn Julius.  Randyn McCutcheon (born April 29 1991 in Providence Rhode Island) is an American rapper from Providence Rhode Island better known by his stage name Randyn Julius. Randyn Julius has released various mixtapes during his career including the The Highest Tide to positive critical reception. The Source described him as an artist breaking into the music industry with a buzz like no other.
Brian Hagan.  Brian Hagan is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Hideo Kanze.  Hideo Kanze (観世 栄夫 Kanze Hideo August 3 1927 – 8 June 2007) was a Japanese actor and director who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama.He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojō VII a descendent of Kan'ami and Zeami who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers by his father and grandfather Kanze made his Noh stage debut at the age of three.
Mary Fife Laning.  Mary Fife Laning was an American painter and wife of the more prominent Edward Laning.
Endre Gerelyes.  Endre Gerelyes (1935-1973) was a Hungarian novelist short story writer and Hungarian literature professor at József Attila University in Szeged. His main works are Kövek között (1961) Töprengés az éjszakáról (1963) Ki vagy te? - Ábel! (1967) Isten veled Lancelot! (1973) Tigris (1975). A selection of his short stories Kilenc perc (1985) and a collection of letters Tavaszi futás (1986) were published posthumously.
Georgy Adamovich.  Georgy Viktorovich Adamovich (Russian: Гео́ргий Ви́кторович Адамо́вич IPA: [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐdɐˈmovʲɪt͡ɕ] ; 19 April [O.S. 7 April] 1892 Moscow Russian Empire — 21 February 1972 Nice France) was a Russian poet of the acmeist school and a literary critic translator and memoirist. He also lectured on Russian literature at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Catalina Cruz.  Catalina Cruz (born September 13 1979 in Cleveland) is an American pornographic actress.
Charlene (singer).  Charlene Marilynn D'Angelo Oliver (born June 1 1950 Hollywood California) is an American R&B singer best known as Charlene. She is known mainly for her 1982 popular song I've Never Been to Me and is considered a one-hit-wonder.
Wayne Jarrett.  Wayne Jarrett is a reggae recording artist born in Kingston Jamaica and raised in Allman Town Jamaica. Jarret currently resides in Hartford Connecticut.
Dafina Zeqiri.  Dafina Zeqiri (born 14 April 1989) often referred to as Duffye is an Albanian Kosovar singer. She achieved high popularity within the young Albanian-speaking community as a result of constant marketing and appearance on TV. This earned her top artist titles at Kosovo's talent contest Polifest for three straight years: 2007 2008 and 2009. In 2012 she received 10 Videofest Awards nominations and won 4.
Betty Zhou.  Betty Zhou is a female Chinese actress an artiste who returned after being overseas in Singapore; she is also a bilingual basketball host and anchor. She was signed as a contract artiste under musician David Tao’s entertainment agency. A sunshine girl with a bronzed skin tone she is 168cm in height and possesses a curvaceous figure of 88D 70 88. This parallels with her image as a foreign-born open-minded and charismatic personality.
Ceri Rhys Matthews.  Ceri Rhys Matthews (born 1960) is a Welsh traditional musician record producer and teacher.
Grandpa Jones.  Louis Marshall Jones (October 20 1913 – February 19 1998) known professionally as Grandpa Jones was an American banjo player and old time country and gospel music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Peter DeRose.  Peter DeRose (or De Rose) (March 10 1900 - April 23 1953) was a US Hall of Fame composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era.
Alvin M. Fountain.  Alvin M. Fountain (July 10 1900 – May 2 1989) is a former professor of English at North Carolina State University and a notable college historian.
Peggy Rathmann.  Margaret Crosby Peggy Rathmann (born March 4 1953) is an American writer and illustrator best known for children's picture books.She was born in St. Paul Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Her first book Ruby the Copycat earned Ms. Rathmann the Most Promising New Author distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards.
Prasoon Joshi.  Prasoon Joshi (born 16 September 1971) is an Indian film lyricist screenwriter and advertising guru and copywriter. He has won the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award three times twice consecutively: in 2007 and 2008 and again in 2014 for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Prasoon has also received the National Film Award for Best Lyrics twice once for his work in Taare Zameen Par (2007) and Chittagong (2013).
Will Belcourt.  Will Belcourt is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Cree and Irish descent. He was born and raised in Marlboro Alberta
Laura Jane Grace.  Laura Jane Grace (born Thomas James Gabel November 8 1980) is an American musician best known as the founder lead singer songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!. Started as a solo act in 1997 Against Me! expanded into a quartet and have released six studio albums experiencing breakthrough success with 2007's New Wave and 2010's White Crosses. Grace also released a solo EP Heart Burns in 2008.
Brenda Kahn.  Brenda Kahn (born May 3 1967) is an American singer-songwriter based in New York City who is known for her poetic lyrics.
Kjartan Kristiansen.  Kjartan Kristiansen (born 14 August 1963 in Trondheim Norway) is the guitarist and backing vocalist in the Norwegian band DumDum Boys and he is also the lyricist and main songwriter.
Peter McGehee.  Peter Gregory McGehee (October 6 1955 - September 13 1991) was an American-born Canadian novelist dramatist and short story writer.Born in Pine Bluff Arkansas to Frank Thomas and Julia Ann May McGehee Peter moved with his family to Little Rock when he was six. He was the second of three children. McGehee played the trombone at Parkview High School in Little Rock where he graduated in 1973.
Martha Heredia.  Martha Heredia (born February 1 1991) is a Dominican singer and the winner of the fourth and last season of the television program Latin American Idol. Heredia wanted to be known artistically as La Baby (The Baby) notwithstanding this she has rarely been referred in this way.
Steven Laffoley.  Steven Laffoley (born 5 October 1965) is an award-winning Canadian author of creative non-fiction.
David Tartakover.  David Tartakover (דוד טרטקובר) (born 1944) is an Israeli graphic designer political activist artist and design educator.He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and is a graduate of the London College of Printing. Since 1975 he has operated his own studio in Tel Aviv specializing in various aspects of visual communications with particular emphasis on culture and politics.
Grigory Eliseev.  Grigory Zakharovich Eliseev (Russian: Григо́рий Заха́рович Елисе́ев February 6 (January 25) 1821 v. Spasskoe Tomsk Russian Empire - January 30 (18) 1891 Saint Petersburg Russian Empire) was a Russian journalist editor and publisher.
Dorothy Shay.  Dorothy Shay (April 11 1921 – October 22 1978) was an American popular comedic recording artist in the late 1940s and early 1950s who later became a character actress. She was known as the Park Avenue Hillbillie.
Liliane Nemri.  Liliane Nemri (Arabic: ليليان نمري‎) is a Lebanese actress and comedian who has played in a number of Lebanese movies and series. Her mother is Alia Nemri a famous Lebanese actress who also played in a number of Lebanese movies and was the reason for Nemri to develop an interest in becoming an actress too. Liliane was born in a family of artists.She entered the theatre world with her father who was also an actor.
Starboy Nathan.  Nathan Abraham Lauren Fagan-Gayle (born 2 November 1986 South London) known commercially as Nathan and more recently Starboy Nathan is an English R&B singer most famous for his Top 40 singles Come into My Room and Diamonds.
Mina Nouri.  Mina Nouri(مینا نوری in Persian)Born in 6 January 1951 Tehran Iran
Colleen Murphy.  Colleen Murphy (born 1954 in Rouyn-Noranda Quebec) is a Canadian screenwriter film director and playwright.
Alice Barry.  Alice Barry (born 1946) is an English actress.Her first regular television role was playing Peggy Hargreaves in Clocking Off. She regularly appeared in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Bob & Rose and has had minor roles in Linda Green and The Royal.She has more recently appeared in Shameless as Lillian Tyler and advertisements for Nutrigrain cake bars.
James Henry Marriott.  James Henry Marriott (c. 1800–25 August 1886) was a New Zealand theatre manager actor entertainer dramatist songwriter engraver optician and bookseller. He was born in London London England on c. 1800.
Dry (rapper).  Landry Delica better known by his stage name Dry (born in 19 November 1977) is a French rapper of Congolese origin. He is also known by the aliases L'Amiral and L'Intransférable.Landry Delica passed his childhood in the banlieue at Sevran in Seine-Saint-Denis and was friends with the rapper Nessbeal before moving in 1991 to Orly in Val-de-Marne. In addition to his solo work Dry is a member of French rap group Intouchable alongside band member Demon One (real name Hakim Sid).
Wilfred Greatorex.  Wilfred Greatorex (27 May 1921–14 October 2002) was an English television and film writer script editor and producer. He was creator of such series as Secret Army 1990 Plane Makers and its sequel The Power Game Hine Brett Man At The Top Man From Haven and The Inheritors. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film Battle of Britain.
Bernardino Gagliardi.  Bernardino Gagliardi (Città di Castello 1609 - Perugia 1660) was an Italian painter.
David Marks (songwriter).  David Marks is a South African-born songwriter singer producer music archivist and publisher who has been a member of the South African music industry since the 1970s. He spent much of his early career mixing recording releasing and archiving a broad cross-spectrum of South African music.Marks achieved success with his songwriting penning some international hits most notably Master Jack Mr.
AK-69.  AK-69 also known as Kalassy Nikoff (エーケーシックスティーナイン／カラシニコフ) is a Japanese Hip Hop artist from Komaki Aichi. As a rapper AK-69 uses his stage name; while singing he is usually known as 'Kalassy Nikoff'. AK-69 also goes by the alias 'REDSTA'. In 2004 he began producing a fashion line known as 'BAGARCH'. The single 'Public Enemy' was nominated in 2011 for Best Hip Hop Music Video in the MTV Music Aid Japan and won the same award at the 2011 Space Shower Music Video Awards.
Russian Red.  Russian Red is the stage name of Lourdes Hernández a Spanish indie and folk singer-songwriter.Known by many as the Spanish Feist in reference to the Canadian singer-songwriter who inspires her in many of her attitudes on the microphone Hernández—who writes and sings all of her compositions in English—states that she sings in that language instinctively because she has always listened to music in English.
Roy Stewart.  Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) originally from Jamaica began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television at a time when there were few working black actors.In 1954 founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square North Kensington and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant the Globe in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Jr. in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
William B. Rowe.  William Bentley Rowe (1910–1955) was an American artist and art educator who worked primarily in New York and New Mexico. He was a versatile artist who used a wide range of mediums with great success. He also executed several large murals. Rowe was a leading member of the Art Institute of Buffalo. Other well-known members of the Institute included Charles E. Burchfield Edwin Dickinson David Foster Pratt and Isaac Soyer.
John R. Sinnock.  John Ray Sinnock (July 8 1888 – May 14 1947) was the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947.
Chrisette Michele.  Chrisette Michele Payne (born December 8 1982) known professionally as Chrisette Michele is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B and soul singer-songwriter. She is signed to the Motown Records and won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2009 for her song Be OK.
The One AM Radio.  The One AM Radio is a band consisting of Hrishikesh Hirway a composer and songwriter from Los Angeles. The One AM Radio's sound is often characterized by Hrishikesh's lush soothing vocals over dream-like instrumental arrangements.
Brymo.  Brymo (born Olawale Ashimi) is a Nigerian singer composer songwriter and recording artist formerly signed to the Chocolate City music label.
Alfred Reisenauer.  Alfred Reisenauer (1 November 1863 – 3 October 1907) was a German pianist composer and music educator.
Napoléon Aubin.  Napoléon Aubin (9 November 1812 – 12 June 1890) was a Canadian journalist publisher playwright and scientist. Born in Geneva Aubin sailed to the United States in 1829. In 1835 he moved to Montreal and shortly thereafter to Quebec City. Aubin contributed to a number of newspapers as well as publishing his own periodicals. In addition to journalism Aubin worked as a scientist and from 1875 as the honorary consul of Switzerland.
Matt Mahaffey.  Matt Mahaffey (born June 9 1973) is an American multi-instrumentalist record producer and recording engineer best known for his band Self.
Henry M. Eichner.  Henry M. Eichner (1909–1971) was an American medical artist illustrator and writer. He did covers and illustrations for the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society's magazine Shangri L'Affaires. His nonfiction book on Atlantis Atlantean Chronicles was published by Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. in 1971.
Franz Pomassl.  Pomassl is an electronic sound and recording artist and DJ residing in Vienna Austria and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton experimental techno label.Pomassl has inspired many other analog and digital electronic artists including members of Pansonic and Carsten Nicolai as well as collaborated with a number of important artists across disciplines including Carl Michael von Hausswolff J. G. Thirlwell and Kodwo Eshun.
Proverbidioms.  Proverbidioms is an oil painting by American artist T. E. Breitenbach depicting over 300 common proverbs catchphrases and clichés such as You are what you eat a frog in the throat and kicked the bucket. It is painted on a 45 by 67 inch wooden panel and was completed in 1975 after two years work when the artist was 24. The included sayings are painted quite literally and appear comical and bizarre especially if one does not at first realize what the painting is about.
Jennifer Hornyak.  Jennifer Hornyak (born 1940) is a Canadian artist known for her semi-figurative style. Early in her career her scenes of Montreal personalities were exhibited at the 1987 Paris World Exhibition. She is now recognized for her colourful and textured graphic still lifes.
Corey Smith (musician).  Corey Smith (born in Jefferson Georgia) is a country/rock/blues singer and guitarist.
Amy Arbus.  Amy Arbus (born 1954) is a New York City-based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus.Arbus teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography Anderson Ranch and the Fine Arts Work Center.During the 1980s she had a monthly page in the Village Voice's style section.
Angelo F. Coniglio.  Angelo F. Coniglio (born August 21 1936 Buffalo New York) is an American civil engineer educator genealogist and author. He was in the first graduating class (BSCE1961) of the School of Civil Engineering established by Robert L. Ketter at the University of Buffalo (UB) in 1956. He also earned a master's degree from UB (MSCE 1970).As a civil engineer he is an expert in the hydrology of the U. S.
Diana Hendry.  Diana Lois Hendry (born 2 October 1941) is an English poet children's author and short story writer. She won a Whitbread Award (now the Costa Prize) in 1991 and was again shortlisted for the prize in 2012.
Till Brönner.  Till Brönner (b. 6 May 1971 in Viersen Germany) is a jazz musician trumpet player singer composer arranger and producer.His approach is influenced by bebop and fusion jazz but also modern pop music movie soundtracks (especially old German movies) country music and even German pop songs. His trumpet playing is primarily inspired by the listening experiences of Freddie Hubbard Dizzy Gillespie and Chet Baker.
Brooke Shaden.  Brooke Shaden (born March 1987) is an American fine art photographer.She grew up in Lancaster Pennsylvania near the Amish Country and graduated from Temple University with bachelor degrees in Film and English. She began her photography career in Los Angeles CA creating self-portraits.At 24 she was the youngest artist in The Annenberg Space for Photography's Digital Darkroom exhibition of the work of 17 artists that explored the intersection of art and technology.
Amr Mostafa.  Amr Mostafa is an Egyptian singer.
Rose Laurens.  Rose Laurens previously billed as Rose Merryl (born Rose Podwojny on March 4 1953) is a French singer-songwriter particularly famous for her 1982 smash single Africa number three hit in many European countries. She was also the singer for the original French version of the song I Dreamed a Dream.
Bahia Mahmud Awah.  Bahia Mahmud Awah (born 1960) is a Sahrawi writer poet and journalist. He is a founding member of the group of writers known as the Sahrawi Friendship Generation.
Pierre Rapsat.  Pierre Rapsat (born Pierre Raepsaet 28 May 1948 Brussels - died 20 April 2002 Verviers) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who had a very successful career in his homeland and also spells of popularity in other Francophone countries. Outside these areas he is best known for his participation in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest.
Hilda Madsen.  Hilda Chedomille Madsen (December 13 1910 – May 1 1981) was a British-American artist and dog breeder.
David Barrett (musician).  David Barrett (born February 6 1973) is an American blues harmonica player author and teacher.
Donato Sacerdote.  Donato Sacerdote (Italian pronunciation: [doˈnaːto satʃerˈdɔːte] 1820–1883) was an Italian and Jewish poet.
Cheo Hurtado.  Cheo Hurtado (born May 2 1960) is a Venezuelan musician one of the most celebrated virtuoso performers of the cuatro whose extremely agile strumming technique is currently believed to be unsurpassed. He also plays mandolin bandola and guitar.Cheo Hurtado was born in Ciudad Bolívar Bolívar state Venezuela the son of the guitarist and composer Ramón Hurtado.
Michael Graham Cox.  Michael Graham Cox (6 January 1938 – 8 April 1995) was an English actor.
Ben Harper.  Benjamin Chase Ben Harper (born 28 October 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues folk soul reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills vocals live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America Europe and Oceania.
Margaret Shelton (artist).  Margaret Shelton (artist 1915–1984) was a Canadian artist who lived nearly all of her life in Alberta. She worked in a number of mediums but is known for her woodcuts and linocuts.
Hanan Qassab Hassan.  Hanan Qassab Hassan (Arabic: حنان قصاب حسن‎) (b. Damascus January 1 1952) is a prominent Syrian writer and academic.
Kia Shine.  Nakia Shine Coleman (born October 17 1980) better known by his stage name Kia Shine is an American rapper and record producer. His most successful single Krispy peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number 24 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart. He has worked with artists like B-Hoody La Chat Mike Jones Yo Gotti Kingpin Skinny Pimp Nelly Jim Jones Blak Jak Wifey and more. His aliases are Nakia Shine Kinfolk Kia Shine and Kinfolk Jones.
Charles Magnin.  Charles Magnin (born in Paris November 4 1793; died there October 7 1862) was a French author.
Sabotage (rapper).  Mauro Mateus dos Santos (April 03 1973 - January 24 2003) better known by his stage name Sabotage was a Brazilian MC.Having grown up slinging drugs in São Paulo’s rough South Zone he became one of the biggest sensations of hip hop in Brazil with the release of his first and only album in 2001 titled Rap é Compromisso.
Harini Ravi.  Harini Ravi (born 20 December 1994) is a Chennai based Singer and Dubbing Artiste. She is the daughter of Veteran Violinist V.V. Ravi and Visalam Ravi.
Michael Lawrence (writer).  Michael Lawrence is an English writer for children and young adults. He is best known as the author of the Withern Rise trilogy and the Jiggy McCue books.
Carlo Pittara.  Carlo Pittara (1836–October 25 1890) was an Italian painter.
Louis Ange Pitou.  Louis Ange Pitou (born in Valainville a commune of Moléans 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Châteaudun April 1767; died in Paris le 8 May 1846) was a French author and counter revolutionary.
Mark Thomas Ketterson.  Mark Thomas Ketterson (b. 1955 Nashville Tennessee) is an American performing arts critic and writer. He is the Chicago correspondent for Opera News magazine Universitories Grand Ole Opera and he has also written for PlaybillChicago magazine Lyric Opera of Chicago Houston Grand Opera the Ravinia Festival Patti LuPone at Ravinia USOPERAweb. and The Kennedy Center.East meets West at WNO
Claude Hagège.  Claude Hagège (born in Carthage Tunisia under French protectorate;) is a French linguist.He was elected to the Collège de France in 1988 and received several awards for his work including the Prix de l'Académie Française and the CNRS Gold medal.
Chrissy Amphlett.  Christine Joy Chrissy Amphlett (/æmflət/; 25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013) was an Australian singer who was the frontwoman of the Australian rock band Divinyls.Amphlett grew up in her home town of Geelong in Victoria Australia as a singer and dancer.
Beans (rapper).  Beans (born Robert Edward Stewart II) is a rapper from White Plains New York. He was a member of the underground hip hop group Antipop Consortium. He is a founder of the record label Adored And Exploited.
Alcide Nunez.  Alcide Patrick Nunez (March 17 1884 – September 2 1934) also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez was an early white American jazz clarinetist. He was also one of the first musicians of New Orleans who made numerous audio recordings and he was announced by Pee Wee Russell as the greatest jazz clarinetist of the world.
Crazy Titch.  Carl Dobson (born 31 January 1983) better known by his stage name Crazy Titch is an English Grime MC.
Hans Petter Sjøli.  Hans Petter Sjøli (born 16 January 1974 in Steinkjer) is a Norwegian journalist for Dagsavisen and Klassekampen and author of the book Mao min mao. Historien om AKPs vekst og fall published by Cappelen forlag in 2005.Sjøli studied history at Universitetet i Oslo and also studied in Bergen and Trondheim. He has formerly worked in Klassekampen and Dagens Næringsliv. Currently he lives in Rodeløkka Oslo with his family.
Sanora Babb.  Sanora Babb (21 April 1907 Oklahoma - 31 December 2005 Hollywood Hills) was an American novelist poet and literary editor. She was also the wife of famed cinematographer James Wong Howe.
Paul Clayton (folksinger).  Paul Clayton (born Paul Clayton Worthington; March 3 1931 – March 30 1967) was an American folksinger and folklorist who was prominent in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.A graduate of the University of Virginia where he earned a master's degree in Folklore Clayton specialized in traditional music primarily New England sea shanties and ballads and Appalachian songs. He became interested in the first of these as a youngster and began playing guitar as a teen.
Tobi Jooste.  Tobi Jooste is a South African singer model writer and television personality from Karoo South Africa but now based in Johannesburg. Known for his baritone voice he sings in Afrikaans English and Italian. Signed earlier with Leo Musiek he has now signed with Storm Rekordz label.
Atom Shukugawa.  Atom Shukugawa (夙川アトム born December 22 1979) is a Japanese comedian from Nishinomiya Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Hiroyuki Tanaka (田中 博之) and the screen name's Shukugawa derives from the name of a river running through Nishinomiya.
Hassan Sattar.  Hassan Sattar (known as Sattar Persian: ستار ‎) is an Iranian Pop-tenor Oratorio singer with specialization in both Persian Pop and Classical music. He had gained fame before the Islamic Revolution and became Pahlavi Royal Family court singer up until the political upheavals of the late 1970s. He left Iran in 1978 and has taken residence in the United States since then.
Peter Birch (actor).  Peter Birch is an English actor from Harrogate. His notable roles include appearances as Herr Ulrich in the comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen Pet consultant Jack Hathaway in the drama series Casualty (1996-1997) and Arthur Eliot in The House of Eliott.
John Loengard.  John Loengard an American photographer joined the staff of Life magazine in 1961 and from 1973 to 1987 he served as the magazine's picture editor. He has taught at the International Center for Photography New York The New School for Social Research New York and at workshops around the country.
Andrea Mantegna.  Andrea Mantegna (Italian: [anˈdrɛa manˈteɲɲa]; c. 1431 – September 13 1506) was an Italian painter a student of Roman archeology and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time Mantegna experimented with perspective e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.
Nicola Cheung.  Nicola Cheung Sun Yuet was born in 31 May 1976 in Hong Kong and graduated from Hong Kong University (Bachelor of Laws) in 1997. She is a Hong Kong television and film actress.
Jimmy Van Heusen.  James Jimmy Van Heusen (January 26 1913 – February 6 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films television and theater and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.
Dan Bigras.  Dan Bigras (born 23 December 1956 in Montreal Quebec) is a francophone rock singer and actor from Canada. He was discovered by Gerry Boulet in 1983 and his first album Ange Animal was released in 1990.He is the spokesman of Refuge des Jeunes de Montréal (meaning Refuge of Montreal's young people) an agency to help homeless and at-risk youth. The organisation produces le show du Refuge each year.He has appeared as a film actor since 1997's J'en suis!.
Wiley (rapper).  Richard Kylea Cowie (born 19 January 1979) better known by his stage name Wiley is an English rapper MC songwriter record producer and recording artist with Caribbean roots from Trinidad and Antigua originating from Bow East London. He first rose to fame as a grime MC and continuously produces grime music while releasing mainstream singles such as the UK Singles Chart top 10 hits Wearing My Rolex Never Be Your Woman and his UK number-one Heatwave.
Tyler Whitesides.  Tyler Whitesides is an American writer who lives in northern Utah. He is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Janitors of which the first three of five books have been published the fourth being expected in September of 2014. The series is published by Shadow Mountain Publishing which has also published novels like Leven Thumps by Obert Skye Fablehaven by Brandon Mull and The 13th Reality by James Dashner.
Daizen Shishido.  Daizen Shishido (宍戸大全 Shishido Daizen) (real name Shishido Kunihiro) is a Japanese stunt double. He has appeared in many television shows including regular appearances on long-running series such as Mito Kōmon Ōoka Echizen the Hissatsu series and Abarenbo Shogun. He was also the stunt double for Raizo Ichikawa in all eight Shinobi no Mono films from 1963-67.After graduating from Nippon Sport Science University he went to work for Daiei then Toei before become a free-lancer in 1970.
Taiye Selasi.  Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin.
Barry D. Adam.  Barry Adam (1952—) is a Canadian sociologist and LGBT activist. He is the editor author of the 1987 book The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement and later editor of The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics (1998). He has also written widely on AIDS and served on the AIDS Committee in Windsor Ontario.Adam was a member of the Gay Liberation Front in Vancouver in 1970.
A. V. Anand.  A. V. Anand (born 16 April 1936) is a Carnatic musician and mridangam player. Anand was taught to play mridangam by ghatam player K. S. Manjunath from a young age and has worked as an accompanist for Carnatic musicians including Chowdiah Chembai T. R. Mahalingam Sundaram Balachander. and Doraiswamy Iyengar since the 1950s.Vidwan AV Anand has Presided over the 41st Music conference held by Bangalore Gayana Samaja from October 5 to October 11 2009.
Daniel Diges.  Daniel Diges García (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈnjel ˈdixes]; born 17 January 1981) is a Spanish singer pianist composer and actor. Although officially born in Madrid he has spent all his youth in Alcalá de Henares (Community of Madrid).
Salil Bhatt.  Salil Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. He created the musical instrument Satvik Veena. He is the son of the fellow slide player and Grammy Award winner Padmashree Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.His latest album Slide to Freedom 2 - Make a Better World was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award.
KutMasta Kurt.  KutMasta Kurt is an American hip hop producer best known for his work with Kool Keith Beastie Boys Linkin Park Dilated Peoples.
Jonathan Goldstein (composer).  Jonathan Goldstein is an award-winning British composer of music for film television advertising theatre and live events whose work encompasses a range of contemporary classical styles with orchestral jazz electro-acoustic and world influences.
Blaise Siwula.  Blaise Siwula is a New York City based free jazz musician and curator.Blaise Siwula was born in Detroit Michigan on 02/19/1950. He moved to New York City in 1989 with his family hoping to enter the music scene there. He has collaborated on recordings with many artists including Cecil Taylor. He also curates the weekly C.O.M.A. music event as ABC No Rio.
Maurice Carpenter.  Maurice Carpenter better known as Moe is the founder of the multi-platinum Grammy-nominated production company “So Inkredible LLC” better known by its alias “The Inkredibles”. Founded in late 2007 So Inkredible LLC was primarily a production company whose main focus was music production. By January of the following year they were discovered by Spiff TV of Nasty Beatmakers.
Vratyas Vakyas.  Vratyas Vakyas is the only full-time member of the folk/black/viking metal band Falkenbach. The phrase Vratyas Vakyas can be translated as the searching wanderer. He started writing music around 1989 and between 1991 and 1993 he played guitar in a band called Crimson Gates which released two demos and did two live shows. The band was then put to rest since they had decided to stop the band as soon as one band member left.
Cougnut.  Ronald Fields (January 11 1968 – September 4 2001) better known by his stage name Cougnut was an American rapper from the Lakeview neighborhood of San Francisco California.
Kevin Fagan (cartoonist).  Kevin Fagan (born June 22 1956) is an American cartoonist and creator of the syndicated comic strip Drabble. Fagan was born in Los Angeles.He attended Saddleback College and later transferred to California State University Sacramento as a history major. While there he submitted his work to the student newspaper the State Hornet.
Jade Ewen.  Jade Louise Ewen (born 24 January 1988) is an English singer songwriter actress and former member of the Sugababes. Ewen began her singing career in a girl group named Trinity Stone signed to Sony BMG in 2005 but they disbanded in 2007 with no album released. In 2009 she represented the UK at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest performing the Andrew Lloyd Webber penned It's My Time after winning the UK national selection.
Bobby Pickett.  Robert George Pickett (February 11 1938 – April 25 2007) was an American singer who found fame under the name Bobby Boris Pickett. He was known for co-writing and performing the 1962 hit novelty song Monster Mash.
Marcelle Chaumont.  Marcelle Chaumont (born 1891 Eymoutiers Haute-Vienne; died 1990 Paris) was a French fashion designer.Chaumont moved to Paris after World War I and became the head seamstress for Jeanne Lanvin and Madeleine Vionnet. Marcelle Chaumont created her fashion house in the late 1930s but World War II and health problems forced her to stop working. Her clients included Gloria Guinness who was voted 'Best Dressed Woman' by Time magazine in 1962.
Amy Balkin.  Amy Balkin is an American artist who studied at Stanford University and is now located in San Francisco. Her work combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique to generate ambitious bold and innovative ways of conceiving the public domain outside current legal and discursive systems.. She focuses on how humans create interact with and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit. Ultimately one of her long-term goals is to create a physical shared space with society.
Shaaban Abdel Rahim.  Shaaban Abdel Rahim (Arabic: شعبان عبد الرحيم‎) also known as Sha'bola (شعبولا) is an Egyptian pop (Sha'abi) singer formerly working as makwagi (man who irons clothing) and known for catchy songs with political lyrics.
Ben Ely.  Ben Ely (born 13 September 1970) is an Australian musician and artist best known for his work with Brisbane indie/alternative rock band Regurgitator a multi-ARIA Music Award winning group which formed in Brisbane Australia in December 1993.
Robert Walter (musician).  Robert Walter (born 1969) is a keyboard player specializing in instrumental soul jazz on the Hammond B3 organ. He is a founding memberof The Greyboy Allstars and has since led his own band Robert Walter's 20th Congress.
Orny Adams.  Orny Adams (born Adam Jason Orenstein on 10 November 1970) is an American actor comedy writer and stand-up comic.
Ari Koivunen.  Ari Koivunen (born June 7 1984 Kouvola) is a Finnish heavy metal singer who rose to fame as the winner of the Finnish singing competition Idols in 2007. Koivunen is vocalist of the Finnish metal band Amoral.
Kevin D. Williamson.  Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent for National Review and writes the Exchequer blog at National Review Online. He is also the theater critic for The New Criterion.
Dario Martinelli.  Dario Martinelli (Andria Italy March 1 1974) is an Italian musicologist semiotician and composer.He is Adjunct Professor of Musicology and Semiotics at Helsinki University and until 2007 Guest-Professor at the Finnish Network University of Semiotics.His scholarly approach is influenced by Gino Stefani Franco Fabbri (from Bologna University where Martinelli graduated in 1999) and Eero Tarasti (from Helsinki University where Martinelli received his doctorate in 2002).
Misha B.  Misha Amber Bryan (born 10 February 1992) known by her stage name Misha B is a British singer songwriter and rapper. Born and raised in Manchester's Moss Side and Longsight districts she entered music by studying a Vocal Artist course at Trafford College as well as taking part in busking and open mic nights. Misha B rose to notability as a semi-finalist on the eighth series of The X Factor.
John Fisher (writer).  John Fisher was Town Clerk and bailiff of Warwick and a writer.He was Town Clerk of Warwick from 1563 to 1590 bailiff for 1564-65 and 1580–81 and steward auditor and surveyor in 1570.From 1565 to 1590 he compiled his 'Black Book of Warwick' an intimate log of corporation meetings ceremonies lawsuits and quarrels. He was elected Member of Parliament for Warwick in 1571 1572 and 1584. He is sometimes mistaken for his brother Thomas Fisher also a Member of Parliament for the town.
Shep Pettibone.  Shep Pettibone is a record producer remixer songwriter and club DJ one of the most prolific of the 1980s. His earliest work known to the public was for one of New York City's top urban radio station WRKS 98.7 Kiss-FM and later as remixer/producer for the disco/dance label Salsoul Records. His prowess at production and mixing led him to work with such artists as Madonna and George Michael in the late 1980s during the height of these artists' popularity.
Gladys Rich.  Gladys Rich (1904-1994) was an American composer and the author of American Lullaby.
Christian Hardy.  Christian Hixx Hardy (born 7 June 1979) is a British singer multi-instrumentalist and producer. He performs in The Leisure Society and is a member of Brighton's Willkommen Collective.
Mami Nomura.  Mami Nomura (野村真美 Nomura Mami) (born October 19 1964) is a Japanese actress from Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture Japan. She is a member of the Tōhō Geinō agency. A versatile actress she appears in contemporary and historic roles. Since 1990 she has portrayed Yōko in the TBS series Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari.Mami made her debut in 1985. She has appeared as a guest or regular in numerous television specials and series and in four films.
Errol Thompson (audio engineer).  For the ice hockey player see Errol Thompson (ice hockey)Errol Thompson (December 29 1948 – November 13 2004) better known as ET was a record producer audio engineer and one of the first studio engineers to be involved in dub music. He was fellow producer Joe Gibbs's partner—the two were known collectively as the Mighty Two. In the 1970s he worked (along with Niney) as an engineer at Randy's Studio 17 in Kingston Jamaica.
Jean de Brunhoff.  Jean de Brunhoff (December 9 1899 – October 16 1937) was a French writer and illustrator known for creating the Babar books the first of which appeared in 1931. He was the fourth and youngest child of Maurice de Brunhoff a publisher and his wife Marguerite. He attended Protestant schools including the prestigious Ecole Alsacienne. Brunhoff joined the army and reached the front lines when World War I was almost over.
Robert Colescott.  Robert H. Colescott (August 26 1925 — June 4 2009) was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects often conveying his exuberant comical or bitter reflections on being African-American. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris.
Vini Reilly.  Vincent Vini Gerard Reilly (born 4 August 1953 Higher Blackley Manchester) is an English musician and leader of the post-punk group The Durutti Column.
Troy Cassar-Daley.  Troy Cassar-Daley (born 18 May 1969) is a multi-award-winning country musician from New South Wales Australia.He released his first EP Dream Out Loud in 1994 and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year.
Eivind Aarset.  Eivind Aarset (born 23 March 1961 in Kolbotn Oppegård Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with artists like Ray Charles Dee Dee Bridgewater Ute Lemper Ketil Bjørnstad Mike Mainieri Arild Andersen Abraham Laboriel Dhafer Youssef and Django Bates and trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer.
Mohamed Chafik.  Mohamed Chafik (born 17 September 1926) is a Moroccan writer and specialist in Berber language and literature.
Jean-Marc Lofficier.  Jean-Marc Lofficier (born June 22 1954) is a French author of books about films and television programs as well as numerous comic books and translations of a number of animation screenplays. He usually collaborates with his wife Randy Lofficier (born Philadelphia Pennsylvania on February 3 1953).
C. J. Henderson.  Chris C.J. Henderson (born December 26 1951) is an American writer of horror hardboiled crime fiction and comic books.
Boyd Oxlade.  Boyd John Michael Oxlade (8 May 1943 – 24 January 2014) was an Australian author and screenwriter best known for his novel Death in Brunswick and the adapted screenplay which he co-wrote.Oxlade was born in Sydney and received a Jesuit education in Ireland and at Xavier College in Melbourne and then studied at Monash University.He lived in Carlton North and worked as a nightclub cook and a gravedigger at Melbourne General Cemetery (which influenced some of the situations in his novel) then moved to Hobart for six years before returning to Melbourne. 
Pérez Prado.  Dámaso Pérez Prado (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeɾes ˈpɾaðo]; December 11 1916 – September 14 1989) was a Cuban bandleader musician (singer organist and pianist) and composer. He is often referred to as the King of the Mambo. Pérez was his surname thus Dámaso Pérez his true name became known by the paternal and maternal surnames Pérez Prado.His orchestra was the most popular in mambo. His son Pérez Prado Jr. continues to direct the Pérez Prado Orchestra in Mexico City to this day.
Johnny Gruelle.  Johnny Gruelle (December 24 1880 – January 8 1938) was an American artist political cartoonist children's book author and illustrator (and even songwriter). He is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. He had such confidence in his design that often he would create the final ink work without first sketching in pencil.
Helen Chadwick.  Helen Chadwick (18 May 1953 – 15 March 1996) was a British conceptual artist.
Harold Sakuishi.  Takahiro Sakuishi (作石貴浩 Sakuishi Takahiro born March 16 1969) better known by his pen name Harold Sakuishi (ハロルド作石 Harorudo Sakuishi) is a Japanese manga artist. Sakuishi has a wide variety of interests which include baseball (he is a huge Chunichi Dragons fan) martial arts MMA and music (he is a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan). Each of these has become the basis for his most popular series (baseball in Stopper Busujima fighting in Bakaichi and music in Beck).
Otep Shamaya.  Otep Shamaya (born November 7 1969) is an American singer-songwriter actress poet writer and painter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the metal band Otep.
Bill Watrous.  William Russell Watrous III (born June 8 1939 in Middletown Connecticut) is a jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known by casual fans of jazz music for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad A Time for Love which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name. A self-described bop-oriented player he is well known among fellow trombonists as a master technician and for his mellifluous sound.
Greg Banaszak.  Greg Banaszak (born June 23 1966) is an American saxophonist specializing in European classical music and jazz. He has performed in both styles through concerto performances solo and chamber music recitals and jazz festival appearances in the United States Eastern and Western Europe the Middle East and Asia.Banaszak received a cum laude B.M. from Connecticut’s Hartt School of Music. He holds a M.M.
Jürgen Marcus.  Jürgen Marcus (born Jürgen Beumer 6 June 1948 Herne North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German schlager singer who was most successful during the 1970s when he had 14 chart hits in Germany. He is also known for his participation on behalf of Luxembourg in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest.
Adam Papagan.  Adam Papagan is a musician and performer known primarily for his work with David Liebe Hart.Papagan has recorded four albums with Hart starting with Public Access in 2008.
Pattukkottai Prabakar.  Pattukkottai Prabakar (Tamil: பட்டுக்கோட்டை பிரபாகர்) is a prolific writer of Tamil crime and detective fiction.
Paul Cézanne.  Paul Cézanne (US /seɪˈzæn/ or UK /sɨˈzæn/; French: [pɔl sezan]; 1839–1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields.
Eleanor H. Porter.  Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19 1868 – May 21 1920) was an American novelist.
Srirangam Kannan.  Srirangam Kannan is an Indian musician and artist known for playing the morsing. He has a degree in mathematics.
Srinatha.  Srinatha (Telugu: శ్రీనాథుడు) (1365–1450) was a well-known 15th-century Telugu poet who popularised the Prabandha style of composition.
Christian McAlhaney.  Christian Edwin McAlhaney (born May 12 1980) is an American musician and one of the two guitarists for the alternative rock band Anberlin. He replaced Nathan Strayer who left the band in early 2007 right before the release of the band's third album Cities. McAlhaney was formerly a guitarist for the band Acceptance until the members disbanded in 2006. He then started a new project Thunder Thunder with some of his former Acceptance bandmates.
Ralph Peer.  Ralph Sylvester Peer (May 22 1892 – January 19 1960) was an American talent scout recording engineer and record producer in the field of music in the 1920s and 1930s. Peer pioneered field recording of music when in June 1923 he took remote recording equipment south to Atlanta Georgia to record regional music outside the recording studio in such places as hotel rooms ballrooms or empty warehouses.
Kasëm Trebeshina.  Kasëm Trebeshina (born 5 August 1926 in Berat Albania) is an Albanian writer and dissident.
Méret Oppenheim.  Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim (6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer. Oppenheim was a member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with André Breton Luis Buñuel Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst and other writers and visual artists. Besides creating art objects Oppenheim also famously appeared as a model for photographs by Man Ray most notably a series of nude shots of her interacting with a printing press.
D-Sisive.  Derek Christoff better known by his stage name D-Sisive is a Canadian rapper best known for his Juno-nominated EP The Book his hit single Nobody with a Notepad (for which D-Sisive and collaborator Muneshine won SOCAN's fourth annual ECHO Songwriting Prize) and his 2009 Polaris Music Prize-nominated album Let the Children Die (which was launched by the success of Nobody with a Notepad).
Robert Frederick Blum.  Robert Frederick Blum (9 July 1857 – 8 June 1903) was an American artist born in Cincinnati Ohio.
Hugh MacDonald (poet).  Hugh MacDonald (born 1945) is an award-winning Canadian poet and children's writer and editor who lives in Montague Prince Edward Island. Among his many awards are the L.M. Montgomery Children's Literature Award 1990 and the 2004 Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts on Prince Edward Island. He was appointed Poet Laureate for Prince Edward Island effective January 1 2010 by the provincial legislature for a period of three years.
Teresa Carpio.  Teresa Carpio (born in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer actress and singing teacher. She is the mother of singer T.V. Carpio.
KJ-52.  Jonah Kirsten Sorrentino (born June 26 1975) better known by his stage name KJ-52 is a Christian rapper from Tampa Florida. The KJ part of his name refers to his old rap alias King J.
Eleanor Davis.  Eleanor Davis is an American cartoonist and illustrator who creates comic works and other art for both adolescent and adult audiences.
Nils Jansen.  Nils Jansen (born 30 March 1959 in Haugesund Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet) known from several recordings and jazz orchestras.
Eduard Sekler.  Eduard Franz Sekler is an architectural historian and Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art Emeritus and professor of architecture emeritus at Harvard University.
Casey Lagos.  Casey Lagos is a Filipino/American musician and songwriter born May 1 1988. He is most noted for drumming/songwriting in Stick To Your Guns his solo project Sealakes filling in on drums for Australian band Parkway Drive and bass for British band Architects. Casey is an endorser of Masters of Maple Drums Paiste Cymbals Vic Firth drum sticks PeterSaysDenim Dropdead Clothing and Skullcandy headphones.
Rosco Gordon.  Rosco Gordon (April 10 1928 – July 11 2002) was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1952 No. 1 R&B hit single Booted and two No. 2 singles No More Doggin' (1952 RPM 350) and Just a Little Bit (1960 Vee-Jay 332).
Nilkanth Tiwari.  Nilkanth Tiwari was one the most prolific lyricists and poets of his times. He died in 1976 but left behind a collection of poems and songs that are still popular across India. A Hindi songwriter and poet known for his impeccable command over the language. He was closely associated with people such as Kishore Kumar and Dilip Kumar in the early years of the Indian film industry.
Lita Roza.  Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart.
Stephanie Marrian.  Stephanie Marrian (born 9 October 1948 in Singapore) is a former Page 3 girl in The Sun newspaper glamour model pop star TV and film actress. The correct spelling of her given name is Stefanie.
William L. Haney.  William L. Haney (born June 17 1938 in Strong City Kansas; died March 22 1992) is recognized for his narrative-realist paintings. His paintings were constructed as conceptual collages involving social-political issues of the late 20th century. Haney was intensely engaged in art history often referencing other artists and the world around him. His artistic process consisted of drawing and collecting images from magazines posters and other sources.
Sefnyn.  Sefnyn (fl. 1408) was a Welsh language court poet from Anglesey north Wales.
Roch Voisine.  Joseph Armand Roch Voisine OC better known as Roch Voisine (born 26 March 1963) is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter actor and radio and television host who lives in Montreal Quebec and Paris France. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Ricky Hui.  Ricky Hui Koon-Ying (August 3 1946 – November 8 2011) (Chinese: 許冠英) was a Hong Kong movie star. He and his brothers Michael and Sam made several comedy blockbusters in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rie fu.  Rie fu (リエ フゥ Rie fū) born Rie Funakoshi (舩越 里恵 Funakoshi Rie) on January 11 1985 in Tokyo is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She resides in Tokyo but frequently travels to the United Kingdom to record and promote her work.Rie fu's songs are often bilingual since she is fluent in both English and Japanese. Although most of her songs are primarily sung in Japanese many feature entire verses written in English.
Hermann Bischoff.  Hermann Bischoff (7 January 1868 in Duisburg – 25 January 1936 in Berlin) was a German composer of classical music.After leaving Leipzig to continue his first studies of music he met Richard Strauss and fell in with his circle.Bischoff's two symphonies have been recorded on the record label Classic Produktion Osnabrück along with a 1926 Introduction und Rondo. His first symphony dedicated Herrn Dr.
S-Endz.  S-Endz also known as Turi and Casey Rain is a British Asian vocalist music producer songwriter and presenter. He is best known as a member of the critically acclaimed UK rap/alternative/bhangra band Swami.S-Endz himself is influenced by funk artists such as Prince Michael Jackson and Roger Troutman as well as rock and metal bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Sepultura.He was a vegetarian for several years and now adheres to a vegan diet.
Norman L. Richardson.  Norman Lee Richardson (February 20 1935 - June 11 1999) was an award-winning journalist in Louisiana and Texas who was best known for his vivid coverage of hurricanes during the 1960s. His reporting garnered recognition from the Associated Press including the Frank C.
Rick Bragg.  Rick Bragg (born July 26 1959) is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 recognizing his work at The New York Times.
Toshiyuki Toyonaga.  Toshiyuki Toyonaga (豊永利行 Toyonaga Toshiyuki born April 28 1984) is a Japanese voice actor actor and singer.
Rex Whistler.  Reginald John Rex Whistler (24 June 1905 – 18 July 1944) was a British artist designer and illustrator.
Sofonisba Anguissola.  Sofonisba Anguissola (also spelled Anguisciola) (c. 1532 – 16 November 1625) was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona. She received a well-rounded education that included the fine arts and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. As a young woman Anguissola traveled to Rome where she was introduced to Michelangelo who immediately recognized her talent and to Milan where she painted the Duke of Alba.
Ottavio Leoni.  Ottavio Leoni (1578–1630) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the early-Baroque active mainly in Rome. He was born in Rome where he first trained with his father Lodovico Leoni. He painted altarpieces for churches in Rome such as an Annunciation for Sant'Eustachio and a Virgin and child with St. Giacinto for Santa Maria della Minerva and a Saints Charles Francis & Nicholas for Sant’ Urbano.
Sara Carter.  Sara Carter (July 21 1898 – January 8 1979) was an American Country music musician singer and songwriter. Remembered mostly for her deep distinctive mature singing voice she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s. In her earliest recordings her voice was pitched very high. Born in Copper Creek Virginia (Rich Valley) she was the daughter of William Sevier Dougherty and Nancy Elizabeth Kilgore. Sara married A. P.
Qi Yuwu.  Qi Yuwu (born 28 November 1976) is a Singapore-based Chinese actor. He is a Permanent Resident of Singapore and a contracted artiste under MediaCorp Singapore and Beijing Enlight Media Group.
Champfleury.  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (17 September 1820 Laon Aisne – 6 December 1889 Sèvres) who wrote under the name Champfleury was a French art critic and novelist a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction.In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name Champfleury for the journal L'Artiste.
Anne Holmberg.  Anne Holmberg (born 1938 in Colorado United States) is an American writer of historical romance novels such as Anne Avery and contemporary romance novels as Kate Holmes. She also signed a novel as Anne Woodard.
Mattias Eklundh.  Mattias IA Eklundh (born 1969 in Gothenburg Sweden) is a guitarist and vocalist known for his work with Freak Kitchen Jonas Hellborg Trio and Art Metal; he has also produced several noted solo Freak Guitar albums released by Steve Vai and Favored Nations and holds his annual Freak Guitar Camp in the woods of Sweden every summer for dedicated guitar players from all over the world. He was also prominently featured playing his trademark-style solos on the first 4 Soilwork albums.
Christian Berentz.  Christian Berentz (1658–1722) was a German Baroque painter.
Roderick MacLeish.  Roderick MacLeish (January 15 1926 – July 1 2006) was an American journalist and writer. Born in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania he grew up in the Chicago suburbs and graduated from the University of Chicago. MacLeish was news director for WBZ radio in Boston in the early 1950s then helped start the London and Washington DC bureaus of Westinghouse Broadcasting where he was a chief commentator. He later was a commentator for CBS News National Public Radio and the Christian Science Monitor.
Frederick Baume.  Frederick Ehrenfried Baume KC (13 June 1862 – 14 May 1910) was a New Zealand lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party.
Nadeem F. Paracha.  Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu: ندیم فاروق پراچہ‎) (born 6 February 1967 in Karachi) is a left-liberal Pakistani journalist cultural critic satirist and short story writer.On the issue of anti-Americanism in Pakistan Paracha claims that It has become an obligatory part of populist rhetoric in which American involvement is blamed for everything that goes wrong in the country.
Fiona Lowry.  Fiona Lowry (born 1974) is an Australian artist.
Rob Caggiano.  Robert Caggiano (born November 7 1976) is an American guitarist and producer who is the current lead guitarist of the band Volbeat and the former lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Anthrax.
Geoffrey Beene.  Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr. August 30 1927 – September 28 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple comfortable and dressy women's wear.
Lilit Pipoyan.  Lilit Pipoyan (Armenian: Լիլիթ Պիպոյանի; born June 16 1955) is an Armenian musician singer and architect.Pipoyan belongs to that narrow circle of modern Armenian musicians whose works present an alternative to the traditional folk classical spiritual and pop music.
Mikal Blue.  Mikal Blue (born 3 March 1966) is an English music producer songwriter engineer and mixer best known for his work with Colbie Caillat Jason Reeves Jason Mraz Five For Fighting and OneRepublic. Originally from County Durham England Mikal Blue is currently based in Los Angeles and works from his studio Revolver Recordings in Thousand Oaks California.
Leigh Alderson.  Leigh Alderson (born 1986) is a male ballet dancer model and actor from Portadown Northern Ireland. He began dancing at the age of seven at The Donna Whitten Dance School and later The Susan McMillan Ballet School.
Jiang Feng (translator).  Jiang Feng (simplified Chinese: 江枫; traditional Chinese: 江楓; pinyin: Jiāng Fēng; born July 1929) is a Chinese translator and author who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize (1997) a prestigious literary award in China.He is among the first few in China who translated the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley's into Chinese language.
Nabarun Bhattacharya.  Nabarun Bhattacharya (Bengali: নবারুণ ভট্টাচার্য) (born 23 June 1948) is an Indian Bengali writer deeply committed to a revolutionary and radical aesthetics. He was born at Baharampur (Berhampur) West Bengal. He is the only child of actor Bijon Bhattacharya and writer Mahashweta Devi.He is most known for his anarchic novel Herbert (1993) which was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award and adapted into a film by the same name in 2005 by Suman Mukhopadhyay.
João Neto & Frederico.  João Neto & Frederico are a pair of country music singers formed by Brazilian Joao Neto Nunes Goiás (Goiânia August 12 1979) and Frederick Augustus Silva Nunes (Goiânia March 11 1982). Coming from the country music university they released their first album in 2004 called If not for love.The song was part of the double detonated the soundtrack to the novel Paradise Rede Globo.
Dea Norberg.  Andrea Heléne Dea Norberg (born 3 March 1974 Bräkne-Hoby Sweden) is a Swedish singer and choirgirl who sang in most of Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest entries during the 2000s. Norberg has been involved in the Melodifestivalen house-choir between 2003–2006 and 2009 the choir for Sweden in Eurovision in 1999 2003 2004 2005 2006 and 2008 and in Malta's Eurovision in 2000.
Daniele Brusaschetto.  Daniele Brusaschetto (born in Turin) is an Italian songwriter and musician.He has been active as a soloist since the middle of the 1990s. The releases under his name are characterized by the union of elements of soundscapes and electronics and an intimate soul. The result is asort of industrial songwriting.
Mahmud Shaterian.  Mahmud Shaterian(born 1944 d.2006) was a famous Iranian Azerbaijani composer musician and Tar master. He was born in Ahrab district of Tabriz. He had great role in surviving and preserving Azerbaijani music in Iran. He was also active in Radio and Television orchestra of Iran.
Little Louie Vega.  Luis Fernando Vega (born June 12 1965) better known as Little Louie Vega is an American musician of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is one half of the Masters At Work musical production team.
Tim McCreight.  Tim McCreight (born 1951) is an American artist who specializes in metalsmithing particularly in jewelry. He is also an author of books referring to metalsmithing.
Sigismund Salblinger.  Sigismund Salblinger was a musician working in Augsburg who published a collection of musical pieces called Concentus in 1545. The collection contained some of the most celebrated madrigals of the period including works by Josquin Baston. He dedicated the work to the magistrates at Augsburg.
Johnny Hartman.  John Maurice Hartman (July 3 1923 – September 15 1983) was an American jazz singer who specialized in ballads and earned critical acclaim though he was never widely known. He recorded a well-known collaboration with the saxophonist John Coltrane in 1963 called John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman was briefly a member of Dizzy Gillespie's group and recorded with Erroll Garner. Most of Hartman's career was spent recording solo albums.
Sarita Shrestha.  Sarita Shrestha MD(Ayur) OBGYN BAMS is an Ayurvedic physician professor writer founder and medical director of the Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital in Bhaktapur Nepal. Shrestha is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of Ayurveda in the United States and the authority in Ayurvedic women's healthcare. She is Nepal's first female Ayurvedic physician. and its first Ayurvedic OB/GYN. She is widely regarded as the “Mother of Ayurveda” in the West.
Gunnar Wiklund.  Gunnar Wiklund born 17 August 1935 in Luleå Sweden dead 29 September 1989 in Lysekil Sweden was a Swedish singer. He scored several Svensktoppen hits and participated at Melodifestivalen four times.
Joan Osborne.  Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and interpreter of music having recorded and performed in various popular American musical genres including pop soul R&B blues and country. She is best known for her song One of Us. She has toured with Motown sidemen the Funk Brothers and was featured in the documentary film about them Standing in the Shadows of Motown.
Sergio Gómez.  Paulo Sergio Gómez Sánchez (2 June 1973 – 2 December 2007) better known as Sergio Gómez was a Mexican singer who was the founder and lead vocalist of the duranguense group K-Paz de la Sierra.
K. A. Isaac.  Kadapuram Abraham Isaac (Malayalam: കാടാപുരം എബ്രഹാം ഐസക്ക്) (10 July 1925 – 12 September 2005) was an Indian writer and librarian. He was a Professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram. Isaac was known for initiating and moulding the professional Library and Information Science (LIS) education in Kerala and has authored several books on Library and Information Science.
Tom Tully (writer).  Tom Tully is a noted British comic writer mostly of sports and action stories. He is probably most famous as the longest-running writer of the popular football-themed strip Roy of the Rovers which he wrote for much of Roy Race's playing career until the weekly comic closed in 1993.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi.  Yasuo Kuniyoshi (国吉 康雄 Kuniyoshi Yasuo 1 September 1893 - 14 May 1953) was an American painter photographer and printmaker.
Craig Lucas.  Craig Lucas (born April 30 1951) is an American playwright screenwriter theatre director musical actor and film director.
Mari Mashiba.  Mari Mashiba (真柴 摩利 Mashiba Mari born November 21 1959 in Gunma Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Production Baobab.
Nihal Atsız.  Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (Ottoman Turkish: حسين نيهال أتسز) (January 12 1905 – December 11 1975) was a prominent Turkish nationalist writer novelist poet and philosopher. Nihâl Atsız was a fervent supporter of the pan-Turkist or Turanism ideology. He is author of over 30 books and numerous articles. He was in strong opposition to the government of İsmet İnönü which he criticized for co-operating with the communists. He was accused of plotting to overthrow the government.
Joaquín Sabina.  Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina (Úbeda Jaén Spain 12 February 1949) known artistically simply as Joaquín Sabina is a singer songwriter and poet. He has released fourteen studio albums two live albums and three compilation albums.
Danny Barcelona.  Danny Barcelona (July 23 1929 – April 1 2007) was a jazz drummer best known for his years with Louis Armstrong's All-Stars. He was a Filipino-American born in Waipahu a community of sugar cane plantation families East of Honolulu Hawaii. He was also frequently introduced to audiences by Louis Armstrong as The Little Filipino Boy. Armstrong usually followed up by calling himself the little Arabian boy.
Bobby Hollander.  Bobby Hollander (April 20 1929 - March 7 2002) was an American adult film director performer and magazine publisher. He directed 59 pornographic movies between 1979 and 1995. He was one of the pioneers of the shot-on-video porn movie. Hollander was most famous for discovering and managing porn superstar Shauna Grant. He is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Paul Shepard.  Paul Howe Shepard Jr. (June 12 1925 – July 27 1996) was an American environmentalist and author best known for introducing the Pleistocene paradigm to deep ecology. His works have attempted to establish a normative framework in terms of evolutionary theory and developmental psychology. He offers a critique of sedentism/civilization and advocates modeling human lifestyles on those of nomadic prehistoric humans.
Syed Thajudeen.  Syed Thajudeen Shaik Abu Talib was born in 1943 in Alagan Kulam a village not too far from the temple city of Madurai South India where his Malaysian-born parents lived during the Second World War.
Roger Brown (artist).  Roger Brown (1941-1997) was an American artist and painter. Often associated with the Chicago Imagist school he was internationally known for his distinctive painting style and shrewd social commentaries on politics religion and art.
James Robert Baker.  James Robert Baker (October 18 1946 – November 5 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After graduating from UCLA he began his career as a screenwriter but became disillusioned and started writing novels instead.
Adalberto Ortiz.  Adalberto Ortiz (February 9 1914 - February 1 2003) was a novelist poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas a province of Ecuador.Among his most important literary works we find his novel Juyungo (1942) his poetry collection Earth Sound and Drum (1953) and the short story collection called Entundada (1971); His most defining feature as a writer was the incorporation of the elements of afro-American culture enriching his literary vocabulary with its jargon its elasticity and its rhythm.Ortiz's thematic focused around the identity of the afro-American within Latin-American society and its struggle towards social freedom against oppression and secular exploitation. 
Jane Routley.  Jane Routley is an Australian writer of fantasy fiction.
Park Jin-young.  Park Jin-young (Hangul: 박진영 Hanja: 朴軫泳; born January 13 1972) also known as J.Y. Park or JYP is a singer songwriter dancer actor record producer and the CEO and founder of JYP Entertainment a major artist management/record label of Korean pop music. He is best known for his songs called “Don’t Leave Me” “Elevator” “She Was Pretty” “Honey” “Kiss” “Your House”.
Paul Kater.  Paul Kater is a Dutch writer and novelist writing novels in the fantasy and steampunk genres. Paul was born in the Netherlands on March 22 1960. He developed a feel for languages but didn't pursue a career in those as his native language Dutch did not offer many options in that time. Since 2003 he's been writing more seriously. Due to the international character of the internet all Paul's stories so far are written in English.
Maja Haderlap.  Maja Haderlap (born 26 August 1961 in Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene: Železna Kapla-Bela) Carinthia) is a bi-lingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer best known for her award-winning novel Angel of Forgetting highlighting the Austria's only militarily organized resistance against National Socialism - the Carinthian minority of Carinthian Slovenes as one of the non-Jewish Holocaust's victims.She studied German language and literature at University of Vienna and has PhD in Theatre Studies.
Chris Jasper.  Christopher H. Chris Jasper (born December 30 1951 Cincinnati Ohio) is a former member of both the Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley. He is also a successful solo artist and record producer recording a number of his own solo albums and producing artists for his New York based record label Gold City Records. His keyboard and Moog synthesizer work was a primary ingredient of the Isley Brothers sound of the 1970s and 1980s.
Tiffany Million.  Tiffany Million (born Sandra Lee Schwab on April 6 1966) also known as Tyffany Million is a former professional wrestler and American pornographic performer who appeared in both heterosexual and lesbian videos. She retired from the adult industry in 1994 and according to her website refuses to answer questions about her former career. As Sandra Scott she was the subject of the 2007 reality show Wife Mom Bounty Hunter which aired on WE: Women's Entertainment for one season.
Ana Nóbrega.  Ana Paula de Araújo Aderaldo Nóbrega (born 17 July 1980) is a Brazilian Christian singer and songwriter.
Yr. Robert Lalkovits – Axone.  Axone (Yr. Robert Lalkovits) is a famous composer Hungarian songwriter remix music producer and musician DJ based in Budapest. He is known for his mashups bootlegs mixes and remixes (Nelly Furtado Gwen Stefani Shaun H. Mykals Jaki Graham Lady Gaga JoJo Timbaland Pleasure P Kate Voegele Kylie Minogue Sean Kingston and Esmée Denters and other artists).
Jean Chantavoine.  Jean Chantavoine (17 May 1877 – 16 July 1952) was a French musicologist and biographer and the secretary general for the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. Chantavoine was born in Paris. He published numerous books and articles including biographies of Beethoven Liszt Saint-Saëns and Mozart. In 1933 he revealed the existence of Bizet's Symphony in C housed in the library of the Conservatoire in an article in the French periodical Ménestrel.
Marcella Detroit.  Marcella Detroit (born Marcella Levy June 21 1952) is a soprano vocalist guitarist and songwriter. She released her debut album Marcella in 1982 to little success before she joined Shakespears Sister with ex-Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey. Detroit sang the lead vocals on their biggest hit Stay which was #1 in the United Kingdom for 8 consecutive weeks.
Drew Nelson (musician).  Drew Nelson is a Canadian blues singer songwriter guitarist and recording artist. Nelson is particularly known for his slide guitar playing. He has been playing professionally for over thirty years.
John Hawken.  John Hawken (born John Christopher Hawken 9 May 1940 at Christchurch General Hospital Bournemouth Hampshire (now Dorset)) is a British keyboard player. He studied classical piano between the ages of four and eighteen at which point he succumbed to the lure of rock and roll. Hawken's first band was the Cruisers Rock Combo (1960 to 1962) but he is possibly best known for his contributions to various versions of The Nashville Teens (1962 to 1968).
N. Ramani.  Natesan Ramani (commonly known as N. Ramani born 1934) is an Indian Carnatic flautist.
Yurina Hase.  Yurina Hase (長谷優里奈 Hase Yurina born December 9 1979 in Izu City Shizuoka Prefecture Japan) formerly Yurika Ochiai (落合祐里香 Ochiai Yurika) is a Japanese voice actress. She is also known by her nickname Yurishi (ゆりしぃ) in Japan.She was originally working for Arts Vision however she quit in October 2006. From 2007 she worked for Genki Project but moved to Intercept in December 2008. On December 17 2009 she went freelance and changed her name to Yurina Hase.
Heavy D.  Dwight Errington Myers (May 24 1967 – November 8 2011) better known as Heavy D was a Jamaican-born American rapper record producer singer actor and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz a hip hop group which included dancers/background vocalists G-Whiz (Glen Parrish) Trouble T. Roy (Troy Dixon) and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s.
Moana Pozzi.  Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna moˈana ˈroza ˈpottsi]; 27 April 1961 – 15 September 1994) best known as Moana Pozzi and Moana was an Italian pornographic actress actress television personality model politician and writer.
Baksh Nasikh.  Baksh Nasikh (Urdu: امام بخش ناسخ) (1776–1838) was an Urdu poet of the Mughal era.
Josiah Wood Whymper.  Josiah Wood Whymper RI (Ipswich 24 April 1813 – 7 April 1903 Haslemere) was an English wood engraver book illustrator and watercolour painter.
Michael Wulf.  Michael Destructor Wulf was German guitarist an artist well known for playing in German thrash metal bands Sodom and Kreator. He died in 1993 after a motorcycle accident.
José Denis Belgrano.  José Denis Belgrano (b. Málaga April 8 1844 – d. February 12 1917) was a Spanish painter.Belgrano was given a scholarship by Carlos Larios Marquess of Guadiaro to study in Rome where he lived for two years. Back to Málaga he registered at the Malaga Art School in 1868 present-day Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Málaga where he was a student of Bernardo Ferrándiz. After two more years in Rome in the mid-1870s he became professor at this School in 1887.
Edward Burne-Jones.  Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet ARA (28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris Marshall Faulkner and Company. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain; his stained glass works include the windows of St.
Rika Kawamura.  Rika Kawamura (川村りか Kawamura Rika) is a Japanese model actress and gravure idol.
Naeto C.  Naetochukwu Chikwe (born 17 December 1982) stage name Naeto C is a Nigerian rapper Afrobeat artist and record producer. He was born in Houston Texas and is of Nigerian origin.
Hilda Ellis Davidson.  Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson (born Hilda Roderick Ellis 1 October 1914 – January 2006) was an English antiquarian and academic writing in particular on Germanic paganism and Celtic paganism. Davidson used literary historical and archaeological evidence to discuss the stories and customs of Northern Europe. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (Penguin Books 1964) is considered one of the most thorough and reputable sources on Germanic mythology.
Syd Hoff.  Syd Hoff (September 4 1912 Bronx New York – May 12 2004) was a Jewish-American cartoonist and children's book author.
Joy De Vivre.  Joy De Vivre was the second female singer (along with Eve Libertine) of the anarcho-punk band Crass. She was also one of two lead singers on the Crass album Penis Envy in 1981. She studied at Colchester Arts School where she met Andy Palmer.
Levon Ichkhanian.  Levon Ichkhanian is a Toronto-based guitarist/world stringed instruments specialist versed in Jazz World and Traditional music. Ichkhanian was born in 1964 in Beirut Lebanon of Armenian descent.
JAKAZiD.  Joshua James Josh McInnes (born May 7 1988) better known by his artist name JAKAZiD is a record producer from Portsmouth England. He is currently signed to the UK hard dance label Nukleuz. He is usually associated with writing happy hardcore music and remixing other well-known songs in this style.
Laura Albert.  Laura Victoria Albert (born November 2 1965) is the author of writings that include works credited to the fictional persona of JT LeRoy whom Albert described as an avatar saying she was able to write things as LeRoy that she could not have said as Laura Albert. Albert was born and raised in Brooklyn and she and her former partner Geoffrey Knoop have a young son. She has also used the names Emily Frasier and Speedie and published other works as Laura Victoria and Gluttenberg.
Larry Van Kriedt.  Larry Van Kriedt (born c.1954) was the first bassist with rock band AC/DC. He was recruited at the time of the group's formation in 1973 joining Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar) Angus Young (lead guitar) Dave Evans (lead vocals) and Colin Burgess (drums). Van Kriedt also played occasional saxophone.
Ivar Bjørnson.  Ivar Bjørnson (born 1977) is a Norwegian composer/guitarist for the progressive black/viking metal band Enslaved. He is along with Grutle Kjellson one of only two founding members left in the current line-up being only 13 years old at the time of the band's formation.
Stratos Dionysiou.  Stratos Dionysiou (November 8 1935 - May 11 1990) was a Greek laika and elafro-laika singer who featured predominantly in the 1960s 1970s and 1980s.
Francis Charmes.  Marie François known as Francis Charmes (21 April 1848 château de Baradel Aurillac Cantal – 4 January 1916 Paris) was a French journalist diplomat civil servant politician and academician.
Orsa Lia.  Orsa Lia born in Virginia is a female singer. She recorded some jingles for television commercials in the 1970s before signing on with an upstart record label Infinity Records in the late 1970s.She is best known for the song I Never Said I Love You which was written and produced by Hal David and Archie Jordan. David had been a longtime collaborator with Burt Bacharach on many well-known songs most notably for singer Dionne Warwick.
John Tams.  John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor singer songwriter composer and musician.
Paul Sawyier.  Paul Sawyier (March 23 1865 – November 5 1917) one of Kentucky's most renowned artists was an American impressionist painter.
Doug Hopkins.  Douglas Owen Doug Hopkins (April 11 1961 – December 5 1993) was an American musician and songwriter. He co-founded the Gin Blossoms a popular modern rock band of the early 1990s with Richard Taylor. He was the band's lead guitarist and a principal songwriter.Hopkins' writing credits included the hits Hey Jealousy Found Out About You Hold Me Down and Lost Horizons.
Aeba Koson.  Koson Aeba (饗庭 篁村 August 15 1855 – June 20 1922) was a Japanese author theater critic and calligraphy master. His real name is Yosaburou Aeba (饗庭與三郎). He was also called The Master of the Bamboo Hut (竹の屋主人).He was born in Shitaya Ryuusenji-cho in Taitō Ward Tokyo.Among his works is his translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue. He is buried in Somei cemetery in Tokyo.
Lloyd Osbourne.  Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (April 7 1868 – May 22 1947) was an American author and the stepson of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson with whom he would co-author three books and provide input and ideas on others.
Chế Lan Viên.  Chế Lan Viên (January 14 1920 – June 24 1989) was a Vietnamese poet. He was born Phan Ngọc Hoan in Đông Hà in Central Vietnam. He grew up in Quy Nhơn further south and started writing poetry at an early age. His first collection published when he was seventeen gained him notice as a poet of original if morose sensibilities. He participated in the events of the August Revolution of 1945 in the Quy Nhơn area.
Deon Rexroat.  Deon Rexroat (born October 24 1980) is the bassist for the alternative rock band Anberlin. Originally playing for the short-lived punk band SaGoh 24/7 the band dissolved and most of its members went on to form Anberlin. He is one of the band's founding members.
Sebastiano Bombelli.  Sebastiano Bombelli (1635 – 7 May 1719) was an Italian painter mainly active in Venice during the Baroque period.Bombelli was born in Udine where he was apprenticed to his father Valentino Bombelli and his godfather Girolamo Lugaro. He is claimed by some to have studied with Guercino. He is best known for his full-length portraits of the Venetian nobility dressed in their official regalia. A style of depiction which would be also used in the next century by Alessandro Longhi.
Pérrine Moncrieff.  Pérrine Moncrieff (8 February 1893–16 December 1979) was a New Zealand ornithologist conservationist and writer. She was born in London England on 8 February 1893.
Sean McKeever.  Sean Kelley McKeever (born 1972) is an American comic book writer.
Joe Fiorito.  Joe Fiorito is a Canadian journalist and novelist currently a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the author of one novel The Song Beneath the Ice (2003). He has also published four non-fiction books: Comfort Me with Apples (Nuage / Signature Editions 1994; updated McClelland & Stewart 2000) - a memoir-cum-recipe book. Tango on the Main (Nuage / Signature Editions 1996) - collection of essays that originally appeared in the Montreal Gazette between 1994–5.
Jue Wang.  Jue Wang (born 5 March 1984 Shanghai) is a Chinese pianist. Entirely trained in his homeland Wang has met much success in the Spanish piano competitions being awarded 1st prizes both in Barcelona's 51st Maria Canals and Santander' 16th Paloma O'Shea competitions.
David Sneddon.  David Sneddon is a Scottish singer songwriter musician and music producer of contemporary pop music. He took an unusual route into the music business via performing on stage and television and singing lead roles in stage musicals in Glasgow. He went on in 2002 to win the first series of the BBCs music competition Fame Academy.
David Hungate.  David Hungate (born August 5 1948) is a bass guitarist producer and arranger noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977 to 1982 and rejoining in 2014. Along with most of his Toto bandmates Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside.
Willow Macky.  Katherine Faith Macky also known as Willow Macky (25 June 1921 to 10 December 2006) was one of New Zealand's most famous songwriters. She frequently collobrated with Dorothea Franchi (1921-2003).She received the Queens Service Medal for Community Service in 2006.
Israel Paldi.  Israel Paldi (Feldman) (1892 – 1979) was an Israeli artist.
Nerella Venu Madhav.  Nerella Venu Madhav (born 28 December 1932) popularly known as NV is a famous mimic from India. He rose to popularity imitating celebrities politicians local dialects Nizams et cetera. He started a diploma course at Telugu University a first in the world. He is often regarded as father of Indian Mimicry.[citation needed]
Graciela Rivera.  Graciela Rivera (April 17 1921 – July 17 2011) was the first Puerto Rican to sing a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Joshua Fiedler.  Joshua Fiedler (born on December 19 1978) is a musician from Latrobe Pennsylvania who is best known for playing guitar in the band The Juliana Theory. He currently plays in the group he founded Vesta.
Kyle Townsend.  Kyle Townsend (born September 21 1978) is an American record producer musician and composer. He has produced songs for such acclaimed recording artists as 5-time GRAMMY Award winner Celine Dion and 6-time Academy Award nominated songwriter Diane Warren as well as Jessie J and Snoop Dogg among others. He has written music for hundreds of television shows and events including MTV Movie Awards American Idol X Factor and NBA Basketball among others.
Gérard Jaffrès.  Gérard Jaffrès (born in 1956 in Saint-Pol-de-Léon Finistère) is a French singer writer and performer.He started playing the guitar at the age of 15 playing mostly folk repertoire (Alan Stivell Tri Yann…) and pop music (Deep Purple Led Zeppelin…).In 1973 he joined the band of Burt Blanca a rock singer popular in Belgium and in France in the 1960s. He stayed in the band for 11 years as a bass player.
Namthip Jongrachatawiboon.  Namthip Jongrachatawiboon (Thai: น้ำทิพย์ จงรัชตวิบูลย์; RTGS: Namthip Chongratchatawibun; November 13 1982 — ) or nickname Bee is a Thai film and television actress and pop singer from Exact.
Dextra Quotskuyva.  Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo (born September 7 1928 Polacca Arizona) is a Native American potter and artist. She is the great-granddaughter of famed Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo (1860–1942) who revived Sikyátki style pottery at Hopi; and the daughter of Rachel Namingha (1903-1985) another notable Hopi-Tewa potter. There are now five generations of Nampeyo family potters and Dextra Quotskuyva is arguably the best potter and painter of this extraordinarily talented family.
A Skillz.  A.Skillz (born Adam Mills) is an English breakbeat big beat and dance musician.He has worked across the UK at FabricLive Spectrum Chew The Fat Supercharged The Boutique and Sugarbeat as well as gigs around the world at major events festivals and music industry parties such as The Hit Factory (New York) WMC (Miami) and Field Day (Sydney). In 2003 A.Skillz released his debut album TrickaTechnology alongside Finger Lickin's Krafty Kuts.
William Le Queux.  William Tufnell Le Queux (pronunciation: it is unclear how in fact Le Queux expressed his name to British auditors but a French speaker would pronounce this surname approximately as lə kə (using the IPA international phonetic signs); dates: 2 July 1864 - 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer.
Omer Bhatti.  Omer Michael Jamal Bhatti (born June 14 1985 in Drammen) is a Norwegian rapper and dancer. He goes by the stage name O-Bee. He is also known for his friendship to the deceased pop star Michael Jackson.
Syne Mitchell.  Syne Mitchell (born 1970) is a novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science fiction novel was Murphy’s Gambit which won the Compton Crook Award in 2001. She subsequently published the first installment of the Deathless series called The Last Mortal Man.
Kawee Tanjararak.  Kawee Tanjararak or Beam was a member of the Thai boy band D2B which also included Worrawech Danuwong and Panrawat Kittikorncharoen. After his contract with RS was invalidated he became a freelance actor and singer.
Remy Sylado.  Yapi Panda Abdiel Tambayong (born 12 July 1945) best known by his pen-name Remy Sylado is an Indonesian author actor and musician. Owing to his wide interests in a 1999 article The Jakarta Post termed him a walking encyclopedia of arts and humanities.
Edson Gomes.  Edson Gomes (born September 3 1955) is a Brazilian reggae singer and songwriter. Gomes' musical style is heavily influenced by Roots reggae artists namely Bob Marley.Edson Gomes is regarded within Brazil as the biggest Brazilian reggae singer in the country.
Jim Franklin (artist).  Jim Franklin (born 1943 in Galveston Texas) is an artist illustrator and underground cartoonist best known for his poster art created for the Armadillo World Headquarters a former Austin Texas music hall. He is also known for his detailed surrealistic illustrations of armadillos.Franklin studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Returning to Texas he teamed with musicians and artists to open a psychedelic music hall in Austin called the Vulcan Gas Company.
Flevans.  Flevans the stage name of Nigel Evans also known as Mooch. a British electronic musician and DJ. He was born on January 28 1978 in Brighton West Sussex United Kingdom. He early started making music in his beginnings by using a four track cassette recorder. Not long after his innate knack for crafting irresistible hooks was noticed by Tru Thoughts thanks to a demo created solely using the mentioned recorder and a 10 second sampler.
Peter Paillou (the younger).  Peter Paillou (1757–1831 or 1832) was a British painter of portraits including miniatures.
Steve Bolton.  Steve Bolton 1949 in Manchester Lancashire) also known as Boltz Bolton is an English rock musician who since the start of his career in the 1960s has played guitar on video film and television and recorded as well as toured with a number of well-known artists.
Münir Nurettin Selçuk.  Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900 or 1901 – April 27 1981) was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer. He was one of the most revered names in Turkish music.
Larry J. Kolb.  Larry J.
Peter Gould (writer).  Peter Gould is an American television writer and producer. He has worked on all five seasons of the AMC drama Breaking Bad. He had been nominated for four Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards for his work on the series.
Charles Black (counterfeiter).  Charles Black (born 1928) produced counterfeit British and U.S. currency together with traveller's cheques for a number of years before being arrested. As a testament to his skills his techniques rendered the U.S Department of the Treasury's detection equipment obsolete. He was born in Lewisham London.It was while he was in prison serving a sentence for car-ringing that he was introduced to the art of forgery.
Andy LaRocque.  Andy LaRocque (real name Anders Allhage born 29 November 1962 Gothenburg Sweden) is best known as a guitarist songwriter and occasional synth player for the band King Diamond.
Jacques Villeglé.  Jacques Villeglé born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (27 March 1926 Quimper Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters. He builds posters in which one has been placed over another or others and the top poster or posters have been ripped revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath. He is a member of the Nouveau Réalisme art group (1960–1963).
Sigismund von Schlichting.  Sigismund Wilhelm Lorenz von Schlichting (October 3 1829-October 22 1909) was a Prussian general and military theorist perhaps best known for his participation in the debates over infantry tactics in the 1880s and 1890s.Schlichting was born in Berlin the son of a Prussian general who was then the commander of the Kriegsakademie (War Academy). In many respects his early career was typical: he matriculated in the cadet corps and received his commission as a lieutenant at the age of 18.
Jumz.  Rafael Ramon (born March 14 1984) better known by his stage name JUMZ is an American rapper of Dominican descent hailing from Washington Heights Manhattan.
Duncan Lloyd.  Duncan Lloyd is a guitarist songwriter and backing vocalist for Maxïmo Park. He is also in the experimental band Res Band from Derby.
Kazimir Malevich.  Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement.
Ben Chasny.  Ben Chasny is an indie rock and psych folk guitarist. His primary projects are Six Organs of Admittance (his solo psych folk project) and Comets on Fire (a psychedelic rock band). He made his recording debut in 1996 with his heavy free rock project Plague Lounge on The Wicker Image an LP released conjointly between the New World of Sound and Holy Mountain labels. Holy Mountain went on to become the home of many of his releases under the Six Organs Of Admittance moniker.
Petra Marklund.  Petra Linnea Paula Marklund (born 12 September 1984) better known by her stage name September is a Swedish singer-songwriter. When September was younger she started recording in professional studios around the age of twelve and when she was in a rock band she received a record deal. She first came to the music scene with her debut single La La La (Never Give It Up) in mid-2003 which was released from her first studio album September (2004).
David Higgins (composer).  David Roger Higgins (September 11 1938 - August 13 2006) was a composer and choral conductor. Born in Sheffield he began teaching music at the age of 22. During his time in Sheffield he was the organist of the Sheffield University Church and musical director of Opera 14. In 1974 he was appointed organist and choirmaster of St Oswald's Church Durham a position he held until his death in 2006.
Joe McPhee.  Joe McPhee (born November 3 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami Florida a player of tenor alto and soprano saxophone the trumpet flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie New York and is most notable for his free jazz work done from the late 1960s to the present day.McPhee was born in Miami Florida. He began playing trumpet at age eight before learning other instruments.
Mitchel Jamieson.  Mitchell Jamieson was an American painter.Jamieson was born in Linden Virginia in 1915. He studied at the Abbott School of Art and the Corcoran School of Art. In the 1930s he traveled to Key West and the United States Virgin Islands to paint under the Treasury Department's Art Project and received commissions to paint murals for post offices in Upper Marlboro and Laurel Maryland; Willard Ohio; and at the Main Interior Building in Washington D.C.
Abigail Keats.  Abigail Keats is a South African fashion designer.
Charles Comfort.  Charles Fraser Comfort OC (1900 – July 5 1994) was a Canadian painter sculptor teacher writer and administrator.
Christopher Meredith.  Christopher Meredith (born 1955) is a poet and novelist from Tredegar Wales.
Rajeev Taranath.  Rajeev Taranath (Kannada: ರಾಜೀವ್ ತಾರಾನಾಥ್)(born 17 October 1932) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Taranath is a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan.
Matt Deis.  Matthew Christopher Matt Deis (born December 13 1983) is an American musician and songwriter. Originally from Peterborough New Hampshire he is best known as the former bassist of CKY with whom he performed with between 2005 and 2010 and metalcore band All That Remains with whom he performed between 2003 and 2005.
Beb Vuyk.  Elizabeth (Beb) Vuyk (born Rotterdam February 11 1905 - died Blaricum August 24 1991) was a Dutch writer of Indo (Eurasian) descent. Her Indo father was born in the Dutch East Indies and had a mother from Madura but was ‘repatriated’ to the Netherlands on a very young age. She married into a typically Calvinist Dutch family and lived in the port city of Rotterdam. Vuijk grew up in the Netherlands and went to her father’s land of birth in 1929 at the age of 24.
Francesco Sagliano.  Francesco Sagliano (1826-1890) was an Italian painter.
Vladimir Krupin.  Vladimir Nikolayevich Krupin (Владимир Николаевич Крупин September 7 1941 village Kilhmez Kirovskaya Oblast USSR) is a Soviet Russian writer editor religious author and tutor. The major proponent of the Village prose movement noted for his eccentric folklore-rooted style of writing Krupin was propelled to nation-wide fame by his 1980 Novy Mir-published satirical novel Zhivaya Voda (Aqua Vita).
Dick Briel.  Dick Briel (born 28 December 1950 in Leiden died in The Hague 25 September 2011) was a Dutch comic artist living in Amsterdam who follows the Ligne claire style. He is most famous for his Professor Julius Palmboom comics. So far three adventures were published with a fourth left unfinished.The first two adventures appeared in Dutch comic weekly Eppo in 1979. Two albums were published by Oberon in the 1980s and are again available from Aboris publishers.
Sifow.  Shiho Fujita (藤田 志穂 Fujita Shiho) (born May 11 1985) known by her stage name Sifow (stylized as sifow) is a Japanese pop singer. She signed to the Avex Trax music label in 2006 but in 2008 she announced an indefinite hiatus.
Sophie Madeleine.  Sophie Madeleine is an award winning Ukulele artist from Brighton.She is currently signed to Xtra Mile Recordings and has previously supported Gruff Rhys the lead singer of Super Furry Animals on tour.In 2010 she performed at FestiFeel! along with Newton Faulkner and Babyhead to raise awareness for breast cancer. In the same month she performed at The Great Escape Festival's launch.Madeleine's third album Silent Cynic was released on the 1st of November 2013.
Doveman.  Thomas Bartlett (born October 13 1981) also known as Doveman is an American pianist singer and producer best known for his work with Glen Hansard The National Sam Amidon and The Gloaming. Born in Vermont Bartlett studied piano in London with Maria Curcio before moving to New York City.
Lee Brennan.  Lee Anthony Brennan (born 27 September 1973) is an English singer songwriter dancer and actor. He is the lead vocalist of boy band 911.
Charles Sargeant Jagger.  Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (17 December 1885 Kilnhurst near Rotherham Yorkshire - 16 November 1934) was a British sculptor who following active service in the First World War sculpted many works on the theme of war.
Sally Rogers.  Sally Rogers (born 12 October 1964 in Manchester) is an English actress currently best known for her role as Detective Constable / Sergeant Jo Masters in ITV's The Bill.Sally grew up in Manchester and trained to work as a children's nanny - until at the age of 20 when she took up acting. She then studied at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London before starting work at the Royal National Theatre.
Louis Silas Jr..  Louis Silas Jr (April 17 1956 – January 7 2001) was an American record executive who eventually started an MCA Records imprint Silas Records. He died on January 7 2001 of kidney disease.
Gary Day (musician).  Gary Day (born 27 June 1965) is a British bass guitar player. He was best known for playing bass for Morrissey.Day originally played for Morrissey from 1991 until he was fired in 1994. He was then re-hired in 1999 for Morrissey's Oye Esteban tour. He remained the band's bassist until he parted ways at the end of the 2006 tour to spend time with his family and to work on his own material.
Elsa Schiaparelli.  Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel her greatest rival she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators Salvador Dalí and Alberto Giacometti.
Luther Perkins.  Luther Monroe Perkins (January 8 1928 – August 5 1968) was an American country music guitarist and a member of the Tennessee Three the backup band for singer Johnny Cash. Perkins was an iconic figure in what would become known as rockabilly music. His creatively simple sparsely-embellished rhythmic use of Fender Esquire Jazzmaster and Jaguar guitars is credited for creating Cash's signature boom-chicka-boom style.
Yelena Yefimova.  Yelena Ivanovna Yefimova (born 1948 in Russia) is a Russian artist and sculptor and a member of the National Association of Art crafts and Guild masters (armourers division). She has participated in six specialized weapons exhibitions and more than twenty other national and international exhibitions.
Spencer Parrish.  Spencer Parrish (born December 2 1997) is an American recording artist and music producer. Spencer gained popularity from constant regional performances as well as his music production abilities.
Le Thi Diem Thuy.  Lê Thị Diễm Thúy (Phan Thiết 12 January 1972; pronounced lay tee yim twee) is a Vietnamese American poet novelist and performer. Her pen name is lowercase: lê thị diễm thúy.
Mikhail Kozell.  Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (Russian: Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Ко́зелл; October 20 1911 Astrakhan Russian Empire – July 26 1993 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher lived and worked in Leningrad regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his landscape painting.
Mick Flavin.  Mick Flavin is an Irish country singer. Flavin recorded his first album in Athlone in June 1986. His first big hit being I'm Gonna Make It After All. Flavin has also recorded Someday You'll Love Me from Conway Twitty's album Even Now.
Monica Sone.  Monica Sone (September 1 1919 – September 5 2011) born Kazuko Itoi was a Japanese American writer best known for her 1953 autobiographical memoir Nisei Daughter which tells of the Japanese American experience in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s and in the World War II internment camps and which is an important text in Asian American and Women's Studies courses.
Gülseren.  Gülseren Yıldırım Gomez (born Gülseren Yıldırım 1973) known on stage simply as Gülseren is a Turkish born French singer whose output covers a wide range of genres including pop Latin techno and traditional Turkish music. Despite having lived in France for most of her life she was selected to represent the country of her birth in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 held in Kiev Ukraine.
Harry Oliver.  Harry Oliver (April 4 1888 – July 4 1973) was an American humorist artist and Academy Award nominated art director of films from the 1920s and 1930s. Besides his outstanding work in Hollywood he is now best remembered for his humorous writings about the American Southwest and his publication (1946–1964) of the Desert Rat Scrap Book an irregular broadsheet devoted to the Southwest.
Bartolomeo Coda.  Bartolomeo Coda (or Codi) flourished about the year 1543. He was called Da Rimini as was also his elder brother Francesco who painted in 1533. He was instructed in the art by his father Benedetto whom he surpassed. In the church of San Rocco at Pesaro is a fine picture by this master bearing the above date; which Lanzi says in every respect bears the character of the golden age of the art. It represents the Virgin and Infant enthroned with a Choir of beautiful Cherubs and with St.
Assassin (deejay).  Jeffrey Campbell (born December 22 1982) better known as Assassin and sometimes as Agent Sasco Agent 006 or Agent 00 is a Jamaican dancehall deejay.
Jimmy Crawford (British singer).  Jimmy Crawford (born Ronald James William Crawford Lindsey 18 November 1937) is an English pop music singer. He is best known for his cover version of I Love How You Love Me (1961). Crawford was a contemporary of fellow Sheffield born singer Dave Berry.
Hiroaki Murakami.  Hiroaki Murakami (村上 弘明 Murakami Hiroaki born December 22 1956) is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions.Born in Rikuzentakata Iwate Prefecture he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as Tsukuba Hiroshi in SkyriderHiroaki appeared in the NHK jidaigeki On'yado Kawasemi in 1980–81 and in a new series Shin On'yado Kawasemi in 1997.
Augusto De Arcangelis.  Augusto De Arcangelis (born in Lanciano Province of Chieti June 22 1868) was an Italian painter active mainly in Naples depicting genre subjects and landscapes.
Domenico Brandi.  Domenico Brandi (1683–1736) was an Italian painter active in his native Naples where he painted still lifes of birds and animals as well as pastoral landscapes (vedute). He was painter to the Viceroy of Naples and died in the latter city.Some of his works today are in several museums and galleries including the Harrach Gallery in Vienna the Borghese Gallery in Rome the National Gallery of Naples Dragonetti-Cappeli at Aquila the National Gallery Prague and at Bordeaux.
Philip R. Craig.  Philip R. Craig (December 10 1933 – May 8 2007) was a writer known for his Martha's Vineyard mysteries.
Betty Clemo.  Betty Clemo 莫蘭詩 (1920–2005) was a Hong Kong-based fashion and costume designer active in the 1950s until the end of the 1990s.
Tom Murrin.  Tom Murrin (February 8 1939 – March 12 2012) also known as Jack Bump Tom Trash and The Alien Comic was an American performance artist and playwright in the downtown avant-garde art scene in New York City. In the 1980s and 1990s Murrin curated a variety night called The Full Moon Show at Performance Space 122 and later at La Mama and Dixon Place. In 2013 Dixon Place introduced a performance award The Tommy to honor Murrin's life and work.
Lili Sandu.  Liliana Sandu aka Lili Sandu (born 28 May 1984 Tulcea Romania) is a Romanian singer and actress. She attended and graduated the George Enescu Highschool in Bucharest Romania with a Degree in Music in 2000 She also attended and graduated from the University Spiru Haret with a Degree in Journalism and philosophy.
Bessie Abott.  Bessie Abott (1878 - February 9 1919) was an American operatic soprano who had an active international career during the early 20th century. She was particularly associated with the Paris Opera and the Metropolitan Opera and excelled in performances of Italian and French operas of the Romantic Period.
Glecia Bear.  Glecia Bear or Nêhiyaw (April 29 1912 in Green Lake Saskatchewan – September 1998 Flying Dust First Nation) was a Saskatchewan-born Cree Elder traditional tale teller and a children’s writer with Freda Ahenakew from Canada.She was the first female chief of the Flying Dust First Nation
Juan Fernando Velasco.  Juan Fernando Velasco (born 1972-01-17 in Quito Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian musician.
Phil Boutelje.  Phil Boutelje (6 August 1895 in Philadelphia - 29 July 1979 in Woodland Hills Los Angeles) was an American pianist songwriter composer author and conductor.
Miika Tenkula.  Miika Tenkula (6 March 1974 – 18 February 2009) was a Finnish heavy metal musician. He was the lead guitarist and the main songwriter for the band Sentenced until it disbanded. He was also the band's original vocalist from 1989 to late 1992.
Hubert de Givenchy.  Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (pronounced [ybɛʁ də jivɑ̃ʃi]; born 21 February 1927) is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.
Keith DeCandido.  Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido (born April 18 1969 in New York United States) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician who works on comic books novels role-playing games and video games including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek Buffy the Vampire Slayer Doctor Who Supernatural Andromeda Farscape Leverage Spider-Man and X-Men.
Katherine Vaz.  Katherine Vaz (born August 26 1955) is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003-9) a 2006-7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Fall 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade (St. Martin’s Press 1994) the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher.
Debbie Harry.  Deborah Ann Debbie Harry (born July 1 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist and in the mid-1990s she recorded and performed with The Jazz Passengers. Her acting career spans over 30 film roles and numerous television appearances.
Brenda Laurel.  Brenda Laurel Ph.D. is an advocate for girl video game development a pioneer in developing virtual reality a public speaker a consultant and on the board of several companies and organizations. She is currently a chair and professor at the California College of the Arts Graduate Program of Design. Aside from co-founding Purple Moon she has served as an interaction design consultant for multiple companies including Sony Pictures Apple and Citibank.
DesiSlava.  Desislava Ivanova Doneva (Bulgarian: Десислава Иванова Донева) (born 7 March 1979) better known as DesiSlava (ДесиСлава) is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. DesiSlava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music being able to perform in different styles from jazz to rock and pop-folk. Since 2012 DesiSlava is also internationally known under the name of DESS.
R.C. Hickman.  R.C. Hickman (c. 1922 – 2007) known for his iconic photographs of the civil rights movement was one of the most important photographers in the history of Dallas Texas. For many decades he worked as a photographer for the Dallas Star Post (an African-American-owned newspaper) as well as freelancing for Jet. He also worked for the NAACP documenting inequality in Dallas such as photographing school segregation for the NAACP's court cases.
Cutty Ranks.  Philip Thomas (born 12 February 1965) better known as Cutty Ranks is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.
Maung Maung Gyi (painter).  Maung Maung Gyi (Burmese: မောင်မောင်ကြီး pronounced: [màʊɴ màʊɴ dʑí]; 1890–1942) was an early watercolor painter from Yangon and the first Burmese to travel abroad for studies in Western painting.
Volume 10.  Volume 10 is a rapper from Los Angeles California. He was a member of the Heavyweights crew along with Freestyle Fellowship Ganjah K and Medusa among others.
Keiichi Sigsawa.  Keiichi Sigsawa (時雨沢 恵一 Shigusawa Keiichi) born in 1972 in Kanagawa Prefecture is a Japanese light novel author. In 2000 his work Kino's Journey was a finalist for the 6th Dengeki Novel Prize and was subsequently serialized in Dengeki hp magazine in March of the same year marking his debut. Kino's Journey proved popular and has continued in serialization (as well as collected bunko releases) since that time.
Johnny Mooring.  Johnny Mooring was born John Henry Mooring in Springhill Nova Scotia Canada on May 17 1927 to Henry and Caroline Mooring. He was the ninth of ten children.Mooring learned the rudiments of playing the fiddle from his mother - and from the time he first picked up the instrument it became an extension of the man for the rest of his life.At the age of 12 Mooring started playing the fiddle for parties.
Michelle Phillips.  Michelle Phillips (born June 4 1944) is an American singer songwriter and actress. She gained fame as a member of the 1960s vocal group The Mamas & the Papas and is the last surviving original member.
Claus Adam.  Claus Adam (November 5 1917 – July 4 1983) was an influential American cellist and cello teacher as well as a composer. His music teachers include Emanuel Fuermann (cello) Stefan Wolpe (composition) and Leon Barzin (conducting) He served as the second cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet replacing Arthur Winograd in 1955. Joel Krosnick a former student of his replaced him as cellist of the quartet in 1974.
Maya Sakura.  Maya Sakura (さくら　まや Sakura Maya born Maya Kusano (草野真耶) on 26 July 1998 in Obihiro Hokkaidō Japan) is an enka singer and child actress. In 2008 she made her debut with the single Tairyō Matsuri (大漁まつり) at the age of 10. In 2009 she received a New Artist award at the 51st Annual Japan Record Awards becoming the youngest person to do so.She also appeared as a special guest on the 60th Kōhaku Uta Gassen in the children's' Kōhaku section of the program.
Sarah-Jane Potts.  Sarah-Jane Potts is an English actress best known for her roles as Saint (Sarah) in Sugar Rush as Ellie Abs' on/off girlfriend on Casualty and as Jo Lipsett in Waterloo Road. Potts is the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts. From 2011 she appeared in Holby City as Senior Nurse Eddi McKee on AAU playing a different character to the one she played in Casualty.
Lee Wilkinson.  Lee Wilkinson may also refer to the statistician Leland Wilkinson.Lee Wilkinson (born Nottingham England) is a popular British writer of over 30 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1987 and is now publishing independently through the site Lulu.Her latest romantic novel Marley is available through Lulu.
Vincent Gessler.  Vincent Gessler (born November 26 1976) in Sierre is a Swiss science fiction author based in Geneva Switzerland.
Passion (rapper).  Passione J. Johnson better known as Passion is an American former rapper. Passion first appeared on Erick Sermon's 1995 album Double or Nothing on the track Move On. From 1996 to 1998 Passion appeared as guest on numerous albums ranging from Jamal to Rappin' 4-Tay. In 1996 Passion signed a deal with MCA Records and released her debut single Where I'm From which peaked at 29 on the Hot Rap Singles.
Patrick Anthony Lawlor.  Patrick Anthony Lawlor (12 February 1893–19 January 1979) was a New Zealand journalist editor bibliophile writer and Catholic layman. He was born and died in Wellington New Zealand on 12 February 1893.
Petronilla Tovo.  Petronilla Tovo (Turin 19th century) was an Italian female painter specializing in painting miniatures on ivory. She is known for portraits of the Duke and Duchess d'Aosta; Prince Tommaso; Prince of Carignano; and the two sons of Duke of Aosta; and portrait of a young woman in antique and modern costume. She also painted landscapes and still-lifes and at the 1880 Turin Exposition she exhibited Vaso con fiori and two landscapes She is likely related to Emanuele Tovo .
Jocelyne Jocya.  Jocelyne Jocya (January 7 1942 – August 18 2003) was a French singer songwriter and advocate of children's rights best known for her rendition of Bon Voyage. From 1958 to 1980 she sold millions of records and performed in the world's most famous music halls. In 1988 she founded the Federation for the Declaration of the Rights of Children a non-profit children's rights organization.
Lee Gi-kwang.  Lee Gi-kwang (Korean: 이기광 Hanja: 李起光; born on March 30 1990) is a South Korean idol singer dancer actor and occasional rapper. He was a solo singer under Cube Entertainment also known by his stage name as Ace Junior (AJ) when he debuted. He released his first Mini Album First Episode A New Hero which features the works of the famous composer Brave Brothers. He is now the main dancer lead vocalist and visual of Beast.
Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov.  Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov (Иван Серге′евич Соколо′в-Микито′в May 30 (17) 1882 - February 20 1975) was a Russian/Soviet writer and journalist who took part in numerous journeys and expreditions (including the famous Otto Schmidt-led trip to the Arctic Circle on icebreaker Georgy Sedov in 1929-1930). Sokolov-Mikitov best known for his engaging traveller's sketches was also regarded as a fine nature-observing stylist in the line of Konstantin Paustovsky and Mikhail Prishvin.
Todd Tamanend Clark.  Todd Tamanend Clark (born Todd Clark; August 10 1952) is an American singer-songwriter musician composer author and poet. He is known for his musical blend of Native American heritage glam fashion consciousness cyberpunk attitude and often skeptical always opinionated lyrical approach to scientific and astrological subjects.
Prabhakar Pendharkar.  Prabhakar Pendharkar (1933-2010) was a Marathi writer. He was the son of film personality and director Bhalji Pendharkar. Worked under his father in the film sector. He got a job in V. Shantaram's studio Rajkamal. Started his writing career with the magazine Deepavali. Writer of novels like Arey Sansar Sansar Rarang Dhang and Chakrivadal.His long story Pratiksha got an award.
Anita Carter.  Ina Anita Carter (March 31 1933 – July 29 1999) the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played upright bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters. The trio joined the Grand Ole Opry radio show in 1950 (Anita was 17 years old at the time) opened shows for Elvis Presley and joined The Johnny Cash Show in 1971.
Caspian Tredwell-Owen.  Caspian Tredwell-Owen is an American screenwriter. He is credited with writing Beyond Borders (2003) writing the screenplay for The Island (2005) and writing and directing Profile of a Killer (2012).
Jul (rapper).  Jul stylized as JUL is a Marseille-based French hip hop artist who released his debut album Dans ma paranoïa on the independent Liga One Industry label on 24 February 2014. The 17-track album contains four collaborations with various artists signed to the label including two with Kalif Hardcore and one each with Soso Maness and Kamikaze.The album went to number 7 in the SNEP French Albums Chart on the first week of its release.
Shindong.  Shin Dong-hee (Hangul: 신동희; hanja: 申東熙; born 28 September 1985) better known by his stage name Shindong (Hangul: 신동; hanja: 神童 meaning prodigy) is a South Korean singer songwriter MC radio host and actor. He is best known as a member of the K-pop boy band Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-T and Super Junior-H. He is one of four lead dancers and rapper of Super Junior. He often co-writes rap lyrics with band mate Eunhyuk and is noted for his comedic style.
Phil Jamieson.  Philip William H Phil Jamieson (born 17 April 1977) is an Australian musician from Wauchope New South Wales. He is the founder and frontman for the rock band Grinspoon.
Isabelle de Borchgrave.  Isabelle de Borchgrave (born 1946 in Brussels Belgium) is a prominent Belgian artist and sculptor best known for her colorful paintings and intricately painted paper sculptures.
Cardis Cardell Willis.  Cardis Cardell Willis better known as Cardell Willis and often billed as C. Cardell Willis was an influential Milwaukee comic. He was locally known mostly in the 1970s 1980's and 1990's.
Daisuke Asakura.  Daisuke Asakura (浅倉 大介 Asakura Daisuke born November 4 1967) is a Japanese pop artist songwriter and producer who is known for his compositional work and mastery of the keyboard synthesizer.
Amber Dotson.  Amber Dotson (born in Garland Texas) is an American country music artist. Initially a songwriter for Sony/Tree Publishing Dotson soon began singing demos as well. She also made an appearance on Travis Tritt's 2004 album My Honky Tonk History as a background vocalist. George Strait heard some of the singer's demos and asked her to join him on his 2005 tour which also included Dierks Bentley.
Toryn Green.  Toryn Green (born November 3 1975) is an American rock singer. He is the former vocalist for hard-rock band Fuel as well as for Emphatic and For The Taking. He also was the touring lead vocalist for the band Apocalyptica and performed in both of its 2008 US Worlds Collide Tours.
Bobby Clancy.  Bobby Clancy (14 May 1927 – 6 September 2002) was born in Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary Ireland. He was the twin brother of Joan Clancy and a member of the Irish folk group The Clancy Brothers. He accompanied his songs on five-string banjo guitar bodhrán and harmonica.
Victor Marius Beliciu.  Beliciu Victor Marius (born August 4 1978) is a Romanian sitarist belonging to the Senia Gharana tradition (school or style). He was promoted by Indian Embassy in Romania and also played under the patronage of Romanian Embassy in India. Victor performed Turkey Romania Italy Hungary. In India he played in temples as well as auditoriums live on Doordarshan national TV and at All India Air radio.
Amnon David Ar.  Amnon David Ar (Hebrew: אמנון דוד ער born in 1973 in Herzliyah Israel) is an Israeli painter. He studied at the Arts and Crafts Municipal High School of Tel Aviv until the age of eighteen. After completing his compulsory military service he studied anatomy with Oswald Adler. He then spent one year at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem before leaving because he felt that both the training and the curriculum didn’t provide the skills and knowledge he was looking for.
Paul Génin.  Paul Agricole Génin (Avignon 14 February 1832 - Paris 22 December 1903) was a French flautist and composer for flute. He was a student of Louis Dorus and became first flute at the Théâtre-Italien (Comédie-Italienne) Paris.He is sometime confused with Pierre Génin another flautist who emigrated to England.
Herbert Asquith (poet).  The Hon. Herbert Asquith (March 11 1881 – August 5 1947) was an English poet novelist and lawyer.
Vladimir Arzumanyan.  Vladimir Arzumanyan (born 26 May 1998 in Stepanakert Nagorno-Karabakh) is an Armenian singer. He represented Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the entry Mama (Մամա). In the final Vladimir won becoming the first Armenian singer to have won in a Eurovision event. The song was produced by Canadian-Armenian music producer DerHova.
Mark Boulle.  Mark Boulle is an independent musician and recording artist from the Gold Coast Australia. As of August 2011 he has released five albums three of them with his band the Haba Dudes. He describes his music as indie folk.
Masaaki Endoh.  Masaaki Endoh (遠藤 正明 Endō Masaaki born August 28 1967) is a Japanese singer/songwriter who is prominent in the area of soundtracks for anime and tokusatsu productions. He is one of the founders of the anison supergroup JAM Project and has been a regular member ever since its inception in 2000. His nickname is the Young Lion of Anison and he goes by the motto Always Full Voice.
Nite Jewel.  Nite Jewel is the alias of Ramona Gonzalez singer/songwriter from Los Angeles California.
Sam Stryke.  Sam Stryke is the artist name of Sam Struyk (pronounced Sam Strike). Stryke is an American composer and contemporary pianist whose self-produced first album In the Wind led him to be signed by Atlantic Records in 1991. Stryke has independently released the instrumental album Emerging in 2002 and his popular CD Christmas which includes adaptations of classic Christmas carols along with several original compositions in 2006.
Dusty Hill.  Joseph Michael Dusty Hill (born May 19 1949) is the bassist and co-vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.
Karen Kilgariff.  Karen Kilgariff (born May 11 1970 in Petaluma California) is an actress and writer best known for her work on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program Mr. Show and the Glasgow-set situation comedy The Book Group.She was the head writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and occasionally appears on screen in sketches and other segments.
Ginger Strand.  Ginger Strand is an American essayist novelist environmental writer and historian. Her 2005 debut novel Flight was adapted from several of her short stories. Her published books of non-fiction include Inventing Niagara: Beauty Power and Lies in May 2008 and Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate in 2012.
TopGunn.  Oliver Gammelgaard better known by his stage name TopGunn (born 1991) is a Danish rapper and music producer from Nørrebro Copenhagen. He has also established his own label CHEFF Records
Virginia Lee Burton.  Virginia Lee Burton (August 30 1909 – October 15 1968) also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books including The Little House (1943) which won the Caldecott Medal She also illustrated six books by other authors.Burton founded the textile collective Folly Cove Designers in Cape Ann Massachusetts which had numerous museum exhibitions.
Luciana Caporaso.  Luciana Caporaso (born 23 June 1973 London) simply known as Luciana is an English singer and songwriter. She is of English and Italian heritage.
Janice Kim.  Janice Kim is a professional go player author and business owner. She was born in Illinois in 1969 and grew up in New Mexico. As a teenager she studied go in Korea under Jeong Soo-hyon (9-dan). She represented the US in the first World Youth Go Championship in 1984 placing third; in 1986 she played for the US again and won the event.
Antonio Acevedo Hernández.  Antonio Acevedo Hernández (8 March 1886 – 1 December 1962) was a Chilean writer. Hernández was a self-taught novelist playwright and writer whose works include theater novels short stories literary and journalistic chronicles essays poetry and popular Chilean folklore. He created over 840 works including the plays Almas perdidas El Vino triste La Sangre and El Rancho. He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Teatro in 1936.
Matrakçı Nasuh.  Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Bosnavî commonly known as Matrakçı Nasuh (Turkish pronunciation: [matrakˈtʃɯ naˈsuh]; Bosnian: Matrakčija Nasuh) for his competence in the game of Matrak invented by himself (also known as Nasuh el-Silâhî Nasuh the Swordsman because of his talent with weapons; 1480 – c. 1564) was a 16th-century Ottoman polymath mathematician teacher historian geographer cartographer swordmaster navigator inventor painter farmer and miniaturist of Bosniak origin.
Ragnar Bjerkreim.  Ragnar Bjerkreim (born 19 April 1958 in Bjerkreim) is Norwegian composer with film scores as his specialty. Bjerkreim has a masters degree in music from University of Oslo; his thesis was entitled The Function of Film Music. He received his first success as a composer for the two Kamilla and the Thief movies. Bjerkreim is now one of the most productive composers in Norwegian television. He is also board chairman of the Norwegian Society of Composers and Lyricists.
Dale Clevenger.  Dale Clevenger (born 1940 in Chattanooga Tennessee) was the Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1966 until his retirement in June 2013. Before joining the CSO he was a member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air directed by Alfred Wallenstein. He was also principal horn of the Kansas City Philharmonic.
Yasuhiko Imai.  Yasuhiko Imai (今井 靖彦 Imai Yasuhiko) (born November 22 1965) is a Japanese stunt man and suit actor affiliated with Japan Action Enterprises. He has been cast mainly in the Super Sentai series.
Ruby Hunter.  Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter (31 October 1955 – 17 February 2010) was an Australian singer and songwriter. She was a member of the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal nationality and often performed with her partner Archie Roach whom she met at the age of 16 while both were homeless teenagers.
Salma Akhter.  Salma Akhter (Bengali: সালমা আক্তার) is a Bangladeshi singer.
Billy Corgan.  William Patrick Billy Corgan Jr. (born March 17 1967) is an American musician producer lyricist writer and poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago Illinois in 1987 the band quickly gained steam with the addition of bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.
Megan Zheng.  Megan Zheng (also known as Megan Tay Chinese: 郑智允; pinyin: Zhèng Zhìyǔn) is a Singaporean actress who starred in two Singaporean movies: Homerun and One More Chance. For her role in Homerun Zheng then 10 years old became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award sharing her Best New Performer award with Wang Baoqiang.
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri.  Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri (born February 29 1944) is an Italian comic book writer and illustrator noted for his works of highly detailed renderings of the human form particularly erotic images of women. He is best known for his work on the Druuna erotic science fiction series.
Sam Grainger.  Samuel E. Grainger (June 14 1930 - July 25 1990) was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker during the 1960s and 1970s periods fans and historians call respectively the Silver Age and the Bronze Age of Comic Books. Series on which he worked include The Avengers The Incredible Hulk and X-Men.
Silvía Night.  Silvía Night (Icelandic: Silvía Nótt) is a fictional satirical character on Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt (English: The Silvia Night Show) an Icelandic comedy show of the television channel Skjár einn. The character was invented by Gaukur Úlfarsson and Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir; the latter plays Silvía Night. Silvía Night interviews people in real-life situations.
Gail Sheridan.  Gail Sheridan (January 11 1916 Seattle Washington – September 17 1982 Chevy Chase Maryland) was an American film actress whose career spanned the 1930s.
Dee Snider.  Daniel Dee Snider (born March 15 1955) is an American singer-songwriter screenwriter radio personality and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He was ranked 83 in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalist of All Time.
Little Joe (singer).  José María De León Hernández known professionally as Little Joe is an American tejano performer. He is of Mexican descent. He is usually joined by his band La Familia. In 1992 their album 16 de Septiembre earned the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance. In 2008 Little Joe once again won a Grammy for Best Tejano Album of the year for Before the Next Teardrop Falls.
Giuseppe Miti Zanetti.  Giuseppe Miti Zanetti (Modena October 9 1859 – Milan 1929) was an Italian painter and engraver mainly of melancholic vedute of Venice.
Jolan Chang.  Jolan Chang (9 December 1917 - 25 April 2002) was a Chinese-Canadian sexologist and Taoist philosopher who wrote the luminary classics on Eastern Sexuality The Tao of Love and Sex and The Tao of the Loving Couple. He was born in Hangzhou as the son of an army general. After the revolution he lived for a number of years in Canada but later he moved to Sweden. He died in Stockholm.
Buck Peterson.  Buck Peterson (born in Minnesota United States) is a successful humor writer and cookbook author best known for The Original Road Kill Cookbook (1985) containing cooking recipes for animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles i.e. roadkills which he believes to be a highly underrated food source.In the early 1980s he wrote food and wine articles for Playboy. Peterson currently lives outside of Seattle Washington.
Maggie O'Sullivan.  Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951) is a British poet performer and visual artist associated with the British Poetry Revival.O'Sullivan was born in Lincoln England of Irish immigrant parents[citation needed]. She moved to London in 1971 and worked for the BBC until 1988. Her early work appeared in magazines such as Angel Exhaust. She now lives in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire.O'Sullivan's work is influenced by Kurt Schwitters Joseph Beuys Jerome Rothenberg Bob Cobbing and Basil Bunting.
Edna Davies.  Edna Davies (1905-1969) was a British stage and film actress.
Rob Sonic.  Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx. He is a member of Sonic Sum and Hail Mary Mallon.
Keith Donohue (novelist).  Keith Donohue (born 1960) is an American novelist. His acclaimed 2006 novel The Stolen Child about a changeling was inspired by the Yeats poem of the same name.His second novel Angels of Destruction was published in March 2009 and his third Centuries of June in May 2011.
J. Frank Dobie.  James Frank Dobie (September 26 1888 – September 18 1964) was an American folklorist writer and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range.
Bjørn Alterhaug.  Bjørn Alterhaug (born 3 June 1945 in Mo i Rana Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) Music arranger and Composer.
Mabel Quiller-Couch.  (Florence) Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866 Cornwall – November 1924) was an English editor compiler and children's writer.
Joseph Jomo Pierre.  Joseph Jomo Pierre also credited as Joseph Pierre is a Trinidadian-Canadian actor and playwright. He is best known for his 2013 play Shakespeare's Nigga a play which explored racism by recontextualizing two Moorish characters from the plays of William Shakespeare Aaron from Titus Andronicus and Othello from Othello as slaves actually owned by Shakespeare in real life.
Spok.  Inaldo Cavalcante de Albuquerque better known as Spok is a Brazilian sax player who is one of the main frevo composers in the state of Pernambuco. His big band composed of 18 musicians is considered one of the most important frevo groups in the city of Recife. It has performed in many countries of the world spreading the frevo rhythm.
Tim Williams (folk musician).  Tim Williams is a folk musician based in Los Angeles Cal;ifornia. He has released two LPs two EPs and several 7 singles on Dovecote Records and is signed with Modern Outsider Records as a part of the band Soft Swells.
Atila Huseyin.  Atila Huseyin is a British jazz singer.
Sergio Rivero.  Sergio Rivero is a Spanish singer born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria an island of Gran Canaria the Canary Islands Spain on 1 April 1986. He took part and won the title in the fourth series of Spanish version of Operación Triunfo in 2004.
Ian Masters (songwriter).  Ian Masters (born 4 January 1964) is a multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/producer.He is best known for being a founding member of the English indie pop band Pale Saints. Masters was their vocalist/bassist from their formation in 1987 until his departure from the group in 1992. Since then he has gone on to perform in other notable groups including Spoonfed Hybrid ESP Summer and Friendly Science Orchestra.
David Cairns (musician).  David Cairns (born 15 November 1958 in Walthamstow London) is an English rock guitarist and songwriter best known for his role in the 1970s/1980s band Secret Affair. The writer of the band's biggest hits he was known for his intense guitar style.[citation needed]
OX (rock musician).  Samer El Nahhal (born July 11 1975 in Espoo Finland) is the current bassist of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi. He goes by the stage name of OX (both letters capitalized). His father is Egyptian and his mother is Finnish. He made his Lordi debut as OX the hellbull in 2006 replacing the former bassist Kalma. His father died when Samer was 13 so they moved back in Finland. Then he wanted to become a musician and wanted to take up the bass.
Robert Barry (artist).  Robert Barry (born March 9 1936 in the Bronx New York) is an American artist. Since 1967 Barry has produced non-material works of art installations and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968 Robert Barry is quoted as saying Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world. Barry's work focuses on escaping the previously known physical limits of the art object in order to express the unknown or unperceived.
Turpino Zaccagna.  Turpino Zaccagna (active c. 1537) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period born in Florence or Cortona (according to Lanzi). He was a pupil of Luca Signorelli and painted a Burial and Ascension of the Virgin in the choir of the Cortona Cathedral.
Kalitha Dorothy Fox.  Kalitha Dorothy Fox (born 1894 d. 1934) was an English composer. Little is known about her except that she had a viola sonata broadcast from Bournemouth. Selected works include:Sonata for viola and piano Op. 7 (c. 1925)Chant élégiaque (1922) for cello and pianoforte↑ ↑
Gwilym Tew.  Gwilym Tew (fl. 1460 - 1480) was a Welsh language poet and manuscript copyist from Tir Iarll Glamorgan.It is probable that his father was the poet Rhys Brydydd and that another poet of the same family Rhisiart ap Rhys was his nephew.
Lygia Pape.  Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was born in Nova Friburgo Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Lygia Pape worked in sculpture engraving and filmmaking. She was an influential Brazilian artist active in both the Concrete and Neo-Concrete movements in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Later on in the 1960s and 1970s Pape produced more videos and installations using sarcastic and critical metaphors against the Brazilian dictatorship. From the 1980s onward these metaphors became more subtle.
Mark Boals.  Mark Boals is an American rock singer best known for his work with Yngwie Malmsteen. He was born on December 5 1958 in Youngstown Ohio United States. As a young child he learned to play the piano and bass guitar. Although Boals has never had any vocal lessons or training as a teenager he gained experience as a vocalist in local groups.
Filippo Lippi.  Fra' Filippo Lippi O.Carm. (c. 1406 – 8 October 1469) also called Lippo Lippi was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century).
Gilberto Santa Rosa.  Gilberto Santa Rosa also known as El Caballero de la Salsa (The Gentleman of Salsa) (born August 21 1962) is a Puerto Rican bandleader and singer of salsa and bolero.
Damian Le Bas.  Damian Le Bas (b. 1963 Sheffield England) is an artist associated with the Outsider Art (or Art Brut) label. Since 1987 several of Le Bas' pieces are held in the Musgrave-Kinley Collection of works by key Outsider Artists currently administered by Monika Kinley.
Heidelberg Painter.  The Heidelberg Painter (conventional name) was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style active between about 575 and 555 BC. He is considered one of the most important painter of Siana cups.Along with the C Painter he is considered the main representative of his style. Generally the Heidelberg Painter is regarded as the more accomplished artist of the two although his work did not reach the same breadth of scope.
Meg Gardiner.  Meg Gardiner (born May 15 1957 in Oklahoma) is an Edgar Award-winning American crime writer who currently lives in the United Kingdom. Her best-known books are the Evan Delaney novels. In June 2008 she published the first novel in a new series featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett.
Elba Ramalho.  Elba Ramalho (born on August 17 1951 in Conceição Paraíba) is a Brazilian songwriter performer poet and actress. She is sometimes called The Queen of Forró.In addition to her successful solo career Elba has collaborated with a number of well-established Brazilian acts including Alceu Valença and her first cousin Zé Ramalho.
Teddy Park.  Park Hong-jun (born September 14 1978) better known as Teddy Park or just Teddy is a Korean-American rapper songwriter and record producer. Born in South Korea Park moved to the United States as a young child. There he learned English. After moving back to South Korea he majored in English at Myongji University.[citation needed]Teddy Park dropped out of university to join hip hop group 1TYM. Together the group recorded five total studio albums.
Shawn Rivera.  Shawn Rivera is a Grammy nominated American singer songwriter producer percussionist and arranger best known for his work in the multi-platinum selling R&B vocal group Az Yet.A Philadelphia native of Puerto Rican ancestry Shawn Kurt Rivera is also the inventor of the popular cajon-style drum called SlapBoxx.
Jayne Cortez.  Jayne Cortez (May 10 1934 – December 28 2012) was an African-American poet activist small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist whose voice is celebrated for its political surrealistic and dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound. Her writing is part of the canon of the Black Arts Movement.
Steve Shapiro.  Steve Shapiro (born 1963) is an American music producer part-time Navy Seal session musician and jazz vibraphonist.
Stephen Elliott (author).  Stephen Elliott (born December 3 1971) is an American author and activist living in San Francisco who has written and published seven books. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the online literary magazine The Rumpus.net. He is also the founder of the political action committee LitPAC which holds readings by authors to raise money for progressive candidates.
Leah Baird.  Leah Baird (June 20 1883 – October 3 1971) was an American actress of the silent screen and a screenwriter.
Erik Rubin.  Not to be confused with Rick RubinErik Rubín Milanszenko (born on January 30 1971 in the city of Puebla Mexico) is a Mexican singer and actor. He was a member of the Mexican teen pop group Timbiriche.
Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli.  Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli (between 1426 and 1429 – 1500) was a citizen of Florence and father to Niccolò Machiavelli. A Doctor of Law (hence his title of Messer) debts inherited from his father and uncles limited his career and prevented him from joining the legal guild. He is known independently for his diary or Libro di Ricordi chronicling the years 1474–1487.
Rollz.  Rollz (born Matthew Schofield) is a drum and bass producer and DJ from Brighton in the UK.
Michel Ferracci-Porri.  Michel Ferracci-Porri (born 24 September 1949) is a French writer.
Robert Heger.  Robert Heger (19 August 1886 – 14 January 1978) was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine.He studied at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under Franz Stockhausen then in Zurich under Lothar Kempter and finally in Munich under Max von Schillings. After early conducting engagements in Strasbourg he made his debut at Ulm in 1908 or 1909.
Cliff Green.  Cliff Green (born 6 Dec 1934 Melbourne Australia) is an Australian screen writer whose best known work is Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2009.
Anya Marina.  Anya Marina (born September 23 1976) is a singer-songwriter based in Portland Oregon. Her music has primarily gained notice after being on a variety of television sitcoms and has been featured on prime time dramas the ABC television drama Grey's Anatomy as well as CBS's How I Met Your Mother MTV's The Real World ABC's Castle Showtime's United States of Tara CW's Gossip Girl The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural and has a song featured on the Twilight New Moon soundtrack.
Katrina Leskanich.  Katrina Leskanich is an American musician author and former lead singer of English pop rock band Katrina and The Waves whose song Walking on Sunshine was an international hit in 1985 and in 1997 won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Love Shine A Light.
Frida Hyvönen.  Frida Hyvönen (born Anna Frida Amanda Hyvönen; December 30 1977) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She grew up in Robertsfors a small place just outside Umeå in the north of Sweden (which is also the hometown of the band Sahara Hotnights) and is currently based in Flarken SwedenHer first record Until Death Comes was recorded at Stockholm's Atlantis Studios and co-produced with Jari Haapalainen of The Bear Quartet.
Lisa Lavie.  Lisa Lavie (surname pronounced lah-vee) is a Canadian singer and songwriter originally from LaSalle Québec Canada.Lavie's early musical influences included her older brothers hip hop dancer Michael and disk jockey Danny. At age 16 Lavie toured Canada as a backup singer with the French-Canadian hip hop group Dubmatique after which she recorded her own demo CD.
Zeyyat Hatiboğlu.  Zeyyat Hatiboğlu (born 16 March 1925) is a Turkish professor of economics and business administration at Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Turkey. He also serves on the board of trustees of Doğuş University.
Blaq Poet.  Wilbur Bass (born May 31 1969) better known as Blaq Poet is an American rapper from Queensbridge New York USA.Blaq Poet was first heard in the track Beat You Down from the Bridge Wars during 1987 a diss song towards KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions. At that time Poet was at least 17 years old as stated in a 2009 radio interview. During 1991 Poet and DJ Hot Day made a duo called PhD and released their debut album Without Warning on Tuff City Records.
Mateo Camargo.  Mateo Camargo (pronounced: Muh-tay-oh) is a Colombian-born record producer and was the guitarist of rock band Madina Lake from 2005 to 2012. He currently plays guitar and synthesiser in the band Little Bitter Cubes.
Des Newton (model maker).  Dennis (Des) Newton (10 May 1942- 30 January 2009) was a noted maker of model ships in bottles holding the world record for the smallest whisky bottle in which two ships were inserted. Newton appeared on Blue Peter placing a Blue Peter badge in a bottle.Newton born in Barrow-in-Furness when the town was still Lancashire England grew up with boats and eventually became a welder in the towns shipyards.
Jeanette Biedermann.  Jeanette Biedermann (born February 22 1980) also known by her stage name Jeanette is a German recording artist actress and television personality. Born and raised in Berlin Biedermann began performing as a member of a troupe of acrobats in a children's circus at the age of six.
Piet Mondrian.  Pieter Cornelis Piet Mondriaan after 1906 Mondrian (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn] later [ˈmɔndrijɑn]; March 7 1872 – February 1 1944) was a Dutch painter.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism.
Kathryn Deans.  Kathryn Deans is an Australian children's fantasy author. She was raised in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne in Australia.
Man Ray.  Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky August 27 1890 – November 18 1976) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.
Felice Blangini.  Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini (18 November 1781 – December 1841) was an Italian musical composer.
Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson.  Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson (born February 19 1953 in Reykjavík Iceland) is a professor of political science at the University of Iceland and a frequent commentator on current affairs in the Icelandic media. He is best known as a controversial spokesman for free market policies and for neoliberalism or classical liberalism.
Wanfang.  Wanfang (simplified Chinese: 万芳; traditional Chinese: 萬芳) also known as Wanfang Lin is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer. She is renowned for her sonorous gentle soft voice and probably best known for being the original theme singer of the movie C'est la vie mon chéri (新不了情).
Anand–Milind.  Anand and Milind are an Indian music directors duo consisting of Anand Shrivastav and his younger brother Milind. They have composed music for over 200 Bollywood films and are the sons of 60s music director Chitragupta.
William DeWitt Hyde.  William DeWitt Hyde (September 23 1858 – June 29 1917) was an American college president born at Winchendon Mass. He graduated from Harvard University in 1879 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1882. Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1883 he was a pastor at Newark N. J. in 1883-85 and thereafter was president of Bowdoin College also holding the chair of mental and moral philosophy.
Inspectah Deck.  Jason Hunter (born July 6 1970) better known by his stage name Inspectah Deck is an American rapper producer and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Although he has not gained the same level of mainstream success in his solo career as some of his Wu-Tang counterparts like Method Man he has acquired critical praise for his intricate lyricism and for his verses on many of the group's most revered songs.
Mel Collins.  Melvyn Desmond Mel Collins (born 5 September 1947 Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock as with King Crimson Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.
Wilfred Whitten.  Wilfred Whitten (1864–1942) was a British writer and editor. His pseudonym was John O'London from where the influential John O'London's Weekly obtained its name.Whitten was assistant editor of The Academy from 1896 to 1902. He served as acting editor of T. P.'s Weekly (founded by T. P. O'Connor) from its founding in 1902 until 1911 sharing responsibilities with J. A. T. Lloyd.
David Straitjacket.  David Straitjacket (born July 1977) is a British escape artist most notable for his television appearances and world record attempts.
David Freeman (screenwriter).  David Freeman is an American novelist screenwriter playwright and journalist who studied playwriting and dramatic literature at the Yale Drama School and currently teaches screenwriting seminars in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife Judith Gingold.
Samuel Tai.  Samuel Tai (Chinese: 邰正宵， pinyin: Tái zhēngxiāo ) was born in Hong Kong and is a Singer-songwriter in Taiwan. Samuel Tai is also known as the The Prince of Roses or The Prince of Love-song in Numbers. He is now living in Taipei but he is also active in Hong Kong and mainland China. Blessed with his good looks vocal and songwriter talent Samuel debuted in 1988 and then released his first solo album Good Boys (理想男孩) in 1990.
Henry Kaiser (musician).  Henry Kaiser (born September 19 1952) is an American guitarist and composer known as an idiosyncratic soloist a sideman an ethnomusicologist and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the first generation of American free improvisers.
Clodagh Simonds.  Clodagh Simonds (English pronunciation: Clo-da) Clodagh; (born May 16 1953) is an Irish musician songwriter and singer. She was born in Banbridge County Down Northern Ireland and raised and educated in Killiney County Dublin.
Bola Chittaranjan Das Shetty.  Bola Chittaranjan Shetty (Kannada: Bola Chittaranjan Das Shetty ; August 30 1944) is a famous Kannada and Tulu writerand was the president of the 16th Mangalore Taluk Kannada Sahitya Sammelan held in year 2010.
Sadegh Hedayat.  Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت; February 17 1903 Tehran — 9 April 1951 Paris France) was Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. His writings are banned or censored in Muslim world especially in Iran.
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon.  Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (11 May 1911 – 22 December 1985) was a renowned Indian poet of Kerala. He was born on 11 May 1911 in Kaloor in the Ernakulam district. After taking his bachelors degree in science he took B.T.
Linden MacIntyre.  Linden MacIntyre (born May 29 1943 in St. Lawrence NL) is a Canadian journalist broadcaster and novelist. He has won eight Gemini Awards an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence.
Gorazd Kocijančič.  Gorazd Kocijančič (born in 1964 in Ljubljana) is a freelance Slovene philosopher poet and translator. Kocijančič is well known for his translation of the entire corpus of Plato's work into Slovene.
Andy Lau.  Andy Lau MH JP (Lau Tak-wah; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer actor presenter and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time.
Robert Colquhoun.  Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter printmaker and theatre set designer.Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art where he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong gay relationship and professional collaboration the pair becoming known as the two Roberts.
Connie Francis.  Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero December 12 1938) is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the late-1950s and early-1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s Francis remained a top concert draw. Despite several severe interruptions in her career she is still active as a recording and performing artist.
Emanuel Leutze.  Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24 1816 – July 18 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Anna Ishibashi.  Anna Ishibashi (石橋 杏奈 Ishibashi Anna born July 12 1992) is Japanese model and actress.
Brandon Reilly.  Brandon Reilly (born May 18 1981) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the band Nightmare of You.
P. Kesavadev.  P. Kesava Pillai (20 July 1904 – 1 July 1983) better known by his pen-name P. Kesavadev was a novelist and social reformer of Kerala state South India. He is remembered for his speeches autobiographies novels dramas short stories and films.Odayil Ninnu Nadhi Bhrandalayam Ayalkar (Central Academi Award winning novel) Ethirppu (autobiography) and Oru Sundariyude Athmakadha are some among his 128 literary works.
Ayako Sono.  Ayako Sono (曽野 綾子 or 曾野 綾子 Sono Ayako born September 17 1931 in Tokyo) is a Catholic Japanese writer.She went to the Catholic Sacred Heart School in Tokyo after elementary school. During World War II she evacuated to Kanazawa.
Erin McCarley.  Erin Elizabeth McCarley (born January 8 1979 in Garland Texas) is an alternative music singer-songwriter. McCarley attended college at Baylor University and is now based in Nashville Tennessee. She has been compared to Sara Bareilles Regina Spektor and Sheryl Crow. Erin released her follow up to 2009's Love Save the Empty on August 28 2012 titled My Stadium Electric.
Shun Medoruma.  Shun Medoruma 目取真俊 (born 1960) is along with Matayoshi Eiki one of the most important contemporary Okinawan writers. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story A Drop of Water (Suiteki).
Christopher Frey.  Christopher Frey (German: [fʀaɪ]; born 1959 Bonn West Germany) is a German writer. He grew up in a political and international environment as his father worked for the US embassy. He received a music education at the school of music of the Regensburger Domspatzen. His early interest in the fine arts was also triggered by his family background of four generations of historians.
Heshima Thompson.  Heshima Salim Thompson (/ˈiːʃmə/ EESH-mə; born 23 October 1986) is a British actor and singer. Thompson was born in the London Borough of Brent. He has appeared on television in Spooks: Code 9 as Jez Prime Suspect Casualty City Lights Judge John Deed and Babyfather. In theatre he has appeared at The Young Vic in Generations and at The Royal Court in Incomplete and Random Acts of Violence. In 2009 he was nominated for a Screen Nation Award in the Young Shooting Star category.
Thomas Coward.  Thomas Alfred Coward MSc FZS FRES MBOU (8 January 1867 – 29 January 1933) was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history local history and Cheshire.
Jasper Fforde.  Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel The Eyre Affair was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.
Pietro Paolo Raggi.  Pietro Paolo Raggi (1646–1724) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Northern Italy. Born in Genova he received his first training in Venice then came back to Genoa.He is considered a follower of the Caracci in his St. Bonaventure contemplating a Crucifix a large picture in the church of S.S.
Michael Chant.  Michael Chant is an English composer and political activist. Born in 1945 he became politically active in the 1960s while associated with another composer Cornelius Cardew.Chant became a member of the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) and remains active in the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and is also an active trade unionist.
Jasmin Muharemović.  Jasmin Muharemović (born 22 February 1965) is a popular Bosnian singer.In 1983 he moved in Požarevac in order to meet Novica Urošević the folk hit-maker and start a professional folk singer career. Muharemović's first album sold 250000 copies and he had great success as a beginner. In 1994 due to the war in his home country formerly a part of Yugoslavia he moved to Vienna. He lives between Vienna and his birth city Tešanj. He has a wife and two sons.
Seiichi Yamamoto.  Seiichi Yamamoto (山本 精一 Yamamoto Seiichi born July 16 1958) is a Japanese musician. While perhaps most famous for his role as guitarist for the noise rock band Boredoms he has released multitudes of records both as a solo artist and with several other musicians and bands in addition to composing the soundtracks to several films.
Chris Glen.  Christopher 'Chris' Glen (born 6 November 1950 Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland) is a Scottish bass guitarist who has played in The Jade Tear Gas The Party Boys The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB) (1972–78) John Martyn and The Michael Schenker Group (1980–84 2008-2010).
Bennet Langton.  Bennet Langton (c. 1736 – 1801) was an English writer and a founding member of the Literary Club. He is best known for his close friendship with writer Samuel Johnson and his numerous appearances in James Boswell's book The Life of Samuel Johnson. Langton was born to the Reverend Bennet Langton (1696–1769) and his wife Diana daughter of Edmund Turner of Stoke Rochford Lincolnshire and descendant of the old family of the Langtons of Langton near Spilsby Lincolnshire.
Brian Wilson.  Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20 1942) is an American musician best known as the chief songwriter of the Beach Boys. Besides acting as their co-lead vocalist he also functioned as the band's main producer and arranger. After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962 Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the Beach Boys.In the mid-1960s Wilson composed and produced Pet Sounds considered one of the greatest albums of all time.
Helen Hardin.  Helen Hardin (May 28 1943 – June 9 1984) (also known as Tsa-sah-wee-eh which means Little Standing Spruce) was an American painter. Her parents were Santa Clara Pueblo artist Pablita Velarde and a Caucasian former police officer and Chief of Public Safety Herbert Hardin. She started making and selling paintings participated in University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project and was featured in Seventeen magazine all before she was 18 years of age.
Wilbur Daniel Steele.  Wilbur Daniel Steele (17 March 1886 Greensboro North Carolina – 26 May 1970 Stamford Connecticut) was a U.S. author and playwright. He has been called America's recognised master of the popular short story between World War I and the Great Depression.His short stories are set in American locations and are often highly dramatic. Collections of his stories include The Man Who Saw through Heaven (1927) Best Stories (1946) and Full Cargo (1951).
Dan Mangan.  Daniel Mangan (born April 28 1983) is a Vancouver-based two time JUNO Award winning Canadian musician. He has also been a contributing writer for The Guardian's Arts section and Huffington Post Canada. He is married to actor and theatre artist Kirsten Slenning.
Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson.  Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson or Jónsi (born June 1 1977) is an Icelandic singer and member of the band Í Svörtum Fötum (In black clothing). He represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and finished 19th. He has also competed at Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2007 which is a television show to pick Iceland's song for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Segðu Mér.
David Lambkin.  David Lesley Goatham better known by his pen name David Lambkin is an English novelist. Born in England he spent many years in South Africa and Kenya. Lambkin divides his time between running his advertising agency in Johannesburg and writing novels and articles (for National Geographic i.a.). An amateur naturalist clay pigeon shot fisherman wine lover fan of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven and an enthusiastic albeit untrained cook.
Deniro Farrar.  Dante Qushawan Farrar better known by his stage name Deniro Farrar is a rapper from Charlotte North Carolina. He has collaborated with other artists such as Ryan Hemsworth Shady Blaze and Flosstradamus. His voice was described by Sam Hockley-Smith of The Fader as an eerily calm rasp that never leaves the emotional range of fuming mad.
Tyler Faith.  Tyler Faith (born April 3 1975) is an American pornographic actress. She identifies as bisexual.Tyler Faith has been an adult actress since 2002 working briefly for Pleasure Productions and then as a contract performer for Jill Kelly Productions where she appeared in over 100 scenes. Faith is the owner of Team Tyler Productions.In 2004 a student won the opportunity to take Faith to his high school prom in a contest on the Howard Stern Show.
Kathryn Toyama.  Kathryn Toyama is a classically trained pianist/keyboardist who composes New Age solo instrumental music. Her album Hope for Harmony debuted at No.5 on the NAR World Radio Chart in May 2007. A number of her compositions are placed in regular rotation by numerous Internet radio stations and two of them have been played on XM Satellite Radio.
Ahmed Rushdi.  Ahmed Rushdi SI PP (Urdu: احمد رشدی‎; April 24 1934 – April 11 1983) was a versatile Pakistani playback singer who worked in film music and was an important contributor to the Golden Age of Pakistani film music. Rushdi is acclaimed as one of the greatest singers ever lived in South Asia and was a natural baritone yet could sing high tenor notes with ease.
Tor Fretheim.  Tor Fretheim (born 1946) is a Norwegian journalist and author of children's literature. He made his literary debut in 1982 with Markus kjenner ikke Supermann. He received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best Children's Book in 1986 for Englene stanser ved Eventyrbrua.
Clara Chung.  Clara Chung known by her stage name Clara C is an American guitarist and singer.Chung is a YouTube artist who rose to fame when she won Los Angeles’ Kollaboration 10 KAC Media Juice Night and ISA 2009.
Charles Fleming (author).  Charles Fleming is an American author. He is editor of the Los Angeles Times' Hollywood business section Company Town and reviews motorcycles for the newspaper's Highway 1 department. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism where he teaches entertainment reporting arts reporting and news writing.Fleming has reported on the business of Hollywood as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Variety and Newsweek.
Luis Félix López.  Luis Ramón Félix López (Calceta August 25 1932 - Guayaquil December 17 2008) was an Ecuadorian doctor politician and renowned writer who held many senior public positions in his country during his lifetime.
Rigoberto Fontao Meza.  Rigoberto Fontao Meza was one of the most outstanding poets of the Paraguayan native song-book. His highly descriptive and elegant rhymed poems enriched the Paraguayan literature history in Guaraní Spanish and jopara.He was born in Tape Ka'aty located in the San Pedro Department Paraguay December 29 of 1900 son of Benjamín Fontao and Marciana Meza.The died in Asunción Paraguay December 29 of 1936 the same day that he reached 36 years old.
György Petri.  György Petri (22 December 1943 – 16 July 2000) was a Hungarian poet.
Summer Watson.  Summer Watson (born 14 September 1980) is a British operatic soprano.
Mohamed Zairi.  Professor Mohamed Zairi is a British academic and researcher in the field of Total Quality Management (TQM).Professor Zairi was born in Algeria in 1956 but has lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. After postgraduate studies at North Staffordshire Polytechnic he accepted a teaching appointment at the School of Management University of Bradford where he is currently professor emeritus.
Shin Hye-sung.  Shin Hye-sung (Hangul: 신혜성 Hanja: 申彗星) was born Jung Pil Kyo (Hangul: 정필교 Hanja: 鄭弼敎) on November 27 1979. He is a South Korean singer known as the lead vocalist of six-member boy band Shinhwa. His stage name Hye Sung means comet and his English name is Steve Jung.
Ranina Reddy.  Ranina Reddy is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in Hindi Tamil Telugu Kannada and Konkkani for various music composers including Yuvan Shankar Raja Harris Jayaraj Devi sri Prasad Sai Thaman Selva Ganesh Raghu Dixit and S.A. Rajkumar.
Dayna Stephens.  Dayna Stephens (born August 1 1978) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Stephens grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Berkeley High School.
Scott Miller (author).  Scott Miller (born December 1960) is an American author and reporter best known for his June 2011 book The President and the Assassin.The book subtitled McKinley Terror and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century gives an account of the years leading up to the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz in September 1901.
Matt Drake.  Matthew Spencer Matt Drake is the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist in the English thrash metal group Evile.
Demetrio Stratos.  Efstratios Dimitriou (Greek: Ευστράτιος Δημητρίου; April 22 1945 – June 13 1979) better known as Demetrio Stratos was a Greek-born Italian lyricist multi-instrumentalist music researcher and co-founder frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock jazz fusion band Area – International POPular Group.Born and raised in Alexandria Egypt of Greek parents he studied piano and accordion at the National Conservatoire.
Sune Mangs.  Sune Mangs (31 December 1932 – 11 February 1994) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 35 films and television shows between 1953 and 1990.
El Général.  Hamada Ben Amor (Arabic: حمادة بن عمر‎) better known by his stage name El Général (Arabic: الجنرال‎) is a Tunisian rap musician. His song Rais Lebled released in December 2010 has been described as the anthem of the Jasmine Revolution.Ben Amor has been making mainly political rap songs for about two years. The songs were previously kept underground by the strict censorship of the autocratic regime of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Russell Javors.  Russell Javors (born June 13 1952) is an American rock guitarist. He is best known as a primary guitarist for Billy Joel from 1976 to 1989.
Gigi Gryce.  Gigi Gryce born George General Grice Jr. (November 28 1925 in Pensacola Florida – March 14 1983 in Pensacola Florida) was an American saxophonist flautist clarinetist composer arranger and educator.While his performing career was relatively short much of his work as a player composer and arranger was quite influential and well-recognized during his time. However Gryce abruptly ended his jazz career in the 1960s.
Lurrie Bell.  Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell December 13 1958 Chicago Illinois is an American blues guitarist and singer. His father was renowned blues harmonica player Carey Bell.
Louis Hamelin.  Louis Hamelin (born June 9 1959 in Saint-Séverin-de-Proulxville Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer.
Gretchen Peters.  Gretchen Peters (born November 14 1957 in Bronxville New York) is an American singer and songwriter. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder Colorado but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s. There she found work as a songwriter composing hits for Martina McBride Etta James Trisha Yearwood Patty Loveless George Strait Anne Murray as well as for rock singers Neil Diamond and co-writing songs with Bryan Adams.
Robert Jackson Bennett.  Robert Jackson Bennett (born 1984 in Baton Rouge ) is an award winning American writer of speculative fiction.
Humphrey Clucas.  Humphrey Clucas (born 1941) is a British composer singer and author.Clucas read English at King’s College Cambridge where he was a choral scholar.
Israel Zafrir.  Israel Zafrir (born June 8 1911) was an Israeli photographer. Zafrir is considered one of the founding fathers of modern documentary photography in Israel.
Youngjae.  Yoo Young-Jae (Hangul: 유영재; born January 24 1994) known mononymously as Youngjae is a South Korean singer and dancer. He is best known as the Lead vocalist of a popular South Korean K-pop group B.A.P.
Dạ Nhật Yến.  Dạ Nhật Yến (born October 12) professionally known as Yenn is a Vietnamese American singer and dancer. She was born in Saigon and later immigrated to the United States. There Yenn was raised in Ada Minnesota and later moved to Southern California. She appeared in Asia Entertainment since 2000 DVD musical shows generating many choreographical and musical masterpieces. Yenn recorded and released ten albums in her native language through her former label.
Zahara Schatz.  Zahara Schatz (Hebrew: זהרה שץ‎ (born 1916 died 1999) was an Israeli artist. She was the daughter of Boris Schatz who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
Chris Barber.  Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born 17 April 1930) is a British jazz musician best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit he helped the careers of many musicians notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson who was at one time his wife and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit Rock Island Line while with Chris Barber's band.
Jody Rigby.  Jody Rigby is an Australian television personality often appearing as a horticulturist on gardening programs.
Jerry Grandenetti.  Charles J. Jerry Grandenetti (April 15 1926 Bronxville New York – February 19 2010 Bellport New York) was an American comic book artist and advertising art director best known for his work with writer-artist Will Eisner on the celebrated comics feature The Spirit and for his decade-and-a-half run on many DC Comics war series.
Vivica Genaux.  Vivica Genaux (pronounced: [vi.vi.ka ʒe.no]; born July 10 1969) is an American coloratura mezzo-soprano. She was born in Fairbanks Alaska. Her father was a biochemistry professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her mother was a language teacher. She has sung in major operas such as The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera L'italiana in Algeri at Opéra National de Paris and La Cenerentola with Dallas Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Bengt Forsberg.  Bengt Forsberg (born 1952) is a Swedish concert pianist most famous for his numerous collaborations with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. He participated in her project to record songs written in the concentration camp of Terezín. Forsberg has a reputation as a champion of neglected music and composers.
Jared Hasselhoff.  Jared Victor Hennegan better known by his stage name Evil Jared Hasselhoff (born August 5 1971 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is the bassist for the band The Bloodhound Gang.He attended Temple University in Pennsylvania where he met future Bloodhound Gang member Jimmy Pop.In 2006 he moved to Kreuzberg a borough of Berlin Germany because of his resentment of George W. Bush's politics.
Kirsten Price (musician).  Kirsten Price (born 8 September 1979) is an English singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer. She released her first single Magic Tree from her debut album Guts & Garbage in 2007. Subsequently she released her next single With or Without You and her second LP Brixton to Brooklyn in 2010.
Carlos Cruz-Diez.  Carlos Cruz-Diez (born August 17 1923 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan kinetic and op artist. He lives in Paris. He has spent his professional career working and teaching between both Paris and Caracas.
Herbert Lyle Mayfield.  Herbert Lyle Mayfield known generally as Lyle (March 4 1929 – March 31 2012) was an American writer poet printer inventor of musical instruments and folk musician and composer from Greenville Illinois. He spent most of his adult life working in the printing trade as a profession but spent most of his spare time designing and building hybrid folk instruments and performing at live music events with his wife Doris (Mindrup) Mayfield and youngest son Layne Mayfield.
Nasrat Sharqi.  Nasrat Sharqi (Persian: نصرت شرقي‎) is a Demographics of Afghanistan singer from Afghanistan.
Willard R. Espy.  Willard Richardson Espy (December 11 1910 – February 20 1999) was a U.S. editor philologist writer poet and local historian. He was the best-known collector of and commentator on word play of his time and is also particularly remembered for his national bestseller Oysterville – Roads to Grandpa's Village.
Ciro da Conegliano.  Ciro da Conegliano (mid-16th century) was an Italian painter pupil of Paolo Veronese and active in Verona.
Peter F. Rothermel.  Peter Frederick Rothermel (July 8 1817 – August 15 1895) was an American painter.
Anthony Johnson Showalter.  Anthony Johnson Showalter (May 1 1858 – September 14 1924) was an American gospel music composer teacher and publisher. He was born in Cherry Grove Virginia. Showalter was trained in the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music and was teaching in singing schools by age fourteen. In 1884 he formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton Georgia.
Astor Piazzolla.  Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (Spanish pronunciation: [piasola] Italian pronunciation: [pjattsɔlla]; March 11 1921 – July 4 1992) was an Argentine tango composer bandoneon player and arranger. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango incorporating elements from jazz and classical music.
George Garner.  George Garner (April 16 1892 – January 8 1971) was an American vocalist and choral director. He was the first African American to solo at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first African-American lead in a production at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena California.
Yu So-chow.  Yu So Chow (Chinese: 于素秋; pinyin: Yú Sù Qiū; Cantonese Yale: yū sou chāu) is a Chinese actress born in Beijing on 9 July 1930 to a Peking opera family. She is the daughter of late Master Yu Jim Yuen who ran the China Drama Academy a Peking Opera School in Hong Kong and teacher of many well-known actors.She started her acting career in 1948 and made over 240 films in the wuxia kung fu action detective and Cantonese opera genres.
Annie Haslam.  Annie Haslam (born 8 June 1947 Bolton Lancashire England) is an English progressive rock vocalist songwriter and painter. She has a five-octave vocal range.
Steve Walwyn.  Steve Walwyn (born 8 June 1956 in Southam Warwickshire)is a British rhythm and blues guitarist best known for his playing with Dr. Feelgood but who has also played with Eddie and the Hot Rods Steve Marriott and the DTs. The Roger Chapman Band the Big Town Playboys and his own band Steve Walwyn and Friends.
King Kong Lam.  Not to be confused with King Kong LiKing Kong Lam is a TVB actor born in Hong Kong 1969. He previously played comedic characters and now recently villans.
Scott Hutchins.  Scott Hutchins (born March 3 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Mary Katrantzou.  Mary Katrantzou (born in 1983 in Athens) is a Greek fashion designer who currently lives and works in London.
Bianco (harpist).  Eugene Bianco (March 29 1927 – May 7 2007) known professionally as Bianco was a harpist who recorded for RCA Victor Records.
Brian O'Connell (musician).  Brian O'Connell is an American multi-instrumentalist composer arranger record producer and actor. Best known as the bassist and producer for Pakistani sufi rock band Junoon O'Connell has since gained respect as both a musician and a producer in the Pakistani music industry.O'Connell and Salman Ahmad were friends of one another since high school.
Momčilo Rajin.  Momčilo Moma Rajin (born in Bela Crkva February 23 1954) is a Serbian art and music critic theorist and historian artist publisher and cultural facilitator living and working in Belgrade.
Héctor Marcano.  Héctor Marcano (born November 3 1956) is a Puerto Rican comedian producer and game show host in Puerto Rico.
Emmi Silvennoinen.  Emmi Silvennoinen (born April 9 1988 in Finland) is keyboardist for the folk metal band Ensiferum. She has been filling the role following the departure of Meiju Enho from Ensiferum in September 2007 before joining it as the current member during the recording of the album From Afar (2009). Emmi was also the keyboard player for the melodic death/gothic metal band Exsecratus.
Laura Pannack.  Laura Pannack (born 1985) is a British social documentary and portrait photographer based in London. Since 2008 she has received awards for her work and had solo exhibits. Her works are often of children and teenagers.
Talal Maddah.  Talal Maddah (1940–2000) (Arabic: طلال مدَّاح) was a well-known Saudi musician and composer. He was named Maddah after his mother's family. His fans coined him the nickname the Earth's voice (Arabic: صوت الارض) and he is also known as The Golden Throat (Arabic: الحنجرة الذهبية). His artistic excellence won him an immense influence over 20th century-Arabian culture.
Shirley Goodman.  Shirley Goodman (born Shirley Mae Goodman June 19 1936 New Orleans Louisiana died July 5 2005 Los Angeles California) was an American singer known best for Shirley and Lee a 1950s duo. Later in her career she had a resurgence with the disco hit Shame Shame Shame in the 1970s.
Giuseppe Serembe.  Giuseppe Serembe (Arbërisht: Zef Serembe; 6 March 1844 – 1901) was an Arbëresh lyric poet. He has left some of the best poetic collections in Albanian language in the 19th century. The atmosphere of despair and tragedy that haunted him throughout his life surfaces time and time again in his verse.
Vladimir Tomilovsky.  Vladimir Petrovitch Tomilovsky (Russian: Владимир Петрович Томиловский) (March 22 (April 4) 1901 – June 17 1991) was a Russian landscape painter predominantly depicting the nature of Siberia and Lake Baikal.
Art Pepper.  Art Pepper (September 1 1925 – June 15 1982) born Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. was an American alto saxophonist and clarinetist.
Ali Brustofski.  Allison Ali Brustofski (born October 4 1993) is an American singer from Oakland New Jersey.
Teresa Berenice Vitelli.  Teresa Berenice Vitelli (active 1706 – 1729) was an Italian painter.
Silje Vige.  Silje Vige (born 24 May 1976 in Jørpeland) is a Norwegian singer from Jørpeland outside of Stavanger.Vige won the Melodi Grand Prix with an ethno-ballad written by her father. The win allowed her to compete as Norway's entry in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest with Alle mine tankar (All my thoughts). She finished in fifth place among the 25 participants.
Lynn Kurland.  Lynn Kurland is a best-selling American author of historical time travel and fantasy romance novels. The characters in most of her books all belong to one of three extended families (Macleod McKinnon de Piaget) and her love scenes are not as explicit as many other popular romances.
Alexander Zhurbin.  Alexander Zhurbin is one of the most important Russian composers of his generation. His music is widely performed all over the former Soviet Union East Europe and West Europe Canada and the United States. He composes in a wide range of forms and styles: from symphonies to pop music from chamber music to new wave from operas and ballets to movie scores and music for the theater.
Michael Dibdin.  Michael Dibdin (21 March 1947 – 30 March 2007) was a British crime writer.
Bobbie Clarke.  Bobbie Clarke (born Robert William Woodman 13 June 1940 Coventry England) is an English rock drummer. He has cut hundreds of records and played in numerous bands with many international rock legends.
Paul Schuitema.  Geert Paul Hendrikus Schuitema (February 27 1897 in Groningen - October 25 1973 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch graphic artist. He also designed furniture and expositions and worked as photographer film director painter and teacher for publicity design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
Bernardino Cesari.  Bernardino Cesari (1571 – 30 June 1622) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period active mainly in Rome and Naples where he assisted his brother Giuseppe Cesari (Cavaliere d'Arpino). On 9 November 1592 he was sentenced to death for consorting with bandits and fled to Naples. On 13 May 1593 he was pardoned and returned to Rome.
Luise Therese Sophie Schliemann.  Luise Therese Sophie Schliemann also known as Sophia Heinrich (1793 - 1831) was the mother of Heinrich Schliemann a renowned German archaeologist.
Graham Colton.  Graham Colton (born November 6 1981) is an American singer/songwriter from Oklahoma City OK. His most recent album Lonely Ones was released on January 21 2014. Colton's songs have been featured on numerous TV shows including American Idol Pretty Little Liars Kyle XY Oprah's Big Give Newport Harbor Castle Wildfire October Road Fall promo HBO Winter promo Sundance promo and many others.
René Hardy.  René Hardy (31 October 1911 - 12 April 1987) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Hardy was born in Mortrée Orne. After the war he was tried twice for collaboration but was found not guilty despite committing perjury at the first trial. Shortly before his death he was accused again by Klaus Barbie but died before any new charges were brought.Hardy was also a novelist.
George Herbert Palmer.  George Herbert Palmer (March 9 1842 – May 8 1933) was an American scholar and author born in Boston. He attended Phillips Academy Andover and in 1864 he graduated at Harvard to which he returned after study at Tübingen Germany and at Andover Theological Seminary to be tutor in Greek. He became Alford professor of natural religion moral philosophy and civil polity at Harvard (1889–1913). In 1887 he married as his second wife Alice Freeman Palmer.
Per Mathisen.  Per Mathisen (born 7 October 1969 in Sandefjord Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (Double bass and guitar bass) and Composer known from collaborations with great jazz musicians like Terri Lyne Carrington Geri Allen Gary Thomas Bill Bruford Alex Acuña Gary Husband Ralph Peterson Nguyen Le and Terje Rypdal.
Ludovico Trasi.  Ludovico Trasi (1634–1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period born and active in Ascoli Piceno. He was along with Carlo Maratta a pupil of Andrea Sacchi. He painted a S. Niccolo for the church of S. Cristoforo in Ascoli Piceno. One of his pupils is Tommaso Nardini.
Kim Ryeowook.  Kim Ryeo-wook (Hangul: 김려욱; hanja: 金厲旭) was born on 21 June 1987 mononymously credited as Ryeowook (Hangul: 려욱). He is a South Korean singer and actor. He is best known as a member of K-pop boy band Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-M and Super Junior-K.R.Y.. He is one of the three main vocalists of Super Junior. Along with four other Super Junior members he is one of the first Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps.
Anders Osborne.  Anders Osborne (born 1966 Uddevalla Sweden) is an American singer and songwriter.
Hannah Aitchison.  Hannah Aitchison (born December 20 1966) is an American tattoo artist from Chicago Illinois. Hannah was based in Chicago at Deluxe Tattoo for many years but recently relocated to Pittsburgh PA to work from her private studio known as Curiosity Shop where she works in various mediums. She continues to travel the world working at tattoo conventions and artist collectives among others. She is well known for her appearance on Seasons 1-2 of the TLC reality television show LA Ink.
Guitar Gabriel.  Robert Lewis Jones (October 12 1925 – April 2 1996) known as both Guitar Gabriel and Nyles Jones was an American blues Musician. Gabriel's unique style of guitar playing which he referred to as Toot Blues combined Piedmont Chicago and Texas blues as well as gospel and was influenced by artists such as Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis.
Jaime Brockett.  Jaime Brockett is a New England-based folk singer. He enjoyed cult status in the 1969-early 1970s era. On his debut album Remember the Wind and the Rain he plays guitar banjo and dulcimer. Brockett was a favorite of devotees of late night progressive rock FM radio stations particularly with his thirteen minute long adaptation of Lead Belly’s (via Blind Lemon Jefferson) The Titanic rechristened The Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic co-written with Chris Smither.
Hugues Dufourt.  Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the Spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28 1943 Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory.Dufourt became co-director of the Ensemble l'Itinéraire in 1973 and founded CRISS (Collectif de Recherche Instrumentale et de Synthèse Sonore—Instrumental and Sound Synthesis Research Collective) in 1977.
Tim Malchak.  Tim Malchak (born June 25 1957 in Binghamton New York) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Malchak partnered with Dwight Rucker in 1982 to form the country music duo Malchak & Rucker. Together they became the first black/white duo in country music history with a charting single when Just Like That debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1984.When the duo split up in 1986 Malchak launched a solo career.
Pete Saunders.  Peter Pete Saunders (born 1960) is an English keyboard player born in Hammersmith London.
Buz (drummer).  Buz aka Frank Altimare is a drummer. He was the drummer in '90s band Psychotica. Prior to joining Psychotica Buz was the drummer for LA Punk band Youth Gone Mad. Buz appeared on the Youth Gone Mad 1994 album Day Job.In the early 2000s Buz played on material by NY band The Bastard Kings of Rock.Buz currently lives and works in New York.
Fatix Ämirxan.  Ämirxanov Möxämmätfatix Zarif ulı (pronounced [æmirˈxʌnəf mœxæˌmætfæˈtʲix zʌˌrifuˈlɯ]; AKA Fatix Ämirxan [ fæˈtʲix æmirˈxʌn]; Tatar Arabic: فاتح اميرخان; Tatar Cyrillic: Әмирхан(ов) Фатих (Мөхәммәтфатих) Зариф улы; Russian: Амирха́н(ов) Фати́х (Мухамметфати́х) Зари́фович Amirkhan(ov) Fatikh (Mukhammetfatikh) Zarifovich Russian: Фати́х Амирха́н Fatikh Amirkhan; 1886–1926) was a Tatar classic writer editor and publicist.Ämirxan was born in 1886 in Kazan Russian Empire.
Saadat Awan.  Saadat Awan is a Washington DC native by way of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is a member of The Cassettes Metropolitan band and Thievery Corporation side projects International Velvet and I.C.U. He was also a former member of Travis Morrison Hellfighters and has also worked with Lori Carson These United States Nima Majd and others in the past.Awan is a self-taught drummer bassist guitarist keyboardist and tabla player.
Thomas Rhett.  Thomas Rhett Akins Jr. (born March 30 1990) is an American country music singer known by his stage name Thomas Rhett. He is the son of singer-songwriter Rhett Akins. Akins has charted four singles from his debut album It Goes Like This including the title track which reached number 1 on Country Airplay in late 2013.
Warren T. Thompson.  Warren T. Thompson (active 1840 - 1870) was an American photographer. Between 1840 and 1846 Thompson worked in Philadelphia and in 1843 refined Daniel Davis Jr.'s electroplating method for colouring daguerreotypes by using a gum tragacanth resist. With this technique colours could be built up in the manner of some types of printmaking.
Yang Libing.  Yang Libing (Chinese: 杨莉冰) is a former Singaporean actress. Her older sister is the late Yang Lina who was also an actress.Yang first entered the entertainment industry during the 1980s after SBC's drama training course. She starred in the long-running hit drama Wok of Life and won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Star Awards 1999.
Andrew Ross Sorkin.  Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19 1977) is a Gerald Loeb Award-winning American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook a financial news service published by The New York Times. He wrote the bestselling book Too Big to Fail (2009) and co-produced a movie adaptation of the book for HBO Films (2011).
Kevin Ayers.  Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter and a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene.
Michael Tree.  Michael Tree (born 1934) is an American violist born in Newark New Jersey.
Arcesia.  John Anthony Arcesi was an American singer of Jazz and Popular songs.
BJ the Chicago Kid.  Bryan James Sledge better known by his stage name BJ the Chicago Kid (or simply BJ) is an American singer-songwriter from Chicago Illinois.He has frequently collaborated with Top Dawg Entertainment artists Kendrick Lamar Schoolboy Q Ab-Soul and Jay Rock as well as other rappers such as Chance the Rapper Vic Mensa Rapsody Freddie Gibbs Big K.R.I.T. GLC and numerous others.
Bill Sims.  Bill Sims Jr. is an American blues musician. He grew up in Marion Ohio and began playing piano at the age of four. At age 14 he turned professional and joined the rhythm and blues band the Jacksonian Blues which he left to attend Ohio State University.In 1971 Sims joined another rhythm and blues group the doo-wop-influenced Four Mints. He left the band in 1976 to form The Lamorians an avant-garde jazz band influenced by traditional African drumming.
Laroche-Valmont.  Jean-Quentin Gérard better known by his stage name Laroche-Valmont is a French singer and a press publisher. His 1984 single T'as le Look Coco made him a one-hit wonder.
Tina May.  Tina May (born 30 March 1961 in Gloucester U.K.) is an English female jazz vocalist who has recorded several albums on the 33 Jazz Records label. She lived in Frampton-on-Severn when she was young and attended Stroud High School. Her albums for the 33 Jazz Records label feature bands including her husband drummer Clark Tracey. May has also worked with Tony Coe and Nikki Iles.
The Edge.  David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961) more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge) is an Irish musician best known as the guitarist backing vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing.
Nicholas Sparks.  Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31 1965) is an American novelist screenwriter and producer. He has seventeen published novels plus one non-fiction. Eight of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film.
Rex Brown.  Rex Robert Brown (born July 27 1964) is an American musician and author who is best known as the longtime bassist for the Grammy-nominated platinum-selling band Pantera (1982–2003). He is currently the bassist for the band Kill Devil Hill and is a former member of Down (2001–2011).Brown authored a book called Official Truth 101 Proof which was released in April 2013. The book documented Pantera's formation career and break-up.
Brad Armstrong (pornographic actor).  Rodney Hopkins (born September 23 1965 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian pornographic film actor and director known professionally as Brad Armstrong. He has been known as one of the most popular leading men in the sex industry as well as The King of Porn and The Spielberg of Skin Directors. He was once married to Jenna Jameson but divorced in 2001. Since 2006 Armstrong is married to Jessica Drake.Among the films he has directed is Octomom Home Alone (2012).
William Faith.  William Faith (William Coulter born 29 August 1967) is an American goth/punk musician.He is a former member of the gothic bands Rozz Williams' Christian Death Shadow Project Faith and the Muse Mephisto Walz and briefly as support for Sex Gang Children during a one off performance in 1993 at The Roxy Theatre. Originally a member of the goth-punk band Wreckage (where he was known as Bill E. Bones).
Big Boi.  Antwan André Patton (born February 1 1975) better known by his stage name Big Boi is an American rapper songwriter record producer and actor best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus he and André 3000 each announced plans to release a solo album.
Charles Olson.  Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets which includes the New York School the Black Mountain School the Beat poets and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently many postmodern groups such as the poets of the language school include Olson as a primary and precedent figure.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti.  Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1386 - c. 1430) was an Italian monk and traveler and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world. He left his native city of Florence around 1414 in order to travel mainly in the Greek islands. He visited Constantinople in the 1420s. He is the author of two historical-geographic works: the Descriptio insulae Cretae (1417 in collaboration with Niccolò Niccoli) and the Liber insularum Archipelagi (1420).
Jerry Lynn Williams.  Jerry Lynn Williams (1948-2005) was a rock music singer and composer. He wrote such hits as Forever Man See What Love Can Do Something's Happening Running on Faith and Pretending for Eric Clapton. He contributed two songs Real Man and I Will Not Be Denied to Bonnie Raitt's 1989 Grammy Award winning album Nick of Time. He had previously written material for Raitt's 1986 album Nine Lives. He also wrote songs for Robert Plant B.B. King Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan.
Micah Barnes.  Micah Barnes (born May 30 1960) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. He has performed both as a solo artist and with the bands Loudboy and The Nylons.Born in Vienna Barnes is the son of composer conductor and jazz drummer Milton Barnes and the brother of drummer Daniel Barnes. He studied voice with José Hernandez and Bill Vincent and sang in Toronto cabarets and nightclubs during the 1980s while appearing in theatre film television and radio productions as an actor.
Joey Cape.  Randal Joseph Joey Cape (born November 16 1966) is an American singer songwriter and producer. Active since 1989 Cape is best known as the frontman of the California punk rock band Lagwagon.Cape released his first solo album Bridge on October 21 2008 on Suburban Home Records. His second album Doesn't Play Well with Others was released on February 2011 after he released each song on the album each month of 2010 collecting them all on CD and vinyl in the end of 2010.
Vasile Troian.  Vasile Troian (born January 1 1961) is an American artist who lives and works in New York.Troian was born in Poduri Romania. He studied at Iaşi University of the Arts (1983–1987) where he received his B.F.A. in Painting.
Aster Aweke.  Aster Aweke (Amharic: አስቴር አወቀ?</span> ʾAster ʾAwäḳä) is an Ethiopian singer living in the United States.
Ana Rezende.  Ana Maria de Rezende Versiani dos Anjos (born March 19 1983) is a film director and guitar player for the Brazilian indie-electro band CSS.Rezende is responsible for the direction of CSS's first music video in Brazil Off The Hook filmed at Adriano Cintra's and Carolina Parra's house and is also the other half of the DJ-duo MeuKu along with fellow CSS bandmate Luiza Sá.
Sheikh Imam.  Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa or Sheikh Imam (Arabic: إمام محمد أحمد عيسى‎) (July 2 1918 – June 7 1995) was a famous Egyptian composer and singer. For most of his life he formed a duo with the famous Egyptian colloquial poet Ahmed Fouad Negm. Together they were known for their political songs in favor of the poor and the working classes.
Jedd Hughes.  Jedd Hughes (born March 31 1982) is a country musician born in Australia. Hughes grew up in Quorn where he grew up listening to his father's country records. He won a local country music contest at the age of eight and began playing guitar from age nine taking lessons from his father. He toured Europe when he was 12 and played with various Australian country musicians throughout his teens.
Takako Tokiwa.  Takako Tokiwa (常盤 貴子 Tokiwa Takako born 30 April 1972 in Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress.
Calamalka.  Calamalka is a hip hop and electronic music producer based in Vancouver BC.
Hryhorii Skovoroda.  Hryhorii Skovoroda also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda (Ukrainian: Григорій Савич Сковорода Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda; Russian: Григо́рий Са́ввич Сковорода́ Grigory Savvich Skovoroda; 3 December 1722 – 9 November 1794) was a Ukrainian and Russian philosopher poet teacher and composer. Skovoroda was a Cosack from today Ukraine who lived in the Russian Empire and made important contributions to Russian philosophy and culture.
Martin Bisi.  Martin Bisi is an American producer and songwriter.
Jacques d'Arthois.  Jacques d'Arthois (12 October 1613 (baptised) - May 1686) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes.
Bébé Lilly.  Bébé Lilly (also known as Lilly Baba or Baby Lilly) is an animated baby girl singer in France. She has released thirteen singles mainly in French but several have also been recorded in other languages. She also has four albums and a DVD. Many of her songs have been ranked on top ten hits lists in France.
Bernard Homola.  Bernard Homola (1894–1975) was a German film score composer.
Magnolia Shorty.  Renetta Yemika Lowe-Bridgewater (September 30 1982 – December 20 2010) known by the stage name Magnolia Shorty was an American rapper in the New Orleans-based bounce music scene. She and Ms. Tee (Trishell Williams) were the first women signed to Cash Money Records. Her 1997 debut album Monkey on the Dick (often stylized Monkey On Tha D$ck) is considered a bounce classic and she was already considered a legend of bounce music at the time of her death.
Ernie Freeman.  Ernest Aaron Ernie Freeman (16 August 1922 – 16 May 1981) was an American pianist organist bandleader and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Giovanni Laurentini.  Giovanni Laurentini (also called Arrigoni active around 1600) was an Italian painter. He was a pupil of Federigo Barocci. Born in Rimini he mostly executed large canvases including The Martyrdom of St. John at the Augustines and St. John and St. Paul for their respective churches in Rimini.
Ennio Morricone.  Ennio Morricone Grand Officer OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; November 10 1928) is an Italian composer orchestrator conductor and former trumpet player who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series as well as contemporary classical works. His career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the world's most versatile prolific and influential film composers of all time.
Ayuru Ōhashi.  Ayuru Ōhashi (大橋 歩夕 Ōhashi Ayuru born April 28 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Her old name is Erika Nakai (仲井 絵里香 Nakai Erika).
Michael Brodsky.  Michael Mark Brodsky (born Aug 2 1948) is a scientific/medical editor novelist playwright and short story writer. He is best known for his novels and for his translation of Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria.
Ambrose Bierce.  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24 1842 – Circa 1914) was an American editorialist journalist short story writer fabulist and satirist. He wrote the short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and compiled a satirical lexicon The Devil's Dictionary.
Nancy Cartonio.  Nancy Cartonio (born February 21 1977 Wichita Kansas USA) is a folk musician songwriter and music producer living in Portland Maine.
Lisa Pegher.  Lisa Mae Pegher is an American drummer and percussion soloist.
Kristina Adolphson.  Kristina Adolphson (born 2 September 1937) is a Swedish film actress. She was born in Stockholm Sweden. Her father was actor Edvin Adolphson.
Acharya Kuber Nath Rai.  Acharya Kuber Nath Rai (March 26 1933 – June 5 1996) was a writer and scholar of Hindi Literature and Sanskrit.
Frank Strozier.  Frank R. Strozier Jr. (born June 13 1937) is an alto saxophonist renowned for his playing in the hard bop idiom.Strozier was born in Memphis Tennessee where he learned to play piano. He grew up in a middle-class family. His father Frank Sr. was a pharmacist who owned a drug store and his mother Mildred worked as a clerk in the same drug store. In 1954 he moved to Chicago where he performed with Harold Mabern George Coleman and Booker Little (all like Strozier from Memphis).
Adriaen Hanneman.  Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603 - buried 11 July 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter best-known today for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary Anthony van Dyck.
Xavier Veilhan.  Xavier Veilhan (1963) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. His work includes photography sculpture film painting and installation art.
Connie Evingson.  Connie Evingson (born in Hibbing MN) is an American singer who performs jazz and pop music. She lives in Minneapolis Minnesota. She has been a guest soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony. She has appeared with Doc Severinsen and Bobby McFerrin. She was on A Prairie Home Companion in 2009. She was interviewed about her album Sweet Happy Life on NPR radio on July 28 2013.Evingson is the creator of the stage production Fever A Tribute to Peggy Lee.
Presioni.  Presioni (born June 11 1979) (birth name Agim Kelmendi also known as Pre$ioni) is a rapper from in Pristina Kosovo.
Elizabeth Neff Walker.  Elizabeth Rotter is an American author of romance novels. She has been published under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Walker Elizabeth Neff Walker and Laura Matthews. As Laura Matthews she has released more than 30 Regency romance novels. Under her other pseudonyms she writes mainstream women's fiction or contemporary romances most of them revolving around people working at a hospital.
Jeremy Lile.  Jeremy Lile is the current bass singer for the Southern Gospel quartet Brian Free and Assurance. He was with the group since its 2008. Jeremy was honored with the Singing News Fans Favourite Horizon Individual Award in 2008.
Blas Elias.  Blas Elias (born August 18 1967) is the drummer of rock band Slaughter. He also drums for the Las Vegas production of Blue Man Group.
Wong Sau-ching.  Wong Sau-ching (王守清）is a renowned Hong Kong visual artist from the Art Of Nature International Company Limited.
Tak Shindo.  Takeshi Tak Shindo (November 11 1922 – April 17 2002) was a Japanese-American musician composer and arranger. He was one of the prominent artists in the exotica music genre during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Shindo also founded a dance band in 1947 and was a frequent lecturer and writer on Japanese music.
Surendra Nath Mitra.  Surendra Nath Mitra aka Surendranath Mitra (c.1850 – 25 May 1890) was one of the prominent devotees of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He came from a very properous background and had the fortune of sponsoring the expenditures of the Master and his devotees when the Master lived in Calcutta in his last days. He was also known as Suresh Chandra Mitra but Sri Ramakrishna called him Surendra. Suresh lived in Simulia Street the same locality as Narendranath (Swami Vivekananda).
Mona Douglas.  Mona Douglas MBE RBV (18 September 1898 – 8 October 1987) was a Manx cultural activist folklorist poet novelist and journalist. She is recognised as the main driving force behind the modern revival of Manx culture and is acknowledged as the most influential Manx poet of the 20th Century but she is best known for her often controversial work to preserve and revive traditional Manx folk music and dance.
Lori Peters.  Lori Peters (born November 29 1973) is the former drummer for the Christian rock band Skillet performing with them from 2000 to 2007. She recorded four albums with the band: Ardent Worship Alien Youth Collide and Comatose. She played her last show on December 31 2007 feeling that it's time for [her] to come off of the road and start a new chapter in [her] life. She took time during the Christmas season of 2007 to train a new drummer who would join Skillet the 18-year-old Jen Ledger.
Rajko Perušek.  Rajko Perušek (7 January 1854 – 25 February 1917) was a Slovene writer translator linguist and bibliographer.Perušek was born in Ljubljana then part of the Austrian Empire now the capital of Slovenia. He studied languages in Graz and graduated in 1879 with Ancient Greek and Latin as his main subjects. He worked in Pazin for a brief period before joining the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia. Between 1880 and 1882 he taught at the newly founded gymnasium in Sarajevo.
Aylar Lie.  Aylar Dianati Lie (born 12 February 1984) is a Norwegian actress and former pornographic actress of Iranian descent. She is currently working in the music industry as a music video actress and singer having featured in several of Swedish DJ Basshunter's music videos. She became famous after participating in the Norwegian Big Brother. Due to a turbulent domestic situation she was taken away from her parents and grew up in foster care. She speaks Norwegian Persian and English fluently.
Natalie Duncan.  Natalie Duncan is an English soul/blues singer from Nottingham signed to Verve Records. She released her debut EP Natalie Alexis Duncan on the Farmyard Records label in 2009 and then featured in BBC2's Goldie's Band: By Royal Appointment broadcast in March/April 2011. She released her debut album Devil In Me (recorded at Real World Studios and produced by Joe Henry) on the Verve label in July 2012.
Martyn Clayton.  Martyn Clayton is the author of Roma : A People On The Edge (Braiswick 2003) a non-fiction book exploring the history and current situation of the Roma Gypsy peoples worldwide and a novel Take Me Out (Subculture Books 2008)
Samir Sammoun.  Samir Sammoun (born August 10 1952) is a Canadian-Lebanese artist and telecommunications engineer.
Christian Lorenz.  Christian Flake Lorenz (born 16 November 1966) is a German musician notable as the keyboardist for the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. He is also known for his role in the band Feeling B.
Pieter Grobler.  Pieter Grobler (born 1977 in South Africa) is a classical pianist. His early studies were with a family member and he later studied with Joseph Stanford at the University of Pretoria and Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas U.S.A.. He currently holds the Collaborative Piano Position at Heidelberg University.Grobler has twice won awards from UNISA for his performances of South African art music. The first came in 2003.
Laurel Nakadate.  Laurel Nakadate (born December 15 1975) is an American video artist and photographer living in New York City.
Gilbert Dempster Fisher.  Gilbert Dempster Fisher (1906–1985) was a Scottish broadcaster writer and naturalist who achieved prominence on BBC Scottish Radio as a naturalist under the persona of 'the Hut Man'.
Mike Speck.  Mike Speck is a Gospel musician and ordained minister from Lebanon Tennessee. Together with his wife Faye and daughter Melody VanNus Speck tours with a Gospel music trio called the Mike Speck Trio. Speck has performed as a guest artist in ministries with Dr. Charles Stanley Dr. Bailey Smith Freddie Gage and David Ring.Speck served as minister of music from 2000 to 2001 at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg Virginia.
Jill Greenberg.  Jill Greenberg (born July 10 1967) is an American photographer and artist. She is known for her portraits and fine art work that often features anthropomorphized animals that have been digitally manipulated with painterly effects.
Jean-Roch.  Jean-Roch Pédri known as just Jean-Roch (born in Toulon France on 3 October 1966) is a singer-songwriter and DJ / producer of electronic music and founder of Vip Room. He is also founder of the record label John-Roch Records.
Roy MacSkimming.  Roy MacSkimming is a Canadian novelist non-fiction writer and cultural policy consultant.Born in Ottawa Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto MacSkimming broke into book publishing in 1964 at Clarke Irwin and later co-founded New Press one of Canada’s leading small presses of the 1970s.
Dash Snow.  Dashiell Dash Snow (July 27 1981 – July 13 2009) was an American artist based in New York.
Davey Beauchamp.  David (Davey) Beauchamp is a librarian author editor and voice actor. His personal appearance schedule regularly includes several science fiction conventions such as DragonCon ConCarolinas and MobiCon where he speaks on panels teaches in workshops for aspiring authors and sometimes records audio-dramas written by himself or others while performing them before a live audience.
Ivo Maček.  Ivo Maček (24 March 1914 – 26 May 2002) was a Croatian pianist.From 1939-45 he performed as part of the Maček-Šulek-Janigro Trio. He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar in Germany.
Vexi Salmi.  Veikko Olavi Vexi Salmi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈʋeksi ˈsɑlmi]; born 21 September 1942) is a Finnish lyricist. He has written the lyrics to numerous popular songs for several prominent artists including Irwin Goodman Jari Sillanpää and Katri Helena. His career as a lyricist began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. During his prolific career he has written the lyrics for over 4000 songs more than 2400 of which have been recorded.
Wesley Klein.  Wesley Klein (born in Leiderdorp Netherlands on 25 March 1988) is a Dutch singer. He was mainly known for his participation in the Dutch version of the talent show Popstars on SBS 6 in its second series (2009–2010) in June 2009 and he won on January 29 2010.Klein worked in construction until his talent was discovered by accident during a gig in a pub in 2005. He started playing gigs and taking part in local music festivals.
Rodney Crowell.  Rodney Crowell (born August 7 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.He was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' Hot Band.
Tris Imboden.  Tris Imboden (born Gregory Tristan Imboden on July 27 1951) is a multi-platinum American rock drummer. As an educator he has been a drum clinician and author of tutorial materials. As a performer he has been in studio sessions and on tour with some of the most notable and highest-selling musicians of all time.
Ludwig Kalisch.  Ludwig Kalisch (7 September 1814 Lissa - 3 March 1882 Paris) was a Polish-German Jewish novelist.When only twelve years of age he left his home and became successively pedler merchant and teacher. He saved enough money to carry him through matriculation and the study of medicine and later languages and literature in Heidelberg and Munich. Settling in Mainz in 1843 he became editor of the Narrhalla (1843–46). A participant in the revolution of 1848-49 he was forced to leave Germany.
Omair Ahmad.  Omair Ahmad is an Indian writer whose book Jimmy the Terrorist was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.Omair Ahmad was born in Gorakhpur Aligarh in 1974.
Eduardo Barreto.  Luis Eduardo Barreto Ferreyra (1954 – December 15 2011) was an artist from Uruguay who worked in the comic book and comic strip industries including several years of prominent work for DC Comics.
Elvia Ardalani.  Elvia Ardalani or Elvia García Ardalani (born June 4 1963 in Heroica Matamoros Tamaulipas Mexico) is a Mexican writer poet and storyteller. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas–Pan American where she teaches Creative Writing and Spanish Literature.
Lili Añel.  Lili Añel (nee Eulalia Añel) is an American singer-songwriter and performing artist originally from New York City. She was born in El Barrio Spanish Harlem and raised in the South Bronx. She moved to Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 2004 where the local music scene embraced her along with airplay and guest appearances on NPR station WXPN. She performed in and around Philadelphia the Lehigh Valley Delaware New Jersey as well as continuing to perform in New York City.
Josh Holmes.  Josh Holmes started touring and recording original music in 1998 releasing four CDs under his group name The Josh Holmes Band leading to thousands of CD sales.[citation needed]He released his first solo album under his own name Josh Holmes entitled A Table 4 One. The launch was coordinated with a national radio market release. Sony Pictures/ABC network incorporated Josh's song “Greener On the Other Side” into the season finale of their series Beautiful People.
Gunvor Pontén.  Gunvor Margareta Pontén (born 11 February 1929) is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in 60 films and television shows since 1949. She starred in the film Leva på 'Hoppet' which won the Silver Bear (Comedies) award at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival.
Nike Arrighi.  Nike Arrighi (born March 9 1947) is a French visual artist and former actress known for roles in several European horror and art house films in the 1960s and 1970s in addition to work in television. She retired from film and television after marrying Prince Paolo di Borghese since when she has been a visual artist specializing in copperplate etching.
Mark Vonnegut.  Mark Vonnegut (born May 11 1947) is an American pediatrician and memoirist. He is the son of writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and his first wife Jane Cox. He is also the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. He described himself in the preface to his 1975 book as a hippie son of a counterculture hero BA in religion (with a) genetic disposition to schizophrenia.Mark Vonnegut (whom his parents named after Mark Twain) graduated from Swarthmore College in 1969.
Norrie Paramor.  Norrie Paramor (born Norman William Paramor; 15 May 1914 – 9 September 1979) was a British record producer composer arranger and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard and the Shadows having steered their early career—producing and arranging most of their material from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s.
Alphonse de Lamartine.  Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (French pronunciation: ​[alfɔ̃s də lamaʁˈtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869) was a French writer poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic.
Joseph Vogel.  For American-Lebanese basketball player see Joe VogelJoseph Vogel is an American author scholar and popular culture critic. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson (Sterling Publishing 2011).
Yoyoy Villame.  Roman Tesorio Villame (November 18 1932 – May 18 2007) better known as Yoyoy Villame was a Filipino singer composer lyricist and comedian. Villame was a native of Calape Bohol and was the father of singer Hannah Villame. He died of cardiac arrest at the Las Piñas Medical Center in Manila on May 18 2007.
Ashley Fires.  Ashley Fires (born March 2 1982) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. She's married to porn director Jack Kona.
Kresilas.  Kresilas (Greek: Κρησίλας Krêsílas; ca. 480–410 BC) was a Greek sculptor in the Classical period (5th century BC) from Kydonia. He was trained in Argos and then worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war as a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron. He is best known for his statue Pericles with the Corinthian helmet.
Julius Bacher.  Julius Bacher (August 8 1810 – 1889) was a German playwright and novelist from Ragnit Province of East Prussia.
Scott Ragsdale.  Scott Ragsdale (born January 10 1971) is a Dubai-based American businessman and endurance athlete. He is the co-founder and chairman of the business information company naseba. He is the first Dubai resident to swim the English Channel and the only person to have completed seven iron-distance triathlons across the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates in seven consecutive days.
Michael Conforti.  Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He played Jeremy Rhodes on Edge of Night and Wally Bacon on Guiding Light. Conforti later became a writer for the soap opera Guiding Light. He became a Co-Head Writer for All My Children and Guiding Light. During the WGA strike he chose financial core status with the Writers Guild of America and continued working.He is the father of 3 and Stepdad of 2: Olivia Marrisa Matt Eva Lilah.
Concordia Scott.  Sister Concordia Scott was a Scottish sculptor and Benedictine nun of the Minster Abbey community Minster-in-Thanet Kent. Her commissioned works have included statues for Westminster Abbey Canterbury Cathedral Coventry Cathedral and the National Shrine of Wales as well as numerous sculptures currently in Europe and the United States of America.
Dositej Obradović.  Dimitrije Dositej Obradović (Serbian: Димитрије Обрадовић pronounced [dɔsǐtɛːj ɔbrǎːdɔʋitɕ]; 17 February 1742 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian author philosopher linguist traveler polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia. An influential protagonist of the Serbian national and cultural renaissance he advocated Enlightenment and rationalist ideas while remaining a Serbian patriot and an adherent of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Lev Kassil.  Lev Abramovich Kassil (Russian: Лев Абра́мович Касси́ль) (27 June 1905 Pokrovskaya – 21 June 1970 Moscow) was a Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature depicting Soviet life teenagers and their world school sports cultural life and war.
Delia Matache.  Delia Matache (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdelia maˈtace] born 7 February 1982) known by the stage name of Delia is a famous Romanian eurobeat singer-songwriter TV celebrity dancer philanthropist former model fashion designer and coach from television music competition franchise X Factor. She has started her stage music activity in 1999 in N&D music band with Nicolae Marin and had released 4 albums and after the split off in 2003 she had released another two solo albums.
Luderin Darbone.  Luderin Lawrence Darbone (Evangeline Parish Louisiana January 14 1913 – Sulphur Louisiana November 21 2008) was a Cajun-Western swing fiddle player for the band Hackberry Ramblers.
Nina Petrovna Valetova.  Nina Petrovna Valetova (Russian: Нина Петровна Валетова) or Nina Tokhtaman Valetova (Russian: Нина Тохтаман Валетова) born November 19 1958 is a Russian-American metaphysical realism painter.Nina Valetova was born in Berdyash Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Russian SFSR Soviet Union and graduated as a Specialist from the Faculty of Arts and Graphics of Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute in Ufa. She immigrated to the United States in 1993.
Milica Majstorović.  Milica Majstorović (Serbian: Милица Мајсторовић; born 9 October 1989) is a Serbian singer. She came to media attention as a contestant in regional television show Operacija Trijumf while her debut single Savršeni par was released on 6 January 2009. On 20 February 2010 it was reported Majstorović tried to commit suicide due to professional disappointments which she confirmed on 2 March 2010.
Mai Jia.  Jiang Benhu (simplified Chinese: 蒋本浒; traditional Chinese: 蔣本滸; pinyin: Jiǎng Běnhǔ; born 1964) better known by his pen name Maì Jiā. He is a Chinese novelist who is the president of Zhejiang Writers Association and vice president of the Zhejiang Literature and Art Association.
Danny Brooks.  Danny Brooks (born Daniel G. P. Middlebrook on December 16 1951 in Milton Ontario Canada) is a Canadian Christian blues musician singer-songwriter and author living in Milton Ontario. He performs with a full band as Danny Brooks and The Rockin' Revelators Danny Brooks & The Austin Brotherhood or Danny Brooks & The Memphis Brothers.
Julian Fenton.  Julian Edward Fenton (born 1970 in Hertford) is an English rock drummer composer and teacher formerly of 90's rock bands Kinky Machine and Mansun.Following the split of Kinky Machine in 1995 Fenton briefly joined Mansun in 1996 filling in between the band's original drummer Hib’s departure and Andie Rathbone's recruitment.
Morrie Ryskind.  Morrie Ryskind (October 20 1895 – August 24 1985) was an American dramatist lyricist and writer of theatrical productions and motion pictures who became a conservative political activist later in life.
Pierre Maguelon.  Pierre Maguelon (1933–2010) was a French actor.
Alcinous Burton Jamison.  Alcinous Burton Jamison (1851–1938) was an American physician inventor of medical devices socialite and occultist.
Dave Hlubek.  David Lawrence Hlubek [pronounced LOO'-bek] was born on August 28 1951. He is the lead guitarist and founding member of the Southern Rock band Molly Hatchet.
Fernando Vallejo.  Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín Colombia) is a novelist filmmaker and essayist born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá which he finished.
Catherine Vickers.  Catherine Vickers is a Canadian pianist born in Regina.She won the 1979 Concorso Busoni and was awarded the 1981 Sydney Competition's 3rd prize. Vickers subsequently settled in Germany where she is a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and the artistic director of an electronics-piano festival (Piano+) at Karlsruhe's Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie). She is known for her work at the contemporary music scene.
Nicole (Chilean singer).  Denisse Lillian Laval Soza (born January 19 1977 in Chile) better known by her stage name Nicole is a Chilean singer-songwriter based in Santiago and Miami.
Sun Rise Above.  Sun Rise Above also known as Sun R. A. is a hip hop artist notable for his leftist political views and corresponding lyrics. Described as a highly politicized rapper who manages to convey his ideological leanings in an approachable fashion Sun Rise Above has been compared to acts like Public Enemy and the Wu-Tang Clan as well as contemporary political rappers such as Dead Prez and Immortal Technique.Sun Rise Above released his debut album Global Warning in 2003.
Bob Bledsaw.  Robert Eugene Bledsaw (May 18 1942 – April 19 2008) was the founder of the role-playing game publisher Judges Guild.
Nadine Gordimer.  Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity.Gordimer's writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime works such as July's People were banned.
Mildred Benson.  Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10 1905 – May 28 2002) was an American journalist and author of children's books in particular the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries. Writing under Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1947 she contributed to 23 of the first 30 originally published Nancy Drew mysteries.While she wrote scores of books under her own and many other names she is perhaps best known as one of 28 individuals who helped produce the Nancy Drew books.
Trish Murphy.  Trish Murphy is an Austin-based singer-songwriter. She appeared in the Austin City Limits Music Festival twice and has released four records.
Mable John.  Mable John (born November 3 1930) is an American blues vocalist and was the first female signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label.
Rabbit Brown.  Richard Rabbit Brown (c. 1880 – c. 1937) was an American blues guitarist and composer. His music was characterized by a mixture of blues pop songs and original topical ballads. On May 11 1927 he recorded six singles for Victor Records. James Alley Blues is included in the Anthology of American Folk Music and has been covered by Bob Dylan and others.
Roger Swainston.  Roger Anthony Swainston born 7 May 1960 in North Cotswold Gloucestershire UK is an Australian painter naturalist and zoologist. He is one of the most recognized artists of the underwater world.
Khawla Dunia.  Khawla Dunia (Arabic: خولة دنيا‎) is a Syrian poet journalist researcher and humanitarian aid and relief organizer from Damascus Syria. She is a recipient of the Human Rights and Humanitarian work award from Lew Kopelew Organization in Germany. From 2000-2002 she was a member of the Committee of Defending Human Rights- Amarji Magazine 2000 – 2002.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer. She has been called the most prominent of a procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature.
William Hickey (memoirist).  William Hickey (30 June 1749 – 31 May 1830) was an English lawyer but is best known for his vast Memoirs composed in 1808–10 and published between 1913 and 1925 which in their manuscript form cover seven hundred and forty closely written pages.
Cesare Galeotti.  Cesare Galeotti (5 June 1872 Pietrasanta - 19 February 1929 Paris) was an Italian composer conductor and concert pianist. He is best known for his opera Anton which he conducted at its highly lauded premiere at La Scala on 17 February 1900. His other opera Dorisse premiered at La Monnaie in Brussels on 18 April 1910 under the baton of Sylvain Dupuis and with mezzo-soprano Claire Croiza performing as Alays.
John Caparulo.  John Caparulo (born September 22 1975) is an American stand-up comedian. He is perhaps best known for his appearances on the late night E! talk show Chelsea Lately.
Yuki Ninagawa.  Ninagawa Yuki (蜷川 有紀; born 1960 in Yokohama Japan) is a Japanese actress daughter of the poet Mizuno Akiyoshi.She made her debut as an actress in 1978 as she was chosen out of 3000 candidatesto play the heroine in Kohei Tsuka’s Rock Opera “Salome” while she was still inhigh school. She received The Best New Actress Award in 1981 for her performancein “Kurutta Kajitsu”.
Didier Leclair.  Didier Leclair (born Didier Kabagema Montreal 1967) is a Canadian francophone fiction writer currently based in Toronto. He has lived in various countries in Africa and has studied at Laurentian University in Sudbury and Toronto's Glendon College.
Pyotr Gusev.  Pyotr Andreyevich Gusev (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Гусев) was a ballet dancer teacher and choreographer. He was born on 29. December 1904 in St. Petersburg. He studied at the St. Petersburg School of Choreography under Alexandr Shiryayev. He was a friend of George Balanchine and joined his Young Ballet group. He graduated in 1924 and joined the Kirov Ballet. He married Olga Mungalova a ballet dancer at Kriov. In 1935 he left the Kirov and joined the Bolshoy in Moscow as a soloist.
John Porcelly.  John 'Porcell' Porcelly (a.k.a. Paramananda Das) was the guitarist for the American 1980s hardcore bands Young Republicans Violent Children Youth Of Today and Judge. He also sang in Project X (under the pseudonym Slam) and has had stints in other bands such as Bold and Gorilla Biscuits.
Wilfred Lai.  Bishop Dr. Wilfred Lai is the senior pastor of Jesus Celebration Center which is a ministry of Redeemed Gospel Church. He is also the presiding Bishop of Redeemed Gospel Church Inc. which has over 1000 churches in Africa.[citation needed]
Charles Heung.  Charles Heung Wah-Keung is a Hong Kong actor-turned-film producer and presenter. As founder of Win's Entertainment in the 1980s and China Star Entertainment Group in the 1990s he has helped established the careers of various cinematic icons in Hong Kong that include Stephen Chow Chow Yun-fat Johnnie To Jet Li and Andy Lau among countless others.
Rachel Trickett.  Rachel Trickett (20 December 1923 – 24 June 1999) was an English novelist non‑fiction writer literary scholar and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College Oxford for nearly twenty years between 1973 and 1991.
Earnest Pugh.  Earnest Pugh (born November 23 1971) is an American singer-songwriter of gospel music with a five-octave vocal range. Public recognition for the artist commenced with the success of Rain on Us (2009) and I Need Your Glory (2011) and he subsequently attained the title of Gospel Music's Leading Man. Pugh is also the founder and president of the record label EPM Music.
Mukesh (singer).  Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976) better known mononymously as Mukesh was an Indian playback singer of Hindi movies. He alongside Mohammad Rafi Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar left such an impact on the Hindi film industry that they are still remembered to date. Amongst the numerous nominations and awards he won his song Kai Baar Yuhi Dekha Hai from film Rajnigandha (1973) won him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
Vince Staples.  Vince Staples is an American rapper from Long Beach California. He is one-third of the Hip hop group Cutthroat Boyz alongside fellow California rappers Joey Fatts and Aston Matthews. Staples is currently signed to Blacksmith Records A.G. and Def Jam Recordings. He is best known for his appearances on albums by Odd Future members and his collaborative mixtape titled Stolen Youth with fellow American rapper Mac Miller who produced the entire project.
Talent Caldwell.  Talent Caldwell is a comic book artist best known for his work on the Top Cow Productions character Fathom. He has also drawn for DC Comics' Superman and Marvel Comics' Spider-Man characters.
Atilla Engin.  Atilla Engin (b. 1946 Kayseri Turkey) is a Turkish American fusion jazz musician. From 1974 to 2001 he was active in Denmark as a musician and educator; he organized music festivals and represented Denmark as a musical ambassador. In 2001 he left Denmark for the United States where he formed an orchestra.
James Johnston (English musician).  James Johnston (born 1966 Guildford Surrey England) is an English alternative rock musician.
Percy Greg.  Percy Greg (7 January 1836 Stand Prestwich near Manchester - 24 December 1889 Chelsea[citation needed]) son of William Rathbone Greg was an English writer.Percy Greg like his father wrote about politics but his views were violently reactionary: his History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union (1887) can be said to be more of a polemic rather than a history.His Across the Zodiac (1880) is an early science fiction novel said to be the progenitor of the sword-and-planet genre. 
Thomas Helmig.  Thomas Helmig (born 15 October 1964 in Egå suburb of Aarhus Denmark) is a Danish rock singer and musician and has been one of the most popular singers in Denmark since the middle of the 1980s.
Ian Mackintosh.  Ian Mackintosh MBE (born 26 July 1940; disappeared and presumed dead July 1979) was a Scottish naval officer a writer of thriller novels and a screenwriter for British television.His first novel A Slaying in September was published in 1967.
Kurt Elling.  Kurt Elling (born November 2 1967) is an American jazz vocalist composer lyricist and vocalese performer. Born in Chicago Illinois and raised in Rockford Elling first became interested in music through his father who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. Growing up Elling sang in choirs and played various musical instruments but was not exposed to jazz until he attended Gustavus Adolphus College.
Ernesto Viceconte.  Ernesto Viceconte (2 January 1836 - 1877) was an Italian composer. Born in Naples Viceconte was a child prodigy and was admitted to the Naples Conservatory at the age of 8. He composed 5 operas; three of which premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo: Evelina (1856) Luisa Strozzi (1862) and Selvaggia (1872). The latter work was his most successful composition. His compositional output also includes one symphony and some vocal works and sacred music.
Amber Lynn.  Amber Lynn (born Laura Lynn Allen on September 3 1964 in Orange California) is an American pornographic film actress model and exotic dancer.
DJ Reid Speed.  Reid Speed (born Reid Margolis) is a multi-genre DJ who specializes in dubstep drum and bass trap and electro. She owns and runs Play Me Records out of Santa Monica California.
Pietro Floridia.  Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music.According to David Johnson (quoting the notes by Luigi della Croce to the Bongiovanni recording of Floridia's Symphony and other works) Floridia was born in Modica Sicily and studied in Naples where he created his first opera Carlotta Clepier. He later destroyed the score of this work and entered further studies.
Michael Gilbert.  Michael Francis Gilbert CBE (17 July 1912 – 8 February 2006) was a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who wrote as Michael Gilbert.
Gilbert Gerard (theological writer).  Gilbert Gerard (1760–1815) was a Scottish theological writer. The son of Alexander Gerard (1728–1795) he became the minister of the Scots Church Amsterdam. He was professor of Greek at King's College Aberdeen 1791 and of divinity 1795. In 1803 he was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Maurice Tabard.  Maurice Tabard (1897–1984) was a French photographer. Tabard was one of the leading photographers of the Surrealist movement which he entered under the influence of his friend the American phtographer Man Ray.
Danny Nordahl.  Danny Nordahl is a bass guitarist who currently plays in the bands Faster Pussycat and Motochrist.He has also played in the bands The Throbs Stiv Bators And His Evil Boys N.Y. Loose The Newlydeads Tracii Guns' version of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Roses.
Rod Carrillo.  Rod Carrillo is a dance and Latin music producer a house DJ remixer and record label president.Born in the Republic of Panama he began the Carrillo Music record label in 2007 and is a sought after producer and remixer/DJ.Under his Carrillo Music imprint he has been known for producing the dance hits: Overload 2 of US Zimmee It Would Take Control Mayhem Sweet Sugar Poison produced for Julissa Veloz (US Dance #2 Italy # 33 Germany #17 Poland #10) Spotlight with Eddie Amador and Georgia Nicole (US Dance #8) Big Mama's House - Capretta (US Dance #20) Going Strong - Natalia Flores (US Dance #1) Beauty Queen and Boy If You Only Knew for Kelsey B (US Dance 42) and Breathe 54 - Eric Redd (US Dance #32).Some of his most known remix productions include: Heat of The Night - Paulina Rubio I'm A Fire - Donna Summer (US Dance #1) Crazy Possessive - Kaci Battaglia (US Dance #1) Keep Your Body Working - Tony Moran and Martha Wash (US Dance #1) Caught Me Slippin - Nathan Fagan-Gayle feat. 
Kristofer Randers.  Kristofer Randers (1851 – 1917) was a Norwegian poet and theatre critic He made his literary debut in 1879 with the poetry collection Med Lyre og Lanse. His travel guide book on Sunnmøre Søndmøre. Reisehaandbog from 1890 has been re-issued several times. He was also a theatre critic for the newspaper Aftenposten.
Parara Napaltjarri.  Parara Napaltjarri (c. 1944–2003) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings are included in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Maggie Shayne.  Maggie Shayne (born Margaret Benson) is an American author of more than 50 romance and paranormal novels. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award. In addition to her work as a novelist Shayne is active in the Wiccan religion and is the High Priestess of a coven she founded.
Hugh Metcalfe.  Hugh Metcalfe is a musician and filmmaker from London and Suffolk England. He is best known as the promoter of The Klinker in London which he has run in various venues since at least 1982 (stories vary). He plays guitar violin hi-hat and gas mask. He performs in several bands including Bicycle Clip Sex The Small Faeces and Fuck Off Batman.
John Cruso.  John Cruso (ca. 1595 – 1655) was a writer on military matters before the English Civil War and a supporter of the Parliamentary cause during the war.Many of his works were as editor and a translator of continental works. Ole Peter Grell says Cruso's military works were significant only in that they were the first to make the new continental primarily Dutch military literature available to an English-speaking audience.
Marco Antonio Campos.  Marco Antonio Campos (July 9 1919 – February 19 1996) was a Mexican comedian actor and singer best known as Viruta in the double act Viruta y Capulina with Gaspar Henaine. His best known role is as the straight man in the comic duo Viruta y Capulina along with Gaspar Henaine. Campos and Henaine worked together in 35 comedy films and one television series until they separated over work issues in 1967. He died in 1996 from an aortic aneurysm.
Pietro Saporetti.  Pietro Saporetti (Bagnacavallo Emilia-Romagna 1832 - 1893) was an Italian painter.In Bagnacavallo his father was a teacher of Physics and mathematics at the Lyceum. He took his first lesson in Bagnacavallo under Antonio Moni. In 1851 he went to study painting in Florence. In 1854 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice under Luigi Ferrari professor of sculpture. In 1855 he returned to Florence where he painted Christ exorcises a demon. Finally he moved to Rome.
Michael Barnes (Canadian author).  Michael Barnes CM (born September 26 1934) is a Canadian writer who is an authority on the history and folklore of Northern Ontario.Born in London England Barnes came to Canada in 1956. He received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1964 and an M.Ed. from the University of Toronto in 1971.Hon. Inspector OPP 1991.
Hercules Seghers.  Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers (c. 1589 – c. 1638) was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. He was the most inspired experimental and original landscapist of his period and an even more innovative printmaker.
James Grant (artist).  James Edward Grant (May 25 1924 – August 14 1997) was a painter and sculptor most active from the late 1950s into the early 1970s. Best known for his sculptural work in plastics this work by no means defined him but was rather a natural endpoint of an exploration into increased dimensionality—starting from abstract canvases moving through collages and bas-reliefs until the work finally came off the wall in sculptural form.
Jim Unger.  Jim Unger (21 January 1937 – 29 May 2012) was a Canadian cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip Herman which ran for 18 years in 600 newspapers in 25 countries.
Chude Jideonwo.  Chude Jideonwo (born 16 March 1985) is a Nigerian lawyer award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur. For a decade now he has garnered key experience in all forms of traditional and new media and has translated that practical experience into successful media campaigns; he is also recognized as a leading expert on New/Social Media and Youth Lifestyles.
Kristian Bergheim.  Kristian Bergheim (born 6 June 1926 in Bærum - deceased 30 May 2010) was a noted saxophonist considered one of the few in Norway of international caliber.
Marty Willson-Piper.  Marty Willson-Piper is a guitarist and member of Australian independent rock band The Church. While he was not a founding member of the band (he joined in 1980 after seeing an early gig where they were performing as three-piece) he has been regarded as a constant member for many years.
Nick Perumov.  Nick Perumov (Russian: Ник Перумов) is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov (Russian: Николай Даниилович Перумов; born 21 November 1963) a Russian fantasy and science fiction writer.
Joey McIntyre.  Joseph Mulrey Joey McIntyre (born December 31 1972) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known as the youngest member of the group New Kids on the Block.
Wang Xueqi.  Wang Xueqi (Chinese: 王学圻; born 1946) is a Chinese film actor whose career has spanned over 25 years. He was often cast in early Fifth Generation films such as Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and The Big Parade (1986) Huang Jianxin's Samsara and Zhang Yimou's Codename Cougar (1989).
Emilia (Bulgarian singer).  Emiliya Valeva (Bulgarian: Емилия Вълева born March 21 1982) professionally known as Emilia (or Emiliya Emiliq Emilija) is a Bulgarian pop folk singer. She has released eight studio albums to date. Since the beginning of her music career in 1999 Emilia has been a top name on the Bulgarian pop-folk scene.
Susan Enan.  Susan Enan is an English singer and songwriter.Susan Enan is known for writing and performing the song Bring on the Wonder which was featured in the television show Bones.
Jože Šmit.  Jože Šmit (1 February 1922 – 7 February 2004) was a Slovene poet translator editor and journalist.Šmit was born in the village of Tlake near Rogatec in eastern Slovenia in 1922. The house in which he was born and spent his childhood is preserved on a new location at the Rogatec Open-Air Museum where it was moved to in 1981 as a typical example of an early 19th-century Sub-Pannonian house. He studied forestry at Vienna between 1942 an 1943 and was drafted into the German Army.
Leonard Ochtman.  Leonard Ochtman (October 21 1854–1935) was an American Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes. He was a founding member of the Cos Cob Art Colony and the Greenwich Society of Artists.
Marlon Saunders.  Marlon Saunders is an American singer songwriter and record producer. A professor of voice at Berklee College of Music Marlon has two solo recordings on his independent label Black Honey Records: the improvisational A Groove So Deep: The Live Sessions and 2003's critically acclaimed Enter My Mind. Marlon continues to write sing and produce with the acclaimed acid-jazz band Jazzhole. He co-produced and co-wrote Love 360 the debut jazzy soul project from April Hill released in fall of 2007.
Jake Hooker (musician).  Jake Hooker (born Jerry Mamberg May 3 1953) is an Israeli born musician. He was the guitarist for the rock/pop band Arrows. His family moved to the United States when he was a child but Jake later moved to England. He currently lives in Los Angeles California.
Joseph Furphy.  Joseph Furphy (Irish: Seosamh Ó Foirbhilhe; 26 September 1843 – 13 September 1912) is widely regarded as the Father of the Australian novel. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903) regarded as an Australian classic.
Verónica Romeo.  Verónica Romeo (born 18 July 1978) is a Spanish singer who rose to fame in 2001 after appearing on the reality singing contest Operación Triunfo in which she finished in sixth place. Among the songs she performed on the program were You'd Better Stop Un-break My Heart (Regresa a mí) and One Day I'll Fly Away.Having already sold more than 250000 albums in Spain Romeo is attempting successes in the American market.
Patrick Scott.  Patrick Scott (14 January 1921 – 14 February 2014) was an Irish artist.Patrick Scott was born in Kilbrittain County Cork in 1921 and had his first exhibition in 1944 but trained as an architect and did not become a full-time artist until 1960. He worked for fifteen years for the Irish architect Michael Scott assisting for example in the design of Busáras the central bus station in Dublin.
Edna Gallmon Cooke.  Madame Edna Gallmon Cooke (1918 - September 4 1967) was a renowned gospel singer and recording artist from 1949 until her death in 1967. Personal information about Ms. Cooke is scarce and most of her biographical details have been gleaned from the liner notes of her various albums. Ms. Gallmon Cooke is best known for her recordings of Stop Gambler and Heavy Load.Born in Columbia South Carolina in 1918 the daughter of a Baptist preacher Reverend Eddie J.
Joon Park.  Joon Park (born Park Joon-hyung Korean: 박준형 Hanja: 朴俊炯) is a Korean-American singer actor and leader of the Korean pop group g.o.d.. He was born on July 20 and graduated from La Quinta High School in Westminster California and attended California State University Long Beach. During his days with g.o.d. he served as the group's leader-rapper.
Biagio Marini.  Biagio Marini (5 February 1594 – 20 March 1663) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer of the first half of the seventeenth century.Marini was born in Brescia. He may have studied with his uncle Giacinto Bondioli. His works were printed and influential throughout the European musical world. He traveled throughout his life and occupied posts in Brussels over thirty years in Neuburg an der Donau and Düsseldorf and Venice in 1615 joining Monteverdi's group at St.
Yousuf Karsh.  Yousuf Karsh CC (Armenian: Յուսուֆ Քարշ; December 23 1908 – July 13 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer.
James Elliott (musician).  Ateleia (musician) directs here. For other uses of the term Ateleia see Ateleia (disambiguation).James Elliott (born December 20 1976) is an American electronic musician usually releasing solo material under the alias Ateleia. The name comes from Ateleia a legume or from ancient Greek meaning tax-free. The music is electronic psychedelic minimalism.Elliott was the co-founder (along with David Daniell) of the record label Antiopic.
Lorenzo Ratti.  Lorenzo Ratti (ca. 1589–1630) was an Italian baroque composer. He was predecessor of Carissimi at the Collegium Germanicum. He composed six Gospel Dialogues for the oratory. He was a teacher of Benevoli.
Sonny Seeza.  Tyrone Taylor (born November 13 1970) better known by his stage name Sonny Seeza who was previously known as both Suavé and Sonsee is an American hardcore rapper from Brooklyn New York and an original member of the Hardcore rap group Onyx. Onyx would often recite their verses in this order: Fredro Starr Sonny Seeza and finally Sticky Fingaz. Sonny Seeza's debut album Tytanium was released in 2009. In 2012 he appeared on the song You're Dead by Lantz from his album Waiting 2 Die.
Takahiro Hōjō.  Takahiro Hōjō (北条 隆博 Hōjō Takahiro born May 25 1986 in Aichi Japan) is a Japanese actor and musician.
Sofia Karlsson (singer).  Sofia Karlsson (born 25 March 1975 in Enskede Sweden) is a Swedish folk singer.
Boots Riley.  Raymond Lawrence Riley (born 1971) better known by his stage name Boots Riley is an American poet rapper songwriter producer screenwriter humorist political organizer community activist lecturer and public speaker- best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. Riley is known for his energetic charismatic punk-like presence on-stage combined with dancing.
Edwin van Cleef.  Ash Howarth better known by his stage name Edwin van Cleef is a nu-disco/electronic musician from Leeds England.
Jan Schelhaas.  Jan Russell Schelhaas (born 11 March 1948 in Liverpool) is an English musician mostly known as the keyboard player from the bands Caravan and Camel.Jan started his career playing bass for several progrock bands in the Canterbury area before he finally started the softrock band National Head Band in 1970 and turned to playing keyboard. They released the album Albert One in 1971 but without any success.
Billie Hughes.  Billie Keith Hughes (April 4 1948 – July 7 1998) was an American recording artist songwriter musician and record producer. He is best known for his songs with Philip Bailey with Phil Collins The Jacksons The Sisters Of Mercy Bette Midler Noel Paul Stookey and his band Lazarus as well as songs from his solo albums. Hughes had a successful artist career in Japan awarded with #1 International Single of the Year NHK Grand Prix Awards.
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino.  Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/1551 – 11 October 1608) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Milan. An important representative of the Lombard school of painting he had been taught by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. Best known as a draftsman he was also a skilled portrait painter.
Karen Walton.  Karen Walton is a Canadian screenwriter. A native of Halifax Nova Scotia Karen Walton wrote the film Ginger Snaps for which she won a Best Film Writing Canadian Comedy Award in 2002. She later wrote for the Canadian television series What It's Like Being Alone .
Augusto Volpini.  Augusto Volpini (Livorno 1832 - 1911 or 1923) was an Italian painter mainly genre paintings and portraits.He initially trained with the Livornese painter Giovanni Bartolena. Among his works: Varietà Daydreaming child and Il colpo di grazia. In 1886 at Livorno he exhibited: Una mosca simpatica; at the 1886 Promotrici of Florence Studio; in 1887: Odalisca; in 1889: Povera madre! and a Portrait of Carlotta Cordarf. He became professor and curator of the local academy.
Shady Blaze.  Ravalle Quinn (born November 4 1987) better known by his stage name Shady Blaze is an alternative hip hop artist from East Oakland Oakland California. He is a member of the Green Ova crew. He has collaborated with Main Attrakionz and Friendzone among others. Stereogum described him as a Twista/Bone Thugs-style fast-rap specialist who goes all melodiously mile-a-minute over blissed-out cloud-rap beats.
Horace McCoy.  Horace McCoy (April 14 1897 – December 15 1955) was an American writer whose hardboiled novels took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1935) which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969 fourteen years after McCoy's death.
Prinzzess.  Prinzzess (born February 6 1985 in Florida) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and Penthouse Pet.
Colos (rapper).  Colos (born 1981 in Prizren Yugoslavia - present day Kosovo) is an Albanian rapper living in Germany. He is an artist of Mellow Vibes Records and is residing in Berlin.
Maximo V. Lorenzo.  Maximo Vitaly Lorenzo (born June 4 1982 in Maracaibo Venezuela) is an American artist for comic books and illustrations.
Shahrum Kashani.  Shahrum Kashani (Persian: Ŝahrām Kāŝāni) better known as Shahrum K or SK is an Iranian pop singer. He has released 8 commercially successful albums with notable hits.
Gerald Santos.  Gerald Padua Santos (born May 15 1991 Navotas City Metro Manila Philippines) is a singer and actor. He was the grand champion of Pinoy Pop Superstar (Season 2) in 2006 and is now dubbed as The Prince of Ballad.[citation needed]
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro.  Mario Santiago Papasquiaro is the pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City December 25 1953–1998). Mexican poet and co-founder of the infrarrealista poetry movement.
Eva León.  Eva León is a Spanish violinist based in New York.In 2006 she won the 33rd Artists International Annual Debut Prize in New York and soon afterwards she made her debut at Carnegie Hall. León has won the top prize at the Michaelangelo Abbado International Violin Competition.
Steve Ditko.  Stephen J. Steve Ditko (born November 2 1927) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator with Stan Lee of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.Ditko studied under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City. He began his professional career in 1953 working in the studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby beginning as an inker and coming under the influence of artist Mort Meskin.
Walter Abendroth.  Walter Abendroth (29 May 1896 Hanover – 30 September 1973 Fischbachau) was a German composer editor and writer on music.
Toni Gilbert.  Toni Gilbert RN MA HN (born June 6 1947) is an artist author editor holistic nurse and transpersonal counselor known for her work in the healing arts.
Sonny Phillips.  Sonny Phillips (born December 7 1936) is an American jazz keyboardist. His primary instrument is electronic organ but he often played piano.
Minnie Pwerle.  Minnie Pwerle (also Minnie Purla or Minnie Motorcar Apwerl; born between 1910 and 1922 – 18 March 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. She came from Utopia Northern Territory (Unupurna in local language) a cattle station in the Sandover area of Central Australia 300 kilometres (190 mi) northeast of Alice Springs.Minnie began painting in 2000 at about the age of 80 and her pictures soon became popular and sought-after works of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.
Teo Macero.  Teo Macero (October 30 1925 – February 19 2008) born Attilio Joseph Macero was an American jazz saxophonist composer and record producer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years and most notably produced Kind of Blue the Miles Davis album which at No. 12 is the highest-ranked jazz album on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and according to the RIAA is the best-selling jazz album of all time.
Owl City.  Owl City is an American electronica project created in 2007 in Owatonna Minnesota one of several such projects by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young. Young created the project while experimenting with music in his parents' basement.
Ferdinand Bol.  Ferdinand Bol (24 June 1616 – 24 August 1680) was a Dutch artist etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master Bol favored historical subjects portraits numerous self-portraits and single figures in exotic finery.The street Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam was named after Bol just as the FEBO which is a chain of Dutch walk-up restaurants.
Matt Whyman.  Matt Whyman is a British novelist also known for his work as an advice columnist for numerous teenage magazines.
Andrzej Stasiuk.  Andrzej Stasiuk (born 25 September 1960 in Warsaw Poland) is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West.
John Melin.  John Melin (18 May 1895 – 6 April 1966) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 99 films between 1919 and 1964.
Francesco Messina.  Francesco Messina (15 December 1900 – 13 September 1995) was an Italian sculptor of the 20th century.
Pietro Maselli.  Pietro Maselli (Turin - Figino Canton of Ticino December 24 1892 ) was an Italian painter mainly of still lifes and landscapes in oil and water color.He was a resident of Turin and later move to Switzerland. In 1880 at Turin exhibited: Il giorno onomastico; in 1881 at Milan he exhibited two canvases of game (selvaggina) and another still-life. In 1884 at the Esposition of Turin del 1884 another canvases of hunted game and one titled: Un regalo.
Kevin McAleer.  Kevin McAleer (born 1956) is an Irish professional stand-up comedian. He came to prominence on the RTÉ television show Nighthawks which began broadcasting in the late 1980s. McAleer became known for his three minute sketches of surreal rustic tales told in his slow County Tyrone drawl. One critic said that McAleer put the dead back into deadpan. McAleer's most recent show is entitled Chalk and Cheese.
Dan Schneider (writer).  Dan Schneider (born 1965) is a United States poet critic film critic essayist and fiction writer best known for his criticism and literary website Cosmoetica. Schneider discovered poetry as a young adult and has since published his poetry and essays in a number of magazines and newspapers.
Gabe Witcher.  Gabriel Gabe Witcher (born June 11 1978) is an American fiddle player and singer possibly best known for being a member of the band Punch Brothers. Witcher started fiddling at the age of 5 and competed in Southern California fiddling competitions until he was 14.
Yi Lijun.  Yi Lijun (simplified Chinese: 易丽君; traditional Chinese: 易麗君; pinyin: Yì Lìjūn; born 4 December 1934) also known by his pen name Han Yi (simplified Chinese: 韩逸; traditional Chinese: 韓逸; pinyin: Hán Yì. She is a Chinese translator who had been honored by the Polish Government.She is one of the foremost translators of Polish fiction.
Panfilo Nuvolone.  Panfilo Nuvolone (1581–1651) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period who painted both religious and still life topics active in Cremona and Mantua. Born to a Mantuan gentleman he was the father of a family of Cremonese painters. In that town he apprenticed with Giovanni Battista Trotti (known as il Malosso).
Minerva J. Chapman.  Minerva Josephine Chapman (1858–1947) was an American painter. She was known for her work in miniature portraiture landscape and still life.
Dem. Theodorescu.  Dem. Theodorescu (most common rendition of Demetru Theodorescu or Teodorescu first name also Mitică; October 26 1888 – April 11 1946) was a Romanian journalist humorist and critic remembered for his social-themed novels but also for his controversial political stances. A committed opponent of the National Liberal Party establishment Theodorescu frequented the avant-garde and socialist circles.
Donna Jean Godchaux.  Donna Jean (Thatcher) Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22 1947) is an American singer best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 to 1979.
Jay Pather.  Jay Pather is a South African curator choreographer and director working in Cape Town. He is the director of Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre and an associate professor at the University of Cape Town. Pather has been involved in the choreography and direction of over one hundred productions in South Africa and even more internationally.
Joel Sayre.  Joel Sayre (December 13 1900 – September 9 1979) was an American screenwriter born in Southampton New York. His most famous screenplay was for Parole. He died on the September 9 1979 of heart failure.His daughter was the film critic and essayist Nora Sayre.
Jari Mäenpää.  Jari Mäenpää (born 23 December 1977 in Finland) is a Finnish guitarist keyboardist bassist songwriter and vocalist. He is the founder of the band Wintersun in which he performs vocals plays guitar and keyboards.[citation needed] He also played bass on Wintersun's first album before hiring a full-time line-up.Before forming Wintersun Mäenpää was best known for his time in the folk metal band Ensiferum which he joined in 1996 after leaving his prior band named Immemorial.
Ian Burden.  Ian Charles Burden (born 24 December 1957) was a keyboard player with the English synthpop band The Human League from 1981 up to 1989.Formerly of Sheffield band Graph Burden was employed as a session keyboard player for the Human League's October 1980 tour covering for Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh's keyboards after their departure. In March 1981 he returned to the band full-time and would co-write much of their early 1980s material.
William Wendt.  William Wendt (1865-1946) was an American landscape painter. He was called the Dean of Southern California landscape painters. Wendt was a founding member of the California Art Club along with his wife Julia Bracken Wendt and served as its president for six years.Wendt built his studio in Laguna Beach California. A Laguna street Wendt Terrace bears his name.
David Shrayer-Petrov.  David Shrayer-Petrov (Шраер-Петров Давид Russian-American novelist poet memoirist translator and medical scientist; best known for his novel about refuseniks Gerbert i Nelli (Herbert and Nelly) his poetry and fiction about Russian-Jewish identity and his memoirs about the Soviet literary scene in the late 1950s-1970s.
Chen Zhongshi.  Chen Zhongshi (simplified Chinese: 陈忠实; traditional Chinese: 陳忠實; pinyin: Chén Zhōngshí) is a Chinese author born in June 1942 in Xi'an. He started writing prose in 1965 and finished his magnum opus White Deer Plain in 1993 (for which he won Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1996). In 1979 he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association (which he at one point served as the association's vice chairman).
Leonard Starr.  Leonard Starr (born October 28 1925) is a Golden Age comic book artist an advertising artist and award-winning cartoonist notable for creating the newspaper strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.
Subir Nandi.  Subir Nandi is a Bangladeshi musician. He was born in Sylhet Bangladesh on November 30 1953. He achieved National Film Award for five times.[citation needed]
Yvan Goll.  Yvan Goll (born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism.
Arnaldo Baptista.  Arnaldo Dias Baptista (Portuguese pronunciation: [aɾˈnawdu baˈtʃistɐ] born July 6 1948 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian rock musician and composer.
Slobodanka Stupar.  Slobodanka Stupar (Sarajevo 1947) is Serbian visual artist who lives and works in Belgrade Athens and Cologne.
Buster Brown (musician).  Buster Brown (August 15 1911 – January 31 1976) was an American blues and R&B singer best known for his hit Fannie Mae.
Albert Hammond Jr..  Albert Louis Hammond Jr. (born April 9 1980) is an American musician and member of the indie rock band The Strokes in which he plays the guitar and the keyboard. His father Albert Hammond whose career was primarily in the 1960s and 1970s had great success on the singles charts as a songwriter and occasional singer. Hammond Jr. released his debut album Yours To Keep in 2006 and followed up with ¿Cómo Te Llama? in 2008 and his EP AHJ in 2013.
Augusta Kaiser.  Augusta Kaiser (16 January 1895 - 27 September 1932) was a modern German sculptor and ceramic artist who called herself Gust Kaiser from 1922 on. She is also known as Gustl Kaiser in connection to her ceramics work for the Kieler Kunst-Keramik pottery works.
Jacques Blumenthal.  Jacques Blumenthal (4 October 1829 – 17 May 1908) was a German pianist and composer. Born in Hamburg he began his musical studies at an early age receiving instruction from Friedrich Wilhelm Grund Carl Maria von Bocklet and Simon Sechter. In 1846 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied the piano under the tutelage of Henri Herz and Fromental Halévy.In 1848 Blumenthal settled in London where he became the pianist to Queen Victoria.
Noël Gallon.  Noël Gallon (11 September 1891 - 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs 10 preludes a Toccata for piano a Sonata for flute and bassoon a Fantasy for piano and orchestra an Orchestral Suite and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911).Born in Paris Gallon was the younger brother of composer Jean Gallon with whom he studied harmony at the Paris Conservatoire.
Cristina Donà.  Cristina Donà (Rho Italy September 23 1967) is an Italian singer and songwriter.She developed a passion for music since she was a teenager her favorites singers being among others Bruce Springsteen Sinéad O'Connor Joni Mitchell Michelle Shocked Tom Waits Lucio Battisti and Beatles[citation needed].She studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milano where during a student protest in 1990 she met Manuel Agnelli leader of the Italian indie rock band Afterhours.
Amedeo Amodio.  Amedeo Amodio (born 1940) is an Italian choreographer.
Janet Gardner.  Janet Gardner (born Janet Patricia Gardner on March 17 1962 in Juneau Alaska USA) is an American rock singer.
Augustus Jessopp.  Augustus Jessopp (20 December 1823 - 12 February 1914) was an English cleric and writer. He spent periods of time as a schoolmaster and then later as a clergyman in Norfolk England. He wrote regular articles for the The Nineteenth Century variously on humorous polemical and historical topics. He published scholarly work on local Norfolk history and on aspects of English literature. A good friend of M. R. James he is described by James' biographer R. W.
David G. McAfee.  David Gregory McAfee (February 23 1989) — known as David G. McAfee — is an American author journalist and religious studies graduate. McAfee has been cited as one of the new writers bringing new mainstream books about atheism to the mass market.
Alter Esselin.  Alter Esselin (originally Orkeh Serebrenik) was a Russian-born American poet who wrote in the Yiddish language. He was born in Tchernigov Russia on April 23 1889 and died in Milwaukee Wisconsin on November 22 1974.
John MacGregor (New Zealand politician).  John MacGregor (c.1850 – 25 November 1936) was a New Zealand lawyer politician and writer. He was born in Aberfeldy Perthshire Scotland on c.1850. He was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council on 15 October 1892 and remained a member for one seven-year term. He was again appointed on 14 July 1914 and was reappointed twice at the end of his seven-year terms serving until 13 July 1935.
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland.  Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland née Baker (1855–1908) was an American journalist author and playwright.
Zhang Yuqi.  Zhang Yuqi (simplified Chinese: 张雨绮; traditional Chinese: 張雨綺; pinyin: Zhāng Yǔqǐ; August 8 1986) also known as Kitty Zhang Yuqi is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in Stephen Chow's 2007 Hong Kong film CJ7 which brought her media attention and kickstarted her acting career.
Harriet Vaughan Cheney.  Harriet Vaughan Cheney (September 9 1796 - May 14 1889) was an American-Canadian novelist. The daughter of Hannah Webster Foster and sister of Eliza Lanesford Cushing also both writers she wrote a number of historical romances among them A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six and The Rivals of Acadia as well as religious works for children.Cheney was born in Brighton Massachusetts and published her first works in Boston.
Rom Di Prisco.  Rom Di Prisco (sometimes known as Romolo Di Prisco or Morphadron) is a classically trained composer and producer. He has provided music for over 30 video games including Guacamelee! Unreal Tournament 3 SSX Tricky Spy Hunter 2 EA Sports' NHL series and more notably the Need for Speed series. He also produces remixes for other artists including Christopher Lawrence Unit:187 3kStatic Count Your Curses and many more. In addition he also works on music for films and television programs.
George Hager.  George Hager was a Seattle illustrator and editorial cartoonist who worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the early 20th century. He was the son of another Seattle cartoonist John Hager known to his readers as DOK.
Lisette Oropesa.  Lisette Oropesa (born September 29 1983 in New Orleans Louisiana) is a Cuban American operatic soprano who was raised in Baton Rouge where she studied at Louisiana State University. Her parents are both emigrants from Cuba and her mother Rebeca Oropesa (née Ulloa) is a soprano who was heard in productions at Loyola University of the South (Sister Genevieve in Suor Angelica and Venus in Venus and Adonis) and LSU (Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi) before she decided on raising a family.
Michael Algar.  Michael Olga Algar (born September 21 1962 in Marsden South Shields UK) is an English guitarist singer and songwriter who fronts the band The Toy Dolls. Essentially a lead/rhythm guitarist Olga is also a music composer and producer. Olga lived in the City of Sunderland during most of his life before moving to Tokyo Japan in 2000. Olga then moved to central London in 2002 where he has lived since.
Tiago Iorc.  Tiago Iorc (born November 28 1985) is a Brazilian musician singer-songwriter and recording artist.
Skip Miller.  Alvin Skip Miller (1946 - September 4 2009) was an American recording industry executive. He worked for 17 years at Motown Records (1971–1988) and served as the label's last president before the company was sold to MCA. While at Motown he was credited with developing Rick James DeBarge and the Commodores. After the sale of Motown Miller worked for a decade at RCA Records where he was credited with rejuvenating the label's black music division and helping to develop the rap genre.
John Hulme (author).  John Hulme (born circa 1970) is one of the two co-authors of The Seems book series. with Michael Wexler.
Aghinetti.  Aghinetti also called Guccio del Sero or Marco di Guccio was an Italian painter active in Florence in 1331. He had a nephew exiled Maestro Guccio who died in 1409. He painted in the church of Santa Reparata of Florence in a style that recalls Giotto.
Peter Hunt (folk artist).  Peter Hunt born Frederick Lowe Schnitzer 1896 in East Orange New Jersey - 1967 Cape Cod was an American artist whose work is described as folk art or primitive art. He gained recognition for his art in the 1940s and 50's when his decorated refinished furniture was featured in magazines such as Life House Beautiful and Mademoiselle.
Jaideep Varma.  Jaideep Varma is an Indian writer and filmmaker. He has made 3 feature films – Hulla (2008 fiction) Leaving Home – the Life & Music of Indian Ocean (2010 non-fiction) and Baavra Mann – a Film on Sudhir Mishra & Other Indian Realities (2013 non fiction).In 2013 Hulla was included in a book on unsung Mumbai cinema classics over 50 years a book called 40 Retakes by Avijit Ghosh.
Jean Carolus.  Jean Carolus (Brussels 1814 – 1875 Paris) a Belgian painter of genre scenes and interiors spent much of his life living and working in France. Noted for his depictions of figures set within interior scenes he is esteemed for the high degree of finish and jewel-like quality attained in these works.
Dave Dreiwitz.  Dave Dreiwitz is a multi-instrumentalist best known as the bassist for the band Ween.
Jon Nørgaard.  Jon Gade Nørgaard (born in Grenå Denmark on 9 June 1985) is a Danish singer who took part in Danish TV 2's musical competition Popstars in 2002 and winning the title. He is also known as Jon and took the alias John Rock while collaborating with house music duo Musikk.
Paul Travis.  Paul Bough Travis (January 2 1891 – November 23 1975) was a prolific American artist of the Cleveland School.
Persia Woolley.  Persia Woolley (born 8 November 1935) is an American author perhaps best known for her Guinevere trilogy. She also has written a number of works on writing such as How to Write and Sell Historical Fiction (2000).
Keaton Yamada.  Keaton Yamada (キートン山田 Kiiton Yamada born Shunji Yamada (山田俊司 Yamada Shunji) October 25 1945 in Hobetsu Hokkaidō) is a Japanese voice actor. He switched from going by his real name Shunji Yamada to going by Keaton Yamada in the 1980s. He is currently represented by Remax.
Alen Ilijic.  Alen Ilijic (Serbian Cyrillic: Ален Илијић) (born 30 January 1975 in Gevgelija) is a Serbian composer and visual artist. Studied composition orchestration electronic music and sound engineering at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with one of the most well - known composers music theorists and modern music scholars in Eastern Europe Dr. Srdjan Hofman.
Left Brain.  Left Brain (born Vyron Dalyan Turner; December 29 1989) is an American record producer rapper and photographer from Los Angeles. He serves as one of the main producers in Odd Future having produced portions on nearly all Odd Future releases. He is also one half of MellowHype along with rapper Hodgy Beats and a third of MellowHigh with Domo Genesis.
Mükerrem Hiç.  Hüseyin Mükerrem Hiç (29 August 1929 – 3 November 2012) was a Turkish professor of economics and political economy at Istanbul University Istanbul Turkey with former posts at Harvard University Princeton University and Columbia University. He also served as a member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 1983 and 1987.
Maxence Cyrin.  Maxence Cyrin is a French pianist and composer.He was born in Besançon.
Ernest Tidyman.  Ernest Tidyman (January 1 1928 – July 14 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of Shaft with John D.F.
Jean-Richard Geurts.  Jean-Richard Geurts perhaps better known under his pseudonym Janry (born 2 October 1957) is a comics artist. With Tome he created Le Petit Spirou and made several Spirou et Fantasio albums.
Cecily Strong.  Cecily Strong (born February 8 1984) is an American actress voice actress and comedian. She is a repertory player and anchor of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.
Geoffrey Beevers.  Geoffrey Beevers (born 1941[citation needed]) is a British actor who has appeared in many different television roles.Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames both as an actor (including the title role in Jules Romain's Doctor Knock 1994); and as an adaptor/director of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (February 1990) for which he won a Time Out Award and Balzac's Père Goriot (February 1994).He has appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who on two occasions the most notable playing the third Master in the serial The Keeper of Traken. 
Michael Healey.  Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman (The League of Nathans Reading Hebron and Three in the Back Two in the Head) and George F. Walker (The End of Civilization Better Living).
Kalamandalam Haridas.  Kalamandalam Haridas (15 September 1946 – 17 September 2005) was a renowned Kathakali musician noted for his evocative rendition of the padams or playback songs for the characters in the classical Kerala dance-drama.Born in Venmani Mana a Namboodiri mansion of literary repute in Vellarappilly village east of Aluva off Kochi Haridas developed interest in Kathakali by watching performances of the classical dance-drama in the neighbouring Akavoor Mana.
Dominic Frasca.  Dominic Frasca (born April 5 1967) is a guitarist originally from Akron Ohio but living in New York City since the early 1990s. He began playing hard rock guitar at age 13 but gravitated into classical after finding an ad for classical guitar lessons in a school trash can. Frasca originally entered the University of Arizona with the intent of studying classical guitar but realized after a year that it wasn't his style.
Alfred Lichtenstein (writer).  Alfred Lichtenstein (* 23 August 1889 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; † 25 September 1914 near Vermandovillers Somme France) was a German expressionist writer.Lichtenstein grew up in Berlin as the son of a manufacturer. He finished a study of law in Erlangen. His was first recognized after publishing poems and short stories in a grotesque style which recalls a friend of his Jakob van Hoddis.
Kahil El'Zabar.  Kahil El'Zabar (born November 11 1953 Chicago Illinois) is a jazz multi-instrumentalist (mainly a percussionist) and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the early 1970s and became its chairman in 1975. During the 1970s he formed the musical groups Ritual Trio and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble both of which remain active.
Kyotaro Nishimura.  Kyotaro Nishimura (西村 京太郎 Nishimura Kyōtarō pseudonym of Kihachiro Yajima born September 6 1930 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese writer of mystery stories. Nishimura is best known for his train series mysteries. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.
Linda Manzer.  Linda Manzer (born July 2) is a Canadian master luthier renowned for her archtop flat-top and harp acoustic guitars.
El Gran Wyoming.  José Miguel Monzón Navarro (15 May 1955 Madrid) also known as El Gran Wyoming (The Great Wyoming) or Guayo is a Spanish television presenter actor musician director and humorist.He graduated in Medicine and was a doctor in the town (Buitrago del Lozoya) for a short period of time.He has hosted several programs such asSilencio se juega (1984) La noche se mueve (1992) and El peor programa de la semana (1993).
Eric Champion.  Eric Champion (born May 12 1970 in Daytona Beach Florida) is one of the pioneers of mid 90's Christian pop and modern rock. In the beginning of his musical career he was a pop singer. His music had the flair of many of his Christian pop contemporaries but with more of a Michael Jackson/ Kenny Loggins vocal approach meets futuristic techno dance sounds.
Charlie Poole.  Charlie Poole (March 22 1892 - May 21 1931) was an American old time banjo player and country musician and the leader of the North Carolina Ramblers an American old-time string band that recorded many popular songs between 1925 to 1930.
Mariya Yaremchuk.  Mariya Nazarivna Yaremchuk (Ukrainian: Марія Назарівна Яремчук; born 2 March 1993 in Chernivtsi Chernivtsi Oblast Ukraine) also known as Maria Yaremchuk is a Ukrainian pop singer. Yaremchuk will represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 held in Copenhagen Denmark.
Angel Chiang.  Angel Chiang (Chinese: 蔣家旻)(born November 10 1989) is a Chinese actress contracted to TVB. She went to school at Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School. In 2007 she became a TVB artiste after entering the TVbeople talent competition being the sole female artist of the eight to be given artists contracts by TVB. Since joining TVB she has played many mainly supporting roles being cast in five series as the younger versions of older established TVB actresses.
Lee Gowan.  Nelson Lee Gowan MFA (born in 1961) is a Canadian novelist.
Jens Wendelboe.  Jens Wendelboe (born 28 February 1956 in Copenhagen Denmark and raised in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian trombonist composer music arranger and orchestra leader known from cooperations with artists like Slide Hampton Phil Woods Bill Watrous Monty Alexander Donna Summer and Blood Sweat and Tears.
Diana Ser.  Diana Ser (Chinese: 徐秀盈; pinyin: Xú Xiùyíng) is a former journalist Channel NewsAsia presenter as well as actress and host for then Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) now known as MediaCorp. She now runs a communications consulting and media training company.She was last seen on local television in 2008 where she co-hosted an episode of Glamour Mum and The Dude on MediaCorp Channel 8 with Bryan Wong.
Anne Laplantine.  Anne Laplantine (born October 21 1972 in Lyon) also known as Michiko Kusaki or Angelika Koehlermann is a French musician and video artist. She currently lives and works in Paris.
Stanley Berneche.  Stanley Berneche (born 1947) is a Canadian artist. He was born in Windsor Ontario.Berneche became known in the early 1970s for working on the Canadian humour magazine Fuddle Duddle published by Jeffrey R. Darcey in 1971-2. Berneche and writer Peter Evans created the character Captain Canada and his sidekick Beaverboy for Fuddle Duddle's third and fourth issues.
Lester Estelle II.  Lester Estelle Jr. or Lester Estelle II (born on April 28 1981) is the former drummer and backing vocalist for the Tulsa-based Christian rock band Pillar. Lester currently plays drums for Pop Star Kelly Clarkson.
Mike Dean (musician).  Mike Dean (born Thomas Michael Dean on August 24 1963) is the bassist for American metal band Corrosion of Conformity. He sang on the band's early recordings from their crossover thrash era before leaving the band in 1987. In 1989 Dean along with C.O.C. guitarist Woody Weatherman and artist Brian Walsby on drums released the Snake Nation album on Caroline Records. Dean rejoined C.O.C.
Richard Powers.  Richard Powers (born June 18 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.
G. V. Prakash Kumar.  G. V. Prakash Kumar is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has mainly scored music for Tamil films. His first film was S Pictures' Veyil (2006) and he became popular in Tamil cinema by the early 2010s.
Sean Taylor (writer).  Sean Taylor (born May 2 1968) is an American comic book and short story writer perhaps best known for his run on Gene Simmons Dominatrix published by IDW Publishing.
Bob Rafkin.  Bob Rafkin (30 March 1944 - 2 May 2013) was an American singer songwriter and acoustic guitar player.Rafkin was born in New York City in 1944. His musical career really took off when he moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-sixties. Here he met David Blue and together they formed The American Patrol.
Anne Mallory.  Anne Mallory is an award-winning and best-selling author of historical romance novels. Her books blend romance and mystery. Her name is a pseudonym.Mallory submitted her first manuscript Masquerading the Marquess for consideration for the 2003 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award given to a previously unpublished author. The book was a finalist in the competition and caught the attention of one of the judges an editor from Avon.
Arrigo Pedrollo.  Arrigo Pedrollo (born Montebello Vicentino 5 December 1878 - died Vicenza 23 December 1964) was an Italian composer. His father was his first teacher; at thirteen he went to study at the Milan Conservatory. Among his teachers there was Gaetano Coronaro. At his graduation in 1900 Pedrollo's only symphony was performed under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. He chose instead to compose operas in a Wagnerian cast; in 1908 his first Terra promessa was premiered in Cremona.
Tom Maxwell.  Tom Maxwell (born June 25 1968) is a modern metal/rock guitarist in the bands Knives Out! and Hellyeah. Previous bands include Nothingface in which he was a founding member and main song-writer with Bill Gaal. After Nothingface he was involved in a band with Skrape vocalist Billy Keeton. In the 1980s he was in thrash metal band Have Mercy. His style of playing and writing relies more on grooves and hooks rather than shredding and fast soloing.
Wolf Hudson.  Wolf Hudson (born Martin Ortiz on November 24 1984) is a Dominican-American gay pornographic film actor film director and street dancer.
Roshana Hosseini.  Roshanak Hosseini (born 1993) also known as Roshana Hoss is an Iranian-Swedish pop singer and songwriter.
David Madden (novelist).  David Madden (born July 25 1933) is an American writer of many novels short stories poems plays and works of nonfiction and literary criticism.
David Owen (harpist).  David Owen (January 1712 – August 1741) was a Welsh harpist best remembered as the composer of the popular song Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) which according to tradition Owen composed as he was dying. Dafydd y Garreg Wen was later adapted and published by harpist Edward Jones.David Owen was the son of Owen Humphreys of Ynyscynhaearn in Caernarfonshire (the surname Owen being a patronymic). His mother's maiden name was Gwen Roberts. He composed several well-known airs.
Rolf Skoglund.  Rolf Fredrik Skoglund (born 11 August 1940 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2007.
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan.  Akhlaq Mohammad Khan 'Shahryar' (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012) was an Indian academician and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Hindi film lyricist he is best known for his lyrics in Gaman (1978) and Umrao Jaan (1981) directed by Muzaffar Ali. He retired as the head of Urdu Department at the Aligarh Muslim University and thereafter he remained sought after name in mushairas or poetic gatherings and also co-edited the literary magazine Sher-o-Hikmat.
Sandhy Sondoro.  Sandhy Soendhoro better known by his stage name Sandhy Sondoro sometimes stylized as Sandhy SonDoro is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. He is best known for winning the 2009 International Contest of Young Pop Singer New Wave in Jūrmala Latvia.
Nina Zanjani.  Nina Nasr Zanjani (born 1 September 1981 in Iran) is a Swedish actress of Persian origin. She played one of the two lead roles in Helena Bergström's directorial debut Mind the Gap as the daughter Yasmin. She starred in the second Swedish series of Wallander as the police woman Isabelle Melin.
Deitra Farr.  Deitra Farr (born August 1 1957) is an American blues soul and gospel singer-songwriter.
Kevin Powers.  Kevin Powers (born July 11 1980) is an American fiction writer poet and Iraq War veteran.He was born and raised in Richmond Virginia the son of a factory worker and a postman and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of seventeen. He attended James River High School. Six years later in 2004 he served a one-year tour in Iraq as a machine gunner assigned to an engineer unit.
Blanche Forsythe.  Blanche Forsythe was a British actress of the silent era.
Alyssa Pierce.  Alyssa Pierce is an American children's author and novelist. Her Caroline and Rebecca series of books are written for children ages 2–8 and have been used in classrooms from Kindergarten through the Second Grade.
Larry Dale.  Larry Dale (January 7 1923 – May 19 2010) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Wharton Texas United States.During the early 1950s Ennis Lowery (his legal name) took initial inspiration on guitar playing from B.B.
Bryan Organ.  Bryan Organ (born 31 August 1935 Leicester) is an English painter.He is mainly known for his work in portraiture and has painted likenesses of many public figures. He is represented at the National Portrait Gallery in London.His best known portrait is of Lady Diana Spencer which was commissioned and completed in 1981. It's an acrylic on canvas on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Another iconic figure he has painted is of Elton John wearing a Marilyn Monroe shirt.
DJ Pain 1.  Pacal Bayley (born October 21 1983) better known by his stage name DJ Pain 1 is an American record producer and DJ from Madison Wisconsin. He has produced for artists such as Young Jeezy 50 Cent Schoolboy Q Kállay Saunders Mavado Gucci Mane Jim Jones Sole and more.
Paul Varley.  Paul Varley (May 24 1949 – July 2 2008) was an English musician best known as the drummer in the band Arrows.Born in Preston he played on several top 30 hit records including Touch Too Much My Last Night With You and I Love Rock 'N' Roll.The band Arrows hosted their own TV series Arrows on Granada ITV Television in the UK 1976-77.
Fito Cabrales.  Adolfo Fito Cabrales Mato (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo kaˈβɾalez ˈmato]; October 6 1966) is a Spanish songwriter singer and guitarist.
Bobby Blood (musician).  Bobby Blood is an American musician filmmaker drummer for the band First Blood and former drummer of the NYHC band Merauder. Blood is also the writer/director of the movies The Death Valley Meth Lab and Terror 66. Born Bobby Ponte in the mid-1970s to a Portuguese father and a Mexican mother he grew up in Bakersfield California where he began music as the drummer in a metalcore band called Revenge at age 16.
Ferdomnach.  Ferdomnach (died 846) was an Irish illuminator who is responsible for the Book of Armagh.The Annals of the Four Masters recorded the death of Ferdomnach as a sage and choice scribe of the Church of Armagh. His creation the Book of Armagh is held at Trinity College Dublin and contains some of the oldest surviving specimens of Old Irish. The book often equals and even surpasses the delicate precision of the Book of Kells.
Bernardino Blaceo.  Bernardino Blaceo (active c. 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He painted for churches at Udine among them the principal altar-piece depicting Virgin and child with Angels and Saints Lucia and Agatha’' for the church of Santa Lucia and a Virgin and infant with Saints Peter and John’ for the church in Porta Nuova.
Shirley Conran.  Shirley Conran (born 21 September 1932) is a British novelist and journalist.
JM de Guzman.  Juan Miguel de Guzman (born September 9 1988) popularly known by his screen name JM De Guzman is a Filipino actor.
Roser (singer).  Roser is a Spanish pop singer with four LPs. Roser rose to fame in 2002 after participating in Spanish channel Telecinco's reality television programme Popstars.
Megan McNeil.  Megan McNeil (September 7 1990 – January 28 2011) was a Canadian singer from North Delta British Columbia Canada. The only child of Dave and Suzanne McNeil she was diagnosed in 2006 with adrenalcortical carcinoma a rare type of adrenal cancer when she was 16 years old.She studied at Seaquam Secondary and graduated in 2008. She also attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey for Sciences. She beat cancer back three times but succumbed during her fourth battle at the age of 20.
Blanca de Lizaur.  Maria Blanca de Lizaur Guerra is a researcher specialized in cultural studies communications and literature as well as a writer. She was born in Mexico City Mexico in 1966 to Spanish parents.Her articles have appeared in different academic journals. She has taught and given conferences in Mexico the United States and Spain. Her work has been cited in a number of countries.
Kirsty Hawkshaw.  Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 26 October 1969 in London UK) is an English dance/electronica/house/trance musician and songwriter. In addition to her work as a solo artist she is known as the lead vocalist of the 1992-94 group Opus III and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers.
Ronny Coaches.  Ronny Coaches (died 21 November 2013) also known as Ronnie was a Ghanaian born musician and a member of the Buk Bak hiplife music group.
Sang A Yim-Propp.  Sang A Im-Propp (任常儿 original- Im Sang Ah born February 25 1973) is a former Korean pop star turned designer of handbags based in Soho in New York City.
Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira.  Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (born December 13 1944 in Brazil) more famous under his pen name Léo is a Brazilian comics creator.
The Water Coolers.  The Water Coolers is a New York City–based music and comedy act performing original songs sketch comedy and pop parodies about the daily challenges of modern life. The Water Coolers was created specifically for the meetings and events industry but has also successfully expanded to Off Broadway licensed productions in various cities and theatrical touring dates.The Water Coolers made its debut in New York City on September 30 2000. An Off-Broadway version opened in 2002.
John Mercanti.  John M. Mercanti (born April 27 1943) is an American sculptor and engraver. He was the twelfth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint until his retirement in late 2010.
Max Emanuel Cenčić.  Max Emanuel Cencic (born September 21 1976 in Zagreb Croatia) is a countertenor currently based in Austria.
Roger Lonsdale.  Roger Lonsdale is a British author and has been a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford.
Ted Chippington.  Ted Chippington (real name Francis Smyth; born February 1962 Stoke-on-Trent England) is a British stand-up comedian.Noted for his diffident on-stage persona Chippington eschews observational comedy in favour of anti-humour and jokes which are mostly variations on the same theme delivered in a West Midlands monotone. He also frequently performs his own versions of well-known songs in a similarly listless style.
Bickram Ghosh.  Bikram Ghosh (born 20 October 1966) is an Indian tabla player who performs Hindustani classical music and fusion music. His music is strongly influenced by thumri and khayal genres of the Patiala gharana. Bickram is known to experiment and reinterpret music and culture; he dabbles in a vast repertoire of musical genres from classical rock new-age fusion to film music.
Jennette McCurdy.  Jennette McCurdy (born June 26 1992) is an American film and television actress and country pop singer-songwriter. She is known for her role as Sam Puckett on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly and is currently reprising her role in the spin-off series Sam & Cat. She has also appeared in a number of notable television series including Victorious Zoey 101 True Jackson VP Malcolm in the Middle and Lincoln Heights.
Rose Marie Reid.  Rose Marie Reid (born Rose Marie Yancey (September 12 1906 in Cardston Alberta Canada – December 19 1978 in Provo Utah USA) was an American swimsuit designer.Reid began her swimsuit designing career in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. She designed bathing suits that looked good and started a new trend. Lacing up both sides was typical of her earliest swimsuits and a 1938 example is preserved at the New Westminster Museum and Archives in Canada (Artifact # IH 994.76.68).
Alphonse Olterdissen.  Alphonse (Alfons) Olterdissen (Maastricht December 12 1865 - Maastricht February 24 1923) was a Dutch writer poet and composer who wrote extensively in the Maastrichtian dialect. The final stanza of his opera Trijn de Begijn eventually became the local anthem of Maastricht.
Pasquale Rossi.  Pasquale Rossi (1641- after 1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Also named Pasqualino. Born in Vicenza he was mostly self-trained in design. He painted a Baptism of Christ for the Montemirabile Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome and also painted much for the Royal Palace of Turin.
Manfred Stumpf.  Manfred Stumpf (born November 25 1957 in Alsfeld Hesse) is a German draftsman Conceptual artist and Digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria. He currently resides in Romrod in the Vogelsbergkreis and Frankfurt Germany.
Rick Parker (artist).  Rick Parker (born 1946) is an American artist writer cartoonist and educator whose humorous artwork has appeared in The New York Times The Village Voice Time magazine U.S. News & World Report Life magazine and various comic books published by Marvel Comics. Parker is widely known as the artist of MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head comic book published by Marvel from 1994 to 1996. He wrote and illustrated his own graphic novel Deadboy in 2010.
Faith Hunter.  Gwendolyn Faith Hunter is an American author and blogger writing in the fantasy and thriller genres. She writes as Faith Hunter in the fantasy genre and as Gwen Hunter in the thriller genre. She also has collaborated on thrillers with Gary Leveille jointly using the name Gary Hunter. Hunter is one of the founding members of the blog MagicalWords.net a writer assistance blog and has developed a role-playing game based on her Rogue Mage series.
Sara Wakatsuki.  Sara Wakatsuki (若月 さら Wakatsuki Sara) is a Japanese model/actress/singer. She was born on November 24 1989 in Nagano Prefecture where she also graduated. Her old stage name is Arisa Miyazawa (みやざわ ありさ Miyazawa Arisa).
Ryukishi07.  Ryukishi07 (竜騎士07 Ryūkishi Zero Nana born November 19 1973) is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture and the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion. His pen name originates from the Final Fantasy series Ryūkishi being the Japanese term for Dragon Knight and 07 goroawase for the name of Final Fantasy V character Lenna.
Boris Levit-Broun.  Boris Levit-Broun (Russian: Левит-Броун Борис Леонидович) - Russian poet writer artist
Francesco Borgani.  Francesco Borgani (1587–1624) was an Italian painter of the Baroque mainly active in Mantua.He was a pupil of Ippolito Costa and influenced by his contemporary Domenico Fetti. He was employed by the court of the Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga. The painting of St. Francis intercedes with the Virgin to liberate Mantua from the plague of 1630 for the church of Santa Agnese but now in the Ducal Palace of Mantua was attributed to him but given the date of demise that seems unlikely.
Elena Guro.  Elena Genrikhovna Guro (Russian: Еле́на Ге́нриховна Гуро́ IPA: [jɪˈlʲenə ˈɡʲenrʲɪxəvnə ɡʊˈro] ; in marriage Matyushina (Russian: Матю́шина IPA: [mɐˈtʲuʂɪnə] ; January 10 1877 – May 6 1913) was a Russian Futurist painter playwright poet and writer of fiction.
Robert E. Howard.  Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 – June 11 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood.
Brian Keenan (musician born 1943).  Brian Edmund Peter Keenan (January 28 1943 – October 5 1985) was an American musician best known as the drummer for The Chambers Brothers. Born in New York he also lived in Conisbrough near Doncaster Yorkshire England and Ireland as a child.Keenan was part of The Chambers Brothers from 1965 to 1971 and also played with the pre-Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann group in England.
Arvid Jacobsen.  Arvid Jacobsen (born 11 October 1938) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He spent most of his career in the Labour press as journalist in Arbeiderbladet from 1967 to 1977 editor-in-chief in A-pressens Oslo-redaksjon from 1977 to 1990 and editor-in-chief of Arbeiderbladet from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2003 he was the director of information in the Norwegian Bar Association.
TiA.  TiA (born June 11 1987 in Yokohama Japan) is a Japanese singer famous for her songs Ryuusei (part of the Naruto ending themes repertoire) and Every Time. Her August 2005 single Promise is used as Yakitate!! Japans second opening song.In 2004 she released her first music album entitled Humming.
Gavin Rossdale.  Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born 30 October 1965) is an English musician and actor known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. Following Bush's separation in 2002 which lasted for eight years he was the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career. When performing solo Rossdale plays songs from his musical libraries. Rossdale has been ranked in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader (number 75).
Alison Dolling.  Alison Mary Dolling (29 August 1917 – 25 July 2006) also known by the pen-name Mary Broughton was an Australian writer.She was born at St Peters in Adelaide to Edward Bruno Dolling and Amy Caroline née Thiselton. She attended Ellerslie College in Tranmere and Methodist Ladies' College in Wayville before studying journalism at the Universities of Washington Seattle and Berkeley.
Richard Sapir.  Richard Ben Sapir (born 1936 in New York; died 1987) is best known for The Destroyer series of novels that he co-created with Warren Murphy. The first Destroyer was written in 1963 while Sapir worked as a city hall reporter in Jersey City and Murphy served as secretary to the city's mayor.
Herschel Savage.  Herschel Savage (born November 25 1952) is an American pornographic film actor and pornographic film director. He was born Harvey Cohen to Russian Jewish parents in New York City. He studied acting under Broadway actress Uta Hagen and renowned acting teacher Stella Adler. Savage initially sought a mainstream stage and screen career however became disillusioned by the constant auditioning and competition for roles.Savage was introduced to the pornographic film industry via the actor R.
Lucio Fontana.  Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Italian painter sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.
Umanosuke Iida.  Umanosuke Iida (飯田 馬之介 Iida Umanosuke April 30 1961 – November 26 2010) (also known as Tsutomu Iida) Japanese anime creator director screenwriter. Iida died due to lung cancer.
Jennifer Compton.  Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington New Zealand in 1949. In the early '70s she emigrated to Sydney Australia with her husband Matthew O'Sullivan. They now live in Carrum in Melbourne Australia.After attending the NIDA Playwrights Studio her play No Man's Land (later Crossfire) jointly won the Newcastle Playwriting Competition (with John Romeril's A Floating World) in 1974.
Eileen Buckholtz.  Eileen Buckholtz née Garber (b. 1949) was a US novelist to from 1982 to 1997. She wrote under her married name in collaboration with Ruth Glick and also in collaboration with her under the pseudonyms of Amanda Lee and Rebecca York until 1997.
Hell Rell.  Durrell Mohammad (born May 3 1979) better known by his stage name Hell Rell is an American rap artist and member of rap group The Diplomats.In 2007 he signed with Koch Records and began working on his debut album For the Hell of It. The album reached #5 on both the Billboard Top Independent Albums and Top Rap Albums chart and #10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
Michelle Yeoh.  Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (born 6 August 1963) is a Malaysian actress best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s.
Michael Hofmann.  Michael Hofmann (born 1957 Freiburg West Germany) is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German.
Neil Turbin.  Neil Turbin (born December 24 1963) is an American thrash metal vocalist known for being the first full-time vocalist for American band Anthrax and current lead vocalist and songwriter of the heavy metal band DeathRiders.
Adam Gilberti.  Adam Gilberti (June 10 1981- ) a composer born in Hayward California on June 10 1981 . He received his M.A. in music theory and composition from the University of California Riverside. His composition Reflections of Honor won him first place in the Corwin Competition of 2002.
Maura O'Connell.  Maura O'Connell (16 September 1958) is an Irish singer and actress. She is known for her contemporary interpretations of Irish folk songs strongly influenced by American country music.
John Murdoch (artist).  John Murdoch (born 1971) is an American painter portraitist and art teacher. He is the founder of Gold Light Studios and the Classical Art and Atelier Fund.
Karen Kruse Anderson.  Karen Kruse Anderson (/ˈkruːzi/; born 1932) is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear.She is noted as the first person to use the term filk music in print. She also wrote the first published[citation needed] science fiction haiku (or scifaiku) Six Haiku (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1962).
Sarah Darling.  Sarah Darling (born October 4 1982 in Des Moines Iowa) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
Mari (singer).  Mari Youngblood (born Mary Schreck) also called Mari is a female soprano vocalist. She is mostly known for her role as Helena on Kamelot's Epica and The Black Halo albums along with her live performance on One Cold Winter's Night album and DVD. Mari has also performed as lead in numerous musicals including Kismet Teko Bismil Oklahoma Brigadoon and many more. Mari is married to Kamelot's guitarist Thomas Youngblood .
Youngman MC.  Youngman (born Simon Smith) is an urban MC and vocalist signed to Shy FX’s label Digital Soundboy Records. He has been awarded MistaJam’s Jam Hot Zane Lowe’s Next Hype and Annie Mac’s record of the week.Son of Simon “Bassline” Smith Youngman grew up and lives in Derby in the East Midlands of England. He has been the MC and ‘hype man’ to the likes of Breakage Skream Benga Shy FX and the Digital Soundboy family.
Barry Checkoway.  Barry Checkoway is a Professor of Social Work and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Checkoway is internationally renowned for his contributions to the field of youth studies particularly focusing on community youth development. He is a past recipient of the University of Michigan's Regents' Award for Distinguished Public Service.
Ernest Keyser.  Ernest Keyser American sculptor born in Baltimore Maryland on December 10 1876. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Académie Julien and with Denys Puech in Paris.Keyser was a member of the National Sculpture Society and died in Rome on September 25 1959.
Ilona Lénárd.  Ilona Lénárd was born 1948 in Hungary. She is an independent visual artist and realizes large scale urban art projects in cooperation with architect Kas Oosterhuis. During their stay at Theo van Doesburg's studio in Meudon near Paris Oosterhuis and Lénárd opted for a fusion of architecture and art. From the very start of a project they work on the same scale keeping in mind the same budget in a parallel and interactive process.
Eino Grön.  Eino Grön born 31 January 1939 is a Finnish singer who also holds a US citizenship. Grön was born at the island of Reposaari in Pori but has lived the last 30 years mainly in Palm Beach Florida.Eino Grön made his first recording in 1958 and he is one of the most iconic persons in the Finnish popular music scene. Grön is best known as a tango singer but his styles vary from Finnish schlager to jazz and spiritual music such as traditional Christmas songs.
Michael Cook (playwright).  Michael Cook (14 February 1933 – 1 July 1994) was a Canadian playwright
Paul Margueritte.  Paul Margueritte (1860-1918) was born in Algeria the son of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823-1870) who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Sedan. An account of his life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884; enlarged ed. 1897). Paul's name is generally associated with that of his brother Victor because of their frequent collaboration.
Hoss Wright.  David Hoss Wright is an American drummer who has played for The Exies and Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator. While part of Mondo Generator he wrote some songs for the album Dead Planet with Nick Oliveri. His musical career began around the time he was 13 in Richmond Virginia. He was a member of the local band Black Widow and he was the drummer of the band JUD based in Los Angeles.
Antonio Badile.  Antonio Badile (c. 1518 – 1560) was an Italian painter from Verona.
Kristjana Gunnars.  Kristjana Gunnars (born March 19 1948 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. Her volumes of poetry include Settlement Poems which focuses on 19th century Icelandic settlers in Manitoba and One-Eyed Moon Maps.
James Shigeta.  James Shigeta (born June 17 1933) is an American film and television actor. He is also a standards singer musical theatre and nightclub performer and recording artist. He is a Sansei or third-generation American of Japanese ancestry.
Graham Clarke (musician).  Graham Clarke (/ˈɡræm ˈklɑrk/; born Graham Peter Clarke on July 11 1970) is an American musician songwriter arranger and entertainer. Active since 1995 and performing frequently in the New York metropolitan area Clarke is regarded as one of New York's most popular and long-lasting children's entertainers and recording artists having played well over 5000 musical performances on the east coast for both children and adults. His style has been described as funny and off-center.
Sandy Skoglund.  Sandy Skoglund (born September 11 1946) is an American photographer and installation artist.Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally she photographs the set complete with actors.
Richard Dobson.  Richard Dobson (born March 19 1942) is an American singer-songwriter.He was born in Tyler Texas. He spent time in the 1970s with Townes Van Zandt Mickey White Rex Wrecks Bell Guy Clark Steve Earle Rodney Crowell and Skinny Dennis Sanchez.Although his name is not prominent some of his songs were recorded by famous artists like David Allan Coe (Piece of Wood and Steel) Guy Clark (Forever for Always for Certain; Old Friends) Lacy J.
André Almuró.  André Almuró (1927–2009) was a French radio producer composer and film director.
Gordon Brisker.  Gordon Brisker (November 6 1937 Cincinnati Ohio – September 10 2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Brisker began on piano as a child and studied reed instruments at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He played with Ralph Marterie before enrolling in the Berklee College of Music. Following this he worked with Al Belletto Bill Berry and Woody Herman (1960–63) then moved to New York City where he played with Louie Bellson and Gerry Mulligan.
Vera Chapman.  Vera Chapman (1898–1996) also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty and within the Tolkien Society as Belladonna Took was an author and founder of the first Tolkien Society and also wrote a number of pseudo-historical and Arthurian books. She held the title of Pendragon of The Order of Bard Ovates & Druids from 1964 - 1991.
Charlie Adlard.  Charles Charlie Adlard (born April 8 1966) is a British comic book artist known for his work on books such as The Walking Dead and Savage.
Charles Martin (author).  Charles Martin (born 3 November 1969) is an author from the Southern United States. He earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University and went on to receive an M.A. in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University.
Al Perkins.  Al Perkins (born January 18 1944) is a Texas-born American guitarist. Known primarily for his steel guitar work. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins the world's most influential dobro player and even began producing an Al Perkins Signature Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins.
Adolf Hölzel.  Adolf Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German artist/painter. His style developed from Impressionism to expressive modernism.
Eve Gray.  Eve Gray (27 November 1900 – 23 May 1983) was a British film actress.She was taken to Australia as a child and later had a stage career there. She returned to Britain in 1924 and within three days of arrival had signed a contract and then made her first appearance on the London stage at Daly's Theatre in Madame Pompadour. A film contract followed shortly after this.
Kelly van der Veer.  Kelly van der Veer (born May 6 1980) is a Dutch television personality and singer. She is a trans woman and is regarded the most prominent transsexual person in the Netherlands who rose to fame after competing in Big Brother - The Battle a Dutch version of the Big Brother-format.
Jim Creeggan.  James Raymond Jim Creeggan (born February 12 1970 in Scarborough Ontario) is the bassist for Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies (BNL). His most used double bass is named Grammah after the Ladies' tour manager nicknamed him Grampah for always complaining and not wanting to get up.
Christopher Martin (singer).  Christopher Martin (born 14 February 1987) is a Reggae singer/songwriter from St. Catherine Jamaica. Chris won Digicel Rising Stars in 2005 (the Jamaican version of American Idol) and is best known for the songs Take My Wings Giving It and I'll Be Your Driver.
Jennifer Elder.  Jennifer Elder (born 1968 San Francisco) is an American author illustrator and assistant editor for the Collins Library. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. The mother of an autistic son she has written two books for autistic children: Different Like Me and Autistic Planet. She is married to author Paul Collins with whom she has appeared on the American Public Media program On Being.
T. Sean Shannon.  T. Sean Shannon is a comedy writer originally from Houston Texas.As a writer for Saturday Night Live he won an Emmy Award in 2002 (nominated in 2001 & 2003) and a WGA Award in 2001 (nominated in 2001 2002 and 2003). He is the writer and creator of the sketch Bear City which deals with a city completely inhabited by anthropomorphic bears due to a meteor crash.
Jon Harper.  Jonathan Daniel Harper (born 15 February 1978 in Reading Berkshire England) is a session musician and started his musical career as the drummer for Reading-based British Alternative rock band The Cooper Temple Clause.
Lea Wait.  Lea Wait is an American author of historical novels many set in 19th century Maine. She has written a number of children's stories for age 7 and up as well as the Shadows Antique Print Mystery series for adults.
Richard Christy.  Thomas Richard Christy Jr (born April 1 1974) is an American musician and radio personality who currently works on The Howard Stern Show. Christy began to work on the show after winning the Get John's Job contest on July 1 2004. He is known for his prank calls song parodies personality and stunts performed on the radio show.
Rogelio Bernal Andreo.  Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 9 January 1969) is a Spanish-American astrophotographer. He is known for his photographs of deep sky objects. His work has been recognized by NASA as their Picture of the Day. Andreo's photography has been published in international magazines and periodicals as well as television networks including the BBC National Geographic and the Discovery Channel series Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.
Ron Welty.  Ronald Ron Welty (born February 1 1971 in Long Beach California) is the former drummer for the American punk rock band The Offspring. Of all the band's drummers Welty's tenure was the longest as he was in the band from July 1987 to March 2003. He had replaced their second drummer James Lilja and was only 16 at the time of his joining. However he left to form his band Steady Ground in which he played drums and co-produced.
Krzysztof Lubieniecki.  Krzysztof Lubieniecki or Christoffel Lubienietzky (1659–1729) was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age.
Jay Hoggard.  Jay Hoggard (b. September 24 1954 Washington D.C.) is an American jazz vibraphonist.
Marijo Moore.  Marijo Moore is a writer of mixed Cherokee Dutch and Irish ancestry who frequently draws upon her Native American roots in her poetry. She won the title of Writer of the Year (2002) by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers one of the most prestigious awards in the Native American literary world.Moore currently serves as poetry editor for Rapid River Arts and Literature Journal and manages Renegade Planets Publishing a Native American journal.
Loren Rush.  Loren Rush (born August 23 1935) is a U.S. composer. His works include the drone piece Hard Music (1970) for three amplified pianos. The piece features no melodic figuration but rather clouds created by only one note the low D above cello C repeated quickly enough by each player to be heard as nearly continuous. The surface results from the composite rhythms of percussive attacks and the interplay of partials brought out through the rhythms and fortissimo dynamics.
Boris Grebenshchikov.  Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov (Russian: Бори́с Бори́сович Гребенщико́в) also known as Boris Purushottama Grebenshikov is one of the most prominent members of the generation which is widely considered the founding fathers of Russian rock music. Due as much to his personal contribution as to the undisputed and lasting success of his main effort the band Aquarium (active since 1972 until today) he is a household name in Russia.
Hans Erik Matre.  Hans Erik Matre (born 14 May 1955) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Ski. He was a subeditor in Vårt Land from 1980 to 1983 and chief editor from 1983 to 1989. He doubled as chief editor and chief executive of both the Norwegian News Agency from 1989 to 1994 and Bergens Tidende from 1994 to 1997 before being hired in Schibsted. From 1988 to 1997 he also chaired the Association of Norwegian Editors. In 2004 he became chief editor of Schibsted's flagship newspaper Aftenposten.
Martina Topley-Bird.  Martina Topley-Bird (born 7 May 1975) is an English vocalist and songwriter who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky's debut album Maxinquaye. She worked with him on his follow-up albums and in 2003 released her own solo album Quixotic.
Neil Gordon Munro.  Neil Gordon Munro (1863 – 1942) was a Scottish physician and anthropologist. Resident in Japan for almost fifty years he was notable as one of the first Westerners to study the Ainu people of Hokkaido. Educated in the University of Edinburgh Medical School M.B. C.M. 1888 and M.D. 1909 he traveled in India and Japan before settling in Yokohama as director of the General Hospital in 1893. From 1930 until his death he lived among the Ainu in Nibutani village in Hokkaido.
Kevlin Henney.  Kevlin Henney is an author presenter and consultant on software development. He has written on the subject of computer programming and development practice for many magazines and sites including Better Software The Register C/C++ Users Journal Application Development Advisor JavaSpektrum C++ Report Java Report EXE and Overload. He is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory Board.
Everley Gregg.  Everley Gregg (26 October 1903 Bishop Stoke England – 9 June 1959 Beaconsfield England) was an English actress.She made her film debut in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII as Catherine Parr Henry's last wife. A small part as a nurse in David Lean's 1942 film In Which We Serve led to a more substantial role in Lean's Brief Encounter (1945) as Dolly Messiter the 'gossiping acquaintance' of Laura Jesson played by Celia Johnson.
Charles Gaines.  Charles L. Gaines (born c. 1942) is an American writer and outdoorsman notable for his works on fly fishing his role in the development of paintball and his photo-essay Pumping Iron about the bodybuilding culture of the 1970s which was later adapted into a documentary film of the same name.
Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur.  Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (1780 in Stuttgart – 1867 in Stuttgart) was a German painter. He first devoted himself to painting but subsequently became a soldier and as a lieutenant served in the French invasion of Russia which he afterwards illustrated by his sketches in a work entitled Blatter aus meinem Portefeuille im Laufe des Feldzugs 1812 published in 1831–44. His most noteworthy paintings are The Passage of the Beresina a work of great merit and The Coffee-House at Wilna.
Nicholas Teo.  Nicholas Teo (Chinese: 張棟樑; pinyin: Zhāng Dòng-Liáng) also known as Nicholas Zhang and he is a Malaysian Chinese singer signed under Play Music based in Taiwan.
Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji.  Raghavendra Swami of Malladihalli ( Kannada: ಮಲ್ಲಾಡಿಹಳ್ಳಿ ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ) (1890–1996) popularly known as Malladihalli Swamiji was the founder of Anatha Sevashrama Trust Malladihalli. He taught yoga to more than 4.5 million people all over the world keeping his base as Malladihalli in Chitradurga district a tiny village in Karnataka India approximately 250 kilometers from Bangalore India.
Hubert Bath.  Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 1883 – 24 April 1945) was a British film composer music director and conductor. His credits include Tudor Rose (1936) A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Millions Like Us (1943).
Stuart Hill (author).  Stuart Hill (born 1958) is a British author. He was born in Leicester where he still lives. He has written four books in The Icemark Chronicles: The Cry of the Icemark Blade of Fire Last Battle of the Icemark and Prince Of The Icemark. He studied English Classics and Ancient History at Newcastle University.
Tracy Bartram.  Tracy Bartram (born 17 June London UK) is an Australian comedian radio personality and singer. Although born in the UK she grew up and resides in Melbourne Australia.She began performing stand-up comedy in 1989 while working in sales and marketing. Her first gig was a ten-minute stand-up comedy stint at the Hilton Hotel.
Kai Hansen.  Kai Michael Hansen (born January 17 1963 in Hamburg West Germany) is a heavy metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween. He is a prominent figure in power metal and has sold millions of albums worldwide. He is regarded as the godfather of power metal having founded three seminal bands in the genre.
Taro Hakase.  Taro Hakase (葉加瀬 太郎 Hakase Tarō born January 23 1968 in Suita Osaka Japan) is a Japanese musician who specialises as a violinist and composer.
Bugs Henderson.  Buddy Henderson (October 20 1943 – March 8 2012) better known as Bugs Henderson was a blues guitarist who was popular in Europe and from the 1970s was based in Dallas-Fort Worth Texas where he was known as a local blues guitar legend. He was born in Palm Springs California and spent his early life in Tyler Texas where he formed a band called the Sensores at age 16 and later joined Mouse and the Traps.
C. H. Sisson.  Charles Hubert Sisson (also known as C. H. Sisson) CH (22 April 1914 – 5 September 2003) was a British writer best known as a poet and translator.
Louie DeVito.  Louie DeVito is an Italian American dance DJ and producer based in New York City. He is best known for his mix series NYC Underground Party (Volumes 1-8). He is America's #1 Top Selling Dance DJ. DeVito can be heard In the Mix weekly on Sirius XM Satellite Radio Channel 38 Adrenaline every Saturday at 9PM EST.DeVito first gained popularity DJing in New York City Long Island and Jersey Shore area clubs where he is a favorite of many young Italian-Americans.
John Christian Bechler.  John Christian Bechler (7 January 1784 Oesel Governorate of Livonia (present-day Estonia) - 18 April 1857 Herrnhut Saxony (present-day Germany)) was a Moravian bishop.
Ivan Velez Jr..  Ivan Velez Jr. is a Xeric Grant-winning American writer of comic books.His work includes Gay Comix for Bob Ross Blood Syndicate and Static for Milestone Comics Ghost Rider Venom and Abominations for Marvel Comics Extreme Justice for DC Comics Flinch for Vertigo Power Puff Girls for DC's Johnny DC imprint and Tales from the Closet created in affiliation with the Hetrick-Martin Institute.
Christylez Bacon.  Christylez Bacon (pronounced: Chris-Styles) (born March 5 1986) is a progressive hip-hop music artist from Washington DC. He is responsible for introducing his live eclectic blend of classical and jazz and hip-hop arrangements and lyricism to such reputable presenters as Strathmore Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Ed Rose.  Ed Rose is an American sound engineer and record producer. He has worked extensively with groups in the modern emo and pop punk scenes. He also co-owns Black Lodge Recording with Rob Pope and his brother Ryan Pope.
Ibrahim Hassan Addou.  Ibraahin Hassan Addow (Somali: Ibraahin Xasan Caddoow Arabic: ابراهيم حسن ادو‎) (died December 3 2009) (M.Ed PHD) was a Somali scholar and politician.
Guy Chapman.  Guy Patterson Chapman (September 1889 – June 1972) was an historian and British author. He was educated at Westminster School Christ Church Oxford and the London School of Economics. He married Margaret Storm Jameson in 1926. Chapman served in the Royal Fusiliers 1914–20 particularly in France and Belgium 1915–18 (despatches twice OBE MC) and also served in World War Two.
Bentley Little.  Bentley Little (born 1960 in Arizona) is an American author of horror novels.
Jane Sherwin.  Jane Sherwin is a British actress known for her appearances in science fiction television with roles in the Doctor Who serial The War Games and Blake's 7.She is Derrick Sherwin's wife.
Mark Warner (guitarist).  Mark Warner is a musician from Nashville Tennessee. Primarily a busy session guitarist songwriter [1] and producer who has contributed to many Rock and Pop music records. [2] Warner has received public acknowledgement by the music industry for his songwriting contributions. In 2001 he won the Paramount Music Summer Songwriting. He was also recognized for his lyrical accomplishments in the October 2001 edition of ASCAP Playback Magazine.
Edmund Elviden.  Edmund Elviden (fl. 1570) was an English poet.
Guesch Patti.  Guesch Patti (16 March 1946) born Patricia Porasse is a French singer.
Montt Mardié.  Montt Mardié (born David Olof Peter Pagmar on September 16 1983) is a Swedish singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and composer. As of May 2009 Montt Mardié has released three full length albums as well as various singles on the Swedish record label Hybris. He signed to the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement as well as the UK label Ruffa Lane in 2007. May 2009 saw the release of his first UK release Introducing...the Best Of. His first released studio album was Drama in 2005.
Ericson Alexander Molano.  Ericson Alexander Molano (born November 20 1979) is a Gospel Christian singer. He became famous when the hit song Dios Manda Lluvia came out. He has a Production company Jehova-Nisi Producciones; where he is President and General Director. He is currently touring.In 1999 he released his first album El Vive Hoy which sold more than 100000 copies. This album includes the hit single Dios Manda Lluvia. In 2002 he released his second album Fue Por Ti.
Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir.  Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir was an Icelandic sculptor born in the North West of Iceland on December 26 1889. She died in 1968.
Nullsleep.  Nullsleep (born Jeremiah Johnson October 7 1980) is an American electronic musician and computer artist currently residing in New York City. In 1999 he co-founded the low-bit art collective 8bitpeoples and has served as its lead director since its inception. Throughout the early 21st century he has worked to elevate chiptune music to a more reputable status in spite of its perception as sometimes kitschy or retro.
Jimmy Van M.  Jimmy Van M (born James Van Melleghem) is a DJ of progressive house and downtempo music. He was a large part of the Delta Heavy Tour with Sasha & John Digweed in addition to performing with many other DJs such as James Zabiela and Lee Burridge. He has released a few singles as well as mix albums on Ultra Records and Bedrock Records.
Nemer Saadé.  Nemer Saadé (Arabic: نمر سعاده‎) (born September 29 1976 in Beirut) is a Lebanese fashion designer for men.
Bernhard Severin Ingemann.  Bernhard Severin Ingemann (28 May 1789 – 24 February 1862) was a Danish novelist and poet.Ingemann was born in Torkilstrup on the island of Falster Denmark. The son of a vicar he was left fatherless in his youth. While a student at the University of Copenhagen he published his first collection of poems (1811; vol. ii. 1812) which show great influence of German romanticism.
Peter Harvey (writer).  Peter Harvey (October 17 1798 – July 12 1877) was an American merchant and author contemporary of Daniel Webster. He was known as Webster's closest friend and confidant. Harvey is known for the book that he authored about the life of Webster.
Tom Hamilton (musician).  Thomas William Tom Hamilton (born December 31 1951 in Colorado United States) is an American musician best known as the bassist of hard rock band Aerosmith. He has co-written two of Aerosmith's hits Sweet Emotion and Janie's Got a Gun. Hamilton occasionally plays guitar (e.g. Uncle Salty) and sings backing vocals (e.g. Love in an Elevator).
Tom Stephan.  Tom Stephan is a house music producer and DJ.
Mihaela Fileva.  Mihaela Fileva (Bulgarian: Михаела Филева) is Bulgarian pop and R'n'B singer who rose to fame with her 2013 song Opasno blizki.
Leif Fredriksson.  Leif Fredriksson a Swedish drummer and a member of the Swedish group TRIO.
Félicité Du Jeu.  Félicité Du Jeu is a French actress. She is best known for her role as DC Stella Goodman in the BBC drama Waking The Dead.
Chris Cayzer.  Chris Cayzer (born Christopher Ashley Luke Araneta Cayzer on 29 December 1986) is a Filipino-Australian soul R&B and acoustic singer actor DJ and VJ. After deciding to switch from TV5 as an actor and performer he moved to the GMA Network. In 2012 he successfully auditioned for The X Factor Australia making it to the Top 6 in the Over 25 Category and Top 24 overall.
May Alix.  Liza Mae May Alix (August 31 1902 in Chicago Illinois - November 1983) was an American cabaret and jazz vocalist.She began her career as a singer with the Jimmie Noone band in the clubs of Chicago. Soon she teamed up with Ollie Powers performing as a duo in cabarets. In 1926 she recorded with Louis Armstrong's Hot Five. One of the recordings Big Butter and Egg Man became Armstrong's first chart hit.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles.  Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939 Denver Colorado) is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service oriented artwork.
Per Arneberg.  Per Arneberg (1901 – 1981) was a Norwegian poet prosaist and translator born in Tønsberg.Among his books are Dagen og natten (1939) Oslostreif (1949) and Oktobernetter (1971). He edited the poetry anthology Norsk lyrikk. Mellomkrigstiden (1966).He was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1971.
Goffredo Sommavilla.  Goffredo Sommavilla (July 21 1850 - October 21 1944) was an Italian painter mainly of genre themes.He was born in Belluno studied in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
Tim Scott (guitarist).  Timothy David Tim Scott (born 21 September 1971) is an instrumental recording artist primarily known for his solo instrumental guitar compositions. These have subsequently given rise to his secondary side project/collaborations and sessions with the dance DJs and producers: Judge Jules Mike Koglin Serial Diva and Herd & Fitz.
Pepper Keenan.  Pepper J. Keenan (born May 8 1967) is an American vocalist and guitarist best known for his work with heavy metal bands Corrosion of Conformity and Down. He joined Corrosion of Conformity in 1989 but did not become the lead singer until the recording of Deliverance in 1994. In 1991 he formed Down with Phil Anselmo of Pantera Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod and Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange of Crowbar.
Diego Saa.  Diego Saa (born October 18 1980) is an Ecuadorian musician.
David Fennario.  David William Fennario born David Wiper (26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for Balconville (1979) his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A committed socialist Fennario has been a candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in 2003 and for Québec solidaire in 2007.
Mahmoud Salem.  Mahmoud Salem (1931 - 24 February 2013) was an eminent Egyptian author who was known for children books and mystery series.
Johan Bernard Scheffer.  Johann or Johan Bernard Scheffer (also Jean Baptist Scheffer) painter and etcher born at Hamburg in 1865 (or perhaps Cassel in 1773) a pupil of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein went early to the Netherlands where at Dordrecht he married Cornelia Lamme daughter of Arie Lamme and became the father of Ary and Hendrik Scheffer. He produced several large historical works and some portraits; among the latter that of King Louis of Holland. He died at Amsterdam in 1809.
Lil' Flip.  Wesley Eric Weston Jr. (born March 3 1981) better known by his stage name Lil' Flip is an American rapper. He is best known for his singles Sunshine Game Over The Way We Ball I Can Do Dat and Rollin on 20's from the 2 Fast 2 Furious Soundtrack.
Denny Carmassi.  Denny Carmassi is an American drummer.Carmassi was a member of the first four line-ups of the band Montrose. After Montrose he played with his former Montrose bandmate Sammy Hagar as a solo artist and with his former Montrose bandmates Ronnie Montrose and Jim Alcivar in the band Gamma.He also played with Heart Coverdale-Page Whitesnake and David Coverdale as a solo artist.Currently he performs with Mercy (featuring Lynda Morrison).
Michael Mills (musician).  Michael Adam Mills is an Australian musician and songwriter. He is best known as a multi-instrumentalist vocalist and main songwriter for the progressive rock band Toehider.He began songwriting at an early age and performing in bands from the age of 12. He was a member of the band Template before forming Toehider in 2008 with the release of the eponymous EP and the 12 EPs in 12 Months project.
Evan S. Connell.  Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17 1924 – January 10 2013) was an American novelist poet and short story-writer. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr. His writing covered a variety of genres although he has published most frequently in fiction.In 2009 Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.
William Pitt (Mormon).  William Hill Pitt (August 16 1813 – February 21 1873) was a prominent bandleader in the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His band known as the Nauvoo Brass Band was the main band in Nauvoo Illinois and played an important role in the crossing of Iowa during the Mormon pioneer trek.Pitt was born in Dymock England. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1840.
Johann Baal.  Johann Baal also Pater Marianus Baal (Karlstadt 18 December 1657 – 1701) was a German composer. Baal was attached to the court of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg. Among Baal's surviving works is a Mass in A the five sections of which survive in the handwriting of a copy by Johann Sebastian Bach and his cousin Johann Gottfried Walther.
Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri.  Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri صفی الرحمن مبارکپوری a famous writer and prize winner author of Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum a biography book of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Safiur Rahman was born in the year 1942 AD 1360 AH in Husainabad a village one mile deep to the north side of Mubarakpur Azamgarh district Uttar Pradesh India.
Stanislas Lépine.  Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine (October 23 1835 – September 29 1892) was a French painter who specialized in landscapes especially views of the Seine.Lépine was born in Caen. An important influence in his artistic formation was Corot whom he met in Normandie in 1859 becoming his student the following year. Lépine's favorite subject was the Seine which he was to paint in all its aspects for the rest of his life.
Genki Hitomi.  Genki Hitomi (人見 元基 Hitomi Genki) (born Noriaki Hitomi October 1 1957 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of Japanese heavy metal band Vow Wow in 1980's.
Takayama Chogyū.  Takayama Chogyū (高山 樗牛 28 February 1871 – 24 December 1902) real name Takayama Rinjirō was the pen name of a Japanese author and literary critic. He influenced Japanese literature in the late Meiji period with his blend of romantic individualism concepts of self-realization aesthetics and nationalism. However many of Chogyū's works seems cryptic to contemporary readers due to the archaic style which he employed.
Freddy Weller.  Wilton Frederick Freddy Weller (born September 9 1947) is an American country music artist. He recorded for Columbia Records between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release Games People Play.
Georgia O'Keeffe.  Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15 1887 – March 6 1986) was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie Wisconsin O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens and New York buildings most of which date from the same decade.
Geoff Turton.  Geoffrey Turton (born 11 March 1944 Birmingham) who also recorded under the name Jefferson was a British singer. His musical career began as the falsettist lead singer and rhythm guitarist of The Rockin' Berries in 1961 who scored a number of hits in the UK and Europe.
Alfred Farag.  Alfred Farag (14 June 1929 in Zagazig Egypt – 4 December 2005 ) was one of the eminentEgyptian playwrights of the post-1952 Revolution period. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the Faculty of Arts Alexandria University in 1949. He took up a teaching career till 1955 when he abandoned it for a post in the press as a literary critic.
Terry Sylvester.  Terry Sylvester (born 8 January 1947) was the English guitarist/singer with The Escorts The Swinging Blue Jeans (1966–69) and The Hollies. In the latter guise he took on the high parts formerly sung by Graham Nash who had left the band in December 1968.
Hugh Aynesworth.  Hugh Grant Aynesworth (born August 2 1931) is an American journalist investigative reporter author and teacher. Aynesworth has been reported to have witnessed the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza the capture and arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters. In a 1976 Texas Monthly article William Broyles Jr.
Agata Tuszyńska.  Agata Tuszynska (born May 25 1957 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer poet and journalist.
Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev.  Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev (Russian Иван Тимофеевич Кокорев) (September 6 1825 - June 14 1853) was a Russian writer.The son of a freed serf Kokorev's stories and essays began appearing in the 1840s but he did not become well known until he began his association with the journal Moskvityanin in 1849.
Edith Picht-Axenfeld.  Edith Picht-Axenfeld (Freiburg im Breisgau 1 January 1914 – Hinterzarten 19 April 2001) was a German pianist and harpsichordist. She started her concert career in 1935 and took part two years later in the third Fryderyk Chopin Competition where she was awarded a 6th prize; this launched her career. After World War II Picht-Axenfeld performed at an intercontinental level was active as a chamber musician and recorded for labels such as Deutsche Grammophon Philips and Erato.
Pâmela Butt.  Pâmela Butt (born Adriana Vailatti; December 30 1976) is the alias of Brazilian porn star and former escort. A contracted pornographic actress of Brasileirinhas she also performed in a number of US productions shot in Brazil.In 2007 she appeared in the humorous TV show Sem Controle of Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão. She received further mainstream media coverage in the following year thanks to a video with her and footballer Vágner Love leaked to the Internet.
Free the Robots.  Free the Robots (born Chris Alfaro) is an underground hip hop producer from Santa Ana California.
Vijayalakshmi (poet).  Vijayalakshmi (born August 2 1960) is a Malayalam–language poet from the south Indian state of Kerala. s. She has composed about 199 poems between 1980 and 2010.
Giovanni Battista Comolli.  Giovanni Battista Comolli (19 February 1775 – 26 December 1831) was an Italian sculptor.He became a pupil of the Milanese sculptor Giuseppe Franchi at the Brera Academy but was strongly influenced by Antonio Canova. In 1798 he supported the revolution that led to the establishment of a brief Roman Republic. Upon this revolutionary failure he fled to Grenoble.
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Rupee (musician).  Rupert Clarke (born September 10 1975) best known by his stage name Rupee is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father who was serving in the British armed forces at the time. He later migrated to Barbados. He is signed to Atlantic Records.
Margaret Nowell Graham.  Margaret Nowell Graham (1867-1942) was an American artist who painted watercolors of flowers and landscapes. She was the mother of political figure Katherine G. Howard and Washington D.C. attorney and appointee John Stephens Graham.
Jordi Bernet.  Jordi Bernet Cussó (born June 14 1944) is a Spanish comics artist best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and Jonah Hex.
Rafey Habib.  M. A. R. 'Rafey' Habib is an Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar of literature who has also written numerous books of literary criticism. Habib grew up in England gained his PhD from the University of Oxford. He currently teaches at Rutgers University-Camden in the United States and was previously a Professor of English at Kingston University London.Habib's books include: (2010). Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century (Kube). (2007).
Levi Kreis.  Levi Kreis (born November 4 1981) is an American recording artist and tony award winning actor from Oliver Springs Tennessee.
Gibson Brothers (bluegrass).  The Gibson Brothers are an American brother duet who have performed bluegrass music professionally since the late 1980s.The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awarded the Gibson Brothers “Emerging Artist of the Year” honors in 1998 following the Alan O’Bryant produced album Another Night of Waiting on the Hay Holler label. They debuted on the Grand Ole Opry on April 11 2003.
Nicolas-Médard Audinot.  Nicolas-Médard Audinot (1732–1801) was a French actor and puppeteer.
Steve Morse.  Steven J. Steve Morse (born 28 July 1954) is an American guitarist and composer best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs; and since 1994 the guitar player of Deep Purple. Morse's career has encompassed rock country funk jazz classical and fusion of these musical genres. In addition to his successful solo career he was briefly a member of Kansas in the mid 1980s.
Adam Begley.  Adam C. Begley (born 1959 Boston Massachusetts) is an American freelance writer and was the books editor for the New York Observer from 1996-2009.Begley is the son of Sally (Higginson) and novelist Louis Begley. He graduated from Harvard College and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in 1989.His work has appeared in the New York Times the Los Angeles Times The Guardian and the Financial Times.He lives with his wife Anne Cotton and stepchildren in Oundle Northamptonshire.
Henry William Greville.  Henry William Greville (1801–1872) was an English aristocrat and diarist.
Sally Geoghegan.  Sally Geoghegan is an English actress. She is best known for playing teacher Jayne (or Jane) Carver in the long-running CBBC school drama Grange Hill between 1995-2002. She left the series when production moved from London to Liverpool.She has also appeared in Carlton TV's Head over Heels and BBC One's Bernard and the Genie.Geoghegan appeared in the 2002 S Club Juniors video One Step Closer.
Eddi Reader.  Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader; 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer-songwriter known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns.
Mia Malkova.  Mia Malkova (born July 1 1992) is an American pornographic actress.
Marilynne Robinson.  Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. She has received several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005 and the 2012 National Humanities Medal.
Colin Keith-Johnston.  Colin Keith-Johnston (8 October 1896 - 3 January 1980) was a British actor.Keith-Johnston was born in London. As well as film appearances he appeared onstage as Stanhope in the first production of Journey's End in the United States.
Donald Harstad.  Donald Harstad is an American novelist and former police officer specializing in crime fiction and police procedurals. Prior to taking up writing he had a 26 year career with the Sheriff's Department of Clayton County Iowa retiring as a Deputy Sheriff. His first novel Eleven Days was loosely based on a case he worked on during that time and he is known for drawing on his career in law enforcement for details of police and investigative procedure.
Silas Hite.  Silas Hite (born March 30 1980) is an Emmy-nominated American film composer and visual artist located in Los Angeles.
Art Kane.  Art Kane (April 9 1925 – February 3 1995) born Arthur Kanofsky in New York City was a fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through the early 1990s. He created many portraits of contemporary musicians including Bob Dylan Sonny and Cher Aretha Franklin Frank Zappa Jim Morrison Janis Joplin the Rolling Stones and The Who.During the second World War he served in an unusual deception unit known as The Ghost Army an incubator for many young artists.
Hanne Darboven.  Hanne Darboven (born 29 April 1941 in Munich died 9 March 2009 in Hamburg) was a German conceptual artist. She became best known for her large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers.
Fran Ilich.  Fran Ilich Morales is a Mexican writer and media artist who principally works on the theory and practice of narrative media. Born in 1975 during the early 1990s he co-founded the Contra-Cultura (menor) collective and was involved in the independent media scene in Tijuana—mainly the cyberpunk scene—where he was known to be an eclectic producer working with literature photography comics videofilms and electronic music.
Michel Vinaver.  Michel Vinaver (b. Paris 1927) is a French writer and dramatist.
John Brown (American author).  John D. Brown (born 1966) is an American author primarily known for his fantasy.
Nick Antosca.  Nick Antosca is an American author of literary fiction. He is the author of four books: Fires (2006) Midnight Picnic (2009) The Obese (2012) and The Girlfriend Game (2013). Midnight Picnic was set to be published by Impetus Press but the small publisher folded under financial pressure in the fall of 2008. Word Riot Press stepped in and the novel was published in 2009. Antosca was born in New Orleans Louisiana and currently lives in Los Angeles California.
Jim Lounsbury.  Jim Lounsbury (February 24 1923 in Colo Iowa – January 8 2006 in Tucson Arizona) was an early pioneer in rock and roll music and a radio news anchor.Lounsbury hosted many of the first rock and roll radio programs (WIND and WJJD Chicago; WOR New York City) and later many rock and roll television shows including Jim Lounsbury's Sock Hop Bandstand Matinee' and The Record Hop (WGN-TV and WBKB Chicago) as well as hosting many local record hops in the Chicago area in the 1950s and '60s and occasionally guest-hosting for Dick Clark on American Bandstand. 
Ross Lara.  Ross Lara is a platinum selling music producer engineer and programmer. Ross has worked with artist/projects Paul Oakenfold Roger Shah Zeta Bosio BT_(musician) Mark Ballas TRON VIXX FIESTAR Eve Lloyd SHINee Chris Mann AK1200 Tegan & Sara and TC Spitfire.
Ed Bennett.  Ed Bennett (born 1975 in Bangor County Down Northern Ireland) is an Irish composer.
Randall Bramblett.  Randall Bramblett (born 1948 Jesup Georgia United States) is an American musician and singer-songwriter whose career as a solo artist session player and touring musician has spanned more than three decades. He has worked with Gregg Allman Bonnie Raitt Goose Creek Symphony Robbie Robertson Elvin Bishop Steve Winwood Bonnie Bramlett B.J. Thomas Widespread Panic and Roger Glover.
Caroline Pignat.  Caroline Pignat is an Irish Canadian author and English teacher.
Kagney Linn Karter.  Kagney Linn Karter (born March 28 1987) is an American pornographic actress.
Zlata Filipović.  Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980) is a Bosnian writer and author of the book Zlata's Diary.
Jamie Rowe.  Jamie Rowe (born April 7 1970 as Earl Wilson Rowe Jr.) is the lead vocalist of the Christian hard rock band Guardian. He is also the lead vocalist for power pop band The Ruled.
Edward Edson Lee.  For the Broadway composer Leo Edwards see Leo Edwards (composer).Edward Edson Lee (September 2 1884 in Meriden Illinois – September 28 1944 in Rockford Illinois) who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards was a popular children's literature author in the 1920s and 1930s.
Amy Ramsey.  Amy Ramsey (born 1981) is a professional hair stylist and winner of The Rock Style Awards' Celebrity Hairdresser of the Year 2010 in the Metal Category.Amy is well known among the Los Angeles heavy metal and rock'n'roll community for her innovative hairstyles.
David George Stead.  David George Stead (6 March 1877 – 2 August 1957) was an Australian marine biologist ichthyologist oceanographer conservationist and writer. He was born at St Leonards in Sydney and educated at public schools and the Sydney Technical College. In 1909 he was a founder of and during its early years the main driving force behind the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia. His career included many government positions both in Australia and in Malaya.
Bertha Runkle.  Bertha Runkle (1879–1958) was an American novelist and playwright born in Berkeley Heights New Jersey. From a literary family she wrote five novels. Her first and best known The Helmet of Navarre was made into a Broadway play.
William John Parry.  William John Parry (28 March 1842 - 1927) was a Welsh businessman politician and author. Parry was a leading voice in a range of activities and causes and was the first general secretary of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union.Born in Bethesda to John and Elizabeth Parry was a religious man who took a keen interest in the plight of the slate and stone quarry workers local to his home town.
Marlene Willoughby.  Marlene Willoughby (born May 17 1948) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress.
Karl Friedrich Lessing.  Karl Friedrich Lessing (February 15 1808 – January 4 1880) was a German historical and landscape painter grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. He was born near Breslau and was a pupil of Heinrich Anton Dähling at the Berlin Academy. He first devoted himself to landscape and in 1826 obtained a prize with his Cemetery in Ruins. He accompanied Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to Düsseldorf where he continued his studies devoting himself to historical paintings.
Harold Sherman.  Harold Sherman (1898-1987) was a prolific American author lecturer and psychical researcher.
Jonathan Krohn.  Jonathan Lee Krohn (born March 1 1995) is an American journalist and writer. He has written for The Guardian The Atlantic Monthly Salon and Mother Jones among others. In March 2013 Krohn was made the International Affairs and Politics fellow for Kurdish media company Rudaw's English language news site.Prior to his work in journalism Krohn wrote and self-published the book Defining Conservatism in which he sought to outline core conservative principles.
Sax Rohmer.  Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959) better known as Sax Rohmer was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.
Willy Pogany.  William Andrew (Willy) Pogany (born Vilmos Andreas Pogány) (August 1882 – 30 July 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips Joseph Clement Coll Edmund Dulac Harvey Dunn Walter Everett Harry Rountree Sarah Stilwell Weber and N.C. Wyeth. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau.
Susan Parisi.  Susan Parisi is an Australian writer of horror fiction.
Morris Gleitzman.  Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953) is an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction. He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel Two Weeks with the Queen (1990).Gleitzman has collaborated on children's series with another Australian children's author Paul Jennings.
Alexios Schandermani.  Alexios Schandermani (born October 25 1953) is an Iranian writer.
Zoe Jordan.  Zoe Jordan is a British fashion designer.In 2013 Jordan was short listed for the British Fashion Council Vogue Fashion Fund award.
Tamaki Katori.  Tamaki Katori (香取環 Katori Tamaki) (b. 1938) is a Japanese actress best known for her appearances in pink film during the 1960s and early 1970s. Katori was the star of Flesh Market (1962) the first of these softcore pornographic films made in Japan. With over 600 film credits between 1962 and 1972 she was one of the most prolific Japanese adult film actresses of the 1960s and became known as the Pink Princess of the first wave of pink films.
Pál Vágó.  Pál Vágó was a Hungarian painter best known for 'The Flood in Szeged'. He was posthumously honored by an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Budapest in 1929.
Joseph Wambaugh.  Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles California and its surroundings and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.
Peter Orullian.  Peter Orullian is an American fantasy author and musician. He currently resides in Seattle Washington. He has had a variety of musical endeavors beginning with involvement in an a cappella choir in high school.Orullian graduated from the University of Utah with a BA Honors in English in 1991. He has since published short stories in various anthologies including stories which are set in Aeshau Vaal the fictional world of book The Unremembered.
Mick Miller (comedian).  Mick Miller (born 25 February 1950 Liverpool Lancashire England) is a British stand-up comedian who has had a long career on the live comedy circuit and is instantly recognisable from his trademark bald head with long hair down the sides.
Bobby Jameson.  Robert Parker Jameson (b. 20 April 1945) known as Bobby Jameson is an American singer and songwriter who was briefly hyped as a major star in the early 1960s and later recorded with The Rolling Stones Frank Zappa and others. He is now perhaps best known for his 1965 album Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest (released in the UK as Too Many Mornings) which was issued in the US under the pseudonym Chris Lucey.
Hans Hulbækmo.  Hans Hulbækmo (born 1989 in Tolga Norway) is an award-winning Norwegian Jazz musician (drums percussion & vibraphone) and Composer son of the traditionsl folk musicians singer Tone Hulbækmo and flutist Hans Fredrik Jacobsen married June 23 2011 to trombonist and bassist Heiða Karine Jóhannesdóttir Mobeck and known ftom several new Norwegian bands and recordings.
Ayşedeniz Gökçin.  Ayşedeniz Gökçin (Anglicised as AyseDeniz Gokcin) is a Turkish classical pianist.After graduating in 2009 with a bachelors Degree from Eastman School of Music Gökçin completed a master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2011.She is known for recording an EP of her arrangements for solo piano of the music of the rock band Pink Floyd in the style of Franz Liszt Pink Floyd Lisztified. The EP comprises three tracks which she says form a fantasia.
Justin Gustainis.  Joseph Justin Gustainis (born February 9 1951) is an American college professor and fiction writer. When younger he wrote and published a great deal of academic writing including the book American Rhetoric and the Vietnam War (1993). Beginning in the mid-1990s while retaining his academic job he began to write fiction. He has published so far two novels – The Hades Project (2003) and Black Magic Woman (2008) – and a number of short stories.
Kealiʻi Reichel.  Carleton Lewis Kealiʻinaniaimokuokalani Reichel (born 1961) popularly known as Kealiʻi Reichel is a popular and bestselling singer songwriter choreographer dancer chanter scholar teacher and personality from Hawaiʻi. He has spent his life educating the world about Hawaiian culture through music and dance.Kealiʻi (pronounced Kay-ah-LEE-ee) Reichel was born and raised on the island of Maui.
Henry Kirke Brown.  Henry Kirke Brown (February 24 1814 Leyden Massachusetts – July 10 1886 Newburgh New York) was an American sculptor.
Kim Seon-wu.  Kim Seon-wu is a Korean feminist poet.
Robert Palm.  Robert Palm is an American writer and producer for television; more popularly known as the first executive producer of the currently running NBC drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and a consulting producer on the currently running CBS drama NCIS.
Erlend Slettevoll.  Erlend Slettevoll (born 26 October 1981 in Volda Norway) is a Norwegian jazz pianist known from cooperations with musicians lioke Ola Kvernberg Petter Wettre Heidi Skjerve Kjetil Møster Steinar Raknes and Espen Aalberg.
Hisashi (musician).  Hisashi Tonomura (外村 尚 Tonomura Hisashi; born February 2 1972 in Hirosaki Aomori) is the lead guitarist for the popular Japanese rock band GLAY. He used to be in a band named Ari (蟻) but they broke up before he joined GLAY. Together with his bandmate Jiro the two of them are known for their visual kei looks.
Ryan Dahle.  Ryan Dahle (born 1970) is a Canadian musician best known for his contributions to the bands Age of Electric and Limblifter each of which have scored several major radio hits.
Giovanni Battista Bolognini.  Giovanni Battista Bolognini (1611–1668) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque. He was born and died at Bologna. He was a pupil of Guido Reni. He painted a Virgin and child with St. Dominic St. Eustatius and Mary Magdalene for Santa Maria Nuova. He painted a Dead Christ mourned by the Virgin St. John and others; an Immaculate Conception for the church of Santa Lucia. He etched a Murder of the Innocents a St.
Joe Lutcher.  Joseph Woodman Joe Lutcher (23 December 1919 - 29 October 2006) was an American R&B saxophonist and bandleader the younger brother of singer Nellie Lutcher. He performed and recorded successfully in the 1940s but later abandoned a commercial musical career and became an outspoken member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Rick Riordan.  Richard Russell Rick Riordan Jr. (/ˈraɪərdən/; born June 5 1964) is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the adult mystery series Tres Navarre and helped edit Demigods and Monsters a collection of essays on his Percy Jackson series. He helped develop the ten books of The 39 Clues series and wrote the first book in the series The Maze of Bones.
Lorez Alexandria.  Lorez Alexandria born Dolorez Alexandria Turner (August 14 1929 – May 22 2001) was an American jazz and gospel singer described as one of the most gifted and underrated jazz singers of the twentieth century.She became established in the Midwest before relocating to Los Angeles in the mid 1960s. In retrospect jazz critics have compared her to Dinah Washington Sarah Vaughan Carmen McRae and Ella Fitzgerald. She released twenty albums over the course of 36 years before retiring.
Penny Broadhurst.  Penny Broadhurst (born 21 October 1980 in Harrogate Yorkshire) was a British pop singer songwriter writer and former spoken word artist from the north of England. She listed Kate Bush Doctor Who Prefab Sprout Lloyd Cole Belle & Sebastian Kirsty MacColl and The Smiths among her many influences. She ceased all use of this name for creative work in late 2009 and has changed her name in private life.
Helen Mayfield.  Helen Burkhart Mayfield (1939–1997) was an American artist from Texas. This link has her biography.http://www.webbartgallery.com/artist/helen/helen.html
John Bechdel.  John Bechdel (born August 23 1964) is a keyboardist and has been a part of many bands over the years including Ministry Fear Factory Abstinence Prong Killing Joke Murder Inc. and Brian Brain. He is currently working with False Icons Ascension of the Watchers and electronica/space pop duo arado.Bechdel's sister is cartoonist and author Alison Bechdel; John Bechdel appears as a character in her memoir Fun Home and its stage musical adaptation.
Blac Elvis.  Elvis Williams better known as Blac Elvis is an award-winning American record producer musician and song writer. He rose to fame in 2005 co-producing alongside Polow da Don. Producing hits for Ludacris Ciara Kelly Rowland Fergie Rich Boy Kelis Nelly Pussycat Dolls and Mario. Recently he produced and co-wrote Beyoncé Knowles hit single Ego.
Seren Serengil.  Seren Serengil (Born on April 6 1971) is a Turkish singer and actress. She was born in Istanbul Turkey and has acted in films and TV series. Her father Öztürk Serengil was a very famous actor theatre performer and showman.
Ryan Holiday.  Ryan Holiday (born June 16 1987) is an American author writer and marketer. He is the media strategist behind authors Tucker Max and Robert Greene and the Director of Marketing for American Apparel.
Mark Haddon.  Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award Guardian Prize and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for that work.
Marek Larwood.  Marek Larwood (born 2 June 1976) is an English comedian and actor in television radio and theatre. He is best known for the BBC Three sitcom/sketch show Rush Hour and for being one third of the comedy trio We Are Klang.
Swanand Kirkire.  Swanand Kirkire (Marathi: स्वानंद किरकिरे) (born 1970) is an Indian lyricist playback singer writer assistant director dialogue writer both in television and Hindi films.Kirkire won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics twice. First in 2007 for the song Bande Me Tha Dum...Vande Mataram from the 2006 film Lage Raho Munna Bhai second time in 2009 and for the song Behti Hawaa Sa Tha Woh... from the film 3 Idiots.
Rosario Castellanos.  Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War influenced by César Vallejo and others) she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies.
George Mogridge (Old Humphrey).  George Mogridge (Old Humphrey) (17 February 1787 – 2 November 1854) was a prolific 19th century writer poet and author of children's books and religious tracts. He is chiefly known by his pseudonym of 'Old Humphrey' under which name he published 46 works but also used the pen-names 'Jeremy Jaunt' 'Ephraim Holding' 'Peter Parley' and 'Old Father Thames'.
Mike Sheffield.  Mike Sheffield (born November 3 1949 Atlanta Georgia; died February 19 2011 Johns Creek Georgia) was an American attorney who served as a prosecutor at the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for nearly a decade. He ran for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2008. He served in numerous leadership positions throughout Georgia. He most recently practiced law in Atlanta and the counties of DeKalb Gwinnett Fulton Cobb Walton Rockdale Forsyth and Henry.
Jacquie Lyn.  Jacquie Lyn (born Jaquelyn Dufton; September 3 1928 – March 21 2002) was a British child actress who had a brief yet notable career in motion pictures.
Patrik Mennander.  Patrik Mennander (born January 8 1976) is a Finnish singer who has been in the bands Ruoska Battlelore and Natsipaska.
Beverly Lynne.  Beverly Lynne Hubscher (born October 31 1973 in Sellersville Pennsylvania) better known plainly as Beverly Lynne is a Hollywood actress who is mainly showcased in erotic film.
Bela Pratt.  Bela Lyon Pratt (December 11 1867 – May 18 1917) was an American sculptor.
Jullie.  Juliana Vasconcelos Póvoas (born on April 16 1988) better known by her stage name Jullie is a Brazilian singer and songwriter of pop music model actress presenter and Brazilian voice actress.
Antonio Roque Gobbo.  Antonio Roque Gobbo is a writer born 11 November 1935 in São Sebastião do Paraíso Minas Gerais Brazil.
Martin Ellerby.  Martin Ellerby (1957 Worksop) is an English composer. He was educated at the Royal College of Music London where he was taught by Joseph Horovitz.His catalogue features works for orchestra chorus concert band brass band ballet and various instrumental ensembles. Performances include the BBC Proms the Leipzig Gewandhaus and many international festivals. Among his students was Daniel Giorgetti.
Gary Young (drummer).  Gary Plantman Young (May 3 1953) was the first drummer of the 1990s indie rock band Pavement.
Jakob Götzenberger.  Jakob Götzenberger (Franz Jakob Julius Götzenberger Heidelberg 4 November 1802 – Darmstadt 6 October 1866) was a German mural painter and portraitist a pupil of Peter Cornelius. He spent much of the later part of his career in England.
Jenny Bicks.  Jenny Bicks is an American television producer and screenwriter most notable for her work as a television writer on the HBO series Sex and the City and as the creator and writer of the ABC series Men in Trees.Bicks was also a writer on the short-lived series Leap of Faith and wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film What a Girl Wants. Bicks made her directorial debut with the short film Gnome.
Chris Charming.  Chris Charming (born January 29 1959) is a German pornographic actor. In 2010 he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
Roger Arntzen.  Roger Arntzen (born 3 June 1976 in Bodø Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) knoen from playing in bands like In The Country Ballrogg Chrome Hill and Håvard Stubø Trio. He has also previously played within the band Østenfor Sol.
Margaret Chapman.  Margaret Chapman née Duxbury (18 November 1940 – 28 July 2000) was a British illustrator and painter. Born in Darwen Lancashire she studied at Liverpool College of Art alongside Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon. Her work was often reproduced as limited edition prints and sold in more than 50 countries. Her oil and gouache paintings often featured Edwardian street scenes usually – but not exclusively – in the north of England and drew comparisons with L. S. Lowry.
Georg Funkquist.  Georg Funkquist (13 March 1900 – 23 October 1986) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Uppsala Sweden and died in Stockholm.
Mathieu Matégot.  Mathieu Matégot (4 April 1910 - February 2001) was a Hungarian / French designer and material artist. He was one of the most renowned French designers of the 1950s.
Donald L. Rust.  D.L. Rusty Rust (born 1932) is an American artist. He was born in Erie Pennsylvania. He is critically acclaimed among pin-up art collectors. [1]
Rich Good.  Rich Good (born June 17 1974 in Crawley West Sussex) is a British musician and recording artist currently residing in Nevada City California. His first recognized musical work was as a songwriter and founding member of San Francisco band The Pleased alongside Joanna Newsom Noah Georgeson Genaro Vergoglini Luckey Remington and Jason Clark.
Rodleen Getsic.  Rodleen Getsic (born March 18 1975 Wenatchee Washington) is an American singer activist actress film producer and performance artist.
Andrew Williams (novelist).  Andrew Williams (born 8 May 1962) is a British writer and former television journalist. He is a former Senior Producer and Director at the BBC the author of three novels and two histories of the Second World War.
Jo Ann Castle.  Jo Ann Castle (born September 3 1939) was an American honky-tonk pianist on The Lawrence Welk Show. She adopted her stage name from the name of an accordion manufacturer another instrument she played with great proficiency. She was often referred to as Queen of the Honky-Tonk Piano by Lawrence Welk himself.Originally introduced to Welk by Joe Feeney in 1959 Castle became a permanent member of the Welk Family replacing the departing Big Tiny Little.
Edwin Holgate.  Edwin Holgate (August 19 1892 – May 21 1977) was a Canadian artist painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where he both studied and taught. He was known primarily as a portraitist and for a number of female nudes in outdoor settings that he painted during the 1930s.Holgate's family moved to Jamaica in 1895 where his father worked as an engineer. In 1897 he was sent to Toronto to go to school.
Noodles (musician).  Kevin John Wasserman (born February 4 1963) best known by his stage name Noodles is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for The Offspring. The nickname noodles is the result of his frequent noodling on the guitar.
Hank Mizell.  Hank Mizell (November 9 1923 – December 23 1992) was an American singer guitarist and songwriter. He is best-remembered for his rockabilly single Jungle Rock (1958) which was obscure on its original release but reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1976.
Linnea Olsson.  Linnea Olsson is a singer-songwriter and cellist. A former member of the band Isildurs Bane she released her first album Ah! in January 2014.
Kim Yong-man.  Kim Yong-man is a modern Korean poet.
Milton Caniff.  Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28 1907 – April 3 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.
Seungri.  Lee Seung-hyun (Hangul: 이승현; born December 12 1990) known by his stage name Seungri or V. I. (Hangul: 승리; lit. victory) is a South Korean singer songwriter dancer actor and model who is best known as the youngest member of South Korean boy group Big Bang. Seungri released his first album VVIP in 2011. Along with his native Korean he speaks fluent Japanese and conversational English.
Styalz Fuego.  Kaelyn Behr (born Byron Bay Australia) better known by his producer name Styalz Fuego is an Australian music producer vocalist and songwriter. He has produced written and performed on music across a number of genres including hip-hop pop R&B and electronic music.
John Young (jazz pianist).  John Merritt Young (March 16 1922 – April 16 2008) was an American jazz pianist. Young played with Sarah Vaughan Ella Fitzgerald Dexter Gordon and many others. He recorded with his own trio in the 1950s and 1960s and was a sideman for Von Freeman Gene Ammons and others. He remained active in the Chicago jazz scene until a few years before his death.
Franz Pecháček.  Franz Xaver Pecháček (4 July 1793 in Vienna – 15 September 1840 in Karlsruhe) was an Austrian-German violin virtuoso and composer of Bohemian origin. Besides polonaises variations Rondos and potpourris for violin and orchestra he composed two string quartets and the Adagio et Polonaise for clarinet and orchestra.
Ippolito Nievo.  Ippolito Nievo (Italian pronunciation: [ipˈpɔːlito ˈnjɛːvo]; 30 November 1831 – 4 March 1861) was an Italian writer journalist and patriot. His Confessioni d'un italiano is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento.
Laurent Pardo.  Laurent Pardo is a French bass guitarist violoncellist and background singer. He is best known for playing in the rock band of US-singer Elliott Murphy.
Maggie Lau.  Maggie Lau (Chinese: 劉思惠) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She starred in New Police Story The Twins Effect and also had a small acting part in The Myth alongside Jackie Chan and Korean actress Kim Hee-sun.She has had a minor musical career as a member of the now dissolved girl group 3T. In 2004 she sang in the song Girls together with Boy'Z and also appeared in the music video.
Ramesh Shotham.  Ramesh Shotham (born May 7 1948 in Madras South India) is a percussionist and drummer.
George Harmon Coxe.  George Harmon Coxe (1901-January 31 1984) was an American writer of crime fiction. He is perhaps best known for his series Jack Flashgun Casey which became a popular radio show airing through to the 1940s.
Tim Wildsmith.  Richard Timothy Wildsmith (born October 21 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and worship leader from Omaha Nebraska.His music has been categorized in several genres including alternative pop indie and rock.
Maurice Dessertenne.  Maurice Dessertenne was a French illustrator. He is considered one of the master illustrators of the early 20th century and is one of the artists responsible for the development of a specific esthetic of ornamental dictionary illustration in France.Dessertenne's illustrations are featured in many of the Larousse illustrated encyclopedias.
Denise Rosenthal.  Denise Sofía Rosenthal Schalchli (born November 8 1990 in Santiago Chile) known professionally as Denise Rosenthal is a Chilean actress and singer-songwriter who first gained popularity as the character Feña in the 2007 Chilean television series Amango. Rosenthal's popularity subsequently led her to obtain the starring role in Amango's spin-off El Blog de la Feña in 2008.
Kathy Vargas.  Kathy Vargas (born 23 June 1950 in San Antonio Texas) is an American photographer.Kathy Vargas became interested in the hand-coloured photography around 1970.
Pantula Rama.  Dr. Pantula Rama is a Carnatic Music vocalist.
Tehn Diamond.  Tendai Nguni (born January 17 1985) better known by his stage name Tehn Diamond is a Zimbabwean hip hop rapper singer and song writer from Harare Zimbabwe. He is a member of the hip-hop collective Few Kings with whom he has released one Album. He is currently working on completing his debut studio album The Perfect Tehn due for release in 2014.Tendai Nguni was born in 1985 to a politician father Sylvester Nguni and his mother a care giver. He has one brother and two sisters.
Matt Letley.  Matthew Matt Letley (born 29 March 1961) is an English rock drummer most recently in the English rock band Status Quo.
Rosson Crow.  Rosson Crow (born 1982) is a painter working in Los Angeles United States.
Robbie Morrison.  Robbie Morrison is a British comics writer most known for his work in the weekly UK title 2000AD and as the co-creator of popular character and series Nikolai Dante (with Simon Fraser); serialised for 15 years until 2012.
Hugh Martin.  Hugh Martin (August 11 1914 – March 11 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer arranger vocal coach and playwright. He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs The Boy Next Door The Trolley Song and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world.
Marie Joseph.  Marie Joseph (b. Lancashire England) was a British writer of short-stories in magazines 16 romance novels and a book about her arthritis. In 1987 her novel A Better World Than won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Jake Holmes.  Jake Holmes (born December 28 1939 in San Francisco California) is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s. Holmes who has a particular talent for writing clever perceptive lyrics is perhaps best known as the original author of the song Dazed and Confused later popularized by Led Zeppelin and for composing the music to US Army recruitment jingle Be All That You Can Be for the words created by Earl Carter in the 1980s.
Justine Joli.  Justine Joli (born July 16 1980) is the stage name of an American adult model and pornographic actress.
Taylor Branch.  Taylor Branch (born January 14 1947 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement.
Anna Kasyan.  Anna Kasyan (Armenian: Աննա Կասյան) is a Georgian-born Armenian opera singer (soprano) living in France. Kasyan is one of the young artists who is viewed with high expectations in her field.
Colm Kiernan.  Colm Padraic Kiernan (24 November 1931 – 27 March 2010) was an historian and writer.
Hiro Nakajima.  Hiro Nakajima (中嶋 ヒロ Nakajima　Hiro born December 9 1987) born Kana Harada (太齋 寛子) is a female Japanese voice actress from Tokyo Japan. She worked for 81 Produce from 2008.
Steve Argüelles.  Stephen Argüelles Clarke (born 16 November 1963) is an English jazz drummer producer and is the proprietor of the Plush record label. He has also worked in film and theatre. He is the elder brother of saxophonist Julian Argüelles. Steve currently resides in Paris France.
Elyse Gasco.  Elyse Gasco MA (born 1967) is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Montreal Quebec Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree.The title story of her 1999 debut collection Can You Wave Bye Bye Baby? (1999) won the 1996 Journey Prize.
Aindrias Stack.  Aindrias Stack (aka Aindrias de Staic) (born 9 November 1978 Galway Ireland) is an Irish actor musician and one of a new generation of Irish storytellers. The son of writer Eddie Stack from Ennistymon Aindrias Stack is best known for his award winning one man shows Around the World on 80 Quid The Year I Got Younger and The Summer I Did the Leaving.
Rebecca Guay.  Rebecca Guay is an artist specializing in watercolor painting and illustration. She is mostly known for her work commissioned by Magic: The Gathering White Wolf Publishing and DC Vertigo comics World of Warcraft TCG Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons and Bella Sara TCG.
Cristiano Farinelli.  Cristiano Farinelli (17th century) was an Italian composer and violinist. Cristiano Farinelli was a friend of the composer Arcangelo Corelli and is said by some musicologists to have been the uncle and perhaps patron of the famous castrato Carlo Broschi whose stage name was Farinelli.
Lesley Chamberlain.  Lesley Chamberlain (born 1951) is a British journalist travel writer and historian of Russian and German culture and has published short stories and novels and written about food.She studied German and Russian at Exeter and Oxford Universities.After becoming a Reuter's correspondent in 1978 she later became a full-time writer; her first book was published in 1982. She has written for The Independent The Times Literary Supplement and Prospect magazine.
Peter Swanwick.  Peter Swanwick (1912 – 14 November 1968) was a British actor best remembered as the Supervisor (sometimes called the Controller) in the 1967 TV series The Prisoner.
Little Richard.  Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5 1932) known by his stage name Little Richard is an American recording artist songwriter and musician. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for over six decades. Penniman's most celebrated work dates from the mid 1950s where his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship laid the foundation for rock and roll. His music also had a pivotal impact on the formation of other popular music genres including soul and funk.
Michèle Arnaud.  Not to be confused with Michel Arnaud.Michèle Arnaud (born Micheline Caré on March 18 1919 in Toulon died on March 30 1998 in Maisons-Laffitte in the département of Yvelines) was a French singer producer and director. She was entombed on September 18 1998 in Montparnasse Cemetery. She is the mother of the singer Dominique Walter and the photographer Florence Gruère.Arnaud was awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Pierre Jahan.  Pierre Jahan (9 September 1909 – 21 February 2003) was a French photographer. He was born in Amboise and died in Paris.
Sahar Taha.  Sahar Taha (Arabic: سحر طه‎; born in Iraq) is an Iraqi musician and journalist living in Lebanon who co-hosts the Lebanese programme Banat Hawa on LBC. She is best known for playing the oud in both eastern and western music.
Szabolcs Kókay.  Szabolcs Kókay (February 18 1976 Budapest Hungary) illustrator wildlife artist and nature painter.
Doris Saunders.  Doris Jean (Martin) Saunders CM (June 6 1941 – May 28 2006) was editor of Them Days a quarterly journal chronicling the history of Labrador from 1975 to 2004. She was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1986.Saunders was born in Cartwright Labrador in 1941 and was the second child of six. She later moved to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. In 1975 she was hired by the Labrador Heritage Society to publish a booklet containing oral histories of people from Labrador.
Hugo Charlemont.  Hugo Charlemont (March 18 1850 – April 18 1939) was an Austrian painter.
Samuel Palmer.  Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.
Jorge Drexler.  Jorge Drexler (born Jorge Abner Drexler Prada; September 21 1964) is an Uruguayan musician actor and doctor specialized in otolaryngology.In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award. He won for composing the song Al Otro Lado del Río from The Motorcycle Diaries.
Mani Liaqat.  Mani Liaqat (Urdu: مانی لیاقت‎) (born April 25 1984) is a Manchester based British Asian actor and comedian. He is known for his bizarre rants portly figure witty voice and mixture of Punjabi/Urdu/Hindi and British everyday-humour.Mani is best known as the winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge UK on Star One Star Plus Production Sky Channel 783.
Lonnie Brooks.  Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr. December 18 1933) is an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Dubuisson Louisiana United States.
Cizia Zykë.  Cizia Zykë (born Jean-Charles Zykë; c. 1949 – 27 September 2011) was a French writer and adventurer born in Morocco. He wrote numerous books on exploring dangerous corners of the world.
Peggy Little.  Peggy Little (born 1942) is an American country music singer best remembered for her country cover version of Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man [1] Little was born in Marlin Texas and raised in Waco Texas. She began her career as a child vocalist on local radio. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Little was a well-known figure to country music audiences with several charting records and multiple appearances on country music programs such as Hee Haw.
Joy Harjo.  Joy Harjo (born May 9 1951) is a Native American poet musician and author. She is often cited as playing a formidable role in the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has coined the Native American Renaissance.
Tamara Guseva.  Tamara Nikolayevna Guseva (born in Baku 15 August 1926) was a Soviet classical pianist and People's Artist of Russia.After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory under Heinrich Neuhaus she took part at the IV Fryderyk Chopin competition where she was awarded the 9th prize. That same year Guseva won ex-aequo with Yevgeny Malinin the International Youth and Students Festival in Budapest. She had previously been awarded a 4th prize at the 1945 All-Soviet Music Performance Competition.
Paul Thomson.  Paul Robert Thomson (born 15 September 1976) is the drummer for the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand.Thomson has always been interested in music able to play various instruments such as guitar keyboard and bass guitar in addition to the drums.During the late 1990s he was drummer of The Yummy Fur and was at one point part of The Purple Bajengas and Pro Forma. It was in The Yummy Fur that Thomson would meet Alex Kapranos Huntley.
Federico Andreotti.  Federico Andreotti (Florence March 6 1847-1930) was an Italian painter.
Heinz G. Konsalik.  Heinz G. Konsalik pseudonym of Heinz Günther (May 28 1921 – October 2 1999) was a German novelist.
Ivana Peters.  Ivana Peters (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Петерс) born Ivana Pavlović (Ивана Павловић August 22 1974 in Belgrade SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian Pop rock singer-songwriter composer and musician the leader of pop rock band Negative.
Wendy Phillips (author).  Wendy Philips is a Canadian author. She grew up in Kamloops British Columbia and wrote her first book at the age of 11 and completed degrees in Journalism English Education and a Children’s Literature degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC. Her past jobs have included journalism bookbinding and teaching English. She has lived in Lesotho Ottawa South Africa and Australia but currently lives in Richmond British Columbia with her husband son and daughter.
Theodore Mendez.  Theodore Mendez (Theo) 1934-1997 was an abstract artist who taught at Camberwell College of Arts in London for over thirty years. After attending Strand School he entered Camberwell College of Arts in 1950 as a student where his contemporaries included Terry Frost Howard Hodgkin Euan Uglow Roy Turner Durrant Bernard Dunstan and Gillian Ayres.
Honey Bane.  Honey Bane (born Donna Tracy Boylan 1964 London) is an English singer and actress possibly best known for her 1981 UK Top 40 single Turn Me On Turn Me Off.Honey Bane began her musical career at the age of 14 in 1978 when she formed the punk rock band the Fatal Microbes. The band released a split 12 record with anarcho-punk band Poison Girls the same year.
Chandrakant Bakshi.  Chandrakant Keshavlal Bakshi (Gujarati: ચંદ્રકાંત કેશવલાલ બક્ષી) (August 20 1932 – March 25 2006) was a Gujarati author. He is also addressed as Bakshi or Bakshibabu.
Jane Haddam.  Orania Papazoglou (born July 13 1951) better known by her pen name Jane Haddam is an American mystery writer.
Robert Urquhart (actor).  Robert Urquhart (16 October 1921 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.He was born in Ullapool Scotland and educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. Urquhart made his stage debut in 1947 while his first film role was in You're Only Young Twice (1952).
Anthony Warlow.  Anthony Warlow (born 18 November 1961 in Wollongong New South Wales Australia) is an Australian opera and musical theatre performer noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range. He is a classically trained lyric baritone.
John Moore (American author).  John Moore is an American engineer and author of fantasy and science fiction. Much of his early work appeared under a fuller version of his name John F. Moore. He lives and works in Houston Texas.
Lars Physant.  Lars Physant (born April 24 1957 Copenhagen Denmark) is a Danish painter whose conceptual expression has its roots in naturalism and realism Amongst his earliest influences are Christen Købke J.Th. Lundbye Wilhelm Hammershoi Vermeer van Delft Claude Monet and Geoges Seurat.
Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert.  Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (6 December 1797 – 1 December 1872) was a French writer of historical fiction poetry non-fiction stage plays and short stories. From 1855 to 1870 she and Virginie Ancelot were the most popular novelists of the roman populaire genre. She published much of her work as Clémence Robert.Mlle Robert was born in Mâcon in December 1797. She was a strong student with a penchant for history.
Harry Prime.  Harry Prime is a Big Band vocalist who performed from the late forties through the mid-fifties.Prime was a featured vocalist with the orchestras of Randy Brooks Tommy Dorsey Jack Fina and Ralph Flanagan.
Ye Lay.  Ye Lay (Burmese: ရဲလေး) born Ye Htun Min is a Burmese hip hop artist.In 2011 he was the subject of a hoax that claimed he had been stabbed in a fight. He published a 212-page autobiography entitled Mad...Sea (ရူးသွပ်ခြင်း...ပင်လယ်) on 25 March 2012.In May 2013 he wed Aye Mya Aung the daughter of Burmese minister Aung Min.
Régis Laspalès.  Régis Laspalès (born February 25 1957 in Paris) is a French comedian and actor best known for his collaboration with Philippe Chevallier.In 2002 he starred in Ma femme s'appelle Maurice.
Mini Chang.  Mini Chang (Chinese: 張甯兒; pinyin: Zhang Ning Er) is a singer and actress. She is in the Taiwanese girl band Hey Girl. To participate in the program because Blackie's Teenage Club (我愛黑澀會) outstanding performance.
Paul Putner.  Paul Putner (born March 1966) is an English comedian and actor.
Kaori Shimamura.  Kaori Shimamura (嶋村 かおり Shimamura Kaori born Kaori Matsumoto January 27 1971 in Yamaguchi Prefecture) is a Japanese nude model gravure idol tarento and actress. Shimamura applied to the Guinness Book of Records for recognition of her twenty photobooks.
Sauli Vuoti.  Sauli Vuoti (born 1979 in Oulu Finland) is Finnish musician chemist and freelance writer. He is the vocalist and guitarist of the group Kinetik Control founded in the beginning of the ongoing millennium. He has written most of the music and lyrics for Kinetik Control. His lyrics mostly deal with the superficiality and selfishness of modern day humans and human relationships. Prior to Kinetik Control he was more closely associated with extreme metal.
James F. Sundah.  Ir. James F. Sundah (born James Freddy Sundah) is a popular Indonesian songwriter of Manadonese descent. He was born in Semarang on December 1 1955. A prominent figure in the Indonesian music industry Sundah is best known for his evergreen song Lilin Lilin Kecil (Little Candles) sung by Chrisye (released in 1977). Which won the Listeners' Favorite Choice Award from the prominent Prambors Rasisonia Radio in Jakarta.
Guy Gavriel Kay.  Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7 1954) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid.
Joe Brown (singer).  Joseph Roger Joe Brown MBE (born 13 May 1941) is an English entertainer. He has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s. He has made six films presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2 appeared on the West End stage alongside Dame Anna Neagle and has written an autobiography.
Thomas Zimmerman.  Thomas Cadwallader Zimmerman (January 23 1838–November 13 1914) was a Pennsylvania German writer and translator notable for his translations of English language classics into the Pennsylvania German dialect. He was also the editor of the Reading Times newspaper in Reading Berks County Pennsylvania.
Taylor Dayne.  Leslie Wunderman (born March 7 1962) better known by her stage name Taylor Dayne is an American pop and freestyle music singer-songwriter and actress. In late 1987 she scored her first major hit when her debut single Tell It to My Heart reached No. 7 on the Hot 100. She then went on to have a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s including the No. 1 Billboard hit Love Will Lead You Back.
Lilli Carati.  Lilli Carati (born 23 September 1956) is an Italian former actress.
Audrey Erskine Lindop.  Audrey Erskine Lindop (1920 London –1986 Isle of Wight) was an English writer of various forms of fiction including crime mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970.Possibly her best known novel is I Start Counting narrated by a teenage girl which won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1967 and was later filmed with Jenny Agutter. Other novels which have been filmed are I Thank A Fool and The Singer Not the Song.
Madison Parker.  Madison Parker (born June 21 1989 in Hungary) is a Hungarian pornographic actress.
Barkat Ali Khan.  Ustad Barkat Ali Khan (1905-1962) was an Indian classical singer younger brother of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and elder brother of Mubarak Ali Khan and belonging to the Patiala gharana.
Emmylou Harris.  Emmylou Harris (born April 2 1947) is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career and has now won 13 Grammys - as of 2014 - as well as numerous other awards.Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist bandleader an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter and a backing vocalist and duet partner.
Angela Moldovan.  Angela Moldovan (19 September 1927 – 13 October 2013) was a Romanian singer of popular music and to a lesser public knowledge an accomplished opera singer but also an actress mostly known for her roles in the musical Veronica and its sequel Veronica se întoarce.
May Sinclair.  May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946) a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League.
Oleg Pogudin.  Oleg Evgenevich Pogudin (Russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Погу́дин) (December 22 1968 Leningrad) is an outstanding Russian singer TV presenter actor and Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation noted for his vocal and artistic style of interpretation of Russian romances and traditional folk songs.
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten.  Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten (1630–1700) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes and genre scenes.
Mark Tucker (photographer).  Mark Tucker is a commercial photographer based in Nashville Tennessee whose work has been featured in Communication Arts Print Photo Design Photo Insider and PhotoMarket magazines.
John Debney.  John C. Debney (born August 18 1956) is an American film composer. He received an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He also composed the score for Cutthroat Island which has been celebrated by music critics as a notable example of swashbuckling film music.
Arvella Gray.  Blind Arvella Gray (January 28 1906 – September 7 1980) was an American blues folk and gospel singer and guitarist.His birth name was James Dixon and he was born in Somerville Texas United States. He spent the latter part of his life performing and busking folk blues and gospel music at Chicago's Maxwell Street flea market and at rapid-transit depots.
King Charles (musician).  King Charles born Charles Costa (6 May 1985) is a singer-songwriter from West London.Charles plays the guitar piano and cello. He is also a classically trained singer and performed in his school's choir.
Karna Das.  Karna Das  also known as Mr. Das is one of the most prominent Nepali singers living and performing today. Mr. Das was born on 24 November 1974 in Pokhara. Das completed high school in 1993 and studied economics in college. Das was also the lead singer of the band Madhyanha. He started his singing career in 1997 with the first song Jindagi Ko Ke Bharosa. Mr. Das plays piano. He is inspired by Elton Jones Richard Michael Lata Mangeshkar Jagjit Singh of India and Narayan Gopal of Nepal.
Celia Calle.  Celia Calle is a Boston-born and New York City-based illustrator fashion designer and comic book penciller. Educated at the Parsons School of Design Calle began her career as a costume designer before eventually turning to illustration. Her illustration work has included the cover art for comic books such as Vertigo Comics' American Virgin (#15-#23) Virgin Comics' Walk-In and Seven Brothers and Marvel Comics' Mekanix.
James Orrock.  James Orrock RI (1829 – 10 May 1913) was a prominent Scottish collector of art and oriental ceramics illustrator and landscape watercolourist. Today he is also considered as the main source of forgeries from the later 19th century associated with copies of the works of John Constable.The son of an Edinburgh dentist he was himself educated in medicine surgery and dentistry at Edinburgh University after which he practised as a dentist in Nottingham.
Erik Mona.  Erik Mona (born April 1974) is an American game designer.
Guy Lafitte.  Guy Lafitte (12 January 1927–10 June 1998) was a French jazz tenor saxophonist born at Saint-Gaudens France most notable for his work with Mezz Mezzrow from 1951–1952 and having toured with Big Bill Broonzy in 1951.In 1954 Lafitte made Paris his home and worked with Lionel Hampton and Emmett Berry. Lafitte had also been a collaborator on various other projects with musicians such as Wild Bill Davis and Bill Coleman.
Lorrie Moore.  For the journalist please see Lori MooreLorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.
Lauri Tähkä.  Jarkko Suo better known as Lauri Tähkä (born November 9 1973 in Vaasa Finland) is a Finnish musician and recording artist. He was a leading member in the former band Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu. Growing up he listened to Kiss Iron Maiden the Finnish band Eppu Normaali the works of Ismo Alanko as well as Kauko Röyhkä. Tähkä found his musical identity in a cross between rock and national ballads.
Val Valentine.  Val Valentine (1895-1971) was a British screenwriter.
Bojan Westin.  Bojan Westin (5 September 1926 – 4 October 2013) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1941 and 2011.
Xavier Desandre Navarre.  Xavier Desandre Navarre (born 11.10.1961) a.k.a XDN is a French jazz musician percussionist and drummer.
Masayoshi Yamazaki.  Masayoshi Yamazaki (山崎 まさよし Yamazaki Masayoshi born 山崎 将義 Yamazaki Masayoshi on December 23 1971 in Kusatsu Shiga) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who plays guitar-driven blues rock and pop music though he has also recorded piano ballads.
Oliver Schnyder.  Oliver Schnyder (b. October 3 1973 in Möriken Switzerland) is a Swiss classical pianist.
Lupe Fuentes.  Lupe Fuentes is a Spanish singer dancer and former pornographic actress.
Patricia Cornwell.  Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9 1956) is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.
Max Martin.  Martin Sandberg (born Karl Martin Sandberg 26 February 1971) known professionally as Max Martin is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the mid-1990s after crafting a string of major hits for artists such as Backstreet Boys Britney Spears and 'N Sync. Some of his earlier hits include Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) Everybody (Backstreet's Back) I Want It That Way ...Baby One More Time Oops!...
Mukul Kesavan.  Mukul Kesavan (b. 1957) is an Indian historian novelist and political and social essayist. He was schooled at St. Xaviers' in Delhi and then went on to study History at St. Stephen's College and at the University of Delhi and later at Trinity Hall University of Cambridge where he received his MLitt having been awarded the Inlaks scholarship. His first book a novel titled - Looking Through Glass (Farrar Straus & Giroux 1994) received international critical acclaim.
Jennifer Hudson.  Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12 1981) is an American recording artist actress and spokesperson. She rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place.
Geoff Goddard.  Geoff Goddard (19 November 1937 – 15 May 2000) was an English songwriter singer and instrumentalist. Working for Joe Meek in the early 1960s he wrote songs for Heinz Mike Berry Gerry Temple The Tornados Kenny Hollywood The Outlaws Freddie Starr Screaming Lord Sutch The Ramblers and John Leyton. His song for Leyton Johnny Remember Me reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.By the mid-1960s he had fallen out with Meek.
Monte Michael Moore.  Monte Michael Moore is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Dora Söderberg.  Dora Söderberg (10 November 1899 – 9 November 1990) was a Swedish stage actress. Daughter of the famous Swedish novelist and playwright Hjalmar Söderberg.Dora Söderberg was a highly acclaimed character actress and a longtime member of Sweden's national stage the Royal Dramatic Theatre-ensemble (1935–1986) where she acted in more than 80 productions.
Josh Friedman.  Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as writer of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the 2005 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.Friedman also publishes the blog I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing. After being offered an opportunity to work on a script titled Snakes on a Plane Friedman posted a blog entry that sparked interest in the film on the Internet before the movie entered production.
Aleksa Gajić.  Aleksa Gajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Гајић born May 20 1974 Belgrade) is a Serbian comics artist and film director. Gajić is best known as the illustrator of Scourge of the Gods (fr. Le Fléau des dieux) written by Valérie Mangin and Technotise written by Darko Grkinić. Also he is famous illustrator in Serbia and has published in various magazines such as Politikin Zabavnik.From 2000 he is under contract with French comic book publisher Soleil Productions.
Giorgos Karadimos.  Giorgos Karadimos is a musician from Greece. A composer and lyricist he was nominated for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010.
Mamadee.  Mamadee (born 1979 as Mamadie Wappler in Dresden Germany) is a German Reggae singer and songwriter.
Cindy Bradley.  Cindy Lynn Bradley (born 1977) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player and composer – although her signature instrument on stage has tended to become a bright metallic pink hybrid of both instruments known as a flumpet.
Fantine (musician).  Fantine (born Fantine Maria Pritoula; February 6 1984 ) is a Russian-born Australian multilingual singer/songwriter of Russian and Dominican Republic descent. Fantine is currently residing in Sydney New South Wales Australia.
Will Wilson (photographer).  Will Wilson is a Native American photographer with a background in the Diné tribe.
Erum Ali.  Erum Ali is an Indian fashion designer mainly working for the Indian movie industry. Apart from film commitments Ali has also participated at the Chennai Fashion Week and has a self-named collection.
Srutimala Duara.  Srutimala Duara (Assamese: শ্ৰুতিমালা দুৱৰা) is a bilingual writer from Assam India. She writes in English and Assamese. The Sunset and Other Stories (Spectrum 1998) Waiting for the Last Breath (Spectrum 1999) The Jhoolan Evening (Spectrum 2000) are her short story collections in English.Traveling with Dreams (Spectrum 2001) Maya's Party (BR Publishing Corp 2003) and Ashes in the Seas (BR Pub Corp 2003) are her English novels.
Patrick Kelly (fiddler).  Patrick Kelly (1905–1976) was an Irish fiddle-player and -teacher. Kelly was born in Cree County Clare and learned to play when he was young. His youth were the heyday of the American Wakes and the house dances. His style was influenced by the Kerry fiddler George Whelan (also the mentor of his father) and Danny Mescal. Both acted as his teachers and mentors.
Laurent Casimir.  Laurent Casimir (May 5 1928 –1990) was an Haitian artist.Casimir moved to Port-au-Prince in the late 1940s and is here presented to the Centre d'Art in 1947 by his friend the painter Dieudonné Cedor. From 1950 to 1956 he attended the Foyer of Fine Arts founded by a group of intellectuals and modern artists including Cedor.Casimir was one of the originators of a Haitian archetype market painting he painted using various shades of red orange and yellow.
M-Phazes.  M-Phazes is an Australian Hip Hop producer and artist based in Melbourne Victoria. Born on the Gold Coast he relocated to Melbourne to further his musical career. Originally known for his production work he has produced for artists such as Bliss n Eso Phrase Drapht Dialectrix Muph & Plutonic Spit Syndicate Urthboy Syntax and The Tongue as well as American hip hop artists Pharoahe Monch Talib Kweli and Slaughterhouse and British rappers such as Sonnyjim and Micall Parknsun.
John Birmelin.  John Birmelin (October 31 1873 – September 3 1950) has been called the Poet Laureate of the Pennsylvania Dutch and is one of the most popular poets and playwrights in the Pennsylvania German language.
Luke McMaster.  Luke McMaster (born March 22 1976) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.With his lifelong commitment to music McMaster experienced early success as half of the music duo McMaster and James originating from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. The duo was named after McMaster and his performing partner Rob James. Despite their initial success the band dissolved in 2002. Since then McMaster has worked as a songwriter and producer living in Toronto.
Simon Hussey.  Simon Cyril Hussey (born 1960 Lismore) is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and multi ARIA awarded record producer. In 1984 he formed Cats Under Pressure with David Reyne (ex-Australian Crawl) on Vocals and Mark Greig on guitar. Hussey and Greig joined Australian Crawl's recording sessions for their fourth studio album Between a Rock and a Hard Place (August 1985). Hussey provided keyboards and co-wrote material with the band's lead singer James Reyne (David's older brother).
David Kinkade.  David Kinkade (born August 25 1983) is an American former musician.
Joey Newman.  Joey Newman (born September 9 1976) is a Los Angeles-based film composer orchestrator arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television. Joey was educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston MA.
George Edgecumbe.  George Edgecumbe (4 January 1845–11 March 1930) was a New Zealand newspaper proprietor and businessman. He was born in Chippenham Wiltshire England on 4 January 1845.
Manos Hatzidakis.  Manos Hatzidakis (also spelled Hadjidakis; Greek: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις; October 23 1925 – June 15 1994) was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music. He was also one of the main prime movers of the Éntekhno song (along with Mikis Theodorakis).In 1960 he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song Never on Sunday from the film of the same name.
Loreena McKennitt.  Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt CM OM (born February 17 1957) is a Canadian musician composer harpist accordionist and pianist who writes records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear dramatic soprano vocals. She has sold more than 14 million records worldwide.
Magli Elster.  Magli Elster (née Raknes; 1912 – 1993) was a Norwegian psychoanalyst literary critic poet and translator. She was the daughter of psychologist Ola Raknes and poet and playwright Aslaug Vaa married to writer and Director-General of the NRK Torolf Elster and the mother of philosopher Jon Elster. She made her literary debut with the poetry collection Trikken går i engen from 1952 and her literary breakthrough was the collection Med hilsen fra natten from 1953.
Shawn Crahan.  Michael Shawn Crahan (born September 24 1969) more commonly known by his stage persona Clown is an American musician music producer and artist. He is best known as one of the two custom percussionists and co-founder of the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Slipknot. When performing with Slipknot he is known as Number 6.
Guglielmo Janni.  Guglielmo Janni (born 1892 - died 1958) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School).
DJ Aligator.  Aliasghar Movasat (Persian: علی اصغر مواساط‎) (born 10 March 1975) better known by his stage name DJ Aligator is an Iranian-Danish trance producer and DJ.
A-Lee.  Ali Pirzad-Amoli (born May 17 1988) better known by his stage name A-Lee (also sometimes stylized as A-LEE) is a Norwegian pop recording artist rapper singer songwriter and executive producer. A-Lee is the co-founder and CEO of his own record label EE Records.
Nathan King (musician).  Nathan King (born 29 August 1970) is a multi instrumentalist and singer and has been a member of Level 42 since 1998. He is also currently working with Frost* It Bites and The Blockheads. Nathan lives with his Wife and Daughter in Hampshire United Kingdom.
Aris Christofellis.  Aris Christofellis (Greek: Άρης Χριστοφέλλης; born 5 February 1960) is a Greek sopranist (male soprano) and musicologist.
Michael Viner.  Michael Ames Viner (February 27 1944 – August 8 2009) was an American film producer and record producer who later shifted into book publishing and became an innovator in the audiobook field. A widely sampled percussion break in the recording of the song Apache by the Incredible Bongo Band a group he assembled in the early 1970s has been frequently integrated into many hip hop recordings.
Robert Steiner (writer).  Robert Steiner (born 7 December 1976) is a German mountain-climber and writer.Steiner was born in Stuttgart Germany and grew up in Ostelsheim in the Black Forest. After finishing his Abitur he studied Geography and German in Freiburg im Breisgau to become a teacher. Steiner started mountain-climbing at the age of 17 and went on to climb the Eiger Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses.
Robert Greene (American author).  Robert Greene (born May 14 1959) is an American author and speaker known for his books on strategy power and seduction. He has written five international bestsellers: The 48 Laws of Power The Art of Seduction The 33 Strategies of War The 50th Law (with rapper 50 Cent) and Mastery.
N. P. van Wyk Louw.  Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (11 June 1906 in Sutherland formerly Cape Province now Northern Cape Province in South Africa – 18 June 1970 in Johannesburg) almost universally known as N.P. van Wyk Louw was an Afrikaans-language poet playwright and scholar. He is the older brother of Afrikaans-language poet W.E.G. Louw.One of the Dertigers or Writers of the Thirties N.P.
Janise Yntema.  Janise Yntema (born March 29 1962) is an American painter working in the ancient wax encaustic technique. Yntema was born in New Jersey and attended Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League of New York. She has had exhibitions in the United States and Amsterdam. Her works are in the collections of several museums in Europe and the United States including the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art.She works and lives in Brussels Belgium.
Carlo Carrà.  Carlo Carrà (February 11 1881 – April 13 1966) was an Italian painter a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings he wrote a number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.
Said Dimayev.  Said-Emin Umarovich Dimayev (Chechen: Саид-Эмин Умарович Димаев) (August 24 1939 – March 28 2005) was a Soviet composer. His father Umar Dimayev was a legendary accordionist and folk musician and his brothers Ali and Valid are professional Chechen musicians.Said was born in 1939 in the Chechen Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet Union.
Christopher Hall (musician).  Christopher Hall is an American musician best known as a founding member and vocalist for the band Stabbing Westward. Hall met keyboardist Walter Flakus in 1985 and formed the industrial rock band in Chicago. After the breakup of Stabbing Westward in 2002 Hall founded a new band The Dreaming in 2002.
John Hunter Booth.  John Hunter Booth (November 27 1886 – November 23 1971) was an American playwright. He wrote 7 films between 1922 and 1933.He was born in New Orleans Louisiana USA and died in Norwood Massachusetts.
Manoj George.  Manoj George (Malayalam: മനോജ്‌ ജോര്‍ജ് ) is a film score composer violinist and musician in Malayalam and Kannada film industry.Manoj is the only Indian musician to endorse the Roland Corporation the Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments.Armed with a bow and the fiddle Manoj has made a mark for himself in the Indian music arena as a composer performing violinist and a collaborator. He is a Licentiate (LTCL) performer in Violin from the Trinity College of Music London.
Tine Thing Helseth.  Tine Thing Helseth (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtiːnə tɪŋ hɛlsət] English pronunciation: /ˈtiːnə tɪŋ ˈhɛlsət/ TEE-nə-ting-HEL-sət; born August 18 1987) is a Norwegian trumpet soloist specializing in classical repertoire.
Clarence Tex Walker.  Clarence Tex Walker (24 January 1946 – 8 August 2007) was a prominent rhythm and blues musician who was the lead singer with Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters and The Coasters. After touring Europe with Big Joe Turner Walker appeared at the prestigious Bishopstock Blues Festival before forming his own group in London The Walker Street Blues Band and recording Blues in Black which was released to critical acclaim in Britain. Walker died of a heart attack on August 8 2007.
Atom Willard.  Adam David Willard best known by his stage name Atom Willard (born August 15 1973) is an American drummer who has been a member of several notable musical acts. Willard's drumming career began in 1990 when he joined Rocket from the Crypt whom he remained with until 2000. Subsequently he joined The Special Goodness and The Offspring and in 2005 became a founding member of Angels & Airwaves.
Francesco Naselli.  Francesco Naselli was born at Ferrara and flourished about the year 1610. When young he studied the works of the Carracci and Guercino which he copied with surprising success but afterwards devoted himself to the manner of his countryman Giuseppe Mazzola. He was employed for several of the churches in Ferrara.
Villi Bossi.  Villi Bossi (born 8 November 1939) is an Italian sculptor.Born at Muggia near Trieste he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa under the scholarship of Lodovico Caraventa.He attended the Free School of Figure directed by Nino Perizi at the Revoltella Museum in Trieste. From 1964 on he held several exhibits both exclusive ones and not showing up his ability with various materials including different types of wood and in particular sandstone and marble.
Vera Brittain.  Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was a British writer feminist and pacifist best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Tori Black.  Tori Black (born Michelle Chapman; August 26 1988) is an American pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2007 and has since appeared in over 300 movies. In 2010 Black was named by Loaded magazine as the most facially attractive female performer in the industry. In 2011 lifestyle magazine Complex placed her top in their list The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars Right Now.
Johnny Lau.  Johnny Lau is a cartoonist and CEO of Vasunas a Singaporean animation technology company. Lau is the creator of Mr. Kiasu a popular Singaporean cartoon character.Lau created the Mr Kiasu book and self-published the title in 1990 in Singapore. The first title is Everything Also I Want. Lau was involved in publishing the Mr Kiasu book series for a period of 10 years from 1990 to 1999.
Ron Affif.  Ron Affif is an American jazz guitarist (born on December 30 1965 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) of mixed Lebanese and Italian origin. He is the son of boxing welterweight and middleweight fighter Charley Zivic who being a jazz fan initiated him in music. His mother is Marlene sister of renowned jazz guitarist Ron Anthony. Affif studied with Jerry Conderata and Joe Negri before heading to the West Coast in 1983 to study under maternal uncle and musician Ron Anthony.
DJ Jazzy Jeff.  Jeffrey Allen Townes (born January 22 1965) also known as DJ Jazzy Jeff or simply Jazz is an American hip hop and R&B disc jockey record producer turntablist and actor who is best known for his early career with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
Jun Matsumoto.  Jun Matsumoto (松本 潤 Matsumoto Jun born August 30 1983) often called by the portmanteau nickname MatsuJun (松潤) is a Japanese idol singer actor and radio host.
Mireille Mathieu.  Mireille Mathieu (French: [miˈʁɛj maˈtjø]; born 22 July 1946) is a French singer. She has recorded over 1200 songs in 11 languages with 122 million albums (as of 24 November 2005) and more than 50 million singles sold worldwide.
Georg Forster (composer).  Georg Forster (ca. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor composer and physician. Forster was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V’s court in Heidelberg around 1521 he was a colleague of Caspar Othmayr who would also become a composer of renown. Forster received his first instruction in composition from the Kapellmeister Lorenz Lemlin. He died at Nuremberg.
Matias Tellez.  Matias Tellez is a Norwegian singer songwriter composer and producer. Matias is one of the many young artists that the press have called the New Bergen Wave. His music contains elements of pop rock and tropicalia.
John Swartzwelder.  John Swartzwelder (born November 16 1950) is an American comedy writer and novelist best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons as well as a number of novels. He is credited with writing the largest number of Simpsons episodes (59 full episodes with contributions to several others) by a large margin. Swartzwelder was one of several writers recruited to The Simpsons from the pages of George Meyer's Army Man magazine.
Scott Treleaven.  Scott Treleaven is a Canadian artist whose work employs a variety of media including collage film video drawing photography and installation.
Celine Ma.  Leung Wing Ngan (Chinese: 梁穎顏) (born December 6 1967) better known by her stage name Celine Ma Tai Lo (Chinese: 馬蹄露) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is best known for her role as May May in the long running TVB television series A Kindred Spirit.
Kaleb Nation.  Kaleb Nation (born 16 September 1988) is an American writer and YouTube personality. He currently resides in Los Angeles California.
Singing Melody.  Everton Hardweare (born 23 November 1967) better known by his stage name Singing Melody is a Reggae artist from Kingston Jamaica. He is known for his abilities as a vocalist his production work and for combining aspects of Reggae and R&B in his own releases.
Terry Hall (singer).  Terry Hall (born Terence Edward Hall 19 March 1959 Coventry England) is the lead singer of The Specials and formerly of Fun Boy Three The Colourfield Terry Blair & Anouchka and Vegas. He has released two solo albums and has also collaborated with many artists including David A. Stewart Bananarama Lightning Seeds Sinéad O'Connor Stephen Duffy Dub Pistols Gorillaz Damon Albarn Tricky Junkie XL Leila Arab Lily Allen Shakespears Sister and Nouvelle Vague.
Maximiano de Sousa (Max).  Maximiano de Sousa Also known as Max (20 January 1918 in Funchal Madeira – 29 May 1980) was a Portuguese Fado singer.Max was one of the most popular Fado singers from the 1940s until well after his death in 1980.Maximiano de Sousa known to most people as Max was a Madeiran (Portuguese: madeirense) born in Funchal in 1918. It was here where his career started. He was a tailor and even after becoming an artist he long maintained that profession.
Gilad Hekselman.  Gilad Hekselman (born 1983) is an Israeli-born jazz guitarist.Hekselman has performed with many renowned artists including Mark Turner Dayna Stephens Aaron Parks Jeff Ballard John Scofield Ari Hoenig and Chris Potter.Hekselman was also featured on Esperanza Spalding's Radio Music Society.Hekselman moved to New York City in 2004 to attend the The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music on full scholarship.
Tah Mac.  Tah Mac (born in Brooklyn New York) is an American rapper and songwriter who rose to fame as a producer of various Hip hop and R&B acts before releasing his first solo album in 2009.
Merrill Joan Gerber.  Merrill Joan Gerber was born in Brooklyn New York. She has published thirty books and is an award winning novelist and short story writer. She has published stories in The New Yorker The Atlantic Mademoiselle Redbook The Sewanee Review Salmagundi The Southwest Review and many other journals. In 1986 Gerber won an O. Henry Prize. In 1993 she won the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for her novel The Kingdom of Brooklyn.
Jerry Dolyn Brown.  American folk artist Jerry Dolyn Brown better known as Jerry Brown (born 1942) is a traditional stoneware pottery maker who lives and works in Hamilton Alabama. He is a 1992 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship award and 2003 recipient of the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. His numerous showings have included the 1984 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife with his uncle potter Gerald Stewart.
CajsaStina Åkerström.  Cajsa Stina (CajsaStina) Åkerström (born 16 August 1967) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and author. She is the daughter of singer Fred Åkerström.Åkerström participated in Melodifestivalen 2014 in the third semifinal with the entry En enkel sång.
David Prentice.  David Prentice (born 4 July 1936) is an English artist and former art teacher. In 1964 he was one of the four founder members of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery.Prentice's work features in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery the Art Institute of Chicago the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo New York and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Julie Doucet.  Julie Doucet (born December 31 1965 in Montreal Quebec Canada) is a Canadian former underground cartoonist and artist best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Her work is concerned with such topics as sex violence menstruation and male/female issues.
Aimée Allen.  Aimée Allen is an African-American jazz and world music singer. She has performed extensively in both the U.S. and France where she lived for some years. She released her first album Dream in 2006 and her second l'Inexplicable in 2007 although the latter was released in European and Japanese markets in 2008. Dream is a collection of jazz standards and bossa nova favorites while l'Inexplicable is a collection of originals written by the singer and performed in a jazz/ethnic pop fusion.
Niyazi Berkes.  Niyazi Berkes (21 October 1908 – 18 December 1988) was a Turkish Cypriot sociologist.
Alaa Al Aswany.  Alaa Al-Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني‎ IPA: [ʕæˈlæːʔ elɑsˈwɑːni]) (born 26 May 1957) is an Egyptian writer and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
Isaac Alexander.  Isaac Alexander was a German author. He lived in South Germany in the second half of the 18th century and wrote on philosophical subjects from a rationalistic point of view.
Tōko Aoyama.  Tōko Aoyama (青山桐子 Aoyama Tōko born 1976November 3) is a Japanese voice actress who works for 81 Produce (Junior). Aoyama is originally from the Tokyo Metropolitan Arra.
Chin Injeti.  Chin Injeti is a Canadian singer musician and music producer. He got his start as a founding member of Juno award-winning group Bass is Base. Working in many genres ranging from rock to country and most notably hip-hop Chin is seeing major breakthroughs as a writer/producer. Recent work with DJ Khalil for top hip-hop artists Dr. Dre 50 Cent Drake Clipse Eminem.
George Tipton.  George Aliceson Tipton also known as George Tipton (born January 23 1932) is an American composer musical arranger and conductor who is well known for his work in television and for his collaborations with singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
Michael O'Mara.  Michael Mike O'Mara (born August 28 1985) is best known as the original guitarist and backup vocalist of the American indie rock band Sleepaway.
Raffaele Frumenti.  Raffaele Frumenti (born 1 September 1922) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School).
Hamma Meliani.  Hamma Méliani (born 21 March 1950) is a playwright director and novelist. Born in Aïn M'lila he is the author of Les Filles de Jelfen (1998) Le lait du père (2010) La rage des amants (2010) and recently published Lamento pour Paris chroniques parisiennes sur le massacre des algériens les 17 et 18 octobres 1961 (2011).
John Stango.  John Stango (born August 9 1958) is an American pop artist.
Kris Kuksi.  Kris Kuksi is an American artist in the genre of Fantastic Realism.
Dani Dimitrovska.  Dani Dimitrovska (Macedonian: Дани Димитровска) (born June 4 1979 in Skopje) or simply Dani is a Macedonian pop music singer.
Steve Holt (American musician).  Steve Holt is the guitarist for Alaskan Rock band 36 Crazyfists. He also sings backing vocals for the band. Holt played guitars on the song Enemy of the State by Roadrunner United on the album The All-Star Sessions. Holt also produced and engineered 36 Crazyfists' albums The Tide and Its Takers and Collisions and Castaways. He owns and works out of his studio Fisticuffs Studio.
Billy Bennington.  Billy Bennington (1900 – 18 October 1986) was an English hammered dulcimer player.
Anne Whateley.  Anne Whateley (fl. 1580s; or 1561–1600) is the name of a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway. Most scholars believe that Whateley never existed but that her name in a document concerning Shakespeare's marriage is merely a clerical error. However several writers on Shakespeare have taken the view that she was a real rival to Hathaway for Shakespeare's hand.
Meg (singer).  Keiko Yorichika (born October 3 1980) is a Japanese recording artist and fashion designer from Hiroshima Prefecture Japan. She is signed with Starchild Records a division of King Records.
Philip Stein.  Philip Stein better known as Estaño (b. Newark New Jersey February 5 1919 – d. Manhattan April 27 2009) was an American painter and muralist.
Absolum.  Absolum is the stage name of French psytrance artist Christophe Drouillet. In 1994-1997 he was part of the Transwave project together with Frederic Holyszewski whose stage name is Deedrah. In 1998 he founded psytrance label 3D Vision Records together with DJ Maël Javier Galloy and Talamasca.
Özgür Çevik.  Özgür Çevik (born 27 May 1981) is a Turkish singer and actor who gained fame and intense fan following as a result of having appeared in his country's version of the television pop music talent contest Star Academy and subsequently as a variety performer and actor.A native of Ankara his father was a soldier and his mother was a police officer. He has one younger sister. Because of his father's job Çevik's family moved a lot.
Warren Tufts.  Warren Tufts (December 12 1925 - June 7 1982) born Chester Tufts was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles which ran from 1949 to 1954. Tufts entered the comic strip industry when the story strip his preferred form was already in decline.
John Gorka.  John Gorka (born 1958) is a contemporary American folk musician. In 1991 Rolling Stone magazine called him the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement.
Stephen Fabian.  Stephen Emil Fabian Sr. (born 1930) is an American artist.
Beverly Feldman.  Beverly Feldman is a shoe designer. She was born and raised in Massachusetts and trained as a shoe illustrator and designer at New York's Pratt Institute graduating in 1965.
Angelina Gualdoni.  Angelina Gualdoni (born 1975 San Francisco US) is an artist based in New York.Gualdoni attended Washington University School of Art from 1993–1995. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore in 1997 and her MFA in 2000 from University of Illinois at Chicago.Angelina Gualdoni begins her paintings by pouring directly onto the canvas. This drawing via liquid creates a capricious and unpredictable ground and forms a base both in terms of material and narrative.
I Am Harlequin.  I Am Harlequin is the recording and production alias of London-based artist Anne Freier.Freier was born towards the end of the GDR regime in Dresden Germany. She grew up listening to 1970s prog pop 1980s pop and classical music.
Sherine Wagdy.  Sherine Wagdy (Arabic: شيرين وجدي‎) (born as Sherine Farouk Salem (Arabic: شيرين فاروق سالم‎) in Cairo Egypt) is an Egyptian female singer.
Terry Austin (comics).  Terry Austin (born August 23 1952) is an American comic book artist working primarily as an inker. He is best known for his work embellishing John Byrne's pencils on The Uncanny X-Men from 1977–1981.
John Haggerty.  John Haggerty (born October 17 1960 Chicago) is an influential Chicago guitarist. A key member of Naked Raygun during their heyday (1983–1989) Haggerty formed the band Pegboy with brother Joe Haggerty on drums and Steve Saylors (bass) and Larry Damore (vocals) of the Bhopal Stiffs upon leaving Naked Raygun.
Kaushal Inamdar.  Kaushal S. Inamdar (born 2 October 1971 in Pune Maharashtra) is an Indian singer and music composer in Marathi and Hindi movies. His work in music spans from composing music for films television drama to events concerts in Hindi and Marathi composing music for ballets advertisements and also albums. He is currently settled at Goregaon a Mumbai suburb.
Hironobu Kageyama.  Hironobu Kageyama (影山 ヒロノブ Kageyama Hironobu real name written 景山 浩宣 born February 18 1961) is a Japanese musical artist prominent in the soundtracks for anime video game and tokusatsu productions. He is sometimes called Kami (Kei) by his fans. Kageyama got his big break at age 16 as lead singer of the rock group Lazy. By the early '80s the band split and Kageyama went solo. He found major success once he started to sing the theme songs of anime and tokusatsu shows.
Sam Weller (journalist).  Sam Weller (born January 31 1967) is an American journalist and author best known for his 2005 book The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury published by HarperCollins. In 2010 his book Listen to the Echoes The Ray Bradbury Interviews was published by Melville House Publishing a collection of interviews with Ray Bradbury including photos mementos and artifacts.
Giovanni Battista Treviso.  Giovanni Battista Treviso (fl. 1650s) was an Italian composer and maestro di capella in Pavia.
Frank Clifford Harris.  Frank Clifford Harris (1875 – 1949) was a British lyricist. He often worked with composer James W. Tate.
Horace Alexander.  Horace Gundry Alexander (18 April 1889 – 30 September 1989) was a British Quaker teacher and writer pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander (1848–1918) two other sons being the ornithologists Wilfred Backhouse Alexander and Christopher James Alexander (1887-1917). He was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi.
Isaiah Rashad.  Isaiah Rashad McClain better known as Isaiah Rashad is an American hip hop recording artist from Chattanooga Tennessee. In March 2013 Rashad signed to Carson California-based independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment. On January 28 2014 he released Cilvia Demo his debut extended play (EP) via digital distribution.
John Bodenham.  John Bodenham (c. 1559 – 1610) anthologist was the patron of some of the Elizabethan poetry anthologies.
Ralf Stemmann.  Ralf Stemmann (sometimes credited as Ralph Stemmann or Ralf Stemman) is a record producer composer arranger keyboards player synthesizer programmer of German origin who currently resides in Malibu California. He started his music career in early 80s with signing to Night’n’Day Records where he collaborated with Mike Mareen.
Jennifer McLagan.  Jennifer McLagan a Canadian chef and author based in Toronto. She has become famous for writing books on food and is the author of the book Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient with Recipes.McLagan was born in Australia. She enrolled in Monash University for a degree in politics and economics but dropped out of college to pursue her career in the food industry. Her career in the food industry started as a chef in the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne.
Arthur Tracy.  Arthur Tracy (25 June 1899 – 5 October 1997) was an American vocalist billed as The Street Singer. His performances in theatre films and radio along with his recordings brought him international fame in the 1930s. Late evening radio listeners tuned in to hear announcer David Ross' introduction (Round the corner and down your way comes The Street Singer) and Tracy's familiar theme song Marta Rambling Rose of the Wildwood.
Cosmo Klein.  Cosmo Klein (born Marcus Klein on November 1 1978 in Lippstadt) is a German singer and songwriter.
Brentalfloss.  Brent Black (born April 12 1984) better known by his stage name/internet handle brentalfloss is an American songwriter lyricist pianist and singer who has developed popularity mainly for his content on YouTube which consist of parodies and covers of video game songs in which he adds his own lyrics.
Michael Hogan (screenwriter).  Michael Hogan (1893–1977) was a British screenwriter. Hogan had previously been a notable film actor appearing in lead roles in a number of silent and early sound films. Hogan worked as a writer in both Britain and Hollywood.
Pier Leone Ghezzi.  Pier Leone Ghezzi (28 June 1674 – 6 March 1755) was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome.
Allen M. Hornblum.  Allen M. Hornblum is an author journalist and a former criminal justice official and political organizer based in Philadelphia. He has written five non-fiction books with his first book Acres of Skin published in 1998. The book detailed the human experimentation at Holmesburg Prison. The publication of Acres of Skin attracted considerable international media interest.
Leonidas Chantzaras.  Leonidas Chantzaras (born on July 29) better known by his artist name Freakchild (also sometimes stylized as DaFreakchild) is a Greek-German multi-gold and platinum songwriter producer publisher A&R and former singer.Leonidas Chantzaras is the CEO of his own management company The Company MGMT publishing company The Store! and record label 300* Records.
Frank Agnew.  Frank Agnew (born on August 18 1964) is an American guitarist best known for being a member of punk band The Adolescents.Agnew joined The Adolescents in 1980 after leaving Social Distortion. He left when The Adolescents broke up in the summer of 1981 and joined the band Legal Weapon with Steve and then played with T.S.O.L. Like the rest of the original line-up Frank returned to The Adolescents in 1986 but soon left along with Casey Royer.
Dallas Davidson.  Dallas Davidson is an American country music singer-songwriter.Davidson moved to Nashville Tennessee in 2004 and joined Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) for performing rights representation and signed a publishing deal with Big Borassa Music which lasted until 2008.
Jan van Huysum.  Jan van Huysum also spelled Huijsum (April 15 1682 Amsterdam - February 8 1749 Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter.
Stephen Sphincter.  Stephen Sphincter was an early Gwar character played by Ron Curry who recorded six albums on SST Records with Hotel X. His on-stage brother was Hans Sphincter played by drummer Jim Thompson.
JaQuavis Coleman.  JaQuavis Coleman is an American author. He's a member of the YMCMB book division and a New York Times bestselling author. He is married to Ashley Antoinette also an author and writer for MTV books and they were named by Ebony magazine as one of the most powerful couples in 2013.[citation needed] Their net worth is believed to be around 4.3 million together and just over two million individually.[citation needed]
Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils.  Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils (1727–1803) was a French composer and violinist.
Salvatore Mormile.  Salvatore Mormile (Naples November 1839- ) was an Italian painter mainly of genre figures and portraits.
Andrew Stock.  Andrew Stock (born 1960) is a British artist who lives in Dorset. He has been painting wildlife and landscapes since 1978. He is the brother of Jon Stock a British journalist and author. He has been a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists since 1983 was Honorary Secretary from 1995 to 2004 and President from 2004 to 2009. He is now an Honorary Vice-president of the society and continues to exhibit with them at the annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
Christof May.  Christof May (born 6 April 1970 in Radolfzell Baden-Württemberg) is a German jazz musician who performs on the clarinet and saxophone.May studied jazz saxophone with John Ruocco at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1992–1998 and from 1998 - 2002 classical clarinet with Ab Vos.
Jo Bench.  Jo-Anne Bench is a death metal bass player from Leamington Spa England. She plays bass in Bolt Thrower on all albums but not on the demos. She has been vegetarian since 1984.Bench joined the band in 1987 shortly after Gavin Ward switched from bass guitar to guitar. At the time she was Ward's long-time girlfriend and one of the few women playing in a death metal band.
Ted Milton.  Ted Milton (born 1943) is an English poet and musician best known for leading Blurt an experimental art-rock group.Milton grew up in Africa Canada and Great Britain. He published some early poems in magazines like Paris Review and Brian Patten's Underdog. In 1969 his poetry was published in the anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.
Chris Bickel.  Chris Bickel (born December 28 1970) most notably fronted the bands In/Humanity and Guyana Punch Line. Both bands could be considered to be Powerviolence and Hardcore punk but Bickel jokingly described In/Humanity's music as Emo Violence and introduced the philosophy of Smashism with Guyana Punch Line. In/Humanity was around from 1991 to 1998 and GPL from 1998 to 2003. After the demise of the latter he sang in the short-lived Newgenics and Four 3 One.
Teresa De Sio.  Teresa De Sio (born November 3 1955) is an Italian folk singer-songwriter and the sister of the actress Giuliana De Sio.
Bart Ramsey.  Bart Ramsey (born November 3 1954) is a New Orleans composer author singer and jazz musician who formed the gypsy swing band Zazou City. Through his countless performances of Ramsey's original compositions in New Orleans and especially in the Faubourg Marigny area of the city Gypsy Swing has recently become solidly infused into the New Orleans jazz repertoire.
Mats Ronander.  Mats Ronander (born 1 April 1954 Sundsvall Sweden) is a Swedish rock musician guitar player producer and composer.
Maurice Savin.  Maurice Savin (October 17 1894–1973) born Maurice Louis Savin was a French artist painter ceramicist and tapestry-maker his works are included in many private and public collections.
G. Sankara Pillai.  G. Sankara Pillai (22 June 1930 - 1 January 1989) was an Indian playwright critic and director who explored total theatre in a wide range of forms. He was one of the most versatile and towering personalities of Indian literature and the theatre scene. His symbolist works were instrumental in defining modern Malayalam theatre. The Nataka Kalari movement started by Sankara Pillai in 1967 has created some of the best theatre practitioners in the country.
Chris Enss.  Chris Enss (born 1961) is an American author and screenwriter. Enss has written more than 20 books on the subject of women in the Old West and has collaborated with producer Howard Kazanjian on four books including two about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Tuppence Middleton.  Tuppence Middleton (born 21 February 1987) is an English actress. She has appeared in feature films such as Tormented (2009) Chatroom (2010) Cleanskin (2012) Trance (2013) and The Lady Vanishes (2013) as well as in television series such as Bones (2008) New Tricks (2010) Friday Night Dinner (2011) Sinbad (2012) Spies of Warsaw (2013) and Black Mirror (2013).
Adrienne Davies.  Adrienne Davies is the current drummer and percussionist of the drone metal band Earth. In addition she is romantically involved with Dylan Carlson the frontman of the same band.Davies is credited as drummer on several of Earth's albums. They range from Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword (2005) and for drums percussion and wind chimes on Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method) (2005).
Duane Capizzi.  Duane Capizzi is an American writer and television producer. He is best known for his extensive work on animated series and movies for DC Comics. He was the co-showrunner of the animated series The Batman and writer of the first DC Universe animated feature Superman: Doomsday (based on The Death of Superman saga and directed by Bruce Timm).
Brooke Valentine.  Kanesha Nichole Brookes (born October 5 1984) better known by her stage name Brooke Valentine is an American singer actress and model. Her single Girlfight peaked on U.S. music charts in 2005 paving the way for her debut album Chain Letter released via Subliminal Entertainment imprint on Virgin Records and went on to sell more than 290 000 units worldwide.
Utah Phillips.  Bruce Duncan Utah Phillips (May 15 1935 – May 23 2008) was an American labor organizer folk singer storyteller poet and the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest. He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action self-identifying as an anarchist. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music actions and words.
Ann-Sofie Kylin.  Ann-Sofie Kylin (born 14 November 1955) is a Swedish actress. She starred in the 1970 film A Swedish Love Story.
Her Space Holiday.  Her Space Holiday is the recording moniker of indietronic and indie rock artist Marc Bianchi.
John Vachon.  John F. Vachon (May 19 1914 – April 20 1975) was an American photographer. He worked as a filing clerk for the Farm Security Administration before Roy Stryker recruited him to join a small group of photographers including Esther Bubley Marjory Collins Mary Post Wolcott Jack Delano Arthur Rothstein Walker Evans Russell Lee Gordon Parks Charlotte Brooks Carl Mydans Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn who were employed to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in America.
Pat Dubar.  Patrick R. Adawee Dubar is an American singer primarily with hardcore bands such as Unity and Uniform Choice; initially in the straight edge subgenre. Together with Pat Longrie (Uniform Choice) they ran the hardcore label Wishingwell Records.He later went on to bands like Mind Funk Corporate Avenger and Sitting Bull.Dubar is a graduate of Pepperdine University.
Giovanni Battista Paggi.  Giovanni Battista Paggi (27 February 1554 – 10 March 1627) was an Italian painter of the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque. He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino. In an apparent dispute over pay he is said to have mortally wounded a patron and was forced to flee Genoa in 1579 and take refuge in Tuscany in the towns of Aulla sul Magra then Pisa and finally to Florence.
Fred Whishaw.  Frederick James Whishaw (14 March 1854 – 8 July 1934) was a Russian-born British novelist historian poet and musician. A popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the 20th century he published over forty volumes of his work between 1884 and 1914.He was a prolific historical novelist many of his books being set in Czarist Russia and his schoolboy and adventure serials appeared in many boys' magazines of the era.
Tim Ridlen.  Tim Ridlen (born Missouri 1984) is an artist and writer living and working in New York City. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and his MFA from Bard College in 2010. Ridlen has recently published articles in Chicago Artist News and New City Magazine has guest-blogged for the PBS arts feature Art21 and is the senior editor of Bootprint.
Nuray Lale.  Nuray Lale (born March 28 1962 Akcurun) is a Turkish-German writer and translator. She arrived to Germany thanks to family reunification and could study health sciences at the University of Bielefeld with a postgraduate degree in psycho-pedagogy at the University of Düsseldorf.
Francesco Sartori.  Francesco Sartori (born 1957) is an Italian composer and piano and trumpet player best known for composing Con te partirò (With you I will leave) with Lucio Quarantotto for Andrea Bocelli. The song was also recorded as a duet entitled Time to Say Goodbye with Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. The pair also composed Canto della Terra and Immenso both recorded by Bocelli for his 1999 Sogno album and Mille Lune Mille Onde for his 2001 album Cieli di Toscana.
Clay Hart.  Clay Hart (born July 1 1942) is an American country music singer and guitarist who was a member of The Lawrence Welk Show television program from 1969 to 1975.
Martin Kemp.  Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English actor musician and occasional television presenter best known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet as well as for his portrayal as Steve Owen from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is the brother of Gary Kemp who was also a member of Spandau Ballet and has also had an acting career. He also finished third in the summer series of Celebrity Big Brother 2012.
Masha Tupitsyn.  Masha Tupitsyn is a writer and cultural critic based in New York City. Tupitsyn's writing mainly focuses on contemporary cinema and experiments with form and genre using diverse media like Twitter video essays and Tumblr to produce innovative work.
Michael Erlewine.  Michael Erlewine (born July 18 1941 in Lancaster Pennsylvania) is an American musician astrologer photographer TV host and Internet entrepreneur who founded All Music Guide (now known as allmusic) in 1991.
Rebecca Corry.  Rebecca Corry (born March 23 1971 in Kent Washington) is an American stand-up comedienne. She has her own Comedy Central Presents show. She is 4'11 tall. She released her first album My Story in 2012.Corry is the founder of the Stand Up For Pits Foundation which fights against abuse and discrimination towards dogs.
José Buscaglia Guillermety.  José Buscaglia Guillermety (born in 1938) is an educator and sculptor. He is a Fellow of the National Sculptor Society and a founding member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico.
Bill Cornett.  Banjo Bill Cornett (1890–c. 1959) was a traditional folk singer and banjo player from Eastern Kentucky. His music was recorded by John Cohen for Folkways and appears on the album Mountain Music of Kentucky. He was also a State Representative in Kentucky and he once played his composition “Old Age Pension Blues” on the floor of the Legislature. He died playing his banjo at 69.[1]Bill Cornett
Juli Ashton.  Juli Ashton (born October 5 1968 in Colorado Springs Colorado) is an American pornographic actress and television host.
Arshi Pipa.  Arshi Pipa (1920 – July 20 1997) was an Albanian-American philosopher writer poet and literary critic.
Ignazio Prota.  Ignazio Prota (15 September 1690 – January 1748) was an Italian composer and music educator. He was the father of composer Tommaso Prota and the grandfather of composer Gabriele Prota.Prota was born and died in Naples. He taught for many years at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples where two of his students were composers Matteo Capranica and Niccolò Jommelli. He wrote mainly sacred music and produced 3 operas.
Philip Johann Bleibtreu.  Philip Johann Bleibtreu was born at Frankfurt-am-Main in the middle of the seventeenth century he died there in 1702. Born by the name Meïr he converted to Christianity from Judaism and took on Philip Johann Bleibtreu as his conversion name.Bleibtreu published a German work entitled Meïr Naor (The Enlightened Meïr) a play on his Jewish name Meïr. In 1787 he gave an account of his conversion in Frankfurt notices on the Jewish festivals and on some Jewish prayers.
Kaskade.  Ryan Raddon (born February 25 1971) better known by his stage name Kaskade is an American DJ and record producer. On October 20 2011 DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll with Ultra Records Kaskade placed at No. 30. DJ Times polls voted Kaskade America's Best DJ 2011 and America's Best DJ 2013.Kaskade rose to prominence alongside producers deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner during the revival of American progressive house in late 2008-early 2009.
George Fitzmaurice (writer).  George Fitzmaurice (1877 – 1963) was an Irish dramatist and short story writer some of whose plays were broadcast on Raidio Éireann.
Gerda Wegener.  Gerda Gottlieb Wegener Porta (15 March 1886 - 28 July 1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter best known for her erotica.
Antonio de Bellis.  Antonio de Bellis (c. 1616 - c. 1656) was an Italian painter from Naples active in the Baroque period. Along with Jusepe de Ribera Bernardo Cavallino and Massimo Stanzioni he was one of the major artists working in Naples in the first half of the seventeenth century under the influence of Caravaggio. He worked on the paintings on the Life of St. Charles in the church of San Carlo alle Mortelle in Naples.
TJ Norris.  TJ Norris (born October 10 1965) is an American interdisciplinary artist known for his urban conceptual photography and installation projects. Hailing from New England Norris is also a celebrated curator and writer now based in Dallas Texas.
David Paton Balfour.  David Paton Balfour (12 July 1841 – 13 July 1894) was a New Zealand sheepfarmer station manager roading supervisor and diarist. He was born in Monikie Forfarshire Scotland on 12 July 1841.
Graham Parker.  For the English sportsman see Grahame Parker.Graham Parker (born 18 November 1950 London England) is a British singer-songwriter who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.Despite only moderate commercial success Parker's energetic performances - along with the wittily class-conscious spirit of his debut album Howlin' Wind - preceded the arrival of punk rock and new wave music.
Busdriver.  Regan Farquhar (born February 12 1978) better known by his stage name Busdriver is a rapper and producer from Los Angeles California. He has collaborated with rappers such as Myka 9 Nocando 2Mex and Ellay Khule. His primary producers have been Daedelus Boom Bip Daddy Kev Loden Paris Zax Omid and Nobody. He has also worked with D-Styles on two albums.
Georg Gulyás.  Georg Gulyás (born 5 October 1968 Säffle Sweden) is a Swedish classical guitarist.
Roger Poidatz.  Roger Poidatz (1894–14 August 1976) was a French writer best known by his pseudonym Thomas Raucat.Roger Poidatz was born in Paris and graduated from the Paris École Polytechnique subsequently becoming a pilot in the French Air Force during World War I flying reconnaissance aircraft. After the war he was sent to Japan (a WWI ally) to assist in the education of local pilots.His mission completed Poidatz returned to Europe via China and India.
John Smart.  John Smart (c. 1740–1811) was an English painter of portrait miniatures. He was a contemporary of Richard Cosway George Engleheart William Wood and Richard Crosse.
Swanee (singer).  John Swan (born 1952 in Glasgow Scotland) better known as Swanee is a British-born Australian rock singer.He was born John Archibold Dixon Swan in Glasgow Scotland in 1952. He is the older brother of rock legend Jimmy Barnes and the uncle of singer and stage performer David Campbell and of singers Mahalia Barnes Eliza-Jane Barnes Elly-may Barnes and Jackie Barnes (who performed as Tin Lids). He emigrated to Australia with his family in 1961.
Christopher Whall.  Christopher Whitworth Whall (1849–1924) was an English stained glass artist who worked from the 1880s and on into the 20th century and is widely recognised as one of the key figures in the modern history of stained glass.One of Whall's best known dictums was the design of the window must relate to the architecture of the frame.
Tina Leung.  Tina Leung Kwok-hing (Chinese: 梁幗馨) (died 31 March 2010) known by her stage name of Tina Ti (Chinese: 狄娜) was a Hong Kong actress. Her credits include A Big Mess One Day at a Time Dark Rendezvous and The Warlord.Aside from acting she was also reportedly active in business and politics. In 2008 she recognized that she used to gather intelli­gence for the Chinese Communist Party in the 1960s.She was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2005.
Rachel Rose.  Rachel Rose (born September 20 1970) is a Canadian/American poet essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry Giving My Body to Science Notes on Arrival and Departure and Song and Spectacle. Her poems essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
Isadora Duncan.  Angela Isadora Duncan (May 27 1877 – September 14 1927) was an American dancer. Born in California she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe after being exiled from the United States for her pro-Soviet sympathies.Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves contributed to her death in an automobile accident in Nice France when she was a passenger in an Amilcar.
Emily Williams.  Emily Williams (born 8 October 1984) is a New Zealand-born Australian singer and songwriter who rose to fame on the third season of Australian Idol in 2005 and became runner-up of the season. After Idol Williams signed with Sony BMG and became a member of all-girl pop group Young Divas known for their singles This Time I Know It's For Real and Happenin' All Over Again.
Klaus Tennstedt.  Klaus Tennstedt (German: [ˈtɛnʃtɛt]; June 6 1926 – January 11 1998) was a German conductor from Merseburg; he conducted such orchestras as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Kiel Opera in Northern Germany; North German Radio Orchestra in Hamburg; the Minnesota Orchestra; and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Sayed Mekawy.  Sayed Mekawy (May 8 1927 – April 21 1997) (Arabic: سيد مكاوي ) was an Egyptian singer and composer popular in Egypt and throughout the Arab world. Throughout his life he remained undaunted by modern innovations and the attempts of rivals to produce another type of music. He was best known for his radio collaboration with Fuad Hassad on the character of al-Missaharati.
Stan Kenton.  Stanley Newcomb Stan Kenton (December 15 1911 – August 25 1979) was a pianist composer and arranger who led an innovative influential and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was active as an educator.
André Stordeur.  Belgian electronic music composer André Stordeur was born 1941 in Haine St Paul.His musical career started in 1973 with a tape composition for the soundtrack to a film on Gordon Matta-Clark titled Office Baroque by Eric Convents and Roger Steylaerts. Later in the 1970s he participated to avantgarde music ensemble Studio voor Experimentele Muziek founded in Antwerp Flanders by Joris De Laet in 1973.
Regi Penxten.  Regi Penxten (born Reginald Paul Stefan Penxten on March 4 1976) is a Belgian DJ and record producer of numerous dance and trance projects in Belgium including Milk Inc. and Sylver.At the end of 2007 he released his first solo-album REGIstrated which received a golden record before its release.
Milton Jones.  Milton Hywel Jones (born 16 May 1964) is an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style. Jones has had various shows on BBC Radio 4 and is a recurring guest panellist on Mock the Week.
Anna Kostrova.  Anna Alexandrovna Kostrova (Russian: А́нна Алекса́ндровна Костро́ва; November 22 1909 village Belostok Omsk Province Russian Empire – 1994 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter graphic artist and book illustrator who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Tony Conran.  Tony Conran (7 April 1931 – 14 January 2013) was a Welsh poet and translator of Welsh poetry. His own poetry was written in English but was very much influenced by Welsh language literature and Welsh culture and history. To some extent there are parallels in Conran's writing with that of R. S.
Felicity Dowker.  Felicity Dowker is a speculative fiction writer from Victoria Australia. She is predominantly recognised as a writer in the horror genre.In 2009 she won the Ditmar Award (Australian SF Award) for Best New Talent. Her story Jesse's Gift was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Horror Short Story.Dowker's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.
Allan Prior.  Allan Prior (13 January 1922 Newcastle upon Tyne – 1 June 2006) was an English television scriptwriter and novelist who wrote over 300 television episodes from the 1950s onwards.He was founder-writer of influential police drama Z-Cars with Troy Kennedy Martin and wrote five of the first ten episodes and a total of 136 episodes for Z-Cars and spin-off series Softly Softly.
Jorge Majfud.  Jorge Majfud (born 1969) is a Uruguayan American writer.
Pietro Giarguzzi.  Pietro Giarguzzi was an Italian painter. His date of birth and death are not known.Not much is known about Giarguzzi's life. He is known primarily through records of his works. A large oval medallion containing the fresco The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary was painted in 1677 by Giarguzzi.
Jędker.  Jędker (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛntker]) real name Andrzej Wawrynkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈandʑɛj vavrɨnˈkʲiɛvit͡ʂ]) is an MC from Warsaw Poland. Member of ZIP Skład (Ziomki i Przyjaciele) and WWO (W Witrynach Odbicia W Wyjątkowych Okolicznościach) together with DJ Deszczu Strugi and Sokół.
Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr..  Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. (30 April 1790 – 25 March 1861) was an American linguist and theologian who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale University.
Andie Rathbone.  Andrew Andie Rathbone (born 8 September 1969 Blacon Chester) is an English drummer and former member of the rock band Mansun.Rathbone was the third and final drummer in Mansun brought in after the band had internal conflict with the previous two. Rathbone then an Audi Car salesman had previously studied at Drumtech in London and was playing in a local band 'The Wandering Quatrains'. He had attracted the interests of the members of Mansun with his drumming skills and flamboyant look.
Margo Smith.  Margo Smith (born Betty Lou Miller April 9 1942 in Dayton Ohio) is an American country music singer. In the 1970s she was a popular female country vocalist acquiring two No. 1 hits on the country charts during that time Don't Break the Heart That Loves You and It Only Hurts for a Little While both country music remakes of previous pop music standards.
Artur Grottger.  Artur Grottger (November 11 1837 – December 13 1867) was a Polish Romantic painter and graphic artist one of the most prominent artists of the mid 19th century under the foreign partitions of Poland despite a life cut short by incurable illness.
Vasily Kafanov.  Vasily Kafanov (born in Moscow on July 16 1952) is a Russian-born painter and illustrator. His works have been collected in many countries. His painting style mainly involves the depth of life in different forms. He also uses ceramics printmaking and sculpture for making his artworks.
Christopher Priest (comics).  Christopher James Priest (born James Christopher Owsley June 30 1961) is a writer of comic books who is at times credited simply as Priest. He changed his name legally circa 1993.
Laurel Lea.  Laurel Lea (3 October 1942 – 31 January 1992) was an Australian popular singer of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lea appeared regularly on TV series Bandstand Six O'Clock Rock and Saturday Date. In 1974 and 1975 she toured throughout Australia with contemporaries Johnny O'Keefe Johnny Devlin Lonnie Lee and Barry Stanton. On 31 January 1992 Lea died of leukaemia.
Victor Rousseau Emanuel.  for the Belgian sculptor see Victor RousseauVictor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the United States in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen names Victor Rousseau and H. M. Egbert.Emanuel first came to the U.S. in 1901. He also lived in Canada from 1912 to 1916 a period during which he wrote most of his best works.
Dee Anthony.  Dee Anthony (April 9 1926 – October 25 2009) was an American talent manager who started in the business with fellow Bronx native Jerry Vale. After meeting Tony Bennett in 1954 at a nightclub in Yonkers New York he ended up representing the singer for more than a decade.
Buddy Holly.  Charles Hardin Holley (September 7 1936 – February 3 1959) known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American musician and singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.
Karl Kippenberger.  Karl Brenton Jamie Kippenberger (born in Wellington New Zealand on 26 August 1973) grandson of Captain E.T Kippenberger great nephew of Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger is the bass guitarist of the New Zealand band Shihad.Kippenberger Grew up in Pukerua Bay just north of Wellington and attended Kapiti College (Formerly Raumati District High School).
Masaaki Tanaka.  Masaaki Tanaka (February 11 1911 – January 8 2006) was a Japanese author notable for his book What Really Happened in Nanking: The Refutation of a Common Myth which denies that the Nanking Massacre as traditionally understood took place. Originally written in Japanese in 1987 an English version was published in 2000 in response to Iris Chang's book The Rape of Nanking.
Arve Juritzen.  Arve Otter Juritzen (born 10 November 1960) is a Norwegian book publisher.In his early career he was a journalist television presenter and television producer. He founded the publishing house Juritzen Forlag in 2006 which among others is the Norwegian publisher of Cecilia Samartin. He has also written six books himself.
Johnny Moynihan.  John Johnny Moynihan (born 29 October 1946 in Phibsboro Dublin) is a folk singer based in Dublin Ireland. He is often credited with introducing the bouzouki into Irish music in the mid-1960s.
Christine Kuo.  Christine Kuo (Chinese: 苟芸慧; Mandarin Pinyin: Gōu Yúnhuì; Wade–Giles: Kou1 Yün2-hui4; Jyutping: Gau2 Wan4 Wai6; born 11 July 1983) is a Taiwanese Canadian actress based in Hong Kong. She is of mixed Korean Japanese Dutch and Taiwanese aborigine parentage. She was the winner of the Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant 2008 and Miss Chinese International Pageant 2009.
Carrie Vaughn.  Carrie Vaughn (born January 28 1973) is an American author who writes the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines.
Bill Johnson (pastor).  Bill Johnson (born 1951) and his wife Brenda (Beni) Johnson are the Senior Pastors of Bethel Church in Redding California. Johnson is a fifth generation pastor.
Janice May Udry.  Janice May Udry (1928-) is an American author. She was born in Jacksonville Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University in 1950. Her first book A Tree is Nice was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1957 for Marc Simont's illustrations. Her papers are held at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Queen Samantha.  The Queen Samantha was a 1970s disco artist produced by the Parisian musician Harry Chalkitis. Gloria Brooks a singer from Chicago was the lead vocalist on many of their recordings. All of their songs were co-written by Chalkitis and his wife Myriam (except a charting cover version of The Letter (originally by The Box Tops)). Chalkitis recorded the tracks while living in Paris and the records were released on Atoll Records a French label.
Téa Obreht.  Téa Obreht (born Tea Bajraktarević on 30 September 1985) is an American novelist of Bosniak and Slovene ethnicity who was born in Belgrade then the capital of Yugoslavia. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife her debut novel.
Oswald Bayer.  Oswald Bayer (born September 30 1939 in Nagold) is a German Lutheran theologian and is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Germany. The author of several books in German he is also an ordained pastor of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg and president of the senate of the Luther Academy in Ratzeburg.
Tom Fogerty.  Thomas Richard Tom Fogerty (November 9 1941 – September 6 1990) was an American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and the older brother of John Fogerty lead singer and lead guitarist in that band.
Ernest Marwick.  Ernest Walker Marwick (1915- 1977) was a Scottish writer noted for his writings on Orkney folklore and history. Marwick was the son of a small-holder and travelling salesman from the parish of Evie to the north of Mainland Orkney. When he was ten he was forced to leave school and lie flat on his back on a wooden board because he had been diagnosed with Scoliosis.
G. J. R. Krishnan.  'Lalgudi' G.J.R.Krishnan (born 15 April 1960) is a well-known Carnatic violinist vocalist and composer.
Antoine Ranc.  Antoine Ranc (Montpellier c 1634 ; Montpellier 1716) was a French painter.
Ruby Jane Smith.  Ruby Jane Smith (born November 17 1994) is an American-born fiddle player singer and songwriter in the traditional bluegrass and Americana music genres.
Andrzej Przybielski.  Andrzej Grzegorz Przybielski (August 9 1944 – February 9 2011) in Bydgoszcz (Poland) was a Polish jazz trumpeter associated with the avant-garde jazz and free jazz scenes.
Takeru Inukai.  Takeru Inukai (犬養 健 Inukai Takeru 28 July 1896 – 28 August 1960) was a Japanese politician and novelist active in Shōwa period Japan. Also known as Inukai Ken he was the third son of Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi.
Henry Vollam Morton.  Henry Canova Vollam Morton FRSL (known as H. V. Morton) (26 July 1892 – 18 June 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire England. He was best known for his prolific and popular books on London Britain and the Holy Land.
Mike Chlasciak.  Metal Mike Chlasciak (born December 24 1971) is the guitarist for Halford led by Rob Halford. With well over a million records sold Chlasciak and Halford have toured the world several times over with the likes of Iron Maiden Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe. Mike has additionally toured with Bay Area thrash metal band Testament and recorded / toured with Sebastian Bach.
Phil Demmel.  Phil Demmel (born on April 2 1967) is the lead guitarist for American heavy metal band Machine Head. He was also a founding member of Vio-Lence which also included Machine Head guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn. Demmel was also a member of Torque.
Richard Walker (angler).  This article deals with Richard Stuart Walker English angler. For other Richard Walkers see: Richard Walker.Richard Stuart Walker (29 May 1918 – 2 August 1985) was an English angler.One of the first to apply scientific thought to angling 'Dick' Walker wrote many books on the sport. He also wrote for the angling press most notably for the Angling Times. He held the record for carp in the UK for 30 years with a fish of 44 pounds caught at Redmire pool in Herefordshire.
Gavin DeGraw.  Gavin Shane DeGraw (born February 4 1977) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is known for his songs Chariot Follow Through I Don't Want to Be (which is the theme song for the television drama series One Tree Hill) In Love with a Girl Not Over You Soldier Sweeter and Best I Ever Had. DeGraw has sold more than a million records in the US.
Mark Soskin.  Mark Samuel Soskin (born 1953) is an American jazz pianist based in New York City.
Duke Dumont.  Adam Dyment (born 27 August 1982) better known by his stage name Duke Dumont is a British DJ and music producer. He is best known for his single Need U (100%) which featured A*M*E and peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart in April 2013. He owns the record label Blasé Boys Club and has also used it as an alias for production. He has remixed a number of songs including several which have charted in the United Kingdom.
Gurmeet Bawa.  Gurmeet Bawa (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਮੀਤ ਬਾਵਾ) is the Shromani Gayika Award winner Punjabi folk singer of Punjab. She is known for her long hek (English: breathless opening of a Punjabi folk song calling ho) that she can holds for about 45 seconds. She is one of the singers known for popularized Jugni and was the first Punjabi female singer to sing on Doordarshan.
John Curulewski.  John Curulewski (October 3 1950 in Chicago Illinois – February 13 1988) nicknamed JC was one of the original members of Styx. He joined Dennis DeYoung the Panozzo brothers and James Young to form TW4 in 1968 which was renamed to Styx in 1970. He played acoustic and electric guitar on the band's first five studio albums: Styx Styx II The Serpent Is Rising Man of Miracles and Equinox.
Taylor Mason.  Franklin Taylor Mason (born February 22 1956) is a comedian ventriloquist and musician.
Carlo Rosselli.  Carlo Rosselli (16 November 1899 – 9 June 1937) was an Italian political leader journalist historian and anti-fascist activist first in Italy then abroad. He developed a theory of reformist non-Marxist Socialism inspired by the British Labour movement that he described as liberal Socialism. Rosselli founded the anti-fascist militant movement Giustizia e Libertà. Rosselli personally took part in combat in the Spanish Civil War where he served on the Republican side.
Michelle Shaprow.  Michelle Shaprow (SHAP-row) is an American singer and songwriter. She studied psychology and philosophy at Yale University. and conducted her thesis on music cognition and perception. While at Yale she released music on Warner Brothers Records Om Records Ministry of Sound and King Britt’s FiveSix label. She recorded her debut album “Purple Skies” with Grammy nominated producer Alex Eleña and Joshua Valleau of Beethoven Inc.Her music has received popular acknowledgement worldwide.
Bitmap (group).  Bitmap (born Luke Barwell 8 January 1973) is a recording artist and producer. Barwell was brought up in Hedon East Riding of Yorkshire and his first claim to fame was as a member of the indie band Salako. Barwell left Salako in 2002 donned the Bitmap moniker and embarked on a solo career.Released in 2003 Bitmap's first album Alpha Beta Gamma was nominated album of the week by The Sunday Times and given 8 out of 10 by the NME.
Kostas Martakis.  Konstantinos Kostas Martakis (Greek: Κώστας Μαρτάκης; born 25 May 1984) is a Greek singer model and occasional actor who rose to fame after appearing on Greek talent show Dream Show aired by Alpha TV in 2006. Following his participation he went on to release three studio albums and also participated in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. In 2011 he participated in the second season of Greece's Dancing with the Stars placing second.
Stephen Conroy (artist).  Stephen Conroy is a contemporary Scottish figurative painter. He was born in Helensburgh in 1964. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1982 and 1987. By 1989 Conroy's work had already gained much recognition and praise in the United Kingdom and internationally. The artist has remained in Scotland where he currently lives and works.In 1998 Conroy won the Grand Prize of Rainier III Prince of Monaco.
Ricco.  Ricco (October 13 1915 in Basel – March 27 1972 in Ropraz) born Erich Wassmer was a Swiss painter. His paintings often depict idealizing dream worlds in the genre of magic realism.
Harvey (MC).  Michael Harvey Jr (born 1 May 1979 Plymouth Devon) better known as MC Harvey or simply Harvey is a British rapper actor television personality and former non-League footballer. He first came to fame in the early 2000s as a member of English rap group So Solid Crew before then pursuing a solo career in 2008. In 2012 he was a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother 10.
Duane Pasco.  Duane Pasco was born on May 14 1932 and raised in Alaska and Seattle. He is a highly regarded Native-style artist and teacher of Northwest Coast art in particular a key contributor to reviving the 'Ksan style.He has been professionally active since his first gallery showing in 1966 working in both carving and two-dimensional formats.
Richard Jefferies.  John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays books of natural history and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that these show a remarkable diversity including Bevis (1882) a classic children's book and After London (1885) an early work of science fiction.
Qian Chunqi.  Qian Chunqi (simplified Chinese: 钱春绮; traditional Chinese: 錢春綺; pinyin: Qián Chūnqǐ; 1921 - 3 February 2010) was a Chinese doctor and translator who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize (1996) a prestigious literary award in China.He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the German writer Friedrich Nietzsche.
Alexa Ray Joel.  Alexa Ray Joel (born December 29 1985) is an American singer songwriter and pianist. She is the daughter and only child of singer-songwriter Billy Joel and first child of model Christie Brinkley.Joel released an EP Sketches (2006) and several singles on independent record labels. She has performed at numerous charity events and New York City fashion events and in 2010 was chosen to be the spokesmodel for Prell shampoo.
Jane Leslie Conly.  Jane Leslie Conly (born 1948) is an American author the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death. Her first own book Racso and the Rats of NIMH was published in 1986 and is a sequel to her father's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1966 and from Smith College in 1971. Her Crazy Lady! won the Newbery Honor.
Anna t'Haron.  Anna t’Haron is a pen name of Anna Yevdokimova (date of birth: August 6 1978 place of birth: Chimkent (Russian: Чимкент) Kazakh SSR) – a Russian pianist laureate of the All-Russian and International chamber music and piano-duo competitions. Since 2009 Anna is a grant holder of the “Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds”.Also Anna t’Haron working as an Artist web-designer and Personator (artist and photographer – restorer image editor and photo-stylist).
Glynis Wein.  Glynis Wein (née Oliver) is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry.For several years she was married to Len Wein. She returned to her maiden name in 1985. In the fall of 1972 Len Wein and writers Gerry Conway and Steve Englehart crafted a metafictional unofficial crossover spanning titles from both major comics companies.
Keith Giffen.  Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30 1952) is an American comic book illustrator and writer.
Bernd Längin.  Bernd G. Längin (1941–2008) was a journalist and author of multiple books. In addition he worked as Chief Editor of GLOBUS published by Verein für Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen im Ausland (VDA).
James Stevens (musician).  James Stevens (1892 – December 31 1971) was an American author and composer. Born in Albia Iowa he lived in Idaho from a young age and based much of his later novel Big Jim Turner (1948) on his childhood spent in Pacific Northwest logging camps.
Paul Salveson.  Paul Salveson is a five-time Grammy Award winning audio engineer.
Carmelita González.  Carmelita González (July 11 1928 – April 30 2010) was a Mexican lead actress known for her film roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She appeared in nearly 100 Mexican films during her career opposite such actors as Mario Moreno Cantinflas Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete. González began her career by earning $21 but went on to win an Ariel Best Supporting Actress award for her 1984 performance in Luis Mandoki's Motel.
Sharanya Srinivas.  Sharanya Srinivas (born 3 January 1991) is an Indian vocalist who has notably worked in Tamil films as a playback singer. She is the daughter of prominent singer Srinivas.
Willi Geiger (painter).  Willi Geiger (August 17 1878 in Landshut - February 11 1971 in Munich) was a German painter.The son of a teacher Willi Geiger was born 1878 in Landshut. From 1898-99 he attended the Munich Arts and Crafts School and later the Technical University where he passed the state examination to teach drawing. Willi Geiger studied from 1903 with Franz von Stuck at the Munich Academy including together with Hans Purrmann.
Michael Wolff.  Michael Blieden Wolff (born July 31 1952) is an American jazz pianist composer producer vocalist educator and recording artist. He was honored as a Steinway Artist and obtained a Broadcast Music Inc. award.
David Kessler (author).  David Kessler (born 1 April 1957) is a British author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve people falsely accused of crimes legal battles DNA computer hacking and police investigations and are characterised by multiple plot twists and last-minute surprises. With the exception of A Fool for a Client his early novels (published by Hodder Headline) were set in Britain.
Roberto Vecchioni.  Roberto Vecchioni (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian singer-songwriter singer-lyricist lyricist and writer.
Sadettin Heper.  Sadettin Heper (1899–1980) was a composer of Turkish music considered as an important link to the world of Turkish Mevlevi music before the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. He was bornin the Eyüp neighborhood of Istanbul as the son of Halit Efendi and Zehra Hanim. Until the religious venues where the Mevlevis practiced were closed in 1924 dueto the prevailing secular ideology he played the kudüm a percussion instrument in Mevlevi religious ceremonies.
Billy Currie.  William Lee Billy Currie (born 1 April 1950 Huddersfield West Yorkshire England) is an English violist violinist pianist keyboardist and songwriter. He is best known for his work with new wave band Ultravox who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.
Geraldine O'Rawe.  Geraldine O'Rawe is a Northern Irish actress.O'Rawe was born in Belfast Northern Ireland. She studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London during the mid-1980s and made her television debut in the series Final Run in 1988. She returned to the London stage then appeared in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the TV movie The English Wife.She was cast in the role of Eve Malone in the 1995 film Circle of Friends alongside Minnie Driver and Saffron Burrows.
Paolo Fresu.  Paolo Fresu (born February 10 1961) is an Italian trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player as well as an arranger of music and music composer.
John T. Phillifent.  John Thomas Phillifent (November 10 1916 – December 15 1976) was an English electrical engineer and author of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as John T. Phillifent and under the pen name John Rackham. Most of his work was published as by Rackham the main exceptions being three novels related to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series his short stories published in the magazine Analog and a number of late novels.
Jason Fischer.  Jason Fischer is a speculative fiction writer from South Australia Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction fantasy and horror genres.Fischer's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.
Jerry Calliste Jr..  Jerry Calliste Jr. (born Gerald C. Calliste Jr. November 26 1965 Bronx New York) better known as Hashim is an American entrepreneur music industry executive producer songwriter record producer music publisher and former DJ who is best known for the internationally renowned seminal 1983 hip hop electro-funk and dance music classic recording Al-Naafiysh (The Soul).
Henry Dawson (artist).  Henry Dawson was a British landscape painter born in Kingston upon Hull in 1811. He went with his parents to Nottingham when he was still an infant and always regarded the latter as his native town. His parents were poor and he began life in a Nottingham lace factory. But even while engaged in lace-making he continued to find time for art and used to paint small pictures which he sold at first for about half-a-crown each.
Matthew Sweet.  Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6 1964) is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s. He continues to tour and his most recent studio album Modern Art was released in 2011.
Asya (singer).  Tülay Keçialan (born February 24 1965 in Eskişehir) better known as Asya is a Turkish pop singer and song-writer who appeared as backing vocalist for Nilüfer between 1990 and 1994. Her first album Asya was released in 1994. She worked with Onno Tunç Garo Mafyan Mustafa Sandal Gökhan Kırdar Deneb Pinjo İskender Paydaş and Özgür Buldum.
G. Venugopal.  G. Venugopal (Malayalam : ജി. വേണുഗോപാല്‍) is an Indian playback singer active mainly in Malayalam films. He also has Tamil and Telugu songs to his credit. Venugopal started his career in the film Odarathammava Aalariyam (1987) and has sung in more than 280 films and over 250 albums since then.
Parvez Dewan.  Parvez Dewan is an Indian administrator author and librettist (lyricist). He is an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre. He became Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in 2011 and also the chairman of the Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC). In 2012 he was appointed India's Tourism Secretary.Dewan has authored books on the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir religion (Hinduism Islam Buddhism) as well as on Tibet.
Juan Cirerol.  Juan Cirerol (born 8 June 1986) is a Mexican singer-songwriter. Cirerol was born in Mexicali Mexico. He studied classic guitar since he was 13 at the Autonomous University of Baja California.He started off early in several punk bands.
Sarah Kazemy.  Sarah Kazemy (born 1987) is a French actress. She is best known for her role in the independent film Circumstance.
Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802).  Robert Chambers FRSE FGS (10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish publisher geologist evolutionary thinker author and journal editor who like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers was highly influential in mid-19th century scientific and political circles.Chambers was an early phrenologist and was the anonymous author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation which was so controversial that his authorship was not acknowledged until after his death.
Joan Hinde.  Joan Hinde (born 21 October 1933) is a British trumpeter and entertainer.
Lars Frederiksen.  Lars Erik Frederiksen (born 30 August 1971) is the Danish-American guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid as well as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and The Old Firm Casuals. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991. He joined Rancid in 1993 after the band was searching for a second guitar player and was present on their second album Let's Go.
Maryem Tollar.  Maryem Tollar (born 1968 in Cairo Egypt) is a Toronto based singer who primarily sings Arabic songs. She played with her own band called Mernie!.Born in Cairo Maryem went to Halifax Nova Scotia Canada with her parents when she was one years old in 1969. Four years later her father began working in Qatar and Saudi Arabia so her family moved back to the Middle East and stayed there until she graduated from The American University in Cairo.
Muhammad Ibrahim Siddiqui.  Muhammad Ibrahim Siddiqui was an Indian Islamic scholar who was born on 8 March 1930 in West Bengal and died on 9 June 2002 in Mauritius. He was particularly influential in Mauritius. His lineage can be traced directly to the first Caliph of Islam Abu Bakr. He was married to Amtul Qadir a descendant of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Her lineage is traced from a male descendant of Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri.
Sanchez (singer).  Kevin Anthony Jackson (born 30 November 1964) better known as Sanchez is a Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall singer and producer.
Plutonic Lab.  Leigh Ryan better known by the stage name Plutonic Lab or sometimes as Pluto is an Australian music producer drummer and DJ. He is best known for being part of the hip hop group and 2008 ARIA Nominee Muph & Plutonic as well as his production work on albums and EPs for Australian and international artists.He produced two singles on Speech Debelle's album Speech Therapy which won a 2009 Mercury Prize and is a solo artist and tour drummer for Australian hip hop group Hilltop Hoods.
Lauren Hart.  Lauren Hart (born January 10 1967) is a professional recording artist based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She is best known for performing The Star Spangled Banner and O Canada prior to Philadelphia Flyers games the team for which her father Gene Hart was the long-time television and radio announcer for 29 years and also performing a duet of God Bless America with a taped version of Kate Smith on several occasions especially big games among them games in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals.
Carl Frederik von Breda.  Carl Frederik von Breda (August 16 1759 – December 1 1818) was a Swedish painter who studied in and spent much of his career in Britain before becoming painter to the Swedish court. He was born in Stockholm in 1759 and moved to Britain where he was a student of Joshua Reynolds. Breda specialized in painting portraits and was called the van Dyck of Sweden. He returned to Sweden 1796 where he became Professor at the Academy of Arts a popular portraitist and a court painter.
Hi-Tek.  Tony Cottrell better known as Hi-Tek is an American record producer and rapper from Cincinnati Ohio. He is best known for his work with Talib Kweli on his Reflection Eternal album and on Black Star. His father is singer Willie Cottrell of the Willie Cottrell Band whom Hi-Tek featured on his second release Hi-Teknology 2.
Kevin Simm.  Kevin Ian Simm (born 5 September 1980 Chorley Lancashire England) is an English pop singer and member of the group Liberty X. Simm currently runs his own business.
Danny D.  Danny D (Danny Dong) also known as Matt Hughes is an English pornographic actor. After a short period as a builder he started his pornographic film career at the age of 20:[citation needed] initially he performed for some amateur straight companies in France[citation needed] before he did some gay scenes for several producers given their financial inducements were greater.
Kate O'Brien.  Kate O'Brien (3 December 1897 – 13 August 1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright.
David Parker (director).  David Parker (born 1947) is an Australian cinematographer film producer screenwriter and film director.Films written by Parker include Malcolm Rikky and Pete The Big Steal and Amy. He has directed two films Hercules Returns and Diana and Me.He is married to director Nadia Tass.
Ciro Punzo.  Ciro Punzo (Naples February 14 1850 - 1925) was an Italian painter mainly of interior scenes of daily life and vedute of churches.
Paul van Dyk.  Matthias Paul better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk (German: [fanˈdʏk]; (born 16 December 1971 in Eisenhüttenstadt East Germany) is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ musician and record producer. One of the first true superstar DJs Paul van Dyk was the first artist to receive a Grammy nomination in the newly added category of Best Dance/Electronic album for his 2003 release Reflections. He was named the World's No.
Gene Maltais.  Gene Maltais is a musician singer and songwriter.
Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel.  Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel (Guayaquil November 2 1939) is an Ecuadorian lawyer historian and biographer. He was declared the lifetime chronicler of the city of Guayaquil and is a member of the National Academy of Ecuadorian History. He was the 2005 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature awarded to him by President Alfredo Palacio.
Sassa Jimenez.  Sassa Jimenez (born December 17 1987) is a fashion designer from the Philippines. Her designs have been described as frothy fun polished sleek sexy sometimes too busy and inspired by women of the '40s. She was selected as one of the presenters at the twice yearly Philippine Fashion Week. In 2009 she focused her club glam style towards partyphiles by using snakeskin and metallics to emphasize glitz glamour and sparkle according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Nanae Katō.  Nanae Katō (加藤 奈々絵 Katō Nanae born February 24 1976 in Ibaraki) is a Japanese voice actress.
Luisa Roldán.  Luisa Ignacia Roldán (8 September 1652 – 10 January 1706) called La Roldana was a Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era. She is the first woman sculptor documented in Spain.Despite the quality of her work—Antonio Palomino considered her as important a sculptor as her father—she died poor signing a declaration of poverty shortly before her death.
Paul Armand Silvestre.  Paul-Armand Silvestre (April 18 1837 – February 19 1901) French poet and conteur was born in Paris.He studied at the École polytechnique with the intention of entering the army but in 1870 he entered the department of finance. He had a successful official career was decorated with the Legion of Honour in 1886 and in 1892 was made inspector of fine arts.
Cyril Wong.  Cyril Wong (born June 27 1977) is the author of twelve volumes of poetry a collection of short-stories and a novel.
M. D. Benoit.  M. D. Benoit (born 1957 in Montreal Quebec Canada as Marie Diane Dominique Benoit) is a science fiction and mystery writer.
Steffanie Borges.  Steffanie Reiko Borges best known in the years 1970-1980 under her stage name Steffanie (ステファニー) is a Japanese American born in 1961 who has worked both as model and singer.
Glenn Dicterow.  Glenn Dicterow (born December 23 1948) is an American violinist and is currently concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.Mr. Dicterow's musical gifts became apparent when at age 11 he made his solo debut with the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Harold Dicterow his father served as principal of the second violin section in the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 52 years. Over the following years Mr.
Elinor Wylie.  Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7 1885 – December 16 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious sensuous poetry.
Yaiya.  Yaiya also known as Yaiya Sacasios (née Yaiya Sandra Carola Siekas) born April 15 1990 in Boden Sweden is an entertainment artist songwriter and actor living in Stockholm. She started performing at the age of 6 won talent shows and participated in Idol (Sweden) 2006 and 2008.
Eva Schorr.  Eva Schorr (born 28 September 1927) is a German painter and composer.
Betty Swords.  Betty Swords was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in Saturday Evening Post Redbook Good Housekeeping Ladies Home Journal Changing Times and others usually using her own gags but sometimes from other writers. She also wrote gags for Dennis the Menace and others.
Bev Doolittle.  Bev Doolittle (born February 10 1947) is an American artist working mainly in watercolor paints. She creates paintings of the American West that feature themes of Native American life wild animals horses and landscapes.
John Abercrombie (guitarist).  John Laird Abercrombie (born December 16 1944) is an American jazz guitarist composer and bandleader. His work often explores jazz fusion post bop free jazz and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts. He recorded his debut album Timeless with Manfred Eicher's ECM label and has recorded principally with this label since. Abercrombie has played with Billy Cobham Jack DeJohnette Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker to name a few.
Clementino.  Clementino aka Iena White (born Clemente Maccaro on 21 December 1982) is an Italian rapper proficient in freestyle in both Italian and Neapolitan language. With the Italian rapper Fabri Fibra is member of the group Rapstar.
Guy McDonough.  Guy Gillis McDonough (1955–1984) was an Australian rock musician best known for rhythm guitar and singer-songwriter with the iconic band Australian Crawl. He provided rhythm guitar and lead vocals on two of their well-known songs Oh No Not You Again and Errol. McDonough's solo 1985 release My Place was produced by his brother Bill McDonough.
Win Butler.  Edwin Farnham Win Butler III (born April 14 1980) is an American lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and his brother William Butler are both members of the band.
Alpha Blondy.  Alpha Blondy (January 1 1953) born Seydou Koné in Dimbokro Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a reggae singer and international recording artist. Many of his songs are politically motivated and are mainly sung in his native language of Dioula French and in English though he occasionally uses other languages for example Arabic or Hebrew.
Jason Jollins.  Jason Jollins (born in New York City) is an international DJ and record producer.
Pietro Gaudenzi.  Pietro Gaudenzi (Genoa January 18 1880 - Anticoli Corrado (near Rome) December 23 1955) was an Italian painter.
Joelle Hadjia.  Joelle Hadjia (born November 7 1990 in Sydney Australia) is an Australian singer best known simply as Joelle and for competing in the fourth season of The X Factor Australia as part of the duo Good Question and in the fifth season as a solo singer.
Malika Zarra.  Malika Zarra is a Moroccan-born American/Moroccan singer composer and music producer now based in New York City known for singing in Moroccan Arabic Berber French and English. Her music has been on the JazzWeek Top 20 radio chart in world music.
Allan Ramsay (artist).  Allan Ramsay (13 October 1713 – 10 August 1784) was a Scottish portrait-painter.
Grigol Robakidze.  Grigol Robakidze (Georgian: გრიგოლ რობაქიძე) (October 28 1880 Sviri (West Georgia) - November 19 1962 Geneva) was a Georgian writer publicist and public figure primarily known for his prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities.
Sven Lindberg.  Sven Lindberg (20 November 1918 – 25 December 2006) was a Swedish film actor and director. He was born and died in Stockholm Sweden. At the 29th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for the film Spring of Joy.
Chuck McLachlan.  Chuck McLachlan is a watercolor and oil painter from New England. His subjects typically focus on landscapes. He uses a high color to water ratio in his watercolor pieces. His particular technique lend the paintings a bold opaque look contrary to the transparent look of traditional watercolor. His process focuses on form shape and color. Some of his work can be found in the corporate and private collections of R.J. Reynolds Virginia Tech and the SAS Institute.
3LAU.  3LAU (Justin Blau born 1991) is an American Progressive House DJ and producer.
Johann Jacob Löwe.  Johann Jacob Löwe (1628–1703) was a German Baroque composer and organist at Eisenach.He was educated in Vienna and recommended by Heinrich Schütz for the position of Hofkapellmeister.
Émile Deschamps.  Émile de Saint-Amand Deschamps (pronounced [emil də sɛ̃ amɑ̃d dəʃɑ̃p]) (1791–1871) was a French poet. He was born at Bourges. Deschamps was one of the chiefs of the Romantic school. To further the cause of romanticism he founded with Victor Hugo La Muse Française (1824) a journal to which he contributed verses and stories signed Le Jeune Moraliste. Four years afterward he collected and published Etudes française et étrangères (1828) consisting of poems and translations.
Sonja Škorić.  Sonja Škorić (Serbian: Соња Шкорић born 26 February 1996 in Pančevo Serbia) is a singer-songwriter who won the Serbian national selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010.On 26 September 2010 she won the Serbian national selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Minsk with the song Čarobna noć.Sonja has been singing since the age of five in 2002 she won the Raspevano proleće festival in between 2003 and 2005 she won the same festival in a streak.
Antoine Gilis.  Antoine François Gilis (1702–1781) was an 18th-century French musician and composer who composed mainly for the piano and violin. He believed that above all the student who starts out learning the piano should have fun.. To accomplish this his study pieces are very melodic and increase slowly in difficulty throughout the books as to stimulate interest. Throughout his books study pieces are accompanied by easy explanations of music theory.Several books were published by A.
Terumasa Hino.  Terumasa Hino (日野 皓正 Hino Terumasa born October 25 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese jazz trumpeter. Currently based in New York Hino is widely acknowledged as one of Japan's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet cornet and flügelhorn.
The Fox Experience.  Matt Fox (a.k.a. The Fox Experience) is a music producer songwriter and engineer from Long Island New York. He is best known as the writer and producer of the New York Jets Anthems Rex's Gang Green and Taking Back This Town. The song was covered by NFL.com SportsCenter The Today Show on NBC CBS Sports Illustrated the Associated Press New York Daily News Newsday Wall Street Journal WCBS Radio 1010 WINS WOR and Metro Networks among numerous online media outlets.
Keiichi Suzuki (composer).  Keiichi Suzuki (鈴木 慶一 Suzuki Keiichi born August 28 1951) is a Japanese composer performer and singer-songwriter. He is perhaps best known to English-speaking audiences for his music for the Super Nintendo game EarthBound which has been released on several soundtracks.Suzuki's true notoriety comes from his work with the long-lived Moonriders a group which became one of Japan's most innovative rock bands.
Sydney Paxton.  Sydney Paxton (1860–1930) was a British stage and film actor.
Breyten Breytenbach.  Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer and painter. He also holds French citizenship.
Vasyl Stus.  Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 8 1938 – September 4 1985) was a Ukrainian poet and publicist one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 23 years (about a half of his life) in detention. On November 26 2005 he was posthumously given the title Hero of Ukraine by order of the state.
Sara Gazarek.  Sara Gazarek is an American jazz musician and singer. Gazarek was born in Seattle Washington and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to attend the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. She won the Downbeat Student Music Award for Best Collegiate Vocalist in 2003. Gazarek released her first album Yours in 2005.
Bill C. Davis.  Bill C. Davis is an American playwright and actor of Italian Irish and Russian-Jewish heritage. He is best known for his 1980 play Mass Appeal. Other works by Davis include Dancing in the End-Zone Wrestlers Spine Avow Coming2Terms All Hallowed Jeremiah Rules Expatriate and Austin's Bridge.
Mike Harding.  Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is an English singer songwriter comedian author poet broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist. He is known as 'The Rochdale Cowboy' after one of his hit records. In addition at various times of his life Harding has been a stand-up comic photographer traveller filmmaker playwright and musician.
Mariana Popova.  Mariana Popova (Bulgarian: Мариана Попова) (born June 6 1978) is a Bulgarian singer. She is known for representing Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 trainer on The Voice of Bulgaria 2011 and from Vip Brother 2012 - Bulgaria
Alexia Sinclair.  Alexia Sinclair (born 1976 Newcastle New South Wales Australia) is an Australian fine-art photographer.
Gregory Scofield.  Gregory Scofield (born July 20 1966 in Maple Ridge British Columbia) is a Canadian poet whose work draws on Cree literary traditions.A Métis of Cree European and Jewish descent Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. He has since published five further volumes of poetry and a non-fiction memoir.
Fernando Lima.  Fernando Lima (born Buenos Aires Argentina May 7 1975) is a Spanish language popular music singer classical music singer and countertenor.
Mohsen Yeganeh.  Mohsen Yeganeh (Persian: محسن یگانه‎; born May 13 1985 in Gonbad-e Qabus) is a popular Iranian vocalist singer and songwriter. He is one of the most popular singers in Iran and sometimes he is even compared to Shadmehr Aghili. He performed at the 2008 Fajr International Music Festival.
Terrance Lindall.  Terrance Lindall (born 1944) is an American artist and the co-director and chief administrator of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn New York. Lindall's illustrations have been published in Heavy Metal Creepy Eerie and Vampirella among others.
Antoine Tamestit.  Antoine Tamestit (born 1979) is a French violist.Tamestit who studied at the Paris Conservatory has performed at such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw the Vienna Musikverein and Carnegie Hall. He won first prize at the 2000 Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition 2001 Primrose International Viola Competition the 2003 Young Concert Artists International Auditions 2004 Munich International Music Competition and a Borletti Buitoni Trust Award in 2006.
Akira Otaka.  Akira Otaka (大鷹 明良 Otaka Akira) (born 1957) is a Japanese actor.
Nell Dixon.  Nell Dixon (b. England UK) is a British writer of romance novels since 2006. She the only author to have won twice the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association in 2007 with Marrying Max and in 2010 with Animal Instincts.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.  Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and C-pop singer. He was the winner of Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor for his role in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love.
Tessa Dahl.  Chantal Sophia Tessa Dahl (born 11 April 1957) is an English author.
Tommy Talamanca.  Tommy Talamanca is an Italian guitar virtuoso keyboard player and a sound engineer & producer most famous for his work in Italian death metal band Sadist. He is notable for his ability as a music producer and engineer but also for his talent of playing a six or seven string guitar and the key board simultaneously.
Nikki Nova.  Nikki Nova is an adult model and actress. She has performed in a number of R rated films including Busty Cops Night Calls 411 Alabama Jones and several fetish videos.Nova replaced Tera Patrick as host of Playboy TV's Night Calls 411 in 2003 and she would remain in that role through the show's cancellation in 2005. She also has made appearances on The Howard Stern Show.On November 4 2005 Nova was seriously injured after falling from a horse during a photo shoot.
Aziz Ansari.  Aziz Ansari (born February 23 1983) is an American actor and comedian. He stars as Tom Haverford on the NBC show Parks and Recreation.Ansari began his career performing standup comedy in New York City during the summer of 2000 while attending New York University. In 2007 he created and starred in the critically acclaimed MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant which ran for two seasons.
Charlie Rouse.  Charlie Rouse (April 6 1924 – November 30 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by his collaboration with Thelonious Monk which lasted for more than ten years.
David A. McIntee.  David A. McIntee is a British writer.
Laila Bagge Wahlgren.  Laila Natali Bagge Wahlgren born 15 December 1972 in Lund as Laila Natali Cahling formerly Laila Bagge is a Swedish manager and songwriter. Her mother is Swedish and her father is Palestinian. She worked for Sony BMG New York for three years as a talent scout. Laila also found the members and developed the girl group Play which she co-managed with Matthew Knowles. Play was signed to Sony BMG New York and the group sold nearly 1 million albums.
Jessica Fjerstad.  Jessica Lea Fjerstad (born 1985) is a beauty queen from Madison South Dakota who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.Fjerstad won the Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2002 title in 2001 after placing first runner-up the year previously. She represented South Dakota in the Miss Teen USA 2002 pageant broadcast live from South Padre Island Texas in August 2002 but did not place.
Dez Fafara.  Bradley James 'Dez' Fafara (born May 12 1966) is an American metal vocalist who performs in the bands DevilDriver and Coal Chamber.
Alina Bronsky.  Alina Bronsky (born 1978 in Yekaterinburg Russia; pen name) is a German writer.
Jeff Thacher.  Jeffrey Thomas Thacher (born December 23 1967) is an American musician best known as a member of the vocal group Rockapella.
Andrew Duncan (poet).  Andrew Duncan (born in 1956) is a British poet critic and editor. The author of at least seven books of poetry including Anxiety Before Entering a Room Selected Poems 1977–99 (Salt Publishing 2001). His work as a literary and cultural critic is most recently on display in The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry (Salt Publishing 2003).Andrew Duncan studied as a mediaevalist and started his writing career in punk fanzines.
Jesse Colin Young.  Jesse Colin Young is an American singer / songwriter / folksinger and a founding member of the group The Youngbloods.
Sophie Rimheden.  Sophie Rimheden (born 24 March 1975) is a Swedish electronica artist. Born in Lund Sweden she began making music as a child and moved into electronic music at age 13. She has stated she is heavily influenced by Madonna.
Sheila Fischman.  Sheila Leah Fischman CM (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature.Born in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan she was brought up in Ontario. She holds an M.A. from the University of Toronto. Fischman is a former editor of the Montreal Star's book section as well as a columnist for the Globe & Mail and the Montreal Gazette and a broadcaster for CBC Radio.
Hilary Mantel.  Hilary Mary Mantel CBE (/mænˈtɛl/ man-TEL; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work ranges in subject from personal memoir and short story to historical fiction and essay. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize.She won her first Booker Prize for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.
Paolo Gerolamo Brusco.  Paolo Gerolamo Brusco or Girolamo Brusco (8 June 1742 in Savona – 30 March 1820) was a prolific Italian painter active in Liguria.He was also nicknamed Bruschetto. He was influenced by the Neoclassic style of Anton Raphael Mengs and may have trained with Pompeo Batoni
Inga Juuso.  Inga Juuso (born 1945 in Kautokeino Norway) is a yoiker Sami singer and actor in the film The Kautokeino Rebellion. She is known from her own band performances and recordings and collaborations with musicians like Steinar Raknes Håkon Mjåset Johansen and Jørn Øien.
Jerry Ragovoy.  Jordan Jerry Ragovoy (September 4 1930 - July 13 2011) was an American songwriter and record producer. His best-known composition Time Is on My Side (written under the pseudonym of Norman Meade) was made famous by The Rolling Stones although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas. Ragovoy also wrote Stay With Me which was originally recorded by Lorraine Ellison and was performed by Mary J. Blige at the 49th Grammy Awards.
Dean Saunders (singer).  Dean Saunders (born in London on 9 January 1981) is a Dutch singer. On 22 January 2011 he won in 2011 the Dutch version of Popstars in its third season in 2010-2011.
Jon McGregor.  Jon McGregor (born 1976) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002 his first novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize as its youngest contender. His second novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2006. In 2012 his third novel was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award. The New York Times has labelled him a wicked British writer.
Gloria Belle.  Gloria Belle (Flickinger) is a bluegrass vocalist and instrumentalist playing the banjo bass and mandolin. She was probably the first female lead singer in bluegrass having begun her music career as early as 1957.
Jiří Stivín.  Jiří Stivín (born 23 November 1942 in Prague) is a Czech flute player and composer.He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music (AMU).Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.
Marco Oppedisano.  Marco Oppedisano (born November 20 1971 in Brooklyn New York) is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. His musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for electric guitar and bass.
Catherine Davis.  Catherine Davis (1924–2002) was an American poet. She studied poetry with J. V. Cunningham and at Stanford University with Yvor Winters. Her work is considered extraordinary by some writers and critics but because of her physical disabilities and other problems she died without the recognition and reputation she deserved.
Baldwin Kho.  Baldwin Chua Kho is a Filipino-Chinese visual artist and Humanitarian. He was the founder of Center for Developmental Arts Manila Inc.(CDAM) KAPAYAPAAN International Children’s Art Festival in 2009 he is the director representing the Philippines Peace Pals Art Awards; Goodwill ambassador of Philippine League Against Epilepsy; founding President of the Epilepsy Awareness and Advocacy Inc. (Philippines) in 2005 and the director for Bahay Tsinoy Museum of Chinese in the Philippines.
Georges de Bièvre.  Georges de Bièvre François Georges Mareschal Bièvre Marquis (1747–1789) was a French writer.
Tetsuya Ishikawa.  Tetsuya Ishikawa (born 1979) is a Japanese British author financial journalist and a banker with Goldman Sachs. He was involved in selling collateralized debt obligations called Abacus-2007AC1 to the bank's clients while simultaneously betting against those complex securities. He later wrote a book published by Icon Books in 2009. It is unclear if Mr.
Wendy Penney.  Wendy Penney is a singer and bass guitar player who began performing in 1966 and together with husband Roger Penney formed the musical groups Bermuda Triangle Band Roger and Wendy and Euphoria (American band).
Nobuo Nakamura.  Nobuo Nakamura (中村伸郎 Nakamura Nobuo September 14 1908 – July 5 1991) was a Japanese actor who made notable appearances in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952) and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).Nakamura was also famous for many notable contributions to Japanese modern theatre.
Bruno Premiani.  Giordano Bruno Premiani (January 4 1907 – August 17 1984) whose work is credited as Bruno Premiani was an Italian illustrator known for his work for several American comic book publishers particularly DC Comics. With writer Arnold Drake he co-created that company's superhero team the Doom Patrol.
Abdelaziz Gorgi.  Abdelaziz Gorgi (عبد العزيز القرجي) (born 2 June 1928—died 10 January 2008) was a Tunisian artist. He was one of the founders of the Tunis School of painting and one of the most prominent members of Tunisia's cultural scene.
Giuseppe Diamantini.  Giuseppe Diamantini (1621–1705) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period active mainly in Venice.He was born in Fossombrone. His early training is not well documented but he arrived in Venice by c. 1650. He is known to have designed the title page of a libretto for the opera L’inganno riconosciuto by Camillo Contarini from 1666. He reputedly was an early mentor of Rosalba Carriera and a painter by the name of Santo Piati.
Timothy Everest.  Timothy Everest MBE (born 1961) is a Welsh bespoke tailor and designer who has according to Vogue dressed some of the world's most famous people. Born in Haverfordwest Wales he moved to London in his early twenties to work with innovative Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter where he learned the art of bespoke.
Richard Herring.  Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is a British comedian and writer whose early work includes the double-act Lee and Herring. He is described by the British Theatre Guide as one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy.He has written and performed in live one-man comedy shows including Talking Cock and the resulting book of the same name.
Sean Garrett.  'Garrett Hamler (born March 30 1979) better known as Sean Garrett is an American singer songwriter and record producer. He has produced eighteen number one singles in only seven years of producing music. That number puts him in fifth place on the Billboard list of producers with the most number one hits. Garrett is the first producer to achieve this measure of success in under a decade since George Martin who produced 20 #1 hits for The Beatles in 6 1/2 years from 1964 to 1970.
St. John Greer Ervine.  St. John Greer Ervine (1883 - 24 January 1971) was an Irish author writer critic and dramatist. He wrote the plays Anthony and Anna in 1926 and The First Mrs. Fraser in 1929. He was born in Belfast Ireland but moved to London while in his teens.
Motoko Sasaki.  Motoko Sasaki (佐々木基子 Sasaki Motoko) is a Japanese pink film actress and striptease performer. She entered the pink film profession at the advanced age of 29 became a star in the field at 31 and won a Best Actress award for her work in this genre in 2003 at the age of 36.
Michael Dorris.  Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30 1945 – April 10 1997) was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth. His works include the memoir The Broken Cord (1989) and the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987). He was married to author Louise Erdrich and the two frequently collaborated in their writing.
Pornsak Prajakwit.  Pornsak Prajakwit (born 1982) better known simply as Pornsak is a Thai host and former radio deejay of Thai-Chinese descent. As he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese he is often seen on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 Chinese language shows.
Max Brand.  Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29 1892 – May 12 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter Evan Evans George Evans David Manning John Frederick Peter Morland George Challis and Frederick Frost.Faust was born in Seattle to Gilbert Leander Faust and Louisa Elizabeth (Uriel) Faust both of whom died when Faust was still a boy.
Dan Jacobson.  Dan Jacobson (born 7 March 1929 in Johannesburg South Africa) is a novelist short story writer critic and essayist. He has lived in Great Britain for most of his adult life and for many years held a professorship in the English Department at University College London.
Michael Martin Harvey.  Michael Martin Harvey (1897–1975) was a British actor. He was the son of John Martin-Harvey.
Chris Muir (musician).  Chris Muir is an American musician songwriter and artist manager based in New York City. Chris played bass guitar and sang backing vocals for Nat & Alex Wolff the stars of Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band. Chris also plays in the New York rock band Character Nine as well as a various other acts.Chris was endorsed by Lakland Musical Instruments GHS Strings and Aguilar Amplification.Today Chris manages Nat & Alex Wolff.
Roger Powell (musician).  Roger Powell (born March 14 1949) is a musician computer programmer and magazine columnist best known for his membership with the rock band Utopia.
Tiffany (South Korean singer).  Stephanie Young Hwang (Korean name: Hwang Mi-young; born August 1 1989) known by the stage name Tiffany is an American-born South Korean singer TV presenter promotional model rapper dancer and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.
Mike Furber.  Mike Furber (28 September 1948 – 10 May 1973) was an English-born entertainer popular in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys. Furber's group had hits with Just a Poor Boy You Stole My Love and That's When Happiness Began (all in 1966). In the Go Set Pop Poll Furber was voted in the top 5 as most popular Male Vocalist in both 1966 and 1967.
Analia Saban.  Analia Saban is a contemporary artist working in Los Angeles. Her work encompasses drawing painting and sculpture.
Sander Kleinenberg.  Sander Kleinenberg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsɑn.dər ˈklɛi̯.nə(n).ˌbɛr(ə)x]) (born 1971 Delft) is a Dutch disc jockey VDJ and record producer. He founded and runs Little Mountain Recordings and THIS IS Recordings. Kleinenberg is well known for his use of digital video in concerts his Everybody and THIS IS brands of club nights and albums and his 2000 single My Lexicon as well as hits like The Fruit and This Is Miami.
Dhany.  Daniela Galli also known as Dhany (born 23 October 1972) is an Italian singer vocalist songwriter. She is most known for her work with Benassi Bros. music project.
Hans Dominik (writer).  Hans (Joachim) Dominik (15 November 1872 in Zwickau – 9 December 1945 in Berlin) was a German science fiction and non-fiction author science journalist and engineer (electrical and mechanical).
Luca Bertelli.  Luca Bertelli was an Italian engraver and printseller of the Renaissance. He was probably a relation of Ferrando Bertelli. Bertelli is known to have been active from around 1564 to around 1589. Some of his work displays affinities with mannierism.
José Beá.  Josep Maria Beà i Font in Spanish José Beá (born Barcelona 11 March 1942) is a Catalan comic book artist.
Samantha Savage Smith.  Samantha Savage Smith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary Alberta. Her voice and music style has been described as a marriage of jazz blues and indie rock influences.She performed locally in Calgary in the late 2000s but then took some time off from music after beginning to doubt the quality of her work.
Benyamin Bahadori.  Benyamin Bahadori (Persian: بنيامين بهادرى‎) is an Iranian singer of Persian pop music from Tehran[citation needed] Iran. His 2006 album 85 was a commercial success within Iran and with the Iranian diaspora abroad.
Constantin Lecca.  Constantin Lecca (1807–1887) was a Romanian painter and muralist.
Tom Brosseau.  Tom Brosseau is an American musical storyteller and guitarist born and raised in Grand Forks North Dakota.
Federico Solmi.  Federico Solmi (born April 1973 in Bologna Italy) is a Brooklyn-based Bologna-born visual artist living in New York.In 2009 Solmi was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the category Video & Audio.
Lee Jae-won.  Lee Jae-won (born April 5 1980) is a South Korean actor and singer. He was the youngest member of Korean groups H.O.T and JTL.
Peter Brown (singer).  Peter Brown (born 11 July 1953 Blue Island Illinois United States) is an American artist songwriter and record producer. He grew up in Palos Heights a Chicago suburb. His mother Virginia was artistic and musically talented and gave Peter music lessons at a young age. Peter’s father Maurice was an electronic engineer and unwittingly helped him learn the technical aspects of recording music.
Andy Hui.  Andy Hui Chi-On (born 12 August 1967) is a Hong Kong singer and film actor. Hui was the First Runner-up in the fifth Annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1986. Hui has appeared in about 25 films.Hui is considered one of the most successful Chinese music celebrities with an extensive list of Cantonese and Mandarin hits to his credit.
Thomas Waterman Wood.  Not to be confused with the English zoological illustrator T. W. WoodThomas Waterman Wood (November 12 1823 – April 14 1903) was an American painter born in Montpelier Vermont.
Amanda Means.  Amanda Means (born 1945 Marion New York) is an American artist and photographer. She received a BA from Cornell University in 1969 and a MFA in Photography from SUNY Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop) in 1978. In 1976 she attended the Aperion Workshops and studied under Ralph Gibson. She is a master black and white printer having made prints for clients such as Robert Mapplethorpe Roni Horn and the Smithsonian Institution.
Kohno Michisei.  Kohno Michisei (sometimes transliterated as Kono Michisei; also known as Kono Tsusei) (1895–1950) was a Japanese painter illustrator and printmaker known for his association with the yōga movement of the early 20th century. His work is considered representative of the Taishō period in Japanese art.Michisei was born in Isezaki Gunma prefecture the son of Kohno Jiro a painter teacher of art and portrait photographer who was also a member of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Monica Ali.  Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003 she was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel Brick Lane was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name.She has published three additional novels.
Josh T. Pearson.  Josh T. Pearson is a musician from Texas.
Doug Van Gundy.  Doug Van Gundy is a poet and musician from Elkins West Virginia. His first book of poems A Life Above Water was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. He also plays fiddle guitar mandolin and banjo in the old-time string band Born Old.In August 1999 Van Gundy was a contestant of ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire and became the first contestant to win $250000 on the show.
Chara (singer).  Miwa Watabiki (綿引美和 Watabiki Miwa) (born January 13 1968) better known by her stage name Chara is a Japanese singer-songwriter actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single Heaven. She is most well known for her song Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta) the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film Swallowtail Butterfly (in which she starred) her 1997 hit single Yasashii Kimochi and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange.
Loren Mazzacane Connors.  Loren MazzaCane Connors (born October 22 1949 New Haven Connecticut) is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts Loren Mazzacane Loren Mattei and currently Loren Connors.
Julia Lee (musician).  Julia Lee (October 31 1902 – December 8 1958) was an American blues and dirty blues musician.
Agha Ibrahim Akram.  Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram (Urdu: آغا ابراہیم اکرم) better known as A. I. Akram was a Pakistan army's lieutenant-general and a historian. He wrote books about early Muslim conquests. His first book was The Sword of Allah. He retired from Pakistan Army as Lieutenant-General in 1978. He also served as Pakistan's Ambassador to Spain. He founded the Institute of Regional Studies in 1982 and remained its president till his death in 1989.
Wilgar Campbell.  Wilgar William Campbell (1946–1989) was an Irish blues rock musician best known for his role as drummer with Rory Gallagher in the early 1970s.
Alfonzo Blackwell.  Alfonzo Blackwell is an American modern contemporary jazz saxophonist composer and producer. He is also a pianist bassist guitarist and drummer.
William Calder Marshall.  William Calder Marshall (18 March 1813 – 16 June 1894) was a Scottish sculptor.
Shen Wei.  Shen Wei (simplified Chinese: 沈伟; traditional Chinese: 沈偉; pinyin: shěn wěi) is a Chinese-born American choreographer visual artist and director who resides in New York City. Widely recognized for his defining vision of an intercultural and interdisciplinary mode of movement-based performance Shen Wei creates original works that employ an assortment of media elements including dance painting sound sculpture theater and video.
Cocoa Fujiwara.  Cocoa Fujiwara (藤原 ここあ Fujiwara Kokoa) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator born on April 28 1983 in the Fukuoka Prefecture. She currently resides in Japan. Her debut was with a work called CALLING which she made when she was only fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga. Fujiwara is a fan of RPGs such as Final Fantasy which shows in her works.
Gaye Advert.  Gaye Advert (also Gaye Black) is an English punk rock musician who played bass guitar in the band The Adverts in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock stars of the punk rock movement whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the first female punk star. She was one of Punk’s first female icons.
Joy Nilo.  Joy T. Nilo (born January 11 1970) is a Filipino composer who specializes in a cappella Choral Music. Also a sought after orchestrator his works range from traditional to modern ethnic to electronic serious to popular. He is also a pianist singer conductor (music) and music educator.
Collin Leijenaar.  Collin Leijenaar is the drummer for progressive rock/metal bands Affector & Dilemma and the live drummer for Neal Morse.
Mei Lanfang.  Mei Lanfang (simplified Chinese: 梅兰芳; traditional Chinese: 梅蘭芳; pinyin: Méi Lánfāng) (October 22 1894 – August 8 1961) was one of the most famous Peking opera artists in modern history exclusively known for his qingyi roles a type of dan role. Méi Lánfāng is his stage name and in Chinese it is generally considered a feminine name. His real name was Méi Lán (Chinese: 梅瀾). Mei Shang Xiaoyun Cheng Yanqiu and Xun Huisheng were known as Four Great Dan in the golden era of Peking Opera.
John Scofield.  John Scofield (born December 26 1951 Dayton Ohio United States) often referred to as Sco is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis Dave Liebman Joe Henderson Charles Mingus Joey DeFrancesco Herbie Hancock Pat Metheny Bill Frisell Pat Martino Mavis Staples Phil Lesh Billy Cobham Medeski Martin & Wood George Duke Jaco Pastorius John Mayer and many other well-known artists.
Liam Howlett.  Liam Howlett (born 21 August 1971) is an English member of the British band The Prodigy occasional DJ and a record producer.
Bibi Jones.  BiBi Jones (born Britney Maclin on July 23 1991) is an American pornographic actress and model.
Richard Nathan.  Richard P. Nathan is the former director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. Nathan has written and edited books on the implementation of domestic public program in the United States and on American federalism. Prior to coming to Albany he was a professor at Princeton University the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Peter King (sportswriter).  Peter King (born June 10 1957 in Springfield Massachusetts) is an American sportswriter. He writes for Sports Illustrated including the weekly multiple-page column Monday Morning Quarterback. He is the author of five books including Inside the Helmet.
Peryf ap Cedifor.  Peryf ap Cedifor (fl. c. 1170) was a Welsh language court poet.Peryf is noted for two elegies he composed in honour of his brothers. These included his natural brothers and also his bardic patron and foster brother Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd.
Eddie Bayers.  Eddie Bayers (born 28 January 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'. He is also a member of two bands: The Players and The Notorious Cherry Bombs.
Branford Marsalis.  Branford Marsalis (born August 26 1960) is an American saxophonist composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.
Tim Girvin.  Tim Girvin is a calligrapher illustrator writer public speaker and photographer.He is an award-winning[citation needed] American designer concentrating on branding and packaging design. His company Girvin  Strategic Branding and Design was founded in 1977. It is now called Girvin.His work is uniquely diversified.
Edward Cahill.  For the rugby league footballer see Edward CahillRev. Fr Edward J. Cahill S.J. (1868–1941) was an Irish Jesuit priest and academic born in Ballyvocogue County Limerick. He was educated in Theology at Maynooth and ordained a priest in 1897.
Chris Stamp.  Christopher Thomas Chris Stamp (7 July 1942 – 24 November 2012) was a British music producer and manager known for co-managing and producing such musical acts as The Who and Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s and 1970s and co-founding the now defunct Track Records. He later became a psychodrama therapist based in the state of New York.
Louis Lomax.  Louis E. Lomax (August 16 1922 – July 30 1970) was an African-American journalist and author. He was also the first African-American television journalist.
Atsuko Inaba.  Atsuko Inaba (稲葉貴子 Inaba Atsuko) (born March 13 1974 in Osaka Japan) is a former Japanese idol female pop singer formerly within Hello! Project. She began her career as a Japanese idol with all-girl group Osaka Performance Doll from 1993 to 1996 then joined new Hello! Project group Taiyo to Ciscomoon (later named T&C Bomber) in 1999 until its end in late 2000.
Rick Remender.  Rick Remender (born February 1973) is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Portland Oregon. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Punisher series as well as Fear Agent Uncanny X-Force and Venom.
Martino Frontini.  Martino Frontini (Catania 1827 - Catania 1909) was an Italian composer and writer who worked with many Catanian musicians in the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the father and first teacher of composer Francesco Paolo Frontini. He founded the town band which he led for thirty years; he also directed the band of the regional hospital during his career.
Nicky Cruz.  Nicky Cruz (born December 6 1938) is a Christian evangelist the founder of Nicky Cruz Outreach an evangelistic Christian ministry. He was also once the director of Teen Challenge serving under David Wilkerson before founding another ministry home himself in California. Prior to his conversion he was the leader of a New York City gang The Mau-Maus.
Johann Felsko.  Johann Daniel Felsko (Latvian: Johans Daniels Felsko) (born 30 October 1813 Riga Russian Empire — died 7 October 1902 Riga Russian Empire) was an architect urban planner and the chief architect of Riga for 35 years in the period 1844—79. The most significant accomplishment of his creative work is the development of the center of Riga.
J. M. DeMatteis.  John Marc DeMatteis (born December 15 1953) is an American writer of comic books.
Kate McGarrigle.  Kate McGarrigle CM (February 6 1946 – January 18 2010) was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle.She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III which ended in divorce.
André Fauteux.  André Fauteux is a Canadian artist born in Dunnville Ontario Canada on March 15 1946 who now lives in Toronto Ontario. Fauteux is a sculptor known for his abstract welded steel sculpture which relates to Geometric abstraction. His modernist sculptures are also related to the Formalist ideas associated with Clement Greenberg.Fauteux was raised by his mother Lyle Secord Fauteux Nee Ferguson in Hamilton Ontario who encouraged his artistic endeavors.
Hu Mei.  Hu Mei (Chinese: 胡玫; pinyin: Hú Méi; born September 2 1958 in Beijing) is a Chinese film director television director and producer.
Jean-Louis Fetjaine.  Jean-Louis Fetjaine (born in 1956) is a French fantasy writer most famous for his trilogy about elves Merlin and Uther Pendragon. He has written a number of novels which include the elf-trilogy: Le crepuscule de elfes (1998) la nuit des elfes (1999) L'heure des elfes (2000) and the Merlin-Cycle consisting of two volumes: Le Pas de Merlin (2002) and Brocéliande (2004).
Gerard Jones.  Gerard Jones (born July 10 1957) is an American author and comic book writer.
Scott Robinson (singer).  Scott James Timothy Robinson (born 22 November 1979 in Essex England) is an English singer best known for being a member of the boy band Five.
Reon Kadena.  Reon Kadena (かでな れおん Kadena Reon born February 19 1986) also known as Leon Kadena or Minamo Kusano is a Japanese model and actress. Kadena is a female Japanese idol whose photobooks and films largely feature her in revealing costumes underwear and bikinis.
Lara St. John.  Lara St. John (born on April 15 1971 in London Ontario) is a Canadian violinist.
Frederick Ryan.  Frederick Ryan (1876 – April 1913) was an Irish Dublin-born playwright journalist and socialist.
Britt Morgan.  Britt Morgan (born August 12 1963 in Tyler Texas USA) is a former pornographic actress.She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame.
Luke Smalley.  Luke Smalley (b: 1955 d: 2009) was a United States photographer known for capturing boys in adolescence and as a talented art director famous for creating playful images that explored the intersections between fashion and masculinity. His work which pairs a coolly minimalist aesthetic with a retro nostalgia centers around his tongue-in-cheek take on the journey for truth inside the lives of small town youth especially athletic all-American young men.
Miguel Fleta.  Miguel Burró Fleta (1 December or 28 December 1897 Albalate de Cinca Huesca Province Aragon Spain - 29 May 1938 A Coruña) was an Aragonese operatic tenor.Despite his short stage career lasting from 1919 to 1935 Fleta has been described as one of the most significant Iberian opera singers of the 20th century. Among the important international venues at which he sang were La Scala Milan (in 1923-26) and the New York Metropolitan Opera (in 1923-25).
Julie Myerson.  Julie Myerson (born Julie Susan Pike 2 June 1960) is an English author and critic. As well as writing both fiction and non-fiction books she is also known for having written a long-running column in The Guardian entitled Living with Teenagers based on her own family experiences. She has also appeared regularly as a panellist on the arts programme Newsnight Review.
Rick Rofihe.  Rick Rofihe (born 1950 Bridgewater Nova Scotia) is a Canadian American short story writer and editor.
Taneli Jarva.  Taneli Jarva is a Finnish musician. Currently he is the vocalist for The Black League which he formed in 1998. He is best known as vocalist/bassist in Sentenced which he left in 1995 because he did not like the melodic direction the band were heading into and therefore decided to move on to other projects. On Sentenced's last live gig in 2005 in Oulu he joined them a last time to sing the songs he recorded with them.
Denny DeMarchi.  Denny DeMarchi is a Canadian multi-instrumental musician who is talented as a keyboardist and prolific singer-songwriter. He is also a guitarist backing vocalist audio engineer and record producer. DeMarchi is notable as a rock concert tour musician for the well-known Irish band The Cranberries during their reunion tour (2009–11).
Virginia da Cunha.  Virginia da Cunha (born June 15 1981 in Cordoba Argentina) is an Argentine singer-songwriter composer and actress. She is best known as a plaintiff in a protracted lawsuit against Google and Yahoo! in Argentina.In her suit da Cunha alleged that the search engines had damaged her 'moral character' by returning her name and likeness among results for sex related searches. Although the lower courts ruled in favour of da Cunha the internet companies appealed and the verdict was overturned.
B-Force.  B-Force is a Swedish musician best known as the former bassist of black metal band Dark Funeral. Originally recruited as a session bassist in 2005 he became the full time bassist of Dark Funeral in 2008.B-Force quit Dark Funeral in 2010.
Stephen Jones (author).  Stephen Jones (born 1953 in Pimlico London) is an English editor of horror anthologies and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications.Jones has edited anthologies such as the Best New Horror series Dark Terrors The Mammoth Book of Vampires The Mammoth Book of Zombies The Mammoth Book of Dracula The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women The Vampire Stories of R.
Andrew Verity.  John Andrew Verity (born April 8 1969 Leeds) is an English financial journalist currently working for the BBC Radio Five Live.After being raised in Barnet he became a financial journalist in the mid-1990s. He presents the daily radio show Wake Up to Money with Mickey Clark.In March 2012 he married a fellow BBC journalist.
Hector Charlesworth.  Hector Willoughby Charlesworth (b 28 Sep 1872 in Hamilton Ontario - d 30 Dec 1945 in Toronto Ontario) was a Canadian writer editor and critic. From 1904 to 1910 he was an editor and critic at the Toronto Mail and Empire. In 1910 he went to Saturday Night and was its editor from 1926 to 1932.
Bjørn Johan Muri.  Bjørn Johan Muri (born 4 January 1990 in Ålesund Norway) is a Norwegian singer known for having taken part in Series 5 Idol (the Norwegian Pop Idol) in 2007 where he came runner-up.In 2010 he took part in the Norwegian qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song Yes Man. Here he qualified for the final where he finished fourth overall.
Tawfik Hamid.  Tawfik Hamid (born in 1961) is an author from Egypt who opposes Islamic fundamentalism.A self-described former member of the militant al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Tawfik Hamid advocates a peaceful understanding of Islam that is compatible with universal human rights and intellectual freedom. He says that he started to preach in mosques to promote his message of and as a result became a target of Islamic militants who threatened his life.
Eduardo Nascimento.  Eduardo Nascimento (born 1944 in Luanda Portuguese Angola) is an Angolan singer best known for his participation on behalf of Portugal in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest.Nascimento was the leader of a five-member band Os Rocks formed in Luanda in 1962. The band travelled to mainland Portugal in the mid-1960s participating in song festivals and releasing a well-received EP Wish I May in 1966.
Victor Ratnayake.  Victor Ratnayake (Sinhala:වික්ටර් රත්නායක) (born 18 February 1942) is a popular Sri Lankan musician. He was the first Sri Lankan musician to hold a live one-man concert; His concert known as SA was first performed in 1973 and was an instant success.
A1one.  A1one (Persian: تنها‎) is the street name of a visual artist who created graffiti and street art in Iran especially on the walls of Tehran.
Roger Goode.  Roger Goode is a South African DJ who rose to local fame for his first single In The Beginning which featured on 5FM's Top 40. This later led to him being signed up with a local dance record label SheerDance under which he released his first album Coming Up for Air in 2001.In The Beginning prompted Purple Eye Records to approach Goode who allowed Ferry Corsten to remix the track which went on to the UK Singles Chart (#33 2002) and MTV's Music Video Chart.
Małolat.  Michał Kapliński (born February 7 1984) better known by his stage name Małolat is a Polish rapper. Małolat has a brother who is also a rapper better known as Pezet.In 1998 he won the Super MC contest in which the main prize was an appearance on the collaborative album Hip-hopowy raport z osiedla w najlepszym wydaniu. The album featured the song Miłość braterska which Małolat recorded with the group Płomień 81 (which his brother was a member of).
Alan Fenton.  .Alan Fenton is an English fiction writer best known for his novels on the Arthurian legends.
Tony Robbin.  Tony Robbin (born November 24 1943 in Washington DC) is an American artist and author who works with painting sculpture and computer visualizations.He is considered part of the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) art movement.
Winfield Parks.  Winfield I. Parks Jr. (born April 24 1932) was an American photographer. His work has been published in National Geographic Magazine and elsewhere. Win's first marriage of 12 years was to Mitzi Harrington of Waterbury CT. He then married the artist Sabina Parks. Lastly Win married Deborah Kenny of Keene NH.Winfield I. Parks Jr. was a staff photographer with the National Geographic Society from 1961 until his death in 1977.
George Foley (actor).  George Foley was a British actor of the silent era.
Manuelcha Prado.  Manuelcha Prado (born 10 June 1955) is a guitarist singer composer compiler and troubadour of Andean music. He is also known for many people as The Saqra of the Guitar.
Andrew Kaufman.  Andrew Kaufman (born Wingham Ontario) is a Canadian writer film director and radio producer.
Anhua Gao.  Anhua Gao (born 1949) is a Chinese-British author of To The Edge of the Sky published 2000 a best-selling autobiographical account of her and her family's life in Maoist China from 1926 until her escape to the West in 1994.Anhua Gao was born in 1949 in Nanjing Jiangsu Province China. Gao's parents were both veteran Communists and People's Liberation Army (PLA) high officials.
Isgaard.  Isgaard Marke (born 1972 in Husum Schleswig-Holstein Germany) is a classically trained singer who is also involved with the project Classic meets Pop. Her style resembles influences of the Kate Bush school as well as cold wave influences and modern ambient sounds.
Nam Cao.  Trần Hữu Tri (1915—1951) commonly known by his pseudonym Nam Cao was an eminent Vietnamese short story writer and novelist. His works generally received high acclaim from critics for their thoughtful description and veracious reflection of the society in the 1945 era. As a member of the Cultural Association for National Liberation led by the Communist Party he was frequently sent to various places to do missions.
Paul Engemann.  Paul Robert Engemann (born October 15 1957) is a 1980s pop musician best known for his 1983 song Scarface (Push It to the Limit).[citation needed] The song featured prominently in the film Scarface which was released in the same year.With his sister Shawn (now married to Larry King) Paul had a small (#91) national chart record For Your Love in 1975 billed as Christopher Paul and Shawn.Together with Giorgio Moroder he landed a number one hit in Germany (#81 in USA) with Reach Out that became the official song to the 33rd Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles. 
Michael Melia.  Michael Melia (born 1945) is an established British actor best known for his work on television.Melia was born in Berkshire and attended St. Mary's College Twickenham the oldest Roman Catholic college in England. Before taking up acting he was a teacher. At one stage he ran a bar in Spain and thought about applying for a pub tenancy in England.
Vetle Vislie.  Vetle Vislie (21 September 1858 – 7 February 1933) was a Norwegian educationalist and writer.He was born in Skafså as a son of farmer Gjermund Vetleson Vislie (1825–1903) and Anne Larsdotter Mandt (1818–1904). He made his debut as a playwright in 1899 with Utan hovding and wrote Fru Gerda in 1890. His novels include Heldøla (1895) Solvending (1897) Trollringar (1903) Malm (1906) Lukkespel (1911) and Det nye riket (1913).
Neal Asher.  Neal Asher (born 4 February 1961 in Billericay Essex England) is an English science fiction writer. Both his parents are educators and science fiction fans. Although he began writing Science Fiction and Fantasy in secondary school Asher did not turn seriously to writing until he was 25. He worked as a machinist and machine programmer from 1979 to 1987 and as a gardener from 1979 to 1987. He published his first short story in 1989.
Iain Levison.  Iain Levison is a Scottish-American writer born in Aberdeen Scotland in 1963.
Robert Lowe (musician).  Robert Lowe is an American singer. He was brought into the band Solitude Aeturnus by his friend Lyle Steadham in 1988 replacing Kris Gabehardt. For the later albums he is also the main lyricist. Lowe also appeared as a session singer on the first Last Chapter album.
Arty (musician).  Arty (born Artyom Stolyarov (Russian: Артём Столяров) on 28 September 1989 in Engels) is a Russian EDM producer and DJ.
Roberto Orellana.  Roberto Orellana is a Chilean author Christian music singer composer and missioner from Talcahuano Biobio in Chile.
Jacinto Benavente.  Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.Born in Madrid the son of a celebrated pediatrician he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose melodrama to comedy formula to experience impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds.
Claude François Devosge.  Claude François Devosge (1697 - 5 December 1777) was a French sculptor and architect.He was born in Gray Haute-Saône a member of the Devosge family of artists. His brother Philippe was also a sculptor his grandson Anatole Devosge (1770–1850) was a painter and his son François Devosge (1732–1811) was a French portraitist and history painter. He died in Dijon aged 80.
Karolina Gočeva.  Karolina Gočeva often credited as Karolina Gocheva (Macedonian: Каролина Гочева [karɔˈlina ˈɡɔtʃɛva] ; born April 28 1980 in Bitola SR Macedonia SFRY) is a Macedonian singer. She represented Macedonia in the 2002 and 2007 Eurovision Song Contests ranking 19th and 14th respectively. She became the first female Macedonian singer to represent Macedonia twice at Eurovision.
Jack Hammer (songwriter).  Earl Solomon Burroughs (born Fulton County Georgia 16 September 1925) better known by his stage name Jack Hammer is an American pianist singer and songwriter. Among his hits was Great Balls of Fire.
MC 900 Ft. Jesus.  Mark Griffin better known as MC 900 Ft. Jesus is a classically trained musician[citation needed] turned rapper and experimental musician born in Dallas Texas.MC 900 Ft. Jesus' music is influenced by hip-hop incorporating many sound samples. His first album Hell With the Lid Off included the single Truth is Out of Style which gained a cult following.
Kenny O'Dell.  Kenny O'Dell (born Kenneth Gist Jr. 1946 in Oklahoma) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Early in his career he worked with guitarist Duane Eddy and his own band Guys and Dolls. He is best known for writing the country hit Behind Closed Doors which Charlie Rich recorded and Mama He's Crazy for The Judds.
Samini.  Emmanuel Andrews Samini (born 22 December 1981 in Accra Ghana) known by his stage name Samini (formerly as Batman Samini) is a musical artist. Samini hails from the town of Wa in the northern part of Ghana. His genre of music is a melodious mixture of highlife dancehall reggae and hip-hop. He terms his brand of music as the African dancehall.
Günter Müller.  Günter Müller is a German sound artist that originally performed as a percussionist and drummer active primarily in free improvisation. He was born in Munich West Germany in 1954 on October 20 but has lived in Switzerland since 1966.
Dulce Pontes.  Dulce José Silva Pontes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈduɫs(ɨ) ʒuˈzɛ ˈsiɫvɐ ˈpõtɨʃ] born April 8 1969) is a Portuguese songwriter and singer who performs in many musical styles including pop folk and classical music. She is usually defined as a world music artist. Her songs contributed to the 1990s revival of Portuguese urban folk music called fado.
Liam Clancy.  William Liam Clancy (2 September 1935 – 4 December 2009) (Irish Liam Mac Fhlannchadha) was an Irish folk singer and actor from Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary. He was the youngest and last surviving member of performing group The Clancy Brothers. The group were regarded as Ireland's first pop stars.
Carl Finch.  Carl Finch (born November 29 1951 in Texarkana Texas) is a guitarist keyboardist accordionist vocalist songwriter and record producer who co-founded the Grammy-winning polka/dance band Brave Combo in 1979 in Denton Texas.
Jonathan Hickman.  Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for the creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News The Manhattan Projects and East of West as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four FF and S.H.I.E.L.D titles. In 2012 Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write Avengers and New Avengers as part the Marvel NOW! relaunch. In 2013 Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries Infinity plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics.
Willi Williams.  Willi Williams (also Willie Williams) is a Jamaican reggae and dub musician and producer. He is known as the Armagideon Man after his hit Armagideon Time first recorded in 1978 at Studio One in Kingston. The song was covered by The Clash as the flipside of their London Calling single.
Julia London.  Dinah Dinwiddie (born March 18 1959 in Texas) is an American writer of romance novels as Julia London.
Cuno Amiet.  Cuno Amiet (28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961) was a Swiss painter illustrator graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.
Michiko Nagai.  Michiko Nagai (永井路子 Nagai Michiko); (born March 31 1925) is a writer of historical fiction in Japan.Born in Tokyo Nagai graduated from the Tokyo Women's University with a degree in Japanese literature in 1944. She also studied economy history at the University of Tokyo from 1947-1948.
Ahn Junghyo.  Ahn Junghyo (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean novelist and literary translator.
Una Lucy Silberrad.  Una Lucy Silberrad ((1872-05-08)8 May 1872 – 1 September 1955(1955-09-01)) to use her own term was a British authoress. Both her grave slab and her memorial brass in St.Mary's Burnham-on-Crouch specifically use that term thus avoiding both the gender-neutral term writer as well as the later 20th century tendency towards female 'authors'; all highly consistent with Una Silberrad's feminist views. She first lived at Buckhurst Hill and then moved to Burnham on Crouch later in life.
Karina Nose.  Karina (香里奈 Karina) (born February 21 1984) is a Japanese model and actress. Her birth name is Karina Nose (能瀬 香里奈 Nose Karina). She was born in Shōwa-ku Nagoya Aichi Prefecture. She is considered one of Japan's most beautiful women.
Cihan Ozdemir.  Cihan Ozdemir (pronounced G-Hun meaning World in Turkish) is a commercially successful and influential Turkish rapper and R&B singer. His albums have featured appearances by such artists as Mista Burns Ekin Sanli Ozlen Nasty-Zay RockA and Sarasol. His song Bu Aksam appeared on the album International Jazz Album by Turkish Producer Barış Tunçbilek.
Adam Niswander.  Adam Niswander (February 2 1946 - August 12 2012) was an American short story writer and novelist. He was a former president of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society and a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. His first novel The Charm which is the first book of his Shaman Cycle was published by Integra Press in 1993. He died on 12 August 2012.
Ermonela Jaho.  Ermonela Jaho is an Albanian soprano.
John Pantry.  John Pantry is a musician singer songwriter audio engineer (at IBC Studios for the Small Faces and on the first three Bee Gees L.P.s) and record producer from Harrow Middlesex England. He's been active since the late 1960s. Following his studio work in London he became a Christian through the influence of the many Christian artists for whom he produced albums and toured internationally as a Christian singer and speaker.
José Saramago.  José de Sousa Saramago GColSE (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works some of which can be seen as allegories commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events emphasizing the human factor.
Masatoshi Ono.  Masatoshi Ono (小野正利 Ono Masatoshi born January 29 1967 in Adachi Tokyo Japan) also known as Sho is a Japanese rock/heavy metal singer-songwriter. Ono got his start in the 1980s as vocalist of the heavy metal band Fort Bragg. In 1992 he released his first solo single Pure ni Nare on Sony Records. But it wasn't until his third single You're the Only... that he hit it big.
Charles Oliver Bond Davis.  Charles Oliver Bond Davis (c.1818–28 June 1887) was a New Zealand interpreter writer and land purchase agent. He was born in Sydney New South Wales Australia on c.1818.
Yung Berg.  Christian Ward (born September 9 1986) better known by his stage name Yung Berg or Hitmaka is an American rapper Producer and Songwriter from Chicago. He is of African American and Puerto Rican descent. His first single was Sexy Lady which features R&B singer Junior. Yung Berg had been previously signed to DMX's Bloodline Records as Iceberg. He is featured on the Exit Wounds soundtrack. His debut album Look What You Made Me was released in 2008.
Jamie Summers.  For the similarly named fictional character see Jaime Sommers (disambiguation).Jamie Summers (born on May 8 1968 in U.S.) is an American former pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jamie Sommers Denise Stafford Jamie Stafford or Cindy Sterling. She has been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment.
Frank O'Connor.  Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan) (17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966) was an Irish writer of over 150 works best known for his short stories and memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is named in his honour.
Diane MacEachern.  Diane MacEachern is an American author public speaker entrepreneur and conservationist. Her work encourages women to purchase green products. In her many articles books and speeches she urges organizations to include women as members donors and activists.
David Behrman.  David Behrman (born Salzburg Austria August 16 1937) is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether interview series.
Pekka Pohjola.  Jussi Pekka Pohjola (13 January 1952 – 27 November 2008) was a Finnish multi-instrumentalist composer and producer. Best known as a bass player Pohjola was also a classically trained pianist and violinist.Originally Pohjola rose to fame as the bass player of the Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam but he soon departed on a solo career initially releasing Frank Zappa-influenced progressive rock albums.
Bob LeVitus.  Bob LeVitus (also known as Dr.Mac) is an American author of more than 50 computer-related books particularly on the Apple Macintosh iPhone and iPad for the book series ...For Dummies. He started his own Mac troubleshooting business called Dr. Mac Consulting. He has been a columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996.
Felix Powell.  Felix Lloyd Powell (23 May 1878 – 10 February 1942) was a Welsh British Army Staff Sergeant most famous for writing the music for marching song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile Smile Smile in 1915 during World War I. The words were written by his brother George Henry Powell (under the pseudonym George Asaf) and the song was entered into a competition for best morale-building song.
Philip Wilkinson (author).  Philip Wilkinson (born 1955) is the author of non-fiction books for children and adults. He was educated at Corpus Christi College Oxford. He worked as an editor prior to becoming an author.He specialises in works on history the arts religion and architecture and has written over forty titles.
Curtis Stigers.  Curtis Stigers (born October 18 1965) is an American jazz vocalist saxophonist guitarist and songwriter. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s most notably international 1991 hit I Wonder Why which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.
Tale Ognenovski.  Tale Ognenovski (Macedonian: Тале Огненовски) (April 27 1922 - June 19 2012) was a Macedonian multi-instrumentalist: clarinet reed pipe (instrument) (recorder) tin whistle small bagpipe zourla (zurla) and drum composer and bandleader. On January 27 1956 he performed at Carnegie Hall New York City as clarinet and reed pipe (recorder) soloist of Macedonian State Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs Tanec.
Fito Páez.  Rodolfo Fito Páez Ávalos (born March 13 1963 in Rosario Santa Fe Province) is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist lyricist Spanish language singer and film director.
Andrew Logan (songwriter).  Andrew Logan is an American performer songwriter and director.
Abbott Fuller Graves.  Abbott Fuller Graves (1859–1936) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still lifes. His use of thick brushstrokes bright colors and natural light shows the influence of European impressionism.Graves was born in Weymouth Massachusetts on April 15 1859 the son of James Griswold Graves and Eliza Nicholls (Fuller). Hoping to become an architect Graves attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but did not graduate.
Mat Kearney.  Mathew William Mat Kearney (/ˈkɑrni/; born December 1 1978) is an American musician born in Eugene Oregon now based in Nashville Tennessee. Kearney has received critical acclaim and widespread recognition for his Columbia Records debut Nothing Left to Lose. So far he has a total of 5 top 20 hits on the Adult Top 40 Chart.His most recent album Young Love was released on August 2 2011. The album's first single Hey Mama was released on May 10 2011.
Santigold.  Santi White (born September 25 1976) better known by her stage name Santigold (formerly Santogold) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. Her debut album Santogold was released to positive reviews in 2008. Her second album Master of My Make-Believe was released in April 2012 also to critical acclaim. She is a mezzo-soprano.
Al Walser.  Alexander Al Walser (born July 16 1976) is a Swiss-born Liechtensteinian singer songwriter DJ and record producer. Walser first gained fame as a member of German Eurodance group Fun Factory with whom he toured worldwide. His 2012 single I Can't Live Without You was nominated for a Grammy Award in the field of Best Dance Recording.
David Niven Jr..  David Niven Jr. (born December 15 1942) the son of Oscar-winning actor David Niven and his wife Primula Rollo is a film producer and film actor with stints as an executive at Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures. His credits include Rush Hour 3 The Cool Surface Psycho Cop Returns and The Girl with the Hungry Eyes. In 1979 he produced Escape to Athena which starred his father. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1987.
Guy Reibel.  Guy Reibel (born 27 October 1936 in Strasbourg France) is an electronic or acousmatic composer.Made his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.Trained under Olivier Messiaen.
Kristine W.  Kristine Weitz (born June 8 1962) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released seven albums. Weitz has achieved 16 number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the United States. She has a worldwide fan base. She has more consecutive number one dance hits than Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. Recently Kristine W was voted by Billboard Magazine as Dance Artist of the Decade behind Madonna and Beyoncé.
Anna Wilson-Jones.  Anna Wilson-Jones (born in Woking Surrey) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her role as Juliet Miller in Hotel Babylon.
Sohail Rana.  Sohail Rana (born 1938) is a Pakistani music composer for films. He was introduced by actor Waheed Murad in Pakistan film industry and gained popularity when singer Ahmed Rushdi sang his compositions in such films like Arman and Doraha. He is now based in Canada.
Coke Escovedo.  Coke Escovedo (born Joseph Thomas Escovedo April 30 1941 in Los Angeles California) was an American percussionist. Coke grew up in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area and developed an early interest in jazz and Latin music through exposure gained from his father an aspiring big band singer and eventually gravitated to drums and Latin percussion.
Pat Brown (criminal profiler).  Pat Brown (born 1955) is an American writer criminal profiler and commentator.
Erik Paliani.  Erik Paliani (born 3 September 1975) is a Malawian guitarist producer and songwriter. He is best known for his work with singer Zamajobe Sithole trumpeter Hugh Masekela and guitarist Lee Ritenour.
Daisuke Suzuki (musician).  Daisuke Suzuki (鈴木 大輔 Suzuki Daisuke born October 27 1978 in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is the songwriter of J-Pop group Girl Next Door. He debuted as Rubii in 1998.
Richard Laviolette.  Richard Andrew Laviolette (born August 22 1982) is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Guelph Ontario. Exclaim! has described Laviolette as an old soul with a voice that can swing from a delicate whisper to a guttural bark in the same breath. The Record in Kitchener has said Laviolette is on the cutting edge of the local scene along with James Gordon's son Geordie Gordon.
Grace Kennedy (writer).  Grace Kennedy (1782–February 28 1825) was a Scottish writer. She was the fourth daughter of Robert Kennedy of Pinmore county Ayr and Robina daughter of John Vans Agnew of Barnbarrow county Galloway. She was born at Pinmore in Ayrshire but at an early age moved to Edinburgh. She wrote novels of a religious tendency which were very popular in their day. By 1920 they were very little read.
Iain Sinclair.  Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London most recently within the influences of psychogeography.
Abe Holzmann.  Abraham Abe Holzmann (19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939) was an American composer who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann a Hungarian (some sources say German) immigrant and Isabella Holzmann a native of Louisiana. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany.
William Edward Harney.  William Edward Harney (18 April 1895 – 31 December 1962) also well known as Bill Harney was a largely self-educated Australian writer. Most of his early life was an itinerant one of poverty and hardship punctuated by tragedy spent mainly in the outback. He is notable for his writings about the Aboriginal peoples of Australia’s Northern Territory.Harney was born in Charters Towers Queensland the second of three children of English-born parents.
Josh Ritter.  Josh Ritter (born October 21 1976) is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006 he was named one of the 100 Greatest Living Songwriters by Paste magazine.
Eddie Adcock.  Eddie Adcock was born in Scottsville Virginia USA on June 21 1938. His professional musical career as a 5 string banjoist began in 1953 when he joined Smokey Graves & His Blue Star Boys who had a regular show at a radio station in Crewe VA. His exposure with Graves led to jobs with other musicians including Mac Wiseman Bill Harrell and Buzz Busby. Between 1953 and 1957 he floated between different bands.
Lucy Madox Brown.  Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (19 July 1843 – 12 April 1894) the child of Ford Madox Brown and Elisabeth Bromley (1819–1846) was an artist author and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and married to the writer and art critic William Michael Rossetti.
Brad Kavanagh.  Brad Lewis Kavanagh (born 21 August 1992) is an English actor and singer-songwriter originally from Whitehaven Cumbria and is best known for his role as Fabian Rutter in the Nickelodeon TV series House of Anubis.
Janez Kajzer.  Janez Kajzer (born 21 January 1938) is a Slovene writer journalist translator and editor.Kajzer was born in Vižmarje in Ljubljana in 1938. After finishing secondary school he found employment as a journalist at Mladina and Delo and later as an editor at the Borec and Prešernova Družba publishing houses.
Jane Huang.  Jane Huang (Chinese: 黃美珍; pinyin: Huang Mei Zhen; born January 19 1983) is a Taiwanese singer. She was born in Taitung County Taiwan. She is a member of Taiwan's Puyuma aboriginal people. In 2007 she finished seventh in the One Million Star Taiwanese singing competition. With the strong support of her fans she became the popular vote winner.[citation needed] She is currently in the band Y2J with band member Yuming Lai.
Guttorm Schjelderup.  Guttorm Schjelderup (born 15 January 1961) is a Norwegian economist.He graduated as siv.øk. in 1985 and cand.oecon. in 1987 from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He took the doctor's degree in 1992 with the thesis Five Essays on Tax Policy in an Open Economy. He became associate professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1993 and was promoted to professor in 2000.
Michael Jones (New Age pianist).  Michael Jones (born 1942) is a New Age pianist author composer and leadership educator.
Antonio Cicognara.  Antonio Cicognara (1480 – after 1500) was a 15th-century Italian painter.
Harold Livingston.  Harold Livingston is an American novelist and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
Los Hermanos Ayala.  Los Hermanos Ayala was an American conjunto group from South Texas. Sons to Pedro Ayala El Monarca del Acordeon Los Hermanos Ayala consisted of Pedro Ayala Jr. Ramon Ayala and Emilio Ayala.
Heather Leigh West.  Heather Leigh West is a New York City based American recording artist best known for her work in house music.
Jon Lebkowsky.  Jon Lebkowsky (born April 20 1949) is an web consultant/developer author and activist who was the co-founder of FringeWare Inc. (along with Paco Nathan). FringeWare an early attempt at ecommerce and online community published a popular magalog called FringeWare Review and a literary zine edited by Lebkowsky called Unshaved Truths.
Kaki Leung.  Leung Ka Ki (born 14 July 1981) is a Hong Kong television actress and hostess.
Drew Friedman (cartoonist).  Drew Friedman (born 1958) is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and stippling-like style of caricature employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s he switched to painting. His painstaking attention to detail and photorealistic parodies of Hollywood legends is widely admired.
Duke Special.  Duke Special real name Peter Wilson is a songwriter and performer based in Belfast Northern Ireland. A piano-based songwriter with a romantic style and a warm distinctly accented voice he has distinctive long dreadlocks eyeliner and outfits he describes as hobo chic. His live performances have a theatrical style inspired by Vaudeville and music hall and often incorporate 78s played on an old-fashioned gramophone or sound effects from a transistor radio.
LouAnne Johnson.  LouAnne Johnson is an American writer teacher and former United States Marine. She is best known for the book My Posse Don't Do Homework which was adapted as the film Dangerous Minds in 1995 and a TV series in 1996. She was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in the film and by Annie Potts in the TV series.
Naruki Matsukawa.  Naruki Matsukawa (松川 尚瑠輝 Matsukawa Naruki) is a Japanese actor. He was born on September 20 1991 in Tokyo Japan.
DJ Flex (DJ).  DJ Flex is a French electronic music artist born March 22 1976.
Suzanne Martel.  Suzanne Martel (October 8 1924 - July 29 2012) was a French Canadian journalist novelist and author for Quebecois youth. She was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard clerk of the City of Quebec between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963.
Prince Ital Joe.  Joe Paquette (May 5 1963 – May 16 2001) better known as Prince Ital Joe was a Dominican-born American musician best known for his collaborations with Marky Mark. Prince Ital Joe also did some acting appearing in the Steven Seagal film Marked for Death and in the TV series EZ Streets and Players.
Rajkumar Bharathi.  Rajkumar Bharathi is a noted classical singer and music composer from India. He is the great grandson of the renowned renaissance poet Subramanya Bharathi. Rajkumar is an Electronics and telecommunications engineer graduated from the prestigious College of Engineering Guindy Chennai. Rajkumar Bharathi a native of Chennai stands today as one of the most popular artists of his generation.
Sylvia Rexach.  Sylvia Rexach (January 22 1922 – October 20 1961) was a comedy scriptwriter poet singer and composer of boleros .
Ismail Darbar.  Ismail Darbar (born 1 June 1964) is an Indian composer and violinist a popular name in Indian Film Industry: Bollywood.
Ann Michelle.  Ann Michelle born Chigwell Essex (11 August 1952) is a British actress and writer.Her most notable acting roles were as Jane Pettibone in the cult British horror film Psychomania. She also appeared in House of Whipcord and in Virgin Witch opposite her sister 'Allo 'Allo! actress Vicki Michelle.
Tryzuby Stas.  Stanislav Ivanovych Shcherbatykh (Ukrainian: Станіслав Іванович Щербатих) (February 24 1948 - January 24 2007) was a Ukrainian bard an author of the Ukrainian humorous original songs. He is better known for his scenic name of Tryzuby Stas.
Salvador Díaz Mirón.  Salvador Díaz Mirón (December 14 1853 – June 12 1928) was a Mexican poet. He was born in the port city of Veracruz. His early verse written in a passionate romantic style was influenced by Lord Byron and Victor Hugo. His later verse was more classical in mode. His poem A Gloria was influential. His 1901 volume Lascas (Chips from a Stone) established Mirón as a precursor of modernismo. After a long period of exile he returned to Mexico and died in Veracruz on June 12 1928.
Madeline Sonik.  Madeline Sonik (born May 12 1960) is a Canadian author.Born in Detroit Michigan of mixed English-Russian parentage she was educated at the University of Western Ontario Canada and at the University of British Columbia where she earned a doctorate for a thesis that explored the application of Jungian principles to the creative writing process.
Boyd Jarvis.  Boyd H. Jarvis (born 1958) is an American record producer remixer and musician best known for his song co-written with Jason Smith The Music Got Me; released in 1983 by Prelude Records.
Barney James.  Barney James (born in Salford Lancashire) is an English drummer actor and writer. He is known for being the drummer with Warhorse and Rick Wakeman. His acting credits include the Derek Jarman films Sebastiane and Jubilee.After a career in the armed forces James studied percussion at the Johnny Roadhouse School of Music and the Royal Northern School of Music. He played with a series of bands including Witnesses Gracious Forum Legend Warhorse and Rick Wakeman.
Giuseppe Colucci (antiquarian).  Giuseppe Colucci (born Penna San Giovanni 19 March 1752 - died Fermo 16 March 1809) was a prolific regional historian of the Marche and writer on the antiquities of central Italy; his works include Antichità Picene in 30 volumes and Antichità Ascolane.
Hal Olsen.  Hal Olsen is an American artist living in Albuquerque New Mexico. He was a U.S. Navy aviation mechanic working on autopilots who also worked at Los Alamos National Lab as an artist for official bomb designs. His work was featured in the first issue of National Geographic Magazine. He is also the last living American nose artist who painted during World War II.
Markos Antonios Katsaitis.  Markos Antonios Katsaitis (Greek: Μάρκος-Αντώνιος Κατσάϊτις Italian: Marco Antonio Cazzaiti Latin: Marcus Antonius Cazzaiti French: Marc-Antoine Cazzaiti 1717 – 1787) was an 18th-century Greek scholar geographer and lawyer.
Roxy Gordon.  Roxy Gordon (Mar. 7 1945 - Feb. 7 2000) was a Choctaw and Assiniboine poet novelist musician and activist. He lived in Talpa Texas and had a following in England. In the 1970s he ran a country music magazine Picking up the Tempo in Albuquerque New Mexico. His first CD was titled Smaller Circles. He ran a small publishing company called Wowapi.
SMS (illustrator).  SMS is a Lancashire-based artist known for his award-winning covers for science-fiction magazine Interzone and for his work for British anthology magazine 2000 AD.
William Van Horn.  William Van Horn (born February 15 1939) has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. He draws mostly Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the animated series DuckTales. Some of these stories featured Launchpad McQuack as the main character.Prior to his association with Disney Van Horn drew and wrote a black and white comic book called Nervous Rex for Blackthorne Publishing.
George Robert Wythen Baxter.  George Robert Wythen Baxter (1815–17 January 1854) was a Welsh writer.Baxter was the only son of George Trotman Baxter Esq. of Hereford and was born in 1815. He was a member of the old family long settled in the neighbourhood of Newton and claimed among his ancestry the celebrated nonconformist divine Richard Baxter and Hugh Baxter of Ystradfaelog (1687) and Richard Baxter (1690) the names of the two latter being recorded as benefactors to the poor of Trefeglwys and Llanwnog.
Kazunari Tanaka.  Kazunari Tanaka (田中 一成 Tanaka Kazunari born April 8 1965) is a Japanese voice actor from Osaka Prefecture who works for Aoni Production.
Jürgen Rosenthal.  Jürgen Rosenthal is a German rock drummer. He was a member of Uli Jon Roth's band Dawn Road but became a member of the Scorpions along with Roth and Francis Buchholz when Dawn Road was annexed into a lineup with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker. He appeared on one album Fly to the Rainbow before having to leave to do his compulsory service with the Army. He later appeared in Eloy and wrote the lyrics for their successful 1977 album Ocean.
Isaac van Swanenburg.  Isaak Nicolai or Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg (1537 – 1624 in Leiden) was a Dutch Renaissance painter and glazier active in Leiden and Gouda. He was a city council member from 1576 and became mayor of Leiden five times.
Sheldon Harnick.  Sheldon Harnick (born April 30 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these The Merry Minuet was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.
Keith Parkinson.  Keith A. Parkinson (October 22 1958 – October 26 2005) was an American fantasy artist and illustrator known for his book covers and game artwork for games such as EverQuest Guardians Magic: The Gathering and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. After a successful career designing book and magazine covers for TSR and as a freelance artist Parkinson moved into game design in the 1990s including award-winning work on Guardians. Parkinson battled leukemia dying just after his 47th birthday in 2005.
Mark Nauseef.  Mark Nauseef (born June 11 1953) in Cortland New York is a drummer and percussionist who has enjoyed a varied career ranging from rock music during the 1970s with his time as a member of the Ian Gillan Band and temporarily Thin Lizzy to a wide range of musical styles in more recent times playing with many notable musicians from all over the world.
Kathy Reichs.  Kathleen Joan Toelle Kathy Reichs (/ˈraɪks/; born July 7 1948) is an American crime writer forensic anthropologist and academic. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; as of 2013 she is on indefinite leave. She divides her work time between the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec and her professorship at UNC Charlotte.
T. Texas Tyler.  David Luke Myrick (June 20 1916 – January 28 1972) known professionally as T. Texas Tyler was an American country music singer and songwriter primarily known for his 1948 hit The Deck of Cards.
Victor Huang.  Victor Huang Wei-de (born 21 October 1971) is a Taiwanese actor and singer.
Django Reinhardt.  Jean Django Reinhardt (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer of Romani heritage.Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the genre.
Steve Hanley (musician).  Steve Hanley (born 29 May 1959) is an Irish-born English musician based in Manchester. He is best known for playing bass guitar in The Fall from 1979 to 1998 and afterwards in The Lovers.Hanley's distinctive basslines were a signature part of The Fall often carrying a song's instrumental melody without forsaking the bass guitar's traditional role as a propulsive element of the rhythm section. He is described by critic Dave Simpson as one of British music's greatest bassists.
Stella Schindler.  Stella Schindler is an American singer-songwriter from the Washington D.C. area. Her work has been described as bluegrass-tinged folkHer debut album New Horizon was released in 2001.She released her second album Distant Hum in 2008.
Robert H. Abel.  Robert Halsall Abel (born May 27 1941 in Painesville Ohio) is an American short story writer and novelist.
Trevor Taylor (singer).  Trevor Oliver Taylor (January 11 1958 Montego Bay Jamaica — January 19 2008 Cologne Germany) was a Jamaican-German singer musician music producer and songwriter. His stage name was Supa T. He is best known as the first leading vocalist of the German band Bad Boys Blue.
Tanith (DJ).  Thomas Andrezak (born August 4 1962 in Bad Kreuznach) better known as Tanith is a German DJ and producer of electronic dance music. From 1990 to 1996 he was one of the most popular German Tekkno DJs (not to be confused with techno music).In 1987 Andrezak changed his name and moved from Wiesbaden to Berlin at the beginning of the Acid House scene. He was the resident DJ in Berlin's first Acid House club the Ufo. In January 1990 he organized his own night session the Cyberspace at Ufo II.
Jason Elliot.  Jason Elliot (1965) is a British travel writer; his works include An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (1999) and Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran (2006).
Quinton Hoover.  Quinton B. Hoover (March 16 1964 – April 20 2013) was an American artist best known for his art in the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering.
Michelle Stitzlein.  Michelle Stitzlein is an American artist who creates found object art / sculpture from recycled materials. She received a BFA in 1989 from the Columbus College of Art and Design (in Columbus Ohio). She and her husband Nathaniel Stitzlein (also an artist) founded Art Grange Studios in Baltimore Ohio. At Art Grange they share their love of art with the public by offering tours of the studios as well as art workshops for all ages.
Jerry Clower.  Howard Gerald Jerry Clower (September 28 1926 – August 24 1998) was a popular country comedian best known for his stories of the rural South. He was often nicknamed The Mouth of Mississippi.Clower was born in Liberty Mississippi and began a 2-year stint in the Navy immediately after graduating high school in 1944.
László Mednyánszky.  Baron László Mednyánszky or Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky (Slovak: Ladislav Medňanský) (23 April 1852 – 17 April 1919) the painter-philosopher is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hungarian art. Despite an aristocratic background he spent most of his life moving around Europe working as an artist.
Alex Cartana.  Alex Cartañá (born Alexandra Cartañá-Marks 7 April 1983) is a Spanish/British singer-songwriter and actress. Cartañá first came to fame in 2003 as the featured artist and co-writer of the hit dance record Shake It (Move A Little Closer) which peaked at #16 in the UK Singles Chart.
Olga Printzlau.  Olga Printzlau (13 December 1891 – 8 July 1962) was an American screenwriter. She wrote for 69 films between 1915 and 1933. She also wrote a play Window Panes which was staged in Los Angeles in 1928 and won praise from the Los Angeles Times.She was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and died in Hollywood California from a heart attack.
Hienadz Kliauko.  Hienadz Kliauko (also: Gennady Klevko Belarusian: Гена́дзь Кляўко́ Russian: Генна́дий Клевко́) (December 28 1931 (officially May 1 1932) – August 21 1979) was a Soviet Belarusian poet and translator.
Daughn Gibson.  Daughn Gibson (born Josh Martin 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Carlisle Pennsylvania. He was formerly the drummer for Pearls and Brass. His debut album All Hell was released in 2012. The album received an 8.1/10 review from Pitchfork Media as well as an 8.6/10 review from Playground.In 2013 he released another album Me Moan with Sub Pop.
Rachel Gold.  Rachel Gold is the author of Being Emily the first young adult novel written from a transsexual girl’s point of view. Currently an award-winning marketing strategist and sought after public speaker Rachel also spent a decade as a print reporter in the LGBT community. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Religious Studies from Macalester College and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Hamline University.
Viktor Deni.  Viktor Nikolaevich Denisov (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Денисов) best known by the shortened pseudonym Viktor Deni (8 March 1893 – 3 August 1946) was a Russian satirist cartoonist and poster artist. Deni was one of the major agitprop poster artists of the Bolshevist period (1917–1921).
Suzy Mandel.  Suzy Mandel (born 6 March 1953) is the stage name of an ex-actress and model best known for her roles in such 1970s British sex comedies as Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) Come Play with Me (1977) and The Playbirds (1978) and for her appearances on the Benny Hill Show.
Jim Haas.  James Edwin (Jim) Haas is an American singer who has performed vocals for many artists including John Denver Neil Diamond Jackson Browne David Cassidy Pink Floyd and Barry Manilow.
Antoine Becks.  Antoine Becks (born Antoine Mercel Toupin; June 28 1981) is a Canadian-American Ex-child actor musician DJ former singer of the live act duo Second Sun and frontman of the alternative band CB7.
Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu.  Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu (March 28 1914 - September 1 1990) was a classical poet literary critic composer musicologist translator and polyglot.
John Kane.  John Kane (August 19 1860 – August 10 1934) was an American painter celebrated for his skill in Naïve art. He was the first self-taught American painter in the 20th century to be recognized by a museum. When on his third attempt his work was admitted to the 1927 Carnegie International Exhibition he attracted considerable attention from the media which initially suspected that his success was a prank.
Ok Taecyeon.  Ok Taec-Yeon (Hangul: 옥택연 Hanja: 玉澤演; born December 27 1988) generally known as Taecyeon is a member of the Korean boy band 2PM in which he is the main rapper. In 2010 Taecyeon debuted as an actor in the Korean drama Cinderella's Sister and went on to become a main character in the KBS drama Dream High.He was ranked at #13 on 100 Most Handsome Faces of 2013.
Stanislav Tsalyk.  Stanislav Tsalyk (Ukrainian: Станісла́в Микола́йович Ца́лик; born July 23 1962) Ukrainian writer essayist historian researcher of region features. The Member of the National Filmmakers Union of Ukraine (screenwriter) since 1997. The Member of the Association of European Journalists since 2013. The author of books and also more than 700 articles dedicated to unknown pages of Ukrainian and Kyiv history and life of eminent historical persons.
Crystal Ong.  Crystal Ong (Chinese: 王雪晶; pinyin: Wángxuějīng born 19 May 1986) is a Malaysian actress and singer. She debuted in 1994 with her album titled 茶叶青 (Green Tea) Born in the same year Queenz Cheng (庄群施) Angeline Khoo (邱燕妮) and Cass Chin (陈金燕) established four M-Girls combinations in late 2000. She has released over 40 albums to date.
James Welch (writer).  James Welch (November 18 1940–August 4 2003) was an award-winning U.S. author and poet. Welch is considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow received several National Literary awards.Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1997.
Momoko Shibuya.  Shibuya Momoko (渋谷桃子; born 15 March 1987 in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress. Shibuya deputed as a model when she was one year old. She has played the role of Minako Aino in the Sailor Moon musicals.
Hirotada Ototake.  Hirotada Ototake (乙武 洋匡 Ototake Hirotada) (born April 6 1976) is a Japanese sports writer from Tokyo Japan. Born without arms and legs due to a genetic disorder called tetra-amelia syndrome Ototake is most notable for his 1998 memoir No One's Perfect (五体不満足 Gotai fumanzoku) (ISBN 4770027648). Within a year of publication the book became the third-best-selling book in Japan since World War II. It has since been translated into English.
Cáthia.  Catherine Ochoa or mononymously known as Cáthia is a 19-year-old singer from Bronx New York.She rose to fame when she came in 13-16th place on the fourth season of the American version of reality television singing competition The Voice.Cáthia released her first single Without You produced by Dante Lattanzi of Caelum Music Production 47 days after her elimination on The Voice on June 24 2013.
Dalia Shusterman.  Dalia Garih Shusterman (born 1973) is an American musician best known as the drummer and vocalist for the alternative rock bands Hopewell and Bulletproof Stockings.
Judith Inglese.  Judith Inglese is an American artist known for her large public ceramic murals and her illustrations in the children's books of Dedie King. She is the daughter of Frank Caplan and Theresa Caplan the founders of Creative Playthings.
Charles Dollé.  Charles Dollé (fl. 1735 – 1755) was a French viol player and composer. Very little is known about his life. He was active in Paris and was a sought-after teacher of viol.
Jos Van Immerseel.  Jos Van Immerseel (born 9 November 1945 Antwerp) is a Belgian harpsichordist pianist and conductor.Van Immerseel studied organ piano and harpsichord at the Antwerp Conservatory under Flor Peeters Eugène Traey and harpsichordist and musicologist Kenneth Gilbert. He created the Collegium Musicum there developing his interest in Renaissance and Baroque music later expanding his activities to include the Classical and early Romantic eras.
Guillaume Massieu.  Guillaume Massieu (Caen 13 April 1665 - Paris 26 September 1722) was a French churchman translator and poet best known for his Latin verses in praise of the agreeability and benefits of coffee.
Luke Song.  Luke Song is an American contemporary high fashion milliner designer.
Vibhuti Narain Rai.  Vibhuti Narain Rai (born 28 November 1951) is a police officer and author from India. He obtained an M.A. in English Literature from Allahabad University in 1971 and joined the Indian Police Service in 1975 as a part of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served many sensitive districts as a Superintendent of Police.Between 1992-2001 Rai was seconded to the Government of India during which time his postings included anti-insurgency operations in the Kashmir Valley (1993-94).
Yevgeny Erastov.  Yevgeny Erastov was born in 1963 in Gorky. He entered Gorky Medical Institute in 1980 where in a largely circulated newspaper the world was given his poetry for the first time. Since the second year studying he attended associations such as Danko Volozka Stryna Marafon. In 1989 he was a member of IX All-Union Conference of young writers. As a result of this a manuscript of the poetry book Oblako (Cloud) was recommended to the publishing house Molodaya Gvardia.
Ernest Ludvig Ipsen.  Ernest L. Ipsen (September 5 1869 – November 2 1951) was an American portrait painter. Ipsen was born in Malden Massachusetts the son of Danish parents. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston from 1884–1887. While there he trained under the painter Frederick Porter Vinton. He continued his training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) from 1887–1891.
Amelia Alcock-White.  Amelia Alcock-White (born 1981 Vancouver Island Canada) is a contemporary Canadian artist based in Vancouver. She studied fine art at Vancouver Island University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Alcock-White is known for her oil paintings depicting water myths philosophy and the west coast.The latest collection of work Water Born 2012 is described as a passionate collection of paintings that explore rebirth identity history and humanity's origins.
Michel Camilo.  Michel Camilo (born April 4 1954) is a Grammy-award winning pianist and composer from Santo Domingo Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz Latin and classical piano work. Camilo lists some of his main influences as Chick Corea Keith Jarrett Oscar Peterson Bill Evans and Art Tatum.
Bengt Djurberg.  Bengt Djurberg (23 July 1898 – 2 November 1941) was a Swedish actor and singer. He appeared in about 25 roles in films 1919 and 1940. His film debut was in Mauritz Stiller's film Sången om den eldröda blomman in 1919.
Fuad Abdurahmanov.  Fuad Hasan oglu Abdurahmanov (Azerbaijani: Fuad Həsən oğlu Əbdürəhmanov; May 11 1915 Nukha (Sheki) Azerbaijan Russian Empire – June 15 1971 Baku Azerbaijan SSR USSR) was a popular Azerbaijani monument sculptor.
Jasna Popovic.  Jasna Popovic (born May 10 1979) is an award-winning Serbian pianist.
Luís Mariutti.  Luís Mariutti born March 22 1971 in São Paulo Brazil is a heavy metal bass player formerly of the power metal bands Angra and Shaaman. Now plays in Henceforth and Andre Matos' solo project.
Keith Emerson.  Keith Noel Emerson (born 2 November 1944) is an English keyboardist and composer. He was formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio John Brown's Bodies The T-Bones The V.I.P.'s P.P. Arnold's backing band The Nice and in 1970 a founder of Emerson Lake & Palmer (ELP) one of the early supergroups. Following the break-up of ELP circa 1979 Emerson had modest success with Emerson Lake & Powell in the 1980s as well as with 3 with the album To the Power of Three.
Gary Usher.  Gary Usher (December 14 1938 – May 25 1990) was an American rock musician songwriter and record producer.
Walter Traill Dennison.  Walter Traill Dennison (1826–1894) was a farmer and folklorist. He was a native of the Orkney island of Sanday in Scotland United Kingdom where he collected local folk tales. He published these many in the local Orcadian dialect in 1880 under the title The Orcadian Sketch-Book (William Peace & Son Kirkwall). Also author of the ten Sanday Revival Hymns (published anonymously 1861 Edinburgh).
Alfonso D'Artega.  Alfonso D'Artega (June 5 1907 – January 20 1998) often known simply as D'Artega was a songwriter conductor arranger and actor. His song In the Blue of the Evening co-written with Tom Adair was a number one hit for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1943.D'Artega was born in Silao Guanajuato Mexico. His family emigrating to the U.S. in 1918. D'Artega studied music and composition at Strassberger's Conservatory in St.
Doc Cheatham.  Adolphus Anthony Cheatham better known as Doc Cheatham (June 13 1905 – June 2 1997) was a jazz trumpeter singer and bandleader. After having played in some of the leading jazz groups from the 1920s on Cheatham enjoyed renewed acclaim in later decades of his career. He himself agreed with the critical assessment that he was probably the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70.[citation needed]
Robert Emery (pianist).  Robert Emery (born 22 March 1983) is an English pianist conductor and orchestrator.
Pierre Siniac.  Pierre Siniac (1928–2002) received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1981 for three of his works including Aime le Maudit. Under the title Ferdinaud Céline The Collaborators was published in French in 1997 to great acclaim.A story about the Paris Métro Line 8 inspired his novel Le Crime du dernier métro published in 2001.
Roy Harte.  Roy S. Harte (May 27 1924 – October 26 2003) was an American jazz drummer and co-founder of Nocturne Records and Pacific Jazz Records. In partnership with Remo Belli he founded “Drum City” a well-known retail drum shop on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood California.
Coolie Ranx.  Coolie Ranx (real name Obi-Ajula Ugbomah) is a musician best known for his membership in the third wave ska bands The Toasters and Pilfers. He is a long-time resident of New York City.Ranx was born in London in 1965 and was raised in New York. His mother is from Jamaica and his father is from Nigeria. He was discovered in 1990 when the lead singer and guitarist of The Toasters Rob Bucket Hingley heard Ranx's dancehall reggae EP.
Neal Drinnan.  Neal Drinnan is an Australian writer. He won the Lambda Literary Award in the Science Fiction Fantasy or Horror category and was a nominee in the Gay Fiction category for his 2006 novel Izzy and Eve at the 19th Lambda Literary Awards.Originally from Melbourne Victoria Drinnan has been primarily based in Sydney New South Wales. He has published five novels and non-fiction travel guides for LGBT tourism in Australia.
Petra Collins.  Petra Collins (born December 21 1992) is a Canadian portraiture photographer fashion photographer and fashion designer from Toronto Ontario Canada.
Russell Blackford.  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer philosopher and critic based for many years in Melbourne Victoria. He was born in Sydney and grew up in the city of Lake Macquarie near Newcastle New South Wales. He moved to Melbourne in 1979 but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.
Tim Hauser.  Tim Hauser (born December 12 1941) is a singer and founder-member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer.
Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury.  Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury (1924–2008) was a noted Assamese litterateur Sahitya Akademi Award winner and an academician basically from Gauripur in Assam India. Popularly he is known as Sheelabhadra his pen name.
Esra Dalfidan.  Esra Dalfidan was born in 1975 of Turkish parents and raised in the German industrial town of Solingen. After a brief career as a music therapist and after 10 years of studying classical guitar she decided to switch her life round and focus fully on becoming a professional musician. She was admitted to the Amsterdam Conservatory to study jazz singing and completed her Master's degree in 2007 with honours. She now lives in the Netherlands.
Anne Edwards.  Anne Edwards (born August 20 1927 Port Chester New York USA) is an American author best known for her biographies of celebrities that include Princess Diana Maria Callas Judy Garland Katharine Hepburn Vivien Leigh Margaret Mitchell Ronald Reagan Barbra Streisand Shirley Temple and Countess Sonya Tolstoy. She attended University of California Los Angeles (1943–46) and Southern Methodist University (1947–48).
Julián Alarcón.  Julián Alarcón (28 January 1888 - 19 August 1957) was a Paraguayan composer and violinist.
Tawny Peaks.  Tawny Peaks (born May 10 1970 in New York New York U.S.) was the stage name of an adult entertainer.
Fernando Gaitán.  Fernando Gaitán Salom (Born November 9 1960 in Bogotá) is a Colombian TV series and telenovelas screenwriter as well as a producer.
Lulu James.  Lulu James (born in Tanzania c. 1992) is a British soul artist whose sound blends ambient atmospheric vocals with electro dubstep and tribal beats.Born in Tanzania she moved to the United Kingdom when she was 6 and settled in South Shields in North England. She started performing locally when she was 19. Enrolling on a music development course she met her producer and co-writer Domzilla.
Bjørn Holter.  Bjørn Holter better known for his stage name Narrenschiff is a Norwegian singer-songwriter of the band Illnath. He also has some other side-projects like Philomel's Epitaph 54 Seregon Fragment and Fluesopp. Narrenschiff is greatly influenced by the Italian symphonic rock band Devil Doll.
Don Moye.  Famoudou Don Moye (born May 23 1946) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. He is most known for his involvement with the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) and is noted for his mastery of African and Caribbean percussion instruments and rhythmic techniques.
Roisin Dunne.  Roisin Dunne Ross was born on September 18 1965 in Ireland. Best known for being the replacement guitarist of 7 Year Bitch. After their guitarist Stefanie Sargent died. In 1992 they toured for their debut with Valerie Agnew Selene Vigil-Wilk and Elizabeth Davis. What was her signature act with the band. This was when Mia Zapata of the Gits had been raped and murdered on July 7 1992.
David Gordon (choreographer).  David Gordon is a dancer choreographer writer actor and theatrical director prominent in the world of postmodern dance and performance.
Mohamad Fityan.  Mohamad Fityan (born 1 August 1984 Aleppo Syria) is a Syrian musician and composer known for his mastery of the ney and kawala.Fityan studied under Mohamad Kassas and Berj Kassis. He has performed with the Syrian Orchestra and Syrian Jazz Band since 2003 and has been performing solo concerts since 2005. He received his diploma from the Higer Institute of Music in Damascus in 2010.
Walter M. Brackett.  Walter M. Brackett (1823–1919) was an American painter and the younger brother of sculptor Edward A. Brackett. Brackett was born in Unity Maine. He spent most of his professional career in Boston Massachusetts exhibiting his work at the Boston Athenaeum the Apollo Association and the National Academy of Design. He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W.
Lorna Jean Moorhead.  Lorna J. Moorhead is a mother author natural health consultant health columnist and a health advocate. She is one of the first writers on the subject of women’s health issues pertaining to Multiple Sclerosis. She has written many articles on the subject of advocating for one’s self as well as using humor to deal with the embarrassing symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis and other chronic illnesses.
Corrin Campbell.  Corrin Campbell (from Superior Wisconsin USA) is a vocalist bassist songwriter and pianist. Corrin is also an active-duty soldier in the United States Army and is currently stationed with United States Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox KY. Her job is considered one-of-a-kind - she is the only original music artist to be endorsed by a branch of the military. She now lives in Nashville Tennessee.
Đàm Vĩnh Hưng.  Đàm Vĩnh Hưng (born October 2 1971[citation needed]) is a Vietnamese pop star. He has become very popular in Vietnam beginning with his first career solo “Tình Ơi Xin Ngủ Yên”. His second album Binh Minh Se Mang Em Di boosted him into the A-list singers in Vietnam receiving much commercial and critical success.
Bill Gallo.  Bill Gallo (December 28 1922 – May 10 2011) was a cartoonist and newspaper columnist for the New York Daily News.
Adnan Babajić.  Adnan Babajić (born 28 May 1988) is a Bosnian singer and television personality who came to media attention as the winner of talents show Operacija trijumf and thus signed a recording contract for an album for foreign market with Universal Music Group.
Joe Hasselvander.  Joe Hasselvander (born December 30 1956) is a musician who has been playing professionally since the age of 9 years old in 1966. He was self-taught playing the violin and later the drums. He has been the drummer of Raven since 1987.
Frances Black.  Frances Black (born 25 June 1960) is an award-winning Irish singer. A pure vocal tone and an energetic stage presence has made Frances one of Ireland’s most popular singers. She came to prominence in the 1980s when she began to play with her family's band The Black Family performing a mix of traditional and contemporary Irish music.
Rena Kato.  Rena Katō (加藤 玲奈 Katō Rena born July 10 1997 in Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese singer dancer model and an actress. She is a member of the Japanese female idol group AKB48 and is in Team 4.Along with Anna Iriyama and Rina Kawaei they form the special unit Anrire which was created in 2012. In 2012 the unit released the single Ikujinashi Masquerade with Rino Sashihara from HKT48 charting at number 1 topping the Oricon weekly singles chart.
Nikolay Dobrolyubov.  Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Добролю́бов IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪt͡ɕ dəbrɐˈlʲubəf] ; February 5 1836 – November 29 1861) was a Russian literary critic journalist poet and revolutionary democrat.
Lloyd Ryan.  Lloyd Ryan is British drummer and educator best known for his work as a session musician. Active since the 1960s he has worked with Ken Mackintosh Cilla Black Tommy Cooper The New Seekers Tony Christie Brotherhood of Man and Rolf Harris. His students have included Phil Collins and Derek McKenzie of Jamiroquai.
Andy McDermott.  Andy McDermott is a British thriller author and former journalist magazine editor and film critic. McDermott is best known for his Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase novels.
Mikuni Shimokawa.  Mikuni Shimokawa (下川 みくに Shimokawa Mikuni) (born 19 March 1980 in Shizunai Hokkaido Japan) is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter. She is best known for her songs used for anime theme music particularly the opening and ending themes of the Full Metal Panic! series. In addition to her vocal talents Shimokawa can also play the piano. She is a former member of the girl group Checkicco.
Maija Vilkkumaa.  Maija Johanna Vilkkumaa (born 9 November 1973) is a Finnish pop rock singer-songwriter. Beginning her musical hobbies playing piano at an age before school Vilkkumaa studied in high school where she and her friends set up the band Tarharyhmä in 1990 which broke up in 1995.
George Hemphill.  George Hemphill (Born 1951 Anderson South Carolina) is an American art curator and dealer. Hemphill is a founding member of the board of directors for the District of Columbia Arts Center as well as a founding member of the board of directors of FotoWeek DC. He served as vice-chair on the board of the Washington Project for the Arts and is a member of the Board of Directors for The Association of International Photography Art Dealers.
Greg Proops.  Gregory Everett Greg Proops (born October 3 1959) is an American actor stand-up comedian and television host. He is widely known for his work as an improvisational comedian on the UK and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He also performed on Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and played Max Madigan on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson VP.
Daniel Boucher (musician).  Daniel Boucher (born October 7 1971) is a Québécois musician.Born in Montreal he has released three studio albums; Dix Mille Matins on October 12 1999 La patente on February 24 2004 and Le soleil est sorti on November 11 2008. From his own saying Le soleil est sorti is his favourite of them.He is currently portraying Renfield in the Québec production of Dracula - Entre l'amour et la mort.In the year 2008 he bought the first guitar which Jimi Hendrix burned on stage.[citation needed]
Kim Seong-kon.  Seong-Kon Kim (김성곤) is President of the LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institute of Korea) in the Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism of South Korea. Kim is also Professor of English at Seoul National University where he was selected for the Distinguished Research Award for seven times. A renowned literary critic Kim was editor of prestigious literary journals such as Literature & Thought and has been a regularly featured columnist for the Korea Herald since 2002.
Kealii Blaisdell.  Kealii Blaisdell (born July 16 1972 in Honolulu Hawai'i) multiple Na Hoku Hanohano Finalist (Hawaiian Academy of Recording Arts) for Most Promising Artist and Hawaiian Language Performance Hawaiian slack key guitarist recording artist and music composer. A prolific composer of the Native Hawaiian music genre with over 130 original Traditional Hawaiian Songs and a Native Hawaiian Activist.
Howie Beno.  Howie Beno is a producer mixing engineer audio engineer and composer born in Bridgeport Connecticut and currently based in New York City. He has worked with a wide range of artists in various genres such as Tom Jones Dionne Warwick Depeche Mode Blondie and a long series of rock and industrial bands including Ministry.
Sarah Miriam Peale.  Sarah Miriam Peale (Philadelphia Pennsylvania May 19 1800 – February 4 1885 Philadelphia) was an American portrait painter one of the notable family of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life painter James Peale who was her father and Mary Claypoole who was her mother. Miriam Peale is noted as a portrait painter mainly of politicians and military figures. Lafayette sat for her four times.
Lucy Kemp-Welch.  Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) was a British painter who specialized in painting working horses. She is best known for her illustrations to the 1915 edition of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. The Lucy Kemp-Welch estate has been represented by Messum's Fine Art since 1975.
Dharamvir Bharati.  Dr. Dharamvir Bharati (धर्मवीर भारती) (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet author playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug from 1960 till his death in 1997.Bharati was awarded the Padma Shree for literature in 1972 by the Government of India. His novel Gunaho Ka Devta became a classic.
Dario Coates.  Dario Coates (born April 25 1992 Hebden Bridge) is an English actor. He has so far portrayed the role of Alex Neeson in the television ITV soap Coronation Street. He attended Calder High School where he studied for his GCSEs and A Levels and also attends Calderdale Theatre School.
Halina Poświatowska.  Halina Poświatowska (born Helena Myga May 9 1935 Częstochowa Poland – October 11 1967 Warsaw Poland) – Polish poet and writer one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature.She is famous for her lyrical poetry and for her intellectual and passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death love existence famous historical personages especially women as well as her mordant treatment of life living being bees cats and the sensual qualities of loving grieving and desiring.She died at 32 after a second heart operation to correct a heart defect that limited her mobility and breathing which she acquired when she fell ill as a child during the World War II German occupation of Poland.Her first heart operation was performed in Philadelphia US in 1958 and was successful enough to enable her tolive for several more years. 
Jack Beaver.  Jack Beaver (27 March 1900 - 10 September 1963) was a British film score composer.Beaver was born in Clapham London and died aged 63 in Battersea London.
Kei Enue.  Kei Enue (えぬえ けい Enue Kei) is a female Japanese shōjo manga artist. Her work has been serialized in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine except for her last manga which ran in KC Deluxe.Her manga Channel W has been published in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini.
Stevie Wonder.  Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins) known by his stage name Stevie Wonder is an American musician singer-songwriter record producer and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy he has become one of the most creative and loved musical performers of the late 20th century. Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for Motown as of the early 2010s.
Paloma Faith.  Paloma Faith (born Paloma Faith Blomfield; 21 July 1981) is an English singer-songwriter and actress known for her unique retro and eccentric style. In 2009 she released her debut album Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? which was certified double Platinum in the United Kingdom. The album spawned two top 20 hits in the UK: Stone Cold Sober and New York.
Danielle Bradbery.  Danielle Simone Bradbery (born July 23 1996) is an American country singer from Cypress Texas. She won season four of NBC's The Voice in 2013 becoming the youngest contestant to come in first place. Her debut studio album Danielle Bradbery was released on November 25 2013 featuring the single The Heart of Dixie.
The Misanthropic Bitch.  The Misanthropic Bitch (TMB) was a personal blog maintained by a person who referred to herself by the same title. Although originally referred to as a zine TMB represented one of the earliest online personal blogs having originally appeared in 1997.
Eric Rigler.  Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes Great Highland Bagpipes and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as the most recorded bagpiper of all time. He has been playing all forms of bagpipes and tin whistles since he was a child performing solo with bagpipe bands and other musical groups.
John Vicars.  John Vicars (1582 London – 12 April 1652 Christ's Hospital Greyfriars London) was an English contemporary biographer poet and polemicist of the English Civil War. His best-known work is English Worthies or England's Worthies whose full title is England's Worthies under whom all the Civil and Bloudy Warres since Anno 1642 to Anno 1647 are related.
J. E. Caerwyn Williams.  J. E. Caerwyn Williams (John Ellis Caerwyn Williams) FBA (17 January 1912 – 10 June 1999) was a Welsh scholar. His fields of study included the literatures of the Celtic languages especially Welsh and Irish literature. He has published books in both English and Welsh.Caerwyn Williams was born in Gwauncaegurwen Glamorgan in 1912 into a coal-mining family. He studied at the University College of North Wales Bangor and graduated in Latin in 1933 and in Welsh in 1934.
James Kochalka.  James Kochalka (born May 26 1967 in Springfield Vermont) is an American comic book artist and writer and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife children cat friends and colleagues but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy.
Prince Poppycock.  John Andrew Quale is an American singer songwriter and performer best known by the stage name and persona of Prince Poppycock. Quale who specializes in musical theater and opera describes Prince Poppycock on his website as a roguish operatic dandy.Poppycock came to national attention in 2010 when he competed on the fifth season of America's Got Talent. On September 15 2010 he was voted fourth place in the final four.
Sean Barrett (writer).  Sean Barrett (born 1959) is a writer nucleonicist former member of the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee and the grandson of Linton Lomas Barrett. He is the author of GURPS Lensman: Starkly Astounding Space-Opera Adventure a book of role-playing instructions carefully based upon the Lensman series by E.E. Smith and authorized by Dr. Smith's literary executor Verna Smith Trestrail.
Troy Verges.  Troy Verges is an American songwriter from Louisiana.His credits include the singles Wanted recorded by Hunter Hayes Beer Money recorded by Kip Moore Who I Am recorded by Jessica Andrews Blessed recorded by Martina McBride Wasted recorded by Carrie Underwood and I Want Crazy recorded by Hunter Hayes all of which went to number one on the country music charts. Wanted was ACM nominated in 2013 for Song Of the Year while I Want Crazy received a 2014 Grammy nomination.
Carter James.  Carter Evan James (born 28 July 1989) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Best known for his hit song Dead in your Trax the first single from his forthcoming debut album. His single Dead in your Trax reached number one on the ARIA Charts singles chart in July 2008.
Andrew Klavan.  Andrew Klavan (born 1954) known also by his pen name Keith Peterson is an American writer of mystery novels psychological thrillers and screenplays for tough-guy mystery films. Two of Klavan's books have been adapted into motion pictures: True Crime (1999) and Don't Say A Word (2001). He has been nominated for the Edgar Award four times and has won twice.
Rufino Tamayo.  Rufino Tamayo (August 26 1899 – June 24 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage born in Oaxaca de Juárez Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences.
Alexis Cole.  Called one of the great voices of today Alexis Cole has been compared to classic jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day. Her luxurious voice and innovative interpretations make her an instant favorite with audiences of all ages. Cole is the recipient of a Swing Journal Gold Disk award and has won the NY Jazzmobile and Montreux Jazz Festival vocal competitions. She records for Motéma Music NY. and Venus Records Japan.
Albert Muis.  Albert Muis (22 October 1914 in Baarn - 24 September 1988) is an artist from the Netherlands.
Noshi Gilani.  Noshi Gilani (Urdu: نوشی گیلانی ‎) (born 1964) in Bahawalpur Pakistan is an Urdu poet and a former academic from the Islamia University Bahawalpur Pakistan. She has written several books of poetry.
Awie.  Awie (born Ahmad Azhar bin Othman on November 24 1968) is a Malaysian rock singer and actor.
Kate Beaton.  Kate Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist and creator of the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant.
Katie Rox.  Katie Rox (born Katie Biever) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from a farm on the outskirts of Airdrie Alberta who currently lives in Vancouver. She performed in the past under the name Katie B.
Draft (musician).  Liam Tallon more commonly known by his stage name Draft is an Electronic music producer musician and DJ.
Stefan Sauk.  Stefan Sauk is a Swedish actor and comedian born on 6 June 1955 in Stockholm.Sauk has not only worked in films he has also worked a lot on television. He was one of the castmembers of Lorry.
Bob Blauner.  Bob Blauner (also known as Robert Blauner) (May 18 1929 Chicago Illinois) is an American sociologist college professor and author.Blauner's sociological writings and teachings on class race and men are based on his years as a factory worker. His studies began with his B.A. from University of Chicago 1948 M.A. 1950 and his Ph.D.
John Lifton.  John Lifton is an artist and theorist whose work explores the relationships between art science the environment and technology. He was a founder of both the London New Arts Lab (1968) which focused on film and video art and the Institute for Research in Art and Technology (IRAT) as dissident alternatives to the original Arts Lab (London). The latter became a center for film video sculpture experimental literature and avante-garde arts-science/arts-technology crossovers.
Randy Post.  Randy rk Post is an illustrator of fantasy publications.
Kai Nielsen (sculptor).  Kai Nielsen (26 November 1882 – 2 November 1924) was a Danish sculptor.
Saša Matić.  Aleksandar Saša Matić (Serbian: Саша Матић born 26 April 1978) is a Serbian folk singer very popular in former Yugoslavia. He has a twin brother Dejan Matić who is also a popular singer. Both of them were born completely blind.
Amy Cripps Vernon.  Amy Cripps Vernon (née Young; 1870-April 2 1956) was an English author of numerous children's books which were published in the early part of the 20th century. Many of her books were published by the Christian Knowledge Society (later the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) and provided moral instruction that reflected the era in which she lived.Her father Thomas Grant Young (1843-1897) had been a minister in the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Jay Truax.  Jay Truax (born Lynwood California) is a bass player and singer with Love Song a pioneer Christian rock group. Jay formed a Salt Lake City rock group with John Mehler and Fred Field called Spirit of Creation. Later he joined with Chuck Girard and Tommy Coomes in Love Song.Truax also played bass and sang backing vocals for former Buffalo Springfield member Richie Furay between 1975 and 1977 and played on Furay's 1976 album I've Got a Reason.
Daniel Fohr.  Daniel Fohr born at Heidelberg in 1801 first studied science which he afterwards abandoned for the art of painting. After studying some time by himself he went to Munich in 1829 and then to the Tyrol. He was court painter to the Grand-Duke of Baden and died at Baden-Baden in 1862. There are by him in the Gallery at Carlsruhe: Mazeppa. 1836. A View of the Konigsee near Berchtesgaden. 1836. The Steinberg near Berchtesgaden. 1837.
Megas.  This article contains Icelandic characters. For more information see Icelandic language.Magnús Þór Jónsson (born April 7 1945) also known by his mononym Megas is a rock and roll singer songwriter and writer who is well known in his native country of Iceland.
Warren Klein.  Warren Klein is an American musician best known for being a guitarist in The Stooges in spring of 1973 as a founding member of The Factory with Lowell George (produced by Frank Zappa) and as a member of The Fraternity of Man (Don't Bogart Me). He also played in the band 'Road' with Noel Redding the band 'Tarantula' and founded groups 'The Emergency' 'Tornado' 'Lazer' (the original) and 'The Wolves'.
Alexander Aaronsohn.  Alexander Aaronsohn (Romania 1888–Palestine 1948) was an author and activist who wrote about the plight of people living in Palestine (now Israel) in his book With the Turks in Palestine.Aaronsohn was part of the influential Aaronsohn family who were major figures in the Zionist movement; his brother was Aaron Aaronsohn.
Shovkat Mammadova.  Shovkat Hasan qizi Mammadova (Azerbaijani: Şövkət Məmmədova) (18 April 1897 Tbilisi – 8 June 1981 Baku) was an Azerbaijani opera singer (lyric coloratura soprano) and music instructor.
Nancy Darsch.  Nancy Darsch (born December 29 1951) is an American women's basketball who has worked at both the professional and Division I college levels. A native of Plymouth Massachusetts Darsch is a 1973 graduate of Springfield College. She also earned a master's degree in physical education from the University of Tennessee.
Julienne Irwin.  Julienne Irwin (born March 14 1993) is an American singer from Bel Air Maryland. Irwin was a finalist on the second season of America's Got Talent.
Dan Tepfer.  Dan Tepfer (born 1982 in Paris France) is a French-American jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his 2011 album Goldberg Variations/Variations.
Jon Hendricks.  For the television executive see John HendricksFor the Australian swimmer see Jon HenricksJon Hendricks (born September 16 1921) is an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is considered one of the originators of vocalese which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists (such as the big-band arrangements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie).
Roger Hodgson.  Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson (born 21 March 1950) is a British musician and songwriter best known as the former co-frontman and founding member of progressive rock band Supertramp.Hodgson composed and sang the majority of the band's hits including Dreamer Give a Little Bit The Logical Song Breakfast in America Take the Long Way Home and It's Raining Again.He left Supertramp in 1983 to pursue a solo career but after two albums he retired from touring and other industry obligations. 
Graham Roberts (actor).  Graham Roberts (10 October 1929 – 28 October 2004) was an English actor most famous for his work on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 including 31 years playing George Barford the gamekeeper in Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. He was born and raised in Chester and was educated at King's School in the city. Later he studied at Bristol and later Manchester University.He also appeared on film and television including the series Z Cars.
Habib Mousa.  Habib Mousa (Syriac ܚܒܝܒ ܡܘܣܐ) (born 1952 in Al-Malikiyah Syria) is an Assyrian singer. In 1968 he made his debut in singing in Syriac.Habib Mousa was born in Al-Malikiyah Syria on October 9 1952 and raised in Qamishlo Syria where he studied at the Syriac school. Since his early childhood he liked the church melodies that made him a deacon. The Church was his source of inspiration and music.His official musical career started 1968 in Qamishlo with his first song “Shamo Mar”.
Mark Dalton (pornographic actor).  Mark Dalton (born Jeremy James Sons also known as Jeremy James Son) is an American gay pornographic film actor-pornographic magazine model. Dalton's activity with other actors in gay films has been limited to masturbation. He began his career in the adult entertainment business dancing in the many Miami Florida nightclubs.
Yūta Hiraoka.  Yūta Hiraoka (平岡祐太 Hiraoka Yūta born September 1 1984) is a Japanese actor. He won the 'Best Newcomer' prize at the Japan Academy Prize in 2005 for his film debut in Swing Girls.
Andrew Zega.  Andrew Zega (born in 1961) is an American-born artist architectural historian and writer residing in Paris France. He was educated at Princeton University and began his career as an architectural designer and watercolorist for Robert A.M. Stern Architects in Manhattan.Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams both create watercolors of historic American and European buildings and garden ornament. Their work is noted for its realist technique and historical accuracy.
Sevim Tanürek.  Sevim Tanürek (1934(?) - 16 May 1998) was a Turkish classical music artist.
Edith Soterius von Sachsenheim.  Edith Jeanette Soterius von Sachsenheim (1887–1970) was a Transylvanian Saxon painter.She was born on 26 December 1887 in Marienburg (present-day Feldioara) the daughter of Dr. med. Arthur Soterius von Sachsenheim (from the Transylvanian Saxon noble family Soterius von Sachsenheim) and of Wilhelmina née Gust. From an early age she displayed artistic talent in painting and her parents supported her wish to follow a career in this field.
Tesco Vee.  Tesco Vee (born Robert Vermeulen; 1955) is a Michigan-based punk rock musician and co-founder of Touch and Go Records zine. Born in Kalamazoo Michigan he is a former elementary school teacher and the founding member and front man of punk bands The Meatmen Tesco Vee's Hate Police Blight and Dutch Hercules.
Dantès Dailiang.  Dantès or Dai Liang Chinese: 戴亮 is a French singer-songwriter. He is also a trilingual host (French Chinese English) and a writer.
Dudu Elharar.  Dudu Elharar (also spelled Elharrar; Hebrew: דודו אלהרר‎; born in 1945) is an Israeli singer music producer actor and television and radio presenter.
Allan Ramsay (poet).  Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686 – 7 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar) playwright publisher librarian and wig-maker.
Giacomo Locatelli.  Giacomo Locatelli (or Lucatelli) (Verona 1580–1628) was an Italian painter. Other authors call him Girolamo Locatelli.
Guðbergur Bergsson.  Guðbergur Bergsson is an Icelandic writer born in Grindavík on 16 October 1932. He went to the University of Iceland for his Teaching degree and then went for further study in literature at the University of Barcelona. He is one of the leading translators of Spanish works in Iceland.His first book came out in 1961. He has had twenty books in all including poetry and children's literature. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize twice.
Marcel Barbeau.  Marcel Barbeau OC (born February 18 1925) is a Canadian artist.Born in Montreal Quebec he studied with Paul-Émile Borduas. He completed 'Foret vierge' (1948) which is now in a private collection.In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.His daughter Manon Barbeau and granddaughter Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette are both noted Canadian filmmakers.
Virgilio Ripari.  Virgilio Ripari (1843 – April 11 1902)) was an Italian painter mainly depicting genre scenes of women and flowers. His style is described as a late romantic often depicting nuns and scene galanti (antique costume genre).
Ola Belle Reed.  Ola Belle Campbell Reed (August 18 1916 – August 16 2002) was an American folk singer songwriter and banjo player. Born in Lansing North Carolina Reed's songs often speak of Appalachian life and traditions. Her best-known songs have been recorded by mainstream bluegrass and country artists. High on a Mountain has been recorded by Del McCoury Tim O'Brien and Marty Stuart. I've Endured has been recorded by Del McCoury as well as Tim O'Brien.
Barbara Fris.  Barbara Fris (May 10 1956) is a Canadian soprano and actress who performs as an opera singer concert artist and recitalist. She specializes in opera and classical symphonic works for voice having performed across Canada in Europe and the United States where she also has sung a wide range of works that include operettas musical theatre light classics lieder French mélodie and art songs.
Louis Pons.  Louis Pons (born 1927) is a French collage artist. He specializes in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk. In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as a cluster of junk he sees as a cluster of possibilities; and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.
Celso Fonseca.  Celso Fonseca (born November 15 1956) is a Brazilian composer producer guitarist and singer. He is noted as part of the Música Popular Brasileira since the 1980s initially as accompanist and composer then producer and since the mid–1990s as an artist in his own right.Celso Fonseca was born in Rio de Janeiro. He began on guitar at age 12 and by 19 dedicated himself to music as a profession. He counts Baden Powell de Aquino as an influence.
Mark Escueta.  Mark Edward Penabella Escueta (born 9 January 1976) is a Filipino musician and the lone original member of the Filipino rock band Rivermaya.
Dana McVicker.  Dana McVicker is an American country music artist. She recorded for Capitol Records Nashville in 1988 releasing a self-titled album and charting four singles on the U.S. country charts. McVicker was also nominated for Best New Female Artist at the 1988 Academy of Country Music awards losing to K.T. Oslin.
Raven Oak.  Raven Oak (born December 21 1977 in Riverside California) is an American author whose written works range from science fiction & fantasy to mystery and young adult literature. She wrote her first novel a 320 page fantasy work at age twelve. She is also a singer pianist and songwriter whose musical works deal with the survival side of life. She grew up in many places around the U.S.
Paul Ready.  Paul Ready is a British character actor. He is known principally for his work on stage but he has also appeared in television radio and films. He received a commendation at the 2004 Ian Charleson Awards.Ready was born in Birmingham and attended King Edward VI Five Ways school within the city. He trained at LAMDA.He is a regular at the National and Royal Court theatres.
Ethan Luck.  Ethan John Luck (born October 16 1978 in Long Beach California) is a guitarist photographer and drummer who has played in many bands most prominently the ska band The O.C. Supertones and rock band Relient KLuck is formerly the drummer of rock band Relient K. He is also the cousin of Matt Wignall of Havalina. Luck has also made a part-time career as a studio musician working with such people as Aaron Sprinkle Mark Lee Townsend Joe Marlet Neill King Bill Stevenson etc.
Ralph Jezzard.  Ralph Jezzard (born 16 January 1966 in South London) is a British music producer based in London England.
Ray Singleton.  Raynoma Ray Mayberry Liles Gordy Singleton (born March 8 1937) is an American R&B producer songwriter and vocalist perhaps best known for her association with ex-husband Berry Gordy during the early days of Motown.
Justin Adams.  Justin Adams (born 1961 in Westminster London) is an English guitarist and composer who works in blues and African styles.
Thomas Hellberg.  Björn Thomas Hellberg (born 29 September 1941 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor.
Pierre Perret.  Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne) is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis.
Keith (singer).  Keith (born James Barry Keefer May 17 1949 Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States) is an American vocalist. He legally changed his name to Bazza Keefer in 1988 in memory of his mother.
Jacqueline Boyer.  Jacqueline Boyer (born Jacqueline Ducos 23 April 1941 in Paris) is a French singer and actress. She is also the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.In 1960 she won the Eurovision Song Contest for France singing Tom Pillibi with music composed by André Popp and lyrics by Pierre Cour. The resulting single reached #33 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1960.
Shinpei Takagi.  Shinpei Takagi (高木 心平 Takagi Shinpei born October 22 1985) is a Japanese actor from Seto Aichi Prefecture. He is the twin brother of actor Manpei Takagi; both are affiliated with Stardust Promotion.
Oddleif Stensland.  Oddleif Stensland is the vocalist and guitarist of Norwegian progressive/power metal band Communic.Stensland appeared on the 2007 Nuclear Blast All-Stars album which celebrated the 20th anniversary of Nuclear Blast Records.
John Kirby (musician).  John Kirby (December 31 1908 – June 14 1952) was a jazz double-bassist who also played trombone and tuba.
Sònia Bagudanch.  Sònia Bagudanch (Mata Pla de l'Estany 1987) is a Catalan journalist. He worked at El Punt Diari de Girona and Agència Catalana de Notícies. She is a member of Grup de Periodistes Ramon Barnils and collaborates at Mèdia.cat among others.She was one of the promoter group of documentary Operació Garzón contra l'independentisme català. In 2013 she published Et presento el jutge Garzón with Grup Barnils and Edicions Saldonar.
Jon Campbell (producer).  Jon Campbell (born 28 November 1970) is a Scottish singer producer keyboard player and songwriter and frontman of the band The Time Frequency. In 1991- 93 Campbell had five Scottish number one singles with the self-written songs Real Love New Emotion The Ultimate High Dreamscape and Such A Phantasy.
Pamela Palmer.  Pamela Palmer is a National Best Selling author of romance novels. Her Feral Warrior books are published through Avon Books her Esri books are published through Silhouette Nocturne and her Jewels of Time books are published through Berkley Sensation.
Kim Stafford.  Kim Robert Stafford (born October 15 1949) is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland Oregon.
Toni Milaqi.  Toni Milaqi (born 1974 Tirana Albania ) is a contemporary artist (painter draughtsman).
Paul Mus.  Paul Mus (1902 - 1969) was a French author and scholar. His studies focused on Vietnam and other Southeast Asian cultures. He was born in Bourges to an academic family and grew up in northern Vietnam (Tonkin). He volunteered for the Free French Forces during World War II in Africa. He trained with British commandos in Ceylon in 1944-1945.
Beres Hammond.  Beres Hammond OJ (born Hugh Beresford Hammond 28 August 1955 Annotto Bay Saint Mary Jamaica) is a reggae singer known in particular for his romantic lovers rock and soulful voice. While his career began in the 1970s he reached his greatest success in the 1990s.
Mlle Guédon de Presles.  Mlle Guédon de Presles (b. early 18th century - c. 1754) was a French singer composer and actress. She was probably the daughter of Honoré Claude Guédon de Presles who often performed at court. Mlle Guédon de Presles performed for the first time in court before the queen in 1748 when she sang in Mouret's ballet Les Sens. During the 1740s and 1750s she sang at the Paris Thèâtre de la Reine in secondary roles. Between 1742 and 1747 a number of her songs were published in Mercure de France.
Brian Tse (singer).  Brian Tse Tung-man (born 6 December 1985) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. In 2010 he was a contestant on the second season of TVB's The Voice. Tse was the last contestant eliminated. He subsequently signed a management contract withTVB.
H. K. Narayana.  H.K. Narayana was a well known singer and music composer from Karnataka India. He was an icon of Light music and played an important role in popularizing the genre of Sugama Sangeetha in Kannada. Nadavirada Baduke by Nissar Ahmed Brudavanake Haalanu Maaralu by Kuvempu and Shubha Nudiye Shakunada Hakki by D. R. Bendre are some of his well known numbers. He is popular through Navasuma and Geetharaadhana in Radio.
Rajaa Kasabni.  Rajaa Kasabni (Arabic: رجاء قصابني‎) or just Rajaa (born in Morocco on 20 March 1979) is a Moroccan singer. In 2006 she won the first ever series of The X Factor XSeer Al Najah (Arabic: كسير النحاح X‎) the Arab version of the The X Factor sponsored by Rotana. In the final she beat the Egyptian rival Ahmed.
Jamie Arentzen.  Jamie Arentzen (born November 22 1970) is a member of the alternative rock band American Hi-Fi and lead guitarist for Miley Cyrus. In the spring of 2009 he also played with Butch Walker's band Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonites.
Rachel Lebowitz.  Rachel Lebowitz (born 1975 in Vancouver British Columbia) is an award winning Canadian writer.
Aurora Reyes Flores.  Aurora Reyes Flores (born in Hidalgo del Parral September 9 1908 – Mexico City April 26 1985) was a Mexican painter as well as the first female exponent of Mexican muralism.
Jodie Connor.  Jodie Melanie Connor (born 8 May 1981) is a British R&B and soul recording artist lyricist and goodwill ambassador.Connor's first number-one charted song was as a guest vocalist on Roll Deep's number-one single Good Times. She was later signed by Polydor Records and Takeover Entertainment and released her debut solo single Now or Never on 16 January 2011 which peaked at number 14.
Matt Holt.  Matt Holt is the former vocalist of Nothingface and Kingdom of Snakes. His vocals include a wide range of very guttural and distinctive growls to ethereal melodies and even the occasional rap-style vocals on early songs like Lipsdick and Breathe Out
Cosimo Daddi.  Cosimo Daddi (before 1575-1630) was a late Renaissance painter active mainly around Volterra and Florence. In 1591-94 he participated in the fresco decoration of the Villa Petraia for the Medici family. Baldassare Franceschini was one of his pupils.
Marieta Morosina Priuli.  Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665) was an Italian composer. She was born in Venice into the Morosina family. Priuli published a collection of works in 1667 dedicated to the Habsburg Dowager Empress Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg entitled Balletti e correnti including five sets of pieces for three string instruments and harpsichord continuo; and eight correnti.
Max Schmidt.  Max Schmidt (23 August 1818 – 8 January 1901) was a German landscape painter.
Kate Mann.  Kate Mann is an American musician currently based in Portland Oregon. She is originally from the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico but moved west as a young adult to pursue a career in music.
Mateo Messina.  Mateo Messina is a Grammy Winning American soundtrack composer perhaps best known for working on the soundtrack to the 2007 film Juno. His music has been on 4 Oscar nominated films and he has a signature sound that translates from orchestras to small unique ensembles.
Dan Muckala.  Daniel Muckala is a songwriter and producer.Muckala was a musical composition student at Belmont University in Tennessee.In 1996 he became a professional songwriter and penned a number of Top Ten songs on contemporary hit radio. He formed the band Mukala and they released one album in 1998 titled Fiction.
Shooby Taylor.  William Shooby Taylor (a.k.a. The Human Horn) (September 19 1929 - June 4 2003) is famous for scat singing over various records including the Ink Spots the Harmonicats and Cristy Lane in a baritone voice. He is noted for his highly idiosyncratic scat style using sounds and syllables quite unlike those used by other scat singers.
Joan Henry.  Joan Constance Anne Henry (8 April 1914–2000) was an English novelist playwright and screenwriter. A former débutante from an illustrious family she was jailed for passing a fraudulent cheque in 1951 and her best-known works were based on her experiences in prison. She wrote the semi-autobiographical Who Lie In Gaol filmed as The Weak and the Wicked and the novel Yield to the Night the basis for the film starring Diana Dors.
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje.  Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (8 February 1857 – 26 June 1936) was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia).Born in Oosterhout in 1857 he became a theology student at Leiden University in 1874. He received his doctorate at Leiden in 1880 with his dissertation ‘Het Mekkaansche Feest’ (The Festivities of Mecca).
Wolf Vostell.  Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor and is considered one of the early adopters of Video art and Environment/Installation and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-collage are characteristic of his work as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works.
DJ Swivel.  Jordan Young (born 14 December 1984) known professionally as DJ Swivel is a Grammy Award winning Canadian music producer mixer audio engineer and DJ. He is a prominent audio engineer best known for working with Beyoncé as her personal recording engineer. He has also worked with Jay-Z Kanye West Fabolous and Jay Sean among others. He is endorsed by Harman Pro Audio and actively endorses their Lexicon branded products. His mother is Christine Bentley former noon & 6:00 p.m.
Victor Martinez (author).  Victor L. Martinez (February 21 1954 – February 18 2011) was a Mexican American poet and author. He won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his first novel Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida.
Steve Mazur.  Steven Theodore Mazur (born December 21 1977) is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. Mazur replaced original band guitarist Mike Turner in 2002.
Fritz Randow.  Fritz Randow (born August 6 1952) is a drummer from Germany. He has played in rock and heavy metal oriented bands such as Eloy Victory Sinner and Saxon and in 2007 with Peter Panka's Jane.
Nicola Malinconico.  Nicola Malinconico (1663–1721) was a Neapolitan painter of the late-Baroque. He is described as a follower of Luca Giordano and painted mostly religious canvases. He painted the chapel altarpieces for the church of St Michele Arcangelo in Anacapri.
Pennjamin Bannekar.  Damion Hudson (born January 11 1984) better known by his stage name Pennjamin Bannekar is an American independent music artist and songwriter.
Karen Carpenter.  Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2 1950 – February 4 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother Richard formed the 1970s duo the Carpenters. Although her skills as a drummer earned admiration from drumming luminaries and peers she is best known for her vocal performances. She had a contralto vocal range.Carpenter suffered from anorexia nervosa an eating disorder which was little known at the time.
Gackt.  Gackt Camui (神威 楽斗 Kamui Gakuto born July 4 1973) known by his stage name Gackt is a Japanese musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist actor and author. He has been active since 1994 first as the frontman of the short-lived independent band Cains:Feel then for the now defunct visual kei rock band Malice Mizer before starting his solo career in 1999.
Blake Stern.  Blake Stern (1917 – 22 December 1987) was an American tenor best known as an oratorio singer and a professor emeritus of music at Yale University where he taught voice. He was born in Logan Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College in 1940 he was an intelligence officer in the US Navy during World War II. After the war he enrolled at Juilliard Schoolin New York City before becoming an esteemed teacher at the Yale faculty for 32 years. One of his notable pupils was tenor John Stewart.
Hyro Da Hero.  Hyro Da Hero (born Hyron Fenton July 18 1987) also known as Hyro is an American rapper from Houston TX currently residing in Los Angeles CA.
Luigi Baccio del Bianco.  Luigi Baccio del Bianco or Baccio del Bianco (31 October 1604 – July 1657) was an Italian architect engineer scenic designer and painter. He was born in Florence where his father Cosimo del Bianco sold cloth to the nobility for use in festivals tournaments and theatrical performances. He studied painting under Giovanni Bilivert from 1612 to 1620.
E. Charlton Fortune.  Euphemia Charlton Fortune (1885–1969) was an American Impressionist artist from California. She was trained in Europe New York and San Francisco. She painted many portraits as well as landscape views of California and European sites. In midlife she turned to liturgical design. She signed her paintings E. Charlton Fortune which helped conceal her gender.
Julia Margaret Cameron.  For the American author see Julia Cameron.Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes.Cameron's photographic career was short spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875).
ASC (musician).  James Clements better known as ASC is a British electronic producer who currently resides in Del Mar California. He has been releasing music under the alias ASC since 1999 and originally gained popularity as a drum and bass producer. Since the late 2000s he has been one of the key artists in the emerging autonomic genre along with artists such as dBridge and Instra:Mental.
Ludwig Hollonius.  Ludwig Hollonius (ca. 1570 – 1621) was a German playwright.
Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir.  Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir (born 11 November 1986) is an Icelandic singer and violinist in the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. She represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan in a duet with singer Jónsi with the song Never Forget. They qualified from the first semi-final into the Eurovision final and eventually finished in 20th place with 46 points.Her next song Everywhere Around Me is expected to be released August 2012.
Barry Wong.  Barry Wong (20 November 1946 – 16 October 1991) also known as Wong Ping-Yiu (黃炳耀) was a Hong Kong screenwriter film producer and actor. He was hailed as one of the most prolific screenwriters of Hong Kong cinema penning scripts for some of the top filmmakers and actors during the 1980s and early 1990s. Wong died from a heart attack on 16 October 1991.
Simon Berry.  Simon Paul Berry known by his alias Art of Trance is a trance music artist from England. Berry is also known as Poltergeist or Vicious Circles and has been a member of the trance groups Clanger Conscious and Union Jack. In addition to his work as an artist Berry was the co-founder and head of Platipus Records. He cites Depeche Mode Vangelis Tomita Orbital 808 State Jean Michel Jarre Walter Wendy Carlos Juan Atkins Derrick May and Jeff Mills as his musical influences.
Miguel Ríos.  Miguel Ríos (born June 7 1944 Granada Spain) is a Spanish singer composer actor. He is one of the pioneers of rock and roll in Spain.
Sivasankari.  Sivasankari (born October 14 1942) is a popular Tamil writer and activist. She is one of the four Tamil writers asked by the United States Library of Congress to record their voice as part of the South Asian article on Sivashankari
Whitney Duncan.  Whitney Duncan (born August 3 1984) is an American country music artist. She finished as the fifth place finalist on the fifth season of Nashville Star. She has released one studio album and has charted on the U.S. country singles charts with When I Said I Would and Skinny Dippin' as well as a Christmas single and guest appearance on a Kenny Rogers single which was released before her Nashville Star appearance. Duncan competed in the CBS reality series Survivor: South Pacific in late 2011.
Gego.  Gertrude Goldschmidt (1 August 1912–17 September 1994) also known as Gego was a modern Venezuelan artist and sculptor. Gego's most popular works were produced in the 1960s and 1970s during the height of popularity of Geometric abstract art and Kinetic Art. Although these genres influenced her somewhat Gego tried to develop her own style and break from the popular art of Venezuela. Her artwork is commonly exhibited with artists like Lygia Clark Hélio Oiticica and Mira Schendel.
Andrey Makarevich.  Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich PAR (Russian: Андре́й Вади́мович Макаре́вич; born 11 December 1953 Moscow Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and the founder of the Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine).
Aileen Quinn.  Aileen Marie Quinn (born June 28 1971) is an American actress singer-songwriter and dancer. She is best known for having played the title role in the film Annie (1982).
Gemma Fox.  Gemma Fox is an English pop R&B and hip hop singer best known for her 2004 album Messy. The lead single Girlfriend's Story was released in April of that year and featured MC Lyte. The second single Gone featured Juelz Santana. Fox was left her label Polydor Records in August 2004. Fox then signed with Gut Records and released Might BeFox won a UMA and was nominated for a MOBO Award in 2004.
James Blaylock.  James Paul Blaylock (born September 20 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive humorous style as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction.He was born in Long Beach California; studied English at California State University Fullerton receiving an M.A. in 1974; and lives in Orange California teaching creative writing at Chapman University and the Orange County School of the Arts.
Elena Petreska.  Elena Petreska (Macedonian: Елена Петреска) is a young Macedonian pop singer from Prilep. She started her career singing at children festivals and carried on with her studies on the Music Academy in Skopje. Currently she is working on her second album which has not got a name yet.Elena finished on the fifth place with 67 points at Skopje Festival 2007 (the Macedonian Eurovision selection) with the song Peam (I sing).
Francis Parkman.  Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16 1823 – November 8 1893) was an American historian best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic.
Barbara Neely.  Barbara Neely (often self-stylized as BarbaraNeely) is an African-American novelist short story writer and activist who writes murder mysteries. Her first novel Blanche on the Lam (1992) introduced the protagonist Blanche White a middle-aged mother domestic worker and amateur detective.
Mikhail Larionov.  Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Ларио́нов; June 3 1881 – May 10 1964) was an avant-garde Russian painter.
Thea Kano.  Thea Kano (born August 1 1965) is an American conductor. She is the Artistic Director of the New York City Master Chorale which she founded in 2005. She also serves as Associate Musical Director of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D.C.. She served as the Associate Conductor of the Washington Chorus and Artistic Director of the Capitol Hill Youth Chorus from 2004–2009 both of which she joined in 2004 after earning her doctorate in choral conducting from UCLA.
Mary Pat Fisher.  Mary Pat Fisher is an author her books include Living religions : an encyclopedia of the world's faiths.
Hidekazu Ichinose.  Hidekazu Ichinose (市瀬 秀和 Ichinose Hidekazu born March 16 1975 in Yamanashi Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese voice actor.
John Oliver (comedian).  John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is a British comedian political satirist and actor. He is best known in America for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the satirical comedy podcast The Bugle. Oliver left The Daily Show at the end of 2013 and began hosting Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO on 27 April 2014.He plays a recurring character Professor Ian Duncan on the television series Community.
Douglas Scott (writer).  Douglas Scott is an author of thriller fiction mostly published during the 1980s. Scott's subject periods run from the theatres of the Second World War to post war Europe. A number of his novels feature seagoing prominently and he sometimes get categorised as an author of naval fiction.
Mike Norton.  Mike Norton is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work on Runaways and Gravity. In February 2007 Norton signed an exclusive contract with DC and has worked on the All New Atom written by Gail Simone. He took over pencil duties on Green Arrow/Black Canary from issue 7 worked on several issues of Countdown to Final Crisis illustrated a fill-in issue of Blue Beetle#26 and contributed to the backup stories in DC's weekly series Trinity.
Draner.  Draner actually Jules Jean Georges Renard (11 November 1833 in Liège - died in 1926 in Paris) was a Belgian painter Illustrator and cartoonist. Living from 1861 in Paris Draner worked as an illustrator for numerous famous newspapers and sketched late costumes for different famous theatrical houses and opera-houses.
Marshall P. Baron.  Marshall P. Baron (1934–1977) was a Rhodesian painter. In 1967 he was awarded a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Art in Maine where he worked for a year before returning home. He exhibited in the United States and South Africa as well as in Rhodesia which was renamed Zimbabwe in 1980. His paintings are today in the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Hamid Ali Khan.  Hamid Ali Khan (born 1953) is a Pakistani classical singer. He belongs to the Patiala gharana. Being a representative of the Patiala gharana Hamid Ali Khan is an exponent of ghazal and classical singing. He has released several records and performed with other famous Indian artists. He has also collaborated with many UK-based artists some of the recent ones being Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (tabla) and Fida Hussain (harmonium).
Kevin Hearn.  Kevin Neil Hearn (born July 3 1969) is a Canadian musician who is currently the keyboardist of Barenaked Ladies and his own group Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle. He is also a former member of Rheostatics.
Roshana.  Roshana Taquise Palmer (born March 8 1989) is a Canadian Positive/Inspirational R&B singer/songwriter managed by S4 Entertainment.
Jane Donnelly.  Jane Donnelly was a popular writer of over 60 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1965 to 2000.
Francesco Arancio.  Francesco Arancio (1844 –) was an Italian painter. He was born in Palermo where he first trained under Salvatore Lo Forte. In 1870 he won a bronze medal at the Exposition of Palermo for his painting of a large realistic portrait of a Garibaldino and similarly a bronze medal from Messina for a small canvas representing the choir of the Cathedral of Palermo; and an honorable mention at the Casino delle Arti in Palermo for a small canvas depicting a half-figure.
Maarit Hurmerinta.  Maarit Helena Hurmerinta (born in Helsinki on 10 November 1953) is a Finnish singer and musician. She is better known by her mononym Maarit. Maarit is the granddaughter of Italian musician Michele Orlando. Maarit's daughter Janna Hurmerinta is also a singer known by her mononym Janna.
Jerry Edmonton.  Jerry Edmonton (October 24 1946 – November 28 1993) was the drummer for the rock band Steppenwolf.He was born Gerald McCrohan in Oshawa Ontario Canada. Both he and his brother Dennis also known as Mars Bonfire changed their surnames to Edmonton during the 1960s when they performed in a group called Sparrow.
Buddy Clark.  Buddy Clark (July 26 1912 - October 1 1949) was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.
Lars Passgård.  Lars Passgård (14 February 1941 – 16 March 2003) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 38 films and television shows between 1961 and 2002. He starred in the 1965 film The Chasers which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.
Tom DeFalco.  Tom DeFalco (born June 26 1950) is an American comics writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics and in particular for his work with Spider-Man.
Eugène Grasset.  Eugène Samuel Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design.
Flattus Maximus.  Flattus Maximus is the name of a former character and guitarist in the American heavy metal band Gwar. He is known by his red face white dreadlocks dinosaur-head shoulder pads and reptile feet. The name Flattus implies a flatulent character. His speaking mannerisms suggest a childlike intelligence and naivety.The role of Flattus Maximus has been played by a number of guitarists. Dewey Rowell was the first to take the role.
Ella Bergmann-Michel.  Ella Bergmann-Michel (b. Paderborn Germany in 1896 died 1971) was a German abstract artist photographer and documentary filmmaker. An early student of constructivist art in Germany her contributions to modern abstract art are often forgotten in American art culture. Bergmann-Michel’s style was very specialized and unique especially considering the restrictive time in which she was actively working.
Jane Bowman.  Jane Bowman was an American singer. Her 1961 rockabilly tough gal song Mad Mama concerned an overly jealous mate.
Johannes Veit.  Jonas Veit (2 March 1790 Berlin – 18 January 1854 Rome) was a German history painter. His parents were Jewish but he took little interest in Judaism and converted to Catholicism on 26 July 1810 - he is thus better known by his baptismal name of Johannes Veit. From 1811 to his death he lived and worked in Rome joining the Nazarene movement and becoming particularly close friends with Friedrich Overbeck. His brother Philipp Veit (1793–1877) was also a painter.
Gordana Kuić.  Gordana Kuić (Serbian Cyrillic: Гордана Куић; born 29 August 1942) is a Serbian novelist. She is the winner of numerous literature awards in the countries that made up former Yugoslavia. Her work has been mainly inspired by her mother Blanki Levi and her aunts who were descendants of Sephardi Jews in Balkans and most of her novels are set in 1914–1944.
Lynn Varley.  Lynn Varley is an award-winning colorist notable for her collaborations with her former husband comic book writer/artist Frank Miller whom she divorced in 2005.
Elliot Evans.  Elliot Evans (born 19 December 1995) is an English teen pop singer who reached the semi-finals of the third series of ITV variety show Britain's Got Talent singing with his parents Estelle and Giles and young sisters Georgia and Olivia as family singing group Good Evans. He released his debut single I'll Be There on 9 November 2009 as part of the Voice In a Million project. He was born in Coventry West Midlands England.
George Napolitano.  George Napolitano is a photographer who specializes in professional wrestling photography.
John Klima (editor).  John Klima (born 1971 in Wisconsin United States) is an American anthology and science fiction magazine editor whose science fiction zine Electric Velocipede won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 2009. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2007 2008 2009 and 2010 for his work on the magazine. In 2012 the magazine went online.He spent the first quarter century of life in the state of Wisconsin. He moved to New Jersey in the late 90s to get a job in publishing.
Emanuele Mollica.  Emanuele Mollica (Naples 19th century) was an Italian painter mainly of costume genre pieces and Neo-Pompeian themes.Among his paintings are: A music concert in Cicero's house in Pompei; Cicero in Pompei; and Pompeian Songstress (exhibited in 1877 at Naples); Nel triclini a Pompei; Donna napolitano; and Un bagno a Pompei.
Corey Duffel.  Corey Duffel is a professional skateboarder from Walnut Creek California. He was born on April 11 1984 as William Corey Duffel to Steve and Sharon. He is known for his fast-paced skating style skating big gaps rails stairs riding big wall ride gaps and any large obstacles like the freeway gap in Cataclysmic Abyss. His skating stance is Goofy.
Ken Stacey.  Ken Stacey (born in Los Angeles California) is a session vocalist and backing vocalist. He has worked with Michael Jackson Phil Collins Johnny Hallyday Natalie Jackson Richard Marx and Phil Ramone among many others. One of his biggest highlights was singing backing vocals and playing acoustic guitar on occasional songs at Elton John's 2000 One Night Only concert in Madison Square Garden.
Brian Gage.  Brian Gage (born 4 October 1973) is an American author of satire fairy tales and fiction. He was born and raised in Youngstown Ohio.
John Petersen (musician).  John Petersen (January 8 1942 – November 11 2007) was an American drummer most notably for rock bands The Beau Brummels and Harpers Bizarre.
Jean Pierre Magnet.  Jean Pierre Magnet Vargas Prada (born in Lima Peru on September 11 1949) is a saxophonist composer music producer and director.
Rabeh Sager.  Rabeh Sager also spelled Rabeh Saqer (Arabic: رابح صقر‎) (Born November 6 1961) is an Arabic singer from Saudi Arabia. He is also called Abu Sager. In 2007 he celebrated his 25th anniversary as a singer. One of his hit songs of all time is Sahratna Al Laila.[citation needed]
David Gray (musician).  David Gray (born 13 June 1968) is a British singer-songwriter from Sale England. Gray released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray the latter two of which also made the Top 17 in the US. He has been nominated for four Brit Awards – twice for Best British Male.
Jackie Oates.  Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player. In addition to her solo work she currently performs as part of the folk trio Wistman's Wood and sings with Morris Offspring and The Imagined Village.She was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983 but grew up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18 she moved to Devon to study English literature at Exeter University and was based in Devon until 2011 when she moved to Oxford.
Gregory Maass & Nayoungim.  Gregory Maass born 29 April 1967 in Hagen Germany and Nayoungim (sometimes referred to as Kim Nayoung Hangul 김 나영 ) born 13 March 1966 in Seoul South-Korea are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo called Gregory Maass & Nayoungim. Gregory Maass & Nayoungim´s work is inspired by quite diverse sources such as philosophy psychoanalysis cybernetics management economy fringe science science fiction decorative art music comics conspiracy theory sub-culture and food.
Shahan Shahnour.  Shahnour Kerestejian better known as Shahan Shahnour (in Armenian Շահան Շահնուր French transliteration Chahan Chahnour) also known in his French language writings as Armen Lubin (in Armenian Արմեն Լյուբեն Western Armenian Արմէն Լիւպեն) (August 3 1903 Istanbul - August 20 1974 Saint-Raphaël) was a French-Armenian writer and poet. He is considered as a renowned Diasporan author in the Western Armenian tradition with his own style of writing.
Antonio Amorosi.  Antonio Amorosi (1660–1738) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome. Amorosi was born in Comunanza then part of the Papal States. In 1668 he moved to Rome where he was trained by Giuseppe Ghezzi. He painted genre scenes similar to those of the Bamboccianti.
Judith Merkle Riley.  Judith Merkle Riley (January 14 1942 – September 12 2010) was an American writer teacher and academic who wrote six historical romance novels.
Fujimoto Kazuko.  Fujimoto Kazuko (藤本 和子 born 1939) is a Japanese essayist and translator.She was born in Tokyo.
D. D. Verni.  D.D. Verni (born Carlo Verni) is an American bassist songwriter and producer best known as the founding member bassist and songwriter of the thrash metal band Overkill. In addition to his work with Overkill Verni has recorded four albums with his side project The Bronx Casket Co. He is also the composer for The Bronx Casket Co....A New Musical.
Jill Marie Landis.  Not to be confused with Marie Landis an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis (b. November 8 1948 in Clinton Indiana United States) is an award-winning American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.
Sid Jacobson.  Sid Jacobson (born October 20 1929) is an American writer having worked in the fields of children's comic books popular music fiction biography and non-fiction comics. He was managing editor and editor in chief for Harvey Comics where he created the comics Richie Rich Hot Stuff and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Gladys-Marie Fry.  Gladys-Marie Fry (born April 6 1931) is Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Maryland College Park Maryland and a leading authority on African American textiles. She has written two books and numerous articles on the subject. She lives in Washington DC.
Gerard Reve.  Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 Amsterdam Netherlands – 8 April 2006 Zulte Belgium) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve in 1973. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch he is considered one of the Great Three of Dutch post-war literature.
Marla Alupoaicei.  Marla Alupoaicei (born 1974) is an American Christian author and speaker. She and her husband Catalin have partnered with several ministries including Buckner Orphan Care International to support social justice and particularly ministry to orphans in Romania Mexico and other nations.Alupoaicei received a B.A. in English and Communications from Purdue University and a Master of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.
Valentin Pikul.  Valentin Savvich Pikul (Russian: Валенти́н Са́ввич Пи́куль) (July 13 1928 - July 16 1990) was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage. He lived and worked in Riga.Pikul's novels were grounded in extensive research blending historical and fictional characters and often focusing on Russian nationalistic themes. Pikul's best-selling 1978 novel At the Last Frontier was a dramatized telling of Rasputin's influence over the Russian imperial court.
Mozid Mahmud.  Mozid Mahmud (Bengali: মজিদ মাহমুদ) (born 1966) is a Bangladeshi poet and essayist. He is recognized as a major poet of the 1980s with more than thirty books to his credit.
Bing Ji Ling.  Quinn Luke also known as Bing Ji Ling is a New York City based producer-musician. Luke has released three full-length albums as a solo artist as well as numerous singles collaborations and remixes. He is also a former member of Phenomenal Handclap Band.
Lionel Shapiro.  Lionel Shapiro (1908–1958) was a Canadian journalist and novelist. A war correspondent for The Montreal Gazette he landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day with the Canadian forces.His 1955 romantic novel The Sixth of June was awarded the Governor General's Award for English language fiction and was subsequently adapted into the Hollywood film D-Day the Sixth of June. His other novels include Torch For A Dark Journey.
Moritz Retzsch.  Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9 1779 - June 11 1857) was a German painter draughtsman and etcher.Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi later working autodidactically copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie among them a copy of the Sixtinian Madonna. He was made a member of the Academy in 1817 and professor in 1824.
Ruth Jean Dale.  Betty Lee Duran (b. in Ozark Mountains Missouri U.S.A) was a popular U.S. writer of romance novels. She started writing as Ruth Jean Dale and now she writes as Lee Duran.Ruth Jean Dale's books have been translated in many foreign languages including French Spanish German Polish Greek Italian Russian and Chinese.
Erma Bombeck.  Erma Louise Bombeck (née Fiste; February 21 1927 – April 22 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books most of which became bestsellers. From 1965 to 1996 Erma Bombeck wrote over 4000 newspaper columns using broad and sometimes-eloquent humor chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife.
Marika Lindström.  Marika Lindström (born 25 November 1946) is a Swedish actress who has appeared in numerous films in her native Sweden as well as appearing in TV shows such as Emma åklagare and Tre kärlekar.Marika Lindström has long been a part of the ensemble at Stockholm City Theatre and is married to a Swedish actor Ingvar Hirdwall.
Liv Maessen.  Liv Maessen is an Australian pop singer who had hits in the early 1970s with The Love Moth Knock Knock Who's There? and Snowbird. In 1969 Maessen had finished second in the New Faces talent show. Her prize included a recording contract with Ron Tudor's Fable Records which released her albums Live for Life (1971) and Best of Liv Maessen (1973). She won the 1970 Logie Award for 'Best New Talent'.
Edith Jiménez.  Edith Jiménez was a distinguished Paraguayan plastic artist.She was born in Asunción in 1918 to Eulogio Jiménez and de Silvia González.
Sumon (bassist).  Saidus Salehin Khaled also known as Sumon or Bassbaba[citation needed] is a Bassist from Bangladesh. He is also the vocalist for his band Aurthohin.
Ida Cox.  Ida Cox (February 26 1896 – November 10 1967) was an African American singer and vaudeville performer best known for her blues performances and recordings. She was billed as The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues.
Kurtis Blow.  Kurt Walker (born August 9 1959) professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow is an American rapper and record producer. He is the first commercially successful rapper and the first to sign with a major record label. The Breaks a single from his 1980 debut album is the first certified gold record rap song.
John Lucas (comics).  John Lucas is an American comic book inker and penciller whose style has been compared with that of Russ Heath[citation needed] and Jack Kirby.
Mary Rorke.  Mary Rorke (14 February 1858 - 12 October 1938) was a British actress.Rorke was born in London England in 1858 and died in London in 1938.
Alois Hotschnig.  Alois Hotschnig (born 1959) is an Austrian writer whose stories have been described as having the weird creepy and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams. He was winner of the Erich Fried Prize in 2008 and shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.
Alexander Klaws.  Alexander Klaws (born 3 September 1983) is a German singer songwriter and actor. Born and raised in Ahlen North Rhine-Westphalia he came into prominence after becoming the winner of the debut season of the television series Deutschland sucht den Superstar the German version of Idol series in 2003 and as a participant in the television special World Idol the same year.Klaws was immediately signed to SonyBMG after winning DSDS and released his debut single Take Me Tonight in 2003.
Slađa Delibašić.  Slađana Slađa Delibašić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слађана Слађа Делибашић; born November 7 1968) is a Serbian pop singer and dancer. She is the former wife of Đole Ðogani (married 1986 divorced 2001) and also a former member of the Đogani duo. She gave birth to two of Đole's three children.
Élise Bruyère.  Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes.Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1836) a noted French writer illustrator and painter of French historical scenes. Her sister Henriette was also a painter. Bruyère was of the Realist school of French painting and her still lifes particularly her paintings of flowers are remarkably detailed. A typical work Vase de fleurs is in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
François Marcela-Froideval.  François Marcela-Froideval (born December 10 1958) is a French role-playing game videogame and comic scenarist.Froideval had a major influence on the introduction of role-playing games in France mainly as editor in chief of the now-defunct Casus Belli role-playing magazine.
Roberto Montenegro.  Roberto Montenegro Nervo (February 19 1885 in Guadalajara - October 13 1968 in Mexico City) was a painter muralist and illustrator who was one of the first to be involved in the Mexican muralism movement after the Mexican Revolution. His most important mural work was done at the former San Pedro and San Pablo monastery but as his work did not have the same drama as other muralists such as Diego Rivera he lost prominence in this endeavor.
Adrian Lulgjuraj.  Adrian Lulgjuraj (born in Ulcinj Yugoslavia present-day Montenegro 19 August 1980) is an Albanian singer from Montenegro. Together with Bledar Sejko he represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song Identitet. The song failed to qualify for the final.
Tim McAllister.  Tim McAllister (born October 22 1962 in Portland Oregon) is an American musician music engineer and producer. He found success in the mid 1980s with his hometown band Flock 14 which relocated to Cincinnati OH to record an album with Graceland Records. The band broke up a year after the move. In Cincinnati McAllister met Linford Detweiler who worked with him on his next album recorded under the name World Theatre.
Graham Brazier.  Graham Brazier is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He first came to prominence in the band Hello Sailor. After Hello Sailor he formed a band called the Legionnaires. When he was growing up he lived above his mother's bookshop in Dominion Road in Auckland and he collects first editions.
Kerri Sakamoto.  Kerri Sakamoto (born 1960) is a Canadian novelist. Her novels commonly deal with the experience of Japanese Canadians.Sakamoto's debut novel The Electrical Field (1998) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. It also won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was a finalist for a Governor General’s Award. Her second novel One Hundred Million Hearts was published in 2003. Both books have been published in translation internationally.
Franz Xaver Chwatal.  Franz Xaver Chwatal (19 June 1808–24 June 1879) was a Bohemian pianist composer and music teacher.
Kira Isabella.  Kira Isabella is a Canadian country music artist. Isabella was signed to Sony Music Canada in 2009. Her first single Love Me Like That was released in 2011 and charted on the Canadian Hot 100. Isabella released her second single in 2011 entitled A Real Good Radio. Her third single A Little More Work was released in 2012. Kira Isabella announced dates for a 2013 Canadian tour with Terri Clark in October 2012 and Carrie Underwood in December 2012. In 2013 Isabella signed with U.S.
Tom Hall (electronic musician).  Tom Hall is a musician and multimedia artist located in Los Angeles USA. Tom Hall's musical focus is characterized by field recordings with computer software processing and improvisation which generates a large range of possible sounds including; melodic rhythms grainy textures and drone. Hall's eclectic works flourish by utilising a variety of mediums each that reflect on his varied background and interests.
Jerry Leger.  Jerry Leger(born April 19 1985 Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Francis Bermingham.  Francis Bermingham O.F.M. fl. 1652 was an Irish Franciscan friar and scholar.Bermingham was a descendant of Meyler de Bermingham (1275) the founder of Athenry.Popularly known as Franciscus a Galvia (Francis of Galway) he was born there early in the 17th century. Upon joining the Franciscan Order as a young man he was sent abroad to be educated. He taught philosophy at Milan and in Rome was Jubilate lecturer in Divinity at the College of St.
Rockette Morton.  Rockette Morton (real name Mark Boston; born 1949 in Salem Illinois) is an American musician best known as a bass guitarist and guitarist for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the 1960s and 1970s.
Patrick Clifford.  Patrick Clifford (born in New York City 1966) is a musician songwriter and producer of Irish and folk music. Best known as a key member of Four to the Bar—a well loved and well respected mainstay of the 1990s New York Irish music scene—he has also released two solo albums: American Wake and Chance of a Start.Like many contemporary New York Irish musicians he received his earliest training from the renowned Martin Mulvihill (on piano accordion).
Jim Mullen.  Jim Mullen (born 26 November 1945) is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style like Wes Montgomery before him picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.
Madeleine Renaud.  Lucie Madeleine Renaud (French: [ʁəno]; 21 February 1900 – 23 September 1994) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including Remorques (Stormy Waters 1941) and Lumière d'été (Summer Light 1943)Renaud had a son Jean-Pierre Granval (10 December 1923 – 28 May 1998) by her first marriage. In 1940 Renaud married her second husband actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910–1994).
Roger Alborough.  Roger Alborough (born 19 February 1953) is a British actor who has starred in a number of London West End musicals including Buddy and Jailhouse Rock. He appeared as Mr Schulyer Adams and Pawnee's Messenger in the 1986 West End revival of Annie Get Your Gun.He has also appeared in a number of dramas on the BBC. In 1998 he appeared in an episode of the medical series Body Story. In the episode he played a construction foreman named John Palmer.
Carlos Cavazo.  Carlos Cavazo is a Mexican-born American guitarist best known as the guitarist for Quiet Riot during their commercial peak. Born July 8 1957 Cavazo is originally from Mexico City where his first band—of which his brother Antonio Cavazo was also a member—was called Speed of Light.
Marcelle Chantal.  Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960) was a French stage and film actress. Chantal appeared in a number of leading roles in films such as Maurice Tourneur's In the Name of the Law (1932). Early in her career she was married to a British banker and was billed as Marcelle Jefferson-Cohn.
Bobby Tench.  Robert Tench (born 21 September 1944) also known as Bob Tench Bobby Tench and Bobby Gass is a British vocalist and guitarist. He is best known for working with Freddie King Jeff Beck and Van Morrison also as a member of Gass Hummingbird Humble Pie and Streetwalkers.At the start of his career he performed and recorded with Gass and also appeared with Gonzalez before joining The Jeff Beck Group.
Will Payne (actor).  Will Payne (born 19 June 1989) is an English actor.Will Payne grew up in Bath Somerset and is the younger brother of actor Tom Payne. He attended Kingswood School before going on to do a foundation year at The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art graduating in 2009.in 2012 he appeared in the feature film Elfie Hopkins starring opposite Jaime Winstone and Ray Winstone.
Vellala Sathyam.  Vellala Sathyam was a Kannada writer and poet based in Bangalore. He has written many novels in Kannada one of them being Mahaatyaagi based on Charles Dickens' A tale of two cities
Carly Rae Jepsen.  Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 21 1985) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Mission British Columbia. In 2007 she placed third in Canadian Idol season five's competition and was a part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour. Shortly after competing on Canadian Idol she independently released her debut album Tug of War through MapleMusic Recordings on September 30 2008.
Chimako Tada.  Chimako Tada (多田智満子 Tada Chimako April 1 1930 – January 23 2003) was a Japanese poet renowned for her surreal style and evocation of women's experience in post-war Japan. She authored more than 15 books of Japanese poetry and also translated prose and poetry from French.Tada wrote in traditional styles such as tanka and haiku as well as contemporary prose poetry.
Charles N. Daniels (music).  Charles N. Daniels (April 12 1878 – January 23 1943) was a composer occasional lyricist and music publishing executive. He employed many pseudonyms including Neil Moret Jules Lemare L'Albert Paul Bertrand Julian Strauss and Sidney Carter. His creative work is generally credited as Moret while his business dealings and ASCAP membership were under the name Daniels.
Kevon Edmonds.  Kevon Edmonds is a singer and actor and is the younger brother of famous producer/songwriter/singer Kenneth Babyface Edmonds the fourth of six boys. Growing up Kevon shied away from the church choir preferring to sing for his own satisfaction. It was only during his teenage years that he joined his friends in the junior high and high school choirs.
Ghulam Mustafa Khan (singer).  Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan (born March 3 1931) is an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani classical music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana and he is the son of Waris Hussain Khan and grandson of Inayat Hussain Khan of Sahaswan Gharana.
Helen Humes.  Helen Humes (June 23 1913 – September 9 1981) was an American jazz and blues singer. Humes was successively a teenage blues singer band vocalist with Count Basie saucy R&B diva and a mature interpreter of the classy popular song.Along with other well-known jazz singers of the swing era Helen Humes helped to shape and define the sound of vocal swing music.
James Kelly (priest).  James Joseph Kelly (11 November 1877 – 1 February 1939) was a New Zealand catholic priest and editor. He was born in New Ross County Wexford Ireland on 11 November 1877. He was educated at St Peter's College Wexford and the Irish College in Rome.
Vidya Shah.  Vidya Shah is a singer musician social activist and writer.
Peter Swales (historian).  Peter J. Swales (born 1948) is a Welsh guerilla historian of psychoanalysis and former assistant to the Rolling Stones who has written essays and letters about Sigmund Freud.
Dana Wyse.  Dana Wyse (born August 9 1965 in Vancouver British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and visual artist. In 1991 Dana Wyse received her BFA from the University of British Columbia. She lives and works between Vancouver and Paris.In 1996 Wyse began her best known artwork a pill-themed installation called Jesus Had A Sister Productions It is a work-in-progress to which the artist adds new elements each year.
Mihalis Safras.  Mihalis Safras (Greek: Μιχαλης Σαφράς) born in Athens in October 1979 is a Greek third-wave techno artist producer and club DJ from Athens. His style has been described as Tech-House and Techno with prog influences. He co-founded the Material Series record label with Mark Broom in 2005. In 2013 he had released his third solo album and his music has also released music through Toolroom Records Skint Records and Great Stuff. Notably Michalis Safras' single 'La Samba' was used by Apple Inc.
John Wesley (guitarist).  John Wesley also known as Wes Dearth (born John Wesley Dearth III in June 1962) is an American singer songwriter and guitar player. John Wesley's professional music career began in the early 1980s in the Tampa Florida area where he founded 1991 Southwestern Music Conference's showcase act Autodrive along with drummer/producer Mark Prator.
Jeff Sherman.  Jeffrey Edward Sherman (born March 15 1952) is an American musician. He is a founding member of the band Glass as well as a solo artist who has released both under his own name and under the pseudonym Jeff Joad.
Peter Tilbury.  Peter Tilbury born 20 October 1945 in Redruth Cornwall in England is a British actor and writer.As an actor Tilbury's television appearances include The Shadow of the Tower (1972) Dixon of Dock Green (1974) It Takes a Worried Man (1981) Miss Marple (1987) Fortunes of War (1987) Casualty (1989) The Bill (1990) Birds of a Feather (1990) and Chef! (1993).He appeared in the film Breaking Glass (1980).As a television writer Tilbury's credits include the first three series of Shelley starring Hywel Bennett eight episodes of Chef! from 1993 to 1994 starring Lenny Henry ten episodes of Birds of a Feather from 1990 to 1996 and two episodes of Not Going Out in 2007. 
Pastor Troy.  Micah LeVar Troy (born November 18 1977) is an American rapper. He is also a member of the hardcore rap group D.S.G.B. (Down South Georgia Boys).
M. K. Sanu.  M. K. Sanu is a protean personality who has enriched Malayalam literature through his versatile writings. He is a retired professor critic biographer editor translator journalist orator social activist and humanist. He has authored over thirty six books translated four and edited ten. His greatness is not confined to the prolificacy of his literary output.
Madhukar T. Dhumal (musician).  Madhukar Dhumal is an Indian Shehnai Player Composer and freelance Musician.Disciple of Guni Gandharva Pandit Laxmanprasad Jaipurwale and Pandit Rajaram SukhlaHe is awarded by Dadasaheb Phalke Award in the year 2013.He is part of many other bands he has performed with various artist around world.Majorly performed for Bollywood industry with all known Music directors.
Dayo Wong.  Dayo Wong Tze-wah (黃子華) born 5 September 1960 is a Hong Kong Stand-up comedian actor singer screenwriter and an occasional songwriter.Wong gained a degree in philosophy from the University of Alberta in Canada. He began his career in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong in 1984 but he is best known for his works in live stand-up comedy which he started performing regularly since 1990. Since then he has starred in TV dramas and films and recorded his own album.
Peter Gilliver.  Peter Gilliver (born 14 June 1964) is a lexicographer and Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary; as of 2013 he is responsible for the largest three or four entries in the current electronic revision including the largest (that for run which took him over 9 months and has 645 meanings for the verb form alone).His parents were both linguists.
Joo (singer).  Jung Min Ju (Hangul : 정민주 born on October 11 1990) commonly known by her stage name Joo (commonly stylized JOO) is a South Korean solo singer who debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2008.
Violet Oakley.  Violet Oakley (June 10 1874 – February 25 1961) was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration a field that had been exclusively practiced by men. Oakley excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in Renaissance-revival styles.
Robert Morris (artist).  Robert Morris (born February 9 1931 Kansas City Missouri) is an American sculptor conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art minimalism land art the Process Art movement and installation art. Morris currently lives and works in New York.
Eric Evans (porn actor).  Eric Evans (born December 28 1966) is an American gay pornographic film actor. Known as a Bear in the gay community He has done leather and barebacking films. Evans made is debut in the 1991 video The Cult Club. He was Zeus Man of the Year in 1998. He has done videos for Raging Stallion Studios and Zeus Studios amongst many others. Before entering the adult film industry he was a regular on American Bandstand from 1985-1987.
Robin Lawrie.  Robin Lawrie (born 1945) is a freelance illustrator and author who has illustrated over 300 books in his 40 year career and written 24. Notable work includes a graphic novel adaptation of 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe' and 'The Magician's Nephew' by C. S. Lewis. He has also illustrated such classics as The Wind in the Willows Peter Pan The Secret Garden and A Little Princess.Lawrie and his wife Christine have written a series of eighteen mini-graphic novels called The Chain Gang.
Trace Bundy.  Trace Bundy is an instrumental acoustic guitar player who lives and performs in Boulder Colorado. He is known to fans as The Acoustic Ninja for his legato and finger tapping skills. His playing style features him playing with both hands on the fretboard intricate finger picking arpeggios and inventive use of multiple capos. Trace has built up his career through success on websites such as YouTube and Facebook and is now signed with the record label/management company United Interests.
Willy Mason.  Willy Mason (born November 21 1984) is an American singer-songwriter.
Milton Resnick.  Milton Resnick (January 7 1917 – March 12 2004) was a major abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his mystical abstract and figurative paintings. Born in Bratslav Russia he emigrated to the United States in 1922.
Charles W. J. Withers.  Professor Charles W. J. Withers FBA FRSE (born 6 December 1954) is professor of historical geography at the University of Edinburgh Scotland.
Jason Freeny.  Jason Freeny (born 1970) is an American artist specializing in sculpture designer toys and computer-generated imagery. He is the owner of the Moist Production studio which acts as the primary publisher and distributor of his works. He is best known for his anatomical art where he produces cutaway drawings of (typically toy) inanimate objects such as a Lego man Barbie doll the animated fish Nemo or a balloon art dog.
William Lamb Picknell.  William Lamb Picknell (October 23 1853 – August 8 1897) was a United States painter of landscapes coastal views and figure genres known for his rapid painting style. He was born in Hinesburg Vermont and died in Marblehead Massachusetts.
Dog Boy.  Dog Boy (born Robert Rogers) is a singer and songwriter currently signed with Suburban Noize Records as a solo artist. Along with his solo project he also supplied vocals for the reggae/punk rock band Too Rude who are also signed with Subnoize.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant.  Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (April 23 1881 Winchester Massachusetts – January 26 1965 New York City) was an American journalist and writer.Sergeant's work includes non-fiction works (French Perspectives 1916 and her best-known work Shadow-Shapes: Journal of a Wounded Woman 1920) and one novel (Short as Any Dream 1929).
Gina Haley.  Linda Georgina (Gina) Haley (born April 23 1975 in Mexico) is an American singer-songwriter.Haley is the youngest child of rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley from his marriage to his last wife Martha; she grew up in Harlingen and she was only five years old when her father died in 1981. At 18 years old she left home and set out to find her musical identity which landed her in Houston Tx.She is classically trained on piano and an accomplished self-taught guitarist and songwriter.
Tadej Golob.  Tadej Golob (born 1967) is a Slovene mountaineer and writer. Golob was born in Maribor in 1967 and grew up in the small town of Lenart v Slovenskih goricah in northeastern Slovenia. He moved to Ljubljana to study journalism but never completed his studies. He worked as a contributor to various magazines but is known in Slovenia chiefly as an alpine climber.In 2010 Golob won the Kresnik Award for best novel with his debut novel Svinjske nogice (Pigs' Legs).
Cro (rapper).  Cro (born Carlo Waibel on January 31 1990) is a German rapper singer producer and designer who is represented by Chimperator Productions. He describes his music as a mixture between pop and rap which he calls Raop.
Antoni Malczewski.  Antoni Malczewski (3 June 1793 – 2 May 1826) was an influential Polish romantic poet known for his only work a narrative poem of dire pessimism Maria (1825).At the times prominent and scandalizing was his autodestructive romance with married woman Zofia Rucińska who suffered from mental illness.
Aaron Barker.  Aaron Barker (born March 5 1953 in San Antonio Texas) is an American singer-songwriter.Barker has written number one songs for George Strait (Baby Blue Love Without End Amen Easy Come Easy Go) and Lonestar (What About Now). His songs have also been recorded by Doug Supernaw Clay Walker Neal McCoy Aaron Tippin and others. Barker turned Love Without End Amen into a book in 2002.
Nitin Mukesh.  Nitin Mukesh is an Indian singer best known for his work as a playback singer in Hindi films as well as Bhajans. He is the son of Mukesh (famous singer). He has toured internationally including to the United States in 1993 and a world tour in 2006 with his show Kal Ki Yaadein as a tribute to his father.Nitin's son Neil Nitin Mukesh is an actor.
Alex Man.  Alex Man Chi-leung (萬梓良) is a Golden Horse Award-winning Hong Kong actor. Born in Hong Kong Alex Man became a television actor for ATV in the 1970s. He joined TVB in the 1980s where he starred in several popular television dramas.
Willem Hofhuizen.  Willem Hofhuizen (° 27 July 1915 – † 23 December 1986) was a Dutch Expressionist painter.
Frank Cottrell Boyce.  Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is a British screenwriter novelist and occasional actor known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom.
Lynda Randle.  Lynda Tait Randle alto singer of southern gospel was born in 1962 and grew up in the inner city of Washington DC.
Malini Chib.  Malini Chib (born 1966) is an Indian disability rights activist and author who has cerebral palsy. Chib wrote the book One Little Finger over the course of two years by typing with only one finger.
Richard Eilenberg.  Richard Eilenberg (13 January 1848 Merseburg – 5 December 1927 Berlin) was a German composer.His musical career began with the study of piano and composition. At 18 years old he composed his first work - a concert overture. As a volunteer he participated in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871. In 1873 Eilenberg became the music director and conductor in Stettin. In 1889 he decided to move to Berlin as a freelance composer where his second marriage with his wife Dorothee started.
Priscilla Shirer.  Priscilla Shirer a speaker and author has spent more than a decade addressing major corporations organizations and Christian audiences across the United States and around the world. Most recently Priscilla has focused on teaching the Bible to women through an expository teaching style.The daughter of Dr. Tony Evans senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas Texas Priscilla grew up well acquainted with the Bible.
Robin LaFevers.  Robin Lorraine LaFevers is an American children's book writer from California. She is the author of the Theodosia series (illustrated by Yoko Tanaka) and Nathaniel Fludd Beastologist series (illustrated by Kelly Murphy). La Fevers grew up in Los Angeles and now resides on a small ranch in Southern California with her husband and two sons.
Brad Johner.  Brad Johner is a Canadian country music singer.
Satoshi Tomiie.  Satoshi Tomiie 富家哲 (Tomīe Satoshi) (born November 22 1966) is a Japanese house music producer and DJ. Since the late 1980s he has been at the forefront of the global house music movement thanks to his popular dancefloor anthems pop remixes and DJ sets.
Georgy Fedotov.  Georgy Petrovich Fedotov (Гео́ргий Петро́вич Федо́тов October 1 (13) 1886 Saratov Russian Empire – September 1 1951 New York US) was a Russian religious philosopher historian essayist author of many books on Orthodox culture regarded by some as a founder of Russian theological culturology. Fedotov left the Soviet Russia for France in 1925 then in 1939 emigrated to the United States where he taught (at St.
W. Nelson Francis.  W. Nelson Francis Ph.D. (October 23 1910 – June 14 2002) was an American author linguist and university professor. He served as a member of the faculties of Franklin & Marshall College and Brown University where he specialized in English and corpus linguistics. He is known for his work compiling a text collection entitled the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English which he completed with Henry Kučera.
Christophe Maé.  Christophe Maé (born 16 October 1975 in Carpentras Vaucluse) is a French pop singer.
Bramantino.  Bartolomeo Suardi best known as Bramantino (c. 1456 – c. 1530) was an Italian painter and architect mainly active in his native Milan.
Robert Edison Sandiford.  Robert Edison Sandiford (born 1968) is a Canadian short story writer and essayist. Born in Montreal Quebec he is the founding editor of ArtsEtc a periodical devoted to culture in Barbados. In 2003 his short story Reckoning was awarded the Barbados Governor General's Award for Literary Excellence.
Evgenij Kozlov.  (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov (Russian: (E-E) Евгений Козло́в tr. (Ye-Ye) Yevgueni Kozlov IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj) is a Russian artist living in Berlin. Known chiefly as a founder member of the influential art group New Artists (Leningrad 1982—1989) he works under the artist’s name of E-E which has been his sole signature since 2005.
Rei Yoshii.  Rei Yoshii (吉井 怜 Yoshii Rei born March 18 1982) is a Japanese actress.
Rin Aoki.  Rin Aoki (青木りん Aoki Rin Literally: Green Tree Phosphate) born February 28 1985 is a Japanese model and adult video actress. She began as a Gravure idol and later moved to hardcore video work where she became an award-winning AV Idol.
DJ Quicksilver.  Orhan Terzi (born 28 June 1964) better known by his stage name DJ Quicksilver is a Turkish DJ and music producer based in Germany. His stage name derives from his days taking part in DJ contests where a mercury column would gauge audience reaction.
Karl Tanera.  Karl Tanera (9 June 1849 – 4 October 1904) was a German military writer and novelist.
Susan Choi.  Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend Indiana to a Korean father and the American daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
Brian Chippendale.  Brian Chippendale (born 1973 in New York City New York) is a musician and artist based in Providence Rhode Island. He is best known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band Lightning Bolt.
Kay Parker.  Kay Parker (born Kay Taylor August 28 1944 in Birmingham England United Kingdom) is a New Age author and former pornographic actress best known for her depictions of incest scenes in the Taboo series.
Rui Veloso.  Rui Manuel Gaudêncio Veloso commonly known as Rui Veloso CavIH (born in 30 July 1957 Lisbon) is a Portuguese rock and blues singer and musician. Although he was born in Lisbon his family moved to the northern city of Porto when he was just three months old. This composer and interpreter had a great impact on the Portuguese music scene with the record Ar de Rock (April 1980) which influences were Eric Clapton and B.B.King.
Francis Parker Yockey.  Francis Parker Yockey (September 18 1917 – June 16 1960) was an American attorney political philosopher and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948.
Shontelle.  Shontelle Layne (born 4 October 1985) known professionally as Shontelle is a Barbadian singer-songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her second album No Gravity was released in September 2010. Her singles T-Shirt and Impossible achieved modest international success.
Jimmy Keegan.  Jimmy Keegan is a drummer. He has played with artists such as Santana as the drummer on the song Primavera on Santana's hit album Supernatural and with John Waite and is the current drummer for the progressive rock band Spock's Beard having replaced original drummer Nick D'Virgilio in November 2011 following D'Virgilio's departure from Spock's Beard.He was born November 3 1969 and is the youngest of 8 children.
Moon Chung-hee.  Moon Chung-hee is a South Korean poet.
Deacon (music).  Deacon (born Ryan David Winkle in 1977) is an American Written Arranged Produced and Performed By singer songwriter from Tulsa Oklahoma. He is a multi-instrumentalist and plays strictly by ear. Deacon plays the guitar and bass flipped over like Jimi Hendrix except he does not flip the strings. Also plays saxophone/woodwinds piano and drums. Most notably he is a singer. Winkle's songs usually pour out vocal harmonies and a wall of sound production.
Harold Faltermeyer.  Harold Faltermeyer (born Harald Faltermeier; 5 October 1952) is a German musician keyboardist composer and record producer.He is recognized as one of the composers/producers who best captured the zeitgeist of 1980s synthpop in film scores.[citation needed] He is best known for writing and composing the Axel F theme for Beverly Hills Cop and the Top Gun Anthem for the film Top Gun.
Fatai Rolling Dollar.  Prince Olayiwola Fatai Olagunju known better as Fatai Rolling Dollar (22 July 1927 – 12 June 2013) was a Nigerian musician described by the BBC as a nationally celebrated performer. He died on 12 June 2013 at the age of 85 to 87 and was praised by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
David Raven (actor).  David Raven is a former English actor who played Major Metcalf in 4575 London performances of Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap between 1957 and 1968; this number of performances earned him an entry in The Guinness Book of Records.
Brock Skywalker.  Brock Skywalker Armstrong (born August 3 1971 in Edmonton Alberta) is a founding member of the Alberta band Captain Tractor and since Tractor's inception back in 1993 Brock has become a permanent fixture in the Alberta (even Canadian) music scene.
Frank Stack.  Frank Huntington Stack (a.k.a. Foolbert Sturgeon) (b. 1937 in Houston Texas) is an American underground cartoonist and fine artist. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the bible belt Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic book The Adventures of Jesus in 1962.[citation needed]Stack graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA in 1959.
Alec Empire.  Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972 in Charlottenburg West Berlin) is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist producer and DJ he has released well over a hundred albums EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk.
Billy Butterfield.  Billy Butterfield (January 14 1917 in Middleton Ohio – March 18 1988) was a band leader jazz trumpeter flugelhornist and cornetist.He studied cornet with Frank Simons but later switched to studying medicine. He did not give up on music and quit medicine after finding success as a trumpeter. Early in his career he played in the band of Austin Wylie. He gained attention working with Bob Crosby (1937–1940) and later worked with Artie Shaw Les Brown and Benny Goodman.
Jacques Cazotte.  Jacques Cazotte (17 October 1719 – 25 September 1792) was a French author.Born at Dijon he was educated by the Jesuits. Cazotte then worked for the French Ministry ofthe Marine and at the age of 27 he obtained a public office at Martinique. It was not till his return to Paris in 1760 with the rank of commissioner-general that he made his public debut as an author.
James Guthrie (record producer).  James K.A. Guthrie (born 14 November 1953 in Edmonton Middlesex) is an English recording engineer and record producer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Pink Floyd serving as a producer and engineer for the band since 1978. He is the owner and operator of das boot recording in Lake Tahoe California.
Garcin de Tassy.  Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy (25 January 1794 Marseille - 2 September 1878) was a French orientalist.He studied under Silvestre de Sacy oriental languages and was awarded professorship for Indology at the School for Living Oriental Languages that was founded for him. In 1838 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Tim Rollinson.  Timothy Robert Tim Rollinson (born 1959) from Bolton England is an Australian jazz guitarist and composer who was a founder of Sydney-based acid jazz group Directions in Groove (D.I.G.) (1991–1998 2008) as well as his own trio quartets and studio project The Modern Congress. His work for D.I.G. included winning two APRA Awards for song writing 1994 'Best Jazz Composition' for Favourite and 1996 'Most Performed Jazz Work' for Futures.
David McLellan (political scientist).  David McLellan (born 1940) is a British scholar of Marx and Marxism. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College Oxford University. McLellan is currently visiting Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths' College University of London. He was previously Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent.
Diego Mazquiarán.  Diego Mazquiarán (born February 19 1895 in Sestao Vizcaya Spain — died May 19 1940 in Lima Peru) often called simply Fortuna was a Spanish matador.
Marc Terenzi.  Marc Eric Terenzi (born June 27 1978) is an American pop singer formerly of the boy band Natural. He was married to German pop/soul singer Sarah Connor from 2005-2008. They have a son named Tyler and a daughter named Summer.
Gao Yuanyuan.  Gao Yuanyuan (born October 5 1975) is a Chinese actress.
Johanna Skibsrud.  Johanna Shively Skibsrud (born 1980) is a Canadian writer whose debut novel The Sentimentalists won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.She has also published two books of poetry Late Nights with Wild Cowboys in 2008 and I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being in 2010. Late Nights with Wild Cowboys was a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award and I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Beingwas a shortlisted nominee for the Atlantic Poetry Prize.
Jeff Martin (Canadian musician).  Jeffrey Scott Martin (born October 2 1969 in Windsor Ontario) is a Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for fronting the rock band The Tea Party. Martin began his career as a solo artist in October 2005 when The Tea Party disbanded.
Keltech.  Keltech (born Lloyd Morgan) is a DJ and music producer.
Faiz Mohammad Faizok.  Faiz Mohammad Faizok Balochi: فیز محمد فیزوک) was a folk Balochi musician. Well known for his unique style of body language with his songs. His contribution to Balochi music is greatly admired by most Baloch people. He introduced the classical music way to Balochi after migrating to Karachi Pakistan.
Bashir Ahmad (singer).  Bashir Ahmad (12 April 1940 – 19 April 2014) was Bangladeshi playback singer in Lollywood. He was known as East Pakistan's (now Bangladesh) Ahmed Rushdi because his singing style is inspired by Ahmed Rushdi. He was a legendary singer who was acclaimed throughout the subcontinent for his smooth and soulful voice which animated Pakistani Hindi and Bengali cinema in the post-partition era Indian subcontinent.
Lev Yilmaz.  Levni Yilmaz (born 1973) is a San Francisco based independent film maker artist and publisher best known for his “Tales of Mere Existence” animated comic series.
Grace (musician).  Grace Young or more commonly known as Grace is a Canadian-born American female musician signed to Universal Music She sings folk reggae soul and blues-style original songs. Grace has released two albums Hall of Mirrors and Made For Change. She is the daughter of musician Jonathan Edwards. who was awarded a gold disc in 1972 for his album Sunshine.
Pete Teo.  Pete Teo (Chinese: 张子夫; pinyin: Zhāng Zifu born 26 December 1972 in Tawau Sabah) is a multiple award winning Malaysian singer songwriter film composer and filmmaker as well as a sought-after actor in what has become known as 'New Wave Malaysian Cinema'. His work is associated with non-partisan reform politics in Malaysia - in particular using new media resources to promote wider democratic participation press freedom and racial unity.
Ali A. Abdi.  Ali A. Abdi (Somali: Cali Cabdi Arabic: علي عبدي‎) is a Somali-Canadian sociologist and educationist. He is a professor of Education and International Development at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada where he serves as the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER). He is also a past President of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC).
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone.  Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1609–1702) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Lombardy.He was born in Milan to a Cremonese father and mannerist painter Panfilo Nuvolone. After working with his father he studied under Giovanni Battista Crespi (il Cerano) in the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan. In that studio he would have encountered Daniele Crespi and Giulio Cesare Procaccini.
Judith Cutler.  Judith Cutler is a writer of crime fiction whose novels are mostly in three series: ten in the series about amateur sleuth and lecturer Sophie Rivers; six about Detective Sergeant Kate Power; plus a forthcoming series with Caffy Tyler. Most are set in the present day in or around Birmingham.
Domenico Carpinoni.  Domenico Carpinoni (1566 – 11 June 1658) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born at Clusone in the Valle Seriana. He was sent to Venice when young and became a pupil of the younger Palma il Giovane. He painted a Birth of St. John the Baptist and Descent from the Cross for the principal church of Clusone a Transfiguration for the Chiesa di Monesterolo in the Valle Cavallina and an Adoration of the Magi for the church of the Padri Osservanti at Lovere.
Sven Pipien.  Sven Pipien (born 30 May 1967 in Hanover Germany) is a musician best known as the bassist of the hard rock band The Black Crowes.
Seo In-guk.  Seo In-guk (Hangul: 서인국; born October 23 1987) is a South Korean singer and actor. He launched his singing career after winning the talent reality show Superstar K in 2009 and made his acting breakthrough in the 2012 cable TV series Reply 1997.
Greg Child.  Greg Child (born 12 April 1957) is an Australian-born rock climber mountaineer author and filmmaker.He is a writer for Outside magazine and has authored several books: Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child Postcards from the Ledge Over the Edge and Climbing Free (co-authored with Lynn Hill). In 1987 Child was honoured with the American Alpine Club’s Literacy Award for his prolific and insightful mountaineering literature.
Hins Cheung.  Hins Cheung is a Chinese Cantopop singer and songwriter in Hong Kong. He was born and grew up in Guangzhou. He studied and graduated from the Guangzhou City 7th Secondary School. He is currently under contract with Universal Records. He has expressed a desire to return to his hometown of Guangzhou and live there when he reaches an elder age.In 2008 he performed at the S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Patrick Callahan.  Pat Callahan is a guitarist best known for his work with the band Seether from 2002-2006.During his career with Seether Callahan received gold records for the bands successful work on the albums Disclaimer Disclaimer II Karma and Effect The Punisher movie soundtrack the Daredevil movie soundtrack and has received a platinum award in Australia for the single Broken.Since quitting Seether Callahan has spent time working with children in a Philadelphia music school called the Music Training Center. 
Mabel McKay.  Mabel McKay (1907–1993) was a member of the Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo Indians and was of Patwin descent. She was the last Dreamer of the Pomo people and a basket making prodigy.Greg Sarris published a biography of Mabel called Weaving the Dream (University of California Press 1997) which follows Mabel’s way of storytelling – a meandering one which describes her work as a dreamer doctor and basket weaver.
Aranza.  Aranza (born September 27 1971) is a Mexican singer known for her work in TV Azteca with singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero and for interpreting Dime the theme song for Mirada de Mujer one of the most successful Mexican telenovelas of all time.
Frederick Arthur Sefton Cottom.  (Frederick Arthur) Sefton Cottom FRCO (18 September 1928 - 21 January 2011) was an organist and composer based in England.
Keith Varon.  Keith Varon is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and music producer born in San Francisco California.
Idy Chan.  Idy Chan Yuk Lin is a popular Hong Kong TV actress especially during the 1980s.
Mária Čírová.  Mária Čírová (born November 20 1988) is Slovak singer. In 2008 she won the final eight edition of the Coca-Cola Popstar contest in Slovakia.
Jimmy Scott.  Jimmy Scott (born July 17 1925 also known as Little Jimmy Scott) is an American jazz vocalist famous for his unusually high contralto voice which is due to Kallmann's syndrome a very rare genetic condition. The condition stunted his growth at four feet eleven inches until at the age of 37 he grew another 8 inches to the height of five feet seven inches. The condition prevented him from reaching puberty leaving him with a high undeveloped voice hence his nickname Little Jimmy Scott.
Max Mok.  Max Mok (Chinese: 莫少聰) (born 2 December 1960 in Hong Kong) (also credited as Benny Mok Benny Mok Siu-chung and Max Mok Siu-chung) is a Hong Kong actor and singer Mok was recruited by the Shaw Brothers Studio and has been a major film star since the 1980s. Mok is perhaps best known as Leung Foon in Once Upon a Time in China II III IV and V after replacing Yuen Biao who was in the first film.
Luke McDonnell.  Luke McDonnell (born July 19 1959) is an American artist whose early career was spent specialising in comic books.
Guerino Mazzola.  Guerino Mazzola (born 1947) is a Swiss mathematician musicologist jazz pianist as well as book writer.He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980 he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory. In 2000 he was awarded the medal of the Mexican Mathematical Society.
Knut Hauge (writer).  Knut Hauge (31 May 1911 – 13 April 1999) was a Norwegian writer.He was born in Vestre Slidre and worked as a farmer in addition to writing novels children's books and plays. He also chaired Noregs Ungdomslag from 1955 to 1959. His first novel was Krossen under Torfinnshø in 1948 and his last novel was Prolog til ei svunnen tid in 1989. He won the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment in 1967 the Aschehoug Prize in 1977 and the Dobloug Prize in 1986.
Keith Mansfield (writer).  Keith Mansfield born in Scunthorpe England in 1965 is an English writer and publisher.
John Denver.  Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31 1943 – October 12 1997) known professionally as John Denver was an American singer songwriter actor activist and humanitarian. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s and one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s.
Madeleine Marie Slavick.  Madeleine Marie Slavick is a writer poet and photographer of German American Descent. She has spent much of her life living in Hong Kong. Currently Madeleine lives in New Zealand. She writes and photographs every day at her blog: touching what I love.
Richard Shilling.  Richard Shilling (born: 1973) is a British artist working in the field of land art and sculpture in the North West of England. He is currently artist in residence at Beacon Fell Country Park Lancashire and at the Middlewood Trust Roeburndale.
Robert Kaplow.  Robert Kaplow is an American novelist and teacher whose coming-of-age novel was made into a film titled Me and Orson Welles. The story is about youthful creative ambition and has received positive reviews from The New York Times which described it as nimble likable and smart. Kaplow has written nine books and teaches English language and film studies at Summit High School in New Jersey.
Drew Carey.  Drew Allison Carey (born May 23 1958) is an American actor comedian sports executive and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom The Drew Carey Show and serving as host of the U.S.
Govind Man Shrestha.  Govind Man Shrestha (February 1938 – March 2008) was a Bhajan singer lyricist and composer. Born in Kathmandu Nepal he began singing on Radio Nepal's Nepal Bhasa/Newari Language program in 1958. He founded a music trust Govind Jamuna Cultural Music Trust in 1999 that provides financing to hospitals Bhajan singers and social organizations. Govind Man Shrestha has promoted new singers musicians and models and his music has been released in various formats.
D'manti.  D'manti is an American singer and songwriter who was born and raised in Las Vegas Nevada. According to the singer D'Manti means “sparkling diamond” although the literal translation from Italian means “many capes.”
Guariento di Arpo.  Guariento (1310-1370) sometimes incorrectly named Guerriero was the first Paduan painter of distinction (fl. 1355).The only date distinctly known in his career is 1355 when having already acquired high renown in his native city he was invited by the Venetian authorities to paint a Paradise and some incidents of the war of Spoleto in the great council-hall of Venice.
R. Dean Taylor.  R. Dean Taylor (born Richard Dean Taylor 11 May 1939 in Toronto Ontario Canada) is a Canadian singer most notable as a recording artist songwriter and record producer for Motown during the 1960s and 1970s. According to Jason Ankeny Taylor remains one of the most underrated acts ever to record under the Motown aegis.As a singer American audiences know Taylor best for his chart-topping 1970 hit Indiana Wants Me which hit No.
Yvette Giraud.  Yvette Giraud (born 16 September 1916) is a French singer born in Paris.
Odoardo Vicinelli.  Odoardo Vicinelli (1684–1755) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.He trained under Giovanni Maria Morandi of Florence. In Rome he also worked with Pietro Nelli.
Emily Piriz.  Emily Marie Piriz (born January 28 1996) is an American singer from Orlando Florida who finished in 12th place on the thirteenth season of American Idol in 2014.She also auditioned for the first season of The X Factor USA. She stated on the show to be of Cuban descent. She has listed Pink and Kelly Clarkson as music influences.
Katherine Fugate.  Katherine Fugate (born July 14 1965) is an American film and television writer and producer.
Francesco Antonozzi.  Francesco Antonozzi (Osimo or Loreto Province of Ancona 1685 - Rome 1741) was an Italian painter depicting religious topics figures and landscape.
Stephen Mahy.  Stephen Mahy is an Australian born tenor from Sydney NSW best known for originating the role of Bob Gaudio in the Jersey Boys. Mahy is currently touring in the national touring company of Grease playing the role of Kenickie. This production also includes Rob Mills Gretel Scarlett Anthony Callea Lucy Maunder Todd McKenney and Bert Newton as Vince Fontaine.
Nicoletta Ceccoli.  Nicoletta Ceccoli is an San Marinian Artist who is known for her richly detailed dreamlike work. She was born in and still lives in the Republic of San Marino and studied animation at the Institute of Art in San Marino Italy. She has illustrated many books most recently published is Cinderella. Her work has been exhibited and sold internationally.
Premgi Amaren.  Ganesh Gangai Amaren (born February 25 1979) better known as Premgi Amaren is an Indian playback singer film composer songwriter and actor. Son of veteran film composer and singer Gangai Amaran he often composes rap songs in Tamil cinema and is known for his comical performances in the Venkat Prabhu films Chennai 600028 Saroja Goa and Mankatha. His stage name Premgi is actually a spelling error as it is meant to be Prem G. (the G referring to his father's name).
Barrington Tabb.  Barrington Tabb (born 1934 Almondsbury England) is an English painter. He is a Royal West of England Academy (RWA) member. Tabb has lived his whole life in and around Bristol.Tabb is entirely self-taught after a short time at art school. He paints of the docks streets pubs and parks of Bristol.Several of his paintings are in public collections including the RWA.Throughout the 1950s he exhibited at the Clifton Arts Club and in 1976 in Davos Switzerland.
Brigitta Bulgari.  Brigitta Bulgari (born Brigitta Kocsis 29 September 1982) is a Hungarian pornographic actress and fashion model.
Shannon Hale.  Shannon Hale (born January 26 1974) is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy the Books of Bayern series two adult novels and two graphic novels that she co-wrote with her husband.
John Grady (author).  John James Grady (born 1923) is an Australian author and academic.While a senior lecturer at the Newcastle College of Advanced Education in Newcastle NSW he wrote two text books for social science students.
Polina Zherebtsova.  Polina Zherebtsova (Russian: Жеребцова Полина March 20 1985 Grozny USSR) is a writer poet and author well known for penning The Diary of Polina Zherebtsova. Polina was a Andrei Sakharov Prize finalist Journalism as an act of Conscience in 2012. She was born in a mixed ethnic family in Grozny Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic USSR.Author of the Report on war crimes in Chechnya in 1994-2004.ru.
Bobby Troup.  Robert W. Bobby Troup Jr. (October 18 1918 – February 7 1999) was an American actor jazz pianist singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing the popular standard (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 and for his role as Dr. Joe Early opposite his real-life wife Julie London's character in the 1970s US TV series Emergency!
Tsubasa Imai.  Tsubasa Imai (今井翼 Imai Tsubasa born October 17 1981) is a Japanese singer actor and dancer in the Japanese agency Johnny & Associates. He joined Johnny & Associates in 1995 and officially debuted in 2002 in the duo Tackey & Tsubasa with Hideaki Takizawa. They are signed under the record label Avex Trax.Imai released his solo debut single Backborn on February 24 2010.
Don-E.  Don-E (born Donald McLean in Brixton London England) is a British soul singer songwriter musician and producer. Don-E is most well known for his début single Love Makes The World Go Round which reached #18 in the UK Singles Chart in 1992.
Scott Gorham.  Scott Gorham (born William Scott Gorham on March 17 1951 in Glendale California) is an American guitarist and songwriter who rose to international recognition as one of the twin lead guitarists of the Irish-formed rock band Thin Lizzy. Although not a founding member of Thin Lizzy he is best known for his continuous membership after passing an audition and joining the band during a time when the band was on hiatus after the departure of guitarist Eric Bell.
Miff Mole.  Irving Milfred Mole better known as Miff Mole (11 March 1898 – 29 April 1961) was a jazz trombonist and band leader.
Kathleen O'Grady.  Kathleen O'Grady is a Canadian author and academic. She has published two children's books but is more widely known as a feminist scholar who investigates women’s health issues through a cultural lens and whose work addresses the under-researched intersection between feminism and the study of religion.
Hsiao Ho (actor).  Hsiao Ho (Hsiao Hou) (Chinese: 小侯; Cantonese: Siu Hau born 1 January 1958 in Henan China) is a Hong Kong martial arts film actor stunt performer and action choreographer. He has acted in many films directed by Lau Kar-leung including Mad Monkey Kung Fu and Legendary Weapons of China. In 1985 he portrayed legendary kung fu warrior Fong Sai-Yuk in the Lau directed action-comedy Disciples of the 36th Chamber and also took a lead role in Fake Ghost Catchers directed by Lau Kar Wing.
Michael A. Stackpole.  Michael A. Stackpole (born November 27 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books. He was born in Wausau Wisconsin but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry.
Jessica Clemmons.  Jessica Clemmons (born July 16 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Houson Texas. She first captured the attention of the public as a contestant on American Idol in 2005 and although she didn't make it to the final selection she credits Paula Abdul's word's One Day We're Going To See Your Name In Lights as the motivation she needed to continue her career as a recording artist.
GLOWINTHEDARK.  GLOWINTHEDARK is a Dutch DJ/Producer duo from Den Haag consisting of Albert Harvey (1986) and Kevin Ramos (1987).
Flying Lotus.  Steven Ellison (born October 7 1983) known by his stage name Flying Lotus is an experimental multi-genre music producer and rapper from Los Angeles California.Flying Lotus has released four studio albums—1983 (2006) Los Angeles (2008) Cosmogramma (2010) and Until the Quiet Comes (2012)—to increasing critical acclaim. He has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.
Legendary Stardust Cowboy.  The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (born Norman Carl Odam on September 5 1947 in Lubbock Texas) is an outsider performer who is considered one of the pioneers of the genre that came to be known as psychobilly in the 1960s. While sometimes considered a novelty artist he regards himself a serious performer.
Reverend Gadget.  Greg Abbott known professionally as Reverend Gadget is a steel fabrication artist craftsman prop builder and television personality based in Los Angeles California. He is best known to television audiences as part of the build team on the short-lived Discovery Channel series Big! and has more recently been part of their other series Monster House and Smash Lab.
Michael Buckley (author).  Michael Buckley (born August 16 1969) is a best selling children’s book author who is currently writing The Sisters Grimm and the N.E.R.D.S. book series.
Jan Krist.  Jan Krist is an American singer-songwriter from Detroit Michigan whose music is primarily folk. In 1993 Jan was a New Folk Finalist at the Kerville Music Festival for her songs titled Someone and Daisies in a Bowl. Jan is married to Alan Finkbeiner.
Virginia Mariani.  Virgina Mariani born Virginia Barlocci Ricardi (Rome 1824 - Rome 1898) was an Italian painter active in Rome. She was known for her portraits in watercolors and oils. She also worked in ceramics.
Iryna Bilyk.  Iryna Mykolayivna Bilyk (Ukrainian: Ірина Миколаївна Білик born 1970 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian singer songwriter and People's Artist of Ukraine.She wrote her first song at the age of ten. In 1995 Bilyk performed for the United States President Bill Clinton.
Walfredo Reyes Sr..  Walfredo Reyes Sr. born in Cuba as Walfredo de los Reyes III is a world-renowned percussionist drum set player and educator in the fields of session recording live performance and clinics. He is the father of famed percussionists Walfredo Reyes Jr. and Daniel de los Reyes and of television and video game actor Kamar de los Reyes.
Jackie French.  Jacqueline Anne Jackie French (born 29 November 1953) Is an award-winning Australian author. She has written well over one hundred books chiefly children's fiction and books on gardening. Her novels Hitler's Daughter and To the Moon and Back have been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers and Children's Book of the Year Award: Eve Pownall Award for Information Books respectively.
Jessica Sierra.  Jessica Ann Sierra (born November 11 1985) is an American singer and was the tenth-place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol. She was the third finalist eliminated on March 30 2005. Sierra released her single Enough in October 2010 from her upcoming debut album Rebound due out sometime in 2011 after being pushed back in December 2010.
Ben Crystal.  Ben Crystal (born 1977) is an English actor author and producer best known for his work on performing and promoting William Shakespeare in the so-called original pronunciation.
Terje Winterstø Røthing.  Terje Winterstø Røthing (born Terje Vinterstø in 1977) is a Norwegian musician playing guitar in two rock bands.Røthing joined a band named Kaizers Orchestra soon after the band started in 2000. He had participated with various bandmembers earlier projects. He was a long-term friend of Janove Ottesen and Geir Zahl. He had participated on every recording of Blod Snått & Juling (band) and gnom (band).
Angelo Badalamenti.  Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22 1937) is an American composer best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch notably Blue Velvet the Twin Peaks saga (1990–1992) and Mulholland Drive. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2008.
Yinka Shonibare.  Yinka Shonibare MBE (born 1962) is a British-Nigerian artist living in London whose work explores cultural identity colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. A hallmark of his art is the brightly coloured fabric he uses.
Simon Heartfield.  Simon Heartfield (born 1962 in Nantwich Cheshire) is a DJ musician and record producer.Heartfield is widely regarded as a leading exponent of electronic music both in his hometown (Portsmouth UK) and beyond.
Rowland Greenberg.  Rowland Charles Wentworth Greenberg (born 28 August 1920 in Oslo - deceased 2 April 1994) was a Norwegian jazz musician (trumpet) seen by many as one of the foremost names in Norwegian jazz in the 1940s and 50s.
Heath (musician).  Hiroshi Morie (森江 博 Morie Hiroshi born January 22 1968 in Amagasaki Japan) known exclusively by his stage name Heath is a Japanese musician singer and songwriter best known as the bass player of the popular heavy metal band X Japan.
Christopher Klim.  Christopher Klim (born September 8 1962) is an American novelist best known for the novels Jesus Lives in Trenton and The Winners Circle.
Winston Chao.  Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997) Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011).
Manuel Escorcio.  Manuel Escorcio is a South African tenor who performs in Afrikaans English and Portuguese. Escorcio was born in Lourenzo Marques Mozambique but started his musical career at the Helderberg College in Somerset-West South Africa when he was 16 years of age.Escorcio has performed in South Africa the USA Canada Brazil Portugal Venezuela the Philippines and Australia.In 1981 Escorcio was awarded the Order of Prince Henry.
Barry Lupino.  Barry Lupino (7 January 1882 – 26 September 1962) born George Barry Lupino Hook was a British comedian film actor and producer.
Roger Dean (guitar player).  Roger Dean (born David Roger Bryan Dean 16 March 1943 in Hendon Middlesex – died 3 August 2008) was a British guitar player and teacher. His professional career ran over 40 years until retiring following a car crash in 2004. During the sixties he played in a number of bands which left few traces in the history of popular music. The notable exception occurred when he joined briefly John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Dean's guitar is heard on Mayall's first album and single.
Jim Kerr.  James Jim Kerr (born 9 July 1959) is a Scottish musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with the band Simple Minds who achieved five UK No. 1 albums and a No. 1 single Ballad of the Streets EP. He released his first solo album Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr on 27 May 2010.
Güney Dal.  Güney Dal (born 1944 Çanakkale) is a Turkish-German writer. His children who are named Ceren Dal (born 1973) and Sophie Dal (born 1981) are both actors.He has worked as journalist for Sender Freies Berlin.
Adem Ilhan.  Adem Ilhan (Turkish: Adem İlhan IPA: [ˈɑdem ˈiːlhan]; /ˈædɛm ˈɪlhæn/) is an English musician of Turkish descent from South London he is currently the bass guitarist in the post-rock band Fridge alongside Kieran Hebden and is part of the electronic duo Silver Columns with Johnny Lynch. His solo music is released under the name Adem.
Brad Davis (musician).  Brad Davis is an American country/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Vasily Vereshchagin.  Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин October 26 1842 – April 13 1904) was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them to never be printed or exhibited.
Dorothy Knowles.  Dorothy Knowles CM SOM (born 1927 in Unity Saskatchewan) is a Canadian artist most notable for her landscape paintings. She is the widow of William Perehudoff a fellow artist who is more closely associated with the Color Field movement.
Veronica Carlson.  Veronica Carlson (born 18 September 1944 in Yorkshire England) is an English model and actress famous for her roles in Hammer horror films.Born as Veronica Mary Glazer Veronica Carlson spent most of her childhood in Germany where her father was stationed. She attended the Thetford Girls' School and later High Wycombe College of Technology and Design where she studied art and participated in college amateur productions.
Bal Gandharva.  Narayan Shripad Rajhans better known as Bal Gandharva (1888–1967) was one of the greatest Marathi singers and stage actors. He was famous for his roles of female characters in Marathi plays since women were not allowed to act on stage during his time.Bal Gandharva got his name after a performance in Pune as an aspiring singer.
Seann Scott.  Seann Scott is a rock metal drummer who has played in various bands and continues to be active in multiple current acts.
Richard Reames.  Richard C. Reames (born September 20 1957) is an American arborsculptor and nurseryman author of two self-published books and a public speaker who lives and works in Williams Oregon. He sometimes teaches at the John C. Campbell Folk School. He coined the word arborsculpture as a substitute for the word pleaching.
J. R. R. Tolkien.  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (/ˈtɒlkiːn/ TOL-keen; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer poet philologist and university professor best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College Oxford from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College Oxford from 1945 to 1959. 
Carmit Bachar.  Carmit Bachar (Hebrew: כרמית בכר‎; born September 4 1974) is an American singer dancer model actress and showgirl. She was a member of the successful pop/R&B group the Pussycat Dolls and one of the main vocalists of the group along with Nicole Scherzinger and Melody Thornton. Bachar left the group in February 2008. She is currently engaged and gave birth to a baby girl named Keala Rose on September 18 2011. She is currently a member of electro/pop duo called LadyStation.
Shams (singer).  Shams Al-Aslami (Arabic: شمس الأسلمي) known mononymously as Shams is a Kuwaiti-Saudi singer of mixed Kuwaiti-Saudi ancestry. Shams released her first album in 2000 she did not achieve mainstream success[citation needed] until appeared as a guest on the show Leman Yajro'a Faqat on LBC with the presenter Tony Khalifa to talk about her problems with the Saudi singer Sara.
JoAnn Ross.  JoAnn Ross (born July 25 in United States) is popular US writer of over 95 romance novels since 1983. She has also written novels as JoAnn Robbins and JoAnn Robb.She is a member of the Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of best-selling authors she's won several awards including Romantic Times's Career Achievement Awards in both category and contemporary single title.
Ann McNamee.  Ann Kosakowski McNamee (Southbridge Massachusetts May 21 1953) is a singer/songwriter based in San Francisco CA and a retired Professor Emerita of Music at Swarthmore College notable for her contribution to music theory; her song writing; and her musical performances with the bands the Flying Other Brothers and Moonalice known for their cutting edge technology particularly in the area of social media as well as their performances at festivals such as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Nateva Summer Camp Music Festival Oregon Country Fair Gathering of the Vibes; and with her band Ann Atomic during the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair.
Sofie Zamchick.  Sofie Zamchick (born April 2 1994) is a folk-pop singer/songwriter and actress. She is best known as the voice of Linny the Guinea Pig on the American animated children's television series Wonder Pets. She currently attends the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is widely known for her ability as a versatile musician; she plays the marimba guitar piano and various other percussion instruments.Zamchick grew up in Tenafly New Jersey and attended Tenafly High School.
Vic Fuentes.  Victor Vincent Vic Fuentes (born February 10 1983 in San Diego California) is the lead singer and guitarist of rock band Pierce the Veil. He has also played some keyboards on Pierce the Veil's records. He plays in the band along with his brother Mike Fuentes. Both Fuentes brothers attended Mission Bay High School.
Babben Larsson.  Barbro 'Babben' Larsson (born October 29 1956) is a Swedish actress and comedian. Larsson was born in Gotland and is recognised by her pronounced dialect. Now living in Solna with her daughter she attended the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Stockholm in 1980. She has been active in the S.U.C.K. (Stand Up Comedy Club) since 1988 and comedian group R.E.A. (Roligt Elakt Aktuellt).
Paul Baghdadlian.  Paul Baghdadlian (Armenian Փոլ Բաղդադլյան  Western Armenian: Փօլ Պաղտատլեան) (July 10 1953 – June 28 2011) was often known simply as Paul was a Syrian and American Armenian singer songwriter musician entertainer and businessman. He is referred to as the King of Love Songs. His music was loved by all Armenians particularly by the Armenian diaspora.
Chris Collins (writer).  Chris Collins is an American television writer and producer. He has worked on the HBO dramas The Sopranos and The Wire. He was an executive story editor for the Starz drama series Crash. He is a producer and writer for the FX series Sons of Anarchy.
Walter Zadek.  Walter Zadek (26 March 1900 – 20 December 1992) was an Israeli photographer and uncle of the theatre director Peter Zadek.
Showyousuck.  Clinton Sandifer better known by his stage name Showyousuck (often stylized as ShowYouSuck) is an American rapper from Chicago Illinois. He has collaborated with Netherfriends Mr. MFN Exquire and The Hood Internet. He is a member of Treated Crew.
Marie de Régnier.  Marie de Régnier (French: [maʁi də ʁeɲe]; 20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963) also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville (French: [ʒeʁaʁ duvil]) was a French novelist and poet and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.
M. G. Gupta.  Dr. M. G. Gupta was a Urdu poet. He wrote under the pseudonym Bekas Akbarabadi (Akbarabad being the historical name of Agra). A collection of his poems entitled Rahat-i-Ruh was published in 2004.
Godfrey Blow.  Godfrey Blow (born 6 October 1948) is an artist based in Kalamunda Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth Stuckists.
Ray Lui.  Ray Lui Leung-wai (born 22 December 1956) is a Vietnam-born Hong Kong actor with family roots in Lianjiang Zhanjiang Guangdong. He is best known for his role as Ting Lik in the 1980 Hong Kong television series The Bund produced by TVB which propelled him to fame. Since then Lui has acted in several films and other television series also produced by TVB.
Al Jaffee.  Abraham Jaffee (born March 13 1921) known as Al Jaffee is an American cartoonist. He is notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad including his trademark feature the Mad Fold-In. As of 2014 Jaffee remains a regular in the magazine after 59 years and is its longest-running contributor. In the half century between April 1964 and April 2013 only one issue of Mad was published without containing new material by Jaffee.
Henning Gravrok.  Henning Gravrok (born 19 March 1948 in Tovik Northern Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and music dagog raised in Harstad and educated as teacher. Since 1975 he has been central to the Tromsø and Bodø jazz scenes.
Pussy Tourette.  Pussy Tourette is the stage name for an American drag queen composer and singer.She is best known for her single French Bitch for which a music video/short film directed by Andrei Rozen was made and included in the film festival compilation DVD Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema. The song is a comedic high camp dance track about the duplicitous title character who saw my man so she felt the need to scratch her itch.
Kate Borcherding.  Kate Borcherding (born October 26 1960) is an American artist working in mixed media. Her artistic style is both neoclassical and postmodern.
Bill Parker (comics).  William Bill H. Parker Jr. (April 1 1899-1963) was an American comic book writer and editor. He is best known for creating Fawcett Comics' most popular character Captain Marvel in 1940 along with artist C. C. Beck.Parker joined Fawcett Publications in 1937. Parker's tenure on Captain Marvel comics was cut short when he was conscripted into World War II.
Donald E. Stewart.  Donald E. Stewart (24 January 1930 – 28 April 1999) was an American-born screenwriter most well known for his screenplay for Missing which won the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay the Writers Guild of America Award the London Film Critics' Circle award a Christopher Award (www.christophers.org) and the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay all shared with the film's director Costa-Gavras.
Nicole Stenger.  Nicole Stenger is a French born American artist pioneer in Virtual Reality and Internet movies. In 1989-1991 she was a research Fellow at MIT (CAVS & Visual Arts Program now merged into ACT). In 1991-1992 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (Hitlab) in Seattle. Her works have been featured in the SIGGRAPH Art Show the FILE Festival the JavaMuseum the Cartier Art Foundation and are part of the Database of Virtual Art (DVA).
Jean-Laurent Mosnier.  Jean-Laurent Mosnier (French: [moɲe]; (Paris) 1743 – (Saint Petersburg) 10 April 1808) was a French painter and miniaturist. Court painter under the Ancien Régime Mosnier began from 1789 a brilliant career as society painter in London Hamburg and St. Petersburg. Many times academician he leaves considerable work and high quality both in miniature painting.
Varāhamihira.  Varāhamihira About this sound pronunciation (Devanagari: वराहमिहिर) (505–587 CE) also called Varaha or Mihir was an Indian astronomer mathematician and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He was born in Avanti region roughly corresponding to modern-day Malwa to Adityadasa who was himself an astronomer. According to one of his own works he was educated at Kapitthaka.
Leah Goldberg.  Lea Goldberg (Hebrew: לאה גולדברג‎; May 29 1911 Königsberg – January 15 1970 Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet author playwright literary translator and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature.
Johnnie Ray.  John Alvin Johnnie Ray (January 10 1927 – February 24 1990) was an American singer songwriter and pianist. Extremely popular for most of the 1950s Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality.
Louis Ratisbonne.  Louis Gustave Fortune Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 - 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters.He was born at Strasbourg. He studied at the school of his native town and at the College Henry IV in Paris.
Gwynn ap Gwilym.  Gwynn ap Gwilym (born 1955) is a Welsh language poet novelist editor and translator.He was born in Bangor but raised in Machynlleth in Gwynedd north-west Wales. H was educated at University of Wales University of Ireland Gaillimh and Wycliffe Hall Oxford with an MA degree. An Anglican clergyman he is also a lecturer at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Carrie Snyder.  Carrie Snyder is a Canadian writer best known for her 2012 short story collection the Juliet stories which was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English fiction at the 2012 Governor General's Awards.Born in Hamilton Ontario she currently lives in Waterloo. She spent part of her childhood living in Nicaragua which is reflected in The Juliet Stories.
Lucien Leclerc.  Nicholas Lucien Leclerc (Ville-sur-Illon 1816-Ville-sur-Illon 1893) was a French military doctor translator and influential early western historian of medicine in the medieval Islamic world. He was an assistant military surgeon in Algeria from 1840-1844. His Histoire de la médecine arabe (Paris 1876) was one of the first major histories of Arabic medicine but has subsequently been superseded in many areas.
Charles de La Fosse.  Charles de La Fosse (or Lafosse) (June 16 1636 – December 13 1716) French painter was born in Paris.He was one of the most noted and least servile pupils of Le Brun under whose direction he shared in the chief of the great decorative works undertaken in the reign of Louis XIV. Leaving France in 1662 he spent two years in Rome and three in Venice.
Walter Borden.  Walter Borden CM is a Canadian actor poet and playwright originally from New Glasgow Nova Scotia.Most prominent as a stage actor he joined Halifax's Neptune Theatre company in 1972.
Victor Stanley.  Victor Stanley (1892-1939) was a British film actor.
George Wharton James.  George Wharton James (27 September 1858 – 1923) was aprolific popular lecturer photographer and journalist writing more than 40 books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest.
William Silvers.  William Silvers (born in New Bremen Ohio) is an American painter and illustrator best known for his work in the field of wildlife art.
Charmaine Sinclair.  Charmaine Sinclair (born 23 April 1971 as Charmaine Garth) is an English glamour model and pornographic actress.
Nick Venet.  Nick Venet (born Nikolas Kostantinos Venetoulis 3 December 1936 – 2 January 1998) was an American record producer who began his career at age 19 with World Pacific Jazz. He is primarily known for signing the Beach Boys and producing their early material.
Jake Steed.  Jake Steed (born Jake Ozeke on August 27 1972) is an African American former pornographic film actor who appeared in interracial pornography.
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw.  Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (24 July 1863 - 8 July 1919) was a Dutch poet and philosopher.During Dèr Mouw's life only one volume of his poetry was published: Brahman I under the pen name Adwaita.
Juvenile (rapper).  Terius Gray (born March 25 1975) better known by his stage name Juvenile is an American rapper actor and songwriter. He is also a former member of hip-hop group the Hot Boys. At the age of 19 he began recording raps releasing his debut album Being Myself in 1995. He became popular when his 1999 single Back That Thang Up was released. In 2003 he returned to Cash Money to record Juve the Great spawning the number-one hit Slow Motion.
Julian Trevelyan.  Julian Otto Trevelyan RA (20 February 1910 – 12 July 1988) was a British artist and poet.
Niven Busch.  Niven Busch (April 26 1903 – August 25 1991) was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed The Postman Always Rings Twice. His novels included Duel in the Sun (1944) and California Street. He was married to actress Teresa Wright for ten years beginning in 1942.
Jessica Anderson.  Jessica Margaret Anderson (25 September 1916 – 9 July 2010) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Embarking on her career as a novelist relatively late in life she rose to prominence upon the publication of her fourth novel Tirra Lirra by the River published in 1978.
Ivana Wong.  Ivana Wong (Chinese: 王菀之; Mandarin Pinyin: wang wan zhi; Jyutping: wong jyun zi) was born on 18 June 1979. She is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer-songwriter.
Herbert Haines.  Herbert Edgar Haines (1880-1923) was a British composer of musicals and songs including some pieces for silent films in the early years of the 20th century. Haines's musicals most by Ben Dauphinais with lyrics by Charles H. Taylor (lyricist) included The Catch of the Season (1904) The Talk of the Town (1905) The Beauty of Bath (1906) My Darling (1907) and Pebbles on the Beach (1912).
John Christopher.  Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012) known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd was a British writer best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher including the novel The Death of Grass and the young-adult novel series The Tripods.
Ray Davies.  Raymond Douglas Ray Davies CBE (/ˈdeɪvɨz/ DAY-viz; born 21 June 1944) is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks which he led with his younger brother Dave. He has also acted directed and produced shows for theatre and television.Since the dissolution of The Kinks in 1996 Ray Davies has embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.
Simon Joyner.  Simon Joyner (born 1971) is a singer-songwriter from Omaha Nebraska United States. Considered by some[citation needed] to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene[citation needed] he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats and Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone.
Neal Doughty.  Neal Allan Doughty (born July 29 1946 Evansville Indiana) is an American keyboardist and the sole remaining founding member of REO Speedwagon currently in the band. He formed the band in the fall of 1967 with original drummer Alan Gratzer.Although he has never been one of REO Speedwagon's primary songwriters Doughty has written or co-written several of the band's songs.
Mary Balogh.  Mary Balogh (rhymes with Kellogg born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944 in Swansea Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian historical romance novelist.
Nicole de La Chesnaye.  Nicole de La Chesnaye (fl. 1507) was a French author of the early 16th century best known for the morality play La Condamnation de Banquet.His play was adapted as a sharp farce La Mort de Souper by Roger Semichon in 1913 and performed in Paris in 1922 with music by Jeanne Herscher-Clément.
Adem K.  Adem K (born Adem Kerimofski on 10 January 1975) is an Australian independent rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the group Turnstyle and more recently Kerimofski has released material as a solo artist and fronts a new band called The Community Chest.
Niccolò Boldrini.  Niccolò Boldrini (c.1500–c.1566) was an Italian engraver of the Renaissance. He was frequently confused with Nicola Vicentino. Boldrini was an engraver on wood born at Vicenza in the early 16th century and who was still living in 1566. His prints are chiefly after Titian who may have been his master. He engraved John Baron de Schwarzenburg after Dürer and the following prints after Titian: The Wise Men's OfferingSt.
Robby Krieger.  Robert Alan Robby Krieger (born January 8 1946) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors and wrote or co-wrote many of the band's songs including Light My Fire Love Me Two Times Touch Me and Love Her Madly.He is listed as number 76 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Chico Slimani.  Yousseph Chico Slimani (born 2 April 1971) is a Welsh-born singer who rose to prominence in the United Kingdom after reaching the quarter-finals of the 2005 series of the talent show The X Factor. In 2006 he had a number 1 hit on the British charts entitled It's Chico Time. In 2008 he appeared on the reality TV show CelebAir in which he placed third.
Carly Cole.  Carly Calder Cole (née Zucker; born 11 May 1984) is a British reality television contestant fitness trainer and model and wife of the footballer Joe Cole.
Mark Steven Johnson.  Mark Steven Johnson is an American film director writer and producer.Johnson was born in Hastings Minnesota and graduated from California State University Long Beach. He has written and directed the two comic book based films Daredevil and Ghost Rider as well as the film Simon Birch. His early writing credits are for the film Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men. Most recently he produced Grudge Match for Warner Bros. which was released on Christmas 2013.
J. Pearl.  J. Pearl is a New York-based American singer signed to Simply Delicious record label which is part of Strictly Rhythm Musical Group. Her music is described as electro house dance music.Her start in music was through a number of local school musical projects.
Mick Gerace.  MIck Gerace (born 19 September 1962 in Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian musician.
Matt Duke (musician).  Matthew Thomas Matt Duke (born January 20 1985) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who was born in Reston Virginia and raised in Mount Laurel Township New Jersey. He released an independent album Winter Child through the student-run MAD Dragon Records at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Later he signed to the major label Rykodisc and has since released multiple albums: two full-length albums: Kingdom Underground and One Day Die and two EPs.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃tɛɡzypeʁi]) officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger comte de Saint Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944 Mort pour la France) was a French aristocrat writer poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award.
Ned Miller.  Henry Ned Miller (born April 12 1925 Rains Carbon County Utah) is an American country music artist. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970 he is known primarily for his hit single From a Jack to a King a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music adult contemporary and Billboard Hot 100 charts. He had several more chart singles in his career though none matched the peak of From a Jack to a King.
Bobby Whitlock.  Robert Stanley Bobby Whitlock (born March 18 1948 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American singer songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a member of blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos with Eric Clapton in 1970–71. Whitlock's musical career began with Memphis soul acts such as Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the MG's before he joined Delaney & Bonnie and Friends in 1968.
Vincenzo Foppa.  Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1430 – c. 1515) was a Northern-Italian Renaissance painter.He was an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. Born at Bagnolo Mella near Brescia in the Republic of Venice he settled in Pavia around 1456 serving the dukes of Milan and emerging as one of the most prominent Lombard painters. Foppa returned to Brescia in 1489. His style shows affinities to Andrea del Castagno and Carlo Crivelli.
Patricio Sturlese.  Patricio Sturlese is an Argentinian writer. Born in Buenos Aires October 23 1973. Student of theology at the Jesuit Theologate Máximo in San Miguel city Argentina.Patricio lives and writes in Bella Vista town.
Jeremy Marshall.  Jeremy Marshall (born October 23 1971) is the bassist for the hard rock/alternative band Cold.He has been in the band since its early days back when they were known as Grundig. He plays a black custom 24 fret ESP 5 string bass tuned to (low to high) Bb E A D G with spider inlays. He has an ex-wife Robin and is married to violinist and Jacksonville Florida native Allison Edwards (b. 1978). The couple lives in Jacksonville Beach Florida.
Anthony Bidulka.  Anthony Bidulka (born July 24 1962) is a Canadian writer of mystery novels. His books feature gay detective Russell Quant.His 2004 novel Flight of Aquavit won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery Novel.
Cristofano Gherardi.  Cristofano Gherardi also known as il Doceno (November 25 1508 – April 1556) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period active mainly in Florence and Tuscany.He was born in Borgo San Sepolcro and also called il Doceno dal Borgo. He was the pupil of the painter Raffaellino del Colle in whose shop he encountered Rosso Fiorentino and Giorgio Vasari.
Christian Birmingham.  Christian Birmingham is a British illustrator and artist who has worked with a number of authors including children's laureate Michael Morpurgo on books including Whitbread Children's Book of the Year The Wreck of the Zanzibar and Smarties Prize winner The Butterfly Lion.
Jackie Wilson.  Jack Leroy Jackie Wilson Jr. (June 9 1934 – January 21 1984) was an American singer and performer. Known as Mr. Excitement Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was considered a master showman and one of the most dynamic and influential singers and performers in R&B and rock n' roll history.
Ilan Eshkeri.  Ilan Eshkeri is an English film composer.
Jennifer Saunders.  Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian screenwriter singer and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the Bafta Fellowship) an International Emmy Award a British Comedy Award a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards and a People's Choice Award.She first found widespread attention in the 1980s when she became a member of the Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Thes One.  Thes One born Christopher Cesar Portugal in Torrance California on October 18 1977 to an American mother and immigrant Peruvian father is one half of hip hop duo People Under The Stairs serving as a vocalist/MC producer engineer and business manager.
Aaron Kuder.  Aaron Kuder is an American comic book artist and writer who has worked on books such as The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 Legion Lost Green Lantern: New Guardians and Avenging Spider-Man.
Sunil Das.  Sunil Das (born 1939) is an Indian expressionist painter. He is popular for his paintings Bull Series and woman.In 2014 Government of India conferred upon him its fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri.
Tony Law.  Tony Law (born 20 September 1969) is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Originally from Lacombe Alberta he is now based in London United Kingdom. He lives in Islington with his family.He is known for his highly surreal material and delivery and 1950s Americana style of dress favouring boots with turned-up jeans and a Viking/explorer style of hair.
Mavis Jukes.  Mavis Jukes (born May 3 1947 in Nyack New York) is an American author of novels for children. She has also published nonfiction books for children and pre-teens about puberty. Her books are usually health-based. Jukes did her undergraduate studies at the University of California Berkeley. Before becoming an author Jukes was a licensed California attorney and a teacher. Jukes became inactive as an attorney in 1984. Her first book ''No One is Going to Nashville was published in 1983.
G. B. Jones.  G. B. Jones is a Canadian artist filmmaker musician and publisher of zines based in Toronto Canada. Her art work has been featured at galleries around the world and her films screened at numerous film festivals both in Canada and abroad. Her most recent musical project is Opera Arcana.
Wilkinson (musician).  Mark Wilkinson known by his stage name Wilkinson is a British drum and bass music producer and DJ from London. He has released music on RAM Records and Hospital Records as well as Virgin EMI. His 2013 single Afterglow with uncredited vocals by Becky Hill reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart on 20 October 2013. His debut album Lazers Not Included was released on 28 October 2013.
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (writer).  Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin (Pronounced MEE-hall O'SOOL-a-vahn) was an Irish writer.He wrote Where Mountainy Men Have Sown an account of the Irish War of Independence in County Cork. This appears to be one of the sources for the film The Wind That Shakes the Barley. His granddaughter is Irish comedienne Aisling Bea.
Perfect (musician).  Perfect (born Greg Rose 26 March 1980 Bamboo Saint Ann Parish Jamaica) is a reggae singer.
René Iché.  For the town in Morocco see Iche MoroccoRené Iché (21 January 1897 – 23 December 1954) was a 20th-century French sculptor.
Rivka Galchen.  Rivka Galchen (born April 19 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel Atmospheric Disturbances was published in 2008 has been translated into over 20 languages and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Marta Cunningham.  Marta Cunningham CBE (December 1869 - June 25 1937) was an American-born European-based soprano-singer and philanthropist.Born in 1869 in Brazos County Texas United States her parents were Albert Baxter and Martha Minerva Tharp Cunningham both from DeSoto Parish Louisiana.
Jim Cregan.  James Jim Cregan (born 9 March 1946) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known for his associations with Family Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Rod Stewart. Cregan is a former husband of the singer Linda Lewis and worked with her as a record producer. He has also worked with London Quireboys Glass Tiger Katie Melua and formed Farm Dogs with Bernie Taupin.
Louise Fili.  Louise Fili (born April 12 1951) is an American graphic designer.
Professor X the Overseer.  Lumumba Carson (August 4 1956–March 17 2006) known by his stage names Baba Professor X the Overseer Professor X or PXO was born the son of Brooklyn-based activist Sonny Carson. Carson was a founding member of the Hip hop group X Clan and was featured in nearly all songs on the albums To the East Blackwards (1990) and Xodus (1992) right before the group went on hiatus.
Gavin Castleton.  Gavin Castleton is a musician/songwriter from Providence Rhode Island. Originally known for his work with Gruvis Malt as keyboardist and singer Castleton has also released seven full length albums (Hypotenuse Dark Age Grace Land For the Love of Pete Covers Home and Won Over Frequency) and 5 EPs (FortNightShift EP with One Drop Hospital Hymns A Bullet A Lever A Key Window 23 with Stateless and Random Anthems).
Yuri German.  Yuri Pavlovich German (Russian: Ю́рий Па́влович Ге́рман) (April 4 [O.S. March 22] 1910 – January 16 1967) was a Soviet Russian writer playwright screenwriter and journalist.
Joel Hallikainen.  Joel Hallikainen (born in Turku Finland on October 11 1961) is a Finnish musician and entertainer.
Danny Rubin.  Danny Rubin (born 1957) is an American screenwriter actor lecturer and celebrity blogger. He wrote the screenplay to the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day for which he received a BAFTA Film Award for Best Screenplay.Rubin received a B.A. in biology from Brown University and a M.A. in radio television and film from Northwestern University. He has taught screenwriting at numerous universities and lectured on the topic at academic conferences since 1995.
DJ Mangoo.  Mattias Brånn better known by his stage name DJ Mangoo or just Mangoo is Swedish disc jockey record producer and songwriter originating from Örbyhus Uppland. He concentrates on electronic dance house and trance music.
Sidney Lanier.  Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3 1842 – September 7 1881) was an American musician and poet.
J. P. Hubrick.  J.P. Hubrick was an Alaskan adventurer hunter newsman and photographer best known for his panoramic photographs of the Wrangell mountain range through the early 1900s. A resident of McCarthy Alaska Hubrick started the town's first newspaper the Cooper Bee in February 1916.
Afonso Arinos.  Afonso Arinos was a Brazilian writer.In the 19th century Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco was recognized as one of the most influential intellectuals of his time. His work is part of Brazil's most prestigious literature and contains a strong message of social criticism.
Shystie.  Chanelle Scott Calica (born 25 December 1983) better known by her stage name Shystie is an English female rapper-songwriter and actress. Her mother was born and raised in Barbados and her father born and raised in Grenada making her heritage West-Indian. She grew up in Hackney East London.
Ivana Kobilca.  Ivana Kobilca (20 December 1861–4 December 1926) was the most prominent Slovene woman painter and a key figure of Slovene cultural identity. She was a realist painter who studied and worked in Vienna Munich Paris Sarajevo Berlin and Ljubljana. She mostly painted oil paintings and pastels whereas her drawings are few. The themes include still lifes portraits genre works allegories and religious scenes.
Gene Summers.  Gene Summers (born January 3 1939 in Dallas Texas) is an American rock/rockabilly singer and entertainer. Some of his classic recordings include School of Rock 'n Roll Straight Skirt Nervous Gotta Lotta That Twixteen Alabama Shake and his biggest-selling single Big Blue Diamonds. Summers was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1997 and The Southern Legends Entertainment & Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2005.
Kenny Doughty.  Kenny Doughty is an English actor who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Kenny currently plays 'Gaz' in Simon Beaufoy's new stage play of The Full Monty at the Noël Coward Theatre West End London in 2014. Kenny won the Best Actor Award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in 2005 for his performance in The Aryan Couple.
Stephan Groth.  Stephan Groth (born August 10 1971 in Odense Denmark) is the man behind Apoptygma Berzerk an electronic dance music act that plays in styles such as synthpop ebm and futurepop. Stephan Leonard Groth was born in Odense Denmark but relocated with his family to his father's home town Sarpsborg Norway in 1986.Along with Ronan Harris of VNV Nation and the members of Covenant he is considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the futurepop genre of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
George Clayton Johnson.  George Clayton Johnson (born July 10 1929 in Cheyenne Wyoming) is an American science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan (basis for the 1976 film). He is also known for his work in television writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone such as Nothing in the Dark Kick the Can A Game of Pool and A Penny for Your Thoughts and Star Trek the first aired episode of the series The Man Trap.
Beth Carvalho.  Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho known professionally as Beth Carvalho (born May 5 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian samba singer guitarist cavaquinist and composer.
Fred Tackett.  Fred Tackett (born August 30 1945) an American native of Arkansas is an accomplished songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Originally a session player on guitar mandolin and trumpet he is best known as a member of the band Little Feat.In addition to his work with the Little Feat Tackett has played and recorded with many notable artists. He has an additional side project with another member of Little Feat; he performs as part of a duo with Paul Barrere as Paul and Fred.
Ola Cohn.  Ola Cohn born Carola Cohn in Bendigo (25 April 1892 – 23 December 1964) was an Australian artist author and philanthropist best known for her work in sculpture in a modernist style and famous for her Fairies Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens Melbourne.Ola was educated at Girton College Bendigo then studied drawing and sculpture at the Bendigo School of Mines. She continued her studies in Melbourne at Swinburne Technical College and then at the Royal College of Art in London.
Jim White (musician).  Michael Davis Pratt (born March 10 1957) known professionally as Jim White is a Southern American singer-songwriter and guitarist. White's music can be loosely described as alternative country but veers off in different sometimes experimental directions with occasional nods[citation needed]to Tom Waits and the literary narratives of Flannery O'Connor Cormac McCarthy and Harry Crews.
Mike Fellows.  Mike Fellows AKA Miighty Flashlight (born Michael Scott Fellows on September 20 1965) is an American musician who has performed and recorded with a variety of groups and artists since the early 1980s.
Norihiko Hibino.  Norihiko Hibino (日比野 則彦 Hibino Norihiko born September 3 1973) is a Japanese video game composer and saxophonist.
Ryan Leslie.  Anthony Ryan Leslie (born September 25 1978) professionally known as Ryan Leslie is an American record producer singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and rapper from Washington D.C. Founder of the media company NextSelection Lifestyle Group Leslie has produced singles for a number of artists in a variety of genres ranging from R&B/hip hop to pop to gospel.
Bin Uehara.  Bin Uehara (上原 敏 Uehara Bin August 26 1908 – July 29 1944) was a Japanese popular music (ryūkōka) singer and soldier. He was known for using naniwa-bushi's kobushi vocalism in Japanese popular music. He was killed in action during the eastern New Guinea campaign during the Pacific War.
Ingeborg (singer).  Ingeborg (born Ingeborg Thérèse Marguerite Sergeant 15 October 1966 Menen) is a Belgian singer and television presenter best known outside Belgium for her participation in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest.
Michael O'Connor (author).  Michael O'Connor (born July 5 1944) is an American author business advisor executive coach and motivational speaker in the fields of organizational development and individual performance. He is the founder of the Center for Managing by Values and creator of the Managing by Values process a culmination of over 25 years of research about how individuals and organizations can optimize personal and business success in ways that match their specific styles and needs.
Aldo Mazza.  Aldo Mazza is an internationally recognized drummer percussionist and recording artist. He is also a clinician and educator and the founder of KoSA Music.
Zsa Zsa Padilla.  Zsa Zsa Padilla (born May 28 1964) is a Filipina singer and actress. She is currently part of ABS-CBN contract actresses.
Evaristo Baschenis.  Evaristo Baschenis (December 7 1617 – March 16 1677) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century active mainly around his native city of Bergamo. He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for still lifes most commonly of musical instruments. This could explain his friendship with a family with notable violin makers from Cremona. Still-life depictiona were uncommon as a thematic among Italian painters prior to the 17th century.
Rake (singer).  Rake (レイク Reiku born August 15 ) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted under Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 2010.
Jamie Court.  Jamie Court (born 1967) is an American author political activist lobbyist and consumer advocate. He serves as president of Consumer Watchdog a nationally recognized nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group.Court helped pioneer the HMO patients' rights movement in the United States. He has also led campaigns to reform insurers politicians banks oil companies and utilities.
Billy Faier.  Billy Faier is an American banjo player. He along with Pete Seeger was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.Born in Brooklyn New York he moved with his family to Woodstock New York in 1945 and now resides in Marathon Texas. Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s he recorded two albums for Riverside Records The Art of the Five-String Banjo (1957) and Travelin' Man (1958).
Kazuko Yanaga.  Kazuko Yanaga (弥永 和子 Yanaga Kazuko born April 14 1947 in Fukuoka Japan) is a Japanese voice actress who works for 81 Produce. She is the wife of voice actor Hōchū Ōtsuka.
Tiffany (American singer).  Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2 1971) is an American singer and former teen icon. She is most notable for her 1987 cover of I Think We're Alone Now originally recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. Released as the second single from her eponymous album Tiffany the song quickly became a teen anthem.
Julien Clerc.  Julien Clerc pronounced: [ʒy.ljɛ̃ klɛʁ] (4 October 1947) born as Paul Alain Leclerc is a famous French singer and songwriter.
Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar.  Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar (Devanagari: मधुकर दत्तात्रेय हातकणंगलेकर) (b. 1927) is a Marathi literary critic from Maharashtra India.He was born on February 1 1927 in the town of in Hatakananagle in Kolhapur district. After his high school education in Sangli he attended Sangli's Willingdon College to receive a master's degree. During 1956-1987 he served as a professor at the same college also serving during 1973-1978 as the college's principal.
John Cale.  John Davies Cale OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician composer singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band the Velvet Underground.Though best known for his work in rock music Cale has worked in various genres including drone and classical and studied music at Goldsmiths College University of London. Since departing from the Velvet Underground in 1968 he has released approximately 30 albums.
Myfanwy Pavelic.  Myfanwy Pavelic CM OBC CPA (April 27 1916 – May 7 2007) née Spencer was a Canadian portrait artist.
B.Slade.  Anthony Charles Williams II (born (1975-05-16)May 16 1975 in San Diego California) better known by his stage name B.Slade formerly known under the gospel moniker Tonéx (/ˈtoʊneɪ/ TOH-nay) is an American singer songwriter actor multi-instrumentalist rapper dancer producer and activist from San Diego CA. He has gone by various names and aliases but his primary stage name of choice had for years been Tonéx.
Wouter Crabeth II.  Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth II (1594 – c. 18 June 1644) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Ian Kennedy Martin.  Ian Kennedy Martin (born 23 May 1936) is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney produced by Euston Films for Thames Television which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs.
Jason Rebello.  Jason Rebello (born 29 March 1969) is a British pianist songwriter and record producer.
Paul Ehrenberg.  Paul Ehrenberg (1876–1949) was a German violinist and impressionist painter brother of Carl Ehrenberg and half-brother of Hilde Distel.Ehrenberg was a student of the painter Heinrich von Zügel. He was a member of the Luitpoldsgruppe and Künstlergenossenschaft. His work shown in many Munich exhibitions included portraits still lifes landscapes and animal paintings. He married the painter Lilly Teufel.Ehrenberg was an excellent violinist who often played chamber music with Thomas Mann.
Karl Hinds.  Karl Hinds is a British rapper and producer within the British Hip Hop scene. He has pursued his musical interest since he was 15 Karl had and still remains with his sights set high and began his venture by setting up his own label Assassin Records.
Lev Nussimbaum.  Lev Nussimbaum (Kiev October 17 1905 – Positano August 27 1942) who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said was a writer and journalist born in Kiev to a Jewish family who spent his childhood in Baku before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922 while living in Germany he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin.
Lucy Rose.  Lucy Rose Parton (born 28 June 1989) known as Lucy Rose is an English singer-songwriter from Warwickshire England. Her debut album Like I Used To was released in September 2012.
Pinchers.  Pinchers born Delroy Thompson 12 April 1965 Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.He released one album as a teenager in Jamaica for Blue Trac Records before moving to the UK in 1985.In 1987 Pinchers gained fame with the single Agony from the album of the same name produced by King Jammy. In the same year he recorded the Mass Out album produced by Philip Fatis Burrell and backed by Sly & Robbie Jackie Mittoo and Robbie Lyn among others.
Ghazala Javed.  Ghazala Javed (غزالة جاويد) (January 1 1988 – June 18 2012) was a Pakistani female singer of Pashto music from Swat Valley. She began singing since 2004 and was popular with young progressive ethnic Pashtuns in northwest Pakistan. Her music was famous not only in Pakistan but also in neighboring Afghanistan and among Pashtuns around the world.
Michelle Black.  Michelle Black is an American author of historical fiction and historical mystery novels. She is also an attorney former bookstore owner and publisher.
Sam Moffie.  Samuel Matthew Moffie (born April 9 1960) is an American novelist bar owner and political activist.
Tom Bertram (singer-songwriter).  Thomas James Bertram (berch – room) born May 29 1991 is a British singer-songwriter performer and recording artist.Born and raised in Portsmouth Hampshire he attended Horndean Technology College until 2007.His first release Wasting Time was recorded in producer and friend Lee Watkins studio in Bury in 2010 and was released later on that year the album pushed just over 1500 copies in its 6 months of promotion.The second independent release was Brighter Days which visited a full live band sound. 
George Washington Harris.  George Washington Harris (March 20 1814 Allegheny City Pennsylvania – December 11 1869 Knoxville Tennessee) was an American humorist best known for his character Sut Lovingood an Appalachian backwoods reveler fond of telling tall tales.
Sarah Mason (novelist).  Sarah Mason (born 1971) is a British novelist of romance novels. In 2003 her debut novel Playing James won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Dunja Knebl.  Dunja Knebl (born 1946) is an acoustic/folk singer from Croatia. She was born in Zagreb Croatia but has also lived in the USA Indonesia and Russia. After completing her studies of English and Russian she spent most of her life working as a translator and language teacher in her free time she sang folk songs to her friends.
Raphael (singer).  Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez (born May 5 1943 in Linares Spain) often simply referred to as Raphael is a worldwide acclaimed Spanish singer and television film and theater actor. A pioneer of modern Spanish music he is considered a major influence in having opened the door and paving the way to the flood of Spanish singers that follow. His wide-range voice added to his quality as showman has entertained and engaged people worldwide for more than five decades.
Neil Strauch.  Neil Strauch is an American music producer and engineer. Neil is a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Audio Program. As engineer for Brian Deck and as a producer himself Neil has worked on a number of recordings for local national and international musicians.
Ailo Gaup (author).  Ailo Gaup (b. June 18 1944 in Kautokeino Norway) is a Sámi shaman and author who writes in Norwegian. He currently lives in Oslo. He was involved in founding the Sámi theater Beaivváš Sámi Theatre in Kautokeino and has also written some plays for the theater. His novels have been translated into English German French and Polish.
Katharina Rutschky.  Katharina Rutschky (January 25 1941 Berlin – January 14 2010 Berlin) was a German educationalist and author. She coined the term Schwarze Pädagogik (literally black pedagogy) in her eponymous book from 1977 describing physical and psychical violence as part of education (a notion elaborated upon some years later by Alice Miller). Until her death Rutschky lived in Berlin with her husband Michael Rutschky.
Michael Schiefel.  Michael Schiefel (born 1970 in Münster Germany) is a jazz and experimental singer.
Eli James.  Elijah Harvey James Rehaume (born November 18 1982 in Seattle Washington) better known as Eli James is an American singer songwriter drummer composer producer and programmer. As of now he is the drummer of the electronic rock / indietronic / dance project Julien-K and Dead By Sunrise the alternative rock side project of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington.
Paul Mottram.  Paul Mottram is a Composer Arranger and Orchestrator of music for film and television and also currently writes production music for Audio Network.Commissioned music credits include Bank Of Dave Kirstie's Handmade Britain (Channel 4) Vic Reeves Rogues Gallery (Discovery BBC Three) and People Like Us (BBC Two).
Christopher North (Ambrosia).  Christopher Reed North (born January 26 1951) San Francisco California is the founding keyboardist for the American progressive rock band Ambrosia.
Tyler Kyte.  Jonathan Tyler Ty Kyte (born July 24 1984; Lindsay Ontario) is a Canadian actor and musician. He began his acting career with commercials and performing in the Musical Tommy in Toronto. Kyte was made famous amongst Canadian youth as a correspondent on the Canadian TV series Popular Mechanics for Kids alongside fellow Canadians Elisha Cuthbert Vanessa Lengies and Jay Baruchel. He later appeared on the TV series Goosebumps (1997) and Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999).
Dadawa.  Dadawa is the stage name of Zhu Zheqin (朱哲琴) a Chinese singer/songwriter and contemporary Chinese music’s first independent producer. Of Hunanese origin ethnically Han and Miao she was born in Guangzhou China. Dadawa has been referred to as the Chinese Enya. She has also been described as China's Ry Cooder[citation needed] for her eclectic forays into world music including one recording and tour with Ireland's Chieftains.
Nicolò da Voltri.  Nicolò da Voltri was an Italian painter who was active in Genoa from 1394 to 1417. He was the most important native painter in Liguria a coastal region of northwestern Italy. His early development took place probably in the 1370s in the circle of Barnaba da Modena who was active in Liguria between 1361 and 1383. Da Voltri was influenced by the Sienese School painter Taddeo di Bartolo who was in Liguria between 1393 and 1398.
Jon Krakauer.  Jon Krakauer (born April 12 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer primarily known for his writings about the outdoors especially mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books—Into the Wild Into Thin Air Under the Banner of Heaven and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles.
Julie Martin (writer).  Julie Martin is an American television writer and producer. She has worked on the NBC crime dramas Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She won a Humanitas Prize and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on Homicide. She has also been nominated for an Edgar Award for her work on Criminal Intent.
Gavin Greenaway.  Gavin Greenaway (born 15 June 1964 in England) is a music composer and conductor. He is the son of Roger Greenaway. Educated at Strode's College and Trinity College of Music. He started working with his father before leaving school. Their compositions for BBC children's television include Jimbo and the Jet Set The Family Ness and Penny Crayon.He conducted the scores for the films Gladiator and Pearl Harbor both composed by Hans Zimmer.
Eva Nedinkovska.  Eva Nedinkovska (Macedonian: Ева Нединковска) (born August 26 1983 in Ohrid) is a Macedonian singer.
Hans Janowitz.  Hans Janowitz (December 2 1890 in Poděbrady Bohemia — May 25 1954 in New York) was a Bohemian-born German author.Janowitz was an officer in World War I but returned from it as a pacifist. Shortly after the war ended he met the similarly minded Carl Mayer in Berlin who suggested he work as an author. Together they wrote the script to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari) which was filmed by Robert Wiene during 1919 and 1920 and released in February 1920.
Mikrokolektyw.  Mikrokolektyw are an experimental jazz and improv duo based in Wrocław Poland. In March 2010 Delmark Records announced the release of their first album Revisit which marked the first release of a European avant jazz group on the Delmark label in its 57-year history.
Song Giwon.  Song Giwon (Hangul: 송기원 is a modern South Korean novelist who has won several awards and been arrested for suspected treason
Hans Sande.  Hans Sande (born 1946) is a Norwegian psychiatrist poet novelist and children's writer. He made his literary début in 1969 with the poetry collection Strime for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. Among his children's books are Lita grøn grasbok from 1972 and Trastedikt from 1977.
Richard Ferguson-Hull.  Richard Ferguson-Hull (also credited as Rich Ferguson-Hull) is an American animation director working primarily in the formats of television serials and advertising. He is best known as the long-time director of Cartoon Network's popular Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law. In 2005 the Harvey Birdman Episode Birdgirl of Guatanamole won Best Animated Series For Adults at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Hanne Blank.  Hanne Blank (February 25 1969) Born in Northampton Massachusetts U.S. Hanne Blank is a historian writer editor and public speaker. She has also edited and written erotica but is retired from that genre. Blank believes in civil rights in general and fat rights in particular. She says: For me as a progressive feminist opposing the whole range of physical-body-based prejudices and stigmas is all of a piece.
Bernard Rhodes.  Bernard Rhodes is the former manager of English punk rock band The Clash. He previously collaborated with Malcolm McLaren managing the early Sex Pistols and was responsible for introducing John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) to the band. He also managed Subway Sect Dexys Midnight Runners and The Specials during the early stages of their careers.
Do Jong-hwan.  Do Jong Hwan (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a Korean poet
Philip F. Gura.  Philip F. Gura (born June 14 1950) is an American scholar writer editor and educator. He currently serves as William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he holds appointments in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature Religious Studies and American Studies.Gura was born in Ware Massachusetts.
Sammul Chan.  Sammul Chan Kin-fung (born 4 May 1978) is a Hong Kong actor singer and presenter.
Lily Li.  Lily Li (李麗麗) (born 21 May 1950) is a Hong Kong actress.
Klaus Mann.  Klaus Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer.
Roman Sakin.  Roman Sakin (Russian: Роман Сакин; born March 17 1976) is a Russian sculptor. He lives and works in Moscow Russia.
Tuzcuoğlu Mehmet Ali.  Tuzcuoğlu Mehmet Ali (Turkish: [tuzdʒuˈoːɫu ˈmeːmet ˈali] Ottoman Turkish: طوزجى اوغلى محمد على[citation needed]; born lived and died in 19th century Görele Ottoman Empire) was a Turkish kemençe player and horon music composer from Görele in Giresun province. He is considered to be the best kemenche player ever by most of the people in the Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey[citation needed].
William Paul (author).  William H.C. Paul (born on 21 March 1955 in Newport Fife Scotland) is the Head of Digital Communications for the Scottish Government a successful author and partner in Rumdewan Enterprises - a property development company. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Linda. They have two sons William and Andrew.
Yūsuke Numata.  Yūsuke Numata (沼田 祐介 Numata Yūsuke born June 10 1968 in Kanagawa Prefecture) also known by the stage name Hiroaki Yamada (山田 浩明 Yamada Hiroaki) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Aoni Production.
Harry Taussig.  Harry Arthur Taussig (born 1941) is an American physicist collage artist photographer film analyst and fingerstyle guitarist.
Giuseppe Adami.  Giuseppe Adami (4 November 1878 – 12 October 1946) was an Italian librettist known for his collaboration with Giacomo Puccini on the operas La rondine (1917) Il tabarro (1918) and Turandot (1926).Adami also wrote several plays such as I fioi di Goldoni Una capanna e il tuo cuore (1913) Capelli bianchi (1915) Felicità Colombo (1935) and Nonna Felicità (1936). The latter was adapted into a film in 1938 by director Mario Mattoli.Adami was born in Verona.
Johann Müller (composer).  Johann Müller (Dresden fl. 1640–ca. 1670) was a German composer and organist.He worked for the Elector of Saxony and was a pupil of Marco Giuseppe Peranda.
Lee Young-you.  Lee Young-you is a female creator of Korean manhwa. Several of her series have been translated into English and released in the United States.
Patrick Chesnais.  Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor.
Hal David.  Harold Lane Hal David (May 25 1921 – September 1 2012) was an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn New York City. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick.
Carlos Rivera.  Carlos Rivera Guerra or better known as Carlos Rivera (born March 15 1986 Huamantla Tlaxcala) is a Mexican singer who rose to fame by becoming the winner of the third generation of La Academia.
Daphne Todd.  Daphne Todd OBE (born 1947) is an English artist who was the first female President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1994–2000 and who won the BP Portrait Award 2010 with a painting of her 100-year-old mother's corpse.She studied at the Slade 1964-71. In 1983 she won 2nd prize in what is now the BP Portrait Award and in 1984 a special commendation. She was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1985.
Maria Kekkonen.  Maria Pauliina Kekkonen a.k.a. Mariah Sensuel (born December 15 1976 in Helsinki) is a Finnish erotic actress. She worked as a stripper for about six months before becoming an erotic actress in 1996. Kekkonen has also worked as a reporter on the Finnish Aluetelevisio television channel's clone of Naked News concept.In November 2007 along with partner Olha Venäläinen a former ballet dancer Kekkonen introduced pole dancing to Helsinki at their studio Rock The Pole.
Barbara Cleverly.  Barbara Cleverly is a British author born in Northern England and a former teacher. She graduated from Durham University and now works in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. She is known for her Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series of which she has written eleven books and her Laetitia Talbot Mystery series. Shortlisted in 1999 Cleverly received the Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2004. The Last Kashmiri Rose was a New York Times Notable Book.
Lu Chuan.  Lu Chuan (born 1971) is a Chinese filmmaker and screenwriter. He is the son of novelist Lu Tianming.
Ben Belitt.  Ben Belitt (born New York May 2 1911 - Bennington Vermont August 17 2003) was an American poet and translator. Besides writing poetry he also translated several books of poetry by Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca from Spanish to English.
John Fairbairn (educator).  John Fairbairn (9 April 1794 – 5 October 1864) was a newspaper proprietor educator financier and politician of the Cape Colony. According to the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa “The embryo of the State education system we know today trial by jury the principle of the mutual life assurance company – all these were fruits of his endeavours at the Cape”.
Madeleine Schlumberger.  Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (b. 1900 in Alsace – 1980) was a French artist and writer.
Brad Kent.  Bradley Grant Brad Kent played guitar with many of the early Vancouver punk rock bands particularly Victorian Pork the band which spawned D.O.A. Pointed Sticks and the Subhumans. Later he went to San Francisco to play guitar for the Avengers with Penelope Houston.In 1977 Kent was a member of Vancouver punk band The Skulls which also featured singer Joey Shithead bassist Wimpy Roy drummer Dimwit and guitarist Simon Werner.
P. Lion.  P. Lion (Pietro Paolo Pelandi) (born June 29 1959 in Alzano Lombardo) is an Italian singer and musician who achieved his greatest success in the 1980s.
Camilla Power.  Camilla Power (born 13 November 1976) is an Irish-born English actress. She portrayed Jill Pole in BBC's TV adaptation of the book The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis and in adult life she played teacher Lorna Dickey in BBC One serial Waterloo Road.
MG! The Visionary.  MG! The Visionary (shortly known simply as Visionary) is an underground hip hop artist who was a member of New Life Crew known from 1993-1996 as Third Nail Productions (or 3NP!) considered by many to be a founding member of the Christian hip hop community. He was the mind behind the original concept and inception of Uprok Records a hip-hop division of Seattle based Tooth and Nail Records.
Paule Gobillard.  Paule Gobillard (December 3 1867 – 1946) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter who was heavily influenced by the Impressionists. She is the niece of Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet the brother of Édouard Manet taught her lessons in painting as part of her education upon being orphaned at an early age. Relatively unknown in the art scene contrary to her relatives she exhibited with the Société des Indépendants respectively in 1904 and in 1926.
Ino Hidefumi.  Ino Hidefumi (猪野 秀史 Ino Hidefumi born July 26 1970) is a Japanese jazz and electronic musician. He releases his music solely on Innocent Record a label he created with the concept of “One label one artist.”
Cass Fox.  Cassandra (Cass) Fox is a musical artist from England. She is best known for writing and singing the 2001 hit single Touch Me which she co-produced with Rui Da Silva.
Cristian Pațurcă.  Cristian Paţurcă (10 September 1964 – 18 January 2011) was a Romanian composer. Paţurcă was born and died in Bucharest. He was the composer of a song called (Imnul Golanilor - The Hooligans’ Hymn) that inspired Romanians in their struggle against vestiges of the Communist government.
Frankmusik.  Vincent James Turner (born 9 October 1985) better known by his stage name Frankmusik (and between 2011 and 2012 by the name Vincent Did It) is an English synthpop musician. The name Frank is derived from the surname of his grandfather whose name he took in tribute.
Charlene Tse.  Charlene Tse Ning (born October 9 1963 in Guangzhou China) also known as Shallin Tse is a Hong Kong-based Chinese actress and winner of the 1985 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. She has acted in numerous television series produced by Hong Kong's TVB.
Susanna Rowson.  Susanna Rowson née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist poet playwright religious writer stage actress and educator.Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel Charlotte Temple the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852.
Nan Nyunt Swe.  Nan Nyunt Swe (Burmese: နန်းညွန့်ဆွေ IPA: [náɴ ɲ̥ʊ̰ɴ sʰwè]; 1923 – 14 July 2010) born Aung Thein was a distinguished Burmese writer writing over 1200 poems and 800 articles throughout his sixty year long career focusing primarily on music and classic literature. In 1955 he married fellow writer Hla Kyi who had the pen name Yuwadi Kyi Oo. He died on 14 July 2010 of natural causes.
Solomon (rapper).  Solomon Raymond Barnett (born 1987) better known as Solomon is an American recording artist producer DJ singer and songwriter.
Bob Harras.  Robert Bob Harras (born January 11 1959) is an American comics writer and editor who was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics from 1995 to 2000 and currently serves as editor-in-chief of DC Comics.
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai.  Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (Malayalam: ചങ്ങമ്പുഴ കൃഷ്ണപിള്ള) (11 October 1911 – 17 June 1948) was a celebrated Malayalam poet from Kerala India known for his romantic elegy Ramanan (Malayalam: രമണന്‍) which was written in 1936 and sold over 100000 copies. It is a long pastoral elegy a play writtern in the form of verse allegedly based on the life of Changampuzha's friend Edappally Raghavan Pillai. This has also been converted into a movie in 1967.
Cang Xin.  Cang Xin (born 1967) is an artist based in Beijing working in performance art and photography.Cang Xin was born in Heilongjiang Province China.
Samuel Clapham.  Samuel Clapham (1755–1830) was a clergyman of the Church of England a justice of the peace and a writer. His best known work the collection Practical Sermons on Several Important Subjects published under the pseudonym Theophilus St. John went through four editions (1803 1804 1808 1812).
Mitchell Burgess.  Mitchell Burgess is a writer and producer. He worked extensively on the HBO series The Sopranos. He was a creator and executive producer for Blue Bloods. He frequently works with his wife Robin Green.
Tanya Darby.  Tanya Darby is a jazz musician and plays lead trumpet with the Diva Jazz Orchestra where she joined the group in 1997. Prior to that she was a member of the Grammy All-Star Band.
Apex (producer).  William Stanberry better known as Apex is an American record producer and DJ. He is the founder of the label Apex Productionz. He is best known for producing 50 Cent's hit I Get Money.
Ruth Fainlight.  Ruth Fainlight (born 2 May 1931 New York City U.S.) is a poet short story writer translator and librettist.
Hervé Cuillandre.  Hervé Cuillandre (born 1967) is a French novelist and photographer.Cuillandre was born in Rennes Ille-et-Vilaine and studied social behaviour and human destiny.
Darko Jelčić.  Darko Cunja Jelčić (born 1 January 1965 in Zenica SR Bosnia and Herzegovina SFR Yugoslavia) is a Yugoslavian musician best known for having been Crvena Jabuka's drummer from their initial inception in 1985 to the present day. Next to Dražen Žerić he is the only standing member to exist in every line-up change that the band has gone through.Jelčić was born in Zenica on New Year's Day 1965.
Isobelle Carmody.  Isobelle Jane Carmody (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian writer of science fiction fantasy children's literature and young adult literature.
Ron Gomboc.  Ratimir Marijan Ron Gomboc is an Australian sculptor.
Yaseen Anwer.  Yaseen Anwer (born 30 June 1989) is an Indian poet. He is also the founder and managing editor of Poets Corner Group. The group was established in June 2011 and now has many members from across the world plus printed anthologies wherein hundreds of poets have been published.
Harlan Greene.  Harlan Greene is an American writer and historian. He has published both fiction and non-fiction works.Born in 1953 in Charleston South Carolina Greene's parents were Holocaust survivors who moved to Charleston after World War II.
Géza Szilvay.  Géza Szilvay (born 13 September 1943) is a Hungarian violinist teacher and conductor. He is the brother of the cellist Csaba Szilvay and the father of the violinist Réka Szilvay. With his brother Csaba Szilvay he founded the Helsinki Strings a youth orchestra in 1972. They conducted it until they retired in 2010.
Frank Patterson.  Frank Patterson (October 5 1938 – June 10 2000) was an internationally renowned Irish tenor following in the tradition of singers such as Count John McCormack and Josef Locke. He was known as Ireland's Golden Tenor.
Alison Goldfrapp.  Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp (born 13 May 1966) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer best known as the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp.
Craig Mack.  Craig Mack (born May 10 1971) is an American rapper who gained fame on Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Entertainment record label in the 1990s. Although his first single was released under the name MC EZ in 1988 he is best known for his 1994 hit single Flava In Ya Ear which was released under his real name. The remix of the single was the breakout appearance of The Notorious B.I.G. as well as one of the first solo appearances by Busta Rhymes.
Callie Khouri.  Carolyn Ann Callie Khouri (born November 27 1957) is an American film and television screenwriter producer and director. In 1992 she won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film Thelma & Louise which was controversial upon its release because of its progressive representation of gender politics but which subsequently became a classic. On October 10 2012 Khouri's television series Nashville premiered on ABC. The critics awarded it strong reviews.
Christian Ezdorf.  Johann Christian Michel Ezdorf or Etzdorf (1801-1851) a German landscape painter was born at Pösneck in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. He studied landscape painting in Munich and its environs and displayed an especial talent in representing gloomy forests taking as his models the works of Ruisdael and Van Everdingen. He visited Norway the North Cape Sweden Iceland and England. One of his best paintings is in the Modern Gallery at Munich; it represents a Forge by the side of a Waterfall.
Clinton Sparks.  Clinton Sparks (born September 18 1979) is an American DJ producer songwriter radio television personality and recording artist.
Akshai Sarin.  Akshai Sarin (a.k.a. ax/ai Rebirth of DuB Dj AX) is an Indian composer producer performer and DJ. He has expanded his participation in music to starting a record label Rebirth and 360 degree music management through his AXYZ Music International (pronounced axis) group of companies. He is also the founder of The TiLT Festival which has featured international DJs Ferry Corsten and Arno Cost on the lineup.
Wanda Gág.  Wanda Hazel Gág (1893–1946) was an American artist author translator and illustrator. She is most noted for writing and illustrating the children's book Millions of Cats which won a Newbery Honor Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It is the oldest American picture book still in print. The ABC Bunny also received a Newbery Honor Award.
Bess Meredyth.  Bess Meredyth (February 12 1890 - July 13 1969) was a film writer and silent film actress. The wife of the Casablanca director Michael Curtiz Meredyth wrote The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and adapted The Unsuspected (1947). She was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her son John Meredyth Lucas wrote for television.
Sudha Kheterpal.  Sudha Kheterpal is a British-Indian musician best known as the percussionist in Faithless. In 2008 she toured with The Return of the Spice Girls. She has also played with K-Klass Kylie Minogue Melanie Williams Jo Roberts Corduroy Mark Morrison Rae and Christian Ian Brown Talvin Singh and Dido.
Timothy Steele.  Timothy Steele is an American poet. Steele generally writes in meter and rhyme and his early poems which began appearing in the 1970s in such magazines as Poetry The Southern Review and X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures are said to have anticipated and contributed to the revival of traditional verse associated with the New Formalism.
Juliet Barker.  Juliet R. V. Barker FRSL (born 1958) is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës William Wordsworth and medieval tournaments.
Georgina Starr.  Georgina Starr (born 1968) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists. She is best known for her video sound performance and installation works. An amalgamation of dream fiction memory and re-enactment Starr’s work has been described in Artforum magazine as exploring the imaginative self’s ability to make something magically complex layered and densely referential out of virtually nothing but its own 'stuff'”
Jimmy Jansson.  Erik Robert Jimmy Jansson (born September 17 1985 in Hagfors Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
Sophie McDonnell.  Sophie McDonnell (born 3 February 1976) was a presenter for CBBC until 2006. She was also in the band Precious which was the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1999.
Ravinder Singh (author).  Ravinder Singh (Punjabi: ਰਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ) (born February 4 1982) is an Indian author. He has written three novels entitled I Too Had a Love Story Can Love Happen Twice?. and Like it happened Yesterday.
Henry Eccles.  Henri Eccles (1670–1742) was an English composer.
Kris Menace.  Kris Menace (born Christoph Hoeffel) is an electronic musician and music producer.
Nathan Spoor.  Nathan Spoor is an American artist writer and art curator. He is known for his acrylic paintings and the popularization of the Suggestivism art movement.
Shikao Suga.  Shikao Suga (スガ シカオ Suga Shikao born July 28 1966) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. Though he uses katakana for his recording name the kanji for his name are 菅 止戈男 but the romanization is the same. Suga is his family name and Shikao is his given name.After graduating from Tokyo Keizai University he worked as a salaryman for four years in the advertisement industry.
Richard Crosse.  Richard Crosse (1742–1810) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart George Engleheart Richard Cosway and William Wood.
Phil Lesh.  Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15 1940 in Berkeley California) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.After the band's disbanding in 1995 Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with side project Phil Lesh and Friends which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their originals common covers and the songs of the members of his band.
Peter Katis.  Peter Katis is an American record producer engineer mixer and musician.Working primarily out of his own residential studio (Tarquin Studios) in Bridgeport Connecticut Katis is best known for producing alternative and indie rock bands especially for Fat Cat Records.
Tawgs Salter.  Thomas Tawgs Salter is a Canadian musician songwriter producer and recording engineer. His extensive body of musical work includes a vast array of artists ranging from Josh Groban Lights and Lenka to Chantal Kreviazuk Fefe Dobson Midway State and USS. Salter has also worked alongside Grammy-winning writer/producer Walter Afanasieff .
Miekichi Suzuki.  Miekichi Suzuki (鈴木 三重吉 Suzuki Miekichi September 29 1882–June 27 1936) was a Japanese novelist.
Siona Shimshi.  Siona Shimshi (also Ziona; Hebrew: ציונה שמשי‎ born 1939) is an Israeli painter sculptor ceramist and textile designer.
Kelly Garni.  Kelly Garni is an American Hard rock musician and photographer who is best known for playing in the band Quiet Riot.Born in Los Angeles in 1957 Garni's family moved to Burbank California in the early 1970s where he met Randy Rhoads. He played bass with Quiet Riot for about five years and appears on their 1977 self-titled album as well as their second album Quiet Riot II.He currently lives in Boulder City Nevada where he owns and operates a photography studio.
Tejendra Majumdar.  Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (born 17 May 1961) is an Indian sarod player and pupil of Bahadur Khan. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar is one of the most popular and celebrated modern sarod players.
Martina Warren.  Martina Warren (born 12 August 1983 in Romford Havering) is a pornographic and glamour model. She was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for January 2003 and Pet of the Year for 2005.
DJ Babu.  Melvin Babu (born September 17 1974) better known as DJ Babu is a Filipino-American DJ and producer. One-third of the hip hop group Dilated Peoples (alongside Rakaa Iriscience and Evidence).
Keren Peles.  Keren Peles (Hebrew: קרן פלס‎; born March 11 1979) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and a pianist.
Albert Nicholas.  Albert Nicholas (May 27 1900 New Orleans Louisiana – September 3 1973 Basel Switzerland) was an American jazz reed player.Nicholas's primary instrument was the clarinet which he studied with Lorenzo Tio in his hometown of New Orleans. Late in the 1910s he played with Buddy Petit King Oliver and Manuel Perez. He spent three years in the Merchant Marines and then joined up again with Oliver in Chicago from 1925 to 1927.
John Craigie (musician).  John Craigie (born June 15 1980 in Santa Monica CA) is an American singer-songwriterwho has been traveling continuously for most of the past decade. Hailed as a Modern-Day Troubadour in the style of Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott Craigie has been touring the United States and beyond for the past 7 years playing in a diverse style of venues including center camp at Burning Man local bars and coffee shops and a number of radio shows such as KPIG KHUM WUIN.
Thomas J. Geraghty.  Thomas J. Geraghty (April 10 1883 – June 5 1945) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 70 films between 1917 and 1939. He was born in Rushville Indiana and died in Hollywood California.
P. Unni Krishnan.  P. Unnikrishnan (born 9 July 1964) is a Carnatic vocalist and a national award winning playback singer.
Nicholas Jose.  Nicholas Jose (born 9 November 1952) is an Australian novelist.
Don Figlozzi.  Don Figlozzi (January 17 1909 – June 1981) was an American animator and cartoonist. A veteran of Fleischer Studios and member of the National Cartoonists Society he spent the first half of his career in animation and the second half at the New York Daily News where his cartoons signed Fig became a fixture. Historian Harvey Deneroff of the Savannah College of Art and Design suggests that Figlozzi may have created the first animations to be used on television.
Johann Karl Bähr.  Johann Karl Bähr (1801–69 ) was a German painter and writer.
Homeboy Sandman.  Angel Del Villar II (born September 24 1980) better known by his stage name Homeboy Sandman is a rapper and musician from Elmhurst Queens New York.
Kristen Iversen.  Kristen Iversen is an American writer of nonfiction and fiction and the author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012) Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth and Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction.
Leanne Marshall.  Leanne Marshall (born October 10 1980 in Yuba City California) is a fashion designer in Portland Oregon. She was the winner of season 5 of Project Runway.Marshall is a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in San Francisco and a recipient of their Levi’s Dockers Fashion Designer of Tomorrow award.
Gaurav Dagaonkar.  Gaurav Dagaonkar (गौरव डगावकर; born July 10 1984) is a Music Director/Singer/Songwriter from Mumbai India.
László Ágoston.  László Ágoston (born 25 July 1986) baritone opera singer musical manager (best known as the manager of Kayamar) founder of the Moltopera Company. Son of László T. Ágoston writer.
Tatsuya Yamaguchi (actor).  Tatsuya Yamaguchi (山口達也 やまぐち たつや ; 10 January 1972) is a Japanese singer and bassist for the Johnny's Entertainment group Tokio. He has acted in several movies and television shows as well as being a co-star for Tokio's variety shows Tokio Kakeru and The Tetsuwan Dash. In Kakeru he hosts a segment called Kanji Kafe where the guest and other member of Tokio must guess what food certain kanji represent. He is an avid surfer.
Jonathan Fisher (painter).  Jonathan Fisher (c. 1740–1809) was an Irish painter.Fisher was born in Dublin. He is first recorded in 1763 when he was awarded a premium by the Dublin Society for a landscape.He is best known for his fine engravings and aquatints of Irish scenery. He travelled all over Ireland. He published views of Killarney in 1770 and 1789.He lived at Great Ship Street Dublin from about 1778 until 1805 when he moved to Bishop Street Dublin where he died in 1809.
Agnes Grainger Stewart.  Agnes Grainger Stewart (1871-1956) was a Scottish writer. She was born in Edinburgh on 26 April 1871. Her father was Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart an eminent physician and her mother was Jessy Dingwall Fordyce McDonald. Her only published work appears to be The Academic Gregories (1901). The Gregories dealt with in this book include:John Gregory James Gregory William Gregory etc. In all the book outlines the lives of twelve Gregories from 1638–1858.
Brett Detar.  Brett Detar is an American singer songwriter film composer and music producer. He was formerly the lead singer of the now defunct band The Juliana Theory as well as former guitarist/bassist for metalcore band Zao. Born April 30 1978 in Greensburg Pennsylvania Detar currently works as a film composer and solo singer-songwriter in Los Angeles California.On November 9 2010 Detar released his debut solo album Bird In The Tangle and distributed it for free on his website.
Charmaine Li.  Charmaine Li (born January 8 1983) is one of the many graduates from Belilios Public School and the School of Drama at The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in Hong Kong. She is an actress with Television Broadcasts Limited.Charmaine and Ricky Fan registered their marriage in Guam on December 8 2011 and held their wedding banquet on January 15 2012 in Hong Kong.
Cedric Firth.  Cedric Harold Firth (22 May 1908–31 May 1994) was a New Zealand builder architect and writer. He was born in Auckland Auckland New Zealand on 22 May 1908.From 1948 to 1959 he was in a partnership 'Plishke & Firth' with Ernst Plischke.
Anzia Yezierska.  Anzia Yezierska (1885 - 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Maly Plock Poland then in the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Cristoforo Rustici.  Cristoforo Rustici (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Siena. He is also known as il Rusticone.He trained with his father Lorenzo Rustici known as the painter il Rustico and later with il Sodoma. His son Francesco Rustici was also a painter.
Edem Awumey.  Edem Awumey (born 1975 in Lomé Togo) is a Togolese-Canadian writer. Born in Togo and educated in France he has lived in Gatineau Quebec since 2005.His debut novel Port-Mélo won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2006 and his second novel Les Pied sales was a shortlisted nominee for the Prix Goncourt in 2009.
Karen Alexander (singer).  Karen Alexander (born 1946) was an American singer-songwriter who had some success in the 1970s. She was born in Los Angeles California and grew up in one of the suburbs of Hollywood. Her father had a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills. In 1965 she married Esfandiar Bahrampour an Iranian architect and moved to Tehran. While Karen was living in Tehran she travelled back to the U.S. now and then. On one of these trips she bought a guitar and started writing songs.
Bill Gaither (gospel singer).  William J. Bill Gaither (born March 28 1936) is an American singer and songwriter of southern gospel and Contemporary Christian music. Besides having written numerous popular Christian songs with his wife Gloria he is also known for performing as part of the Bill Gaither Trio and the Gaither Vocal Band. In the 1990s his career (as well as the careers of other southern gospel artists) gained a resurgence as the popularity of the Gaither Homecoming series grew.
Bikram Singh.  Bikram Singh (born 1980/1981) is an American bhangra music artist. A graduate of Touro Law School he also works as an attorney in New York City.
Levi Ponce.  Levi Ponce is an American artist noted for his public murals throughout Southern California's San Fernando Valley.
Kyla-Rose Smith.  Kyla-Rose Smith (born 10 September 1982) is a South African violinist singer and dancer.At present she performs with the Afropop musical ensemble Freshlyground and with Kolo Novo Movie Band a large ensemble that performs fusion music based on the music of Southeastern Europe. She is a former member of the hip hop music group Tumi and the Volume and of the dance troupe Vuyani Dance Theatre.
Fred Rose (songwriter).  Fred Rose (August 24 1897 or 1898 – December 1 1954) was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.
Gennaro Greco.  Gennaro Greco (1663-1714) also known as Il Mascacotta was an Italian veduta painter. Greco was born and worked in Naples. His son Vincenzo Greco also became a painter. Greco was inspired to paint veduta after studying works by Andrea Pozzo. He died after a fall from scafolding while working on a ceiling fresco in Nola in 1714. He is described by Dalbono as a painter of views of mutilated ruins (vedute di mutilato anticaglie).
John K. Snyder III.  John K. Snyder III is a writer and illustrator of comic books and graphic novels. His work has been published in the pages of the underground press (most notably The Duckberg Times) by independent comic book publishers and by DC Comics (e.g. Green Lantern Doctor Mid-Nite).Snyder wrote and drew his first project Fashion in Action published by Eclipse Comics in 1987. During this time he began to illustrate covers for books such as Comico's Jonny Quest comic series.
Francesco Brizio.  Francesco Brizio (1574–1623) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School active in the early-Baroque. He was also known as Nosadella and was born in Bologna. He was initially a pupil of Bartolommeo Passarotti but then became a pupil under Agostino and Ludovico Carracci. He helped paint along with Lucio Massari and Leonello Spada stories of Torquato Tasso's epic in the loggias of the Palazzo Bentivoglio.
Stian Hinderson.  Nagash or Lex Icon (born Stian Andrè Hinderson 7 May 1978 ) is a Norwegian black metal musician. He plays guitar bass drums keyboards and does vocals.He began writing music in 1991 together with Fafnir and Glaurung for a project called Troll. Fafnir and Glaurung soon left the band but Nagash continued Troll as a solo project playing guitar and keyboard. Wanting to be in a band and express himself on all levels he founded the band Covenant together with Amund Svensson in 1993.
Erik Sandin.  Erik Sandin (born July 29 1966) is an American musician and the drummer of the popular California punk band NOFX. He was a founding member of the band when they formed in Hollywood California in 1983 but moved to Santa Barbara two years later leaving the band. In just one year without Sandin the band had already gone through two drummers (Scott Sellers and Scott Aldahl) and in 1986 the band talked Sandin into rejoining NOFX.
Bonnie Shimko.  Bonnie Shimko is an author of four young adult novels.
Carlos Yushimito.  Carlos Yushimito del Valle (born 1977 in Lima Peru) is a Peruvian writer of Japanese descent.
Domenico Capuano.  Born as Domenico Capuano known professionally as Dom Capuano also as Domenico Mimmo Capuano is an Italian music producer film composer . He broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Eiffel 65 Da Blitz the DJ Gabry Ponte and the German Pop Band of Karmah also has collaborated with several international artist including: Jean Michel Jarre Kool & The Gang Laura Pausini 883 Aqua.
Hernando R. Ocampo.  Hernando Ruiz Ocampo (April 28 1911 – December 28 1978) was a Filipino National Artist in the visual arts. He is also fictionist a playwright and editor.
Kourosh Zolani.  Kourosh Zolani (born 1970) is an Iranian-American composer and instrumental soloist. He is known for designing and playing a chromatic santour.His compositions based on using his unique chromatic Santour include Memoirs of Sangesar Dance of Change and Peaceful Planet.
Michael Kiske.  Michael Kiske (born January 24 1968 in Hamburg Germany) is a singer best known as the former lead vocalist for the German power metal band Helloween. After his departure from the band Kiske recorded four solo albums participated on various metal and rock related projects such as Avantasia Place Vendome and Kiske/Somerville while he also performed with numerous bands as a guest vocalist. In late 2009 he formed the rock band Unisonic and began touring again after 17 years.
Takayuki Yamaguchi.  Takayuki Yamaguchi (山口 隆行 Yamaguchi Takayuki born December 28 in Chiba) is a Japanese voice actor who works for 81 Produce.
Miki Tori.  Miki Tori (とり·みき Tori Miki born February 23 1958 in Hotoyoshi Kumamoto Prefecture Japan) also known as Micky Bird or Mickey Bird is a Japanese manga artist character designer essayist and screenplay writer. Tori has won multiple awards for his work including two Seiun Awards (in 1994 for Dai-Hon'ya and in 1998 for SF Taishō) and one Bungeishunjū Manga Award (in 1995 for Tōku e Ikitai). His pen name was created by mixing up the pronunciation of the kanji making up his real name.
John Osborne.  John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright screenwriter actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre.In a productive life of more than 40 years Osborne explored many themes and genres writing for stage film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic.
Enrico Haffner.  Enrico Haffner (August 1640–1702) was an Italian painter of quadratura during the Baroque period active mainly in Bologna in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.Enrico was born to a Swiss father who was a mercenary Swiss guard for the Papacy stationed in Bologna; Enrico himself rose to become a lieutenant in the force.
Doug Clifford.  Douglas Ray Cosmo Clifford (born April 24 1945 Palo Alto California) is an American rock drummer best known for playing with the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. After Creedence Clearwater Revival dissolved in 1972 Clifford and former CCR bassist Stu Cook joined Don Harrison in the Don Harrison Band.
Mark Anderson (writer).  Mark Anderson (born August 13 1967) is an American journalist and author. He has written for Harper's The Boston Globe Wired Science and the Rolling Stone and is also a regular contributor to New Scientist and Wired News.
Erina Yamaguchi.  Erina Yamaguchi (山口 絵里奈 Yamaguchi Erina born October 19 1985) is a Japanese big-breasted glamour model (kyonyū gravure idol).
Tyson Meade.  Tyson Todd Meade (born September 15 1962) is an American musician painter writer teacher and disc jockey best known as the principle singer and songwriter for pioneering alternative rock bands Defenestration and Chainsaw Kittens.
Murray MacLeod.  Murray MacLeod (born September 9 1940) is an American actor television and film composer and singer who along with his sister Melinda and Roger Nichols formed the Small Circle of Friends (Roger Nichols Trio). Simultaneously he was singer with The Parade (along with Jerry Riopelle and Smokey Roberds) that had a Billboard Top 20 hit with Sunshine Girl in 1967.
Joe Cole (actor).  Joe Cole (VII) (born November 28 1988) is an English actor from Kingston London. Cole is best known for his role as Tommy Nix in Offender Luke in Skins (Series 6) John Shelby in Peaky Blinders and Scott in Now Is Good. Cole has also starred in several award-winning short films such as Volume and Assessment.Cole first decided he wanted to pursue acting through the National Youth Theatre (NYT).
Nina Romberg.  Nina Romberg has been an American writer since 1978. She wrote romance novels and Indian stories under the pseudonym Jane Archer and dark fantasy/horror fiction under Nina Romberg.
Jim Neversink.  Jim Neversink (born Michael James Whitehead; 16 June 1969) is a South African musician singer and songwriter. His musical style spans over indie rock country americana and punk.He is best known as a solo artist who performs with changing line-ups. As such he has released three albums to critical acclaim; despite being released on independent labels two of them were included in lists of best album of the year in South African magazines as well as in Billboard.
Platon Oyunsky.  Platon Oyunsky (Russian: Платон Ойунский; (Sakha: Платон Алексеевич Ойуунускай; 11 November [O.S. 30 December] 1893 — 31 October 1939) pseudonym of Platon Alekseevich Sleptsov (Платон Алексеевич Слепцов) was a Soviet Yakut statesman writer and translator seen as one of the founders of modern Yakut literature. He took part in the creation of the national written language and in the cultural building of the modern Yakut nation.
Conrad Felixmüller.  Conrad Felixmüller (21 May 1897 – 24 March 1977) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Born in Dresden as Conrad Felix Müller he chose Felixmüller as his nom d'artiste. One of the youngest members of the New Objectivity movement Felixmüller was also a member of the Communist Party of Germany. His paintings often deal with the social realities of Germany's Weimar Republic. He was mentor to German expressionist Otto Dix. From 1949 to 1962 he taught at the University of Halle.
Leah Krinsky.  Leah Krinsky is an American comedy writer. She has written for Dennis Miller Live for which she won an Emmy in 1998.
Karl Woermann.  Karl Woermann (4 July 1844 – 4 February 1933) was a German art historian and museum director. He was born in Hamburg studied at various universities (art history at Heidelberg and Munich) and traveled widely.
Sabri Khan.  Ustad Sabri Khan (Hindi: उस्ताद साबरी खान(Urdu: استاد صابری خان) born 1927 in Moradabad Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian sarangi player who is descended on both sides of his family from a line of distinguished musicians.
Yaakov Lemmer.  Yaakov Lemmer is an internationally performing Jewish cantor singer and concert artist born and raised in Brooklyn New York. He is often recognized for his smooth tenor voice his dramatic tone and his ability to sing in several languages and styles. Trained by top cantors from a young age Lemmer had years of practice to perfect his technique.
Lloyd Lovindeer.  Lloyd Lovindeer (born c.1948) often credited simply as Lovindeer is a Jamaican dancehall deejay best known for his song Wild Gilbert.
Pattie Mallette.  Patricia Pattie Mallette (born April 2 1976) is a Canadian author and film producer. She is the mother of pop singer Justin Bieber and was the manager of his early singing career.
Carol Weston.  Carol Weston (born September 11 1956) is an American writer. The author of thirteen books both fiction and non-fiction she has been the Dear Carol advice columnist at Girls' Life since the magazine's first issue in 1994. Her newest novel is Ava and Pip (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2014).
Mattias Bhatt.  Mattias Bhatt is a Swedish musician multi-instrumentalist and songwriter known as the guitarist and founding member of the Swedish post-rock band pg.lost. He also plays drums in the Swedish rock band Class Of Kill'em High and guitar in the Swedish/British indie rock band Kid Wave After years of playing drums Mattias picked up the guitar and together with Kristian Karlsson Gustav Almberg and Rickard Danielsson formed the band pg.lost.
Carlos Castaneda.  Carlos Arana Castañeda (pronounced: [ˈkaɾlos aˈɾana kastaˈɲeða]; December 25 1925 – April 27 1998) was a Peruvian-American author with a Ph.D. in anthropology.Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968 Castañeda wrote a series of books that describe his training in shamanism. The books narrated in the first person relate his experiences under the tutelage of a Yaqui Man of Knowledge named Don Juan Matus. His 11 books have sold more than 28 million copies in 17 languages.
Anton Schnack.  Anton Schnack (21 July 1892 – 26 September 1973) was a German writer. He joined the German Army when World War I began. He is one of the leading German war poets of the First World War and has been compared with English poet Wilfred Owen. After the war he became an editor for numerous publications. He was one of the 88 writers who pledged their allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 in a Vow of Most Faithful Allegiance (Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft).
Natasha Kiss.  Natasha Kiss is the stage name of an Italian pornographic actress director and producer. In 2004 she was a nominee for the FICEB Ninfa Prize for Best Starlet.Her production company is called Natasha Kiss Communications (NKC).
Don Coldsmith.  Don Coldsmith (February 28 1926 – June 25 2009) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western Writers of America Coldsmith wrote more than 40 books as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His Spanish Bit Saga a series of related novels helped to re-define the Western novel by adopting the point of view of the Native Americans rather than the European immigrants.
Nan Vernon.  Nan Vernon (born on October 7 1967 in Toronto) is a Canadian singer and actress. She is notable for providing the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and for being part of the singer-songwriter trend of women nurturing folk music's rebirth.
Meghan Andrews.  Meghan Andrews (born September 2 1979) is an American actress and singer from New York City. She has been a studio singer and actress ever since the age of nine.Andrews is most notable for playing the role of Mallory Pike from The Baby-Sitters Club television series. She is an alternative folk/pop guitarist and singer-songwriter. She starred in the off-Broadway show The Trip to Bountiful and released her debut album Center of Gravity. Andrews is a member of the Actors Studio.[citation needed]
Bud Shank.  Clifford Everett Bud Shank Jr. (May 27 1926 – April 2 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout the decade worked in various small jazz combos. He spent the 1960s as a first-call studio musician in Hollywood. In the 1970s and 1980s he performed regularly with the L. A. Four.
Alexis Simon Belle.  Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 – 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.As a portrait artist Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillière. He was the master of the painter Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved (1702–1766).
Mary Prankster.  Mary Prankster was the moniker for an American singer-songwriter primarily associated with Baltimore (now residing in New York) who played a blend of alternative/indie music with frank lyrics. The name is a reference to Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. After over 1000 live performances the Mary Prankster character was retired over Pranksgiving Weekend (November 25–28 2005); the woman behind Mary continues to work on other creative projects.
Amie Miriello.  Amie Miriello is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. She was the lead singer of the rock band Dirtie Blonde. Miriello is now a member of the group SO & SO.In 2008 Miriello's first solo album I Came Around was released on Jive Records Bellasonic label. Singer-songwriter and American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi co-wrote some of the songs on the album.
Tonicha.  Tonicha (born Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha on 8 March 1946 in Beja Alentejo) is a Portuguese Popular music / folk singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 with the song Menina do alto da serra (Girl fom the country mountain); she finished ninth.
Clark Strand.  Clark Strand is an American spiritual writer and former Zen Buddhist monk. He was for a time senior editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review a position he left in 1996 in order to write and teach full time. He currently resides in Woodstock NY where he leads the Koans of the Bible Study Group.
Mykhailo Yalovy.  Mykhailo Yalovy (Ukrainian: Михайло Омелянович Яловий) (born June 5 1895 in the village of Dar-Nadezhda Kostiantynhrad uyezd in the Poltava Governorate (today Kharkiv Oblast) of the Russian Empire - died November 3 1937 in Svirlag Leningrad Oblast Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist prosaic drama writer.
Barbara Rosenthal.  Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948 The Bronx New York) is an American avant-garde artist writer and performer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy. Her pseudonyms include Homo Futurus taken from the title of one of her books and Cassandra-on-the-Hudson which alludes to her studio and residence since 1998 on the Hudson River in Greenwich Village NYC and “the dangerous world she envisions”.Rosenthal is idiosyncratic and prolific.
Howard David Johnson.  Howard David Johnson (born 2 September 1954) is an American photorealist Illustrator and painter most noted for historical religious and mythological art. He works in a wide variety of mixed media ranging from oil on canvas to digital media. Though he paints in a realistic vein he creates a world of folklore and mythical characters combining his traditional style and methods with contemporary digital techniques.
Rawi Hage.  Rawi Hage (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and photographer.
Samuel (musician).  Samuel is an indie pop artist with R&B influences born and raised in New York City. His single I Heart NY was released on Columbia/Startime International Records in 2010. His full length album titled Trains to Wanderland is set for release at the end of August 2011 with select singles being released currently.
Peter Havlicek.  Peter Havlicek (born April 17 1963 in Vienna) is an Austrian musician - Kontragitarre (viennese harp-guitar) jazz guitar composition vocals.
Alan M. Bolle.  Alan M. Bolle (born October 16 1958) is an American artist best known as The Springman for his Chicago-based work incorporating springs into media as varied as cars clothes and music. More recently he has moved to New York and specialised in depictions of live music performances.
Gjøran Sæther.  Gjøran Sæther (December 19 1982) also known by the pseudonym Proteque is a Norwegian artist and painter. He is active in the digital art scene with music and graphic and as a painter in traditional art.
Caitlin Shetterly.  Caitlin Shetterly (born 1974) is a Maine-based author and theatre director. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Winter Harbor Theatre Company in Portland ME.
Stephan Weidner.  Stephan Weidner (born 29 May 1963 in Alsfeld Hesse) often called Der W is a musician and music producer. From 25 November 1980 until 18 June 2005 he was the bassist songwriter and leader of the German hard-rock band Böhse Onkelz. Weidner was also a singer with Nordend Antistars a collaboration with Sub7even singer Daniel Wirtz. In April 2008 Weidner's first solo album Schneller Höher Weidner was released.
Arvid Torgeir Lie.  Arvid Torgeir Lie (born 18 August 1938 in Tokke) is a Norwegian poet writer of short stories and translator. He hails from Tokke. Among his poetry collections are Under fuglens vengjekross (1967) and Snøvinter (1968) and his collection of short stories Den nye maskina og andre noveller came in 1986.He received the Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize in 1995 and the Dobloug Prize in 2007.
Norman Longmate.  Norman Longmate is an English author and military historian.He went to Worcester College Oxford where he read Modern History.
Heinrich Pommerencke.  Heinrich Pommerencke (1821–1873) was a successful portrait painter of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was born in 1821 and brought up in poverty but exercised his talent for art so ably that he was enabled to pursue his studies in Berlin. He also went to Paris and had the good fortune to paint the portrait of Helena Duchess of Orleans by which he gained the protection of the reigning Royal Family.
Donna Hogan.  Donna Faye Hogan (born May 11 1971) is an American author best known as Anna Nicole Smith's younger half-sister. Hogan was born and raised in Houston Texas. Donna has been quoted as saying when she worked at gentleman's clubs she would earn upwards of $2000 per night. These statements have been proven to be false.In April 2007 she wrote a book entitled Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith about Smith. Upon release of the book Hogan appeared on the Dr.
William P. Young.  William Paul Young (born May 11 1955) is a Canadian author best known for the novel The Shack.
Rogers Masson.  Rogers Masson (born October 8 1968) is an American record producer engineer mixer and songwriter. Masson is known for his ability to work seamlessly within different genres of music and for his innovative approaches to recording. He has produced and mixed albums for artists such as Day of Fire Vintage Trouble Lilyphone and Song of America. Masson has also written songs with artists such as Josh Brown of Day of Fire and Chris Daughtry of Daughtry.
MC Mong.  MC Mong (Hangul: 엠씨 몽) (September 4 1979) is a South Korean hip hop artist who is known for his comic disposition and his upbeat songs. He graduated from Dong-Ah Broadcasting College. MC Mong has collaborated with many well-known artists including Kim Tae-woo from G.o.d. Ock Ju-hyun Ivy Crown J Seo In Young Defconn Lena Park Park Hyo Shin SG Wannabe and Jo Sungmo. He was a member of KBS2's 1 Night 2 Days (1박 2일) a part of the network's Happy Sunday line-up.
Sante Vandi.  Sante Vandi (1653–1716) was an Italian portrait painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani. He is also known as Santino da' Ritratti. In early life he painted at Bologna but was afterwards employed at Mantua and other cities in Central Italy. He had constant commissions and left a great number of portraits chiefly of a small size. Between 1701 and 1705 he moved to Greece where he gave birth to a girl named Despoina. He died at Loreto.
Ross the Boss.  Ross Friedman (born January 3 1954) in the Bronx New York also known as Ross The Boss is a guitarist known as a founding member of both the punk band The Dictators and the heavy metal band Manowar.
Juan de Salcedo.  Not to be confused with Juan Salcedo Jr.Juan de Salcedo (1549 – March 11 1576) was a Spanish conquistador. He was born in Mexico in 1549 and he was the grandson of Miguel López de Legazpi and brother of Felipe de Salcedo. Salcedo was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in 1565. He joined the Spanish military in 1564 for their exploration of the East Indies and the Pacific at the age of 15.
Sam Henderson.  Sam Henderson (born October 18 1969) is an American cartoonist writer and expert on American comedy history. Henderson was born in Woodstock New York. He attended Boiceville New York's Onteora High School graduating in 1987 and the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he graduated in 1991.Henderson has been self-publishing xeroxed minicomics since 1980. In the mid-to-late 1980s he drew and published a comic called Captain Spaz with his friend Bobby Weiss.
Thomas Mulchinock.  Thomas Francis Peter Mulchinock (born 13 October 1984 in Beverley England) is a musician and songwriter. Thomas is the former lead vocalist & co-writer of the band 'Some Are Saints'.
Dave Brock.  David Anthony Dave Brock (born 20 August 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar synthesizer bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind. Brock is the only member of the group to have been a constant throughout the band's history. Brock was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the annual Progressive Music Awards in 2013.
David Wallis Reeves.  David Wallis Reeves (February 14 1838 – March 8 1900) also known as D. W. Reeves or Wally Reeves was an American composer cornetist and bandleader. He developed the American march style later made famous by the likes of John Philip Sousa and his innovations include adding a countermelody to the American march form in 1876. Sousa called Reeves The Father of Band Music in America and stated he wished he himself had written Reeves' Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March.
Kelvin Underwood.  Kelvin Underwood (born March 22 1975) is an American musician specializing in the drum set and taiko the art of Japanese drumming.After joining the Japanese taiko ensemble Ondekoza at age 19 he returned to the United States four years later to study at Berklee College of Music and pursue a career as a professional drummer.He is a member of the Los Angeles-based contemporary taiko quartet On Ensemble and collaborates with a variety of other artists and performers.Underwood resides in Ashland Oregon with his son Blaise and daughter Ruby.
Arthur Benjamins.  Arthur Benjamins (born June 22 1953 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch artist who specializes in depicting motor racing Land-and Water speed record breaking scenes Abstract Surreal and Science-Fantasy paintings.
Brian Gable.  Brian Gable was born in 1949 in Saskatoon Saskatchewan and studied fine art at the University of Saskatchewan. He subsequently studied education at the University of Toronto and proceeded to teach art at Brockville Ontario.Initially freelancing as a cartoonist for The Recorder and Times in Brockville in 1977 he subsequently became full-time editorial cartoonist for the Regina Leader-Post in 1980 and then became the editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail in 1987.
Jericho (rapper).  Jericho Jerome Gawanab (21 May 1980) well known as Jericho and nicknamed J-Twizzle is a Namibian rapper from Katutura Windhoek. He's one of the most successful and outstanding MC's in Namibia. His videos are played on MTV Base and Channel O.
Roshanda Duncan.  Roshanda Duncan is an American music and film producer from Baltimore Maryland. Born of Jamaican descent she is also known as Ms. Bubblelistic and is noted for creating platforms for unsigned artist.She is one of the film producers of the horror film Rift that will be in theaters October 2010.
Greg Theakston.  Greg Allen Theakston (born November 21 1953) is an American comics artist and illustrator who has worked for numerous publishers. He is known for his independent publications as a comics historian under his Pure Imagination imprint as well as for developing the Theakstonizing process used in comics restoration. He has used the pseudonym Earl P. Wooten.[citation needed]
Edmund Wilson.  Edmund Wilson (May 8 1895 – June 12 1972) was an American writer literary and social critic and noted man of letters.
Fred Neil.  Fred Neil (March 16 1936 – July 7 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material – particularly Everybody's Talkin' which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after being used for the film Midnight Cowboy.
Timbe.  Timbe ( Birth name: Rasid Kurtanovic ) is a Serbian MC DJ and beatmaker a member of the hip-hop group Bad Copy and former member of the group 43zla. He is one of the most respected MCs in the Balkan region.
Antero de Quental.  Antero Tarquínio de Quental (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɛɾu dɨ kẽˈtaɫ]; old spelling Anthero) (18 April 1842 – 11 September 1891) was a Portuguese poet philosopher and writer whose works became a milestone in the Portuguese language alongside those of Camões or Bocage.
Linas Alsenas.  Linas Alsenas (Born 1979 in Cleveland Ohio) is a gay Lithuanian–American author and book illustrator. After attending Harvard University where he was an illustrator for the campus newspaper he moved to New York City and worked as an editor for Interior Design magazine and then at Abrams Books for Young Readers. In 2006 Scholastic released his first picture book Mrs. Claus Takes a Vacation which he wrote and illustrated.
Gian Pyres.  Gian Pyres (born Gianpiero Piras 20 October 1973) is a British guitarist best known for his work with extreme metal band Cradle of Filth for which he recorded guitars for Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996) Cruelty and the Beast (1998) Midian (2000) Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001) and Lovecraft & Witch Hearts (2002).
Andy Griggs.  Andrew Tyler Andy Griggs (born August 13 1973 in West Monroe Louisiana) is an American country music artist. He has released three albums for RCA Records Nashville (You Won't Ever Be Lonely Freedom and This I Gotta See) and a fourth (The Good Life) for Montage Music Group. These four albums have accounted for 13 singles on the Billboard country charts of which the highest are You Won't Ever Be Lonely and She's More both which peaked at number 2.
B Angie B.  B Angie B (born 1968) is an African American female R&B vocalist and dancer who came onto the music scene in the early 1990s.
Mick Kenney.  Mick Kenney is a musician artist and record producer from Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He relocated to Orange County California in 2007. He currently plays in extreme metal act Anaal Nathrakh. He is the owner of Misanthropy Clothing which was launched in 2013 www.misanthropyclothing.comHe also co-runs FETO Records with Shane Embury of Napalm Death fame.
Hokusai.  Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎 About this sound listen  October 31 1760 (exact date questionable) – May 10 1849) was a Japanese artist ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu and other styles of Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo) Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei c.
Vincenzo De Mita.  Vincenzo De Mita (San Severo Province of Foggia 1751 - after 1805) was an Italian painter mainly depicting sacred subjects.
Leonid Andreyev.  Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – September 12 1919) was a Russian playwright novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist naturalist and symbolist schools in literature.
B. Clay Moore.  B. Clay Moore is an American comic book writer best known for the series Hawaiian Dick.
Ian Stanley.  Ian Stanley (born Ian Christopher Stanley on 28 February 1957) is an English musician songwriter and record producer. He was previously a member of the English band Tears for Fears for most of the 1980s and played a key role in the making of their multi-platinum selling second album Songs from the Big Chair.
John Witty.  John Witty (1915-1990) was a British film and television actor.Witty's distinguished voice appeared extensively on various series and documentary short films. He was the TV Announcer for the 1961 film The Frightened City the Computer Voice for the 1969 Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Death and the Announcer Voice for the 1979 television version of Dick Barton.
Dann Thomas.  Danette Dann Thomas (born January 30 1952) is an American comic book writer the wife of comic book writer and editor Roy Thomas. She has at times collaborated with Thomas on All-Star Squadron Arak Son of Thunder the Crimson Avenger miniseries and Avengers West Coast.She married Roy Thomas in May 1981 and legally changed her first name from Danette in the early 1980s.
Kiril Peychinovich.  Kiril Peychinovich or Kiril Pejčinoviḱ (Bulgarian: Кирил Пейчинович Macedonian: Кирил Пејчиновиќ Church Slavonic: Күриллъ Пейчиновићь) (c. 1770 – 7 March 1865) was a cleric writer and enlightener one of the first supporters of the use of modern Bulgarian in literature (as opposed to Church Slavonic) and one of the early figures of the Bulgarian National Revival.
Paul Emsley.  Paul Emsley (born August 25 1947) is an artist who worked in South Africa until 1996 and is now resident in Bradford-upon-Avon Wiltshire England. He is a former lecturer at the Stellenbosch University and the 2007 winner of the BP Portrait Award for portrait painting. His work can be found in most public collections in South Africa The National Portrait Gallery London and The British Museum. He is known for his large detailed images of people animals and flowers.
Jeremiah Theus.  Jeremiah Theus (sometimes Jeremiah Theüs) (April 5 1716 – May 17 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter primarily of portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston South Carolina in which city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.
Kōji Ishii.  Kōji Ishii (石井 康嗣 Ishii Kōji real name Kōji Ishii (石井 浩司 Ishii Kōji) on July 1 1960 in Wakayama Wakayama Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese voice actor currently affiliated with Vi-Vo.
Dwayne Moser.  Dwayne Moser is a Los Angeles based artist and writer.Moser grew up in the Appalachian Mountains in a town of less than 100 near the Maryland / West Virginia border. He studied Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park then worked in the legal field for several years before beginning to make art in the late 1990s. He earned an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts in 2001.
Ben Gibbard.  Benjamin Ben Gibbard (born August 11 1976) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie with whom he has recorded seven studio albums and as one half of the electronica duo The Postal Service.
Guy Pentreath.  Rev. Canon Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath M.A. Cantab. (Guy Pentreath; 1902-1985) was an Anglican clergyman and a distinguished headmaster of several schools. In his retirement he was a chaplain and guest lecturer on many Swan Hellenic cruises. He also popularised a version of the poem 'Time's Paces': 'When I was a babe and wept and slept time crept ...'
Boom Bam.  Boom Bam (born Gene Heisser 1971) was one of the founding members of Comptons Most Wanted and underground rap group N.O.T.R.Heisser was born in Compton California. He met MC Eiht and Tha Chill while attending Junior High school and a lifelong friendship developed. In 1987 they created the rap group Comptons Most Wanted and their first album It's a Compton Thang was released in 1989. The group quickly became famous on the West Coast and international fame soon followed.
Florentín Giménez.  Florentín Giménez (b. 1925-03-14; Ybycuí Paraguarí Department Paraguay) is a prolific composer with more than 400 compositions; many of them were extraordinary hits. At the age of 80 the great master Florentín Giménez one of the most versed and prepared musicians of this art in Paraguay has yet to take a break and keeps working towards incredible achievements that constitute historical milestones for the national art.
Queen Esther Marrow.  Queen Esther Marrow is an American soul and gospel singer.
Sadie Plant.  Sadie Plant (born 1 January 1964 in Birmingham England) is a British author and philosopher.She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1989 then taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) before going on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick where she was a faculty member.
Andrew VanWyngarden.  Andrew VanWyngarden (born February 1 1983) is the lead vocalist guitar player and songwriter for the band MGMT praised for (according to Interview Magazine) an uncanny knack for producing pop music that sounds as if it were filtered through a kaleidoscope. One of his (and MGMT cofounder Ben Goldwasser's) songs Kids (from the Oracular Spectacular album) received a Grammy 2010 nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group while the duo was nominated in the Best New Artist category.
Chet Zar.  Chet Zar (born November 12 1967 in San Pedro California) is an American artist notable for his dark visual art make-up effects and digital animation. He is most widely known for his work with Tool's music and live videos. He is the stepson of American fantasy artist James Zar.
Louis Ramey.  Louis Ramey is an American stand-up comedian from Atlanta Georgia. He started performing comedy while in college. He was featured in his own episode of Comedy Central Presents in 2001. It was filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. In 2008 he was a finalist on Last Comic Standing 6. On July 31st he was voted into the top 5. He finished in 5th place.
Hermione Countess of Ranfurly.  Hermione Countess of Ranfurly OBE (née Llewellyn) (13 November 1913 – 11 February 2001) was the British author of To War With Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly 1939–1945. Published when Lady Ranfurly was in her eighties these highly successful diaries were widely admired for their illustration of the writer's courage pluck and humour.
Laura Petela.  Laura Petela (born 8 July 1983) is a British television actress.
Ronit Avni.  Ronit Avni is a Canadian/Israeli/ recent American. Ronit Avni is an award-winning filmmaker human rights advocate and media strategist with an expertise in Israeli–Palestinian conflict resolution efforts. Ms.
Edouard Wah.  Edouard King Fong Wah (b. 1938 Port-au-Prince Haiti; – d. September 30 2003 Port-au-Prince Haiti) better known as Edouard Wah was a renowned Haitian painter.
Tim Hurson.  Tim Hurson (born 1946) is a speaker writer and creativity theorist living in Toronto Canada. He was born in Johannesburg South Africa and grew up in New York USA. He is now a Canadian citizen. He was educated at The Peddie School in Hightstown New Jersey and went to college at Oberlin College in Ohio.Tim Hurson was a founding partner of Manifest Communications a company focussed on social change strategy. He served as its President until selling the company in 1996.
Chembai.  Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar a.k.a. Vaidyanatha Iyer (Malayalam:ചെമ്പൈ വൈദ്യനാഥ ഭാഗവതർ b. September 1 1896 d. October 16 1974) was a Carnatic music singer from Palakkad (state of Kerala India). Known by his village name Chembai or simply as Bhagavatar he was born to Anantha Bhagavatar and Parvati Ammal in 1896 at Kottayi-I/II near Palakkad on Janmashtami day. Chembai was noted for his powerful voice and majestic style of singing.
Charles Ragland Bunnell.  Charles Ragland Bunnell (January 17 1897 – September 1968) was an American painter printmaker and muralist.Bunnell was born in Kansas City Missouri. He moved to Colorado Springs in 1915 and was thereafter associated with that city. As a WPA artist from 1934 to 1941 he executed many commissioned murals in a sturdy somewhat abstracted figurative style. He was also noted for his colorful Western landscapes.
C.C. DeVille.  C.C. DeVille (born Bruce Anthony Johannesson; May 14 1962) is the guitarist of the multi-platinum selling Hard rock band Poison.The band have sold over 45 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone.He has also acted in both reality television and television drama shows. He starred in The Surreal Life season 6 and the The Surreal Life: Fame Games. DeVille also formed a solo band in 1998 called Samantha 7.
Gary Portnoy.  Gary Portnoy (born June 1956) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the state of New York best known for co-writing and singing the theme song for Cheers Where Everybody Knows Your Name. In addition to co-writing both songs with Judy Hart Angelo the two also co-authored the theme to the long-running television series Mr. Belvedere.
Yacoub Al-Mohana.  Yacoub Yousef Al-Mohana (born March 21 1975) is a Kuwaiti film and musical director. He had worked musical videos of the Gulf region's popular vocalists such as Rashed Al-Majed Rahma Mezher and Ali Al Badr. He was noted for his many works of art including paintings and poetry and being a very well versed musician as he acquired skills from his well-versed family of musicians. He has worked on many television commercials documentaries and concerts.
Josephine Lovett.  Josephine Lovett (21 October 1877 – 17 September 1958) was an American actress and screenwriter. She wrote for 32 films between 1916 and 1935.Her work on Our Dancing Daughters (1928) garnered a nomination for the Best Writing Screenplay Oscar at the 2nd Academy Awards.She was married to director John S. Robertson.
Kelly Price.  Kelly Price (born Kelly Cherelle Price; April 4 1973 in Queens New York) is a seven-time Grammy-nominated American R&B singer–songwriter formerly on the Def Soul label.
John Mason Brown.  John Mason Brown (July 3 1900 – March 16 1969) was an American drama critic and author.
James Lindsay (actor).  James Lindsay (26 February 1869 - 9 June 1928) was a British actor.Lindsay was born in Devon England UK and died in Melbourne Australia at age 59.
Amir Talai.  Amir Talai (born June 24 1977) is an American stand-up comedian actor voice artist and comedian. He is the voice of Master Crane and other characters in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.
George Kuwa.  George Kuwa (April 7 1885 – October 13 1931) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 58 films between 1916 and 1931. He was the first actor to portray Charlie Chan on-screen in the 1926 film serial The House Without a Key.
Betsy Graves Reyneau.  Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888–1964) was an American painter best known for a series of portraits of prominent African Americans once owned by the Harmon Foundation. Mary McLeod Bethune George Washington Carver Joe Louis and Thurgood Marshall were among her sitters. Reyneau was raised in Detroit and as a young woman attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She later lived in France for a time before returning to the United States and becoming active in civil rights causes.
Robin Swicord.  Robin Swicord (born 1952) is an American screenwriter and film director. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. Her other screenplay credits include Little Women Practical Magic Matilda The Perez Family and Shag.[citation needed]Her directorial debut was with the 1993 short film The Red Coat for which she also wrote the screenplay.
Scott Kannberg.  Scott Spiral Stairs Kannberg (born August 30 1966) is a musician best known for being a founding member of the indie-rock band Pavement.
Joanna Phillips-Lane.  Joanna Phillips-Lane is a British actress who among other parts played the character Roxy in Carla Lane's sitcom Bread.
Brett Michael Wilson.  Brett Michael Wilson (born May 10 1988) is an American actor/musician from West Hartford Connecticut.
Kim Joon.  Kim Joon (born Kim Hyung Joon on February 3 1984 in Gwacheon Gyeonggi-do South Korea) is a South Korean rapper actor and model who rose to stardom with his portrayal of Song Woo Bin one of the famous F4 in KBS2's 2009 hit drama Boys Over Flowers.
Bruno Pelletier.  Bruno Pelletier (born August 7 1962) is a francophone Quebecer singer.
John Braithwaite (journalist).  John Braithwaite (3 January 1885–29 October 1916) was a New Zealand journalist soldier and convicted mutineer. He was born in Dunedin New Zealand on 3 January 1885.
Stella Mwangi.  Stella Nyambura Mwangi (also known for stage name STL) (born 1 September 1986 in Nairobi) is a Norwegian-Kenyan singer songwriter and rapper. Mwangi writes a lot of her music about the situation in her home country Kenya also about discrimination both Stella and her family had to go through after moving to Norway in 1991.
Leslie Lewis.  Leslie Lewis is an Indian composer perhaps best known for his work in Colonial Cousins a duo composed of Lewis and Hariharan.In 2003 Lewis stated that he felt the public associated him too much with remixes and for that reason he had begun to avoid remixes and instead concentrate on his original compositions and on his work in Colonial Cousins. Lewis' father P. L. Raj was a prolific film choreographer.
Katreeya English.  Katreeya Kat English (Thai: แคทรียา อิงลิช) is a British-Thai Singer actress model. She is a Eurasian or Luk kreung with British father and Thai mother and is also fluent in both Thai and English.
Mick Austin.  Michael J. Mick Austin is a fine artist who lives and works in the UK. Initially a comic book artist and illustrator his painterly style led to him leaving this genre and concentrating on fine art in 1996.
Xander (Dutch singer).  Xander Venema (born in Nieuw-Amsterdam Netherlands on 27 August 1985) performing under his mononym Xander is a Dutch singer songwriter who was part of the Dutch boyband 4 AM. He took part in Dutch series 2 of Popstars finishing 11th. After Popstars he has continued with a solo musical career.
Ichirou Agata.  Ichirou Agata often known simply as Agata is the guitarist for the Japanese noise rock band Melt-Banana. Agata is known particularly for his furious stage antics jumping and constantly moving around and exceedingly unique approach to playing the guitar which involves extended technique heavy use of effects pedals and guitar slides resulting in sounds not easily attributed to the guitar.
Asher Roth.  Asher Paul Roth (born August 11 1985) is an American hip hop recording artist from Morrisville Pennsylvania. Roth is perhaps best known for his debut single I Love College. He released his debut studio album Asleep in the Bread Aisle on April 20 2009 under Universal Motown SRC and Schoolboy Records; the latter of which was launched by Roth's former manager Scooter Braun. Roth later left Schoolboy Records in late 2012 due to creative differences with Braun.
Barbara Thompson (musician).  Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (born 27 July 1944 Oxford) is an English jazz saxophonist flautist and composer. She studied clarinet flute piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. Since 1967 she has been married to drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum.Around 1970 she was part of Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra and appeared on albums by Colosseum.
Katherine Stone.  Katherine Stone Chase (born 1949 in Seattle Washington) is an American doctor and writer of romance novels under her maiden name Katherine Stone. She is married to the doctor and writer Jack Chase. She studied English Language at the University of Stanford and obtained a doctorate at the University of Washington.
Karl Skala.  Karl Skala (3 February 1924 – 31 December 2006) was an Austrian poet.He started to write in 1943 while in Russia during the war. He earned recognition with the poem Ein guter Kamerad which he had written for his fallen friend and comrade Hannes.His first book of poetry Feierabend-Andacht was published in 1956. It was followed by five more books. During his lifetime Karl received many awards including Das Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Bundesland Steiermark.
Jack Teagarden.  Weldon Leo Jack Teagarden (August 20 1905 – January 15 1964) known as Big T and The Swingin' Gate was an American jazz trombonist bandleader composer and vocalist regarded as the Father of Jazz Trombone.
Giovanni Battista Crespi.  Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632) called Il Cerano was an Italian painter sculptor and architect
Louis E. Boone.  Louis E. Boone (May 5 1941 – January 7 2005) was a United States academic author. His works covered contemporary business and economics and included university-level texts Contemporary Marketing and Contemporary Business (both with David L. Kurtz).[citation needed] His last residence was in Mobile Alabama where he was the emeritus professor of business at the University of South Alabama.
Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier.  Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier nicknamed Giovannino del Violone (Little John of the Violin) (c. 1662 – 29 March 1700) was a Baroque Italian composer cellist and trombone player of Spanish descent.
Paul Lewis (pianist).  Paul Lewis (born 20 May 1972) is an English classical pianist. His father worked at the Liverpool docks and his mother was a local council worker; there were no musicians in his family background.Lewis began by playing the cello the only instrument for which his school could offer him tuition. At the age of 14 he was accepted by Chetham's School of Music in Manchester where his piano studies blossomed.
Anne Eline Riisnæs.  Anne Eline Riisnæs (born 1951 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian pianist and piano pedagog the daughter of pianist Eline Nygaard Riisnæs and siter of the jazz saxophonist Knut Riisnæs (1945–) and Odd Riisnæs (1953–).
Rod Coombes.  Rod Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.
Chiaki Kawamata.  Chiaki Kawamata (川又千秋 Kawamata Chiaki born December 4 1948 in Otaru Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese science fiction writer and critic. Chiaki Kawamata has won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award. Chaki Kawamata is also noted for writing the story of the manga Emblem of Roto.
Johnny Griffith (musician).  Johnny Griffith (July 10 1936 – November 10 2002) was an African-American musician.
Vera Lynn.  Dame Vera Lynn DBE (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917) widely known as The Forces' Sweetheart is an English singer songwriter and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War.During the war she toured Egypt India and Burma giving outdoor concerts for the troops.
Bertha Lee Pate.  Bertha Lee Pate known more commonly as Bertha Lee (1902 – 1975) was an American classic female blues singer active in the 1920s and 1930s. She was notable for recording with and being the wife of Charlie Patton.
Jean-Michel Basquiat.  Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22 1960 – August 12 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO an informal graffiti group who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan New York City during the late 1970s where the hip hop post-punk and street art movements had coalesced.
Ernest Ashworth.  Ernest Bert Ashworth (December 15 1928 – March 2 2009) was an American country music singer and longtime Grand Ole Opry star. Signed to the Hickory label he recorded two studio albums in his career and charted several singles on Billboard Hot Country Songs including the number one Talk Back Trembling Lips and six other top ten hits.
Simon Pryce.  Simon Pryce (born 7 March 1972) is an Australian musician and performer. He is known for his work on the children's show The Kingdom of Paramithi and is currently the Red Wiggle in the next generation of The Wiggles. Pryce whose grandparents were opera singers started performing at an early age. He studied drama at the University of Sydney.
Cruz Martínez.  Cruz Martínez (born June 21 1960 in Chicago Illinois) is a Mexican American musician and a 5-time Grammy Award Winning record producer with multi gold and platinum records. He is a former member of the Tejano band La Sombra. In 1999 he co-created the cumbia music group Los Kumbia Kings with A.B. Quintanilla. In 2007 he created the band Los Super Reyes. He is married to Alicia Villarreal.
John Wells James.  John Wells James Jr. (1893-1951) was an American artist who created impressionist landscape paintings. James was associated with the Salmagundi Club in Greenwich Village and the New Hope School of Impressionism in Bucks County Pennsylvania. James worked as a New York businessman who founded a whole drug company and the Kings Highway Saving Bank while pursuing painting as a lifelong hobby. He held his first public exhibition at the Salmagundi Club when he was 77-years-old.
Hiroshi Kawaguchi.  Hiroshi Kawaguchi (川口浩 22 August 1936 – 11 November 1987) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 37 films between 1956 and 1983. He was born in Tokyo Japan. Kawaguchi's father worked for Daiei Film where Kawaguchi acted.
Raappana (musician).  Janne Pöyhönen better known by his stage name Raappana is a Finnish reggae artist from Lahti.
Jacques Natteau.  Jacques Natteau (15 November 1920 – 17 April 2007) was a French director of photography born in Istanbul Turkey. Natteau was married twice first in 1942 to Geneviève Langevin with whom he had a daughter Catherine. The couple divorced in 1953. In 1961 while working on Le Comte de Monte Cristo he met actress Yvonne Furneaux who starred as Emma in La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini). They lived between London Paris and Rome in the 1960s as they continued to pursue their film careers.
H. M. Naqvi.  H.M. Naqvi (born 1974) is a Karachi-based novelist who is the author of Home Boy winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Takura.  Takura Tendayi is a Zimbabwean singer/songwriter and member of the band Door Policy alongside producer Bibby Jones. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with Chase & Status and Sub Focus as well as many other dubstep and drum and bass artists. His guest appearances have accumulated over seventeen million YouTube views and Flashing Lights has charted in the United Kingdom at #98 in the UK Singles Chart and #15 in the UK Dance Chart.
Simone Griffeth.  Simone Griffeth sometimes credited under her married name Simone Griffeth-McDonald (born on April 4 1950 in Savannah Georgia) is an American actress. She was a Theater Arts major at the University of South Carolina for three years. While attending college Simone wrote Griffeth together and acted in a weekly children's show for a Columbia television station. She appeared in a TV commercial at age fifteen.
Frederick H. Chapin.  Frederick Hastings Chapin (5 September 1852 – 25 January 1900) was an American businessman mountaineer photographer amateur archaeologist and author. He is best known for his exploration of mesas and ancient Pueblo ruins found in the Mesa Verde area of Colorado.Chapin visited the Mesa Verde region during the summers of 1889 and 1890 using explorer Richard Wetherill and members of his family as guides.
Willem Drost.  Willem Drost (baptized 19 April 1633 - buried 25 February 1659) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits who died young.
Gus Chambers.  Gary Chambers (1956[citation needed] – 13 October 2008) known as Gus Chambers was a musician from Coventry England. He was well known as lead vocalist of the groove metal band Grip Inc.
Madhukar C. Dhas.  Madhukar C. Dhas (aka Madhu Dhas & Madooo) (born Madhukar Chandra Dhas on 25 October 1949) is a Singer Songwriter and Performer of Indian origin based in New York City USA. He is best known for his performances as lead singer of the Indian Rock band Atomic Forest in the 1970s and for his portrayal of Jesus in Alyque Padamsee's production of Jesus Christ Superstar.He is the elder brother of singer and actor Dheena Chandra Dhas.
Arthur Rackham.  Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.
Jim Tilley.  Jim Tilley (born 1950) Canadian-born and a physicist by education is an American poet who previously worked at senior management levels in the insurance and investment banking businesses.
Matt Hayward.  Matt Hayward is an Irish Dublin-based guitarist and songwriter. He has written and recorded with various bands and notable musicians including My Sister's Machine singer Nick Pollock Clannad singer/bassist Ciaran Brennan Edie Brickell Malfunkshun guitarist Kevin Wood and many others. His own band Lace Weeper have become a rock staple in the Irish music scene gaining good critical reception.Two of Matt's previous projects were signed to Dekema Records.
Vikki Petraitis.  Vikki Petraitis (born 1965) is an Australian true crime author based in Melbourne Victoria. She was nominated for the 2007 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for her book Forensics. In 2007 Vikki won the Scarlet Stiletto Award for Best New Talent for a fiction piece she wrote called 'Side Window'.Vikki is also a teacher at a school in Melbourne.
Alisha Sufit.  Alisha Sufit (born in Hampstead London 1946) of an English mother and Polish Jewish father is best known as the singer-songwriter with the 1970s band Magic Carpet. She is also a visual artist poet and author.
Jakob Langebek.  Jakob Langebek (23 January 1710 - 16 August 1775) was a Danish historian
Bartolommeo Torre.  Bartolommeo Torre was an Italian fresco painter of Arezzo who active c. the beginning of the 17th century and died young.
John Frederick Kensett.  John Frederick Kensett (March 22 1816 – December 14 1872) was an American artist and engraver. A member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature and are associated with Luminism.
Werner Lämmerhirt.  Werner Lämmerhirt (17 March 1949) is a noted German singer-songwriter and guitarist in the contemporary folk music style. He writes and sings in both German and English. His recording career has spanned more than three decades.
Liane Carroll.  Liane Carroll (born 1964 in London England) is an English pianist/vocalist who grew up in a musical family in Hastings East Sussex. She started learning the piano at the age of three and has been a professional singer pianist and composer since she was 15. In 1998 she joined and toured overseas with Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music band.Carroll has worked with many artists ranging from Sir Paul McCartney and Gerry Rafferty to Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Amit Kumar.  Amit Kumar is an Indian film playback singer actor director and music director. He is the son of the Indian singer and actor Kishore Kumar and the Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father Amit loved singing and from childhood used to sing during Durga Pooja functions in Kolkata. Once when he was performing on stage in a Durga Pooja function arranged by Bengali actor Uttam Kumar people kept requesting more songs and this information reached his mother.
Beryl Ingham.  Beryl Ingham (1901 – 24 December 1960) was a champion clogdancer and actress as well as the wife of singer/actor George Formby Jr.. She was born in Haslingden Lancashire the youngest daughter of John James Ingham and his wife Elizabeth Ann née Jackson. At the age of 11 she won the All England Step Dancing Title. Later she formed a dancing act with her sister May they called themselves The Two Violets.
Sarah Perry.  Sarah Grace Perry (née Butler) is an English writer. She was born in 1979 in Chelmsford Essex. She has a PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway University where her supervisor was Sir Andrew Motion. Her first novel After Me Comes the Flood is due to be published by Serpent's Tail in 2014. Her short story Seraph was published in the collection Bedford Square 2.
Jovan Despotović.  Jovan Despotović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Деспотовић) born 16 April 1952) is a Serbian art historian and art critic who lives in Belgrade.
David Edgar (playwright).  David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage radio and television around the world making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974-5 and has been a board member with them since 1985.
Rich Johnston.  Rich Johnston (born 21 November 1972 in Gloucester England) is a writer who writes about and within the comic book industry.
Betty Smith.  Betty Smith née Elisabeth Wehner (December 15 1896 - January 17 1972) was an American author.
Huck Hodge.  Huck Hodge (born 1977 Gainesville FL) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Hodge's music explores the embodied poetics of organized sound perceptual illusion and the threshold between design and intuition. His output is diverse and comprises a wide range of symphonic chamber dance and multimedia works.
Paul Harding (author).  Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize among other honors. Harding was the drummer in the band Cold Water Flat throughout its existence from 1990 to 1996.
Ivan Savenko.  Ivan Grigorievich Savenko (Russian: Ива́н Григо́рьевич Саве́нко; January 17 1924 Varvarovka Chernigov Province Ukraine USSR – 1987 Leningrad USSR) was a Soviet Russian - Ukrainian painter Honored Artist of the RSFSR lived and worked in Leningrad regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his landscape paintings.
Alicia Bay Laurel.  Alicia Bay Laurel (born Alicia Kaufman on 14 May 1949 in Hollywood California) is an American artist author and musician. Laurel is best known for her 1970 book Living On The Earth a notable guide for participants in the American back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s.Laurel grew up exposed to the arts intellectual ideas and political activism. Her mother Verna Lebow was a sculptor and her father Paul Kaufman was a doctor.
Paul Hackman.  Paul Wayne Hackman (1952—July 5 1992) was a Canadian guitarist who performed with the rock band Helix from 1976 until his death in a road accident. Among the hits which contain his playing are the #32 Canadian single Rock You and the #20 mainstream Canadian rock single Deep Cuts the Knife which he co-wrote with Bob Halligan Jr..
Jean Arthur Jones.  Jean Arthur Jones is an award-winning American poet and an editor. Jean Jones is co-editor with Bruce Whealton for the online magazine Word Salad Poetry Magazine. Jean lives in the Wilmington Cape Fear North Carolina area. Jean has seen many of his poems published in various journals and books.
Joel Thomas Hynes.  Joel Thomas Hynes (born 1976 in Calvert Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian writer performer and actor. He is usually credited as Joel Hynes when acting but as Joel Thomas Hynes on book covers.His debut novel Down to the Dirt won the Percy Janes First Novel Award was shortlisted for the Atlantic Book Award and the Winterset Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the ReLit Award.
Gayle Brandeis.  Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne) Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications) the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins) which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change Self Storage (Ballantine) and Delta Girls (Ballantine) and her first novel for young readers My Life with the Lincolns (Holt).Gayle's poetry fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies (such as Salon.com The Nation and The Mississippi Review) and have received several awards including the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award and a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. 
Son Seals.  Frank Son Seals (August 14 1942 – December 20 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.
Martina Filjak.  Martina Filjak (born in Zagreb) is a Croatian concert pianist.
Thomas Vane.  Thomas Vane (born 1599/1600) was an English priest who having been appointed Chaplain Extraordinary to King Charles I later converted to Roman Catholicism.
Meghna Pant.  Meghna Pant is an Indian literary fiction author and financial journalist.She has written one novel One & A Half Wife (2012) and a collection of short stories Happy Birthday! (2013).Pant’s short stories have been published in over a dozen international literary magazines including Avatar Review Wasafari Eclectica and QLRS.Pant is also known for having abridged the world's longest epic the Mahabharata to 100 tweets for which The Guardian wrote: Somehow Meghna Pant has managed to contain all of the dynamics of power struggle war love lust and greed in her 140 character tidbits. 
Ken Howard (composer).  Kenneth Charles Ken Howard (born 26 December 1939 Worthing West Sussex England) is an English songwriter lyricist author and television director.
Yıldız İbrahimova.  Yıldız İbrahimova (Bulgarian: Йълдъз Ибрахимова Yaldaz Ibrahimova Turkish: Yıldız İbrahimova) (b. 1952 in Silistra) is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian Turkish Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe North America Asia Australia and Africa.
MC Pressure.  Daniel Smith better known by his stage name MC Pressure or simply as Pressure is one of the MCs of the hip hop group the Hilltop Hoods formed in Adelaide South Australia Australia.
Andy Cairns.  Andrew James Cairns (born 22 September 1965 in Ballyclare Northern Ireland) is a founding member singer guitarist and songwriter for Therapy? a punk rock/alternative metal band from Northern Ireland.
Dimitris Poulikakos.  Dimitris Poulikakos (Greek: Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος; born 21 January 1943) is a Greek actor and rock singer. He hails from Mani Greece.
Rayhon.  Rayhon Gʻaniyeva (Uzbek: Rayhon Gʻaniyeva Райҳон Ғаниева; Russian: Райхон Ганиева) (born September 16 1978) better known simply as Rayhon is an Uzbek singer songwriter and film actress. Rayhon has recorded songs both in Uzbek and Russian. Rayhon came to prominence within the Uzbek film industry as the leading actress and screenwriter of the 2007 Uzbek drama film Kechir (Forgive Me).
William E. Vaughan.  William E. (Bill) Vaughan (October 8 1915 – February 25 1977) was an American columnist and author. Born in Saint Louis Missouri he wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star from 1946 until his death in 1977. He was published in Reader's Digest and Better Homes and Gardens under the pseudonym Burton Hillis. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.His folksy aphorisms (published in his Starbeams feature) are often collected in books and on Internet sites.
Lou Hickey.  Lou Hickey (born Mhairi-Louise Hickey) is a singer-songwriter from Neilston near Glasgow Scotland. She has been working as a solo artist since 2006 and in 2008 joined Jon Lawler from the Fratellis in a band called Codeine Velvet Club which disbanded in 2010. Since then Lou has recorded her debut album and is currently preparing for its release.
Isidro Ancheta.  Isidro Ancheta (October 15 1882 – 1946) was a Filipino landscape painter. He finished his Elementary Secondary and Bachelor of Arts Degree (1904) at the Ateneo de Manila. He also studied at the Liceo de Manila Escuela de Pintura Escultura y Grabado and the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura run by Teodoro Buenaventura in the early 1900s. He was represented with 8 paintings in the Philippine Section at the St.
Meredith O'Connor.  Meredith O'Connor is an American singer-songwriter Actress and Model based in Long Island New York.
Yumi Asou.  Yumi Okumura (奥村 由美 Okumura Yumi born August 15 1963) better known by the stage name Yumi Aso (麻生 祐未 Asō Yumi) is a Japanese actress. She is a niece of singer Chiyo Okumura. She married actor Toshiya Nagasawa (ja) in March 2004 and they had one child. The couple separated less than two years later and officially divorced in 2008.
Thomas Fluharty.  Thomas Lively Fluharty Jr. (born 1962) is an American illustrator and art educator. Fluharty's work has appeared on covers for Der Spiegel Time Mad and The Weekly Standard in The New York Times U.S. News & World Report the Village Voice and in books for children.He teaches drawing and oil painting online at Schoolism.com. Fluharty serves as a worship leader at Sovereign Grace Church in Bloomington Minnesota a Christian evangelical church affiliated with Sovereign Grace Ministries.
Margie Orford.  Margie Orford is a South African journalist film director and author of crime fiction children's fiction non-fiction and school text books.
Alberto Methol Ferré.  Alberto René Methol Ferré (Montevideo March 31 1929 - November 15 2009) was a Uruguayan thinker writer journalist teacher historian and theologian. He is considered one of the most important Latin American thinkers.
Karen Irving.  Karen Irving (born 2 October 1957) is the author of the Katy Klein mystery novel series.Born in Victoria British Columbia Irving was educated at Dalhousie University the University of Ottawa and Carleton University where she received her Master's degree in Social Work in 1988.Irving is known for her Katy Klein series of mystery novels. Set in Ottawa Ontario it revolves around the central themes of Jewish culture and astrology.
Jin Sha.  Jin Sha (Chinese: 金莎; pinyin: Jīn Shā; born Lan Feilin) (born March 14 1983) better known as Kym is a Chinese singer and actress. She was born in Shanghai and speaks Mandarin English and Shanghainese. She enjoys using the internet as well as reading.
Michael Stokes.  Michael Stokes is an American record producer and songwriter who is best known for producing Enchantment and Creative Source.
Mykola Babak.  Mykola Babak (Ukrainian: Микола Бабак 10 June 1954) is a Ukrainian artist writer publisher and art collector from Cherkasy Oblast.
N.M. Mohan.  N.M. Mohan (1949-2012) was an Indian comics writer editor magazine and advertisement designer visualiser and architectural consultant. He is one of the pioneers of comic magazine publication in Malayalam and creator of a number of popular comics characters in Kerala.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.  Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels short stories and political essays. He was born lived and died in Paris. Drieu La Rochelle became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s and was a well-known collaborationist during the German occupation.
Cleve Gray.  Cleve Gray (born September 22 1918 in New York City; died December 8 2004 in Hartford Connecticut) was as an American Abstract expressionist painter who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Caterina Albert.  Caterina Albert i Paradís (L'Escala Spain 1869–1966) better known by her penname Víctor Català was a Spanish writer who participated in the Modernism movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre Solitud (Solitude) (1905). Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898 when she received the Jocs Florals (floral games) prize; soon thereafter she began using the pseudonym Victor Català taking it from the protagonist of a novel she never finished.
Marguerite Harrison.  Marguerite Elton Harrison (1879–1967) was a reporter spy film maker and translator who was one of the four founding members of the Society of Woman Geographers.
Janno Gibbs.  Janno Ronaldo Gibbs (born September 16 1969) is a Filipino singer-songwriter and actor–comedian. He is a regular host of GMA Network television shows SOP Rules Nuts Entertainment Eat Bulaga Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5? and Power of 10 . He played as Geron Agular in Codename: Asero. Gibbs started out in 1986 as one of the members of the teen variety show That's Entertainment on GMA Network.Gibbs released a Vicor Music single called Miss.
Richard Forno.  Richard Forno is a consultant lecturer and writer in the area of Washington DC.
Mark Chadbourn.  Mark Chadbourn is an English fantasy science fiction historical fiction and horror author with more than a dozen novels (and one non-fiction book) published around the world. Born in the English Midlands from a long line of coal miners.
DJ Mayonnaise.  Chris Greer better known by his stage name DJ Mayonnaise is an alternative hip hop producer and DJ from Portland Maine. He has released two albums on Anticon.
Foster Sylvers.  Foster Emerson Sylvers (born February 25 1962 in Los Angeles) is an American singer songwriter record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for being a member of the family act The Sylvers and his hit single Misdemeanor.
Eddie Ojeda.  Eddie Fingers Ojeda (born August 5 1955 in New York City New York) is one of the two guitarists of the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister.In early 1970s he recorded a couple of singles with a band called SPX. He joined Twisted Sister in 1975. He also recorded a solo album named Axes To Axes in 2005 featuring Dee Snider Ronnie James Dio and Rudy Sarzo among others. In a 2006 interview with rock & roll comic C.C.
Warren Cohen.  Warren Cohen is a Canadian composer conductor and pianist is the musical director of the Scottsdale-based MusicaNova Orchestra identified by its mission statement - 'musica nova' means 'new music' - rather than a geographical location.
Alexander O'Neal.  Alexander O'Neal (born November 15 1953 in Natchez Mississippi) is an American R&B singer. He is best known for the songs If You Were Here Tonight Criticize and Fake and the duets with Cherrelle Saturday Love and Never Knew Love Like This.
Sydney Pokorny.  Sydney Pokorny (23 December 1965 – 1 September 2008) was a lesbian writer editor columnist and activist based in New York. She graduated from Vassar College in 1988 with a degree in art history. The author of numerous articles on topics ranging from Madonna Studies to art criticism and the AIDS epidemic; she also cowrote the Lambda Literary Award nominated So You Want to be a Lesbian? with Liz Tracey.
Pammi Somal.  Pammi Somal (born 3 October 1955) is a Bollywood journalist and a filmmaker.
Daniel Pearce.  Daniel Pearce (born 29 May 1978) is an English musician who was a finalist on the reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals. He won a place in the boyband One True Voice which subsequently released two top ten singles Sacred Trust/After You're Gone and Shakespeare's (Way With) Words.
Mednas.  Mehdi Nassiri (born June 25 1978) better known Mednas is a DJ and producer originally from Casablanca Morocco. He is the resident DJ of the Miami club LIV. His track “Derby” with Nima Nesta was on the Beatport Top Ten chart and has been supported by EDM DJs such as Tiësto Avicii Erick Morillo Roger Sanchez Third Party Junior Sanchez and Morgan Page. His remix of Parker Ighile’s “So Beautiful” with Henrix was supported by Nicki Minaj.
Mário de Alencar.  Mário Cochrane de Alencar (January 30 1872 — December 8 1925) was a Brazilian poet short story writer journalist lawyer and novelist. He was one of the children of famous novelist José de Alencar.He occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1905 until his death in 1925.
Ozzie Sweet.  Ozzie Sweet (b. Oscar Cowan Corbo Sept. 10 1918 in Stamford Connecticut - d. Feb. 20 2013 in York Harbor Maine) was a sports photographer whose best work in photography was in creating an image not capturing one.
Gillian Tindall.  Gillian Tindall is a British writer. Among her better-known works are City of Gold: Biography of Bombay and Celestine: Voices from a French Village. Her novel Fly Away Home won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.Since the 1970s she has lived in Kentish Town in North London. Her book The Fields Beneath (1977) is about the history of the area.Tindall's book The House by the Thames (2006) is about the house built at 49 Bankside in London in 1710 and the buildings that preceded it on the site.
Emil Knudsen.  Emil Knudsen (1872–1956) was born and raised in Steinkjer Norway. Psychic premonitions befell Emil Knudsen during his early childhood. In 1877 at the age of five he foresaw the burning of the nearby town of Levanger.
Jack Thorne (writer).  Jack Thorne (born 6 December 1978) is a BAFTA Award-winning English screenwriter and playwright. Born in Bristol England he has written for radio theatre and film most notably on the TV shows Skins Cast-offs This Is England '86 This Is England '88 The Fades and the feature film The Scouting Book for Boys. He currently lives in Luton.
Michelle Nixon.  Michelle Nixon is a bluegrass and acoustic country music artist. Born Michelle Denice Thurston on December 10 1963 she grew up in central Virginia where she became involved in music at an early age. Nixon joined her first band at the age of 14 embarking on a musical journey that found her singing a variety of gospel and classic country music with different Virginia based bands.
Myra Taylor (scriptwriter).  Myra Taylor (born 1937 Liverpool) was a British television scriptwriter. Although her writing career was not particularly extensive she did play a significant role in two of the more popular British TV comedies of the 1970s.She jointly created The Liver Birds with Carla Lane whom she met at a writers' club although she only wrote a few of the early episodes before going her own way at the end of the second series.
Edward Ingersoll.  Edward Ingersoll (2 April 1817 Philadelphia - 19 February 1893 Germantown Philadelphia Pennsylvania) was a United States author.
Anders Beer Wilse.  Anders Beer Wilse (12 June 1865 - 21 February 1949) was a Norwegian photographer whose photography visually documented Norway in the early to mid-20th century.Wilse was born in Flekkefjord but grew up in Kragerø and decided early to become a sailor. After having graduated with a technical degree from the technical school in Horten in 1882 he emigrated to the United States in 1884.
Guto Pryce.  Guto Dafydd Pryce (born 4 September 1972 in Cardiff Wales) is a bass guitar player in the band Super Furry Animals.The name Guto is pronounced [ˈɡɪtɔ] in Welsh.Pryce was in the punk band U Thant with Huw Bunford and Owen Powell (later of Catatonia) before Super Furry Animals formed. In 2010 Pryce played bass for Spectrum on their US and European tours.In 2012 Pryce started performing with singer Lindsey Leven under the name Gulp.
David Meister.  David Meister (born February 23 1962 in Cincinnati Ohio) is an American fashion designer known for his women’s wear. As a young child in Cincinnati David was heavily influenced by style-conscious TV shows such as Sonny & Cher which fueled his aspiration of becoming a fashion designer.Born and raised in Ohio Meister earned a degree in fashion design from The University of Cincinnati College of Design Art Architecture and Planning.
Ravi Kapoor.  Ravi Kapoor (born 27 June 1969) is an English actor of Indian heritage best known for his roles on Gideon's Crossing and Crossing Jordan. Before relocating to Los Angeles Kapoor worked for ten years as an actor in England. He trained at East 15 Acting School. Kapoor is married to actress Meera Simhan.
Nicholas Barker.  Nicholas Howard Barker is an extreme metal drummer (from Chesterfield North Derbyshire now lives in Sheffield England).
John Ritto Penniman.  John Ritto Penniman (1782–1841) was a painter in Boston Massachusetts USA. He created portraits landscapes and allegorical paintings as well as designs for engravings such as the official seal of the city of Boston in 1822. He also worked as an assistant to Gilbert Stuart. Penniman died in 1841 in Baltimore.
John McKenzie (musician).  John McKenzie is a British bass player who has been a member of bands such as Global Village Trucking Company and Man; has played on numerous singles notably for Eurythmics The Pretenders and Alison Moyet; and been a touring musician with acts as diverse as Lionel Richie Dr. John and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tia DeNora.  Tia DeNora (born 1958) is Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research in the Department of Sociology/Philosophy at the University of Exeter.
Rebecca Rosenblum.  Rebecca Rosenblum (born May 23 1978) is a Canadian author best known for her short stories.
Frances Hardinge.  Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British author best known for her novel Fly By Night which in 2006 won the Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal's Best Books. She has also been shortlisted and achieved a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her short stories. Hardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashioned clothing.
Alessandro Allori.  Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.In 1540 after the death of his father he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend often referred to as his 'uncle' the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.
Wentworth M. Johnson.  Wentworth M. Johnson (born 1939) is a Canadian writer. He was born in March Cambridgeshire England. W.M. Johnson is the great grandson of William Edward Bourne 1850-1925 (Playwright dramatist and theatrical producer). Johnson has published newspaper and magazine articles as well as a number of fiction and non-fiction books.
Helga M. Novak.  Helga M. Novak (pseudonym for Maria Karlsdottir; 8 September 1935 – 24 December 2013 in Rüdersdorf) was a German-Icelandic writer.Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig.She moved to Iceland in 1961 where she married and had two children before her divorce.She traveled to Spain France and the U.S. before returning to East Germany.
Ashwinee Bhatt.  Ashwinee Bhatt (1936 – 2012) was a well known Gujarati novelist known for serialized novels such as Othaar Faanslo Aashka Maandal Katibandh Nirja Bhargav Angaar and Aakhet. Besides writing novels he was also involved in theatre and translation of English novels.
Wilson MacDonald.  Wilson Pugsley MacDonald (May 5 1880 – April 8 1967) was a popular Canadian poet who was known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities as a reader of his poetry. By reading fees and by selling his books at readings he was able to make a living from his poetry alone. In the 1920s he was so popular that his fame eclipsed that of Robert Service and Pauline Johnson.
Mika K..  Mirjana Kostić (Serbian: Мирјана Костић; born 6 August 1983) professionally known as Mika K. is a Serbian singer and musician who came to media attention as a contestant of talents show Operacija trijumf.
Akari Hibino.  Akari Hibino (日比野 朱里 Hibino Akari born Yōko Ogai (小粥 よう子 Ogai Yōko) July 5 1959 in Hamamatsu Shizuoka Japan) is a Japanese voice actress. She married Yōichi Takahashi creator of popular soccer anime Captain Tsubasa.
Errol Trzebinski.  Errol Trzebinski is an author of books on prominent individuals in the history of colonial Kenya including Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixen (1977); The Kenya Pioneers: The Frontiersmen of an Adopted Land (1985); The Lives of Beryl Markham: Out of Africa's Hidden Free Spirit and Denys Finch Hatton's Last Great Love (1993); and The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder (2000).
Tiziano Scarpa.  Tiziano Scarpa (born 16 May 1963) is an Italian novelist playwright and poet.Born in Venice he won the 2009 Strega Prize for his novel Stabat mater.
Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel.  Abraham van den Tempel (c.1622 – 8 October 1672) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Mike Krüger.  Mike Krüger (born Michael Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger December 14 1951 in Ulm) is a German comedian and singer.
Beverley Craven.  Beverley Craven (born 28 July 1963 in Colombo Sri Lanka) is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 1991 UK Top 5 hit single Promise Me. Her most recent album Close To Home was released in 2009. Craven has sold over 4 million records in her career.
Xawery Dunikowski.  Xawery Dunikowski (Polish pronunciation: [ksaˈvɛrɨ duɲiˈkɔfskʲi]; 24 December 1875 – 26 January 1964) was a Polish sculptor and artist notable for surviving Auschwitz concentration camp and best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art.
Kathryn Hulme.  Kathryn Hulme (July 6 1900 - August 25 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel The Nun's Story. The book is often mistakenly understood to be semi-biographical.
Valentina Monakhova.  Valentina Vasilievna Monakhova (Russian: Валенти́на Васи́льевна Мона́хова; August 23 1932 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russian painter watercolorist graphic artist and art teacher living and working in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Hermann Levi.  Hermann Levi (November 7 1839 – May 13 1900) was a German Jewish orchestral conductor.Levi was born in Gießen Germany the son of a rabbi. He was educated at Gießen and Mannheim and came to Vinzenz Lachner's notice. From 1855 to 1858 Levi studied at the Leipzig conservatorium and after a series of travels which took him to Paris he obtained his first post as music director at Saarbrücken which post he exchanged for that at Mannheim in 1861.
Erik Wroldsen.  Erik Wroldsen (born 19. March 1973 in Arendal Norway) is a heavy metal drummer. His main band was the industrial metal band Red Harvest.Erik has also played drums for Trivial Act and Decadence.
Gordon Bok.  Gordon Bok (born October 31 1939) is a folklorist and singer/songwriter who grew up in Camden Maine.
Cyndi Grecco.  Cyndi Grecco is an American singer who performed the theme tune to the popular 1970s American television show Laverne & Shirley. Titled Making Our Dreams Come True the song (in which Grecco was accompanied by the Ron Hicklin Singers) was also put out as a single and charted at #25 on July 25 1976. The song came out on the small Private Stock label (#45086). An album followed though a second disco-themed single Dancing Dancing failed to chart.
Roger Miller (rock musician).  Roger (Clark) Miller is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding the groups Mission of Burma and Alloy Orchestra.His main instruments are guitar and piano. Guitar Player magazine describes Miller's guitar playing as balancing rock energy with cerebral experimentation while his keyboard work has earned comparisons to Béla Bartók and even Cecil Taylor.
Timmy Regisford.  DJ Timmy Regisford (born Timothy Regisford) is a House artist and producer who according to deepattitude.com His flare and panache on the decks not only technically but programming-wise has rightly earned him the well-deserved moniker The Maestro.
Barry Zaid.  Barry Zaid (born June 8 1938 in Toronto Ontario Canada) is a graphic artist and designer.
Carolyn Forché.  Carolyn Forché (born April 28 1950) is an American poet editor translator and human rights advocate. She has received awards for her literary work.
Christopher Hals Gylseth.  Christopher Hals Gylseth (born 5 July 1965) is a Norwegian author. He studied history of ideas and has written many biographies of Norwegian people amongst them Ola Thommessen Elling M. Solheim and Øvre Richter Frich.
Claude Champagne.  Claude Champagne (27 May 1891 – 21 December 1965) was a Canadian composer.Born in Montreal Quebec he studied violin with Albert Chamberland organ with Orpha-F. Deveaux and piano with Romain-Octave Pelletier I and Alexis Contant at the Conservatoire national de musique. In 1921 he went straight to Paris to study music. By then he was drawn into modality which stayed with him the rest of his life.
Alec Irvin.  Alec Irvin (born October 31 1972) is an American musician.As a drummer Irvin has worked with Joseph Arthur and Chris Vrenna and has recorded with the band Underwater.
Lou Fine.  Louis Fine (November 26 1914 – July 24 1971) was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books where his quality draftsmanship became an influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists.
Ken Nelson (British record producer).  Ken Nelson (born 6 February 1959 in Liverpool) is an English record producer. After several years working on demos and independent artists he achieved success with Gomez and worldwide success with the first Coldplay recording.
A.C. Reed.  Aaron Corthen better known as A.C. Reed (May 9 1926 – February 24 2004) was an American blues saxophonist closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s.
Tzi Ma.  Tzi Ma (Chinese: 馬志; pinyin: Mǎ Zhì; born June 10 1962) is a Chinese-American actor who has made numerous appearances in American films and television series.
Leigh Bale.  Leigh Bale is an American author of historical contemporary romance novels. She lives in Nevada with her professor husband.
Rissi Palmer.  Rissi Palmer (born in Sewickley Pennsylvania) is an American country music artist. Palmer debuted in 2007 with the single Country Girl which made her the first African-American woman to chart a country song since Dona Mason in 1987. Country Girl peaked at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and served as the lead-off single to her self-titled debut album which also produced the No. 59 hit Hold on to Me.
Will Randall.  Will Randall (born 1966) is an English travel writer.Educated in London he taught languages in the English west country for ten years including 5 years at Blundell's School before moving to live in the South Pacific islands. He is best known for his book Solomon Time.His 2003 book Indian Summer is about time he spent teaching in a school for orphans in Poona India.
Juma Nature.  Juma Nature a.k.a. Sir Nature (born Juma Kassim Ally in 1980) is a Tanzanian hip hop artist and a singer. He is the founder and member of a Temeke group called Wanaume an informal group of rappers from the poor side of Dar es Salaam. Nature is one of the best well known and most creative artists in the Bongo Flava Swahili hip hop genre. Not only is he a great composer and uniquely talented rap artist but also he has a soulful and touching voice.
Fernanda Eberstadt.  Fernanda Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer.
Steve Wills.  Steve Blast Wills is a St. Louis Missouri born record producer and music publisher recognised for his production work for urban artists Nelly Chingy and Murphy Lee. He owns the urban music publisher Blast Music Publishing.
Diana Meltzer.  Diana Meltzer is an American music industry executive. She is the owner of Monster Hits Music and was the co-owner of the world largest independent label Wind-Up Records with her ex-husband Alan Meltzer.
Linda Hopkins.  Linda Hopkins (born December 14 1924) is an African American actress and blues and gospel singer. She has recorded classic traditional and urban blues and performed R&B and soul jazz and show tunes all with distinction and style since the 1950s.
Lucas Hoge.  Lucas Jerrod Hoge is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Sam Hunt (songwriter).  Sam Hunt (born December 8 1984) is an American country music singer-songwriter and former college football player.
Ayumi Kida.  Ayumi Kida (喜田あゆ美 Kida Ayumi; born June 7 1966) is a Japanese-born actress. Her voice-over credits include the Japanese dub voices of Dexter from Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory and Dib from Nickelodeon's Invader Zim.
Normand Poirier.  Normand Poirier (1928 – February 3 1981) was an American journalist essayist and newspaper editor. His name is often spelled Norman Poirier. Poirier is noted as one of the first journalists to report on the massacres of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Tony Romano (musician).  Tony Romano (26 September 1915 – 4 March 2005) was an American jazz guitarist singer composer and performer. Romano performed on radio programs and appeared in Hollywood musical productions in the 1930s 40s and 50s. He became most noted as the side-man and musical accompanist to Bob Hope and Frances Langford during their USO tours in World War II Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Mami Kosuge.  Mami Kosuge (小菅 真美 Kosuge Mami born October 20 1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Production Ace.
Dolo Coker.  Charles Mitchell “Dolo” Coker (November 16 1927 – April 13 1983) was a jazz pianist and composer who recorded four albums for Xanadu Records and extensively as a sideman for artists like Sonny Stitt Gene Ammons Lou Donaldson Art Pepper Philly Joe Jones and Dexter Gordon.
Ella Hooper.  Ella Keighery Hooper (born 30 January 1983 Melbourne Victoria) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter radio presenter and TV personality. Hooper was the lead singer of Killing Heidi. The band formed in 1996 (when Ella was 13) and also featured her older brother Jesse Hooper. Their biggest hits were Mascara (#1 30 January 2000 Australian charts) Live Without It (#5 23 April 2000) and Weir (#6 19 December 1999). Killing Heidi broke up in 2006.
Tino Coury.  Tino Coury is an singer-songwriter and producer. His debut single Diary is featured in the game Tap Tap Revenge 3. His second single Up Against The Wall expected to be released to radio February 2011.
Frederic Lebow.  Fredric Lebow is an American screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay for While You Were Sleeping (1995) with Daniel G. Sullivan but while it was acclaimed by many it did not receive any awards. He also had a minor role in the 1991 B-movie Chopper Chicks in Zombietown. He currently resides in Long Island New York.
Marco Álvarez.  Marco Alvarez Gutierrez (born November 5 1972) is a Spanish musician. He is the drummer of Heavy metal/progressive metal band called Avalanch along with Alberto Rionda.
Children of Poseidon.  Children of Poseidon are a group of stunt comedians from Perth Western Australia who perform dangerous and shocking stunts on their YouTube channel. As well as stunts they also occasionally do pranks and cause mayhem in public. As of March 2014 their most viral video entitled Cactus Body Slam has achieved more than 6 million views and their channel has over 185000 subscribers. They appeared on the Australian current affairs program Today Tonight.
Robert German.  Robert German (born Robert John German on June 16 1978) is a United States singer guitarist and songwriter. He is known for his unique vocal style which has drawn comparisons to such disparate influences as Louis Armstrong Tori Amos and Tom Waits.
Fabian S. Woodley.  Fabian Strachan Woodley MC (19 July 1888 – 8 August 1957) was a British poet of the Uranian school. He was born in Bristol and educated at Cheltenham College (1902–07) and University College Oxford (matriculated 1907 BA 1910). After fighting in World War I (during which he won the Military Cross) he taught English at several schools.His only book of poetry A Crown of Friendship was published in 1921.
Bhai Nand Lal.  Bhai Nand Lal (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ Urdu: بهائ نند لال‎ Hindi: भाई नंद लाल 1633–1713) also known as Bhai Nand Lal Singh was a 17th-century Persian and Arabic poet in the Punjab region. He was one of the fifty-two poets of Guru Gobind Singh's Darbar (court). He was born in Ghazni in Afghanistan to father Chhajju Ram who was a famous Persian scholar himself. Bhai Sahib lived in Multan and later became a courtier in Darbar (court) of Guru Gobind Singh; the tenth Sikh Guru.
Timo Pieni Huijaus.  Timo Juhani Snellman (born June 2 1982) professionally known as Timo Pieni Huijaus is a Finnish rapper.
Craig Abaya.  Craig Abaya is an independent artist from San Francisco California. In music he is an award-winning songwriter singer musician producer and engineer. In film he directs music performance and interview videos of musical celebrities as well as his own music videos. As a concert photographer his portfolio includes a veritable Who's Who of popular music.
Actress (musician).  Darren J. Cunningham is a British electronic musician best known under the pseudonym Actress. His music has been released by a variety of different recording labels which most prominently include Ninja Tune Honest Jon's Records Nonplus Records and Werkdiscs a label he co-founded in 2004.
Pete Haycock.  Peter John Pete Haycock (4 March 1951 – 30 October 2013) was an English musician and composer of film scores. He began his career as lead guitarist vocalist and founding member of the Climax Blues Band.
Rachel Goswell.  Rachel Goswell (born 16 May 1971) is an English singer-songwriter and musician who rose to prominence as vocalist bassist and guitarist of the shoegaze band Slowdive. Goswell along with Neil Halstead Ian McCutcheon and former Chapterhouse member Simon Rowe became Mojave 3 when Slowdive transitioned to a more country/folk rock style. She released a solo album in 2004 titled Waves Are Universal on 4AD Records.
Mike Candys.  Michael Kull better known as Mike Candys (born 21 August 1981) is a Swiss music producer and dance DJ.
Lea Lexis.  Lea Lexis (born February 18 1988) is the stage name of a Romanian pornographic actress active since 2007. Lexis was previously a gymnastics star and won five national titles in her home country. Lexis retired at age 14 after she suffered a double breakage in a muscle for which recovery took six months. This gave her one of the special traits that she sometimes shows in her movies an amazing flexibility. In July 2007 she started shooting porn in Eastern Europe.
John R. Graham (composer).  John Roderick Graham is an award-winning American film composer. He is best known for his film scores to Alleged Bitch Slap Lange Flate Ballær 2 and American Strays. He won first prize for Best Original Score for his music in Alleged at the Michigan Film Festival and won Best Soundtrack Album for his score for Long Flat Balls II at the Just Plain Folks awards.
David Liptak.  David Liptak (born December 18 1949 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA) is a composer and music teacher living in Rochester New York.
Francesco Vinea.  Francesco Vinea (Forlì August 10 1845 - Florence October 22 1902) was an Italian painter known for his period costume genre subjects.He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty and spent some time traveling without home.
Usman Warsi.  Usman Warsi (Urdu: عثمان وارثی) (born September 23 1972 in Lahore Pakistan) Warsi is a Singer a Poet a Music Director a Professional Music Composer.
Billy Zoom.  Billy Zoom (born Tyson Kindell on February 20 1948 in Savanna Illinois) is an American guitarist best known as one of the founders of the punk rock band X.
Asger Svendsen.  Asger Svendsen is a performer and professor of bassoon and chamber music. He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) as a bassoonist and pianist. Apart from teaching at the RDAM he is also professor at the Music Academy in Malmö Sweden where he is in addition leader of the woodwind education.Has played in most major Danish orchestras including being solo bassoonist in the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Jake Bass.  Jake Bass (born December 13 1989) in Detroit is an American hip-hop music producer. Jake is the son of Jeff Bass who is 1/2 of the Bass Brothers production team that discovered Eminem. Jake has produced tracks for Bizarre (rapper) from D12 including his song Fat Boy off the Blue Cheese & Coney Island record. He has also worked closely with deaf rapper Sean Forbes producing almost all of his tracks and performing live with him.
Nellie Campobello.  Nellie Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna born María Francisca Moya Luna (b. November 7 1900 – d. July 9 1986) was a Mexican writer. Like her half-sister Gloria a well-known ballet dancer she was also known as an enthusiastic dancer and choreographer.
Georgia Blain.  Georgia Blain (born 1964) is a contemporary Australian novelist journalist and biographer.She is the daughter of journalist Anne Deveson and broadcaster Ellis Blain. Her first novel was Closed for Winter. Her most recent work is Births Deaths and Marriages a memoir of her childhood which has been short-listed for the Nita Kibble Literary Award.
Systaime.  Michaël Borras also known as Systaime is a French net.artist. He is the founder of a movement called French Trash Touch (1995-2003). He created Neticones a website that portrays pop art as a mosaic of net icons. He has also worked on art projects using Facebook pages Mashup videos and YouTube Poop. At the end of 2011 he founded the Super Art Modern Art Museum (French: Super Art Moderne Musee) (SPAMM) an online museum with digital pieces from over 50 artists.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler.  James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11 1834 – July 17 1903) was an American-born British-based artist active during the American Gilded Age. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting he was a leading proponent of the credo art for art's sake. His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.
Ted Geoghegan.  Filmmaker and author Ted Geoghegan (born August 10 1979 in Beaverton Oregon United States) grew up in Great Falls Montana attending private and public schools and studying film extensively. He attended The University of Montana in Missoula Montana and attained a degree in English Education.Geoghegan is best known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres.
Ailee.  Amy Lee (Korean name: Lee Yejin; Hangul: 이예진; Hanja: 李藝眞 born May 30 1989) better known by her stage name Ailee (Hangul: 에일리) is a Korean American singer under South Korean record label YMC Entertainment. She released her first single Heaven in February 2012.
Jakki tha Motamouth.  Jakki Tha Motamouth (born J. Rubin ) is an American underground rapper from Columbus Ohio. Known for his battle Rap oriented lyrics Jakki considers himself to be a gifted storyteller.He was part of the New York based crew The Weathermen along with Aesop Rock Tame One Cage Yak Ballz Copywrite and others.Jakki has two daughters: Briana and Arriana.
Peter Schenk the Elder.  Petrus Schenck or Pieter or Peter Schenk the elder (baptized: 26 December 1660 – Leipzig between 12 August and 17 November 1711) was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig.
Paul Chapman (musician).  Paul William Tonka Chapman (born 9 June 1954) is a Welsh rock guitarist best known for his work in bands such as UFO and Lone Star. Chapman is well known by his nickname Tonka allegedly acquired because of his indestructible qualities.
Ian Matthews (drummer).  Ian Matthews is an English musician best known as a drummer for rock band Kasabian. Prior to Kasabian he played with a number of local Bristol bands such as K-Passa Ilya and Milk. He met Kasabian when they were recording their first single Processed Beats in Bristol. He also played on Butcher Blues another track from Kasabian's self-titled debut album and Beneficial Herbs a B-side to Cutt Off single.
Monty Budwig.  Monty Rex Budwig (December 26 1926 – March 9 1992) was a West Coast jazz double bassist. He was born in Pender Nebraska. He began playing bass during high school continuing in the military band while he was enlisted in the Air Force.
Gerry Conway (musician).  Gerald Conway (born 11 September 1947 in King's Lynn Norfolk) is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s Jethro Tull during the 1980s and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects. Conway has done a considerable amount of work as a session musician.
Lori Goldston.  Lori Goldston is an American cellist. She was the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York. She is a member of Earth the Black Cat Orchestra and Spectratone International.
Nosfell.  Nosfell (born 1 December 1977 in Saint-Ouen in Seine-Saint-Denis) is a rock musician who performs in a group with Pierre Lebourgeois (cellist) and Orkhan Murat (drummer). His full stage name Labyala Fela Da Jawid Fel means The one who walks and heals.
Mai Charoenpura.  Siriwimol Charoenpura (Thai: สิริวิมล เจริญปุระ; RTGS: Siriwimon Charoenpura) or stage name Mai Charoenpura (Thai: ใหม่ เจริญปุระ; born January 5 1969) is a Thai singer and actress.
Sumati Mutatkar.  Sumati Mutatkar (1916–2007) was an Indian classical music vocalist and musicologist from the Agra gharana of Hindustani classical music and a Professor of Department of Music in University of Delhi.She was awarded the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi India's National Academy for Music Dance and Drama for lifetime achievement the 1979 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and the Padma Shri in 1999 by Government of India. .
Vince Gill.  Vincent Grant Vince Gill (born April 12 1957) is an American country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983 where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist and a duet partner.Gill has recorded more than 20 studio albums charted over 40 singles on the U.S.
Ryan David Jahn.  Ryan David Jahn (born 1979) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His first book Acts of Violence (Good Neighbors in the U.S.) is a literary thriller inspired by the 1964 murder of Catherine Genovese. Upon release in 2009 it was both praised as compassionate and authentic and criticized for containing relentless near-pornographic brutality though overall critical reception was positive and it won a Crime Writers' Association dagger for best first novel.
Ariane Lopez-Huici.  Ariane Lopez-Huici (born August 5 1945) is a photographer living between New York and Paris. Her work has been successfully presented internationally in institutions - Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Spain Musee de Grenoble France PS1-Moma USA French Institute New York USA among many others - as well as galeries - AC Project room NY Galerie Franck Paris -.
Lachlan Gillespie.  Lachlan Gillespie (born 23 October 1985) is an Australian musician and performer. He is best known as a member of the children's music group The Wiggles.Gillespie whose nickname is Lachy began playing the piano at the age of four and started formal singing training when he was 12.
John Taglieri.  John Taglieri (born August 19 1967) is an American musician singer-songwriter recording artist and record label owner. Born and raised in New Jersey he attended college for sound engineering in New York City and has played in various New Jersey bands as a drummer lead guitarist bassist keyboardist and vocalist. He released his first solo album Leap of Faith in 1999 on his own record company Leap Dog Music.
Ada Lee.  Ada Lee is a singer from Springfield Ohio who has performed jazz blues gospel and soul music on stage and record in the United States and Canada since the late 1950s.
George Young (rock musician).  George Redburn Young (born 6 November 1946) is a Australian rock musician songwriter and record producer. He is best known as a member of the Australian 1960s band The Easybeats a co-writer of the international hits Friday on My Mind and Love Is in the Air. Young was also the producer of the hard rock band AC/DC which features his younger brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.
Piero Strozzi (composer).  Piero (or Pietro) Strozzi (1550 - after 1 September 1609) was an Italian nobleman and amateur composer. A member of the powerful Strozzi family Piero was born and died in Florence where he played an important intellectual role in fostering the new music during the late 16th century. He was a member of the Camerata of Count Giovanni de' Bardi and a member of the Camerata of Jacopo Corsi. He was supportive of Giulio Caccini and commissioned several works by the composer.
Giovanni Battista Cremonini.  Giovanni Battista Cremonini (c. 1550 - 1610) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Tamaki Tokuyama.  Tamaki Tokuyama (徳山 璉 Tokuyama Tamaki July 27 1903 - January 28 1942) was a classically trained baritone and a famous singer of popular music in early Shōwa era Japan.
Michael Capuzzo.  Michael Capuzzo (born on May 1 1957) is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books The Murder Room and Close to Shore..
Caroline Alexander (author).  Caroline Alexander (born 1956) is an author and journalist. She has written for The New Yorker Granta and National Geographic. Her books include One Dry Season (1989) The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War (2009) The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (2004) and The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (1998).
Theo Stevenson.  Theodore John Stevenson (born 27 February 1998) better known as Theo Stevenson is an English actor known for starring as the title character in Horrid Henry: The Movie.
Sophie Jodoin.  Sophie Jodoin (born 1965) is a Montreal-based visual artist.She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Mary Beth Edelson.  Mary Beth Edelson (born 1933) is an American artist and pioneer in the Feminist art movement deemed one of the notable first generation feminist artists. She was also active in the civil rights movement. She has created paintings photographs collages murals and drawings. Edelson is a printmaker book artist photographer creator of performance art and an author.
Jeremy Brock.  Jeremy Brock (born 1959) is an English actor producer writer fisher and director whose works include the screenplays Mrs. Brown Driving Lessons Last King of Scotland and Charlotte Gray. His awards include the Evening Standard award for Mrs. Brown. Driving Lessons was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. In 2007 he received the BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay for The Last King of Scotland co-written with Peter Morgan.
Jim Gilstrap.  James Earl Jim Gilstrap (born November 10 1946) is an American singer best known for his work as a session musician and his 1975 solo hit single Swing Your Daddy as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series Good Times.
Daisuke Tsuda (musician).  Daisuke Tsuda (津田 大介 Tsuda Daisuke born September 13 1977) also known as Daisuke Han (ダイスケはん) is the harsh vocalist of the Japanese band Maximum the Hormone while fellow band member Ryo Kawakita does most of the clean voices. He was born in Takamatsu Kagawa.
Bumble Bee Slim.  Amos Easton (May 7 1905 – June 8 1968) better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim was an American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist.
Pat Byrne (singer).  Pat Byrne is an Irish singer and recording artist from Borris County Carlow. In 2012 Byrne was crowned the winner of the first series of The Voice of Ireland.
Jay Perez.  Jay Perez is an American Tejano musician who is known for his mixing of Rhythm and Blues with traditional Tejano music. Initially a drummer he became a leading vocalist for Latin Breed and David Lee Garza y los Musicales. Perez began a solo career in the early 1990s and has released several solo albums. He has also won several Tejano Music Awards. To his fan base he is known as The Voice.
Tomoko Naraoka.  Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子 Naraoka Tomoko born December 1 1929) is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter she was born in Komagome Hongō (present-day Bunkyō Tokyo) in what was then the city of Tokyo Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design.Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai based on the novel Naomi. In 1981 she appeared in Rengō Kantai (lit. Combined Fleet United States title: The Imperial Navy).
Roger McKenzie.  Roger McKenzie (22 July 1971 – 25 November 1995) also known under his production aliases of Wildchild or DJ Wildchild was an English musician and DJ. Born in Southampton England he released many singles on labels such as Hi Life Recordings Ultra Records and Polydor (UK). The tracks Jump to My Beat Renegade Master and the subsequent Renegade Master '98 were his most successful. Fatboy Slim's 1998 Old Skool Mix is perhaps the most famous version of Renegade Master.
Omar Taher.  Omar Taher (Arabic: عمر طاهر‎; born in 1973 in Sohag) is an Egyptian journalist.
Jean Desailly.  Jean Desailly (24 August 1920 Paris – 11 June 2008) was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946 and later participated in about ninety movies.Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère.
Don Conroy.  Don Conroy is an Irish children's author artist conservationist and television personality. His artistic and literary work centres on a wildlife theme. He is heavily involved in wildlife conservation work in Ireland and has made regular appearances on The Den since 1986 the longest continually serving member of the crew.
Rimi Natsukawa.  Rimi Natsukawa (夏川 りみ Natsukawa Rimi born 9 October 1973) is an Okinawan singer. She is best known for her 2001 single Nada Sōsō.
Oz Fox.  Richard Alfonso Martinez (born June 18 1961) better known by the stage name Oz Fox is the lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. Martinez's high school friends called him Oz in honor of Ozzy Osbourne due to his ability to emulate the vocals of Osbourne while playing Black Sabbath covers in his pre-Stryper days. He was recruited by the Sweet brothers in 1983 to form what would become Stryper.
Richard Durand.  Richard Durand (born 5 April 1976) is a Dutch Disc jockey and record producer. His real name is Richard van Schooneveld (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈri.ʃɑrt vɐn ˈsχoː.nə.ˌvɛlt])
Katsuji Mori.  Katsuji Mori (森 功至  Mori Katsuji born July 10 1945) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo. He is often accredited as the Casey Kasem of Japan. He is most known for the roles of Go Mifune (Speed Racer) Joe Shimamura/009 (Cyborg 009 [1960's]) Ken the Eagle (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) Jouji Minami (Tekkaman: The Space Knight) and Garma Zabi (Mobile Suit Gundam). His former stage name is Setsuya Tanaka (田中 雪弥 Tanaka Setsuya).
D. M. Cornish.  David M. Cornish (born 1972) is a fantasy author and illustrator from Adelaide South Australia. His first book is Foundling the first part of the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy. The second book named Lamplighter was released in May 2008. The third in the series is named Factotum and was released in October 2010.
Sarah Winman.  Sarah Winman (born 1964) is a British actress and author. In 2011 her debut novel When God Was a Rabbit became an international bestseller and won Winman several awards including New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards.
Dallas Blocker.  Dallas Blocker (born Nathan Blocker a.k.a. Dallas) is an American vocalist producer and songwriter best known for his work in R&B hip hop and pop music. After signing with Latium Records in 2004 Blocker later formed independent label Blockerboy Music LLC on which he released the EP Alone the album Love and Lust (in Japan) and the Billboard chart-topper “Rock Ya Body.”
DJ Dan.  DJ Dan (born Daniel Wherrett) is an American electronic house music DJ and producer. Dan previously released works through the Moonshine label.
Helen Forrest.  Helen Forrest (April 12 1917 – July 11 1999) was an American singer.She served as the girl singer for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw Benny Goodman and Harry James) thereby earning a reputation as the voice of the name bands.
Lidia Ruslanova.  Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova (sometimes spelt Lidiya or Lydia Russian: Лидия Андреевна Русланова; 27 October 1900 Saratovskaya gubernia – 21 September 1973 Moscow) was one of the greatest and best-loved performers of Russian folk songs.
Jan Martens.  Jan Martens (born Eindhoven 19 April 1939) is a Dutch painter.Jan Martens studied at the Academy of Visual Arts (The Hague 1954–1959) under the direction of Kees Bol among others and at the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht 1961-1966). In the time between the two schooling periods he made his living as a graphic designer and silkscreen printer. The second degree developed his fine arts skills and he specialized in painting and sculpture.
Brent Rowan.  Brent Rowan (born May 28 1956 in Waxahachie Texas) is an American session musician and record producer who works primarily in country music. Active since the 1970s Rowan began working with John Conlee through the recommendation of record producer Bud Logan. Rowan first played on Conlee's Friday Night Blues and later became the only guitarist for Conlee's recordings.He also played guitar for Alabama Alan Jackson Chris LeDoux Clay Walker Confederate Railroad and others.
Somi.  Somi is an American singer & songwriter of Rwandan and Ugandan descent.
GuGabriel.  Gudrun Gabriele Liemberger (born in Freistadt) known by her stage name GuGabriel is an Austrian singer-songwriter and musician. She is most famous for her single Salvation which has peaked to number 19 on the Austrian Singles Chart.
Robert Calvert.  Robert Calvert (9 March 1945 – 14 August 1988) was a writer poet and musician.
Patricia Brake.  Patricia Ann Brake (born 25 June 1942 in Bath Somerset) is an English actress.Her first television role was in Emergency Ward 10. After that she appeared in various TV roles including as Julie Pinfield in The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968–69) a short-lived sitcom made for the American ABC network.
Frank Farrell (musician).  Francis Anthony Frank Farrell (31 March 1947 – 19 July 1997) was a British rock bassist vocalist and songwriter born in Birmingham England. He attended St. Philip's Grammar School in Hagley Road Edgbaston from 1959 to 1963. Over a professional career that spanned thirty years he is best known as the bassist of British rock band Supertramp and for his musical association with Leo Sayer.
Francesco Brenti.  Francesco Brenti (active 1612–1620) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style active in Cremona. He appears to have trained with Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Malosso).
Cecil Mannering.  Cecil Mannering was a British film actor.
Albert King.  Albert King (April 25 1923 – December 21 1992) was an American blues guitarist and singer and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing. King was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in May 2013.
Carrie Bethel.  Carrie McGowan Bethel (1898–1974) was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi (Northern Paiute) basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born Carrie McGowan in Lee Vining California and began making baskets at the age of 12. She participated in basket making competitions in the Yosemite Indian Field Days in 1926 and 1929.
Zak Smith.  Zak Smith also known as Zak Sabbath is an American artist and alternative porn star. He was born in Syracuse New York in 1976 and grew up in Washington D.C. After receiving a BFA from Cooper Union in 1998 he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and went on to receive an MFA from Yale University in 2001. He lived and worked in Brooklyn until October 2007 when he moved to Los Angeles.
Chinx Drugz.  Lionel Pickens (born December 3 1983) better known by his stage name Chinx Drugz or simply Chinx is an American rapper from Far Rockaway Queens New York. He is a member of French Montana's Coke Boys group and record label which also consists of Cheeze Flip and Lil Durk. He is best known for his appearances on the Coke Boys mixtapes and the Cocaine Riot mixtape series.
Julius Exter.  Julius Exter fully Julius Leopold Bernhard Exter (September 20 1863 Ludwigshafen am Rhein – October 16 1939 Übersee am Chiemsee) was a German avant-garde painter whose techniques were close to the Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) school of artists and who became known as the 'prince of colours' for his lively expressionism style. He was an active member of the Munich Secession movement founded in 1892.Some of his paintings (e.g.
Daryl Hall.  Daryl Hall (born October 11 1946) is an American rock R&B and soul singer keyboardist guitarist songwriter and producer best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist/songwriter John Oates).Hall scored several Billboard chart hits in the 1970s and early 1980s and is regarded as one of the best soul singers of his generation. Guitarist Robert Fripp who collaborated with him in the late 1970s and early 1980s has written Daryl's pipes were a wonder.
Siobhan Dillon.  Siobhan Patricia Dillon (born 1 September 1984 Lichfield Staffordshire) is an English actress and singer who rose to fame when she performed in the British talent show-themed television series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? on BBC One in 2006. Since then she has performed in the West End playing the roles of Sandy in the musical Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre and as Vivienne Kensington in the musical Legally Blonde at the Savoy Theatre.
Jill McCorkle.  Jill Collins McCorkle (July 7 1958 Lumberton North Carolina) is an American short story writer and novelist.She graduated from University of North Carolina in 1980 where she studied with Max Steele Lee Smith and Louis D. Rubin she also attended Hollins College now Hollins University with Lee Smith where she received her MA.
T.O.P (entertainer).  Choi Seung-hyun (Korean: 최승현; born November 4 1987) better known by his stage name T.O.P (Korean: 탑 - tap) is a South Korean rapper singer songwriter model and actor best known as a lead rapper of the hip hop Korean boy band Big Bang. He has branched out to act in various dramas and films including I Am Sam Iris Nineteen71: Into the Fire and Alumni.In 2010 T.O.P and bandmate G-Dragon collaborated to record and release the album GD & TOP (2010).
Paula Frías Allende.  Paula Frías Allende (22 October 1963 – 6 December 1992) was the daughter of Chilean-American author Isabel Allende Llona. Her grandfather was a first cousin of Salvador Allende President of Chile from 1970 to 1973.
Milo Manara.  Maurilio Manara (born September 12 1945) known professionally as Milo Manara is an Italian comic book writer and artist best known for his erotic approach to the medium.
Chris Westwood (author).  Christopher Westwood also known as Chris Westwood (born 26 November 1959 in Wakefield Yorkshire England) is an English author and journalist. Born as the son of a coal miner and school teacher he is best known as the author of young adult fiction and children's books. He began his writing career as a music journalist before studying Film production & TV production at a college in Bournemouth. After graduating from college he began a career as a novelist.
Saafir.  Reggie Gibson better known as Saafir is an emcee producer and actor from Oakland California. He is also a member of the rap group Golden State Project (formerly known as Golden State Warriors) with Ras Kass and Xzibit. Born in Oakland California he lived with Tupac Shakur and became a dancer for Digital Underground. Saafir took part in one of the most notorious Bay Area rap battles when he and members of the Hobo Junction went against Casual and members of the Hieroglyphics Crew.
John Douglas Miller.  John Douglas Miller (1860 Hadley near London — 1903) was an English reproductive engraver. Most of his works are mezzotint reproductions of paintings by artists such as Joshua Reynolds Luke Fildes Frank Dicksee George Richmond William Blake Richmond and Frederic Leighton. Biographical details regarding Miller are scant but he is considered a fine mezzotinter in a period when demand for such skills was rapidly declining due to the rise of mechanical techniques such as photogravure.
Kasim Sulton.  Kasim Sulton (b. December 8 1955) is an American bass guitarist keyboardist and vocalist. Best known for his work with Utopia Sulton sang lead on 1980's Set Me Free Utopia's only top 40 hit in the United States. As a solo artist Sulton hit the Canadian top 40 in 1982 with Don't Break My HeartSulton has been a frequent collaborator bassist and singer on many of Todd Rundgren's projects and solo tours.
Michael Steele (musician).  Michael Steele (born Susan Thomas Steele on June 2 1955) is an American bassist guitarist songwriter and singer. She was a member of The Bangles and The Runaways along with other bands.
Roger Katan.  Roger G. Katan is a French-American architect planner sculptor and activist born in Berguent (today's Aïn Bni Mathar) Eastern Morocco on January 5 1931. Based in the United States in the early 1960s he was an active founder of advocacy planning participatory democracy applied to urban planning. As a kinetic artist he collaborated and exhibited with rising figures of postmodern art.
Christian Kramer.  Christian Kramer (died 1834) was a composer arranger musician and Master of the King's Musick between 1829 and 1834. He served under two British kings; George IV and William IV.Kramer was born in Hannover and was a pupil of Romantic composer Peter Winter. He became a court musician eventually rising to lead George IV's personal orchestra (band) which according to Dwight's Journal of Music was in its time acknowledged to be one of the best in Europe.
Brainpower.  Gertjan Mulder professionally known as Brainpower is a bi-lingual rapper who writes records and performs in both the English as well as the Dutch language. The Dutch audience mainly knows him as a Dutch language rapper. He was born in Belgium and grew up in the Netherlands. He started making music in the eighties and spent his time making a name for himself in the 90s.
Coffey Anderson.  Coffey Anderson (born 1978) (sometimes using just his mononym Cofféy or Coffey) is an American singer-songwriter originally from Bangs Texas. His unique brand of country music blends in distinct influences from pop contemporary Christian gospel and soul that has attracted many. He came to fame through his YouTube videos and in 2008 took part in Nashville Star. He has released eight albums so far.
Jay Bentley.  Jay Dee Bentley (born on June 6 1964 in Wichita Kansas) is the bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion. He has played with the band through its whole existence with a small break between 1983 and 1985.
Christen Dalsgaard.  Christen Dalsgaard (30 October 1824 – 11 February 1907) was a Danish painter a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
E. Kyle Datta.  Kyle Datta is a former Vice President of Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was the Managing Partner of the firm's Asia Energy Practice and later led the U.S. Utilities practice. Datta holds BS MES and MPPM degrees from Yale University. He was CEO of New Energy Partners an energy consulting and renewable development firm located in Hawaii.
Vicki Hendricks.  Vicki (Due) Hendricks is an American author of crime fiction erotica and a variety of short stories.
Aleksandra Radović.  Aleksandra Radović (Cyrillic: Александра Радовић born September 10 1974) is a Serbian singer and songwriter.
H. Sridhar.  H. Sridhar (Sridhar Hariharan/H.Padmanabh) was a sound engineer from India and known for his work with the Indian Musician A R Rahman.Sridhar was the Chief Audio Engineer at Media Artists. A mathematics graduate with keen interest in electronics and formal music training he started a professional sound engineering career in 1988.
José Rivera Indarte.  José Rivera Indarte (Córdoba 1814 - Santa Catarina 1845) was an Argentine poet and journalist. He has been both a supporter and critic of Juan Manuel de Rosas writing first the Anthem of the restorers and later the Blood tables.
Scott Howard (musician).  Scott Howard is the baritone singer for the Southern Gospel Quartet Legacy Five. He joined the group at its formation in 1999 and has been with them ever since.
Saeed Ahmad Bodla.  Saeed Ahmad Bodla (Urdu: سعید احمد بودلہ‎) is a renowned Pakistani artist and calligrapher. He belongs to Bodla family in Punjab.
RJ Benjamin.  RJ Benjamin is an award-winning vocalist songwriter composer and producer from Johannesburg South Africa. Ghetto Ruff owner Lance Stehr once described him as the best composer/singer/musician this country [South Africa] has ever produced. He has been a vocal coach to some of South Africa's hottest stars such as Lira J'Something and Toya Delazy
Warda Al-Jazairia.  Warda Al-Jazairia (Arabic: وردة الجزائرية‎ 22 July 1939 – 17 May 2012) was an Algerian-Lebanese singer who was well known for her pan-Arabist songs and music. Her name literally meant Warda the Algerian but she was commonly referred to as just Warda (Egyptian Arabic: [ˈwæɾdæ]) or as The Algerian Rose in the Western media.
Ugo Nastrucci.  Ugo Nastrucci (born 14 December 1953 in Milan Italy) is a lutenist theorbist and composer.He studied composition with Irlando Danieli and Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatorio G.Verdi in Milan. He studied lute with Massimo Lonardi Paolo Chierici and Hopkinson Smith and conducting with Simone Fontanelli.He was a founding member of many ensembles of Early Music notably Ens.
Trine Eilertsen.  Trine Eilertsen (born 1 May 1969 in Bærum Akershus) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.She was born in Bærum and grew up at Sotra. She graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1996 and from the University of Bergen in 1997. She worked in Statoil as a trainee from 1998 to 1999 before being hired in Bergens Tidende as a journalist. She advanced to political subeditor in 2002 and editor-in-chief in 2008.
Muska.  Marija Muska Babitzin (born June 28 1952 in Helsinki Finland) is a Finnish singer. She became famous in 1971 with her song Kirjoita postikorttiin ('Write on the postcard'). Her first eponymous album was released in 1973. It featured the hit Krokotiili-rock (Crocodile Rock an Elton John cover song).Muska participated with her brother George Babitzin to the Finnish national final of Eurovision Song Contest Euroviisut 1974. The entry Senhän sanoo järkikin came sixth.
María Fernanda Cardoso.  María Fernanda Cardoso (born 1963) is a Colombian Australian artist sculptor and illustrator. Her contemporary art references many types of ready-made material including plastic trash plants dried and living animals bones and styrofoam. One of her most famous art installations was a flea circus that featured live cat fleas. Her works have been featured in several museums internationally in Europe the Americas and Australia and have won several awards. She resides in Sydney.
Linda Sutton.  Linda Sutton (born 14 December 1947) is a British painter. She was born in Southend-on-Sea Essex.She studied at Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London graduating in 1974. She still lives in London.She is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Her work is based on narrative and mythological themes with an autobiographical perspective.
Jojo Draven.  Josephine Soegijanty-Draven is an Indonesian musician and film score composer. She is a cast member of the Blue Man Group. She was also a guitarist for the American all-female heavy metal band Phantom Blue and the tribute band The Iron Maidens.
Truth Thomas.  Truth Thomas (born Glenn Edward Thomas in Knoxville Tennessee) is an African-American singer-songwriter poet editor publisher and founder of Cherry Castle Publishing. He is the author of Party of Black (2006) A Day of Presence (2008) Bottle of Life (2010) Speak Water (2012) winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry and My TV is Not the Boss of Me (2013) a children's book illustrated by Cory Thomas.
Alexei Sultanov.  Alexei Sultanov (Russian: Алексей Султанов; August 7 1969 – June 30 2005) was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.
Déodat de Séverac.  Déodat de Séverac (pronounced: [deoda də sevəʁak]) (Saint-Félix-de-Caraman Haute-Garonne July 20 1872 – Céret Pyrénées-Orientales Roussillon March 24 1921) was a French composer.
Cathy Barry.  Cathy Barry (born 28 September 1967) is an English pornographic actress.
Basil Davidson.  Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) was a British historian writer and Africanist particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution.He wrote several books on the current plight of Africa. Colonialism and the rise of African emancipation movements were central themes of his work. He was an Honorary Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Jenny Scobel.  Jenny Scobel (born 1955) is an American painter who lives and works in New York. She makes paintings of women and children weaving a sense of innocence with foreboding or darkness. Her works compared to Romaine Brooks have been auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's.
Steve Pauley.  Steve Pauley is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn NY. His recent solo exhibitions include one at Freddy's Backroom in Brooklyn NY; Crush and High Alert at Broadway Gallery in New York NY; Instant Gratification at the Della Brown Taylor Gallery at West Virginia State University; and an at the Amalie Rothschild Gallery in Baltimore MD.
Vince Eager.  Vince Eager (born Roy Taylor 4 June 1940 Grantham Lincolnshire) is a British pop singer. He was widely promoted by impresario Larry Parnes but later quarrelled with him over his commercialising of Eddie Cochran's tragic early death. Eager has since appeared in cabaret and on the West End stage.
Amtrac (musician).  Caleb Cornett (born May 19 1987) better known by his stage name Amtrac is an American songwriter producer vocalist multi-instrumentalist and DJ.
Lucien Muhlfeld.  Lucien Muhlfeld (Paris 4 August 1870 – Paris 1 December 1902) was a French novelist and dramatic critic.After completing his studies at the Lycée Condorcet Muhlfeld entered the University of Paris where he took the licentiate degrees in literature and law. He then engaged in literary work as a contributor to various periodicals.
Ezio Testa.  Ezio Testa (born 1961) is an Italian fiction author and poet. Born in the northern port city of Genoa he has been a prolific writer and has achieved critical acclaim. He has produced dozens of short stories novels and poems including a 1994 anthology titled Collected Stories dedicated to his early works from 1975-91.
Kurt Kusenberg.  Kurt Kusenberg (June 24 1904 - October 3 1983) was a German author of short stories. Kusenberg was born in Göteborg Sweden.His father was an engineer who worked in various countries so Kusenberg grew up in Lisboa Portugal and also lived with his parents in North Africa for some time. He studied fine arts in Munich. While working for the publishers Rowohlt as an editor he wrote nearly seventy short stories.
Andrew Hutchinson (author).  Andrew Hutchinson is an Australian writer from Melbourne who was born in 1979.Hutchinson's first novel Rohypnol was published in 2007. It won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for best unpublished manuscript. He was a guest at the 2007 Melbourne Writers Festival. Christos Tsiolkas was Hutchinson's mentor in the writing of his novel. The novel was published by Vintage in 2007.
Adrianna Luna.  Adrianna Luna is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and model.
Josh Begley.  Josh Begley (born 1984) is an American internet artist. He is best known for creating an iPhone app to track every reported United States drone strike.In July 2012 Begley developed an iPhone application that would send a push notification every time there was a US drone strike in Pakistan Yemen or Somalia. Apple rejected the app three times calling its content crude and objectionable.
Nikolai Gogol.  Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь tr. Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S.
Vahina Giocante.  Vahina Giocante (born 30 June 1981) is a French actress.
Charles Kassler.  Charles Kassler Jr (September 9 1897 Denver Colorado–April 3 1979 San Diego California) was a painter printmaker and lithographer.
Jack Kerouac.  Jean-Louis Jack Kérouac (/ˈkɛruːæk/ or /ˈkɛrɵæk/; March 12 1922 – October 21 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality jazz promiscuity Buddhism drugs poverty and travel.
Alfredo de la Fé.  Alfredo De La Fé (born February 6 1954 in Havana Cuba as Alfredo Manuel De La Fé) is a Cuban-born and New York-based violinist who lived in Colombia for more than 16 years and is responsible for transforming the violin into an important sound of Salsa and Latin music.
Mykola Kanevets.  Mykola Kanevets (Ukrainian: Микола Канівець) is the Artistic Director and Ballet Master of the Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company in Edmonton Alberta Canada.A native of Kiev Ukraine Mykola attended the National University of Culture and Performing Arts in Kiev Ukraine where he graduated from the Faculty of Choreography with the distinction of Ballet Master and Choreographer.
Mika Karppinen.  Mika Kristian Karppinen better known as Gas Lipstick (born on 8 February 1971) is currently the drummer for the rock band HIM. He is also the drummer of Finnish deathgrind band To Separate the Flesh from the Bones punk band Ääritila and metal band Bendover. He also was a drum tech for Stratovarius at one point and was on the Stratovarius DVD for a couple of parts.
Kim Gardner.  Kim Gardner (27 January 1948 Dulwich London — 24 October 2001 Los Angeles) was a musician. He was part of the British invasion of the 1960s and recorded more than thirty albums during his music career.
Pierre Benoit (novelist).  Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886 – 3 March 1962) was a French novelist and member of the Académie française.Pierre Benoit born in Albi (southern France) was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa before becoming a civil servant. His first novel Koenigsmark was published during 1918; L'Atlantide was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française.
Carl Johan Bonnesen.  Carl Johan Bonnesen (26 May 1868 - 13 December 1933) was a Danish sculptor.
Mary Hobson.  Mary Hobson (born 1926) is an English writer poet and translator. She had written three novels and translated Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit and his letters. She also translated works by Aleksander Pushkin. She has won the Griboedov Prize and Pushkin Medal.
Wendy Lewis.  Wendy Lewis is an Australian writer working in Sydney who has written a number of non-fiction books about Australian people history and events. She has also written plays under the pen-name of Julia Lewis.
Onoe Shoroku II.  Onoe Shoroku II (March 28 1913 – June 25 1989) is the stage name for Yutaka Fujima a Japanese kabuki actor who specialized in female roles.During his life he was designated a Living National Treasure of Japan and one of the country's four official leading actors.
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux.  Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux (1761 – July 26 1802) was a French painter and musician. Eldest daughter of Joseph Ducreux with whom she also studied she showed at a number of salons at the Louvre beginning in 1791 and continuing until 1799. She was accomplished both as a performer and as a composer.Ducreux later married the maritime prefect of Saint-Domingue a M.
Terry Riley.  Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24 1935) is an American composer and performing musician intrinsically associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music and was a pioneer of the movement. His work has been deeply influenced by both jazz and Indian classical music.
Tito Jackson.  For the Boston City Council member see Tito Jackson (politician)Toriano Adaryll Tito Jackson (born October 15 1953) is an American singer and guitarist and original member of The Jackson 5 and The Jacksons who rose to fame in the late 1960s with the Motown label later finding success under the Epic label in the 1970s and 1980s.
Hermann Lungkwitz.  Hermann Lungkwitz (1813–1891) was a 19th Century German-born Texas romantic landscape artist and photographer whose work became the first pictoral record of the Texas Hill Country.
Bill Keith (musician).  Bill Keith (b. December 20 1939) is a five-string banjoist who made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument. In the 1960s he introduced a variation on the popular Scruggs style of banjo playing (an integral element of bluegrass music) which would soon become known as melodic style or Keith style.
Ashutosh Mukherjee.  Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI (Bengali: আশুতোষ মুখোপাধ্যায়) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator and the second Indian Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23). Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education he was a man of great personality high self-respect courage and towering administrative ability.
Marla Landi.  Marla Landi (born Marcella Teresa Scarafina in 1933 Turin Italy) is an Italian-born British film actress.
Beth Nielsen Chapman.  Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14 1958 in Harlingen Texas United States) is an American singer-songwriter mostly known for her numerous hits recorded by country and pop music performers.
Ralph Sutton.  Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4 1922 – December 30 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg Missouri. He was a stride pianist in the tradition of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller.Sutton had a stint as a session musician with Jack Teagarden's band before joining the US Army during World War II. After the war he played at various venues in Missouri eventually ending up at Eddie Condon's club in Greenwich Village.
Isolde Kurz.  Maria Clara Isolde Kurz (21 December 1853 – 5 April 1944) was a German poet and short story writer.She was born at Stuttgart the daughter of Hermann Kurz. She is highly regarded among lyric poets in Germany with her Gedichte (Stuttgart 1888) and Neue Gedichte (1903). Her short stories Florentiner Novellen (1890 2nd ed. 1893) Phantasien und Märchen (1890) Italienische Erzählungen (1895) and Von Dazumal (1900) are distinguished by a fine sense of form and clear-cut style.
Buster Bloodvessel.  Douglas Trendle (born 6 September 1958) better known as Buster Bloodvessel is an English singer and the frontman of the ska revival band Bad Manners. His stage name was taken from the bus conductor played by Ivor Cutler in the Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour.
Leroy Sibbles.  Leroy Sibbles (born January 29 1949) is a Jamaican-Canadian reggae musician and producer.
Deron Miller.  Deron John Miller (born May 21 1976) is the frontman/guitarist for CKY (Camp Kill Yourself). In 2006 he formed World Under Blood for which he is the lead singer guitarist and songwriter.[citation needed]
T. K. Blue.  T.K. Blue (also known as Talib Kibwe born Eugene Rhiney February 7 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist from New York City. His parents were Jamaican and Trinidadian and he has used their Afro-Caribbean musical styles in his own work. He has worked with among others Don Cherry the South African pianist Dollar Brand and Randy Weston for whom he is musical director.
Rob Eaton.  Rob Eaton is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with the renowned Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra of which he has been a member since 2001.
Bruce Coville.  Bruce Coville (born May 16 1950) is an American author of children's and young adult novels. He was born in Syracuse New York and lives there currently; he has spent most of his life there leaving to attend Duke University and then to live in New York City.
Victor DeLorenzo.  Victor DeLorenzo (born October 25 1954) is an American musician actor and filmmaker best known as the drummer for the folk-punk band the Violent Femmes. He was born in 1954 the son of Victor and Charlotte DeLorenzo grew up in Racine Wisconsin and has lived in Milwaukee since. He has been a drummer since the age of 16 but an actor since the age of five.
William Stone (attorney).  William Stone (September 4 1842 – May 22 1897) was a nineteenth-century Union Army officer passionate Unionist dedicated Freedmen’s Bureau agent self-educated attorney and Attorney General of South Carolina during a turbulent era.
Jen Lancaster.  Jennifer (Jen) Lancaster (born November 5 1967) is an American author whose titles have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.As of 2014 she has ten published books: Bitter is the New Black; Bright Lights Big Ass; Such A Pretty Fat; Pretty in Plaid; My Fair Lazy; Jeneration X; If You Were Here her first foray into fiction; The Tao of Martha and Here I Go Again her second fiction novel; and finally Twisted Sisters.She is also an occasional NPR columnist.Lancaster was an associate vice president for a technology company prior to being laid off after 9/11. 
Marjorie Torrey.  Marjorie Torrey (also known as Torrey Chanslor and Marjorie Torrey Hood) (born 1899 date of death unknown) was an illustrator and winner of two Caldecott Honor books in 1946 and 1947. It appears that although her married name might have been Chanslor (Husband Roy E Chanslor died 1964 CA) all of her other names including Marjorie could be pseudonyms. see 3rd external resource. It Appears her last marriage was to Tom Bevans (Tom Torrey Bevans) of Cornwall Ct.
Yuri Shablikin.  Yuri Mikhailovich Shablikin (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Шаблы́кин; October 31 1932 Leningrad USSR) - Soviet Russian realist painter graphic artist restorer art teacher who live and work in Saint Petersburg a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
David Hewson (author).  David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries featuring police officers in Rome led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa began with A Season for the Dead has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British American European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel Shanghai Thunder was published by Robert Hale in the United Kingdom in 1986.
Chris Speed.  Chris Speed (b. Seattle Washington 1967) is an American saxophonist clarinetist and composer.He studied classical piano from the age of five and began clarinet at eleven. In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz.
Joshua Redman.  Joshua Redman (born February 1 1969) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.In 1991 he won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition.
Roald Storsletten.  Roald Storsletten (1915 – 1991) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was hired in the newspaper Dagbladet in 1940 was promoted to news editor in 1954 and served as chief editor from 1958 to 1980 from 1973 jointly with Arve Solstad and from 1977 also together with Jahn Otto Johansen.
John Frazee.  John Frazee (born 1949) is an artist from New York City New York. Frazee's work as a painter and sculptor is displayed around the world. He is also known for a science humor story he wrote in OMNI magazine the Buttered cat paradox.
Edgar du Perron.  Charles Edgar du Perron more commonly known as E. du Perron was a famous and influential Dutch poet and author of Indo-European descent.[citation needed] Best known for his literary acclaimed master piece ‘Land van herkomst’ (Land of origin) of 1935. Together with Menno ter Braak and Maurice Roelants he founded the short-lived but influential literary magazine Forum in 1932.E.
Jasmin St. Claire.  Jasmin St. Claire (born Rhea Alessandra Calaveras October 23 1972) is a former pornographic actress. She is also known for her work as a professional wrestling personality most notably for ECW. She has made appearances in the world of professional wrestling and such motion pictures as Communication Breakdown and Lionsgate's National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2. Currently she works as a heavy metal VJ for Los Angeles and Metal's Darkside webshow and dvdzine.
Nick Blinko.  Nick Blinko (born 4 September 1961) is a British musician lyricist and artist best known as the lead singer lyricist and guitar player for the British band Rudimentary Peni. He is also known for being an outsider artist whose pen and ink drawings and paintings have been shown in galleries worldwide. Blinko also creates all the drawings used by the band for its artwork.
Paolo Maurensig.  Paolo Maurensig (born 1943) is an Italian novelist best known for the book Canone inverso (1996) a complex tale of a violin and its owners.
David Reekie.  David Reekie is an eminent English glass sculptor who uses drawing and glass casting to express his unique vision of the human condition. His art can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh as well as in several other public collections in the United Kingdom.A founding member of British Artists in Glass now the Contemporary Glass Society Reekie's work has featured in countless periodicals and in over 60 exhibits worldwide.
Dave Kilminster.  David Kilminster (born 25 January 1962 England) is a British guitarist vocalist songwriter and music teacher. He is known for touring with Keith Emerson (since 2002) and with Roger Waters on his The Dark Side of the Moon 2006–2008 tour performing much of the guitar and vocal duties that are originally David Gilmour's. He also played alongside with John Wetton (ex King Crimson) Ken Hensley (ex Uriah Heep) Qango (an Asia spin-off) The Nice and Carl Palmer.
Theresa Fu.  Theresa Fu (born 22 September 1984) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer film and television actress and model.Fu was introduced by the Talent Bang model agency in order to become a pop star. She started her career in 2002 as one of the members of Cookies. The group disbanded in 2005.In 2005 she recorded a duet 自欺欺人 with Alex Fong. In 2006 she published a book with her personal drawings stories and views on love[citation needed].
Bhai Vir Singh.  Vir Singh (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ (Gurmukhi); 5 December 1872 Amritsar-10 June 1957 Amritsar) was a poet scholar and theologian and a figure in the movement for the revival and renewal of Punjabi literary tradition.His name is also found as Bhai Vir Singh Ji and Bhai Veer Singh Jee. Bhai and Ji (or Jee) are honorifics.
Sea of Cronus.  The Sea of Cronus was also referred as the Gulf of Rhea and was what today is called the Adriatic Sea. By the Latinized name 'Cronium Mare' it appeared on many 17th century maps.
Ed Hill (comedian).  Ed Hill is a Taiwanese-Canadian stand-up comedian and podcaster. He began performing in Vancouver British Columbia and regularly tours North America and Asia. He currently resides in Vancouver.
Lothar Brühne.  Lothar Brühne (1900–1958) was a German composer of film scores.
Jerry Bridges.  Jerry Bridges (born December 4 1929 Tyler Texas United States) is an evangelical Christian author speaker and staff member of The Navigators. He is the author of more than a dozen books including The Pursuit of Holiness which has sold more than one million copies.
Andrea Hairston.  Andrea Hairston (born 1952) is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist. Her novel Redwood and Wildfire won the James Tiptree Jr. Award for 2011. Mindscape Hairston's first novel won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree Jr. Award.
Takeo Ishii.  Takeo Ishii (石井 健雄 Ishii Takeo born May 3 1947) is a Japanese yodeler active in Germany.
Tony Joe White.  Tony Joe White (born July 23 1943 Oak Grove Louisiana United States) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his 1969 hit Polk Salad Annie and for Rainy Night in Georgia which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote Steamy Windows and Undercover Agent For The Blues both big hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Tina's producer at the time Mark Knopfler who's a friend of Tony.
Jim Moray.  Jim Moray (born Douglas Oates) is an English folk singer multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
Theodore Sturgeon.  Theodore Sturgeon (/ˈstɜrdʒən/; born Edward Hamilton Waldo; February 26 1918 – May 8 1985) was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories.Sturgeon's most famous work may be the science fiction More Than Human (1953) an expansion of Baby Is Three (1952).
Claudette Ortiz.  Claudette Ortiz (born July 21 1981) is an American singer and model most famous as the female in the R&B group City High. Ortiz is also a castmate in TV One's reality series R&B Divas: Los Angeles.
Fred Patten.  Frederick Walter Patten (born 1940) is known for his work as a historian in the science fiction fantasy anime manga and furry fandoms where he has gained great distinction through a substantial contribution to both print and online books magazines and other media.
Romain Descharmes.  Romain Descharmes (born March 1980) is a French classical pianist.
Alex Smoke.  Alex Smoke is a Scottish music producer and DJ from Glasgow based in London making techno electronic and classical music. He has released three studio albums Incommunicado (2005) and Paradolia (2006) on Soma Records [1] and Lux (2010) on his own label Hum+Haw [www.humandhaw.com]
Sammi Cheng.  Sammi Cheng (also known as Cheng Sau-Man )is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress who has been successful in the Hong Kong music and film industry. Sammi has been called a diva and has been one of the most prominent female singers in Hong Kong since the 1990s. Her albums have sold more than 25 million copies through Asia-pacific a record-breaking achievement. Most notably in the 1990s she was dubbed by the media as the Cantopop Queen.
Michal Novinski.  Michal Novinski (born Michal Nicik 1971 in Slovak Republic) is a music composer best known for his film scores and theatre music. He received two Czech Lion Awards for music score for films Kooky and In the Shadow.
Chandramauli Upadhyay.  Prof. Chandra Mauli Upadhyay is an Indian astrologer.Prof. Chandra Mauli Upadhyay is an avid scholar of Indian astrology. Born in holy Varanasi city of Uttar Pradesh India.Prof. Upadhyay is Head of the Department of Astrology center at Banaras Hindu University Varanasi. He is a Ph.D holder in astrology from Banaras Hindu University Varanasi and teaches Jyotish (astrology) in SVDV BHU as Professor. Shri Upadhyay has been teaching the science of astrology since 1989.
Fabiana de Barros.  Fabiana de Barros (born November 27 1957) in São Paulo is a Swiss artist of Brazilian origin.She is the daughter of one of the most striking figures of Brazilian photography and modern art: Geraldo de Barros. She works and lives in Geneva and São Paulo.
Tony Cragg.  Tony Cragg (born 9 April 1949) is a British visual artist who works mainly as a sculptor. He was the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf until August 2013.
Johannes Theodor Baargeld.  Johannes Theodor Baargeld was a pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (9 October 1892 - 16 or 17 August 1927) a German painter and poet who together with Max Ernst founded the Cologne Dada group. He also used the name Zentrodada in connection with Dada.Baargeld was born in Stettin (Szczecin) Prussian Pomerania. He studied jurisprudence at Oxford and Bonn.
Pietro Ayres.  Pietro Ayres (November 9 1794- Turin June 11 1878) was an Italian painter mostly of portraits in the Piedmont.As a young man he left in 1812 to fight for the Napoleonic armies in its disastrous entry into Russia. Upon the restoration of the House of Savoy he exiled himself to Rome for 14 years. He then briefly traveled to Savigliano and then to Turin.
Vinjamuri Seetha Devi.  Vinjamuri Seetha Devi is a musician singer and scholar of Telugu folk music.She was formerly a producer of folk music on All India Radio.Along with her sister Anasuya Devi they composed music for many of Andhra Pradesh's famous poets. These include Srirangam Srinivisa Rao (Sri Sri).But not all of her activities were with her sister. She contributed music for the 1979 film Maa Bhoomi. She is also the author of Folk Music of Andhra Pradesh.
Vilayat Khan.  Ustad Vilayat Khan (Bengali: বিলায়েত খাঁ Bilaeet Khã; August 28 1928 – March 13 2004) was one of India's well known sitar maestros. He was one of the great pioneers of his generation to introduce Indian Classical Music to the West along with Ravi Shankar Ali Akbar Khan Nikhil Banerjee and his younger brother Imrat Khan.Widely regarded by many as the greatest sitarist of his generation he recorded his first 78-RPM disc at the age of 8 and gave his last concert in 2004 at the age of 75.
M. R. Sellars.  Murvel Russell Sellars Jr. (M. R. Sellars) (born February 20 1962) is an American paranormal thriller horror and mystery writer. He is best known for his Rowan Gant Investigations series about a practicing Witch turned occult detective who aids the Saint Louis police department in solving bizarre crimes. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and a former member of the Horror Writers Association.
Laura Préjean.  Laura Préjean (born 1977) is a French voice actress who is the daughter of actor Patrick Préjean and the granddaughter of actors Albert Préjean and Lysiane Rey.
Giovanna Bruna Baldacci.  Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (19 November 1886 - ? after 1910) was an Italian composer pianist and poet. She was born in Pistoia Italy and studied piano and composition at the Istituto Musicale in Florence with Francesco Cilea and Moretti.After completing her studies Baldacci worked as a concert pianist in Italy and Switzerland. She also taught choral singing and contributed articles to professional journals. In 1910 she won first prize for composition in an Italian Lyceum competition.
John Isham (composer).  John Isham (or John Isum) (1680?–1726) was an English composer and organist.
Todd Agnew.  Todd Wilson Agnew (Born March 15 1971 in Dallas Texas) is a contemporary Christian musician and songwriter.
Satomi Hanamura.  Satomi Hanamura (花村怜美 Hanamura Satomi born July 3 1984) is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is a member of the pop group Sorachoco.Hanamura is known for her role as Yuka Nakagawa in Battle Royale.She also held a voice actor credit as a character in Galaxy Angel Rune.
Lisa Komine.  Lisa Komine (小峰理紗 (コミネリサ) Komine Risa) (born July 3 1978) stylized lisa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is known for her songs that were featured in several publicly broadcast anime shows. She is signed under the flying DOG label (see: Victor Entertainment). Some of the anime shows include: Gosick Psychic Detective Yakumo Linebarrels of Iron Melody of Oblivion Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Rental Magica Ristorante Paradiso↑
Musa Geshaev.  Musa Bautdinovich Geshaev (Chechen: Муса Баутдинович Гешаев) (August 20 1940; Grozny Chechnya – March 7 2014 Moscow Russia) was a Chechen poet literary critic songwriter and historian who wrote extensively on the culture of the Chechen and Ingush people.
Nikolaos van Dam.  Nikolaos (Koos) van Dam (born 1 April 1945) is a Dutch scholar and author on the Middle East. He also was a Dutch Ambassador to Iraq Egypt Germany and Indonesia.
Guy Bellis.  Guy Bellis (1886–1980) was a British film actor.
Knut Olav Åmås.  Knut Olav Åmås (born 19 January 1968) is a Norwegian writer editor and politician for the Conservative Party.He hails from Odda. He holds a cand.philol. degree in philosophy having taken his master's thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Bergen. He later took a dr.philos. degree on a biographical thesis about Olav H. Hauge. He has worked as a journalist in Bergens Tidende and is from 2006 debate editor (from 2008: editor of culture and debate) in Aftenposten.
Jan Fryderyk Dobrowolski.  Jan Fryderyk Dobrowolski (born 9 July 1944 in Poland) is a Polish classical and jazz keyboardist and composer.Jan Fryderyk Dobrowolski won first prizes at the competitions in Kalisz Jazz at the Oder in Wrocław and the Jeunesse Musical Festival in Częstochowa. He made himself a name as a Chopin interpret but then focussed on Jazz and World Music.
Saieen Zahoor.  Saieen Zahoor or Saeen Zahur Ahmad (Urdu: سائیں ظہور‎) (Punjabi: ਸੈਨ ਜ਼ਹੂਰ) (born circa 1937)[citation needed] is a leading Sufi musician from Pakistan. He has spent most of his life singing in Sufi shrines and didn't produce a record until 2006 when he was nominated for the BBC World Music awards based on word of mouth.He emerged as the best BBC voice of the year 2006 Sain is not his first name but a Sindhi honorific title and is also spelt Saeen or Sain and Zahoor may be spelt Zahur.
Glenn Colquhoun.  Dr. Glenn Colquhoun born in Papakura Auckland in 1964 is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.
Mark Levesley.  Mark Levesley is an author and presenter specialising in science. Writing credits include the highly successful Exploring Science series of text books for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Longman Higher Science for GCSE Longman Foundation Science for GCSE Longman 21st Century Science and W H Smith Revise Science guides for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. Mark Levesley is British and resides in England.Mark Levesley has a PhD in molecular genetics and attended the University of Durham.
Nate Henry.  Nathan Nate Henry (born November 9) was the lead singer and bassist for the indie rock band Sherwood. The band officially announced their breakup in February 2012. He Dan Koch and Chris Armstrong formed the band in 2002 while they were attending college in San Luis Obispo California. He and Dan Koch composed all of Sherwood's songs and Henry directed Sherwood's first music video Song in My Head. According to the Sherwood Show pilot episode Henry created the show.
Divine Styler.  Mikal Safiyullah (born Marc Richardson 1968) better known by his stage name Divine Styler is an alternative hip hop artist from Brooklyn New York.
Gustaf Skarsgård.  Gustaf Caspar Orm Skarsgård (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈskɑːʂɡoːɖ]; born 12 November 1980) is a Swedish actor.
Dick Marx.  Dick Marx (April 12 1924 – August 12 1997) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He also composed for film television and commercials.
Catherine Bush.  For the British recording artist Kate Bush see Kate BushCatherine Bush is a Canadian novelist.
Frank Bolle.  Frank Bolle (born June 7 1924 in New York City) is an American comic strip artist comic book artist and illustrator.
Krishna Kanta Handique.  Krishna Kanta Handique (Assamese: কৃষ্ণকান্ত সন্দিকৈ Krishnô Kantô Xôndikoi) (July 20 1898 – June 7 1982) was a Sanskrit scholar an Indologist and philanthropist from Assam.
Daryl Hine.  William Daryl Hine (February 24 1936 – August 20 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator.
Kawataro Nakajima.  Kawatarō Nakajima (中島 河太郎 Nakajima Kawatarō June 5 1917–May 5 1999) was a Japanese researcher of Japanese popular culture.
Jonathan Coe.  Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the carve up of the UK's resources which was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s.
Brynjard Tristan.  Ivar Tristan Lundsten (professional name: Brynjard Tristan) (born June 14 1976) is a Norwegian bassist and songwriter presently living in Oslo but originally hails from the nearby municipalities of Nesodden and Jessheim.He is mostly known for his time as bassist for the black metal-band Dimmu Borgir from 1993 to 1996 which he left after the album Stormblåst.
Paul Chamberlain.  Paul Chamberlain (born 1954) is a Canadian philosopher. Chamberlain gained his Ph.D. from Marquette University. He holds diplomas and degrees in the following: Theological Studies Peace River Bible Institute; Diploma in Pastoral Studies Prairie Bible Institute; B.R.E. Providence College; Graduate Studies Providence Theological Seminary; M.Div. Trinity International University.
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu.  Sabahattin Eyüboğlu (1908 – January 13 1973) was a Turkish writer essayist translator and film producer.
James Ballantine.  James Ballantine (11 June 1806 – 18 December 1877) was an artist and author.Born in St Cuthbert's Parish of Edinburgh he began life as a house painter. He studied art and became one of the first to revive the art of glass-painting on which subject he wrote a treatise. He was the author of The Gaberlunzie's Wallet (1843) Miller of Deanhaugh (1845) Poems (1856) 100 Songs with Music (1865) and a Life of David Roberts R.A.
Ryan McCombs.  Ryan McCombs (born July 16 1974) is a heavy metal vocalist. From 1997 to 2004 he was the vocalist of the metal band SOiL. McCombs has also served as the vocalist for Drowning Pool from 2005 until his departure in 2011. He has since returned with Soil.
Mohammed El-Bakkar.  Mohammed El-Bakkar (Arabic: محمد البكار‎; died in Pawtucket Rhode Island United States September 8 1959) was a Lebanese tenor oud player and conductor.El-Bakkar was a noted tenor and appeared in several Arabic-language films. He moved to the United States in 1952 and lived in Brooklyn. He released several LPs of Arabic music in the United States.
Anil Mohile.  Anil Mohile (died 1 February 2012) was an Indian music composer and music arranger. Mohile had arranged music for around 85 Hindi and Marathi movies. He worked with music director Arun Paudwal in Marathi Film industry and was established as well known music director pair as Anil-Arun during that time. He is best remembered for his collaborations with singers Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar in many of their on-stage performances.
Esther Eng.  Esther Eng ((1914-09-24)September 24 1914 – January 1970) was a Chinese–American film director. Eng was the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States. Eng made four feature films in America and five in Hong Kong. Eng died of cancer at the age of 55 in January 1970.
Richard Garrett (author).  Richard Garrett (15 January 1920 – 29 July 2008) is an English author and an ex-prisoner of war.Richard Garrett joined up in 1939 and was made a second lieutenant in the Notts and Derby Regiment (the Sherwood Foresters) at the outbreak of war. In 1940 he formed part of the ill-fated Allied campaign in Norway.
Kim Wilkins.  Kim Wilkins (born 1970) is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane Queensland. She is the author of several mass-market novels including her debut horror novel The Infernal (1997) which won Aurealis Awards for both horror and fantasy.
Jordan Rudess.  Jordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes on November 4 1956) is an American virtuoso keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.
Maj Sjöwall.  Maj Sjöwall (born September 25 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck a police detective in Stockholm.
Andrew O'Hagan.  Andrew O'Hagan FRSL (born 1968) is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. He is also an Editor at Large of Esquire and is currently a creative writing fellow at King's College London.O'Hagan was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists. His novels have been translated into 15 languages.
Pritam Saini.  Dr. Pritam Saini (1927–2003) was a Punjabi journalist literary critic and history scholar. He served as Research Fellow at Punjabi University Patiala in Punjab India and was also a member of academic bodies such as the Punjab History Conference and Indian History Congress.
Kate Smith.  Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1 1907 – June 17 1986) known professionally as Kate Smith and The First Lady of Radio was an American singer a contralto best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's God Bless America. Smith had a radio television and recording career spanning five decades which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s. Kate Smith became known as The Songbird of the South after her enduring popularity during World War II and contribution to American Culture and patriotism.
Roger Cook (songwriter).  Roger Frederick Cook (born 19 August 1940) is an English singer songwriter and record producer who has written many hit records for other recording artists. He has also had a successful recording career in his own right.He is best known for his collaborations with Roger Greenaway. Cook's co-compositions have included You've Got Your Troubles and the transatlantic million selling songs I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing and Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.
Gala Gonzalez.  Gala Gonzalez (1986 Galicia Spain) is a Spanish model socialite blogger fashion designer and DJ. She is the niece of Spanish designer Adolfo Domínguez. She became popular for her fashion blog and her influence in the industry due to her style and photographs. She began her blog in 2007 following the success of her fotolog. She currently lives in London UK since 2003 where she studied her BA in fashion at University of the Arts London.
Emiri Henmi.  Emiri Henmi (辺見 えみり Henmi Emiri born 16 December 1976) is a Japanese actress and singer. Her mother is the singer Mari Henmi.
George Keats.  George Keats (28 February 1797 – 24 December 1841) was a businessman and civic leader in Louisville Kentucky as it emerged from a frontier entrepôt into a mercantile center of the old northwest.
Carey Morris.  Carey Morris (17 May 1882 – 17 November 1968) was a Welsh painter illustrator author and businessman born in Llandeilo Carmarthenshire.He was related to the Welsh poet Sir Lewis Morris.
Kyriakos Charalambides.  Kyriakos Charalambides (Greek: Κυριάκος Χαραλαμπίδης Kyriacos Charalambides) is one of the most renown and celebrated living Greek poets. His poetry essays translations and critical analysis celebrate the ideas of Western civilisation expressed through the language and history of Greek culture. His poetic opus adds to the tradition established by such modern Greek poets as Constantine P. Cavafy Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis.
Ellis Hooks.  Ellis Hooks (born 1974) is an American soul blues and electric blues singer and songwriter who has released six albums to date.The Allmusic journalist Thom Jurek noted that Hooks  touches upon Wilson Pickett Sam Cooke and Otis Redding but feels like one of the gritty New York streets Hooks has busked upon.
Ian La Frenais.  Ian La Frenais OBE (born 7 January 1936) is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Porridge Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Chenoa.  María Laura Corradini Falomir popularly known as Chenoa (born June 25 1975 in Mar del Plata Argentina but raised in Majorca Spain) is an Argentine-Spanish female music artist who became successful after appearing on the TV contest Operación Triunfo. Her music style could be described as pop. Most of her music is in Spanish although a few tracks on some albums were recorded in English. Although her albums are not readily available in the U.S.
Mohsin Naqvi.  Syed Mohsin Naqvi (1947−1996) was a renowned Pakistani poet.
Arnold Brunckhorst.  Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst (1670–1725) was a German organist and composer.He was born in Celle or Wietzendorf. Beginning in 1693 he served as an organist at St. Andreas in Hildesheim. In 1697 he assumed the organist's post at the Stadtkirche in Celle. In 1720 he was appointed court organist at Hanover.
Vincent Louis Carrella.  Vincent Louis Carrella (born June 26 1965) is a pioneering interactive story-teller and game developer and an American fiction novelist and short story writer. His debut novel Serpent Box was published on February 26 2008 based on an initial short story The Serpent Box and the Poison Jar. The short story won the 2000 Literal Latte Fiction Award.
Gemma Hayes.  Gemma Hayes Ballyporeen Tipperary Ireland is an Irish musician singer-songwriter and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including the piano and harmonica.
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis.  Alexandros Rizos Rangavis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Ρίζος-Ραγκαβής; 27 December 1809 – 28 June 1892) was a Greek man of letters poet and statesman.
Adelia Armstrong Lutz.  Adelia Armstrong Lutz (June 25 1859 – November 17 1931) was an American artist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She organized art circles in Knoxville Tennessee as director of the Knoxville Art Club and as a co-organizer of the Nicholson Art League.
Irvine Arditti.  Irvine Arditti (born 1953) is a British violinist.
Palmyra Delran.  Palmyra Delran is an American rock and roll musician songwriter guitarist and producer who has played in seminal rock bands The Friggs and Pink Slip Daddy as well as several of her own solo releases and recordings.In 2008 Delran released She Digs the Ride a six track EP featuring the song Baby Should Have Known Better which was selected by Little Steven’s Underground Garage as The Coolest Song in the World in 2008 and which gained Delran considerable attention for her efforts.Little Steven Van Zandt was a reported fan of Delran's previous band the Friggs and attended their 2008 NYC reunion show. 
Joyce Wieland.  Joyce Wieland OC (June 30 1931 – June 27 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist.
Dorrough.  Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough (born October 28 1986) better known by his mononym Dorrough Music or sometimes by Dorrough is an American rapper.
Mohammed Benzakour.  Mohammed Benzakour (born 10 January 1972 in Nador Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch columnist essayist poet writer and politician. He is the third child in a family of five. At age three he and mother and siblings settle in Zwijndrecht Netherlands where his father worked. He graduated from high school at vwo level and studied sociology at Leiden University and later political science and moved to Rotterdam to finish his master. Meanwhile he joined the Labour Party.
Elias Andra.  Elias Bones Andra (born October 15 1973) is an American musician who is mostly known as the drummer of bands Julien-K Dead by Sunrise and Heaven Below.
Paul Marny.  Paul Marny (1829–1914 b.Paris d.Scarborough) was a noted British/French artist. His monogram (an 'M' split into two parts) is shown here.He was born in Paris and worked as a porcelain decorator for the Sèvres factory before moving to Belfast to work with a French architect. In 1860 Marny moved to Scarborough where he taught Albert Strange and many other Scarborough artists. William Tindall was his brother-in-law.
Jeremy Cushman.  Jeremy Stein Cushman (born December 19 1990) is violinist and violist.
Ella Edmondson.  Eleanor Rose Ella Edmondson (born 22 January 1986; Hammersmith London England) is an English singer-songwriter. Her primary instrument is the guitar though she can also play piano.
Duncan Ball.  Duncan Ball is an American-born Australian author who has written the children's series Selby (about a talking dog named Selby who tries to keep his secret away from his owners) and Emily Eyefinger (about a girl who has an eye on her finger). He also writes under the name of John St Claire.
Jessica Cooper.  Jessica Cooper (born 1967) is a Cornwall-based painter who produces semi-abstract works often inspired by the landscape of Penwith.She attended Falmouth School of Art (1985–86) and Goldsmiths College (1986–89) where she earned a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art and Textiles. Her work was featured in the Art Now Cornwall exhibition at Tate St Ives (in 2007).
Gustav Winckler.  Gustav Frands Wilzeck Winckler (October 13 1925 - January 20 1979) was a popular Danish singer composer and music publisher. He grew up in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen and started his career as a decorator. In 1948 as a young man he won a talent competition at National Scala Theatre in Copenhagen as well as many others in Copenhagen. He was often compared to Bing Crosby.
Elizabeth Hay (novelist).  Elizabeth Grace Hay (born October 22 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her novel A Student of Weather (2000) was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award.
Phil Western.  Phil Western (born August 12 1971) is a Vancouver-based musician who is a founding member of the bands Download PlatEAU Frozen Rabbit and Off And Gone.Having started his career as a drummer and eventually as a programmer he became a remix engineer starting in the mid-1990s.
Kate McGill.  Kate Laura McGill (born March 10 1990) is a Welsh singer-songwriter originally known for her covers of hit songs by artists such as Adele The Killers Mumford and Sons Paramore Lady Gaga Katy Perry and Rihanna. In 2011 she released her debut album Replaced.
Barry Burns.  Barry Burns is a Scottish musician best known for his work with post-rock band Mogwai.
Kelly Hansen.  Kelly Hansen (born April 18 1961) is an American singer best known as the current frontman of the rock band Foreigner. He started his career as an independent studio singer. He later met guitarist Robert Sarzo and bassist Tony Cavazo (brothers of Rudy Sarzo and Carlos Cavazo respectively of Quiet Riot fame) with whom he formed the hard-rock band Hurricane in 1984. Hurricane would achieve some moderate commercial success throughout the mid-to-late 1980s and into the 1990s.
Friedrich August Elsasser.  Friedrich August Elsasser (1810-1845) a painter of landscapes and architectural views was born at Berlin and studied at the Academy of that city under Blechen whose influence on art was at that time very great. In 1831 he went to Italy and in 1834 and 1835 he visited Sicily. Among his choicest works are: The Forest of Calabria The Interior of a Church at Palermo A View of the Ruins at Rome etc.
Gustavs Butelis.  Gustavs Butelis (born 19 June 1978 Riga Latvian SSR) better known by his stage name Gustavo is a Latvian rapper and record producer.
Nick Drake.  Nicholas Rodney Nick Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. He failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime but his work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition. Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and a student at the University of Cambridge and released his debut album Five Leaves Left in 1969.
Maya Saban.  Maya Saban (born 8 October 1978) is a German singer. She was born in Berlin Germany to an Israeli father Shlomo Saban and a German mother. As a child she took music and dance lessons. Saban sang backing vocals for singer Sabrina Setlur and later appeared on the album Leben by German electronic act Schiller. On 25 July 2005 she released her solo debut album Mit Jedem Ton (With Every Note) with Virgin Records.She provided the vocal's for Schiller's songs I've Seen it All and I Miss You.
Pankaj Kalita.  Pankaj Kalita (Assamese : পন্কজ কলিতা ) (born 31 July 1976) is an Indian Author Stevia farmer social worker and entrepreneur.[citation needed] Kalita's bestselling book in the Assamese language isDui Nambari Dhan Ghatar Sat Ta Upay Aru Ata Tabij.[citation needed] His short story essays and poem were published in various Assamese magazines. Kalita is also a pioneer stevia cultivator in Northeast India.[citation needed]
Rob Rotten.  Rob Rotten is an American heterosexual pornographic film actor-director. He is famous for making pornographic films that have punk rock themes and for sporting a gothic-lettered tattoo saying Poison along the top of his penis.
Yazmany Arboleda.  Yazmany Arboleda is a multimedia artist based in New York City. In 2008 he founded art activation collaborative The Glassless Glasses Studio. He studied architecture at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and graduated in 2004.
Cary Hudson.  Cary Hudson is the lead singer guitarist and main songwriter of the alternative country/Southern rock band Blue Mountain.
Liz Allen.  Liz Allen is a renowned Irish investigative journalist and the author of two bestselling novels 'Last to Know' and 'The Set Up' - both of which have been published in Ireland the UK Europe and Japan (Hodder&Stoughtone UK). Rights to both books have been acquired by US movie houses.
Roger Leloup.  Roger Leloup (French: [ləlu]; born 17 November 1933) is a Belgian comic strip artist novelist and a former collaborator of Hergé who would rely upon him to create detailed realistic drawings and elaborate decoration for The Adventures of Tintin. He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.
Kōji Nanbara.  Koji Nanbara (南原 宏治 Nanbara Kōji June 7 1927 – December 20 2001) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama Kanagawa Japan. He died of a myocardial infarction in Chōfu Tokyo at age 74.
Shi Dongshan.  Shi Dongshan (December 29 1902 – February 23 1955) born Shi Kuangshao was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist China together with Chen Liting Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli. His most notable film was Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon released in 1947. He served in the Communist government after 1949 but was later persecuted and committed suicide in 1955.
José Mauro de Vasconcelos.  José Mauro de Vasconcelos was a Brazilian writer.
Joy Fielding.  Joy Fielding (née Tepperman; born March 18 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in Toronto Ontario.
Yoseob.  Yang Yoseob (Hangul: 양요섭; Hanja: 梁耀燮; born 5 January 1990) more commonly known as just Yoseob is a South Korean idol pop singer and dancer. He is the main vocalist of the Korean boy group Beast.
Lil' Fizz.  Dreux Pierre Frédéric (born November 26 1985) known as Lil' Fizz is an American rapper and actor. He was best known for being the youngest member and rapper of the R&B group B2K. He is not related to R&B singer Jhené Aiko who was well known and promoted as his cousin while he was a member of B2K.
Genzō Murakami.  Genzō Murakami (村上 元三 Murakami Genzō March 14 1910 – April 3 2006) was a Japanese novelist who was born in Korea during its occupation by the Empire of Japan. He is known for his historical novels as well as his influence on Japanese literature following the Second World War.Murakami's debut novel Tone no Kawagiri (利根の川霧) received an honorable mention for an award sponsored by the Sunday Mainichi.
Debbie Goh.  Goh Seok Sim (born 8 November 1978) known as Debbie Goh is a Malaysia film and television actor. Debbie is the former Miss Malaysia Chinese International 1998 and a Hong Kong TVB artiste.She stepped into the spotlight when she won the first Miss Malaysia Chinese International beauty pageant in 1999. At 19 while studying in Singapore Goh was spotted and asked to model. She was then scouted to join the Hong Kong film production company Golden Harvest for a five-year contract.
Shemayel.  Shemayel (Arabic:شمايل) whose real name is Maryam Alqatan is a female Kuwaiti singer.Discovered by Kuwaiti composer Adel Al-Musaileem Shemayel released her first album in 1998 and has since released three more albums to her name. She has also shot several music videos.
Ionicus.  Ionicus was the pen name of Joshua Armitage (26 September 1913 – 1998) an English illustrator.He is best known for drawing the covers for a wide range of Penguin editions of P. G. Wodehouse though he also contributed cartoons and drawings to Punch for more than 40 years and provided cover designs and text illustrations for nearly 400 books in total.
Sirpy.  Narayanan known by his stage name Sirpy (Tamil: சிற்பி; born 25 December) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil films apart from working in Telugu and Malayalam films . He has also sung few of his own compositions.Sirpy debuted as a music composer in 1993 for the film Gokulam and has composed for over 50 commercial and critically acclaimed feature films.
Hannah Franklin.  Hannah Franklin (born Hannah Faier in 1937 near Lublin Poland) is a Canadian sculptor and painter. Her work is found in numerous public and private collections including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal the Canada Council Art Bank and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She has exhibited in Europe and across North America.
Winnifred Harper Cooley.  Winnifred Harper Cooley (October 2 1874 – October 20 1967) was a U.S. author and lecturer. Born in Terre Haute Indiana she was the daughter of Ida Husted Harper. In her 1904 publication The New Womanhood she advocated the feminist ideal of the New Woman. She also wrote I Knew Them When ...! published in 1940.
Alvan Hadley.  Alvan Hap Hadley (March 16 1895 – August 4 1976) was an American artist specializing in pen and ink representations of popular subjects. He created movie posters for Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as well as promotional posters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and billboards for Roy Rogers.
Brooke Hogan.  Brooke Ellen Bollea (born May 5 1988) better known by her stage name Brooke Hogan is an American singer actress model socialite and television personality and the eldest child of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. She recently appeared on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as the on-screen TNA Knockouts Executive she held this position until August 2013.She appeared on the reality television series Hogan Knows Best which focused on her family and premiered on July 10 2005 on VH1.
Scott Solter.  Scott Solter is a recording engineer record producer mixer remixer and musician.
Anna Rossinelli.  Anna Rossinelli (born 20 April 1987 in Basel) is a Swiss singer-songwriter. Rossinelli sings as a part of a pop-soul trio band which performs under her name.
Derrick Bostrom.  Derrick Bostrom (born June 23 1960) is an American musician. He was the original drummer of the band Meat Puppets which he founded together with the Kirkwood brothers Cris and Curt in 1980.Derrick remained a member until 1996 when the band effectively went on hiatus. Although Curt later revived the Meat Puppets Derrick has not performed with the band since.
Artie Lange.  Arthur Steven Artie Lange Jr. (born October 11 1967) is an American actor comedian radio personality and author best known for his tenures with the The Howard Stern Show and the comedy sketch series MADtv. He is the host of a sports and entertainment radio show named The Artie Lange Show.Lange performed his first stand-up comedy routine at 19 years of age. He took up work as a longshoreman to help support his family following the death of his quadriplegic father.
Bea Miller.  Beatrice Annika Bea Miller (born February 7 1999) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Miller came in ninth place on the second season of The X Factor USA. She is currently signed to Hollywood Records and Syco Music.
Caribou (musician).  Daniel Victor Snaith (born 1978) is a Canadian composer musician and recording artist under stage names Caribou Manitoba and Daphni.
Earl Kim.  Earl Kim (1920–1998) was a Korean-American composer.Kim was born in Dinuba California to immigrant Korean parents. He began piano studies at age ten and soon developed an interest in composition studying in Los Angeles and Berkeley with among others Arnold Schoenberg Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions. After serving in World War II as a combat intelligence officer he accepted a teaching position at Princeton in 1952.
Jelena Rozga.  Jelena Rozga (August 23 1977 in Split Croatia then Yugoslavia) is a Croatian pop singer. She became the lead singer of the popular band Magazin in 1996 when she was 18 years old. In 2006 she left Magazin and released her first solo album Oprosti mala on Croatia Records. In 2007 she won the Grand Prix at the Split Festival.
Gustavo Assis-Brasil.  Gustavo Assis-Brasil is a Brazilian American jazz guitarist. Based in Boston he is considered a major pioneer in organizing the study and development of the hybrid picking technique for guitar. In 1999 he received a full scholarship to get his Master's degree at Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory. His main teachers were Mick Goodrick Wayne Krantz Ed Tomassi Dave Fiuczynski Rick Peckham and Larry Baione. He has also studied with Charlie Banacos and Prasanna.
Paola Barbato.  Paola Barbato (Milan June 18 1971) is an Italian novelist and comics writer. She is part of the writing staff of the Italian comic Dylan Dog published by Sergio Bonelli Editore.
Louise Reichardt.  Louise Reichardt (11 April 1779 – 17 November 1826) was a German songwriter and composer.She was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783) and Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814) and granddaughter of Franz Benda (1709–1786) concert master at the court of Frederick the Great. After Juliane Reichardt died the family moved from Berlin to Giebichenstein near Halle.
Felice Ficherelli.  Felice Ficherelli (30 August 1605 – 5 March 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period born in San Gimignano and active mainly in Tuscany. Among Ficherelli's early patrons was Conte Bardi who persuaded Ficherelli to move to Florence and to study with the painter Jacopo da Empoli. Empoli's influence is evident in the sumptuous fabrics seen in many of Ficherelli's works.
Ronald Clair Roat.  Ronald Clair Roat (April 4 1946 – November 28 2013) was the author of the Stuart Mallory Mystery Series. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1968 with a bachelor's in journalism. Later that year he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served about two years with a Nike Hercules missile battalion near Pittsburgh Pa. Before becoming a journalism professor he worked for several newspapers as a professional reporter editor or columnist.
Johann Michael Bach III.  Johann Michael Bach (9 November 1745 Struth near Schmalkalden – 13 June 1820 Elberfeld) was a German composer lawyer and music theorist.He was a son of Johann Elias Bach (1705–1755) and therefore a nephew of J. S. Bach.
Tutta Rolf.  Tutta Rolf (7 October 1907 – 26 October 1994) was a Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer. Born in Oslo. She appeared in 14 films between 1932 and 1939. She was married to Ernst Rolf (1930–1932) Jack Donohue (1936–1950) and Hasse Ekman (1953–1972).
Kouhei Kadono.  Kouhei Kadono (上遠野 浩平 Kadono Kōhei born December 12 1968) is a Japanese author best known for the Boogiepop series which has also been adapted as a live action movie two manga and an anime.
Alois Jirásek.  Alois Jirásek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈalojs ˈjɪraːsɛk]) (August 23 1851 Hronov Bohemia – March 12 1930 Prague) was a Czech writer author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a secondary-school teacher until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1918 1919 1921 and 1930.
Stu Davis.  Stu Davis (b. David Stewart July 1 1921 in Regina Canada; died March 25 2007) was a Canadian musician. Davis was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.
Grant-Lee Phillips.  Grant-Lee Phillips (born Bryan G. Phillips September 1 1963) is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his versatile voice intense lyrical narratives and dexterity on the acoustic twelve-string guitar a style that often sees him compared to Neil Young Van Morrison Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Netta Syrett.  Netta Syrett (17 March 1865 – 15 December 1943) was an English writer of the late Victorian period whose novels featured New Woman protagonists. Her novel Portrait of a Rebel was adapted into the 1936 film A Woman Rebels.
Derek Marlowe.  Derek William Mario Marlowe (21 May 1938–14 November 1996) was an English playwright novelist screenwriter and painter.
Vinnie Colaiuta.  Vincent Colaiuta (born February 5 1956) is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic Pennsylvania he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of fourteen. He is notable for his technical skill and his musical versatility having played with many artists from a wide variety of genres.
Bruce Kulick.  Bruce Howard Kulick (born December 12 1953) is an American guitarist musician and a member of the band Grand Funk Railroad. Previously Kulick had been a long-time member of the band Kiss.Kulick is also known for being a former member of the band Blackjack with Michael Bolton and also played on several Michael Bolton solo albums. (Bolton later co-wrote the Kiss song Forever from Hot in the Shade).
Johnny Blitz.  John Madansky known as Johnny Blitz is a punk rock drummer from Cleveland Ohio best known as being a member of the bands The Dead Boys and Rocket From The Tombs. With the Dead Boys he helped pioneer the punk rock sound look and attitude of the mid to late 1970s.He is not to be confused with Bryan Adams 1983-84 tour keyboarder Johnny 'Blitz' Hannah.
Jeremey Hunsicker.  Jeremey Frederick Hunsicker (born April 13 1971) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the Journey tribute band Frontiers. Hunsicker made national headlines in 2007 when he was briefly tapped by Journey as a potential lead vocalist and frontman for the iconic rock band.With his tribute band Frontiers Hunsicker quickly became known for his uncanny ability to duplicate the signature sound of former Journey lead vocalist Steve Perry.
Sonaro.  Christopher Darnell Cook (born October 5 1984) better known as Sonaro is an American music producer who has produced for artists such as Fabolous French Montana Jadakiss Styles P Joe Budden Lloyd Banks Paul Cain Prodigy Jim Jones and Meek Mill.
George Wyatt (writer).  George Wyatt (1550–1623) was a sixteenth-century writer. He was the first biographer of Henry VIII's second queen Anne Boleyn. His grandfather Thomas Wyatt the Elder had been a cousin and early admirer of Anne's.He was the son of Thomas Wyatt the younger who led the unsuccessful Wyatt's rebellion in 1554.He married Jane Finch (1555–1644) the daughter of Sir Thomas Finch in 1582. Their children included Sir Francis Wyatt the Governor of Virginia.
Jan Morris.  Jan Morris CBE (born James Humphrey Morris 2 October 1926) is a Welsh historian author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–78) a history of the British Empire and for portraits of cities notably Oxford Venice Trieste Hong Kong and New York City.Born in England of an English mother and Welsh father Morris was educated at Lancing College West Sussex and Christ Church Oxford and considers herself Welsh.
Eva Dahlgren.  Eva Charlotte Dahlgren (/ˈeɪvə ˈdɑːlɡrɨn/ in English; born 9 June 1960 in Umeå Sweden) is a Swedish pop musician.Dahlgren was discovered by musician/producer Bruno Glenmark in 1978 after appearing on the TV show Sveriges magasin and her debut album Finns det nån som bryr sej om was released the same year. In 1979 she placed third in Melodifestivalen (the tryout competition for the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden).
Marc Antoine Baudot.  Marc Antoine Baudot (1765–1837) was a French memoirist and physician.
Pija Lindenbaum.  Pija Lindenbaum (born Pia Margareta Lindenbaum 27 April 1955 in Sundsvall Sweden) is a Swedish illustrator author and designer. 1999–2007 she owned the 14th chair of Svenska barnboksakademin. She has illustrated the Tsatsiki books written by Moni Nilsson-Brännström.
Ulla Pia.  Ulla Pia (born 17 February 1945 Copenhagen) is a Danish singer best known internationally for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest.Ulla Pia started her career as a vocalist with bands and orchestras in Copenhagen. In the mid-1960s she was singing with jazz musician Finn Ziegler and it was suggested in 1966 that she enter a song in the Danish Eurovision selection Dansk Melodi Grand Prix.
Michel Galabru.  Michel Louis Edmond Galabru is a French actor born on 27 October 1922 in Safi Morocco.
Alan Buribayev.  Alan Buribaev (Kazakh: Алан Бөрібаев born 1979; surname also spelled Buribayev in English) is a Kazakh conductor the son of a cellist/conductor father and a pianist mother. He studied violin and conducting at the Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty. He was later a conducting student of Uros Lajovic in Vienna.
Jack Lesberg.  Jack Lesberg (February 14 1920 – September 17 2005) was a jazz double-bassist. He performed with many famous jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong Earl Hines Jack Teagarden Sarah Vaughan and Benny Goodman with whom he went on several international tours. Lesberg had the misfortune of playing in the Cocoanut Grove on the night in 1942 when 492 people lost their lives in a fire.
Roger Meddows Taylor.  Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949) better known as just Roger Taylor is an English musician singer and songwriter best known as the drummer of the rock band Queen but has also served as occasional songwriter and occasional lead vocalist. As a drummer he is renowned for his unique sound and is considered one of the most influential rock drummers of the 1970s and '80s.
Tim Fite.  Tim Fite (born Timothy Sullivan) is an American musician singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living and working in Brooklyn. His past releases have run the gamut from indie to alternative to country to hip hop.
Demetrios Chalkokondyles.  Demetrios Chalkokondyles Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles (Greek: Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης) and found variously as Demetricocondyles Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (1423 – 9 January 1511) was a Greek humanist scholar and Professor who taught the Greek language in Italy for over forty years; at Padua Perugia Milan and Florence.
Mark Smith (musician).  Mark Alexander Smith (25 February 1960 — 2 November 2009) was a British bassist and record producer who played bass guitar in recordings and performances with The Waterboys Leo Sayer Gonzales Percy Sledge Terry Reid Alvin Stardust Chris Farlowe Patricia Kaas Bryan Ferry Chris Spedding Tony O'Malley Barbara Dickson Tim Cody Shania Twain Zoot Sims Neneh Cherry Lionel Richie Ronan Keating Malcolm McLaren Charlotte Church Van Morrison George Michael and Javier Álvarez and also produced records for young and up and coming British bands. 
Dina (singer).  Dina (born Ondina Maria Farias Veloso 18 June 1956 Carregal do Sal) is a Portuguese singer best known for her participation in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest.Dina first entered the Portuguese Eurovision selection Festival da Canção in 1980 finishing eighth with Guardando em mim. She participated again in 1982 with two songs but could only manage sixth and eighth.
Peter Noone.  Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (5 November 1947 Davyhulme Lancashire) is an English singer-songwriter guitarist pianist and actor best known as Herman of the successful 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits. He would frequently be a guest star on television shows when the topic was about The Sixties.
Maria Bethânia.  Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso (Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈɾiɐ beˈtɐ̃niɐ]; born June 18 1946) known by her stage name Maria Bethânia is a Brazilian MPB singer. Born in Santo Amaro Bahia she started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show Opinião (Opinion). Due to its popularity with performances all over the country and the popularity of her 1965 single Carcará the artist became a star in Brazil.
Will Schwartz.  Will Schwartz is an American pop musician and a member of the band Imperial Teen whose debut album Seasick was released in 1996.
Giammaria Mazzucchelli.  Count Giammaria Mazzuchelli (or Giovanni Maria Mazzucchelli) (28 November 1707 – 19 November 1765) was an Italian writer bibliographer and historian.
Rosalind Ayres.  Rosalind Ayres (born 7 December 1946 in Birmingham Warwickshire) is an English actress. Active since 1970 Ayres is well known for her role in the 1997 film Titanic in which she played Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon.
Mirella Bentivoglio.  Mirella Bentivoglio (born 28 March 1922 Klagenfurt) is an Italian sculptor poet performance artist and curator.In the 1960s she joined the international concrete poetry movement. She has participated in exhibitions all over the world including the Venice Biennale (eight times from 1969 to 2001) and the Museum of Modern Art (1992).
Adam Sztaba.  Adam Sztaba (born February 15 1975 in Koszalin Poland) - Polish composer music producer conductor arranger and pianist. He graduated in composition from Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy (now University of Music).
Robert Gilmour (journalist).  Robert Gilmour (24 October 1831–24 April 1902) was a New Zealand farmer journalist newspaper proprietor and editor. He was born in Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland on 24 October 1831.
Peter May (writer).  Peter May (born December 20 1951) is a Scottish television screenwriter best-selling novelist and crime writer.
Pannalal Ghosh.  Pannalal Ghosh (24 July 1911 – 20 April 1960) also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh was a Bengali Indian flute (bansuri) player and composer. He was a disciple of Allauddin Khan and is credited with giving the flute its status in Hindustani classical music.
Joseph Carlier.  Émile Nestor Joseph Carlier (3 January 1849 – 11 April 1927) called Joseph Carlier was a French sculptor.
Battista Mombrini.  Battista Mombrini (Treviglio 10 January 1944) is an Italian painter and sculptor.
The Williamson Brothers.  Arnold and Ervin Williamson (better known as The Williamson Brothers) were folk musicians based in Logan County West Virginia USA active in the 1920s and 30s. Arnold played the fiddle while Ervin played the guitar and did vocals. The duo recorded several songs for Okeh Records in the late 1920s and remained musically active in subsequent decades although they rarely recorded.
Wuta Mayi.  Gaspard Wuta Mayi commonly known as Wuta Mayi is a soukous recording artist composer and vocalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz led by François Luambo Makiadi which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1960s through the 1980s.
RL Grime.  Henry Steinway (born February 8 1991) better known by his stage name RL Grime and also known as Clockwork is an American producer of hip hop trap and bass music and member of the Los Angeles Electronic music collective WeDidIt. His debut Grapes EP was released in April 2012 on WeDidIt. His follow-up EP High Beams was released in July 2013 on Fool's Gold Records which debuted at #8 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart and #1 on the iTunes Electronic Chart.
Pritom Ahmed.  Pritom Ahmed  is a young Bangladeshi singer songwriter and music composer. In Bangladesh he is the only singer with nine solo albums of his own composition. His music focuses on religious equality class stratification contemporary urban life socio-economic political domination 2013 Shahbag protests and ruling of Bangladesh.
Bobo Jenkins.  Bobo Jenkins (January 7 1916 – August 14 1984) was an American Detroit blues and electric blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He also built and set up his own recording studio and record label in Detroit. Jenkins is best known for his recordings of Democrat Blues and Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night.
Nicky Shane.  Nicky Shane is a harmonica player artist and stand-up comic who resides in Portland Oregon. He established and received the first Guinness World Record for The Fastest Harmonica Player.Nicky Shane (born Mitchell Pieracci in Palo Alto CA) is a stand-up comic best known for his character 'The Buzzard'. He is also a painter musician songwriter and screenwriter. He grew up in San Jose California whose mother Toni Pieracci was a single parent.
Helen Jane Long.  Helen Jane Long (born April 10 1974) is a British composer musician and pianist best known for various advertisement contracts her work on several film projects in a variety of genres and most recently her contemporary-classic piano albums Embers (2010) (BLE) and Porcelain (Warner Music Group). In 2003 Long worked as music assistant to Howard Shore on the film score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Bloem de Ligny.  Bloem de Ligny (born 7 July 1978 Apeldoorn) is a Dutch musician and artist who has released music under her own name and as a member of the bands Fono & Serafina Polichinelle 4Fists and Sam and the Womp. Her image and vocal style have often been compared to Björk. She is also known (or been known) under the names Bloem Bloem de Wilde de Ligny Serafina Ouistiti Oo is an Instrument and Lady Oo.
Josefin Nilsson.  Josefin Nilsson (born 22 March 1969 in När Gotland) is a Swedish singer and actress.Her debut album titled Shapes was released on 23 March 1993. The music and lyrics were written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
Charles Graham Baker.  Charles Graham Baker (16 July 1883 – 15 May 1950) was an American screenwriter and director. He wrote for more than 170 films between 1915 and 1948. He and his father invented the game of Gin rummy in 1909.He was born in Evansville Indiana. He and his father Elwood T. Baker invented the game of Gin rummy in 1909. By 1918 he was working as a playwright for the Vitagraph company in Brooklyn. Baker died in Reseda Los Angeles California in 1950.
Mansour (singer).  Mansour (Persian: منصور ‎ born 28 July 1971) also called Mansour Jafari Mamaghani is a Persian artist born in Tehran Iran renowned as a Persian musical artist.
Marcello Venusti.  Marcello Venusti (1512/5 - 15 October 1579) was an Italian Mannnerist painter active in Rome in mid 16th century. Native to Mazzo di Valtellina near Como he was reputed to have been a pupil of Perino del Vaga. He is known for a scaled copy of the Michelangelo's Last Judgement commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and completed in the master's lifetime and meeting his approval. His painting of Christ in the Garden is in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj.
William Gilmour (writer).  William Gilmour is a writer of lost race fantasy short stories and novels. A key figure in the Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiche community he published Tarzan pastiches in the magazine Burroughs Bulletin. His lost race novel The Undying Land was published by Donald M. Grant Publisher Inc. in 1985.
Kleerup.  Andreas Kleerup known professionally by his last name is a Swedish record producer drummer and member of the Swedish group The Meat Boys from Stockholm Sweden. His first mainstream collaboration was as the producer of fellow Swedish artist Robyn's #1 UK single With Every Heartbeat also included on Kleerup's self titled debut album.
Henrietta Watson.  Henrietta Watson (1873-1964) was a British actress.
Amyt Datta.  Amyt Datta (born 20 October 1960) is a guitarist composer and producer from Kolkata. He is also a session musician teacher and mentor. Datta who commands a sort of demigod status with guitar fans across the country is widely acknowledged to be one of the most innovative guitarists around today. He toured extensively with the rock band Shiva from mid-1980's to the early 1990s.
Griffin Anthony.  Griffin Anthony (born September 3 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born and raised in upstate New York Griffin attended high school at Wooster School in Danbury Connecticut and then went on to receive a BA in Business and Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale Florida before pursuing his music career full-time.
LiSA (Japanese musician born 1987).  Risa Oribe (織部 里沙 Oribe Risa born June 24 1987) better known by her stage name LiSA (an acronym of Love is Same All) is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Seki Gifu and is signed to Aniplex under Sony Music Artists. Initially a singer for an indie band LiSA made her major debut in 2010 singing songs for the anime television series Angel Beats! as one of two vocalists for the fictional band Girls Dead Monster. She performed at Animelo Summer Live in August 2010.
Justin Foley.  Justin Foley (born June 16 1976) is best known as the drummer of the metalcore band Killswitch Engage. He is also an active member of the band Blood Has Been Shed along with Killswitch Engage's former lead singer Howard Jones. Foley has been quoted as saying his primary influences include John Bonham Neil Peart and Sean Reinert.
Geoff Bradford (musician).  Geoff Bradford (born Geoffrey Frank Bradford 13 January 1934) is an English guitarist who played alongside British blues musicians in the 1950s and 1960s such as Long John Baldry and Alexis Korner.
Todd Rundgren.  Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop star supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972 his career has produced a diverse range of recordings both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia.
Claude Aveline.  Claude Aveline pen name of Evgen Avtsine (19 July 1901 – 4 November 1992) was a writer publisher editor poet and member of the French Resistance. Aveline who was born in Paris France has authored numerous books and writings throughout his writing career.
Thomas B. Costain.  Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8 1885 - October 8 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.
Grant McLennan.  Grant William McLennan (12 February 1958 – 6 May 2006) was an Australian singer-songwriter with the alternative rock band The Go-Betweens which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane Australia in 1977. In a career spanning almost thirty years his work with The Go-Betweens (1977–89 and resuming 2000–06) is complemented by several solo releases and side-project collaborations with other performers.
Ironik.  James Christian Charters (born 18 January 1988) better known as Ironik is a British musician DJ and rapper. His genre of music varies from R&B grime and hip hop.DJ Ironik has had three UK top 10 hits; Stay With Me charted at #5 Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) charted at #3 and also I Got Soul A charity single which reached #10 in the UK charts and has also had several top 5 hits in other European countries.
Queen Ida.  Ida Lewis Queen Ida Guillory (born January 15 1929) is a Louisiana Creole accordionist. She was the first female accordion player to lead a zydeco band.[citation needed] Queen Ida's music is an eclectic mix of R&B Caribbean and Cajun though the presence of her accordion always keeps it traditional.[citation needed]
Lulu Roman.  Lulu Roman (born Bertha Louise Hable on May 6 1946 in Dallas Texas) is a comedian and singer. She is probably best known as a regular on the comedy-music television series Hee Haw.Roman was born with a thyroid dysfunction in a home for unwed mothers and placed in an orphanage. She attended W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas graduating in 1964.During her stint on Hee Haw she went through a bout of drug addiction.
Crystal Aikin.  Crystal Aikin is an American gospel singer-songwriter from Tacoma Washington and the winner of the first season of Sunday Best. Her eponymous debut album was released on January 13 2009 through Verity Records.
Koni Lui.  Koni Lui (呂慧儀) (born 3 September 1982 Hong Kong) also known as Koni Lui Wai Yee is a model and 2nd runner up at the Miss Hong Kong 2006 pageant. She represented Hong Kong at Miss International 2006 in Tokyo Japan and Beijing China. She received 2 awards Most Beautiful Smile and the Miss Friendship award. She continued the friendly streak as Hong Kong had won four Miss Friendship titles (1981 2002 2004 and 2005).
Sade Adu.  Helen Folasade Adu OBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959) better known as Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY) is a British singer-songwriter composer and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award-winning English group Sade. She has been nominated six times for the Brit Award for Best British Female.
Kalli Kalde.  Kalli Kalde (born 6 September 1967 in Tartu) is an Estonian painter graphic artist and illustrator.From 1982 to 1986 Kalli Kalde studied graphic design in Tartu Art School. In 1991 she graduated from Department of Drawing and Manual Training in Tallinn University.Since 1988 she takes part in expositions.Member of the Tartu Artists’ Association since 1995 and member of The Association of Estonian Printmakers since 2013.
Kevork Ajemian.  Kevork Vartani Ajemian (Adjemian) (May 23 1932 Manbij Syria - December 27 1998 Lyon France) was a prominent ethnic Armenian writer journalist novelist theorist and public activist and long-time publisher of the Beirut-based literary artistic and general publication Spurk. Ajemian alongside Hagop Hagopian (real name Harutiun Tagushian) and pastor James Karnusian was a co-founder of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) military organization.
Suzanne Bocanegra.  Suzanne Bocanegra (born February 14 1957) is an American artist based out of New York. Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art. Museums and galleries across the United States and London have exhibited Bocanegra's works. Her work Bodycast an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Frances McDormand was presented as part of the 2013 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Milan Knížák.  Milan Knížák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlan ˈkɲiːʒaːk]; born 19 April 1940 in Pilsen Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) is a Czech performance artist sculptor musician installation artist dissident graphic artist art theorist and pedagogue of art.
Kelly Hale.  Kelly Hale is an American author. Her first novel was the e-book Erasing Sherlock Holmes which mixed Sherlock Holmes with time travel. Her next novel co-written with Simon Bucher-Jones was the BBC Doctor Who novel Grimm Reality. Recent short story publications include stories in the 2006 collection Modern Magic: Tales of Fantasy And Horror.
Bessie Harvey.  Bessie Harvey (born Bessie Ruth White on October 11 1929 died 1994) was an American artist best known for her sculptures constructed out of found objects primarily pieces of found wood. Harvey was the seventh of thirteen children born to Homer and Rosie Mae White. At the age of fourteen she married Charles Harvey from whom she separated in her early twenties and relocated independently to Alcoa Tennessee.
Alison Joseph.  Alison Joseph (born 1958) is an English crime writer based in London where she was born and raised. She studied French and Philosophy at Leeds University and started her career as a documentary director making programmes for Channel 4. The first in her crime series featuring detective nun Sister Agnes was published in 1993. She has also written for radio including adaptations of Georges Simenon’s Maigret. She is currently Chair of the Crime Writers Association.
Stephen Churchett.  Stephen Churchett (born 10 April 1947) is an English actor and writer.One of his most notable roles was as solicitor Marcus Christie in EastEnders on and off from 1990 to 2004.He has also appeared in various television programmes including Up Pompeii! Enemy at the Door C.A.T.S. Eyes Casualty 'Allo 'Allo! The House of Elliot The Brittas Empire Peak Practice Silent Witness Dangerfield The Bill and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Hyun Jin Young.  Huh Hyun-seok(born on February 3 1972) better known as Hyun Jin Young is a South Korean singer dancer and rapper. Hyun Jin-young is known for being the first Korean musician to introduce hip-hop music to Korea.
Chito Miranda.  Alfonso Chito Yanga Miranda Jr. (born February 7 1976) is a Filipino singer and songwriter best known as one of the founding members and lead singer for the band Parokya ni Edgar.
Norton Buffalo.  Phillip Jackson (September 28 1951 – October 30 2009) was an American singer-songwriter country and blues harmonica player record producer bandleader and recording artist best known as Norton Buffalo a versatile exponent of the harmonica including chromatic and diatonic.
Louis Quévillon.  Louis Quévillon (October 14 1749 – March 9 1823) was a tradesman and contractor.
Terry Scott Taylor.  Terry Scott Taylor (born May 24 1950) is an American songwriter record producer writer and founding member of the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Camarillo Eddy). Taylor is also a member of the roots and alternative music group Lost Dogs. He is currently based in San Jose California USA.Taylor is highly regarded for his songwriting skills. These often include allusions to and reworkings of material ranging from Elizabethan poets to modern authors.
Alan White (novelist).  Alan White (born 1924 in Yorkshire) is an English novelist and journalist. He used his experiences as a Second World War commando leader in his writings. He also wrote using the names Alec Haig James Fraser and Alec Whitney. His novel The Long Day's Dying was made into a 1968 film directed by Peter Collinson. White wrote mysteries as well as war and adventure novels.
Vytautas Kernagis.  Vytautas Kernagis (May 19 1951 – March 15 2008) was a Lithuanian singer-songwriter bard actor director and television announcer. He is considered a pioneer of Lithuanian sung poetry.
Nino Bravo.  Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis (3 August 1944 – 16 April 1973) better known by his stage name Nino Bravo was a Spanish pop singer.
Priscila Sol (pornographic actress).  Priscila Sol is a Brazilian pornographic actress who began her career in around 2004. In 2004 she signed an exclusive performance contract with the European Adult production company Marc Dorcel.
Lauryn Hill.  Lauryn Hill (born May 26 1975) is an American singer–songwriter rapper producer and actress. She is best known for being a member of the Fugees and for her solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.Raised in South Orange New Jersey Hill began singing with her music-oriented family during her childhood. She enjoyed success as an actress at an early age appearing in a recurring role on the television soap opera As the World Turns and starring in the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.
Rodrigo González (Mexican musician).  Rodrigo González (b. December 25 1950–d. September 19 1985) better known as Rockdrigo or El profeta del nopal (The Nopal Prophet) was a Mexican musician and songwriter. He founded the Movimiento Rupestre (Cave Movement) a voice-and-guitar folk music scene that strongly influenced Mexican rock.
Ahmet Zappa.  Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa (born May 15 1974) is an American writer producer and publisher.
Plastic Crimewave.  Plastic Crimewave (born Steven H. Kraków) otherwise known as Steve Kraków is a Chicago-based illustrator and writer avant-garde musician music historian and impresario. He is the editor of Drag City-published magazine Galactic Zoo Dossier eponymous front man for Plastic Crimewave Sound founder of the Million Tongues Festival and Vision Celestial Guitarkestra.
Raquel Tavares.  Raquel Tavares (born January 11 1985) is a singer of Fado. She was born in Lisbon. She had a normal route on her education but finally decided she could not leave music behind.
Tatyana Ali.  Tatyana Marisol Ali (born January 24 1979) is an American actress and R&B singer best known for her childhood role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Since January 2010 she has starred as Tyana Jones on the TV One original sitcom Love That Girl! and has had a recurring role as Roxanne on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.
James Rushmore Wood.  James Rushmore Wood (September 14 1816 – May 4 1882) born in Mamaroneck New York State was an American medical doctor one of the founders of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City. He retired from his university duties in 1868.
Ira Sadoff.  Ira Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet critic novelist and short story writer.
Nikola Vaptsarov.  Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov (Bulgarian: Никола Йонков Вапцаров; 7 December 1909 - 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets.
Paul Chung.  Paul Chung (5 April 1959 – 1 September 1989) was a Hong Kong actor  MC (Master of Ceremony) & DJ (early 80's). He committed suicide on Friday 1 September 1989.
Ralph Cleland Tiffin.  Ralph Cleland Tiffin (born 9 October 1948) is a British writer public speaker and expert in project appraisal.
Ivano Fossati.  Ivano Alberto Fossati (born 21 September 1951) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter guitarist pianist and percussionist born in Genoa.
Cayetano Descalzi.  Cayetano Descalzi (or Gaetano Descalzi) (1809–1886) was an Italian painter and engraver who came to the Río de la Plata now Argentina in the 1820s.In 1830 Descalzi married Juliana Miró the widowed mother of Carlos Morel who was also to become a celebrated artist.They legally separated eight years later.Descalzi is recognized for his oil lithograph of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas made in 1841 entitled Rosas el Grande printed the following year by Lemercier of París.
Lois Lowry.  Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20 1937) is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books and an autobiography. She has won two Newbery Medals for Number the Stars in 1989 and The Giver in 1993. For her contribution as a children's writer she was a finalist in 2000 (and U.S. nominee again in 2004) for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.
Elise Cowen.  Elise Nada Cowen (July 31 1933 – February 27 1962 Washington Heights Manhattan) was an American poet. She was part of the Beat generation and was close to Allen Ginsberg one of the movement's leading figures.
Claude Bolling.  Claude Bolling (born 10 April 1930) is a renowned French jazz pianist composer arranger and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes studied at the Nice Conservatory then in Paris. A child prodigy by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally with Lionel Hampton Roy Eldridge and Kenny Clarke. Bolling's books on jazz technique show that he did not delve far beyond bebop into much avant garde jazz.
Lilian Jackson Braun.  Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20 1913 – June 4 2011) was an American writer well known for her light-hearted series of The Cat Who... mystery novels.
Satoshi Goto.  Satoshi Goto (後藤 哲 Gotō Satoshi born January 18 1971) is a Japanese voice actor.
Lisa Brokop.  Lisa Brokop (born June 6 1973 in Surrey British Columbia) is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter and actress. Active since 1990 in the country music field she has released a total of seven studio albums and has charted more than twenty singles on the country music charts in her native Canada.
Leon Kroll.  Leon Kroll (December 6 1884 – October 25 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. Known as a figurative artist Life Magazine described him as the dean of U.S. nude painters yet he was an exceptional landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions.Born into a musical family on lower Second Avenue in New York City Kroll's father was a violinist and his cousin was William Kroll.
Andrew Hall (actor).  Andrew Hall (born 1954) is an English actor and director.Most recently has been seen in ITV's Coronation Street playing the controversial character of Marc Selby. In 2011 also directed the London Premiere of Sir Alan Ayckbourn's 'Haunting Julia'.Played Bill from Spring 2008 to Summer 2009 in the London production of Mamma Mia! Whilst appearing in Mamma Mia! he also directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Trafalgar 2 studios starring Matthew Kelly and Tracey Childs.
Nobuyoshi Sano.  Nobuyoshi Sano (佐野 信義 Sano Nobuyoshi born January 19 1969) better known as sanodg is a Japanese video game composer musician and record producer most famous for scoring some songs for Ridge Racer and Tekken series most notably Tekken 3 where he composed most of the soundtrack. He worked for Namco and Cavia. He currently works for the company Detune at which he designed and produced (his first work as producer) the music software KORG DS-10 for Nintendo DS.
Sean Williams (ethnomusicologist).  Sean Williams (b. 1959 Berkeley California) is an ethnomusicologist who teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington.Her primary areas of teaching include Irish studies and Asian studies; she leads the Sundanese music ensembles Gamelan Degung Girijaya (Enduring Mountain Gamelan) and Angklung Buncis Sukahejo. She received a BA in classical guitar performance from UC Berkeley in 1981 and an MA (1985) and Ph.D.
Frank Knight (artist).  Frank Knight (born 1941) is an Australian wildlife artist and ornithologist. He was born in Port Hedland Western Australia. He worked as a field and laboratory assistant for the CSIRO from 1959 to 1966 and was the illustrator for the CSIRO’s Division of Wildlife Research from 1966 until 1989.
Hiroshi Tachi.  Hiroshi Tachi (舘 ひろし Tachi Hiroshi born 1950-03-31 in Naka-ku Nagoya) is a Japanese actor and singer. He is probably best known for starring in the TV drama series Seibu Keisatsu.He is a dropout of Chiba Institute of Technology.
Maria Dunn (musician).  Maria Dunn is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She has been described as an arrestingly powerful singer-songwriter who writes great historical and social commentary. Her music blends Celtic folk with North American bluegrass and country influences.
Henri Sorvali.  Henri Trollhorn Sorvali born 19 October 1978 in Finland is the guitarist and keyboardist of the pagan metal band Moonsorrow and keyboardist for Finntroll and also plays for The Wicked.He also played keyboards on a few occasional gigs with The Rasmus in the late 90's.
Stylo G.  Jason McDermott (born 1985 in Spanish Town Jamaica) known by his stage name Stylo G is a British Reggae artist known for his three hit singles My Yout Call Mi A Yardie and Soundbwoy. Soundbwoy has peaked to number 18 on the UK Singles Chart.
Chlöe Howl.  Chlöe Howl (born 4 March 1995) is a British singer-songwriter. She will release her debut studio album Chlöe Howl in 2014 through Sony Music and Columbia. She was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2014.
Enrico Tarenghi.  Enrico Tarenghi (April 14 1848 – 1938) was an Italian painter mainly of genre and orientalist paintings.
Jo Berger Myhre.  Jo Berger Myhre (born 29 May 1984 in Sandefjord Norway) is a Norwegian upright bassist known from performing with the likes of Blokk 5 Ingrid Olava Solveig Slettahjell Slow Motion Quintet and Grydeland/Qvenild/Hausken/Myhre.
Alexander Maximilian Seitz.  Alexander Maximilian Seitz (1811 in Munich Germany – 1888 in Rome Italy) was a German painter.Seitz studied under Peter von Cornelius and two early pictures Joseph sold by his Brethren and the Seven Sleepers received speedy recognition.[citation needed] Heinrich Maria Hess employed him on the frescoes in the Church of All Saints. After he had painted compositions depicting four of the sacraments Cornelius took him to Rome.
Bruce Channel.  Bruce Channel (pronounced shə-NELL; born Bruce McMeans November 28 1940) is an American singer known for his 1962 million-selling number one hit Hey! Baby.
Mark Jacobs (author).  A former foreign service officer Mark Jacobs lives with his wife Anne Bulen at Heron Hill in rural Virginia. He has published more than 90 stories in a range of magazines including The Atlantic The Iowa Review The Kenyon Review The Southern Review The Idaho Review and Southern Humanities Review. His story How Birds Communicate won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize in 1998. His five books include three novels and two collections of short stories.
Felicia Barton.  Felicia Barton (born 6 March 1982) is an American singer and songwriter best known for her appearance on the eighth season of American Idol in 2009. Since 2013 she has joined Warner-Chappell Music and Pulse Recording as a songwriter and has co-written songs for Lea Michele and Demi Lovato.
Oscar Alfaro.  Óscar Gonzáles Alfaro known as Óscar Alfaro (San Lorenzo September 5 1921 - December 25 1963) was a Bolivian writer. Poet short-story writer teacher and Bolivian journalist who was distinguished by his dedication to children's and youth literature. He is best known for his children's books.
Ingrid Noll.  Ingrid Noll (married name Ingrid Gullatz born 29 September 1935 in Shanghai) is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels including Head Count Hell Hath No Fury and The Pharmacist as well as one television drama Bommels Billigflüge.
Louis Veuillot.  Louis Veuillot (October 11 1813 – March 7 1883) was a French journalist and author who helped to popularize ultramontanism (a philosophy favoring Papal supremacy).
Achilles Rizzoli.  Achilles Gildo Rizzoli (1896–1981) anonymous during his lifetime has since his death become celebrated as an outsider artist. He is an unusual example of an outsider artist who had considerable formal training in drawing. Born in Marin County California Rizzoli lived in San Francisco where he was employed as an architectural draftsman.
Simon Evans.  Simon Evans (born 9 May 1965) is an English comedian born in Luton and now living in Hove.
Wade Flemons.  Wade Herbert Flemons (September 25 1940 – October 13 1993) was an American soul singer.Born in Coffeyville Kansas Flemons began recording solo work in 1958 but is best remembered for his work as a musician and vocalist in the pop band Earth Wind & Fire between 1970 and 1973.
Karla Deras.  Karla Deras is an American fashion blogger. She is a member of Chictopia.com and also maintains her own site Karla's Closet.On her site Karla photographs her versatile looks and often mixes vintage pieces from labels like Versace with modern companies. She has referred to her style as a pot of stew which includes simplicity androgyny and femininity. She is a student.
Chiung Yao.  Chiung Yao (simplified Chinese: 琼瑶; traditional Chinese: 瓊瑤; pinyin: Qióng Yáo; Wade–Giles: Chiung Yao; born 陳喆 on April 20 1938 in Sichuan China) is the penname of a popular romance novelist based in Taiwan. Many of her works have been made and remade into movies and TV series. Films based on her books have been made in the Republic of China (Taiwan) since the 1970s and were very popular during their time.
Jerry Belson.  Jerry Belson (July 8 1938 – October 10 2006) was a writer director and producer of Hollywood films for over forty years.
Oleg Pavlov.  Oleg Pavlov (Russian:Павлов Олег Олегович) was born in Moscow in 1970. He is a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize. His first novel Captain of the Steppe has been translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2013.
Kaoru Yachigusa.  Yachigusa Kaoru (八千草 薫 Yachigusa Kaoru born January 6 1931) is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957 she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue.
Des Champ.  Des Champ (9 July 1928 - 7 June 2006 in London England) was a musician bandleader producer and arranger.In a musical career lasting over 35 years Des gained notoriety in the British music business for his ground-breaking production and arrangement work in collaboration with partner Roger Easterby.
James Sturm.  James Sturm (b. 1965 in New York City) is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE) an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education.
Dwight Garner (critic).  Dwight Garner (born 1965) is an American journalist now a literary critic for The New York Times. Prior to that he was senior editor at the New York Times Book Review where he worked from 1999 to 2009.
Crazy Frog.  Crazy Frog originally known as The Annoying Thing is a computer-animated character created in 2003 by Swedish actor and playwright Erik Wernquist.
Kevin Gilbert.  Kevin Matthew Gilbert (November 20 1966 - May 17 1996) was an American songwriter musician composer producer and collaborator born in Sacramento California later living in San Mateo California where he attended Junipero Serra High School. He died at age 29 in Los Angeles from apparent autoerotic asphyxiation.
Angelo Michele Colonna.  Angelo Michele Colonna (21 September 1604 - 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Bologna northern and central Italy and Spain. He is sometimes referred to as Michelangelo Colonna.
Oscar Ihlebæk.  Oscar Ihlebæk (9 October 1900 – 10 March 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and resistance member.He was born in Drammen to a mother from Skoger and a father from Rakkestad. In 1926 he married Fredrikke Wium from Drammen and they had two children.He had secondary education. He was a journalist in his hometown newspaper Fremtiden then the main organ of the Social Democratic Labour Party Den nye Social-Demokraten before becoming a subeditor in Bergens Arbeiderblad in 1927.
Volodymyr Yurchyshyn.  Volodymyr Ivanovych Yurchyshyn (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Іва́нович Юрчи́шин) (July 27 1935 – August 17 2010) was a Ukrainian graphic artist book designer Honoured Artist of Ukraine (1990) winner of Shevchenko National Prize (1990) for the design of the book «Litopys Rus'kyi» («Primary Chronicle») (1989).
Tom King (writer).  Tom King is an American television writer and story board artist best known for his work on the animated children's shows The Ren & Stimpy Show SpongeBob SquarePants Camp Lazlo Chowder and The Fairly OddParents.
Gianna Nannini.  Gianna Nannini (born 14 June 1956) is an Italian female singer-songwriter and pop musician. She may be best known for her 1986 song Bello e Impossibile.
Mathias Claus.  Mathias Clausis a German jazz pianist and composer.
Heinz Arndt.  Heinz Wolfgang Arndt (26 February 1915 - 6 May 2002) was an Australian economist.
Guy Lyon Playfair.  Guy Lyon Playfair (born 5 April 1935) is a freelance writer and translator best known for his books about parapsychology.
Siv Ericks.  Siv Ericks real name Siv Gustava Essy-Ehsing (born Eriksson 31 July 1918 in Oxelösund – dead 3 July 2005 in Onsala) was a Swedish actress who performed in 66 Swedish films over a 53-year career.Ericks began her film career with a leading role in the 1939 film Rosor varje kväll.
Lee Hawkins Garby.  Lee Hawkins Garby (1892–1953) was the coauthor with Edward Elmer Smith of the 1928 serial novel The Skylark of Space the first science fiction story in which humans left the solar system. She was the wife of Dr. Carl DeWitt Garby a friend of Dr.
Brian Auger.  Brian Auger (born 18 July 1939 London England) is a jazz and rock keyboardist who has specialised in playing the Hammond organ.A jazz pianist bandleader session musician and Hammond B3 player Auger has played or toured with artists such as Rod Stewart Tony Williams Jimi Hendrix John McLaughlin Sonny Boy Williamson Led Zeppelin Eric Burdon and others. He has incorporated jazz early British pop R&B soul music and rock and he has been nominated for a Grammy.
Jerzy Giedroyc.  Jerzy Władysław Giedroyc (27 July 1906 – 14 September 2000) was a Polish writer and political activist.
Jamaaladeen Tacuma.  Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born Rudy McDaniel June 11 1956) is an American free jazz bassist born in Hempstead New York perhaps best known for his albums as bandleader on the Gramavision label and for his work with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980s (particularly in Coleman's Prime Time band). Jamaaladeen's 1988 album Jukebox was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1989 but did not win.
Samuel C. Florman.  Samuel C. Florman (born January 19 1925) is an American civil engineer general contractor and author. He is best known for his writings and speeches about engineering technology and the general culture. The most widely distributed of his seven books is The Existential Pleasures of Engineering published in 1976 second edition in 1994.
Martina Schettina.  Martina Schettina (born March 7 1961) is an Austrian artist.
Kaya Matsutani.  Kaya Matsutani (松谷 彼哉 Matsutani Kaya March 20 1970 - present) is a Japanese voice actress from Sapporo. She is often cast as female characters that are noted with extremely well developed body (most notably breasts). She is most known for her roles in Bleach (Rangiku Matsumoto) Sakura Wars V (Diana Caprice) and Ar Tonelico II (Infel).
The Lee Boys.  The Lee Boys are a funk and gospel band based out of Miami Florida. The band plays in the Sacred Steel tradition that arose out of the musical stylings of the House of God Church. The band plays a mixture of funk music and gospel lyrics staying true to their roots as a religious group.
Hasmik Karapetyan.  Hasmik Karapetyan (in Armenian Հասմիկ Կարապետյան) (born in Yerevan Armenia on 4 July 1977) is an Armenian singer who sings mostly in the romantic genre.
Gabriel Arana.  Gabriel Arana is an American journalist and senior editor at The American Prospect. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including The Nation Salon The Atlantic The Advocate and The Daily Beast. He is also known for writing a 2012 profile of the ex-gay movement in which psychiatrist Robert Spitzer repudiated his work supporting sexual orientation change efforts.
Wayne Watson.  Wayne Watson (born October 5 1954) is a Dove Award-winning singer-songwriter in contemporary Christian music. Some of his songs have become CCM classics including Another Time Another Place For Such a Time as This Friend of a Wounded Heart Touch of the Master's Hand New Lives for Old and Watercolour Ponies.
Tina Cousins.  Tina Cousins (born 20 April 1974) is an English singer-songwriter and former fashion model. She has had five singles in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others. She has also achieved popularity in Australia. She started her career as a model. She has co-presented Essex FM's 2 Smart 4 Drugs roadshow.
Felipe Aldana.  Felipe Aldana (1922–1970) was an Argentine poet.
Danny Sillada.  Danny C. Sillada (born April 27 1963) is a Filipino surrealist painter poet philosopher essayist musician performance artist and literary art & cultural critic from Mindanao.
Pete Best.  Randolph Peter Pete Best (born 24 November 1941) is a British musician principally known as the original regular drummer in the Beatles. He was born in the city of Madras then part of British India. After Best's mother Mona Best (1924–1988) moved to Liverpool in 1945 she opened The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' large house in Liverpool. It became very popular with British youths having a membership of over 1000.
Alan Smyth.  Alan Smyth is a music producer from Sheffield England.
Nick Robinson (origami).  Nick Robinson is a British paperfolder. He was awarded the Sydney French medal in 2004 by the British Origami Society and is a Honorary Member of the British Origami Society. He has folded a kaleidoscope of projects over the course of his career but is drawn to folding containers masks and simple designs.
Edith Collier.  Edith Marion Collier (28 March 1885 – 12 December 1964) was an early modern painter from New Zealand. She came from Wanganui.
William Anderson Coffin.  William Anderson Coffin (1855 – 1925) was an American landscape and figure painter. He also was an art critic working for the New York Post and Harper's Weekly. In 1917 he would be awarded the French Legion of Honor.
Turk Pipkin.  Turk Pipkin is the co-founder of The Nobelity Project an education and action non-profit which seeks to find solutions to many pressing global problems and which advocates for basic rights for children everywhere. He is also known for his work as an author actor comedian and director.
Tal Bachman.  Talmage Charles Robert Tal Bachman (born August 13 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his late 1999 hit She's So High from his self-titled 1999 album.
Elijah Wald.  Elijah Wald (born 1959) is an American folk blues guitarist and music historian. He is a 2002 Grammy Award winner for his liner notes to The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box: The Journey of Chris Strachwitz.
He Jianjun.  He Jianjun (simplified Chinese: 何建军; traditional Chinese: 何建軍; pinyin: Hé Jiànjūn; born 1960 in Beijing ) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy He is considered a leading voice in the so-called Sixth Generation. He is occasionally credited under the name He Yi.
Ola Bauer.  Ola Bauer (24 July 1943 – 12 June 1999) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright. He made his literary debut with the novel Graffiti in 1976 under the pseudonym Jo Vendt. Among his best known books are Humlehjertene (1980) Rosapenna (1983) and Metoden (1985). Bauer was awarded Gyldendal's Endowment in 1982 and the Dobloug Prize in 1998. He died of cancer in 1999.
Chris Motionless.  Chris Motionless Cerulli (born October 17 1986) is an American musician mostly known for being the lead singer and frontman of the metal band Motionless In White.Cerulli is the only original founding member of Motionless In White and has released one demo two EP's and two full-length albums with the band.
Douglas Evans (children's author).  Douglas Evans (born April 3 1953 in Euclid Ohio) is a children's book author and a former school teacher in Berkeley California. He has written books plays songs and poems for children including Classroom at the End of the Hall which got a starred review in Publishers Weekly. The Elevator Family (2003) was included on the Mass.
Alex Etel.  Alexander Nathan Alex Etel (born 19 September 1994) is an English child actor.
Eightysix (Andras Vleminckx).  Andras Vleminckx professionally known as Eightysix is a Belgian record producer. He has produced songs for artists like Kat Deluna(Drop it Low Dancing Tonight) Taio Cruz (Positive) and Tara McDonald (Give Me More). Dancing tonight reached a #1 spot on the USA Billboard dance chart.
Maťo Ďurinda.  Maťo Ďurinda (also known as Martin Ďurinda born on 8 November 1961) is the vocalist/lead singer/lead/rhythm guitarist for the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. He is from Bratislava Slovakia and still currently resides there.
Jakob Ayrer.  Jakob Ayrer (ca. 1543 – March 26 1605) was a German playwright and author of Fastnachtsspiele (carnival or Shrovetide plays).
Dave Matthews.  David John Dave Matthews (born January 9 1967) is a South African-born American singer-songwriter musician and actor best known as the lead vocalist songwriter and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. He performs mainly with acoustic guitar and favors rhythm rather than solos in his playing. During the period from 2000 to 2010 his band the Dave Matthews Band sold more tickets and earned more money than any other act in North America.
Gösta Bredefeldt.  Gösta Bredefeldt (19 December 1935 – 9 January 2010) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 61 films and television shows between 1961 and 2009. He starred in the 1974 film A Handful of Love which was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.
Shaun Baker.  Shaun Baker is an English musician DJ and record producer currently based in Paderborn Germany.
Erika Davies.  Erika Davies also professionally credited as Miss Erika Davies (born January 20 1981 in Mesa Arizona) is a San Diego-based singer-songwriter who sings in a retro jazz-folk lounge style. She is best known for her vocals on I Love You I Do which was used in a USA-wide car commercial by Subaru.
René Benjamin.  René Benjamin (1885 in Paris France - 1948 in Tours France) was a French author. In 1915 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Gaspard. In 1938 he became the first Goncourt laureate to be appointed a member of the Académie Goncourt the jury that decides the winner of the prize.
Stik.  Stik is a British graffiti artist based in London.Stik paints stick figure-like people as street art. He has worked in the northeast London area of Hackney especially in Shoreditch. He liaises at the Central Saint Martins Graffiti Dialogues and has been funded to run graffiti workshops. He works with organizations including Amnesty International British Waterways the Mutoid Waste Company Queeruption and Reclaim the Streets.
Maria de Alvear.  Maria de Alvear (born 1960 in Madrid Spain) is a Spanish-German composer living in Germany who was born to Spanish father and German mother.
Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu.  Ovidiu Cernăuţeanu (Romanian pronunciation: [oˈvidju t͡ʃernəuˈt͡se̯anu]; b. 23 August 1974 Botoşani) also known as the artist Ovi is a Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter producer and musician. He rose to fame in his adoptive country Norway in 2006 when he first took part in the Melodi Grand Prix 2006 with the song The Better Side Of Me where he didn't qualify to the final.
Kim Kwang-kyu.  Kim Kwang-Kyu is a South Korean poet and translator.
Papa Lightfoot.  Papa Lightfoot also known as Papa George Lightfoot (March 2 1924 – November 28 1971) born Alexander Lightfoot was an American blues singer and harmonica player.
Robin (singer).  Robin Packalen (born August 24 1998 in Turku Finland) better known by his stage name Robin is a Finnish singer and teen pop artist. His 2012 album Chillaa and 2013 album Boom Kah topped the Finnish Albums Chart.
Peter Lovšin.  Peter Lovšin known also as Pero Lovšin (born June 27 1955) is a Slovenian musician songwriter and singer best known as a frontman of the first Yugoslav punk rock group Pankrti. After a period with Pankrti in the 1980s he formed a successful rock band Sokoli and later continued with a great solo career.He is best known for working with rock music but also with reggae in the later stages of his 30-year career.
Leah Randi.  Leah Rose Randi is an American bass player and vocalist. She has recorded or performed live with bands including Abandoned Pools Front Line Assembly Paradise Lost Delerium Conjure One and Pink.
Anton Reisenegger.  Anton Reisenegger (born January 21 1969) is the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Chilean Thrash/Death metal band Criminal. He is also the host of the Extreme metal radio show Hard Drive on Radio Futuro.
Chris Michie.  Chris Michie (January 12 1948–March 27 2003) was a guitarist and composer and best known for his work with Van Morrison.Chris Michie was born in Ithaca New York in 1948 and moved to Madison Wisconsin when he was a teenager. He attended the University of Wisconsin. Michie played in a band named The Grapes of Wrath while still a teenager. In 1969 he moved to California as a member of the Madison band The Mendelbaum Blues Band.
Árpád Doppler.  Árpád Doppler (5 June 1857 – 13 August 1927) was a Hungarian-German composer.He was born in Budapest the son of Karl Doppler and he studied at the Conservatory of Stuttgart. From 1880 to 1883 he was a teacher at the Grand Conservatory in New York City after which he taught at the Conservatory in Stuttgart. From 1889 he was also a choir leader at the court opera. He died in Stuttgart.He composed several orchestral works choral works and lieder.
Lili Wilkinson.  Lili Wilkinson (born 7 April 1981) is an Australian author. She has also written for several publications including The Age and managed insideadog.com.au a website for teenagers about books as part of her role at the Centre For Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria until January 2011.
Seorak.  Seorak Park (박서락) (born December 26 1981 in Seoul South Korea) also known by her stage name SeoRock is a Korean singer and former VJ for MTV Korea. She currently lives in Manhattan New York and studies law. Seorak is one of the first Korean singers to successfully crossover from performing mainstream music to performing in musical theater (her talent in being the leading role of Carmen made the musical a super hit). She will also be the first Korean singer ever to receive a J.D.
Colin Marston.  Colin Marston (born September 13 1982) is an American musician and record producer residing in New York City. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004 and runs Menegroth The Thousand Caves Recording Studios located in Woodhaven Queens while not on tour with one of his four active bands. He is perhaps most famous for fronting the progressive metal band Behold...
María Teresa Chacín.  María Teresa Chacín (born in Caracas January 22 1943) is a Venezuelan singer. She has recorded over 50 albums. She has received honors including Guaicaipuro de Oro Meridiano de Oro Cardenal de Oro Gran Sol de Oriente Idolo de Plata Mara de Oro Canaima de Oro and the award Escenario Juvenil.
Pierre Palmade.  Pierre Palmade (born 23 March 1968 in Bordeaux) is a French actor and comedian.
Teedra Moses.  Teedra Moses (born December 17 1976) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter.Moses was born and raised in New Orleans Louisiana to a gospel singing mother Shirley Moses. She later moved to California with her mother and three siblings after her parents' separation. Moses brought a little bit of that fervor to her own vocal style when she began singing professionally.
Ferdinand Richard.  Hervé Richard (born 25 June 1950) better known as Ferdinand Richard is a French avant-rock bass guitarist and composer. Richard was a founding member of the French avant-rock group Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973 and remained with them until they broke up in 1986. He was also a member of Alfred Harth's group Gestalt et Jive in the mid-1980s and collaborated with Fred Frith in 1989 to record Dropera (1991).
Shirlee Busbee.  Shirlee Busbee (born August 9 1941 in San Jose California) is an American writer of romance novels since 1977. With over nine million copies of her books in print she is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in writing including the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and Affaire de Coeur's Silver and Bronze Pen Awards.
Dominic Harris.  Dominic Harris (born November 16 1976) is a British artist and architect primarily concerned with interaction video and light.
John Stewart (musician).  John Coburn Stewart (September 5 1939 – January 19 2008) was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with The Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of The Monkees' #1 hit Daydream Believer and his own #5 hit Gold among several hundred original songs composed over a career of more than 40 years.
Willie D. Warren.  Willie D. Warren (September 11 1924 – December 30 2000) was an American electric blues guitarist bass player and singer. In a long career he worked with Otis Rush Al Benson Little Sonny Cooper David Honeyboy Edwards Baby Boy Warren Guitar Slim Freddie King Jimmy Reed Morris Pejoe Bobo Jenkins and Jim McCarty. One of Warren's better known recordings was Baby Likes to Boogie.He was described by Allmusic journalist Michael G. Nastos as one of the Midwest's true blues treasures.
Crada (producer).  Christian Kalla better known as Crada is a German producer instrumentalist mix engineer and songwriter from Marktleuthen Germany. He has produced and written for artists and groups such as Drake Alicia Keys Kid Cudi Emeli Sande Tinie Tempah Conor Maynard Clare Maguire Jay Rock Talib Kweli The Lox La Fouine Tim Bendzko among others. He is currently one of the most sought-after producers in Europe.
Joakim Svalberg.  Joakim Svalberg is a Swedish musician best known as the current keyboard player for the Swedish Progressive metal band Opeth which he joined in late 2011 just after the recording of the album Heritage. Svalberg is also involved in a band named elGamo with which he is currently working on their first record.[citation needed]
Masachi Osawa.  Masachi Osawa (大澤 真幸 Ōsawa Masachi born October 15 1958 in Nagano Japan) is a Japanese sociologist.He received his Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Tokyo in 1990. His Ph.D thesis is The Algebra of Actions (行為の代数学 Koi no Daisugaku). His supervisor was Munesuke Mita.
Leonard Volk.  Leonard Wells Volk (November 7 1828 – August 19 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1865. He made several large monumental sculptures including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas and statues of American Civil War figures.
Roy Ridley.  Maurice Roy Ridley (January 25 1890 Orcheston St Mary –June 12 1969) was a writer and poet Fellow and Chaplain of Balliol College Oxford.
Josh James (singer).  Josh James Dubovie (/dʊˈboʊvi/; born 27 November 1990) is a British singer. Dubovie is most notable for having represented the UK at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest held in Oslo Norway in May 2010 after winning the UK national selection competition with That Sounds Good to Me a song by Mike Stock Pete Waterman and Steve Crosby.
Alex Grey.  Alex Grey (born November 29 1953) is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art process art installation art sculpture visionary art and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute.
James Bentley (author).  James Bentley (9 March 1937 – 26 December 2000) was an English author and former Anglican parish priest.Bentley was born in Bolton Lancashire England in 1937. He worked as an Anglican parish priest and a research fellow at the University of Sussex before becoming a full-time freelance author and journalist in 1982. He was married in 1961 to Audrey Darlington and died in Saumur France in 2000.
Jean Racine.  Jean Racine (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʁasin]) baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille) and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Tom Larkin.  Tom Larkin (born 18 September 1971) is a member of the New Zealand band Shihad in which he plays the drums and sings background vocals and a music producer.
Patrick Ludlow.  Patrick Ludlow (1903-1996) was a British actor.
James Murphy (electronic musician).  James Murphy (born February 4 1970) is an American musician producer DJ and co-founder of record label DFA Records. His most well-known musical project is LCD Soundsystem which first gained attention with its debut single Losing My Edge in 2002 before releasing its eponymous debut album in February 2005 to critical acclaim and top 20 success in the UK.
Kevin Killian.  Kevin Killian (born 1952) is an American poet author and playwright of primarily LGBT literature. He is also a highly regarded editor. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi won the American Book Award for poetry in 2009.
Mary Sarah.  Mary Sarah (July 7 1995) is a singer and song writer.
Jack Eskew.  Jack Eskew (Jackson W. Eskew) (b. June 29 1940) is a musical arranger/orchestrator based in Los Angeles California. He studied music at the University of Southern California before beginning his career by touring the United States with various bands.In the 1960s he led the band at Disneyland that appeared nightly in the famous subterranean rising stage playing trumpet and piano. He subsequently became music director at Disneyland.
George Huff (singer).  George Clayton Huff Jr. (born November 4 1980 in New Orleans Louisiana) is an American singer. He placed first among male contestants and overall fifth-place finalist on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol.
Asaga.  Asaga was a 9th-century Digambara Jain poet who wrote in Sanskrit and Kannada language. He is most known for his extant work in Sanskrit the Vardhaman Charitra (Life of Vardhamana). This epic poem which runs into eighteen cantos was written in 853 CE. It is the earliest available Sanskrit biography of the last tirthankara of Jainism Mahavira. In all he authored at least eight works in Sanskrit.
Ben Goto.  Ben Goto (五島 勉 Gotō Ben born November 17 1929) is a Japanese journalist and writer best known for his books on Nostradamus.Goto was born to a Russian-Orthodox family in Hakodate Hokkaido.Early in his career Gotō published works dealing with issues of the Second World War as well as several books supportive of Sōka Gakkai and its controversial leader Daisaku Ikeda.
Peter Mars.  Peter Mars (born 1959 in Portland Oregon) is an American artist with ties to both the Pop Art and Outsider Art movements.
William Henry Gill.  William Henry Gill (24 October 1839 - 27 June 1923) was a Manx musical scholar who wrote and composed anthem of Isle of Man Arrane Ashoonagh Dy Vannin.
Marshall Merritt.  Marshall Everett Merritt (August 1904 – July 1978) was an American artist. An impressionist painter he specialized in seascapes particularly oil depictions of the California coast. He also painted many landscapes portraits and still lifes.He was a member of the Artist's Guild of America and the Los Gatos Art Association. He served as vice president of the latter for several years during the mid to late 1950s.For many years Marshall Merritt maintained a studio in Willits California.
Hayley J Williams.  Hayley Joann Williams (born in Cheshire England) is a British actress. She has had an extensive theater and film career most notably playing the lead role of Marie in the award-winning film chiller The Shadow Within for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress at the 2008 B-Movie Film Festival (New York) and Best Actress at the LA Short Film Festival for her performance.
S. T. Joshi.  Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958) known as S. T. Joshi is an Indian American literary critic novelist and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press 2 vols. 2010 [originally published in one volume as H. P.
Sailen Ghosh.  Sailen Ghosh (born 1931) is an eminent Bengali child literator and a dramatist.
Julian Biddle.  Julian Biddle is a 20th and 21st century author known for What Was Hot a history of pop culture in America among other books. The name is a pseudonym for writer Douglas A. Mendini (1953-). Writing as Mendini his non-fiction has appeared in Life Entertainment Weekly and Country Living magazines among others. He is also the playwright of “A Good Sport” “Overeating Causes Death” and other plays. His fiction has appeared in over 30 journals.
Théodore Géricault.  Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃dʁe teodoʁ ʒeʁiko] (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.
Charlotte Stokely.  Charlotte Stokely (born August 8 1986 in Utah) is an American pornographic actress.She started performing in adult oriented content after her roommate (who was a stripper) was cast in a porn film; Stokely was then asked to appear on camera. Her early work was mainly for Internet companies in Florida after which she traveled to Los Angeles to begin DVD and feature work. Stokely says: The porn industry had always appealed to me.
Dan Peters.  Daniel Joe Peters (born August 18 1967) is the drummer for Mudhoney. He joined Bundle of Hiss when he was fifteen years old. He also played drums for Nirvana appearing on one single Sliver. Peters' only live appearance with Nirvana was on September 22 1990 in Seattle Washington at the Motor Sports International Garage. Peters continues to drum for Mudhoney and was replaced in Nirvana by Dave Grohl. Peters expressed his only regret as missing the chance to play drums on Nevermind.
Stefan Jaracz.  Stefan Jaracz (24 December 1883 – 11 August 1945) was a Polish actor and theater producer.
Vrangsinn.  Vrangsinn (Birthname Daniel Salte) is a Norwegian musician best known as the bassist of Carpathian Forest (1999–present).
Cypress Grove (musician).  Cypress Grove (Tony Chmelik 28 May 1959) is an English musician singer songwriter composer and producer. After gaining an honours degree in Psychology at University College London he decided to follow a career in music.
Kelsey Jones.  Herbert Kelsey Jones (June 17 1922 – October 10 2004) was a Canadian composer pianist harpsichordist teacher and founder of the Saint John Symphony Orchestra now known as Symphony New Brunswick which he conducted from 1950 to 1953. He was born in South Norwalk Norwalk Connecticut but grew up in Portland Maine and then New Brunswick. He moved to Montreal in 1954 where he became a member of the faculty of McGill University's Faculty of Music.
Christopher Doyle.  Christopher Doyle also known as Dù Kěfēng (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风) born 2 May 1952 is an Australian cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He is an award winner of Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. He has also won the AFI Award for cinematography the Golden Horse awards (four times) and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.
Randy VanWarmer.  Randy VanWarmer (March 30 1955 – January 12 2004) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His biggest success was the pop hit Just When I Needed You Most. It reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1979 after peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart earlier that year.
Paul St. Pierre.  Paul St. Pierre (born October 14 1923) is a journalist and author in British Columbia Canada. He was the Member of Parliament for the riding of Coast Chilcotin from 1968-1972. He was defeated in the 1972 election by New Democratic Party candidate Harry Olaussen in a tight three-way race (see results below).
Francesco Antonio Cicalese.  Francesco Antonio Cicalese (active in Naples 1642 -1685) was an Italian painter mainly of still-life canvases. He was a pupil of Luca Forte.
Coolio.  Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (born August 1 1963) better known by the stage name Coolio is an American musician rapper chef actor and record producer.
Thomas Keneally.  Thomas Michael (Mick) Keneally AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Orhan Pamuk.  Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist screenwriter academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages making him the country's best-selling writer.Born in Istanbul Pamuk is Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where he teaches comparative literature and writing.
Enrico Lombardi.  Enrico Lombardi is an Italian painter and writer.
Jacob Ciocci.  Jacob Ciocci is an American visual artist performance artist and musician. Along with sister Jessica Ciocci and friend Ben Jones he is one of the three remaining founding members of Paper Rad an artist collective based in both Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Providence Rhode Island.
William J. Tobin.  William J. Tobin is an American entrepreneur inventor and business owner known for founding ten different startups since 1968 and securing 15 different patents for products and software. Among the companies he founded and served as CEO and Director of Marketing are PC Flowers Inc. from 1988 Instruments of Sweden and Concept Industries Inc. He was named an Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc.
Ofo Uhiara.  Ofo Uhiara (b. 13 December 1975) was born in the UK of Nigerian descent and grew up in east London. He is an actor most noted for his role as Police Constable Lance Powell in the ITV soap opera The Bill. He is the brother of actress Ony Uhiara.
Roberta Guaspari.  Roberta Guaspari (born September 15 1947) is an American violinist and music teacher in Harlem New York.
Miriam Makeba.  Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008) nicknamed Mama Africa was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song Pata Pata first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967.
John Munson.  John Munson (born December 13 1966) is a Minneapolis musician who is best known as the bass player for Semisonic. He was also a member of Trip Shakespeare during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Jim Karol.  Jim Karol (born on April 10 1953) is an American memory expert/mentalist and entertainer known for his participation in the NBC television show Phenomenon and his cameo appearance in Jackass Number Two. Known as Mind Over Man Jim's extraordinary mental abilities have been seen by millions of people around the world. He has made numerous appearances on national television and has performed live at hundreds of corporate and private events.
Uday Bhawalkar.  Pandit Uday Bhawalkar is an Indian Hindustani vocalist. He is an exponent of the dhrupad genre.
Gardy Ruder.  Gardy-Kate Ruder (born 1954 in Lahr in the Black Forest of Germany) is a German author and teacher who is now based in Baden-Württemberg.
Eric Copeland.  Eric Copeland is an experimental musician based in New York. He is a core member of Black Dice and forms half of the duo Terrestrial Tones with Animal Collective's Avey Tare. Copeland released his first solo effort Hermaphrodite in 2007 on the Paw Tracks label. His next full-length LP Alien in a Garbage Dump released in August 2009 is composed of songs from his EPs Alien in a Garbage Dump and Al Anon. In 2009 Copeland self-released the CD-R Rgag EP.
Roger Sanchez.  Roger Sanchez (born June 1 1967) is an American (of Dominican descent) house music DJ.He is the eldest of two sons (his younger brother is named Gabriel) born to Angela Almonte and Hugo Rene Sanchez immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Sanchez graduated from the High School of Art and Design in New York City.
Balduin Wolff.  (Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21 November 1907) was a German painter of the Romantic period and a chess player.Born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge (now Kowary) Silesia (then Prussia now Poland) he graduated from a gymnasium of Hirschberg and studied at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf).He drew a game with Louis Paulsen in a blindfold simultaneous display at Düsseldorf in 1862.
Tom Murphy (artist).  Tom Murphy (born 1949) is an English artist who is best known for his bronze sculptures..Murphy is a self-taught artist starting his artistic career initially as a hobby and moved quickly to an intense period of self-study mastering a range of techniques in many art disciplines.Previously he worked in a number of occupations which included; a seaman salesman musician and impressionist in a pop group.Later he graduated as a teacher at Liverpool John Moores University and taught art at the Liverpool Community College. 
Charlie Floyd.  Charlie Floyd (born in Aynor South Carolina) is an American country music singer. Floyd performed in his native South Carolina for several years and opened a nightclub called Charlie's Nite Life in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. In 1993 he signed to Liberty Records and released his debut album also titled Charlie's Nite Life.
Funahashi Seiichi.  Seiichi Funahashi (舟橋聖一 Funahashi Seiichi 25 December 1904 – 13 January 1976) was a Japanese writer of short stories novellas novels and stage plays active in the Shōwa period.
Lucian Grainge.  Lucian Charles Grainge CBE (born February 29 1960) is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group. Over the course of his career he has been instrumental in the careers of artists such as Amy Winehouse ABBA Eurythmics Mika Duffy Take That Psychedelic Furs Sting Jamie Cullum and Andrea Bocelli. Grainge has worked in the music business for his entire career. In 2013 Grainge was ranked first in Billboard's Hot 100 in Music list.
Roger Blin.  Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine France 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont France 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director notable for staging world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame (play) in 1957.
Laura Valentine.  Laura Jewry Valentine (1814 - 1899) also using the pseudonym Aunt Louisa was a writer.
Roland Grapow.  Roland Grapow (born 30 August 1959 in Hamburg Germany) - is a professional guitarist and music producer. Roland is best known for his time in the leading power metal band Helloween who he played with for 12 years after replacing founding member Kai Hansen. He is also known for leading the acclaimed power metal-based band Masterplan.
Asoka Handagama.  Asoka Handagama is a Sri Lankan filmmaker. He obtained his primary and secondary schooling in a provincial school and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Kelaniya (province of Colombo) where he was awarded a first class honors degree. He obtained his M.Sc in Development Economics at Warwick University in 1995.
Tommy Walter.  Thomas Edward Tommy Walter (born October 30 1970 Thousand Oaks California) is an American musician and songwriter best known for his alternative rock band Abandoned Pools as well as being the former bassist and one of the founding members of Eels.
Lou Fellingham.  Louise Lou Fellingham (née Hunt) (born 5 May 1974) is a Christian worship leader singer and songwriter from Brighton in East Sussex England. She is a founding member of the British band Phatfish and has also pursued a solo career. In 2008 she won a Christian Broadcasting Council (CBC) Award for her album Promised Land in the category of Best Worship. She has worked alongside other Christian artists such as Matt Redman Graham Kendrick Tim Hughes and Stuart Townend.
Ankie Bagger.  Ann-Christin Ankie Bagger born 30 September 1964 is a Swedish disco/pop musician and singer who first garnered attention in 1988 with her cover of Herreys' Varje liten droppe regn as People Say It's in the Air. She is one of the solo artists that benefited from the works of Swedish hit composer/producer trio Norell Oson Bard.
Jan Jakob Tønseth.  Jan Jakob Tønseth (born 1 September 1947 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author poet and translator.Tønseth debuted as a poet with the poetry collection Kimærer in 1971 when he was only 24 years of age. He achieved broad recognition as a novelist with his trilogy about the ex-communist Hilmar Iversen (Hilmar Iversens ensomhet (1992) Et vennskap (1997) and Resignasjon og portvin (2002)). Tønseth is a member of Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.
Rod Glenn.  Rod Glenn is an author of fiction from the north east of England.The King of America is a futuristic thriller set five hundred years into the future with the Americas (North South and Central) all ruled by a European-style monarchy.Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre is a contemporary thriller set in the north east of England about a film-obsessed serial killer stalking a remote Northumberland community. The Killing Moon a post-apocalyptic thriller is also set in the north east.
Vicente Amador Flor.  Vicente Amador Flor Cedeño (July 19 1903 - December 3 1975) was an Ecuadorian poet known for his poems about his native city Portoviejo.
Armin van Buuren.  Not to be confused with Armand Van HeldenArmin van Buuren (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑrmɪn vɑn ˈbyːrə(n)]; born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch music producer and DJ. He is known for mostly playing progressive trance and uplifting trance.Van Buuren has won a number of accolades including the #1 spot on DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs fan poll a record of 5 times including an unprecedented four consecutive years 2007 2008 2009 2010 and again in 2012.
Gary Husband.  Gary Husband (born 14 June 1960 in Leeds West Yorkshire England to dancer Patricia Husband and her husband musician Peter Husband) is a British jazz and rock drummer pianist and bandleader. He is best known for his emotive and dynamic style on both his primary instruments the keyboards and the drums.
Alyssa Chia.  Alyssa Chia (born October 7 1974) is a Taiwanese television hostess and actress. She is also known as Queen of drama and Niu-niu (妞妞). She once studied in Beijing Film Academy. Her ancestral home is in Tianjin China. Her ex-husband is Sun Zhihao and they have a daughter named Angelina. She is known for her roles in television series such as Da Han Tian Zi The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber and Zhizun Hongyan.
Adam Lehan.  Adam Lehan is known for being the guitarist of the doom metal–stoner metal band Cathedral (1991/93). He played guitar acoustic guitar and 12 string acoustic guitar and wrote many songs for the albums Forest of Equilibrium Soul Sacrifice Statik Majik and The Ethereal Mirror.
Craig Northey.  Craig Northey is a Canadian musician and film and TV composer. He's one of the founding members of the band Odds. Odds released four albums between 1991 and 1996. They were best known for the radio singles It Falls Apart Eat my Brain Heterosexual Man and Someone Who’s Cool.In 1996 Northey composed his first score for a feature film – The Kids in the Hall in Brain Candy.
Harry Baisden.  Harry Baisden (aka Harry Bastin né Cyrus Harry Baisden; 18 April 1893 Lester Prairie Minnesota — 4 December 1926 Augusta Georgia) was an American composer of popular music arranger pianist and an acclaimed dance orchestra leader. While a musician in the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Band during World War I Baisden composed several popular wartime songs namely Iowa We Owe A Lot To You Meet Me At The Red Cross Ball I'll Steal You and Camp Cody Blues.
Steven Nolt.  Steven M. Nolt is professor of history at Goshen College and author of twelve books most of which focus on Amish and Mennonite history and culture. He is a frequent source for journalists and other researching Anabaptist groups. He was often quoted in the aftermath of the 2006 Amish school shooting at Nickel Mines Pennsylvania. His co-authored book Amish Grace explores Amish forgiveness in the wake of the school shooting.Nolt collaborated with Donald B.
Victor Loche.  Victor Loche (1806 – 1863) was a French soldier and naturalist. In 1856–1857 he participated in an expedition to the Algerian part of the Sahara and described the mammals and birds of Algeria in the book Catalogue des mammifères et des oiseaux published in 1858.He first described the sand cat Felis margarita from a specimen found in the area of Négonça in the Sahara and proposed to name the cat in recognition of Jean Auguste Margueritte who headed the expedition.
Chris Walden.  Chris Walden (born October 10 1966 in Hamburg Germany) is a German composer arranger and conductor living in the U.S. He leads his own jazz big band the Chris Walden Big Band based in Los Angeles and was nominated five times for a Grammy award.He is probably best known for writing big band and orchestral arrangements for recording artists such as Michael Bolton Christina Aguilera Jennifer Hudson Paul Anka and Christopher Cross.
Doyle Glass.  Doyle Dudley Glass (born January 22 1962) is an American historian and sculptor. He specializes in military monuments having designed the Kentucky Medal of Honor Memorial and the Texas Medal of Honor Memorial.
Sanna Nielsen.  Sanna Viktoria Nielsen (born 27 November 1984) is a Swedish pop singer. She has participated in Melodifestivalen seven times between 2001 and 2014 with her seventh try being in Melodifestivalen 2014 with the song Undo where she won and will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark. Several major bookmakers have Nielsen as one of the favourites to win the Eurovision final on 10 May.
Susannah Wetzel.  Susannah Wetzel (born August 15 1984) is an actress best known for the role of Julie from the second season to the third season of Barney & Friends.Recently Wetzel provided uncredited backing vocals on numerous songs most notably on Seattle hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' single Can't Hold Us which charted on Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #1.
Gilad Hesseg.  Gilad Hesseg (Hebrew: גלעד השג‎) is an Israeli folk rock singer-songwriter and composer. He has been active in the field of Israeli music for the best part of his life and has composed and recorded numerous songs using his own and others’ lyrics. He has written and recorded the music for several musicals and produced and directed a variety of music projects of Israeli song and music.
Elán (musician).  Elán DeFan (born March 1 1983 in Tlaquepaque Jalisco Mexico) is a recording artist known for being one of the first Latin American female songwriters to begin her career with an English language album written completely on her own and the first independent artist from Latin America to have sold more than 1.7 millions copies of her music with her band which is also named ELAN made up of Elán lead vocalist and keyboard player Jan Carlo DeFan lead guitarist co-producer and Elán's brother childhood friend and bass player Carlos Padilla Maqueo and younger cousin and drummer Michel Cheech Bitar DeFan and Mauricio The Duck Lopez.Elán reveals an assortment of music that has been influenced by many artists like Bob Dylan Janis Joplin John Lennon Melissa Etheridge and a few other notable influences. 
Enrique Badía Romero.  Enrique Badía Romero (who signs his work simply Romero) is a Spanish comics artist best known to English-speaking audiences for his work on Modesty Blaise. He is also the co-creator of the post-apocalyptic science fiction strip AXA as well as a substantial body of work in his native Spain.
Al Schnier.  Al Schnier (born January 9 1968) is a musician most noted for being one of two guitarists for the American jam band moe.
Garrett Gardner.  Garrett Gardner is an American singer and songwriter. He auditioned twice to the US edition of The Voice. His first attempt in season 3 ended in failure with no coach turning his chair whilst his second attempt in season 4 earned him a spot on the Top 12 finalist list. He was eliminated finishing 11th-12th in the series. Gardner sings funky pop rock and blues.
The Three Doctors (motivational speakers).  The Three Doctors is a group of African-American motivational speakers authors and doctors.
Kyu Sakamoto.  Kyu Sakamoto (坂本 九 Sakamoto Kyū born Hisashi Oshima (大島 九 Ōshima Hisashi) 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985) was a Japanese singer and actor best known outside of Japan for his international hit song Sukiyaki which was sung in Japanese and sold over 13 million copies. It reached number one in the United States Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963. He was also the first Asian singer to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
Grant Barrett.  Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer specializing in slang jargon and new usage. He is also co-host and co-producer of the nationwide public radio show A Way With Words and editor of the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (McGraw-Hill 2006 ISBN 0-07-145804-2) the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (Oxford University Press 2004 ISBN 0-19-517685-5) and the award-winning web site Double-Tongued Dictionary.
Solitaire (musician).  Solitaire from Baltimore Maryland was a one-man project with pioneering live-electronics created by James L. Callahan; who performed wrote and recorded solo synth-pop music between 1983 and 1986. James Callahan (aka Solitaire) was the first “truly computerized” artist in the Baltimore area. As Solitaire Callahan played keyboards and electronic drum machines as a one-man show.
Dirk van Hoogstraten.  Dirk van Hoogstraten (1596–1640) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and father of Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten.
Stephan Otto.  Stephan Otto (1603–1656) was a German composer and kantor in Freiberg and Schandau. He worked for Count Rudolf von Bünau in Weesenstein and was mentor and probably teacher to Andreas Hammerschmidt.
Jimmy Bennington.  James Arnold Bennington (born May 22 1970 in Columbus Ohio) is an American jazz drummer and avant-garde musician based in Chicago Illinois.
Andreas Berger (composer).  Andreas Berger (1584–1656) was a German composer whose works featured in the collection of J. S. Bach. He was the son-in-law of the English emigre musician William Brade.
Seyid Abulgasim Nabati.  Seyid Abulgasim Nabati (Persian: سید ابوالقاسم نباتی‎ Azerbaijani: Əbülqasım Nəbati 1812 — 1873) was an 19th-century Azerbaijani poet.His life remained very little information that is not even accurate information as to the people to which he belonged. We only know that Nabati graduated from high school the spiritual  spent his youth in Arasbaran  later visited the tomb of Sheikh Shahabaddin in Ahar  after which he returned to his native Ushtibin  where he lived until his death.
Cristi Conaway.  Cristi Conaway (born August 14 1964 in Lubbock Texas) is an American actress and fashion designer.Conaway attended Southern Methodist University where she studied acting. After moving to Los Angeles California she made her television debut on the 1990 made-for-TV movie Children of the Bride and her movie debut in 1991's Doc Hollywood in a minor role. In 1992 Conaway appeared in the movie Batman Returns as the Ice Princess.
Amber Agar.  Amber Agha also credited as Amber Agar (born 1976 Hampstead) is an English actress best known for her role as Dr. Anvar 'Annie' Parvez in the British television series Murder City.
Ian Maxtone-Graham.  Ian Maxtone-Graham (born on July 3 1959 in New York City) is an American television writer and producer. He has written for Saturday Night Live (1992–1995) and The Simpsons (1995–) and has also served as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for The Simpsons.
Amy Macdonald.  Amy Macdonald (born 25 August 1987 in Bishopbriggs East Dunbartonshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter guitarist and recording artist.Macdonald released her debut album This Is the Life in 2007. The singles Mr Rock & Roll and This Is the Life from it were chart hits. The latter charted at number one in six countries while reaching the top ten in another eleven countries including the United Kingdom.
Miri Mesika.  Miri Mesika (Hebrew: מִירִי מְסִיקָה) (born May 3 1978) is an Israeli singer and actress. She won several Israeli Female Singer of the Year awards. She has sold more than 100000 copies of her albums in Israel.
Lee Mankyo.  Lee Mankyo (born in 1967; Hangul: 이만교) is a South Korean writer whose works have been turned into Korean films.
Gary Myers (writer).  Gary Myers is an American writer of fantasy and horror. He is a resident of Fullerton California. His first book The House of the Worm was a collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories in the fantasy manner of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany; it was published by Arkham House in 1975 and is now out of print [1].
Mike Rudd.  Michael David Mike Rudd (born 15 June 1945) is a New Zealand-born musician and composer who has been based in Australia since the late 1960s and who was the leader of Australian progressive rock bands Spectrum and Ariel in the 1970s.
Phil Farrand.  Phil Farrand (born November 5 1958) is an American computer programmer and consultant webmaster and author. He is known for his Nitpicker's Guides in which he nitpicks plot holes and continuity errors in the various Star Trek television programs and movies and for the creation of Nitcentral a website devoted to the same activity. Subsequent to his Nitpicker's Guides he has ventured into fiction as a novelist.
Evelyn Hockstein.  Evelyn Hockstein is an American photographer. Hockstein has taken shots of former United States President Bill Clinton; in 2002 she traveled to Nairobi Kenya on assignment and has lived and photographed there since.Hockstein has covered the Hockstein's work has appeared in The New York Times The New Yorker TIME Magazine Newsweek Stern L'Express U.S. News and World Report and ESPN.
Ivan Neville.  Ivan Neville (born August 19 1959 New Orleans Louisiana United States) is an American multi-instrumentalist musician singer and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of The Neville Brothers.He has released four solo albums and had a Top 40 Billboard hit with Not Just Another Girl from his first solo album If My Ancestors Could See Me Now.
William Hjortsberg.  William Gatz Hjortsberg (born 1941 New York New York) is a novelist and screenwriter best known for writing the screenplays of the movies Legend and Angel Heart. His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the film Angel Heart (1987) (released in French-speaking Canada under the title Aux portes de l'enfer).
Martha Mier.  Martha Mier is an independent piano teacher and composer of piano pieces. She resides in Lake City Florida where she moved after graduating with honors from Florida State University. She is known for composing Seventh Street Blues jazz rags & Blues: Book 1. She also composed 'Jackson Street Blues' which is being used in the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 2007-08 syllabus as Piano Grade 5 Piece C:1.
Ruthie Foster.  Ruthie Foster is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. Foster was 48 years old in May 2012.Foster is from Gause Texas and comes from a family of gospel singers. She studied music at McLennan Community College and then worked in the US Navy where she started performing. Her debut was released in 1997 and she has performed in North America Europe and Australia.
Fulgencio Argüelles.  Fulgencio Argüelles (born January 6 1955) is a Spanish writer and psychologist.
Richie Beirach.  Richard Richie Beirach (born May 23 1947) is a jazz pianist and composer born in New York City.He initially studied both classical and jazz before entering the Berklee College of Music. After one year Beirach left Berklee and began attending the Manhattan School of Music. While there he studied with Ludmilla Ulehla. In 1972 he graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a Master's Degree in Music Theory and Composition.In 1972 he began working with Stan Getz.
Stephen Fretwell.  Stephen Fretwell (born 10 November 1981 Scunthorpe Lincolnshire) is an English singer-songwriter.
Brian Downey (drummer).  Brian Michael Downey (27 January 1951 in Dublin Ireland) is an Irish drummer best known as the drummer and a founding member of the rock band Thin Lizzy. Along with Phil Lynott Downey was the only constant member of the pioneering hard rock group until their break-up in 1983. Downey also co-wrote several Thin Lizzy songs. Allmusic critic Eduardo Rivadavia has argued that Downey is certainly one of the most underrated [rock drummers] of his generation.
Fred Stoller.  Frederick Fred Stoller (born March 19 1958) is an American stand-up comedian actor writer and voice artist. He is best known for portraying Gerard on Everybody Loves Raymond. He is also the voice of Stanley in the Open Season franchise.
Myriam Abel.  Myriam Morea also known as Myriam Abel (born Myriam Abdel Hamid 15 May 1981 in Saint-Gratien France) is a French singer of Algerian descent who rose to popularity after winning Nouvelle Star 3 the French version of Pop Idol shown by M6.In 2011 and 2012 she is a Les Anges de la télé-réalité 's contestant.
Boudewijn de Groot.  Boudewijn de Groot (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbʌu̯.də.ˌʋɛi̯n də ˈɣroːt] born 20 May 1944) is a famous Dutch singer/songwriter. He is known for the songs Welterusten Meneer de President (1966) Het Land van Maas en Waal (nl) (1967) Jimmy (1973) and Avond (nl) (1996) among others. On 19 January 2007 he issued his latest album Lage Landen (nl) (Low Countries).
Natalia Lesz.  Natalia Lesz (born 27 July 1981 in Warsaw Poland) is a Polish actress and a pop singer songwriter.
Red Nichols.  Ernest Loring Red Nichols (May 8 1905 – June 28 1965) was an American jazz cornettist composer and jazz bandleader.Over his long career Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles and critic Steve Leggett describes him as an expert cornet player a solid improviser and apparently a workaholic since he is rumored to have appeared on over 4000 recordings during the 1920s alone.
Paolo Lorenzani.  Paolo Francesco Lorenzani (5 January 1640 – 28 October 1713) was an Italian composer of the Baroque Era. While living in France he helped promote appreciation for the Italian style of music.Lorenzani was born in Rome and was trained by Orazio Benevoli maestro di cappella for the Cappella Giulia in The Vatican.He served in Rome as maestro di cappella at the Church of the Gesù and Collegio Romano the first Jesuit university which later expanded to become Pontifical Gregorian University.
Ty Dennis.  Ty Dennis (born January 19 1971) is an American drummer best known for his work with The Doors revival band Manzarek-Krieger and the Robby Krieger Band.
Desirée Goyette.  Desirée Goyette (married name Desirée Goyette-Bogas) is a singer composer lyricist and voice-over artist. She has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and has voiced such characters as Betty Boop Barbie Nermal Petunia Pig Honey Bunny and numerous others for radio television and toys. She graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and also studied at San Jose State University in the music department.
Albertino Piazza.  Alberto or Albertino Piazza (1490-1528) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Lodi Lombardy. His elder brother Martino was also a painter.
Tom Vanstiphout.  Tom Vanstiphout (born 29 April 1975) is a Belgian musician who has made two solo albums and has toured with Clouseau Jan Leyers and Milow.Vanstiphout was born in Kapellen. He started his musical career with Morbid Elly a short-lived band with his sister which only produced one six song demo tape. He then became a professional musician as a live band member for a number of Belgian artists like Jan Leyers Clouseau or Milow.
Gaetano Brunetti.  Gaetano Brunetti (1744 in Fano–December 16 1798 near Madrid) was a prolific Italian composer active in Spain under kings Charles III and IV.
Jamie Woon.  Jamie Woon (born 29 March 1983) is a British singer songwriter and producer signed to Polydor who gained widespread acclaim in 2010 for his single Night Air which was co-produced by Burial following his previous independent release Wayfaring Stranger EP.
Shinji Nagashima.  Shin'ichi Nagashima (永島 眞一 Nagashima Shin'ichi July 8 1937 – June 10 2005) better known by the pen name Shinji Nagashima (永島 慎二 Nagashima Shinji) was a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo Japan. His pseudonym came about due to a publisher's error when printing his name and he continued using the pseudonym after that.His oldest son is classical guitarist Shiki Nagashima.
Terron Brooks.  Terron Brooks is an American singer songwriter and actor. He is best known for his portrayal of R&B/pop singer Eddie Kendricks in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations.
John Chapman (English writer).  John Roy Chapman (27 May 1927 London - 3 September 2001 Périgueux) was a British writer.Born in London the nephew of the actor Edward Chapman his father was an engineer.
Paul Hicks (musician).  Paul Hicks is a three-time Grammy Award winning musician engineer and mixer who got his start working at Abbey Road Studios. Hicks has worked with notable artists including: Coldplay Elliott Smith in addition to his own band thenewno2. Paul has also been heavily involved in preserving The Beatles recordings working hand in hand with George Martin in remixing and remastering their entire catalogue. This effort has won Hicks 3 Grammy Awards. His father is The Hollies guitarist Tony Hicks.
Eddy Arnold.  Richard Edward Eddy Arnold (May 15 1918 – May 8 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records.
Tim Harwill.  Tim Harwill (born Timothy Frederick Pruden at Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Métis-Canadian outlaw country singer/songwriter based out of Thorsby Alberta Canada.
Charles Herndon.  Charles Chuck Herndon is an American artist creating sculptures in stone metal and wood as well as works in painting and photography.
Moh Youn-sook.  Moh Youn Sook (March 5 1910 - June 7 1990; Korean: 모윤숙) is the best-known Korean female poet.
Allen Barnett (writer).  Allen Barnett (May 23 1955 - August 14 1991) was an American writer. Although he published only one volume of short stories The Body and Its Dangers during his lifetime the book is widely regarded as one of the most artistically significant depictions of gay life at the height of the AIDS crisis.Born near Joliet Illinois Barnett studied theatre at Loyola University Chicago.
Melina Soochan.  Melina Soochan is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Montreal Quebec.She is a classically trained pianist with a Bachelor of Music from McGill University in Montreal and an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto.Melina's original music is a fusion of styles a blend of acoustic urban and indie pop R&B jazz soul and folk.
Abhay Sopori.  Abhay Rustum Sopori (Kashmiri: अभय सोपोरी (Devanagari) ابھے سوپوری (Nastaleeq)) (born in Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir) is a Kashmiri Indian instrumentalist composer & conductor of musical performances. He is a player of santoor an ancient stringed musical instrument native to Kashmir.
Farouq Molloy.  Farouq Molloy born Sean Molloy in 1957 in Plymouth is a British outsider artist. He initially drew on graph paper with a black biro then began working with colours. His patterned drawings incorporate Islamic and North African decorative elements reflecting his conversion to Islam in the early 1990s.
Antony Johnston.  Antony Johnston (born August 25 1972) is an award-winning British writer. He is known for the post apocalyptic comic series Wasteland his graphic novel adaptations of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider novels and his work with Alan Moore.
Hattie Harlow.  Hattie A. Harlow was a single woman who lived in Brockton and Bridgewater Massachusetts and worked as a piano teacher seamstress and magazine salesperson. Though not famous Harlow's diaries and scrapbooks are a rich historical resource for people conducting research on women working and living in the domestic sphere during the nineteenth century.
Natsume Sōseki.  Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石 February 9 1867 – December 9 1916) born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助) was a Japanese novelist of the Meiji period (1868–1912). He is best known for his novels Kokoro Botchan I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku kanshi and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004 his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.
John Shum.  John Shum Kin-Fun is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. His English name is sometimes written as John Sham.Whilst known primarily for his comedic acting roles in Hong Kong cinema he also spent time as a political activist.He is easily recognisable from his spectacles and curly hair.
JoFF Rae.  JoFF Rae is the pseudonym of a New Zealand event producer designer & artist.Concept design & event management; Creative Director & Technical Director with Urban Arts entity ARTIVIST : creative by any means necessary!; produced various projects in New Zealand & Internationally.Present roles in production & contracting; & contract Creative Director Technical Director & Promoter.Recent work has involved development of performance contract models based on the Nash Equilibrium & concept production values using 'Propaganda of the deed' ideology; production & contracting for Salmonella Dub a popular New Zealand band; & Agent Curator & Producer for renown artist Mike Weston & the Weston Frizzell collaboration with Otis Frizzell.He currently holds a Creative & Producer role in arts collective & workshop th'ink + working projects & management for the company & its subsidiaries HEAVYWEIGHT Entertainment Limited (entertainment agency) & James Cabaret Limited (concert & event venue).
Robert Burns Wilson.  Robert Burns Wilson (October 30 1850 – March 31 1916) was an American painter and poet.
Dick Clement.  Dick Clement OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer best known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Porridge Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Eckhard Supp.  Eckhard Supp DPhil (born August 23 1950 at Bad Ems Germany) is a German non-fiction author journalist photographer and wine critic.
Sihung Lung.  Sihung Lung (Chinese: 郎雄 Pinyin: Láng Xíong Wade–Giles: Lang Hsiung; c. 1930 – May 2 2002) was an actor in the cinema of Taiwan who appeared in over 100 films and was best known for playing paternal roles in films including Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet.
Steve Bencich.  Steve Bencich is an American screenwriter best known for his work with Ron J. Friedman.Bencich and Friedman have collaborated on screenplays for several animated films including Brother Bear Chicken Little and Open Season. DreamWorks has purchased their comedy screenplay Gullible's Travels about a gullible man who travels in time in a portable toilet.
D. J. Taylor.  David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich he read Modern History at St John's College Oxford and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell. His novel Derby Day was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Sibel Egemen.  Sibel Egemen (born 1958 in Ankara) is a Turkish singer.
Christy Mack.  Christy Mack (born May 9 1991) is an American model and award winning pornographic actress.
Marty Feier.  Marty Feier is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known for his musician/producer role with 1313 Mockingbird Lane and for his work backing guitar pioneer Link Wray. He also portrayed Ringo Starr while touring worldwide with The Cast of Beatlemania.
Ed Sheeran.  Edward Christopher Ed Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. Raised in Framlingham Suffolk he moved to London in 2008 to pursue a musical career. In early 2011 Sheeran released an independent extended play No. 5 Collaborations Project which caught the attention of both Elton John and Jamie Foxx. He then signed to Asylum Records. His 2011 debut album + containing the singles The A Team and Lego House was certified quintuple platinum in the United Kingdom.
Henry Fitch Taylor.  Henry Fitch Taylor (1853–1925) was an American painter who was to become the oldest among the generation of American artists who responded to and explored Cubism. Taylor served as the first president of the American Association of Artists and Painters (AAPS) the organization which mounted the 1913 Armory Show; he later stepped aside from that role in favor of Arthur B. Davies but continued to serve as trustee and secretary of AAPS.
Roni DeLuz.  Roni DeLuz RN ND a naturopathic doctor and registered nurse is the co-creator of the Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox and founder and director of Martha's Vineyard Holistic Retreat in Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts.
Simon Snow (writer).  Simon Snow is a writer who was born in England raised in Dunedin New Zealand and now lives in Geraldine New Zealand. He emigrated at the age of eight with his parents to Dunedin. His first work Devil's Apple a mystery novel was published by Random House in 2003. Plans are under way to film it.
Metin Kaçan.  Metin Kaçan (November 15 1961 – January 6 2013) was a Turkish author who is best known for his novel Ağır Roman (Cholera Street) which was translated into German (Kaçan 2003) and a movie (Ağır Roman) directed by Mustafa Altıoklar (1999) was based on it.
Ady An.  Audrey Ady An (born Wu Wen-Ching on 29 September 1980) is a Taiwanese actress.
Liu Banjiu.  Liu Banjiu (simplified Chinese: 刘半九; traditional Chinese: 劉半九; pinyin: Liú Bànjiǔ) (8 November 1922 - 29 September 2009) also known by his pen name Lǜyuán (Chinese: 绿原) was a Chinese translator and poet.
Augusta Clawson.  Augusta H. Clawson (died May 13 1997) was an American civil servant and author of Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder a diary about welding in World War II.Clawson was a graduate of Vassar. In 1943 she was assigned by the United States Office of Education to work undercover as a welder at the Swan Island shipyard in order to discover the difficulties faced by women workers and the reasons why many women welders were leaving the job shortly after completing training.
Emilie Zumsteeg.  Emilie Zumsteeg (December 9 1796 – August 1 1857) was a German choir conductor songwriter composer and pianist. She was born and died in Stuttgart. Her father was composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg. Her father died when she was six but her mother ran a music store which maintained her interest. She showed a facility at sight-reading and cultivated a circle of talented musicians. Her compositions include an overture piano-pieces and three polonaises.
Henry Van der Weyde.  Henry Van der Weyde (1838–1924) was an American-born English painter and photographer best known for his photographic portraits of the late 19th century. His is considered a photographic pioneer in the use of electric light in photography. Amongst his portraits are architect William Burges (c.1880) Alexandra Princess of WalesA. E. Housman actresses Mary Anderson (1887) and Dorothy Dene (1880s) Sir Edwin Arnold bodybuilder Eugen Sandow (1889) and explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1897).
Susan Holloway Scott.  Susan Holloway Scott is an American author of historical fiction who also writes historical romance novels under the pen name Miranda Jarrett.
Dallas Cairns.  Dallas Cairns was a British actor of the silent era.
Austin Carlile.  Austin Robert Carlile (born September 27 1987) is an American musician from Pensacola Florida. He was previously the lead vocalist for the band Attack Attack! and is currently the lead vocalist for Of Mice & Men.
Camilla Läckberg.  Jean Edith Camilla Läckberg Eriksson (August 30 1974) is a Swedish crime writer. Her work has been translated into 33 languages.
Geoff Edgers.  Geoff Edgers (born 1970) is an American journalist and writer whose work includes reporting for the Boston Globe and producing and starring in the 2010 music documentary Do It Again. His articles have appeared in magazines such as GQ and Wired and he has worked as a reporter for several newspapers including the Boston Phoenix Raleigh News and Observer and the Boston Globe. Edgers has also published two children's books on Elvis and The Beatles and contributed to WBUR Boston.
Zack Eisaku Niizato.  Zack Eisaku Niizato is a Japanese actor. Born in Okinoerabujima Japan.
Mark O'Halloran.  Mark O'Halloran is an Irish scriptwriter and actor. He is a native of Ennis County Clare. He has written award-winning screenplays for the films Adam & Paul (in which he co-starred) and Garage and the RTE mini-series Prosperity.
Rich Homie Quan.  Dequantes Lamar (born October 4 1989) better known by his stage name Rich Homie Quan is a rapper from Atlanta Georgia signed to T.I.G Entertainment.
Spekti.  Samuli Huhtala professionally known as Spekti and previously as Aspekti and Uncle Damn is a Finnish rapper.
Freek de Jonge.  Frederik Freek Jan Georg de Jonge (born 30 August 1944) is a Dutch cabaret performer singer comedian and blogger.
Mandaryna.  Marta Katarzyna Wiktoria Wiśniewska professionally known as Mandaryna born as Marta Mandrykiewicz in Łódź on 12 March 1978 is a Polish singer dancer and actress.
Romolo Panfi.  Romolo Panfi (Florence 1632 - Carmignano 1690) was an Italian painter active in Tuscany. He was active mainly as a battle painter and landscapes.
Derri Daugherty.  Derri Daugherty (born October 13 1958) is an American record producer songwriter guitarist and singer best known as the lead singer and guitarist for band The Choir.Daugherty is also one of the founding members of the Roots music supergroup Lost Dogs with Terry Scott Taylor Michael Roe and Gene Eugene.Daugherty began his musical career as an engineer and roadie for the band Daniel Amos.
Keisha Jackson.  Keisha Jackson (born born August 17 1965 in Brooklyn New York) is a R&B singer and is the daughter of R&B & Soul singer Millie Jackson. Having grown up in a family rich with music history Keisha’s childhood was immersed in music. People like The Isley Brothers and The O’Jays would visit her house and she worked as a background singer for her mom when she was fifteen.
Ted Chiang.  Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠).Chiang's short fiction works have (as of 2013) won 4 Nebula awards 3 Hugo awards the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer 3 Locus awards and others. Critic John Clute has praised Chiang's tight-hewn and lucid style and says Chiang's stories have a magnetic effect on the reader.
Theodora Mead Abel.  Theodora Mead Abel was an American clinical psychologist and educator who used innovative ideas by combining sociology and psychology.
Giuseppe Agnelli.  Giuseppe Agnelli (1621 in Naples – 17 October 1706 in Rome) was a Roman Catholic author chiefly known for his catechetical and devotional works. He entered the Society of Jesus in Rome in 1637. He was professor of moral theology and rector of the colleges of Montepulciano Macerata and Ancona and also Consultor of the Inquisition of the March of Ancona. He passed the last thirty-three years of his life in the professed house at Rome where he died. He wrote: Il Catechismo annuale.
Jeanette Schmid.  Jeanette Schmid (6 November 1924 – 9 March 2005) was a professional transsexual whistler. Born Rudolf Schmid in Volary Sudetenland (in what is now the Czech Republic) Schmid began to dress in feminine clothing at a young age and loved singing and dancing.
Richard Smith (English guitarist).  Richard Smith (born 12 December 1971) is an English guitarist now residing in the USA and specializing in the fingerstyle tradition of Merle Travis Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. He is the 2001 National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion.
Moses Lim.  Moses Lim (born 1950) is a Singaporean actor comedian entertainer and food connoisseur known for playing Tan Ah Teck in the Singaporean sitcom Under One Roof.
Tony De La Rosa.  Tony De La Rosa is a noted bass player and guitarist who gained fame in the 1980s as a member of the rock band Renegade.As one of the members of the multi-million selling rocker quartet Renegade Tony De La Rosa's solid and prolific bass playing and songwriting skills helped propel the band into Latin rock history. Within the Latin community Renegade and its members have been referred to as Chicano Rock Gods.
Ray Kay.  Ray Kay (born Reinert K. Olsen; 10 July 1978) is a Norwegian director and photographer who is currently based in Los Angeles.
Joe Rogan.  Joseph James Joe Rogan (born August 11 1967) is an American stand-up comedian actor writer color commentator entrepreneur and trained martial artist. He is best known for playing Joe Garrelli on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio commentating for the Ultimate Fighting Championship as well as hosting the NBC reality show Fear Factor and The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. His new show Joe Rogan Questions Everything premiered on Syfy in July 2013.
Agostino Lanfranchi.  Agostino Lanfranchi (June 24 1892 – February 15 1963) was an Italian bobsledder and skeleton racer who competed from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. Competing in two Winter Olympics he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at St.
Thelma Van Rensburg.  Thelma van Rensburg is a South African fine artist who was born in 1969. She is based in Pretoria and focuses her work on photo manipulation but she pencil and paint. Thelma explores female sexuality and how women are represented in the mass media beauty or ugliness issues of otherness and the Gaze.
Merry Clayton.  Merry Clayton (born December 25 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer (both solo and back-up) and an actress. She has provided a number of back-up vocal tracks to songs recorded by major performing artists during the 1960s most notably with her duet with Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter. Merry is featured in 20 Feet from Stardom the Oscar-winning documentary about background singers and their contributions to the music industry.
Steven Wilson.  Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician and producer best known as the founder lead guitarist singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.
Edoardo Mascheroni.  Edoardo Mascheroni (born Milan September 4 1852 - died Valganna March 4 1941) was an Italian composer and conductor. He is remembered for conducting the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff; he also composed two operas of his own to libretti by Luigi Illica. His brother Angelo was also a composer.
Yuri Antonov (musician).  Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Антонов) (born February 19 1945 in Tashkent Uzbek SSR Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian composer singer and musician People's Artist of Russia (1997). He is also the Distinguished performer of arts of the Russian Federation (Russia) and the Distinguished artist of the Chechnya-Ingushetia ASSR (1983).
Caelius Rhodiginus.  Caelius Rhodiginus (born Lodovico Ricchieri; 1469 Rovigo–1525 Rovigo) was a Venetian writer and professor in Greek and Latin.His original name was Ludovico or Lodovico Celio Ricchieri. He took the name Rhodiginus from his birthplace Rovigo. He studied at Ferrara and Padua. He was a professor in Greek and Latin at Rovigo from 1491-9 and again from 1503-4. He was sacked by the council of Rovigo on 26 May 1504 because of his high-handedness in dealing with the city.
Kabir Chowdhury.  Kabir Chowdhury (Bengali: কবীর চৌধুরী; February 9 1923 – December 13 2011) was a well-known academic essayist materialist translator cultural worker civil society activist and a pioneer in the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh.
Gabrielle Ferrari.  Gabrielle Ferrari (14 September 1851 – 4 July 1921) was French-Italian pianist and composer noted for opera. She was born and died in Paris and studied with Charles Gounod and Théodore Dubois. Her opera Le Cobzar premiered in Monte Carlo.
Rahim Bakhsh.  Rahim Bakhsh (Persian:رحيم بخش) commonly known as Ustad Rahim Bakhsh (Persian: استاد رحيم بخش) was an ustad (maestro) of Hindustani classical music and also of native Persian Khurasa classical music culture from Afghanistan. He is also well renown and popular in a few neighboring countries. He was born in Kharabat into a well-known Tajik (Persian) family a traditional part city of art in Kabul and was the creator of a new classical music in Afghanistan.
Tom Gish.  Tom Gish (January 28 1926 – November 21 2008) was an American newspaper reporter and editor best known for his work as the owner and editor of The Mountain Eagle weekly newspaper in Whitesburg the county seat of Letcher County Kentucky where his paper was the first in the eastern part of the state to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining.
Charles Blackstone.  Charles Blackstone (born March 21 1977) is an American writer and managing editor of literary website Bookslut. His most recent novel is the semi-autobiographical Vintage Attraction (2013).
Michael Black (literary critic).  Michael H. Black is a British author and held the position of University Publisher at Cambridge University Press.
Danny (Finnish singer).  Ilkka Johannes Lipsanen (born September 24 1942 Pori) commonly known by his stage-name Danny is a Finnish singer and guitarist. He started his career with the band Islanders who released a couple of singles among them Danny's first recording which was in English: East Virginia by Joan Baez in 1964. During his national service Danny switched to his native Finnish and recorded two hits Kauan (Downtown by Petula Clark) and Piilopaikka (You've Got Your Troubles).
Kenyon Hopkins.  Kenyon Hopkins (January 15 1912 – April 7 1983) was an American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom. Although he has been neglected in recent years he was once called one of jazz's great composers and arrangers.Hopkins also composed various works including Symphony Number 1 and Number 2 chamber music and the jazz ballet Rooms for Anna Sokolow.He recorded several albums for ABC Paramount Records Cadence Records Capitol Records and Verve Records during the 1960s.
Olav Dale.  Olav Dale (born 30 October 1958 in Voss Western Norway) is a Norwegian composer orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist. In addition to saxophones he plays other woodwinds. He got little formal education in music but completed studies at the Voss Folk High School and the Toneheim Folk High School (1976–78).
Sony Lab'ou Tansi.  Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 - 14 June 1995) born Marcel Ntsoni was a Congolese novelist short-story writer playwright and poet. Though he was only 47 when he died Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the New African Writing. His novel The Antipeople won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. In his later years he ran a theatrical company in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.
David Ari Leon.  David Ari Leon (born December 12 1967) is an American composer musician and music supervisor. He is best known for writing and supervising music for Marvel Entertainment on titles including Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk. He is a songwriter on the themes to the Marvel series Avengers and Super Hero Squad and he composed the main title music to the shows Xyber 9 and Mr. Bill Presents.
Minna Grey.  Minna Grey was a British actress of the silent era.
Luis Álvarez de Lugo.  Luis Guillermo Álvarez de Lugo Santana (Born April 23 1923) is a Venezuelan painter and sculptor. He is considered one of the most important artists of Venezuela.
Paul Daniel Longolius.  Paul Daniel Longolius (November 1 1704 – February 24 1779) was the main editor of volumes 3 through 18 of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon (an early encyclopedia) from 1733 to 1739 replacing Jacob August Franckenstein who had edited the first two volumes. His successor was Carl Günther Ludovici.He was born in Dresden and died in Hof.
Johnny Strong.  Johnny Strong is an American actor musician and martial artist. He is best known for his roles in Black Hawk Down (as Medal of Honor recipient Randy Shughart) and The Fast and the Furious as Leon. Aside from acting Strong is also the founder of the band Operator.
Airto Moreira.  Airto Moreira (born August 5 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Noe Venable.  Noe Venable (born April 20 1976 in San Francisco California) is an experimental folk/pop singer-songwriter. She has earned a loyal fan base in her native San Francisco in part through frequently performing in small intimate venues. Her advocacy of small venues caused a stir in the San Francisco music community when she took San Francisco Chronicle reporter Joel Selvin to task for claiming that the city's music scene was dead.
Clay Hammond.  Clay Hammond (21 June 1936 – 4 February 2011) was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter. As well as recording in his own right he is most notable for writing Part Time Love a no.1 R&B chart hit in 1963 for Little Johnny Taylor.
Jon Hynes.  Jon Hynes is an American classical concert pianist.
Ivan Bunin.  Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn] ; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry.
Martin van Drunen.  Martin van Drunen (Born 1966 Uden) is a Dutch death metal vocalist who started out in the band Pestilence. In this band he also performed the bass duties live. He recorded two albums with them Malleus Maleficarum and Consuming Impulse. After his departure from Pestilence he joined Asphyx as the singer and bass player in 1987. For this band he recorded two albums as well.
Ambrose McCarthy Patterson.  Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (29 June 1877 – 26 December 1967) was a painter and printmaker.
Ryouta Murai.  Ryouta Murai (村井 良大 Murai Ryōta) is a Japanese actor best known for his roles as Kojirō (小次郎 Kojirō) in Fūma no Kojirō Kazuya Suzuki (鈴木 一哉 Suzuki Kazuya) in Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka Takuya Yano (矢野 拓也 Yano Takuya) in Osananajimi (幼なじみ) and Yusuke Onodera (小野寺 ユウスケ Onodera Yūsuke) in Kamen Rider Decade.
Dương Thu Hương.  Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Formerly a member of Vietnam's Communist party she was expelled from the party in 1989 and has been denied the right to travel abroad and was temporarily imprisoned for her writings and outspoken criticism of corruption in the Vietnamese government.
Joey Levine.  Joey Levine (born May 29 1947 New York City United States) is an American singer songwriter and record producer of pop music who has been active since 1966.
Ford Madox Brown.  Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably his most notable painting was Work (1852–1865). Brown spent the latter years of his life painting The Manchester Murals for Manchester Town Hall which depicted Mancunian history.
Lionelle Howard.  Lionelle Howard was a British actor of the silent era who was born in Cirencester Gloucestershire.
Damares.  Damares stage name of Damares Alvez Bezerra de Oliveira (January 30 1980 Umuarama) is a Brazilian singer of gospel music Pentecostal. Talent was awarded trophies in the categories of Album of the Year Song of the Year among others and Promises in the categories of Best Video Best Singer among others and still has two diamond disks.
Emily Smith (singer).  Emily Smith (born 1981) is a Scottish folk singer from Dumfries and Galloway. She went to school at Wallace Hall Academy and has a degree in Scottish music from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She is married to New Zealand-born fiddle player Jamie McClennan.
Hayward Williams.  Hayward Williams is an American singer-songwriter from Milwaukee Wisconsin United States.In 2001 Williams quit school to join the award-winning Milwaukee based band 'Exit' named Wisconsin Band of the Year in 2004 by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry. Lending bass guitar and vocals to the bands’ hook-driven pop catalogue Williams traveled the Midwest circuit and around the country with Exit.
Marcus Chin.  Chi On Kang or better known as Marcus Chin (Chinese: 陈建彬; pinyin: Chén Jiànbīn born 1954) is a Singaporean actor and singer.
Bushman (reggae singer).  Bushman (born Dwight Duncan 1973) is a Jamaican reggae singer. He was raised in the Rastafari culture from a young age.
Erika Mabuchi.  Erika Mabuchi (馬渕 英俚可 Mabuchi Erika born 7 March 1979 in Kagawa Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress.
Wayne Karlin.  Wayne Karlin (born June 13 1945 in Los Angeles California) is an American author editor and teacher. His books include Wandering Souls Marble Mountain War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam The Wished-For Country Prisoners Rumors and Stones Crossover Lost Armies The Extras and Us.Karlin attended White Plains High School in New York and then served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1963 to 1967 when he was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant.
Robert Leighton (cartoonist).  Robert Leighton is an American writer and artist cartoonist puzzle writer illustrator and humorist. He lives and works in New York City. His cartoons have appeared regularly in The New Yorker and other periodicals. In 1996 with Mike Shenk and Amy Goldstein Leighton co-founded Puzzability a puzzle-writing company.
Kathy Foster (musician).  Kathleen Kathy Foster is an American musician best known as the bassist for the punk band The Thermals and drummer for the All Girl Summer Fun Band.Foster was raised in Sunnyvale California and moved to Portland Oregon in 1998. With Thermals bandmate Hutch Harris she was in Haelah Hutch and Kathy and Urban Legends. She also performs under the name Butterfly Transformation Service. She is the owner of the t-shirt company Daydream Factory.
Trevor Lissauer.  Trevor Lissauer (born October 29 1973) is an American actor and musician born in Dallas Texas. He is best known for his role as Miles Goodman in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Gavin Ward (musician).  Gavin Ward is one of the two founding members of Bolt Thrower. He started out as the bass player early on in the band in 1986 and so can be heard on the first demo. For the second demo he switched to playing lead and rhythm guitar. He plays lead and rhythm guitar on all albums save Mercenary and Honour - Valour - Pride; there he plays solely rhythm guitar[citation needed].
Narayana Teertha.  Sri Narayana Teertha (Telugu: నారాయణ తీర్థులు) (c. 1650 – 1745 CE) was a composer of Carnatic music.
Michael Colina.  Michael Dalmau Colina (born November 16 1948) is a GRAMMY-winning American musician composer producer and engineer. He has written music for television film theatre dance and live performances on concert stages throughout the United States Europe and Japan. Colina is best known as producer and writer on recordings for musicians Bob James David Sanborn Michael Brecker Marcus Miller Bill Evans and Michael Franks.
Cesare Andrea Bixio.  Cesare Andrea Bixio (11 October 1896 – 5 March 1978) was an Italian composer.He was one of the most popular Italian songwriters of the 1930s '40s and '50s.Bixio was born in Naples Italy. His hits included Vivere Mamma Parlami d'amore Mariù La mia canzone del vento and many others.
Marco Ngai.  Marco Ngai Chun Kit (Traditional Chinese: 魏駿傑) is a successful actor in Hong Kong and has been in many TV series such as Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain 1997(or 98) (he plays Chan ga lok and Fok hung on(twins)) To Catch the Uncatchable (2004) (he plays Romeo Lo Mat Au) and one of the favourites Armed Reaction 1234 (he plays Chan Sam Yuen's husband).He is married to Zhang Lihua who is from mainland China. He and TVB actress Joyce Tang broke up in 2007 ending their 9-year relationship.
Aakanksha Jachak.  Aakanksha Jachak (born 7 November 1990) is a vocalist from Indore India.
Naive John.  Naive John (born Ian Wylie 18 October 1962) is a British artist and figurative painter. His work shows attention to detail with subjects that combine elements from popular culture alongside the mythic and mundane. He has also in the past been involved in the Stuckism art movement.
Brian Dewan.  Brian Dewan is a multi-media artist who produces music audio-visual performances decorative painting furniture poetry filmstrips illustrations and musical instruments. He has released three albums of songs and performed extensively in clubs and concert halls as a solo artist and as a member of various ensembles. He lives in Catskill New York. Brian is the brother of artist Ted Dewan and the cousin of musical instrument builder/musician Leon Dewan.
Pier Lorenzo Spoleti.  Pier Lorenzo Spoleti (1680–1726) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. Born and died in Finale Ligure in Italy. Spoleti's parents died when he was young and he went to live with an aunt who seeing his inclination to paintings sent him to apprentice with Domenico Piola at the age of 15 years.
Alan Edward Mulgan.  Alan Edward Mulgan (18 May 1881–29 August 1962) was a notable New Zealand journalist writer and broadcaster. He was born in Katikati Bay of Plenty New Zealand on 18 May 1881 and died in Lower Hutt. His father was Edward Ker Mulgan. Alan's elder son John Mulgan was also a writer and journalist.
Carmen Dragon.  Carmen Dragon (July 28 1914 – March 28 1984) was an American conductor composer and arranger who in addition to live performances and recording worked in radio film and television.
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez.  Pedro Juan Gutiérrez born 27 January 1950 in Matanzas Cuba is a Cuban novelist.
Wilson Harris.  Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (born 24 March 1921) is a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English.
Trevor Dwyer-Lynch.  Trevor Dwyer-Lynch is an actor presenter and compère. Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990 Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions merging both serious roles—such as Gloucester in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).
Jeff Davidson (speaker).  Jeff Davidson is an American author public speaker and business management consultant. He is the founder of The Breathing Space Institute (1995) now based in Raleigh North Carolina. He has written 65 books focusing on business and personal management.
Crawford Kilian.  Crawford Kilian (born February 7 1941) is a Canadian novelist and a college professor. He is also the former public education columnist for the Vancouver Province newspaper. Kilian holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and master's degree from Simon Fraser University.
Elio Martusciello.  Elio Martusciello (born 23 November 1959 Naples Italy) is an Italian experimental music composer and performer principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self-taught musician/composer and teaches electronic music at Conservatory of Music Cagliari Italy.
Toshio Okada.  Toshio Okada (岡田 斗司夫 Okada Toshio born July 1 1958) is an anime producer author and lecturer. He is a co-founder and former president of the production company Gainax.
Yu Hasebe.  Yu Hasebe (長谷部 優 Hasebe Yū born 17 January 1986) is a Japanese actress and model. She was one of the original three members of the J-Pop group Dream (renamed DRM in 2007). She debuted as a gravure idol in 2004. She has also starred in a number of Japanese movies and TV dramas. She was formerly a member of a unit called Kingyo with Nao Nagasawa and Aiko Kayō.
José Albi.  José Albi Fita (1922 – 7 June 2010) was a Spanish poet literary critic and translator. He was the honorary president of the Asociación Valenciana de Escritores y Críticos Literarios (CLAVE - Critics of Literary Writers Association Valencia). Albi was the last of the post-Spanish Civil War poets.
Adam Rapp.  Adam Rapp (born June 15 1968) is an American novelist playwright screenwriter musician and film director. His play Red Light Winter was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006.
Claudio Martínez Mehner.  Claudio Martínez Mehner (born in Bremen 1970) is a Spanish piano soloist and pedagogue.
David Wayne (musician).  David Wayne (January 1 1958 – May 10 2005) was an American singer for the heavy metal bands Metal Church Reverend and Wayne.
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger.  Carl Gottlieb Reißiger (also Karl Reissiger Carl Reissiger Karl Reißiger) (31 January 1798 Belzig – 7 November 1859 Dresden) was a German Kapellmeister and composer.
Kemal Gekić.  Kemal Gekić (born in 1962 in Split Croatia then Yugoslavia) is a Croatian-born classical pianist and Professor of Piano at Florida International University.
Comte de Lautréamont.  Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870) a French poet born in Uruguay.His only works Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies had a major influence on modern literature particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. He died at the age of 24.
Etienne Steyn.  Etienne Steyn is a South African singer and songwriter who mostly sings in Afrikaans. He spent a large amount of his life growing up in George in the Western Cape province of South Africa. In 2005 Steyn recorded his debut album Storie van my Hart.
Catherine Bertola.  Catherine Bertola is an English artist. She has exhibited many collections around the UK both private and public. Her work has also been included in an exhibition shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum named Out of the Ordinary between November 2007 and February 2008. She is particularly well known for her works consisting of dust and PVA glue.
Andrew Freeth.  Hubert Andrew Freeth (29 December 1912 - 26 March 1986) was a British portrait painter and etcher.Freeth was a friend of fellow artist Raymond Teague Cowern. Both were born in Birmingham.His work is held in a number of public collections including Birmingham Museums Trust National Football Museum Royal Academy of Arts and a number of university collections.
David Cloyd.  David Cloyd (born 1974) is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist producer and music engineer. After playing for a decade in Brooklyn New York in the indie rock scene he was signed to ECR Music Group in 2008. He released his debut album as a singer-songwriter with Unhand Me You Fiend! in 2009.
Arthur Carman.  Arthur Herbert Carman (2 August 1902–28 November 1982) was a New Zealand sports journalist and writer bookseller publisher pacifist local politician and local historian.He was born and died in Wellington New Zealand. He was born in Paparangi Johnsonville and lived in Tawa (originally called Tawa Flat). He was a bookseller and publisher (as Wright and Carman); his Lambton Quay bookshop was a landmark for thirty years.
Cy Walter.  Cy Walter (September 16 1915 - August 18 1968) was an American café society pianist based in New York City for four decades. Dubbed the Art Tatum of Park Avenue he was praised for his extensive repertoire (with an emphasis on show tunes) and improvisatory skill. His long radio and recording career included both solo and duo performances and stints as accompanist for such elegant vocal stylists as Greta Keller Mabel Mercer and Lee Wiley.
Giuseppe Porsile.  Giuseppe Porsile (also Persile Porcile Porsille; Naples 5 May 1680 - Vienna 29 May 1750) was a Neapolitan composer and singing teacher.Giuseppe was son of one Carlo Porsile composer of an opera Nerone (Naples 1686) As a young man Giuseppe was well received for his sacred music at the Spanish Chapel in Naples and in 1695 invited to the principal capilla real in Barcelona.
John W. Peterson.  John Willard Peterson (November 1 1921 – September 20 2006) was a songwriter who had a major influence on evangelical Christian music in the 1950s through the 1970s. He wrote over 1000 songs and 35 cantatas.Born in Lindsborg Kansas he served as an Army Air Force pilot flying the China Hump during World War II. Later he attended Moody Bible Institute and served on the radio staff there for a number of years.
Martín Espada.  Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Latino poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.
Mario Maskareli.  Mario Maskareli (Montenegrin: Mario Maskareli; Serbian Cyrillic: Марио Маскарели) (Cetinje 20 October 1918 – Risan 26 August 1996) a Yugoslav painter graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade Department of Painting in 1951 with Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović. In 1951 he attended a specialized course in graphic art with Professor Boško Karanović.
Julián Rejala.  Julián Rejala was born in a small town of Aregua in the Central Department of Paraguay called “Kokué Guazú” on February 16 1907.He studied guitar with Enriqueta González and interested in theatre he work in Julio Correa’s Company the great creator of Guaraní Theatre.
Yuto Nakano.  Yuto Nakano (中野裕斗 Nakano Yuto born June 4 1967) is a Japanese voice actor from Chiba Japan. He is part of Riki Project a Japanese talent office run by Riki Takeuchi. He debuted in Ojarumaru a Japanese manga series adapted for television in 2004.Yuto is most famous for his role as Ginko in the anime television series Mushi-Shi.
Pj Perez.  Pj Perez (born August 4 1976) is an American editor writer and musician best known for his reports and commentary on Las Vegas culture in such publications as Rolling Stone. Perez was the founding managing editor of Las Vegas-based Racket Magazine.
Kenneth Radnofsky.  Kenneth A. Radnofsky (born July 31 1953 Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania) is an American classical saxophonist. He is currently teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music the Boston Conservatory the Longy School of Music and Boston University. He specializes in the alto saxophone but plays the soprano and other sizes as well.Radnofsky studied with Joseph Allard Jeffrey Lerner David Salge Terry Anderson and Duncan Hale.
Thomas Dolby.  Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson; 14 October 1958) is an English musician and producer best known for his 1982 hit She Blinded Me with Science and 1984 single Hyperactive! he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician as a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and as the Music Director for the TED Conference. He is currently a Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.
Vauro Senesi.  Vauro Senesi (born 24 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and satirical cartoonist.Vauro was born in Pistoia. He was Pino Zac's apprentice and together with Giancarlo Fusco Cinzia Leone and others in September 1978 they founded Il Male a satirical weekly newspaper.
Ted Åström.  Ted Åström (born 28 May 1945) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 20 films and television shows since 1970.
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill.  Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (Irish pronunciation: [mʲiːçaːɫ oː dˠɔwnˠɨlʲ]; 7 October 1951 – 7 July 2006) was an Irish singer guitarist and composer who was a major influence on Irish traditional music in the second half of the twentieth century. He became famous for his work with Skara Brae The Bothy Band Relativity Nightnoise and a successful collaboration with fiddler Kevin Burke.
Chris Burnett.  Chris Burnett (born Christopher LeRoy Burnett on November 2 1955) is an American saxophone player composer veteran of US military jazz bands and band leader. Born in Olathe Kansas Burnett's family moved relatively frequently during his early childhood due to his father being a member of the active US military service. His sibling family lived at places such as: France Michigan and Colorado prior to settling permanently back home in the Kansas City metro area.
Charles de Saint-Évremond.  Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis seigneur de Saint-Évremond (1 April 1613 – 29 September 1703) was a French soldier hedonist essayist and literary critic. After 1661 he lived in exile mainly in England as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is buried in Poets' Corner Westminster. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his work to be published although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime.
James Hadley Chase.  James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond he was well-known by his various pseudonyms including James Hadley Chase James L. Docherty Raymond Marshall R. Raymond and Ambrose Grant. He is one of the best known thriller writers of all time. The canon of Chase comprising 90 titles has earned for him a reputation as the king of thriller writers in Europe.
Louis N. Parker.  Louis Napoleon Parker (21 October 1852 – 21 September 1944) was an English dramatist composer and translator. Parker wrote many plays developing a reputation for historical works.
Dylan Scott Pierce.  Dylan Scott Pierce (born ca. 1986) is an American painter. In 1998 at the age of twelve Dylan developed an interest in watercolor and displayed a natural talent for this medium. In 2007 with the same intensity he began working with oils and displayed the same talent and competence with this medium as well. His preferred subject matter is wildlife and portraits.
Anders Ljungqvist.  Anders Ljungqvist (May 10 1815 – December 24 1896) also known as Gås-Anders (Anders of the geese) was a Swedish fiddler from Björklinge in Uppland. Gås-Anders got his derogatory nickname as a child when he had to work as a goose herder at a mansion house in Gamla Uppsala.
Tome Serafimovski.  Tome Serafimovski is a Macedonian sculptor author of more than 500 sculptures of durable materials - wood bronze and marble - 100 miniatures as well as 40-odd notable monuments across the country and around the world. He has been a member of MASA since 1988. During his half a century long career he has held several solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad and has won a number of awards and accolades.
Shelley Sweeney.  Shelley Sweeney is a Canadian actress model and narrator based in Tokyo Japan.
Wen Jieruo.  Wen Jieruo (simplified Chinese: 文洁若; traditional Chinese: 文潔若; pinyin: Wén Jiéruò; born 1927) is a Chinese translator author and editor. She translated literature from English and Japanese to Chinese. Wen is a member of China Writers Association and Chinese Translation Association.
Elizabeth Nourse.  Elizabeth Nourse (b. (1859-10-26)October 26 1859 – October 8 1938(1938-10-08) (aged 78)) was a realist-style genre portrait and landscape painter born in Mt. Healthy Ohio in the Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture.
Scott Reeder (bassist).  Scott Reeder (born May 16 1965) is best known as the former bass player of stoner rock bands Kyuss and The Obsessed as well as the current bass player for Sun and Sail Club.
Glen Burtnik.  Glen Burtnik (born April 8 1955) is a singer songwriter entertainer and multi-instrumentalist best known as a former member of Styx. Burtnik has lived in North Brunswick New Jersey since his birth. Burtnik has written hit songs for Randy Travis Patty Smyth and Don Henley. The spelling of his name has changed a few times over the years (born Glenn Burtnick then changed to Glen Burtnick and finally Glen Burtnik spelled with one N no C).
Saburo Kamei.  Saburo Kamei (亀井 三郎 Kamei Saburō April 3 1938 – September 9 2013) was a Japanese voice actor who worked for 81 Produce.
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu.  Nguyễn Đình Chiểu (阮廷沼; July 1 1822 – July 3 1888) was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina the European name for the southern part of Vietnam.He was the best known opponent of collaboration in the south of Vietnam and was regarded as the poet laureate of the southerners who continued to defy the Treaty of Saigon which ceded southern Vietnam to France disobeying the royal orders of Emperor Tự Đức to continue harassing the French forces. 
Vanessa White.  Vanessa Karen White (born 30 October 1989) is an English singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2008 as the lead singer of English-Irish girl group The Saturdays signed to Fascination and Polydor Records. The group have achieved substantial success with numerous top-ten hits as well as a number one single. She is the youngest member of the group.
Jeremy Ylvisaker.  Jeremy Ylvisaker is a multi-instrumentalist from Minneapolis Minnesota. He is a member of the indie rock bands Alpha Consumer and The Cloak Ox.
Paul Kane.  Paul Kane (September 3 1810 – February 20 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country.A largely self-educated artist Kane grew up in Toronto (then known as York) and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the wild Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848.
Coldmirror.  Kathrin Fricke (born 13 October 1984) better known by her pseudonym Coldmirror or her nickname Kaddi is a German video and Internet performer. The pseudonym was inspired by the song Creatures That Kissed in Cold Mirrors by the band Cradle of Filth. She operates one of the most popular German YouTube channels moderates radio and television programmes and publishes blog and vlog entries.
Mike Marsh (musician).  Mike Marsh (born August 13 1974 in Miami Florida) is the drummer for The Avett Brothers and formerly of Dashboard Confessional. Mike was featured on all Dashboard Confessional's albums from The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most to Alter the Ending. He also played with them for MTV Unplugged.
Marc Laurick.  Marc Laurick (born August 20 1963 in Trenton New Jersey) is a Seattle-based bass player songwriter singer and producer.
Hisayoshi Suganuma.  Hisayoshi Suganuma (菅沼 久義 Suganuma Hisayoshi born September 30 1978 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor and member of Aoni Production. Suganuma wanted to be a voice actor when he watched Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. He was also part of the voice actor unit G.I.Zoku with Taniyama Kisho and Tasaka Hideki.
Justin Hayward.  Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician best known as singer songwriter and guitarist in the rock band The Moody Blues.Hayward was born in Dean Street Swindon Wiltshire England and educated at Shrivenham School Berkshire and The Commonweal School in Swindon.
Casnodyn.  Casnodyn (fl. first half of the 14th century) was a Welsh language poet born in Gilfai near present-day Swansea south-west Wales.
Luther Ingram.  Luther Ingram (November 30 1937 – March 19 2007) was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter. His most successful record (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right reached no. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and no. 3 on the Hot 100 in 1972.
Greg Arnold.  Gregory Charles Greg Arnold is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist producer and lecturer. Arnold won the APRA Songwriter of the Year award in 1993 and performed regularly with his folk rock band Things of Stone and Wood.For the group he wrote Happy Birthday Helen (released December 1992) about his then-girlfriend Helen Durham; the couple later married. The single reached No. 9 on the ARIA Singles Chart and the group won 'Best New Talent' at the ARIA Music Awards of 1993.
Miljenko Matijevic.  Miljenko Matijevic (Croatian: Miljenko Matijević) (pronounced [mǐʎɛnkɔ matǐːjɛʋitɕ]) also known as Michael Matijevic or Mili Matijevic (born 30 November 1964) is a Croatian American rock singer best known as the frontman of the hair metal band Steelheart. He became world renowned for his vocal range in the 1990s and is often cited as a strong influence of many singers.
Kunio Ogawa.  Kunio Ogawa (小川 国夫 Ogawa Kunio December 21 1927 – April 8 2008) was a Japanese novelist born in Shizuoka Prefecture. He was a graduate of the Japanese literature department at Tokyo University. In 1957 Ogawa wrote a book titled Aporon no shima (Isles of Apollo) after taking a trip to the Mediterranean. It was praised by the novelist Toshio Shimao launching Ogawa's career as a writer.
Nakamura Utaemon II.  Nakamura Utaemon II (中村歌右衛門 (2代目) 1752–1798) was a Japanese kabuki performer in the lineage of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region.Nakamura Utaemon is a stage name.In 1782 Utaemon I presented this name to a favored apprentice who was formerly known as Mizuki Tōzō or Nakamura Tōzō. Tōzō had already appeared in many kabuki plays including the role of Kamura in the 1781 production of Hinin no Kataakiuchi.
Jilly Cooper.  Jilly Cooper OBE (born 21 February 1937) is an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.
Mike d'Abo.  Michael David Mike d'Abo (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the former lead vocalist of Manfred Mann and as the composer of the popular song Handbags and Gladrags.
Greg Fidelman.  Greg Fidelman (born September 4 1965) is an American music engineer producer and mix engineer. He has worked with many renowned and highly regarded bands in various genres many in the heavier rock or metal genres including Metallica Slayer Black Sabbath Red Hot Chili Peppers Bush Audioslave Marilyn Manson Slipknot and System of a Down but has also worked on albums by U2 Johnny Cash Neil Diamond and others.
Gary Louris.  Gary Louris (born March 10 1955 in Toledo Ohio) is a guitarist singer and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from folk-country toward a more progressive poppier sound.
Nanci Griffith.  Nanci Caroline Griffith (born July 6 1953) is an American singer guitarist and songwriter reared in Austin Texas who currently lives in Nashville.
Alyson Spiro.  Alyson Spiro is a British actress who played Sarah Sugden on the British television soap opera Emmerdale from 1994–2000. She also appeared in the programs Brookside Casualty The Bill Doctors Holby City Sapphire and Steel and Fell Tiger.Spiro portrayed Astrid Kirchherr in the 1979 film Birth of the Beatles and appeared in the 1985 film She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas.
Sebastian Krys.  Sebastian Krys is an Argentine born and Miami raised record producer and mixer. A four-time Grammy and eight-time Latin Grammy winner Krys has worked with many Spanish language pop and rock artists such as Sandy e Junior Gloria Estefan Carlos Vives Shakira Alejandro Sanz Luis Fonsi Vega Kinky Los Rabanes Obie Bermúdez Ricky Martin Marc Anthony Lori Meyers Fangoria La Santa Cecilia and Will Smith.
Mym Tuma.  Born in Berwyn Illinois Mym Tuma aka Marilynn Thuma studied at Northwestern University in Evanston; at Stanford University in California and at New York University. After graduation she experimented with three-dimensional works in her studio that she set up in Lake Chapala Mexico.An exhibit of her work hung in Edens Gallery Nov.
Giuseppe Avitrano.  Giuseppe Antonio Avitrano (Naples c. 1670 - Naples 19 March 1756) was an Italian composer and violinist.Avitrano came from a family of musicians. From about 1690 until his death he was member of the Neapolitan court orchestra.
Rick Savage.  Richard Rick Savage (born 2 December 1960) is the bassist and one of the founding members of the English rock band Def Leppard. He is called Sav to avoid confusion between him and the other Rick in the band drummer Rick Allen. He and lead vocalist Joe Elliott are the only remaining original members of the band. The two of them plus Allen are also the only members of the band who have performed on every album.
Joseph Tremain.  Joseph Tremain (born 11 October 1991 in Romford Havering) is an English actor. He has appeared on radio and in theatre TV and films. He has also appeared in a number of commercials for a variety of products. Tremain made his West End stage début in a production of The Full Monty at the age of 10. He is best known for starring in the first series (13 episodes) of the children's television series Morris 2274 in 2003 for Five television.
Mari Jungstedt.  Mari Jungstedt (born 31 October 1962 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and popular crime fiction author. Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television and was an occasional presenter on TV4's daily talk show Förkväll.Her first five novels are set on the island of Gotland and feature Detective Superintendent Anders Knutas and the journalist Johan Berg.
Zohrabai.  Zohrabai Agrewali (1868–1913) was one of the most noted and influential singers of Hindustani Classical Music from the early 1900s. Along with Gauhar Jan she marks the dying phase of the courtesan singing tradition in Indian classical music. She is known for her macho style of singing.
John Reis.  John Reis (born 1969) and also known by the pseudonyms Speedo Slasher and The Swami is an American musician singer guitarist record label owner and disc jockey. He is best known as the singer and guitarist for the rock band Rocket from the Crypt which he formed and fronted (as Speedo) for the entirety of its career from 1990 to 2005. Prior to this he was the guitarist in the post-hardcore band Pitchfork and also played in Drive Like Jehu during the early 1990s.
Peter Blakeley.  Peter Blakeley is an Australian White Soul/Adult Contemporary singer and songwriter.Blakeley was a lead singer for The Rockmelons in the mid-1980s. He launched a solo career in 1987 and had a massive hit single in Australia in 1990 with Crying in the Chapel which was not a remake of the 1950s song Crying in the Chapel.
Don Chambers.  Don Chambers is author and artist for the Golden Pencil award-winning newspaper comic strip Mannequins.Mannequins was first published in the Arthur Graphic-Clarion Arthur Illinois in 1996. Mannequins was the first newspaper comic strip to feature computer-generated and physical 3D characters along with actual photographic images in the background of the comic panels. Chambers' artwork and comics have been featured in dozens of magazines including Farm Journal Street Rodder and Car Craft.
Jan Jakub Kotík.  Jan Jakub Kotík (22 October 1972 in Buffalo New York United States – 13 December 2007 in Prague Czech Republic) was a Czech artist and rock drummer.
Daniele Crespi.  Daniele Crespi (1598–July 19 1630) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era. He was born in Busto Arsizio and active mostly in the Milan of Federico Borromeo.A student of Giovanni Battista Crespi and Giulio Cesare Procaccini he was an excellent colorist known for the simplistic beauty of his composition. His earliest works show him assisting Guglielmo Caccia in San Vittore.
Shahin Najafi.  Shahin Najafi (Persian: شاهین نجفی) (born in 1980 in Bandar-e Anzali Gilan Iran) is an Iranian musician singer rapper songwriter and social activist currently residing in Germany. He began his music career in Iran before immigrating to Germany in 2005.
Skye Blue.  Skye Blue (born in Morristown New Jersey on July 30 1961) is an American pornographic actress and director. She is President and CEO of the adult-film company Platinum Blue Productions. In 2008 she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.Skye Blue is a former longtime business partner of fellow pornographic actress Summer Cummings.
Alan Tarney.  Alan Tarney (born 19 November 1945) is an English songwriter record producer and bass guitarist. He was born in Northside Workington Cumberland England but spent his teenage years in Adelaide Australia where he met his songwriting and musical partner Trevor Spencer.
Emile Ghantous.  Emile Ghantous is a Los Angeles based Grammy nominated songwriter and record producer who was born in Peoria IL. He moved to Chicago in 2000 to study music production and business at Columbia College. While studying at Columbia College he got his big break by working with local Chicago legends Public Announcement (of R. Kelly fame) Sparkle and Do or Die.In 2005 Ghantous created the songwriting/production duo The Insomniax along with partner Erik Nelson.
Friedrich Dotzauer.  Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (20 January 1783 – 6 March 1860) was a German cellist and composer.
Steve Katz (musician).  Steve Katz (born May 9 1945) is a guitarist and record producer who is best known as a member of the rock group Blood Sweat & Tears. Katz was an original member of the rock bands The Blues Project and American Flyer. As a producer his credits include the 1979 album Short Stories Tall Tales for the Irish band Horslips and the Lou Reed albums Rock 'n' Roll Animal and Sally Can't Dance and the Elliott Murphy album Night Lights. He is married to Alison Palmer a ceramic artist.
Boban Knežević.  Boban Knežević (Serbian Cyrilic: Бобан Кнежевић born 1959 in Belgrade) is a Serbian science fiction and fantasy writer comic book writer editor and publisher.He has been publishing fiction since 1978 in a variety of genres: his works range over alternate history space opera Slavic mythology based fantasy and cyberpunk.Knežević was one of the founders of the Belgrade-based semi-professional Society of science fiction fans Lazar Komarčić in 1981 and is considered as one of the pivotal persons of Belgrade fandom.Since 1985 he also owns the (formerly Yugoslavian publishing imprint  Znak Sagite.
Fred Yates.  Fred Yates (25 July 1922 – 7 July 2008) born Frederick Joseph Yates was an English artist. His paintings are included in many private and public collections including Brighton and Hove Art Gallery Liverpool University the University of Warwick Torquay Art Gallery and Russell Coates Gallery Bournemouth.
Emi Kuroda.  Emi Kuroda (黒田エミ Kuroda Emi) aka Misuzu Akimoto (秋元美鈴 Akimoto Misuzu) is an AV and pink film actress who was born in Osaka in 1978. She is best known for playing the title role in director Mitsuru Meike's The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003).
Brian Calzini.  Brian Calzini (born October 25 1985 Ocala Florida) is an Italian American post-hardcore vocalist. He is a founding member of Sleeping with Sirens Paddock Park (disbanded in 2009) and We Are Defiance (his current band).
Susan Cain.  Susan Horowitz Cain (born 1968) is an American writer and lecturer and author of the 2012 non-fiction book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking which argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people.
Marty Grebb.  Martin Joseph Marty Grebb (born 2 September 1946 in Chicago Illinois USA) is a keyboardist guitarist saxophonist and is also a producer and arranger.. He became a session musician and worked with musicians such as Bill Payne Bonnie Raitt Eric Clapton Etta James and Leon Russell.
Tony Thunder Smith.  Tony Thunder Smith is an American drummer best known as a member of the Lou Reed backing band. He was former member of Jan Hammer Group with whom he recorded the albums Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live and was the drummer for French music icon Serge Gainsbourg in the eighties and many others.
Keith Uddin.  Keith Uddin (born 24 February 1979 in London England) also known as KU is a record producer sound engineer and songwriter. Among the many artists he has collaborated with are The Cure Nick Cave Paul McCartney Madonna No Doubt Björk Leona Lewis Kelly Clarkson James McCartney Kate Winslet Geri Halliwell.
Mel Rubi.  Mel Rubi is an artist best known for his comic book work.
Ian Moore (musician).  Ian Moore (born August 8 1968 in Berkeley California USA) is a guitarist and singer-songwriter from Austin Texas. He studied fiddle as a child but switched to guitar when wrist problems interfered. His music contains elements of folk rock and roll world music and blues. After playing guitar in Joe Ely's touring band and appearing on one studio album he spent time in Austin with his own group first Ian Moore and Moment's Notice then The Ian Moore Band.
Tanwir Phool.  Tanwir Phool (Urdu: تنویر پھول ‎ or Tanwiruddin Ahmad Phool (Urdu: تنویر الدین احمد پھول ‎) (born 1948 in Muzaffarpur India) is the pen name of Tanwiruddin Ahmad Siddiqui a Pakistani author and poet writing in Urdu and English.
Eric Forrest.  Eric Forrest (born 1970 in Toronto Canada) is a Canadian heavy metal musician. Active since 1988 Forrest is best known for playing in a number of metal bands including Voivod and E-Force.During the late 1980s/early 1990s Forrest was a member of two bands Liquid Indian and Thunder Circus. He joined Voivod in early 1994 following the departure of original vocalist Denis Snake Bélanger.
Alessandro Badiale.  Alessandro Badiale (1626–1671) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period active in Bologna. He was a pupil of Flaminio Torre. Among his etchings are prints of Virgin seated with the Infant Jesus between St. Philip Neri and St. Anthony of Padua a Deposition and a Holy Family after Flaminio Torre. He also made a Madonna with Child who holds a cross and an apple after Cignani.
Chuck Nutt.  Jefferson Charles Rosemond Jr. (born March 29 1977) in Sacramento California U.S.A better known by his stage name Chuck Nutt is an American rapper songwriter sound producer.Chuck Nutt is an avid performer and has made his mark with fans up and down the West Coast. He has also had the amazing opportunity to open for such high profile rappers as Mike Jones Bone Thuggs Game Mistah FAB and Mr. Capone-E.
Andy Griffiths.  Andrew Andy Griffiths (born 3 September 1961) is an Australian children's book author and comedy writer. He is most notable for his Just! series which was converted into an animated television series called What's with Andy?. Originally a vocalist with 80s alternative rock bands such as Gothic Farmyard and Skippy the Butcher in 1992 he turned to serious writing.Andy Griffiths has been to a number of book readings and he loves reading his books to young fans.[citation needed]
Jackie Kessler.  Jackie Kessler (born December 8 1970) is the American author of the Hell on Earth urban fantasy paranormal romance series published by Kensington/Zebra. To date the books include Hell's Belles (January 2007; mass-market reissue in September 2008) The Road to Hell (November 2007) and Hotter Than Hell (August 2008) as well as a tie-in novella in the anthology Eternal Lover (April 2008).
Ruth Asawa.  Ruth Asawa (January 24 1926 – August 5 2013) was a American sculptor. Known in San Francisco as the fountain lady her work is included in prominent art collections such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney in New York. She was a driving force behind the creation of the San Francisco School of the Arts which was renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010 in tribute to her.
Claudio Simonetti.  Claudio Simonetti (born February 19 1952 in São Paulo) is a Brazil-born Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s. He studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Mike Byrne (musician).  Michael William Byrne (born February 6 1990) is the current drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins. When Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan called for rehearsals to replace Jimmy Chamberlin Byrne auditioned and was chosen out of thousands of applicants.
Mike Magee (journalist).  Michael Mike Magee (born 7 December 1949) is a British journalist. He is credited with introducing a tabloid-style approach to the coverage of technology news. In 2009 the Daily Telegraph placed Magee 35 in its list of Top 50 most influential Britons in technology.Magee co-founded technology news website The Register in 1994. In 2001 he left to found The Inquirer. In 2010 he launched technology website TechEye. and in February 2013 he launched a new title for the channel called 'ChannelEye.
Frances Fuller Victor.  Frances Auretta Fuller Victor (pen names: Florence Fane Dorothy D.) (May 23 1826 – November 14 1902) was an American historian and historical novelist. She has been described as the first Oregon historian to gain regional and national attention.
Yo Hitoto.  Yo Hitoto (一青 窈 Hitoto Yō born September 20 1976) is a Japanese pop singer. Her mother is Japanese and her father is Taiwanese. She can speak three languages: Japanese English and Mandarin.[citation needed] Tae Hitoto is her older sister. Her name Hitoto is not her real surname it is her mother's maiden name. She changed her name when she came to Japan.
Waed.  Hanan Bakr Younis (Arabic: حنان بكر يونس‎) is a Saudi singer and entertainer in the Middle East. She is widely known by her stage name Waed which means promise in Arabic.
Patrick Hume (editor).  Patrick Hume (fl. 1695) was a Scottish schoolmaster in London author of the first commentary on the Paradise Lost of John Milton.He is said to have been a member of the family of Hume of Polwarth Berwickshire. In 1695 he edited for Jacob Tonson the sixth edition of Milton's Paradise Lost with elaborate notes. This is said to have been the first to attempt exhaustive annotations on the works of an English poet. On the title-page he calls himself P. H. φιλοποιητῆς.
Lauren Brice.  Lauren Brice is a former pornographic actress. In 1991 she won the AVN Award for Best Actress (Video) for her performance in Married Women.
Minette Walters.  Minette Walters (born 26 September 1949) is an English crime writer.
Peep Lassmann.  Peep Lassmann (born 19 March 1948 in Tartu) is an Estonian pianist trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Emil Gilels who has served as the rector of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre since 1992. He has performed the Estonian premieres of Olivier Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus and Catalogue d'oiseaux.
Carol Cox.  Carol Cox (born September 16 1963) is the stage name of Carol McAlear a Canadian sex worker and the star of www.carolcox.com a prominent pornographic website.Cox and her husband Danny McAlear started their website in 1994 which is the oldest running amateur pornography website on the Internet.
Jack Bechdolt.  John Ernest Bechdolt (1884–1954) was an American short story writer novelist and journalist. He wrote under the name Jack Bechdolt as well as his full name. He worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1909–1916 after which he moved to New York where he worked for Munsey Publications for a year before freelancing. His first novel The Torch was serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1920.
Agostino Melissi.  Agostino Melissi (Florence 1615 – Florence 1683) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence.
Betty Feves.  Betty Feves (1918-1985) was an Oregon artist who helped shape the development of clay as an expressive medium in the years following World War II. Feves was academically trained in the late 1930s and early 1940s first earning a degree in art with a strong secondary emphasis on music at Washington State College now Washington State University where she studied with noted artist Clyfford Still.
Ken Lum.  Kenneth Robert Lum (Lin Yinting) (born 1956) is a Canadian artist born in Vancouver Canada and residing in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He is of Chinese heritage. Working in a number of media including painting sculpture and photography his art ranges from conceptual in orientation to representational in character and is generally concerned with issues of identity in relation to the categories of language portraiture and spatial politics.
Ray Munns.  Raymond Ray Lee Munns (born March 11 1980) is a former MTV VJ and Trance DJ. In 2000 Munns beat out 10000 other hopefuls to win the third annual Wanna Be a VJ contest. During the live show Munns participated in a series of challenges a VJ would expect to encounter…from introducing videos to interviewing celebrities such as Method Man. At the end of the show a debate was held between Munns and Shannon Wiseman who was in the lead.
Glen Moffatt.  Glen Moffatt is a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who relocated to Brisbane Australia in 2002.Moffatt was born in Hastings and raised in Napier. He was a newspaper journalist before moving to Auckland at the end of 1991.New Zealand music historian John Dix wrote of New Zealand music in the 1990s It wasn't all alt.rock hip hop and hard rock in the '90s.
Billy Bang.  Billy Bang (September 20 1947 – April 11 2011) born William Vincent Walker was an American free jazz violinist and composer.
Nick Park.  Nicholas Wulstan Nick Park CBE (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989) The Wrong Trousers (1993) A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
Noah Georgeson.  Noah Georgeson is a musician producer and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album Find Shelter was released through Plain Recordings on November 28 2006. Born 1975 in San Anselmo California he moved with his family to Nevada City California at the age of four. Georgeson studied classical guitar and music composition receiving his BA in composition from San Francisco State University in 2001 and his Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in 2003.
Alex Jordan.  Alex Jordan (September 20 1967 – July 2 1995) was a pornographic actress. She committed suicide by hanging on July 2 1995 while her husband was in Colorado trying to set up a ski shop so that they could leave the business. Her suicide note was addressed to her pet bird.
Rick James.  Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson Jr.; February 1 1948 – August 6 2004) was an American musician and composer.James started his singing career fronting doo-wop and rhythm and blues bands in his hometown of Buffalo New York in the early 1960s with his vocal style influenced by the likes of Marvin Gaye Smokey Robinson and David Ruffin.
Alex Boulanger.  Alex Boulanger is the pen name of Monte Boulanger. His first novel In the Sweet Light was published in 2001.
Margaret Hodges.  Margaret Peggy Hodges (July 26 1911 – December 13 2005) was an American writer of books for children.She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College she arrived in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial.
Michael Barringer.  Michal Barringer was a British writer screenwriter and playwright. He also occasionally served as film director directing four films early in his career. His play Inquest was the first performed at the Windmill Theatre when it opened in 1931.
John Wellington Ennis.  John Wellington Ennis is an American filmmaker activist and blogger from Los Angeles. In 2004 he directed a film starring Amy Poehler and the Upright Citizens Brigade titled Wild Girls Gone. He is the co-founder of Video the Vote a non-partisan group interested in documenting problems at U.S. polls. Ennis and Video the Vote co-created Free for All a 2008 documentary about fraud in U.S. elections.
Henry Payne (artist).  Henry Albert Payne RWS (1868 – 4 July 1940) was an English stained glass artist watercolourist and painter of frescoes. Payne was one of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen who formed around Joseph Southall and the Birmingham School of Art in the late nineteenth century. He was involved in several of the group's collective projects most notably the decoration of the chapel at Madresfield Court which numbers among the seminal achievements of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Jesper Dahlbäck.  Jesper Dahlbäck (born in 1974) is a Swedish techno DJ and producer. Besides his real name he has used various stage names and pseudonyms such as Lenk Dahlback Dick Track Faxid Groove Machine Janne Me' Amazonen The Pinguin Man oder DK (with Thomas Krome). Hugg & Pepp / Pepp & Kaliber are names of duos for his common collaborative work with his cousin John Dahlbäck. ADJD is used for his collaborations with Alexi Delano.
Brielle Davis.  Brielle Davis (born 1984 in Sydney Australia) is an Australian recording artist mostly known for her song Serial Thriller which received good publicity during 2006.
Cris Williamson.  Cris Williamson is an American feminist singer-songwriter who achieved fame as a recording artist and who was a pioneer as a visible lesbian political activist during a time when few who were not connected to the Lesbian community were aware of Gay and Lesbian issues. Williamson's music and insight has served as a catalyst for change in the creation of women-owned record companies in the 1970s.
Shawn Okpebholo.  Shawn E. Okpebholo (born March 28 1981) is an American composer and conductor.
Walter Daniels.  Walter Daniels is an American musician and harmonica player noted for introducing the instrument into a number of styles of music not usually associated with the harmonica including punk rock and avant-garde free improvisation.
Eithne Farry.  Eithne Farry is British book reviewer and the former literary editor of ELLE she is the author of Yeah I Made it Myself subtitled DIY fashion for the not very domestic goddess. She has had a career which has taken in everything from being a backing singer with indie band Talulah Gosh to being a freelance reviewer writer literary editor and radio personality.Eithne Farry has had a patchwork-quilt career.
Paul Jesson.  Paul Jesson (born Paul George Jackson 6 July 1946) is an English stage television and film actor.He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in The Normal Heart at The Royal Court. He was nominated for a Scottish Critics' Award 2004 for his portrayal of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh.
Steve Cobby.  Steve Cobby is a British electronica musician composer DJ and producer based in Kingston-upon-Hull Yorkshire.Cobby co-founded Fila Brazillia with David McSherry in 1990. From 1990 to 1998 Fila Brazillia releases were on the Kingston-upon-Hull based Pork Recordings established by David 'Porky' Brennand and Cobby.
Daniel Scott Tysdal.  Daniel Scott Tysdal (born May 26 1978) is a Canadian poet whose work approaches the lyric mode with an experimental spirit. In June 2007 Tysdal received the ReLit Award for Poetry.Tysdal was born in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and was raised on a farm. He received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Regina (Saskatchewan) in 2003 an M.A. (English) from Acadia University (Nova Scotia) in 2006 and an M.A. (English in the Field of Creative Writing) from The University of Toronto in 2008.
Kaan İnce.  Kaan İnce (2 February 1970 - 13 August 1992) was a Turkish writer and poet.
Franck Amsallem.  Franck Amsallem is an award-winning French jazz pianist arranger composer and also singer. He was born in 1961 in Oran then in French Algeria but grew up in Nice France.He started learning the piano at age 7 and also took up the classical saxophone at the local conservatory. Early in his studies he was able to hear such artists as Thad Jones Count Basie Charles Mingus Bill Evans Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz live at the Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice France.
Tim McAuliffe.  Tim McAuliffe is a comedy writer television producer and occasional actor from Montreal Canada known for his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes The Office Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Up All Night Corner Gas and creating the TV series Satisfaction.[citation needed]
Vic Chou.  Vic Chou (Chinese: 周渝民; pinyin: Zhōu Yúmín) is a Taiwanese actor singer and commercial model. He is a member of the Taiwanese boy band F4 and has starred in Taiwanese dramas. His stage name 周渝民 literally means “a completely changed person”. It had a variation only in the middle character (from 育 to 渝) from his birth name 周育民 (pinyin: Zhōu Yùmín) which literally means “a completely nourished or reared person”.
James Reyne.  James Reyne OAM (born James Michael Nugent Reyne on 19 May 1957 in Lagos Nigeria) is an Australian rock musician and singer/songwriter both as a member of the iconic 1980s band Australian Crawl and solo work.
Tufi Duek.  Tufi Duek (born May 31 1954 in Nilópolis Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is a Brazilian fashion designer and creator of the Triton and Forum (marketed outside Brazil as Tufi Duek) brands which have an international following.
Ivor Wynne Jones.  Ivor Wynne Jones (1927 – 1 April 2007) was a Welsh journalist.Wynne Jones was born in the Liverpool suburb of Allerton. He served in World War II as a paratrooper and later joined the Forces Broadcasting Service in Jerusalem. Finally he worked in broadcasting in Cyprus before returning to the UK in 1948.Jones was editor of the Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald before joining the Daily Post to which he contributed for 52 years. He was the paper's chief foreign correspondent.
Alan Langford.  Alan Owen redirects here. For those of a similar name see Allen Owen (disambiguation)Alan Langford was the pen name of Alan Owen (28 February 1928 - 9 February 2011) a British radio producer and composer of light music.Born in London he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Benjamin Frankel. For many years he was a BBC music producer for programmes such as Matinée Musicale and Friday Night is Music Night and thus used his pseudonym to disguise his sideline in composition.
Fumie Hosokawa.  Fumie Hosokawa (細川ふみえ born 2 September 1971) is a Japanese actress singer and model. She is often referred to as the “original” kyonyu (huge breasts) idol.
Giovanni Quirici.  Giovanni Quirici was born 1824 in Arena Po small town between Pavia and Piacenza. He died 1896 in Turin. Unknown in biographic dictionnaries only some of his life details are known through Prospero Succio keeper of the musical archives of the cathedral of Turin who probably knew the composer personally. Succio writes that G. Quirici's parents wanted him to become a notary public but he elected to study music aged 14.
Luce (singer).  Lucie Brunet better known as just Luce (born in Perpignan France on 28 January 1990) is a French singer-songwriter originating from Peyrestortes who won in 2010 the eighth series of the French music competition Nouvelle Star.
Dave Smeds.  Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.
Betty Jeffrey.  Agnes Betty Jeffrey OAM (14 May 1908 – 13 September 2000) was a nurse in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital during World War II; she was taken captive by the Japanese Imperial Army and interned in the Dutch East Indies. She later wrote about her experiences in the book White Coolies which partially inspired the film Paradise Road and the 1955 Australian radio series White Coolies. Missionary Margaret Dryburgh was a fellow internee with Jeffrey.
Eric Newton (art critic).  Eric Newton (1893-1965) was an English artist writer broadcaster and art critic. He produced several books in addition to his newspaper and radio work and created mosaics for Ludwig Oppenheimer Ltd mostly on a religious theme. His radio broadcasts made him well known to the British public in the 1930s.
Ogie Alcasid.  Herminio Jose Lualhati Alcasid Jr. more popularly known as Ogie Alcasid (born August 27 1967) is a Filipino singer-songwriter television presenter comedian parodist and actor.He is currently the President of OPM (Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-Aawit) and Commissioner of the Edsa People Power Commission.
Lee Garim.  Lee Garim (Hangul: 이가림; born 1943) is a South Korean writer.
Andrés Bucci.  Andrés Bucci is a Chilean electronic music producer and DJ. He is known for his solo work as well as for his role as a member of Plan V. He is one of three Bucci brothers (Juan Pablo Pier and Andrés) all DJs and electronic music producers.Andrés Bucci began his career in 1996 while living in Germany and the influence of the Berlin scene is noticeable in his work.
Andy Gibb.  Andrew Roy Andy Gibb (5 March 1958 – 10 March 1988) was an English singer and teen idol and the younger brother of Bee Gees Barry Robin and Maurice Gibb. Andy came to international prominence in the late 1970s with his albums including three singles that reached #1 in the United States – I Just Want to Be Your Everything (Love Is) Thicker Than Water and Shadow Dancing.
Edna Best.  Edna Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British actress. Born in Hove Sussex England she was educated in Brighton and later studied dramatic acting under Miss Kate Rorke who was the first Professor of Drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London. Best was known on the London stage before she entered films in 1921 having made her debut at the Grand Theatre Southampton in Charley's Aunt in 1917.
Mike Farris (musician).  Mike Farris (b. ca. 1968) is an American musician. He was the founder and lead singer of Nashville Tennessee group Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies but has been a solo act since 2001. He has put out two studio releases as well as a one live record as Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue as well as a charity EP as Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints. His music is diverse but tends to be rooted in early American gospel and blues.
Frank Major.  Frank Major (born on October 3 1970) is a Hungarian pornographic actor who appears in pornographic films. He is also a male bodybuilder personal trainer and porn actor.
Rudy Grant.  Rudy Grant also known as Little Brother Grant and The Mexicano (born Rudolph Grant Plaisance Guyana) is a reggae deejay and singer.
Narayanacharya.  K.S. Narayanacharya (born 30 October 1933) is an Indian teacher and writer popularly known as Ramayanacharya.
Jim Pescott.  Jim Pescott is a Calgary-based Canadian Visual Artist and Painter.
Mejo Joseph.  Mejo Joseph is a music director from Malayalam Cinema. He made his debut in the blockbuster Malayalam movie Notebook.
Mohamed Said (actor).  Mohamed Said (born 1987) is a Swedish actor of Iraqi parentage. He lives in Huddinge in Stockholm. He played one of the lead characters Raddi in Daniel Fridell's full-length film Säg att du älskar mig (Say that you love me) in 2006. He took part in Borta bra a short film.He is best known for his roles as Karim Hussein in Swedish Television's drama series Andra Avenyn.
Alessandro Martucci.  Alessandro Martucci (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active near his natal city of Capua. His son Simio painted quadratura and died in 1641.
Stephen Jones (Babybird).  Stephen Jones (born 16 September 1962) is an English musician and novelist.
Sacha Sosno.  Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky (1937 – 3 December 2013) better known by the name Sacha Sosno was an internationally renowned French sculptor and painter. Working most of the time in Nice in his last decades Sosno achieved international recognition for his monumental outdoor sculptures in Côte d'Azur France. Along with: Yves Klein Arman and Cesar he was part of the New Realist (Nouveau réalisme) movement . Sosno had a singular artistic approach: the concept of obliteration.
Tord Øverland Knudsen.  Tord Øverland Knudsen (born 24 July 1982) is a Norwegian musician living in England best known for playing bass and keyboard for The Wombats.
Gianserio Strafella.  Gianserio Strafella (Copertino ca. 1520–1573 according to some sources; 1506–1577 according to others) was an Italian Mannerist painter active mainly in Salerno. His work may be seen in the chapel of Copertino Castle and the Basilica di Santa Croce in Lecce.
J Farell.  Justin Farell Alamar (born April 23 1982) better known as J Farell is an American music producer from Cherry Hill NJ. He graduated from Rutgers University where he was first exposed to music production. J Farell broke into the recording industry in 2010 and is best known for producing remixes for artists such as Kreayshawn J. Cole Roscoe Dash Gorilla Zoe Hyper Crush Gotye Driicky Graham Rita Ora Wiz Khalifa Eva Simons Bruno Mars Ed Sheeran and more.
Paul Arthurs.  Paul Bonehead Arthurs (born 23 June 1965) is an English musician and one of the founder members of the English rock band Oasis best known as their rhythm guitar player from 1991-1999.
Rohini Bhate.  Rohini Bhate (Marathi: रोहिणी भाटे)(born: November 14 1924; death: October 10 2008) was the leading Kathak dancer in India. She was among the senior most Kathak exponents of the country and a Fellow of Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Vincenzo Milazzo.  Vincenzo Milazzo (5 April 1956 Taranto Italy) is an Italian naïve painter known for his use of reverse glass painting technique.
Carl Fontana.  Carl Charles Fontana (July 18 1928 - October 9 2003) was an American jazz trombonist. Because Fontana rarely recorded under his own name and toured only occasionally after 1958 he is significantly less famous among mainstream jazz fans although well-known amongst trombonists.
Raimondo Boucheron.  Raimondo Boucheron (March 15 1800 – February 28 1876) was an Italian composer chiefly of sacred music. During his life he was known primarily for the song Inno per le cinque giornate. Today he is remembered as one of the contributors to the Messa per Rossini for which he wrote the Confutatis and Oro supplex of the Sequentia. He also served for a time as maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral being succeeded in the post by Guglielmo Quarenghi.
Savannah Robinson.  Savannah Robinson (born November 20 1998) is a young American singer.She rose to prominence singing at local karaoke shows and vocal performances with her father Kevin Robinson. her big break came while singing during the Long Beach Pride festival in the summer of 2010 performing twice on the smaller stage of the festival and then asked to perform on the main festival stage. Her performance was taped and was released on the internet becoming an internet sensation.
Leah Haywood.  Leah Haywood (born 16 August 1976) is an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter and producer. Born in New Zealand she grew up in Perth Western Australia and recorded a top 40 album Leah released in 2001 on Epic Records which contained her Top 10 single We Think It's Love. Two more Top 40 hits followed with Crazy in 2000 and Takin' Back What's Mine in 2001.
Zdravko Čolić.  Zdravko Čolić (Cyrillic: Здравко Чолић pronounced [zdrǎːv̞kɔ̝ t͡ʃɔ̝̌ːlit͡ɕ]; born 30 May 1951) is a Bosnian Serb pop singer very popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia. Originally from Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina he became popular in the 1970s.
Matt McIntosh.  Matt McIntosh (born January 13 1971 in Greenwich Connecticut United States) is an American singer guitarist and songwriter whose musical background begins during his early teens in the mid to late 80s American hardcore punk movement having been involved with several bands of varying success and notability.McIntosh digitally released his home recordings for free as The Basement Demos In November 2007 which through blogger activity and podcasting helped the effort to emerge as a modest independent success in its initial year. 
Joseph Trapanese.  Joseph Trapanese is an American composer arranger and producer. He works in the production of music for films television records theater and concerts. He currently lives in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Kendra Morris.  Kendra Morris (born April 10 1981) is a soul singer-songwriter based in New York City originally from St. Petersburg Florida. She was a contestant on Fuse TV's Redemption Song. She is signed to Wax Poetics and in 2011 released her first single Concrete Waves (which later received a remix from DJ Premier). Also in 2011 she joined Dennis Coffey on tour performing lead vocals. Her debut album Banshee was released in August 2012.
Pamela Z.  Pamela Z (born 1956 Buffalo New York) is an American composer performer and media artist of African descent who is best known for her solo works for voice with electronic processing. In performance she combines various vocal sounds including operatic bel canto experimental extended techniques and spoken word with samples and sounds generated by manipulating found objects.
Andy Bown.  Andy Bown (born Andrew Steven Bown 27 March 1946 The City London England) is an English musician who has specialised in keyboards and bass guitar. He is a member of the rock band Status Quo.
Peter Laird.  Peter Alan Laird (born January 27 1954) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with writer and artist Kevin Eastman.
Kayamar.  Viktor Magyaróvári (born 12 May 1985) known by his stage name Kayamar is a Hungarian singer jazz and classical composer.
Han Kang.  Han Kang (Hangul: 한강; born November 27 1970) is a South Korean writer.
Charlie Christian.  Charles Henry Charlie Christian (July 29 1916 – March 2 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941. His single-string technique combined with amplification helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument.
Mirai Moriyama.  Mirai Moriyama (森山 未來 Moriyama Mirai born August 20 1984 in Kobe Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese actor.
Paul Cava.  Paul Cava (born 1949 Brooklyn New York) is an American artist photographer and private photography dealer and publisher. He currently lives and works in Bala Cynwyd Pennsylvania. He received his BA in Cinematography from Richmond College CUNY in 1972 and his MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975. Cava has exhibited paintings drawings and photo-based works since 1976.
Magnus August Høiberg.  Magnus August Høiberg best known under the artist nameCashmere Cat is a Norwegian musician producer andDJ/turntablist (representing Norway in the DMC World DJ Championshipsas DJ FINAL 2006-2009). He appeared on the international electronic dance musicscene in 2012 with remixes/edits of Lana Del Rey2 Chainz and Jeremih.Cashmere Cat's debut EP Mirror Maruwas releasedin October 2012 on the Belgian Pelican Fly label.
Ronnie Milsap.  Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. He became country music's first successful blind singer and one of the most successful and versatile country crossover singers of his time appealing to both country and pop music music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop R&B and rock and roll elements.
Billy Drease Williams.  Billy Drease Williams (born Edreys Wajed) is an American hip hop emcee singer and producer from Buffalo New York; known for his uptempo production clean lyrics and motivational messages. Billy Drease Williams started as part of a short lived hip hop group called The Elements (formed with Soulive members Alan Evans and Neal Evans) and later was one half of a duo known as Raw Intel (with producer Trevor TrevThorne Drayton).
Thor Salden.  Thor Salden (born 28 November 1997 stage name: Thor!) from Schoten was the winning contestant in the Belgian pre-selections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 and he represented Belgium in the international final on 2 December 2006 in Bucharest Romania where he reached seventh place in a field of fifteen. At the time of the preselections he was the youngest contestant at eight years old. He won both the first semi-final on 17 September 2006 and the final on 1 October 2006.
Lenore Malen.  Lenore Malen is an American artist whose practice involves video installation photography and performance. Malen was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and a NYFA Grant in Interdisciplinary Art in 2009.
Michael Kwan.  Michael Kwan Ching-kit is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer previously with the Philips label (the brand Polygram was not adopted until later in Hong Kong) and later with EMI. His back catalogue (1986–1988) continues to be published by Universal Music Group. He retired his music career in 1988 and now works as an architect in Seattle United States with his wife.
DJ Vibe.  DJ Vibe (real name António Tó Pereira) is a house music DJ.
Tony Connor.  Tony Connor (born John Anthony Connor Manchester U.K. 1930) is an English poet and playwright.After leaving school at fourteen Connor served in the Royal Army as a tank gunner and later worked as a textile designer and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s. From 1971 until he retired in 1999 Connor was professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut. He lives in Middletown and London. He was a close friend of the English writer J.G.
Matthew Arnold.  Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold the famed headmaster of Rugby School and brother to both Tom Arnold literary professor and William Delafield Arnold novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.
George Sutherland (author).  This article is about the Scottish-born Australian writer. For the English-born U.S. jurist and political figure see George Sutherland.George Sutherland (1855 – 1905) a writer was born in Scotland the brother of Alexander Sutherland.He was taken to Australia in 1864 and graduated from the University of Melbourne.
Frederick Upham Adams.  Frederick Upham Adams (December 10 1859 – August 28 1921) was a noted inventor and author. He was born in Boston Massachusetts to an American Civil War veteran/mechanical engineer and died on August 28 1921 at Larchmont New York. In 1886 he invented the electric light post.
Jörg Fauser.  Jörg Fauser (* July 16 1944 Bad Schwalbach - July 17 1987 in Munich) was a German writer poet and journalist.The influence of the American beat generation literature on his works is well known. His later works are mostly German detective stories. Der Schneemann has been made into a movie. He died when a truck hit him while walking on a motorway near Munich.
Alison Bechdel.  Alison Bechdel (/ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl; born September 10 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home.
Carl Sargent.  Carl L. Sargent (born December 11 1952 in Caerleon Monmouthshire Wales) is a British author of several roleplaying game-based products and novels.
Maestro (producer).  Vaushaun Maestro Brooks is an American hip hop record producer.
Adam Harasiewicz.  Adam Harasiewicz (b. July 1 1932) is a Polish classical concert pianist.Harasiewicz was born in Chodziez Poland. After studying violin for two months at the age of 10 he began piano study and at age 15 he obtained first prize in a contest at Rzeszów.
King Saha.  King Saha is a Ugandan recording artist under the music umbrella of leone island music empire of jose Chameleone King Saha started his music career with producer Didi under Didi’s label “born fire”
Will Hackney.  Will Hackney is an American musician and co-founder of Trekky Records. He has contributed to many North Carolina indie rock and folk bands including Lost in the Trees Midtown Dickens Bowerbirds Mount Moriah and Loamlands. Hackney is a multi-instrumentalist known for playing mandolin guitar organ cornet and many other instruments for his various projects.
André Pretorius (musician).  André Fredrik Pretorius (2 August 1961 — 13 October 1988) was a South African-born Brazilian musician. He was for a short time the guitarist of the short-lived punk rock band Aborto Elétrico.André was born in Pretoria one of the capitals of South Africa on 2 August 1961. His father was the Brazilian ambassador of South Africa and his mother was of German descent.
Laurence Cottle.  Laurence Cottle is a Welsh electric bass guitarist and composer.
Guglielmo da Forli.  Guglielmo da Forli called Guglielmo degli Organi who was the earliest painter of Forlì flourished in the 14th century. He was a pupil of Giotto and painted frescoes in the churches of San Domenico and the Franciscans in his native city but none of his works are extant.
Phillip Sekaquaptewa.  Phillip Sekaquaptewa is a Hopi artist and silversmith in Hopi silver overlay and stone inlay featuring the lapidary genres of commesso and intarsia. Sekaquaptewa uses colorful stones and shell for his Hopi silver overlay not only plain silver decorated with chisel strokes on black oxide surfaces a Hopi-signature technique known as matting.He was born in 1956 in a traditional Hopi village on Second Mesa on the Hopi Reservation located in Northern Arizona.
Birchville Cat Motel.  Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington New Zealand. Although largely unrecognised by the mainstream press and public in his home country Kneale has toured throughout Japan America Europe and Australia. His first vinyl release was Jewelled Wings on the Freedom From label.
Alisa Childers.  Alisa Childers (born Alisa Noelle Girard April 17 1975[citation needed]) is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for being in the all female group ZOEgirl. She has had a string of top ten radio singles four studio releases and received the Dove Award from being with ZOEgirl.
Denise Belfon.  Denise Saucy Wow Belfon (born November 23 1968 in Trinidad) is a Soca Contemporary R&B and Gospel singer songwriter and dancer.
Tabby Thomas.  Ernest Joseph Tabby Thomas (January 5 1929 – January 1 2014) also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas was an American blues musician. He sang and played the piano and guitar and specialized in a substyle of blues indigenous to southern Louisiana called swamp blues.
Kisen.  Kisen (喜撰) also known as Kisen Hōshi (喜撰法師) was an early Heian period Buddhist monk (僧 sō) and poet. Little is known about his life other than that he lived in Ujiyama.When Ki no Tsurayuki wrote the Japanese preface (仮名序 kanajo) of the Kokinshū he selected Kisen as one of the six poetic sages (六歌仙 rokkasen) whose work was to be considered as superior. Tsurayuki says the following to comment on Kisen's work.ことばかすかにして 始め終り たしかならず。kotoba kasuka ni shite hajime wohari tashikanarazu.
Michael Bishop (author).  Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12 1945) is an American writer. Over four decades and in more than thirty books he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired and influential in modern science fiction and fantasy literature.
Kyle Lehning.  Kyle Lehning is an American record producer whose work is mainly in the field of country music.
Shaznay Lewis.  Tricia Marie Shaznay Lewis (born 14 October 1975 in Islington London) is a British singer songwriter former member of BRIT Award-winning girl group All Saints. Lewis has co-written most of the group's songs including number one singles: Bootie Call Pure Shores Black Coffee and international smash hit single Never Ever.Lewis launched a short solo career in 2004 with her debut solo album Open and singles Never Felt Like This Before and You.
Konee Rok.  Konee Rok is an American music video and documentary director.
Menis Koumandareas.  Menis Koumandareas (Greek: Μένης Κουμανταρέας) (born 1931 Athens Greece) is an acclaimed Greek writer. He attended classes in the Philosophy and Law schools of the University of Athens as well as in a drama school but he did not complete his studies in any of these fields. Instead he worked for a while as a journalist and then as a clerk in seafaring and insurance companies.Since 1961 he has been active as a writer and a translator.
Mary Wibberley.  Mary Wibberley (c. 1934 – 29 December 2013) was an English romantic fiction writer. Born in Worsley she penned 48 novels for Mills & Boon. Her first novel Black Niall was published in 1973. Wibberley died following a short illness on 29 December 2013 aged 79. Her funeral took place on 30 December.
Selau.  Selau is a Samoan R&B singer and songwriter. She is working on her third album. Selau also has a song named A Man That Goes featuring Goldie Gold of The Federation.
Raphaël Tardon.  Raphaël Louis Thomas Tardon (October 27 1911 - January 16 1967) was a French writer novelist and essayist of Martiniquais origin. He was the father of screenwriter Bruno Tardon. He was posthumously awarded the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes in 1966 for his complete body of work.
Parthasarathy (Parthu).  Parthasarathy Nemani popularly known as Parthu is an Indian (Telugu Playback Singer). Parthu a renowned Playback singer in Tollywood with rich classical music background is best known for his Melodies.Parthu has rendered more than 100 film songs and sung more than 2000 private songs in Telugu Tamil Hindi and Kannada.
Sacario.  Jamar Austin (born January 16 1980) who records under the mononym Sacario is an American rapper and songwriter best known for writing the song If I Could Go for Angie Martinez. Billboard (magazine) named it among the biggest songs of the year in 2002.
Michael McDowell (author).  Michael McEachern McDowell (June 1 1950 – December 27 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978. Stephen King once described him as the finest writer of paperback originals in America today.
Ron Mael.  Ronald David Mael (born August 12 1945 in Culver City California) is an American musician keyboard player and songwriter. He and his younger brother Russell make up the pop duo Sparks.
Per Olov Enquist.  Per Olov Enquist better known as P. O. Enquist (born 23 September 1934 in Hjoggböle Skellefteå Västerbotten) is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist playwright and novelist. In the nineties he gained international recognition with his novel The Visit of the Royal Physician.
Michael Koppelman.  Michael Koppelman is an American record producer and recording engineer. He worked with the artist Prince from 1989 to 1992 on his albums Graffiti Bridge Diamonds and Pearls and Love Symbol.He also recorded or produced records for Ingrid Chavez Booker T. & the M.G.'s Frente! Basehead and Moxy Früvous.He is currently studying astronomy at the University of Minnesota and was featured in the PBS television documentary Seeing in the Dark.
Luciano Pereyra.  Luciano Ariel Pereyra (born September 21 1981 in Luján Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine singer.
Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez.  Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez (born 1980 in Sta. Mesa Manila) a poet fictionist critic and journalist hails from Flora Apayao Philippines. He lives in Novaliches Caloocan City in Metro Manila.He has won prizes including three Makata ng Taon (Poet of the Year) honors from the state-run Gawad Komisyon sa Tula-Gantimpalang Collantes of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.
Doda (singer).  Dorota Rabczewska (born February 15 1984) more commonly known as Doda is a Polish musical artist among the most successful Polish artists in terms of number of prizes won. She was first known as a member of the Polish rock band Virgin. After the group disbanded in 2007 she continued with a solo career. She was featured on CNN as the tenth most famous Pole in history. In 2011 Polish magazine Viva! put her among ten most influential women in Poland.
Cecily Norden.  Cecily Bourchier Norden (née Bowker) (December 23 1918 - August 27 2011) was an author senior horse judge champion rider and exhibitor and Stud Breeder. She is known for her contribution to the Riding Horse Industry in South Africa.
Buddy Jewell.  Buddy Jewell Jr. (born April 2 1961) is an American country music singer who was the first winner on the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. Signed to Columbia Records in 2003 Jewell made his debut on the American country music scene with the release of his self-titled album which produced the singles Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song) and Sweet Southern Comfort. Another album Times Like These followed in 2005.
Alejandro Morales.  Alejandro Morales is professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California Irvine and has published seven novels and three novellas. Morales received the 2007 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The Leal organizer claims of Morales he is a true pioneer in Chicano literature and one of the most outstanding powerful and innovative writers on the Chicano experience.
Luis Miguel.  Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born April 19 1970) known professionally as Luis Miguel is a Mexican singer. An icon in Latin America he is often referred to as El Sol de México and he's one of the most successful artists in Latin American history having successfully performed in a wide range of musical styles including pop ballads boleros and mariachi.
Barbara Lea.  Barbara Lea (April 10 1929 – December 26 2011) was an American actress and singer.
Baxter Dury.  Baxter Dury (born 18 December 1971 Wingrave Buckinghamshire England) is an English indie musician currently signed to Rough Trade Records. He is the son of Ian Dury and as a five-year-old he appeared on the front cover of Ian's LP New Boots and Panties!!. He left school at the age of fourteen. He has had a 'Record of the Week' in NME with Oscar Brown EP in 2002.
Samantha Dorrance.  Samantha Dorrance is a British actress singer and dancer from Willenhall in the West Midlands who reached fame on Disney Channel UK. She played the lead role of Laura in both the UK Tour and West End versions of Dreamboats and Petticoats.
Pierre Estève.  Pierre Estève (born 11 February 1961) is a French musician composer interactive artist and journalist.
P. B. Sreenivas.  Prathivadi Bhayankara Sreenivas (22 September 1930 – 14 April 2013) was a veteran playback singer from India. He was born in Kakinada in East Godavri District of Andhra Pradesh. He had sung around 3000 songs in Kannada Telugu Tamil Hindi Malayalam and Tulu films. He was known for his playback singing in the Kannada Telugu and Tamil film industries. He had sung in all the main languages of the country but it is in Kannada that he has the highest number of songs in his career.
Colette Bonheur.  Colette Bonheur whose real name is Colette Chailler is a Quebec singer born in Montreal on September 20 1927 and died in Freeport (Bahamas) on October 15 1966.
William Trethewey.  William Thomas Trethewey (8 September 1892 – 4 May 1956) was a sculptor and monumental mason from Christchurch New Zealand. His best known work is the Citizens' War Memorial in Cathedral Square where Christchurch's annual Anzac Day service is held.
Bernie Wrightson.  Bernard Albert Berni(e) Wrightson (born October 27 1948 Baltimore Maryland) is an American artist known for his horror illustrations and comic books.
Hy Kraft.  Hyman Solomon Kraft (April 30 1899 – July 29 1975) aka Hy Kraft or H.S. Kraft was an American screenwriter playwright and theatrical producer.Among the notable comedy plays that he wrote were Ten Per Cent (1932) Poppa (1929) Cafe Crown (1942) and Top Banana (1952). In 1964 Cafe Crown was revised as a Broadway musical produced by Philip Rose and Swanlee with music by Albert Hague and lyrics by Marty Brill.
Maya Bond.  Maya Bond (Japanese: マヤ ボンド; born August 5 2000 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese-born American indie and avant-garde music singer-songwriter and drummer from Austin Texas. She is the daughter of musician and composer T.W. Bond.Bond is most notable for her 2004 debut Pink Drums Purple Lights which she is credited for writing all the song lyrics to.Although Bond was never actually signed to Business Deal Records she is still linked to their roster as an artist.
Peter Cincotti.  Peter Cincotti (born July 11 1983 in New York City) is an American singer songwriter and pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School and Columbia University.[citation needed]
Chris Ivanovich.  Chris Ivanovich is an American musician whose sole act to date has been playing bass guitar with the Seattle-based grunge/metal band My Sister's Machine which he co-founded in 1989 along with former members of the bands Mistrust and Alice N' Chains. The band recorded and released two albums Diva and Wallflower before disbanding in 1994.
Stefani Morgan.  Stefani Morgan (born October 31 1985) is a former American pornographic actress.
Larisa Bakurova.  Larisa Bakurova (Ukrainian: Лариса Бакурова Chinese: 瑞莎; born February 21 1985) is a Ukrainian actress and model based in Taiwan. Besides her modeling engagements she has appeared in supporting roles for the Taiwanese drama They Kiss Again and the film Don't Go Breaking My Heart. In 2012 Bakurova starred in the film Young Dudes directed by DJ Chen Yin-Jung. Bakurova was a professional rhythmic gymnast from ages 3-15 and won numerous national competitions. She was Miss Kiev at age 18.
Denis Taaffe.  Denis Taaffe or Dennis Taafe (bapt. 1759 Clogher County Louth; d. 1813 Dublin) was an Irish political writer also known under the pseudonym Julius Vindex.Educated in Franciscan colleges Taaffe was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1782. He converted to the Church of Ireland by 1788 but returned to Catholicism shortly after. He was soon trying to scrape a living as a tutor and pamphleteer.
Christopher Largen.  Christopher Jon Largen (June 18 1969 – December 22 2012) was a U.S. award-winning journalist novelist social satirist public speaker and filmmaker known for his iconoclastic writings on health and public policy and his efforts to reduce child abuse.
Felipe Archuleta.  Felipe Benito Archuleta (1910 – 1991) was an Hispanic artist who worked mostly in New Mexico. Felipe Benito Archuleta grew up poor. He left school at an early age to work as a field hand and later as a stonemason cook and for many years a carpenter. His Spanish heritage exposed him to bulto making the shaping of wooden religious figures used in shrines. In 1967 unable to find work Felipe prayed to God to alleviate his poverty and desperation.
Princess (singer).  Desiree Heslop (born 27 November 1961) best known as Princess is a British singer who found chart success in the mid-1980s. In the late-1970s she worked with the group Osibisa. Her first solo album Princess (1986) was composed and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman which contained the hit single Say I'm Your Number One.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.  Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) between 1942 and 1946.
Ross Robinson.  Ross Robinson (born February 13th 1967) is an American multi-platinum music producer who has discovered successful acts such as Korn At the Drive-In Glassjaw The Blood Brothers Repeater Slipknot and Limp Bizkit. Robinson has also worked with Tech N9ne Machine Head Vanilla Ice The Cure Sepultura and many others.
Gene Rockwell.  Gene Rockwell (1944–1998) was a South African singer. His 1965 rendition of Heart went directly to the top of the LM Radio Top 20.
Brian Wheat.  Brian Wheat (born November 5 1963 in Sacramento California) best known as the bass guitarist of the band Tesla. He formed the band City Kidd in 1982 with his friend Frank Hannon. After adding Tommy Skeoch Jeff Keith and Troy Luccketta to the lineup the band signed with Geffen Records and changed their name to Tesla.
Charles Jay Connick.  Charles Jay Connick (1875–1945) was a prominent American painter muralist and designer best known for his work in stained glass in the Gothic Revival style. Born in Springboro Pennsylvania Connick eventually settled in the Boston area where he opened his studio in 1913. Connick's work is contained in many preeminent churches and chapels including examples in Boston Chicago Detroit New York City Pittsburgh San Francisco Seattle and Washington D.C.
Scott Storch.  Scott Storch (born December 16 1973) is an American record producer. He produces hip hop music. His label Storch Music Company (formerly Storchaveli Recordings) is responsible for signing Nox.
Val McDermid.  Val McDermid (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation Dr. Tony Hill.
Julie Rogers (singer).  Julie Rogers (born Julie Rolls 6 April 1943 Bermondsey London) is an English pop singer. She is best known for her multi-million selling song The Wedding.
Gillian Chan.  Gillian Chan (born 1954) is a Canadian children's author who lives in Dundas Ontario.Gillian Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Mei-ling's during the Christmas week a year or so after the original diary ended for the Christmas treasury from the Dear Canada series A Season for Miracles: Twelve Tales of Christmas.On October 27 2006 Chan competed on the television show Jeopardy! finishing in third place.
Tara Slone.  Tara Slone (born September 7 1973) is a Canadian rock vocalist.Born in Montreal Quebec and raised in Nova Scotia Slone began pursuing classical voice training at the age of 12 with the goal of becoming an opera singer. At the age of 18 she attended Concordia University to pursue a degree in music. While there however she switched her aspirations to acting and rock music and subsequently moved to Toronto.In 1996 Slone became the lead singer of Joydrop.
Maryam Sachs.  Maryam Sachs (born 25 September 1961 Tehran Iran) is a writer publisher Emeritus Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts and a member of the International Council of the Tate Modern gallery.[citation needed] Her debut novel Sans te dire adieu (Without saying goodbye) initially published in French has been translated into both German and English.
Ferdausi Rahman.  Ferdousi Rahman (Bengali: ফেরদৌসী রহমান) formerly known as Ferdousi Begum (born: 28 June 1941) is a Bangladeshi playback singer and daughter of folk singer Abbas Uddin. Her music career started under her father's direction.
James B. Johnson.  James B. Johnson (born 1944) is an American author of Science Fiction novels.
Jojo Mayer.  Jojo Mayer (born 18 January 1963) is a Swiss drummer born in Zürich and currently residing in New York City. He plays Vic Firth sticks Sonor drums Sabian cymbals and evans heads.Mayer is the son of a touring musician and began his career as a drummer at an early age receiving his first drum set at the age of two. Having taught himself throughout his childhood he broke out into the professional music scene at the age of 18 joining the Monty Alexander group.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall.  Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868 – June 1956) who wrote under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Friends of Voltaire which she completed in 1906.In her biography on Voltaire Hall wrote the phrase: I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.
Eric Dill.  Eric Dill (born Eric Murnan Dill February 10 1981) is an American singer and songwriter.
Alighiero Boetti.  Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti known as Alighiero e Boetti (December 16 1940 – February 24 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world Mappa created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning' leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'.
David Schwartz (violist).  David Schwartz (June 18 1916 – June 5 2013) was an American violist and music instructor. Schwartz's career spanned orchestral music chamber music and studio recording but he is most recognized for his chamber music performances and recordings with the Yale and Paganini Quartets.
Christopher Vogler.  Christopher Vogler is a Hollywood development executive best known for his guide for screenwriters The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers.
Géza Pap.  Géza Pap (Ungvár 1883 - ?) was a Hungarian painter. he studied in School of Applied Arts and the Decorative Arts School in Budapest. In the 1910s he was connected to the Hungarian artist colony in Baia Mare. Pap is best notable for expressionist paintings and graphical works including landscapes.
William Brinsley Nicholson.  William Brinsley Nicholson JP MBE (26 August 1877 – 25 November 1957) was a New Zealand clerk local politician builder journalist and editor. He was born in Opotiki Bay of Plenty New Zealand on 26 August 1877. He was elected to the Petone Borough Council aged 23.
Mithoon.  Mithoon Sharma (born January 11 1985) is an Indian film music composer and singer. He is the son of Naresh Sharma who has scored background music for more than 200 movies.
Jane Reumert.  Jane Reumert (born 1942) is a Danish ceramist. Reumert was born in Gentofte Denmark and worked as a professional ceramist since the 1960s. Reumert's influences range from nature to calligraphy. She has stated that she was interested in nature and especially birds from her early youth. Those motives are found in her work of the 2000s.
J. Timothy Hunt.  James Timothy Hunt (born April 1 1959) is an American-Canadian author and journalist. He has also written children's books under the pen name Tim Beiser.
Zaki Ibrahim.  Zaki Ibrahim is a South African-Canadian singer-songwriter. Her music blends R&B soul and jazz.
Jasmine Richards.  Jasmine Denise Richards (born June 28 1990) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is the best known for portraying Peggy in Camp Rock and the sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam Margaret Browning-Levesque in the Family Channel sitcom Naturally Sadie and Judge Tara in Overruled!.
Marq Torien.  Marq Torien (born Mark Joseph Maytorena on September 22 1961 in Los Angeles California) is the lead singer of the hard rock act BulletBoys. He is the only member to have remained with the group since the release of their self-titled debut album in 1988.
Giuseppe Zamponi.  To be distinguished from the physicist Giuseppe ZamboniGiuseppe Zamponi also Gioseffo Zamponi (or Zamboni Samponi c.1615 – February 1662) was an Italian composer best remembered for his opera Ulisse all'isola di Circe performed in Brussels in 1650 which was the first opera performed in the low countries at the time part of the Spanish ruled Southern Netherlands.Zamponi was born in Rome and was the organist at Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore then known as San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome's Piazza Navona from 1629-1638 substituting for Paolo Tarditi (c.1580-1661). 
William Salter (artist).  William Salter (1804–1875) was an English portrait painter of the 19th century. His best known work was a painting of 83 people at a banquet in 1836 organised by the Duke of Wellington to celebrate their victory at the Battle of Waterloo. The painting is called the The Waterloo Banquet 1836 and today is at Apsley House.
Doug Murray (comics).  Doug Murray is an American comic book writer. He served in the Vietnam War and was the main writer on the popular comic book series The 'Nam.
Arijana Marić Gigliani.  Arijana Marić Gigliani (pronounced [arijǎːna mǎːritɕ dʑiʎâːni]; born 27 February 1979) is a Croatian-Bosnian opera singer (dramatic soprano). Her voice is known for its power and extension usable in many operatic roles.
Fiona Bevan.  Fiona Bevan is an English singer-songwriter from Suffolk who lives in Hackney London. She wrote with Ed Sheeran the song Little Things which became a number-one single for English-Irish boy band One Direction. She also performed on Gwyneth Herbert's 2013 album The Sea Cabinet sharing writing credits on two of the songs. Her solo releases include the 2011 EP Us and the Darkness.
Violet Fane.  Violet Fane was the literary pseudonym of Mary Baroness Currie née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (24 February 1843 Beauport Park – 13 October 1905 Harrogate) a British novelist poet and essayist of Victorian era.
Rosie Smith.  Rosie Smith (born Rosemary Ellen Smith 20 July 1983 London) is an English rock and metal musician best known as the former keyboardist of the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth with whom she remained until 2009.
Lilli Carré.  Lilli Carré (born 1983) is a contemporary artist film maker and cartoonist from Los Angeles. She now lives and works in Chicago.
Conrado Nalé Roxlo.  Conrado Nalé Roxlo (February 15 1898 – July 2 1971) was an Argentine writer journalist and humorist who was born and died in Buenos Aires.
Mark Shaw (singer).  Mark Shaw (born Mark Robert Tiplady on 10 June 1961 in Chesterfield Derbyshire England) is an English singer who formed the 1980s rock band Then Jerico which he continues to front.
Maiday.  Maiday is an English singer-songwriter from Worcestershire now living in Bow East London. Currently she is preparing for her debut album release.Maiday stylized as MΔîDΔY has written for a number of other artists including Wretch 32 Leona Lewis Girls Aloud and Josh Kumra.
Gary Seligson.  Gary Seligson (born 14 September 1961) is an American drummer and percussionist from West Orange New Jersey. A graduate from the The Hart School he is one of the most sought after drummers in New York. Gary has played in many Broadway hits including Tarzan AIDA and Wicked. He was also the drummer for Broadway show Billy Elliot's 3 year run performing at the Imperial Theatre.
Oskar Hoffmann.  Oskar Hoffmann (October 29 1866 in Gotha - December 21 1928 in Wiesbaden) was a German author of science fiction novels.Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff has been attributed to him.
Nicholas Gatty.  Nicholas Comyn Gatty (13 September 1874 – 10 November 1946) was an English composer and music critic. As a composer his major output was opera which was generally musically undistinguished but well-presented theatrically. As a critic he worked for the Pall Mall Gazette and The Times and served as assistant editor for the second and third editions of Grove.He was born in Bradfield Yorkshire the second son of the Revd Reginald Gatty.
Frayser Boy.  Frayser Boy (born Cedric Coleman) is an American rapper. He was formerly signed to Hypnotize Minds the label run by Three 6 Mafia members DJ Paul and Juicy J. He had released 3 albums under the Hypnotize label: Gone on That Bay (2003) Me Being Me (2005) and Da Key (2008). Frayser is now signed to Lil Wyte's label Wyte Music and has a mixtape due for release July 4th with Wyte Music Ceo Partee entitled The First 48.
Heinrich Leopold Wagner.  Heinrich Leopold Wagner (February 19 1747 – March 4 1779) was a German dramatist.Wagner was born in Strasbourg and is chiefly known for his 1776 tragedy Die Kindermörderin. He died aged 32 in Frankfurt.
James R. Flynn (songwriter).  Jim Flynn (Born March 24 1938) is an American country music songwriter.
Victor Merzhanov.  Victor Karpovich Merzhanov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ка́рпович Мержа́нов) (August 15 1919 – December 20 2012) was a Russian pianist.
Jakub Martinec.  Jakub Martinec is assistant professor of choral activities at Memorial University of Newfoundland a doctoral candidate in music at the University of Western Ontario and Artistic Advisor former Conductor and Founding Artistic Director of the Czech Boys Choir.
Richard Jones (Stereophonics).  Richard Jones (born 23 May 1974) is the bassist and backing vocalist for the Welsh rock band Stereophonics playing alongside Kelly Jones (no relation) Adam Zindani and Jamie Morrison. Jones grew up in Cwmaman an old mining village in South Wales. Richard originally formed the band with Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable (former drummer of Stereophonics) playing under different band names such as 'Silent Runner' 'Tragic Love Company' and 'Mable Cable'.
Dan Abnett.  Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is a British comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics and their UK imprint Marvel UK since the 1990s and also 2000 AD.
Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant.  Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (August 28 1880 – June 20 1970) was a Brazilian juvenile writer. She was born in Diamantina Minas Gerais Brazil to a British-Brazilian father and a Portuguese-Brazilian mother. In 1893 at the age of 12 Alice began a diary an astute and often amusing chronicle of daily happenings among her family servants and the small mining town Diamantina. The published diary ends in 1895.
C. C. Beck.  Charles Clarence Beck (June 8 1910 – November 22 1989) was an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his work on Captain Marvel at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics.He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997.
Bianka (singer).  Bianka (born September 17 1985) is a Belarusian-Russian singer song writer and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2005 with the release of her song Swan which later on became the soundtrack to the Russian film Бой с тенью Shadow Boxing.
Jacek Yerka.  Jacek Yerka is a Polish painter from Toruń. Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland Germany Monaco France and the United States and may be found in the museums of Poland.
Jan Thorn Prikker.  Johan Thorn Prikker (June 5 1868 The Hague - March 5 1932 Cologne) was a Dutch painter and designer in the Art Nouveau style. He was an important figure in religious art best known for his stained glass windows. His most famous painting is the mystical The Bride (1893) in the Kroller-Muller Museum Otterlo. A large stained glass window The Artist as Teacher of Trade and Industry (1911) is in the entrance hall to Hagen Hauptbahnhof.
Peter Crawford (fimmaker).  Peter Crawford is a British award-winning freelance film-maker author photographer and lecturer.
William Goldman.  William Goldman (born August 12 1931) is an American novelist playwright and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976) about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon.
Leroy Drumm.  Leroy Maxey Drumm (September 26 1936 – November 26 2010) was born in Algonac Michigan is an American and a bluegrass/country music songwriter who served in the United States Navy in the 3rd Division as a sonar man aboard the USS Soley (DD-707) an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer and deployed to the Mediterranean from July 1956 to February 1957. Upon leaving the navy he worked as a general laborer and welder in and around Detroit MI.
Perry Hoberman.  Perry Hoberman (born 1954) is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson and the USC Interactive Media Division.He has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art the San Francisco Art Institute and the graduate Computer Art Department in the school of Visual Arts in New York.
Mai Hoshikawa.  Mai Hoshikawa (星河 舞 Hoshikawa Mai born Miwa Yanagihara (柳原美和 Yanagihara Miwa) on December 4 1972) is a Japanese voice actress from Sapporo Hokkaido. She was part of Haikyo now she is part of Atomic Monkey.
Fred E. Miller.  Fred E. Miller (1868 – 1936) was an American photographer who worked at Crow Agency. He photographed mostly Crow Indians.Miller's works collected by his daughter were published as Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows in 1985.
Martin Feveyear.  Martin Feveyear is a British record producer and audio engineer based in Seattle Washington. Beginning as a singer-songwriter and musician Feveyear soon began recording work for artists in both the UK and US before moving to Seattle at the age of 25. Together with Christian Fulghum (former bassist for Sister Psychic) he opened Jupiter Studios in Seattle in 1996.
Clémentine Delauney.  Clémentine Delauney (born 11 February 1987) is a French soprano singer from Lyon.She is best known to be the current lead female vocalist for Austrian symphonic metal bands Serenity Visions of Atlantis and French opera metal band Melted Space.She was known to be as the former vocalist of French philharmonic metal band Whyzdom from late 2010 to early 2012.
Johnnie Schofield.  Johnnie Schofield (1899–1955) was a British actor.
Sergio Román Armendáriz.  Sergio Román Armendáriz (b. Riobamba Ecuador February 12 1934) is an Ecuadorian poet playwright and university teacher. Roman Sergio Armendariz was born in Riobamba Ecuador on February 12 1934 at the home of Roman Nazario Armendariz Krelowa and Alejandrina Carranza. Armendáriz began his schooling in Guayaquil's Salesian College Christopher Columbus. He earned a bachelors degree from the Vicente Rocafuerte College in 1951.
Oscar Oiwa.  Oscar Oiwa (in Japanese: 大岩オスカール) is a painter who was born in Brazil son of Japanese immigrants. He received his B.F.A. (1989) from the School of Architecture and Urbanism São Paulo University. Oiwa was influenced by comic books art and magazines throughout his youth as well as the urban environment of his birthplace. He experienced contemporary art during this time in nearby galleries and became an assistant at the São Paulo Art Biennial.
Lexy (singer).  Hwang Hyo-sook (Hangul: 황효숙; born May 3 1977) better known by her stage name Lexy (Hangul: 렉시 stylized as LEXY) is a South Korean female soloist who debuted in 2003 under YG Entertainment. She was the first solo female rap artist to debut under the company.
Elia Cmíral.  Elia David Cmíral (pronounced ts:mee-rahl) (born October 1 1950) is a film composer. He was born in Czechoslovakia to an actress and a stage director and emigrated to Sweden moving to the United States in 1987. There he attended the University of Southern California and scored for an independent film entitled Apartment Zero.
Aoi Nanase.  Aoi Nanase (七瀬 葵 Nanase Aoi) is a Japanese manga artist.
Domenichino.  Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino; October 21 1581 – April 6 1641) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School or Carracci School of painters.
Edith Ker.  Édith Ker born Édith Denise Keraudren (1910–1997) was a French actress born in Brest (Finistère). She is best known to English-speaking audiences as the grandmother in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen.
Amanda Palmer.  Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30 1976) sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer pianist and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has had a successful solo career is also one half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn and is the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra.
Todd Lockwood.  Todd Wills Lockwood (born July 9 1957) born in Boulder Colorado is an American artist specializing in fantasy and science fiction illustration. He is best known for his work on the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and for his covers for the books of R.A. Salvatore.
John Cornelius O'Callaghan (writer).  John Cornelius O'Callaghan (1805 – 24 April 1883) was an Irish historian and writer. He is best remembered for his work History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France.O'Callaghan was born in Dublin. His father was a solicitor from Talbot St. in the city; his mother (née Donovan) came from the south of the country. He was educated at Clongowes Wood and later at a school in Blanchardstown.He first started writing in the Comet and in the Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature.
Fewlass Llewellyn.  Fewlass Llewellyn (born 5 March 1886 in Hull East Riding of Yorkshire-died 16 June 1941 in London) was an English film actor.
Vicki Carpenter.  Vicki Carpenter is a British actress and director best known for her appearances as both Lulu and Rirette in Michael Almaz's Intimacy a play based on the short story by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Josh Alan Friedman.  Josh Alan Friedman (born February 22 1956) is an American musician writer editor and journalist. Widely known for his 1986 collection Tales of Times Square and his often-controversial comix collaborations with his brother artist Drew Friedman many of which are compiled in the books Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental and Warts and All. Friedman is also a successful musician and songwriter recording and performing under the moniker Josh Alan.
Chris McKhool.  Chris McKhool (born November 18 1968) is a Canadian violinist guitarist composer producer and singer-songwriter. He has received numerous awards for his work including a Juno Award nomination for his 2008 children's album Fiddlefire!
Moshe Rynecki.  Moshe Rynecki (1881–1943) was a Polish artist of Jewish origins. He was born in Miedzyrzec Podlaski Poland to a hasidic family. Moshe was one of five surviving children of the thirteen born to his parents.
Marco Luque.  Marcos Marco Luque Martins (born April 8 1974) is a Brazilian humorist well known for his performances as a stand-up comedian and as one of the hosts of the Brazilian version for the Argentinian TV program CQC - Caiga Quien Caiga - (Spanish for Whoever might fall) in Portuguese Custe o que Custar (Whatever it takes).
Donnell Rawlings.  Donnell M. Rawlings is an American comedian actor and radio host best known as a cast member on the Comedy Central sketch comedy TV series Chappelle's Show.
Chris Jury.  Chris Jury (born 28 September 1956 in Coventry) is an English actor/writer/director with a range of television credits. He is best known for his role as Eric Catchpole in the antique trade drama Lovejoy starring Ian McShane which he played between 1986 (series 1) and from 1991 (series 2) to 1993 (series 4) with a brief return in 1994 (series 5) for the show's finale.
Pietro Ròi.  Pietro Ròi (Sandrigo 1819 - Venice 1896) was an Italian painter.He initially studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice but then traveled to Rome in 1843 where he was influenced by the Neoclassic and Romantic artists Minardi and Consoni and the Nazarene painter Overbeck. He traveled extensively through Europe but finally settled in Venice. He painted historical paintings portraits and landscapes. He has a self-portrait at the Uffizi in Florence.
Andres Carciente.  Andres Carciente is a Venezuelan pianist. He was born and graduated in Caracas as a Performer Professor of Piano.His debut as a soloist was playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto Nr. 1 with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra.
Daisy Martin.  Daisy Martin (fl. c.1914–c.1925) was an African American actress and blues singer in the classic female blues style.She toured America's eastern and midwestern states in black vaudeville in the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1914 she appeared in the revue My Friend From Kentucky at the National Theater in Chicago Illinois. In 1917 she performed in the musical comedy My People which also featured Sam Gray and Julia Moody.
Georg Heym.  Georg Heym (30 October 1887– 16 January 1912) was a German writer. He is particularly known for his poetry representative of early Expressionism.
Safvet beg Bašagić.  Dr. Safvet beg Bašagić (6 May 1870 – 9 April 1934) also known as Mirza Safvet was a Bosnian writer considered the father of Bosnian Renaissance and one of most cherished poets of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the turn of the 20th century. He was a founder of the cultural society and magazine Gajret and was elected President of the Bosnian council in 1910. He is also well known for his lexicon that exceeded seven hundred biographies that he compiled over decades.
Salcia Landmann.  Salcia Landmann born Salcia Passweg (Hebrew: זלציה לנדמן‎; November 18 1911 – May 16 2002) was a Jewish writer. She was born in Zhovkva Galicia and died in St. Gallen Switzerland. She worked on preserving the Yiddish language and she wrote the important work Der Jüdische Witz (Jewish Humor). She was one of the founders of the International PEN in Liechtenstein. She had one son and was married to philosopher Michael Landmann since 1939.
Jacques-Louis Copia.  Jacques-Louis Copia a French engraver was born at Landau in 1764. He went to Paris and among other plates executed a charming little portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette after Piauger which is very rare. He also engraved a head of Marat terribly startling in its ghastliness from a drawing made by David immediately after his assassination. But Copia is chiefly identified with Prud'hon the voluptuous genius of whose works no one has more fully comprehended.
Ludwig Uhland.  Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet philologist and literary historian.
Ashwin Sanghi.  Ashwin Sanghi (born January 25 1969) is an Indian author in the thriller fiction genre. He is the author of three bestselling novels The Rozabal Line Chanakya's Chant and The Krishna Key. All his books have been based on historical theological and mythological themes. He is one of India's bestselling conspiracy fiction writers and is an author of the new era of retelling Indian history or mythology in a contemporary context. Forbes India has included him in their Forbes India Celebrity 100.
Victor Rodrigues.  Victor Rodrigues (Konkani: विक्टर रोद्रिगुएस (Devanagari) ವಿಕ್ಟೊರ್ ರೋದ್ರಿಗುಎಸ್ (Kannada); 8 February 1944 – 5 July 2010) was a Konkani novelist and short story writer from Mangalore India. He was among the most prominent novelists in the field of Konkani literature. Rodrigues specialised in writing serialised novels of extraordinary length running into more than 150 chapters.
Ivana Santilli.  Ivana Daniela Santilli (born in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the 1990s R&B/pop combo Bass is Base.
Ayame Goriki.  Ayame Goriki (剛力 彩芽 Gōriki Ayame born August 27 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and model.
Syed Waliullah.  Syed Waliullah (সৈয়দ ওয়ালিউল্লাহ) (1922–1971) was a Bangladeshi novelist short-story writer and playwright. He is most well known in Bengali literature for his first novel Lalsalu (translated as Tree Without Roots though it literally means Red cloth). He is a cousin of physicist and mathematician Jamal Nazrul Islam
Edward Baluyut.  Edward Baluyut (born April 20 1968 in Detroit Michigan) is the drummer for the bands Versus and The Pacific Ocean.He currently resides in Great Neck New York and is an English teacher for the Great Neck North High School.
Nathan Williams (Zydeco).  Nathan Williams (born 1964) is an American Zydeco accordionist and singer.Williams grew up in a Creole-speaking home in St. Martinville Louisiana the youngest of seven children. Times were hard for the Williams family and Williams lost his father when he was only seven years old. He developed his musical sensibility in his hometown a place rich in folk tradition following in the footsteps of his uncle the Cajun guitarist Harry Hypolite.
Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof.  Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (22 October 1924—2 April 2011) commonly known as Cham Joof (pen name: Alh. A.E. Cham Joof) was a Gambian historian politician author trade unionist broadcaster radio programme director scout master Pan-Africanist lecturer columnist activist and a nationalist who advocated for the Gambia's independence during the colonial era.
Dakota Bradley.  Dakota Bradley (born in St. Louis Missouri) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
James Genus.  James Genus (January 20 1966) is an American jazz bassist. He plays both electric bass guitar and upright bass and currently plays in the Saturday Night Live Band. Genus has performed as a session musician and sideman throughout his career with an impressive list of artists with whom he has worked.Genus was born in Hampton Virginia. He began on guitar at age six and switched to bass at 13.
Saki Kagami.  Saki Kagami (加賀美早紀 Kagami Saki) born on February 26 1985 is a Japanese actress. Her acting career began in early 2001 when she was cast for the lead role in the movie Platonic Sex among 12083 applicants. Now she is probably best known for roles in various TV Dramas and tokusatsu shows such as Ultraseven X and Kamen Rider Kiva. She was represented by Watanabe Entertainment.
Jerry Portnoy.  Jerry Portnoy (born November 25 1943 Chicago Illinois United States) is an American harmonica blues musician who has toured with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.
Peter Steele.  Peter Thomas Ratajczyk (January 4 1962 – April 14 2010) better known by his stage name Peter Steele was the lead singer bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative he had created the metal group Fallout and the thrash band Carnivore.As the frontman for Type O Negative Steele was known for his vampiric effect towering stature rich bass-baritone vocals and a dark often self-deprecating sense of humor.
Loïc Jouannigot.  Loïc Jouannigot (b. 1953 in Brittany France) is a children's book illustrator. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts he has worked for the children's book and advertising industries. His work has appeared in the Beechwood Bunny Tales (La Famille Passiflore) series by Geneviève Huriet as well as Claude Clément's Les Pataclous.Jouannigot was a silent partner with another French-born illustrator Michel Plessix in recent artwork for Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
Katy Steele.  Katy Steele (born 9 September 1983) is the vocalist guitarist and songwriter of the four piece rock band Little Birdy.
Armando Flores.  Armando Flores (Mexico City) is a Mexican performer of Christian music.
Elie Saab.  Elie Saab (Arabic: إيلي صعب) (born July 4 1964) sometimes known simply as 'ES' is a Lebanese fashion designer. His main workshop is in Lebanon with additional workshops in Milan and Paris.
Sinan Antoon.  Sinan Antoon (born 1967) (Arabic: سنان أنطون‎) is an Iraqi poet novelist scholar and an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University. He was featured in the 2003 documentary film About Baghdad which he also co-directed.
Patricia Wells.  Patricia Wells (born 5 November 1946 in Milwaukee Wisconsin) is a cookbook author and teacher who divides her time between Paris and Provence. Her book Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996) won the James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook. Wells is the only American and the only woman to be a restaurant critic for a major French publication L'Express (1988–1991).
Yngvar Hauge.  Yngvar Hauge (1899 – 1977) was a Norwegian novelist and non-fiction writer. Among his novels are Ulv av Launæs from 1924 and Arven fra Østråt from 1964. He wrote books on the estate Bogstad on the iron foundry Ulefos Jernværk and on the newspaper Morgenbladet. He was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1964.
Jenny Conlee.  Jenny Conlee is the accordionist pianist organist keyboardist melodica player and an occasional backup singer and harmonicist for the indie rock quintet The Decemberists.
Larry Smith (editor).  Larry Smith (born September 17 1968 in New Jersey) is an American author and editor and publisher of SMITH Magazine. He is best known for developing the best-selling book series Six-Word Memoirs a literary subgenre that took on a life of its own in popular culture as publications began holding reader contests and publishing the results.
Ben Marwood.  Ben Marwood is an English singer-songwriter from the English town of Reading.
Gaetano Vetturali.  Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca 1701-1783) was an Italian painter.
Richard Lam.  Richard Lam Chun-Keung was a Cantopop lyricist with several hundred Cantopop songs to his name and a columnist for Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Hong Kong.
Chris Rainbow.  Chris Rainbow (born Christopher James Harley 18 November 1946 Glasgow) is a Scottish rock singer and musician who had two minor hit songs Give Me What I Cry For and Solid State Brain in the 1970s.Apart from his solo career he also made frequent vocal contributions to The Alan Parsons Project starting on their 1979 Eve album through to their 1987 album Gaudi and Eric Woolfson's Freudiana (1990) (an APP album in all but name).
Nhu Loan.  Như Loan (born April 20 1981) is a Vietnamese singer who is currently signed under the music label Thúy Nga; one of the largest overseas Vietnamese music productions that is responsible for Paris By Night a hit musical variety show. Như Loan was introduced to Thúy Nga Paris By Night through designer Calvin Hiep whom she has modeled for in the past.
Mikhail Romadin.  Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Ромадин) (born 12 April 1940) is a Russian painter book illustrator movie art designer and theater artist. He graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. He is a third generation artist; his grandfather M.A. Romadin was a primitive style painter and his father N.M. Romadin was a landscape artist.
Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco.  Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco (1648–1717) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Genoa son and pupil of the painter Giuseppe Badaracco. After studying some time under his father he went to Rome and entered the school of Carlo Maratta. He also painted in Naples and Venice then returned to Genoa.Among his main paintings the two large pictures that depict St.
Cristoforo Ciocca.  Cristoforo Ciocca (1462-1542) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance active in Milan. Little biographical information is known except that he was the pupil of Gian Paolo Lomazzo. He painted a San Cristoforo altarpiece for the church of San Vittore al Corpo Milan . He mainly painted sacred subjects and portraits.
Arlette Cousture.  Arlette Cousture OC CQ (born April 3 1948) is a Canadian writer.Cousture was born in Saint-Lambert Quebec.In 1998 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2012 she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.
Emil Cadkin.  Emil M. Cadkin (Эмиль Cadkin) is an American TV and film composer of Russian descent who worked mainly as a production music composer. He worked with Bill Loose (1910–1991) and Harry Bluestone (1907–1992). Some of his music was also featured on APM Music. Cadkin composed music for 1940s '50s and '60s films and cartoons including Gumby and Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie.
Victoria Shaw (singer).  Victoria Lynn Shaw (born July 13 1962 in Manhattan New York City New York) is an American country music artist. She has recorded four studio albums and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. In addition she has co-written four Number One singles for other country music artists including John Michael Montgomery's I Love the Way You Love Me which won the 1993 Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year.
Arjun Sasi.  Arjun Sasi is an Indian singer. He is a multi-talented person who stepped into the music field through S5 band which was formed in the year 2004. He has his hands on song writing cum rapping along with singing.
Clayton Bellamy.  Clayton Bellamy is a Canadian singer/songwriter who performs country music.He grew up in Bonnyville Alberta before his family settled in Nashville Tennessee.He has won many awards including a Juno for Best Country Recording a four time Canadian Country Music Award winner Canadian Country Music Awards and SOCAN Songwriter of the Year award. Clayton has dominated the stage performing at the Grand Ole Opry and even for President Carter.
Phil Nyokai James.  Phil Nyokai James is a professional shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) teacher and performer as well as avant-garde composer. Born in New York in 1954 James studied shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and Yodo Kurahashi. After receiving his master's license (shihan level) he began teaching and performing throughout the United States. His shakuhachi dojo is centered in Portland Maine.
Glen Meadmore.  Glen Meadmore is a Canadian musician actor and performance artist currently residing in Los Angeles. He has been described as ...the world's greatest exponent of the genre known as gay Christian punk. He is sometimes referred to as Cowpunk.
Simon Paisley Day.  Simon Paisley Day (born 1967 in Gillingham Kent) also known as Simon Day is a British stage and screen actor. His most recent work includes Timon Of Athens (2008) Entertaining Mr Sloane (2009) Private Lives (2010) Twelfth Night (National Theatre 2011) The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's Globe 2012) and portraying Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon in the 2012 ITV mini-series Titanic.
Kumiko Akiyoshi.  Kumiko Onodera (小野寺 久美子 Onodera Kumiko) (born July 29 1954) better known as Kumiko Akiyoshi (秋吉 久美子 Akiyoshi Kumiko) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 1st Hochi Film Award for Banka Saraba natsuno hikariyo and Brother and Sister.
Jonathan Swift.  Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs then for the Tories) poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin.He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal A Journal to Stella Drapier's Letters The Battle of the Books An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub.
Christina Courtenay.  Christina Courtenay is the pseudonym used by Pia Tapper Fenton (b. England) a British-Swedish writer of romance novels since 2009.She was elected the twenty-sixth Chairman (2013–2015) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Barrence Whitfield.  Barrence Whitfield (born Barry White June 13 1955) is an American soul and R&B vocalist best known as the frontman for Barrence Whitfield & the Savages in the 1980s and 1990s.
Bill Danoff.  William T. Bill Danoff (born May 7 1946 Springfield Massachusetts) is an American songwriter and singer. His best-known song is Afternoon Delight which he wrote and performed as a member of the Starland Vocal Band. As a songwriter he also wrote or co-wrote hits for John Denver Emmylou Harris and Doug and the Slugs.
J. Robert Bradley.  John Robert Lee Bradley (October 5 1919 – May 3 2007) was an American gospel music singer. He was the favorite singer of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was nicknamed Mr.
Barron Storey.  Barron Storey (born 1940 Dallas TX) is an American illustrator graphic novelist and educator. He is famous for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist as well as for his career as a teacher. Storey has taught illustration since the 1970s and currently is on the faculty of California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has also taught at San Jose State University and Pixar Studios.
Rina Lasnier.  Rina Lasnier GOQ (6 August 1915 – 9 May 1997) was a Canadian Québécoise poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville=Mont-Saint-Grégoire Quebec she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal.
Ria (singer).  Ria is a New Zealand R&B/pop singer. She is best known for her singles Over You and All My Ladies. She went to an all-girl school in Auckland called Auckland Girls Grammar School. RIA started performing at a young age before progressing in her teens to leading an all-girl band Vivah to becoming winners of the national Smokefree Pacifica Beats in 2007. RIA is a graduate from the Music & Audio Institute of NZ (MAINZ) and singing tutor at the Otara Music Centre (OMAC).
Anne Gadegaard.  Anne Mondrup Gadegaard Jensen (born 7 November 1991 in Århus Region Midtjylland Denmark) better known as Anne Gadegaard is a Danish singer and songwriter. She is best known for finishing 5th at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 while representing Denmark.
Guido Ponzini.  Guido Ponzini is a young Italian stick-bass player.He works playing his solo compositions and with flute master Guo Yue.Guido plays also in Shan Qi and with bajan virtuoso Vladimir Denissenkov and as guest with Adel Salameh and Ayub Ogada. He recorded his first solo cd end 2005 called “Twilight Town” including compositions by him and Giovanni Amighetti.Cd came out 20 October 2006 released by German company Ozella Music.Guido Ponzini was born on April 21 1985 in Manerbio Italy.
Stéphane Paquette.  Stéphane (Stef) Paquette (born 1973 in Chelmsford Ontario) is a Franco-Ontarian singer-songwriter and actor from Canada.A founding member of the band Les Chaizes Muzikales in 1993 Paquette launched a solo career in 2002 with his first solo album L'Homme exponentiel. His second solo album Salut de l'arrière pays was released in 2011 and won a number of awards including the Prix Trille Or from the Association des professionels de la chanson et de la musique in 2013.
Emma Holly.  Emma Holly (born 1961 New Jersey) is American author who specializes in writing erotica-romance novels often with a focus on BDSM. She has written over twenty books and was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2004 RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance.
Kosha Dillz.  Rami Matan Even-Esh (בעברית: רמי מתן אבן-אש) better known by his stage name Kosha Dillz is an Israeli-Sephardic-American Jewish hip hop MC based in Los Angeles. He rhymes in English Hebrew and Spanish.
Khadijah Hashim.  Khadijah Hashim (born 20 April 1942 in Batu Pahat Johor Malaysia) is a Malaysian writer teacher and journalist. She has worked as a teacher and also as a journalist with local newspapers Utusan Melayu (1974–1976) and Berita Harian (1976–1985). She is more well known as a novelist and has produced 19 novels. She also expanded her creativity in the field of short stories radio drama scripts children's books rhymes and poetry.
Djivan Gasparyan.  Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan; Armenian: Ջիվան Գասպարյան Armenian pronunciation: [dʒiˈvɑn ɡɑspɑɾˈjɑn]; born October 12 1928) is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the Master of the duduk.
Don Alias.  Charles 'Don' Alias (December 25 1939 in New York City – March 29 2006 in New York City) was an American jazz percussionist. Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums.
Hilary Tann.  Hilary Tann (born 1947) is a Welsh composer now based in the United States.Tann holds degrees in music composition from the University of Wales Cardiff and Princeton University. Her compositions are published by Oxford University Press. Tann's orchestral works have been released on the North/South Recordings CD Here the Cliffs - “music of great integrity impeccable craft and genuine expressive ambition” Robert Carl Fanfare 36:I.
Poopy.  Josée Helihanta Ramahavalisoa better known by her stage name Poopy is a Malagasy pop singer who began singing in 1983. She has been active in promoting gender equity and educating young mothers about breastfeeding their infants as a nutrition ambassador for UNICEF.She has two children a son and a daughter.
Ann Savoy.  Ann Savoy (/sɑːˈvwɑː/; born Ann Allen on January 20 1952) is a musician author and record producer.
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.  Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (Tamil: செம்மங்குடி ராதாக்ரிஷ்ண ஸ்ரீநிவாஸ அயர்) (July 25 1908 - October 31 2003) was a Carnatic vocalist. He was the youngest recipient of the Sangeetha Kalanidhi awarded by the Music Academy in 1947 and has received many awards including Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan from the Government of India Sangeet Natak Academy award (1953) Isai Perarignar from Government of Tamil Nadu and Kalidas Samman from Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Meish Goldish.  Meish Goldish (born Tulsa Oklahoma) is an author of fiction and nonfiction books and poetry. He has written over 300 books ranging from 8-page and 16-page readers for school children to books over 100 pages long for libraries. One of his biggest-selling books is called 101 Science Poems and Songs for Young Learners. Another big seller is Making Multiplication Easy.
Kseniya Simonova.  Kseniya Simonova (Ukrainian: Ксенія Симонова; married name: Kseniya Paskar Ксенія Паскар) is the 2009 winner of the TV contest Ukraine’s Got Talent which is part of the Got Talent series. She is a performance artist in sand animation and a philanthropist.
Lasha Bugadze.  Lasha Bugadze (born 1977) is a Georgian playwright. Among his noteworthy plays are Shocked Tatyana which satirizes war heroism and writer of Soldier Love Bodyguard and ... the President.
Louis Köhler.  Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (5 September 1820 – 16 February 1886) was a German composer conductor and piano teacher.Köhler was born in Braunschweig. He studied piano in Vienna under Carl Maria von Bocklet Simon Sechter and Ignaz von Seyfried. As a conductor he worked in Marienburg and Elbing. After that he settled in Königsberg in 1847 after which time he concentrated on piano teaching and writings on music. Among his pupils were Adolf Jensen and Hermann Goetz.
Fred Negro.  Frederick John Negro (born 1959) is an Australian satirist musician songwriter and cartoonist. He has fronted numerous rock punk and country bands.
Sophie B. Hawkins.  Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born November 1 1967) is an American singer songwriter musician and painter. Her highest-charting singles are Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover Right Beside You and As I Lay Me Down.
Louis Rhead.  Louis John Rhead (November 6 1857 – July 29 1926) was an English-born American artist illustrator author and angler who was born in Etruria Staffordshire England. He emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-four.
Hinrik Funhof.  Hinrik Funhof (d. 1485 also spelled Henrik Funhof) was a late Gothic painter who lived and worked in Hamburg. After the death of his colleague Hans Bornemann in 1475 he took over Bornemann's studio and married his widow. When Funhof died ten years later she remarried to another Hamburg painter Absolon Stumme.
Stuart J. Byrne.  Stuart James Byrne (October 26 1913 - September 23 2011) was an American screenwriter and writer of science fiction and fantasy. He published under his own name and the pseudonyms Rothayne Amare John Bloodstone Howard Dare and Marx Kaye (a house pseudonym).
Alfred Jacob Miller.  Alfred Jacob Miller (January 2 1810 – June 26 1874) was an American painter and sketcher best known for his paintings concerning the northwestern United States.
Stala.  Sampsa Astala (born January 23 1974 in Vantaa Finland) is the lead singer of the Finnish glam rock band Stala & So. and the former drummer for the metal band Lordi. His former stage name that he used in his time in Lordi Kita comes from the Finnish word meaning jaws gap or maw. His current stage name Stala comes from his own surname Astala.Kita joined Lordi in 2000 and with the band went on to win the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.
Jeanne Betancourt.  Jeanne Betancourt (born October 2 1941 in Vermont) is a renowned American author and television script writer best known for her Pony Pals series of books.
John Mellencamp.  John Mellencamp also known as John Cougar Mellencamp (born October 7 1951) is an American rock singer-songwriter musician painter and occasional actor known for his catchy populist brand of heartland rock which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States.
Björn Gedda.  Björn Roger Gedda (born 3 March 1942 in Solna but grew up in Boden) is a Swedish actor. He was stepfather to Johanna Sällström.
James Spradley.  James P. Spradley (1933-1982) was a professor of Anthropology at Macalester College from 1969. Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research including Participant Observation and The Ethnographic Interview (1979 Wadsworth Thomson Learning). In The Ethnographic Interview Spradley describes 12 steps for developing an ethnographic study using ethnosemantics. This book followed his 1972 textbook (with David W.
Caroline Townshend.  Caroline Charlotte Townshend (1878–1944) was a British stained glass artist of the Arts and Crafts Movement. She trained at Slade School of Fine Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts before becoming a pupil of Christopher Whall. She designed and made many stained glass windows particularly for churches and cathedrals and set up the stained glass firm of Townshend and Howson in 1920 with her student and apprentice Joan Howson.
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay.  Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (b. 1973) is a Montreal-born artist and diarist. Since 2000 his creative gestures in video sound and text have contemplated the history of song the rendering of love and emotion into language and the resurrection and manipulation of voices – sung spoken or screamed. Early video work concentrated on critical mimicry of material from popular culture with references to Madonna American Idol Tatu Françoise Hardy and Kylie Minogue.
Yoko Misumi.  Yoko Misumi (Japanese: _) is a Japanese classical pianist.Misumi was born in Kyoto Japan to a musical family and started her piano lessons very early. At age 14 she received the Second Prize in the prestigious Kyoto Piano Competition.
C. S. Adler.  C.S. (Carole Schwerdtfeger) Adler (born February 23 1932) is an American children's book author. She has been a full-time writer since the publication of her first book The Magic of the Glits in 1979. That book won both the William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award. She has since published 43 more books for young readers.
Ruth and Latrobe Carroll.  Ruth Robinson Carroll (1899–1999) and Archer Latrobe Carroll (1894–1996) together wrote many books for children with illustrations done by Ruth. They received the Juvenile Award of the American Association of University Women North Carolina chapter in 1953 for their book Peanut and in 1955 for Digby the Only Dog. They lived in Asheville North Carolina. An image for Digby the Only Dog can be found at the following website: [1].
Olga Guillot.  Olga Guillot (October 9 1922 – July 12 2010) was a Cuban singer who was known as the 'queen of bolero'. She was a native of the Cuban city of Santiago.
Monster Maezuka.  Monster Maezuka (前塚 モンスター  Maezuka Monsuta born as Atsushi Maezuka (前塚 厚志  Maezuka Atsushi) on March 19 1962 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese voice actor currently associated with the Clutch voice actor agency. Maezuka is noted for his roles as Benimaru Nikaido Ralf Jones and Choi Bounge in the Capcom vs.
Rami Abu Salah.  Rami Talal Mohammed Abu Salah (25 January 1988) is a Palestinian poet composer actor and translator was born in Jenin 1988. Fluent in three languages other than Arabic including English Spanish and Hebrew.He received a bachelor of science in clinical laboratory at An-Najah National University in Nablus 2011 . He has written many poems and essays and composed several songs.Work in the field of education journalism and translation into more than two languages.
Ares (musician).  Ronny Hovland better known as Ares (born 3 June 1973 in Bergen) is a Norwegian metal vocalist guitarist and bassist and the founder of the Norwegian death metal band Aeternus.
Andreas Blomqvist.  Andreas Blomqvist is a heavy metal bassist from Stockholm Sweden best known for his role as the bassist and founding member of progressive metal band Seventh Wonder.Andreas formed Seventh Wonder alongside guitarist Johan Liefvendahl and drummer Johnny Sandin after their previous band fell apart. The music turned towards the side of progressive metal and as the band was joined by keyboard player Andreas Kyrt Söderin late 2000 the new sound was cemented further.
Christoffel Jacobsz van der Laemen.  Christoffel Jacobsz van der Laemen (1607 – 1651) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Frank R. Stockton.  Frank Richard Stockton (April 5 1834 – April 20 1902) was an American writer and humorist best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.
Charles Ramirez.  Charles Ramirez (born 1953 in Gibraltar) is a concert guitarist based in London. He is also Professor of guitar at the Royal College of Music.
Buddhadev Das Gupta.  Padmabhushan Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব দাশগুপ্ত Buddhodeb Dashgupto) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta resides in Kolkata India. He is one of the artists featured in Nimbus Records's The Raga Guide.
Miles Jaye.  Miles Jaye Davis (born November 12 1957) known professionally as Miles Jaye is an American R&B and jazz singer jazz violinist songwriter and record producer. He had several hits on the US R&B chart in the late 1980s and early 1990s the biggest of which was Let's Start Love Over in 1987. He was for a time the lead singer of Village People.
Panda Bear (musician).  Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17 1978 in Baltimore Maryland) also known as Panda Bear is an experimental musician and a founding member of Animal Collective currently based in Lisbon Portugal. He was a featured artist on the track Doin' It Right on Daft Punk's album Random Access Memories which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2014.
Mark Hart.  Mark G Hart (born July 2 1953 Fort Scott Kansas) is a multi-instrumentalist who has been a member of Supertramp (1986–1988 1996–2002) on vocals keyboards and guitar; and for Crowded House (1993–1996 2007–present). As well as being a group member touring and session musician Hart has composed film scores and is a record producer.
Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri.  Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955 – 2008) was a Pintupi-Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region and sister of artist Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri.
Irv Williams.  Irv Williams (born August 9 1919) is an African American jazz saxophonist and composer.Throughout his eight-decade career Williams has focused on the Great American Songbook and the tenor sax as a solo vehicle. His knowledge of the idiom is legendary and he is able to play any song in any key.
José Luis Cuevas.  José Luis Cuevas is a Mexican artist and was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism movement as a prominent member of the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation). He is a mostly self-taught artist whose styles and influences are moored to the darker side of life often depicting distorted figures and the debasement of humanity.
Bernard Addison.  Bernard Addison (April 15 1905 – December 18 1990) was a jazz guitarist who began as a banjo player in the 1920s. He became interested in banjo when he moved to Washington D.C. in his youth. In 1930 he switched to guitar to fill in for a Louis Armstrong's guitarist. He would also work with Jelly Roll Morton and the Mills Brothers. In 1935 he did what might be his most noted song Toledo Shuffle with Freddie Jenkins.
Alex Murrel.  Alexandra Leah Murrel (born January 29 1987) is an American singer and actress. She rose to stardom in the hit MTV reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County as the tough carefree character on the show. She's now focused on her music career and has just signed to Warner Bros. Records and has released singles such as What's It To You Best Friend and Hello which has been featured on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. Now she studies at Chapman University.
Matthew Ashman.  Matthew James Ashman (3 November 1960–21 November 1995) was an English guitarist with Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow. He died aged 35 after lapsing into a coma due to complications arising from diabetes in 1995.
Tony Esposito (musician).  Antonio Tony Esposito (born 15 July 1950) is an Italian musician singer-songwriter and drummer.
Saara Aalto.  Saara Aalto (born May 2 1987) is a Finnish singer-songwriter. In 2011 she finished second in the selection to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song Blessed With Love. She also placed second in the first season in The Voice of Finland losing to Mikko Sipola.
Björn Berglund.  Björn Berglund (1904–1968) was a Swedish film actor.
Joseph Tsang Mang Kin.  Joseph Tsang Mang Kin [ Civil status name : Tsang Fan Hin Tsang Mang Kin] born 12 March 1938 is a Mauritian poet political scientist philosopher and biographer.
Fidan Gasimova.  Fidan Akram gizi Gasimova (Azerbaijani: Fidan Əkrəm qızı Qasımova) born June 17 1947 in Baku Azerbaijan SSR is an Azerbaijani operatic soprano who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.
Winston Giles.  Winston Giles (born 26 January 1974) is an Australian musician (singer songwriter guitarist and producer). He has released many albums under different monikers including Atari Baby Floor 13 Winston Giles and is best known for his group The Winston Giles Orchestra
Pete Costanza.  Pete Costanza (May 19 1913 — June 28 1984) was an American comic book artist and illustrator. He is best known for his work on Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family during the World War II era fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books and served as one of Captain Marvel's longest-tenured artists.Costanza began his career at Fawcett during writer-artist C. C.
Teresa Mo.  Teresa Mo Sun-kwan (born November 5 1959) with ancestry in Dongguan Guangdong is a Hong Kong actress. She started her career in 1970s and joined TVB in 1981. She became famous for being cast in The Justice of Life which was based on Stephen Chow's works. In 1991 she made frequent appearances in feature films.
Jigsy King.  Errol Jigsy King (born c.1970) is a Jamaican dancehall artist who released several albums on VP Records in the 1990s.
Vanessa Place.  Vanessa Place (born 1968) is an American writer and criminal appellate attorney. She is the co-director of the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press a contributor to X-tra Art Quarterly and contributing editor for The Iowa Review. Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter working on television shows such as Law and Order: SVU and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman.
Emma Härdelin.  Emma Härdelin (born September 26 1975) is a Swedish musician. She is a violinist and lead singer in folk-rock band Garmarna which she joined in 1993 for their first album and also lead singer for the folk band Triakel.Härdelin was born into a family of nationally acclaimed musicians as the daughter of Swedish traditional fiddler Thore Härdelin. She grew up in Kluk Jämtland and Delsbo Hälsingland.
Rachel Kramer Bussel.  Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author columnist and editor specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science and Women's Studies from the University of California Berkeley.
Carsten Höller.  Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a Belgian artist. He lives and works in Stockholm Sweden. Today he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.
Luke O'Reilly (Bel's Boys).  Luke O'Reilly (born 30 January 1988) is a Northern Irish actor and musician perhaps best known for his work in the CITV series Bel's Boys and as part of the band of the same name.
Paul Arden.  Paul Arden (7 April 1940 – 2 April 2008) was an influential author of several books on advertising and motivation including Whatever You Think Think The Opposite and It's Not How Good You Are It's How Good You Want To Be and a former creative director for Saatchi and Saatchi at the height of their advertising might.
Bucky Halker.  Clark Bucky Halker (born 1954) is an American academic music historian labor activist singer and songwriter who specializes in American folk music. Halker is best known for his work on labor protest songs Illinois folk music and his involvement with the preservation of Woody Guthrie's musical legacy. He is a recipient of the American Folklife Center's Archie Green Fellowship.
Sylvia Tella.  Sylvia Tella (born Silifatu Mornii Wehabie Tella c.1960) is a British lovers rock singer who after working as a vocalist for Boney M embarked on a successful solo career releasing her first album in 1981. She had a top 40 hit in 1989 in collaboration with the Blow Monkeys and again in 1990/1991 with Pop Will Eat Itself.
Frank Frost Abbott.  Frank Frost Abbott (March 27 1860 – July 23 1924) was an American classical scholar. Born in Redding Connecticut he taught at the University of Chicago then moved to Princeton University in 1907. He died in Montreux Switzerland.In addition to various works on Roman history and government several of which have been reprinted he also translated Alberico Gentili's Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Dvo (Two Books of Advocacy in the Service of Spain).
Raven Chacon.  Raven Chacon (born Fort Defiance Navajo Nation Arizona United States 1977) is an American composer and artist. He is known as a composer of chamber music as well as a solo performer of experimental noise music. He is recognized as one of few Native Americans working in either genre.Chacon is a member of the American Indian art collective Postcommodity with whom he has developed multi-media installations which have been exhibited internationally.
Dan John Miller.  Dan John Miller is an American singer-songwriter and actor from Detroit Michigan. He is currently the guitarist and lead vocalist for the gothic country-garage band Blanche. He made his major film acting debut in the film Walk The Line playing Johnny Cash's guitar player Luther Perkins.
Classified (rapper).  Luke Boyd (born December 13 1977) professionally known as Classified is a Canadian rapper and producer from Enfield Nova Scotia.
Danny Kortchmar.  Daniel Kortchmar (born April 6 1946) is a guitarist session musician producer and songwriter. Kortchmar's work with singer-songwriters such as David Crosby Carole King Graham Nash Carly Simon and James Taylor helped define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Jackson Browne and Don Henley have recorded many songs written or co-written by Kortchmar and Kortchmar was Henley's songwriting and producing partner in the 1980s.
E. F. Bleiler.  Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30 1920 – June 13 2010) was an editor bibliographer and scholar of science fiction detective fiction and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he co-edited the first year's best series of science fiction anthologies and his Checklist of Fantastic Literature has been called the foundation of modern SF bibliography.
David Keck.  David Keck is a Canadian author and teacher who has Masters Degrees in English Literature History and Education. He is best known for his novels based around the protagonist Durand Col. His works have received generally positive reviews from critics yet have not reached the mainstream so far.
Tony Bourge.  Tony Bourge (born Antony James Bourge 24 November 1948 Cardiff Wales) was the Welsh original guitarist for the rock band Budgie. He left the band in 1978. In 1982 he joined original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips and formed Tredegar with future members of Cloven Hoof singer Russ North and guitarist Andy Wood.In 2013 Bourge returned to the music scene with a new album of songs called Crank It Up which is available to buy through ITunes.
Diego Quispe Tito.  Diego Quispe Tito (1611–1681) was a Quechua painter from Peru. He is considered the leader of the Cuzco School of painting.
Shahram Shokoohi.  Shahram Shokoohi is an Iranian classical crossover singer and composer.
JJ Jia.  Jia Xiaochen (born September 20 1982) also known as JJ Jia and Fatumai is a Hui-Chinese actress and commercial model based in Hong Kong.
Norman Amadio.  Albert Norman Benedict Norm Amadio (born April 14 1928 in Timmins Ontario) is a Canadian jazz pianist piano teacher music coach composer arranger session player band leader and accompanist. For a span of fifty years he worked for the CBC as an orchestra leader and musical director for many TV series.
Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece.  The Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece (French: Maître du retable de Stauffenberg) is a 15th-century Anonymous Master from Alsace or nearby who was stylistically influenced by Rogier van der Weyden.His name derives from a triptych kept in the Unterlinden Museum Colmar since its creation.
Cécile Chaminade.  Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist.
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson.  Adelaide Hanscom Leeson (25 November 1875 – 19 November 1931) was an early 20th-century artist and photographer who published some of the first books using photography to illustrate literary works.
Popa Chubby.  Theodore Joseph Ted Horowitz (born March 31 1960 The Bronx New York City United States) who plays under the stage name of Popa Chubby (a play on the slang idiom pop a chubby meaning to get an erection) is an American electric blues singer songwriter and guitarist.
Myq Kaplan.  Myq Kaplan (born October 7 1978) is an American stand-up comedian. Born Michael Kaplan in Livingston New Jersey he is based in Boston and New York City.
A. Harding Steerman.  A. Harding Steerman was a British actor. He is sometimes credited as Harding Steerman.
Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai.  Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai (1900-1979) was a Malayalam dramatist poet screen play writer and actor. He was born on 1900 in Muthukulam a small village in Alappuzha District Kerala India. Known as the Akshara Guru of Malayalam talkie films he wrote the screenplay and dialogues of Balan the first Malayalam talkie and Jeevithanauka first box office hit in Malayalam film industry. He is also the author of about 55 dramas and dozens of film stories and screenplays.
LaVyrle Spencer.  LaVyrle Spencer (born July 17 1943) is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. She retired from writing in 1997.
K. C. Nag.  Keshab Chandra Nag or K.C. Nag Bengali কেশবচন্দ্র নাগ (10 July 1893 – 6 February 1987) was a Bengali mathematics text book author and educator.
James Koller.  James Koller (May 30 1936) was born in Oak Park Illinois. He spent his early life in northern Illinois and the 1960s on the Pacific Coast. In the early 70's he moved to Maine where he still lives.Koller is the author of more than thirty books of poetry. He has also published three novels and numerous essays. His writing has been translated into Italian French Spanish German and Swedish.
Ringo (singer).  Ringo (born Guy Bayle 11 May 1947) in Toulouse France also known as Ringo Willy Cat is a French pop–singer who became famous in the seventies. According to Billboard magazine he enjoyed a huge amount of sales with various hits. Ringo was cited by Billboard as an example of a French artist having a big impact in exporting French songs to the international arena and creating international hits despite the existing language barrier which the French artists face abroad.
Dawn Martin.  Dawn Martin (born 1976 in Dundalk) is an Irish singer who represented Ireland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.
Brent Anderson.  Brent Anderson (born June 15 1955 in San Jose California) is an American comic book artist known for his work on X-Men: God Loves Man Kills and the comic book series Astro City.
Marion Long.  Marion Long was a Canadian born artist elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1922. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and in New York and the Art Students League. She was a highly commissioned artist and often painted military portraits.
Aslaug Låstad Lygre.  Aslaug Låstad Lygre (12 December 1910 - 19 December 1966) was a Norwegian poet.She was born in Lindås. When she finished her secondary education at Voss in 1932 she had already attended Fana Folk High School. In 1934 she finished commerce school in Bergen. She worked in the newspaper Gula Tidend from 1934 to 1935 and was a member of Vestmannalaget. From 1935 she had an office job but worked part-time because of sub-par health.
Rodney Dangerfield.  Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Rodney Cohen November 22 1921 – October 5 2004) was an American comedian and actor known for the catchphrase I don't get no respect! and his monologues on that theme. He is also remembered for his 1980s film roles especially in Easy Money Caddyshack and Back to School.
Karen David.  Karen David (born Shillong India) is a Canadian-British actress singer and songwriter who is best known for portraying Francesca Cesca Montoya in the BBC television series Waterloo Road and Layla in the American action film The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.David also starred in Pixelface a CBBC children's television series where she plays Alexia the glamorous legend hunter.Her current antics include recording new songs in-between preparing for her role in ABC's new Pilot Galavant. 
Vinnie Moore.  Vincent Vinnie Moore (born April 14 1964) is an American guitarist and a member of the English hard rock band UFO. Vinnie Moore is one of the most influential and important guitarists to emerge from the virtuoso boom in the mid to late eighties.
Matt Tuttle (musician).  Matt Tuttle is a drummer for the post-hardcore band Adair. He used to play for Codeseven is now the drummer for Telescreen.
Joe Orlando.  Joseph Orlando (April 4 1927 – December 23 1998) was an Italian American illustrator writer editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of Mad and the vice president of DC Comics where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department.
Tim FitzHigham.  Tim FitzHigham FRSA FRGS an award-winning British comedian author artist and world record holder. The feats he has performed include paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames rowing a bathtub across the English Channel and inflating the world's largest balloon.
Britt Love.  Brittany Britt Love (born 24 February 1989) is an English singer-songwriter and former member of electro-pop duo Mini Viva along with Frankee Connolly who released three singles before their split in 2010 including top 10 hit Left My Heart In Tokyo.
E. E. Aiken.  Edwin Edgerton Aiken (March 1 1859 – January 5 1951) was an American Congregationalist minister and author who spent over four decades as a missionary and educator in China.Born in Newington Connecticut he graduated from Yale University in 1881 where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Skull and Bones. The following year he published The Secret Society System. While not naming Skull and Bones he objected to the exclusiveness of societies and fraternities.
Tekkatho Phone Naing.  In this Burmese name Tekkatho is an honorific. see more on Tekkatho which means university in wikidictionary.Tekkatho Phone Naing (Burmese: တက္ကသိုလ် ဘုန်းနိုင် 16 January 1930 – 2002) was a famous Burmese writer primarily known for lovelorn stories that were most popular in the 1950s to 1970s. His sad stories still represent some of the best popular Burmese story writing in the postwar era.
Andy LaPlegua.  Andy LaPlegua (born Ole Anders Olsen) born September 15 1975 in Fredrikstad Norway is a musician originally known for being founder and lead vocalist of the futurepop band Icon of Coil. LaPlegua also gained fame in the aggrotech and electro-industrial scenes as founder and lead vocalist of Combichrist and Panzer AG.
D'Knock.  Darko Juranović better known by his stage name D'Knock is a Croatian music producer songwriter and performer as well as a promoter of the Croatian club and hip-hop scene. Under his former stage name Da’Real he performed as one of the original members of the band ET (Electro Team) which he left in 1998 to focus on his career as a music producer.
Rose Cousins.  Rose Cousins is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Prince Edward Island she is currently based in Halifax Nova Scotia.
Junior Walker.  Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr. (June 14 1931 – November 23 1995) known by the stage name Junior Walker was an American musician. His group Junior Walker & the All Stars were signed to the Motown label in the 1960s and became one of the label's signature acts.
Chu Ing Ghum.  Chu Ing Ghum (Hangul: 추잉검 better known by his birth name Alvin Pasuquin (Korean: 추잉검) is a Korean-American-Filipino singer and is currently an active soloist and a very popular Drama actor in South Korea. He's one of the English-speaking Korean actors in Korean Entertainment along with other idols.Alvin was born in Seoul South Korea and was raised in Danville California United States where he lived with his parents and older sister.
Guy Carawan.  Guy Carawan (born July 27 1927 in Los Angeles California United States) is an American folk musician and musicologist. He serves as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market Tennessee.Carawan is famous for introducing the protest song We Shall Overcome to the American Civil Rights Movement by teaching it to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.
Angel Gabriele.  Angel Gabriele sometimes credited as Pat Gabriele or Pasquale D. Gabriel (born March 21 1956 in Brooklyn New York) is an American comic book artist and publisher best known for the comic book adaptation of the Space Giants; and a professional wrestling manager and promoter renowned for his role as the Dark Angel.
Matilda Browne.  Matilda Browne (May 8 1869 - November 3 1947) was an American Impressionist artist noted for her flower paintings and her farm and cattle scenes. Born in Newark New Jersey Matilda Browne was active in Greenwich Connecticut New York City and Old Lyme Connecticut where she was affiliated with the art colony centered at the Florence Griswold home.
William A. Fishbaugh.  William A. Fishbaugh (June 20 1873 - November 3 1950) was an American commercial photographer who worked in the Miami Florida area during its early twentieth century development boom.Fishbaugh married Alice E. Greene of Belvedere New Jersey on October 25 1913.
Sam Millar.  Sam Millar is a crime writer and playwright. from Belfast Northern Ireland.Millar is also a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books.
Lucien Guitry.  Lucien Germain Guitry (13 December 1860 – 1 June 1925) was a French actor.
Julia Spiridonova – Yulka.  Julia Spiridonova – Yulka (Bulgarian: Юлия Спиридонова - Юлка) is a Bulgarian novelist and screenwriter.
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill.  Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmaiɾʲəd̪ˠ nʲiː ˈɣoːn̪ˠəlʲ]; born 1955) is an Irish traditional singer from Kells County Meath. Known for her work with the short-lived but very highly regarded Skara Brae and her collaborations with sister Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill as well as other traditional musicians.
John Row (poet).  John Row is a storyteller with strong roots in Ipswich UK. He was born in 1947. He tours schools around the world and other institutions such as prisons not only within the UK he has a strong presence in Texas where he has performed in detention centres for the young inmates. He was the first storyteller in residence in a British prison and has recently completed a writing residency at H.M.P. Highpoint in Suffolk.He is a regular performer at festivals throughout the U.K.
Alan Davies.  Alan Roger Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian writer and actor best known for his stand-up routine and his appearances on British television.Since 1997 Alan has played the lead role in the BBC One mystery series Jonathan Creek and he currently appears as a regular panelist on the BBC Two panel show QI.
Gabriella Porpora.  Gabriella Porpora (June 22 1942 – ) is willing to continue her artwork in the steps of Avant-garde art movements in artworks that are experimental or innovative pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo.Italian painter born in Roma Italy to a Roman mother and a Napolitan father. She founded among other twelve artists the Gruppo 12 art movement. Has created new art crafts called with a neologism Pictosculture.
John Paul Young.  John Paul Young OAM (born 21 June 1950) known as JPY or Squeak to fans is a Scottish-born Australian pop singer who had a 1978 worldwide hit with Love Is in the Air.
Svetlana Ischenko.  Svetlana Viktorivna Ischenko (Ukrainian: Світлана Вікторівна Іщенко July 30 1969 Mykolaiv Ukraine) — poet translator stage actress teacher artist.
Hiroyuki Kitakubo.  Hiroyuki Kitakubo (北久保 弘之 Kitakubo Hiroyuki born November 15 1963) is a Japanese director animator and screenwriter.Kitakubo began work in the anime industry as a teenager having worked on the 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam television series. He debuted as a director with the Cream Lemon episode Pop Chaser in 1985 then worked on films including Black Magic M-66 with Masamune Shirow and Akira with Katsuhiro Otomo.
Richard Morrell Staigg.  Richard Morrell Staigg (7 September 1817 Leeds England - 11 October 1881 Newport Rhode Island) or R.M. Staigg was a portrait painter in Boston Massachusetts in the 19th century.
Rena Tanaka.  This article is about Rena Tanaka the Japanese actress. For the Morning Musume/Hello! Project singer of a similar name see Reina Tanaka.Rena Tanaka (田中 麗奈 Tanaka Rena born 22 May 1980) is a Japanese actress and TV personality. In 1999 she won the Japanese Academy Award for 'Best Newcomer' for her performance in Give It All; in 2001 she received a 'Best Actress' nomination for Hatsukoi.
Joe Don Rooney.  Joe Don Rooney (born September 13 1975 in Baxter Springs Kansas) is an American musician and the lead guitarist and high harmony singer in the American country pop trio Rascal Flatts. Raised in Picher Oklahoma his first known band Uncle Thumbtack was formed in the early 1990s in Miami Oklahoma with Boone Pickens and Fred Samuels two lifelong friends. In addition to electric guitar Rooney plays the acoustic and bass guitars as well as mandolin.
Leigh Francis.  Leigh Szaak Francis (born 30 April 1973) is an English stand-up comedian actor director producer writer voice artist and comedian best known for creating Channel 4's Bo' Selecta! and portraying Keith Lemon in several ITV shows including Celebrity Juice Keith Lemon's LemonAid and Keith Lemon's Through the Keyhole
Glenn Cornick.  Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick (born 23 April 1947 Barrow-in-Furness Lancashire (now part of Cumbria)) was the first bass guitar player in the progressive rock band Jethro Tull. Cornick played bass in a number of bands before joining Jethro Tull including Jailbreakers The Vikings Formula One The Hobos The Executives and John Evan's Smash and was one of Tull's founding members playing with both virtuosismo and storng presence in their music.
Steve Erickson.  Stephen Michael Erickson (born April 20 1950) pen name Steve Erickson is an American novelist essayist and critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Award in Literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.[citation needed] and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop movement.
Michael Cooper (musician).  Michael Ibo Cooper is a founding member of the reggae band Third World. He has also appeared with reggae artist Burning Spear. He currently teaches at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica.
Mercedes Negrón Muñoz.  Mercedes Negrón Muñoz a.k.a. Clara Lair (March 8 1895 – August 26 1973) was a poet whose work dealt with the everyday struggles of the common Puerto Rican.
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther.  Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (13 January 1806 – 23 March 1882) was a German painter etcher and illustrator.Born in Munich Germany he was the son and pupil of the painter Ludwig Neureuther (1775–1830). He also studied at the Munich Academy under Wilhelm von Kobell (1766–1855). His talent developed however under the influence of Cornelius who employed him on the frescoes in the Glyptothek and in the Königsbau.
Anthony Marra.  Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer.
Leona Philippo.  Leona Philippo (born 6 May 1979 in Toronto) is a Canadian film television and stage actress and singer-songwriter of Jamaican origin. On December 14 2012 she won the title for season 3 of the Dutch reality television music competition The Voice of Holland. She is also often credited simply as Leona.
Ornella Vanoni.  Ornella Vanoni (Italian pronunciation: [orˈnɛlːa vaˈnoːni]) OMRI (born 22 September 1934 in Milan) is one of the most credited pop singers of Italy. She is known for her sophisticated pop style.
Isuna Hasekura.  Isuna Hasekura (支倉 凍砂 Hasekura Isuna born December 27 1982) is a Japanese author and student at Rikkyo University. In 2005 Hasekura won the Silver Prize in the twelfth Dengeki Novel Prize with his debut novel Spice and Wolf. The first volume was published the following year.
Akon.  Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16 1973) known as Akon (pronounced /ˈeɪkɒn/) is a Senegalese American R&B and hip hop recording artist songwriter and record producer. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of Locked Up the first single from his debut album Trouble.He has since founded two successful record labels Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution.
Welwyn Wilton Katz.  Welwyn Wilton Katz (born June 7 1948) is a Canadian children's author who has lived in Kitchener and Toronto Ontario. In 1994 she was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award. She currently lives in London.
Ben Glatzer.  Ben-Zion Ben Glatzer (born 8 October 1959 Perth) is an Australian sound engineer and producer. He worked on Ammonia's debut album Mint 400 (1995) The Chevelles' At Second Glance (1995) Cartman's debut Go! (2002) The Stems' Mushroom Soup: The Citadel Years (2003) and The Sleepy Jackson's debut Lovers (2003). From 1994 to 2002 Glatzer won a total of eight West Australian Music Industry Awards for his work.
Ryan Star.  Ryan Star (born January 7 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and rock artist from Long Island New York currently signed on Island Records. His first major label record 11:59 released via Atlantic in 2010 reached No. 31 on Billboard 200 and No. 10 on Billboard Rock albums chart. Star became known to a wider audience as contestant on the CBS reality TV show Rock Star: Supernova in 2006. His songs have featured on several TV shows and promotion.
Leslie Bassett.  Leslie Bassett (born January 22 1923 in Hanford California) is an American composer of classical music and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition.
Wayne Smith (musician).  Wayne Smith (5 December 1965 – 17 February 2014) was a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician best known for his 1985 hit Under Mi Sleng Teng which is regarded as the track which initiated the digital era of reggae.
Adunis.  Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎; transliterated: alî ahmadi sa'îdi asbar or Ali Ahmad Sa'id; born 1 January 1930) also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس) is a Syrian poet essayist and translator.
Chris Mitchell (journalist).  Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalist and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid The Telegraph in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin The Daily Telegraph and the Australian Financial Review became editor of The Australian in 2003. The Australian is owned by News Corporation.
Iori Nomizu.  Iori Nomizu (野水 伊織 Nomizu Iori born October 18 1985) is a Japanese voice actress actress singer and songwriter affiliated with Production Ace
Oreste Silvestri.  Oreste Silvestri (Pollone in Vercelli September 5 1858 - Milan November 24 1936) was an Italian painter.
Maile Meloy.  Maile Meloy (born January 1 1972) is an American fiction writer. Born and raised in Helena Montana Meloy received a bachelor's degree Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California Irvine.Meloy won The Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story Aqua Boulevard in 2001; the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories Half in Love in 2003; and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.
Nyle Wolfe.  Nyle Wolfe (born October 1971) trained as a singer at the Cork School of Music and the Leinster school of Music & Drama Dublin. He graduated from The Royal Academy of Music London with the conservatory's highest academic award and won a scholarship to complete his studies at the Zurich Opera House. He has performed various leading lyric baritone roles in operas as well as a leading parts in musicals and operettas.
Frederick Townsend Martin.  Frederick Townsend Martin (December 6 1849 – March 8 1914) was a New York City writer and advocate for the poor.
Akira Yamada.  Akira Yamada (山田 晶 Yamada Akira 7 March 1922 – 29 February 2008) was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy. Member of the Japan Academy since 1998.Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in 1944.
Michael Dadap.  Michael Dadap is a popular Filipino guitarist composer and conductor and an influential advocate of Filipino folk music. He was influential in the creation of a world-class rondalla ensemble in the United States is also the founding music director of the Iskwelahang Rondalla (Rondalla School) of Boston Massachusetts.
Roger Pusey.  Roger Pusey is a former BBC Radio 1 producer who worked on the Peel Sessions.He produced versions of a number of tracks for influential Manchester band The Smiths including This Charming Man What Difference Does It Make and This Night Has Opened My Eyes on the iconic compilation albums: Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs.In addition Roger produced tracks for David Bowie and New Model Army.In 2010 he co-produced the debut EP Atlas by singer-songwriter Joshua Fisher.
Dan Kelly (musician).  Daniel Dan Kelly is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the second oldest of six children and the nephew of Paul Kelly. He grew up in Queensland and learnt the guitar at thirteen studying Environmental Science at University in Brisbane in 1990. He formed his first band Nord in Brisbane before moving to Melbourne in 1996 where in 2000 he started playing solo shows under the name Dank Alley not wanting to trade on his famous uncle’s name.
88-Keys.  Charles Misodi Njapa better known by his stage name 88-Keys is an American record producer and rapper.
Annick Obonsawin.  Annick Obonsawin is a Canadian voice actress and musician. She has played roles in many children's shows such as Inez in Cyberchase and Skunk in Franklin. She also plays the voice of Slappy the Dummy in Goosebumps as well as Sierra in Total Drama Action Total Drama World Tour and Total Drama All-Stars. Annick lives with her mother father and sister in Unionville Ontario. She also voiced Jamie Johnny and Jimmy's sister in the 2014 animated film The Nut Job.
Walter Brut.  Walter Brut (Welsh: Gwallter Brut) was a fourteenth-century writer from the Welsh borders whose trial in 1391 is a notable event in the history of Lollardy. Brut described himself as a sinner a layman a farmer and a Christian in his trial for heresy which took place before the Bishop of Hereford Thomas Trefnant. He is mentioned in the medieval English poem Piers Plowman. About the year 1402 he joined the forces of Owain Glyndŵr.
Raymond Federman.  Raymond Federman (May 15 1928 – October 6 2009) was a French–American novelist and academic known also for poetry essays translations and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999 when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Federman was a writer in the experimental style one that sought to deconstruct traditional prose.
Greg Warren (comedian).  Greg Warren is an American stand-up comic from St Louis Missouri.
Carlo Pizzi.  Carlo Pizzi (Lecco Lombardy 1842-1909) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes of his native Lombardy.Born to a family of modest means he studied at the Brera Academy where he was a pupil of Gaetano Fasanotti Ricciardi and Raffaele Casnedi.
Zbigniew Karkowski.  Zbigniew Karkowski (born March 14 1958 – December 12 2013) was a Polish experimental musician and composer.Karkowski was born on March 14 1958 in Krakow Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg Sweden aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Musicology and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology.
Yanni.  Yiannis Chryssomallis (Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης Giánnis Chrysomállis; born November 14 1954) known professionally as Yanni (/ˈjɑːni/ YAH-nee) is a Greek pianist keyboardist composer and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States.Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand that he developed as a child blending jazz classical soft rock and world music to create predominantly instrumental works.
Andrea Bocelli.  Andrea Angel Bocelli OMRI OMDSM (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa boˈtʃɛlli]; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor and singer-songwriter. Born with poor eyesight he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident. Bocelli has recorded fourteen solo studio albums of both pop and classical music three greatest hits albums and nine complete operas selling over 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling music artists.
Trevor Herion.  Trevor Herion born John Trevor Herion (c. Apr. 1959 – October 1988) was an Irish singer born in Cork who formed part of the punk and new wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. He later tried to be successful as a solo artist but failed and died shortly afterwards.
Mayumi Ogawa.  Mayumi Ogawa (小川眞由美) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 3rd Japan Academy Prize and at the 4th Hochi Film Award for Vengeance Is Mine and The Three Undelivered Letters.
Holly Sweet.  Holly Sweet (born July 4 1981 in New York City) is an American transsexual pornographic actress and model.
Nicolas Verrien.  Nicolas Verrien (also spelled Nicolas Verien) was a French designer who drew monograms. He was active between 1685–1724. His monograms were used by artists ranging from goldsmiths to painters locksmiths and sculptors. The artist Gérard Edelinck created a portrait of Verrien. Works by Verrien are held in the collection of the Cooper–Hewitt National Design Museum.
Jad Fair.  Jad Fair (born June 9 1954) is an American singer guitarist and graphic artist most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.
Francesco Autoriello.  Francesco Autoriello (Naples January 1824 - August 28 1894) was an Italian painter mainly depicting historical canvases.
Alan Kendall.  Alan Kendall (born 9 September 1944 in Darwen Lancashire) is an English musician and was the lead guitarist for the popular band the Bee Gees in an official capacity from 1971 until 1980 and again from 1987 until 2001.
Walter Thom.  Walter Thom (1770–1824) was a Scottish writer and journalist.
Will Oursler.  Will Oursler (1913-1985) was an American author lecturer and radio commentator and the son of noted novelist and playwright Fulton Oursler. He frequently wrote and spoke on religious and inspirational subjects.Born July 12 1913 in Baltimore Maryland his family soon moved to New York City where Will grew up and attended school.
Norma Reid Birley.  Norma Glasgo Reid Birley (born 28 April 1952 in Limavady Northern Ireland) was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand. A statistician and health service researcher she has also held the positions of director of an academic consultancy firm Associate Professor of the University of Ulster and an Honorary Professor of Sussex University.
Pamelia Kurstin.  Pamelia Kurstin (born Pamela Stickney May 28 1976 in Southern California) is a notable American theremin player.
Piermaria Bagnadore.  Piermaria Bagnadore (c. 1550–1627) also called Pietro Maria Bagnatori was an Italian painter and architect of the late-Renaissance period. Born in Orzinuovi he trained with il Moretto da Brescia and painted mainly in Brescia from the late 16th century until the 1610s. His work was noted by the biographer Luigi Lanzi. His extensive print collection passed into the hands of Count Camillo Gonzaga of Novellara
John Appleton Brown.  John Appleton Brown (1844–1902) was an American painter born in Newburyport Mass. He studied in Boston under Benjamin C. Porter and afterward under Emile Lambinet in Paris. In 1891 he established his studio in New York City and the following year became a member of the Society of American Artists. He was elected to the National Academy in 1896. His last picture exhibited at the Society in 1902 The Grain Field was a typical example of his delicate personal handling of color.
Keith Barrow.  Keith Barrow (September 27 1954 - October 22 1983) was a disco/soul singer born in Chicago United States.
Section d'Or.  The Section d'Or (Golden Section) also known as Groupe de Puteaux (or Puteaux Group) was a collective of painters sculptors poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs of Puteaux and Courbevoie the group was active from 1911 to around 1914 coming to prominence in the wake of their controversial showing at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1911.
W. C. Clark.  W. C. Clark (born Wesley Curley Clark November 16 1939) is an American blues musician. He is known as the Godfather of Austin Blues for his influence on the Austin Texas blues scene since the late 1960s.
Cara Luft.  Cara Luft is a singer-songwriter guitarist and clawhammer banjo player and founding member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys. She returned to her solo career in 2005.
Dave Alexander (musician).  David Michael Alexander (June 3 1947 – February 10 1975) was an American musician best known as the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges.
Clara Reeve.  Clara Reeve (1729–1807) was an English novelist best known for her Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777).
Risto Apostolov.  Risto Apostolov (Cyrillic:Ристо Апостолов) is Macedonian songwriter composer and music producer. He is also guitarist singer and leader of rock band Vodolija and former member of punk rock band Rok Agresori.As a composer and performer with his band Vodolija he participated at the Macedonian Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song (Mojot TV)Macedonian Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song (Solza) Macedonian Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song (Ne vrakaj se).
Jinaratna.  Jinaratna (Jina·ratna; Hindi: जिनरत्न) was a Jain scholar monk who composed Līlāvatīsāra. He completed his poem in the year 1285 CE in Jabaliputra western India (modern Jhalor in Rajasthan).
Tatiana Stepa.  Tatiana Stepa (b. April 21 1963 Lupeni Hunedoara County — d. August 7 2009 Bucharest) was a Romanian folk singer. She died after a long illness due to cancer.
Mao Di.  Qiu Mao Di (born 邱翊橙; pinyin: Qiū Yì Chéng) also known as Mao Di or Modi is a member of a trio boyband JPM with Liao Xiao Jie/Liljay and his older brother Qiu Wang Zi.He was a former member of Choc7 a Taiwanese Mandopop boyband with seven members. They were all chosen from Channel [V] Taiwan's show Bang Bang Tang (BBT 模范棒棒堂) a show which sought to create new male artists in the entertainment business of Taiwan.In 2010 a rumor of Choc7's disbandment was spread and heard.
Manni Schmidt.  Manfred Manni Schmidt (born 27 November 1964 in Andernach Germany) is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter best known for having been a member of Grave Digger and Rage.
MC Hawking.  Ken Lawrence is a nerdcore hip hop artist who purports to be theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking rapping under the name MC Hawking.MC Hawking gained some popularity on the Internet in the early 2000s. The songs were originally released in MP3 format but due to the popularity of the website Lawrence was signed to a record deal with Brash Music to release a greatest hits album in 2004.
Vinko Nikolić.  Vinko Nikolić (2 March 1912 - 12 July 1997) was a Croatian emigrant writer poet and journalist. During much of World War II he was an adjutant at Supreme Ustaša Headquarters which effectively ruled over the fascist and genocidal Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
Nicola Consoni.  Nicola Consoni (Ceprano in the Province of Frosinone in the region of Lazio 1814 - Rome 1884) was an Italian painter mainly of sacred and historic subjects.In Perugia he was a pupil of Giovanni Sanguinetti at the Academy but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Tommaso Minardi and later Pio Joris. In Rome he was commissioned by Pope Pius IX to fresco some of the second story loggie of the Vatican Palace and the Vatican library. The frescoes depict scenes from the New Testament.
Carola Standertskjöld.  Carola Christina Standertskjöld-Liemola (23 March 1941 – 12 November 1997) professionally known as Carola was a Finnish jazz and pop singer. Her style was partially inspired by American singers of the 1950s. Simultaneously it was in the spirit of the modal jazz scene going down in Europe in the 1960s.
Leonid Leonov.  Leonid Maximovich Leonov (Russian: Леони́д Макси́мович Лео́нов; May 31 [O.S. May 19] 1899 — 8 August 1994) was a Soviet novelist and playwright. He has been dubbed the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of his prose.
Kenny Burrell.  Kenneth Earl Kenny Burrell (born July 31 1931) is an American jazz guitarist best known for his 1963 solo album Midnight Blue as well as his collaborations with Jimmy Smith including the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit album Organ Grinder Swing. Kenny Burrell also serves as a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Rose Stone.  Rose Stone (or Rosie Stone) (born Rosemary Stewart March 21 1945) is an African-American singer and keyboardist. She is best known as one of the lead singers in Sly and the Family Stone a popular psychedelic soul/funk band founded by her brothers Sly Stone and Freddie Stone.
Mike Epps.  Michael Elliot Mike Epps (born November 18 1970) is an American stand-up comedian actor film producer writer and rapper. He is best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and the sequel-to-the-sequel Friday After Next and also appearing in The Hangover as Black Doug. He was the voice of Boog in Open Season 2 (the sequel to Open Season) but was replaced by Matthew J. Munn in Open Season 3.
Chris Von Sneidern.  Chris Von Sneidern born Syracuse New York is an American singer/songwriter. He earned a cult following with a string of indie releases during the 1990s and 2000s.
Judy Mowatt.  Judy Mowatt OD (born 1952) is a Jamaican reggae artist who rose to fame as part of the trio the I Threes the backing vocalists for Bob Marley & The Wailers.
Janie Bradford.  Janie Bradford is an American songwriter most known for her tenure with Motown. With Berry Gordy she co-wrote Money (That's What I Want) originally recorded by Barrett Strong and used by The Beatles on their second album With The Beatles. [1] Money is also on The Rolling Stones' first U.K. EP (January 17 1964).
Lydiard H. Horton.  Lydiard Heneage Horton (1879 – January 19 1945) was a consulting psychologist and author who lectured and wrote about dream psychology and World War I shell shock and trench nightmare. He was born in London the only child of Samuel Dana Horton (died 1895) a lawyer and writer on bimetalism and an English mother Blanche Harriot Lydiard (died 1898) who was born in India.
Monica Anghel.  Monica Anghel (born 1 June 1971 in Bucharest) she is a Romanian singer and TV star. In 1996 she took part in the international preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Unfortunately the Romanian song Rugă pentru pacea lumii was not chosen to go to the international final in Oslo. In the same year she won the Golden Stag for Romania.There was more Eurovision luck for Monica when she could participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn together with Marcel Pavel.
Helena Espvall.  Helena Espvall is a Swedish-American musician noted for her participation in the post-millennial psych-folk and free improv scenes. Her primary instruments are cello guitar and voice.
Ryu Goto.  Ryu Goto (五嶋 龍 Gotō Ryū born July 13 1988 in New York City New York) is a Japanese-American concert violinist. Goto gained attention as a child prodigy first performing at the age of seven in the Pacific Music Festival held in Sapporo Japan. His debut tour of 12 cities of Japan in 2006 was sold out.
Josh Nelson.  Josh Nelson is an American jazz pianist and composer.Nelson produced his independent debut album First Stories at age 19. His second album Anticipation was released in 2004 with all his compositions. In 2007 Nelson signed with the jazz label Native Language Music and released his third album Let It Go along with the guest Seamus Blake Sara Gazarek and Anthony Wilson.
Peretz Hirschbein.  Peretz Hirshbein (7 November 1880 Melnik Grodno – 16 August 1948 Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright novelist journalist travel writer and theater director. Because his work focused more on mood than plot he became known as the Yiddish Maeterlinck. His work as a playwright and through his own short-lived but influential troupelaid much of the groundwork for the second golden age of Yiddish theater that began shortly after the end of World War I.
Art Themen.  Arthur Edward George 'Art' Themen (born 1939) is a British jazz saxophonist (and an orthopaedic surgeon).Themen was born on 26 November 1939 in Manchester. In 1958 he began his medical studies at the University of Cambridge going on in 1961 to complete his studies at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London qualifying in 1964.
Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi.  Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi (長渕 剛 Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi born September 7 1956) is a Japanese singer-songwriter actor poet and human-rights advocate who is a prominent figure in Japanese popular music.As a musician he has sold more than 20 million records worldwide and has appeared in various movies and television dramas. His wife Etsuko Shihomi is also a known actress.
Vito D'Ancona.  Vito D'Ancona (August 12 1825 – January 9 1884) was an Italian artist of the Macchiaioli group.He was born in Pesaro to a wealthy Jewish family. He began his artistic training in Florence and in 1844 was admitted to the Accademia di Belle Arti where he studied under Giuseppe Bezzuoli. He became friends with Serafino De Tivoli and joined him in painting landscapes en plein air. In 1848 he fought as a Tuscan volunteer for Garibaldi in the Risorgimento.
Zachary Karabashliev.  Zachary Karabashliev (born 14 April 1968 Varna Bulgaria) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer and a playwright.
Angus Donald.  Angus Donald (born 1965 in China) is a British writer of historical fiction. As of 2011 he has released three books that loosely follow the story of Alan-a-Dale.
Ella E. McBride.  Ella Etna McBride (November 17 1862 - September 14 1965) was an American fine-art photographer mountain climber and centenarian known for her career achievements after age sixty. In addition to running her own photography studio for over thirty years she also spent eight years running the photography studio of Edward S. Curtis.
Hamid Reza Sadr.  Hamid Reza Sadr حمیدرضا صدر born 19 March 1956 is an Iranian film critic and football critic. He is well known for his columns in Film Magazine on cinema and his appearances on television for analyzing football. He married Mehrzad Dolati in 1983. She is an artist who studied in the United States and then returned to Iran and attended Alzahra University. She has been teaching painting for many years. They have a daughter Ghazaleh born in 1990.
Tara McDonald.  Tara Jane McDonald is an English songwriter and vocalist widely recognised for a string of crossover hits both internationally and in the UK. Tara achieved success working with Armand Van Helden and co-writing with Axwell on the chart hits ‘My My My’ and ‘Feel The Vibe’. Both these projects debuted at #1 in the club charts before peaking in the UK sales charts at #12 and #16 respectively.
Rune Rebellion.  Rune Rebellion is the stage name of Rune Grønn a guitarist from Verdal Norway born 1965 he is most famous of being the former rhythm guitarist of the Norwegian band Turbonegro which he quit in October 26. 2007 and played his last show in Folken in Stavanger the day after. However he returned in 2011. He Pål Bøttger Kjærnes and Thomas Seltzer formed Turbonegro late in 1988.Now he works for Universal Music in Norway and he runs Turbonegro's own label Scandinavian Leather Recordings.
Jaime Torres (musician).  Jaime Torres (born 21 September 1938) is an Argentine musician son of Bolivian immigrants and a world-renowned interpreter of charango. He was disciple of Mauro Núñez a Bolivian musician and luthier that built his first musical instruments.In 1974 the performer along with his band participated in the opening show of the World Cup soccer in Germany. A year later Jaime Torres organized a local meeting of instrumentalists repeating the same experience with children in 1980.
Agnieszka Chylińska.  Agnieszka Chylińska (born May 23 1976 in Gdańsk) is a Polish rock singer and columnist. From 1994 to 2003 Chylińska was the vocalist with Polish rock band O.N.A.. She has also been one of the judges in the Polish edition of the Got Talent franchise Mam talent!. She founded a band called Chylińska (2003) which released the album Winna in 2004. She released her first solo album Modern Rocking in 2009.
Finn Bø.  Finn Bø (1893 – 1962) was a Norwegian songwriter revue writer playwright journalist and theatre critic. He is particularly remembered for his song Norge i rødt hvitt og blått which became extremely popular in 1945. Among his other popular songs are Nå går'n på gummisåler and Bare rundt omkring both from 1928. He published the anecdote collection Forbuden frukt in 1945 and the song collection Jeg tar mig den frihet in 1946. Several of his plays were also adapted into film.
Henry Reuterdahl.  Henry Reuterdahl (August 12 1870 – December 21 1925) was a Swedish-American painter highly acclaimed for his nautical artwork. He had a long relationship with the United States Navy. In addition to serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve Force he was selected by President Theodore Roosevelt to accompany the Great White Fleet voyage in 1907 to document the journey.
Phil Judd.  Philip Judd (born 20 March 1953) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter known for being one of the founders of the bands Split Enz and The Swingers.
Moris Tepper.  Moris Tepper sometimes credited as Jeff Moris Tepper is an American singer-songwriter guitarist and artist.Tepper first came to prominence in the late 1970s with Captain Beefheart. He has also worked with singers Tom Waits PJ Harvey Robyn Hitchcock and Frank Black. He has recorded several solo albums.
Lou Pardini.  Lou Pardini is an American Grammy-nominated keyboardist songwriter and vocalist who is now best known as a member of the rock band Chicago. He is known for his work with notable musicians such as Stevie Wonder Santana Elton John Peabo Bryson Earth Wind & Fire and The Doobie Brothers and he has written hit songs for Patti Austin Kenny G The Temptations and more.
Hervé Paillet.  Hervé Paillet (born 1968) is a French actor and painter born with atrophied legs. He is the fifth child of his family. His legs were amputated when he was three years old and he uses a wheelchair. Eventually he learned to run with his arms and became a weightlifter. As a teenager he won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. He participated in two more Paralympic Games in 1992 and 1996 as a powerlifter.
Mindex.  Mindex (Slava Semenikhin) is a musician from Russia. He produces a variety of electronic music which can be categorized as IDM Trip-Hop DnB Psytrance and Suomisaundi. His work is characterized by its jazz-funk influences dynamic breaks and melodic basslines. He has released two albums thus far and a handful of EP's and also appears on a number of compilations.
Tamta.  Tamta Goduadze (Georgian: თამთა გოდუაძე; Greek: Τάμτα Γκοντουάτζε) known simply as Tamta is a Georgian pop singer famous in Greece and Cyprus for her participation in Super Idol Greece (in which she placed second) and for her later singles such as Ftes (Faraway originally performed by Gala)Agapw (Wanna Play originally performed by RBD Den Telionei Etsi I Agapi Agapise Me and Tonight.
Sally Purcell.  Sally Purcell (1 December 1944 - 4 January 1998) was a British poet and translator. She produced several English translations of poetry and literary works including the first English translation of Hélène Cixous's The Exile of James Joyce or the Art of Replacement and published at least six volumes of her own poetry.
Akifumi Endō.  Akifumi Endō (遠藤 章史 Endō Akifumi born December 10 1964) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Troubadour Musique Office.
Zacharias Paulusz.  Zacharias Paulusz (ca.1580-1648) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter from Alkmaar.
Elizabeth Wagele.  Elizabeth Wagele (born 1939) is an American artist musician writer of books on personality types: the Enneagram of Personality and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
Reginald Dwayne Betts.  Reginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet memoirist and teacher. He is author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning Survival and Coming of Age in Prison (Penguin/Avery 2009) and Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books 2010) winner of the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award. He is a 2010 Soros Justice Fellow.
Leora Skolkin-Smith.  Leora Skolkin-Smith is an Israeli-American novelist born in Manhattan in 1952. Her first novel Edges: O Israel O Palestine was selected and edited by Grace Paley for Glad Day Books. Leora Skolkin-Smith graduated (BA and MFA) from Sarah Lawrence College.
Mick Blue.  Mick Blue (born September 9 1976) is an Austrian-born pornographic actor and director.
Sawai Gandharva.  Ramachandra Kundgolkar Saunshi (Kannada: ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಕುಂದಗೋಳಕರ ಸೌಶಿ) popularly known as Pandit Sawai Gandharva(January 19 1886 – September 12 1952) was a popular Hindustani Classical vocalist and Marathi stage actor of the Kirana Gharana. He was the first and foremost disciple of Utd. Abdul Karim Khan and guru of Bharat Ratna laureate Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. Pt. Gandharva is most well known for popularizing the stylings of the Kirana Gharana through his accomplished disciples including Pt.
James Litherland.  James Litherland (born 6 September 1949) is an English singer and guitarist. He was born in Salford Lancashire England. He is the father of singer/producer James Blake.
Christian Skår Winther.  Christian Skår Winther (born 8 May 1989 in Ålesund Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) known from bands like Monkey Plot and Ich Bin N!ntendo.
Mugambwa Sseruwagi.  Mugambwa Mogge Sseruwagi (born 17 May 1978 in Kenya) is a Swedish actor/musician/presenter. He had a role in the soap opera Tre Kronor. As an artist he is known as Masayah and has released two records. In 2006 he became a presenter in the Swedish version of Pop Idol Idol 2006. In January 2007 Sseruwagi was appointed Best dressed man by the Swedish Elle magazine. In the summer of that year he led radio show Sommartoppen with Ayesha Quraishi.
Daniel O'Donnell.  Daniel Francis Noel O'Donnell (born 12 December 1961) is an Irish singer television presenter and philanthropist. After rising to public attention in 1983 he has since become a household name in Ireland and the UK; he has also had considerable success in the US and Australia.
Mike Gold.  Michael Mike Gold (April 12 1894 – May 14 1967) is the pen-name of Jewish American writer Itzok Isaac Granich. A lifelong communist Gold was a novelist and literary critic. His semi-autobiographical novel Jews Without Money (1930) was a bestseller. During the 1930s and 1940s Gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of U.S. proletarian literature.
Otto Gildemeister.  Otto Gildemeister (1823 Bremen - 1902) was a German journalist and translator.
George Charles Haité.  George Charles Haité (8 June 1855 – 31 March 1924) was an English designer painter illustrator and writer. His most famous work is the iconic cover design of the Strand Magazine launched in 1891 which helped popularise the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. Haité was also a founder member and the first president of the London Sketch Club.
Brendan Hamill (writer).  Brendan Hamill (born 1945 Belfast Northern Ireland) is a poet and writer.He was born in Belfast and grew up in West Belfast. His family home was on the Whiterock Road facing the City Cemetery. He worked for several years in England before returning to Northern Ireland to study for a degree in English at the New University of Ulster. He subsequently worked for several years as a teacher in Kilcullen County Kildare and in Belfast.
Martin Phike.  Martin Phikeis a South African singer songwriter and actor.
Raktima Mukerjee.  Raktima Mukerjee (Devanāgarī: रक्तिमा मुकेर्जी)(born 1981) was a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 achieving 12th place and subsequently a contestant on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu with Vushwanath. Raktima was known for her clean and unique voice quality in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005. She was titled to have one of the best voices in the contest.Raktima is currently busy doing various stage shows in India USA Canada Singapore and Malaysia.
Mads Eriksen (musician).  Mads Eriksen (born 12 October 1962 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer known as solo artist and for his cooperation with Chris Thompson among others.
Stewart Binns.  Stewart Binns is a British author and filmmaker who has produced many BAFTA Grierson and Peabody award-winning documentaries.
George K. Mannickarottu.  George K. Mannickarottu popularly known as George Mannickarottu or just Mannickarottu is a Malayalam writer who is credited with publishing the first Malayalam novel in America in 1982; Jeevithathinte Kanneer (Tears of Life). He is also author of the Americayile Malayala Sahithya Charithram (History of Malayalam Literature in America).
Rudolf Pap.  Rudolf Pap (born 16 November 1989) is a Hungarian-born award-winning animator and model.He was born in Budapest Hungary in 1989 and he is most famous about his exceptional skills in 2D animation. He was discovered in 2009 when he won an international competition held by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
Bif Naked.  Bif Naked (born Beth Torbert on June 15 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter actress and motivational speaker.
Budge Wilson.  Budge Marjorie Wilson (née Archibald) CM ONS (born 2 May 1927) is a Canadian author.
Henryka Łazowertówna.  Henryka Łazowertówna (pronounced ['xɛnˈrɨka waˌzɔvɛrˈtuvna]; in full Henryka Wanda Łazowertówna); also Henryka Lazowert or incorectly Lazawert (June 19 1909 Warsaw – August 1942 Treblinka extermination camp) was a Polish lyric poet. While in general deeply personal in nature and of great emotive intensity her poetry is not devoid of social concerns and patriotic overtones.
Alex de Campi.  Alex de Campi is a British-American music video director comics writer and columnist.
Viacheslav Dinerchtein.  Viacheslav Dinerchtein (born October 30 1976) is a prominent violist and an avid promoter of both novel and overlooked viola repertoire. His performances as a recitalist and chamber musician have taken him to prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center Carnegie Hall and Palacio de Bellas Artes. He has appeared in a large number of music festivals in both North and South America and in Europe and has been a guest artist at International Viola Congresses.
Troy Sanders (composer).  Troy Sanders (December 7 1901 – May 3 1959) was an American composer and musician who worked in the Hollywood industry from 1930 through 1959.For 30 years Sanders worked steadily in Hollywood since the first talkies hit the screen contributing in different areas of the music department while working mostly as an advisor for composers as Irving Berlin Johnny Burke Frederick Hollander John Leipold Alfred Newman Walter Scharf Jimmy Van Heusen Franz Waxman and Victor Young among others.
Yoshihiko Kazamaru.  Yoshihiko Kazamaru (風丸 良彦 Kazamaru Yoshihiko born 1958) is a contemporary Japanese literary critic. He has been a contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year (Japanese Literature) since 1999.[citation needed]
Alok Mehta.  Alok Mehta (आलोक मेहता) is a pioneer of Indian Hindi journalism.
Nancy Kominsky.  Nancy Circelli Kominsky (born Emanuella Agneta Circelli 24 September 1915 – 11 March 2011) was an Italian-American artist and television presenter. Her series Paint Along with Nancy comprised 52 half-hour programmes made by HTV West from 1974 to 1978 and transmitted on ITV in the United Kingdom and a further 26 half hour programmes made for PBS in the United States which ran on PBS affiliates into the mid-1980s.
Louis A. Mongello.  Lou Mongello is a widely recognized Walt Disney World author expert host speaker and historian. He is the host/producer of the WDW Radio show (http://WDWRadio.com) which has been named Best Travel Podcast for 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 and 2013 Podcast Awards.
Théophile Gautier.  Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teofil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet dramatist novelist journalist and art and literary critic.While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism Symbolism Decadence and Modernism.
Jovan the Serb of Kratovo.  Jovan the Serb of Kratovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Србин из Кратова; 1526–1583) or Protopop Jovan (Протопоп Јован) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and scribe with an opus of six works of which one is the Velika Remeta Gospel (1580). He was a monk at Hilandar.
Angelo Earl.  Angelo Earl is an American guitarist record producer songwriter and owner of Soul Street Records. Earl is most widely known for playing electric guitar on Al Green’s “He Is The Light” Bobby Rush’s “Southern Soul” the Bar-kays “The Real Thing” contributing vocal work to Isaac Hayes’ “Branded” touring with the Jackson family touring with the Funk Brothers and writing for Queen’s “Under Pressure”. Recently Earl appeared on episodes of The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty on A&E.
Man Parrish.  Man Parrish (born Manuel Joseph Parrish May 6 1958) is an American composer songwriter vocalist and producer. He along with artists such as Yellow Magic Orchestra Kraftwerk Art of Noise Arthur Baker Afrika Bambaataa John Robie Jellybean Benitez and Aldo Marin helped create and define electro in the early 1980s.
Cathy Conheim.  Cathy Conheim LCSW is a psychotherapist and the author of several children's books.
Andrea Leone Tottola.  Andrea Leone Tottola (died 15 September 1831) was a prolific Italian librettist best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.It is not known when or where he was born. He became the official poet to the royal theatres in Naples and agent for the impresario Domenico Barbaia and started writing librettos in 1802.His libretto for Gabriella di Vergy originally set by Michele Carafa in 1816 was reworked by Donizetti in the 1820s and 1830s.
Daniel Moore (musician).  Daniel Moore (born 1941 in Walla Walla Washington U.S.) is an American musician singer and songwriter.He co-wrote the song My Maria with B. W. Stevenson. Recorded by the latter the song was a pop hit in 1973. Moore also wrote the song Shambala a song which was a hit for both B. W. Stevenson and Three Dog Night that same year. My Maria was also a country hit in 1996 when recorded by Brooks and Dunn.
John Piper (artist).  John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was a 20th-century English painter and printmaker.
Charley Patton.  Charley Patton (between April 1887 and 1891 – April 28 1934) also known as Charlie Patton was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the Father of the Delta Blues and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century.
Julian Casablancas.  Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23 1978) is an American musician singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band The Strokes. In addition to his work with the Strokes Casablancas has led a solo career during the band's hiatus releasing the album Phrazes for the Young on November 3 2009.
Ronald Davis.  Ronald Davis a.k.a. Ron Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction Abstract Illusionism Lyrical Abstraction Hard-edge painting Shaped canvas painting Color field painting and 3D Computer Graphics. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.
Eugenia Viteri.  Blanca Eugenia Viteri Segura (born April 14 1928 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian novelist anthologist and teacher.
Lynn Peterzell.  Lynn Meyer Peterzell (January 10 1955 – September 8 1994) was a country music audio engineer from Nashville Tennessee.Lynn Peterzell was raised in Pascagoula Mississippi by Frances and Milton Peterzell. He was the third of five children.
Harri Sjöström.  Harri Sjöström (born February 29 1952 in Turku Finland) is a saxophonist who specializes in the soprano saxophone.
Kim Yura.  Kim Ah-young (born November 6 1992; Hangul: 김아영) better known by her stage name Yura (Hangul: 유라) is a South Korean idol singer. She is best known as the main rapper and dancer of the girl group Girl's Day under Dream Tea Entertainment.
Tony Deyo.  Anthony Robert Tony Deyo is an American stand-up comedian. In 2013 he made his late night television debut on Conan. Just a few months later he made a second late night appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He has performed at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and can be heard on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.
Brooks Brown.  Brooks Richard Brown is an American saxophonist known for his work as a former member of the Eugene Oregon band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies which he co-founded with Steve Perry and Dan Schmid.
Jordyn Taylor.  Jordyn Taylor is an American pop singer-songwriter and model.
Racey Helps.  Angus Clifford Racey Helps (1913–1970) was an English children's author and illustrator. His books were written in a simple style and feature woodland creatures and birds with illustrations by the author. He is known also for illustrating postcards greeting cards jigsaw puzzles playing cards and wrapping paper.
Nathan Carter (singer).  Nathan Carter (born 28 May 1990) is an Irish country singer signed to Sharpe Music label and managed by John Farry.Nathan was born in Liverpool to parents from Northern Ireland. He began playing the accordion at age 4 and at age 10 he won the title for All Ireland Title for Traditional Singing.
Manolis Pratikakis.  Manolis Pratikakis (Greek: Μανόλης Πρατικάκης) (b. Myrtos Ierapetra Crete 1943) is an award winning Greek poet. He read Medicine at the University of Athens and he is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist.
Gana El Maghnaoui.  Gana El Maghnaoui (born 2 February 1958) is an Algerian Raï songwriter lyricist and composer.
Gary Brandner.  Gary Phil Brandner (May 31 1930 – September 22 2013) was an American horror author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels The Howling. The first book in the series was loosely adapted as a motion picture in 1981. Brandner's second and third Howling novels published in 1979 and 1985 respectively have no connection to the film series though he was involved in writing the screenplay for the second Howling film Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf.
Ku Sang.  Ku Sang (born and died in Seoul; September 16 1919 - May 11 2004) was a Korean poet considered one of Korea's most respected and trusted poets“.
Charles E. Burchfield.  Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9 1893 - January 10 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo New York.
Laura Omloop.  Laura Omloop (born 18 May 1999) or simply known as Laura is a Belgian pop singer who represented her country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Kiev Ukraine finishing in fourth place. Omloop sang the song Zo verliefd which also contains yodeling.
Jim Boggio.  Jim Boggio (December 11 1939–November 6 1996) was an American accordionist. He died of heart failure in Cotati California aged 56. A statue of him stands in La Plaza Park near the center of Cotati.
Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721).  Johann Christoph Bach (16 June 1671 – 22 February 1721) was a German musician and composer. He was the eldest brother of the more famous German musician and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Christoph was born in Erfurt where he studied under Johann Pachelbel and his library of keyboard music included works by Pachelbel Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Kaspar Kerll. In 1690 he became organist at the Michaeliskirche at Ohrdruf and in 1694 he was married there.
Olena Pchilka.  Olha Petrivna Kosach (29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930) better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka was a Ukrainian publisher writer ethnographer interpreter civil activist. Sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov. Mother of Lesya Ukrainka
Dido Sotiriou.  Dido Sotiriou (alternative spelling: Dido Sotiriu; Greek: Διδώ Σωτηρίου Turkish: Dido Sotiroğlu) (18 February 1909 – 23 September 2004) was a Greek novelist journalist and playwright.
Kinuyo Yamashita.  Kinuyo Yamashita (山下 絹代 Yamashita Kinuyo born 31 December) is a Japanese video game music composer and sound producer. Her best known soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania which was also her debut work. She was credited under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. This pseudonym was a pun of the name James Bernard the film composer of the 1958 film Dracula.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale.  Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the first Diné/Navajo to earn a Ph.D in history. Denetdale earned her Ph.D. in History from Northern Arizona University in 1999. Denetdale is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and teaches courses in Native American Studies. She specializes in Navajo history and culture.
Anna Fegi.  Anna Fegi (born April 18 1977) is a Filipina singer and actress from Cebu Philippines. She has performed internationally in over forty countries and is well known for her work on the popular show ASAP on the ABS-CBN television network and The Filipino Channel (TFC) as well as her two solo albums released under the Sony BMG label. Fegi is recognized by her powerful voice high vocal range and trademark curly hair.
Candyman (rapper).  Candell Manson (born June 25 1968 Los Angeles California United States) known by his stage name Candyman is an American rapper and record producer. He is best known for his hit single Knockin' Boots.
Liz Claiborne (fashion designer).  Anne Elisabeth Jane Liz Claiborne (March 31 1929 – June 26 2007) was a Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur. Claiborne is best known for co-founding Liz Claiborne Inc. which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500. Claiborne was the first woman to become chairperson and CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Shō Aikawa (screenwriter).  Shō Aikawa (會川 昇 Aikawa Shō born Noboru Aikawa (会川 昇 Aikawa Noboru) in 1965) is a Japanese screenwriter. His writing credits include Jikuu Senshi Spielban Mister Ajikko Dangaioh and Urotsukidōji. He has recently written the anime adaptations of Love Hina and the first Fullmetal Alchemist series as well Kamen Rider Blade and Kamen Rider Decade.
Bernardino da Asola.  Bernardino da Asola (c.1490 – 1540) was a 16th-century Italian painter.
Kany García.  Encarnita Kany García De Jesus (born September 25 1982) is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. Born in Toa Baja Puerto Rico García first appeared on television in 2004 as a contestant on Objetivo Fama. She is widely considered the most successful non-winner in the history of the show.In 2006 García signed a recording contract with Sony BMG releasing her debut album Cualquier Día (2007) which was a commercial success spawning four top 40 singles on the Billboard Latin Tracks.
Nicola Sabatino.  Nicola Sabatino (also: Sabatini) (1705–1796) was a Neapolitan composer.Sabatino was born in Naples and became one of the late baroque Neapolitan composers centred on the Music conservatories of Naples and the opera at the Teatro di San Carlo typified by Porpora Leonardo Leo Francesco Durante. In November 1774 Sabatino directed his own music for the funeral of Niccolò Jommelli.
Austin Reed (author).  Austin Reed (1827?-?) is the reputed author (as Rob Reed) of The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict reportedly the first prison memoir by an African American. Born in Rochester New York State Reed spent time in the New York House of Refuge a juvenile detention facility and later served several terms (interrupted by multiple escapes) in the Auburn State Prison.
Inga Stephens Pratt Clark.  Inga Marie Stephens Pratt Clark (1906–1970) was an American artist and book illustrator who with her husband Fletcher Pratt was at the center of a circle of New York literary figures during the 20th Century.
Jonathan David Katz.  Jonathan David Katz (born 1958) is an American activist art historian educator and writer he is currently the director of the doctoral program in Visual culture studies at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is also the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University.
A. J. McLean.  Alexander James A. J. McLean (born January 9 1978) is an American musician singer dancer actor and entertainer. He is a member of the Backstreet Boys. McLean is also a contributor for the It Gets Better Project.
Leonardo Garet.  Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer and teacher member of the National Academy of Uruguay.
Kurt Lightner.  Kurt Lightner is an artist working in various media including graphic as well as performance art. He is originally from Des Moines IA and currently resides in Göteborg Sweden.He did the front cover picture for the album Making God Smile: An Artists' Tribute to the Songs of Beach Boy Brian Wilson as well as contributing cover and interior illustrations to the Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies project on the Standard Recording Company label.
Michael Moorcock.  Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published literary novels.
Ronnie Bond.  Ronnie Bond (4 May 1940 – 13 November 1992) was an English vocalist and drummer who had a solo hit single called It's Written On Your Body released on Mercury Records. It entered the UK Singles Chart on 31 May 1980. It remained in the charts for five weeks reaching No.52.He was born Ronald James Bullis in Andover Hampshire England.
Michael Hoey (linguist).  Michael Hoey is a British linguist and Baines Professor of English Language.
Rick Wills.  Richard William Rick Wills (born 5 December 1947 London England) is a British bass player. He is best known for his work with rock band Foreigner and his associations with the Small Faces and Bad Company.
Chris Anderson (pianist).  Chris Anderson (February 26 1926 – February 4 2008) was an American jazz pianist who might be best known as an influence on Herbie Hancock.Born in Chicago and self-taught Anderson began playing in Chicago clubs in the mid-1940s and played with Von Freeman and Charlie Parker among others. Hired as Dinah Washington's accompanist like other arrangers before him he didn't last long with the cantankerous singer; fired in New York six weeks later he stayed there.
Richard Sanderson.  Richard Sanderson (born 5 March 1953 Taplow) is an English singer best known for his hit songs Reality So Many Ways and She's a Lady.
Philippe Lefebvre (actor).  Philippe Lefebvre is a French actor and screenwriter. He performed in more than fifty films since 1981.
Arthur Eugene Baggs.  Arthur Eugene Baggs (27 October 1886 New York City — 15 February 1947 Columbus) was an American chemist and potter. He studied under Charles Fergus Binns at Alfred University. In 1904-05 he established Marblehead Pottery in Marblehead Massachusetts and designed vessels there until it closed in 1936. Meanwhile he worked as a glaze chemist at Cowan Pottery from 1925 to 1928. From 1928 on he taught ceramics at Ohio State University.
Phil Sawyer.  Philip 'Phil' Sawyer (born 8 March 1947 London) is an English musician who was a member of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s and later recorded under the alias Beautiful World.
Louis Johnson (bassist).  Louis Johnson (born April 13 1955) is an American bass guitarist.Johnson is best known for his group The Brothers Johnson and his session playing on several hit albums of the 1970s and 1980s including the best selling album of all time Thriller. His signature sound is from the Music Man StingRay bass which Leo Fender especially made for him to first use and promote and from his slapping technique.
Glen Scott.  Glen Scott (born Glenvin Anthony Scott on 29 August 1973) is an award-winning British producer arranger mixing engineer singer-songwriter and session musician.Glen Scott is currently living and working in London. He has worked with artists such as James Morrison Mary J. Blige Eric Bibb James Blunt Craig David and Backstreet Boys to name a few.
Maria Arredondo.  Maria Arredondo (born 6 July 1985 in Vennesla Norway) is a Norwegian pop singer. The name Arredondo comes from her Chilean stepfather.
Rachel Rosenthal.  Rachel Rosenthal (born November 9 1926 in Paris France) is an interdisciplinary artist a teacher and animal rights activist based in Los Angeles California. She is best known for her full-length performance art pieces which she has toured with The Rachel Rosenthal Company to numerous venues both within the United States and abroad. She is also known for her smoothly shaven head.
Bob Oksner.  Bob Oksner (October 14 1916 Paterson New Jersey - February 18 2007) was an American comics artist known for both adventure comic strips and for superhero and humor comic books primarily at DC Comics.
Andre de Krayewski.  Andre de Krayewski (Polish: Andrzej Krajewski) (born June 20 1933) is an artist and Polish expatriate currently residing in Newark New Jersey in the United States. With a career that spans more than half a century he continues to masterfully create paintings in his art-deco signature style and in pop art style. Andre de Krayewski is best known in his former country for his famous Polish movie posters. He started his movie poster career in 1965.
Jerrod Niemann.  Jerrod Lee Niemann (born July 24 1979) is an American country music artist. Active since 2001 he has recorded two independent albums. In 2006 he signed to Category 5 Records and charted with the single I Love Women (My Momma Can't Stand). He has also co-written three singles for Garth Brooks: the Chris LeDoux tribute Good Ride Cowboy as well as That Girl Is a Cowboy and Midnight Sun.
Mike Spreitzer.  Michael Colin Spreitzer (born February 10 1981 in Torrance CA) is one of the guitarists of the American heavy metal band DevilDriver. He replaced guitarist Evan Pitts in 2004. Michael co-wrote and performed on DevilDriver's albums The Fury of Our Maker's Hand (2005) The Last Kind Words (2007) Pray for Villains (2009) Beast (2011) and Winter Kills (2013).
Paul Rudnick.  Paul M. Rudnick (born December 29 1957) is an American playwright novelist screenwriter and essayist. His plays have been produced both on and off Broadway and around the world and Ben Brantley when reviewing Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told in The New York Times wrote that “Line by line Mr. Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the stage in the United States today.”
Linda Crew.  Linda Crew (born 1951) is an American author based in Oregon. Her writing ranges from children's books such as the Nekomah Creek series to young adult Historical novels with crossover appeal for older readers such as Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined Fire on the Wind and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon 1845. Ordinary Miracles published by William Morrow in 1993 is an adult novel. Her young adult novel Children of the River has won several awards.
Giacomo Parolini.  Giacomo Parolini (May 1 1663–1733) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active in Ferrara.He initially traveled with Giovanni Francesco Viterbi to Turin to study law but then went to study painting in Turin with Peruzzini Anconitano who had trained with Simone Cantarini. He travels with Viterbi to Bologna in 1679 where he apprentices with Carlo Cignani in Bologna till the latter leaves for Forlì.
Jamie Walters.  Jamie Walters (born James Leland Walters Jr. June 13 1969) is an American actor singer firefighter and record producer best known for his roles on Beverly Hills 90210 and The Heights and his number one single How Do You Talk to an Angel.
Zhang Huan.  Zhang Huan (Chinese: 張洹; born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York. He made his B.A. at the Henan University in Kaifeng (1988) and his M.A. at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (1993). He is primarily a performance artist but also makes photographs and sculpture.
Emir (singer).  Emir (born in Istanbul Turkey in September 1980) is a Tukish pop singer. In 2009 his song Eline Düştüm won Most requested song of the year at İstanbul FM Music Awards. His debut album Ben Sen Olamam produced the title track as single reaching Top 5 in the Turkish Singles Chart followed by Eline Düştüm reaching No.2 and Tornistan reaching No.4.His single Sudan Sebep has reached the top of the Turkish Chart in June 2012.
Kartik Seshadri.  Kartik Seshadri (born 1957) is a leading sitarist composer and teacher. He was noted as a child prodigy in India. He began studying under Ravi Shankar in 1974. He is currently a professor at the University of California San Diego where he heads the Indian Music Department by leading sitar classes.
Tony Campise.  Tony Campise (January 22 1943 – March 7 2010) was an American jazz musician. He primarily played tenor saxophone and flute though he doubled on clarinet and oboe (Multireedist). He was known for his exceptional technique and fluid style on all reed instruments; Campise is most recognized for his association with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the mid-1970s.
Ebru Umar.  Ebru Umar (born 20 May 1970) is a Dutch columnist of Turkish descent. Under the influence of Theo van Gogh she gave up a career in management and became a columnist first for van Gogh's website and after he was assassinated as his successor as a regular columnist of Metro. A somewhat controversial columnist because of her criticism of Islam and her opinions on feminism she writes for a number of Dutch magazines and has published four books.
Ade Bethune.  Ade Bethune (January 12 1914 – May 1 2002) was a Catholic liturgical artist.She was associated with the Catholic Worker Movement and designed an early masthead of its publication the Catholic Worker first used in 1935. She later re-designed this in 1985 replacing one of the men with a woman.Bethune was an advocate of traditional iconography.She is buried at Portsmouth Abbey Portsmouth Rhode Island.
Daniel Whitehead Hicky.  Daniel Whitehead Hicky known as Jack (December 6 1900 – July 1976) was a prominent Atlanta Poet world traveler and businessman who in his day was the toast of the literati and one of the most widely published poets in America . His ancestors include William Whitehead English poet and playwright who became Poet Laurate of England in 1757.
Pehr Hörberg.  Pehr Hörberg was born January 31 1746 in Virestad parish in Småland Sweden and died January 24 1816 in Risinge in Östergötland Sweden was a Swedish artist painter and musician. In 1769 he married the maid Maria Eriksdotter and they had three sons.
Tito Lessi.  Tito Lessi (Florence 1858 – Florence 1917) was an Italian painter.
Robert Owens (musician).  Robert Owens (born 1961) is an American contemporary R&B and house-music vocalist best known for his work with the Chicago house group Fingers Inc. in the mid-1980s. As a solo artist he has placed several songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart two of which hit #1: I'll Be Your Friend (1992) and Mine to Give (2000 a collaboration with Photek).
Ivan Klíma.  Ivan Klíma (born 14 September 1931 Prague born as Ivan Kauders) is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera Award and the Franz Kafka Prize among other honors.
Kaysha.  Edward Mokolo Jr. better known by stage name Kaysha (born in Kinshasa on January 22 1974) is a singer/rapper and producer that works in places like the West indies South America and Africa.
Barbara Jane Reyes.  Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture.She was born in Manila Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate served as editor in chief for maganda magazine and witnessed the emergence of Filipino American literary figures.She received her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University.
Priscelia Chan.  Priscelia Chan Shih Mei (born 6 November 1978) also known as Zeng Shimei is a Singaporean television actress and host who works on two channels of MediaCorp - Channel 8 (Chinese-language) and Channel 5 (English-language).
Trump Davidson.  James Douglas Trump Davidson (November 26 1908 Sudbury Ontario Canada - May 2 1978 Sudbury) was a Canadian jazz bandleader and cornetist.Davidson formed one of Canada's earliest jazz bands in 1925 under the name The Melody Five. From 1929 to 1936 he played in Luigi Romanelli's orchestra then led a dance band from 1937 to 1942 which broadcast on NBC and toured in the UK with Ray Noble in 1938-39.
Charles Edmund Clutterbuck.  Charles Clutterbuck (1806-1861) was a stained glass artist of Stratford East London. He was originally a painter of miniatures and exhibited eight paintings at the Royal Academy. He began stained glass work in the 1840s. Examples of his work can be seen in many Churches in the South East of England.
Bjarne Nerem.  Bjarne Arnulf Nerem (born in Oslo Norway 31 July 1923 – deceased 1 April 1991 in Oslo) was a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone alto saxophone and clarinet) known from several recordings and was among the absolute foremost soloists in Norwegian jazz. He was a very talented musician in the tradition of Lester Young Stan Getz and jazz in the 1950s. Nerem achieved international recognition for his performances.
Charles Quatermaine.  Charles Quatermaine (born 30 December 1877 in Richmond Surrey - died August 1958 in Sussex) was a British stage and film actor. He appeared on Broadway and was the brother of Leon Quartermaine.
Natsuki Sato.  Natsuki Sato (佐藤 夏希 Satō Natsuki born 1 July 1990 in Sapporo Hokkaido) is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She is an original Team K member and debuted on April 1 2006. She was regrouped to Team B at the final Budokan Concert in August 2009 and was again regrouped to Team A at the Tokyo Dome Concert on August 24 2012.
Randall Munroe.  Randall Patrick Munroe (was born[citation needed] October 17 1984) is an American webcomic author former NASA roboticist and the creator of the webcomic xkcd. He and the webcomic have developed a cult following and after leaving NASA he became a professional webcomic artist. In 2013 a main-belt asteroid (4942 Munroe) was named after him.
Julie Felix.  Julie Ann Felix (born 14 June 1938 Santa Barbara California) is an American born British-based folk recording artist who achieved success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She continued to perform today and releases albums on her own record label.
Dunia Montenegro.  Dunia Montenegro (born July 5 1977) is a pornographic actress and former dancer and stripper.She is a resident of Barcelona where she started her pornographic career in September 2004.
Ba Kyi.  Ba Kyi FRSA (Burmese: ဘကြည် [ba̰ tɕì]; 17 July 1912 – 15 April 2000) was a well-known and prolific Burmese artist. He was initially trained in western painting but in the post-WWII independence period he initiated a revival of Traditional painting borrowing from the Western training he had received as well as his own cultural heritage of painting styles and techniques.
Wilfried Maaß.  Wilfried Maaß (1931–2005) was a German politician. He was the Secretary of Science Education and Culture in the Frankfurt/Oder District Leadership of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany 1962–1966. In 1966 he became Deputy Minister of Culture of the German Democratic Republic. Between 1968 and 1972 he was a member of the presidium council of the Kulturbund. In 1984 he left his ministerial position to become the Secretary of Kulturbund.
Serge Poliakoff.  Serge Poliakoff (January 8 1906 – October 12 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris (Tachisme).
Richard Girling.  Richard Girling is a feature writer for The Sunday Times Magazine. Girling was named Specialist Writer of the Year at the 2002 UK Press Awards. He has been a consultant to the former Department of the Environment and Department for Culture Media and Sport. Girling is a current trustee of the Tree Council.He lives in north Norfolk.
Tom Drury.  Thomas Jay Drury is an American writer.He was born in Iowa in 1956 and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1980.For the next five years Drury worked at a series of newspapers including the Danbury News-Times the Litchfield County Times and The Providence Journal until he was accepted to the graduate writing program at Brown University in 1985.[citation needed] After his short stories were published in Harper's Magazine the North American Review and The New Yorker he was contacted by Sarah Chalfant of the Wylie Agency.His first novel The End of Vandalism was published in 1994 by Houghton Mifflin and was chosen as an ALA Notable Book in 1995.In 1996 an excerpt of Hunts in Dreams appeared in GRANTA 54 Summer 1996: The Best of Young American Novelists published by Granta magazine. 
Gabriel Valerio.  Gabriel Valerio (Blasfemator) is the drummer of the Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires. He also performs backing vocals with Zimon Lijoi and Fabian Varesi. He joined Theatres des Vampires in 1997.
Stuart Chatwood.  Stuart Chatwood (born 22 October 1969 in Fleetwood Lancashire England) is a Canadian musician best known as the bass guitar and keyboard player for the rock band The Tea Party. The Tea Party are known for fusing together musical styles of both the Eastern and Western worlds in what they call Moroccan roll. In 2001 Chatwood won a Juno Award for the best artwork for a Tea Party album.Stuart Chatwood is also a composer of video game soundtracks.
Allie Bates.  Allie Bates (born Memphis May 1957) is an American award-winning short story writer who has also written Romance and Science Fiction novels and screenplays. She is also an English teacher and freelance editor.
Øystein Greni.  Øystein Greni (born 15 June 1974 in Oslo) is the singer and lead guitar player of the Norwegian rock and roll band BigBang.
Mosè Turri.  Mosè Turri (1837 -1903) was an Italian painter. He was born and was a resident in Milan. He painted mainly animals and still-lives of fruits and flowers. In 1881 he exhibited at Milan: Una sorpresa ; Animali; Natura morta; in 1884 in Turin: Fiori and Selvaggina.
Garland Jeffreys.  Garland Jeffreys (born July 3 1943 Brooklyn New York) is a part African-American and Puerto Rican American singer and songwriter traversing the musical genres of rock and roll reggae blues and soul.
Barry Sanders (professor).  Barry Sanders Ph.D. is a non-fiction author eccentric academic and college professor.Sanders was a professor at Pitzer College member of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California for over 30 years. He currently teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a contributing editor at the North American Review.
Dávid Nagy.  David Nagy (February 16 1981) is a heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Helland. He also played in Hungarian heavy metal band Pokolgép. He was the member of the band from 2001 to 2010 but has written lyrics from the 2000 album Csakazértis.In February 2013 he started a new band with ex-Pokolgép drummer Csaba Czébely under the name of Helland.The band released their debut album called Hellness in 2014.
Aistė Smilgevičiūtė.  Aistė Smilgevičiūtė (born October 29 1977 in Plungė) is a Lithuanian singer. She performs folk music jazz pop rock and other kinds of alternative music. Since 1996 Aistė has been a member of the music band Skylė. She also graduated in Classical Philology from Vilnius University. Aistė participated as a Lithuanian contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 held in Israel singing a modern folk song Strazdas (Song Thrush) in the Samogitian dialect.
Kris Ife.  Kris Ife (born 16 June 1946 Aylesbury Buckinghamshire England - 8 November 2013) was an English singer and songwriter who enjoyed modest success in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. He recorded a version of Hush later covered by Deep Purple.
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder.  Charles Nicolas Cochin the Elder a French line-engraver was born in Paris in 1688. His father Charles Cochin was a painter and Charles Nicolas followed the same profession until he was twenty-two years of age when he abandoned painting and devoted himself entirely to engraving. In 1731 he became an Academician and on the occasion of his reception engraved the portraits of Jacques Sarrazin and Eustache Le Sueur.
Frederick Franck.  Frederick Franck (April 12 1909 in Maastricht The Netherlands – June 5 2006 in Warwick New York U.S.) was a painter sculptor and author of more than 30 books on Buddhism and other subjects who was known for his interest in human spirituality. He was a native of The Netherlands and became a United States citizen in 1945. He was a dental surgeon by trade and worked with Dr.
Lucien de la Hodde.  Lucien de la Hodde was born in France in 1808. Lucien became a writer and a member of various secret revolutionary societies in France during the Restoration of Louis XVIII and during the July Monarchy of Louis Phillipe. Later he became a police agent. Lucien de la Hodde died in 1865.
Anker Rogstad.  Anker Rogstad (1925 – 1994) was a Norwegian convicted safecracker who spent eight years in prison for his crimes and later a celebrated crime writer. He started writing during imprisonment and made his literary debut in 1956 with the crime novel Etterlyst. He was awarded the Riverton Prize in 1974 for the novel Lansen.
William Duff (writer).  William Duff (1732 - 1815) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of the first writers to analyse the nature of genius as a property of human psychology. His Essay on Original Genius is frequently cited as a landmark in the Western analysis of genius and creativity.
David A. Martin.  David A. Martin (1937 – August 2 1987) was a founding member and original bass player for the rock group Sam the Sham and recorded all their early hits on MGM Records. Martin also co-wrote the group's #1 hit Wooly Bully which sold over three million records.
Kejsi Tola.  Kejsi Tola (Born 5 February 1992 in Tirana Albania) is an Albanian singer. She was the winner of Ethet (Albanian Idol 2007). In May 2009 she represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow Russia with Carry Me In Your Dreams.
Jan Brett.  Jan Brett (born December 1 1949) is an American illustrator and children's writer. Her picture books are known for colorful detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures ranging from Scandinavia to Africa. Her best-known titles include The Hat The Mitten The Three Snow Bears and Gingerbread Baby.
Augusto Alberici.  Augusto Alberici (Trastavere Rome September 1846) was an Italian painter and antiquarian. He was born in Rome but his father was a sea captain from Gaeta. His mother was Roman. He trained under Toglietti in Accademia di San Luca. he obtained the early sponsorship of two patrons the engineer Giovanni Battista Marotti and Giovanni Frontini. He mainly painted battle vistas or landscapes.
Kamel Messaoudi.  Kamel Messaoudi (Arabic: كمال مسعودي‎)  (30 January 1961; Bouzaréah Algeria – 10 December 1998; Algiers) was an Algerian Chaabi music performer.
Carol Dunlop.  Carol Dunlop (April 2 1947 – November 2 1982) was a writer translator activist and photographer. She is mostly known for being the wife of the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar with whom she co-wrote The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (1982).
Matt Haley.  Matt Haley (born 10 June 1970 in Houston Texas) is an American film director art director and book illustrator artist. CurrentlyTemplate:When? he is the art director of Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope feature documentary which debuted at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel.  Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (May 18 1898 – November 8 1973) was a leading Turkish poet author and later politician.
Nigel Powell.  Nigel Powell is a multi-instrumental musician from Abingdon England. Powell was educated at Abingdon School. While at school he was in a band called Illiterate Hands which also featured future Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and Andy Yorke brother of Thom Yorke.He currently works as Frank Turner's live and studio drummer as a member of The Sleeping Souls and is also a member of the Oxford based alternative rock band Dive Dive. He was formerly a member of Unbelievable Truth.
Kelley Deal.  Kelley Deal (born June 10 1961) is an American musician. The identical twin sister of Kim Deal she is the lead guitarist of The Breeders besides having a solo career.
Gesualdo Bufalino.  Gesualdo Bufalino (Comiso Italy 15 November 1920 - 14 June 1996) was an Italian writer. Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso Sicily. He studied literature and was a high-school professor in his hometown for most of his life. Immediately after World War II he had to spend some time in an hospital for tuberculosis; hence he drew the material for the novel Diceria dell'untore (The Plague Sower).
François Gérard.  François Pascal Simon Baron Gérard (4 мау 1770 – 11 January 1837) was a French painter born in Rome where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador. His mother was Italian. As a baron of the Empire he is sometimes referred to as Baron Gérard.
Henri Salvador.  Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 – 13 February 2008) was a French Caribbean singer.
Lorenzo S. Alvarado Santos.  Lorenzo S. (Chago) Alvarado Santos (1920 - 1982) was a Puerto Rican singer composer and guitarist. He became internationally famous with Johnny Albino and Félix (Ola) Martínez as part of the Trío San Juan during the years 1949-1957. Among his best tunes was the 1956 bolero named “Siete notas de amor”.
Henry Busse.  Henry Busse Sr. (May 19 1894 – April 23 1955) was a German-born jazz trumpeter known for work with sweet bands and big bands.
Giuseppe Bastiani.  Giuseppe Bastiani (active in 1594) was an Italian painter active in the Renaissance period mainly in his hometown of Macerata. He was a disciple of Gaspare Gasparini.
Stephanie Nielson.  Stephanie Nielson is a well-known Mormon mommy blogger burn survivor and author of the blog The NieNie Dialogues. She is also the younger sister of another popular blogger C. Jane Kendrick.
Gun Jönsson.  Gun Jönsson (born 13 December 1929) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 20 films and television shows since 1948.
Lee Jackson (bassist).  Lee Jackson (born 8 January 1943) is an English bass guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his work in The Nice an English progressive-rock band.
George Newell Bowers.  George Newell Bowers (1849-1909 active 1872-1906) was an American painter in Springfield Massachusetts.Few details are known of Bowers' life. He worked as a druggist's clerk in Springfield Massachusetts before leaving to study art at the Art Students League of New York in New York City and then from 1874-1879 in the studio of Léon Bonnat in Paris. He then returned as a painter to Springfield.
Álvaro Scaramelli.  Álvaro Escalona Scaramelli (b. in Santiago Chile September 3 1948) better known as Álvaro Scaramelli is a Chilean singer composer and therapist. He began his musical career in 1984 as the vocalist of the now defunct band Cinema. After the dissolution of the band in 1987 he continued his solo career. In 2000 he became the producer and manager of the Brazilian group Axé Bahia.
Culprit 1.  Culprit 1 aka Culprit One (born James Hannam) is a London-based DJ remixer and electronica producer. He is considered 'The DJ Shadow of Wales' by BBC Radio 1 and 'The Bastard Son of Orbital and RJD2' by XFM.Hannam holds a degree in music from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and attended Crosskeys College in the Welsh valleys where the Manic Street Preachers also studied.
Ambrogio Raffaele.  Ambrogio Raffaele or Raffele (1845-1928) was an Italian painter. He was born in Vigevano. He studied under Antonio Fontanesi and Andrea Gastaldi at the Accademia Albertina in Turin and was a colleague of Marco Calderini. He moved back to Vigevano late in life. He painted both genre and landscapes in oil and water-color. In 1880 at Turin he exhibited: Bacia sole immortale bacia il tuo figlio.
Jerry Roush.  Gerald Allen Roush is an U.S. musician best known as former vocalist for Sky Eats Airplane and Of Mice & Men and current vocalist of Glass Cloud. He has also volunteered as a substitute vocalist for American Me during their Japan tour.
John Baeder.  John Baeder (born December 24 1938 in South Bend Indiana) is an American painter closely associated with the Photorealist movement. He is best known for his detailed paintings of American roadside diners and eateries.
Seizō Katō.  Seizō Katō (加藤 精三 Katō Seizō February 14 1927 – January 17 2014) was a Japanese voice actor who worked for Haikyo (Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society).Kato was born in Tokyo. He was noted for his role as Megatron and Galvatron from the 1st Transformers series until Transformers: The Headmasters. He died of bladder cancer at a hospital in Itabashi Tokyo.
Milorad Mitrović (poet).  Milorad J. Mitrović (20 February 1867 - 15 May 1907) was a Serbian lyrical poet.
Edward Patten.  Edward Eddie Roy Patten (August 27 1939 – February 25 2005) was an Atlanta Georgia-born R&B/soul singer best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. He was lead singer Gladys Knight's first cousin. Along with the group he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.Patten suffered from diabetes and died of a stroke at St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia Michigan where he resided. He was 65 years old.
Biswajit Roy Chowdhury.  Pandit Biswajit Roy Chowdhury was born in 1956 in Deogarh Chowdhury was initiated into music by his father Shri Ranajit Roy Chowdhary who was teacher of chemistry by profession but more importantly a serious Sarod player trained under the Late Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan and others. In 1978 Roy Chowdhury's talents were spotted by the Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan accepting him as a disciple.
Carolina Herrera (fashion designer).  Carolina Herrera (born January 8 1939) is a Venezuelan-American fashion designer known for exceptional personal style and dressing First Ladies from Jacqueline Onassis to Michelle Obama. The New York Times cited her designs as elegant and worldly without ever being fussy.
Albert Bierstadt.  Albert Bierstadt (January 7 1830 – February 18 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.Born in Germany Bierstadt was brought to the United States at the age of one by his parents.
Syed Abul Maksud.  Syed Abul Maksud (Bengali: সৈয়দ আবুল মকসুদ; born October 23 1946) is a Bangladeshi journalist columnist research scholar essayist and writer. He is acclaimed for his critical and research work. He is a regular contributor to the Daily Prothom Alo. His essays on literature society culture and politics are much appreciated for his clear view lucid language and simple style.
Agnes Ravatn.  Agnes Ravatn (born 8 February 1983 in Ølen) is a Norwegian novelist columnist and journalist.She debuted in 2007 with the novel Veke 53 ('Week 53').Ravatn is a columnist and journalist for Nynorsk newspaper Dag og Tid. A series of essays for the publication were released in 2009 as Stillstand ('Standstill'). In 2011 came her second books of essays Folkelesnad on Norwegian magazines.
Nate Newton (musician).  Nate Newton (born October 9) is the bassist in hardcore punk band Converge. He also plays bass in Cavalera Conspiracy and he plays guitar and sings in Old Man Gloom and Doomriders.Before relocating to the Boston area and joining Converge in 1999 he was in the Virginia Beach area hardcore punk bands Lift Jesuit Channel Edison and Dwell.
Cengiz Kurtoğlu.  Cengiz Kurtoğlu (born 1959) is a unique Turkish music artist. He was born in 1959 in Artvin Turkey. He worked as a civil servant at a tea factory in Artvin and migrated to Istanbul in 1982.In 1985 his first album Sen Sözden Anlamaz Mısın? was released and he became very popular. His later albums sold well and helped him building an extremely dedicated fan group called as Cengizciler (Fans of Cengiz).
A. N. Krishna Rao.  Dr. A. N. Krishna Rao (Kannada: ಅ. ನ. ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಯ; Arakalagudu Narasingarao Krishna Rao; 9 May 1908 – 8 July 1971) popularly known as Anakru was an Indian writer. He was one of the best-known writers in the Kannada language and was popularly known as Kadambari Sarvabhouma (lit King of Novels). The inception of the Pragatishila (progressive) movement in Kannada literature is credited to him.
Miki Takahashi.  For the creator of Kogepan see Miki Takahashi (illustrator); for the model see Miki Takahashi (model).Miki Takahashi (高橋美紀 Takahashi Miki born September 19 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Together with her friend Chika Sakamoto she participated in the third incarnation of the radio show Animetopia. She is a member of SplashDream.
John Beauchamp Jones.  John Beauchamp Jones (March 6 1810 – February 4 1866) was a writer whose books enjoyed considerable popularity during the mid 19th century. Jones was a popular novelist (particularly of the American West and the American South) and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the American Civil War.
Eric James Stone.  Eric James Stone (born 1967) is an American science fiction fantasy and horror author. He won the 2004 Writers of the Future contest and has published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact InterGalactic Medicine Show and Jim Baen's Universe. His 2010 novelette That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was a finalist for the Hugo Award.He became the assistant editor for Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show in 2009.
E. A. Markham.  Edward Archie Markham FRSL (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008) was a Montserratian poet playwright novelist and academic. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1956 where he remained for most of his life writing as well as teaching at various academic institutions. He was known for writing subtle witty and intelligent poetry which refused to conform to the conventions and stereotypes of British and Caribbean poetry alike.
Badar Ali Khan.  Badar Miandad (17 February 1962 – 2 March 2007) also known as Badar Ali Khan was a Pakistani singer and Qawwal. He released 22 albums in Pakistan. Several albums were also released under U.K. and Indian labels.
Barry Smolin.  Barry Smolin (born April 20 1961 in Los Angeles California) is an American radio host teacher composer and writer.
Giuseppe Nicolini (composer).  Giuseppe Nicolini (or Niccolini; 29 January 1762 – 18 December 1842) was an Italian composer who wrote at least 45 operas. From 1819 onwards he devoted himself primarily to religious music. He was born and died at Piacenza.
Yank Rachell.  James Yank Rachell (March 16 1910 – April 9 1997) was an American country blues musician dubbed an elder statesman of the blues.
Vernon Biever.  Vernon Joseph Biever (21 May 1923 – 13 October 2010 ) was an American photographer most notably with the Green Bay Packers.Biever covered his first Packers game in 1941 for The Milwaukee Sentinel while a student at St. Norbert College. He was the official team photographer from 1946 until his retirement in 2006.His photographs were collected in The Glory of Titletown (ISBN 0878339906).
Zhang Ziyi.  Zhang Ziyi (born 9 February 1979) sometimes credited as Ziyi Zhang is a Chinese film actress and model. Chinese media have called her one of the Four Dan Actresses (四大花旦) in China's film industry along with Zhao Wei Xu Jinglei and Zhou Xun.Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She achieved fame in the West after leading roles in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) Rush Hour 2 (2001) House of Flying Daggers (2004) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).
Bobby Mackey.  Robert Randall Bobby Mackey (born March 25 1948) is a traditional country music singer whose career has spanned 40 years. His musical style can be described by his loyalty to Hank Williams Merle Haggard George Jones Buck Owens Conway Twitty and Johnny Paycheck and is the foundation for his musical success.Mackey opened Bobby Mackey's Music World in September 1978 in Wilder KY along the Licking River next to the same railroad track that he worked in his youth).
Viki Miljković.  Violeta Viki Miljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Виолета Вики Миљковић) (born 18 December 1974 in Niš) is a Serbian singer who is popular in the former Yugoslav republics.Miljković began her career when she was about 18 years old. She married Serbian musician Dragan Taske Tasković in the summer of 2007 and friends such as Ceca Ražnatović and Sanja Đorđević were among the guests. She gave birth to her first child a boy in September 2007. Her latest hits album was released in 2009.
Ed Piskor.  Ed Piskor (born July 28 1982) is an alternative comics artist operating out of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He is a former student of The Kubert School and is best known for his artistic collaborations with underground comics pioneers Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame and Jay Lynch who illustrates Garbage Pail Kids. He has a cult following amongst minicomic fans with his series Deviant Funnies and Isolation Chamber.Piskor was fascinated by comics throughout his childhood.
John Brosnan.  John Raymond Brosnan (7 October 1947 – 11 April 2005) was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works based around the fantasy and science fiction genres. He was born in Perth Western Australia and died in South Harrow London from acute pancreatitis. He sometimes published under the pseudonyms Harry Adam Knight Simon Ian Childer (both sometimes used together with Leroy Kettle) James Blackstone (used together with John Baxter) and John Raymond.
Leah Tysse.  Leah Tysse is an American R&B pop and soul singer.
Jonathan Cummins.  Jonathan Johnson Cummins is a Canadian musician and record producer originally from Toronto now based out of Montreal. He has played in Circus Lupus the Doughboys Treble Charger Bionic Goddo The Parachute Club The Headpins and The Besnard Lakes. He has produced albums by Starvin Hungry Tricky Woo The Hot Springs Dead Messenger the Donkeys Bullmoose and more.Cummins is also a music columnist for the Montreal Mirror alternative newsweekly.
Daniel Ruczko.  Daniel Ruczko (born 3 July 1982 in Bremen Germany) is an internationally known Artist.Daniel is mostly known for his work as a music producer under the alias Rusher he released Drum & Bass Music on several international Labels (Citrus Close2Death Barcode Recordings and more) and with his free downloadable mixing series The Repercussion he reached over 80.000 listeners with each mix.
Jake Shears.  Jake Shears (born Jason F. Sellards; October 3 1978) is an American singer best known as the lead male singer for the pop band Scissor Sisters.
Ken'ichi Sakemi.  Ken'ichi Sakemi (酒見 賢一 Sakemi Ken'ichi born on November 26 1963 in Kurume Fukuoka Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese novelist. He attended Fukuoka Prefectural Meizen High School and then graduated with a major in Chinese philosophy at Aichi University in Nagoya. Sakemi uses many themes from Chinese history in his writing. He examines the meanings of freedom and imprisonment as well even if this causes his stories to vary from historical fact.
Johan Turi.  Johan Turi born Johannes Olsen Thuri also spelt Johan Tuuri or Johan Thuri or Johan Thuuri (March 12 1854 Kautokeino Norway – November 30 1936 Jukkasjärvi Sweden) was the first Sami author to publish a secular work in a Sami language. His first book was called Muitalus sámiid birra (An Account of the Sami) and tells about the life of people herding reindeer in the Jukkasjärvi region of northern Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century.
Eric Dolphy.  Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20 1928 – June 29 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist flautist and bass clarinetist. On a few occasions he also played the clarinet piccolo and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s.
TenDJiz.  TenDJiz (born Denis Chernyshov) is a Russian-born Miami-based producer and sound engineer member of the Audio Engineering Society. He received classical music education. TenDJiz plays piano guitar and bass guitar. Since 2010 he has been working at his own TenDJiz Miami Studio under an extraordinary ability in the arts visa.
Haddaway.  Nestor Alexander Haddaway (born January 9 1965) better known by his stage name Haddaway is a Trinidadian-German singer best known to mainstream audiences for his 1993 hit What Is Love.
Dorothy Bryant.  Dorothy Bryant (born 1930) is an American novelist playwright essayist and feminist writer.Bryant is known for her mystical feminist and fantastic novels and plays that traverse the space between the real world and her character's inner psyche or soul. Her book The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You was described by Alice Walker as One of my favorite books in all the world.
Frederick John Kiesler.  Frederick John Kiesler (Czernowitz or Tschernovitz Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Chernivtsi Ukraine) September 22 1890 – New York City December 27 1965) (born as Friedrich Kiesler). Austrian-American architect theoretician theater designer artist and sculptor.
Sean Leon.  Matthew Sean Leon (born January 30 1991) better known under the stage name Sean Leon is a Canadian recording artist from Ajax Ontario. Sean has released two major projects since July 2013. He is the founder of the artistic collective IXXI formed in 2012 in Toronto Canada. In July 2013 Sean released his debut mixtape entitled Ninelevenne the Tragedy which was followed up in January 2014 by his second project Narcissus the Drowning of Ego.
Tyson Ritter.  Tyson Jay Ritter (born April 24 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional model and actor best known as the lead singer and bassist of the rock band The All-American Rejects.
Frank McMahon (author).  Frank McMahon (September 20 1919 – December 22 1984) was an Irish–American author and playwright perhaps best known for his play Borstal Boy an adaptation of Brendan Behan's 1958 autobiography of the same name for which Frank was awarded the New York Drama Critics Tony Award in 1970.Frank McMahon was born in New York on September 20 1919 to Irish parents. His mother was a native of County Mayo and his father from County Roscommon.
Veronica Mehta.  Veronica (born Veronica Mehta) is an Indian R&B singer based in London UK who sings in Hindi Urdu English and Punjabi.
Bodie and Brock Thoene.  Bodie and Brock Thoene (pronounced Tay-nee) are the authors of more than 65 works of historical fiction. Eight of their books have won Gold Medallion Awards.Over 35 million copies of their books have been sold in more than 20 languages.
Felice Cappelletti.  Felice Cappelletti (1656 – 1738) was an Italian painter of the Late-Baroque active in mainly in Verona. He was born in Verona and trained there under Santo Prunati. He contributed paintings to the churches of Santa Caterina presso Ognissanti Sant’Anastasia and Santi Apollonia e Margherita in Verona. Many works were lost during the French occupation of Verona.
Jan Werner Danielsen.  Jan Werner Danielsen artist name Jan Werner (10 April 1976 Nord-Odal – 29 September 2006 Oslo) was a Norwegian pop classical and rock singer famous for his powerful voice which stretched over four and a half octaves. His breakthrough came after winning two important talent contests most notably on national television in the show Talentiaden (NRK) in 1994.He was one of the most popular and highest-selling recording artists in Norway at his death at the age of 30.
Les Binks.  James Leslie Binks (born 5 April 1948[citation needed] in Portadown Northern Ireland) is a British heavy metal drummer who is most notable for having been the drummer for Judas Priest.
Michaeley O'Brien.  Michaeley O'Brien is an Australian television writer script editor and script producer. Born in Mudgee she grew up in Gulgong and studied at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst as well as the Australian Film Television and Radio School. She worked as script producer on Water Rats and McLeod's Daughters and most recently wrote episodes of Underbelly: Razor.
Thomas Earp (sculptor).  Thomas Earp (1828-1893) was a British sculptor and architectural carver who was active in the late 19th century. His best known work is his 1863 reproduction of the Eleanor Cross which stands at Charing Cross in London. He specialised in sculpture for Gothic Revival churches and worked closely with the architect George Edmund Street in the 1860s and 70s.
May Hallatt.  May Hallatt (1 May 1876-20 May 1969) was a British actress.
Debra Doyle.  Dr. Debra Doyle (born 1952) is an American author writing in multiple related genres including science fiction fantasy and mystery. Many of her stories are co-written with her husband James D. Macdonald. Their novel Knight's Wyrd was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1992 and appeared on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list in 1993.Together Dr.
Gayla Trail.  Gayla Trail (born July 31 1973 at St. Catharines Ontario) is a Canadian writer gardener designer photographer and blogger. She is the founder of the website You Grow Girl.
Yoshiki Sakurai.  Yoshiki Sakurai (櫻井圭記 Sakurai Yoshiki born June 91977) is a Japanese screenwriter.
Kim Wilson.  Kim Wilson (born January 6 1951) is an American blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit songs of the 1980s; Tuff Enuff and Wrap It Up.
Seger Ellis.  Seger Ellis (July 4 1904 in Houston Texas – 1995 in Houston Texas) was a jazz pianist and vocalist. He also made a few brief film appearances most notably in collaboration with director Ida Lupino.Ellis began his career as pianist playing live for a local Houston radio station (later known as KPRC) in the early 1920s. In 1925 he was added to the orchestra of Lloyd Finlay for a field trip recording session for Victor Records and was also allowed to cut two piano solos.
Cynthia Koh.  Cynthia Koh (born 25 March 1974) also known as Xu Meizhen is a Singaporean actress and contracted artiste under MediaCorp. She is best known for acting in many Chinese-language television dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 8.
Paul Jenisch.  Paul Jenisch (also known as Paulus Jenisch Jenisius or Jenischius; 1551 - 9 November 1612) was a German Lutheran theologian and academic.
John Mooney (historian).  John Mooney (1862–1950) was a Scottish historian. He was a founder of the Orkney Antiquarian Society.
Heddy Lester.  Heddy Lester (born Heddy Affolter 18 June 1950 Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer and actress best known outside the Netherlands for her participation in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest.
Sherifa Gunu.  Sherifa Gunu is a Ghanaian soul musician.
Jamal Joseph.  Jamal Joseph (formerly Eddie Joseph) is a U.S. writer director producer poet activist and educator. One of the Panther 21 while incarcerated for his active participation in the Black Panther Party Joseph earned two college degrees and wrote five plays and two volumes of poetry.[citation needed] He is a full professor and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the artistic director of the New Heritage Theater in Harlem.
Ken Battefield.  Ken Battefield (died 1967) was a prolific comic book artist in the 1940s and early 1950s during the Golden Age of Comic Books. He is most associated with the Nedor Publishing line of books where at various times he illustrated Pyroman Doc Strange Black Terror American Eagle The Scarab Captain Future and many others. In the latter days of working with that company he was hired to produce large amounts of work which was then punched up by Rafael Astarita and Graham Ingels.
Gu Xingqing.  Gu Xingqing of Baoshan (Shanghai) was a student in China when the British began recruiting labourers for the Chinese Labour Corps in Europe in 1917-1918 (CLC). Gu signed up for the Chinese labour corps as an interpreter. Like many other young graduates in China he regarded service with the CLC as a one-off chance to travel and a springboard to further studies in the U.K. After the war Gu returned to China from where he left to the U.S.A. for advanced studies.
Mike Sekowsky.  Michael Sekowsky (November 19 1923 - March 30 1989) was an American comic book artist known as the penciler for DC Comics' Justice League of America during most of the 1960s and as the regular writer and artist on Wonder Woman during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Amina Claudine Myers.  Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21 1942) in Blackwell Arkansas; (a small community on US 64 in western Conway County) is an American jazz pianist organist vocalist composer and musical arranger.
Cecilia Echenique.  Cecilia Echenique is a singer of Chile. On her childhood she studied at the Instituto de Música de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She was a member and vocalist of a musical group for children called Mazapán in 1980. Recently she was the vocal coach of the team La Paz in the Chilean TV show Todos a Coro hosted by Rafael Araneda and Karen Doggenweiler. She and her chorus obtained the third place.
Lee H. Letts.  Lee Harold Letts (born 1951) American artist sculptor painter and goldsmith is primarily known for his bronze sculptures of birds and animals. His practice is based on the principles of traditional studio craftsmanship as well as the importance of studying under a master in the manner of the American artists who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The beauty of Nature is the primary theme of his artwork. He holds a unique position as a bronze sculptor trained as a goldsmith.
Armand Lunel.  Armand Lunel (9 June 1892 – 3 November 1977) was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal) a now-extinct Occitan language.
Shatraug.  Ville Pystynen also commonly known by his main stage name Shatraug is a Finnish-born musician. In 1993 he formed the Finnish black metal band Horna. Besides Horna Pystynen has played in several bands of different genres of metal. He founded and has played bass and guitar for Sargeist since 1999 and guitar for Behexen since 2009.
Plastik Funk.  Plastik Funk are a music duo consisting of Rafael Ximenez-Carrillo and Mikio Gruschinske who teamed up with Tujamo and Sneakbo for their single Dr. Who! which peaked at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart.
Gillian Ayres.  Gillian Ayres CBE (born 3 February 1930) is an English painter.
Charles Dana Gibson.  Charles Dana Gibson (September 14 1867 – December 23 1944) was an American graphic artist best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century.
Aurel Băeșu.  Aurel Băeşu (May 26 1896 – August 1928) was a Romanian painter.
Vincent Canby.  Vincent Canby (July 27 1924 – October 15 2000) was an American film critic who became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969 and reviewed more than 1000 films during his tenure there.
Charlotte Randall.  Charlotte Randall (born Dunedin) is a New Zealand novelist.Her first novel Dead Sea Fruit won the Reed Fiction Award and the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book South East Asia / Pacific.She studied psychology at the University of Canterbury. She was the 2000 Victoria University Writers' Fellow and was the 2005 Ursula Bethell Creative Writing Resident at Canterbury University.
Julia Lockwood.  Julia Lockwood (born Margaret Julia Leon; 23 August 1941) is a retired British actress. She was born in Ringwood Hampshire the daughter of British film star Margaret Lockwood and Rupert Leon. Her parents divorced in 1949. She acted from a fairly early age. She began to gain leading roles in the late 1950s often in comedy films such as Please Turn Over.
DJ Paul.  Paul Beauregard (born January 13 1977) better known by his stage name DJ Paul is an American rapper record producer DJ songwriter and entrepreneur from Memphis Tennessee. He is a founding member of hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia and the half-brother of late rapper Lord Infamous.DJ Paul started his career in the late 1980s as a DJ and released a number of solo tapes as well as three collaboration albums with Lord Infamous as The Serial Killaz.
Fumika Suzuki.  Fumika Suzuki (鈴木 史華 Suzuki Fumika born October 11 1974 in Tochigi Japan) is a Japanese voice actress gravure idol and a former race queen in the 1990s.Suzuki's race queen career started already in 1994 when she joined the sugo racing team. The following year she represented the Japanese record company Avex Trax. However it wasn't until she became Kure's official race queen in 1996 that Suzuki became a known name in the industry.
Wauchier de Denain.  Wauchier de Denain was a French writer and translator in the langue d'oïl active at the start of the 13th century. He is most notable for his continuation of Chrétien de Troyes' Holy Grail.
Wolfe von Lenkiewicz.  Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (born 1966) is a British artist known for his artistic reconfigurations of well-known imageries from art history and visual culture to create ambiguous compositions that question art historical discourses. He lives and works in London.
Jonas Björler.  Jonas Björler (born 26 February 1973) is the bassist and one of the founding members of the melodic death metal band At the Gates along with his twin brother Anders Björler Tomas Lindberg Alf Svensson and Adrian Erlandsson.In 1996 at the end of the European tours of their final album Slaughter of the Soul At the Gates split up and Jonas became one of the founding members of the band The Haunted along with his brother Anders and drummer Erlandsson.
Sarah Nyberg Pergament.  Sarah Nyberg Pergament is a Swedish electronica artist. Releases her own music under the name Action Biker. After releasing two singles Sandy Edwards in 2002 and Elephant & Castle in 2003 her début album Hesperian Puisto was released in 2008 on the Friendly Noise record label and gained 4/5 in the Swedish morning paper Dagens Nyheter. One of her songs from the album Love for sure also appears in the American TV show The Middleman which aired the first time during 2008.
Toyo Tsuchiya.  Toyo Tsuchiya is a Japanese born artist and photographer and one of the early artists involved in the Rivington School art movement of the East Village art scene of New York City of the 1980s. Toyo Tsuchiya moved from Japan to New York in 1980. He was a director of many of the performances and exhibitions at the club No Se No which was the club that many of the Rivington School artists would meet and perform and show their art work.
Peter Flack.  Peter Hamilton Flack is a South African lawyer businessman and conservationist.
Diana Barrand.  Diana Barrand is a singer and actress. She was Holly-Anna Jones in the series Turn On To T-Bag and a member of a girl group Faith Hope & Charity
Jerome Charyn.  Jerome Charyn (born May 13 1937) is an award-winning American author. With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life.
Amaresh Misra.  Amaresh Misra is a writer author and historian. He is convener of the Anti Communal Front in Uttar Pradesh state for Indian National Congress. He was a student leader of the radical Left CPI-ML (Liberation) party in Allahabad University.
Tatsuro Yamashita.  Tatsurō Yamashita (山下 達郎 Yamashita Tatsurō) (occasionally credited as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita born February 4 1953) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer.Yamashita is best known for the song Christmas Eve which initially appeared on his album Melodies in 1983 and later became a hit throughout the decades. It is considered one of the standard Japanese Christmas songs winning the Special Prize at the 45th Japan Record Awards 20 years after its release.
Tomás António Gonzaga.  Tomás António Gonzaga (11 August 1744 – c. 1810) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic colonial Brazilian writers he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly Vila Rica) as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia. He wrote under the pen name Dirceu.He is patron of the 37th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Darrell McCall.  Darrell McCall (born April 30 1940) is a country music performer known for his honky tonk and traditional country musical style at the height of his career in the 1960s and his return to popularity during the Outlaw country era in the late 1970s.
Jason Stollsteimer.  Jason Elliott Stollsteimer (born April 22 1978 in Southfield Michigan) is an American musician who was the vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band The Von Bondies which disbanded in 2011. Stollsteimer also was the main songwriter and producer of the Von Bondies. He released three studio albums with The Von Bondies and currently is the frontman of Hounds Below.
Roy Chiao.  Roy Chiao (16 March 1927 – 14 April 1999) was a Chinese actor most famous in the Western world for playing the minor villain Lao Che in the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Richard Smith (editor).  Richard Smith is a British medical doctor editor and businessman.He is director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world. The initiative is funding centres in China Bangladesh India Pakistan Tunisia Tanzania South Africa Central America and the US Mexico border.
Rostislav Vovkushevsky.  Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky (Russian: Ростисла́в Ива́нович Вовкуше́вский; March 22 1917 Polotsk Vitebsk Province Russian Empire – August 14 2000 Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Phil Winslade.  Phil Winslade is a British comic book artist.
Bernhard Bleeker.  Josef Bernhard Maria Bleeker (26 July 1881 – 11 March 1968) was a German sculptor.
Deni Hines.  Dohnyale Deni Sharon Hines (born 4 September 1970 in Sydney Australia) is a solo R&B artist who had moderate chart success in the 1990s in Australia and New Zealand. She is the daughter of Marcia Hines.Hines released her first single with the Australian band Rockmelons with the a cover version of the Bill Withers 1971 hit Ain't No Sunshine.
Robert Wiersema.  Robert J. Wiersema (born 1970) is a Canadian writer. Since 2006 he's published two novels a novella and a non-fiction book about Bruce Springsteen.
Amadio Freddi.  Amadio Freddi (1570–1634) was an Italian composer. He was Maestro di cappella of the Duomo of Treviso.
Anjelah Johnson.  Anjelah Nicole Johnson (born May 14 1982) is an American actress comedian and former NFL cheerleader. Johnson is most notable as a cast member on the series MADtv during its 13th season. Her characters included a Vietnamese nail salon employee and a rude fast food employee named Bon Qui Qui.
Goffredo Parise.  Goffredo Parise (Vicenza 8 December 1929 – Treviso 31 August 1986) was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 and the Strega Prize in 1982.
Alex Hepburn.  Alex Hepburn (born December 25 1986) is a British singer and songwriter. She released her eponymous EP in June 2012. In April 2013 she released her debut studio album Together Alone.
Towa Tei.  Towa Tei (鄭東和 Tei Tōwa born September 7 1965) is a DJ artist and record producer in Yokohama Japan. Towa debuted as a member of Deee-Lite from the U.S. label Elektra Records in 1990 and shot to fame via their international hit single Groove Is In the Heart.
Daddy Saj.  Joseph Gerald Adolphus Cole (born in 1978 in Freetown Sierra Leone) better known by his stage name Daddy Saj is a Sierra Leonean rapper and arguably the biggest and most famous musician from Sierra Leone. He uses his music to address political corruption in Sierra Leone. His rap is a blend of hip hop and traditional goombay music. While his music is mostly in Krio Sierra Leone's national language he does also performs in English.
Richard Watson (author).  Richard Watson (born 1961) is an English writer lecturer and scenario planner known for his 2007 book Future Files and his graphic representations of trends especially his Trends & Technology Timeline 2010-2050.
Chris Ramsey (comedian).  Chris Ramsey (born 3 August 1986) is an English stand-up comedian and actor from South Shields.
Bae Suzy.  Bae Sue-ji (Hangul: 배수지; Hanja: 裵秀智; born October 10 1994) commonly known by her stage name Suzy is a South Korean idol singer rapper dancer actress model and MC. She is best known for her roles as Go Hye-mi in the KBS2 TV series' Dream High Jang Ma Ri in Big young Yang Seo Yeon in the movie Architecture 101 and Dam Yeo Wool in the MBC TV series' Gu Family Book.
Arve Isdal.  Arve Isdal (born 28 August 1977 in Bergen Norway) also known as Ice Dale is a Norwegian musician and producer. He is best known for being the guitarist of progressive black metal band Enslaved. He is very active in the Norwegian metal scene being both a full-time member and doing session-work for several bands. After Tom Cato Visnes left the hard rock band Audrey Horne Isdal played the bass parts on their second album Le Fol and continues to perform with the group.
Sir Galba.  Sir Galba was a calypso singer and recording artist in the 1940s and 1950s.He was born George Brindsley McSween in the village of Birchgrove St. Andrews Grenada in 1919. A troubled man he had a relatively brief career and life but Galba is remembered for his outstanding calypsos and contributions to the development of the calypso scene in Trinidad. He stabbed someone in a nightclub in 1952 and five years later after stabbing his girlfriend he committed suicide on September 18 1957.
Claudio Strunz.  Claudio Strunz (born December 13 1971) is an Argentine thrash metal drummer. He has worked in Heinkel Hermética Malón and Simbiosis.
Jackee Budesta Batanda.  Jackee Budesta Batanda is a Ugandan journalist writer and entrepreneur. She is a senior managing partner with Success Spark Brand Limited a communications and educational company and a co-founder of Mastermind Africa Group Limited a business-networking group. In 2006 Batanda worked as a peace writer at the Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego.
Hamish Rosser.  Hamish Rosser (born 16 May 1974) is an Australian drummer best known for his time in The Vines and Wolfmother.
Anna Banana.  Anna Banana (born 1940 as Anne Lee Long in Victoria British Columbia) is a Canadian artist known for her art writing and work as a small press publisher. She has been described as an innovator entrepreneur and critic and pioneered the artistamp a postage-stamp-size medium. She has been prominent in the mail art movement since the early 1970s acting as a bridge between the movement’s early history and its second generation.
Mattt Konture.  Mattt Konture (born September 27 1965) is a French underground comics author and musician. He is one of the founders of the French publishing house L'Association and is a forerunner of the French autobiographical comics movement.
Happy Chichester.  Harold Happy Chichester is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Columbus Ohio.
Mona Thiba.  Mona Thiba is a well-known Gujarati Actress. She has also acted in Hindi and Bhojpuri films. She started her acting career in 2000.
Andrea Bajani.  Andrea Bajani (born August 16 1975 in Rome) is an Italian writer and journalist . Bajani won the Mondello Prize (ex aequo with Antonio Scurati Flavio Soriga and Luca Giachi) in 2008 for his novel Se consideri le colpe (If you consider the faults) written in 2007; in 2008 he has also won the Brancati Prize—with Massimo Onofri and Franco Loi.
Samuel Rid.  Samuel Rid known by the nom de plume S. R. was the author of The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine (1612) an apparent sequel to Martin Markall Beadle of the Bridewell (1608 or 1610) which although sometimes attributed to Samuel Rowlands Rid is also likely to have authored. Martin Markall recounts a history of rogues and Gypsies in England while the second book describes the legerdemain practiced by those two loosely aligned groups.
Cinuçen Tanrıkorur.  Cinuçen Tanrıkorur was an oud master prolific composer of Turkish classical music musicologist and music journalist.He served as the director of Turkish Music at Ankara Radio and taught music at Selçuk University.He was born in Istanbul. He was first exposed to music through his uncle Mecdinevin Tanrikorur who was a student of Münir Nurettin Selçuk. He was introduced to the oud through his mother and started composing at the age of 14.
Ki no Tomonori.  Ki no Tomonori (紀 友則) (c. 850 – c. 904) was an early Heian waka poet of the court a member of the sanjūrokkasen or Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. He was a compiler of the Kokin Wakashū though he certainly did not see it to completion as the anthology includes a eulogy to him composed by Ki no Tsurayuki his colleague in the compilation effort. Ki no Tomonori is the author of several poems in the Kokin Wakashū and a few of his poems appear in later official collections.
Sippie Wallace.  Sippie Wallace (born as Beulah Thomas November 1 1898 – November 1 1986) was an American singer-songwriter. Her early career in local tent shows gained her the billing The Texas Nightingale. Between 1923 and 1927 she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records many written by herself or her brothers George and Hersal Thomas. Her accompanists included Louis Armstrong Johnny Dodds Sidney Bechet King Oliver and Clarence Williams.
Johnny Edwards (musician).  Johnny Edwards is a singer who sang for the bands Buster Brown Montrose King Kobra Wild Horses Northrup Royal Jelly and is most famously known as the second lead vocalist of the rock band Foreigner. Edwards left Wild Horses before they recorded their first album Bareback to join Foreigner.As commonly reported in many interviews Mick Jones the founding member lead guitarist and main songwriter of Foreigner was at home recovering from having the flu.
Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook.  Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook CM O.Ont (7 November 1913 – 23 February 2009) was a Canadian portrait sculptor medal designer and liturgical artist. She co-founded the Canadian Portrait Academy and the Canadian Group of Art Medalists.
Paquito D'Rivera.  Paquito D'Rivera (born 4 June 1948) is a Cuban alto saxophonist clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts but is perhaps best known for playing Latin jazz. He has won six Latin Grammy Awards and four Grammy awards.
Davorin Popović.  Davorin Popović (23 September 1946 - 18 June 2001) was a Bosnian musician well known throughout the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer and frontman of the progressive and pop rock band Indexi throughout most of their career. He and his band Indexi became founders of specific music style in former Yugoslavia known as Sarajevo pop-rock school who later influenced other bands and singers in Sarajevo and other parts of Yugoslavia.
Gary Numan.  Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer composer and musician. Most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits Are 'Friends' Electric? (as Tubeway Army) and Cars Numan achieved his peak of mainstream popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s but maintains a loyal cult following.Numan whose signature sound consists of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music.
Teresa Medeiros.  Teresa Medeiros (born 1962/1963) is a United States award-winning romance novelist with more than eight million books in print. She wrote her first novel at 21 and has since gone on to publish 23 books. Before becoming a well-known author she was a nurse. According to her official biography she lives in Kentucky with her husband and neurotic cat.To date all of her books have all been on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Fra Antonio da Negroponte.  Fra Antonio da Negroponte was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period active mainly in Padua and Venice. He painted in a Quattrocento style that resembles that of Bartolomeo Vivarini. Among his works are a Madonna and Child Enthroned' for the Venetian church of San Francesco della Vigna.
Sergey Zalygin.  Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin (Russian: Серге́й Павлович Залыгин; December 6 1913 in Durasovka Ufa Governorate Russian Empire – April 19 2000 in Moscow) was a Soviet writer novelist.He was the first non-Communist Party editor-in-chief of the monthly literary magazine Novy Mir (1986–1988).
Christopher Okigbo.  Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (1930–1967) was a Nigerian poet who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.
Josette Baujot.  Josette Baujot (17 August 1920 – 13 August 2009) was a Belgian artist and colorist. She is most commonly associated with fellow Belgian comics writer Hergé (Georges Remi) and his Adventures of Tintin series.
Lio.  Lio (born 17 June 1962) is a Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s.
Joanna Pacitti.  Joanna Pacitti (born October 6 1984) is an American singer and lead vocalist in the band City (Comma) State.
Samuel Edward Cook.  Samuel Edward Cook (1787 - 11 January 1856) was an English writer.In 1840 he took the name of Widdrington his mother being the heiress of some of the estates of that family. Having served in the Royal Navy he lived for some years in Spain writing Sketches in Spain during the years 1829-1832 (London 1834): and Spain and the Spaniards in 1843 (London 1844). In 1842 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.He served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1854.
Renee Peck.  Renee Peck (born June Renee Brandt) is an American writer best known for her weekly column in The Times-Picayune titled This Mold House. Peck spent three-plus decades working as a feature editor and reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune covering everything from food to TV to home and garden.
Leslie Feinberg.  Leslie Feinberg (born Leslie Feinberg on September 1 1949 in Kansas City Missouri) is a transgender lesbian activist and author known for activism. Feinberg authored Stone Butch Blues in 1993.
Eva Struble.  Eva Struble (born 1981 Kentucky) is an artist based in Brooklyn New York City.She received a BA Visual Arts in 2003 from Brown University in Providence and an MFA in 2006 from Yale University School of Art in New Haven.She has shown work in many exhibitions including Three Positions at Lombard-Freid Projects in New York The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London Works on Paper at Green Hall at Yale University in New Haven and Group Show at List Art Centre at Brown University in Providence. 
Ann Scott (author).  Ann Scott (born 1950) is a British feminist author born in London to an American father and British mother.She worked with Ruth First with whom she co-authored a 1980 book on Olive Schreiner entitled Olive Schreiner (published by Deutsch ISBN 9780233971520).She went to Girton College Cambridge and was News Editor of Spare Rib before working on Schreiner.
Jermaine Stewart.  William Jermaine Stewart (September 7 1957 – March 17 1997) was an American R&B singer best known for his 1986 Billboard hit single We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off.
Bola Sete.  Bola Sete (born Djalma de Andrade) (July 16 1923 – February 14 1987) was a Brazilian guitarist. Sete played jazz with Vince Guaraldi as well as with Dizzy Gillespie. His song Bettina was featured on the Tribe Vibes breakbeat compilation as it had been sampled by the musical group A Tribe Called Quest.
Józef Gosławski (sculptor).  Józef Gosławski (24 April 1908 – 23 January 1963) was a Polish sculptor and medallic artist. He was a designer of coins (e.g. 5 zł with fisherman) monuments (e.g. Frédéric Chopin in Żelazowa Wola) and medals (e.g. Year 1939). Laureate of many artistic competitions; decorated with the Silver Cross of Merit.
Logan Carter.  Robert Bobby Logan Carter (born May 11 1954 in Daytona Beach Florida died June 23 1988 in Los Angeles California) was an American entertainer and photo model.He appeared alternately as a man or a woman and used the professional alias Roxanne Russell.Carter was a featured female impersonator at the La Cage nightclub on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.
Bhikhari Thakur.  Bhikari Thakur (Devanagari: भिखारी ठाकुर; Nastaʿlīq: بھکھڑی ٹھاکر; About this sound listen ) was an Indian playwright lyricist actor folk dancer folk singer and social activist in Bhojpuri language who was popularly known as the Shakespeare of Bhojpuri. Thakur was born in a barber-family on 18 December 1887 in a village named Kutubpur (Diyara) Saran District Bihar India. His father and mother were Dal Singar Thakur and Shivkali Devi respectively.
Astennu (musician).  Astennu is the professional name of Australian heavy metal musician Jamie Stinson. His name is derived from a creature in Egyptian mythology.
Jim Denomie.  Jim Denomie (born 1955) is an Ojibwe painter. He is known for his colorful at times comical looks at United States history and Native Americans.
Erik Johannessen (musician).  Erik Johannessen (born 22 July 1975 in Oslo) is a Norwegian Musician (trombone) and composer known from playing in bands like Jaga Jazzist Trondheim Jazz Orchestra Loud Jazz Band Lord Kelvin Funky Hot Grits Ensemble Denada and Magic Pocket.
Sawa Ishige.  Sawa Ishige (石毛 佐和 Ishige Sawa born February 7 1979) is a Japanese voice actress who was born in Shizuoka Japan.
Aroj Ali Matubbar.  Aroj Ali Matubbar (Bengali: আরজ আলী মাতুব্বর; 1900–1985) was a self-taught philosopher and apostate of Bangladesh. He was born in British India on 17 December 1900 (Bengali year 1307) in the village of Lamchari in Charbaria union about 11 km from Barisal town currently in Bangladesh. His original name was Aroj Ali and he only acquired the name 'Matubbar' (meaning 'local landlord') later. He was born to a poor farming family.
Joyce Bryant.  Joyce Bryant (born October 14 1928) is an African-American singer and actress who achieved fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer.
Yevgeniy Prokopov.  Yevgeniy Prokopov (Ukrainian: Євген Прокопов) is a Ukrainian sculptor who was awarded the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine.
Paul Jackson (bassist).  Paul Jackson (born in 1947) is an American jazz bass guitarist and composer. He has played with many of the great jazz artists most notably playing bass on several of Herbie Hancock's seminal albums Head Hunters Thrust and others.He was born in Oakland California and began playing bass at the age of nine. At the age of 14 he performed with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and went on to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Molly Johnson.  Margaret Leslie Molly Johnson OC is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter of pop and jazz.
Victor Hernández Cruz.  Victor Hernández Cruz (born February 6 1949) is a Puerto Rican poet who in 1969 became the first Hispanic to be published by a mainstream publishing house when Random House published his poetry book Snaps. In 1981 Life magazine named him one of America's greatest poets.
Miguel Piñero.  Miguel Piñero (December 19 1946 – June 16 1988) was a playwright actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement.
Saurav Mohapatra.  Saurav Mohapatra is an Indian comic book writer based out of California USA. His credits include the Devi (#11 onwards) The Sadhu : The Silent Ones and Deepak Chopra's India Authentic from Virgin Comics. He is the co-creator/writer of the crime-noir comic book series Mumbai Confidential from Archaia.
Eugene Kelly.  Eugene Kelly (born 1965) is a Scottish musician who is a member of the group The Vaselines a founding member of the now disbanded Eugenius and has had a number of solo releases.Eugene Kelly formed The Vaselines in Glasgow Scotland in 1986 with Frances McKee and was a member until 1989 when the band split up the week their first and only full length album Dum-Dum was released. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was a big fan of the band covering three of their songs.
Piera Martell.  Piera Martell (born 2 July 1943 Jona St. Gallen) is a Swiss singer best known for her participation in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.In 1974 Martell took part in the Swiss Eurovision selection with the song Mein Ruf nach dir (My Call to You) which won the competition and went forward to the 19th Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton England on 6 April.
Hart Crane.  Harold Hart Crane (July 21 1899 – April 27 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult highly stylized and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work The Bridge Crane sought to write an epic poem in the vein of The Waste Land that expressed a more optimistic view of modern urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work.
Ray Harris.  Ray Harris (September 7 1927 – November 13 2003) was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter. He formed a band with Wayne Powers and wrote the songs Come On Little Mama and Greenback Dollar Watch and Chain. He eventually recorded these at Sun Records with Sam Phillips. He has also produced artists at Hi Records.
Gladys Jennings.  Gladys Jennings (1903-1994) was an English actress.
Nat Wolff.  Nathaniel Marvin Wolff (born December 17 1994) better known by his stage name Nat Wolff is an American actor singer-songwriter composer keyboardist and guitarist. Wolff gained recognition for starring in and composing the music for the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–09) which was created and produced by his actress mother Polly Draper and earned him a Broadcast Music Inc.
Hwang Sun-won.  Hwang Sun-wŏn (March 26 1915 - September 14 2000) was a Korean short story writer novelist and poet.
Lizzie Mickery.  Elizabeth Lizzie Mickery is a British writer and former actress.Her television acting credits include her role as Maggie Thorpe in the BBC television drama series Tenko roles in Emmerdale Farm Juliet Bravo Lovejoy Heartbeat Woof! The Merryhill Millionaires Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy and Holby City.Since 2000 she has worked exclusively as a writer usually credited in this capacity as Lizzie Mickery for various British TV series such as Byker Grove The Bill Heartbeat Pie in the Sky Sunburn Harbour Lights The Ice House (adapted from the novel by Minette Walters) The Beggar Bride (adapted from the novel by Gillian White) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (adapted from the Elizabeth George novels).She also wrote Messiah Messiah 2 and Messiah 3 for the BBC. 
Niko Etxart.  Niko Etxart is a Basque singer-songwriter and musician born in 1953 in Altzürükü Soule Basque Country. He's widely reputed in the Basque area for being a forerunner of Basque rock and bridging the gap between Basque old tradition and modern music trends.
Rueben Martinez.  Rueben Martinez (born in 1940 in Miami Arizona) is a Mexican-American activist and businessman. Seeing no future for himself in the small mining town where he grew up at the age of seventeen Martinez left Arizona for Southern California. He found a job at the massive Bethlehem Steel plant in Maywood East Los Angeles attended night school at Santa Ana College married and began raising a family.
Enrique Santos Molano.  Enrique Santos Molano (born 1942) is a Colombian journalist for El Tiempo and writer of several novels and biographies.
James William Hackett.  James William Hackett is an American poet and philosopher born in Seattle Washington in 1929 most notable for his work with haiku in English. The James W. Hackett Annual International Award for Haiku named after him was administered by the British Haiku Society from 1991 to 2009.
Patricia Relf.  Patricia Relf is the author of numerous children's books. She has been a professor at the department of foreign languages at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Michigan where she resides. Some of her major works include: What's Happening?: A Book of Explanations Mondo Publishing 2001 A Dinosaur Named Sue Tonka Trucks Night and Day↑
Michelle Ferre.  Michelle Ferre (ミシェル・フェレ Misheru Fere) (born 13 June 1973 in Kobe Japan) is a Japanese actress of French and Japanese origin. She is a former CNN Correspondent in Japan as well as being a former game show host.During her youth Michelle lived with her grandparents in Northwestern France before enrolling into an international school in Kobe Japan. Ferre later enrolled in Sophia University in Tokyo majoring in International Relations and Political Science.
Madeleine de Scudéry.  Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701) often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry was a French writer. She was the younger sister of author Georges de Scudéry.
Lori Rekowski.  Lori Rekowski is an American author best known for her book A Victim No More.Rekowski is a mother of three and has been a business entrepreneur and consultant for more than 20 years. She says that she takes great pride in celebrating her healing process with others.
Luca Mombello.  Luca Mombello (late 16th century) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance periods mainly active in Brescia. He was the pupil of il Moretto and respected for painting altarpieces in the Duomo Vecchio including one of the Virgin and Child with Saints Cecilia and Catherine. However he was expelled from the studio for lubricious sins (peccando singolarmente per piacere ad imbelli ed indotte persone di troppa lisciatura ).
Lars Halvor Jensen.  Lars Halvor Jensen (born July 23 1973) is a Danish record producer and songwriter. He has achieved success in many genres of music particularly pop rock and R&B and he is the co-founder of DEEKAY Music a production and publishing company with studios in both Copenhagen Denmark and Los Angeles California.
Happy Rhodes.  Happy Rhodes (born Kimberley Tyler Rhodes on August 9 1965) is an American singer songwriter instrumentalist and electronic musician with a four-octave vocal range.
Vic Reeves.  James Roderick Moir (born 24 January 1959) better known by the stage name Vic Reeves and sometimes credited as Jim Moir is an English comedian best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob). He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour.In 2003 he and Bob Mortimer were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
Mitsuru Karahashi.  Mitsuru Karahashi (唐橋 充 Karahashi Mitsuru) is a Japanese actor for TV Asahi who has had small roles in various tokusatsu series. He was born May 30 1977 in Fukushima Prefecture.
Daniele da Volterra.  Daniele Ricciarelli (c. 1509 – 4 April 1566) better known as Daniele da Volterra was an Italian mannerist painter and sculptor.He is best remembered for his association for better or worse with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important works were based on designs made for that purpose by Michelangelo. After Michelangelo's death Daniele was hired to cover the genitals in his Last Judgment with vestments and loincloths.
Betty Wright.  Bessie Regina Norris better known by her stage name Betty Wright (born December 21 1953) is a Miami-based soul and R&B singer-songwriter who won fame in the 1970s with hits such as Clean Up Woman and Tonight Is the Night. A pioneering singer-songwriter and entrepreneur she remains one of the few black female musicians to produce a gold record on her own vanity label. She is adept at using the whistle register.[citation needed]
David Foenkinos.  David Foenkinos (born 28 October 1974) is a French author and screenwriter.He studied literature and music in Paris.His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011 with Audrey Tautou as the main character.
Sara Tunes.  Sara Agudelo Restrepo (born October 5 1989 Medellín Colombia) known as Sara Tunes is a Colombian Latin pop singer-songwriter. Sara Tunes is a pop singer and composer although her work includes subgenres such as electronic music R&B blues and reggaeton. She has recorded several albums.In 2010 she released her debut album Butterfly and her first professional music video for the song And I Love You (from the same album).
Jean-François Jonvelle.  Jean-François Jonvelle (1943–2002) was a French photographer.
Ms D.  Dayo Olatunji (born 1992) better known as Ms D is an English R&B singer from LondonTemplate:Where? England. She is known as being a featured artist for all three of Wiley's singles from his 2013 album The Ascent and also known for her uncredited vocals on Chipmunk’s 2009 single Oopsy Daisy.
Jim Keltner.  James Lee Jim Keltner (born April 27 1942) is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists. Keltner is originally from Tulsa Oklahoma. He was characterized as the leading session drummer in America by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes.
Alexandra Milton.  Alexandra Milton (born 4 June 1967 in Paris) is an artist and illustrator. She works primarily in collage.The artwork in her debut children’s book Call Me Gorgeous was nominated for the 2010 Kate Greenaway Medal.The book was also a 2009 Book Start choice distributed free to 100000 children across the UK.
Mlle Guerin.  Mlle Guerin (born c. 1739 fl. 1755) was a French composer. She composed an opera at age 16 titled Daphnis et Amalthée which was performed in Amiens in 1755. An anonymous writer reporting the event in the Mercure de France described her as coming from the provinces and having a good education.
Mark Crick.  Mark Crick is a British photographer and author best known for his literary parodies Kafka's Soup and Sartre's Sink in which he presents recipes and DIY tips in the style of famous literary writers. Mark Crick is married to Fiona Simmons Crick[citation needed].Crick grew up in Basildon. As a child he suffered from chronic asthma which made both eating and sleeping difficult.
Władysław Żeleński (musician).  Władysław Żeleński (6 July 1837 – 23 January 1921) was a Polish composer pianist and organist. Żeleński was born in Grodkowice. He was a representative of neoromanticism in Polish music. He died at Kraków.Władysław was the father of physician and writer Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński.
Rick Moses.  Rick Moses (born September 5 1952) is an American actor and singer/songwriter.
Brian McGee (drummer).  Brian McGee (born in Gorbals Glasgow Scotland 8 March 1959) is a Scottish drummer who played in different bands like Simple Minds and Endgames.He met future Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr at Holyrood R.C. Secondary School and joined him and other friends (guitarist Charlie Burchill and bassist Tony Donald) from the same school in the band Biba-Rom! around the mid-1970s while still at school. In 1977 they formed the punk band Johnny and the Self Abusers whose name changed to Simple Minds.
Dana (South Korean singer).  Hong Sung-mi (Hangul: 홍성미 Hanja: 洪晟美 born on 17 July 1986) commonly known as Dana is a Korean singer under SM Entertainment. Although she was originally a solo singer who debuted in 2001 she has since become a member of girl group The Grace which debuted in 2005.
Afewerk Tekle.  Afewerk Tekle (22 October 1932 – 10 April 2012) was one of Ethiopia's most celebrated artists particularly known for his paintings on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass.Born in Ankober to Feleketch Yamatawork and Tekle Mano Afewerk grew up under the Italian occupation during the Second World War. Following the war in 1947 Afewerk decided that he wanted to help rebuild Ethiopia and elected to travel to England to study mining engineering.
Eladio Vélez.  Eladio Vélez was a Colombian painter was born in Itagüí Antioquia in 1897 and died in Medellin Antioquia in 1967.
Lance King.  Lance King (born November 23 1962) is an American heavy metal vocalist specializing in melodic progressive and power metal.
Michelangelo Aliprandi.  Michelangelo Aliprandi (1527–1595) was an Italian painter from Verona who flourished from about 1560 to 1582.
Marie Luv.  Marie Luv (born November 1 1981) is an American pornographic actress exotic dancer glamour model and pornographic film director.
Siri Gellein.  Siri Beathe Gellein (born 1 October 1966 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian Musician (vocals) and journalist known from several albums bands and television programs.Heer own Siri's Svale Band (established in 1987) performs (sval) cool jazz with soul. Other band members are John Pål Inderberg (saxophone) Odd Magne Gridseth (bass guitar) Carl Haakon Waadeland (drums) and Bjørn Alterhaug (double bass). The Quintet released the album Blackbird (1990) and Necessarily So ...
Aviv Geffen.  Aviv Geffen (אביב גפן born May 10 1973) is an Israeli rock musician singer songwriter producer keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover brother of actress Shira Geffen and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. Geffen was and is extremely popular among Israeli youth who were known during the 1990s as the Moonlight Children. Politically he associates with the Israeli left.
Squarepusher.  Squarepusher is the principal pseudonym adopted by Tom Jenkinson a UK-based recording artist. His compositions draw on a number of influences including drum and bass acid house jazz and electroacoustic music. His recordings are typified by a combination of electronic sound sources live instrumental playing and digital signal processing. He is the brother of Ceephax Acid Crew (Andrew Jenkinson).
Tsukasa Tawada.  Tsukasa Tawada (多和田吏 Tawada Tsukasa born 1965) is a Japanese video game composer and sound effects designer best known for scoring several Pokémon games.
Eric J. Hill.  Eric J. Hill Ph.D. FAIA is a Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Michigan. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania a Masters in Architecture from Harvard in 1972 and a Ph.D in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. He was a Marshall Research Fellow at Denmark's Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1972 to 1973.
Lee Brown Coye.  Lee Brown Coye (July 24 1907 – September 5 1981) was an American artist.Coye is probably best remembered for his black-and-white illustrations for pulp magazines and horror fiction but he produced many other works in other media.
Jordan Dane.  Jordan Dane (born 1953) is a romantic thriller Young-adult fiction novelist. She sold her first three-book series in auction to Avon/HarperCollins in June 2006 and another three-book thriller series in May 2007.
Herbert Inch.  Herbert Reynolds Inch (November 25 1904 - April 14 1988) was an American composer. A native of Missoula Montana he studied music first at the University of Montana and later at the Eastman School of Music where his teachers included Edward Royce and Howard Hanson. He taught theory at the school for a year before accepting a fellowship with the American Academy in Rome.
Claire Morgan.  Claire Morgan (born 1980 in Belfast Northern Ireland) is an internationally exhibited sculptor and artist who lives and works in London United Kingdom.
Pieter Celie.  Pieter Celie (1942 Eindhoven) is a Dutch artistPieter Celie (born Theodor Geert van de Built) was born in Eindhoven in 1942 son of the photographer Bernardt van de Built. Celie trained his artistic skills in the Eindhoven’s Academy for Industrial Design (1967–1969) and later in the Antwerp’s National Institute for the Arts. Since the beginning he mixed several media in a personal style working both as a sculptor draftsman painter designer and photographer.
Gabrielle Carey.  Gabrielle Carey (born 10 January 1959) is an Australian writer noted for the teen novel Puberty Blues which she co-wrote with Kathy Lette. This novel was the first teenage novel published in Australia that was written by teenagers.
Sam Simmons (comedian).  Sam Simmons is an award-winning Australian comedian and radio and TV presenter. He is currently based in Los Angeles.
DJ Subroc.  DJ Subroc (1973–1993) was an English born American hip hop artist and a member of KMD Constipated Monkey and Monsta Island Czars. His first group KMD was formed by him along with his brother Zev Love X (MF DOOM) and Jade 1 who would later be known as Rodan but who was eventually replaced by Onyx the Birthstone Kid. His first release was the LP Mr. Hood on Elektra Records in 1991.
Róisín Murphy.  Róisín Marie Murphy (/roʊˈʃiːn/; Irish pronunciation: [ɾˠoːˈʃiːnʲ]; born 5 July 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter and record producer known for her electronic style.Murphy first came to note as one half of the electronic music duo Moloko with her then-boyfriend Mark Brydon. After the two ended their romantic relationship Murphy released her debut solo album Ruby Blue written and produced with Matthew Herbert in 2005. Her second solo album Overpowered was released in 2007.
Mac Miller.  Malcolm James McCormick (born January 19 1992) best known by his stage name Mac Miller is an American rapper from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He is also a noted record producer under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman. He is signed to Pittsburgh based Rostrum Records and released his debut album Blue Slide Park on November 8 2011 which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 despite being released completely independently.
Bob Lubbers.  Bob Lubbers (born January 10 1922) is an American comic strip and comic book artist best known for his work on such strips as Tarzan Li'l Abner and Long Sam.
Christopher Bear.  Christopher Bear (born July 19 1982) is a drummer and multi-instrumentalist member of the Brooklyn-based indie-rock group Grizzly Bear.Bear joined the group with singer Ed Droste for contributions on their first record Horn of Plenty. He also contributed to Earl Greyhound's self-titled EP in 2004.
Gunnar Andreas Berg.  Gunnar Andreas Berg (born 14 January 1954) is a Norwegian musician educator owner of the record label Bergland Productions. He is known from cooperations with musicians like Palle Mikkelborg Ole Edvard Antonsen Bjørn Alterhaug Siri Gjære Åge Aleksandersen and Morten Harket.
Lucas Perny.  Lucas Perny (born October 26 1991) is a Slovak drummer poet and composer.Perny released solo albums Psychedelic Winterland in 2009 Psychedelic Springland in 2011 and single Newborn which was presented at Rádio FM in December 2011. Since 2011 Perny has play in formation Lucas Perny & Miloslav Kollar and they released debut album Astral Gate. In 2013 Perny recorded experimental album The Rondel with special guest artists. The Rondel was presented at Rádio FM in September 2013.
Rico Blanco.  Rico Blanco is a Filipino singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist record producer actor and entrepreneur.
Eric Richard.  Eric Richard (born Eric Smith 27 June 1940) is an English actor.His theatre work includes plays at the Royal Court Theatre and the Theatre Royal Stratford East as well as seasons with the Royal Exchange Manchester Birmingham Repertory Theatre Sheffield Crucible Theatre and Paines Plough.
Jon Audun Baar.  Jon Audun Baar (1986 in Tomter Hobøl Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz drummer.
Sebastian Fitzek.  Sebastian Fitzek (b. 13. October 1971 in Berlin) is a German writer and journalist. Fitzek's first book Therapy (Die Therapie) was a bestseller in Germany in 2006 toppling The Da Vinci Code from the #1 position.Fitzek sold over 45 million books worldwide and is one of the most successful writers of Germany.
Rafael Moreira.  Rafael Moreira is a Brazilian-American guitarist vocalist songwriter and producer best known as the lead guitarist / vocalist on the hit CBS television shows Rock Star: INXS and Rock Star: Supernova MTV's Rock The Cradle and most recently on NBC's The Voice.
Sandra McCracken.  Sandra McCracken (born June 16 1977) is an independent singer-songwriter. She currently resides in Nashville Tennessee.
Alexander Djordjevic.  Alexander Djordjevic (born 1970) is an American classical concert pianist.
Alan Price.  Alan Price (born 19 April 1942 Fatfield Washington County Durham) is an English musician best known as the original keyboardist for the British band The Animals and for his subsequent solo work.Price was educated at Jarrow Grammar School South Tyneside. He is a self-taught musician and was a founding member of the Tyneside group the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo which was later renamed The Animals.
Sonia Sanchez.  Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver September 9 1934) is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry as well as plays and children's books. She was a recipient of 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts.
Jimmy Heung.  Jimmy Heung Wah-Sing is a former Hong Kong film producer director and presenter. He is the younger brother of film producer/presenter Charles Heung.
Miguel Llobet.  Miquel Llobet Solés (18 October 1878 – 22 February 1938) was a classical guitarist born in Barcelona (Catalonia Spain). Llobet was a renowned virtuoso who toured Europe and America extensively. He made well known arrangements of Catalan folk songs for the solo guitar and is also the composer of original works.
K. T. Oslin.  Kay Toinette K. T. Oslin (born May 15 1942) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for a series of top-ten country hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s four of which topped the American Country & Western chart.
Paul Wickens.  Paul Wix Wickens (born 27 March 1956) is a British musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and composer from Essex United Kingdom. Wickens has worked with musicians such as Paul McCartney Nik Kershaw Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell Bon Jovi and many other artists. Wickens has been a member of McCartney's touring band since 1989.
Shima Iwashita.  Shima Shinoda (篠田 志麻 Shinoda Shima) better known as Shima Iwashita (岩下 志麻 Shima Iwashita born January 3 1941 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actress. She is married to film director Masahiro Shinoda. She won the award for best actress at the 2nd Hochi Film Award for Ballad of Orin.
David Thorpe (artist).  David Thorpe (born 1972 London UK) is an artist based in London where he is represented by Maureen Paley.Thorpe received his BA degree in 1994 from Humberside University and his MA degree in 1998 from Goldsmiths University of London.He has shown work in various exhibitions including Die Young Stay Pretty at the ICA London at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt Monica de Cardenas in Milan and Murray Guy in New York. Thorpe participated in British Art Show 6 at various venues.
Zdravka Evtimova.  Zdravka Evtimova (born 24 July 1959 in Pernik Bulgaria) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer. She has four short story collections and four novels published in Bulgarian. Her short stories have appeared in many international literary journals. Some of her short story collections were translated into other languages. As well as being an author Zdravka works as a literary translator from English French and German.
Eddie Eastman.  Eddie Eastman (born July 15 1949 in Terra Nova Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Twenty-five of Eastman's singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts including five which reached the Top Ten. Eastman won the Juno Award for Country Male Vocalist of the Year in 1981 and 1983.Eastman was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
Oli Frey.  Oliver Oli Frey is a magazine illustrator and artist who worked on comic strips in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jozef Lupták.  Jozef Lupták (born 1969 December 30Slovakia) is a Slovak cellist and artistic director.
Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi.  Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi (Somali: Maxamed Diriye Abdullahi Arabic: محمد ديري عبد الله‎) is a Somali-Canadian scholar linguist writer translator and professor.
Francisco X. Alarcón.  Francisco Xavier Alarcón (born 21 February 1954 Wilmington California) is an American poet and educator.
Kuningas Pähkinä.  Pekka Karppinen professionally known as Kuningas Pähkinä is a Finnish rapper born in Vaasa Finland.
Reza Yazdani (singer).  Reza Yazdani (Persian: رضا یزدانی  born in October 16 1973 in Tehran Iran) is an Iranian singer-song writer musician and actor. He is a top Iranian rocker and has released six albums and numerous singles yet. His notable instrument is guitar especially electric guitar. He has performed live concerts since the release of his third album Hiss mainly in Milad Tower Concert Hall.
John J.A. Jannone.  John J.A. Jannone (born in Towanda Pennsylvania) is a musician installation artist videographer and founder of the graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College City University of New York which he directed from 2003-2008.
Nijaz Duraković.  Nijaz Duraković (1 January 1949 – 29 January 2012) was a Bosnian author intellectual professor and politician. He is widely considered to have been one of the most influential modern authors on sociopolitical issues in the region of his generation.[citation needed]
Fujishima Takeji.  Fujishima Takeji (藤島 武二 October 15 1867 – March 19 1943) was a Japanese painter noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.
Haitham Shomali.  Haitham Shomali (born October 22 1986) is a Palestinian singer songwriter composer and director. He was born in the United Arab Emirates. As the youngest of 5 children (4 boys and 1 girl) and privy to a very musical family his brothers would take him along with them to perform from the age of 7. As a young boy became proficient at a total of 13 instruments: Piano Keyboard Violin Saz Bouzouki Accordion Oud Guitar Bass Guitar Drums Darbuka Riq Katem and Bongos.
Herbert Vianna.  Herbert Lemos de Sousa Vianna (born May 4 1961) is a Brazilian singer songwriter and guitarist mainly known for his work with rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso.
Maxine Nightingale.  Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952; Wembley London) is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s with the million seller Right Back Where We Started From (1975 U.K. & 1976 U.S.) Love Hit Me (1977) and Lead Me On (1979).
Greg Wells.  Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated musician record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has songs on over 85 million units sold.
Jacques Grétillat.  Jacques Marie Gaëtan Grétillat (26 August 1885 – 19 December 1950) was a French actor and film director.Grétillat was born in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) and died in Paris.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull.  Agnes Sligh Turnbull (October 14 1888 New Alexandria Pennsylvania - January 31 1982 Livingston New Jersey) was a bestselling American writer most noted for her works of historical fiction based in her native Western Pennsylvania.
Hermann Hesse.  Hermann Hesse (German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə]; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German poet novelist and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mary Ursula Bethell.  Mary Ursula Bethell (6 October 1874–15 January 1945) was a New Zealand social worker and poet. She was born in Horsell Surrey England on 6 October 1874.
Anya Gallaccio.  Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a Scottish artist who often works with organic matter.
Marcin Rozynek.  Marcin Rozynek (born May 16 1971 in Żywiec) is a Polish rock vocalist songs' author and music producer. He released six albums two of them were recorded with friend band Atmosphere. He cooperated with Grzegorz Ciechowski.
Dežo Ursiny.  Dezider Ursiny (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈdeʒo ˈʊrsini]) (4 October 1947 - 2 May 1995) was a Slovak rock musician and a television and film screenwriter and director. He is considered one of the most important personalities of Slovak rock music and one of the most talented and unique Slovak popular music composers. He belongs to a wide group of legends of Czechoslovak Big Beat.
E.A. Couturier.  Ernst Albert Couturier (September 30 1869 Poughkeepsie – February 28 1950 Wingdale) was best known as a cornet player who toured as a virtuoso performer on the concert programs of bands of the day. He promoted the Holton Band Instrument Company for a decade in that capacity before applying his own unique inventions to the production of his own line of brass band instruments between 1918 and 1923.
Pablo Alborán.  Pablo Moreno de Alborán Ferrándiz (born 31 May 1989) popularly known as Pablo Alborán is a Spanish musician singer and songwriter. In 2011 he was nominated for three Latin Grammy Awards. Alborán has released two studio albums one live album four singles four music videos and various musical collaborations.
Julia Dietze.  Julia Dietze (born 9 January 1981 in Marseille France) is a German actress.
Barry Kitson.  Barry Kitson is a British comics artist best known as a penciler of major superhero comic books published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Antonella Ruggiero.  Antonella Ruggiero (born November 15 1952 in Genoa) is an Italian singer.
Solomon Abera.  Solomon Abera (1968 - 1 December 2011) was an Eritrean journalist press freedom advocate and detractor of the Afewerki regime. He died of cancer in December 2011.
Lank Leonard.  Frank E. Leonard (January 2 1896 – August 1 1970) better known as Lank Leonard was an American cartoonist artist who created the long-running comic strip Mickey Finn which he drew for more than three decades.
Frederick Hart (sculptor).  Frederick Elliott Hart (June 7 1943 in Atlanta Georgia - August 13 1999 in Baltimore Maryland) was an American sculptor best known for his public monuments and works of art in bronze marble and clear acrylic (a technique he coined as sculpting with light).
Takayasu Usui.  Takayasu Usui (うすいたかやす Usui Takayasu born on August 25) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo Japan.
Rauf Hajiyev.  Rauf Soltan oglu Hajiyev (Azerbaijani: Rauf Soltan oğlu Hacıyev; May 15 1922 Baku-September 19 1995 Baku)-Soviet and Azerbaijani composer and politician. People’s artist of the USSR (1978). He was Chairman of the Union of Composers of the Azerbaijan SSR minister of culture of the Azerbaijan SSR (1965–1971).
Syed Ali Ausat Zaidi.  Syed Ali Ausat Zaidi (Urdu: سيد علي اوسط زيدي) was a renowned Urdu Soazkhawan. He was born in Meerut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 1932 and died in Karachi Pakistan in 2008. He hold the prestigious and eminent position of Soazkhawan for presenting soaz salam and marsiya on Pakistan Television Radio Pakistan ARY Television Network GEO TV Indus TV and TV2Day for several years.
Bianca Marroquín.  Bianca Marroquín (born on January 15 1975) is a Mexican musical theatre and television actress known as the first Mexican actress to have a starring role on Broadway and one of the youngest actresses to play Roxie Hart in a Broadway production of Chicago.
Vitamin C (singer).  Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick (born July 20 1972) is an American pop music singer songwriter record producer dancer and actress better known by her stage name Vitamin C. Her singles include Graduation (Friends Forever) As Long As You're Loving Me The Itch and her most successful hit the Top 20 Gold certified Smile. Vitamin C is also the former lead singer of the alternative rock band Eve's Plum.
Pearly Black.  Pearly Black (born February 1967) is an Australian singer. Her performance style varies widely performing with several ensembles in different genres and in short-run shows. She is perhaps best known for collaborations with avant-garde composer and musician John Rodgers including their sex-and-death-cabaret-rock band Madam Bones Brothel which developed a cult following in Brisbane and Melbourne.
Davitt Sigerson.  Davitt Sigerson (born 1957) is an American novelist whose first career was in the music business. Sigerson was a record producer singer songwriter record company executive and journalist.Sigerson was born in New York City. He went to school and Oxford University in the UK. He then wrote about music for Black Music Sounds Melody Maker and Time Out in the UK before returning to the USA in 1979 where he also wrote for the Village Voice Rolling Stone and New York Times.
Miloš Mikeln.  Miloš Mikeln (23 May 1930 – 2 April 2014) was a Slovene writer playwright theatre director and journalist. He was president of Slovene PEN and was the initiator of the Writers for Peace Committee founded in 1984. He was the Committee chairman for the first decade of its existence. The Committee still operates within the fold of PEN International to this day providing a platform for literary and intercultural dialogue and understanding.
Heinrich Häser.  Heinrich Häser (1811-1885) was a German medical author.
Taito Kantonen.  Taito A. Kantonen (24 April 1900 Karstula Finland – 26 April 1993 Springfield Ohio United States) was a theologian. At the age of 3 he moved to the United States where he later attended Harvard University and received a degree in theology. He wrote many books including Man in the Eyes of God.Kantonen was the professor of systematic theology in Hamma Divinity School (now Trinity Lutheran Seminary) from 1932. He received doctor h.c. from University of Helsinki in 1955.
John Collins (musician/researcher).  John Collins is a UK-born guitarist harmonica player and percussionist who went to Ghana in 1952 and has been involved in the West African music scene since 1969.
Laurie McBain.  Laurie (Lee) McBain (born October 15 1949) was a best-selling American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels Devil's Desire and Moonstruck Madness each sold over a million copies.
Frank Johnson Goodnow.  Frank Johnson Goodnow Ph.D. LL.B. (January 18 1859 – November 15 1939) was an American educator and legal scholar born in Brooklyn New York.
Nick Pittsinger.  Nick Pittsinger better known by his stage name Varien is an American composer and producer. His styles range from industrial electronic rock and drum and bass to orchestral and Soundtrack music. He is a featured producer on the electronic labels Monstercat and FiXT with songs like Cloak and Dagger Throne of Ravens and Mirrors reaching views in the millions. His music has been featured in media such as 300: Rise of an Empire The Purge: Anarchy The Real World and more.
A.S. King.  Amy Sarig King (born March 10 1970) is an American writer of young-adult fiction.
Ali Rıza Binboğa.  Ali Rıza Binboğa is a Turkish singer.
N'Dea Davenport.  N'Dea Davenport (born May 6 1966) is an American born recording artist songwriter dancer performer and producer best known for her work as a vocalist in the UK funk band The Brand New Heavies and for her pioneering contributions to the genre of acid jazz.
Amin Maalouf.  Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف‎) born 25 February 1949 in Beirut is a Lebanese-born French author. Has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic he writes in French and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios (English translation of Le rocher de Tanios).
Zaho.  Zehira Darabid (born on May 10 1980 in Chlef Algeria) known by her artistic name Zaho is an Algerian R&B singer.
Aglaia Kremezi.  Aglaia Kremezi (Αγλαΐα Κρεμέζη) is a Greek food writer and journalist often considered one of Greece's foremost cooking authorities.She lives on the island of Kea Greece where she runs a cooking school.
Jean-Jacques Birgé.  Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané with which he records about 30 albums as well as for movies theater dance radio) film director (La nuit du phoque Sarajevo a Street Under Siege The Sniper) multimedia author (Carton Machiavel Alphabet) sound designer (exhibitions CD-Roms websites Nabaztag etc.) founder of record label GRRR.
Shane Sanders.  Shane Sanders (born December 8 1967 in Crossville Tennessee USA) is an American artist composer designer and digital media entrepreneur.
Ai Iijima.  Ai Iijima (飯島 愛 Iijima Ai October 31 1972 – December 24 2008) was a Japanese media personality writer activist and actress who was an AV idol early in her career.
Ernst Zacharias Platner.  Ernst Zacharias Platner (October 1 1773 – October 14 1855) was a German painter and writer born in Leipzig. He was the son of anthropologist Ernst Platner (1744–1818).He initially took art classes at the Academy in Leipzig then continued his education in Dresden (from 1790) Vienna (from 1797) and Rome (1800) where he remained for the rest of his life.
Ruth VanSickle Ford.  Ruth VanSickle Ford (August 8 1897 – April 18 1989) was an American painter art teacher and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She credited artists George Bellows who influenced her interest in social realism and John Carlson who founded the School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock New York with helping her to develop her talent. She traveled and made paintings in the United States Caribbean and South America.
Kayden Kross.  Kayden Kross (born September 15 1985) is an American pornographic actress and writer. Kross has won multiple awards for her adult film work.
Victor Pemberton.  Victor Pemberton (born 10 October 1931) is a British writer and television producer.Victor Pemberton's scriptwriting work included BBC radio plays and television scripts for the BBC and ITV including Doctor Who The Slide and The Adventures of Black Beauty.His television production work included the British version of Fraggle Rock (second series onwards) and several independent documentaries including the 1989 International Emmy Award-winning Gwen: A Juliet Remembered about stage actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.In his earlier years Pemberton had several small screen acting roles. 
Ezra Koenig.  Ezra Michael Koenig (born April 8 1984) is an American musician singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Vampire Weekend.
Don Black (lyricist).  Don Black OBE (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry Charles Strouse Andrew Lloyd Webber Quincy Jones Lulu Jule Styne Henry Mancini Michael Jackson Elmer Bernstein Michel Legrand Hayley Westenra A. R.
Jeffrey Hatrix.  Jeffrey Nothing also known as Jeff Hatrix (born Jeffrey Lewis Hetrick May 5 1963 in Cleveland Ohio) is the vocalist for American alternative metal and industrial metal band Mushroomhead. His nickname comes from a scene in Blue Velvet. With a wide variety of face paint designs Jeff's most recent look is that of a butcher (white face paint with bloody mouth). However he revealed a new look in the music video of Your Soul Is Mine.
Nic Kelman.  Nic Kelman is a writer of novels short stories non-fiction screenplays and essays.
Nina Rautio.  Nina Rautio (born 21 September 1957) is a Russian operatic soprano. Her son Jan Karl Rautio (1980) - pianist conductor composer.
Scott Gerbacia.  Scott Gerbacia (born July 13 1984 in The Bronx New York) is an American actor.
Morten Lorentzen.  Morten Lorentzen (born August 19 1960) is a Danish comedian actor and film director. He is the son of the composer Bent Lorentzen. Appearing both on film and TV and as a live stand-up he is best known for his role as John in the comic duo of John and Aage on TV 2 alongside Povl Erik Carstensen. He wrote the script and starred in the film Holes in the Soup in 1988 featuring John and Aage.
Blain Di Donna.  BlainDi Donna is a secondary market gallery founded in September 2010 by Harry Blain and Emmanuel Di Donna.Specializing in artworks by Impressionist and 20th Century European and American masters the gallery is located on the second floor of The Carlyle Hotel at 981 Madison Avenue New York City the former home of Ursus Books.
Lia (singer).  Lia (born December 20) is a female Japanese singer-songwriter. Lia has performed various video game and anime theme songs such as for Key's visual novels: Air and Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life the opening theme for Angel Beats! as well as theme songs for RF Online and Initial D Fourth Stage under Avex Trax. The IA: Aria on the Planetes Vocaloid was recorded with Lia's voice and was released on January 27 2012.
Christopher Maleki.  Christopher Maleki (born February 26 1964) is an American soap opera actor and photographer. He is best known for portraying the role of Herbert Spike Lester on Passions.
Tommy Tiernan.  Tommy Tiernan (born 16 June 1969) is an Irish comedian actor and writer. He and Hector Ó hEochagáin presented The Tommy and Hector Show on i102-104FM. Tiernan also featured in Father Ted as Fr. Kevin.
Käte Bosse-Griffiths.  Käte Bosse-Griffiths (16 June 1910–4 April 1998) was a German born Egyptologist who after moving to Wales became a writer in the Welsh language.
Tom Cora.  Thomas Henry Corra (September 14 1953 – April 9 1998) better known as Tom Cora was a United States cellist and composer best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock. He recorded with John Zorn Butch Morris and The Ex and was a member of Curlew Third Person and Skeleton Crew.
Powell St. John.  Powell St. John is an American singer and songwriter. He was a well-known figure on the mid-1960s Austin Texas campus folk/bohemian music scene.[citation needed] He was an occasional member of various Austin rock groups including The Conqueroo and he wrote songs for the 13th Floor Elevators.
Monika Steiner.  Monika Steiner (born 1972) is an artist and sculptor. She lives in Fairfax California.
DY (rapper).  Forrest Schab known by his stage name DY (born in 1984) is a Canadian hip-hop artist raised in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. In 2009 he signed to CP Records. His stage name is an acronym deriving from his nickname Die Young. DY has been making music independently since the age of 14 winning several emcee competitions and releasing solo material. An album was in the making in cooperation with CP Record artist Belly.
Sandy Mölling.  Sandy Mölling (born April 27 1981) known professionally as Sandy is a German singer-songwriter dancer television presenter and occasional actress who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels the biggest-selling German girlband to date according to the German media.After a series of commercially successful releases with the group between the years of 2001 and 2003 she launched a solo career which produced two studio albums Unexpected (2004) and Frame of Mind (2006) and a number of top ten hits resulting into an ECHO Award nomination for Female Artist National. In addition she has since also ventured into acting and television presenting predominantly starring in comedies.
Carole White.  For the American television and film actress see Carole Ita White. For the British actress see Carol White.Carole White is a former model and co-founder of Premier Model Management.
Francesco Londonio.  Francesco Londonio (Milan 1723 – Milan 1783) was an Italian painter engraver and scenographer active mainly in Milan in a late-Baroque or Rococo style.Londonio trained as a painter under Ferdinando Porta and Giovanni Battista Sassi in Milan but traveled to Rome and Naples. He studied engraving with Benigno Bossi. He is best known for his paintings and ectchings of rustic and pastoral landscapes and subjects with both animals and peasants playing a dominating role over the landscape.
Edwin Lawrence Godkin.  Edwin Lawrence Godkin (October 2 1831 – May 21 1902) was an Irish-born American journalist and newspaper editor. He founded The Nation and was editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post 1883-1899.
Erik Turner.  Erik Turner (born March 31 1964) is best known as the rhythm guitarist in American glam metal band Warrant. Turner co-founded Warrant in Los Angeles California in July 1984 with bassist Jerry Dixon.Turner was influenced by bands Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith and guitarists Jimmy Page and Joe Perry.
Georges Mathieu.  Georges Mathieu (January 27 1921 – June 10 2012) was a French painter in the style of Tachisme and/or Lyrical Abstraction.
Nick Bernardone.  Nicholas Francis Bernardone (born July 15 1985) is an American writer comedian director . His TV credits include NBC's 30 Rock MTV's I Just Want My Pants Back and Comedy Central's Big Lake.
Lily L. Allen.  Lily L. Allen (30 December 1867 – 14 February 1952) was an important author of the time.Allen was born to John Oram and Jane (Talbott) Oram at Newport County Mayo Ireland on 30 December 1867. In her twenties Lily joined the Bible Christian Church and for a time was known as Sister Lily while she worked in the East London slums. She was a local preacher for the church and conducted missions over a wide area of the West Country.
Draghixa Laurent.  Draghixa Laurent (born June 3 1973) best known as Draghixa is a French former pornographic actress and singer. Yugoslav-born Draghixa moved to France with her family when she was two. After hairdresser training she became a stripper and then debuted in the adult film industry in 1993 in the third volume of the film series Offertes à Tout. In 1995 she was awarded with the Hot d'Or for best actress for her performance in the film Le Parfum de Mathilde.
Vonthongchai Intarawat.  Vonthongchai Intarawat (Thai: วันธงชัย อินทรวัตร) (born December 23 1987) is a Thai singer-songwriter and the runner-up of the 4th season of reality talent show True Visions's Academy Fantasia.
Mikky Ekko.  Mikky Ekko (born John Stephen Sudduth; December 17 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Louisiana signed to RCA Records. He is best known for featuring on Rihanna's 2013 single Stay which has charted in multiple countries worldwide becoming Ekko's first-charting material.
Charly García.  Charly García (born Carlos Alberto García Moreno on October 23 1951) is a singer-songwriter musician and producer from Argentina with a long career in rock music forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros and as a solo musician. His main instruments are piano and keyboards. He is widely considered by critics as one of the most influential rock artists in the Spanish rock scene.
Bob Hartman.  Robert Bob Hartman (born December 26 1949 in Lyons NY) is a Christian artist guitarist writer and songwriter. He is the founder of Christian rock band Petra. Hartman was involved with the band from its foundation in 1972 to its end in 2005. He took a break from touring in 1995 but continued to write most of the band's songs record guitars and produce most of the albums. He officially returned to touring with Petra in 2003 until he decided to retire the band in late 2005.
Yuya Matsushita.  Yuya Matsushita (松下優也 Matsushita Yūya) born May 24 1990 is a Japanese pop and R&B singer under Epic Records Japan. His debut single foolish foolish was released on November 26 2008. He had his first breakthrough as Sebastian Michaelis in the Black Butler Musical and since then been popular in both Japan and overseas.
Mile Lojpur.  Milan Mile Lojpur (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан-Миле Лојпур) (March 4 1930 – July 29 2005) was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock musician notable as one of the first rock and roll musicians in former Yugoslavia and one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.
Hans Joachim Störig.  Hans Joachim Störig (25 July 1915 – 10 September 2012) was a German non-fiction author translator publisher (Fischer Verlag) and lexicographer best known for his Kleine Weltgeschichte der Philosophie.
Jim Davidson.  James Cameron Jim Davidson OBE (born 13 December 1953) is an English comedian and television host. His highest profile roles came on the television when he hosted Big Break and The Generation Game.
Wilson Savoy.  Wilson Allen Savoy (born February 1 1982 in Eunice Louisiana) is a Grammy winning Cajun accordion player and singer in the band the Pine Leaf Boys and The Band Courtbouillon as well as a local filmmaker in Lafayette LA. His father Marc Savoy famous accordion builder and musician and his mother Ann Savoy author and music producer are well known ambassadors and supporters of preserving the Cajun culture.
Sun Li (writer).  Sun Li (simplified Chinese: 孙力; traditional Chinese: 孫力; pinyin: Sūn Lì; born 16 October 1949 - 9 May 2010) was a Chinese novelist. Sun was a member of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a recipient of one the most prestigious literature prizes in China the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Terry Britten.  Terry Britten (born 1947) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has written songs for Tina Turner Sir Cliff Richard Olivia Newton-John Status Quo and Michael Jackson amongst many others. Britten (along with co-writer Graham Lyle) won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1985 for What's Love Got to Do with It.
Doranna Durgin.  Doranna Durgin is an American author. In 1995 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel Dun Lady's Jess.Durgin's works feature suspense elements and distinctive descriptions of animals and their behavior.
Joseph Rodriguez (photographer).  Joseph Rodriguez is a Documentary photographer born and raised in Brooklyn New York. He studied photography in the School of Visual Arts and in the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Gjekë Marinaj.  Gjekë Marinaj is an Albanian-American poet writer translator literary critic and founder of the Protonism Theory. Currently living in the United States he has been the first president of the Society of Albanian-American Writers established in 2001 and has published several books of poetry prose and literary criticism. In 2008 Marinaj was awarded the Pjetër Arbnori Award for literature by QNK part of the Ministry of Tourism Cultural Affairs Youth and Sports of Albania.
Duccia Camiciotti.  Duccia Camiciotti Italian poet writer and essayist.
Jarle Vespestad.  Jarle Vespestad (born 16 April 1966 in Kirkenes Norway) is a Norwegian Jjazz musician (percussion) the younger brother of jazz musician Liz Tove Vespestad and a central member of Tord Gustavsen's projects Supersilent Petter Wettre Trio and Quartet Håvard Wiik Trio and Silje Nergaard's band.
Edmund Thornton Crawford.  Edmund Thornton Crawford (1806–1885) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter.
Samik Bandyopadhyay.  Samik Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শমীক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 1940) is a Kolkata-based critic of Indian art theatre and film. His father Sunit Kumar Banerjee did his Ph.D. on Elizabethan lyrics under Sir H J C Grierson the famous discoverer of the Metaphysical Poets at University of Edinburgh in 1930s and subsequently became a professor of English literature.
Johnny Byrne (writer).  Johnny Byrne (27 November 1935—2 April 2008) was an Irish writer and script editor for the BBC. He travelled extensively in his youth as a travelling poet.
Frankie Knuckles.  Francis Nicholls better known by his stage name Frankie Knuckles (January 18 1955 – March 31 2014) was an American DJ and record producer.Knuckles was born January 18 1955 in The Bronx New York; he later moved to Chicago. He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music in Chicago during the 1980s when the genre was in its infancy.
Eden ahbez.  George Alexander Aberle known as eden ahbez (15 April 1908 – 4 March 1995) was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe.Ahbez composed the song Nature Boy which became a No.
Keiichiro Koyama.  Keiichiro Koyama (小山 慶一郎 Koyama Keiichirō born 1 May 1984) is a Japanese musician and leader of the Johnny's Entertainment group NEWS.
Stagga Lee.  Eric Newman (born July 4 1977) better known by his stage name Stagga Lee is an American rapper from Yonkers New York. His stage name was adopted after hearing the classic 1959 No. 1 hit Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price.
T. Raumschmiere.  Marco Haas (born 1975) is a punk techno DJ known by the stage name T.Raumschmiere who has released two albums of aggressive electropop. He has worked with notables such as Miss Kittin and Ellen Allien and helped found the Shitkatapult record label. He is also partly responsible for the mid-2000s resurgence of the schaffel beat.
Lil Mama.  Niatia Jessica Kirkland (born October 4 1989) better known by her stage name Lil Mama is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn New York City New York. A rapper singer-songwriter entrepreneur spokesperson dancer and actress Lil Mama was also a talent show judge for seven seasons on America's Best Dance Crew. She experienced Billboard placement with the release of her debut album VYP (Voice of the Young People) which spawned the hit single Lip Gloss.
Kan'ami.  Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (観阿弥 清次; 1333 – June 8 1384) was a Japanese Noh actor author and musician during the Muromachi period. Born Kiyotsugu Yūzaki (結崎 清次 Yūzaki Kiyotsugu) in Iga Province Kan'ami also went by the names Miyomaru (観世丸) and Kanze Kiyotsugu (観世 清次).
Eddy Lover.  Eduardo Mosquera (born March 16 1985) better known by his stage name Eddy Lover is a Panamanian reggaeton and reggae en Español singer-songwriter. Eddy Lover rose to international fame with his guest appearance on La Factoría's 2006 smash hit Perdóname.
Eddy Temple-Morris.  Edward Temple-Morris (born 1965) is a British DJ record producer and TV presenter. He currently hosts London radio station XFM's specialist show The Remix.
Sae Miyazawa.  Sae Miyazawa (宮澤 佐江 Miyazawa Sae born August 13 1990 in Tokyo) is a Japanese idol singer. She was a member of the girl group AKB48 between 2006 and 2014 until she was transferred to SKE48 in February 2014. Since 2012 she has also been affiliated with the Chinese sister group SNH48. She is also a member of the AKB48 subunit Diva.
Lee Moyer.  Lee Moyer is an American painter illustrator graphic designer Web designer poster artist and painter of comic books games and pin-ups.
Vesna Pisarović.  Vesna Pisarović (born April 9 1978) is a Croatian pop singer.Pisarović was born in Brčko Bosnia-Herzegovina Yugoslavia and grew up in Požega Croatia a part of the same country until she was 13. From her earliest childhood she attended a music school where she played the flute sang in choirs and participated in various music contests.In the mid-1990s she moved to Zagreb Croatia where she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Zeynep Üçbaşaran.  Zeynep Üçbaşaran is an award winning Turkish pianist.
George H. Coes.  George H. Coes (1828 – March 16 1897) was an American minstrel music performer. He appeared in numerous minstrel shows in California and throughout the Northeastern United States.
Pearly Gates (singer).  Viola Billups better known by her stage name Pearly Gates is an American soul singer and member of girl group The Flirtations.
Master of 1310.  The Master of 1310 was an Italian painter active in Pistoia at the end of the 13th into the beginning of the fourteenth century. His name is derived from an altarpiece depicting the Madonna and Child with Angels and the Commandant Filippo Paci today held in the Grand Palais in Avignon and dated to 1310. Stylistically this painting shows a heavy French Gothic influence.
Koka Nikoladze.  Koka Nikoladze (born 30 September 1989 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian composer and sound artist based in Europe. He studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire Musikhochschule Stuttgart and Norwegian Academy of Music. Studied composition with Zurab Nadarejshvili Marco Stroppa and violin with Ernst Arakelov.
Anindo Chatterjee.  Anindo Chatterjee is an Indian tabla player from Farukhabad gharana.He was born in a musical family. His uncle Pt. Debiprasad Chatterjee is an eminent sitar player of this country. His younger sister Smt. Keka Mukherjee is a leading sitar player of AIR and also well known for her solo performance. He is a disciple of Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Gifted with an ability to summon crystal-clear melodies from his drums Anindo Chatterjee evolved into one of the world's greatest tabla players.
Rayburn Wright.  Rayburn Wright (1922-1990) was an American trombonist composer arranger and conductor and professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music University of Rochester New York United States.In 1982 Wright produced a book and CD Inside the Score: a detailed analysis of 8 classic jazz ensemble charts by Sammy Nestico Thad Jones and Bob Brookmeyer published by Kendor Music.
Graham Hurley.  Graham Hurley born in 1946 at Clacton on Sea is an English crime fiction writer.Formerly based in Portsmouth but now relocated in the West Country he is best known for creating the character of DI Joe Faraday following several standalone novels. He contributed a column to The Portsmouth News. He received both a BA and an MA in English from the University of Cambridge.He worked as a script-writer with Southern Television before becoming a researcher and later a director.
Fred Rosen (author).  Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is now a true crime author in the United States.
Daniel Peirce.  Daniel William Peirce (born May 21 1959) is an American photographer author entrepreneur and philosopher best known for his fine art photography representing the style and design of the motorcycle engine.Peirce completed a decade-long portfolio of photographs titled The Up-N-Smoke Engine Project resulting in a photography book The Fine Art of the Motorcycle Engine studying the light shadows and graphic nature of motorcycle engines.Known in the industry as Lord of Light Master of the Pixel Peirce's style emphasizes utilizing the natural occurrences of shape shadow and highlights found in manufactured materials and highlighted by his studio photography techniques.
Larry Darnell.  Larry Darnell (Leo Edward Donald; December 21 1928 Columbus Ohio – July 3 1983 Columbus) was a successful American singer who was instrumental in the formation of the New Orleans style of R&B in the late 1940s and early 1950s.As an eleven-year-old he achieved local fame as a gospel singer and left home at 15 years of age to work as a dancer with a burlesque road show the Brownskin Models. In New Orleans he gained steady employment as a singer at the Dew Drop Inn.
Rocky Votolato.  Rocky Votolato (born March 8 1977 in Dallas Texas) is an American singer-songwriter. He was raised in a small town called Frost roughly 50 miles south of Dallas until the age of 13.
Clyfford Still.  Clyfford Still (November 30 1904 – June 23 1980) was an American painter and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.
Anna Katharina Kränzlein.  Anna Katharina Kränzlein also known as Anna Katharina (born 7 November 1980 in Fürstenfeldbruck Germany) is a German violinist. She is most known for her quick and varied technique. She is the youngest founding member of Medieval folk rock band Schandmaul.
Jacques Gallot.  Jacques Gallot (or Jacques de Gallot le vieux Gallot de Paris) (ca. 1625 – ca. 1695 Paris France) was a French lutenist and composer.He came from a Parisian family of lutenists and composers. He was a student of Ennemond Gaultier. In Paris he published Pièces de luth composées sur différens mode introduced by a brief treatment of the lute. The pieces in this work are organized by tone and include also minuets.
Rick Timmons.  Rick Timmons ( St. Petersburg Florida) is an American painter. After attending the Art Institute of Dallas he joined the Dallas Fire Department in 1981 where he spent the next thirteen years. While doing more and more commissioned oil portrait paintings he was picked up by numerous southwest art galleries and in 1987/1988 was chosen to do commemorative paintings for both the New York and Texas Firefighter's Associations.
Hiromi Kawakami.  Kawakami Hiromi (川上 弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1 1958 is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
Admiral T.  Admiral T whose real name is Christy Campbell is a French singer of reggae-dancehall music. Besides Francky Vincent he is one of the most popular and successful Guadeloupean singers.He is also a designer and the creator of the clothing trademark WOK LINE.
Jerry Kasenetz.  Jerry Kasenetz (b. May 5 1943 Brooklyn New York) is an American bubblegum pop producer who worked with Jeff Katz the two working together as the Super K Productions company to manufacture and produce bands such as Shadows of Knight Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus The Music Explosion 1910 Fruitgum Company Crazy Elephant and The Ohio Express.
Angelo Barbera.  Angelo Barbera is an American bass player best known for his work with the Robby Krieger Band and The Doors of the 21st Century.
Cathal Dunne.  Cathal Dunne (born 1955) is an Irish singer. He is most famous for representing Ireland in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Happy Man. He has since gained a following as Cahal Dunne performing traditional Irish songs in the United States where he now lives.
J. G. Whitfield.  Jesse Gillis Whitfield (1915–2006) also known as J.G. or Whit is a gospel musician music promoter and member of the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy.  For the premier of Ontario 1896–1899 see Arthur Sturgis Hardy.Arthur Sherburne Hardy (usually: Arthur S. Hardy) (August 13 1847 – March 14 1930) was an American engineer educator editor diplomat novelist and poet.
Jordan McCoy.  Jordan Elizabeth McCoy (born September 17 1991; Mount Vernon Illinois) is an American singer guitarist and American Juniors finalist.After the show she went to Los Angeles to start developing her music career and auditioned for TV and movie roles. While recording in Los Angeles her label head (who did Dream with Diddy) mentioned he was in town and he wanted to hear her sing. McCoy stopped by the hotel and sang and danced for Combs.
Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fir Bhisigh.  Gilla Íosa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390 – 1418) was a historian scribe and poet of the learned Clan MacFhirbhisigh based at Lackan in Tír Fhíacrach now part of County Sligo. He was the chief compiler of the Yellow Book of Lecan and the Great Book of Lecan both of which are valuable literary and historical texts.
Henry Slesar.  Henry Slesar (June 12 1927 – April 2 2002) was an American author playwright and copywriter. He is famous for his use of irony and twist endings. After reading Slesar's M Is for the Many in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Alfred Hitchcock bought it for adaptation and they began many successful collaborations. Slesar wrote hundreds of scripts for television series and soap operas leading TV Guide to call him the writer with the largest audience in America.
Tsuki Amano.  Tsuki Amano (天野 月 Amano Tsuki) formerly Tsukiko Amano (天野 月子 Amano Tsukiko) is a Japanese singer famous for singing the ending themes used in the Fatal Frame series: Chō for Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly and Koe for Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. She also sang two songs for Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen Zero no Chōritsu and Noise.
Shōei.  Shōei (照英 Shōei born 4 April 1974) is a Japanese actor. His real name is Teruhide Takahashi (高橋 照英 Takahashi Teruhide). He appears in the weekly prime-time television series Mito Kōmon. The role he is best known for however is Gouki/GingaBlue in Seijuu Sentai Gingaman and reprises the role on two Super Sentai Series V-Cinema Films: Gogo V Vs Gingaman and Gaoranger Vs Super Sentai. He also competed on Sasuke during the early 2000s.
Wyatt Emory Cooper.  Wyatt Emory Cooper (September 1 1927 – January 5 1978) was an American author and screenwriter.
Ariane Sherine.  Ariane Sherine (born 3 July 1980) is a British comedy writer and journalist. She created the Atheist Bus Campaign which ran in 13 countries during January 2009.
Yaroslav Nikolaev.  Yaroslav Sergeevich Nikolaev (Russian: Ярослав Серге́евич Николаев; April 30 1899 Šiauliai Russian Empire — July 1 1978 Leningrad USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (1956) People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1975) a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists who lived and worked in Leningrad.
Gilberto Owen.  Gilberto Owen Estrada (b. Rosario Sinaloa May 13 1904 - d. Philadelphia March 9 1952) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.
Wolfgang Dauner.  Wolfgang Dauner (born 30 December 1935) is a German jazz fusion pianist composer and keyboardist born in Stuttgart Germany probably best known for his work in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with musicians such as Hans Koller Albert Mangelsdorff Volker Kriegel or Ack van Rooyen.
Aswathi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi.  Princess Aswathy Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi is a famous Indo-Anglian writer from Kerala. Born as the third child of Maharani Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi of Travancore Royal Family and Lt. Col G. V. Raja in 1945 is the niece of the last King of Travancore Maharajah Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma.
Oscar Blumenthal.  Oscar Blumenthal or Oskar Blumenthal (13 March 1852 Berlin - 24 April 1917 Berlin) was a German playwright and drama critic.
Karen C. Fox.  Karen C. Fox (born December 11 1969) is an American science writer specializing in physics astronomy and the history of science for adults and children.
Miklós Kiss.  Miklós Kiss (Dunaújváros 19 September 1981) is a designer and visual artist.
Kaori Mochida.  Kaori Mochida (持田 香織 Mochida Kaori born March 24 1978 in Tokyo Japan) is the female lead singer of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing.
Rodney Peppé.  Rodney (Darrell) Peppé (born 24 June 1934 in Eastbourne England) is a British author and illustrator in the children's fiction and crafts genres. He is the author and illustrator of more than 80 children’s books publishing his first children’s book in 1968 The Alphabet Book with Constable Young Books.
Aaron Sorkin.  Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9 1961) is an Academy and Emmy-award winning American screenwriter producer and playwright whose works include A Few Good Men The American President The West Wing Sports Night Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Charlie Wilson's War The Social Network Moneyball and The Newsroom.In television Sorkin is known as a controlling writer who rarely shares the credit of penning screenplays.
Alicia Ramsey.  Alicia Ramsey (1864-1933) was a British playwright and screenwriter.Her name is sometimes given as Alice Ramsey. She was born Alice Joanna Royston before she married the actor Cecil Ramsey. She later married Rudolph de Cordova with whom she collaborated on several works. Several of her plays were turned into films in the silent era.
Simon Jowett.  Simon Jowett is a British author and scriptwriter.
Sheri Holman.  Sheri Holman (born 1966) is an American novelist.
James Auchiah.  James Auchiah (1906–1974) was a Kiowa painter and one of the Kiowa Five from Oklahoma.
David Young (musician).  David Young is an American musician. Two of his albums Renaissance and Solace have been nominated for Grammy Awards. He is known for his ability to play two recorders simultaneously. He was also a member of the new age duo Celestial Winds with harpist Lisa Franco.
Aaron Pritchett.  Aaron Pritchett (born August 2 1970 Terrace British Columbia Canada) is a Canadian country music singer.
Anne Tardos.  Anne Tardos is a poet visual artist and composer born in Cannes France. She lived as a small child in German-occupied Paris then after the war moved with her parents to Budapest where she learned Hungarian. The Hungarian revolution resulted in her having then to move to Vienna where she learned German and attended a French high school. After completing high school she spent two years in Paris. In 1966 she moved to the United States.
Gleb Ilyin.  Gleb Aleksander Ilyin (Russian: Глеб Алекса́ндрович Ильи́н ; 1889—1968) was a Russian-American painter known for his portraiture and landscape paintings.
Paul Rutherford.  Paul Rutherford (born 8 December 1959 Liverpool England) is the former backing vocalist dancer and occasional keyboardist with 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) one of the group's two gay singers.He was born in inner-city Liverpool but as a child during the 1960s moved to the Cantril Farm district (built to replace inner city slums) where future footballer Micky Quinn and future comedian Craig Charles were among his neighbours.[citation needed]Attended St Dominics Roman Catholic school in Huyton along with his twin sister.Rutherford joined FGTH in 1980. 
Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri.  Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri (18 September 1829 – 1 December 1884) was an artist from Trieste now in Italy. Later he was well known for his drawings and paintings in the romantic historical style including numerous book illustrations. His frescoes decorate various buildings in Trieste and surroundings.
Pliers (singer).  Pliers (born Everton Bonner on April 4 1963 Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican Reggae singer best known for his collaborations with deejay Chaka Demus under the name Chaka Demus & Pliers.
Mario Montez.  René Rivera (July 20 1935 – September 26 2013) known professionally as Mario Montez was one of the Warhol superstars appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966. He took his name as a male homage to the actress Maria Montez an important gay icon in the fifties and sixties. Before appearing in Warhol's films he appeared in Jack Smith's important underground films Flaming Creatures and Normal Love.
Kanjūrō Arashi.  Kanjūrō Arashi (嵐 寛壽郎 Arashi Kanjūrō 8 December 1903 – 21 October 1980) was a Japanese film actor. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s. His nickname was Arakan.
Joseph Auslander.  Joseph Auslander (11 October 1897 Philadelphia Pennsylvania – 22 June 1965 Coral Gables Florida) was an American poet anthologist translator of poems and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941.
Joseph Somers.  Joseph Somers is an American artist and painter most famous for his canvases three-dimensional in both their structure and illusion.His work was featured at International Art Show Las Vegas. The artwork at this show moved and created another dimension of art. Collectors enjoyed the 3 pieces on display Beach Chairs Pebble Beach & Playing Cards.
Ataklan.  Mark Antonio Jiminez better known by his stage name Ataklan (born 31 July 1974 Chinapoo Morvant Laventille Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian singer-songwriter of the modern rapso tradition. Since his emergence in 1993 Ataklan has released tracks including Flambo Naked Walk Flood on the Main Road Shadow in de Dark Soca Girl and Caribbean Swagga among numerous others.
Harry Warner Jr..  Harry Warner Jr. (December 19 1922 – February 17 2003) was an American journalist. He spent 40 years working for the Hagerstown Maryland Herald-Mail.He was also an important science fiction fan and historian of fandom and Washington County Maryland as well as a classical musician.
Simone Elkeles.  Simone Elkeles (born April 24 1970) is an American author known for the teen romance Perfect Chemistry Trilogy and How To Ruin Trilogy. She is a New York Times Bestselling young adult author. Simone has won the 2010 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance from the Romance Writers of America for her book Perfect Chemistry. The sequel to Perfect Chemistry Rules of Attraction appeared on USA Today Best Sellers List and The New York Times Best Sellers List.
James Frost.  James Martin Frost (born 22 August 1986 Cowbridge Wales) is the guitarist keyboardist and backing vocalist of Welsh band The Automatic and guitarist and backing vocalist for Cardiff based band Effort. As well as his musical duties for The Automatic Frost has also directed two of the band's music videos and their tour video daries. He currently resides in Cardiff Wales.
Thorsten Brötzmann.  Thorsten Brötzmann is a German record producer composer and arranger. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with the No Angels Bro'Sis Christina Stürmer Monrose Jeanette Alexander Klaws and Modern Talking.
Charles Wesley junior.  Charles Wesley junior (11 December 1757 in Bristol – 23 May 1834 in London) was an English organist and composer. He was the son of Sarah and Charles Wesley (the great hymn-writer and one of the founders of Methodism) and the brother of Samuel Wesley also an organist and composer. He is usually referred to as Charles Wesley junior to avoid confusion with his more famous father.
Ken Saydak.  Ken Saydak (born Chicago Illinois United States) is an American Chicago blues pianist and singer-songwriter. In a long career Saydak has played as a sideman to Lonnie Brooks Mighty Joe Young Johnny Winter and Dave Specter. Saydak has released three albums under his own name since 1999. Billboard once described him as ...a gripping frontman.
Kálmán Balogh.  Kálmán Balogh (born 18 January 1959) is a Hungarian cimbalom player and leader of Kalman Balogh's Gypsy Cimbalom Band.
Jiro (musician).  Yoshihito Jiro Wayama (和山　義仁 Wayama Yoshihito; born October 17 1972 in Hakodate Hokkaidō) is the bassist of popular Japanese rock band Glay. He is also the bassist in his sideband The Predators. He was the last member of the official line up to join Glay in 1992. Jiro used to be a guitarist in his first bands and only picked up the bass when he joined the indie band Pierrot in Hakodate. In 1992 Pierrot moved to Tokyo to expand their career but disbanded shortly after.
Christiana Horton.  Christiana Horton (c. 1696 – c. 1756) was an English actress.She first appeared in London as Melinda in The Recruiting Officer in 1714 at Drury Lane. Here she remained twenty years followed by fifteen at Covent Garden.At both houses during this long career she played all the leading tragedy and comedy parts and Barton Booth (who discovered her) said she was the best successor of Mrs Oldfield. She was the original Mariana in Fielding's Miser (1733).
Çerçiz Topulli.  Çerçiz Topulli (1880 - 15 July 1915) was a patriotic nationalist figure and guerrilla fighter. He was the younger brother of Bajo Topulli. He was known for fighting the Turks in 1907 and 1908 and then after the Turks left the Greeks who invaded in 1913 and 1914.
Bill Adler.  Bill Adler is an American music journalist and critic who specializes in hip-hop. Since the early 1980s he has promoted hip-hop in a variety of capacities including as publicist biographer record label executive museum consultant art gallerist and curator and documentary filmmaker.
Alex Harvey (musician).  Alexander James Alex Harvey (5 February 1935 – 4 February 1982) was a Scottish blues/rock musician. Although Harvey's career spanned almost three decades he is best remembered as the frontman of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band with whom he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the era of glam rock in the 1970s.
Milton Trachtenburg.  Milton Trachtenburg is an American author and psychotherapist from Mount Laurel Township New Jersey. He is the writer of two self-help books: Journeys to Recovery: Therapy With Addicted Clients and Stop the Merry-Go-Round: Stories of Women Who Broke the Cycle of Abusive Relationships. He is also a writer of short stories which he posts on his blog.
Oliver Lieb.  Oliver Lieb (born 1969 Frankfurt Germany) is a German electronic music producer and DJ. Lieb is known to have more than a dozen aliases with over 200 productions and remixes in various electronic genres such as trance house and techno. He has also produced tracks for other artists.
Gene Chandler.  Gene Chandler (born Eugene Dixon July 6 1937) nicknamed The Duke of Earl or simply The Duke is an African-American singer songwriter music producer and executive.Chandler is known best for his most successful songs Duke Of Earl and Groovy Situation and his association with musical bands the Dukays the Impressions and Curtis Mayfield.Gene is a Grammy Hall Of Fame inductee and a winner of both the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers' (NATRA) Producer of the Year Award and the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award. 
Euphemia Allen.  Euphemia Allen (1861? – 1949) was a British composer. She composed the tune Chopsticks in 1877 at the age of 16 under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli. She was the sister of music publisher Mozart Allen.
Mick Underwood.  Michael John Mick Underwood (born 5 September 1945) is a British drummer best known for his work with The Outlaws The Herd Episode Six Quatermass and Gillan. First playing drums at the age of 14 he was a professional musician by the time he left school. He is currently the drummer for British rock band Raw Glory.
Brett Mycles.  Brett Mycles (birth name Robert Christopher Sager) (December 2 1977 - February 25 2007) was an American fitness-model and adult film star.
Guvna B.  Guvna B is a UK-based Urban contemporary gospel rap artist and composer who has four independent album releases including Odd 1 Out was the first rap album to top the Official Christian and Gospel UK chart.
Mort Sahl.  Morton Lyon Mort Sahl (born May 11 1927) is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor widely considered the first modern stand-up comedian. He was the first comedian to dress casually and speak about current events in a matter-of-fact style. He helped to get Lenny Bruce some gigs at the hungry i and occasionally wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President John F. Kennedy.
Mikhail Krug.  Mikhail Krug (Russian: Михаил Владимирович Круг the pseudonym literally means circle; April 7 1962 – June 30 2002) born as Vorobyov (Воробьёв) was a Russian singer one of the leading singers of the style of songs known as blatnaya pesnya (songs about criminal life) or shanson which has been part of Russian culture since the beginning of the twentieth century.Mikhail Krug was born in Morozovskiy Gorodok a suburb of the city of Tver.In 1987 Krug participated in a song competition taking first place. 
Chen Xiaoxu.  Chen Xiaoxu (Traditional Chinese: 陳曉旭; Simplified Chinese: 陈晓旭; Pinyin: Chén Xiǎoxù;) Buddhist name Venerable Miao Zhen (釋妙真) (October 29 1965 – May 13 2007) was a Chinese actress famous for her role as Lin Daiyu in 1987 TV series Dream of the Red Chamber.
Gregg Kavet.  Gregg Kavet is a writer and director who worked on NBC's Seinfeld for several seasons with collaborator Andy Robin. The team wrote episodes including The Jimmy The Hot Tub The Caddy The Bottle Deposit The Fatigues The Comeback The Nap and The Slicer. The Fatigues won the 1997 Writers Guild of America Award for best television comedy.
Delandria Mills.  Delandria Mills (born Houston Texas) is an American jazz gospel and classical flutist and composer.A classically trained musician Mills commenced her formal music instruction in piano at age four tried cello guitar and clarinet before finally settling on the flute as her instrument of choice. She recounts: “At first glance I did not want to play it - at all.
William Tomkin.  William Stephen Tomkin (1861–1940) was a watercolour coastal painter who exhibited in 1909 at the Royal Academy. He lived in Essex.
JP (musician).  John Paul JP Lam (born April 20 1984 in Honolulu Hawaii) is an American singer-songwriter music producer and model. He has gained an audience in South Korea and Japan primarily from his collaborations with popular R&B singer Misia. In 2012 he released his debut solo single which serves as the opening theme song to the anime Shirokuma Cafe.
Jovan Karlo Villalba.  Jovan Karlo Villalba (born 1977 in Quito Ecuador) is an American contemporary artist. Jovan Karlo Villalba grew up in Miami FL. He graduated from New World School of the Arts in 1995 and from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1999. In 2000 he began his career in the burgeoning Chelsea art district in New York City.
Robert Houle.  Robert Houle (born 1947) is a Saulteaux First Nations artist curator critic and educator. Houle has had an active curatorial and artistic practice since the mid-1970s. He played an important role in bridging the gap between contemporary First Nations artists and the broader Canadian art scene through his writing and involvement in early important high profile exhibitions such as Land Spirit Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa 1992).
Bibs Ekkel.  Bibs Ekkel (born 11 January 1946 in Brighton) is one of few exponents of the balalaika outside Russia. Bibs is of a mixed Polish-English background. His career as a professional balalaika player has covered concerts cabaret recordings films and innumerable radio and T.V. appearances throughout Europe and North America.
Rose Fostanes.  Rose Osang Fostanes (born January 2 1967) is a Filipina caregiver and singer living in Israel who won the first season of The X Factor Israel.Fostanes attracted international attention in October 2013 when she appeared as a contestant on X Factor Israel singing This Is My Life by Shirley Bassey.
Alejandra Guzmán.  Gabriela Alejandra Guzmán Pinal (born February 9 1968 in Mexico City) better known as Alejandra Guzmán is a Mexican singer-songwriter actress musician designer painter mother and Latin America’s #1 female rock artistDuring her 20 years of artistic career with more than 10 million albums sold 16 released albums and 30 singles in radio’s Top 10 hits Alejandra Guzmán has earned the title of La Reina del Rock (The Queen of Rock).
Anthony Williams (comics).  Anthony Williams is a Welsh comic book artist.
Sangita Santosham.  Sangita Santosham is an established performing artist based out of Chennai India. She is a versatile and multilingual vocalist credited with singing a wide range of genres right from western classical music contemporary jazz to Tamil hits. She is one of the very few artists from India formally trained in Musical Theatre as well.
Tim Cavanaugh.  Tim Cavanaugh is a journalist and screenwriter based in Alexandria Virginia. He is a news editor at National Review Online. Prior to that he was Executive Editor for The Daily Caller Web editor of the Los Angeles Times opinion page and was the editor in chief of Suck.com from 1998 to 2001.Cavanaugh is a winner of two Los Angeles Press Club awards and a Webby Award.
Maneco Galeano.  Maneco Galeano was born in Puerto Pinasco Paraguay; on May 13 1945.Son of W. Antonio Galeano and Ana Mieres his real name is Felix after his grandfather on his father side and Roberto after his grandfather on his mother side.
Gianni Morandi.  Gianni Morandi (born Gian Luigi Morandi; 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer actor and entertainer.
James Cleveland.  The Reverend Dr. James L. Cleveland (December 5 1931 - February 9 1991) was a gospel singer arranger composer and most significantly the driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound bringing the stylistic daring of hard gospel and jazz and pop music influences to arrangements for mass choirs. He is known as the King of Gospel music.
Rafael Aura León.  Rafael Aura León (born 22 December 1939 died 24 June 1993) was a Spanish comics artist known primarily as Auraleón which is how he signed his work.Auraleón's career began in 1959 when he joined the Spanish agency Selecciones Ilustradas through which he worked in British comics in the 1960s drawing westerns for Lone Star war stories for Commando Air Ace Combat and Conflict romance stories for Romance in Pictures and science fiction stories for Space Ace.Auraleón joined Warren Publishing in 1971 and was one of their most prolific artists doing 69 stories in total. 
Phil Nice.  Phil Nice is a British actor who has been active in television and films since 1984.He has appeared in TV serials including Who Dares Wins South of the Border Inspector Morse Mr. Bean Goodnight Sweetheart The Bill EastEnders Heartbeat The Inbetweeners Coming of Age Moving Wallpaper Love Soup Torchwood: Miracle Day My Family and Hebburn.
Harry Mulisch.  Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch About this sound pronunciation (29 July 1927 – 30 October 2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels plays essays poems and philosophical reflections. These have been translated into more than 30 languages.Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve Mulisch is considered one of the Great Three of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault became a 1986 film which won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
Gwendoline Butler.  Gwendoline Butler née Williams (19 August 1922 in South London England. 5 January 2013) was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956 she also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited for inventing the woman's police procedural is well known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels as Gwendoline Butler and by female detective Charmian Daniels as Jennie Melville.
Alexander Ney.  Alexander Ney (Russian: Александр Ней) (born 1939 in Leningrad Russia) is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms.
Thérèse Steinmetz.  Thérèse Steinmetz (born 17 May 1933 Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer best known for her participation in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest.
Geoffrey Hoyle.  Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942) is an English science fiction writer best known for the works which he co-authored with his father the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-authored with his son. [1]He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset and then entered Cambridge where he read Economics. After 1964 Hoyle worked in London in the field of modern communications and the film/television industry.
Peter McCarthy.  Peter McCarthy is a film producer director screenwriter and actor.His directorial credits include:FlounderingHis production credits include:Roadside ProphetsTapeheadsRepo Man
Andy Yorke.  Andy Yorke (born 10 January 1972) is an English musician and former lead singer and guitarist for the band Unbelievable Truth. He is the younger brother of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.
René Giessen.  René Giessen (born 24 December 1944 Prague) is a German musician composer and conductor.Giessen is widely known for playing the harmonica in various cover-versions of the title melody of famous German Winnetou-movies from the 1960s starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker. This melody was composed by German composer Martin Böttcher and originally was played by Johnny Müller.
Reiko Yasuhara.  Reiko Yasuhara (安原 麗子 Yasuhara Reiko) (born October 18 1969) is a Japanese singer and voice actress. She was a member of the group Shoujotai (少女隊).
Ikki Kajiwara.  Ikki Kajiwara (梶原 一騎 Kajiwara Ikki September 4 1936 – January 21 1987) was a Japanese author manga writer and film producer also known under the pseudonym Asao Takamori (高森 朝雄 Takamori Asao). His real name is Asaki Takamori (高森 朝樹 Takamori Asaki). The pseudonym was used since he was writing for a rival magazine at the time. Having multiple names would prevent overlap within the two magazines.
Lisa Milroy.  Lisa Milroy RA (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver British Columbia) is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects placed in lines or patterns. She has also produced a number of different series including landscapes buildings portraits and geishas in incongruous settings.In 1977 aged 18 she went to Paris to study at the Paris-Sorbonne University. In 1978 she moved to London to study at Saint Martin's School of Art.
Ai Iwamura.  Ai Iwamura (岩村愛 Iwamura Ai) also known as Aiko Iwamura (岩村愛子 Iwamura Aiko) is a Japanese actress.Iwamura is best known for her role as Mai in Battle Royale. Iwamura also fulfills some stand-in roles as Izumi Kanai Noriko Nakagawa Hirono Shimizu and Haruka Tanizawa [1]. Iwamura also stars as Mai in Battle Royale II: Requiem. She also voiced MarineAngemon in the anime Digimon Tamers.
Paul Simonon.  Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician and artist best known as the bass guitarist for punk rock band The Clash. More recent work includes his involvement in the project The Good the Bad & the Queen in 2007 with Damon Albarn Simon Tong and Tony Allen and the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach in 2010 which along with Albarn saw him reunite with Mick Jones.
Amar (singer).  Amar (born Amar Dhanjan) is a British Indiansinger signed to the independent label Sunset Entertainment Group. She is also the daughter of Mangal Singh (a well-known singer in the UK and globally known for his Rail Gaddi song). She is a singer and songwriter who writes her own material. She has a unique style of combining her Hindi vocals lyrics and melodies with western urban producers.
Gyula Pap.  Gyula Pap (1813–1870) was an ethnographer and writer of Hungarian folk tales most notably The Folk-Tales of the Magyars.
Anokhelal Mishra.  Anokhelal Mishra (Hindi: अनोखेलाल मिश्रा; 1914 – 10 March 1958) — also spelled as Anokhe Lal Misra and commonly known as Pandit Anokhelalji — was an Indian Tablā Artist who belonged to the Banaras Gharana of Hindustani classical music.
Frank Bergon.  Frank Bergon (born 1943) is an American writer whose novels essays anthologies and literary criticism focus primarily on the American West.
Francesco Antonio Caneti.  Francesco Antonio Caneti (1652–1721) was an Italian miniature painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Cremona where he was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Natali. He afterwards became a Capuchin monk.
Yu Godai.  Yu Godai (五代 ゆう Godai Yu born August 7 1970) is a Japanese writer from Nara Prefecture. Her father was a Japanese Language teacher at Todaiji Gakunen middle school and high school.While Godai was still a university student her The Story of the Beginning of Bone was selected for the fourth annual Fantasy Novel Prize which was sponsored by the Japanese publisher Fujimi Shobo. Godai was the first person to receive the grand prize.
Emmanuelle Boidron.  Emmanuelle Boidron (born 4 August 1978 in Orléans Loiret France) is a French actress. Her most important appearance is in the Navarro TV series as Yolande Navarro.
Fred Small.  Frederick Emerson Small (born November 6 1952) known publicly as Fred Small is an American singer-songwriter. He is also a lawyer and a Unitarian Universalist minister. His songs often make a political or ethical statement. Among his best-known songs are Heart of the Appaloosa Everything Possible Peace Is and Cranes Over Hiroshima.
Ole Hamre.  Ole Hamre (born 20 October 1959 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums percussion) and composer. He is a multifaceted musician and is known for his work with musicians like Bugge Wesseltoft Kari Bremnes Ole Paus Ketil Bjørnstad Frode Alnæs Silje Nergaard Arve Henriksen and Knut Reiersrud.
Michael Sterling (musician).  Michael Sterling (born October 26 1960) is an American composer and musician from Miami Florida. He is married to Irene Rena Sterling.
Manolo Millares.  Manolo Millares (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Canary Islands 17 January 1926 – Madrid 14 August 1972) was a Spanish painter. Self-taught as an artist Millares was introduced to Surrealism in 1948. In 1953 he moved to Madrid and became an abstract painter. In 1957 Millares along with Antonio Saura and Pablo Serrano founded the avant-garde group El Paso (The Step) in Madrid.
Yonca Evcimik.  Yonca Evcimik (born September 16 1963 Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish pop singer and actress.
Alan Jowett.  Alan Jowett is a railway author based in Yorkshire Dales.Most of his books were published by the former Cambridge-based publisher Patrick Stephens Ltd (PSL); PSL is now part of the Haynes Publishing Group and is based at Sparkford Somerset with the parent group.Employed as an under manager for Barclays in the Yorkshire Dales he is an amateur cartographer and keen on railways. In retirement he has produced hand written and drawn railway atlases.
John Kass.  John Kass is a Chicago Tribune columnist.The son of a Greek immigrant grocer Kass was born June 25 1956 on the South Side of Chicago and grew up there and in Oak Lawn IL. He held many jobs - retailer ditch digger waiter - before becoming a student of film at Columbia College in Chicago. There he worked in the student newspaper and gained the attention of Daryle Feldmeir president of the media department and previous editor of the Chicago Daily News.
Alexander Kanoldt.  Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity.Kanoldt was born in Karlsruhe. His father was the painter Edmond Kanoldt a late practitioner of the Nazarene style. After studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe he went to Munich in 1908 where he met a number of modernists such as Alexei Jawlensky Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter.
Danny McNamara.  Daniel Danny Anthony McNamara (31 December 1970 in Halifax) is the lead singer of English band Embrace.
Zola Taylor.  Zola Mae Taylor (March 17 1938 – April 30 2007) was an American singer. She was the original female member of The Platters from 1954 to 1962 when the group produced most of their popular singles.
Susan Stryker.  Susan O'Neal Stryker is an American professor author filmmaker and theorist of gender and sexuality. She is currently an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona and is the director of the university's Institute for LGBT Studies. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University University of California Santa Cruz and Simon Fraser University.
Debbie Kurup.  Debbie Kurup is a British actress. She is the sister of singer and actress Helen Kurup. Kurup was educated at the Edmonton County School in the London Borough of Enfield and later trained at the North London Dance Studio.
Rob Gerrand.  Rob Gerrand (born 16 October 1946) is an Australian writer of science fiction
Sreerama Chandra Mynampati.  Sreerama Chandra Mynampati better known as Sreeram is a Telugu playback singer. He was the winner of Indian Idol 5. He originally hails from Addanki.Before participating in Indian Idol 5 Sreeram was an upcoming playback singer in Telugu film industry. He sang more than 15 songs and worked with prominent music directors like Koti Mani Sharma Kalyan Mallik and Ramana Gogula.
Frank Partos.  Frank Partos (7 February 1901 Budapest - 23 December 1956 Los Angeles) an American screenwriter of Hungarian Jewish origin and an early executive committee member of the Screen Actors Guild which he helped found.
Harry Stott.  Harry Stott (born 30 September 1995) from Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire is a British stage and television actor. His theatre experience includes the role of Michael Banks in the West End production of Mary Poppins for which he also sang in the cast recording.In 2008 he was one of three boys selected on the TV show I'd Do Anything to share the title role in Cameron Mackintosh's 2009 West End revival of Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Tom Ugly.  Tom Ugly (born 16 July 1991) is an Australian musician singer-songwriter and music producer. The self-titled debut Tom Ugly EP reached No. 3 on the AIR Singles Chart and No. 23 on the ARIA Physical Singles Chart remaining on both charts for 11 consecutive weeks.
Rupert Deese.  Rupert Deese (born Rupert Julian Deese and known as Rummy) (July 16 1924-July 12 2010 ) was an American ceramic artist. He is known for innovative design and decoration of high fired ceramics. Deese wrote It is my hope in making these vessels that as the perception of their beauty diminishes over time they will sustain themselves by pleasant usefulness.
Floyd MacMillan Davis.  Floyd MacMillan Davis was an American painter and illustrator known for his work in advertising and illustration; Walter and Roger Reed described him as someone who could capture the rich beautiful people of the 1920s: dashing mustachioed men; the cool svelte women.
Tootsie Guevara.  Tootsie Guevara (born Emma Therese Pinga August 17 1980) is a former Filipina recording artist actress and television host. She began singing aged four had released six albums by the age of twelve and had hosted three television programmes.
Travis Stever.  Travis Stever (born November 25 1978) is the lead/rhythm guitarist for Coheed and Cambria a progressive rock band from New York.
Randy Crawford.  Veronica Randy Crawford (born February 18 1952 Macon Georgia) is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist. She has had multiple top five hits in the UK including her 1980 number 2 hit One Day I'll Fly Away.
Isaac Opus.  Isaac Opus is a R&B and hip-hop record producer and singer who was born in Miami and was raised in Fort Lauderdale. Popularly known for his remix release of the Jay-Z American Gangster Album known as American Gangster: Unfinished Bizness along with the newest Diddy single Diddy Boppin on the up-and-coming album Last Train to Paris which is scheduled to be released in September 2009.
Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel.  Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel (15 December 1804 – 21 January 1861) was a German sculptor.
Jeremy Moon.  Jeremy Moon was a British abstract artist born in Cheshire in 1934. He read law at Cambridge University and whilst there he practised painting as a hobby in his spare time.In 1961 he visited the second Situation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery and was inspired by the largescale abstract works of Bernard Cohen and William Turnbull.
A. A. Attanasio.  Alfred Angelo Attanasio born on September 20 1951 in Newark New Jersey is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His science-fiction novel Radix was nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel and was followed by three other novels the four books together comprising the critically acclaimed 'Radix Tetrad.' The 'Tetrad' is being re-issued by Phoenix Pick Publishers. He also writes under the name Adam Lee.
Ty Tabor.  Ty Tabor (born September 17 1961 in Pearl Mississippi) is the lead guitarist songwriter and co-lead vocalist for the progressive hard rock band King's X.Tabor has a wide-ranging guitar style from big guitar riffs to soaring melodic passages. His use of volume swells and ambient passages add an elemental texture to his compositions. His influences include The Beatles Brian May Alex Lifeson Ace Frehley Phil Keaggy and the original Alice Cooper band.
Chapman To.  Chapman To (born 8 June 1972) also known as To Man-chak (杜汶澤) is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known for specializing in comedic roles in films such as Infernal Affairs and Initial D.
Ankit Love.  Ankit Love is an Indian recording artist lyricist actor director writer and race car driver. Love has been described by Nick Cannon host of America's Got Talent as an extraordinary artist and filmmaker...poised to take over the world with his cosmic message of universal love.Love first gained mainstream exposure in 2012 with the release of his No.1 MTV hit music video Beethoven Burst starring actress Rain Elwood the track was also a top 40 hit on the FMQB radio charts in the USA.
Yuusuke (musician).  Yuusuke Kuniyoshi (国吉祐輔 Kuniyoshi Yuusuke) known simply as Yuusuke (ユウスケ) was a vocalist of the Japanese band High and Mighty Color. He was the last member and the first vocalist to join the band before they were known as High and Mighty Color. He was born on January 25 1985. He is known mainly for the screaming vocals in most of the band's songs. Yuusuke credits Metallica as one of his major musical influences.Yuusuke has now become SUN OF A STARVE's featuring vocal.
Luis Villegas.  Luis Villegas is a Mexican American guitarist best known for his debut CD Cafe Olé which mixed New Age music flamenco and jazz and garnered a spot on the Grammy ballot for Best New Age Album of the Year in 1999. He is known for using a technique of playing fast intricate lines by using the fingernail of his right index finger in place of a guitar pick. He also had a small role as a member of a band in the film Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
Pat McLaughlin.  For other uses see Pat McLaughlin (baseball).Pat McLaughlin is a singer/songwriter based in Nashville TN. He was raised in Waterloo Iowa but moved to San Francisco California in the early 1970s. There McLaughlin began to write songs playing alone at open mic nights and in the streets near the bay. After a brief stint in Boston he moved to Nashville where he formed a band and released his first album in 1980. Two consecutive projects for Capitol Records followed.
Mark Strand.  Mark Strand (born April 11 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005–06 he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Chris Staples.  Chris Staples is a singer and songwriter from Pensacola Florida currently the frontman and main musician for Discover America. Previously he was the vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Twothirtyeight. One of the founding members in 1995 Staples stayed with the band until its split-up in April 2003 due to members' individual ambitions. He subsequently pursued a solo career recording the acoustic albums Panama and Burned and Blistered.
Champagne (coiffeur).  Monsieur Champagne was the first celebrity coiffeur for whom the term was first coined in France in 1663 shortly after his death. His aristocratic clients included Princess Marie de Gonzague. He was the title character in the comedy Champagne le coiffeur which was staged at the Théâtre du Marais.
Ian Davenport.  Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee.
Maurice Winnick.  Maurice Winnick (28 March 1902 – 26 May 1962) was an English musician and dance band leader of the British dance band era.Born in Manchester Winnick studied violin at the Manchester College of Music where he proved to be a child prodigy. He took a job in a cinema orchestra playing the accompaniment for silent films and while still in his teens he became leader of a dance band on a transatlantic liner.
Scipione Compagno.  Scipione Compagno an Italian painter was born at Naples about 1624 and was still living in 1680. He was a pupil of A. Falcone and of Salvator Rosa and his drawings are held in esteem. The Belvedere Vienna contains two works by him the Eruption of Vesuvius and the Beheading of St. Januarius.
Cristian Vogel.  Cristian Vogel (born Santiago Chile 1972) is an experimental electronic musician.
Eliel (producer).  Eliel Lind Osorio (born on January 7 1981 in Rio Grande Puerto Rico) best known only as Eliel is a reggaeton producer. His partnership with Don Omar has led him to critical acclaim and commercial success.
Kanary Diamonds.  Kanary Diamonds born September 2 1989 as Johnean Jimenez in Watts California is an American rapper and entertainer. Kanary worked as a dancer in videos and after becoming a member of a Destiny's Child-styled group that never made it off the ground Kanary got her big break when she landed a guest spot on Mack 10's 2005 album Hustla's Handbook with the song “By the Bar.”.
Roger Mas.  Roger Mas i Solé (Solsona 1975) is a Catalan singer–songwriter.
George Frederic Watts.  Not to be confused with George Fiddes Watt.George Frederic Watts OM RA (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life.
Stacy (singer).  Stracie Angie Anam (born August 18 1990) is a Malaysian singer who rose to fame after winning the sixth season of Akademi Fantasia receiving 43 percent of over 3.8 million votes. Her debut album Aku Stacy was released on March 9 2009. She also known as Malaysia Dancing Queen
Xurban collective.  Xurban collective (stylized as xurban_collective) is an international art collective founded in 2000. Core members of the group are Guven Incirlioglu and Hakan Topal whose transatlantic collaborations took the form of media projects and installations. xurban_collective's projects instigate the questioning examination and discussion of contemporary politics theory and ideology utilizing documentary photography video new media and text.
Sarah Peebles.  Sarah Peebles (born 1964) is an American-Canadian composer improviser and installation artist. She is one of the few non-Japanese performers of the shō a traditional mouth organ used in gagaku Japan's imperial court music.
Andrea Kruis.  Andrea Kruis (born October 22 1962 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch comics artist. She followed the footsteps of father Jan Kruis best known for his one-page comic Jan Jans en de Kinderen (Jack Jacky & the Juniors). Catootje the younger bespectacled half of the two daughters is modelled after Andrea.
Ludwig Elsholtz.  Ludwig Elsholtz (1805-1850) a German painter of genre subjects and battles born at Berlin studied in the Academy of his native city and afterwards in the studio of Franz Krüger the painter of horses. His best work is The Battle of Leipsic painted in 1833 and now in the possession of the German Emperor. He died at Berlin in 1850. In the Berlin National Gallery is The Beginning of the Fight dated 1834.
Kamryn Belle.  Kamryn Belle is a singer songwriter and performer born in Suriname. For the most part she was raised in the Netherlands where she currently lives. Kamryn is the youngest of six children and comes from a musical family. Her dad was a singer in a band and her three brothers all played an instrument. When she was growing up Kamryn started singing more often and gained more experience. She now writes and records songs in her home studio.
Alfredo Rouillon.  Alfredo Rouillon was an entrepreneur businessman and politician from Rosario Santa Fe Argentina.He was the son of Bernardo Rouillon and Magdalena Vierci.
A.R. Akela.  Anant Rao A. R. Akela (born September 30 1960) is a Dalit author poet folk singer and publisher. He belongs to Jatav community.
Sean Reinert.  Sean Reinert (born May 27 1971) is the drummer of Cynic and Æon Spoke. He credits such drummers as Dave Miranda John Bonham Dave Weckl Gary Husband and Vinnie Colaiuta as being huge influences in his formative years.In 1991 Reinert and Paul Masvidal (also of Cynic) joined the band Death to record the Human album. This album is seen by many as the start of the technical death metal genre. After touring with Death he returned to Cynic.
Masashi Sugawara.  Sugawara Masashi (菅原 正志 (born July 14 1962 in Kanagawa) is a Japanese voice actor who voiced Vigoro in Skies of Arcadia and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette.
Matt Stokes.  Matt Stokes born 1973 in Penzance is an artist and film-maker. Stokes had a residency at Grizedale Arts in 2002 during which he researched the history of rave culture in the Lake District. In 2006 he won the Beck's Futures art prize for his film Long After Tonight.In 2005 Stokes developed Sacred Selections a series of experimental transcriptions of Underground Music then performed live on historic Pipe Organs in Dundee following a commission by Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Jeremy Mushlin.  Jeremy Mush One Mushlin is a musician who has played in reggae ska calypso and rocksteady bands including The Slackers The Scorchers Fireproof The Hungry March Band Top Shotta Band Red Hook Warriorz and The Rocksteady Seven.
Anastasia Klose.  Anastasia Klose (born 1978) is an Australian contemporary artist. Her work has received much attention in the art world due to the personal nature of her subject matter often putting herself in humiliating situations. She is a graduate of both the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and the University of Melbourne. She is also the daughter of artist and academic Elizabeth Presa.
Aureliano Lessa.  Aureliano José Lessa (1828–1861) was a Brazilian poet adept of the Ultra-Romanticism movement. Born in Minas Gerais in 1828 he moved to São Paulo in 1847 to study Law but received his bacharel degree at the Faculdade de Direito de Olinda in Pernambuco in the year of 1851. He worked as attorney general in the city of Ouro Preto and also as a lawyer in the cities of Diamantina and Serro.During his stay at São Paulo he met the authors Álvares de Azevedo and Bernardo Guimarães.
Speech Debelle.  Corynne Elliot (born 1983 London England) better known as Speech Debelle is a British rapper signed to the Big Dada record label. She was the winner of the 2009 Mercury Prize for her debut album Speech Therapy.
Arjuna Harjai.  Arjuna Harjai is an Indian film composer Musician and singer working in Bollywood. After working as a jingle composer he debuted as a film scorer in the 2011 with Hindi film Hair is falling and debuted as a composer with Priyanshu Chatterjee starer Calapor for which he composed four original songs and background score (2013)
Ken Hyder.  Ken Hyder (born 29 June 1946) is a Scottish jazz fusion drummer and percussionist born in Dundee Scotland perhaps best known for combining folk ethnic and Celtic music with jazz.
Antoine Volodine.  Antoine Volodine (born 1950) is the pseudonym of a French writer. He initially was interested in the original Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires. His works often involve cataclysms and have scenes of interrogations. One of his best known works is Des anges mineurs (trans. Minor Angels) which won the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Welper. Before that he won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 1987.Volodine has translated literary works from Russian into French.
Matt Willis.  Mathew James Willis (born 8 May 1983) is a British musician singer-songwriter television presenter and actor who found fame as a founding member of pop rock band Busted from 2001 until their split in 2005. After the split Willis released his debut solo album Don't Let It Go to Waste on 20 November 2006 spanning three top 20 singles.
Anne Weale.  Jay Blakeney (b. 20 June 1929 in England – d. 24 October 2007) was a British newspaper reporter well known as romance writer under the pseudonyms Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 books for Mills & Boon from 1955 to 2002. She died on Wednesday 24 October 2007 at the time of her death she was writing her autobiography called 88 Heroes…1 Mr Right.
Guido Borelli.  Guido Borelli da Caluso is an Italian painter. He was born in Caluso in 1952. He comes from an artistic background and his family always encouraged him to develop his talent as early as childhood. He won a contest at 13 and held his first exhibition at the age of 17 at Ars Plauda Gallery in Turin. After high school he received his artistic training at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. Today he has permanent exhibitions in art galleries in Italy France the United Kingdom and in the U.S..
Judy Waite.  Judy Waite is an author of picture books for young children and novels for young adults as well as poetry and short stories. Her books have won several awards including the English Association Best Children's Picture Book (1998) for Mouse Look Out and Children's Book Federation for Laura's Star.Waite currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Winchester.
Devon (pornographic actress).  Devon (born March 28 1977) is an American pornographic actress.
Hunter Johnson (composer).  Hunter Johnson (April 14 1906 - August 27 1998) was an American composer. His compositions include a piano sonata and the orchestral music for Martha Graham's ballets Letter to the World based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson and Deaths and Entrances. His musical style was a combination of neoclassic neoromantic and nationalist.Johnson was born near Benson North Carolina.
Bob Leatherbarrow.  Bob Leatherbarrow (born 3 May 1955) is a jazz drummer and vibraphonist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Brian Regan (comedian).  Brian Joseph Regan (/ˈriːɡən/; born June 2 1958) is an American stand-up comedian who uses observational sarcastic and self-deprecating humor. His performances are relatively clean as he refrains from profanity and off-color humor. Regan's material typically covers everyday events such as shipping a package with UPS and a visit to an optometrist. Regan makes frequent references to childhood including little league baseball grade school spelling bees and science projects.
John Carroll (author).  John Carroll (born 1944) is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University and author of Puritan Paranoid Remissive Guilt Ego and Soul Humanism: The Rebirth and Wreck of Western Culture and Intruders In The Bush: The Australian Quest For Identity. His Cambridge doctoral dissertation on epistemological anarchistic and anti-rationalist themes in Max Stirner Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky was published as Breakout from the Crystal Palace (1974). It was supervised by George Steiner.
Larry Levis.  Larry Patrick Levis (September 30 1946 – May 8 1996) was an American poet.
Gert Wilden.  Gert Wilden (born Gert Wychodil April 15 1917 in Mährisch Trübau) is a German film composer. From 1956 through his retirement he scored music for more than 50 feature films in numerous genres. However he is perhaps best known for his music for erotic films in the 1970s especially the Schoolgirl Report (Schulmädchen Report) series.Wilden is married to former actress and singer Trude Hofmeister.
Chloé Coulloud.  Chloé Coulloud is a French actress known for her role in the 2011 French horror movie Livide.
Jane Williams (Ysgafell).  Jane Williams (1 February 1806 – 15 March 1885) was a Welsh writer often known by her bardic name of Ysgafell. She is sometimes confused with her contemporary Maria Jane Williams.She was born in Chelsea the daughter of a naval official but spent her youth in the family seat of Neuadd Felen near Talgarth. She developed an interest in Welsh history literature and folklore and associated with Augusta Hall Lady Llanover. In 1856 she returned to London where she remained until her death.
Will Holland.  William Holland is a musician DJ and record producer from Bewdley Worcestershire. He is based in Colombia.He records under various guises notably Quantic The Quantic Soul Orchestra and The Limp Twins. His music draws upon elements of cumbia salsa bossa nova soul funk and jazz. Holland plays guitars bass double bass piano organ saxophone accordion and percussion.
Ayn Rand.  Ayn Rand (/ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6 1982) was an American novelist philosopher playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936.
Hasan Ali Toptaş.  Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 15 October 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. His first short story book Bir Gülüşün Kimliği (The Identity of A Laughter) was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar Yıldız Ecevit nicknames him a postmodern modernist and calls him a Kafka in Turkish literature in her work Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar (The Postmodernist Expansion in Turkish Literature).
Antonio Rocca.  Antonio Rocca (mid 17th century) was an Italian painter. He became a monk and worked in Rome and the Piedmont. He died at Rome about 1660.
John Mann (musician).  John Fraser Mann (born September 18 1962 in Calgary Alberta) is a Canadian rock musician and actor.
Robert Ramsey (composer).  For the Pennsylvania congressman see Robert Ramsey (congressman).Robert Ramsey (1590s – 1644) was a Scottish-born composer and organist.He seems to have been from a family of court musicians to King James VI of Scotland who followed him to London when he became King James I of England.He probably began composing around 1610 and may have had court connections having composed tributes to Henry Frederick Prince of Wales who died in 1612.
Danger (musician).  Franck Rivoire known by his stage name Danger is a French electronic musician.
Eslam Jawaad.  Wissam Khodur (Arabic: وسام خضر‎) better known as Eslam Jawaad (Arabic: اسلام جواد‎) is a rapper of Lebanese-Syrian origin. His debut album The Mammoth Tusk was released in 2009.
Zee Edgell.  Zelma I. Edgell better known as Zee Edgell MBE (born 21 October 1940 in Belize City Belize) is a writer. She has had four of her novels published. She was an associate professor of English at Kent State University.
Yun Mi-kyung.  Yun Mi-kyung (born October 14 1980) is a South Korean manhwa artist best known for her work Bride of the Water God.
Johnnie Mortimer.  Johnnie Mortimer was the pen name of Clare Suffolk (born 2 July 1931 – 2 September 1992) was a British scriptwriter for British TV whose work along with creative writing partner Brian Cooke also served as inspiration for American television projects.
Valter Dešpalj.  Valter Dešpalj (born 1947) is cellist and a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music.
Mysore Srikanth.  Mysore V. Srikanth is a Carnatic music violinist.
Judson Crews.  Judson Crews (June 30 1917 – May 17 2010) was an American poet bookseller and small press publisher.Crews was born and raised in Waco Texas. He first opened his Motive Bookshop and issued his first Motive Press publications in Waco. In 1947 he moved both concerns to Taos New Mexico and married Taos photographer Mildred Tolbert.
Chris Scruggs.  Chris Scruggs (born December 16 1982) is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays a variety of string instruments including the guitar the mandolin the violin the bass and the steel guitar. He is the only child of singer Gail Davies and songwriter Gary Scruggs. Born Christopher Alan Davies-Scruggs in 1982 Scruggs is rooted within a musical family.
Labtekwon.  []Labtekwon (born Omar Akbar) is a hip hop artist from Baltimore Maryland. His explanation of the name is an acronym for Lifeform Advanced Beyond Terrestrial Esoterics King Warrior Of Nubia.Labtekwon is the youngest son of soul singer Harry Young Jr. also known as Doc Soul Stirrer. He graduated from Douglass High School following in the footsteps of the Baltimore group Z3MC.
Mori Sumio.  Mori Sumio (born in Nagasaki on 28 February 1919; died in Tokyo on 18 August 2010) was a Japanese poet noted for haiku. He had an interest in the haikai tradition of pre-modern times. He won the Yomiuri Prize for poetry in 1977.
Hérib Campos Cervera.  Paraguayan poet Hérib Campos Cervera was born in Asunción Paraguay on March 30 1905 son of Spanish parents Herib Campos Cervera also a poet and of Alicia Diaz Perez sister of the great intellectual Viriato Díaz Pérez.
Phil Heywood.  Phil Heywood is an American fingerstyle acoustic guitar player singer and composer.
Lee Sung-yeol.  Lee Sungyeol (이성열 born August 27 1991) in Yongin Gyeonggi Province South Korea) is a South Korean singer dancer and actor. He is a member and vocalist of boy group Infinite under Woollim Entertainment.
Culture (musician).  Moaley Ramming better known by his stage name Culture is a Canadian-Bahamian hip hop rapper and reggae artist. His biggest chart success has been Africa with Karl Wolf. The song was recorded for Karl Wolf's second studio album Bite the Bullet. This version is based on the original 1982 Africa song by Toto.The song peaked at number 2 on the March 14 2009 Canadian Hot 100 chart.
Rob Mounsey.  Rob Mounsey (born December 2 1952) is an American award-winning composer music producer and musician.He was born in Berea Ohio United States and grew up in Seattle Washington and several Ohio towns. At the age of 17 he was awarded a 1970 BMI Student Composer Award for his orchestral work Ilium New York Is Divided Into Three Parts. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1971 to 1975.
Mario Luzi.  Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet.
Zé Cabra.  Casimiro António Serra Afonso Zé Cabra (Gralhós Macedo de Cavaleiros born 25 June 1965) former painter and comedy-singer from Portugal. He lives in France.He was known for his shows in the most hidden villages of Portugal. Zé Cabra's acting gained him some popularity for a short time when he recorded his first songs and appeared in a couple of TV shows. He was also known for his bad singing so he was never taken seriously. Zé Cabra has admitted that he can't sing.
Józef Łobodowski.  Józef Stanisław Łobodowski was a Polish poet and political thinker.Łobodowski was born 19 March 1909 at the Purwiszki country estate Sejny County in the Suwałki Land (Pol. Suwalszczyzna) Polish lands of the Russian Partition (now within the territory of Lithuania) and died 18 April 1988 in Madrid.His poetic works are broadly divided into two distinct phases: the earlier one until about 1934 in which he was sometimes identified as the last of the Skamandrites and the second phase beginning about 1935 marked by the pessimistic and tragic colouring associated with the newly nascent current in Polish poetry known as katastrofizm (catastrophism). 
Fiona Fung.  Fiona Fung (Traditional Chinese 馮曦妤; Simplified Chinese 冯曦妤; born December 14 1983) also known as Fung Hei-yu is a Cantopop singer-lyricist based in Hong Kong.
Shane Tutmarc.  Shane Tutmarc (born September 25 1981) is an American musician. No Depression magazine described Tutmarc's music as  a sound where all the rules of alt.
John Krizanc.  John Krizanc (born 1956) is a Canadian playwright who established an international reputation[citation needed] with his non-linear work Tamara. Its Toronto production (directed by Richard Rose) won him a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1982.
Ronald Bassett.  Ronald Leslie Bassett DSM (born 10 April 1924) is a British writer and novelist. He wrote numerous works of historical fiction sometimes under the pseudonym of William Clive. He received many awards for his medical and pharmaceutical writing.
Li Xiaoyun.  Li Xiaoyun is a Chinese singer. She was the runner up in the 2009 Super Girl contest. Born in Gansu she grew up in Lanzhou Gansu. She currently studies at the University of Melbourne.
Paul Youll.  Paul Youll (born 1965 in Hartlepool England) is a science fiction and fantasy artist and illustrator. He was born as one of five sons and at one time was part of a two-man illustration team with his twin brother Stephen. He got his start in the genre when his work done in conjunction with Stephen's was seen in 1987 at the 45th World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton England.
Charles de Lacy.  Charles John de Lacy (1856–1929) was one of the foremost British marine artists of his period. He was especially known for his warship imagery and was regularly commissioned by Elswick Tyne and Wear shipbuilder W. G. Armstrong Whitworth.
Rosemarie Beck.  Rosemarie Beck (July 8 1923 – July 15 2003) was an Abstract Expressionist Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She was married to the writer and editor Robert Phelps.
Keith Champagne.  Keith Champagne is an American comic artist who has also moved into writing and is known for his work at DC Comics.
Philip D. Hawkins.  Philip D. Hawkins FGRA is a British railway painter. He was a founder of the Guild of Railway Artists and elected a Fellow in 1998.
Prince Abdi.  Prince Abdi (born 21 July 1982) is a Somali-born British stand-up comedian and actor.
Valerie Taylor (actress).  Valerie Taylor (born 10 November 1902 Fulham London - 24 October 1988 London) was an English actress. She was married to the actor Hugh Sinclair.
Queen Omega (singer).  Jeneile Osborne (born c. 1984) better known as Queen Omega is a reggae singer born in Trinidad.
Jools Holland.  Julian Miles Jools Holland OBE DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist bandleader singer composer and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting Eric Clapton Mark Knopfler George Harrison David Gilmour Magazine and Bono.Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows.
Sara Coleridge.  Sara Coleridge (23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852) was an English author and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sarah Fricker.
Sam Most.  Samuel Sam Most (December 16 1930 – June 13 2013) was an American jazz flautist and tenor saxophonist based in Los Angeles. He was probably the first great jazz flutist according to jazz historian Leonard Feather.
Austyn Moore.  Austyn Moore (born May 6 1981) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Detroit Junior.  Emery Detroit Junior Williams Jr. (October 26 1931 – August 9 2005) was an American Chicago blues pianist vocalist and songwriter. He is known for songs such as So Unhappy Call My Job If I Hadn't Been High Ella and Money Tree. His songs have been covered by Koko Taylor Albert King and other blues artists.
Vasudha Patil.  Vasudha Patil (Devanagari: वसुधा पाटील) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.She started writing in the 1970s Marathi short stories and one-act plays some of which pertain to the contemporary change in the role of women in Marathi-speaking (and Indian) society economic and intellectual freedom of women and assertion of women's rights.The following are some of Patil's works: Deepagriha Ani Samudrapakshi (दीपगृह आणि समुद्रपक्षी) (एकांकिका) Phakta Ek Warsha Teen Mahine (फक्त एक वर्ष तीन महिने) Gulam Ani Itar Katha (गुलाम आणि इतर कथा) Jamunake Tir (जमुनाके तीर) (1968) Pakshiteerth (पक्षीतीर्थ) (एकांकिका) Utarati Unhe (उतरती उन्हं) Namarda (नामर्द) Pankha (पंख) Sanai (सनई)↑
Maria Maksakova Jr..  Maria Petrovna Maksakova Junior (Мария Петровна Максакова-младшая born July 24 1977 Munich Germany) is a Russian opera singer a guest soloist with Bolshoi Theater (since 2003) soloist with Moscow’s Helikon-Opera (since 2006) and Mariinsky Opera Company (2011). She is the daughter of actress Lyudmila Maksakova and granddaughter of Maria Petrovna Maksakova Sr. a renowned Russian and Soviet opera singer.
Madhukar Keche.  Madhukar Keche (Devanagari: मधुकर केचे) (1932 - 1993) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.His writings include: Biographies Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj (राष्ट्रसंत तुकडोजी महाराज) and Shri Sant Gadge Maharaj (श्रीसंत गाडगे महाराज) A collection of biographical sketches Warhadi Mandali (वर्‍हाडी मंडळी) Travelogue Majhi Kahi Gawe (माझी काही गावं) Novel Moti Jyanchya Poti (मोती ज्यांच्या पोटी) Collection of short stories Akhar Angan (आखर आंगण) Travel travelling 'Gandhi Parisar' Musings in the Gandhi Ashram Sewagram. 
Mikio Shirai.  Mikio Shirai (白井 幹夫 Shirai Mikio b. May 31 1950) is a Japanese keyboardist who was born in Tokyo's Minato ward.
Fiona Staples.  Fiona Staples is a Canadian comic book artist known for her work on books such as North 40 DV8: Gods and Monsters T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Saga. She has been cited as one of the best female artists working in the industry and one of the best artists overall.
Melanie Oxley.  Melanie Susan Oxley is an Australian musician singer-songwriter and primary school teacher. Oxley was a member of the dance pop group The Sparklers (from 1985 to 1989) which in October 1988 issued their debut album Persuasion. Since 1989 Oxley teamed with keyboardist Chris Abrahams (ex-Benders The Sparklers) to perform and record as a soul pop duo Melanie Oxley & Chris Abrahams.
Richard von Busack.  Richard von Busack is a film reviewer based in San Jose California. He has been writing for the Metro Silicon Valley since 1985. He was also the co-host of CinemaScene with poet Morton Marcus.He was born in California in 1958 and is the oldest of five children born to Sylvia Busack and Ronald F. Busack.
Chris Caffery.  Chris Caffery (born September 9 1967 in Suffern NY) is an American musician best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Recently Chris has been pursuing a solo career releasing three albums since 2004.
Bea Wain.  Bea Wain (born April 30 1917) is an American Big Band-era singer born in New York City New York. On a 1937 recording with Artie Shaw she was credited as Beatrice Wayne which led some to assume that was her real name. On record labels her name was shortened (without her permission) to Bea by the record company ostensibly for space considerations. As she explained They cut it to 'Bea' Wain.
Spencer Asah.  Spencer Asah (ca. 1905/1910–1954) was a Kiowa painter and a member of the Kiowa Five from Oklahoma.
Carlo Tenca.  Carlo Tenca (19 October 1816 Milan - 4 September 1883 Milan) was an Italian man of letters journalist deputy and supporter of Risorgimento. He was the prime-mover in the Salon of countess Clara Maffei to whom he was romantically linked.
Adam Campbell (actor).  Adam Campbell (born Adam Jones; 7 November 1980)[citation needed] is an English actor. Among his credits are roles in the American film parodies Date Movie Epic Movie and portrayed Cal Vandeusen in the horror miniseries Harper's Island. He was educated at Beechen Cliff School in Bath.
Lasse Myrvold.  Lasse Mustafa Myrvold (10 July 1953 – 3 September 2006) was a Norwegian musician and composer. He was raised in Stavanger but is first and foremost known as a part of the Bergen Wave with the pioneering Norwegian band The Aller Værste! and their Spellemannprisen winning album Materialtretthet (1980).
Eduardo Niebla.  Eduardo Niebla is a Spanish guitarist. Besides his work with jazz and Spanish flamenco guitar he has collaborated with trance group Juno Reactor and early in his career played in Spanish progressive rock band Atila and the Franco-British progressive rock band Mother Gong.
Kate Robbins.  Kate Robbins (born 21 August 1958 in Margate Kent) is an English actress comedienne singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in the early 1980s when she scored a No.2 hit on the UK Charts with the song More Than in Love while she was appearing in the TV soap opera Crossroads. She went on to become a prolific voice artist most notably for nine years with the satirical show Spitting Image.
Lothar-Günther Buchheim.  Lothar-Günther Buchheim (About this sound listen ) (February 6 1918 – February 22 2007) was a German author and painter. He is best known for his novel Das Boot (1973) which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film.
Michael Heart.  Michael Heart (born Annas Allaf Arabic: أنس علاف‎) is a Syrian American singer-songwriter recording artist guitarist and audio engineer based in Los Angeles CA. He was born in Syria and raised in Europe (Switzerland and Austria) and the United States.
Peter Hessler.  Peter Hessler (born June 14 1969) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of three acclaimed books about China and has contributed numerous articles to The New Yorker and National Geographic among other publications. In 2011 Hessler received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in recognition and encouragement of his keenly observed accounts of ordinary people responding to the complexities of life in such rapidly changing societies as Reform Era China.
Emily Colson.  Emily Colson is an American writer. She is the daughter of Charles Colson and Nancy Billings Colson. She currently attends North River Community Church in Pembroke Massachusetts.
George Woodbridge.  For the British actor see George Woodbridge.George Woodbridge (1930 – January 19 2004) was an American illustrator known for his exhaustive research and historical accuracy and for his 44-year run as a contributor to MAD Magazine. He was sometimes referred to as America's Dean of Uniform Illustration because of his expertise in drawing military uniforms.Born in Flushing Queens Woodbridge studied illustration at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.
David Cusick.  David Cusick (c.1780-c.1831) was a Tuscarora artist and the author of David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1828). This is an early (if not the first) account of Native American history and myth written and published in English by an Indian.
Isaac Soyer.  Isaac Soyer (April 26 1902 – July 8 1981) was a social realist painter and often portrayed working-class people of New York City in his paintings.
Mike Vincent.  Mike Vincent is an Australian print radio and television journalist.
Maria Taylor.  Maria Diane Taylor (born May 21 1976) is an American singer/songwriter from Birmingham Alabama. She is also a member of the duo Azure Ray with Orenda Fink also signed with Saddle Creek Records and has played in Bright Eyes and Now It's Overhead.
Anki Lidén.  Anki Lidén (born 5 April 1947) was a Swedish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1971.
Teddy Campbell.  Teddy Campbell (born February 24 1975) is a gospel drummer. He is probably best known for being the drummer on the hit late night show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Takumi Yamazaki.  Takumi Yamazaki (山崎 たくみ Yamazaki Takumi born Isao Yamazaki (山崎 功 Yamazaki Isao) April 14 1964 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor.
T. E. Hulme.  Thomas Ernest Hulme (/hjuːm/; 16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English critic and poet who through his writings on art literature and politics had a notable influence upon modernism.
Arnab Chakrabarty.  Arnab Chakrabarty (born September 19 1980) is a Bollywood singer Hindustani classical musician and sarod player.
Despina Vandi.  Despina Vandi (Greek: Δέσποινα Βανδή) born as Despina Malea (Greek: Δέσποινα Μαλέα); born 22 July 1969 is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart West Germany Vandi's family returned to Kavala Greece when she was six years old. She enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki but eventually dropped out to begin a career in music. After moving to Athens in the early 1990s Vandi signed with Minos EMI and released two albums Gela Mou (1994) and Esena Perimeno (1996).
Heather Lewis (musician).  Heather Lewis is a multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Beat Happening. Prior to her work with Beat Happening Lewis was a member of the Supreme Cool Beings who are notable for having the first ever release on K Records 1982's Survival of the Coolest. She appeared as a guest vocalist on several songs from Land of the Loops as well as The Wedding Present's Watusi album.
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola.  Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (Sète France 14 November 1871 - 29 March 1950 Paris) was a French painter. He is known for his pioneering leadership of the French Camouflage Department in World War I.
Jalal Garyaghdi.  Jalal Maharram oglu Garyagdi (Azerbaijani: Cəlal Məhərrəm oğlu Qaryağdı; June 2 1914 Shusha Elisabethpol Governorate Russian Empire - June 2001 Baku Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor and People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1960). He was one of the pioneer monumentalist sculptors of Azerbaijan along with Fuad Abdurahmanov.
Bruce Piermarini.  Bruce Piemarini (born 1953 Leominster Massachusetts United States) is an American painter. He is a member of the New New Painters a group of artists first brought together by the former director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978 contemperaneously with the further development of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden.
Darren Lim.  Darren Lim (Chinese: 林明伦; pinyin: Lín Mínglún born 30 September 1972) is a Singaporean actor and television host.
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht.  Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (8. April 1722 in Ulm - 11 August 1794 in Ansbach) was a German composer flutists and Kapellmeister. Born to a musical family he composed many works of chamber music and symphonies.
Nas.  Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (/nɑːˈsɪər/; born September 14 1973) better known simply as Nas /ˈnɑːz/ is an American rapper songwriter and actor. He is the son of jazz musician Olu Dara. Since 1994 Nas has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums and sold over 25 million records worldwide. Aside from rapping and acting Nas is an entrepreneur through his own record label retail sneaker store and magazine publishing.
Nao Kawakita.  Nao Kawakita (川北 奈緒 Kawakita Nao born December 16 1975) simply known as Nao (ナオ) is the drummer and backup vocalist of Japanese metal band Maximum the Hormone.
Patrick Collins (director).  Patrick Collins is an American heterosexual pornographic film producer-director the birth name of the Pornographic film actor Roscoe Bowltree owner of heterosexual Elegant Angel Productions and a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Lee Jin.  Lee Jin (born March 21 1980) is a South Korean actress. First a member of the Korean pop group Fin.K.L along with Lee Hyori Ock Joo Hyun and Sung Yuri she is currently acting in dramas and movies.
P. Kalinga Rao.  Pandeshwara Kalinga Rao (Kannada: ಪಾಂಡೇಶ್ವರ ಕಾಳಿಂಗ ರಾವ್‌) (1914 – September 21 1981) was an Indian Bhavageete and Sugama Sangeetha singer and composer in the Kannada language who was known as the Monarch of light music in Kannada He popularised Kannada Bhavageete a form of music which derives lyrics from popular poetry and devotional works.
David Clarke (actor).  David Clarke (30 August 1908 – 18 April 2004) was an American Broadway and motion picture actor. A native of Chicago and graduate of Butler University Clarke was most well known for his film noir roles as a character actor. He lived in Belmont Ohio for several years until he sold his house and moved to Arlington Virginia to be with his daughters. And he later on died in Virginia from pneumonia on April 18 2004.He was married to Nora Dunfee with whom he had two daughters.
Stephan Jenkins.  Stephan Douglas Jenkins (born September 27 1964 in Indio California) is an American musician best known as the lead singer songwriter and guitarist for Third Eye Blind. Under Jenkins's leadership Third Eye Blind has sold over 12 million copies worldwide of four albums: Third Eye Blind (1997) Blue (1999) Out of the Vein (2003) and Ursa Major (2009).
EdIT (musician).  edIT (born Edward Ma) is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Los Angeles California. He is a member of The Glitch Mob.
Tânia Mara.  Tânia Mara Araújo Almeida (born February 9 1983 in Brasília) is a Brazilian singer and actress.
Mark Sheinkman.  Mark Sheinkman (born 1963) is an American contemporary artist. His primary media are oil painting drawing and printmaking.Sheinkman was born in New York City where he currently lives and works. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University summa cum laude in art history and studio art in 1985. His works are handled by Von Lintel Gallery and Pace Prints.
Stanley Cowell.  Stanley Cowell (born May 5 1941 in Toledo Ohio) is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and later with Marion Brown Max Roach Bobby Hutcherson Clifford Jordan Harold Land Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz. Cowell played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble in 1965-66.
Wickliffe Covington.  Wickliffe Cooper Covington (July 2 1867 – December 1 1938) was a 19th century and early 20th century American woman painter.
Jude Deveraux.  Jude Deveraux (born September 20 1947 in Fairdale Kentucky as Jude Gilliam) is an American Romance novel author who is well known for her historical romances. As of 2010 36 of her novels had been on The New York Times Best Seller list including among the dozens such titles as 2009's Lavender Morning and Days of Gold. Deveraux who was described as a popular romance author by the New York Times in 2009 appeared as herself in the 1987 romance novelist documentary Where the Heart Roams.
Sir Pathétik.  Raphaël Bérubé known by his stage name Sir Pathétik is a Quebec Canada rapper originating from Trois-Rivières that has released a number of albums and collaborated with many artists earning several best rapper awards from ADISQ.He started in music 10 years ago and when he joined the group Chosen One made of Ale Dee and Diapason after departure of Justice J the grouped including Sir Pathetik was renamed Mine de rien. He and Ale Dee won the 2nd place of the competition Hip Hop Forever 2002.
Martin Gardner.  Martin Gardner (October 21 1914 – May 22 2010) was an American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics but with interests encompassing micromagic stage magic literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll and G.K. Chesterton) philosophy scientific skepticism and religion.
Clifford Meth.  Clifford Lawrence Meth (born February 22 1961) is an American writer and editor best known for his dark fiction. He has said that his work is often self-consciously Jewish.
Ruby Turner.  Ruby Turner (born 22 June 1958) is a Jamaican R&B and soul singer songwriter and actress. Born in Montego Bay Jamaica she moved at the age of nine with her family to Handsworth Birmingham England.
Laurence Marks (British writer).  Laurence Marks (born 8 December 1948) is a British sitcom writer and one half of writing duo Marks & Gran his collaborator being Maurice Gran. Prior to becoming a sitcom writer he was a reporter for a local weekly paper the Tottenham Weekly Herald and according to information he provided to Who's Who he was also briefly a staff writer for The Sunday Times in the mid- to late 1970s.
Dean Bernardini.  Dean Bernardini (born December 27 1973 in Illinois) is the bass guitar player and backing vocalist for the hard rock band Chevelle as well as being a brother-in-law to founding members Pete Loeffler and Sam Loeffler. He joined the band in 2005 after the departure of Joe Loeffler who had been a member of the group since 1995.
Felix Moscheles.  Felix Stone Moscheles (8 February 1833 - 22 December 1917) was an English painter peace activist and advocate of Esperanto.
Sandra Blow.  Sandra Blow (14 September 1925 – 22 August 2006) was an English painter.
Sam Reid (musician).  Samuel Sam Reid (born 1 December 1963) is the founding keyboardist with the Canadian rock band Glass Tiger. He and his band were honoured with five Canadian Music Industry Juno Awards multiple Canadian SOCAN Classic Awards and were nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy Award.
Alan Gerber.  Alan Gerber is an American-born singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is a member of the recently reunited rock band Rhinoceros and also has been pursuing a solo career throughout the last 30 years. His style shows multiple influences (blues folk jazz) and he is especially known for his high-energy performances and light-hearted humor-filled lyrics. This article's focus is on Alan Gerber's solo career; Consult the Rhinoceros (band) entry for information on this band.
Michael Blankfort.  Michael Seymour Blankfort (December 10 1907 – July 13 1982) was an American screenwriter author and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of Broken Arrow (1950). He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles.
Joan Weber.  Joan Weber (December 12 1935 — May 13 1981) was an American popular music singer.Weber was raised in Paulsboro New Jersey and married to a young bandleader. She was pregnant in 1954 when she was introduced to Eddie Joy a manager who in turn introduced her to Charles Randolph Grean an A&R worker for RCA and Dot Records in New York. Grean gave a demo of Weber's singing a song called Marionette to Mitch Miller the head of artists and repertoire at Columbia Records.
Geraldine Hunt.  Geraldine Hunt (born February 10 1945 in St. Louis Missouri) is an American R&B singer best known for the 1980 #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit Can't Fake the Feeling.
Paul Groussac.  Paul-François Groussac (February 15 1848 – June 27 1929) was a French-born Argentine writer literary critic historian and librarian. He was born in Toulouse to Catherine Deval and Pierre Groussac the scion of an old Languedocian family.
Eric Gansworth.  Eric Gansworth is a Haudenosaunee (Native American) novelist poet and visual artist.
Julie Dubela.  Julie Dubela (born on January 16 1991 in Jupiter Florida) is an American singer from Stratham New Hampshire. She is known in the Boston Massachusetts area for her live performances of The Star-Spangled Banner and has also gained national attention for her TV appearances.
Paul Worley.  Paul Worley (born February 16 1950 in Nashville Tennessee) is an American record producer and session guitarist known primarily for his work in country music. Formerly a vice president at Sony BMG he later joined the staff of Warner Bros. Records' Nashville division as chief creative officer. Since leaving Warner in the early 2000s Worley has worked mainly as a record producer for other acts such as Big & Rich as well as an occasional session guitarist.
Ani Lorak.  Karolina Miroslavivna Kuiek (Ukrainian: Кароліна Мирославівна Куєк alternate transliterations of the last name: Kuyek Kuek) popularly known as Ani Lorak (born 27 September 1978 Kitsman Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian pop singer songwriter actress entrepreneur and former UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Attash Durrani.  Prof. Dr. Attash Durrani (Urdu: عطش درانی‎)(Alternative names: Durrānī ʿAt̤ish… Durrani Attash… ʿAt̤sh Durrānī… Durrānī ʿAt̤sh… Durrānī ʿAt̤ash)(Hindi: आतशदुर्रानी) (Japanese: アタッシュドラニあたっしゅどらに)(Chinese: 阿塔什杜荣仁啊你) T.I.(born January 22 1952) is a Pakistani Linguist researcher critic and author. He has written many books in Urdu and English and has received Tamgha-i-Imtiaz for his work of Urdu language and literature.
Wu Jing (actor).  Wu Jing (born April 3 1974) sometimes credited as Jacky Wu or Jing Wu is a Chinese martial artist actor and director. Wu is best known as Hawkman / Jackie in 1996 film Tai Chi Boxer and Kong Ko in 2006 film Fatal Contact.
Miguel Zamacoïs.  Miguel Zamacoïs (1866–1955) was a French novelist.
Jonathan Rendall.  Jonathan Rendall (11 June 1964 – C. 23 January 2013) was a Somerset Maugham Award-winning British writer.Rendall was born in Oxford and adopted as a baby. He lived his childhood in Ashtead Surrey and much of his teenage years in Greece. He attended St John's School Leatherhead and Magdalen College Oxford. He later lived in Ipswich Suffolk.Before becoming a writer he acted as managerial advisor to the World Featherweight boxing champion Colin Sweet C McMillan.
Philip Sainton.  Philip Prosper Sainton (10 November 1891 – 2 September 1967) was a British–French composer conductor and violist.
DJ Panda.  DJ Panda (born Ermanno Mainardi) is an Italian disc jockey and record producer who is mostly known for the song's It's a Dream and My Dimension.
Sheila O'Flanagan.  Sheila O'Flanagan is a Dublin born fiction writer and journalist who writes for The Irish Times.
Minoru Niihara.  Minoru Niihara (二井原 実 Niihara Minoru) (born March 12 1960 in Osaka Japan) is the original and current lead singer of the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness.His first band was Earthshaker in which he played bass and sang. His vocal style was influenced by blues singers but he adapted quickly his voice to the high pitch tones requested in a heavy metal act.
Pervis Jackson.  Pervis Jackson (May 17 1938 – August 18 2008) was an American R&B singer noted as the bass singer for The Spinners and was one of the group's original members.
Douglas Spotted Eagle.  Douglas Spotted Eagle is a Grammy-winning musician noted for his live and recorded performances on the traditional Native American flute sometimes accompanied by either traditional Navajo (Diné) singers and instrumentalists or a modern band.
Art Taylor.  Arthur S. Taylor Jr. (April 6 1929 – February 6 1995) was an American jazz drummer who helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming.
Bert Greene (cookbook author).  Bert Greene (October 16 1923 - June 10 1988) was a cookbook author and food columnist. He was the food columnist for the New York Daily News from 1979 until his death in 1988. He was born October 16 in New York City.
George Hamilton-Browne.  George Hamilton-Browne (c.1851–1916) was a New Zealand soldier military leader writer and impostor. He was born in Ireland about 1851.
Cheuk Wan-chi.  Cheuk Wan Chi also known as Vincci G and GC Goo-Bi born 28 March 1979 is an independent creative professional stand-up comedian master of ceremonies occasional television pundit and talk show host. She first came to prominence as a disk jockey and radio personality working for Hong Kong's Commercial Radio (CRHK).
Hajime Isayama.  Hajime Isayama (諫山 創 Isayama Hajime born 1986) is a Japanese manga artist from Ōyama Ōita. His first and currently ongoing serial Attack on Titan had over 36 million copies in circulation as of April 2014. He has mentioned Tsutomu Nihei Ryōji Minagawa Kentaro Miura Hideki Arai and Tōru Mitsumine as artists he respects and stated that the manga that had the biggest influence on him was ARMS.
Piero della Francesca.  Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its serene humanism its use of geometric forms and perspective.
Tony Oller.  Tony Oller (born February 25 1991) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. A native of Cypress Texas he may be best known for his roles as Walt Moore on Gigantic and as Daniel Danny Neilson on As the Bell Rings. He appeared in the films Beneath the Darkness and The Purge.
Peggy Weil.  Peggy Weil is an artist working in digital media.She graduated from Harvard in 1976 and received a Masters Degree from MIT in 1982. There she was a part of the Architecture Machine Group where she worked under Nicholas Negroponte.In 1990 she produced A Silly Noise House an award-winning CD-ROM with multimedia pioneer The Voyager Company.
Katharina Nuttall.  Katharina Nuttall is an artist composer and music producer born July 14 1972 in Drammen Norway. Nuttall lives in Stockholm Sweden but is a Norwegian citizen with a Norwegian mother and a father from the UK.Her debut album This Is How I Feel was released in 2007 followed by Cherry Flavour Substitute in 2008. Songs from the two albums were put together on the European release Cherry Flavour Substitute Limited Edition an album that was awarded a German Record Critics Award in 2009.
Faton Macula.  Faton Macula is a Kosovo-born Albanian Jazz guitarist. Faton currently lives in New York City.
Baldassare Castiglione.  Baldassare Castiglione (Italian: [baldasˈsaːre kastiʎˈʎoːne]; December 6 1478 – February 2 1529) count of Casatico was an Italian courtier diplomat soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.
Danny Lohner.  Daniel Patrick Danny Lohner (born December 13 1970) frequently known as Renholdër is an American rock musician who plays bass guitar electric guitar and keyboards. He worked with Trent Reznor on numerous occasions both with Nine Inch Nails and on the now defunct Tapeworm project. He has also played for Killing Joke Methods of Mayhem and in the past was one of the founding members of industrial-thrash outlet Skrew as well as one of the members of the Texas thrash metal band Angkor Wat.
Chris Bathgate.  Chris Bathgate (born April 21 1982) is an American indie folk singer-songwriter and musician. He is prominent in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti folk music scene in Michigan. In 2007 Bathgate signed to Quite Scientific Records on which he released his most prominent album to date A Cork Tale Wake. His most recent release was Salt Year a full length album released on April 26 2011. Bathgate has been compared to folk singer-songwriters Sufjan Stevens Iron & Wine and Damien Jurado.
Vilmos Huszár.  Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960) was a Hungarian painter and designer. He lived in The Netherlands where he was one of the founder members of the art movement De Stijl.Vilmos was born in Budapest Hungary. He emigrated to The Netherlands in 1905 settling at first in Voorburg. He was influenced by Cubism and Futurism. He met other influential artists including Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg both central figures in establishing the De Stijl movement with Vilmos in 1917.
Goth-Trad.  Takeaki Maruyama better known by his stage name Goth-Trad is a Japanese dubstep musician. He began composing dubstep in 2006 after being inspired by Wiley's Morgue. He has produced four albums the latest of which - New Epoch - was released on Mala's Deep Medi label. Goth-Trad also runs an underground music night in Shibuya Tokyo called Back To Chill.
Anoop Desai.  Anoop Desai (born December 20 1986) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his time as a contestant on the eighth season of American Idol. Motivated by the death of his friend Eve Carson Desai auditioned for American Idol. Desai made American Idol history by being the first ever 13th finalist on American Idol.
Cory Morrow.  Cory Morrow (born May 1 1972 in Houston Texas) is a Texas Country singer/songwriter who has gained popularity throughout the Southwest. Morrow started playing guitar at Memorial High School in Houston. He continued to develop as a musician while attending Texas Tech University where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. In 1993 Morrow moved to Austin Texas to pursue music as a career.
Betty Harper.  Betty Harper (born October 4 1946) is an American artist and illustrator. Best known as the official artist for Elvis Presley Enterprises she has drawn over 10000 images of Elvis Presley. A restrospective of Harper's work 50+ Years with Elvis was exhibited at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2013.
Jim Diamond (singer).  James Jim Diamond (born 28 September 1953 Glasgow) is a Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his three Top 5 hits. The first was I Won't Let You Down (1982) as the lead singer in the trio Ph.D. with Tony Hymas and Simon Phillips. His solo performance I Should Have Known Better was a United Kingdom number one in 1984. The third track was the theme song from Boon Hi Ho Silver which reached Number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in 1986.
Henning Wehn.  Henning Wehn (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛnɪŋ ˈveːn]; born 10 April 1974) is a German stand-up comedian based in London.
René-Michel Slodtz.  René-Michel Slodtz called Michel-Ange Slodtz (1705-1764) was a French sculptor who worked in Rococo style and active mainly in Paris and Rome for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi.
Tal Wilkenfeld.  Tal Wilkenfeld (born 2 December 1986) is an Australian bass guitarist who has gained worldwide attention performing alongside some of rock and jazz music's most notable artists. In addition to her work as a supporting musician to Jeff Beck and others she has assumed the role of bandleader of her own eponymous bands whose musicians have included Wayne Krantz Keith Carlock John Beasley and Jeff Tain Watts.
Richard Deacon (sculptor).  Richard Deacon CBE (born 15 August 1949) is a British abstract sculptor and a winner of the Turner Prize.
Jean Van Hamme.  Jean Van Hamme (born 16 January 1939) is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series including Histoire sans héros Thorgal XIII and Largo Winch.
Ma'Niche.  Maniche Gauthier (born 22 December 1989) known mononymously as Ma'Niche is an American recording artist dancer actress and model. Gauthier was born in Manhattan New York. Two months after she was born she migrated to The Philippines where she stayed until five years old. Upon returning to the United States at age five she has been living in West Palm Beach Florida.
André Geerts.  André Geerts (18 December 1955 – 27 July 2010) was a Belgian comics creator best known for his series Jojo.
Emitt Rhodes.  Emitt Lynn Rhodes (born February 25 1950 Decatur Illinois United States) is an American singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer. His solo recordings of the early 1970s show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicianship. Rhodes began his career in musical ensembles The Palace Guard (as the group's drummer) and The Merry-Go-Round (multi-instrumentalist).
Emilio J. Pasarell.  Emilio J. Pasarell (1891–1974) was a Puerto Rican short-story writer novelist essayist and historian.
Syd Cheatle.  Syd Cheatle (born 1943) is an Irish writer born in Dublin and educated at Castleknock.Leaving Ireland to pursue a writing career in London his first two plays Retreat and The Director were produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1970. His next play Straight Up received its premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and subsequently transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in London in December 1971.
Yann Tiersen.  Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician. His musical career is split between studio albums collaborations and film soundtracks.
Sabina Classen.  Sabina Classen (born December 27 1963 in Aachen as Sabina Hirtz) is a German thrash metal singer most known as lead vocalist of Holy Moses and Temple of the Absurd.
Azar Nafisi.  Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی‎; born 1955) is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature. She has resided in the United States since 1997 and became an American citizen in 2008.Nafisi has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and served on the Board of Trustees of Freedom House. She is the niece of famous Iranian scholar fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi.
Eugene Timmons (musician).  Eugene Timmons nickname (ET) is an American saxophonist. He is best known as a founding member and saxophonist of KC & The Sunshine Band. He currently runs the jazz band in Robert Morgan Educational Center.Eugene Timmons is currently the Director of Bands and Orchestra in Robert Morgan University. He earned his B.S. from Winston-Salem State University & M.S. from Nova Southeastern University. He has served as the Department Chairman of the Fine Arts Department.
Roy Wood.  Roy Wood (born 8 November 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the bands The Move Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. As a songwriter he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands.
Byul.  Kim Go-Eun (Korean: 김고은) better known by her stage name of 별 (Byul star) is a South Korean singer known mostly for her ballads. She was born on October 22 1983 in Seosan Chungcheongnam-do and studied in Dongduk Women's University. She was discovered by singer-songwriter Park Jin Young when she had the opportunity to sing for him at one of his fan-meetings and is currently signed under Spring Entertainment.
Peter Yarrow.  Peter Yarrow (born May 31 1938) is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's most famous songs Puff the Magic Dragon. He is also a political activist and has lent his support to causes that range from opposition to the Vietnam War to the creation of Operation Respect.Peter Yarrow was born in Manhattan to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant parents Bernard and Vira Yannoshevitch.
Jake One.  Jacob Dutton better known as Jake One is an American hip hop record producer from Seattle Washington.
Abraham Lishinsky.  Abraham Lishinsky (1905–1982) is an American artist of the 20th Century a painter and playwright best known for seven murals completed for the federally funded agencies of the New Deal programs of the 1930s and 1940s.Born in Russia in 1905 he was raised on Manhattan's East Side and in Brooklyn. He studied at the Educational Alliance and the National Academy of Design and with John Sloan at the Art Students League.
Rica Takashima.  Rica Takashima (高嶋リカ Takashima Rika; born in Tokyo Japan) is a prolific pop artist/performer and manga artist who has had exhibitions and shows in museums and galleries in Paris Moscow and Hong Kong as well as across Japan.
Kemal Malovčić.  Kemal Malovčić (born 6 May 1951) is prominent Bosnian singer of folk pop-folk and turbo-folk music.Currently Kemal resides in Austria.
Rob Chidley.  Robert Nicholas Chidley (born 1981) is a British writer. His most recent book Building Bridges: Is there Hope for North Korea co-authored with David Alton was published by Lion in 2013.
Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso.  Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso (29 August 1821 – 2 September 1904) was a missionary and Bible translator in New Zealand.She was born at the Church Missionary Society station at Kerikeri New Zealand. Having grown up speaking the Māori language from infancy she helped see the Māori Old Testament through the press in England. It was a lengthy undertaking; she was correcting proofs throughout the mid-1860s.
Kimiko Itoh.  Kimiko Itō or Kimiko Itoh (伊藤 君子 Itō Kimiko born July 11 1946) is a Japanese jazz singer. She was born on the island of Shōdoshima in Kagawa Prefecture Japan.After graduating from Musashino Art University with a degree in oil painting she studied under Yasushi Sawada.In 1982 she made her debut with her first jazz album Birdland. In 1989 she released the album フォロー・ミー(FOLLOW ME) simultaneously in Japan and the United States.
Hannibal Buress.  Hannibal Buress (born February 4 1983) is an American stand-up comedian actor and television writer currently living in New York City.
Chen Kun (actor).  Chen Kun (born February 4 1976) sometimes credited as Aloys Chen is a Chinese actor and singer. He has won the Hundred Flowers Award's for Best Actor Huabiao Award for Best Actor and has received one Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Actor.Chen gained recognition from the 2001 television drama Love in Shanghai and the 2002 film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Vinnie Chas.  Vincent Charles Pusateri (May 4 1963 – April 6 2010) best known by his stage name Vinnie Chas was an American musician. Born in Honolulu Hawaii he moved to Washington State as a child and while growing up there he went to Bethel High School and were in several bands with childhood friend Jerry Cantrell. In 1987 Chas joined Hollywood-based hard rock band Pretty Boy Floyd as their bassist. He died on April 6 2010 in Vancouver Washington and is laid to rest in Spanaway Washington.
Grace Lin.  Grace Lin (born May 17 1974) is an American children's writer and illustrator.Lin's parents were Taiwanese immigrants to the United States and Lin grew up in New York. She later graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently resides in Somerville Massachusetts and has a daughter born in May 2012.
Salvador Espriu.  Salvador Espriu i Castelló (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo əsˈpɾiw]) (July 10 1913 – February 22 1985) was a Catalan poet who wrote most of his works in Catalan.
Chris Dave.  Chris Daddy Dave is a drummer composer and bandleader from Houston Texas. He attended Howard University. He is an influential drummer in jazz gospel hiphop noted for his extremely virtuosic sticking technique and ability to play with a high degree of syncopation. He performed professionally as a gospel drummer with The Winans before being introduced to jazz audiences nationally through his association with the accomplished alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett.
Todd James Pierce.  Todd James Pierce (born 1965) is a novelist and short story writer.
Jim Butcher.  Jim Butcher (born in Independence Missouri United States on October 26 1971) is a New York Times best selling author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also wrote the Codex Alera series.
Nikita Gross.  Nikita Gross is a Russian glamour model and former pornographic actress. In 1998 she won the X-Rated Critics Organization Award for Best New Starlet. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month for July 1998 and 2000 Penthouse Pet of the Year runner-up. She was a Perfect 10 girl in January 2000.
Hilarion (Ohienko).  Metropolitan Ilarion (secular name Ivan Ivanovitch Ohienko; Ukrainian: Іван Іванович Огієнко; January 2 (January 15) 1882 Brusyliv Kiev Governorate – March 29 1972 Winnipeg Canada) was a Ukrainian Orthodox cleric linguist church historian and historian of Ukrainian culture. In 1940 he was Archimandrite of the St.
Cattski.  Cattski (born Cattleya Vanessa Espina) is a singer-songwriter musician record producer and an entrepreneur in Cebu Philippines. She has released four albums the self-titled debut “Cattski” (2001) “Vacuum My Inside” (2004)“Sound Mind Speaks Volumes (2009) and Zero (2012).Cattski came from a group of her namesake yet disbanded in the year 2010 after ten years of shared music and performances.
John Stirratt.  John Chadwick Stirratt is the bassist and multi-instrumentalist for Wilco and The Autumn Defense.
Ramona Lisa.  Ramona Lisa is the stage name of Brooklyn-based songwriter and Chairlift vocalist Caroline Polachek. Her debut studio album Arcadia was released in April 2014 via Terrible Records.
Scarlett Thomas.  Scarlett Thomas (born 1972 in Hammersmith) is an English author. She has written eight novels including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.
Mickey Dale.  Michael Mickey William Dale (born 22 March 1968 in Worth Valley West Yorkshire) is the keyboardist for the English rock band Embrace. He grew up in the Heaton area of Bradford West Yorkshire.He only officially joined the band in October 1998 just after the release of their first album The Good Will Out.
Cecil Morton York.  Cecil Morton York born 1863 London was a British actor of the silent era.
Roberto Bellarosa.  Roberto Bellarosa (born 23 August 1994) is a Belgian singer. Bellarosa came to fame for being the first winner of The Voice Belgique. He also represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. He finished in 12th place with 71 points.
Keith Tucker.  Keith Tucker is an American electronic musician and DJ from Detroit Michigan.
Audy Item.  Audy Item (born 23 April 1983) is an Indonesian singer.
Charity Zisengwe.  Charity Zisengwe (pronounced as Zee-SANK-way) is a Zimbabwean intercessor inspirational speaker Bible Teacher Contemporary Christian Music recording artist worship leader and award-winning songwriter. In 2006 she founded Glory Fields Ministries. Her music has a cross-cultural feel with a fusion of Contemporary Christian music and World music.
Howard Hallis.  Howard Hallis (born July 28 1971 in Santa Monica California) is an American artist. He is noted for his works of lenticular art as well as for The Picture of Everything a massive painting incorporating images of several thousand people and items both real and imaginary.
Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer.  Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer was born on January 14 1928 in L’Hospitalet del Llobregat Barcelona (Catalonia). He lives and works in Paris. During the 1950s he is one of the most distinguished painters of Catalan art known for creating a private language. He belongs to the Abstract Expressionism and European Informalism.
Amy Millan.  Amy Millan (born December 3 1973) is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album Masters of the Burial was released by Arts & Crafts Productions in September 2009.
Edward Jewesbury.  Edward Jewesbury (6 August 1917 London – 30 January 2002) was a British actor notable for his film stage and television work and as a member of the Renaissance Theatre Company. In his later years he appeared in such television comedies as Yes Minister and Blackadder II.In 1995 he appeared in Richard III as King Henry VI of England.His son Ian (born 1944) was a senior civil servant at the UK Department of Health.
Charles Gramlich.  Charles Allen Gramlich (born October 14 1958 in Arkansas) is an American writer best known for combining science fiction and horror in his works.
Mike Baron.  Mike Baron is the creator of comic books Badger and (along with Steve Rude) Nexus.
Pragathi Guruprasad.  Pragathi Guruprasad (Tamil:ப்ரகதி குருப்ரசாத்) (born September 14 1997) is an Indian playback singer from Fremont California. She was the runner-up in the third season of the reality-based singing competition Airtel Super Singer Junior. She had several years of training in Carnatic music and Western music. Her fame continues to grow after she was the runner-up in Super Singer Junior 3. She has sung for music composers such as Anirudh Ravichander and G. V. Prakash Kumar.
Giovanni Battista della Marca.  Giovanni Battista della Marca (1532–1587) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was also called Lombardelli and il Montano and was born in Montenuovo. He was first a pupil of Marco da Faenza and according to Baglione visited Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII painting in the style influenced by Raffaellino da Reggio whom he assisted in some fresco paintings in the Vatican. For the church of San Pietro in Montorio he painted a series of pictures of the Life of St.
Oliver Koletzki.  Oliver Koletzki (born in Braunschweig on 5 October 1974) is a German dance and house music producer and DJ. Koletzki rose to international fame with his track Der Mückenschwarm (meaning the mosquito swarm) which appeared on the Cocoon Recordings label. Many DJs played his track and thus introduced Koletzki to the charts.
Buster Pickens.  Buster Pickens (June 3 1916 – November 24 1964) was an American blues pianist. Pickens is best known for his work accompanying Alger Texas Alexander and Lightnin' Hopkins although he did record a solo album in 1960.
James Heneghan.  James Heneghan (born 1930) is a British–Canadian author of children's and young-adult novels. Heneghan grew up Liverpool England and currently lives in Vancouver British Columbia. He earned Canadian citizenship in 1963.
Paul C. Paquet.  Paul C. Paquet is an American and Canadian biologist who is best known for his ecological and behavioral research on large carnivores especially regarding wolves and bears. He has graduate degrees in philosophy wildlife behavior and conservation biology and a Ph.D. in zoology from University of Alberta. His research focuses on the interface between ecological theory and conservation.
Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy.  Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy (born June 16 1931) known by the pen name Indiresh or Ma Su Krishnamurthy is a Kannada writer and Hindi writer.He was conferred the Tamra Patra award by former President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma in recognition of his literary work in Hindi.
Miwa Ueda.  Miwa Ueda (上田美和 Ueda Miwa) is a Japanese manga artist known for her works like Peach Girl and Angel Wars. In 1999 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Peach Girl.Miwa was born on September 29 in Hyōgo Japan. She worked for some time with Sailor Moon author Naoko Takeuchi. She started publishing her works in 1985.
Rupert Nurse.  Rupert Theophilus Nurse (26 December 1910 – 18 March 2001) was a Trinidadian musician who was influential in developing jazz and Caribbean music in Britain particularly in the 1950s.
Alf Harbitz.  Alf Harbitz (1880 – 1964) was a Norwegian journalist writer critic and translator.He was born in Flekkefjord. During his career he worked in newspapers such as Verdens Gang Aftenposten Morgenbladet and Drammens Tidende. He also published several novels plays and works of prose. He was a member of the board of the Riksmål Society from 1929 to 1938 and chaired the organization from 1936 to 1937.
Chris Brown (Canadian musician).  Hugh Christopher Chris Brown is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Jody Cortez.  Jody Cortez is a drummer who began his professional career at the age of 21 when he began to tour with Boz Scaggs in 1981. He once played drums for Cinderella.
Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti.  Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Siena. He was a priest of Siena who lived about the middle of the 17th century and practised portrait and historical painting. In the Franciscan church at Siena there is a Nativity by him and at uffizi in Florence a Birth of the Virgin. Abraham Bloemaert engraved after him the portrait of a Nun Colomba da Tofaninis.
Nicholas O'Neill (composer).  Nicholas O'Neill (born 1 April 1970) is an English composer arranger organist and choral director.
Stig of the Dump (rapper).  Steve Dixon (born 20th century) better known by his stage name Stig of the Dump is an English rapper from Newcastle upon Tyne who now lives in London.
Neil Young.  Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960 before moving to California in 1966 where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay later joining Crosby Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969.
David Lyme.  David Lyme (born Jorge Cubino Bermejo November 22 1966 Spain) also known as Jordi Cubino is a Catalan singer songwriter and model. He is one of the pillars of the so-called Valley Sound which became popular in Europe in the 1980s.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner.  Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBE (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand writer poet and educator.
Wu Ming.  Wu Ming (extended name: Wu Ming Foundation) is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna.In their pre-Wu Ming days the group wrote the novel Q (first edition 1999).Unlike the open name Luther Blissett Wu Ming stands for a defined group of writers active in literature and popular culture.
John Doyle (drummer).  John Doyle (b. Manchester England 6 May 1959) is a drummer who was member of New Wave bands like Magazine and The Armoury Show. He reunited with the first band for a tour which will be played in February 2009.
Jonathan Scales.  Jonathan Scales (born September 14 1984) is an American steel pannist and composer. He has recorded and produced four albums the most recent being Fourchestra scheduled for release in early summer 2013. The album features guest performances by Victor Wooten and Howard Levy. Since 2007 Scales has recorded and performed with Victor Wooten Howard Levy The Duhks Roy Future Man Wooten Jeff Coffin Jeff Sipe Casey Driessen Oteil Burbridge Kofi Burbridge and Yonrico Scott.
Gregg Hurwitz.  Gregg Hurwitz is an American author of crime novels and comic books.
Phil Menard.  Phil Menard is a French Cajun accordion player. He lives in Lake Charles Louisiana with his wife Georgie. He played with the Louisiana Travelers featuring Ivy Dugas. The band made the song Heritage Waltz famous.
Clarence Myerscough.  Clarence Myerscough (born London October 27 1930 died London October 8 2000) was a British violinist.After studying at the Royal Academy of Music and the Paris Conservatoire under Frederick Grinke and Rene Benedetti he won the All England Violin Competition in the Festival of Britain (1951) and came second in the Carl Flesch Competition (1952).He later formed the Fidelio Quartet together with his brother the violist Henry Myerscough as was known as much for his chamber music performances and recordings as for solo work. 
Andrew Canton.  Andrew Canton is an American rapper singer and producer who was signed to Atlantic Records in 2007.He is most recently known for writing the chorus to Lil Wayne's song Right Above It featuring Drake. The song went on to go 2x platinum selling over 2000000 copies according to the RIAA. He is also a relative of MLB Player Elrod Hendricks.
Jerry Uelsmann.  Jerry N. Uelsmann (born June 11 1934) is an American photographer and was the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America.
Evrim Demirel.  Evrim Demirel (born November 17 1977 in Izmir) is a Turkish composer and jazz pianist.Evrim Demirel was educated in Izmir High School of Fine Arts and he studied piano with Nergis Sakirzade. Then he enrolled at Bilkent University in Ankara becoming a student in the Theory-Composition Department of the Music and Performing Arts Faculty. He earned his B.A.
Rona Nishliu.  Rona Nishliu (born August 25 1987) is an Albanian Kosovar singer radio presenter and humanitarian. She represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan where she placed fifth and achieved the best placement for Albania to date.
Timothy Freke.  Timothy Freke (born 1959) is a British author of books on religion and mysticism.Freke is perhaps best known for his books co-authored with Peter Gandy which advocate a Gnostic understanding of early Christianity and the Christ myth theory including The Jesus Mysteries: Was the Original Jesus a Pagan God? and The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom.Freke has also held seminars in the UK.
Ole Paus.  Ole Paus (born 9 February 1947; full name Ole Christian Paus) is a Norwegian troubadour in the Swedish-Norwegian ballad tradition an author a poet and an actor. He is widely considered one of Norway's most popular singer-songwriters.
Booker Ervin.  Booker Telleferro Ervin II (October 31 1930 – July 31 1970) was an American tenor saxophone player. His tenor playing was characterised by a strong tough sound and blues/gospel phrasing. He is best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus.
Damon Knight.  Damon Francis Knight (September 19 1922 – April 15 2002) was an American science fiction author editor critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm.
Ornette Coleman.  Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (born March 9 1930 Fort Worth Texas) is an American saxophonist violinist trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s. Coleman's timbre is easily recognized: his keening crying sound draws heavily on blues music. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
Helge Stalsberg.  Helge Stalsberg (born 7 October 1932) was a Norwegian physician.He was born in Oslo. He was chief physician of the University Hospital of North Norway and professor of morphology at the University of Tromsø from 1972. He served as rector from 1981 to 1985. He has also been a consultant for the World Health Organization.
Alina Ibragimova.  Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova (born 28 September 1985) is a Russian-born violinist residing in the UK.
Frederick Hallen.  Frederick Hallen (January 1 1859 – February 28 1920) was a Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer who found popularity on the North American stage.
Étienne Ficquet.  Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver.Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719 and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of Madame de Maintenon after Mignard now become very scarce.
Chris Ardoin.  Chris Ardoin (born April 7 1981 in Lake Charles Louisiana) is a zydeco accordionist and singer. He is one of the young artists that helped form nouveau zydeco a new style of music that fused traditional zydeco with various styles including hip-hop reggae and R&B.He was a child prodigy belonging to a musical dynasty (his father was Lawrence Ardoin and his grandfather Bois Sec Ardoin). His older brother is Gospel zydeco artist Sean Ardoin.
Orna Ní Choileáin.  Orna Ní Choileáin is an Irish author and musician. She has had an interest in story telling from a young age.Éilis Ni Dhuibhne reviewed her recent work under the writers' mentoring scheme organised by Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge in 2006/2007. Ní Choileáin's first book Canary Wharf was published in January 2009. It is a collection of 10 short stories written in the Irish language and published by Cois Life.
Kim Song-gun.  Kim Song-gun also Seong-geun Kim (Korean: 김성근; born 1945 in Chonma Korea) is a Korean painter. He works at the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang.
Chabua Amirejibi.  Mzechabuk Chabua Amirejibi (often written as Amiredjibi Georgian: მზეჭაბუკ ჭაბუა ამირეჯიბი) (November 18 1921 – December 12 2013) was a Georgian novelist and Soviet-era dissident notable for his magnum opus Data Tutashkhia and a lengthy experience in Soviet prisons.
Cool James.  Cool James real name James Dandu also known as Mtoto wa Dandu and CJ Massive (July 5 1970 – August 27 2002) was a Swedish and Tanzanian musician.Born in Mwanza Tanzania and having finished his primary studies at Kurasini Primary School in Tanzania he moved with his mother and siblings to Stockholm Sweden.His professional musical career started in 1988 he released his first musical album in 1992 already a dance-oriented production.
Bob Pridden.  Bob Pridden (born 1946 in Ickenham London) is an English sound engineer best known for his long-standing position as principal sound engineer for the rock band The Who. He has also worked with a number of other rock musicians and with individual members of The Who on solo projects.
Dai Xiangyu.  Dai Xiangyu (Chinese: 戴向宇; pinyin: Dài Xiàngyǔ born 27 December 1984) previously known as Dai Yangtian (simplified Chinese: 戴阳天; traditional Chinese: 戴陽天; pinyin: Dài Yángtiān) is a Chinese actor and model based in Singapore.
Chrissa Miller.  Chrissa Joan Miller Benson (born 1985) is a beauty queen from Bismarck North Dakota who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Miller won the Miss North Dakota USA 2005 title in a state pageant held in November 2004. It was her first attempt at the title and she was crowned by outgoing titleholder Jennifer Smith. Miller represented North Dakota in the Miss USA 2005 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore Maryland in April 2005 but did not place in the nationally televised competition.
Sheila Callaghan.  Sheila Callaghan (born 1973) is a New York City-based playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theater) movement of the 1990s. Her work is considered to be part of the downtown theater (or experimental) scene and is known for its unusual use of language and narrative structure. Callaghan's writing has been described as comically engaging subversively penetrating whimsically eloquent unique and completely contemporary and downright weird.
Carlos Franz.  Carlos Franz Thorud (born March 3 1959) is a writer from Chile who also holds Spanish citizenship.
Margaret Bullock.  Margaret Bullock (4 January 1845–17 June 1903) was a New Zealand journalist writer feminist and social reformer. She was born in Auckland Auckland New Zealand on 4 January 1845.
Montrell Darrett.  Montrell Darrett is a gospel music singer and a former member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned.Darrett was raised in a family of six children all of whom sang. He performed with his siblings as The True Notes and worked locally in Nashville. As a teenager he recorded several singles.While serving in the Navy Darrett dedicated his life to Christianity and became a minister at age 24.
Klaus Schulze.  Klaus Schulze (born 4 August 1947) is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.
Dat Phan.  Dat Phan (born January 25 1975 in Saigon South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American stand-up comedian.
Henryk Jasiczek.  Henryk Jasiczek (2 March 1919 – 8 December 1976) was a Polish journalist poet writer and activist from the Zaolzie region. He is considered one of the most important Polish writers from Zaolzie after World War II and one of the most popular local Polish poets.Jasiczek was born in Kottingbrunn near Vienna Austria as an extramarital child. He spent his childhood in Oldrzychowice near Trzyniec.
Miyako Itō.  Miyako Itō (伊東 みやこ Itō Miyako born February 23 1969) is a Japanese voice actress and part of Ken Production.
Gloria Kempton.  Gloria Kempton (born 1951) is an American author of ten books including Write Great Fiction: Dialogue.
Safy Boutella.  Safy Boutella (born January 6 1950 in Pirmasens West Germany) is an Algerian jazz musician who plays both bass guitar and synthesizer.He is the father of famous dancer Sofia Boutella.
Jin Ju.  Jin Ju (simplified Chinese: 居觐; traditional Chinese: 居覲; pinyin: Jū jìn; Shanghai 1976) is a Chinese-born Italian pianist. Jin Ju studied piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She won the Echo Klassik piano recital award in 2012 for her recording of works by Czerny and Schubert.
Spit Stix.  Tim Leitch (aka Spit Stix) is a Los Angeles-born drummer producer and songwriter. He gained prominence as drummer for American punk rock band Fear and producer of the first Red Hot Chili Peppers demo tape.
Heather Hudson (artist).  Heather Hudson is a fantasy illustrator primarily known for her work in Magic: the Gathering as well as Dungeons & Dragons.
Avvy.  Avvy (born April 22 1984) is a songwriter and performer contributing to the art of Bahamian folk music and also Junkanoo and Rake-and-scrape. He received accolades for reviving native Bahamian music with innovative storytelling upbeat rhythms and energetic performances.
Owen Chase.  Owen Chase (October 7 1797 – March 7 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on November 20 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book published in 1821 would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.
Anne Stokes.  Anne Stokes is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games particularly Dungeons & Dragons.
Luís Filipe Teixeira.  Luis Filipe de Bragança e Sousa da Silva Teixeira (born in Luanda November 3 1959) Portuguese essayist and University teacher.He has a PhD in Portuguese Studies and 19th Century Portuguese Culture by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998).
Will D. Howe.  Will Dave Howe (Charlestown Indiana August 25 1873 - December 6 1946) was an American educator editor and co-author.
Bruno Liljefors.  Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860–1939) was a Swedish artist the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He also drew some sequential picture stories making him one of the early Swedish comic creators. He was brother of the composer and conductor Ruben Liljefors.
Roach Killa.  Roach Killa is an award-winning Punjabi rapper of Pakistani origin raised in Canada.
Ricardo Ernesto Montes i Bradley.  Ricardo Ernesto Montes i Bradley poet essayist historian art and literary critic and diplomat born on June 9 1905 in Rosario Argentina. He was Honorary Consul of México in Rosario professor of Fine Arts publisher columnist and contributor in newspapers and literary magazines in Latin America. R-E Montes i Bradley held Doctorates in the Law Diplomacy History and International Law.
Vedam Venkataraya Sastry.  Vedam Venkataraya Sastry B.A. (Telugu: వేదం వెంకటరాయ శాస్త్రి) (December 21 1853 - June 18 1929) was a Sanskrit and Telugu poet critic and dramatist. He is respected for providing authoritative editions of Sanskrit and Telugu classics.
Guy Pratt.  Guy Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a session bassist and also a songwriter actor and comedian. He is the son of the actor Mike Pratt. In 1996 he married Gala the daughter of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea London. The couple live with their son in London.
Jeff Dunas.  Jeff Dunas (1954 Los Angeles California) is an American photographer known for his portraits of musicians and entertainers. Founder and publisher of photography magazines he is also the founder and director of the Palm Springs Photo Festival. He is the father of actress Alexa Davalos.
Tony Terry.  Tony Terry (born March 12 1964 Pinehurst North Carolina United States) is an American soul/new jack swing singer from Washington D.C. who had several R&B hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Ryan Seaman.  Ryan Eric Seaman was born September 23 1983 in Oxnard CA USA. He is an American musician and the current drummer and backing vocalist of the band Falling in Reverse.
Herb Roe.  Herb Roe (born 1974) is a painter of large scale outdoor murals and classical realist oil paintings. After attending the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus Ohio for a short time he apprenticed to mural artist Robert Dafford. After 15 years with Dafford Murals he left to pursue his own art career. He currently resides in Lafayette Louisiana.
Bruce Fairweather.  Bruce Fairweather (born December 12 1960) is a guitarist/bassist based in Seattle. In 1985 he replaced Steve Turner in the grunge band Green River which included Mark Arm (later of Mudhoney) Alex Vincent as well as Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard later of Pearl Jam.In 1988 shortly after the release of the band's mini album Rehab Doll Green River disbanded over band disputes. Singer Mark Arm reunited with Turner (whom Fairweather had replaced in Green River) to form Mudhoney.
O'Ryan.  O'Ryan (born O'Ryan Omir Browner; February 12 1987 is an American R&B singer. He is the younger brother of R&B singer Omarion. He released a self-titled album in 2004 aimed at the teen pop audience.
David Bailly.  David Bailly (1584–1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Jean-François Kahn.  Jean-François Kahn (born 12 June 1938) is a French journalist and essayist.
Greg Simkins.  Greg Craola Simkins (born February 28 1975) is an artist based in Torrance California.
Dražen Ričl.  Dražen Ričl (12 March 1962 – 1 October 1986) was a Yugoslav rock musician best known as the first lead vocalist of popular Sarajevo-based rock band Crvena jabuka.Ričl was born to father Ferdinand and mother Elvira in Sarajevo. He grew up in the city's Koševo neighborhood where he was known by nicknames Para and Zijo. Upon finishing musical high school he started studying journalism at the University of Sarajevo where he met future fellow musician Branko Đurić.
Jimmy Constable.  James Michael Jimmy Constable (born 21 September 1971 in Toxteth Liverpool England) is an English pop singer and dancer. He is the oldest member of the pop band 911.
Valentina Dmitryeva.  Valentina Iovovna Dmitryeva (Russian: Валенти́на Ио́вовна Дми́триева) (May 10 1859 – February 18 1947) was a Russian/Soviet writer teacher medical doctor and revolutionary.
Alci Acosta.  Alci Acosta (born Alcibiades Alfonso Acosta Cervantes on 5 November 1938) is a Colombian singer pianist and performer of Latin American music including boleros pasillos corridos valses and rancheras.Acosta is a hugely successful artist throughout Latin America having partnered with other notable artists such as Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo who died in 1978.Acosta's best-selling single to date is Traicionera which has sold over 1300000 copies across Latin America.
Sonique (musician).  Sonia Clarke (born 21 June 1968) known more commonly by her stage name Sonique is a British singer musician and disc jockey. She was the lead vocalist on two S'Express singles. She won the 2001 BRIT Award for British female solo artist. She was treated for breast cancer and given the all clear in 2010.
Roy Head.  Roy Kent Head (born January 9 1941 in Three Rivers Texas) is an American singer best known for his hit Treat Her Right.
Chiyo Uno.  Chiyo Uno (November 28 1897 – June 10 1996) was a female Japanese author who wrote several notable works and a known kimono designer. She had a significant influence on Japanese fashion film and literature. She was born in a section of Iwakuni known as Kawanishi west of the river. Following an initial literary success and winning of a short story prize Uno left her first husband and moved to Tokyo.
Izzat Husrieh.  Izzat Husrieh (born in 1914 in Damascus Syria) was a renowned Syrian journalist author publisher and researcher. He contributed several books to the Arab library and his famous newspaper Al-Alam continued to form public opinion in Syria for two decades.
Joe Harnell.  Joseph Harnell (August 2 1924 - July 14 2005) was an American easy listening composer and arranger.
Dawson Millward.  Dawson Millward (1870–1926) was a British stage and film actor.
Tayeb Salih.  Tayeb Salih (Arabic: الطيب صالح‎) (12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer.
Gangsta Blac.  Gangsta Blac is a rapper native of Memphis Tennessee. He was formerly associated with the group Three 6 Mafia with his underground album Breakin Da Law and mainstream debut album Can it Be? being produced by DJ Paul & Juicy J. He left the group around 1996 and has released a number of solo efforts on different record labels ever since.
David Steele (musician).  David Shuffle Steele (born 8 September 1960) is an English musician who was a member of The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals.
Jon Hassell.  Jon Hassell (born March 22 1937) is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.
Gecko Turner.  Gecko Turner (real name Fernando Gabriel Echave Pelaez) is a Spanish musician and singer-songwriter. Based near the border between Spain and Portugal he has fronted several bands in his native Spain. Guapapasea his first CD released in the U.S. incorporates bossa nova soul funk reggae jazz and electronica.Gecko Turner grew up in Spain learning English from the blues artists he loved.
Albert Pike Lucas.  Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945) was an American landscape figure and portrait painter; also a sculptor. He was born in Jersey City and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1882–1888) in Paris under Hébert and Boulanger and later under Courtois and Dagman-Bouveret. At the Salon of 1896 he won a medal. After a sojourn in Italy he settled in New York in 1902.
Sandeé.  Sandra Tola Harvey (née Casañas January 19 1962 – December 15 2008) professionally known as Sandée was an American freestyle music vocalist and an original member of the trio Exposé from 1984 to 1986 along with Alejandra Alé Lorenzo and Laurie Miller.As a solo artist Sandée released the singles You're the One and Notice Me (produced by C + C Music Factory) and an album Only Time Will Tell featuring the single Love Desire.
Cassern S. Goto.  Cassern Sebastian Goto (born 1970) is an author primarily notable for his novels and short stories set in the Warhammer 40000 universe. He got his start with several short stories published in Inferno! magazine and his first novel a novelation of Dawn of War appeared in 2004. Born in Ireland he now lives on the Pacific coast of California.[citation needed]
Baby Wayne.  Baby Wayne (1968 – 29 October 2005) born Wayne Parkinson was a Jamaican dancehall artist known for his conscientious lyrics.
Madurai Sundar.  Madurai Ramaswamy Sundar (born November 5 1959) is a noted Carnatic musician.
Eric Clayton.  Eric Clayton (born 1 December 1967) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work in the influential gothic symphonic metal group Saviour Machine which he formed with his brother Jeff Clayton in 1989.
Jack Schaeffer.  Jack Schaeffer (born March 19 1946 Los Angeles California) is an American musician recording artist record producer and arranger.
William Stevenson (Canadian writer).  William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller (see the Stephenson article for more). It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven and Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled Intrepid's Last Case.
MC Paul Barman.  Paul Nathaniel Barman (born October 30 1974) better known by his stage name MC Paul Barman is a Jewish-American rapper from Ridgewood New Jersey who attended Brown University.
Paul Hoffman (VPNC).  Paul Hoffman is a Santa Cruz-based Internet pioneer.Hoffman has been involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the early 1990s is current chair of the IETF ipsecme working group and has chaired numerous working groups in the past.
Soledad Pastorutti.  Soledad La Sole Pastorutti (born October 12 1980 in Arequito Santa Fe) is an Argentine folk singer who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.She is actress of films and TV.
Sa Dingding.  Sa Dingding (simplified Chinese: 萨顶顶; traditional Chinese: 薩頂頂; pinyin: Sà Dǐngdǐng born Zhou Peng (周鹏) (1983-12-27)27 December 1983) is a Chinese folk singer and songwriter. She is of mixed Han and Mongol ancestry and sings in languages including Mandarin Sanskrit Tibetan as well an imaginary self-created language to evoke the emotions in her songs. She also plays traditional instruments such as the guzheng and matouqin (horse-head fiddle).
Steve Giovinco.  Steve Giovinco is a fine art photographer who photographs landscapes self portraits and people. His focus is on fine-art photography with lyrical and psychologically charged private moments of couples using himself and dark landscape photographs. Steve Giovinco has exhibited his art photographs with Jeff Wall Sam Taylor-Wood Catherine Opie and others. He has worked with a digital camera since 1999 and created a handheld 8x8 film camera.
Ján Lehotský.  Ján respectively Janko Lehotský (born 16 April 1947) is a Slovak composer and former leader of the Modus band.Lehotský began his performing career when he was four years old when he performed in a marionette theater. He was a freelance composer during the Velvet Revolution. In 1974 he began managing the band Modus in which performed also Marika Gombitová and Miroslav Žbirka. He created about 20 records in his career.
Raven Grimassi.  Raven Grimassi (born 1951) is an Italian-American author of 17 books and is a Pagan scholar with over 40 years of research and study in the genre of Wicca Stregheria Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism. Under the pen name of Grimassi he popularized Stregheria the religious practice of witchcraft with roots in Italy. Grimassi presented this material as a Neo-Pagan version through his books.
Laura Jane Suisted.  Laura Jane Suisted (1840–1903) was a notable New Zealand writer journalist and parliamentary reporter. She was born in Greasbrough Yorkshire England in 1840.
Ted Walker.  Edward Joseph (Ted) Walker FRSL (28 November 1934 – 19 March 2004) was a prize-winning English poet short story writer travel writer TV and radio dramatist and broadcaster.
B'eirth.  Bobin Jon Michael Eirth better known as B'eirth or B'ee is the vocalist and conductor/composer in the experimental psych folk band In Gowan Ring.
Colin Young.  Colin Young (born 12 September 1944 in Barbados) is a singer known for being a member of the British soul band The Foundations. In the mid-1960s he came to England for a holiday with his father and decided to stay. He was a former bookkeeper who prior to joining The Foundations was lead singer of a group called Joe E. Young & The Tonicks.Young joined The Foundations after two members lead singer Clem Curtis and tenor saxophonist Mike Elliott left in 1968.
Nicole Appleton.  Nicole Marie Appleton (born 7 December 1974) is a Canadian pop singer and actress and a former member of All Saints and Appleton.
Anna McGarrigle.  Anna McGarrigle CM (born December 4 1944 Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian folk music singer and songwriter who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Kate McGarrigle until Kate's death in 2010.
Al Killian.  Albert H. (Al) Killian (15 Oct 1916 in Birmingham Alabama – 5 September 1950 in Los Angeles California) was an American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader during the big band era also known for playing jump blues and East Coast blues.
Victor Courtney.  Victor Desmond Courtney (27 May 1894 – 1 December 1970) was a Western Australian journalist and newspaper editor. From small beginnings in a partnership (with Jack Simons) in a weekly sporting newspaper The Call through to a Saturday-evening paper The Mirror Courtney ended up as the managing director of The Sunday Times and owner of a network of thirty regional newspapers.
John Haskell (author).  John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock (FSG 2003) and the novels American Purgatorio (FSG 2005) and Out of My Skin (FSG 2009). His stories and essays have appeared on the radio (The Next Big Thing Studio 360) in books (The Show You'll Never Forget Heavy Rotation All the More Real) and in magazines (A Public Space n+1 Conjunctions and McSweeney's). He has taught writing and literature at Columbia Cal Arts and the University of Leipzig.
Johnny Rodriguez.  Juan Raul Davis Johnny Rodriguez (born December 10 1951) is an American country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer infusing his music with Latin sounds and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of country music's most successful male artists recording a string of hit songs such as You Always Come Back to Hurting Me Desperado Down on the Rio Grande and Foolin'. He has recorded six No.
Errico Petrella.  Errico Petrella (10 December 1813 – 7 April 1877) was an Italian opera composer.
Jean-Claude Fournier.  Jean-Claude Fournier (born May 21 1943 Paris) known simply as Fournier is a French cartoonist best known as the comic book artist who handled Spirou et Fantasio in the years 1969-1979.
Kate Baker.  Kate Baker is a Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award-nominated podcast editor for Clarkesworld Magazine which she has done since October 2009. She has narrated over one hundred short stories and poems by some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy for a number of venues including The Drabblecast Escape Pod Fantasy Magazine and StarShipSofa.
Karaja (singer).  Ivana Karaja (pronounced Kar-ay-ya) (born 1978 Berlin) is a German dance and pop musicianHer 2002 single She Moves (La La La) was a major success worldwide. The track peaked at #42 in the UK Singles Chart in October that year where she was billed simply as Karaja.
Patricia Joudry.  Patricia Joudry (October 18 1921–October 28 2000) was a Canadian playwright and author.She was born in Spirit River Alberta the daughter of Clifford and Beth Joudry. While in her twenties she began a career in radio broadcast including co-writing the radio drama The Aldrich Family from 1945–49. During her career she wrote more than 300 plays 250 of which were for radio broadcast. Her play Teach Me How to Cry was the basis of the 1958 film The Restless Years.
Taylor Mali.  Taylor McDowell Mali (born 28 March 1965) is an American slam poet humorist teacher and voiceover artist.
Brian Hubble.  Brian Hubble (born 1978) is an American artist born in Newport News Virginia. He received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001 and attended The Illustration Academy the following summer. In 2011 he received his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives and works in Brooklyn.Hubble has created photo-collage illustrations for publications such as New York Times Harper's Magazine M.I.T. Technology Review and Psychology Today.
Wilson Bikram Rai.  Wilson Bikram Rai (Nepali: विल्सन विक्रम राई) is a Nepali comedian actor singer and dancer.He is best known for his role as Takme Buda on NTV sitcom Meri Bassai (2012–present). Before his current role Wilson hosted a stand-up comedy show channeled on YouTube titled The Wilson Bikram Show which managed to amuse many people and made him popular figure. He often imitates the Limbu accent to entertain his spectators. He had successfully traveled more than 20 countries within a year.
Ulisse Caputo.  Ulisse Caputo (Salerno 1872-1948) was an Neapolitan painter who resided in Paris.He studied under Domenico Morelli and was a collaborator of Gaetano Esposito. He first exhibited in the 1900 Venice Biennale. He paints genre subjects often finely dressed and in intimate familial situations. He also painted oriental subjects.
Lougee Basabas.  Maria Lourdes Grace Valdivia Basabas better known as Lougee (pronounced Lou-G) Basabas (born October 24 1984 in Alabang Muntinlupa Philippines) is the current lead vocalist of the Filipino alternative rock band Delara (formerly Mojofly) a position she has held since the second quarter of 2003.Lougee has been appearing in print ads and TV commercials since the age of 14.
NOE (rapper).  Duane Bridgeford better known by his stage name NOE is an American hip hop recording artist from Baltimore Maryland. He is best known for his affiliation with Jim Jones and his involvement in East Coast hip hop group ByrdGang. He was featured on most of the songs for M.O.B.: The Album (2008) and was a prominent writer and featured artist on Jim Jones' Pray IV Reign (2009).
Ivan Brunetti.  Ivan Brunetti (born Mondavio Italy October 3 1967) is an American cartoonist and comics scholar based in Chicago Illinois.Noted for combining blackly humorous taboo-laden subject matter with simplified and exaggerated cartoon drawing styles Brunetti was strongly influenced by Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts.
Jo Nesbø.  Jo Nesbø (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈju ˈnɛsbø]; born 29 March 1960) is a Glass Key award winning Norwegian author and musician. As of March 2014 more than 3 million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway and his work has been translated into over 40 languages selling 23 million copies (2014). Nesbø is primarily known for his crime novels about Inspector Harry Hole but he is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre.
Wang Fuli.  Wang Fuli (Chinese: 王馥荔; born November 12 1949 ) is a famed Chinese actress.Wang was born in Xuzhou Jiangsu Province and her ancestral hometown was Tianjin. She graduated from Jiangsu Drama College in 1967 majoring in Peking Opera. Wang later served as an actress of Jiangsu Provincial Peking Opera Troupe. In 1980 she became an actress of Jiangsu Provincial Play Troupe. After 1975 she appeared a series of films presented by Changchun Film Studio and Shanghai Film Studio.
Theobaldo di Gatti.  Theobaldo di Gatti (c.1650-1727) was a composer and musician born in Florence. He moved from Italy to France after hearing the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. King Louis XIV made him a naturalised French subject in 1675. He earned his living playing the bass viol both as a teacher and as a member of the orchestra of the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera). He composed songs duets and two works for the stage.
Lori Foster.  Lori L. Foster is a best-selling American writer of over seventy romance novels as Lori Foster. She also writes Urban Fantasy novels using her first and middle initials L.L. Foster. She and her husband have 3 sons and a grandson. They live in rural Ohio where they share their home with a multitude of animals.
Olly Moss.  Olly Moss (born January 24 1987) is an English artist graphic designer and illustrator best known for his reimagining of movie posters. His work is regularly featured in Empire magazine.Moss was commissioned by Marvel Entertainment executives Craig Kyle and Kevin Feige to create a poster for the cast of Thor.
Margaret Wilson (Australian writer).  Margaret Wilson is an Australian television writer who has also worked as a script editor and script producer. She has won an Awgie Award and currently works as a writer for Home and Away and Packed to the Rafters.
Armen Anassian.  Armen Anassian is an Armenian violinist who has played with the Los Angeles Opera and is concertmaster of the Santa Clarita Symphony in Santa Clarita California. He has performed in hundreds of concerts around the world with many notable symphony orchestras. He has also recorded violin with numerous artists including Conductor of the Yanni Symphony Orchestra as well as working with the recording and film industries with violin credits on many film soundtracks.
Jared Carter.  Jared Carter is an American poet and editor.
Charles M. Lefferts.  Charles MacKubin Lefferts (April 19 1873 – March 17 1923) was an American illustrator and soldier. He served on and off in the New York National Guard from 1893 onwards and enlisted in the federal army in 1917. He retired from the army in 1921 having attained the rank of Lieutenant. In his early years he lived in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania where he met his future wife Anne Harrison.Lefferts spent most of his time outside of the military studying uniforms of the American Revolution.
Marc Mysterio.  Marc Mysterio is a United States-based Canadian and DJ and producer with a label called World Class Records. In 2012 he sold all shares in and to Amerada Music. He is also signed as an artist to various labels globally including Sony Music.
Xiao Shu.  Chen Min (simplified Chinese: 陈敏; traditional Chinese: 陳敏; pinyin: Chén MǏn; born November 1962) is a Chinese famous writer editor commentator. He wrote under the pen name of Xiao Shu (Chinese: 笑蜀; pinyin: Xiào Shǔ).
Harold Enlow.  Harold Enlow began woodcarving in the 1960s while stationed in Okinawa Japan. He has become one of America's leading wood carvers. He is a member of Caricature Carvers of America.
Georg Hólm.  Georg Goggi Hólm (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈcɛːɔrk ˈhoulm]; born 6 April 1976) is the bassist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is the most prominent member of Sigur Rós in the English press as he does significantly more press than the other members due to his being the most fluent English-speaker in the band; part of Georg's fluency in English comes from briefly living in Brighton England.
Friederike Roth.  Frederike Roth (born 6 April 1948 in Sindelfingen) is a German writer. She is especially active as a playwright.Roth won the City of Stuttgart Literary Prize in 1982 and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1983.
Chuck Schuldiner.  Charles Michael Chuck Schuldiner (May 13 1967 – December 13 2001) was an American singer songwriter and guitarist. He created the band Death which he founded in 1983 under the name Mantas. He also recorded as guitarist and songwriter with his other band Control Denied.
Chen Daoming.  Chen Daoming (born 26 April 1955) is an award-winning Chinese actor who has starred in various genres of film and television series.
Naseer Shamma.  Naseer Shamma (Arabic: نصير شمه‎) is a renowned Iraqi musician and oud player.He was born in 1963 in Kut a city on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad following in the footsteps of Jamil and Munir Bashir. He received his diploma from the Baghdad Academy of Music in 1987. He began to teach oud after three years at the academy as well as continuing his own studies. Shamma has composed music for films plays and television.
Misayo Haruki.  Misayo Haruki (春木 みさよ Haruki Misayo) (born 1974) is a Japanese actress.
Stan Getz.  Stanley Getz (February 2 1927 – June 6 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist of Jewish origin. Getz was known as The Sound because of his warm lyrical tone his prime influence being the wispy mellow timbre of his idol Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists.
Ishtar (singer).  Ishtar (born Esther (Eti) Zach on 10 November 1968) is an Israeli pop singer who performs in Arabic Hebrew Bulgarian French Spanish Russian and English. She is best known for her work as the front vocalist of the French-based band Alabina and her solo pop hits such as C'est La Vie Last Kiss and Habibi (Sawah).
Thomas Kibble Hervey.  Thomas Kibble Hervey (4 February 1799 – 27 February 1859) was a British poet and critic.Thomas Kibble Hervey was born in Paisley Scotland and raised in Manchester England where he was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He entered Caius College Cambridge in 1822 but migrated to Trinity College the following year. Articled to a firm of Manchester solicitors he studied for the bar but was not called.
Davy Jones (musician).  David Thomas Davy Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) was an English actor musician recording artist performing artist and businessman best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name. His acting credits include a Tony-nominated role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver! as well as roles in The Brady Bunch film and television show; Love American Style; and My Two Dads. Jones is considered to be one of the great teen idols.
David Garrick (singer).  David Garrick (12 September 1945 – 23 August 2013) was an English singer best known for his 1966 pop hit Dear Mrs. Applebee.
Carlos Cruz González.  Carlos Cruz González usually known simply as Carlos Cruz (born 1930) is a Spanish comics artist.In the 1950s he worked in Buenos Aires as a cover illustrator and cartoonist before moving to Málaga in the 1960s where he began working for British firm Fleetway Publications on their British comics. His work appeared in Eagle Tiger Buster Smash! and others. His most significant work in British comics was his 11-year stint on the series Dan Dare in the relaunched Eagle from 1976 to 1987.
Emil de Cou.  Emil de Cou is an American conductor who became associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) in September 2003 and has been an active participant in a wide range of NSO performances and events since his debut at Wolf Trap in 2000. He has led the orchestra on residency tours in five states in subscription concerts at the Kennedy Center and on the West Lawn of the United States Capitol Building.
Bedük.  Serhat Bedük (20 April 1983 in Ankara) more commonly known by his stage name Bedük is a Turkish musician.Bedük had his debut album (under his altername Serhat) Nefes Almak Zor (English: Hard To Breathe) released in 2004 by İrem Records. However his rise to fame was in 2007 with his second album Even Better released through Audiology Records. In 2009 he released his third album Dance Revolution and instantly gathered massive attention.
David Grisman.  David Grisman (born March 23 1945 in Hackensack New Jersey) is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s he started the Acoustic Disc record label to help spread acoustic and instrumental music.
Anacani.  Anacani Maria Consuelo y Castillo Lopez Cantor Montoya (born April 10 1954) is a Mexican singer best known as a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program.Born in Sinaloa Mexico as the sixth of seven children of Mexican and French parents she moved with her family to the United States when she was a child. It was during that time she began to sing thanks in large part to her family's talented musical background.
Erle Elsworth Clippinger.  Erle Elsworth Clippinger (1864–1933) was a writer of children's literature educator and a grammaticist. His published works include Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Illustrated Lessons in Composition and Rhetoric and the two volume text Written and Spoken English: A Course in Composition and Rhetoric.
John Volts.  John Volts (1825–1904?) was a British critic philosopher and writer. He lived for part of his life in the United States.He was the author of In the Court of the Dragon (1897) as well as a number of other works.
Shinya (musician).  Shinya (born February 24 1978 in Osaka Japan) is a Japanese musician best known as the drummer of the metal band Dir En Grey. He has been with the band since its inception in 1997 and was previously a member of La:Sadie's. Shinya has composed a handful of songs for Dir En Grey his compositions alternating between melodic (Hotarubi Fukai) and upbeat tunes (Raison Detre Umbrella).
Kate Allan.  Kate Allan (born 1975) is British historical romance novelist.Allan was educated at the all-girls' Bedford High School and Repton School where she was a contemporary of actors Tom Chambers and Nicholas Burns. In 1997 she graduated from the University of York with a BA in history. She is member of the Romantic Novelists Association the Historical Novel Society the Society of Authors and Verulam Writers' Circle.She was shortlisted for the 2005 Joan Hessayon New Writers Award.
Koo Chung.  Koo Chung is a Korean American Christian singer-songwriter. Beginning his career with the band Broken for Good in Boston MA Chung moved to New York to start and run his own studio and label Broken for Good Records.
Benedetto Brandimarte.  Benedetto Brandimarte (late-16th century) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Lucca. In 1592 he painted for the church of San Benedetto in Genoa . He is also known as Brandimarti.
Ichimaru.  Ichimaru (市丸) born Mitsue Goto (後藤 まつゑ Gotō Matsue July 16 1906 – February 17 1997) in Japan was a popular Japanese recording artist and geisha. Her rivalry with another popular geisha singer Katsutaro Kouta created the Ichi-Katsu Era in Japanese popular music history.
Val Bennett.  Val Bennett (born Lovall Bennett ? died 1991) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician who began his career in the 1940s. He made a number of releases on the Island Records and Crab Records labels.
George MacDonald.  George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden C. S. Lewis J. R. R. Tolkien E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S.
Yousra Saouf.  Yousra Saouf (Arabic: يسرا سعوف‎) (born on 29 April 1992) is a Moroccan singer who rose to fame in the Arab world at the age of 20 following her participation in the second season of Arab Idol broadcast on MBC. She was acclaimed by the jury and the public her voice being linked to Egyptian diva Najat Essaghira. She was ranked 9th in the competition.
Elio Pace.  Elio Pace (born 1968) is a British singer/songwriter/piano-player/producer/arranger.
Pálmi Gunnarsson.  Pálmi Gunnarsson (born 29 September 1950) is an Icelandic musician who was involved in some of the country's most popular musical acts in the 1970s and into the 1980s including Mannakorn and Brunaliðið.
Paola Massarenghi.  Paola Massarenghi (born August 5 1565) was an Italian composer. Only one of her works survives Quando spiega l'insegn'al sommo padre a spiritual madrigal. It was printed in Arcangelo Gherardini's Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci. The publication from Ferrara in 1585 is dedicated to Alfonso Fontanelli and while other contributors are listed in the dedication Massarenghi was left out.
Bryan Alan.  Bryan Alan is an American musical artist from Sacramento California born June 1 1986. He first made is musical debut as a solo artist in the spring of 2004. Never putting his full focus into his solo career Bryan played in a number of Rock bands such as: These Dying Days Project Lost Scarlet's Sonata Astill and If Looks Could Kill. In between music projects Bryan would write his own songs and self-release music via the internet.
Dina Hayek.  Dina Hayek (Arabic: دينا حايك‎ born Collet Bou Gergis on 10 June 1982) is a popular Lebanese singer. She gained popularity by the release of her second album Katabtillak. Her father is Lebanese and her mother is Syrian.
Daren Tan.  Daren Tan Sze Wei (born 22 February 1983) is a Singaporean singer. He was the winner of Project Superstar Season 2. He has been listed among CLEO magazine's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors.
Bimal Kar.  Bimal Kar (Bengali: বিমল কর)(19.9.1921—26.8.2003) was an eminent Bengali writer and novelist.He received 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali by Sahitya Akademi India's National Academy of Letters for his novel Asamay.
Marjorie Garber.  Marjorie B. Garber (born June 11 1944) is a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books most notably ones about William Shakespeare and aspects of popular culture including sexuality.She wrote Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety a ground breaking theoretical work on transvestitism's contribution to culture.
Piraeus Painter.  The Piraeus Painter was one of the first Attic black figure vase painters. He was active between 630 and 600 BC.The Piraeus Painter was a contemporary of the Nessos Painter whose importance and artistic class he did not reach. His name vase a neck amphora in Athens National Archaeological Museum 353 was found at Piraeus. The most noteworthy feature of that vase is the snout of the depicted lion stylised into the shape of a volute.
Tommy Thompson (type designer).  Samuel Winfield Tommy Thompson (1906 – 1967) was an American calligrapher graphic artist and typeface designer. He was born Blue Point New York. In 1944 he became the first designer to earn royalties for a type design from Photo Lettering Inc. for his Thompson Quill Script. Previously designers had worked in house for foundries or had sold the rights to their faces outright. He maintained a studio in Norwalk Connecticut and was the author of several books on type and lettering.
Derek Wheatley.  Derek Wheatley QC was an English barrister and legal advisor. He is now a novelist.Wheatley was educated at University College Oxford going up to Oxford in 1944. He became a barrister and was involved with the case of Isabel Earl who was tried at the Old Bailey for murder. As a barrister he handled both criminal and commercial cases.
David Arnason.  David Arnason (born 1940 Gimli Manitoba Canada ) is a Canadian author and poet who lives in Winnipeg Manitoba with his partner Mhari Mackintosh.
Morty Corb.  Mortimer Morty Gerald Corb (April 10 1917 San Antonio — January 13 1996 Las Vegas) was an American jazz double-bassist.
Ana Rosa Núñez.  Ana Rosa Núñez (11 July 1926 – 2 August 1999) was a Cuban-American poet and librarian. She authored over two dozen books of poetry prose and translations.
Carol Kaye.  Carol Kaye (born March 24 1935) is an American musician best known as one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history playing on an estimated 10000 recording sessions in a 55-year career.As a session musician Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s.
Philo Cramer.  Philo Cramer is a former lead guitarist for the Los Angeles punk band FEAR (Slash Records) following a 1977-1978 stint in The Cigarettes (Carlysle Records). He is known for his Gibson SG and making odd noises with his whammy bar and for being a punk rocker in the 80's LA scene holding a bachelors degree in Physics.
Bert V. Royal.  Bert V. Royal Jr. (born October 14 1977) is an American screenwriter playwright and former casting director. He is best known as the writer of the play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead which premiered Off-Broadway in 2005 and the 2010 teen film Easy A.
Ingrid Jensen.  Ingrid Jensen (b. January 12 1966 North Vancouver British Columbia) is a Canadian jazz trumpet player.Jensen is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and Malaspina University in Nanaimo British Columbia. She has been nominated for several Juno awards winning one with her first release Vernal Fields (featuring Lenny White George Garzone and Larry Grenadier).
Martina Majerle.  Martina Majerle (born May 2 1980 in Opatija Croatia) is a Croatian singer. Majerle represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow Russia with the string quartet Quartissimo with the song Love Symphony. It competed in the second semi-final but failed to reach the final. Martina was also backing vocalist for Croatia in Eurovision 2003 Slovenia 2007 Montenegro 2008 and once again Slovenia 2011 and 2012.
Young Bleed.  Glenn Clifton Jr. (born June 6 1974) better known as Young Bleed is an American hip-hop artist based out of Baton Rouge Louisiana. Since his chart-topping 1998 release My Balls & My Word Thug Drama a ghost producer introduced Young Bleed to Master P in 1997. Young Bleed has been a mainstay of the Southern hip hop underground narrating his vision of life in the urban South.
Vic Taylor.  Vic Taylor was a Jamiacan singer who was in well known Jamaican groups Skatalites and Byron Lee & the Dragonaires. He died in 2003.
Thomas Bibby.  Thomas Bibby (1799–1863) was an Irish poet.
Antonio Leonelli.  Antonio Leonelli or Antonio da Crevalcore (Crevalcore circa 1438-1441 – Bologna after either 1515 or 1525) was an Italian painter mainly of still-life painting and some sacred subjects.
Mary Durack.  Dame Mary Durack AC DBE (20 February 1913 – 16 December 1994) was an Australian author and historian. She wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country.
Bal Samant.  Bal Gangadhar Samant (May 27 1924 – January 18 2009) was an Indian writer. He wrote around 80 books in Marathi on a wide range of topics from fiction biography Marathi dramas and history. His books include a biography of Richard Francis Burton (titled Shapith Yaksha) Hitler Deenanath Mangeshkar Marathi natyasangeet reincarnation Bal Gandharva elephants (titled Gajaraja) death and many more.
LaTavia Roberson.  LaTavia Marie Roberson (born November 1 1981) is an American contralto singer songwriter and actress. Roberson rose to fame in the late 1990s as an original member of the R&B group Destiny's Child one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.Following her departure from the group Roberson formed Anjel along with former Destiny's Child member LeToya Luckett. After their album was shelved Roberson went on hiatus returned to Houston.
Gordon Parks.  For the Scottish sports journalist and former footballer see Gordon Parks (footballer)Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30 1912 – March 7 2006) was an American photographer musician writer and film director. He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.
Chris Eboch.  Chris Eboch is a children's book author currently living in New Mexico.She is the New Mexico Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a teacher for the Institute of Children's Literature. She also writes novels for adults under the name Kris Bock.She is the sister of screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama).
Andrej Hieng.  Andrej Hieng (17 February 1925 – 17 January 2000) was a Slovene writer playwright and theatre director.Hieng was born in Ljubljana in 1925. He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana between 1948 and 1952 and worked as a theatre director in Kranj Celje and Ljubljana.
Master of 1518.  The Master of 1518 is a Flemish painter belonging to the stylistic school of Antwerp Mannerism. A group of unsigned paintings is attributed to this artist on stylistic grounds and his name is derived from the date inscribed on the painted wings of a carved wooden altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin in St. Mary's Church in Lübeck German.
Miho Sakuma.  Miho Sakuma (佐久間 未帆  Sakuma Miho born October 5 1981 in Okayama Japan) is a female Japanese voice actress.
Desi Dobreva.  Desislava Dobreva (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Десислава Добрева) (born March 29 1981) best known as Desi Dobreva (Деси Добрева) is a Bulgarian singer. She was born in Varna Bulgaria to a family of engineers and has a degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Dobreva was one of the candidates to represent Bulgaria at the 2008 Eurovision contest.
Nils Ruzicka.  Nils Ruzicka (born 9 October 1973 in Hildesheim) is a German record producer remixer songwriter and musician from Hanover Germany.
Griffith Jones (actor).  Griffith Jones (born Harold Jones; 19 November 1909 – 30 January 2007) was an English film stage and television actor.
Brent Fischer.  Brent Fischer (born July 13 1964) is an American composer arranger bandleader bass guitarist and percussionist. The son of noted composer arranger and keyboardist Clare Fischer Brent made his recording debut with his father's Latin jazz combo Salsa Picante at the age of sixteen thus inaugurating a more than 30-year-long professional association between the two.
Mary Lou Metzger.  Mary Lou Metzger (born November 13 1950 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is an American singer and dancer best known as a cast member on The Lawrence Welk Show.The only child of Ernie and Helen Metzger the family moved to Havertown Pennsylvania where at the age of seven Metzger officially began her performing career which included appearances on The Ted Mack Amateur Hour and acting in a national tour of The Music Man by Meredith Willson.While a student at Temple University she went to Los Angeles California to appear on the television program GE College Bowl; while there she auditioned for Lawrence Welk and was accepted in the show's apprentice training program.During her twelve years on the show she sang as part of a female trio with fellow Welk stars Gail Farrell and Sandi Griffiths various group numbers and song-and-dance numbers with Jack Imel; she also danced with the maestro himself at the end of each show. 
Yoshinori Shimizu.  Yoshinori Shimizu (清水義範 Shimizu Yoshinori born October 28 1947) is a Japanese novelist.He was born in Nagoya Japan and has published stories since 1977 especially young adult science fiction.
Guy Erez.  Guy Erez is a Los Angeles based songwriter/producer and virtuoso bass player. Born and raised in Israel Erez moved to Los Angeles in 1992. His songs have appeared in hit movies and TV shows including the soundtrack to the Oscar winning film Crash Grey's Anatomy and Beverly Hills 90210. He is a songwriter and producer on the theme to the Marvel/Disney series The Avengers and has worked with artists such as Gipsy Kings Ziggy Marley and Alan Parsons.
Gaute Ormåsen.  Gaute Ormåsen (born 20 April 1983 in Brumunddal Hedmark is a Norwegian singer and was the Idol runner-up to Kurt Nilsen in 2003. He was offered a contract by BMG. He has also had a supporting role in the long running Norwegian television series Hotel Cesar.
Michael McKeegan.  Michael Robert McKeegan (born 23 March 1971 in Larne Northern Ireland) is best known as the bassist with the rock band Therapy?.
Aleks Syntek.  Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña (born September 29 1969 in Mérida Yucatán Mexico) better known as Aleks Syntek is a Mexican singer songwriter and producer. He is married to Karen Coronado sister of talkshow host Ingrid Coronado.
Jim Mulholland.  Jim Mulholland (born in Rockville Center New York) is an American television writer and film screenwriter. At nineteen he was the youngest writer ever on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He has since won a Writers Guild Award and has received twenty Emmy nominations in the late-night comedy category. He has also co-authored the screenplays for films Amazon Women on the Moon Bad Boys (1995 film) and television specials including SCTV comedy special Public Enemy #2.
Pundalik Naik.  Pundalik Narayan Naik (born 1952) is a Konkani language poet short-story writer novelist playwright and screenwriter from Goa. He has 40 books and two films to his credit. He served as the President of Goa Konkani Akademi (Goa Academy of Letters for Konkani) of the Government of Goa since 2002.
Francesco Antonio Pistocchi.  Francesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi nicknamed Pistocchino (1659 – 13 May 1726) was an Italian singer composer and librettist.Pistocchino was born in Palermo. He was a boy soprano prodigy and later made his career as a castrato. From 1696 to 1700 he was maestro di cappella for the Duke of Ansbach. After 1700 he founded a singing school in Bologna where he died.
Terri Quaye.  Terri Quaye also Theresa (born 8 November 1940 Bodmin) is a British singer pianist songwriter and percussionist. She is the daughter of Cab Kaye older sister of Caleb Quaye and half-sister of Finley McGowan who after deed poll name-change is aka Finley Quaye.Her first professional experience came in 1958 singing with a Latin jazz band led by Ido Martin. She sang accompanied by Colin Purbrook Leon Cohen and Brian Lemon then did a residency with Frank Holder.
Adrianus Valerius.  Adrianus (Adriaen) Valerius also known as Adriaen Valerius (c. 1575 – 1625) was a Dutch poet and composer known mostly for his poems dealing with peasant and burgher life and those dealing with the Dutch War of Independence assembled in his great work Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck.
Antonio Romano.  Antonio Romano (born August 6 1962) is an Argentine thrash metal guitarist. He has worked in Cerbero Hermética Malón Visceral and Razones Concientes.
Ciarán Bourke.  Ciarán Bourke (18 February 1935 - 10 May 1988) was an Irish musician and one of the original founding members of the Irish folk band The Dubliners.
Francesco Turini.  Francesco Turini (c. 1595 – 1656) was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era.Turini was born around 1595 in Prague and was a pupil of his father Georgio Turini a singer and cornetist at the court of Emperor Rudolf II. Francesco became court organist at the age of 12 and wrote madrigals motets masses and trio sonatas for two violins and basso continuo. He died in Brescia Italy.
Guillermo Verdecchia.  Guillermo Verdecchia (born December 7 1962) is a Canadian theatre artist.Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener Ontario. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in theatre at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto and a Master's Degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph in Guelph Ontario.Verdecchia received the 1993 Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas.
Barry Thompson.  Barry (Baz) Thompson plays lead and rhythm guitar in Bolt Thrower on all albums. He co-founded the band in 1986. He is also the main songwriter of the band. Thompson also did some backing vocals on the Benediction album Grind Bastard.
Leon Mobley.  Leon Mobley is a percussionist and drummer founder and artistic and musical director of Da Lion and Djimbe West African Drummers and Dancers and a member of The Innocent Criminals Ben Harper's band. He is presently working with Damian Marley and Nas on the project called Distant Relatives Leon Mobley's natural talent and infectious smile have taken him a long way.
Jim Walker (drummer).  Jim Walker (born in Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian musician who was a founding director as well as the original drummer for the UK music group Public Image Ltd.He first trained as a jazz drummer at the Berklee College of Music in Boston being taught by Alan Dawson and Joe Hunt.In 1977 along with Malcolm Hasman and Chris Arnett he formed the west coast punk band The Furies the first ever punk rock band in Western Canada.
Valter hugo mãe.  valter hugo mãe is the artistic name of the Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Lemos (Henrique de Carvalho Angola September 25 1971). He is also an editor singer plastic artist. valter hugo mãe received the José Saramago Prize in Literature in 2007 for his novel o remorso de baltazar serapião.
Alun Leach-Jones.  Alun Leach-Jones was born in Maghull Lancashire UK in 1937. His family moved to the village of Glasfryn in North Wales where he spent his childhood. In 1951 age 14 he began a three year apprenticeship to the Solicitors Law Stationery Society Limited in Liverpool where he was employed as a painter of illuminated manuscripts. He studied art at the Liverpool College of Art from 1955 to 1957.
Vladimir Nasedkin.  Vladimir Nikitovich Nasedkin (Russian: Владимир Никитович Наседкин; Vladimir Nikitovich Nasedkin; born 1954) is a Russian artist painter graphic artist sculptor photographer object and installation artist.
Leandro Gallerano.  Leandro Gallerano (fl. 1615-1632) was an Italian composer.His works include a Missa Defunctorum for five voices and basso continuo (1615).
Elisa Gabbai.  Elisa Gabbai was a German-singing Israeli singer who became famous in the late 1960s. Her genre is said to be Schlager.
Jon Gooch.  Jonathan Gooch (born 22 August 1984 in Hertfordshire England) more commonly known by his stage names Feed Me and Spor is a drum and bass dubstep and electro house producer and DJ. He is currently managed by Three Six Zero Group.
Robert Samut.  Robert Samut M.B. CH.M (12 October 1869 – 26 May 1934) was a Maltese doctor and musician. He is best known for writing the music for the Maltese National Anthem.
Muhin.  Muhin (Bengali: মুহিন) is a Bangladeshi singer. He participated in the 2006 CloseUp1 Tomakei Khujchhe Bangladesh musical talent TV show. Despite widespread predictions he would win; Muhin placed second to Salma.His style of music is known as Adhunik Bangla with the word 'adhunik' meaning 'modern' in Bengali.He was originally signed to the Sangeeta record label and released his first album Tomar Jonno in 2008.His latest album Ghum Ashe Na was released in late 2011.
Thomas Baltzar.  Thomas Baltzar (c. 1630 – July 24 1663) was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father grandfather and great-grandfather were all musicians. Sources suggest an array of music teachers who may have taught him in his early years. According to the writings of Samuel Hartlib composer and violinist Johann Schop was one of those instructors. Baltzar may have studied the violin with Gregor Zuber and composition with Franz Tunder.
Emma Donovan.  Emma Donovan (born 1981) is an Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter. She is a member of the renowned Australian musical family the Donovan family. She started her singing career at age seven with her uncle's band The Donovans. In 2000 she became a founding member of Stiff Gins leaving the band three years later to release the solo album Changes in 2004.
Jesse Dee.  Jesse Dee is an R&B and soul singer-songwriter from Boston Massachusetts. He has played as the opening act for Gospel/R&B/Soul legends Al Green and Etta James and maintains a steady U.S. and international touring schedule. Jesse Dee's current album entitled On My Mind / In My Heart is available online and at various retail outlets.
Country Joe McDonald.  Country Joe McDonald (born Joseph Allen McDonald; January 1 1942) is an American musician who was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.
Francis William Edmonds.  Francis William Edmonds (November 22 1806 – February 7 1863) was an American painter of genre subjects.
Luca Caragiale.  Luca Ion Caragiale (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈluka iˈon karaˈd͡ʒjale]; also known as Luki Luchi or Luky Caragiale; July 3 1893 – June 7 1921) was a Romanian poet novelist and translator whose contributions were a synthesis of Symbolism Parnassianism and modernist literature. His career cut short by pneumonia mostly produced lyric poetry with cosmopolitan characteristics distinct preferences for neologisms and archaisms and willing treatment of kitsch as a poetic subject.
Seiji Kumagai.  Seiji Kumagai (熊谷 誠二 Kumagai Seiji born July 9 1967) is a Japanese voice actor. Seiji was very well known with voicing young male characters.[citation needed]
Renato Cataldi.  Renato Cataldi (born December 25 1909 São Paulo Brazil; died May 29 1981 Rio de Janeiro Brazil) was a Brazilian painter.
Takashi Murakami.  Takashi Murakami (村上 隆 Murakami Takashi born February 1 1962) is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion merchandise and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts.
Radoy Ralin.  Radoy Ralin (Bulgarian: Радой Ралин) (April 22 1923 – July 22 2004) born Dimitar Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Димитър Стоянов) was a famous Bulgarian dissident poet and satirist. After the downfall of the Communist regime he was urged to run for Parliament but adamantly refused. His works have been translated into 37 languages.
Bob Forrest.  Robert O'Neil Bob Forrest (born February 15 1961) is the lead vocalist and lyricist for Los Angeles bands Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief. In September 2006 he released his first solo album Modern Folk And Blues Wednesday. He is also a drug counselor appearing alongside Dr. Drew Pinsky on Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.He contributed the song Moonshiner to the I'm Not There soundtrack.Forrest is the former Chemical Dependency Program Director at Las Encinas Hospital.
Nicola Antonio Manfroce.  Nicola Antonio Manfroce (20 February 1791 Palmi – 9 July 1813 Naples) was an Italian composer.
Edward McKnight Kauffer.  Edward McKnight Kauffer (14 December 1890 – 22 October 1954) was an American-born artist noted for his avant garde graphic design and poster art especially in Britain.
Jay Vaquer.  Jay Vaquer is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Jay Vaquer was born in Rio de Janeiro. Son of Jay Anthony Vaquer (American guitarist brother-in-law and former-partner of Raul Seixas) and a brazilian singer Jane Duboc.At the age of 10 he recorded Jingles and he learned to play guitar. He then became an actor in the Célia Helena Theatre performing in the musical comedy Cazas de Cazuza in 2000.
Joel Little.  Joel Little (born 13 February 1983) is a New Zealand musician producer and a Silver Scroll and Grammy award winning songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer in New Zealand pop punk band Goodnight Nurse and more recently for his work as a songwriter and producer with New Zealand artists Kids of 88 and Lorde.
Alexander Arutiunian.  Alexander Grigori Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան) also known as Arutunian Arutyunyan Arutjunjan or Harutiunian (23 September 1920 – 28 March 2012) was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist Professor of Yerevan State Conservatory (1977) widely known particularly for his Trumpet concerto described as flashy by the New York Times.
Roger Martin du Gard.  Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for detail. Because of his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century.
DJ Earworm.  Jordan Roseman (aka DJ Earworm) is a San Francisco-based mashup artist who has achieved recognition for his technically sophisticated songwriting oriented music and video mashups. His annual “United State of Pop” mashup features the top 25 songs of the year according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart in one mix.
Joe Pasquale.  Joseph Ellis Pasquale (born 20 August 1961) is a British comedian actor and television presenter known for being crowned King of the Jungle in the fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2004.In January 2013 Pasqaule became one of twelve celebrities participating in the eighth series of Dancing on Ice with skating partner Vicky Ogden. The following year Pasquale participated in the show again in an All Stars series.
Hans Breder.  Hans Breder born 1935 in Herford Germany is a German-American artist who lives and works in Iowa.
Mike Disfarmer.  Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959) was an American photographer whose portraits of everyday people in rural Arkansas became regarded as art some years after his death.Born Mike Meyer he changed his surname to Disfarmer possibly to break with his family's agrarian roots the first move in a maverick career that embraced both obscurity and a rigorous aesthetic.[citation needed] Disfarmer maintained a portrait studio in his hometown of Heber Springs Arkansas and photographed members of the local community for small fees.[citation needed] But his penny portraits were far more than mere keepsake photographs. 
Georges Braque.  Georges Braque (French: [bʁak]; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter collagist draughtsman printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906 and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque’s work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso.
Mirella Freni.  Mirella Freni (Italian: [miˈrɛlːa ˈfreːni]; birth name Mirella Fregni; born 27 February 1935 Modena Italy) is an Italian opera soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi Puccini Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Freni was married for many years to the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov with whom she performed and recorded.
Maude Allen.  For the controversial Canadian dancer see Maud Allan.Maude Allen (November 30 1879 – November 7 1956) was an American character actress.She appeared in several Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s including small roles in Show Boat (1936) San Francisco (1936) and as Dutchess in the serial The Adventures of Red Ryder (1940).
Damien Broderick.  Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of more than 50 books. His science fiction novel The Dreaming Dragons (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine his The Judas Mandala (1982) is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term virtual reality and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the technological Singularity in detail.Broderick holds a Ph.D.
Patrick Holland (author).  Patrick Holland is an Australian novelist and short story writer who grew up in outback Australia doing horse work for local station owners. His novel The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge 2010) tells the story of a band of young disenfranchised horse thieves and one's young sister. It was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Age Book of the year.
Larry Lake (musician).  Larry Ellsworth Lake (2 July 1943 – 17 September 2013) was an American–born Canadian composer trumpeter freelance writer on music radio broadcaster and record producer. As a composer he was primarily known for his electronic music. His musical compositions are characterized by their integration of acoustic instruments with electronic ones in live performance.
Carolina Slim.  Carolina Slim (August 22 1923 – October 22 1953) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. His best known tracks were Black Cat Trail and I'll Never Walk in Your Door. He used various pseudonyms during his relatively brief recording career including Country Paul Jammin' Jim Lazy Slim Jim and Paul Howard. In total he recorded 27 songs but details of his life outside of his music career are scant and the exact reasons concerning the usage of differing names are also unclear.
Alexandre Desplat.  Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French pronunciation: ​[a.lɛk.sɑ̃dʁ dɛs.pla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has received six Academy Award nominations six BAFTA nominations (winning one) six Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one) and five Grammy nominations (winning one). Desplat has worked on a variety of Hollywood films including independent and commercial successes like The Queen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Twilight Saga: New Moon Fantastic Mr.
Art Satherley.  Arthur Edward Art Satherley (October 19 1889 - February 10 1986) was a record producer and A&R man who was born in England but spent most of his career in the United States. Often called Uncle Art Satherley he made important contributions to the recording industry and has been described as one of the most important pioneers in the field of country music production.
Rebecca John.  Rebecca John (born 15 April 1970) is a presenter and reporter for Wales Today BBC Wales on British television.John was born in the Vale of Glamorgan. She read for a degree in French and German at Robinson College Cambridge between 1989 and 1993 before completing a postgraduate course in journalism at Trinity & All Saints College. She started work for BBC Wales in 1994 as a TV reporter and news presenter.
Hal Russell.  Hal Russell (born Harold Luttenbacher August 28 1926 – September 5 1992) was an American free jazz musician. He performed mainly on drums and saxophone but occasionally on trumpet or vibraphone. Russel's fiery music was marked by significant humor not unlike much of Dutch drummer Han Bennink's output. His music was so accessible that People magazine hailed The Finnish Swiss Tour on ECM as one of its top 5 albums of the year.
Key Wane.  Dwane Marshall Weir II (born 1990) is an American hip hop record producer and songwriter better known by his stage name Key Wane (stylized as KeY Wane). Wane has produced for artists such as Big Sean Drake Wale Lil Wayne Young Jeezy Tyga Rockie Fresh Roscoe Dash Logic and Meek Mill among others. Wane is signed to Big Sean's Finally Famous record label as a songwriter and producer.
Robert Wylie.  Robert Wylie (1839 - February 4 1877) American artist was born in the Isle of Man and relocated with his parents to the United States as a child.Wylie studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia later serving a curator. In 1860 he helped found the Philadelphia Sketch Club now one of the nation's oldest artists' clubs.
The Sick-Leaves.  The Sick-Leaves is an alternative rock artist originating from South Africa. The Sick-Leaves is the solo project of Eksteen Jacobsz who is the songwriter guitarist vocalist and bassist.
Alois Kaiser.  Alois Kaiser (November 10 1840 - 1908) was an American chazzan and composer considered to be the founder of American cantorate. Kaiser was born in Szobotist (Slovak: Sobotište) Hungary. He received his early education in the religious school of the Vienna congregation under Dr. Henry Zirndorf and then studied at the Realschule and the Teachers' Seminary and Conservatory of Music in Vienna.
Kramies.  Kramies (pronounced Kraim-iss) is a Dutch/American singer-songwiter and recording artist based in Colorado USA. Kramies' style is haunting and romantic with an aura of dreams and fairy tales striking a balance between whimsy and melancholia. His unique vocal style has been described as eerie and soothing. In 2011 Kramies signed with Australia's Hidden Shoal Recordings and released to much critical acclaim THE EUROPEAN EP.
Florian Fricke.  Florian Fricke (23 February 1944 in Lindau am Bodensee Germany – 29 December 2001 in Munich) was a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music using the Moog synthesizer within the Krautrock group Popol Vuh. His music and that of the band however soon evolved in a completely different direction and he almost completely abandoned synthesizers in favor of the acoustic piano.
Hannah Sylvester.  Hannah Sylvester (c. 1900 – October 15 1973) was an African-American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style that was popular during the 1920s. She was billed as Harlem's Mae West.
Peter Reynolds (composer).  Peter Reynolds (born 1958) is a composer known for founding PM Music Ensemble. In addition he is recognized by Guinness World Records as having written with writer Simon Rees the shortest opera on Earth Sands of Time; a three minute and thirty-four second long piece. Born in 1958 he studied in Cardiff Wales and currently lives in South Wales and was the artistic director of the Lower Machen Festival in Monmouthshire from 1998 to 2009.
Karrine Steffans.  Karrine Steffans (born August 24 1978) is an American author most notably of the Vixen series of books. She has worked as an actress and as a hip hop model having appeared in more than 20 music videos many by multiplatinum-selling rap artists. In 2007 and 2008 Steffans visited a number of college campuses to speak about her involvement in the hip-hop industry and its expectations of women.
Rockin' Sidney.  Sidney Simien aka Rockin' Sidney and Count Rockin' Sidney (April 9 1938 – February 25 1998) was an American R&B zydeco and soul musician who began recording in the late 1950s and continued performing until his death.
Sandra Stevens.  Sandra Stevens (born 23 November 1949 Leeds Yorkshire) is a British singer and member of pop group Brotherhood of Man.
Thomas H. MacDonald.  Thomas H. MacDonald was a British stage and film actor.
Virginie Despentes.  Virginie Despentes (French: [depɑ̃t]; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer novelist and filmmaker.
Harald Feller (organist).  Harald Feller (born in Munich 1951) is a German organist choral conductor and composer teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He was awarded the 1983 Grand Prix du Disque Liszt.
Nick DiDia.  Nick DiDia - Engineer/Producer/MixerSelected DiscographyBruce Springsteen - The Rising/Devil's and Dust/Magic/Live in Barcelona/Working on A Dream/High HopesPearl Jam - Vrs/Vitalogy/Yield/No Code/Backspacer/Lightning BoltPowderfinger - Internationalist/Odyssey Number 5/Vulture Street/Fingerprints (Greatest Hits)/Golden RuleIncubus - A Crow Left of the Murder/Light Grenades/Live at Red RocksThe Gaslight Anthem - HandwrittenRage Against The Machine - Evil Empire/The Battle of Los AngelesKarnivool - AsymmetryStone Temple Pilots - Core/Purple/Tiny Music/No 4/ShangriLaDeDaKatie Noonan - Emperor's BoxThe Offspring - Conspiracy of One/SplinterMastodon - Crack The Skye/Live At The AragonKings X - DogmanThe Wallflowers - Rebel SweetheartPaul Westerberg - EventuallyTrain - Drops Of Jupiter/My Private NationNine Days - The Madding CrowdThe Living End - The Ending is Just the Beginning RepeatingFull Discography available at http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nick-didia-mn0000333983/creditsManagement US/Europe - Frank McDonough (http://www.mcdman.com/didia)Australia/Asia - 301 Studios (http://www.studios301.com/recording-mixing/producers-engineers/nick-didia/)Awards
Ismael Quintana.  Ismael Quintana (born June 3 1937) is a singer and composer of salsa music.
Ty Burhoe.  Ty Burhoe (born February 28 1964 in Massachusetts) is an American tabla player record company owner and live concert producer.Ty Burhoe has been a disciple of the great tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain since 1990. From that time forward Ty has been dedicated to music not just as a career but as a life path. Ty is renowned for his inspired accompaniment and uplifting presence in both the Classical Indian and in fusion settings.
Mark Norman (DJ).  Mark Norman is the name of award winning Dutch trance music producer Mark De Jong Norman Lenden. He has produced several high profile tracks and remixes.
Billy Jones (musician).  William Harry Jones (November 20 1949 – February 7 1995) was an American guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of Outlaws.Jones was a major contributor to the discography of The Outlaws. He parted ways with the band in 1981 after the album Ghost Riders. On February 7 1995 it was reported that Billy Jones died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was survived by his wife Pamela K. Jones and son Justin Ryan.
Rolinda Sharples.  Rolinda Sharples (1793–1838) was an English painter who specialized in portraits and genre paintings in oil. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Society of British Artists where she became an honorary member.
Tajči.  Tajči Cameron (/ˈtaɪtʃi/; Croatian pronunciation: [tǎjtʃi]; born Tatjana Matejaš pronounced [tǎtjana mǎtejaʃ] on 1 July 1970 in Zagreb) is a Croatian singer; she has since taken up citizenship and residence in the United States.
Mansour Rahbani.  Mansour Rahbani (Arabic: منصور الرحباني Manṣūr Al-Raḥbāni‎) (1925 – January 13 2009) was a Lebanese composer musician poet and producer known as one of the Rahbani brothers.
Jo-Michael Scheibe.  Jo-Michael Scheibe (born 1950) chairs the Thornton School of Music’s Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California where he conducts the USC Chamber Singers teaches choral conducting and choral methods and supervises the graduate and undergraduate choral program. In 2008 he assumed a new post as National President Elect of the American Choral Directors’ Association.
Poly Styrene.  Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011) known by the stage name Poly Styrene was a British musician songwriter and singer most notably in the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
Guillaume Philippe Benoist.  Guillaume Philippe Benoist a French line-engraver was born near Coutances in Normandy in 1725. He engraved in a neat style some portraits and a few other subjects. He resided during the latter part of his life in London where he died in 1770. The following plates are by him:
Robin Hoffmann.  Robin Hoffmann (born February 18 1984) is a German composer orchestrator and arranger.
Eric Marcus.  For the writer vegan and public speaker (born 1966) see Erik Marcus.Eric Marcus (born November 12 1958 New York City) is an American non-fiction writer. His works are primarily of LGBT interest including Breaking the Surface the autobiography of gay Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis which became a #1 New York Times Bestseller and Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights 1945-1990 which won the Stonewall Book Award.
Ian Akin.  Ian Akin (born July 28 1959 in California) is a comic book artist known primarily for inking. Along with his inking partner Brian Garvey Akin worked on many superhero comics (mostly for Marvel Comics) from 1982–1988.
Walter Byron (actor).  Walter Byron (11 June 1899 – 2 March 1972) was an English film actor. He starred opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1929 film Queen Kelly and appeared in 66 films between 1926 and 1942.
Yue Minjun.  Yue Minjun (Chinese: 岳敏君; born 1962) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing China. He is best known for oil paintings depicting himself in various settings frozen in laughter. He has also reproduced this signature image in sculpture watercolour and prints. While Yue is often classified as part of the Chinese Cynical Realist movement in art developed in China since 1989 Yue himself rejects this label while at the same time doesn't concern himself about what people call him.
Donald A. Wollheim.  Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1 1914 – November 2 1990) was an American science fiction editor publisher writer and fan. As an author he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms including David Grinnell.A founding member of the Futurians he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.
MacKenzie Porter.  MacKenzie Lea Porter (born in January 1990) is a Canadian actress and musician.
Kaj Skagen.  Kaj Skagen (born October 23 1949 in Strandebarm) is a Norwegian writer. He received the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1991. His first book Gatedikt was published in 1971. From 1978 to 1989 he published and edited the periodical Arken. In 1982 he won the first prize of a national novel contest with the novel Broene brenner. In 1983 he published Bazarovs barn a harsh critique of contemporary Norwegian literature.
Colm Tóibín.  Colm Tóibín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ] [KAH-lum toe-BEEN]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist short story writer essayist playwright journalist critic and poet.Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was hailed as a champion of minorities as he collected the 2011 Irish PEN Award.
Bob de Groot.  Bob de Groot was born on 26 October 1941 in Brussels to Dutch and French parents and is a Belgian comics artist and writer.
Flip Wilson.  Flip Wilson (December 8 1933 – November 25 1998) was an American comedian and actor. In the early 1970s Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show. The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards.In January 1972 Time magazine featured Wilson's image on their cover and named him TV's first black superstar.
Owen Brenman.  Owen Brenman (born 17 December 1956) is an English actor best known for his role as next-door neighbour Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave which ran for ten years (1990–2000) and was written by David Renwick. He currently plays Dr. Heston Carter in the BBC drama series Doctors
Franjo Rački.  Franjo Rački (25 November 1828 – 13 February 1894) was a Croatian historian politician and writer. He compiled important collections of old Croatian diplomatic and historical documents wrote some pioneering historical works and was a key founder of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Rita Joe.  Rita Joe PC CM (March 15 1932 – March 20 2007) was a Mi'kmaw poet and song writer often referred to as the Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq people.
Michael Berk.  Michael Berk is an American television screenwriter. He worked with Douglas Schwartz as a writer on the television series Manimal and many made-for-television movies. He wrote the earlier scripts of the series Baywatch but is best known as the creator co-producer and writer of the television series The Wizard.
Roger Woddis.  Roger Woddis (17 May 1917- 16 July 1993) was a writer and humorous poet. One of his most famous poems Ethics for Everyman deals with double-morality of ethical principles.His early writing career included some involvement with Unity Theatre London where he contributed material to a number of revues. His poetry featured regularly in Radio Times and other periodicals in the 1970s.
Kalbe Abid.  Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi (مولانا سيد كلب عابد نقوى) was a mujtahid from Lucknow India who preached Shia Islam and came from a family of scholars known as Khandaan-e-Ijtehad notably Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi also known as Ghufran Ma'ab. His father was Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather Syed Aqa Hasan. His son Syed Kalbe Jawad is also a scholar and the chief of the Shia population in Lucknow India. He died in 1986 after being involved in a car crash while on his way to read a majlis.
Kevn Kinney.  Kevin Kinney known professionally as Kevn Kinney is an American vocalist and guitarist best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the Southern rock band Drivin N Cryin. A native of Milwaukee Wisconsin Kinney formed Drivin N Cryin with bassist Tim Nielsen and drummer Paul Lenz after moving to Atlanta Georgia in 1985.
Doctor Fink.  Matthew Robert Matt Fink better known by the stage name Doctor Fink is an American keyboardist record producer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of The Revolution the backing band for pop musician Prince. Fink won a Grammy Award in 1985 for the album Purple Rain. The recording has sold over 18 million copies since its release.
Casey Bates.  Casey Bates is a Seattle based music producer mixer and musician. He has recorded his own music and worked with several artists on record labels such as Fearless Fueled by Ramen Equal Vision Records and Eyeball Records. He also took part in the formation of Gatsbys American Dream the song writing in their first album and contribution to songs in their later works.
F. Reid Shippen.  F. Reid Shippen is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning music mixer engineer and producer currently based in Nashville TN.
Govind Sakharam Sardesai.  Govind Sakharam Sardesai (Devanagari: गोविंद सखाराम सरदेसाई) (May 17 1865 - November 29 1959) popularly known as Riyasatkar Sardesai (रियासतकार सरदेसाई) was an eminent historian from Maharashtra India. Through his Riyasats written in Marathi Sardesai presented an account of over 1000 years of the Indian history until 1848. His three-volume New History of Marathas in English has been acclaimed as a reliable history of Maratha Empire.
Andrea Begley.  Andrea Begley is a singer from Pomeroy Northern Ireland who is most notable for winning the second series of the BBC talent search The Voice UK beating the favourite to win Leah McFall.
Mario Caldato Jr..  Mario Caldato Jr. (also known as Mario C.) is a Brazilian-born American record producer and studio engineer best known for his work with the Beastie Boys and Tone Loc.
Henry Giroux.  Henry Giroux (born September 18 1943) is an American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy cultural studies youth studies higher education media studies and critical theory.
Juan Alderete.  Juan Alderete (born September 5 1963) is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist of Racer X and The Mars Volta.
Desyn Masiello.  Desyn Masiello is a British electronic music producer and DJ. He has mixed albums for the Balance series and Bedrock's Original Series as well as Yoshitoshi's In House We Trust series with Luke Fair. He also produces together with Leon Roberts and Omid 16B as The Idiots. Masiello also headed the vinyl label Alternative Route Recordings from 2000 till 2006.
Gangadhar Meher.  Gangadhar Meher (Oriya: ଗଙ୍ଗାଧର ମେହେର) renowned Oriya poet of 19th century also known as Swabhab Kaviwas a literary Midas who transformed everything into gold by the alchemic touch of his genius. He was a born poet of delicate charm. His was a clean white style. His poem Bhakti (The Devotion) bears eloquent testimony to the change in religious outlook. He was essentially a poet of intuition and side by side he had a penetrating insight.
Anna Palk.  Anna Palk (23 October 1941 – 1 July 1990) was an English actress.Palk was born in Looe Cornwall England and educated at Rise Hall Convent in the East Riding of Yorkshire and trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She followed this with rep at Bristol Leatherhead Derby Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds before embarking on a successful film and television career.
George Henry Smillie.  George Henry Smillie (1840–1921) brother of artist James David Smillie was a painter.He studied under his father James Smillie and under James McDougal Hart and became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1882. Like his brother he painted both in oils and in water colour.His favourite subjects were scenes along the New England coast. In 1881 he married Nellie Sheldon Jacobs (b.
Kjetil Steensnæs.  Kjetil Steensnæs (born 17 April 1976 in Haugesund Norway) is a Norwegian musician (handling various string instruments such as guitar dobro pedal steel guitar and banjo) known from a number of collaborations with musicians like Rita Eriksen Maria Mena Beady Belle Morten Harket Herborg Kråkevik Sissel Kyrkjebø Maria Solheim Thomas Dybdahl Sigvart Dagsland Kari Bremnes Anja Garbarek Bjørn Eidsvåg The Cardigans Torun Eriksen Unni Wilhelmsen William Hut and Tom Roger Aadland.
Fred Barnard.  Frederick (Fred) Barnard (16 May 1846 London – 28 September 1896) was a Victorian illustrator caricaturist and genre painter. He is noted for his work on the novels of Charles Dickens published between 1871 and 1879 by Chapman and Hall.
Daryl Brunt.  Daryl Milton Byron Brunt (born December 16 1988) is a resident from Sudbury Ontario and was contestant on the third season of the hit reality show Canadian Idol. He began his high school career in 2002 as a vocal major at Sudbury Secondary School and left the vocal program to became a drama major in his third year. Daryl wowed audiences with his rendition of When You Believe which earned him a spot in the Top 10 as he received the highest number of votes that week.
Christian Eigner.  Christian Eigner (born 3 March 1971 in Vienna Austria) is a drummer composer live and session musician. He began drumming at the age of 4 and started his professional career aged 16 playing sessions and doing tours with various artists across many genres.
Jonathan Lisle.  Jonathan Lisle is a British DJ. After being discovered by John Digweed in 2001 he became the primary talent-spotter for Digweed and Bedrock Records. He played regularly at Bedrock in London and has toured throughout Europe North and South America Asia and Australia. He was voted one of the World's Top 100 DJs by DJ Magazine readers in 2003.
Alexi Worth.  Alexi Worth (born 1964 New York NY) is a painter curator art critic and writer who is known for his conceptually rich and visually graphic works that address modern life and artmaking. He is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery New York.
Russell Oberlin.  Russell Keys Oberlin (born October 11 1928 in Akron Ohio) is a pioneering American countertenor who was a founding member of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua ensemble.
Johannes Driessler.  Johannes Driessler (born 26 January 1921 Friedrichsthal Saarland; died Detmold 3 May 1998) was a German composer organist and lecturer.Driessler studied composition and organ in Cologne at the Musikhochschule from 1939 to 1940. In November 1940 Driessler enlisted in the military; in 1944 he married Gertrude Ledermann. After World War II he became a teacher in 1945 in Schondorf am Ammersee. In 1946 he became a lecturer at the Northwest German Academy of Music in Detmold.
John Stokes (comics).  John Stokes is a British comics artist who has largely worked for IPC and Marvel UK and is best known for his work on Fishboy.
Marissa Moss.  Marissa Moss (born September 29 1959 Jeannette Pennsylvania) is an American children's book author.
Tal Farlow.  Talmage Holt Farlow (June 7 1921 – July 25 1998) was an American jazz guitarist. Nicknamed the Octopus for his extremely large hands spread over the fretboard as if they were tentacles he is considered one of the all-time great jazz guitarists. Where other similar players of his day combined rhythmic chords with linear melodies Farlow preferred placing single notes together in clusters varying between harmonically enriched tones based on a startling new technique.
Ambrogio Preda.  Ambrogio Preda (Milan December 25 1839 - Davesio Soragno Lugano June 5 1906) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes of the alpine mountains and valleys. Born in Lombardy he studied at the Brera Academy and was a resident of Milan and Lugano. In 1860 he won a Mylius prize at the Brera Academy.
Chua Ek Kay.  Chua Ek Kay (Chinese: 蔡逸溪; pinyin: Cài Yìxī) (21 November 1947 – 8 February 2008) was a Singaporean artist hailed as the bridge between Asian and Western art with a unique painting style using Chinese ink on paper that demonstrated an ingenious blend of traditional Chinese painting forms with Western art theories and techniques. Most of his works were themed of Chinatown street scenes lotuses and abstract works inspired by Australian aboriginal cave paintings.
Kara Taylor.  Kara Taylor (born Kara Mustafa March 21 1990) is an American author of novels for young adults and television writer best known for writing the Prep School Confidential series.
Jeanette Windle.  As child of missionary parents award-winning author and journalist Jeanette Windle grew up in the rural villages jungles and mountains of Colombia now guerrilla hot zones. Her detailed research and writing is so realistic that it has prompted government agencies to question her to determine if she has received classified information. Currently based in Lancaster PA Jeanette has lived in six countries and traveled in more than thirty on five continents.
John Simpson (lexicographer).  John Andrew Simpson (born 13 October 1953) is an English lexicographer and was Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1993 to 2013.
Arturo G. Álvarez.  Arturo G. Álvarez is an international music producer manager A&R and artist. Originally from Mexico City Mexico he currently resides in Los Angeles. He has multiple gold and platinum record records from his work with artists competing at the Eurovision Song Contest as well as his own independent works.
Louis Lozowick.  Louis Lozowick (December 10 1892 – September 9 1973) (ukr: Луї Лозовик) was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in the Russian Empire (Ludvinovka Ukraine) came to the United States in 1906 and died in New Jersey in 1973. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist and mainly produced streamline urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years.
Sydney James Bounds.  Sydney James Bounds (November 4 1920 – November 24 2006) was an English author. He wrote as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds as well as under the pen names Clifford Wallace James Marshall Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote over forty novels and hundreds of short stories many published under pseudonyms or anonymously. He was best known for his science fiction but also wrote horror Westerns mysteries and juveniles. Bounds was unmarried.
Henry Graham Dakyns.  Henry Graham Dakyns often H.G. Dakyns (1838–1911) was a British translator of ancient Greek best known for his translations of Xenophon: the Cyropaedia and Hellenica The Economist Hiero and On Horsemanship.
Bosco Wong.  Bosco Wong Chung-chak (Chinese: 黃宗澤 born 13 December 1980) with family roots in Jiangmen Guangdong is a Hong Kong actor under TVB management and singer under East Asia Music.
Don Hannah.  Don Hannah (born in Shediac New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play The Wedding Script.He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre the Canadian Stage Company the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta.
Kim Sung-jae.  Kim Sung-jae (18 April 1972–20 November 1995) was a South Korean hip-hop singer rapper and dancer first known as the member of Deux hip-hop duo that gained a popularity in the early 1990s. Several months after the group was disbanded Kim released his solo album As I Speak (말하자면) on 19 November 1995. However the day after his comeback performance at SBS Kim Sung Jae suddenly died.
Tim Hardin.  James Timothy Tim Hardin (December 23 1941 – December 29 1980) was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits If I Were a Carpenter covered by among others Bobby Darin Joan Baez Johnny Cash The Four Tops Robert Plant and Johnny Rivers; his song Reason to Believe has been covered notably by many artists including Rod Stewart (who had a chart hit with the song) and The Carpenters. Hardin is also known for his own recording career.
Natassa Theodoridou.  Natassa Theodoridou (Greek: Νατάσα Θεοδωρίδου) born October 24 1970 in Drama is a well-known Greek singer and the only female Greek artist to have her first three albums achieve platinum status.
Naresh Iyer.  Naresh Iyer (born 3 January 1981) is a playback singer from Mumbai India. Naresh Iyer has rendered film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to his credit. His rendition of Roobaroo from the movie Rang De Basanti composed by A. R. Rahman topped the music charts for many weeks in 2006 and won him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He also won the Filmfare award in the R.D. Burman Musical Talent category.
Alex Hughes.  Alex Hughes (born Solihull 22 April 1971) is an English freelance cartoonist caricaturist and illustrator whose work is published in Tribune and has been used in PC Pro Red Pepper and by the BBC's The Midlands at Westminster and Five's Live With Christian O'Connell. He lives in Smethwick West Midlands England.Hughes has an MA in Visual Communications (cartooning) from UCE Birmingham and is Treasurer of the Professional Cartoonists' Organisation.
Shabaam Sahdeeq.  Marcus Vialva better known by his stage name Shabaam Sahdeeq is an alternative hip-hop artist from Brooklyn New York. He first reached fame with Rawkus Records and was featured alongside artists including Busta Rhymes Redman Method Man Kool G Rap Common Mos Def and Eminem. Shabaam Sahdeeq is notable for his work on the Soundbombing and Lyricist Lounge series in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. In 1998 Sahdeeq collaborated with DJ Spinna Mr.
Pietro Aquila.  Pietro Aquila (c. 1630-1692) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period. He was born in Palermo. He mentored his nephew the printmaker Francesco Faraone Aquila.
Hiromi Igarashi.  Hiromi Igarashi (五十嵐 裕美 Igarashi Hiromi born December 13 1986) is a Japanese voice actress from Hokkaido. She is affiliated with Mausu Promotion.
Tang Haoming.  Tang Haoming (Chinese: 唐浩明; pinyin: Táng Hàomíng; born October 1946) born as Deng Yunsheng (simplified Chinese: 邓云生; traditional Chinese: 鄧雲生; pinyin: Dèng Yúnshēng) is a Chinese novelist. He is best known for writing biographical novels of Zeng Guofan Zhang Zhidong and Yang Du. He is now the vice president of Hunan Writers Association.
Luciano Nezzo.  Luciano Nezzo (Badia Polesine September 1856 – Urbino 1903) was an Italian painter painting both history and genre subjects. The genre subjects are often poignant and dramatic.He was born in the Province of Rovigo in the Veneto. He showed an inclination to arts since a young age and had locally as a first master Marco Vallerini. A local patron sponsored his education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice where he studied for ten years.
Charles de Lint.  Charles de Lint (born December 22 1951) is a Canadian writer of Dutch origins. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris and married her in 1980. They live in Canada.Along with writers like Terri Windling Emma Bull and John Crowley de Lint popularized in the 1980s the genre of urban fantasy most notably through The Borderland Series of books.
Mohammad Moin.  Mohammad Moin (Persian: محمد معین‎) (July 12 1914 Rasht Iran — July 4 1971 Tehran Iran) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranian Studies.Mohammad Moin studied at the Higher Institute of Science in Tehran and obtained his BA in literature and philosophy in 1934. He subsequently went to Belgium and graduated in applied psychology anthropology and cognitive science under Elmer Knowles.
Lennart Nilsson.  Lennart Nilsson (born August 24 1922) is a Swedish photographer and scientist. He is noted for his photographs of in vivo[citation needed] human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable and more generally for his extreme macro photography. He is also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists.
MiKKa.  Mihajlo Obrenov aka miKKa is a Serbian musician sound engineer film director and record producer. He worked on many music related projects and engineered sound for a lot of bands & theater plays and films.Since 1997 MiKKa is the leading man behind industrial rock band dreDDup. From 2002 he organizes gigs/festivals and promotes underground music in Serbia. In 2007 he founded the Serbian online music label Crime:Scene Records which is involved only with ex-Yugoslavian dark music.
Michelle Maylene.  Michelle Maylene (born January 20 1987) is an actress adult model and former adult film star.
Giulio Benso.  Giulio Benso (30 October 1592 - 1668) was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi.Benso was born in Pieve di Teco. Initially under the patronage of Giovanni Carl Doria he met Giulio Cesare Procaccini and was encouraged to study in the Genovese Accademia del Nudo. Afterwards he was apprenticed to Giovanni Battista Paggi.
Pierre Joffroy.  Pierre Joffroy (born 1929 in Lorraine France) was a French author dramaturge and journalist who wrote for Paris Match Libération and L'Express.
Stuart McLoughlin.  Stuart McLoughlin (born 1980 Bristol) is a British actor. He is notable for his appearance in the title role in 2008's Clone. His other TV appearances include 2008's Little Dorrit and Waking the Dead (1 episode 2005) and he has also appeared onstage in A Matter of Life and Death. He has appeared in the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Phil Baugh.  Phil Baugh (December 13 1936 – November 4 1990) was an American guitarist. He was known as one of the leading hot country guitarists whose playing exuded joy and humor. He was active from the 1960s through the 1980s performing as a highly sought-after session musician as well as a top recording artist in his own right.
Cesare Arbasia.  Cesare Arbasia (1540s – 1614) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period. Born in Saluzzo Italy Cesare Arbasia's career began in Saluzzo and moved throughout Rome and Spain (c. 1579). He also worked in Malaga and Córdoba conducting his work in a Mannerist style. He trained with Federico Zuccari. In Córdoba he painted the ceiling of the cathedral; while in Savigliano he painted the ceiling of the church of the Benedictine monks. In Saluzzo he helped fresco the town hall.
Giuseppe Apolloni.  Giuseppe Apolloni (April 8 1822 – December 31 1889) was an Italian composer born in Vicenza Italy. He composed a total of five operas of which only one (L'ebreo) was successful. He died in Vicenza.
Nicolas Vérin.  Nicolas Vérin (born 21 June 1958 in Saint-Omer France) is a French composer and professor of music.His many influences from jazz to electronics from American to French music give him an unusual style apart from the main trends of French contemporary music combining energy and subtleness.While rooted in electroacoustic music and its approach based on composing with sounds rather than notes he also wrote many instrumental pieces and specialized particularly in music mixing live performers and electronics whether fixed sound or live processing.At the basis of his work are the musical gesture and the life of sound and its morphology. 
June Pointer.  June Antoinette Pointer (November 30 1953 – April 11 2006) was an American pop/R&B singer and a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning vocal group The Pointer Sisters.
Hide (musician).  Hideto Matsumoto (松本 秀人 Matsumoto Hideto December 13 1964 – May 2 1998) better known by his stage name hide was a Japanese musician singer and songwriter. He was primarily known for his work as lead guitarist of the heavy metal band X Japan but was also a successful solo artist and co-founder of the United States-based band Zilch.He sold millions of records both solo and as a member of X Japan.
Deng Jie.  Deng Jie (simplified Chinese: 邓婕; traditional Chinese: 鄧婕 born October 21 1958) is a television actress and producer in China. Deng was born in Chengdu and attended the Qiujing High School in Chongqing.She portrayed Wang Xifeng in TV series Dream of the Red Chamber and became well known in mainland China. Her husband is Zhang Guoli a noted Chinese actor and director.
Arno Surminski.  Arno Surminski (born 20 August 1934 in Jäglack East Prussia) is a German writer living in Hamburg and a father of two.After growing up in East Prussia his parents were deported to the Soviet Union while he was expelled to Schleswig-Holstein.
Kiriko Nananan.  Kiriko Nananan (魚喃キリコ Nananan Kiriko born December 14 1972 in Tsubame Niigata Japan) is a female Japanese manga artist. She is famous for her realistic josei work featuring understated artwork with a sense of detachment. In addition she has affiliated herself with the La nouvelle manga movement. Her first work was published in Garo in 1993. Two of her works have been made into live-action movies: Blue and Strawberry Shortcakes.
Marshall Dodge.  Marshall Dodge (1935-1982) was a well-known Maine humorist. He and his associate Robert Bryan put out several defining albums of Maine humor starting with Bert & I released in 1958. In 1964 he and Noel Parmentel published (with accompanying LP record) a long-remembered parody of popular folk songs entitled Folk Songs for Conservatives.In 1976 he founded the Maine Festival of the Arts at Bowdoin College.
Hugh Davies (composer).  Hugh Seymour Davies (23 April 1943 – 1 January 2005) was a musicologist composer and inventor of experimental musical instruments.Davies was born in Exmouth Devon England. After attending Westminster School he studied music at Worcester College Oxford from 1961 to 1964. Shortly after he traveled to Cologne Germany to work for Karlheinz Stockhausen as his personal assistant.
Jordis Unga.  Jordis Unga (born Jordis Losana Sikahema Unga on August 6 1982) is an American rock singer songwriter and performer from Forest Lake Minnesota. After years of building a cult following in Minneapolis as a vocalist for The Fighting Tongs and Liars Club Unga reached international fame for her performances on the first season of the CBS television reality show Rock Star: INXS where 15 contestants competed to become the lead vocalist for the Australian rock band INXS.
Masaya Kikawada.  Masaya Kikawada (黄川田 将也 Kikawada Masaya born June 1 1980) is a Japanese actor. His most prominent role has been as Takeshi Hongo/Kamen Rider #1 in the film Kamen Rider The First and its sequel Kamen Rider The Next. He was also in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon as Sailor Jupiter's love interest Motoki Furuhata as well as the sequel to Battle Royale Battle Royale 2: Requiem. He also was Yousuke the disc jockey in the movie Dear Friends where he was reunited with Keiko Kitagawa.
Steve Peregrin Took.  Steve Peregrin Took (born Stephen Ross Porter; 28 July 1949 – 27 October 1980) was an English musician. He is best known for his membership of the duo Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan. After breaking with Bolan he concentrated on his own singer-songwriting activities variously as a solo artist or as a frontman for several bands.
Aton Ben-Horin.  Aton Ben-Horin (born October 11 1979) is an American record producer and music executive. As of January 16 2013 Aton serves as Director of Global A&R for all of Warner Music Group's labels including Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records.
Daniel Van Kirk.  Daniel Van Kirk is an American comedian podcast personality and writer from Rochelle Illinois. He earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts in theater performance from Roosevelt University. He appears as himself and as comedic caricatures on several podcasts such as Sklarbro Country with Randy and Jason Sklar as a regular The Bear Down Podcast and The Todd Glass Show.
Philip Magnus-Allcroft.  Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft 2nd Baronet CBE (8 February 1906-21 December 1988) was a British biographer.Magnus-Allcroft was born in London the son of Laurie Magnus and Dora Marian Spielmann the grandson of the educationalist and Conservative politician Sir Philip Magnus 1st Baronet.
Kim Bohyung.  Kim Bo Hyung (Hangul: 김보형; Hanja: 金保亨; born March 31 1989) commonly known by her stage name Bohyung is a South Korean idol singer dancer actress. She is a member of the Korean girl group Spica which debuted under B2M Entertainment in 2012.
Bekir Büyükarkın.  Bekir Büyükarkın (1921-1998) was a Turkish poet novelist and playwright. He graduated from Istanbul Vefa High School in 1939 and from the Istanbul University School of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1942.Büyükarkın worked at Türk Ticaret Bankası as a freelance accountant. Known for his novels and plays he also wrote two unpublished poetry books. His play Dökmeci won the competition for stage plays organized by CHP in 1947.
Craig Robinson (designer).  Craig Robinson (born 1972 New Mexico) is an American fashion designer.
Sos Eltis.  Dr Sos Eltis is a Fellow and Tutor in English of Brasenose College Oxford. She is the author of Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the plays of Oscar Wilde which has been described as a radical re-examination of the plays of Oscar Wilde. Eltis is a Nineteenth and Twentieth century specialist with a special interest in theatre.Eltis is a keen oarswoman is a vegetarian and has two children.
Sally M. Walker.  Sally M. Walker (born October 16 1954) is an American writer of nonfiction for children. She is best known for writing about scientific subject matter such as Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth (2005) or Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (2009). Additionally Walker is known for books written in both Spanish and English (bilingual books) as seen in La Luz/Light (2007) and La Electricidad/Electricity (2007).
Benjamin Taylor (author).  Benjamin Taylor (born 1952) is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including Harper's Esquire Bookforum BOMB the Los Angeles Times Le Monde The Georgia Review Raritan Quarterly Review Threepenny Review Salmagundi Provincetown Arts and The Reading Room. He is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty of The New School in New York City and has also taught at Washington University in St.
Tal Henry.  Tal Henry(July 10 1898 – August 17 1967) was an American orchestra director in the swing and big band eras.Henry was born Talmadge Allen Henry in Maysville Georgia. At the age of 7 he started playing the violin. He left Maysville in 1914 to attend Shenandoah Conservatory of Music located in Dayton Virginia. The school moved to Winchester Virginia and has become a University.
Carl Eytel.  Carl Eytel (September 12 1862 – September 17 1925) was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885 he eventually settled in Palm Springs California in 1903. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert Eytel traveled with author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of the Colorado Desert and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work.
Gappy Ranks.  Gappy Ranks is a British dancehall musician of Jamaican and Dominican origin. He is also known as Jacob Lee Williams.His love for music started in his hometown Harlesden London where he was born and raised.At a young age he would perform for crowds within his hometown and for friends and family who encouraged him to continue.After growing up in North West London Gappy Ranks dealt with numerous obstacles including homelessness after leaving school.
Stan Nicholls.  Stan Nicholls (born 1949) is a British author and journalist working full-time since 1981. He is the author of many novels and short stories but is best known for the internationally acclaimed Orcs: First Blood series.
Marg Osburne.  Marg Osburne (December 29 1927-July 16 1977) was a Canadian country folk and gospel singer. Recipient (posthumously) of the ECMA Stompin' Tom Connors award.
Braintax.  Braintax was a British hip hop artist and producer. Joe Christie had also recorded or appeared under the pseudonyms Brando Flux and Joey Brains. All of his releases were on his own record label Low Life Records.Originally Braintax was a duo consisting of Christie and DJ Test who also contributed vocals and production. Test departed following the 1997 release of the Future Years EP and Christie retained the Braintax name; it has since become synonymous with him as a solo artist.
Ayaka Wilson.  Ayaka Wilson (アヤカ・ウィルソン Ayaka Wiruson) (born August 3 1997 in Toronto Ontario) is a Japanese-Canadian fashion model who made her debut in 1999.
Orlando Merlini.  Orlando Merlini (died 1510) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Gubbio in Umbria.
Eric Friedman.  Eric Charles Erock Friedman (born June 28 1984) is an American musician and songwriter best known as the current rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for Creed as well as 'Tremonti' which is fronted by Alter Bridge and Creed lead guitarist Mark Tremonti. He played with the band on their 2009 United States reunion tour with Staind and their 20-10 Tour with Skillet. He is the former lead guitarist for the band Submersed and also the former lead guitarist for Daughters of Mara.
Clive King.  David Clive King (born 24 April 1924) is an English author best known for his children's book Stig of the Dump (1962). He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the last years of World War II and then worked for the British Council in a wide range of overseas postings from which he later drew inspiration for his novels.Clive King was born in Richmond London England in April 1924 and grew up in Ash Kent.
Ivan Franko.  Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко pronounced [iˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪt͡ʃ frɑnˈkɔ]) (August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1856 – May 28 [O.S. May 15] 1916) was a Ukrainian poet writer social and literary critic journalist interpreter economist political activist doctor of philosophy ethnographer the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.He was a political radical and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in western Ukraine.
Yigal Tumarkin.  Yigal Tumarkin (Hebrew: יגאל תומרקין) (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor.
Slim Moon.  Slim Moon (b. Matthew Moon on October 15 1967 in Missoula Montana United States) is the founder of the independent music label Kill Rock Stars. He also started its sister label 5 Rue Christine. Slim ran KRS from 1991 to 2006 during which time KRS released albums by dozens of artists including Sleater-Kinney Elliott Smith The Decemberists Miranda July Bikini Kill Unwound Huggy Bear The Gossip and Linda Perry.
Jordan Pundik.  Jordan Izaak Pundik (born October 12 1979 in Englewood New Jersey) is an American musician and songwriter.Pundik is a founding member and the frontman of the pop-punk band New Found Glory for whom he sings lead vocals and contributes lyrics. He was also the guitarist in the band's now defunct side-project the International Superheroes of Hardcore where he performed under the pseudonym of Chugga Chugga.Pundik is known for his resemblance of film director Quentin Tarantino.
Ex-plicit linez.  Brandon Jermaine Yun better known by his stage name EXP (pronounced e-ex-pee) formerly EX-PLICIT LINEZ is a Korean American rapper and Former Radio personality for New York Korean Radio NYKR 1660 AM a mutual protégé of Drunken Tiger and Lee Hyun Do a.k.a. D.O. EXP first appeared on the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the mid 1990s on a DJ Platinum's mixtape series Hate in Da Blood.
Claude Melki.  Claude Melki (1939–1994) was a French actor.
Espen Haavardsholm.  Espen Haavardsholm (born 10 February 1945 in Oslo) is a Norwegian novelist lyricist biographer and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the collection of short stories Tidevann. He was one of the central writers in the modernist literary magazine Profil. He has written biographies on Martin Linge (his grandfather) Aksel Sandemose and Johan Borgen.
Richie Kotzen.  Richard Dale Richie Kotzen Jr. (born February 3 1970 in Reading Pennsylvania) is a guitarist singer songwriter and producer. Currently he is touring with The Winery Dogs with Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan supporting an album they recorded in Los Angeles in August 2012.
Matthew Leone.  Matthew Jon Leone (pronounced: Lee-own-ee) was the bassist of rock band Madina Lake. He was born on May 13 1981. Matthew is three minutes older than his identical twin Nathan Leone who was the lead vocalist in Madina Lake.
Juan van Emmerloot.  Juan van Emmerloot (born 12 November 1965 in Waalwijk) is a drummer and record producer.Juan started playing drums and percussion at the age of 10. He joined his first band 'Penthouse' and played live performances at the age of 13. He continued studying music in school until the age of 17. The next step was intensive musical training at the Rotterdam Conservatory. After that he played in his country of residence with Kaz Lux (Brain Box) Julya Lo'Ko Laura Fygi & Robby Valentine.
Hana Hegerová.  Hana Hegerová (née Carmen Farkašová born 20 October 1931 in Bratislava Czechoslovakia) is a leading Czechoslovakian singer actress and uncrowned Queen of Czechoslovak chanson. Foreign critics call her The Great Lady of Chanson The Piaf from Prague and The Chanteuse with a Slavic Soul. Having no comparable competition in Czechoslovakia she gained popularity primarily as a singer of chanson.
Mark Farmer.  Mark Farmer is a British comic book artist. He is best known as an inker often working with Alan Davis.
John Bury (translator).  John Bury (1535–1571) was an English translator.John Bury was the son of William Bury a London draper. He is said to have been educated at Cambridge University. He translated from Greek into English the speech of Isocrates Isocratis ad Demonicum oratio parenetica or Admonysion to Demonicus with a dedication to his uncle Sir William Chester 1557. It was published by the printer William Copland paired with Benedict Burgh's version of the Distichs of Cato.
William B. T. Trego.  William Brooke Thomas Trego (1858–1909) was an American painter best known for his historical military subjects in particular scenes of the American Revolution and Civil War.
Cage (rapper).  Chris Palko (born 1973) better known by his stage name Cage is an American hip hop recording artist from Middletown Orange County New York. Cage is perhaps best known for his work under the labels Definitive Jux and Eastern Conference as well as his 2002 debut studio album Movies for the Blind. Since his debut Cage has released four albums with the latest being 2013's Kill the Architect. He has also released two compilation albums and two extended plays.
Alceu Valença.  Alceu Valença (born July 1 1946 in São Bento do Una Pernambuco Northeast Brazil) is a Brazilian composer writer performer actor and poet. Alceu Valenca was born in countryside Pernambuco Northeast Brazil. He is considered the most successful artist in achieving an aesthetic balance between traditional northeastern Brazilian music and a broad range of electronic sounds and effects from pop music.
Mims (rapper).  Shawn Mims (born March 22 1981) popularly known as Mims is an American rapper.
Kenny Lovelace.  Kenny Lovelace (born August 18 1936) is a guitarist and singer best known for his tenure with Jerry Lee Lewis since 1966.
George Cole (musician).  George Cole (born October 10 1960 in San Francisco California) is the producer composer lyricist vocalist and lead guitarist for the Gypsy jazz/Uptown Swing band George Cole and Eurocana. He was also a guitarist for the pop rock band Beatnik Beatch and Big Blue Hearts. He played on Chris Isaak's platinum selling Forever Blue album. George Cole is a highly sought after music educator with over 30 years of experience. Some of his former students have risen to prominence.
Walter Westley Russell.  Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA (31 May 1867 – 16 April 1949) was a British painter and art teacher. He became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1926 and served as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools from 1927 to 1942.
Marcella Comès Winslow.  Marcella Comès Winslow (1905-July 6 2000) (also known as Marcella Rodange Comès) was an American photographer and portrait painter. She was the official portrait painter of the United States Poet Laureate.
Özlem Kolat.  Özlem Kolat (born 15 June 1984 in Edirne) is a Turkish classical clarinet player.
Waswo X. Waswo.  Waswo X. Waswo (November 13 1953) is an artist and writer most commonly associated with his chemical process sepia-toned photographs of India and also hand-colored portraits made at the artist’s studio in Udaipur Rajasthan.
Pete Johnson.  Pete Johnson (March 25 1904 – March 23 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.Journalist Tony Russell stated in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray that Johnson shared with the other members of the 'Boogie Woogie Trio' the technical virtuosity and melodic fertility that can make this the most exciting of all piano music styles but he was more comfortable than Meade Lux Lewis in a band setting; and as an accompanist unlike Lewis or Albert Ammons he could sparkle but not outshine his singing partner. 
Baek Minseok.  Baek Minseok (Hangul: 백민석) is a modern South Korean writer.
Oreste Albertini.  Oreste Albertini (Torre del Magnano March 28 1887 – Besano Varese July 7 1953) was an Italian painter.He first attended the Scuola Civica Pavese at Pavia but at the age of 13 became an apprentice to the fresco artist Cesare Maroni. Together they frescoed the church of Besano in Varese. In 1910 he enrolled a the night classes at the school of decoration at the Umanitaria of Milan and the Brera Academy paying for his courses by decorative painting and working as a machinist at factories.
Jürgen Schmitt.  Jürgen Schmitt alias Schmitti (born 5 November 1949 in Bonn) is a German painter photographer and as Schmitti a composer lyricist and Schlager-singer. He lives and works in the village of Scheven (population ca. 560) (Kall North Rhine-Westphalia) and there he has his studios. Schmitt studied from 1970 to 1976 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Professor Joseph Beuys and Professor Irmin Kamp and he was appointed in 1975 for his artistic achievements Meister Schüler.
Edelweiss (pornographic actress).  Edelweiss (Russian: Еделвайс and Bulgarian: Еделвайс) (born 1 September 1977 in Tyumen Russia) is a Russian-Bulgarian actress TV host erotic model and former pornographic actress. She lives in Italy and is married to the Bulgarian photographer Aleksandar Alex Lomski who is also a former pornographic film actor.
Robin Sax.  Robin Ann Sax (born 1972) is an author legal analyst victim advocate radio host an HLN contributor and a former prosecutor for the State of California County of Los Angeles and Riverside County District Attorney's Office.
Yury Kazakov.  Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (Russian: Юрий Павлович Казаков) (August 8 1927 – November 29 1982) was a Russian author of short stories often compared to Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin. Born in Moscow he started out as a jazz musician but turned to publishing his stories in 1952. He attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute graduating in 1958.
Ana Moura.  Ana Moura (born 1979) is an internationally recognized Portuguese fado singer and the youngest fadista to be nominated for a Dutch Edison Award.
Vitsentzos Kornaros.  Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros (Greek: Βιτσέντζος or Βικέντιος Κορνάρος) or Vincenzo Cornaro (March 29 1553 – 1613/1614) was a Cretan poet who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos. He wrote in vernacular Greek and was a leading figure of the Cretan Renaissance.Vitsentzos Kornaros is considered to be the greatest of all the Cretan poets and one of the most significant and influential figures in the entire course of Greek poetry.
Algernon Ashton.  Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (9 December 1859 – 10 April 1937) was a British composer pianist and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music 1884–1910.Ashton was born in Durham. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory as a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles Carl Reinecke and Theodor Coccius. He later studied at Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt under Joachim Raff.He was a prolific composer in many instrumental genres.
Gaye Adegbalola.  Gaye Adegbalola (born Gaye Todd March 21 1944 Fredericksburg Virginia United States) is an American blues singer and guitarist teacher lecturer activist and photographer.
Rosalie King.  Rosalie King (born Rosa Lea Frances Stephens August 23 1902 Jacksonville Florida – died June 11 1997 Ocala Florida) also known as Rosalie Simpson was an American character actress and singer.She appeared on radio in The Maxwell House Coffee Hour. She was an original member of the Katherine Dunham Company leaving because of the troupe's proposed tour of Australia and New Zealand (1956 – 1957) citing the distance from her children.
Noor Khan Bizanjo.  Noor Khan Bizanjo Balochi: نور خان بزنجو) was a prominent Balochi musician. He was singer of his own kind who made his name by getting expertise in modern and classical modes of Balochi music.
John French Sloan.  John French Sloan (August 2 1871 – September 7 1951) was a twentieth-century painter and etcher and one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight. He is best known for his urban genre scenes and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City often observed through his Chelsea studio window.
Kyle Onstott.  Kyle Onstott was an American author.
Sadat X.  Sadat X (born Derek Murphy; December 29 1968) is an American rapper most famed as a member of Alternative hip hop group Brand Nubian. Originally known as Derek X Sadat takes his name from former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.In 1996 Sadat appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD America is Dying Slowly alongside Biz Markie Wu-Tang Clan and Fat Joe among many other prominent hip hop artists.
Sherrie Levine.  Sherrie Levine (born April 17 1947 in Hazleton Pennsylvania) is an American photographer and appropriation artist.
Axel Tony.  Axel Tony (born in Colombes in 1984) is a French singer of mixed Cameroonian / Martinique / Vietnamese origin. He is signed to Universal Music France.
Jason Bare.  Jason Michael Bare (born November 14 1975) is an American Christian musician and singer-songwriter from Gastonia North Carolina. He self-released a 2011 album entitled Beautiful Design. Jason's song For the First Time was co-written by Nathan Walters of Plus One fame and reached the No. 1 spot on the Christian Music Weekly Worship chart and made it into the Top 30 of Billboard’s Soft AC/Inspirational chart during December 2010.
Billie Davis.  Billie Davis (born Carol Hedges 22 December 1945 Woking Surrey England) is an English female singer who had hits in the 1960s and is best remembered for the UK hit version of the song Tell Him (1963) and I Want You to Be My Baby (1968).
Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson.  Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (July 23 1858 Madison New Jersey – July 23 1942 Lausanne Switzerland) was an American author. He used the pseudonym of Xavier Mayne.
Yıldıray Çınar.  Yıldıray Çınar is a comic book artist known for his work on the American comic book Noble Causes.
Tony Vinson.  Tony Vinson AM (born 11 November 1935) is one of Australia's leading social scientists and outspoken public intellectuals. His career spans the disciplines of social work social policy psychology education public administration and social research.
Henry Normal.  Henry Normal (real name Pete Carroll; born 15 August 1956) is an English comedian television producer poet and writer. He is Managing Director of Baby Cow Productions Ltd which he set up with Steve Coogan.When living in Chesterfield Normal chanced upon a local fanzine writer and knocked on the bedsit door of editor Faye Ray. The fanzine editor played Normal tapes of 'ranting' poets he had recently received including Steven 'Seething' Wells Little Brother and Joolz.
Wayne Reinagel.  Wayne Reinagel (born May 7 1961) is an American author and graphic artist primarily known for his historical fiction novels.
Cora Taylor.  Cora Taylor (born January 14 1936) is a Canadian author. Born in Fort Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan she moved to Edmonton in 1955. Her career as a writer began as editor of the Alberta Poetry Yearbook from 1980 to 1985. She wrote many articles and short stories for publication in various Canadian periodicals. Cora's first major success came with the publication of her first novel Julie by Coteau Books.
J. J. Benítez.  Juan José Benítez born September 7 1946 in the city of Pamplona Navarre is a Spanish author. He received a journalism degree from the University of Navarra in 1965 and started his work as a journalist in the newspaper La Verdad of Murcia in January 1966. Over the next few years he became increasingly interested in the UFO phenomena initiating his extensive investigation on such topics.
Glen Matlock.  Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Although Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols his creative contribution to the band has been disputed. He also continues to make his own records and tour with various bands including the Sex Pistols.
Bob Stroger.  Bob Stroger (born 1939) is an American electric blues bass guitarist singer and songwriter. He has worked with many blues musicians including Eddie King Otis Rush Jimmy Rogers Eddie Taylor Eddy Clearwater Sunnyland Slim Louisiana Red Buster Benton Homesick James Mississippi Heat Snooky Pryor Odie Payne Fred Below Willie Big Eyes Smith and Billy Davenport.In 2011 and 2013 Stroger was granted a Blues Music Award as Best Blues Bassist.
Richard Artschwager.  Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26 1923 – February 9 2013) was an American painter illustrator and sculptor best known for his stylistic independence; however he had associations with the Pop Art movement Conceptual art and Minimalism.
Jong Up.  Moon Jong Up (Hangul: 문종업; born February 6 1995) often simply known as Jongup or Moontos is a South Korean dancer and singer. He is best known as the main dancer of the South Korean K-pop group B.A.P.
Jonathan Tropper.  Jonathan Tropper (born February 19 1970) is an American writer and a professor of English at Manhattanville College.
Adele Megann.  Adele Megann (born September 3 1962) is a Canadian writer.
Paul Gardner (journalist).  Paul Gardner (born 15 May 1930 in Ramsgate England) is an American soccer journalist and author. He has written more than one thousand columns for Soccer America and has covered American soccer for England's World Soccer magazine since 1973. His books include The Simplest Game Nice Guys Finish Last and SoccerTalk: Life Under the Spell of the Round Ball.
Sophie Masson.  Sophie Masson is a French-Australian fantasy and children's author.
Prospero Rabaglio.  Prospero Rabaglio (late 16th century) was an Italian painter. He was born in Brescia. There is an altarpiece by him in the church of the Capuchins in that city dated 1588.
Octave Octavian Teodorescu.  Octave on his real name Octavian Teodorescu (born 29 January 1963) is a Romanian vanguard musician composer music arranger songwriter music producer performer multi-instrumentist (guitars keyboards programmable instruments) from Bucharest Romania.
Leo Stein.  Leo Stein (May 11 1872 – July 29 1947) was an American art collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny City (now in Pennsylvania) the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings. Beginning in 1892 he studied at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts for two years. The following year he traveled the world with his cousin Fred.
Matti Caspi.  Matti Caspi (Hebrew: מתי כספי‎) is an Israeli composer musician singer and lyricist. Born in 1949 he is regarded as one of Israel’s top musicians.His music style is difficult to classify. He is influenced by classical music Brazilian and Latin music Jazz Rock and other genres. It is possible to hear all these influences in his music. Sasha Argov was one of the musicians who had a large influence on him; Caspi recorded 2 albums of his songs in cooperation with Argov.
Tōru Nakamura (actor).  Toru Nakamura (仲村 トオル Nakamura Tōru born September 5 1965) is a Japanese actor.
Rosario Ustáriz Borra.  Rosario Ustáriz Borra (Hecho 1927 – Jaca August 28 2009) was an aragonese language writer and poet born in the pyrenean village of Hecho (currently part of the municipality known as 'Valle de Hecho) in the Province of Huesca (northern Spain) and a native speaker to the aragonese Cheso dialect (local to the referred valley and one of the few extant varieties of western aragonese) in which she developed the whole of her work.
Parag Khanna.  Parag Khanna (born 1977) is an Indian American author and international relations expert. He is the author of How to Run the World: Charting the Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008) both published by Random House and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012) published by TED Books. Khanna attended the Edmund A.
Ruth Atkinson.  Ruth Atkinson Ford née Ruth Atkinson and a.k.a. R. Atkinson (June 2 1918 - June 1 1997) was an American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book artist who helped create the long-running Marvel Comics characters Millie the Model and Patsy Walker.
William Wilfred Campbell.  William Wilfred Campbell (15 June 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. He is often classed as one of the country's Confederation Poets a group that included fellow Canadians Charles G.D. Roberts Bliss Carman Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott; he was a colleague of Lampman and Scott.
Dominic Mohan.  Dominic Mohan (born 26 May 1969 Bristol England) is an English journalist and former editor of The Sun newspaper in London.Born in Bristol his family moved to Cambridgeshire when he was 10 years old. He attended the Cromwell Community College (in Chatteris) and the Neale-Wade Community College in March before graduating from Southampton University in English.
Gary Foster (musician).  Gary Foster (born May 25 1936) is an American instrumentalist who plays saxophones clarinets and flutes (Multireedist); he is considered a crossover artist who performs in jazz pop and classical genres. As a jazz artist he has recorded under his own name for Concord Records and several other labels. He is known for his elegant and laid back style on both the alto and tenor saxes being a devotee of Lennie Tristano Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh.
Bernadette Seacrest.  Bernadette Seacrest is an American vocalist born in San Francisco California.
Stu Silver.  Stu Silver is an American screenwriter and television writer best known for such films and television series as Throw Momma from the Train It's A Living Bosom Buddies and Soap.
Nick Beggs.  Nick Beggs (born Nicholas Leighton Beggs 15 December 1961 Winslow Buckinghamshire) is an English musician noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis Beggs & Howard.
Kim Burrell.  Kimberly Burrell is an American gospel singer from Houston Texas. She calls her musical style jazz gospel. Though she is comparatively new to the gospel music industry having only performed since 1989 she has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the genre often said to be this generation's Ella Fitzgerald. In 2010 she founded The Love & Liberty Fellowship Pentecostal Overcoming Holy Church where she serves as Senior Eldress/Overseer-Bishop.
Eswyn Lyster.  Coral Eswyn (née Ellinor) Lyster (September 27 1923 - July 18 2009) was a Canadian author best known for writing extensively on the Canadian war bride experience. She also published articles on the Dieppe Raid in World War II as well as a book on genealogy.
Michael de Angelo.  Michael de Angelo is an American historical fiction author screenwriter and poet.
Gerry Leonard.  Gerry Leonard is an Irish lead guitarist and solo artist known for his harmonic and ambient guitar style and for his work with David Bowie. He has lived and worked in Dublin Copenhagen and Manhattan. He now lives with his wife Pam in rural New York.
Anssi Kela.  Anssi Kela (born 29 July 1972 in Kerava Finland) is a Finnish singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has published six albums. The debut Nummela is one of the best-selling Finnish records – it has sold over 150000 copies (quintuple platinum). The album is named after Kela's former hometown Nummela in Vihti. His biggest hits from that album were Mikan faijan BMW Kaksi sisarta Puistossa and Nummela. The next single Milla was in the triple platinum version of the album.
Jesse Johnson (musician).  Jesse Woods Johnson (born June 1 1960 in Rock Island Illinois) is a musician best known as the guitarist in the original lineup of The Time (more recently known as The Original 7ven).Johnson moved to St. Louis at the age of nine and was raised by foster parents after his parents split up. At age 16 he moved back to Rock Island to live with his father.
Benedetto Junck.  Benedetto Junck (born August 21/25 1852 - died October 3 1903) was an Italian composer the son of an Italian woman and an Alsatian father. Born in Turin he was trained there for a career in business and began work in that line in Paris before turning to music. He studied with Alberto Mazzucato and Antonio Bazzini. Much of his output was chamber music; he also composed a few songs and romanze.
Nicolás Guillén.  Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Cuban poet journalist political activist and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey Cuba. He studied law at the University of Havana but he soon abandoned a legal career and worked as a typographer and journalist.His poetry was published in various magazines from the early 1920s and his first collection Motivos de son appeared in 1930.
Kanako Itō.  Kanako Itō (いとう かなこ Itō Kanako born March 28 1973) is a female Japanese singer from Utsunomiya Tochigi Japan. She has sung many songs that have appeared in video games and anime. One of her notable songs in games is Kanashimi no Mukō e (悲しみの向こうへ) the bad end ending theme to the visual novel School Days. Itō has also sung songs for a drama CD and anime adaptations of School Days.
Ray Hedges.  Ray Madman Hedges from Surrey England is an English song writer and record producer who has had over 60 top 20 singles and albums including seven UK number-ones as producer and or writer with many on his own record labels.Hedges has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and awarded Producer of the Year.He has worked with a diverse selection of artists including Get Ready Orlando B*Witched Donny Tourette Towers of London Chicane Lil' Chris Take That Bryan Adams Boyzone Maxi Jazz from Faithless Big Brovaz Cher Clannad Tom Jones Daniel Bedingfield Boy George Ronan Keating Emma Bunton Gene Simmons from Kiss Liberty X Brian McFadden PJ & Duncan A.K.A. Joe McElderry and Gareth Gates Dizzee Rascal and James Corden.
David Vanian.  Dave Vanian (born David Lett 12 October 1956) is a rock musician and lead singer of the punk rock band the Damned. Formed in 1976 in London the Damned were the first British punk band to release a single an album have a record hit the UK charts and tour the United States. Despite a fluid line-up since their founding Vanian has been ever-present the only member to have been so.
Lonnie Ortega.  Lonnie Ortega (born October 3 1946 in California) is an American artist specializing in aviation art.
Nancy Apple.  Nancy Apple is a Memphis Tennessee musician songwriter producer radio personality former NARAS executive and owner of the independent record label Ringo Records. Known professionally as the Cadillac Cowgirl Apple has been active in promoting the music and culture of Memphis since the early 1980s. She has collaborated in songwriting with Keith Sykes and other professionals in Memphis Nashville Tennessee and Austin Texas. Her first album Outside the Lines was released in 2001.
Makoto Tsumura.  Makoto Tsumura (津村 まこと Tsumura Makoto born July 22 1965) is a Japanese voice actress from Hokkaidō formerly affiliated with Mausu Promotion.
Art Tatum.  Arthur Art Tatum Jr. (/ˈteɪtəm/ October 13 1909 – November 5 1956) was an American jazz pianist.Tatum is widely acknowledged as a virtuoso and one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time and was a major influence on later generations of jazz pianists. He was hailed for the technical proficiency of his performances which set a new standard for jazz piano virtuosity.
Soldat Jahman.  Soldat Jahman also known as Jah-Man or Jahman (born in 1979) is a French ragga hip hop artist originating from the Martinique combining also various influences like reggaeton and rap. Based in Marseille he was part of the Ghetto Boyz Club (G.B.C. aka B-O-G). Soldat Jahman also cooperates closely with DJ Mam's and is part of DJ Mam's music collectif 123 Marseille. He is famous for his singles Boogie Dance My Sexy Lady and Bolide.
Stu Marshall.  Stu Marshall is a guitarist from Sydney Australia. He is a member of Sydney heavy metal band Empires of Eden and Paindivision.Marshall is best known as a member of the Sydney metal band Dungeon with whom he recorded three albums and toured extensively throughout Australia Europe and Japan between 2001 and 2005.
Josh Lewis (guitarist).  Josh Lewis (born October 15 1967) was one of the two original Warrant guitarists the other being Erik Turner who is still in the band.
Neža Maurer.  Neža Maurer Škofič (born 22 December 1930) is a Slovene poet and writer. She writes for children young adults and adults and has also worked as a translator journalist editor and teacher.Maurer was born in the village of Podvin near Polzela in 1930. She trained as a teacher in Ljubljana and taught in schools in Črni vrh nad Idrijo and Ilirska Bistrica and at the same time got a degree in Slavistics from the University of Ljubljana.
Trevor Hairsine.  Trevor Hairsine is a British comics artist whose detailed style has been compared to that of Bryan Hitch.In August 2005 Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada named him as one of Marvel Comics's Young Guns a group of artists who have the qualities that make a future superstar penciller.
Zhu Yudong.  Zhu Yudong was born in 1974 in Wuxi Jiangsu Province China.He studied painting during his early years and graduated from Nanjing University of Arts. Later he studied directorship of feature films at Beijing Film Academy receiving Master’s Degree.
Kenneth V. Jones.  Kenneth Victor Jones (born 14 May 1924 Bletchley Buckinghamshire) is a British film score composer.
Olinda Cho.  Olinda Cho Yu Yen (Chinese: 卓犹燕; pinyin: Zhuó Yóuyàn; born May 24 1980) is a Singapore Idol Season 1 finalist. She was the competition's second runner-up behind Sylvester Sim and Taufik Batisah.She has lost a tremendous amount of weight probably due to her slimming advertising contract. Her debut album was supposed to be released on September 2006 but it was pushed back for more than a year to October 2007.[1]
Pierre Huyghe.  Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.
Pete Johansson.  Peter (Pete) Johansson (born November 6 1973) is a Canadian comedian writer and actor. He has a number of notable television appearances including Comedy Centrals Premium Blend CTV's Comedy Now CBC's Comics! and CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.
Shen Wei (photographer).  Shen Wei (simplified Chinese: 沈玮; traditional Chinese: 沈瑋; pinyin: shěn wěi) is a Chinese artist known for his intimate portraits of others and himself as well as his photographic exploration of contemporary China.Born in Shanghai China Shen Wei lives in New York City. Having grown up in a shanty town in Yangpu District of Shanghai he began his art training at an early age at a local Children's Palace.Shen Wei’s work has been exhibited and published internationally.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés.  Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 27 January 1945) is an American poet post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst.
Arthur Heming.  Arthur Henry Howard Heming (January 17 1870 – October 30 1940) was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the chronicler of the North for his paintings sketches essays and books about Canada's North.Born in Paris Ontario and raised in Hamilton he studied in New York and the Old Lyme Art Colony under Frank DuMond and in London with the Welsh master Frank Brangwyn. Heming was colour blind and as a result worked mostly in black and white for most of his life.
Philly Lutaaya.  Philly Bongoley Lutaaya (19 October 1951 – 15 December 1989) was a Ugandan musician who was the first prominent Ugandan to give a human face to HIV/AIDS. Before dying of AIDS Lutaaya had spent his remaining healthy time writing songs about his battle with AIDS and touring churches and schools throughout Uganda to spread a message of prevention and hope. Philly Lutaaya was popular in Uganda in the 1960s and in the 1970s he toured Congo Kenya and Japan.
Martin Kippenberger.  Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media superfiction as well as his provocative jocular and hard-drinking public persona.Kippenberger was widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times.
Dirty Harry (pornographic actor).  Dirty Harry (born February 17 1951) is an American pornographic film actor. He also performs under the stage names as Chef Ali and Uncle Dirty. He entered the industry in 2003 at the age of 52.He is the uncle of legendary porn actor T. T. Boy and his brother Talon (who formerly performed under the alias Alex Baldwin). His son Jacob is also a cameraman and his other son Shaun works as a gaffer in the industry.
Félix Le Couppey.  Félix Le Couppey (14 April 1811 - 4 July 1887) was a French music teacher pianist and composer of a series of elementary études for piano students.
Einar Tørnquist.  Einar Tørnquist Johansen (born 2323. juni June 1982) is a drummer and talk-show host.
Kate Wilhelm.  Kate Wilhelm (born June 8 1928) is an American writer.
Asaf Hanuka.  Asaf Hanuka (born 1974) is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist notable for his collaborations with his identical twin brother Tomer and his work with Etgar Keret in both Hebrew and English.Asaf and Tomer co-created Bipolar an experimental comic book series which gained them nominations for the Eisner Harvey and Ignatz awards.
Adam Kalinowski.  Adam Kalinowski (born in Poznan Poland in 1959) is a Polish visual artist author of outdoor projects and texts about art. He consider work of an artist as an inventor according to J.Cage than working in some particular art stylistic.
Ron Kingston (musician).  Ron Kingston is an Australian recording artist singer songwriter from Melbourne Australia.
Charles Hayter.  Charles Hayter (24 February 1761 – 1 December 1835) was an English painter.He was the son of Charles Hayter (1728–1795) an architect from Twickenham and his wife Elizabeth Holmes. He first trained with his father but showed an inclination for drawing by producing some small pencil portraits principally of family members. He was enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1786 at the late age of about 25.
Steve Cradock.  Stephen John Steve Cradock (born 22 August 1969 in Solihull) is an English guitarist most notable for playing in the rock group Ocean Colour Scene. Cradock also plays the guitar in Paul Weller's band having appeared on all of Weller's solo records following his self-titled debut solo album.He is a distinctive guitarist who has a retro 1960s sound. Cradock's influences include The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Greg Bennett (writer).  Greg Bennett (born March 12 1950) is a space flight engineer and science fiction writer. He is the founder of the Artemis Project.
Robert Kinerk.  Robert Kinerk is an Author who is best known for his Children's Books. Kinerk has written Clorinda Clorinda Takes Flight Bear's First Christmas and Oh How Sylvester Can Pester!. He is a Graduate of Santa Clara University and the University of Notre Dame. Before he wrote he became an Author he was a journalist and playwright.
Paul Hammond (musician).  Paul Hammond (1952–1992) was an English rock drummer best known for his time with the progressive rock band Atomic Rooster.
Joe Connelly (producer).  Joe Connelly (August 22 1917 – February 13 2003) was a television and radio scriptwriter born in New York City. He was best known for his work on Amos and Andy Meet Mr. McNutley Leave It To Beaver Ichabod and Me Bringing Up Buddy and The Munsters along with his co-writer Bob Mosher who hails from Auburn New York.Connelly had a stint in the merchant marines before landing a job at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York City where he met Mosher a fellow copywriter.
Stuart Aiken.  Stuart Aiken (born 1988 in Ajax Ontario) was the vocalist of the band These Silhouettes from 2005 until the present. These Silhouettes has recently posted that they are recording a new EP after almost a 2-year hiatus.During his period with These Silhouettes Stuart had many encounters with the Canadian media.
Ray Scott (singer).  Carlton Ray Scott Jr. (born in Semora North Carolina) is an American country music artist. He started his first band at age 19 and later moved to Atlanta Georgia to attend the Music Business Institute. After receiving an associate's degree he moved to Raleigh North Carolina where he started another band before moving again this time to Nashville Tennessee.
Serena B. Miller.  Serena B. Miller is an American author of Inspirational Fiction Historical Fiction and Amish Fiction.
Jean-Paul Saari.  Jean-Paul Saari is a writer songwriter producer engineer musician and sometime painter. Saari was born in suburban Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1967 the son of the Mechanical Engineer Robert Saari and Jean Saari and the brother of Howard and (the writer) Laura Saari. The ancestry is from the far north of Finland and the actual family name is not Saari.
Damion Scott (comics).  Damion Scott (born December 28 1976 in Spanish Town Jamaica[citation needed]) is an American comic book artist and writer.
Arnold Houbraken.  Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. He had ten children. His son Jacobus Houbraken (1698–1780) was an engraver of portraits and book illustrations including books by his father. His daughter Antonina Houbraken also became an engraver for an Amsterdam publisher and is known today for her embellishment of cityscapes and buildings with animals and people.
Vernon Schmid.  Vernon Schmid (born July 31 1934 in Parsons Kansas) is a poet journalist educator clergyman and syndicated columnist. Is the author of Westering Otium Sanctum Houlihans and Horse Sense and Showdown at Chalk Creek.
Doug Ford (musician).  Doug Ford is an Australian rock guitarist and songwriter since the 1960s. During 1968–1972 Ford was the lead guitarist in the Australian pop-rock band The Masters Apprentices and established a successful writing partnership with the group's lead singer Jim Keays.
Bobby Long (musician).  Bobby Long (born September 18 1985) is a British singer-songwriter whose largely acoustic body of work has its roots in folk. Born Robert Thomas Long in Wigan near Manchester he moved at age 4 to Calne in Wiltshire where he grew up though he still holds deep roots in Wigan. He currently resides in New York NY.
Nina Arkina.  Nina Arkina (1891 – 1980) was a Russian-born Norwegian writer.She was born in Odessa but lived in Norway. She issued biographical novels about Catherine the Great (1949) Alexander I of Russia (two volumes in 1950 and 1951) Nicholas I of Russia and Alexander Pushkin (1954) Alexander II of Russia (1956) Alexander III of Russia and Nicholas II of Russia (1963) Sonya Kovalevsky (1967) Karl Marx (1968) and Vladimir Lenin (1972).She was married to editor and politician Victor Mogens.
Glenn Hauman.  Glenn Hauman is an American editor publisher writer of novels and short stories book illustrator and comic book colorist. He has worked in a variety of roles in print and electronic publishing including software and website development as well as for his TV and novel work within the Star Trek and X-Men franchises.
Ruth Flowers.  Ruth Flowers (born 29 March 1940) aka Mamy Rock is a British disc jockey.
Ootje Oxenaar.  Robert Deodaat Emile (Ootje) Oxenaar (born 7 October 1929 at The Hague) is a Dutch graphic artist.Ootje Oxenaar studied visual arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. From 1966 until 1985 he worked for the Nederlandsche Bank where he designed two series of banknotes.
Arshad Mehmood (composer).  Arshad Mehmood is a Pakistani actor music composer and singer. He is best known for his acting roles in popular Pakistani TV drama serials such as Aangan Terha and Dhoop Kinare and the music composition of many popular Ghazals from the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
Aert van Waes.  Aert van Waes or Aert de Waes (ca. 1620 Gouda - ca. 1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of the Baroque period.
Cecilia Cheung.  Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi (born 24 May 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and cantopop singer. She is the ex-wife of Nicholas Tse thus being the daughter-in-law of Patrick Tse and Deborah Lee. She and Nicholas have two sons Lucas and Quintus Tse. She is considered a Sing girl—an actress who first received media attention through starring alongside Stephen Chow and later went on to have a successful career of her own. Cheung was also involved in the 2008 Edison Chen photo scandal.
Aurelio Giorni.  Aurelio Giorni (15 September 1895 – 23 September 1938) was an accomplished and well known American pianist and composer of Italian birth who immigrated to the United States in 1914. In addition to composing music and mastering piano he toured throughout the United States both as a soloist and with the Elshuco Trio.
Carel van Savoyen.  Carel van Savoyen (1619–1665) also known as Carlo da Savoia was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period.
Alice Rollit Coe.  Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940) was an immigrant Seattle housewife and author. She wrote Lyrics of Fir and Foam (1908) and Chimes Rung by the University District Herald (1921).
Johnny Carver.  Johnny Carver (born November 24 1940 in Jackson Mississippi) is an American country music artist. Between 1968 and 1977 he charted fifteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard country charts. His highest-charting single was a cover of Tony Orlando's Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree a cover that reached No. 1 for him in 1974. He also had cover success with his version of the Starland Vocal Band's Afternoon Delight. Carver lives today in rural Wilson County Tn.
Olivia De Berardinis.  Olivia De Berardinis or simply Olivia (born November 1948) is an American artist who is known for her paintings of women often referred to as pinup or cheesecake art. She has been working in this genre since the mid-1970s. Since 2004 Olivia has been a monthly contributor to Playboy magazine where her art pinup page appears with captions written by Hugh Hefner.
Elaine Sterne Carrington.  Elaine Sterne Carrington (June 14 1891 New York New York – May 4 1958 New York New York) was an American screenwriter playwright novelist and short story author who found her greatest success writing for radio. Carrington originated radio soap opera in 1932 and wrote more than 12000 daily dramas during her long career. At one time she wrote three separate shows — Pepper Young's Family When a Girl Marries and Rosemary — that each ran five times a week.
Stephen Roessner.  Stephen Roessner is a Grammy Award winning recording engineer/musician/multi-instrumentalist/producer from Binghamton New York. He currently resides in Rochester New York and is mostly known for his performance in the group Saxon Shore. He is also a member of the Rochester based chiptune band Revengineers.Stephen runs his personal studio Calibrated Recording and is currently a Ph.D. student at The University of Rochester. He formerly worked at The Juilliard School as a recording engineer.
Seiichi Niikuni.  Seiichi Niikuni (新国誠一 Niikuni Seiichi December 7 1925 – August 23 1977) was a Japanese poet and painter. He was one of the foremost pioneers of the international avant-garde concrete poetry movement creating works of calligraphic visual and aural poetry. He is recognized as one of the most important poets of recent times in Japanese and German textbooks.It is said that during his latter years he started to prefer the old kanji orthography form of his name 新國誠一.
Nicolas Fargues.  Nicolas Fargues (born 8 March 1972) is a French novelist.From 1998 to 2002 he had various jobs in journalism libraries and publishing. He published two novels Le Tour du propriétaire (2000) and Demain si vous le voulez bien (2001) before achieving his first major public and critical success with One Man Show published in 2002. This book is based on his own experiences in the media world where he encountered celebrities whom he found smaller and more tired than on the screen.
Osama Afifi.  Osama Afifi has been a professional bassist since 1983. He has recorded and performed live with many artists such as U.S. and Canadian tours with Yanni during the Reflections of Passion Revolution in Sound and Dare to Dream concert tours; a European and Canadian tour with French artist Vanessa Paradis; and a TV show on VH1 called Storytellers with The Doors.
Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair.  Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair (1920 – 12 April 2005) popularly known as Vaikom was an Indian writer and journalist who wrote primarily in Malayalam. He was born in Vaikom a viilage in Kottayam district of Kerala.
Misty Oldland.  Misty Oldland (born Michelle Oldland) is a British-Swiss singer-songwriter best known for her 1994 singles A Fair Affair (Je T'Aime) and Got Me a Feeling a duet with soul singer Omar Lye-fook MBE.She has had three of her singles reach the UK Singles Chart with top 10 singles across Europe and Japan most notably in France where album Supernatural topped the charts for 6 months and Iceland where it was number 1.
Damien Rice.  Damien Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter musician and record producer who plays guitar piano clarinet and percussion.Rice was raised in Celbridge County Kildare Ireland and began his musical career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper. After leaving the band he worked as a farmer in Tuscany and busked throughout Europe before returning to Ireland in 2001 and beginning a solo musical career.In 2002 his debut album O reached No.
Marko Savić (pianist).  Marko Savić (Serbian: Марко Савић) (born 26 April 1941 in Prizren Yugoslavia - died February 8 2013 in Belgrade Serbia) was a Serbian pianist and university professor.
Chris Gohde.  Chris Gohde (born November 16 1966) is an American musician best known for playing drums with the Seattle-based metal bands Mistrust and My Sister's Machine.
Renee Olstead.  Rebecca Renee Olstead (born June 18 1989) is an American actress and singer. Active since childhood as an actress she is best known for her roles in the TV sitcoms Still Standing as Lauren Miller and The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Madison Cooperstein. In addition she has recorded four studio albums primarily of jazz music.
Wilhelm Ripe.  Wilhelm Ripe (16 November 1818 – 5 December 1885) was a German painter and graphic designer.Ripe was born in Hahn's Klee in 1818. His contributions were during the era of Romanticism.He died in Goslar in 1885.
Francine Reed.  Francine Reed (born July 11 1947 Pembroke Township Illinois) is an American blues singer.
Timothy Holme.  Timothy Holme (1928-1987) was an English born but latterly Italian resident author. He is best known for his biography of Carlo Goldoni the Venetian playwright and librettist and for his series of five mystery novels featuring the fictional Neapolitan detective Achille Peroni.Timothy Holme began his working life in the theatre switching to journalism after seven years of acting. On holiday in Italy he met and married his Italian teacher Bianca.
Richard Archer.  Richard Archer (born 18 January 1977 in Staines-upon-Thames Surrey England) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the lead vocalist guitarist principal songwriter and main composer of indie rock band Hard-Fi. Hard-Fi have produced several top 10 hits and two #1 albums. The influence of Archer's hometown of Staines is often evident in his lyrics. He used to front a band called Contempo from 1997 until 2001.
Stacey Blades.  Stacey Blades (born Brian Stacey; November 4 1968) is a guitarist from Calgary Alberta who has played with such bands as Fraidy Katt Roxx Gang Mojo Gurus Supercool Smack L.A. Guns and 100 Proof. He has played on the L.A. Guns studio albums Rips the Covers Off Tales from the Strip Covered in Guns and Hollywood Forever and the L.A. Guns live album Loud and Dangerous: Live from Hollywood.
Emil Herrmann.  Emil Herrmann (1888 - 1968) was a prominent dealer and restorer of violins in New York City. Nearly all of the most famous instruments passed through his hands at one time or another of his career including literally hundreds made by Antonio Stradivari Jacob Stainer and the Amati and Guarneri families. He taught and employed later influential figures in the violin trade such as Simone Sacconi and Hans Weisshaar.
Pietro Calzetta.  Pietro Calzetta (fl. 1470-1500) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was son-in-law of Montagnana and a pupil of Squarcione. He painted in the chapel of Corpus Christi at the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. In 1470 he restored some works of Stefano of Ferrara and in the same year he contracted to work with Jacopo Montagnana and Matteo del Pozzo at the decorations of the Cappella Gattamelata in Padua.
Nakkaş Sinan Bey.  Nakkaş Sinan Bey was an Ottoman court miniature painter who lived in the 15th-century. He and his student Ahmed Siblizade specialized into portrait paintings of Ottoman sultans. They made use of European techniques such as shading and perspective.
Giovanni Battista Vernici.  Giovanni Battista Vernici (died 1617) was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil in the school of the Carracci. He painted religious and historical pictures for the churches and public buildings of Pesaro and Urbino particularly in the latter city where he was appointed principal painter to the Duke in whose service he died.
Marc Collin.  Marc Collin is a French musician film music composer and record producer. He is mostly known for being the producer and founder of the project Nouvelle Vague with Olivier Libaux.His most widely known music is the soundtrack to Les Kidnappeurs (1999) by Graham Guit of which the main theme has been reissued on collections such as Café del Mar Volume 6.
Makisig Morales.  Makisig Morales (born December 22 1996) appeared on the TV reality-show Little Big Star and is the lead singer of the boy band Mak and the Dudes. As a child actor he played the lead role in Super Inggo'.At the age of 5 Makisig Morales competed in the Duet Bulilit a singing segment in MTB noon-time variety show of ABS-CBN together with his sister Mayumi.
Kayah (singer).  Katarzyna Rooijens (born as Katarzyna Szczot 5 November 1967 in Warsaw) professionally known as Kayah is a Polish singer-songwriter. In 1995 she released her first self-written album Kamień and established herself as one of the most successful Polish singers with further releases Zebra (1997) and Kayah i Bregović (1999). In the early 2000s Kayah founded her own label Kayax which has signed up many successful artists and released numerous critically acclaimed albums.
Manuel Zorrilla.  Manuel Zorrilla de la Torre (Born 26 April 1919) is an Argentinian painter illustrator engraver drawer and sculptor. His parents were Spanish immigrants.
John Herndon.  John Herndon (aka Johnny Machine) is a drummer from Chicago Illinois. He is a co-founder and drummer in the prog rock/post-rock/fusion band Tortoise.
Declan Nerney.  Declan Nerney (born c. 1959) is an Irish singer of the Country and Irish genre. Born in the town of Drumlish in County Longford he started at the age of 16 in local band the The Hi-Lows. His big break came with his autobiographical song The Marquee in Drumlish.He has a huge following and charts on a regular basis not only in Ireland but in Scotland and England and his recordings are sought worldwide. His work has extensive airplay on stations that feature the Country and Irish genre.
John Otto (drummer).  For the Texas state representative who is a former marching band drum major see John Otto (politician).John Everett Otto (born March 22 1977 in Edmonton Alberta) is an American musician best known as the drummer and founding member of nu-metal band Limp Bizkit.
Driicky Graham.  Nasir Frederick Graham (born November 23 1991) better known by his stage name Driicky Graham is an American rapper from Oxford North Carolina. He is currently signed to the independent record labels Nu World Era Music Group and E1 Music.
Beppo Levi.  Beppo Levi (14 May 1875 – 18 August 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books not only on mathematics but also on physics history philosophy and pedagogy. Levi was a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Masha Hamilton.  Masha Hamilton is a United States journalist and the author of several novels.Hamilton worked as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press for five years in the Middle East where she covered the First Intifada the peace process and the partial Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. She spent five years in Moscow where she was a Los Angeles Times correspondent and reported for NBC/Mutual Radio.
Stephen K. Amos.  Stephen Kehinde Amos (born 1970)[citation needed] is a British stand-up comedian of Nigerian background. A regular on the international comedy circuit he is known for including his audience members during his shows. He began his career as a compere at the Big Fish comedy clubs in South London and has been nominated for Chortle's Best Compere Award three times in 2004 2007 and 2008.
Shannon Lee.  Shannon Emery Lee (born April 19 1969) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the daughter of martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-Chuen and the younger sister of Brandon Lee.
Arne Lindblad.  Arne Lindblad (30 January 1887 – 19 December 1964) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 107 films between 1934 and 1964.
Matt Belsante.  Matt Belsante (IPA: bel-SAN-tay) (born October 5 1984) is an American big band singer/songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee.
Gordon McPherson.  Gordon McPherson (born 1965 Dundee) is a Scottish composer. He studied at the University of York England returning there for his doctorate continuing with post-doctoral research at the Royal Northern College of Music.MacPherson has composed almost 100 pieces (as of 2006). His work has been performed and broadcast widely throughout the world.
Tony Barwick.  Tony Barwick (10 July 1934 – August 1993) was a British television scriptwriter who worked extensively on series created and produced by Gerry Anderson.
Donald K. Tarlton.  Donald K. Tarlton CM (born 12 May 1943) is a Canadian entertainment businessman. He promoted numerous concerts and Canadian musicians under the name Donald K. Donald.He attended Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) following his graduation from Rosemere High School both in the Montreal region. His interest in entertainment promotion began in his youth.
Gwerful Mechain.  Gwerful Mechain (fl. 1462-1500) who lived in Mechain in Powys is perhaps the most famous female Welsh-language poet after Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) who was also from northern Powys. Little is known of her life. Her work composed in the traditional strict metres including cywyddau and englynion is often a celebration of religion and sex sometimes within the same poem.
Jan Roar Leikvoll.  Jan Roar Leikvoll (born 1974) is a Norwegian author. He made his literary debut in 2008 with the novel A Winter Story followed by The Violins (2010) The Bovara Monastery (2012) and The Songbird in 2013 all on the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget. He was awarded Nynorsk Literature Prize for The Violins and Stig Sæterbakkens memorial prize for his three first novels.
Eileen Favorite.  Eileen Favorite (born September 10 1964 Chicago) is an American writer and teacher and living in Chicago Illinois. She received a B.A. in English with a French concentration from the University of Illinois Urbana. In 1999 she received an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute Chicago.
Dave Pomeroy.  Dave Pomeroy (born April 26 1956) is a United States musician known as a Nashville vocalist songwriter and producer (Earwave Productions) but is best known as a bassist. He has played electric and acoustic bass in the studio for many recording artists in addition to his solo and concert work.
Jacques Dumesnil.  Jacques Dumesnil (9 November 1904 – 8 May 1998) was a French film and television actor.
Roger Glover.  Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945 in Brecon) is a British bassist songwriter and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist for hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. Glover wrote the guitar riff on Maybe I'm a Leo.
Michel Butor.  Michel Butor (French: [miʃɛl bytɔʁ]; born 14 September 1926) is a French writer.
Linda McCartney.  Linda Louise Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24 1941 – April 17 1998) was an American musician photographer animal rights activist and was married to Paul McCartney a founding member of The Beatles.In 1969 Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman and their marriage was blessed at St. John's Wood Church. Later they formed McCartney's band Wings. In the same year Paul adopted Heather Louise Linda's daughter from her first marriage to Joseph Melville See.
Walt Zeboski.  Walt Zeboski ( – November 12 2012) was an American photographer and photojournalist for the Associated Press for more than thirty years. Zeboski extensively photographed Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign snapping some of the most iconic pictures of the Reagan's campaign.
Dan Rowan.  Daniel Hale Dan Rowan (July 22 1922 - September 22 1987) was an American comedian. He was featured in the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In where he played straight man to Dick Martin.
Bobby Braddock.  Robert Valentine (Bobby) Braddock (born August 5 1940) is an American country music songwriter and record producer. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry including 13 number-one hit singles.
Bill Belew.  William Lewis Belew (May 20 1931 – January 7 2008) was an American costume designer who created stage outfits worn among others by Elvis Presley Ella Fitzgerald The Band Gladys Knight Gloria Estefan Josephine Baker Brooke Shields Joan Rivers Dionne Warwick the Osmonds and the Jacksons.
Ahmad Aali.  Ahmad Aali (Persian: احمد عالی‎ (born 1935 in Tabriz) is an Iranian photographer and artist. On September 24 2010 a collection of Aali's pictures taken between 1961 and 2009 went on display at the Mah-e Mehr Gallery in Tehran.
Menik Kurukulasuriya.  Hyacinth Menik Kanthi Kurukulasuriya is a Sri Lankan actress.
Paul Summers (poet).  Paul Summers (born 1967) is an English poet who was born in Blyth Northumberland and currently residing in Emu Park. Summers was a founding co-editor of the following magazines: Billy Liar and Liar Republic.
Mark Seal.  Mark Seal is an American journalist and author. Seal worked as a journalist in Texas before becoming a freelance magazine writer in 1984 a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 2003 and has written and co-written about 15 books.Seal's magazine writings have appeared in Esquire Playboy Rolling Stone Condé Nast Traveler Golf Digest Texas Monthly InStyle Town & Country Time and The New York Times.
Manthia Diawara.  Manthia Diawara is a Malian writer filmmaker cultural theorist scholar and art historian. Diawara holds the title of University Professor at New York University where he is Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs.
May'n.  May Nakabayashi (中林 芽依 Nakabayashi Mei born October 21 1989) better known by her stage name May'n (メイン Mein) is a Japanese J-Pop artist managed by the Horipro talent agency and under the Victor Entertainment label. She was formerly under the Universal Music label.
Aimee Sweet.  Aimee Sweet (born May 14 1977 in Cranston Rhode Island) is an American glamour model and pornographic actress.At the age of six she began performing in stage plays and singing and developed an interest in sports such as field hockey softball swimming and cross country which she continued to do through high school. She also was very involved with her school's student council.Sweet's career began at age 19 when she had a chance meeting with Suze Randall.
Juliana Horatia Ewing.  Juliana Horatia Ewing (née Gatty) (1841–1885) was an English writer of children's stories.
Richard B. Cook.  Richard Briscoe Cook (1838–1916) D.D. was a British author most known for his biography of William Ewart Gladstone The Grand Old Man.
Estelle Skornik.  Estelle Skornik (born 4 July 1971 in Paris) is a French actress known in the United Kingdom for playing Nicole alongside Max Douchin (Papa) in a range of Renault Clio advertisements.
Sukrit Wisetkaew.  Sukrit Wisetkaew (Thai: สุกฤษฎิ์ วิเศษแก้ว RTGS: Su-krit Wisetkaeo pronounced [sù.krìt wí.sèːt.kɛ̂ːw] born September 4 1985) commonly known by his nickname Bie (บี้; RTGS: Bi) is a Thai pop singer and actor. He was discovered on the third season of a Thai television talent contest The Star. After winning the position as the first runner-up in The Star 3 Bie became one of the hottest rising singers and gained immense popularity after his debut single I Need Somebody.
Bill Sienkiewicz.  Boleslav Felix Robert Bill Sienkiewicz (pronounced sin-KEV-itch) (born May 3 1958) is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin. Sienkiewicz often utilizes oil painting collage mimeograph and other forms generally uncommon in comic books.
Jacopo Avanzo.  Jacopo Avanzo (or Avanzi or Da Vanzo) of Verona has long been confused with Jacopo degli Avanzi of Bologna; but the remains of an inscription in the Cappella San Giorgio point to Verona as the birthplace of Avanzo. He painted decorations in conjunction with Altichiero da Zevio in the Cappella San Felice and the Cappella San Giorgio in the church of Sant' Antonio at Padua in 1377.
Bell Nuntita.  Nuntita Khampiranon (Thai: นันทิตา ฆัมภิรานนท์; RTGS: Nanthita Khamphiranon; born December 20 1983) or nickname Art (อาร์ต) stage name Bell (เบลล์) and usually known as Bell Nuntita is a Thai transgender actress singer entertainer and radio DJ. Nuntita was part of a TV show called Venus Flytrap Search for the Missing Puzzle in 2007. As one of twelve contestants she competed to take the place of two former cast members.
Ann Mary Hamilton.  Ann Mary Hamilton was an English gothic and romantic novelist [1]. Her work mixed the gothic and domestic and were unusual in that her villanous characters tended to be reformed by the compassion of others rather than destroyed by their own darker urges [2].
Ali (South Korean singer).  Cho Yong Jin (Korean: 조용진) famously known as Ali (stylized as: ALi) is a South Korean singer-songwriter famous for her work on Korean pop music in the early twenty-first century. Her stage name is a motif from Muhammad Ali. This is because for it to be engraved easily masses. Following her debut in 2009 she is primarily known for her strong vocals and her time as a contestant on the KBS program Immortal Song 2.
Timo Aaltonen.  Timo Antero Aaltonen (born 11 April 1969 in Vehmaa Finland Proper) is a 189-cm tall Finnish shot putter who weighs 130 kg and competes for Turun Urheiluliitto which is the same club that Paavo Nurmi ran for. He competed and won a gold medal at the 2000 European Indoor Athletics Championships with a qualifying put of 20.57 m and a final put of 20.62 m.
Marco Carola.  Marco Carola (born 7 February 1975 Naples Italy) is an Italian electronic musician and DJ.
STAN (art-group).  STAN (art-group) is the modern art community acting in Ukraine since 1999. Art-group «STAN» contributes the accumulation of creative forces of the region to overcome the cultural crisis and realization the creative projects. Location of group – Luhansk.Art-group «STAN» unites writers philosophers artists journalists educators and students. Founder of group - poet Alexander Sygida. Chairman of art-group «STAN» is Yaroslav Minkin.
Michael Ward (musician).  Michael Ward is an American guitarist who has played with the bands School of Fish and The Wallflowers. He has also recorded and performed with John Hiatt and Ben Harper. Currently he plays with Gogol Bordello.
Khadija Nazirova.  Xadica Nazirova (born February 12 1978) is an Azerbaijani TV presenter. She started her TV career when she was 18 and since then contributed significantly to the development of independent media in Azerbaijan.
Di’ja.  Hadiza Blell better known by her stage name Di’ja is a Sierra Leonean Nigerian recording artist visual artist fashion designer and songwriter. She is currently signed to Mavin Records. In 2009 she released her first single Rock steady which was nominated for Best Urban/R&B Single at the 2009 Canadian Radio Music Awards. Moreover she won the Best New Artist award at the 2008 Beat Music Awards.
François-Marie Luzel.  François-Marie Luzel (6 June 1826 - 26 February 1895) often known by his Breton name Fañch an Uhel was a French folklorist and Breton-language poet.
Theodor Aman.  Theodor Aman (Romanian pronunciation: [teˈodor aˈman]; 20 March 1831 Câmpulung-Muscel–19 August 1891 Bucharest) was a Romanian painter of Armenian descent. His style is often considered to be a predecessor of Impressionism.He is buried in Bellu cemetery.
Taku Takahashi.  Taku Takahashi (高橋 拓 Takahashi Taku) (born March 29 1974 stylized as ☆Taku Takahashi) is a Japanese DJ and record producer who debuted in 1998 as a member of the group M-Flo.
Nikolay Koshelev.  Nikolay Andreyevich Koshelev (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ко́шелев) (May 3 1840–1918) was a Russian painter.Koshelev was born in the village of Serman in Penza Oblast. Being poor Koshelev could not afford to enter the Stupin School of Painting in Arzamas and instead became an apprentice of a local Church painter. In 1860 Koshelev travelled to St. Petersburg and studied at the Saint Petersburg School of Art.
Gilles Bensimon.  Gilles Bensimon (born 1944) is a French fashion photographer and the former International Creative Director of Elle magazine. He has also been the photographer on the reality television series America's Next Top Model.Born in Paris France he joined French Elle in 1967. Two years later Bensimon helped launch American Elle for which photographed Christy Turlington Cindy Crawford Naomi Campbell Tyra Banks Rachel Williams Honor Fraser Yasmin Le Bon Elle Macpherson and Beverly Peele.
Brian Collins (singer).  Brian Collins (born October 19 1950 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American country music artist. Between 1973 and 1974 he recorded two albums for Dot Records. In that same time span he charted three Top 40 singles on the Billboard country charts. His highest-charting single was a No. 10 cover of Jack Greene's Statue of a Fool.
Alicia Yánez Cossío.  Alicia Yánez Cossío (Quito December 10 1929) is a prominent Ecuadorian poet novelist and journalist.Alicia Yánez Cossío is one of the leading figures of Ecuadorian and Latin American literature and is the first person of Ecuador to win the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize (1996).In 2008 she received Ecuador's highest prize in Literature the Premio Eugenio Espejo for her lifetime of work.
Terri Hendrix.  Terri Hendrix (born 13 February 1968) is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and independent artist from San Marcos Texas who has been offering an eclectic brand of Americana — encompassing folk pop country blues and jazz — for more than two decades. To date Hendrix has released 14 albums on her own Wilory Records label co-wrote the Grammy-winning song Lil' Jack Slade by the Dixie Chicks and in 2011 published a book Cry Til You Laugh — The Part That Ain’t Art.
Kelly-Lynn.  Kelly-Lynn is a young vocalist from the United States who has recorded lead and backing vocals on 3 projects with Walt Disney Records and also is the voice of Veronica Lodge on the Archies Christmas Album featuring Betty and Veronica released in 2008.Kelly-Lynn recorded her first song at age 12. Her first song: I believe was played on over 60 Christian Radio stations around the country.
Duane Johnson.  Duane Johnson (born October 11 1968 Junction City Kansas) has lived in Kansas Missouri Louisiana and Texas. He currently lives outside of Austin Texas.
Satwinder Bitti.  Satwinder Bitti (Punjabi: ਸਤਵਿੰਦਰ ਬਿੱਟੀ) is a Punjabi singer of East Punjab (Indian Punjab). She was a national-level hockey player and later adapted singing as profession. In 2011 she judge a singing reality show Awaaz Punjab Di by a Punjabi TV channel mh1.
George Auriol.  George Auriol born Jean-Georges Huyot (26 April 1863 Beauvais (Oise) – February 1938 Paris) was a French poet songwriter graphic designer type designer and Art Nouveau artist. He worked in many media and created illustrations for the covers of magazines books and sheet music as well as other types of work such as monograms and trademarks.
Martha J. Lamb.  Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb (August 13 1829 – January 2 1893) was a United States author editor and historian.
Lucia Peka.  Lucia Peka (March 30 1912 – August 13 1991) was a Latvian-American Artist. Born in Latvia she became part of the Diaspora of artists who fled Latvia during World War II and eventually settled in the United States where she was a successful painter of landscapes figures and still life for almost 50 years. A touring gallery collection is currently (2010–2011) exhibiting a collection of Peka oil paintings along with other Latvian Displaced Persons of the mid 20th century.
Rollin Kirby.  Rollin Kirby (September 4 1875 Galva Illinois – May 8 1952 New York New York) was an American political cartoonist. In 1922 he was chronologically the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning an honor that he would receive three times.Kirby worked as a cartoonist at the New York Mail New York World and the New York Post. His Pulitzer Prizes were for cartoons On the Road to Moscow (1921) News from the Outside World (1924) and Tammany (1928).
Igor Khoroshev.  Igor Petrovich Khoroshev (Russian: Игорь Пeтpoвич Хорошев; born 14 July 1965 Moscow) is a Russian keyboard player living in the USA best known for his work with Yes between 1997 and 2001. Khoroshev appeared on their studio albums Open Your Eyes and The Ladder. Igor supported those albums on their tours. He showed his own special addition to the song Roundabout by playing a cowbell while doing the keyboards. He also plays on the live album / DVD House of Yes: Live from House of Blues.
Pete Willis.  Pete Willis (born Peter Andrew Willis 16 February 1960 Sheffield South Yorkshire England) is a British hard rock guitarist best known as an original member of the band Def Leppard. He co-wrote many tracks and played guitar on the band's first three albums On Through the Night High 'n' Dry and Pyromania which was being recorded at the time of his departure. He was fired from Def Leppard in 1982 and was replaced by Phil Collen.
Kovilan.  Kandanisseri Vattomparambil Velappan Ayyappan (9 July 1923–2 June 2010) or V. V. Ayyappan better known by his nom de plume Kovilan was a Malayalam language novelist and freedom fighter from Kerala state South India. He is considered as one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Indian literature. In all he had authored 11 novels 10 collections of short stories three essays and a play.
William Zorach.  William Zorach (February 28 1887 – November 15 1966) was a Lithuanian-born American sculptor painter printmaker and writer. He won the Logan Medal of the arts.
L. R. Wright.  Laurali Rose Wright (née Appleby) (5 June 1939 — 25 February 2001) was a Canadian writer of mystery novels.Born in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Wright worked as an actor (with her husband John Wright including a stint doing summer stock in Dawson City) and journalist before publishing her first novel Neighbours in 1979.
Kim Hoorweg.  Kim Hoorweg (born 9 December 1992) is a Dutch singer/songwriter.
Kei Suma.  Kei Suma (Japanese: すまけい; 4 September 1935 – 7 December 2013) was a Japanese film and television actor whose career spanned 25 years.Born on Kunashir Island under Japanese rule Suma began his acting career in 1985. He was best known for his roles in A Class to Remember (1993) and Pretty Woman (2003).Kei Suma died of liver cancer on 7 December 2013 aged 78 in Tokyo.
Joan Hohl.  Joan Hohl (b. June 13 1935 in United States) is a popular U.S.American writer of over 60 romance novels since 1980. She also signed her novels as Paula Roberts and Amii Lorin.
Carl Jackson.  Carl Eugene Jackson (born September 18 1953 in Louisville Mississippi) is an American country and bluegrass musician. Jackson's first Grammy was awarded in 1992 for his duet album with John Starling titled Spring Training. In 2003 Jackson produced the Grammy Award-winning CD titled Livin' Lovin' Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers - a tribute to Ira and Charlie Louvin.
Adam Frans van der Meulen.  Adam Frans van der Meulen (11 January 1632 – 15 October 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter specialising in battle scenes. He was active first in Brussels where he was a pupil of Pieter Snayers and from the 1660s onwards in Paris.
Saya Tin.  YMB Saya Tin (Burmese: ဝိုင်အမ်ဘီ ဆရာတင် pronounced: [wàiɴ àɴ bì sʰəjà tɪ̀ɴ]; 12 February 1894 – 8 August 1950) was a Burmese composer. He was one of three well known pre-war composers with the name Saya Tin. The others were Nandawshay Saya Tin and Thahaya Saya Tin. He is best known for composing Kaba Ma Kyei the national anthem of Burma (Myanmar).
Amaia Montero.  Amaia Montero Saldías (born August 26 1976) also known as the original vocalist of the Spanish pop-band La Oreja de Van Gogh between 1996 and 2007 is a singer/songwriter from Basque Country Spain who has sung in a variety of languages including Spanish Catalan Italian French and English among others.Amaia was the lead member and singer in the first four and most successful studio albums of La Oreja de Van Gogh such albums were Dile al sol (1998) El viaje de Copperpot (2000) Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida (2003) and Guapa (2006). 
Mary Lou Foy.  Mary Lou Foy (born August 17 1944) is an American photojournalist. She served as Picture Editor at the Washington Post from 1990 to 2006 and was president of the National Press Photographers Association in 1992.Foy attended Auburn High School and Auburn University receiving a B.A. in journalism from the latter in 1966.
Janie Fricke.  Janie Marie Fricke (born December 19 1947 in South Whitley Indiana) also known as Janie Frickie is an American country music singer best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early- to mid-1980s.Fricke was one of the most popular female country singers of the 1980s producing a string of hits and proving herself a versatile vocalist with a particular flair for ballads.She won the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year awards in 1982 and 1983.
Dina Goldstein.  Dina Goldstein (born 1969 Tel Aviv Israel) is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver Canada. She is a Canadian photographer and Pop Surrealist with a background in documentary photography. She creates visual series that place the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human condition. She is most known for her series Fallen Princesses created in 2007 which depicts fairy tale Princesses placed in modern day scenarios.
Terri Nunn.  Terri Kathleen Nunn (born June 26 1961 Los Angeles California United States) is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the new wave/synthpop band Berlin.
Alfonso Boschi.  Alfonso Boschi (1615–1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of his brother Francesco Boschi.
Bill Branon.  Bill Branon from Hartford Connecticut is a novelist and former Naval medical officer and weapons expert best known for his thriller Let Us Prey.
Tachibana Akemi.  Tachibana Akemi (橘 曙覧 1812 – October 13 1868) was a Japanese poet and classical scholar.
Elena Volkova.  Elena Andreevna Volkova (June 3 1915 - October 8 2013) (in Russian: Елена Андреевна Волкова) was a Ukrainian painter born in the city of Chuguyev.
Andy Ellison.  Andrew Andy Ellison (born 5 July 1946 Finchley North London) is a musician and vocalist best known as the frontman in John's Children Jet and Radio Stars.John's children also featured Marc Bolan and Chris Townson. During the height of their popularity Ellison carried a pillowcase stuffed with feathers throwing them around the stage.
Merle Travis.  Merle Robert Travis (November 29 1917 – October 20 1983) was an American country and Western singer songwriter and musician born in Rosewood Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are Sixteen Tons Re-Enlistment Blues and Dark as a Dungeon. However it is his masterly guitar playing and his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County Kentucky for which he is best known today.
John Metcalfe (writer).  William John Metcalfe (6 October 1891 – 31 July 1965) was a teacher short story writer and novelist.
Reese Klaiber.  Reese Klaiber is a Canadian country music artist. In 1998 Klaiber released his debut album Where I Come From. His 1999 single She's Sittin' Pretty reached the Top 20 of the RPM Country Tracks chart.
DJ Roxxi.  DJ Roxxi (born Deshnie Govender on 5 April 1985) is a South African DJ who gained recognition from 2006 onwards as the only Indian female club DJ in South Africa.[citation needed]
Lynford Anderson.  Lynford Anderson aka Andy Capp (born 1941) is a Jamaican studio engineer producer and vocalist best known for his 1968 hit Pop a Top.
Lacy Gibson.  Lacy Gibson (May 1 1936 – April 11 2011) was an American Chicago blues guitarist singer and songwriter. He most notably recorded the songs My Love Is Real and Switchy Titchy and in a long and varied career worked with Buddy Guy and Son Seals.One commentator noted that Gibson developed a large and varied repertoire after long stays with numerous bands many recording sessions and performances in Chicago nightclubs.
Leopold Suhodolčan.  Leopold Suhodolčan (10 August 1928 – 8 February 1980) was a Slovene writer best known for his juvenile fiction. Together with Stanko Kotnik he was one of the conceptors of the Reading Badge of Slovenia competition that still runs today as a motivation for primary school children in reading and literacy.Suhodolčan was born in Žiri in 1929. He worked as a teacher and headmaster in Prevalje in Slovenian Carinthia.
John Nichols (writer).  John Treadwell Nichols (born July 23 1940 Berkeley California) is an American novelist.
Lucien Romier.  Lucien Romier (Moiré 19 October 1885- Vichy 5 January 1944) was a French journalist and politician.After studying at the École des Chartes where he wrote a thesis on Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André he was a member of the French School in Rome.He made a career in journalism and was editor of the newspaper Le Figaro from 1925 to 1927 and from 1934 to 1942.Personal friend of Pétain he was minister of State in Laval's fourth Ministry from 18 April 1942 to 31 December 1943.He died of a heart attack while being arrested by the Gestapo.
Kent Stetson.  Kent Stetson C.M. (born July 5 1948 in Marshfield Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian playwright and novelist.He is best known for the plays Warm Wind in China (1988) one of the first and most prominent AIDS-themed plays produced in Canada; As I Am (1986) a noted gay-themed work; and the award-winning The Harps of God (1997).
Kurt Doles.  Kurt Doles (born August 2 1973) is an American composer and bass clarinetist. He is best known for his slow quiet instrumental pieces which are frequently written for unusual groups of instruments. Sometimes associated with the group of postminimalist California-based composers represented on the Cold Blue record label run by composer Jim Fox he has collaborated with musicians DAC Crowell and Daniel Patrick Quinn on various improvised electroacoustic ambient recording projects.
Alex Bradford.  Alex Bradford (January 23 1927 – February 15 1978) (professionally known as Professor Alex Bradford) was a multi-talented gospel composer singer arranger and choir director who was a great influence on artists such as Little Richard Bob Marley and Ray Charles and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in gospel.
Marguerite Abouet.  Marguerite Abouet is an Ivoirian writer of bandes dessinées. She was born in Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire in 1971. She is best known for her graphic novel series Aya.
Mayo Thompson.  Mayo Thompson (born 26 February 1944 in Houston Texas) is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Crayola (Krayola).
Orko Eloheim.  Orko Eloheim (formerly known as Orko the Sycotik Alien) (born 1975/1976) is an American alternative hip hop artist from San Diego California. He is also one half of the duo Nephlim Modulation Systems with Bigg Jus.
Varley O'Connor.  Varley O'Connor is an American novelist and short story writer. She is an associate professor at Kent State University.
Jeannie Hsieh.  Jeannie Hsieh (Chinese: 謝金燕; born December 25 1974) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter dancer actress and model. She is known for writing and performing music which combine techno and hip-hop often in Taiwanese Hokkien but sometimes mixed with Mandarin Cantonese and English. The music video for Hsieh's 2013 single Sister (姐姐) has been viewed over 10 million times on YouTube.
Gilla (singer).  Gilla (born Gisela Wuchinger 27 February 1950) is an Austrian singer from the late 1970s disco era.
Tony Oxley.  Tony Oxley (born 15 June 1938) is an English free-jazz drummer and one of the founders of Incus Records.
Pat Keely.  Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely (died 1970) was a graphic artist known for his Second World War posters for the Ministry of Information along with stylised commercial posters for publishers the GPO and public transport.Keely also designed the British 4d World Scout Jubilee Jamboree stamp of 1957 and the 1s3d stamp from the 1958 Sixth British Empire and Commonwealth Games Cardiff set.
Giorgos Lafkas.  Giorgos Lafkas (Greek: Γιώργος Λαύκας 1919–1972) was a Greek songwriter singer and bouzouki player.
Alfredo Marceneiro.  Alfredo Rodrigues Duarte ComIH (February 25 1891 – June 26 1982) better known as Alfredo Marceneiro because of his original profession as a woodworker (Portuguese marceneiro) was a Portuguese Fado singer with a singular voice. Marceneiro became a standard against which generations of fado singers are still measured today.On June 10 1984 he was awarded posthumously Commander of the Order of Infante D. Henrique by former President of the Portuguese Republic General Ramalho Eanes.
Obadiah Parker.  Mat Weddle (born January 3 1983) better known by his stage and recording name Obadiah Parker is a Singer-songwriter from Scottsdale Arizona. He has released an EP a live CD which contains a mixture of covers and original material an EP of covers and a full-length studio album of original material. Weddle also appeared in a viral YouTube video playing an acoustic cover of Outkast's Hey Ya.
John Owen (author).  John Owen (1952–2001) was a children's author and director and is best known for his Welsh teen television drama “Pam fi Duw” (Why me God) a series of books and TV programmes which he wrote and directed. In 1995 1997 and 1999 he won the Tir na n-Og Award for the best Welsh Language fiction book for Children.Owen was a former drama teacher and Head of Lower school at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen near Pontypridd South Wales.
Ania Teliczan.  Ania Teliczan is a Polish singer-songwriter who rose to fame as a finalist of the second series of television show Poland's Got Talent in 2009. Soon after the end of the show she was signed by Sony Music Poland. Her debut album was released on 16 January 2012 and had been recorded in the United Kingdom with producer Troy Miller who previously worked with Amy Winehouse.
Li Shuangjiang.  Major-General Li Shuangjiang (simplified Chinese: 李双江; traditional Chinese: 李雙江; pinyin: Lǐ Shuāngjiāng (born 10 March 1939) is a Chinese military singer.
David Brin.  Glen David Brin (born October 6 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo Locus Campbell and Nebula Awards. His Campbell Award winning novel The Postman was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. David Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award.
Wenyu Shen.  Wenyu Shen (Chinese: 沈文裕; pinyin: shěn wén'yù) (born 1986 in Chongqing) is a Chinese pianist.
Javier Mendoza.  Javier Mendoza is a singer-songwriter and composer. In 2003 and 2004 his band won the title of Best Pop Band from the Riverfront Times.
Jung Eun-ji.  Jung Eun-ji (Korean: 정은지; born Jung Hye-rim on August 18 1993) is a South Korean idol singer/dancer and actress. She is the main vocalist and dancer of girl group A Pink under A Cube Entertainment. She also gained popularity for her acting in the hit TV series Reply 1997.
Jean-Luc Masbou.  Jean-Luc Masbou (born in Figeac on 14 March 1963) is a French cartoonist.Masbou studied at the École supérieure de l'image of Angoulême. He has published the series L'Ombre de l'échafaud for which he wrote the scenario and the series De cape et de crocs as a cartoonist.
Swingfly.  Ricardo DaSilva II better known by his stage name Swingfly is an American-born and Swedish naturalized rapper and singer. He is also known by other aliases like Swing-Fly Richie Pasta and Swing. He started lending his vocal talents to other artists' records but has also developed also a solo career. He also appeared in Melodifestivalen 2011 with Me and My Drum finishing fifth. It became his most successful single reaching the No.2 position on the Swedish Singles Chart.
Grigore Cugler.  Grigore Cugler (Spanish: Gregorio or Gregori Cugler; also known under the pen name Apunake; April 30 [O.S. April 7] 1903 – September 30 1972) was a Romanian avant-garde short story writer poet and humorist. Also noted as a graphic artist composer and violinist he was a decorated World War I veteran who served as the Romanian Kingdom's diplomatic representative in various countries before and after World War II.
Arno Menses.  Arno Menses is a Dutch musician lead vocalist for the Progressive Rock band Subsignal.
Gabdulla Amantay.  Gabdulla Amantay (Bashkir: Ғабдулла Амантай born as Gabdulla Sahipgareevich Amantayev 23 July 1907 – 10 October 1938) was a Bashkir poet writer and playwright.In 1937 he was arrested for his views on the protection of the people. He was rehabilitated posthumously only in the 1990s.
Martin Esslin.  Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer and playwright dramatist journalist adaptor and translator critic academic scholar and professor of drama best known for coining the term Theatre of the Absurd in his work of that name (1961). This book has been called the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s.
C. Desmond Greaves.  Charles Desmond Greaves (27 September 1913 - 23 August 1988) was an Irish activist and historian.
Marylin Star.  Marilyn Star (born Kathryn B. Gannon on April 12 1969 in Prince George British Columbia Canada) is an adult film actress.She worked as a student in Edmonton before moving to Los Angeles and entering adult films. Her first film was More Dirty Debutantes 30 produced by Ed Powers (released in 1994). Other notable appearances included Star Attraction (released 1995) Babewatch [3 and 4] (1995) Smells Like...
Lee Tracy (artist).  Lee Tracy is a Chicago-area artist. She was born in Maine.She has received numerous grants from the Illinois Arts Council and has had solo shows at the Lyons Weir Gallery Artemisia Gallery and Vedanta Gallery in Chicago. She appeared in The Chicago Art Scene.
Atıl Kutoğlu.  Atıl Kutoğlu (born 1968 in Istanbul Turkey) is a Turkish fashion designer residing in Vienna. Kutoğlu launched his clothing label in 1992 which uses Turkish influences and culture and presents them in a modern way. He is known for dressing the Austrian royalty as well as celebrities and artists from all over the world.
Emma Reh.  Emma Reh Stevenson (1896-1982) was an American journalist who worked as a reporter for the Science Service reporting on archeological excavations in Mexico as well as the social and political situation in that country; and a writer for the Soil Conservation Service and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization commenting about food consumption and distribution problems.
Taras Grescoe.  Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer who won the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2008 for his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. He was also nominated twice previously for Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec in 2000 and The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists in 2003.
Jo Ann Tolley.  Jo Ann Tolley is a female vocalist who recorded on the MGM Records and Jubilee Records labels in the 1950s. Among her notable songs are I'd Never Forgive Myself (1953) I Tried Again/That's What I Like (1954) and Don't/Baby Want You Please Come Home (1955). Although her music was once erroneously reviewed as rhythm & blues it is considered pop music. According to Frank Sinatra biographer Kitty Kelley. Tolley had a romance with Sinatra.Tolley toured frequently in the 1950s.
3D Na'Tee.  Samantha Davon James (born December 18 1986) better known by her stage name 3D Na'Tee is an American rapper songwriter and video director. She was born in New Orleans Louisiana and grew up in the 3rd Ward. 3D Na'Tee has been featured on several national media outlets such as MTV The Source Magazine XXL Magazine The Fader Magazine RapRadar and RapRehab. She has also received attention from Louisiana newspapers and music magazines.
Philipp Uffenbach.  Philipp Uffenbach (15 January 1566 – 6 April 1636) was a German painter and etcher. He was born in Frankfurt and trained under Hans Grimmer. One of his pupils was Adam Elsheimer.
Charles Archibald MacLellan.  Charles Archibald MacLellan (June 22 1885 - October 4 1961) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoyed a wide-ranging popular appeal in the United States and he was probably one of the most recognizable cover illustrators of the day.
Marsha Milan Londoh.  Marsha Milan Londoh (born December 6 1985 in Berrien Springs Michigan US) is a Malaysian singer and actress. Marsha gained fame for being a contestant in a Malaysian reality show contest Akademi Fantasia Season 3 in which she won the fourth place.In 2013 Londoh dubbed the voice of Elsa in the Malaysian dub of Disney's Frozen the second Disney film to be dubbed in Bahasa Malaysia for cinema release after Tarzan (1999)
Laura Bannon.  Laura Bannon (1895 – December 14 1963) was an artist illustrator author and teacher from Chicago Illinois. Bannon studied art in both Michigan and Illinois earning degrees from Michigan State Normal School (now Western Michigan University) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she later taught.
Simi Sernaker.  Simi Sernaker born Simantha Sernaker in 1979 is the frontwoman of the rock band Suffrajett. Sernaker was born in New York but currently resides in Chicago IL.
Abdurrahman Sharafkandi.  This article is about the Kurdish poet. For the feature film Hejar see Hejar (film).Abdurrahman Sharafkandi or Hazhar or Hajar (Kurdish: Hejar) (Persian: هژار‎ Hazhar)(1920 - February 21 1991) was a renowned Kurdish writer poet linguist and translator from Iran.He was also the brother of the late Kurdish politician Dr. Sadeq Sharafkandi (1938–1992). Dr. Sharafkandi was the second General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI).
Monty Roberts.  Marvin Earl Monty Roberts (born May 14 1935) is an American horse trainer who promotes his techniques of natural horsemanship through his Join-Up International organization named after the core concept of his training method. Roberts believes that horses use a non-verbal language which he terms Equus and that humans can use this language to communicate with horses.
Tonedeff.  Pedro Antonio Rojas Jr. (born December 14 1976) better known by his stage name Tonedeff is an American rapper producer and singer-songwriter from Queens New York City.Known for his breathless vocal performances rapid-fire delivery which is alleged to be among the fastest in hip hop history is said by critics as having the best flows of the current generation of emcees.
Chicago Bob Nelson.  Chicago Bob Nelson ( July 4 1944 Bogalusa Louisiana January 17 2013] United States) was an American blues musician.Chicago Bob Nelson was a harmonica player and singer who is known for amalgamating Louisiana and Chicago blues styles. He was singular in being mentored by traditional rural southern blues harmonica practitioners and melding their approach with urban Chicago playing thus creating his own distinctive sound. Nelson died on January 18 2013.
Juan Downey.  Juan Downey (May 11 1940 – June 9 1993) was a video artist.
Ben Branch.  Ben F. Branch (1924 – August 27 1987) was an American entrepreneur jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.Although possibly better known as being one of the last people Martin Luther King Jr spoke to moments before his assassination in 1968 Branch had been a leading bandleader for many years.
Ernest Blum.  Ernest Blum (15 August 1836 — 1907) was a French dramatist.
Justin Pickett.  Justin Pickett is an actor best remembered for his role in the Channel 4 situation comedy Desmond's. For six seasons he played the role of Sean Ambrose son of the barber in whose eponymous shop the comedy is set situated in the heart of Peckham.
Alfonso Azpiri.  Alfonso Azpiri (born 1947) is a Spanish comic book artist whose work is mainly of the adult variety.Azpiri was born in Madrid. His early work was published in the 1970s and was mainly aimed at the Italian market which then welcomed stories containing a mixture of horror sex and nudity.
Jean-Jacques Debout.  Jean-Jacques Debout (born in Paris on 9 March 1940) is a French singer-songwriter. In addition to his albums he has written for a number of renowned artists like Johnny Hallyday Sylvie Vartan Dalida and Chantal Goya. He has also composed a great number of film.
Affecter.  The Affecter (or Affected Painter) was an Attic black-figure vase painter active in Athens around 550 to 530 BCE.His conventional name (his real name being unknown today as none of his works are signed) is derived from his artificial affected style of figural painting on the basis of which about 135 vases can be ascribed to him. He was active as both potter and painter. His speciality were amphorae. He mainly painted ovoid amphorae and belly amphorae of the then newly introduced type C.
Singer Usha.  Usha (born May 29 1980) known professionally as Singer Usha is a Telugu playback singer. In a career spanning about 10 years she has established herself as one of the leading playback singers in Telugu film industry and has worked with many major music directors.
James R. Benn.  James R. Benn (born September 5 1949) is an American author best known for the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Series.
Ryan McGinley.  Ryan McGinley (born October 17 1977) is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003 at the age of 25 McGinley was one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo Magazine. In 2007 McGinley was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography.
Brant Bjork.  Brant Bjork (born March 19 1973) is an American musician singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer from Palm Desert California. He is perhaps best known as the drummer and founder of the influential Californian stoner rock band Kyuss. Bjork currently performs in Vista Chino along with former Kyuss vocalist John Garcia. He is one of the more notable figures in the stoner rock and Palm Desert scenes.
Simon Munnery.  Simon Munnery also known as his characters Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium is an English standup comedian. He performs mainly to an alternative audience but has pierced the mainstream both with his BBC Radio 1 show in 1997 and his BBC2 television series Attention Scum! in 2001. His stand-up is often satirical and political and almost always surreal. His act also contains harmonica playing.Munnery's experimental style is reflected in his makeshift props.
Mary Osborne.  see also Mary Osborne Duchess of LeedsMary Osborne (July 17 1921 – March 4 1992) was an American jazz electric guitarist.
Tebey.  Tebey (born October 14 1983 as Tebey Solomon Ottoh) is a Canadian country music singer and multi-genre songwriter. His only chart hit to date is 2003's We Shook Hands (Man to Man) a No. 47 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and a Top 5 single on the Canadian country music charts. He has composed several singles for other artists in addition to releasing singles of his own.
Hayley Kiyoko.  Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft (Japanese: ヘイリー・キヨコ Hepburn: Heirī Kiyoko Arcroft; born April 3 1991) known professionally as Hayley Kiyoko is an American actress singer-songwriter musician and dancer. She is best known for playing Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster as well as Stella Yamada in the Disney Channel film Lemonade Mouth. She recently released her debut solo EP and currently guest stars in the ABC Family's series The Fosters.
James Schoppert.  Robert James Jim Schoppert (May 28 1947-September 2 1992) was a Tlingit (/ˈklɪŋkɨt/ or /ˈtlɪŋɡɨt/) Alaska Native born in Juneau Alaska. His father was of German descent and his mother Tlingit. During his life Schoppert became one of the most prodigious and influential Alaska Native artists of the twentieth century. His work includes carving painting poetry and essays.
Ludwig Rosenfelder.  Ludwig Rosenfelder (* July 18 1813 in Breslau; † April 18 1881 in Königsberg) was a German painter and philosopher. He specialized in religious and historical paintings.
Habib Mohebian.  Habib (Habib Mohebian - Persian : حبیب ) is an Iranian singer-songwriter. He was born in Azerbaijan Province of Iran. who first became passionate about music and playing guitar in the last years of high school. He participated in a nationwide competition held by the Iranian Radio and Television Broadcasting and was chosen as one of the 16 short listed candidates. After two years of training he was drafted and continued his music career in the Officers Clubs and nationwide performances.
Namiki Shōzō II.  Namiki Shōzō II (並木正三)(died 1807) was a kabuki playwright and relative of the more prominent Namiki Shōzō I. Though none of his surviving plays are prominent ones he may have been the author of the 1801 Kezairoku (or Gezairoku) a kabuki playwriting manual.
Hannah Fury.  Hannah Fury is an American singer-songwriter with a following based on her independently produced melancholic recordings inspired by Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked.
Jake Maskall.  Jake Maskall (born in 1971 Essex London England) is an English television film and theatre actor.
Antonio Caro.  'Antonio Caro' (born 1950 Bogotá Colombia) is a contemporary artist known for using conceptualizations and iconic visuals that often make political commentary about his home country. Since 1970 Caro has built a career that according to the categorizations of history and criticism denotes an authentic example of conceptual art in Colombia.
Rick Owens.  Richard Saturnino Owens (born November 18 1962) known as Rick Owens is an American fashion designer from Porterville California.
Sinan Akçıl.  Sinan Akçıl (born 20 May 1981) is a Turkish composer songwriter music producer and singer; famous for his work with Turkish pop singer İzel and Hadise's Eurovision 2009 song for Turkey called Düm Tek Tek.
Janine Brito.  Janine Brito is an American stand-up comic. Prominent within the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene she is recognized nationally as a writer and on-air correspondent for the television program Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell which premiered on FX in 2012 and was canceled early in its second season due to a drop in ratings after the series was moved to FX's spin-off network FXX.
Robert Shapard.  Robert Shapard Ph.D. is a former managing editor of Western Humanities Review. His short fiction has been published in literary magazines and he has received a G.E./C.C.L.M. Award for Younger Writers. He teaches literature and fiction writing at the University of Hawaii. Robert Shapard has been the editor with his colleague James Thomas of a number of short-short story and flash fiction anthologies including Sudden Fiction Sudden Fiction International and Sudden Fiction (Continued).
Fraser Clarke Heston.  Fraser Clarke Heston (born February 12 1955) is an American film director film producer screenwriter and actor. The son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke Fraser Clarke Heston was born in Los Angeles.Fraser Heston's filmography includes Alaska and the 1990 version of Treasure Island which cast his father as Long John Silver. As a baby he made his film debut as the infant Moses (his father played the grown Moses) in the Cecil B.
Jim Carlson.  Jim Carlson (August 29 1932 – August 25 2007) was an American film and television writer. He had been involved in shows as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Emergency! CHiPs and Battlestar Galactica and an ABC special based on The Mouse and the Motorcycle. In 1988 he co-wrote the script for Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw and X-Men's episode Enter Magneto along with Terrence McDonnell.
Rafael Escalona.  Rafael Calixto Escalona Martinez (May 26 1927 – May 13 2009) was a Colombian composer and troubadour.
Diego Velázquez.  Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo roˈðɾiɣeð ðe ˈsilβa i βeˈlaθkeθ]; baptized June 6 1599 – August 6 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period important as a portrait artist.
Ray Avery (photographer).  Murray Ray Bertrand Avery (September 28 1920 – November 17 2002) was a jazz photographer and jazz record collector. He began collecting jazz recordings as a student at Big Bear Lake High School in Big Bear Lake California.
Sivaramakrishnan Murali.  Sivaramakrishnan Murali is Professor and Head of the Department of English at Pondicherry University in India. He is a poet writer painter and critic and a specialist in Indian aesthetics and literary theory.
John Kippax.  John Kippax was the pen name of English science fiction writer John Charles Hynam author of many short stories and the Venturer Twelve series of space opera novels (most in collaboration with Dan Morgan).Hynam was killed on the afternoon of 17 July 1974 when a lorry hit his car at Werrington a few miles outside Peterborough.
Sam M. Lewis.  Sam M. Lewis (October 25 1885 — November 22 1959) was an American singer and lyricist.
Jason Bitner.  Jason Bitner (born Glen Ellyn Illinois) is an author and project producer currently living in Chicago Illinois. He is the co-creator of Found Magazine a show-and-tell project celebrating found notes letters and other ephemera; the creator of Cassette from My Ex a storytelling project based around love and mixtapes; and producer for the documentary movie La Porte Indiana based on Bitner's book of the same title.
Mortezâ Varzi.  Mortezâ Varzi (December 30 1922 – January 3 2004) was an Iranian musician and kamancheh player.
Adelaide Ferreira.  Maria Adelaide Mengas Matafome Ferreira (born 1959 in Minde Alcanena) is a Portuguese singer.She started as a rock singer with the hit Baby suicida in 1981. After that she has sung ballads. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song Penso em ti (Eu sei) which came 18th with 9 points.She is also an actress on television having roles in many Portuguese telenovelas.
Paul Leary.  Paul Leary (born May 7 1957) is an American musician from Austin Texas best known as the guitarist for American rock band Butthole Surfers. He is also the producer of a number of songs and albums by other bands including U2 Sublime the Meat Puppets Daniel Johnston The Reverend Horton Heat Pepper Maggie Walters Bad Livers Slightly Stoopid and The Refreshments Tumbledryer Babies and Sludge Buzzard.
Charles Ginner.  Charles Isaac Ginner (1878–1952) was a British painter of landscape and urban subjects. Born in the south of France at Cannes of British parents in 1910 he settled in London where he was an associate of Spencer Gore and Harold Gilman and a key member of the Camden Town Group.
Eda-Ines Etti.  Eda-Ines Etti (born 26 May 1981 in Haapsalu) is a singer and celebrity in Estonia also known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000. Under her abbreviated stage name Ines she was Estonia's representative for the contest in Sweden. Her song Once in a Lifetime received fourth place in the contest.
Branko Ćopić.  Branko Ćopić (pronounced [brǎːnkɔ t͡ɕɔ̂pit͡ɕ]; Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1 1915 – March 26 1984) was a Yugoslav writer.
David Lapham.  David Lapham is an American comic book writer artist and cartoonist best known for his work on the independent comic book Stray Bullets.
Mark Bagley.  Mark Bagley (born August 7 1957) is an American comic book artist. He has worked for Marvel Comics on such titles as The Amazing Spider-Man Thunderbolts New Warriors and Ultimate Spider-Man and for DC on such titles as Justice League of America Batman and Trinity.
Thomas Berger (novelist).  Thomas Louis Berger (born July 20 1924) is an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn Berger has explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career including the crime novel the hard-boiled detective story science fiction the utopian novel plus re-workings of classical mythology Arthurian legend and the survival adventure.
José Luis Vega.  José Luis Vega (b.
James Campbell McInnes.  James Campbell McInnes (23 January 1874 – 8 February 1945) was a well-known English baritone singer and teacher at the turn of the 20th century ex-husband of author Angela Thirkell and father of writer Colin MacInnes.
Sorche Nic Leodhas.  LeClaire Gowans Alger (1898-1969) was an American author better known under her pseudonym Sorche Nic Leodhas or simply Sorche Leodhas. Born in Youngstown Ohio she was a sickly child eventually being homeschooled. Alger was a known librarian working from 1915 to 1966 while the imaginary Sorche was a storyteller. She sought out traditional Scottish tales that had never been written down before.
Alice McDermott.  Alice McDermott (born June 27 1953) is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn New York McDermott attended St.
Mike Ogletree.  Mike Ogletree is a Scottish drummer. A founding member of the late-seventies Scottish progressive rock band Café Jacques he is best known for his work in Fiction Factory and Simple Minds a New Wave band with heavy synth influences active during the 1980s. Mike Ogletree currently lives and works in the U.S.
Vonda N. McIntyre.  Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville Kentucky on August 28 1948) is a Pacific Northwest science fiction author.
Jan-Magnus Bruheim.  Jan-Magnus Bruheim (1914 Skjåk Oppland – 1988) was a Norwegian poet and children's writer. Among his children's books are Skrythøna from 1956 Røyskatten from 1961 and Doggmorgon from 1977. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1963.
Eyal Golan.  Eyal Golan (Hebrew: אַיָּל גּוֹלָן; born Eyal Biton on April 12 1971 in Rehovot Israel) is a popular Israeli singer of Yemenite and Moroccan Jewish origins who sings in the Mizrahi style and considered one of the most successful singers of the Mizrahi genre in Israel.
Rachel McFarlane.  Rachel McFarlane is a British singer who was born in Manchester in 1971. She began singing at the age of twelve years old as a gospel singer.In 1994 her career began with the house music group Loveland (with Mark Hadfield Paul Taylor and Paul Waterman). She featured on their track Let The Music Lift You Up which reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart. The same year she recorded Turn Up The Power with N-Trance.In 1998 she released her debut single Lover which made it to the UK Top 40.
Vestards Šimkus.  Vestards Šimkus (born in Jūrmala August 21 1984) is a Latvian pianist and composer.He won the 2001 International Performers Competition in Stockholm the 2002 Los Angeles' Liszt Competition and the 2009 Maria Canals International Music Competition and was awarded the Latvian Grand Music Award in 2002. He has performed through Europe and the United States since 1998.He was decorated the Order of the White Star in 2005.
Manuel de Araújo Porto Alegre Baron of Santo Ângelo.  Manuel José de Araújo Porto Alegre Baron of Santo Ângelo (November 29 1806 — December 30 1879) was a Brazilian Romantic writer and painter as well as an architect diplomat and professor. He is patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Hermann Baumann (musician).  Hermann Baumann (born 1 August 1934) is a virtuoso horn player teacher and composer.After starting his musical career as a singer and jazz drummer he switched to horn at the age of 17.
Vytas Brenner.  Vytas Brenner (19 September 1946 – 18 March 2004) was a Venezuelan musician keyboardist guitarist and composer.
Bartolommeo Scaligero.  Bartolommeo Scaligero (born c. 1605) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Padua and trained with Alessandro Varotari and was active in Venice. He painted for the church of Corpus Domini in Venice. His niece Lucia Scaligero was also a painter.
Shye Ben Tzur.  Shye Ben Tzur is composer/ producer/ Poet and performer who lives between India and Israel. He composes Qawwalis instrumental and devotional music in Hebrew Urdu and Hindi.Ben Tzur have been living and creating music in India and Israel over a decade. His journey to the Indian sub continent has begun while searching for a Classical Indian music teacher and a guide.
Chris T-T.  Chris T-T (born Christopher Thorpe-Tracey 16 Sept 1974) is an English singer/songwriter based in Brighton. He has released nine studio albums and two live collections. He has also been a piano accompanist; a radio and club DJ; written for a range of publications and for several years contributed a regular column on the arts to left-wing newspaper The Morning Star.
Yoann Fréget.  Yoann Fréget is a French singer and the winner of season 2 of the French competition series The Voice: la plus belle voix as part of Team Garou. He auditioned for the show singing Whitney Houston's The Greatest Love of All with all four judges (Florent Pagny Jenifer Louis Bertignac and Garou) turning their chairs. Fréget opted to be on Garou's team.
Thomas Dewing.  Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4 1851 – November 5 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Art Museum at the Smithsonian Institution has a room dedicated to his works. He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.
Daniela Franco.  Daniela Franco is a Mexican conceptual artist and writer who lives and works in Paris. Her body of work is interdisciplinary and explores intersections between experimental writing pop music and visual art through the creation of archives temporary fictions and video. She is a San Francisco Art Institute and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts alumna as well as a Fulbright scholar.
Kenneth Patchen.  Kenneth Patchen (December 13 1911 – January 8 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting drawing and jazz music into his works which were often compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman.
Jan Cyrka.  Jan Cyrka is a British guitar player.In the early 1980s Cyrka formed a band in London called The Broadway Metal Choir. The line-up featured himself on guitar Kevin Riddles (bass ex-Angelwitch; Tytan) Kevin Fitzpatrick (keyboards) and Andy Beirne (drums). Unlikely vocalist Max Gelt - a deli owner from Florida - was drafted in on vocals but after six weeks of touring he broke his leg and returned to Miami.
B. Kliban.  Bernard Hap Kliban (January 1 1935–August 12 1990) was a well-known and popular cartoonist born in Norwalk Connecticut.
Marianne Moore.  Marianne Moore (November 15 1887 – February 5 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.
Roy Francis (musician).  Roy Francis is a Jamaican record producer.He started his Phase One label in 1977 recording The Chantells Lopez Walker and Errol Davis Steve Boswell Jah Berry The Terrors The Heptones and Dean Fraser.As a songwriter he co-composed Thief as recorded by Yellowman in 1991 and Poor and Simple by Luciano in 1993.[1]
Ria Hall.  Ria Hall is a New Zealand recording artist and presenter on Maori TV's AIA Marae DIY in 2012-13.
Alex St. Clair.  Alex St. Clair (born Alexis Clair Snouffer; September 14 1941 – c. January 5 2006) was an American musician.Twice guitarist for Captain Beefheart St. Clair was a contemporary of Frank Zappa and Beefheart at Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster California where St. Clair played trumpet and Zappa played drums. They bought their first guitars within days of each other. St. Clair joined his first band the Omens around 1959; Vliet (Beefheart) did occasional vocals with them. St.
Jeri Redcorn.  Jereldine Jeri Redcorn (born 1939) is an Oklahoman artist who single-handedly revived traditional Caddo pottery.
Mary Tate Engels.  Mary Tate Engels (born March 27 1943) is an American writer of almost thirty romance novels since 1982 as Tate McKenna and Mary Tate Engels. She has co-written five romance novels under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Vicki Lewis Thompson and two non-fiction books for Texas Tech University Press. She lives with her husband in Tucson Arizona.
Robert Thornton Henderson.  Enchanted Community BlogRobert Thornton (Bob) Henderson (born 1928) is an American author who has a history of teaching and being active in the Presbyterian Church.
Eddy Ko.  Eddy Ko Hung (born 1937 in Zhongshan) is a Hong Kong television and film actor who has worked on the TV stations RTV (now defunct) TVB and ATV. His birthname is Ho Yiu Sum (何耀深 ). He adopted the name Ko Hung as a stage name. He is also sometimes also credited as Ko Hung Gao Xiong Eddie Ko Edward Ko and Lin Sheng (林琛)
Sasha Argov.  Alexander Sasha Argov (Hebrew: סשה ארגוב‎ born Alexander Abramovich; Moscow November 5 1914 – Tel Aviv September 27 1995) was a prominent Israeli composer.
Grap Luva.  Gregory Phillips (born September 11 1971) better known by his stage name Grap Luva is a hip-hop producer and rapper primarily active during the 1990s as a member of the group INI (composed of him Rob-O Rass Marco Polo and his older brother Pete Rock-- who is himself one of the most influential producers in hip-hop history.) His first appearance was as a guest on the track The Basement included on Mecca and the Soul Brother (1992) the first album released by Pete Rock and his creative partner CL Smooth. 
Florica Musicescu.  Florica Musicescu (May 21 1887 Iaşi–March 19 1969 Bucharest) was a renowned Romanian pianist and musical pedagogue daughter of the renowned composer conductor and musicologist Gavriil Musicescu. She taught piano music for many decades at the Bucharest Conservatory (known as Royal Music Academy prior to World War II). For her masterful guidance and mentorship she is considered to be one of the founders of the Romanian School of Piano Music.
Aurelio González Ovies.  Aurelio González Ovies (born February 9 1964 in Bañugues) is a Spanish writer and poet from Asturias. He has a Ph.D in Classical Philology and he is a teacher of Latin at the University of Oviedo where he served as vice dean of the Faculty of Philology from 1996 to 2008.
Carlos Fuentes.  Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11 1928 – May 15 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Aura (1962) Terra Nostra (1975) The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987).
Gasim bey Zakir.  Gasim bey Zakir (Azerbaijani: Qasım bəy Zakir) was Azerbaijani poet of 19th century and one of the founders of the critical realism and satirical genre in Azerbaijani literature.
Sonny Brogan.  Sonny (Patrick Joseph) Brogan (4 July 1906 – 1 January 1965) was an Irish accordion player from the 1930s to the 1960s and was one of Ireland's most popular traditional musicians. He was one of the earliest advocates of the two-row B/C button accordion in traditional music and popularised it the 1950s and 60s. He originally played on a single-keyed Hohner melodeon and later the two-row Paolo Soprani which he used until he died.
Steven L. Sears.  Steven Lee Sears (born December 23 1957 in Fort Gordon Georgia) is an American writer and producer primarily working in television.
Kate Michaels.  Kate Michaels (born Kathleen Rebecca Hall) is an American singer and actor specializing in big band/swing and musical theater.
Maria Rusescu.  Maria Rusescu (born 7 September 1936) is a Romanian painter.
Cee Farrow.  Cee Farrow was a new wave singer born in Frankfurt Germany.
Pierre Dac.  André Isaac (August 15 1893 Châlons-sur-Marne France - February 9 1975 Paris France) better known as Pierre Dac was a French humorist. During World War II Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of the BBC's Radio Londres service to occupied France. He produced a series of satirical songs which were broadcast on the station. After the war he participated in a comic due with the humorist Francis Blanche.Dac is also viewed as the creator of the comic term Schmilblick.
Mishon Ratliff.  Mishon Ratliff (born February 3 1993) also known simply as Mishon is an American singer dancer and actor. Though he's been singing and performing on stage since the age of 6 he is best known for his portrayal of Taylor Tay Sutton on the ABC Family drama television series Lincoln Heights. He has appeared on music television broadcast such as Soul Train America's Most Talented Kid The Mo'Nique Show and BET's 106 & Park.
Joshua Ray.  Josh Joshua Ray Gooch (born January 16 1991) is an American guitarist songwriter and music producer. Joshua is the lead guitarist for Shania Twain. Joshua has also toured with Koshi Inaba of B'z and blues artist Beth Hart. He has recorded with producers Ross Hogarth Don Gehman and Johnny Sandlin. Joshua is managed by Robert M. Knight.
Ken Nicol (musician).  Ken Nicol (born 27 May 1951) is a British guitar player vocalist and songwriter. He was a member of The Albion Band for many years and for eight years (2002–2010) played in the electric folk band Steeleye Span.
Nikolai Fraiture.  Nikolai Philippe Fraiture (born November 13 1978 in New York City United States) is an American musician and bassist for American rock band The Strokes.
Albert Au.  Albert Au Shui Keung (Traditional Chinese:區瑞強 Born July 31 1955 - ) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer-songwriter and DJ of RTHK. A graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University he debuted in 1979 and achieved considerable fame in the 1980s with his folk music. He also appeared in movies and on TV. He is also operating some music educational establishments.
Stanley Mullen.  Stanley Mullen ((1911-06-20)June 20 1911 – 1973) was an American artist short story writer novelist and publisher. He studied writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and drawing painting and lithography at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center where he was accepted as a professional member in 1937. A series of his paintings of Indian ceremonial dances is part of the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum.
Tom Howard (musician).  Tom Howard (February 23 1950 – January 29 2010) was an American pianist musical arranger and orchestral conductor.In 1983 Howard helped the rock band Daniel Amos form the Alarma! Records label.On January 29 2010 Howard suffered a fatal heart attack while hiking at Edwin Warner Park in Nashville Tennessee with his wife Dori.
Speedy Haworth.  Herschel Haworth Jr. (May 16 1922 – February 26 2008) better known as Speedy Haworth was an American guitarist and singer who was involved with the golden age of country music broadcasting in the Ozarks. He was a featured cast member of ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee from 1955–1960 and is a member of the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame.
Daniel Hahn.  Daniel Hahn (born 1973) is a British writer editor and translator.He is the author of a number of works of non-fiction including the history book The Tower Menagerie and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide a series of reading guides for children and teenagers. the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award.
Ann Vriend.  Ann Vriend (born Vancouver) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist based in Edmonton Alberta Canada in the neighborhood of McCauley. She has played festivals and venues around the world.
Fanny Valette.  Fanny Valette is a French actress born July 4 1986 in Arles Bouches-du-Rhône France. In January 2011 she parodied herself in the video to Max Boublil's comic song J'aime les moches (I like ugly girls).
Roberto García (bassist).  Roberto García (born August 13 1972 in Oviedo Spain) is the bassist for the power metal band WarCry also known for his work on Avalanch.
Giovanna Fratellini.  Giovanna Fratellini (1666 – 1731) was a Florentine artist during the Baroque period. Born in Florence as Giovanna Marrmocchini Cortesi she married Guiliano Fratellini in 1685 and changed her name to Fratellini. This well-born woman pastellist was a lady-in-waiting to the Vittoria della Rovere the Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
David Morris (musician).  David Morris (born January 3 1964) is a musician who is best known as the frontman for Cold Water Army and his current band Bag We Bag. Morris who was born in Bermuda is also the creator of two radio personalities - Lee Harvey and Hearty White.The Hearty White Radio Show also known as the Miracle Nutrition Hour aired weekly on WVFS on Tuesday nights at 9 pm EST in Tallahassee Florida for years. It was also streamed via the web on v89's webcast.
Brian Robertson (trombonist).  Brian Robertson (born October 19 1979) is the trombone player for the Orange County-based third-wave ska band Suburban Legends and along with Vincent Walker is one of the two members to have played with the band since its origin as Bomb Squad. He met other ex-Suburban Legends / Bomb Squad members trumpet player Aaron Bertram and best friend and trombone player Ryan Dallas Cook through the Huntington Beach High School Marching Band.
Charles Schnee.  For the American producer (1920-2009) see Charles Schneer.Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport Connecticut - 29 November 1963 Beverly Hills California) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s crafting scripts for the classic Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950) the social melodrama They Live By Night (1949) and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) for which he won an Academy Award.
Titof.  Titof (short for Christophe) born on October 5 1973 in Lunéville is the pseudonym of a French pornographic film actor who began performing in 1999.Titof was invited onto the set of a film by his friend Sebastian Barrio a famous French porn actor. When the actor in a scene failed to perform Titof was asked to take over.Titof plays in both straight and gay productions.
Clayton McMichen.  Clayton McMichen (January 26 1900 - January 4 1970) was an American fiddler and country musician.
Tigarah.  Tigarah (ティガラ Tigara) (born in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese rapper whose music contains elements of Grime Crunk Baltimore Club Miami Base Ghetto Tech Glitch Hop Old school hip-hop and pop. and she raps and sings in English Japanese and French. She has a growing following in both Japan and the United States. She currently lives in Paris France and also spent time in Tokyo and Los Angeles California.
Ragnvald Vaage.  Ragnvald Vaage (29 April 1889 – 27 June 1966 ) was a Norwegian farmer poet novelist and children's writer. He was born in Husnes in Kvinnherad and was grandfather of Lars Amund Vaage. His first poetry collections were Liv som strir from 1912 Bylgja from 1913 and Strengspel from 1914. Among his children's books are Gutane på Tedneholmen from 1923 Den forunderlege vegen Den gode sumaren and the prize-winning Stivnakkane. His novel Den vonde draumen from 1953 was awarded with Sunnmørsprisen.
Stacey McClean.  Stacey McClean (born 17 February 1989 in Bispham Blackpool Lancashire) is an English solo singer. She was in S Club spin-off band S Club 8 and in 2009 took part in the sixth series of The X Factor.
Mary Robison.  Mary Cennamo Robison (born January 14 1949 Washington D.C.) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published four collections of stories and four novels including her 2001 novel Why Did I Ever winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her most recent novel released in 2009 is One D.O.A. One on the Way. She has been categorized as a founding minimalist writer along with authors such as Amy Hempel Frederick Barthelme and Raymond Carver.
Bart Kaëll.  Bart Kaëll (born 2 August 1960 in Oudenaarde) is the stage name of Bart Gyselinck a Flemish singer and TV host.
Toshimaru Nakamura.  Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo.He began his career playing rock and roll guitar but gradually explored other types of music even abandoning guitar and started working on circuit bending.
Toni Castells.  Toni Castells is a Spanish composer. Originally from Barcelona he now resides in London where he founded the momo music project.
John Kingsmill.  John Kingsmill (1 September 1920 - 6 August 2013) is an Australian author one time actor and public speaker and amateur social historian. He was born in Sydney in 1920 and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He was on active service in WW2 after which he completed his accountancy studies and was in practice for some years. He achieved notice for his performance as Des Nolan (Gig) in Rusty Bugles the controversial 1948 play by Sumner Locke Elliott.
Marie Lindberg.  Marie Lindberg (born May 3 1975 in Kungshamn Sweden) is a Swedish schoolteacher singer/songwriter and guitarist. She competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2007 after sending in a song to the contest for fun. In Gothenburg on February 10 2007 Lindberg performing Trying to Recall was the second artist named as a finalist in Melodifestivalen 2007.Marie Lindberg's entry Trying to Recall was written and composed by her in May 1998.
Steve Ferlazzo.  Stephen Anthony Ferlazzo Jr. better known as Steve Ferlazzo is an American keyboard player based in California. After graduating at the Berklee School of Music he has played with two members of Extreme in their projects after the band broke up: he was the keyboardist for Gary Cherone in his Tribe of Judah project and for Nuno Bettencourt in his DramaGods band.He recently guested on the debut Science Faxtion album Living on Another Frequency and is currently on tour with Avril Lavigne [1].
Tiffani Wood.  Tiffany Tiffani Jane Wood (born 8 November 1977) briefly known as Tiffani Cummins is an Australian singer-songwriter who is a former member of female pop group Bardot. Wood later established an independent solo career and released her debut solo album Bite Your Tongue in 2006.
Marco Berlinghieri.  Marco Berlinghieri was an Italian medieval miniature painter and book illuminator executed an illuminated Bible finished in 1250. He was the son of Berlinghiero Berlinghieri and the brother of Barone and Bonaventura Berlinghieri.
Grigory Gurevich.  Grigory Gurevich is a painter sculptor graphic artist photographer illustrator bookmaker mime and inventor. Originally from Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Russia he now resides in the United States.
Mark Mendoza.  Mark The Animal Mendoza (born Mark Glickman July 13 1955) is an American rock bassist and a member of the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He joined the band on October 31 1978 after he left The Dictators. He also briefly played in Blackfoot in the early 1990s.Mendoza played the bass guitar on all of Twisted Sister's major label releases.
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.  Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a Cuban-American Contemporary Artist. Born February 5 1966 Cuba he grew up in the United States. Rodríguez-Gerada predominantly creates his work in urban spaces on a large scale. His works reflect a concern for the individual and an appreciation of the urban public space.
Indra Soundar Rajan.  Indra Soundar Rajan (Tamil: இந்திரா சௌந்தர்ராஜன் born. 13 November 1958) is the pen name of P. Soundar Rajan a well-known Tamil author of short stories novels television serials and screenplays. He lives in Madurai.He is something of an expert on South Indian Hindu traditions and mythological lore.
Tsugumi Higasayama.  Tsugumi Higasayama (日笠山亜美 Higasayama Tsugumi born March 21 1978) is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Japan. Her name is sometimes misread as Ami Higasayama.[citation needed]
Matina Horner.  Matina Souretis Horner (born July 28 1939) is an American psychologist who was the sixth president of Radcliffe College. Her research interests included intelligence motivation and achievement of women. She is most well known for pioneering the concept of fear of success.Horner was born in Roxbury near Boston. She received her bachelor's degree in experimental psychology cum laude in 1961 from Bryn Mawr College a master's degree in 1963 and a Ph.D.
Steve Cruz (pornographic actor).  Steve Cruz (born on November 4 1972) is an American gay pornographic film actor and director who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines. Cruz is signed as a Raging Stallion exclusive. Cruz won the 2008 GayVN Award for Best Group Scene in Chi Chi Larue's Link 5: The Evolution and the 2010 GayVN Award for Best Supporting Actor in Raging Stallion's Focus/Refocus with Gary Gibbon. He filmed Link 5: The Evolution prior to his contact with Raging Stallion.
Tom Otterness.  Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor best known as one of America’s most prolific public artists Otterness' works adorn parks plazas subway stations libraries courthouses and museums in New York—most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station—and other cities around the world. He contributed a balloon (a giant upside-down Humpty Dumpty) to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Bill Groethe.  Bill (William M.) Groethe (November 2 1923- ) is the photographer who took the famous picture on September 2 1948 of the last eight survivors of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn.In the picture are: Little Warrior Pemican Little Soldier Dewey Beard John Sitting Bull High Eagle Iron Hawk and Comes Again. The picture hangs in the Smithsonian and Bill still sells autographed copies from his store (First Photo) in Rapid City South Dakota.Groethe resides in Rapid City South Dakota.
Francis Vielé-Griffin.  Francis Vielé-Griffin (May 26 1864 – November 12 1937) was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk Virginia USA and was the son of Egbert Ludovicus Viele.Vielé-Griffin was educated in France and divided his time between Paris and Touraine. He was a writer of vers libre and founded the highly influential journal Entretiens politiques et littéraires (1890–92).
Carol Ann Duffy.  Carol Ann Duffy CBE FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009.
Mikael Nalbandian.  Mikael Nalbandian (Armenian: Միքայել Նալբանդյան) (14 November [O.S. 2 November] 1829 – 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1866) was an Armenian writer who dominated 19th century Armenian literature author of the Armenian national anthem text.
Giannis Tatasopoulos.  Giannis Tatasopoulos (Greek: Γιάννης Τατασόπουλος) (born 7 January 1928 in Kifissia Greece) was a Greek musician and renowned bouzouki master soloist and composer who achieved a number one hit in the national Greek charts in the 1950s and appeared a number of times on Greek national television. In the mid-1950s many of the top bouzouki soloists including Giannis Tatasopoulos emigrated to the United States.
Michael Dweck.  Michael Dweck (born 26 September 1957) is an American visual artist and filmmaker known for his suggestive photographic style. The concept of beauty and its aesthetics are important themes in his work and are explored through both figurative and abstract means. In 2003 he became the first living photographer to have a solo show at Sotheby's in New York.
Ellen Anne Hewett.  Ellen Anne Hewett (15 July 1843–14 February 1926) was a New Zealand writer. She was born in Jersey Channel Islands on 15 July 1843.
Braco Dimitrijević.  Slobodan Braco Dimitrijević (born 18 June 1948) is a Paris-based Bosnian and Yugoslavian artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it.He has exhibited internationally since the 1970s including at the Tate Gallery in 1985. He has participated in documenta (1972 1977 and 1992) and the Venice Biennale (1990 and 1993). His works are held in the collection of the Tate Gallery and that of the Centre Pompidou among others.
Queen Esther (artist).  Queen Esther is an American actor performer musician vocalist and songwriter.She is the 2008 Grand Prize winner of the Jazzmobile Jazz Vocal Competition. The Tribeca Playhouse received an honorary Drama Desk Award in 2002 for Queen Esther's cabaret act The Tribeca Playhouse Stagedoor Canteen created and directed by playwright and theater director Jeff Cohen in the aftermath of the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster to entertain the volunteers at Ground Zero for free.
Danny Boy (rapper).  Daniel O’Connor (born December 12 1968 in Brooklyn New York) best known as Danny Boy O’Connor is an American rapper and a member of the hip-hop group House of Pain. Danny Boy moved to California in the 80s where he masterminded House of Pain one of the first all white hip-hop groups. While attending William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills California (1984–1986) he met Erik Schrody and asked him to join his now legendary hip-hop group.
Sigge Fürst.  Sigge Fürst (3 November 1905 – 11 June 1984) was a Swedish film actor who appeared in more than 130 films. He was born in Stockholm Sweden and died there of lung cancer in 1984.As well as appearing in films Fürst made several radio shows like the long-running Frukostklubben (the breakfast club) broadcast on radio on Saturday mornings from 1946-1949 and 1955-1978 (from 1968 also on Sundays) with invited guests.
Syed Asim Mahmood.  Syed Asim Mahmood (born 24 April 1968) is an Urdu writer encyclopedist researcher editor and journalist. He has written thirteen books and many articles on scientific and non-scientific subjects in magazines and newspapers. He edited three magazines and is currently associated with the Pakistani newspaper Daily Dunya as a Senior Sub Editor.
Phillip Boa.  Phillip Boa (born Ernst Ulrich Figgen 18 January 1963 in Dortmund Germany) is a German independent music singer guitarist and composer. His current name is unknown after two divorces and name changes. Phillip Boa lives in Dortmund Hamburg and on the island of Malta. He has received several Album & Single of the Week awards in British magazines like NME Sounds or Melody Maker.
Laddie Cain.  Laddie Cain was the tenor for the Florida Boys a Southern Gospel quartet in the 1970s. After leaving the Florida Boys he performed with The Four Guys a country group for many years.
Samih al-Qasim.  Samīħ al-Qāsim (Arabic: سميح القاسم‎; Hebrew: סמיח אל קאסם‎; born 1939) is a Palestinian Druze whose Arabic poetry is well known throughout the Arab World. His poetry is influenced by two primary periods of his life: Before and after the Six-Day War. He joined the Communist Hadash political party in 1967. Al-Qasim has published several volumes and collections of poetry.
Justin Lassen.  Justin Lassen born August 27 1981 in Denver Colorado is a composer producer multi-instrumentalist and remixer who has worked in the film and game (as well as other) industries.
Franz Xaver Gebel.  Franz Xaver Gebel (1787 – 3 May 1843) was a German composer music teacher and conductor.Gebel was born in Fürstenau near Breslau Silesia. He studied under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Abbé Vogler and became Kapellmeister at Leopoldstadt in Vienna in 1810 then worked at a succession of theatres in Pest and Lemberg.He moved to Moscow in 1817 where he would remain until his death in 1843.
Jack Stewart (artist).  Jack Stewart (January 27 1926 – March 4 2005) was an American artist. Born in Atlanta GA he began private art lessons when he was seven. When he was about nine he went to classes at the High Museum of Art. In his early to mid-teens he apprenticed to the sculptor/painter Steffen Thomas. During WWII he served in Patton's Third Army as a combat infantryman entering combat in the Battle of the Bulge.
Corciolli.  Corciolli is a Brazilian composer producer and musician. He plays piano and keyboards and has produced multiple successful albums since 1993. Some of his work has been featured on international compilation albums with artists like Vangelis Hans Zimmer Sarah Brightman Luciano Pavarotti and Diana Krall among others. In recent years he started composing for films.
Giorgio Schiavone.  Giorgio Schiavone or Juraj Ćulinović (ca. 1436 – 1504) was a Dalmatian painter active in Italy.
Mehran Atash.  Mehran Atash (Persian: مهران آتش‎ pronounced [mehɾɒːn ɒːtæʃ]) (born 1975 in Tehran) is an Iranian vocalist and musician. He was the winner of Googoosh Music Academy season 2 in 2011.
Madeleine Allakariallak.  Madeleine Allakariallak is a Canadian Inuit musician and television journalist. Formerly a member of the Inuit throat singing duo Tudjaat from 2005 to 2007 she was also the host of the weekly newsmagazine series APTN National News Contact on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.Phoebe Atagotaaluk Allakariallak's bandmate in Tudjaat is her cousin. Her husband Romeyn Stevenson is a current member of Iqaluit Municipal Council.
Saori Yuki.  Saori Yuki (由紀さおり Yuki Saori born November 13 1948) is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born as Akiko Yasuda (Yasuda Akiko (安田 章子)) in Kiryū Gunma Japan and raised in Yokohama. She started her singing career with her older sister Sachiko as a child singer. Although in 1965 she debuted with her first single Hitchhike Musume (Hitchhiking girl) from King Records (Japan) as Akiko Yasuda the result was not successful and had not been for a few years.
Claude Faraldo.  Claude Faraldo (March 23 1936 – January 29 2008) was a French actor screenwriter and film director. He directed the French cult film classic Themroc (1973).
Gyo Fujikawa.  Gyo Fujikawa (November 3 1908– November 26 1998) was an American illustrator and children's book author. A prolific creator of more than 50 books for children her work is regularly in reprint and has been translated into 17 languages and published in 22 countries. Her most popular books Babies and Baby Animals have sold over 1.7 million copies in the U.S.
John Arpin.  John Francis Oscar Arpin (3 December 1936 – 8 November 2007) was a Canadian composer recording artist and entertainer best known for his work as a virtuoso ragtime pianist.Born in Port McNicoll Ontario Arpin was educated at The Royal Conservatory of Music graduating at the age of sixteen and the University of Toronto.Arpin performed and toured widely. He died 8 November 2007 in Toronto Ontario.
Osip Notovich.  Osip Notovich was a Russian author journalist and publisher. He was born into a Jewish family in the city of Taganrog studied at the Taganrog Boys' Gymnasium and graduated from the law faculty of the Saint Petersburg University. In 1873-1874 he was the publisher and editor of the newspaper Novoe Vremya. In 1876 he acquired the newspaper Novosti which he transformed into a political tribune.
István Orosz.  István Orosz (born 24 October 1951 in Kecskemét) is a Hungarian painter printmaker graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works impossible objects optical illusions double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz with forced perspectives and optical illusions has been compared to works by M. C. Escher.
Christine Laitta.  Christine Laitta is an American actress from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.Born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon Laitta is a member of Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. Her credits include author director choreographer teacher and actor. She is a graduate of Penn State University in University Park Pennsylvania.Laitta originated the role as Ms. Frizzle on the first national tour of the Magic School Bus Live. Laitta has performed at the Civic Light Opera Cabaret Theater.
Lisa Surihani.  Lisa Surihani binti Mohamed (born March 23 1986) or better known as Lisa Surihani is a Malaysian actress model television host and commercial model.
Lee Hazlewood.  Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9 1929 – August 4 2007) was an American country and pop singer songwriter and record producer most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added a resonance to his music.
Miguel Delibes.  Miguel Delibes Setién (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel deˈliβes]; 17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy where he occupied chair e. He studied commerce and law and began his career as a columnist and later journalist at the El Norte de Castilla.
Josh Brown (musician).  Joshua Brown (born 1976) is the lead singer of Christian rock band Day of Fire and was the lead singer of Full Devil Jacket until 2001. He was a featured vocalist on Fireflight's hit song You Decide from their album The Healing of Harms.
Brent Michael Davids.  Brent Michael Davids (born June 4 1959 in Madison Wisconsin United States) is an American composer and flautist. He is a member of the Stockbridge Mohican nation of American Indians. He has composed for Zeitgeist the Kronos Quartet Joffrey Ballet the National Symphony Orchestra and Chanticleer.He holds a B.M. degree in music composition from Northern Illinois University (1981) and an M.M. in music composition from Arizona State University (1990) and is currently pursuing an M.A.
Eugene Gregan.  Eugene Gregan (born 1937 New Haven Connecticut) is an American painter specializing in landscapes and Chinese-style painting. Gregan attended the Rhode Island School of Design and taught there after graduating. He has also taught at Yale and Brown Universities Parsons School of Design Trinity College and the Naropa Institute. He has traveled extensively studying in Europe and Far East Asia. His graphic and commercial design experience includes work with I.M.
Aya Uchida.  Aya Uchida (内田 彩 Uchida Aya born July 23 1986) is a Japanese voice actress from Ōta Gunma Prefecture Japan. She is affiliated with JTB Entertainment.
Bernice Rubens.  Bernice Rubens (26 July 1928 – 13 October 2004) was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.
Catt Gravitt.  Catt Gravitt (Cathy Lee Gravitt) is an American songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee. In the music business for over 20 years she signed on as a writer with her current publishing company Razor and Tie in 2008. Gravitt has songwriting credits in multiple genres and was most recently named SESAC's Songwriter of the Year in 2012.
Purnendu Patri.  Purnendu Patri (পূর্ণেন্দু পত্রী) (Samudragupta)(2 February 1933–19 March 1997) was an Indian poet of Bengali origin. He was born in Howrah in West Bengal. He was a noted short-story writer and a critic. One of his story collection is known as 'Staliner Raaa' and a book on Rabindranath is titled 'Amar Rabindranath'. He took admission in Indian Art College in 1949.
Gabby Pahinui.  Philip Kunia Pahinui (April 22 1921 - October 13 1980) was a slack-key guitarist and singer of Hawaiian music.Gabby was born Philip Kunia Kahahawaii Jr. and later hānai into the Pahinui family as Philip Kunia Pahinui and raised in the Kaka'ako area of Honolulu in the 1920s.
Rob Liefeld.  Robert Rob Liefeld (born October 3 1967) is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer/artist in the 1990s he has since become a controversial figure in the medium.In the early 1990s the self-taught artist became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992 he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics which started a wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers.
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.  Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez (born 1964 in Mexico City Mexico) is a Latin-American composer and teacher. He currently resides near Rochester New York.Sanchez-Gutierrez grew up in Guadalajara and later studied at the University of Guadalajara the Peabody Conservatory of Music Yale University Princeton University and the Tanglewood Music Center with Henri Dutilleux Jacob Druckman and Martin Bresnick.He was a recipient of the Mozart Medal in 1993.
Rochelle Alers.  Rochelle Alers (born August 7 1963) is an American writer of romance novels. She has also written under the pen names Susan James and Rena McLeary.
Jorge Icaza Coronel.  Jorge Icaza Coronel (June 10 1906 - May 26 1978) was a writer from Ecuador best known for his novel Huasipungo which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadorian whites.He was born in Quito in 1906 and died of cancer in the same city in 1978.
Emilio Villareal.  Emilio Villareal also fondly called Maestro Mil by his constituents as well as the talented singers he mentored over the years is one of Cebu’s most talented composers and musicians. Born in Boljo-on Cebu in 1920 Mil was one of several children born to Chinese and Spanish immigrants.
Robin Zander.  Robin Wayne Zander (born January 23 1953) is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick.
Rachel Bolan.  Rachel Bolan (born February 9 1966) born James Richard Southworth is the bass guitar player and main songwriter of the metal band Skid Row. His stage name 'Bolan' is a tribute to one of his childhood idols T.Rex frontman Marc Bolan.
Martin Mosebach.  Martin Mosebach (born 1951) has published novels stories and collections of poems written scripts for several films opera libretti theatre and radio plays.
Lorenzo Tinti.  Lorenzo Tinti (1626–1672) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Bologna and was a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Sirani and painted altar-pieces for the churches in Bologna among them Scourging of Christ for the church of La Madonna del Piombo; and the Virgin and Child with several Saints for S. Tecla.
Juanes.  Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born August 9 1972) better known as Juanes (for the contraction of his first and second name) is a Colombian musician who was a member of the heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000 his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards. According to his record label Juanes has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.Raised in Medellín Colombia Juanes began playing guitar at age seven.
Barbara Gott.  Barbara Gott (1872–1944) was a British film actress.
Cathie Pelletier.  Cathie Pelletier (born 1953) is an award-winning novelist and song-writer who was born and raised in Allagash a rural town in Aroostook County Maine.
Barney Bentall.  Barnard Franklin Barney Bentall (born March 1956 in Toronto) is a Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter who is most well known for his 1990s-era band Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts. Their most successful Canadian singles included Something to Live For Life Could Be Worse Crime Against Love and Come Back to Me. Although it is rarely mentioned he is also a member of the prominent Bentall family of Dominion Construction and the Bentall Centre in downtown Vancouver BC.
Camille Bazbaz.  Camille Bazbaz is a French author-composer-interpreter with French-Lebanese roots. He was born in 1967 in Suresnes.
S. K. Azoulay.  Shay K Azoulay (Hebrew: שי אזולאי‎) is an Israeli fiction writer who writes in English and Hebrew. He is a winner of the 2006 Jerome Lowell DeJur Award. His debut play The Platoon a satire about the IDF received first place in the Tzavta Theater's 2012 staged reading festival. In 2013 he attempted to pass off a work of fiction regarding a forgotten Israeli writer of science fiction as fact submitting it to Tablet Magazine which exposed the hoax.
Gemma Hasson.  Gemma Hasson is a Northern Irish folk singer that recorded three studio albums from 1974 to 1978. Her first one Introducing Ireland's Gemma Hasson was released in 1974 on Dolphin Records label and produced by Dónal Lunny. She then signed with EMI Records and launched two more album: Looking for the Morning in 1975 (produced by Leo O'Kelly) and I've Never Been to Me... in 1978.
Mike Mictlan.  Mike Marquez better known by his stage name Mike Mictlan is a rapper based in Minneapolis Minnesota. He is a founding member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree.City Pages listed him as the 10th best Minnesota rapper in 2012.
Masato Hirano (voice actor).  Masato Hirano (平野正人 Hirano Masato born November 16 1955 in Iwate-Gun) is a Japanese voice actor who has voiced multiple characters in anime.
Peter Metro.  Peter Metro (b. Peter Clarke Kingston Jamaica c.1960) is a reggae deejay who released five albums in the 1980s.
Jean-Guy Pilon.  Jean-Guy Pilon OC CQ FRSC (born 12 November 1930) is a Quebec poet.Born in Saint-Polycarpe Quebec he received a law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1954.
Jostein Gaarder.  Jostein Gaarder (Norwegian: [ˈjuːstaɪn ˈɡɔːrdər]; born in Oslo on August 8 1952) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works writing stories within stories.Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy.
Jiang Qinqin.  Jiang Qinqin (born September 3 1975) is a Chinese actress. She is sometimes credited as Shui Ling (simplified Chinese: 水灵; traditional Chinese: 水靈) a stage name given to her by Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao while she was involved in the production of the television series Tears in Heaven.
Alain Mikli.  Alain Mikli (born Alain Miklitarian in France on April 1 1955) is a French-Armenian designer of high-end handmade eyeglasses and accessories. Mikli's line features unique colors and shapes and are a favorite among European celebrities and avant-garde Americans. Mikli claims his use of color is inspired by his Lebanese Armenian heritage. In 1978 Mikli opened his design studio in Paris.
Nathaniel Hitch.  Nathaniel Hitch (1845–1938) was a British sculptor. As a young man he became an apprentice sculptor journeyman and after studying at the Borough Polytechnic and experience working alongside architectural sculptors he developed a career carving altarpieces church furniture and other decorative features for churches.
Craig Kilborn.  Craig Kilborn (born August 24 1962) is an American actor and talk show host. He was the original host of The Daily Show a former anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter and Tom Snyder's successor on CBS' The Late Late Show. On June 28 2010 he launched The Kilborn File after a six-year absence from television. The Kilborn File aired on some Fox stations during a six-week trial run.
Antonio Ridolfi.  Antonio Ridolfi (Mezzana 1824 - Siena 1900) was an Italian painter depicting sacred and historical subjects as well as costume genre pieces.
Lesli Linka Glatter.  Lesli Linka Glatter (sometimes credited as Leslie Linka Glatter) (born 1953) began as a dancer and choreographer before becoming a film director. Her first film Tales of Meeting and Parting (1984) produced by Sharon Oreck was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. She has made several television films for cable networks but the majority of her work is in television series.
Édouard Dessommes.  Édouard Dessommes (New Orleans November 17 1845-Mandeville 1908) was an American French language writer.Born in New Orleans he went to a French school in Paris when he was 14 years old following the custom of Louisiana Creoles and in order to escape from American Civil War. He studied medicine and later started to publish his books. He was a professor at the Tulane University but disappointed because of his literacy failure he chose to live as a hermit in Mandeville.
Henry Vianden.  Heinrich Vianden better known as Henry Vianden (born Poppelsdorf July 9 1814 – died near Milwaukee February 5 1899) was a German American lithographer and engraver. He was nicked „The Bear“ by his friends and is often considered as father of Wisconsin art.
Junior English.  Junior English (born Lindel Beresford English 1951) is a Jamaican-born reggae singer who began his career in the early 1960s before relocating to England.
Kit Thomas.  Kit Thomas (born May 25 1947) is an American film maker and record producer best known for his involvement with films that make a difference.
Rebeca Linares.  Rebeca Linares (born June 13 1983) is the stage name of a Spanish pornographic actress and Penthouse Pet. Although born in San Sebastián Basque Country Spain she has lived for many years in Barcelona. She chose Rebeca for her stage name because It's short and very strong and Linares is her actual last name.
Slobodan Peladić.  Slobodan Peladić (Serbian: Слободан Пеладић; Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [slobodan peladitɕ]) is a Serbian artist – painter sculptor and multimedia artist.
Gerard Manley Hopkins.  Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet Roman Catholic convert and Jesuit priest whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.
Thomas Perry (author).  Thomas Perry (born 1947) is an American mystery and thriller novelist. He received a 1983 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel.
Pearl Lam.  Pearl Lam is a gallerist and the founder and director of the Pearl Lam Galleries. She currently has galleries in Shanghai Hong Kong and Singapore. She lives between Hong Kong Shanghai and London.
James Rollins.  James Rollins is the pen name of American veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski (born August 20 1961) a writer of best-selling action-adventure thriller novels. He gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento California to be a full-time author.Rollins is an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver.
Sheri Radford.  Sheri Radford is a British Columbian author. She was born in New Westminster and she was raised in Ladysmith. She also lived in Victoria for several years and she currently lives in Vancouver. Sheri has written stories poems plays articles and essays throughout her life. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from the University of Victoria. Sheri is the editor of Where Vancouver magazine and Where Whistler magazine.
Johann Valentin Tischbein.  Johann Valentin Tischbein (11 December 1715 – 24 April 1768) was a German painter of the Tischbein family. He was born in Kloster Haina and is most notable as a theatre painter and the father of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein. He died aged 52 in Hildburghausen.16x Media related to Johann Valentin Tischbein at Wikimedia Commons
Robert Peters.  Robert Louis Peters (born October 20 1924) is an American poet critic scholar playwright editor and actor born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924. He holds a Ph.D in Victorian literature. His poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss Songs for a Son was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967 and it still remains in print.
Sigurd Ibsen.  Sigurd Ibsen (23 December 1859 – 14 April 1930) was a Norwegian author lawyer and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Norway in Stockholm (1903–1905) and played a central role in the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905.
Maurice Browning.  Maurice Browning (11 May 1919 - 4 December 1983) was a British television actor.He appeared in several cult television series including The Avengers The Saint The Champions and Doctor Who.Browning also made an adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado that was filmed as The Cool Mikado and supplied the libretto for Twenty Minutes South and The Bright Arcade.
Joey Baron.  Joey Baron (born June 26 1955 in Richmond Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Bill Frisell Stan Getz Steve Kuhn and John Zorn. He has also performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic David Bowie Tony Bennett Carmen McRae Laurie Anderson John Scofield Al Jarreau Michael Jackson Jim Hall Eric Vloeimans Dizzy Gillespie Art Pepper John Abercrombie Tim Berne Pat Martino and Eliane Elias.
Pyotr Veinberg.  Pyotr Isaevich Veinberg (Russian: Пётр Иса́евич Ве́йнберг July 16 (28) 1831 Nikolaev then Russian Empire now Ukraine – July 3 (16) 1908 Saint Petersburg Russian Empire) was a Russian poet translator journalist and literary historian.
John Gross.  John Gross FRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011) was an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual writer anthologist and critic The Spectator magazine called Gross the best-read man in Britain as did The Guardian. He was the editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981 senior book editor and book critic on the staff of The New York Times from 1983 to 1989 and theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005.
Isaac Israëls.  Isaac Lazarus Israëls (February 3 1865 – October 7 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
Tim Armstrong.  Timothy Lockwood Armstrong (born November 25 1965) known simply as Tim Armstrong and also by the stage names Tim Timebomb and earlier in his career known as Lint is a multi-Grammy Award-winning American musician songwriter artist director poet record producer and independent record label owner. He is best known as the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup the Transplants.
Chiyako Sato.  Chiyako Sato (佐藤 千夜子 Satō Chiyako March 13 1897 – December 13 1968) was a Japanese female ryūkōka singer. She was born as Chiyo Sato in Tendō Yamagata Prefecture.In 1925 Sato made her debut with the song Aoi Susuki. She met Shinpei Nakayama who composed her 1928 song Habu no Minato. It sold 100000 copies. Her song Tokyo March (東京行進曲 Tōkyō Kōshinkyoku) was used as a tie-in song for the 1929 movie Tokyo March.
Karlie Redd.  Karlie Redd (born in New York City New York) is an American hip-hop artist dancer model and actress.
John Connelly (musician).  John Connelly is the front man guitarist and principal composer of Nuclear Assault a thrash metal band from New York. His voice is known for being aggressive but with high notes.
Maurice White.  Maurice White (born December 19 1941) is an American singer-songwriter musician record producer arranger and bandleader. He is the founder of the band Earth Wind & Fire. He is also the older brother of current Earth Wind & Fire member Verdine White and former member Fred White. Maurice served as the band's main songwriter and record producer and was co-lead singer (along with Phillip Bailey).
Jens Fink-Jensen.  Jens Fink-Jensen (born December 19 1956) is a Danish poet author photographer composer and architect.
Alex James (musician).  Steven Alexander Alex James (born 21 November 1968) is an English musician and songwriter and more recently a journalist and cheesemaker as well. Best known as the bassist of the band Blur he has also played with temporary bands Fat Les Me Me Me WigWam and Bad Lieutenant.
Michael Heatley.  Michael Heatley is the author or editor of over thirty biographies including Backstreet Boys: The Unofficial Book Bon Jovi: In Their Own Words and Rolf Harris: The Most Talented Man In The World.
Françoise Taylor.  Françoise Taylor (née Wauters) was a Belgian artist (1 January 1920 - 24 January 2007).She studied art at the Académie Royale Brussels and as a postgraduate at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et d'Arts Decoratifs Brussels. In her undergraduate course Françoise excelled and won First Prize for Drawing in three out of four years.
Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar.  Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar is a noted South Indian musician playing the flute. Mala Chandrasekhar was born to a musical family.Mala Chandrasekhar started learning from her aunt and mother Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela.
Kalinda Ashton.  Kalinda Ashton is an Australian writer and academic based in Melbourne Victoria. She has a doctorate from RMIT University and is the author of the 2009 novel The Danger Game which has been praised by notable Australian authors such as Christos Tsiolkas and Amanda Lohrey. The novel was published in the UK in 2011.
Groucho Marx.  Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2 1890 – August 19 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators.He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers of whom he was the third-born.
Patrick Ballantyne.  Patrick Ballantyne is a Windsor born Canadian songwriter guitar player and singer based in Oakville Ontario.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper.  Ellen Sturgis Hooper (February 17 1812 – November 3 1848) was an American poet. A member of the Transcendental Club she was widely regarded as one of the most gifted poets among the New England Transcendentalists. Her work is occasionally reprinted in anthologies.She was besides an acquaintance of William Ellery Channing Margaret Fuller Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James Sr..
Mark Erelli.  Mark Erelli (born June 20 1974) is an American singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalist and touring folk musician from Reading Massachusetts who earned a Master’s Degree in evolutionary biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst before pursuing a career in music. Erelli has released nine solo albums and three collaborative albums. His self-titled debut album was released in 1999 the same year that he won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk Award.
Billy Morris (guitarist).  Billy Morris is a guitarist who has played in several bands including Warrant Quiet Riot Kidd Wicked Spoyld Beast The Glorious Things and the Billy Morris Band.He guested with the band St. James and has also played with former Mr. Big guitarist Paul Gilbert.With Warrant he played on the album Under the Influence on which he sang lead vocals on the cover of AC/DC's Down Payment Blues as well as playing guitar on the whole album.The bands The Glorious Things and St.
Oren Ambarchi.  Oren Ambarchi is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion.
Frank Waters.  Frank Waters (July 25 1902 - June 3 1995) was an American writer. He is known for his novels and historical works about the American Southwest. The Frank Waters Foundation founded in his name strives to foster literary and artistic achievement in the Southwest United States.
Warryn Campbell.  Warryn Campbell (nicknamed Smiley or Baby Dubb) is an American record producer. He specializes in gospel music and R&B. Campbell originally got his start as a session musician and producer under the tutelage of DJ Quik on his third album Safe + Sound.
Del Palmer.  Del Palmer is an English bass guitarist and sound engineer best known for his work with Kate Bush with whom he also had a long-term relationship between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Stephen Jackson (musician).  Stephen Jackson (born January 26 1970) is a musician from Washington D.C. Most notably he is a founding member singer and songwriter for the Washington D.C. based band The Pietasters and the record labels Slug Tone! and Indication Records.
Julian E. Levi.  Julian Edwin Levi (1900–1982) was an American painter. He was a 1968 Resident of the American Academy in Rome. He should not be confused with the New York art dealer Julien Levy who introduced Salvador Dalí to American patrons at his Julien Levy Gallery.
Jim Hautman.  Jim Hautman is an American painter residing in Minnesota. The artist is best known for his realism wildlife art particularly the US Federal Duck Stamp. The artist's paintings have been featured on the 1999 1995 and 1990 Federal Duck Stamps raising millions for conservation.His brothers Joe Hautman and Robert Hautman are also wildlife artists.
Reminisce (artist).  Reminisce (aka REM pseudonyms of Ruby Rose Neri) is a sculptor painter and former street artist from San Francisco and Los Angeles California known for her portrayal of horses.
Graeme Whifler.  Graeme Whifler (born in San Mateo CA) is an American screenwriter and director. He has written/directed movies Television documentaries videos and music videos. He directed the film Neighborhood Watch the video Icky Flix and Secrets and Mysteries. He wrote the screenplay for Dr. Giggles and Sonny Boy as well. He has directed music videos for bands such as Renaldo and the Loaf The Residents Yello Tuxedomoon Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snakefinger.
G. Herbert Sallans.  George Herbert Sallans (April 20 1895 - November 18 1960) was a Canadian writer and journalist whose novel Little Man won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1942.Born and raised in Dufferin County Ontario he worked as a journalist for newspapers in Winnipeg Saskatoon and Vancouver and as a Canadian correspondent for British United Press before publishing Little Man.
Andrzej Szczypiorski.  Andrzej Szczypiorski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈandʐeɪ̯ ʂt͡ʂɨˈpʲɔrski] About this sound listen; 3 February 1928 – 16 May 2000) was a Polish novelist and politician; member of the Polish legislature Solidarity activist interned during the military crackdown of 1981. He was a secret police agent in the 1950s.
Amin Golestan.  Amin Golestan (Born as Amin Golestan Parast 5 June 1988 in Dubai UAE) is a New York based DJ record label owner and music producer. He was voted the number one DJ in 2008 and 2009 in the Middle East and Asia and was the featured artist on the 2010 DJ Magazine Middle East cover.
Ace Wilder.  Alice Kristina Ingrid Gernandt (born 23 July 1982 in Stockholm) better known by her stage name Ace Wilder is a Swedish singer and songwriter who's best known for taking part in Melodifestivalen 2014. Gernandt made it to the final on 8 March in Friends Arena progressing from the third semifinal in Scandinavium with her song Busy Doin' Nothin'.
Blake McCormick.  Blake McCormick is an award nominated television producer. He has worked on the AMC drama series Mad Men and was nominated for a PGA Award for his work on the show.
Ephraim Ruebush.  Ephraim Ruebush (September 26 1833 – September 26 1924) was a music teacher and publisher.Ephraim Ruebush was born in Churchville Virginia the son of John Ruebush and Mary Huffman. In September 1853 Ruebush traveled to Singers Glen Virginia to study music and printing under Joseph Funk. He married Lucille Virginia Kieffer on March 28 1861. With his brother-in-law Aldine Silliman Kieffer he founded the Kieffer-Ruebush music company in Dayton Virginia.
Jo Bannister.  Jo Bannister (born 31 July 1951 in Rochdale Lancashire) is a British crime fiction novelist. At present she lives in Northern Ireland.
Chris Barnes (musician).  Chris Barnes (born December 29 1966) is an American musician mainly noted for his guttural death growled vocals and explicitly violent lyrics. He was the founding vocalist and lyricist of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse (from 1988 to 1995) later working as part of Six Feet Under and has appeared on the Finnish death metal band Torture Killer's second album Swarm!.
Luke Bryan.  Thomas Luther Luke Bryan (born July 17 1976) is an American country singer. Bryan began his musical career in the mid-2000s writing songs for Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. After signing with Capitol Records in Nashville Tennessee in 2007 with his cousin Chad Christopher Boyd he released the album I'll Stay Me which included the singles All My Friends Say We Rode in Trucks and Country Man.
Tina Cheri.  Tina Cheri (born October 23 1973) is an American pornographic actress. Tina worked as a contract performer for Metro Entertainment.
LiQin Tan.  LiQin Tan (谭力勤 born 1957) is a Chinese-born American digital artist animator and educator who has taught in China Canada Singapore and the U.S.A.
Gertrude Page.  Gertrude Eliza Page (1872 Erdington - 1 April 1922 Mazoe District Southern Rhodesia) was an Anglo-Rhodesian novelist.
Trouble T Roy.  Troy Dixon (October 19 1967 — July 15 1990) better known as Trouble T Roy was a hip-hop dancer and rapper with the successful group Heavy D and the Boyz from 1987 until 1990.On July 15 1990 at the age of 22 Dixon was killed by an accidental fall. While on tour in Indianapolis he and others were having fun after a performance and walking on a raised exit ramp outside the arena. Dixon lost his balance fell from a height of approximately two stories and hit his head.
Evan Seinfeld.  Evan Seinfeld (born December 29 1967) is an American musician and actor as well as a director photographer and writer. He has also appeared in several pornographic films under the pseudonym Spyder Jonez. He is best known as a founding member of Biohazard. Since leaving the band in May 2011 for personal reasons he has joined the band Attika7 as a vocalist. He is also the ex-husband of pornographic actress Tera Patrick.
William Simpson (artist).  William Simpson (28 October 1823 – 17 August 1899) was a Scottish artist war artist and war correspondent.
Marc Anderson.  Marc Anderson is an American percussionist who has toured and recorded with Steve Tibbetts since 1977. He has also toured and/or recorded with artists such as Lorie Line Bradley Joseph Butch Morris Tony Marino Don Cherry Peter Ostroushko Claudia Schmidt Dave Moore Greg Brown Max Roach Taj Mahal Minnesota Orchestra Robert Fripp David Sylvian Choying Drolma and Altan.He is an adjunct professor in the Anthropology department at Hamline University in St.
Erica Fontes.  Erica Fontes (born May 14 1991 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese pornographic actress.
Lello Voce.  Lello Voce is an Italian poet writer and journalist who was born in Naples in 1957.He lives and works in Treviso (Venice).Poet writer and performer he was among the founders of Gruppo 93 and of the six-monthly literary magazine Baldus.
Rik Waller.  Rik Waller (born 1981 Gillingham Kent England) is an English singer.
Muramatsu Shōfu.  Muramatsu Shōfu (村松梢風) (21 September 1889 - 13 February 1961) was the pen-name of Muramatsu Giichi a Japanese novelist active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Wolf Biermann.  Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song Ermutigung and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.
Henry Priestman.  Henry Priestman (born Henry Christian Priestman 21 June 1955 Kingston upon Hull East Riding of Yorkshire England) is an English rock singer keyboardist record producer and songwriter.
Daehyun.  Jung Dae-hyun (Hangul: 정대현; born June 28 1993) often simply known as Daehyun is a South Korean singer and dancer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of South Korean K-pop group B.A.P.
Down AKA Kilo.  Juan Martinez (born January 13 1985) better known by his stage name Down AKA Kilo is an American rapper from Oxnard California.Martinez was born in Oxnard; his parents were illegal immigrants from Mexico. Growing up he listened to Cypress Hill and N.W.A and began rapping at age 13. He made his first recordings at the garage of childhood friend Edward E-Dub Rios who would later become producer of the Power 106 radio show Pocos Pero Locos.
Eddie Zack.  Edward Adrain Zack (January 2 1922 to January 9 2002) was an American country music artist. Zack was primarily known for his appearances on various radio shows.
Steve Grantley.  Steve Grantley is a British drummer who plays for Stiff Little Fingers and formerly The Alarm and RTZ Global. Between 1982 and 1987 he played drums for Jake Burns and the Big Wheel. He has also worked with Alicia Keys Julian Lennon and with the bands Eighth Wonder and The Clash.He has also written two books; one about the 70's rock band Slade and another about The Who called 'Who By Numbers' which is the story behind every Who song.
Kristian Elster (born 1841).  Kristian Mandrup Elster (1841 – 1881) was a Norwegian novelist journalist literary critic and theatre critic the father of Kristian Elster d.y.. He made his literary début with the historical drama Eystein Meyla which was staged in 1863. Among his novels are Tora Trondal from 1879 and Farlige folk from 1881.
Benjamin Beresford.  Benjamin Beresford is a British actor known for his role as Joshua Peacock on ITV's Coronation Street. Ben has played the role since 2004 taking over from Brandon Jackson and Stephen Collins. I went to school with Ben and still do. he is really kind and is still a great actor and rugby player. He hopes to get back on corrie
Gina B. Nahai.  Gina B. Nahai (born 1961) is the author of Cry of the Peacock Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith Sunday's Silence and Caspian Rain. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is a Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing (MPW) Program at the University of Southern California.
Matt Schwartz.  Matt Schwartz is a multi-instrumentalist record producer a songwriter an artist DJ and a prolific audio engineer based in the UK.He has contributed to numerous records since 1995 as an engineer producer composer musician and a songwriter working with all the UK major record labels he also had several club chart toppers and a few top 10 chart and airplay charts records in the UK US and Europe as an artist.
Nautica Thorn.  Nautica Thorn (born Shauna Tokumi on June 13 1984 in Waipahu Hawai'i) is an American pornographic actress.
Irwansyah.  Irwansyah (born 6 March 1985) is an Indonesian actor and singer. Irwansyah released his first solo album Soliter in 2008.
Durga Bhagwat.  Durga Narayan Bhagwat (1910–2002) popularly known as Durga Bhagwat was an Indian scholar socialist and writer. She studied Sanskrit and Buddhist literature roamed jungles of Madhya Pradesh to study tribal life later returned to Mumbai as a researcher and wrote books in Marathi. Being a rebel by nature she highly opposed Government during The Emergency (India) and was subsequently imprisoned. She also had refused to accept literary honors like Padma Shree and Jnanapeeth.
Gerda Grepp.  Gerda J. Helland Grepp (1907 – 29 August 1940) was a Norwegian translator and journalist. She was the daughter of former chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party Kyrre Grepp and journalist Rachel Grepp.
Jin Hashimoto.  Jin Hashimoto (橋本 仁 Hashimoto Jin) is a Japanese singer and vocal trainer. He is best known for his contributions to Japanese television series' theme songs such as his debut as the vocalist for the ending them of Kamen Rider Kuuga.After joining an Earth Wind & Fire tribute band at age 22 he formed the band BETCHIN' with A.T and Hiroaki Tommy Tominaga in 1998 and together they released two albums.
Ricardo Autobahn.  John Matthews (born 8 March 1978) better known by his stage name Ricardo Autobahn is an English producer songwriter and musician.
Marc Andreyko.  Marc Andreyko (born 20 June 1970) is a comic book and screenwriter known for his work on books such Manhunter for DC Comics and Torso a creator-owned true crime series he has co-written with Brian Michael Bendis.
Hart Amos.  Hart Amos (1916 - 2000) was an Australian comic strip writer and artist.
Ragnhild Furebotten.  Ragnhild Furebotten (born 10 March 1979 in Saltdal Norway) is a Norwegian fiddler folk musician and composer and former member of the traditional folk band Majorstuen and present member and founder of Hekla Stålstrenga.
Isaac Master (painter).  The Isaac Master was an Italian Gothic painter active in the decoration of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi at the end of the thirteenth century.
Gregg Olsen.  Gregg Olsen (born March 5 1959 in Seattle Washington) is a New York Times and a USA Today bestselling author of eight nonfiction books and six novels most of which are crime-related. The subjects of his true crime books include convicted child rapist and school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau product tampering killer Stella Nickell fasting specialist Linda Burfield Hazzard and former Amishman and convicted murderer Eli Stutzman.
Lorenz Diefenbach.  Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806 Ostheim Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883 Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer as well as a novelist associated with the German Nationalist movement. By career he was a pastor like his father and a librarian.
Jon Cohen (writer).  Jon Cohen is an American novelist and screenwriter. As a screenwriter he is best known for his co-writing contribution to the Steven Spielberg-directed film Minority Report (2002).A native of Swarthmore Pennsylvania Cohen worked as a critical care nurse in Philadelphia before becoming a writer. He published three books: Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger (1991) The Man in the Window (1992) and Dentist Man (1993).
Bruce Turgon.  Bruce Turgon is an American bass guitarist guitarist vocalist songwriter and producer who has played in several bands throughout his career including Foreigner The Lou Gramm Band Shadow King Steve Stevens Warrior Black Sheep and Showcase.
Rebecca Brooke.  Rebecca Brooke (February 21 1952 - July 17 2012) was an American retired pornographic film actress and model who specialized in sexploitation films including hardcore pornography in the 1970s. Born in Chicago Illinois Brooke started out in the legitimate theater with parts in Hair and Lenny. Vern L. Bullough wrote that Brooke was one of the true beauties to grace the porn screen.She made her film debut in the pornographic film director Chuck Vincent XXX-rated Grace's Place (1973).
Stanley Herbert.  Stanley Herbert (born 1905; died 1967) was a commercial artist active in the 1930s to 1960s.Among his clients were The Radio Times for whom he painted covers and London Transport and Imperial Airways for both of whom he designed posters. His other clients included the RAF BOAC Danish Bacon and the National Savings Bank and the children's comics 'Eagle' 'Girl' and 'Jack and Jill'.
John Williams (guitarist).  John Christopher Williams (born 24 April 1941) is an Australian classical guitarist renowned for his ensemble playing as well as his interpretation and promotion of the modern classical guitar repertoire. In 1973 he shared a Grammy Award win in the Best Chamber Music Performance category with Julian Bream for Julian and John (Works by Lawes Carulli Albéniz Granados).Williams is noted for a technique that is often described as virtually flawless.
Davíd Garza.  Davíd Garza is an Austin-based American singer-songwriter who infuses rock and pop with a Latin feel and whose vocal style draws comparisons to Freddie Mercury Jeff Buckley Donovan and Robert Plant.
Benoît Le Coffre.  Benoît Le Coffre (1671 – 1722) was a Danish painter of French descent. He became King Frederick IV's Court Painter in 1700 and is considered the earliest representative of light Rococo painting in Denmark.
Jerry Moriarty.  Jerry Moriarty (born January 15 1938 Binghamton New York) is an American artist and teacher at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan. He describes himself as a paintoonist. Moriarty entered the Pratt Institute in 1956 and earned a BFA in 1960. After graduating he worked as a freelance magazine illustrator to support his Abstract Expressionist painting.
Bruno Maddox.  Bruno P. Maddox (born 1969) is a British literary novelist and journalist who is best known for his critically lauded novel My Little Blue Dress (2001) and for his satirical magazine essays.After graduating from Harvard University in 1992 Maddox began his career reviewing books for The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Book World.
Molly Nyman.  Molly Nyman has composed numerous film scores mostly in collaboration with Harry Escott. She is the elder daughter of composer Michael Nyman and appeared in Peter Greenaway's The Falls as did her mother Aet Nyman.She studied music at Sussex University and went on to specialise in composition at City University London.
Michael Moynihan (author).  Michael Moynihan is an American author and the nephew of Daniel Patrick Moynihan former Senator (Democrat) from New York. He wrote The Coming American Renaissance a rebuttal of works by Lester Thurow and others argued that America possessed a unique set of economic advantages that would propel it to global leadership in the 21st century. Moynihan cited technology leadership in particular as a driver of economic growth.
J. A. Konrath.  Joseph Andrew Konrath (born 1970 in Skokie Ill.) is a fiction writer working in the mystery thriller and horror genres. He writes as J. A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn. In 2011 Konrath was named one of the 5 eBook Authors To Watch by Mediabistro.com's Dianna Dilworth.
Regina Zernay Roberts.  Regina Zernay Roberts is an American instrumentalist singer and songwriter. She is lead singer and bass player of Detroit Diesel Power. She played bass guitar and Moog synthesizer with Scarlet Fever the all-female backing band that toured with Cee Lo Green during 2010 and 2011. She toured several years in the New Orleans cowpunk band Cowboy Mouth; was founding bassist/singer of Los Angeles punk rock band Méchant; and was bassist for the hard rock band Halfcocked.
Yukimasa Kishino.  Yukimasa Kishino (岸野 幸正 Kishino Yukimasa born on October 21 1955 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production. He is also active in the theatrical entertainment field and is the chairman of his own theatrical group Gekidan Kishino Gumi. Some of the members of this group include fellow voice actors Kujira and Masaaki Okura.
Enrique Gil Gilbert.  Enrique Gil Gilbert (July 8 1912 - February 21 1973) was an Ecuadorian novelist journalist poet and a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of Ecuador.Gil Gilbert was born and died in the coastal city of Guayaquil and was the youngest member of the Guayaquil Group which was one of the most renowned literary and intellectual groups in Ecuador in 1930-1940.
Heather Dale.  Heather Dale is a Canadian Celtic recording artist and touring musician. She records and performs primarily her own original songs which draw their inspiration from the folklore mythology and history of various Celtic and non-Celtic cultures along with some elements of modern fantasy literature. Her musical style is a mix of traditional and modern influenced by Celtic folk folk-rock New Age and world music. She has been compared to Loreena McKennitt Sarah McLachlan and Judy Collins.
Diane Cluck.  Diane Cluck is an American singer-songwriter. She describes her music as intuitive folk. She currently resides in Virginia.
Jan Neruda.  Jan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech: [ˈjan ˈnɛpomuk ˈnɛruda]; 9 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist writer and poet one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the May school.
Estrella Morente.  Estrella Morente (Estrella de la Aurora Morente Carbonell) is a Spanish flamenco singer. She was born on August 14 1980 in Las Gabias Granada in southern Spain. She is the daughter of flamenco singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell.She has performed with her father since age seven and recorded her first album in 2001 Mi Cante Y Un Poema (My Songs and A Poem). This was followed the same year by Calle del Aire which was well received by critics and flamenco fans.
Charlie Sloth.  Charlie Sloth (born 20 August 1981) is an English hip hop artist actor TV presenter and DJ who was born and raised in Camden Town North London England.
Aura Lewis.  Aura Lewis (born Aurelia Msimang; 4 March 1947) is a singer who worked with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and recorded an album with Lee Scratch Perry in the late 1970s.
Femke Verschueren.  Femke Verschueren (born 8 May 2000) is a Belgian singer who represented her nation at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011.
Joanna Newsom.  Joanna Caroline Newsom (born January 18 1982) is an American harpist pianist vocalist and songwriter.
Kate Earl.  Kate Earl (born October 8 1981) is an American singer-songwriter.
Ralph Patt.  Ralph Oliver Patt (5 December 1929 – 6 October 2010) was an American jazz-guitarist who introduced major-thirds tuning. Patt's tuning simplified the learning of the fretboard and chords by beginners and improvisation by advanced guitarists. He invented major-thirds tuning under the inspiration of first the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg and second the jazz of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.He graduated with a degree in geology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Bruno Chersicla.  Bruno Chersicla (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbruno kɛrˈsikla]) (10 October 1937 – 3 May 2013) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Jacques Antoine.  Jacques Antoine (14 March 1924 – 14 September 2012) was a French creator and producer of game shows. His most famous creations include Treasure Hunt Interceptor Fort Boyard and The Crystal Maze.
Alex Cerveny.  Alex Cerveny is a Brazilian artist engraver sculptor illustrator and painter born in Sao Paulo Brazil in 1963.
Guity Novin.  Guity Novin (born Guity Navran 1944) is an Iranian-Canadian figurative painter and graphic designer residing in Canada. She classifies her work as Transpressionism a movement she has introduced.Her works are in private and public collections worldwide.She has served on a UNESCO national committee of artists.
Norm Magnusson.  Norm Magnusson (born March 20 1960) is a New York-based artist and political activist and founder in 1991 of the art movement funism he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion.This led him away from the canvas and into the public realm where he created short videos that ran on U.S. national television prior to 2004's U.S.
Chan Kwong-wing.  Comfort Chan Kwong-wing (simplified Chinese: 陈光荣; traditional Chinese: 陳光榮; born June 15 1967) is a music composer for Hong Kong films.
Francesco Paolo Frontini.  Francesco Paolo Frontini (Catania August 6 1860 – Catania July 26 1939) was an Italian composer. He studied music with his father composer Martino Frontini; he also studied the violin with Santi D'Amico playing a concert with him at the town concert hall at the age of 13. At 15 his first composition a Qui tollis was played at the city cathedral under the direction of Pietro Antonio Coppola.
Sathya Prakash.  Sathyaprakash (born 18 March 1990) is an Indian playback singer who was discovered on the music talent show Airtel Super Singer. He has been a noted Carnatic singer since childhood and is a disciple of Sri Chandrasekar Bhagavathar.
Diana Beaumont.  Diana Beaumont (8 May 1909 – 21 June 1964) was a British actress.
Zamora (pianist).  Zamora is a Venezuelan musician born on July 13 1979.He has released several instrumental albums he has published several books and he was nominated on December 1 2010 for a Grammy Award in the New Age music category.
Bill Majoros.  Bill Majoros is a Canadian musician currently a songwriter lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the psychedelic pop act The Foreign Films.Born in Hamilton Ontario Majoros has toured and recorded with many Canadian acts including Flux A.D. Universal Honey The Paper Airplane Company The Nines Altogether Morris and The Cloudsmen.Majoros has played internationally from the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool to CBGB's in New York City.
Wayne Sharrocks.  Wayne Sharrocks is an English author of psychological thrillers. He was born in Camden London and had a career in animal welfare after university. In 2005 he secured a 3 book publishing contract with Pegasus Books. He started to write novels whilst living in Blo Norton on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. His first book Redemption published in 2006 was nominated for both the McKitterick Prize and Guardian First Book Award.
Chisato Okai.  Chisato Okai (岡井 千聖 Okai Chisato) (born June 21 1994 in Saitama Japan) is a member of the J-pop group Cute under Hello! Project.
Adam D. Weinberg.  Adam D. Weinberg is an art museum curator and director.Adam D. Weinberg became the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in October 1 2003. He is also on the board of trustees of the museum. Before that Weinberg was the Mary Stripp and R.
Caziel.  Caziel (Kazimierz Józef Zielenkiewicz 16 June 1906 - 25 August 1988) was a Polish artist who lived and worked in Paris during the inter-war period and who worked alongside a number of important figures of the School of Paris including Pablo Picasso and the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Olga Scheps.  Olga Scheps (born January 1 1986) is a German-Russian pianist who currently resides in Cologne Germany.
Taylor Swift.  Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing Pennsylvania Swift moved to Nashville Tennessee at 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star.
Johnny Lever.  John Prakasa Rao Janumala (born 14 August 1957 in Prakasam) better known as Johnny Lever is an Indian film actor and one of the most noted comedians in Hindi cinema.Lever has received thirteen Filmfare Awards nominations in Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role and has won the award twice for his works in Deewana Mastana (1997) and Dulhe Raja (1998). He began his career in 1984 and has acted in more than three hundred Bollywood films.
Amalie Skram.  Amalie Skram (22 August 1846 – 15 March 1905) was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. She moved to Denmark in 1894 where she settled in Copenhagen with her husband the Danish writer Erik Skram. She is considered the most important female writer of the Modern Breakthrough.
Albert Robida.  Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was a French illustrator etcher lithographer caricaturist and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. In the 1900s he created 520 illustrations for Pierre Giffard's weekly serial La Guerre Infernale.
Miguel Tapia.  Miguel Tapia is a Chilean musician and former drummer of Los Prisioneros together with Jorge González and Claudio Narea. During the first hiatus of Los Prisioneros from 1991 to 2006 Miguel Tapia was engaged in other music projects among the Jardín Secreto.
Bessie Potter Vonnoh.  Bessie Potter Vonnoh (August 17 1872 – March 8 1955) was an American sculptor best known for her small bronzes mostly of domestic scenes and for her garden fountains.
Geoffrey Brock.  For the South Australian politician see Geoff Brock.Geoffrey Brock (born 1964) is an American poet and translator.
DJ NYK.  Nikhil Sahni better known as DJ NYK is an Indian music producer and DJ. He plays in clubs across India and worldwide. DJ NYK started DJing at the age of 17 while at school. His first break came when he started playing at Club Moets in Delhi. He then toured many cities across India. NYK has also given official remixes for bollywood movies like Billu Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani De Dana Dan Paathshala and Golmaal 3.
Mandy Wong.  Mandy Wong (born 21 December 1982) is a Hong Kong television actress. Wong began her television and acting career with her participation in the Miss Hong Kong 2007 beauty pageant where she was placed among the top 5 finalists. She joined TVB that same year and was part of TVB's graduating acting class of 2008. Wong debuted with a brief appearance in TVB's 2007 sitcom Best Selling Secrets.
Dean Wareham.  Michael Dean Wareham (born 1 August 1963) is an American musician who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. Born in Wellington New Zealand Wareham moved with his parents to Sydney Australia before settling in New York City in 1977. Wareham attended the Dalton School in New York and Harvard University graduating with a B.A. in social studies. He left Galaxie 500 in April 1991 and founded the band Luna.
Laurence Bergreen.  Laurence Bergreen (born February 4 1950) is an American historian and biographer. His most recent book is Columbus: The Four Voyages a New York Times Best Seller.
Oleg Grigoriev.  For a pilot of the same name see 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision.Oleg Grigoriev (Russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Григо́рьев IPA: [ɐˈlʲek jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪf] ; born 6 December 1943) was a Russian poet and artist. He is regarded as a successor of the Oberiu tradition. Many of his short poems became modern folklore.
William Arthur Satchell.  William Arthur Satchell (1861–1942) was a notable New Zealand orchardist writer stockbroker novelist and accountant. He was born in London England in 1861.
Dan Raspler.  Dan Raspler is an editor and writer of comic books for DC Comics. In the late 1990s he created the series Young Heroes in Love.
Sonny Simmons.  Huey Sonny Simmons (b. August 4 1933 Sicily Island Louisiana) is an American jazz musician.
Kiichi Nakai.  Kiichi Nakai (中井 貴一 Nakai Kiichi born 18 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. His father Keiji Sada also a movie actor died when Nakai was only two years old. Nakai started his acting career while he was still in university and was awarded the Rookie of the Year of Japan Academy Awards in 1981.He won the Japan Academy Best Supporting Actor award in 1994 (for 47 Ronin) and Best Actor award in 2003 (for Mibu gishi den (When the Last Sword is Drawn).
Ego Leonard.  Ego Leonard is a Dutch painter and sculptor and possibly an anonymous guerrilla artist whose works prominently feature outsized Lego figures. Sometimes the name also is applied to sculpture apparently made by Leonard which have been found on beaches at various locations in the world since the late 2000s.
Steven Cojocaru.  Steven Cojocaru (born July 4 1963)' is a Canadian television fashion critic. He was born in Montreal Quebec into a Romanian Jewish family. Cojocaru started out as a magazine columnist and eventually began working on American television shows as a correspondent and interviewer on Entertainment Tonight The Today Show The Insider and Access Hollywood.
Jenilca Giusti.  Jenilca Franchesca Giusti is a Puerto Rican singer songwriter and actress commonly known as Jenilca. Jenilca is a participant of the third season of Objetivo Fama and principal actress in the Broadway musicals Fame and Grease which were presented at the CBA Luis A. Ferré in San Juan Puerto Rico.
Amish Tripathi.  Amish Tripathi (born 18 October 1974) is an Indian author. He is known for his novels The Immortals of Meluha The Secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras. The three books collectively comprise the Shiva Trilogy. Tripathi's debut work The Immortals of Meluha was a surprise bestseller breaking into the top seller charts within a week of its launch.
Jack Morrow.  John Cassell (Jack) Morrow (b. Belfast 26 February 1872 d. Dublin 11 January 1926) was a political cartoonist illustrator and landscape painter. He was the son of a painter and decorator from Clifton Street west Belfast.
Si Siman.  Si Siman (January 17 1921 – December 16 1994) born Ely E. Siman Jr. was an American record producer and country music executive who helped transform the sound of music in the Ozarks after World War II and into the 1970s. He discovered Chet Atkins and Porter Wagoner among others; and was a key figure behind Ozark Jubilee the first network television series to feature America's top country music stars.
Elise Jordan.  Elise Jordan is an American journalist political speechwriter and commentator. She served as a director for communications in the National Security Council from 2008-09. She also worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting at the U.S. Embassy Baghdad and for the Commanding General's Strategic Advisory Group at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul Afghanistan and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Shafi Imam Rumi.  Shafi Imam Rumi (Bengali: শাফি ইমাম রুমী) was a guerilla fighter of the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was the eldest son of Jahanara Imam. In her famous memoir about the war Ekatorer Dinguli Rumi was portrayed as the premier character. Rumi was murdered by the Pakistani Army and for being a martyr during the liberation war Jahanara Imam was also known Shaheed Janoni or martyr's mother.
Omar Eldarov.  Omar Hasan oglu Eldarov (Azerbaijani: Ömər Həsən oğlu Eldarov) is an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor Honoured Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1961) People's Painter of Azerbaijan (1982) full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2001) full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1988) president of Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts (2001) and academician.
Margaret Pemberton.  Margaret Pemberton née Hudson (b. 10 April 1943 in Bradford Yorkshire England UK) is a British writer of women's fiction since 1975 she also wrote under her maiden name Maggie Hudson and under the pseudonyms of Carris Carlisle Christina Harland and Rebecca Dean.She was elected the fifteenth Chairman (1989–1991) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.
Ajoy Chakrabarty.  Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty (Bengali: অজয় চক্রবর্তী; born 1952) is an Indian Hindustani classical vocalist. He belongs to the Patiala gharana.
William Wall.  William Bill Wall (born 1955) is an Irish novelist poet and short story writer. He was born in Cork City in 1955 but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate. He received his secondary education at the Christian Brothers School in Midleton. He progressed to University College Cork where he graduated in Philosophy and English. He taught as an English and drama teacher at Presentation Brothers College Cork where he inspired Cillian Murphy to enter acting.
Luigi Antonio Sabbatini.  Luigi Antonio Sabbatini (1732 Albano Laziale Italy – January 29 1809 Padova Italy) was an Italian composer and music theorist. He studied music at Bologna in the Franciscan Monastery under Father Giovanni Battista Martini. He published a textbook on the theoretical elements of music in 1789 in three volumes a treatise on fugues in 1802. He also contributed to the use of numerical signatures of musical harmony. In May 1807 he was elected to the Accademia Italiana.
Evren Ozdemir.  Evren Ozdemir (born November 10 1977 Istanbul Turkey) also known by his stage name EVREN is a Canadian rapper producer and songwriter. Writing music since the early age of 13 Evren began to capture the interest of various industry professionals leading to his involvement in writing material for hit television series including Degrassi: The Next Generation Instant Star Billable Hours and The Best Years.
M. Sukumaran.  M. Sukumaran (born 1943) is an author and short story writer in Malayalam. He was born at Chittur in Palakkad District Kerala. Won the Kerala Sahithya Academy award in 1976 for his book Marichittillathavarude Smarakangal.While working at the office of Accountant General of Kerala at Trivandrum he got involved with the leftist trade union movement.
Jack Napier (pornographic actor).  Jack Napier (born Sebastian Bartlett; Inglewood California United States) is an American pornographic actor and director. Stage name deriving from the comic book character The Joker from the Batman series. He is of African American and Puerto Rican descent. He started his adult film career in 1999 and has since appeared in over 200 films mostly in the interracial genre.
Alesso di Benozzo.  Alesso di Benozzo or (Florence 1473–1528) was an Italian painter son of Benozzo Gozzoli.
Kevin Brennan (actor).  Kevin Martin Brennan (12 September 1920 – 17 December 1998) was an Australian-born British-based film and television actor.
Anna Cabot Lowell.  Anna Cabot Lowell (born in Boston Massachusetts in 1819; died in Cambridge Massachusetts 7 January 1874) was a United States writer.
Jose de Creeft.  José de Creeft (1884 Guadalajara Spain – 1982 New York United States) was a Spanish-born American sculptor and teacher.
Martha Redbone.  Martha Redbone is a musician of part Cherokee Choctaw and African-American descent. She has won awards for her contemporary Native American music. Her music is a mix of rhythm and blues and soul music influences fused with elements of traditional Native American music. In early 2007 Redbone's Skintalk won The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best R&B Album.
Louiche Mayorga.  Louiche Mayorga is best known for his bass playing in the Venice punk band Suicidal Tendencies. He co-wrote many of their earlier songs including the punk classic Institutionalized from their 1983 debut album on Frontier as well as War Inside My Head Possessed to Skate. and the title track Join the Army from their second release on Caroline.
Elaine Barrie.  Elaine Barrie (née Jacobs; July 16 1915 – March 1 2003) was a New York City–born American actress who appeared in several films and one Broadway play. She was legendary actor John Barrymore's fourth and last wife. She claimed to have fallen in love with Barrymore in 1931 when she was 16 after seeing his film the classic Svengali. They did marry five years later but the marriage was a rocky one and they divorced in 1940.
Frances Moore Lappé.  Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10 1944) is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger poverty and environmental crises as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent book is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want.
Cliff Friend.  Cliff Friend (October 1 1893 – June 27 1974) was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley Friend co-wrote several hits including Lovesick Blues My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now and The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.
Wesley D. Sweetser.  Dr Wesley Duaine Sweetser (1919–2006) was an English critic.Born in National City California USA he attended the University of Colorado where he gained a Ph.D. in 1958 for a thesis on Welsh writer Arthur Machen. He served for a long period in the United States Air Force reaching the rank of Captain.This enthusiasm led him to publish a valuable Machen biography and bibliography with Adrian Goldstone based on his earlier thesis.
Melvin Rhyne.  Melvin Rhyne (October 12 1936 – March 5 2013) Indianapolis Indiana) was a jazz organist best known for his work with Wes Montgomery.
Jon Anders Halvorsen.  Jon Anders Halvorsen (born 1968 in Lunde Norway) is a Norwegian folk singer and physician.
Eduard Rottmanner.  Eduard Rottmanner (2 September 1809 – 4 May 1843) was a German composer and organist. Rottmanner was born in Munich and was the cousin of German poet philosopher and politician Karl Rottmanner and the great-nephew of lawyer Simon Rottmanner. He studied the organ and music composition with Joseph Graetz and Kaspar Ett. In 1828 he entered the University of Munich where he studied philosophy logic history physics and statistics.
Gilles Vigneault.  Gilles Vigneault GOQ (French pronunciation: ​[jil vino]; born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian poet publisher and singer-songwriter and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.
Kevin St.Jarre.  Kevin St.Jarre (born July 26 1968 in Pittsfield Massachusetts) is an American author editor and professor. His novels in the Night Stalkers series written under the pen name Michael Hawke center around the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. St.Jarre has also worked as a journalist is a published poet and writes on pedagogical subjects in journals and books.
Nizar Qabbani.  Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (Arabic: نزار توفيق قباني‎ Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī) (21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love eroticism feminism religion and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world.
Bill Connors.  Bill Connors (born September 24 1949) is a jazz musician notable for playing in Chick Corea's band Return to Forever with whom he recorded Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy. After leaving Return to Forever he recorded three acoustic albums and then three electric albums as a leader/soloist.
Gil Evans.  Ian Ernest Gilmore Gil Evans (né Green; May 13 1912 – March 20 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist arranger composer and bandleader. He played an important role in the development of cool jazz modal jazz free jazz and jazz fusion and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis.
Jake Adelstein.  Joshua Jake Adelstein is an American investigative journalist crime writer and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. In 1993 Adelstein became the first ever non-Japanese staff writer at the Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper. He was subsequently a reporter for a US State Department investigation into organized crime in Japan and now writes for websites such as the The Atlantic Wire and The Daily Beast.[citation needed] Adelstein also authored a memoir Tokyo Vice.
Niall Toner.  Niall Toner (born 1944) is an Irish Bluegrass musician song-writer and radio broadcaster from Dublin known nation-wide for his programmes Country Heartland and Roots Freeway.
Lindsay McDougall.  Lindsay McAllister M The Doctor McDougall (born 3 March 1978) is an Australian rock guitarist and radio presenter. Since 1996 he has been the lead guitarist in punk rock band Frenzal Rhomb alongside lead singer Jay Whalley. He has co-written songs with fellow band members including their highest charting single You Are Not My Friend.
Ben Weasel.  Ben Weasel (born Benjamin Foster) is a punk rock musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of bands Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales. He is also co-host of Weasel Radio a weekly radio show formerly on ESPN 1070 which was relaunched as a podcast.
Louis Dewis.  Louis Dewis (1872–1946) was a Belgian Post-Impressionist painter who lived most of his adult life in France.
Jerri Allyn.  Jerri Allyn is a feminist performance and installation artist and educator based in Los Angeles California. Allyn earned an MA in Art and Community from Goddard College in Plainfield Vermont and also attended The Feminist Studio Workshop at the Los Angeles Woman's Building.
Donald Henderson (writer).  Donald Henderson (before 1905–1947) was an English writer. As a young man Henderson spent a period in a stockbrokers' office and then became an actor. Later he joined the staff of the BBC. From early youth he had written novels and plays under various pseudonyms. He first used his own name on the 1943 psychological thriller Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper which got considerable critical attention in wartime Britain.
Steve Dior.  Steve Dior is a British musician guitarist vocalist and songwriter best known for being in bands such as the The London Cowboys Filthy Lucre and The Idols.In 1976 Steve Dior and Barry Jones built the basis of The Idols after previously rehearsing with Chrissie Hynde and Keith Levene and others in a band called The Quickspurts.
Antoine de Rivarol.  Antoine de Rivarol (26 June 1753 – 11 April 1801) was a Royalist French writer during the Revolutionary era.Rivarol was born in Bagnols Languedoc. It appears that his father an innkeeper was a cultivated man. The son assumed the title of comte de Rivarol asserting a connection with a noble Italian family but his enemies said his name was really Riverot and that he was not of a noble family. After various vicissitudes he went to Paris in 1777 and won some academic prizes.
Robert Crisp.  Robert Crisp is an artist. He studied at Guildford Croydon and Nottingham Schools of Art graduating in stage design and painting. Following his graduation he worked in different theatres designing sets and painting scenery.
H-Eugene.  H-Eugene (Hangul:H-유진) (born Heo Eugene; April 6 1979) is a South Korean recording artist. His collaborations with widely popular pop artists in South Korea had significantly spread his name and as a result boosted his popularity. Having known former rapper MC Mong the two have had several collaborations to their name. He also collaborated with Wonder Girls member Yeeun in Baby I Love You and released a ballad/rap track featuring singer J-Junior and renowned Korean composer Ahn Young Min.
Ryan Malcolm.  Ryan Michael Malcolm (born October 13 1979 in Kingston Ontario) is a Canadian singer best known as the winner of the first season of Canadian Idol.In 2006 after releasing his debut solo album Home in 2003 Malcolm formed a new alternative rock band Low Level Flight.
Léo-Paul Desrosiers.  Léo-Paul Desrosiers (April 11 1896 – April 20 1967) was a Quebec writer and journalist well known for his historical novels. He was influenced by the nationalism of Henri Bourassa and Lionel-Adolphe Groulx.He published his first novel in 1922 called Âmes et Paysages. His best-known work Les Engagés du Grand Portage published in 1938 was set in the fur trade-years in the early 19th century.
Tony Chapman.  Anthony 'Tony' Chapman was a British drummer especially active during the 1960s. He played with an early line-up of the Rolling Stones before they settled on their permanent band members.
Matthew Tree.  Matthew Tree (born December 30 1958) is a writer in English and Catalan. He has lived in Barcelona since 1984.
Lauri Ylönen.  Lauri Ylönen (born 23 April 1979) is the frontman of the Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus.
DJ Sun.  DJ Sun is an American Music Producer/DJ.
Kyōko Kazama.  Kyōko Kazama (風間今日子 or 風間恭子 Kazama Kyōko) is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films and was herself given a Best Supporting Actress award in two successive years for her work in this genre in 2006 and 2007.
Craig Huxley.  Craig Huxley (born 22 November 1954) is an American Emmy Award winning film producer and Grammy Award nominee musician and soundtrack producer.
Stephen Carpenter.  For the director and writer see Stephen Carpenter (writer). For the limnologist see Stephen R. Carpenter.Stephen Stef Carpenter (born August 3 1970) is an American musician known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Deftones.His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings as well as stock power chords in poly-rhythms. Carpenter began his musical career with Deftones playing the traditional 6 string guitar.
Carmine Giordani.  Carmine Giordani (c. 1685 in Cerreto Sannita Benevento – 1758 in Naples) was an Italian composer and organist. He studied at the Conservatorio napoletano della Pietà dei Turchini with Gennaro Ursino (1650-1715) and Nicola Fago.It was long mistakenly thought that Carmine Giordani was father of Tommaso Giordani who died in Dublin and Giuseppe Giordani (1743–98) called Giordanello but this turns out not to be the case; their father was Giuseppe Giordani an opera buffa singer.
Urard Ó Maolconaire.  Urard Ó Maolconaire Ollamh Síol Muireadaigh died 1482.The Annals of Connacht sub anno 1482 say of him:1482:Urard O Mailchonaire ollav of Sil Murray in learning and poetry the chief chronicler of the western world specially learned in the phases of the moon translator of a part of the Scriptures from Latin into Irish died at an advanced age. Sigraid O Mailchonaire succeeded him.
Paul Banks (musician).  Paul Banks (born 6 July 1973 in York England) is an English musician songwriter and lead guitarist with the rock band Shed Seven.
Alena and Ninel Karpovich.  Alena and Ninel Karpovich (Belarusian: Алёна Карповіч Нінэль Карповіч; born on 3 March 1985 in Minsk Byelorussian SSR USSR) are a Belarusian twin sister musical duo that are current members of the pop group 3+2 that will represent Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo. They have both hosted the Belarusian national lottery show together for a year. The twins have also release a few music singles as a musical duo.
Brian Cooke.  Brian Cooke (born 1937 in Liverpool England) is a British comedy writer who along with co-writer Johnnie Mortimer wrote scripts for and devised many of the top TV sitcoms of the 1970s including Man About the House George and Mildred and Robin's Nest. Cooke also wrote and created the 1980s TV sitcom Keep It in the Family starring Robert Gillespie and the 1960s sitcom Father Dear Father starring Patrick Cargill.
Dana Hall (musician).  Dana Hall (born March 13 1969) is an American jazz drummer percussionist composer bandleader and ethnomusicologist. After spending the first few years of his life in Brooklyn New York (his birthplace) he relocated with his family to his mother’s hometown of Philadelphia. There Hall was exposed to jazz and soul music at an early age through the recordings of his mother Diane his uncle Earl Harris and his large extended family.
Vika Jigulina.  Vika Jigulina (born February 18 1986) is a Russian-Romanian music producer singer and disc jockey.
Fausto Cercignani.  Fausto Cercignani (born March 21 1941) is an Italian scholar essayist and poet.
Kasim-Babu Brothers.  The Kasim-Babu Brothers are the grandsons and disciples of the Nadhaswaram Maestro Dr. Sheik Chinna Moulana. Today Kasim-Babu are the front ranking Nadhaswaram artists and torch bearers of Chinna Moulana's tradition. Kasim and Babu are noted for both the raga alapana and kriti rendering (in gayaki style) especially Dhikhshithar kritis.
Koichi Domoto.  Koichi Domoto (堂本 光一 Dōmoto Kōichi) (born January 1 1979) is a Japanese idol singer singer-songwriter composer lyricist television personality voice actor and actor. Along with Tsuyoshi Domoto (with whom he has no blood-relation) he is a member of KinKi Kids which is a Japanese duo under the management of Johnny & Associates.
Awilda Carbia.  Awilda Carbia (January 30 1938 – March 23 2009) was an actress comedian and impersonator.
Thomas Wharton (author).  Thomas Wharton PhD (born 25 February 1963) is a Canadian novelist.
Ally Rehmtullah.  Ally Rehmtullah (born 18 January 1986) is a Tanzanian fashion designer. He is a 4th-generation Tanzanian of Indian descent who studied at Baum School of Art and Lehigh Valley College in the United States before moving back to Tanzania to work as a teacher of graphic arts while gradually shifting his career to fashion design. In September 2008 he became the first East African designer to show at London Fashion Week.
Joe Firstman.  Joe Firstman is a multi-genre singer songwriter and late-night bandleader. He was the bandleader from 2005-2009 on American late night television program Last Call with Carson Daly broadcast on NBC. Firstman is now independently recording and touring.
Stacey Kent.  Stacey Kent (born March 27 1968) is a Grammy-nominated American jazz singer.
Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari.  Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari (Piacenza February 27 1813 – Piacenza October 5 1896) was an Italian painter mainly of historic and sacred canvases as well as portraits.
Brechin All Records.  Brechin All Records is a small independent record label based in Edinburgh Scotland and specialises in Scottish traditional music. It was founded by Sandy Brechin in 1996.It came to prominence as a label after the first release of two volumes cataloguing the songs of the 18th century Scottish poet Robert Tannahill.Since then it has released several publications. The company has diversified providing private music tutoring in accordion and Scottish fiddle.
Angela Sidney.  Angela Sidney CM (January 4 1902 – July 17 1991) was a Tagish storyteller. She co-authored two narratives of traditional Tagish legends and a historical document of Tagish place names for southern Yukon. For her linguistics and ethnography contributions Sidney received the Order of Canada becoming the first Native woman from the Yukon to be so honoured.Well I have no money to leave for my grandchildren. My stories are my wealth!
Little Smokey Smothers.  Little Smokey Smothers (January 2 1939 – November 20 2010) was an African American Chicago blues guitarist and singer. His elder brother Otis (died 1993) was known as the bluesman Otis Big Smokey Smothers with whom he was sometimes confused.
Ramesh Narayan.  Ramesh Narayan (born 3 November 1959) is a Hindustani vocalist from Kerala in south India and is also an acclaimed film music director. He has given concerts in several parts of his country and abroad. Ramesh Narayan began his initial training in Carnatic music but later mastered the classical Hindustani style under the renowned Pandit Jasraj of Mewati gharana.
Arthur Kelton.  Arthur Kelton (d. 1549/1550) was an author who wrote in rhyme about Welsh history.Kelton whose date of birth and ancestry are unclear is credited with Book of Poetry in Praise of Welshmen (1546) and A Chronicle with a Genealogie declaring that the Brittons and Welshmen are linealiye dyscended from Brute (1547) which was dedicated to Edward VI. He dealt with early British history after the uncritical fashion of Geoffrey of Monmouth and made no serious effort at scholarship.
Masami Horiuchi.  Masami Horiuchi (堀内 正美 Horiuchi Masami born March 22 1950) in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actor.
Madeline Eastman.  Madeline Eastman (born June 27 1954 San Francisco California) is an American jazz singer.At 18 while watching the movie Lady Sings the Blues Madeline became enchanted with Diana Ross's portrayal of jazz legend Billie Holiday. Not yet realizing how serious and dedicated she would need to be Eastman considered becoming a jazz singer. She has listened deeply to Miles Davis particularly his mid-'60s quintet with Wayne Shorter Herbie Hancock Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
Ilona Staller.  Ilona Staller (born 26 November 1951) widely known by her stage name Cicciolina is a Hungarian-born Italian porn star politician and singer. Staller continued to make hardcore pornographic films while a member of parliament. She is famous for exposing her breasts in parliament.
Dalton Trumbo.  James Dalton Trumbo (December 9 1905 – September 10 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist. As one of the Hollywood Ten he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
Mairuth Sarsfield.  Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield CQ (1925 – May 7 2013) was a Canadian author activist journalist researcher and television personality. Sarsfield was an accomplished broadcaster civil servant and Canadian best-selling author.Born and bred in Montreal she has worked as host for the CBC CTV and TVOntario and later became one of the first Black female members appointed to the board of directors of the CBC.
Deevani.  Adalgisa Inés Rooney better known by her stage name Deevani is a reggaeton singer from Dominican Republic and raised in Puerto Rico. She is best known for her Hindi vocals on the songs Mírame with Daddy Yankee and Flow Natural with Tito El Bambino and Beenie Man. She also appeared in the song Dancing with Johnny Prez and Que Buena Tu Ta with Fuegoans well as Me Fallaste with El Rookie and many others.
Debbie Friedman.  Deborah Lynn Debbie Friedman (February 23 1951 – January 9 2011) was an American singer-songwriter concerning Jewish religious content. She was born in Utica New York but moved with her family to Minnesota at age 6. She is best known for her setting of Mi Shebeirach the prayer for healing which is used by hundreds of congregations across America. Her songs were used by some Orthodox Jewish congregations as well as non-Orthodox Jewish congregations. Ms.
Joel Stroetzel.  Joel Michael Stroetzel (born July 24 1980) is best known as one of two guitarists from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage.
Richard Thomas (author).  Richard Thomas (born November 21 1967) in an American author. His focus is on neo-noir fiction typically touching on the darker aspects of life including elements of violence mental instability breaks in reality and tragedies. His work is rich in setting and sensory details and often has a sexual element to it. It has also been called transgressive and grotesque.
Nancy Duarte.  Nancy Duarte is an American writer and notable graphic designer. She is well known for her three best-selling books which include Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences and slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations and as the CEO of Duarte Design the largest design firm in Silicon Valley and the fifth largest female employer in the area.
Bo'az Ma'uda.  Boaz Mauda (Hebrew: בועז מעודה‎ born April 23 1987) is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He won the fifth season of Kokhav Nolad the Israeli version of Pop Idol and represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 finishing in 9th place.His voice has been described as somewhere between David D'Or and Dana International.
Göran Stangertz.  Göran Nils Robert Stangertz (19 July 1944 – 27 October 2012) was a Swedish actor director and artistic leader at Helsingborgsteatern. He won Sweden's most prestigious film award Guldbagge Award twice in the category best male leading role for his roles in Det sista äventyret (The Last Adventure) and Spring för livet (Run for Your Life).
Kurt Hiller.  Kurt Hiller also known as Keith Lurr and Klirr (Thule) (17 August 1885 Berlin – 1 October 1972 Hamburg) was a German essayist of high stylistic originality and a political (namely pacifist) journalist from a Jewish family. A socialist he was deeply influenced by Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer despising the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel which made him quite unpopular with Marxists.
Barrington J. Bayley.  Barrington J. Bayley (9 April 1937 – 14 October 2008) was an English science fiction writer.Bayley was born in Birmingham and educated in Newport Shropshire.
Ljubomir Nenadović.  Ljubomir Nenadović (14 September 1826 — 21 January 1895) was Serbian writer poet translator diplomat minister of education and member of the Serbian Royal Academy.
Sergey Ryabtsev.  Sergey Ryabtsev (Russian: Сергей Рябцев) plays violin and provides backing vocals for the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello.He was born on 11 September 1958 in Gorky City now Nizhny Novgorod RSFSR Soviet Union.
Jean Rolin.  Jean Philippe Rolin (born June 14 1949 Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and journalist. He received the Albert Londres Prize for journalism in 1988 and his novel L'organisation received the Medicis award in 1996.His brother Olivier Rolin is also a writer.As students Rolin and his brother participated in the May 1968 uprising.
Tom Harrell.  Tom Harrell (born June 16 1946) is an American composer and arranger and a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.Harrell has won awards and grants including multiple Trumpeter of the Year awards from Down Beat magazine SESAC Jazz Award BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) Composers Award and Prix Oscar du Jazz.
Versatile (producer).  Andrew Roettger better known as Versatile is a New Jersey-based American record producer songwriter and remixer. Versatile is signed to BMG Publishing NYC and has his own company Versatile Music LLC.Versatile has produced and remixed for artists like Chris Brown Usher Fabolous Jay-Z Maino Ciara Britney Spears Joe Budden Pittsburgh Slim Nelly Nelly_Furtado amongst others.
Giuseppe Alberti.  Giuseppe Alberti (3 October 1664 – 3 February 1716) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Cavalese in what was then Austrian Tyrol. After having studied medicine at Padua he decided to become a painter and architect. He worked under Pietro Liberi in Venice then in Rome and finally settled at Trieste. Alberti died at Cavalese.
Robert Mailer Anderson.  Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968) is an American socialite novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the novel Boonville which takes place in the Northern California town of Boonville.
Ben Hayslip.  Ben Hayslip (born in Evans Georgia) is an American country music songwriter.Hayslip attended Evans High School near Augusta Georgia where he was an All-State first baseman leading the Evans baseball team to the 1988 Georgia state championship. After graduation Hayslip attended Georgia Southern University to play baseball where he was a member of the 1990 team that participated in the College World Series in Omaha Nebraska. Hayslip graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1994.
Namboothiri (artist).  K. M. Vasudevan Namboothiri better known as Artist Namboodiri (born 1925) is a well-known Indian painter and sculptor. He is the winner of the Raja Ravi Varma Award for the year 2003. He is famous for his own style of line sketches (rekhachithrangal in Malayalam).
Annalisa.  Annalisa Scarrone better known as simply Annalisa or Nali (born 5 August 1985 in Carcare Savona in Italy) is an Italian pop rock singer and songwriter.
Fred Lowery.  Fred Lowery (2 November 1909 – 11 December 1984) was a blind professional whistler who recorded a No. 9 Billboard chart hit version of The High and the Mighty with conductor and arranger LeRoy Holmes. Lowery whistled with Horace Heidt and Vincent Lopez in the 1930s and 40s.
Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy.  Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy AM (born c. 1926) is a Walpiri and Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. One of the first Indigenous women artists to paint in acrylics her work has been exhibited at major galleries around Australia and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994 for services to the Yuendumu community.
Michelle Izmaylov.  Michelle Izmaylov (born March 30 1991 in Los Angeles California) is a writer of fantasy-fiction books for young adults and the author of the bestseller Dream Saver. She is a medical student who currently attends the Vanderbilt School of Medicine as a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar after graduating from Emory University in May 2013 with a BS degree (having double majored in Chemistry and Biology). The Pocket Watch Izmaylov's first novel was published when she was 11.
Yui Itsuki.  Yui Itsuki (伊月 ゆい Itsuki Yui born October 25) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Holy Peak. As a musician she is the lead singer behind the band Yōsei Teikoku (under the persona of Fairy Yui).
Peter Christopher (author).  Peter Christopher (born 1948 Cyprus) is an Australian author and photographer who writes about shipwrecks and riverboats.He is also a Director of the not for profit organisation Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ltd (CSCOAL) set up to save the 1864 clipper ship City of Adelaide.Peter is the author of seven books and co-editor of another.
Nathan Davis (saxophonist).  Nathan Davis (born February 15 1937) is an American hard bop jazz multi-instrumentalist who plays the tenor saxophone soprano saxophone bass clarinet and flute. Born in Kansas City Kansas Davis is probably best known for his work with Eric Dolphy Kenny Clarke Ray Charles Slide Hampton and Art Blakey.Nathan traveled extensively around Europe after the war and moved to Paris in 1962.
Jason Lancaster.  Jason Lancaster is a singer-songwriter born in Tallahassee Florida. He was the lead vocalist in Mayday Parade as well as the vocalist/pianist in Go Radio. Since Go Radio's breakup shortly after their participation in Van's Warped Tour Lancaster has pursued a solo career. Lancaster in an article published by Alternative Press is quoted as saying I’ve finally reached a point of happiness that I couldn’t possibly have hoped for in all my wildest expectations.
Even Kruse Skatrud.  Even Kruse Skatrud (born 18 August 1977 in Lørenskog Norway) Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo a Norwegian Jazz musician Composer Music arranger and Orchestra leader. He is the son of musician Harry Andersen and Marit Skatrud Andersen married to singer-artist Anine Kruse Skatrud and son-in-law of the major Norwegian Contemporary composer Bjørn Kruse (b. 1946).
Canan Topçu.  Canan Topçu (born 1965 Bursa Turkey) is a Turkish-German writer.She arrived to Germany in 1973 and studied literature at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. Her works deal specially with migration and integration and since 2003 she works as a professor at the Hochschule Darmstadt
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar.  Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (1918-2001) was a Bengali Indian novelist and prose stylist based in Cooch Behar in the northern part of West Bengal India.
F. Paul Wilson.  Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17 1946 in Jersey City New Jersey) is an American author primarily in the science fiction and horror genres.
Rosie Flores.  Rosie Flores (born September 10 1950 in San Antonio Texas) is a rockabilly and country music artist. Her music blends rockabilly honky tonk jazz and Western swing along with traditional influences from her Tex-Mex heritage. She currently resides in Austin Texas where August 31 was declared Rosie Flores Day by the Austin City Council in 2006.In 1995 she joined Wanda Jackson on a coast-to-coast North American tour.
Sophilos.  Sophilos (active about 590 - 570 BC) was an Attic potter and vase painter in the black-figure style. Sophilos is the oldest Attic vase painter so far to be known by his true name. Fragments of two wine basins '’dinoi’’ in Athens are signed by him indicating that he both potted and painted them. In total 37 vessels are ascribed to him mostly amphorae '’dinoi’’ kraters as well as three pinakes.
Michael McCloud.  Michael McCloud (born 1947) is the stage name of Michael Snyder an American folk singer and songwriter who regularly performs at the Schooner Wharf Bar in Key West Florida. His album Aint Life Grand  features the lead guitar playing of the late Doctor George Turner.He gained national attention after filing a formal complaint for copyright infringement against country music star Toby Keith in 2006.
Shannon Curtis.  Shannon Curtis is an American dreampop singer songwriter pianist and author.
François Duquesnoy.  François Duquesnoy or Frans Duquesnoy (January 12 1597 – July 12 1643) was a Flemish Baroque sculptor in Rome. His more idealized representations are often contrasted with the emotional character of Bernini's works while his style shows greater affinity to Algardi's sculptures.
James Vincent Murphy.  James Vincent Murphy (7 July 1880 – 5 July 1946) was an Irish translator writer and journalist who published one of the first complete English translations of Mein Kampf in 1939.James Murphy attended St. Patrick's College. He was ordained a priest at St. Patrick's College Chapel in 1905. He left clerical service. Before the Second World War he lived for some time in Italy and Germany.
Laura Lee.  Laura Lee (born Laura Lee Newton 9 March 1945 Chicago Illinois) is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated women’s experience.
George Buchan Simpson.  George B. Simpson (10 October 1820 – 1 July 1892) was a Scottish art collector connoisseur and patron of Scottish painters. He financed his interests through his wealth acquired as a linen manufacturer and jute merchant in Dundee. He is Dundee’s Forgotten Maecenas according to a recent academic paper.
Vivek Shraya.  Vivek Shraya (born in 1981 in Edmonton Alberta Canada) is a Canadian singer songwriter and short story writer.
Franco Vittadini.  Franco Vittadini (April 09 1884 Pavia – November 30 1948 Pavia) was an Italian composer and conductor. As a composer he is mostly known for his operas and sacred music. Born in Pavia he began his musical studies in 1903 at the Milan Conservatory but left prematurely because of a disagreement with the director Giuseppe Gallignani.
Peterson Toscano.  Peterson Toscano (born February 17 1965 in Stamford Connecticut) is a playwright actor Bible scholar blogger and gay activist. Toscano spent nearly two decades undergoing ex-gay treatment and conversion therapy before accepting his homosexuality and coming out as a gay man. He has since shared his experiences internationally through various media outlets especially plays.
Clarice Falcão.  Clarice Falcão (born Clarice Franco de Abreu Falcão; October 23 1989) is a Brazilian actress singer-songwriter screenwriter and comedian. She was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards of 2013 in the category of Best New Artist.
Ray Russell (musician).  Raymond 'Ray' Russell (born 4 April 1947) is an English session musician who is primarily a guitarist. He is also renowned as a record producer and composer.
Anna Sundstrand.  Anna Maria Carolina Sundstrand (born February 22 1989 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish singer and model. She was a member of the Swedish pop group Play from the group's formation in 2001 when she was 12 until their breakup in 2005. Sundstrand was the youngest member of the group until Janet Leon joined in 2003.Anna was selected to be a part of the group Play by Laila Bagge who owned a dance studio in Sweden called 'Sway' in which Anna was enrolled.
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro.  Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Lisbon 21 November 1857 – Lisbon 6 November 1929) who is usually referred to as Columbano was a Portuguese Realist painter. Usually considered the greatest Portuguese painter of the 19th century he has been compared to the likes of Wilhelm Leibl and Thomas Eakins.
Jenna Presley.  Jenna Presley (born April 1 1987) is the stage name of Brittni Ruiz a former American pornographic actress.
Thomas J. Bergersen.  Thomas Jacob Bergersen (born July 4 1980) is a Norwegian composer who is the co-founder of the trailer music production company called Two Steps From Hell and has written music for several high profile trailers.He started his musical career as a demoscener writing tracked modules under the name Lioz in the group Index.In May 2010 he and his business partner Nick Phoenix released an album called Invincible featuring some of his most popular tracks including Freedom Fighters Moving Mountains Heart of Courage etc.In 2010 he also composed the original music for the movie The Human Experience. 
Rauli Somerjoki.  Rauli Badding Somerjoki (born as Rauli Aarre Tapani Somerjoki) (30 August 1947 Somero - 14 January 1987 Helsinki)was a Finnish rock singer born in Somero to a family of five children. His nickname Badding was derived from Paddington Bear. His records were published on such labels as Love Records.
Prince Hammer.  Beris Simpson better known as Prince Hammer is a Jamaican reggae deejay singer and record producer.
Mike Muir.  Mike Muir (born March 14 1963) is the lead vocalist of the Venice hardcore punk bands Suicidal Tendencies Los Cycos and the funk metal band Infectious Grooves. He has also released several solo albums under his nickname Cyco Miko. Muir's trademark is wearing bandanas jerseys with the number 13 and hats with block style letters that read Suicidal.[citation needed]
Carlo Barabino.  Carlo Barabino (February 11 1768 -September 3 1835) was a prominent Italian architect of the Neoclasssic period active mainly in his native Genoa. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Barbieri. He designed the original Teatro Carlo Felice Opera House in Genoa; facade rebuilt after destruction in World War II. He also built the Palazzo Dell'Accademia in Genoa and the facade of Santa Maria Assunta Genoa (Carignano).
Larry Banks.  Lawrence H. Larry Banks (3 October 1931 - 26 February 1992) was an American R&B and soul singer songwriter and record producer.
Christopher Evans-Ironside.  Christopher Evans-Ironside is a successful and award-winning songwriter composer and music producer.
Giovanni Domenico Brugieri.  Giovanni Domenico Brugieri (1678–1744) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period in Lucca.
Graeme Davis (game designer).  Graeme Davis (born 1958 in Isleworth England) is a writer and editor. Davis has worked extensively in the gaming industry.
Block McCloud.  Block Mccloud (born Ismael Diaz Jr.) is an underground rapper and singer who was born and raised in Park Slope Brooklyn. He is the son of famous Salsa singer Ismael Diaz who grew up with and sang alongside Salsa legend Tito Rojas. His father’s legacy inspired Block McCloud who was an adolescent at the time and then began performing for the public in Red Hook and Columbia Street festivals by the age of eight.
William Wei.  William Wei (also known as Wei Li-an) is a Chinese pop and folk-rock singer-songwriter from Taiwan. He attended the National Dali Senior High School and graduated from the National Taiwan University (foreign language major) in 2010.
Jayce Landberg.  Erik Jayce Landberg is a Swedish guitar virtuoso composer record producer multi-instrumentalist lyricist and novelist.
Maksim Gaspari.  Maksim Gaspari (26 January 1883 – 14 November 1980) was a Slovene painter best known for his paintings and illustrations as well as numerous postcards with folklore motifs and scenes from rural life.Gaspari was born in Selšček above Cerknica in Inner Carniola in 1883. He studied drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna but was unable to support himself financially so he returned to Kamnik where he lived before going to Vienna.
Vida Hope.  Vida Hope (16 December 1918 – 23 December 1963) was a British film actress.Born in Liverpool she was married to Derek N. Twist. She died on December 23 1963 in Chelmsford Essex in a road accident at the age of 45.
Leila Ameddah.  Leila Ameddah (born April 21 1962 in Batna) is an Algerian painter and sculptor . She is a dental surgeon by profession.Biography
Ion Creangă.  Ion Creangă (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈkre̯aŋɡə]; also known as Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei Ion Torcălău and Ioan Ștefănescu; March 1 1837 or June 10 1839 – December 31 1889) was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume his novellas and short stories and his many anecdotes.
Gille (singer).  Gille (ジル Jiru born 1987) stylized GILLE is a Japanese singer originally from Saito Miyazaki. She made her major debut in 2012 but had previously performed under the name TASHA gee. Gille made a name for herself by releasing videos of herself singing English language covers of Japanese pop songs on her YouTube channel appearing only in sillhouette including some English songs such as Rolling in the Deep featured on her debut EP Lead the Way.
Dennis Wolfberg.  Dennis Wolfberg (March 29 1946 – October 3 1994) was an American stand up comedian and actor.
Rose Levy Beranbaum.  Rose Levy Beranbaum is an award-winning American baker and cookbook author. She also has started blogging.In an interview that covered influences on her career Beranbaum noted that she was heavily influenced by Julia Child and James Beard.
Alex Fellows.  Alex Fellows is a Canadian cartoonist illustrator and painter based in Montréal Québec Canada.
David Hilberman.  David Hilberman (18 December 1911 – 5 July 2007) was an American cartoon animator and one of the founders of classic 1940s animation.Hilberman worked for Walt Disney Studios and helped animate Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. His involvement in unionizing colleagues and organization of the 1941 Disney strike cost him his job at the studio. After being fired by Disney he founded Industrial Film and Poster Service with Zack Schwartz and Stephen Bosustow in 1945. It later became UPA.
Herma Keil.  Herma Keil along with brothers Olaf Klaus Rudolf and cousin Freddie Keil formed The Keil Isles in the 1950s which proved to be a popular hit making band. The band at one stage was billed as Herma Keil & The Keil Isles. He was their lead vocalist for six years from 1960 until 1966. He along with sister Eliza left the band to pursue solo careers.
Tamara Kučan.  Tamara Kučan (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Кучан born 22 August 1989) is a Serbian author. Kučan started writing at the age of 16. Her first novel Beograđanka was published in 2007 by the publishing company ArsLibri. She was admitted to The Association of Writers of Serbia in the year 2010 becoming the youngest member ever admitted.
Tommaso Nardini.  Tommaso Nardini (Ascoli Piceno 1658 – Ascoli Piceno 9 dicembre 1718) was an Italian priest and painter of the Baroque period active in his native town.
Håvard Jørgensen.  Håvard Jørgensen also known as Hojo and Lemarchand is a songwriter guitarist and vocalist who has contributed in several bands and musical projects since the early '90s. Bands to mentioned are Satyricon Ulver SCN C-Systems Akki & Hojo and the genres span from black metal to pop/rock. Jørgensen is currently occupied with the pop/rock band InPublik.
Wacław Kiełtyka.  Wacław Vogg Kiełtyka (born 17 December 1981) is a Polish musician and composer best known as the guitarist of prominent death metal band Decapitated. Besides Decapitated Wacław is the guitarist of Lux Occulta since 1998 as well as a former member of the Krakow group Sceptic. He also worked with the death metal band Vader. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree alongside having attended the Academy of Music in Kraków as an accordionist.
Carlos d'Alessio.  Carlos d'Alessio (1935–1992) was a French composer originally from Argentina.
Zain Bhikha.  Zain Bhikha (born 9 August 1974) is a South African singer-songwriter who performs Islam nasheed songs. Associated with other Muslim musicians including Yusuf Islam and Dawud Wharnsby Bhikha has collaborated on albums and also released several solo albums.Bhikha sometimes performs with a drummer and several backup vocalists who were the African singers in the Disney cartoon movie The Lion King.
Kurt Cobain.  Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20 1967 – c. April 5 1994) was an American musician and artist.He was best known as the lead singer guitarist and primary songwriter of the grunge band Nirvana.
Alice de Chambrier.  Alice de Chambrier (28 September 1861 – 20 December 1882) was a Swiss poet. She died from a diabetic coma at age 21 and her masterpiece is Au-delà an anthology of poems published by Philippe Godet.
Arnaud Chaffanjon.  Arnaud Chaffanjon (born on 23 April 1929 and deceased on 22 November 1992) was a French specialist in heraldry and aristocratic genealogy. He was journalist at Point de Vue. He is known for his seminal works on the history of the European aristocratic dynasties such as Le Petit Gotha Illustré (1968) Les Grands Ordres de Chevalerie (1969) Les Grandes familles de l'Histoire de France (1980) L'Année Princière dans le Monde (1985).
Jeremy Strong (author).  Jeremy Strong (born 18 November 1949) is an English children's author. He has published 77 children's novels.
Namewee.  Namewee (Chinese: 黄明志; pinyin: Huáng Míng Zhì) or Wee Meng Chee; (born May 6 1983 in Muar Johor) is a Malaysian Chinese of Hainanese descent.
Brian Lindstrom.  Brian Lindstrom is a documentary filmmaker. In 2013 Lindstrom directed Alien Boy: the Life and Death of James Chasse. The film examines the life of a man diagnosed with schizophrenia who died in police custody in Portland Oregon on September 17 2006. Alien Boy: the Life and Death of James Chasse is distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures and has been shown at film festivals in the US and Canada.
Louis Willoughby.  Louis Willoughby (1876-1968) was a British actor of the silent era.
Alexis Wright.  Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.Wright is a land rights activist originally from the Waanyi people in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Wright's father a white cattleman died when she was five years old and she grew up in Cloncurry Queensland with her mother and grandmother.
Mary Gaitskill.  Mary Gaitskill (born November 11 1954) is an American author of essays short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker Harper's Magazine Esquire The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006) and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998).
Matt Warhurst.  Matt Warhurst (born June 28 1975 in Sechelt British Columbia) is a Canadian musician and record producer. He has played bass guitar in the punk rock group SNFU and the industrial rock band Jakalope.
Pandora (singer).  Anneli Magnusson (born June 20 1970 in Västerås) known by her stage name Pandora is a Swedish eurodance artist. She was most popular during the mid-1990s in the Nordic countries in Asia and Australia in the end of 1990s to mid-2000s but is still active and releasing material more recently as United DJs vs. Pandora.
Fran de Takats.  Fran de Takats (born 6 February 1970) is an A&R executive music manager and talent scout for several major and independent record labels and is responsible for many hit records and notably two Brit Awards.
Pye Dubois.  Pye Dubois is a Canadian lyricist and poet. He has worked with a number of bands including Rush and Max Webster with whom he was considered an unofficial fifth non-performing member. Dubois would accompany the band in the studio and wrote lyrics for each of their albums. Dubois was given lyric writing credits on several Rush songs including Tom Sawyer along with Force Ten.
Jack Livesey.  Jack Livesey (1901–1961) was a British film actor. He was the son of Sam Livesey and the brothers of Barry Livesey and Roger Livesey.
André 3000.  André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27 1975) better known by his stage name André 3000 (formerly known as André) is an American rapper singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist record producer and actor best known for being part of hip-hop duo OutKast alongside fellow rapper Big Boi. As an actor Benjamin has made appearances in a number of TV series and films including Families The Shield Be Cool Revolver Semi-Pro Four Brothers and the leading role of Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My Side.
The Sitwells.  The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell) from Scarborough North Yorkshire were three siblings who formed an identifiable literary and artistic clique around themselves in London in the period roughly 1916 to 1930. This was marked by some well-publicised events the most prominent of which was probably Edith's Façade with music by William Walton with its public debut in 1923.
Alfie Joey.  Alfie Joey is a British comedian and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the BBC Newcastle breakfast show with Charlie Charlton. Most of his stand up work is now confined to the North east of England but in the past he has gigged all over the world including China Dubai and Singapore.He has featured in numerous radio and television shows such as Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on BBC Radio 4 Coronation Street Ideal and Hebburn.
John Field (songwriter).  John William Michael Field (born 15 May 1962 at Darlinghurst New South Wales) is an Australian composer/songwriter who has written a large number of songs including the Hot Potato for the internationally acclaimed Australian children's performers The Wiggles. He is the older brother of Anthony Field the Blue Wiggle.
Jean-Denis Bredin.  Jean-Denis Bredin (born 17 May 1929) is a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He is the twentieth and current occupant of seat 3 of the Académie française elected on 15 June 1989.
Mike Sanchez.  Jesus Miguel Mike Sanchez (born 17 February 1964) is a rhythm and blues singer pianist and songwriter of Spanish-English heritage. Sanchez is known for his work with the Big Town Playboys and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and for his solo career. He is noted for his authenticity to the work of post-war blues shouters and piano players.
Vesta Williams.  Mary Vesta Williams (December 1 1957 – September 22 2011) was an American recording artist and songwriter who performed across genres such as pop jazz adult contemporary and R&B. Originally credited as Vesta Williams she was sometimes simply billed as Vesta beginning in the 1990s. She was known for her four-octave vocal range. She once sang The Star Spangled Banner for the Los Angeles Lakers game opener using all four of those octaves.
Tarja Turunen.  Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli (born August 17 1977) generally known as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja is a Finnish singer-songwriter. She is a light lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves.Turunen studied singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Eugene Yelchin.  Eugene Yelchin (Евгений Ельчин b. October 18 1956 St. Petersburg Russia) is an American artist best known as an author and illustrator of books for children. His novel Breaking Stalin's Nose was awarded the Newbery Honor in 2012.
Giovanni Chiocca.  Giovanni Chiocca (1911 - 1960) was an Italian author of riddles who signed his work with the pseudonym of Stelio. Born at Gello di San Giuliano Terme he is also remembered for his work as a writer and editor.Chiocca died in Pisa in 1960.
Buddhaghosa.  Bhadantācariya Buddhaghoṣa (Sinhala: බුද්ධඝෝෂ හිමි Thai: พระพุทธโฆษาจารย์ Chinese: 覺音/佛音) was a 5th-century Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar. His best-known work is the Visuddhimagga or Path of Purification a comprehensive summary and analysis of the Theravada understanding of the Buddha's path to liberation. The interpretations provided by Buddhaghosa have generally constituted the orthodox understanding of Theravada scriptures since at least the 12th century CE.
Glenn Wheatley.  Glenn Dawson Wheatley (born 23 January 1948) is an Australian artist manager and entertainment industry executive. Wheatley began his career as a musician in Brisbane in the mid-1960s and in the late 1960s became nationally famous as a member of leading hard rock band The Masters Apprentices. He was also the longtime manager of Australian singer John Farnham.In 2007 he was found guilty of channeling more than $650000 through tax fraud schemes. Wheatley was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Russell Dumas (choreographer).  Russell Dumas (born 17 October 1946) is an Australian dancer choreographer and writer.
Francis Bird.  Francis Bird (1667–1731) was one of the leading English sculptors of his time. He is mainly remembered for sculptures in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral. He carved a tomb for the dramatist William Congreve in Westminster Abbey and sculptures of the apostles and evangelists on the exterior of St Paul's as well as the statue of Henry VI in School Yard Eton College. Despite his success later in life Bird did little sculpting.
Jazzamoart.  Jazzamoart is a Mexican artist best known for his painting which is mostly connected to jazz music in some way. Born Francisco Javier Vázques Estupiñán in Irapuato Guanajuato his talent was recognized early and he took his professional name from his dual passions of jazz and art. He is best known as a painter with over 400 individual and collective exhibitions on several continents but he has also done monumental sculpture stage scenery and has collaborated with musicians.
Hank Cochran.  Garland Perry Hank Cochran (August 2 1935 – July 15 2010) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre including major hits by Patsy Cline Ray Price Eddy Arnold and others. Cochran was also a recording artist between 1962 and 1980 scoring seven times on the Billboard (magazine) country music charts with his greatest solo success being the No.
Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa.  The Pattole Palame was written using the Kannada script originally. It has been translated into English by Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa grandchildren of Nadikerianda Chinnappa and has been published by Rupa & Co. New Delhi.
Jack Jones (singer).  This article is about American vocalist Jack Jones not to be confused with the Australian singer and musician born as Irwin Thomas who was previously billed as Jack Jones (Southern Sons)John Allan Jones (born January 14 1938) known by his stage name Jack Jones is an American jazz and pop singer popular during the 1960s. Jones was primarily a straight pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) whose ventures in the direction of jazz were mostly of the big band/swing variety.
Benjamin Zander.  Benjamin Zander (born March 9 1939) Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire England) is an American conductor from the United Kingdom.
Mamadou Diabaté.  Mamadou Diabaté (born 1975) is a kora player. He began playing quite early in his life became known as a musician in the area of Mali in which he lived and has since moved to the United States recording five albums
James Lee Barrett.  James Lee Barrett (November 19 1929 – October 15 1989) was an American producer screenwriter and writer.Barrett along with Peter Udell and Phillip Rose won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Shenandoah which was based on his 1965 film by the same name which starred James Stewart. Other notable works written by Barrett include the 1965 epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told Smokey and the Bandit The Green Berets and co-writing On the Beach.
Erhardt Stoettner.  Erhardt Stoettner (25 September 1899 to 6 January 1992)1 was a master craftsman and designer of stained glass windows for the T.C. Esser Studios in Milwaukee Wisconsin.Among the churches with windows designed by Stoettner are: 1939: Mount St. Scholastica Chapel Atchison KansasIn the design and execution of these windows three noted artists are deserving of recognition.
Delbert Daisey.  Delbert Daisey (born March 6 1924 in Virginia) known as Cigar Daisey is an American waterfowl wood carver. He lives and works in Chincoteague Virginia and is the resident carver at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum. His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artist value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting. His works include Black Ducks Mallards Redheads Ruddys and Red-breasted Mergansers and often crafted in drake (male) and hen (female) pairs.
Jean Gaudin (glass artist).  Ernest Jean Gaudin born in Clermont-Ferrand France 10 November 1879 and died 16 November 1954 in Paris France was a French painter glass and mosaic artist.He was the son of Félix Gaudin from whom he bought the stained glass and mosaic studio in 1909 and was the father of Pierre Gaudin (1908-1973).
Boris Petrović.  Boris Petrović (Serbian: Борис Петровић; born 28 January 1987) is an Serbian singer from Žitište. He became famous during 2nd season of The First Voice of Serbia.
Alexis Joseph Depaulis.  Alexis Joseph Depaulis (August 30 1792–September 15 1867) was a French sculptor and medallist.Depaulis was born in Paris and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts under Bertrand Andrieu for medal making and Pierre Cartellier for sculpture. He frequently exhibited works at the school's salon from 1815 to 1855. A collection of his casts medals and seals are preserved at the school as well as in the Louvre. He typically signed his medals Depaulis F.
Charlotte Posenenske.  Charlotte Posenenske née Mayer (1930 - 1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominately worked in sculpture but also produced paintings and works on paper.
Michael Horowitz.  Michael Horowitz (born 11 December 1938) is an American author and archivist in San Francisco.His father Sol Horowitz and paternal grandparents were Jews from Russia. Horowitz's American-born mother Ethel (née Frankel) and his maternal side of the family were Romanian Jews. Some of his relatives died during the Holocaust.
Thomas Bezucha.  Thomas Gordon Bezucha (born March 8 1964) is an American screenwriter and director.He wrote and directed Big Eden (2000) and The Family Stone (2005). He is a graduate of Amherst Regional High School in Amherst Massachusetts. He also directed Monte Carlo which he co-wrote with April Blair.Bezucha is openly gay.
Arletta Duncan.  Arletta Duncan (31 December 1914 – 28 October 1985) was an American actress. She appeared in 11 films between 1931 and 1937.She was born in New Orleans Louisiana USA and died in Santa Ana California.
Zofka Kveder.  Zofka Kveder (22 April 1878 – 21 November 1926) was a writer playwright translator and journalist who wrote in Slovene and later in life also in Croatian. She is considered one of the first Slovene women writers and feministsKveder was born in Ljubljana and spent most of her childhood in rural Lower Carniola before she was sent to a convent school in Ljubljana. In 1897 she found work in Ljubljana.
Isabelle Vengerova.  Isabelle Vengerova (1 March [O.S. 17 February] 1877 – 7 February 1956) was a Russian later American pianist and music teacherShe was born Izabella Afanasyevna Vengerova (Изабелла Афанасьевна Венгерова) in Minsk (now in Belarus). Her elder brother Semyon Vengerov was a venerable literary historian. She studied the piano at the Vienna Conservatory with Josef Dachs and privately with Theodor Leschetizky; in Saint Petersburg she studied with Anna Yesipova.
Gordon Copley.  Gordon Copley born in Pasadena California is a bassist who briefly played bass for Black Sabbath. He played bass on the Black Sabbath song No Stranger to Love on their album Seventh Star. Bassist Dave Spitz played bass on the rest of the songs on the album. Copley was also the bassist for Lita Ford's band in early 1985 and joined her on tour after featuring on Seventh Star leaving Sabbath. Copley would then later feature on Bill Ward's 1990 album Ward One: Along the Way.
Andrew Irvine (bassist).  Andrew Thomas Irvine (born April 9 1969 in Rochester New York) is an American bassist who has toured with and performed alongside internationally recognized artists and has been featured in Bass Player magazine.
Dave Reffett.  Dave Reffett (born June 6 1983) is a hard rock and heavy metal guitarist singer producer and bassist from Blue River Kentucky. He currently resides in the Boston Massachusetts area. Reffett is best known as the singer lead guitarist and producer of the album “The Call Of The Flames” from his band project Shredding The Envelope. The album mixes thrash metal and hard rock with very technical and bluesy guitar playing.
Clémentine (musician).  Clémentine is a French singer and songwriter based in Japan. She debuted in France in 1988 with the single Absolument Jazz. In addition to many releases as a singer she has appeared regularly on the entertainment segment for NHK Educational TV French TV.Collaborates frequently with other artists mostly in Japan. Recently she has often collaborated with her daughter Solita who is also a singer.
Colin Linden.  Colin Kendall Linden (born 16 April 1960) is a Canadian musician songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn Lucinda Williams T-Bone Burnett Colin James Leon Redbone Rita Chiarelli Chris Thomas King The Band and Bob Dylan.Linden is a very versatile guitarist both on acoustic and electric guitars specializing in slide guitar and country blues and Ragtime fingerpicking.
Shahar Marcus.  Shahar Marcus (born 1971 in Petach Tikva) is an Israeli performance artist.
Eva Ingolf.  Eva Ingolf is a well known Icelandic violinist particularly recognized for her authoritative performances of solo works by J. S. Bach. She comes from a leading musical family and her father Ingólfur Guðbrandsson premiered many of the great choral works in Iceland and six of her sisters and brothers are professional musicians who have made an important contribution to the high quality of the musical life in the country.Eva Ingolf currently lives in New York City with her husband Kristinn Sv.
Harley Peyton.  Harley Peyton is an American television producer and writer. He worked in both capacities on Twin Peaks and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on the series. He went to Harvard and Stanford.
Geoffrey A. Landis.  Geoffrey Alan Landis (born May 28 1955) is an American scientist working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary exploration interstellar propulsion solar power and photovoltaics.
Oliver Benjamin.  Oliver Benjamin is an American journalist and author. He is best known for having founded the religion Dudeism.
Maia Hirasawa.  Maia Hirasawa (born May 5 1980) is a Swedish singer-songwriter of Swedish and Japanese parentage.She was born and raised in Sollentuna Stockholm Sweden but has lived for many years in Gothenburg. Maia became known through Annika Norlin's band Hello Saferide where she is a back-up singer. Her solo career began in early 2007 when the song And I Found This Boy started being played heavily on Swedish radio.
Miss Dominique.  Miss Dominique [as she is generally known as] born Dominique Michalon September 7 1978 in Sarcelles France is a French singer and second-place finalist of the fourth edition of Nouvelle Star [based version of Pop Idol]. Her parents are both Caribbean.
Riza Talabani.  Sheikh Riza Talabani (Şêx Rizayê Telebanî in Kurdish) (1835–1910) a celebrated Kurdish poet from Kirkuk Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish Turkish Persian and Arabic.
Tony Barber (bassist).  Anthony 'Tony' Barber (born 20 April 1963 North Middlesex Hospital Edmonton London England) is a former bassist of the British pop-punk band Buzzcocks.He was a member of post-punk band Lack of Knowledge between 1979 and 1985 and Boys Wonder between 1987 and 1988. He joined Buzzcocks in 1992.
A. P. Younger.  A.P. Younger; born Andrew Percy Younger (September 25 1890 – November 29 1931) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 60 films between 1919 and 1931.He was born in Sacramento California and committed suicide on November 29 1931 in Hollywood California.
Sam Kinison.  Samuel Burl Sam Kinison (December 8 1953 – April 10 1992) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was known for his intense harsh and politically incorrect humor. A former Pentecostal preacher he performed stand-up routines that were most often characterized by an intense style similar to enthusiastic preachers punctuated by his trademark scream. He died in a car accident on April 10 1992.
Eddie Vinson.  Eddie Cleanhead Vinson (December 18 1917 – July 2 1988) was an American jump blues jazz bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product.
Marty Friedman.  Martin Adam Marty Friedman (born December 8 1962) is an American guitarist known for his tenure as the lead/rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band Megadeth which spanned nearly the full decade of the 1990s. Friedman has resided in Tokyo Japan since 2003 where he has hosted Japanese television programs such as Rock Fujiyama and Jukebox English.
Isis Taylor.  Isis Taylor (born October 23 1989 in San Francisco California) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress.
Hill Zaini.  Hill Zaini (born 13 October 1987) popularly known as Hill is a well-known Bruneian singer and actor.
Alma Thomas.  Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22 1891 – February 24 1978) was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator. She lived and worked primarily in Washington D.C. and the Washington Post described her as a force in the Washington Color School.
Era Ojdanić.  Andrija Era Ojdanić (Serbian Cyrillic Ера Ојданић) is a Serbian folk singer.
Burning Spear.  Winston Rodney OD (born 1 March 1945) better known by the stage name Burning Spear is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian and one of the most influential and long-standing roots artists to emerge from the 1970s.
Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov.  Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov (Russian: Серге́й Терентьевич Семёнов) born March 28 1868 – died December 3 1922 was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
Ged Quinn.  Ged Quinn (born 1963 Liverpool) is an English artist and musician.
Linda Andrews (singer).  Linda Andrews (born October 19 1973 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese singer who won the second season of the Danish version of The X Factor and became the first Faroese winner of it.
Maurizio Lobina.  Maurizio Lobina (born 30 October 1973 in Asti) is a keyboardist most known as a member of the band Eiffel 65 an Italian group who hit big in 1999 with the mega-hit Blue (Da Ba Dee). Lobina creating the melodies for the song Blue on a keyboard and asked vocalist Jeffrey Jey to come up with strange lyrics to accompany his piano riff.
Kaaris.  Kaaris (born Gnakouri Okou in Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire on 30 January 1980) is a French rapper signed with Tallac Records a label established by rapper Booba. Or noir his major album on Therapy Music / AZ / Universal Music was on 21 October 2013 after an initial success with Z.E.R.O in 2012.Originating from Sevran a northeastern suburb of Paris France born to Ivory Coast parents he started rapping in 1999 releasing his first mixtape in 2001.
Adam Rittenberg.  Adam Rittenberg is a blogger and sports journalist for ESPN's college football section dedicated to the Big Ten Conference in college football. Before 2008 when he joined ESPN he was a sports writer at Daily Herald (Arlington Heights) in Illinois. Rittenberg is a graduate of Northwestern University and resides near Chicago Illinois.
Hiroshi Shima.  Hiroshi Shima (島 比呂志 1918–2003 real name Kaoru Kishiue岸上 薫) was a Japanese novelist Hansen's disease patient and the chief editor of a literary coterie journal Kazan Chitai (Lava belt). His letter prompted a lawsuit resulting in the compensation due to the unconstitutionality of the Japanese leprosy prevention law.
John Hersey.  John Richard Hersey (June 17 1914 – March 24 1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage.
Zora Young.  Zora Young (born January 21 1948 West Point Mississippi United States) is an American blues singer. She is a distant relative of Howlin' Wolf.Young's family moved to Chicago at age seven and sang gospel at the Greater Harvest Baptist Church. As an adult she began singing blues and R&B music and over the course of her career played with Junior Wells Jimmy Dawkins Bobby Rush Buddy Guy Albert King Professor Eddie Lusk and B. B. King.
Helena Iren Michaelsen.  Helena Iren Michaelsen is a Norwegian soprano singer of the Dutch band Imperia and the solo project Angel.She was a former member of Sahara Dust (now Epica) and Trail of Tears.
Roffe Ruff.  Roffe Ruff is a Swedish hip hop and ragga artist and music producer from Gothenburg. His real identity remains a secret and he always wears a skull mask in his appearances.
Guiyeoni.  Guiyeoni (born 1985 in Jae Chun South Korea) is the penname of Internet novelist Lee Yoon-sae. She first reached fame with her novels He Was Cool and Romance of Their Own which spawned commercially successful films of the same name as with another book A Wolf's Attraction. Since then one of her other books Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do has become a film starring Jang Keun Suk. A movie of To My Boyfriend is also in planning stages.
Valery Jacobi.  Valery Ivanovich Jacobi (Russian: Валерий Иванович Якоби or Якобий; 15 May [O.S. 3May] 1834 Village Kudryakovo Kazan Governorate Russia - 13 May 1902 Nice France) was a Russian painter and an older brother of Pavel Jacobi (1842–1913) a notable revolutionary and ethnographer.
Jerzy Matuszkiewicz.  Jerzy Matuszkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ matuʂˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]) is a Polish jazz musician and composer. He was a pioneer of the post-WWII jazz movement in Poland. Between 1950-58 he was head of the well-known Polish jazz group Melomani. Throughout 1964 he performed both inside and outside of Poland. In 1965 he began to mainly produce music for movies and commercials. He currently resides in Warsaw Poland with his wife Grażyna.
Sabrina Starke.  Sabrina Starke (born August 9 1979 Paramaribo Suriname) is a Surinamese-Dutch singer/songwriter from Rotterdam the Netherlands. Her style is a mix of soul folk rhythm & blues and jazz.
Rebekah Del Rio.  Rebekah Del Rio (born 10 July 1967) is a Latin American singer/songwriter from San Diego California. After recording the song Llorando a Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's Crying she moved to Nashville in 1994. There she was signed to Irving Azoff's label Giant Records and recorded her first album Nobody's Angel. The title track was released on a compilation album and made it to #2 on the singles charts in the Netherlands.
Python Anghelo.  Python Vladimir Anghelo (1954- died April 9 2014) was a graphic artist best known for his work on video games and pinball machines. Anghelo was born in Transylvania Romania and moved to the United States when he was 17.After studying art and animation in Romania and the US he worked as an animator for Disney until 1979.
Maurice Galbraith Cullen.  Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866–1934) was a Canadian landscape artist born June 6 1866 in St. John's Newfoundland. who died March 28 1934 at Chambly Québec. Cullen was known for his winter landscapes.
Faranak Margolese.  Faranak Margolese is a writer best known as the author of Off the Derech a book about contemporary assimilation in the Orthodox Jewish world.
Rocke Mastroserio.  Rocco A. Rocke Mastroserio (born June 8 1927 died early March 1968) was an American comic book artist best known as a penciler and inker for Charlton Comics. He sometimes signed his work Rocke M. RM Rocke or RAM.
Yoko Kanno.  Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 Kanno Yōko born March 18) is a composer arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many anime films television series live-action films video games and advertisements. She was born in Sendai Miyagi Prefecture Japan.
Jovan Dučić.  Jovan Dučić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Дучић pronounced [jǒʋan dûtʃitɕ]) (17 February 1871 – 7 April 1943) was a Bosnian Serb poet writer and diplomat.
David Judson Clemmons.  David Judson Clemmons is an American guitarist singer and songwriter originally from Virginia USA. He now lives in Berlin Germany.
Yip Harburg.  Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg Yiddish: איסידור הוכברג; April 8 1896 – March 5 1981) was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards Brother Can You Spare a Dime? April in Paris and It's Only a Paper Moon as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz including Over the Rainbow.
Daddy-O (musician).  Glenn Bolton better known by his stage name Daddy-O is an American hip hop record producer and rapper. He began his career as a member of the pioneer hip-hop group Stetsasonic with Prince Paul. Since then Daddy-O has become a record producer and remixer working with acts such as Freestyle Fellowship Mary J. Blige Queen Latifah Living Colour Big Daddy Kane the B-52's and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Lisa Morpurgo.  Lisa Morpurgo Dordoni (Soncino (CR) 19 May 1923 - Milan 9 May 1998) was a writer and astrologer.Lisa gained a degree in literature at the Università Statale di Milano.She started to be interested in astrology while working as a translator for book publishers.Lisa was first intrigued by astrology while translating the French book  Lo Zodiaco - Segreti e sortilegi  by François-Régis BastideThe translation of this book about zodiacal signs peculiarities awakened her curiosity for astrology a matter up to that moment so distant from her cultural background. 
Bahar Kızıl.  Bahar Kızıl (born 5 October 1988) is a German singer-songwriter of Turkish origin best known as one of the founding members of the pop group Monrose which won the fifth season of the German version of Popstars. Born in Freiburg Baden-Württemberg Bahar Kızıl is from a Turkish family from Bayburt and her first name Bahar means spring (the season) in Turkish. At age twelve Kızıl started with ballet. In her town she sang before the Popstars casting with four different bands.
Tchad Blake.  Tchad Blake (born 1955) is an American record producer audio engineer mixer and musician.He has worked with numerous artists and musicians including State Radio Apartment 26 Elvis Costello Peter Gabriel Pearl Jam Tom Waits Richard Thompson Brazilian Girls Sheryl Crow November 2 T-Bone Burnett Travis Marike Jager Crowded House Finn Brothers Liam Finn The Pretenders Bernard Fanning Los Lobos The Bad Plus Sam Phillips Suzanne Vega The Bangles Stina Nordenstam Phish Bonnie Raitt Lisa Germano Fishbone Al Green Tracy Chapman Phantom Planet Gomez The Dandy Warhols American Music Club Jed Davis Blitzen Trapper Cibo Matto Haley Bonar David Rhodes The Black Keys Nico Vega Halloween Alaska Cheese People Kula Shaker and Soul Coughing Delta Spirit The Sheepdogs Clarance Bucaro Charlie Mars The Van Jets Indy Grotto RZA Nive Nielsen Mutemath Max Gomez Living In Question Justin Townes Earle Luella And The Suns Aṣa Nina Violet Tracy Bonham Little Fish Blackroc Gary Myrick and The Figures among others.Blake often partners with Mitchell Froom and the two formed Latin Playboys with David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez of Los Lobos.Blake is noted for creating original and at times awkward sonic textures (usually with unorthodox gear) constantly shifting mixes and use of binaural recording.Blake has won a number of Grammy Awards beginning with Best Engineered Album Non-Classical and Best Rock Album for Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions (1998). 
James Morrison (singer).  James Morrison (born James Morrison Catchpole; 13 August 1984) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Rugby Warwickshire. In 2006 his debut single You Give Me Something became a hit in Europe Australia and Japan peaking in the top five in the UK and claiming the number 1 spot in New Zealand. His debut album Undiscovered debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart.
Cezaro Rossetti.  Cezaro Rossetti (1901–1950) was a Scottish Esperanto writer.Of Italian-Swiss derivation he was born in Glasgow and lived in Britain. Together with his younger brother Reto Rossetti he learned Esperanto in 1928.
Jonathan Lamas.  Jonathan Patrick Lamas (born October 16 1974) is an American author writer and producer. In addition to his contributions as an automotive journalist for various automotive publications he is known for such books as Out On My Own and Sanctuary of Expression. He is also known for his musical contributions as vocalist and guitarist of several Los Angeles bands. In 2005 Lamas played a bit part in the independent film Mute directed by Melissa Joan Hart.
Eric Hobsbawm.  Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FBA FRSL (/ˈhɒbz.bɔːm/; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism socialism and nationalism.
Ari Up.  Ariane Daniela Forster (17 January 1962 – 20 October 2010) known by her stage name Ari Up was a German-born vocalist best known as a member of the English punk rock band The Slits.
Mitch Merrett.  Mitch Merrett is a record producer music manager and country musician from Langley British Columbia Canada. He plays a Gibson Robot Guitar. He studied music at Selkirk College in Nelson graduating from the Contemporary Music and Technology program with a major in performance. In 2007 he and Tom McKillip were named Record Producers of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) for their work on Aaron Pritchett's album Big Wheel.
Jason Gilbert.  Jason Gilbert known by his nickname JG is a Caymanian record producer and songwriter. JG has produced for artists including Eminem Bad Meets Evil Akon Christina Aguilera and Taio Cruz. He is based in Miami Florida and Los Angeles California.In 2011 Gilbert won a Grammy Award for his production work on Eminem's Recovery album.Later in 2011 JG produced the first single off of Bad Meets Evil debut album. The single charted at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Amanda Wilkinson.  Amanda Nicole Wilkinson is a Canadian country music singer. She was born January 17 1982 in Belleville Ontario Canada and was raised in nearby Trenton Ontario.
Charles Perry (singer).  Charles Perry (born July 11 1986) is an American pop/alternative singer and songwriter from Brooklyn New York. He is best known for his rendition of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' Home and his live performance on the 2012 BET Music Awards.
Emma Tatham.  Emma Tatham (1829-1855) was a 19th-century British poet. Although she is almost completely forgotten today she was regarded in the Victorian era as a prodigy and a poetic genius. She was born in London and was homeschooled. She began to write poetry at an early age and from the age of 16 to 18 she rapidly wrote an abundance of poems published later in the collection The Dream of Pythagoras and Other Poems.
Jason Tom.  Jason Tom is a Chinese-American beatboxer entrepreneur and mentor based out of Honolulu Hawaii. He founded the Human Beatbox Academy to reach out to Hawaii's youth and communities. The Human Beatbox Academy is a Hawaii beatbox school and group based out of Kakaako at the Diverse Art Center. Jason has performed for TEDx Talk conferences in 2009 and 2011.
Ralph D. Foster.  Ralph David Foster (April 25 1893–August 11 1984) was an American broadcasting pioneer and philanthropist who created the framework for Springfield Missouri to challenge Nashville Tennessee as the nation's country music capital during the 1950s. His KWTO was a stepping-stone for many top country artists; and with his music businesses led to creation of Ozark Jubilee the first U.S. network television program to feature country's top stars.
Ronnie Wood.  Ron Wood redirects here. For the baseball player see Ron Woods.Ronald David Ronnie Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician songwriter singer and radio personality best known as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1975 as well as a former member of the Faces and the Jeff Beck Group.Wood began his career in 1964 when he joined the Birds on guitar.
Francesco Jacovacci.  Francesco Jacovacci (Rome 1840- Rome 1908) was an Italian painter often painting historical canvases and costume genre pieces.
Debra Soule.  Debra Soule born January 19 1965 is an American singer/songwriter originally from Minneapolis MN who is known for her powerful singing voice and her flaming red hair. In 2004 she moved to Nashville TN. She has released three CDs on her independent record label Sunhill Records.
Hasegawa Nyozekan.  Hasegawa Nyozekan (長谷川 如是閑 November 30 1875 -November 11 1969) was the pen-name of Hasegawa Manjirō a Japanese social critic and journalist in the Taishō and Shōwa periods Japan. He was one of the most important and widely read supporters of liberalism and democracy in inter-war Japan.
Serge Lang (skiing).  Serge Lang (June 6 1920–November 21 1999) was a French journalist alpine skier and the founder of the alpine skiing World Cup. As a journalist he covered alpine skiing cycling and other sports for five major publications. In the mid-1960s he envisioned a season-long series of ski races which became the World Cup skiing circuit. He continued to guide the growth of the World Cup and the sport of ski racing over the next two decades.
Nigel Barr.  Nigel Barr grew up as a member of the High Wycombe Salvation Army band. In 1980 he went to the Guildhall School of Music and studied trombone with Peter Gane and Denis Wick during that time he was also a member of International Staff Band (1980–82) playing bass trombone.Since then Barr has had a varied freelance career and several business ventures including setting up in 1982 which manufactured and distributed leather gig bags.
Wen Shaoxian.  Wen Shaoxian (Chinese: 溫紹賢) born 4 December 1934) also known as Wan Siu Yin is a literary writer famous for his short stories about the lives of the new immigrants from the mainland in Hong Kong. He is expert in writing political and historical novels. Wen is a translator and editor by profession and is also a professor of translation and comparative grammar.
Enric Pladevall-Vila.  Enric Pladevall (Vic 1951) is a Catalan sculptor.
Wojciech Gerson.  Wojciech Gerson (July 1 1831 – February 25 1901) was a leading Polish painter of mid-19th century and one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and taught future luminaries of Polish neo-romanticism including Józef Chełmoński Leon Wyczółkowski Władysław Podkowiński Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa among others.
Lisa Grunwald.  Lisa Grunwald Adler (born 1959) is an American author.
Praga Khan.  Praga Khan (born Maurice Joseph Francois Engelen) is a Belgian techno and originally new beat musician. Praga Khan is considered one of the leading pioneers of the Belgian originated new beat/acid house/hardcore electronic dance music scene. Praga Khan has also contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in The Next Dimension and Code Red.
Michel Teló.  Michel Teló (Brazilian Portuguese: [miˈʃɛw teˈlɔ]) (born January 21 1981) is a Brazilian sertanejo singer-songwriter. Before his solo act he was a lead singer in various bands most notably Grupo Tradição. His biggest national and international hit is Ai Se Eu Te Pego! a number one in most European countries Latin America and Quebec.
Dravarious.  Yukiro Dravarious (born August 23 1986) is a Swedish singer who lives and performs in Tokyo Japan. His singing act is described as unique never-seen-before over-the-top extravagant theatrical classical Gothic. He performs cover songs of popular Japanese visual kei bands as well as original music written by him. His first live was at Midnight Mess on July 31 2010. Zombie Maria is an on-stage dancer who joins Yukiro in his live performances.
Daryl Crimp.  Daryl Crimp (born 1958) is a New Zealand writer illustrator and cartoonist.He specialises in books on fishing in New Zealand.
Vince Mendoza.  Vince Mendoza (born November 17 1961) is a music arranger and composer.Mendoza was born in Connecticut and studied guitar as a child influenced by classical music soul and jazz. He then took up the trumpet which he continued to play throughout his time at Ohio State University where he played in the Jazz Ensemble and the Concert Band. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in music composition in 1983.
Òscar Vendrell Corrons.  Òscar Vendrell Corrons (Barcelona 29 October 1973) is a proof-reader and author of textbooks and fiction works. He has signed some works under the pseudonym of Peter Walker.
Ruth Sawyer.  Ruth Sawyer (August 5 1880–June 3 1970) was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of Roller Skates which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature.
Danni Ashe.  Danni Ashe (born January 16 1968) is the pseudonym of an American nude model and former erotic dancer who is the founder and former CEO of Danni's Hard Drive a pioneering adult web site. Ashe started her adult Internet site in 1995. She has been an industry advocate and testified before a government panel. Currently she is retired from modeling and has become an Arizona based photographer.
Fionnuala Sherry.  Fionnuala Sherry (born 20 September 1962) is an Irish violinist and vocalist. She makes up the female part of the New Instrumental duo Secret Garden which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the predominantly instrumental piece Nocturne.
Josh Pahigian.  Josh Pahigian is an American author who specializes in books and articles about baseball. He is particularly well known as an expert in the field of sports travel writing books on this topic as well as articles that have appeared in espn.com.
Ron Silliman.  Ron Silliman (born 5 August 1946 in Pasco Washington) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004 Silliman wrote a single poem The Alphabet. He has now begun writing a new poem Universe the first section of which appears to be called Revelator.
Karen Alkalay-Gut.  Karen Alkalay-Gut (born 29 March 1945) is an award-winning poet professor and editor who lives in Israel and writes in English.
Malini Murjani.  Malini Murjani is a Manhattan-based accessories designer. She is the daughter of fashion mogul Mohan Murjani. Malini's handbags and belts can be found in Bergdorf Goodman Saks and Bloomingdale's.
Daniel Newman (academic).  Daniel Lawrence Newman PhD (born 1963) is a British writer scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Newman is currently the head of the Arabic department at the University of Durham and Director of the MA programme in English-Arabic Translation and Interpreting.
Phil Seamen.  Phillip William Phil Seamen (28 August 1926 in Burton-on-Trent – 13 October 1972) was an English jazz drummer.With a solid background in big band music Seamen played and recorded in a wide range of musical contexts with virtually every key figure of 1950s and 1960s British jazz. Notable examples included Joe Harriott Tubby Hayes Stan Tracey Ronnie Scott Dick Morrissey Harold McNair Don Rendell Victor Feldman Dizzy Reece Tony Coe Tony Lee and George Chisholm to name but a few.
Pete Bellotte.  Peter John Bellotte (born 28 August 1943) is a British songwriter and record producer most famous for hismain body of work with Donna Summer alongside his partner Giorgio Moroder. Among his list of artists produced and written for are Janet Jackson Elton John Cliff Richard Shalamar Tina Turner Mireille Mathieu The Three Degrees and Melba Moore.His greatest success is Hot Stuff which has been covered by numerous artists.
Ahmad Zahir.  Ahmad Toryalai Zahir (Persian: احمد ظاهر‎ – Aḥmad Zāhir; 14 June 1946 – 14 June 1979) was a singer songwriter and composer from Afghanistan. He is widely considered an icon of Afghan music and is sometimes called the King of Afghan music. His songs are mostly in Persian and based on well-recognized Persian poems although a few are in Pashto and English. Several of his recordings are also in the Hindustani language including the title Kitna Nazok Hai Dil.
Brian Christian.  Brian Christian (born 1984 in Wilmington Delaware) is an American author and poet best known for his book The Most Human Human. He competed as a confederate in the 2009 Loebner Prize competition attempting to seem more human than the humans taking the test and succeeded.
Alan Myers (drummer).  Alan Myers (1955 – June 24 2013) was an American drummer. He was the third and most prominent drummer of the band Devo.
Ryan Sohmer.  Ryan Sohmer (born (1978-07-05)July 5 1978) writes the webcomics Least I Could Do and Looking for Group. Sohmer is the Vice President/Creative Director of Blind Ferret Entertainment and is the owner of The 4th Wall a comic book store in Montreal Quebec. He lives in Montreal Quebec with his wife Sue and son Caden.
Dendemann.  Daniel Ebel better known as Dendemann (* 27. Juni 1974) is a German rapper from Menden. He is known for his rough voice and his witty wordplay-filled lyrics in which he mostly tells stories from everyday life.
Alfredo Panzini.  Alfredo Panzini (31 December 1863-10 April 1939) was an Italian novelist and lexicographer. Born in Senigallia Panzini was a student of Giosuè Carducci at the University of Bologna. Panzini worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a writer. Panzini is noted for the humorous and often genial tone of his writings. Among his many works there are Libro dei Morti (1893) Santippe (1914) and Il diavolo nella mia libreria (1920).
Max Margulis.  Max Margulis (1907–1996) was an American musician writer music teacher voice coach record producer copywriter photographer and left-wing activist. He had a significant influence on the New York artistic and performing community particularly from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Else Michelet.  Else Michelet (born 16 February 1942) is a Norwegian journalist satirical writer and songwriter.She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of teacher Frans Oscar Michelet (1906–1984) and housewife Synnøve Kulseng (1905–1981). The family moved to Bærum in 1947 and Michelet graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.mag. degree. She has worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1967; in the radio from 1973.
J. Greg Miller.  J. Gregory Miller is a US horn player composer and music arranger.
Lizzy Pattinson.  Elizabeth Lizzy Pattinson is an English singer and songwriter.
David France.  David Harry France OBE (born 30 June 1948) is an author football historian and philanthropist. Throughout the past decade he has been the driving force behind numerous initiatives related to Everton Football Club including Gwladys Street’s Hall of Fame the Everton Former-Players’ Foundation the Founding Fathers of Merseyside Football and the Everton Collection (formerly known as The David France Collection).
William McFee.  William McFee (June 15 1881–July 2 1966) was a writer of sea stories.
Alias (musician).  Brendon Whitney better known by his stage name Alias is a producer and rapper from Hollis Maine. He is a co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon.
Mary Roach.  Mary Roach is an American author specializing in popular science. As of 2014 she has published seven books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) (published in some markets as Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife) Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008) Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010) My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013).
Antoine Vollon.  Antoine Vollon (April 23 1833 – August 27 1900) was a French realist artist best known as a painter of still lifes landscapes and figures. During his lifetime Vollon was a successful celebrity enjoyed an excellent reputation and was called a painter's painter. In 2004 New York's then-PaceWildenstein gallery suggested that his place in the history of French painting has still not been properly assessed.
Victor Pelevin.  Victor Olegovich Pelevin (Russian: Ви́ктор Оле́гович Пеле́вин IPA: ['vʲiktər pʲɪ'lʲevʲɪn] born 22 November 1962) is a Russian fiction writer the author of novels Omon Ra Chapayev and Void and Generation P. He is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the Russian Little Booker Prize (1993) and the Russian National Bestseller (2004).
Bonnie Lou.  Bonnie Lou (born Mary Jo Kath October 27 1924 in Towanda Illinois) is an American rock and roll and country music singer. During the mid-1950s Bonnie Lou helped pave the way for future female artists as one of rock and roll's first female singers. Many of her rock and roll hits were also crossover hits in the world of country music.
Mike Heisler.  Mike Heisler is an American comic book writer known for his work on the series DV8 and Union. He also penned the Gen¹³ mini-series Gen¹³: Interactive and the one-shot Gen¹³: The Surreal World.Heisler got his start in the industry in the late 1980s as a letterer primarily for Marvel Comics.
Antonio Ciacca.  Antonio Ciacca is an Italian-American jazz pianist and Instructor at the Juilliard School.
Motomu Kiyokawa.  Motomu Kiyokawa (清川 元夢 Kiyokawa Motomu born April 9 1935) is a Japanese actor and voice actor.
Kim Chunsu.  Kim Chunsu was one of the leading South Korean poets of the late twentieth century. He won numerous literary awards and was a professor of Korean Literature. His works have been translated into English German and Spanish.
Vincenzo Gotti.  Vicenzo Gotti (c. 1580 – 1636) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Bologna where he initially had been alongside Guido Reni a pupil of Dionysius Calvaert. At the age of 20 years he moved to Rome with Reni. After some time he moved to Naples where he became a prolific painter. He died at Reggio Calabria.
José de la Cuadra.  José de la Cuadra (September 3 1903 - February 27 1941) was an Ecuadorian social realist writer whose short stories are among the most important in Ecuadorian literature.
Luis Resto (musician).  Luis Edgardo Resto (born July 22 1961) is a Detroit-based musician producer and keyboardist who has worked closely with rapper Eminem since his third major-label album The Eminem Show. He is of Puerto Rican descent with both of his parents from Puerto Rico and was raised in Detroit (Garden City) Michigan. He has played the keyboard for several Eminem-produced tracks and is credited for additional production on most Eminem-produced tracks on Encore.
Anupama Deshpande.  Anupama Deshapande is a Bollywood playback singer who has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her folk song Sohni Chinab Di in the film Sohni Mahiwal (1984). This song was originally meant for Asha Bhonsle who since was busy those days. Therefore Annu Malik recorded this song in the voice of Anupama Deshpande so that that it could later on dubbed by Asha Bhonsle.
Jerzy Ficowski.  Jerzy Ficowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ fiˈt͡sɔfskʲi]; October 4 1924 Warsaw - May 9 2006 Warsaw) was a Polish poet writer and translator (from Yiddish Russian Romani and Hungarian).
Shinichi Ishihara.  Shinichi Ishihara (石原 慎一 Ishihara Shin'ichi) is an anison singer and anime voice actor who was born on May 26 1960 in Yamanashi Prefecture. He is famous for singing the theme songs of Guyver Kamen Rider Agito and Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V among other theme songs as well as the entire soundtrack to Juukou B-Fighter.
Rio Yamase.  Rio Yamase (山瀬 理桜 Yamase Rio) is a Japanese violinist arranger and composer. She directed the music for the 2006 Studio Ghibli animation short film Mizugumo Monmon.
Chris Hipkiss.  Chris Hipkiss is a British artist known for figurative compositions ranging in size from miniatures to lengthy panoramas created using a mixed media technique that combines pencil silver ink and metal leaf. The name is a pseudonym of Chris and Alpha Mason born Christopher Payen and Alpha Mason. Payen changed his name to Mason on their marriage in 1986.
Dave Wyndorf.  David Dave Albert Wyndorf (born October 28 1956) is the lead vocalist guitarist pianist trombonist and songwriter for the American rock group Monster Magnet. He is the frontman and only remaining original member of the band. He is also an occasional guest on the podcast Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!.
Joe Harris (filmmaker).  Joe Harris is an American comic book writer and screenwriter. He made his big screen debut in 2003 with his screenplay for the Sony Pictures release Darkness Falls. He is currently the writer of the ongoing monthly comic book series Great Pacific from Image Comics and The X-Files: Season 10 from IDW Publishing.
Troy Denning.  Troy Denning (born 1958) is a fantasy and science fiction author and game designer who has written more than two dozen novels.
Verbal Kent.  Dan Weiss (born July 22 1978) better known by his stage name Verbal Kent is an alternative hip hop artist from Chicago.
Tainy.  Marco Masís artistically known as Tainy is a reggaeton producer. Born and raised in San Juan Puerto Rico he entered the world of reggaeton with his work on Mas Flow 2.
Billy Van (musician).  Billy Van is an American DJ and music producer from Bloomington Indiana where he studied recording arts at Indiana University. The Billy Van MashUps! was Billy Van's introduction as a mixer and producer. These tracks consisted of taking pop hits and reconstituting them together harmonically and lyrically with new vocals and his own production.Billy Van released an EP featuring remixes of LMFAO Breathe Carolina Chris Brown Lights and Eiffel 65 entitled The Cardigan EP.
Claude Ribbe.  Claude Ribbe (born 13 October 1954) is a French writer and academic historian of Caribbean origin.
Neal Pollack.  Neal Pollack (born March 1 1970) is an American satirist novelist short story writer and journalist. He lives in Austin Texas. Pollack has written eight books: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature Never Mind the Pollacks Beneath the Axis of Evil Alternadad Stretch Jewball Downward-Facing Death and Open Your Heart. He is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.
Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti.  Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti (c. 1571 – 22 July 1639) was an Italian painter of late-Mannerism or proto-Baroque active mainly in Siena.
Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar.  Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar (Mongolian: Очирбатын Дашбалбар; 1957—1999) was a Mongolian writer and politician.
Vittore Belliniano.  Vittore Belliniano was an Italian painter of the Renaissance considered to be identical with Bellini Bellini and Vittore di Matteo. He was a native of Venice active c. the year 1525. He painted historical subjects and several of his pictures were painted for the Scuola di San Marco at Venice and in churches of the neighboring towns.
Tony Friel.  Tony Friel (born in Birkenhead Wirral Cheshire 4 May 1958) is a bass guitarist known for his role in different New Wave bands.He attended Heys Boys Secondary School where he met Martin Bramah and got along with him Art O Level. He and Bramah shared many interests. In the mid-1970s they were introduced by their friend Barbara Smith to her brother Mark E. Smith and his friend Una Baines. Smith Baines Bramah and Friel shared interests in music and formed their first band The Fall.
Rebecca Win.  Rebecca Win (Burmese: ရေဗက္ကဝင်း pronounced: [jèbɛʔka̰ wɪ́ɴ]; born May Hnin Nu (မေနှင်းနု [mè n̥ɪ́ɴ nṵ]) on 15 February 1986) is a Burmese professional model and a popular advert actress on Burmese TV as well as a Burmese pop music singer.One of four siblings Win was born May Hnin Nu to a Burman father and a Kachin mother. She was moved to Yangon when she was just six months old. Win converted to Christianity while she joined the church choir at age six.
Joe Locke.  Joseph Paul Locke (born March 18 1959) is an American jazz vibraphonist composer and educator.As a jazz musician Locke was precocious having played with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie Pepper Adams and Mongo Santamaría while in high school.[citation needed] Since moving to New York City in 1981 Locke has performed with Grover Washington Jr. Kenny Barron Dianne Reeves Eddie Daniels Jerry Gonzalez' Fort Apache Band Rod Stewart Beastie Boys Eddie Henderson Hiram Bullock Bob Berg Ron Carter Jimmy Scott Geoffrey Keezer The Mingus Big Band and Randy Brecker among many others. 
Emery Emery.  Emery Emery (born December 25 1963) is an American comedian film editor and producer and outspoken atheist known for his contribution to numerous comedy-related films and TV shows his two podcasts Skeptically Yours and the award-winning Ardent Atheist. Further he has the distinction of being a contributor to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas and he edited the documentary The Aristocrats.
Gerald Toto.  Gerald Toto is a lyricist composer performer multi-instrumentalist and artistic director.
Jean Sasson.  Jean P. Sasson (born 1950Troy Alabama United States) (Sasson is Hebrew for happiness) is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East.
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.  Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Јовановић Змај pronounced [jɔ̌v̞an jɔv̞ǎːnɔv̞it͡ɕ zmâj]; November 24 1833 – June 3 1904) was one of the best-known Serbian poets. He was a physician by profession like his literary predecessor writer Jovan Stejić (1803–1853).He wrote in many of the genres of poetry including love lyric patriotic political youth's etc. But he is best known for his children's poetry.
Ken Lloyd.  Kentaro James Shibuya Lloyd (born March 25 1976 in London England) better known as Ken Lloyd is a British/Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. Fluent in both Japanese and English he writes lyrics in both languages. He is currently in Oblivion Dust Atom on Sphere and Fake? the latter of which is now his solo project.With an English father lawyer and a Japanese mother Ken graduated secondary school in London England and went to the college in Japan.
I. Newton Baker.  I. Newton Baker was private secretary to and biographer of Robert G. Ingersoll. He was earlier one of the editors of the American Sunday-School Times.
Roba Stanley.  Roba Stanley was a country music singer who has been said to be the first woman to record country music. Others have pointed out that Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis recorded a session (including solos) three months before Roba recorded. However she can still be said to be among the earliest of the women who recorded early country music. She was the daughter of Robert Morland Stanley an old-time fiddler who recorded with her on some of her records.
Kiyoshi Maekawa.  Kiyoshi Maekawa (前川 清 Maekawa Kiyoshi) (born (1948-08-19)August 19 1948) is a Japanese singer and tarento.He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta. As a frontman of the band he spawned multiple hit singles such as Awazu ni Aishite Uwasa no OnnaSoshite Kōbe Nakanoshima Blues and Tokyo Sabaku during the 1970s.
Lee Donghae.  Lee Dong-hae (Hangul: 이동해; hanja: 李東海) (born 15 October 1986) mononymously credited as Donghae (Hangul: 동해) is a South Korean Idol singer dancer rapper songwriter promotional model and actor. He is best known as the main dancer vocal and rapper of the K-pop boy band Super Junior and its subgroup Super Junior-M and Donghae & Eunhyuk. Donghae is also in the SM Town dance-centered sub group SM The Performance.
Freedy Johnston.  Freedy Johnston (born Fred Fatzer in 1961) is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley Kansas. He has scored several minor hits since the early 1990s. Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners and cover topics like heartbreak alienation and disappointment. Known for the craftsmanship of his songs he has been described as a songwriter's songwriter.
Dionne Rakeem.  Dionne Rakeem is a female vocalist from the Midlands. Her song Sweeter than Wine made #46 on the UK Singles Chart.
Harry Carney.  Harry Howell Carney (April 1 1910 – October 8 1974) was an American jazz musician whose virtuosity on the baritone saxophone influenced generations of subsequent players. He also performed on clarinet and bass clarinet as well as alto saxophone in the early years of his career. Mainly known for his 45-year tenure in Duke Ellington's Orchestra Carney's strong steady saxophone often served as the anchor of Duke's music.
Hilde Haugsgjerd.  Hilde Haugsgjerd (born 7 July 1952) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.She was born in Oslo. She was the party leader of the Red Electoral Alliance from 1979 to 1981 and was married to the party's first leader Sigurd Allern from 1972 to 1977.She worked as a journalist in Klassekampen and Dagbladet as well as information director of Rikshospitalet before becoming a newspaper editor.
Daryle Singletary.  Daryle Bruce Singletary (born March 10 1971) is an American country music singer. Between 1995 and 1998 he recorded for Giant Records for which he released three studio albums: Daryle Singletary in 1995 All Because of You in 1996 and Ain't It the Truth in 1998.
Paris Bennett.  Paris Ana'is Bennett (born August 21 1988) is an American singer. She came to national recognition as a contestant on the fifth season of the reality television talent show American Idol finishing in fifth place. Bennett released her debut album Princess P on 306 Entertainment/TVT Records in 2007 as well as a holiday album in 2008 entitled A Royal Christmas.
Bekhud Badayuni.  Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui (Urdu/Arabic: محمّد عبدالحي صدیقی) writing under the pen-name Bekhud Badayuni (Urdu/Persian: بےخود بدایونی) was one of the leading Urdu poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is customary for Urdu poets to assume a pen-name (takhallus) that can be employed as a pun in the final couplet of every ghazal often combined with a second name that denotes the poet's place of origin.
Jud Strunk.  Jud Strunk (June 11 1936 - October 5 1981) was an American singer songwriter and comedian.
John Pendray.  John Pendray (born July 12 1937 in the city of London England) is a Franco-British painter. Graduated from the Saint Martin School of Art and the University of London Institute of Pedagogy he taught painting sculpture and ceramics during 11 years. Then he moved to Marseille France where he first worked as an independent designer. He’s a professional painter since 1990. In 2000 he obtained French nationality and in 2001 he was appointed Ofﬁcial Painter of the French Navy.
Kage Baker.  Kage Baker (June 10 1952 – January 31 2010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Niccola Ricciolini.  Niccola Ricciolini (born 1637 date of death unknown) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Rome and was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona. He competed against Marcantonio Franceschini with cartoons for the mosaic decoration of the Vatican. His designs led to the mosaics of Crucifixion of St. Peter (in mosaic) and a painting of Descent from the Cross.
Peter Gric.  Peter Gric or Petr Gric (born 1968 Brno Czechoslovakia) is Austrian painter drawer and illustrator originally from Czech Republic. In his art appear motives of futuristic landscapes and architecture biomechanical surrealism and fantastic realism. Gric is member of the art groups Libellule and Labyrinthe.
Tara Newley.  Tara Cynara Newley (born 12 October 1963) is an English singer.Newley was born in New York City the daughter of actress Joan Collins and actor/composer/singer Anthony Newley and a sister to Sacha Newley. She studied at Boston University. She returned to London when her parents' seven-year marriage ended in 1970 and her mother married the head of Apple Records Ron Kass.
Andy Worthington.  Andy Worthington is a British historian investigative journalist and film director.He has published three books and been published in numerous publications.In 2009 Worthington was the co-director of a documentary about the Guantanamo detainees.Worthington is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post a liberal weblog.
Joseph Bharat Cornell.  Joseph Bharat Cornell is a nature educator in the United States. He was given the Indian name Bharat by his yoga teacher Swāmī Kriyānanda Giri.[citation needed] He wrote the book Sharing Nature with Children in the early 1970s to promote outdoor learning.
Pedro Suárez-Vértiz.  Pedro Martín José María Suárez-Vértiz Alva (born February 13 1969 in Callao Peru) is a Peruvian singer-songwriter-guitarist. He founded the popular rock band Arena Hash with his brother Patricio Arturo Pomar and Christian Meier in 1987; a few years later the band broke up and Vértiz began his solo career. He is the winner of Orgullosamente Latino 2004 (Proudly Latin 2004) and winner of the Best Latin Soloist of the Year in Mexico.
Natalia Pankova.  Natalia Pankova (Russian: Панкова Наталия Юрьевна; born June 28 1965 Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod)) is a Russian artist art manager; member of the Russian Union of Artists. chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Nizhny Novgorod «Russian Art» Foundation and Counselor to the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in Nizhny Novgorod Master of Arts.
Yuna Ito.  Yuna Ito (伊藤 由奈 Itō Yuna) (born September 20 1983) is an American pop recording artist and actress who is active in Japan. She was born in Los Angeles and was raised in Hawaii. Ito made her musical debut in Japan with the single Endless Story which was used as one of the theme songs for the popular 2005 film Nana; she also starred in the film portraying Reira Serizawa. In 2006 Ito reprised her role as Reira for the sequel of the film singing the theme song Truth.
Tamiko Jones.  Tamiko Jones (born Barbara Tamiko Ferguson 1945) is an American singer. Her most successful record was Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out For Your Love) in 1975.
Geneviève Sorya.  Geneviève Sorya (née Geneviève Marie Thérèse Durand; 23 June 1912 – 23 March 2008) daughter of André and Émilie Durand was a French actress who was married to French actor Henry Murray (born Henri Dreyfus) with whom she had a daughter who became actress Anouk Aimée.
Ashley Hutchings.  Ashley Stephen Hutchings (born 26 January 1945) is an English bassist vocalist songwriter arranger band leader writer and record producer. He was a founding member of three of the most noteworthy English folk-rock bands in the history of the genre: Fairport Convention Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. Hutchings has overseen numerous other projects including records and live theatre and has collaborated on film and television projects.
Lee Wells.  Lee Wells (born 1971) is an artist independent curator and a technology and art consultant based New York. He is a co-founder of Peanut Underground Art Projects in New York. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts and a co-founder of Perpetual art machine [PAM]. He helped curate the 2011 exhibition No Comment in New York City where one of his installations was also shown.
Ali (rapper).  Ali Jones (born July 13 1971) better known by his stage name Ali is an American rapper and member of the hip hop group St. Lunatics.
Cristina Scarlat.  Cristina Scarlat (born 3 March 1981 in Chișinău) is a Moldovan singer. She will represent Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark with the song Wild Soul.
Arthur C. Clarke.  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (Sri Lankabhimanya Arthur Charles Clarke) (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer science writer inventor undersea explorer and television series host.He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey considered by the American Film Institute to be one of the most influential films of all time.
Cathy Jordan.  Cathy Jordan is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has been the lead vocalist for the traditional Irish music band Dervish since 1991 and is a solo performer as well. Cathy is also a member of another group called The Unwanted along with former Dervish member Seamie O'Dowd and Rick Epping.Cathy's first solo album entitled All the Way Home was released in January 2012.
Micky Groome.  Micky Groome (born Michael John Groome 20 March 1951 Hemel Hempstead England) is an English bassist guitarist vocalist songwriter and producer.
Stephen L. Mosko.  Stephen L. (Lucky) Mosko ((1947-12-07)December 7 1947 – December 5 2005(2005-12-05) (aged 57)) was an American composer. His music blends high modernism (including serialism) with world music and he is an expert in Icelandic folk music.
Douglas Kolk.  Douglas Kolk (born 1963 Newark New Jersey) is a United States artist based in Boston Massachusetts. He is known primarily for his drawing as well as work in collage and mixed media.Kolk’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums including the Helsinki City Art Museum in Finland Kasseler Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany Kunsthalle St. Gallen and the Royal Academy in London.
Ethel Azama.  Ethel Azama (August 28 1934 – March 7 1984) was an American jazz and popular singer and recording artist. She sang regularly in nightclubs and other concert venues between the mid-1950s and 1984. She was born and raised in Honolulu Hawaii and was of Okinawan ancestry. She was a Nisei or second-generation Japanese American.
William Farquhar Payson.  William Farquhar Payson (1876-1939) was an American author. He was born in New York city February 18 1876 the son of Francis and Mary F. (Dabney) Payson and grandson of John Larkin and Frances (Lithgow) Payson and of Charles Henry and Ellen M. (Jones) Dabney and a descendant of Edward Payson (1614–1675). He received his preparatory education in England and in New York city; was a student at Columbia University 1892–93 and in 1893 engaged in journalism.
Kawabata Ryushi.  Kawabata Ryūshi (川端 龍子 June 6 1885 - April 10 1966) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style active during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His real name was Kawabata Shotarō. Ryūshi was born in Wakayama city in Wakayama prefecture. He moved to Tokyo in 1895. Initially interested in literature he studied under the poet Kawabata Hoja who introduced him to the Hototogisu artistic circle.
Anthony Coldeway.  Anthony W. Coldeway (August 1 1887 – January 29 1963) was a screenwriter who had an extensive career from 1910 through 1954. Although most of his work was on films he did some writing for television and also was the director of a silent film entitled Her Great Dilemma in 1917. He was born in Louisville Kentucky.In 1928 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay at the 1st Academy Awards for his film Glorious Betsy.
Leah Coloff.  Leah Coloff is an American singer-songwriter and cellist who lives in Brooklyn New York United States.
Jason Marcy.  Jason Marcy is a cartoonist living in Hamilton Ontario who works primarily in the field of autobiographical comics.
Deniz Tek.  Deniz Tek is an American singer guitarist and songwriter and a founding member of Australian rock group Radio Birdman. He has played in many of the underground rock bands of the 1970s including Australian bands The Visitors and New Race but is most known for exerting his burning Detroit style guitar influence over the punk rock genre in Australia. Tek was raised in Ann Arbor Michigan USA.
Bernice Liu.  Bernice Jan Liu (born January 6 1979) is a Hong Kong actress singer and commercial model based in Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001 the latter position bringing her fame in Hong Kong.Liu was best known for her role as Princess Sam-tin in the long-running TVB sitcom Virtues of Harmony which was also her first role after joining TVB in 2001.
Sheila Silver.  Sheila Silver (born 1946 in Seattle Washington) is an American composer.She was born in Seattle Washington in 1946 she started her piano studies at the age of five. In 1968 she received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at Berkeley and had her Ph.D from Brandeis University Mass. in 1976.
Akari Saho.  Akari Saho (佐保 明梨 Saho Akari born June 8 1995) is a member of Up-Up Girls and a former member of Hello! Pro Egg a Japanese idol trainee program under the Hello! Project umbrella. She was also an original member of Shugo Chara Egg! and played the role of Amulet Spade in the live action segment of the highly acclaimed television series Shugo Chara! Party!. She completed her training in Hello! Pro Egg on April 18 2011 and joined Up-Front Girls on May 3 2011.
Augustin Hadelich.  Augustin Hadelich (born April 4 1984 in Italy) is a German classical violinist.
François Walthéry.  François Walthéry (born 17 January 1946 in Argenteau near Liège) is a Belgian comics artist best known for his series featuring an adventurous flight attendant Natacha.
Hisako Kyōda.  Hisako Kyōda (京田尚子 Kyōda Hisako born February 22 1935) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo who among other roles voiced Slappy Squirrel in the Japanese dub of Animaniacs. She is most known for the roles of Genkai (YuYu Hakusho) Omusubiman (Soreike! Anpanman) and Yukari Godai (Maison Ikkoku). Kyōda works at the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.
Bambi Woods.  Bambi Woods (born July 12 1955) is the screen name of a former pornographic actress and exotic dancer best known for her appearance as the title character in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas. She was advertised on theater marquees and in advertising as a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader although this was not actually the case.Woods performed in only one other adult film Debbie Does Dallas 2 (1981).An article in The Age stated that Woods died of a drug overdose in 1986.
Lars Stalfors.  Lars Stalfors is an American musician record producer and engineer from Los Angeles California noted for his contributions to The Mars Volta and the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group. A multi-instrumentalist Stalfors has produced albums for both Matt and Kim and Funeral Party.
Tobias Wolff.  Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19 1945) is an American author. He is known for his memoirs particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and his short stories. He has also written two novels.
Sex Mob.  Sex Mob is a New York City jazz band originally formed as a Knitting Factory vehicle for Steven Bernstein to exercise his slide trumpet. Sex Mob's sets feature a high proportion of covers usually familiar pop songs given a humorous but avant garde treatment. Bernstein points out that this is a return to a fundamental jazz tradition to take a familiar song then disassemble and reassemble.
Valerian Maykov.  Valerian Nikolayevich Maykov (Russian: Валериа́н Никола́евич Ма́йков September 9 1823 Moscow Russia — July 27 1847 v.Novoye) was a Russian Empire author and literary critic son of painter Nikolay Maykov brother of poet Apollon and novelist Vladimir Maykovs.
Paul Cornell.  Paul Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions Bernice Summerfield.As well as Doctor Who other television dramas for which he has written include Robin Hood Primeval Casualty Holby City and Coronation Street.Cornell has also written for a number of British comics as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America and has had three original novels published in addition to his Doctor Who fiction.
Zuzi Zu.  Zumreta Midžić [zuːmrete midʒitɕ] known by her stage name Zuzi Zu [zuːzi zuː] is a popular singer from Sarajevo born in Velika Kladuša Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mike Allred.  Michael Dalton Mike Allred is an American comic book artist and writer most famous for his indie comics creation Madman. His style is often compared to pop art as well as commercial and comic art of the 1950s and 1960s.
Susan Ashton.  Susan Ashton (born Susan Rae Hill July 17 1967) is an American contemporary Christian Music and country music artist who topped the Christian charts throughout the 1990s. In 1991 she began using her mother's maiden name Ashton when she recorded her first single in order to distinguish herself from CCM singer Kim Hill.Ashton has recorded eight studio albums to date of which six were released on Sparrow Records.
Alvin Taylor.  Alvin Taylor (born March 26 1953) is an American drummer producer and musical director who is best known for his work with Elton John Eric Burdon George Harrison Billy Preston and Bob Welch.
Mischa Bakaleinikoff.  Mikhail Romanovich Bakaleinikov or Mischa Bakaleinikoff (Russian: Михаил Романович Бакалейников; 10 November 1890 – 10 August 1960) was a noted musical director film composer and conductor.
Tataee.  Vlad Irimia (born October 17 1976) primarily known by his stage name Tataee is a Romanian record producer rapper record executive and music manager. He is one of the founders and the main producer of the well-known Romanian hip hop trio B.U.G. Mafia also having produced albums and overseeing the careers of many acclaimed Romanian rappers such as La Familia XXL & 10 Grei Mahsat and JerryCo.
William Dobell.  Sir William Dobell OBE (24 September 1899 – 13 May 1970) was an Australian artist.
Christof Lauer.  Christof Lauer (born May 25 1953) is a German jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist born in Melsungen Germany perhaps most well known in Europe where he has done projects with various musicians such as Palle Danielsson Carla Bley Michel Godard Volker Kriegel Michel Portal Maria Joao Anthony Cox Gary Husband Alphonse Mouzon and Peter Erskine.In 1994 Lauer joined the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and replaced Charlie Mariano and is also a member of the Hamburg NDR Radio Orchestra.
Cassius D. Kalb.  Khalil Cassius Walton (born June 6) is an American Grammy Award-winning musician based in Atlanta Georgia.
Vincenzo Barboni.  Vincenzo Barboni (1802-1859) was an Italian painter mainly depicting sacred subjects in a Neoclassical style.
Apostolia Zoi.  Apostolia Zoi (Greek: Αποστολία Ζώη) is a popular Greek singer who was born in Volos Greece. She has released four studio albums.
Kit Whitfield.  Kit Whitfield is an English novelist. Her first novel titled Bareback in the UK and Benighted in the US was published by Random House in August 2006. It has subsequently been purchased by Warner Brothers for an undisclosed six-figure sum and is currently being adapted as a film called Benighted by director Andrew Adamson.
Aimé Martin.  Aimé Martin (1781-1844) was a French writer. Born in Lyon he moved to Paris where he became the pupil and friend of Bernardin de St. Pierre: he collected his works and married his widow. Martin's letters to Sophia on Natural History were highly popular.This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
Victor Lindlahr.  Dr. Victor Hugo Lindlahr (February 14 1897 – January 26 1969) was an American health food and weight loss pioneer. In the 1930s he hosted a popular radio series about nutrition. In 1940 he wrote the book You Are What You Eat one of the earliest texts of the health food movement in the United States which sold over half a million copies. His book is also credited for popularizing the expression.
Paul Johnson (producer).  Paul Leighton Johnson (born 1971) is an American house DJ and producer.
Irini Qirjako.  Irini Qirjako is a popular Albanian folk singer from Finiq. She is one of the most famous folk singers in southern Albania. She sings many tosk folk songs and mostly self-composed potpourri.
Mathias Färm.  Mathias Färm (born September 9 1974 in Örebro Sweden) is a guitar player best known as a member of the Swedish skate punk band Millencolin. He is also the frontman of a punk band named Franky Lee a side-project of Millencolin.He started skating in 1987 and started listening to Operation Ivy Mc Rad The Descendents & Odd Man Out because of the skate videos. Early in 1992 he and Nikola Sarcevic were members of a band named Seigmen which was a punk rock band singing in Swedish.
Joe Lee Wilson.  Joe Lee Wilson (December 22 1935 – July 17 2011) was an American gospel-influenced jazz singer originally from Bristow Oklahoma. His voice is best recognized from several Archie Shepp albums recorded for Impulse! Records.
Simone Simons.  Simone Johanna Maria Simons (born 17 January 1985) is a Dutch soprano and the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band Epica.
Daren King.  Laurence Daren King (born 1972 in Harlow Essex) is an award-winning English novelist. His debut novel Boxy an Star was shortlisted for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. He won first prize in the Nestle Children's Book Prize (6 to 8 year old category) in 2006. King has lived most of his life in London.Laurence Daren King left school with only one GCSE in English and worked in computing.
Ercole Ruggiero.  Ercole Ruggiero (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was initially a devoted pupil of Francesco Gessi in Bologna; and also was known as Ercolino del Gessi or Ercolino da Bologna. His brother was known as Battistino del Gessi initially a pupil of Domenichino and Gessi then became a follower of Pietro da Cortona. He died during the papacy of Urban VIII.
Fito Blanko.  Fito Blanko (born Roberto E. Testa) is a Panamanian Tropical Urban singer/songwriter from Toronto Canada.
Vivian Chow.  Vivian Chow (Chinese: 周慧敏; traditional Chinese: 周慧敏; pinyin: Zhōu Huìmǐn) is a Hong Kong based Cantopop singer and actress. She is well known for her ladylike stage image as well as her charity works for animal rights and breast cancer awareness.
Yurizan Beltran.  Yurizan Beltran (born November 2 1986) also known as YuriLuv is an American pornographic actress.
George Wheeler Hinman.  George Wheeler Hinman (November 19 1864 - March 31 1927) was an American writer and newspaper publisher. He also served as the president of Marietta College in Ohio from 1913-1918.Hinman was born in Mount Morris New York in 1864 and graduated from Hamilton College in New York in 1884. After working at newspapers in Chicago and St. Louis he obtained a masters and Ph.D. degree from Heidelberg University in 1889.
Cali Carranza.  Cali Carranza (March 29 1953 - May 1 2012) was a notable American Tejano (Spanish for Texan) musician. Born in Pharr Texas he began playing the drums and accordion in his father's band at only 8 years old. Carranza joined Conjunto Bernal in 1973 before becoming a founding member of Roberto Pulido y Los Clasicos.
Futuro Primitivo.  Futuro Primitivo is the electronic music stage name of Matyas Mon an Argentine musician from Buenos Aires.
Michael Rodenberg.  Michael Rodenberg nickname Miro is a German keyboard player and musical producer known for working with power metal bands such as Angra Shaaman Luca Turilli Rhapsody of Fire Kamelot and Heavens Gate. He mainly works in conjunction with his some-time bandmate Sascha Paeth.In addition to his production work Miro has made guest appearances for many of the bands he works with as a keyboard player and also provides orchestral arrangements.
Brenda De Banzie.  Brenda Doreen Mignon de Banzie (28 July 1909 – 5 March 1981) was a British actress of stage and screen. She was the daughter of Edward Thomas de Banzie conductor and musical director and his second wife Dorothy (née Lancaster) whom he married in 1908.
Jackie Lane (actress).  Jackie Lane (born 10 July 1941 in Manchester) is an English actress noted for her role as Dodo Chaplet a companion of the Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.She played the part from February to July 1966 alongside William Hartnell as the Doctor.She went on to become a theatrical agent representing Tom Baker who would play the Fourth Doctor and Janet Fielding who would play companion Tegan Jovanka and managed the late Nicholas Courtney.
Dermot Somers.  Dermot Somers (born 1947 Tremane County Roscommon Ireland) is an Irish mountaineer explorer writer and broadcaster. He was educated in the Irish-speaking Coláiste Mhuire Dublin and graduated from University College Dublin with a BA and HDipEd and worked for a time as a teacher before concentrating full-time on writing broadcasting and travelling. He now lives in Drogheda.
Deborah Cadbury.  Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning British author and BBC television producer specialising in fundamental issues of science and history and their effects on modern society.After graduating from Sussex University in Psychology and Linacre College Oxford she joined the BBC as a documentary maker and has received numerous international awards including an Emmy for her work on the BBC's Horizon strand.Her film Assault On The Male launched a worldwide scientific research campaign into the hormone-mimicking chemicals that are harming human health.Her 2000 book The Dinosaur Hunters that examined the bitter rivalry between the early fossil hunters who pieced together the evidence of a prehistoric world was turned into a TV film by Granada ProductionsShe produced the ground-breaking 2003 docudrama Seven Wonders of the Industrial World for which she also wrote the companion book.Her 2003 book The Lost King Of France telling the tragic story of Marie Antoinette’s favourite son is to be developed as a film by Lynda La Plante.In 2005 she produced Space Race an award winning Drama the first BBC co-production between Russia and America.Her latest book Chocolate Wars tells the story of the Quaker Capitalists including the Cadbury history up to the Kraft takeover.
Takanori Ōyama.  Takanori Ōyama (大山 鎬則 Ōyama Takanori born 8 March 1974 in Aichi Prefecture Japan) is a male Japanese voice actor and actor probably most known for the roles as Kanji Sasahara (Genshiken) and Yasunobu Hattori (Suzuka).[citation needed]
Fran Saleški Finžgar.  Fran Saleški Finžgar (February 9 1871 – June 2 1962) was perhaps the most popular Slovene folk writer. He is particularly known after his novels and short stories although he also wrote poems and plays.
Charles-François Daubigny.  Charles-François Daubigny (15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism.
Jack Payne (bandleader).  John Wesley Vivian Jack Payne (22 August 1899 – 4 December 1969) was a British dance music bandleader who established his reputation during the British dance band era of the 1930s.
Yuma Ishigaki.  Yuma Ishigaki (石垣 佑磨 Ishigaki Yūma born August 28 1982) is a Japanese actor from Gifu Prefecture and raised in Nerima Tokyo.
Martin Ljung.  Martin Vilhelm Ljung (15 August 1917 in Notviken Luleå – 30 September 2010 in Stockholm) was a Swedish comedian actor and singer.An apprentice blacksmith turned entertainer his movie debut was in the 1947 movie Tappa inte sugen starring Nils Poppe.Ljung worked together with Povel Ramel for many years and acted and sang in several of Ramel's revues where he also performed comic monologues including Ester and Fingal Olsson which have become Swedish comedy classics.He also worked with Hasse Alfredson and Tage Danielsson both in revues such as Spader Madame! and Glaset i Örat (The Glass in the Ear) and movies such as Äppelkriget.
Dean Reed.  Dean Cyril Reed (September 22 1938 – June 13 1986) was an American actor singer and songwriter director and social activist who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in East Germany.
Robert Conley (music producer).  Robert Conley (dp13) is an American record producer programmer musician and engineer. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry including KISS Destiny's Child Celine Dion Ricky Martin and Darren Hayes.
David Housewright.  David Housewright (born February 7 1955) is an American award-winning author of crime fiction whose work has been favorably compared to Raymond Chandler Ross MacDonald and Robert B. Parker. He is best known for the Rushmore McKenzie and Holland Taylor series set most often in and around the greater St. Paul and Minneapolis area of Minnesota USA. Housewright has earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America as well as three Minnesota Book Awards.
Killa Hakan.  Hakan Durmus better known as Killa Hakan is a German-Turkish rapper.
August Becker (painter).  August Becker (27 January 1821 – 19 December 1887) was a German landscape painter.
Gladys del Pilar.  Eva Gladys Del Pilar Werner (born 11 October 1967) is a Swedish singer and dancer.
Tiara Thomas.  Tiara Nicole Thomas (born September 12 1989) is an American singer-songwriter most notably featured on Wale's 2013 single Bad. As of 2013 Thomas has landed a label deal with Interscope Records a label under the Interscope-Geffen-A&M group.
Giovanni Raboni.  Giovanni Raboni (22 January 1932 – 16 September 2004) was an Italian poet translator and literary critic.
Yūji Takahashi.  Yūji Takahashi (高橋 悠治 Takahashi Yūji born September 21 1938) is a Japanese composer performer pianist and author.Studied under Roh Ogura and Minao Shibata at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1960 he made his debut as a pianist by performing Bo Nilsson's Quantitaten. He lived in Europe from 1963 to 1966 where he worked with Iannis Xenakis. He gave the first performance of Xenakis' Herma and Eonta.
John Murrell (playwright).  John Murrell OC AOE (born October 15 1945) is an American-born Canadian playwright.
Chris Mosdell.  Chris Mosdell is a British lyricist poet author composer vocalist and illustrator based in Tokyo Japan and New York City USA.He has collaborated with an extensive array of musicians and artists though he is especially known for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and the poet Shuntarō Tanikawa.
Antoine Cassar.  Antoine Cassar (1978) is a Maltese poet and translator. In September 2009 his multilingual poem Merħba was the Grand Prize winner of the United Planet Writing Contest.
Dashiell Hammett.  Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/dəˈʃiːl/; May 27 1894 – January 10 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories a screenplay writer and political activist.
Thoppil Bhasi.  Thoppil Bhasi (Malayalam: തോപ്പില്‍ ഭാസി) (born 1924 April 8 – died 1992 December 8) was a Malayalam playwright screenwriter and film director. He was associated with the communist movement in Kerala and his play Ningalenne Communistakki (You Made Me a Communist) is considered to be a groundbreaking event in the history of Malayalam theatre.
Candy Miyuki.  Miyuki is an Ame Zaiku artist who had performed at Epcot's Japanese Pavilion inside the World Showcase since 1996; with her last performances occurring on November 23 2013. She creates sculptures on a stick from soft rice dough a taffy-like product made from corn starch and sugar. She makes animals at the request of guests in mere seconds; the most popular request is dragon. She starts with a white base and adds color as needed.
Kottayam Pushpanath.  Pushpanathan Pillai better known by the pseudonym Kottayam Pushpanath (Malayalam: കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥ്) is a prolific Malayali author most noted for his detective novels in Malayalam language. He has also written mainstream novels science fiction and horror fiction and translated Bram Stoker's Dracula into Malayalam.Most of Pushpanath's work appeared during the period of the 1970s and 1980s.
Charlee.  Vera Luttenberger (born January 28 1993) better known as Charlee is an Austrian electropop singer.
Koichi Iwaki.  Kōichi Iwaki (岩城滉一 Iwaki Kōichi) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Minami he hashire umi no michi o!. He is also a racing car driver.
Darin Epsilon.  Darin Epsilon (born September 26 1983) is a music producer DJ radio personality record label owner and music critic from Chicago which is widely considered the birthplace of House music. He currently resides in Los Angeles as of 2009.He is primarily known for electronic dance music with productions appearing in the compilations of Nick Warren Hernan Cattaneo Armin van Buuren Markus Schulz and Paul Oakenfold among many others.
Scott Danough.  Scott Danough is a co-founder and former guitar player for Bleeding Through. Scott played with Bleeding Through from its foundation in 1999 and appeared on the albums Dust to Ashes Portrait of the Goddess This is Love This is Murderous and The Truth. In April 2007 Scott and Bleeding Through parted ways. After his departure he said ..Just know that when this all comes out don't think you've seen the last of Scott.
Dulce Quental.  Dulce Quental (13 April 1960) is a Brazilian singer and composer.
Sonny Rollins.  Theodore Walter Sonny Rollins (born September 7 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions including St. Thomas Oleo Doxy and Airegin have become jazz standards.
Heinrich Clauren.  Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun (20 March 1771 – 2 August 1854) better known by his pen name Heinrich Clauren was a German author.
John Neagle.  John Neagle (4 November 1796 – 17 September 1865) was a fashionable American painter primarily of portraits during the first half of the 19th century in Philadelphia.
Cellski.  Marcel Wade (born in 1974) better known by his stage name Cellski and also Young Cellski 2Took Break-a-B***h Big Mafi and Coach Cellichick is an American rapper/records producer from San Francisco. He is also the CEO of his label Inner City2K Records.
Courtney Hunt.  Courtney Hunt (born in 1964) is an American screenwriter and film director. Her debut feature film Frozen River won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Frank Brunner.  Frank Brunner (born February 21 1949) is an American comic book artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.
Junnosuke Kawaguchi.  Junnosuke Kawaguchi (河口 純之助 Kawaguchi Junnosuke b. April 26 1961) is a Japanese musician best known as bassist of The Blue Hearts. He is a music producer in Tokyo and in 2009 became the deputy director of propaganda for the Happiness Realization Party. He was born Hiroyuki Kawaguchi (河口 宏之 Kawaguchi Hiroyuki) in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo.
Cartrain.  Cartrain (born 1991?) often stylised cartяain is a British artist associated with the graffiti urban art movement. YBA artist Damien Hirst has threatened to take legal steps against Cartain over his art and activities. Cartrain's art has also been appropriated by well-known artists such as Gilbert and George Jamie Reid David Shrigley and Mr Brainwash
Alaettin Tahir.  Alahettin Tahir (Macedonian: Алаетин Тахир Skopje Republic of Macedonia April 23 1949 - Skopje January 28 2004) is a well-known Macedonia`s author researcher and journalist of Turkish descent.Tahir studied philosophy at the University of Skopje after graduating from high school in Skopje. In 1969 he was given the post secretary of the monthly magazine Sesler (Sounds) published in Turkish language in Skopje.
Blue Roses (musician).  Blue Roses is the recording name of Laura Groves an English musician from Shipley West Yorkshire England. Her debut album Blue Roses was released in 2009 on XL Recordings.
David Paskett.  David Paskett (born 1944) is a contemporary British watercolour artist and president of the Royal Watercolour Society (R.W.S.) in the U.K.
Aya Suzaki.  Aya Suzaki (洲崎 綾 Suzaki Aya born December 25 1986) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise.
K. D. Sethna.  Kaikhosru Dadhaboy (K.D.) Sethna (26 November 1904 – 29 June 2011) was an Indian poet scholar writer philosopher and cultural critic. He published more than 40 books. He is also known as Amal Kiran.Sethna studied at Bombay University and was one of Sri Aurobindo's earliest disciples arriving at the Sri Aurobindo's ashram in 1927 at age 23 to take up the path of Integral Yoga under Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa. He was given the name Amal Kiran or Clear Ray by Sri Aurobindo in 1930.
Papa Charlie McCoy.  Charles Papa Charlie McCoy (May 26 1909 – July 26 1950) was an African American delta blues musician and songwriter.
John Garcia (singer).  John Garcia (born September 4 1970) is a vocalist and songwriter. Garcia is best known as the vocalist and founding member of Kyuss Slo Burn and Unida. Garcia currently performs in Vista Chino with former Kyuss drummer Brant Bjork.
Georges Wolinski.  Georges Wolinski (born 28 June 1934 in Tunis) is a French cartoonist and comics writer.
Ben Briley.  John Benjamin Briley (Born March 19 1989 known as Ben Briley) is an American singer from Gallatin Tennessee who finished in 11th place on the thirteenth season of American Idol. When he was a child he led an effort that caused Brothers and Sisters Day to be recognized as an official holiday in the state of Tennessee. This idea inspired Bill Clinton to designate the third week of November as National Family Week and George W. Bush to designate June 2 2001 as National Child's Day.
Jacques Prévert.  Jacques Prévert (French: [ʒak pʁevɛʁ]; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world particularly in schools. His best regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945).
Dave Meniketti.  Dave Meniketti (born December 12 1953) is the singer songwriter and lead guitarist for Hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T. He has also released three solo efforts (including Live in Japan) one of which is more blues-oriented. He currently tours worldwide with Y&T.
Carl Martin Reinthaler.  Carl Martin Reinthaler (13 October 1822 – 13 February 1896) was a German organist conductor and composer.Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler.
Mona Amarcha.  Mona Amarcha (Arabic: منى أمرشا ) (born on January 1 1988 in Casablanca Morocco) also spelled Mona Amarsha is a Moroccan singer who sings mainly Khaleeji music. She is very popular among the Gulf countries.
Dels.  Kieren Gallear also known as DELS (pronounced Dels) is a rapper recording artist graphics designer and filmmaker born in Ipswich England. He is currently based in London and graduated from Kingston University in 2007 with a BA Hons Degree in graphic design.[citation needed] Dickins signed with the Ninja Tune label Big Dada in May 2010.
Siddharth Sanghvi.  Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (born 1977 ) is an Indian author in English-language whose notable books include The Last Song of Dusk (2004) and The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (2009). He lives in Bombay and is a contributor to Time and other publications.The Last Song of Dusk (2005) made it to Man Asian Prize: 2009 Shortlist won the 2004 Betty Trask Award one of UK’s most prestigious prizes for debut novels and Premio Grinzane Cavour 2005 (Italy) for the Best Debut novel.
Frank Barsotti.  Franco A. Frank Barsotti (November 20 1937 - June 6 2012) was an American photographer. Youngest of three children he was born and raised in Chicago's historic Pullman area to Italian immigrant parents.
Paul Meloy.  Paul Meloy is an English born writer of what Graham Joyce referred to as Fractured Realism.Paul Meloy is the best writer of short stories in Britain.
André Courrèges.  André Courrèges (pronounced: [andʁe kuʁɛʒ]; born 9 March 1923 in Pau) is a French fashion designer known for his ultra-modern designs. At the age of 25 after studying to be a civil engineer he went to Paris to work at the Jeanne Lafaurie fashion design house. A few months later he went over to Balenciaga the renowned Spanish designer.Both Courrèges and Mary Quant lay claim to the invention of the miniskirt.
Frank R. Paul.  Frank Rudolph Paul (April 18 1884 - June 29 1963) was an American illustrator of pulp magazines in the science fiction field. A discovery of editor Hugo Gernsback (himself an immigrant from Luxembourg) Frank R. Paul was influential in defining what both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s looked like.The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2009.
Maximilian Mutzke.  Maximilian Nepomuk Mutzke (born May 21 1981 in Krenkingen Baden-Württemberg) is a German singer and drummer. In 2004 he took part in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Arofan.  Arofan was a 7th Century Welsh language poet.Nothing of Arofan's work survives. However his name is recorded as the Welsh Triads as the bard of Selyf ap Cynan:Arouan vard Sele(v) ap KynanArofan's name is later recorded in the work of Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr where he is held in regard alongside Afan Ferddig:Gnavd canaf y volyant ual auan uertic neu uartwavd arouan
Aldo Ranks.  Aldo Vargas known by his stage name Aldo Ranks is a Panamanian artist of Reggae en Español. From 1992 to 1998 he was the most outstanding and youngest rapper in Panama[citation needed] supported by the best producers in the genre such as El Chombo and DJ Pablito on albums such as Tales from the Crypt and The Mafia. Ranks now sings under the label Panama Music.
Cécilia Cara.  Cécilia Cara (born 5 June 1984) is a French actress and singer.
Paweł Mąciwoda.  Paweł Mąciwoda (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavɛw mɔ̃t͡ɕiˈvɔda]; born on February 20 1967) is a Polish bass guitarist who joined the Scorpions in 2003 and became an official member on January 10 2004.
Jenna Black.  Jennifer Bellak is an American author of paranormal romance novels urban fantasy and young adult fantasy novels under the pen name Jenna Black since 2006. She published one novel earlier under her married name Jennifer Barlow and at least two short stories before that under her birth name.
Kevin Cummins (photographer).  Kevin Cummins (born 14 July 1953 Manchester England) is a British photographer known for photographs of rock bands and musicians including Mick Jagger Ian Curtis Morrissey Courtney Love Patti Smith and David Bowie.
Kerry Gammill.  Kerry Gammill (born April 26 1954) is an American artist who has worked in the fields of comic books special effects storyboards and character designs.
Pinchas Burstein.  Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977) later known as Maryan S. Maryan was a Polish-born Jewish expressionist painter.
Francis George Scott.  Francis George Scott (25 January 1880 – 6 November 1958) was a Scottish composer.Born at 6 Oliver Crescent Hawick Roxburghshire he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts. Educated at Hawick and at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham he studied composition under Jean Roger-Ducasse. In 1925 he became Lecturer in Music at Jordanhill Training College for Teachers Glasgow a post he held for more than twenty-five years.
Jean-Michel Labadie.  Jean-Michel Labadie (born July 14 1974) is a French musician who is the bass guitar player of Gojira and was the bassist for Oihuka.
Christopher Anvil.  Christopher Anvil (March 11 1925 – November 30 2009) is a pseudonym used by American authorHarry Christopher Crosby. He began publishing science fiction with the story Cinderella Inc. in the December 1952 issue of the science fiction magazine Imagination.
Milt Holland.  Milt Holland (February 7 1917 – November 4 2005) was an American drummer percussionist ethnic musicologist and writer in the Los Angeles music scene. He pioneered the use of African South American and Indian percussion styles in jazz pop and film music; traveling extensively on those continents to collect instruments and to learn the musical styles of playing them.
John Rutsey.  John Howard Rutsey (July 23 1952 – May 11 2008) was a Canadian drummer most recognized for being a co-founding member of Rush along with Alex Lifeson and Jeff Jones and performing on the band's debut album. John Rutsey left the band in 1974 due to musical differences and health problems with diabetes and was replaced by Neil Peart. Rutsey's diabetes was believed to be a complicating factor in his death from a heart attack in 2008.
Cyhi the Prynce.  Cydel Young (born September 15 1984) better known by his stage name CyHi the Prynce is an American hip hop recording artist from Stone Mountain Georgia. He is currently signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik Bu Thiam's BuVision Kanye West's GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings.
John Petrucci.  John Peter Petrucci (born July 12 1967) is an American guitarist and composer. He is best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. With his former bandmate Mike Portnoy he has produced all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory until their 2009 release Black Clouds & Silver Linings and also produced alone their 2011 release A Dramatic Turn of Events and 2013's Dream Theater.
Hugo Dyson.  Henry Victor Dyson Dyson (1896–1975) generally known as Hugo Dyson and who signed his writings H. V. D. Dyson was an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group. He was a committed Christian and together with J.R.R. Tolkien he helped persuade C.S. Lewis to convert to Christianity.Dyson taught English at the University of Reading from 1924 until obtaining a fellowship with Merton College Oxford in 1945.
Jerry Marotta.  Jerome David Jerry Marotta (born February 6 1956 Cleveland Ohio) is a drummer currently residing in Woodstock New York. He is the brother of Rick Marotta who is also a drummer and composer.
Ray Beckett (journalist).  Raymond Harry Ray Beckett (born 1903 died 1983) was an Australian journalist newspaper editor and author.Before becoming a journalist he worked as a rouseabout in South Australia. His first position as a journalist was working for the Adelaide Advertiser where he was paid one penny per line of copy. Other positions he has held include: chief sub-editor at the Sydney Telegraph Assistant Editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Sun-Herald and editor of the Sunday Mirror.
Bruno Levy.  Bruno Levy (born August 3 1979) is a French filmmaker photographer and artist living in New York City. His artwork deals primarily with creating dynamic relationships between audio and video. He is best known for creating interactive video paintings and 3D video installations as part of the new media collective SWEATSHOPPE which he co-founded in 2009 with Blake Shaw. He has shot and directed music videos for bands such as The Walkmen and Modeselektor.
Vincent Youmans.  Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27 1898 – April 5 1946) was an American popular theatre composer and Broadway producer.
Higuchi Tachibana.  Higuchi Tachibana (樋口 橘 Tachibana Higuchi born March 16 1976) is a Japanese manga artist known for her works of Gakuen Alice and Portrait of M and N. In year 1996 she first made her professional debut in Bessatsu Hana to Yume's 5th issue entitled 5 Gatsu no Sakura (5月のサクラ The Cherry Blossoms of May).With an interview with Tokyopop she gave a detailed look on how she started as a manga artist.I first submitted a manga story a while after I graduated from high school.
Emily Fiegenschuh.  Emily Fiegenschuh is an artist and children's book illustrator whose work has also appeared in role-playing games.
Lucy Kaplansky.  Lucy Kaplansky (born February 16 1960) is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University.
Gangubai Hangal.  Gangubai Hangal (Kannada: ಗಂಗೂಬಾಯಿ ಹಾನಗಲ್) (5 March 1913 – 21 July 2009) was an Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music who was known for her deep and powerful voice. Hangal belonged to the Kirana gharana.
Ramón Alva de la Canal.  Ramón Alva de la Canal (b. Mexico City August 29 1892 – d. Mexico City April 4 1985) was a Mexican painter illustrator and educator one of the pioneers of the Mexican muralism movement.He was born Ramón Pascual Loreto José Alva de la Canal on August 29 1892 in the Tacubaya now a neighborhood of Mexico City. He received his artistic training at the Academy of San Carlos and then at the Escuela de Pintural al Aire Libre in Coyoacán under Alfredo Ramos Martínez.
Jorge Orta (artist).  Jorge Orta (born 1953) is a Paris-based Italian-Argentinian contemporary visual artist.
Xandee.  Xandee is a stage name of Sandy Boets (born 18 December 1978) Flemish singer who represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. At the age of 16 she founded the pop duo Touch of Joy with Serge (Sergio) Quisquater. Sergio and his band Sergio & The Ladies represented Belgium in ESC 2002 with the song Sister.At the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul Xandee sang the dance uptempo song 1 Life in the contest.
Robert Zimansky.  Robert Zimansky (born 20 April 1948 Iowa City Iowa) is an American violinist living in Zurich.After early studies with John Ferrell at the University of Iowa Zimansky studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Sally Thomas and Ivan Galamian. He came to Europe in 1972 and held 1st Concertmaster positions in Munich Stuttgart the Lucerne Festival Orchestra the Zurich Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.
Ned Pratt.  Ned (Edwin) Pratt (born 1964) is a Canadian photographer based in St. John's Newfoundland.Pratt grew up in the community of St. Catherine's in St. Mary's Bay Newfoundland. In 1986 he graduated with a BA in Art History from Acadia University then moved on to the University of British Columbia to study architecture.
Lesley Fitz-Simons.  Lesley Fitz-Simons (23 September 1961 – 26 January 2013) was a Scottish actress best known for playing the role of Sheila Ramsay in STV's Take the High Road.She was born in East Dunbartonshire in 1961 and had an early role as a teenager in the television series The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1978.
Joseph L. Green.  Joseph Lee Green (born 1931) is an American science fiction author and a charter member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is a prolific short story author best known for his novel Gold the Man. His work has been translated into German Italian Spanish French Polish and Dutch.
Lance Jordan.  Lance Jordan is an American DJ/Producer/Musician/Songwriter. He is best known for his original productions remixes and collaborations with the likes of such artists as Rosko Tom Geiger Nadia Ali Marta C. and John Creamer & Stephane K. In 2003 Jordan with Creamer & K created the indie house music label NY Love Records which produced a string of dance hits most notably Rosko's 2005 anthem Love Is A Drug which went to #1 on the U.S.
Grace Flandrau.  Grace Hodgson Flandrau (April 23 1886 – December 27 1971) was an American author of novels short stories and journalistic pieces. Although she achieved a certain degree of critical acclaim for several of her novels short stories and some of her journalism career during the 1920s '30s and '40s she faded from public literary view in the later part of her life.
Vladimir Tretchikoff.  Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Трéтчиков 26 December 1913—Old Style 13 December—in Petropavlovsk Russian Empire now Petropavl in Kazakhstan – 26 August 2006 in Cape Town South Africa) was one of the most commercially successful artists of all time - his painting Chinese Girl (popularly known as The Green Lady) is one of the best selling art prints of the twentieth century.Tretchikoff was a self-taught artist who painted realistic figures portraits still life and animals with subjects often inspired by his early life in China Singapore and Indonesia and later life in South Africa. 
Kate Claxton.  Kate Claxton (August 24 1848 – May 5 1924) was an American actress born Kate Elizabeth Cone at Somerville New Jersey to Spencer Wallace Cone and Josephine Martinez. She made her first appearance on the stage in Chicago with Lotta Crabtree in 1870 and in the same year joined Augustin Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York. In 1872 she became a member of A. M. Palmer's Union Square Theatre playing largely comedy roles.
Raghu Babu.  Raghu Babu is a Telugu famous comedian well known for his comic expressions & timing in many successful films in Telugu industry who is the elder son of famous comedian and character actor Giri Babu. He got married in 1988. He played a crucial role in comedy part in movies establishing himself as the director's pick in several Telugu films. He is a Nandi Award nominee for a Telugu film. He is ready to debut as a director very soon.
Vincent Glinsky.  Vincent Glinsky (18 December 1895 – March 19 1975) was an American artist.
Barbara Delinsky.  Barbara Delinsky (born August 9 1945 in Boston Massachusetts U.S.A. as Barbara Ruth Greenberg.) is an American writer of romance novels including 19 New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.
Bernardino Campilius.  Bernardino Campilius was an Italian painter and follower of Lo Spagna at Spoleto. His name was written beneath a fresco of The Virgin adoring the Infant on the Piazza San Gregorio at Spoleto and bears the date of 1502.
Brídín Brennan.  Brídín Ní Bhraonáin professionally known as Brídín Brennan is an Irish pop singer from Dobhar (Dore) Gweedore County Donegal. She is the sister of Moya Brennan and Enya and has also toured with family-band Clannad.
Kathleen Edwards.  Kathleen Edwards (born July 11 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2003 debut album Failer contained the singles Six O'Clock News and Hockey Skates. Her next two albums - Back to Me and Asking for Flowers - both made the Billboard 200 list and reached the top 10 of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. In 2012 Edwards' fourth studio album Voyageur became Edwards' first album to crack the top 100 and top 40 in the U.S. peaking at #39 on the U.S.
Einar Hålien.  Einar Hålien (born 17 November 1963) is a Norwegian editor.He was born in Fagernes. He was hired as a journalist in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1989 and led the district offices of the Broadcasting Corporation in Nordland from 1993 to 1995 and Hordaland from 1995 to 1997. He was appointed chief editor of the large regional newspaper Bergens Tidende in 1997 and became director in Schibsted in 2008.
Carlito Olivero.  Not to be confused with Adrián Carlos Olivares another member of MenudoCarlos Emmanuel Olivero (born July 16 1989 in Chicago) better known as Carlito Olivero is an American singer and actor of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent. From 2007–09 he was part of the Latin boy band Menudo after taking part in MTV's Making Menudo. Moving to Los Angeles in 2009 he appeared various singing and acting events and in 2012 appeared in the film We the Party directed by Mario Van Peebles.
Conrad Hommel.  Conrad Hommel (Mainz 16 February 1883 - Sielbeck 11 November 1971) was a German painter. He was best known for his portraits of leading German entrepreneurs such as Max Grundig Herbert Quandt and politicians such as Paul von Hindenburg Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring.
Patrice Nganang.  Alain Patrice Nganang (born 1970) is a Cameroonian writer poet and teacher.He was born in Yaoundé Cameroon and was educated in Cameroon and Germany. He was awarded a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. During 2006–2007 he was the Randolph Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies at Vassar College.
Asa Nonami.  Asa Nonami (乃南アサ Nonami Asa born 19 August 1960) is a Japanese crime fiction and horror writer. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan.
Eugenio Da Venezia.  Eugenio Da Venezia (November 9 1900 – September 8 1992) was an Italian painter. He was a member of the group known as I Giovani di Palazzo Carminati (the youths of Palazzo Carminati). This group rejected the prevailing style of the Italian Academy at the beginning of the 20th century. Da Venezia painted in a post-impressionist style influenced by the Venetian tradition of the vedutisti.
David Tidhar.  David Tidhar (7 June 1897 - 15 December 1970) was a Jewish-Israeli police officer private detective and author.Tidhar was born in Jaffa and served in the Palestine Police Force in Jerusalem. In 1926 he left the force and established his own private investigation office in Tel Aviv. This attracted the notice of author Shlomo Ben-Yisrael who founded The Detective Library in 1930 a series of chapbooks which featured the adventures of David Tidhar: The First Hebrew Detective.
David Brophy.  David Brophy is an Irish conductor. He is the Principal Conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Fariba Vafi.  Fariba Vafi is an Iranian writer. She was born in Tabriz on 1 January 1963 in a middle-class family.
Severino Gazzelloni.  Severino Gazzelloni (January 5 1919 – November 21 1992) was an Italian flute player.
Dean Gratton.  Dean Anthony Gratton (born 1968) is an author and columnist specializing in wireless communications.He was born in Cardiff and secured his first software engineering role with Coinmaster Manufacturing Limited (later Coinmaster Gaming Products Limited) Penarth Road Cardiff which entered into administrative receivership March 2003.Gratton moved to Cambridge England in the mid-1990s to further his career in software engineering.
Guy Davis (musician).  Guy Davis (born May 12 1952) is an American blues guitarist and banjo player actor and musician. He is the son of actors Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis.
Carol Lynn Maillard.  Carol Lynn Maillard (born 1951) is an African-American actress singer and composer. She was one of the founding members of the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Alicja Trout.  Alicja Trout is a Memphis-based American rock guitarist singer songwriter and artist. She is best known for her work with the synth-heavy Lost Sounds which she started with Jay Reatard. Her current band the River City Tanlines were named an essential Memphis band by Spin Magazine in December 2007.Trout also owns and operates Contaminated Records her own independent record label. In 2009 she was featured on the MTV show $5 Cover.
Richard Peter Davis.  Richard Peter Davis (born December 30 1957 in Chicago Illinois) is an American guitarist and bandleader who is Chicago-based. He is the son of the late Nathan Davis of feature film and television fame and a co-founder/current member of the rhythm and blues band known as the Chicago Catz.
Robert Ruark.  Robert Ruark (December 29 1915 in Wilmington North Carolina – July 1 1965 in London England) was an American author syndicated columnist and big game hunter.
Alberto Pisa.  Alberto Pisa (Ferrara March 19 1864 - 1936) was an Italian painter often painting ruins landscapes and garden views in bright watercolor.
Tony Brock.  Tony Brock (born in Poole Dorset England on 31 March 1954) is a British rock drummer who is perhaps best-known as the drummer and occasional vocalist for the English group The Babys.He was originally a drummer for Spontaneous Combustion. Through his tenure with The Babys he enjoyed the respect of his fellow musicians and has since accompanied Rod Stewart Roy Orbison Jimmy Barnes and Elton John.He now has his own studio and specialises in engineering and production.
Lorraine Bethel.  Lorraine Bethel is an African-American lesbian feminist poet and author. She is a graduate of Yale University.Bethel has taught and lectured on black women's literature and black female culture at various institutions. She currently works as a freelance journalist in New York City.
Hayashi Hōkō.  Hayashi Hōkō (林 鳳岡 January 11 1644 – July 22 1732) also known as Hayashi Nobutatsu was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period.
James D. Kirylo.  James David Kirylo (born 1958 in Italy) is a university professor who teaches courses that examine concepts associated with critical pedagogy teacher leadership diversity and literacy. He is the author and editor of numerous publications. His latest book Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife is one of the most comprehensive texts in English on the life and thought of Paulo Freire significantly contributing to Freirean scholarship.
Ercole Procaccini the Elder.  Ercole Procaccini the Elder (1520 – 1595) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period mainly active in Milan. He was born in Bologna. He painted an Annunciation for the church of San Benedetto a Conversion of St. Paul and a Christ in the Garden for San Giacomo Maggiore a St. Michael defeating the rebel Angels for San Bernardo and a Deposition from the Cross for the church of Santo Stefano.
J.Period.  J.Period (born 12 February 1975 in Los Angeles California) is a Brooklyn-based Mixtape DJ remixer and hip-hop producer. He is best known for producing Official Mixtape collaborations with Q-Tip John Legend Nas Big Daddy Kane Lauryn Hill The Roots The Isley Brothers and Mary J.
Marcos Martín.  Marcos Martín is a critically acclaimed Eisner Award-winning Spanish comic book artist who has worked in American comics. His notable works include Batgirl: Year One Doctor Strange: The Oath Breach The Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil. He has also produced numerous covers for Marvel Comics and DC Comics.In 2013 he founded Panel Syndicate an online publisher of DRM-Free pay what you want webcomics in multiple languages to publish his and Brian K.
Ernest Sefton.  Ernest Sefton was a British film actor. He was the brother of Violet Loraine.
Chowdhury Gulam Akbar.  Chowdhury Gulam Akbar (16 September 1921 – 29 December 1988) was a Bangladeshi writer. He served in the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh as the collector of Bengali folk literature.
Evan Cranley.  Evan Cranley is a Canadian musician based in Montreal Quebec. He records with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene although he considered joining the band Metric before finally joining Stars.
Sally Wentworth.  Sally Wentworth was the pseudonym used by Doreen Hornsblow (died 2001) a British romance writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon's from 1977 to 1999.
Francesco Coleman.  Francesco Coleman (1851–1918) was an Italian painter. He was the son of the English painter Charles Coleman and brother of the better-known Italian painter Enrico Coleman. He was known as a painter in oil and in water-colour of the people and landscapes of the Campagna Romana and Agro Pontino and of oriental subjects.
Clem Clempson.  Clem Clempson (born David Clempson 5 September 1949 Tamworth Staffordshire England) is an English rock guitarist who has played as a member in a number of bands including Colosseum and Humble Pie.
Kazuyo Aoki.  Kazuyo Aoki (青木 和代 Aoki Kazuyo born August 27 1947 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actress employed by the talent management firm Kiraboshi.
Phyllis Shalant.  Phyllis Shalant (born 1949) is an American author of both fiction and non-fiction children's scholastic books.
Mauli Dave.  Mauli Dave (Gujarati: મૌલી દવે born 3 June 1987) is an Indian American singer actor dancer and television host. She was a finalist on Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007. She was also a finalist in Sony Entertainment's Chalo America Boogie Woogie in 2003 and was crowned Miss Teen India Texas 2007. Mauli then decided to move to Mumbai at the age of 19 to pursue a career in music and acting.
Thomas Savage (novelist).  Thomas Savage (April 25 1915 – July 25 2003) was an American author of 13 novels published between 1944 and 1988. He is best known for his Western novels which drew on early experiences in the American West.
Andersen Gabrych.  Andersen Gabrych is an American comic book writer and actor. He was born on September 4 1973 in Tokyo Japan and raised in Chico California where he was known as Ande.
Ebiet G. Ade.  Ebiet G. Ade (born Abid Ghoffar Aboe Dja’far; 21 April 1954) is an Indonesian singer and songwriter. His musical styles are pop ballad and country. He has released 21 studio albums and 25 compilation albums.
Georgios Jakobides.  Georgios Jakobides (Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης Lesbos 11 January 1853 - Athens 13 December 1932) was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
Liam O'Flynn.  Liam O'Flynn (Irish: Liam Ó Floinn born 15 April 1945) is a uilleann piper and Irish traditional musician.
Brandon Saller.  Brandon Kyle Saller (born June 24 1983) is the drummer and vocalist of metalcore band Atreyu. He is responsible for the melodic singing found in the band's music. He is the band's primary songwriter along with guitarist Dan Jacobs. Following Atreyu's hiatus in 2011 Saller brought his side project the Black Cloud Collective into the media renaming it as Hell or Highwater who released a full length album entitled Begin Again in 2011.
Lionel Bender (linguist).  Marvin Lionel Bender (1934–2008) was an American author and linguist.
Susanna Moore.  Susanna Moore (born December 9 1945) in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania is an American writer.Susanna Moore grew up in Hawaii.
La Lupe.  La Lupe (born Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond) (Santiago de Cuba 23 December 1939 – Bronx New York City New York 29 February 1992) was a Cuban singer of several musical genres: boleros guarachas and Latin soul in particular. Known for her energetic sometimes controversial performances she is considered by many to be one of the leading singers in the salsa music genre.
Elliot Liebow.  Elliot Liebow (1925-1994) was an American urban anthropologist and ethnographer. His works include Tally's Corner and Tell Them Who I Am both being micro-sociological writings shaped as participant observer studies of people in poor areas.Tally's Corner was his PhD dissertation for Catholic University of America.New York Times obituary
Bhinda Jatt.  Bhinda Jatt is a Punjabi language bhangra singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in San Joaquin County California.
Harry James.  Harry Haag James (March 15 1916 – July 5 1983) was an actor and musician best known as a trumpeter who led a swing band during the Big Band Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.
Rick Wilber.  Rick Wilber is an American author poet and editor. He has published more than thirty-five short stories in magazines such as Aboriginal SF Analog Asimov's Science Fiction Fantasy & Science Fiction Pulphouse and SF Age; and in anthologies such as Alien Sex and Chrysalis.
Tae Jin-ah.  Tae Jin-ah (Hangul: 태진아; born on April 5 1953) is the stage name of South Korean veteran trot singer Jo Bang-hun (Cho Bang-hun).
Robert V.S. Redick.  Robert von Stein Redick is an American author. He was born on December 4 1967 in Charlottesville Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia where he studied English and Russian and went to graduate school at the University of Florida where he earned a Master’s in tropical conservation and development.
Rozalind MacPhail.  Rozalind MacPhail is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Johnny Mann.  Johnny Mann (born August 30 1928 Baltimore Maryland) is an American arranger composer conductor entertainer and recording artist.
Fabrice de Nola.  Fabrice de Nola is an Italian-Belgian artist born in Messina (Sicily) in 1964. He introduced the use of QR codes in oil paintings. In 2006 he created the first oil paintings containing texts and web connections to be used on mobile phones.
John Tartaglione.  John Tartaglione (January 14 1921 – November 12 2003) a.k.a. 'John Tartag. and other pseudonyms was an American comic book artist best known as a 1950s romance-comics artist; a Marvel Comics inker during the Silver Age of comic books; and the illustrator of the Marvel biographies The Life of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta the first of which at least sold millions of copies worldwide in several languages.
Jo Budd.  Jo Budd (fl. 1980 -) is an English artist specialising in creating art from textiles. Trained as a Fine Artist her work could be described as Quilt Art but frequently contains both collage and/or printing.
Tom Cullberg.  Tom Cullberg is an artist born in Stockholm Sweden in 1972. He currently lives and works in Cape Town South Africa and is represented by BRUNDYN + GONSALVES.
Henry Villierme.  Henry Pierre Villierme (born August 21 1928) is an American painter associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme is considered one of the Second Generation members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme first rose to prominence with a series of successful exhibitions in the late 1950s. From the 1960s – 1980s Villierme continued to paint and sculpt in his studio and in the late 1980s returned to public exhibitions.
Louis-René des Forêts.  Louis-René des Forêts (January 28 1918–December 31 2001) was a French writer.
Kyōko Kagawa.  Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子 Kagawa Kyōko born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress famous for her roles in films such as Tokyo Story and High and Low. She has appeared in 118 films. Her most recent film was Ballad in 2009.
José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios.  José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios (1679–1756) was an intendant or intendente (a type of viceroyal governor) in Central America during the Spanish colonial period. He was Governor of Costa Rica from 1713 to 1717 and Governor of Nicaragua from 1740 to 1745.
Alexandre Pires.  Alexandre Pires do Nascimento (born January 8 1976 in Uberlândia Minas Gerais Brazil) is a Brazilian singer. Pires was previously the singer of group Só Pra Contrariar which he joined in the late 80s.Pires began his career playing a new and more apelative style of samba that is known as Pagode and more romantic too that used to be known as Samba-canção and now is known as Samba Romântico. After his rhythm and melody started to become a little more romantic.
Cao Ying (translator).  Sheng Junfeng (Chinese: 盛峻峰; pinyin: Shèng Jùnfēng; born 1923) better known by his pen name Cao Ying (simplified Chinese: 草婴; traditional Chinese: 草嬰; pinyin: Cǎo Yīng) he is a Chinese translator who had been honored by the Government of the Russian Federation.He is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Sholokhov.
David Mann (artist).  David Dave Mann ((1940-09-10)September 10 1940 – September 11 2004(2004-09-11)) was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture and choppers. Called the biker world's artist-in-residence his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages on motorcycle gas tanks tattoos and on t-shirts and other memorabilia associated with biker culture.
Mario Barravecchia.  Mario Barravecchia (born 16 November 1976) or simply Mario is an Italo-Belgian who was the finalist of the first edition of French TV reality show Star Academy. His first single On se ressemble was a hit in France and Belgium.
Lions of Medina.  Lions of Medina is a book written by historian Doyle Glass first published by Coleche Press on May 1 2007 and subsequently by NAL Caliber (Penguin) on July 1 2008.
Mark Arm.  Mark Arm (born Mark McLaughlin on February 21 1962) is the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. His former group Green River is one of the first grunge bands along with Malfunkshun Soundgarden Skin Yard the U-Men and others. He is also the manager of the Sub Pop warehouse and previously worked at Fantagraphics Books.
Majeed Amjad.  Majeed Amjad (Urdu: مجید امجد‎) (June 29 1914 – May 11 1974) was an acclaimed Urdu poet from Pakistan. In popular culture Amjad's poetry readers are less than Faiz Ahmed Faiz Noon Meem Rashid Nasir Kazmi or Meeraji but amongst many critics he is regarded as a philosophical poet of depth and sensitivity. His ghazals have also been sung by various Pakistani singers.
Roddy Maude-Roxby.  Roderick A. Roddy Maude-Roxby (born 2 April 1930) is an English actor.London-born Maude-Roxby has appeared in numerous films such as The Aristocats Unconditional Love and Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart playing Thompson. He has also made theatrical and television appearances (i.e.The Goodies Rowan and Martin's Laugh In Not Only But Also and The Establishment). He won the Theatre of the Year Award for Best Comic New York in 1968 for his stand-up work.
Melissa Lawson.  Melissa Ann Lawson (born April 10 1976) is an American country music singer. On August 4 2008 she was declared the winner of the television program Nashville Star a country music singing competition which aired on NBC. Signed to Warner Bros. Records Nashville she released her debut single What If It All Goes Right that year and charted on Hot Country Songs with it.
Ken MacLeod.  Ken MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer.
Bert Tracy.  Bert Tracy was a British actor. He also directed one film Boots! Boots! in 1934 which marked the film debut of George Formby as an adult.
Francesco Zuccarelli.  Francesco Zuccarelli RA (15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.
Natasja Saad.  Natasja Saad (October 31 1974 - June 24 2007) also known as Dou T' Little T and Natasja was a Danish rapper and reggae singer. While already relatively successful in her native Denmark her vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of Calabria gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.
Nanase Ohkawa.  Nanase Ohkawa (大川七瀬 Ōkawa Nanase born May 2 1967) is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She is the director of the team and is primarily responsible for writing the stories and scripts for Clamp's various works.As part of Clamp's 15th Anniversary each of the four members changed their names reportedly because they wanted to try out the new monikers. Ohkawa changed her name to Ageha Ohkawa (大川 緋芭 Ōkawa Ageha) in 2004.
Kanika Kapoor.  Kanika Kapoor is an Indian Punjabi Sufi folk singer from the United Kingdom.
Louise Fribo.  Louise Fribo (born July 3 1970) is a Danish singer actress and dancer.Fribo who studied the violin from age 4 and was trained as a classical dancer from age 7 made her motion picture debut as Lisa in the 1986 Danish feature film Barndommens gade (Childhood's Street) based on a novel by Tove Ditlevsen and directed by Palme d'Or winning director Astrid Henning-Jensen.Fribo attended from 1986 to 1989 the Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts in East Grinstead and made her stage debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats at Operettenhaus Hamburg where she sang the part of Cinderella in Stephen SOndheim's Into the Woods in the 1990-91 season. 
Finn Carling.  Finn Carling (1 October 1925 – 12 March 2004) was a Norwegian novelist playwright poet and essayist. He was born in Oslo. He made his literary debut in 1949 with Broen (two short stories and a one-act play).Finn Carling suffered from innate cerebral palsy and described his childhood and adolescence with this handicap in the autobiographical novel Kilden og muren (1958).He received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 1999.
Jorge Cafrune.  Jorge Antonio Cafrune (Jujuy August 8 1937 - Buenos Aires February 1 1978 ) was one of the most popular Argentinian folklorist singers of his time as well as an unflagging investigator compilator and diffuser of the native culture.
Ghantasala (singer).  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (1922–1974) was a Legendary & Distinguished Indian playback singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil Kannada Malayalam Tulu and Hindi.He was the recipient of the Padmashree award India's fourth highest civilian award.For nearly more than a quarter of a century he was the distinguished voice of Telugu films. He composed music for more than 100 movies in Telugu Tamil and Kannada films.
Mikhail Bernshtein.  Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein (Russian: Михаил Давидович Бернштейн) (January 28 1875 Rostov-on-Don – May 9 1960 Leningrad) was a Jewish Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists professor of the Repin Institute of Arts who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad School of Painting.
Dave Dudley.  Dave Dudley (May 3 1928 – December 22 2003) born David Darwin Pedruska was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred baritone. His signature song was Six Days on the Road and he is also remembered for Vietnam Blues Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun and Me and ol' C.B.. Other recordings included Dudley's duet with Tom T.
Gilberto Aceves Navarro.  Gilberto Aceves Navarro full name Gilberto Horacio Pafnuncio Aceves Navarro (born September 24 1931 in Mexico City) is a Mexican painter and sculptor and a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and Academy of San Carlos. He has had over 200 individual exhibits of his work with his murals found in Mexico Japan and the United States.
Lamed Shapiro.  Levi Yehoshua Shapiro (Yiddish: ל. שאַפּיראָ born 1878 died 1948) better known as Lamed Shapiro (that is the initial for the Hebrew letter lamed) was an American Yiddish-language writer. His stories are best known for such themes as murder rape and cannibalism.
Jack Pender.  Jack Pender (1918–1998) was an English artist.Pender was born in Mousehole Cornwall. He started to paint in 1936 and went to the Penzance School of Art in 1938. At the end of the war he spent a short time in Greece at the Athens School of Art and then the Exeter College of Art. He was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and the Penwith Society of Arts and exhibited regularly in St.
Ellona Santiago.  Ellona Rano Santiago (born August 1 1996) is a Filipino-born American singer from San Lorenzo California. She was a contestant on American television show The X Factor. In season 1 she was a part of the ten-member group InTENsity mentored by Paula Abdul which came in 12th place. Santiago returned in season 3 where she was mentored by Demi Lovato and placed 6th overall out of 16 finalists.
Vibha Sharma.  Alyssia Vibha Sharma is an Indian popstar who released her first album in the 1990s. She made her foray into Indian pop domain with her debut album Mehandi (2000) HMV SaReGaMa Records which was extremely well received by the music lovers and was one of the top 3 best selling private albums of that year. The title song Mehandi Lagaoongi Main became a superhit.
Pietro Saja.  Pietro Saja (Sessano del Molise 1779 - Naples 1833) was an Italian painter active in Naples and Caserta in a Neoclassical style.
Elizabeth Catlett.  Elizabeth Catlett Mora (April 15 1915 – April 2 2012) was an American-born (African-American) sculptor and printmaker. Catlett is best known for the black expressionistic sculptures and prints she produced during the 1960s and 1970s which are seen as politically charged.
Kong Som Eun.  Kong Som Eun (born 1947?) was a famous Cambodian actor and film director who ruled the Cambodian film industry from the mid-1960s through the early 70s.
G. F. Maine.  George Frederick Maine is a Scottish author and editor.Most of his work was leather-bound and published by Collins.
Billy Tan.  Billy Tan Mung Khoy commonly known as Billy Tan is a Malaysian comic book artist.
Masami Tsuda.  Masami Tsuda (津田 雅美 Tsuda Masami born in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan on 9 July 1970) is a Japanese manga artist. She specialises in shōjo manga the most famous being Kare Kano: His and Hers Circumstances which is set in Kanagawa.Since finishing Kare Kano: His and Hers Circumstances she wrote the series Chotto Edo Made which appeared in LaLa from May 2008 through August 2011 and has started work on Hinoko premiering in LaLa in March 2012.
Ken Currie.  Ken Currie (born 1960 North Shields England) is a Scottish artist.
Allison Davis.  William Boyd Allison Davis (October 14 1902 – November 21 1983) was an educator anthropologist writer researcher and scholar. He was considered one of the most promising black scholars of his generation and became the first African-American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942 where he would spend the balance of his academic life.
Frederick Lowenheim.  Frederick Lowenheim (1870 - November 14 1929) was widely known for his front page magazine illustrations of the Country Gentleman and Woman's Home Companion.
Eugène de Kermadec.  Eugène de Kermadec (1899 Paris – 1976) was a French painter.
Big Noyd.  TaJuan Perry better known as Big Noyd is an American emcee from the Queensbridge projects in the New York City borough of Queens. He is closely affiliated with Mobb Deep and he is featured on all of their albums except Blood Money. He is of Puerto Rican and African American descent. He also has one daughter born Tiara Perry who still lives in the Queens area.
Luís Fernando Veríssimo.  Luís Fernando Veríssimo (born September 26 1936 in Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul Brazil) is a Brazilian writer. Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood.Best known for his chronicles and texts of humor more precisely satire of manners published daily in several Brazilian newspapers Verissimo is also a cartoonist translator and television writer playwright and novelist.
Robin Harris.  Robin Hughes Harris (August 30 1953 – March 18 1990) was an American comedian and actor known for his recurring comic sketch about Bébé's Kids.
George Davis (editor).  George Davis (February 4 1906 – 25 November 1957) was an influential American fiction editor and novelist.
Rittz.  Jonathan McCollum (born August 16 1980) better known by his stage name Rittz is an American rapper from Gwinnett County Georgia. He is currently signed to Tech N9ne's Strange Music label. His debut album The Life and Times of Jonny Valiant was released on April 30 2013.
Matthew Pearl.  Matthew Pearl is an American novelist and educator. His novels include The Dante Club The Poe Shadow The Last Dickens and The Technologists. Editions have been published in more than 40 countries.
A Guy Called Gerald.  Gerald Rydel Simpson (born 16 February 1967 Moss Side Manchester England) better known as A Guy Called Gerald is a British musician record producer and DJ.He is best known for his early work in the Manchester acid house scene in the late 1980s and the track Voodoo Ray. At that time he specialised in techno music produced using equipment such as the Roland TB-303 bass synthesiser and the TR-808 drum machine.
Kevin Devine.  Kevin Devine is an American songwriter and musician from Brooklyn New York who is known for melodic acoustic songs with alternately introspective political lyrics. He is a contemporary member of the underground indie rock and indie folk musical scenes and his influences range from older indie artists such as Neutral Milk Hotel Elliott Smith and Pavement to more mainstream and well known acts such as Nirvana and Bob Dylan.
Danny Gans.  Daniel Davies Gans (October 25 1956 – May 1 2009) was an American singer comedian and vocal impressionist.
Lorenzo Garbieri.  Lorenzo Garbieri (1580 – 5 April 1654) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period active mainly in Bologna. He was one of the painters in the studio of Ludovico Carracci and is sometimes called il nipote dei Carracci. He painted the Plague of Milan in the chapel of San Carlo at the church of the Barnabites. He painted St. Paul resuscitating a youth for the church of the Philippines in Fano. he painted the Martyrdom of St. Felicita and her seven sons for San Maurizio in Mantua.
Megan Ganz.  Megan Ann Ganz is an American comedy writer and former associate editor of The Onion. She was a writer on the NBC series Community for three years but in 2013 she left to write for Modern Family. She is also the sister-in-law of Dropkick Murphys guitarist Tim Brennan.
Kenny Clarke.  Kenny Clarke (January 9 1914 – January 26 1985) born Kenneth Spearman Clarke nicknamed Klook and later known as Liaqat Ali Salaam was a jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a major innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop which in turn led to modern jazz.
Basil Bunting.  Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. He was an accomplished reader of his own work and a born modernist.
John Michael McDonagh.  John Michael McDonagh is an English-born film director and screenwriter of Irish descent. He wrote and directed The Guard and Calvary. His brother is the playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
Anders Abraham Grafström.  Anders Abraham Grafström (10 January 1790 – 24 July 1870) was a Swedish historian priest and poet.
Hagar Wilde.  Hagar Wilde (July 7 1905 – September 25 1971) was a writer for Hollywood films and television shows in the late thirties till the late fifties.
Gavin Bradley.  Gavin Bradley is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and producer based in Toronto who has worked with artists like Nelly Furtado Tori Amos and Jane Siberry. Fusing acoustic and electronic elements his work is identifiable for its signature warm piano sound and live strings mixed with filtered synthesizers and other electronic manipulations 1. Besides production Bradley is a solo recording artist. His debut album 'Deep Freeze' was released on UMI Records in 2006.
Matthias Reim.  Matthias Reim (born 26 November 1957 in Korbach Hesse) is a German singer-songwriter. His 1990 single Verdammt ich lieb' dich (Damn I love you) was a hit in several European countries and spent sixteen consecutive weeks at the No.1 spot in the German charts. He unexpectedly returned 23 years later to No.1 on the charts with Unendlich in February 2013.
Eddie Lang (singer).  Eddie Langlois (Crescent City January 15 1936 - Slidell Louisiana 1985) was an American singer and guitarist. He recorded first for Ric Ron under the stage name Eddie Lang (causing confusion with the jazz guitarist Eddie Lang who had died in 1933) but wrote songs under his own name Langlois. He later recorded as Sly Dell.
Ken Albers.  John Kenneth Albers (December 10 1924 – April 19 2007) was an American singer who performed with The Four Freshmen from 1956 to 1982.Albers was born in Woodbury New Jersey. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and attended the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.Albers sang with The Stuarts Quartet prior to joining The Four Freshmen in 1956.
Seyyid Kasim Gubari.  Seyyid Kasim Gubari of Diyarbakır is recorded as being responsible for much of the calligraphy of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (the Blue Mosque) in Istanbul he was commissioned to write verses from the Quran throughout the mosque. He was also said to be one of the greatest calligraphers of his day.
Michael Hardcastle.  Michael Hardcastle (born 1933) is a British author of sports fiction for children. He has written more than one hundred and forty books on a range of sporting subjects but is probably best known for his books about Association Football. In 1988 he was awarded an MBE in recognition of his services to children's literature.
Madeleine Thien.  Madeleine Thien (born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Vancouver British Columbia she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. Thien was a finalist for Writers' Trust of Canada's RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 1999 and in 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under age 30.
Keren Woodward.  Keren Jane Woodward (born 2 April 1961 Bristol England) is an English pop singer and songwriter of British girl group Bananarama co-founded by her school friend Sara Dallin and Irish musician Siobhan Fahey.She has known her bandmate Dallin since she was four when they met at Bromley Heath primary school. She studied at Rodway Secondary Modern School.
Neha Verma.  Neha Verma (Devanāgarī: नेहा वेर्मा) is an Indian singer and a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs who advanced to fifth place with public votes.
Ângelo de Sousa.  Ângelo César Cardoso de Sousa (February 2 1938 – March 29 2011) was a Portuguese painter sculptor draftsman and professor better known for continuously experimenting new techniques in his works. He was seen as a scholar of light and colour who explored minimalism in new radical ways.[citation needed]He was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) in 1938 and in 1955 he moved to Porto where he enrolled in the School of Fine Artes.
Madhu Mangesh Karnik.  Madhu Mangesh Karnik (Devanagari: मधु मंगेश कर्णिक) (b.
Winifred Hamrick Farrar.  Winifred Hamrick Farrar (5 March 1923 – 6 November 2010) was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 1978 to 2010.She was born on a family farm near Collinsville. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1945 married Robert H. Farrar and taught English for thirty years in public schools in Meridian. She earned a Master's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1962.She was appointed Poet Laureate on 31 July 1978 by Governor Cliff Finch.
Eric Appapoulay.  Eric Appapoulay (born 21 December 1971) is a British singer songwriter composer arranger programmer multi-instrumentalist and guitarist. Appapoulay has been the guitar player for Neneh Cherry the musical director for Daniel Bedingfield the bassist for both Plan B and Nitin Sawhney and the performing artist on the debut album Faith is Trust. Appapoulay is also currently the guitarist with Yusuf Islam.
Henry Drisler.  Henry Drisler (27 December 1818 – 30 November 1897) was an American classical scholar.
Christopher Franke.  Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953 Berlin) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987 he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins.
Tania Russof.  Tania Russof (Russian: Таня Русова Latvian: Taņa Rusova; born 7 June 1974 in Riga Latvia) is a pornographic film actress.In 1998 she won the Best Actress Award in the Berlin Venus Festival and was Penthouse Pet of the Month in September 1996 and Pet of the Year runner-up in 1999.
Margrethe Mather.  Margrethe Mather (4 March 1886 – 25 December 1952) was a photographer who through her exploration of light and form helped to transform photography into a modern art.
Chui Tien-you.  Chui Man-kin (born May 16 1983) better known as Chui Tien-you or Tien You or TY is an Hong Kong actor singer writer and director.
Kiki Smith.  Kiki Smith (born January 18 1954 in Nuremberg Germany) is an American artist classified as a feminist artist a movement with beginnings in the 20th century. Her Body Art is imbued with political significance undermining the traditional erotic representations of women by male artists and often exposes the inner biological systems of females as a metaphor for hidden social issues.
Louis-François Ribié.  Louis-François Ribié (1758–1830) was a French actor.
Mo Willems.  Mo Willems (born February 11 1968) is an American writer animator and creator of children's books.
Neil Tennant.  Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English musician singer and songwriter who with band mate Chris Lowe makes up the electronic pop duo Pet Shop Boys and worked for the magazine Smash Hits before joining Pet Shop Boys.
Taylor Antrim.  Taylor Antrim (born 1974) is a writer and editor best known for his debut novel The Headmaster Ritual. Antrim is a graduate of Stanford University and received his MFA from the University of Virginia. His journalism and reviews have appeared in Esquire The Village Voice and The New York Times. He is currently fiction critic at The Daily Beast Senior Editor at Vogue and a part-time faculty member with the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
Chris Womersley.  Chris Womersley (born 1968 in Melbourne Victoria) is an Australian author of crime fiction short stories and poetry. He trained as a radio journalist and has travelled extensively to such places as India South-East Asia South America North America and West Africa. He currently lives in Melbourne Victoria.
Warren Cariou.  Warren Cariou is a writer and Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba.
Alec Rowley.  Alec Rowley (13 March 1892 – 11 January 1958) was an English composer and writer on music.He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Corder and later taught at Trinity College in the same city. He frequently performed and broadcast piano duets with Edgar Moy and was widely known for his compositions for amateur forces.His seven choral songs A Sailors Garland are full of good music challenging enough to make rehearsals interesting.
Gustavo Dourado.  Gustavo Dourado (born 1960 Ibititá Bahia) is a Brazilian teacher writer and poet. Counselor of the Writers' Union of PD and author of 13 books.He participated and coordinated the Book Fair and the Brasília Film Festival of Brasília. He was invited by the president of Brazil to write a string in honor of Ariano Suassuna. He is also director of the Academy of Arts of Taguatinga.
Fiona Hendley.  Fiona Hendley is a British actress and latterly Christian speaker married to the former Manfred Mann singer and actor Paul Jones.
Wes Benscoter.  Wes Benscoter is an American artist who is best known for his work album covers especially heavy metal albums. He also has made covers for magazines and books and shirt designs and his art is featured in many galleries around the world. Most of his work is done using airbrush.[citation needed] Benscoter lives in Harrisburg Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
Robert Venable.  Robert Venable is a GRAMMY Award-nominated GMA Dove Award-winning producer mixer and engineer currently based in Nashville TN.
Lakshmi Holmström.  Lakshmi Holmström MBE (Tamil: லக்ஷ்மி ஹோல்ம்ஸ்ட்ரோம்) is an Indian-born British writer literary critic and translator of Tamil fiction into English. Her most prominent works have been her translations of short stories and novels of the contemporary writers in Tamil like Mauni Pudhumaipithan Ashoka Mitran Sundara Ramasami C. S. Lakshmi Bama and Imayam.
Martin Luther McCoy.  Martin Luther McCoy is an American musician and actor. The San Francisco native collaborated extensively with musicians like The Roots and Cody ChesnuTT and appears as one of the six lead characters in the 2007 Beatles musical Across the Universe in the role of Jo-Jo who reflects Jimi Hendrix.[citation needed] In the film McCoy performs the song While My Guitar Gently Weeps and provides guitar and vocals on others.McCoy goes by the stage name of Martin Luther in his music career.
Karl Julius Weber.  Karl Julius Weber (16 or 20 April 1767 Langenburg – 19 July 1832 Kupferzell; also written Carl Julius Weber) was a German writer.
Eiji Miyashita.  Eiji Miyashita (宮下 栄治 Miyashita Eiji born September 26 1978) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aptepro.
Wendy Morgan (actress).  Wendy Morgan (born January 1958 Radlett Hertfordshire) is an English actress. She won the award of Best Newcomer — Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards in 1980.
Tyler James (English musician).  Kenneth Gordon (born 5 January 1982) better known by his stage name Tyler James is an English singer-songwriter signed to Island Records.James's debut single Why Do I Do? made an appearance on the UK Singles Chart in 2004 peaking at number twenty-five.
Šaban Šaulić.  Šaban Šaulić (born 6 September 1951) is a folk singer from Šabac Serbia who is successful throughout the whole of the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. He released his debut EP Dajte mi utjehu in 1969 when he was eighteen years old. In 1970 he served the mandatory Yugoslav army service in Bitola now in the Republic of Macedonia. His wife Gordana for whom he wrote and released a hit song for his 1985 album Kafanska noć titled Gordana.
Roger Jensen.  Roger Jensen (September 5 1933 - April 26 2001) was an American photographer and the first known person to actively photograph storms beginning in 1953.
Henry Leck.  Henry Leck (born) is the founder and artistic director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Indianapolis Youth Chorale and a choral clinician and specialist in voice change in boys.Leck has led local and international children's chorus festivals in Beijing Rome Hawaii and London. In 1986 he formed the Indianapolis Children's Choir which has toured the USA Russia Mexico South Africa France and Greece.
Ximénès Doudan.  Ximénès Doudan (1800–1872) was a French journalist.
Cathy Sisler.  Cathy Sisler is an American artist born in Wisconsin.Since 1965 she has been living in Newfoundland. She is a musician writer and a touring performance artist.In 1997 her piece Lullaby for the Almost Falling Woman concerning a woman seeking employment and experiencing a series of falls won Prix de jury at the festival du Cinéma et des Nouveaux Médias. Her 1994 film Mr B.
Dale Oehler.  Dale Dixon Oehler (born 1 October 1941) is primarily known as an arranger. His style contributed to the success of much of the music he was involved with over his career. Leonard Feather once described Oehler in his Los Angeles Times Jazz column as an adaptable writer.Oehler was able to fuse various elements to enhance several genre of music he worked on including jazz pop country R&B or easy listening.
Florence Marie Harsant.  Florence Marie Harsant (19 September 1891–19 June 1994) was a New Zealand temperance worker nurse community leader and writer. She was born in New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand on 19 September 1891.
Mark Jackson (Canadian musician).  Mark Jackson (born 4 September 1976 Scarborough Ontario) is a Canadian musician and songwriter.Albums:FearlessEarly MorningSingles:Rebel YellPrecious ThingsMisery Loves Company Chasing Chaos
Brendan Bayliss.  Brendan Bayliss (born August 11 1976 in Annapolis MD) is an American musician the founder a lead guitarist alongside fellow guitarist and band member Jake Cinninger and primary vocalist for progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee. He formed the band in 1997 and took its moniker from the name of a distant relative he met at a wedding named Humphries McGee. My father’s aunt’s sister’s son’s kid says Bayliss. He’s just a nice guy.
Karen Marie Moning.  Karen Marie Moning is an American author. Many of her novels have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List with Shadowfever reaching the number one position on multiple national best sellers lists. She is a winner of the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance and is a multiple RITA nominee.
Prescott Niles.  Prescott Niles (born Prescott Fine May 2 1954) is an American rock bassist. He is best known as bassist with The Knack who had a No. 1 US/#6 UK hit with My Sharona.As of 2013 he now plays bass with Mike Pinera's Classic Rock All-Stars.
Cristina Pato.  Cristina Pato (born August 17 1980) is a bagpiper pianist and composer.The first female Galician bagpiper to record a solo album in Spain she has released four albums as a solo bagpiper and two as a pianist.
Lorenzo Filiasi.  Lorenzo Filiasi (25 March 1878 Naples - 30 July 1963 Rome) was an Italian composer. His opera Manuel Menendez won the Sonzongo publisher's composition competition in 1904. This led to the work's premiere at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 15 May 1904. Popularly received the opera was mounted by opera houses throughout Italy including the Teatro Costanzi in Rome and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1905.
José Antonio Ramos Sucre.  José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Cumaná 9 June 1890 - Geneva 13 June 1930) was a Venezuelan poet professor consul and erudite. He was a member of the Sucre family of Venezuela and the great-great-nephew of Antonio José de Sucre. He was educated at the Colegio Nacional and then at the Universidad Central de Venezuela where he studied Law Letters and Languages (ancient and modern Greek and Sanskrit).
Torkel S. Wächter.  Torkel S Wächter a.k.a. Tamara T is a Swedish novelist and airline captain. He is praised for the depth and complexity of his works artistic integrity and command of Swedish literary language.
Natsuna Watanabe.  Natsuna Watanabe (渡辺 夏菜 Watanabe Natsuna born May 23 1989 in Saitama Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese actress and former model. When she graduated from high-school she decided to focus her career entirely on acting.As of November 1 2009 she shortened her stage name and is now simply going by Natsuna (夏菜). In 2012 she landed the coveted lead role in the NHK Asadora Jun to Ai after an audition of over 2250 actors.
Axel Sømme.  Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme (1899 – 1991) was a Norwegian geographer political activist magazine editor and newspaper editor.He was born in Stavanger. As a student he was politically active in the Mot Dag movement and edited the magazine Mot Dag in 1921. He was the first editor of the newspaper Rjukan Arbeiderblad.
Manuel Sáez.  Manuel Sáez (born 6 March 1961) is a Spanish self-taught artist. Since 1984 he has been living and working in Valencia.
Karen DeYoung.  Karen DeYoung is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and is the associate editor for The Washington Post. DeYoung was born in Florida and she grew up in St. Petersburg Florida. She received Bachelor degrees in journalism and communications from the University of Florida. After graduation DeYoung worked as a non-staff stringer in West Africa. In 1975 she joined the Post.
Philipp Schöndorff.  Philipp Schöndorff or Philippus Schoendorff (1558 – after 1617) was a Flemish singer trumpeter and composer at the court of Rudolf II under kapellmeister Philippe de Monte as a contemporary of Carl Luython Giorgi Flori and Jacob Regnart. He was born Liége and died in Prague.
Francesco Maria Schiaffino.  Francesco Maria Schiaffino (1688 – January 3 1763) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque mainly active in his native city of Genoa.Born into a family of sculptors including his older brother Bernardo Schiaffino. In 1721–24 he apprenticed in the Roman studio of Camillo Rusconi. Returning to Genoa he executed such works as St Dominic for the Teatro Carlo Felice and Pluto and Proserpine sculpted for the Palazzo Reale.
Papa Wemba.  Papa Wemba was born Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in 1949 in Lubefu (Sankuru District Belgian Congo). He is a Congolese rumba (later known as soukous) musician one of Africa's most popular musicians and prominent in world music.
Danny Wylde.  Danny Wylde stage name of Christopher Daniel Zeischegg (born October 21 1985) is a pornographic actor writer musician and filmmaker.
Kuba Shaaban.  Kuba Shaaban : ((Adyghe: Кубэ Шабан ); (Arabic: كوبا شعبان‎); (Russian: Кубов Шабан)) (15 January 1890 – 20 January 1974) was a Russian;(Circassian ethnic) Writer historian and playwright.
Jerry Best (bassist).  Jerry Best (born as Gerard John Best on May 8 1963 in Queens New York) is a Los Angeles-based hard rock bassist songwriter and composer active since 1984. He has played with bands such as Lion Dio Freak Of Nature and Heavy Bones. Jerry was first introduced to his instrument by his older brother Tom who showed him how to play the basic chords.The most well-known works Best has played in include the theme song for the Transformers movie and the album Power Love with the band Lion.
Josh Joplin.  Josh Joplin is an American singer-songwriter.
Kayna Samet.  Kayna Samet is a French singer of soul hip-hop and R&B born in 1980 in Nice.
Juan Ramón Jiménez.  Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of pure poetry.
Kid Vinil.  Kid Vinil is the stage name of Antônio Carlos Senefonte (Cedral 10 March 1955) who has become famous in the world of the Brazilian rock of the 80s. He is singer radio broadcaster composer and journalist.
Charles Kickham.  Charles Joseph Kickham (9 May 1828 – 22 August 1882) was an Irish revolutionary novelist poet journalist and one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Carlos Vaz Ferreira.  Carlos Vaz Ferreira (October 15 1872 – January 3 1958) was an Uruguayan philosopher writer and academic. Influenced by John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer he is notable for introducing liberal pluralistic political values and pragmatic philosophical concepts to South American society.
Kanze Nobumitsu.  Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (観世 小次郎 信光 ?1435 or 1450 - July 7 1516) was a Japanese noh playwright and secondary actor during the Muromachi Era from the house of Kanze. He was the grandson of Noh playwright Zeami Motokiyo and is considered one of the last important playwrights of the golden age of Noh.
Karleen Bradford.  Karleen Bradford (born December 16 1936) is a Canadian children's author.Born in Toronto Ontario Bradford moved to Argentina as a child.
Vittorio Feltri.  Vittorio Feltri (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian journalist and editor in chief.
Janez Matičič.  Janez Matičič (born 3 June 1926) is a Slovenian composer and pianist. He also taught music for a number of years. Since 2007 he is a regular member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.Matičič was born in Ljubljana. He graduated in composition from the Ljubljana Academy of Music in 1950 and conducting in 1951. From 1959 to 1961 he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.
Phil Campbell (writer).  Phil Campbell (born 1972) is an American author and documentary producer. He is the author of the book Zioncheck for President upon which the film Grassroots is based. The book a mix of memoir and gonzo reporting is set around Campbell's time as campaign manager for a Seattle city council candidate.
Kevin Ash.  Kevin Ash (1959–2013) was a British motorcycle journalist and author described as one of the key figures of the British motorcycle sceneone of the world's leading motorcycle journalists and the doyen of motorcycle correspondents.
Russ Barenberg.  Russ Barenberg (born October 8 1950) is a Grammy-nominated American bluegrass musician.
J. D. Salinger.  Jerome David Salinger (/ˈsælɪndʒər/; January 1 1919 – January 27 2010) was an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several were published in Story magazine in the early 1940s before he began serving in World War II.
Chris Kachulis.  Chris Kachulis born in 1937 in Brooklyn New York is a chanteur known for his participation in the early days of New York's Electronic music scene. He collaborated on Bruce Haack's 1968 album Electric Lucifer. Currently he performs alongside Frank Haines and Reuben Lorch-Miller in the cross-generational performance art trio Blanko & Noiry.
Rick Huxley.  Rick Huxley (5 August 1940 – 11 February 2013) was an English musician who was the bassist for the Dave Clark Five a group that was part of the British Invasion.Born Richard Huxley in Dartford Kent he joined the group in 1958 and played on all of the band's hits including Glad All Over and Bits and Pieces. After the group disbanded in 1970 Huxley pursued a career in property as well as continuing to be involved in the music business.
Platon (photographer).  Platon (born Platon Antoniou; Greek: Πλάτων Αντωνίου; born 1968 London) is a 21st-century photographer who has taken portraits of many presidents and well known world figures. His photo of Vladimir Putin was on the cover of Time Magazine in 2007.Born in London in 1968 he was raised in Greece by his English mother and Greek father.
Moisés Kaufman.  Moisés Kaufman (born November 21 1963) is a playwright director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He is also the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations. He was born and raised in Caracas Venezuela and moved to New York City in 1987.Kaufman is of Romanian and Ukrainian Jewish descent.
Ray Griggs (director).  Ray Griggs is a director writer and producer in Hollywood California and owner of RG Entertainment Ltd. His 2009 project Super Capers a family comedy about an ordinary person joining a host of low-key superheroes stars Tom Sizemore Doug Jones and Christine Lakin.Griggs is also known for creating an 8-minute film short Lucifer about the Biblical account of the fallen angel and subsequent war in heaven.
Willy Eisenhart.  William S. Willy Eisenhart III (August 24 1946 – June 25 1995) was an American writer on art.
Nicholas Evans.  Nicholas Evans (born 26 July 1950) is an English journalist screenwriter television and film producer and novelist. Evans was born at in Bromsgrove Worcestershire and educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas. He then studied journalism and worked as a newspaper reporter and television screenwriter. He lives in Devon.
Filip Kovacevic.  Filip Kovacevic is a Montenegrin author human rights activist and university professor.
Corey Glover.  Corey Glover (born November 6 1964 Brooklyn New York) is an American singer guitarist and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Living Colour and currently tours as the vocalist for the funk band Galactic.
Raja Rao.  Raja Rao (Kannada: ರಾಜ ರಾವ್) (November 8 1908 – July 8 2006) was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. The Serpent and the Rope (1960) a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India established him as one of the finest Indian stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964.
Michael Gaydos.  Michael Gaydos is an American comics artist.
Jill Birt.  Jillian Margaret Birt (born in Tambellup) is an Australian rock musician and architect. Birt was the keyboardist and vocalist of the alternative rock and pop band The Triffids from 1983 to 1989. In 2008 The Triffids were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame. Birt is married to The Triffids band mate Alan 'Alsy' MacDonald and the couple have three children Connor Oscar and Ebony. Both Birt and MacDonald have participated in reunions of The Triffids.
Paul Abbott.  Paul Abbott (born 22 February 1960) is a BAFTA award-winning English television screenwriter and producer. Abbott has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today following his work on many popular series including Coronation Street Cracker and Shameless the latter of which he created.
Vicki Richter.  Vicki Richter is a trans woman and pornographic actress. She began producing and directing her own movies in 2006 for Robert Hill Releasing.
Revilo P. Oliver.  Revilo Pendleton Oliver (July 7 1908 – August 20 1994) was an American professor of Classical philology Spanish and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who wrote and polemicized extensively for white nationalist causes.Oliver also briefly received national notoriety in the 1960s when he published an article following the John F.
Lee Kit.  Lee Kit (born 1978) is a contemporary artist who currently lives and works in Hong Kong and Taipei. Lee's practice spans a broad range of media including painting drawing video and installation. Best known for his works with hand-painted cloth Lee’s works often focus on quotidian and ready-made objects that address ordinary daily rituals.
Mariada Pieridi.  Mariada Pieridi (Greek: Μαριάντα Πιερίδη Marianta as directly transcribed from Greek) (born 13 July 1973) is a Greek pop singer.
Agneta Ekmanner.  Agneta Ekmanner (born 4 December 1938) is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1965.
Paolo Gaidano.  Paolo Gaidano (1861 Poirino Piedmont – 1915) was an Italian painter.Born at Poirino from 1875 to 1878 he studied at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. He decorated the Cathedral of Carignano and several churches in Turin and other towns in Piedmont. He was teacher to Italo Mus.He was also in demand as a portrait artist. In 1884 in Turin he exhibited:Deluso Ritratto d'uomo and Ritratto di bambina. In 1887 he exhibited in Venice: Tantum ergo.
Alecu Donici.  Alecu (or Alexandru) Donici (January 19 1806 near Donici Orhei - January 21 1865 Iași) was a Moldavian-born Romanian poet and translator.
Amasis Painter.  The Amasis Painter (active around 550-510 BCE in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter who worked in the black figure technique. He owes his name to the signature of the potter Amasis (Amasis made me) who signed 12 works painted by the same hand; this painter is known as the Amasis Painter today. At the time of the exhibition The Amasis Painter and His World (1985) 132 vases had been attributed to this artist.
Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer).  James Frederick Jimmie Rodgers (born September 18 1933 in Camas Washington United States) is an American singer. He is not related to the country singer of the same name.
Edward Gallenstein.  Edward Gallenstein is the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Chip Chats and President of the National Wood Carvers Association.
Gil Seong-joon.  Gil Seong-joon (Korean: 길성준 Hanja: 吉成俊; born December 24 1977) better known by his stage name Gil (Korean: 길) is a South Korean singer and television personality. He is co-founder of Leessang. He has been a member of MBC's Infinite Challenge since April 2009.In 2009 Gil joined Infinity Challenge as a guest and later on as a regular co-host. Gil also co-hosted Come To Play.In 2012 Gil joined Voice of Korea as one of the coaches.
Sydney Boehm.  Sydney Boehm (April 4 1908 - June 25 1990) was an American screenwriter and producer. Boehm began his writing career as a newswriter for wire services and newspapers before moving on to screenwriting.
Sammy Hagar.  Samuel Roy Sammy Hagar (born October 13 1947) also known as The Red Rocker is an American rock vocalist guitarist songwriter and musician. Hagar came to prominence in the 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose. He afterwards launched a successful solo career scoring an enduring hit in 1984 with I Can't Drive 55. He enjoyed huge commercial success when he replaced David Lee Roth as the lead singer of Van Halen in 1985 but left the band in 1996.
Juliana Hatfield.  Juliana Hatfield (born July 27 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area. She was formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls and now performs as a solo artist and as one half of Minor Alps alongside Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.
Asami Jō.  Asami Jō (城 麻美 Jō Asami can also read Zyou Mami born September 15 1975) is a Japanese AV Idol from Tokyo. Tokusatsu fans also know her as the villain Shibolena in the Super Sentai series Denji Sentai Megaranger.
Cibelle.  Cibelle is a multi-media performance artist singer-songwriter and music producer. She combines neofolk electronica and other styles to create Tropical Punk.
Satyaki Banerjee.  Satyaki Banerjee (Bengali: সাত্যকি ব্যানার্জি ;lang-hi) is an Indian Bengali composer. He is a part of an Anglo-Bengali band with members in Kolkata and London. He plays instruments like Dotara and sarod give his performance on both classical and folk. He studied the sarod with the late Pandit Dipak Chowdhury and now trains under Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar.
Uncle Kracker.  Matthew Shafer (born June 6 1974) is an American rock musician known as Uncle Kracker. His singles include Follow Me Smile and Drift Away. His music was more rap rock-based at the start of his career before turning in a more country rock influenced direction on later releases.
Minamoto no Tōru.  Minamoto no Tōru (源 融 822 – September 21 895) was a Japanese poet and statesman. He was born the grandson of Emperor Saga and a member of the Saga Genji clan.
Rajiv Malhotra.  Rajiv Malhotra (born September 15 1950) is an Indian-American entrepreneur who after a career in the computer and telecom industries took early retirement in 1995 to found The Infinity Foundation through which he has promoted philanthropic and educational activities in the area of Hinduism studies.
Freya Clausen.  Freya Christine Clausen also known by her mononym Freya (born 17 November 1978) is a Danish singer/songwriter and television personality based in Copenhagen. She worked as an MTV VJ then moved to VH1 in 2010. She has released two solo albums Tea with the Queen and Chasing My Tale.Since 2010 she has hosted the pan-Scandinavian TV channel Star!'s broadcasts from Stockholm Fashion Week by Berns.
Frank Skinner.  Frank Skinner (born Christopher Graham Collins on 28 January 1957) is an English writer comedian TV and radio presenter and actor.
Gustav Leutelt.  Gustav Leutelt (21 September 1860 – 17 February 1947) was a German Bohemian poet and writer. Most of his poetry concerned the area around his birthplace of Josefsthal causing him to be described as a poet of the Jizera Mountains.
Jonathan Rosenbaum.  Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27 1943) is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008 when he retired at the age of 65. He has published and edited numerous books and has contributed to some of the world's most notable film publications including Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment.He promotes the dissemination and discussion of foreign film. His strong views on filmgoing in the U.S.
Bertha McNamara.  Bertha McNamara Bredt (née Matilda Emilie Bertha Kalkstein 28 September 1853 – 1 August 1931) was a Sydney-based Australian socialist agitator feminist pamphleteer bookseller and mother-in-law of Australian writer Henry Lawson. Born in Germany she migrated to Victoria via England in 1869. After the death of her husband Peter Hermann Bredt she became a political activist and published Home Talk on Socialism (1891) one of Australia's first pamphlets on socialism.
KR (rapper).  Kaalan Walker (born March 28 1995) known by the stage name KR is an American rapper from Los Angeles California. He has released two mixtapes I$0lyf3 and I$0lyf3 2 both in 2013.
Rusty Jones (musician).  Isham Russell Jones II (born April 13 1942) better known as Rusty Jones is an American jazz drummer who is Chicago-based. Jones' father was a saxophonist and his mother a vocalist (appearing under the name of Gretchen Lee) with most of their gigs being in and around the Chicago area. His mother was working at the Bismark Hotel in 1936 when the two were wed.
Bobby Charles.  Bobby Charles (February 21 1938 – January 14 2010) was an American singer-songwriter.
Carlo Carpioni.  Carlo Carpioni was an Italian painter. He was the son of Giulio Carpioni. He was born about the middle of the 17th century. He was educated by his father after whose style he painted a few pictures but he is better known by his portraits. In the Council-chamber at Vicenza and in the convent of the Servîtes at Monte Berico there are some groups of portraits of magistrates which show an ingenious and elevated imagination.
David Leite.  David Leite (b. Fall River Massachusetts) is a Portuguese American food writer cookbook author publisher of the two-time James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria and an entrepreneur.
Leif Edling.  Leif Edling (born 6 August 1963) is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy then under the name of Toxic as a singer together with Ian Haugland (later the drummer of Europe) in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in 1981 and formed Nemesis in 1982.
Richard Hall (musician).  Richard Hall was a Jamaican saxophonist who worked with many reggae artists including Peter Tosh and Burning Spear. Nicknamed Dirty Harry he also starred in the film Rockers alongside Leroy Horsemouth Wallace.
Phyllis Wiener.  Phyllis Wiener (September 17 1921–January 1 2013) was an American painter. Wiener was one of the first female artists to embrace the Abstract Art Movement in Minnesota.
Patricia Bosworth.  Patricia Bosworth (born April 24 1933) is an American journalist and biographer. A former faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University she has also been an editor actress and model.
Cosimo Damiano Lanza.  Cosimo Damiano Lanza (born 12 April 1962) is an Italian pianist harpsichordist and composer.
Vast Aire.  Vast Aire (born Theodore Arrington III on February 5 1978) is a rapper from New York City. He is one half of the New York hip hop duo Cannibal Ox which consists of him and fellow rapper Vordul Mega. He is also a member of the rap group Atoms Family. He was born in Mount Vernon New York then lived in Jamaica Queens before moving to Harlem and became acquainted with the underground rap scene performing in many clubs while still a teenager.
Zayed Hassan.  Zayed Hassan (born 6 December 1990) is a musician and photographer from Dhaka Bangladesh.
Rudolf Heinrich Daumann.  Rudolf Heinrich Daumann (1896 - 1957) was a German journalist and writer.
Vilko Gecan.  Vilko Gecan (16 June 1894 – 25 June 1973) was a Croatian painter influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s. He is best known for his expressionist paintings and drawings and for his contributions to the local avantgarde magazine Zenit. He showed his work in many solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.
Kikko Matsuoka.  Kikko Matsuoka (松岡 きっこ Matsuoka Kikko born February 11 1947) is a Japanese actress.
Quintin Craufurd.  Quintin Craufurd (22 September 1743 – 23 November 1819) a British author was born at Kilwinning.In early life he went to India where he entered the service of the British East India Company.
William Perkins (author).  William Perkins (fl. c. 1900) was a British author contributing the biography of John Morris Webster to the Dictionary of National Biography.
Zoran Petrović (writer).  Zoran Petrović (born 5 March 1954 Kragujevac) is a poet novelist screenwriter. He published a couple of poetry books children books novels and two books as a publicist. He was the managing director of the oldest theater in Serbia Joakim Vuić.Now he is working as an editor for the publishing sector of the museum 21 October and as the chief editor for culture in local weekly newspaper Svetlost. He is a columnist of Serbian newspaper Blic.
Svetlana Svetikova.  Svetlana Svetikova (Russian: Светла́на Све́тикова) (born November 24 1983) is a Russian singer and actress. Born in Moscow in the Entuziastov. Mother - Marina Vladimirovna singer father - Andrew V. painter of Florentine mosaic. Sveta has a younger sister Natalia. With four years has been part of the choir participated in numerous vocal competitions. In 1989 dancing in the sports complex. In eight years became a soloist of the Moscow Children's Theater.
Alexander Naumov.  Alexander Alexandrovich Naumov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Нау́мов; December 28 1935 Podolsk USSR – December 31 2010 Saint Petersburg Russia) - Soviet Russian painter lived and worked in Saint Petersburg member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting the most known for his works depicting Central Asia.
J. Torres.  Joseph Torres better known as J. Torres is an award-winning Filipino-born Canadian comic book writer. He is perhaps best known for his run on DC Comics' Teen Titans Go!. He has also done some writing for animation and television.
Kikki Danielsson.  Ann-Kristin Kikki Danielsson (born 10 May 1952 in Osby Sweden) is a Swedish country dansband and pop singer. Sometimes she also plays the accordion and she has also written some lyrics. She is also famous for yodeling in some songs. Kikki Danielsson gained her largest popularity in the Nordic region from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. She also gained popularity at the US country stage during the 1980s.
Gerri Russell.  Gerri Russell is an award-winning American romantic fiction author currently residing in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
Robert Penn Warren.  Robert Penn Warren (April 24 1905 – September 15 1989) was an American poet novelist and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
Greg Fitzsimmons.  Gregory S. Greg Fitzsimmons (born April 5 1966) is an American stand-up comedian television writer/producer and radio host.
Stanley Jennings.  Stanley Jennings was a cartoonist photographer graphic designer and journalist.
Na Ying.  Na Ying (Chinese: 那英; pinyin: Nà Yīng less frequently referred to as Natasha Na born November 27 1967) is a Chinese vocalist. She is considered as one of the best present-day female singers in Mainland China having sold more than 10 million albums. She is also noted for her buoyant and forthright personality.
Gerli Padar.  Gerli Padar (born 6 November 1979 in Haljala Estonia) is a popular female performing artist in Estonia.Gerli's television appearances include most notably her having represented Estonia at the ever-popular Eurovision trans-national talent contest as well as having performed in Dancing with the Stars.Gerli has also performed live—to critical acclaim—in several hit Estonian musicals including her starring roles as Sally in Cabaret as Florence in Chess and as Lotte in Lotte the Detective.As of 2011 she has released one solo album.Padar represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song Partners in Crime. 
Janeen Brady.  Janeen Jacobs Brady (born 1934) is a children's music composer/lyricist and co-founder of Brite Music Inc. One of her songs was included in the 1989 Children's Songbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Her name at birth was Janeen Jacobs. She attended Brigham Young University where she met her husband Ted Brady. Janeen and Ted Brady founded Brite Music Inc. in 1978.
Constance Laux.  Constance Laux (b. January 21 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American writer of romance novels as her real name and her the pen names: Connie Deka Connie Lane and Casey Daniels
Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde.  Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (27 January 1630 – before 23 November 1693) was a Dutch artist of the 17th century active in Haarlem Amsterdam and The Hague.
Victoria Horn.  Victoria Horn aka *Lady V is a contemporary Grammy Award-winning writer who is active in London and Los Angeles. She has contributed numerous hit songs in many genres.
Allan Frewin Jones.  Allan Frewin Jones (born April 30 1954) is the English author of over 90 books for children and young adults. He has published under the alternate names: Fiona Kelly A F Jones Frewin Jones Damien Graves Adam Blade Nick Shadow and Allan Jones.
Daniel Antonsson.  Daniel Antonsson is a musician and songwriter from Gothenburg Sweden currently playing guitar in Dimension Zero. He is also the former bassist for Dark Tranquillity playing on the album We Are the Void and former guitarist for Soilwork recording with them on their album Sworn to a Great Divide.
Jani Kervinen.  Jani Kervinen is a Finnish electronic music producer specialized mainly in the trance subgenre. He has released music under such aliases as Mystery Islands Kaste (with Mika Savela) Dyyni (with Mika Savela) K-De (with Kai Harmaala) Chapter G8 (with Stefan Cambridge) and Soundproofed (with Simon Brisk).
Robert Schade.  Robert Schade (born Tarrytown New York 1861 – died Tarrytown New York 1912) was an American painter.
Greg Graffin.  Gregory Walter Graffin Ph.D. (born November 6 1964) is an American punk rock musician college professor and author. He is most recognized as the lead vocalist songwriter and only constant member of the noted Los Angeles band Bad Religion which he co-founded in 1979. He also embarked on a solo career in 1997 when he released the album American Lesion. His follow-up album Cold as the Clay was released nine years later. Graffin obtained his Ph.D.
Leila Tong.  Leila Tong (born 5 December 1981) is an actress in Hong Kong. She was born into an Indonesian Cantonese family. Her birth name is used in her works during her childhood and adolescence.
Irma Pane.  Irma Pane is an Indonesian American pop singer.
Sarah Ladd.  Sarah Hall Ladd (13 April 1860 – 30 March 1927) was an early 20th-century American pictorial and landscape photographer.Ladd was born Sarah L. Hall in Somerville Massachusetts the daughter of John Gill Hall and Sarah Cushing. Little is known about her childhood.On 7 September 1881 she married Charles E. Ladd a West Coast businessman and son of early Portland (Oregon) mayor William S. Ladd.
Paul C. Pieper.  Paul C. Pieper (born October 20 1972) is an American guitarist and composer known primarily for his work as a jazz musician.
Bill Martin (musician).  Bill Martin (born William Wylie MacPherson 9 November 1938 Govan Glasgow Scotland) is a Scottish songwriter music publisher and impresario. He has been presented with three Ivor Novello Awards.
Maureen Hunter.  Maureen Hunter (born 1948) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Winnipeg Manitoba.She was born in Indian Head Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Her plays have been performed in theatres across Canada as well as in the U.S. and Britain. Transit of Venus was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recorded by the BBC. An opera version of Transit of Venus premiered at Manitoba Opera in 2007.
Bojana Atanasovska.  Bojana Atanasovska (Macedonian: Бојана Атанасовска) better known by her stage name of Bojana is popular Macedonian pop singer and songwriter.
Craig Rousseau.  Craig Rousseau is an American comic book artist.During his career Rousseau has worked for various comic book companies but is best known for his work on DC Comics titles like Harley Quinn Batman Beyond and Impulse.
Mariangela Vacatello.  Mariangela Vacatello (born 1982) is an Italian pianist and a winner of the Internet Audience award as well as both Top of the World and Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions.
Elvira Gascón.  Elvira Gascón Vera (b. Almenar Segrià May 17 1911 – Soria February 10 2000) was a Spanish painter and engraver.
Tim Farriss.  Timothy William Farriss (born 16 August 1957) is a founding and current member of the rock band INXS.
Kathleen Stewart.  Kathleen Stewart (born 1958 Sydney) is an Australian writer. She has written eight novels and published two books of poetry. Her novel Spilt Milk was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award and her memoir The After Life was shortlisted for the Nita Kibble Literary Award. Her latest novel Men of Bad Character was published by the University of Queensland Press in June 2010.She currently lives in the Blue Mountains.
Matthew Bourne (musician).  Matthew Bourne (born 6 October 1977) is a British Jazz musician.
Jacob van der Ulft.  Jacob van der Ulft (1621–1689) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter architect and mayor.
Tom Wrigglesworth.  Tom Wrigglesworth is an English stand-up comedian He was born and raised in Sheffield South Yorkshire. In 2009 he was nominated for the main Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly the Perrier awards) at the Edinburgh festival.
Kuriyagawa Hakuson.  Kuriyagawa Hakuson (廚川 白村 19 November 1880 - 2 September 1923) was the pen-name of a Japanese literary critic active in Taishō period Japan. His real name was Kuriyagawa Tatsuo.
Tracy Hogg.  Tracy Hogg (August 1960 – November 25 2004) was a British nurse and bestselling author.
René Bouché.  René Robert Bouché (20 September 1905? – 3 July 1963) was an artist and fashion illustrator known for his work in Vogue magazine between the 1930s and 1960s.
Aydo Abay.  Aydo Abay (born May 29 1973) is a German singer and songwriter raised in Koblenz Germany. He is of Turkish descent. Abay is mainly known for being the frontman for the German indie rock quartet blackmail (1995–2008). He has also started his own standalone band project known as KEN.
Theo Hutchcraft.  Theo David Hutchcraft (born 30 August 1986) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the electronic duo Hurts.
Joe Riley (artist).  Joseph Vergel Joe Riley (February 26 1964 – September 27 2007) was a U.S. visual and plastic artist based in Dallas Texas. A painter sculptor filmmaker and special effects makeup artist he made horror designs for latex masks and for films such as the vampire movie Blade: Trinity from Marvel Comics as well as conceptual art for children's animations such as the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius franchise from DNA Productions.
Jayme Langford.  Jayme Langford (born December 13 1987) is an American nude model and pornographic actress. She has appeared in almost 100 films.
Samantha Strauss.  Samantha Strauss is a Logie Award-winning and international Emmy Award-nominated Australian screen writer.
Barrett Martin.  Barrett Martin (born April 14 1967) is an American drummer upright bassist composer producer writer and Zen artist. He was the drummer for the Seattle Washington groups Skin Yard and Screaming Trees as well as the supergroups Mad Season and Tuatara. A multi-instrumentalist and producer he does recording session work in Seattle and Los Angeles and has played on or produced over 75 albums to date.
Noelia.  Noelia Lorenzo Monge (born in San Juan) mostly known as Noelia is an international Puerto Rican pop singer who rose to fame in 1999. She is the first daughter of Puerto Rican singer Yolandita Monge and Uruguayan businessman Alfredo Lorenzo.Her self-titled debut album was certified as a gold album in the United States. During her career she has had ten Latin Billboard Top 40 hits and four Top 40 Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs.
Ranjit Desai.  Ranjit Desai (Devanagari: रणजित देसाई) (1928–1992) was a popular Marathi writer from Maharashtra India. He is best known for his historical novels Swami and Shriman Yogi. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964 and Padma Shri in 1973.He was born in 1928 in the town of Kowad in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra.
Alice Wadowski-Bak.  Alice T. Wadowski-Bak (August 8 1935 – June 14 2008) was a noted Polish-American artist and creator of wycinanki (paper-cutting). Her most famous work is Wigilia which has been the cover art of Oplatek sold across the U.S. Ms. Wadowski-Bak’s work has been exhibited at the Albright Knox in Buffalo the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Stuart Stevens.  Stuart Stevens is an American travel writer and political consultant. He is the cofounder of Washington D.C. - based political media consultancy Stevens & Schriefer Group (with Russell Schriefer). He served as a top strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
Uri Frost.  Uri Frost (born 1962; אורי פרוסט) is an Israeli rock guitarist producer and director. Frost's dark and often intellectual art and music are informed by a sense of rootlessness and exile. As an introverted artist he has often refused to conduct media interviews. Yoav Kutner Israel's acclaimed rock music critic wrote about Frost: He is a unique voice in Israeli rock music and his restless guitar filled with feedbacks is eminent in all the music groups he was a part of.
Adriana Melo.  Adriana Melo is a Brazilian comic book artist and penciller who has worked on various Star Wars titles mostly in the Star Wars: Empire series. She has also worked on DC Comics' Rose & Thorn and Birds of Prey as well as Top Cow's Witchblade and Marvel Comics's Ms. Marvel.
Clifford Mollison.  Clifford Lely Mollison (30 March 1897 – 4 June 1986) was a British film and television actor. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison.
Giles Terera.  Giles Terera (born 14 December 1976) is a British actor musician and filmmaker. He is best known for his work in the theatre. His first documentary Muse of Fire premiered in autumn 2013.
Gypie Mayo.  Gypie Mayo (born John Phillip Cawthra; 24 July 1951 − 23 October 2013) was an English guitarist and songwriter playing in Dr. Feelgood from 1977 to 1981 and from 1996 to 2004 in the reborn Yardbirds with Alan Glen.
Tom Mison.  Thomas James Tom Mison (born 23 July 1982) is an English actor and writer. He is best known for his work in the European premiere of Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling at the Almeida Theatre Posh at the Royal Court Theatre and the Duke of York's Theatre and Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Mison is starring as Ichabod Crane opposite Nicole Beharie on the Fox series Sleepy Hollow since 2013.
Hiram Brülhart.  Ernest Hiram Brülhart (born 1878 in Fribourg died 1949 in Fribourg) was a Swiss painter and illustrator .
Robert Benchley.  Robert Charles Benchley (September 15 1889 – November 21 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor.
Shaun Ryder.  Shaun William George Ryder (born 23 August 1962) is an English musician singer-songwriter actor television personality author and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape as well being as the runner-up of the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Joe Rudán.  József Joe Rudán (born June 5 1963 Pécs) is the vocalist of Hungarian heavy metal band Pokolgép since 1990 to 2010. He is also a bass guitarist but now he doesn't play on bass guitar in any of his current bands.
Massari.  Sari Abboud (Arabic: ساري عبّود‎‎) better known by his stage name Massari (pronounced mə-SAH-ree) (born in Beirut Lebanon on December 10 1980) is a Lebanese Canadian R&B Pop and hip hop singer. His music combines Middle Eastern melodies with western culture. He started his musical career in 2001-2002 and has released two albums Massari in 2005 and Forever Massari in 2009. He has had a number of hit singles in Canada Europe the Middle East and internationally.
Red Spyda.  Andy Red Spyda Thelusma is an American Hip Hop producer who has worked on many songs for artists such as 50 Cent. He is also known for producing songs for D-Block Mobb Deep Amerie D-12 and G-Unit. Other notable works by Red Spyda have included his contributions to the in-game soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto III.
Andrew Dobson.  Andrew Dobson (born 15 April 1957) is a British political author and Professor at Keele University specialising in environmental politics.Dobson has a BA in Politics from the University of Reading and D.Phil in Politics from St John's College Oxford. His best-known work is entitled Green Political Thought (Strawman Edition) in which he argues that 'ecologism' is a political ideology in its own right.
Freddie King.  Freddie King (September 3 1934 – December 28 1976) was an influential American blues guitarist and singer. He is often mentioned as one of the Three Kings of electric blues guitar along with Albert and B.B. King.Freddie King based his guitar style on Texas and Chicago influences and was one of the first bluesmen to have a multi-racial backing band at live performances. He is best known for singles such as Have You Ever Loved A Woman (1960) and his Top 40 hit Hide Away (1961).
Céline Bara.  Céline Bara née Céline Szumigay (9 September 1978 – ) is a French pornographic film actress of Mauritian origin.
Ron Marz.  Ron Marz (born 1959) is an American comic book writer known for his work on titles such as Silver Surfer Green Lantern Marvel vs DC Batman/Aliens and Witchblade.
Ephraim Moses Lilien.  Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925) was an art nouveau illustrator and print-maker particularly noted for his art on Jewish and Zionist themes. He is sometimes called the first Zionist artist.
Peggy Rockman Napaljarri.  Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (also known as Peggy Yalurrngali Rockman Napaljarri) (born c. 1940) is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Born on what is now Tanami Downs pastoral station she learned English when working as a child with a white mining family; Peggy Rockman and her family were subsequently relocated by government authorities to Lajamanu a new community west of Tennant Creek Northern Territory.
Luis Valdez.  Luis Valdez (born June 26 1940) is an American playwright actor writer and film director. Regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United States Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit his movie La Bamba and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. A pioneer in the Chicano Movement Valdez broadened the scope of theatre and arts of the Chicano community.
Temsuyanger Longkumer.  Temsuyanger Longkumer born April 21 1976 in Nagaland India is contemporary British Indian artist active in London. He has worked in media including drawing print sculpture installation and video. Longkumer attended the Royal College of Art from which he holds an M.A.
Nina Kumagaya.  Nina Kumagaya (熊谷 ニーナ Kumagaya Nīna born July 18 1963 in Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce.
Margaret Barry.  Margaret Barry (1917–1989) was a traditional Irish singer and banjo player.Born in Cork into a family of Travellers and street singers she taught herself how to play the zither banjo and the fiddle at a young age. At the age of sixteen after a family disagreement Margaret left home and started performing as a street musician.In the early 1950s she moved to London.
Ayaka Kitazawa.  Ayaka Kitazawa (北沢 綾香 Kitazawa Ayaka born April 21 1989) is a Japanese singer from Saitama who has released music under Key Sounds Label since 2012. In 2013 she sang the ending theme song to the anime series Little Busters! Refrain.
Aryeh Lev Stollman.  Aryeh Lev Stollman is a writer and physician based in the United States. A neuroradiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City he has also published several works of fiction.
Gustaw Przeczek.  Gustaw Przeczek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡustaf ˈpʂɛt͡ʂɛk]; 30 May 1913 – 21 February 1974) was a Polish writer poet teacher and activist from the Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.He was born in a large coal miner's family in the village of Łazy which lies in the coal basin. He graduated from schools in Orłowa and Łazy and in 1933 from a teachers' seminary in Ostrava.
Joanne Accom.  Joanne Accom (born Joanne Ruth Charlotte Accom on 13 November 1978) is a dance pop singer-songwriter from Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Nicole Willis.  Nicole Willis (born December 26 1963) is an American singer/songwriter/producer/director and visual artist. Willis lives and works in Helsinki Finland.
Dorian Holley.  Dorian Holley is an American musician backing singer and vocal coach. Holley began his professional career as an on-stage backing vocalist for international entertainer Michael Jackson during the Bad World Tour in 1987. The series of concerts had him perform to millions of people throughout the world including British royalty. From there Holley went on to travel with Jackson for all of his subsequent world tours.
Pepe Romero.  Pepe Romero (born March 8 1944 in Málaga Spain) is a world-renowned classical and flamenco guitarist. He is particularly famous for his outstanding technique and colorful musical interpretations on the instrument.
Nils Frykdahl.  Nils Frykdahl is an American musician most known for his work with the bands Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh. He has a bachelor's degree in music from UC Berkeley which he received in 1989. He also is a member of the bands Faun Fables and Darling Freakhead and used to be a member of Charming Hostess. Along with bandmates Carla Kihlstedt and Dan Rathbun Frykdahl also is active with the performance company Ink Boat.
Robin Hardy (Canadian writer).  Robin Clarkson Hardy (July 12 1952 - October 28 1995) was a Canadian journalist and author.Born in Halifax Nova Scotia and raised in Winnipeg Manitoba and Ottawa Ontario Hardy studied creative writing at the University of Alberta and took a law degree at Dalhousie University before settling in Toronto where he was a staff writer and editor of The Body Politic a noted early Canadian gay magazine.
Ferréz.  Ferréz (Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva) (Born 1975) is a Brazilian author rapper cultural critic and activist from the Zona Sul (southern zone) favela of Capão Redondo in São Paulo Brazil. He is a member and leader of the literary group Literatura Marginal (Marginal Literature) that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade) from the urban periphery of São Paulo.
Trent Thomason.  Trent Thomason (born February 4 1972 in Long Beach California) is a Christian keyboardist vocalist and songwriter.Thomason grew up in Long Beach California and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School going on to attend Chapman University where he received his Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy degree in 1999.
Joseph Delaney.  Joseph Henry Delaney is a British former teacher and currently an author of science fiction and fantasy books.
Hiroyuki Yamamoto (composer).  Hiroyuki Yamamoto (山本 裕之 Yamamoto Hiroyuki born 7 March 1967 in Yamagata Prefecture) is a contemporary Japanese composer.
Siedah Garrett.  Siedah Garrett (born June 24 1960) is an American songwriter and vocalist who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry such as Michael Jackson Brand New Heavies Quincy Jones Tevin Campbell Donna Summer Madonna Jennifer Hudson among others.
Hai Ying Wu.  Hai Ying Wu (also known as Jason Wu) is a Chinese American sculptor best known for his firefighter memorials. and his memorial commemorating the Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo Ohio.A native of China Wu received his degree in sculpture from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and became staff sculptor for the city of Chengdu on the Chengdu Public Arts Commission. He worked primarily in public art and in the socialist realist genre. A large number of his public art works can be seen in Chengdu.
Robert Powell (author).  Robert Powell is a botanical author from Perth Western Australia who has co-written a number of books with Jane Emberson about the plants and trees of the Swan Coastal Plain and adjacent Darling Scarp. His book An old look at trees.. was the careful archival retrieval of rarely seen photographs of coastal vegetation Jarrah and Marri trees long since destroyed by urban development in the Perth region.
Thanh Hải.  Phạm Bá Ngoãn pen name Thanh Hải (1930–1980) was a modern Vietnamese poet. His penname Thanh Hải literally means Blue Sea in classical Sino-Vietnamese.
Ben Kane.  Ben Kane (born 1970 ) is a novelist known for his novels in the historical fiction genre. He is best known for The Forgotten Legion and Hannibal Enemy Of Rome which reached number 4 in the Sunday Times best seller list in 2009.Ben Kane was born and raised in Kenya and then moved to Ireland. In Dublin he studied veterinary medicine at University College Dublin after which he travelled the world extensively indulging his passion for ancient history.
Alan Stafford.  Alan Stafford (born July 16 1976) is an American pornographic actor. He has appeared in over 130 movies since 2006 and won the 2008 AVN Award for Best Male Newcomer. He has also modelled for Playgirl magazine.
Keita Tachibana.  Keita Tachibana (橘 慶太 Tachibana Keita) (born on 16 December 1985) also known as Keita (stylized KEITA) is a Japanese pop and R&B singer and dancer. Since 2000 he rose to fame as the lead vocalist from the boy band w-inds.. During that time he briefly launched a critically successful solo career and in 2012 has revitalized it again under a reinvented image.
Nampeyo.  Iris Nampeyo (ca. 1860–1942) was a Hopi - Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. She received the English name Iris as an infant but was better known by her Tewa name Num-pa-yu meaning snake that does not bite.She used ancient techniques for making and firing pottery and used designs from Old Hopi pottery and sherds found at Sikyátki ruins on the First Mesa of the Hano Pueblo which dated to the 15th century.
Paul Olefsky.  Paul Olefsky (January 4 1926 — June 1 2013) was an American cellist.Olefsky was born in Chicago. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky. Olefsky subsequently studied with Pablo Casals. He studied conducting with Herbert von Karajan and Pierre Monteux.During the 1940s Olefsky performed as the principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra while maintaining a worldwide career as a solo artist.
Emilia Gubitosi.  Emilia Gubitosi (b. 3 Feb 1887 d. 17 Jan 1972) was an Italian pianist and composer.
Joseph-Émile Brunet.  Joseph-Émile Brunet (1893–1977) was a Canadian sculptor based in Quebec. His output includes more than 200 monuments in bronze. Many of his sculptures depict national figures and events in Canada. He was born in Huntingdon Quebec in 1899. He was educated at archbishop school the Art Institute of Chicago and the national superior École des Beaux-Arts of Paris.
Johann Christoph Pepusch.  Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667 – 20 July 1752) also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England.Pepusch was born in Berlin. At the age of 14 he was appointed to the Prussian court. About 1700 he settled in England where he was one of the founders in 1710 of The Academy of Vocal Music which in 1726 was renamed The Academy of Ancient Music.
Manda Sudharani.  Manda Sudharani is an Indian carnatic vocalist.
Matt Redman.  Matt Redman (born 14 February 1974) is an English Christian worship leader songwriter and author based in Brighton West Sussex United Kingdom.He has worked with Newfrontiers Passion Conferences Hillsong London Soul Survivor is an artist for Sixstepsrecords and is a member of Compassionart a charity founded by Martin Smith. He appeared with Hillsong London for a song on their 2005 album Jesus Is; he co-wrote and sang the song Greatest Gift.
Dominic Hibberd.  John William Dominic Hibberd FRSL (3 November 1941 – 12 August 2012) was an English freelance author academic and broadcaster best known for his biographies of the poets Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro and his collections (edited with John Onions) of First World War poetry. He was an Honorary Vice-President of the Wilfred Owen Association and an Honorary Fellow of the War Poets Association.Born and brought up in Guildford he was educated at Rugby School and King's College Cambridge.
Diam's.  Diam's (French: [djams]; born Mélanie Georgiades on 25 July 1980) is a French-language rap artist of French and Greek Cypriot origin.
Sienna Howell-Holden.  Sienna Howell-Holden is a Canadian actor and singer from Alberta.
Shelley Tanaka.  Shelley Tanaka is a Canadian editor of numerous award-winning young adult novels an award-winning author of non-fiction for children a translator and writing teacher.
Arturo Estrada Hernández.  Arturo Estrada Hernández (born July 30 1925) is a Mexican painter one of a group of Frida Kahlo’s students called “Los Fridos.” Estrada is mostly known for his mural work which remains faithful to the figurative style and ideology of Mexican muralism. He has created murals in various parts of Mexico in both public and private places including a 1988 mural found in the Centro Médico metro station in Mexico City.
Erik Hedin.  Erik Hedin (born 1974) is a sound designer and composer and has worked closely with his partner Kjersti Horn.
Jeff Martin (American musician).  Jeffery Louis Jeff Martin is an American musician singer and drummer who has sung for the bands Surgical Steel Racer X Leatherwolf and played drums for the bands Badlands Blindside Blues Band and RedSea. Jeff Martin played drums for Paul Gilbert George Lynch Michael Schenker Dokken and P.K. Mitchell. He also played drums in Surgical Steel before switching to lead vocals.
Arthur Upfield.  Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 13 February 1964) was an Australian writer best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) of the Queensland Police Force a half-caste Aborigine.Born in England Upfield moved to Australia in 1910 and fought with the Australian military during the First World War.
Tom Coventry.  Tom Coventry was a British actor.
Guy Chambers.  Guy Antony Chambers (born 12 January 1963 Hammersmith London) is an English songwriter musician and record producer best known for his work with Robbie Williams. He has been a part of 48 Gold/Platinum certified albums (UK and US) including 14 (UK) number 1 albums and 22 (UK) Top 10 singles including six (UK) number 1 singles.
Sugam Pokharel.  Sugam Pokharel (Nepali: सुगम पोखरेल; born September 20 1979) is a Nepali singer. He was born in Biratnagar where he spent his childhood. He remembers listening to the songs of Sanjay Shresha Deep Shrestha and Harish Mathema which unknowingly influenced him to a singing career. From his earlier life he developed an interest in music. He even used to sing in his school functions. He used to be praised for his voice which inspired him to be a singer.
Roy Cross (artist).  Roy Cross (born 1924) RSMA GAvA was a British artist and aviation journalist best known as the painter of artwork used on Airfix kits from the 1960s.Born in Southwark London and mainly self-taught he learned his craft at the Camberwell School of Art and as a technical illustrator for training manuals for Fairey Aviation during the second world war. He progressed from there to producing advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies.
Dean Sabatino.  Dean Sabatino is an American musician best known as Dean Clean the drummer of the satirical punk rock group The Dead Milkmen. Sabatino lives with his family in Media Pennsylvania a suburb of Philadelphia.
Jeff Soster.  Jeff Soster (born May 1 1989) is an American music manageractor and entrepreneur known for his association with hip hop artist Bizarre.
Ben Thapa.  Ben Vishala Thapa (born 2 March 1982) is an English singer formerly a tenor in G4.Born in Cambridge Thapa was raised by a single mother from the age of four after his father was deported back to India when his work visa expired. He entered foster care when he was eleven when his mother lost her battle to care for her children following her struggle with arthritis.
L. S. Lowry.  Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist born in Stretford Lancashire. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury where he lived and worked for over 40 years and Salford and its surrounding areas.Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century.
Christian Vander (musician).  Christian Vander (born 21 February 1948 in Nogent-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne) is a French drummer musician and founder of the band Magma. Besides his work with Magma he has also performed solo with the Christian Vander Trio and Christian Vander Quartet and in Offering.He is known both for his unique songwriting virtuosic drumming and shrill falsetto improvisational/scat singing.
Gary M. Burge.  Gary M. Burge (born 1952) is an American author and professor. He is a New Testament scholar at Wheaton College Wheaton Illinois. He is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Jiang Yan.  Jiang Yan(江淹) was a poet and cifu writer in the Southern Dynasty of China who occupies an important position in the history of the Southern Dynasty literature.Jiang Yan says that he loves strange yet differences which has relations with the admiration and pursuit of new and strange social trends and literary habits. This character also affects his making friends and writing style.
Leigh Haggerwood.  Leigh Haggerwood is a contemporary composer based in Bath UK. He specializes in songwriting keyboards singing music production audio engineering and sound-to-picture scoring.
Clyde M. Narramore.  Dr. Clyde M. Narramore is the author of more than 100 books and booklets including the best sellers The Psychology of Counseling The Encyclopedia of Psychological Problems and This Way to Happiness. He was the founding president of the first international non-profit Christian counseling and training organization the Narramore Christian Foundation.
Tatiana Bulanova.  Tat'yana Ivanovna Bulanova (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Буланова) sometimes spelled Tanya Bulanova or Tatiana Bulanova was born on March 6 1969 in St. Petersburg Russia. Tat'yana is a famous musician recognized for her strong melancholic romance ballads catchy electro-pop beats and techno remixes. She shot to fame in 1990 when she started her singing career with the band Letniy Sad (Russian: Летний сад). Tat'yana and Letniy Sad had 10 hit albums together between 1990 and 1996.
John Sherrit.  John Yak Sherrit born 1962 is an Australian drummer best known for his drumming on several studio albums of Johnny Diesel and the Injectors and touring with Diesel Jimmy Barnes and Richard Clapton.
Lance Bangs.  Lance Bangs (born September 8 1972) is an American filmmaker documentarian and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth Nirvana Neutral Milk Hotel Green Day the Arcade Fire the Shins The Thermals Belle & Sebastian Menomena Yeah Yeah Yeahs R.E.M. Mike Watt Death Cab for Cutie The Black Keys Kanye West Odd Future and Pavement. He directed the David Cross film Let America Laugh.
Max Cortés.  Max Cortés is a Spanish stripper pornographic actor and film director. He was born in Barcelona in the 1970s.Cortés started working as a stripper after finishing school performing several shows each weekend and establishing his own agency.He began his adult film career when he received an offer from director José M. Ponce to perform in a film.In 1999 Cortés produced his first film Vivencias de un Actor Porno Español and later began directing films for International Film Group.
Pang Long.  Pang Long (simplified Chinese: 庞龙; traditional Chinese: 龐龍; pinyin: Páng Lóng; born May 2 1971) is a Chinese singer. Two Butterflies and You are My Rose are his representative works.
Santa Inoue.  Santa Inoue (井上 三太 Inoue Santa born 1968 in Paris France) is a Japanese manga artist and owner of the Santastic! clothing line. Inoue's manga series are greatly influenced by hip hop culture with some of the characters being modeled after rappers.
Branislav Lala Kovačev.  Branislav Lala Kovačev (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав „Лала“ Ковачев; November 19 1939 Kikinda Serbia - September 4 2012 Hvar Croatia) was a Yugoslavian-Serbian jazz musician drummer bandleader and composer. Widely considered a key figure in the history of Balkan Ethno jazz. As a leader of European Jazz Consensus International Jazz Consensus and Lala Kovacev Group he developed a distinguished fusion style by integrating complex rhythmic structures from Balkan folk music into jazz.
Douglas Paulson.  Douglas Paulson (born 1980 Pennsylvania) is an artist based in New York City.He graduated from the Tyler School of Art with a B.F.A. in 2003.His work is often collaborative and interactive falling into the new Social Practice stream of contemporary art.
Lili Lakich.  Liliana Diane Lakich (born June 4 1944) is an American artist best known for her work in neon sculpture. Her sculptures have been included in major publications on contemporary sculpture neon sculpture and feminist art including Signs and in many private and corporate collections. She has had solo shows in Tokyo Paris and Los Angeles.
Mark Tungate.  Mark Tungate is a British writer based in Paris France. He is the author of Media Monoliths: How Media Brands Thrive and Survive (2004) Fashion Brands: Branding Style From Armani to Zara (2005 Third Edition 2012) Adland: A Global History of Advertising (2007 Second Edition 2013) (listed among the best business books of 2007 by Library Journal) 'Branded Beauty: How Marketing Changed the Way We Look (2011) and Branded Male: Marketing to Men (2008) all published by Kogan Page.
Gabriel Bá.  Gabriel Bá (born 5 June 1976 in São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian comic book artist best known for his work on The Umbrella Academy Casanova and Daytripper. He is the twin brother of fellow comic book artist Fábio Moon.
Sadiki.  Henry Buckley Jr. aka Sadiki previously known as Pancho Kryztal (born November 17 1971 Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican-American singer songwriter and producer.
Ni Ping.  Ni Ping is a mainland Chinese film actress and TV host. Since the early of 1990s Ni shot fame for hosting CCTV New Year's Gala.
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.  Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá was born in 1946 in Rio Piedras. He spent his childhood in Aguas Buenas amid the bourgeois media in a rural setting. He went to the city by the 65th Infantry ... what he termed as diabolical border of the fifties. All his childhood and adolescence is in memory to bring into his writing he admits that there is always political commentary while not a writer independence.
JC Jacinto.  JC Jacinto is a Filipino visual artist and a freelancer. His works have been featured in various galleries all over Manila Philippines. While still studying at University of the Philippines he has been qualified as a finalist in the Maningning Art Competition 2006 39th and 40th Shell National Student’s Competition 2006 and 2007 and the PLDT Visual Art National Competition 2007.
Jeff Cohen (songwriter).  Jeff Cohen (born January 28 1966) is an award winning American songwriter producer and publisher. He is also known for his founding role in Pancho’s Lament.
Herman Melville.  Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist poet and writer of short stories. His contributions to the Western canon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) about a clerk in a Wall Street office; the slave ship narrative Benito Cereno (1855); and Billy Budd Sailor (1924).
Sandra Magsamen.  Sandra Magsamen (born August 22 1959) is an American author artist art therapist and designer. Her primary product line is called Messages from the Heart. Magsamen's book Living Artfully was adapted for a national PBS special. In September 2006 Magsamen published a series of cloth books with LB Kids an imprint of Little Brown Books for Young Readers.
Francesco Falconi.  Francesco Falconi (born June 26 1976 in Grosseto) is an Italian fantasy writer.
Yusuke Kishi.  Yusuke Kishi (貴志 祐介 Kishi Yūsuke born 1959) is a Japanese author.
Max Ernst.  Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter sculptor graphic artist and poet. A prolific artist Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.
Sergei Stadler.  Sergei Stadler is a Russian musician who was born in Saint Petersburg on May 20 1962. He studied the violin with David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan and took the first prize and gold medal in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is also a laureate of the Jacques Thibaud competition in Paris where he won the Grand Prize in 1980.
Willie Clayton.  Willie Clayton (born March 29 1955) is an American Chicago blues and soul-blues singer and songwriter. He has recorded over 25 albums since the 1980s.
Yvette Devereaux.  Yvette Devereaux is an American violinist conductor and Director at the South Pasadena Music Center and Conservatory in Pasadena California. She was the first African-American woman to attain a conductor's degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She was honored by the city of Los Angeles in February 2007 Living Legends.
Joseph Pace.  Joseph Pace (born 18 November 1959) is an Italian painter sculptor and philosopher.
Giuseppe Besozzi.  Giuseppe Besozzi (born 1686 in Milan – d. 2 December 1760 in Naples) was an Italian oboist. In the eighteenth century the Besozzi family produced several important oboists who worked in Turin Naples London Paris and Dresden. Giuseppe's brothers Alessandro Besozzi and Paolo Girolamo Besozzi lived in Turin and his sons Antonio Besozzi in Naples and Gaetano Besozzi in Paris and London.
Petr Muk.  Petr Muk (4 February 1965 – 24 May 2010) was a Czech pop musician composer and performer famous in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In addition to his albums of original songs he released a tribute EP to the English band Erasure in 2004. Before his solo career Muk was a member of two bands Oceán (1985–1993) and Shalom (1992–1996).In 2010 Muk was found dead by his wife in their home in Prague. An autopsy and blood work revealed he had medical drugs and alcohol in his blood.
Mari Mancusi.  Mari Mancusi sometimes credited as Marianne Mancusi is an American author of young adult novels and television news producer for NPN Media.
Sanja Stijačić.  Sanja Stijačić (born 14 November 1965) is a Serbian flutist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Pristina (Kosovska Mitrovica) and University of East Sarajevo.
Steve White (science fiction).  Stephen White (born 1948) is an American science fiction author best known as the co-author of the Starfire-series alongside David Weber.He is married with 3 daughters and currently lives in Charlottesville Virginia. He also works for a legal publishing company. He previously served as a United States Navy officer and served during the Vietnam War and in the Mediterranean region.
Marianne Curley.  Marianne Curley (born 20 May 1959) is an Australian author best known for her Guardians of Time Trilogy and Old Magic books.
Lil Green.  Lillian Lil Green (December 22 1919 – April 14 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own.
Dionne Warwick.  Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12 1940) is an American singer actress and TV show host who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and a United States Ambassador of Health.Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era (1955–2012) based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts.
John Layman.  John Steele Layman (born August 2 1969) is an American comic book writer and letterer.
Stig Olin.  Stig Olin (11 September 1920 - 28 June 2008 ) was a Swedish actor theatre director songwriter and singer. He was the father of actress Lena Olin and singer Mats Olin. He was married to Britta Holmberg and Helena Kallenbäck.
David Bustill Bowser.  David Bustill Bowser (January 16 1820 Philadelphia Pennsylvania – June 30 1900 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) was an African-American ornamental artist and portraitist.Bowser attended a private school run by his cousin Sarah Mapps Douglass and studied art with his cousin Robert Douglass Jr. an African-American pupil of Thomas Sully. During the American Civil War he was commissioned to design banners for several regiments of U.S.
Jo Rowbottom.  Jo Rowbottom (born 1942) is a British character actress best known for guest roles in numerous British TV series and as James Beck's wife in Romany Jones.
Ghena Dimitrova.  Ghena Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Гeна Димитpова) (6 May 1941–11 June 2005) was a Bulgarian operatic soprano. Her voice was known for its power and extension used in operatic roles such as Turandot in a career spanning four decades.
Monique Lhuillier.  Monique Lhuillier (born September 15 1971 Cebu City Philippines) is a fashion designer most prominently known for bridal wear. She owns a couture fashion house based in Los Angeles California as well as another store on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Michael Stern (journalist).  Michael Stern (August 3 1910 – April 7 2009) was an American reporter author and philanthropist. As a reporter during World War II he issued some of the first accounts from a liberated Rome Italy in June 1944. He later worked in concert with Zachary Fisher to create the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City New York United States.
Martin Riseley.  Martin Riseley (born 10 February 1969 in Christchurch New Zealand) is a violinist and Head of Strings (violin) at the New Zealand School of Music. Formerly he was concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.Riseley began violin studies at age 6 and gave his first solo concert at age 10. He studied with Carl Pini Dorothy DeLay and Felix Galimir.
Andrew Young (poet).  Andrew John Young (29 April 1885 – 25 November 1971) was a Scottish poet and clergyman. His status as a poet was recognised quite late and he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1952.
Cassandra Clare.  Judith Rumelt (born July 27 1973) better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare is an American author of young adult fiction most known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.
David Lowery.  David Charles Lowery (born September 10 1960) is an American guitarist vocalist and songwriter. He is the founder of alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven and co-founder of the more traditional rock band Cracker. Lowery released his first solo record The Palace Guards on February 2 2011 via the 429 Records label.
Christopher Robbins.  Christopher Robbins is an American Artist that focuses his art practice in the realm of Public Art and Social Sculpture. Robbins works internationally using physical and conversational processes to create interactions between strangers in order to build community and problem-solve.
Psarantonis.  Antonis Xylouris (Greek: Αντώνης Ξυλούρης; born 1942) nicknamed Psarantonis (Greek: Ψαραντώνης) is a Greek composer singer and performer of lyra the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra. He comes from the mountainous village of Anogeia in Crete and is the younger brother of the late Nikos Xylouris a notable Cretan singer/musician as well as the older brother of Yiannis Xylouris an equally notable Cretan musician.
Graem Whyte.  Graem Whyte is a sculptor born and raised in metro Detroit currently based in Hamtramck MI. His career started in the field of architecture later shifted to fine art and now hybridizes both disciplines. In 2004 Whyte created the one night only weekly art showcase This Week In Art at Motor City Brewing Works which continues to the present. In 2007 Whyte and his wife Faina Lerman founded the experimental art venue Popps Packing in Hamtramck.
Tony Scoggo.  Tony Scoggo (born Anthony Scoggins on 6 May 1936) is a British actor best known for his role in the television soap opera Brookside. He played Matty Nolan in the series from 1982 to 1992.Other TV roles include: Boys from the Blackstuff and Doctor Who (in the serial Terror of the Vervoids).
Amber Dawn.  Amber Dawn is a Canadian writer who won the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging lesbian gay bisexual or transgender writer.A writer filmmaker and performance artist based in Vancouver British Columbia Dawn published her debut novel Sub Rosa in 2010. The novel later won that year's Lambda Literary Award for lesbian debut fiction.
Heather James.  Heather James (also known as Heather Moray) is a British television actress. She has appeared in a number of television series including Cribb The Black Tower One by One and Columbo.
MC Hammer.  Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30 1962) known professionally as M.C. Hammer (and later simply Hammer) is an American rapper dancer entrepreneur spokesman and occasional actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the late 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame Hammer is known for hit records (such as U Can't Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit) flashy dance movements choreography and eponymous Hammer pants.
Alexander Crawford Lamb.  Alexander Crawford Lamb (1843–1897) was a Scottish hotelier art collector antiquarian and writer. He amassed a considerable collection of paintings literary works china furniture antiquities and other ephemera and memorabilia. His most notable literary achievement was the publication of a massive volume entitled Dundee: its Quaint and Historic Buildings (1895).
Jai Boo.  Jai Boo is an underground hip hop artist from Wolverhampton. She is signed to Wolftown Recordings and is a member of Wolftown Committee. She has received national airplay from radio stations such as BBC Radio 1Xtra and Asian Network being played by such DJs as Ras Kwame and Bobby Friction.She made her recording debut on Villains' debut album Welcome To Wolftown.
Richard Devine.  Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound combining influences from hip-hop to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records which was founded by Josh Kay of Phoenecia. He has also done extensive recording and sample work with Josh Kay under the name DEVSND.
Magnet (musician).  Magnet is the pseudonym of Norwegian singer-songwriter Even Johansen (born 7 June 1970 Bergen Norway). To date he has released four full-length studio albums as well as several singles and EPs. Johansen draws upon many influences including folk pop and electronica. His albums are composed and produced solely by him and he usually performs live sets on his own using preset loops or creating them as he plays.
Walter Damrosch.  Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30 1862 – December 22 1950) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He is best remembered today as long-time director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and for conducting the world premiere performances of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F (1925) and An American in Paris (1928).
Ashley (singer).  Ashley Colon better known as la chica bomba (the bomb girl) (b. October 27 1975 in Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican merengue artist singer.Mostly influenced by popular Puerto Rican singer and actress Iris Chacón Ashley Quinteros began her successful career while leading a tropical music band Las Chicas del Clan meaning the girls of the clan.
John Park (musician).  John Andrew Park (Hangul: 존박 Hanja: 朴成奎 born September 13 1988) is an American singer of Korean descent. He was a semifinalist on the ninth season of American Idol; placing twentieth. He is the runner-up of Superstar K2 a Korean singing contest held by M.net. He is currently signed to Music Farm Entertainment.
Edwin Charles Tubb.  Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 – 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future.
Ron Wynn.  Ron Wynn is a music critic author and allmusic editor. Wynn was the editor of the first edition of The All Music Guide to Jazz (1994) and from 1993 to 1994 served as the jazz and rap editor of the All Music Guide. Wynn is the former editor of New Memphis Star and the former chief jazz and pop music critic for Bridgeport Post-Telegram and Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Ron Elisha.  Ron Elisha (born 1951) is an Australian playwright writer and general practitioner.Born in Jerusalem Ron Elisha's family moved to Melbourne Australia in 1953. In 1975 he graduated in Medicine from Melbourne University and has practised as a GP since then. His first play In Duty Bound was staged in 1979. Since then he has written dozens of plays two children's books and occasional pieces for newspapers.
Michiel Sweerts.  Michiel Sweerts (29 September 1618 – 1664) also known as Michael Sweerts was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period active in Rome (1645–1656) in the style of the Bamboccianti.
Alina Smith.  Alina Smith (born August 25 1991) is a country and hip-hop singer songwriter record producer and rapper.
Ivo Ringe.  Ivo Ringe (born July 5 1951) is a German artist who is classified as a Concrete art painter.
Bill Hader.  William Bill Hader (born June 7 1978) is an American actor voice actor comedian producer and writer. He is known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live his lead voice role in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and his supporting roles in comedy films such as Superbad Pineapple Express Tropic Thunder Adventureland Men in Black 3 Paul Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Helen Meles.  Helen Meles is a prominent Eritrean singer and actress. She has released several albums and appeared in many top-rated Eritrean films.
Rob Marcello.  Robert Marcello born September 9 1977 Sweden is a neo-classical metal rock and jazz/fusion guitar player who replaced Andy Timmons as the lead guitarist of the band Danger Danger in 2003.He has also played in the bands Ironhorse Obsession Twenty 4 Seven and Marcello-Vestry.In late 2009 he was also a stand-in guitarist in the 1980s band House of Lords.Rob plays Caparison Guitars and sponsors Boss Corporation he is featured as the guitarist for many of their pedal demonstration videos.
DJ Funk.  Charles Chambers better known by his stage name DJ Funk is a Chicago house DJ who pioneered the ghetto house subgenre of house music. Through the 1990s he built a regional reputation in the Chicago-Detroit region and in the Midwest rave scene. His 1999 album Booty House Anthems was distributed nationally and sold over one million copies. He founded the Funk Records label in 2006. He is included in Modulations a 1998 film documentary of electronic music.
Antonio Maria Viani.  Antonio Maria Viani (born c. 1540) (also called Vianino) was an Italian painter and carver of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of the Campi. He was court painter to Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga and adorned the large gallery of the Ducal Palace at Mantua with groups of children. He worked also at Capua. He died at Mantua at a very advanced age.
Dominique Cerejo.  Dominique Cerejo is an Indian female playback singer best known for the song Yeh Tumhari Meri Baatein from Rock On!!. She has sung in over thirty bollywood soundtrack albums. She is married to Clinton Cerejo who also works in the Indian Music Industry.
Marcio Takara.  Marcio Takara is a comic book artist known for his work on books such as Incorruptible The Incredibles: Family Matters and Dynamo 5.
Avi Schwartz.  Avi Schwartz (born 1938) is an Israeli painter.
Feng Xiaogang.  Feng Xiaogang (simplified Chinese: 冯小刚; traditional Chinese: 馮小剛; pinyin: Féng Xiǎogāng) (born 1958) in (Beijing China) is a Chinese film director. He is well known in China as being a highly successful commercial filmmaker whose comedic films do consistently well in the box office although Feng has attempted to break out from that mold by making drama or period drama films recently.
Colson Whitehead.  Colson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is the author of the 1999 novel The Intuitionist as well as four other novels and one book of non-fiction. In 2002 he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Priscilla Mitchell.  Priscilla Mitchell (born September 18 1941 in Marietta Georgia) was an American country music singer.
Georges Rouget.  Georges Rouget (1781 Paris – 1869 Paris) was a neoclassical French painter.
Arthur Wilkinson.  Arthur Wilkinson (3 September 1919 – 1968) was a British orchestral composer and arranger. He began composing while serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II and made many contributions to film stage shows and television.
David King-Wood.  David King-Wood (12 September 1913 – 3 September 2003) was a British actor. He was born in Tehran Iran (then Persia) the youngest of four children. His father was William King Wood (CIE CBE) Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and his mother was Daisy Adcock daughter of Sir Hugh Adcock (who was once the physician to the Shah of Persia).
Becky Priest.  Becky Priest is an American country music singer-songwriter and instrumentalist hailing from Hubbard Texas now based in Nashville Tennessee.Since moving to Nashville Tennessee in 1992 Priest has toured over 26 countries as both primary artist and with many artists including Neal McCoy Trisha Yearwood Patty Loveless Pam Tillis Mel Tillis Mel Tillis Jr. Carrie April Tillis Vince Gill Alabama Garth Brooks Michael McDonald Christopher Cross Liza Minnelli Engelbert Humperdinck Huey Lewis and the News Jim Peterik & The Ides of March Lou Gramm of Foreigner Foghat 38 Special Lynyrd Skynyrd Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night and Who's Line Is It Anyway comedian/entertainer Wayne Brady.
Phillip Johnston.  Phillip Johnston (born 1955) is an American composer and saxophonist.
Gillian Rogerson.  Gillian Rogerson is a children's author based in Leeds England.
Sonny Clark.  Conrad Yeatis Sonny Clark (July 21 1931 – January 13 1963) was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
Russell Malone.  Russell Malone (born November 8 1963 in Albany Georgia) is an essentially self-taught swing and bebop jazz guitarist. He began working with Jimmy Smith in 1988 and went on to work with Harry Connick Jr. and Diana Krall throughout the 1990s.
Juran Hisao.  Jūran Hisao (久生十蘭 Hisao Jūran 6 April 1902 - 6 October 1957) was the pen-name of a Japanese author of popular fiction in Shōwa period Japan. Hisao Jūran was a pioneer in the use of black humor in Japanese literature. His works reflect his extensive knowledge of a wide range of subjects and displayed extraordinary skills and range from mystery tales to humor and both historical and contemporary settings. His real name was Masao Abe (阿部 正雄 Abe Masao).
Johnny Noble.  John Avery Noble (September 17 1892 Honolulu Hawaii – January 13 1944 Honolulu) better known as Johnny Noble was an American musician composer and arranger. He was one of the key figures behind the development of the hapa haole style of music in Honolulu and played a leading role in introducing Hawaiian music to the United States.
Nina Albright.  Nina Albright was an American comic book artist during the Golden Age of Comic Books one of the few woman working in that field during the period.Albright got her start in the comics industry by answering a classified ad placed by packager Jerry Iger. She worked in studios like Funnies Inc. L.B. Cole and Bernard Baily in the 1940s. While employed at Novelty Press in New York she worked on such features as Young King Cole Lem the Grem Contact Comics Dr.
Johann Andreas Streicher.  Johann Andreas Streicher (13 December 1761 Stuttgart – 25 May 1833 Vienna) was a German pianist composer and piano maker. In 1793 he married Nannette Streicher (1769–1833) another piano maker and the daughter of Augsburg piano maker Johann Andreas Stein. In 1794 they moved to Vienna. From that time Streicher worked as a piano teacher and became increasingly known for his compositions.
Kim Dasom.  Kim Dasom (born May 6 1993; Hangul: 김다솜) better known by her stage name Dasom (Hangul: 다솜) is a South Korean idol singer and actress . She is best known as a member of the girl group Sistar under Starship Entertainment.
Phyllis Gotlieb.  Phyllis Fay Gotlieb née Bloom (May 25 1926 – July 14 2009) BA MA was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA).The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One a collection of poems.
Kevin Whalum.  Kevin Whalum (born 1967) is an American vocalist and songwriter that has worked and toured with some of music’s most respected artists including his brother legendary jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum Stevie Wonder George Duke Michael McDonald Take 6 Lalah Hathaway Maysa Leak Kim Burrell Patti Austin Tommy Sims Bob James Wynonna Judd Jonathan Butler and James Ingram.
Justin Nozuka.  Justin Tokimitsu Nozuka (born September 29 1988) is an Canadian-American singer and songwriter. His debut album Holly has been released in Europe Canada Japan and the United States. He has licensed the album to indie label Coalition Entertainment Records distributed by Warner Music in Canada Outcaste Records in the UK/EU distributed by EMI and Glassnote Records in the US distributed by RED.
Khursheed Ahmad.  Alhaj Khursheed Ahmad or Khurshid Ahmad(Urdu: الحاج خورشید احمد‎ ) was a Naat Khawan from Pakistan. He started to recite Naat Khawani when he was only few years old until his death recited thousands of Naats. He used to proficiently recite Naats not only in Urdu but also in other languages such as Bengali. The melody of his voice and the unique way of reciting attracted numerous people towards him and soon he become a famous Naat Khawan in the World.
Juliet E. McKenna.  Juliet E. McKenna (born 1965) is a British fantasy author. McKenna was born in Lincolnshire in 1965 and studied Greek and Roman history and literature at St Hilda's College Oxford. She now lives in West Oxfordshire with her husband Steve Souch and sons. McKenna has written three series of novels The Tales of Einarinn The Aldabreshin Compass and The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution as well as many short stories and articles.
Sanmao (author).  Sanmao (三毛) (March 26 1943 – January 4 1991) is a Taiwanese novelist translator and writer.
Rick Ostrander.  Rick Ostrander is the provost at Cornerstone University.
Ed Bogas.  Ed Bogas born Edgar Noel Bogas and sometimes credited as Edward Bogas is an American musician and composer whose work has been featured in films animations and video games.
Chuck Rozanski.  Charles Rozanski (born March 11 1955) is a German-American retailer and columnist known as the President and CEO of the Denver Colorado-based Mile High Comics Inc. and a columnist for the Comics Buyer's Guide.
Luc De Larochellière.  Luc De Larochellière (born 27 April 1966) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.after winning many awards at the Festival de la chanson de Granby Quebec and getting the attention of critics and record labels. Signed to Trafic record label in 1988 De Larochellière released his debut album Amère America. The album resulted in a number of hits including the title track Amère America as well as La route est longue and Chinatown Blues. The album was certified gold.
Tony Hendrik.  Tony Hendrik (born Dieter Lünstedt March 4 1945 in Bad Bederkesa a.k.a. Dee Dee Halligan Jimmy Tarsus) is a German music producer composer and owner of a record label. The most known artists and bands he has produced and composed for are Bad Boys Blue Londonbeat and Haddaway.
Ivan Shmelyov.  Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Шмелёв also spelled Shmelev and Chmelov) (October 3 [O.S. September 21] 1873 – June 24 1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow. He was a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
David Ryan Long.  David Ryan Long is the author of two novels. His debut novel Ezekiel's Shadow won the 2002 Christy Award for Best First Fiction. Quinlin's Estate is his second novel. He is also the voice behind the faith*in*fiction blog devoted to conversation about the intersection of faith and fiction.
Jhaverchand Meghani.  Jhaverchand Meghani (Gujarati: ઝવેરચંદ મેઘાણી; (1896-08-28)August 28 1896 – March 9 1947(1947-03-09)) was a noted poet litterateur social reformer and freedom fighter from Gujarat. He is a well-known name in the field of Gujarati literature. He was born in Chotila. Mahatma Gandhi spontaneously gave him the title of Raashtreeya Shaayar (National Poet). Besides this he received many awards like Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak and Mahida Paaritoshik in literature. He authored more than 100 books.
Page McConnell.  Page Samuel McConnell (born May 17 1963 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as a songwriter and keyboardist with the American rock band Phish. He plays on stage right which is referred to by fans as Page Side Rage Side.In addition to being a member of Phish since 1985 McConnell has had several other musical liaisons during his career including a trio named Vida Blue.
Bertil Anderberg.  Otto Bertil Anderberg (13 February 1913 – 11 September 1991) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Malmö Sweden and died in Gothenburg.
Carlo Rustichelli.  Carlo Rustichelli (24 December 1916 – 13 November 2004) was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions as well as arrangements for other films and music for television.
Action Bronson.  Arian Asllani (born December 2 1983) better known by his stage name Action Bronson is an American rapper from Flushing Queens New York. He is signed to Vice Records and Atlantic Records. He has released various mixtapes such as the critically acclaimed Rare Chandeliers with The Alchemist before releasing his major-label debut an EP titled Saaab Stories with frequent collaborator Harry Fraud in 2013. He is currently working on his major-label debut studio album.
Big H (rapper).  Adrian Harris better known by his stage names Big H and Big Hooligan is a grime rapper/MC from Edmonton North London. Formerly associated with the grime collective Meridian Crew in the early 2000s Big H is now part of the North London Bloodline Crew along with former Meridian members President T (better known as Prez T) Paper Pablo Meridian Dan Bossman Birdie and 9 Milli Major.
Abd-ul-Rafay Khan.  Abdul-Rafay Khan (Urdu: عبدالرافع خان‎) also known as Rafay Khan is a Pakistani singer and reality program competitor. He is known for reality tv shows including Pakistan Idol in which he is currently among the top 7 contestants. Rafay has received training as a classical singer and currently he is a third year student of music at NAPA in Karachi. Rafay's music has many influencers including Baray Ghulam Ali Khan and Sajjad Ali.
Rodrigo Amarante.  Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves (born September 6 1976) in (Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (state) Brazil) is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and accasional arranger. He is part of the bands Los Hermanos Orquestra Imperial and Little Joy and has released his first solo record called Cavalo in Brazil in late 2013.
Andy Gotts.  Dr Andy Gotts MBE is a celebrity photographer from London England. He is most noted for his black and white portraits of Hollywood actors.Gotts' work has been published internationally and has appeared in many magazines; GQ Empire FHM Total Film Stern French Vogue Glamour El Mundo OK Salute! io Donna; as well as weekend newspaper supplements and advertising campaigns.
Daniel Gilbert (psychologist).  Daniel Todd Gilbert (born November 5 1957) is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist known for his research (with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia) on affective forecasting with a special emphasis on cognitive biases such as the impact bias.
Chaim-Dovid Saracik.  Chaim-Dovid Saracik is an Orthodox Jewish (Chasidish) musician who lives in the Old City of Jerusalem. He has produced more than eleven albums and has played for thousands of people over the past couple of decades.
Bobby Durham (country musician).  Bobby Durham (b. 1942 [1]) is an American country musician associated with the Bakersfield sound. His hits include Do You Still Drink Margaritas; Playboy; Let’s Start a Rumor Today and the classic song penned by Merle Haggard My Past Is Present.
Alan Clark (keyboardist).  Alan Clark (born 5 March 1952 in Great Lumley County Durham England) is an English musician who was the first and main keyboardist for the British rock band Dire Straits.
Nazaret Daghavarian.  Nazaret Daghavarian (Chaderjian 1862 Sebastia - 1915) was an Armenian doctor agronomist and public activist one of the founders of Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU).He studied in the colleges of Istanbul then finished the university of Paris. He was the chief director of the Armenian schools of Sebastia province then directed the Aramian school and St Savior hospital in Constantinople.
Brian Kennedy (record producer).  Brian Kennedy is an American songwriter record producer and musician from Kansas City Missouri. Revered as a piano prodigy he has been making music tracks since 2001. However he rose to fame in 2006 with featured production on singer Ciara's album Ciara: The Evolution.
Patrick Yau.  Patrick Yau Tat-Chi is a Hong Kong film director and assistant director best known for making independent films for Milkyway Image the production company owned by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai.
Pauline Duchambge.  Pauline Duchambge née de Montet (1778 – 23 April 1858) was a French pianist and composer. Antoinette-Pauline de Montet was born into a wealthy family in Martinique West Indies. She lived for a while in a convent but left in 1792 and married the Baron Duchambge in 1796. Both her parents died in 1798. She and her husband later divorced and she supported herself as a musician and composer.
Publications by Denis Gifford on radio television music and music hall.  In addition to published work this article also includes Denis Gifford's radio and television credits.
Sweet Baboo.  Sweet Baboo is Stephen Black a musician from rural North Wales. Before becoming a solo artist he played with the band JT Mouse. He is bilingual in Welsh and English but usually sings in English.
Rodolfo Morgari.  Rodolfo Morgari (Turin 1827 - Turin 1909) was an Italian painter mainly depicting historic and patriotic battle paintings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11 1836 – March 19 1907) was an American poet novelist travel writer and editor.
Joop Sanders.  Joop Sanders is a painter and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. He is the youngest member of the first generation of the New York School. He exhibited in the legendary 9th Street Art Exhibition otherwise known as the 9th St. Show May 21-June 10 1951 along with Willem de Kooning Elaine de Kooning Albert Kotin. Milton Resnick Joan Mitchell Lee Krasner among others.
Helen Blatch.  Helen Blatch (born 1933) is a British actress mostly seen on television.Her credits include: Doctor Who (in the serials The Deadly Assassin and The Twin Dilemma) Secret Army Blake's 7 Tenko A Touch of Frost The Bill and Doctors.
Gilbere Forte.  Gilbere Forté (born July 14 1987) is an American rapper songwriter and producer.
Charles Platt (author).  Charles Platt (born 1945) is an author journalist and computer programmer. He relocated from England to the United States during 1970 is a naturalized U.S. citizen and has one daughter Rose Fox. Platt is the nephew of Robert Platt Baron Platt of Grindleford.
Albert Whiggs Easmon.  Albert Whiggs Easmon (1865-21 May 1923) was a Sierra Leonean doctor and the half-brother of Dr John Farrell Easmon. Easmon was among the first group of Sierra Leoneans to qualify as a medical doctor after getting a degree from Edinburgh University. He became the leading gynaecologist in Freetown Sierra Leone and had an extensive private practice.
Jean-Pierre Richard.  Jean-Pierre Richard (born July 15 1922 Marseille) is a French writer and literary critic.
Liviu Rebreanu.  Liviu Rebreanu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈliviw reˈbre̯anu]; November 27 1885 – September 1 1944) was a Romanian novelist playwright short story writer and journalist.
James BeauSeigneur.  James BeauSeigneur (born in 1953) is an American Christian novelist.James BeauSeigneur is a former intelligence analyst who has worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). As an author he has worked with the Department of Homeland Security by serving on “Terrorist Red Cells” to speculate on possible terrorist targets and tactics.
John Randolph Spears.  John Randolph Spears (1850-1936) was an American author and journalist born at Van Wert Ohio. For some time he was associated with the Buffalo Express and the New York Sun. Later devoting himself to writing he settled at Little Falls N. Y.
Datach'i.  Datach'i is the pseudonym of Joseph Fraioli an electronic musician based in New York City. Datach'i's music places an emphasis on complex drum programming and elaborate timing.
Nora Clench.  Nora Clench (May 6 1867 – May 17 1938) was a Canadian violinist.
Curtis Salgado.  Curtis Salgado (born February 4 1954 in Everett Washington United States) is an American Portland Oregon based blues R&B and soul singer-songwriter. He plays harmonica and fronts his own band as lead vocalist.
Petit-Pays.  Petit-Pays (born Adolphe Claude Moundi in Douala Cameroon in 1967) is a Cameroonian musician. By 1996 he had sold over 50000 cassettes. He is also known as OMEGA Rabba Rabbi Turbo and famously Avocat defenseur des femmes (advocate for women). He is one of the most celebrated Cameroonian musicians of the late 1980s and 1990s. His music has evolved over the years adapting to contemporary African genres.
Roy Emerton.  Roy Emerton (1893–1944) was a British film actor.He was a sailor cowboy stoker stevedore railroader miner etc. and served in World War I. He played in a great number of popular London stage shows including Shakespeare as well as film work.
Quentin Blake.  Sir Quentin Saxby Blake CBE FCSD RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist illustrator and children's writer. He may be known best for illustrating books written by Roald Dahl. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002 the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate.
John Crane.  John Rene Crane (born March 20 1962) is an American writer and actor best known as the head writer executive producer and occasional performer on Fox's Saturday late night sketch comedy program MADtv.
Konstanze Eickhorst.  Konstanze Eickhorst (born 6 May 1961 in Bremen) is a German pianist. Eickhorst won the IX Clara Haskil (1981) and IV Géza Anda (1988) competitions. A member of the Linos Ensemble she has been active at an international level as a soloist and a chamber musician and has recorded for CPO. She teaches at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.
Tana French.  Tana French (born 1973) is an Irish novelist and theatrical actress. Her debut novel In the Woods (2007) a psychological mystery won the Edgar Anthony Macavity and Barry awards for best first novel. She is a liaison of the Purple Heart Theatre Company and lives in Dublin.
Michael Tao.  Michael Tao Dai Yu (Chinese: 陶大宇 born 26 August 1963) is a Hong Kong television actor.
Timmy Hung.  Timmy Hung Tin Ming is a Hong Kong actor and the eldest son of martial arts superstar Sammo Hung. He is half Korean his mother is Sammo Hung's first wife.
B.B. King.  Riley B. King (born September 16 1925) known by the stage name B.B. King is an American blues musician singer songwriter and guitarist.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time (previously ranked No. 3 in the 2003 edition of the same list) and he was ranked No. 17 in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. According to Edward M.
Tim Minchin.  Timothy David Tim Minchin (born 7 October 1975) is a British-born Australian comedian actor and musician.Minchin is best known for his musical comedy including six CDs three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows that he has performed internationally. He has appeared on television in Australia Britain and the United States. After growing up in Perth Western Australia he attended the University of Western Australia and WAAPA before moving to Melbourne in 2002.
Hugues Merle.  Hugues Merle (1823–1881) was a French painter who mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. He has often been compared with William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Alex Naumik.  Alexandra Naumik (formerly Alexandra Sandøy; 12 August 1949 – 17 September 2013) better known by her stage name Alex was a Polish-Norwegian rock and pop artist who rose to fame in the late 1970s.
Ryuichi Sakamoto.  Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi born January 17 1952) (Japanese pronunciation: [sakamoto ɽju͍ːitɕi]) is a Japanese musician activist composer record producer writer singer pianist and actor based in Tokyo and New York. He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist.
Edwin Swayze.  Edwin Swayze or Swayzee (June 13 1906 – January 31 1935) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.Swayze grew up in Little Rock Arkansas and played with Alphonso Trent Art Sims Eugene Cook Alex Hill Jelly Roll Morton and Sammie Lewis early in his career. He moved to New York City late in the 1920s where he continued to work with Morton before joining Lew Leslie's Blackbirds revue for a tour of Europe.
Mary Woodvine.  Mary Woodvine is a British television actress who appeared as Mary Harkinson in the BBC soap EastEnders in 2003. Her father John Woodvine is also an actor.
Maxwell Maltz.  Maxwell Maltz (March 10 1889 – April 7 1975) was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960) which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image. In turn the person would lead a more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books among which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller — influencing many subsequent self-help teachers.
Romana (singer).  Romana Panić (Serbian Cyrillic: Романа Панић) (born 9 April 1975) better known by the stage name Romana is a Bosnian pop-folk and pop singer.
Junji Ishiwatari.  Junji Ishiwatari (いしわたり 淳治 Ishiwatari Junji born August 21 1977 in Towada Aomori) is a Japanese musician songwriter and record producer. He is also famous for a guitarist of the Japanese band Supercar.
Ruco Chan.  Ruco Chan Chin-pang (born 14 January 1977) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. Chan gained media recognition as the young barrister Keith Lau in the TVB television legal drama The Other Truth (2011) and was critically lauded for the role.After graduating from TVB's Artiste Training Class in 1994 Chan appeared in numerous small roles on TVB television dramas. In 1998 Chan left TVB and signed a record contract with PolyGram and released the single BLUE that same year.
Johnny Dollar (musician).  Johnny Dollar (March 8 1922 Kilgore Texas - April 13 1986) was an American country and rockabilly musician.
Jazzkantine.  Inspired by Guru's Jazzmatazz project the German formation Jazzkantine was founded in 1993 in Braunschweig. Their first album Jazzkantine won them the Echo Award in 1995 the most important German music prize.The music of Jazzkantine is a cross-over between jazz funk and hip hop music: German rap over music and beats heavily influenced by jazz standards often interpreted in a very funky way. This genre is also known as jazz rap.
Jennifer Warnes.  Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3 1947) is an American singer songwriter arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks. She is a close friend of and collaborator with Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen.
Shara Nelson.  Shara Nelson is a British singer and songwriter. She is notable for her work with the band Massive Attack in the early 1990s and for her solo career in which she garnered five UK Top 40 hit singles. Her 1993 debut album What Silence Knows was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.
Maxime Jacob.  Maxime Jacob or Dom Clément Jacob (13 January 1906 Bordeaux – 26 February 1977 Abbaye En-Calcat Dourgne Tarn) was a French composer and organist.
George Edward Ellis.  George Edward Ellis (8 August 1814 – 20 December 1894) was a Unitarian clergyman and historian.
Joe Keatinge.  Joe Keatinge is an American comic book writer and editor best known for his writing work with Marvel Comics Image Comics and as the co-editor of Popgun with Mark Andrew Smith.
Terence de Vere White.  Terence de Vere White (29 April 1912 – 17 June 1994) was an Irish writer lawyer and editor.Born in Dublin he studied at Trinity College Dublin where he qualified as a solicitor and became a partner in a leading Dublin law firm. He gave up law when he became the literary editor of The Irish Times from 1961 to 1977.
Moreno (singer).  Moreno (born Moreno Donadoni on November 27 1989) is an Italian rapper. He rose to fame after winning the 12th series of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi. His debut album Stecca was released in June 2013 and as of July 2013 has spent eight weeks at number one on the Italian Albums Chart being certified double platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry for domestic sales exceeding 120000 units.
Lino Liviabella.  Lino Liviabella (7 April 1902 – 21 October 1964) was an Italian composer.Liviabella was born in Macerata. In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his La vittoria (The Victor). He died aged 62 in Bologna.
José Antonio Villarreal.  José Antonio Villarreal (30 July 1924 – 13 January 2010) was a Chicano novelist.Villarreal was born in 1924 in Los Angeles California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. He spent four years in the Navy before attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.
Bertha Hope.  Bertha Hope-Booker (née Rosemond born November 8 1936 in Los Angeles California) is an American jazz pianist and jazz educator. She is the widow of fellow pianist Elmo Hope with whom she collaborated. She has toured Europe and Japan and played with a diverse group of artists. In the 1990s she had her first CDs as a leader and additionally worked with her later husband bassist Walter Booker.
Carlo Rosa.  Carlo Rosa (Aquila (?) 1613- Bitonto September 12 1678) was an Italian Painter.Carlo was the son of a provincial painter Massenzio Rosa.
Knut Hamsun.  Knut Hamsun (August 4 1859 – February 19 1952) was a Norwegian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels a collection of poetry some short stories and plays a travelogue and some essays.The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism.
Juan Cancio Barreto.  He was born in Asunción Paraguay on March 27 1950. Son of Carmen Emategui and Rodolfo Barreto.
Sonya Scarlet.  Sonya Scarlet (born 2 April 1980) is the singer and lyricist of the Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires.
Ole Morten Vågan.  Ole Morten Vågan (born 8 May 1979 in Brønnøysund Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and the older brother of guitarist Petter Vågan.
Luigi Pulini.  Luigi Pulini was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes. He was born in Sicily and became a resident of Rome where he completed his studies. At Rome in 1883 he exhibited two canvases depicting : Lave sull'Etna and Il Tevere presso Porta del Popolo a Rome. In the 1884 Esposizione Nazionale of Turin he exhibited: Prime viole; Strada in Ciociaria (Turin Exhibition 1884) and other studies .
Francisco Domene.  Francisco Domene (born 12 February 1960) is a Spanish writer narrator novelist and poet. He was born in Caniles (Granada) (Spain).
Patti Smith.  Patricia Lee Patti Smith (born December 30 1946) is an American singer-songwriter poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.Called the Godmother of Punk her work is a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is Because the Night which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978.
Carlos de Haes.  Carlos de Haes (January 25 1829 – June 17 1898) was a Spanish painter from Belgium. He was noted for the Realism in his landscapes and was considered to be the first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work.
Werner Bochmann.  Werner Bochmann (17 May 1900 Meerane Kingdom of Saxony – 3 June 1993) was a German composer.
T Bone Burnett.  Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett (born January 14 1948) is an American musician songwriter and soundtrack and record producer. He was a touring guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue.
Alun Richards.  Alun Morgun Richards (27 October 1929 – 2 June 2004) was a Welsh novelist best known for his novel Ennal's Point about the work of a lifeboat crew in South Wales.Richards was born in King Edward Avenue Caerphilly. After training to be a teacher Richards joined the Royal Navy which sparked a fascination with the sea that inspired much of his writing.In 1955 he returned to Wales from London but became ill with tuberculosis and was admitted to the sanatorium at Talgarth.
Chris Browne.  Chris Browne (born 1952) is an American comic strip artist and cartoonist. He is the son of cartoonist Dik Browne and brother of cartoonist Chance Browne. Browne writes and draws the comic strip Hägar the Horrible which is distributed by King Features Syndicate.Born in South Orange New Jersey and growing up in suburban Wilton Connecticut Browne assisted his father on the comic strips Hi and Lois and Hägar the Horrible.
Benny Bailey.  Benny Bailey born Ernest Harold Bailey (13 August 1925 in Cleveland Ohio – 14 April 2005 in Amsterdam) was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter.
Maxine Chernoff.  Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist writer poet academic and literary magazine editor. She was born and raised in Chicago Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago.Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband Paul Hoover she edits the long-running literary journal New American Writing.
Duke Erikson.  Douglas Elwin Erikson (born January 15 1951 in Nebraska) better known as Duke Erikson is an American songwriter producer multi-instrumentalist and founder member of the alternative rock band Garbage which has sold more than 17 million albums worldwide. Before launching Garbage Erikson was a founding member of the popular Midwestern bands Spooner and Fire Town.
Saulo Roston.  Saulo do Amaral Freire Oliveira Souza (born March 22 1989) best known as Saulo Roston is a Brazilian pop singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the fourth season of the reality television show Ídolos Brazil.
Baek Ye-rin.  Baek Ye-rin (Hangul: 백예린) born June 26 1997 is a South Korean singer. She is a member of the JYP Entertainment-managed duo 15& (Hangul: 피프틴앤드).
Benjamin Speed.  Benjamin Peter Speed (born 27 June 1979 in Adelaide South Australia) is an Australian musician who composes scores for film television and theatre.
Bursalı İsmail Hakkı.  Bursalı İsmail Hakkı also known as İsmail Hakkı Bursevî (born in Ottoman Empire in 1653 - d. İsmail Hakkı in 1725) was an Religious Islamic Ottoman scholar interpreter and Ottoman lyricist author.Bursalı İsmail Hakkı was appointed sheikh of the Celvedi Tekle in Bursa. In addition to practicing hat he penned countless works on Tasavvuf Islamic philosophy morality and Tefsir. In most of his works İsmail Hakkı wrote in the style of Yunus Emre.
James Peale.  James Peale (1749 – May 24 1831) was an American painter best known for his miniature and still life paintings and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale.
Ambika Charan Choudhury.  Ambika Charan Choudhury (Assamese: অম্বিকা চৰণ চৌধুৰী) (August 16 1930 – December 4 2011) was a noted Assamese litterateur historian and activist from Bongaigaon in Assam. Popularly he is known as Kamataratna.
Tim Nichols.  Tim Nichols (born in Portsmouth Virginia is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since the late 1980s Nichols has written for several country music singers including Keith Whitley Tim McGraw Faith Hill Jo Dee Messina and Alan Jackson. He and songwriter Zack Turner recorded one album for BNA Entertainment (now BNA Records) in 1993 as the duo Turner Nichols in addition to charting two singles as one half of that duo.
Neelkamal Puri.  Neelkamal Puri (born 1956) is an Indian author columnist and a college teacher. Born in Ludhiana Punjab she grew up in the erstwhile princely state of Patiala where she did her schooling from the Yadavindra Public School. Since 1979 she has worked as a lecturer in English Literature at different colleges in Patiala and Chandigarh. She is currently teaching Literature and Media Studies at the Government College for Girls Chandigarh.
Johnny Tillotson.  Johnny Tillotson (born April 20 1939 in Jacksonville Florida) is an American singer and songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s when he scored 9 top-ten hits on the pop country and adult contemporary billboard charts including Poetry In Motion and the self-penned It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin''. He also sang Yellow Bird an adaptation of the Haitian song.
Sai Sai Kham Leng.  Sai Sai Kham Hlaing (Burmese: စိုင်းစိုင်းခမ်းလှိုင်; pronounced: [sáiɴ sáiɴ kʰáɴ l̥àiɴ]; also Sai Sai Kham Leng; born 10 April 1979) is a well-known Burmese singer-songwriter model novelist and actor of ethnic Shan descent. He is best known for his hip hop music.
Víctor Santiago.  Víctor Antonio Santiago Negrón known as Víctor (born February 5 1983 in Villalba Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer host and actor. He is known for being one of the finalists of the fourth season of reality/talent show Objetivo Fama'.
Zeffie Tilbury.  Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (November 20 1863 – July 24 1950) was an English actress.
Lyubov Dostoyevskaya.  Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Любо́вь Фёдоровна Достое́вская; 1869–1926) was a Russian writer memoirist and a second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first Sofiya was born in 1868 and died the same year.Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot. Due to having weak health nervous system problems and constant relationship failures Lyubov had become arrogant haughty and peevish. She never married.
John Bunzow.  John Bunzow (born May 2 1951 in Portland Oregon) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Bunzow was signed to Liberty Records and charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Frithjof Sælen (writer).  Frithjof Sælen Jr. (24 December 1917 – 1 January 2004) was a Norwegian writer illustrator and member of the resistance during World War II.
Tim Sullivan (writer).  Timothy Robert Sullivan who more commonly uses the name Tim Sullivan is an American science fiction novelist screenwriter actor film director and short story writer.Many of his stories have been critically acknowledged and reprinted. His short story Zeke a tragedy about an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth has been translated into German and was a finalist for the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Sara Horowitz.  Sara Horowitz is the founder of Working Today and Freelancers Union leading organizations of independent workers. She was an Echoing green fellow in 1995 and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. She graduated from Cornell University 1984.Her grandfather was vice-president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York and her father was a union lawyer.
Mary Gregg Byrne.  Mary Gregg Byrne (born 1951 in Oberlin Ohio) is an American portraitist Illustrator and landscape artist who is best known for her watercolor paintings.
Mel Gaynor.  Mel George Gaynor (born 29 May 1960 Balham London England) is a British musician. He is best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Simple Minds. Gaynor was born to a Jamaican father and an Afro-Brazilian mother.Gaynor joined Simple Minds in 1982 as a session drummer for the New Gold Dream album (as a recommendation by the record producer Pete Walsh) then later joined the band permanently for the New Gold Dream tour as a replacement for Mike Ogletree.
Tomoyuki Kōno.  Tomoyuki Kōno (河野 智之 Kōno Tomoyuki born October 19 1971 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese voice actor currently works for 81 Produce.
Ilona Harima.  Ilona Harima (4 March 1911 – 9 June 1986) was a Finnish artist whose paintings expressed deep oriental spirituality. Her style was strongly influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism but not similar to Asian art. Harima developed a personal style very different from the mainstream movements of that era between the world wars.
Ian Kirkpatrick (producer).  Ian Kirkpatrick is an American grammy nominated multi-platinum music producer and songwriter. He has produced engineered mixed or written tracks for Neon Trees Blake Shelton Plain White T's Dia Frampton Breathe Carolina Young the Giant and others.
John Gruber.  John Gruber (born 1973) is a writer and blog publisher from the greater Philadelphia Pennsylvania area of the United States. Gruber received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University. He worked for Bare Bones Software from 2000 to 2002 and Joyent from 2005 to 2006. His main project is Daring Fireball a technology blog that has become his full-time job.
Mario Sorrenti.  Mario Sorrenti (born 24 October 1971) is a photographer and director best known for his spreads of nude models in the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.Sorrenti was born in Naples Italy but moved to New York City at the age of ten where he is still based. He is the son of New York based advertiser Francesca Sorrenti. He has had exhibitions in London (Victoria and Albert Museum) Paris Monaco and New York (Museum of Modern Art).
Zinaida Gippius.  Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius (Russian: Зинаи́да Никола́евна Ги́ппиус IPA: [zʲɪnɐˈidə nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvnə ˈɡʲipʲɪus] ; November 20 1869 – September 9 1945) was a Russian poet playwright editor short story writer and religious thinker who has been credited as a co-founder of Russian symbolism and seen as one of the most enigmatic and intelligent women of her time in Russia. She was married to philosopher Dmitriy Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky.
Hayden Schlossberg.  Hayden Schlossberg (born June 9 1978) is an American screenwriter/director/producer from Randolph New Jersey who became well known for co-writing Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as well as co-writing co-directing and co-producing Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay both with Jon Hurwitz.He is a 2000 honors graduate of the University of Chicago as well as a graduate of Randolph High School.
Babel Fishh.  Scott Huber (born June 5 1981) better known by his stage name Babel Fishh is an American alternative hip hop artist currently based in HoustonTexas.
Sébastien Charlier.  Sébastien Charlier (Beaumont-sur-Oise 1971) is a French diatonic harmonica player. He plays chromatically in all keys on a single blues harp. His music is inspired by many different influences from Blues to Jazz from Fusion to Electro-Pop. He is also author of two textbooks: Je débute l'harmonica and Méthode en poche harmonica.
Craig Fairbaugh.  Craig Fairbaugh (born March 11 1978) is a guitarist who is best known for playing with the rock band +44 (pronounced plus forty-four). The band was made up of Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker and Shane Gallagher of The Nervous Return. Fairbaugh has joined Juliette and the Licks full time as guitarist and back-up vocalist. He is also the guitarist and vocalist of the goth rock/punk band Mercy Killers.
Max Fourny.  Max Fourny (4 August 1904 – 9 March 1991) was a French publisher art collector and former motor racing driver. He founded the Musée d'Art Naïf – Max Fourny in Paris which houses an important collection of naïve paintings and sculptures from around the world. His art collection was later distributed between the museum in Paris and the International Museum of Naive Art at Vicq near Versailles (Fourny's former home). Fourny was married to the painter Françoise Adnet.
Ovie Alston.  Overton Ovie Alston (December 14 1905 – 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter vocalist and bandleader.Alston played with Bill Brown and His Brownies in New York in 1928 recording with them for Brunswick Records. He was hired by Claude Hopkins in 1931 and remained with him until 1936; it is for this association that he is best known.
Christopher (singer).  Christopher Nissen (born January 31 1992) is a Danish singer from Copenhagen signed to EMI Denmark. In November 2012 he won an award at the Danish Music Awards 2012. He was awarded New Thinker of the Year (Årets nytænker) given by Spotify as an innovation prize.
Neta Lohnes Frazier.  Neta Lohnes Frazier (1890 – 1990) was an American children's author best known for her books about the Pacific Northwest. She published 14 books between 1947 and 1973 including Stout-Hearted Seven The Magic Ring Secret Friend My Love Is a Gypsy and Little Rhody. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Montana Missoula.
Steven Bishop.  Steven Bishop (born on 3 March 1970) is an Australian drummer formerly of Australian band Powderfinger though he left the band before their rise to prominence because of illness. Later while working in the UK for two years he played in London based bands. He has since gone on to record and perform with other Brisbane based bands including Moonjuice The Haymakers and The Predators (for which he is also lead vocalist).
Dan Slott.  Dan Slott is an American comic book writer best known for his work on books such as The Amazing Spider-Man Arkham Asylum: Living Hell She-Hulk Silver Surfer and the twice monthly The Superior Spider-Man.
Syd Kitchen.  Sydney Stanley Kitchen (14 February 1951 – 22 March 2011) was a South African guitarist singer-songwriter and poet. Because of his uncompromising attitude towards the music industry he became an iconic figure in his native South Africa and also around the world albeit in relatively small circles. Up until his death he was the only artist to perform at every single Splashy Fen festival.
Paul Chavez.  Paul Chavez (born July 1 1964) is an American composer of dance music and a sound designer for installation and theater. He often composes under the project name FeltLike. Chavez has worked in the Los Angeles California area since 1990 where he did some of his first works at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions where he started as a sound engineer.
Øyvind Storesund.  Øyvind Storesund (born March 9 1975 in Bø i Telemark Norway) is a Norwegian Rock and jazz musician (upright bass) known from playing in the Norwegian bands Cloroform and Kaizers Orchestra.
Jonas Renkse.  Jonas Petter Renkse (born 19 May 1975) is a founding member songwriter lead vocalist (1991–1994 1997-) and ex-drummer (1991–1994 1996–1998) of the band Katatonia founding member songwriter bassist backing vocalist ex-guitarist (2004) of the band Bloodbath.He was also the founding member drummer vocalist guitarist & songwriter of the band October Tide.
Helen Sung.  Helen Sung is an American jazz pianist.
Kim Wan-sun.  Kim Wan-sun (or Kim Wan-seon born on May 16 1969 as Kim I-seon) is a Korean female singer. Since her sensational debut at the age of 17 in 1986 she's been considered to be Madonna/female Michael Jackson of South Korea or the dancing queen of Korean popular music's renaissance era as she is known for her beauty clear voice charismatic stage presence and catchy hits from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s.
Kenwrick Taylor.  Kenwrick Taylor (born 21 June 1949) is an Australian novelist.Taylor was born in the Sydney suburb of Manly the son of an international businessman and travelled the world until his seventh year when he was returned to Australia. He studied Arts/Law at Sydney University and practised as a criminal lawyer before living for a period as a hippie and then a film caterer.Taylor is the author of two novels.
Walter Boudreau.  Walter Boudreau CM CQ (born Sorel 1947) is a Québécois composer saxophonist and conductor. In 1969 he founded the group L'Infonie with Raoul Duguay which dissolved in 1973. Since 1988 he has been the artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in Montreal. He was a principal collaborator in the Symphonie du Millénaire which took place in Montréal in 2000.
Andrew Migliore.  Andrew John Migliore (b. 1966 in Washington D.C. United States) is the founder and original director of the annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival (three days over the first full weekend of October) and Zompire: The Undead Film Festival in Portland Oregon. Starting in 2006 he took the festival to other cities including: Austin Salem Vancouver B.C and San Pedro. Andrew is the co-author of Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P.
Giovanni Battista Bertucci.  Giovanni Battista da Faenza called Bertucci (the Monkey) who painted in the style of Perugino and Pinturicchio flourished in the early part of the 16th century at Faenza. In the Pinacoteca of that city there are various works ascribed to him of which the most remarkable is a Majesty signed by him and bearing the date 1506.
Mac (rapper).  McKinley Phipps (born July 30 1977 better known by his stage name Mac is an American rapper from New Orleans' 3rd Ward and would grow to be one of the most critically acclaimed on Master P's No Limit Records both as a solo rapper and as a member of the 504 Boyz rap group.
Billy Lee Riley.  Billy Lee Riley (October 5 1933 – August 2 2009) was an American rockabilly musician singer record producer and songwriter. His most memorable recordings included Rock With Me Baby and Red Hot.
Janina Fialkowska.  Janina Fialkowska OC (born May 7 1951) is a Canadian classical pianist.
Suh Yongsun.  Suh Yongsun also Yong Sun Suh or Seo Young-Sun (Korean: 서용선; born 1951 in Seoul South Korea) is a Korean painter and sculptor. In his art he mainly portrays human existence.Suh lives and has his main studio in Gyeonggido near Seoul.
Michael Hutchence.  Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician and actor. He was a founding member and the lead singer and lyricist of rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997.Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released posthumously. He acted in feature films including Dogs in Space (1986) Frankenstein Unbound (1990) and Limp (1997).
Craig Bickhardt.  Craig Bickhardt (born 1954) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His musical career includes co-writing credits for The Judds Steve Wariner Kathy Mattea and others. He was also a member of S-K-B formerly S-K-O after Paul Overstreet exited the band. He has released three studio albums of his own.
Owen Jones (antiquary).  Owen Jones (3 September 1741 – 26 September 1814) known by his bardic name of Owain Myfyr was a Welsh antiquary.
I. Dragoslav.  I. Dragoslav or Ion Dragoslav pen names of Ion V. Ivaciuc or Ion Sumanariu Ivanciuc (June 14 1875 – May 5 1928) was a Romanian writer.
Yannis Varveris.  Yannis Varveris (Greek: Γιάννης Βαρβέρης) (1955 – 25 May 2011) was an award winning Greek poet critic and translator.Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975.
Angus Fairhurst.  Angus Fairhurst (4 October 1966 – 29 March 2008) was an English artist working in installation photography and video. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs).
Chris Matheson.  For the former mayor of Gainesville Florida see Chris Matheson (politician)Chris Matheson is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with fellow screenwriter Ed Solomon together creating the Bill & Ted franchise writing the two films Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
Hedy Klineman.  Hedy Klineman (American) is a painter living in New York City. She has been painting for over 40 years and is known for portraits of New York celebrities and colorful works based on Asian Buddha’s and deities created with silkscreen on canvas done in a manner influenced by her friend Andy Warhol.Her paintings have been shown at The Tibet House Museum Patterson Museum of Contemporary Art and The New England Museum of Contemporary Art.
Jesse Bullington.  Jesse Bullington is an American fantasy writer from Boulder Colorado. Bullington grew up in Pennsylvania before his family moved to the Netherlands and then back to the United States. In 2000 Bullington received his high school diploma from SAIL High School an arts-focused magnet school in Tallahassee Florida.
Esther Rose.  Esther Elvira Rose (1901–1990) was an American painter who worked in oils collage silkscreen and watercolors. Rose is best known for her impressionist renditions of California coastal images.
Hans Hömberg.  Hans Hömberg (1903–1982) was a German playwright journalist novelist and screenwriter. Hömberg worked occasionally on feature film scripts and supplied the idea for Alexis Granowsky's 1931 comedy film The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931). Hömberg enjoyed a successful stage career his biggest hit being Cherries for Rome (1940) although he faced censorship issues with some of his works.During the Nazi era he also wrote film reviews.
John Helyar.  John Helyar (b.1951) an American journalist for the Wall Street Journal is the author of the books Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball which according to WorldCat is held in 688 libraries and coauthor with Bryan Burrough of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco wnicn is held in 2249 libraries and was made into the film of the same title.
Chris Peterson (producer).  Chris Peterson (born Christopher Garet Peterson 14 May 1968) is a Vancouver British Columbia Canada based producer and keyboard player and works for Front Line Assembly Noise Unit and Decree. Peterson joined FLA in 1990 and is a well-known producer in the electronic music scene currently working with Ohm Living Room Project Left Spine Down and Unit 187 among others. Married to Kerry Babz Peterson of Stiff Valentine and Living Room Project.
Antonia de Sancha.  Antonia de Sancha (born 14 September 1961 in Hammersmith London) is an English actress and businesswoman best known as the former mistress of British Conservative Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister David Mellor which became public knowledge in 1992.She is the daughter of a Spanish film producer father who died in the mid-1980s and a Swedish mother who suffering from severe depression committed suicide 18 months later shortly before her daughter began studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. 
Andy Lewis (bassist).  Andrew Joseph Andy Lewis (1966 – 12 February 2000) was the original bassist of Australian band The Whitlams. Back in October 1985 he had joined a power pop band The Plunderers on keyboards guitar and harmony vocals under the pseudonym Andy Waterhole. He soon left The Plunderers and in 1992 he formed The Whitlams but left them in late 1995 and went to Melbourne Australia to join The Gadflys.
Glasser (musician).  Cameron Mesirow (born 1983 or 1984) better known by her stage name Glasser is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. She released her debut EP Apply on May 26 2009 followed by her full-length debut album Ring released on September 24 2010. Her second studio album Interiors was released on October 4 2013.
Vassilis Tsitsanis.  Vassilis Tsitsanis (Greek: Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης 18 January 1915 – 18 January 1984) was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetika. Tsitsanis wrote more than 500 songs and is still remembered as an extraordinary bouzouki player.
Eivor Landström.  Harriet Eivor Emilie Landström (22 March 1919 – 4 August 2004) was a Swedish actress.
TeeFlii.  Christian Jones (born July 17 1987) better known by his stage name TeeFlii is an American singer-songwriter rapper and producer from South Central Los Angeles California. He is currently signed to Epic Records. He is best known for his debut single This D which was produced by DJ Mustard. His second single 24 Hours was premiered in March 2014 and featured 2 Chainz. His debut studio album Starr will be released during 2014 by Epic Records.
Tommaso Realfonso.  Tommaso Realfonso (Naples circa 1677 - after 1743) was an Italian painter of the 18th century specializing studies of still-life paintings of flower and fruit pieces. He also painted vedute or landscapes. He was also called ‘’Masillo’’ by his Andrea Belvedere his master in whose studio he worked till 1694 when Belvedere moved to Spain. A still-life attributed to Realfonso is found in the Museo Correale in Sorrento.
Damian Marrett.  Damian Marrett was born in Melbourne Victoria and is best known for his non-fiction crime novels relating to his career as an undercover police detective with the Victoria Police force. He is credited with some of Australia's largest covert operations and is frequently referred to in articles and pages involving organised Italian crime. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs as a crime commentator and is also a freelance writer.
Lai Lok-yi.  Lai Lok-yi (born 15 June 1980) is a Hong Kong actor.
Adam Bałdych.  Adam Bałdych (born 18 May 1986 in Gorzów Wielkopolski Poland) is a Polish violinist composer music producer. Baldych is ACT MUSIC (Germany) recording artist. He is known from a series of record releases and collaborations with musicians like Marius Neset Morten Lund & Lars Danielsson.
Ivan Seal.  Ivan Seal (born 1973 Stockport England) is an artist living and working in Berlin. Seal studied at Sheffield Hallam University.He is represented by Carl Freedman Gallery London and RaebervonStenglin Zurich. In May 2011 Seal had his first solo exhibition in London at the Carl Freedman Gallery of new paintings followed in September by a solo show in Zurich called the object hurts the space of new paintings and a sound installation.
Homero Manzi.  Homero Nicolás Manzione Prestera better known as Homero Manzi (November 1 1907–May 3 1951) was an Argentine Tango lyricist author of various famous tangos.He was born on November 1 of 1907 in Añatuya (province of Santiago del Estero) Argentina. Manzi was interested in literature and tango since he was young.
Katsushi Ōta.  Katsushi Ōta (太田 克史 Ōta Katsushi born 1972 in Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese editor for Kodansha. He is editor in chief for the literary magazine Faust and the Kodansha Box line.He is currently (2007) working with Del Rey Manga to bring both Faust and Kodansha Box to the US.
Clark Dimond.  Clark Dimond is a guitarist composer and author who runs the Dimond Studios a recording company in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Born into a musical family in 1941 Dimond started playing piano at the age of five learned the guitar when he was 17 years old and added the banjo at age 30. He attended Grinnell College in Iowa and then moved to New York where he worked as an editor on True Experience for McFadden-Bartell while writing scripts for Warren Publishing and Web of Horror.
Margaret Moyes Black.  Margaret Moyes Black (1853–1935) was a Scottish novelist and biographer. She was born on 27 April 1853 in the parish of Scoonie Fife. Her father was William Black a shipmasterand her mother was Margaret Moyes Deas. She wrote her first novel In Glenoran under the pseudonym of M.B. Fife. She was unmarried and died on 16 October 1935 at Montrose Angus.
Dev (singer).  Devin Star Tailes (born July 2 1989) better known as Dev (sometimes stylized as DEV) is an American rapper singer and songwriter. She was discovered by the record label Indie-Pop and The Cataracs via Myspace after her friend Shane Crislip posted her singing to some beats. Dev's song Booty Bounce was sampled in Far East Movement's hit single Like a G6 which reached number 1 in the US and sold over three million downloads in the country.
Alfred Turner (sculptor).  Alfred Turner (1874–1940) was an English sculptor in the early 20th century. Among other institutions Turner studied at the Royal Academy where he exhibited and was a member. He was also a member and fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.His sculptural works included statues reliefs and war memorials.
Bertha Frederich.  Bertha Frederich née Heyn (1825-05.10.1882 Koblenz) was a German novelist. She used pseudonyms including Golo Raimund.
Chad Donovan.  Chad Donovan (born January 11 1972) is an American performer and gay pornographic film director. He has won numerous awards as a performer and director and is a member of the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame and the Grabby Awards Hall of Fame.
Andy Farag.  Andy Farag is the percussionist for progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee. He was brought into the band by original drummer Mike Mirro in late 1998 shortly after the release of their debut album Greatest Hits Vol. III. Farag first appeared on disc with Umphrey's McGee on the 1999 live album Songs for Older Women and has remained with the band ever since.Andy also enjoys creating hip-hop and R&B beats outside of Umphrey's McGee.
Giorgio Gandini del Grano.  Giorgio Gandini del Grano (died 1538) was an Italian painter of the Parma school of painting. He was selected in 1535 to complete decoration of the apse of the Parma Cathedral. He was alleged to have been a pupil of Antonio da Correggio. His masterpiece is the St. Michael altar-piece now in the National Gallery at Parma.
Ed Winiarski.  Ed Winiarski (living status unknown) who sometimes signed his work Win or Winny and sometimes used the pseudonym Fran Miller is an American comic book writer-artist known for both adventure stories and funny-animal cartooning in the late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books.A former animator Winiarski was one of the first generation of comic-book professionals contributing in the mid-1930s to National Allied Publications one of the companies that would evolve into DC Comics.
John Ernest.  John Ernest (May 6 1922 – July 21 1994) was an American-born constructivist abstract artist. He was born in Philadelphia USA in 1922. After living and working in Sweden and Paris from 1946 to 1951 he moved to London England where he lived and worked from 1951. As a mature student at Saint Martin's School of Art he came under the influence of Victor Pasmore and other proponents of constructivism.
Rhys Nanmor.  Rhys Nanmor (fl. 1480–1513) was a Welsh language poet who lived in Nanmor near Beddgelert in North Wales.Among his surviving work is a prophecy to King Henry VII of England and an elegy on the death of Arthur Prince of Wales who died in 1502.Rhys was a family poet of Sir Rhys ap Thomas and is thought to have been the bardic pupil of Dafydd Nanmor.
John (Moz) Farnsworth.  John Farnsworth is a jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and trombone.He was raised in a large musical family in western Massachusetts.
Sofia (Swedish singer).  Sofia Berntson (born 1979 in Stockholm Sweden) known professionally as Sofia (Greek: Σοφία) is a Swedish singer who often sings in Greek. She has released three CD singles since 2007 and has taken part in the Swedish song selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest Melodifestivalen twice in 2007 and more recently in 2009.
Deborah Hautzig.  Deborah Hautzig (born 1956 New York) is the author of several children's books including the Little Witch series.
George Dawson (author).  George Dawson (January 18 1898 – July 5 2001) was called America's favorite poster child for literacy after learning to read at the age of 98. His life story Life Is So Good was published in 2000.
Leslie Pietrzyk.  Leslie Pietrzyk is an American author who has published two novels Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day. Her short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review The Iowa Review New England Review The Sun TriQuarterly and Shenandoah.She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from American University.
Lois McMaster Bujold.  Lois McMaster Bujold (/buːˈʒoʊld/ boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2 1949) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
Yves Chaland.  Yves Chaland (April 3 1957 in Lyon France – July 18 1990 France (car accident)) was a French cartoonist.During the 1980s together with Luc Cornillon Serge Clerc and Floc'h he launched the Atomic style a stylish remake of the Marcinelle School in Franco-Belgian comics.
Ingebrigt Steen Jensen.  Ingebrigt Steen Jensen (born 9 May 1955) is a Norwegian writer consultant advertising man and football official.Steen Jensen is educated at the University of Oslo where he studied English Norwegian and political science.He has worked in advertising since 1982. During the 1990s Steen Jensen took part in the building of JBR advertising agency which was sold to IPG (InterPublic Group) under the name McCann-Erickson Advertising; now known as McCann Worldgroup Norway and Dinamo.
Uwe Timm.  Uwe Timm (* 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer.
Honey Boy.  Keith Williams (born c.1955) better known as Honey Boy is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his recordings in the 1970s who is regarded as one of the pioneers of lovers rock.
Mark Williams (singer).  Mark Williams (born 1954) is a New Zealand-born pop/soul singer with Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) number one hit singles Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life (1975) and a cover of Buddy Holly's It Doesn't Matter Anymore (1977) before he relocated to Australia later that year. His single Show No Mercy (1990) was a top ten hit in both countries.
Luther Rabb.  Luther James Rabb (1942–2006) was an American singer musician and songwriter from Seattle Washington who gained notoriety as the lead vocalist of the Jazz rock group Ballin' Jack and in later years as a member of the group WAR.
Winnie Lau.  Winnie Lau Siu Wai (Chinese: 劉小慧) is a Hong Kong singer and actress. She has two daughters with her husband Edmund So from Grasshopper.
Lani Ka'ahumanu.  Lani Ka'ahumanu is a bisexual and feminist writer and activist.
Caroline Franz.  Caroline Franz is an American television writer.
Liang Wang.  Liang Wang (born 1980) is the current principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic. He was born in Qing Dao China and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and at California’s Idyllwild Arts Academy. He received his bachelor’s degree from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Richard Woodhams.
JoAnna Lund.  JoAnna Margaret Lund (September 4 1944 – May 20 2006) was the author of many books including Healthy Exchanges Cookbook HELP: Healthy Exchanges Lifetime Plan and Make a Joyful Table.
John Conlee.  John Conlee (born August 11 1946) is an American country music singer. Between 1978 and 2004 Conlee charted a total of thirty-two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded eleven studio albums. His singles include seven Number One hits: Lady Lay Down Backside of Thirty Common Man I'm Only in It for the Love In My Eyes As Long As I'm Rockin' with You and Got My Heart Set on You. Besides these Conlee has sent fourteen other songs into the Top Ten.
Neil Thrasher.  Joe Neil Thrasher Jr. (born July 13 1965) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1995 and 1997 he and Kelly Shiver comprised the duo Thrasher Shiver which recorded a studio album for Asylum Records in 1996 and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts in early 1997.
Patrick Nuo.  Patrick Nuo (born August 31 1982 in Canton of Lucerne) is a Swiss-Albanian recording artist and actor.
Yuen Biao.  Yuen Biao (born 26 July 1957) is a Hong Kong actor martial artist. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor stuntman and action choreographer. Along with Peking Opera School brothers at the China Drama Academy Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan he was one of the Seven Little Fortunes.
Seal (musician).  Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963) known by his mononym Seal is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and is known for his numerous international hits including Kiss from a Rose which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Batman Forever.
Lou Cass.  Lou Cass (born 20 April 1966) is an American actor and porn star. He retired from pornography in 1990 and began a career as a film and television actor and recording artist.
Ha Yu (actor).  Pen Yu (born 11 January 1946) better known by his stage name Ha Yu is a Hong Kong actor who has been working on the television network TVB since the 1970s.
Grace Metalious.  Grace Metalious (born Marie Grace DeRepentigny September 8 1924 – February 25 1964) was an American author best known for her controversial novel Peyton Place which stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 59 weeks. It sold 20 million copies in hardcover and another 12 million as a Dell paperback.
Julia Vogl.  Julia Vogl is an artist originally from Washington DC and has done a lot of work in London England. On January 11 2009 she was funded by The Brooklyn Arts Council to create an installation in Fort Greene Park entitled Blades of Fort Greene. While attending the Slade School of Art she completed two other major public art works.
Jessie Liu.  Jessie M. Liu (traditional Chinese: 劉美誼; simplified Chinese: 刘美谊; pinyin: Liu Mei Yi born September 3 1981) is a producer director and host for Chinese American TV programs and singer and songwriter. She is Miss NY Chinese 2002 the first Miss NY Chinese winner to compete in Miss Chinese International.
Teri Greeves.  Teri Greeves (born 1970) is an award-winning Kiowa-Comanche-Italian beadwork artist living in Santa Fe New Mexico. She is enrolled in the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
Haddy Jallow.  Haddy Jallow (born 14 October 1985) is a Gambian-Swedish non-professional actress who on 23 January 2007 won Sweden's top film award the Guldbagge Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as a teenage rape victim in Säg att du älskar mig (Say That You Love Me) released in Sweden on 25 August 2006.A native of the former British colony of Gambia the smallest country on the African continent Haddy Jallow grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby an area noted for its high concentration of African immigrants and subsequently moved with her family to Skogås a suburban municipality with a rural environment.At the age of 15 she was cast by director Daniel Fridell in a 2001 episode of the Swedish television series En klass för sig which portrayed high-school life. 
Elizabeth Simcoe.  Elizabeth Simcoe (September 22 1762 – January 17 1850) was an artist and diarist in colonial Canada. She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
Pierre Lindstedt.  Pierre Ernst Vilhelm Lindstedt (born 15 August 1943) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1966. He is son to Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt.
Ida Tarbell.  Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5 1857 – January 6 1944) was an American teacher author and journalist. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era. She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. She depicted John D.
Fats Domino.  Antoine Fats Domino Jr. (born February 26 1928) is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. Domino released five gold (million-copy-selling) records before 1955. He also had 35 Top 40 American hits and has a music style based on traditional rhythm and blues ensembles of bass piano electric guitar drums and saxophone.
Laura Anne Gilman.  Laura Anne Gilman (born 1967 New Jersey) is an American fantasy author.
Nami Kurokawa.  Nami Kurokawa (黒河 奈美 Kurokawa Nami born January 25 1980) is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka Japan. When voicing adult games she is known as Mina Motoyama (本山 美奈 Motoyama Mina).
Christie Allen.  Christie Allen (born as June Allen 12 September 1954 – 12 August 2008) was an English-born pop singer who had a successful career in Australia. Her top four hits on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart were Goosebumps (October 1979) and He's My Number One (February 1980). Allen was voted the Most Popular Female Performer at the TV Week / Countdown Music Awards for 1979 and 1980. At the 1979 awards Goosebumps also won the Best Songwriter award for Terry Britten.
Georgie Shaw.  Georgie Shaw was an American popular musician born George Shoester in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.He recorded a song called Let Me Go Devil which was about alcoholism. It was later rewritten as Let Me Go Lover!. Another song that he originally recorded which became a hit later when recorded by another singer was Honeycomb. He released four Top 40 singles in the U.S. in the 1950s all on Decca Records. Till We Two Are One was his biggest hit reaching #7 in 1954.
Jason Dormon.  Jason Dormon (born 2 May 1971) is a British bassist and venue owner. He is most noted for his work in Joeyfat and also for his running of the Tunbridge Wells Forum.
Viriato Díaz Pérez.  Viriato Díaz Pérez was of the most important teachers that Paraguay had in almost half a century.
Jezper Söderlund.  Jezper Söderlund is a Swedish record producer and electronic music artist who records mainly under the name of Airbase. His experimentation with electronic music began in 1994 after he was introduced to a digital sequencer application called Scream Tracker. Since 2004 he's been using Ableton Live as his sequencer of choice and he's also known for posting HD tutorials on YouTube with various tips and tricks on how to make the most of Ableton Live.
William Allen (actor).  William Allen (died 1647) was a prominent English actor in the Caroline era. He belonged to both of the most important theatre companies of his generation Queen Henrietta's Men and the King's Men.Allen was a member of the Queen Henrietta's company through the main phase of its existence from 1625 to 1636. Six cast lists for five plays survive for the company; Allen is one of only two men (the other being Michael Bowyer) who is included in all six lists.
Hope Nicholls.  Hope Nicholls (born January 1960) is an American singer-songwriter from Charlotte North Carolina. She was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock bands Fetchin Bones Sugarsmack and Snagglepuss. She also briefly toured with Martin Atkins' band Pigface in support of their album Fook . Hope is currently a contributing vocalist to a local education fund-raising project The Plaza Family Band and is working on a new music project set to debut in 2014.
Lucy Holmes.  Lucy Holmes is a British-born Australian performer TV presenter radio host screenplay writer and director.She has studied a degree in Music Theatre and has since worked as a professional singer actress and presenter recording artist and backing vocalist. She has modelled for companies such as TDK Rutherfords Jewellery Members Equity Bank and Shoe Sales.
Ramón Sagredo.  Ramón Sagredo (1834–1873) was a 19th-century Mexican painter and photographer who worked under the patronage of Emperor Maximilian and decorated the former cupola of La Profesa with the Catalonian master Pelegrín Clavé.Trained at San Carlos Academy from 1854 to 1859 he received praise for his Jesus on the road to Emmaus (including a positive review by Cuba's national poet José Martí).
Jeremy Taylor (singer).  Jeremy Taylor (born 24 November 1937 in Newbury Berkshire) is an English folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa originally as a teacher of English in southern Johannesburg but since 1994 has lived in Wales and in France. Part stand-up comedian part singer Taylor has used his talents to confront the idiosyncrasies as well as societal woes in life.
Robert Belfour.  Robert Wolfman Belfour (born September 11 1940 Red Banks Mississippi United States) is an American blues musician. His father Grant Belfour taught him the guitar at a young age and he continued his tutelage in the blues from musicians Otha Turner R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough in particular had a profound influence on him. His music is deeply rooted in Mississippi Hill Country traditions in contrast to those of delta blues.
David Bromberg.  David Bromberg (born September 19 1945) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter. An eclectic artist Bromberg plays bluegrass blues folk jazz country and western and rock and roll equally well. He is known for his quirky humorous lyrics and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the same time.Bromberg has played with many famous musicians including Jerry Jeff Walker Willie Nelson Jorma Kaukonen Jerry Garcia Rusty Evans (The Deep) and Bob Dylan.
Umewaka Minoru I.  Umewaka Minoru I (初世 梅若 実 Shosei Umewaka Minoru July 7 1828-January 19 1909) was a Noh actor of late Edo and early Meiji period Japan. A prolific teacher of Noh in the Meiji period he taught a variety of people including the painter Kōgyo the writer Ezra Pound and the scholar and art collector Ernest Fenollosa. His diary published under the title Umewaka Minoru Nikki spans much of his life and records in great detail his activities and the world of Noh in the Meiji period.
Alice Masak French.  Alice Masak French (June 29 1930-July 5 2013) is a Ninatakmuit Inuit author who lived in Souris Manitoba. An Inuvialuit she was born an at Baille Island in the Northwest Territories. Her work focuses on the experiences of Inuit women and discusses the struggle to hold on to Native tradition. Her My Name is Masak is an autobiographical tale about her youth in a boarding school while The Restless Nomad (1992) continues the story up until she moves to Ireland.
Lynn Gumert.  Lynn Gumert (born 1961) is an American musician and contemporary composer.
Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel.  Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel (June 21 1841 - June 20 1871) was a French journalist.
Hollywood Hot Sauce.  Paul Dawson best known as Hot Sauce or Hollywood Hot Sauce is an American music producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles California. In short Dawson has written produced and co-produced singles including Robin Thicke's Sex Therapy New Boyz's Spot Right There and Usher's Hot Tottie.
Nico Constantine.  Nico Constantine is an American music director producer and guitarist known for his work with Lady Gaga The Biters Program the Dead Comes with the Fall and Madfly and for his production company Institution Media.
Jade Puget.  Jade Errol Puget (born November 28 1973 in Santa Rosa California) is an American musician and producer best known as the guitarist for the punk rock band AFI (joined in 1998) and the keyboardist/synthesizer operator for the electronic duo Blaqk Audio. Puget is vegetarian and straight edge.
Leila K.  Laila El Khalifi (born September 6 1971) better known by her stage name Leila K is a Swedish Eurodance singer and former rapper of Moroccan descent.
Gemma Merna.  Gemma Ann Merna (born 11 October 1984 in Cleethorpes England) is an English actress and glamour model. She is best known for portraying the role of Carmel McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks since 2006.
Tina Howe.  Tina Howe (born November 21 1937) is an American playwright. She is the daughter of journalist Quincy Howe and was raised in a literary family. Over a career spanning more than three decades Howe's best-known works are Painting Churches Coastal Disturbances and Pride's Crossing.Her works have won numerous awards including the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Pride’s Crossing). Coastal Disturbances was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.
Lou Charmelle.  Lou Charmelle (born October 8 1983) is the stage name of a French former pornographic actress of Tunisian origin.She entered the adult industry at 24 years old in February 2008; she filmed her first scene in a video produced by Fabien Lafait she had previously met during a visit in an erotic fair in Bordeaux. She announced her retirement in October 2012.
Michael Gecan.  Michael Gecan is a community organizer in New York affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation. He was trained in part by Saul Alinsky. He is lead organizer for East Brooklyn Congregations and other New York based organizations. He is the executive director of United Power for Action and Justice a Chicago Based Industrial Area Foundation affiliate. He is the author of Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action (Anchor Books 2004).
Charles Magnante.  Charles Magnante (1905–1986) was an American piano-accordionist arranger composer author and educator. His artistry helped raise the image of the accordion from an instrument considered suitable only for folk music to an instrument accepted in many music genres.
Filippo Pedrini.  Filippo Pedrini (Bologna 1763 - Bologna 1856) was an Italian painter.He was the son of the painter Domenico Pedrini. At the Accademia Clementina in Bologna he became a pupil of Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi while Mauro Gandolfi and Felice Giani were fellow students.His first paintings of Saints Barbara and Thomas Aquinas for San Bartolomeo in Bologna (both in situ) date from 1779 were probably completed in collaboration with his father.
Sharyn Scott.  Sharyn Scott is a British-American singer and songwriter.She is known for singing the English versions of the theme songs in the Tenchi Muyo! series (mostly the songs originally sung by Chisa Yokoyama). Scott was a guest singer at Yokoyama's Los Angeles concert in 1996.
Matthew Odell.  Matthew Odell is an American pianist. He has performed as both a solo and collaborative pianist performing at a variety of locations throughout the United States including New York's Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and cities around the world.
Amaury Gutiérrez.  Amaury Gutiérrez is a Cuban singer-songwriter.His first album Amaury Gutiérrez (1999) was nominated for a Latin Grammy and sold more than 600 thousand copies. He received the breakthrough artist award of the year by Premio Onda in Spain in 2000.He has supported the dissident movement Yo No Coopero Con La Dictadura (English: I Do Not Cooperate with the Dictatorship).
LeAnn Rimes.  Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28 1982) known professionally as LeAnn Rimes is an American country and pop singer.
Jonathan Williams (horn player).  Jonathan Williams (born 1957) is a British horn player who lives in Fossa near L'Aquila in Italy.Jonathan Williams was born in England and studied with Sydney Coulston at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In 1982 he joined the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as principal horn. With The Gaudier Ensemble he recorded most of the central chamber music repertoire which includes the horn. He was also co-principal horn of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Ennio Flaiano.  Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 in Pescara – 20 November 1972 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter playwright novelist journalist and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director including La Strada (1954) La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½.
James Siena.  James Siena (born October 28 1957) is an American contemporary artist based in New York City. His art is typically created through a series of self-imposed constraints also sometimes referred to as visual algorithms —rules Siena decides on before sitting down to work. In most of his work he establishes a basic unit and action and repeats it indefinitely. Siena commented that at a certain point I wanted to make drawings and works that act as machines.
Suzie McNeil.  Susan Jane Suzie McNeil is a Canadian (Toronto-based) pop rock recording artist.
Bob Bolling.  Bob Bolling (born June 9 1928) is an American comic artist and writer best known for his work in Archie Comics. He created the company's popular spinoff title Little Archie.Bolling was born in Brockton Massachusetts. After serving in the U.S. Navy he graduated from Vesper George Art School in Boston. His first job in comics was assisting cartoonist George Shedd on the adventure comic strip Marlin Keel. In 1954 he began freelancing for Archie Comics writing and drawing joke pages.
Adam Forkner.  Adam Forkner (born March 27 1976) is a musician / producer from Portland Oregon USA who since 2003 has performed as White Rainbow.
Robo (musician).  Robo (born Julio Roberto Valverde Valencia in 1955) is a Colombian-American drummer. He was the drummer for Misfits and first gained recognition as a drummer for Black Flag.
Sean Costello (author).  Sean Costello (born 1951 in Ottawa Ontario) is a Canadian author of horror fiction and an anesthesiologist living in Sudbury Ontario.His first three novels published in North America by Pocket Books have been released in the UK by Tor Books and translated into Dutch German and Russian. Finders Keepers and Sandman were published by Red Tower Publications and Finders Keepers has been optioned to film.
John Edward Bruce.  John Edward Bruce also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce-Grit (February 22 1856 – August 7 1924) born a slave in Maryland United States became a journalist historian writer orator civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist. He founded newspapers in Washington DC and Norfolk Virginia as well as co-founding the Negro Society for Historical Research in New York.
Magnus Bäcklund (singer).  Magnus Bäcklund (born 16 November 1965 in Kristinehamn Värmland Sweden) is a Swedish singer. He was part of the Swedish duo fame with Jessica Andersson between 2002 and 2006 after they met at the reality television show Fame Factory. After the break up of the band he developed a solo singing career releasing an album Never Say Never in 2006 immediately after the break-up.
Mario Sarto.  Mario Sarto (October 13 1885– September 13 1955) was an important sculptor of religious and commemorative art renowned for the vast statuary present in the Monumental Cemetery of Bologna.Many of his statues are also located in the main squares of Italian cities among which Codigoro Ferrara Bologna with representations of patron saints and heroic figures of the two World Wars.Grandnephew of Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto Saint Pius X he attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan then opened his own studio in Bologna where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.
Catarina Hurtig.  Catarina Hurtig (born 2 March 1975) is a Swedish journalist and author and participant in the TV-show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.Catarina lives close to the Royal Stables in Östermalm in Stockholm with her son.
Theo Jörgensmann.  Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born September 29 1948 in Bottrop Germany) is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.
Stanley Spiro.  Stanley Spiro (May 27 1919 – October 6 2011) was a pioneer in the practice of modern dentistry and anesthesiology author and educator. Dr. Spiro dedicated his professional life to the much needed relief of pain anxiety and fear for the dental patient.
Marcel Janco.  Marcel Janco (German: [maɐ̯ˈsɛl ˈjaŋko] French: [maʁsɛl ʒɑ̃ko] common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu pronounced [marˈt͡ʃel ˈherman ˈjaŋku] last name also Ianco Janko or Jancu; May 24 1895 – April 21 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s he co-edited with Ion Vinea and Tristan Tzara the Romanian art magazine Simbolul.
Daniel Anderson (musician).  Daniel Robert Anderson (born March 3 1986) is an American musician and record producer and one of the founding members of the alternative rock band Idiot Pilot the folk/alternative band The Ghost and the Grace and Glowbug. He is a multi-instrumentalist and provides vocals. Anderson also contributes a track without a moniker to the Pacific Northwest electronic music compilation titled Cumulous.In 2010 Anderson officially held the fifth highest score ever recorded on Nintendo Tetris.
Jónsi.  Jón Jónsi Þór Birgisson (pronounced [ˈjouːn ˈθouːr ˈpɪrkɪsɔn ˈjounsɪ] ) (born April 23 1975) is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his countertenor voice. He is also blind in his right eye from birth as a cause of a broken optic nerve from the brain. He is openly gay. Apart from Sigur Rós Jónsi also performs together with his partner Alex Somers as an art collaboration called Jónsi & Alex.
Gert Hofmann.  Gert Hofmann (29 January 1931 – 1 July 1993) was a German writer and professor of German literature. Hofmann was born in Limbach Saxony (Germany) and died in Erding (near Munich).He grew up in his native Limbach. In 1948 he moved with his family to Leipzig. There he attended a school for translators studying English and Russian. In 1950 he enrolled to the University of Leipzig where he studied Romance languages and Slavic languages.
Pietro Ricchi.  Pietro Ricchi (1606 – 15 August 1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period born in Lucca.He traveled widely thorough Northern Italy. He was a pupil of the painter Domenico Passignano and Guido Reni. He painted an altarpiece for the church of San Francesco in Lucca. Ricchi died in Udine in 1675.
Charles Waterhouse (artist).  Charles Waterhouse (September 22 1924 – November 16 2013) was an American painter illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern the birthplace of the U. S. Marines to present day topics.
Steven Peterman.  Steven Peterman is an American television producer screenwriter and actor.
Emily Susan Rapp.  Emily Susan Rapp (born July 12 1974) is an American memoirist. When she was six years old she was chosen as the poster child for the March of Dimes due to a congenital birth defect that resulted in the amputation of her leg. As of 2013 she has written two memoirs including one that presents her life as an amputee and the another that tells the story of the birth of her child and his diagnoses of Tay-Sachs disease. She is a former Fulbright scholar and recipient of the James A.
Roy Clarke.  Roy Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer.
Ahmad Kaabour.  Ahmad Kaabour (Arabic: أحمد قعبور; b. July 9 1955 Beirut Lebanon) is a renowned Lebanese singer songwriter music composer and actor. He is perhaps best known for his song Ounadikom which he composed in 1975 upon the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.
Flip Phillips.  Flip Phillips (March 26 1915 – August 17 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player. He is best remembered for his work with Jazz at the Philharmonic from 1946 to 1957.
Dirk Crabeth.  Dirk (or Dirck) Pietersz Crabeth (1501–1574) was a Dutch Renaissance glass painter tapestry designer and mapmaker. He was employed by the Janskerk (Gouda) during the 16th century where he created eight of the stained glass windows during the years 1555-1571. His windows are one of the reasons that the church was placed on the UNESCO list of monuments.
Shawn Tng.  Shawn Tng 唐志瑋 is an award-winning singer and composer from Singapore.
Raimund Hermann Siegfried Moltke.  Raimund Hermann Siegfried Moltke (usually known as Siegfried Moltke) (born Leipzig 9 July 1869; died ca. 1958) was a German writer and economist.
Herbert Knowles.  Herbert Knowles (1798–1817) was an English poet.Knowles was the author of the well-known Stanzas written in Richmond Churchyard which gave promise of future excellence. However he died a few weeks after he had been enabled through the help of Robert Southey to whom he had sent some of his poems to go to the University of Cambridge. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
James Cotton.  James Cotton (born July 1 1935) is an American blues harmonica player singer and songwriter who has performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time as well as with his own band. Although he played drums early in his career Cotton is famous for his work on the harmonica. Cotton began his professional career playing the blues harp in Howlin' Wolf's band in the early 1950s.
Vicky Moscholiou.  Vicky Moscholiou (Greek: Βίκυ Μοσχολιού [ˈvici mosxoˈʎu] 23 May 1943 – 16 August 2005) born in Metaxourgeio in Athens was a Greek singer. On 14 March 2010 Alpha TV ranked Moscholiou the 13th top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960).
Martin Craft.  Martin James Ford Craft (b 18 January 1976) is a musician and songwriter who lives and works in London. Craft was a founding member of the Australian rock band Sidewinder. When they split up he relocated to London where he followed a career as a solo artist under the name M.Craft. He has also spent several years playing rhythm guitar with Jarvis Cocker.
William Butler (musician).  William Pierce Butler (born October 6 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who is best known as a member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. William plays synthesizer bass guitar and percussion. He is known for his spontaneity and antics during performances. He is the brother of Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler. Butler received his first Academy Award nomination for his work on the original score of the film Her in 2014.
Stella Madden.  Stella Madden is an English actress who most recently played Sue Brannigan in ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She has had several other one-off appearances in other British shows such as Casualty and Holby City.
Boy Wonder (producer).  Manuel Alejandro Ruiz (born May 17) better known by his stage names Boy Wonder Chosen Few[citation needed] is an American multi-platinum award winning producer and CEO of his record label Chosen Few Emerald Entertainment Inc. He was born to a Dominican and Puerto Rican mother in Brooklyn New York and raised in Long Island City Queens where he became interested in music.
Siniša Vuco.  Siniša Vuco (born 29 April 1971 in Split SR Croatia SFR Yugoslavia) his stage name being simply Vuco is a Croatian singer songwriter. Common recurring themes in his songs include: addiction alcoholism love the past and suffering.
Tiffany Laufer.  Tiffany Ann Laufer is an American film director screenwriter children's author & illustrator. Laufer studied cinematography at The American Film Institute. She wrote and directed the award winning short film The Acorn Penny.She has written and illustrated three children's books: The Porch Dream Bellaboo & Colby's Colors of Summer & Bellaboo & B–Bug's Book of Counting.
Renji Ishibashi.  Renji Ishibashi (石橋 蓮司 Ishibashi Renji) born Renji Ishida (石田 蓮司 Ishida Renji born August 9 1941 in Shinagawa Tokyo) is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 15th Hochi Film Award for Rōnin-gai.
Leslie Newman.  Leslie Newman is a screenwriter who co-wrote the first three Superman films with husband David Newman who died in 2003. They had two children together. She has written a novel entitled Gathering Force (Simon and Schuster 1974) and a cook book entitled Feasts: Menus for Home-cooked Celebrations (HarperCollins 1990).Newman studied at the University of Michigan.
Ian Brennan (writer).  Ian Brennan is a television writer actor producer and director. He is best known for his work on the American television show Glee.
Emrys Evans.  Sir David Emrys Evans (1891 – 20 February 1966) was a Welsh classicist and university principal.
Ernest Peixotto.  Ernest Clifford Peixotto (1869–1940) was an American artist illustrator and author. Although he was known mainly for his murals and his travel literature his artwork also regularly appeared in Scribner's Magazine. His 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest is famous for including the first written appearance of the ethnic slur spic (although in fact it had previously appeared with a different spelling and pronunciation).
Ivan Parker.  Ivan Parker is an American Southern Gospel singer.
Madiraju Ranga Rao.  Madiraju Ranga Rao (born 1935) is a scholar of Telugu Literature associated with Classical Literature Indian Poetics Modern Poetry Novel & Criticism and Studies in Sanskrit Literature.
Herries Beattie.  James Herries Beattie (6 June 1881–11 May 1972) was a New Zealand bookkeeper journalist historian ethnologist and bookseller. He was born in Gore Southland New Zealand on 6 June 1881.
Susan Andersen.  Susan Andersen (b. 1950) is an American writer of romance novels since 1989.
Youth Lagoon.  Youth Lagoon is an American art project started in 2010 by musician Trevor Powers (born in San Diego California raised in Boise Idaho). Powers has been active in Youth Lagoon since 2010. His debut album The Year of Hibernation was released on Fat Possum Records on September 27 2011. The debut album explores themes such as psychological dysphoria and mental distress and is based around minimalism and hypnotic ambience.
Professor A. Dakshinamurthy.  Professor A. Dakshinamurthy born in Neduvakkottai Mannargudi Taluk Thiruvarur district Tamilnadu India in 1938 is a Tamil scholar a writer and a translator of Sangam medieval and modern Tamil literature into English.
Marshall Vian Summers.  Marshall Vian Summers born on January 28 1949 is an author and the founder of The Society for the New Message from God. His books include Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing (Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Spirituality Book of the Year) and Wisdom from the Greater Community: Volume II–How to Find Purpose Meaning and Direction in an Emerging World (Winner of the 1997 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Award for Spirituality).
Lance Ellington.  Lance Ellington (born c. 1958 London England) is an English singer songwriter and actor. Ellington the only son of the band leader Ray Ellington specialises in swing and big ballads. He has worked with many artists including Sting George Michael Michael Jackson and Robbie Williams; and currently makes regular performances on the BBC programme Strictly Come Dancing.
Joan Clark.  Joan Clark BA D.Litt (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Liverpool Nova Scotia Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957.[1] She has worked as a teacherClark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton's University of Alberta.
Elena Risteska.  Elena Risteska (Macedonian: Елена Ристеска [ˈɛlɛna ˈristɛska] ; born April 27 1986 in Skopje SR Macedonia SFR Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian singer and song-writer. She represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with the song Ninanajna and finished in 12th place the highest ever finish for Macedonia. Risteska is also an occasional songwriter writing for artists such as 4Play Lambe Alabakoski and Aleksandra Pileva.
Rebecca Martin.  Rebecca Martin (born April 24 1969) is an American singer and songwriter from Rumford Maine.
Andrea Brown.  Andrea Brown (born 17 February 1974) is an African American female singer from Boston Massachusetts. She is also the cousin of singer Bobby Brown.In 2002 she scored a #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play track as the lead vocalist on Goldtrix's cover of Jill Scott's It's Love (Trippin').
John Florea.  John Johnny Florea (born in Alliance Ohio on May 28 1916 ; died in Las Vegas on August 25 2000) was a television director and a photographer.
Gracy (writer).  Gracy is a Malayalam author. Her first collection of short stories Padiyirangippoya Parvati was published in 1991. Her awards include the Lalithambika Antharjanam Award (1995) the Thoppil Ravi Award (1997) the Katha Prize for the Best Malayalam Short Story (1998) and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (2000). Her major works are Narakavaathil Randu Swapna Darsikal Kaveriyude Neru Eezbu Penkathakal Panikkannu and a collection Gracyude Kathakal.
George Sowden.  George J. Sowden (born 1942 in Leeds UK) is a designer. He studied architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art in the 1960s. He moved to Milano in 1970 where he started working with Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti.
Giovanni Giacomo Monti.  Giovanni Giacomo Monti (born 1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He trained with Agostino Mitelli the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Monti became a colleague of Baldassare Bianchi Mitelli's son-in-law. This partnership also met with success particularly at Mantua where they both received regular salaries from the Ducal Court. Their figure-painter was Giovanni Battista Caccioli of Budrio pupil to Domenico Maria Canuti and a follower of Carlo Cignani.
Sean McNabb.  Sean McNabb (born September 24 1965) is an American actor musician/bassist and singer.McNabb was born in South Bend Indiana. At age 21 he became the bass player of the 80s metal band Quiet Riot.McNabb joined Dokken as their bassist in 2009 and has been a mainstay with the band since. He has recorded over 35 CD's in his discography. He has also toured and recorded with House of Lords Great White Lynch Mob Montrose Edgar Winter Maya Bad Moon Rising Rough Cutt and XYZ.
John Slick.  John Milo Slick (born September 28 1953 in Fort Wayne Indiana) was a Christian rock musician from the Christian rock band Petra. Slick is currently retired from music and works in the computer industry.
Brandi Williams.  Brandi Danielle Williams (born October 5 1982) is an American actress singer and songwriter. She is most notable for singing in the R&B trio Blaque.
Ann Aguirre.  Ann Aguirre is an American author of speculative fiction. She writes urban fantasy romantic science fiction apocalyptic paranormal romance (with co-author Carrie Lofty as Ellen Connor) paranormal romantic suspense (as Ava Gray) and post-apocalyptic dystopian young-adult fiction.
Desdamona.  Desdamona is a hip-hop and spoken word artist from Minneapolis Minnesota United States. She has won five Minnesota Music Awards for 'Best Spoken Word Artist' in the years 2000 2003 2004 2005 and 2006 (the awards were not hosted in 2001 and 2002). For that reason and her strong standing in the male-dominated hip-hop scene she is considered to be the best female spoken word and hip-hop artist in the Midwest.
Karl Sanders.  Karl Sanders (born June 5 1963) is an American musician most widely known as the founding member of the American ancient Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile. He was born in California and lives in Greenville South Carolina. Sanders is endorsed by Dean Guitars and has two signature models by KxK Guitars.
Diana Yukawa.  Diana Yukawa (ダイアナ湯川 Daiana Yukawa) is a Japanese-born British solo violinist and songwriter. She has released three solo albums and one digital EP.
Duvvuru Ramireddy.  Duvvuru Ramireddy (1895–1947) was an eminent Telugu poet. He was born in a farmers family in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. He won many laurels including the title Kavikokila in 1929 by the Andhra Maha Parishad Vijayawada. RamiReddy wrote prabandhas Kandakavyas and also translated romantic poetry from Sanskrit and Arabic. Besides he provided Lyrics and Dialogues to Telugu films. He also wrote Hyderabad Paryatana in Telugu language.
Bokuzen Hidari.  Bokuzen Hidari (左 卜全 Hidari Bokuzen 20 February 1894 - 26 May 1971) was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa) Iruma District Saitama Prefecture Japan. He appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai The Lower Depths and Ikiru. Hidari was famous among Japanese audiences for his portrayals of meek downtrodden men and although a teetotaller was renowned for his convincing drunk scenes (see esp. Ikiru).
Jed Simon.  Jed Simon (born February 27 1964) is a Canadian musician. He is currently a member of supergroup Scar the Martyr and has been a member of numerous metal bands including Front Line Assembly Strapping Young Lad Zimmers Hole and TENET.
Jessica McHugh.  Jessica McHugh is an American author of speculative fiction member of the Maryland Writers Association and affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. A prolific writer she has had thirteen books published by indie presses in five years. Her first play Fool call it Fate: a story of sex coincidence and electronic cigarette produced at The Mobtown Theater was chosen as the Best New Play of 2011 by Baltimore Broadway World.[1]
Mirei Kuroda.  Mirei Kuroda (黒田 美礼 Kuroda Mirei born 20 April 1978 in Saitama Japan) is a famous busty Japanese swimsuit model. She was Fuji Television's Visual Queen of the Year in 1996.
George Lamond.  George Lamond (born George Garcia February 25 1967 Washington D.C. USA) sometimes styled George LaMond is an American freestyle music singer. He is known for his song and album Bad of the Heart.
Alan Garner.  Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.
Công Quốc Hà.  Công Quốc Hà (born on 29 October 1955) is an acclaimed Vietnamese artist and lacquer painter. He was born in Hanoi in 1955 and graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College.Cong Quoc Ha is one of the most active and best known Vietnamese lacquer painters. He is well known for his elegant female figures. He belongs to a group of artists who revived the art of traditional Vietnamese lacquer painting and gave it a modern face around the world.
Gustav Frenssen.  Gustav Frenssen (19 October 1863 – 11 April 1945) was a German novelist. He wrote patriotically about his native country and promoted Heimatkunst (regionalism) in literature.
Rodaidh McDonald.  Rodaidh McDonald is a Scottish music producer mix engineer and record company executive. He was born in Edinburgh Scotland. His production and mixing credits include The xx King Krule How to Dress Well Adele Savages Daughter The Horrors Bobby Womack Vampire Weekend and Gil Scott-Heron.Since 2009 McDonald has worked for XL Recordings and runs XL Studios the label's in-house recording studio.
Frederic Ernest Fesca.  Frederic Ernest Fesca (February 15 1789 – May 24 1826) German violinist and composer of instrumental music.
Yusuke Murata.  Yusuke Murata (Japanese: 村田 雄介 Hepburn: Murata Yūsuke born July 4 1978) is a Japanese manga artist from Miyagi. He is best known for illustrating the American football manga Eyeshield 21 in collaboration with writer Riichiro Inagaki. Eyeshield 21 was serialized between July 2002 and June 2009 in Weekly Shōnen Jump and was later adapted into an anime television series.
Maradja.  For Sanskrit title for a great king or high king see MaharajaKorriche Toufik better known by his stage name Maradja is a singer songwriter and music producer in France. He has collaborated with a number of artists and is mostly known for his 2008 hits with DJ Assad most notably Everybody Clap and Summer Lovin' both credited as DJ Assad vs Maradja.
DJ Ötzi.  Gerhard (Gerry) Friedle (born 7 January 1971) is an Austrian entertainer and singer better known by his stage name DJ Ötzi (pronounced [ˈdiː.dʃeɪ ˈœ.tsi]). Successful mainly in German-speaking countries he is best known in the English-speaking world for his 2001 single Hey Baby (Uhh Ahh) a cover version of the Bruce Channel song Hey! Baby.
Jef Van Campen.  Jef Van Campen (born 6 February 1934 Antwerp) is a Belgian post-impressionistic art painter. He is mostly known for his maritime paintings.Jef Van Campen is most known for his maritime paintings (impressions of rivers sea and of ships in the Antwerp harbour). His work also contains portraits and still life.
Félix Tanco.  Félix Tanco y Bosmeniel (Jan 28 1797–1871 was a writer poet and novelist better known for the first fictional story about slavery in the Americas: Petrona y Rosalía.Born Félix Manuel de Jesús Tanco y Bosmeniel in Bogotá Colombia he arrived in Cuba at a very young age.He was considered the most radical writer of the epoch speaking against the injustices committed by the colonial government.
Daniel Carney.  Daniel Carney (1944–1987) was a white Rhodesian novelist. Three of his novels have been made into films. He is a brother of Erin Pizzey also a writer.
Eedris Abdulkareem.  Eedris Abdulkareem born Eedris Turayo Abdulkareem Ajenifuja is a Nigerian hip hop and revolutionary artist.Born to a polygamous family in Kano Nigeria his father was from Ilesha Osun State and his mother was from Ogun State. Raised in Kano he adopted Kano State as his state of origin. His father resides in Lagos while his mother continues to reside in Kano.
Guy Andrews.  Guy Andrews educated at Cranleigh School (1974–79) and St. Peter's College Oxford University is an English television writer who has written for television programmes including Lost in Austen Absolute Power Agatha Christie's Poirot Chancer and Blandings (the latter adapting the works of P. G. Wodehouse).
Ilham al-Madfai.  Ilham al-Madfai (Arabic: إلهام المدفعي‎) (born c. 1942) is an Iraqi guitarist singer and composer. al-Madfai's synthesis of Western guitar stylings with traditional Iraqi music has made him a popular performer in his native country and throughout the Middle East.
Jacques Revaux.  Jacques Revaux (born Jacques Abel Jules Revaud 11 July 1940 in Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire) is a French songwriter most famous for his 1968 collaboration with singer Claude François on the song Comme d'habitude that singer-songwriter Paul Anka reworked into the English language as My Way. He co-founded Trema Records with Regis Talar. Revaux also wrote many hit songs for another French singing star Michel Sardou.
Dominic Lyne.  Dominic Lyne (born 1983 Canvey Island Essex) is an English author currently based in London.Common themes within his work include drug abuse dissociation and mental health issues.
Valentine Hugo.  Valentine Hugo (1887 – 1968) was a French artist. She was born Valentine Gross in Boulogne-sur-Mer and died in Paris.Valentine studied painting in Paris and in 1919 married French artist Jean Hugo (1894–1984) great-grandson of Victor Hugo.
Dvora Bochman.  Dvora Bochman (Hebrew: דבורה בוצ'מן‎) (born 1950) is an Israeli artist painter sculptor graphic designer and art educator.
Mrityunjay Kumar Singh.  Mrityunjay Kumar Singh (मृत्युंजय कुमार सिंह) (born August 30 1961) is an Indian Police Service Officer of the 1987 batch belonging to the West Bengal Cadre. He is also a poet columnist lyricist and folk musician.
Teodoro de Villa Diaz.  Teodoro Teddy de Villa Diaz (1 April 1963 - 21 August 1988) was a Filipino guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the band The Dawn. At the height of his career and at the peak of The Dawn's popularity in the late 1980s he was stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend's house by two bystanders allegedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Ardath Mayhar.  Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar (February 20 1930 – February 1 2012) was an American writer and poet. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I.She had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre and has won many awards for poetry.
Alex Jolig.  Alex Jolig (born Alexander Jolig on January 17 1963 in Stuttgart) better known by his stage name Alex is a German actor singer and motorcycle racer.Once a housemate in Big Brother Germany reality show on RTL II he became famous in Europe and also internationally with his hit songs Ich will nur dich and Willst du...?.
William L. Crawford.  William Levi Crawford (1911–1984) was an American publisher and editor.
Obed Gómez.  Obed Gómez a.k.a. The Puerto Rican Picasso (born 1966) is a Puerto Rican artist of modern art.
Phil Manzanera.  Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams 31 January 1951) is a British musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On an Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America. He wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists and his instrumental album Firebird V11 was released in 2008.
Bokuzō Masana.  Bokuzō Masana (正名 僕蔵 Masana Bokuzō) is a Japanese actor.Masana starred as Asao Konishi in L: Change the WorLd.
Tory Mason.  Tory Mason (also known as Adrian)[citation needed] is an American pornographic actor (porn star) who has appeared in gay pornography; both in pornographic films and online at commercial amateur porn websites. Born in Idaho he lived in Belgium for five years as a child. He entered college in Chicago for one semester immediately after graduation from high school and has since transferred to Los Angeles where he now lives and is continuing his college education.[citation needed]
James Romberger.  James Romberger (born 1958) is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museums in New York City.
Léo Margarit.  Léo Margarit is a French drummer currently living in Sweden as a member of Pain of Salvation.
Wally Hedrick.  Wally Bill Hedrick (1928 in Pasadena California – December 17 2003 in Bodega Bay California) was a seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture gallerist and educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Hedrick’s contributions to art include pioneering artworks in psychedelic light art mechanical kinetic sculpture junk/assemblage sculpture Pop Art and (California) Funk Art.
Benjamin Hale (author).  Benjamin Hale (born August 20 1983 in Hayward California) is an American novelist based in Brooklyn New York. He was raised in Boulder Colorado where in he attended Fairview High School. In 2006 he received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and earned an M.F.A.
Gennaro Manna.  Gennaro Manna (12 December 1715 - 28 December 1779) was an Italian composer based in Naples. His compositional output includes 13 operas and more than 150 sacred works including several oratorios. See Italian Wikipedia.
Anne Marriott.  Anne Marriott (November 5 1913 – October 10 1997) was a Canadian writer who won the Governor General’s Award for her book Calling Adventurers! She was renowned especially for the narrative poem The Wind Our Enemy which she wrote while still in her twenties.
Alexander Braginsky.  Alexander Iosifovich Braginsky (Russian: Александр Иосифович Брагинский Aleksandr Iosifovič Braginskij; May 29 1944) is a Russian-born pianist living in America.
Marek Tomaszewski.  Marek Tomaszewski (born 20 November 1943 in Kraków) is a Polish pianist. He was one half of the pianist duo Marek and Wacek with Wacław Kisielewski from 1963 until his death on 12 July 1986. He is the father of French music video director David Tomaszewski.
Gyula Tornai.  Gyula Tornai (Görgő 1861 - Budapest 1928) was a Hungarian painter now featured in the Hungarian National Gallery.
Zofia Stryjeńska.  Zofia Stryjeńska (born 13 May 1891 in Kraków died 1976 in Geneva) - Polish painter graphic designer illustrator stage designer a representative of art deco wife of Karol Stryjeński. Along with Olga Boznańska and Tamara de Lempicka she was one of the best-known Polish women artists of the interwar period. In the 1930s she was nominated for the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature but declined the offer.
Leopold Loeffler.  Leopold Loeffler also spelled Löffler (October 27 1827 – February 6 1898) was a Polish realist painter of the late Romantic period popular in the second half of the 19th century under the foreign partitions of Poland.
Servet Kocakaya.  Servet Kocakaya (born 19 May 1973) is a Zaza–Kurdish singer-songwriter. He sings mostly in Turkish but also has songs in Kurdish and Zazaki.
Blu Cantrell.  Blu Cantrell (born Tiffany Cobb; March 16 1976) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter.
David Parland.  David Parland (26 September 1970 – 19 March 2013) was a Swedish metal guitarist best known for his work in the bands Dark Funeral Necrophobic and Infernal in all of which he was one of the founding members.
Jarret Brachman.  Jarret Brachman is a terrorism expert the author of Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice and a consultant to several government agencies about terrorism.
Glenn Worf.  Glenn Worf is a prolific Nashville session bassist. He has recorded with most major country music acts and currently tours with Mark Knopfler.
Ender Thomas.  Ender Thomas is a Venezuelan singer-songwriter. He was a featured vocalist during the 2009 tour for Yanni Voices produced by Disney Pearl Imprint. His vocal range is tenor.Ender was born in Venezuela. Prior to his work with Greek musician Yanni he was the frontman for a salsa band in his home country. For the Voices project he was the last of the four vocalists selected. Yanni commented It took us a year and a half to find Ender. We were looking for a Latino fiery specific kind of voice.
Fawni.  Stefanie Jamaica Pschill aka Fawni (born 17 July 1985) is an Austrian singer-songwriter artist and actress. She currently lives in Hollywood CA.
Bartholomeus van der Helst.  Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613 – buried 16 December 1670) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Misty Massey.  Misty Massey is an American fantasy author. Her first novel Mad Kestrel (ISBN 9780765318022) was published in 2008 by Tor Books. It was given a three-star rating by Romantic Times. Massey has also published short stories in magazines.Massey is one of the founding members of the blog MagicalWords.net.
Malcolm Vaughan.  Malcolm Vaughan (22 March 1929 – 9 February 2010) was a Welsh traditional pop music singer and actor. Known for his distinctive tenor voice he had a number of chart hits in the United Kingdom during the 1950s.
Ronnie Mathews.  Ronnie Mathews (December 2 1935 in New York City – June 28 2008 in Brooklyn) was an American jazz pianist who worked with Max Roach from 1963 to 1968 and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He acted as lead in recording from 1963 and 1978 - 1979. His most recent work was in 2008 as both a mentor and musician with Generations a group of jazz musicians headed by veteran drummer Jimmy Cobb.
Lew Nottke.  Lewis Nottke is an American guitarist. He was the guitarist in Beat the Bone and is currently the guitarist in the Los Angeles based band Collinz Room.
William Roberts (biographer).  William Roberts (1767 Newington Butts – 21 May 1849) was an English barrister and legal writer an evangelical journal editor and the first biographer of Hannah More.
Constantine Andreou.  Constantine Andreou (Also: Costas Andreou Kostas Andreou; French: Constantin Andréou Costas Andréou; Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ανδρέου Κώστας Ανδρέου) (March 24 1917 – October 8 2007) was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades. Andreou has been praised by many as an eminent figure in international art of the 20th century.
Andrea Appiani.  Andrea Appiani (31 May 1754 – 8 November 817) was an Italian neoclassical painter.He was born in Milan. He had been intended to follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici (1723–1804). He received instruction in drawing copying mainly from sculpture and prints. He then joined the class of the fresco painter Antonio de' Giorgi which was held at the Ambrosiana picture gallery in Milan.
Ferry Piekart.  Ferry Piekart is a Dutch author of children's books. His book Playing With Stuff - Outrageous Games with Ordinary Objects was published in the US by Kane/Miller Book Publishers.
Bi Feiyu.  Bi Feiyu (Chinese: 毕飞宇; pinyin: Bì Fēiyǔ born 1964 in Xinghua Jiangsu) is a Chinese writer. He is a resident of Nanjing. His works are known for their complex portrayal of the female psyche. He has won some of the highest literary awards in China.
Ak47 (rapper).  Ak47 (born Ibrahim Kouacou January 29 1991 in Côte d'Ivoire) is a Swiss hip hop recording artist and the founder of JD Records.Kouacou started his career at age 13 when he began composing music and was well known in his hometown as a rapper. Kouacou began performing with his friends Sevillano & Sine as the group the A2S Crew.In November 2011 he released his street clip entitled Illegal in the Blood.
Julio Voltio.  Julio Voltio (born as Julio Irving Ramos Filomeno on March 20 1977 in Santurce Puerto Rico) is one of the reggaetón genre's best-known artists.[citation needed]His nickname came to be as the result of an accident. Before joining Karel he worked as an electrician.
Bill Foster (performer).  William Wallace Foster (January 23 1932 – May 10 2000) known as The Fox was an MC on the first season of Comedy Central's The Man Show under the shows original hosts Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. He was billed as The World's Fastest Beer Drinker a feat which he performed in an appearance on the TV show Taxi as well as numerous times on The Man Show.
Mark Wallinger.  Mark Wallinger (born 1959) is a British artist best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square Ecce Homo (1999) and State Britain (2007) a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He won the Turner Prize in 2007. In October 2010 he and 100 other leading artists signed an open letter to the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt protesting against cutbacks in the arts - he created a new work Reckless for the protest.
Walt Harper.  Walt Harper (July 3 1926 – October 25 2006) was an American jazz pianist and influential nightclub owner.Harper's international reputation and musical ties attracted some of the greatest names in jazz to his hometown of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where they would perform at the nightclubs he owned and the jazz festivals he produced.
Rick Kemp.  Rick Kemp (born 15 November 1941 in Little Hanford Dorset) is an English bass player songwriter vocalist and record producer best known for his work with the pioneering electric folk band Steeleye Span.
Giovanni Malagoli.  Giovanni Malagoli (Novellara Reggio Emilia) December 7 1856- Velletri October 11 1926) was an Italian painter depicting landscapes genre and still lifes of fruits and flowers.He first attended gymnasium locally then went to Modena to study for six years in its Academy of Fine Arts under professor Malatesta. Among his works are: San Bernardino da Siena che trovasi a Novellara; Landscape with mill; Vecchia che fila; Lo stradone della Fossetta; and In riva al fiume.
Chris Tong.  Chris Tong (Chinese: 童冰玉; pinyin: Tóng Bīngyù; born 14 June 1983) is a Malaysian actress.
Marc Béziat.  Marc Béziat (born September 12 1975 in Aix en Provence France) is a music composer.Béziat has always been a music enthusiast he began his career as a composer at the age of 28.To assess the competences which he has acquired as a self-educated person he begins in 2005 an education in musical writing and composition in the Polyphonies organization.Thus with a wealth of his new experience he launched himself in 2007 as composer of his first album “Victory of the Spirit” which is followed in 2009 by a second: “Consolation” as well as two singles: The Star of Peace” and “Gloria” respectively in 2009 and 2010.Although he is a young composer Marc Béziat has received many eulogistic comments from professionals who distributed his music.
Linda McNabb.  Linda McNabb (born 16 August 1963) is a British-born New Zealand children's author who has written several fantasy novels for children and young adults.
Dave Sitek.  David Andrew Sitek (born September 6 1972) is an American musician guitarist and record producer best known as a member of the band TV on the Radio. He has also worked with bands such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs Liars Foals Celebration Little Dragon and most recently Beady Eye and produced free jazz-influenced remixes of songs by artists such as Beck and Nine Inch Nails and has contributed a solo track to the Red Hot Organization Dark Was the Night charity compilation.
Atar Arad.  Atar Arad (Hebrew: אתר ארד; born 8 March 1945) is an Israeli American violist professor of music essayist and composer.
Shri krishan sharma.  Shrikrishan Sharma is one the leading musicians of the country. He hails from a family of musicians. He had his initial training in music in the “Guru Shishya Parampara” from his father Gopal Krishan Sharma the foremost Vichitra Veena maestro.He has given numerous public concerts in places such as Delhi Kolkata Gwalior Chennai Jaipur Bhopal Maihar Lucknow Banaras Indore Pune Agra Goa and Shimla.
Heinrich Gotthold Arnold.  Heinrich Gotthold Arnold (1785–1854) was a German artist.
Jean-Marie Winling.  Jean-Marie Winling (born 1947 in Sète) is a French actor. He performed in more than ninety films since 1972.
Marjorie Fielding.  Marjorie Fielding (born 17 February 1892 Gloucester Gloucestershire – d. 28 December 1956 London) was a British stage and film actress.
Alakbar Taghiyev.  Alakbar Taghiyev (Azerbaijani: Ələkbər Tağıyev; 1922 Ganja — 1981 Baku) was Azerbaijani composer and author of popular Azerbaijani songs.
Astrid Lindgren.  Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (born Ericsson) (Swedish: [ˈastrɪd ˈlɪŋɡreːn] ; 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for children's book series featuring Pippi Longstocking Karlsson-on-the-Roof and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US). As of May 2013 she is the world's 18th most translated author and has sold roughly 144 million books worldwide.
Everett Rogers.  Everett M. Rogers (March 6 1931 – October 21 2004) was a communication scholar sociologist writer and teacher. He is best known for originating the diffusion of innovations theory and for introducing the term early adopter.Rogers was born on his family's Pinehurst Farm in Carroll Iowa in 1931.
Minami Takayama.  Minami Takayama (高山 みなみ Takayama Minami born Izumi Arai (新井 泉 Arai Izumi) May 5 1964 in Adachi Tokyo) is a popular Japanese singer and voice actress. Minami is also a member of the pop group Two-Mix and a part of DoCo when it was active.She is best known for her roles in Kiki's Delivery Service as both Kiki and Ursula Ranma ½ as Nabiki Tendo Moomin as Moomin Yaiba as Yaiba Kurogane Nintama Rantarō as Rantarō Inadera and Detective Conan as Conan Edogawa.
Dory Maust.  Dory Maust is an American novelist residing in Pennsylvania. Her debut with Glass Windows in The Benn Mac Series was more than a professional endeavor; it was a window into her longtime struggle with an eating disorder. After the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks Dory decided to tackle controversial issues.
Absinthe Green.  Eirini “Absinthe Green” Papadopoulou (born August 13 1986 in Athens Greece) is a female singer and bassist.
Giovanni Battista Viotti.  Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italian opera companies in Paris and London.
Diane Arbus.  Diane Arbus (/diːˈæn ˈɑrbəs/; March 14 1923 – July 26 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of deviant and marginal people (dwarfs giants transgender people nudists circus performers) or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal.
P.J. Perry.  Paul John (P.J.) Perry Guloien (born 2 December 1941 in Calgary) is a jazz saxophonist from Edmonton Alberta. He has won one Juno award as a solo artist and one for his work with The Rob McConnell Tentet.Perry was born to prominent western Canadian band leader Paul Perry and Margaret Yeo. Early in life they moved around Canada between Medicine Hat Regina Sylvan Lake and Vancouver. He learned to play the clarinet and piano before becoming a saxophonist for his father's band.
Olli Tukiainen.  Olli Ollie Tukiainen is a Finnish musician and the guitarist of the rock band Poets of the Fall.
Ed Krol.  Ed Krol was the network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet and The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.
Yusa.  Yusa is a Cuban singer and songwriter born in the Buena Vista district of Havana Cuba. Her music is recognised worldwide : in 2003 she was nominated at the prestigious BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards in two categories (Best Newcomer and Best of the Americas.)
Max Weinberg.  Max Weinberg (born April 13 1951) is an American drummer and television personality most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.Weinberg grew up in suburban New Jersey and began drumming at an early age.
Joan Wolf.  Joan Wolf (born 1951 in Bronx New York) is an American writer of romance novels.Wolf grew up in the Bronx New York. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mercy College and Master in English and Comparative Literature in Hunter College.
Steve Pemberton.  Steve James Pemberton (born 1 September 1967) is an English actor comedian writer and performer most famous as a member of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson. Pemberton and Shearsmith also wrote and appeared in the sitcom Psychoville.Pemberton's other television credits include Whitechapel (2009); Doctor Who (2008); Benidorm (2007–present) Blackpool and Shameless.
Joanna Cotten.  Joanna Cotten (born in Memphis Tennessee) is an American country music singer. Cotten's debut single The Prize received a thumbs up from The 9513 reviewer Jim Malec who said that the song hints at greatness. The song peaked at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Cotten recorded 21 songs for an unreleased album for Warner Bros. Records. She split from the label in December 2007 after the release of a digital-only extended play. Cotten has continued to record and tour.
Seedo.  Seedo (also Sidow) (ca. 1700 – ca. 1754) also called Mr Seedo as his forename is unknown was a German composer who worked primarily in England. He was a son of Samuel Peter Sidow a musician employed by the Elector of Brandenburg. By the mid-1720s Seedo was working at the Little Theatre in London's Haymarket. In 1727 he married the singer Maria Manina who had small parts in London’s Italian operas beginning in 1711 probably including Handel's Silla.
Glenn Gore.  Born in Columbia Louisiana on September 8 1939 Glenn Gore is a renowned wildlife artist and photographer.One of Gore's most noted works include a special series of twenty-nine wildlife scratchboard etchings.Click Here to view an online gallery of Glenn Gore's scratchboard etchings.
Kimberlie R. Acosta.  Kimberlie R. Acosta (aka Kimberlie R. Hall) is a well known photographer in Indian Country. She has the most comprehensive collection of Native Musician photography archives available from the past 15 years. She has taken pictures of the likes of Buffy Sainte-Marie Loretta Lynn Jana Tina Turner Joanne Shenandoah and Bill Miller just to name a few. Since 1999 she has been the official photographer for the Native American Music Awards.
Marc Benno.  Marc Benno (born on July 1 1947 Dallas Texas) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Benno was a member of The Asylum Choir with Leon Russell in the late 1960s and launched a solo career in the early 1970s with his 1972 effort Ambush being the most commercially successful. He wrote the song Rock 'n Roll Me Again which was recorded by the band The System for the soundtrack to the 1985 film Beverly Hills Cop; this soundtrack won a Grammy Award.
Alain Jacquet.  Alain Jacquet (22 February 1939 – 4 September 2008) was a French artist representative of the American Pop Art movement.
Jimmy Hsieh.  Jimmy Hsieh (born March 23 1986) is an Asian American designer.
Chief Stockton.  Chief Stockton (born December 15 1986) is a half Native American–Caucasian producer and recording artist. He originally started off in a four-person hip hop group titled GPD later diverging to a two-person group called Black N Mild; Chief Stockton was the mild of the group. In Black N Mild Chief Stockton was then known as Big Chief.
Suggs (singer).  Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961) better known as Suggs is an English singer actor former radio DJ television and radio personality who is best known as the frontman of the band Madness.
J. Hoberman.  James Lewis Hoberman (born March 14 1948) also known as J. Hoberman is an American film critic. He started at The Village Voice in the 1970s became a full-time staffer in 1983 and was the senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. He is also the author of several books.
Ion Pillat.  Ion Pillat (March 31 1891 Bucharest – April 17 1945 Bucharest) was a distinguished Romanian poet. He is best known for his volume Pe Argeş în sus (Upstream on the Argeş) and Poeme într-un vers (One-line poems).His maternal grandfather was Ion Brătianu. He studied at the University of Paris from 1910 to 1914 returning to Bucharest after obtaining a law degree.
Lee Mavers.  Lee Anthony Mavers (born 2 August 1962) is an English musician from Liverpool. Mavers was the songwriter singer and rhythm guitarist in The La's and is perhaps best known for the hit There She Goes in the late 1980s.Mavers who was originally the bassist for the Liverpool group Neuklon circa 1980 to 1984 now lives in the Huyton area of Liverpool with his partner and four children Ellis Ella Asha and Leo. He is a supporter of Everton F.C.
Nela Hasanbegović.  Nela Hasanbegović (born 21 January 1984) is a Bosnian sculptor. She graduated from the High School of High Arts in Sarajevo in the Department of Sculpting in 2002. She then graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 2007. She is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2007. Since 2011 she is a member of the Association of Culture and Red Arts. She participated in many solo and group exhibitions.
Air Force Amy.  Air Force Amy is a legal prostitute in Nevada pornographic actress and adult model who appeared in of the HBO television documentary series Cathouse: The Series. MSNBC has called her a living legend in the world of sex.
Shin Kyeong-nim.  Shin Kyeong-nim (Hangul: 신경림) is a South Korean writer who is known as a poet of the people
Inderjit Nikku.  InderJit Nikku is a Punjabi singer.
Billy Joe Royal.  Billy Joe Royal (born April 3 1942 Valdosta Georgia United States) is an American singer.
Gabriel Alw.  Gabriel Alw (25 December 1889 – 9 November 1946) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 37 films between 1915 and 1946.
Astrid Young.  Astrid Young (born 16 August 1962) is a Canadian singer/songwriter. She is the daughter of Scott Young and Astrid Mead. After her half-brother and fellow musician Neil Young bought Astrid her first amp in the 1970s she began to explore her own musical talents. After a brief run with 80's Glam metal group Sacred Child she went on to record backup vocals on several albums through most of the 80's and 90's. Her vocals appeared on Neil Young's Unplugged Road Rock Vol.
Paul C. Nagel.  Paul C. Nagel (1925 or 1926 – May 22 2011) was a historian and biographer who was best known for his works for general readers on the Adams and Lee political families and who also wrote on the history of his home state of Missouri.
Emily Gould.  Emily Gould (Silver Spring Maryland October 13 1981) is an American author. She is the co-owner with Ruth Curry of the indie e-bookstore Emily Books and the former co-editor of Gawker.com.
Bob Forward.  Robert Dodson Forward (born March 5 1958) commonly known as Bob Forward is an American writer director and producer. Forward is the production director and president of his independent company Detonation Films. Forward has been the writer of many animated television series as well as a film The Owl based on his novel of the same name.Forward is the son of the late Dr. Robert L. Forward who was an American physicist and science fiction writer.
Max Crawford (writer).  Max F Crawford was an American writer. Max Crawford was born in Lubbock Texas and grew up in Floydada Texas. He was influenced by Ernest Hemingway Graham Greene and Malcolm Lowry. His friendships with other writers were a great influence in his life and career as well including Larry McMurtry Wendell Berry Michael Koepf Raymond Carver Chuck Kinder Al Young Diane Smith Bill Kittredge Scott Turow Jon Jackson and James Crumley.
John Norment.  John Murray Norment (1911–1988) was an American illustrator gag cartoonist magazine editor artist and photographer.Born in Lebanon Tennessee Norment attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1933-34 and he exhibited in the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists annual shows in 1934 1936 1937 1939 and 1940. At the Iannelli Studio in 1935-36 he did textile designs for Montgomery Ward and posters for Carson Pirie.
Jean d'Ormesson.  Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson Count of Ormesson (born June 16 1925) is a French novelist whose work mostly consists of partially or totally autobiographic novels.
Bruce Dale.  Bruce Albert Dale is a former National Geographic photographer who worked for the publication for 30 years until 1994. During his career with National Geographic over 2000 of his images appeared in their publications.
Eric M. Fowler.  Eric M. Fowler is an American guitarist singer songwriter composer and producer who is best known as a member of popular musical group Boxing Gandhis. Fowler is a featured musician on many popular recordings by artists such as Sting UB40 Rosanne Cash Taylor Dayne General Public Clint Black Kelly Price and the Boxing Gandhis. He currently resides in Los Angeles California with his wife Colette and 3 children.
William Williams (Crwys).  William Williams (4 January 1875 – 13 January 1968) better known by his bardic name of Crwys meaning Cross was a Welsh poet in the Welsh language. He served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1939 to 1947.Like all other Archdruids Crwys had himself won several major prizes at the National Eisteddfod. He was a three-time winner of the crown: at Colwyn Bay in 1910 at Carmarthen in 1911 and at Corwen in 1919.
Michael Kusugak.  Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak (Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕚᕐᓗᒃ ᑯᓱᒐᖅ); born April 27 1948 in Repulse Bay Nunavut (then the NWT) where he spent much of his childhood. He is a storyteller and a Canadian children's writer who tells stories about Arctic and Inuit culture.Kusugak currently lives in Rankin Inlet and spends his winters in Bowser BC on Vancouver Island. He has also worked as an educational administrator for Nunavut Arctic College.
Nina Waisman.  Nina Waisman is an American new media artist who works with sculpture sound architecture and performance.
Giuseppe Tontodonati.  Giuseppe Tontodonati (February 2 1917—January 6 1989) was an Italian poet.
Pietro Canonica.  Pietro Canonica (March 1 1869 – June 8 1959) was an Italian sculptor painter opera composer professor of arts and senator for life.
Ferman Akgül.  Ferman Akgül (born 25 December 1979; Ankara) is a Turkish songwriter and the singer of the rock band maNga. He writes both lyrics and music.
Kira Skov.  Kira Skov (born June 6 1976) is Danish singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of rock band Kira & The Kindred Spirits.
Ann Radcliffe.  Ann Radcliffe (9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and a pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural. It was her technique of explained Gothicism the final revelation of inexplicable phenomena that helped the Gothic novel achieve respectability in the 1790s.
Aaron Watson.  Aaron Watson is a Texas country music singer.Watson was born in Amarillo Texas and attended Abilene Christian University where he began learning guitar after playing junior college baseball in New Mexico. He gigged around Texas before releasing his debut album A Texas Cafe; the follow-up Shuttupanddance was a regional sales success. His 2004 album The Honky Tonk Kid was produced by Ray Benson and features an appearance from Willie Nelson.
Alfred Andriola.  Alfred James Andriola (May 24 1912 - March 29 1983) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Kerry Drake for which he won a Reuben Award in 1970. His work sometimes appeared under the pseudonym Alfred James.Andriola was born in New York City and grew up in Rutherford New Jersey. He studied at Cooper Union and Columbia University intending to becoming a writer.
Wilson Tucker.  Arthur Wilson Bob Tucker (November 23 1914 – October 6 2006) was an American theater technician who became well known as a writer of mystery action adventure and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker.Tucker was also a prominent member of science fiction fandom who wrote extensively for fanzines under the name Bob Tucker a family nickname bestowed in childhood (his own mis-pronunciation of the nickname Bub).
Isako Washio.  Isako Washio (鷲尾 いさ子 Washio Isako) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Actress at the 15th Yokohama Film Festival for Bloom in the Moonlight.
I-F.  I-f (also Interr-Ference) is the stage name of Ferenc E. van der Sluijs a Dutch producer and DJ based in The Hague. He is a former member of the Dutch techno-pioneers Unit Moebius.
John Trobaugh.  John Trobaugh (born 1968) in Lansing Michigan is an American artist specializing in photography and based in Birmingham Alabama. Trobaugh received his BFA in 1996 with honors from University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to study photography at the School of Visual Arts. In 2003 he received his Masters in Fine Art from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa Alabama.His photography has been published in Art Papers selected as the cover artist.
Sally Mann.  Sally Mann is an American photographer best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.
Regie Hamm.  Regie Hamm is an American singer-songwriter. He has multiple credits as a songwriter producer musician (keys drums vocals) and artist.
Fabrice Colin.  Fabrice Colin (born 6 July 1972 in Paris) is a French author of fantasy science fiction and magic realism. His 2003 novel Dreamericana won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.Colin and his family lived in Boumerdès Algeria from 1976 to 1978.
Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson.  Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson (born 29 May 1989) also known as Eythor Ingi is an Icelandic singer who represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö Sweden with the song Ég á líf after winning Söngvakeppnin 2013.Eyþór Ingi also performs with his own band Atómskáldin. In 2013 he released his album Eyþór Ingi og Atómskáldin with the band.Starting 2011 he has also become the new lead singer of the Icelandic progressive rock supergroup Todmobile.
Lotta Hedlund.  Charlotte Jean Lotta Hedlund (born March 10 1944 as Charlotte Jean Walker) is an African-American singer living in Sweden since the late 1960s.
Keith Buckley (actor).  Keith Buckley (born 1941) is a British actor who has mostly appeared on television since 1958.Buckley has made some appearances in film and television appearing in The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in the 1960s and The New Avengers in the 1970s.
Jeff Fenholt.  Jeffrey Craig Jeff Fenholt (born 1951) is an American singer best known for his performance as the title character in the original Broadway theatre adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar and for his appearance on the cover of Time Magazine. In later years Fenholt would gain notoriety as a Christian evangelist and singer as well as controversy over his involvement with the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
Henri-René Lenormand.  Henri-René Lenormand (May 3 1882 - February 16 1951) was a French playwright. He was born on May 3 1882 in Paris. His plays steeped in symbolism were recognized for their explorations of subconscious motivation deeply reflecting the influence of the theories of Sigmund Freud. He was the son of a composer and was educated at the University of Paris. Lenormand died on February 16 1951 in Paris.
Sean Theriault.  Sean Theriault is an associate professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas Austin. He specializes in American politics with particular interests focusing on the U.S. Congress American political development and political history. He is a 2004 winner of the Eyes of Texas Excellence Award.Theriault has published articles on presidential rhetoric congressional careers issue framing the Compromise of 1850 and public approval of Congress.
Bob Franklin (comedian).  Robert Bob Andrew Franklin(1965–present) is a Hillingdon London-born Welsh raised comedian who has lived in Australia since 1989.
Choi Minho.  Choi Minho (Hangul: 최민호; Hanja: 崔珉豪; born December 9 1991) is a South Korean idol singer rapper dancer actor model lyricist promotional model MC and radio host. He is a member of South Korean boy group Shinee under the label of SM Entertainment as the main rapper sub-vocalist visual and face.
Kerry Berry Brogan.  Kerry Berry Brogan is an American actress presently based in Beijing China. She has appeared in over 50 films and television series in a wide variety of dramatic comedic starring and supporting roles. A fluent Mandarin speaker who began studying the language in high school Brogan has a bilingual website and a popular Chinese-language blog that logged 840000 hits in just two days before the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Kerstin Tidelius.  Kerstin Martha Tidelius (born 14 October 1934) is a Swedish actress.Born in Stockholm she worked mainly on stage with a total of about 20 film and TV appearances. Her most notable performances are Ingrid Löfgren in the long running Swedish TV series Hem till byn and a supporting role as Henrietta Vergérus the bishop's sister in Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman.She was awarded the Svenska Dagbladets Thaliapris (the Thalia Acting Award) in 1966.
Ilya Chashnik.  Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik (1902 Lucyn Russian Empire currently Ludza Latvia - 1929 Leningrad) was a suprematist artist a pupil of Kazimir Malevich and a founding member of the UNOVIS school.
Jonny McGovern.  Jonny McGovern (born July 12 1976) also known by his character name The Gay Pimp is an openly gay American stand-up comedian musician and podcaster. He has recorded three albums as comedic singer The Gay Pimp and is also a cast member of Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show.
Fathead (musician).  For the American jazz saxophonist see David Fathead Newman. Fathead (born Vernon Rainford c.1960 – 19 October 1988) was a dancehall deejay best known for his collaborations with Yellowman in the early 1980s.
Mary Kirchoff.  Mary L. Kirchoff is an American author of fantasy and young adult novels.
Leo Setiawan.  Leonard Leo Setiawan is mainly known as a former guitarist for progressive metal band Kekal. His main occupation is Civil Engineer and he owns and operates a building development firm in Jakarta Indonesia.
Marcos Vidal.  Marcos Vidal (born December 10 1967) is a Dove Award-nominated Spanish Christian singer/songwriter. In 1997 he won the International Award GMA as the best non-English male vocalist.
Bill Sprouse Jr..  Bill Sprouse Jr. (aka Willy Sprouse Jr. d. 5 September 1975) was a Christian evangelist singer and songwriter and the musical force behind two groups (both called The Road Home) in the early 1970s. Bill recorded several songs for Maranatha! Music and traveled extensively sharing the Gospel through his music. He was severely overweight and died at age 26.
Pierre Etchepare.  Pierre Paul Lucien Salvat Etchepare (2 October 1891 – 20 April 1943) was a French actor.Pierre Etchepare was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine.
Michelangelo Signorile.  Michelangelo Signorile (/ˌsiːnjəˈrɪlə/; born 19 December 1960) is an American journalist author and talk radio host. His radio program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada on Sirius XM Radio and globally online. Signorile is editor-at-large for the Gay Voices vertical of The Huffington Post where he writes regularly.
Roar Adler.  Roar Adler (4 September 1915 – 25 January 2007) was a Norwegian newspaper manager.Representing the sports club IK Tjalve he was a deputy board member of the Norwegian Athletics Association in 1953. In the 1950s he became a manager in the newspaper Arbeiderbladet. In 1959 he became a board member of Norske Avisers Landsforening since a 1992 merger known as the Norwegian Media Businesses' Association He served as deputy chairman from 1968 to 1970 and chairman from 1970 to 1972.
Orval Prophet.  Orval William Prophet (31 August 1922 – 4 January 1984) was among the first Canadian country music performers to achieve a career of international scope.
Hande Kodja.  Hande Kodja is a Belgian actress born on 6 February 1984.
Kirby Ian Andersen.  Kirby Ian Andersen is a visual artist and musician from Toronto. He does painting sculpture and installation work under the name K.I.A. His art shows have been reviewed by RM Vaughan in the The Globe and Mail and Peter Goddard in the Toronto Star. He has exhibited in Canada Japan and the United States.
George Bugatti.  George Bugatti (born July 8 1967) is an American singer pianist and songwriter with three CD's in wide release. The first CD Oh What a Night for Love was produced by Tonight show creator Steve Allen. The second CD “Bugatti Live on the Strip” was recorded Live at Bellagio Las Vegas and is on Paul Anka Productions. The third CD “A Night for Romance” was produced by Nigel Wright (Executive Music Producer of American Idol and Warner Bros.
Nosadella.  Nosadella (active c. 1549–1571) was an Italian painter and draftsman active during the Mannerist period mainly in Bologna. He appears to have traveled to Rome.His full name was Giovanni Francesco Bezzi. He was a pupil of Pellegrino Tibaldi.
Christopher Houlihan.  Christopher Houlihan (born October 6 1987) is an American concert organist noted for his clarity flexibility of rhythm and technical achievement. His Vierne 2012 tour in which he performed Louis Vierne's complete organ symphonies in six cities across North America was met with high critical acclaim.
Emi Hinouchi.  Emi Hinouchi (日之内エミ Hinouchi Emi; born September 7 1982 as 日之内絵美) is a Japanese urban music singer-songwriter. She was formerly signed under King Records' sub-label Venus-B and Taku Takahashi's Tachytelic Records. She is best known for writing songs for Heartsdales and for her collaborations with M-Flo.As of 2011 Hinouchi has released twelve singles three studio length albums and collaborated with numerous artists.
Gilad Karni.  Gilad Karni (Hebrew: גלעד קרני‎) is an Israeli violist who has played in the New York Philharmonic and is currently principal viola in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich as well as a soloist and player in chamber ensembles. A founder member of the Huberman Quartet with which he made his debut at Carnegie Hall he has since appeared there with the Guarneri Quartet.Violist Gilad Karni has been praised for his tone and interpretation throughout the world.
Alladiya Khan.  Alladiya Khan (Hindi: अल्लादिया ख़ान) (1855–1946) was an Indian classical singer known as Gaan Samraat (Emperor of Music). Khan founded the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana rooted in Dagar Bani. He is also recognized for his revival and creations of many rare ragas.
Andy Moor (The Ex).  Andy Moor (born 1962) is an experimental musician best known as the guitarist of the UK band Dog Faced Hermans and the Dutch punk collective The Ex. He was also a founding member of Kletka Red and along with Isabelle Vigier and Yannis Kyriakides created the experimental music label Unsounds.Moor was born in London England.
Nwe Yin Win.  Nwe Yin Win (Burmese: နွဲ့ယဉ်ဝင်း pronounced: [nwɛ̰ jɪ̀ɴ wɪ́ɴ]; born Joyce Win on 23 April 1945) is a Burmese singer considered one of the pioneers of modern Burmese pop music. Nwe Yin Win was born in Sagaing to parents a Bamar father Min Swe (also known as Win Maung) and an Anglo-Burmese mother Cathy Tin Tin Hla. She attended the English-speaking St. Francis Girls' School (today's Tamwe 4 High School) and St. Philomena's Convent High School (Sanchaung 2 High School).
George Bryan (16th-century actor).  George Bryan (fl. 1586 – 1613) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men with William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage.Bryan enters the historical record as one of a quintet of English actors who toured Denmark and Saxony in the years 1586 and 1587. He was in the Admiral's Men/Lord Strange's Men production of The Seven Deadly Sins c. 1591 with Augustine Phillips and William Sly and other future Lord Chamberlain's Men.
Yoshinori Okada.  Yoshinori Okada (岡田 義徳) (born 19 March 1977 in Ōno Gifu) is a Japanese actor. He has starred several TV series such as Atsuhime (2008) and Nobuta. O Produce (2005) as well as movies such as Densha otoko (2005). He is a high school graduate and does not have a college degree. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Nonchan Noriben.
Pamela Palmater.  Pamela Palmater (born 1970) is a Mi'kmaq lawyer professor activist and politician from Mi'kma'ki New Brunswick Canada. A frequent media political commentator she appears for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's InFocus CTV and CBC. She is an associate professor and the academic director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.
Selina Jen.  Jen Chia-Hsüan more commonly credited as Selina is a member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. She was born in Taipei Taiwan with ancestry in Dachuan District Sichuan China. On June 11 2004 she graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University with a Bachelor of Education degree majoring in Civic Education and Leadership. In September 2006 Selina released her first book Selina Loves Beading (愛的小珠珠) which taught readers how to use beads to make designs.
Eamon Delaney.  Eamon Delaney (born 14 July 1962) is an Irish author journalist and former diplomat.Delaney was a student in University College Dublin (UCD). He was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society from 1985 to 1986. On leaving college he became an Irish diplomat. Having left the Irish diplomatic corps he became a full-time author. His first novel was The Casting of Mr. O'Shaughnessy.
Ed Bullins.  Ed Bullins (born July 2 1935 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an African-American playwright. He was also the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers. In addition he has won numerous awards including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and several Obie Awards. He is one of the best known playwrights to come from the Black Arts Movement.
Jo Stafford.  Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12 1917 – July 16 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist.
Ivan Rabuzin.  Ivan Rabuzin (27 March 1921 – 18 December 2008) was a Croatian naïve artist. Rabuzin's father was a miner and Ivan was the sixth of his eleven children. Ivan worked as a carpenter for many years and did not begin painting until 1956 when he was thirty-five years old. He had little formal training as an artist but his first exhibition of paintings proved successful and he changed careers becoming a professional painter in 1962.Rabuzin's paintings included Avenue and My Homeland.
Frank Dicksee.  Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee PRA KCVO (London 27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator best known for his pictures of dramatic literary historical and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women which helped to bring him success in his own time.
Kesava Kiran.  Kesava Kiran (born 16 February 1989 in Hyderabad India) is an Indian music director and composer. He made his full fledged music direction debut in the Telugu film Mooga Manasulu in 2013.
XXYYXX.  Marcel Everett (born October 31 1995) better known as XXYYXX is an electronic musician and producer from Orlando Florida signed to Relief in Abstract. He is most notable for gaining prominence within the indie music culture despite his young age and experimental lo-fi music which he made in his bedroom with FL Studio and software from Ableton.Everett himself described his music as Doing drugs on a freeway...underwater in an interview with Relief in Abstract.
Naum Veqilharxhi.  Naum Veqilharxhi born Naum Bredhi (1797-1854) was an Albanian lawyer and scholar. In 1844 he created a unique alphabet for the Albanian language using characters he had created himself the Vithkuqi script. Veqilharxhi is one of most prominent figures of the early Albanian National Awakening.
Terry Kirkman.  Terry Kirkman (born December 12 1939) is a musician and writer of the hit songs Cherish Everything That Touches You and Six Man Band.
Andrew Dasburg.  Andrew Michael Dasburg (4 May 1887 – 13 August 1979) was an American modernist painter and one of America's leading early exponents of cubism.
Sharon Byatt.  Sharon Byatt is a British actress born in Liverpool who played Irenee in Carla Lane's Bread. She has also appeared in such programmes as Mersey Beat Holby City Springhill (TV series) and Dream Team.
Martine Broda.  Martine Broda (1947–2009) was a French writer poet and translator.
Ron Cowen.  Ron Cowen is a writer and producer. He is a partner with Daniel Lipman in the television production company Cowlip Productions.
John Clayton (bassist).  John Lee Clayton Jr. (born August 20 1952) is an American jazz and classical double bassist.
Abuzar Aydamirov.  Abuzar Abdulhakimovich Aydamirov Russian: Абузар Абдулхакимович Айдамиров (29 October 1933 — 27 May 2005) was a Chechen novelist and poet author of a historical trilogy dedicated to Caucasian Wars (Long Nights; A Lightning in Mountains; A Tempest) and of the Anthem of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
David Wojnarowicz.  David Wojnarowicz (/ˌvɔɪnəˈroʊvɪtʃ/;(September 14 1954 – July 22 1992) was a painter photographer writer filmmaker performance artist and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world .
Rodolfo Nieto.  Rodolfo Nieto Labastida (b. Oaxaca July 13 1936 - d. Mexico City June 24 1985) was a Mexican painter of the Oaxacan School (apprenticed under Diego Rivera later served him as an assistant).
Inuko Inuyama.  Chie Tozuka (戸塚 千絵 Totsuka Chie born December 16 1965 in Tokyo) better known by the stage name Inuko Inuyama (犬山 イヌコ (formerly 犬山 犬子) Inuyama Inuko) is a Japanese voice actress who voices Nyasu in the original Japanese anime version of Pocket Monsters. She voices Manta Oyamada in Shaman King and Kurumizawa in Tokyo Godfathers.
Eugeniusz Rudnik.  Eugeniusz Rudnik (born 28 October 1932 in Nadkole upon Liwiec) – modern Polish composerelectronics engineer and sound engineer. Pioneer of electronic and electro-acoustic music in Poland.
Owen Bolwell.  Owen Campbell Bolwell is a Melbourne musician best known for being a member of the alternative rock band Tlot Tlot.
Kano (comics).  Kano is the pseudonym of a Spanish comic book artist whose real name is Jose Angel Cano Lopez.
Louis Hasley.  Louis Leonard Hasley (November 3 1906 – May 1986) was an American writer poet essayist editor and critic. He was also a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame from 1931 to 1973. He was married to the writer Lucile Hasley.
Gunnar Bull Gundersen.  Gunnar Bull Gundersen (5 April 1929 - 7 November 1993) was a Norwegian sailor novelist playwright and lyricist.Gunnar Bull Gundersen was born in Stavanger in Rogaland Norway. Gundersen grew up with changing foster parents and at different boarding schools. He referred to his young years as a very itinerant childhood and said he had visited 10 schools and been expelled from three of them. Shortly after World War II he went to sea.
Ryan Sook.  Ryan Sook is an American comic book artist known for his work on books such as Seven Soldiers: Zatanna X-Factor and The Spectre. His style has been compared to that of Mike Mignola Adam Hughes and Kevin Nowlan.
June Richmond.  June Richmond (born July 9 1915 in Chicago Illinois; died August 14 1962 in Gothenburg Sweden) was an American jazz singer and actor.June Richmond is considered the first African-American jazz singer who sang regularly in a white band when she appeared in 1938 Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra. She previously worked at Les Hite in California and after her time at Dorsey she joined Cab Calloway (1938) and then worked from 1939 to 1942 in Andy Kirk's orchestra.
Minami Kuribayashi.  Minami Kuribayashi (栗林 みな実 Kuribayashi Minami born June 11 1976) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress from Shizuoka prefecture.Her involvement in the game and anime Kimi ga Nozomu Eien where she voiced the role of one of the characters Haruka Suzumiya and performed and penned the theme songs and other songs relating to the series has brought her much attention.
Pietro Longhi.  Pietro Longhi (1702 or November 5 1701 – May 8 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary scenes of life.
Cristian Marchi.  Cristian Marchi (born March 31 1976) is an Italian progressive house electro house and house producer and DJ.
York (group).  York is a German electronica music duo founded in 1997 by musicians and brothers Torsten and Jörg Stenzel. Producing ambient downtempo chillout house and trance their productions are known for catchy guitar hooks atmospheric soundscapes and delicate dance textures.
Mario Testino.  Mario Testino OBE (was born on October 30 1954) is a Peruvian fashion photographer. His work has been featured in magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. His career highpoint came when he was chosen by Diana Princess of Wales for her Vanity Fair photoshoot in 1997. Testino has been regularly employed by the British royal family ever since.Aaron Hicklin of The Observer described him as the world's most prolific magazine and fashion trade photographer.
Seth Horan.  Seth Horan is an American bassist/singer-songwriter from Buffalo New York who started a successful solo career after stints with Darwin's Waiting Room and Vertical Horizon. His songwriting showcases both his voice and his unique playing style which combines fingerpicking slapping tapping strumming and use of harmonics as solo accompaniment for his singing. He currently resides in Syracuse New York.
Todd Barry.  Todd Barry (born March 26 1964) is an American stand-up comedian actor and voice actor.
Rusty Santos.  Rusty Santos (born August 14 1979) is a Record producer and Singer-songwriter based in New York City. He is known for producing recording mixing and/or mastering records like Animal Collective’s Sung Tongs and the reissue of Danse Manatee Panda Bear’s Young Prayer and Person Pitch Born Ruffians’ Red Yellow & Blue White Magic’s Day Twilight Night EP Dent May's The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele and many more.
Barry Mason.  John Barry Mason (known professionally as Barry Mason) (born 12 July 1935) is an English songwriter originally from the village of Coppull near Chorley in Lancashire. A leading songwriter of the 1960s he wrote the bulk of his most successful songs in partnership with Les Reed. Mason gained many gold and platinum awards for his work including five Ivor Novello Awards the most recent of them in 1998.
Hayden Powell.  Hayden James Richard Powell (born 25 September 1983 in England) is a jazz musician (trumpet) and composer based in Oslo Norway. Powell is English but moved to Norway as a child and grew up in Molde. He has collaborated with numerous musicians including Terje Rypdal Kenny Wheeler Eirik Hegdal Vigleik Storaas Nils-Olav Johansen Ole Morten Vågan Eyolf Dale and Ståle Storløkken and released his debut solo album The Attic in 2011.
Guy Adams.  Guy Adams (born 6 January 1976) is an English author comedian and actor possibly best known for the novel The World House. He has also written a BBC Books Torchwood novel The House That Jack Built.
H.A. Der-Hovagimian.  H.A. Der-Hovagimian (sometimes spelled Ter-Hovakimyan (Traditional Armenian: Յարութիւն Տեր-Յովակիմեան Eastern Armenian: Հարություն Տեր-Հովակիմյան)) born in Toronto Ontario is a Canadian-Armenian music composer songwriter and producer.He signed his first recording contract with the newly found Hi-Bias Records imprint at the age of 17. For the following 15 years he was mainly credited under the adopted pseudonym Mark Ryan.For years his main focus was his Temperance project.
Hans Haacke.  Hans Haacke (born August 12 1936) is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.
John L. Gihon.  John Lawrence Gihon (April 21 1839 – September 18 1878) was a Philadelphia photographer best known for establishing the Philadelphia Sketch Club documenting the American Civil War and producing one of the earliest baseball cards. He was a featured photographer at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition contributing to the Philadelphia Photographer magazine and author of the Photographic Colorists' Guide published in 1878.
Hassan Zirak.  Hassan Zirek or Hesen Zîrek (1921–1972) was a celebrated Kurdish singer from Bukan known for his recordings of classical Kurdish folk songs. He was famous for his classical and sensual lyrics and it's believed that he composed over thousand songs in his lifetime.
Jack Hylton.  Jack Hylton (2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English band leader and impresario who rose to prominence during the British dance band era.
Eric Lindell.  Eric Lindell (born 1969 San Mateo California United States) is an American singer-songwriter who came to national prominence after relocating to New Orleans in 1999. His recording career began in 1996 as a local/regional New Orleans-based artist. Beginning in 2006 when he was picked up by Alligator Records he has toured nationally and internationally.
Ivan Matias.  Ivan Matias is an American singer songwriter producer arranger hip hop ghostwriter and entrepreneur from Brooklyn NY.
Ben Lai.  Ben Lai is a comic book penciler who worked on series such as Sigil Radix Thor and X-Men. His brother Ray Lai often inks his work.In 2002 the Lai brothers were involved in a controversy when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used an image from Radix #1 in a $50 million grant proposal for the development of battlefield armor for the United States military.
Krafty Kuts.  Krafty Kuts (real name Martin Reeves) is an English electronic music dance music and breakbeat producer and DJ.His first album Freakshow was released in 2006 on his Against The Grain label and contains guest artists Tim Deluxe and Ashley Slater from the UK band Freak Power.
Farhan Saeed.  Farhan Saeed Butt (Urdu: فرحان سعید بٹ) is a former lead vocalist of the Pakistani band Jal (band) and owner of restaurant Cafe Rock. He was born on September 14 1984 . He speaks Urdu Punjabi and English.
Free (rapper).  Antoinette Marie Wright (born February 7 1968) better known by her stage name Free is an American media personality television producer and philanthropist. She rose to fame as the first host of BET's 106 & Park. She was later a disc jockey at KKBT 100.3 The Beat in Los Angeles and is the former co-host of the Ed Lover Morning Show on Power 105.1 in New York City.
Gour Das Bysack.  Gour Das Bysack (sometimes parts of his name have been transliterated as Gaur Dass Dos Bysac) was a Bengali writer prominent in the late 19th century. He was known for his friendship with Michael Madhusudan Dutta.
Bounty Killer.  Bounty Killer (born Rodney Basil Price; 12 June 1972; Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. He is the founder of a dancehall collective known as The Alliance with deejay Mavado.
Archibald Henderson (professor).  Archibald Henderson (July 17 1877 – December 6 1963) was an American professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects including drama and history. He was born at Salisbury N. C. was educated at the University of North Carolina (A.B. 1898; Ph.D. 1902) and studied more at Chicago Cambridge and Berlin universities and at the Sorbonne (Paris). After 1899 he taught at the University of North Carolina becoming professor of pure mathematics in 1908.
Ya'ackov Ben-Dov.  Yaacov Ben-Dov (21 June 1882– 7 March 1968) photographer and a pioneer of Jewish Cinematography in Palestine. Recognized as the pioneer of Israeli film.
Yang Maolin.  Yang Maolin (traditional Chinese: 楊茂林 pinyin: Yang Mao-lin) is a noted contemporary Taiwanese artist.Born in 1953 in Changhua Taiwan Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He co-founded several artists groups linked to the Transavantgarde movement in Taiwan: 101 and the Taipei Group in the 1980s and Hantooshe in the late 1990s.
Michael Chabon.  Michael Chabon (/ˈʃeɪbɒn/ SHAY-bon;born May 24 1963) is an American author and one of the most celebrated writers of his generation according to The Virginia Quarterly Review.Chabon's first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was published when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections.
Irene Osgood Andrews.  Irene Osgood Mrs. John Andrews (b. January 18 1879 in Big Rapids Michigan) was an American writer on problems of women in industry. Born in Big Rapids Michigan the daughter of Lucius L. Osgood and Mary Markley she was educated at the School of Philanthropy in New York and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison graduating with an A.B.
Frederic M. Hudson.  Frederic Hudson is an established writer and thinker in the area of work-life balance (or life-work) and retirement. He is founder of The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.Hudson is a Rockefeller and Danforth fellow and received a doctorate from Columbia University New York. In 1973 he was founding president of the Fielding Institute. He left in 1986 to found The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara which trains professionals in individual and organizational coaching.Dr.
Bert Sommer.  Bert William Sommer (February 7 1949 – July 23 1990) was an American folk singer songwriter and actor. He wrote We're All Playing In The Same Band at and about Woodstock and his recording peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 12 September 1970. He was briefly a member of baroque-pop group The Left Banke co-writing and singing lead on the Ivy Ivy/And Suddenly single in 1967.
Sandra Cisneros.  Sandra Cisneros (born December 20 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell.
Norma Jean (singer).  Norma Jean Beasler (b. January 30 1938) better known as Norma Jean is an American country music singer who was a member of The Porter Wagoner Show from 1961–1967. She had 13 country singles in Billboard's Country Top 40 between 1963 and 1968 recorded twenty albums for RCA Victor between 1964 and 1973 received two Grammy nominations and was a Grand Ole Opry member for a number of years.
Gnac.  gnac is a pseudonym used by songwriter and music producer Mark Tranmer. The name is derived from a short story by Italo Calvino in Marcovaldo entitled Luna e GNAC (or moon and gnac).Tranmer's music has been described as imaginary film soundtracks with comparisons made to Michael Nyman Ennio Morricone and Michel Legrand.
Memory Tapes.  Dayve Hawk (born in New Jersey) better known by his stage name Memory Tapes is an American singer-songwriter and record producer and the former frontman of the Philadelphia-based band Hail Social.
Robert Johnson.  Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8 1911 – August 16 1938) was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing guitar skills and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend including the Faustian myth that he sold his soul at a crossroads to achieve success.
Herb Scharfman.  Herb Scharfman (August 24 1912 – February 21 1998) was an American photographer notable for several famous photographs of American sports people published by Sports Illustrated and other publications.Scharfman a native of Chicago began his career in New York as a stringer for International News Photo. His picture of Rocky Marciano's knockout punch in a 1952 bout against Jersey Joe Walcott is widely considered to be one of the most iconic photographs in the history of photojournalism.
Aisha Diori.  Aisha Diori (born Sept 8 in Lagos Nigeria) is a community mobilizer HIV/AIDS preventionist educator performer and named legendary mother in Ball culture. Her father is the late Abdoulaye Hamani Diori a Nigerien political leader and businessman and her mother is Betty Graves. Diori holds a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising & Marketing Communications from Fashion Institute of Technology where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Mark Wilkerson.  Mark Wilkerson (born September 6 1976) is the lead singer and guitarist for rock band Course of Nature.Wilkerson co-wrote the song It's Not Over which was released as a single and as the opening track on the eponymous album by Daughtry.
Librado Net.  Librado Net Pérez was a Puerto Rican musician educator and painter.
Charles Simmons (author).  Charles Simmons (born 1924) is an American editor and novelist. His first novel Powdered Eggs (1964) was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1965) for a notable first novel. Later works include Salt Water (1998) The Belles Lettres Papers and Wrinkles and co-author together with Alexander Coleman of All There Is To Know - Readings From The Illustrious Eleventh Edition Of The Encyclopaedia BritannicaHe was formerly an editor of the The New York Times Book Review.
Ellen Tanner Marsh.  Ellen Tanner Marsh is an author from Charleston South Carolina.Marsh has written eleven novels three of which - Reap the Savage Wind Wrap Me in Splendor and Sable - were listed on the New York Times paperback bestseller list.[citation needed]Marsh has a working relationship with BookSurge.com a vanity press owned by Amazon.com.
Laura Solon.  Laura Madalene Solon (born April 1979) is an English comedian actress writer and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award only the second woman to win as a solo performer (the first being Jenny Eclair in 1995).
Miao Pu.  Miao Pu (born 22 February 1977) is a Chinese actress.
Ed Giecek.  Ed Giecek is an American watercolorist and collage artist of the Pacific Northwest. His style is fine art landscape. His work is displayed in the Frye Art Museum in Seattle Washington. He is a signature member and the webmaster for the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society.
Arthur H.  Arthur Higelin (born Paris France 27 March 1966) better known under his stage name Arthur H [aʁtyʁ ɑːʃ] is a pianist songwriter and singer. He is best known in France for his live performances – four of his albums were recorded live – and remains relatively little-known in the English-speaking world.
Joan Eardley.  Joan Eardley (18 May 1921 – 16 August 1963) was a British artist.Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was born in Warnham Sussex England where her parents were dairy farmers. Her mother Irene Morrison was Scottish. Joan had a sister Patricia born in 1922 died 2013. Their father suffered a mental breakdown during the girls' early childhood having been wounded in a gas attack during World War I; when Joan was nine he committed suicide.
Tim Alek Mulley.  Tim Alek Mulley more commonly known by the stage name Tim Alek is an American record producer recording artist and drummer known for his driving ethereal percussion. Mulley is best known for his work as the drummer for post-punk band The Static Age. Prior to that he was a recording and touring member for high school band Linus (1998) Albany-area band Eros Amore (2002) and most notably New Jersey alternative rock band New Atlantic (2004) with whom he appeared on the Vans Warped Tour.
Munenaga.  Prince Munenaga (宗良 親王 Munenaga Shinnō 1311-85?) an imperial prince (the eighth son of Emperor Godaigo) and a poet of the Nijō poetic school of Nanboku-chō period mostly known for his compilation of the Shin'yō Wakashū.Prince Munenaga led a turbulent life which quite likely served as an impetus for his poetic sensibility.
Mike Royer.  Michael Mike W. Royer (born 1941 Lebanon Oregon; is an comic book artist and inker best known for his work with pencilers Russ Manning and Jack Kirby. In later life Royer became a freelance product designer and character artist for The Walt Disney Company.
Amanda (singer).  Amanda Louisa Kretz Lameche known professionally as Amanda (born March 24 1985 in French Alps France) is a French-born Swedish pop singer who started getting involved in music after her family settled in Täby Sweden. She was discovered at the age of 10 by the wife of Anders Bagge who became one of her songwriters.
Francesco Lotoro.  Francesco Lotoro is an Italian pianist and musicologist.
Tom Tall.  Tommie Lee Guthrie (December 27 1937 - June 14 2013) known professionally as Tom Tall was an American rockabilly singer popular in the 1950s. He was born in Amarillo Texas and discovered at a talent show by record label owner Fabor Robison. He often sang duets with Ginny Wright and later recorded for Crest and Decca Records where he met Eddie Cochran a session musician for the label.In the 1960s he was on the Chart label and had a comeback hit with Wright.
Ilario Casolano.  Ilario Casolano (1588 – 14 May 1661) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was called Cristofano Casolano by Giovanni Baglione. He was like his father Alessandro Casolano was a pupil of Cavalière Cristoforo Roncalli. He assisted his father in some of his frescoes and after his death finished the fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin. He painted several pictures for the churches in Rome.
Erik Balke.  Erik Balke (born 7 November 1953 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) known as leader of the Lille Frøen Saksofonkvartett with Vidar Johansen Arne Frang and Odd Riisnæs/Tore Brunborg/Olav Dale as member of his younger brother Jon Balke's early orchestras and for cooperations with Don Cherry Ed Blackwell Per Jørgensen Audun Kleive Nils Petter Molvær Torbjørn Sunde Tore Brunborg Paolo Vinaccia and Bugge Wesseltoft.
Glenn Bidmead.  Glenn Keith Bidmead (born 3 February 1962) is a Sydney-based singer songwriter guitarist performer and producer. With songwriting partner Steve Glover he was a founding member of Australian rock band LemonJuice which enjoyed several years of success in Japan and South Korea.
Boy Lornsen.  Boy Lornsen (7 August 1922 - 26 July 1995) was a German sculptor and author of children's literature writing both in Standard German and in Platt.Lornsen served as pilot and radio operator in the German Luftwaffe during World War II. After the war he was educated as a sculptor at Hanover. He worked as a sculptor into the 1960s.In 1967 he published his first children's book about a boy who helps a robot with his homework. The book was a success and was adapted for television in 1972.
Jāzeps Grosvalds.  Jazeps Grosvalds (Latvian: Jāzeps Grosvalds) (April 24 1891 – February 1 1920) was a Latvian painter from Riga. He is now regarded as one of Latvia's finest painters and has several works on display in the Latvian National Museum of Art. His style is a combination of European Modernism and Abstract with a distinctly Latvian influence. A student of Simon Hollósy's school in Munich Grosvalds went to Paris in 1910 where he studied at several private academies until 1914.
OG Ron C.  Ronald Rummell Coleman (born August 19 1973) better known for his stage name OG RON C is an American record producer radio personality DJ and entertainment and management company executive. He is the owner of the Houston-based urban music online radio station ChopNotSlop Radio former DJ for Chamillionaire and current show DJ for the Southern rapper Slim Thug.
Robert Marasco.  Robert Marasco (September 22 1936 – December 6 1998) was an American horror writer best known for the 1970 Broadway play Child's Play.Child's Play debuted at the Royale Theater in New York on February 17. Starring Pat Hingle the play dealt with demonic doings at a Catholic boys' school.
Wes Hampton.  Wes Hampton (born December 8 1977) is the 2nd tenor for The Gaither Vocal Band. He joined the group following the departure of David Phelps in 2005. Wes sang 1st tenor for the group from 2005 to 2009 and he now sings with the current formation consisting of Bill Gaither (bass) Adam Crabb (lead) Todd Suttles (baritone) Phelps (1st tenor) and Hampton (2nd tenor). He also performs solo concerts.
Sonny T..  Sonny T. (born Sonny Thompson) is an American bass player. He was a member of The New Power Generation Prince's recording and stage band from 1991–1996.In 2010 Sonny T. became a member of Nick Jonas and the Administration (a project created Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers) along with other former members of The New Power Generation drummer Michael Bland and keyboardist Tommy Barbarella as well as bassist and producer John Fields who was also the producer of the Jonas Brothers music.
Cameron Pierce.  Cameron Pierce (born May 23 1988 Bakersfield California United States) is an American author of bizarro fiction currently residing in Portland Oregon. The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple) described his work as Surreal nightmares that are funny sad sincere and violent. His work has been praised by Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman Piers Anthony The Guardian Cracked.com Details Magazine New Times and SF Site.
Frank Bello.  Frank Joseph Bello (born July 9 1965) is an Italian American musician who plays bass guitar for the thrash metal band Anthrax.
Brenton Wood.  Brenton Wood (born Alfred Jesse Smith July 26 1941 Shreveport Louisiana) is an American singer and songwriter known for his two 1967 hit singles The Oogum Boogum Song and Gimme Little Sign.
Charles Wilson (journalist).  Charles Wilson born in 1940 is a Scottish journalist and newspaper executive.Charlie Wilson was Managing Director of Mirror Group plc from 1992 to 1998 having been Editorial Director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1991 to 1992.
J. K. Ralston.  James Kenneth J.K. Ralston (March 31 1896 – November 26 1987) was an American painter of the Old American West whose primary topics were the American West and images of cowboys and American Indians. He also did commercial artwork.
Clare Teal.  Clare Teal (born 14 May 1973 Kildwick Yorkshire) is an English jazz singer who has become famous not only for her singing but also for having signed the biggest ever recording contract by a British jazz singer.
Thilo Hermann.  Thilo Hermann (born September 19 1964 in Mühlhausen Germany) is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter who recently worked with Grave Digger.
Georgina Callaghan.  British artist Callaghan (full name Georgina Callaghan) is a singer-songwriter who specializes in pop Americana and alternative country music. She performs under the name Callaghan. She is best known for her 2012 album Life in Full Colour produced by Grammy-nominated US artist Shawn Mullins.
Marcia Aitken.  Marcia Aitken (born c. 1962 Hannah Town West Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer best known for her recordings in the late 1970s produced by Joe Gibbs along with Errol Thompson.
Jesús Vásquez.  María de Jesús Vásquez Vásquez (December 20 1920 – April 3 2010) known by the pseudonym La Reina y Señora de la Canción Criolla was a virtuoso Peruvian singer.She was daughter of Pedro Vásquez Chávez and María Jesús Vásquez Vásquez. Her particular singing style captivated listeners as his intensity had the feel of Peruvian creole taste.Jesús Vásquez died in Maison de Sante Lima. Peruvian President Alan García declared one day of national mourning.
Gabriel o Pensador.  Gabriel Contino (born March 4 1974) better known as Gabriel o Pensador (Portuguese for Gabriel the Thinker) is a Brazilian rapper writer and composer known for his intellectual lyrics which talk of activism and issues of race politics social problems and the Catholic church. Gabriel began his music career when he launched a demo tape containing the song Tô Feliz (Matei o Presidente) I'm Happy (I killed the President) landing him a contract with Sony Music.
Timothy Taylor (archaeologist).  Timothy Taylor (born 1960) is a British based archaeologist specialising in prehistory and archaeological theory.Taylor is currently Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity at the University of Vienna (Austria) and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Prehistory. Until 2012 he was a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Bradford (UK).Taylor's academic work began studying ornamental metalwork of the Balkans and western Asia.
Lynda Barry.  Lynda Jean Barry (born January 2 1956) is an American cartoonist and author. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me about an interracial friendship between two young girls which was made into a play. Her second illustrated novel Cruddy appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons! a graphic novel she terms Autobiofictionalography.
Bobby Hammack.  Bobby Hammack (né Robert Vernor Hammack Jr.; 22 January 1922 Brookston Texas – 28 March 1990 Riverside California) was an American musician originally from Texas whose principal instrument was jazz piano. He led a prolific career in Los Angeles as a pianist organist conductor arranger and composer in (i) live venues (ii) broadcast studios for radio and television and (iii) recording studios for records radio television and film.
Noddy Holder.  Neville John Noddy Holder MBE (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician and actor. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist with the rock band Slade.Holder co-wrote most of Slade's material with bassist occasional keyboard player and violinist Jim Lea. Holder has been praised for his distinctive vocal style.
Eileen Essell.  Eileen Essell (born 8 October 1922) is an English actress noted in part for the age at which she began her screen acting career.Although she acted on the stage for 13 years in the 1940s and 50s her first screen performance was in her late 70s in an episode of Doctors. She has since appeared in many other TV programmes including The Bill Doc Martin Holby City Hustle Casualty Ideal and Sensitive Skin.
Thom Bresh.  Thom Bresh (born February 23 1948 in Southern California USA)is a country music singer. He is the biological son of Merle Travis.Bresh did not begin his music career until his adult years. From age 3 to age 17 he worked as an actor and stuntman at Corriganville where such programs as The Lone Ranger and the Billy the Kidd trilogy were filmed.
Craig Sharpe.  Craig Sharpe (born September 23 1989 in Carbonear) is a Canadian pop singer who was the runner-up on Canadian Idol 4 having finished a close second behind winner Eva Avila. He came through seven rounds of auditions judged by Canadian Idol's four-member panel.
Tom Petersson.  Thomas John Peterson (born 9 May 1950) better known as Tom Petersson is an American musician best known as the bassist and sometime guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick.
Dillard Chandler.  Dillard Chandler (April 16 1907 – January 1992) was an American Appalachian Folk singer from Madison County North Carolina. His a cappella performances on compilation albums were recorded by folklorist and musicologist John Cohen.
Steve Bell (musician).  Steve Bell (born November 17 1960) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. He is among the best-known Christian musicians in Canada and is an accomplished songwriter and record producer. Bell has an extensive catalogue of songs including Deep Calls to Deep Eventide and Fresh and Green. Before embarking on his solo career he was a long-time member of the group Elias Schritt and Bell.
Giuseppe Perracini.  Giuseppe Perracini (Mirandola 1672 - Bologna 1754) was an Italian painter.
Chuck McKenzie.  Chuck McKenzie is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
John Hewer.  John Hewer (13 January 1922 – 16 March 2008) was an English actor.
Giovanni Battista Colomba.  Giovanni Battista Colomba (born 1638) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period. He was born in Arogno in the Ticino and was active there including in the monastery of San Floriano. He died poor in the service of the King of Poland. He was the uncle of Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo.
Alan Ko.  Alan Ko also known as Alan Kuo is a Taiwanese singer and actor.
Javad Alizadeh.  Javad Alizadeh (Persian: جواد علیزاده ‎ Javād Alīzādeh Persian pronunciation: [dʒævɒːd(-e) æliːˈzɒːde]; professional name: Javad; born 9 January 1953) is an Iranian professional cartoonist best known for his caricatures of politicians comic actors footballers and for his scientific/philosophical column (including cartoons caricatures and satire) titled 4D Humor which has won awards from Italy China and Japan.
Robertson Kirtland Mygatt.  Robertson K. Mygatt or 'R.K.' (1861–1919) was an American landscape painter and etcher working at the turn of the 20th century. He is often associated with the Tonalist movement which was being experimented with in painting during most of his active years having emerged as a movement in the 1880s that continued through about 1915. R. K.
Li Yuchun.  Li Yuchun (Chinese: 李宇春; pinyin: Lǐ Yǔchūn) also known as Chris Lee is a Chinese pop singer and actress who achieved fame when she won the nationwide singing contest Super Girl in 2005. She was working with Taihe Rye Music and released her albums: The Queen and the Dream (September 2006) Mine (November 2007) Youth of China (May 2008) Li Yuchun 2009) Dancing Young Literati (April 2011) Old If Not Wild (September 2012) . She made her film debut in Bodyguards and Assassins (2009).
Beans Balawi.  Beans El-Balawi (born 11 July 1997) is an English actor and chorister. He began acting in 2004 with roles in Seed of Chucky and The Happiness Thief Half Light (2006) and 28 Weeks Later (2007). In 2008 Belawi played Michael Banks in the Cameron Mackintosh's production of Mary Poppins for one year in the west end.
Ken Lewis (songwriter).  Kenneth Alan James Hawker (born 3 December 1942 Small Heath Birmingham England) known as Ken Lewis is an English singer songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of the more successful songwriters of the 1960s as a result of his collaborations with John Carter. His biggest success was Can't You Hear My Heartbeat which was a 1965 US number 1 hit single for Herman's Hermits.
Marisol Grondin.  Marisol Grondin (born January 8 1985) is a Canadian singer and dancer from La Pêche in the Outaouais region of Quebec.
Tang Can.  Tang Can (simplified Chinese: 汤灿; traditional Chinese: 湯燦; pinyin: Tāng Càn; born June 12 1975) is a Chinese singer.
Sarah Josepha Hale.  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24 1788 – April 30 1879) was an American writer and an influential editor. She is the author of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb. Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
Wolfram Aichele.  Wolfram Aïchele (born 29 April 1924 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is an artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany.His work has been exhibited in America Germany France Belgium Switzerland the Netherlands and Luxembourg.His paintings have been acquired by the French state the City of Paris The Museum of the History and Art of Luxemburg the State of Baden-Württemberg the Federal Bank of Germany and Daimler-Benz as well as many private collectors.Son of the distinguished animal artist Erwin Aichele Aïchele’s Third Reich childhood is the subject of a 2011 book by the author and historian Giles Milton (who is also his son-in-law). 
Christer Sandelin.  Christer Eric Sandelin (born in Stockholm Sweden on 5 November 1961) is a Swedish musician and singer. He was part of two groups.
Salaam Remi.  Salaam Remi is an American hip hop producer and keyboard player known for his association with Nas Amy Winehouse Fergie Miguel and his reggae-tinged (often referred to as broken-bottle) approach to production. On some releases in 2012 such as Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys and R.E.D. by Ne-Yo Remi's productions are credited as Salaamremi.com.
Santhosh Narayanan.  Santhosh Narayanann is an Indian film composer and musician in the Tamil film industry. Santhosh Narayanan made his debut as a film composer in the 2012 Tamil film Attakathi. Since then he has composed and scored background for films like Pizza Uyir Mozhi and Soodhu Kavvum.
Siegrid Ernst.  Siegrid Ernst (born 3 March 1929) is a German pianist music educator and composer.
Kristina Schmid.  Kristina Schmid (born 1972) is a Swedish photographer from Stockholm.Schmid visited the Medborgarskolan' art school in Stockholm from 1993 to 1994 and afterwards the Pernbys målarskola until 1996 also in Stockholm. From 1996 to 2001 she studied at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Göteborg and participated courses at Munich's Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.
Antonis Mor.  For the musician see Anthony More (musician).Sir Anthonis Mor also known as Anthonis Mor van Dashorst and Antonio Moro (c. 1517 - 1577) was a Netherlandish portrait painter much in demand by the courts of Europe. He has also been referred to as Antoon Anthonius Anthonis or Mor van Dashorst and as Antonio Moro Anthony More etc. but signed most of his portraits as Anthonis Mor.
James Fenimore Cooper.  James Fenimore Cooper (September 15 1789 – September 14 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown New York which was established by his father William. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and in his later years contributed generously to it.
John Straley.  John Straley is a poet and author of detective fiction. He currently resides in Sitka Alaska.
Eileen MacDonagh.  Eileen MacDonagh was born in Geevagh County Sligo in 1956 and has worked as a sculptor since the 1980s. For her contribution to sculpture and the Arts in Ireland MacDonagh was elected in 2004 to Aosdána the Irish organisation that recognises artists that have contributed a unique body of work.
Gustavo Arias Murueta.  Gustavo Arias Murueta (born May 26 1923) is a Mexican painter sculptor and poet a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana best known for his work in drawing graphic arts and oil painting. He originally studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México where he met artists such as Rufino Tamayo David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. In the 1950s he began to produce artworks with his first exhibition in 1961.
Kazimierz Bein.  Kazimierz Bein (1872 – June 15 1959) was a Polish ophthalmologist the founder and sometime director of the Warsaw Ophthalmic Institute (Warszawski Instytut Oftalmiczny).He was also for a time a prominent Esperanto author translator and activist until in 1911 he suddenly without explanation abandoned the Esperanto movement.
Jesse Richards.  Jesse Richards (born July 17 1975) is a painter filmmaker and photographer from New Haven Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism. He has been described as one of the most provocative names in American underground culture and the father of remodernist cinema.
Oscar Saul.  Oscar Saul (December 26 1912 New York City - May 23 1994 Los Angeles) was an American writer. Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s. His best-known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
Leone di Lernia.  Leone di Lernia (born Leonardo di Lernia in Trani Italy April 18 1938) is a radio host singer and composer of the genre trash-demented. He has gained popularity in early nineties thanks to the cover of parodic goliardic and often scurrilous songs of dance music. It's been almost ten years (1999 to 2008 and again even if partially in 2011) comic shoulder of the radio program Lo Zoo di 105 on Radio 105 Network.
Sebastian Baczkiewicz.  Sebastian Baczkiewicz is an English writer.
Robert T. Jeschonek.  Robert T. Jeschonek (born 12 September 1965) is an American writer and author of essays articles comic books and podcasts. He writes fiction in a wide range of genres including fantasy humor literary mystery science fiction and super-heroes. His work is intended for young readers young adults and adult readers.
Camélia Jordana.  Camélia Jordana Aliouane (born September 15 1992 in Toulon Var France) is a French pop singer. She rose to fame after participating in the television show Nouvelle Star the French version of Pop Idol in 2009 where she came third.
Virus (musician).  Virus (born Andre Michel Karkos in Rochester New York) is a singer/songwriter guitarist producer most recognized for playing lead guitar for the American Industrial Metal/Rock band Dope. He is also known for his work with metal band Device.
José Maria de Eça de Queirós.  José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Eça de Queirós (European Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ mɐˈɾiɐ dɨ ˈɛsɐ dɨ kɐi̯ˈɾɔʃ]; November 25 1845 – August 16 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. The London Observer critics rank him with Dickens Balzac and Tolstoy.
Stu Phillips (country singer).  Stu Phillips (born January 19 1933) is a Canadian-American country singer from Montreal Quebec.Stu and his wife Aldona operate Long Hollow Winery in Goodlettsville near Nashville.
Robert Swain Gifford.  Robert Swain Gifford (December 23 1840 - January 13 1905) was an American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school.Much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England where he was born. He along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. His painting from the island Pettes Cove is illustrative of his masterful marine work.
Toivo Pawlo.  Toivo Pawlo (25 December 1917 – 14 June 1979) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1943 and 1978. At the 12th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film Hello Baby.
Sue Hodge.  Sue Hodge (born 4 June 1957 in Orsett Essex) is a British actress best known for her role as the waitress Mimi Labonq in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!.
Barbara Randolph.  Barbara Randolph (5 May 1942 – 15 July 2002) also known as Barbara Ann Sanders was an African American singer and actress who recorded for Motown Records in the 1960s.She was born in Detroit Michigan and was adopted by the actress Lillian Randolph who appeared in It's a Wonderful Life and many other movies.
Lambert McKenna.  Lambert McKenna S.J. (Irish: An tAthair Lámhbheartach Mac Cionnaith) (16 July 1870 – 27 December 1956) was a Jesuit priest and writer.He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Dublin and studied in Europe. He collected and edited religious and folk poetry in the Irish language. Working with the Irish Texts Society he edited the famous Contention of the bards and many anthologies of Irish bardic poetry and historical works. He is a former editor of the Irish Monthly and An Timire.
Shaun Mehta.  Shaun Mehta is a Canadian writer. He has published one novel and one short story collection to date and also collaborated with his brother film director Richie Mehta on the screenplay for Richie's debut film Amal which was based on one of Shaun's short stories.Amal has won over 30 international awards.Shaun and Richie Mehta were nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 29th Genie Awards.
Frances Temple.  Frances Temple (August 15 1945 – July 5 1995) was a primary school teacher a writer of award-winning children's stories and young adult novels and an illustrator. She was born August 15 1945 in Washington District of Columbia. She grew up in Virginia France and Vietnam. She died July 5 1995 from a heart attack.
Charlemagne Palestine.  Charlemagne Palestine (born Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine or Charles Martin) August 15 1945 or 1947 in Brooklyn New York) is an American minimalist composer performer and visual artist.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer philosopher dramatist publicist and art critic and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg.
Kenn Starr (rapper).  Kenn Starr is a rapper from Suffolk Virginia currently residing in the Washington D.C. metro area. Starr is a member of the Low Budget Crew and also the duo Isaac Jones. His solo debut Starr Status was released in 2006.
Federico Andahazi.  Federico Andahazi (born June 6 1963) is an Argentine writer.
Henry Harding Bingley.  Henry Harding Bingley (1887–1972) was a painter in washed oils and watercolour during the early 20th Century.
Neeta Shah.  Neeta Shah (born 2 Jan 1981) is an Indian author & currently she is freelancing as a Marketing & Strategy Consultant. Shah is the author of Bollywood Striptease. IndiaToday.
Mauro Pagani.  Mauro Pagani (born February 5 1946) is an Italian musician and singer.Pagani was born in Chiari Lombardy. A multi-instrumentalist he made his debut in the music world in 1970 as violinist and founding member of the progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi. In 1977 he left the band to follow a solo career but in 2003 rejoined for a celebrative concert.
Roy Williamson.  Roy Murdoch Buchanan Williamson (25 June 1936 – 12 August 1990) was a Scottish songwriter and folk musician most notably with The Corries.
Mizz Nina.  Shazrina binti Azman (born 1 July 1980) professionally known as Mizz Nina is a Malaysian singer-songwriter. She performs songs in English and Malay which includes Malaysian and international collaborations.
Ranko Marinković.  Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary) Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. In the 1930s he began to make his name in Zagreb literary circles with his plays and stories.His career was interrupted briefly during World War II.
Juan Garcia-Herreros.  Juan Garcia-Herreros also known as The Snow Owl is a native born Colombian Bassist & Composer notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for his use of a customised 6-stringed Electric Contrabass Guitar.
Gisle Torvik.  Gisle Torvik (born 2 June 1975 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) from Tørvikbygd in Hardanger.
Anne McAllister.  Anne McAllister (b. California United States) is a best-selling United States writer of over 55 romance novels since 1985.
Matt Cameron.  Matthew David Matt Cameron (born November 28 1962) is an American musician who serves as the drummer for the American rock bands Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. After getting his start with the Seattle Washington-based bands Bam Bam and Skin Yard he first gained fame as the drummer for the band Soundgarden which he joined in 1986 and remained in until the band's break-up in 1997 triggered by creative friction. In 1998 Cameron was invited to play on Pearl Jam's U.S. Yield Tour.
Metrik.  Tom Mundell better known as Metrik is an English electronic music record producer.
John Boxtel.  John Boxtel (1930) is a Dutch sculptor and art teacher. His works include sculpture woodcarving architectural drafting design and building.
Mustapha Toumi.  Mustapha Toumi (July 14 1937 – April 3 2013) was an Algerian songwriter lyricist composer poet and painter.
Olav Terje Bergo.  Olav Terje Bergo (born 8 October 1946) is a Norwegian former newspaper editor. Bergo was born in Nes Hallingdal. He was the chief editor of Bergensavisen (BA) from 1984 to 2009 and was chairman of the board of the Norwegian Media Business organization from 2002 to 2005. Previously he was a board member of the European National Publishers Association (ENPA) and from 2001 to 2006 he was on the board of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).
Asami Kimura.  Asami Kimura (木村 麻美 Kimura Asami) (born July 17 1984 in Tomakomai Hokkaidō Japan) is a J-pop singer and former member of Hello! Project. She joined the group Country Musume in 2000 and became the group leader in 2002. She also played on the Gatas Brilhantes H.P. futsal team. She graduated from Hello! Project on January 28 2007. She is currently living in Tokyo Japan and according to her graduation speech she would like to pursue a career involving animals.
Selçuk Altun.  Selçuk Altun (born 1950) is a Turkish writer publisher and retired banking executive.
Yoshiki Fukuyama.  Yoshiki Fukuyama (福山 芳樹 Fukuyama Yoshiki) born September 14 1963 is a Japanese guitarist singer and songwriter. He originally became known on an international level for his work in the anime Macross 7 where he was the singing voice and guitar of the show's main character Basara Nekki. Fukuyama is currently enjoying a successful career recording both solo and as a member of the anime music supergroup JAM Project.
William Bavand.  William Bavand (fl. 1559) was an English writer.Bavand having been educated at Oxford became a student in the Middle Temple and published in 1559 ‘A work touching the good ordering of a Common Weale in 9 Books’ a translation from Ferrarius Montanus. The book is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Scattered up and down the work are several verse-translations of passages from classical poets.
Hassaan Egzaar Chenani.  Hassaan Egzaar Chenanizadeh (Arabic: حسان اگزار چنانی) an instrumentalist of Rababa who is known as HassaanEgzaar was a singer of AlwanieVokal style from south west Iran. He was a resident of Khowayes (methamtammar) a village of the Alwan alshowaya (beitresheg) and shoosh city functions. Chenanizade was discovered and introduced to music society of Iran by Hooshangjavid a music researcher of areas of Iran.
Diego de Torres Vargas.  Father Diego de Torres Vargas (1590–1649) a priest was the first person to write a book about the history of Puerto Rico.
Mallika Yunis.  Mallika Yunis is an Indian writer who writes novels in Malayalam language. She is probably best known for her 1981 novel Upasana which won her the Maman Mappila literary award in 1982. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed film titled Ente Upasana by noted director Bharathan. The 2012 film Karpoora Deepam is also based on her novel. The film which commenced production in 1998 was in a development hell for 14 years.
Joey Belladonna.  Joey Belladonna (born Joseph Bellardini October 13 1960 Oswego New York) is a thrash metal musician best known as the vocalist for the thrash metal band Anthrax. He is also the vocalist and drummer of the cover band Chief Big Way.
Frank Philbrick.  Frank Philbrick (born May 23 1978 in Northampton Massachusetts) is a former professional baseball player turned carpenter and author. Philbrick co-authored his first book The Backyard Lumberjack alongside his father Stephen Philbrick in 2006.After graduating from Brown University in the spring of 2001 where Philbrick was an English major and a left-handed pitcher Philbrick signed a professional baseball contract with the Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs of the independent Northeast League.
Rita K. Gollin.  Rita K. Gollin was born on January 22 1928 in Brooklyn NY. She attended Queens College for undergraduate studies before earning her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1961. Gollin is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Gollin is a scholar of the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne on whom she has authored several books and many articles.
Erica Ellyson.  Erica Ellyson (born October 1 1984) is an American softcore model and actress who was Penthouse's Pet of the Month for January 2007 and Pet of the Year for 2008.
Catherine Malandrino.  Catherine Malandrino is a fashion designer. She was born in Grenoble France and now works in New York City as well as in Paris.
Lo Mang.  Lo Mang is a Hong Kong based veteran martial artist who was born as Lo Hin Lam in Hong Kong on 23 July 1952. Primarily known for starring in Shaw Brothers kung fu movies in the latter part of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. He is a one part of the most famous venom club known as Venom Mob in 70s and 80s who were renowned for their martial arts and acting skills.His most famous roles are Toad in Five Deadly Venoms and Golden Arm Kid in Kid with the Golden Arm.
Jacques Audiberti.  Jacques Audiberti (March 25 1899 – July 10 1965) was a French playwright poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd.He was born in Antibes France. He died in Paris. He is buried inCimetière de Pantin Pantin Ile-de-France Region France
Cal Tjader.  Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader (July 16 1925 – May 5 1982) was a Latin jazz musician though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba the Caribbean and Latin America he never abandoned it performing it until his death.Tjader primarily played the vibraphone. He was also accomplished on the drums bongos congas timpani and the piano.
Moe Keale.  Wilfred Nalani Moe Keale (December 3 1939 - April 15 2002) was a musician of Hawaiian music a ukulele virtuoso and an American actor. He was uncle to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
Paul Kaye.  Paul Kaye (born 15 December 1964)[citation needed] is an English comedian and actor. He achieved notoriety in 1995 portraying the character of Dennis Pennis a shock interviewer on The Sunday Show. Recently he has been known as rude New Jersey lawyer Mike Strutter with his own show Strutter on MTV. Kaye also plays the voice of Vincent the fox on the BBC comedy Mongrels and most recently Thoros of Myr in HBO's Game of Thrones. He also fronts the UK TV adverts for betting website BetVictor.
Bernard Fowler.  Bernard Fowler (born January 2 1959) is an American musician songwriter producer and actor. He has provided backing vocals with The Rolling Stones for over 25 years on recordings and tours and has been a featured guest vocalist on the majority of solo albums released by the members of that band. He has also been a regular featured singer on other musicians' recordings and tours.
Thérèse Liotard.  Thérèse Liotard (born 6 May 1949 in Lille Nord France) is a French actress best known for her role in the film My Father's Glory (La Gloire de mon père de Marcel Pagnol). She is known on British television for her appearance in the BBC series Bergerac.She made her French television debut as a presenter on ORTF in 1970.
Kristleifur Björnsson.  Kristleifur Björnsson is an Icelandic visual artist born in Reykjavík Iceland in 1973. He graduated from HGB - Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig Germany in 2003.Kristleifur's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe in museums and galleries such as Berlinische Galerie in Berlin The Reykjavík Art Museum and The Tate Modern in London. He lives and works in Berlin Germany.
Unknown Hinson.  Stuart Daniel Baker (born 1954 in North Carolina) better known by his stage name Unknown Hinson is a comedic country musician songwriter and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as the voice of Early Cuyler on the Adult Swim cartoon series Squidbillies.
Rob Byrnes.  Rob Byrnes is a 21st-century gay American novelist and blogger whose fiction focuses primarily on gay men and other sexual minorities.In 2011 he was elected to the Executive Council of the International Association of Crime Writers/North American Branch. He also serves on the Steering Committee for The Publishing Triangle.
Erika Bella.  Erika Bella (born 23 August 1972 in Hungary) is a pornographic actress. She has appeared in around 100 movies since 1994. She is credited as one of the Hungarian actresses that had helped build the Italian pornography movie industry.Bella was originally discovered by pornographic actor and director Christoph Clark. Her debut movie was for Private Video in Virgin Treasures in 1995. She appeared four times in Private Video Magazine a video series that usually features new girls.
Jennifer Day.  Jennifer Day Morrison (born August 22 1979) is an American country music singer. Signed to BNA Records in late 1999 she has released one studio album (2000's The Fun of Your Love) and has charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. The album's title track was also featured in the 2000 film For Love of the Game. In 2005 Day reemerged on MySpace as Jennifer Morrison with a new solo album.
Uroš Zupan.  Uroš Zupan (born 25 August 1963) is a Slovene poet and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poetry has also been translated into German Polish Czech English Serbian and Croatian.Zupan was born in Trbovlje in 1963 and lived there until he went to study Comparative literature and Sociology of culture at the University of Ljubljana. He works as a translator from English Croatian and Serbian into Slovene.
Ian McFarlane.  Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist music historian and author who's best known publication is the The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999). As a journalist he started in 1984 with Juke a rock music newspaper. During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 1976–1980 (1992).
Lynne Arriale.  Lynne Arriale is an American pianist composer and bandleader who has been critically praised by the New York Times: “Lynne Arriale’s brilliant musicianship and bandstand instincts place her among the top jazz pianists of the day” and The Times: “Arriale is putting the heart back into jazz.”“The consummate storyteller Arriale achieves a special deep connection with her audience and the energy flows both ways.
Giovanni Battista Cassana.  Giovanni Battista Cassana (1668–1738) was an Italian painter. He was born the youngest son of Giovanni Francesco Cassana. He excelled in painting fruit flowers and still-life.
Sam Saboura.  Sam Saboura is best known as the on camera stylist and host of ABC’s hit series Extreme Makeover. He has appeared as the fashion and style expert on entertainment news and awards programs. He is also a personal shopper and stylist.Saboura is currently one of the hosts of Something Borrowed Something New on TLC with designer Kelly Nishimoto.
Marie-Ève Janvier.  Marie-Ève Janvier is a Canadian singer from Quebec born in 1984 in Roxton Pond Estrie Quebec.
Sonny Stitt.  Edward Sonny Stitt (born Edward Boatner Jr.; February 2 1924 – July 22 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation recording over 100 albums. He was nicknamed the Lone Wolf by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern in reference to his relentless touring and devotion to jazz.
Craig Hunter.  Craig Hunter is a musician and teacher living in Hamilton Ontario Canada.[citation needed] Formerly the drummer of the pop band The Philosopher Kings he is currently a music teacher at Waterdown District High School located in Waterdown Ontario where he also directs the school's award winning jazz band. On the side he continues to play the drums as a session musician and gives private lessons to drum students.
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung.  Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung (Chinese: 洪天健; pinyin: Hóng Tiānjiàn born 1976) is a Chinese-American new media artist who lives and works in New York. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Arts degree from San Francisco State University. Hung's works are digital collages of popular culture and current events. His media includes hi-definition video animation video games net.art digital graphics and mixed-media installations. Hung has been called the John Heartfield of Digital Era.
Ryan Belhsen.  Ryan Belhsen (born Oussama Belhcen Cherradi on March 18 1991 in the United States Naval Communications Station Sidi Yahya El Gharb Morocco) is a Moroccan pop singer songwriter and producer from Morocco he started his career in 2006. One of his known songs is Rock Your Body from his third album Dayman.
Max Tannone.  Max Tannone formerly known as Minty Fresh Beats is a New York music producer most notable for his production of mashup music.
Dave Haywood.  David Wesley Dave Haywood (born July 5 1982) is an American country music singer. He is one-third of the band Lady Antebellum in which he plays piano guitar and mandolin and sings backing vocals.Haywood's father Van is a dental instructor/dentist who invented a teeth-whitening method(originally discovered by Dr. Bill Klusmeier) and his mother Angie is a teacher. Both are involved in music in their church.Haywood's mother taught him to play piano and his father taught him to play guitar.
Kathy Wemyss.  Kathy Wemyss (pronounced 'Weemz') is an Australian rock musician. A multi-instrumentalist she was a member of Chad's Tree (1989) and The Jackson Code.
Princess Chelsea.  Chelsea Nikkel better known by her stage name Princess Chelsea is an Electropop singer-songwriter from Auckland New Zealand and a previous member of twee pop band The Brunettes and Auckland band Teenwolf. Nikkel is associated with the Lil' Chief Records collective and is a part time member of Auckland soul group The Cosbys and Disciples of Macca a Paul McCartney covers band featuring members of The Brunettes Ruby Suns Bressa Creeting Cake and Lawrence Arabia.
Camilo Pessanha.  Camilo Pessanha (September 7 1867 Coimbra – March 1 1926 Macau) was a Portuguese symbolist poet.
Isy Suttie.  Isobel Isy Jane Suttie (/ˈɪziː/; born 11 August 1978) is an English stand-up comedian actress writer composer and musician.She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show and in 2013 won the gold Sony Radio Academy Award for her radio show Pearl And Dave.
Tameka Cottle.  Tameka Harris (née Cottle; born July 14 1975) is an American singer-songwriter from Jonesboro Georgia. She is perhaps best known as a member of the multi-platinum R&B female group Xscape and her marriage with American rapper T.I.. She received a Grammy Award for her writing contributions on the TLC hit No Scrubs. She acquired the nickname Tiny due to her small stature of 4'11.
Yoo Hyeonjong.  Yoo Hyeonjong is a South Korean novelist whose works of dramatic historical fiction are well known in his native country.
Karen (singer).  Karen Rosenberg (born 20 June 1975) better known by her mononym Karen is a Danish R&B singer. She released three albums. Her debut album En til en in 2000 was produced by Saqib of Outlandish and Lasse Lindholm of Hvid Sjokolade. Her follow up album. The album was nominated to three awards during the Danish Music Awards eventually winning Best R&B. She also became famous with Vis mig du' min mand taken from the album.
Mark Hummel.  Mark Hummel (born December 15 1955 New Haven Connecticut) is an American blues harmonica player vocalist songwriter and long-time bandleader of The Blues Survivors. Since 1991 Hummel has produced the Blues Harmonica Blowout tour of which he is also a featured performer. The shows have featured blues harmonica players such as James Cotton Carey Bell and Charlie Musselwhite.
L. Shankar.  Lakshminarayana Shankar also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar is an Indian-born American violinist singer and composer.
Kim Harrison.  Kim Harrison is a pen-name of American author Dawn Cook. Under the name of Harrison she is best known for her Rachel Morgan urban fantasy series set in an alternate history where a worldwide pandemic caused by genetically modified tomatoes led to the death of a large portion of the world's human population. Under the name of Dawn Cook she is best known for her Decoy Princess and Truth series published in the first few years of the 21st century.
Gary Baseman.  Gary Baseman (born September 27 1960) is a contemporary artist who works in various creative fields including illustration fine art toy design and animation. He is the creator of the Emmy-winning ABC/Disney cartoon series Teacher’s Pet and the artistic designer of Cranium a popular board game. Baseman’s aesthetic combines iconic pop art images pre- and post-war vintage motifs cross-cultural mythology and literary and psychological archetypes.
Kakkanadan.  George Varghese Kakkanadan (Malayalam: ജോര്ജ്ജ് വര്ഗ്ഗീസ് കാക്കനാടന്; 23 April 1935 – 19 October 2011) commonly known as Kakkanadan was a Malayalam language short story writer and novelist from Kerala state South India. His works made clean break from the neo-realism that dominated Malayalam literature through the 1950s and 60s. He is often credited with laying the foundation of modernism in Malayalam literature.
Mark Leyner.  Mark Leyner (born 1956) is an American postmodernist author.
Luis Felipe Lomelí.  Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí (January 10 1975) is a Mexican writer and poet.He is best known for his flash fiction work El emigrante (The Migrant – 2005) and for the collection Todos santos de California (All Saints of California – 2002) which won the San Luis Potosí National Award for Best Short Story.
Jean-Michel Defaye.  Jean-Michel Defaye (born 1932) is a French pianist composer arranger and conductor known for his collaboration with French poet and singer-songwriter Léo Ferré.He was born in Saint-Mandé Val-de-Marne near Paris on 18 September 1932. Aged ten he entered the Paris Conservatoire and completed his musical training in theory piano and composition taking in Nadia Boulanger's accompaniment class.
Ray Lynch.  Ray Lynch (aka Raymond Lynch) is a classically trained guitarist and lutenist. He was born in Salt Lake City Utah to a musical and artistic family. His mother was a classical pianist and watercolor artist. At age 6 Lynch began studying the piano until age 12 where he was inspired by the music of Andrés Segovia’s classical recordings and decided to pursue a career in music. He attended both St.
Dan Cederholm.  Dan Cederholm is a web designer author and speaker living in Salem Massachusetts. He's the founder of SimpleBits a web design studio (and weblog) where he writes articles and commentary about the web technology and life. Cederholm is the author of two books on standards-based web design and CSS: Bulletproof Web Design and Web Standards Solutions. Dan also co-founded and runs the wine review webpage Cork'd in addition to the Twitter mashup site Foamee.
Roddy Woomble.  Roderick Roddy Woomble (born 13 August 1976) is a Scottish singer songwriter and writer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of indie rock band Idlewild with whom he has recorded six studio albums.
Amy Pleasant.  Amy Pleasant (born 1972) is an American painter living and working in Birmingham AL with representation by the Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York NY). She received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.Pleasant is best known for her figurative free associative paintings and drawings that explore simple daily acts in slowly unfolding narratives.
Pierre Louÿs.  Pierre Louÿs (French: [pjɛʁ lu.i(s)] December 10 1870 – June 6 1925) was a French poet and writer most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection. He was made first a Chevalier and then an Officer of the Légion d'honneur for his contributions to French literature.
Jonathan Alter.  Jonathan Alter (born October 6 1957) is an American journalist best-selling author and television producer who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011 and has written three New York Times best-selling books about American presidents. He is a contributing correspondent to NBC News where since 1996 he has appeared on NBC MSNBC and CNBC. Alter was one of the first magazine or newspaper reporters to appear on MSNBC.
Babita Pohoomull.  Babita Pohoomull (born 1981) is a British. She played Preeti Choraria in EastEnders from 27 October 2006 to 3 January 2008. She also played Gita Dhatri in Casualty. As of September 2009 Pohoomull also appears in CBBC's Planet Ajay.
Peter Peter.  Peter Peter is a Canadian singer-songwriter originating from Quebec City Quebec (born c. 1984) and known for his French pop/rock compositions.
Ng Man-tat.  Ng Man Tat (traditional Chinese: 吳孟達; simplified Chinese: 吴孟达; Cantonese Yale: ng4 maang6 daat6) was born on 2 January 1952. He is a veteran actor in the Hong Kong film industry with dozens of awards under his belt including Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in A Moment of Romance.
Sloane Crosley.  Sloane Crosley (born August 3 1978) is a writer living in New York and the author of the collections of essays I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. She also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s Master of Fine Arts program. She graduated from Connecticut College in 2000.
Georges Hartmann.  Georges Hartmann (15 May 1843 Paris - May 1900 Paris) was a French dramatist and opera librettist who wrote under the pen name Henri Grémont.Since 1870 he was also a music publisher publishing compositions of Jules Massenet.
Doug McCombs.  Douglas McCombs (born in 1962 in Peoria Illinois) plays bass and guitar with the instrumental rock band Tortoise and leads the instrumental band Brokeback. He is also the longtime bassist for the rock band Eleventh Dream Day. In 1997 he formed Pullman with Bundy K. Brown Chris Brokaw and Curtis Harvey with whom he released two albums.
Eamon Everall.  Eamon Everall (born 6 October 1948) is an English artist and educator. He was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group. He paints in a neo-cubist style with subjects from life worked on over a long period.
Wayne Bennett (blues guitarist).  Wayne Bennett (December 13 1931 – November 28 1992) was an American blues guitarist.
Ursula K. Le Guin.  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/ ; born October 21 1929) is an American author of novels children's books and short stories mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics natural environment gender religion sexuality and ethnography.She was influenced by fantasy writers like J. R. R.
Carmen Consoli.  Carmen Consoli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarmen ˈkɔnsoli]; born September 4 1974 in Catania) is an Italian singer-songwriter. She has released 7 studio albums and 2 live albums.
T. R. Papa.  Thiruthuraipoondi Radhakrishnan Pappa (Tamil: டி. ஆர். பாப்பா; 1923–2004) was a music director of Tamil Telugu and Sinhalese movies. He was born in 1923 at Thiruthuraipoondi Madras Presidency British India.
Calvin Hunt (singer).  Calvin Hunt (1957 - December 26 2009) was an American Christian singer.Hunt was one of eight children. Hunt knew the struggle of growing up as a child of an alcoholic mother who later became born again. Hunt began singing at age 5. Hunt started working at the age of 12. He worked at an Italian pizzeria in Queens New York for four years to help out his mother. At age 16 Hunt worked construction moved out on his own and started a band as a lead singer.
Ari Berk.  Ari Berk is an American writer folklorist artist and scholar of literature iconography and comparative myth. Berk holds degrees in Ancient History (B.A.) American Indian Studies (M.A.) and Comparative Literature and Culture (Ph.D.) from Humboldt State University and University of Arizona respectively. His dissertation was directed by Pulitzer Prize winner N.
Ronnie Burns (singer).  Ronald Ronnie Leslie Burns (born 8 September 1946) AM is an Australian rock singer and guitarist. He fronted the Melbourne band The Flies in the early 1960s followed by a solo career into the 1970s and was a member of Burns Cotton & Morris in the 1990s. He retired from performing in 2000. His solo hit single Smiley peaked at number two on the Go-Set National Top 40 in 1970.
René Gruau.  René Gruau (4 February 1909 – 31 March 2004) was a renowned fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry . Because of Gruau's inherent skills and creativity contributed to a change in the entire fashion industry through the new pictures that represented the already popular designs created by designers in the industry.
Simona Noorenbergh.  Sister Simona Noorenbergh (1907–1990; her surname is also spelled Noorenberghe or Noorenberg and her original given name was Maria) was a Belgian-born religious leader and community organizer.She was born in Ypres Belgium in 1907. She was one of the founders of the small mountain village Fane in Central Province Papua New Guinea where she wasknown in Papua New Guinea as Sister Simona. At the age of 84 she died in an airplane crash in the Papuan mountains on July 5 1990.
Mark Dawidziak.  Mark Dawidziak is an American author and critic.
Tato Laviera.  Abraham Tato Laviera (May 9 1950 – November 1 2013) was an acclaimed Nuyorican poet. An obituary for NBC Latino describes him as one of the greatest representatives of the Nuyorican movement.
Yngve Moe.  Yngve Moe (4 October 1957 – 17 April 2013) was a Norwegian bass guitarist known from a number of album releases as a session musician and most notably as a founding member of Dance with a Stranger.
Giuseppe Sauli D'Igliano.  Giuseppe Sauli D'Igliano (Turin June 6 1853 - January 14 1908) was an Italian painter painting genre and landscape subjects.His family originated in Genoa but he was a resident in Turin. One of his teachers was Celestino Turletti. He exhibited in 1880 at Turin a canvas depicting: Offesa dal baffone. La lezione was exhibited in 1883 at Rome. Asperges me Domini was exhibited in 1886 at Livorno.
Chuck Leavell.  Charles Alfred Chuck Leavell (born April 28 1952) is an American musician who was a member of the Allman Brothers Band during the height of their 1970s popularity a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level a frequently employed session musician and long-time touring member of the Rolling Stones. Leavell has also toured and recorded with Eric Clapton George Harrison Gov't Mule and John Mayer.
Christoph Christian Sturm.  Christoph Christian Sturm (1740–1786) was a German preacher and author best known for his Reflections on the Works of God in Nature. The son of Johann Jakob Sturm a lawyer at Augsburg was born at Augsburg January 25 1740. He studied at the universities of Jena and Halle. He was then appointed in 1762 as one of the masters in the Paedagogium at Halle and in 1765 became Conrector of the school at Sorau at that time still part of Brandenburg.
Binod Bihari Verma.  Binod Bihari Verma (1937–2003) was a Maithili littérateur by soul medical doctor by profession and a defence officer by career. He is most noted for his pioneering work on Panjis which are ancient genealogical charts Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan. He is also known for his depiction of rural poor of the Mithila region in his writings. During his lifetime he worked as a medical officer in the Indian Army as a lecturer in a Dental College and as a Private Medical practitioner.
George Eric Oakes Ramsden.  George Eric Oakes Ramsden (1898–1962) was a New Zealand journalist writer and art critic. He was born in Martinborough Wairarapa New Zealand in 1898.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz.  Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Punjabi Urdu: فیض احمد فیض ‎ born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) MBE NILenin Peace Prize was an influential left-wing intellectual revolutionary poet and one of the most famous poets of Urdu. He also wrote poems in Punjabi language as well. A notable member of the Progressive Writers' Movement (PWM) Faiz was an avowed Marxist. Listed four times for the Nobel Prize in poetry he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962.
Russ Warren.  Russ Warren (American b. 1951) is a contemporary figurative painter who has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad notably in the 1981 Whitney Biennial and the 1984 Venice Biennale. A painter in the Neo-Expressionist style he has drawn inspiration from Spanish masters such as Velázquez Goya and Picasso as well as from Mexican folk art and the American southwest.
Wilm Dedeke.  Wilm Dedeke (c.1460–c.1528) was a late gothic painter from Northern Germany. He was born in Lübeck.Dedeke completed the Altar of St. Luke (Lukas-Altar) at the Hamburg Mariendom in 1499 for the Hamburg Guild of Saint Luke. It had been left unfinished by his late colleagues Hinrik Bornemann and Absolon Stumme; Dedeke married the widow of the latter man. In 1502 he attained the title of Master of the Brotherhood of St. Thomas.
Aki Sirkesalo.  Aki Pekka Antero Sirkesalo (July 25 1962 – December 26 2004) was a Finnish singer and broadcaster.
Imants Kalniņš.  Imants Kalniņš (born 26 May 1941 in Riga Latvia) is one of the most important composers in the history of Latvian music. Having studied classical as well as choral music he has written six symphonies several operas (including the first rock opera in the USSR Ei jūs tur! (Hey you there!)) oratorios cantatas choir songs a lot of movie and theater music.
John Copnall.  John Bainbridge Copnall (1928–2007) was an English artist best known for his abstract expressionist painting of richly coloured stylised realism often on a grand scale. He was also a teacher of painting for twenty years at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
Dhani Lennevald.  John Dhani Lennevald (born July 24 1984 in Stockholm) is a Swedish Pop/R&B dancer and singer. He is a former member of the pop group A-Teens.
Jordan Hill (singer).  Jordan Hill (born Whitney Jordan Hill in Knoxville Tennessee USA) is an American singer/songwriter.Hill was originally signed by producer David Foster to his own label 143 Records a division of Warner Music Group.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif.  Cheryl Kaye Tardif (née Kaye; born (1963-08-12)August 12 1963) is a Canadian mystery writer best known for Canada-based novels Whale Song Divine Intervention and The River. Her novels involve social issues such as assisted suicide school bullies child abuse and the search for youth and longevity.
William Horwood (novelist).  William Horwood (born 12 May 1944 in Oxford) is an English novelist. He grew up on the East Kent coast primarily in Deal within a model modern family—fractious with parental separation secret illegitimacy alcoholism and genteel poverty.Between the ages of six and ten he was raised in foster care attended school in Germany for a year then went on to Grammar School at age eleven.
Shay Sweet.  Shay Sweet (born September 22 1978 in Fort Worth Texas) is an American pornographic actress. Shay Sweet owns a bar in Texas called Coyote Ugly according to the Behind The Scenes Extras on the DVD Fine Ass Bitches.
Giovanni Papini.  Giovanni Papini (January 9 1881 – July 8 1956) was an Italian journalist essayist literary critic poet and novelist.
Eugenio Batres Garcia.  Victor Eugenio Batres Garcia (born May 21 1941 in Chinandega Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan journalist political commentator newscaster and writer. He is the author of Subdesarrollo y corrupción: experencias tercermundistas de la democracia nicaragüense published in 2003 a historical account of Nicarguan governments.
Giacinto Brandi.  Giacinto Brandi (1621 – 19 January 1691) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era active mainly in Rome and Naples.Born in Poli in the Lazio he was trained in Rome in the studio of Alessandro Algardi a noted sculptor who noted that Brandi was more suited to painting. He joined the studio of Giovanni Giacomo Sementi. He traveled to Naples from 1638 and by 1647 had returned to Rome to work under Giovanni Lanfranco where Brandi befriended Mattia Preti.
Zephyr (artist).  ZEPHYR born Andrew Witten is a graffiti artist lecturer and author from New York City. He began creating graffiti in 1975 and first signed using the name Zephyr in 1977. He has been identified as a graffiti elder who along with Futura 2000 Blade PHASE 2 CASH Lady Pink and TAKI 183 invented styles and standards that continue to be used and expanded upon today.
Mike Oldfield.  Michael Gordon Mike Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer whose work blends progressive rock with world folk classical electronic ambient New Age. It is often elaborate and complex in nature. He is best known for his 1973 album Tubular Bells – which launched Virgin Records and became a hit after its opening was used as the theme for the film The Exorcist – and for his 1983 hit single Moonlight Shadow.
Hisaye Yamamoto.  Hisaye Yamamoto (August 23 1921 – January 30 2011) was a Japanese American author. She is best known for the short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories first published in 1988. Her work confronts issues of the Japanese immigrant experience in America the disconnect between first and second generation immigrants as well as the difficult role of women in society.
Raffy Cortina.  Rafael Raffy Nico Cortina Jr. (born June 22 1991) is an American director writer and producer. He won the 2013 Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his thesis film Bottled Up.Cortina is a native of Spanish Harlem New York City. He entered Occidental College in 2009 and studied Media Arts & Culture. He co-created the college's first student-run television station CatAList TV premiering in April 2010.
Kang Full.  Kang Full (or Kang Pool Hangul: 강풀) is the pen name of Kang Do-young (born December 7 1974) a South Korean webcomic artist.Regarded as a first generation webcomic artist Kang had no formal teaching in either writing or drawing comics. His interest stemmed from painting wall posters for the student body at Sangji University turning them into eye-catching comics in order to attract attention.
Azhar Abidi.  Azhar Ali Abidi (born 6 February 1968 in Wah Pakistan) is a Pakistani Australian author and translator. He went to school in Pakistan and later studied electrical engineering at the Imperial College London and Masters of Business Administration at the University of Melbourne. He migrated to Australia in 1994 and lives in Melbourne Australia.
Johnnie Johnson (musician).  Johnnie Johnson (July 8 1924 – April 13 2005) was an American pianist and blues musician. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Andrew Johnston (singer).  Andrew Johnston (born 23 September 1994) is a British singer who rose to fame when he appeared as a boy soprano on the second series of the British television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2008. Although he did not win the series he received a contract to record on the SyCo Music label owned by the Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell. Johnston's debut album One Voice was released in September of the same year and reached number four on the British album charts.
Mildred Lewis Rutherford.  Mildred Lewis Miss Millie Rutherford (July 16 1851 – August 15 1928) was a prominent educator and author from Athens Georgia. She served the Lucy Cobb Institute as its head and in other capacities for over forty years and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school.
Radney Foster.  Radney Foster (born July 20 1959 Del Rio Texas United States) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Initially a songwriter in Nashville Tennessee Foster made his recording debut as part of the Foster & Lloyd duo recording three studio albums and with nine singles on the country charts.Foster began his solo career in 1992 and his album Del Rio TX 1959 produced four consecutive Top 40 hits.
Gary Nicholson.  Gary Nicholson is an American singer-songwriter and record producer known mainly for his work in country music.
Lawson Rollins.  Lawson Rollins is an American guitarist and composer from North Carolina noted for his virtuoso fingerstyle technique and melodic compositional skills featured in his recordings. His music spans a wide range of genres but is generally classed as Latin Jazz and World Music with elements of Samba Bossanova Middle Eastern music Classical guitar Flamenco and Shred guitar added to the mix.
Constantin Brâncuși.  Constantin Brâncuși (Romanian: [konstanˈtin brɨŋˈkuʃʲ]; February 19 1876 – March 16 1957) was a Romanian sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest then to Munich then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art.
Admiral Bailey.  Admiral Bailey (born Glendon Bailey Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who enjoyed his greatest success between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He now lives in Jamaica. He has been described as the hottest dancehall star of the late 1980s.
Charlie Biddle.  Charlie Biddle CM otherwise known as Charles Reed Biddle (July 28 1926 – February 4 2003) was a Canadian jazz bassist.
Margaret Duley.  Margaret Iris Duley (September 27 1894 – March 22 1968) was arguably Newfoundland's first novelist of either sex and certainly the first to gain an international audience. She was born in pre-Confederation Newfoundland. Her four novels combine a deep sense of geography and place and especially of the sea which gave and took away.
Salomon Isacovici.  Salomon Isacovici (1924 in Sighetu Marmaţiei Romania – 1998) was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who became a writer and businessman in Ecuador. Born in Romania he moved to Ecuador following World War II and co-authored with Juan Manuel Rodriguez the book Man of Ashes.
Ma Jian (writer).  Ma Jian (simplified Chinese: 马建; traditional Chinese: 馬建; pinyin: Mǎ Jiàn; Wade–Giles: Ma Chien; born 18 August 1953) is a Chinese writer.
Rajendra Prasanna.  Rajendra Prasanna Urdu: راجندر پرسننا‎; born 15 April 1956) is an exponent of Bansuri (Indian Flute) and Shehnai of India.
George Ferebee.  George Ferebee (or Feribye Ferrabee etc.) (floruit 1613) was an English composer.The son of a Gloucestershire yeoman Ferebee was born about 1573 and matriculated at Oxford on 25 October 1589 aged 16 (Clark). He was a chorister of Magdalen College until 1591. He was admitted B.A. 1592 licensed to be M.A. 9 July 1595 and became vicar of Bishop's Cannings Wiltshire.
Heiko Schramm.  Heiko Schramm (born 8 June 1971 in Dresden Germany) is a German musician and singer/songwriter (bass guitar double bass and guitar).
Carl Ewald.  Carl Ewald (1856 Schleswig - 1908) was a Danish novelist.
Micha Cárdenas.  Micha Cárdenas is a transgender performance and new media artist. She works in social practice wearable electronics and intersectional analysis. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Peter Mieg.  Peter Mieg (September 5 1906 – December 7 1990) was a Swiss composer painter and journalist.
Roy 'Chubby' Brown.  Roy 'Chubby' Brown (born Royston Vasey 3 February 1945) is an English stand-up comedian famous for his sarcastic blue humour. The controversial nature of his act means he rarely appears on major television channels and Brown has attracted accusations that his comedy style is outdated whilst also being described as the most important comedian of the past 25 years.
Devon Sproule.  Devon Sproule (born 23 April 1982 in Kingston Ontario) is a musician based for many years in Charlottesville Virginia. She married musician and singer-songwriter Paul Curreri in 2005. She shared the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award for 2009 with Oren Lavie. She and her husband moved to Berlin Germany in September 2011. In the spring of 2012 they moved to Austin Texas.
Mick Harris.  Mick Harris (born Michael John Harris October 1967) commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris is an English musician.Harris was born in Birmingham and started out in the 1980s as a drummer working with various punk rock and grindcore bands (most notably pioneering grindcore band Napalm Death); as a drummer he is generally credited with popularising the blast beat which has since become a key component of much of extreme metal and grindcore.
Farryl Purkiss.  Farryl Purkiss is a South African-born singer-songwriter. Farryl first picked up the guitar when he was fifteen years old and began writing songs shortly after his sixteenth birthday. He self-released an EP in 2005 (Chapter One) that created waves in his home town of Durban and later that year he began talks with 2Feet Music.
Papa Mali.  Malcolm Papa Mali Welbourne (born May 6 1957) is an American record producer guitarist singer and songwriter who grew up in Shreveport Louisiana United States and lives in New Orleans Louisiana United States.His debut recording Thunder Chicken produced by Dan Prothero has been referred to as one of the few truly wild and unruly records to come from the rock & roll tradition in the 21st century.
Laurence Anholt.  Laurence Anholt (born 4 August 1959) is a UK-based author/illustrator of more than 100 children’s books published in over 40 languages and notable for their upbeat and humorous approach to important issues for young children. Titles are often based on his own family experience and are typified by a quirky hand drawn pen and watercolour style.
Amy Hennig.  Amy Hennig (born 1964/65) is a video game director and script writer formerly for the video game company Naughty Dog. She began her work in the industry on the Nintendo Entertainment System with her design debut on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City. She later went to work for Crystal Dynamics working primarily on the Legacy of Kain series.
Maura Davis.  Maura Davis was the lead singer of the American indie rock band Denali from Richmond Virginia United States active from 2000 to 2004 (with brief reappearances in 2008). She also fronted the alternative group Ambulette formerly known as Bella Lea who released an EP on Astralwerks in 2005 and broke up in 2007 before releasing a first full-length album.Davis is noted for her soaring vocals and minimalist lyrics.
Toni Weisskopf.  Toni Weisskopf (born December 12 1965) is an American science fiction editor and the publisher of Baen Books.Weisskopf is an alumna of Oberlin College from which she graduated in 1987. She was immediately employed by Baen Books where she served as executive editor up until the death of founder Jim Baen in 2006 at which point she took over as publisher.She has edited a number of their anthologies under the name T.K.F.
Ruth Vollmer.  Ruth Vollmer (1903 - 1982 New York) was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.
Ardashes Der-Khachadourian.  Ardashes Der-Khachadourian (Armenian: Արտաշէս Տէր Խաչատուրեան) - Armenian diasporan linguist bibliographer philologist historian periodicals and book collector lexicographer grammarist and editor.
Robert M. Utley.  Robert Marshall Utley (born October 31 1929) is an American author and historian who has written sixteen books on the history of the American West. He is a former chief historian for the National Park Service.The Western History Association annually gives out the Robert M. Utley Book Award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America (including Mexico and Canada) from prehistory through the 20th century.
Gopal Singh Nepali.  Gopal Singh Nepali (1926–1963) was an eminent poet of Hindi literature and a famous lyricist of Bollywood. His association with Bollywood spanned around two decades beginning in 1944 and ended with his death in 1963. He was a poet of post-Chhayavaad period and he wrote several collections of Hindi poems including Umang (published in 1933).
Todd Terry.  Todd N. Terry (born April 18 1967) is an American DJ producer and remixer.
Sarah Aroeste.  Sarah Aroeste is a Manhattan-based Jewish Ladino musician. Her music is often referred to as “feminist Ladino rock.”
Margie Evans.  Margie Evans (born July 17 1940) is an American blues singer and songwriter. She recorded mainly in the 1970s and 1980s and secured two hit singles on the US Billboard R&B chart. She has variously worked with Johnny Otis and Bobby Bland.Her main influences were Bessie Smith Ma Rainey Big Maybelle and Big Mama Thornton.In addition to her musicianship Evans is noted as a motivational speaker and rights activist as well as a promoter of the legacy of blues music.
Jimmy McLoud.  Jimmy McLoud (born November 24 1984) is a singer-songwriter from Youngstown OH. He is best known as the lead vocalist guitarist and primary songwriter for Mercy Rising a regionally-touring group he co-founded in 2004.Jimmy became known in the Youngstown local music scene late in 2007 when his original song Wasting Time received airplay on a Youngstown music podcast. He began booking shows locally to promote his first solo EP The Rooftop Sessions.
José Luis González (writer).  José Luis González (March 8 1926 – December 8 1996) was a Puerto Rican essayist novelist short story writer university professor and journalist who lived most of his life in exile in Mexico due to his pro-independence political views. He is considered to be one of the most important Puerto Rican authors of the 20th century particularly for his book Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays which was first published in Spanish in 1980.
Matt Chow.  Matthew Matt Chow Hoi-Kwong (Chinese: 鄒凱光) is a Hong Kong screenwriter director actor and producer. He is best known for his romantic comedy films and has served as a screenwriter for filmmakers Peter Chan Johnnie To Wai Ka-Fai and Joe Ma.
John Miller (author).  John Jack Miller is a novelist originally from Newberry Michigan.
Vasile Cârlova.  Vasile Cârlova (February 4 1809 – September 18 1831) was a Wallachian officer and early Romantic poet.
Habib Wali Mohammad.  Habib Wali Mohammad (Urdu: حبیب ولی محمد‎) (born 1921) is a Pakistani ghazal singer.
Jim Whitely.  Jim Whitely is a musician who in the late 1980s played bass guitar in several Birmingham-based hardcore and grindcore bands most notably Napalm Death.
Klementyna Hoffmanowa.  Klementyna Hoffmanowa born Tańska (23 November 1798 – 21 September 1845) was a Polish popular literary writer translator editor and one of Poland's first writers of children's literature. She co-organized and chaired the Patriotic Charity Association. She was the first woman in Poland to support herself from writing and teaching and considered herself primarily a writer.
Aisha Muharrar.  Aisha Muharrar (born March 12 1984) is an American television writer and author of the book More Than a Label . She is a writer for NBC's Parks and Recreation created by Greg Daniels and Mike Schur. Previously she was a staff writer for Fox's animated comedy Sit Down Shut Up created by Mitch Hurwitz. She graduated from Harvard College with a degree in English and American Literature and Language and was the Vice President of the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine.
Ida Applebroog.  Ida Applebroog (born November 11 1929) is an American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s she received multiple honors including the MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design.
Östen Warnerbring.  Östen Warnerbring (November 22 1934 – January 18 2006) was a Swedish singer musician composer and lyrics writer who mastered several musical genres. He started out as a jazz musician but over the years he had huge successes both in the area of popular music and as a singer of Swedish poetry put into music by himself.
Megan Amram.  Megan Amram (born September 3 1987) is an American comedian and writer. She became well known after 2010 through her Twitter account ( @MeganAmram ) where she posts one-liners that make use of subtle word play absurdism and dark humor. She was a staff writer for the Disney Channel television sitcom A.N.T. Farm and currently writes for NBC's Parks and Recreation. Amram grew up in Portland Oregon and attended Catlin Gabel School.
R. H. Quaytman.  R. H. Quaytman is a contemporary artist best known for paintings on wood panels using abstract and photographic elements in site-specific Chapters now numbering twenty-five. Each Chapter is guided by architectural historical and social characteristics of the original site. Since 2008 her work has been collected by a number of modern art museums. She is also an educator and author and is based in New York City.
Paul Celan.  Paul Celan (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in the former Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine) and changed his name to Paul Celan (where Celan in Romanian would be pronounced Chelàn and was derived from Ancel pronounced Antshel) becoming one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era.
Lew Brown.  Lew Brown (December 10 1893 – February 5 1958) was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States. Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City. Brown wrote lyrics for many of the top Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the day including Albert Von Tilzer Con Conrad and Harold Arlen.
Velimir Khlebnikov.  Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian: Велими́р Хле́бников IPA: [vʲɪlʲɪˈmʲir ˈxlʲebnʲɪkəf]; 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1885 – 28 June 1922) was a poet and playwright a central part of the Russian Futurist movement but his work and influence stretch far beyond it.
Frank Vaganée.  Frank Vaganée (born 19 March 1966 in Mechelen) is a Belgian jazz saxophonist and composer. He has his own trio with Philippe Aerts recently replaced by Rosario Bonnacorso on the double bass and Dré Pallemaerts on drums. He is co-leader of the Frank Vaganée/Mike Del Ferro Quartet and also is the artistic leader of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. He won the Belgian Golden Django award for best artist in 2001.
Henri Biva.  Henri Biva (23 January 1848 – 2 February 1929) was a French artist known for his landscape paintings and still lifes. He focused primarily on the western suburbs of Paris painting outdoors in the plein-air tradition; his style ranging between Post-Impressionism and Realism with a strong Naturalist component. Biva's pictures are characterized by intricate strokes and a pure palette bathed with warm natural light (Biva devoted great attention to light effects).
Daniel St. Pierre.  Daniel St. Pierre (aka Dan St. Pierre) is an American film director art director production designer actor animation artist and musician. For his work in bring the Deep Canvas technique to the Disney film Tarzan (1999) he received a 1999 Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production.
P. H. Newby.  Percy Howard Newby CBE (25 June 1918 – 6 September 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize his novel Something to Answer For having received the inaugural award in 1969.
Léo Staats.  Léo Staats (born 1877 died 1952) was a French dancer choreographer and director.
Sanzi.  Sanzi (simplified Chinese: 散子) born in 1965 in Yangzhou Jiangsu with the name Wang Xiaolong is a widely recognized contemporary Chinese painter and designer. Known for his mastery of deploying a combination of techniques including Western painting traditional Chinese ink painting metal and wood work.Heavily influenced by Taoism he often signs his works with “Sanzi” (散子) which has the metaphysical meaning of “floating” “freedom” and “humility”.
Michel Choquette.  Michel Choquette is a French Canadian from Montreal a humorist who has written for print for television and for film and a comedian who has performed for television.
Jimmy Urine.  James Euringer (born September 7 1969) known professionally as Jimmy Urine is the lead singer and programmer of American band Mindless Self Indulgence.
Ebel Perrelli.  Ebel Perrelli is a Brazilian composer and musician. Considered one of the best drummers in Recife Pernambuco Brazil he has already played with many famous artists of that state such as Lenine and Naná Vasconcelos and from abroad such as Chuck Silverman Manu Katché and Jonathan Mover. He was also a member of instrumental groups such as Mallavoodoo BPM Trio and Mandinga. Actually he is a member of the band Cascabulho.
Sayaka Ganz.  Sayaka Ganz is a Japanese sculptor. She was born in Yokohama Japan and grew up living in Japan Brazil and Hong Kong. Ganz identifies a strong Japanese influence in her work even though she grew up in several different countries. During her BFA studies at Indiana University Bloomington she explored various media from ceramics to printmaking before determining sculpture and welding as her expressive vehicles of choice.
Shana (singer).  Shana (born Shana Petrone May 8 1972 Park Ridge Illinois) was raised in Fort Lauderdale Florida and is an American singer of Freestyle music dance music and country music.Shana released an album in 1989 entitled I Want You on Vision Records which peaked at No. 165 on the Billboard Top 200. The album yielded two U.S. hit singles in 1990 I Want You (Billboard Hot 100 peak No. 40) and You Can't Get Away (Hot 100 peak No.
Mark Melloan.  Mark Melloan (pronounced Malone /məˈloʊn/) (born February 18 1981) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist.
Uli Jon Roth.  Ulrich Roth (born 18 December 1954) more commonly known as Uli Jon Roth is a Germanguitarist and one of the earliest contributors to the neo-classical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and inventor of the Sky Guitar. He is the older brother of fellow guitarist and artist Zeno Roth.
Ernst Eckstein.  Ernst Eckstein (6 February 1845 Giessen Grand Duchy of Hesse –18 November 1900) was a German humorist novelist and poet.
Arthur Riscoe.  Arthur Riscoe (1895–1954) was a British film actor.
Ryland Steen.  Ryland David-Burton Steen (a.k.a. The Rabbit or Xylophone) (born August 31 1980) is the current drummer of the California-USA-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish.Reel Big Fish first met Steen at an Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands when he was playing with his Nebraska-born band Square. Reel Big Fish was judging the competition and gave him and his band a perfect score. Ryland's band won the contest and the $35000 prize.
Lech Janerka.  Lech Janerka (born 2 May 1953 in Wrocław Poland) is a Polish songwriter vocalist and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk/new wave band called Klaus Mitffoch based in Wrocław.
Claudia Vecchiarelli.  Claudia Vecchiarelli (11.7.1978 - 17.9.2009) is a contemporary Italian-German naive painter whose favourite subjects are Italian landscapes (especially those of Tuscany and Umbria).Claudia Vecchiarelli was born in Schwabmünchen Germany. She began painting in 1998 and later made a significant contribution to the new wave of naive art paintings Fantanaive painting. Her works were exhibited in many individual and collective exhibitions.
Wolfgang Flür.  Wolfgang Flür (born 17 July 1947) is a German musician best known as a member of the electronic group Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987 playing electronic percussion. Flür claims that he also invented the group's electric drums used throughout the 1970s. However patent records dispute this citing Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter as the creators.
Betsy Lewin.  Betsy Reilly Lewin is an American illustrator from Clearfield Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduation she began designing business cards. She began writing and illustrating stories for children's magazines and eventually children's books. She is married to children's book illustrator Ted Lewin and with him has co-written and illustrated several books about their travels to remote places including Uganda in Gorilla Walk and Mongolia in Horse Song.
Charlie Winston.  Charlie Winston (born Charlie Winston Gleave 14 September 1978 Cornwall) is an English singer-songwriter. Winston has had his most significant commercial success in France where he is now based.
Lester Abrams.  Lester Abrams (born 1945) is a singer songwriter musician and producer who has played with such artists as B.B. King Stevie Wonder Peabo Bryson Quincy Jones Manfred Mann Brian Auger The Average White Band The Doobie Brothers Rufus and many others. Two of his co-compositions appeared on the Grammy Award winning album Minute by Minute. He has also composed songs for film and television; two of his works can be heard in the Oliver Stone-produced movie South Central.
Leo Ku.  Leo Ku Kui-Kei is a Hong Kong Cantopop and Mandopop singer actor TV host model cartoonist MV director and producer and designer a major figure in popular music culture. Ku was selected the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong in 2005 by the Government of Hong Kong. He is one of the few Cantopop artists who employ the use of falsetto (假音) - Because of this many people including David Tao have praised this unique talent.
Sam McCandless.  Sam McCandless is an American musician producer and artist.
Chris Barth.  Chris Barth is an American Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from Indianapolis IN. He is best known for his work as principal songwriter and lead vocalist of the band The Impossible Shapes as well as his solo work under his own name and the alias Normanoak. He was also a member of the soul/punk band John Wilkes Booze.
Tania Davis.  Tania Davis is the first violinist of the British/Australian classical crossover string quartet bond. Originally the violist of the quartet she became the first violinist of the group in 2008 when its original first violinist Haylie Ecker left the group. Elspeth Hanson subsequently joined the group in 2008 as the violist.
Alan Haig-Brown.  Alan Roderick Haig-Brown (born 1941) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He specializes in commercial marine and commercial fishing writing and photography.He is a regular contributor to a number of marine publications including Professional Mariner magazine where many of his articles are archived.He lives in New Westminster British Columbia and Bangkok Thailand.He is the son of writer Roderick Haig-Brown and the father of film maker Helen Haig-Brown.
Matt Barlow.  Matthew Barlow (born 10 March 1970 in Biloxi Mississippi U.S.) is an American heavy metal singer and police officer. He is the lead singer for Ashes Of Ares and former of Iced Earth and Pyramaze. He is Jon Schaffer's brother-in-law.
Michael S. Moore.  Michael Stuart Moore (born May 5 1974 in Cookeville Tennessee) is an American writer director producer and comic book writer.
Dave Andrews.  David Frank Andrews (born 20 May 1951) is an Australian Christian anarchist author speaker social activist community worker and a key figure in the Waiter's Union an inner city Christian community network working with Aboriginals refugees and people with disabilities in Brisbane Australia.
Maria Antonietta Beluzzi.  Maria Antonietta Beluzzi (26 July 1930 – 9 August 1997) was an Italian born actress who appeared in a number of films in her native country. She is probably best known and remembered as the large as well as huge-breasted tobacconist in Federico Fellini's Amarcord whose sexual arousal by the male teenager protagonist ends with ironic results.
Harold L. Humes.  Harold Louis Humes Jr. (April 11 1926 - September 10 1992) was known as HL Humes in his books and usually as Doc Humes in life. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine author of two novels in the late 1950s and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris London and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Royall Tyler (academic).  Royall Tyler (born 1936) is a scholar and translator of Japanese literature. A descendant of the American playwright Royall Tyler (1757–1826) he was born in London England grew up in America and during his high school years France. He has a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. Between 1990 and retirement in 2000 he taught at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Bob Byrne.  Bob Byrne is a comics writer artist and independent publisher based in Dublin Ireland.
Andrea Perego.  Andrea Perego is an Italo-Australian journalist and writer. After spending a few years in Sydney he is working on projects in Venice. In Australia he worked as a broadcaster for SBS Radio doing reports that had wide resonance such as the one about the murder of two Swiss Guards in the Vatican.In Italy he has worked for Filippi Editore as the curator of a book series of Venetian subjects.
Kenneth Walton (writer).  Kenneth Andrew Walton (born 23 November 1967) is an American software developer and author of the memoir Fake: Forgery Lies & eBay which details his time spent selling forged art on the online auction site eBay.
Michael Harris (glassworker).  Michael Harris (1933-1994) was an English glassworker. With his wife Elizabeth he set up Mdina Glass on the island of Malta in 1968. They left Malta in 1972 and founded their Isle of Wight Studio. In 1989 they started Gozo Glass on Gozo an island near Malta a business still operating today.
Ryan Peters (musician).  Ryan Peters is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Kelowna British Columbia in his youth and now bases his career from Vancouver. Ryan Peters is the drummer in Ladyhawk and also contributes to the vocals and lyrics. Peters was one of the original members of the Vancouver incarnation of Jon-Rae and the River and also was part of the band Alpha BMX. He partnered up with bandmate Darcy Hancock in a side-project called Sports. Peters also tours with Lightning Dust.
Leon McAuliffe.  Leon McAuliffe (January 3 1917 – August 20 1988) born William Leon McAuliffe was an American Western swing musician from Houston Texas. He is famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys inspiring Wills's phrase Take it away Leon.
David Karp (pomologist).  David Karp (born 1958) is an active pomologist traveler and writer who calls himself a Fruit detective.David is the son of Harvey Karp an businessman whose East Hampton home was reputed to be a palace. He was fluent in Latin when he graduated from high school.
Dana Nălbaru.  Dana Nălbaru (born 23 October 1976) is a Romanian singer songwriter and musician.Widely known as former HI-Q band member Dana Nălbaru started her solo music career in 2004 with her first music album Zbor.She currently resides in Bucharest Romania together with her husband Romanian actor Dragoş Bucur and their daughter Sofia born in 2007.It was announced in late October 2010 that she returned to the band without quitting solo career.
Thomas King (novelist).  Thomas King CM (born 24 April 1943) is a noted American-Canadian novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about North America's First Nations. He is an advocate for First Nations causes. He is of Cherokee and Greek/German-American descent. In 2003 King was invited to give the Massey Lecture in Canada the first person of aboriginal descent to be chosen. He has dual United States-Canadian citizenship.
Pete Wells.  Pete Wells is as of 2014 the restaurant critic for the New York Times. He was appointed to the position in November 2011 succeeding Sam Sifton.From 1999–2001 Wells was a columnist and editor for Food & Wine. Wells was articles editors at Details from 2001 until 2006 when he joined the Times as dining editor.
Bob Florence.  Bob Florence (May 20 1932 – May 15 2008) was an American jazz arranger and pianist.
Chino Rodriguez.  Chino Rodriguez (New York City 2 February 1954) is an American music producer band leader musician manager booking agent record company executive business consultant and record label owner specializing in Latin music most notably Salsa and Latin jazz. He is widely recognized as a major impresario in the Latin music industry.Chino was born James Mui in New York City on February 2 1954 in the Little Italy / Chinatown area of Manhattan to a Chinese father (Chueng Mui) who obtained U.S.
Richard Hillert.  Richard Hillert was a noted Lutheran composer. He was Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at Concordia University Chicago River Forest Ill. He was best known for his work as a composer and teacher of composition.
Conny Plank.  Konrad Conny Plank (May 3 1940 – December 18 1987) was a German record producer and musician. He was born in Hütschenhausen. His creativity as a sound engineer and producer helped to shape many innovative recordings of postwar European popular music covering a wide range of genres including progressive avant-garde electronic music and krautrock.
Olga Forsh.  Olga Dmitryevna Forsh (Russian: О́льга Дми́триевна Форш) née Komarova (Russian: Комаро́ва) (May 28 [O.S. May 16] 1873 – July 17 1961) was a Russian/Soviet novelist dramatist memoirist and scenarist.
Noel Schajris.  Nahuel Schajris Rodríguez (born July 19 1974 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a naturalized Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist based in Mexico who experienced chart-topping success as part of the duo Sin Bandera until he and fellow singer-songwriter Leonel García concluded their partnership in 2007.
Patrick Denipitiya.  Patrick Tibertius Maximus Denipitiya (11 August 1934 – 23 March 2013) was possibly one of the most well-regarded musicians in Sri Lankan music history.He introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar into Sri Lankan music[citation needed] and was responsible for the musical composition arrangements music direction and performance of many Sinhala songs and films from the early-1950s to 1997.
Michael Chow (actor).  Michael Chow Man-Kin (周文健) is a Canada-born Hong Kong-based actor.
Sarah Macdonald (journalist).  Sarah Macdonald is an Australian journalist author and radio presenter.After completing a cadetship at ABC NewsRadio Macdonald worked as Triple J's political correspondent in Canberra later hosting its morning show.
Kyosuke Himuro.  Kyosuke Himuro (氷室 京介 Himuro Kyōsuke born October 7 1960 in Takasaki Gunma Japan) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He was a member of the rock group Boøwy from 1981 to 1988. After the group disbanded he started a successful solo career becoming one of Japan's best-selling artists. In 2003 HMV Japan ranked Himuro at number 76 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts.
Dorrie Nossiter.  Dorrie Nossiter (29 June 1893 – 1977) was an English jeweller and jewellery designer from Aston near Birmingham.Nossiter crafted precious jewellery of her own designs in the English Arts and Crafts Tradition in both sterling silver and gold. Her work is known for her use of colour and floral and curvature lines using gemstones in motifs.Nossiter was educated at the Municipal School of Art in Birmingham from 1910 to 1914. Nossiter married Ernest Guy Robinson in 1922.
Hudeydi.  Ahmed Ismail Hussein (Somali: Axmed Ismaaciil Xudeydi) is a Somali-British commonly known as Hudeydi is considered one of the most popular Somali musicians of all time.[citation needed] He is also known as 'The King'.[citation needed]
Théodore Botrel.  Jean-Baptiste-Théodore-Marie Botrel (14 September 1868 – 28 July 1925) was a French singer-songwriter poet and playwright. He is best known for his popular songs about his native Brittany of which the most famous is La Paimpolaise. During World War I he became France's official Bard of the Armies.
Neal Casal.  Neal Casal (born November 2 1968 Denville New Jersey) is an American guitarst singer songwriter and photographer. He is best known as a member of Ryan Adams' backing band the Cardinals with whom he recorded three studio albums and of whom he was a member from 2005 until 2009.
Makhanlal Chaturvedi.  Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi (April 4 1889 – January 30 1968) also called Panditji was an Indian poet writer essayist playwright and a journalist who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature. He was awarded the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work Him Taringini in 1955.
Mícheál Breathnach.  Mícheál Breathnach (1881–1908) was an Irish writer.Born at Cois Fhairrge Connemara. Worked for some time as a Secretary of the London Branch of the Gaelic League. He later worked as headmaster of the Connaught College in Tuar Mhic Éadaigh County Mayo. He spent time in Switzerland for the sake of improving his health his accounts of the country been published in An Claidheamh Soluis and later published as Seilig i measg na nAlp. He translated Charles Kickham's novel Knocknagow into Irish.
Giorgio Cavazzano.  Giorgio Cavazzano (born October 19 1947) is an Italian comic strip artist. Cavazzano was born in Venice. He started his career at age 14 as an inker for Romano Scarpa. He produced stories about Disney characters Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Scrooge McDuck and others.Cavazzano's work is known for combining the traditional rubbery appearance of Disney characters with realistic illustration of technological gadgets and machinery.
Jonathan Singleton.  Jonathan Singleton is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is known for co-writing the songs Don't by Billy Currington Watching Airplanes by Gary Allan Red Light and Let It Rain by David Nail and Why Don't We Just Dance by Josh Turner.
Ove Alexander Billington.  Ove Alexander Billington (born 10 August 1979) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer known as Band leader within his own Billington Trio and for his participation in bands like «Independent Jazz Orchestra» «Speak Low» Mads Berven Quartet and «Kjellerbandet».
Andrew White (musician).  Andrew Whitey White (born 28 August 1974) is the lead and rhythm guitarist of the English alternative rock band Kaiser Chiefs.
Shirome.  Shirome (白女) was a minor female Japanese waka poet who lived during the 10th century AD.She was born in Eguchi Settsu Province (摂津国江口 modern day Osaka) and thought to be a daughter of a minor aristocrat Settsunokuni Tamabuchi (摂津国玉淵).[citation needed] Her occupation was an asobi/yujo (遊女) which later in history meant a common prostitute however during Heian period (794-1185) it often referred to a woman who was trained in the art of singing and dancing - similar to the latter day Geisha.
Oscar Tschirky.  Oscar Tschirky (1866 in La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland – November 6 1950 in New Paltz New York USA) was maître d'hôtel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan New York United States. He was widely known as Oscar of the Waldorf and published a large cookbook.
Stephen Brown (composer).  Stephen John Brown (born August 16 1948) is a Canadian composer. He holds ARCT Diplomas in both Theory and Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Music and is an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre. Brown is Department Head of Theory and Composition at the Victoria Conservatory of Music British Columbia and an examination designer and syllabus design consultant for the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto.
Ken Danby.  Ken Danby CM OOnt (March 6 1940 – September 23 2007) was a Canadian painter in the realist style.
Lois Pereiro.  Luis Ángel Sánchez Pereiro alias Lois Pereiro (born Monforte de Lemos February 16 1958-died A Coruña May 24 1996) was a Galician poet and writer.Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him in 2011.
Mary Ruwart.  Mary J. Ruwart PhD (born October 16 1949) is a research scientist and libertarian speaker writer and activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author of the award-winning international bestseller Healing Our World.
William Montgomery McGovern.  William Montgomery McGovern (September 28 1897 – December 12 1964) was an American adventurer Northwestern University professor anthropologist and journalist. He was possibly an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones.McGovern's life may be more incredible than the fictional character he spawned.
Medardo Ángel Silva.  Medardo Ángel Silva (June 8 1898 – June 10 1919) was a renowend Ecuadorian poet and a member of the Generación decapitada.The Generación Decapitada (Decapitated Generation) was a literary group formed by four young Ecuadorian poets in the first decades of the 20th century. Two men from Guayaquil Medardo Ángel Silva and Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño and two men from Quito Arturo Borja and Humberto Fierro were the precursors of modernismo in Ecuador.
Michael Tse.  Michael Tse Tin-wah (born (1967-07-15)15 July 1967) is a Hong Kong TVB actor.
Jackie Daly.  Jackie Daly (Kanturk (North Cork Ireland) 1945) is an Irish button accordion and concertina player. He has been a member of a number of prominent Irish traditional-music bands including De Dannan Patrick Street Arcady and Buttons & Bows.
Edward Bland.  Edward Osmund Bland (July 25 1926–March 14 2013) was an American composer and musical director.
Shariann Lewitt.  Shariann Lewitt (born 1954) is an American author specializing in science fiction. She is currently a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kevin Kash.  Kevin Kash is a Brooklyn-born actor who has appeared in various film television and theater roles.
Giacomo Patri.  Giacomo Patri (1898–1978) was an Italian-born American artist and teacher.Based in San Francisco Patri taught at the California Labor School following World War II. Due to its pro-labor agenda the school was closed in the 1950s under the pressures of McCarthyism.In 1938 after three years of work Patri produced the wordless novel White Collar using linocut printing. It chronicled the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash and was intended to motivate white-collar workers to unionize.
Melanie Fiona.  Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4 1983) known professionally as Melanie Fiona is a Canadian R&B recording artist. She was born and raised in Toronto. She started her career in 2002 as part of a Canadian musical girl band trio X-Quisite that was nominated for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for the band's album X-Quisite.
Amal Hijazi.  Amal Hijazi (Arabic: أمل حجازى‎) is a Lebanese singer model and pop icon. She is one of the most active Lebanese singers and has given a number of concerts throughout the world and has made countless TV appearances. After her lengthy career as a fashion model Hijazi released her debut album Akher Gharam in 2001 to commercial success. It became one of the biggest selling albums of the year ranking on number eight Official Sales charts published by the Chart Magazine.
Andrew Seow.  Andrew Seow (Ace) (Chinese: 肖乙铭; pinyin: Xiāo Yǐmíng) is a Singaporean actor celebrity model and media personality.Seow was a model in Singapore and Asia before becoming an actor on local television. He is best known for his role as the eldest son in the family drama series Growing Up on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 earning him the Best Newcomer in the annual Asian Television Awards.
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu.  Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon November 30 1736 – March 1 1810 Lyon) was a French draughtsman etcher and engraverBoissieu was born at Lyon and studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in his home town but was mostly self-taught.
Tawfiq al-Hakim.  Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (October 9 1898 – July 26 1987) (Arabic: توفيق الحكيم‎ Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was born in Alexandria Egypt the son of an Egyptian wealthy judge and a Turkish mother.
Ryohei Yamamoto.  Ryohei Yamamoto (山本 領平 Yamamoto Ryōhei) born December 30 1974 in Kyoto) is a Japanese R&B singer also known as just Ryohei. He debuted as 山本領平 (written in kanji) under Warner Music Japan on 2003 with single Almost There. Prior to that on November 2002 he was featured on a track Why Not? by Fantastic Plastic Machine. In 2006 he shortened his name to just Ryohei (written in Roman letters) and transferred to the label Rhythm Zone.
Catharine Parr Traill.  Catharine Parr Traill born Strickland (9 January 1802 – 29 August 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life as a settler in Canada.
Eleanor (singer).  Eleanor (b. Eleanor Acedemia on August 13 1958 in Los Angeles California) is a dance music singer and producer. Her one and only chart appearance occurred in 1988 when her song Adventure went to number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the U.S.
Garlieb Merkel.  Garlieb Helwig Merkel (1 November [O.S. 21 October] 1769 in Lēdurga Volmar County – 9 May [O.S. 27 April] 1850 in Riga) was a Baltic German writer and activist and an early Estophile and Lettophile.Merkel was born into the family of a rural priest in Livonia. From the age of 17 he worked as a tutor for upper-class families. In 1790 he joined the circle of Riga intellectuals.
Mark Marku.  Mark Marku (born 6 December 1991) is an Albanian singer. He rose to fame after taking part in the third season of Hrvatska traži zvijezdu where he finished third overall. After his appearance on the show he released his music both in Croatian and Albanian.
Mato Lovrak.  Mato Lovrak (8 March 1899 - 14 March 1974) was Croatian writer for children.
Marcelo Birmajer.  Marcelo Birmajer (born on November 29 1966 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Jewish author. The grandson of Romanian Polish Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants. Best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work usually revolves around the Porteño neighbourhood of Once and its colorful inhabitants.
Gerald J. Tate.  Gerald J Tate (b. 6 February 1954 Belfast) is an Northern Irish Horror writer who is also a time served aircraft engineer.
Johann Friedrich Klöffler.  Johann Friedrich Klöffler (20 April 1725 – 21 February 1790) was a German conductor composer and administrator. He was one of the earliest to write music for two orchestras.From 1750 to 1789 he worked at Steinfurt occasionally touring throughout Europe and Russia. For the Steinfurt castle concert hall he wrote lots of symphonies some of which include horns with crook changes. The vast majority of Klöffler's chamber music is for flute.
Adam Agius.  Adam Agius (born 21 September 1971) is the vocalist guitarist keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive metal band Alchemist. He formed Alchemist in 1987 while still in high school and is the group's only remaining original member. He also was the financial provider director of show day and promoter for Metal for the Brain. His main band Alchemist went on an indefinite hiatus and as a result has started up a new successor project The Levitation Hex.
Malcolm Welsford.  Malcolm Welsford is a New Zealand Record Producer and is best known for his work with Shihad The Feelers and Supergroove.
Francis Hamabe.  Francis Emritz Hamabe (aka Frank; 1 August 1917 — 2 March 2002) was a Maine artist of Japanese and Swedish descent.Known best for his screen printing oil painting and Sumi ink drawing he also cartooned including for The New Yorker and The Philadelphia Inquirer and produced murals. He was the first art instructor for the Farnsworth Art Museum and the first art director of Down East The Magazine of Maine.
Richard Greenblatt (playwright).  See Richard Greenblatt for other people of the same name.Richard Greenblatt (born 1953 in Montreal Quebec) is a Canadian playwright who currently lives in Toronto. He is best known for 2 Pianos 4 Hands which he wrote and performed with Ted Dykstra.Greenblatt was born in Montreal in 1953 to a secular Jewish family. His parents were active Communists until 1956 when they left the party after Khrushchev's Secret Speech.Greenblatt attended Dawson College.
Serena Ryder.  Serena Ryder (born December 8 1982) is a Canadian musician. Born in Toronto she grew up in Millbrook Ontario. Ryder first gained national recognition with her ballad Weak in the Knees in 2007. An accomplished songwriter and musician she also possesses a three-octave vocal range and is considered a mezzo-soprano. Her timbre has been described as slightly nasal with a raspy lower register.
Trevor Martin.  Trevor Martin is a British stage and film actor known for playing popular British characters including Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes.
Pratik Gosh.  Pratik Gosh (Devanāgarī: प्रतिक घोश) is an Indian singer and finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs who attained 10th place. His date of birth is on the 15 October 1997.Pratik Gosh overcome by fame fled India and moved to Australia. He changed his name to Pratik Ghosh and is now living a second life as a student.
Mike Kelley (artist).  Michael Mike Kelley ( October 27 1954 – c. January 31 2012) was an American artist. His work involved found objects textile banners drawings assemblage collage performance and video. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy Tony Oursler and John Miller.
Hubert Tully.  Hubert Tully Irish War of Independence victim died 11 May 1921.Hubert Tully was 26 years old and was a native of County Roscommon. He was a Foreman at Galway Railway Station. He was a contact of Sean Broderick. Broderick was the Officer Commanding 4th Battalion Galway Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence.He was staying at 35 St Brigids Terrace in a house owned by Thomas Carew and his wife.
Hiroyuki Onoue.  Hiroyuki Onoue (尾上 寛之 Onoue Hiroyuki) born July 16 1985 is a Japanese actor from Osaka Prefecture.
Calypso Rose.  Calypso Rose born McCartha Linda Sandy-Lewis April 27 1940 in Bethel Tobago is a calypsonian. She began writing songs at the age of 15 turned professional in 1964 and has written over 800 songs and recorded over 20 albums.Rose's father was a leader with the Spiritual Shouter Baptists. Her family was very traditional and opposed her singing in Carnival Tents. She composed her first Calypso in 1955 after seeing a man steal the spectacles off of a lady’s face in the Croisée San Juan.
Antoine Vialon.  Antoine Vialon (1814 – 4 March 1866) was a French draftsman and engraver who became music editor and composer of vocal music later in his life. After playing music of other composers he began writing and playing his own music with fatherly care.
Dan Sane.  Dan Sane (September 22 1896 – February 18 1956) was an American Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter. He was a working associate of Frank Stokes and according to Allmusic journalist Jason Ankeny they had emerged among the most complementary duos in all of the blues with Sane's flatpicking ideally embellished by Stokes' fluid rhythms. The best known of Sane's penned songs were Downtown Blues and Mr. Crump Don't Like It. His surname was alternatively spelt as 'Sain'.
Jess McAvoy.  Jessica Henduwin McAvoy (born 11 January 1980) is an independent folk pop rock musician who was born and raised in Perth Western Australia. McAvoy has released twelve self-funded and self-produced studio albums on her own label Henduwin Music. She has toured extensively across Australia Europe Canada and the United States. She is currently based in Melbourne Australia.
Phil Mulloy.  Phil Mulloy is a British animator. He was born in Wallasey Merseyside and studied both painting and filmmaking. Mulloy worked as a writer and director of live-action films until the late 1980s before becoming an animator. His animations have been described as satirical grotesque and often portray the dark side of human nature and contemporary social political and religious values in a humorous and at times shocking way.
Anne Frank.  Annelies Anne Marie Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk] German pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk] About this sound pronunciation ; 12 June 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Dai Henwood.  Dai Henwood (born 1978) is a New Zealand comedian. He is best known for his hosting of several television shows found on C4 but also performs stand up comedy.
Brian Keenan (musician born 1982).  Brian Keenan (born August 23 1982) is a Brooklyn-based songwriter and musician. He was born in Rochester New York where he resided until 2005.He has released albums under his own name and as frontman for the Americana band Proud Simon. He played lead guitar in indie pop outfit Cricket Spin. His debut solo album Today This Year was released in August 1 2011.Today This Year was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City.
Gene Pritsker.  Gene Pritsker (born 1971) is a Russian-born composer guitarist rapper and record producer living in New York City. He moved to the United States with his family in 1979 and lived in Sheapshead Bay Brooklyn. He attended the Manhattan School of Music form 1990 to 1994 where he studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali.
Bhavatharini.  Bhavatharani is an Indian Tamil singer and music director. She is the daughter of film composer Ilaiyaraaja and her brothers are the noted film composers Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja. She has mostly sung songs under her father and her brothers' direction. She was awarded the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2001 for her rendition of the song Mayil Pola Ponnu Onnu from the film Bharathi composed by her father Ilaiyaraaja.
K.I.D..  K.I.D. was a 1980s Italo disco musician best known for his SAM import and club hit You Don't Like My Music (Hupendi Muziki Wangu?!) that entered the Billboard Club charts. The name is a pseudonym used by Geoffrey Bastow.
Blair (poet).  David Blair (September 19 1967 – July 23 2011) known as Blair was an American musician and poet from Detroit Michigan who competed in the 2002 National Poetry Slam and was nominated for seven Detroit Music Awards. Blair toured in the United States South Africa and Germany performing with various artists including Stevie Wonder and Wilco.
Ivar Antonsen.  Ivar Antonsen (born April 16 1946 at Fauske Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano) and known from his debut at the Oslo jazz scene together with Jan Garbarek and Palle Mikkelborg in 1967.
Robert Richard Hieronimus.  Robert Richard Hieronimus Ph.D. (b. 1943) is an educator artist author activist and has been an acknowledged pioneer in the New Paradigm movement since 1971.
Ōtomo no Tabito.  Ōtomo no Tabito (大伴 旅人 665 - August 31 731) was a Japanese poet best known as the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi who contributed to compiling the Man'yōshū alongside his father. Tabito was a contemporary of Hitomaro but lacked his success in the Imperial Court.
DBC Pierre.  DBC Pierre (born Peter Finlay) is a writer who authored the novel Vernon God Little.He was born in South Australia in 1961 before moving to Mexico where Pierre was largely raised. He now resides in the Republic of Ireland.Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for fiction for Vernon God Little his first novel becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honoured.
Nam Ji-hyun.  Nam Ji-hyun (born 9 January 1990) is a South Korean idol singer dancer and actress. She's a member of the girl group 4Minute formed by Cube Entertainment in 2009.
Yōko Asada.  Yōko Asada (浅田 葉子 Asada Yōko born May 23 1969) is a Japanese voice actress from Hyōgo Prefecture. She is affiliated with the talent management firm 81 Produce.
Vecheslav Ovchinnikov.  Vecheslav Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Вячеслав Владимирович Овчинников; February 19 1932 Leningrad USSR — March 16 1993 Saint Petersburg Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists) who lived and worked in Leningrad regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting most famous for his landscape painting.
Sonny Knight.  Joseph Coleman Smith (17 May 1934 – 5 September 1998) who performed and recorded under the name Sonny Knight was an African-American singer songwriter and author. His biggest hit was Confidential which reached the pop and R&B charts in 1956 and he continued to record into the 1960s. In 1981 using his real name he wrote The Day the Music Died a fictionalised account of racism in the American music business in the 1950s.
Marshall Rogers.  William Marshall Rogers III (January 22 1950 – March 24 2007) known professionally as Marshall Rogers was an American comic-book artist best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics in the 1970s particularly as one of the illustrators of Batman and Silver Surfer. In addition Rogers illustrated one of the first graphic novels Detectives Inc. (1979).
Cecilia Vega.  Cecilia Vega (born February 2 1977) is the stage name of a French pornographic actress. In addition to adult videos Vega also appeared in the 2010 Canal+ comedy series Hard ou du cochon.
Margaret MacDonald (artist).  Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (5 November 1864–10 January 1933) was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s.
Anne Evans.  Dame Anne Elizabeth Jane Evans DBE (born 20 August 1941) is an international British operatic soprano.
Kim Planert.  Kim Planert (born April 16 1973 in Bad Harzburg Germany) is a German film and television composer based in Los Angeles who recently scored the original music for ABC's drama series Missing alongside Robert Duncan.
Cornelio Reyna.  Cornelio Reyna (September 15 1940 - January 22 1997) was a Mexican norteño singer.Cornelio Reyna formed a partnership with the legendary Ramón Ayala to create the famous duet called Los Relampagos del Norte in 1963. The band stayed together for eight years and then in 1971 Reyna decided to pursue a solo career as a mariachi singer. His mariachi career was not as successful as music experts expected.
Keak da Sneak.  Charles Toby Williams (born May 9 1977) commonly known by his stage name Keak da Sneak is a rapper from Oakland California. At the age of 16 he was known as Z-Kush but became known as Keak da Sneak at 17 best known for his scratchy gruff rapping voice and coining the term hyphy in 1994.
Noah Ashenhurst.  Noah Ashenhurst (born 1972) is the author of the novel Comfort Food which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Regional Fiction (West-Pacific).
Marco Glaviano.  Marco Glaviano (born in Palermo Sicily in 1942) is an Italian photographer and architect who has worked for leading fashion magazines and brands on both sides of the Atlantic and with many of the world's best known models. He has been a pioneer of digital photography being the first to publish a digital picture in American Vogue in 1982.
Stuart Cavilla.  Stuart Cavilla is a Gibraltarian bass guitarist. He plays bass guitar in the Gibraltarian Flamenco Metal band Breed 77. Although Cavilla has not played continuously he is one of the original members and founders of the band. He also plays palmas for the band. Being a native Gibraltarian Cavilla is naturally bilingual in English and Spanish as well as speaking Llanito when among other Gibraltarians.
Øystein Alme.  Øystein Alme (born 1960) is a Norwegian author. He wrote with Morten Vågen the book Silenced - China’s Great Wall of Censorship published by Amaryllis Media in late may 2006. The book according to Reporters Without Borders takes the reader on a fascinating and disturbing trip behind China’s Great Wall of Censorship.
Cut Chemist.  Lucas MacFadden (born October 4 1972) better known as Cut Chemist is an American DJ and record producer. He is a former member of the funk Latin band Ozomatli and of hip hop group Jurassic 5. He has collaborated with fellow turntablist DJ Shadow on a number of projects.
Louise Lee.  Louise Lee Si-Kei (Chinese: 李司棋; born 26 September 1950 in Hong Kong with her family roots in Tianjin) is a Hong Kong actress and former Chinese Canadian newscaster.
Robert Goodnough.  Robert Goodnough (October 23 1917 – October 2 2010) was an American abstract expressionist painter. A veteran of World War II Goodnough was one of the last of the original generation of the New York School; (although he has been referred to as a member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists) even though he began exhibiting his work in galleries in New York City in the early 1950s.
Orazio Frezza.  Orazio Frezza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period born and active in NaplesHe was instructed by Giovanni Battista Benaschi. He afterwards studied the works of Giovanni Lanfranco and Domenichino whom he imitated with some success. He painted for a church in Naples a Calvary now exhibited in Castel Capuano.
Adam of Fulda.  Adam of Fulda (ca. 1445 – 1505) was a German musical author of the second half of the 15th century. He was born in Fulda and died in Wittenberg.In Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon he is described as Francum Germanum i.e. of German origin. Adam of Fulda calls himself at times musicus ducalis (musician of the Court). He also mentions Guillaume Dufay (1400–1474) as his contemporary.
Telephone Jim Jesus.  George Chadwick better known by his stage name Telephone Jim Jesus is an alternative hip hop producer based in Oakland California. He is a member of Restiform Bodies along with Passage and Bomarr.
Souad Mekhennet.  Souad Mekhennet (born 1978) is a German journalist of Turkish–Moroccan descent who works for The New York Times Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and German television ZDF.Before working for The Times she was a reporter for The Washington Post. Since 9/11 she covered conflicts and terrorist attacks in Europe North Africa and the Middle East.
Yamazaki Maso.  Yamazaki Maso Takushi (山崎 マゾ 卓志) is the birthname of Japanese noise musician and performer known most widely for his solo project Masonna.Born in Kyōto 1966. He operates the Coquette Records label and is also a member of the group Christine 23 Onna (now titled Acid Eater with Toda Fusao from Angel'in Heavy Syrup) Maso is also the manager of Jojo Hiroshige's Alchemy Records store.
Abdolhossein Mokhtabad.  Seyed Abdolhossein Mokhtabad (Persian: سید عبدالحسین مختاباد born 21 March 1966) is one of Iran’s most celebrated and distinguished singers and composers of Persian classical and popular music. He announced his candidacy for local elections on 20 April 2013 and was elected as a member of City Council of Tehran. He was sworn in on 3 September 2013.
Mabel Poulton.  Mabel Poulton (29 July 1901 – 21 December 1994) was an English film actress popular in Britain during the era of silent films.Born in London England Poulton was working as a stenographer and entered films by chance. Her first role in George Pearson's Nothing Else Matters (1920) was opposite Betty Balfour who was also making her debut and the film was a success. Over the next several years Poulton was cast in a succession of roles and usually played feisty or mischievous characters.
Deborah Borda.  Deborah Borda is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Curly Putman.  Claude Curly Putman Jr. (born November 20 1930 in Princeton Jackson County Alabama) is an American songwriter based in Nashville. His biggest success was Green Green Grass of Home (1964 sung by Porter Wagoner) which was covered by Roger Miller Elvis Presley Kenny Rogers Johnny Darrell Gram Parsons Joan Baez Jerry Lee Lewis The Grateful Dead Johnny Cash Roberto Leal Merle Haggard Bobby Bare Joe Tex Nana Mouskouri and Tom Jones.
Yenz Leonhardt.  Jens Arnsted (more commonly known as Yenz Leonhardt or Yenz Cheyenne) is a heavy metal musician born July 4 in Vordingborg Denmark. He has performed as a vocalist guitarist and bassist throughout his career focusing on the latter in recent years.
Katie Cecil.  Kaitlyn Jenea Cecil (born July 30 1993) better known as Katie Cecil is an American television actress and formerly guitarist/vocalist for the teen power pop/rock band KSM.
Mike Absalom.  Mike Absalom (born 9 November 1940) is an English pop folk and celtic music singer guitarist songwriter harpist poet artist and children's entertainer. The Province once described Absalom's musical work as innocence with a macabre twist. His recording and performing work in 1970s concentrated on subject matter including sex drugs and the church.
Lynda Laurence.  Lynda Laurence (also spelled Lawrence born Lynda Tucker February 20 1949 Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American singer. She is best known for being a part of two Motown acts: Stevie Wonder's backup group The Third Generation and one of the post-Diana Ross continuation groups of The Supremes. She is the youngest daughter of Louise Tucker and Ira Tucker gospel songwriter producer and lead singer of The Dixie Hummingbirds and sister of Sundray Tucker and Ira Tucker Jr.
Jens Lapidus.  Jens Lapidus (Swedish pronunciation: [jɛns laˈpiːdɵs]; born 24 May 1974) is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author. Lapidus made his writing debut in August 2006 with Snabba Cash an account of the Stockholm underworld and the first of the Stockholm Noir trilogy. Two years later the second installment Aldrig Fucka Upp was published by Wahlström & Widstrand. A graphic novel with illustrator Peter Bergting (The Portent) entitled Gängkrig 145 was published May 2009.
Juan de los Angeles Naranjo.  Juan de los Angeles Naranjo (2 October 1897 – 6 February 1952) was an Argentine painter and draughtsman. He is best known for his portrait of renowned artist and politicians of his time such as Hipólito Yrigoyen Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Gerardo Machado Bartolomé Mitre María Barrientos Enrico Caruso and Gabriela Besanzoni. He was born in Rosario Santa Fe on October 2 1897.
Cowboy Troy.  Troy Lee Coleman III (born December 18 1970) better known by his stage name Cowboy Troy is an American musician who performs country rap (also referred to as Hick-Hop). He is a member of the MuzikMafia an aggregation of country music singer-songwriters whose membership also includes Big & Rich Gretchen Wilson and James Otto. He has released four studio albums and one EP including two releases on Warner Bros. Records and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts.
William Pitt Smith.  William Pitt Smith (1760–1796) was a U.S. physician educator and theological writer.Smith began his career serving in the General Hospital Department of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He became Professor of Materia Medica at Columbia College) in 1792.Smith authored two books that espoused the tenets of Universalism: The Universalist; in Seven Letters to Amyntor (1787) and Observations on Conventions (1793).
Victory Tischler-Blue.  Victory Tischler-Blue (born September 16 1959) is an American film producer director writer musician and photographer. She was born and raised in Newport Beach California. Tischler-Blue began working in the entertainment industry at age 17 using the name Vicki Blue as the bassist in the American all-girl teenage rock band The Runaways. After the demise of the band she was cast by director Rob Reiner in This Is Spinal Tap.
Alexander Semionov.  Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Семе́нов; February 18 1922 city of Torzhok Soviet Russia – June 23 1984 Leningrad USSR) - a Soviet Russian painter living and working in Leningrad member of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his cityscapes.
Joseph Edwards Carpenter.  Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813 London – 6 May 1885 Bayswater) was an English playwright composer and songwriter.In 1851 Carpenter moved from Leamington to London. He wrote various touring musical entertainments such as The Road the Rail and the River and aVocal Pictorial and Descriptive Illustration of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853).
Joseph Cotton.  Joseph Cotton aka Jah Walton (born Silbert Walton 1957 St. Ann Jamaica) is a reggae deejay active since the mid-1970s.
Bill Ward (comics).  William Hess Ward (March 6 1919 - November 17 1998) known as Bill Ward was an American cartoonist notable as a good girl artist and creator of the risqué comics character Torchy.
Alejandro Rozitchner.  Alejandro Rozitchner (born 1960 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine philosopher and writer. Artist of the ideas or intellectual nutritionist are some of the names with which he describes his work. He is characterized by his affirmative thinking his appreciation for enthusiasm (a concept on which he has published numerous articles and also a topic of several conferences) and for his open casual and provocative style.
Dorothy Dunnett.  Dorothy Dunnett OBE (née Halliday 25 August 1923 – 9 November 2001) was a Scottish historical novelist. She is best known for her six-part series about Francis Crawford of Lymond The Lymond Chronicles which she followed with the eight-part prequel The House of Niccolò. She also wrote a novel about the real Macbeth called King Hereafter (1982) and a series of mystery novels centred on Johnson Johnson a portrait painter/spy.
Kim Myeong-sun.  Kim Myeong-sun (Korean: 김명순 Hanja: 金明淳) (b. 20 January 1896 in Pyongyang – 22 June 1951) was a female Korean novelist and poet of the early 20th century.
Thanos Petrelis.  Athanasios (Thanos) Petrelis (Greek; Θάνος Πετρέλης) (born September 27 1975) is a popular Greek singer. He has released four albums and several singles.
Eleanor Updale.  Eleanor Updale (born 1953) is the author of the Montmorency Series and Johnny Swanson. She has written four novels and some short stories and has won several awards for her writing.
Yoni Rechter.  Yoni Rechter (Hebrew: יוני רכטר‎; born November 18 1951) is an Israeli musician composer pianist arranger and singer.
David Bollard.  David Bollard (born 25 September 1942) is a New Zealand-born Australian classical pianist and teacher.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel.  Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist.
Basil Dickey.  Basil Dickey (November 23 1880 – June 17 1958) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 147 films between 1916 and 1958. He was born in Illinois and died in Long Beach California. His brother was playwright and screenwriter Paul Dickey.
Edgar Vos.  Edgar Vos (5 July 1931 – 13 January 2010) was a Dutch fashion designer.Vos was born in Makassar in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1931. He studied fashion at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.He started a chain of fifteen boutique clothing stores known as Edgar Vos Boutiques.Vos died of a heart attack while holidaying in Fort Lauderdale Florida a day after being admitted to a hospital suffering from what is suspected to have been pneumonia.
Nomi Ruiz.  Nomi Ruiz is an American Nu-disco and Hip hop singer from New York City who is most famous for being among the cast of vocalists that contributed to Hercules and Love Affair's debut album. Ruiz has also collaborated with dance music trio The Ones and is currently a member of the Brooklyn-based trio Jessica 6.
Zvonko Čoh.  Zvonko Čoh (born 7 August 1956) is a Slovene painter illustrator and animator best known as the co-author (together with Milan Erič) of the first Slovene animated feature length film (i.e. the 1998 Socialization of a Bull). He has illustrated over thirty books for children and teenagers and made over twenty short animated films.Čoh was born in Celje in 1956. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1980 and has since worked as a free-lance artist.
Yury Trifonov.  Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Трифонов; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet Urban Prose. He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.
Starsmith.  Starsmith (born Finlay Dow-Smith 8 July 1988 Bromley England) is a British songwriter producer remixer and DJ. He studied a classical music degree at the University of Surrey majoring in performance on saxophone. He has already received acclaim for the remixes he has created for Lady Gaga Robyn Timbaland Katy Perry Little Boots Passion Pit Paloma Faith Marina and the Diamonds and Frankmusik amongst many others.
Eddie Costa.  Edwin James Eddie Costa (August 14 1930 – July 28 1962) was an American jazz pianist vibraphonist composer and arranger. In 1957 he was chosen as Down Beat jazz critics' new star on piano and vibes – the first time that one artist won two categories in the same year.
Rob Bloomfield.  Rob (Bobby) Bloomfield is a dance rock and indie record producer and audio engineer living in Stoke Newington London. His list of work includes writing production and remixes for Does It Offend You Yeah? 50 Cent Linkin Park The Faint Natalia Kills dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip SixNationState Parka Kamikaze Test Pilots The Adelines and Viena Ditto.
Stephen Tashjian.  Stephen Tashjian is an American artist. His drag queen character Tabboo! became known in the East Village underground scene of New York City in the 1980s. He is also a puppeteer painter and singer.Tashjian attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where he became friends with fellow students Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson.
Clementina de Jesus.  Clementina de Jesus (Clementine of Jesus) was a Brazilian samba singer born in Valença Brazil on February 7 1901 and died in Rio de Janeiro on July 19 1987.
Ormond Robbins.  Ormond Orlea Robbins (July 22 1914 – July 21 1984) was an American author of hardboiled detective fiction and weird fiction. His work was primarily published in the Popular Publications catalog of pulp fiction.
Tim Montgomerie.  Tim Montgomerie (born 24 July 1970) is a British Conservative Party activist blogger and comment editor and columnist for The Times. He is best known as the co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice and as creator of the ConservativeHome website which he edited from 2005 until 2013 when he left to join The Times.
Marissa Nadler.  Marissa Rachael Nadler (born April 5 1981) is an American singer-songwriter based in Boston. Active since 2000 she has released a number of well-received studio albums including Songs III: Bird on the Water (2007).
Loren Bommelyn.  Loren Me’-lash-ne Bommelyn (born 1956) is a tradition bearer for the Tolowa tribe. He has dedicated himself to preserving the traditional songs language and basketry. He is the foremost ceremonial leader of the tribe and its most prolific basketweaver. Bommelyn is an enrolled member of the federally recognized Smith River Rancheria and was elected as their tribal secretary.
King Khan (musician).  Arish Ahmad Khan better known by his stage name King Khan is a Canadian musician. He is best known as the frontman of the rock 'n roll bands King Khan and the Shrines and The King Khan & BBQ Show.
Leandro Lopes.  Leandro Lopes Luiz (born January 24 1984) best known as Leandro Lopes is a Brazilian pop rock and axé music singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the first season of the reality television show Ídolos Brazil.
Louis Hoppe.  Louis Hoppe was a folk artist who worked in Texas during the American Civil War years. Details of his life are nearly nonexistent; he is known by his works four watercolor paintings three of which are scenes in Colorado County Texas. All of his known works are held by the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Humphrey Trevelyan Baron Trevelyan.  Humphrey Trevelyan Baron Trevelyan KG GCMG CIE OBE (27 November 1905 – 9 February 1985) was a British diplomat and author.Trevelyan was a son of Reverend George Trevelyan grandson of the Venerable George Trevelyan Archdeacon of Taunton third son of Sir John Trevelyan 4th Baronet. He was educated at Lancing and Jesus College Cambridge. After Cambridge Trevelyan joined the Indian Civil Service. He served in India until independence in 1947 then transferred to HM Diplomatic Service.
Tomislav Krizman.  Tomislav Krizman (1882–1955) was a Croatian painter graphic artist costume and set designer teacher author and organizer of cultural events. He painted in oils and tempera although he is principally remembered for his remarkable graphic art.He was of the founders of the Medulić Society and the Zagreb Spring Salon of 1916. He exhibited in Zagreb Belgrade Ljubljana Vienna Paris and Rome.
Murray Bernthal.  Murray Bernthal (April 15 1911 – December 9 2010) was an American musician and producer long active in Syracuse New York. He was a violin prodigy and a Syracuse University basketball player.
Queen Pen.  Lynise Walters better known by the stage name Queen Pen (born 1972) is a Grammy-nominated American rapper.Her music career started as a protégé of Teddy Riley a record producer and member of the R&B group BLACKstreet in the mid-1990s. She was a featured rapper along with Dr. Dre on BLACKstreet's 1996 hit No Diggity.
Sara Teasdale.  Sara Teasdale (August 8 1884 – January 29 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis Missouri and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914.
Miki Sugimoto.  Miki Sugimoto (杉本 美樹 Sugimoto Miki January 28 1953 -) is a Japanese actress best known for her roles in the sukeban (delinquent girl) sub-genre of Toei's action/erotic form of pink film known as Pinky Violence.
Michael Wolf (businessman).  Michael J. Wolf is the founder and managing partner of Activate Inc. a technology and strategy consulting firm based in New York City. He also currently serves on the board of directors of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) the multinational internet company headquartered in Sunnyvale California Entercom Communications Corporation.
Vicki Chase.  Vicki Chase (born February 6 1985) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. A former bank teller Chase was introduced to the porn industry by pornographic actor Eric John whom she later married in a public wedding ceremony in January 2010.
Christopher McGuire.  Christopher McGuire (born November 28 1975 -) is an American drum set player session drummer drum teacher and producer. He is based in Minneapolis Minnesota United States.
Joyce W. Cairns.  Joyce W. Cairns is a Scottish painter and printmaker based in Aberdeen.
Zac Posen.  Zachary E. Zac Posen (/zæk ˈpoʊzən/; born October 24 1980) is an American fashion designer.
Eric Bloom.  Eric Bloom (born December 1 1944) is an American singer songwriter and musician. He is best known as the main vocalist and stun guitar for the long-running band Blue Öyster Cult with work on over 20 albums. Much of his lyrical content relates to his lifelong interest in science fiction.
Lukas Smits.  Lukas Smits (born 23 May 1935 Ravenswaaij) is a Dutch painter.Lukas Smits was born in Ravenswaaij (Buren) and studied both at the Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch and at the Jan van Eyck-Academy in Maastricht. In 1959 he received the Royal Subsidy for Painting which was followed by the City of Maastricht Prize (1962) another Royal Subsidy for Painting (1962) and a travel grant from the French government (1964).
The Jacka.  Dominic Newton (born August 12 1977) better known by his stage name The Jacka is an American rapper from Oakland California. The Jacka got his start in Pittsburg California with his group Mob Figaz whose first album C-Bo's Mob Figaz was released in 1999. Newton converted to Islam at a young age and changed his name to Shaheed Akbar. He currently runs his own label entitled The Artist Records.
Ni Kuang.  Ni Kuang (Chinese: 倪匡; born May 30 1935 in Ningbo Zhejiang China) also known as Ngai Hong I Kuang or Yi Kuang is a Hong Kong-based novelist and screenwriter with more than 300 published Chinese language wuxia and science fiction novels and more than 400 film scripts. He is the brother of another romance novelist Yi Shu.
Nicholas Grigsby.  Nicholas Grigsby (born 13 September 1974) is a prominent New Zealand concert organist academic broadcaster and music critic.A former organ scholar of Salisbury Cathedral he studied organ and improvisation with Colin Walsh Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral Peter Wright at Southwark Cathedral London and in France at Rouen Conservatoire with the blind organist Louis Thiry a former pupil of the late virtuoso Marchal.He completed his Master of Music degree in organ & harpsichord performance with Dr. 
Steven Maeda.  Steven Maeda is an American television writer and producer. He has written episodes of television series such as Harsh Realm The X-Files CSI: Miami Lost and Day Break. He has also served as a supervising producer on Lost and CSI: Miami. He is also the executive producer of Lie To Me.
Alice Pung.  Alice Pung is a writer editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia. She is a practicing solicitor and has worked as an art instructor independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall the University of Melbourne.
John H. McGlynn.  John H. McGlynn (who also uses the pen name Willem Samuels; born 14 October 1952 in Cazenovia Wisconsin) is an American editor and translator.In 1987 along with four Indonesian writers Goenawan Mohamad Sapardi Djoko Damono Umar Kayam and Subagio Sastrowardoyo he founded the Lontar Foundation with the aim of promoting Indonesian literature and culture to the international world through the translation of Indonesian literature.
Eddie Griffin.  Edward Eddie Rubin Griffin (born July 15 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Eddie Sherman on the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie along with co-star Malcolm-Jamal Warner and his role as the title character in the 2002 comedy film Undercover Brother.
Ramiele Malubay.  Ramiele Macrohon Malubay (born September 6 1987) also known as Ramiele is a Filipino-American singer and the ninth place finalist on the seventh season of the television series American Idol.
Carey Young.  Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist and teacher who incorporates a variety of media such as video photography performative events and installation into her art works which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial world.
Jean-Marc Savelli.  Jean-Marc Savelli born in Mulhouse in Alsace (France) 18 is a French pianist.Known by the general public for his interpretations of works from Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin Jean-Marc Savelli also distinguished himself in the classical repertoire with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven and in the Impressionist repertoire of Claude Debussy.
Irwin Lewis (Australian artist).  Irwin Lewis (born 21 April 1939 in Morawa Western Australia) is an indigenous Australian artist who was previously a notable scholar sportsman and public servant. Best known as the father of Australian rules footballer Chris Lewis a member of the West Coast Eagles' AFL premiership-winning teams in 1992 and 1994 he has been described as something of a celebrity in Perth.
Henrik Langeland.  Henrik H. Langeland (born 19 November 1972) is a Norwegian novelist and literary researcher.His 2000 book debut Requiem is based on Marcel Proust's work. He followed with Wonderboy in 2003 a satirical novel from the financial milieu. His 2007 Francis Meyers lidenskap depicts the fictitious professor of philology Francis Meyer. Wonderboy was a success in Norway selling about 110000 copies in its first four years. Francis Meyers lidenskap sold 51000 copies between August and September 2007.
Debra Ghigna.  Debra Ghigna (born May 6 1955) is a children's author and poet whose writings appear in numerous children's magazines as well as in books written with her husband poet Charles Ghigna. Her poem My Box appears on an animated DVD published by Cricket Books.
Noemi (singer).  Noemi (born Veronica Scopelliti; 25 January 1982 in Rome) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In 2013 she became a coach in The Voice of Italy.
George Rickey.  George Warren Rickey (June 6 1907 – July 17 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor.
Luiz Filipe Coelho.  Luíz Fïlíp also Luiz Filipe Coelho (born November 14 1984) is a Brazilian violinist.
Robert Harris (novelist).  Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller Fatherland Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history.
Roslyn Brogue.  Roslyn Brogue (16 February 1919 – 1 August 1981) was an American pianist violinist music educator classics scholar poet author and composer. She was born in Chicago Illinois and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1937 from Radcliffe College in 1943 and from Harvard University in 1947 with a Ph.D.After completing her education she taught at the Cambridge School Harvard University and Boston University.
Darrin Huss.  Darrin C Huss is the vocalist and lyricist of the Canadian dark synthpop band Psyche.His band has released 11 official albums 3 EPs and 5 compilations of their work to dateTogether with Niels Hesse and Marco Drewes Darrin formed Lounge in 2001 and released a mini-album entitled Everyday on the label Novatune.
Shakeb Jalali.  Shakeeb Jalali (Urdu: شکیب جلالی‎) (October 1 1934 – November 12 1966) was a Pakistani Urdu poet.Shakeb Jalali's real name was Syed Hassan Rizvi. His ancestors were from a small town Saddat Jalali near Aligarh India. Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi says that Jalali was born on October 1 1934 but his wife Syeda Mohiddisa Khatoon gives his year of birth as 1935 or 1936.[citation needed]Jalali was an only child. When he was ten years old his mother died in an accident.
Roberto Azank.  Roberto Azank was born in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1955; the grandson of an oil canvas artist and the son of a master embroidery designer.At the age of 14 Roberto won the first prize in painting at his High School; he went on to first study photography and later architecture at the University of Buenos Aires.In 1979 he moved to the United States where experimentation with various artistic forms and media led to his decision to pursue a career in the arts.
Joan Morris.  Joan Morris (born February 10 1943) is a mezzo-sopranoBorn in Portland Oregon she is one half of the famous musical duo of Bolcom and Morris. Her musical partner and husband is composer/pianist William Bolcom. Together they specialize in older popular songs primarily from the first half of the 20th century but extending beyond that to include both contemporary cabaret songs and a number of songs dating back to the American Civil War.
Trim (rapper).  Trim born Javan St. Prix (18 April 1984) and formerly known as Taliban Trim is an English grime MC from East London and a former member of Roll Deep. He is a cousin of Roll Deep member DJ Karnage former Roll Deep member Roachee footballer Leon Knight and grime MC Lee Brasco. Despite limited commercial success Trim has won much praise and a cult following for his eclectic subject matter beat selection and delivery.
Mark Egan.  Mark Egan (Born 1951 in Brockton Massachusetts) is an American jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter arguably best known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980 and the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band Elements.Egan has maintained a solo career with three platinum and three gold albums to his credit and has served as bandleader of his own ensembles to positive reviews.
John Rolfe Gardiner.  John Rolfe Gardiner (born 1936) is an American author of several novels and short stories.He is best known for his novel Somewhere in France (1999) aside from which he has written four other novels and two short-story collections. Sixteen of his stories were published in The New Yorker; others were published in The American Scholar and in other publications. His short story The Voyage Out was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories.
Rupert Bottenberg.  Rupert Bottenberg (19 July 1971 Wolfville Nova Scotia) is an illustrator comic artist and writer.Bottenberg grew up in Montreal. After graduation and many freelance jobs he established Comix Jams public events centered around collaborative improvised comic art a concept that was picked up by many other North American cities.
Diango Hernández.  Diango Hernández is a Cuban artist.
Fumi Yoshinaga.  Fumi Yoshinaga (よしなが ふみ Yoshinaga Fumi born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and shōnen-ai works.
Gary Valenciano.  Edgardo José Martin Santiago Valenciano (born 6 August 1964) better known as Gary Valenciano or Gary V. is a Filipino musician. Also known as Mr. Pure Energy Valenciano has released 26 albums and won the Awit Awards for Best Male Performer eleven times. In 1998 he became UNICEF Philippines first National Ambassador.
Shagrath.  Shagrath (born Stian Tomt Thoresen on 18 November 1976) is a Norwegian musician best known as the vocalist of Dimmu Borgir.
Fazla.  Fazla (born Muhamed Fazlagić 17 April 1967 in Sarajevo) is a singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Karizma (musician).  Karizma Real Name: Kris Klayton (Born on March 28 1970 Baltimore Maryland United States) is an American electronic musician and DJ known for his wide genre of music production in deep house deep techno hip hop jazz and broken beats and his ability to master Pioneer Corporation's CDJ-2000 and DJM 2000 being sponsored by Pioneer Pro DJ Japan in 2010.
Suming.  Suming Rupi (born 17 July 1978) is an indigenous musician singer and songwriter from Taiwan. He is a member of the Lacienci (拉千禧) age organization (a form of social organization that is characteristic of Pangcah) of A'tolan.
Francis Hindes Groome.  Francis Hindes Groome (30 August 1851 in Monk Soham Suffolk - 24 January 1902 in London) miscellaneous writer son of Robert Hindes Groome Archdeacon of Suffolk wrote for various encyclopaedias etc. He was a student of the Romani people and their language and published In Gypsy Tents (1880) Gypsy Folk Tales (1899) and an editor of Borrow's Lavengro (1900).
Izaline Calister.  Izaline Calister (born in Curaçao March 9 1969) is a singer and songwriter of Dutch-Curaçaoan citizenship.Growing up in her native Curaçao for eighteen years Calister moved to Groningen the Netherlands where she studied at the Prins Claus Conservatorium.Calister's music combines the Afro-Caribbean-Calypso influences of her native Curaçao with jazz creating a unique blend of music.
Elliot Easton.  Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg December 18 1953 in Brooklyn New York) is an American musician. He played lead guitar and sings backing vocals for The Cars. His guitar solos are an integral part of the band's hit singles. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music. He plays guitar left-handed. Upon the collapse of The Cars in 1988 Easton played in bands such as The New Cars and the roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
Randa Ghossoub.  Randa Ghossoub is a Canadian jazz singer who immersed herself in this genre at an early age. Her style is the result of multicultural immersion parallel singing and acting workshops while integrating classic jazz principles.Her career as a singer took off during a journey to Miami in 2002 where she recorded her first jazz album Pillow Talk...
Danny Sheridan.  Danny Sheridan is an American musician songwriter producer actor and entertainment manager. In 2006 he also became a radio personality on 97.1 KLSX Free FM (CBS Los Angeles). He is credited as an influential electric bass player and as the founder of the Eli Radish Band pioneers of the so-called outlaw country music genre.
Travis Meeks.  Travis Shane Meeks (born April 27 1979 in Charlestown Indiana) is an American musician and is the lead singer guitarist and song writer for acoustic rock band Days of the New.
Azusa Senou.  Azusa Senou (瀬能 あづさ Senō Azusa born April 3 1973) is a Japanese singer actress and model. She was a former member of the Japan's idol group Coco in the late 1990s.
Finuala Dowling.  Finuala Dowling (June 1962) is a South African poet and writer.The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling Finuala Dowling obtained an MA in English from the University of Cape Town before lecturing in English at the University of South Africa for eight years. Her first poetry anthology I Flying was published in 2002 and won the Ingrid Jonker Prize. She has also won the Sanlam Award for Poetry and the Olive Schreiner Prize.
Florence Wyle.  Florence Wyle (1881 – 1968) was an American-born Canadian sculptor and designer. She practiced chiefly in Toronto living and working with her partner sculptor Frances Loring. She co-founded the Sculptors' Society of Canada with Alfred Laliberté Florence Wyle Elizabeth Wyn Wood Wood's teacher and husband Emanuel Hahn and Henri Hébert.
Zooel Morshed.  ZooEL Morshed (Bengali: জুয়েল মোর্শেদ;simply known as ZooEL) is a Bangladeshi Audio EngineerMusic composer singer. He is a notable Audio Technical Expert in Bangladesh.
I-20 (rapper).  Bobby Sandimanie better known by his stage name I-20 is an American rapper. He was originally known as Infamous 2-0 (in Ludacris's debut album Incognegro / Back for the First Time) but changed his name to reflect the interstate route that runs through the Southeastern United States. He was discovered by Ludacris who signed him to the Disturbing tha Peace record label.
Soji Kashiwagi.  Soji Kashiwagi (born in 1962 in Oakland California) is a Sansei (third-generation Japanese American) journalist playwright and producer. He is the Executive Producer for the Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre company in Los Angeles. He has contributed to The Rafu Shimpo with his column Corner Store. He is the son of Nisei playwright Hiroshi Kashiwagi.
Ernest Nash.  Ernest Nash (September 14 1898 – May 17 1974) was a student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography. Nash was born as Ernst Nathan but later changed his name to Nash when he was living in the United States between 1939 and 1952.He was a graduate of the University of Jena and had a law office in his native city of Potsdam Germany.Nash first went to Italy on August 30 1936 with a goal of documenting in photographs the ancient ruins of Rome Ostia and Pompeii.
Jorges.  Jorge Gonzalez-Graupera also known by the stage name Jorges is a singer-songwriter based in Miami Florida USA. The music from his first album possibly now! has been used in primetime American TV shows such as Summerland and One Tree Hill as well as various MTV shows such as My Sweet Sixteen and The Loop.[citation needed]
Matt Lukin.  Matt Lukin (born August 16 1964) is an American musician best known as a bassist and founding member of the Melvins and Mudhoney.
Jandhyala Papayya Sastry.  Jandhyala Papayya Sastry (Telugu: జంధ్యాల పాపయ్య శాస్త్రి 4 August 1912–21 June 1992) was an eminent Telugu writer and lyricist. He was popularly known as Karunasri because his writings expressively show compassion (Karuna or Kāruṇyam) one of the Nine Rasas. His famous kavyas include Pushpa Vilapam and Kunthi Kumari.
R.O.E..  Roosevelt Sledge Jr. (born December 21 1987) better known by his stage name R.O.E. is an American rapper from Chicago Illinois. He first gained popularity after the release of his debut EP A Backpacker Named R.O.E.. In 2011 his single I Won was featured on many hip hop blogs and independent radio stations. R.O.E. later shot a video for the single. The video earned R.O.E. a feature on mtvU.
Shiloh (singer).  Shiloh Hoganson (born April 25 1993) known by her stage name as Shiloh is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. Shiloh has performed with Lady Gaga Katy Perry Stereos Hedley Theory of a Deadman Marianas Trench and Faber Drive.
Francisca Valenzuela.  Francisca Valenzuela (born March 17 1987 in San Francisco California) is an American singer songwriter poet and composer. Valenzuela was born and raised in San Francisco California where she resided until the age of 12 before moving to Santiago Chile. She gained to popularity in Chile and Latin America following the release of her debut album Muérdete La Lengua in June 2007. Her second album Buen Soldado followed in March 2011.
Henrik Otto Donner.  Henrik Otto Donner (16 November 1939 – 26 June 2013) was a Finnish composer musician and all-round music personality. His musical styles varied from pop and rock music to jazz electronic music and contemporary classical music. Donner's personal instrument was trumpet.
Oksana Lushchevska.  Oksana Lushchevska (*17 February 1982 Talne) — a Ukrainian children's books writer.
Jordy van Loon.  Jordy van Loon (born 16 June 1993 in Voorburg) is a Dutch child singer who reached number one in the Dutch Single Top 100 with his single Verliefdheid.
Miša Aleksić.  Miroslav Miša Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав-Миша Алексић) is a Serbian musician best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.
Barbara Acklin.  Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28 1943 – November 27 1998) was an American soul singer and songwriter who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was Love Makes a Woman in 1968. As a songwriter she is best known for co-writing the multi-million-selling Have You Seen Her with Eugene Record lead singer of the Chi-Lites.
Geir Holmsen.  Geir Holmsen (born 12 December 1956 in Oslo Norway) Norwegian jazz musician bassist arranger and composer. He participated in various bands connected to the jazz clubb Club 7 in Oslo from the mid-1970s including Kråbøl Lotus and Chipahua. He is also known from Jon Eberson Group (1980–84) Jazzpønkensemblet (1982–85) and Oslo Rhythm & Blues Ensemble (1986–87).
S. K. Pottekkatt.  Sankaran Kutty Pottekkatt popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt (March 14 1913 – August 6 1982) was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala state South India. He is the author of nearly sixty books which include ten novels twenty-four collections of short stories three anthologies of poems eighteen travelogues four plays a collection of essays and a couple of books based on personal reminiscences.
Simon Wickham-Smith.  Simon Wickham-Smith (born Rustington East Sussex 2 February 1968) is a British musician translator academic and sometime astrologer. He first came to the attention of the experimental music underground with the release of Lake a collaboration with Richard Youngs issued under the moniker R!!!S!!!. He and Youngs would go on to make many more albums including Ceaucescu Pulse Of The Rooster and Metallic Sonatas for labels such as Forced Exposure Majora and VHF.
Sophie Menter.  Sophie Menter (29 July 1846 — 23 February 1918) was a German pianist and composer who became the favorite female student of Franz Liszt. She was called l'incarnation de Liszt in Paris because of her robust electrifying playing style and was considered one of the greatest piano virtuosos of her time. She died at Stockdorf near Munich.
Julia Frankau.  Julia Frankau née Julia Davis (30 July 1859-17 March 1916) was a successful novelist who wrote under the name Frank Danby. Her first novel was published in 1887: Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll. Its portrayal of London Jews and Jewish life and its discussion of euthenasia by a doctor were controversial. This was followed by more Frank Danby novels and by books on other subjects including engraving which were sometimes written under her own name.
Nova Ren Suma.  Nova Ren Suma (born February 23 1975) is an American author of young adult novels including Imaginary Girls Fade Out and 17 & Gone.
Danièle Thompson.  Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942 in Monaco) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury and actress Jacqueline Roman.She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin cousine La Boum Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre La Reine Margot and Jet Lag which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin cousine.
Frederick J. Brown.  Frederick J. Brown (February 6 1945 - May 05 2012) was a Chicago-raised artist. His paintings draw on many sources including his African-American Seminole and Choctaw ancestry his religious upbringing and the folklore of the South. He referenced religious historical and urban themes in his work but was especially noted for his numerous portraits of jazz and blues artists.
Oscar Dronjak.  Oscar Fredrick Dronjak (born January 20 1972) is the rhythm and lead guitarist and founder of the Heavy Metal band HammerFall. Prior to the success of HammerFall he also played and released albums with the death metal acts Ceremonial Oath and Crystal Age.Dronjak was born in the Swedish town of Mölndal to a Serbian father and a Swedish mother. His first instrument was the recorder; he then played trombone for a few years until at the age of fourteen he settled on guitar.
Luis Conte.  Luis Conte (born 16 November 1954) is a Cuban percussionist.
Sean Mackin (musician).  Sean Mackin (born April 30 1979) is an American rock musician. He is best known as the violinist and backing vocalist for the American pop punk band Yellowcard and is now the only remaining member of the band from its original line-up after the departure of drummer Longineu W. Parsons III on March 13th 2014.
Kristian Ranta.  Kristian Ranta also known as Kride was the guitarist of the Finnish melodic death metal band Norther until their break up in 2012. Kristian has composed most of Norther's best known songs including Frozen Angel and is also credited for renaming the band (originally called Requiem).
André Stil.  André Stil (April 1 1921 – September 3 2004) was a French novelist short story writer occasional poet and political activist. A lifelong militant he became a member of the French Communist Party in 1940 and remained loyal to the party.
Eduardo Kac.  Eduardo Kac [ɛdwardoʊ kæts; ĕd·wâr′·dō kăts] is a contemporary American artist and professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kac was born in 1962 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Kac has worked in numerous and diverse artistic media since he began practicing in the early 1980s in Rio.
Christopher Holland.  Christopher William Holland (born 18 September 1966 Greenwich London England)[citation needed] is an English keyboard player singer and songwriter. He is the younger brother of Jools Holland and twin of Richard Edward Holland (drummer).
Michel Colombier.  Michel Colombier (May 23 1939 – November 14 2004) was a French composer songwriter arranger and conductor.He wrote the scores of several motion pictures and TV productions. He also wrote chamber music and ballets. With composer Pierre Henry he wrote music for Messe pour le temps présent a piece created by choreographer Maurice Béjart in 1967.He was married to Dana Colombier with whom he had two children. He is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
Bruno Fuligni.  Bruno Fuligni is a French writer and historian.
Belly (rapper).  Ahmad Balshe (Arabic: أحمد بلشي‎) (born April 7 1984) better known by his stage name Belly is a Palestinian Canadian Juno Award-winning rapper.Born in Jenin Palestine his musical career has been based in Ottawa Ontario. In addition to a Juno he has won three MuchMusic Video Awards and has twice attained a top chart position in the national Much Music Countdown. Belly has written many #1 and platinum gold/hits for other artists.
Carmen Covito.  Carmen Covito (born 14 November 1948 in Castellammare di Stabia Province of Naples) is an Italian writer and translator. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata (Bompiani 1992 translated into Spanish German French Dutch and Greek) Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada (Bompiani 1995) Benvenuti in questo ambiente (Bompiani 1997) and La rossa e il nero (Mondadori 2002).
Kentrell.  Marcus Kentrell Brown known by his stage name Kentrell is an American R&B & pop singer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Chicago Kentrell made his musical debut with the release of his first single Encore from his upcoming album with Jive Records U Will Believe.Kentrell refers to his music as pop/soul which he says is a blend of his musical upbringing in the church with secular soul and pop music. He compares his sound to artists like Michael Jackson Usher and R. Kelly.
Auguste Poulet-Malassis.  Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (March 16 1825 – February 11 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was also a long standing friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.
Cheek (rapper).  For other uses see Cheek (disambiguation).Jare Henrik Tiihonen (born 22 December 1981) professionally known as Cheek is a Finnish rapper. To date he has released eight studio albums.
Matt Kirshen.  Matt Kirshen (born 1980) is a British comedian. Kirshen has performed around the world including Singapore Dubai the Netherlands Germany and France. In 2007 he enjoyed a successful run in NBC's Last Comic Standing. Initially known for jokes poking fun at his young appearance he has since turned his attention to more general real world and topical subjects with a tightly-written style involving multiple taglines for every joke. He is an alumnus of Clare College Cambridge.
Lilian Braithwaite.  Dame Lilian Braithwaite DBE (9 March 1873 – 17 September 1948) born Florence Lilian Braithwaite was an English actress.She was the daughter of a clergyman and born in Ramsgate Kent. She was educated at Croydon High School and married actor-manager Gerald Lawrence first acting with amateur companies. Her first professional London appearance was in As You Like It in 1900.
Wickaman.  Wickaman is a British drum and bass producer and DJ.He has worked with many other producers including J Majik Adam F DJ Hype Hoodlum Mavrik and RV.His debut album was Dubplate Killaz (mixed by DJ Hype.)In September 2008 the track Crazy World with J Majik entered the UK Top 40 peaking at number 37. He also made a drum & bass remix of Deadmau5's I Remember with J Majik.
Adalbert Stifter.  Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer poet painter and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world while almost entirely unknown to English readers.
Ozier Muhammad.  Ozier Muhammad is an American photojournalist who has been on the staff of The New York Times since 1992. He has also worked for Ebony Magazine The Charlotte Observer and Newsday. He earned a B.A.
John R. Stilgoe.  John R. Stilgoe is an award-winning historian and photographer who is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University where he has been teaching since 1977. He is also a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He was featured on a Sixty Minutes episode in 2004 entitled The Eyes Have It.
Don Seabolt.  Don Seabolt (born July 30 1944) is an American singer and songwriter best known for singing tenor with the famed Blue Ridge Quartet from Spartanburg South Carolina from 1971-1978. Prior to his tenure with the Blue Ridge Quartet he served as the lead singer for the Prophets Quaret from Nashville Tennessee. In 1978 he left the Blue Ridge to start the Donnie Seabolt Band where he continued to sing and tour until 2002.
John P. Bell.  John P. Bell is a digital artist educator and software developer who is presently on the faculty of the New Media department and Innovative Communication Design program at the University of Maine.
Brooke Candy.  Brooke Dyan Candy (born July 20 1989) is an American rapper. She is best known for co-starring in the music video for Grimes' hit single Genesis. She released a music video for her song Das Me in October 2012. Her second video Everybody Does was released on January 3 2013.
Bjørg Vik.  Bjørg Vik (born 11 September 1935 in Oslo) is a Norwegian writer playwright and journalist. She made her literary debut in 1963 with Søndag ettermiddag (short stories). She was co-founder of the feminist magazine Sirene (1973–1983).
P.O.S.  Stefon Alexander better known by his stage name P.O.S is an underground hip hop artist from Minneapolis Minnesota.He is a founding member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree and is currently signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. He has also fronted a number of punk rock bands and is currently serving as guitarist and vocalist for Building Better Bombs as well as vocalist and keyboardist for Marijuana Deathsquads.
Estelle Bennett.  Estelle Bennett (July 22 1941 – February 11 2009) was a member of the girl group The Ronettes along with her sister Ronnie Spector (the 'Ronnie' of the band's name) and cousin Nedra Talley.After the Ronettes' 1966 break-up she recorded a single for Laurie Records The Year 2000/The Naked Boy. She then quit the music business and had rarely been seen since.
Harry Barry.  Dr Harry Barry is an Irish author and medical doctor based in County Louth. He has a particular interest in the area of mental health and has extensive experience in his practice of dealing with issues such as depression addiction and anxiety. He has written numerous articles for The Irish Independent and two books: Flagging the Problem and Flagging the Therapy both published by Liberties Press.
Stefan Eichinger.  Since 1994 Stef Lopazz also known as LOPAZZ has been part of the Heidelberg based HD800 team; he also runs the multimedia label 800achtspur and is renowned as a film composer and Mix-Mastering-Engineer having written produced and engineered many internationally acclaimed records and films.
John Strong (pornographic actor).  John Strong (born April 9 1969 in Russian SFSR Soviet Union) is a Russian Ukrainian pornographic film actor and director residing in America. He moved to the US as a child and is a naturalized citizen of the United States.He was a featured director and actor for Anabolic Video in 2003 before moving over to Red Light District Video and Platinum X where he could own his own movies John Strong Productions.
Takashi Hosokawa.  Takashi Hosokawa (細川たかし) born 細川貴志 (Hosokawa Takashi) on 15 June 1950 Makkari Abuta District Hokkaidō Japan) is a Japanese male enka singer.In 1975 he debuted with the song Kokoro Nokori. Hosokawa immediately became one of the most popular enka and pop singers in Japan. He took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for 32 consecutive years but he was finally forced to reject NHK's offer in 2007 due to the Enten controversy.
Gerald W. Page.  Gerald W. Page (born August 12 1939) is an American writer of fantasy science fiction mystery and horror. He was born in Chattanooga Tennessee on August 12 1939. He sold his first story to the magazine Analog where it appeared in 1963.Page acquired Coven 13 magazine from Arthur H. Landis and retitled it Witchcraft and Sorcery Under that title the magazine lasted for six issues.
Larry Willoughby.  Larry Willoughby (born in 1947 in Sherman Texas) is an American country music singer-songwriter and the vice president of A&R at Capitol Records.Willoughby's debut album Building Bridges was released in 1984 by Atlantic America. Three singles were released from the album including the title track which was Willoughby's only single to reach the Top 60 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It was covered in 2006 by Brooks & Dunn whose version peaked at No. 4.
Ludwig Schongauer.  Ludwig Schongauer (c. 1440–1494) was a German painter and engraver.Schongauer was born in Augsburg into an Alsatian family of artists later settling in Colmar. His father Caspard was a goldsmith and he had three brothers. Two of his brothers Georg and Paul became goldsmiths themselves while his third brother was the painter Martin Schongauer.
Mel Davis (musician).  Mel Davis was a multi-talented musician and arranger best known for his trumpet playing. As well trumpet he played piano violin drums tuba bass accordion and ocarina. He was also known as a vocalist. He was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and died in Florida on Dec. 28th 2004.
Peter Bernstein (guitarist).  Peter Bernstein is an American-born jazz guitarist.
Padma Gole.  Padma Gole (Marathi: पद्मा गोळे) (1913–1998) was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra India. She was one of the many women from rich Indian families who were emboldened by the Gandhian movement to become feminist writers.
Alex Ross.  Nelson Alexander Alex Ross (born January 22 1970) is an American comic book writer/artist known primarily for his painted interiors covers and design work. He first became known with the 1994 miniseries Marvels on which he collaborated with writer Kurt Busiek for Marvel Comics. He has since done a variety of projects for both Marvel and DC Comics such as the 1996 miniseries Kingdom Come which Ross co-wrote.
Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder.  Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder who was born at Ehrenstetten near Freiburg in Breisgau in 1741 was at first a pupil of Rösch at Freiburg and of Ignaz Bauer at Augsburg. He afterwards visited Italy the Netherlands and Paris; and excelled as a painter of historical and genre subjects. He was a professor and director of the Gallery at Munich in 1770 and died in that city in 1813.
Scott La Rock.  Scott Monroe Sterling (March 2 1962 – August 27 1987) known by the stage name DJ Scott La Rock was the original DJ of the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions.
Snuffy Jenkins.  DeWitt Snuffy Jenkins (October 27 1908 – April 29 1990) was an American old time banjo player and an early proponent of the three-finger banjo style.
Jean-Marie Buchet.  Jean-Marie Buchet (born 24 February 1938 in Jemappes Belgium near Mons) is a Belgian author and filmmaker.
Uki Goñi.  Uki Goñi (born 1953) is an Argentine author who is principally known for his work documenting the escape of Nazi war criminals from Europe.Goñi's research studies the role of the Vatican Swiss authorities and the government of Argentina in organizing 'ratline' escape routes for fugitive criminals and collaborators.
Kilby Snow.  Kilby Snow (May 28 1905 – March 29 1980) was an American folk musician. A virtuoso autoharpist he was awarded the title of Autoharp Champion of North Carolina at the age of 5 but recorded only a single album for Folkways Records in the 1960s.He was known for his drag note playing style a technique that relied on his left-handedness to produce slurred notes that would be impossible for a right-handed player to recreate due to the reversed relationship between thumb and finger.
Auguste Le Breton.  Auguste Le Breton (February 18 1913 – May 31 1999) was a French novelist who wrote primarily about the criminal underworld. His novels were adapted into several notable films of the 1950s such as Rififi Razzia sur la chnouf and Le clan des siciliens. He wrote the dialogue for the noir film Bob le flambeur.Auguste Le Breton was born in Finistère. His childhood name was Auguste Monfort. Tragedy struck early in his life. Before he turned up his father had died in the First World War.
Dean Butterworth.  Dean Deano Butterworth (born September 26 1976) is an English-American drummer. He played for popular singer Morrissey and was announced as the official drummer for the band Good Charlotte in March 2005 after they parted with their previous drummer Chris Wilson in 2005. He drummed for The Cab on their album Symphony Soldier which was released on 23 August 2011.
Ruth Francken.  Ruth Francken (1924 Prague – 12 September 2006 Paris) was a Czech-American sculptor painter and furniture designer who was mostly active in Paris.
Andrea Polli.  Andrea Polli (born 1968) is an environmental artist and writer. Polli blends art and science to create widely varied media and technology artworks related to environmental issues. Her work has appeared widely in over one hundred exhibitions and performances both nationally and internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and The Field Museum of Natural History.
Zoran Madžirov.  Zoran Madzirov (Macedonian: Зоран Маџиров born January 14 1968 in Strumica Republic of Macedonia) Macedonian percussionist and the inventor of the Bottlephone.Zoran performed with and was honored by stars such as Sting Tito Puente Tina Turner Harry Belafonte Scorpions Tommy Emmanuel and others. He founded the group Les Barons Karamazoff in 1987 with Edin Karamazov (guitar lute) and Sasa Dejanovic (Guitar).
Wols.  Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (May 27 1913 Berlin – September 1 1951 Paris) a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime he is considered a pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction one of the most influential artists of the Tachisme movement. He is the author of a book on art theory entitled Aphorismes de Wols.
Kitty Kat.  Katharina Löwel (born 22 January 1982 in Berlin Germany) better known under her stage name Kitty Kat or Kitten Ket is a German rapper and singer. She became famous as an Aggro Berlin member where she was signed from 2006 to 2009.
RifRaf.  RifRaf (born 1965) in Hamilton New Zealand is an figurative artist and painter based in New Zealand known for monumental images of large women.
Masakazu Yoshizawa.  Masakazu Yoshizawa (吉沢 政和 September 10 1950 – October 24 2007) was a Japanese American flutist and musician known for his mastery of the bamboo flute specifically the shakuhachi. Yoshizawa also mastered several other traditional Japanese flutes in addition to other Japanese and Western musical instruments. He was also considered a scholar of ancient and modern Japanese traditional music.
Uli Herzner.  Ulrike “Uli” Herzner (born 23 April 1971) is a fashion designer originally from East Germany currently living in Miami Beach Florida. She was a contestant on the third season of the Bravo network reality television series Project Runway where she finished runner-up to Jeffrey Sebelia. She is now the star of her own show It's Very Uli on Plum TV.She also participated in season 2 of Project Runway All-Stars where she finished second runner-up.
Jaxon Benge.  Jaxon Benge (born Jackson Lee Benge) is the guitarist for American punk rock band Hed PE. He exclusively uses Ibanez Seven-string guitars in the studio and when performing live.
Francesca Michielin.  Francesca Michielin (born 25 February 1995) is an Italian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame after winning the fifth series of the Italian talent show X Factor. Her first single Distratto debuted atop the Italian FIMI Top Digital Downloads chart and was certified double platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Michielin's debut studio album Riflessi di me was released in October 2012 preceded by the single Sola.
Irena Žerjal.  Irena Žerjal (born 20 April 1940) is a Slovene poet writer and translator who also used the pen name Maja Tul in her early work.Žerjal was born in San Giuseppe della Chiusa (Slovene: Ricmanje) in Italy in 1940. She studied Slovene and Russian at the University of Ljubljana. She taught at various Slovene language secondary schools in the Trieste region. She writes poetry and short stories.
Steve Hughes.  Steve Hughes is an Australian musician and stand-up comedian.
Jennifer Herrema.  Jennifer Herrema born 1919 is an American rock music singer songwriter record producer artist and model best known for her work as one half of the rock band Royal Trux.
Tony Sisti.  Anthony J. (Tony) Sisti (1901–1983) was an American artist art instructor and patron of the arts. In his youth Sisti was also a Bantam Weight boxer. As an artist Sisti was best known for his oil paintings drawings and murals.Sisti studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence Italy. He then taught at the Art Institute of Buffalo before opening his own gallery in Buffalo New York. Over the years he painted portraits of many important political and business leaders.
Chelsea Blue.  Chelsea Blue (born November 16 1976) is a former pornographic actress who appeared in over 100 adult films between around 1995 and 2004. She appeared in the top-selling U.S. pornographic film of 2003 Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp which was released in 2002.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto.  Tatsuhiko Takimoto (滝本 竜彦 Takimoto Tatsuhiko born September 20 1978) is a Japanese author best known for his novel Welcome to the N.H.K.Welcome to the N.H.K. began as a single novel by Takimoto with a cover illustratation by Yoshitoshi ABe which was published by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan on January 28 2002. The story was later adapted as a manga series also written by Takimoto with art by Kendi Oiwa.
Andrei Bitov.  Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (Russian: Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов born Leningrad/St. Petersburg May 27 1937) is a prominent Russian writer. Many consider him among the foremost Russian writers of the late 20th century.
Pepe Aguilar.  José Antonio Aguilar Jiménez (born August 7 1968) better known as Pepe Aguilar is an American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actor who works in ranchera mariachi and pop genres. He is the son of music and film stars Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre (Guillermina Jiménez). Aguilar has won four Grammy Award and four Latin Grammy Awards.
Toll Yagami.  Toll Yagami (ヤガミ トール Yagami Toll born August 19 1962 in Takasaki Gunma Japan) is a Japanese musician. Known as the drummer of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1985. He is the older brother of Yutaka Higuchi Buck-Tick's bassist.
Larry Fuller (pianist).  Larry Fuller (born July 14 1965) is a jazz pianist based in New York City performing in the style of mainstream jazz. Fuller was the last pianist with legendary bassist Ray Brown's Trio a member of the Jeff Hamilton Trio and most recently a member of the John Pizzarelli Quartet. He has also performed with artists including Stanley Turrentine Phil Woods Clark Terry Herb Ellis Ernestine Anderson John Legend and Nicholas Payton.
Jacques Fabbri.  Jacques Fabbri (1925–1997) was a French actor.
Pierre Vachon.  Pierre Vachon (3 June 1738 – 7 October 1803) was a French composer.Vachon was born in Avignon. He wrote around thirty string quartets various chamber works operas and orchestral pieces. He studied the violin with Carlo Chiabrano in Paris and first performed on 24 December 1756 at the Concert Spirituel playing one of his own compositions. He also performed as first violinist in the orchestra of the Prince of Conti. He died in Berlin.
Margaret Lacey.  Margaret Lacey (15 February 1910 – 4 October 1989) was a Welsh actress and ballet teacher. She lived in retirement at Wern in the snowdonia village of Rowen Conwy.She appeared in over 30 films between 1957 and 1985 mostly playing a sweet old lady or motherly figure in minor roles.
Makoto Yoshimori.  Makoto Yoshimori (吉森 信 Yoshimori Makoto born 1969) is a Japanese composer and pianist known for his soundtracks to many anime.
Deborah Tall.  Deborah Anne Tall (March 16 1951 - October 19 2006) was an American writer and poet. From 1982 until 2006 she was a professor of literature and writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited the literary journal The Seneca Review. She is the author of four books of poetry and three works of nonfiction and co-edited the anthology The Poet's Notebook with David Weiss and Stephen Kuusisto.
Hideyuki Umezu.  Hideyuki Umezu (梅津 秀行 Umezu Hideyuki born July 24 1955 in Aichi) is a Japanese voice actor and member of 81 Produce.
David R. Montgomery.  David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle where he leads the Geomorphological Research Group and is a member of the Quaternary Research Center. Montgomery received his B.S. in geology from Stanford University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in geomorphology from University of California Berkeley in 1991.
Pedro Déniz.  Pedro J. Déniz Acosta (Santa Brígida Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Canary Islands Spain 1964) is an interdisciplinary artist who has developed art projects and experiences ranging from the objectual art to installation art from art photography to video art cultivating art intervention performance art visual poetry and graphic design.
Beverley Martyn.  Beverley Martyn (born Beverley Kutner on 24 March 1947) is an English singer songwriter and guitarist.
Gō Ikeyamada.  Gō Ikeyamada (池山田剛 Ikeyamada Gō born May 25) is a Japanese manga artist. She made her debut with Get Love!! in 2002 which was serialized in Shōjo Comic. Her manga mostly consists of a more young adult audience due to some explicit content.
Phildel.  Phildel is a British singer-songwriter from London. Her name is a composite of her Chinese father and Irish mother's names - Philip and Della.
David Guillas.  David Space Beaver Guillas (born February 27 1979) is a Canadian guitarist. Formerly of Giant Sons and Rough Music he is currently a member of hardcore punk band Propagandhi.
Ellery Eskelin.  Ellery Eskelin (born August 16 1959) is an American tenor saxophonist born in Wichita Kansas and raised in Baltimore Maryland from the age of two. His parents Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee were both professional musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles California and became a cult figure after his death in the little-known field of song-poem music.
Manuel Espinosa.  Manuel Espinosa was an Argentinian painter.
PNC (rapper).  Sam Hansen better known by his stage name PNC is a New Zealand Hip hop rapper.The name PNC is an acronym for Palmerston North CityHe went to Awatapu College. PNC first gained underground notoriety performing alongside Breaking Wreckwordz.
Isabelle Nanty.  Isabelle Nanty (born 21 January 1962 in Verdun Meuse) is a French actress and film director.see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353243/. She played the part of Georgette in the 2000 French film Amélie and Isabelle in La Belle Histoire (1992). She played the lead in the popular French comedy Les Tuche directed by Olivier Baroux as the mother of a family winning the Euro lottery and moving from poverty in the French countryside to a wealthy life in Monaco.
Nigel Durham.  Nigel Durham (born 25 August 1965) is the drummer on Saxon's 1988 album Destiny. Previously he played in the Sheffield glam rock band Monroe (later called Torrcha) with Gary White (vocals) Graham Mickey Torr (rhythm guitar backing vocals) Chris Saunders (lead guitar) and Rico (bass guitar). As of late August 2013 Durham has joined the U.K. band Morpheus Rising as their new drummer.
Paul Haslinger.  Paul Haslinger (born 11 December 1962) is an Austrian-born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles California.
Jim Mitchell (cartoonist).  Jim Mitchell (born April 28 1949) is an American underground cartoonist from Milwaukee.
Imogen Edwards-Jones.  Imogen Edwards-Jones (born June 1968 Birmingham) is a British writer author and journalist.
Arnold Arre.  Arnold Arre (born on September 2 1971 in Metro Manila Philippines) is a Filipino comic book writer and artist.
Ian Carr.  Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician composer writer and educator.
John Mackay Wilson.  John Mackay Wilson (15 August 1804 – 2 October 1835) was a Scottish writer famous for the six volume Tales of The Borders. He was born in Tweedmouth on the border between Scotland and England. Towards the end of his life he suffered from alcoholism. Two of his plays were The Gowrie Conspiracy and Margaret of Anjou.
Henrik Lacaj.  Henrik Lacaj (1909-1991) was an Albanian humanitarian linguist and translator. He authored textbooks plays and various studies on historical figures such as Scanderbeg and Luigj Gurakuqi but in Albania he is most venerated for his numerous translations of Latin and Greek masterpieces.
John Dickinson (author).  John Geoffrey Hyett Dickinson (born June 1962) is an English author of young adult novels. His first novel The Cup of the World was published in 2004 and his novel The Lightstep written for adults was published in 2008.Dickinson lives in Painswick Gloucestershire.
Chuck Harmony production discography.  Charles T. Harmon better known as Chuck Harmony is an American music producer musician and songwriter based in Los Angeles CA. Chuck Harmony produced the following songs
Kree Harrison.  Kree Annette Harrison (born May 17 1990) is an American singer and musician who was the runner-up on the twelfth season of American Idol.
Chris Mason (musician).  Chris Mason is an American Christian singer-songwriter. Raised in the outskirts of Atlanta GA Mason attended Berry College in Rome GA majoring in Family Counseling until graduating in 2001.After graduating he began his musical career releasing his first album Not So Gracefully (2001).
Tito Conti.  Tito Conti (Florence 1842-1924) was an Italian painter mainly of genre costume or historical subjects.
Caroline Cellier.  Caroline Cellier is a French actress. She has appeared in such films as L'année des méduses (Year of the Jellyfish) La vie l'amour la mort Le zèbre and Le plaisir (et ses petits tracas).
Cheb i Sabbah.  Cheb i Sabbah (August 7 1947 – November 6 2013) was a DJ and composer/producer known for combining Asian Arabian and African sounds into his compositions. Sabbah was of Jewish and Berber descent. He was born in Algeria and came from a family of musicians. When he was a teenager Sabbah moved to Paris and in 1964 began his career DJing American soul music records. In 1984 settled as a DJ in San Francisco.
Ray Luv.  Ray Tyson better known by his stage name Ray Luv is an American rapper from Santa Rosa California.
Jim Dwyer (journalist).  Jim Dwyer (born March 4 1957 in New York City) is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times and the author or co-author of five non-fiction books. A native New Yorker Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times.
Jim Scott (producer).  Jim Scott is an American music producer and engineer best known for his large body of work as an engineer and his work as a producer with American rock band Wilco. Scott has worked as engineer with a range of other rock music artists including Dixie Chicks Tom Petty Sting the Rolling Stones Roger Daltrey Crowded House 7 Worlds Collide Red Hot Chili Peppers Lowen & Navarro Jack's Mannequin and many others.
Robin Jones Gunn.  Robin Jones Gunn is the best selling Christian author of over 82 books including several series aimed at teen girls as well as Christian fiction for older women and a few non-fiction books. Her books have sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide.
Mikael Gabriel.  Mikael Kristian Gabriel Sohlman (born 25 February 1990) professionally known as Mikael Gabriel or MG is a Finnish rapper of Romani heritage. He has released three solo albums while also having appeared as a featured guest on songs by artists such as Cheek Lord Est Robin and Uniikki.
Deon Meyer.  Deon Godfrey Meyer is a South African thriller novelist writing in Afrikaans. His books have been translated into 20 languages. He has also written numerous scripts for television and film.
Rajeeb Samdani.  Rajeeb Samdani (born in 28 March 1974) is a Bangladeshi industrialist. He is currently the Managing Director of Golden Harvest Group and the founder and trustee of Samdani Art Foundation. He is also the founding committee member of Tate Museum United Kingdom South Asian Acquisition Committee and a member at the advisory board of Colombo Art Biennial.
Yoshie Hayasaka.  Yoshie Hayasaka (早坂 好恵 Hayasaka Yoshie born 25 September 1975 in Naha Okinawa) is a Japanese actress and singer. Along with the ranking in the top 100 in the Oricon Singles Chart for several of her songs her single Zettai! Part 2 reached number 42. In 2003 she married the Japanese pro wrestler known as Super Delfin.
Tony Rothman.  Tony Rothman (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist academic and writer.
Edward Dannreuther.  Edward Dannreuther (4 November 1844 Strasbourg – 12 February 1905 Hastings) was a German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic moving to Cincinnati and there established a piano manufacturing business. Young Edward under pressure from his father to enter banking as a career a prospect he found uncongenial escaped to Leipzig in 1859.He trained as a musician at the Leipzig Conservatoire where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles.
Erling Pedersen.  Erling Pedersen (born 15 January 1947) is a Norwegian novelist writer of short stories and children's writer.
Lonnie Smith (jazz musician).  Lonnie Smith styled Dr. Lonnie Smith (born July 3 1942) is an American jazz Hammond B3 organist.
Laura Molina (artist).  Laura Molina born December 15 1957 is a Mexican-American artist musician and actress from Los Angeles California. Molina is perhaps best known for her Naked Dave paintings and being the lead singer/guitarist of the 1980s rock band Tiger Lily. She is also the creator of Cihualyaomiquiz The Jaguar a self-published comic book printed under Molina's own Insurgent Comix imprint.
Rebecca Sinclair (author).  Rebecca Sinclair is an American author of twelve historical romance novels.According to Romantic Times Sinclair has a skillful way with characters and some of her supporting cast members were so interesting they deserve books of their own. 
Benjamin Constant.  Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (French: [kɔ̃stɑ̃]; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830) or simply Benjamin Constant was a Swiss-born French politician writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel Adolphe.
Paul Anka.  Paul Albert Anka OC (born July 30 1941) is a Canadian singer songwriter and actor. Anka became famous in the late 1950s 1960s and 1970s with hit songs like Diana Lonely Boy Put Your Head on My Shoulder and (You're) Having My Baby.
Maxine McArthur.  Maxine McArthur is an Australian writer of science fiction.
Kim Jong-kook (singer).  Kim Jong-kook (born April 25 1976) is a South Korean singer and TV personality. He was initially part of the Korean duo Turbo later pursuing a successful career as a solo artist. Apart from being a 3 Daesang Award Winner Singer he also participates actively in many variety shows including: Crisis Escape No. 1 Running Man X-man and Family Outing since episode 19.Kim So-ya a Korean female singer under the mononym Soya is his niece.
Coşkun Büktel.  Coşkun Büktel (born 1950) is a Turkish playwright screenwriter novelist and theatre critic. He was born in İzmir Turkey in 1950 and graduated from the English Philology department of Istanbul University in 1981. He is best known for his twice-published play Theope and also as a highly creative theatre critic.Büktel also has published a drama anthology named Eleştiren Oyunlar (The Criticizing Plays) and has also translated D. H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox into Turkish.
Kaoru (musician).  Kaoru (薫 Kaoru born February 17 1974 in Hyōgo) is a Japanese musician best known as the leader and one of the guitarists of the visual kei metal band Dir En Grey. He has been with the group since its inception in 1997 and was previously a member of La:Sadie's. He has composed most of Dir en grey's songs (at least up to the Vulgar album at which individual credits for the music were dropped).
Stephen Hancock.  Stephen Hancock is a British TV actor. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1929. He is most notable for his role as Ernest Bishop in Coronation Street which he played from 1969 until the character was killed off in 1978. His brother was the late Christopher Hancock who played Charlie Cotton in EastEnders. In 2011 he appeared in a Coronation Street tribute programme.
Guillaume Apollinaire.  Guillaume Apollinaire (French: [ɡijom apɔlinɛʁ]; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was a French poet playwright short story writer novelist and art critic of Polish descent. He is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century as well as one of the forefathers of surrealism.
Susan Fassbender.  Susan Fassbender (1959–1991) was an English singer songwriter and musician best remembered for the single Twilight Café which reached No. 21 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1981.
Augustus Young.  For the U.S. Representative from Vermont see Augustus Young (representative).Augustus Young (born 1943 in Cork Ireland) is an Irish poet.
Louis Liebe.  Louis Liebe (1819–1900) was a German conductor and composer who was a pupil of Louis Spohr. He became musical director at Worms. One of his pupils was Friedrich Gernsheim.
Teddy Riley.  Edward Theodore Riley (born October 8 1967) professionally known as Teddy Riley is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter musician keyboardist and record producer credited with the creation of the New Jack Swing genre. Through his production work with Michael Jackson Bobby Brown Doug E. Fresh Today Keith Sweat Heavy D. Usher Jane Child etc.
Sultanna Frantsuzova.  Sultanna Frantsuzova is a Russian fashion designer known for her inexpensive design clothes. She was named Designer of the Year by the Russian Glamour magazine in 2005.
Rosemary Cove.  Rosemary Cove is an American sculptor. She was born on January 11 1936 in New York City.Rosemary Cove is best known for her work with Corten Steel clay and wax. She also creates painting and collage. Her subject is primarily the female form. Cove has received a Ford Foundation Grant National Endowment for the Arts Residency Grant New York State Council for the Arts Grant and National Endowment for the Arts Invitational Residency.
Jamil Alibekov.  Jamil Alibekov is a famous Azerbaijan writer and public figure. He is the author of more than 40 works. For twenty years he worked in responsible positions in the media and he was favorite person among young people.[citation needed] He had traveled to four countries of the continent and his essays written from the United States Turkey United Kingdom Russia (Siberia) Austria Iran and others countries that he visited was cause of the interest.
Julian Bleach.  Julian Bleach (born 1964) is an English actor who is best known as co-creator and M. C. of Shockheaded Peter a musical entertainment based on the works of Heinrich Hoffmann which won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
Reg Manning.  Reginald W. Manning (April 5 1905 Kansas City Missouri – March 10 1986) better known as Reg Manning was an American artist and illustrator best known for his editorial cartoons.He came to live in Phoenix Arizona. Manning’s only art training occurred during high school. After graduating Manning worked as a freelancer. In 1926 The Arizona Republic hired Manning as a photographer and artist. At first Manning's work appeared in several forms in the paper.
Alessandro Rinaldi (painter).  Alessandro Rinaldi (April 5 1839 –1890) was an Italian painter. He was born in Cremona and died in Rome. He was initially trained with Gallo Gallina then in the Brera Academy under Hayez and by 1857 with Giuseppe Bertini. His most prominent works was Volta che scopre la pila.In 1859 he enrolled in the Cacciatori delle Alpi and he was one of the 16 garibaldini that along with the Polish soldier Sadowski first entered Como.
Colleen Coover.  Colleen Coover (born July 14 1969) is a comic book artist based in Portland Oregon. She is probably best known as creator of the lesbian-themed erotic comic book Small Favors from Eros Comix illustrator of the comic book limited series Banana Sunday from Oni Press and for illustrating several short stories in X-Men: First Class from Marvel Comics.
Philip Sherrard.  Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (23 September 1922 – 30 May 1995) was a British author translator and philosopher. His work includes important translations of Modern Greek poets and books on Modern Greek literature and culture metaphysics theology art and aesthetics. A pioneer of Modern Greek studies in England he was influential in making major Greek poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known in the English-speaking world.
Abanindranath Tagore.  Abanindranath Tagore (7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of 'Indian Society of Oriental Art' and the first major exponent of swadeshi values in Indian art thereby founding the influential Bengal school of art which led to the developmentof modern Indian painting He was also a noted writer particularly for children.
Gustav Pfizer.  Gustav Pfizer (1807-1890) was a German poet and critic of the Swabian school.
Ruth Park.  Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 1917 – 14 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980) and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat (1951–1970) which also spawned a book series (1962–1982).
Percy Crosby.  Percy Leo Crosby (December 8 1891 – December 8 1964) was an American author illustrator and cartoonist best known for his popular comic strip Skippy. Adapted into movies a novel and a radio show Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's Peanuts the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a classic...
Atari Blitzkrieg.  Chris Moore is a Maryland born American hip hop artist who goes by the stage name Atari Blitzkrieg. Currently signed to his own label Godsendant Music he is known for his heavy use of alliteration multi-syllabic rhyming schemes and incorporation of various genres into his music. A review on Music Zeitgeist states Atari Blitzkrieg is not a noise-core post-electro-clash/Blade Runner tributary.
Robert Cannon.  Robert Cannon (Sculptor) (b. Flemington New Jersey May 10 1969) is an American sculptor. He holds a BA with distinction from Yale University. While attending Yale Cannon studied under the American Sculptor Alice Aycock.
Lee Adams (performance artist).  Lee Adams (born August 27 1970) is a London based performance artist curator and experimental film maker. Much of his work has been influenced by the ideas of French dissident surrealist and philosopher Georges Bataille.
Amanda Stott.  Amanda Stott (born May 6 1982) is a Canadian pop singer from Brandon Manitoba Canada.
Pedro Paulo Bruno.  Pedro Paulo Bruno (October 14 1888 – February 2 1949) was a Brazilian painter singer poet and landscaper of Italian origin. His best known work is the 1918 painting A Pátria (English: Fatherland) which depicts the Brazilian flag being embroidered by a family.
Ichirō Sakaki.  Ichirō Sakaki (榊一郎 Sakaki Ichirō) is a Japanese writer. He writes light novels and manga.
Lam Chi-chung.  Lam Chi-chung (simplified Chinese: 林子聪; traditional Chinese: 林子聰; pinyin: Lín Zǐcōng; born 16 August 1976) is a Hong Kong actor.
Joseph Jackson (screenwriter).  Joseph Jackson (June 8 1894 – May 26 1932) was an American screenwriter who was nominated for the now dead category of Best Story at the 4th Academy Awards. He was nominated alongside with Lucien Hubbard. They were nominated for Smart Money.He had over 50 screenplay credits from 1927 to 1932.
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell.  Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (March 20 1845 – March 10 1888) was an American writer historian and expert on ancient art. Mitchell was one of the first Americans to write and publish a book on classical sculpture and was one of the first women to study the field of classical archaeology.Mitchell was born in Urumiah Persia and was the daughter of missionary and oriental scholar Austin Hazen Wright and the sister of classical scholar John Henry Wright.
Trace Adkins.  Tracy Darrell Trace Adkins (born January 13 1962) is an American country music artist and actor. He made his debut in 1995 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then Adkins has released seven more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations.
Daniel Duval.  Daniel Duval (28 November 1944 – 10 October 2013) was a French film actor director and writer.Best known as an actor Duval has credits in over 70 television and film productions. As a filmmaker Duval was awarded the Silver Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival in 1977 for his drama film Shadow of the Castles which he wrote and directed.
Klive.  Úlfur Hansson (born 1988) better known as Klive is an Icelandic electronic musician. Klive's first album Sweaty Psalms was released in May 2008. It was recorded and written over two years self-released but distributed by Kimi Records locally. The record received outstanding reviews in local newspapers and webzines for example being voted the seventh best album of 2008 by rjominn.is. In promotion of the album Klive toured Germany in 2009 opening for Kira Kira.
Hunt Slonem.  Hunt Slonem (born Hunt Slonim July 18 1951) is an American painter sculptor and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of tropical birds often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from 30 to over 100 live birds of various species. Slonem's works are included in many important museum collections all over the world; he is exhibiting regularly at both public and private venues and he has received numerous honors and awards.
Alvin Pang.  Alvin Pang (Chinese: 冯啟明; born 1972 Singapore) was named 2005 Young Artist of the Year (Literature) by the National Arts Council Singapore. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English literature from the University of York and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002). For his contributions he was conferred the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007 and the JCCI Foundation Education Award in 2008.
Federico Ramos.  South American Federico Ramos (a.k.a. Freddy) is a guitarist arranger producer and composer based in Santa Monica California. While in his native Uruguay he began his career playing with Eduardo Mateo and Uruguayan rock bands. He is credited with incorporating jazz blues and rock influences to urban Uruguayan music as it is ascertained in the book De las Cuevas al Solís by Fernando Peláez.
Billy Grammer.  Billy Wayne Grammer (August 28 1925 – August 10 2011) was an American country music singer and accomplished guitar player. He recorded the million-selling Gotta Travel On which made it onto both the country and pop music charts in 1959. Grammer would become a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry eventually designing and marketing his namesake guitar after co-founding a guitar company in Nashville Tennessee.
Robin Cook (American novelist).  Dr. Robin Cook (born Robert Brian Cook on May 4 1940 in New York City) is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on the New York Times Bestseller List. Several of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have sold nearly 100 million copies.
Donn Reynolds.  Stanley Beresford Donn Reynolds (June 26 1921 – August 16 1997) was a Canadian country music singer and yodeler most widely known for his Bavarian style of yodeling. Often referred to as Canada's King of the Yodelers Reynolds established two yodeling world records. He recorded 38 singles and six albums throughout a performing career spanning over 40 years.
William Caparne.  William Caparne (1855–1940) born William John Caparn was a horticulturist and a painter of floral and other subjects. He created the first hybrids in the intermediate bearded iris group and is thought to have created more than 100 cultivars of bulbous iris.
Ben Macintyre.  Ben Macintyre (born 1963) is a British author historian reviewer and columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.
Henry Djanik.  Henry Djanik (1926–2008) was a French actor.
Sidsel Mørck.  Sidsel Mørck (born 1937) is a Norwegian lyricist and novelist. She made her literary debut in 1967 with the poetry collection Et ødselt sekund.Mørck was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1976. She was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 1990.
Haren Das.  Harendra Narayan Das (1 February 1921 – 31 January 1993) better known as Haren Das was a highly respected artist in India who worked almost exclusively in printmaking mediums. His work included engravings linocuts etchings and lithographs though he is most remembered for the technical skill of his woodcuts and wood engravings.Haren Das followed a tradition of wood engraving that developed in the bazaars of north Calcutta in the mid-19th century.
Giacomo Insanguine.  Giacomo Antonio Francesco Paolo Michele Insanguine (22 March 1728 Monopoli – 1 February 1795 Naples) was an Italian composer organist and music educator.
Carl Billquist.  Carl Billquist (19 May 1933 – 19 May 1993) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 60 films and television shows between 1961 and 1993.
Dhruva Chatterjee.  Dhruva Chatterjee or Dhruv Chatterjee was a noted writer and screenwriter of Hindi cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. Memorable movies written and scripted by him include Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (1960) Hariyali Aur Rasta (1962) Gehra Daag (1963) Woh Kaun Thi? (1964) Kohra (1964) Gumnaam (1965) Chor Machaye Shor (1974) Dus Numbri (1976) and Fakira (1976). He was also nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Story in 1960 for Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (1959).
Nick Davies.  Nick Davies is a British investigative journalist writer and documentary maker.Davies has written extensively as a freelancer as well as for The Guardian and The Observer and been named Reporter of the Year Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards.Davies has made documentaries for ITV's World in Action and written numerous books on the subject of politics and journalism including Flat Earth News which attracted considerable controversy as an exposé of journalistic malpractice in the UK and across the globe. 
Moonga K..  Moonga Kalangu Kapambwe (born 3 September 1996) better known by his stage name Moonga K. is a singer-songwriter from Zambia.
Peter S. Pezzati.  Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (September 18 1902 - February 19 1993) was an American portrait painter who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes pen and ink drawings watercolors pastel and oil portraits.
Humayun Ahmed.  Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author dramatist screenwriter playwright and filmmaker. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun reached peak of his fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972 which remains one of his most famous works winning admiration from literary critics including Dr. Ahmed Sarif.
Ric Manrique Jr..  Ric Manrique Jr. (born Ricardo Manrique Jr. on 23 May 1941) is a Filipino Kundiman singer. He is known as one of the two Hari Ng Kundiman (Kings of Kundiman) in the Philippines alongside Ruben Tagalog. He was a member of the Mabuhay Singers in the 1950s. He recorded his first album in the early 1960s and recorded most of his songs with Villar Records.Manrique is best known for his songs that became theme songs of popular Filipino movies.
Miki Inoue.  Miki Inoue (井上 美紀 Inoue Miki born 8 December 1967) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Aoni Production. Her hometown is Wakayama Wakayama Prefecture.
Gérard Berliner.  Gérard Berliner (1956–2010) was a French actor and composer.
Charles Garabed Atamian.  Charles Garabed Atamian (September 18 1872 - July 30 1947) was an Ottoman-born French painter of Armenian descent.
Elías Pino Iturrieta.  Elías Pino Iturrieta (Boconó Venezuela 9 October 1944) is a Venezuelan writer and historian. He served as Director of the Venezuelan Academy of History which he joined on 27 February 1997. Is Director of the Institute for Historical Research at Andrés Bello Catholic University since 1999. He graduated from UCV in 1962 and obtained a doctorate from El Colegio de México in 1969.
Juan B. Gutiérrez.  Juan Bernardo Gutiérrez (born March 17 1973) is a Colombian author who resides in the United States known primarily for his theoretical and practical contributions in the field of hypertext fiction.
Meshell Ndegeocello.  Meshell Ndegeocello (/mɪˈʃɛl ndɛˈɡeɪoʊtʃɛloʊ/; born Michelle Lynn Johnson August 29 1968) is an American singer-songwriter rapper bassist and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences including funk soul hip hop reggae R&B rock and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career and has had ten career Grammy Award nominations. She has been credited for having sparked the neo-soul movement.
Owen Wright (musician).  Owen Wright is an American musician best known for playing guitar with the Seattle-based metal bands Mistrust and My Sister's Machine.
Ann Burton.  Ann Burton (March 4 1933 Amsterdam – November 29 1989 Amsterdam) is the pseudonym of Johanna Rafalowicz (between 1938 and 1971: Johanna de Paauw) a Dutch jazz singer.
Wes Funk.  Wes Funk is a Canadian writer. Based in Saskatoon Saskatchewan he has published two novels and a chapbook of poetry and short stories to date with a third novel scheduled for publication in 2012. He also hosts a weekly television series Lit Happens on Shaw TV's services in Saskatchewan.Funk who is gay was raised in a Mennonite household in rural Saskatchewan.
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi.  Mohammad-Rezā Lotfi (Persian: محمد رضا لطفی‎) (January 7 1947 – May 2 2014) was a Persian classical musician renowned for his mastery of the tar and setar.
Genevieve Foster.  Genevieve Stump Foster (April 13 1893 – August 30 1979) was an American children's writer who illustrated most of her own books. She was one runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal four times one of four writers to do so.
Yoo Hee-yeol.  Yoo Hee-yeol stylized as You Hee-yeol (Hangul: 유희열; born April 19 1971) is a Korean pop singer-songwriter composer and pianist. He is the leader of his one-man project band Toy.
Gianluca Arrighi.  Gianluca Arrighi (born 3 October 1972) is an Italian writer.Born in Rome Arrighi graduated in criminal law then after some technical publications he made his debut in fiction with Crimina romana in 2009; the novel was adopted as a textbook in the schools of the Province of Rome and President Nicola Zingaretti to battle against the rampant phenomenon of juvenile delinquency organized several lectures in universities on justice in which Arrighi from time to time he met about two hundred students to answer their questions about crimes and crime.Between 2010 and 2011 Arrighi wrote for several italian magazines a series of noir short stories. 
Iván Carvajal.  Iván Carvajal Aguirre (born 1948 in San Gabriel Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian poet philosopher and writer. In 1984 he received Ecuador's National Prize for Literature the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit prize for his work entitled Parajes. In February 2013 he won the Premio a las Libertades Juan Montalvo.Carvajal lives in Quito Ecuador and works as a Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.
Brian Wood (comics).  Brian Wood (born January 29 1972) is a writer illustrator and graphic designer living in Brooklyn New York. He is known primarily as a comic book creator; Wood both writes and illustrates graphic novels and serialized monthly comic books for a variety of publishers.During his comics career Wood held a day job for several years as a staff designer for Rockstar Games designing for video game franchises such as Grand Theft Auto Midnight Club Max Payne Smuggler's Run and Manhunt.
Hsissen.  Hsissen (December 8 1929 – September 29 1958) was an Algerian singer.
Thomas A. Dorsey.  Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1 1899 – January 23 1993) was known as the father of black gospel music and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as dorseys. Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.As formulated by Dorsey gospel music combines Christian praise with the rhythms of jazz and the blues.
Leland Myrick.  Leland Myrick is an author and illustrator. He was born in Missouri and currently lives in Pasadena California. In 1999 he was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for The Sweet Collection and in 2004 he was awarded a Xeric Grant to create Bright Elegy. In 2006 he published a graphic novel titled Missouri Boy. A short story titled Sustain This Song was published in summer 2010 in Flight volume 7.
Özlem Tekin.  Özlem Tekin (born November 18 1971) is a Turkish singer TV show host[citation needed] and occasional actress primarily known for her music. Though she started out in the hard rock genre her music has progressed to incorporate different styles such as house punk pop and Turkish folk music.
Erin Bosenberg.  Erin Bosenberg is a multi-media and performance artist living and working in Cape Town South Africa. Her work concerns ideas of place identity and bodily experience using text word play and gestures to develop these ideas.
Clyde McKnight.  Clyde Prince'Lee McKnight (born April 29 1992) is an American singer-songwriter rapper dancer and actor. He is of African-American Afro-Trinidadian & Samoan descent. He was formally signed to Queen Bee Entertainment and is now independent.
Sieur Dubois.  Sieur Dubois and Sieur D. B. are the pseudonymous names of a traveller who reached the islands of Madagascar and Réunion at the time of early colonization by France. He wrote a book in French published in 1674 about his journeys and the wildlife he saw including details of several species of birds endemic to Réunion that have since become extinct such as the Réunion Ibis Réunion Swamphen and Réunion Rail.
William Walton (painter).  William Edwin Walton (1909/1910 - December 18 1994) was an American journalist and abstract expressionist painter. He was a confidante of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy and chaired the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1971.
Ken Colyer.  Kenneth Colyer (18 April 1928 – 8 March 1988) was an English jazz trumpeter and cornetist devoted to New Orleans jazz. His band was also known for skiffle interludes.
Ben Pollack.  Ben Pollack (June 22 1903 - June 7 1971) was an American drummer and bandleader from the mid-1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ at one time or another musicians such as Benny Goodman Jack Teagarden Glenn Miller Jimmy McPartland and Harry James. This ability earned him the nickname Father of Swing.
Fonzworth Bentley.  Derrick Watkins (born February 13 1974) better known as Fonzworth Bentley or Farnsworth Bentley is a musician and author. He is perhaps best known for being Sean Combs' former personal valet and assistant as first seen in Making the Band 2 and is currently the host of MTV's From G's to Gents. His first single Everybody features Kanye West and Andre 3000. He was born in Atlanta Georgia.
Michelle Chia.  Michelle Chia (Chinese: 谢韵仪; pinyin: Xiè Yùnyí) is a Singaporean actress and television host.
Qwel.  Adam Vincent Schreiber (born June 6 1980) better known by his stage name Qwel is an underground rapper originally from Chicago Illinois. Qwel is co-founder of the underground rap crew Typical Cats with fellow MCs Denizen Kane and Qwazaar and producers / DJs Kid Knish and DJ Natural. Qwel has also released full-length collaboration projects with producers Maker Jackson Jones Meaty Ogre Mike Gao Silence and Kip Killagain.
Azumi Asakura.  Azumi Asakura (浅倉 杏美 Asakura Azumi born February 15 1987) also known as Azumi Yamamoto (山本 杏美 Yamamoto Azumi) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Arts Vision.
Teodoro Matteini.  Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia 1753 - Venice 1831) was an Italian painter mainly of historical and religious subjects.
Edgar Calabia Samar.  Edgar Calabia Samar (born 1981) is a poet and fictionist from San Pablo City Philippines. He has received the Palanca Awards for his poetry collections and futuristic fiction. He has also been awarded the PBBY-Salanga Writer's Prize the NCCA Writer's Prize for the Novel the Gantimpalang Collantes sa Sanaysay and the Gawad Surian sa Tula. His poetry book Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay was nominated for the National Book Award.
Jerry Gonzalez.  Jerry Gonzalez (b. New York June 5 1949) is an American-born Latino jazz trumpeter and percussionist most noteworthy for his contributions to Latin jazz.
Paddy Richardson.  Paddy Richardson is a writer who lives in Dunedin New Zealand and has published two collections of short stories'Choices'(Hard Echo Press 1986) and 'If We Were Lebanese' [Steele Roberts 2003) and three novels 'The Company of a Daughter' (Steele Roberts 2000) A Year to Learn A Woman' (Penguin 2008) and 'Hunting Blind' (Penguin 2010).
María Rosa Yorio.  María Rosa Yorio (born August 28 1954 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine painter singer songwriter instructor and band leader.
Elizabeth Bachinsky.  Elizabeth Bachinsky (born May 10 1976) is a Canadian poet. She has published four collections since 2005: Curio Home of Sudden Service God of Missed Connections and The Hottest Summer in Recorded History. Her second book Home of Sudden Service was nominated for a 2006 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Bachinsky's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada the U.S. France Ireland the U.K. China and Lebanon.
Kenza Farah.  Kenza Farah (born July 8 1986) is a French singer-songwriter of Algerian origin. Her album Authentik won gold in its second week. It was followed up by Avec le coeur and Trésor.
Ali Baksh Jarnail.  Ustad Ali Baksh (1850-1920) was an Indian classical singer. Together with Fateh Ali Khan he founded the Patiala Gharana. This gharana is claimed to combine the musical traditions of Delhi gharana Gwalior Gharana and Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. The gharana has many notable pupils including Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Malika Pukhraj and Gauhar Jan. Ustad Ali Baksh Khan regularly sang with Fateh Ali Khan. Before the partition of India they were the court musicians in Patiala.
Anaïs Lameche.  Anaïs Helena Kretz Lameche (born 19 August 1987 in French Alps France) is an original member of the Swedish pop group Play. She is the only member of Play out of its seven different members to appear in all four different line-ups of the group. She is also the last remaining original member of the group since Faye's second departure in January 2011.In 2001 Play's first single Us Against the World was featured on the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie Holiday In The Sun.
Stephen Harrigan.  Stephen Harrigan is an American writer known primarily for his 2000 historical novel The Gates of the Alamo.
Michio Takeyama.  Michio Takeyama (竹山 道雄 Takeyama Michio 17 July 1903 – 15 June 1984) was a Japanese writer literary critic and scholar of German literature active in Shōwa period Japan.
Eyvind Solås.  Eyvind Stauri Solås (11 May 1937 – 22 April 2011) was a Norwegian musician composer actor and program host in NRK both the Norwegian television and radio.
Renato D'Aiello.  Renato D'Aiello is an Italian saxophonist resident in London United Kingdom.He started his professional career playing with Giovanni Tommaso's big band for a television programme in Italy. In 1987 Renato received a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music.Since October 2003 D'Aiello has been saxophone teacher at Sherborne School Dorset.
Florian Hecker.  Florian Hecker was born in 1975 in Augsburg Germany. He was raised in Kissing Germany and studied Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich and Fine Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Vienna where he received his diploma in 2003.
Jesper Skaaning.  Jesper Skaaning (aka Acustic) is a Danish electronic musician producer and film composer.He started his career as a guitarist in various experimental punk bands in the early 1980s and was inspired by European electropop and early electronic Music especially by Kraftwerk.
Dennis Wojtkiewicz.  Dennis Wojtkiewicz (born 1956 Chicago Illinois) is an American Hyperrealist painter and draughtsman.Wojtkiewicz graduated from Southern Illinois University and is artist associated with the Hyperrealist movement. He is best known for his large scale renderings of sliced fruit and flowers.
Al Stillman.  Al Stillman (June 26 1906 – 1979) was an American lyricist.
Sue Mingus.  Sue Graham Mingus is the widow of jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus. In 2002 Pantheon (Random House) released Sue Mingus' memoir of her life with Mingus entitled Tonight at Noon: a Love Story.
Chris Addison.  Chris Addison (born 5 November 1971) is a Welsh stand-up comedian writer actor and director from Manchester. He is best known for his current role as a regular panellist on Mock the Week. He is also known for his lecture-style comedy shows two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up he played Ollie Reeder in the BBC Two television satire The Thick of It and Toby Wright in its spin-off film In the Loop and he co-created and starred in the BBC Two sitcom Lab Rats.
Shane Luitjens.  Shane Luitjens is a graphic designer photographer and writer based in New York City.
Antonio Barbalonga.  Antonio Barbalonga or Barbalunga (1600 – 2 November 1649) also called Antonio Alberti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a member of the noble family of the Alberti born at Messina and was there instructed in painting by Simone Comandé. He went to Rome where he became a pupil of Domenichino whose style he imitated with great skill. Barbalonga executed a great number of paintings for churches his chief work being the Conversion of St. Paul for the convent church of St.
Kunie Tanaka.  Kunie Tanaka (田中 邦衛 Tanaka Kunie born 23 November 1932) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro and The Bad Sleep Well Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan.He has been nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards winning the Best Supporting Actor statuette for Gakko in 1993.
Marie Calfopoulos.  Marie Calfopoulos is a photographer video editor and filmmaker from France. She studied foreign languages and multilingual communication at Rennes University and started her artistic and professional career at the French Riviera based company Dreamakers.Her specialty is photography. She photographed well-known models and high profile weddings. She features her talent in her book presenting a collection of photographs captured in New York City.
DJ Logic.  DJ Logic (born 1972 as Jason Kibler) is an American turntablist active primarily in nu-jazz/acid jazz and with jam bands.Kibler was born and raised in The Bronx. An early interest in hip hop led to his using the turntables practicing often. Kibler was also interested in funk and jazz music and began collaborating with various musicians.
Steve Rushton.  Steven John Rushton (born 30 October 1987[citation needed] Chertsey Surrey England) is a British solo artist and formerly bassist for the pop punk band Son of Dork.
Andrew Pavlovsky.  Andrew Pavlovsky is a contemporary Russian artist. He is a member of the Moscow Artists Union the International Federation of Artists (IFA) and Russian Philosophical Union.
Gilbert Laing Meason.  Gilbert Laing Meason (3 July 1769 – 14 August 1832) a Scottish gentleman best remembered as the originator of the term landscape architecture.Laing Meason lived on an estate called Lindertis in Forfar and was a friend of Sir Walter Scott. He was interested in art history and in 1828 published a book called On The Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy (London 1828).
Vernon Scannell.  Vernon Scannell (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer and wrote novels about the sport.His published poem count stands at 53.
Gary Cherone.  Gary Francis Caine Cherone (/ʃəˈroʊn/ shə-ROHN; born July 26 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter. He is best known for his work with the rock group Extreme as well as his short stint as the lead singer for Van Halen on their 11th album Van Halen III and subsequent tour. In recent years he has released solo recordings. In 2007 he reunited with Extreme. The band's latest album Saudades de Rock was released on August 12 2008.
Billy Peterson.  Billy Peterson (born as Willard Peterson in Minnesota) is an American bass player songwriter composer session musician and producer. Growing up in a family of professional musicians Peterson started with music at a very young age.
Sharon Thorpe.  Sharon Thorpe was a pornographic actress during the 1970s and 80s. In 1985 she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Jan Jelínek (legionary).  Jan Jelínek (8 April 1893 – 5 July 1974) was a Czech legionnaire and author of a book about legionnaires from the Boskovice region. He wrote about legionnaires in Russian Italian and French from 1931 to 1938.
Miki Nagasawa.  Miki Nagasawa (長沢 美樹 Nagasawa Miki born July 11 1970) is a Japanese voice actress born in Obihiro Hokkaido and raised in Fukushima. Formerly affiliated for Haikyo she is now affiliated with Atomic Monkey.
Sevara Nazarkhan.  Sevara Nazarkhan (Uzbek: Sevara Nazarxon Севара Назархон; Russian: Севара Назархан) is an Uzbek singer songwriter and musician. Her musical style incorporates Uzbek folk and contemporary music. Nazarkhan has achieved worldwide fame and has collaborated with high-profile international artists. In 2004 Nazarkhan received the BBC Radio 3 World Music Award in the category Best Asian Artist.
Jim Oldfield.  Jim Oldfield is an author editor and reviewer famous for his work with Commodore computers. He is married to Deb Oldfield and is the father of James Jon and Jason Oldfield.He was the founder of the pioneering Commodore magazine the Midnite Software Gazette and was Associate Editor of .info (magazine). He is currently Vice President and Publisher at Abacus a computer book and software publisher that specializes in supporting simulation software.
Leo Arnaud.  Leo Arnaud or Léo Arnaud (/ˈleɪ.oʊ ɑrˈnoʊ/; July 24 1904 – April 26 1991) was a French-American composer of film scores best known for Bugler's Dream which is used as the theme by television networks presenting the Olympic Games in the United States.The composer studied composition at conservatories in Lyon and Paris with Maurice Ravel and Vincent d'Indy.
Tadao Nagahama.  Tadao Nagahama (長浜 忠夫 Nagahama Tadao) (September 26 1936 – January 14 1980) was a director of both puppet shows and animation. He is best known as the director of Sunrise and Toei Company's Robot Romance Trilogy which added human drama to the Super Robot Genre.Nagahama also directed several hit anime series that are still well known among Japanese viewers.
Scévole de Sainte-Marthe (1536–1623).  Scévole de Sainte-Marthe (2 February 1536 – 29 March 1623) was a French poet born in Loudun.
Clark Terry.  Clark Terry (born December 14 1920) is an American swing and bebop trumpeter a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz educator and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.He played with Charlie Barnet (1947) Count Basie (1948–1951) Duke Ellington (1951–1959) and Quincy Jones (1960). Terry's career in jazz spans more than seventy years and he is one of the most recorded of jazz musicians.
Mutual Benefit (band).  Mutual Benefit is a music project created by singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. The band consists of various musicians gathered by Jordan Lee and has no concrete band line-up. The band's most recent LP Love's Crushing Diamond has gained critical praise; being named Stereogum's Band to Watch and Pitchfork's best new music.
A. L. Westgard.  Anton L. Westgard (Norway 1865 – 3 April 1921) called the Pathfinder was a highway pioneer and photographer. Westgard was appointed by Federal Highway Administration Director Logan Page to research appropriate locations for the first transcontinental highways. Westgard's 1911 cross-country field survey via automobile ultimately led to what would become the Lincoln Highway.
Damian LeGassick.  Damian LeGassick is a British musician and producer. LeGassick trained at York University and has worked professionally in many diverse areas of the music business as a pianist composer producer and lecturer. As a pianist he specializes in late 20th century solo repertoire and chamber music. His compositions for the avant-garde ensemble Icebreaker have been played throughout Europe and the United States and have been broadcast on both Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Fat Pat (rapper).  Patrick Lamark Hawkins (December 4 1970 – February 3 1998) better known by his stage name Fat Pat (also known as Mr. Fat Pat) was an American rapper from Houston Texas who was a member of DEA (Dead End Alliance) with his brother John Big Hawk Hawkins and DJ Screw and an original member of the Screwed Up Click.Wreckshop Records released his first two albums Ghetto Dreams and Throwed In Da Game in 1998 after his death. Later releases were on the Screwed Up Click label.
Beau Sorenson.  Beau Sorenson (born 1980) is an American record producer and engineer. He has worked with Death Cab For Cutie Bob Mould Superchunk Sparklehorse Jars of Clay Yellow Ostrich The Lonely Forest Field Report Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Elsinore. Originally from Wisconsin Sorenson spent his early career at Smart Studios in Madison later moving to Portland Oregon to become an independent producer and engineer.
Ng Chee Yang.  Ng Chee Yang (simplified Chinese: 黄智阳; traditional Chinese: 黃智陽; born 10 December 1989) commonly known as Zhiyang is a Singaporean singer. Born and raised in Singapore he was exposed to the piano as a child. Other than piano studies he did not receive any professional vocal training.In 2005 he participated in the F.I.R singing competition organised by KBox. Out of the three finalists he was the only male competitor.
Paul Heyse.  Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich he wrote novels poetry 177 short stories and about sixty dramas. The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.
Peter Josef von Lindpaintner.  Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (8 December 1791 – 21 August 1856) was a German composer and conductor.Born in Koblenz as the son of a tenor he studied with Peter Winter and Joseph Graetz. From 1819 onwards he was based in Stuttgart.
David Allen Sibley.  David Allen Sibley (born 1962 Plattsburgh New York) is an American ornithologist. He is the author and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds considered by many to be the most comprehensive guide for North American field identification.
Witold Gombrowicz.  Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4 1904 – July 24 1969) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis a certain sense of paradox and absurd anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his first novel Ferdydurke which presented many of his usual themes: the problems of immaturity and youth the creation of identity in interactions with others and an ironic critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture.
Dana Marton.  Dana Marton New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Dana Marton has thrilled and entertained millions of readers around the globe with her fast-paced stories about strong women and honorable men who fight side by side for justice and survival.
Frédéric Etherlinck.  Frédéric Van Goitsenhoven-Maeterlinck (born 11 August 1968 Brussels) is a Belgian singer best known for his participation in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest.
David L. Williams (film director).  David L Williams is a dual national British and American film director writer and producer living in London. An active film campaigner in Rwanda (Genocide) and Liberia (Deforestation) his commercial work with UK production house Shooting Pictures has led to collaborations with comedians including Dom Joly Russell Brand and Alistair McGowan.
Atilla İçli.  Atilla İçli was a Turkish composer and broadcaster.Icli began work at Istanbul Radio in 1968 and transferred to Ankara Radio in 1972. He also presented the TV program Yörelerimiz-Türkülerimiz on TRT one for thirteen years. He was married and a father of two children.
Dan Haigh.  Dan Haigh (born 5 December 1982 in Grimsby North East Lincolnshire) is a musician director video game designer and visual effects artist known best as the bass player in the English alternative metal band Fightstar. In the games industry Dan designed levels for games such as Quake and Counter Strike under the pseudonym Inflict. Dan worked for Electronic Arts Bullfrog Gearbox Software Valve Software and Pocketeers.
David Essex.  David Essex OBE (born David Albert Cook 23 July 1947) is an English musician singer-songwriter and actor. Since the 1970s Essex has attained nineteen Top 40 singles in the UK (including two number ones) and sixteen Top 40 albums. He has also had an extensive career as an actor performing on stage and screen.
Carter Pann.  Carter Pann (born February 21 1972 La Grange Illinois) is an American composer. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Goran Šepa.  Goran Gale Šepa (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Шепа born 1960) is a Serbian singer. He is best known as the lead singer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band Kerber. Šepa is known for his melodic vocal style.
Oton Župančič.  Oton Župančič (January 23 1878 – June 11 1949) was a Slovene poet translator and playwright. He is regarded alongside Ivan Cankar Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. In the period following World War I Župančič was frequently regarded as the greatest Slovenian poet after Prešeren but in the last forty years his influence has been declining and his poetry has lost much of its initial appeal.
Hameed Chennamangaloor.  Hameed Chennamangaloor (Abdul Hameed Areepattamannil; born 1948) is a prominent social critic in Kerala India. He is a staunch critic of religious fundamentalism. He was born to Areepattamannil Abdul Salam of Chennamangaloor and Katheeshumma of Perumanna. He had his early education at Chennamangaloor and Mukkam. After getting his BA and MA degrees he began his career as a probationary officer in State Bank of Travancore.
Harry Barker (mayor).  Sir Harry Heaton Barker KBE (18 July 1898 – 18 May 1994) was a New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor local politician. He was born in Nelson New Zealand on 18 July 1898. His father John Heaton Barker was the founder of the Four Square supermarkets chain.Barker came to Gisborne in 1920 to work as a reporter for The Gisborne Times (which after a couple of mergers became The Gisborne Herald in 1939).
Kevin Bivona.  Kevin Bivona is an American musician and audio engineer best known for his work with The Transplants and Tim Armstrong.
Charles Teeling.  Charles Hamilton Teeling (1778–1850) was an Irish journalist and writer from Lisburn County Antrim Ulster.He was the younger brother of Bartholomew Teeling and in 1802 switched careers from a linen bleacher to journalism.
John Campbell (blues guitarist).  John Allen Campbell (January 20 1952 – June 13 1993) was an American blues guitarist singer and songwriter who was born in Shreveport Louisiana.
Bheki Mseleku.  Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku generally known as Bheki Mseleku (3 March 1955 – 9 September 2008) was a jazz musician from South Africa. He was a pianist saxophonist guitarist composer and arranger who was entirely self-taught.
Jeffrey Hammond.  Jeffrey Hammond (born 30 July 1946 Blackpool) sometimes credited as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond is a musician and former bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.Hammond adopted the name Hammond-Hammond as a joke since both his father's name and mother's maiden name were the same. He also joked in interviews that his mother defiantly chose to keep her maiden name just like Eleanor Roosevelt.
Kunchan Nambiar.  Kalakkathu Kunchan Nambiar(Malayalam: കുഞ്ചൻ നമ്പ്യാർ kuñcan Nampyār) was an early Malayalam language poet performer satirist and the inventor of local art form Ottamtullal. He is often considered as the master of Malayalam satirist poetry.Kunchan Nambiar spent his early childhood at Killikkurussimangalam his boyhood at Kudamalur and youth at Ambalappuzha. In 1748 he moved to the court of King Marttanda Varma of Travancore Kingdom and later to the court of his successor Dharma Raja.
John Twist.  John Twist (July 14 1898 – February 11 1976) was an American screenwriter whose career spanned four decades. Born John Stuart Twist in Albany Missouri he began his career in the silent film era providing the story for such films as Breed of Courage Blockade and The Big Diamond Robbery. He earned his first screenwriting credit for The Yellowback in 1929. Twist died in Beverly Hills California.
Johnny Griparic.  Johnny Blackout Griparic is a Swedish-born bassist who is best known for his playing on the 2000 Slash's Snakepit album Ain't Life Grand.
Walther Jervolino.  Walther Jervolino (1 March 1944—12 July 2012) was an Italian painter and artist known mainly for his Surrealist works.
Allisyn Ashley Arm.  Allisyn Ashley Arm (born April 26 1996) is an American actress and sketch comedian. Arm is most known for her main role as Zora Lancaster on Sonny with a Chance and in Disney Channel's sketch comedy series So Random!
Duke (musician).  Duke (born Mark Carson Adams) is a British singer songwriter and producer who was born and raised in England.He had two Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: His deep house version of So In Love With You which was his biggest hit reaching #1 in 1997 and his follow-up Greater which peaked at #9 in 1998.Mark Adams was born & bred in the West End in Newcastle-upon-Tyne which is in the North East of England.
Thanksgiving (band).  Thanksgiving AOK and A.O. are the names under which Portland Oregon singer/songwriter Adrian Orange (born March 20 1986) performs. Officially adopting the Thanksgiving moniker around 1999–2000 Orange played experimental folk music often accompanying himself on electric guitar. While Thanksgiving is essentially a solo act Adrian Orange often collaborates with other musicians in his recordings and performances.
Henry Chapman Mercer.  Henry Chapman Mercer (born June 24 1856 Doylestown Pennsylvania – died March 9 1930 Doylestown) was an American archeologist artifact collector tile-maker and designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: Fonthill his home the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum.
Martin How.  Martin How MBE (born 1931) is a British composer and organist. Martin is the son of the late Most Revd J C H How Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.Born in Liverpool where his father was Rector of St Nicholas Church. The family then moved to Brighton where Martin's father was Vicar at St Peters Parish Church. The family then moved to Glasgow just before the second world war and Martin spend most of his childhood there.Educated at Repton School where he was a Music Scholar.
Kazik Staszewski.  Kazik Staszewski (born 12 March 1963 in Warsaw as a son of the architect and poet Stanisław Staszewski) is a Polish lead singer songwriter and leader of the band Kult. Kazik founded Kult in 1982; their latest album Prosto was released in May 2013. In 1991 he launched a solo career as Kazik with one of the first Polish rap albums[citation needed] Spalam się (I'm burning or I'm getting stoned).
Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón.  Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón (1500–1577) was a Spanish architect of the Renaissance.He was born at Rascafría. His work alternated the late gothic with the renaissance style. His workings include the Palace of Monterrey in Salamanca the Palace of Guzmanes in León and the facade of the Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
Brian Jungen.  Brian Jungen (born April 29 1970 in Fort St. John British Columbia) is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry. He graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1992 and is based in Vancouver.
David Porter (musician).  David Porter (born November 21 1941) is an American soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s. He later became a Stax recording artist himself.
Nick DiPaolo.  Nicholas Rocco Nick DiPaolo (born January 31 1962) is an American stand-up comedian Emmy nominated writer actor and radio host. He was formerly the co-host of The Nick & Artie Show alongside comedian Artie Lange.
Bret Blevins.  Bret Blevins (sometimes spelled Brett Blevins) (born August 13 1960) is an American comic book artist animation storyboard artist and painter. He is perhaps best known for his stint as the regular penciler of New Mutants.
George Barraud.  George Barraud (born 17 December 1889 Paddington London England–d. 1970 London England) was a British film actor.
Fay-Ann Lyons.  Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez (born November 5 1980) is a Trinidadian soca songwriter recording artist and performer. She is also known by such titles as the Lyon Empress Mane the Matriarch and the Silver Surfer a nickname which she claimed during her performance at the 2008 International Soca Monarch. Fay Ann is married to fellow recording artist and 'Ragga Soca' lyricist Bunji Garlin.
Édouard Collin.  Edouard Collin (born 28 February 1987) is a French actor.
Elie Wiesel.  Eliezer Elie Wiesel KBE (/ˈɛli vɨˈzɛl/; born September 30 1928)is a Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political activist. He is the author of 57 books including Night a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz Buna and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Benjamin Dunn.  Benjamin Dunn (born February 17 1981) is an american musical artist lead singer/performer & songwriter.Dunn also has written a book Lamb Wine And A Divine Comedy. Along with his artistic work he is also involved heavily in humanitarian work with slums dumps and leper colonies in the third world. In 2012 he started The Joy House which is an orphanage for children in Hyderabad India.
Joanna Taylor.  Joanna Taylor (born 24 July 1978) is an English actress and former model.
Miki Fujimoto.  Miki Shōji (庄司 美貴 Shōji Miki) (born February 26 1985) professionally known by her birth name of Miki Fujimoto (藤本 美貴 Fujimoto Miki) and nicknamed Mikitty is a Japanese pop singer and television actress. After failing the audition to join girl group Morning Musume with the fourth generation members Fujimoto debuted as a solo artist within Hello! Project in 2002 with the single Aenai Nagai Nichiyōbi.
Muriel Anderson.  Muriel Anderson (born 1960) is an American composer guitarist and harp-guitarist.
April Byron.  April Byron (real name April Elizabeth Dove Potts) was born March 22 1947 in Warburton Victoria Australia. April is an award-winning Australian pop/rock pioneer.
Michaele Vollbracht.  Michaele Vollbracht born 1947 in Quincy Illinois is a fashion designer who has worked both under his own name and also as head designer for Bill Blass Limited from 2003 until his resignation in 2007. He is also well known as an illustrator though he considers himself first and foremost a fashion designer.Vollbracht began his career in fashion as a student at what was then Parsons School of Design in 1965.
Leroy Wallace.  Leroy Horsemouth Wallace (born April 3 1950) is a Jamaican drummer who worked for several years at Studio One and has worked with numerous reggae artists including The Gladiators Inner Circle Prince Far I Sound Dimension Gregory Isaacs Burning Spear Ijahman Levi and Pierpoljak. He starred as himself in the lead role of the film Rockers. Wallace attended the Alpha Boys School in the 1960s and early 1970s where he studied under Lennie Hibbert.
Street Radio.  Kendred Smith better known by his stage name Jimi Kendrix and Jesse Matthews better known by his stage name J. Math are a Hip hop record production team from Brooklyn New York and are known collectively as Street Radio. Street Radio has produced songs for artists including 50 Cent Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Rick Ross Styles P and many others as well as scored for shows such as MTV Cribs and True Life among others.
Zachary Cale.  Zachary Cale (born 1978) is an American songwriter and musician who grew up in Louisiana but currently lives in Brooklyn NY. His music combines elements of folk country blues rock and pop styles. His moody lyrics and accomplished guitar playing have drawn comparisons to Leonard Cohen and John Fahey and his voice in its lower register is eerily reminiscent of early Bob Dylan. He has also been compared to Townes Van Zandt John Martyn Donovan and Nick Drake.
Viviane Ndour.  Viviane Ndour (born Viviane Chidid) is a Senegalese pop singer who is the former sister-in-law of Youssou N'Dour. She is known by some as the Queen of Mbalax.
Nikki Charm.  Nikki Charm (born Shannon Louise Eaves on February 21 1966 in California) is an American pornographic actress. She is a member of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.In 1986 an investigation found that Traci Lords had been making adult films while underage. Federal authorities suspected that other actresses may also have made films before they were legally able including Nikki Charm and subpoenas were issued seeking access to records confirming her age.
Richard Sylbert.  Richard Sylbert (16 April 1928 – 23 March 2002) was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director primarily for feature films.
Albrecht Wellmer.  Albrecht Wellmer (born July 9 1933) is a prominent German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Jeff Parker (comics).  Jeff Parker is a Portland Oregon based writer and comic book artist. He is a member of Periscope Studio formerly Mercury Studio.
Daniel Kitson.  Daniel Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English stand-up comedian.
Melchior Lengyel.  Melchior Lengyel (12 January 1880 – 23 October 1974) was a Hungarian writer dramatist and film screenwriter.
Kenji Ito.  Kenji Ito (伊藤 賢治 Itō Kenji born July 5 1968) also known by the nickname Itoken (イトケン) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He is best known for his work on the Mana and SaGa series though he has worked on over 30 video games throughout his career as well as composed or arranged music for over 15 other albums concerts and plays. He learned to play several instruments at a young age and joined Square directly out of college as a composer in 1990 at the advice of a professor.
Dale Pendell.  Dale Pendell is a contemporary author who combines science and poetry in his explications of the relationship between psychoactive compounds and human beings. A long time student of ethnobotany Pendell discusses historical and cultural uses of power plants in his works.
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir.  Júlíana Sveinsdóttir (1889–1966) was one of Iceland's first woman painters and textile artists. Taught initially by prominent Icelandic artist Þórarinn B. Þorláksson Sveinsdóttir settled in Denmark and returned to Iceland in the summers the visits inspiring her landscape paintings one of which won the Eckersberg Medal in 1947.Sveinsdóttir was an active supporter of artists and the arts.
Sara Sheridan.  Sara Sheridan (born 7 June 1968) is a Scottish writer who works in a variety of genres though predominately in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
Maggie Taylor.  Maggie Taylor (born 1961 in Cleveland Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of several galleries and museums.
Jesús de la Rosa Luque.  Jesús de la Rosa Luque (5 March 1948–14 October 1983) was a Spanish singer and composer. He was the vocalist of the progressive rock group Triana heavily influenced by flamenco and important in the development of Rock andaluz.
Vukašin Brajić.  Vukašin Brajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вукашин Брајић; pronounced [ʋukǎʃin brǎːjitɕ]; born 9 February 1984) is a Bosnian Serb pop-rock singer who rose to fame after participating in the first season (2008–09) of Operacija trijumf the Serbian version of Star Academy in which he came in second place.
Fred Giannelli.  Fred Giannelli (born 1960 in Lowell Massachusetts) is an American electronic musician. He began experimenting with electronics in the 1970s as and Turning Shrines. In 1984 Giannelli met Psychic TV's Genesis P. Orridge while the group was in Boston for a gig. This led to Giannelli eventually flying to London to join the band in 1988 arriving just in time for the Acid House craze.
Ram V Sutar.  Ram Vanji Sutar (born 1925) is a famous Indian sculptor.
Tugdual Menon.  Tugdual Menon (also in sources Tuttvalle Tugdualo Tudual Tuttuale Tuduuale Jugdulus; before 1502 - 1566/1568) was a French composer. He was likely teacher of the organist Claudio Merulo.
Xenophon.  Xenophon (/ˈzɛnəfən/; Greek: Ξενοφῶν Xenophōn [ksenopʰɔ̂ːn]; c. 430 – 354 BC) son of Gryllus of the deme Erchia of Athens also known as Xenophon of Athens was a Greek historian soldier mercenary and student of Socrates. While not referred to as a philosopher by his contemporaries his status as such is now a topic of debate.
Bill Congreve.  Bill Congreve is an Australian writer editor and reviewer of speculative fiction.
Stanley J. Watts.  Stanley J. Watts (born 1961) is an American artist and sculptor mostly in life size bronzes.
Simon Binks.  Simon John Binks (born 27 November 1956 Mount Eliza Melbourne) is an Australian rock musician who was a guitarist and singer-songwriter for Australian Crawl from founding in 1978 to disbanding in 1986.
Utku Dalmaz.  Utku Dalmaz (born September 9 1985) is a Turkish electronic dance music producer jazz guitarist and web developer. He has been releasing deep house and tech house music under the artist name Utku Dalmaz along with his other music projects.
Scott Davidson (musician).  Scott Davidson played keyboards with Bros and Pet Shop Boys before founding the Trade-It free advert paper and becoming a director and then chairman of Bristol City FC from 1996-2001. In 2003 Davidson was a co-founder of The Big Fundraiser now known as The Invitation Book a discount voucher annual which aims to raise money for charities based on an American publication Entertainment. He also has interests in software development property manufacturing and publishing in Ireland.
Konrad Prószyński.  Konrad Prószyński (19 February 1851 – 8 July 1908) pen name Kazimierz Promyk was a Polish writer editor author of primers (textbooks) editor-in-chief of Gazeta Świąteczna (Holiday Gazette); the founder of secret Society for National Education (Towarzystwo Oświaty Narodowej) under foreign Partitions and the author of well received Pictorial Literacy (1879) primer. Was father of a Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński.
George Peter Alexander Healy.  George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15 1813 in Boston – June 24 1894 in Chicago) was an American painter from Boston Massachusetts.
Captain Sky.  Daryl L. Cameron (born July 10 1957 Chicago Illinois) better known as Captain Sky is an American musician and singer. Captain Sky’s funk-based musical style futuristic costumes and psychedelic imagery are similar to those of George Clinton Bootsy Collins and other Parliament/Funkadelic projects.
Mighty Shadow.  Winston Anthony Bailey OBE (born 4 October 1941) better known by his stage name The Mighty Shadow or Shadow is a calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. Bailey was born in Belmont a suburb of Port of Spain in Trinidad but grew up in Les Coteaux Tobago with his grandparents. He began to sing at a very early age and he wanted to be a singer although his grandfather told him he must be a lawyer.He won the Road March in 1974 and 2001 with Bassman and Stranger respectively.
E. J. Wells.  E.J. Wells is an American musician and songwriter. Part of the punk scene of the late 1970s he is now considered to be a Gothabilly or Cowpunk musician.Wells has been performing live with various bands since 1979. His most recent project was E.J. Wells and the Bleeding Deacons.He released an album called Rhyolite on Halloween 2002. Other performers on the album included Rick Nease and Chris Arduser of psychodots Graveblankets and The Bears].
Anna Goldsworthy.  Anna Goldsworthy (born 9 June 1974) is an Australian writer and classical pianist.
Ella Young.  Ella Young (December 26 1867 – July 23 1956) was an Irish poet and Celtic mythologist active in the Gaelic and Celtic Revival literary movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in Ireland Young was an author of poetry and children's books. She emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1925 as a temporary visitor and lived in California.
Tana Ramsay.  Tana Ramsay (born Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson in 1974) is a British author of bestselling books on cookery and a TV broadcaster.
Phil Pringle.  Philip Andrew Phil Pringle OAM (born 21 May 1952) is an Australian pastor. Pringle arrived in Sydney New South Wales in 1980 with his wife Chris. He is the senior pastor of C3 Church Sydney (formerly known as Christian City Church) a church in Dee Why which he split and renamed following his initial ill-fated attempt at planting a church in the Sydney suburb of Roseville.He is the founder of C3 Church Global a church planting movement.
Doug Yule.  Douglas Alan Yule (born February 25 1947) is an American musician and singer most notable for being a member of the Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973.
Luke Takamura.  Luke Takamura (ルーク篁 Takamura Luke born April 12 1964 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as guitarist of the heavy metal band Seikima-II from 1987 to 1999 and for each reunion they have had since. In 1995 he joined the short-lived supergroup Kings with Shuichi Aoiki (Night Hawks) on vocals Taiji Sawada (X Loudness) on bass and Satoshi Joe Miyawaki (44 Magnum Spread Beaver) on drums.
Nusrat Hussain.  Nusrat Hussain (Urdu:نصرت حسین) is a Pakistani musician airline pilot guitarist and keyboardist. He played guitar for the Vital Signs and keyboard for Junoon in midst of 1990s. He soon left both bands opting for a career in PIA as an airline pilot in airline industry.
William Sidney Mount.  William Sidney Mount (November 26 1807 – November 19 1868) was an American painter best known for his genre paintings although he also painted landscapes and portraits. He was a contemporary of the Hudson River School.
Teri DeSario.  Teri Lynn DeSario (born 27 November 1951) is an American singer-songwriter from Miami Florida.
Terry Wilkins.  Terry Wilkins is a Toronto based musician composer bandleader arranger producer and teacher. A native of Sydney Australia he arrived in Toronto in 1971 with Aussie country-rock band Flying Circus and since then has worked with many Canadian and international artists from Lighthouse to Big Sugar as well as Rough Trade and David Wilcox. He has also backed many visiting artists such as Dr. John Eddie Cleanhead Vinson Maria Muldaur John Hammond Levon Helm and Son Seals.
Nicola Furlong.  Nicola Furlong is a Canadian novelist who lives in Sidney British Columbia.
Marilyn (singer).  Peter Robinson (born Kingston Jamaica 3 November 1962) better known as Marilyn is a British pop singer and songwriter. He is most well known for his 1983 hit Calling Your Name and his highly androgynous appearance.
Holly Throsby.  Holly Throsby (born 28 December 1978) is a musician from Sydney Australia. Throsby was nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) 'Best Female Artist' Award in 2006 for Under the Town and in the same category in 2008 for A Loud Call.
Evaristo Ribera Chevremont.  Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (San Juan February 16 1896- March 1 1976) is a poet from Puerto Rico. Although several of his published books deal with Puerto Rican nationality and regionalism many of his verses excel in a universal lyrical character as can be read in books such as El Caos de Los Sueños and El Hondero Lanzó la Piedra among others.
Aaron Koblin.  Aaron Koblin is an American digital media artist best known for his innovative uses of data visualization and crowdsourcing. He is currently Creative Director of the Data Arts Team at Google in San Francisco California.Koblin's artworks are part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
DJ Trendsetter.  Mark Holiday (born June 5 1987) also known by his stage name DJ Trendsetter or Kelly Holiday is an EDM DJ and POP/Hip-Hop record producer became known worldwide after being discovered by Annie Nightingale in 2013 and having his guest mix on BBC Radio 1 in 2014. Although Mark Holiday was well known in Hip-Hop and POP music industry since 2006 producing few major records and remixes for Timati Dawn Richard Trina Toby Love Mark Morrison Lumidee Really Doe and many more.
Andranik Madadian.  Andranik Madadian (Persian: آندرانیک مددیان‎ Armenian: Անդրանիկ Մադադյան) better known by his stage name Andy (Persian: اندی‎ Armenian: Էնդի) (born 1958) is a famous Armenian-Iranian singer-songwriter. He is a naturalized American and currently lives in Los Angeles California.
Lee Yountaek.  Lee Yountaek (Hangul: 이윤택) is a South Korean poet dramatist and producer.
Marty Paich.  Martin Louis Marty Paich (January 23 1925 – August 12 1995) was an American pianist composer arranger producer music director and conductor.In a career which spanned half a century he worked in these capacities for such artists as Frank Sinatra Barbra Streisand Sarah Vaughan Stan Kenton Ella Fitzgerald Mel Tormé Ray Charles Johnny Rivers Aretha Franklin Linda Ronstadt Al Hirt Jack Jones Neil Diamond Stan Getz Sammy Davis Jr Michael Jackson Art Pepper Ethel Azama Mahalia Jackson Toto (his son David is a longtime member of that band) and many others.
Otis Blackwell.  Otis Blackwell (February 16 1931 – May 6 2002) was an African - American songwriter singer and pianist whose work significantly influenced rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's Fever Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire and Breathless Elvis Presley's Don't Be Cruel All Shook Up and Return to Sender (with Winfield Scott) and Jimmy Jones' Handy Man.He should not be confused with another songwriter and producer Robert Bumps Blackwell.
Scott Goodall.  Scott Goodall is a British comics writer.
C. K. Williams.  C. K. Williams (born Charles Kenneth Williams on November 4 1936) is an American poet critic and translator. Williams has won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
B.G. Knocc Out.  Al Hassan Naqiyy (born Arlandis Hinton; January 23 1968) better known by his stage name B.G. Knocc Out is an American rapper known for collaborating with Eazy-E on the 1993 single Real Muthaphuckkin G's. He is also the younger brother of rapper Dresta who also collaborated in the song.
Patton Brothers.  The Patton Brothers Jimmy Patton (born 1 January 1932) and Brian Patton (born 4 September 1934) are the two older brothers of Barry and Paul Elliot The Chuckle Brothers.
Kangta.  Ahn Chil-hyun (Hangul: 안칠현; hanja: 安七炫) was born on 10 October 1979 mononymouly credited by his stage name Kangta (Hangul: 강타). He is a South Korean pop R&B singer first known as the lead singer of the boy band H.O.T. and as a solo singer since their disbandment in 2001.
Engvald Bakkan.  Engvald Bakkan (20 August 1897 – 3 July 1982) was a Norwegian novelist and children's writer.Bakkan was born in Åmli. Among his best-known works is the novel trilogy from the 18th century Krossen er din Gjenom fossane and Regnbogen i toreskya published between 1947 and 1952. He was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1953.
William Meston.  William Meston (1688? - 1745) was a Scottish poet.The son of a blacksmith he was educated at Marischal College Aberdeen took part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk (1723) is an imitation of Hudibras. His Mob Contra Mob or The Rabblers Rabbled was printed in Edinburgh in 1738 and reprinted by Peter Williamson also in Edinburgh c1770. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
Robert Yeo.  Robert Yeo (born Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan in 1940) is a Singaporean poet playwright and novelist.
Reinis Kaudzīte.  Reinis Kaudzīte (May 12 1839 – August 21 1920) was a Latvian schoolteacher and writer. His novel Mērnieku laiki (Times of the Land-Surveyors) was the first novel written in Latvian language composed together with his brother Matīss Kaudzīte in 1879.
Urbie Green.  Urban Clifford Urbie Green (born August 8 1926) is an American jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman Gene Krupa Jan Savitt and Frankie Carle.He has played on over 250 recordings and has released more than two dozen albums as a soloist and is highly respected by his fellow trombonists. Green's trombone sound is especially noted for its warm mellow tone even in the higher registers where he is more fluent than most trombonists.
Fazer (rapper).  Richard Rawson (born 5 February 1987) better known by his stage name Fazer is an English rapper producer DJ and songwriter. He is popularly known as the member of hip hop trio N-Dubz releasing three studio albums and winning numerous MOBO awards with the group. Richard has said that whilst growing up his biggest influences were Tupac Shakur Biggie Rakim T.I. and Jay-Z.
Charlie Bondhus.  Charlie Bondhus (born 1981) is an American poet and author of four books. His latest All the Heat We Could Carry was the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Book Award.
Gemma J.  Gemma Louise Sampson is a singer from Maidenhead who provided vocals for Israeli DJ Onyx's 2004 UK #66 hit Every Little Time and currently is a member of the Real McCoy.
Dan Parent.  Dan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his work for Archie Comics. A graduate of The Kubert School Parent began working for Archie immediately after graduation. His writing of the Love Showdown series from 1994 received widespread attention. Parent has also illustrated Felix the Cat Barbie Disney Adventures and a wide variety of other titles.
Catherine Yass.  Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist.Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London and lives and works in the UK. In 2002 Yass was nominated for the Turner prize. She studied at the Slade School of Art London (1982-1986) and then at Hochschule der Künste Berlin (1984-1985). She received a Boise travelling scholarship for the period 1986-1987 and then graduated with an MA from Goldsmiths College London in 1990.
Aldo Busi.  Aldo Busi (born 25 February 1948) is an Italian writer and translator mostly active in the last twenty years. He was born in Montichiari near Brescia in Lombardy. He is the author of Seminar on Youth and Vita standard di un venditore provvisorio di collant (published in English under the title The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman). His other works include La Delfina Bizantina and Sodomie in Corpo 11 (translated by Stuart Hood as Sodomies in Elevenpoint).
Mike DiMeo.  Mike DiMeo (born November 29 1968 in New York City) is a hard rock/heavy metal vocalist best known for his work in the band Riot which he left in late 2006. He recorded six studio albums and one live album with the group before departing to join Masterplan for the recording of MK II in 2006.
Ken Scarlett.  Kenneth William Scarlett OAM (born 1927) is an Australian writer specialising in Australian sculpture. His 1980 publication Australian Sculptors (1980) was the first to present a complete survey of sculpture in Australia. Subsequent publications include Sculpture in Public Gardens (1983) Limited Recall: A Fictional Autobiography (2005) Elgee Park: Sculpture in the Landscape (2010) and monographs on the sculptors John Davis (1989) and Andrew Rogers (2010).
Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar.  Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar (Devanagari: गंगाधर बाळकृष्ण सरदार) (1908–1988) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra India.He served as the head of Marathi department of SNDT Women's University.He chaired in 1980 Marathi Sahitya Sammelan which was held at Barshi.The following is a partial list of Sardar's books: अर्वाचीन मराठी गद्याची पूर्वपीठिका (1937) अभंगवाणी प्रसिध्द तुकयाची संत वाङ्मयाची सामाजिक फलश्रुती (1950) महाराष्ट्राचे उपेक्षित मानकरी (1951) महाराष्ट्र जीवन (1960) रामदासदर्शन गांधी आणि आंबेडकर संक्रमणकालाचे आवाहन (1966) ज्ञानेश्वर जीवननिष्ठा (1971) रानडेप्रणित सामाजिक सुधारणेची तत्त्वमीमांसा (1973) आगरकरांचा सामाजिक तत्त्वविचार (1975) प्रबोधनातील पाऊलखुणा (1978) महात्मा फुले - व्यक्तित्व आणि विचार (1981) नव्या युगाची स्पंदने (1982) धर्म आणि समाजपरिवर्तन (1982) नव्या ऊर्मि नवी क्षितिजे (1987) परंपरा आणि परिवर्तन (1988) The Saint-Poets of Maharashtra: Their Impact on Society (in English) (1969)
Bob Weston (guitarist).  See Bob Weston for the American bassist and recording engineer.Robert Joseph Bob Weston (1 November 1947 – 3 January 2012) was a British musician best known for his brief role as guitarist and songwriter with the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
Clayton Hill (drummer).  Clayton Charles Stuart Hill is a Canadian drummer best known for being a member of the Canadian rock band Trooper.Hill joined Trooper in 2006 and has toured with the band ever since. Hill was featured when Trooper performed in the 2010 Olympics Victory Ceremonies in Vancouver BC on February 21 2010.
John Mundy (composer).  John Mundy (or Munday) (1555 – 29 June 1630) was an English composer virginalist and organist of the Renaissance period.
William Johnson Cory.  William Johnson Cory (January 9 1823 – June 11 1892) born William Johnson was an educator and poet.
Innokenty Annensky.  Innokentiy Fyodorovich Annensky (Russian: Инноке́нтий Фёдорович А́нненский IPA: [ɪnɐˈkʲentʲɪj ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈanʲɪnskʲɪj] ; September 1 1855 (N.S.) – December 13 1909 (N.S.)) was a poet critic and translator representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism.
Dee Hsu.  Dee Hsu (Chinese: 徐熙娣; pinyin: Xú Xīdì; Wade–Giles: Hsü Hsi-ti) more commonly known as Xiǎo S or Little S (小S) was born on 14 June 1978. She is a Taiwanese host actress and singer. She is well known for her quick-witted caustic humor as being a co-host of the most popular talk show in Taiwan KangXi Lai Le which airs on Chung T'ien Television with fellow host Kevin Tsai since 2004 for which they were awarded Best Host in a Variety Programme at the 40th Golden Bell Awards in 2005.
Barbro Flodquist.  Barbro Flodquist (19 April 1919 – 29 January 1971) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 17 films between 1940 and 1955.
Antonio Sabino.  Donato Antonio Sabino (Turi 13 February 1591 - Naples 1650) was an Italian composer and priest. He was brother of Giovan Maria Sabino another composer-priest and uncle of Francesco Sabino.
Simon Rowe.  Simon Rowe is an Irish journalist. He is the former editor of the The Irish Catholic from which he resigned after a disagreement over an article which criticised the sale of church property by Ireland's senior prelates. He edited the Catholic magazine The Voice Today which closed in 2006 and is a regular contributor to radio and television shows such as Newstalk 106 and RTÉ.
Jacquie O'Sullivan.  Jacquie O'Sullivan (born 7 August 1960 Hendon London) is an English singer and songwriter.
Kim Richey.  Kimberly Kay Kim Richey (born in 1956 in Zanesville Ohio) is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts. She has often been described as an Americana artist.Her 1995 self-titled debut album provided her first country hit Just My Luck as well as the follow-up Those Words We Said (which was also covered that same year by Trisha Yearwood).
David Munrow.  David John Munrow (12 August 1942 – 15 May 1976) was a British musician and early music historian.
Frank Wappat.  Frank Wappat (17 February 1930 – 17 February 2014) was an English radio personality disc jockey and singer from Hebburn County Durham. He worked with The Premier Band Bobby Thompson Renato Pagliari The Pipe-dreamers Flintlock (musical group) The Dooleys and many others in a career spanning the 1950s to 2010
Toshio Maeda.  Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫 Maeda Toshio born 1953) is a controversial[citation needed] erotic manga artist who was most prolific in the 1980s and 90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for Original Video Animations (OVA) including the well known La Blue Girl Adventure Kid Demon Beast Invasion Demon Warrior Koji and his most famous work Urotsukidōji (Legend of the Overfiend).
Susan Neville.  Susan Neville (born January 4 1951 Indianapolis Indiana) is an American short story writer and writing professor.
Gene Austin.  Gene Austin (June 24 1900 – January 24 1972) was an American singer and songwriter one of the first crooners. His 1920s compositions When My Sugar Walks Down the Street and The Lonesome Road became pop and jazz standards.
Vaughan Alden Bass.  Vaughan Alden Bass was an American painter of pin-up art.Bass was a Chicago artist who started his career working for the Louis F. Dow Company in St. Paul during the mid-1930s. Bass created his own pin-ups for Brown & Bigelow but he worked for Dow as a paint over artist redoing work that other artists (notably Gil Elvgren) had done for the company.Bass' style was often compared with that of Elvgren Al Buell and Joyce Ballantyne.
W. R. Sweatt.  William R. Sweatt (1867–?) was an American industrialist.
M. F. Husain.  Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) commonly known as MF Husain was an Indian painter and Film Director.Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His narrative paintings executed in a modified Cubist style can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—include topics as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi Mother Teresa the Ramayana the Mahabharata the British raj and motifs of Indian urban and rural life.
Jonathan Horowitz.  Jonathan Horowitz (born 1966) is a New York based artist working in video sculpture sound installation and photography. Horowitz critically examines the cultures of politics celebrity cinema war and consumerism. From found footage Horowitz visually and spatially juxtaposes elements from film television and the media to reveal connections and breakdowns between these overlapping modes of communication.He is a 1987 graduate of Wesleyan University.
Morag Joss.  Morag Joss is an English-born Scottish writer.She is the author of six novels including the Sara Selkirk series and Half Broken Things which won the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Silver Dagger Award. She began writing in 1996 after a short story of hers was runner-up in a national competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine. A visit to the Roman Baths with crime writer P.D. James germinated the plot of her first novel Funeral Music (1998) the first in the Sara Selkirk series.
Freddie Hart.  Frederick Segrest (born December 21 1926) known professionally as Freddie Hart is an American country musician and songwriter best known for his No. 1 hit Easy Loving which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972.Hart charted singles from 1953–1987 and later became a gospel singer. He continues to perform at music festivals and other venues.
Dino Kartsonakis.  Dino Kartsonakis (born July 20 1942) is an accomplished sacred pianist of Greek heritage.
Alexei Maxim Russell.  Alexei Maxim Russell is a Canadian author and the creator of Trueman Bradley. Trueman Bradley is a fictional character in a series of detective novels with an international following. Bradley is characterized as a genius detective with Asperger's Syndrome. Alexei is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada Canadian Society of Children's Writers and Performers and the Crime Writers of Canada.
Paulus Potter.  Paulus Potter (November 20 1625 (baptised) – January 17 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter specialized in animals in landscapes usually with a low point of view.Before Potter died of tuberculosis 28-years old he succeeded in producing about 100 paintings working continuously.
John O'Neill (guitarist).  John Joseph O'Neill (born 26 August 1957 Derry Northern Ireland) is the rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter within the punk/New Wave band The Undertones.
Oskar Kallis.  Oskar Kallis (Tallinn November 23 1892 - Yalta 1 January 1918) was one of the main representatives of the Estonian national romanticism. He studied in 1907 and 1913 to 1916 in the studio of the artist Ants Laikmaa and in 1912-1913 studied design at the Estonian Artist Society (Eesti Kunstiselts). He participated in 1917 in the establishment of the artistic association Vikerla.
Stonewall Jackson (musician).  Stonewall Jackson (born November 6 1932) is an American country singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's golden honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Erica Packer.  Erica Packer (née Baxter; born 1977) is an Australian singer and model. She was the second wife of Australia's eighth richest man James Packer.
Peter Ryan (columnist).  Peter Allen Ryan (born 1923) was a newspaper columnist author World War II spy director of Melbourne University Press and an officer of the Victorian Supreme Court.He was an intelligence operative behind enemy lines in New Guinea in the Second World War. Fear Drive My Feet is his famous account of his experiences. On his return to Australia he served under Alf Conlon at the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs.He was Director of Melbourne University Press from 1962 to 1989.
Joe Escalante.  Joseph Patrick Joe Escalante (born January 30 1963) is an American musician record label owner radio host film and music video director and amateur matador as well as a former television executive and entertainment lawyer. He is most widely known as the bassist for the punk rock band The Vandals the owner of their record label Kung Fu Records and the host of Barely Legal Radio on the Los Angeles/Orange County radio station Indie 103.1 FM.
Kellyanne Farquhar.  Kellyanne Farquhar is a Scottish television actress. She joined the cast of the BBC's Monarch of the Glen for its final series in 2005 starring as boarding school runaway Amy McDougal. Kellyanne graduated from Queen Margaret University College in 2004.Kellyanne won a Scottish Bafta for her role in Monarch. Kellyanne also appeared in the New Found Land film Night People which won the audience award at the Bafta Scotland awards the same year
Angus Young.  Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is a Scottish-born Australian guitarist best known as a co-founder lead guitarist and songwriter of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. Known for his energetic performances schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and popularisation of Chuck Berry's duckwalk Rolling Stone magazine ranked Young as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time. In 2003 he and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Wallace Huo.  Wallace Huo Chien-hwa (born 26 December 1979) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese actor and singer.Huo first joined the entertainment business at the age of 17. Setting the goal as a singer he went through two years of training in vocal and dancing. Just before he was about to record his first album however he was mandated to enlist in the army.He became known for his cell phone commercial with Angelica Lee in 2000.
Zao Wou-Ki.  Zao Wou-Ki (pinyin: Zhào Wújí; Wade–Giles: Chao Wu-chi; 13 February 1920 – 9 April 2013) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Kingsley Amis.  Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist poet critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels six volumes of poetry a memoir various short stories radio and television scripts along with works of social and literary criticism.
Matt Mikalatos.  Matt Mikalatos is a Christian author speaker and missionary. He is based out of the Portand area and is the author of the comedy theology novels Night of the Living Dead Christian and My Imaginary Jesus as well as the fantasy novel The Sword of Six Worlds.
Giovanni Battista Bertani.  Giovanni Battista Bertani (1516–1576) was an Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance period. He trained with Giulio Romano in Mantua and was promoted after Romano's death to the post of prefect of the ducal studio (fabbriche). Painters who assisted him over the years include his brother Domenico as well as Giovanni Battista del Moro Geronimo Mazzuola Paolo Farinato Domenico Brusasorci Giulio Campi and Paolo Veronese.
Judy Minx.  Judy Minx (born around 1989) is a French pornographic actress. She identifies as a sex worker queer and as a feminist activist.
Casey Abrams.  Casey Abrams (born February 12 1991) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist from Idyllwild California who finished in sixth place on the tenth season of American Idol. He was eliminated from the competition on April 28 2011 five weeks after being the third finalist to be saved from elimination by the judges.
John Hambrock.  John Hambrock is the creator of the comic strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. It first appeared in newspapers on November 12 2006 and is syndicated worldwide by King Features Syndicate.
Lee Yun-gi.  Lee Yun-gi (Hangul: 이윤기) is a prize winning modern South Korean writer and translator.
Don Hertzfeldt.  Don Hertzfeldt (born August 1 1976) is an American animator and independent filmmaker. He is the creator of many animated films including Everything Will Be OK and the Academy-Award nominated Rejected.
Jess Lee.  Jess Lee is a Canadian Métis country music singer-songwriter.
Aung Yin.  Aung Yin (Burmese: အောင်ရင် [ʔàʊɴ jɪ̀ɴ] born 28 June 1964) is a well-known Burmese pop singer who reached the height of his career in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Born to U Han Yin and Daw Khin Myaing in Rangoon he is the eldest of three brothers. Aung Yin began singing on stage in the 4th standard and immediately joined the music industry upon graduating from the 10th standard from State High School No. 1 Dagon (BEHS No. 1 Dagon).
Alan Riach.  Alan Riach is a Scottish poet and academic.He was born in 1957 in Airdrie Lanarkshire. Riach studied at Cambridge and Glasgow. He worked at the University of Waikato in New Zealand from 1986. He is Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.
José Navas.  José Navas is a contemporary choreographer and dancer born in Venezuela in 1965 and based in Montreal Quebec.
Violet May Cottrell.  Violet May Cottrell (17 May 1887–28 May 1971) was a New Zealand writer poet and spiritualist. She was born in Napier Hawke's Bay New Zealand on 17 May 1887.
Cartola.  Angenor de Oliveira known as Cartola (Portuguese for top hat) (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaxˈtɔlɐ]; October 11 1908 – November 30 1980) was a Brazilian singer composer and poet considered to be a major figure in the development of samba.Cartola composed alone or with partners more than 500 songs.
M-Doc.  M-Doc is a rap artist and producer who was signed to RCA Records and Smash Records in the 1990s. He scored minor chart success with the singles Free and It's a Summer Thang featuring Chantay Savage. He is currently the president of Indasoul Entertainment.
Mary Downing Hahn.  Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9 1937) is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book The Sara Summer was released in 1979 when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels. Many of those novels take place in Maryland a state in which she grew up and in which she still lives.Mary Downing Hahn speakingI grew up in a small shingled house down at the end of Guilford Road in College Park Maryland.
Coenie de Villiers.  Coenie de Villiers (Coenraad Grabe de Villiers) born 11 October 1956 is a South African singer/songwriter piano player pop artist who sings in his mother tongue Afrikaans. If any comparison was required Coenie's music is best compared to the pop/rock of Herbert Groenemeyer (German language) or Billy Joel (USA English language).
Larry Campbell (musician).  Larry Campbell (born February 21 1955 in New York City) is a multi-instrumentalist who plays many stringed instruments (including guitar mandolin pedal steel guitar slide guitar and violin) in genres including country folk blues and rock. He is perhaps most widely known for his time as part of Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour band from 1997 to 2004.Campbell also has extensive experience as a studio musician.
Jade Esteban Estrada.  Jade Esteban Estrada (born September 17 1975 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas) is a successful Latin pop singer comedian choreographer actor political commentator and human rights activist. Out Magazine called him the first gay Latin star.
Koby Israelite.  Koby Israelite is a multi-instrumentalist composer producer songwriter and band leader.He released four critically acclaimed albums through John Zorn's Tzadik Records label : Dance of the Idiots (2003) Mood Swings (2005) Orobas: Book of Angels Volume 4 (2006) Is He Listening? (2009).King Papaya his most adventurous record to date was independently released in 2009 to positive reviews.Blues from elsewhere.Asphalt Tango records.release date-15.3.2013As well as producing solo material Israelite has established a career producing for a range of artists touring stages around the world and co-operating with a number of film theatre and television companies.
Justin Hayford.  Justin Hayford is a Chicago-based singer and pianist. He performs jazz and cabaret music and specializes in reviving obscure and forgotten songs from the past. Justin writes and presents cabaret shows at various venues in Chicago and has released three albums to date.He also works as Case Manager of the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago.
Tech N9ne.  Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8 1971) better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (pronounced Tech Nine) is an American rapper from Kansas City Missouri. In 1999 Yates and Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. Yates has sold over two million albums and has had his music featured in film television and video games.
Gary (rapper).  Kang Hee-gun (Korean: 강희건 Hanja: 姜熙建; born February 24 1978) better known by his stage name Gary (Korean: 개리 often spelled as Garie) is a South Korean rapper songwriter lyricist record producer dancer entertainer promoter television personality restaurateur and founder of Leessang Company. He is member of hip-hop duo Leessang. He is also currently a cast member of the variety show Running Man.
Bill Copeland (poet).  Bill Copeland was an American poet writer and historian. He was born at the Emory University Hospital in 1946. He was raised in Dekalb County Georgia and lived above his fathers country store. During the 1970s Copeland earned his master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Georgia.
James Agee.  James Rufus Agee (/ˈeɪdʒiː/ AY-jee; November 27 1909 – May 16 1955) was an American author journalist poet screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel A Death in the Family (1957) won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
Ruth Orkin.  Ruth Orkin (September 3 1921 – January 16 1985) was an American photographer and filmmaker.
Todor Todorov (sculptor).  Todor Todorov is a Bulgarian sculptor born in Sofia Bulgaria on September 26 1951. He studied his masters at National Academy of Arts in Sofia Bulgaria and graduated in 1977. Since 1975 he has primarily produced large scale works in the area of public sculpture and Elemental Sculpture. His kinetic sculpture Dance was one of the 19 directly invited/awarded sculptures placed permanently in the Olympic Buildings for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Mark Trombino.  Mark Trombino is an American multi-platinum music producer drummer and recording artist. He produced engineered and mixed tracks for many artists including Jimmy Eat World Blink-182 Finch Motion City Soundtrack and All Time Low. As a drummer he recorded and toured with Drive Like Jehu aMiniature Night Soil Man and First Offense.Trombino recently moved into the boutique food space opening a donut shop called Donut Friend in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Henry Alexander (painter).  Henry Alexander (b. San Francisco 1860 - d.
Joan Claire Graham.  Joan Claire Graham (November 21 1945) is a songwriter playwright publisher editor and writer. Among other literary endeavors she is known for her chronicling of Minnesota history.
Todd Holoubek.  Todd Holoubek (born September 10 1969) is an American film and television actor; comedian; and sketch-comedy writer. He is also an academic.
David Catlin-Birch.  David Catlin-Birch is a British musician. He was a bassist for pop/alternative rock band World Party and was the original Paul for the Beatles tribute band The Bootleg Beatles.With Rowland Rivron and Richard Vranch he made up the core team for Radio 2's musical comedy show Jammin' which won a Silver Sony Comedy Award in 2004. He played bass with The Flight of the Conchords on their 2005 Radio 2 series.
Dag Ingebrigtsen.  Dag Ingebrigtsen (born on 12 December 1958 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian musician who had his debut in 1977 with the group Subway Suck. He got his breakthrough in 1980 with the rock band The Kids who had the hit Forelska i lærer'n (In love with the teacher). After his success with The Kids he fronted the Norwegian hard rock band TNT. He sang and played rhythm guitar on their self-titled debut album in 1982 before being replaced by American Tony Harnell two years later.
Anthony Ireland (actor).  Anthony Ireland (4 February 1902 - 4 December 1957) was a British actor.
Ralph Gibson.  Ralph Gibson (born January 16 1939) is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition. Gibson currently lives in New York and travels frequently to Europe and Brazil.
Ted Leo.  Ted Leo (born Theodore F. Leo on September 11 1970 in South Bend Indiana) is an American punk rock/indie rock songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has played in the bands Citizens Arrest Chisel The Sin-Eaters The Spinanes and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.
Robert Haimer.  Robert Haimer (born March 2 1954) is an American musician singer and songwriter. He performed in the two-man band Barnes & Barnes as his stage persona Artie Barnes alongside actor and musician Bill Mumy. Haimer became friends with Mumy in 1965 at his school's Halloween carnival day. Recently Haimer has sold self-made CD-R's of his private demo recordings on eBay. He has also uploaded videos to YouTube in character as Artie Barnes.
Catya Maré.  Catya Maré (pronunciation: catya maree) is a multiple award winning composer music producer classical crossover violinist visual artist and writer from Germany now located in California. She received her US green card based on her achievements in the musical field.
Khaled El Sheikh.  Khaled El Sheikh (Arabic: خالد الشيخ) or Khalid Al-Shaikh born in Bahrain on 23 September 1958 is a Bahraini singer. Married with 5 daughters (Dareen Noor Marwa Samawa and Wanas). Honored in 12th Bahrain International Musical Festival on 14 October 2003.Honored by Culture & Arts Directorate Ministry of Information for best music and sound effects for Akhbar AlMajnoon play on 6 July 2005.
Martin Chambers.  Martin Dale Chambers (born 4 September 1951 Hereford England) is the drummer in the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing the drums with the group Chambers sings backing vocals (lead vocals on the song Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law) the B-side of the singles 2000 Miles and Show Me which he also wrote) and plays percussion.
Charles L. Johnson.  Charles Leslie Johnson (December 3 1876 - December 28 1950) was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He was born in Kansas City Kansas died in Kansas City Missouri and lived his entire life in those two cities. He published over 300 songs in his life nearly 40 of them ragtime compositions such as Doc Brown’s Cakewalk Dill Pickles Apple Jack (Some Rag) and Snookums Rag.
Bobby Kildea.  Bobby Kildea (born 14 March 1972)[citation needed] is a musician from Northern Ireland. He currently plays bass and guitar in the Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian after joining in 2001 to replace departing bassist Stuart David and had previously been in V-Twin.
Kuru Aravinthan.  Kuru Aravinthan is a Tamil author. He was born and studied in Sri Lanka and later moved to Canada. He is a regular contributor to Indian and Canadian Tamil language magazines including Kungumam Uthayan Thai Veedu and Thural .He has also written screenplays the films Sugam Sugame Veli and Siva ranjani and a thriller novella titled Neer Mulki..Neeril Mulki.
William Guest (singer).  William Guest (born July 2 1941 Atlanta Georgia) is an American R&B/soul singer best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. He is Gladys Knight's cousin. Guest has resided in the Detroit area since the mid 1960s. He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Tetsushi Tanaka.  Tetsushi Tanaka (田中 哲司 Tanaka Tetsushi born February 18 1966 in Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese actor.
Britt Nicole.  Brittany Nicole Waddell (born August 2 1984) better known by her stage name Britt Nicole is an American musician singer-songwriter and recording artist. She has mainly charted as a Christian pop artist but her song Gold has charted on mainstream pop radio. She is signed to EMI CMG/Sparrow and Capitol Records.
Pascal Foucart.  Pascal Foucart is a French artist born in the sixties and living in Paris France.
David Brown (musician).  David Brown (February 15 1950 – September 4 2000) was the primary bass guitar player for the band Santana from 1966 until 1971 then again from 1973 until 1976.David grew up in Daly City California.Brown played with Carlos Santana at Woodstock in 1969 and on several other dates and albums.At the Fillmore West Tuesday jam sessions in the late 60's and early 70's Dave would often make personnel selections for the sessions and participate as well.
Mark Kurlansky.  Mark Kurlansky (born 7 December 1948 in Hartford Connecticut) is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. Kurlansky's newest book Ready For a Brand New Beat: How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America was released July 2013 from Riverhead Books.Kurlansky attended Butler University where he harbored an early interest in theatre and earned a BA in 1970. However his interest faded and he began to work as a journalist in the 1970s.
David Buck.  David Buck (17 October 1936 – 27 January 1989) was an English actor.He starred in many television productions from 1959 until 1989. One of his earlier roles was that of Horatio Hornblower in an episode entitled Hornblower (1963) in the Alcoa Premiere TV series. He played Winston Smith in Theatre 625: The World of George Orwell: 1984 (1965) a remake of Nigel Kneale's adaptation of the novel.
Marcus Gee.  Marcus Gee is an urban affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail Canada's largest national daily newspaper which he joined in 1991. He was born in Toronto and graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1979 with a degree in modern European history.
T.N. Rajarathnam Pillai.  Thiruvavaduthurai Thirumarugal Natesapillai Rajarathinam Pillai (Tamil: T N ராஜரத்தினம் பிள்ளை (27 August 1898 – 12 December 1956) was a Carnatic musician in South India a Nadaswaram maestro and a vocalist. He was popularly known as TNR by his initials. He redesigned the traditional Nagaswaram instrument replacing the timiri with the bari nayanam for instance which he improved substantially as well. He was titled by the music lovers with Nadaswara Chakravarthi (Emperor of Nadaswaram)
E. A. Richardson.  Emory Aaron Big Rich Richardson (April 30 1886 – September 17 1965) was an American poet. He was the first person to be unofficially designated state poet laureate of Indiana. The Indiana State Poet Laureate position was not made official until July 1 2005. Much of his poetry was written about his native Indiana especially Hoosier nature and country life.
Nephi Anderson.  Christian Nephi Anderson (January 22 1865 – January 6 1923) was a prolific LDS author and the most well-known from the Home Literature period of LDS fiction. His most successful work was his first novel Added Upon (1898) but his writing career also included short stories poetry and non-fiction. He published a total of ten novels.
Henry Bacon.  Henry Bacon (November 28 1866 – February 17 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (built 1915–1922) which was his final project.
John Willard Clawson.  John Willard Will Clawson (January 18 1858 - April 6 1936) was an American Utah-based artist in the late-19th and early 20th-century.
Brian Hinton.  Brian Hinton MBE (born 21 September 1950) is an English poet and musicologist. In June 2006 he was honoured in H. M. the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an MBE for services to the Arts.
Joseph Villiet.  Joseph Villiet (August 10 1823 - July 10 1877) was a French master stained glass artist born in Ébreuil France. He trained at the atelier of Émile Thibaud and Étienne Thevenot at Clermont-Ferrand. In 1852 he relocated to Bordeaux where he worked until his death in 1877.Villiet became a member of the Bordeaux Imperial Academy of Sciences Literature and Arts in 1859. The same year he published an essay on the history of murals in the academy's collections.
Momo Kapor.  Momčilo Momo Kapor (Serbian Cyrillic: Момчило – Момо Капор; 8 April 1937 – 3 March 2010) was a Serbian novelist and painter. Kapor is the author of over forty novels short stories travel and autobiographic books and essays. He was introduced to the literary circles as the author of radio TV and theater drama at the beginning of the sixties. His novels are on national bestseller lists. Kapor's books are translated to twenty languages.
Thomas Warming.  Thomas Warming ( 20 February 1969) is a Danish illustrator painter and author.
Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar.  Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar (Konkani:बाळकृष्ण भगवन्त शेणय बोरकारpopularly known as बाकीबाब Marathi: बाळकृष्ण भगवन्त बोरकर) (1910–1984) was a poet from Goa India.Bā Bha Borkar also known as Ba-ki-baab started writing poems at an early age. Vi Sa Khandekar was an early champion of Borkar's verse. Borkar joined Goa's fight for freedom in 1950s and moved to Pune where he worked for radio in 1950s. Most of his literature is written in Marathi though his Konkani output is also numerous.
Lee Jangwook.  Lee Jangwook (Hangul: 이장욱) is a South Korean poet novelist and critic.
Anthony Hartley.  Anthony Hartley (1925–2000) was a writer and critic. After Exeter College Oxford University he reviewed poetry for The Spectator. He moved to New York in 1967. His books included A State of England (1963) and Gaullism: the Rise and Fall of a Political Movement (1972) and he edited The Penguin Book of French Verse in 1959.
Ricardo Garijo.  Ricardo Garijo (December 1 1953 - October 3 2009) is an Argentinian author and artist best known for his long career in comics.
Hiroki Uchi.  Hiroki Uchi (内 博貴 Uchi Hiroki) (born September 10 1986) is a Japanese idol singer songwriter actor and model. He was born in Habikino Osaka Prefecture Japan.
Ferdinando Valencia.  Ferdinando Valencia is a Mexican actor.During his High School years he was a soccer player and he has 1 brother and 2 sisters.However Valencia is the oldest from his brother and sisters.
Andy Grammer.  Andrew Charles Andy Grammer (born December 3 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is signed to Steve Greenberg's S-Curve Records. His debut album Andy Grammer was released on June 14 2011.
Errol Scorcher.  Errol Scorcher (born Errol Archer 1956 – January 19 2012) was a Jamaican reggae deejay.
Oscar Yanes.  Oscar Armando Yanes González (25 April 1927 in Caracas – 21 October 2013) was a Venezuelan journalist and bestselling author considered a pioneer in Venezuelan broadcast journalism. Was awarded by three times with the National Prize for Journalism.Oscar Yanes was famous for his tales about contemporary history in the TV program Así son las Cosas (The way things are). In the late 1940s received the first prize from the Venezuelan Association of Writers for his book Carlos J.
Mary Alessi.  Mary Alessi is a Christian songwriter and Worship leader.
Richard Blackwood.  Richard Clifford Blackwood (born 15 May 1972 in Clapham London England) is a British comedian former media personality actor and rapper. He once co-presented a show on the London radio station Choice FM and has guested as a disc jockey at various nightclubs.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey.  Elisabeth Tova Bailey is the author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010 Algonquin Books ISBN 978-1565126060) which won the 2010 John Burroughs Medal the Natural History Literature category of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award (joint award) and the non-fiction category of the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Wadsworth A. Parker.  Wadsworth A. Parker (b. 1864 – d. 1938 Petersburg Virginia) was an American printer and typeface designer. He was a director of the American Type Founders Company designed many faces for them and served as head of their specimen department. His faces are typically highly decorative and often capture the Art Deco style of the time.
Basil Gill.  Basil Gill (1877–1955) was a British film actor whose film career started with Henry VIII (1911) a short silent film. In 1926 Gill appeared in two short films made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process Santa Claus as the title character and Julius Caesar as Brutus.
Sandara Park.  Sandara Park (Korean: 박산다라; born November 12 1984) better known as Dara (Korean: 다라) is a South Korean idol singer actress dancer and model. She is best known as being a member and the director of communications of the South Korean girl group 2NE1. However she first gained major popularity on ABS-CBN's Star Circle Quest during her stay in the Philippines. Her younger brother Park Sang-Hyun better known as Cheondung is a member of boy band MBLAQ under J.
Carol Higgins Clark.  Carol Higgins Clark (born 1956) is an American mystery author. She is also the daughter of suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark with whom she has co-authored several Christmas novels and the former sister-in-law of author Mary Jane Clark.
Joan Armatrading.  Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading MBE (born 9 December 1950) is a British singer songwriter and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. In a recording career spanning 40 years she has released a total of 18 studio albums as well as several live albums and compilations.
Maria Muldaur.  Maria Muldaur (born September 12 1943) is an American folk-blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1974 hit song Midnight at the Oasis and continues to record albums in the folk traditions.
David Race.  David Race is an American stand-up comedian actor and former radio personality.Race was born in Brooklyn New York and raised on Long Island by his adoptive parents Robert and Judith.
Anna Oxa.  Anna Oxa stage name of Iliriana Hoxha (28 April 1961) is an Italian singer actress and television presenter of Albanian origin well-known through her numerous appearances in the Italian National Sanremo Music Festival. Oxa known as la Voce e il Cuore (the Voice and the Heart) debuted with a song called Fiorellin del Prato at the age of 15.
Jah Mason.  Andre Johnson (born 1970) better known by his stage name Jah Mason also known as Fire Mason is a reggae singer/deejay from Jamaica active as a recording artist since 1991.
Shar Levine.  Shar Levine (born 1953 in Edmonton Alberta) is an award-winning best selling Canadian children’s author and designer.Shar has written over 70 books and book/kits primarily on hands-on science for children.
Enzo Stuarti.  Enzo Stuarti (born Lorenzo Scapone; March 3 1919 - December 16 2005) was an Italian American tenor and musical theater performer. After a performing on Broadway under the stage names Larry Laurence and Larry Stuart he changed his name again and began a recording career in which he released several successful albums. He made regular stage and television appearances and was featured in commercials for Ragú spaghetti sauce.
Benedict Joseph Murdoch.  Benedict Joseph Murdoch (1886–1973) better known as Reverend B.J. Murdoch was a Roman Catholic priest and writer. His best known work is The Red Vineyard (1928) which recalls his service during the First World War as a military chaplain. He initially enlisted and trained with the 132nd CEF Battalion (North Shore) and eventually served in England France Belgium and Germany.
Mary Agria.  Mary A Agria (born 24 March 1941) is an American writer who spent her early career as a journalist and non-fiction writer then in 'retirement' began writing a series of novels that deal with the issues facing older Americans including finding meaning in one's senior years resolving parent-child relationships and facing the ultimate realities of change and loss that are part of the human experience.
Francis Joseph Sherman.  Francis Joseph Sherman (February 3 1871 – June 15 1926) was a Canadian poet.He published a number of books of poetry during the last years of the nineteenth century including Matins and In Memorabilia Mortis (a collection of sonnets in memory of William Morris).
Geoffrey Freshwater.  Geoffrey Freshwater is an English actor. His television appearances include The Government Inspector and the recurring character of Sgt Eric Rivers in 5 episodes of Foyle's War.
Kari Korhonen.  Kari Korhonen (born 1973) is a Finnish cartoonist known for his stories about Donald Duck.
Jaap Spaanderman.  Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan Jaap Spaanderman jr. (Gouda 17 October 1896 – Laren 22 July 1985) was a Dutch pianist cellist conductor and piano and conducting pedagogue.Jaap Spaanderman jr. was the son of organist and conductor Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan Spaanderman sr. (1864–1943).He studied cello with Isaac Mossel and piano with Sarah Bosmans-Benedicts.
Denis Foyatier.  Denis Foyatier (21 September 1793 at Bussières Loire – 19 November 1863 at Paris) was a French sculptor in the neoclassical style.
Asadata Dafora.  Austin Dafora Horton (August 4 1890 – March 4 1965) widely known as Asadata Dafora was a Sierra Leonean multidisciplinary musician. He was one of the first Africans to introduce African drumming music to the United States beginning in the early 1930s.[1] His artistic endeavors spanned multiple disciplines but he is best remembered for his work in dance and music.Dafora was a multifaceted artist talented in opera and concert singing dancing choreographing and composing.
Matteo Ghidoni.  Matteo Ghidoni (died 1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence he was also known as Matteo dei Pitocchi due to his dotty and flashy brushstrokes. He painted burlesque genre paintings similar to those of Alessandro Magnasco. He died in Padua.
Oleksandr Bilash.  Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash (also spelt Olexandr Bilash Alexander Bilash Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Білаш) (March 6 1931 – May 6 2003) was a Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric songs ballads operas operettas oratorios and music for films. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Award (1975) People's Artist of Ukraine (1977) People's Artist of the Soviet Union (1990). Hero of Ukraine (2001).
Jacques Polge.  Jacques Polge is a French perfumer who works as the head of Parfums Chanel starting in 1978 to the present. He is the third director of the perfume division after Ernest Beaux and Henri Robert.Jacques Polge grew up near Avignon France where he says he was inspired as a child by the scent of air in the surroundings of Grasse which was redolent with the scent of jasmine. After university Jacques Polge began a traditional apprenticeship in Grasse under the guidance of Jean Carles.
Johanna Kinkel.  Johanna Kinkel (8 July 1810 – 15 November 1858) was a German composer writer and revolutionary. Kinkel was born in Bonn. In 1840 after five months of unhappy marriage she was divorced from the Cologne bookseller Matthieux. Her second marriage in 1843 was to the German poet Gottfried Kinkel. They had four children. Following the 1848 Revolutions she was forced to abandon Germany and flee to London.
Janez Bončina.  Janez Bončina nicknamed Benč (born 3 December 1947) is a Slovenian composer guitarist and singer. He is one of the leading authors and performers of Slovenian and Yugoslavian rock music. In the middle of 1960s Bončina with his friend Tomaž Domicelj from the group Helioni showed his talent for music. Later with the group Mladi levi he founded the projects which started the Slovenian pop rock scene.
Herbert Breslin.  Herbert Breslin (1 October 1924 – 17 May 2012) was a music industry executive. He was influential in the careers of several musicians since the 1960s the foremost of these being the tenor Luciano Pavarotti with whom he started his career.
Brian Aldiss.  Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE (/ˈɔːldɪs/; born 18 August 1925) is an English writer and anthologies editor best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He is also (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Cag Cagnolatti.  Ernie Joseph Cag Cagnolatti (April 2 1911 Madisonville Louisiana – April 7 1983 New Orleans) was an American jazz trumpeter.Cagnolatti began on trumpet around 1929 and played with Herbert Leary from 1933 to 1942 as well as off and on with Sidney Desvigne and Papa Celestin. Cagnolatti was a recurring member of many of the major New Orleans brass bands; he worked in the bands of George Williams in the 1940s and 1950s and with Alphonse Picou in the early 1950s.
Jack Aeby.  Jack W. Aeby (/ˈæbi/; born August 16 1923) is an American environmental physicist most famous for having taken the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16 1945 at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico. While color motion pictures of the Trinity test were made most were badly overexposed or damaged due to the fireball's tendency to blister and solarize the film.
Allison Cameron (composer).  Allison Cameron (born 1963 in Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. She is also a performer of free improvisation and experimental music.She has studied at the University of Victoria and York University.
Georgiana Fullerton.  Lady Georgiana Fullerton (23.09.1812–19.01.1885) was an English novelist.Georgiana Charlotte Leveson-Gower was the daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville and sister of Granville George Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville a prominent statesman. In 1833 she married in Paris an attaché of the embassy Alexander George Fullerton who came from Ireland.She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1846 and wrote The Life of St. Frances of Rome and Others.
Nadav Kander.  Nadav Kander is a London based photographer artist and director known for his portraiture and landscapes. His work is included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery the Victoria and Albert Museum and other galleries and museums.
Mark Turner (musician).  Mark Turner (born November 10 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist.
Albert Hammond.  Albert Louis Hammond OBE (born 18 May 1944) is an English singer songwriter and record producer based in the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar.
Barbara Hambly.  Barbara Hambly (born August 28 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy science fiction mystery and historical fiction. She has a bestselling mystery series featuring a man of color a musician and physician in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse as well as within previously existing settings (notably Star Trek and Star Wars).
Arthur Alexander.  Arthur Alexander (May 10 1940 – June 9 1993) was an American country songwriter and soul singer. Jason Ankeny music critic for Allmusic said Alexander was a country-soul pioneer and that though largely unknown his music is the stuff of genius a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries. Alexander wrote songs publicized by such stars as the Beatles the Rolling Stones Otis Redding Tina Turner and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Anaïs Perrière-Pilte.  Comtesse Anaïs Perrière-Pilte (Anais Marcelli) (b. 1836 d. December 1878) was a French composer noted for theatrical works who often used the pseudonym Anais Marcelli. She usually wrote her own libretto and had a theatre built in her home to produce opera. She died in Paris.
Arne Lygre.  Arne Lygre (born 1968) is a Norwegian novelist and playwright. Among his plays are Mamma og meg og menn from 1998 staged at Rogaland Teater and Brått og evig from 1999 first staged at the National Theatre (Oslo). He was awarded the Brage Prize in 2004 for the short story collection Tid inne. His first novel was Et siste ansikt from 2006.
Pedro Vilarroig.  Pedro Vilarroig (Madrid November 8 1954) is a Spanish composer and a professor of physics and cosmology at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. He is a best known for his compositions and is a proponent of neotonalism having founded and led the Asociación Española de Compositores Neotonales (Spanish Association of Neotonal Composers).
Crazy Legs (dancer).  Richard Colón (born January 1 1966) better known by his stage name Crazy Legs is a b-boy from the Bronx New York City USA. He featured in the earliest stories on hip hop dancing to appear in mainstream press and as president of the Rock Steady Crew brought the form to London and Paris in 1983. Today he is also involved in community outreach dance instruction and dance theater productions. His pioneering status is reflected in his appearances in fiction films and documentaries old and new.
Dieter Dierks.  Dieter Dierks (born February 9 1943 in Stommeln near Cologne) is a German record producer mostly known for his collaboration with the rock band Scorpions which he produced from 1975 to 1990.
Lindell Cooley.  Lindell Cooley (born February 3 1963) is a pastor Christian singer and worship leader of the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola Florida.He is known for his soulful gospel and rock-infused contemporary worship music.[citation needed]Cooley currently serves as president of Music Missions International (MMI) and Pastor at Grace Church in Nashville Tennessee.
Amr Sobhy.  Amr Sobhy (Arabic: عمرو صبحي ‎) is an award winning Egyptian information activist social entrepreneur published author and poet. He is best known as co-creator of MorsiMeter; a digital initiative and online platform to document and monitor the performance of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi which has attracted a wide global attention. The initiative modeled after Obameter is considered to be the first in Egypt and the Middle East to hold a president accountable for his promises.
Howard Lindzon.  Howard Lindzon is a Canadian author financial analyst technical analyst and super angel investor. Lindzon manages a hedge fund serves as managing partner of the holding company Social Leverage limited partner at Knight's Bridge Capital Partners and is the co-founder of StockTwits. Lindzon was named one of the The Best Tweets for Your Money in 2013 by Barron's.
Aneirin Talfan Davies.  Aneirin Talfan Davies (1909-1980) was a Welsh poet broadcaster and literary critic.Talfan Davies was brought up in Gorseinon. During the 1930s Davies worked in London as a pharmacist before returning to Wales and settling in Swansea. He was the brother of Alun Talfan Davies with whom he founded the publishing company Llyfrau'r Dryw (later succeeded by Christopher Davies).
May Gibbs.  Cecilia May Gibbs MBE (17 January 1877 – 27 November 1969) publishing under the name May Gibbs was an English Australian children's author illustrator and cartoonist. She is best known for her gumnut babies (also known as bush babies or bush fairies) and the book Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
Chae Yeon.  Lee Chae-Yeon (Korean: 이채연 born December 7 1978) better known as Chae Yeon is a Korean pop singer who rose to fame with her hit single Two of Us (Korean: 둘이서) in 2004 and her wave dance style.
Mark Read (singer).  Mark Daniel Read (born in Worcester Park London on 7 November 1978) is a British singer/songwriter best known as member of the boy band A1 from 1998 to 2002 and 2009–present.
Hildamit Lepcha.  Hildamit Lepcha is a renowned exponent of Lepcha folk music. She is recipient of Padma Shri Award in 2013. Hildamit has excelled as a performer of traditional Lepcha musical instruments as well as Lepcha songs.
Julienne Taylor.  Julienne Taylor (born Julie Anne Taylor on 15 July) is a Scottish singer / songwriter who has been hailed as Scotland’s best female voice since Annie Lennox. Her beautiful voice creates gorgeous music both traditional and contemporary performed with a Scottish flavor.Julienne Taylor’s enchanting and captivating voice has been compared to both Norah Jones and Eva Cassidy but has her own unique and distinctive style influenced by her Scottish ancestry.
Anna Maria Hall.  Anna Maria Hall (6 January 1800 – 30 January 1881) was an Irish novelist who often published as Mrs. S. C. Hall. She married Samuel Carter Hall the writer on art who described her in Retrospect of a Long Life from 1815 to 1883. She was born Anna Maria Fielding in Dublin but left Ireland at the age of 15.
Edgar Maxence.  Edgar Maxence (French: [maksɑ̃s]; 1871–1954) was a French Symbolist painter.
Valentina Tolkunova.  Valentina Tolkunova (Russian: Валенти́на Васи́льевна Толкуно́ва 12 July 1946 – 22 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian singer and was bestowed the title of Honored Artist of RSFSR (1979) and People's Artist of RSFSR (1987). Her performances exhibited a kindhearted mood and sincerity and her voice was noted for its clarity.
Flavio Boltro.  Flavio Boltro (born May 5 1961) is an Italian trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player.
Shimizu Motoyoshi.  Shimizu Motoyoshi (清水基吉 August 31 1918–March 30 2008) was the pen name of a Japanese novelist and poet active during the Shōwa and Heisei periods of Japan. His real name was Shimizu Motoyoshi (清水基嘉) pronounced the name but written in different kanji.
Sandy Stevens.  Sandy or Sandy Stevens (real name Sandy Stevenson) is a British singer.
Shim Eun-jin.  Shim Eun-Jin (Korean: 심은진; born February 6 1981) is a Korean singer and the former member of Baby V.O.X. She was the first to leave the group at the end of 2004 publicly stating that she did not agree with the direction their record company DR Music was heading. Disappearing for a time she re-emerged at the end of 2005 with her first solo album Zeeny's.
Richard Isanove.  Richard Isanove (born 1968) is a French artist and painter working in the American comic book industry.
Vesa Luma.  Vesa Nahil Luma (Born 12 May 1986) is an Albanian Pop singer and songwriter from Kosovoone of the most talented artists in Albania and is often referred as The Albanian Pop Queen. Vesa was discovered as an artist in her early age. She has participated in festivals like Xixëllonjat Akordet e Kosovës and many festivals. After leaving the kids festivals Vesa entered Ethet Albanian version of Pop Idol. She was very successful in the contest making it to the live final shows.
William Coleman (editor).  William Coleman (February 14 1766 – July 13 1829) was the first editor of The New York Evening Post (today known as the New York Post) chosen by founder Alexander Hamilton.
George Henry Lewes.  George Henry Lewes (18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism positivism and religious scepticism. However he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot a soul-mate whose life and writings were enriched by their friendship although they were never married.
The Gaslamp Killer.  William Benjamin Bensussen better known by his stage name The Gaslamp Killer is an alternative hip hop producer and DJ based in Los Angeles California. He is currently signed with Brainfeeder a record label founded by Flying Lotus.
Ambrosius Bosschaert.  Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (18 January 1573 – 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
Rallé (artist).  Rallé also known as Master of the Town of Consuls (MTC) is an American artist whose work has most recently been shown in the Meisel Gallery and the Bruce R. Lewin Fine Art in New York City. His paintings have accompanied several articles in the magazine Omni and appeared as covers of several books. Rallé's work has also been featured in Time Life Books Esquire Penthouse Gulf-communicator Toronto Life Graphics Annual and American Illustration 3.
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason.  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (born Linda Joyce Bloodworth; April 15 1947) is an American writer and television producer.Bloodworth-Thomason is best known for creating writing and producing several television series most successfully with the series Designing Women. She and her husband Harry Thomason were also notable for their friendship with former President Bill Clinton and his family.
Can Atilla.  Can Atilla (born in 1969) is a Turkish composer and musician. He composed Diriliş (Resurrection) the official music for the 90th anniversary of the Turkish parliament.
Sydney Prior Hall.  Sir Sydney Prior Hall MVO MA (18 October 1842 – 1922) was a British portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period.The son of animal portraitist Harry Hall Sydney Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He decided on a career as an artist while at Oxford University and joined the staff of The Graphic an illustrated newspaper shortly after its foundation in late 1869.
Kiesza.  Kiesa Rae Ellestad better known by her stage name Kiesza is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary who has most recently worked out of New York City and London. She is best known for her debut single Hideaway.
María Laura Santillán.  María Laura Santillan (born 15 March 1962) is an Argentine journalist. She actually hosts Argentina para armar at Todo Noticias (TN) Sundays at night and Telenoche the most viewed news program in Argentina. Santillan every day make an effort to achieve a very important objective for South America. She is one of the principal personalities in Argentina who make actions every day to defeat barriers.
Tomas Kalnoky.  Tomas Kalnoky (born December 24 1980) is a Czech-born American musician. He is the lead singer/guitarist and songwriter of the bands Streetlight Manifesto and Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution and goes by the pseudonym Toh Kay as a solo performer. He is the former lead singer/guitarist for 3rd-wave ska band Catch 22 but left the band after making only one album (their debut Keasbey Nights) to attend Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah Georgia for visual art.
Volker Kriegel.  Volker Kriegel (24 December 1943–15 June 2003) was a German jazz guitarist and composer born in Darmstadt Germany perhaps most noteworthy for his contributions to the European jazz rock genre and for his collaborations with the American vibraphonist Dave Pike. In 1975 he was a founding member of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble.
Eugene Fodor (writer).  Eugene Fodor (/juːˈdʒiːn ˈfoʊdər/; October 14 1905 – February 18 1991) was an American writer of travel literature of Hungarian origin.
Gerry Mulligan.  Gerald Joseph Gerry Mulligan (April 6 1927 – January 20 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist clarinetist composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger working with Claude Thornhill Miles Davis Stan Kenton and others.
Amanda Wilson.  Amanda Wilson (born 13th April 1980) is a British singer in the UK house music act Freemasons. As part of the act she has scored two major UK hit singles one of which went on to success in several European charts and the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.Amanda also scored another major UK and worldwide smash hit working with Tim Berg aka Avicii and Samuele Sartini on Seek Bromance in 2010.
Francis Levy.  Francis Levy (born March 28 1948) is the author of the comic novels Erotomania: A Romance published by Two Dollar Radio in 2008 and subsequently translated in a Spanish edition by Tusquets Editores in 2009 and Seven Days in Rio published by Two Dollar Radio in 2011. Levy is also the co-founder of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination. He has been profiled in The East Hampton Star AIGA Voice Nerve.com and elsewhere.
Emily Nasrallah.  Emily Nasrallah (Arabic: اميلي نصرالله‎ Imilī Naṣr Allāh) née Emily Abi Rached on 6 July 1931 in Kfeir Lebanon; is a Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. Emily showed literary talents at an early age she took up writing and journalism while still in college a talent for which she would receive great recognition.
Vincent Bennett.  Vincent Bennett is an American musician. He is the vocalist and only remaining original member of the American metalcore band The Acacia Strain and the metalcore band Cockpunch. Vincent uses growling as his vocal styles. He stated in an interview with PitCam TV that he is straight edge.
Abigail Pogrebin.  Abigail Pogrebin (born May 17 1965) is an American writer. She is the author of the 2005 book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish.Her second book One and the Same: My Life As an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular was published in October 2009.
M. S. Narayana.  M. S. Narayana is an Indian actor comedian and director who primarily works in Telugu Cinema. He has acted in more than 500 films and is noted for his comic timing and facial expressions with witty dialogues. He is well known for his acting in films such as Indra Sontam Dookudu. He also penned dialogues for 8 films like Alexander starring Suman.
Peter Pearson (painter).  Peter Pearson is an American icon painter author and teacher of icon painting. He has created hundreds of icons for private collectors churches and other institutions throughout the world. Through his workshops and seminars he has worked with more than 2500 students. His workshops give even the most inexperienced painter the skills to paint their own icon.He began painting icons at the age of twelve and has studied under Russian icon painter Dr.
Natasha Shneider.  Natasha Shneider (Russian: Наташа Шнайдер) (May 22 1956 – July 2 2008) was a Russian musician and actress. She was most notably the keyboardist and vocalist in the musical group Eleven and was the partner of bandmate Alain Johannes. She also played keyboard bass on the group's first three albums. In 2005 she toured with Queens of the Stone Age for their album Lullabies to Paralyze.
John D. MacDonald.  John Dann MacDonald (July 24 1916 – December 28 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories known for his thrillers.MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series and his novel The Executioners which was adapted into the film Cape Fear.
Richard Michelson.  Richard Michelson (born July 3 1953) is a poet and a children's book author.In January 2009 As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom was awarded the Sydney Taylor Book Award Gold Medal from the Association of Jewish Libraries and A is for Abraham was awarded the Silver Medal.
Ross Jarman.  Ross Anthony Jarman (born 22 September 1984 in Wakefield United Kingdom) is the drummer with English rock band The Cribs.
Steve Swell.  Steve Swell (born in Newark NJ December 6 1954) is an American free jazz trombonist and composer.
Martin Lawrence.  Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16 1965) is an American actor film director film producer screenwriter and comedian. He came to fame during the 1990s establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor most notably in the films House Party Bad Boys Blue Streak Big Momma's House and A Thin Line Between Love & Hate. Lawrence has had numerous film roles and his own highly rated television series eponymously named after him Martin which aired on the Fox network from 1992 to 1997.
Johnny Heartsman.  Johnny Heartsman (February 9 1937 – December 27 1996) was an American electric blues and soul blues musician and songwriter. Heartsman showed musical diversity playing a number of musical instruments including the electric organ and flute. His distinctive guitar playing appeared on a number of 1950s and 1960s San Francisco Bay Area recordings and he was still playing up to the time of his death.His best known recording Johnny's House Party was a R&B hit in 1957.
SJ Esau.  SJ Esau is an indie rock musician from Bristol England.
Mick Inkpen.  Mick Inkpen is an author and illustrator of children's books best known for his creations Kipper the Dog and Wibbly Pig.
Phil Jourdan.  Phil Jourdan (born 1987) is a Portuguese/French author musician and publisher based in the UK.He is the author of two books: What Precision Such Restraint [2013 Perfect Edge Books] In Praise of Motherhood [2011 Zero Books]He fronts the rock band Paris and the Hiltons.After his involvement in co-founding LitReactor he turned to publishing and has worked with two presses: Perfect Edge Books (fiction) and Zero Books (political nonfiction).
Walter DeLeon.  Walter DeLeon (3 May 1884 – 1 August 1947) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 66 films between 1912 and 1953 and acted in one film. He was born in Oakland California and died in Los Angeles California.
Georg Michael Telemann.  Georg Michael Telemann (20 April 1748 – 4 March 1831) was a German composer and theologian.Telemann was born in Plön a grandson of the better-known Georg Philipp Telemann. He is mainly known for the church music he wrote. He died in Riga.
Hi-Yo Silver!.  Hi-Yo Silver! was a musical solo project by Bjørn Kulseth the former lead singer and songwriter of the Norwegian rock band The Act. The only Hi-Yo Silver! album was entitled Away and was released in 1988.
Kazunori Yokoo.  Kazunori Yokoo (横尾和則 Yokoo Kazunori) is a Japanese actor.
Gilbert Brown Wilson.  Gilbert Brown Wilson (1907–1991) was an American painter known for his large-scale murals including his 1935 murals in Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Terre Haute Indiana. Much of his later life was dedicated to depicting Herman Melville's Moby Dick. In 1955 a short film using this body of artwork won a Silver Reel Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Horacio Hidrovo Velásquez.  Horacio Hidrovo Velásquez (Santa Ana May 20 1902 - Portoviejo April 19 1962) was an Ecuadorian poet novelist and short story writer.In 1957 he was the President of the House of Ecuadorian Culture Manabi branch.He was the father of the Ecuadorian poet Horacio Hidrovo Peñaherrera (1931-2012).In 1961 the Ecuadorian government honored him with the Educational Merit Award.His best known novel is Un Hombre y un Río (A Man and A River) (1957).In 1975 his son Horacio published a collection of his poems under the title Canción de las Voces Infinitas (Song of the Infinite Voices) but it was not a complete collection because a great number of Hidrovo Velásquez's poems were printed in numerous magazines that are difficult to find today.
Lawrence Coates.  Lawrence Coates is a novelist and current director Bowling Green University's Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.Coates was educated at El Cerrito High School University of California at Santa Cruz and University of Utah. He has previously taught at Lycée Charlemagne and Southern Utah University.
Scott Travis.  Scott Travis (born September 6 1961) is a Grammy Award winning American rock musician best known as the drummer for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest and the American heavy metal band Racer X.
Alexander Brandon.  Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community born 1974) is a US musician former member of Straylight Productions who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games or games based on Epic technology including Unreal Unreal Tournament Deus Ex Tyrian Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and the cancelled game Jazz Jackrabbit 3D.
Donnie Williams.  Donnie Williams is an American soul gospel and jazz singer-songwriter who in 2004 became a Top 32 Finalist in Season 3 of American Idol. He currently resides in the Bay Area California.
Michael McDonald (costume designer).  Michael McDonald (born c. 1963) is an American costume designer who was nominated for both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award in 2009 for his work on the Broadway revival of the musical Hair.McDonald was born in Allentown Pennsylvania in the United States. He is a 1981 graduate of William Allen High School. In 1984 he became involved in theatre at Allentown's Civic Theatre.
Kazi Nazrul Islam.  Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম Kazī Nazrul Islām (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) sobriquet Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet) known popularly as Nazrul was a Bengali poet musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of বিদ্রোহী কবি Bidrohī Kobi (Rebel Poet).
Vissarion Belinsky.  Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (Russian: Виссарио́н Григо́рьевич Бели́нский IPA: [vʲɪsərʲɪˈon grʲɪˈgorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʲɪˈlʲinskʲɪj]; June 11 [O.S. May 30] 1811 – June 7 [O.S. May 26] 1848) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He was an associate of Alexander Herzen Mikhail Bakunin (he at one time courted one of his sisters) and other critical intellectuals.
Lazar Lagin.  Lazar Yosifovych Lagin (Russian: Ла́зарь Ио́сифович Лагин) was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg (4 December 1903 Vitebsk – 4 June 1979 Moscow) was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg (4 December 1903 Vitebsk – 4 June 1979 Moscow). He was a Soviet author of children's and science fiction books.Lagin is best known for his ever popular book Starik Hottabych (Старик Хоттабыч Old Man Hottabych 1937) a fairy tale telling the story of a genie who is freed from captivity by a Soviet schoolboy.
Osunlade.  Osunlade (/oʊsʉnˈlɑːdeɪ/; born March 13 1969) is an American-born musician and music producer.
Thomas Williams (writer).  Thomas Williams (November 15 1926 – October 23 1990) was an American novelist.He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel Moon Pinnace (1986) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Christine Kittrell.  Christine Kittrell (August 11 1929 – December 19 2001) was an American R&B singer who first recorded tracks in 1951 with Louis Brooks and his Band.Kittrell was born in Nashville Tennessee United States and made her professional debut as a singer with Louis Brooks and his Band in 1945. She also toured with Joe Turner's band.
Kristian Bush.  Kristian Merrill Bush (born March 14 1970 in Knoxville Tennessee) is an American singer songwriter producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for being one half of the country music duo Sugarland.
Barbara Ployer.  Maria Anna Barbara or Babette Ployer (2 September 1765–before April 1811) was an Austrian piano and composition pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for whom he wrote two piano concertos in 1784 No. 14 KV. 449 and No. 17 KV. 453 which were both premiered at her residence by her in 1784.She was born on 2 September 1765 in Sarmingstein Austria and died before April 1811 in Bresane Croatia. She was the daughter of Franz Kajetan Ployer a timber-merchant and tax collector.
Virgilia Kaur Pruthi.  Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (formerly Singh) is a first generation Indian-American entrepreneur community builder and author. She is the founder of a Network of Women and the Author of An Immigrant's Guide To Making It In America.She has worked in product management for tech companies and consulted for Fortune 100 companies in the U.S. Latin America Middle East and India on go-to-market strategies geographic expansion and M&A.
Laura Carter (musician).  Laura Carter is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Athens Georgia. She is able to play the clarinet keyboard percussion violin guitar and french horn. She is most notably in the indie rock band Elf Power but has performed with a number of bands within the Elephant Six Collective such as Nana Grizol The Gerbils Neutral Milk Hotel and Dixie Blood Moustache. She was also a founder of the Orange Twin Conservation Community as well as Orange Twin Records.
J. Blackfoot.  J. Blackfoot (born John Colbert November 20 1946 – November 30 2011) was an American soul singer who was a member of The Soul Children in the late 1960s and 1970s and subsequently had a moderately successful solo career. His biggest hit was Taxi which reached the charts in both the US and UK in 1984.
Robert Andrew Loughnan.  Robert Andrew Loughnan (1 September 1841–14 September 1934) was a New Zealand farmer journalist and politician. He was born in Patna India on 1 September 1841. He was a Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 6 May 1907 (he was originally summoned on 22 January 1907 but was found to be disqualified) until 5 May 1914 which was the end of his seven-year term.
May Ziade.  May Ziade (née Marie with Ziade also written Ziadé Ziyada or Ziadeh) (Arabic: مي زيادة‎) (February 11 1886. – 1941) was a prolific Christian Lebanese-Palestinian poet essayist and translator.A writer for the Arabic newspapers and periodicals Ziade also wrote a number of poems and books. She was a key figure of the Nahda in the early 20th-century Arab literary scene and is known for being an early Palestinian feminist and a pioneer of Oriental feminism.
E. H. Warmington.  E.H. (Eric Herbert) Warmington (1898–1987) was a professor of classics internationally known for his Latin translations. He attended The Perse School Cambridge.He produced numerous works often with other scholars over many decades of the twentieth century. He also edited other translations including the Greek-English translation of Aelian's On the Characteristics of Animals.
Ron Chernow.  Ronald Chernow (born March 3 1949) is an American writer journalist historian and biographer. He has written bestselling and award-winning biographies of historical figures from the world of business finance and American politics. Historian Andrew Cayton says Chernow is no ordinary writer. Like his popular biographies of John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton his Washington while long is vivid and well paced.
Lou Gare.  Lou Gare (born 16 June 1939) is an English free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby Warwickshire perhaps best known for his works with the improvised music ensemble AMM and playing with musicians such as Eddie Prévost Mike Westbrook Cornelius Cardew Keith Rowe and Sam Richards. As a member of Synchronicity (Richards David Stanley Sarah Frances) from the 1990s through to 2002 he played throughout the Southwest and toured the Czech Republic.
Yūya Yagira.  Yuya Yagira (柳楽 優弥 Yagira Yūya born March 26 1990) is a Japanese actor. His portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody Knows won him a Best Actor Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
James Wood (encyclopaedist).  The Reverend James Wood was the editor of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. According to the title page of the encyclopedia Wood was also the editor of Nuttall's Standard Dictionary and the compiler of The Nuttall Dictionary of Quotations.
Israel Davidson.  Israel Davidson (1870 Jonava Lithuania - 1939 Great Neck New York) was an American Jewish writer and publisher and has been recognized as one of the leading American Hebrew writers in his era. His magnum opus was the four volume Otsar ha-shirah veha-piyut = Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (NY 1924–1933).Davidson studied in yeshivas in Jonava Volozhin and Slobodka. In 1898 he emigrated to New York worked at a few occupations before earning a Ph.D from Columbia University.
Les Dixon.  Leslie Les Dixon (1910 - 2002) was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist.Dixon was born Leslie Charles Brailey in Sydney New South Wales on 25 July 1910 and adopted by Charles and Lillian Dixon when he was only six months old. He attended primary schools in the Sydney suburbs of Drummoyne and Balmain before moving to Corbargo in 1918 with his family on a venure of stripping wattle bark trapping rabbits and share dairy farming.
Steven B. Jepson.  Steven B. Jepson is an American opera singer a baritone. In addition to his work in opera he has appeared in musical theater and film. He is best known for his interpretation of Escamillo in Carmen a role he has played with several companies in the United States and Europe. He was nominated by both Creative Loafing Magazine and the Metrolina Theatre Association as best actor for his portrayal of Emile De Becque in South Pacific.
Palmolive (musician).  Paloma McLardy (née Paloma Romero born 3 January 1955) better known as Palmolive is a Spanish-born drummer and songwriter who was the original drummer for influential punk groups The Slits and The Raincoats.
Himesh Reshammiya.  Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian music director singer actor television producer lyricist film producer script writer and distributor.
Dieter Acker.  Dieter Acker (3 November 1940 Sibiu Romania – 27 May 2006 Munich) was a German composer.
George Scott III.  George Scott III (October 16 1953 - August 5 1980) was a bass player for several New York City bands during the No Wave era. He was a founding member of 8-Eyed Spy and the Raybeats and he worked with James Chance and the Contortions James White and the Blacks Human Switchboard and John Cale among others.
Lynne Cohen.  Lynne Cohen (born July 3 1944 ) is an American-Canadian photographer.Born in Racine Wisconsin Cohen was educated in printmaking and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin and in Ann Arbor and Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti Michigan.
Santiago B. Villafania.  Santiago Villafania is a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan. Born in Tuliao Sta. Barbara Pangasinan on 31 January 1971 Villafania graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pangasinan in 1991.Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language.
David Bisbal.  David Bisbal Ferré (born in Almería Spain on June 5 1979) is a Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained his initial fame as a runner up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo.He has since released four studio albums all of which topped the Spanish Albums Chart in addition to recording a number of live albums.
Seika Kuze.  Seika Kuze (久世 星佳 Kuze Seika born 1965) is a Japanese actress.
Jack Grisham.  Jack Grisham (born 1961) is a rock musician raconteur and political activist from Southern California. He is the vocalist for the punk band T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) which emerged from the late 1970s Los Angeles hardcore punk rock scene along with Black Flag Circle Jerks and Bad Religion. Grisham has also fronted the bands Vicious Circle The Joykiller Tender Fury and Cathedral of Tears. He currently records with T.S.O.L. and the Manic Low
Robert Wade (watercolor artist).  Robert Wade (born 1930) is an Australian artist.He lectures on the heritage of Australian watercolour to many art societies around the world earning himself the title of Australia's Unofficial Ambassador of Watercolour
Willie Jae.  Willie Jae (born September 2 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur from Newark New Jersey. Jae is most known in the hip hop community for being the first artist of any genre to accumulate both 1 million song plays and 1 million downloads in 2001. Riding on the success of his Mixtape he began ghostwriting several rap and R&B records for major acts.
Chris McLernon.  Chris McLernon is the current bassist of the band Saigon Kick.
Sam Taylor (author).  Sam Taylor (born 1970) is an author and former pop culture correspondent for The Observer. His first book The Republic of Trees was published in 2005 and received critical acclaim. His second novel The Amnesiac tells the story of James Purdew a man obsessed with uncovering the events of three years of his life about which he remembers nothing. Taylor lives in France and the US.
François Feldman.  François Feldman (born 23 May 1958) is a French singer. He had a great success in the 1980s and the 1990s in France.
Timi Zhuo.  Timi Zhuo Yi-Ting (卓依婷) (October 2 1981 in Hsinchuang) is a Taiwanese singer songwriter and actress. She has recorded numerous albums and songs in Mandarin and Taiwanese. She began her career at age five acting in TV commercials and advertisements and released her first Hokkien album at the age of six.
Joan Soriano.  Joan Soriano is a bachata singer and guitarist from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. His style is a blend of modern with traditional bachata. Since the 1980s Joan's guitar and arrangements have graced many hit bachatas by other artists and since 2008 he has begun to make a name for himself internationally.
Julyo.  Giulio Julyo D'agostino (born in Genoa Italy on December 14 1978) is an Italian guitarist songwriter producer and DJ of Italian origin who has several International Awards for his film scoring work. After starting his career as a session player for US Christian pop songwriter Steven Stewart Julyo recorded and toured in Europe US and Japan from 2003 to 2006.
Ambarish Srivastava.  Ambarish Srivastava (Hindi: अम्बरीष श्रीवास्तव; born 30 June 1965) is an Indian architectural engineer.
Monte Yoho.  Monte Yoho (born March 26 1952) is an American southern rock and country musician. He is best known as being a member of Outlaws and Blackhawk.
Knute Heldner.  Knute Heldner (1875 – November 5 1952) was a Swedish American artist.
Jan Boerstoel.  Jan Boerstoel (born 3 November 1944 The Hague) is a Dutch writer and poet who is perhaps best known for his song texts especially for cabaret. He lives in Amsterdam. His poetry is melancholy but often humorous as well. In his songs Boerstoel frequently criticizes society.
Charles Strouse.  Charles Strouse (born June 7 1928) is an American composer and lyricist.
Joyce Lee.  Joyce Lee is an English writer and performer. Lee studied English at UCL and co-wrote After the Flood performed at the Old Vic (2009 Old Vic New Voices).
Aubrey Mather.  Aubrey Mather (17 December 1885 – 16 January 1958) was an English character actor.Mather was born in Minchinhampton Gloucestershire and began his career on the stage in 1905. He debuted in London in Brewster's Millions in 1909 and on Broadway ten years later in Luck of the Navy. He eventually branched out to films starting with Young Woodley in 1930. He often played butlers. In the 1932 film The Impassive Footman he played the eponymous footman. He died in London aged 82.
Bernadette Corporation.  Bernadette Corporation is a New York and Paris France- based art and fashion collective founded in 1994. Core members include Bernadette van Huy John Kelsey and Antek Walzcak. Bernadette Corporation is known for its performance fashion and art which in varying ways emulates and disturbs corporations. Influences from fashion to film include Vivienne Westwood Malcolm McLaren and Jean-Luc Godard. The group is often described in terms of the Situationist movement.
F. L. Griggs.  Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs RA RE (30 October 1876 – 7 June 1938) was a distinguished English etcher architectural draughtsman illustrator and early conservationist associated with the late flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds. He was one of the first etchers to be elected to full membership of the Royal Academy.Born in Hitchin Hertfordshire he worked as an illustrator for the Highways and Byways series of regional guides for the publishers Macmillans.
Barbara Korun.  Barbara Korun (born 1963) is a Slovene poet. She is one of the leading figures in the generation of radical young women poets in Slovenia and her poems have also been translated into English and published in the USA and Ireland (translated by Theo Dorgan).Korun was born in Ljubljana in 1963. She studied Slovene language and Comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a lecturer and dramaturge.
Quetzal Guerrero.  Quetzal Guerrero is an American-born Latin soul singer.
Kate Ryan.  Kate Ryan (born Katrien Verbeeck on 22 July 1980) is a Belgian World Music Award winner. She began her singing career in 2001 and later found fame with a string of dance hits. These included covers mostly of Mylène Farmer and France Gall such as Désenchantée Libertine and Ella elle l'a as well as new material. Ryan represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with Je t'adore coming in 12th place in the semi-final.
Arnold Sjöstrand.  Arnold Sjöstrand (30 June 1903 – 1 February 1955) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 33 films between 1931 and 1952.
Jillette Johnson.  Jillette Johnson (born 1990) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from New York City. Johnson signed with Wind-up Records in 2012 and also works as a songwriter for BMI. Her debut album with Wind-up Water in a Whale was released on June 25 2013. Johnson has garnered comparisons to Fiona Apple and Adele.
Marshall Lytle.  Marshall Lytle (September 1 1933 - May 25 2013) was an American rock and roll bassist best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s.
Ferenc Joachim.  Ferenc Joachim (May 21 1882 - September 16 1964) was a Hungarian (Magyar) painter of portraits and landscapes in oil watercolors and pastels on canvas board and paper. He studied and painted in Budapest and Western Europe. Hungarian usage puts the surname before the given name in the form Joachim Ferenc.
Joseph Alexander Altsheler.  Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29 1862 – June 5 1919) was an American newspaper reporter editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. His seven series comprise a total of thirty-two novels each containing an independent story. There are nineteen non-series novels. He also authored forty-four short stories and two non-fiction items.
Eric M. Witchey.  Eric M. Witchey is an American writer living in Salem Oregon. His short fiction has appeared in numerous print and online anthologies and magazines such as Polyphony The Best New Writing 2012 Low Port Short Story America Realms of Fantasy Space Squid Fortean Bureau Thug Lit ClarkesWorld Jim Baen's Universe and Writers of the Future.
Kirstin Cronn-Mills.  Kirstin Cronn-Mills is an American author of children's books including the Minnesota Book Award finalist The Sky Always Hears Me And the Hills Don’t Mind (2009) and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (2012).Cronn-Mills received a doctorate from Iowa State University and is currently a teacher in North Mankato Minnesota.
Reni (musician).  Alan Reni John Wren (born 10 April 1964 in Manchester) is an English rock drummer and member of The Stone Roses.His laid-back style of complex off-beat rhythms was influential in bringing about the blend of indie and dance music which formed much of the Manchester (or Madchester) sound of the day. He is considered by many industry insiders to be the best drummer of his generation.During The Stone Roses he could be easily identified by the now iconic bucket hat.
Wilfred P. Deac.  Wilfred P. Deac was a civilian government official attached to the US Embassy in Cambodia in 1971. During the 1960 to 1989 periods he was also stationed in Europe and the United States. Currently he has written Road to the Killing Fields published by the Texas A&M University Press 1997. He has also made many contributions to Vietnam Magazine Military History Magazine and other historical works. He currently works as a freelance writer.
Robert Ballard (lutenist).  Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575 probably in Paris – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father Robert Ballard Senior (ca.
Thomas Carnduff.  Thomas Carnduff writer was born on 30 January 1886 in Belfast and died in that city on 15 April 1956.
Kaki King.  Kaki King (b. Katherine Elizabeth King August 24 1979) is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies energetic live shows use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar and her diverse range in different genres.In February 2006 Rolling Stone released a list of The New Guitar Gods on which King was the sole woman and youngest artist (beating Derek Trucks in age by two months as the youngest on the list).
Jared Cotter.  Jared Lincoln Cotter (born June 17 1981) is an American pop/R&B singer songwriter and model. He has hosted a number of TV shows and he co-wrote the number 1 song Down by Jay Sean.
François-Joseph Fétis.  François-Joseph Fétis (French: [feti]; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist composer critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today. His wife Adélaïde Robert was the daughter of the French politician Pierre-François-Joseph Robert.
Shane Lynch.  Shane Lynch (born Shane Eamon Mark Stephen Lynch; 3 July 1976) is an Irish singer-songwriter actor and professional drift driver best known as a member of Boyzone. In recent years he has taken up auto racing participated in reality shows and appeared as a judge on The All Ireland Talent Show.
Charlie Feathers.  Charles Arthur Charlie Feathers (June 12 1932 – August 29 1998) was an American country music and rockabilly musician.
Masaki Tsuji.  Masaki Tsuji (辻 真先 Tsuji Masaki born March 23 1932 in Nagoya) is a Japanese scenario writer of TV series (including many anime works) and films as well as mystery fiction novels. Tsuji was most active in the business from the 1960s through the 1980s and worked as a script writer on many popular anime TV series for Mushi Production Toei Animation and Tokyo Movie Shinsha.
Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky.  This article is about the Russian/Soviet writer and academician. For other notable people named Sergeyev see Sergeyev (disambiguation).Sergei Nikolayevich Sergeyev-Tsensky (Russian: Серге́й Николаевич Сергеев-Ценский September 30 [O.S. September 18] 1875 – August 25 1958) was a prolific Russian and Soviet writer and academician.
Sonny Digital.  Sonny Corey Uwaezuoke (born March 5 1991) better known by his stage name Sonny Digital is an American record producer and rapper from Atlanta Georgia who rose to prominence after producing YC's hit single Racks in 2011.
Giuseppe Caletti.  Giuseppe Caletti or Calletti(c. 1600 - c. 1660) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period active in Ferrara and Cremona. He often painted religious themes in a genre like dress and surroundings including the theme of Bacchanalia like Titian.
Antero Manninen.  Antero Manninen (born 19 January 1973) also known as Mr. Cool is a session musician and former band member of Finnish Cello metal quartet Apocalyptica. He was an official member but did not write the music and left in 1999 due to prior commitments although he has come back to help the band several years ago.
C. Jérôme.  Claude Dhotel (born 21 December 1946 in Paris France; died 14 March 2000 of cancer) better known by his stage name C. Jérôme was a French singer that had a musical career of three decades and sold 26 million records and was particularly popular in the 1970s.In 1995 C. Jérôme became a radio announcer at Radio Monte Carlo where he presented a daily morning show entitled Les Années tubes with Claire Cardell. In 1996 he moved to TF1 for a daily oldies show La Chanson trésor.
Reef the Lost Cauze.  Reef The Lost Cauze (born Sharif T. Lacey in 1981) is a prominent underground hip hop artist based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Eri Nobuchika.  Eri Nobuchika (信近エリ Nobuchika Eri born Nobuchika Eriko 信近えり子 on August 3 1985) is a Japanese singer-songwriter under the Fearless Records label on Sony Music Associated Records. She currently resides in Tokyo.
Thao Nguyen.  Thao Nguyen (born c.1984) also known as Thao is an American singer-songwriter originally from Virginia and now based in San Francisco. She is a member of the band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down with whom she has collaborated with Joanna Newsom and Andrew Bird. Outside of the band she has collaborated on projects with several artists including Merrill Garbus The Portland Cello Project and Mirah. Her music is influenced by folk country and hip hop.
Ahmet Şâhin.  Ahmet Şâhin (also spelled Ahmed Shahin) is a Turkish author.
Renford Cogle.  Renford Rennie Cogle (born 20 June 1948) is a singer and songwriter whose career spans more than three decades and about as many continents. His musical career started in 1972 when his friend the late Delroy Smooth Operator Wilson listened to his music and recorded You Keep On Running. This was to be the first of many number one hits written by Cogle.
Louis Gibzen.  Louis Gibzen (born Louis Gibson Hurndall) is a British Gold-selling hip-hop/electro producer of Barbadian descent. He was raised in Middleton Manchester and is known as a promising upcoming producer throughout the UK. He produced the record Stay with Me for Ironik's debut album.The record hit #5 on the UK charts whilst Gibzen was just 16.
Peter Behrens (musician).  Peter Behrens (born 4 September 1947 in Sande Lower Saxony) is a German drummer actor musician and clown.
Juju (singer).  Juju (ジュジュ) (stylized as JUJU) (born February 14 1976) is a Japanese jazz singer. She is represented by Sony Music Associated Records Inc.
Hitomi Kobayashi.  Hitomi Kobayashi (小林ひとみ Kobayashi Hitomi) is an important early Japanese AV idol. One of the founding figures of the Japanese adult video she has been called indispensable to any discussion of the AV.
Morten Gunnar Larsen.  Morten Gunnar Larsen (born 1 October 1955 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano) and composer well known for several stride piano recordings and collaborations.
Steen1.  Steen1 (real name Seppo Lampela) (born 1976 in Helsinki Finland) is a Finnish rap musician. He originally chose the name Steen Christensen after the Danish criminal who shot two Finnish policemen in 1997 as his moniker but changed it due to controversy.In 2004 Steen1 released his debut album entitled Salaliittoteoria (Conspiracy Theory). In September 2005 his second full-length Varasta pomolta (Steal from the Boss) was released.
Aleksandar Srnec.  Aleksandar Srnec (30 July 1924 – 27 March 2010) was a Croatian artist. He is mainly known for his avant-garde designs and kinetic and lumino kinetic art.Srnec was one of the founding members of the Exat 51 group whose active members between 1950 and 1956 were the architects Vjenceslav Richter Bernardo Bernardi Zdravko Bregovac Božidar Rašica and Vladimir Zaharović and the painters Vlado Kristl and Ivan Picelj. He made abstract art based on the use of geometric shapes.
Agathe Max.  Agathe Max is a French violinist based in Lyon mainly active in the experimental music scene.Agathe Max plays electric violin combined with electronics stomp boxes and a loop station.
Felix Pappalardi.  Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. (December 30 1939 – April 17 1983) was an American music producer songwriter vocalist and bass guitarist.
Stephen Mallinder.  Stephen William Mallinder (born 1 January 1955 Sheffield England) is a British singer/musician who was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire Sassi and Loco the Ku-Ling Bros and Hey Rube!. While in Cabaret Voltaire he contributed lead vocals bass and occasional keyboards.
Outi Alanne.  Outi Alanne (born 4 May 1967 in Oulu) is a Finnish writer also known by the pseudonym NeitiNaru.In 1995 Alanne started studying literature art history Finnish language and theatre in the University of Helsinki. As a student she also worked as an intern archiver at the Finnish Literature Society.
Anastasia Ryabova.  Anastasia Ryabova (born in Moscow in 1985) is a contemporary artist who won the 2011 Kandinsky Prize in media projects for her work Artists' Private Collections a virtual museum of contemporary art based on artists' private collections. She is known for works that play linguistic games. She was also the Soratnik awards laureate for 2011.She holds a Master of Philosophy from the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Mike Bullen.  Michael J. Mike Bullen (born 13 January 1960) is an English screenwriter. Bullen grew up in the West Midlands of England attending the Solihull School and later Magdalene College Cambridge. He left with a degree in history of art and became a radio producer for the BBC World Service. Unhappy with the quality of British television targeted at people his age Bullen took a course in screenwriting and developed a one-off comedy drama for Granada Television.
Hung Yan-yan.  Hung Yan-yan also known as Xiong Xinxin is a Hong Kong martial artist actor stuntman and action director originally from Liuzhou Guangxi China. He was the stunt double for martial arts superstar Jet Li.
Dana Bourgeois.  Dana Bourgeois is a luthier who heads a small guitar shop Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston Maine.He makes traditionally styled acoustic guitars used in bluegrass and other acoustic music genres.His customers include Ricky Skaggs Skip Cherryholmes Ry Cooder Vince Gill Bryan Sutton Lee Roy Parnell James Taylor Doc Watson Rick Schmidlin and Guy Clark. [1]
Marcos Witt.  Marcos Witt (born May 19 1962) is an American five-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Christian singer composer and pastor.
Ann Elder.  Ann Elder (born Anna Velders September 21 1942 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter. She won Emmy awards also for comedy writing (co-shared for Lily Tomlin's 1974 CBS special among others). She also wrote for Mama's Family as well. Elder appeared several times on The Match Game during its run in the 1970s as well as being a regular on Laugh In in the early 1970s.
Donovan Woods (musician).  Donovan Woods is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Born and raised in Sarnia Ontario Woods began playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager. His first album The Hold Up was released in 2007. Woods' song Brand New Gun was featured in the movie Numb starring Matthew Perry. His song Wait and See was featured on Degrassi: The Next Generation and his song My Cousin Has a Grey Cup Ring was used in commercials for the Grey Cup.
Yui Makino.  Yui Makino (牧野由依 Makino Yui) is a Japanese voice actress actress singer and pianist. She is best known for her work in the anime Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and Aria. She can speak basic English.[citation needed] She also participated voicing the character Sister in a short-anime movie Bavel no Hon when she was 10 as a child actor.Because of her signature childish and girlish voice she often voices cheerful innocent sweet girls. But she also tends to voice kuudere girls.
Will Eisner.  William Erwin Will Eisner (March 6 1917 – January 3 2005) was an American cartoonist writer and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978 he popularized the term graphic novel with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985).
Ariel Olivetti.  Ariel Olivetti (born November 15 1967 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine comic book penciller best known for his work on American comic book titles such as Daredevil X-Man Space Ghost and Punisher War Journal.
Solal.  Solal (real name Laurent Morhain) born on September 29 1963 in Lorient is a French singer known for his roles in musical theatre.
Paul Scott (comics).  Paul Scott sometimes known as Paul von Scott is a British comics writer and games designer who is very active in the British small press comics scene.
Weird Paul Petroskey.  Weird Paul Petroskey (born November 21 1970) is a lo-fi musician in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area. He has been writing and recording music since 1984 and has written or co-written over 700 songs and appeared on over 50 released albums.
Hubert C. Kueter.  Hubert C. Kueter (born 1930) is the author of the book My Tainted Blood which chronicles his childhood in WWII era Germany. He is also a professor emeritus at Colby College.The book My Tainted Blood has been described as being written in the style of magic realism. It follows the author's adventures and exploits as a boy and teenager in wartime Breslau and postwar Germany.
Jim Aikin.  Jim Aikin (born in 1948 as James Douglas Aikin) is an American science fiction writer based in Livermore California. He is also a music technology writer an interactive fiction writer freelance editor and writer cellist and teacher. He frequently writes articles for various music industry magazines including Electronic Musician Keyboard Magazine and Mix.Aikin sold his first fiction story to Fantasy & Science Fiction where it appeared in the February 1981 issue.
Ohno Bakufu.  Ohno Bakufu (Japanese: 大野麦風 1888–1976) was a Japanese painter and printmaker.He was born in Tokyo Japan. Over his lifetime he created over seventy designs. His best known piece is the Japanese Fish Picture Collection (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu). Although this is his most famous piece of work he also created many landscapes and a few still lives. After 1923 Great Kantō earthquake he moved to Kansai.
Hiromitsu Agatsuma.  Hiromitsu Agatsuma (上妻 宏光 Agatsuma Hiromitsu born July 27 1973) is a Japanese shamisen artist who plays the Tsugaru-jamisen a larger shamisen with thicker strings than those used for most other styles.He was born in Hitachi Ibaraki Prefecture.
Matt Wachter.  Matthew Walter Matt Wachter (born January 5 1976) is the bassist keyboardist and the backing vocalist in the rock band Angels & Airwaves. He was the former bassist for alternative rock group Thirty Seconds to Mars from 2001 to 2007. He joined Angels & Airwaves in April 2007 replacing the band's former bassist Ryan Sinn.
Mark Alan Stamaty.  Mark Alan Stamaty is an American cartoonist and children's book writer and illustrator. During the 1980s and 1990s Stamaty's work appeared regularly in the Village Voice. He is the creator of the long-running comic strip Washingtoon as well as the earlier comic strip MacDoodle Street and the online strip Doodlennium for Slate magazine He is also a spot illustrator for Slate.
Elsten Torres.  Elsten Creole Torres (born February 10 1965) in Havana Cuba as Listoriel Leyva Torres is a singer/songwriter/producer. He grew up in New York City with his mother and older brother leaving his father in Cuba as a political prisoner.
Naim Frashëri.  Naim Frashëri (25 May 1846 – 20 October 1900) was an Albanian poet and writer. He was one of the most prominent figures of the Albanian National Awakening (Albanian: Rilindja Kombëtare) of the 19th century together with his two brothers Sami and Abdyl. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Albania.
Mercy Harbison.  Mercy Harbison (birth and death dates unknown) was a young American woman living in the decades immediately following the Revolutionary War who was captured by Native Americans in May 1792. She escaped after six days and gave a short deposition Capture and Escape of Mercy Harbison 1792 which is an example of the American literary genre of captivity narratives.In November 1791 Harbison lived in western Pennsylvania on the Allegheny River above Pittsburgh with three small children.
Norman Dennis.  Norman Dennis (16 August 1929 – 13 November 2010) was a British sociologist.Born one of four sons to a tram driver Dennis was educated at Bede Collegiate Boy's School and was offered a place at Corpus Christi Oxford but declined it in favour of London School of Economics where he achieved a first in economics. He held posts at Leeds Bristol and Birmingham before finally holding a long-term post at Newcastle.
Jacquelyn Ford Morie.  Jacquelyn Ford Morie is an artist scientist and educator working in the areas of immersive worlds games and social networks. Until 2013 she was a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies. In 2013 she started a spin off company called All These Worlds LLC (www.alltheseworldsllc.com) to take her work in virtual worlds and avatars to a broader audience.Morie was formally trained as an artist and medical illustrator but ultimately decided to pursue fine art.
Mi Ridell.  Mi Ridell (Mi Ingrid Marie Pettersson) was born on 3 June 1968 in Karlskrona Sweden is a Swedish actor and singer.Ridell was a contestant in Let's Dance 2008 but was voted off the show.
Vijendra S. Vij.  Vijendra S Vij is a self-taught artist in the realm of modern abstract art in the Indian tradition. Born in 1975 at Fatehpur U.P. he is a self-taught artist working independently. Master in Graphic Design & Multimedia he has held two solo shows at Bihar & Allahabad in 2000 and 2010.
Mike Westbrook.  Michael John David Mike Westbrook (born 21 March 1936 in High Wycombe) is an English jazz pianist composer and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces.
Andre Stitt.  André Stitt (born 1958 in Belfast Northern Ireland) is an artist currently based in Cardiff Wales where he is a Professor of Fine Art at the Cardiff School of Art & Design.
John Ney Rieber.  John Ney Rieber is an American comic book writer. He has been writing for the comics The Books of Magic Captain America G.I. Joe and Tomb Raider.
Friedrich Preller the Elder.  Friedrich Preller the Elder (25 April 1804 Eisenach - 23 April 1878 Weimar) was a German landscape painter and etcher. From 1832 he was a professor at the Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule in Weimar. He was the father of the artist Friedrich Preller the Younger.
Jorge Semprún.  Jorge Semprún Maura (Spanish: [ˈxorxe semˈpɾun]; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962 during the era of Francisco Franco Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain but was expelled from the party in 1964.
Uttam Singh.  Uttam Singh (born 25 May 1948) is an Indian musician. He has worked as a violinist music arranger and music director for many Bollywood films. He worked as a music arranger for Ilaiyaraaja in numerous Tamil films before establishing himself as an independent composer.
Allan Smethurst.  Allan Francis Smethurst (19 November 1927 – 24 December 2000) aka The Singing Postman was an English folk singer and postman. He is best known for his self-penned novelty song Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy? which earned him an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 and A Miss from Diss.
John Kay (poet born 1958).  John Kay (born April 5 1958 in Bury Lancashire) is a British poet and teacher who is currently living in Bournemouth Dorset.
Rasun.  Rasun Jahmal Dinoto better known by his stage name Rasun is an American Reggae singer from the Bay Area California.
Sir Gilbert Parker 1st Baronet.  Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker 1st Baronet PC ( 23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932) known as Gilbert Parker Canadian novelist and British politician was born at Camden East Addington Ontario the son of Captain J. Parker R.A.
Eric Swiss.  Eric Swiss is a pornographic actor. In 2010 his role in Not Married With Children XXX earned him the AVN Award for Best Actor and the XRCO Award for Single Performance Actor.
William Collins (poet).  William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759) was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the Romantic era which would soon follow.
Heinrich Spiess.  Heinrich Spiess (born in Munich May 10 1832; died there August 8 1875) was a German painter.
Brandon Wong (actor).  Brandon Wong (Chinese: 黄炯耀; pinyin: Huáng Jiǒngyào born on 16 September 1971) is a Malaysian actor based in Singapore.
Walter Harris (author broadcaster).  Walter Harris (born 1925) is a British author and broadcaster. He is the author of 9 published novels several volumes of poetry numerous articles and spoken word recordings. Recordings of his interviews and broadcasts are held at the BBC Sound Archive and the British Library.
James J. Crist.  James J. Crist Ph.D. CSAC is a psychologist and a certified substance abuse counselor in Woodbridge Virginia. He is the author of a number of self-help books for children and teenagers. Dr. Crist is also an adjunct faculty member at Argosy University where he teaches courses in counseling and psychotherapy to graduate students. Born in Rochester New York he attended Williams College as an undergraduate and earned his doctoral degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Rene Rancourt.  Rene Rancourt (born August 4 1939) is an American singer. Rancourt has sung the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins home hockey games for over 35 years.
Henri Mallard.  Henri Marie Joseph Mallard Australian Photographer (1884–1967)Born in Balmain (Sydney Australia) of French parents he came to photography via the industry. Using his French connections and accent (which was strong owing to his home education) he secured a position in 1900 with Harrington (later Kodak Pty Ltd) as a sales representative to the French consulate. He remained with the company becoming general manager until 1952.
Anna Polina.  Anna Polina (born 11 September 1989 in Saint Petersburg Russian SFSR Soviet Union) is a Russian-born French pornographic actress and model.
Ed Harcourt.  Ed Harcourt (born Edward Henry Richard Harcourt-Smith on 14 August 1977 in Wimbledon London England) is an English singer-songwriter. To date he has released six studio albums two EPs and thirteen singles. His debut album Here Be Monsters was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize. His music is influenced by Tom Waits Nick Cave and Jeff Buckley among others.
Isaac Delahaye.  Isaac Delahaye (born 9 January 1982) is the lead guitarist for symphonic metal band Epica. Prior to that he was lead guitarist in the Dutch death metal band God Dethroned. Delahaye replaced former guitarist Jens van der Valk in God Dethroned after van der Valk left in 2004. He joined the band after a request from drummer and longtime friend Ariën van Weesenbeek and after several meetings with van Weesenbeek and Henri Sattler Delahaye was welcomed into the band on 29 June 2004.
Azhar Levi Sianturi.  Azhar Levi Sianturi is an Indonesian musician and mechanical engineer. He is mainly known in the music scene as the former bassist for avant-garde/progressive metal band Kekal. He also has his own grindcore project called Mournphagy. His professional occupation is a mechanical engineer where he makes a living from and he is also known lately as an avid coffee enthusiast and runs his own coffee roasterie and brewing shop in Jakarta called Orkidé Coffee.
S3RL.  Jole Hughes (born December 17 1981) better known by his stage name S3RL (pronounced Serrl) is an Australian UK hardcore DJ record producer and musician from Brisbane Queensland.
Simone Pignoni.  Simone Pignoni (April 17 1611 – December 16 1698) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He apprenticed with Fabrizio Boschi then with the more academic and puritanical Domenico Passignano and finally with Francesco Furini. He is best known for painting in a style reminiscent of the morbidly sensual Furini. Reflective of this obsession is his self-portrait c. 1650 in which he depicts himself building up a plump naked female from a skeleton.
Tony Ameneiro.  Tony Ameneiro (born 1959 London UK) is an Australian contemporary visual artist whose work focuses around his drawing and printmaking practice.
Alex Chu.  Alex Chu (born 추헌곤 Chu Hun-gon September 2 1979) known simply as Alex (알렉스) is a Korean-Canadian singer and actor. He is the male vocalist of South Korean electropop band Clazziquai.
Alana Evans.  Alana Evans (born July 6 1976 in Fort Campbell Kentucky) is an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jenna Talia (a pun on genitalia—she hated the alias so much that she changed back to Alana Evans after two films).
Yū Sugimoto.  Yū Sugimoto (杉本 ゆう Sugimoto Yū born 29 January 1975 in Suita Osaka Japan) is a Japanese voice actress.
Issei Noro.  Issei Noro (野呂一生 Noro Issei born January 1 1957 in Japan) is a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist who is one of the founding members and the main composer of the band Casiopea. He has released 6 solo albums and a compilation. He also works as an instructor of a guitar clinic and as a producer.
Joy Eden Harrison.  Joy Eden Harrison (born 4 September 1962) is an American singer songwriter and musician. She has released three critically acclaimed CDs the late 1990s Angel Town the 2002 Unspoken and most recently 2006's Blue Venus. She won Best Jazz Artist in The 2002 Independent Music Awards for Unspoken selected by judges Tom Waits Arturo Sandoval and Don Byron.Harrison has two original songs in Hollywood films. The Love Beneath Your Lies is in the film Curtain Call.
Anneli Drecker.  Anneli Marian Drecker (born 12 February 1969 in Tromsø Norway) is a Norwegian singer and actress from the city of Tromsø. She is the vocalist for the seminal dream pop band Bel Canto. In the fall of 2006 Bel Canto celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the first album with several concerts.
Bob Kane.  Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn; October 24 1915 – November 3 1998) was an American comic book artist and writer credited along with Bill Finger as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman. He was inducted into the comic-book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.
Abe Laboriel Jr..  Abraham Abe Laboriel Jr. (born March 23 1971) is an American session drummer. He is the son of Mexican bass guitarist Abraham Laboriel Sr. and brother of record producer songwriter and film composer Mateo Laboriel. He has been the drummer for famed rock musician Paul McCartney as well as the French singer Mylène Farmer among others.
Eric Ratz.  Eric Ratz is a Juno Award winning producer-engineer with over 20 years of experience. Ratz received his first break in the music business in his early 20s when he was awarded the Chief Engineer position at Phase One Studios in Toronto. Ratz has worked with many of the Canadian music industry's most successful and influential punk and rock artists/bands including Billy Talent Big Wreck Monster Truck Comeback Kid Big Sugar Danko Jones and Cancer Bats.
Achmed Khammas.  Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas (born March 23 1952) is a German author translator and interpreter. He is most popular for being one of the very few authors to write about Islam and science fiction in the Arabic language. Khammas is also active in the field of sustainable energy.
Janelle Lynch.  Janelle Lynch is a large-format (8x10) photographic artist and writer based in New York City whose work has been widely exhibited and published. She teaches at the International Center of Photography and was the 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center Buffalo NY.Barcelona Lynch’s second monograph was published by Radius Books in November 2013.
Frances Leviston.  Frances Leviston (born 1982) is a British poet.Born in Edinburgh Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. There she won their Ictus Prize in 2004 which led to the publication of her first pamphlet Lighter. She won an Eric Gregory Award for poets under 30 years of age in 2006.
Jon Kenny.  Jon Kenny (born 1957 Hospital County Limerick Ireland) lives in Lough Gur and is one half of the famous Irish comic duo d'Unbelievables with Pat Shortt. They were a very successful duo until 2000 releasing One Hell of a Video D'Unbelievables D'Video D'Telly D'Mother and D'collection but the group stopped touring after Kenny was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. He has since made a successful recovery and still performs shows across Ireland.
Surinder Sandhu.  Surinder Sandhu is a sarangi player and composer. He is a student of Sabri Khan of the Senia Rampur Moradabad gharana.Sandhu composes in multiple genres.[citation needed] His compositions combine jazz western classical and Asian fusion music. Guests performers on Sandhu's albums include rock guitarist Steve Vai to saxophonist Andy Sheppard. His album The Fictionist features the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra guest musicians and The Surinder Sandhu Band.
Esther Walker.  Esther Walker (October 18 1894 - July 26 1943) was an American musical comedy performer. She was born Esther Thomas in Pewee Valley Kentucky. Adopting the stage name of Esther Walker she appeared on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre in a 1919 production of Monte Cristo Jr. and later that year performed at the 44th Street Theatre in Hello Alexander.
Maxi Jazz.  Maxi Jazz (born Maxwell Fraser on 14 June 1957 in Brixton London) is an English rapper. He is best known as the lead vocalist of British band Faithless. He is sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'Faithless' with a misconception existing that the band is actually a solo artist.
Amy Chan.  Amy Chan Sau-man (陳秀雯) is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer notable for starring in the File of Justice TV franchise in the 1990s. She is also the elder sister of actress Charine Chan (陳加玲).
Hikmet Temel Akarsu.  Hikmet Temel Akarsu (born 1960 in Gümüşhane Turkey) is a Turkish novelist short-story writer satirist and playwright.He moved to Istanbul with his family at the age of nine. After graduating from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in architecture he devoted himself to writing. Including essays articles critiques plays and scenarios he produced literal work in all fields.
Alfred Ainger.  Alfred Ainger (9 February 1837 – 8 February 1904) was an English biographer and critic.
Claude Izner.  Claude Izner is the pseudonym of two sisters Liliane Korb (born in 1940) and Laurence Lefèvre (born in 1951) both booksellers on the banks of the Seine in Paris who jointly write the popular Victor Legris series of crime novels. Legris is a bookseller in late 19th-century Paris who is also an amateur detective. The books were originally bestsellers in France and are now published in the UK by Gallic Books.
Lippo d'Andrea.  Lippo d'Andrea di Lippo (1370/1371 - before 1451) was a Florentine painter formerly known as Pseudo-Ambrogio di Baldese.In 1411 Lippo d'Andrea di Lippo joined the Compagnia di San Luca. That same year he was commissioned along with Niccolò di Pietro Gerini Ambrogio di Baldese and Alvaro di Pietro to paint frescoes on the facade of the Palazzo del Ceppo in Prato.
Gérard Lanvin.  Gérard Lanvin (French pronunciation: ​[ʒeʁaːʁ lɑ̃vɛ̃]) (born June 21 1950) is a César Award-winning French actor. He quit his studies when he was 17 to become an actor. He took on a role in Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine in 1977 on an offer from actor Coluche. He received the Prix Jean Gabin in 1982 for his role in Une étrange affaire. In 1995 he won a César Award for Best Actor with Le Fils préféré. Other appearances include Une semaine de vacances and 3 zéros.
Julius Runge.  Julius Ludwig Friedrich Runge (1843–1922) was a German landscape painter. Born in Röbel in northern Germany he studied under Hans Gude and Gustav Schönleber. He painted in Munich Karlsruhe Hamburg and Lindau. In the early 1880s he joined the Skagen Painters in the far north of Jutland together with his Swedish tutor Wilhelm von Gegerfelt and his French colleague Émile Barau.
Jonathan Galkin.  Jonathan Galkin is a former child actor who appeared on the Nickelodeon sitcom Hey Dude where he played Jake Decker as well as the short-lived preteen show Way Cool.He was born April 4 1972 in Providence Rhode Island and also lived in Shaker Heights Ohio & Highland Park Illinois. In February 1990 Galkin moved to Tucson Arizona where he filmed the Nickelodeon TV Show Hey Dude.
Narqath.  Tomi Kalliola although generally recognised by his stage name Narqath was born in Finland on 11 October 1979. In 1995 he and drummer Kalma formed the Finnish black metal band Azaghal. Tomi has played guitar bass and keyboards as well as utilising vocals for Azaghal since formation to present. Besides Azaghal Kalliola has played in many black metal bands and bands of other genres some of which he plays all instruments for.
Vinnie Hornsby.  Vince Hornsby (born October 22 1966) is the bassist for Alternative metal band Sevendust. He is known for his humorous demeanor and facial expressions during live shows. Hornsby wears his bass down to his hip and will occasionally bend over so that it is positioned next to his knees.Before the formation of Sevendust Hornsby was in the band Snake Nation along with Morgan Rose also of Sevendust.
K. Raghavan Pillai.  K. Raghavan Pillai (1920–1987) was a writer and scholar of Kerala India.[citation needed]He was born in November 1920 in Puliyur near Chengannur in Kottayam district. His parents were N. Sankara and Lakshmy Pillai.
Shirley Kwan.  Shirley Kwan Kwan Suk’E or Kwan Suk Yee (simplified Chinese: 关淑怡; traditional Chinese: 關淑怡; pinyin: Guān Shúyí born 15 August 1966) is an influential Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. She first shot to fame in 1989 as a pop sensation with the hit Happy Are Those In Love (難得有情人) and was popular throughout the early to mid-90s.
Dan Cragg.  Dan Cragg (born September 6 1939 in Rochester NY) is an American soldier essayist and science-fiction author.
Orsola Maddalena Caccia.  Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596 – 26 July 1676) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period. She was born the daughter of Guglielmo Caccia. Together with her sister Francesca they produced paintings for the monastery at Moncalvo. Oreóla died in 1678 and Francesca at the age of 57.
Robert E Fuller.  Robert E Fuller (born 1972) is a British artist best known for his renditions of British fauna rendered faithfully in oils acrylic and bronze. The RSPCA and the National Trust are among his British customers. He also travels the world to study birds and animals in their natural habitat and his paintings sell internationally.
Marcello Fogolino.  Marcello Fogolino (active 1510–1548) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance or Mannerist style. Originally from San Vito in the Friuli he worked early in his life he worked in Vicenza under the painter Bartolomeo Montagna. He was also influenced by Giovanni Speranza and Pordenone.Returning to Friuli in 1520–21 he came to reflect the painterly style of Il Pordenone. He completed a painting of Saints Francis and John the Baptist with Prophet Daniel for the Duomo in Pordenone.
Julia Holter.  Julia Shammas Holter is an American artist singer songwriter and composer based in Los Angeles. A CalArts graduate she released her first studio album Tragedy in 2011. A second album Ekstasis followed in 2012. Holter also collaborates with other musicians including Nite Jewel Linda Perhacs and Michael Pisaro. In 2013 she released her third album Loud City Song to resounding critical acclaim.
John Moriarty (writer).  John Moriarty (2 February 1938 – 1 June 2007) was an Irish writer and philosopher. A native of County Kerry he was educated in Listowel and at University College Dublin. In 1977 he returned to England from Canada where he had taught English literature at the University of Manitoba and became a live-in gardener in the Carmelite monastery at Boars Hill Oxford.Moriarty lived at the foot of Mangerton Mountain in northern County Kerry until his death. His online website was www.johnmoriarty.net.
Gordon Lightfoot.  Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (born November 17 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk folk-rock and country music and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend.Lightfoot's songs including For Lovin' Me Early Morning Rain Steel Rail Blues Ribbon of Darkness—a number one hit on the U.S.
Craig Powell (musician).  Craig Powell (born 30 December 1984) is a British recording artist and former frontman of the British dance act Uniting Nations. After leaving the musical band in March 2006 he has had top 20 chart success all over Europe including United Kingdom Germany Poland Switzerland and France. He is also a keen martial arts sportsman in karate jujitsu kickboxing and his main love is MMA (Mixed Martial Arts).
Milenko Stefanović.  Milenko Stefanović (born 19 February 1930) is a Serbian classical and jazz clarinetist. He is a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow Munich Geneva and Prague soloist who has achieved significant international career long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor of Clarinet at the University of Priština and University of the Arts in Belgrade.
Sunny Sweeney.  Sunny Michaela Sweeney (born December 7 1976) is an American country music artist. She is signed to the Thirty Tigers label. She was formerly with the Republic Nashville label and Big Machine Records. Her debut album Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame was independently issued in 2006 and then regionally released in 2007. It produced three regional (Texas Oklahoma) singles in If I Could Ten Years Pass and East Texas Pines and these songs charted on the Texas Music Chart.
Carlos Pintado.  Carlos Pintado (born 1974 in Cuba) is a Cuban–American poet and writer who immigrated to the United States in the early 90s. His book Autorretrato en azul received the Sant Jordi's International Prize for Poetry in Spain and El azar y los tesoros was one of the 12 finalists for Spain's Adonais Prize in 2008. He also contributed to The exile Experience: a journey to freedom coordinated by Cuban American music producer Emilio Estefan.
Steve Durand.  Stephen Steve Durand (born in Cantley Quebec) is a Canadian rock musician most notable for his work with Tinker and his involvement with Melissa Auf der Maur.
Attilio Gatti.  Attilio Gatti (born 1896) was an Italian explorer author and film-maker who travelled extensively through Africa in the first half of the 20th century. He is known in documentary circles for his film Siliva the Zulu (1927).Gatti was among the last great safari expedition men. He led ten expeditions to Africa over 23 years before 1945. He became one of the Europeans to see the fabled Okapi and the Bongo a brown Lyre horned antelope with white stripes.
Christel Alsos.  Christel Alsos Monsen (born 20 December 1984) is a Norwegian singer originating from Fauske. After graduation in 2003 she moved After high school with graduation in 2003 she moved to Gjøvik to study at Viken Folkehøgskole and study music. In 2004 she moved to Oslo appearing in on NRK Norwegian television Noen bedre with Tore Strømøy and soon after was offered a contract on Sony BMGNorwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 2004 she was discovered by record company Sony BMG.
Jann Browne.  Jann Browne (born March 14 1954 in Anderson Indiana) is an American country singer. She moved to South California in 1978 where she performed in a number of Orange County country bars. From 1981 through 1983 before her solo career she was a vocalist with the Western swing group Asleep at the Wheel. She has recorded four studio albums and has charted three singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. Her highest single is the 1990s Tell Me Why at No. 18.
William Vandyck.  William Vandyck is an actor writer and practising barrister.
Anne Laughlin.  Anne Laughlin is a Chicago-based realtor and lesbian mystery author who grew up in Park Forest Illinois. She is the author of two novels Sometimes Quickly and Veritas as well as many published short stories. She was named an emerging writer by the Lambda Literary Foundation and was awarded a writing residency at Ragdale.She also wrote the game Murder at the Folkestone Inn[1] a game for the Adventure Game Toolkit.[2]
Letícia Wierzchowski.  Letícia Wierzchowski (born 1972) is a Brazilian novelist best known for her novels A Casa das Sete Mulheres (House of the Seven Women) and Uma Ponte para Terebin (A Bridge to Terebin). She has written fourteen other novels and children's books.
Chris Davis (musician).  Chris Davis is a British singer and guitarist in Nottingham based shoegaze band Spotlight Kid as well as a drummer with Six By Seven. Davis has also stood in on drums for Spiritualized in 2002 when Kev Bales fell ill.In 2009 Davis toured with Soulsavers and Mark Lanegan on the Depeche Mode European Tour.
Björn Gelotte.  Björn Gelotte is a songwriter and guitarist for the Swedish band In Flames. He joined the band as the drummer in 1995 and continued his position as drummer during The Jester Race (1995) and Whoracle (1997).
Peggy Evans.  Peggy Evans (born January 10 1921) is a British actress. She trained at the Rank Organisation's charm school.
Patti Austin.  Patti Austin (born August 10 1950) is an American R&B Pop and jazz singer. In 2008 she received the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal album for Avant Gershwin recorded mostly live with The WDR Big Band in Germany.
Besim Dina.  Besim Dina (born 6 July 1971) is an Albanian comedian actor writer producer and television host.
Gary Wilson (musician).  Gary Wilson (born October 1953) is an experimental musician/performance artist best known for his 1977 album You Think You Really Know Me after which he promptly retired from recording and performing concerts. He slowly gained a strong cult following during the 1980s and 1990s and in the early 2000s became active again.
Russ Kunkel.  Russell Russ Kunkel (September 1 1948) is an American drummer and producer who has worked as a session musician with many of well-known artists including Bob Dylan James Taylor Neil Young Stevie Nicks Carole King Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt. He is widely regarded as the top session drummer of the 1970s and early 1980s.Kunkel was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Charles Le Brun.  Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 – 22 February 1690) was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV the greatest French artist of all time he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin.
Karel Pravoslav Sádlo.  Karel Pravoslav Sádlo (September 5 1898 Prague Bohemia – August 24 1971 Prague Czechoslovakia) was a Czech cellist and significant cello pedagogue.Between 1929–1961 he was the teacher of the majority of Czech cellists and tutored a large number of leading soloists and chamber music performers (e.g. Milos Sadlo Josef Chuchro František Smetana František Sláma Antonín Kohout).
Hervé Vilard.  Hervé Vilard (born René Villard 24 July 1946 in Paris France) is a French pop–singer who first became famous in the 1960s. His first single Capri c'est fini became an international hit in 1965 and made him instantly famous. The song sold 3.3 million copies.His long national and international musical career as composer singer and stage performer spans four decades.
Tony Mullins.  Tony Mullins (born in Pound Virginia) is an American country music songwriter.Mullins moved to Nashville Tennessee in 1992 where he worked with Byron Gallimore's publishing company. Among his first cuts was Kenny Chesney's How Forever Feels which spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Gombloh.  Soedjarwoto Soemarsono (better known as Gombloh; July 14 1948 – January 9 1988) was an Indonesian singer and songwriter. He received the Nugraha Bhakti Musik Indonesia award from the Persatuan Artis Penyanyi Pencipta Lagu dan Penata Musik Rekaman Republik Indonesia.
Anabela.  Anabela Braz Pires (born September 22 1976 in Almada) is a Portuguese singer and musical theatre actress best known in Portugal by her first name Anabela.Her career in music has spanned over two decades and she is well known for representing Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest her work as a solo recording artist and her work in musical theatre collaborating with producer Filipe La Féria.
Basílio da Gama.  José Basílio da Gama (April 10 1740 — July 31 1795) was a Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus born in the colony of Brazil famous for the epic poem O Uraguai. He wrote under pen name Termindo Sipílio.He is patron of the 4th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Harold Danko.  Harold Danko (born June 13 1947 Ohio) is an American jazz pianist.Danko attended Youngstown State University. Among his credits are work in the big bands of Woody Herman and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis as well as smaller ensembles with Gerry Mulligan Chet Baker and Lee Konitz.
Marie Calloway.  Marie Calloway (born 1990) is an American author. Her first book what purpose did i serve in your life? was published by Tyrant Books and generated controversy. A portion of the volume recounts the author's romantic relationship with a married journalist Adrien Brody and is reportedly based on an actual relationship with a prominent American writer.
Hell Razah.  Chron Smith (born October 1 1976) better known by his stage name Hell Razah is an American rapper. He is best known as a member of Sunz of Man an early affiliate group of the Wu-Tang Clan.Razah is rumored to have suffered a brain aneurysm in April 2010. He was quick to recover and continue recording. He came to adopt the moniker Heaven Razah.
Mary Agnes Yerkes.  Mary Agnes Yerkes (August 9 1886 – November 8 1989) (pronounced Yer-keys) was an American Impressionist painter photographer and artisan. She was skilled in the mediums of oil pastel and watercolor. Her professional career was cut short by the Great Depression but she still continued to paint well into her nineties with a passion for her craft and nature.
Jennifer Schuur.  Jennifer Schuur is an American television writer and produced best known for her work on series such as Big Love and Hellcats. She is currently serving as a producer on the NBC psychological thriller Hannibal.
Tae Hitoto.  Tae Hitoto (一青 妙 Hitoto Tae born September 24 1970 in Taipei Taiwan) is an actress. Her mother is Japanese and her father is Taiwanese. Yō Hitoto is her younger sister.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante.  Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎermo kaˈβɾeɾa imˈfante]; Gibara 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist essayist translator screenwriter and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.A one-time supporter of the Castro regime Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965.
Sybille Pearson.  Sybille Pearson (born January 25 1937 in Prague Czechoslovakia) is a playwright musical theatre lyricist and librettist.
Robert Bly.  Robert Bly (born December 23 1926) is an American poet author activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His most commercially successful book to date was Iron John: A Book About Men (1990) a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
Lajos Markos.  Lajos Markos (1917–1993) was a Hungarian American artist trained at the Royal Academy of Budapest. He came to the United States following World War II and worked as a portraitist in New York City painting such celebrities as John Wayne and Robert Kennedy The Royal Family of King Hassan II and Pablo Casals. In his lifetime Lajos Markos completed over 2000 portraits.[citation needed] In the 1960s he moved to Houston Texas where he expanded his interest to art of the American west.
Leah Ray.  Leah Ray Hubbard Werblin (February 16 1915 – May 27 1999) was an American singer born in Norfolk Virginia who performed in the Big Band era and who sang and acted in more than a dozen motion pictures including the short film which was Bob Hope's movie debut Going Spanish (1934) and The Holy Terror (1937).While performing with the Phil Harris orchestra she met Music Corporation of America executive Sonny Werblin.
Ernesto Levorati.  Ernesto Levorati (Padua 1880-1920) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects set in period costumes of the earlier Venetian centuries.
Edward Ou.  Edward Ou (Chinese: 歐定興; pinyin: ōu dìng xīng) was born on 16 October 1980 in Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese actor. He graduated from Taipei Hwa Kang Arts School in 1998. Ou is junior to other Taiwanese entertainers such as Barbie Hsu whom he co-starred with in the Meteor Garden series and Dee Hsu; and senior to Alien Huang Rainie Yang Genie Chuo and Cyndi Wang.
Stephen Leacock.  Stephen P. H Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher political scientist writer and humourist. In the early part of the 20th century he was the best-known scientist in the English-speaking world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour.
Nancy King (jazz singer).  Nancy King (born June 15 1940) is a world-renowned jazz singer from Portland Oregon United States.Known for her masterful scatting and elastic range King has performed in world-wide tours and recordings as well as collaborations with such artists as Jon Hendricks Vince Guaraldi Ralph Towner Dave Friesen and others.
David Ellison (British actor).  David Ellison (1939 – 10 June 2010) was a British television actor born in Stalybridge probably best remembered for his portrayal of police sergeant Joseph Beck in the 1980s BBC television series Juliet Bravo. He has also had minor roles in TV shows such as Coronation Street and Heartbeat.He gave up acting in 1995 and retired to the village of Beer in Devon. He died on 10 June 2010.
Norihiro Yagi.  Norihiro Yagi (八木 教広 Yagi Norihiro born 1969) is a Japanese manga writer and artist from Okinawa Prefecture. He started making manga in 1990.Norihiro Yagi is a successful manga artist having won the 32nd Akatsuka Award for his very first work: Undeadman. Undeadman appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump and has had two sequels. Yagi's first serialized manga was his comedy-genre Angel Densetsu which appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 2000.
Robin Tanner.  Robin Tanner (Wiltshire 1904–1988) was an English artist etcher and printmaker. He followed in the visionary tradition of Samuel Palmer and English neo-romanticism. He lived in London at Kington Langley in Wiltshire and Bath.
Lee Blair (artist).  Lee Everett Blair (October 1 1911 – April 19 1993) was an American artist.He was born in Los Angeles California and died in Soquel California. He was the younger brother of Preston Blair and the husband of Mary Blair.In 1932 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Rodeo.
Scott Kolins.  Scott Kolins is an American illustrator writer and creator for multiple different superhero and science fiction comic books. His main credits are as a penciler but he is an established inker as well as colorist and has some credits as a writer.
Lacey Dancer.  Sydney Ann Cook (born 1948) was an American author of contemporary and historical romance novels who wrote under the pen names Sara Chance Sherry Carr Sydney Ann Clary and Lacey Dancer.She won the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1991-1992 for Series Romance Love and Laughter. Romantic Times awarded her a second Career Achievement Award in 1996 for Series Romantic Adventure.
Andy Granelli.  Andy Granelli (aka Andy Outbreak) is an American drummer. Initially drumming for a band known as Model American in 1997 on their self titled album. The same album later surfaced again in 2002 under the moniker MAPS which stood for Model American Playing Secretly having been forced to change the name by a court of law.
Valeri Syutkin.  Singing professionally since 1982 he gained popularity as a member of the rock band Bravo.In 2008 he was awarded the honorary title Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.In 2012 he signed an open letter against a St. Petersburg bill banning homosexual propaganda along with pop stars like Philipp Kirkorov and Dima Bilan.
David D. Stern.  David Stern was born on February 3 1956 in Essen Germany and lives in New York. Stern has referred to himself as an “action painter” echoing the artistic legacies of New York School painters Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Yet his human forms reach further back to histories of portraiture.After an apprenticeship as a sign painter Stern attended the Dortmund Fachhochschule für Design and Art (1975–79) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1980–82).
Victoria Dayneko.  Victoria Petrovna Dayneko (Russian: Виктория Петровна Дайнеко) is a Russian singer the graduator and the winner of Star Factory-5 the participant of the Channel One’s project «Glacial age».
Elizabeth Searle.  Elizabeth Searle is an American novelist short story writer and playwright. Her works have included the novel A Four Sided Bed and the short story collections My Body to You and Celebrities in Disgrace. Her most recent novel Girl Held in Home was published in 2011 by New Rivers Press. She wrote the libretto for Tonya and Nancy:The Opera which was produced in 2006 and 2010 and 2014.
Princess Erika.  Princess Erika (real name Erika Dobong'na born on 5 April 1964 in Paris) is a French singer and actress with Cameroonian origins. She is particularly known for her ragga songs Trop de bla-bla ou Faut qu'j'travaille.
Ernest Matthew Mickler.  Ernest Matthew Mickler (Pronounced MYkler) (August 23 1940 – November 15 1988) was the author of White Trash Cooking a cookbook with recipes from the American Southeast. Mickler grew up in rural Florida. Mickler also wrote Sinkin Spells Hot Flashes Fits and Cravins now sold as White Trash Cooking II. He died of AIDS in 1988 aged 48.
Paris Zax.  Paris Zax is an American underground hip hop producer based in Los Angeles California. He has produced tracks for Busdriver Blackbird and Shape Shifters among others. He released the solo debut album Unpath'd Waters on Alpha Pup Records in 2005.
Johnny Cymbal.  Johnny Cymbal (born John Hendry Blair) (February 3 1945 - March 16 1993) was a Scottish born American songwriter singer and record producer who had numerous hit records including his signature song Mr. Bass Man.
Inday Ba.  Inday Ba (10 August 1972 – 20 April 2005) also known as N'Deaye Ba was a Swedish-British film stage and television actress born in Gothenburg Sweden.One of her most notable Swedish on-screen roles was as Hillevi in the romantic comedy Klassfesten (2002) opposite Björn Kjellman. She appeared in Trial & Retribution as DC Lisa West from 2002 until 2003.She died from Renal failure and other complications of lupus at age 32 shortly after filming her last role in the ITV drama serial Jericho.
Scot Halpin.  Thomas Scot Halpin (February 3 1954 – February 9 2008) was an artist and musician. He sat in for The Who's Keith Moon during a rock concert at the Cow Palace in San Francisco at which he had been an audience member. In 1973 he was awarded Rolling Stone magazine's Pick-Up Player of the Year Award for his historic performance during this show.
Will Roberts.  Will Roberts (21 December 1907 – 11 March 2000) was a modern Welsh expressionist painter.Official Will Roberts WebsiteRoberts was born in Ruabon Denbighshire the son of a railwayman of the Great Western Railway. The family moved to Neath in Glamorgan in 1918 and he studied at the local Swansea School of Art. In 1945 Roberts met the Polish artist Josef Herman. At that time Herman was living in the neighbouring town of Ystradgynlais.
Rod Piazza.  Rod Piazza (born December 18 1947 Riverside California) is an American blues harmonica player and singer. He has been playing with his band The Mighty Flyers since 1980 which he formed with his pianist wife Honey Piazza. Their boogie sound combines the styles of jump blues West Coast blues and Chicago blues.
Esther Phillips.  Esther Phillips (December 23 1935 – August 7 1984) was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals but she was a versatile singer also performing pop country jazz blues and soul music.
Robert McLellan.  Robert McLellan OBE (1907–1985) was a Scottish dramatist poet and writer of short fiction principally in the Scots language.
Ed Boyd.  Ed Boyd is a guitarist from Bath England. He is the current guitarist for Lúnasa but is best known as a longtime member of the Celtic folk group Flook.
François Bon.  François Bon is a French writer. He was born in Luçon Vendée in 1953. François Bon loves loud rock music and often writes while listening this kind of music
Wes King.  Wes King (born January 20 1966) is an American contemporary Christian singer songwriter and musician. He is perhaps best known for his 1993 album The Robe. He briefly attended Covenant College outside of Chattanooga Tennessee in the late 1980s. He also led worship at Christian youth retreat camps.
Dyanne Thorne.  Dyanne Thorne (born October 14 1943 in Greenwich Connecticut US) is an American actress nude model for pin-up magazines and former Las Vegas showgirl. She is best known for starring in four Ilsa sexploitation movies that influenced the Nazi exploitation film genre.
Joe Holmes.  Joe Holmes (born June 11 1963) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his stint with Ozzy Osbourne between 1995 and 2001. He has also played with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and the L.A. band Lizzy Borden in addition to leading his own bands Terriff and currently Farmikos.
Arthur Askey.  Arthur Bowden Askey CBE (6 June 1900 – 16 November 1982) was a prominent English comedian and actor. Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed his improvisation and his use of catchphrases which included Hello playmates! I thank you (pronounced Ay-Thang-Yaw) and Before your very eyes.
Simon Wilcox.  Simon Wilcox is a multi-platinum Canadian singer-songwriter.
Jack Turner (author).  Jack Turner was educated at the University of Colorado and Cornell University and taught philosophy at the University of Illinois. Since 1975 he has traveled in India Pakistan Nepal China Tibet Bhutan and Peru leading more than forty treks and expeditions. He has lived in Grand Teton National Park for over twenty years and teaches mountaineering during the summers. He is the author of several books and essays.
Helen Palmer Geisel.  Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 11 1899 – October 23 1967) was an American children's author editor and philanthropist. She was married to fellow author Theodor Seuss Geisel better known as Dr. Seuss from 1927 until her death. Her best-known books include Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday? I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo Why I Built the Boogle House and A Fish Out of Water.
Alan Murphy.  Alan Murphy (28 November 1953 – 19 October 1989) was an English rock session guitarist best remembered for his collaborations with Kate Bush and Go West. In 1988 he joined the group Level 42 as a full-time band member and played with them until his death in 1989. He also played lead guitar on select recordings by Mike + The Mechanics including the hit single Silent Running.
Matz Robert Eriksson.  Matz Robert Eriksson or simple Robban as he is often called is best known as the drummer of Swedish rock band The Hellacopters who were active between 1994 and 2008. Eriksson is currently playing With his new band called Tramp and recently reunited Swedish punk band Strindbergs.
Zach Houston.  Zach Houston is an Oakland based visual artist and unpublished poet. He is best known for his poemstore an ongoing business/literature performance. Some others have had similar projects. The poemstore has received coverage from Charles Osgood CBS News Katie Couric The NY Times The LA Times reviewed by Kenneth Baker critic for the San Francisco Chronicle NPR and many others. In 2011 the poemstore was the focus of two major exhibitions.
Sophie Hulme.  Sophie Hulme is a British fashion designer best known for her 2012 A/W handbag collection which she has stated was inspired by toy dinosaurs. Her statement piece is the Armour Tote bag.
Jamie Delano.  Jamie Delano (born 1954 in Northampton) is a British comics writer. He was part of the first post-Alan Moore British Invasion of writers. Best known as the first writer of the comic book series Hellblazer starring John Constantine.
Nadja Benaissa.  Nadja Benaissa (born 26 April 1982) is a German recording artist television personality and occasional actress. She rose to fame in late 2000 when she auditioned for the reality television show Popstars on RTL II. The programme announced that Banaissa had won a place as a member of the all-female pop band No Angels.
William Camden.  William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian historian topographer and officer of arms. He wrote the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Roni Dalumi.  Roni Daloomi (Hebrew: רוני דלומי‎ born September 15 1991) is an Israeli singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009.
Brendan Smialowski.  Brendan Smialowski is an award winning freelance photographer based in Washington D.C. He specializes in digital photography and covers national and international news. While primarily a documentary photographer Smialowski's work includes a variety of techniques including portrait photography. While based in Washington D.C. he has created a large volume of work covering politics. Smialowski regularly covers the White House and Capitol Hill.
Dennis Schmidt (author).  Dennis Schmidt is an American science fiction and fantasy author publishing from 1978 to 1990. Common threads in his books are religion discipline and mystical enemies. He has published his ten novels in three series.
AMWE.  AMWE (pronounced Amuui) (born May 6 1984) is an indie New Wave and electronica artist from Nagoya Japan. Getting her start in jazz cover bands and 80s-styled music groups she eventually debuted in October 2009 under Pure Groove Records. AMWE produces writes and provides the vocals to all of her music.Born in 1984 AMWE got her big break when she won the Japanese leg of the Diesel U music competition in 2008.
Ekkehard Wölk.  Ekkehard Wölk [Ekkehard Wolk] is a pianist arranger and composer from Germany. He is known for his silent film scores for German classics by Murnau and Pabst.
Derrick Gardner.  Derrick Gardner (born June 3 1965) is an American jazz trumpeter from Chicago Illinois.Gardner began playing trumpet at the age of 9 in his hometown of Chicago IL.
Hendrik Hofmeyr.  Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr (born 20 November 1957) is a South African composer. Born in Cape Town he furthered his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector.[citation needed] While there he won the South African Opera Competition with The Fall of the House of Usher. He also received the annual Nederburg Prize for Opera for this work subsequent to its performance at the State Theatre in Pretoria in 1988.
Steven Spooner.  Steven Spooner is an American pianist and currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas in Lawrence Kansas.
Ciara Newell.  Ciara Newell was an original member of now defunct Irish girl group Bellefire. She has two sisters Cathy and Neasa and originally hails from Galway Ireland.In 2010 Ciara was involved with the Irish-language television station TG4 where she worked as a judge on the fourth series of its then flagship talent show Glas Vegas. The series began on TG4 on January 10 2010 with the final shown on April 4 Easter Sunday.Ciara now works at Universal Music Group in London as a Song plugger.
Kong Ngai.  Kong Ngai 江毅 (1936–2013) was a Hong Kong actor with TVB and ATV.
Aspekt.  Aspekt is an alias/project of Oliver Smith and Mark Pledger who are better known in the electronic dance music community as Smith & Pledger. To date they have released three singles under the Anjunabeats record label although ANJ-006 (Aspekt - Mobetta/Something Else) was produced entirely by Oliver Smith as so credited on the vinyl release.
Calvin Seerveld.  Calvin Seerveld (b. 1930 in New York) received a BA from Calvin College in 1952 an MA in English literature and classics from the University of Michigan in 1953. He then went on to study under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam where his doctoral dissertation dealt with Croce's aesthetics. It was supervised by Vollenhoven and Carlo Antoni.
Billy Baldwin (decorator).  William Baldwin Jr. (1903-1983) known as Billy Baldwin and nicknamed Billy B was a New York interior decorator characterized in an obituary as the dean of interior decorators.
Rod Fontana.  Ronald Boyer commonly known by the stage name Rod Fontana (born September 18 1952) is a pornographic actor and director. In 2005 he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. He was reported to have retired in 2007 to pursue religious interests but his career continued the next year.
Leo Erdody.  Leo Erdody (December 17 1888 – April 5 1949) was an American film composer of Hungarian descent. He studied music in Germany and later went to Hollywood scoring his first film in 1921. He later joined Producers Releasing Corporation and scored several films for them. For his work on Minstrel Man he was a nominee for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
Paul Ego.  Paul Ego (birth name Paul Jones) is a Billy T Award winning New Zealand comedian. He is best known both for his current role as leader of Team One on the New Zealand comedy current affairs panel show 7 Days and as the voice artist of the stickman in television advertisements for Pak n Save supermarket.Ego’s first gig was in London in 1994 and upon returning to New Zealand in 1995 he soon became a regular sight on the pro-comedy skyline.
Vicky Shu.  Vicky Veranita Yudhasoka Shu (born July 8 1987) is an Indonesian singer who released her debut album Drink Me in 2011. Mari Bercinta 2 is a sequel to the same title song by Aura Kasih. The single was number 3 on Dahsyat and number 5 on Klik!. She is also known for her beauty and wearing sexy costumes. Shu is also designing a high heel shoe product under her own brand named Syu Syu. Before becoming a singer she was a finalist for Miss Indonesia on 2007.
Pablopavo.  Pablopavo (born 30 March 1978 as Paweł Sołtys) is a Polish reggae and raggamuffin vocalist songwriter and radio DJ. He has a radio show on Roxy FM called Tramwaj z Pragi. Pablopavo is the lead singer of Warsaw-based reggae band Vavamuffin. He has also recorded with a side-project called Pablopavo i Ludziki. He is one of the first vocalists singing raggamuffin in Polish and specializes in long and complicated freestyle vocal parts.
Ligalize.  Andrey Vladimirovich Menshikov (Russian: Андре́й Влади́мирович Ме́ньшиков born 30 June 1977 in Moscow) mostly known under his stage name Ligalize (Russian: Лигалайз) is a Russian hip hop artist and a former leader of the Legal Busine$$ band. Ligalize was also among D.O.B. and Bad Balance.Menshikov was born July 30 1977 in Moscow. Hip-hop came in 1993: Legalize and Ladjack organized the project Slingshot. He called himself Legalize because that was the name of his first group.
Alexis Gritchenko.  Alexis Gritchenko (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Гри́щенко) (born in Krolevets Northern Ukraine April 2 1883; died in Vence France on January 28 1977) was a Ukrainian painter and art theorist.
Gilles-François de Beauvais.  Gilles-François de Beauvais (7 July 1693 - c. 1773) was a French Jesuit writer and preacher.Born at Le Mans France de Beauvais entered the Society of Jesus in 1709 and taught belles-lettres rhetoric and philosophy. After ordination he was assigned to preach and give the Advent course at Court in 1744 during which year he published his Life of Ignatius Azevedo modelled on the original Italian biography by Father Cabral (a pseudonym of Giulio Cesare Cordara 1743).
Jaymz Bee.  Jaymz Bee is a Canadian musician writer EmCee and radio personality.
Tim Bradley (toy designer).  Tim Bradley is a toy designer for Hasbro. He designed a number of toys in the Transformers toy line.Tim is also the author and illustrator of children's books. He has written and illustrated The Care and Feeding of Dinosaurs (Millbrook Press 2000)Paleo Sharks: Survival of the Strangest (Chronicle Books 2007) and Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest (Chronicle Books 2008).
Claude Dubois-Millot.  Claude Dubois-Millot was sales director of the Gault Millau restaurant guide and served as one the eleven judges of the historic Judgment of Paris wine tasting. He was the only judge on the all French panel that did not have previous experience in wine competition after spending the majority of his career in the automobile industry prior to joining GaultMillau in 1973. Originally his brother the food critic Christian Millau was slated to be on the panel but Claude served as a substitute.
Wannarot Sonthichai.  Wannarot Sonthichai or nickname Vill (Thai: วรรณรท สนธิไชย; April 10 1989 — ) is a Thai film and television actor and pop singer from Exact.
Bill Crawford (cartoonist).  Bill Crawford (1913–1982) was an American editorial cartoonist. Crawford grew up in Hammond Indiana and graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in Fine Arts and studied for a time in Paris at the Grand Chaumiere. While at Ohio State he edited the comic magazine Sun Dial.Crawford worked as a sports cartoonist and for the Washington Daily News and the Washington Post from 1936 until 1938.
David Milhous.  David Milhous is a film and television editor and one of the founding members of the American Post-Punk band Lippy's Garden.Milhous spent a number of years editing news at CNN in Atlanta before turning to more dramatic long form storytelling.
Sigrid Nunez.  Sigrid Nunez (born 1951) is an American writer.
Paleface (Finnish musician).  Karri Pekka Matias Miettinen (born April 21 1978) better known by his stage name Paleface is a Finnish hip hop musician.
Yeghishe Charents.  Yeghishe Charents (Armenian: Եղիշե Չարենց; March 13 1897 – November 27 1937) was an Armenian poet writer and public activist. Charents was an outstanding poet of the twentieth century touching upon a multitude of topics that ranged from his experiences in the First World War socialist revolution and more prominently on Armenia and Armenians.
Maurycy Trębacz.  Maurycy Trębacz (May 3 1861 – January 29 1941) was one of the most popular Jewish painters in Poland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many of his paintings were lost in the Holocaust but a representative selection of his artwork survived.
Dave Barbour.  Dave Barbour (May 28 1912 – December 11 1965) was an American musician. He was a jazz banjoist and guitarist a pop songwriter an actor and the husband of Peggy Lee for nine years.Barbour was born in Long Island New York started off as a banjoist with Adrian Rollini in 1933 and then Wingy Manone in 1934. He switched to guitar in the middle of the decade and played with Red Norvo in 1935-1936.
Guy Bedos.  Guy Bedos (born 15 June 1934 in Algiers French Algeria) is an actor (mostly known for his part in the film Nous irons tous au paradis) and a famous stand-up comedian.He is also famous for his left-wing political affiliation and he had supported politicians such as François Mitterrand.
Andy Tillman.  Andrew Charles (Andy) Tillman (born 1952) is one of the founders of the llama industry in the United States. He is an expert on llama and alpaca health selective breeding and marketing. Tillman is the co-founder of the International Llama Association and he wrote the halter-class guidelines for the American Llama Show Association. His book Speechless Brothers was the first comprehensive study of llama husbandry published in the United States.
Edo de Waart.  Edo de Waart (born 1 June 1941 Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor and the Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic and an Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.De Waart studied oboe piano and conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatory graduating in 1962. The following year he was appointed associate principal oboe of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Joe Elvin.  Joe Elvin (real name Joseph Peter Keegan) (29 November 1862 – 3 March 1935) was a Cockney comedian and music hall entertainer and a Founder of the Grand Order of Water Rats a show business charity. With other leading performers he took part in the Music Hall War of 1907 which supported less well paid music hall artistes in their strike for better pay and conditions.
Eivind Aadland.  Eivind Aadland (born 19 September 1956) is a Norwegian conductor and violinist. He has been concert master of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.Eivind was Chief Conductor and Artistic Leader of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra from 2004-2010 and maintains a regular relationship with many Scandinavian orchestras including the Oslo and Bergen Philharmonics Stavanger Symphony and Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Boucicaut Master.  The Boucicaut Master or Master of the Hours for Marshal Boucicaut was an anonymous French or Flemish miniaturist and illuminator active between 1400 and 1430 in Paris. He worked in the International Gothic style.He is named after his illustrated book of hours for Jean II Le Meingre Boucicaut) Marshal of France which was created between 1410 and 1415.
Harvey Rosenfield.  Harvey Rosenfield (born 1952) is an American lawyer author and consumer advocate. In 1985 he founded Consumer Watchdog a nationally recognized nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group. He now serves as the group's counsel.He is best known for drafting and organizing the campaign for Proposition 103 a ballot proposal that rolled back automobile insurance rates in California.
Ernest Hello.  Ernest Hello (1828–1885) was a French Roman Catholic writer who produced books and articles on philosophy theology and literature.
Alfredo Bai.  Alfredo Bai (born Turin November 27 1913 – died Giaveno June 1980) is an Italian sculptor.Bai worked in the Arsenale di Torino before he served as soldier in the guerrilla operation in the Valli di Lanzo during World War II. In the 1950s he discovered his vocation for sculpture and realized different works in the whole Piedmontese region.
Carlos Catasse.  Carlos Catasse (1944 – January 19 2010) born Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda in Santiago Chile formed his new last name by combining the first two letters of his first middle and last names. Catasse is a Chilean painter of international recognition. Since 1969 he has lived and painted in Quito Ecuador the country that in 1986 granted him with Ecuador’s National Prize for Painting the Premio Eugenio Espejo.
Gerd Puritz.  Gerd Puritz (born July 7 1914 in Hamburg; died June 5 2007) was the son and biographer of the German soprano Elisabeth Schumann. He moved with his family to England in 1948 and worked for the German Service of the BBC. After the death of his first wife Biddy he remarried in 1997 and moved to the Netherlands with his Dutch wife in 2002 where he died. He is survived by his sons Christian and Rupert his daughter Joy and granddaughters Sophie and Alice.
Alan Reynolds (artist).  Alan Munro Reynolds (born 27 April 1926) is a British painter.Reynolds was born on 27 April 1926 at Newmarket Suffolk where his father worked as a stableman. He studied at the Woolwich Polytechnic from 1948 to 1952 and in 1954 and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1953. He taught at the Central School of Art and Design from 1954 to 1961 and from 1961 or 1962 at Saint Martin's School of Art where he became a senior lecturer in painting in 1985.
Aaron Deer.  Aaron Deer is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from Indianapolis IN now residing in Oakland CA. He is best known for his work in the Bloomington IN music scene in the early 2000s playing with bands such as The Impossible Shapes John Wilkes Booze and The Horns of Happiness.
Ronna Reeves.  Ronna Renee Reeves (born September 21 1966 in Big Spring Texas) is a female country music singer. Between 1990 and 1998 she released five studio albums including three on Mercury Records; she has also charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. Her highest-charting single was The More I Learn (The Less I Understand About Love) which reached number 49 in 1992.After leaving Mercury in 1995 Reeves signed to River North Records and released two more albums.
Tokujin Yoshioka.  Tokujin Yoshioka (吉岡 徳仁 Yoshioka Tokujin born 20 January 1967) is a Japanese artist and designer.Many of his works are part of the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.
Ron Roker.  Ron Roker (born Ronald Ernest Alfred Roker 23 January 1941) is an English songwriter and singer.Roker has written UK chart hits for Jackie Lee The Fortunes Barry Blue Tina Charles Polly Brown The Pearls The Real Thing and Sweet Dreams.
Bun E. Carlos.  Brad M. Carlson (born June 12 1950) better known by the stage name Bun E. Carlos is the primary drummer for American rock band Cheap Trick. He is the band's chief setlister and archivist and maintains recordings of all the band's shows some of which have been released under the title 'Bun E's Bootlegs'.
Chris Dreja.  Chris Dreja (born 11 November 1945 Surbiton England) is a musician best known for playing rhythm guitar and bass in the British band The Yardbirds.
Luigi Serra.  Luigi Serra (June 8 1846 – July 11 1888) was an Italian painter including watercolors.
Maria Pinto (fashion designer).  Maria Pinto (born 1957) is a fashion designer from Chicago Illinois. She has designed clothing for Oprah Winfrey the Joffrey Ballet Marcia Gay Harden and Michelle Obama.
Michalina Wisłocka.  Michalina Wisłocka (1 July 1921 – 5 February 2005) was a Polish gynecologist sexologist and author of Sztuka kochania (The Art of Loving 1976) the first guide to sexual life in Communist countries. Her book became a bestseller with a total circulation of 7 million copies and started greater openness about matters of sex and sex life in Poland.She was a co-founder of the Society of Sensible Maternity in which she worked on infertility treatment and birth control.
Bjørn Rønningen.  Bjørn Rønningen (born 31 December 1937) is a Norwegian children's writer.He was born in Bærum and made his literary debut in 1971. He is best known for his series about Fru Pigalopp as well as Jul i Skomakergata.
Dennis Dunaway.  Dennis Dunaway (born December 9 1946 in Cottage Grove Oregon) is an American musician best known as the original bass guitarist for Alice Cooper from 1969–1974.He co-wrote some of the band's most notable songs including I'm Eighteen and School's Out.
Charles William Jefferys.  Charles William Jefferys (August 25 1869 – October 8 1951) was a Canadian painter illustrator author and teacher best known as a historical illustrator.
Mark Hoppus.  Mark Allan Hoppus (born March 15 1972) is an American musician record producer and television host best known as the bassist and one of two lead vocalists for the rock band Blink-182. Born in Ridgecrest California Hoppus spent his childhood moving back and forth between his mother and father's houses as they divorced when he was in third grade. He became interested in skateboarding and punk rock in junior high and received a bass guitar from his father at the age of fifteen.
Cass McCombs.  Cass McCombs is an American songwriter and performer.
Fiachna Ó Braonáin.  Fiachna Ó Braonáin (born 27 November 1965) plays the guitar and sings vocals with the Irish band Hothouse Flowers. Born in Dublin he received his school education at Scoil Lorcáin and Coláiste Eoin. The Hothouse Flowers were founded as a Dublin street-performance act called the Incomparable Benzini Brothers by Fiachna and his schoolmate Liam Ó Maonlaí.Fiachna appears on a duet with Belinda Carlisle on her 2007 release Voila.In September 2007 he released an album with his other band PreNup.
Ronald Reng.  Ronald Reng is a German sports journalist and author. Of his books two have been translated to English and both of them have been honored with book awards in the UK. The Keeper of Dreams the story of the German non-league goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004. It was the first foreign book to achieve such praise.
Anthony Gross.  Anthony Gross CBE RA (1905–1984) was a British printmaker painter war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish Italian and Anglo-Irish descent.
Ron Wagner.  Ron J. Wagner is primarily known as an American comics artist who has drawn for titles such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero The Punisher Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. He is also an animation storyboard artist games designer and portrait artist. He attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in a class which also included Lee Weeks Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert.
James Sheridan Knowles.  James Sheridan Knowles (12 May 1784 – 30 November 1862) Irish dramatist and actor was born in Cork.
Constantine Maroulis.  Constantine James Maroulis (/məˈruːlɨs/; born September 17 1975) is an American actor and rock singer from Wyckoff New Jersey. He was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of the reality television series American Idol and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in Rock of Ages.
Federigo Pedulli.  Federigo Pedulli (Brisighella February 15 1860- after 1938) was an Italian painter mainly of watercolor vedute of exterior and interior scenes.He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna under Moradei but then moved to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Among a topic he often repeated was the interior of the Choir of the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.
John Tenniel.  Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was a British illustrator graphic humourist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of the 19th century. Tenniel is considered important to the study of that period’s social literary and art histories.
Roberto Quaglia.  Roberto Quaglia (born 1962) is an Italian science fiction writer. Many of his works have been translated and published in Romania and some have also been translated into English Russian Spanish French Czech Hungarian and Dutch.
Gordon Chan.  Gordon Chan Kar-Seung (simplified Chinese: 陈嘉上; traditional Chinese: 陳嘉上; pinyin: Chén Jiāshàng) born in 1960 is a Hong Kong film director writer and producer. His most notable works include Beast Cops Fist of Legend Painted Skin 2000 AD and Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. In 2011 he announced and launched the productions for Mural Four Detectives/Four Marshals and Painted Skin 2.
Eugénie Olson.  Eugénie Seifer Olson is an American-born author of three books. Raised in Verona New Jersey Eugénie has lived in several locations on the Eastern Seaboard including Princeton Philadelphia and Boston.
Goo Ha-ra.  Goo Hara (born January 13 1991) is a South Korean idol singer model dancer and actress. She is best known for being a member of Korean pop girl group Kara and for portraying Choi Da-hye the president's daughter on City Hunter in 2011.
Jean-François Paquay.  Jean-François Paquay (born 1956 Brussels Belgium) is a Belgian ceramist cartographer inventor and urban farmer.
Hans Lindahl.  Hans Lindahl (born October 15 1954) is a Swedish comic book artist best known for his work on the series The Phantom. His work on the Phantom have been published in countries like Sweden Norway Finland Denmark England Australia and Brazil.
The Dirtball.  David Alexander (Born in Crook County Oregon) better known by his stage name The Dirtball is an American recording solo artist a member of hip-hop rap group Kottonmouth Kings whom he joined in early 2010 and the punk rock group collaboration X-Pistols with Daddy X of the Kottonmouth Kings and members of So Cal punk group D.I.
Julian Royce.  Julian Royce (1870–1946) was a British actor.
Leon Kossoff.  Leon Kossoff (born 7 December 1926) is a British expressionist painter known for portraits life drawings and cityscapes of London England.Leon Kossoff was born in 1926 in Islington London and spent most of his early life living there with his Russian Jewish parents. In 1938 he attended the Hackney Downs School in London. In 1939 he was evacuated with the school to King's Lynn Norfolk where he lived with Mr and Mrs R.C. Bishop who encouraged his interest in art.
Laura Wade.  Laura Wade (born 1977 in Bedford England) is a British playwright.
Piotr Skrzynecki.  Piotr Cezary Skrzynecki (September 12 1930 Warsaw – April 27 1997 Kraków) was a Polish choreographer and director cabaret impresario best known for his involvement with the cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami (Cellar under the Rams) of whose he was the founder.
Tom Feelings.  Tom Feelings (19 May 1933 – 25 August 2003) was a cartoonist children's book illustrator author teacher and activist. Through his works he framed the African-American experience. His most famous book is The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo.
Jimmy Dean.  Jimmy Ray Dean (August 10 1928 – June 13 2010) was an American country music singer television host actor and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand he became a national television personality starting in 1957 rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit Big Bad John and his television series The Jimmy Dean Show which also gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure.
Haroon (singer).  Aaron Haroon Rashid (born 11 May 1973 in London United Kingdom) popularly known as Haroon is a British-Pakistani pop singer composer musician and producer. He has sold millions of CDs and tapes worldwide and has performed at large venues such as the Wembley Arena. Haroon is the creator and director of the successful Pakistani animated TV series the Burka Avenger. Haroon is campaign ambassador for Save the Children's Everyone Campaign that focuses on child health and nutrition.
Eric Aumonier.  Eric Aumonier (1899–1974) was a British sculptor.
Adrián Carrio.  For the American race car driver see Adrian Ace Carrio.Adrián Carrio is jazz pianist from Oviedo Spain. Carrio was born in 1986 a son of pianist parents. He started playing the instrument as a self-taught musician when he was just 6 years old. His parents sent him to learn classical piano with Marina Santamarina but kept also studying jazz for years as a self-taught musician.
May Swenson.  Anna Thilda May May Swenson (28 May 1913 – 4 December 1989) was an American poet and playwright. She is considered one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century as often hailed by the noted critic Harold Bloom.The first child of Margaret and Dan Arthur Swenson she grew up as the eldest of 10 children in a Mormon household where Swedish was spoken regularly and English was a second language. As a lesbian she was somewhat shunned by her family for religious reasons.
Joe English (musician).  Joe English (born February 7 1949) is an American musician who during the 1970s played drums in Paul McCartney's band Wings and in the Southern Rock/Jazz group Sea Level among others.
Cam Smith.  Cam Smith is a British comic book artist and inker known to British comic book readers for his work on 2000 AD and in the American comic book market for his collaborations with Gary Frank inking that would earn him and Eisner Award nomination.
Selden Edwards.  Selden Edwards (born 1941) is an American writer and educator. His first novel The Little Book was a New York Times bestseller. His second novel The Lost Prince a sequel to The Little Book was published by Dutton in 2012.
Violet Blue.  Violet Blue is an American journalist author editor advisor and educator.Blue wrote a weekly sex column for the San Francisco Chronicle until 2010. In her podcast Open Source Sex she reads erotica and discusses topics such as fetishes and oral sex. She also has a video blog. She lectures at San Francisco Sex Information on the topics of oral sex and fetish. Blue is the author of several books on sex and has edited several volumes of erotica anthologies.
Nicole Burdette.  Nicole Burdette is a playwright and actress. She wrote the play Chelsea Walls which she adapted to film in 2001. She is a co-founder of the Naked Angels (theater company). She also gave the company their name.As an actress she most notably played Mabel opposite Brad Pitt in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It.
Baldassarre Carrari the Elder.  Baldassarre Carrari the Elder was an Italian painter who worked at Forlì about the year 1354. He is supposed to be the author of a fragment of a series of paintings which once adorned the Schiavonia church. That which remains is now in the gymnasium at Forlì and represents the Adoration of the Magi and figures of SS.
William Henry Meadowcroft.  William Henry Meadowcroft (29 May 1853 in Manchester – 15 October 1937 in Boonton New Jersey) was the secretary of Thomas Edison and author of several books notably including The A B C of Electricity (1888).
Mukul Dey.  Mukul Chandra Dey (Bengali: মুকুলচন্দ্র দে) (1895–1989) was a student of Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. He is considered as a pioneer of drypoint-etching in India.He was the first Indian artist to travel abroad for the purpose of studying printmaking as an art. While in Japan in 1916 Mukul Dey studied under Yokoyama Taikan and Kanzan Shimomura at Tokyo and Yokohama.
Omar Hussein.  Omar Hussein (Arabic: عمر حسين‎; born May 21 1986) is a 26-year-old comedian who found his stage on YouTube. His show Al-Tayer based on local humor has drawn hundreds of thousands of hits. He's part of a growing trend where comedians and citizen journalists are using social media as a platform to address the two-thirds of the Saudi population under 30. These online celebrities are pushing the barriers of society through their popular but sometimes controversial talk shows.
David Draiman.  David Michael Draiman (born March 13 1973) is an American songwriter and the lead singer for the heavy metal band Disturbed as well as for the band Device. Draiman is known for his distorted voice and percussive singing style. In November 2006 Draiman was voted number 42 on the Hit Parader’s Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.
Stefan Pasborg.  Stefan Pasborg is a Danish drummer composer and bandleader and the founding member of ILK MUSIC a Danish record label.
Evan Frankfort.  Evan Frankfort (born December 13 1970) is an American TV/Film composer sound designer engineer and music producer. He has composed music for several shows and films including Rules of Engagement Swingtown In Plain Sight and Beverly Hills 90210.
Tim Ryan (country musician).  Tim Ryan Rouillier (born February 4 1964 in St. Ignatius Montana) is an American country music artist known professionally as Tim Ryan. Between 1990 and 1997 Ryan released four major-label studio albums. He also charted six singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. His highest charting single Dance in Circles peaked at No.
Nobuo Sekine.  Nobuo Sekine is a Japanese artist known for his participation in the Mono-ha movement. He was born in Saitama Japan in 1942. His Phase of Nothingness was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1970
Cyndee Summers.  Cyndee Summers (September 27 1949 – November 14-16 2009) was an American pornographic actress. She performed in about 50 films and loops during the Golden Age of Porn during the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame as a Film Pioneer.
Reza Amirkhani.  Reza Amirkhani is a contemporary Iranian novelist.He started writing at high school with ERMIA novel.He has studied mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology and is a graduate of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents; he also writes essays and researches about scientific & social problems. Some of his novels remarkably Man-e-oo (His Ego)[citation needed] AZ BE NASER ARMANI has received some popular acclaim[citation needed].
Jean-Baptiste Nicolet.  Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (16 April 1728 - 27 December 1796) was a French actor and manager. He was the eldest son of puppeteer dance master and violinist Guillaume Nicolet. He set up the Grands-Danseurs du Roi the predecessor of the Théâtre de la Gaîté.
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau.  Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (June 13 1912 – October 24 1943) was a French Canadian poet and painter who was posthumously hailed as a herald of the Quebec literary renaissance of the 1950s. He has been called Quebec's first truly modern poet.
Masaki Sato.  Masaki Sato (佐藤 優樹 Satō Masaki born (1999-05-07)May 7 1999 in Sapporo Hokkaido) is a Japanese pop singer. She is a tenth-generation member of the pop group Morning Musume.
Erling Christie.  Erling Christie (19 May 1928 — 3 September 1996) was a Norwegian author. Christie was among the pioneers of modernism in Norway both as a poet and a critic. Christie published five poetry collections in his life and these were collected in the posthumous collection Samlede dikt (Aschehoug 1998). His literary works meant that Christie introduced a large number of English language authors to the Norwegian public and his own poetry was inspired by English speaking authors such as T. S.
Logan English.  Logan Eberhardt English (November 29 1928 – March 9 1983) was an American folk singer poet actor and playwright. As MC at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village he was influential in Bob Dylan's early career and also recorded one of the earliest albums produced as a tribute to Woody Guthrie.
Julien Gracq.  Julien Gracq (27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007) born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil in the French département of Maine-et-Loire was a French writer. He wrote novels critiques a play and poetry. His literary works were noted for their Surrealism elegant style and refined vocabulary.
Siegfried Lenz.  Siegfried Lenz (born 17 March 1926) is a German writer who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories essays and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife Liselotte also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.
Nancy Davidson.  Nancy Brachman Davidson is an American feminist artist working in sculpture installation art photography and video. Her work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia or ICA the Corcoran in Washington D.C. the Wight Gallery at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as well as the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles and Robert Miller Gallery [1] in New York among others.
Gerald Reece.  Sir Gerald Reece KCMG CBE DL (10 January 1897 - October 14 1985) was a British writer and colonial administrator. He served as Governor of the British Somaliland Protectorate from 1948 until February 1954.He was affiliated with the Royal African Society and authoredThe Horn of Africa for the Royal Institute of International Affairs in October 1954 (Vol. 30 #4 pp. 440–449 doi:10.2307/2608724).
Anna Bella Geiger.  Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro and her work characterized by the use of different media is held by galleries and private collections in the USA China Brazil and Europe.
Streeter Seidell.  Streeter Seidell (born December 2 1982) is an American comedian writer actor and TV host. Seidell first gained popularity as part of the cast of CollegeHumor's online skits although he has written and edited the site's front page before then.
Santhosh Echikkanam.  Santhosh Echikkanam (Malayalam: സന്തോഷ് ഏച്ചിക്കാനം) is a South Indian contemporary short story writer from Kerala. He is one of the newcomers in Malayalam literature. He was born in Kasargode district in Kerala. Santhosh was into politics during his college life. He never stood first in the college story-writing competitions. But he stick on to his passion and later turned to be a good writer mostly in short stories.
George Carlin.  George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12 1937 – June 22 2008) was an American comedian writer social critic and actor who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was noted for his black comedy as well as his thoughts on politics the English language psychology religion and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his Seven dirty words comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v.
Christopher Whyte (writer).  Christopher Whyte (Crisdean MhicIlleBhain) is a Scottish poet novelist translator and critic.He was born in 1952 in Glasgow and graduated from St. Aloysius' College and later Cambridge University. For many years he lived in Italy before moving back to Scotland in 1985 to teach Scottish literature at Glasgow University (from 1990 until 2005).
Kelly Green (musician).  Kelly Green (born Elaine Annette Sherratt 20 July 1947) is an Australian singer. Born in the United Kingdom she migrated to Australia in 1956 her singing career began in Sydney at the age of 15. Green grew up in a musical family – her father Norman Sherratt was a guitarist and her older twin sisters Christine and Norma were also singers.
Aja Kim.  Aja Kim is an American singer and songwriter.
Nathan Daboll.  Nathan Daboll (May 5 1750 [O.S. April 24 1750] – March 9 1818) was an American teacher who wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools in the first half of the 19th century. During the course of his career he also operated a popular navigation school for merchant mariners and published a variety of almanacs during the American Revolution period.
Ivana Selakov.  Ivana Selakov (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Селаков pronounced [ǐʋana sɛlǎkɔʋ] born November 8 1978 in Belgrade Serbia former SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian singer former member of the girlband Beauty Queens.
Jacques Dutronc.  Jacques Dutronc (born 28 April 1943) is a French singer songwriter guitarist composer and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son (jazz guitarist Thomas Dutronc born 1973). He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann.
Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab.  Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab (27 February 1759 – 19 August 1813) was a German composer writer music publisher and critic living in Berlin. Rellstab was a very influential figure in Berlin's musical life. In his youth he studied keyboard with Johann Friedrich Agricola and composition with Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. He planned to continue his education with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Hamburg when in 1779 he had to take over the printing business of his father.
Hermann Wislicenus.  Hermann Wislicenus (20 September 1825 – 25 April 1899) was a German historical painter.
Stephen Hopkins (musician).  Stephen Hopkins is a former musician who worked as Steve Hopkins as musician with different Manchester punk and new wave artists as John Cooper Clarke Pauline Murray Morrissey Ed Garrity among others. He currently works as a physicist.
Malkit Singh.  Malkit Singh (Punjabi: ਮਲਕੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ) (born Malkit Singh Boparai) MBE (born 1962) is a Britain-based Punjabi bhangra singer. Born in Hussainpur Jalandhar and raised in Nakodar Jalandhar Punjab he moved to Birmingham in England in 1984. Malkit Singh has become the first Punjabi singer to be honoured by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London with the award of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Disma Fumagalli.  Disma Fumagalli (born Inzago September 8 1826 - died Milan March 9 1893) was an Italian composer and teacher of music. He was a graduate of the Milan Conservatory where he began teaching piano in 1853. He composed more than 300 études for piano as well as other exercises; he also wrote a concerto for piano and string orchestra.Fumagalli's brothers Carlo Polibio Adolfo and Luca were all composers.
Reen Nalli.  Reen Nalli is an American music executive. She is the current president of A&R Consultants. She has worked with the likes of INXS Blue October and India.Arie.
Noble Frankland.  Anthony Noble Frankland CB CBE DFC DPhil (born 4 July 1922) is a British historian and a former Director General of the Imperial War Museum.Noble Frankland attended Trinity College Oxford from March 1941 to May 1942 and then from October 1945 to November 1947. He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1941 to 1945 as a navigator in RAF Bomber Command and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1944.
Kenneth Forbes.  .Kenneth Keith Forbes (July 4 1892 – 1980) was a Canadian portrait and landscape painter. His painting entitled Canadian Artillery in action is on display at the Canadian War Museum.
Dave Bidini.  Dave Bidini (born September 11 1963) is a Canadian musician and writer. Originally from Etobicoke Ontario he was a founding member of the rock band Rheostatics and currently performs with Bidiniband. In addition he has published several books about music travel and sports and has written feature journalism pieces and columns for numerous Canadian magazines and newspapers.
Sue de Beer.  Sue de Beer (born September 8 1973 in Tarrytown New York[citation needed]) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.
Rebecca Miller (singer).  Rebecca Miller is a Canadian country music artist. Her 1995 single Listen to the Radio reached the Top 20 of the RPM Country Tracks chart. An album was planned for release but shelved when her record label closed. In 2009 she was signed to Crystal Shawanda's label New Sun Records.
Levi Stubbs.  Levi Stubbles (June 6 1936 – October 17 2008) better known by the stage name Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Motown R&B group Four Tops. He was also a voice artist in film and animated television series most famously having provided the voice of the alien plant Audrey II in the musical horror film Little Shop of Horrors and Mother Brain in Captain N: The Game Master. Stubbs was admired by his peers for his impressive vocal range.
Helen Frankenthaler.  Helen Frankenthaler (December 12 1928 – December 27 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011) she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work.
Koji Ishikawa (artist).  Koji Ishikawa (イシカワコウジ Ishikawa Kōji Japan) is a Japanese contemporary artist. though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Ishikawa had seven solo exhibitions since 1991.
John Patience.  John Patience is an English author and illustrator. He is best known for his Fern Hollow series of books for young children.
Jackson Guice.  Jackson Butch Guice (born June 27 1961 in Chattanooga Tennessee) is an American comic book artist who has worked in the comics industry since the 1980s.
Matt Braunger.  Matthew Matt Braunger (born August 1 1974) is an American actor writer and stand-up comedian. Outside of performing stand-up Braunger is noted for being a cast member on MADtv during its final season in 2008-2009 and most recently as a recurring guest star on NBC's Up All Night as Gene Martin.
Ron Bushy.  Ron Bushy (born September 23 1945) is the drummer of the rock band Iron Butterfly. He is the only member of the group to appear on all six of their studio albums.He was born in Washington D.C. on September 23 1945 and makes his home in Orlando Florida. He grew up in a military family living in approximately 34 states during his youth.
Jaybird Coleman.  Burl C. Jaybird Coleman (May 20 1896 – January 28 1950) was an American country blues harmonica player guitarist and singer.Born in Gainesville Alabama United States the son of sharecroppers and one of four children. He was born raised and worked on a farm and picked up and learned the harmonica at 12 years of age. Coleman began performing the blues as an entertainer for American soldiers while serving in the United States Army.
Betsy Cook.  Betsy Cook is an American-born singer songwriter and musician. Since the late 1970s she has worked mainly in the United Kingdom and collaborated with various British artists such as Gerry Rafferty Ray Jackson Lindisfarne George Michael Paul Young Seal and Marc Almond. She later became affiliated with the acclaimed producer Trevor Horn and worked on several of his projects in the late 1980s and early 1990s before releasing her own album The Girl Who Ate Herself in 1992.
Masato Jones.  Masato Jones (born 1978) is a British based fashion designer who started his own label MASATO in 2011 after graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. His collections have been showcased at several Fashion Weeks including in the UK: Brighton Cheltenham Essex Leeds Liverpool and Manchester and also at Nürnberg in Germany.
Tiffany Mynx.  Tiffany Mynx (born October 10 1971 in Upland California) is an American pornographic actress and film director. She is a member of the AVN XRCO and Legends of Erotica Halls of Fame.
Michael Bradford.  Michael Bradford (born 1961 in Detroit Wayne County Michigan) is an African American musician. He was born and raised on Detroit's East Side an area that was once a working-class neighborhood but quickly deteriorated into decay after the city's tumultuous riots in 1967.The late 60s and early 70s were also a remarkable time in Detroit for music.
Jade Starr.  Jade Starr is an American model Go-Go dancer and actress based in Los Angeles. She is a mix of Cherokee and Irish. Her work ranges from fashion modeling to lesbian pornography.[citation needed] She has done close to 30 adult films.
Patrice Pike.  Patrice Pike is an American singer songwriter and musician. She's been a professional musician and songwriter since she was sixteen. Billboard magazine proclaimed her one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America.
Kim Il-yeop.  Kim Il-yeop (korean:김일엽 hanja:金一葉 April 28 1896 - May 28 1971) was a Korean writer journalist feminist activist Buddhist nun and independent activist. She was an early Korean Free Love advocate and Free Sex activist.Her ideas ultimitely led to her downfall and she received severe criticism from Neo-Confucian devotees. Her real name was Kim Wom-ju (김원주 金元周); Her penname and Buddhist name was Il-yeop (일엽 一葉).
Fenton Johnson.  John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.
Julio Barragán.  Julio Barragán (1928–2011) was an Argentine painter of the Concretist and Cubist schools.
Keith Howland.  Keith Howland (born August 14 1964 in Silver Spring Maryland) is an American guitarist and singer. Since 1995 he has been the lead guitarist for the veteran pop-rock band Chicago.Howland started playing the guitar at the age of seven and he played in a number of bands during his school years. He attended high school in Richmond Virginia and graduated from James Madison University in 1986 with a degree in communications.
B. Puttaswamayya.  B. Puttaswamayya (kannada:ಬಿ. ಪುಟ್ಟಸ್ವಾಮಯ್ಯ) (May 24 1897 – January 25 1984) was a novelist playwright and journalist in the kannada language. He was recipient of 1964 sahitya academy award for his novel kranthi kalyana.
Ravi (music director).  Ravi Shankar Sharma (3 March 1926 – 7 March 2012) often referred to mononymously as Ravi was an Indian music director who had composed music for several Hindi and Malayalam films. After a successful career in Hindi cinema he took a break from 1970s to 1984 and made a successful comeback under the stage name Bombay Ravi. He died on 7 March 2012 in Mumbai at the age of 86.
Soledad Bravo.  Soledad Bravo (born 1943) is a Venezuelan singer. Born in Logroño La Rioja Spain her father was a Spanish republican moving to Venezuela with his family when his daughter was still at an early age. At 24 Soledad began studying architecture and philosophy at the Universidad Central de Venezuela where she also began performing.
Mike Perras.  Mike Perras (born June 19 1963) is a Canadian DJ from Montréal. He produced the 1991 singles “Beginning of Life” and “Keep Moving” on Bassic Records.
Jasper Carrott.  Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Norman Davis on 14 March 1945) is an English comedian actor television presenter and personality.
Mike Dierickx.  Mike Dierickx (born 20 February 1973) formerly known as Dirk Dierickx and most commonly recognized under the aliases M.I.K.E. Push or Plastic Boy is a Belgian DJ. Best known for the song Universal Nation he has also released other singles including The Legacy and Strange World. His style is primarily progressive trance.
John Fante.  John Fante (April 8 1909 – May 8 1983) was an American novelist short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. He is perhaps best known for his work Ask the Dust a semi-autobiograpical novel about life in and around Los Angeles California which was the third in a series of four novels published between 1938 and 1985 that are now collectively called The Bandini Quartet. That book was made into a movie by the same name in 2006.
Michele Marelli.  Michele Marelli (born 18 July 1978) is an Italian clarinet and basset horn soloist.
Edmond Roudnitska.  Edmond Roudnitska (1905–1996) was a French master perfumer and author. He is known for creating some of the most famous perfumes in the world such as Dior's Eau Sauvage and Diorissimo and Rochas's Femme. Many of his creations are still in production today. He was the father of perfumer Michel Roudnitska.In 1926 he started his training in perfumery in Grasse. In 1942 he met Thérèse Delveaux who became his wife.
Kaci Battaglia.  Kaci Lyn Battaglia (/ˈkeɪsi/ KAY-see; born October 3 1987 Clearwater Florida) also known as Kaci is an American singer songwriter dancer actress and professional kickboxing instructor. Kaci rose to fame in 2001 with her hit single Paradise her last recent activity in the public eye was in 2010.
Asami Konno.  Asami Konno (紺野 あさ美 Konno Asami) born May 7 1987 is a former Japanese pop singer and now a TV host for TV Tokyo best known as former fifth generation member of the all-girl Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined the group in the August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Ai Takahashi Makoto Ogawa and Risa Niigaki.
Leon Walter Tillage.  Leon Walter Tillage (January 19 1936 – October 5 2011) was the author of Leon's Story an account of the effects of Jim Crow laws on the lives of African Americans during the 1930s and 1940s.
Auden Group.  The Auden Group is the name given to a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden Louis MacNeice Cecil Day-Lewis Stephen Spender Christopher Isherwood and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner.
John William Casilear.  John William Casilear (June 25 1811 – August 17 1893) was an American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School. Casilear was born in New York City. His first professional training was under prominent New York engraver Peter Maverick in the 1820s then with Asher Durand himself an engraver at the time. Casilear and Durand became friends and both worked as engravers in New York through the 1830s.
Al Wilson (singer).  Allen LaMar Al Wilson (June 19 1939 – April 21 2008) was an American soul singer known for the million-selling #1 hit Show and Tell. He is also remembered for his Northern soul anthem The Snake.
Philip Shelby.  Philip Shelby is an American writer possibly best known for writing the second novel The Cassandra Compact in the Covert-One series in conjunction with fellow author Robert Ludlum.
Ai Jing.  Ai Jing (Chinese: 艾敬; pinyin: Ài Jìng; born 10 September 1969 in Shenyang Liaoning) is a mainland Chinese singer and painter. China's Northeast News called her China's most talented female folk rock singer.Ai was born into a musical family: her father played several instruments and her mother was a Pingju singer.
Marji Campi.  Marji Campi is a British actress best known for playing Joyce Watson in Surgical Spirit between 1989 and 1995; and Jessie Hilton in Brookside from 1998 to 2002. Her stage experience includes work at Chester Colchester Hull and in various London venues.
Margaret Clarkson.  Margaret Clarkson (born August 13 1941) was born in Rotherham England and trained as an artist at Rotherham School of Art and Bromley College of Art. Later she became an art teacher in South Yorkshire.
Vladimir Tendryakov.  Vladimir Tendryakov (Russian: Влади́мир Фёдорович Тендряко́в) (December 5 1923 – August 3 1984) was a Soviet short story writer and novelist.
Fritz Ascher.  Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin Germany) was a German Expressionist whose artwork is characterized by bold brushstrokes and expressionist colors combined with a strong commitment to authenticity.
Laura Allred.  Laura Allred is a comics artist who is best known for her work with her husband Mike Allred as a colorist.
Micky Moody.  Michael Joseph Micky Moody (born 30 August 1950) is an English guitarist and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleague Bernie Marsden he founded the Moody Marsden Band and later The Snakes having previously collaborated with unofficial 5th Status Quo member Bob Young in Young & Moody.
Juan José Palacios.  Juan José Palacios Orihuela (1944–2002) Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz). Spanish musician and record producer. Drummer of the rock band Triana.
Domenico Massenzio.  Domenico Massenzio (28 March 1586 - 23 October 1657) was an Italian baroque composer. He worked at the Seminario Romano 1612 Collegio Inglese 1624-6 Cappella Giulia 1626-7. The first of two collections of motets were published in 1612.
Lü Yue.  Lü Yue (simplified Chinese: 吕乐; traditional Chinese: 呂樂) (born 1957) is a Chinese cinematographer and film director. Born in Tianjin Lü is today among the most important cinematographers of recent Chinese cinema[citation needed] and is particularly well known for his collaborations with director Zhang Yimou with whom he served as director of photography in three films. Lü was nominated for an Academy Award for best cinematographer for Zhang's film Shanghai Triad.
Tommaso Dossi.  Tommaso Dossi (1678 – 18 July 1730) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active in Verona. He trained with Giovanni Murari and then with Simone Brentana. He painted an altarpiece of the Virgin and child with San Filippo Neri for the church of the Padre Filippini. He painted a Santa Eurosia for the parish church of Mazzurega.
Harvey Manning.  Harvey Manning (July 16 1925 in Ballard Seattle Washington - November 12 2006 in Bellevue Washington) was a noted author of hiking guides and climbing textbooks and a tireless hiking advocate. Manning lived on Cougar Mountain within the city limits of Bellevue Washington calling his home the 200 meter hut.
Neko Case.  Neko Case (/ˈniːkoʊ ˈkeɪs/; born September 8 1970) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers.
Bob Brunning.  Robert Bob Brunning (29 June 1943 – 18 October 2011) was a British musician who was as a small part of a long musical career the original bass guitar player with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac.
Bang Ye-dam.  Bang Ye-dam (Hangul: 방예담; born May 7 2002) is a South Korean singer and dancer. He known as the runner-up of SBS's K-pop Star Season 2. He is currently signed to YG Entertainment. His father is singer Bang Dae-sik.
Mel Ash.  Mel Ash is a Zen teacher writer artist and performer with a lifelong passion for transformative experience and cultural change. Previously authorized as a Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen he left this tradition to join the Unitarian Church. Mel Ash continues to teach workshops nationally on Zen Beat spirituality and alternative psychology.
Sari Ibrahim Khoury.  Sari Ibrahim Khoury (March 13 1941 - June 18 1997 Arabic: سري خوري‎) was an American visual artist originally from Jerusalem. He primarily worked in abstract modes in acrylic oil and charcoal.
Fernando Milagros.  Fernando Milagros (Santiago February 1980) is a Chilean pop rock singer-songwriter and a part of the independent music scene in Santiago. He was born Fernando Briones and got his stage name from his three years as the singer and bass player in the band Maria Milagros. He has divided his time between music and a successful career in theater design.In 2006 Milagros made his first solo album Vacaciones en el Patio de mi Casa (Vacations In My Backyard) which was released in 2007.
Pavel Núñez.  Pavel Núñez commonly referred to as Pavel is a singer from Santo Domingo Dominican Republic with influences of Rock en Español Latin pop and Dominican traditional music. Best known for his international hit single Te Di and other favorites like Betania and Paso a Paso. He released his album El Tiempo del Viento early 2010
Laurieann Gibson.  Laurieann Gibson (born July 14 1969 in Toronto Ontario Canada) is a VMA-winning choreographer Emmy-nominated director television host/personality and hip hop singer/recording artist best known for her work with Lady Gaga Diddy Nicki Minaj 2NE1 BIGBANG and Katy Perry.
Hassan Kassai.  Hassan Kassai (Persian: حسن کسائی‎‎; 25 September 1928 – 14 June 2012) was an iconic master of Persian classical music and renowned player of Ney the traditional reed flute of Persia/Iran.
Yu Xunfa.  Yu Xun-fa (俞遜發) (January 8 1946 – January 21 2006) was a Chinese flute player who invented the wind-instrument known as the koudi. Born in Shanghai he popularized the art of the flute in Chinese culture during the 1970s.
Xonia.  Xonia (born Loredana Sachelaru; 25 June 1989) is a Romanian singer songwriter actress and dancer.
Giacinto Bondioli.  Giacinto Bondioli (1596-1636) was an Italian Dominican prior and composer. He was composer at Il convento de' PP. Predicatori di S. Domenico in Venice and uncle and probably teacher of Biagio Marini.
Rayveness.  Rayveness (born 19 June 1972 in Jamestown North Carolina) is an on-again off-again pornographic actress and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee and former Quaker.
Satomi'.  Satomi' (born March 7 1989) is a Japanese pop singer. She also goes under the names Satomi and Satton. In 2003 she began vocal and dance lessons simultaneously. She had her first live performance at 15 at the MIDEM 2005 International Music Conference where she was discovered by a sports magazine. She debuted in the United Kingdom in 2005 with the song love shouts under the hiptones label as the label's first featured artist.
May Sarton.  May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3 1912 – July 16 1995) an American poet novelist and memoirist.
François Barraud.  François Barraud (14 November 1899 – 11 September 1934) was a Swiss painter.Barraud was the eldest of four brothers who all painted or sculpted at various points in their lives. The brothers François Aimé Aurèle and Charles were largely self-taught artists having been raised as professional plasterers and house painters. Barraud attended evening classes at the local art school in 1911 together with his brothers.
Beverley Mahood.  Beverley Mahood (born 2 November 1974 in Belfast Northern Ireland) is a country music singer-songwriter and television host in Canada. Beverley emigrated from Belfast to Canada as a child. She is also formerly part of the all-female trio Lace produced by the renowned Los Angeles producer David Foster. From 2004 to 2005 she co-hosted the Citytv Vancouver morning show Breakfast Television. Mahood was then named to co-host CMT Canada's flagship show CMT Central.
Erin Fetherston.  Erin Fetherston is an American designer from San Francisco California . She graduated from UC Berkeley before attending Parson's School of Design in Paris.In January 2005 she first presented her eponymous label during the Paris Haute Couture Shows. From its debut the collection established Fetherston’s signature feminine whimsical and romantic sensibility earning the brand a devoted following of press and celebrities.
Joëlle Léandre.  Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951 in Aix-en-Provence France) is a double bassist vocalist and composer active in new music and free improvisation.In the field of contemporary music she has performed with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain and worked with Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Both Cage and Giacinto Scelsi have composed works specifically for her.She gave an historic solo concert in Jazz em Agosto in 2007 (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon Portugal).
Annie Herring.  Annie Herring (born Annie Ward September 22 1945) is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre later to be called Contemporary Christian music. She was more notably a part of the trio 2nd Chapter of Acts in which she wrote most of the songs and sang lead and harmony vocals with her brother Matthew Ward and sister Nelly (Ward) Greisen. However during her musical career with the 2nd Chapter of Acts from 1973 to 1988 she also recorded solo albums.
Brian Keany.  Brian Keany RSW DA (Edin) (1945 – February 2007) was a Scottish painter and teacher who was elected as a member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.Keany was born in Forfar in 1945 and grew up in Brechin.
Joe Stefanelli (painter).  Joe Stefanelli (born 1921) also known as Joseph J. Stefanelli belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
Bernardo Kucinski.  Bernardo Kucinski (São Paulo 1937) is a Brazilian journalist and political scientist professor at the University of São Paulo and collaborator of Workers' Party (Brazil). He served as advisor to the President of the Republic during the first term of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Donal Ryan.  Donal Ryan (born 1976) is an Irish writer. He is notable for his book The Spinning Heart which was long listed for the Booker Prize in 2013 and won the Guardian First Book Award in the same year.
Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti.  Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti (Turin 1849 - 1931) was an Italian painter mainly of genre subjects.
Jason Harrod.  Jason Harrod is an American guitarist and singer who writes and performs bluegrass/folk music. Harrod's first album Dreams of the Colorblind was released in 1992. Harrod's first album was coreleased with songwriter Brian Funck with whom he played until 1998. The pair released three CDs with their first studio CD (produced by Mark Heard) making it to number 38 on the CMJ AAA top 40 chart. The pair broke up in 1998 and only Harrod continued in the music industry.
Alexander Wolfe.  Alexander Wolfe is an English singer-songwriter and musician.
Minnie Riperton.  Minnie Julia Riperton Rudolph (November 8 1947 – July 12 1979) known professionally as Minnie Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single Lovin' You. She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in 1979. They had two children: music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph.Riperton grew up on Chicago's South Side. As a child she studied music drama and dance at Chicago's Lincoln Center.
Exene Cervenka.  Exene Cervenka (born Christene Lee Cervenka February 1 1956) is an American singer artist and poet best known for her work as a singer in the Los Angeles punk rock band X.
David Poore.  David Poore (born 2 December 1966) is a British independent musician who has composed and produced music for over 200 films by the BBC ITV Channel 4 Disney PBS National Geographic RTÉ and other broadcasters.
Walter Randall.  Walter Randall (1918–2008) was a British dancer turned actor with numerous roles in British television including parts in The Saint Out of This World Yes Minister The Professionals and Dixon of Dock Green. He appeared in the Doctor Who story The Aztecs in 1964 and was interviewed for the DVD release in 2002. Five further appearances on the programme followed the last of which was Planet of the Spiders in 1974.Randall died in early 2008.
Jessica Frech.  Jessica Frech is an American pop/folk singer-songwriter from Nashville Tennessee. Jessica is attending Belmont University majoring in songwriting.Frech gained worldwide notoriety with the release of the “People of Walmart” music video on YouTube. The comedy video features images from the People of Walmart photo blog along with an original score written by Frech. Shortly after release the video went viral with multi-millions of views.
Ian Gillan.  Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945) is an English rock vocalist and songwriter. He originally found commercial success as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple.Initially influenced by Elvis Presley Gillan started and fronted several local bands in the mid-sixties and eventually joined Episode Six when their original singer left. He first found widespread commercial success after joining Deep Purple in 1969.
Jason Latour.  David Jason Latour (born 1977[citation needed]) is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work for Image Dark Horse Marvel and DC comics on titles such as Scalped Wolverine B.P.R.D. Winter Soldier and Django Unchained.
Samuli Laiho.  Samuli Laiho (born 1969 in Tampere) is a Finnish guitarist.
Rodney Hall.  Rodney Hall OAM (born 18 November 1935) is an Australian writer.
Eek-A-Mouse.  Eek-A-Mouse (born Ripton Joseph Hylton November 19 1957 Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is one of the early artists to be described as a singjay.
Demi (DJ).  Demi is a house music DJ and producer from London England. He is most well known for his Deeper Substance parties and currently runs the record label Deeper Substance Records. He is currently working on an album and mix compilation project with Omid 16B and Desyn Masiello.Demi was originally interested in hip hop until he discovered house music in 1997. Demi's first gig came in 2000 at a beach in Bali Indonesia where he played to a crowd of 1500 people.
Marjorie Lewty.  Marjorie Lewty née Lobb (b. 8 April 1906 in Wallasey Cheshire England UK – d. 21 January 2002) was a British writer of short stories and over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999 to Mills & Boon.
John Richard de Capel Wise.  John Richard de Capel Wise (1831–1 April 1890) was a writer and natural historian. Although he wrote on Shakespeare and other subjects his most successful work was his 1862 book The New Forest: its History and its Scenery which describes the scenery the natural history the antiquities and the dialect of the New Forest in Hampshire England.
Olwen Wymark.  Olwen Wymark (14 February 1932 – 14 June 2013) was an American writer and playwright.
Pascal Nemirovski.  Pascal Nemirovski (born 1962) is a French pianist. In 1981 he was admitted to The Juilliard School on full scholarship (Steinway & Freundlich Fund) and studied with Nadia Reisenberg pupil of Josef Hoffman and Adele Marcus pupil of Josef Lhevinne.As a pedagogue he enjoys an international reputation presenting master classes throughout the world and is often a jury member at international piano competitions.
Gary Hailes.  Gary Hailes (born 4 November 1965 in London) is an English actor.During the 1980s he starred in several successful television series including Woodentop Grange Hill and the BBC soap opera EastEnders where he played Barry Clark from 1986-89. Hailes' character was notable for being one half of the soap's first gay couple introduced as the partner of the yuppie graphic designer Colin Russell (played by Michael Cashman).
Yoshifumi Tajima.  Yoshifumi Tajima (4 August 1918 – 10 September 2009) was an actor in Japanese Kaijū films best known for his role as Kumayama in Mothra vs. Godzilla. He was born in Kobe Japan.
Cornelis Vreeswijk.  Cornelis Vreeswijk (About this sound Swedish pronunciation  About this sound Dutch pronunciation ) (8 August 1937 – 12 November 1987) was a singer-songwriter poet and actor born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands.He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the age of twelve. He was educated as a social worker and hoped to become a journalist but became increasingly involved in music performing at events for students.
Brett Kull.  Brett Kull (born July 6 1966 in West Point Pennsylvania) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter composer and record producer best known for his work with the progressive rock group Echolyn.
Benny Reid.  Benny Reid is a jazz musician and saxophonist who records for the independent record label Concord Music Group on their Concord Records label. He has released two albums.
DJ Puzzle.  DJ Puzzle (real name Jason Donnelly) is a Los Angeles-based American DJ music producer remixer and musician. He founded and manages Peace Love Productions a producer of royalty free sounds for loop based music software.
Jelena Karleuša.  Jelena Karleuša Tošić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Карлеуша Тошић; born 17 August 1978) professionally known under her maiden name Jelena Karleuša and initials JK is a Serbian pop singer and former columnist. She rose to fame with her debut turbo-folk album Ogledalce (1995) and has since gained popularity in all of the former Yugoslavia. She is married to football player Duško Tošić with whom she has two daughters.
Moisés Moleiro.  Moisés Moleiro (1904–1979) was a Venezuelan pianist and composer. He was born in 1904 and studied under Salvador Llamozas. Moleiro founded the Orfeón Lamas and taught piano at the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy (today the Escuela de Música José Ángel Lamas). His works have been performed in the United States Europe and across Latin America. One of his most popular compositions is the Joropo a piano take on Venezuela's folkloric music. He died in 1979.
Bizarre (rapper).  Rufus Arthur Johnson (born July 5 1976) better known by his stage name Bizarre is an American rapper best known for his work with Detroit-based hip hop group D12.
Tom Smith (filker).  Tom Smith is a singer-songwriter from Ann Arbor Michigan who got his start in the filk music community. He is a fourteen-time winner of the Pegasus Award for excellence in filking including awards for his A Boy and His Frog 307 Ale and The Return of the King (Uh-huh) and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2005.
John Gilroy (artist).  John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator best known for his advertising posters for Guinness the Irish stout.
Angelo Albanesi.  Angelo Albanesi (late 18th century) was an Italian engraver.He is known for etchings of architectural ruins in and near Rome and a series of engravings of nymphs after Angelica Kauffman published in London in 1784. He also engraved some portraits.
Neil Mossey.  Neil Mossey is a British comedy writer and television producer.His credits include Bounty Hamster (ITV1) My Parents Are Aliens (ITV1) The RDA with John Gordillo (BBC Choice) and RI:SE (Channel 4).His radio credits include It's That Jo Caulfield Again
Evelyne Axell.  Evelyne Axell (16 August 1935 – 10 September 1972) was a Belgian Pop painter. She is best known for her psychedelic erotic paintings of female nudes and self-portraits on plexiglas that blend the hedonistic and Pop impulses of the 1960s.
Dick Glasser.  Richard Eugene Dick Glasser (December 8 1933 – July 10 2000) was a singer songwriter and record producer.
W. E. Johns.  William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns although he never held that rank. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.
Darren Knott.  Darren Knott also known as DK is a British disc jockey and record producer on the Ninja Tune independent record label.DK began working for Ninja Tune performing remixes of Coldcut's track Timber (1998).In 2001 along with DJ Food he released the first album in the Solid Steel mix series Solid Steel Presents: Now Listen! and the most recent Solid Steel Presents: Now Listen Again!.He has toured with Coldcut Kid Koala and DJ Food members PC and Strictly Kev.
Dave Knudson (guitarist).  Dave Knudson (born October 13 1976) plays guitar with Seattle based indie band Minus the Bear and was previously the guitarist for mathcore band Botch. Other credits include additional guitars on These Arms Are Snakes' album Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home.
Kim Jong-hae.  Kim Jong-hae (born July 23 1941) is a Korean author ex-sailor and publisher.
Doug Tielli.  Doug Tielli is a Canadian musician based in Toronto Ontario Canada and is currently a member of The Silt.He has been involved in a number of other musical projects such as People from Earth Rock Plaza Central Snailhouse Tamara Williamson CLARK the band Everybody Get Sick Lenin I Shumov The Draperies Metal Kites and The Reveries.He is brother to fellow Canadian musicians John and Martin Tielli.
Matt Kindt.  Matt Kindt (born 1973) is an American comic book writer artist and graphic designer.
Leon Russell.  Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges April 2 1942) is an American musician and songwriter who has recorded as a session musician sideman and maintained a solo career in music.
Wrekonize.  Benjamin Miller (born May 5 1983) better known by his stage name Wrekonize is an American underground rapper and current member of Miami band ¡Mayday!. He is currently signed to Tech N9ne's Strange Music record label.
Chris Waters.  Christopher Waters Dunn (born in San Antonio Texas) is an American country music singer and songwriter known professionally as Chris Waters. The brother of singer Holly Dunn Waters has co-written singles for other artists including Number Ones for Tim McGraw and Cyndi Thomson.
Siw Malmkvist.  Siw Siwan Gunnel Margareta Malmkvist (born 31 December 1936) is a Swedish singer who has been popular in Scandinavia and West Germany. She had a number one hit in West Germany in 1964 with Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht (English: Lovesickness is Not Worthwhile) and on 18 July 1964 she became the first Swede to have a hit on the US Billboard chart when Sole Sole Sole a duet with Italian singer Umberto Marcato enters the chart.
Bill Swan.  Bill Swan (born January 25 1939) is a Canadian children's author living in Courtice Ontario. He teaches writing-related courses online and works as a communications consultant. Bill Swan was college administrator and journalism professor at Durham College in Oshawa Ontario. He was a newspaper editor and columnist. He studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario.
Karen Mok.  Karen Joy Morris (born 2 June 1970) better known as Karen Mok or Mok Man-wai among Chinese-speaking communities is a three-time Golden Melody Award-winning Hong Kong actress and singer-songwriter.
Bill Douglas (musician).  Bill Douglas (born November 7 1944) is a Canadian musician composer pianist and bassoonist whose works received influence from classical music jazz African Brazilian and Indian music 1970s funk and many other genres.He has toured and recorded for thirty years with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
Street Symphony (producer).  Torrance Esmond better known by the professional name Street Symphony is an American record producer and music executive from Memphis Tennessee.
Robyn Hitchcock.  Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist he also plays harmonica piano and bass guitar.Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys Hitchcock afterward launched a prolific solo career. His musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan John Lennon and Syd Barrett.
Gail Tremblay.  Gail Tremblay (born 1945) is a Mi'kmaq and Onondaga writer and artist.
Anna Margolin.  Anna Margolin (Yiddish: אַננאַ מאַרגאָליו) is the pen name of Rosa Harning Lebensboym (1887–1952) a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American Yiddish language poet.Born in Brest Belarus then part of the Russian Empire she was educated up to secondary school level where she studied Hebrew. She first went to New York in 1906 and permanently settled there in 1913. Most of her poetry was written there.
Sandrine Kiberlain.  Sandrine Kiberlain (born 25 February 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French actress and singer. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson and has also worked with Benoît Jacquot.Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995. In addition to her acting career she also has recorded an album (Manquait plus qu'ça released in 2005) which has been well received in France.
Aly Michalka.  Alyson Renae Aly Michalka (/mɪˈʃɑːkə/; born March 25 1989) is an American actress and recording artist. Michalka gained fame for playing the role of Keely Teslow in the Disney Channel original series Phil of the Future. She is also known for her roles as Marti Perkins in the CW television drama Hellcats Taylor Callum in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cow Belles and Rhiannon Abernathy in the Golden Globe-nominated teen film Easy A.
Buchi (comedian).  Onyebuchi Ojieh known by his stage name Buchi (born April 4 1979) is a Nigerian comedian composer writer and actor from Delta State Nigeria.
Greg Cartwright.  Greg Cartwright also known by his stage name Greg Oblivian (born March 18 1972) is an American singer songwriter and guitarist from Memphis Tennessee. He currently fronts Reigning Sound and lives in Asheville North Carolina. He is a founding member of the Memphis '90s garage bands The Compulsive Gamblers The Oblivians and Greg Oblivian & the Tip Tops.
Indra Bahadur Rai.  Indra Bahadur Rai (Nepali: ईन्द्र बहादुर राई) is a Nepali writer and literary critic from Darjeeling. Being one of the most well-known modern authors of Nepali literature his major works are included on the syllabus of many universities for those studying Nepali in India. He has been an active writer for a span over 60 years and is the receiver of the Sahitya Akademi Award Jagadambashri Puraskar and Agam Singh Giri Smriti Puraskar.
Abou El Leef.  Nader Anwar Gaber (Arabic: : نادر أنور جابر‎) (born 1968) is an Egyptian singer. He grew up and lived in Cairo. Since he was young he developed a passion for music and especially for singing. He had to struggle long to prove himself as an artist. His first opportunity came when a unanimous producer helped him to record his song ‘Elostah’.
Cow Cow Davenport.  Charles Edward Cow Cow Davenport (April 23 1894 – December 3 1955) was an American boogie-woogie and piano blues player as well as a vaudeville entertainer. He also played the organ and sang.
Robert Pérez Palou.  Robert Pérez Palou known as Robert Perez (born March 21 1948) is a Spanish portrait painter.
Calle Kristiansson.  Calle Kristiansson (born July 5 1988 Kristianstad) is a Swedish singer who came first runner-up in Idol 2009 after the winner Erik Grönwall.
Lal Singh Dil.  Lal Singh Dil (Punjabi ਲਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਿਲ)(11 April 1943 – 14 August 2007) was one of the major revolutionary Punjabi poets emerging out of the Naxalite (Maoist-Leninist) Movement in the Indian Punjab towards the late sixties of the 20th century. The Movement was a political failure and died down quickly but it brought in revolutionary changes in the subject matter language and idiom tone and tenor of Punjabi poetry. Referring to the impact of the Naxalite Movement in Punjab Paramjit S.
Abani Chakraborty.  Abani Chakravarty (or Chakraborty Assamese: অৱনী চক্ৰৱৰ্তী) was one of the best known Assamese humanitarian poets of the late twentieth century Assamese literature. Apart from original poetry his works included two novelettes and translations of the third-world poetry. Chakravarty was born in Nalbari district of Assam India on 3 January 1941. Abani started contributing to the Assamese literature prolifically in the 1960s and continued to do so until 1990's.
Tara Hunt.  Tara Hunt (born in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada) is an author speaker and startup founder. She has been called a pioneer in online marketing and one of the most respected authorities on online communities.
Everton Blender.  Everton Blender (b. November 21 1954) Everton Dennis Williams in Clarendon Jamaica) is an award-winning reggae singer and producer known for his smooth crooning tenor vocals up-tempo arrangements and spiritually uplifting themes successfully bridging the gap between roots reggae and dancehall.
Chris Spedding.  Chris Spedding (born Peter Robinson 17 June 1944) is an English rock and roll and jazz guitarist best known for his session work. Allmusic states - Spedding is one of the UK's most versatile session guitarists and has had a long career on two continents that saw him tackle nearly every style of rock and roll as well as sporadically attempting a solo career.
Bernardo Neumann.  Bernardo Neumann (born 1953 in Colonia San Alberto Misiones Province Argentina) is a painter and plastic artist.Neumann began to show his work steadily in both group and solo shows in Chile Brasil Paraguay Cuba Japan England Switzerland Netherlands France Germany Romania and Indonesia.
Donald Harington (writer).  Donald Douglas Harington (December 22 1935 – November 7 2009) was an American author. All but the first of his novels either take place in or have an important connection to Stay More a fictional Ozark Mountains town based somewhat on Drakes Creek Arkansas where Harington spent summers as a child.Harington was born and raised in Little Rock Arkansas. He lost nearly all of his hearing at age 12 due to meningitis.
Darius Campbell.  Darius Campbell (born Darius Campbell-Danesh 19 August 1980) also known professionally either as Darius Danesh or Darius is a Scottish platinum-selling singer-songwriter a West End stage actor an operatic baritone an author and an Ambassador for The Prince's Trust.He performed the role of Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago the youngest ever to play that part in two runs of the musical.
Nicky Gumbel.  Nicholas Glyn Paul Nicky Gumbel (born 28 April 1955) is an ordained Anglican priest vicar and author. He is known as the developer of the Alpha course a basic introduction to Christianity supported by churches of many Christian traditions.
Michael Kohler (musician).  Michael Kohler is a composer music producer and sound engineer who has composed music for numerous television shows commercials and promos since 1993. A large number of his compositions have been created for commercials and promos for Cartoon Network and its spinoff network Boomerang. He has also done compositions for Nickelodeon Toon Disney and E!.Kohler was the lead music producer and sound engineer for the series Adult Swim series Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law 12 Oz.
Xu Jingcheng.  Xu Jingcheng also known as Hsu Ching Cheng simplified Chinese: 许景澄; traditional Chinese: 許景澄; pinyin: Xu Jingcheng; Wade–Giles: Hsü Ching-ch'eng; 1845 – 28 July 1900) was a Chinese diplomat and Qing politician supportive of the Hundred Days' Reform. He was envoy to Belgium France Italy Russia Austria the Netherlands and Germany for the Qing imperial court and led reforms in modernizing China's railways and public works.
Grzegorz Rosiński.  Grzegorz Rosiński (born August 3 1941) is a Polish comic book artist. He is best known for providing the artwork for the series Thorgal.
Homayoun Khorram.  Homayoun Khorram (Persian: همایون خرم‎) (June 30 1930 – January 17 2013) was an Iranian musician composer violinist and a member of the high council of Iran's house of music.Khorram began his music career as a violinist at the age of 10 by participating in master Abolhassan Saba violin and Radif classes.
Jack Venice.  Jack Venice (born Christopher Jack Reid on February 25 1982 in Texas) is a former American pornographic actor. He started his pornographic career around the age of 22 and he has appeared in over 300 adult films. He has worked with Shane's World Penthouse New Sensations Brazzers and many other Adult Film production houses.
Paul Kelly (Irish musician).  Paul Kelly (born 1957) is an Irish multi-instrumentalist musician from Tallaght in Dublin Ireland. He has played Irish traditional music bluegrass and country and is equally at home in a variety of different styles of music.
John Maddox.  Sir John Royden Maddox FRS (27 November 1925 – 12 April 2009) was a British science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years from 1966–1973 and 1980-1995.
Espinoza Paz.  Isidro Chávez Espinoza (born Angostura Sinaloa Mexico 29 October 1981) better known as Espinoza Paz is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Mexican musician and composer of Mexican Regional music.
Dynamite MC.  Dynamite MC (born Dominic Smith 7 October 1973 Germany) is an MC from Gloucester England. He originally gained prominence in jungle/drum and bass working with Roni Size and Reprazent but has also released hip hop material.
Georgios Kalafatis (professor).  Georgios Kalafatis (Greek: Γεώργιος Καλαφάτης Italian: Giorgio Calafatti Latin: Georgius Calafattus; ca. 1652 – ca. 9 February 1720) was a Greek professor of theoretical and practical medicine who was largely active in Padua and Venice in the 17th-century Italian Renaissance.
Mariama.  Mariama (born 1986 as Mariama Jalloh in Freetown Sierra Leone) is a singer-songwriter of Sierra Leonian birth who lives in Cologne Germany. Her first name means 'Gods Gift'.
Gaetano Fanti.  Gaetano Fanti (1687 - 1759) was an Italian fresco painter.In 1715 Fanti was appointed by Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna. Together with figure painters such as Johann Michael Rottmayr Paul Troger and Bartolomeo Altomonte he was involved in major frescoes. He is particularly noted for his work in Austria including at the Karlskirche the Melk Abbey the Belvedere Palace and the Klosterneuburg Monastery.
Bethany Campbell.  Bethany Campbell and Lisa Harris are pen-names of Sally McCluskey an American writer of romance novels.
Zoë Keating.  Zoë Keating (born February 2 1972) is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco California.
Sly Stone.  Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart March 15 1943 Denton Texas) is an American musician songwriter and record producer most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone a band which played a critical role in the development of soul funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and '70s. In 1993 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Samuel Bak.  Samuel Bak (born 12 August 1933) is a Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust.
Carl Espen.  Carl Espen (born 15 July 1982) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter who will represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. He is performing his song Silent Storm.
Solveig Ternström.  Solveig Ternström (born July 17 1937 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress and was Centre Party politician. She was a member of the Riksdag between 2006 and 2010. She is very negative to nuclear power and left the centre party because she was disappointed to them regarding their updated politics about nuclear power.
Molly Jenson.  Molly Rachel Jenson (born March 20 1979) is a singer/songwriter from San Diego California.
Arthur Walcott.  Arthur Walcott (1857-1934) was a British actor of the silent era.
Travis Charest.  Travis Charest (born 1969) is a Canadian comic book penciller inker and painter known for his work on such books as Darkstars WildC.A.T.s Grifter/Shi WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age and The Metabarons. He is known for his detailed line work and muted color pallet and is a much sought-after cover artist having done extensive cover work for many other books such as various Star Wars series from Dark Horse Comics.
JJ Valaya.  JJ Valaya (born October 8 1967) is a noted Indian fashion designer and couturier from New Delhi India. He founded the House of Valaya a luxury fashion and lifestyle house in 1992 along with his brother TJ Singh. A founding member of Fashion Design Council of India FDCI and the first global brand ambassador of Crystal giant Swarovski he has been designing for men and women and has bridal and evening collections in addition to day-wear and ready-to-wear for over 20 years.
Sibille Attar.  Sibille Attar (born 27 November 1981 in Örebro Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter of French origin. She released her EP The Flower's Bed on Stranded record label in 2012 which earned her a nomination for Best Newcomer the same year during the Swedish Grammis event. It was followed by her debut album Sleepyhead in 2013 also on Stranded label. Come Night cowritten by Attar Mark Ephraim and Björn Yttling is the first single from the album.
Matt Frey.  Matt Frey is a musician from Huntington Beach CA. He was born in Anaheim CA. He is currently the touring keyboardist for the Nickelodeon act Big Time Rush. He was a member in the short-lived LA quartet Polus as well as Las Vegas group Parade of Lights. He has performed with Thirty Seconds to Mars in various European cities and at the My Coke Fest in South Africa. Most recently he completed the Better with U Tour as a member of the Big Time Rush Backing Band.
Jim Post.  Jim Post (born October 28 1939 in Houston Texas) is an American folk singer-songwriter composer playwright and actor. In 1968 his pop song Reach out of the Darkness charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks peaking at number 10.
Aseel Omran.  Aseel Omran (Arabic: أسيل عمران‎) is a Saudi Arabian singer who rose to fame not only in Saudi Arabia but also in other countries in the Middle East when she entered the reality show Gulf Stars and Heya wa Huwa which means Her and Him. She has signed into Rotana the Arab World's largest record label.Aseel Omran was born on November 12 1989 in Khobar She is from Qatif her family moved to Khobar because her father was working in Military service .
Brad Troemel.  Brad Troemel (born 1987) is an American artist writer and blogger and instructor based in New York. Troemel is most well known for his development of the Tumblr website The Jogging which has received attention for its work in New media art and Microblogging.
Narimi Arimori.  Narimi Arimori (有森 也実 Arimori Narimi born 10 December 1967 in Yokohama Japan) is a Japanese actress.
DeStorm Power.  DeStorm Power (pronounced day·storm) is an American YouTube personality musician comedian and motivational speaker. He is the 376st most subscribed user. His channel DeStorm has more than 250 videos which together have been watched more than 204 million times and have earned the channel over 1.6 million subscribers.
Mme Sicard.  Mme Sicard (first name unknown fl. 1678) was the daughter and pupil of Jean Sicard. Jean dedicated his 12th book to her and she wrote airs for a number of his publications including one in the 12th book three in the 13th and one each in the 14th and 16th. She is credited as the first published woman composer in France followed closely by the renowned Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre.
Derek Trucks.  Derek Trucks is an American guitarist songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award winning The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999 and formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010 with his wife Susan Tedeschi. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
David Rorie.  David Rorie MDCM DPH (1867 - 18 February 1946) was a doctor folklorist and poet writing in his native language Scots.
Brian Murphy (writer).  Brian Murphy (born 1959) is the U.S. religion editor at the Associated Press and the author of a number of non-fiction books on religion including The New Men a chronicle of American seminarians in Rome and The Root of Wild Madder about the carpet trade in Iran and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of Boston College where he was an editor of The Heights.Prior to his appointment as U.S. religion editor in 2006 Murphy covered religion internationally for the AP.
Chin Shunshin.  Chin Shunshin or Chen Shunchen (陳 舜臣 born February 18 1924) is a Taiwanese-Japanese novelist translator and cultural critic. He is best known for his historical fictions and mystery novels including First Opium War Chinese History Ryukyu Wind.
Thomasina Winslow.  Thomasina Winslow is an American blues musician from the Albany New York area and the daughter of folk musician Tom Winslow. As a toddler she sang back-up on her father's folk music classic Hey Looka Yonder (It's The Clearwater); also singing a solo version of One-Two-Three another version of which she produced on her own 30 years later. In addition to her solo career Winslow has been a member of four bands including a duo with Nick Katzman.
Tim Feehan.  Tim Feehan (born April 27 1957 in Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian singer-songwriter producer LA area studio owner and mix master.
Scratch (musician).  Kyle Jones (born in Camden New Jersey) better known as Scratch is an American hip hop artist. He is a MC who specializes in beatboxing or vocal percussion. He is best known as a former member of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots.
Valery Tarsis.  Valery Yakovlevich Tarsis (Russian: Вале́рий Я́ковлевич Та́рсис; 23 September [O.S. 10 September] 1906 – 4 March 1983) was a Russian writer literary critic and translator. He was highly critical of the communist regime.
Tim Yatras.  Tim Yatras is an Australian musician and composer best known as one half of the now defunct black metal duo Austere and the creator of the black metal/rock/trance act Germ.
Joe Junior.  Joe Junior (Real name Jose Maria Rodrigues Jr.) is a popular Hong Kong English pop singer from Hong Kong during the 1960s. He has since been in a number of TVB drama series in the 1990s and 2000s playing older character roles. Joe Junior is his stage name. Regularly appeared on TV music programs as host and as performer.
Peredur ap Gwynedd.  Peredur Wyn ap Gwynedd is a Welsh guitarist. He was born and raised in South Wales and currently resides in London. His brother Rheinallt ap Gwynedd was the bassist for the band Apollo 440 and his sister Llinor ap Gwynedd is an actress. Ap Gwynedd was a judge on Welsh talent show Waw Ffactor having been the guitarist with acts such as Natalie Imbruglia Norman Cook Sophie Ellis Bextor and Mylène Farmer.
Jun (musician).  Jun (stylized as JUN born in Kobe Hyōgo) is a Japanese visual kei rock musician and singer-songwriter. He is currently the sole member of Spiv States (stylized as SPIV STATES and previously as spiv states). Previously he was in the bands Se'lavy Mar'derayla and Phantasmagoria and released solo material under the alias Attic (stylized as attic) and under his own name.
Rex Nelon.  Rex Nelon (January 19 1932 - January 24 2000) was one of the senior statesmen in the field of Southern Gospel music. His career spanned over 40 years of singing gospel music as well as being an outstanding music publisher.
Robert Bechtle.  Robert Bechtle is an American painter born in San Francisco California on May 14 1932.
Takayuki Inoue.  Takayuki Inoue (井上隆之 Inoue Takayuki) is a Japanese voice actor who voices various anime characters.
Gabe Lopez.  Gabe Lopez is an American pop-rock singer/songwriter and producer. He is of Mexican and Irish descent.
Frank Adams (artist).  Frank Adams (1914 – 1987) was an American artist. Starting as an engineering draftsman during World War II he was known for book illustrations cartoons and paintings. ([1]).Adams is noted for The Home Front first published in 1944. The book is filled with cartoons capturing the can-do spirit of men and women often working side by side for the war effort—welding riviting riding around on fork lifts.
Boris (singer).  Boris (real name : Philippe Dhondt born on May 19 1965 in Roubaix France) is a French singer songwriter composer and radio host on Radio Galaxie (a radio in Nord-Pas-de-Calais).
Herbert Ryman.  Herbert Dickens Ryman (June 28 1910 – February 10 1989) was an artist and Disney Imagineer who worked in watercolor oils and pen & ink sketches. He was a personal friend of Walt Disney and was called upon to help the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank) on many special projects over a five decade span. Ryman went to work for Disney in 1938 when such full-length animated films as Pinocchio (1940 film) Dumbo Fantasia (film) and others were in the planning stages.
Frank Weyzig.  Frank Weyzig is a Dutch producer composer and band member known for his contribution to the original Clan of Xymox and his work for indie new wave band Born For Bliss. More recently Weyzig is involved with Vaselyne White Rose Transmission and Stargazing Project. In January 2011 Weyzig founded Turmoil Music a new music platform for Independent Artists.
Chris Malinchak.  Chris Malinchak (born 1987) is an American DJ and record producer best known for his debut single So Good to Me which was released on 5 May 2013 in the United Kingdom. The song was endorsed by the likes of Adele Tom Odell Pete Tong Annie Mac and Zane Lowe.
Rebecca D. Costa.  Rebecca D. Costa' is an American sociobiologist author and radio host She is best known for her controversial book The Watchman's Rattle which offers an evolutionary explanation for modern problems such as government gridlock terrorism obesity the decline in education violence etc.
Yumiko Kawahara.  Yumiko Kawahara (川原 由美子 Kawahara Yumiko born 20 February 1960 in Hakodate Hokkaido Japan) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1978 with Kotchi muite Marie!! in the weekly Shōjo Comic for which she won a Shogakukan New Artist Award. In 1986 she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Zenryaku: Milk House (前略・ミルクハウス). She is best known in the United States as the author of Dolls which was licensed by Viz Media.
Atsushi Harada.  Atsushi Harada (原田篤) (July 19 1978 in Handa Aichi) is a Japanese actor in Tokusatsu genre but also does anime voices. He is best known for being Kamen Rider Delta in Kamen Rider 555 and Shou Tatsumi/Go Green in the 1999 Super Sentai Series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V and reprised his role in the Sentai Teamup Special Timeranger vs. GoGo-V and Gokaiger.
Neil McMahon.  Neil McMahon (born 1949) is the author of ten novels as well as a collaboration with James Patterson—Toys—which was a New York Times #1 Bestseller. He has written two series: the Carroll Monks books (Twice Dying Blood Double To The Bone Revolution No. 9) and the Hugh Davoren books (Lone Creek Dead Silver).
Yung6ix.  Onome Onokohwomo (born July 8 1989) better known by his stage name Yung6ix is a Nigerian rapper and hip hop recording artist.
Gyula Kosice.  Gyula Kosice born Fernando Fallik (April 26 1924) in Košice (Slovakia) is a naturalized Argentine sculptor plastic artist theoretician and poet one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard.He used his natal city name as artist name. He was one of the precursors of abstract and non-figurative art in Latin America. He used for the first time in international art scene water and neon gas as part of an artwork.
Burton Cummings.  Burton L. Cummings OC OM (born December 31 1947 in Winnipeg Manitoba) is a Canadian musician and songwriter.He was the lead singer and frequent keyboardist for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who.
Marina Tsvetaeva.  Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Мари́на Ива́новна Цвета́ева IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈtaɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it.
Jeremy Adelman (composer).  Jeremy Adelman is a multi-instrumentalist music producer and award-winning composer and songwriter for film and television. He is primarily known as the composer and songwriter for prime-time CW TV series Hart of Dixie starring Rachel Bilson.
Samantha Jade.  Samantha Jade Gibbs (born 18 April 1987) known as Samantha Jade is an Australian singer-songwriter actress and former child model from Perth Western Australia. She has written tracks for artists including JoJo and Ashley Tisdale. On 20 November 2012 Jade won the fourth series of The X Factor (Australia) the first female to win the Australian series.
Aristotle Dreher.  Aristotle Dreher is an American artist songwriter/musician and photographer from Bay Shore New York. He is known as a founding member and bass player for the band Vaeda. He is currently playing bass in the band Cage 9 previous bands include Vaeda former Size 14 Bassist Robt Ptak's band The Bastard Kings Of Rock . His unique musical techniques stem from his artistic ingenuity.
Guilloume.  Guilloume Perez-Zapata (born July 2 1957 in Medellín Antioquia) is a Colombian minimalist artist self-described master of Bolismo. His work has been noted by a magazine covering North America's Southwest. He is known primarily for his sculpting and painting.
Dora Venter.  Dora Venter is the pseudonym of the Hungarian pornographic film actress Melinda Gál.She was born October 1 1976 near Salgótarján (Hungary). She moved to Budapest and studied to be a nurse receiving her CCRN (critical care registered nurse) certificate in 1998. She auditioned for pornography in late April 1999 and shot her first films several weeks afterwards her second at the Cannes Hot D'Or.
Hamin Ahmed.  Hamin Ahmed (Bengali: হামিন আহমেদ) is a Bangladeshi musician. He is a member of the rock band Miles.
Peter Krause (artist).  Peter Krause is an American illustrator and comic book artist. He is best known for his work on various DC Comics titles most notably the Superman-related titles and a three-year run on The Power of Shazam! with Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family.
Ben Willbond.  Benjamin Thomas Ben Willbond (born 18 January 1973) is an English comedian and actor with numerous credits in television radio and film.
Robert Altman (photographer).  Robert Mark Altman (born October 1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams.He was soon hired as a photojournalist by Rolling Stone magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for Rolling Stone he expanded into fashion photography and fine art. He became a television producer/director for KEMO-TV an independent station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Victor Lardent.  Victor Lardent (1905–1968) was a British advertising designer and draftsman at The Times London. He created the font Times New Roman under the direction of Stanley Morison in 1932.
Ahmed Bukhatir.  Ahmed Bukhatir (Arabic: أحمد بوخاطر ‎) (born 16 October 1975) is an Emirati Nasheed singer. He is the only Nasheed singer from the UAE to ever top a Virgin music chart.
Jan Cornelis Hofman.  Jan Cornelis Hofman alias Jean Hofman is a Dutch Post-Impressionnist Art Painter born on April 12 1889 in Nieuwer-Amstel (the Netherlands) died April 30 1966 in Schaerbeek - Brussels (Belgium).
Benedetto Luti.  Benedetto Luti (17 November 1666 – 17 June 1724) was an Italian painter.
Richard Barth.  Richard Barth (5 June 1850 Grosswanzleben Saxony – 25 December 1923 Magdeburg) was a left-handed German violin virtuoso conductor music teacher and composer in the circle of Johannes Brahms. His Ciacona in B minor Op. 21 composed in 1908 is a finely crafted tribute to J.S. Bach's Chaconne in post-Paganini technical and tonal terms.
James Hanley (novelist).  James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 – 11 November 1985) was a British novelist and playwright of Irish descent.
Nnedi Okorafor.  Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor (also previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy science fiction and speculative fiction.
József Borovnyák.  József Borovnyák or Borovnják (Slovene: Jožef Borovnjak; 1826 – 19 September 1909) was a Slovene or Prekmurian writer politician and Roman Catholic priest in Hungary.Borovnják was born in the village of Ivanócz (later Alsószentbenedek Slovenian Ivanovci). His family was originally Protestant. His father converted to Catholicism.Borovnják first served as a priest from 1851 to 1852 at the Istvánfalvian Church in the village of Apátistvánfalva (Vas Country).
Hachidai Nakamura.  Hachidai Nakamura (中村 八大 Nakamura Hachidai January 20 1931 – June 10 1992) was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist.
Andrea Hollander Budy.  Andrea Hollander (Budy) (born April 28 1947 Berlin Germany) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Woman in the Painting (Autumn House Press 2006). Her work appeared in Poetry The Georgia Review The Gettysburg Review New Letters FIELD Five Points Shenandoah and Creative Nonfiction. She was raised in Colorado Texas New York and New Jersey and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado. She is writer-in-residence at Lyon College.
Seonna Hong.  Seonna Hong is a contemporary Los Angeles-based artist working in the genre known as lowbrow or alternatively pop surrealism. Her work as a background painter has appeared in animation for television and motion pictures most notably in the Nickelodeon (TV channel) series My Life as a Teenage Robot for which she received an Emmy Award in 2003.Her paintings have appeared in exhibitions in Los Angeles New York the Pacific Northwest and Tokyo Japan.
Assol.  Assol Katerina Igorivna Gumenyuk Ukrainian Катерина Ігорівна Гуменюк) (born July 4 1994 in Kiev Ukraine) is a popular child singer from Donetsk Ukraine. She released her first album in 2002 at seven years of age.
Saori Oguri.  Saori Oguri (小栗 左多里 Oguri Saori born December 10 1966) is a Japanese manga artist born in Gifu Prefecture Japan. She is a graduate of Tama Art University where she studied graphic design.
Apollon Maykov.  Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (or Maikov) (Russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков June 4 [O.S. May 23] 1821 Moscow – March 20 [O.S. March 8] 1897 Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages nature and Russian history. His love for ancient Greece and Rome which he studied for much of his life is also reflected in his works.
Mark Gimenez.  Mark Gimenez is an author and lawyer from Texas. He specializes in the thriller genre writing especially legal thrillers. His first novel The Color of Law was a New York Times bestseller. He also runs his own solo law practice.
Kazuo Hirotsu.  Kazuo Hirotsu (広津 和郎 Hirotsu Kazuo 5 December 1891 – 21 September 1968) was a Japanese novelist literary critic and translator active in the Shōwa period.
Verbswish.  [verb]swish is a British lyricist poet and educator from South London.
Joshua Ortega.  Joshua Ortega (born 1974) is an author and journalist best known for his novel Frequencies as well as his comic book and graphic novel work on entertainment properties such as Star Wars Spider-Man Batman Star Trek The Escapist and The Necromancer.
Ian Villafana.  Ian Villafana (born February 26 1957 in Trinidad and Tobago) is a smooth jazz guitarist recording artist and songwriter. Villafana currently resides in southern Louisiana near the city of New Orleans.As the son of a Trinidadian pianist Villafana was introduced to many styles and genres of music at a young age. His influences ranged from the Beatles to George Benson. He learned from renowned local artists such as Clive Zanda Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe Raf Robertson Earl Rodney and Toby Tobias.
Chopy Fatah.  Chopy Fatah (Kurdish:Çopî Fetah / چۆپی فەتاح Arabic: جوبي فتاح) is a contemporary Kurdish singer. She was born in Kirkuk Iraq in 1983. Her family emigrated to the Netherlands in 1988. She released her first album titled Çît Naw Binêm in 2003.
Gervasio.  José Gervasio Viera Rodríguez (27 February 1948 – 28 October 1990) also simply known as Gervasio was an Uruguayan singer who achieved popularity in Chile in 1983 when he won the international competition of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival with the song Alma Corazón y Pan. One of Gervasio's most famous compositions is Con Una Pala y Un Sombrero which he wrote in honour of his father who died of lung cancer.
Ira Louvin.  Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (April 21 1924 – June 20 1965) known professionally as Ira Louvin was an American country music singer mandolinist and songwriter. He was a cousin of songwriter John D. Loudermilk.
Shelby Earl.  Shelby Earl is an American singer-songwriter and musician based in Seattle WA. Earl's first solo album Burn the Boats was produced by John Roderick (featuring members of Telekinesis The Long Winters Fleet Foxes and more) and released on Local 638 Records (owned and operated by Visqueen's Rachel Flotard).
Mark Kelson.  Mark Kelson (born 7 March 1976) is a Melbourne born musician best known for his work as a member of The Eternal (2002–2011) and Cryptal Darkness (1995–2002).
Andrea Vinai.  Andrea Vinai (Pienvignale near Mondovì in Piedmont 1824–1893) was an Italian painter.
Kaitarō Hasegawa.  Kaitarō Hasegawa (長谷川海太郎 Hasegawa Kaitarō 17 January 1900 - 29 June 1935) was a novelist in the early Shōwa period Japan. He wrote under three different pen names each with a unique personality and caused a sensation with the sheer brilliance of his fiction non-fiction and translations.
Miroslav Wanek.  Miroslav Wanek (born April 7 1962) is a Czech poet musician and lyricist. He is the frontman for the avant garde punk rock group Už Jsme Doma in which he has served as the lead singer and bandleader since 1986 the bassist from 1986–1988 the guitarist and keyboardist since 1988 major composer and co-composer from 1986–2001 and the only composer since 2001. Prior to Už Jsme Doma he played bass and sang in the Czech punk rock group FPB (Fourth Price Band) from 1981–1985.
Hermann Mejia.  Hermann Mejía (born 1973) is a Venezuelan-born New York based Plastic Artist. He is a painter and sculptor that has forayed very successfully into illustration living in Brooklyn. His illustrations frequently appeared in MAD Magazine.
Bapi Tutul.  Bapi Tutul are a Hindi film composer duo consisting of Bapi and his younger brother Tutal. They have written the scores for films such as Sarkar Sarkar Raj Khosla Ka Ghosla and many more.
Bilinda Butcher.  Bilinda Jayne Butcher (born 16 September 1961) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as the vocalist and guitarist for the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine.
Walt Simonson.  Walter Walt Simonson (born September 2 1946) is an American comic book writer and artist. After studying geology at Amherst College he transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design graduating in 1972. His thesis project there was The Star Slammers which was published as a black and white promotional comic book for the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington D.C. (DisCon II). In 1983 he produced another version of the story in graphic novel form for Marvel Comics.
Freddy Kempf.  Freddy Kempf (born 1977) is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He now lives in Berlin.
Henry Scarpelli.  Henry Scarpelli (1930 – April 4 2010) was an American comic book artist who has worked in comics. His work in comics has won him recognition from the industry including the Shazam Award for Best Inker (Humor Division) in 1970 for his work on Date With Debbi Leave It to Binky and other DC comics.
Janne Carlsson.  Janne Loffe Carlsson (born 12 March 1937) sometimes credited as Janne Carlsson Jan Carlsson or Janne Karlsson is a Swedish film and television actor. He is also a skilled drummer featured on several albums in Swedish 70's and 80's music. He was the 'Karlsson' of the Swedish jazz fusion/psychedelic rock duo Hansson & Karlsson that were active in the late 60s.
Robert Bernat.  Robert Bernat (born July 3 1931 Johnstown PA - died December 3 1994) was an American composer and the founder artistic director and conductorof the River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh PA. His musical influences included his mentor Aaron Copland as well as other American composers including Leonard Bernstein George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa.
Rochelle Perts.  Rochelle Perts (born 20 March 1992) is a Dutch singer who rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of talent show X Factor on 10 June 2011.
Eugene Litvinkovich.  Eugene Litvinkovich (born 4 November 1982) is a Belarusian and Ukrainian singer.
Masato Uchiyama.  Masato Uchiyama (内山 眞人 Uchiyama Masato born May 2 1986 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese actor.
Billy Eckstine.  William Clarence 'Billy' Eckstine (July 8 1914 – March 8 1993) was an American singer of ballads and a bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's recording of I Apologize (MGM 1948) was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999.
Junko Yoshioka.  Junko Yoshioka is a New York City based fashion designer known primarily for her bridal wear.
Ladyhawke (musician).  Phillipa Margaret Pip Brown (born 13 July 1979) better known by her stage name Ladyhawke is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She took her stage name from Richard Donner's 1985 film Ladyhawke.Brown was part of the Wellington-based band Two Lane Blacktop (2001–2003) named for the 1971 road film of the same name. After moving to Australia she formed the Sydney-based art rock band Teenager in 2004 with Nick Littlemore of Pnau (and later Empire of the Sun).
Betty Carter.  Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones May 16 1929 – September 26 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked there's really only one jazz singer – only one: Betty Carter.
Rosa Laborde.  Rosa Laborde is a Canadian actress and playwright.
Michael Grecco.  Michael Grecco (born May 20 1968) is an American photographer film director and author.
Bora Dugić.  Borislav Dugić Bora (Serbian Cyrillic: Бора Дугић pronounced [bǒːra dǔːɡitɕ]) (born June 10 1949 in Đurđevo SR Serbia Yugoslavia) is a Serbian musician and flautist having released a number of CD's and records as well as having performed at countless concerts.
Trina Robbins.  Trina Robbins (born 1938) is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement and one of the few female artists in the fledgling underground comix movement. Both as a cartoonist and historian Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists.
Konstantīns Pēkšēns.  Konstantīns Pēkšēns (born 3 March 1859 Mazsalaca parish Russian Empire — died 23 June 1928 Bad Kissingen Weimar Republic) is one of the most prominent Latvian architects of all times. After Jānis Baumanis he is the epitome of the second generation of Latvian architects. Many Latvian cities and towns take pride in buildings designed by Pēkšēns but Riga alone can boast more than 250 multi-storey brick buildings and a great number of wooden houses erected following his designs.
Nicky James.  Nicky James (2 April 1943 – 8 October 2007) born Michael Clifford Nicholls was a British musician and songwriter.
Bobby Lewis (country singer).  Bobby Lewis (born May 9 1942 in Hodgenville Kentucky) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1963 and 1985 Lewis released ten albums and charted more than twenty-five songs on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. He used the title The Boy with the Lute being perhaps the only country singer to use this instrument though it is a 6-string guitar-lute. His biggest hit How Long Has It Been peaked at Number 6 in 1966.
Chellapilla Satyam.  Chellapilla Satyanarayana Sastry better known as Chellapilla Satyam (Telugu: చెళ్ళపిళ్ళ సత్యం) (1933 - 12 January 1989) was an Indian music director. He was popular in the Telugu and Kannada cinema fields in 1960s and 1980s. Sathyam is best remembered as Andhra RD Burman.He also composed to handful of Bengali Bhojpuri and Hindi movies.He was born in Komarada village in Vizianagaram district Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in some plays with popular writer Rajasri and others at Vizianagaram.
Larry Goves.  Larry Goves (born 1980 in Cardiff) is a British composer.A Phd student at the University of Southampton his tutor is Michael Finnissy. In addition to Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music he has studied privately with Richard Barrett and Simon Holt. He has received commissions from the Nash Ensemble the London Sinfonietta the BBC Philharmonic and many others. He is a founder and performer with the ensemble the House of Bedlam.
Mark Feldstein.  Mark Feldstein (May 3 1937 – October 2001) was an American artist and photographer best known for his large format photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City.Feldstein whose parents were German Jews often remarked that he just happened to be born in Milan where his family were located during their emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States.
Kazys Varnelis (artist).  Kazys Varnelis (February 25 1917 in Alsėdžiai – October 29 2010 in Vilnius) was an abstract painter from Lithuania. He lived and worked in the United States of America for fifty years between 1949 and 1998. His distinctive painting style demonstrated optical and three-dimensional illusions based on geometric abstractions and minimal forms. His style combined elements of constructivism minimalism and op art.
Ryan Greene.  Ryan Greene is an American record producer sound engineer former owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale Arizona and current co-owner of Area 52 Entertainment in Los Angeles California. In an over 25 year long career he has worked with many artists including Jay-Z Lita Ford Tonic Mr. Big Wilson Phillips Megadeth NOFX Alice Cooper Cheap Trick Usher Patty LaBelle Dishwalla and Gladys Knight.
Alphonse Toussenel.  Alphonse Toussenel (March 17 1803 - April 30 1885) was a French naturalist writer and journalist born in Montreuil-Bellay a small meadows commune of Angers; he died in Paris on April 30 1885.A utopian socialist and a disciple of Charles Fourier he was anglophobic and anti-semitic. He was at one time editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Paix and his studies of natural history served as a vehicle for his political ideas. He was also the brother of teacher and translator Théodore Toussenel.
Shakila Zafar.  Shakila Zafar (Bengali: শাকিলা জাফর; born February 28) is a Bangladeshi singer. Her career began as a result of her appearance in the 1983 BTV program Jodi Kichu Mone Na Koren where she performed an astrology themed song.
Megan Kelso.  Megan Kelso (born 1968 in Seattle Washington) is an American comic book artist and writer.Kelso started working in the 1990s with the minicomic Girlhero which won her a Xeric Foundation grant in 1993. She has since published several other projects including Queen of the Black Black and The Squirrel Mother. She was the editor of the female cartoonist anthology Scherherazade: Stories of Love Treachery Mothers and Monsters (published by Soft Skull Press).
Reine Fiske.  Nils Reine Fiske (born 4 October 1972 in Saltsjö-Boo Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist art director and sound engineer at the record label Subliminal Sounds who put his signature to many prog-rock project such as Landberk Morte Macabre Paatos and Elephant9 but is best known for his playing in the band Dungen.
Mats Levén.  Mats Levén (born in Mölndal Sweden on 11 September 1964) is a singer. His most notable recent collaborations have been with symphonic metallers Therion and doom metallers Krux and Candlemass.
Hank Kanalz.  Hank Kanalz is an American comic book writer and editor.Kanalz is the Senior Vice President of Vertigo and Integrated Publishing at DC Comics. He was formerly General Manager of the WildStorm brand for DC Comics.
India Grey.  India Grey (b. England) is a British writer of romance novels since 2006. In 2009 her novel Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire's Pleasure won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Karim Nagi.  Karim Nagi is an Egyptian musician composer music arranger and DJ. He specializes in traditional Arabic music but is widely known for his innovative approach.Also known as Turbo Tabla Karim Nagi has released two CDs distributed Internationally by Universal Records: Belly Dance Overdrive and the Belly and the Beat. These CDs are pioneers mixing traditional Arabic sounds with Hip Hop Techno and House.
Michael Hayvoronsky.  Michael Orest Hayvoronsky (Mykhailo Orest Haivoronsky) (Ukrainian: Михайло Орест Гайворонський) (September 15 1892 – September 11 1949) was a Ukrainian composer musician conductor teacher violinist and critic.
Sammy Kaye.  Sammy Kaye (March 13 1910 – June 2 1987) born Samuel Zarnocay Jr. was an American bandleader and songwriter whose tag line Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era.
Giuseppe Puglia.  Giuseppe Puglia (1600-1636) was an Italian painter born in Rome. He was also known as Giuseppe del Bastaro. According to Baglioni flourished chiefly during the pontificate of Urban VIII. There are several of his works in churches at Rome including a Presentation in the Temple in the cloister of the Padri della Minerva ; and an altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore representing The Virgin appears to Giovanni Patrizi.
Marjorie Lane.  Marjorie Lane (February 21 1912 – October 2 2012) was an American singer of the 1930s who is best known for dubbing the voice of actress Eleanor Powell in the movies Born to Dance (1936) Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936) Rosalie (1937) and Broadway Melody of 1938 (1938). Lane was married to actor Brian Donlevy from 1936 to 1947 and they had one child. Her career in film did not extend beyond the 1930s.
Gábor Csalog.  Gábor Csalog (born in Budapest 1960) is a Hungarian pianist.He was trained at the Ferenc Liszt Academy and completed studies under György Sebõk at Indiana University. He was prized at the 1986 Ferenc Liszt Competition.Csalog known for his work on Hungarian contemporary music has recorded for Budapest Music Records since the '90s. His recordings include Étrangeté / Strangeness Alexander Scriabin: Preludes and Poems (Budapest Music Center Records 2005).
Frankie Miller (country musician).  Frankie Miller (b. December 17 1931 Victoria Texas) is an American country musician.
Rick Rubin.  Frederick Jay Rick Rubin (born March 10 1963) is an American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons Rubin is the founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings.
Cheung Siu-fai.  Cheung Siu-fai (Chinese: 張兆輝; Pinyin: Zhāng Zhàohuī) also known as Eddie Cheung is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known for his many supporting or everyman roles similar to Liu Kai-chi.
Gene Ludwig.  Gene Ludwig (September 4 1937 – July 14 2010) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues organist who recorded as a leader as well as a sideman for Sonny Stitt Arthur Prysock Scott Hamilton Bob DeVos and Leslie West and others. Ludwig received international acclaim as a Hammond organ player and was a prominent figure in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania jazz scene.
Wojciech Wąsowicz.  Wojciech Sauron Wąsowicz (born June 1981 in Krosno Poland) is a Polish vocalist. Wąsowicz was the vocalist for death metal group Decapitated from its inception in 1996 until 2005 and has been a member of Masachist since 2008. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree and graduate of Jagielonian University where he earned Master's degree in Musicology. He also works in Sinfonietta Cracovia Orchestra in Kraków.
Corita Kent.  Corita Kent (November 20 1918 – September 18 1986) aka Sister Mary Corita Kent was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork with its messages of love and peace was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.
Sir Jinx.  Sir Jinx born Anthony Wheat is an American hip-hop record producer and rapper from South Central Los Angeles California.
Maria Bal.  Jadwiga Maria Kinga Bal (Balowa) of Zaleszczyki née Brunicka (July 26 1879 – January 1 1955) was a Polish baroness and a lifelong muse of Jacek Malczewski considered Poland's national painter. She served as the live model for a series of his symbolic portrayals of women as well as nude studies and mythological beings. Most were completed before the interwar period when Poland had not yet achieved independence.
Vince Locke.  Vincent Locke is an American comic book artist known for his work on Deadworld and A History of Violence and for his ultraviolent album covers for death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
Sue Fink.  Sue Fink is an American singer songwriter conductor and voice teacher.She is the founder and conductor of the Angel City Chorale as well as a songwriter and voice teacher. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles where she studied conducting with Roger Wagner. Sue toured internationally as a member of the Roger Wagner Chorale and went on to establish the Oriana Renaissance Ensemble serving as conductor.
Louise Titchener.  Louise F. Titchener (born 1941 in Detroit Michigan) was a US novelist since 1982. She wrote under various pseudonyms: Anne Silverlock and Jane Silverwood with Eileen Buckholtz Ruth Glick and Carolyn Males as Alyssa Howard with Ruth Glick as Alexis Hill Alexis Hill Jordan and Tess Marlowe with Carolyn Males as Clare Richards and Clare Richmond.
Alfonso Rumazo González.  Alfonso Rumazo González (Latacunga 1903 – Caracas 2002) was an Ecuadorian writer historian essayist and literary critic.
Rick Cleveland.  Rick Cleveland is an American television writer playwright and monologist best known for writing on the HBO original series Six Feet Under and NBC's The West Wing.Cleveland a graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa is also a founding member of Chicago's American Blues Theater.In 2000 Cleveland and The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin won the Emmy Award for Best Writing for a Drama Series their episode In Excelsis Deo.
Serius Jones.  Saleem Jones (born May 3 1982) better known by his stage name Serius Jones is an American rapper who is widely known for his freestyle battles. Jones won 12 consecutive battles at New York's Monday Night Fight Klub before facing and beating former Fight Klub King Jin The MC to become MTV's all-time Fight Klub Champion. Jones independently released King Me in 2006 followed by Serius Bizness in 2008 and Why So Serius? in 2009.
Georges Chakra.  Georges Chakra is a Beirut-based Lebanese haute couture fashion designer. Since 2001 he has presented collections at Paris Fashion Week. Chakra first established his brand in 1985.
Roupen Altiparmakian.  Roupen Altiparmakian is a master of the violin and oud born in Adana Turkey.
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet.  Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet Abbot of Olivet (1 April 1682 Salins-les-Bains – 8 October 1768 Paris) was a French abbot writer grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française seat 31.This article incorporates information from the revision as of 11 October 2008 of the equivalent article on the français Wikipedia.
Vladimir Nabokov.  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков pronounced [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr nɐˈbokəf]  also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose.
Bianca Ryan.  Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1 1994) is an American singer and guitarist from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Ryan was the first winner of NBC's America's Got Talent at the age of eleven. She auditioned for Talent in 2006 and blew [the judges] away with her big voice. Singing two Broadway show tunes along the way Ryan was announced as the winner of Season 1 on August 17. Her eponymous first album was released later in 2006 followed by two Christmas albums.
Victor Dourlen.  Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen (born 3 November 1780 in Dunkerque – died 8 January 1864 in Paris) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is primarily known as a theorist being his treatises on harmony based on the methods of Charles Simon Catel widely used as reference especially his Tractat d'acompanyament pràctic (1834) and Tractat d'harmonia (1838) as well as his Méthode élémentaire pour le piano-forte (1820).
Pier Francesco Sacchi.  Pier-Francesco Sacchi (known active 1512-1520) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Born in Pavia he worked in Genoa and became a member of that guild of painters in 1520. He painted in 1512 the Parting of St. John Baptist from his parents for the Oratory of Santa Maria in Genoa.
Teresa Cheung (singer).  Teresa Cheung Tak-lan is a Hong Kong singer. She was one of the members of the Four Golden Flowers early in her career and later became a famous Hong Kong singer in the 1980s. She participated in the entertainment industry since she was a child (stage name Cheung Yuen-yuen 張圓圓). She is also a Catholic.The song that she sang for the TVB series The Good The Bad And The Ugly made her famous.
John Arthur Blaikie.  John Arthur Blaikie (born 1849) was an English poet and journalist born in Paddington Middlesex.
Ni Haifeng.  Ni Haifeng (born 1964) in Zhoushan China is an installation artist. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam Netherlands.
Ingrid Luterkort.  Carola Ingrid Margareta Segerstedt Luterkort (née Eklundh) (28 June 1910 – 3 August 2011) was a Swedish actress and stage director whose professional career spanned from the 1930s until 2010. Born in Lund Luterkort studied in Dramatens elevskola together with Ingrid Bergman Gunnar Björnstrand and Signe Hasso. She made her debut at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1933. Luterkort remained active into her 90s. Some of her films include Barnen från Frostmofjället (1945) and Klassfesten (2002).
Ronnie Bedford.  Ronnie Bedford (born 1931) is an American jazz drummer and professor. Bedford is one of the founders of the Yellowstone Jazz Festival held annually in Cody Wyoming and was the recipient of the 1993 Wyoming Governor's Award for the Arts. In 1993 he released a self-published CD Tour de West. He later produced three more CDs for Progressive Records. Bedford currently lives in Powell Wyoming and teaches percussion at Northwest College.
Ashtech.  Ashtech (born Andrea Nicoletti December 15 1973 Italy) is an Italian producer bass player and solo artist.
David Martin (artist).  David Martin (1 April 1737 – 30 December 1797) was a British painter and engraver. Born in Fife he studied in London and Italy before gaining a reputation as a portrait painter.
Deadlee.  Joseph Thomas Lee better known by his stage name Deadlee is an American rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles California. The musician who is of Mexican American and African American descent launched his career back in 2000. In 2002 he released the critically acclaimed debut album 7 Deadlee Sins. He released the follow-up album Assault With a Deadlee Weapon in late 2006.
Ngwe Gaing.  Ngwe Gaing (Burmese: ငွေကိုင် [ŋwè ɡàɪɴ]; 1901–1967) was a Burmese artist who worked in both oil and watercolor. After the death of his teacher Ba Nyan he was recognized as the greatest living painter in Myanmar. He had great influence on the next generation of artists and his works are now highly sought after.
Svetlana Chmakova.  Svetlana Chmakova (Russian: Светлана Шмакова) (born 7 October 1979 in Soviet Union) is a comic creator. She is best known for Dramacon an original English-language (OEL) manga spanning three volumes and published in North America by Tokyopop. Her other work includes the 2-page The Adventures of CG for CosmoGIRL! magazine and the webcomic Chasing Rainbows for Girlamatic.
Clare Cavendish.  Clare Cavendish was a British writer of romance novels from 1964 to 1982.She was the tenth elected Chairman (1979–1981) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Joe Edwards (comics).  Joe Edwards (December 6 1921 – February 8 2007) was an American comic book artist best known for creating Archie Comics' mischievous little-girl character Li'l Jinx while working in the industry for over 65 years.
Carl Ashby.  Carl Ashby (1914–2004) was an American abstract expressionist artist who lived and worked in New York City. Ashby was born in Hurley New Mexico on March 2 1914. He worked as an artist for the Civilian Conservation Corps before attending the University of Utah where he graduated with a degree in Fine Arts in 1937. He relocated to New York City shortly thereafter and married artist Estelle Grey in 1938. Ashby earned a Master in Arts degree from New York University in 1959.
Salim Halali.  Salim Halali or Salim Hilali (real name Simon Halali July 30 1920 – June 25 2005) was an Algerian singer performer of Andalusian classical music and Algerian music.
Mark Seliger.  Mark Seliger (born 1959) is an American photographer noted for his portraiture.Seliger was born in Amarillo Texas the son of Maurice and Carol Lee. The family moved to Houston in 1964. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and Texas A&M University Commerce. He moved to New York City in 1984. He began working for Rolling Stone in 1987 and served as its chief photographer from 1992 to 2002 and shot more than 100 covers for the magazine.
King Syze.  David Albaladejo (better known by his stage name King Syze) is an underground rapper from Philadelphia Pennsylvania of Puerto Rican descent. He is a member of underground hip hop supergroup; Army of the Pharaohs having featured on all their studio albums. He is known for his frequent collaboration with AOTP members; OuterSpace.
Vera Panova.  Vera Fyodorovna Panova (Russian: Ве́ра Фёдоровна Пано́ва; March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1905 - March 3 1973) was a Soviet novelist playwright and journalist.
Koren Zailckas.  Koren Zailckas (born 1980) is a bestselling American writer and memoirist. Her debut Smashed was released in 2005 by Viking Penguin and became a New York Times bestseller.
Max Marlow.  Max Marlow was the pseudonym by a British writing team marriage formed by Christopher Nicole and Diana Bachmann. They wrote 11 thriller novels from 1988 to 1998. They live in Guernsey Channel Islands.
W. Langdon Kihn.  Wilfred (or William) Langdon Kihn (September 5 1898 – December 12 1957) was a portrait painter and illustrator specializing in portraits of American Indians.He was born in Brooklyn New York son of Alfred Charles Kihn and Carrie Lowe (Peck) Kihn.
Sam Childers.  Sam Childers (born 1963) is a former Outlaw motorcycle club member who now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule South Sudan where they currently have more than 300 children in their care.
Jeyamohan.  B. Jeyamohan (also credited as Jayamohan; born 22 April 1962) is a noted Tamil and Malayalam writer and literary critic from Nagercoil in Kanyakumari District in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.He entered the world of Tamil literature in the 1990s Jeyamohan has had impacted the Tamil literary landscape as it emerged from the post-modern phase.
K. K. Raja.  K. K. Raja (28 March 1893 – 6 April 1968) was a Malayalam poet from Kerala India. He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960 for the collection Malanatil.
Doug Sahm.  Douglas Wayne Sahm (November 6 1941 – November 18 1999) was an American musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio Texas he was a child prodigy in country music but became a significant figure in roots rock and other genres. Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tex-Mex music. He was the founder and leader of the 1960s rock and roll band the Sir Douglas Quintet.
Harvie S.  Harvie S (born Harvie Swartz December 6 1948) is an American jazz double-bassist.S learned piano as a child and did not begin playing bass until 1967 when he was nineteen years old. He attended Berklee College of Music and played in and around Boston with Al Cohn Zoot Sims Mose Allison and Chris Connor.
Matt Lucas.  Matthew Richard Matt Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English comedian screenwriter actor and singer best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain; as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars and Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Alice in Wonderland.In May 2007 he was placed seventh in the list of the UK's 100 most influential gay men and women by British newspaper The Independent.
LiLi Roquelin.  LiLi Roquelin (born in Toulon France) is a French-born American adult contemporary music trip-hop and alternative rock singer composer and songwriter from Astoria Queens New York City. Roquelin is most notable for her songs I Saw You which won Best Music Video at several film festivals Blues Alone Should you get mad Renew Keep This For You Thank You The Only One.
Cillian Vallely.  Cillian Vallely is an Irish musician born in Armagh Northern Ireland. He plays traditional Irish music on the uilleann pipes and low whistle and studied at the Armagh Pipers Club with his mother and father Brian and Eithne and then with the late Armagh piper Mark Donnelly. His brothers Niall and Caoimhín also play traditional music.Since 1999 he has been a member of the band Lúnasa with whom he has recorded 7 albums.
Michelle Paisley.  Michelle Lyn Paisley is an American author of two novels and one non-fiction book. She is a former journalist and is based in Sacramento CA.
Matthew Hittinger.  Matthew Hittinger (born June 1 1978) is an American poet and writer.
Pascal Rogé.  Pascal Rogé (born 6 April 1951) is a French pianist.His playing includes the works of compatriot composers Saint-Saëns Fauré Debussy Ravel Satie and Poulenc among others. However his repertoire also covers the German masters Haydn Mozart Brahms and Beethoven.
Marcia Hines.  Marcia Elaine Hines AM (born 20 July 1953 in Boston Massachusetts USA) is an Australian vocalist actress and TV personality. Hines made her debut at the age of sixteen in the Australian production of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Tim Biskup.  Tim Biskup (born September 21 1967 in Santa Monica California) is an American artist. His free-spirited style recalls 1950s storybook illustration with bright colors and whimsical shapes unrestricted by the black outlining typically used in character design.Tim realized he wanted to become an artist when he visited the Pompidou Center in 1984 with his family. There he was exposed to the works of Robert Matta Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.
Ahmadou Kourouma.  Ahmadou Kourouma (November 24 1927 Boundiali – December 11 2003 Lyon) was an Ivorian novelist.
Gwenno Saunders.  Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Welsh musician and dancer. Since she was born her father spoken Cornish with her her mother Welsh and as a family they would speak in Gaelic. She is best known as a singer and keyboardist with The Pipettes where she was known by the name Gwenno Pipette. She also performs as a solo artist.
Gloria Trevi.  Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz on February 15 1968) is a Mexican pop-rock singer-songwriter. Called the Supreme Diva of Mexican Pop by the music channel VH1 Trevi has sold more than 20 million records.
Caroline Myss.  Caroline Myss (pronounced mace) is an American author of numerous books and audio tapes including five New York Times Best Sellers: Anatomy of the Spirit (1996) Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998) Sacred Contracts (2002) Invisible Acts of Power (2004) Entering The Castle (2007) and Defy Gravity (2009). Her most recent book Archetypes: Who Are You? was published in 2013.
Stephanie Waring.  Stephanie Waring (born 19 February 1978) in Urmston Greater Manchester England is an English actress best known for portraying Cindy Cunningham in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. Waring has also had roles in soap opera Coronation Street day time soap opera Doctors and medical drama Holby City. She also appeared in Crash Palace Nice Guy Eddie and Merseybeat.
Anne Oterholm.  Anne Oterholm (born 1964) is an America-born Norwegian novelist and literary critic. Among her novels are ikke noe annet enn det du vil from 1995 and Avbrutt selskap from 1996. From 2005 she is leader of the Norwegian Authors' Union.
Lynwood Slim.  Lynwood Slim (born Richard Dennis Duran August 19 1953 Los Angeles California) is an American blues harmonica player and singer. Slim is best known as a singer in the style of smooth easy jazz/blues as well as his harmonica and flute playing.
Costa Kotselas.  Costa Kotselas (born January 6 1966) is an American film composer producer and guitarist. He works in a variety of genres including film pop electronic ethnic and Metal. He is known for combining modern rhythms and sounds to create entirely new compositions that could not have been possible at the time while staying true to the original style and form of the film.
Lubov Rabinovich.  Lubov Rabinovich (Любовь Семеновна Рабинович) (1907 Liepāja Present day Latvia - 2001 Moscow Russia Federation) was a Soviet Russian painter most noted for her works depicting rural life and particularly life in the newly created settlements of the Virgin Lands Campaign.Rabinovich began her studies in 1921 at the Lepeshinsky (МОПШК) experimental art-school commune in Moscow where she was taught drawing by Yakov Aleksandrovich Bashilov.The artist's work was first exhibited in 1925 as part of the 8th AKhRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia) Exhibition.Lubov Rabinovich studied at the Proletarian Institute of Art in Moscow graduating in 1930.She went on to study at the Institute of Painting Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad where she studied under A. 
DJ Rectangle.  DJ Rectangle is an American DJ/turntablist and Grammy Award-nominated Dance/Hip Hop/Club record producer.In 1993 DJ Rectangle won the US DMC Championship. Amongst many victorious DJ battles he won the International DJ Search sponsored by The Box Television to become the official DJ for Def Jam recording artist Warren G.
Al Rex.  Al Rex (born Albert Piccirilli; July 13 1928) was a bass player for Bill Haley & His Comets and its predecessor Bill Haley and the Saddlemen. He started playing for them in 1949 and became noted for wild antics on stage. When the band began to wane he formed his own Al Rex and the Regaleers in 1960 but this was not successful and he ultimately left the music industry. Although he still performed on occasion. He later had a wife and fathered twelve children.
Sai Htee Saing.  In this Burmese name Sai is an honorific.Sai Htee Saing (Burmese: စိုင်းထီးဆိုင် [sáɪɴ tʰí sʰàɪɴ]; 23 September 1950 – 10 March 2008; born Sai Tin U) was a distinguished Burmese singer and songwriter of Shan descent which featured prominently throughout his music career. Throughout his career he recorded two to three Shan language albums and 30 to 40 Burmese language albums. He was especially known for composing country music.
Sally Murphy.  Sally Murphy (born 1968) is an Australian children’s author and poet who has had thirty books published including verse novels picture books and educational titles.
Nila northSun.  nila northSun [sic] is a Native American poet and tribal historian.northSun's gritty realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets.She is often considered an influential writer in the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
Thomas Okey.  Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving a translator of Italian and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. In 1919 he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title.
Michelle Hunziker.  Michelle Yvonne Hunziker (born 24 January 1977) is a Swiss-Italian television hostess actress model and singer.
Karl Alvarez.  Karl Matthew Alvarez (born March 10 1964) is the bass guitar player for both the Descendents and All the band that resulted after the Descendents disbanded again in 1987.Alvarez joined the Descendents after the Enjoy! album from his previous band The Massacre Guys and played on all of the All albums and the Descendents albums All Everything Sucks and Cool To Be You.
Kyle Wooten.  Kyle Wooten was an American harmonica player during the 1920s and 1930s best known for The choking blues. He was a considered part of the backwoods scene a subgenre of Appalachian music and incorporated imitations of animals and imitations of inanimate sounds in his play.
Yasmine Hamdan.  Yasmine Hamdan is a Lebanese singer songwriter and actress now based in Paris. She became known with Soapkills the duo she founded with Zeid Hamdan (no relation) while she was still living in Beirut. The first album released by Soapkills was Bater (1999). Soapkills was one of the very first independent electronic bands in the Middle East and its innovative approach exerted a lasting influence.
John Graham (producer).  John Graham is a British record producer songwriter vocalist who is also known under the pseudonyms Quivver Skanna Stoneproof and Space Manoeuvres. He was a former member of music production team Tilt. More recently he has recorded and toured with the Welsh electronic group Hybrid.
Shara Worden.  Shara Worden is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. She was previously a backup vocalist for Sufjan Stevens and formerly the frontwoman of AwRY.
Edward Cocker.  Edward Cocker (1631 – 22 August 1676) was an English engraver who also taught writing and arithmetic.Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick the popularity of which has added a phrase (according to Cocker) to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips one of which Daniel's Copy-Book ingraven by Edward Cocker Philomath (1664) is preserved in the British Museum.
Ken Casey.  Kenneth William Ken Casey (born 14 April 1969) is the bass guitarist primary songwriter and one of the lead singers of the Boston Celtic punk group Dropkick Murphys. Casey was one of the original members starting the band in 1996 with guitarist Rick Barton and singer Mike McColgan. He is the only original member of the Dropkick Murphys left in the band though drummer Matt Kelly joined shortly after formation in 1997.
Bobby Rondinelli.  Bobby Rondinelli (born July 27 1955 Brooklyn New York) is a rock drummer best known for his work with the hard rock/heavy metal bands like Blue Öyster Cult Rainbow Quiet Riot Black Sabbath The Lizards and Rondinelli. He had turned down the vacant drumming stool in KISS in 1980 rather than wear the outfits and make up KISS were well known for leaving the position open for Eric Carr.
Dennis McGee.  Dennis (Denus) McGee (born January 26 1893 Eunice Louisiana USA – October 3 1989) was one of the earliest recorded Cajun musicians.A fiddle player he recorded and performed with Creole accordionist and vocalist Amédé Ardoin with accordionist Angelas LeJeune and with fiddlers Sady Courville and Ernest Frugé.
Robert Hudson (actor).  Robert Hudson (born 24 February 1960 in Sheffield) is an English actor.He is most famous for his role as PC Tony Yorkie Smith in the ITV police procedural television series The Bill. He played the role from 1984 until 1989 and made two subsequent guest appearances in 1990 and 1991.
Nicola Benedetti.  Nicola Benedetti MBE (born 20 July 1987) is a Scottish classical violinist.
Arjun Kumar.  Arjun Kumar hails from Bangalore is a Mridangam artist. Born to a family of Mridangam artistes Arjun Kumar was initiated into the art of Mridangam playing aged five by his father Sri Arjunan who is an artist in the field of percussion and was later mentored by Sri T. A. S. Mani for a couple of years.
Scarlett Santana.  Scarlett Santana (born Jasmine Mercedes on May 31 1988) is an American singer songwriter rapper spoken word poet dancer and actress of Puerto Rican descent. She made her musical debut with the worldwide smash pop group C+C Music Factory. Scarlett Santana has released two singles with the group. The first being Live Your Life credited as C+C Music Factory presents Scarlett Santana which was released in early 2010 on a Bill Coleman Remixxer compilation album.
Lee Min-woo.  Lee Min-woo (Hangul: 이민우; hanja: 李玟雨) mononymously credited as M as a solo artist was born on 28 July 1979 (he was only added to the family register in 1980). He is a South Korean entertainer known as a member of six-member boy band Shinhwa. As part of Shinhwa he has recorded ten studio albums as a vocalist and a rapper.
Yom Sang-seop.  Yom Sang-seop (born 1887) (Hangul: 염상섭) was a South Korean writer.Yom Sang Seop was a Korean novelist and freedom fighter in the early part of the 20th century. Yom was an early pioneer of modern narrative in Korea and a “writer of the period of dissatisfaction.” In this role Yom was one of the first naturalistic and realistic writers in Korean literature. Yom’s role in resistance against Japanese colonialism resulted in his being arrested (Yom booksleeve).
Elizabeth Jane Howard.  Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE FRSL (26 March 1923 – 2 January 2014) was an English novelist. She had previously been an actress and a model.
Adam Thorn.  Adam Thorn (born Adam Gabriel Thorn December 16 1979 in Waldorf Maryland) spent 1998–2005 as front man and lyricist for Greensboro North Carolina indie punk band Kudzu Wish. After bowing out at the top of their game Thorn started the short lived Warbomb! was employed as an assistant brewmaster and then began crafting the music for his solo debut.
James Henry (writer).  James Henry is a British comedy writer best known for his work in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. He began his career writing for children's television program Bob the Builder and is currently developing two projects. Hero Trip is a huge-budget superhero/road trip comedy being developed by the UK Film Council. Henry is also developing a teen drama series set in Cornwall for the BBC.
Ernst Mayer.  Ernst Mayer (24 June 1796 – 21 January 1844) was a German sculptor in the classical style. He was a pupil of Antonio Isopi and worked for Leo von Klenze mainly in Munich where in 1830 he became Professor of Sculpture at the Polytechnic now the Technical University.
Lizzie Frost Rattray.  Lizzie Frost Rattray (1855–1931) was a New Zealand journalist suffragist and welfare worker. She was born in Dunedin Otago New Zealand in 1855 to Mary Lister and Archdeacon John Albert Fenton but her family returned to Europe for the children's education. After their return to New Zealand Lissie married William Rattray a prosperous Auckland draper.
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven.  Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (born 5 December 1951) is a Belgian artist whose work involves painting drawing computer art and video art.
John Tunnard.  John Samuel Tunnard (7 May 1900 – 12 December 1971) was an English Modernist designer and painter. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.
Jules Simon Troubat.  Jules Simon Troubat (1836–1914) was a French littérateur born at Montpellier. He was the last secretary of Sainte-Beuve one of his testamentary executors and his legatee. He published a number of posthumous works of Sainte-Beuve such as his Correspondance an unfinished monograph on Proudhon and three volumes of articles originally contributed to the Premiers lundis.
Olle Nordmark.  Olle Emanuel Nordmark (May 25 1890—December 18 1973) was a Swedish painter and muralist born in Nordanholen at Mockfjärd parish. He started to draw and paint at an early age. In the beginning he was taught by his father but in 1901 he came in contact with Gustaf Ankarcrona in Leksand who taught him the basics. At the age of 15 he had decided that he is going to become an artist.
Edward Lear.  Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist illustrator author and poet and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks a form he popularised.
Bob Bowes.  Bob Bowes Born Robert Wm Bowes is an English actor. His only film is the classic 1969 film Kes. Bob Bowes played the headmaster Mr Gryce in the film about a young Barnsley lad who trains a young kestrel.
Jules Barbier.  Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.
Tan Jianci.  Tan Jianci (born October 5 1990 in Beihai Guangxi) better known by his stage name Kenji or CJ-T is a Chinese pop singer and occasional actor. He is the youngest member of the Chinese boy band M.I.C.
James Hannigan.  James Hannigan (born 1971) is a British film television and video game composer who has composed music for entries in the Harry Potter The Lord of the Rings Command & Conquer Dead Space Warhammer RuneScape 3 and Grand Prix series of games.
Patty Donahue.  Patricia Jean Patty Donahue (March 29 1956 – December 9 1996) was the American lead singer of the 1980s new wave group The Waitresses.
Gary Jenkins.  Gary Lil G Jenkins is an American musician. He is the lead singer of the R&B group Silk. Born and raised in Nashville Tennessee he is the youngest of seven children.
Kathryn Casey.  Kathryn Casey is an American true crime writer novelist and journalist. Author Ann Rule has called Casey one of the best in the true crime genre. She is best known for writing She Wanted It All which recounts the case of Celeste Beard who married an Austin multimillionaire only to convince her lesbian lover Tracey Tarlton to kill him.
Clark Datchler.  Clark Datchler (born Clark Wynford Datchler 27 March 1964 Sutton Surrey England) is an English singer songwriter musician and record producer. He first rose to fame in 1987 as the lead singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the band Johnny Hates Jazz.
Jaqee.  Jaqueline Nakiri Nalubale (1977 – ) also known as Jaqee is a musician born in Kampala Uganda. In 1990 she immigrated to Sweden where she began her musical career. She describes herself as a musical chameleon having no single musical style.Jaqee speaks Luganda Nkore English and Swedish as well as a little bit of Spanish; she is learning German.
DJ Rush.  Isaiah Major (born January 9 1970 Chicago Illinois United States) best known as DJ Rush is an American musician DJ and record producer of electronic music.
Félix Toranzos.  Félix Toranzos (born Oct. 30 1964) is a Paraguayan artist architect and graphic designer considered to be one of the most conspicuous representatives of the new generation of artists in Paraguay.
Marco Pennette.  Marco Pennette (born July 9 1966) is an American television producer and screenwriter.
Oliver Palotai.  Oliver Palotai (born 17 March 1974 in Germany) is a classically-trained German musician of Hungarian ancestry best known as a member of the power metal band Kamelot and of Doro Pesch's touring band.
Gary Shteyngart.  Gary Shteyngart (born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart; July 5 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad USSR. Much of his work is satirical.
Christine Dolce.  Christine Dolce (born August 31 1981 in Long Beach California) also known as ForBiddeN is a former cosmetologist and MySpace Internet celebrity since the mid-2000s.Proclaimed “The Queen of MySpace” by Vanity Fair and The Tyra Banks Show Dolce created her profile shortly after its inception.
Ad Snijders.  Ad Snijders was born in Eindhoven in 1929. He was a painter a collagist and a social activist.
Tad Robinson.  Tad Robinson (born June 24 1956) is an American soul blues singer.Robinson was born and raised in New York City United States attending school at Indiana University's school of music and graduating in 1980. He played regionally with a group called the Hesitation Blues Band then moved to Chicago where he became the vocalist for Dave Specter & the Bluebirds singing on their 1994 album Blueplicity for Delmark Records.
David Desrosiers.  David Philippe Desrosiers (born August 29 1980) is a French Canadian musician who is best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for pop punk band Simple Plan.Born in Sept-Îles Desrosiers was raised in Matane Quebec. He has briefly played the drums and bass guitar for bands such as The Used Vendetta Red Green Day Good Charlotte and MxPx. He guest-starred on the television show The Naked Brothers Band.
Christian Ingebrigtsen.  Christian Ingebrigtsen (born 25 January 1977 Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a member of the British-Norwegian pop group A1.
Kim Kay.  Kim Kay (pseudonym of Kim Van Hee; born in Dendermonde 27 February 1978) is a Belgian pop singer. She is Flemish however she's known for delivering vocals in French. Kim Kay's arguably most famous work is her dance single Lilali which was a hit in Europe beyond Belgium and France where she booked her overall greatest successes throughout her career.Kay lives in Wichelen and studies psychology in Ghent. In 2004 she was diagnosed with cancer.
Diane Birch.  Diane Birch (born January 24 1983) is an American singer-songwriter.
Big Boss (musician).  Jiří Valter better known as Big Boss is the vocalist for the Czech black metal band Root and the progressive metal band Equirhodont.
Hayley Warner.  Hayley Warner (born 23 January 1992) is an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter from Southern Sydney who was the runner-up of Australian Idol in 2009. Days after the idol finale Hayley signed to Sony Music Australia and released her debut single Good Day.
Bernard Knox.  Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox (November 24 1914 – July 22 2010) was an English classicist author and critic who became an American citizen. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.
Vik Muniz.  Vik Muniz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvik muˈnis]; born in 1961 São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work eventually focusing completely on photography.
Klaus Flouride.  Geoffrey Lyall (born May 30 1949 in Detroit Michigan) better known as Klaus Flouride is best known as the bassist for the San Francisco California punk rock band Dead Kennedys from the group's inception in June 1978 until the band's break-up in December 1986 although he also produced four solo albums during the 1980s and 1990s.Flouride began working on a solo album following the release of Dead Kennedys' second album 1982's Plastic Surgery Disasters coming out with the 12 single Shortnin' Bread (with The Drowning Cowboy as the B-Side) in 1982 and the EP Cha Cha Cha With Mr. 
Gavino Ledda.  Gavino Ledda (born 30 December 1938) is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work Padre padrone (1975).
Dennis King.  Dennis King (November 2 1897 – May 21 1971) was an English actor and singer.Born in Coventry as Dennis Pratt King had a stage career in both drama (including Shakespeare) and musicals. He emigrated to the USA in 1921 and went on to a successful career on the Broadway stage. He appeared in two musical films and played non-singing roles in two other motion pictures. He also played several roles on television. He died in New York City.
John Arthur Kemp.  John Kemp 1926–1987 created and ran the East Coast Sail Trust a charitable institution devoted to both character building for young people through education at sea and preservation of Thames sailing barges. The Trust has been running for over 40 years during which time many thousands of young people from Britain and around the world have benefited from the experience that is provided.
George Wilson (chemist).  George Wilson (21 February 1818 – 22 November 1859) was Regius Professor of Technology at the University of Edinburgh and the first Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland.
Lianne La Havas.  Lianne La Havas (born 23 August 1989 as Lianne Charlotte Barnes) is an English folk and soul singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Her debut album Is Your Love Big Enough? was awarded the title of iTunes Album of The Year 2012.
Jean Toussaint.  Jean Toussaint (born July 27 1960) is an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. Toussaint was born in Saint Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands and grew up in Saint Thomas and New York City. He learned to play calypso as a child and attended Berklee College of Music in the late 1970s studying under saxophonist Billy Pierce.
Olivia Bonilla.  Olivia Brooks Bonilla (born 25 January 1992) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In 2009 she released her EP-Album Arrival featuring original songs Can't Say Goodbye Stumble and Don't Say You're Sorry. Soon after that she released As If You Never Existed a song inspired by New Moon the second novel in the Twilight series.
Kenjiro Haitani.  Kenjiro Haitani (灰谷 健次郎 Haitani Kenjirō October 31 1934 - November 23 2006) was a Japanese author of children's literature.He was the author of Usagi no me (A Rabbit's Eyes) and Taiyo no Ko (Children of the Sun) both best-sellers.Haitani died of esophageal cancer on 23 November 2006 aged 72. According to his wishes no funeral services were held.
Sylvia (singer).  Sylvia Jane Kirby (born December 9 1956 Kokomo Indiana United States) known simply by her first name Sylvia during the 1980s is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. Some original source books have her birth name as Sylvia Kirby Allen however this may simply be a stage name she was trying to use but consequently used only her first name. There was also a point in time that she used Sylvia Rutledge.
SimCard (comedian).  Ghweleke Akporhuarho Stanley (born 20 April 1977) better known by the stage name SimCard is a Nigerian standup comedian.
Nerida Newton.  Nerida Newton (born 1972) is an Australian novelist whose first novel The Lambing Flat won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 2004 The Lambing Flat was shortlisted the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Asia/Pacific region (Best First Book) and One Book One Brisbane. Later that year Nerida was named by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia's best young novelists.
Situ Qiao.  Situ Qiao (Chinese: 司徒乔; 1902 – 16 February 1958) was a Chinese oil painter and graphic artist. An important member of the Lingnan School of art he was also known for his friendship with the influential writer Lu Xun. His most famous work is the 1940 painting Put Down Your Whip.
Niu Ben.  Zhang Xuejing (张学景 Tianjin 1935-) stagename Niu Ben (牛犇) is a Chinese film actor.
Antônio Carlos Jobim.  Antônio Tom Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25 1927 – December 8 1994) also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ʒoˈbĩ]) was a Brazilian songwriter composer arranger singer and pianist/guitarist.
Herb Jackson.  Herb Jackson (born 1945) is an artist and is the William H. Williamson Professor of Art at Davidson College. In 1999 he was awarded the North Carolina Award the highest civilian honor in the state by Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina.
Eric Stanton.  Eric Stanton (September 30 1926 – March 17 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator cartoonist and comic-book artist.The majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios.
Bernard Noël.  Bernard Noël (born November 19 1930 Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence Aveyron) is a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992 and the Prix Robert Ganzo (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010.
Dan Mazin.  Dan Mazin (born Daniel Petunia Mazin) was a straight-edge musician mostly known within the South Florida hardcore scene for spending time in Until the End as well as Keepsake. His current love of all things whiskey disallows his involvement with the Straight Edge label. He is considered an influential bassist in the genre on metalcore. He used to operate Eulogy Recordings with John Wylie. Other claims to fame include being New Found Glory's roadie and saying the classic line Hey ladies.
Adam Zwar.  Adam Zwar (born 13 January 1972) is a multi award-winning Australian actor voice artist and writer. He is best known for co-creating the Australian comedy series Lowdown Wilfred and creating the popular factual series Agony Aunts and Agony Uncles and The Agony of Life. Zwar has also appeared in the feature films The Wedding Party and Rats and Cats.
Will Ryman.  Will Ryman (born 1969) is an American artist. He is the son of Robert Ryman a minimalist painter and Merrill Wagner also a painter.His work has been shown at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center at the Marlborough Gallery in New York and at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
Per Morberg.  Per-Arne Henrik Morberg (born Andersson 23 June 1960 in Brännkyrka församling Stockholm) is a Swedish actor chef and news presenter.
Juan Silvano Godoi.  Juan Bautista Gill (November 12 1850 – January 1926) was a Paraguayan scholar.
Harry Belafonte.  Harold George Harry Belafonte Jr. (born March 1 1927) is an American singer songwriter actor and social activist. One of the most successful Caribbean American pop stars in history he was dubbed the King of Calypso for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) is the first million selling album by a single artist.
Suzanne Dalbert.  Suzanne Dalbert (12 May 1927 – 31 December 1970) was a French actress who appeared in a number of American films and television series during the 1940s and 1950s. Dalbert was born in Paris and moved to the United States following World War II. She was discovered by the Paramount studio head Hal Wallis who hoped to develop her into a major star.
Clubroot (musician).  Clubroot (born Dan Richmond ca. 1985 is a dubstep musician located in St Albans England. Signed to Lo Dubs he released his eponymous debut album in 2009. The second album II – MMX was released in 2010. His music is often compared by similarity of deep dark electronic sound with Burial.
Chu Tien-wen.  Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; pinyin: Zhū Tiānwén; born August 24 1956 in Taipei Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include Fin-de-Siècle Splendour (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man 荒人手記 (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Phil Ortiz.  Phil Ortiz an American animator. He has worked for more than 30 years as a professional artist ranging from daily newspaper comic strips to animated cartoons.[citation needed]
Lucas Cleeve.  Lucas Cleeve was the pseudonym of Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote née Wolff (1868–1908) was a novelist born in England the author of over sixty works including The Woman Who Wouldn't in 1895. After her marriage to Colonel Howard Kingscote most of her novels were published under the name Mrs Howard Kingscote.
Tone Perčič.  Tone Perčič (born 26 December 1954) is a Slovenian writer and translator.Perčič was born in Ljubljana in 1954. He studied French and Italian at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a lecturer in Slovene language at universities in Leipzig Berlin Nottingham and Paris.He won the Kresnik Award for his novel Izganjalec hudiča in 1995.
Alden R. Hatch.  Alden R. Hatch (September 16 1898 - February 1 1975) was an American writer. He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch owner of a successful Wall Street stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Alden's brother Eric S. Hatch was a writer on the staff of The New Yorker and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his book 1101 Park Avenue that became a hit film under the title My Man Godfrey.Born in New York City Alden Hatch was the author of more than 40 books.
Pavel Chistyakov.  Pavel Petrovich Chistiakov (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Чистяко́в) (July 5 [O.S. June 23] 1832 – November 11 1919) was a Russian painter and teacher of art.
Aceyalone.  Eddie Hayes better known by his stage name Aceyalone is a rapper from Los Angeles California. He is a member of Freestyle Fellowship Haiku D'Etat and The A-Team and a co-founder of Project Blowed. Aceyalone is best known for his role in evolving left-field hip-hop on the West Coast at a time when the West Coast was dominated by Gangsta Rap.
Willard Hirsch.  Willard Newman Hirsch (1905 - 1982) was an American sculptor.
Ajip Rosidi.  Ajip Rosidi born on 31 January 1938 in Jatiwangi Majalengka West Java is an Indonesian poet and short story writer. As of 1983 he has published 326 works in 22 different magazines.
Bob Jenyns.  Bob Jenyns (born Robert Jenyns 1944 Victoria) is a prolific Australian artist whose practice spanning over four decades has produced countless sculptures prints drawings and paintings. He has participated in many of Australia's most significant art exhibitions including the first Biennale of Sydney (1973) the 1973 1975 and 1978 Mildura Sculpture Triennials the 1981 Australian Perspecta the 2nd Australian Sculpture Biennale and the 1990 Sculpture Triennial.
Eric Paul.  Eric Paul is a noise rock singer. He is known for his disturbing vocals lyrics and energetic stage presence. Eric Paul has played in many popular noise bands such as Arab on Radar and The Chinese Stars.
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer.  Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer (born 30 January 1719 in Wurzen; died 7 July 1783 in Halberstadt) was a German fabulist.
Neill Jameson.  Neill Jameson is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Somers Point N.J. who has recorded and performed under the pseudonym N. Imperial (also Lord Imperial or simply Imperial).
Hugh Casson.  Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson CH KCVO PRA RDI (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect interior designer artist and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design. He is particularly noted for his role as director of architecture at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.
Fay Kanin.  Fay Kanin (née Mitchell; May 9 1917 – March 27 2013) was an American screenwriter playwright and producer. Kanin was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.
Yao Chen.  Yao Chen (Chinese: 姚晨) (born 5 October 1979) is an award-winning Chinese actress and the person on Sina Weibo with the largest number of fans (analogous to followers on Twitter) with over 52 million as of September 2013. In 2014 Time named Yao on the list of 100 global celebrities.
Sarah Harrison (singer).  Sarah Harrison (born 2 September 1990 in Malta) also known as SARA is a British/Maltese artist DJ/producer and musician.
Biquardus.  Biquardus (also Wiquardus Giquardus and Guiquardus) (fl. c. 1440 – 1450) was a composer most likely from the Picardy province of France. Three of his works can be found in the St. Emmeram Choirbook although they may simply be contrafacta (new text to old music). These are In excelsis te laudant Ave stella matutina and Resurexit victor mortis.
Lisa McMann.  Lisa McMann (born February 27 1968) is an American author.She lives near Phoenix Arizona.
Rah Digga.  Rah Digga (born Rashia Fisher) is an American rapper and actress. Well known as a longtime member of the Flipmode Squad a hip hop group led by Busta Rhymes she parted ways amicably with the group in 2007. She has been called one of rap's most prominent women MCs by Allmusic and one of hip-hop's most skilled female MCs in the book How to Rap. Rah Digga is a resident of Newark New Jersey.
Berthe Morisot.  Berthe Morisot (French: [mɔʁizo]; January 14 1841 – March 2 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of les trois grandes dames of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864 she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris.
Pasquale Pontecorvo.  Pasquale Pontecorvo (Naples 1833-) was an Italian painter and decorator; he was prolific in decorating historical and sacred subjects in oil and fresco. He also performed many restorations.
Francesco Rizzo Da Santacroce.  Francesco Rizzo da Santacroce also known as Francesco di Bernardo de' Vecchi Da Santa Croce (active 1510 – 1545) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Bergamo and Venice.
Jerzy Waldorff.  Jerzy Waldorff or Jerzy Waldorff-Preyss of the Nabram coat of arms (May 4 1910 – December 29 1999) was a Polish baron an attorney by profession a TV personality writer publicist literary critic and a music aficionado. He wrote over 20 books mostly on the subject of classical music and society and was also named as an honorary citizen of both Warsaw and Słupsk. Waldorff had a relationship with the classical dancer Mieczysław Jankowski for 61 years.
Larry Bunker.  Lawrence Benjamin Larry Bunker (November 4 1928 – March 8 2005) was an American jazz drummer vibraphonist and percussionist. A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the mid-1960s he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Edmond Malone.  Edmond Malone (4 October 1741 – 25 May 1812) was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare.Assured of an income after the death of his father in 1774 Malone was able to give up his law practice for at first political and then more congenial literary pursuits. He went to London where he frequented literary and artistic circles.
John Verlenden.  John Verlenden is an American academic writer and award-winning translator of Arabic literature. He obtained a BA in English literature from Rhodes College in 1986 followed by an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in 1988. He has taught at a number of universities in the USA and the Middle East and currently works at the American University in Cairo.
Anders Aarum.  Anders Aarum (born 17 December 1974 in Moss Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano) known from numerous albums and international collaborations like Sonny Simmons Ola Kvernberg Tine Asmundsen Sigurd Køhn Børre Dalhaug Nora Brockstedt and Even Kruse Skatrud.
Jason Roberts (author).  Jason Roberts is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for the bestselling A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006) a biography of James Holman the blind adventurer of the early 19th century.
George du Maurier.  George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier. He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan.
Paperboy Fabe.  Fabbien Nahounou (born May 19 1984) better known as Paperboy Fabe is an American Grammy Award Nominated R&B hip hop and contemporary music producer. Paperboy Fabe is from Hartford Connecticut and now reside in Los Angeles California. Fabe is best known for his production on Cyhi Da Prynce “Studda” Game “Do It B.I.G” Feat Yung Joc & Cyhi Da Prynce “Thousand Poundz” Feat Pusha T & Pill.
Mayu Nozomi.  Mayu Nozomi (希美 まゆ Nozomi Mayu born October 5 1989) is a Japanese AV idol gravure model actress and singer.
Lisa Ekdahl.  Lisa Ekdahl (born July 29 1971 in Hägersten Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish singer and song writer in popular music. She has so far published 10 albums most of them in the Swedish language but some entirely in English. Her voice has been described as child-like and soft supple and smooth. Her Swedish lyrics have been praised.
Duke Pearson.  Columbus Calvin Duke Pearson Jr (Atlanta Georgia August 17 1932 – Atlanta August 4 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic notes him as being a big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a producer.
Karnail Gill.  Karnail Gill (Punjabi: ਕਰਨੈਲ ਗਿੱਲ) was a Punjabi folk singer of Punjab. He is best known for his duets with Bibi Harneet Narinder Biba Gulshan Komal Kuldeep Kaur Parminder Sandhu Ranjit Kaur Sukhwant Sukhi Surinder Kaur Swaran Lata and many more.Suffering from spinal cancer he died on June 24 2012 survived by his wife Sukhjinder Kaur son Gurtej Singh and two daughters Kanwardeep Kaur and Kirandeep Kaur. He was cremated at his village of Jamalpur in Ludhiana district.
Thalia Field.  Thalia Field (born 1966) is an American writer and editor known for interdisciplinary multimedia collaborations. She teaches experimental fiction and performance at Brown University. She has published three books of experimental writing and prose poetry with New Directions Publishing most recently Bird Lovers Backyard in 2010.
Chas Cronk.  Chas Cronk is an English singer-songwriter and musician.
William Geissler.  William Hastie Geissler (1894 Edinburgh - 1963) was a Scottish artist known for his watercolours of the natural world. He was one of the Edinburgh School and much of his earlier work came from sketching trips undertaken with other members of this group though he himself is sometimes described as a neglected member. Geissler and William Gillies both graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1922 having won scholarships and exhibited for several years with colleagues as The 1922 Group.
Denis Saverot.  Denis Saverot is a French author and the editor of the French wine publication La Revue du vin de France.In 2008 Saverot accused the French government of contempt for French culture after a Paris court ruled that a Le Parisien article on Champagne was considered advertising subject to the Evin law regulating alcohol and tobacco advertising.Saverot co-authored the 2008 book In Vino Satanas with the Le Journal du Dimanche journalist Benoist Simmat describing a French wine industry that is currently in a crisis and accusing the French government of subverting the French wine industry in favour of the pharmaceutical industry.Saverot has also written the foreword to the bande dessinée comic book written by Simmat and illustrated by Philippe Bercovici satirising the American wine critic Robert M. 
Margaret Whiting.  Margaret Eleanor Whiting (July 22 1924 – January 10 2011) was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.
Nela Pocisková.  Nela Pocisková (October 4 1990 in Bratislava) is a Slovak singer and actress who was the Slovakian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with Kamil Mikulčík. The song Leť tmou was chosen after a national final. They were the first singers to represent Slovakia at the contest since the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 but failed to reach the Eurovision final.In 2010 she won the fourth season of Let's Dance the Slovak version of Dancing with the Stars.
Brandon Jerwa.  Brandon Jerwa is an American comic book writer and musician currently residing in Seattle Washington. Jerwa is best known for his work on comic tie-ins for several prominent licensed properties including Battlestar Galactica Highlander G.I. Joe and Army of Darkness. Jerwa also collaborates frequently with fellow writer Eric S.
Samuel L. M. Barlow.  Samuel L. M. Barlow (June 1 1892 - September 19 1982) was a Harvard-educated American composer pianist and art critic. His compositional style was conservative for his day and he once stated that he wrote tunes that wouldn't shock Papa Brahms. However his music was innovative in its frequent exploration of new performance techniques and practices; including the use of slide projections for his 1936 symphonic concerto Babar.
Raina (singer).  Oh Hye-Rin (born May 7 1989) better known by her stage name Raina is the Main Vocalist of her group After School (band). She is also the leader of After School sub-unit Orange Caramel. Raina debuted with the group in November 2009 following the release of the groups second single Because of You.
Dee Clark.  Dee Clark (November 7 1938 – December 7 1990) was an American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s including the song Raindrops which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961.
Murat Kaya (writer).  Murat Kaya (February 15 1971) is a German writer. Kaya was born in Hamburg and worked for the German version of MAD.
Camille Bouvagne.  Camille Bouvagne (born Jean-Baptiste Camille Bouvagne) (1864 – 1936) was a French painter from Lyon France. A member of the Lyon School (L'École de Lyon or École lyonnaise) Bouvagne exhibited regularly at the Le Salon in Lyon (Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts).
Benny Haag.  Benny Haag born May 8 1961 is a Swedish actor and current party leader of Spritpartiet (Liquor Party) who will run in the Swedish general election 2010 on September 19.
Ivy Tan.  Ivy Tan also known as Chen Ai Wei (Chinese: 陈艾薇) is a Singaporean radio personality. She works as a radio host for Singapore-based Chinese music station YES 933 which she joined in 2007. She attended Ngee Ann Polytechnic where she took mass communications. She is single.
Beatriz da Costa.  Beatriz da Costa (June 11 1974 – December 27 2012) was an interdisciplinary artist known for her work at the intersection of contemporary art science engineering and politics. Her projects took the form of public interventions and workshops conceptual tool building and critical writing.
Josef Schmid (composer).  Josef Schmid (born Germany 1890 - died New York City 1969) was a conductor composer and composition teacher. He was one of the first students of Alban Berg with whom he studied before World War I. As a conductor Schmid had been an assistant to both Zemlinsky and Erich Kleiber. As a composer Schmid was associated with Berg and Webern but considered himself a musical godson of Schoenberg.
Millie Corretjer.  Milagros Ninnete Corretjer Maldonado known as Millie Corretjer(born April 18 1974 is a Puerto Rican singer and actress. She is married to retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya.
Raymond Abbott.  Raymond Abbott (born April 21 1942) is an American novelist.
Jean Shinoda Bolen.  Jean Shinoda Bolen M.D. is a psychiatrist (Jungian archetypes) and author. Bolen has written several books on the archetypal psychology of women and men in the development of spirituality and is one of the women featured in the 1986 film Women - for America for the World (Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)) and 1989 National Film Board of Canada documentary Goddess Remembered.
Ron Robertson-Swann.  Ron Robertson-Swann OAM (born 1941 Sydney) is an Australian sculptor best known for his controversial abstract public sculpture Vault (1980). His sculpture has been described as being in the Anthony Caro style which he adopted after studying at Saint Martin's School of Art London in the 1960s. He studied under Lyndon Dadswell and was an assistant to Henry Moore.
Stan Brakhage.  James Stanley Brakhage (/ˈbrækədʒ/ BRAK-əj; January 14 1933 – March 9 2003) better known as Stan Brakhage was an American non-narrative filmmaker.
Michał Szpak.  Michał Szpak (born 26 November 1990) is a Polish singer who found fame on the first series of the Polish X Factor in June 2011. On Sunday 5 June 2011 Szpak and Alexandra Burke sang Hallelujah during the final.Musical influences: Queen Muse Zbigniew Preisner Pink Floyd David Bowie Marilyn Manson Michael Jackson.
Dorian Leljak.  Dorian Leljak is a Serbian pianist holding a professorship at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad where he was trained under Arbo Valdma and the presidency of the European Piano Teachers Association's Vojvodina branch. Leljak is to serve as a juror at the XVIII Cleveland International Piano Competition.
DJ Bitman.  DJ Bitman (born José Antonio Bravo 1975) also known as Latin Bitman or simply Bitman is a Chilean electronic music producer composer and DJ.
D. J. Bonebrake.  Donald J. DJ Bonebrake (born December 8 1955) is an American musician from California who first emerged as the drummer of the punk rock band Eyes (also featuring Charlotte Caffey of The Go-Go's). He is best known as an original member of and drummer for punk rock band X of which he is still an active member.Bonebrake is the only founding member of X from California (whereas the other three are originally from Illinois) having grown up in the San Fernando Valley.
Eleanor Joanne Daley.  Eleanor Joanne Daley or simply Eleanor Daley as she is more widely known and publicized (born in Parry Sound Ontario on April 21 1955) is a Canadian composer of choral and church music a church choirmaster choral clinician and accompanist.Among her best-known works are The Rose Trilogy and Requiem. Daley holds a bachelor's degree in organ performance from Queens University in Kingston Ontario and holds multiple diplomas in piano and organ having studied in both Canada and England.
Stacy Morze.  Stacy Morze is an American actor and musician best known for her role as Grace 'Lambchops' Lamb in Fame and as the drummer for post punk group Uke til U Puke. Born in Philadelphia PA Stacy Morze starred in Annie on Broadway. While at Nazareth Academy High School she participated in many high school musicals. She was lead singer for the group The Brat Pack that opened for Pretty Poison at a local teen club in the 1980s called Mardi Gras.
Dave Gahan.  David Dave Gahan (/ˈɡɑːn/; born 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter best known as the baritone lead singer for the British electronic music band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. He is also an accomplished solo artist releasing albums in 2003 (Paper Monsters) and 2007 (Hourglass).
Denizen Kane.  Dennis Kim better known by his stage name Denizen Kane is an underground rapper and spoken word artist. Denizen Kane is co-founder of the underground rap crew Typical Cats with fellow MCs Qwazaar and Qwel and producers / DJs Kid Knish and DJ Natural. He is also a founding member of Asian-American spoken word group I Was Born with Two Tongues.
Jim Couza.  Jim Couza was an American hammered dulcimer player born in New Bedford Massachusetts April 27 1945 and resident in England since 1982; he died in 2009. In addition to the hammered dulcimer Couza also played Appalachian dulcimer and guitar. He made several recordings both solo and with the D'Uberville Ramblers. He also worked with Björk on the album Post and with Peter Gabriel on OVO (Couza is featured on a track called The Time Of The Turning (reprise) / Weavers Reel).
Thomas Lang.  Thomas Lang (About this sound listen ; born August 5 1967 Vienna) is an Austrian drummer multi-instrumentalist composer and record producer. He is the founding member of the Los Angeles-based progressive/avant garde metal band stOrk.Lang took up drumming at age 5. In addition to lessons at local music schools and years of private tuition he was classically trained at the Vienna Conservatory of Music.
Anen.  Anen was an Ancient Egyptian official during the late Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He was the son of Yuya and Tjuyu and the brother of Queen Tiye the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Under the rule of his brother-in-law Anen became the Chancellor of Lower Egypt Second Prophet of Amun sem-priest of Heliopolis and acquired the title Divine Father. Anen is depicted in a notable surviving statue (Turin 5484) now in Turin Italy. A shabti of his is now in Hague.
Lawrence Earl.  Lawrence Earl Wiezel (April 29 1915 - April 5 2005) known professionally as Lawrence Earl was a Canadian journalist and novelist. He is best known for his novels Yangtse Incident which was adapted into the 1957 film Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S.
Robert Lamm.  Robert William Lamm (born October 13 1944) is an American keyboardist singer and songwriter who came to fame as a founding member of the pop rock band Chicago. He wrote many of the band's biggest hits including Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Beginnings Saturday in the Park Dialogue (Part I & II) and 25 or 6 to 4.
Gernot Pachernigg.  Gernot Notty Pachernigg is an Austrian singer.
Muriel Rahn.  Muriel Rahn (1911 – 1961) was an American vocalist and actress. She co-founded the Rose McClendon Players with her husband Dick Campbell and was one of the leading black concert singers of the mid-20th Century. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the original Broadway production of Carmen Jones. Rahn also served as musical director of the German State Theater in Frankfurt.
Wayne Handy.  Wayne Handy (born May 14 1935) is a rockabilly singer.
Andrew Ripp.  Andrew Ripp is a singer-songwriter from Palatine Illinois. Before releasing his debut album Fifty Miles to Chicago in 2008 Andrew first broke into the national music scene as a songwriter; his contributions such as Ryan Cabrera's album You Stand Watching have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 Mainstream Pop 100 Airplay Pop 100 and Hot Digital Songs charts.
Ambersunshower.  Ambersunshower (born Ambersunshower Nadine Miligros Villenuevo Smith) is an R&B singer and former member of the hip hop duo Groove Garden. Gee Street Records released Ambersunshower's debut solo album Walter T. Smith in 1996. A single from the album Running Song later appeared on the soundtrack album from the film The Great White Hype while another song Look Around My Window was included on the Senseless soundtrack.
Iain Campbell Smith.  Iain Campbell Smith is an Australian diplomat singer/songwriter and comedian. He performs under the stage name Fred Smith in Australia and his full name in the United States.
Jeff Dawson.  Jeff Dawson is a Canadian record producer song writer engineer and mixer. Vancouver-based Jeff Dawson developed and produced the breakthrough self-titled second album for Daniel Powter. After working on Daniel's songs and helping develop the project's sound over 3 years Warner Bros. Chairman/CEO Tom Whalley took one listen and knew he had something extraordinary.
Severin Lieblein.  Johan Nicolai Severin Lieblein (1866 – 1933) was a Norwegian writer.He was born in Kristiania as a son of Jens Lieblein (1827–1911) and his first wife Johanne Alette Danielsen (1838–1866). His father married anew in 1869.He became known for the short story collections Fra fremmed land (1901) Kismet (1909) and I baldakinens skygge (1917) and the children's book Bedre mands børn (1902).
Domenico Morani.  Domenico Morani (Polistena Reggio Calabria 1824- Rome 1870) was an Italian painter and sculptor active mainly in Naples Italy. He painted mostly historic and religious topics.His father Fortunato Morani was an engineer. He trained with Tito Angelini. In 1832 at the Benedictine Convent of La Cava he had a fortuitous encounter with the English poet Walter Scott this led to some patronage by the local English expatriate community.
Franz Bauer.  Franz Andreas Bauer (later Francis) (March 14 1758 – December 11 1840) was an Austrian microscopist and botanical artist.Born in Feldsberg Moravia (now Valtice Czech Republic) he was the son of Lucas Bauer (died 1761) court painter to the Prince of Liechtenstein and brother of the painters Josef Anton (1756–1830) and Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826). After Lucas Bauer's death his wife Therese continued to give her three sons lessons in art and illustration.
Chris Xefos.  Christopher Chris Xefos (born January 5 1964) is an American multi-instrumentalist musician/engineer/producer and former member of band King Missile. He plays various instruments such as accordion bass piano and synthesizer among others. He began recording/producing various groups in New York during the 1980s including indie-rock legends Phantom Tollbooth. In 1989 he joined the New York City avant-garde spoken word/art rock group King Missile.
Angélique Kidjo.  Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her Africa's premier diva. The BBC has included Kidjo in its list of the African continent's 50 most iconic figures.
Paul McDermott.  Paul McDermott (born 13 May 1962) is an Australian comedian actor writer director singer artist and television host. As a comedian he is best known both for Good News Week and for his role as a member of the musical comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars which disbanded in 1994; he has also performed individually and as a part of GUD.
Maggie Lettvin.  Margaret B. Lettvin is an American writer and promoter of exercise and health. She was known in the Boston area in the 1970s for a television show called Maggie and The Beautiful Machine and a book based on the show. After a serious car accident she developed a set of exercises for back pain which became Maggie's Back Book (ISBN 0395251478).She is the widow of MIT professor Jerry Lettvin.
Vasil Iljoski.  Vasil Iljoski (Macedonian: Васил Иљоски Kruševo Ottoman Empire 20 December 1902 - Skopje Republic of Macedonia 1 November 1995) was a Macedonian writer dramatist professor and an important figure in the Macedonian literature especially in Macedonian drama between the two World Wars. He was born in Kruševo in 1902. His play Begalka or known as Lenče Kumanovče performed in 1928 in the Skopje theatre is considered one of the first plays written in the Macedonian language.
Carolee Schneemann.  Carolee Schneemann (born October 12 1939) is an American visual artist known for her discourses on the body sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions taboos and the body of the individual in relationship to social bodies.
Eir Aoi.  Eir Aoi (藍井 エイル Aoi Eiru born November 30 1988) is a Japanese singer from Sapporo Hokkaido and is signed to SME Records. She was discovered through the Nico Nico Douga video sharing website.
Jean Le Poulain.  Jean Le Poulain (1924–1988) was a French actor.
Baby Huey (singer).  James Ramey (August 17 1944 – October 28 1970) better known as Baby Huey was an American rock and soul singer. He was the frontman for the band Baby Huey & the Babysitters whose single LP for Curtom Records in 1971 was influential in the development of hip hop music.
Craig Bonich.  Craig Bonich (also known as Bon) is best known as the guitarist for alternative pop rock band Head Automatica. Bonich co-wrote the hit song from Head Automatica's 1st album Decadence called Beating Heart Baby.[citation needed]Bonich recently joined Jeremy Lublin of We Are The Fury to create the Romans. The band's single Let's Get It On is featured in the latest Royal Caribbean TV commercial in the U.K. and Ireland.
Himani Narang.  Dr. Himani Narang (Hindi:डॉक्टर हिमानी नारंग) populaarly known as Himani Narang (Hindi:डॉक्टर हिमानी नारंग)(born December 10 1984) a leading Kathak exponent (Kathak : The classical Dance form of India).
Ryan Adams.  David Ryan Adams (born November 5 1974) is an American singer songwriter guitarist and producer. He is best known for his prolific solo career and as a former member of alt-country band Whiskeytown with whom he recorded three studio albums.In 2000 Adams left Whiskeytown and released his first solo album Heartbreaker to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize.
Fionnbar Callanan.  Fionnbar Callanan is an Irish sports photographer and journalist.
Yngve Gamlin.  Yngve Gamlin (17 March 1926 – 1 February 1995) was a Swedish actor and film director. His 1965 film The Chasers was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.
Robert Lazzarini.  Robert Lazzarini (born September 22 1965 in Denville New Jersey) is an American artist who lives and works in New York. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1995 and is included in major collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art New York; and the Walker Art Center Minneapolis.
Vicky Hamilton.  Vicky Hamilton (born April 1 1958) is an American record executive personal manager promoter and club booker writer (journalist playwright and screenwriter) documentary film maker and artist.Hamilton is noted for managing the early careers of Guns N' Roses Poison and Faster Pussycat; for being a management consultant for Mötley Crüe and Stryper a 1980s concert promoter on the Sunset Strip and a club booker at Bar Sinister from 2001 to 2010.Hamilton did A&R at Geffen Records from 1988 to 1992 worked at Lookout Management at Vapor Records from 1994 to 1996 and as an A&R consultant at Capitol Records from 1997 to 1999. 
Ohad Benchetrit.  Ohad Benchetrit is a Canadian musician. He plays guitar bass saxophone and flute for the post-rock band Do Make Say Think and has also contributed to albums by Broken Social Scene Feist The Hidden Cameras and Charles Spearin.He collaborated in a project called Sphyr which released one album A Poem for M in 2003.Ohad released his first solo record on May 5 2009 on the Arts & Crafts label under the name Years.
Agostino Lamma.  Agostino Lamma (1636–1700) was an Italian painter active in Venice and specializing in battle paintings. He was trained under Antonio Calza and his Siege of Vienna by the Turks painted in the style of Mattias Stom. He died in Venice.
Glenn Greenwald.  Glenn Greenwald (born March 6 1967) is an American political journalist lawyer columnist blogger and author. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012 and an occasional contributor to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator. At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger focusing on political and legal topics.
Donald R. Bensen.  Donald Roynald Bensen (October 3 1927 – October 19 1997) also known as Don Bensen and sometimes listed as D.R. Bensen was an American editor and science fiction writer. Editorally he is best known for editing works of P. G. Wodehouse and his involvement in their re-issue in paperback in the United States. Authorially he is best known for his 1978 alternative history novel And Having Writ… published first by Bobbs-Merrill.
Ramon Casas i Carbó.  Ramon Casas i Carbó (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmoŋ ˈkazəs]) (4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan Spanish artist.
Steve Mason (musician).  Steve Mason is a Scottish musician best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of The Beta Band. According to Q magazine after leaving the band Mason was so deep in debt at one point that he was forced to take a second job on a building site.
Patti Miner.  Pat Marie Gagon (born December 12 1955) is an American actress singer author and entrepreneur most notable for her gospel country style of music. and hit solo single Outlaw Blues.
Juraj Šporer.  Juraj Matija Šporer or Đuro Matija Šporer or George Sporer or Đuro Matić Šporer (1795—1884) was a physician and writer. His father was the first major of French controlled Karlovac and one of the first Freemasons in Karlovac who had significant influence on his son's Illyrianism. He is referred to as one of the forerunners of Illyrian movement. Šporer was the first Croat who attempted to publish a native (Illyrian) language newspaper.
Steven Cavanagh.  Steven Cavanagh (S J Cavanagh) is an Australian short fiction writer and song parody artist. He is best known for his collection of Star Wars song parodies the Songbook of the Whills.
Juan Sánchez Cotán.  Juan Sánchez Cotán (June 25 1560 – September 8 1627) was a Spanish Baroque painter a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still life—also called bodegones—were painted in an austere style especially when compared to similar works in Netherlands and Italy.
Ludwig Marcuse.  Professor Ludwig Marcuse (February 8 1894 in Berlin – August 2 1971 in Bad Wiessee) was a philosopher and writer of Jewish origin.From 1933 to 1940 Marcuse lived in France settling with other German exiles in Sanary-sur-Mer. From 1940 to 1950 he lived in Los Angeles. He returned to Germany at the end of his life.In 1962 his non-fiction book Obscene: The history of an indignation was published.
Andy White (drummer).  Andrew Andy White (born 27 July 1930) is a Scottish drummer best known for replacing Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles' first single Love Me Do. White featured on the American 7 single release of the song which also appeared on the band's debut British album Please Please Me. He also played on the Love Me Do single B-side P.S. I Love You.White has played with many other prominent musicians and groups including Chuck Berry Billy Fury Herman's Hermits and Tom Jones.
Hope Partlow.  Hope Partlow (born May 31 1988) is an American pop singer from Drummonds Tennessee. Hope now goes by her married name Hope Wilson and is recording a country album independently.
Rick Veitch.  Richard Rick Veitch (born May 7 1951) is an American comic book artist and writer who has worked in mainstream underground and alternative comics.
Daniel Belardinelli.  Daniel Belardinelli (May 12 1961) is an American self-taught artist associated with outsider art as well as a lawyer.
Percy Izzard.  Percy W. (William) D. Izzard OBE (September 1877 - 1968) was the well-known gardening correspondent on the Daily Mail newspaper and author of several books on gardening.
Steve Wade (singer).  Steve Wade is an award-winning Australian singer songwriter and musician. For four years he was the lead vocalist for Little River Band. Wade is a two-time winner of Australian Songwriter of the Year.
Mary Anderson (author).  Mary Anderson (born January 20 1939) is an American author of mystery novels for children and young adults the majority published by Atheneum Books New York.
James Chappell.  James F. Chappell (1891–1964) was an American astronomer and photographer.He worked at the Lick Observatory where he performedphotography of the Moon. He is noted for the development of special photographic techniques for use in astronomy.The crater Chappell on the Moon is named after him.
John Jennings (musician).  John Jennings is an American musician: a guitarist multi-instrumentalist and music producer.Among his credits as a producer are eight albums which he produced for Mary Chapin Carpenter as well as releases by BeauSoleil John Gorka and Janis Ian.
Jeanne Liotta.  Jeanne Liotta (born 1960) is an American visual artist who is primarily known for her experimental films. She is also currently a professor of film studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives between New York City and Colorado.
Brandon Manilow.  Brandon Manilow is a Czech actor in gay pornography.According to his profile on the Bel Ami website he studied at a special sports school.
Elaine Corvidae.  Elaine Corvidae is an American fantasy author.Corvidae says when she was eight years old she came home from school and declared she would be a writer. She has published many novels including three trilogies short stories in various anthologies and two novels serialized for free on her website.
Mohammad Din Mohammad.  Mohammad Din Mohammad is a Singaporean Malay painter who is known for his expressive works of art inspired by Sufism. Mohammad's paintings and sculptures are also heavily influenced by his devotion to the practice of the Malay martial arts called silat.He was also a practising bomoh or Malay healer.Born in Kampung Gangsa in Malacca Malaysia Mohammad's family migrated to Singapore when he was two years old.
Renato Aragão.  Antônio Renato Aragão (born on January 13 1935 in Sobral Ceará) is a Brazilian comedian actor producer and writer. He is best known for leading the television series Os Trapalhões.
Ambi Subramaniam.  Lakshminarayana Ambi Subramaniam (born 5 August 1991) is an Indian/American violinist pianist and singer. He began performing at the age of six and was proclaimed the ‘New King of Indian Classical Music’ by the Times of India at age sixteen.The first two albums he was featured on Violin Maestros (released in 2007) and Live at Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig (released in 2009) won GiMA awards; the former also won a BiMA. His strongest musical influence is his father and guru Dr. L.
Boo Cook.  Boo Cook (born 1972) is a British comic artist whose work mainly features in the comic 2000 AD.
Giuseppe Lanza.  Giuseppe Lanza Duke of Camastra was a 17th-century Sicilian nobleman who oversaw the reconstruction of many Sicilian towns and cities following the earthquake of 1693.He was created 1st Duke of Camastra and Prince of Santo Stefano. He married twice his first wife whom he married in Palermo in 1668 was Maria Gomez de Sylveira Principessa di Santo Stefano the daughter of Luigi Gomez de Sylveira and Giovanna Ferreri she died 1675.
Toshirō Yanagiba.  Toshiro Yanagiba (柳葉 敏郎 Yanagiba Toshirō born January 3 1961) is a Japanese actor.
Tania del Rio.  Tania del Rio (born November 16) is an American cartoonist working mainly in comic books. She is a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in animation.In 2003 Tania’s manga entry Lovesketch was selected to appear in TOKYOPOP’s Rising Stars of Manga anthology volume 2. She worked for Archie Comics as the writer and artist of Sabrina the Teenage Witch a monthly comic that was given a shōjo manga makeover from 2004 to 2009.
Bodan Arsovski.  Bodan Arsovski (born in Kumanovo 1956) is a Macedonian bassist and a core founding member of the rock group Leb i sol one of the most important rock bands in the former Yugoslavia. He is the only band member to have played on every Leb i sol record. He also released four solo albums.
Hugh Clifton.  Hugh Clifton was a British actor of the silent era.
Show Luo.  Show Luo is a Taiwanese actor signer and host. He is commonly known by his Chinese nickname Xiao Zhu (Little Pig).
Katherine McCoy.  Katherine McCoy (born Katherine Jane Braden in Decatur Illinois October 12 1945) is an American graphic designer and educator best known for her work as the co-chair of the graduate Design program for Cranbrook Academy of Art.During her extensive career spanning education and professional practice McCoy worked with groundbreaking design firm Unimark Chrysler Corporation and with Muriel Cooper in the early days of MIT Press while at the Boston design firm Omnigraphics.
Hady Mirza.  Hady Mirza (born January 28 1980) (Jawi: حدي ميرزا) is a Singaporean singer. He is the winner of the second season of the reality TV show Singapore Idol. He was crowned the winner on 25 September 2006 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium after garnering 70% of about one million votes cast by television viewers.He was also the winner of the world's first Asian Idol competition held on 16 December 2007 in Jakarta Indonesia.
Dennis Arundell.  Dennis Drew Arundell (22 July 1898 in Finchley London – 10 December 1988 in Camden London) was a British actor librettist opera scholar translator producer director conductor and composer of incidental music.
William Dehning.  William Dehning (born August 13 1942) is an American conductor teacher and author who spent almost his entire career in the collegiate realm. He is known primarily for his work as conductor of the University of Southern California Thornton Chamber Choir and as author of the book Chorus Confidential: Decoding the Secrets of the Choral Art published in 2003.
Lee Yeongdo.  Lee Yeongdo (Hangul:이영도 Hanja:李英道; born 1972) is a Korean novelist known for his work in fantasy and science fiction genre. He is best known for his Dragon Raja series of fantasy novels which is also his debut work serialised on an online forum from 1997 and published on its completion in 1998.At the time Dragon Raja was first published Korean readership for fantasy genre(specifically its medievalist form) was considered unsubstantial and unaccounted for by press.
Theophilus London.  Theophilus Musa London (born February 23 1987) is a Trinidadian-born American rapper from Brooklyn New York City.
Fanie de Jager.  Fanie de Jager (born 8 April 1949) is a South African operatic tenor and singer of light classical music.
Dan Moldea.  Dan E. Moldea (born February 27 1950) is a best-selling author and investigative journalist who has reported on organized crime and political corruption since 1974. He is the author of books about the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa the contract killing of an Ohio businessman the Mafia's penetration of Hollywood and its influence on professional football as well as works about the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy the O.J.
Heather Blush.  Heather Blush is a Canadian jazz and blues singer based in Calgary.She normally performs with her band The Uppercuts who are Steve Hazlett (drums) and Dale Ulan (upright bass); under the name Heather Blush and the Uppercuts.According to Kelly Doody of the Calgary Sun her voice was described as a mix of Joni Mitchell and Norah Jones.Blush was born in Winnipeg Manitoba and grew up in different small towns in the province. She studied to be a music therapist in Florida.
Jody Miller.  Jody Miller (born November 29 1941) is an American country music singer. Born as Myrna Joy Miller she was born in Phoenix Arizona and raised in Oklahoma.
Primo Levi.  Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of several books novels collections of short stories essays and poems.
Georgie Davis.  Georgie Davis (artist name of Kees Rietveld born 1969 in The Hague) is a Dutch singer who was one of the first participants of the Soundmixshow in 1985 in which he sang a song by Stevie Wonder.Later in the year Davis scored a no. 5 hit in the Dutch Top 40 with Blackstar. His album The Power of the Young reached no.
Nana (singer).  Im Jin-Ah (born September 14 1991) known by her stage name Nana is a South Korean singer model visualist and rapper of the group After School. She is also a member of its subgroups A.S. Red and Orange Caramel and the super idol group Dazzling Red.
José Manuel Pérez-Muñoz.  José Manuel Pérez-Muñoz is a Spanish composer and conductor born in Sevilla Andalucía España on 10 October in 1978
Ronnie Earl.  This article refers to the musician. For the district attorney of Travis County Texas see Ronnie Earle.Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath March 10 1953 Queens New York United States) is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.
Carlos Villa.  Carlos Villa (1936 - 23 March 2013) was a Filipino American visual artist and faculty member in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute where he had been a faculty member since 1969.
Sims (rapper).  Andrew Sims better known mononymously as Sims is a rapper based in Minneapolis Minnesota. He is a founding member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree.City Pages listed him as the 14th best Minnesota rapper.
Alex Veley.  Alex Veley is an American rock musician soul keyboardist and singer known for using classic keyboards like the Hammond organ Fender Rhodes electric piano and Hohner Clavinet.He was a founding member of Seattle-based neo-soul band Maktub in the 1990s and co-produced the band's debut album 2000's Subtle Ways which won Best R&B album that year at the Northwest Music Awards.
Nikita Denise.  Nikita Denise (born July 25 1976) is a Slovak pornographic actress and adult film director.Denise moved from her native Slovakia to Toronto in 1998 and began working on the Canadian strip club circuit. After meeting Jill Kelly at a local signing she was given the phone number for Jim South. Her first scene was with Dillon Day in North Pole 13 in 2000.In 2006 Denise made her directorial debut with the film Nikita's Extreme Idols.
Erik Ron.  Erik Ron (born July 4 1985) is an American musician and producer who has worked with such bands as Panic! at The Disco Foxy Shazam Get Scared Attaloss Saosin Allstar Weekend and many more.
Mai Oshima.  Mai Oshima (大島 麻衣 Ōshima Mai born September 11 1987 in Noda Chiba Japan) is a singer and a former member of the Japanese all-girl pop group AKB48.
Nagisa Katahira.  Nagisa Katahira (片平なぎさ Katahira Nagisa) born July 12 1959) is a Japanese television actress with the Horipro company.
Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik.  Razumnik Vasilyevich Ivanov-Razumnik (real surname - Ivanov; Разумник Васильевич Иванов-Разумник; December 24 1878 Tiflis Georgia then Russian Empire - July 9 1946 Munich Germany was a Russian Soviet author philosopher and literary critic best known for his book The History of Russian Social Thought (1907 in two volumes) and the series of essays on post-Revolution literary life in the Soviet Russia.
Mako Oda.  Mako Oda (織田真子 Oda Mako) is a Japanese actress and former gravure model and AV idol.
Earl Zero.  Earl Anthony Johnson (born 1953) better known as Earl Zero is a Jamaican reggae singer whose career began in the 1970s. He is the uncle of Toronto rapper Raz Fresco.
Jerry Garcia.  Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1 1942 – August 9 1995) was an American musician who was best known for his lead guitar work singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead which came to prominence during the counterculture era. Though he disavowed the role Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or spokesman of the group.One of its founders Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career (1965–1995).
Digby Pearson.  Digby Pearson also known as Dig (born 1962) is a British musician who founded Earache Records which signed some of the most infamous heavy metal acts worldwide in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was raised in Nottingham UK where he began playing music focusing on heavy metal. His band Scum Dribblers failed to achieve success and he began releasing 7 albums of local bands.
Deb Margolin.  Deb Margolin is an American performance artist and playwright. Coming to prominence in the 1980s in the feminist political theatre troupe Split Britches (of which she was a founding member) Margolin has since made a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press.
David Ellefson.  David Warren Dave Ellefson (born November 12 1964) is a bassist and founding member of the American thrash metal band Megadeth. He has also been known as Junior to differentiate him from Dave Mustaine. Ellefson currently resides in Scottsdale Arizona. In addition to playing bass guitar in Megadeth Ellefson also has various side projects which include Temple of Brutality F5 and Killing Machine.
Bill Ryder-Jones.  William Edward Bill Ryder-Jones (born 1983 in Warrington) is an English musician and film score composer from West Kirby Merseyside. He was originally the lead guitarist with The Coral from 1996 until 2008 before leaving the band to pursue a solo career. Ryder-Jones' debut album If... was released in 2011.
Ron Holzner.  Ron Holzner (born on February 15 1965 in Chicago Illinois) is an American musician songwriter and producer. Holzner is presently the bassist of the heavy metal band Earthen Grave. He also played bass in the Chicago underground doom metal pioneer band Trouble from 1985 to 2002.
George Evans (cartoonist).  George R. Evans (February 5 1920- June 22 2001) was an American cartoonist and illustrator who worked in both comic books and comic strips. His lifelong fascination with airplanes and the pioneers of early aviation was a constant theme in his art and stories.
Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda.  Father Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda also known (in Catalan) as Mossèn Alcover (Catalan pronunciation: [moˈsɛn əɫkoˈve]) (Santa Cirga Manacor 2 February 1862 – Palma 8 January 1932) was a modernist Majorcan writer who wrote on a wide range of subjects including the Catholic Church folklore and linguistics. He is chiefly associated with efforts to revive interest in the Catalan language and its dialects. Among his works was a Catalan-Valencian-Balearic dictionary.
Puttur Narasimha Nayak.  Sri Puttur Narasimha Nayak is a Kannada singer vocalist from Karnataka. He sings devotional songs chiefly Haridasa compositions and carnatic classical music. Bhajan singers To his credit he has rendered in Kannada mainly devotional songs by Purandara Dasa Kanaka Dasa and Kirthanaas and has given many public concerts all over the world. His Pavamana jagada prana album was extremely popular.Sri Puttur Narasimha Nayak began to learn music at the age of 14.
Peter Dale (poet).  Peter John Dale (born 21 August 1938) is a British poet and translator particularly noted for his skilful but unobtrusive use of poetic form.
Brian Landrus.  Brian Landrus (born September 14 1978 Nevada USA) is a New York City based jazz saxophonist multi-instrumentalist composer producer & educator .
Haresh Sharma.  Haresh Sharma (born 1965) is a Singaporean playwright. To date he has written more than fifty plays that have been staged all over the world including Singapore Melbourne Glasgow Birmingham Cairo and London. Sharma has a BA from the National University of Singapore as well as an MA in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham obtained in 1994 on a Shell-NAC Scholarship.
Audun Kleive.  Audun Ben Kristoffer Kleive (born 20 October 1961 in Skien Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (drums and percussion). He was raised in Skien as the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist and composer Iver Kleive.
Roger Ebert.  Roger Joseph Ebert (/ˈiːbərt/; June 18 1942 – April 4 2013) was an American film critic journalist and screenwriter. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975 he was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010 his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad.
Guy H. Lillian III.  Guy H.
Vera Matović.  Vera Matović (Cyrillic: Вера Матовић) is a Serbian folk singer.
Mark Marderosian.  Mark Marderosian (born 1955) is a prolific cartoonist animator and children's book illustrator a comic book artist and noted toy designer.
Vivian Mercier.  Vivian Mercier (1919–1989) was an Irish literary critic. He was born in Clara County Offaly Ireland and educated first at Portora Royal School Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh and then at Trinity College Dublin. He became a Scholar of the College and edited the student magazine T.C.D. Miscellany. After taking his doctorate at Trinity he taught in American universities from the 1940s to the 1980s; his last post was Professor of English at the University of California Santa Barbara.
P.D.A. (rapper).  Anthony Jenkins better known as P.D.A. is an American pop/hip hop artist and producer from Tulsa OK. The name P.D.A. stands for Public Display of Afflection (Afflection being a hybrid of the words Affliction and Affection for what he states as a the struggle between love and hate). He has been named one of Tulsa's Most Influential People in 2007 2008 and 2010
Wu Mi.  Wu Mi (Chinese: 吴宓) (August 20 1894 – January 17 1978) (once using the name Wu Yuheng (吴玉衡)) was one of the founders of Chinese comparative literature a critic redologist (one who studies the Chinese classic book Dream of the Red Chamber) educator and poet. In 1942 he become a professor in Ministry of Education (Republic of China). He was also one of the originators to begin Tsinghua University's school of Sinology.
Radovan Jovićević.  Radovan Jovićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Јовићевић) is a Serbian pop-rock/folk music composer producer and band leader. He was born in Belgrade on January 31 1956. He has lived in New York City since 1999.
Brenda Russell.  Brenda Russell (born Brenda Gordon April 8 1949 Brooklyn New York) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist whose roots are deeply embedded in African-American Music Culture. Known for her eclectic musical style her recordings have encompassed several different genres including pop soul dance jazz and adult contemporary.
Péter Kun.  Péter Kun (October 29 1967 – July 10 1993) was a Hungarian hard rock guitarist. He played for such bands like Pokolgép or Edda művek. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1993; he was barely 26 years old. He was regarded as one of the most accomplished young guitarists of the time.He has a daughter Petra Kun.
Lil Scrappy.  Darryl Kevin Richardson II (born January 19 1984) better known by his stage name Lil Scrappy is an American rapper.Richardson was discovered by producer and performer Lil Jon while performing at a bar when a fight broke out during his set in his hometown of Atlanta Georgia.
Dominique Venner.  Dominique Venner (French: [vɛnɛʁ]; April 16 1935 – May 21 2013) was a French historian journalist and essayist. Venner was a member of the Organisation de l'armée secrète and later became a European nationalist before withdrawing from politics to focus on a career as a historian. He specialized in military and political history. At the time of his death he was the editor of the La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire a bimonthly history magazine.
Matt Wayne.  Matt S. Wayne is an American writer of comic books and television. Wayne is probably best known for his work on the animated series Justice League Unlimited Ben 10: Omniverse and The Super Hero Squad Show and writing and editing comic books for Milestone Media.
Cyril Smith (pianist).  Cyril James Smith OBE (11 August 1909 – 2 August 1974)was a virtuoso concert pianist of the 1930s 1940s and 1950s and a piano teacher.
Rudolf Lindau.  Rudolf Lindau (10 October 1829 – 14 October 1910) was a Germandiplomatist and author.
Liroy.  Piotr Marzec (born August 12 1971 in Busko Zdrój Poland) better known as Liroy (Leeroy) is a rapper living in Kielce.He is one of the pioneers of rap and hip-hop culture in Poland. His CDs include East On Da Mic (as PM Cool Lee) Albóóm Bafangoo Part 1 L Bafangoo Part 2 (Dzień Szaka-La) Bestseller and L-Nińo vol. 1.
Royal Wade Kimes.  Royal Wade Kimes (born March 4 1951 in Chester Arkansas) is an American country music singer.
Adam LaClave.  Adam LaClave is an American musician and singer. He was one of the vocalists and songwriters for the Christian band Earthsuit. The group's only major-label album Kaleidoscope Superior was critically successful. However the band broke up soon afterward. LaClave formed a new band called Macrosick along with bassist Jon Allen with former Earthsuit Members Paul Meany Darren King and Mutemath guitarist Greg Hill helping to give it a start.
Gene Redding.  Gene Redding (born 1945 Anderson Indiana) was an American singer who was discovered by Etta James at a USO Club in Anchorage Alaska.He released one album on Capitol Records in 1974 entitled Blood Brother. The album hit #45 on the Billboard Black Albums chart on the strength of the singles Blood Brothers (U.S. Black Singles #80) and This Heart (U.S. Black Singles #31 U.S. Pop Singles #24).
Ed Askew.  Ed Askew is a painter and singer-songwriter who first recorded in 1968 and now lives in New York City.
Susie Frazier.  Susie Frazier (born August 21 1970 Inglewood California) also known as Susie Frazier Mueller is an environmental artist who designs fine art and public art based on the smallest patterns of the earth. Influenced by the way life self-organizes and the Wabi Sabi design aesthetic Frazier uses actual found objects from the field to reinterpret nature's motifs. Her assemblage ecoart is characterized by signs of aging and imperfection in the natural materials.
Magne Furuholmen.  Magne Furuholmen (Norwegian pronunciation: [mɑŋnə fʉ:ɾʉhɔlmən]) (born 1 November 1962 in Oslo Norway) is a Norwegian musician and visual arts artist. He is best known as the keyboardist of the pop band A-ha.
India Knight.  India Knight (born 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is known for her contribution to the British media as well as her books: My Life on a Plate Don't You Want Me? The Shops Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet and The Thrift Book (2008) all of which are published by Penguin books. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages.
Katrina Holden Bronson.  Katrina Holden Bronson is an American film director screenwriter and actress. She is the adopted daughter of fellow actors Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland.
Luca Antonio Colomba.  Luca Antonio Colomba (1674–1737) was a Swiss Baroque painter born at Arogno. His style was distinguished for its happy compositions and its careful design as also for the delicate and tender colours. He painted in oil and fresco.He was the son of Giovanni Battista Colomba of Arogno in the Swiss-Italian region of Ticino.
Sunny Jain.  Sunny Jain is an American dhol player drummer and composer. He is recognized as a lead voice in the burgeoning movement of South Asian-American jazz musicians. His seven albums have all received international acclaim for their groundbreaking synthesis (Coda Magazine) as he brings together the ancient sounds of his cultural heritage America's greatest original art form and a host of other sounds.
Malvina Major.  Dame Malvina Lorraine Major ONZ GNZM DBE (born 28 January 1943) is a New Zealand opera singer.
Meredith Post.  Meredith Post is an American television writer. When Douglas Marland died in 1993 she was in the running to become Head Writer of ATWT. That title went to Juliet Law Packer and Richard Backus.
John Ryan (cartoonist).  John Gerald Christopher Ryan (4 March 1921 – 22 July 2009) was a British animator and cartoonist best known for his character Captain Pugwash. His brother was Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher Columba Ryan.
Natalie Horler.  Natalie Christine Horler (born 23 September 1981) is a German-born English singer and television presenter. She is known as the lead singer of Eurodance/Eurotrance group Cascada. She is known to have a mezzo-soprano voice type and spans three octaves in her range.
Meredith Figurine.  Meredith Landman is one of two vocalists for the band Figurine.She has also recorded the track A Symphony for Eric B. for Simball Rec's 45 seconds of compilation sung Diamond Ring with Jason Corace of Boothby and appeared on Dntel's Life Is Full of Possibilities providing vocals for Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think as well as Dntel's 7 single Don't Get Your Hopes Up. She is also a professor of linguistics.
Walter Mattli.  Walter Mattli is a Fellow in Politics at St. John's College and Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. Professor Mattli is the Senior member of the Oxford international relations society.Walter Mattli was born in Lucerne Switzerland. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (USA).
Rosalie Sorrels.  Rosalie Sorrels (born 1933) is an American folk singer-songwriter who resides in the mountains near Boise Idaho. She began her public career as a singer and collector of traditional folksongs in the late 1950s. During the early 1960s she left her husband and began traveling and performing at music festivals and clubs throughout the United States. She and her five children traveled across the country as she worked to support her family and establish herself as a performer.
Mike Lewis (musician).  Michael Richard Lewis (born 17 August 1977) is a musician. He is best known as the former rhythm guitarist for the Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets.
William M. Finkelstein.  William M. Finkelstein is an American screenwriter television producer actor and television director. He has worked as a writer and producer on Law & Order Brooklyn South Murder One L.A. Law Cop Rock and NYPD Blue. He co-created Brooklyn South with frequent collaborators David Milch Steven Bochco and Bill Clark. He won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for L.A. Law in both 1989 and 1990. He was nominated for the award again in 2001 for Law & Order.
K. R. Meera.  K.R. Meera (Malayalam:കെ.ആര്‍.മീര; born 19 February 1970) is an Indian author who writes in Malayalam. She won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for her short-story Ave Maria. She has also been noted as a screenplay writer of four serials. She was credited as the associate in writing for the film Ore Kadal a National Award winner.Meera was born in Sasthamkotta Kollam district in Kerala. She worked as a journalist in Malayala Manorama later resigned to concentrate more on writing.
Russ Jones.  Russ Jones (born July 16 1942 in Ontario) is a Canadian novelist illustrator and magazine editor active in the publishing and entertainment industries over a half-century best known as the creator of the magazine Creepy for Warren Publishing.
Eladio Martínez.  Eladio Martínez was born in Paraguarí Paraguay on May 19 1912 son of Lorenzo Martínez and Nicolasa Benítez. He belonged to a family of musicians. His father was a bandleader of a group formed entirely by his relatives in Villarrica.
Stone & Stone.  Stone & Stone are a German music duo made up of the husband and wife team Glen J. Penniston and Tatjana Cheyenne Penniston. Glen arrived in Germany in the 1970s and started a career as a drummer he met Cheyenne in 1979 and in 1985 they married.
Trenyce.  Lashundra Trenyce Cobbins (born March 31 1980) known professionally as Trenyce is an American singer and was a finalist for the second season of American Idol in 2003 finishing in fifth place.
R. B. Greaves.  Ronald Bertram Aloysius R. B. Greaves III (November 28 1943 - September 27 2012) was an American singer who had chart success in 1969 with the pop single Take a Letter Maria. A number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this single sold one million copies and it earned gold record certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Greaves also had a Top 40 pop hit one year later with (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me.
Toni Kelner.  Toni LP Kelner is an award-winning author of two mystery series: the eight Laura Fleming novels which include: Wed and Buried Death of a Damn Yankee Tight as a Tick and several others; and the Where Are They Now? series which debuted in January 2008 with Without Mercy. She has also edited two urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris.
Kari Bremnes.  Kari Bremnes (born 9 December 1956 in Svolvær Lofoten) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.She got an M.A. in language literature history and theater studies from the University of Oslo and worked as a journalist for several years before deciding to dedicate herself to music full time.In 1987 she received the Spellemannprisen for the record Mitt ville hjerte and in 1991 for the record Spor.
Andy Fletcher (musician).  For other persons named Andrew Fletcher see Andrew FletcherAndy Fletcher (born 8 July 1961) popularly known as Fletch is a keyboardist and founding member of the English electronic band Depeche Mode.
Alejandro Silva (musician).  Alejandro Silva is a Chilean instrumental heavy metal guitarist best known as the founder and lead guitarist of his band Alejandro Silva Power Cuarteto.Silva started guitar when he was fourteen years old. Other musicians he has played with include Marty Friedman Joe Satriani Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan on the 2004 G3 tour held in Chile.He is also a guitar teacher and a sound engineer.
Jonah Blank.  Jonah Blank is an American author journalist and foreign policy expert specializing in the culture history and affairs of the Indian subcontinent.
Cameron Melnyk.  Cameron Melnyk is the lead singer for Canadian rock band State of Shock. He was born in Edmonton Alberta in 1980 and currently resides in Vancouver British Columbia along with his other bandmates. Melnyk is of Ukrainian descent. He married longtime girlfriend Alyssa a Canadian political strategist in 2011.
Maasa Sudo.  Maasa Sudo (須藤 茉麻 Sudō Maasa born 3 July 1992 in Tokyo Japan) is a J-pop singer in Hello! Project and member of idol group Berryz Kobo
Hector Zazou.  Hector Zazou (July 11 1948 – September 8 2008) was a prolific French composer and record producer who worked with produced and collaborated with an international array of recording artists. He worked on his own and other artists' albums including Sandy Dillon Mimi Goese Barbara Gogan Sevara Nazarkhan Carlos Núñez Italian group PGR Anne Grete Preus Laurence Revey and Sainkho since 1976.
Emil Boyson.  Emil Boyson (born 4 September 1897 in Bergen died in 1979) was a Norwegian poet author and translator. Although Boyson formally debuted in 1927 with a prose book Sommertørst (Summer Thirst) he was primarily known for his poetry. His actual debut was in 1920 under the pseudonym Karl Snemo with publication of Åpning til regnbuen (Opening to the Rainbow).
Mark Lovegrove.  Mark Mods Lovegrove is a British born music composer game designer & filmmaker from Wallingford Oxfordshire. He has written music for many independent point & click adventure games since 2000 including many made with Adventure Game Studio & several by the popular writer Ben Croshaw (creator of Zero Punctuation). Lovegrove primarily writes MIDI music for video-games.In 2003 Mark was awarded an Excellence in Music award for his work on The Adventures Of Fatman.
Mark Ford (poet).  Mark Ford (b. 1962 Nairobi Kenya) is a British poet.
Joseph Leftwich.  Joseph Leftwich (1892–1983) born Joseph Lefkowitz was a British-Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill.He was one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group (the others being John Rodker Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End in the period roughly 1910–1914.
Boy George.  Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd; 14 June 1961) is an English singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romanticism movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae.
Brian Joseph Friel.  Brian Joseph Friel (born March 1943) is a Scottish folk country and rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Yaba Angelosi.  Angelo Maku better known by his stage name Yaba Angelosi is an South Sudanese American singer producer lyricist songwriter and entertainer. He is founder of Assida Productions. He is popular in Africa and in South Sudanese diaspora in United States Canada and Europe. Yaba Angelosi was the eldest child in the family of eight. He was born in a small town near Juba South Sudan. His family immigrated to the United States in 2000 and ever since Yaba has been working to improve his skills.
Frankie Banali.  Frankie Banali (born November 14 1951) is an American rock drummer best known for his work with multi-platinum heavy metal band Quiet Riot. He has been the band's manager since 1994. He played drums in the heavy metal band W.A.S.P. as well as with Billy Idol.
Ralf Scheepers.  Ralf Scheepers (born 5 February 1965 in Esslingen Germany) is the current vocalist for German power metal outfit Primal Fear. He has a relatively high-pitched tenor-esque singing voice and sometimes uses a shriek reminiscent of Judas Priest's Rob Halford although it is his baritone lows which give him a near four octave range in the modal register. He has also sung in Gamma Ray and Tyran' Pace.
Hollis (singer).  Hollis Wong-Wear known mononymously as Hollis is an American singer-songwiter and creative producer. She is best known for featuring on White Walls a song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis which also featured Schoolboy Q.Also known as spoken-word artist it took five years for Hollis to boost her popularity only after she joined hands with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' debut album The Heist. This was followed by the success of White Walls in which she did the vocals for the hip-hop duo.
Hank von Helvete.  Hans Erik Dyvik Husby (born 15 June 1972) also known as Hank von Helvete Hertugen and Hærtis most famous for being the former lead vocalist of the Norwegian death-punk band Turbonegro. While not explicitly addressed to date the name Helvete was adopted due to its meaning hell or a place of suffering</ref>Wiktionary Husby's band is most well known for their tongue-in-cheek humor dealing with homosexual aesthetics and punk rock antics and the formation of a genre they label death punk.
Wilfred Bennetto.  Wilfred Melville Bennetto (1902–1994) was a Cornish poet and novelist. He was elected a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of Abransek ('Bushy-browed One') in 1968.His poetry celebrated popular contemporary figures in Cornish life as well as the historical and mythological characters favoured in Cornish poetry at the time. He wrote An Gurun Wosek a Geltya ('The Bloody Crown of Celtia') the first full-length novel in Cornish.
David Maisel (visual artist).  David Maisel (born in New York NY in 1961) is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present. His work is exhibited internationally and is collected in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art LACMA and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His work has been the subject of five major monographs published by Nazraeli Press and Chronicle Books.
George Fiddes Watt.  Not to be confused with George Frederic Watts.George Fiddes Watt (15 February 1873 – 22 November 1960) was a Scottish portrait painter and engraver.
Brian Meehl.  Brian Meehl (also known as Brian Muehl) is an American puppeteer and writer. He resides in Redding Connecticut.
Mike McKnight.  Mike McKnight is an American keyboardist musical director music programmer and journalist who is best known for his work on live tours of major artists such as Madonna Mariah Carey Janet Jackson Shakira and many more. He is also a columnist for Keyboard Magazine.
Ferras.  Ferras Alqaisi known professionally as Ferras is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter who is signed with EMI as part of Capitol Records.
Neal Adams.  Neal Adams (born June 15 1941) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman Batman and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.Adams was inducted into the Eisner Award's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.
Roger Nichols (recording engineer).  Roger Scott Nichols (September 22 1944 – April 9 2011) was an American recording engineer producer and inventor.Nichols is best known for his work with the group Steely Dan and John Denver.
Paul Genesse.  Paul Genesse is a writer of young adult fantasy novels and a cardiac unit nurse at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray Utah. His first book The Golden Cord was a best seller for Five Star Publishing.
Babul Supriyo.  Babul Supriyo (born 15 December 1970 in Kolkata) is an Indian playback singer who works in Bollywood as well as in the Bengali cinema he also has worked as a playback singer in several Oriya films including in many Indian languages. He was declared a BJP Candidate from Asansol in West Bengal for the Indian general election 2014.
Frankie J.  Francisco Javier Bautista Jr. (born December 7 1976) better known by his stage name Frankie J is a Mexican grammy nominee singer and former member of the musical group Kumbia Kings.Born in Tijuana he grew up in San Diego and became a freestyle artist under the stage name Frankie Boy in the late 1990s. After his debut freestyle album was shelved he joined Kumbia Kings.
Jill Neville.  Jill Adelaide Neville (29 May 1932 – 11 June 1997) was an Australian novelist playwright and poet.Neville was born in Sydney Australia her younger brother is Richard Neville.
Olaf Thörsen.  Olaf Thörsen (born Carlo Andrea Magnani) is an Italian guitarist and founding member of a progressive power metal band Vision Divine. He is also known as a founding member guitarist and lyricist of Labyrinth.
Jia Zhangke.  Jia Zhangke (born 1970) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the Sixth Generation movement of Chinese cinema a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai Lou Ye Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuan.Jia's early films a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi were made outside of China's state-run film bureaucracy and therefore are considered underground films.
Master of the Washington Coronation.  The Master of the Washington Coronation is a poorly known Italian painter who was active in Venice around 1324. His name is derived from a panel painting of the Coronation of the Virgin dated to that year and held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This and an associated group of other works are generally accepted to be by Paolo Veneziano and the Gallery officially lists them as such.
Banarsidas Chaturvedi.  Banarsidas Chaturvedi (1892-1985) was a noted Hindi-language writer and recipient of Padma Bhushan given by Government of India in 1973. He was born in 1892 in Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh and died in 1985.He served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha for twelve years.
Woody Jackson.  Woody Jackson is a Vermont artist who is best known for his paintings of cows and pastures that appear on Ben & Jerry's ice cream cartons and marketing displays. Jackson now lives outside of Middlebury Vermont with his wife and five sons.He graduated from Middlebury College in 1970 and received a masters degree in fine arts from Yale School of Art in 1980. Famous for Holstein cow paintings he is inspired by the barns and hills of Vermont dairylands.
Sam Coomes.  Samuel J. Coomes is an American musician and one-half of the Portland-area indie band Quasi along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss. Coomes was also a member of the mid 1980s folk revival band The Donner Party and replaced Brandt Peterson as the bassist for the 1990s Portland grunge band Heatmiser playing on their final studio album.
Reghu Kumar.  Reghu Kumar (Raghu Kumar; 13 June 1953 – 20 February 2014) was a noted music composer from Kerala India. His compositions first achieved prominence in the 1980s.
Elise Estrada.  Elise Estrada (born July 30 1987) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for her hit singles released in Canada such as Insatiable One Last Time and Lipstick.She is signed to Universal Music Canada's XOXO Entertainment.
Brooke White.  Brooke Elizabeth White (born June 2 1983) is an American indie pop/folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress from Mesa Arizona who was the fifth place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005 White released her first studio album called Songs from the Attic.White's first post-Idol album High Hopes & Heartbreak was released on July 21 2009. The first single Hold Up My Heart was released on February 25 2009 and the song debuted at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Frankie hi-nrg mc.  Frankie hi-nrg mc born Francesco Di Gesù (Turin 18 August 1969) is an Italian rapper of Sicilian origins. Frankie HI-NRG has been active since the early stages of the Italian hip hop movement in the early 1990s and predominantly discusses Politics and Society in his music.
Brent Morin.  For Canadian politician see Brent Morin (politician)Brent Morin is a Los Angeles-based American comedian stand-up comic and actor. He was raised in South Windsor Connecticut before moving to Los Angeles at 18 to study at a film school. After graduation he worked as a PA with Conan O'Brien in The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on NBC and continuing with Conan on TBS.
John Schoenherr.  John Schoenherr (July 5 1935 – April 8 2010) was an American illustrator. He won the 1988 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration recognizing Owl Moon by Jane Yolen a father-and-daughter story where only Schoenherr's drawings reveal the child's gender.
Joseph Monninger.  Joseph Monninger (born October 28 1953) is an American writer and Professor of English at Plymouth State University.
Francesco Allegrini da Gubbio.  Francesco Allegrini da Gubbio (1587–1663) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Born in Gubbio he was also called Francesco da Gubbio. His father Flaminio Allegrini da Cantiano was also a painter. He studied under Giuseppe Cesari (Cavaliere D'Arpino) and later was helped by his sons in painting historical and religious paintings. A short biography is mentioned by Filippo Baldinucci.
Esad Mekuli.  Esad Mekuli (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Есад Мекули) (17 December 1916 Plav Kingdom of Montenegro – 6 August 1993 Pristina FR Yugoslavia) was an Albanian poet and scholar. He was the first president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo. Robert Elsie considered him the father of modern Albanian poetry in Yugoslavia and his influence in Kosovo remains immense.
Mississippi Slim (blues musician).  Walter Horn Jr. (13 August 1943 – 14 April 2010) known by the stage name Mississippi Slim was an American blues singer and performer.Horn was born in Shelby and grew up in Greenville Mississippi. In the early 1960s he worked as a tractor driver while singing in local clubs and in 1968 moved to Chicago to pursue a singing career.
Rory Block.  Aurora Rory Block (born November 6 1949 Princeton New Jersey United States) is an American female blues guitarist and singer a notable exponent of the country blues style.
Ron Lim.  Ronald Ron Lim (born 1965) is an American comic book artist living in Sacramento California. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on their various cosmic titles most particularly the Silver Surfer (vol. 3) series.
Joel Iskowitz.  Joel Iskowitz (born August 15 1946) is an American designer book illustrator print artist and stamp coin and medal designer. From an initial interest in medical illustration this graphic artist has branched to other fields. He specializes in highly realistic art resulting from extensive research to make his designs as accurate as possible.
Hatice Duman.  Hatice Duman (born April 5 1974 in Malatya) is a female Turkish journalist and editor-in-chief of the daily Atılım (The Leap) the official newspaper of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Turkey. Since April 9 2003 she is kept in prison in Gebze and is accused of being a manager of a terrorist organization. In October 16 2012 Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ratified the life-time imprisonment sentence against her.
Elizabeth Elliott.  Elizabeth Elliott (born in Fort Worth Texas as Linda Elliott) is the pseudonym for American romance novel author Linda Crippes. All of her novels are published by Bantam Books now owned by Random House. In addition to writing she has held various management positions with Fortune 500 companies and worked as a management consultant for a variety of smaller businesses specializing in information technology. She currently lives in Minnesota with her husband.
Kristine Rolofson.  Kristine Rolofson (born December 9 in Rhode Island New England U.S.A.) is a popular U.S.American writer of over 35 romance novels since 1987.
Tom Mandrake.  Tom Mandrake (born May 26 1956) is an American comic book artist perhaps best known for his collaborations with writer John Ostrander on several series including Grimjack (from First Comics) and Firestorm The Spectre and Martian Manhunter from DC Comics.
Alessandro Girolamo Sozzini.  Alessandro Girolamo Sozzini (1518-1608) was an Italian author eyewitness of the Siena revolt and the capture at the end of August 1554 of the Sienese fortress of Monteriggioni by Spanish and Florentine Imperial troops. He left an account Diario delle cose avvenute in Siena: dai 20 Luglio 1550 ai 28 Guigno 1555 which was republished in 1842. His Raccolta di burle facetie motti e buffonerie di tre huomini sanesi was republished in 1865.
Don Leicht.  Don Leicht (born in 1946) is a visual artist who has worked as a painter and sculptor in the Bronx New York City for over thirty years. Leicht has had one person exhibitions in New York Sweden and Germany and is an early figure in the New York City downtown scene in the 1970s and in the subsequent Street Art and Graffiti movements. Leicht and longtime collaborator John Fekner participated in recent street art exhibitions such as Wooster Collective's 11 Spring Street Project in 2006.
Elizabeth Lambert.  Penelope Williamson (b. Fairbanks Alaska USA) is an American writer of romance novels as her real name and as the pen names Elizabeth Lambert and Penn Williamson.Penelope Williamson lives with her husband in Idaho. According to ?WorldCat her most widely held book The Outsider is in 1868 libraries; Heart of the West is in 1827. Various of her books have been translated into French German Dutch Spanish Polish Chinese Hungarian Japanese Swedish and Russian.
Christopher Bailey (screenwriter).  Christopher Bailey is an occasional screenwriter for television particularly noted for his work on Doctor Who and a lecturer in English at the University of Brighton.The first of Bailey's scripts for Doctor Who Kinda broadcast in 1982 was analysed in detail by the first major scholarly work dedicated to Doctor Who. Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text by Tulloch and Alvarado included analysis of Kinda's Buddhist and Jungian symbology and related its tropes to Ursula K. Le Guin.
Maria Cabase.  Maria Amapola Cabase better known by her stage name Amapola is a Filipino singer actress musician television and radio host. She is widely known in the Philippines as the original artist for the song Kapantay Ay Langit which was later popularized by singer Pilita Corrales. Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos dubbed Cabase as a Music Ambassador for the country in 1973.
Alexander Stirling Calder.  Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11 1870 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania – January 7 1945) was an American sculptor and teacher. Son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and father of the sculptor Alexander (Sandy) Calder his best-known works are George Washington as President on the Washington Square Arch in New York City the Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia and the Leif Eriksson Memorial in Reykjavík Iceland.
Mohsin Changezi.  Mohsin Changazi (Hazaragi: محسن چنگیزی ) (born September 3 1979) is a Pakistani Urdu poet of Hazara descent. Mohsin has appeared at prestigious poetry sessions in Karachi Lahore and Islamabad and is known internationally. He received the title of Star of the Night at an All-Pakistan-India-Poetry in Abu Dhabi. His honors include the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz medal of excellence in 2010 and a Nishan-e-Ghazal monetary award.
Jeffrey Morgan (musician).  Jeffrey Morgan (born March 20 1954) is an American jazz musician and composer. He has been heavily active in the fields of free jazz and improvised music.
Sasha Sokol.  Sasha Sökol (born 17 June 1970) is a Mexican singer composer actress and TV host.
Tafil Musović.  Tafil Musović (born 1950) is a painter who lives and works in Amsterdam Netherlands since 1988. He was born in Yugoslavia in the province of Kosovo and moved to Belgrade the capital for studies in 1969. In his last years in Yugoslavia he had an atelier in Zemun.
Coleman Barks.  Coleman Barks (born April 23 1937) is an American poet and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian he is nonetheless renowned as an interpreter of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia.
Steven T. Seagle.  Steven T.
Cooper Edens.  Cooper Edens is an author and illustrator of more than 25 children's books..[1] He's best known for If You're Afraid of the Dark Remember the Night Rainbow and Add One More Star to the Night. These works reflect his horizontal approach to storytelling.
Filippo Prosperi.  Filippo Prosperi (Artena July 21 1831- 1913) was an Italian painter mainly of sacred subjects painted in a Neoclassical and Nazarene styles.
Wilhelm Jacoby.  Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925) was a German playwright who concentrated largely on creating farces notably the 1890 work Pension Schöller which he co-authored with Carl Laufs. He was the father of the film director George Jacoby who adapted Pension Schöller into film on three occasions.
Irwin Barker.  Irwin Barker (June 13 1952 – June 21 2010) was a Canadian comedian and writer. He wrote for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report and was nominated for four Gemini Awards as a writer and one as stand-up performer for his 2005 performance at the Halifax comedy Festival. Barker was also nominated for three Writers’ Guild of Canada Screenwriter’s awards and won the award in 2008.
Tommy Hunter.  Thomas James Tommy Hunter CM O.Ont (born March 20 1937 in London Ontario) is a Canadian country music performer known as Canada's Country Gentleman.
Bradley Nowell.  Bradley James Nowell (February 22 1968 – May 25 1996) was an American musician who served as the founder lead singer and guitarist of the ska-punk band Sublime. He died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime's self-titled major label debut.Raised in Long Beach California Nowell developed an interest in music at a young age. His father took him on a trip to the Virgin Islands during childhood which exposed him to reggae and dancehall music.
Ben Marcus.  Ben Marcus (born 1967) is the author of four books of fiction. His latest book Leaving the Sea: Stories was published by Alfred A. Knopf in January 2014. His stories essays and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's The New Yorker The Paris Review Granta The New York Times GQ Salon McSweeney's Time and Conjunctions.
Adabel Guerrero.  Adabel Anahí Guerrero Melachenko (Spanish pronunciation: [aðaˈβel ɣeˈreɾo]; born July 18 1978) better known simply as Adabel Guerrero is an Argentine professional theater and burlesque dancer actress and supervedette who has also dabbled as a model and as a singer in several of her television magazine and theater appearances.
Kanae Yoshii.  Kanae Yoshii (吉井 香奈恵 Yoshii Kanae born April 8 1993 in Osaka Prefecture) often called Kan-chan (かんちゃん)is a Japanese idol singer and actress. She is a member of the Japanese girl group 9nine.
Zelma Roberts.  Zelma Roberts was a New Zealand-born writer who wrote several screenplays for T.O. McCreadie in the late 1940s. She studied at Victoria University College in Wellington. After her husband Wilfred died in the war while serving in the New Zealand 2nd Division she turned to writing. Her novel Always Another Dawn was bought by McCreadie and filmed in 1948.
Patrick Savage (composer/musician).  Patrick Savage is an Australian-born film composer and violinist best known for his collaboration with Holeg Spies on the score for The Human Centipede.He was also formerly principal first violin with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London UK.
Gémino Abad.  Gémino Henson Abad is a poet and critic from Cebu Philippines. His family moved to Manila when his father Antonio Abad was offered professorships at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines. He earned his B.A. English from the University of the Philippines in 1964 and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1970.
Khalil Mutran.  Khalil Mutran (Arabic: خليل مطران‎ / ALA-LC: Khalīl Muṭrān; July 1 1872 – June 1 1949) also known by the sobriquet Shā‘ir al-Quṭrayn (Arabic: شاعر القطرين‎ / literally meaning the poet of the two countries) was an Arabic poet and journalist.
Knife and Packer.  Knife and Packer are Duncan McCoshan and Jem Packer best known as illustrators/ writers of children's books and cartoonists.McCoshan and Packer first began working together in 1993 on various cartoons and cartoon strips for UK newspapers and magazines including The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
David Strother.  David Strother is an American musician and composer.
Joe Gentile.  Joe Gentile (born June 2 1963) is an American author editor and the founder of Moonstone Books a Chicago publishing house. He is also known as a comic book writer and author.
Anastasia Vinnikova.  Anastasia Vinnikova (Belarusian: Анастасія Віннікава Russian: Анастасия Винникова) born April 15 1991 is a singer from Belarus. She represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song I Love Belarus but failed to qualify to the final.
Annie Dillard.  Annie Dillard (born April 30 1945) is an American author best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry essays prose and literary criticism as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut.
Dorothy Gow.  Dorothy Gow (born 1893 d. 1 Nov 1982) was an English composer. She was born in London the youngest of six children from a Scottish family. The Music Society performed her works as early as 1922 and after this initial success Down began studying at the Royal College of Music when she was in her thirties. She studied composition with Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music and with Egon Wellesz in Vienna. She never married and died in London.
Tika Patsatsia.  Tinatin Tika Patsatsia (Georgian: თიკა ფაცაცია; born 18 October 1981 in Tbilisi Georgia) is a Georgian model singer and TV host. She was Miss Tbilisi Miss Georgia and got third place in Miss Golden Globe.
Samanta Karavello.  Samanta Karavello (born 10 May 1990) is an Albanian singer.
Gajaga.  Gajaga where Gaja is a Sanskrit word for elephant and whose earlier name was Gajankusha was a very old Kannada author of 9th/10th century who has been mentioned in Shabdamanidarpana a comprehensive and authoritative work on Kannada grammar authored by Kesiraja in 1260 CE as a pathbreaking poet of the Rashtrakuta literature in the Classical Age. Unfortunately no work by Gajaga has survived but there are evidences that suggest that he wrote more than one book.
Jakko Jakszyk.  Michael Jakko Jakszyk (born Michael Lee Curran 8 June 1958 London) is an English musician. A multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter and record producer he is the current lead singer and second guitarist in King Crimson and also pursues a solo career. He is generally referred to as Jakko by both colleagues and fans and most of his releases have been credited to this shorter name (while others have been credited to Jakko M. Jakszyk).As a solo artist Jakko has released six albums.
Tim Kelleher (musician).  Timothy Tim Kelleher (born October 4 1980) is an American musician best known for touring with the American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars from 2007 to 2011 and currently as the bassist of the American rock band Filter. He was one of the founding members of My Darling Murder a metal band formed with friends Andy Gerold and Elias Mallin. Kelleher has also worked with Fear and the Nervous System 8mm Wired All Wrong and My Darling Murder.
Bruce Cameron (guitarist).  Bruce Cameron (1955 - October 16 1999) was a guitarist who managed to attract a number of famous rock-and-roll musicians to record his 1999 debut and only album Midnight Daydream released by Brain Cell Records (North Carolina).The unlikely cast of supporting musicians for this seemingly obscure album included:Jack Bruce (Cream B.L.T. and solo career).Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience Gypsy Sun and Rainbows and Ramatam).Buddy Miles (Band of Gypsys Electric Flag Buddy Miles Express).Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep Blackfoot).Harvey Dalton Arnold (Outlaws).Neal Smith (Alice Cooper).Michael Bruce (Alice Cooper).Bunk Gardner (The Mothers of Invention).Billy James (Ant-Bee).Billy Cox (Band of Gypsys Gypsy Sun and Rainbows).The entire album was self-recorded and engineered by Derrick Acker of Quetzal Recording and Cameron at his own home studio in North Carolina. 
Bob Shacochis.  Bob Shacochis (born September 9 1951) is an acclaimed American novelist short story writer and literary journalist. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
Tamar Abakelia.  Tamar Abakelia (also spelled as Tamara Abakeliya; Georgian: თამარ აბაკელია; Russian: Тама́ра Абаке́лия) (August 19 1905 – May 14 1953) was a Georgian sculptor theater designer and illustrator. She was granted the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1942.
Alfredo Soressi.  Alfredo Soressi (Mucinasso (Province of Piacenza) 1897- Piacenza 1982) was an Italian painter eclectic in subjects.
Raghunath Choudhary.  Raghunath Choudhary (Assamese: ৰঘূনাথ চৌধাৰী; 1879–1967) was a notable writer of the Jonaki era of Assamese literature. Choudhary is known as bihogi kobi (poet of birds) because in his most of writings are based on the birds and nature. Choudhary also took part in the Indian independence movement and was imprisoned by the British for the same. He was the president of Tezpur session of Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1936.
Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal.  Mustafa Wahbi Al-Tal better known as Arar (born May 25 1897 – died 1949) was a Jordanian nationalist poet reformist lawyer teacher judge political agitator philosopher and a major influencer in the Jordanian national and anti colonial movements. Arar was a pioneer of Jordanian patriotism and a spokesman for the nation's ideals and aspirations. He was known for his nationalist and revolutionary oeuvre and his activism in accordance to it.
Andy Greenwald.  Andy Greenwald (born May 19 1977) is an author screenwriter and critic. He is currently a staff writer for Grantland.com. Previously he was a senior contributing writer at Spin Magazine and has also written for such publications as The Washington Post Blender Entertainment Weekly The Village Voice MTV Magazine Complex and Magnet. He is the author of the books Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock Teenagers and Emo and Miss Misery: A Novel. Alias: The White Knight of Grantland.
Justin Slayer.  Justin Slayer (born September 7 1972) is an American pornographic film actor and director.He won the 2007 Adult Video News Awards Best Ethnic Series - Latin for the Mami Culo Grande series and Best Ethnic Series - Black for the Phatty Girls series.[citation needed]He won the 2009 AVN awards the Justin Slayer International film Mami Culo Grande 6 won Best Ethnic-Themed Release - Latin.In 2009 Slayer won the Urban X Award for Best Director Gonzo.
RationaL (rapper).  Matt Brotzel better known as RationaL is a Canadian hip-hop artist from Saskatoon Saskatchewan. On March 30 2010 RationaL released his debut single Cocaine Cowboy off of his upcoming debut album The BirthWrite LP. The song garnered a 2010 Sphere of Hip-Hop award for Song of the Year co-winning the honor alongside 2011 Juno Award winner and fellow Canadian rapper Shad (Rose Garden).
Wu Di (cinematographer).  Wu Di (simplified Chinese: 邬迪; traditional Chinese: 鄔迪) is a Chinese cinematographer and one-time film director known for his collaborations with Sixth Generation director Wang Xiaoshuai. The director of photography for over ten films (all with mainland directors) Wu Di also wrote and directed a feature of his own 1995's Goldfish.
Raoul Kraushaar.  Raoul Kraushaar (August 20 1908 Paris France – October 13 2001 Pompano Beach Florida) was an American composer who worked on Hollywood feature films in the 1940s and 1950s.He continued working on low-budget films through the 1960s and 1970s. After that and up through the 1980s most of his work centered on television until his retirement; his works included musical compositions for the Abbott and Costello TV series.
Arya Aziminejad.  Arya Aziminejadi (Persian:آریا عظیمی نژادی) (generally known as Arya Aziminejad or Azimi-Nejad (آریا عظیمی نژاد)) (born 25 April 1973 Tehran Iran) is an Iranian music composer that mainly makes music for films and TV programs or video clips.
Carla Zampatti.  Carla Maria Zampatti AC (born 19 May 1942) is an Italian-Australian fashion designer and businesswoman.Carla Zampatti is Executive Chairman of Carla Zampatti Pty Limited. She is also a Trustee of the Sydney Theatre Company Foundation Trust and is a Board Member of the Australian Multicultural Foundation.Born in Lovero Italy Carla settled with her family in Australia in 1950.
Kazuhisa Kawahara (actor).  Kazuhisa Kawahara (川原 和久 Kawahara Kazuhisa) is a Japanese actor from Kitakyushu Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for his breakout role in Aibō where he portrays Section 7 Clerk Sergeant Keichi Itami as well as his appearances in the Initial D series as the voice of Seiji Iwaki and Kamen Rider Decade as the villain Apollo Geist. On June 26 2012 Kawahara announced his engagement to Kio Matsumoto eldest daughter of famous kabuki actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IX.
Ai Uchikawa.  Ai Uchikawa (内川 藍維 Uchikawa Ai born Yuka Uchikawa (内川 優香 Uchikawa Yūka) February 27 1972) is a Japanese voice actress. Uchikawa is currently affiliated with Sigma Seven.
Walter Ulfig.  Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
Arunabha Sengupta.  Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973) is an Indian novelist. He has written 3 novels and 1 collection of short stories. He is also a cricket historian and Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry.com.
Miriam Waddington.  Miriam Waddington (née Dworkin 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004) was a Canadian poet short story writer and translator.
Jessie Baylin.  Jessie Baldassarre known as Jessie Baylin is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter born April 4 1984 in the Gillette section of Long Hill Township New Jersey.[citation needed] Her debut album You was produced by Grammy Award winner Jesse Harris. Baylin signed her first major label record deal with Verve Forecast.
Bobo Chan.  Bobo Chan Man-Woon is a former Hong Kong singer and model. She was also an actress in several movies and TV-series.
Gabriël Metsu.  Gabriël Metsu (January 1629 – buried 24 October 1667) was a Dutch painter of history paintings genre works and portraits.
Ryuji Sasai.  Ryuji Sasai (笹井隆司 Sasai Ryūji born December 21 1961) is a Japanese former video game composer and bass guitarist. He is best known for his work on Xak Final Fantasy Legend III and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Sasai is noted for his rock style. His musical career came about when he was 15 years old and he formed a band. Before entering the gaming industry Sasai was involved in the anime department scoring two television series and a film.
Wang Shansheng.  Wang Shansheng (Chinese: 王善生; born 1942) is a Chinese painter known predominantly for his works depicting country life in China. Wang is a graduate of Jilin College of the Arts. As an outstanding figure of Changbai Mountain Painting School Wang’s works are prized with the Second Prize of the 5th National New Year Pictures the Silver Prize of the 7th National Artwork Exhibition etc. Works include Greeting the Bride Wedding Ceremony and so on.
Sal Abruscato.  Sal Abruscato (born July 18 1970 Brooklyn New York) is a former drummer for Type O Negative. Currently a frontman for his own band called A Pale Horse Named Death which has released two albums (And Hell Will Follow Me & Lay My Soul to Waste). He created Type O Negative with Peter Steele and drummed for Life of Agony. Life of Agony has since disbanded but A Pale Horse Named Death is alive and well.He has a daughter born October 13 2010 Elizabeth Maria Abruscato.
Robert Hunter (author).  Robert Hunter (April 10 1874 – May 14 1942) was an American sociologist progressive author and golf course architect.
Vincenzo Volpe.  Vincenzo Volpe (Grottaminarda Campania December 14 1855 – Naples February 9 1929) was an Italian painter.He was resident in Naples and mainly painted small canvases with intimate genre subjects.
Leah Blatt Glasser.  Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College. She is currently Dean of First-Year Studies & Lecturer in English at Mount Holyoke College. Her then - student (the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks) would later credit Glasser with her success.
Vithal Rao.  Pandit Vithal Rao (born 1929) is an Indian classical vocalist. He is considered one of the few living maestros of 'Ghazals' and was the last court singer of the Last Nizam of Hyderabad. He is popular for singing ghazals written by Hyderabad writers Urdu as well as Hindi ghazals.
Léonard Gaultier.  Léonard Gaultier or as he sometimes signs himself Galter a French engraver was born at Mainz about 1561 and died in Paris in 1641. His style of work resembles that of Wierix and Crispyn van de Passe. His prints are executed entirely with the graver with great precision but in a stiff formal manner. He must have been very laborious as the Abbé de Marolles possessed upwards of eight hundred prints by him many of which were after his own designs.
Paul Flora.  Paul Flora (6 June 1922 – 15 May 2009) is known for his black ink line drawings. Flora was one of Europe’s most profiled illustrators since the 1960s. He worked for British newspapers The Times and The Observer as well as for Germany’s Die Zeit.
Tom Gibson.  Tom Gibson (1 September 1888 – 6 December 1950) was an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 79 films between 1915 and 1946. He also directed 16 films between 1923 and 1937.He was born in Boston Massachusetts and died in Burbank California.
David Thomson (film critic).  David Thomson (born 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States and the author of more than 20 books. His reference works in particular — Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1000 Films (2008) and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (5th edition 2010) — are noted for their high literary merit and eccentricity.
James DeWoody.  James DeWoody is an American painter printmaker and sculptor who has worked in New York City since 1972. He was born in Ft. Smith Arkansas but grew up in Texarkana Texas. He received his BA degree in English and Studio Art from Tulane University in 1967.
Stacy Burke.  Stacy Burke is an American bondage model and pornographic actress.An only child Burke was raised by her grandparents in Pomona California. She was homecoming queen at her high school. She started her modeling career at the age of 18 for a college calendar shoot by a former classmate.In 2000 Burke participated in a publicity stunt at the Cannes Film Festival where she was lit on fire while wearing a heavy flameproof suit.
Bürgermeista.  Roland Bürger (born 1972(?)) better known as Bürgermeista is a German guitarist and founder of the band Bürgermeista & Die Gemeinderäte in 2010. Bürgermeista is Bavarian for Bürgermeister (mayor) Gemeinderäte are the members of a municipal council.
Michael Ross (screenwriter).  Michael Mickey Ross (born Isadore Rovinsky) (August 4 1919 – May 26 2009) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and television producer. Ross together with writing partners Don Nicholl and Bernard West were writers/producers for All in the Family for which Ross won an Emmy in 1973 The Jeffersons and Three's Company.
Ya Kid K.  Ya Kid K (born Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi 26 January 1973 Kinshasa Zaïre) is a Congolese-Belgian hip hop artist. Ya Kid K besides being a solo artist is also known for her works for the dance/house act Technotronic. Her sister Karoline 'Leki' Kamosi is an R&B singer.
Bobby Kimmel.  Bobby Kimmel lives in Tucson Arizona where he was born in 1940 and is a musician and songwriter who currently performs with the acoustic folk group BK Special. He has been recording and performing in concert for over 40 years and was a founding member of the Stone Poneys along with Linda Ronstadt and the late Kenny Edwards.Bobby Kimmel moved to Tucson as a child for his asthmatic condition.
Naoko Takeuchi.  Naoko Takeuchi (武内 直子 Takeuchi Naoko Japanese pronunciation: [ta.keꜜ.u͍.tɕi naꜜ.o.ko] born March 15 1967) is a Japanese manga writer and artist who lives in Tokyo Japan. Takeuchi's works have a wide following among anime and manga fans worldwide. Her most popular work Sailor Moon rose to become one of the most recognized manga and anime products of all time.
Genco Ecer.  Genco Ecer (Turkish: [ˈɡendʒo ˈedʒeɾ]; born 13 December 1985 Ankara Turkey) is a Turkish Cypriot singer and athlete. Prior to his music career Ecer represented Northern Cyprus in its national basketball and swimming team. In 2009 Ecer released his debut album 'Kandıramazsın'. The album is a blend of R&B funky house and pop. He gained success with his single 'U Dönüşü'.
David Hoskins.  David Hoskins is a Television writer who has written several episodes of The Bill and Midsomer Murders. He began writing for The Bill in 1990 with Jumping the Gun writing an additional 23 and for Midsomer Murders in 2001 with Destroying Angel writing an additional 9 to date.
Annamalai Reddiyar.  Annamalai Reddiyar was a Tamil poet. He was born in Chennikulam Sankarankoil taluk Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu in 1865. His mother is Ovuammal. His father is chennavar. He was very creative in his child hood. He wrote books like kaavadisindhu gomathi anthathi veerai anthathi.
Sharon Green.  Sharon Green (born 1942 in Brooklyn New York) is an American writer of science fiction fantasy and romance.
Boom Desjardins.  Daniel Boom Desjardins (born 1971) is a French Canadian singer from Val-d'Or Quebec. He was an original member of the rock band La Chicane for eleven years from 1993 until 2004 when he left to begin a solo career.Desjardins was nominated for Artist of the Year and Pop Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2006.
Joel Fletcher.  Joel Fletcher is a producer and DJ from Melbourne Australia who is best known for his 2013 remix of New Zealand rapper Savage's 2005 single Swing which charted in Australia and in New Zealand. In January 2014 Fletcher was announced as a support act for Avicii's headline tour for Melbourne and Brisbane dates. As of late January 2014 Fletcher is aged 21.
Alison Balsom.  Alison Louise Balsom (born 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist.
Steve Rodby.  Steve Rodby (born December 9 1954 in Joliet Illinois) is an American bassist.He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981. Prior to joining Metheny he was a member of the Simon-Bard Group and the Fred Simon ensemble. Rodby continues to collaborate with Simon as of 2011.Rodby studied bass at Northwestern University a student of Warren Benfield of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Yafa Yarkoni.  Yafa Yarkoni (Hebrew: יפה ירקוני‎ also Yaffa Yarqoni (24 December 1925 – 1 January 2012) was an Israeli singer winner of the Israel Prize in 1998 for Hebrew song. She was dubbed Israel's “songstress of the wars” due to her frequent performances for Israel Defense Forces soldiers especially in wartime. She was from a Mountain Jewish family.
Nora Arnezeder.  Nora Arnezeder (born 8 May 1989) is a French actress and singer.
Bade Fateh Ali Khan.  Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan (Urdu: استاد بڑے فتح علی خان (born 1935) is amongst the foremost Khyal vocalists alive today in Pakistan and a leading exponent of the Patiala Gharana (stylistic lineage). He is the younger of the singing duo Amanat Ali and Fateh Ali who enjoyed immense prestige and success in Pakistan as well as India until the demise of Amanat Ali Khan (1932–1974).
Gaspare Landi.  Gaspare Landi (6 January 1756 – 28 February 1830) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period active in Rome and his native city of Piacenza.
Toby Keith.  Toby Keith Covel (born July 8 1961) best known as Toby Keith is an American country music singer-songwriter record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith 1994's Boomtown 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin' plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998.
Edith Peters.  Edith Peters (April 14 1926 – October 28 2000) was an American singer and actress. She appeared in more than sixteen films from 1957 to 1981.
Sofia Vitória.  Sofia Vitória was born in Setúbal (Portugal). Prior to recording her debut album Palavra de Mulher she performed in Portugal's main concert halls as well as in Brazil Spain the Netherlands Italy Macao Wales and Turkey. She represented Portugal in Eurovision 2004 with the song foi magia and came 15th with 38 points thus failing to reach the final.Sofia is strongly influenced not only by Jazz but also by World Music.
Marc Bonilla.  Marc Bonilla is a guitarist and composer. He has worked with Keith Emerson (including on 1995's Changing States and in Emerson's 2006 touring band) Ronnie Montrose Glenn Hughes (on Addiction (produced co-written and performed) The Way It Is 1999 also playing keyboards) David Coverdale (late 2000 live band) and Kevin Gilbert (Toy Matinee live band).
Sully Bonnelly.  Sully Bonnelly (born December 24 1956) in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic is a fashion designer of high-style clothing for women. He is the Creative Director for Isaac Mizrahi.
Neal Schon.  Neal George Joseph Schon (born February 27 1954) is an American rock guitarist songwriter and vocalist best known for his work with the bands Journey and Bad English. He is Journey's only constant member having participated in every album and tour to date. He was also a member of the rock band Santana before forming Journey.Schon was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on August 23 2013.
Clive Barry.  Clive Stephen Barry (2 September 1922 - 25 August 2003) was an Australian novelist and inaugural winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize described by the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature as a vivid stylist with a capacity for dry humour.At only sixteen years of age Barry served in World War II – falsifying his date of birth in order to enlist. He was mentioned in despatches and went missing in action before he was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald to be a POW in Italy.
Kevin Drumm.  Kevin Drumm is an experimental musician based in Chicago United States.
Sophie Atkinson.  Sophie Atkinson (28 November 1876 - 5 May 1972) born Sophia Mildred Atkinson was an English watercolour landscape painter and illustrator.
Kendall Karson.  Kendall Karson (born March 28 1988) is an American pornographic actress feature dancer and DJ. She entered the adult film industry in 2011.
Sue Draheim.  Sue Draheim (/ˈdrɔː.haɪm/ DRAW-hime) (August 17 1949 in Oakland California – April 11 2013 in Berea Kentucky) was an American fiddler boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK. Growing up in North Oakland Draheim began her first private violin lessons at age eleven having started public school violin instruction at age eight while attending North Oakland's Peralta Elementary School. She also attended Claremont Jr.
Hiroshi Okubo.  Hiroshi Okubo (大久保 博 Ōkubo Hiroshi born August 10 1970) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He has worked as a musician for Namco since 1994 best known for his work for the Ridge Racer and Ace Combat series. He is also a DJ; Some of his songs are available on the nanosounds records label.
Haifa Wehbe.  Haifa Wehbe (Arabic: هيفا وهبي or هيفاء وهبي‎ Lebanese pronunciation: [ˈhajfa ˈwehbe]) is a Lebanese singer and actress rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up in Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman (Arabic: هو الزمن) in 2002. She is known through her music for her beauty showmanship sex appeal provocative mannerisms and image. She has released four studio albums and made her acting debut in 2008 Pepsi-produced film Sea of Stars.
Ferdinando Provesi.  Ferdinando Provesi (Parma 1770 – Busseto Parma 1833) was an early tutor of Giuseppe Verdi regarded as one of the greatest Italian opera composers. Provesi a native of Parma Italy began teaching Verdi in 1824 when Provesi was the master of music at the cathedral in Busseto (a town not far from the village where Verdi was born).
Ciril Zlobec.  Ciril Zlobec (born 4 July 1925) is a Slovene poet writer translator journalist and former politician. He is best known for his poems and has published several volumes of poetry. In 1990 he became a member of the Presidency of Slovenia at a critical time for Slovene independence.Zlobec was born in 1925 in the village of Ponikve on the Kras Plateau in what was then the Julian March region of the Kingdom of Italy. He attended school in Gorizia and Koper.
Chris Carter (record producer/mixer).  Chris Carter known professionally as Von Pimpenstein is a record producer and mixer from Los Angeles.
Angel (British musician).  Sirach Charles (born 31 October 1987) better known by his stage name Angel is a singer/songwriter rapper and record producer from West London England. His debut single Go In Go Hard featuring vocals from English rapper Wretch 32 was released on 18 March 2012. The song reached number 41 on the UK Singles Chart. The following single Wonderful performed better commercially peaking at number nine on the UK Singles chart and topping the UK R&B Chart.
Akiyuki Nosaka.  Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如 Nosaka Akiyuki born October 10 1930) is a Japanese novelist singer lyricist and former member of the House of Councillors. As a broadcasting writer he uses the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫 Aki Yukio) and his alias as a chanson singer is Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂 Kurōdo Nosaka).
O. V. Vijayan.  Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (July 2 1930 – March 30 2005) commonly known as O. V. Vijayan was an Indian author and cartoonist who was an important figure in modern Malayalam language literature.
Ed Crawford.  Charles Edward Crawford aka ed fROMOHIO (born 26 January 1964 Steubenville Ohio) is an American best known as the lead singer and guitarist for Firehose an alternative rock band he formed in 1986 with former Minutemen members Mike Watt (bass guitar) and George Hurley (drums).
Sam Phillips.  Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5 1923 – July 30 2003) better known as Sam Phillips was an American businessman record executive record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He was a producer label owner and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s.He most notably founded Sun Studios and Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee.
Agosti Xaho.  Augustin Chaho in French or Agosti Xaho in Basque was an important Romantic Basque writer. He was born in Tardets (Atharratze in basque) Soule French Basqueland in 10 October 1811 and died in Bayonne (Baiona in Basque) Labourd 23 October 1858.
Meleni Smith.  Meleni Smith is an American singer-songwriter. She was born in Flint Michigan and raised by a Jamaican mother in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Previously signed to Columbia Records she released the EP 'Meet Me In The Bathroom' on August 2 2005.
Angelica Segerbäck.  Angelica Segerbäck (Angel) (born in Stockholm - June 22 1982) is lead vocalist in the bands Waves under Water and LinaLaukaR which she and Johan Svärdshammar started together. She has also appeared on a few songs by other bands.In 2007 Angelica was asked by Johan Svärdshammar if she would be interested in trying to sing to a few of his songs. Having long dreamed of forming a band and singing she gladly accepted. They recorded to songs during one day and were both very happy with the result.
Yutaka Hara.  Yutaka Hara (原 ゆたか Hara Yutaka) is a Japanese writer and illustrator of children's literature.
Szeto Kam-Yuen.  Szeto Kam-Yuen (1964 – 13 October 2012) sometimes credited as Sze To Kam Yuen or Szeto Kam Yuen was a Hongkonger screenwriter.
Michael Scammell.  Michael Scammell (born 1935) is an English author biographer and translator of Slavic literature.
John Oakes (apologist).  John Oakes is a Christian apologist and a professor of chemistry at Grossmont College. He belongs to the Restoration Movement of the Christian tradition.
Harold Knerr.  Harold Hering Knerr (September 4 1882 – July 8 1949) was an American comic strip creator who signed his work H. H. Knerr. He was best known as the writer-artist of The Katzenjammer Kids for 35 years.Born in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania Harold Knerr's father was Calvin B. Knerr a German physician who had migrated to the United States. His mother was Melitta Hering daughter of Constantine Hering a pioneer of homeopathy.
Takashi Okazaki.  Takashi Okazaki (岡崎 能士 Okazaki Takashi) is a Japanese manga artist visual designer and graphic designer most notable for writing and illustrating the manga series Afro Samurai.
Slavko Pengov.  Slavko Pengov (24 June 1908 - 6 January 1966) was a Slovene painter best known for his monumental opus of murals such as those in the National Assembly Building in Ljubljana and the Parish Church of Saint Martin in Bled.Pengov was born in Ljubljana in 1908. He studied art at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Elizabeth Linington.  Barbara Elizabeth Linington (March 11 1921 – April 5 1988) was a prolific American novelist. She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best first mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1960 novel Case Pending which introduced her most popular series character LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza. Her 1961 tome Nightmare and her 1962 novel Knave of Hearts another entry in the Mendoza series were both nominated for Edgars in the Best Novel category.
Rick Vandivier.  Rick Vandivier (born October 18 1954 in Lima Ohio) is an American jazz guitarist composer and educator. He is the spirit and leader of Vandivier and the co-founder and lead guitarist of Primary Colors a group that evolved from the inspired pairing with vocalist Nate Pruitt.
Aaron Bowen.  Aaron Bowen (January 31 1973) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been a noted player in underground guitar circles and toured with Crimson Glory and formed Red Square Black.
Alexander Sliussarev.  Alexander Alexanderovitch Sliussarev (Russian: Александр Александрович Слюсарев; also known as San Sanich Sliussarev Russian: Сан Саныч Слюсарев) (9 October 1944 Moscow — 23 April 2010 Moscow) was a Russian photographer and translator from Italian.
Sarah Vandella.  Sarah Vandella (born December 2 1983) is an American pornographic actress.
Anton Goosen.  Anton Goosen (born 5 March 1946) is a South African musician and songwriter. He became a pivotal figure in Afrikaans music and is generally regarded as the father of Afrikaans Rock. His influence was not however limited to genre. His contribution to the music industry was much more profound as he led a continuous protest against the status quo in his music.
Gerbert de Montreuil.  Gerbert de Montreuil was a 13th-century French poet from the north of France.He wrote Le Roman de la violette or Gérard de Nevers one of the most outstanding medieval poems famous for its vivid narrative and faithful depiction of contemporary customs. The poem underwent countless adaptations and imitations.
James Garbutt.  James Garbutt (born 1925) is a British actor who has been active on television since the 1960s.
Lillian Genth.  Lillian Mathilde Genth (born Philadelphia 1876; died New York City 1953) was a United States artist.
Jim Noir.  Jim Noir is the stage name of Alan Roberts an English singer-songwriter from Davyhulme Greater Manchester. Noir's stage moniker is in homage to Vic Reeves whose real name is Jim Moir. He has released four albums to date 2005's Tower of Love 2008's self-titled LP Jim Noir 2010's Zooper Dooper EP and 2012's Jimmy's Show. Tower of Love and all of the preceding EPs were self-recorded at Noir's parents' home in Davyhulme Manchester.
Shana Moulton.  Shana Moulton is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego Cynthia. Based in New York Shana uses colorful psychedelic performance to describe pathetic situations with humorous surrealism.
Sarnath Banerjee.  Sarnath Banerjee (born 1972) is an Indian graphic novelist artist and film maker and a co-founder of the comics publishing house Phantomville.
Chris Bunting.  Chris Bunting is a British comic book writer.
Elizabeth Bennett (actress).  Elizabeth Bennett is a British actress.Bennett has appeared in several British TV series including The Sandbaggers The Bill The Lakes Diana Chef! The Duchess of Duke Street Down to Earth and Heartbeat. She played Enid Thompson in the British situation comedy Home to Roost and played Enid Tompkins in the US remake of the show You Again?. She also appeared in Margaret (2009). She also appeared as the receptionist in the doctors in Mr.
Issa (Senegalese singer).  Issa (self-styled ISSA in caps pronounced e-suh stage name of Issa Diop) is a singer songwriter and record producer. Born in Dakar Senegal his musical style blends various styles including contemporary contemporary R&B pop and reggae.
Samuil Marshak.  Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (Russian: Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к; November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1887 – July 4 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer translator and children's poet. He translated Shakespeare's sonnets some other Shakespeare's works English poetry (including poems for children) and poetry from other languages. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature.
Émilie Simon.  Émilie Simon (born 1978 in Montpellier France) is a French singer songwriter and composer of electronic music.
Lucifer Chu.  Lucifer Chu (Chinese: 朱學恒 Chu Hsueh-Heng born February 19 1975) graduated from Taiwan's National Central University in 1998 with a B.S in electrical engineering. He dedicated himself in promoting fantasy literature because of his passion for video games and fantasy fiction. He translated J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy into Chinese. He also translated Dragonlance Chronicle published in 1998. He has translated 30 fantasy novels into Chinese.
Johan Forsman.  Johan Forsman or Johan Forsman Löwenström is a Swedish musician singer record producer song writer music arranger and engineer based in Gothenburg Sweden. He was a member krautrock band Hybrizine in the late eighties and psychedelic rock band The Bad Karma in the early nineties. Forsman has worked with musical acts such as the Soundtrack of our lives Caesars Weeping Willows Håkan Hellström Karin Dreijers early band Honey is Cool Jens Lekman Thåström among others.
John Driskell Hopkins.  John Driskell Hopkins (Hop) (born May 3 1971) is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is best know for his role as a founding member of the Grammy Award Winning group Zac Brown Band. He plays guitar ukulele upright bass banjo as well as vocals with the Zac Brown Band.
Arthur Barbosa.  Artur Ernesto Teixeira de Vasconcelos Barbosa (March 6 1908 - October 5 1995) was an artist most well known for his distinctive cover illustrations for Georgette Heyer and George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman novels which he produced for 17 and 25 years respectively.Although always anglicising his first name he disliked modern familiarity and preferred being known as Barbosa. He was born in Liverpool his father was a Portuguese vice-consul and his mother half-French.
Black Radical Mk II.  Black Radical Mk II (born Felix Joseph 1971) is a British hip hop artist from Tottenham London England. He was one of the pioneers of the British scene releasing his first single in 1987 and continuing to release records until 1998. He is most well known for his strident political views which he often used as the basis for his records.
Junior Kelly.  Junior Kelly (born Keith Morgan September 23 1970 in St Thomas Jamaica) is a reggae singer known for his commitment to the faith of the Rastafari movement and its Bobo Shanti mansion. This was a message of the hit song Rasta Should Be Deeper from Soundism and their studio.He had his first hit single in Jamaica in 2002 with Love So Nice.
Brent DeBoer.  Brent DeBoer is an American singer-songwriter from Portland Oregon. He is in the bands The Dandy Warhols Immigrant Union and has also released a solo studio album The Farmer in 2010. DeBoer now lives in Melbourne Australia.
Omawumi.  Omawumi Megbele (born April 13 1982) known by her stage name Omawumi is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and actress. She is a brand ambassador for Globacom Konga.com and Malta Guinness. She's also part of the campaign called Rise With The Energy of Africa. She gained attention as the 2007 runner-up on West African Idols a reality TV show part of the Idols franchise. Her debut album The Lasso of Truth was reported to be a commercial success in Nigeria.
David Gray (poet).  David Gray (29 January 1838 – 3 December 1861) was a Scottish poet.The son of a handloom weaver Gray was born at Merkland by Kirkintilloch Dunbartonshire. His parents resolved to educate him for the kirk and through their self-denial and his own exertions as a pupil teacher and private tutor he was able to complete a course of four sessions at the university of Glasgow.
Glenn Crytzer.  Glenn Crytzer (born October 13 1980) is an American composer guitarist banjoist singer and big band leader. Crytzer began composing music at the age of 14 and began leading bands at 25. In the words of Michael Steinman of Jazz Lives “Many jazz musicians present themselves not only as players but as composers with varying results. (Crytzer) is one of those rare creative beings who beautifully fills both roles.”
Rabin Mondal.  Rabin Mondal born as Rabindra Nath Mondal (born 1929) is a painter from Kolkata West Bengal. Rabin Mondal is an Indian artist who was a founding member of the Calcutta Painters. He lived and worked in relative obscurity until retrospective exhibitions of his work in Kolkata New Delhi and Bombay brought him to India’s national attention in 2005.
Ronney Abramson.  Ronney Abramson is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in France.
Nikolay Nosov.  Nikolai(y) Nikolaevich Nosov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Носов; 23 November [O.S. 10 November] 1908 Kiev - 26 July 1976 Moscow) was a Soviet children's literature writer the author of a number of humorous short stories a school novel and the popular trilogy of fairy tale novels about the adventures of Neznaika and his friends.
Sadanand Deshmukh.  Sadanand Namdev Deshmukh (Marathi: सदानंद नामदेव देशमुख) is a Marathi language author. He was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004 for his novel Baromas.
Imraan Coovadia.  Imraan Coovadia is a South African novelist and academic. He is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Cape Town.
Chloe Dolandis.  Chloe Dolandis (born 21 February 1985) is an American singer-songwriter voice actor and TV host. An independent artist her 2011 debut album Bring Back The Fever was penned by Dolandis and her writing team and produced and engineered by Grammy winner Zach Ziskin. Within one week of its release the jazz-pop-soul album was listed as number 19 in the Top 300 iTunes Jazz Album Downloads (www.top100musicdownloads.com).
Gérard Pesson.  Gérard Pesson (Torteron 17 January 1958) is a French composer. Pesson studied musicology at the Sorbonne and is the composer of a number of award-winning works.
Karine Polwart.  Karine Polwart (born 23 December 1970) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She writes and performs music with a strong folk and roots feel her songs dealing with a variety of issues from alcoholism to genocide.
Jus Oborn.  Justin Jus Oborn is the lead vocalist lead electric guitarist and lyricist of Electric Wizard an influential doom metal/stoner metal band from Dorset England. Prior to forming Electric Wizard Oborn was a member of the band Lord of Putrefaction which changed its name to Thy Grief Eternal and then to Eternal.Oborn along with bassist Tim Bagshaw and drummer Mark Greening formed Electric Wizard in 1993. He has been the band's frontman since that time.
Stewart Copeland.  Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16 1952) is an American musician multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the drummer for the band The Police and for his film music soundtracks. He has also written various pieces of music for ballet opera and orchestra. Copeland was ranked by a Rolling Stone magazine reader poll in 2010 as the fifth greatest drummer of all time.
Kevin Laffan.  Kevin Barry Laffan (24 May 1922 Reading Berkshire – 11 March 2003 London) was an English playwright screenwriter author actor and stage director. Laffan is best known for creating the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm now titled Emmerdale.Raised in a family of fourteen children Laffan's Catholic upbringing formed the inspiration for many of his plays.
Cilla McQueen.  Priscilla Muriel Cilla McQueen (born 22 January 1949 in Birmingham England) is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.
Derek Nikitas.  Derek Nikitas is the Edgar Award nominated author of Pyres and The Long Division. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine The Ontario Review Chelsea and New South.
Santolo Cirillo.  Santolo Cirillo (active first half of 18th century died 1742) was an Italian painter engraver and stucco artist active in Naples. He was born in Grumo Nevano a town near Naples. He contributed frescoes and paintings for Santa Caterina a Formiello the Cathedral of San Gennaro the Basilica of Santa Restituta and Santa Donna Regina Nuova in Naples. He also painted for the Basilica di San Tamaro in his home town of Grumo Nevano.
Christie Hennessy.  Christie Hennessy (born as Edward Christopher Ross) (19 November 1945 – 11 December 2007) was an Irish folk singer-songwriter. Although Hennessy was unable to read or write due to severe dyslexia he still wrote his own songs such as Roll back the Clouds and All the lies that you told me he sung All the lies that you told me with his daughter Hermoine but the song was made famous by Frances Black rather than Hennessy and his daughter.
Al Hibbler.  Albert George Al Hibbler (August 16 1915 – April 24 2001) was an American baritone vocalist who sang with Duke Ellington's orchestra before having several pop hits as a solo artist. Some of Hibbler's singing is classified as rhythm and blues but he is best seen as a bridge between R&B and traditional pop music.
Anne DeMarinis.  Anne DeMarinis is a musician and artist. She is a former member of Sonic Youth.
Josephine Koo.  Josephine Koo Mei-Wah (Chinese: 顧美華) is a Chinese actress. She had a bright start to her film career starring in Yim Ho's Hong Kong New Wave classic Homecoming (1984).
Hugh Davidson (actor).  Hugh Davidson is an American actor and screenwriter best known for his work on the Adult Swim television series Robot Chicken.Davidson made his acting debut in the 2001 film Pledge of Innocence. He later guest starred on television shows such as Reno 911! Arrested Development and Will and Grace.In 2006 Davidson went to work as a writer and voice actor for Robot Chicken. He also worked as a writer and voice actor for the Adult Swim show Saul of the Mole Men.
Darren G. Davis.  Darren G. Davis is an American independent comic book publisher and writer. He is the head of Bluewater Productions based in Vancouver Washington.
Tsanko Lavrenov.  Tsanko Lavrenov (Bulgarian: Цанко Лавренов) was a Bulgarian painter and art critic born in 1896 deceased in 1978.He is one of the most prominent influential and distinctive Bulgarian artists of the 20th century. A modernist influenced by the Symbolism and the Secession Lavrenov is best known for his cityscapes of the old town of Plovdiv as well as his monasteries cycle.
Bai Guang.  Bai Guang (birth name Chinese: 史永芬; pinyin: Shǐ Yǒngfēn; June 27 1921 Beiping now Beijing China – August 27 1999 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia) was a famous movie star and singer. By the 1940s she became one of the Seven great singing stars.
Julie Czerneda.  Julie E. Czerneda (born April 11 1955) is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author. She has written many novels including the Prix Aurora winner In the Company of Others a number of short stories; and has edited several anthologies.Czerneda is a biologist by education and has been active in writing and editing non-fiction.
Sergey Kalugin.  Sergey Kalugin (Russian: Сергей Калугин; born April 9 1967) is a Russian acoustic guitarist singer-songwriter and poet the leader of the Russian art/progressive rock band Orgia Pravednikov.
Mark Scharf.  Mark Scharf (born September 21 1956) is an American playwright actor and teacher. His plays have received readings and productions in New York City Washington D.C. Los Angeles Philadelphia Baltimore Richmond Va. Delaware Colorado Georgia Indiana Illinois Iowa Maryland Michigan Minnesota Nebraska New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Texas Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming London Beijing Australia Canada and Singapore.
Seamus Kennedy.  Seamus Kennedy (born in Belfast Northern Ireland) is an Irish singer comedian and writer.
Eva Boto.  Eva Boto (born December 1 1995) is a singer who represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku Azerbaijan with Verjamem. She missed out on the grand final finishing 17th of 18 entrants.
Bo Bartlett.  Bo Bartlett (b. December 29 1955 in Columbus Georgia) is an American realist painter currently residing on Vashon Island in Washington State.
Ron Mathewson.  Ron Mathewson (born 19 February 1944) is a Scottish jazz double bassist and bass guitarist born in Lerwick Shetland Isles Scotland. Mathewson is best known for his years spent working with Ronnie Scott but has also done recordings with Stan Getz Joe Henderson Ben Webster Philly Joe Jones Roy Eldridge Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans.
Aggro Santos.  Yuri Aggro Santos (born 12 October 1988) is a chart topping Brazilian rapper who lives in Balham London.
Charles Phillip Tilghman.  Charles Phillip Tilghman was the founder of the Sphinx Club a major Baltimore jazz venue one of the first African American-owned nightclubs in the country. Tilghman ran the Sphinx Club until he died in 1988 and the Club shut down in 1992.
Claude Luter.  Claude Luter 23 July 1923 – 6 October 2006) was a jazz clarinetist who also doubled on soprano saxophone.Luter was born and died in Paris. He began on trumpet but switched to clarinet. He might be best known for being an accompanist to Sidney Bechet when he was in Paris but he also worked with Barney Bigard and French writer and musician Boris Vian.
Mat Sinner.  Mat Sinner is a bassist vocalist and record producer from Stuttgart in Germany.His main bands have been Sinner since 1982 and Primal Fear since 1997 which he formed with Ralf Scheepers. He has been involved in numerous other projects throughout his musical career. Mat joined Voodoo Circle permanently in 2008 and worked recently active as a record producer for Kiske/Somerville Bobby Kimball/Jimi Jamison (Toto/Survivor) and the first Ralf Scheepers solo album.
April Lawton.  April Lawton (July 30 1948 – November 23 2006) was a guitarist and composer who rose to some prominence in the early to mid-1970s as a member of the band Ramatam which also included at one time former Iron Butterfly guitarist Mike Pinera and the former Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell and Russ Smith (bass & vocals) and Tommy Sullivan (keyboards reeds vocals). Her playing style was a mix of Jeff Beck Hendrix and Allan Holdsworth.
Tony Cox (South African musician).  For other people of the same name see Anthony Cox (disambiguation).Tony Cox (born 24 January 1954) is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing he has won the SAMA (South African Music Awards) for best instrumental album twice. His music incorporates many different styles including classical blues rock and jazz while keeping an African flavour.
Jonathan Leong.  Jon Leong 梁偉鑛 (pronounced Liang Wei Kuang in mandarin) (Born Jonathan Ken Leong 2 June 1982) is a Singaporean performing artist singer-songrwriter music producer and actor. His first steps into the world of entertainment started when he played in bands at pubs and clubs before achieving public prominence after finishing as the runner-up during the second season of Singapore Idol a franchise of the popular Pop Idol series.
Eduardo Ramos Olivera.  Eduardo Gustavo Ramos Olivera (born July 18 1972) Peruvian Screenwriter.
Jack Keller (comics).  Jack R. Keller (June 16 1922 – January 2 2003) was an American comic book artist best known for his 1950s and '60s work on the Marvel Comics Western character Kid Colt and for his later hot rod and racecar series at Charlton Comics.
M. D. Pallavi Arun.  M. D. Pallavi also known as Pallavi Arun is a singer from Karnataka India. She is a Kannada Sugama Sangeetha Singer (Playback singer) actor and TV anchor. She is married to Arun a musician and music director. She won the Karnataka State Film Awards for Best Playback Singer in 2006 and 2007 for her song Nodayya Kwate Lingave sung in the 2007 film Duniya.
Irini Karra.  Eirini Karra(Fashion Diary)Eirini Karra (Greek: Ειρήνη Καρρά) is a Greek model who took part in the Miss Star Hellas pageant in April 2006 and represented her country in the Miss World 2006 pageant held in Warsaw Poland. She is currently represented by Ace Models and is also well known for her large participation in the IrchaLovesToby campaign.In April 2006 Eirini won the title Miss Hellas (Μις Ελλάς).
Marc Marcel.  Marc Marcel (born February 17 1976) is an American-born spoken word artist philosopher motivational poet speaker author and psychonaut best known for his performance poetry and philosophies on life. Born in Baltimore Maryland Marcel began his writing career in Atlanta Georgia while attending Morris Brown College in 1998. His work is centered on metaphysical and social issues of the modern day addressing the preconceptions influenced by one’s surroundings through self-awareness.
Loick Essien.  Loick Mark Essien (born 29 April 1990) is an English singer signed to record label Sony Music. Essien began his musical career after featuring on rapper Chipmunk's single Beast. Essien was set to release his debut album Identity on 5 March 2012 but was dropped from his label weeks before the release date.
Wilhelm Bendz.  Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz (20 March 1804 – 14 November 1832) was a Danish painter mainly known for genre works and portraits which often portray his artist colleagues and their daily lives. He was one of the most talented artists in the successful generation of painters who studied under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg but died early and has therefore left a relatively small oeuvre.
David Thwaites.  David Barry Thwaites (born June 16 1976) is a British actor and producer. He is most notable for his television appearances as a teenager. In 1989 aged 13 he appeared as Eustace Scrubb in the BBC's adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. A year later he reprised this role in The Silver Chair (1990). Now living in Los Angeles he is a producer and served as executive producer on All the King's Men License to Wed and Black Swan and producer on Miss Potter.
Eduard Uspensky.  Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (Russian: Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Успе́нский; born December 22 1937) is a Russian writer and author of several children's books.
Eminem.  Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972) better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim Shady is an American rapper record producer songwriter and actor. In addition to his solo career Eminem is a member of the group D12 as well as one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil alongside Royce da 5'9. Eminem is one of the world's best-selling music artists and is the best-selling artist of the 2000s.
Ostap Vyshnya.  Ostap Vyshnia (real name Pavlo Hubenko 13 November 1889 — 28 September 1956) was a Ukrainian writer humourist satirist and official.
Darren Rowse.  Darren Rowse (born 27 April 1972) is a blogger speaker consultant and founder of several blogs and blog networks including b5media and ProBlogger.net. He lives in Melbourne Australia.
Steven Kotler.  Steven Kotler is an American bestselling author journalist and entrepreneur. His articles have appeared in over 70 publications including The New York Times Magazine LA Times Wired GQ Discover Popular Science Outside Men’s Journal Details and National Geographic Adventure. He is best known for his non-fiction books including the New York Times bestseller Abundance A Small Furry Prayer and West of Jesus.
Marc Acito.  Marc Acito (born January 11 1966 in Bayonne New Jersey) is a United States novelist humorist and screenwriter.
Dorothy L. Sayers.  Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually pronounced /ˈseɪ.ərz/ although Sayers herself preferred /ˈsɛərz/ and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciation; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer poet playwright essayist translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages.
Mateusz Śmierzchalski.  Mateusz Maurycy Śmierzchalski (born 18 July 1982 Gdynia Poland) stage name Havoc is a Polish heavy metal musician. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Behemoth. Since 1999 he is leading guitarist of the sludge-doom metal band Blindead.Mateusz Śmierzchalski is endorsed by Mayones.
Henri Virlogeux.  Henri Virlogeux (1924–1995) was a French actor.
Owen Gray.  Owen Gray also known as Owen Grey (born 5 July 1939 Jamaica) is one of Jamaica's 'Foundation' singers whose work spans the R&B ska rocksteady and reggae eras of Jamaican music and he has been credited as Jamaica's first home-grown singing star.
Kate Martin (musician).  Kate Martin is singer-songwriter originally from Townsville Australia. She is signed to Shock Records.
Henri Texier.  Henri Texier (born January 27 1945) is a French jazz double bassist born in Paris.He is perhaps best known for his 1960s work with Don Cherry and for his 1980s band the Transatlantik Quartet which featured Joe Lovano Steve Swallow and Aldo Romano. He also worked with several other American musicians in Paris jazz clubs including Johnny Griffin Phil Woods Bill Coleman and Bud Powell.Texier is a self-taught jazz bassist crediting Wilbur Ware most as an influence.
Miranda Shearer.  Miranda Rose Shearer (born 11 May 1982) is a British journalist and author. She is the daughter of John Shearer a former Oxford University graduate and BBC employee who worked for many years as Head of Broadcasting for the North before transferring to the South and Tamasin Day-Lewis documentary maker former Telegraph columnist and author of a number of cookbooks. Miranda is also the granddaughter of Poet Laureate C.
Louise Shivers.  Louise Shivers is an author and writer-in-residence at Georgia Regents University Augusta Georgia.She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has published two novels.Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail' originally published by Random House Collins London and Editions Belfond in Paris was named Best First Novel of the Year by USA TODAY in 1983 and was made into the feature film Summer Heat.The movie in now on DVD.The novel is available from John F.
Suresh Guptara.  Suresh Guptara (born 22 November 1988) is a British-born novelist who lives in Weinfelden Thurgau in Switzerland. He is the twin brother of Jyoti Guptara and son of Prabhu Guptara. He is of Indian descent.Guptara is perhaps best known as the co-author of the Insanity Saga which he wrote along with his twin brother Jyoti. The pair finished the first draft of Conspiracy of Calaspia book one of the fantasy epic at the age of eleven.
Yohanan Simon.  Yohanan Simon was an Israeli painter.
Blake Paul Neubert.  Blake Paul Neubert (born January 30 1981 in Glenwood Springs Colorado U.S.A.) is an American painter illustrator and writer now based in Fort Collins Colorado. His art specifically concentrates on the last quarter of the 19th Century American West and Images of Cowboys Ranchers and American Indians.
Gregg Allman.  Gregory LeNoir Gregg Allman (born December 8 1947) is an American rock and blues singer-songwriter keyboardist guitarist and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
Iain Blair.  Iain Blair (12 August 1942 – 3 July 2011) was a Scottish actor and author who using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels.
Daesung.  Kang Dae-sung (Hangul: 강대성; born April 26 1989) is a South Korean singer variety host and occasional actor best known as being the lead vocalist of popular Korean group Big Bang. Since his debut he has released a solo album several singles performed in musicals acted in a drama What's Up became a fixed member of reality-variety television series Family Outing and talk show Night After Night. He was well known for his witty persona on television.
Nosaj Thing.  Nosaj Thing (born Jason Chung) is an American electronic musician based in Los Angeles California.He has produced tracks for artists such as Kendrick Lamar Kid Cudi Busdriver Nocando and most recently Chance the Rapper.
Rønnaug Kleiva.  Rønnaug Kleiva (born 1951) is a Norwegian poet writer of short stories and author of children's literature. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 1997 for the children's book Ikkje gløym å klappe katten.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau.  William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French: [buɡ(ə)ʁo]; November 30 1825 – August 19 1905) was a French academic painter and traditionalist. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes making modern interpretations of classical subjects with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States was given numerous official honors and received top prices for his work.
Paul G. Tremblay.  Paul G. Tremblay (born June 30 1971) is an American author and editor of contemporary horror dark fantasy and science fiction. Tremblay received two Bram Stoker Award nominations in 2007 and he is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Sara Nakayama.  Sara Nakayama (中山 さら Nakayama Sara born January 29 1974 in Saitama) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production. She was previously credited as Manami Nakayama (中山 真奈美 Nakayama Manami).
Jens Gad.  Jens Gad is a songwriter producer and guitarist. He was previously the co-producer for the musical project Enigma. Currently he is releasing albums under the name of Jens Gad Presents for his new instrumental work and also under the name of Achillea for his new world-influenced music which features different female vocalists on each album singing in different languages. Jens is the older brother of Toby Gad.
Tommy Emmanuel.  William Thomas Tommy Emmanuel AM (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian virtuoso guitarist and occasional singer best known for his complex fingerstyle technique energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine he was named as Best Acoustic Guitarist in their readers' poll. In June 2010 Emmanuel was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Mako Midori.  Mako Midori (緑 魔子 Midori Mako born 26 March 1944 Taiwan) is a Japanese actress. Debuting on film in 1964 she won the Blue Ribbon Award for best new face for Nihiki no mesuinu. Beyond appearing in over fifty Japanese language films in the 1960s and 1970s she has also acted extensively on stage winning major awards such as the Kinokuniya Theatre Prize. She is married to Renji Ishibashi.
Olav Nordrå.  Olav Nordrå (1919 Hammerfest - 28 April 1994) was a Norwegian writer. He won the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1969.
Jill Jack.  Jill Jack is an American singer-songwriter from Ferndale Michigan. As of May 2012 she has released eight albums ranging from soul to rock to folk and country. She leads a band of the same name. She's got the stage presence the voice the ability to interpret songs passionately ... there's a lot of soul in what she does—Billboard MagazineJill Jack’s magical connection to her audience is the result of her generous artistry.
Henry W. Armstrong.  Henry W. Harry Armstrong (July 22 1879 – February 28 1951) was a U.S. boxer booking agent producer singer pianist and Tin Pan Alley composer.His biggest hit was Sweet Adeline written in 1903 with Richard H. Gerard. His 1905 song Nellie Dean became the signature song of the British music hall singer Gertie Gitana and a popular British pub song.
Fares Karam.  Fares Karam (Arabic: فارس كرم: born 1974) is a popular Lebanese singer who specializes in the Dabke style and Lebanese music in general but with a more modernized twist. He has produced many hit singles and is notable in Lebanon and the Middle East. His hit records include Retani (I wish) El-Tannoura (The Skirt) Shefta (I Saw Her) and Neswanji (player). Throughout his career he has participated in a large number of concerts public celebrations and festivals all over Lebanon.
Sholeh Wolpe.  Sholeh Wolpe (Persian: شعله ولپی‎) is an Iranian-American poet literary translator and visual artist.She was born in Iran and has lived in Trinidad England and United States. She is the author of three collections of poetry two books of translations and is the editor of two anthologies.
Ephraim Chambers.  Ephraim Chambers (c.1680 – 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
Sarah Atereth.  Sarah Atereth is an American recording artist singer songwriter dancer choreographer and producer. She is well known for her sultry vocal style unique lyrics and dynamic dancing. Sarah has had 5 consecutive hit songs worldwide including 2 #1 UK hits as reported by MusicWeek and DMC Magazines.
Wesley Burrowes.  Wesley Burrowes (born 15 April 1930) is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Northern Ireland he is now a resident of the Republic of Ireland. He is best known as the chief scriptwriter on The Riordans and Glenroe two of the most successful drama series produced by RTÉ Television.
Bernhard Stavenhagen.  Bernhard Stavenhagen (24 November 1862 – 25 December 1914) was a German pianist composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music.
Sergey Ivanovich Kuskov.  Sergey Ivanovich Kuskov (June 6 1957 Moscow USSR — June 22 2008 Krasnodar Russia) was a renowned Russian curator.
Pezet.  Paweł Kapliński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavɛw kaˈpliɲskʲi] born April 18 1980) better known by his stage name Pezet (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpɛzɛt]) is a Polish rapper. In 1998 he debuted with Onar in Płomień 81 and they published 3 albums. He started working with Noon in 2002 publishing 2 albums. 5 years later in 2007 his first solo album hit stores.Pezet hosted the program Rap Fura on Viva. He also had an episode in a crime drama television series called Kryminalni on TVN.
René Marie.  René Marie (born René Marie Stevens on November 7 1955 in Warrenton Virginia) is a songwriter and jazz vocalist. She began her professional music career at age 42. In 1999 she performed at Blues Alley in Washington D.C. and signed a contract with the St. Louis-based Maxjazz label. She released four albums on the label the second of which (Vertigo) was awarded a coronet ranking by The Penguin Guide to Jazz a distinction given to less than 85 other recordings in jazz history.
Thirunalloor Karunakaran.  Thirunalloor Karunakaran (October 8 1924 – July 5 2006) was a renowned poet scholar teacher and leftist intellectual of Kerala India.
Arthur A. Ross.  Arthur A. Ross (February 4 1920 - November 11 2008) was an American film and television screenwriter best known for writing Brubaker and co-writing The Creature from the Black Lagoon. He was blacklisted during Red Scare. His son is writer producer and director Gary Ross.
Joseph Carr (music publisher).  Joseph Carr was an American music publisher one of the most influential in the early history of the United States. He was based out of Baltimore while his brothers Thomas and Benjamin were based in New York and Philadelphia.
Jose Ortiz El Buen Samaritano.  Jose Ortiz (born July 28 1952) is a Puerto Rican astrologer and psychic known as (El Buen Samaritano) which translates into English as The Good Samaritan.
Khin Myo Chit.  Khin Myo Chit (Burmese: ခင်မျိုးချစ် pronounced: [kʰɪ̀ɴ mjó tɕʰɪʔ]; 1 May 1915 – 2 January 1999) was a Burmese author and journalist whose career spanned over four decades. She began her career writing short stories in Burmese for Dagon Magazine in 1934. She worked on the editorial staff of The Burma Journal during anti-colonial movements. After the war Khin Myo Chit wrote for The Oway a Burmese newspaper.
Virginia Dehn.  Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26 1922 - July 28 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the US. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Nils Nordberg.  Nils Nordberg (born 26 March 1942 in Verdal) is a Norwegian crime writer anthology editor and audio play director. He has worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation since 1969 and for Radioteatret since 1973. He is regarded among Norway's leading experts on crime fiction.
Jorge Zaffino.  Jorge Zaffino (1960–2002) was a comic book artist born in Argentina.
Parker Gispert.  Parker Gispert (born May 24 1982) is the lead singer of The Whigs. He is a native of Atlanta Georgia a 2001 graduate of The Westminster Schools and a 2006 graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Philosophy... After graduating college and self producing and releasing Give 'Em All A Big Fat Lip the band was signed to Dave Matthews' ATO label in the summer of 2006. Fat Lip was recorded with gear the band bought on eBay before subsequently selling it for a small profit.
Kwame Yeboah (musician).  Kwame Yeboah (born 14 November 1977) is a Ghanaian musician guitarist keyboardist producer recording- engineer and multi-instrumentalist currently based in London UK. Originally from a village in Western Ghana his love for music led him all around the world working with international artists and back to his home country where he currently operates his recording studio Mixstation and is gaining growing success with his band Ohia b3y3 ya.
John Dalrymple (political writer).  John Dalrymple (1734–1779) was a Scottish writer.
Mark Shreeve.  Mark Shreeve is an electronic music composer. After initially releasing his early work on cassette through the Mirage label he went on to sign for the newly formed Jive Electro in the early eighties and released the albums Assassin Legion and Crash Head.
John Dankworth.  Sir John Phillip William Dankworth CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010) known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth was an English jazz composer saxophonist and clarinetist. He was the husband of jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine who survives him; they married in 1958.
Theodorus Gaza.  Theodorus Gaza or Theodore Gazis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς Theodoros Gazis; Italian: Teodoro Gaza; Latin: Theodorus Gazes) also called by the epithet Thessalonicensis (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475) was a Greek humanist and translator of Aristotle one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (the Palaeologan Renaissance).
Amos Rapoport.  Amos Rapoport (1929 Warsaw Poland) is the author of the book House Form & Culture - which talks about how culture human behavior and the environment affect house form.Until his retirement in 2001 he taught at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he was a Distinguished Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is one of the founders of the field of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS).
Steve Lightle.  Steve Lightle (born November 19 1959) is an American comic book artist working primarily as a penciller.
Yehuda Kiel.  Yehuda Kiel (Hebrew: יהודה קיל; born 1916 died 16 June 2011) was an Israeli educator and Bible commentator.
Martin D'Arcy.  Fr. Martin Cyril D'Arcy S.J. (1888–1976) was a Roman Catholic priest philosopher of love and a correspondent friend and adviser of a range of literary figures including Evelyn Waugh Dorothy L. Sayers and W. H. Auden. He has been described as perhaps England's foremost Catholic public intellectual from the 1930s until his death.Educated at Stonyhurst he entered the Society of Jesus in 1907 and was ordained priest in 1921.
Mary Barry.  Mary Barry is an independent singer/songwriter and jazz musician from Newfoundland and Labrador Canada. She sings in both of the official languages of Canada.She performed with singer Holly Hogan in 2007. Mark Peddle played both electric and acoustic bass guitar on Barry's 2007 album Red Eye Tonight. The album was her second. She won two awards at the 2007 MusicNL awards: Female Artist of the Year and Jazz and Blues Artist of the Year.
Francesco Cairo.  Francesco Cairo (26 September 1607 – 27 July 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter active in Lombardy and Piedmont.
Sylvana Lorenz.  Sylvana Lorenz (born on February 14 1953) is a French art dealer writer and artist in charge of communication for Pierre Cardin space since 1998.
Petter Karlsson.  Petter Karlsson (born May 31 1977) is a multi instrumentalist and singer of Holocoaster and was a member of Swedish symphonic metal band Therion (2004–2008) lead vocalist and guitarist of Argento member of other several bands: Master Massive Kajarr Conspiracy.He had a big impact on Therion's 13:th album Gothic Kabbalah and was involved in the writing of 9 of the 15 songs.In the year 2009 he started the band Holocoaster.
Serge Fiori.  Serge Fiori (born March 4 1952) was the lead vocalist and guitarist for Harmonium an influential progressive rock band from Quebec. After Harmonium broke up he pursued a minor solo career.
Nick Augusto.  Nick Augusto (born 4 August 1986) is an American drummer of the heavy metal band Trivium. He replaced Travis Smith on 4 February 2010. Since joining Trivium Augusto has recorded: Shattering the Skies Above—which featured on the God of War: Blood & Metal EP— a cover of Sepultura's Slave New WorldIn Waves. and the bands latest album Vengeance Falls.
Alexander Calder.  Alexander Calder (/ˈkɔːldər/; July 22 1898 – November 11 1976) was an American sculptor best known as the originator of the mobile a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents. By contrast Calder’s stationary sculptures are called stabiles. He also produced numerous wire figures notably for a miniature circus.
Conroy Maddox.  Conroy Maddox (27 December 1912 – 14 January 2005) was an English surrealist painter collagist writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the Birmingham Surrealist movement.He was born in Ledbury Herefordshire and discovered surrealism in 1935 spending the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings collages photographs objects and texts.
Jean-Louis Forain.  Jean-Louis Forain (23 October 1852 – 11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter lithographer watercolorist and etcher.
Cynthia Kadohata.  Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer known best for winning the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 2013.Kadohata was born in Chicago Illinois. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986.Weedflower her second children's book was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II.
Meiko (American singer).  Meiko (/ˈmiːkoʊ/) is an American singer/songwriter currently residing in Los Angeles California. She independently released a self-titled album on September 1 2007. All of the tracks from the LP have been featured in major network TV shows. Her sophomore full-length titled The Bright Side was released through Fantasy Records on May 15 2012 and a single from the album Stuck On You reached #1 on the combined Japanese AirPlay Chart and #1 on the International Chart in Japan.
Derek Ridgers.  Derek Ridgers (born 20 October 1952) is an English photographer with a career spanning over thirty years.
Margaret Stevenson.  Margaret Stevenson (c.1807 - 28 September 1874) was an English Australian she was well known as a satirist and columnist in Adelaide where she wrote under the pseudonym 'A Colonist'
Alejandro Millán.  Alejandro Millán (born July 10 1980 in Monterrey Mexico) is the singer keyboardist and composer for band Hello Madness. After winning a music production contest by CONARTE he released the album Light and Life After Dusk.He founded the progressive band Elfonía in 2002 releasing the albums Elfonía and This Sonic Landscape.He started playing piano and keyboards for Stream of Passion in 2004 releasing the studio album Embrace the Storm and the live CD/DVD Live in the Real World.
Terje Isungset.  Terje Isungset (born May 4 1964 Hol Norway) is a Norwegian musician (primarily as a percussionist) and composer. From his background in jazz and traditional Scandinavian music he has designed musical instruments from non-traditional materials including ice.
Ion Luca Caragiale.  Ion Luca Caragiale (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈluka karaˈd͡ʒjale]; commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale; February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1852 – June 9 1912) was a great Romanian playwright short story writer poet theater manager political commentator and journalist.
Kathy Diamond.  Kathy Diamond is a funk/disco house singer-songwriter from London England. She was born in Sheffield in the north of England. Her love for soul and disco started at an early age gaining inspiration from Donna Summer.In 1993 Diamond decided to write and sing herself collaborating different bands DJs and producers. In 2002 she wrote a Balearic song with house producers SWAG called Miracles Just Might. After SWAG did not include it on their album Diamond decided to release the song herself.
Theo Findahl.  Theo Findahl (Theodor Leonard Findahl; 24 August 1891 – 19 May 1976) was a Norwegian teacher and journalist. He was born in Tvedestrand. He worked as teacher until 1939 and from then as a foreign correspondent for the newspaper Aftenposten. He is particularly remembered for his reports from Germany on 5 and 7 April 1940 when he was a news correspondent in Berlin.
Moose Harris.  Moose Harris (born (1967-12-17)17 December 1967 Devizes Wiltshire England) is a British bass guitarist who was known as Jason James Harris until June 2001 when he legally changed his name to reflect his former nickname and adopted professional alias of Moose.
Ali Jackson (musician).  Ali Jackson Jr. (born April 3 1976) is an American jazz drummer.His mother a classical pianist taught him piano and how to read music at the age of four. His father bass player Ali Jackson Sr. taught him music theory and gave him drum lessons from rudiment books. Jackson attended Detroit's prestigious Cass Technical High School. He then attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music earning a BA in composition.
Arnold Rosner.  Arnold Rosner (born in New York City on November 8 1945 – November 8 2013) was an American composer of classical music.Rosner of Jewish descent got his training at State University of New York at Buffalo New York; according to his own account he learned nothing there. Rosner took his own path and composed in the style of Romanticism traditionally. He composed three operas eight symphonies six string quartets chamber music and songs.
Pavel Nesleha.  Pavel Nešleha (19 February 1937 Prague – 13 September 2003 Prague) was a Czech painter drawer graphic artist and photographer. He was a prominent representative of the 1960s art movement and a major figure in Czech non-conformist avant-garde art. His drawings and graphical work earned him several awards and distinctions. Starting in 1965 his work was showcased regularly in group expositions in the Czech Republic and abroad; he had his first solo show in 1966.
Dino Stamatopoulos.  Konstantinos Dino Stamatopoulos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Σταματόπουλος) is a Greek-American television comedy writer actor and producer who worked on TV programs such as Mr.
M. Chidananda Murthy.  M. Chidananda Murthy (Kannada: ಚಿದಾನಂದ ಮೂರ್ತಿ) (born May 10 1931) is a Kannada writer researcher and historian. He is a well-known scholar in Karnataka specializing in the history of Kannada language and ancient Karnataka. He is also known for his campaign to conserve the monuments Hampi and to secure classical language status to Kannada Language. Murthy has also articulated that uniform civil code and an anti-conversion law must be enacted by the Government in India.
Perumbadavam Sreedharan.  Perumbadavam Sreedharan (Malayalam: പെരുമ്പടവം ശ്രീധരന്‍) (born 12 February 1938) is a prolific Malayalam author from Kerala state South India. He is the present Chairman of Kerala Sahithya Academy. He has written several novels and short stories. One of his most famous and critically acclaimed novels is Oru Sankeerthanam Pole (1993) for which he won the Vayalar Award in 1996.
John Kao.  John Kao (born 1950) is an author and strategic advisor based in San Francisco. His work concentrates on issues of innovation and organizational transformation. Kao was born in 1950 to Chinese immigrant parents. An accomplished jazz pianist he spent the summer of 1969 playing keyboards for Frank Zappa. Kao studied philosophy at Yale College received an MD from Yale Medical School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Brian Wood (artist).  Brian Wood (Born Saskatoon SK Canada 1948) is a visual artist working with multiple media in painting drawing printmaking and photography in New York City.
Brooke Allison.  Brooke Allison Adams (born September 26 1986) better known as Brooke Allison is a pop singer from Fort Worth Texas USA who had a minor hit in 2001 with The Kiss-Off (Goodbye). She later worked with the other members of a new girl group The Beach Girl5 to release their first singles and album.
Henry Paul (musician).  Henry Paul (born August 25 1949 in Kingston New York) is an American southern rock and country singer/songwriter who was a founding member of the Southern rock band Outlaws the front man and founder of the Henry Paul Band and the lead singer for the country band BlackHawk.
Japollonia.  Jamila Akiko Chilombo (born November 18 1983) known mononymously as Mila J is an American singer songwriter rapper and dancer from Los Angeles California. She is known for being in Prince's video for Diamonds and Pearls and was part of a short-lived girl groups called Gyrl and Dame Four and appeared on tracks by RaRa IMx and Omarion.
Nina Svetlanova.  Nina Svetlanova (born in Kiev January 23 1932) is a Russian-American concert pianist and educator. She became a naturalized US citizen in 1983. She has been a professor of piano at New York's Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music since the late 1970s and is a highly sought-after pedagogue and many of her students are well-known pianists and international competition winners.
Agnes Obel.  Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 28 October 1980 in Gentofte Copenhagen) is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album Philharmonics was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Europe most notably Denmark Norway and Germany. Philharmonics was certified gold in June 2011 by the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) for sales of 10000 units.
Jeff Cashen.  Jeff Cashen is an Australian Adult-Contemporary/Acoustic singer-songwriter he released and toured his debut album ‘Threads’ in 2007. His influences are diverse and his sound has often been compared to that of Jason Mraz David Grey and Josh Rouse.
Amulya Barua.  Amulya Barua (Assamese: অমূল্য বৰুৱা) was a pioneer of modern Assamese poetry. He was born at Jorhat on June 30 1922. In 1941 he passed matriculation examination from Jorhat Govt High School with letter marks in Assamese and in 1945 he passed his B.A. examination from Jagannath Barooah College Jorhat. Then he went to Kolkata for higher studies and admitted into the MA class of Calcutta University.
Gary Bernstein.  Gary Bernstein is an American photographer and author.
Kim Yeong-hyeon.  Kim Yeong-hyeon is a modern Korean poet novelist and publisher.
Mohsen Chavoshi.  Mohsen Chavoshi Hosseini (Persian: محسن چاوشی‎) (born 30 July 1979) is an Iranian musician singer record producer and songwriter. He lives in Tehran.He has released 9 albums including a soundtrack to 2007 film Santouri.
Jintara Poonlarp.  Jintara Poonlarp (Thai: จินตหรา พูนลาภ RTGS: Chintara Phunlap b. March 12 1971 in Kaset Wisai District Roi Et Province Thailand) is a Thai mor lam luk thung and pop music singer. She is one of the most popular and prolific of the artists in the mor lam (Thai country) and luk thung (Thai pop-country) genres having released 40 original albums as well as many compilations.
Sigismondo Coccapani.  Sigismondo Coccapani (1585 - 1643) was an Italian painter. Born in Florence he studied under Ludovico Cigoli in Rome before returning to his native city.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer.  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (EYD: Pramudya Ananta Tur) (6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006) was an Indonesian author of novels short stories essays polemic and histories of his homeland and its people. His works span the colonial period Indonesia's struggle for independence its occupation by Japan during the Second World War as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto and are infused with personal and national history.
Winifred Milius Lubell.  Winifred Milius Lubell (June 14 1914 – January 3 2012) was an American illustrator artist and writer. In her early adult years Milius was active in the Communist Party of the United States and an advocate for social justice.
Anusha Mani.  Anusha Mani is an Indian female playback singer who works actively in Bollywood film Industry.
T. H. White.  Terence Hanbury White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) known as Tim was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels The Once and Future King first published together in 1958.
Frédéric François.  Frédéric François (born Francesco Barracato 3 June 1950) is a Belgian – Italian singer born in Sicily near Palermo.
Christopher Cattle.  Christopher Cattle is a British furniture designer who has developed a process of growing furniture by shaping living trees.
Charlemae Hill Rollins.  Charlemae Hill Rollins (June 20 1897 – February 3 1979) was a pioneering librarian author and storyteller in the area of African-American literature. During her thirty-one years as head librarian of the children’s department at the Chicago Public Library as well as after her retirement she instituted substantial reforms in children’s literature.
James Sallis.  James Sallis (born 21 December 1944) is an American crime writer poet and musician best known for his series of novels featuring the character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans and for his 2005 novel Drive which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis. His latest book is the 2012 novel Driven.
Liu Kai-chi.  Liu Kai-chi (Chinese: 廖啟智; pinyin: Liào Qǐzhì) is a Hong Kong actor best known for his everyman supporting roles. For 25 years he worked for TVB Hong Kong's first over-the-air commercial station but did not renew his contract in 2005.
Robin Darwin.  Sir Robert Vere Robin Darwin KCB CBE RA RSA PRWA NEAC (7 May 1910 – 30 January 1974) was a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art.He was the son of the golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. One of his sisters was the potter Ursula Mommens. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1931 he married Yvonne Darby (1900?-1985) who was also an artist.
Nerm.  Nerm is a DJ broadcaster & fixer in music and film. Born in Birmingham as a child he edited together cut up cassette tapes to make his first mixes. At 16 he started DJing and made the leap from cassette to vinyl. His first residency was at the Ministry of Sound in Birmingham.
Parvaz Homay.  Parvaz Homay (born 1980) is an Iranian composer lyricist vocalist and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his given birth name Saieed Jafar-Zadeh he is better known in the public as Homay. He is the founder and leader of the Mastan Ensemble.
Giovanni Consolini.  Giovanni Consolini (1808-1906) was an Italian composer. His opera Il conte di Salto successfully premiered at the Teatro Chiabrera in Savona on 21 January 1894. He was also known for his opera La finta pazza.
Pascal Mazzotti.  Pasquale Pascal Mazzotti (December 16 1923 in Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry – June 19 2002 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône) was a French actor who has appeared in film television and theater. He is known for having played a role in Hibernatus with Louis de Funès as well as provided the voice of Le roi (The King) in the animated feature film Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird).Mazzotti is buried in Thiais Val-de-Marne.
Freddie Hubbard.  Frederick Dewayne Freddie Hubbard (April 7 1938 – December 29 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop hard bop and post-bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
Bryyn.  Bryyn (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈbrɨn ˈ]; born Bryn Martin January 31 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio. His music has been described to be a new wave and independent folk pop intertwined with experimental and creative sounds. Bryyn is noted for self-recording and producing all of his music and released many songs under the creative commons license.
Charles Robert Leslie.  Charles Robert Leslie RA (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an English genre painter.
Greg Swann (blogger).  Greg Swann is the lead author for a leading US based realty website Bloodhound Blog and also DistinctivePhoenix.com which is devoted to historic and architecturally-distinctive homes in Central and North Central Phoenix. In 2007 Swann was one of ten blog coaches for Active Rain's Project Blogger competition.
Stuart Clark (author).  Stuart Clark is a contemporary English writer and widely read astronomy journalist. His career is devoted to presenting the dynamic and complex world of astronomy to the general public both as semi-fictional novels of past scientists and as popularised astronomy articles.
Robert Jobling.  Robert Jobling (1841–1923) was a British artist. He first had work accepted by both the Royal Academy and Royal Society of British Artists in 1883. He painted regularly at Cullercoats and later at Staithes and attained a position of some standing in the Staithes group. His main artistic exposure was in exhibitions in the north of England.
Carol M. Highsmith.  Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer author and publisher who has photographed the United States including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Tim Gilbertson.  Tim Gilbertson (born 1987) is a Canadian power-pop singer-songwriter based in Edmonton Alberta. He plays guitar bass guitar and piano. His musical influences include The Weakerthans and Modest Mouse.
George Fyler Townsend.  Reverend George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) was the translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables.Although there are more modern collections and translations Townsend's volume of 350 fables introduced the practice of stating a succinct moral at the conclusion of each story and continues to be influential.
Pablove Black.  Pablove Black (born Paul Anthony Dixon October 24 1950) is a Jamaican reggae musician (keyboards and steel drums) arranger composer bandleader vocalist and producer.
Janice Grube.  Janice Grube is an American singer-songwriter based in Portland Oregon. She was the voice and main songwriter for the Los Angeles band Watsonville Patio.After a few years removed from the music industry Grube started WK Radio Wieden+Kennedy's in house internet radio station. After a brief hiatus in summer 2009 WK Radio returns in September as WKE (WKEntertainment) W+K's new content driven entertainment channel.
Bobby Day.  Robert James Byrd (July 1 1930 – July 27 1990) known by the stage name Bobby Day was an American rock and roll and R&B musician.
Charles Croker-King.  Charles Croker-King (1873-1951) was a British stage and film actor.
David Mills (TV writer).  David Eugene Mills (November 20 1961 – March 30 2010) was an American journalist writer and producer of television programs. He was an executive producer and writer of the HBO miniseries The Corner for which he won two Emmy Awards and the creator executive producer and writer of the NBC miniseries Kingpin.
Franz Joseph Spiegler.  Franz Joseph Spiegler (5 April 1691 – 15 April 1757) was a German Baroque painter. He is best known for his frescoes which decorate many of the churches and monasteries along the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. The frescoes in the Zwiefalten Abbey are considered his masterpiece.Spiegler was born the Free Imperial City of Wangen im Allgäu the son of a district court attorney.
Mahmoud Zoufonoun.  'Ostad (“Master”) Mahmoud Zoufonoun' (Persian: محمود ذوالفنون sometimes pronounced Zolfonoon or Zolfonun in Persian 1 January 1920 – 19 October 2013) was an accomplished musician in the art of Persian traditional music.
Karine Haaland.  Karine Haaland (born August 29 1966 in Bergen) is a Norwegian comic strip creator animator and illustrator known for the comic strip Piray.
Martin Espino.  Martin Espino is a Mexican-American musician and composer of indigenous Yaqui and Tepehuano ancestry from Whittier California. He is best known for performing authentic prehispanic music with his band MEXIKA. Espino spent over twenty five years researching prehispanic musical instruments and performed with many indigenous musicians from Mexico Ecuador Peru and Bolivia.
Thomas Richards (historian).  Thomas Richards MA D.Litt F.R.Hist.S (15 March 1878 – 24 June 1962) was a Welsh historian author and librarian.Richards was born at Tal-y-bont Cardiganshire and was nicknamed Doctor Tom. He studied history at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) before working as a history teacher at Tywyn Bootle and from 1912 Maesteg Secondary School later returning to his old College as Librarian from 1926 to 1946.
Annie Wu (actress).  Annie Wu (born August 21 1978) is a Taiwanese actress and model.She has mainly acted in mainland Chinese TV series and was featured in Jackie Chan's Police Story 4: First Strike. Though not fluent in Cantonese she has also been featured in several Hong Kong films and magazine spreads. During her part in First Strike Jackie Chan joked how horrible her Cantonese was and subsequently her voice was dubbed over with another voice.
Christina Perri.  Christina Judith Perri (born August 19 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Philadelphia. Her debut single Jar of Hearts charted after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. The single went on to sell over 3 million copies in the United States and was a hit around the world. In the UK it reached number three on the charts and spent over 3 months in the UK Top 40.
Abhimann Roy.  Abhimann Roy (Kannada: ಅಭಿಮಾನ್ ರಾಯ್) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has predominantly scored music for Kannada films. He has also sung few of his own compositions.Roy debuted as a music composer in 2001 for the film Kullralokaand has since been composing for many commercial feature films in Kannada. Roy has won the Best Music Director Award from the Government of Karnataka for the year 2009-10 for the film Taj Mahal.
Walt Strony.  Walt Strony (born 1955) is an award-winning American recording consulting and performing organist and organ teacher both on the theatre organ and traditional pipe organ ranging from pizza parlors to churches and theatres to symphony orchestras.
Judith Schalansky.  Judith Schalansky (born 20 September 1980 in Greifswald) is a German writer book designer and publisher. She is the author of four books. Her book Atlas of Remote Islands was the winner of the prize for the most beautiful German book of the year in 2009. In 2012 she won the same prize for The Giraffe’s Neck. Schalansky has degrees in both art history and communication design.The asteroid (95247) Schalansky was named after her in 2011.
Imre Czomba.  Imre Czomba is a Music Composer Orchestrator Film Composer Musician and Music Producer. He was born in Hungary. He has composed music for over 15 theatre shows over Europe. He was composed the Hungarian National Day’s Fireworks in 2008 and 2009.
Nesma Mahgoub.  Nesma Alaa Ali Mahgoub (Arabic: نسمة علاء علي محجوب‎) (born September 26 1989) is the winner of the Star Academy Arab World the 8th season. She is the second Egyptian to win in the show after Mohamed Atieh the second female contestant to win after Shada Hassoun and the second candidate to win in the Arab show by singing mostly the western genre after Nader Guirat.
Chris Daughtry.  Christopher Adam Chris Daughtry (born December 26 1979) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Daughtry and as the fourth-place contestant on the fifth season of American Idol. After his elimination from Idol he was given a record deal by RCA Records and formed a band called Daughtry.
Vincenzo Campi.  Vincenzo Campi (c. 1536–1591) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance from Cremona.His style merges Lombard with Mannerist styles however unlike his siblings he is known for a series of canvases mostly painted after the 1570s displaying genre scenes and local produce. Many set at a food store front of some sort.
Stefan Borsch.  Stefan Borsch born 19 January 1947 in Hagfors Sweden is a Swedish dansband singer. At first he sang for Swedish dansband Öijwinds and from 1973 for the dansband Vikingarna which he left in 1979. After this he began a solo career. He participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1985 with the song Sjung din sång which was knocked out in the first round. In parallel to his solo albums he also sang with Anders Engbergs until 1988.
Vincent Cronin.  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical cultural and biographical writer best known for his biographies of Louis XIV Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Catherine the Great and Napoleon as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar Monmouthshire to Scottish doctor and novelist A. J. Cronin and May Gibson but moved to London at the age of two.
Agnes Strickland.  Agnes Strickland (19 August 1796–8 July 1874) was an English historical writer and poet.
Shirley Childress Saxton.  Shirley Childress Saxton is an African-American American Sign Language instructor and interpreter. Since 1980 she has performed with Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Joni-Ruth White.  Joni-Ruth White is an actress who appeared in the 1981 film Polyester directed by John Waters. She played Divine's harridan mother LaRue.
Claydee.  Klejdi Llupa professionally known as Claydee Lupa and Beetkraft (born 7 June 1985) is an Albanian music artist producer songwriter and music executive now based in Greece. He is one of the most promising young artists who emerged on the Greek music scene in the last few years[citation needed] and who has already have international hits both as a singer and as a producer and songwriter.
Katsunosuke Hori.  Katsunosuke Hori (堀 勝之祐 Hori Katsunosuke born August 1 1941) is a veteran Japanese voice actor actor and narrator from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. He is a member of 81 Produce.
Idris Azad.  Idris Azad (Urdu: ادریس آزاد‎ born Idrees Ahmad Urdu: ادریس احمد‎) on August 7 1969 is an author philosopher novelist poet dramatist and columnist. He has written several books on fiction journalism critic poetry philosophy mysticism and art.
Liam Lynch (musician).  William Patrick Niederst best known as Liam Lynch is a musician puppeteer writer and director. He co-created co-wrote played the music for directed and produced MTV's Sifl and Olly Show.Lynch also made the album Fake Songs released in 2003 produced by his own company 111 Productions. This album featured the song United States of Whatever which charted in the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and Australia.Lynch also directs music videos.
Harland Miller.  Harland Miller is a writer and artist. Born in Yorkshire England in 1964 he studied at Chelsea School of Art graduating in 1988 with an MA.Miller published his first novel Slow Down Arthur Stick to Thirty published by Fourth Estate to critical acclaim in 2000. In the same year he published a novella titled At First I was Afraid I was Petrified. Published by Book Works the novella is a study of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Mandy Lauderdale.  Mandy Lauderdale is a cabaret singer from Atlanta Georgia. Her sound has been described as cabaret jazz blues and lounge. Lauderdale's influences include such artists as Bette Midler Lucille Ball Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett. She currently resides in Austin Texas. Her performances are described as being wickedly funny sharply crafted and always in the moment. Lauderdale contributed vocals to the platinum-selling band Rehab song More Like You.
ANTHM.  Anteneh Addisu known by his stage name ANTHM is a rapper from Manhattan NY. Of Ethiopian descent ANTHM was born in Russia but spent parts of his childhood in Germany and Dallas TX. Before pursuing a rap career ANTHM attended Duke University then went on to become a trader at the Wall Street firm Citigroup.
Otohiko Kaga.  Otohiko Kaga (加賀 乙彦 Kaga Otohiko born April 22 1929) is a Japanese author.
Spoonie Gee.  Gabriel Jackson (born. 1963) better known by his stage name Spoonie Gee is one of the earliest rap artists and one of the few rap artists to release records in the 1970s. He has been credited with originating the term hip hop and some of the themes in his music were precursors of gangsta rap.
Olivia Newton Bundy.  Brian Tutunick (born March 31 1968) is an American musician more famously known as Olivia Newton Bundy and was the bassist and co-founder of the rock group Marilyn Manson until 1990 when he was replaced by Gidget Gein.
Lisi Harrison.  Lisi Harrison (born Elyse E. Gottlieb on July 29 1970Toronto Canada) is a Canadian-born author. She writes young adult fiction and is well known for her three series The Clique Alphas and Monster High.
Takahashi Yuichi.  Takahashi Yuichi (高橋 由一 March 20 1828- July 6 1894) was a Japanese painter noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th-century Japanese painting.
Lydia Davis.  Lydia Davis (born July 15 1947) is an American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a novelist essayist and translator from French and other languages and has produced several new translations of French literary classics including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Leslie Jones (photographer).  Leslie Jones (1886-1967) was a Boston Massachusetts photographer who worked for Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper for 39 years from 1917 to 1956. His photographs document both the usual and the unusual in the daily life of Boston.
Justin Jones (guitarist).  Justin Jones (born 9 January 1964 Birmingham) is an English musician and guitarist.Jones grew up in Inkberrow. There he founded And Also The Trees together with Nick and Graham Havas and his brother Simon Huw Jones.
Asgeir Mickelson.  Asgeir Mickelson (born 30 September 1969) is a Norwegian musician artist photographer and music reviewer. Although primarily a drummer Mickelson has stated that he considers himself a musician above a drummer and is also a guitarist and bassist.
Merton Brown.  Merton Brown (1913–2000) was a composer who studied with Wallingford Riegger and Carl Ruggles. He often collaborated with choreographers including former Martha Graham dancer Matti Haim José Limón and Thomas Hewitt.Virgil Thomson describes him as a neo-contrapuntalist influenced by Carl Ruggles and involved with rounded [ melodic ] material but not so much with the personalized sentiment involved in neoromanticism.
John Halpern.  John Halpern a.k.a. 'Paul' from The Guardian Punk and Mudd was born in Cuckfield Sussex UK in 1967 and is a cryptic crossword compiler for newspapers including The Guardian The Independent The Times and The Financial Times.Halpern's interest in The Guardian cryptic crossword puzzle began when he was a student in Canterbury and he wondered if the compilers could possibly be human beings.
Dianne Warren.  Dianne Warren (born August 28 1950 in Ottawa Ontario) is a Canadian novelist dramatist and short story writer who lives in Regina Saskatchewan.
Brian French.  Brian French is the President of Tempo Entertainment a company the specializes in Live Music Production Video Production Film and Choreography [1] where he has produced and directed numerous commercials films music videos and documentaries. Brian is also the Production Manager for Smokey Robinson and co-produced Robinson's albums Timeless Love Time Flies When You're Having Fun and Now And Then. He was the Senior Manager of Production for the House of Blues Corporation from 2000 to 2002.
Gian Paolo Borghetti.  Gian Paolo Borghetti (corsu: Ghjuvan-Paulu Borghetti français: Jean-Paul Borghetti 23 June 1816 - 4 November 1897) was a Corsican writer poet and politician. He has been described as one of the greatest Corsican poets writing in Italian and one of the most brilliant Corsican intellectuals of the nineteenth century.
Jean Lorrain.  Jean Lorrain (August 9 1855 in Fécamp Seine-Maritime – June 30 1906) born Paul Duval was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school.Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism and openly gay. He contributed to the satirical weekly Le Courrier français. Lorrain wrote a number of collections of verse including La forêt bleue (1883) and L'ombre ardente (1897).
Takkyu Ishino.  Takkyu Ishino (石野 卓球 Ishino Takkyū) born December 26 1967 in Shizuoka Japan as Fumitomi Ishino (石野 文敏 Ishino Fumitomi) is a Japanese composer and music producer. He is a member of the technopop group Denki Groove.
Chihiro Yonekura.  Chihiro Yonekura (米倉 千尋 Yonekura Chihiro born August 19 1972) is a Japanese singer and song-writer from Yokohama Kanagawa Japan.
Ingo Niermann.  Ingo Niermann (born 1969 Bielefeld Germany) is a German novelist writer and artist.
Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece.  The Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece was a German painter active in Mainz during the first third of the fifteenth century. His work shows traces of the influence of Robert Campin. His name is derived from an altarpiece painted between 1410 and 1420 for the church of Ortenberg; this may currently be found in a museum collection in Darmstadt.
Bridget Turner.  Bridget Turner (born 22 February 1939 Cleethorpes Lincolnshire) is an English actress.She has worked with a number of actors including Peter O'Toole Elizabeth Taylor Kirk Douglas Bernard Blier Trevor Howard Bernadette Lafont Richard Burton and Christina Ricci.On 8 May 2009 John Cleese stated in an interview that Bridget was originally offered the part of Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers back in 1974. She turned it down and the role was given to Prunella Scales.
Philip Strange.  Philip Strange (1889–1959) was a British actor.
Allanah Starr.  Allanah Starr is an American male-to-female transsexual pornographic actress escort performance artist model and party promoter.She was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States at five with her family. Her father had been a political prisoner.
Mychal Simonz.  Mychal Simonz a.k.a. Mychal Kae Simmons ( born Michael Keith Simmons born on September 11 1960 in Brooklyn New York City) is a multi instrumentalist songwriter composer record producer and author. He is best known for his work as part of a record production duo “The 88/X Unit” which he with production and songwriting credits with former partner Victor N. Taylor a.k.a. “The X-Man”. He currently records and produces records for his label Playatime Recordings.
Ola Svensson.  Ola Nils Håkan Svensson born 23 February 1986 in Lund Skåne professionally known simply as Ola is a Swedish artist and songwriter. His career began on Swedish Idol in 2005 however since coming 8th Ola has released four albums. Eleven of his releases have reached Top 5 with 6 making it to number one on the Swedishsingle charts attaining gold and platinum certification.
Matthew Stover.  Matthew Woodring Stover (born 1962) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is perhaps best known for his four Star Wars novels including the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon.
Simone Balli.  Simone Balli (born c. 1580 in Florence) was an Italian painter of the 17th century. He settled in Genoa in 1600 where he mainly painted. He trained with Aurelio Lomi and painted often small cabinet pieces on copper for example for the Spinola palace in Cornigliano (Genoa). He also painted for the church of Santa Maria delle Vigne the Carmine and the Oratory of St. Bartholemew in Genoa.
Benjamin Angus Wright.  Benjamin Angus Wright is an award-winning media composer based in London UK.He has composed for the BBC Discovery Destination Films and many other major clients. In 2009 he won 'Best Music' at the prestigious Missoula International Wildlife Film Festival for his score to Mike Birkhead's Amba the Russian Tiger. His company is called Compose to Picture. Before working in TV and Film Wright wrote for the band 'Obaben' (Human Condition Records) to critical acclaim in the Scottish press.
Angger Dimas.  Angger Dimas (born March 1 1988) is an electronic musician DJ and music producer from Jakarta Indonesia. Angger Dimas started playing guitar at age 7 and first became active in the Jakarta club scene in 2009. He has been called the #1 DJ of Indonesia by thedjlist.com.
Eric Zann.  Eric Zann is an alias of electronic musician Jim Jupp (along with Belbury Poly). Jupp's releases are on the Ghost Box Music label ofwhich he is a co-founder. The name references a minor H. P. Lovecraft short story The Music of Erich Zann.
Santha P. Nair.  Shantha P. Nair (5 September 1929 – 26 July 2008) was a playback singer in Malayalam cinema. She was based in Thrissur Kerala.
Toni Willé.  Toni Willé (born Antonia Johanna Cornelia Kowalczyk 26 June 1953 in Treebeek) is a country pop artist who was also the lead vocalist of former Dutch band Pussycat. She is a striking blonde beauty with a strong sultry voice and a distinctive gap in her upper front teeth. Toni is the daughter of Marie and Stefan Kowalcyk. Stefan was a Polish miner from Wloszczowa Poland who came to the Netherlands in 1948 to work in the coal mines after serving in the US Army in Germany.
Mikey Dread.  Michael George Campbell (4 June 1954 – 15 March 2008) better known as Mikey Dread was a Jamaican singer producer and broadcaster. He was one of the most influential performers and innovators in reggae music. His abilities technical expertise and unique vocal delivery combined to create a unique sound that tells the listener emphatically that it is the 'Dread at the Controls'.
Richard P. Rosenthal.  Richard P. Rosenthal is an American author and law enforcement officer. In 2011 he retired as the chief of police of Wellfleet Massachusetts on Cape Cod where he served for over 20 years. Prior he served two decades as an NYPD officer retiring at the rank of lieutenant.Rosenthal has written books on police craft one on Skycops and one on K-9 units as well as a novel and a memoir about police undercover work.
Lynette Diaz.  Lynette Diaz is an American-born singer-songwriter living in Christchurch New Zealand. Her song Living Before Dying was awarded an Honorable Mention at the 2008 Peacedriven Songwriting Contest and also at the 12th Annual Unisong Songwriting Competition.
Terry de Havilland.  Terry de Havilland (born 1942) is an English shoe designer often cited as the ‘Rock n Roll Cobbler of the 1970s’ and is most famed for his key part in the ‘Swinging London’ fashion scene with clients including Marianne Faithfull Led Zeppelin Bianca Jagger and David Bowie. His iconic platforms are still worn today by the likes of Kate Moss.
Dario Seixas.  Dario Seixas Filho (born March 11 1971) is a rock bass player who most recently played with the multi-platinum band Jack Russell's Great White. He has also toured with the Hard Rock band Firehouse and recorded their 2003 release Prime Time. He has been credited by Brazilian media as the first Brazilian musician to play in a top Hard Rock band. Seixas has also toured with metal legend Stephen Pearcy of RATT and is a current member of the bands Goodbye Thrill and Crown of Thorns.
Tracy Hitchings.  Tracy Hitchings is an English musician lead vocalist for the Progressive Rock band Landmarq. Her musical credits span from 1989 to the present day with many notable sessions with various bands and artists. Hitchings is known for her charismatic stage presence and wide vocal range.
Richard Seal.  Richard Godfrey Seal (born 1935) is an English organist and conductor who served from 1968–1997 as organist and master of the choristers at Salisbury Cathedral.
Darian Cowgill.  Darian Cowgill (born November 7 1972 Pasadena California United States) is an American mix engineer mastering engineer and record producer.
George S. Davis.  George S. Davis (1904–1992) known as The Singing Miner was a folk singer and songwriter who worked as a coal miner and then as a disc jockey on local radio in Hazard Kentucky from 1947 until 1969.
Usher (entertainer).  Usher Raymond IV (born October 14 1978) known mononymously as Usher is an American singer songwriter dancer philanthropist businessman and actor. He rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit Nice & Slow. The album has been certified 6-times platinum by the RIAA. His follow-up album 8701 produced the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits U Remind Me and U Got It Bad.
Brandon Mull.  Brandon Mull is an American writer who is best known as the author of the Fablehaven fantasy series which is a New York Times bestseller. Mull has also written The Candy Shop War.
Dorothée.  Dorothée (born 14 July 1953 in Paris) the stage name of Frédérique Hoschedé is a French singer and television presenter.
Susan Cadogan.  Susan Cadogan (born Alison Anne Cadogan 2 November 1951 Kingston Jamaica) is a reggae singer best known for her hit records in the 1970s.
Ralph Avery.  Ralph Avery (1907 – 1976) was an American landscape painter and watercolorist based in Rochester New York. He recorded city streets churches trees iron fences and the ambiance of Rochester New York. He also painted in Mexico the West Indies Europe and Northern Africa.
Stephen Gregory (author).  Stephen Gregory is a Welsh author of horror fiction. He was born in Derby England in 1952. He has a degree in law from the University of London and has worked as a teacher in various places including Bangor in Wales Algiers in Algeria and the Sudan. Gregory lived in Hollywood California for a time where he worked as a script writer with William Friedkin at Paramount Pictures.
John D Morton.  John D Morton (born March 27 1953) is an American musician songwriter multi-instrumentalist poet writer and visual artist born in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood Ohio best known as the leader and founder of protopunk band electric eels in 1972.
Gilbert Bécaud.  Gilbert Bécaud (French pronunciation: ​[ʒil.bɛːʁ be.ko] 24 October 1927 – 18 December 2001) was a French singer composer pianist and actor known as Monsieur 100.000 Volts for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are Nathalie and Et Maintenant a 1961 release that became an English language hit as What Now My Love. He remained a popular artist for nearly fifty years identifiable in his dark blue suits with a white shirt and lucky tie; blue with white polka dots.
Samantha Ronson.  Samantha Judith Ronson (born 7 August 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and disc jockey who lives in Santa Monica California.
Rick Cua.  Rick Cua (born December 3 1948 in Syracuse New York) is an American Christian rock singer songwriter bassist author and ordained minister. He is a former member of the southern rock band Outlaws whom he joined in 1980 but left in 1983 to pursue a full-time career in Christian contemporary music the year after wherein he gained popularity throughout most the 1980s as a leather-jacket-wearing rocker with an arena rock sound featuring big shout-along choruses.
Keith Follesé.  Keith Follesé (born 1951 in Minneapolis Minnesota) is an American songwriter and co-founder of Midas Records Nashville.Early in his career Follesé recorded with his wife Adrienne on A&M Records. They never released an album and moved to Los Angeles California.
Ann Howard (author).  For other people by this name see Ann Howard.Ann Howard (born 1942) is an Australian author and journalist.Ann Howard lives and writes on the Hawkesbury River New South Wales with her partner Robert Bickerstaff. She has three sons two grandsons and two granddaughters.
Ruvim Frayerman.  Ruvim Isayevich Frayerman (Рувим Исаевич Фраерман September 22 [10 o.s.] 1891 Mogilyov Russian Empire – March 28 1972 Moscow) was a Soviet writer poet essayist and journalist. Described as a major component of the Socialist romanticism Frayerman is best remembered as a children's literature author whose novel Wild Dog Dingo or the Tale of the First Love (1939) became a popular Soviet film in 1962.
Hisham Abbas.  Mohammad Hisham Mahmoud Mohammad Abbas (Arabic: محمد هشام محمود محمد عباس‎; born September 13 1963) commonly known as just Hisham Abbas (Egyptian: هشام عباس) is an Egyptian pop singer best known for his hit song Habibi Dah (Nari Narain) and his religious song Asmaa Allah al-husna.
Wavis O'Shave.  Wavis O'Shave is a surreal English musician and comedian who regularly appeared on Channel 4's music show The Tube (1982–1987).
Robin Goldstein.  Robin Goldstein is an American author and food and wine critic. He is known for his offbeat academic papers questioning conventional wisdom in the food and wine industries including a controversial exposé of Wine Spectator magazine. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the Fearless Critic restaurant guide series and the Wine Trials and Beer Trials books and writes for the New York Times' Freakonomics blog.
Irina Zahharenkova.  Irina Zahharenkova (born 23 February 1976 in Kaliningrad) is an Estonian pianist and harpsichordist trained at the Estonian Academy of Music and the Sibelius Academy.
Sheyla Bonnick.  Sheyla Bonnick is a singer and performer born in Jamaica and brought up in England. She was a member of an early line-up of pop group Boney M. in 1975. Her name was previously spelled as Sheila Bonnick and Sheila Bonnique.
Penny Rimbaud.  Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943) is better known as Penny (Lapsang) Rimbaud. He is a writer poet philosopher painter musician and activist. He was a former member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion and in 1972 was co-founder with Phil Russell aka Wally Hope of the Stonehenge Free Festivals. In 1977 alongside Steve Ignorant he co-founded the seminal anarchist punk band Crass which disbanded in 1984.
Christine L'Heureux.  Christine L'Heureux is a Canadian author and publisher who created with illustrator Hélène Desputeaux Caillou a successful series of children's books that later generated a TV-series with same name in 1997.
Gail Force.  Gail Force (born July 25 1966) is an American pornographic actress and directorShe has been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
Mavado (singer).  David Constantine Brooks (born 30 November 1981) better known by his stage name Mavado is a Jamaican musician actor singer and music producer.
Ana Gabriel.  Ana Gabriel (born María Guadalupe Araújo Yong December 10 1955) is a Mexican singer and composer from Santiago de Comanito Sinaloa Mexico. She first sang on the stage at age six singing Regalo A Dios by José Alfredo Jiménez. She moved to Tijuana Baja California and studied accounting. At age 21 in 1977 she recorded her first song titled Compréndeme.
Jimmy Blanton.  Jimmie Blanton (October 5 1918 – July 30 1942) was an influential American jazz double bassist. Blanton is credited with being the originator of more complex pizzicato and arco bass solos in a jazz context than previous bassists.Born in Chattanooga Tennessee Blanton originally learned to play the violin but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937 and during the vacations with Fate Marable.
Marie-Laure Ryan.  Marie-Laure Ryan is a prominent literary scholar and critic. She has written several books and articles on narratology fiction and cyberculture and has been awarded several times for her work.In her latest book Avatars of Story she embraces a transmedial definition of narrative based on cognitive premises. She is currently a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado.
Douglas Seale.  Douglas Seale (28 October 1913 - 13 June 1999) was an English stage and film actor.He provided the voice of Krebbs in The Rescuers Down Under (1990). Two years later Seale voiced the Sultan in Aladdin. He also appeared in several films including Amadeus and Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) in which he played Santa Claus. He appeared in the 1986 Christmas film A Smoky Mountain Christmas as Vernon.He also played a character Malcolm in the 1995 game Phantasmagoria.
Hans Holbein the Younger.  Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art satire and Reformation propaganda and made a significant contribution to the history of book design.
IVVVO.  IVVVO is a Portuguese electronic musician and co-founder of the record label Terrain Ahead. His music has been released by a number of different labels including moun10 Opal Tapes Public Information and Fourth Wave.
George D. Painter.  George Duncan Painter OBE (5 June 1914 – 8 December 2005) known as George D. Painter was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust.Painter was born in Birmingham. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was an artist. He studied classics at Trinity College Cambridge and later lectured in Latin at the University of Liverpool for one year.
Elisa von der Recke.  Elisa von der Recke (20 May 1754 – 13 April 1833) was a Baltic German writer and poet.
Sarah Maria Barraud.  Sarah Maria Barraud (c.1823 – 8 March 1895) was a New Zealand homemaker and letter-writer. She was born in Wraysbury Buckinghamshire England in about 1823.
Jeremy Camp.  Jeremy Thomas Camp (born January 12 1978) is a contemporary Christian musician and songwriter from Lafayette Indiana. Camp has released eleven albums four of them RIAA-certified as Gold and two live albums. His original music is a mixture of ballads and up-tempo songs with rock influence.
Maggie Koerth-Baker.  Maggie Koerth-Baker (born 1981) is an American science journalist. She is the science editor at Boing Boing and a monthly columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
Branimir Đokić.  Branimir Djokić (Cyrillic: Бранимир Ђокић) (born 6 February 1950) is a popular folk accordionist. He has had his own ensemble band since the early 1970s. He also has known to have played for some major artists names. The likes of Šaban Šaulić Mitar Mirić Šerif Konjević Kemal Malovčić Zorica Brunclik and others.Djokić finished high music school Stanković in Belgrade.
Neal Smith (drummer).  Neal Smith (born September 23 1947 in Akron Ohio) is an American musician best known as the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1967 to 1974. He performed on the group's early albums Pretties for You and Easy Action the breakout album Love It to Death and the subsequent successful albums Killer School's Out and Billion Dollar Babies. His last album with Alice Cooper was Muscle of Love.
Iwan Bala.  Iwan Bala (born Richard Iwan Ellis Roberts) is a Welsh speaking Welsh artist born May 1956 in Sarnau Merionethshire near Bala.
William Walker (muralist).  William Walker is a notable muralist in Chicago. He was one of the founders of the Organization for Black American Culture (OBAC) and one of the leaders in the project involving the Wall of Respect. He was also one of the critical founders of the mural movements in Chicago during the 1960s.
Grum.  Graeme Shepherd better known by his stage name Grum is an electronic musician from Scotland.
Faye Tso.  Faye Tso (1933-2004) was a Navajo potter and herbal medicine healer. Her pieces are known for their nontraditional imagery of corn maidens warriors and dancers whereas Navajo pottery typically has little decoration. Born in Coal Mine Mesa Arizona Tso was relocated with other Navajos to Tuba City Arizona in 1974 because of a land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes.
Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi.  Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (1618–1677) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. Born in Florence he was a pupil of the painter Francesco Furini then moved to Rome where he joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1652. He was an accomplished etcher and produced works for Leonardo Agostini’s book 'Le gemme antiche figurate' (1657–9). The Roman baroque painter and engraver Giovanni Francesco Venturini was probably his pupil.
Steven Malanga.  Steven Malanga is a contributing editor to City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute which publishes City Journal. His primary area of focus is economic development within dense urban centers with a particular emphasis on those areas in and surrounding New York and the Tri-State Area.
Judy Pascoe.  Judy Pascoe is the Australian author of the book Our Father Who Art in The Tree. The book was made into a feature film in 2010 titled The Tree.
Maurice Benayoun.  Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (born 29 March 1957 in Mascara Algeria) is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media including (and often combining) video immersive virtual reality the Web wireless technology performance large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.
Jane LeCompte.  (Nancy) Jane LeCompte (born August 20 1948) is an American writer of romance novels as Jane Ashford and Jane LeCompte. She lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. She is a two-time nominee for a Career Achievement Award by Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine.
Jonathan Raymond.  Jonathan Raymond is an American writer living in Portland Oregon. He is best known for writing the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon and for writing the short stories and screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy (both directed by Kelly Reichardt). He also wrote the screenplays for Meek's Cutoff and Night Moves and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his teleplay writing on the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce.
Johnny Laboriel.  Johnny Laboriel (born Juan José Laboriel López July 9 1942 – September 18 2013) was a Mexican rock and roll singer. He is the son of actor and composer Juan José Laboriel and actress Francisca López de Laboriel. At 16 years old in 1958 he joined the rock and roll group Los Rebeldes del Rock where he began his professional career.Laboriel died on September 18 2013 from prostate cancer.
Ben Lurie.  Ben Lurie is a musician best known as a member of the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain from 1989 to 1998.
Kay Starr.  Kay Starr (born July 21 1922) is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s Wheel of Fortune and The Rock And Roll Waltz.Starr was successful in every field of music she tried: jazz pop and country. But her roots were in jazz; and Billie Holiday considered by many the greatest jazz singer of all time called Starr the only white woman who could sing the blues.
Margaret Avison.  Margaret Avison OC (April 23 1918 – July 31 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images.
Antonio Prati.  Antonio Prati (Piacenza Italy March 19 1819- February 20 1909) was an Italian painter and scenographer.
Hans van Hemert.  Hans van Hemert (born April 7 1945 Voorburg Netherlands) is a Dutch ASCAP award winning record producer and songwriter. Mouth & MacNeal and Luv' are among the pop acts he produced. He also composed three songs for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Azita Youssefi.  Azita Youssefi 1971 St. Louis Missouri is an American experimental musician artist and music teacher based in Chicago. She was originally associated with the Chicago no wave scene which included bands such as the Flying Luttenbachers U.S. Maple and Bobby Conn.She as been a voice and piano teacher at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music since 2002 and has served as composer and musical director for theater productions of musicals by Brian Torrey Scott.
Morris Harvey.  Morris Harvey (1877–1944) was a British film actor.
Munawar Ali Khan.  Munawar Ali Khan (Devanagari: मुनावर अली ख़ान) (1930–1989) was a Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana. He was the son of the maestro Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.
Marcos Valle.  Marcos Kostenbader Valle (born 14 September 1943 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer instrumentalist songwriter and record producer. He has produced works in many musical styles including bossa nova samba and fusions of rock soul jazz and dance music with Brazilian styles.
Nazia Iqbal.  Nazia Iqbal (Pashto: نازيه اقبال‎) is a Pashtun singer of Pashto language from Pakistan.
Galeazzo Sabbatini.  Galeazzo Sabbatini (1597–1662) was an Italian composer and music theorist born in Pesaro Italy.Sabbatini studied with Vincenzo Pellegrini a canon who worked at the local cathedral as musician. He was elected to succeed Pellegrini in 1626 and in 1641. From 1630 to 1639 he was chapel master (maestro di cappella) to the Duke of Mirandola. Galeazzo's principal works on the theory of music were a treatise on continuo playing published in 1628 and a method of tuning.
Victor Bridges.  Victor Bridges (real name Victor George de Freyne 1878–1972) was a prolific British author of detective and fantasy fiction and also a playwright and occasional poet.
Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer.  Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer (December 9 1877-December 1 1959) was an early 20th Century painter associated with the Richmond Group of artists in Richmond Indiana.She was born in New Castle Indiana in 1877 the daughter of architect William S. Kaufman.
Bert Stern.  Bertram Bert Stern (October 3 1929 – June 26 2013) was a self-taught American commercial photographer.
One Be Lo.  Nahshid Sulaiman (born Ralond Scruggs) better known by his stage name One Be Lo is an alternative hip hop artist from Pontiac Michigan. He is well respected for being one half of the rap duo Binary Star and has released a number of well-received solo albums. He is also a member of the World Champion B-boy crew Massive Monkees.
Valentin Rasputin.  Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; born March 15 1937) is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin addresses complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival.
Hector (musician).  Heikki Veikko Harma (born April 20 1947 Helsinki Finland) is a Finnish singer-songwriter who has also distinguished himself as a translator of song lyrics but has written popular lyrics of his own too. To the public he's better known by the name Hector which he has used since the release of his 1965 debut single Palkkasoturi a Finnish translation of Buffy Sainte-Marie's Universal Soldier.
Steve Kolander.  Steve Kolander (born November 15 1961 in Lake Charles Louisiana) is an American country music artist. He debuted in 1994 with the release of his self-titled album on River North Records. It produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. A second album for River North Pieces of a Puzzle was released in 1996 followed by the independently-released Light to Dark in 2007.Before he became a recording artist Kolander worked as an advertising executive.
Richard Leaf.  Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor.He has had several small parts in television and stage productions. Leaf is married to actress Tamsin Greig star of Black Books Green Wing and Love Soup. The actor is notable for his role as the Governor of York nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. He appeared as Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 Hannibal Rising film.
Kris Lewis.  Kris Lewis (born 1978) is an American Contemporary Realist Artist from Jackson Township New Jersey. His primary medium is oil paints. His work has been seen in the publications Juxtapoz and Modern Painters.He has been featured in Art Nouveau Magazine American Art Collector Symposium Magazine Books: Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture Suggetivism and many other fine art references.
Sascha Paeth.  Sascha Paeth (born 9 September 1970 in Wolfsburg West Germany) is a German guitarist bassist musical producer and mixer known for working with heavy metal bands such as Avantasia Edguy Angra Shaaman Rhapsody of Fire and Kamelot After Forever Epica et al. He owns a studio in a suburb of Wolfsburg called Gate Studios initially used for recordings with his former band Heavens Gate.Sascha Paeth has produced many albums along with Miro.
Bruna Caram.  Bruna Caram (born July 26 1987 in Avaré in the State of São Paulo Brazil) is a Brazilian singer songwriter and musician.
Göran Tunström.  Göran Tunström (14 May 1937 Borgvik Grums Municipality – February 5 2000 Stockholm) was a Swedish author. He grew up in Sunne Värmland County. Tunström's style is personal and intimate and has a clear autobiographical tone.
Xu Bing.  Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰 b. 1955) is a Chinese-born artist resident in the United States since 1990. He currently resides in Beijing where he serves as the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations pieces as well as his creative artistic use of language words and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world.
Ted Preuss.  Ted Preuss is an American photographer who lives in Chicago Illinois best known for his black-and-white photographs and alternative processes which include platinum printing and wet plate collodion tintypes. Preuss photographic work range from figure study to still life.
Paul Smith (rock vocalist).  Paul Smith (born 13 March 1979 Billingham Stockton-on-Tees England) is the singer for the British indie rock group Maxïmo Park.
Walter Schreifels.  Walter Schreifels (born March 10 1969) is a rock musician and producer from New York City.In the late 1980s he played in many New York hardcore bands most notably Youth Of Today and Gorilla Biscuits (where he was also the songwriter and lyricist). After Gorilla Biscuits broke up he formed the short lived Moondog. In October 2006 the band's self-titled EP was officially released for the first time ever on Anthology Recordings. It was previously available only as a bootleg 7 record.
Sohn (musician).  Sohn (stylized SOHN) born Christopher Taylor is an English musician songwriter and producer based in Vienna. Following the release of 2012's 'The Wheel EP' through Aesop Label he was signed by 4AD. He released his debut album Tremors on April 7 2014.
Holly Dunn.  Holly Dunn (born August 22 1957 in San Antonio Texas) is an American country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit Daddy's Hands from her self-titled début album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles two of which (Are You Ever Gonna Love Me You Really Had Me Going) reaching the No. 1 spot.Dunn is the daughter of a minister father. Her brother is country music songwriter Chris Waters with whom she has co-written much of her recorded material.
Balakrishna Hari Kolhatkar.  Balakrishna Hari Kolhatkar (Marathi: बाळकृष्ण हरी कोल्हटकर) (September 25 1926 – June 30 1994) also known as Bal Kolhatkar (Marathi: बाळ कोल्हटकर) was a Marathi playwright poet actor and director.
John Axon (actor).  John Axon (10 September 1960 – 25 October 2008) was an English television and stage actor. He was perhaps best known for his role as the hospital administrator Nigel Harper on the ITV1 television series The Royal.
Oöphoi.  Gianluigi Gasparetti (26 March 1958 – 12 April 2013) known by the pseudonym Oöphoi was an Italian ambient musician. He is perhaps best known for his role as the editor of Deep Listenings an Italian magazine dedicated to ambient and deep atmospheric music where he has featured interviews with many famous ambient artists including Steve Roach and Michael Stearns. Oöphoi music can be characterized as being static organic and minimalistic.
Billy Gould.  William David Gould (born April 24 1963 Los Angeles California) is an American musician and producer. He is noted for playing bass in the band Faith No More.
Alice Boner.  Alice Boner (July 22 1889 – April 13 1981) was a Swiss painter and sculptor art historian and an Indologist. She completed her training as a painter and sculptor in Munich Brussels and Basel where she studied with Carl Burckhardt. In her drawings she used pencil charcoal sepia red chalk ink and sometimes pastel. Her early works focused on drawings sculptures portrait full body studies landscapes and nature observations.
Kayoko Fujii.  Kayoko Fujii (藤井 佳代子  Fujii Kayoko born April 21 1961) is a Japanese actress and voice actress who is affiliated with Seinenza Theater Company.
Hisham Fageeh.  Hisham Fageeh (Arabic: هشام فقيه; born October 26 1987) is an Arab American comedian and actor originally from Saudi Arabia.
Timothy Gantz.  Timothy Nolan Gantz (December 23 1945 – January 20 2004) was a classical scholar the author of Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources 1993. Dr Gantz (A.B. Haverford College 1967 PhD Princeton University 1970) was a long-time Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia from 1970; he directed its Studies Abroad in Rome program from 1985. He died in Athens Georgia. He is survived by his wife Elena and his son Tavish.
Konstantin Staniukovich.  Konstantin Mikhailovich Staniukovich or Stanyukovich (Константин Михайлович Станюкович) (March 30 1843—May 20 1903) was a Russian writer remembered today mostly for his stories of the Russian Imperial Navy.
Krystyna Dąbrowska.  Krystyna Dąbrowska (26 November 1906 – 1 September 1944) was a Polish sculptor and painter and a Warsaw Uprising insurgent.She studied at National Artistic School in Poznań (1925–1930) Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1933–1935) and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She was a member of Polish Association of Artists - The Capitol. Most of her works was destroyed during the Second World War. She died in the Warsaw Uprising.
Aubrey Fitzgerald.  Aubrey Fitzgerald (1874-1968) was a British actor.
Richard Naiff.  Richard Naiff is a pianist and flautist from London England who has performed with the bands Soulsec The Catacoustics The Waterboys and The Icicle Works. Naiff is a classically trained musician having joined the Guildhall School of Music at age ten.
Myrna Hague.  Myrna Hague known as Jamaica's First Lady of Jazz is a Jamaican lovers rock and jazz singer and actress who recorded for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One.
Pedro Damián.  Pedro Damián (born Pedro Muñoz Romero; November 29 1952) is a Mexican actor television producer and director who was executive producer for two popular teen telenovelas Clase 406 and Rebelde distributed within and outside Mexico.
Fernanda Abreu.  Fernanda Abreu (born September 8 1961) is a Brazilian singer.
David Tischman.  David Tischman is an American comic book writer who has been active since 2000 writing for such series as American Century Cable Bite Club and Star Trek.
Shakira Caine.  Shakira Caine (born Shakira Baksh on 23 February 1947 also known as Shakira and Lady Micklewhite) is a Guyanese-British former fashion model.
Anthony Kiedis.  Anthony Kiedis (/ˈkiːdɪs/; born November 1 1962) is an American singer-songwriter best known as the vocalist/lyricist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers with whom he has fronted since their inception in 1983. The band has recorded ten studio albums and as a member Kiedis was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Kiedis is also an occasional actor having appeared in F.I.S.T Point Break and The Chase. In 2004 he published his autobiography titled Scar Tissue.
Ken Woodman.  Ken (Kenny) Woodman was a British composer and trumpeter. He was famous for the song Town Talk which was used as the theme song for Paul Kaye's shows on the pirate radio station Radio London and later as the theme song for Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2. He posthumously became famous for the song Mexican Flyer which was originally released on the Ken Woodman and his Picadilly Brass album That's Nice in 1966.
Jason Stearns.  Jason K. Stearns is an American writer who worked for ten years in the Congo including three years during the Second Congo War. He first traveled to the Congo in 2001 to work for a local human rights organization Héritiers de la Justice in Bukavu. He went on to work for the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUC).
Stoja.  Stojanka Novaković (Serbian Cyrillic: Стојанка Новаковић; born 4 June 1972) known by her stage name Stoja (Стоја) is a Serbian pop-folk singer.She released her first album Kako je meni sada through Lazarević Productions in 1998. Later she chose to release her albums through the record label Grand Production owned by Saša Popović and Lepa Brena and within a short time Stoja became one of the most popular and respected singers in the Balkans.
Emperor Magus Caligula.  Emperor Magus Caligula (Magnus Masse Broberg born 23 May 1973 in Ludvika Sweden) is an extreme metal musician best known as the former vocalist bassist and lyricist of Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral performing for the band between 1995 and 2010. He has also been the vocalist of death metal bands Demonoid replacing Christofer Johnsson and Sanctification.
Ryan Delahoussaye.  Ryan Paul Delahoussaye (born January 14 1976 in Houston TX USA) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and co-founding member of the American rock band Blue October. Delahoussaye is a classically trained violinist. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he met and became close friends with Justin Furstenfeld and was a big fan of Furstenfeld's band The Last Wish.
William Slater Brown.  William Slater Brown (November 13 1896 – June 22 1997) was an American novelist biographer and translator of French literature. Most notably he was a friend of the poet E. E.
Marion Woodman.  Marion Woodman (born August 15 1928) is a Canadian mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She is a Jungian analyst trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich Switzerland. She is one of the most widely read authors on feminine psychology focusing on psyche and soma. She is also an international lecturer and poet. Her collection of audio and visual lectures correspondence and manuscripts are housed at OPUS Archives and Research Center in Santa Barbara California.
Raymond Moley.  Raymond Charles Moley (September 27 1886 in Berea Ohio – February 18 1975 in Phoenix Arizona) was a leading New Dealer who became its bitter opponent before the end of the Great Depression. The son of Felix James and Agnes Fairchild Moley he was educated at Baldwin-Wallace College and Oberlin College and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1918. He taught in several schools in Ohio until 1914.
Eleanor Cory.  Eleanor Cory (born 1943) is an American composer.Cory studied at Sarah Lawrence College Harvard University New England Conservatory and Columbia University. She has taught at Yale University Baruch College Manhattan School of Music Sarah Lawrence College Brooklyn College and The New School for Social Research and currently teaches at Mannes College of Music Prep Division and Kingsborough Community College CUNY.
Pamela Racine.  Pamela Jintana Racine (born December 1977) is an American drummer and dancer formerly in the band Gogol Bordello. Her father is American from the state of Vermont United States while her mother originates from Khorat Thailand.
Raptile.  Addis Mussa (born September 14 1976 in Munich) better known by his stage names Addis & Raptile is a German-Ethiopian artist producer and songwriter. He has performed alongside with many American acts such as Xzibit Strong Arm Steady and Trey Songz.
Lorna Crozier.  Lorna Crozier (born 24 May 1948 in Swift Current Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria.Crozier attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received her B.A. in 1969 and the University of Alberta where she received her M.A. in 1980. Before publishing her poems and stories Crozier was a high school English teacher and guidance counsellor. During these years her first poem was published in Grain magazine.
Georg Rydeberg.  Olof Georg Rydeberg (21 July 1907 – 22 February 1983) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1932 and 1981.
Kenneth Kove.  Kenneth Kove (1892–1984) was a British actor. He was a regular member of the Aldwych farce team between 1923 and 1930 appearing in It Pays to Advertise (1923) Thark (1927) A Cup of Kindness (1929) and A Night Like This (1930). He also appeared in several films.
James Northcote.  James Northcote RA (Plymouth 22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831) was an English painter.
Linda Sikhakhane.  Linda Sikhakhane is a young South African born Saxophonist and Composer he was born in Umlazi township Durban. his love for music especially Jazz was triggered at an early age and this saw him attending music classes under the tutelage of the Legendary Dr Brian Thusi and Mr Khulekani Bhengu. at a later stage he then enrolled to study Music at the UKZN Howard College. Sikhakhane has played with many respected South African Artists and also shared the stage with many international artists.
James Fox (singer).  James Fox (born James Richard Mullett 6 April 1976 Cardiff Wales) is a Welsh pop singer songwriter pianist and guitarist. He represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul. In 2008 he wrote and recorded the Cardiff City F.C. FA Cup Final song Bluebirds Flying High.
Derek Landy.  Derek Landy (born October 23 1974) is an Irish author and screenwriter best known for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.
Giuseppe Marri.  Giuseppe Marri (1788-1852) was an Italian engraver.
Barthold Fles.  Barthold Fles (February 7 1902 – December 19 1989) was a Dutch-American literary agent author translator editor and publisher. Among his many clients were Raymond Loewy Heinrich Mann Joseph Roth Felix Salten Ignazio Silone Bruno Walter and Arnold Zweig.
Aaron Fincke.  Aaron Fincke (born April 22 1978; known professionally as Aaron Fink) is an American musician best known as the former lead guitarist for the post-grunge/alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin and now the current guitarist of the band Gentleman East.
Laurie Lee.  Laurence Edward Alan Laurie Lee MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet novelist and screenwriter who was brought up in the village of Slad and went to the Central Boys' School Stroud Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959) As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley.
Charles McAuley.  Charles (Charlie) McAuley (1910 – 1999) was an Irish painter. He was born in Gruig Glenann Ireland one of the nine Glens of Antrim now in Northern Ireland on March 15 1910. Despite being from a small rural village Charles pursued painting from an early age in an area when farming was one of the main sources of life and income. He went on to become a landscape and figurative painter. Early in his life he was spotted by James H.
Hugh Thomson.  Hugh Thomson (1 June 1860 – 7 May 1920) was an Irish Illustrator born at Coleraine near Londonderry. He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen Charles Dickens and J. M. Barrie.
Joel McIver.  Joel McIver (born 1971) is a British author. The best-known of his 25 books to date is the bestselling Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica first published in 2004 and appearing in nine languages since then. McIver's other works include biographies of Black Sabbath Slayer Ice Cube and Queens Of The Stone Age.
Sonia Noemí.  Sonia Noemi Sonia Noemí González July 14 1941 born in Bayamón Puerto Rico is an actress and singer who is one of the pioneers of Puerto Rican television.
Pierre Palau.  Pierre Palau (13 August 1883 – 3 December 1966) often known simply as Palau was a French actor.Palau was born Pierre Palau del Vitri in Pairs and died at age 83 in Meudon Hauts-de-Seine France.
Ricky Allen.  Richard A. Ricky Allen (January 6 1935 – May 29 2005) was an American blues singer from Chicago.He was born in Nashville Tennessee and began his singing career as member of a church choir in his home town. He relocated to Chicago in 1960 and received a recording contract one year later at Age Records. He had a local hit with You Better Be Sure and in 1963 his hit Cut You A-Loose reached Number 20 in Billboard's R&B chart.
Lucie Bílá.  Lucie Bílá (born April 7 1966 as Hana Zaňáková) is a Czech pop singer. With a powerful distinctively intense voice and impressive range she is one of the most famous and celebrated female artists in Czech Republic history.[citation needed] According to her label EMI Czech Republic the singer sold over one million albums by now.
Jacqueline Woodson.  Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles After Tupac & D Foster Feathers and Show Way. Her work is filled with strong African-American themes generally aimed at a young adult audience.
Ronald McKie.  Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie (11 December 1909 – 2 May 1991) was an Australian novelist. He was born in 1909 in Toowoomba Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Melbourne Sydney Singapore and China. He served in the AIF during World War II from 1942–1943 following which he served as war correspondent for several Australian and UK newspapers.
Ludwig Abeille.  Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (20 February 1761 Bayreuth – 2 March 1838 Stuttgart) was a German pianist and composer.His father was baronial valet in Bayreuth. He was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart where his teachers were Antonio Boroni Ferdinando Mazzanti and Johann Gottlieb Sämann. In 1782 he became member of the musicians of the Court; in 1802 he became concertmaster and later organist of the Court.
Tubby Hayes.  Edward Brian Tubby Hayes (30 January 1935 – 8 June 1973) was an English jazz multi-instrumentalist best known for his tenor saxophone playing in groups with fellow sax player Ronnie Scott and with trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar.
Bruce Wetter.  Bruce Wetter is an American writer.His novel The Boy with the Lampshade on His Head deals with issues he experienced while working with foster children and their new parents.He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Bon Scott.  Ronald Belford Bon Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was a Scottish-born Australian rock musician best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. He was born in Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir Scotland for 5 years before moving to Melbourne Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six.
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi.  Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (1864–1919) was a renowned Bengali author.
Erasmus Finx.  Erasmus Finx (November 16 1627 – December 20 1694) aka Erasmus Francisci was a German Polymath author and writer of Christian hymns.
Poul Anderson.  Poul William Anderson (November 25 1926 – July 31 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy historical novels and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
K Koke.  Kevin Georgiou (born 22 May 1985) better known by his stage name K. Koke is an English rapper of Greek Cypriot descent from Stonebridge North West London.
Masayoshi Yamashita.  Masayoshi Yamashita (山下 昌良 Yamashita Masayoshi) (born November 29 1961 in Osaka Japan) is the original and current bass guitarist of the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness.He first started playing bass in a band called Black Rose. A short time later his childhood neighbor and close friend Akira Takasaki invited him to join Loudness in 1981.In 1991 Yamashita left Loudness; it was rumored that he did not get along with lead singer Mike Vescera who replaced Niihara in 1989.
Elza Soares.  Elza Soares (born June 23 1937) is a Brazilian samba singer. She was married to Brazilian football player Garrincha.Born and raised in a favela in Rio de Janeiro Soares took part in a singing contest presented by the renowned Brazilian musician Ary Barroso and received the highest marks. In the late 1950s Soares spent one year touring Argentina with Mercedes Batista.
Savannah Outen.  Savannah Outen (born October 14 1992 in Hillsboro Oregon) is an American singer who gained popularity on YouTube. Outen began posting videos of herself singing on YouTube in March 2007 along with Angelika Vee and Esmee Denters. In 2010 she collaborated with Boyce Avenue on their sixth acoustic album New Acoustic Sessions. She appeared in the 85th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 24 2011.
Alireza Eftekhari.  Alireza Eftekhari is an Iranian vocalist of Iranian classical and popular music.
Tommaso de Aleni.  Tommaso de Aleni (early 16th century) (also called Il Fadino) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Cremona. He was a pupil of Galeazzo Campi. He was also influenced by the works of Perugino. He painted for the church of San Domenico at Cremona where he was employed with Campi. A Nativity (1515) formerly in the church of San Domenico was moved to the town-hall of Cremona.
Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini.  Se 'l mio Canto havrà propizia sorteIo saprò soggiogar Marte ed AstreaVincer il Tempo e incatenar la Morte.Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini was a 17th-century Italian poet and playwright.
Charlotte Vale Allen.  Charlotte Vale-Allen (born January 19 1941 in Toronto) is a writer of contemporary fiction. She lived in the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1964 working as a singer and actress. She emigrated to the United States in 1966 following a brief return to Canada. After marrying Walter Bateman Allen Jr. in 1970 she moved to Connecticut where she has lived since.
Henry G. Brinton.  Henry G. Brinton (born February 21 1960) is a contributor to The Washington Post and USA Today author of the books Balancing Acts: Obligation Liberation and Contemporary Christian Conflicts (CSS Publishing 2006) and The Welcoming Congregation: Roots and Fruits of Christian Hospitality (Westminster John Knox Press 2012) and the senior pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church. He was the senior writer for the preaching journal Homiletics until 2005.
Kęstutis Kasparavičius.  Kęstutis Kasparavičius (born June 2 1954 in Aukštadvaris) is a Lithuanian author and book illustrator of over 50 children's books. Since 1984 his books were translated into 22 different languages including Chinese Spanish German Portuguese French Italian Russian Polish Ukrainian Korean. Kasparavičius is known for his short feel-good stories about various comic characters. Bears pigs rabbits and turtles find themselves trapped in puzzling and thought-provoking situations.
Wang Zi.  Qiu Wang Zi (born 邱勝翊 ;pinyin: Qiū Shèng Yì) also known as Prince or Wang Zi is a member of a trio boyband JPM with Liao Xiao Jie/Liljay and his little brother Qiu Mao Di.He was a former member of Lollipop a Taiwanese Mandopop boyband which consists of six members Zhuang Ao Quan/Owodog Liao Xiao Jie/Liljay Yang Xiao Yu/Fabien Liao Wei Lian/William Liu A-wei and himself.
G. R. Hawting.  Gerald R. Hawting (born 1944) is a British Orientalist scholar of Islam. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where he completed his education under Bernard Lewis and John Wansbrough receiving his PhD in 1978.
Junko Mizuno.  Junko Mizuno (水野純子 Mizuno Junko) is a Japanese manga artist. Her drawing style has been termed a Gothic kawaii or kawaii noir style.
Jonathan Anastas.  Jonathan Anastas is a Los Angeles-based marketing & advertising executive and a musician who cofounded a number of Boston hardcore punk bands in the 1980s.
Wojciech Stattler.  Wojciech Korneli Stattler (April 20 1800 – November 6 1875) was a Polish Romantic painter of Swiss aristocratic ancestry and a long-standing professor of the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. His most famous pupil was Poland's nominal painter Jan Matejko.
Blaaze.  Blaaze /ˈblɑːseɪ/ (born Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman on October 15 1975 in Chennai India) is a rap artist and a popular playback singer in Indian films. An Indian by birth born in Chennai he grew up in Zambia and later did his education in England and in the US. Currently signed to EMI / Virgin Music.
Tom Marcello.  Tom Marcello has been a jazz photojournalist since the 1970s. His photos have appeared as album covers in liner notes in press kits and in newspapers. Among his subjects are Woody Shaw Zoot Sims Dexter Gordon Sonny Stitt Marvin Peterson Charles Mingus The Heath Brothers and Kenny Washington.
Roberta Naas.  Roberta Naas (March 19 1958) is an American journalist and author. During her career she has specialized in the world of timepieces.
John Hughes (poet).  John Hughes (1677–1720) was an English poet also noted for his editing of and commentary on the works of Edmund Spenser. Writing at the very end of 17th Century and at the beginning of the 18th he also translated French drama and poetry including Molière. Hughes was a favorite of the nobility and aristocracy which probably accounted for his popularity.
Elmo Magalona.  Elmo Moses Arroyo Magalona better known as simply Elmo Magalona (born April 27 1994 in Manila Philippines) is a Filipino actor and singer. He is the sixth (of eight) child of Francis Magalona.
Andy Egert.  Andreas Andy Egert (born 24 July 1961) is a Swiss blues guitarist harmonica player and singer.Egert who started his career around 30 years ago as a street musician is mainly a live performing artist who does around 100 live performances a year.
Tom Santopietro.  Tom Santopietro is a best-selling author and Broadway theater manager. He worked for 25 years in the New York theater scene managing over 30 Broadway shows. His books deal with major American cultural figures including Frank Sinatra Barbra Streisand and Doris Day. His latest book The Godfather Effect analyzed the effect of the Godfather films on American culture and on the author himself.
Ralph Schoenstein.  Ralph Schoenstein (1933 - August 24 2006) was an American writer and humorist. He was a frequent commentator to NPR's All Things Considered.Schoenstein grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia University. He began writing after a brief stint in the army and became the author of over 18 novels and non-fiction works. His 1960 memoir The Block tells of his growing up on New York's Upper West Side.
Tebogo Jacko Magubane.  Tebogo Jacko Magubane (born 21 February 1982) also known by his stage name Magubane da Franchiz (stylized as FranchiZ) is a South African house DJ and radio producer currently working for Munghana Lonene FM.
Kim Sozzi.  Kim Sozzi is an American dance-pop singer originally from Long Island New York.
Paul Personne.  Paul Personne (born 27 December 1949 Argenteuil France) is a French blues singer and guitarist.
Chris Murphy (Australian singer).  Christopher Bryce Murphy (born 25 March 1976 in Perth Australia) is an Australian male singer-songwriter who rose to fame when he placed fourth in Australian Idol 2006.Starting piano lessons at age 11 he added guitar to his list of skills and began playing in his band 'Murphy's Lore' at the age of 16. Over the years Chris has worked part-time jobs and has given guitar lessons to supplement his income.
Clara Ingram Judson.  Clara Ingram Judson (1879–1960) was an American author who wrote over 70 children's books primarily nonfiction including several biographies of American presidents. In 1960 she won the second Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the professional children's librarians although she died before she could receive it. The award recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books published in the United States have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Ron Holloway.  Ronald Edward Ron Holloway (born August 24 1953 Washington D.C. United States) is an American tenor saxophonist.
Pablo Fenjves.  Pablo F. Fenjves (born 16 August 1953) is a screenwriter and ghostwriter based in Los Angeles California. His screenwriting credits include Man on a Ledge released in January 2012 and a string of television movies including HBO’s The Affair.Born in Caracas Venezuela to Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust Fenjves went to college in Illinois. His first journalism job was in Canada.
Denis Johnson.  Denis Hale Johnson (born July 1 1949) is an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007) which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also writes plays poetry and non-fiction.
Rob Roth.  Rob Roth is a multidisciplinary artist and director based in New York City. He works in a variety of media including theater video sculpture and performance. Roth received his BFA from Pratt Institute and has exhibited different work at a variety of venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art Performance Space122 Abrons Art Center Galapagos Art Space Museum of Arts and Design and Deitch Projects as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Amory Kane.  Amory Kane (born Jack Daniel Kane March 28 1946) is a British-based American musician most renowned for his work in late 1960s swinging London perhaps for his single Reflections of Your Face which was covered by artists such as P.J. Proby. He is also notable in that members of Led Zeppelin played in his band. Kane worked as a session musician in London playing on recordings credited to bands such as The Magic Lanterns.
Melora Creager.  Melora Creager (born March 25 1966) is an American cellist singer-songwriter performing artist and founder of the cello rock group Rasputina.In 1991 Creager founded alternative cello ensemble Rasputina by writing a manifesto and placing a want-ad in the Village Voice stating electric cellists wanted. Cellist/composer Julia Kent was the first respondent.
Maurice Baquet.  Maurice Baquet (1911–2005) was a French actor and cellist.
Lucy Collett.  'Lucy Victoria Collett' (born 3 March 1989) also known as Lucy V and Lucy Vixen is a glamour model. She won The Sun newspaper's Page 3 Idol 2012 modeling contest and she appears as a Page 3 girl in that newspaper. She also features regularly in British men's magazines. In May 2013 FHM magazine named her one of its 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Charles Landry.  For the hockey player see Charles Landry (ice hockey).Charles Landry is best known for having written the book The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators. The creative city has now become a global movement to rethink the planning development and management of cities.
Thomas Yeates.  Thomas Yeates (born January 19 1955) is an American comic book and comic strip artist best known for illustrating the comic strips Prince Valiant and Zorro plus work on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.In 1982 Yeates and writer Martin Pasko revived Swamp Thing in a new series titled Saga of the Swamp Thing.On April 1 2012 Yeates began drawing the Prince Valiant comic strip replacing Gary Gianni.
Pavan Choudary.  Pavan Choudary (born 29 August 1965) is an Indian writer and TV presenter. He has written several books including How a Good Person can Really Win Machiavelli for Moral People Broom and Groom (co-author Kiran Bedi) and The Rx Factor.Choudary also hosts the TV show Hum Aisey Kyun Hain on Doordarshan and has written columns for The Times of India (Gurgaon) and the Financial Chronicle.
Bibhu Mohapatra.  Bibhu Mohapatra (born 7 June 1972 in Rourkela Orissa India) is an Indian-American fashion designer and costume designer.Mohapatra earned a Masters in economics from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in 1996 then moved to New York City to enroll in the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Viktor Kryzhanovsky.  Victor Krizhanivsky(Ukrainian: Крижанівський Віктор Володимирович) (born May 12 1950 in Volin region) . In 1982 he graduated from Kiev State Institute of Arts. Now he is a lecturer of the Department of Drawing art of National Academy of Arts and Architecture member of the National Art's Union Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts (Kingston University USA) participant to sity state and international exhibitions. He has organized twenty personal exhibitions for 30 years of his creative work.
Arun Paudwal.  Arun Paudwal (died 1 November 1991) was a famous music composer in Bollywood in India. He was married to Anuradha Paudwal a well known singer from Bollywood. He worked with music director S. D. Burman for some time.
Lewys Môn.  Lewys Môn (fl. 1485 - 1527) was a Welsh-language poet one of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr (Poets of the Nobility) from the cwmwd (commote) of Llifon on Ynys Môn north Wales. About 110 of his poems survive mostly traditional praise poems and elegies for members of the Welsh gentry especially of north Wales.
John Avon.  John Avon (born 1961) is a fantasy and science fiction illustrator. His work has been used for book covers CD covers games toys and advertising campaigns. He is best known for his artworks for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering of which he has produced over 200 paintings.
Faakhir Mehmood.  Faakhir Mehmood (Urdu: فاخر محمود‎) is a Pakistani singer and music composer. He started out his career in a Pakistani musical group called Awaz. However to conflicts of interest the band split and they all went to become solo artists. The band Awaz also consisted of well known musician Haroon.Faakhir has produced three albums as prior to 2006. His 2000 debut album Aatish was a big hit.
Fabrice Simon.  Fabrice Simon (January 29 1951 in Port-au-Prince Haiti – July 29 1998 in New York City) was an award-winning artist and fashion designer best known for his handmade beaded dresses.He emigrated to America in 1964 and subsequently attended the Fashion Institute of Technology. He won a special Coty Award in 1981.His clientele included many celebrities among them Cornelia Guest.He died from AIDS
Félix Fénéon.  Félix Fénéon (22 June 1861 Turin Italy – 29 February 1944 Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist and art critic during the late 19th century. He coined the term Neo-impressionism in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat and ardently promoted them.The Fénéon Prize was established in 1949 by his wife based on proceeds from the sale of his art collection.
PSD (rapper).  Steve Davison better known as PSD PSD Tha Drivah or Stevie Dee is a rapper and producer from Vallejo California USA who is closely associated with the late Mac Dre and his record label Thizz Entertainment.
Tomoya Ohtani.  Tomoya Ohtani (大谷 智哉 Ōtani Tomoya born July 1 1974 in Tokyo Japan) is a video game composer and musician from Wave Master known primary for his contributions in many Sonic the Hedgehog games.
Freddie Roulette.  Frederick Martin Freddie Roulette (born May 3 1939) is an American electric blues lap steel guitarist and singer. He is best known as an exponent of the lap steel guitar. Roulette is also a member of the Daphne Blue band and has collaborated with Earl Hooker Charlie Musselwhite Henry Kaiser and Harvey Mandel and released several solo albums.One commentator described Roulette as an excellent musician.
Katie Crippen.  Katie Crippen (November 17 1895 – November 25 1929) also billed as Little Katie Crippen or Ella White was an African American entertainer and singer.She was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States. She performed at Edmond's Cellar in New York City ca. 1920. In 1921 she recorded four sides for Black Swan Records in the classic female blues style accompanied by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra.
Craig Wuest.  Craig Wuest is an American keyboardist currently based in Atlanta Georgia. He is best known as the founder and leader of the electronic music group Earthstar during the 1970s and 1980s. Earthstar was only American band who participated in Germany's Kosmische Musik/electronic music scene while still at its height.
Brad Gowans.  Arthur Bradford Brad Gowans (December 3 1903 Billerica Massachusetts – September 8 1954 Los Angeles) was an American jazz trombonist and reedist.Gowans' earliest work was on the Dixieland jazz scene playing with the Rhapsody Makers Band Tommy DeRosa's New Orleans Jazz Band and Perley Breed. In 1926 he played cornet with Joe Venuti and worked later in the 1920s with Red Nichols Jimmy Durante Mal Hallett (1927–29) and Bert Lown.
Jesse Smith (singer).  Jesse Smith was one of the three original members of Canadian pop Punk band Cauterize. He sang and played guitar with them for all 12 years that the band was together (between 1995–2007) and produced Kessel Run's debut album. He currently co-owns a recording studio in Oshawa called The Boom Cave with Cauterize bandmate Jason Bone where former Cauterize bandmates Chuck Coles and Matt Worobec recorded the debut EP of their new band The Organ Thieves.
Valanto Trifonos.  Valanto Trifonos (Greek: Βαλάντω Τρύφωνος; born March 6 1988) also commonly spelled as Valando Tryfonos is a Greek–Cypriot singer who rose to fame after winning the first season of talent show Greek Idol in 2010. She subsequently released the digital single Sti Dipla Thesi (In the next seat).
Felipe Dulzaides.  Felipe Dulzaides (born in Havana Cuba) is an artist that through an experimental combination of video performance sculpture sound photography drawing public art and installation explores a wide range of themes such as chance absurdity humor crossovers and displaced perspective.
Oonah McFee.  Oonah McFee née Browne (September 11 1916 – December 19 2006) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award for her 1977 novel Sandbars.Born in Newcastle New Brunswick and raised in the Ottawa Valley area she worked for CBC Radio's Ottawa station CBO in the 1930s and married her colleague Allan McFee in 1941.
Christian Wolff (baroque composer).  Christian Wolff (Naundorf 1705 – Dahlen 1773) was a German baroque composer. He studied in Dresden and Leipzig and then was first kapellmeister then rector and organist in Dahlen.
Marvin David Levy.  Marvin David Levy (born August 2 1932 New Jersey) is an American composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Mourning Becomes Electra which was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967. Although deemed a failure at the time the work was revived in 1998 in a revised version by the composer to a triumphant success at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The New York City Opera and the Seattle Opera staged the work in 2003 and the Florida Grand Opera staged the opera in 2013.
Robert H.P. Platz.  Robert H.P. Platz (born 16 August 1951) is a German classical composer.Born in Baden-Baden Platz studied music theory composition (with Wolfgang Fortner) musicology (with Elmar Budde) and piano in Freiburg Germany between 1970 and 1973. He studied later with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 1977 he took examinations in conducting (with Francis Travis) in Freiburg (Toop 2001) and did a series of computer courses at IRCAM in 1980.
Warren Kozak.  Warren Kozak (born 1951) is an American journalist and author. His writing appears frequently on the OpEd pages of the Wall Street Journal the New York Sun and other newspapers and magazines. He was an on-air reporter at National Public Radio and wrote for television network anchors including Ted Koppel Charles Gibson Diane Sawyer and Aaron Brown.[citation needed]
Neil Mitchell (musician).  Neil Mitchell (born 8 June 1965) is a Scottish musician best known as the keyboard player for Wet Wet Wet.Mitchell was born in Helensburgh Dunbartonshire.In June 2010 Mitchell was ordered to take part in a domestic violence programme after he admitted assaulting his girlfriend Olivia Warren in July 2009.
Loene Carmen.  Loene Carmen (born in 1970 Adelaide Australia) is an Australian singer songwriter and actress.
Fabienne Delsol.  Fabienne Delsol is a French singer who performs primarily in English. Influenced by the 1960s her music is a mix of UK garage Pop and Psychedelic.
Stel Pavlou.  Stelios Grant Pavlou (born 22 November 1970) is a British author and screenwriter.
Yuka Hirata.  Yuka Hirata (平田 裕香 Hirata Yuka September 15 1983–) is a Japanese actress tarento and gravure idol from Hokkaidō. She portrayed Mere (メレ Mere) in the Super Sentai Series Juken Sentai Gekiranger. She has also appeared in Food Fight an episode of Carlos and several idol videos.In 2010 she appeared in the live-action film Wonderful World with voice actors Mamoru Miyano Tomokazu Sugita Tomokazu Seki Showtaro Morikubo and Daisuke Namikawa.
Terry Marks.  Terry Marks is a Stuckist artist in New York City. She was one of the US artists in the show The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. She is also a tattooist and actor for film and television. Terry is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
H. Bonciu.  H. Bonciu or Horia Bonciu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈhori.a ˈbont͡ʃju]; reportedly born Bercu Beniamin or Hieronim Haimovici also known as Bonciu Haimovici Haimovici Bonciu; May 19 1893 – April 27 1950) was a Romanian novelist poet journalist and translator noted especially as an atypical figure on his country's avant-garde scene.
César Baldaccini.  César Baldaccini (1 January 1921 in Marseille - 6 December 1998 in Paris) usually called César was a noted French sculptor.César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles discarded metal or rubbish) expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures) and fantastic representations of animals and insects.
Dietisalvi di Speme.  Dietisalvi di Speme was an Italian painter who worked in Siena between 1250 and 1291.His work influenced Cimabue.Some of his work is preserved in the State Archives in Siena.His Madonna and Child with Angels is in the Pinacoteca di Siena. He collaborated with Guido da Siena.
Pongsit Kamphee.  Pongsit Kamphee (Pu) (Thai: พงษ์สิทธิ์ คำภีร์) is a Thai rock singer and producer popular in the Phleng pheua chiwit genre. Inspired by (Lek) Preecha Chanapai of Carabao and (Nga) Surachai Jantimathawn of Caravan.
William Dietrich (novelist).  For other people with the same or similar name see William Dietrich (disambiguation).William Dietrich (1951) is an American novelist non-fiction writer journalist and college professor. His historical novels and thrillers have made bestseller lists and his Ethan Gage series set during the Napoleonic wars have sold in 28 languages. He has also written novels set in the Roman Empire Antarctica and Australia.
Kai Hahto.  Kai Hahto (born in 1973 in Vaasa Finland) is a Finnish musician and drummer.
Dana Gioia.  Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24 1950) is an American poet and writer who also served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in Hawthorne California to working class parents of Italian and Mexican descent Gioia attended Harvard and Stanford Universities. For fifteen years he worked for General Foods Corporation while writing at night and on the weekends. His 1991 Atlantic essay Can Poetry Matter? generated international attention.
Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko.  Spouses Maryna Yuryevna Dyachenko and Serhiy Serhievich Dyachenko (rus. Марина и Сергей Дяченко ukr. Марина та Сергій Дяченки) are Russophone Ukrainian co-authors of fantasy literature. They write in Russian but also often publish their books in Ukrainian. The Dyachenkos hail from Kiev and currently reside in Moscow Russia.
Dagfinn Flem.  Dagfinn Flem (28 July 1906 – 28 May 1976) was a Norwegian politician newspaper editor non-fiction writer and translator. He was born in Borgund and was a brother of Magne Flem. He edited the newspaper Sunnmørsposten from 1946 along with his brother. He was mayor of Ålesund for the Liberal Party from 1958 to 1965.
Brian Slagel.  Brian Slagel (born February 14 1961) is the founder and CEO of Metal Blade Records. Slagel is known for giving Metallica their first break in 1982 with an appearance on Metal Massacre a compilation album on Metal Blade and has since released seminal albums by Slayer Mercyful Fate Cannibal Corpse Fates Warning Amon Amarth and The Black Dahlia Murder among others.
Kjetil Møster.  Kjetil Traavik Møster (born 17 June 1976 in Bergen Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (tenor and soprano saxophones clarinet and bass clarinet) and composer known from bands like The Core Ultralyd Brat Zanussi 5 and performance with Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000 later released on CD.
Dennis Tobenski.  Dennis Tobenski (born April 18 1982 in Kankakee Illinois) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and art song.
Fiona Tan.  Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru Indonesia) is an artist in photography as well as film and video installations. She grew up in Australia and currently lives in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst and teaches at the postgraduate academy De Ateliers.
Alexis HK.  Alexis Djoshkounian better known by his stage name Alexis HK (born in Yvelines France on 2 April 1974) is a French singer-songwriter.
Juhani Lagerspetz.  Juhani Henrik Lagerspetz (born in Turku 1959) is a Finnish pianist trained at the Turku Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy where he serves as a lecturer. He was prized by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation in 1994.Lagerspetz may be best known for his recordings for Ondine including Mikko Heiniö and Jukka Tiensuu's respectively Hermes and Mind Piano Concertos.
Thanh Thảo (singer).  Phạm Trịnh Phương Thảo also known by the stage name Thanh Thảo (8 March 1977) is a female Vietnamese singer and actress. Her best known song is Búp bê đẹp xinh (The Beautiful Doll) 2002.
Scott Owen.  Scott Bradley Owen (born 14 February 1975) plays the double bass in the Australian punk rock/psychobilly band The Living End.
Steve Smyth.  Steve Smyth (November 28 1970) is the guitarist for the metal band One Machine.
David Wills (musician).  David Wills is one of the founding members of Negativland. He was a cable repairman when he joined the group with a then-teenage Mark Hosler and Richard Lyons until he retired in the '90s. David is also known as The Weatherman. Due to his being a recluse it has been difficult for fans of Negativland and even the band themselves to contact him and in the past he has shown up at Negativland concerts or Negativlandland on a TV screen.
Jessica Harp.  Jessica Leigh Harp (born on February 3 1982) is an American songwriter and former country artist from Kansas City Missouri. Between 2005 and 2007 Harp and Michelle Branch recorded and performed as The Wreckers a duo that topped the country charts in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated Leave the Pieces. After The Wreckers disbanded Harp began a solo career on Warner Bros. Records the same label to which The Wreckers were signed.
Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi.  Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi (born 1930) is an Italian scholar and writer.
Petri Kaverma.  Petri Kaverma (born 1963) is a Finnish artist and curator who has held several private exhibitions and participated in various group and joint exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. The themes of his exhibitions have ranged from universal issues to more private and personal topics and the forms of expression Kaverma uses have varied from photography and video to mixed-media sculptures.
Toshiko Fujita.  Toshiko Fujita (藤田 淑子 Fujita Toshiko born April 5 1950 in Dalian China) is a Japanese voice actress. She currently works at Aoni Production.
Enduser (musician).  Enduser is Cincinnati Ohio-based breakcore/raggacore/jungle musician Lynn Standafer. Standafer has released on record labels including Mirex Ad Noiseam and Outbreak.He performed on Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC 1 show (then called The Breezeblock) in April 2005. He has also played in various countries around the world and at festivals including Maschinenfest and Distorted.
Wendy Moore.  Wendy Moore is an English journalist author and historian. She has produced works on the English nobility and the history of medicine. As of 2012 her first work The Knife Man was being adapted for television by director David Cronenberg.
Miss Li.  Linda Carlsson (born July 6 1982) better known by her stage name Miss Li is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She was born in Borlänge but now lives in Stockholm. Her single Don't Try to Fool Me has been featured on the Showtime original series Weeds as well as Grey's Anatomy. Her song Bourgeois Shangri-La from the album Dancing the Whole Way Home was used by Apple in the iPod Nano 5G television commercial and her song Oh Boy was used in a 2010 Volvo C70 commercial.
Jimmy Pursey.  James Timothy Pursey (born 9 February 1955) is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band Sham 69 and has played with them from 1976 to 1980; from 1986 to 2006; and from 2011 to the present day.
Amy Richards.  Amy Richards (born ca. 1971) is an United States activist writer organizer feminist and art historian. She graduated from Barnard College in 1992. Richards has appeared in Fox’s The O'Reilly Factor Oprah Talk of the Nation New York One and on CNN.After graduating cum laude from Barnard College in 1992 with a degree in Art History Amy Richards embarked on an unexpected career as a feminist activist writer and organizer.
Mathieu Kessels.  Mathieu Kessels (20 May 1784 - 4 March 1836) was a Dutch Neoclassical sculptor who mainly worked in Rome.
Julie Klassen.  Julie Klassen is an American author of inspirational Regency romance novels. She is the winner of several Christy Awards and a Midwest Book Award.
William Ellery Channing (poet).  This article is about William Ellery Channing the Transcendentalist poet. For the Unitarian theologian see William Ellery Channing.William Ellery Channing (November 29 1818 – December 23 1901) was a Transcendentalist poet nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. (His namesake uncle was usually known as Dr.
Curtis Plum.  Curtis Plum is an alternative hip hop artist based in Boise Idaho.
Fedde le Grand.  Fedde le Grand (Utrecht September 7 1977) is a Dutch house DJ and producer best known for his 2006 track Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit.
Frank Thomas (comics).  Frank Thomas (1914–1968) was an American Golden Age cartoonist who worked primarily for Centaur Publications.For Centaur he created The Eye Chuck Hardy Dr. Hypno and Solarman (no relation to the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name). Later in his career he worked for Dell on The Owl Billy and Bonnie Bee Buddies and other characters. He wrote scripts for Andy Panda Little Lulu Woody Woodpecker and Little Scouts.
Bernardo Racchetti.  Bernardo Rachetti (1639–1702) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active as a painter of imaginary vedute. He was born in Milan the nephew and scholar of Giovanni Ghisolfi. He painted architectural views and perspectives (capricci) in the style of his instructor for whose pictures Racchetti's are not infrequently mistaken. They usually represent seaports embellished with magnificent buildings.
Alec B. Francis.  Alec B. Francis (2 December 1867 – 6 July 1934) was an English actor largely of the silent era. He appeared in 241 films between 1911 and 1934. He was born in London and died in Hollywood California.
Tom Simpson (musician).  Tom Simpson (born 7 January 1972) is a Scottish DJ and musician best known as the keyboardist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He has been with Snow Patrol as a touring member since 1997 and became a permanent one in 2005.
Lauren Worsham.  Lauren Worsham is an American singer and actress known for her work in the opera and musical theatre.
Captain Sinbad.  Captain Sinbad was the deejay alter ego of Jamaican record producer Carl Dwyer (born c.1955).
Béla Fleck.  Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10 1958) is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
David Scherman.  David E. Scherman (1916–1997) was an American photojournalist and editor. Born in Manhattan he grew up in New Rochelle New York and then attended Dartmouth College. He graduated in 1936 and became a photographer for Life magazine covering World War II. He teamed up with a Condé Nast Publications photographer Lee Miller for many of these assignments.
Tudor Arghezi.  Tudor Arghezi (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈtudor arˈɡezi]; 21 May 1880 – 14 July 1967) was a Romanian writer best known for his contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest (where he also died) he explained that his pen name was related to Argesis the Latin name for the Argeş River.
Takako Matsu.  Takako Matsu (松 たか子 Matsu Takako) born Takako Fujima (藤間 隆子 Fujima Takako) on June 10 1977 in Tokyo Japan is a Japanese actress and pop singer/songwriter.
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.  Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994) was a Malayalam fiction writer from the state of Kerala in India. He was a humanist freedom fighter novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his path-breaking disarmingly down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well as the common man. He is regarded as one of the most successful and outstanding writers from India.
George Woodcock.  George Woodcock (/ˈwʊdˌkɑːk/; May 8 1912 – January 28 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history an anarchist thinker an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing.
Robert Ellsberg.  Robert Ellsberg son of Daniel Ellsberg is the editor-in chief and publisher of Orbis Books the publishing arm of Maryknoll.
Tom Malar.  Tom Malar (born 26 August 1980) is a Czech R&B singer songwriter and producer. He was labeled as the first successful Czech Soul/R&B artist by the local media.
Camilla Kerslake.  Camilla Kerslake (born 5 August 1988) is an English classical crossover singer from London who has become the first signing to Gary Barlow’s new record label. She released her debut album on 23 November 2009 in the UK.
Sunye.  Min Sun-ye (Korean: 민선예 born August 12 1989) is a South Korean singer. She is the leader of the girl group the Wonder Girls.
Mark Abrahamian.  Mark H. Abrahamian (February 23 1966 - September 2 2012) was the lead guitarist for Starship. He had joined the band in 2001.
Big Syke.  Tyruss Himes better known by his stage name Big Syke is an American rapper. His stage name is a revision of his childhood nickname Little Psycho.
Thomas J. Abercrombie.  Thomas J. Abercrombie (August 13 1930 – April 3 2006) was a senior staff writer and photographer for National Geographic well known for his work on Middle Eastern countries. During his tenure at the Geographic magazine Abercrombie travelled to all seven continents becoming the first staff photojournalist to travel to the South Pole in 1956 while providing photographs for Paul Siple's coverage of the first overwinter stay at the South Pole Station.
Anne Cochran.  Anne Cochran is a singer-songwriter from Cleveland Ohio. She is best known as the lead touring vocalist for pianist and songwriter Jim Brickman with whom she shared the top 5 Adult Contemporary hit single After All These Years in 1998. She has also released a number of solo albums and the single Someone Is Missing at Christmas from her album This is the Season peaked at number 11 on the US Adult contemporary chart in 2005.
Giovanni Omiccioli.  Giovanni Omiccioli (born 1901) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School) with a dynamic paintwork representing soccer games and sports scenes.
Adán Sánchez.  Adán Santos Sánchez (April 14 1984 – March 27 2004) was a popular American singer who performed under the stage name Adan Chalino Sánchez honoring his famous father who was assassinated in 1992.
Matteo Ingoli.  Matteo Ingoli (1587–1631) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period.
Adrian Rollini.  Adrian Francis Rollini (June 28 1903 - May 15 1956) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played the bass saxophone piano xylophone and many other instruments. Rollini is also known for introducing the goofus in jazz music.
Közi.  Közi is a Japanese visual kei rock musician who plays guitar piano keyboard and synthesizer. He is best known as guitarist for the rock band Malice Mizer. After the band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2001 he formed the industrial rock duo Eve of Destiny and also started a solo career.
Crime Boss (rapper).  Crime Boss is an American rapper formerly signed to Suave House Records. Crime Boss debuted on 8Ball & MJG's album On the Outside Looking In in 1994. He signed with Suave House and issued his debut the following year entitled All in the Game. The album peaked at No. 113 on the Billboard 200. He followed up in 1997 with his most successful album Conflicts & Confusion released by Relativity Records which went to No. 25 on the Billboard 200.
Cosima De Vito.  Cosima De Vito (born 1 November 1976) also known mononymously as Cosima is an Australian pop and R&B singer-songwriter. In 2003 she was in the top 3 of the original Australian Idol TV talent quest series before withdrawing due to throat nodules affecting her singing. In August 2004 her debut double A-side single When the War Is Over / One Night Without You was issued which reached No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. On 11 October her debut album Cosima appeared which peaked at No.
Cliff Edwards.  Clifton A. Edwards (June 14 1895 – July 17 1971) — known as Ukelele Ike — was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early '30s specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with Singin' In The Rain in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940).
Klute (musician).  Klute is the primary recording alias of Tom Withers a drum and bass Producer and DJ from London UK.He is also the drummer vocalist and songwriter in the English Hardcore band The Stupids and first turned to electronic production in the early 1990s experimenting with techno before turning to Drum and Bass. He released two 12 under the Override alias in 1995-96 as well as appearing on Ninja Tune compilations.
Donald Vega.  Donald Vega is a Nicaraguan-born American jazz pianist and music composer.
August Schneider.  Gerhard August Schneider (January 6 1842 - January 14 1873) was a Norwegian artist and collector of folk tales.
Marius Moga.  Marius Moga is a Grammy nominated Romanian producer composer and singer famous in Eastern and Central Europe. He writes and produces music in various styles and genres especially pop R'n'B and club music.
Lee Turnbull.  Lee Turnbull is a British actor who has appeared in The Famous Five Making Waves and The Bill. He appeared on stage at the Old Red Lion in 2004 as part of the cast of Cherry Picnic.
Alyssa Bonagura.  Alyssa Bonagura (born April 1 1988) is an American singer-songwriter.
Alessandro Parisotti.  Alessandro Parisotti (July 24 1853 – April 4 1913) was an Italian composer and music editor.
Francis Harvey (poet).  Francis Harvey (born 1925) is a poet and playwright. He was born in Enniskillen County Fermanagh Northern Ireland. Harvey has lived in County Donegal for most of his life. His collections of poetry include In the Light on the Stones (1978) The Rainmakers (1988) The Boa Island Janus (1996) Making Space New & Selected Poems (2000) and Collected Poems (2007) which has an introduction by Moya Cannon.
Mamunur Rashid.  Mamunur Rashid (Bengali: মামুনুর রশীদ; born 29 February 1948) is one of the pioneering theatre activists in Bangladesh. He is the chief secretary of leading theatre group Aranyak (theatre group) which plays crucial roles in creating common people aware about their rights through his plays. He was born on 29 February in 1948 in the village Paikora under Kalhati upazila in Tangail. One of the most popular production of his group is Rarang which deals with the life of Santal.
Alfredo Castelli.  Alfredo Castelli (born June 26 1947) is an Italian comic book author and writer.
Armando Molero.  Armando Molero (born January 20 1899 or November 22 1900— February 5 1971) was a Venezuelan singer known as El Cantor de todos los tiempos (Spanish for The singer of all times). He is considered Maracaibo's greatest singer.
Francesco Capelli.  Francesco Capelli (active c. 1568) was an Italian painter active in was born in Sassuolo in the province of Modena and was educated in the school of Correggio. He painted a 'Madonna and Child in Glory with attendant Saints' for the church of San Sebastian at Sassuolo. He was also called Caccianemici but must not be confounded with another Francesco Caccianemici a contemporary pupil of Primaticcio and lived about the same period.
Hiroshige.  Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重) also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist considered the last great master of that tradition.Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō; and for his depictions of birds and flowers.
Mike Viola.  Michael Mike Viola (born September 26 1966) is an American singer-songwriter best known as singer songwriter and musical architect of a team he called the Candy Butchers a pop-rock band from New York City that recorded three critically acclaimed albums for Sony. A native of Stoughton Massachusetts Mike began his musical career in the 1980s.
Lavrentis Machairitsas.  Lavrentis Machairitsas (Greek: Λαυρέντης Μαχαιρίτσας born 5 November 1956) is a Greek rock musician from Volos Thessaly Greece.
Earl Wentz.  Earl Wentz (March 22 1938 - November 15 2009) was an American pianist composer and musical director most noted for his creation in 2000 of the American Composer Series an ongoing performance series in the cabaret format.
Clara Janés.  Clara Janés Nadal born in Barcelona (6 November 1940) is a Spanish poet writer and translator. She is regarded as one of the great love poets of contemporary Spanish literature a designation given her by one of twentieth century Spain's most respected women writers Rosa Chacel.
Jean Redpath.  Jean Redpath MBE (born 28 April 1937) is a singer of folk songs and Scottish music.Redpath was born in Edinburgh to musical parents. Her mother knew many Scots songs and passed them on to Jean and her brother; her father played the hammer dulcimer. She was raised in Leven FifeScotland and later returned to Edinburgh taking medieval studies at the university.
Agostino Veracini.  (Niccolò) Agostino Veracini (14 December 1689 – 18 November 1762) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was the second son of Benedetto Veracini also a painter. Agostino was the cousin of Francesco Maria Veracini the violinist and composer.Veracini was born and died in Florence.
Anita Kelsey.  Anita Kelsey (born in Mitcham Surrey United Kingdom) is a singer-songwriter whose vocals and top lines are featured on many hit dance records and feature films. Her voice has appeared as backup vocals for artists such as Kings Of Leon The Good The Bad and The Queen Razorlight Boy George and the Spice Girls as the featured vocalist on big screen productions such as Dark City and more recently as the singer and songwriter for a series of successful dance projects.
Alexander Ertel.  Alexander Ivanovich Ertel (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Э́ртель) (July 19 1855 – February 7 1908) was a Russian novelist and short story writer.
Geraldo Azevedo.  Geraldo Azevedo (born January 11 1945) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is famous for his contributions to the Brazilian Popular Music scene especially his partnerships with Alceu Valença and Zé Ramalho.
Son of Dave.  Benjamin Darvill (born January 4 1967) known by his stage name Son of Dave is a Canadian musician and singer–songwriter based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of Grammy nominated folk rock band Crash Test Dummies in which he played harmonica mandolin guitar and percussion before returning to his Blues Beat-Box and harmonica driven solo work in 2000.SOD was born in Winnipeg Manitoba.
Ivor Slaney.  Ivor Ernst Slaney (b. 27 May 1921 in West Bromwich United Kingdom d. March 1998 Southampton United Kingdom) was a prolific musical composer and conductor notable for his work in film television and radio.Slaney was educated at the Royal College of Music and married Mary D Ludlow pianist Dolores Ventura in 1948. His father Ernst Wallace Slaney was the principal 'cellist in the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in the 1920s and '30s under Sir Dan Godfrey.
Shūgorō Yamamoto.  Shūgorō Yamamoto (山本 周五郎 Yamamoto Shūgorō June 22 1903 – February 14 1967) was the pen name of Satomu Shimizu (清水 三十六 Shimizu Satomu) a Japanese novelist and short-story writer active during the Showa period of Japan. He was noted for his popular literature and is known to have published works under at least fourteen different pen names.
Charlie Atom.  Charlie Atom is a Mexican DJ and electronic dance music producer who combines many genres of music including rock new age and diverse genres of EDM to create his music and aims to psychedelic and conceptual albums.
Eugene Simon.  Eugene Michael Simon (born 11 June 1992) is an English actor and fashion model best known for his roles as Jerome Clarke in the television series House of Anubis and Lancel Lannister in Game of Thrones.Simon went to prep school at St. Philip's in London and later attended Bryanston School and Downside School boarding schools in the south of England.
Thomas Wade (singer).  Thomas Wade (born May 9 1961 in Burford Ontario) is a Canadian country music artist. He was the lead singer of the group Thomas Wade & Wayward who released their eponymous debut album in 1996. The album produced seven singles on the Canadian Country Music chart including the Top 10's Zero to Sixty and She's Getting Serious. Between 1997 and 1998 Thomas Wade and Wayward received seven CCMA awards.
Gilles Tran.  Gilles Tran is a contemporary French 3D artist mostly known for his images rendered in POV-Ray. Most notable is his web site project The Book of Beginnings with images accompanied with pieces of unfinished text.
Leo Kottke.  Leo Kottke (born September 11 1945 Athens Georgia U.S.) is an acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on influences from blues jazz and folk music and for syncopated polyphonic melodies. Kottke overcame a series of personal obstacles including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to emerge as a widely recognized master of his instrument.
Tex Beneke.  Gordon Lee Tex Beneke (February 12 1914 – May 30 2000) was an American saxophonist singer and bandleader. His career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller. His band is also associated with the careers of Eydie Gorme Henry Mancini and Ronnie Deauville.
Yuya Tegoshi.  Yuya Tegoshi (手越 祐也 Tegoshi Yūya born November 11 1987) is a member of Japanese boy band NEWS and its subgroup Tegomass both under Johnny & Associates.
David Gates.  David Ashworth Gates (born December 11 1940) is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of the group Bread which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
Wisp (musician).  Wisp is the alias of electronic music artist Reid Dunn who hails from Niagara Falls New York. Wisp began making music on his computer in 1999 and originally released his music for free as mp3s on Netlabels before being signed to Sublight Records. In December 2007 he was signed to Benn Jordan's Alphabasic label. In March 2008 it was announced that he had been signed to Rephlex Records.
Catherine Mary Ann Adamson.  Catherine Mary Ann Adamson (13 October 1868 – 9 August 1925) was a New Zealand homemaker and diarist. She was born in Fitzroy Victoria Australia on 13 October 1868.
Dallas Kruse.  Dallas Preston Kruse is the producer of Suburban Legends' 2007 Japan-only album Dance Like Nobody's Watching: Tokyo Nights an extended version of their 2006 EP release; their 2007 album Infectious and their 2008 album Let's Be Friends... and Slay the Dragon Together.
Sheldon Pollock.  Sheldon I. Pollock is a scholar of Sanskrit American intellectual and literary history and comparative intellectual history. He is currently the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. He was general editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library and is founding editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Pollock has received the Andrew W.
Kari Jobe.  Kari Brooke Jobe (born April 6 1981) is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter. Since her first album in 2009 she has received one Grammy Award nomination and three Dove Award nominations two of which she won. Jobe is also an associate worship pastor at Gateway Church.
Bruce Day.  Bruce Day was a bass guitarist and vocalist for the California smooth rock band Pablo Cruise and previously for Santana. Day replaced bassist Bud Cockrell of Pablo Cruise in 1977 and stayed with the band until 1981 before the Reflector album was recorded. He died on 30 June 1999.
Olivier Paquet.  Olivier Paquet (born 21 April 1973 at Compiègne) is a French political scientist and science fiction author.Paquet graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble in 1994 and went on to complete his DEA in 1995. He completed a doctorate in political science at the institution in 2002. As an author he won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire award in 2002 for his short fiction Synesthésie which was published in Galaxies magazine in 2000.
Eva Lin.  Eva Lin (born 4 May 1985) is an award winning Filipino-American transsexual pornographic actress who debuted in the year 2011 at 21 years of age.
Brian Lewis (illustrator).  Brian Moncrieff Lewis (3 June 1929 – 4 December 1978) was a British science fiction illustrator comics artist and animator.Lewis served in the RAF and became involved in science fiction fandom in the early 1950s. His first professional illustration was for the Radio Times and he began contributing to New Worlds in 1954 painting forty covers for the magazine. He also painted 21 covers for Science Fantasy 19 for Science Fiction Adventures and a few for Digit Books between 1957 and 1962.
Philip Meninsky.  Philip Meninsky (born 1919 in Fulham England died in 2007) was the son of Bernard Meninsky.
Zekuhl.  Atna Jean Emmanuel (Manu) Njock aka Zekuhl is a singer guitarist percussionist and a songwriter of world music. He presents a Bolbo-Jazz style. He was born in Quebec City in 1970 and raised in Cameroon. His initiation to Cameroonian and Bantu musical traditions as well as those of the Baka Pygmies who lived near his village of Kaya began at age four.
Krista Polvere.  Krista Polvere is an Australian-born singer/songwriter from Adelaide but resides in Melbourne Australia. Polvere moved to Sydney at a young age to study acting and music. Polvere's father a former band manager immigrated from Naples Italy and her mother is of Welsh decent.Playing shows around the small bars and clubs in Adelaide Polvere moved to Melbourne for its live music culture. Polvere ventured to New York City for an adventure traveling to the heart of where the folk scene began.
Matti Kärki.  Matti Kärki born December 13 1972 is a Swedish singer who is best known for his work with Dismember. Before he joined Dismember in 1991 he was the singer in the Swedish band Carnage (1989-1990). The first band fronted by Kärki was Therion in 1989. He also appears with the Autopsy-inspired Murder Squad since 1993. Furthermore he was part of the experimental band Carbonized from 1988 to 1990.
Bruce Foxton.  Bruce Foxton (born 1 September 1955) is an English rock and roll musician who is best known as the bass player in punk rock bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers.
Margaret Stuart (poet).  Dorothy Margaret Stuart née Browne (1889 Meerbrook Staffordshire – September 14 1963) was a British poet and writer.In 1924 she won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her Fencers' song cycle Sword Songs.Her other works include literary and historical biographies historical non-fiction particularly concentrating on the lives of women and children and history stories for children.
Anjanibai Malpekar.  Anjanibai Malpekar (April 22 1883 – August 7 1974) was a noted Indian classical singer belonging to the Bhendibazaar gharana of Hindustani classical music. She was a disciple of Ustad Nazeer Khan of the gharana with whom she started training at age 8. She made her professional debut at age 16 in Mumbai where she spent the rest of her life.
Claire Hooper.  Claire Hooper (born 5 September 1976) is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. She appeared as a team captain on the 2008 revival of Good News Week on Network Ten and previously was a regular on The Sideshow appearing with Paul McDermott. Since 2005 she has regularly performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Gusto (producer).  Edward Greene also known as Gusto is an American house producer and DJ. He is well known for his song Disco's Revenge which was released in 1995. It charted in countries worldwide.
Thom Russo.  Thom Russo is an American record producer engineer mixer and songwriter. His works range from Anglo-American pop/rock to Alternative Latin. He is a recipient of 16 Grammy awards most of them in recognition to his work with Latin music.
Jesse McCartney.  Jesse McCartney (born April 9 1987) is an American singer-songwriter actor and voice actor. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally McCartney has appeared on shows such as Summerland and Greek.
Anthony Iannaccone.  Anthony Iannaccone (born 1943 in Brooklyn New York) is a composer and conductor. His music has been performed by major orchestras and chamber ensembles and he has conducted numerous regional and metropolitan orchestras in the United States and in Europe.
John Hassall (musician).  John Cory Hassall (born 17 February 1981 in Westminster London) is an English musician and bassist for The Libertines. He now performs with his own band Yeti. He has been described by Dirty Pretty Things bassist Didz Hammond as ...a fucking class bass player. Top grade. Top drawer.
Norito Yashima.  Norito Yashima (八嶋智人; Yashima Norito) (born September 27 1970 Nara-city Nara) is a Japanese stage actor who has been featured in movies television shows (Furuhata Ninzaburo) and specials. He eventually landed his first hosting job on the Fuji TV series Hey! Spring of Trivia a show he currently co-hosts with fellow actor Katsumi Takahashi.
Vieri Tosatti.  Vieri Tosatti (born Rome 1920 - died there 1999) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas among them Il sistema della dolcezza (1948) after Edgar Allan Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether and Partita a pugni (1953) about a boxing match. His output also includes chamber music as well as some symphonic and choral works. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Pat O'Brien (guitarist).  Pat O'Brien (born December 15 1968) is the lead guitarist for the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
Keith Coventry.  Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25000 John Moores Painting Prize.
Bill Slavicsek.  Bill Slavicsek is a game designer who served as the Director of Roleplaying Design and Development at Wizards of the Coast. He previously worked for West End Games and TSR Inc. and designed products for Dungeons & Dragons Star Wars Alternity Torg Paranoia and Ghostbusters.
Anthony Gallo.  Anthony Gallo is an American lead and rhythm guitarist who started at age 16 in the early eighties punk scene. Gallo later progressed into heavy metal and rock with a career spanning over 30 years playing and recording with punk bands New Regime Los Cycos Nick Menza (Megadeth) Suicidal Tendencies/Los Cycos Mike Muir SIN 34 Jon Nelson Louiche Mayorga Louis Loud Lou Hinzo (Würm) D.H.
Maria Guinot.  Maria Guinot (born 20 June 1945 Barreiro) is a Portuguese singer best known for her participation in the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.Guinot released two EPs La mère sans enfant and Balada do negro só in the late 1960s then took a long break from the music industry. She returned in 1981 performing a song Um adeus um recomeço in the Portuguese Eurovision selection Festival da Canção where she finished third.
Edna Clarke Hall.  Edna Clarke Hall (1879–1979) was a watercolour artist etcher lithographer and draughtsman who is mainly known for her many illustrations to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
César Aira.  César Aira (Argentine Spanish: [ˈse.saɾ ˈai.ɾa]; born on 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer and translator and an exponent of Argentine contemporary literature. Aira has published over eighty short books of stories novels and essays. In fact at least since 1993 a hallmark of his work is an almost frenetic level of writing and publication—two to four novella-length books each year.
Volker Banfield.  Volker Banfield (born 9 May 1944 Oberaudorf Bavaria) is a German pianist.He studied at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold beginning at age 14. Afterward he moved to the United States and studied at the Juilliard School (with Adele Marcus) and at the University of Texas (with Leonard Shure). He then returned to live in Germany and toured extensively.
Simon Helberg.  Simon Helberg (born December 9 1980) is an American actor voice actor and comedian best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory currently in its seventh season for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He has appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv and is also known for his role as Moist in the Joss Whedon-led web miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti.  Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (Venice May 8 1834 – Venice December 13 1912) was an Italian painter mainly of Venetian genre scenes recalling Bamboccianti life of children and women as well as sacred fresco work for churches in the Veneto.Antonio's father Ermolao Paoletti was a well known scholar and writer of Venice. He wrote a much cited expansive guide to its architecture monuments artistic works and customs. He also wrote a dictionary of Venetian dialect.
Plastician.  Chris Reed also known as Plastician (formerly Plasticman) is a electronic musician from Thornton Heath in the London Borough of Croydon.
Salvatore Guidotti.  Salvatore Guidotti (Naples 1836 - After 1889) was an Italian painter.
Ruper Ordorika.  Ruper Ordorika born at Oñati (Gipuzkoa) in 1956 is a Basque singer-songwriter. He is generally considered one of the greatest renewers of basque songwriting.He was part of the literary group Pott with among others writers Joseba Sarrionandia Bernardo Atxaga Jon Juaristi and Manu Ertzila.
Curt Smith (author).  Curt Smith (born March 20 1951 in Caledonia New York) is an American author media host and columnist. In addition to work as a newspaper reporter Smith was a political speechwriter until 1992 and a host of radio and television programs until 2002. He has written 11 books including Voices of the Game which covers the history of baseball broadcasting. Smith is a newspaper columnist in upstate New York and holds an academic appointment at the University of Rochester.
Toshinao Sasaki.  Toshinao Sasaki (佐々木 俊尚 Sasaki Toshinao born December 5 1961) is a Japanese freelance journalist and critic a regular writer for CNET Japan and a one-time reporter for Mainichi Shimbun. He was born in Hyōgo Prefecture.
Irène Schweizer.  Irène Schweizer (born June 2 1941) is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group whose members include Lindsay Cooper Maggie Nichols Georgie Born and Sally Potter.
Máirtín O'Connor.  Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway Ireland who began playing at the age of nine and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark Midnight Well De Dannan and The Boys of the Lough.
Maurice Wyckaert.  Maurice Wyckaert (1923–1996) was a Belgian artist born in 1923 in the city of Brussels. He is a neo-expressionistic lyrical abstract painter gouache designer and printmaker. He was educated at the Academy of Brussels (1940-47 en 1949-50) and in Sint-Joost-ten-Node and the Vrije Atelier of Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe. He debuted with wonderful expressionistic still life reminiscent of Jean Brusselmans. Much early work dealt with stills of vegetables.
Erzsébet Galgóczi.  Erzsébet Galgóczi (27 August 1930 – 20 May 1989) was a Hungarian writer playwright and screenwriter. Her work is often described as realist fiction.
Pieter de Jode II.  Pieter de Jode (1606–1674) was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver.
Steve Holmes (pornographic actor).  Steve Holmes (born on March 23 1961) is a German pornographic film actor who started his career in 1997. Holmes is a Transylvanian Saxon born in Sibiu Romania. In 1968 his family crossed the Turkish border while on holiday in Bulgaria and sought asylum at the German consulate in İstanbul.Since 2002 he has been living and working in Los Angeles and Budapest. He also began directing in 2003 working for Platinum X Pictures with Manuel Ferrara Brandon Iron and Michael Stefano.
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews.  Eliphalet Frazer Andrews (11 June 1835 - 15 March 1915) an American painter known primarily as a portraitist established an art instruction curriculum at the behest of William Wilson Corcoran at his Corcoran School of Art and served as its director 1877-1902.
Aline Brosh McKenna.  Aline Brosh McKenna (born Aline Brosh; August 2 1967) is an American screenwriter.
Elmore James.  Elmore James (January 27 1918 – May 24 1963) was an American blues guitarist singer songwriter and band leader. He was known as King of the Slide Guitar but he was also noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.
Vida Brest.  Vida Brest (true name Majda Peterlin) (21 July 1925 – 10 November 1985) was a YugoslavSlovene language poet writer journalist and teacher best known for her juvenile fiction often based on her own experiences as a young woman partisan during the Second World War.Brest was born in Šentrupert in Lower Carniola in 1925. At the age of 17 she joined the resistance movement and after the end of the Second World War became a journalist and teacher.
Mark James (songwriter).  Mark James (born 1940 as Francis Zambon) is a songwriter famous for writing hits for singers B.J. Thomas Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley most notably Elvis' last US number one hit single Suspicious Minds.
Tamsin Heatley.  Tamsin Heatley is a British actress and voice artist. She has appeared on The Bill The Young Ones. Her more recent roles have been in Horrid Henry Fimbles Tweenies and various other children's television shows. Her father was Norman Heatley a biochemist who helped pioneer early penicillin research.
Sam Newsome.  Sam Newsome (born April 28 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. His music combines an eclectic mix of straight-ahead jazz world music (drawing influences from North Africa and East Asia) and extended techniques. Newsome is assistant professor of jazz studies at Long Island University – Brooklyn Campus.
Eduardo Liendo.  Eduardo Liendo Zurita (Caracas 12 January 1941) is a Venezuelan writer and scholar. His novella Mascarada won Honorable Mention in the Fiction City Award (Caracas 1978) and the Pedro León Zapata humor prize in 1981. In 1985 he received the Municipal Prize for Literature. and in 1990 the CONAC book award (From the former national council of culture of Venezuela).
Carlos Winkow.  Carl Winckow known in Spain where he spent most of his working life as Carlos Winkow (6 February 1882 – 16 January 1952) was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Naçional Typefoundry.
Blake Judd.  Blake Judd (born November 13 1982) is an American musician and co-founder of Battle Kommand Records. Formerly the lead vocalist and front-man of the now-defunct metal band Nachtmystium Judd has also contributed to musical acts and projects such as Twilight Krieg and Hate Meditation. He previously performed under the stage name Azentrius.
Ümit Besen.  Ümit Besen (born 1956 Osmaniye Turkey) represents the darker side of Tarabya school of electronic music. He started his professional career with playing keyboards and singing with his band at the local clubs in Adana Southern Turkey. While he was in the army for his obligatory service a brigadier-general (Brigadier in Commonwealth armies) liked his style and appointed him with the task of singing at the officers tavern.
Wendy Oldfield.  Wendy Oldfield (born 24 February 1964 Cape Town South Africa) is a South African singer. At the age of nineteen she formed the rock group The Sweatband and from 1999 to 2001 she was involved with the band Mondetta. She is the winner of several music awards and currently lives in Wilderness Western Cape South Africa.
Laura Kasischke.  Laura Kasischke (born 1961) is an American fiction writer and American poet.
Jeffrey Grice.  Jeffrey Grice (born 1954) is a New Zealand musician. Born in Christchurch Jeffrey Grice studied languages and music at University of Auckland. He then continued his piano studies in Paris obtaining the Licence de Concert de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique. Resident in France Jeffrey Grice has performed regularly in Europe and France as a soloist and chamber musician.
Trym Torson.  Trym Torson (born Kai Johnny Mosaker) or just Trym is a Norwegian drummer formerly with Zyklon. Torson started playing in the Viking metal band Enslaved and was later invited to play in black metal band Emperor. He co-founded Zyklon together with Emperor member Samoth. His style is heavily influenced by jazz and he is known for his fast playing often consisting of blast beats and double-bass drumming.
Théodore-Pierre Bertin.  Théodore-Pierre Bertin (2 November 1751 – 25 January 1819) was the author of fifty-odd works on various subjects but is primarily remembered as the person responsible for adapting Samuel Taylor's shorthand to the French language and introducing modern shorthand to France.Born at Provins (Seine-et-Marne) to Louis Bertin a parliamentary lawyer and Louise Mitantier Bertin taught English before travelling to London to work as a translator.
Mary Weston Fordham.  Mary Weston Fordham (1844–1905) was an African American writer and teacher. She is known for writing a collection of 66 poems entitled Magnolia Leaves which offers a presentation of African American families following the American Civil War. The introduction to the book is written by Booker T. Washington in which he reflects on his concerns for African American families.
Spencer Smith (musician).  Spencer James Smith (born September 2 1987) is an American musician best known as the co-founding member and drummer of American rock band Panic! at the Disco. With the band he has played on four studio albums A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005) Pretty. Odd. (2008) Vices & Virtues (2011) and Too Weird to Live Too Rare to Die! (2013). The band's debut album charted in the top ten of the US Billboard 200 chart with the album reaching No.
Andi Almqvist.  Andi Almqvist is a Swedish singer and composer known for his dark cinematic sound and haunting lyrics about life death alienation and dysfunctional love.Almqvist has released four solo albums Can't Stop Laughing (2005) Red Room Stories (2007) Glimmer (2009) and Warsaw Holiday (2013).
André Chevrillon.  André Chevrillon (1864–1957) was a French writer a nephew of Taine who chose England and the Orient as objects of study.Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente) and educated at the University College School (London) the École Alsacienne (Paris) the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the University of Paris. He was a professor of English at the École Navale of Brest in 1887–1888 and from 1889 to 1894 was Maître de conférences at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lille.
Chris Smith (composer).  Chris Smith (October 12 1879 – October 4 1949) was an American composer and performer. Smith was born in Charleston South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante.
Mr. Vegas.  Clifford Smith (born 29 December 1974) better known as Mr. Vegas is a Jamaican dancehall star.
Bonaventura Lamberti.  Bonaventura Lamberti (c. 1653 – September 19 1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome. He was born at Carpiand after some years working at Modena he became a pupil of the painter Carlo Cignani in Rome. There he became attached to the household of the Marchese Gabrieli. In Rome he painted St. Francis of Paola resuscitating a dead Child for the church of the Spirito Santo de Napolitani. He painted some cartoons used for mosaics for St.
Leapy Lee.  Leapy Lee (born Graham Pulleyblank but later changed his name to Lee Graham 2 July 1939 Eastbourne England) is an English singer best known for his 1968 single Little Arrows which reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and was a Top 40 country and pop hit in the United States.
Max Gallo.  Max Gallo (French: [maks ɡaˈlo]; born in Nice on 7 January 1932) is a French writer historian and politician.The son of Italian immigrants Max Gallo's early career was in journalism. At the time he was a Communist (until 1956). In 1974 he joined the Socialist Party. On April 26 2007 the Académie française recorded his candidacy for its Seat 24 formerly held by the late Jean-François Revel. He was elected to the Académie française on 31 May 2007.
Ronnie Schneider.  Ronald Schneider (born October 20 1943 in Newark New Jersey) is best known for being the business presence at the center of pivotal 1960s events including the Altamont Free Concert the dissolution of The Beatles and the reorganization of their business arm Apple Corps.
Alfréd Réth.  Alfréd Réth (1884–1966) was a Hungarian painter.At the age of 19 he left for Italy then in 1905 to Paris. Here he discovered the art of Cézanne and Hindu art. He became a member of the cubist movement.
Nicholas Staggins.  Nicholas Staggins (died 13 June 1700) was an English composer.Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682 he was granted a musical doctorate by Cambridge University and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge.
Andrew Voss.  Andrew Voss (born 7 September 1966) is a rugby league commentator who currently works for SKY Network Television. Voss previously worked for the Nine Network including on the NRL Footy Show The Sunday Footy Show and The Sunday Roast.
Mohamed Hamri.  Mohamed Hamri (August 27 1932 – August 29 2000) commonly known as Hamri was a self-described Painter of Morocco. He was a Moroccan painter and author and one of the few Moroccans to participate in the Tangier Beat scene.He was born in 1932 in Ksar-el-Kebir in northern Morocco. His father was a ceramics artist who painted his pieces following an ancient tradition. Hamri's mother was born into the Attar family of Zahjouka musicians.
Ōmi Komaki.  Ōmi Komaki (小牧 近江 Komaki Ōmi 11 May 1894 – 29 October 1978) was the pen-name of a scholar and translator of French literature in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Komaki Ōmiya.
Samuel R. Delany.  Samuel Ray Delany Jr. (/dəˈleɪni/; born April 1 1942) Chip Delany to his friends is an American author professor and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction) memoir criticism and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17 The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 1966 and 1967 respectively) Nova Dhalgren and the Return to Nevèrÿon series.
Steven De Groote.  Steven De Groote (1953—1989) was a South African classical pianist.Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg South Africa into a Belgian family in which for three generations almost every member had been a professional musician. His grandmother was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Belgium and his father the conductor of the Cape Town University Symphony. As a youngster De Groote toured South Africa performing trios with his father on violin and brother on cello.
Sirkazhi Govindarajan.  Sirkazhi Govindarajan (Tamil: சீர்காழி கோவிந்தராஜன்; January 19 1933 - March 24 1988) was a leading vocalist in Carnatic Music.Govindarajan was born at Sirkali a small town in Madras Presidency (Present day Tamil Nadu) to Siva Chidambaram and Avayambal Ammal. Sirkali was the birthplace of Thirugnanasambandar one of the Samaya Naalvar and the 63 Nayanmar of the Saiva faith.
Füruzan.  Füruzan Yerdelen (born October 29 1932) is an award-winning self-taught Turkish writer who is highly regarded for her sensitive characterisations of the poor and her depictions of Turkish immigrants abroad.
Bruno Canino.  Bruno Canino (born 30 December 1935) is an Italian classical pianist and composer.
Luke Munns.  Luke Andrew Munns (born 20 September 1980) in the Northern Beaches of Sydney is a musician record producer and songwriter known as the key worship drummer of Sydney based worship band Hillsong United the worship band of Hillsong Church's youth group. Luke was one of original members of Hillsong United but surrendered his position in 2005 to pioneer the rock/indie/folk band Lukas as lead singer/songwriter. He is a member of Hillsong Church Sydney and is a strong Christian believer.
Anders Kobro.  Anders Kobro is a Norwegian drummer who played in the bands In the Woods... and Green Carnation. He currently plays in Carpathian Forest.
Mark Linz.  Werner Mark Linz (6 April 1935 – 9 February 2013) was a German-American publisher who specialised in educational and international publishing in the Americas Europe and the Middle East. He was born in Cologne Germany in 1935. He studied humanities at the University of Frankfurt and continued his education in the United States.
Rozalie Hirs.  Rozalie Hirs (Gouda 7 April 1965) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. Her poetry and music are lyrical as well as experimental. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening reading and the imagination.
Pralhad Anant Dhond.  Pralhad Anant Dhond (1908-2001) was an Indian painter and art educator.
James Mills (author).  James Mills (born 1932) is an American novelist screenwriter and prize-winning journalist.Mills wrote two New York Times bestsellers Report to the Commissioner a novel and The Underground Empire a study of international narcotics trafficking. As a result he testified before a panel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as an expert. His books The Panic in Needle Park and Report to the Commissioner were later made into major motion pictures by 20th Century Fox and United Artists.
Alison Wright (photojournalist).  Alison Wright (born Summit New Jersey) is an American photojournalist and writer.Alison Wright's work is represented by National Geographic and Corbis. Her photography of endangered cultures and documentation of the human condition has covered all corners of the globe and been published in magazines worldwide.
Denise Scott Brown.  Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3 1931) is an American architect planner writer educator and principal of the firm Venturi Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Denise Scott Brown and her husband and partner Robert Venturi are regarded among the most influential architects of the twentieth century both through their architecture and planning and theoretical writing and teaching.
Marco Mazzaroppi.  Marco Mazzaroppi (San Germano (Cassino) 1550-1620) was an Italian painter.
Alex Raymond.  Alexander Gillespie Alex Raymond (October 2 1909 – September 6 1956) was an American cartoonist best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934.
Yellow Tanabe.  Yellow Tanabe (田辺イエロウ Tanabe Ierou born June 13 19?? in Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist. She was an assistant for Mitsuru Adachi and Makoto Raiku and made her debut in 2002 with the short story Lost Princess. She is best known for the manga series Kekkaishi which has been adapted as an anime television series and translated into many languages.
Balthus.  Balthasar Klossowski (or Kłossowski) de Rola (February 29 1908 in Paris – February 18 2001 in Rossinière Switzerland) best known as Balthus was a Polish-French modern artist.Throughout his career Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile.
Sheila Bender.  Sheila Bender is an American poet and essayist best known for her popular books on writing instruction.
Dana Schutz.  Dana Schutz (born 1976) is an artist living and working in New York.Schutz grew up in Livonia Michigan a suburb of Detroit and graduated in 1995 from Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Livonia Michigan). In 1999 Schutz attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency program.
Dick Stabile.  Dick Stabile (May 29 1909 – September 18 1980) was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
Nathan Morris.  Nathan Morris is an American singer businessman and a founding member of Boyz II Men. Having a low and a high singing register Morris can sing baritone tenor and soprano.
Katherine Ayres.  Katherine Ayres is an American writer of children's literature.Born in 1948 in Columbus Ohio she was raised in Ohio West Virginia and New York. In 1965 she graduated from West Islip High School in West Islip New York. She completed her BA at The College of Wooster in 1969 and her MA at Tufts University in 1974. Her first career was as a teacher and elementary school principal.
Peter Cooper (author).  Peter Cooper Wing Commander RAF died 2007 wrote witty detective stories and light verse under the name Colin Curzon. His Not tonight Josephine was anthologized by J. M. Cohen.
Ronnie Hawkins.  Ronald Ronnie Hawkins (born January 10 1935) is a rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. Though his career began in Arkansas USA where he'd been born and raised it was in Ontario Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life. He is considered highly influential in the establishment and evolution of rock music in Canada.Also known as Rompin' Ronnie Mr.
Sigmar Polke.  Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer.Polke experimented with a wide range of styles subject matters and materials. In the 1970s he concentrated on photography returning to paint in the 1980s when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life he produced paintings focused on historical events and perceptions of them.
Gurbachan Singh Talib.  Sardar Gurbachan Singh Talib (Punjabi: ਸਰਦਾਰ ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਤਾਲਿਬ (Gurmukhi) a Sikh scholar and author (1911-1986) was born in Munak Sangrur district. He was a lecturer at the Sikh National College at Lahore. At the Banaras Hindu University he held the prestigious Guru Nanak Chair of Sikh Studies. He received the Padma Bhushan in 1985. He received in 1985 the National fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research New Delhi.
Tracey Moberly.  Tracey Moberly (born Tracey Karen Wood Tredegar South Wales 1964; formerly married as Sanders-Wood) is an interdisciplinary artist author and radio show host and was also a co-owner of the Foundry in London. She exhibits prolifically and is best known for her work with mobile phone text messages around which her book Text Me Up! is based. Moberly’s art is often described as socio-political.
Snatam Kaur.  Snatam Kaur Khalsa (Punjabi: ਸਨਾਤਮ ਕੌਰ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ born 1972 in Trinidad Colorado) is an American singer and songwriter. Kaur performs Indian devotional music kirtan and tours the world as a peace activist. The name Kaur meaning princess is shared by all female Sikhs.
Paul Romero.  Paul Anthony Romero is an American computer and video game music composer and classical pianist who has won awards for his work.
Ana Bettz.  Anna Di Cesare (born Anna Bettozzi on August 14 declared 1959 in Porto Rotondo Olbia Italy) known by her stage name as Ana Bettz is an Italian singer-songwriter dancer and former real estate agent. She became well known for releasing her singles Ecstasy (1998) Who Is It Tonight? (2000) Black and White (2001) Femme (2003) and Freedom (2004) which became well known in countries like Russia France and the United Kingdom.
Silvia Álvarez Curbelo.  Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (born in Ponce Puerto Rico in 1940) is a Puerto Rican historian and writer. She is best known for her book Un país del porvenir: el afán de modernidad en Puerto Rico (Siglo XIX).
Tarzie Vittachi.  Tarzia Vittachi (September 23 1921 – September 17 1993) a Ramon Magsaysay Award-winning journalist (1959) was born in Colombo Ceylon. He authored two popular columns in the Ceylon Daily News. He later became the youngest editor (at 32) of the oldest newspaper in Asia the Ceylon Observer which was founded in 1834.
Nalini Singh (author).  Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of numerous paranormal romance novels.
Zara Larsson.  Zara Maria Larsson (born December 16 1997) is a Swedish singer.Zara received national fame for winning the TV4 talent show Talang 2008 the Swedish version of Got Talent. She had a breakthrough with her debut EP album Introducing released in January 2013 with the single Uncover topping the charts in Sweden Norway and Denmark. Both the single Uncover as well as the album Introducing were certified triple platinum in July 2013 by Universal Music Sweden.
Distance (musician).  Distance (born Greg Sanders) is a British dubstep producer and DJ notable for being a major proponent of the genre especially since the release of his debut album My Demons in January 2007 released on Planet Mu records. He also founded the record label Chestplate in that year to promote himself and other dubstep artists.
Ebisa Adunya.  Ebisa Adunya (circa 1970 – August 30 1996) was an Oromo musician poet singer-songwriter Oromo nationalist political activist and member of the Oromo Liberation Front. A distinguished Oromo singer he devoted himself to the development of the Oromo identy during a time when many of the Oromo people were undergoing an identity-crisis. He is credited for promoting Oromo culture and music.
Jane Porter.  Jane Porter (17 January 1776 – 24 May 1850) was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.
Jules Renard.  Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard (February 22 1864 – May 22 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (A Week in the Country) (1906).
John Glenday.  John Glenday (born 1952 Broughty Ferry Scotland) is a Scottish poet.
Egil Remi Jensen.  Egil Remi Jensen (born 6 November 1929) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Vennesla. He was hired as a subeditor in the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in 1957 and was the chief editor there from 1979 to 1995. He chaired the Norwegian Press Association from 1987 to 1989. He has also been a board member of the newspaper Agder.
Julianna Barwick.  Julianna Barwick is an American musician who was born in Louisiana and raised in Missouri. She currently lives in Brooklyn. Her music is built around multiple loops and layers of her voice. Barwick who credits a rural church choir upbringing for her sound begins most tracks with a single phrase or refrain then uses a loop station and the occasional piano or percussive instrument to build the song into a swirling mass of lush ambient folk.
Christian Albrecht Jensen.  Christian Albrecht Jensen (26 June 1792 – 13 July 1870) was a Danish portrait painter who was active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting in the first half of the 19th century. Painting more than 400 portraits over the course of his career he depicted most of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age including the writer Hans Christian Andersen the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted and the theologian N. F. S.
Najam Sheraz.  Najam Sheraz (Urdu: نجم شیراز) is a Pakistani pop singer song writer music producer composer and a peace activist. He is known for his spirited and powerhouse vocals and for songs that create social awareness.Sheraz’s first Urdu nasheed(Spiritual a cappella) the best seller “Na Tera Khuda Koi Aur Hae” changed his perspective about life; consequently he has dedicated his voice to uniting people for peace and brotherhood.
Christina Bjordal.  Christina Bjordal (born 1980 in Haugesund Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz singer.
Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf.  Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf (January 14 1895 – August 10 1959) was a German painter who was born in Freiburg and grew up in the suburb Günterstal. In 1917 he moved to Dießen am Ammersee and in 1919 to Schönberg on the Hessische Bergstraße. From 1940 he lived again in Freiburg this time in a studio apartment which was destroyed during the air raid on Freiburg in 1944 whereupon he returned to the Bergstraße.
Lucy Guerin.  Lucy Guerin (born 1961) is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her work is described as post-modern.
Karli Whetstone.  Karli Whetstone born in Ohio United States is an American country music writer and singer.
Trichy Sankaran.  Trichy Sankaran (born July 27 1942) is an Indian percussionist composer scholar and educator. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost virtuosos of the mridangam and also plays the kanjira on occasion. Since the early 1970s he has performed and recorded in a number of cross-cultural projects.Sankaran has lived in Toronto since 1971. He is the founder of the Tyagaraja Aradhana in Toronto and is a professor of music at York University.
Barry Divola.  Barry Charles Divola (born 16 September 1959) is an Australian journalist columnist and author.
Dessa.  Margret Wander (born 23 May 1981) better known by her stage name Dessa is a rapper singer spoken word artist and writer from Minneapolis Minnesota. She is a member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
Justus Hermann Lipsius.  Justus Hermann Lipsius (1834–1920) was a German classical scholar born at Leipzig professor of the university of his native city after 1869. He was editor of Andocides (1888) and of Demosthenes On the Crown (1884) reviser of Meier and Schömann's Der attische Prozess (two volumes Berlin 1883 1887) and of Schömann's Griechische Altertümer (two volumes Berlin 1897 1901) and author of Attisches Recht und Rechtsverfassung (1905–1912).
Drums of Death (musician).  Colin Bailey better known by his stage name Drums of Death is a London-based electronic musician originally from Scotland. His music is a blend of techno house and electro.
Bidaram Krishnappa.  Bidaram Krishnappa (1866–1931) was a musician and composer of Carnatic Indian music in the court of King Chamaraja Wodeyar IX (1862–1894) and King Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884–1940) of the Kingdom of Mysore.Bidaram Krishnappa was a Konkani-speaking Gowda Saraswath Brahmin and a native of Nandalike in modern Udupi district Karnataka. When he was a boy he had a chance encounter with a rich businessman who loved music.
Romina de Novellis.  Romina De Novellis an Italian performer born in Naples (1982) was a longtime resident of Rome.After many years dedicated to dance and theater she graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance de London and continuedher studies at the University of Rome 3. She lives in Paris where she is a PhDstudent in Anthropology et Sociology at the EHESS.
Sarah Pinborough.  Sarah Pinborough is an English-born horror writer. Her works have been compared to that of Bentley Little Richard Laymon and Dean Koontz. She also writes fantasy novels for children under the name Sarah Silverwood.
Meilyr Brydydd.  Meilyr Brydydd ap Mabon (fl. 1100-1137) is the earliest of the Welsh Poets of the Princes or Y Gogynfeirdd (The Less Early Poets) whose work has survived.Meilyr was the court poet of Gruffudd ap Cynan (ca. 1055-1137) king of Gwynedd. He composed a notable awdl farwnad (elegy) on the death of his patron and a marwysgafn on his own approaching end noted for its intensity and depth of feeling.[1] He had a son named Gwalchmai ap Meilyr.
Odd Kvaal Pedersen.  Odd Kvaal Pedersen (1935 – 1990) was a Norwegian journalist author and translator.He spent the better part of his career as cultural editor of Stavanger Aftenblad.
Will Ashon.  Will Ashon (born 1969 Leicester England) is an English novelist former music journalist and founder of the Big Dada imprint of Ninja Tune records. Ashon was educated at Countesthorpe Community College and Balliol College Oxford. In the mid-1990s he worked as a music journalist specialising in hip hop for publications including Trace Muzik Hip Hop Connection Raygun and The Source.
Albert Tucker (artist).  Albert Lee Tucker (29 December 1914 – 23 October 1999) was an Australian artist and member of the Heide Circle a group of modernist artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John and Sunday Reed whose home Heide located in Bulleen near Heidelberg (outside Melbourne) was a haven for the group.
Winston Graham.  Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003) was an English novelist best known for the Poldark novels series of historical fiction.
Liao Xiaoyi.  Liao Xiaoyi (simplified Chinese: 廖晓义; traditional Chinese: 廖曉義; pinyin: Liào Xiǎoyì; Wade–Giles: Liao Hsiao-I) or Sheri Liao is a Chinese environmental activist journalist and producer of documentaries whose works are credited with advancing the Chinese environmental movement.
Aiko Asano.  Aiko Asano (浅野 愛子 Asano Aiko born March 2 1970) is a Japanese actress and singer. In 1987 she played a lead in the Japanese movie Drifting Classroom which was based on a popular horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu. Her music album Silver Doll and her nude photo book The Younger Sister of Summer were released almost simultaneously with the release of Drifting Classroom. Those media led her to considerable fame in Japan in the late 1980s.
Bessie Pease Gutmann.  Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876–1960) was an American artist and illustrator most noted for her paintings of putti infants and young children. During the early 1900s Gutmann was considered one of the better-known magazine and book illustrators in the United States. Her artwork was featured on 22 magazine covers such as Woman's Home Companion and McCall's between 1906 and 1920. She also illustrated popular children's books including a notable 1907 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Nick Conway.  Nicholas Nick Conway (born Nicholas Campbell on 26 December 1962) is an English actor. He played Billy Boswell in Carla Lane's popular BBC comedy series Bread. He has also appeared in Starting Out written by Grazyna Monvid Sharpe's Justice When Saturday Comes Coronation Street Telly Addicts and Juliet Bravo. He has featured in many theatre productions and currently runs a theatre school He is also a DJ and voice-over artist. In November 2010 he appeared on Coronation Street.
Craig Gannon.  Craig Gannon (born 30 July 1966) is an English guitar player. Previously best known for being the second guitarist in The Smiths he is now a composer for film and television.
Tash (singer).  Tash (born Sertac Nidai) is a British-Turkish Cypriot singer whose music is an East-meets-West fusion of R&B and Middle Eastern influences. He is the first artist signed to the Sony Music Middle East on a full record deal. Tash released his debut album In The Deep in 2012 with his lead single Habibi Leh; the album heavily trades on Tash's Turkish Cypriot roots.
Grace Eleanor Hadow.  Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (9 December 1875 in Cirencester England – 19 January 1940 Marylebone London) was an author principal of St Anne's College Oxford University and vice-chairman of the Women's Institute (WI).Grace Hadow was born at South Cerney vicarage near Cirencester. In 1888 Grace Hadow won a scholarship to study at Brownshill Court School Stroud England. In 1894 she went to Germany for two years to study language and music.
Herbie Phillips.  Herbert Daly Phillips better known as Herb or Herbie Phillips (April 20 1935 Lincoln Nebraska - September 13 1995 Las Vegas Nevada) was an American jazz trumpeter big band composer and arranger. He was prominent in the Las Vegas music community. He played trumpet in several notable big bands including those of Louie Bellson Buddy Morrow and Billy May but he is better known as the composer of pieces such as Little Train recorded several times by The Buddy Rich Big Band.
George Segal (artist).  George Segal (November 26 1924 – June 9 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with a National Medal of Arts in 1999.
Mc Kresha.  Kreshnik Fazliu (born 5 September 1984) better known by his nick name Mc Kresha is a Kosovar-Albanian rapper. He is one of the most popular music artists in Kosovo who reached to fame after releasing Lyrical Warfare and Lej Flleshat both of which has had over two million views on YouTube. He released his debut album titled Patikat E Mija in 2009 which was a huge hit in Kosovo and Albania.
John de Ruiter.  John de Ruiter (born November 11 1959) is a Canadian-born philosopher and teacher who conducts meetings and seminars at the College of Integrated Philosophy in Edmonton Alberta. He also teaches worldwide and has produced numerous CDs and DVDs. He is the author of a book entitled Unveiling Reality (Oasis Edmonton 1999).
Seth Gueko.  Nicolas Salvadori (born in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône Val-d'Oise France on 27 October 1980) better known by his stage name Seth Gueko is a French rapper. He has released two albums that have charted in France and a number of street albums and mixtapes.
Clyde Caldwell.  Clyde Caldwell (born February 20 1948 in Gastonia North Carolina) is an American artist. Self-described as a fantasy illustrator he is best known for his portrayals of strong sexy female characters.With his work at TSR in the 1980s he is considered one of the artists contributing to fantasy art's golden age.
S-Tone Inc..  S-Tone Inc. is multi-instrumentalist jazz musician Stefano Tirone's main musical project. Originating from Milan Italy Tirone has been a professional musician for over twenty years. The first official S-tone Inc. recording was released in 1992 during the acid jazz era a formative time for Tirone who was heavily influenced by the combination of soul jazz and Latin rhythms of the period. He started playing music in the early 1980s during the new wave period.
Scorcher (rapper).  Tayo Jarrett (born 28 November 1986) better known as Scorcher is an English grime artist and actor from Enfield North London. He is currently a member of the grime collective The Movement and is signed to Blue Colla Music.
DJ Irene.  DJ Irene (born Irene M. Gutiérrez) is an American electronic music DJ and producer.
Walter Kershaw.  Walter Kershaw born 7 December 1940 in Rochdale is an artist in oils and watercolours but is best known for his large scale external mural paintings in towns in northern England and the Americas.
Rik Offenberger.  Rik Offenberger (born January 30 1964) is an American comic book journalist and publicity agent an early utilizer of the Internet for distributing comics news and the public relations coordinator of Archie Comics.
Darrell Mansfield.  Darrell Mansfield is an American vocalist harmonica player songwriter recording artist and performer of various genres including gospel contemporary Christian music blues blues rock rock country rock and soul/R&B. He is considered a pioneer of the Jesus Music movement of the 1970s and has influenced countless contemporary Christian music and mainstream artists alike.
Soap&Skin.  Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990).
Stefan Skarbek.  Count Stefan Skarbek is a British-born songwriter producer multi-instrumentalist and singer.
Bob Jackson (musician).  Robert 'Bob' Jackson (born 6 January 1948 Coventry England) is a keyboardist/guitarist whose career has been interwoven with various rock and pop bands since the early 1970s.
Patrick Alavi.  Patrick Alavi is a German musician and dj specializing in Funk and Electronic.
TaQuita Thorns.  TaQuita Thorns (August 24 1986) is an African American singer-songwriter and MTV star from Detroit Michigan.
Mr. Mixx.  David Hobbs also known as Treach DJ and Mr. Mixx is the co-creator of the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew. In recent years he created his own website Collegepeepshowtv.com (now defunct) and has been on the road as Afroman's tour DJ as well as making beats and working with other artists.
Kazuyuki Sekiguchi.  Kazuyuki Sekiguchi (関口 和之 Sekiguchi Kazuyuki born December 21 1955 in Niigata Prefecture) plays the bass guitar for Southern All Stars. As a solo artist he has played ukulele; he is a fan of Hawaiian music. For nearly twenty years Sekiguchi has worked with Akira Sakuma in the Momotaro Dentetsu video game series as a music producer.
Marti Leimbach.  Marti Leimbach (born July 16 1963) is an American fiction writer. Her first novel Dying Young (1990) was an international bestseller and the basis of the film Dying Young starring Julia Roberts Campbell Scott and Vincent D'Onofrio.Marti Leimbach's other novels include Sun Dial Street (1992) and Love and Houses (1997) after which she took time away from writing when her youngest child was diagnosed with autism.
Mineko Nishikawa.  Mineko Nishikawa (仁支川 峰子 Nishikawa Mineko born May 23 1958 in Aka Fukuoka Japan; real name Fukuda Mineko 福田 峰子) is an actress and Enka singer who scored a number one hit in 1975 with Anata Ni Ageru.
PartyNextDoor.  Jahron Anthony Brathwaite (born July 3 1993) better known under the stage name PartyNextDoor (sometimes styled as PARTYNEXTDOOR) is a Canadian singer from Mississauga Ontario who is signed to Drake's OVO Sound record label. He released his first mixtape on July 1 2013 under OVO Sound.
Ralph Mercado.  Ralph Mercado Jr. (September 29 1941 – March 10 2009) was a promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz Latin rock merengue and salsa — who established a network of businesses that included promoting concerts managing artists Ritmo Mundo Musical (RMM) a record label the most important in the Latin industry during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s as well as a film company nightclubs and restaurants.
Shishir Ahmed.  Shishir Ahmed is a Bangladeshi Guitarist multi-instrumentalist & composer who is the Lead guitarist & keyboardist of rock band AurthohinHe is also former GuitaristSong-writer & founder of Progressive Rock band dNA
Michelangelo.  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]) was an Italian sculptor painter architect poet and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Jim Wood (fiddler).  Jim Wood the five-time Tennessee State Fiddle Champion was born in Nashville Tennessee on August 28 1964 and raised outside Fairview a little country town twenty-five miles southwest of Nashville. With 160 fiddle and mandolin championships (including fifteen state championships in Tennessee Kentucky and Alabama) between the years 1978 and 2001Wood is one of the most decorated contest fiddlers in history.
Vince Giordano.  Vince Giordano (March 11 1952 Brooklyn) is a musician and arranger and leader of the New York-based Nighthawks Orchestra. Giordano is the leading American specialist in the jazz styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks have performed at countless music festivals and concert dates and have appeared in - and provided music for - dozens of television and film projects including the award-winning HBO series Boardwalk Empire.
Laurie Calzada.  Laurie Calzada is an American entrepreneur speaker television host and author specializing in business innovations and self help. She has launched and sold seven businesses. Currently she is the owner of Sharp Approach and Dynamic Approach. She has written and published two motivational books and hosted a television talk show entitled The Big Money Idea.
Chinami Tokunaga.  Chinami Tokunaga (徳永 千奈美 Tokunaga Chinami) (born May 22 1992 in Kanagawa Japan) is a member of the J-pop idol group Berryz Kobo.In 2002 Chinami passed the Hello! Project Kids Audition and became a member of Hello! Project.
Lindi Ortega.  Lindi Ortega (born May 28) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto Ontario. Now living in Tennessee her voice has been described as a blend of Dolly Parton Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris. She spent nearly a decade as an independent artist in the Toronto music scene releasing two albums and an EP in that time. She has been described as Toronto's best kept secret and nicknamed Indie Lindi.
Francesco Monteverde.  Francesco Monteverde (19th century) was an Italian painter mainly genre and landscape painting often with a melancholy air.He was born in Forte Brescia in Lombardy and resided there. He exhibited: Luogo desolato; Piazza della Valle; I curiosi.
Geoffrey Tozer.  Geoffrey Peter Bede Hawkshaw Tozer (5 November 1954 – 21 August 2009) was an Australian classical pianist and composer. A child prodigy he composed an opera at the age of eight and became the youngest recipient of a Churchill Fellowship award at 13. His career included tours of Europe America Australia and China where he performed the Yellow River Concerto to an estimated audience of 80 million people.
Joe Romersa.  Joseph M.
Tom MacIntyre.  Tom MacIntyre (born 1931 in Cavan) is an Irish poet playwright and writer.Among his works are the poetry books Blood Relations: Versions of Gaelic Poems of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1972) A Glance Will Tell You and A Dream (1994) Stories of the Wandering Moon (2000) and the plays The Great Hunger directed by Patrick Mason at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin in 1983-6 Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (1998) (winner of the Stewart Parker Prize) The Midnight Court (1999); and The Gallant John-Joe (2001) which won The Irish Times/ ESB Irish Theatre Best New Play Award in 2002. 
Ma Ke (fashion designer).  Ma Ke (simplified Chinese: 马可; traditional Chinese: 馬可; pinyin: Mǎ Kě) (born 1971 in Changchun China) is a Chinese fashion designer. She has two clothing labels: EXCEPTION de Mixmind a ready-to-wear line started in 1996 and retailed in China; and WUYONG an haute couture line founded in 2006. In 2007 Ma Ke starred in the award-winning documentary Useless by Chinese director Jia Zhangke.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich.  Benjamin Francis Leftwich (born 4 September 1989) is an English singer-songwriter from York.
Andy Winter.  Andy Winter is a British comics writer. He is best known for creating Hero Killers with Declan Shalvey which won the Eagle Award for Favourite British Black and White Comicbook.He largely publishes his work through his own Moonface Press.
Ron Suresha.  Ron Jackson Suresha is an American author and anthologist of books centering on gay and bisexual men's subcultures particularly the Bear community.
Zubir Said.  Zubir Said B.B.M. (22 July 1907 – 16 November 1987) was a Singaporean composer originally from the Minangkabau highlands of Indonesia who composed the national anthem of Singapore Majulah Singapura (Onward Singapore). A self-taught musician Zubir also worked as a score arranger and songwriter for Cathay-Keris Film Productions for 12 years composing numerous songs for the company's Malay films.
Peter Sunman.  Peter Sunman MMus(UWA) BMusEd(UWA) LMusA LTCL GradDipBus(Curtin) is an eminent clarinetist formerly the principal clarinetist of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) between 1978 and 1990. He is a state examiner for the Western Australian branch of the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB). He was the senior music teacher at Guildford Grammar School in Perth Western Australia. until early 2012 when he went into semi-retirement.
Jeff Atwood.  Jeff Atwood is an American software developer author blogger and entrepreneur. He is known for the programming blog Coding Horror and as the co-founder of the question-and-answer website Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network.
Jamie Spaniolo.  James Spaniolo is an American rapper from Detroit Michigan. Spaniolo is most commonly known as Jamie Madrox of the rap group Twiztid. Spaniolo is also known as the Multiple Man which serves a purpose due to his different styles.
Ryan Dusick.  Ryan Dusick (born September 19 1977) is the former and original drummer of American pop rock band Maroon 5.
Liz Anderson.  Liz Anderson (January 13 1927 [1] – October 31 2011) was anAmerican country music singer/songwriter who was one in a wave of new generation female vocalists in the genre during the 1960s to write and record her own songs on a regular basis. Writing in The New York Times Bill Friskics-Warren noted Like her contemporary Loretta Lynn Ms.
George Seldes.  George Seldes (/ˈsɛldəs/ SEL-dəs; November 16 1890 — July 2 1995) was an American investigative journalist and media critic. The writer and critic Gilbert Seldes was his younger brother. Actress Marian Seldes is his niece.Influenced by Lincoln Steffens his career began when he was nineteen years old and was hired at the Pittsburgh Leader.
Govi.  Govi is a new age/ambient musician. Each of Govi’s albums have reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s New Age chart.
Dale Hawkins.  Delmar Allen Dale Hawkins (August 22 1936 – February 13 2010) was a pioneer American rock singer songwriter and rhythm guitarist who was often called the architect of swamp rock boogie.[citation needed] Fellow rockabilly pioneer Ronnie Hawkins was his cousin.
Tobia Polese.  Tobia Polese or Tobias Polese (January 19 1865 - 1905) was an Italian painter. He was born in Torre del Greco in the province of Naples and studied in the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples. He graduated in 1882 and the next two years was able to win bronze and silver medals for his vedute. Among his works: Giovedì santo; Bimbo adorato; Come bolle! and Gioie materne. This last painting was exhibited at Bologna in 1890.
Bill Scheft.  Bill Scheft (born February 15 1957 Boston) is an American comedy writer and novelist. He is best known for being a staff writer for David Letterman since 1991 during which time he has been nominated for 15 Emmy awards. He ran a weekly humor column The Show in Sports Illustrated from 2002 to 2005.
Gill Mohindepaul Singh.  Gill Mohindepaul Singh (Chinese: 喬保羅) better known by his Chinese stage name Q Bobo (Chinese: 喬寶寶) is a Hong Kong actor of Indian descent working under TVB.
Joaquín Cera.  Joaquín Cera (born 1967 in Barcelona) is a Spanish comic book writer more famous for his Pafman strip.He studied in the comic school Escola Joso and he began his career in the world of humor when he signed by Editorial Bruguera where he started to draw cartoons in the Mortadelo magazine that soon disappeared along with the editorial.With the creation in 1986 of Ediciones B that inherited the rights of Bruguera publications Cera went on the payroll beginning the most prolific period of his career as a cartoonist. 
Barry Hunau.  Barry Hunau is an American cartoonist whose cartoons appear weekly in the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California and several times a week in the Jerusalem Post. His work has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle The Berkeley Daily Planet the Algemeiner Journal and others. His cartoons have been chosen three times for inclusion in Pelican Press's Best Editorial Cartoons of The Year.
Jane Wiedlin.  Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin (born May 20 1960) is an American musician singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female new wave band The Go-Go's.
Sable Winters.  Sable Winters (born June 19 1965 in Shreveport LA and raised to adulthood as a proud Dallas Texas native) is an American singer songwriter jazz vocalist neo-soul singer and recording artist.
Eddie Kramer.  Edwin H. Eddie Kramer was born April 19 1942 in Cape Town South Africa. He is a recording producer and engineer. Kramer has collaborated with several artists now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. These include The Beatles David Bowie Eric Clapton Jimi Hendrix The Kinks Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones and Carlos Santana.Kramer has engineered and/or produced records for other well-known artists in various genres.
Ashanti (singer).  Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13 1980) is an American recording artist record producer dancer and actress. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous debut album which featured the hit song Foolish and sold over 503000 copies in its first week of release throughout the U.S. in April 2002. The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales for a new female artist outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill.
Sonia Nemska.  Sonia Nemksa (Bulgarian: Соня Немска born 16 January 1981) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer. She is born in Panagiurishte Bulgaria. In 2004 she went to work in Planeta TV making a hit - I want you baby with Sakis Coucos. Later she made some of her greatest hits including *V sriada se prigotvi *S valyachi *Nedei *Onezi Hubavkite *Talisman *Kak sym v liubovta *Purva v tova *A ko ti se plache *Niakakva uteha. She has a 6-year old daughter named Raya.
Jenny Beck (singer).  Jenny Beck (born 21 March 1978 Stockholm Sweden) is a singer-songwriter. She grew up listening to music from the Sixties & was strongly influenced by legends such as Joni Mitchell The Beatles Simon & Garfunkel & Cat Stevens. She started writing songs in her mid teens and has to date written over 100 songs a selection of which have featured on her both self and label released albums since she started recording in 2003.
Kanako Mitsuhashi.  Kanako Mitsuhashi (三橋 加奈子 Mitsuhashi Kanako January 10 1978) is a Japanese voice actress from the Hodogaya-ku ward of Yokohama Japan. Mitsuhashi is probably most known for her roles as Killua Zoldyck from Hunter × Hunter Rico from Gunslinger Girl and Suzuka Asahina from Suzuka. She was married to fellow voice actor Kōji Yusa but recently got divorced.
Kaori Shimizu (voice actress).  Kaori Shimizu (清水 香里 Shimizu Kaori) (born May 21 1983 Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actress. Although she started out voicing young female characters she has recently been typecast as deep-voiced women of experience with mostly calm manners.She is most known as Lain Iwakura in Serial Experiments Lain Hiyori Tamura in the anime version of Lucky Star Signum in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Lamia Loveless in Super Robot Wars
Devan.  Devan (R. Mahadevan) (8 September 1913 – 5 May 1957) was one of the twentieth century Tamil writers known for his witty and humorous stories.Devan was a competent and accomplished writer who used several interesting and varied techniques in fiction writing. From travelogues to recipes from detective stories to social dramas he has written them all.
Iulius Iancu.  Dr. Iulius Iancu (Hebrew: יוליוס ינקו‎; born March 24 1920) is a Jewish poet and writer who writes in Romanian.
Dan Bern.  Dan Bern (also known as Bernstein; born July 27 1965) is an American guitarist singer songwriter novelist and painter. His music is often compared to that of Bob Dylan Woody Guthrie Bruce Springsteen Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello.He is a prolific composer having written hundreds of songs. He also wrote the novel Quitting Science (2004) under the pen name Cunliffe Merriwether and wrote the preface under his own name.
Derrick Green.  Derrick Leon Green (born January 20 1971) is an American musician best known as the frontman of the Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura joining in 1997 after the departure of group founder Max Cavalera. Allmusic said about the singer: There was a time when the idea of Sepultura recording without Max Cavalera seemed unthinkable. But the incendiary Green turned out to be a fine replacement.
Anne-Hyacinthe de Colleville.  Anne-Hyacinthe de Saint-Léger de Colleville (1761–1824) was a French novelist and dramatist.
Paulini.  Pauline Curuenavuli (born 15 October 1982) better known simply as Paulini is an Australian R&B and pop singer songwriter and actress who rose to prominence as a contestant on the first season of Australian Idol in 2003.
Andrey Dikiy.  Andrey Ivanovich Dikiy (Russian: Андрей Иванович Дикий; real surname Zankevich; September 3 1893 Haivoron Russian Empire now Ukraine — April 4 1977 New York City USA) was a Russian writer emigre politician and journalist member of Vlasov movement known for his antisemitism as well as anti-Ukrainian sentiment. Dikiy has been described by a Christian essayist Dmitry Talantsev as one of the main theorists of Judophobia.
Tim Mullen (drummer).  Tim Mullen is an American rock drummer. He was the member of the well known metal band- Himsa from 2000 to 2003. Mullen joined Seattle punk rock band Sledgeback in 2009.
Christine Guldbrandsen.  Christine Guldbrandsen (born 19 March 1985 in Bergen Norway) is a singer who is best known internationally for being the Norwegian entrant in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. With a crystal-clear voice and an impressive vocal range she is often compared to sopranos like Sissel Kyrkjebø and Hayley Westenra. She has released three albums in Scandinavia Surfing in the Air Moments and Christine. A new album called Colors was released on the 8th of April 2011.
Noah Gundersen.  Noah Gundersen (born May 31 1989 in Olympia Washington) is an American singer-songwriter from Seattle Washington. He is currently working as a solo act but has been the lead vocalist for the bands Beneath Oceans and The Courage (formerly known as Noah Gundersen & the Courage). As a solo artist he has released three EPs and one full-length studio album titled Ledges.
Bob Harris (radio).  Robert Brinley Joseph Harris OBE (born 11 April 1946) known as 'Whispering Bob Harris is a British music presenter known for being a host of the BBC 2 music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test and as a co-founder of the listings magazine Time Out. Harris currently broadcasts on BBC Radio 2 two nights a week where his programmes feature mostly American and British rock country and occasional folk music from the 1970s to the present.
Scott Kildall.  Scott Kildall (born 1969) is an American conceptual artist working with new technologies in a variety of media including video art prints sculpture and performance art. Kildall works broadly with virtual worlds networked art and speculative technologies. His work centers on repurposing technology and repackaging information from the public realm into art. He often invites others to participate in the work.
Tom Lotherington.  Tom Lotherington (born 1950) is a Norwegian poet novelist biographer and translator. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the poetry collection Hverdagsfantasier. He has written the novels Den tredje tjeneren (1985) and Kjødets gjerninger (1989) and biographies on the poets Herman Wildenvey and Harald Sverdrup. He was head of The Norwegian Writers' Center from 2001 to 2005.Lotherington received the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1995.
Abdullah Balak.  Abdullah Balak taught at a number of schools and was a professor at Harran University Department of Music. He was closely acquainted with prominent musicians of his period. Balak is notable for his knowledge of the music traditions and makams of Urfa. He has also worked on the compilation categorization and instruction of folk dances and received numerous awards from various organizations for his wide range of achievements.
Conrad Susa.  Conrad Stephen Susa (April 26 1935 – November 21 2013) was an American composer particularly known for his operas. His 1973 chamber opera Transformations set to texts from the poems of Anne Sexton is one of the most frequently performed operas by an American composer and was one of the featured operas of the 2006 Wexford Opera Festival. His other compositions include choral works and incidental music for various plays. His music is published by the E.C.
Julie Bindel.  Julie Bindel (born 1962) is an English writer feminist and co-founder of the group Justice for Women which opposes violence against women from a feminist viewpoint.A freelance journalist whose work regularly appears in The Guardian Bindel is described as a Marmite writer as readers are strongly divided on her work. Her primary areas of interest are lesbian rights opposition to the sex industry modern anti-trafficking campaigns and defending female victims of domestic violence.
Yuri (Mexican singer).  Yuri (born Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco on January 6 1964) is a famous Mexican singer actress and TV host. She has maintained a significant presence in the entertainment business in Mexico for the last three decades. Born and raised in Veracruz Mexico she moved to Mexico City in 1977 for a career in entertainment.
E.G. Kight.  E.G. Kight (born January 17 1966) is an American Chicago blues singer guitarist and songwriter. She has worked with many musicians including George Jones Jerry Lee Lewis Conway Twitty Merle Haggard Luther Allison Hubert Sumlin Pinetop Perkins Taj Mahal B.B. King and Koko Taylor. Kight has recorded seven albums to date and received a number of Blues Music Awards nominations for both contemporary female artist and song of the year.Kight is billed as the 'Georgia Songbird'.
Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo.  Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo (1584 – August 18 1638) was an Italian painter active mainly in Genoa.He was born in Voltri now part of the comune of Genoa the son of a merchant. He trained under Orazio Cambiasi and possibly collaborated with Bernardo Strozzi.
Andrew Wagner.  Andrew Wagner is an American film director. Wagner is an alumnus of The Collegiate School. He received degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology from Brown University. He received an M.F.A. at the AFI Conservatory where he was a Directing Fellow.Wagner's production company is Daddy W Productions.
Krohme.  Krohme (born Chris Moore on August 16 1980) is an American hip hop MC and producer noted for his work with Kool G Rap Obie Trice MF Grimm Atari Blitzkrieg Ron Artest MC Serch Hell-Razah Sean Price Ras Kass C-Rayz Walz and more. His music has been featured on MTV BET HBO and slated to appear in an upcoming 2K Sports game.
Kristina Bach.  Kristina Bach (born Kerstin Bräuer on 7 April 1962 in Mettmann North Rhine-Westphalia Germany) is a German Schlager singer lyricist and music producer. Bach is noted for her 3 ½-octave vocal range.
Lakey The Kid.  Lakey The Kid or Lake is a rapper from Queensbridge New York. In 1999 Lake was released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence for according to him shooting a guy in the stomach who is said to have reported him to the police.He had been writing rhymes while in prison and attempted to get into the hip-hop industry once he was released. Lake is famously known as a friend and business partner of fellow Queensbridge rapper Nas.
Varvara (singer).  Varvara or Barbara (Варвара in Russian Cyrillic) is a Russian pop singer.(Varvara should not be confused with Russian pop singer Barbara (Барбара called БARБARA) who released the 2001 album Talisman (Талисман).)
José Galisteo.  José Antonio Galisteo García (born 24 February 1977 in Viladecans Barcelona Spain) was a contestant in the fifth season of the Spanish reality television series Operación Triunfo where he placed sixth in a field of 18. He has since gone on to record a 2007 best-selling disc Remember and a follow up album in 2009 called Luces y Sombras.
Alexander Frater.  Alexander Russell Frater (b Vanuatu 3 January 1937) is a travel writer and journalist.
Ezra Lee (musician).  Ezra Lee is an Australian singer and pianist.
Derek Sherinian.  Derek Sherinian (born August 25 1966) is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper Billy Idol Yngwie Malmsteen Kiss and Black Label Society. He was also a member of Dream Theater from 1994–99 is the founder of Planet X and also one of the founding members of Black Country Communion.
Malcolm McLaren.  Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was a British musician impresario visual artist performer clothes designer and boutique owner notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.Raised unconventionally by his grandmother after his father Peter McLaren left the family home McLaren attended a number of British art colleges and adopted the stance of the social rebel in the style of French revolutionaries the Situationists.With a keen eye for trends McLaren realised in the 1970s that a new youth style was needed and largely initiated the punk movement to which he supplied fashions from the Chelsea boutique 'SEX' operated with his girlfriend Vivienne Westwood. 
Takeshi Kaikō.  Takeshi Kaikō (開高 健 Kaikō Takeshi 30 December 1930 – 9 December 1989) was a prominent post-World War II Japanese novelist short-story writer essayist literary critic and television documentary writer. He was distinguished by his knowledge intellect sense of humor and conversational skills and although his style has been criticized as wordy and obtuse he was one of the more popular Japanese writers in the late Showa period.
Karen Lee Field.  Karen Lee Field (born in 1961 in London England) is an author of fantasy novels for younger readers 9 to 12-year olds as well as adults. She also writes short fiction.Born in the UK Field moved to Australia with her parents in 1969 and settled in Sydney. In 2009 she moved to the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. She works part time for the Australian Government which pays the bills and allows her more time to pursue her writing career. In 2010 she founded her own business Kayelle Press.
Paolo Gregoletto.  Paolo Francesco Gregoletto (born September 14 1985 in Miami Florida) is an Italian-American bass player for the band Trivium. Gregoletto resides in Pompano Beach Florida. He is Italian on his father's side and American on his mother's side. Well known metal producer Colin Richardson called him the best bassist he has ever worked with.
Kneel Cohn.  Kneel Cohn (born January 12 1976) in The Bronx New York is the primary songwriter lead singer and guitarist for The Dead Stars On Hollywood known for the songs Prozac Smile and Flaunt it Like This.
Dr. Demento.  Barret Eugene Barry Hansen (born April 2 1941) better known as Dr. Demento is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs comedy and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM.
Devon Russell.  Devon Russell (died 18 June 1997) was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer who recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s both as a solo artist and as a member of The Tartans and Cultural Roots.
Kariné Poghosyan.  Kariné Poghosyan is an Armenian pianist residing in New York City. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 14 playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23 and has since gone on to win numerous awards as well as perform in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls.
Achille Essebac.  Achille Essebac (January 29 1868 – August 1 1936) was a French writer primarily known for his novel Dédé about an ill-fated homoerotic friendship between two schoolboys. Essebac was a pseudonym since his original surname Bécasse is a derogatory word for goose.Essebac was a friend of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and defended him against accusations of indecency caused by Fersen's penchant for tableaux vivants at his house in Avenue de Friedland.
Antoni Miralda.  Antoni Miralda (Terrassa Spain 1942) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist.
Jeanne Cherhal.  Jeanne Cherhal (born 28 February 1978 in Nantes) is a French singer-songwriter.
Nina Badrić.  Nina Badrić (pronounced [nîna bâdrit͡ɕ] ; born 4 July 1972) is a Croatian pop singer. Before starting her career in the entertainment industry she used to be a bank teller. She began performing in early 1990s exploiting the sudden popularity of dance music but her repertoire gradually became more mainstream. She's also very popular in Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Slovenia and Turkey. She competed in Dora - Croatian selection for Eurovision Song Contest 4 times.
Giulio Morina.  Giulio Morina (born 1550 Bologna - died 1609 Mirandola) was an Italian painter active between 1570 and 1609 in Italy.He was pupil of Nicola Sabbatini. His works are preserved in the churches of Bologna.
The Game (rapper).  Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29 1979) better known by his stage name The Game or simply Game is an American rapper and actor. Game is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Born in Los Angeles California he released his first mixtape You Know What It Is Vol. 1 in 2002 and landed a record deal with the independent label Get Low Recordz owned by JT the Bigga Figga.
Jimmy Owens (musician).  Jimmy Owens (born 1943) is a jazz trumpeter composer arranger lecturer and educator. He has played with Lionel Hampton Charles Mingus Hank Crawford Dizzy Gillespie Count Basie Herbie Mann among many others. Since 1969 he has led his own group Jimmy Owens Plus.
Michihiro Kuroda.  Michihiro Kuroda (黒田 倫弘 Kuroda Michihiro) or Rin (born June 6 1972) to his fans was the lead vocalist in the Japanese group Iceman. The group lasted from about 1996-1999. Since then Michihiro has pursued a solo career. Michihiro has released 10 CDs and videos along with 6 books.In 2006 he teamed up with Iceman guitarist Kenichi Ito once again for a more rock oriented group known as Scarecrow. The group has released a single titled Steal your misery.
Eric Rohmann.  Eric Rohmann is an American writer and illustrator of children's books from Chicago. Born 1957 in Riverside Illinois Rohmann is a graduate of Illinois State University and Arizona State University. He won the 2003 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration recognizing My Friend Rabbit and he was a runner-up in 1995 for Time Flies.
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'.  Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' (फणीश्‍वर नाथ रेणु) (March 4 1921 – April 11 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era.
David M. Harland.  David M. Harland is an author and space historian. He lives in Scotland. Previously he was a computer scientist at the University of Glasgow and worked on the Rekursiv project for Linn Products.
Knobody.  Jerome Foster better known as Knobody is an American music producer and A&R. Knobody has produced records across different genres including soul R&B hip hop and rock for several multi-platinum artists including Jay-Z Ne-Yo Akon The Game Big Pun Mýa and R.E.M.. Knobody worked as an A&R at SRC Records/Universal from 2003 to 2007. Due to the enormous success Akon experienced following the release of his debut album Knobody was recognized as a World Top 10 A&R in 2005.
Chaino.  Leon Chaino Johnson (1927 – July 8 1999) the self-styled percussion genius of Africa was an American bongo player. After touring for several years on the Chitlin' Circuit he released several albums and became popular with listeners of exotica music in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Chromaphase.  Chromaphase (born 1985 in Lens France; birthname Matthieu Tondeur) is a Shanghai-based video artist. He is known for mixing his own cinematographic footages with graphic creations mainly associated with Electronic live bands and DJs. Performing Digital Art and VJing mainly in Asia. He is considered as one of the most talented VJ in Shanghai. In 2014 He begins to build permanent visual system for venues.
Federico Zuccari.  Federico Zuccari also known as Federico Zuccaro (c. 1540/1541 – August 6 1609) was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect active both in Italy and abroad.
John Niven.  John Niven is a Scottish author and screenwriter. His books include Kill Your Friends The Amateurs and The Second Coming.
Maynah Lewis.  Maynah Lewis née Mclntire (b. 14 April 1919 in Liverpool Lancashire England – d. 16 July 1988) was a British writer of 23 gothic and romance novels. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Matt Johnson (keyboardist).  Matt Johnson (born 3 February 1969 Bournemouth England) is a keyboardist who plays for the alternative jazz band Jamiroquai.Matt was aged one and a half when he started playing the piano at his family home. My dad was a musician so there was always music playing in the house but I remember being taught by a scary old piano teacher who must have been over 90 years old.
Amal Murkus.  Amal Murkus (Arabic: أمل مرقس‎) is a Palestinian singer who lives and performs in Israel. Her post-modern music style has a variety of Mediterranean influences. Her first album Amal was released in 1998 and her second Shauq in 2004. Her songs take inspiration by Palestinian folklore traditional Arabic heritage and pop music elements and express the struggle against the marginalization and exclusion that Arab Palestinian culture feels.cit req
Sherwood Smith.  Sherwood Smith writes fantasy and science fiction for young adults as well as adults. She has participated in and organized writing groups (both on- and off-line) for many years.Smith's works include the YA novel Crown Duel. Smith also collaborated with Dave Trowbridge in writing the Exordium series and with Andre Norton in writing two of the books in the Solar Queen universe.In 2001 her short story Mom and Dad at the Home Front was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Frankie Chan.  Frankie Chan Fan-kei (born 1955) is a Chinese martial arts actor film director producer action director and composer.Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema fans as the main antagonist in Sammo Hung's The Prodigal Son where he faces Yuen Biao in the final reel. Chan has starred in a number of modern action films most notably Burning Ambition Outlaw Brothers and Carry On Pickpocket.
Efrat Gosh.  Efrat Gosh (1983 - ) (Hebrew: אפרת גוש‎) is an Israeli singer-songwriter.
Juan Garcia (guitarist).  Juan Bautista Sánchez García ( born Nov 24 1963) mostly known as Juan Garcia is a Cuban-American heavy metal guitarist. He is perhaps best known as the guitarist for the thrash metal bands Agent Steel and Evildead and the power metal/speed metal band Abattoir. He is still currently involved with those bands today.
Dafydd Gorlech.  Dafydd Gorlech (c. 1410 - c. 1490) was a Welsh language poet.Dafydd’s poetry is characterised by prophetic themes. His other surviving work suggests that he was captured alongside Sir Roger Vaughan by Jasper Tudor. Sir Roger was executed whereas Dafydd survived.
Balakumaran.  Balakumaran (born 5 July 1946) is a Tamil writer author of over 150 novels 100 short stories and dialogue/screenplay writer for over 14 films. He has also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam.
Ryan Van Poederooyen.  Ryan Joost Van Poederooyen (/vænˈpuːdərɔɪ.ən/; born November 13 1972) is a Canadian drummer. He gained international recognition as a member of progressive metal groups The Devin Townsend Band (2002–2007) and The Devin Townsend Project (2009-). He is the founder of metal bands God Awakens Petrified and Terror Syndrome and is also a member of progressive rock band Ten Ways from Sunday.
Gerard W. Ford.  Gerard William Jerry Ford (October 2 1924 – August 24 2008) was an American businessman who founded Ford Modeling Agency with his wife Eileen Ford in 1946 in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Arthur Sarkissian.  Arthur Sarkissian Armenian: Արթուր Սարգսյան (born 11 May 1960) is an Armenian artist and painter.
Lyndon Hardy.  Lyndon Maurice Hardy (born 1941) is an American physicist fantasy author and business owner.
Ashur Bet Sargis.  Ashur Bet Sargis (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪ ܒܝܬ ܣܪܓܝܤ) (Born in 2 July 1949) is an Assyrian composer and singer. He became famous in the Assyrian communities worldwide for his nationalistic songs in the 1970s.
Patricia Bennett.  Patricia Bennett (born 7 April 1947 in The Bronx New York) was an original member of the American singing girl group the Chiffons.
Mahmood Rahman.  Mahmood Rahman is a Pakistani singer and song-writer and the former member of Overload.
Dave Baksh.  David Nizam Brownsound Baksh (born July 26 1980) is a Canadian musician singer and producer best known as the ex-lead guitarist of punk rock band Sum 41 but has since become a singer/guitarist in his own heavy metal/reggae project Brown Brigade. He currently plays guitar for Organ Thieves with two of his fellow Brown Brigade members.
Osamu Takizawa.  Osamu Takizawa (滝沢 修 Takizawa Osamu 13 November 1906 – 22 June 2000) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome Tokyo Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno. His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The Diary of Anne Frank. Perhaps his most notable film role was in Fires on the Plain.
George Beauchamp.  George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18 1899 – March 30 1941) was an inventor of musical instruments and a co-founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker guitars.Born in Coleman County Texas Beauchamp performed in vaudeville playing the violin and the lap steel guitar before he settled in Los Angeles California.
Bosko (producer).  Bosko Kante is a record producer singer and songwriter.
Kathleen Lindsay.  Kathleen Lindsay (1903 – 1973) was an English author of romance novels. For some years she held the record as the most prolific novelist in history. According to the Guinness Book of World Records (1986 edition where they refer to her as Mary Faulkner) she wrote 904 books under eleven pseudonyms. This record has since been surpassed.
Elías López Sobá.  Elías López Sobá (born in 1927) is a Puerto Rican classical music pianist and educator.
Kapten Röd.  Björn Nilsson better known by his stage name Kapten Röd (Captain Red in Swedish) is a dancehall/ragga artist and music producer from Gothenburg Sweden.He initially released a single Visa ingen nåd/En storm är på väg in the formation Kungariket with Tommy Tip. Kungariket was often joined by band Majorerna. In 2007 he produced Stjärnorna finns här the debut album for General Knas and Calle P. Kapten Röd.
Jena Irene.  Jena Irene Asciutto known professionally as Jena Irene (born July 13 1996) is an American singer from Farmington Hills Michigan who is currently a Top 4 finalist on the thirteenth season of American Idol.
Zi Zhongyun.  Zi Zhongyun (simplified Chinese: 资中筠; traditional Chinese: 資中筠; pinyin: Zī Zhōngyún; born June 1930) is a Chinese translator and historian who is an expert on US studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She masters English and French.
Marianna Laba.  Marianna Laba (born 7 September 1968) is a Ukrainian singer (soprano) Merited Artist of Ukraine soloist of Lviv State Philharmonic and The Lviv House of Chamber and Organ music.
Dan Seals.  Danny Wayland Dan Seals (February 8 1948 – March 25 2009) was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals he first gained fame as England Dan one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980 including the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit I'd Really Love to See You Tonight.After the duo disbanded Seals began a solo career in country music.
John Miner.  John Miner is an American rock guitarist.
Derek Hill (painter).  Arthur Derek Hill CBE HRHA (6 December 1916 – 30 July 2000) was an English portrait and landscape painter long resident in Ireland.
Edmundo Ros.  Edmundo Ros OBE FRAM (7 December 1910 – 21 October 2011) born Edmund William Ross was a Trinidadian musician vocalist arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin American orchestra had an extensive recording career and owned one of London's leading nightclubs.
Robert R. McElroy.  Robert Raymond McElroy (January 1 1928 – February 22 2012) was an American photographer who is best remembered for documenting the Happenings art movement in New York City during the 1950s and early 1960s.McElroy was born in Chicago. A graduate of Ohio University for nearly 20 years he was a staff photographer for Newsweek. He died aged 84 in White Plains.
Dan Millice.  Dan Millice is an American mastering engineer at Engine Room Audio in New York City.
James Salter.  James Salter (born June 10 1925 New York City) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force he abandoned the military profession in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel The Hunters.After a brief career in film writing and film directing Salter became a writer's writer in 1979 with publication of the novel Solo Faces.
Randall Nieman.  Randall Nieman is a musician and entrepreneur. In addition to being a guitarist and percussionist in several bands he has played a variety of exotic instruments including the theremin.Neiman departed the post-rock band Windy & Carl to form Füxa in 1995. He has since collaborated with several artists and outfits including Stereolab Add N to (X) Piano Magic The Telescopes and Kid Rock.In 1998 Ryan Anderson departed Füxa with Neiman turning the outfit into a solo act.
Jerry Cole.  Jerry Cole (September 23 1939 – May 28 2008) born Jerald Kolbrak was an American guitarist who recorded under his own name under various budget album pseudonyms and as an uncredited session musician.
Jan Terri.  Jan Terri (born Janice Spagnolia; June 17 1959) is an American musician from Chicago Illinois. Terri graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 1983 with a degree in broadcast communications and arts and entertainment management and worked as a limousine driver from 1988 to 2002.Terri had also performed at parties for rock musician Marilyn Manson.
Frédéric Beigbeder.  Frédéric Beigbeder (French: [fʁedeʁik bɛɡbeˈde]; born 21 September 1965 at Neuilly-Sur-Seine) is a French writer literary critic and a TV presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards. In addition he is the executive director of Lui a French adult entertainment magazine.
Matthew Herbert.  Matthew Herbert (born 1972) also known as Herbert Doctor Rockit Radio Boy Mr. Vertigo Transformer and Wishmountain is a British electronic musician. He often takes sounds from everyday items to produce electronic music.
Anna Godbersen.  Anna Godbersen (born April 10 1980) is an American writer. She is the author of the series The Luxe with The Luxe the first book in the series being her debut novel. The first book in her new series Bright Young Things was released on October 12 2010.
Joe Camilleri.  Joseph Vincent Joe Camilleri (born 21 May 1948 in Malta) aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent is an Australian vocalist songwriter and saxophonist. Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows.
Yaroslav Horak.  Yaroslav Horak (Harbin 1927) is an ethnic Czech-Russian then London-based now Australian-based illustrator and comics artist best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip James Bond.
Antonella Cannarozzi.  Antonella Cannarozzi is an Italian costume designer who was nominated for her first Academy Award for I Am Love (2009).
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro.  Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (June 3 1678 – June 13 1745) was an Italian painter sculptor and architect the son and pupil of Lorenzo Vaccaro. Lorenzo was in turn a pupil of Cosimo Fanzago and was part of a large family of artists including Andrea Vaccaro a pupil of Girolamo Imparato. He was active in Naples Italy in an late Baroque style.Domenico Antonio was born in Naples and his body of work is all in or near that city.
Fábio Moon.  Fábio Moon is a Brazilian comic book artist best known for his work on Casanova. He is the twin brother of fellow comic book artist Gabriel Bá.
Justin Trosper.  Justin Trosper is an American singer guitarist and songwriter born in Olympia Washington. He fronted the post-hardcore band Unwound from 1991 to 2002. He has also been a member of bands such as Replikants The Young Ginns and Worst Case Scenario. Most of his work has been released on the independent record label Kill Rock Stars.Trosper has been a record producer for several Olympia-area bands primarily at Unwound's self-built recording studio MagRecOne.
Colin MacDonald (musician).  Colin MacDonald (born May 31 1978 in Antigonish Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician who is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock group The Trews. His brother John-Angus is also a member of the group as is his cousin Sean Dalton.
Shawn Colvin.  Shawn Colvin (born January 10 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician widely known for her Grammy-winning 1997 single Sunny Came Home.
Dmitry Koldun.  Dmitry Aleksandrovich Koldun (Belarusian: Дзьмітры Аляксандравіч Калдун; Russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Колду́н; born 11 June 1985 in Minsk Belarusian SSR USSR) is a pop singer from Minsk Belarus.Koldun participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and has been the most successful entrant from Belarus to date. His song Work Your Magic was the first Belarusian song to enter the Eurovision final which later achieved sixth place and top chart positions in Eastern Europe.
Brian Irving.  Brian Irving is a Canadian screenwriter and filmmaker. As a producer his past projects have included Sabrina the Teenage Witch starring Melissa Joan Hart Total Drama Stoked My Babysitter's a Vampire My Babysitter's a Vampire (TV series) and Really Me. His most notable works as a writer and story editor are: Sabrina The Teenage Witch Redline Deadly Past Vampire Hunter D Rats and Sabotage.
Major Rajasthani.  Major Rajasthani (Punjabi: ਮੇਜਰ ਰਾਜਸਥਾਨੀ) was a noted Punjabi singer-songwriter of East Punjab (Indian Punjab). He was specially known for his sad songs.
Amazigh Kateb.  Amazigh Kateb (born September 16 1972 in Staouéli) is an Algerian singer and musician.He emigrated to France in 1988 he was the main figure of the group in Grenoble Gnawa Diffusion (group born in 1992). He is the son of the famous writer Kateb Yacine founder of the modern Algerian literature (Nedjma the circle of reprisals ...). Amazigh also claims Africanism and the mixture of cultures of the Algeria which is neither white nor black.
Joseph Yoakum.  Joseph Elmer Yoakum (February 22 1889 – December 25 1972) was a self-taught landscape artist of African-American and Native American descent who drew landscapes in a highly individual style. He was 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes and he produced over 2000 drawings during the last decade of his life. His work is an example of what is sometimes called Outsider Art (formerly drawings and paintings of the insane).
Gwynne Herbert.  Gwynne Herbert was a British actress stage and film actress.
Sophie Morgan (author).  Sophie Morgan (born 1979) is a British author and journalist who is a two-time Sunday Times Bestselling author. Her name according to her publisher’s website is a pseudonym. Her publicist describes her as a “21st century woman” who is smart and has a successful journalism career. On social media sites she describes herself as a feminist.
Zachariah Selwyn.  Zachariah Zach Selwyn (born on April 23 1975) also known as simply Zachariah is an American singer-songwriter actor host and writer best known for his appearances on the series Dream Job Attack of the Show! Catch It Keep It and Punkin Chunkin.Following the release of his country-rock CD Ghost Signs in 2003 Selwyn beat out a potential crowd of over 20000 and appeared on the first season of the ESPN's reality show Dream Job.
Anton Domenico Bamberini.  Anton Domenico Bamberini (Florence 1666 - Gramugnana Lucca 1741) was an Italian painter mainly of religious Baroque frescoes in churches completed in a heavily ornamented and stuccoed trompe l'oeil frames and settings.
Abel Tarride.  Abel Tarride (1865–1951) was a French actor. He was the father of the actor Jacques Tarride and the director Jean Tarride. He played the role of Jules Maigret in the 1932 film The Yellow Dog directed by his son.
Mars (rapper).  Mario Raphael Delgado (born April 18 1980) better known by his stage name Mars is a Mexican American rapper entrepreneur record producer photographer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area city of Pittsburg California that often performs with a Hannibal Lecter style mask. He specializes in horrorcore music.
Pete Cashmore.  Pete Cashmore (born 18 September 1985) is the CEO and founder of the popular blog Mashable a Technorati Top 10 blog worldwide. He grew up in Banchory and founded Mashable in Aberdeen Scotland in 2005 at age 19. Cashmore now divides his time between Scotland and the United States.In 2009 Cashmore was recognized in Inc.'s 30 Under 30 Forbes' Top 25 Web Celebs and The Huffington Post's Top 10 Game Changers 2009. He writes a weekly column on technology and social media at CNN.
Barbara Anderson (writer).  Barbara Anderson Lady Anderson (14 April 1926 – 24 March 2013) was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognized despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties. The bulk of her writing can be seen as being somewhat similar in style that of Anita Brookner Raymond Carver Margaret Drabble and Bernice Rubens.
Cecilia Pantoja.  Cecilia Pantoja Levi (Tomé Chile 21 October 1943) better known simply as Cecilia is a Chilean singer songwriter member of the nueva ola music movement.
Shel Israel.  Shel Israel (born August 1944) is a writer and speaker on social media issues. He co-authored with Robert Scoble the book Naked Conversations How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (John Wiley & Son 2006) and has just released another book with Scoble titled Age of Context.He has completed a second book called Twitterville on business uses for Twitter published in September 2009.
Lady Linn.  Lady Linn (Sint-Amandsberg 1981) is the artist name of the Flemish singer Lien De Greef. She does live performances with her group Lady Linn And Her Magnificent Seven. The band brings a mix of jazz pop and soul.
Steve Turner (guitarist).  Steve Turner (born March 28 1965) is an American guitarist most famous for his work with Seattle band Mudhoney.
Vladimir Korolenko.  Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Галактионович Короленко Volodymyr Halaktyonovych Korolenko; Russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко) (27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Russian short story writer journalist human rights activist and humanitarian. His short stories were known for their harsh description of nature based on his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.
Dean Cornwell.  Dean Cornwell (March 5 1892 - December 4 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations advertisements and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the Dean of Illustrators.
Tommy Wallach.  Tommy Wallach (born December 19 1982) is a writer and musician whose works have appeared in McSweeney's Tin House and ReadyMade. He musically directed an original cabaret musical that won the 2006 NYC MAC Award for Best New Performance.Wallach was born in Connecticut grew up in Seattle and lives in California. In 2005 he graduated from the Gallatin School at New York University.
Charles Kenny.  Charles Francis Kenny (June 23 1898 – January 20 1992) was an American composer author and violinist. His hit songs include There's A Gold Mine In The Sky and Love Letters in the Sand and Laughing at Life and Because It's Your Birthday Today which he wrote with his brother Nick Kenny. The birthday song was made popular on the Our Gang episode Practical Jokers.
Pradeep Barot.  Pradeep Barot (born 1953) is a sarod maestro based in Bombay India. Born to a gifted clarionet player Mohan lal Barot Pradeep from a young age displayed immense musical talent.At the age of fourteen Barot was accepted as a student by the legendary sarodya Vasant Rai. For five years Vasant taught Barot and groomed him to be a formidable performer.
Liz Story.  Liz Story (born on October 28 1956) is an American multiple Grammy Award nominee pianist and composer. She was born in San Diego California. Story began her musical training as a young child mastering Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11 by the age of 11. After studying at Juilliard School and Hunter College she attended a performance of the jazz pianist Bill Evans at the Bottom Line in New York City.
Jean Martinelli.  Jean Martinelli (1910–1983) was a French actor.
Brian Courtney Wilson.  Brian Courtney Wilson is an American gospel and CCM singer.
Etel Adnan.  Etel Adnan (born 24 February 1925 in Beirut Lebanon) is a Lebanese-American poet essayist and visual artist. In 2003 MELUS the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States called Adnan arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today. She currently lives between Paris France and Sausalito California.
Ernie Lancaster.  Ernie Lancaster (born 1953) is an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist and songwriter. He has released two solo albums since 1991. Lancaster has the ability to vary his style between strict blues and rock jazz soul and pop.He has cited his influences as Roy Buchanan Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Lee Hooker.
John Miller (writer).  John Miller (born March 10 1968 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian writer and consultant. He has published two novels to date and his second novel won the Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award for Fiction from the Canadian Jewish Book Awards in 2008.
Takeshi Watabe.  Takeshi Watabe (渡部 猛 Watabe Takeshi March 21 1936 – December 13 2010) was a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He usually played villains and performed the voices for many anime characters and tokusatsu villains. He is most famous for voicing Kaminari in Doraemon. He took over the ongoing roles of Shingo Kanemoto after his death.He also wrote an instructional book about voice acting Seiyū Naritai.Watabe died due to pneumonia at the age of 74.
Levon Pashalian.  Levon Pashalian (in Armenian Լեւոն Բաշալեան) (born 1868 Constantinople Ottoman Turkey - died 1943 Vichy France) is a famed Armenian short story writer journalist editor novelist and politician.
Lennart Hellsing.  Paul Lennart Hellsing (born 5 June 1919) is a Swedish writer and translator. For his lasting contribution as a children's writer Helsing was a finalist in 2010 for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award the highest recognition available to creators of children's books..Born in Västanfors in Västmanland County Sweden he is the son of the merchant Paul Hellsing and Sigrid Hellsing née Rohloff whose mother was a mulatto from West India.
Stevie Stone.  Stevie Stone is an American rapper. He is signed to Tech N9ne's Strange Music record label. He has released three studio albums with his most recent being 2 Birds 1 Stone which was released on August 13 2013.
Alfreda Gerald.  Alfreda Gerald is an American vocalist born in Morganton North Carolina. Upon graduating from college Gerald sang professional opera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. She has both a classical and R&B background and has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Warren Haynes Wes King Spectrum The Gap Band Deleon Richards Michelle Malone and Taliesin Orchestra.
Mike Howe.  Mike Howe is an American heavy metal singer from Taylor Michigan who performed with the groups[Snair] Heretic and Metal Church.
Jeff Watson (guitarist).  Jeff Watson (born November 5 1956 in Sacramento California) is an American guitarist originally known as one of the founding members and lead guitarist of the band Night Ranger in which he has played as co-guitarist with guitarist Brad Gillis. He has also released solo albums. In 2007 he left the band to pursue more challenging opportunities and Reb Beach replaced him on tour.
Jean Dufaux.  Jean Dufaux (French: [dyfo]; born 7 June 1949) is a Belgian comic book writer. Initially beginning his professional career as a journalist for CINÉ-PRESSE Dufaux started writing comic books in the 1980s. Perhaps his most well-known and certainly his most long-running series is Jessica Blandy.
Adrian Anantawan.  Adrian Anantawan is a Canadian violinist. Anantawan who began studying violin at age nine. He has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and at the White House. He is an alumnus of the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Canada the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia Yale University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Growing up in the neighbourhood of Clarkson in Mississauga Ontario Canada he attended St. Christopher's Elementary School and is a member of the St.
Mark Spicoluk.  Mark Spicoluk is a Canadian musician producer music executive entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known as the vocalist and bassist for the punk rock band Closet Monster and currently as a judge on YTVs The Next Star. He is also known as the founder of the indie record label Underground Operations playing bass with Avril Lavigne and his co-production credits on albums by artists such as Protest the Hero Abandon All Ships Stereos and DVBBS.
Martin Oliver (author).  Martin Oliver is a British author of children's books. He recently gained notoriety online via the Huffington Post after an 8-year old girl had his books Girls Only: How to Survive Anything and Boys Only: How to Survive Anything pulled from bookstore shelves for claims of sexism.
Doug Sandom.  Doug Sandom (often misspelled Doug Sanden; born 26 February 1930) is a British drummer who was the original drummer for the English rock band The Who. During the infancy of the band's career while they were playing as The Detours (around mid-1962) Sandom a bricklayer joined as drummer. However while the other members of the group were in their late teens Sandom was already in his early thirties and the difference in age eventually made him something of an outcast in the group.
Rowby Goren.  Rowby Goren is a writer specializing in comedy. He was a part of the writing team of the comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In created by George Schlatter. Goren's writing talents range from variety shows to situation comedy game shows cartoons as well as directing Joe Roth and Neal Israel's comedy feature Cracking Up. Goren was a part of Joe Roth and Neal Israel's cult video Tunnel Vision. Goren won an Emmy for writing Hollywood Squares.
Don Turnbull (game designer).  Donald Joseph Turnbull (2 June 1937 – 5 August 2003) was a journalist editor games designer and an accomplished piano and pinball player. He was particularly instrumental in introducing Dungeons & Dragons into the UK both as the Managing Director of TSR UK Ltd and as the editor of the Fiend Folio.Turnbull married four times and had two children.
Athena Lee Yen.  Athena Lee Yen is a Taiwanese actress who graduated from the New Taipei Municipal Jui-Fang Industrial High School.
Karen Kilimnik.  Karen Kilimnik (born 1955 in Philadelphia) is an American painter and installation artist.
Gabriele Tinti (writer).  Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet and writer.
Tom Browne (trumpeter).  Tom Browne (born October 30 1954 Queens New York United States) is an American jazz trumpeter who rose to prominence first through his early work with Sonny Fortune and scored two major hits in 1980 and 1981: the No. 1 US Billboard R&B single Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.) and the No. 4 US R&B single Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move).
Scott Sanders (novelist).  Scott Russell Sanders (born 1945 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American novelist and essayist.Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. He is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. A frequent public lecturer his essay The Force of Spirit which opens his 2000 book of essays by the same title was first given as a lecture before the Orion Society's Millennium Conference in 1999.
Robert Burås.  Robert Solli Burås (12 August 1975 – 12 July 2007) was a guitarist and songwriter in the Norwegian rock band Madrugada. He was also a founding member of the band My Midnight Creeps where he played guitar and was lead singer.On 12 July 2007 Burås was found dead in his apartment by a friend with his guitar in his hand. After a ceremony in Sofienberg Church in Oslo he was cremated. His ashes lie at Bjerkvik Cemetery in Nordland Norway.
Steve Lynch.  Steve Lynch (born 1955 Seattle Washington) is an American hard rock/heavy metal guitarist also known as The Two-Handed Guitarist as well as a guitar instructor for G.I.T. which is the famous guitar department in the Musician's Institute situated in Los Angeles.
Martin Perscheid.  Martin Perscheid (born February 16 1966 in Wesseling Germany) is a German cartoonist. His drawing style resembles that of Gary Larson.His works have been published since 1994 in various German newspapers and magazines since 1996 under the title Perscheids Abgründe (“Perscheid's Abyss”). Of his many honors he was winner of the Max and Moritz prize of 2002 for the best German-language Cartoon Series as well as the Kulturplakette (Culture Award) from his hometown of Wesseling.
Roman Tam.  Roman Tam known by the stage name Lo Man (羅文) nickname Law Kee (蘿記) (12 February 1945 – 18 October 2002) was a renowned Hong Kong Cantopop singer. He is regarded as the Godfather of Cantopop.
Jorge Ruffinelli.  Jorge Enrique Ruffinelli Altesor (born 1943 in Uruguay) is a Uruguayan academic and critic.
Mike Mohede.  Michael Prabawa Mohede (born November 7 1983) better known as Mike is an Indonesian singer and the winner of the second season of Indonesian Idol.He represented Indonesia in Asian Idol losing to Hady Mirza of Singapore Idol.
Vincent Davies.  Vincent Paul Davies (born 14 July 1968) is an English actor.Davies has lived in the Manchester area all of his life and has appeared in many Manchester-based television programmes. These include the acclaimed drama Vincent alongside Suranne Jones and Ray Winstone and Conviction a murder-based drama set in the North-West. Also he has appeared in many feature-length films including Who Killed Simone Valentine? and Everybody Loves Sunshinealongside David Bowie and Goldie.
Bairu Raghuram.  Bairu Raghuram (born 1949) is an Indian painter. His depictions are simple rural life and woman in their daily life. He is mostly inspired by the tranquillity of rural Telangana.
Beth Jeans Houghton.  Beth Jeans Houghton is a singer-songwriter from Newcastle upon Tyne who plays sweet and gentle folk music described also as an anti-folk songstress who mixes angelic vocals and acoustic guitar with samples keyboards and glam rock elements for a sound that's more fantastical than down to earth.
Billy Thorpe.  William Richard Billy Thorpe AM (29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007) was a renowned English-born Australian pop / rock singer-songwriter and musician. As lead singer of his band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs he had success in the 1960s with Blue Day Poison Ivy Over the Rainbow Sick and Tired and Mashed Potato; and in the 1970s with Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy.
Tyler Shipley.  Tyler Shipley is a songwriter musician and political activist from Winnipeg Manitoba. He is best known for a political pop band called The Consumer Goods who have released four records since 2005 toured across Canada and received moderate acclaim in North America and Europe.
Grenville Kleiser.  Grenville Kleiser (1868-1935) was a North American author. Grenville Kleiser was born in 1868 in Toronto Canada. He married Elizabeth Thompson in 1894. Grenville died in August 1935 in New York City. He was the author of a long list of inspirational books and guides to oratorical success and personal development. Kleiser also worked as an instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity School Yale University.
Krister Axel.  Krister Axel (born May 14 1974) is a French musician poet and software engineer.
Tomoe Ohmi.  Tomoe Ohmi (近江 知永 Ōmi Tomoe born October 13 1982) is a Japanese voice actress and singer with RAMS/evolution. She is from Saitama Prefecture Japan. She received training from the Japan Narration Acting Institute (日本ナレーション演技研究所 Nippon Narēshon Engi Kenkyūjo) and RAMS Professional Education. She made her debut as a voice actress in the anime television series School Rumble. Her first musical release was the single Utakata and her last is Girlfriend.
W. D. M. Bell.  Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (1880–1954) known as Karamojo Bell was a Scottish adventurer big game hunter in East Africa soldier decorated pilot sailor writer and painter.Bell was an advocate of the importance of shooting accuracy at a time when maximum firepower was the most common technique. He improved his shooting skills by careful dissection and study of the anatomy of the skulls of the elephants he shot.
Dominique Blais.  Guitar teacher for various public and private educational establishments for over a decade Dominique Blais was also involved in more than fifty recording projects in Montreal Toronto Moncton Edmundston New York and Los Angeles.In addition to have worked at Steve Vai's personal home studio in Hollywood and been guitar player for Radio-Canada (CBC) Television Dominique has also produced several albums; some of these he has promoted for airplay on several radio stations across Canada whilst others had been nominated for awards at the Canadian Country Music Awards and the East Coast Music Awards.Until 2003 while Vice-President of The Show Must Go On Productions a concert promotion company based in Canada and USA he organized and promoted many concerts and special events and toured with North American and European artists both in Canada and in the USA. 
Lillian Cotton.  Lillian Cotton (1892–1962) was an American artist known for her portraits especially of high-society figures and well-known actors writers and artists of her day.Lillian Cotton was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts. Her father was Nathaniel Hugh Cotton a West Indies shipping merchant born in Barbados and her mother was Harriet Emma Clapp.
Alex Massie (journalist).  Alex Massie (born 1 July 1974) is a Scottish freelance journalist and libertarian commentator based in Edinburgh.
Wolfgang Kirchbach.  Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach (born London England 18 September 1857; died Bad Nauheim 8 September 1906) was a German critic and writer.
Pete Sears.  Peter Pete Sears (born 27 May 1948 Bromley Kent) is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres from early R&B psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s folk country music arena rock in the 1970s and blues.
LehtMoJoe.  LehtMoJoe is an American music producer and artist.
Tahir Shubab.  Tahir Shubab (Persian/Pashto: طاهر شباب) also spelled as Taher Shabab and Taher Schubab is a singer from Afghanistan. He is based in Frankfurt Germany. Tahir Shubab's brother Sediq Shubab is also an artist.Tahir Shubab was born in Jalalabad in the nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. His Family hails from Panjsher in the Kohistan/Parwan region of Afghanistan. After completing his first two years of school in Jalalabad Tahir's family moved to Kabul for education and later moved to Ghazni.
Clint Warwick.  Clint Warwick (25 June 1940 – 15 May 2004) born Albert Clinton Eccles was the original bassist for the rock band The Moody Blues.
Radha Krishna Choudhary.  Professor Radha Krishna Choudhary (15 February 1921 - 15 March 1985) was a historian thinker and writer of Bihar. He has contributed to the historical and archaeological studies of Bihar as well as to Maithili literature. He published numerous original researches on the history of Bihar and was acclaimed as a researcher. He was a professor at Ganesh Dutt College Begusarai Bihar and was a noted educationist.
T. Harri Jones.  Thomas Henry Harri Jones (1921–29 January 1965) was a poet and university lecturer in Britain and Australia. Born in Wales he wrote in English.
Brian McFadden (cartoonist).  Brian McFadden is an American cartoonist who started on GeoCities in 2001 created Big Fat Whale and became a featured artist at The New York Times in 2011.
Colette Deréal.  Colette Deréal (born Colette Denise de Glarélial 22 September 1927 in Saint-Cyr-l'École Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines) France and died 12 April 1988 in Monaco) was a French actress and singer.
Guje Lagerwall.  Guje Lagerwall born Gun-Marie Sjöström January 13 1918 in Stockholm is a Swedish actress.She is the daughter of film director and actor Victor Sjöström and actress Edith Erastoff-Sjöström. She was since 1940 married to actor Sture Lagerwall. She has also worked under the name Guje Kanter.
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu.  Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (15 August 1915 – 23 June 1983) was a Tamil poet editor critic and publisher.
Michael Bormann.  Michael Bormann is a German vocalist. Since the first recording he had made with a band he has been involved with several groups as their lead vocalist having accepted contracts to record his vocals on albums rather than being a full time member of the bands. However he was a founding and longtime member of Germany's hard rock band Jaded Heart.
J. C. Hutchins.  J.C. Hutchins is the pseudonym for American podcast novelist and journalist Chris Hutchins. Hutchins is best known for his 7th Son series.
Ryujin Kiyoshi.  Ryujin Kiyoshi (清 竜人 Kiyoshi Ryūjin born 27 May 1989) is a Japanese singer and songwriter. He debuted as a major label artist in 2009 with the single Morning Sun. He is best known for this song as well as writing Yui Horie's 2011 single Immoralist.
Buddy Whittington.  Buddy Whittington is an American guitarist. He began playing the guitar inspired by his sister's records of The Beatles Rolling Stones and in particular John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. At the age of 14 he was already a part of the Dallas/Fort Worth music scene and playing regularly in the clubs along Jacksboro Highway.
Olof Sandborg.  Olof Sandborg (April 30 1884 in Göteborg – March 26 1965 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1962.
Chucky Thompson.  Carl E. Chucky Thompson is a hip hop/R&B record producer. Thompson was a member of Bad Boy Entertainment's Hitmen team of in-house producers during the 1990s and worked with Bad Boy mogul Sean Combs on material for artists such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase. He was responsible for album productions for such projects as Mary J. Blige's My Life and Faith Evans' debut Faith.
Wang Lung-wei.  Wang Lung Wei (王龙威) (born 1947) also known as Johnny Wang is a Chinese actor director producer and action choreographer who has starred in over 80 kung fu films mainly for Shaw Brothers Studios. Wang's first Shaw Brothers film role was as the traitor Ma Fu Yi in the Chang Cheh-directed film Five Shaolin Masters. This became a pattern in that he was cast as the villain in the majority of his movies with Martial Club being a famous exception.
Sofia Jannok.  Brita Maret Sofia Jannok born 15 September 1982 is a Swedish Sami singer and reindeer owner from Gällivare Sweden. She mainly sings joiks in Sami. As a reindeer owner she works against the preservation of the major predator species in Sweden the near extinct Grey Wolf. As a singer she has performed mostly in Scandinavia and in May 2010 she toured in China.
Josh Werner.  Josh Werner (born September 17 1974) is an American bassist producer and songwriter.
Olivier Coipel.  Olivier Coipel is a French comic book artist known for his work on books such as House of M Legion of Super-Heroes andThor.
Jose Medeles.  Jose Medeles is an American musician currently based in Portland Oregon. Opened Revival Drum Shop in 2009. A shop dedicated to vintage and custom drums. Currently leads 1939 ENSEMBLE a drums vibraphone & noise duo.
Smoothe da Hustler.  Damon Smith better known as Smoothe da Hustler is an American rapper who was signed to Profile Records in the mid-1990s.Smoothe came to prominence in 1995 with his debut single Broken Language a duet with his little brother Trigger tha Gambler. The song became an instant classic in the hip-hop community for both rappers trading verses for almost four minutes with no hook and innovative wordplay which earned them a Hip Hop Quotable in the November 1995 issue of The Source.
Caecilius Statius.  Statius Caecilius also known as Caecilius Statius (c. 220 BC - c. 166 BC) was a Roman comic poet.A contemporary and intimate friend of Ennius he was born in the territory of the Insubrian Gauls probably in Mediolanum and was probably taken as a prisoner to Rome (c. 200) during the great Gallic war. Originally a slave he assumed the name of Caecilius from his patron probably one of the Metelli.
Tore Sandbakken.  Tore Thorvaldsen Sandbakken (born 14 May 1985 in Trondheim Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) and composer living in Oslo and known from collaborations in a number of bands ranging from free improvised music to modern jazz.
Elizabeth Chambers (actress).  Elizabeth Chambers is a British actress best known for her portrayal of Domenica Van Meyer in the 1980s drama series Tenko. She has also appeared in The Bill The Onedin Line and One Foot in the Grave.
Lai Man-Wai.  Lai Man-Wai (Chinese: 黎民偉; pinyin: Li Minwei; 1893–1953) now known as Father of Hong Kong Cinema was the director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (莊子試妻) in 1913. In the film Lai played the role of the wife partly due to the reluctance of women to participate in show business at the time.
Jan Novotný.  Jan Novotný (June 17 1929 – January 23 2005) was a Czech glass artist painter and art teacher.
Nandini Srikar.  Nandini Srikar is an Indian singer composer and guitarist.
Remon Stotijn.  Remon Stotijn is a Dutch singer member of the band Postmen.
Genta Ismajli.  Gentiana Genta Ismajli (born April 12 1984 in Gjilan Kosovo) is an ethnic Kosovar-Albanian singer-songwriter and actress.
Mike Moreno.  Mike Moreno (born October 8 1978) is a jazz guitarist and composer from Houston Texas. The JazzTimes describes Moreno's sound as lyrical containing spacious phrasing and luminous tone.According to an NPR interview in 2008 Moreno's main musical influences include the trumpeter Freddie Hubbard the saxophonist Wayne Shorter and the pianist Herbie Hancock as well as the guitarists Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell.
Antonio Balestra.  Antonio Balestra (12 August 1666 – 21 April 1740) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.Born in Verona he first apprenticed there with Giovanni Zeffio. By 1690 he moved to Venice where he worked for three years under Antonio Bellucci then moved to Bologna and then to paint in Carlo Maratta's workshop in Rome. In 1694 he won a prize from the Accademia di San Luca. He later painted both in Verona and Venice; although his influence was stronger in the mainland.
Alexis Texas.  Alexis Texas (born May 25 1985) is an American pornographic actress. She began her career in pornography in 2006 at the age of 21.
Christopher Elias Heiss.  Christopher Elias Heiss (1660–1731) was a German painter from Memmingen Swabia. Born in 1660 (although many books sources claim 1670 or even 1760) he painted portraits well he was mostly distinguished by his mezzotintos which he executed on an uncommonly large scale some of his plates being three feet high and two feet wide.
Jim Keller.  Jim Keller is a musician who was one of the founders the lead guitarist and supporting vocalist for the American rock band Tommy Tutone based in San Francisco CA and was co-writer of that band's most famous single 867-5309/Jenny. The song was cowritten in the spring of 1981 by Alex Call and Jim Keller. Alex Call came up with the name number and chords. He and Jim Keller created the story line. Neither expected that the song would become a hit.
Kaleth Morales.  Kaleth Morales (9 June 1984 – 24 August 2005) was a Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter best known as the leader of the Nueva Ola (New Wave) movement in Vallenato having released singles such as Vivo en el Limbo.
Kascha Papillon.  Kascha Papillon (born December 8 1967) is an American former adult model. pornographic actress adult entertainer and magazine skin model in the closing years of the Golden Age of Porn. She was frequently billed simply as Kascha. She was best known for her exotic looks and for having had just one partner in most of her adult film work.In 2011 Complex magazine ranked her at #10 in their list of “The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time.”
Vance Wilson (musician).  Vance E.
Hume Nisbet.  James Hume Nisbet (8 August 1849 – 4 June 1923) was a Scottish-Australian author and artist.Nisbet was born at Stirling Scotland and received special artistic training and was educated under the Rev. Dr. Culross (later of Bristol College) up to the age of fifteen.
Will Wheaton.  Will Wheaton born Willie Mack Wheaton Jr. (born October 26 1972) is an American singer/songwriter and musician. He grew up in Los Angeles California and is the son of Gospel singer Juanita Wheaton.
Ken Follett.  Kenneth Martin Ken Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 130 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list including Fall of Giants The Key to Rebecca Lie Down with Lions Triple Winter of the World and World Without End.
Wazir Agha.  Wazir Agha (Urdu: وزیر آغا ‎) was a Pakistani Urdu language writer poet critic and essayist. He has written many poetry and prose books. He was also editor and publisher of the literary magazine Auraq for many decades. He introduced many theories in Urdu literature. His most famous work is on Urdu humour. His books focus on modern Urdu poets notably those who have written more poems instead of ghazals.
Jess Stearn.  Jess Stearn (April 26 1914 – March 27 2002) was a journalist and author of more than thirty books nine of which were bestsellers. Stearn was born in Syracuse New York to David Stearn a rabbi. He graduated from Syracuse University and became a journalist for the New York Daily News and later an associate editor for Newsweek.As an author Stearn specialized in sensationalist speculative non-fiction.
P. S. Harrison.  P.S. Harrison (1880 — 22 October 1966) known popularly as Pete Harrison founded the motion picture trade journal Harrison's Reports which was published weekly from 5 July 1919 until 11 August 1962. Until 1959 he was the publisher and chief reviewer.
J.T. Ellison.  J.T. Ellison is an American thriller and mystery author. She has written eleven critically acclaimed novels including The Final Cut with Catherine Coulter Edge of Black and A Deeper Darkness. She is also the author of multiple short stories and her novels have been published in more than twenty countries. Ellison currently resides in Nashville Tennessee.
Charles Baudelaire.  Charles Pierre Baudelaire (French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]; April 9 1821 – August 31 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist art critic and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern industrializing Paris during the 19th century.
Dario Robayo.  Dario Robayo born in Cumaral Meta Colombia in 1959 is a música llanera harpist. He began his study of the llanera harp at an early age. In Bogota he studied music at the Luis A. Calvo Music School with the noted teacher and composer Samuel Bedoya in addition to his career as a professional harpist.
Stephen Williams (fashion designer).  Stephen Williams (born 1964) is an English tailor and fashion designer the establisher of his brand Terence Trout tailoring house Bespoke HQ. He previously worked with Giorgio Armani Calvin Klein and DKNY and he ran the Paul Costelloe Menswear line.
Reginald Grenville Eves.  Reginald Grenville Eves (24 May 1876 - 13 June 1941) was a British painter who made portraits of many prominent military political and cultural figures between the two world wars.Eves was born in 1876 the son of William Henry Eves a London JP. He was educated at University College School and later at Slade School of Fine Art where he studied under Alphonse Legros Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks. He was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1933 and a Royal Academician in 1939.
Andrew Whiteman.  Andrew Whiteman (born David Andrew Patrick Whiteman) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. Forming the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in Toronto out of high school he eventually left the band in 1993 after eight years.
Ed Waters.  Ed Waters (September 23 1930 — October 30 2004) was an American writer for screen and television.He co-wrote Sorority Girl wrote an episode of the television series The Lieutenant and won an Emmy in 1976.
Adam Rayner.  Adam Rayner born in 28 August 1977 in Shrewsbury is an English actor who has appeared on television in Mistresses At Home with the Braithwaites and Making Waves. He has also appeared on stage in The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic 2004) Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2006) and Much Ado About Nothing (Novello 2006).He made an appearance as 'Dr.
James Fankhauser.  James Lee Fankhauser (born August 1939 Lyons Kansas) is an American conductor tenor and educator who is primarily known for his work within the field of choral music in Canada. In 1973 he was appointed the music director of the Vancouver Cantata Singers (VCS) remaining in that position until 2000. Under his leadership the VCS won several notable music competitions including the BBC International Choral Competition and the CBC National Radio Competition.
Jasper Johns.  Jasper Johns Jr. (born May 15 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.
Koji Nakamura.  Koji Nakamura (中村 弘二 Nakamura Kōji born September 28 1977) is a Japanese musician who is most famous for being the lead singer/songwriter in the Japanese band Supercar. His music style in general involves drone-like guitar riffs and mixed in raw electronica. He presently records music under the names iLL and Nakamura Koji and also participates in a band called Lama.
Neil Bourguiba.  Neil Bourguiba (Arabic:نيل بورقيبه ) is a Swedish actor. His mother is Swedish and Tunisian and his father is Tunisian. He is great grandson to the Tunisian politician Habib Bourguiba. Bourguiba is best known for playing Wilhelm Beck in the films about Martin Beck.
Diane Beck.  Diane Beck is an English actress who trained at RADA. Diane has appeared in Peak Practice Coronation Street and Tipping The Velvet'. Her stage work includes productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre where she played Jo in 'The Good Hope'. In 2005 she played Emily Brontë in a national tour of Bronte.
Kam Franklin.  Kamerra Franklin (born June 7 1987) is an African-American singer from Houston Texas. She is more popularly known as Kam Franklin. She is the lead singer for the Houston rocksteady group The Suffers. She has had a successful career as a backing vocalist and dancer for many artists around the world. She has previously toured with Heptic Skeptic and The Very Best.Kam Franklins's debut EP Bamitskam was released on June 12 2008.
Lizé Santana.  Lizette Santana (born September 20 1980) better known by her stage name Lizé is an American recording artist singer songwriter musician record producer and actress.
Maarten 't Hart.  Maarten 't Hart (born 25 November 1944 in Maassluis) is a Dutch biologist who studied zoology and ethology at the University of Leiden and taught that subject before becoming a full-time writer in the 1980s having made his debut as a novelist in 1971 under the name Martin Hart with Stenen voor een ransuil (Stones for a Long-Eared Owl).He is the author of many novels including Het Woeden der Gehele Wereld and De kroongetuige.
Hidenori Tokuyama.  Hidenori Tokuyama (徳山 秀典 Tokuyama Hidenori born January 30 1982) is a Japanese actor and singer from Tokyo. A fan of tokusatsu Tokuyama has had a role in several series most notably Sou Yaguruma/Kamen Rider TheBee/Kamen Rider KickHopper in Kamen Rider Kabuto and Hiroto Sutō/Go-on Gold in Engine Sentai Go-onger.
Max De Pree.  Max De Pree (born 28 October 1924) is businessman and American writer. A son of D.J. De Pree founder of Herman Miller office furniture company he and his brother Hugh De Pree assumed leadership of the company in the early 1960s Hugh becoming CEO and president in 1962. Max succeeded his brother Hugh as CEO in 1980 and served in that capacity to 1987 and he was a member of the company's Board of Directors until 1995.His book Leadership is an Art has sold more than 800000 copies.
Jack Green (musician).  Jack Green (born 12 March 1951 Glasgow Scotland) is a British musician.Green played with T. Rex between 1973 and 1974 then with The Pretty Things between 1974 and 1976 recording Silk Torpedo and Savage Eye. After Phil May walked out on the Pretty Things he carried on with Peter Tolson Gordon Edwards and Skip Allen in Metropolis.
Jack Oleck.  Jack Oleck (March 1 1914 – March 10 1981) was an American novelist and comic book writer particularly known for his work in the horror genre.The brother-in-law of comics pioneer Joe Simon Oleck's comic book career was basically in two parts. During the Golden Age of comics Oleck wrote for EC Comics and the Simon-Jack Kirby Studio.
Erin Dolgan.  Erin Dolgan (born Denver CO) M.A. LPC is a clinical psychotherapist and also a children’s book author known for her message of “Relative Danger”. Her book Please Knock won a 2007 IPPY bronze medal from the Independent Publishing Book Association for children’s book (ages 7 and above).Dolgan grew up in Denver Colorado. In 1995 she received her Masters Degree in clinical counseling from Lesley University in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Alee (singer).  Alexandra Adamoski (born July 18 1992 in Edmonton Alberta) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter known by the singular name Alee. Alee released her debut album This Road Goes Everywhere on July 18 2013. Her 2013 single Don't Say You Love Me reached the top 25 on the Billboard Canada Country chart. In August 2013 she won the Canadian Country Music Association's Jiffy Lube FanFest Performance Contest.
Barbara Dickson.  Barbara Ruth Dickson OBE (born Dunfermline Fife 27 September 1947) is a Scottish singer whose hits include I Know Him So Well and January February. Dickson has placed fifteen albums in the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date and had a number of hit singles including four which reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart.
Martin Wilson (writer).  Martin Wilson (born 1973 in Tuscaloosa Alabama) is a American writer.
The Last Emperor (rapper).  The Last Emperor is the recording name of Jamal Gray Philadelphia-born hip-hop artist. Gray took his stage name from the Bernardo Bertolucci film epic of the same name (The Last Emperor). He attended and graduated Overbrook High School (Philadelphia) then went on to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science/International Relations from Lincoln University.He moved to New York and began performing at open mic nights. The Last Emperor was featured in a verse on KRS-One's C.I.A.
Evelyn (singer).  Evelyn (born December 6 1980 as Evelyn Valerie Zangger) is a Swiss singer / songwriter from Zurich.
Geoffrey Lancaster.  Geoffrey Lancaster AM (born 20 August 1954) is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney he was raised in Dubbo New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky. He also studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy and also completed a Masters degree at the University of Tasmania.
Walter Van Beirendonck.  Walter Van Beirendonck (Brecht Belgium 4 February 1957) is a Belgian fashion designer. He graduated in 1980 from the Royal Arts Academy in Antwerp. Together with Dirk Van Saene Dries van Noten Ann Demeulemeester Marina Yee (graduated in 1981) and Dirk Bikkembergs (graduated in 1982) they became known as the Antwerp Six.Since 1983 he issues his own collections. They are inspired by the visual arts literature nature and ethnic influences.
Sebastian Blanck.  Sebastian Blanck (born July 18 1976) is an American artist and musician.
Franca Batich.  Franca Batich (b. January 19 1940 Trieste Italy) is an Italian contemporary artist who specializes in oil and mixed technique abstract painting. A student of Giovanni Giordani Frida de Reya and Alice Psaconopulo Batich first began exhibiting her artwork in the 1960s. She has contributed to several collective shows in Italy as well as internationally in New York Salzburg Udine and Dalmatia.
Phil Guy.  Phil Guy (April 28 1940 – August 20 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy.
Isabelle Aboulker.  Isabelle Aboulker is a French composer particularly known for her operas and other vocal works. In 1999 she gained a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 2000 the music prize of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques for her numerous lyric pieces.
Anjum Hasan.  Anjum Hasan (Assamese: অঞ্জুম হাচান) is an Indian poet and novelist. She was born in Shillong Meghalaya and currently lives in Bangalore Karnataka India.Street on the Hill (Sahitya Akademi 2006) was her debut collection of poems. Her debut novel Lunatic in my Head (Zubaan-Penguin 2007) was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award 2007.
Flaviano Bucci.  Flaviano Bucci (December 26 1817 – July 28 1906) was an Italian painter.He was born in Giulianova in the Abruzzo. He trained under Giuseppe Bonolis and from there went to Naples where he worked under Teramano. He was a colleague and friend of the painters Palizzi Smargiassi and Vianelli.
Jack Youngerman.  Jack Youngerman is an artist known for his constructions and paintings.
Cristóbal Rojas (artist).  Cristóbal Rojas (December 15 1857 in Cúa Miranda – November 8 1890 in Caracas) was one of the most important and high-profile Venezuelan painters of the 19th century. Rojas's styles varied considerably throughout his life and he displayed talents in painting that ranged primarily for dramatic effect to works done in the impressionist style.
Owen Benjamin.  Owen Benjamin (born May 24 1980) is a comedian and actor from Oswego New York.
Dave Wallis.  Dave Wallis is an English author. He was born in London and brought up in Canada. Between 1940 and 1946 he served with the Royal Corps of Signals.He published four novels the most famous being 'Only Lovers Left Alive'.
Risto Isomäki.  Risto Isomäki (born June 8 1961 in Turku) is a Finnish environmental activist and author of science fiction and nonfiction books. His 2005 novel Sarasvatin hiekkaa was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja award in 2006.
Alan Lancaster.  Alan Lancaster (born Alan Charles Lancaster 7 February 1949 in Peckham London England) is a bassist and a founding member of the English rock band Status Quo. As well as contributing to songwriting he was also one of the lead vocalists on albums and live concerts taking the lead on tracks such as Backwater Bye Bye Johnny High Flyer and Roadhouse Blues etc.Alan Lancaster formed the group in 1962 with his then schoolmate Francis Rossi.
Christabel Rose Coleridge.  Christabel Rose Coleridge (25 May 1843 – 14 November 1921) was an English novelist who also edited girls' magazines sometimes in collaboration with the writer Charlotte Yonge.A granddaughter of the famous poet Samuel Coleridge Christabel was born at St Mark's College Chelsea while her father Derwent was headmaster there. For a time she helped her brother Ernest run a school but her ambition was to be a writer.
Danielle Bennett.  Danielle Bennett is a Canadian fantasy author. Her most prominent work is the 2008 Fantasy novel Havemercy written with coauthor Jaida Jones. Bennett is from Victoria British Columbia and attended Vic High (graduated 2004) and Camosun College. She met Jones in a Livejournal thread and the two started writing a novel together. The resulting novel Havermercy was picked up Random House for an advance of $30000 and published in 2008.
DJ Fokis.  Randy Ellis (born October 30 1979 in Chicago Illinois) better known as DJ Fokis Bull Of Tha Industry is a hip hop turntablist/producer and owner of PPEG (Pure Product Entertainment Group LLC.) a music/marketing consulting firm from Chicago Illinois U.S.
Arin Ilejay.  Richard Arin Ilejay (born February 17 1988) is an American musician. He is the current drummer of American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold becoming an official member in 2013 after being a session and touring member for the band since 2011. He is also the former drummer of American metalcore band Confide.
Ron Rinehart.  Ron Rinehart is an American thrash metal vocalist. He was the lead singer for the American thrash metal band Dark Angel from 1988 after the departure of previous vocalist Don Doty until the band's dissolution in 1992 and again from 2002 to 2005 when they were reunited. In October 2013 Dark Angel announced another reunion which will also feature Rinehart.He was first featured on the Dark Angel album Leave Scars followed by Live Scars and Time Does Not Heal.
Pierre Bismuth.  Pierre Bismuth is a French contemporary artist. He lives and works in Brussels.
Eva Esther Hill.  Eva Esther Hill (19 September 1898–17 April 1981) was a New Zealand doctor medical superintendent writer publicist and health campaigner. She was born in Parawai Thames/Coromandel New Zealand on 19 September 1898.
Raoul Cauvin.  Raoul Cauvin (born 26 September 1938) is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.
U. K. Murali.  U. K. Murali an Indian singer and music composer. With his brother U K. Manoj he introduced a light music orchestra Udhaya Raagam in 1985. Murlai has performed more than 10000 shows in India and abroad. One of the forerunners in the world of cine light music he is proficient in performing in all South Indian languages (Tamil Telugu Malayalam Kannada) and also in Hindi and Western languages. Udhaya Raagam specifies the “Rising of Ragas” from talented and versatile musicians.
Jean Paul.  Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter was a German Romantic writer best known for his humorous novels and stories.
Ronnie Van Zant.  Ronald Wayne Ronnie Van Zant (January 15 1948 – October 20 1977) was an American lead vocalist primary lyricist and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of current lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant and of the founder and vocalist of 38 Special Donnie Van Zant.
Mariazelle Goonetilleke.  Mariazelle Goonetilleke is a leading Sri Lankan singer and music star. She has performed to capacity filled auditoriums not only in Sri Lanka but also as far afield as the United Kingdom United States United Arab Emirates Singapore and Australia.
Chhet Sovan Panya.  Chhet Sovan Panya (also romanised as Chhet Sovan Panha Chhet Sovannpanha or ឈិត សុវណ្ណបញ្ញា) is a Cambodian singer. She is the only singer to reach the top rankings in Cambodia's competitive music industry with almost no self-promotion[citation needed].
John Kpiaye.  John Ogetti Kpiaye (born 1948) is a reggae session and live guitarist. He was a member of The Cats who had a No.48 UK hit with Swan Lake and Matumbi who had a No.35 hit with Point of View (Squeeze a Little Lovin').
Cláudio Venturini.  Cláudio Venturini (Luís Cláudio Venturini born in Belo Horizonte Brazil 14 August 1958) is a Brazilian guitarist vocalist and composer.With his younger brother Flávio Venturini he began his career taking part in the album A Via Láctea of the friend Lô Borges in 1978.
T. E. Dikty.  Thaddeus Maxim Eugene (Ted) Dikty (June 16 1920 – October 11 1991) was an editor who also played a role as one of the earliest science fiction anthologists and as a publisher.
Ottaviano da Faenza.  Ottaviano da Faenza an Italian painter of the 14th century who was instructed by Giotto spent the greater part of his life at Faenza where he died. There are several paintings attributed to him to be found in the neighbourhood of Faenza and at Bologna.
Edward Topol.  Edward Vladimirovich Topol (Russian: Эдуа́рд Влади́мирович То́поль) real name Topelberg (Russian: Топельберг) (born 8 October 1938) is a Russian novelist.
Gal Weinstein.  Gal Weinstein is an Israeli artist.
Habib Jalib.  Habib Jalib (Urdu: حبیب جالب) was a Pakistani revolutionary poet left-wing activist and politician who opposed martial law authoritarianism and state oppression.
Spencer Antle.  Spencer Antle (born March 7 1971) is an American fashion designer and founder of the Island Company lifestyle clothing brand. Antle is the CEO Creative Director of Island Company and also its designer photographer and advertiser.Antle led Island Company to be nominated for Inc. Magazine's Top 500/500 fastest Growing Companies In America 4 years in a row for 2009 2010 2011 2012.
Daddy Stovepipe.  Johnny Watson (April 12 1867 – November 1 1963) was an African American blues singer guitarist and harmonica player best known for his recordings under the name Daddy Stovepipe. Watson also recorded as Jimmy Watson Sunny Jim and Rev. Alfred Pitts. He may have been the earliest-born blues performer to record.Many of his recordings were jug band duets with his wife Sarah Watson who was usually credited as Mississippi Sarah.
Sam Sims.  Sam Sims (born 1980) is an American musician singer and songwriter specializing in acoustic folk rock with an island flavor.
Eliana Guercio.  Eliana Guercio (born 12 October 1977 in Lanús) is an Argentine model vedette and actress. She is currently working in shows hosted by Gerardo Sofovich in Buenos Aires's Corrientes Avenue. She came into attention when performed a full nudity in Más que diferente one of those shows. Now she's ending No somos santas and in one month or two she will be back with a new play called El referi cornudo.
Geeta Novotny.  Geeta Novotny (born Geeta Bhatnagar) is an American mezzo-soprano actor published writer and columnist. As a classical singer Novotny has performed principal roles nationally with opera companies and symphony orchestras from the stages of New York City's Carnegie Hall and the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera to the stages of the Los Angeles Opera and the Aspen Music Festival.
Georges Thurston.  George Thurston (December 29 1951-June 18 2007) was a Quebec singer author and composer and radio show host. He was known as Boule Noire since 1975 and worked in the music industry as a solo artist for nearly 30 years and as part of musical groups for five years.
Paul Thek.  Paul Thek (November 2 1933 - August 10 1988) was an American painter and later sculptor and installation artist. Born in Brooklyn he studied locally at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. In 1951 he entered the Cooper Union.Although Thek began as a painter he became known later in life for his sculptures and installations.
William Mulvihill.  William Patrick Mulvihill (June 25 1923 - September 17 2004) was an American author of several novels most notably of which is the New York Times Bestseller The Sands of Kalahari which was later adapted into the movie Sands of the Kalahari by Paramount during 1965.
Gaspar Frutuoso.  Gaspar Frutuoso (c.1522; Ponta Delgada — c.1591; Ribeira Grande) was a Portuguese priest historian and humanist from the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. His major contribution to Portuguese history was his detailed descriptions of the history and geography of the Azores Madeira Canary Islands and references to Cape Verde which he published in his six-part tome Saudades da Terra as well as Saudades do Céu.
La Tigresa del Oriente.  Juana Judith Bustos Ahuite (born 22 November 1944 in Constancia Loreto Region Perú) is best known as La Tigresa del Oriente (lit. Spanish for The Tigress from the Orient the orient being the Peruvian Amazon) is a singer hairdresser and makeup artist.
Tod Ashley.  Tod Ashley is a musician better known by the stage name Tod A. He founded the rock music groups Cop Shoot Cop and Firewater and is a singer-songwriter and bass guitarist .Ashley also spent time while in art school in a band called Shithäus with Jon Spencer later of The Blues Explosion.Ashley was living in Bushwick Brooklyn when he decided that he wanted to travel the world.
Nine (rapper).  Nine is the stage name of Derrick Keyes (born September 19 1969) an American rapper from The Bronx New York City New York. He also been known as 9MM or Nine Double M. Known for his harsh gravelly flow and distinctive voice Keyes got his break in late 1993 as a featured guest on Funkmaster Flex and the Ghetto Celebs' Six Million Ways to Die.Keyes originally recorded under the moniker 9MM (or Nine Double M) before changing his name to simply Nine.
Alvilde Prydz.  Alvilde Prydz (5 August 1846-5 September 1922) was a Norwegian novelist.
István Sándorfi.  István Sándorfi (In France Étienne Sandorfi born 12 June 1948 in Budapest Hungary died 26 December 2007 in Paris France) was a Hungarian hyperrealist painter.
Jamie Cook.  Jamie Robert Cook (born 8 July 1985) is the guitarist for the British indie-rock band Arctic Monkeys.
Tanguito.  José Alberto Iglesias (September 16 1945 – May 19 1972) better known as Tango or Tanguito was an Argentine rock composer and singer. His short career was pivotal in the first years of Argentine rock nacional the earliest incarnation of rock en Español.
Sanai.  For the village in Nepal see Sanai NepalHakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi (Persian: حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود ‌بن آدم سنایی غزنوی‎) was a Persian poet who lived in Ghazni between the 11th century and the 12th century in what is now Afghanistan. He died between 1131 and 1141.
Julio Iglesias Jr..  Julio Iglesias Jr. (born February 25 1973) is a Spanish singer. In 2008 he was declared the winner of the CMT competition Gone Country.
James Blunt.  James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974) better known by his stage name James Blunt is an English singer-songwriter. He had signed with EMI before securing a recording contract with Atlantic Records and Custard Records.Blunt rose to prominence in 2004 with the release of his debut studio album Back to Bedlam before achieving worldwide fame with the singles You're Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover.
Sif Ruud.  Sif Ruud born Sif Einarsdotter Ruud Fallde (6 May 1916 – 15 August 2011) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 140 films. At the 15th Guldbagge Awards she won the award for Best Actress for her role in A Walk in the Sun.
Majoran Vivekananthan.  Majoran Vivekananthan (born 1977) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.He migrated from Jaffna Sri Lanka to Bergen Norway at the age of eleven and later moved to Oslo to take the cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo. He is the editor-in-chief of Utrop started as the first online newspaper for minorities in Norway in 2001. The newspaper was expanded to a paper version in June 2004.
Saskia Olde Wolbers.  Saskia Olde Wolbers is a video artist who lives and works in London England (born Breda The Netherlands 1971).
Jay Fay.  Joshua Fagin better known by his stage name Jay Fay is an American DJ and producer from St. Louis Missouri. He released his debut EP Bonkers in February 2012. He is best known for featuring on DJ Fresh's 2014 single Dibby Dibby Sound a track which was initially based on Jay Fay's solo single Dibby Dibby.
Anton Ferdinand Titz.  Anton Ferdinand Titz (or Tietz or Dietz) (1742 – 1811) was a German composer violin and viola d'amore player principally now known for his string quartets.
Chinatsu Akasaki.  Chinatsu Akasaki (赤﨑 千夏 Akasaki Chinatsu born August 10 1987) is a Japanese voice actress from Kagoshima Prefecture and works with 81 Produce.
Erin Willett.  Erin Grace Willett (born May 1 1989) is an American singer-songwriter from Gaithersburg Maryland. She was a semifinalist on Season 2 of The Voice on NBC. She came in second place on Blake Shelton’s team to the eventual winner Jermaine Paul. Willett currently resides in Los Angeles California.
Chris Sievey.  Christopher Mark Sievey (25 August 1955 – 21 June 2010) was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom from 1984 onwards.Sievey under the guise of Sidebottom made regular appearances on North West television throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s even becoming a reporter for Granada Reports.
Kate Gordon (energy analyst).  Kate Gordon is an American energy analyst writer and leader in the “green jobs” movement. She is currently the Vice President and Director of the Energy and Climate Program at the nonpartisan think tank called The Center for the Next Generation in San Francisco and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington D.C.
Satomura Shōkyū.  Satomura Shōkyū (里村 昌休 1510–1552) became the leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545. Before Sobuoko's death in 1545 Shokyu accepted the famous Joha as a pupil during the year of 1544. During the year of 1552 Shokyu laid on his death bed then on entrusting Joho with the leadership of the Satomura school of renga and the care of his son Satomura Shoshitsu.
Charles Henry Miller.  Charles Henry Miller N.A. (March 20 1842 – January 21 1922) was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) called him The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island.
Mari Osmundsen.  Mari Osmundsen is the literary pseudonym of Anne Kristine Halling (born 1951) a Norwegian novelist and children's writer. She made her literary debut in 1978 with the novel Vi klarer det!. Osmundsen was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1984 (shared with Simen Skjønsberg).
Sudhir Nayak.  Sudhir Nayak (Marathi: सुधीर नायक Kannada: ಸುಧೀರ್ ನಾಯಕ್ born 15 May 1972) is an Indian classical harmonium player a disciple of Pandit Tulsidas Borkar.Sudhir has the honour of having performed along with Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and Shubha Mudgal at the Central Hall of the Parliament of India
Ethan Kath.  Ethan Kath (born 25 December 1982) is the producer and main songwriter of Crystal Castles.Rolling Stone Magazine named Crystal Castles the #1 Icons of 20 Years of Lollapalooza. Ethan Kath and his band Crystal Castles received the John Peel Award For Innovation at the 2011 NME Awards. His debut album with the band Crystal Castles was included in NME's Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade list at #39.
Darryl D'Bonneau.  Darryl D'Bonneau is a Dance/House/R&B artist from Charleston South Carolina. Although he calls New York City home D'Bonneau mostly spends his time living and traveling across Europe where he had more success. D'Bonneau's musical roots trace back to his days a child singing in church choirs and gospel ensembles.
Tatsuyuki Maeda.  Tatsuyuki Maeda (前田 龍之 Maeda Tatsuyuki born June 11 1968 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese musician and sound producer with Wave Master. He graduated from school with an electric organ player course. He is best known for composing the music for Sonic 3 Sonic & Knuckles Dragon Force and Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island.Alongside Masaru Setsumaru he created the majority of the sound effects utilized in various Sega games.
Nigel Jenkins.  Nigel Jenkins (20 July 1949 – 28 January 2014) was an Anglo-Welsh poet. He was an editor journalist psychogeographer broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction as well as being a lecturer at Swansea University and director of the creative writing programme there.
Max Roach.  Maxwell Lemuel Max Roach (January 10 1924 – August 16 2007) was an American jazz percussionist drummer and composer.A pioneer of bebop Roach went on to work in many other styles of music and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history.
Oliver Stonor.  Oliver Stonor (born Frederic Field Stoner and also using the pseudonym (E.) Morchard Bishop FRSL) (3 July 1903 -- 1987) was an English novelist reviewer translator and man of letters. He was briefly the husband of the Irish writer Norah Hoult.He was born at Teddington the son of Alfred Hills Stoner and Sarah Louise Stoner and educated at Kingston Grammar School.
Craig Ferguson.  Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-born American television host stand-up comedian writer actor director author producer and voice artist. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson an Emmy Award-nominated Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS.
Mark Dunn.  Mark Dunn (born 1956 Memphis Tennessee) is an American author and playwright.
Manmohan Acharya.  Manmohan Acharya is a poet and lyricist from India. He is also a researcher and published author. His contribution appears significant by inspiring the classical dance Odissi for the first time to enter into Bollywood with his lucid Sanskrit lyrics.His Gita-Milindam contains 15 gunjans (songs) in different melodious rhythms. Manomohan Acharya speaks for the common mass. His creative technique suggests his attitude to life.
Robert E. Pierre.  Robert E. Pierre (born 1968 in Franklin Louisiana) is a longtime reporter and editor at The Washington Post. Pierre has written articles on adult incarceration juvenile justice and social justice and he was one of 18 writer-contributors to an award-winning series of articles for the Washington Post later republished in an anthology as Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril.
John Palmer (entrepreneur).  John Palmer (born Igor Shouisky on September 3 1925 in Kenosha Wisconsin) was a bandleader tenor saxophonist and composer. He recorded several albums for Mercury Records including A Swingin' Love Affair A Swingin' Dance Date and Moonlight on the Campus with a small singing group which included Ann Trendler whom he would later marry. He performed and recorded under the name Peter Palmer.John Palmer studied music at Northwestern University and graduated in 1950.
Nikki Gil.  Monica Pauline Nikki Gil (born August 23 1987 Manila Philippines) is a Filipino singer actress host model and a present myx VJ.She is known for being part of the afternoon remake of Carlo J. Caparas' Pieta in 2008-2009 as Guia V. Angeles and also in 2009 she portrayed Princess Punzalan's role in the afternoon drama which ran in 2009 and 2010 as Julie Bernardo in Nagsimula sa Puso.
Skip Heller.  Fred Skip Heller (born October 4 1965) is a Philadelphia-born Hollywood-based singer songwriter and guitarist. Although active in many different types of music as a performer producer and historian coming out of the Philadelphia jazz scene and in spite of local critical recognition he did not make a large mark in his hometown.In 1994 he began working for and studying with exotica composer Les Baxter who made his home in Palm Springs California.
Pink Nasty.  Sara Beck better known by her stage name Pink Nasty is an American singer-songwriter. She is from Wichita Kansas and currently lives in Austin Texas. Pink Nasty has released three full length albums. She performs with her brother a rapper who goes by the stage name Black Nasty.Kathryn Yu of NPR described Pink Nasty as a young and talented singer-songwriter whose quirky alt-country songs nicely complement her pretty but powerful voice.
David Nelson (musician).  David Nelson (born June 12 1943 in Seattle Washington U.S.) is an American musician singer and songwriter. He is perhaps best known as a co-founder and longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
Nick Gilder.  Nicholas George Nick Gilder (born 21 December 1951) is an English-Canadian musician who first came to prominence as the frontman for the glam rock band Sweeney Todd. He later had a successful solo career as a singer as well as a songwriter.
Richard Chapman (musician).  Richard Chapman (born 9 May 1956 in Pembury Kent England) is a British guitarist composer and author. He is a self-taught musician who has developed a personal style which is inspired by a lifelong interest in landscapes and Celtic mythology and English folklore.
Dick Taylor.  Richard Clifford 'Dick' Taylor (born 28 January 1943) is an English musician who was an early bassist for the Rolling Stones. He left to become an art student at Sidcup Art College and while there formed The Pretty Things in September 1963. Taylor now lives on the Isle of Wight England.
Haider Hussain (singer-songwriter).  Haider Hussain (Bengali: হায়দার হোসেন) is a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter.
Coby Linder.  Jacob Coby Linder (born June 27 1985 in Skokie Illinois) is best known as the former drummer of the band Say Anything. He lists his influences as Travis Barker Tony Williams Vinnie Colaiuta Dave Grohl Taylor Hawkins and Bryan Newman. According to Say Anything's website his favorite genres include emo death-core evil rock jazz and rock.
The Tongue.  The Tongue (born Xannon Shirley) is a musical artist from Sydney Australia and is signed to Australian independent label Elefant Traks. He has released an EP (Bad Education) three albums (Shock And Awe Alternative Energy and Surrender To Victory) and three mixtapes (Redux The Tongue Is Dead and The Sextape).
Grete Gulbransson.  Grete Gulbransson (born Jehly 31 July 1882 – 26 March 1934) was an Austrian writer and poet best known for her 1934 family chronicle Geliebte Schatten which became a best-seller.
Lao She.  Lao She (Chinese: 老舍; pinyin: Lǎo Shě; Wade–Giles: Lao3 She3; February 3 1899 – August 24 1966) was the pen name of Shu Qingchun (simplified Chinese: 舒庆春; traditional Chinese: 舒慶春; pinyin: Shū Qìngchūn; Manchu surname: Sumuru) a noted Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th century Chinese literature and best known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶館). He was of Manchu ethnicity.
Little Willie Littlefield.  Willie Littlefield billed as Little Willie Littlefield (September 16 1931 – June 23 2013) was an American R&B and boogie-woogie pianist and singer whose early recordings formed a vital link between boogie-woogie and rock and roll. Littlefield was regarded a teenage wonder and overnight sensation when in 1949 at the age of 18 he popularised the triplet piano style on his Modern Records debut single It's Midnight.
Michael Petry.  For the footballer see Michael Petry (footballer)Michael Petry (born 1960) is a multi-media artist director of MOCA London and co-founder of the Museum of Installation London. He was born in El Paso Texas and has lived in London since 1981. He received a BA at Rice University (Houston) an MA at London Guildhall University and a Phd in Arts at Middlesex University.
Will Taylor (musician).  Will Taylor (born November 30 1968) is a violist violinist arranger composer music producer and guitarist and from Austin Texas. He is the founder of the groups Will Taylor & Strings Attached and The Jazz Menagerie.
Johan Reinholdz.  Johan Reinholdz (born 30 June 1980) is a progressive metal artist best known for his work with the Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda Swedish death metal band NonExist and the melodic death metal band Skyfire. He composed Andromeda's debut album Extension of the Wish. He has also released four more studio albums with Andromeda and one live-album. In 2004 he joined Skyfire and made his debut on tape with them on Esoteric in 2009.
Carl De Keyzer.  Carl De Keyzer (born 27 December 1958 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian contemporary photographer. He was nominated to the Magnum Photos agency in 1990 became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994.
Annibale Carracci.  Annibale Carracci (Italian pronunciation: [anˈnibale karˈrattʃi]; November 3 1560 – July 15 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter.
Ahmed Mater.  Ahmed mater is one of the raising stars of the Saudi contemporary art he is also a man of as he puts it many masks .
Luke Busby.  Luke Busby (born 22 April 1981) is an English music producer-songwriter best known for being part of UK electronic pop band Temposhark with singer/songwriter Robert Diament.
Nathalie Cardone.  Nathalie Cardone (born 29 March 1967 at la Clinique de Cygognes in Pau Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a French actress and singer.
Panayiotis Kalorkoti.  Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 11 April 1957 Cyprus) is a contemporary British artist. As well as painting in acrylics and watercolour he does drawings and also experimented with etchings screenprints lithographs and Monotypes. He tends to produce a series of paintings for a specific exhibition. He works within specific terms of reference and his work has been described as an entirely modern iconography.
Liu Fang.  Liu Fang (simplified Chinese: 刘芳; traditional Chinese: 劉芳) (born 1974) is one of the most prominent pipa players in the world. Described in the media as the empress of pipa (L'actualité) divine mediator (World) the greatest ambassadress of the art of the pipa (La presse) Liu Fang is known as “possessing virtuoso technique grace and a unique empathy toward the music she plays – whether it is a traditional and folk tune or a modern Western composition” (All Music Guide).
MC Guimê.  Guilherme Aparecido Dantas better known by his stage name MC Guimê (born in Osasco São Paulo Brazil 10 Dezember 1992) is a funk ostentação singer.known for songs Plaquê de 100 Pais do Futebol Tá Patrão and Na Pista eu Arraso. Is currently considered the greatest singer of funk ostentação.
George Jackson (songwriter).  George Henry Jackson (March 12 1945 – April 14 2013) was an American blues rhythm & blues rock and soul songwriter and singer. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter; he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians including Down Home Blues One Bad Apple Old Time Rock and Roll and The Only Way Is Up. As a southern soul singer he recorded a mere 15 singles between 1963 and 1985 with some success.
Linda Kelly (author).  Linda Kelly (born 1936) is an English historian whose expertise is in late 18th and early 19th century romanticism.
Dominique de Roux.  Dominique de Roux (September 17 1935 – March 29 1977) was a French writer and publisher.
Meltem Arıkan.  Meltem Arıkan (born January 7 1968 in Ankara) is a Turkish novelist and playwright.
David Isberg.  David Isberg (born February 23 1975) is a Swedish musician most famous for having founded seminal Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. David Isberg is also known as DJ Dake having a successful DJ career with independent and electronic music often influenced by the magical Madchester scene. He also DJs old school heavy thrash speed and death metal from the 1980s at Club Rocks in Stockholm on a monthly basis.
Michel Marc Bouchard.  Michel Marc Bouchard OC CQ (born February 2 1958) is a Canadian playwright.
Philip John Stead.  Philip John Stead OBE FRSL (5 February 1915 - 22 June 2005) was an English criminologist author literary critic translator and poet. After retirement in the United Kingdom he emigrated to New York and then Massachusetts.Stead was born in Swinton South Yorkshire in 1915 and was educated at Oxford University. Moving to London he became a member of The Critics' Circle. During World War II he served in the British Army in North Africa Italy France Belgium and Germany.
Jonathan Latimer.  Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (October 23 1906 – June 23 1983) was an American crime writer noted for his novels and screenplays.
Jim Krueger.  Jim Krueger is an American comic book writer novelist and filmmaker.
Antonio Beduschi.  Antonio Beduschi (born 1576- alive 1607) was an Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period mainly in his hometown of Cremona. He imitated the style of Antonio Campi. His sister Angela Beduschi was also a painter. In 1602 he painted the Martyrdom of St. Stephen and a Pietà for the church of San Sepolcro in Piacenza.
Michel-Bruno Bellengé.  Michel-Bruno Bellengé (1726 - December 13 1793) was a French painter.Bellengé was one of the first students of the Rouen School founded by Jean-Baptiste Descamps. He won three awards there between 1748 and 1751.He specialized in painting flowers on enamel as well as vegetables and fruits. He worked to paint the ceiling of the La Celle-Saint-Cloud under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. He also worked with Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays.
Felipe Alfau.  Felipe Alfau (1902–1999) was a Spanish American novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov Thomas Pynchon Donald Barthelme and Gilbert Sorrentino.
Alastair Reid.  Alastair Reid (born 22 March 1926) is a poet and a scholar of South American literature from Galloway in Scotland. He is known for his lighthearted style of poems and for his translations of South American poets Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. Although he is famous for translations his own poems are gaining note.
Randevyn.  Randevyn (ran-dev-vin) Pierre is an American independent pop/urban alternative singer-songwriter musician composer and activist.
Thomas Boissy.  Thomas Boissy is a French singer and songwriter who mixes Acoustic Folk Pop and Rock music. He lives in Paris France. He started singing in musicals in the Folies Bergère and on French TV. In October 2007 he signed up to Sellaband and in February 2008 he reached the goal of US$50000 to produce his own CD.
John Trumbull.  John Trumbull (June 6 1756 – November 10 1843) was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings. His Declaration of Independence (1817) was used on the reverse of the two-dollar bill.
Michelle Walker.  Michelle Walker (born January 9 1967) is a jazz vocalist song writer and arranger based in New York city. She started her music career in the Washington DC area where she was nominated numerous times for a WAMA award (Washington Area Music Association) for best jazz vocalist best debut album of the year and best jazz group. She has toured in concert in the United States Canada Israel England Russia and The Netherlands. She has performed in concert most notably with Mark Murphy.
Paul Jackson (artist).  Paul Jackson is a watercolorist in Columbia Missouri. Jackson was inducted as a signature member into the American Watercolor Society at the age of 30 and he is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society.
Robert Giraud.  Robert Giraud (November 21 1921 – January 17 1997) was a French journalist poet and lexicographer. He is the author of over 30 books and subject of the 2009 biography Monsieur Bob by Olivier Bailly.
Kim Newman.  Kim Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist film critic and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award the International Horror Guild Award and the BSFA award.
Joel Oppenheimer.  Joel Lester Oppenheimer (Jacob Hammer) (February 18 1930 – October 11 1988) was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York School. He was the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project (1966-68). Though a poet Oppenheimer was perhaps better known for his columns in the Village Voice from 1969 to 1984.
Michael T. Gilbert.  Michael Terry Gilbert (born May 7 1951) is an American comic book artist and writer who has worked for both mainstream and underground comic book companies.
Jo Whittemore.  Jo Whittemore (born 1977) is an American author of books for children and teens ranging from fantasy to humorous contemporary.
Ryan Cook (musician).  Ryan Cook (born April 3 1981) is an award-winning Canadian country music singer-songwriter. He has released three albums Hot Times in 2008 Peaks & Valleys in 2010 and Wrestling with Demons in 2013.
Muzaffer İzgü.  Muzaffer Izgü (born 1933) is a prize-winning Turkish writer and professional teacher who has authored over 90 books for adults and children.
Émile Henriot (writer).  Émile Henriot (French: [emil ɑ̃ʁjo]; 3 March 1889 – 14 April 1961) was a French poet novelist essayist and literary critic.
Allan Sørensen.  Allan Sørensen (born Allan Sørensen on April 24 1973) is a Danish drummer.
Marcel Maupi.  Marcel Maupi stage name of Marcel Louis Alexandre Barberin (6 November 1881 Marseille – 4 January 1949 Antibes) was a French actor.
Christopher Forgues.  Christopher Forgues (also known professionally as C.F. and Kites) is a musician and artist based in Providence Rhode Island best known for his graphic novel serial Powr Mastrs. He holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.Forgues has toured the United States several times also appearing in Europe and Canada. Forgues employs homemade electronics effects pedals and altered acoustic instruments.His graphic novel series Powr Mastrs is published by Picturebox.
Shubha Mudgal.  Shubha Mudgal (born 1959) is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music Khayal Thumri Dadra and popular Indian Pop music.She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej' the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music at the 34th Chicago International Film Festival for her music in the film Dance of the Wind (1997) and the Padma Shri in 2000. She is also close to movements like ANHAD and SAHMAT.
Idris Rahman.  Idris Rahman (born 16 July 1976) is an English clarinettist saxophonist and music producer.
Patrick Lapeyre.  Patrick Lapeyre is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina 2010 for his seventh novel La vie est brève et le désir sans fin. Laypeyre was born in 1949 in Pantin. He attended the École Normale Supérieure with Alain Finkelkraut and Pascal Bruckner before studying literature at the Sorbonne. After becoming a teacher he published his first novel Le corps inflammable in 1984.
Mark Grist.  Mark Grist is a poet and battle rapper based in Peterborough UK who rose to prominence when his Don't Flop rap battle against Mancunian MC Blizzard became an internet sensation.His poem Girls Who Read produced by Roundhouse London and published on their YouTube channel has also gained significant fame on the internet.
Olivia Grant (actress born 1994).  Olivia Grant (born 16 June 1996) is an actress and the oldest daughter of Fame Academy judges and singers David and Carrie Grant. She is best known for portraying Mia Stone in the children's television series Half-Moon Investigations based on the book by Eoin Colfer in 2009.In 2006 she made her debut acting appearance in the popular television series The Story of Tracy Beaker as Alice.
Wen Meihui.  Wen Meihui (Chinese: 文美惠; pinyin: Wén Meǐhuì; born 1931) is a Chinese translator. She is a member of the China Democratic League.She is among the first few in China who translated the works of Joseph Rudyard Kipling's into Chinese language.
Max Décharné.  Max Décharné is a rock'n'roll musician author and journalist probably best known for his being the drummer for Gallon Drunk and fronting his own band The Flaming Stars.
Merethe Trøan.  Merethe Trøan (born 19 May 1970 Trondheim) is a Norwegian singer best known for her participation in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest. In her teens Trøan and her sister were members of vocal group Pastel together with two brothers (not related to the Trøans). In 1985 Pastel took part in the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection Melodi Grand Prix with the song Ring Ring Ring finishing third. Pastel released one self-titled LP before disbanding.
Eric Stefani.  Eric Matthew Stefani (born June 17 1967) is an American musician composer writer and animator best known as the founder and former member of the ska punk band No Doubt. He is the older brother of Gwen Stefani and is also a former animator on the animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Dorothy Parker.  Dorothy Parker (August 22 1893 – June 7 1967) was an American poet short story writer critic and satirist best known for her wit wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.From a conflicted and unhappy childhood Parker rose to acclaim both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting.
Vincent Wan (actor).  Vincent Wan Ka Hung (born 15 July 1984) is a Hong Kong actor under Hong Kong's Television Broadcast Limited. He is also working under TVB Jade when he starred in Relic of an Emissary. He has starred in a few films such as Moonlight Resonance. He has starred in other films such as Relic of an Emissary portraying Chu Chun Prince Su (朱椿) and Gun Metal Grey as Photographer Ben Yue.
Rafael Barrett.  Rafael Barrett complete name Rafael Ángel Jorge Julián Barrett y Álvarez de Toledo (Torrelavega Spain January 7 1876 – Arcachon France December 17 1910) was a Spanish writer narrator essayist and journalist who developed most of his literary production in Paraguay becoming an important figure of the Paraguayan literature during the twentieth century.
Mary Carey (pornographic actress).  Mary Carey (born June 15 1980) is an American pornographic actress and film director known for her involvement in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election and her appearance on the VH1 reality TV series Celebrity Rehab.
Tom Nussbaum.  Tom Nussbaum (born August 12 1953 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American artist known for a variety of work including sculpture drawings paper cuts prints children’s books animations functional design objects public art and site-specific commissions.
Mirko Virius.  Mirko Virius (October 28 1889 – 1943) was a Croatian naïve painter. He was one of the three most prominent members of the first generation of the Hlebine School.Virius was born in the village of Đelekovec near Koprivnica where he completed four years of primary school. In the First World War he fought as an Austro-Hungarian soldier in Galicia. He was captured by Russians and made a forced laborer in Kiev Kharkov and the Ekaterinoslav iron plant.
Jayashree Patanekar.  Jayashree R. Patanekar is a Hindustani classical vocalist. She has received training in Gwalior Jaipur and Kirana gharana. She has received training from the great maestro Gajananrao Joshi.
Zaira Cosico.  Zaira Cosico is a ballerina from the Philippines. She is one of a few successful scholars of Liza Macuja's dance company Ballet Manila. She first learned to dance at the Halili Cruz School of Dance. Cosico has been instructed in the Vaganova method by Tatiana A. Udalenkova of the Academy of Russia Ballet (Vaganova Choreographic Institute). She has also worked with Viktor Savaliev Sergey Vikulov and Evgeny Scherbakov.
Limahl.  Christopher Hamill (born 19 December 1958) better known by his stage name Limahl (an anagram of Hamill) is an English pop singer. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the 1980s pop group Kajagoogoo before embarking on a briefly successful solo career which reached its peak with the 1984 hit The NeverEnding Story the theme song for the film of the same name.
Juliana Jendo.  Juliana Jendo (Syriac: ܓܘܠܝܢܐ ܓܢܕܐ) is an Assyrian–American singer. Juliana Jendo is usually classified as the Queen of Assyrian Singers because of her long and successful career throughout all the different Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac communities worldwide.
Justin Richards.  Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels including series set in Victorian or early-20th-century London and also adventure stories set in the present day. He has written many spin-off novels reference books and audio plays based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and he is Creative Consultant for the BBC Books range of Doctor Who novels.
Claudia Claire.  Claudia Claire (born March 10 1977) is a Czech pornographic actress.
Surender Mohan Pathak.  Surender Mohan Pathak (Hindi: सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक Punjabi: ਸੁਰਿੰਦਰ ਮੋਹਨ ਪਾਠਕ) (born 19 February 1940 at Khemkaran Amritsar Punjab) is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career along with his full-time job in Indian Telephone Industries Delhi began in the early 1960s with his Hindi translations of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and the works of James Hadley Chase.
Suresh Talwalkar.  Suresh Talwalkar (Marathi: सुरेश तळवळकर)(born 1948) is an Indian musician who plays the percussion instrument tabla.Talwalkar was born 1948 in Mumbai and initially learned playing the tabla from his father Dattatrey Talwalkar.
Mika Tan.  Mika Tan (born November 27 1977 in Honolulu Hawaii) is the stage name of a fetish model (BDSM/DS/stocking and pantyhose fetish) and pornographic actress.
Nicola Morgan.  Nicola Morgan (born 1961) is a Scottish author best known for her novel Mondays Are Red.
Iain Coyle.  Iain Coyle (born 9 January 1968 in Burscough Lancashire) is a British TV presenter and producer and comedian. He was educated at St Bede's RC Comprehensive St John Rigby College Wigan and Sheffield Polytechnic where he studied Fine Art.
Peter Jöback.  Peter Arne Jöback (born 4 June 1971 in Stockholm Sweden) is a Swedish singeractor and musical artist .
Computer Magic.  Computer Magic is the electronic music solo-project of American producer Danielle Danz Johnson from Brooklyn NY. Danz is also known as a New York DJ blogger and graphic designer. Danz is the sole composer for Computer Magic. Computer Magic's influences include Radiohead Barbarella and Philip K. Dick.
Dock Walsh.  Doctor Coble Walsh (July 23 1901 in Lewis Fork Wilkes County North Carolina – May 28 1967) better known as Doc/Dock Walsh was an American banjoist and bandleader of The Carolina Tar Heels. He formed that group with Clarence Ashley in 1925 followed by the addition of Gwen Foster. Walsh is known as the Banjo King of the Carolinas.He played in a clawhammer style but was one of the first to record the three-finger style.
Elaine Bergstrom.  Elaine Bergstrom is an American author in the genres of fantasy and horror. She has had 13 novels published.
Bhisham Sahni.  Bhisham Sahni (Punjabi: ਭੀਸ਼ਮ ਸਾਹਨੀ Hindi: भीष्म साहनी) (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was a Hindi writer playwright and actor most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas (Darkness) a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India.
Andy Adams (pseudonym).  Andy Adams is the Grosset & Dunlap pseudonym for three writers who authored the Biff Brewster series of adventure and mystery novels for adolescent boys in the early and mid-1960s. The real-world authors were Walter B. Gibson Edward Pastore and Peter Harkins.
Richard Street.  Richard Allen Street (October 5 1942 – February 27 2013) was an American soul and R&B singer most notable as a member of Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1971 to 1993. Born and raised in Detroit Michigan Street was the first member of the Temptations to actually be a native of the city which served as Motown's namesake and hometown; all of the previous members were born and at least partially raised in the southern United States.
Erwin Gutawa.  Erwin Gutawa (born May 12 1962) is an Indonesian composer and father of Gita Gutawa. In 1985 he started his professional music career by joining the jazz band Karimata later becoming an independent composer in 1991. As a composer he won the 1992 Midnight Sun Song Festival in Finland together with Ruth Sahanaya. In 2001 he won the Anugerah Musik Indonesia award for best music arranger for his concert Rockestra.
Joe Hautman.  Joe Hautman is an American painter residing in Plymouth Minnesota. The artist is best known for his realism wildlife art particularly the US Federal Duck Stamp. The artist holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan and has had his artwork featured on the 2008 2002 and 1992 Federal Duck Stamps raising millions for conservation.His brothers Robert Hautman and Jim Hautman are also wildlife artists.
Moses Isegawa.  Moses Isegawa also known as Sey Wava (born 10 August 1963) is a Ugandan author. He has written novels set against the political turmoil of Uganda which he left in 1990 for the Netherlands. His debut novel Abyssinian Chronicles was first published in Amsterdam in 1998 selling more than 100000 copies and gaining him widespread national attention. It was also very well reviewed when published in English in the United Kingdom and United States in 2001.
Baroness Annetta Radovska.  Baroness Annetta Radovska or Annetta Borgna Radovska (Milan 19th century) was a 19th-century woman painter in Lombardy mainly depicting lively genre subjects.
Philip Mitchell.  Philip Mitchell is an English author playwright poet and translator.
John Myung.  John Ro Myung (/ˈmaɪ.əŋ/; born January 24 1967 in Chicago Illinois) is an American bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal/rock group Dream Theater. He is one of two longest serving members of Dream Theater along with John Petrucci. In a poll conducted by MusicRadar in August through September 2010 he was voted the greatest bassist of all time.
MC Daleste.  Daniel Pedreira Senna Pellegrine better known by his stage name MC Daleste (born in Penha São Paulo Brazil 30 October 1992 - died Paulínia 7 July 2013) was a funk ostentação singer songwriter and rapper. He was fatally shot in the abdomen while performing during a free show in Campinas São Paulo before a crowd of four thousand people. He died later the same day in Paulinia's City Hospital.
Sriram Parasuram.  Sriram Parasuram is an Hindustani classical vocalist. He also plays the violin.He is married to Carnatic classical vocalist Anuradha Sriram with whom he gives jugalbandis. They have two sons named Jayant and Lokesh.Parasuram received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University where he met Anuradha when she was a masters student.
Mark Henderson (lighting designer).  Mark Henderson is a British lighting designer who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for The History Boys.Henderson began his Broadway career with a 1986 comedy revue starring Rowan Atkinson.
Chris Lent.  Chris Lent (born March 15 1988) is an American drummer and keyboardist formerly a member of the post-hardcore band From First to Last and of the experimental metal band I Set My Friends On Fire.
Bruce Boniface.  Bruce Boniface better known by his surname Boniface (born 5 June 1981) is a singer-songwriter vocal arranger and producer best known for his Top 40 hit Cheeky which peaked at number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. The track remained in the chart for three weeks.
Pellín Rodríguez.  Pellín Rodríguez (December 4 1926 – October 31 1984) was a Salsa singer. Rodríguez was a member of the musical group El Gran Combo and toured with them all over Europe and Latin America gaining fame and popularity as a singer. In addition to his singing capabilities Rodríguez had great comedic abilities and participated on comedy bits on various TV shows in Puerto Rico.
Grégoire Maret.  Grégoire Maret is a jazz harmonica player born on May 13 1975 in Geneva Switzerland. He began playing the harmonica at the age of 17.
Charles Lindsay (artist).  Charles Lindsay (born San Francisco California 1961) is an American inter-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on pattern recognition biomimicry and technology. Charles Lindsay is currently the SETI Institute's first Artist in Residence. His career has ranged from exploration geology in the arctic to photojournalism in the jungles of southeast Asia - where he lived for years with a stone age tribe.
Jean Dolabella.  Jean Dolabella (born May 14 1978) is a Brazilian musician known as the former drummer of Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura. He is also involved with Iron Maiden's ex-singer Paul Di'Anno in his side project RockFellas.
Khagen Mahanta.  Khagen Mahanta (Assamese: খগেন মহন্ত) is an exponent in folk and traditional music of Assam. Khagen Mahanta is a notable person in Assamese folk music and known as the King of Bihu. His Bihu songs Borgeet and other folk songs are ever green to the assamese society. The artist along with his wife Archana Mahanta and son Angaraag Mahanta represent one of the most influential families in Assamese music.[citation needed]
Sami Lopakka.  Sami Lopakka is a Finnish guitarist and an author. Lopakka was one of two guitarists for the band Sentenced until it disbanded. Lopakka was the band's main lyric writer and was also considered the spokesman for the band. Since 2007 he is once again active in KYPCK.Sami spoke with Metal-Rules.com in April 2007 about his recent activities.
Deng Guangming.  Dèng Guăngmíng (16 March 1907 – 10 January 1998) was a leading Chinese historian and historiographer who specialized in the 10th to 13th century Song Jin and Liao Dynasty Dynasties remembered for his meticulous attention to detail.Born in Linyi County Shandong and known by the courtesy name Gong San (恭三) Deng's principle works were:Outline of Chinese History • The Song Liao and Jin Dynasties (中国史纲要•宋辽金史纲要)Wang Anshi's Political Reforms During the Northern Song Dynasty (北宋政治改革家王安石)Biography of Yue Fei (岳飞传)Biography of Xin Qiji (辛弃疾传)Biography of Chen Longchuan (陈龙川传)Chronicle of Xin Qiji's Life (辛稼轩年谱)Annotated Works of Xin Qiji (稼轩词编年笺注)Amended Institutional Function Records from the History of Song (宋史职官志考正)Amended Criminal Law Records from the History of Song (宋史刑法志考正)↑
Lulu Delacre.  Lulu Delacre (born December 20 1957 Rio Piedras Puerto Rico) is the author/illustrator of many award winning children's books. Some of her most famous works include Arroz con leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America Vejigante Masquerader and The Bossy Gallito. Delacre's writes books that celebrate her Latino heritage and promote cultural diversity.
Audrey Kawasaki.  Audrey Kawasaki (born March 31 1982 in Los Angeles California) is a Los Angeles-based painter known for her distinctive erotically charged portrayals of young adolescent women.
Antonio Fabrés.  Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa (1854–1938) also known as Antonio Fabrés was a famous Spanish artist during the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Barcelona Spain in 1854. It is said that he was the artist gene since his father was a draughtsman and his uncle a silversmith. He started studying at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in his native city at the age of 13. When he turned 21 he received a grant to study in Rome.
Vito Delsante.  Vito Delsante (born 1973) is an American comic book writer known for his work on characters such as Batman Wolverine and Scooby Doo.
Ash Wednesday (musician).  Ash Wednesday is an Australian musician who played in JAB the Models and Einstürzende Neubauten.
Kryz Reid.  Kryz Reid is an Irish musician and guitarist. He is the lead guitarist for American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind.
Bill Konigsberg.  Bill Konigsberg is the award-winning American author of Out of the Pocket and Openly Straight. Out of the Pocket won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Children's/Young Adult category. His second novel Openly Straight was released in June 2013. It received a rave review in the New York Times and starred reviews from Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
Jewel De'Nyle.  Jewel De'Nyle (born August 5 1976 Wetmore Colorado) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress and director. She is a member of the NightMoves AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.
Heather O'Neill.  Heather O'Neill is a Canadian novelist poet short story writer screenwriter and journalist. She published her debut novel Lullabies for Little Criminals in 2006. The novel was subsequently selected for the 2007 edition of Canada Reads where it was championed by singer-songwriter John K. Samson. Lullabies won the competition.
Cyndi Almouzni.  Cyndi Almouzni (born 10 October 1984) best known at the beginning of her music career in the United States as Cherie is a French pop and dance music singer coming from Marseille Her 2004 hit I'm Ready hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.Later on she performed professionally with her real name Cyndi Almouzni and under her mononym Cyndi most notably when she took part in the competition for UK entry to Eurovision Song Contest with I'll Leave My Heart coming second to the eventual entry Flying the Flag (For You) from Scooch.
Roberto Zanetti.  Roberto Zanetti (born November 28 1956) is an Italian singer music producer composer and businessman from Massa Tuscany. As a singer he is known under the stage name Savage and as a music producer he uses the alias Robyx.He has founded several companies: Robyx Productions Extravaganza Publishing and DWA Records.Zanetti has produced and written music for several artists other than himself including Ice MC Double You Alexia Corona and Zucchero.
Ray Martin (orchestra leader).  Ray Martin (Raymond Stuart Martin; born 'Kurt Kohn' and later anglicised his name) (11 October 1918 - 7 February 1988) was a British-Austrian orchestra leader. He was noted for his light music compositions. Allmusic journalist Bradley Torreano states Ray Martin created a legacy for himself in British popular music through his work with his orchestra during the 1950s.
John Cowan.  John Cowan (born August 24 1952 in Evansville Indiana) is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival. Cowan was bassist in the band in 1972 from original bassist Ebo Walker and was noted as being the only member of New Grass Revival not to come from a bluegrass background.
Lou Black.  Louis Thomas 'Lou' (or 'Lew' or 'Louie') Black (June 8 1901 – November 18 1965) was one of the foremost banjo players of the Jazz Era.Born in Rock Island Illinois he began playing banjo during early childhood and became professional in 1917.In 1921 he joined the famous New Orleans Rhythm Kings at Friar's Inn in Chicago. With this band he participated to the first-ever interracial recording session with pianist Jelly Roll Morton.He left the band in 1923 to play with other bands.
Art Jarrett.  Arthur L. Jarrett Jr. (July 20 1907 in Brooklyn New York – July 23 1987 in Los Angeles) born to stage actor and playwright Arthur L. Jarrett Sr. (1884–1960). Art Jr. was an American singer actor and bandleader in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bonnie Zacherle.  Bonnie D. Zacherle is an American illustrator and designer who now resides in Warrenton Virginia. Zacherle is best known as the creator of the best-selling My Little Pony toy line and also as the creator of Nerfuls.Zacherle has done some outside consulting for Bliss House an American licensing consultancy on the graphics and product development side. In 2003 she became a member of 'Women In Toys'.
Najwa Latif.  Imratul Najwa Binti Abdul Latif (born May 23 1995) or better known as Najwa Latif is a Malaysian singer. Najwa Latif also one of the teen idol in Malaysia. She became popular after her first song titled 'Cinta Muka Buku' (Facebook Love) got attention from the public becoming the best song of the year.
Veli Karahoda.  Veli Karahoda (born 4 January 1968) is an Albanian writer poet novelist and essayist.
Leo Lyons.  Leo Lyons (born David William Lyons 30 November 1943) is an English rock musician who was also the bassist of the British rock group Ten Years After.Lyons was born in Mansfield Nottinghamshire England. He first played with lead guitarist Alvin Lee in The Jaybirds. In 1967 there was a name change to Ten Years After. With this group Lyons played at major rock festivals including Woodstock in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival on 29 August 1970.
Santosh Joshi.  Pandit Santosh Joshi (संतोष जोशी born July 2 1960) is an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition and He is a member of the Joshi Gharana which is a branch of the Lucknow tabla gharana). He is known for the khyal form of singing as well as for his popular renditions of devotional bhajans and Hori. He is the most recent recipient of the Rajiv Ratna Award of Bikaner.
Rosalía de Castro.  María Rosalía Rita de Castro (Galician pronunciation: [rosaˈli.a ðe ˈkastɾo]; 24 February 1837 – 15 July 1885) was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.Writing in the Galician language after the Séculos Escuros (lit. Dark Centuries) she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement known today as the Rexurdimento (renaissance) along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal.
Hugh O'Donnell (artist).  Hugh O'Donnell (born 1950) is an English painter printmaker and site-specific artist.
John Barston.  John Barston (c1545-c1612) was an English writer law and 'important civic figure'.Barston was from Tewkesbury. He went to St John's College Cambridge and the Inns of Court. In 1576 he published his work The Safeguard of Society describing the corporate life of Tewkesbury.
Daasarathi Krishnamacharyulu.  Daasarathi Krishnamacharyulu popularly known as Daasarathi (1927 – 1987) (Telugu: దాశారథి కృష్ణమాచార్యులు) was a Telugu Poet and Writer. Daasarathi holds the titles Abhyudhaya Kavi and Kalaprapurna. He was also the recipient of Sahitya Academy Award for his poetic work book Thimiramtho Samaram (Fight against Darkness) in 1974. He was also chosen as Aastana Kavi of the Andhra Pradesh Government.
Rowland Prichard.  Rowland Huw Prichard (14 January 1811 – 25 January 1887) was a Welsh musician. A native of Graienyn near Bala he lived most of his life in the area serving for a time as a loom tender's assistant in Holywell where he died. In 1844 Prichard published Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) a song book intended for children.Prichard is remembered today as the composer of the hymn tune Hyfrydol.
Patrick Stanfield Jones.  Patrick Stanfield Jones is a musician producer arranger and singer-songwriter whose music is a mix of rock jazz Folk and blues. He is a brother of jazz percussionist Koko Jones and they have performed and recorded together. He has worked with Isley Jasper Isley and Whitney Houston. He has been a member of the touring casts of Jesus Christ Superstar and Oh Calcutta!.
Chetan Bhagat.  Chetan Bhagat About this sound pronunciation (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author columnist screenwriter and speaker. Bhagat is the author of bestselling novels Five Point Someone (2004) One Night @ the Call Center (2005) The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008) 2 States (2009) Revolution 2020 (2011) and What Young India Wants (2012).
Pierre Sancan.  Pierre Sancan (October 24 1916 in Mazamet – October 20 2008 in Paris) was a French composer pianist teacher and conductor.
Giovanni Giacometti.  Giovanni Giacometti (7 March 1868 – 25 June 1933) was a Swiss painter. He was the father of artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti and architect Bruno Giacometti.
María Dueñas.  María Dueñas Vinuesa (Puertollano 1964) is a Spanish writer.
Neil Kleid.  Neil Kleid (born 1975) is a U.S. cartoonist raised in Oak Park Michigan now living in New Jersey. He has received a 2003 Xeric Award grant for his graphic novella Ninety Candles (2004).Kleid also wrote Brownsville a graphic novel about Murder Inc. with Jake Allen; The Big Kahn a graphic novel about family faith and con men with Nicolas Cinquegrani for NBM Publishing; and Ursa Minors! an action/comedy mini-series for Slave Labor Graphics.
Geoffrey Davies.  Geoffrey Davies (born 15 December 1942 Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British actor.
Rob Gardner (musician).  Rob Gardner is an American musician best known as the drummer for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses and was also briefly the drummer for Hollywood Rose.
Dushyant Kumar.  Dushyant Kumar (September 27 1931 – December 31 1975) was a poet of modern Hindustani literature. In India he is generally recognized as one of the foremost Hindustani poets of the 20th century. He was also a Dramatist Litterateur and Gazal writer.
Peter Lourie.  Peter King Lourie (born in Michigan United States) is an author of nonfiction books for adults and children.
Cyber Sapp.  Keldrick Sapp professionally known as Cyber Sapp is an American record producer and songwriter from Atlanta Georgia who is possibly best known for producing Gucci Mane's single Freaky Gurl. He currently manages Bohagon who is apart of Sapp's BLACK CARTEL label. He has produced for David Banner P$C Bonecrusher Young Red and Lil Ron Slim Thug Paul Wall 4-IZE Killer Mike Soulja Slim and B.G. among others.
Henry Wolf (engraver).  Henry Wolf (1852-1916) was a French born wood engraver who lived and worked in the United States during his most influential work period and until his death.Henry Wolf was born in 1852 in Eckwersheim France. He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy and exhibited in Paris. Henry Wolf moved to New York City in 1871 where he created wood engravings of works by Gilbert Stuart Enrique Serra Frank Weston Benson Howard Pyle Henry Salem Hubbell John Singer Sargent A. B.
J. S. Lewis.  Jon Samuel Lewis is a fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. S. Lewis. Lewis is co-author of the popular Grey Griffins series originally published by Scholastic Inc. The next three books in the Grey Griffins series will be published as the Grey Griffins Clockwork Chronicles by Little Brown Books for Young Readers. The original trilogy has sold over 850000 copies to date.
Kevin Sharkey.  Kevin Sharkey (born 1961) (Irish: Caoimhín Ó Searcaigh) is an Irish artist.
Joseph Lewis French.  Joseph Lewis French (1858–1936) was a novelist editor poet and newspaper man. The New York Times noted in 1925 that he may be the most industrious anthologist of his time. He is known for his popular themed collections and released over twenty-five books between 1918 and his death in 1936. He founded two magazines The New West (circa 1887) and The Wave (circa 1890). Afterwards he worked for newspapers across the country contributing poetry and articles.
Rowshanara Moni.  Rowshanara Moni (born 1974) is a Bangladeshi-born British singer and actress.
Nando Reis.  Nando Reis (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɐ̃du ˈʁejs] born January 12 1963) is a Brazilian musician and producer best known as the former bassist and lead singer of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career with his own band called Os Infernais. He has also produced a few albums including some related to Cássia Eller who has made several significant partnerships with him and Marisa Monte.
Per Knutsen.  Per Knutsen (born 1951) is a Norwegian novelist author of children's literature crime writer and playwright. He made his literary debut in 1976 with the children's book Gutten og ørna. He received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 1982 for Gull og sølv.
Mary Wright Sewell.  Mary Wright Sewell (April 6 1797 – June 10 1884) was an English poet and children's author. Though popular for writing juvenile bestsellers in her day she is better known today as the mother of Anna Sewell the author of Black Beauty. Mary was born into the Quaker faith in 1797 and lived at the Blue Lodge Wick from 1858 to 1864. She had a great love of poetry and wrote Mother's Last Words (which sold millions of copies throughout the world) while living at Wick near Bristol.
Paul Methric.  Paul Robert Methric is an American rapper and producer from Detroit Michigan well known as Monoxide Child of the rap group Twiztid.
Masahiro Usui.  Masahiro Usui (碓井 将大 Usui Masahiro born December 3 1991) is a Japanese actor and the second-youngest of the acting group D-BOYS produced by Watanabe Entertainment.
Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi.  Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi is an English actress. She started her career as part of Contact Young Actors Company in 2004 and went on to work for Peskar Productions as a drama workshop leader within the Oldham and Bolton communities. Her theatre credits include East is East Janus (for West Yorkshire Playhouse) Christie Malry's Own Double Entry at the Palace Theatre Manchester Freshly Scratched (for the Battersea Arts Centre) and Rafta Rafta... at the National Theatre.
Polly Knipp Hill.  Pauline Knipp Hill (died April 2 1990) was an artist in the United States. Her work was shown April 7 2012 - June 3 2012 at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens Georgia. She grew up in Urbana Illinois.Knipp and George Snow Hill were students of Carl Tracy Hawley in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Syracuse. She followed Hill to Paris France after graduation and they were married on November 16 1925 in St.
Plan B (musician).  Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew (born 22 October 1983) primarily known as Plan B or Ben Drew is an English rapper singer-songwriter actor and film director from Forest Gate London. Plan B first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically acclaimed debut album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words in 2006. His second studio album The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010) was a soul record and went straight to number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Greg Giraldo.  Gregory J. Greg Giraldo (December 11 1965 – September 29 2010) was an American stand-up comedian television personality and lawyer. Giraldo was best known for his appearances on Comedy Central's televised roast specials and for his work on that network's television shows Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and the programming block Stand-Up Nation the last of which he hosted.
Claude Audran the Younger.  Claude Audran the Younger (1639–1684) the second son of Claude I was born at Lyons. He studied drawing with his uncle Charles in Paris and subsequently went to Rome. On his return he was engaged by Le Brun at Paris and assisted him in his pictures of the 'Passage of the Granicus' the 'Battle of Arbela' and in many other of his works; and was an imitator of his style.
Liang Shih-chiu.  Liang Shih-chiu (January 6 1903 – November 3 1987) also romanized as Liang Chih-Hwa(梁治華) Liang Shiqiu was a renowned educator writer translator literary theorist and lexicographer.
Richard Riddell.  Richard V. Riddell is an American lighting designer.He graduated from Knox College with a B.A. with honors in 1972. In 1978 he received his doctorate from Stanford University.He has had extensive teaching experience working at such schools as the University of California San Diego Harvard University. He finally moved to Duke University where he became vice president as well as university secretary and assistant to the president Richard H.
Bernardo Schiaffino.  Bernardo Schiaffino (1678 – 6 May 1725) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was one of two sculptors in his family along with his younger brother Francesco Maria Schiaffino. He trained with Domenico Parodi. He befriended the Piola family of artists; Domenico Piola provided him with some designs and Bernardo was close friends with his son Paolo Girolamo Piola.
Davide Carbone.  Davide Carbone (born 1971 Melbourne Australia) is an ARIA Award-winning Australian music producer composer sound designer who began his career as a DJ in the underground dance-music scene of the late 1980s.Carbone has enjoyed a diverse career within the music industry. He has released several records composed music for TV film theatre and video games and created sound design for TV film video games and synthesizers.
Errol Brathwaite.  Errol Freeman Brathwaite MNZM (3 April 1924 – 4 December 2005) was a New Zealand author.
Carlos Barbosa-Lima.  Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Barbosa Lima (born 17 December 1944) is a Brazilian guitarist born in São Paulo. He devotes most of his time as a recitalist on international concert tours and regularly appears as a soloist with numerous major orchestras.
Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic.  Vicomte Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (1839–1889) was a French artist archaeologist and patron of the arts. He is best remembered today as a friend of Edgar Degas who included him in some eleven paintings and pastels. He was among the original Impressionist group and later became a recognised marine painter.
Jacqueline Wilson.  Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE FRSL (born 17 December 1945) is an English writer known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption divorce and mental illness. Addressing such issues has made her controversial because her readers are young. From 2005 to 2007 she was British Children's Laureate. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer Wilson is U.K.
Frank Bennett (singer).  Frank Bennett (born David Wray in 1959 in Sydney Australia) is an Australian jazz singer (whose stage name is a pun on the names Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett). His vocal style is clearly influenced by the two singers and the music of the 1940s and 1950s. He is known for his big band renditions of rock and pop singles including Creep by Radiohead Better Man by Pearl Jam and Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Babu Singh Maan.  Babu Singh Maan (Punjabi: ਬਾਬੂ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਾਨ ; also known as Maan Maraarhan Wala) is a noted Punjabi songwriter/lyricist of Punjab. He penned the first song of singer Kuldeep Manak's career.
Konstantin Dimopoulos.  Konstantin Dimopoulos (born Constantin Dimopoulos 20 December 1954) is a sculptor installation and performance artist.
Simon Charles Miger.  Simon Charles Miger (Nemours 19 February 1736 - Paris 28 February 1828) was a French engraver most notable for the plates he produced for La Ménagerie du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle by Lacépède Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya.  Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya (Russian: Людмила Евгеньевна Улицкая born February 21 1943) is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria and grew up in Moscow where she took a degree in genetics from the Moscow State University.
Michael Turner (comics).  Michael Layne Turner (April 21 1971 – June 27 2008) was an American comic book artist known for his work on Witchblade Fathom Superman/Batman Soulfire and various covers for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was also the president of the entertainment company Aspen MLT.
Andreas Lill.  Andreas Lill is a German Progressive metal drummer. He is best known for his work as the drummer for the band Vanden Plas.
Zeca Pagodinho.  Zeca Pagodinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈzɛkɐ pɐɡɔˈdʒĩɲu] b. February 4 1959 birth name Jessé Gomes da Silva Filho) is a Brazilian singer/songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode
Alexei Mozhaev.  Alexei Vasilievich Mozhaev (Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Можа́ев; October 5 1918 in Vtoraya Sosnovka Saratov Province Soviet Russia – January 23 1994 in Saint Petersburg Russian Federation) - Soviet Russian painter graphic artist and art teacher lived and worked in Leningrad a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting most famous for his portrait painting.
Neil Shepard.  Neil Shepard (January 29 1951 in Fitchburg Massachusetts) is an American poet essayist professor of creative writing and literary magazine editor. He is a recipient of the 1992 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry as well as a recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony. He routinely participates in poetry reading events throughout the United States.
Fabrizio Santafede.  Fabrizio Santafede (c. 1560–1635) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods. He painted in a late-Mannerist style. He was a pupil of his father the painter Francesco Santafede and later a pupil of Francesco Curia and Andrea Sabbatini[citation needed]. Although he was born and died in Naples he traveled extensively including Bologna Florence Rome and Venice in his study of the great masters. He became a merchant of antiquities and paintings himself.
Eugenio María de Hostos.  Eugenio María de Hostos (January 11 1839 – August 11 1903) known as El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas (The Great Citizen of the Americas) was a Puerto Rican educator philosopher intellectual lawyer sociologist and independence advocate.
Ishmael Reed.  Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22 1938) is an American poet essayist songwriter playwright and novelist as well as being an editor and publisher.
Leigh Brackett.  Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7 1915 – March 18 1978) was an American author particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1945) Rio Bravo (1959) The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Dag Frøland.  Dag Frøland (September 16 1945 – January 26 2010) was a Norwegian comedian revue artist and singer who was best known for his countless impersonations and variety shows in Oslo during the 1970s and 1980s.
Sterling North.  Thomas Sterling North (November 4 1906 – December 22 1974) who used Sterling North professionally was an American writer probably best known for the children's novel Rascal a bestseller in 1963.
Deborah Cooper.  Deborah Cooper is an American professional dance music singer award winning composer and entertainer with several number one and top charting dance music and house music hits.
Sonya Clark.  Sonya Clark (born 1967 Washington D.C.) is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race culture class and history. Lowery Stokes Sims curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York NY wrote Since 2000 Sonya Clark has created startling new art featuring hair and combs.
Hayley Hutchinson.  Hayley Hutchinson (born 1981 Northumberland England) is a folk/acoustic rock singer from the Yorkshire Wolds England who has released four solo albums and is also a member of The Sorry Kisses.
Leo Green.  Leo Green (30 August 1972) is a British musician broadcaster producer actor musical arranger and concert promoter
Kim Boa.  Kim Bo A (Hangul: 김보아; Hanja: 金甫娥; born January 14 1987) commonly known by her stage name Boa is a South Korean idol singer dancer vocal guide. She is a member of the Korean girl group Spica which debuted under B2M Entertainment in 2012.
Glenn A. Baker.  Glenn A. Baker (born 28 July 1952) is an Australian journalist commentator and broadcaster well known in Australia for his vast knowledge of Rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music and travel interviewed celebrities managed bands such as Ol' 55 and promoted tours of international stars. In the mid-1980s Baker took the BBC's Rock Brain of the Universe crown three times. Baker was the Australian editor of Billboard for over 20 years.
Peter Hitchens.  Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English journalist and author. He has published six books including The Abolition of Britain The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought. Hitchens writes for Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington.
Gustave Satter.  Gustave Satter (12 February 1832 – 1879) was an Austrian-Slovenian composer and pianist.
Einion Offeiriad.  Einion Offeiriad (“Einion the Priest”) (d. 1356) was a Welsh language poet and grammarian.Einion lived in Ceredigion where he was a chaplain to Sir Rhys ap Gruffudd ap Hywel ap Gruffudd ab Ednyfed Fychan a wealthy nobleman. Amongst Einion’s surviving poems is an awdl sung is praise of Sir Rhys ap Gruffudd.Einion’s fames lies primarily with his metrical grammar ‘llyfr cerddwriaeth’ the earliest of its kind known in Welsh.
Pankaj Udhas.  Pankaj Udhas is an Indian singer in the Indian music industry along with other musicians like Jagjit Singh and Talat Aziz with bringing the Ghazal style to the realm of popular music. Udhas rose to fame for singing in the 1986 film Naam in which his song Chitthi Aayee Hai became an instant hit. Following that he has also performed as a playback singer for numerous films. He has recorded many albums since then and tours the world as an accomplished ghazal singer.
Giorgos Markopoulos.  Giorgos Markopoulos (Greek: Γιώργος Μαρκόπουλος) (born 1951 Messene) is a Greek poet.
Giuseppe Raffaele Tessitore.  Giuseppe Raffaele Tessitore (Frignano Maggiore near Caserta February 21 1861 - after 1916) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and genre scenes.He exhibited at the 1882 Promotrice of Naples: La mia cucina; in 1883 Fiorellino di Primavera in 1885 Pace domestica and a Studio dal vero In 1888 Mysterium and Testina (pastel work) In 1889 Fra i monti del Vomero in 1890 In Terra di Lavoro and Guitar player; in 1891 con Li tetelle de Nannina 14 marzo Ritorno dalla rivista Martedì in Albis al mio paese; and finally in 1896 the work Il pegno venduto.In 1882 at the Mostre of Turin he displayed La brava contadinella and in 1884 at the same exhibition he displayed Amore ai polli. 
Cardinal Zen (musician).  Cardinal Zen is a trip hop electronica chillout and downtempo artist from Philippines. He was part of the Café del Mar roster of artists. He was born in San Fernando Pampanga Philippines.
Lee Sheriden.  Lee Sheriden (born Roger Pritchard 11 April 1949 Horfield Bristol) is a British singer/songwriter and musical director best known as a member of pop group Brotherhood of Man.
Krisdayanti.  Krisdayanti (born 24 March 1975) often known by her moniker KD is an Indonesian singer and actress. She is the younger sister of Yuni Shara another Indonesian singer. She is the daughter of Trenggono and Rachma Widadiningsih. At the age of 9 she sang a song for the movie Megaloman. Three years later she released her first album Burung-Burung Malam together with the soundtrack album for Catatan Si Emon.
Judith Kerr.  Anne Judith Kerr OBE (born 14 June 1923) is a German-born British writer and illustrator. She has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the Second World War.
Manfred Hausleitner.  Manfred Hausleitner (May 11 1957) is an Austrian drummer.
Sally Yeh.  Sally Yeh (born September 30 1961) sometimes written as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-Man is a Cantopop singer and actress.
Mårten Andersson.  Marten Andersson (born Mårten Andersson November 26 1974 in Stockholm Sweden) is the bass guitarist for the hard rock and heavy metal groups Lizzy Borden and George Lynch's Lynch Mob. He is also known for smaller TV and movie acting parts as well as authoring a successful music reference book.
Simon Neale.  Simon Neale (born 20 January 1977) better known by his stage names Shadow Child and Dave Spoon is a radio DJ and dance music producer. He's also part of the duo Avec alongside Doorly. He was part of the line-up on BBC Radio 1's 'In New DJs We Trust' feature which runs Thursday night/Friday morning 2am to 4am. The DJ has become notable for his hits Bad Girl (At Night) with Lisa Maffia and Baditude with Sam Obernik.
Lin Hsin Hsin.  Lin Hsin Hsin (Chinese: 林欣欣; pinyin: Lín Xīn Xīn) is an IT inventor artist poet and composer from Singapore deeply rooted in mathematics and information technology.She established the first virtual museum website the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum in 1994.
Colin C. Allrich.  Colin Cameron Allrich (born 1982 Plymouth Massachusetts) is a self-taught Los Angeles-based musician remixer audio engineer and record producer. Colin's career began when he became part of the first wave of musicians releasing music digitally with MP3.com's launch in 1998. During these early years he was known for experimenting with meshing analog sampling and computer sequencing using Jeskola Buzz.
Carl Holty.  Carl Robert Holty (1900-1973) was a German-born American abstract painter. Raised in Wisconsin he was the first major abstract painter to gain notoriety from the state. Harold Rosenberg described Holty as a figure of our art history known for his use of color shape and form.
Zia (singer).  Baek Ji Hye (Korean: 박지혜 born July 21 1986) better known by her stage name Zia (Korean: 지아) is a South Korean singer.
Rainer Bloss.  Rainer Bloss (also Rainer Blos or Rainer Bloß born in 1946 Saxony) is a German electronic musician. He collaborated with electronic composer Klaus Schulze in the 1980s to produce several albums including Trancefer (1981) Audentity (1981) Aphrica (1984) and Drive Inn (1984).
Larry Weir.  Larry Anthony Weir (born April 11 1952) is a songwriter composer producer promoter and managing editor of New Music Weekly magazine. Namesake to his father Larry Weir is the eldest of nine children born to Larry and Maria Weir. Larry's father was an architect/builder and Maria is a teacher and classical pianist.
Giorgio Nurigiani.  Giorgio Nurigiani (1892–1981) was an Italian writer publicist linguist and historian from Rome.
R. M. Ballantyne.  R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.
Paul Galdone.  Paul Galdone (June 2 1907 - November 7 1986) was an illustrator and writer known best for children's picture books.
Simone Stratigo.  Simone Stratigo (Greek: Συμεών Φίλιππος Στρατηγός Symeon Filippos Stratigos; Italian: Simone Filippo Stratico ; ca. 1733 – ca. 1824) was a Greek mathematician and an Nautical science expert who studied and lived in Padova and Pavia in 18th century Italy.
Emmett Tinley.  Emmett Tinley is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as frontman for the folk/indie band The Prayer Boat and later for his solo work. He was born in the United States in Chicago but was raised in Ireland. He has travelled extensively and lived in many different places including Amsterdam Swords near Dublin and Arhus in Denmark.
Jean Stafford.  Jean Stafford (July 1 1915 – March 26 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.
Rahki.  Columbus Smith most known as Rahki or Rahki Beats is a Los Angeles based hip hop producer known for his work with mentor DJ Khalil and acts such as The New Royales Eminem Kendrick Lamar Curren$y Evidence ScHoolboy Q 50 Cent Domo Genesis and more.
S. R. Ranganathan.  Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (About this sound listen ; 12 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was a mathematician and librarian from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major analytico-synthetic classification system the colon classification.
Maurice Garrel.  Maurice Garrel (24 February 1923 – 4 June 2011) was a French film actor.Garrel was born in Saint-Servais Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrète and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.Garrel was the father of producer Thierry Garrel and director Philippe Garrel and the grandfather of actor Louis Garrel.Garrel died in Paris aged 88.
Kato (producer).  Kato (born Christopher Ju) is a Korean-American music producer/artist. Originally hailing from Fairfax Va in 2006 he moved to Atlanta where he currently resides. Notable artists he has worked with includes Dizzy Wright Jarren Benton Roscoe Dash Lil' Scrappy Kalenna (Diddy Dirty Money) as well as numerous upcoming independent artists like Dumbfoundead and Jarren Benton. His name 'Kato' comes from the 1960s television show The Green Hornet where Bruce Lee plays the role of Kato.
John Garth (composer).  This article refers to the composer; for the politician see John Garth.John Garth (1721 – 1810) was an English composer born in Harperley near Witton-le-Wear Co. Durham.
Philip Zandén.  Philip Zandén (born 23 July 1954) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1981.
Katie Perry.  Katie Jane Perry (born 30 December 1980) is an English-born Australian fashion designer known for her use of jersey fabrics and luxury loungewear fashion line. She has grown the label from the very fashionable Paddington Markets to have an online presence and has most recently opened her own retail oulet in Sydney.
Kristofer Åström.  Kristofer Åström is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He also performs as a member of the band Easy October and fronted the band Fireside.
Tolia Nikiprowetzky.  Tolia Nikiprowetzky (12 or 25 September 1916 - 5 May 1997) was a French composer and musicologist of Russian birth.
John Joseph Adams.  John Joseph Adams (born 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor critic and publisher.
Marylou Dawes.  Marylou Dawes (June 14 1933 – October 22 2013) was a Canadian concert pianist. She was one of Canada's leading accompanists chamber musicians and soloists. Trained in Calgary and Austria and winner of the ARD International Music Competition for duo with her brother Andrew Dawes in 1962. Marylou and Andrew played a concert for Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh during their Royal visit to Regina in July 1973.
Isaac Brock (musician).  Isaac K. Brock (born July 9 1975) is the lead singer guitarist banjoist and songwriter for the American indie rock band Modest Mouse as well as his side project band Ugly Casanova. As a songwriter he is noted for wordplay and frequent use of metaphors philosophical lyrics themes of oppressive rural lifestyles and certain phrases and sayings commonly used in the early to mid-20th century and in blue collar environments.
Alketa Vejsiu.  Alketa Vejsiu (Born 19 January 1984 in Tirana) is an Albanian singer TV personality producer and radio presenter. She started her career as a radio presenter in Top Albania Radio after that she started singing and hosting TV shows in many television stations in Albania. Her singing career started in her early ages where she participated in RTSH festivals.Right now Vejsiu is a well known producer.
Ian Curtis.  Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English musician singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their debut album Unknown Pleasures in 1979 and recorded their follow-up Closer in 1980.
David Palmer (composer).  David Palmer is a composer. He lives near Croydon in the county of Surrey United Kingdom. He worked as a teacher particularly at Thomas More High School in Purley now in the London Borough of Croydon where he was head of music for 30 years.
David Keir.  David Keir (1884–1971) was a British film actor.
Claude Closky.  Claude Closky is a French artist born in Paris in 1963.
Nicki Gillis.  Nicki Gillis is a female vocalist and entertainer from Australia who was born in Western Australia and grew up a child of entertainer parents from Croatian and Italian backgrounds. She spent her early years working on the family farm just out of Perth as she attended school and watched her parents work at nights in various entertainment venues around Western Australia.
Linda Rocchi.  Linda Rocchi (Florence July 9 1857-?) was an Italian painter mainly of watercolors of flowers.
Richard McCann.  Richard McCann is a writer of fiction nonfiction and poetry. He lives in Washington D.C. where he is a longtime professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.A gay writer he is the author of Mother of Sorrows a collection of linked stories that novelist Michael Cunningham has described as unbearably beautiful.[citation needed] It won the 2005 John C.
Cahir O'Doherty (musician).  Cahir O'Doherty (born 1977) is a musician and songwriter from Derry Northern Ireland. He is the vocalist and guitarist in the alternative rock band Fighting with Wire. O'Doherty is also a member of the Derry/London band Jetplane Landing in which he plays lead guitar. As of 2006 Cahir has also taken on bass duties for indie band Seafood (usually when on tour). Recently played the acoustic guitar when performing with Frank Turner and Reading and Leeds festivals (2013).
Rim'K.  Abdelkrim Brahmi-Benalla a.k.a. Rim'K (born 21 June 1978 in Paris France) is a French rapper of Algerian descent. Rim'K was born and raised in the Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. His family is originally from Barbacha in Algeria and is mentioned many times in his lyrics.He is a member of the group 113 alongside Mokobé and AP and the super-group music collective Mafia K-1 Fry. He also has a group called Maghreb United.
Greg Abate.  Greg Abate (born May 31 1947 Fall River Massachusetts) is a jazz saxophonist flautist composer and arranger. He grew up in Woonsocket Rhode Island. In the fifth grade he began to play clarinet.After high school he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and after spending some years gigging in California returned to Berklee in 1972 to finish his education.
Darryl Ponicsan.  Darryl Ponicsan (pronounced PAHN-i-son; born May 26 1938) is an American writer. He is best known as the author of the 1971 novel The Last Detail which was adapted into a 1973 movie starring Jack Nicholson; and for the 1973 novel and screenplay Cinderella Liberty starring James Caan. Ponicsan writes mystery novels under the pen name Anne Argula.
Dru Berrymore.  Dru Berrymore (born 11 August 1969 as Nicole Tanja Hilbig) is an East German pornographic actress.She had a small uncredited role in David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway. She was also in Die Hard 2 in a very small role playing Capt. Carmine Lorenzo's (Dennis Franz) secretary.
Ulrich Lange (cantor).  Ulrich Lange (died 1549) was a composer and Thomaskantor from 1540 to 1549.
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero.  Manuel Ortiz Guerrero (16 July 1897 – 5 August 1933) was a Paraguayan poet and musician
Sean Ardoin.  Sean Ardoin (Lake Charles Louisiana 1970) is an American zydeco musician and singer. He is grandson of patriarch Alphonse Bois Sec Ardoin son of zydeco drummer and band leader Lawrence Black Ardoin and older brother of hip-hop zydeco accordionist Chris Ardoin - on whose albums he has appeared. Sean Ardoin is best known for the release of a 2009 album How Great is Your Love which marked the first notable zydeco Gospel album.
David Jost.  David Jost's career as an international songwriter music producer and remixer has a track record of 74 platinum & 108 gold records and 14 No. 1 hits. He has worked with platinum selling artist like Lady Gaga Chris Brown Tokio Hotel Limp Bizkit Selena Gomez Nelly Furtado Keri Hilson Aura Dione Adam Lambert etc... .
Jerry De La Cruz.  Jerry De La Cruz (born 1948) is an American fine artist born and raised in Denver Colorado. He was the first living Mexican American artist to have his work acquired for the Permanent Collection of the Denver Art Museum (1986). He was also commissioned to create a commemorative digital photo mosaic for the grand opening of the new Libeskind wing of the same museum (2006).
Alexis Fire.  Alexis Fire is an American pornographic actress and prostitute at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. She began performing around 2000 and has since appeared in around 35 films.She appeared on the HBO documentary Cathouse about the Moonlite Bunny Ranch a brothel near Carson City Nevada. She has also appeared on Playboy Nightcalls Playboy 411 the BBC documentary Sex Warts and Everything The Jenny Jones Show Showtime's Family Business The Dr.
Zion.T.  Zion.T (hangul: 자이언티 Jaieonti born 13 April 1989) is a South Korean hip hop artist and record producer managed by agency Amoeba Culture. He started his career with collaborations and went on to release acclaimed solo records. MTV Iggy called his solo album Red Light Korea’s Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year in 2013.
Tim Miner.  Tim Miner is an American gospel/R&B singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He has also produced arranged and composed music for many other artists.Miner released three albums on Christian labels in the 1980s before releasing a self-titled album on Motown Records which is a reworking of his previous album True Story with new material. song.
Champtown.  Brian Harmon better known by his stage name Champtown is an American rapper disc jockey film director and teacher from Detroit Michigan. Founder of the Straight Jacket independent record label Champtown is known for helping establish the careers of a number of Detroit hip hop artists including Kid Rock and Eminem. He has also worked with Ice-T Rev Run Public Enemy and Uncle Kracker.
Julia Taylor.  Julia Taylor (born on November 3 1978 in Budapest Hungary) is a European adult film actress. She has done many movies for Private Media Group such as the part of Cleopatra in Private's releases Private Gold #61: Cleopatra and Private Gold #64: Cleopatra #2 – The Legend of Eros.
Russ Chimes.  Russ Chimes is a producer remixer and DJ based in London who produced a song titled 'Back 2 You' and a UK #40 hit with Turn Me Out. In addition he is a member of the Valerie collective.
Vasily Shcherbakov.  Vasily Shcherbakov (Russian: Василий Фёдорович Щербаков Vasily Fyodorovitch Shcherbakov; Born June 19 1969) is a Russian pianist professor and composer.Vasily Shcherbakov is a Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences (2010) a professor and the Director of the Piano Department of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts a docent of the Moscow Conservatory a docent of the Piano Organ Department M. Ippolitova-Ivanova Moscow State Music and Pedagogy Institute.
Alfonso Elizalde Bello.  Alfonso Elizalde Bello (March 31 1947 - January 3 2014) was a Mexican engineer.
Abbas Jafri.  Abbas Jafri (Urdu: عباس جعفری‎) is a Pakistani male model and a former cricketer. Jafri is two times Best Male Model Lux Style Awards winner and one time Hum Awards winner.
André Bjerke.  Jarl André Bjerke (born 30 January 1918 in Oslo died 10 January 1985) was a Norwegian writer and poet. His debut was in 1940 with a collection of poems Syngende Jord (Singing Earth). He has written a wide range of material: poems (both for children and adults) mystery novels (four of them under the pseudonym Bernhard Borge) essays and articles. He was known as a master translator and translated works by Shakespeare Molière Goethe Racine etc. into elegant Norwegian.
Hàn Mặc Tử.  Nguyễn Trọng Trí penname Hàn Mặc Tử (September 22 1912 - November 11 1940) was a Vietnamese poet. He was the most celebrated Vietnamese Catholic literary figure during the colonial era.He was born Nguyễn Trọng Trí at Lệ Mỹ Village Đồng Hới District Quảng Bình Province. His pen names included: Minh Duệ Phong Trần Lệ Thanh and finally Hàn Mặc Tử by which name is known today. He grew up in a poor family his father having died when he was young. He showed poetic talent at a young age.
Antoine Houdar de la Motte.  Antoine Houdar de la Motte (18 January 1672 – 26 December 1731) was a French author.De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy Les Originaux (Les originaux ou l'Italien) was a complete failure and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappists. Four years later he began writing texts for operas and ballets e.g. L'Europe galante (1697) and tragedies one of which Inès de Castro (1723) was an immense success at the Theâtre Français.
Holly Kearl.  Holly Kearl is an author who is best known for her book Stop Street Harassment. She is a National Street Harassment Expert. Kearl oversees the Legal Advocacy Council. She received a bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University and a master's degree from George Washington University.
Al McKay.  A recipient of five Grammy Awards Al McKay (born February 2 1948 in New Orleans Louisiana) is an American guitarist songwriter producer and former member of the American funk band Earth Wind & Fire. Al used to lead his own group Al McKay's L.A.
Stella Gibbons.  Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author journalist and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm—achieved the same critical or popular success.
Francis Stuart.  Henry Francis Montgomery Stuart (29 April 1902 – 2 February 2000) was an Irish writer. His novels have been described as having a thrusting modernist iconoclasm. He was awarded the highest artistic accolade in Ireland before his death in 2000. His years spent in Nazi Germany have led to a great deal of controversy.
Eiji Takemoto.  Eiji Takemoto (竹本 英史 Takemoto Eiji born March 7 1973 in Yamaguchi Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor. His name is sometimes mistranslated and also sometimes credited as being Hidefumi Takemoto (Takemoto Hidefumi). Takemoto's nickname is Takepon. Takemoto works at Aoni Production.
Warren Mahy.  Warren Mahy is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Mme Papavoine.  Madame Papavoine née Pellecier (born c. 1735 fl. 1755-61) was a French composer. She married violinist Louis-August Papavoine some time before 1755. Nothing else is known about Madame Papavoine; even her first name is a mystery. After 1761 her name is no longer mentioned.
Tomás Mac Eoin.  Tomás Mac Eoin (born 1937) is an Irish sean-nós singer an affectionate actor singer songwriter and poet. He is best known as Tomás 'Jimmy' Mac Eoin from An Bóthar Buí in An Cheathrú Rua Conamara Galway Ireland.Irish is the spoken language although Tomás like most others in the area is proficient in English also. As with many people in the West his life seems to revolve around music. Although probably too modest to ever admit it he seems to have an unending capacity for song-making.
Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao.  Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao B.A. (Telugu: బాలాంత్రపు రజనీకాంత రావు) (born January 29 1920) is the son of Kavi Rajahamsa Balantrapu Venkata Rao who was one of the modern Telugu poet-duo Venkata Parvateswara Kavulu. He is a well-known writer composer and poet in the Telugu language. He has won several national and state level awards for his work.
Doug Inglish.  Doug Inglish is an American photographer mostly known for his celebrity and portrait photography.
Billy Herrington.  Billy Herrington (born July 14 1969 North Babylon Long Island New York) is a bisexual American actor best known for his work in gay pornography.
Dorival Caymmi.  Dorival Caymmi (April 30 1914 – August 16 2008) was a Brazilian singer songwriter actor and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement and several of his samba pieces such as Samba da Minha Terra Doralice and Saudade da Bahia have become staples of Música Popular Brasileira.
Isidore Bonheur.  Isidore Jules Bonheur (Bordeaux 15 May 1827 – 10 November 1901 Paris) best known as one of the 19th century's most distinguished French animalier sculptors. Bonheur began his career as an artist working with his elder sister Rosa Bonheur in the studio of their father drawing instructor Raymond Bonheur. Initially working as a painter Isidore Jules Bonheur make his Salon debut in 1848.
James Curtis (author).  James Curtis (4 July 1907 - 1977) was a British author who was best known for his novels They Drive By Night and There Ain't No Justice both of which were made into feature films.
Marilyn Moore (artist).  Marilyn Moore is an American contemporary basketmaker.Moore has shown her work in galleries throughout the country since 1994 including sculpture and functional art in New York and Chicago the del Mano Gallery Los Angeles the Fountainhead Gallery Seattle and the Smithsonian in Washington DC.In 1997 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis on fiber arts at the University of Washington and has contributed to books on basketmaking and textile techniques including Metal for Jewelers Textile Artists & Sculptors by Arline Fisch and Baskets Tradition and Beyond by Leier Peters and Wallace.Moore has produced instructional CDs particularly Pine Needle Basket Making and Introduction to Coiling with Katherine Thomas. 
Jheryl Busby.  Jheryl Busby (May 5 1949 – November 4 2008) was an American recording company executive who was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Motown Records.
Des'ree.  Desirée Annette Weeks (born 30 November 1968) stage name Des'ree /dəˈsriː/ is a British R&B recording artist who rose to popularity during the 1990s. She is well known for her hits: Feel So High (for which were recorded two different music videos) You Gotta Be Life and Kissing You (from the soundtrack of the film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet). Des'ree has not released any new material since 2003's Dream Soldier.
Alfredo Co.  Alfredo Pimentel Co 许培堆 (born November 30 1949) is the foremost Sinologist in the Philippines and a leading Philosopher in the Southeast Asia. He was the founding president of the Philosophy Circle of the Philippines. In 2008 he was the only Asian scholar so far to deliver a plenary lecture at the Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie (COMIUCAP).
Abraham Mazumdar.  Abraham Mazumder is an Indian conductor and violinist. He is a former member of the Bangla band Moheener Ghoraguli and has been active in Kolkata's western classical music world since the 1970s.
Alexander Baron.  Alexander Baron ((1917-12-04)4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999(1999-12-06)) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the Plough (1948) and his London novel The Lowlife (1963).
Majesty Rose.  Majesty Rochelle York (born February 29 1992) better known as Majesty Rose is an African American Female singer from Goldsboro North Carolina. She was a finalist on the thirteenth season of American Idol finishing in 9th place.
Alejandra Robles.  Alejandra Robles Suastegui (born in Puerto Escondido Oaxaca Mexico - November 28) is a dancer and singer of traditional music. Her musical style represents her Afro-Mexican roots and that of the indigenous peoples of Latin America in addition to the regional music of Mexico Colombia and the Caribbean. Her style is based on the sounds of the coast of Oaxaca Guerrero and Veracruz.
Billy Hodges.  Billy Hodges (born November 26 1970 in Martin Tennessee) joined the Kingdom Heirs as tenor in February 2005. He has previously sung for the Dixie Echoes Florida Boys (1995–1997) and Under Grace.He was a firefighter and first responder in Union City Tennessee from 1999-2001. Hodges had been working as the recreational director for Marcus Point Baptist Church in Pensacola Florida prior to joining the Kingdom Heirs; it was his return to performing Gospel music.
Ugo Marotta.  Ugo Marotta (September 23 1942 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian musician conductor arranger composer keyboards and vibraphonist. He took part at the Brazilian music movements Bossa Nova and Musicanossa.
Victor Celorio.  Victor Celorio (born July 27 1957 in Mexico City) is an author entrepreneur inventor and former union organizer. He lives and works in Gainesville Florida.
Pavlos Sidiropoulos.  Pavlos Sidiropoulos (Greek: Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος; July 27 1948 – 6 December 1990) was a Greek musician noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics.
Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas.  Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas (born July 25 1977 in Houston Texas) is a Mexican-American musician and writer. He is the bassist (and sometimes guitarist) for the rock band Mutemath. Mitchell-Cárdenas has been playing in bands since he was twelve years old and has worked as a session musician and producer for many groups.
Rebecca Parris.  Rebecca Parris (born December 28 1951 in Newton Massachusetts) is an American jazz singer.
John Donne.  John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ DUN) (between 24 January and 19 June 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet satirist lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong sensual style and include sonnets love poems religious poems Latin translations epigrams elegies songs satires and sermons.
Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne.  Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne (1797 - 1860) was a French painter and lithographer. Many of his lithographs today are in major collections in London and New York City.He obtained his first instruction in painting from Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson and from 1814 to 1819 followed the courses of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He first exhibited both as a painter and lithographer in 1824. His best known work ' The Extreme Unction' painted in 1824 was reported to be in the collection of M.
Pu Songling.  Pu Songling (simplified Chinese: 蒲松龄; traditional Chinese: 蒲松齡; pinyin: Pú Sōnglíng; Wade–Giles: P'u Sung-ling June 5 1640 – February 25 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
David Silveria.  David Randall Silveria (born September 21 1972 in San Leandro California) is a drummer best known as the drummer for the band Korn from 1993 until leaving the band in 2006. In January 2012 Silveria announced that he is the drummer of INFINIKA ending his 6 year hiatus from the music industry.
Dan Levy.  Dan Levy (born March 19 1981) is an American comedian actor writer and producer from Stamford Connecticut. He currently lives in Los Angeles California.
Thomas Francis Dillon Croker.  Thomas Francis Dillon Croker FSA FRGS (1831–1912) was a British antiquary and poet. In the literature he is usually referred to as T. F. Dillon Croker.He was the only child of Thomas Crofton Croker some of whose works he revised and edited. At the time of his father's death he was a clerk in the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Lu Yongfu.  Lu Yongfu (born December 1922) is a Chinese translator and Director of the Chinese Translation Association.He is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelist Alesksandr Pushkin. For his contributions to the introduction of American literature to foreign readers he was honored with a Pushkin Souvenir Medal by the Government of the Russian Federation in 1999.
Gnani Sankaran.  Gnani (born 1954 as Sankaran) is a popular writer in the Tamil language. He has also written articles under the pseudonyms Vamban Cynic and Nandan and is known for frank and uncompromising views on politics and culture which he has expressed in the media for 30 years. He plays multiple roles in newspapers magazines plays and films.
Tony Ray (Brazilian singer).  Antonio Carlos Ferreira (born June 13 1964) known by his stage name Tony Ray is a singer musician and composer who first was known as a member of Jabuticaba Stock Rock Band. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians of the Brazilian scene.
Charlaine Harris.  Charlaine Harris (born November 25 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and later teenage angst she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later.
Rosemary Disney.  Rosemary Disney is an international designer.
Alexander Kaufmann.  Alexander Kaufmann (14 May 1817 – 1 May 1893) was a German poet and folklorist from Bonn.
Ahmed Ahmed.  Ahmed Ahmed (Arabic: أحمد أحمد‎ IPA: [ˈæħmæd]; born June 27 1970) is an Egyptian-born American actor and comedian.
Yau Leung.  Yau Leung (邱良) (1941–1997) was a well regarded photographer in Hong Kong. Professionally a unit still photographer for Shaw Brothers Studio he is also known for his photographs of Hong Kong street life.A selection of his photographs edited by Sum Yi Ching was published posthumously in 1999 under the title Images of Hong Kong 1960's-1970's.
Mastoureh Ardalan.  Mah Sharaf Khanom Mastoureh Ardalan or Mastura Ardalan (1805 –1848) was a Kurdish poet and writer. She was born in Sanandaj in north-western Iran and deceased in Sulaymaniyah in present-day north-eastern Iraq. She was a member of the feudal aristocracy in the court of the Ardalan principality centered in Senna. She studied Kurdish Arabic and Persian under the supervision of her father Abolhasan Beig Qadiri. Her husband Khasraw Khani Ardalan was the ruler of the principality.
Pauline McLynn.  Pauline McLynn (born 11 July 1962 in Sligo) is an Irish character comedy actress and author best known for playing roles such as Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted and Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.
Arthur Whetsol.  Arthur Parker Whetsel (February 22 1905 - May 1 1940) was an early sweet trumpeter for Duke Ellington's Washingtonians.Art Whetsel was born in Punta Gorda Florida one of two children of the Reverend Oscar N. Whetsel an elder in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church originally of Piqua Ohio and Lucy W. Parker a schoolteacher originally from Marion County Alabama.
Alexander Goldscheider.  Alexander Goldscheider (born June 22 1950 Prague) is a Czech-born composer music producer and computer specialist living since 1981 in London. He read music at Charles University in Prague and received a PhD for the analysis of the music of The Beatles. Initially a music writer critic and radio/club DJ (1968–73) he moved to songwriting and music production becoming a staff producer at Supraphon (1976–79) where he produced a number of pop rock and jazz LPs of Czech singers and bands.
George Hurley.  George Hurley (born September 4 1958 in Brockton Massachusetts) is a drummer noted for his work with Minutemen and Firehose.Even though he went to the same high school as D. Boon and Mike Watt he did not meet them until around 1978. That same year Hurley formed The Reactionaries with Boon Watt and Martin Tamburovich. After The Reactionaries split George joined a Hollywood new wave band called Hey Taxi!.
Dorothy Foster.  Dorothy Foster was a British actress.
Horace Smith (poet).  Horace (born Horatio) Smith (31 December 1779 – 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him that Shelley said: Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money and does make it and is still generous.
Mitsuru Yūki.  Mitsuru Yūki is a female Japanese novelist who is famed for her work Shōnen Onmyōji.Her current work Shōnen Onmyōji is currently serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's The Beans and Beans Ace.
Simon Spurrier.  Simon Spurrier is a British comics writer who has previously worked as a cook a bookseller and an art director for the BBC.Getting his start in comics with the British small press he went on to write his own series for 2000 AD like Lobster Random Bec & Kawl The Simping Detective and Harry Kipling as well as a number of stories for the flagship character Judge Dredd. In recent years he has broken into the American comic book industry writing mainly for Marvel Comics.
Dale Martindale.  Dale Martindale (born January 21 1961) is a Canadian born vocalist best known as the lead singer for the new wave band Images in Vogue. In addition to his work with Images in vogue Dale Martindale has had several side projects including 69 Duster and Primary (Canadian band) as well as Pretty Volume and numerous solo performances under his own name.
Anne Judell.  Anne Judell (born 1942) is an Australian artist and winner of the 2011 Dobell Prize for drawing.Judell was born in Melbourne in 1942 and studied at RMIT University. She moved to Sydney in 1977 and then to the New South Wales southern highlands in 1992.In 1967 Judell married Fred Cress a British migrant who had come to Australia in 1962.
Josef Škvorecký.  Josef Škvorecký CM (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjozɛf ˈʃkvorɛtskiː] ; September 27 1924 – January 3 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country.
Lounès Matoub.  Lounès Matoub (in Kabyle: Lwennas Maṭub in Tifinagh: ⵍⵡⴻⵏⵏⴰⵙ ⵎⴰⵟⵓⴱ Algerian Arabic: معطوب لوناس) (January 24 1956 – June 25 1998) is a famous Berber Kabyle singerpoetthinker and mondol player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause human rights and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.
Bobby LaKind.  Robert Jay Bobby LaKind (November 3 1945 – December 24 1992) was a conga player vocalist songwriter and occasional live backup drummer with The Doobie Brothers. He was originally a lighting roadie for the band. After observing LaKind goofing around on the congas after a concert the band took notice of his talent and asked him to join as a sideman for studio sessions.He sessioned with the band from 1976 and joined them onstage as well.
DJCXL.  DJCXL is a New Zealand Hip hop DJ producer and member of the band Ill Semantics. He is the 2003 NZ Disco Mix Club Champion[citation needed].He has collaborated with many New Zealand and International artists on various tracks including King Kapisi's Second Round KO and Dazzling DJ with Black Wall Street Japan's S.H.O.
Cassie Davis.  Cassie Davis (born 1987) is an Australian singer songwriter and producer from Perth Western Australia. In addition to vocals Cassie can play the guitar piano keyboard and sampler all of which she plays at some point on her debut album Differently.
Nikki Nelson.  Nikki Nelson (born January 3 1969 in La Mesa California) is an American country music singer. At the age of 7 her family moved to Topaz Lake Nevada. In 1991 she replaced Paulette Carlson as lead vocalist for the band Highway 101 and their first album together was that year's Bing Bang Boom.
Shelia P. Moses.  Shelia P. Moses born in the small rural northeastern North Carolina town of Rich Square is an African-American writer whose subjects include comedian Dick Gregory and The Legend of Buddy Bush.
Erja Lyytinen.  Erja Lyytinen (born July 7 1976) is a Finnish blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Gloria Leonard.  Gloria Leonard (born Gale Sandra Klinetsky; August 28 1940 – February 3 2014) was an American pornographic actress who became the publisher of High Society magazine. As a board member of Adult Video Association and its successor the Free Speech Coalition Leonard was an outspoken advocate for the adult film industry and free speech rights.
Gordon Brown (author).  Gordon James Brown is a Scottish author of primarily crime fiction. As of 2013 he has published three books Falling 59 Minutes and The Catalyst.
Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia.  Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616–1680) was an Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period. He was a pupil along with Giovanni Domenico Cerrini of the painter Guido Reni.Born in Perugia he left paintings throughout the peninsula including Rome Bologna and Milan. He is more highly regarded as a biographer or historian than the former.
Matthew Lewis (writer).  Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 16 May 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist often referred to as Monk Lewis because of the success of his classic Gothic novel The Monk.
Jehan Suzay.  Jehan Suzay (sometimes written Susay Suzoy or Susoy) (fl. c. 1380 – after 1391) was a French composer of the Middle Ages.
Tim Myers.  Tim Myers (born 30 November 1984) is an American singer songwriter and musician born in Orange California.Myers is also known for co-writing singing and playing bass in the band OneRepublic from 2004-2007.As a solo artist his single Under Control reached #68 on the US Charts.
William Beechey.  Sir William Beechey (12 December 1753 – 28 January 1839) English portrait-painter was born at Burford the son of William Beechey (*1732) and Hannah Read (*c1732).
Scott Matthews.  Scott Matthews (born 1976) is a singer/songwriter from Wolverhampton England.His first album Passing Stranger was released on 13 March 2006 on San Remo Records before being re-released on Island Records later in the year. Janice Long was the first of the BBC DJs to play his music. Soon tracks from Passing Stranger were also being played by Mark Radcliffe and Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2.
Maxine Brown (country singer).  Maxine Brown (born April 27 1932) is an American country music singer who was originally a member of the successful 1950s trio The Browns before a brief solo career.
David Bennett Cohen.  David Bennett Cohen (born August 4 1942) is an American musician best known as the original keyboardist for the late-1960s psychedelic rock and blues band Country Joe and the Fish.
Rick Altergott.  Rick Altergott is a professional illustrator and cartoonist residing in Pawtucket Rhode Island with his wife fellow cartoonist Ariel Bordeaux. Their collaborative comic book Raisin Pie is published by Fantagraphics.Altergott is best known for Doofus a long-running series published by Fantagraphics notorious for its low-brow scatological humor.
Albert Jaegers.  Albert Jaegers (March 28 1868 – July 22 1925) was an American sculptor.
Martin Crandall.  Martin Lesley Crandall (born April 20 1975) is the former keyboardist of The Shins who also played bass guitar during some live performances allowing fellow band member Dave Hernandez to play electric guitar. Crandall is originally from Albuquerque New Mexico and spent some of his high school years in Las Vegas Nevada (where he formed a band called Captain Go). He previously resided along with the rest of the band in Portland Oregon.
Pär Lagerkvist.  Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poems plays novels stories and essays of considerable expressive power and influence[citation needed] from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil which he examined through such figures as Barabbas the man who was freed instead of Jesus and the Persian King Ahasuerus.
Natalis Chan.  Natalis Nat Chan born 3 December 1950 in Hong Kong is a Hong Kong television host film actor and producer.Besides his duties as a variety show host he has also been a horse racing commentator and horse trainer. In total his horses have won 54 races including the hard to achieve triple-trifecta six times.[citation needed]In the recent decade he invested in Star East with Eric Tsang.
Tujamo.  Tujamo is a music producer who along with Plastik Funk and Sneakbo released the single Dr. Who! which peaked at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart.
Edoardo De Martino.  Edoardo De Martino or Edoardo Federico De Martino (Salerno 1836 - London 12 May 1912)was an Italian-British painter mainly active in London as a painter of warships and marine battles.
Mohammad Din Zakhil.  Mohammad Din Zakhil (محمد دين زاخيل - famous as Ustad Zakhil) is a singer/composer from Afghanistan. Zakhil composed over 700 songs for many Afghan singers. Da Zamoong Zeeba Watan Pa Loyo Ghro Banday Ra Taw Shwal Toofanona and Sanga Meena Zma Sta Wa are a few of his classic compositions.The lyrics and music of Wro Wro Kaigda Qadamoona Ashna which were used in a Hollywood movie The Passion of Christ were also composed and created by him.
Finn Andrews.  Finn Andrews is lead singer and songwriter of London based band The Veils.
Demetrios Capetanakis.  Demetrios Capetanakis or Kapetanakis or Capetanaces (Greek: Δημήτριος Καπετανάκης; 22 January 1912 Smyrna – 9 March 1944 London) was a Greek poet essayist and critic. For the last five years of his life (1939-1944) he lived in Britain and associated with the Bloomsbury Set writing some poetry in English.
Fahd Ballan.  Fahd Ballan (Arabic: فهد بلان‎) (1933–1997 Suwayda) was a popular Syrian Druze singer and actor. Like most of his generation of artists who started their show business careers in the early sixties he was exposed to a world of influences of those decades of music glory. His voice and looks made him a symbol of masculinity and won him many acting roles in his youth.Fahd Ballan traveled to Egypt and worked with Farid al-Atrash. He married actress Mariam Fakhr Eddin and had an acting career.
Kristin Gore.  Kristin Carlson Gore (born June 5 1977) is an American author and screenwriter. She is the second daughter of Al and Tipper Gore and the sister of Karenna Gore Schiff Sarah and Albert III.
Ernesto Tamariz.  Ernesto Tamariz Galicia (11 January 1904 – 30 September 1988) was a 20th-century Mexican sculptor specialized in public monuments religious statues and funerary art.His most famous work is Altar to the Fatherland (Altar a la patria) a memorial to the Mexican cadets killed during the Battle of Chapultepec (Niños Héroes).
Michael Hoeye.  Michael Hoeye (born 1947 in Los Angeles California) is the author of The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures series of children's fiction mystery novels - Time Stops for No Mouse The Sands Of Time No Time Like Show Time and the newest book in the series Time to Smell the Roses. Hoeye has been variously a farmer fashion photographer and high-school teacher.
Lucien Dulfan.  Lucien Dulfan (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 1942 in Frunze Kyrgyz SSR) is an American conceptual artist. When working in former USSR he was considered Nonconformist artist.Born in Frunze Kyrgyzstan barely escaping Odessa massacre during German and Romanian occupation of Odessa Ukraine. Lived in Odessa Ukraine from 1946 until he immigrated with his family to United States in 1990 and has since lived in Manhattan New York. He works in his art studio in D.U.M.B.O.
Shaun Cooper (musician).  Shaun Cooper is the bassist in the rock bands Taking Back Sunday Straylight Run and Destry.
Mary Renault.  Mary Renault (/ˈrɛnoʊlt/; 4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Eileen Mary Challans was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus Socrates Plato and Alexander the Great she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander.
Rodney Atkins.  Rodney Allan Atkins (born March 28 1969) is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 1996 he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart in 1997 but did not release an album until 2003's Honesty which included the number 4 hit Honesty (Write Me a List).If You're Going Through Hell his second album was released in 2006.
Dale Peck.  Dale Peck (born 1967 on Long Island New York) is an American novelist critic and columnist. His 2009 novel Sprout won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.
Alisha Klass.  Alisha Klass (born in Chino California) is a former American pornographic actress. She began starring in pornographic movies around 1997 specializing in anal sex and becoming the best known collaborator with director Seymore Butts aka Adam Glasser to whom she was once engaged.
Dave Lee (DJ).  Dave Lee (born 18 June 1964) is a British DJ and house music producer also known by the stage name Joey Negro. He has released music under a variety of pseudonyms including Jakatta Doug Willis Raven Maize Sessomatto as well as being part of The Sunburst Band. Lee has scored a number of Top 40 hits among them American Dream So Lonely and My Vision all under the name Jakatta.
Vladimír Mišík.  Vladimír Mišík (born 8 March 1947) is a Czech rock guitarist and singer. His first band called Uragán he founded as teenager. Then he was lead singer of Komety (with Radim Hladík). With his friend Radim Hladík he was also member of The Matadors and with Hladík in 1968 he was co-founded Blue Effect. In 1970 he left Blue Effect and became a member of Flamengo. He was also shortly member of Energit. In 1974 he founded his own band called Etc... where he still plays.
Momtaz Begum.  Momtaz Begum (Bengali: মমতাজ বেগম) is a Bangladeshi singer and producer of Bengali folk music. She is also known as The Music Queen popular for her unconventional lyrics. During her international career which has spanned two decades she has recorded around 700 albums. In 2009 she was appointed a member of the Parliament of Bangladesh. Momtaz married Abdur Rashid Sorkar a teacher of folk songs.
Lisa Macuja-Elizalde.  Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde (born October 3 1964) is a Prima Ballerina. In 1984 she became the first Filipina prima ballerina and first foreign soloist to ever join the Kirov Ballet. In the Philippines she is the Artistic Director of Ballet Manila and Vice-Chairman of the Philippine UNESCO National Commission. She was also the Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women.
Stephen Youll.  Stephen Youll (born June 8 1965 in Hartlepool England) is one of today's top science fiction art talents. He got his start in the genre when his work done in conjunction with his twin brother Paul was seen in 1987 at the 45th World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton England. His first commission a collaboration with Paul was for the cover painting for Emerald Eyes by Daniel Keys Moran that was published by Bantam Books.
Imafuji Chōtatsurō.  Imafuji Chōtatsurō (今藤長龍郎)(born 1969) is a Japanese shamisen player in the nagauta tradition. He is classically trained as an accompanist to kabuki chanters but performs in a number of related styles as well such as buyō (traditional Japanese dance).
Alan Clarke.  Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director producer and writer.
Seán Ó Neachtain (poet).  Seán Ó Neachtain Irish poet and writer c. 1645x50?–9 March 1729.
J.R. Baxter.  Jesse Randall Baxter Jr. (1887 – January 29 1960) known professionally as J.R. Baxter and sometimes referred to as Pap was an American Southern Gospel composer and publisher.
Alastair Moock.  Alastair Moock (born 1973 New York New York United States) is an independent American folk and children's music performer from Boston Massachusetts. He is known for his gruff voice thoughtful lyrics and fingerpicking guitar style.
William Scott (artist).  William Scott (15 February 1913 – 28 December 1989) was a British artist known for still life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th century Ulster painters.
Annie Yi.  Annie Yi (Chinese: 伊能靜; pinyin: Yī Néngjìng; Japanese: Inō Shizuka; born March 4 1969) also known as Annie Shizuka Inoh is a Taiwanese singer actress and writer. Born Wu Jingyi (simplified Chinese: 吴静怡; traditional Chinese: 吳靜怡; pinyin: Wú Jìngyí) in Taipei Taiwan she changed her name to Inō Shizuka after her mother remarried a Japanese man and then simplified her new name to Yi Nengjing upon returning to Taiwan in 1988 to launch her singing career.
Loren D. Estleman.  Loren D. Estleman (born September 15 1952 in Ann Arbor Michigan) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction.
Carlo Gabriel Nero.  Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Nero (born Sparanero 16 September 1969 London) is an Italian-English screenwriter and film director.
Karl Ballmer.  Karl Ballmer (23 February 1891 – 7 September 1958) was a Swiss painter anthroposophical philosopher and writer.
Jeannie Pepper.  Jeannie Pepper (born July 9 1958 in Chicago Illinois) is a pornographic actress. She began in the business in 1982 at age 24 and has appeared in over 200 adult films. She was still an active actress as recently as 2007 participating in the mature adult genre.Pepper was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1997 the first African American woman to be recognized with that honor. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2008.
Mladen Vojičić Tifa.  Mladen Vojičić widely known by the nickname/stagename Tifa (born 17 October 1960) is a Bosnian rock vocalist. He became famous throughout former Yugoslavia for his brief stint as the lead singer of Bijelo dugme in mid-1980s. Apart from Bijelo dugme he sang in numerous bands with varying degrees of prominence (most notable being Teška industrija Vatreni poljubac and Divlje Jagode).
Brian Doherty (journalist).  Brian Doherty (born June 1 1968) is an American journalist. He is a Senior Editor at Reason magazine.
Sebastian (French musician).  Sebastian Akchoté-Bozovic better known as just Sebastian (stylized as SebastiAn) is a French-Serbian musician and DJ affiliated with Ed Banger Records. He has worked as a solo electronic musician and as a remixer for bands such as Daft Punk Beastie Boys Bloc Party and Nero. He has also produced songs for Katerine Kavinsky Noël Akchoté Uffie and Woodkid and he has composed music for the films Notre Jour Viendra and Steak (in which he also acted).
Leigh Stephens.  Leigh Stephens is an American guitarist and songwriter. Stephens became famous as the former lead guitarist of the San Francisco psychedelic rock group Blue Cheer. He was ranked number 98 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He has claimed to have been the only member of the band who did not use drugs.
Heidi Newfield.  Heidi Newfield (born October 4 1970 in Healdsburg California) is an American country music artist. She was lead singer rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006 when she left in pursuit of a solo career. Newfield has begun her solo career on Curb Records debuting in 2008 with the single Johnny & June. This song which peaked at No.
Sri K. Sabha.  Sri K. Sabha (born 1923) was a renowned writer from the Rayalaseema region of Andhra with literary works covering short stories novels and poetry. His major contribution was to children's literature a genre that was not favored by many Indian writers at that time. His novels like Mogili Suryam and Chandram represent the optimistic yearnings by individuals to excel and to have a better life.
Marvin Rosen.  Marvin Rosen is an American pianist music educator musicologist and host of the weekly radio program Classical Discoveries which airs on WPRB 103.3 FM in Princeton New Jersey. He is best known for his work in promoting the music of living composers as well as the music of Alan Hovhaness.
Ski (record producer).  David Willis otherwise known as DJ Ski and Ski Beatz is an American record producer mainly working in hip hop.
Lovie Austin.  Lovie Austin (September 19 1887 – July 10 1972) was an American Chicago bandleader session musician composer and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz blues piano players of the period. Mary Lou Williams cited Austin as her greatest influence.
Garth Von Buchholz.  Garth von Buchholz is a Canadian author of fiction non-fiction poetry and drama. He was born in Winnipeg Manitoba and raised in Winnipeg Montreal Quebec and Vancouver British Columbia. He currently lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Sweet Emma Barrett.  Sweet Emma Barrett (March 25 1897 New Orleans Louisiana – January 28 1983) was a self-taught jazz pianist and singer who worked with the Original Tuxedo Orchestra between 1923 and 1936 first under Papa Celestin then William Ridgely. Also active with Armand Piron John Robichaux and Sidney Desvigne Sweet Emma Barrett was at her most powerful in the early 1960s and became an iconic figure with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Peggy Hsu.  Peggy Hsu (Chinese: 許哲珮; pinyin: Xu Zhe-Pei born February 2 1981) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter music composer and music producer.
Neil Swaab.  Neil Swaab (born 2 January 1978 in Detroit Michigan) is a New York based artist designer writer and educator. His illustrations and comics have appeared in numerous publications in the US as well as abroad in Germany Prague and Italy and Russia. Swaab's most famous work is Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles which deals with a pill-popping foul-mouthed teddy bear. The comics frequently deal with sex addiction intoxication psychosis molestation cross-dressing self-hate and misanthropy.
Lois Bourne.  Lois Bourne who also goes under the craft name Tanith is an influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca having been involved in it from the early 1960s and has written a number of books on the subject. Originally initiated into Gardnerian Wicca by Gerald Gardner she rose to become the High Priestess of the Bricket Wood coven working alongside the High Priest Jack Bracelin.
Ilian Djevelekov.  Ilian Djevelekov (Bulgarian pronunciation: [ilijan dʒevelekov]; born 10 May 1966) is a Bulgarian film director and producer.
Cory Walker.  Cory Walker is an American comic book artist and penciler. He is best known for work on Image Comics' Invincible (2003) a series and character he co-created with writer Robert Kirkman. He recently illustrated two issues of Shadowpact for DC Comics as well as two issues of Marvel's Irredeemable Ant-Man.
Anna Sheehan.  Anna Sheehan is an American writer and novelist best known as the author of A Long Long Sleep.
